The Lost Garden
Poem fragment with dreamlike imagery by Chariette Becker in Alnsiee's. The speaker laments a lost garden where joy has faded and love is dead, expressing longing through misty phrases and nocturnal landscapes.
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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 31, 1901
Page
2
Poem fragment with dreamlike imagery by Chariette Becker in Alnsiee's. The speaker laments a lost garden where joy has faded and love is dead, expressing longing through misty phrases and nocturnal landscapes.
In a Paris dining scene, M Aristide Chapoulot waits for his daughter Charlotte while an omnibus rescue sets off a chain of comic revelations. A young man Agenor Baluchot returns a six sous advance and later becomes a prospective match, prompting a bold reconciliation and plans for engagement.
In a brief wry exchange from Fliegende Blatter a gifted writer asks her husband to sew a button after his planned death. The dialogue reveals a darkly comic tone about fate and care in life’s final moments.
An old man writes a letter to his son in Texas urging courage. The son Bill answers that he took courage and everything else in sight and ended up in jail. The exchange, printed in the Atlanta Constitution, captures a harsh moral about choices and consequences.
A speaker imagines a secret romance in quiet rural scenes. The poem laments unspoken love and the dream of mutual affection unseen by the beloved, who remains unaware yet cherished in solitude. The mood blends romance with wistful yearning across moonlit fields and dawnly fragrances.
In Fiji’s Vanua Levu tale Ratu Tanito son of King Tui Katubua seeks a wife Ekesa daughter of Savenaka. After three tests on eggs bows and birth, Ekesa argues with the king and refuses a hidden trap. The couple defies the king and unite producing King Rata Cakan and Tunivalu the Root of Ar.
A traveling observer notes that whistling in public is common in the United States and England yet rare or forbidden abroad. He cites Paris and St. Petersburg as places where such behavior would provoke scrutiny, while he claims the Japanese and Chinese languages lack a word for whistling. The Philadelphia Record quote contrasts social acceptance with foreign regimes.
A fragment notes a couple in a stalemate over marriage and finances. Ethel refuses to wed until Maud has settled debts, while he cannot pay until they marry, creating an unresolved domestic dispute as the line of dialogue ends.
After Bloemfontein fell soldiers were urged to work the railway due to civilian shortages. A sergeant seeks volunteers for railway porter, driver, or stokers. One tired soldier finally offers to be a sleeper, muttering that as his chosen post.
The piece notes pewter’s extraordinary popularity with brides and hot demand at second-hand shops. It recalls a wedding where under fifty pewter gifts were available, some imported from Germany and described as unusually beautiful.
A compact excerpt notes how the earth and mountains subtly bend and bow as crowds move in cities like London, with trees and streets seemingly bowing to figures and events. The piece cites scientific notions and urban imagery from Everybodys Magazine about gravity, crust flex, and crowd-induced tilting.
Stubbs explains he sends poems to editors at once to get them back quickly. Skitts asks why. Stubbs answers he wants immediate feedback, calling his friend a simpleton.
A Denver Times quip recalls a man who whistles past a butcher shop as a sausage jumps off a hanging hook and follows him home. The joke notes the man’s carelessness and even a warrant could chase him with the sausage.
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