Decoration Day in a New England Village
The piece recounts a Decoration Day in a New England town with soldiers, a brass band, and local groups decorating graves. A tension between a hard rural patriarch and a mourning mother over Albert’s role in the war culminates in a spectral scare that reveals Albert alive. The crowd, especially the mother, reconciles with him, and the day ends with renewed community spirit as the war’s ended comes into view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cromwell
Bismarck
Gladstone
New England
Albert
Odd Fellows
Basso
Sutherland
Albert Sutherland
Gles Club
Russell
Parker
Mr. Sutherland
Pat O'Connor
Alert
Caesses
The Sunday School Lesson Guide and Scriptural Reviews
A compact list of lessons for June covering Jacob’s prevailing prayer to Joseph forgiving his brothers and the exodus narratives with golden texts and memory verses. Includes Next Lesson on The Birth of Jesus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob
Joseph
Egypt
Zeon
Israel
Moses
Red Sea
Jesus
Tramps Outwitted by Duryea’s Paint Sign Plan
Farmer Duryea of Sea Cliff Roslyn on Long Island used a painted sign and a hidden woodpile to deter four tramp wanderers. He greeted them kindly, hired one for an hour at the rear of the house, fed him, and kept him from leaving with any gain. The plan, marked by the sign and painted fences, aims to deter future tramps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preet
Lanies
Dyer
Miles Standish
Henry Worden
Nathaniel Worden
Samuel Taylor
Peter Taylor
Johnny
Albert Sutherland
Duryea
Sea Cliff
Roslyn
K. I
Long Island
Farmer Duryea
Quotations on Life and Words From 19th Century Thinkers
A compact collection of maxims and reflections on fate joy life and language. The lines cite Owen Meredith Prior Jean Ingelow Dugald Stewart and Burton highlighting belief in variety happiness and eloquence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen Meredith
Prior
Jean Ingelow
Dugald Stewart
Burton
Lulwer
Real showman surprises self at waxwork guillotine act
A writer recalls a visit to a country fair waxworks booth featuring a guillotine tableau of Marie Antoinette. After a mispaid coin, the author and friends swap plans, pull a peg to trigger the blade, and watch the Queen’s head fly into a basket as the crowd applauds. The showman’s stunned reaction and a moral about honesty close the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yankee Blade
Marie Antoinette
Chamber of Horrors
Daniel
Lion’s den
Mary Anne Twiner
Rooshia
Horder
Holiver Cromwell
Bees and warfare past and present show odd tactics
The Saturday Review discusses bees in sieges and other odd war methods, noting bees as a deterrent and recounting legends of privateers using swarms. It flags historical and hypothetical devices from naptha to electric light as potential future warfare, then adds a quip about a man’s waning dancing urge once he learns to dance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilhelm
William IT
Europe
Potsdam
Berlin
Harper’s Magazine
Chicago
William II
The
Saturday Review
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Will Carleton
Spiridom
Boston
David Copperfield
Agnes
Dora
Arthur Sutherland
Columbia
Dixie's
Maggie
Mverybod
Faether
the Ward Old Father Rose
Ana
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