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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1885
Page
7
An Abilene Reflector poem meditates on compassion and shared humanity as a crowd gathers for a mother’s memory and the enduring warmth of kindness. The verse contrasts sorrow and resilience, praising the “touch that maketh the whole world kin” and the inner music within every life while contemplating beauty, loss, and hope.
In a tense scene reforging Leys Croft, Miss Patience faces a crushing mortgage tied to land and father. Marrish, a plain farmer, proposes marriage to settle debts and save Leys Croft, while Patience weighs duty against desire. The route through lawyers, secrets, and loyalties tests loyalty to family. The ethical choice hinges on truth and future happiness rather than wealth.
Patience, devastated by Dick Blackthorn’s death and Richard Blackthorn’s reported loss, agrees to marry Enoch Marrish to save her father’s home and Leys Croft. She accepts duty over love as she endures his patient, controlling courtship and a harvest timetable for a wedding three weeks hence.
Two Liverpool detectives Byrne and Smythe duel over modern policing. Smythe taunts incompetence, ten day start, Smythe travels by steamer, hotels under aliases. Byrne hires top U S talent, trails Smythe to Reading, Pennsylvania, where the quarry is finally run down. Also notes Constantinople magicians aiding city, famed for love charms and catching thieves.
A Republican era ends as a Democrat becomes President. The writer lauds Cleveland as a steady, deep plowman, notes thousands of federal offices to fill, and praises Manning and Vilas for patient, careful staffing. It stresses the scale of the task, the need for prudence, and the importance of broad Democratic support without sweeping partisan overreach.
The Washington Democrat and Boston Globe discuss Postmaster-General Vilas circular on civil service reform. They praise its plain language and aim to remove abusive partisans from post offices, arguing good government requires turning the rascals out and replacing them with diligent public servants.
Detroit Free Press comments on Gail Hamilton and Miss Dodge in the North American Review. It argues Hamilton’s Prohibition in Politics critique mislabels Blaine as betrayer, attributing the defeat to Maine and party dynamics while defending Blaine as acting against the party, not betraying it.
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