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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1882
Page
1
A verse list echoes renewal after rain and snow with nature's cycles. It pairs images of sun, leaves, stars, harvest, sky, waves, woods, graves, bells, roses, and farewells. The refrain centers on reconciliation after distress and the calm that follows turmoil.
A August moonlit night in Kentucky leads a mixed party to Walker Taylor and his dog along the Ohio river. They join a coon hunt at Taylor’s rustic homestead, recover a coon after a river chase, and a dog and man are briefly saved from a perilous fight. Later, a curiosity-filled digression on insect strength and a California mining trial recounts eloquence moving a jury and a repentant thief returning home.
In Oxford county a gum gatherer buys seven to nine tons yearly, producing forty thousand dollars of spruce gum in Maine. Workers carve and haul gum from Umabog and Rangely lakes, refining adulterated pieces and packaging them for markets in Biddeford Lewiston Lawrence and Lowell. Pine gum adulteration is noted in the trade.
A speaker argues against abolishing juries as a cornerstone of freedom and fairness. He warns that ending juries would threaten other vices and stresses that Americans will resist losing this form of mental relaxation and entertainment.
A bereaved mother recalls the impact of the phrase Baby is dead. The prose meditates on a lost infant, silent cradle, and the deep grief of a mother facing a future emptied by death.
The piece surveys the origin of the term crank dating to two centuries ago as a cheat or imposter. It notes its obsolescence yet Carlyle revived usage to describe a headstrong loud and dull man, with meaning evolving to violent temper and narrow vision. The term is linked to early Scandinavian roots predating Saxon England.
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