21 Feb 1879
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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1879
Page
1
A vintage meditation on the future and its cycles. The piece casts Time as a seer whose visions show the same human dramas—youth, aging, ambition, and corruption—repeating year after year as history turns. It laments vanity and celebrates honest duty as the lone source of happiness.
A penniless maid Meg and sister Kitty help a beggar at a charity fair, only to learn the supplicant is their Uncle Hal from China. He sees kindness in Maggie and Kitty, bestows his fortune on them, and ends Berry’s hopes with Everleigh.
The piece surveys ancestral and foreign mourning practices from Hebrews to Chinese and Polynesian cultures, noting strict rituals, public displays of grief, and the cost of commemorations. It critiques the modern Western habit of wearing black, arguing it reflects vanity and unhealthy gloom, urging steadier faith and cheerful remembrance over spectacle.
A thoughtful excerpt contrasts Western fears of heavy snow with Norwegian views of winter as a vital transport aid. It notes snow enables logging by moving giant log bundles along frozen rivers, feeding the lumber industry and shaping national identity through its practical and poetic value.
The text describes snow turning rough terrain into soft landscapes, easing travel between glens. Neighbors formerly separated by bad roads can meet quickly now, traveling on snow-shoes or light sledges drawn by reindeer. Bridges of snow and preserved routes knit communities together.
A digest of global curios includes Montana silver surpassing gold by 250000, Rubinstein near blindness in Dresden, Carre of Paris expanding carbon works, a flawed poison claim, England workers gifting Lord Beaconsfield laurel leaves, sewer rat superstition, a bridge disaster settlement, a giant trout tale ending with a dead cat, a copyright dispute over private portraits, a royal ball mishap with a parson under a table, Abelard and Heloise tomb history revived for tourists, and Paris memorials guiding travel lore.
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