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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1900
Page
6
A poem by We RDDY praising Uncle Jeff for his kindness and patience. It notes his hearing lapses on bad news but his quick understanding of good remarks, and his fearlessness of abuse and scandal since he would not hear it.
In 1750 Berlin, schoolmaster Linsenbarth carries a bag of contraband potlids that customs refuse. A generous innkeeper and an absent-minded landlord urge him to seek the king. At Potsdam the king himself notices the petition, restores the money, and grants mercy with humane curiosity.
The scene on the palace terrace ends with Linsenbarth and the tutor securing gold from the customs and the innkeeper praising the king Frederick. The tutor and innkeeper revel in the night’s turn of fortune while the king obeys his orderly. Classical Prussia figures anchor the tale in a historic tone.
A strolling quartet of singers facing an asleep dog disrupts a Broadway performance. The dog belongs to a strange man, awakens during the song, and the standstill ends only when the audience claims the dog stays. The quartet moves on, the tale unresolved.
The piece argues it takes greater strength to correct by reason and love than by punishment, to civilize through teaching rather than war, and to resist the lure of military force. It asserts moral power surpasses physical might and condemns reliance on coercion in schools and nations.
An elderly resident of Luss on Loch Lomond has been coaxed to climb Ben Lomond after a lifelong homebound existence. Upon reaching the summit he proclaimed that the world appears vast when seen in full, expressing grand self‑congratulation at the sight.
The route from Tientsin to Pekin follows the Grand Canal and river channels, passing millet fields and truck gardens with prime cabbages and vegetables. Towns along the way feature decapitated criminal heads on poles, soapstone animal carvings, joss houses with idols, a Temple of Tortures, and walled Lang Fang with a martial joss house.
Mahogany hunters are vital for timber markets as they locate scattered trees amid dense growth. Teams follow the hunter with axes and sawyers, felling large trunks, building access roads, and rafting logs down rivers to boats for shipment.
The Grand Bootjack Earl of Rothes, titled Earl of Rothes with a five century lineage as bootjack to the Scottish king, will join fashionable society at eastern watering places. He is twenty years old and recently gained wealth through his marriage to the countess, aided by his father in law, the Plush Edward manufacturer.
A reader recounts hardships for British troops in South Africa including diet and winter conditions aboard a transport and advice to stay home postwar. The piece notes three young officers under age who earned commissions after fathers fell at Santiago. It also mentions the Prince of Wales receiving the sword Cronje wore in the Boer War.
A reflective narration compares sieges like Londonderry and Mafeking with historic sieges and shows how resilience and unintended ironies emerge. It notes the strange comforts of a besieged garrison and recalls a soldier’s breakfast tragedy, then shifts to Algerian artesian wells uniting tribes and prompting praise for engineers amid political bargains.
A description explains how artificial silks are produced by dissolving wood fibre with acids into a glue like solution and forcing it through glass holes to draw out fine threads.
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