Rich man dreams on verdant meadows and gold
Fragmentary verse depicts a rich figure living in a bare, pale land. He gazes at gold heaps and yellowed wealth while hollow-eyed and remote, sensing little of joy as color and life fade beyond the walls.
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Newspaper
The Caldwell Tribune
Location
Caldwell, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1903
Page
3
Fragmentary verse depicts a rich figure living in a bare, pale land. He gazes at gold heaps and yellowed wealth while hollow-eyed and remote, sensing little of joy as color and life fade beyond the walls.
A fragmentary reminiscence follows Dagley through a lunch encounter and a tour of town sites. The narrator recalls Dagley’s taste for nightlife and variety shows, his sharp disdain for churchgoers, and a later tale of aiding a distressed young woman who had fled to the operatic stage, showing Dagley’s circle and the singer’s fragile world.
The Isle of Pines faces a final disposition debated between U S guardianship and possible annexation by the United States, with Cuba claiming tax jurisdiction and American residents opposing Cuban control. The island’s past includes piracy ties and a distinct population mix, and its size, woods, and marble quarries are noted.
Dagley grows pale as Jennie reappears and the girl rushes forward with sobs. She asks if he wants her again and recalls their father waiting at the farm, prompting a hopeful reunion scene from the Indianapolis Sun.
William C. Whitney, father of the modern American navy, would expend 15 million dollars to breed develop and own the winner of the English Derby. He says he would give half his fortune to achieve this ambition and views it as the pinnacle of hope and happiness.
The passage notes John Whitney’s large but recent involvement in turf, his wealth and stock farm holdings, including Hamburg at 40000 dollars and Jean Beraud at 30000, plus expensive training quarters at Wheatley Hills and Aiken. It states he once won the English Derby with a hired Russian horse, and his aim is to win the Derby with an American bred horse of his own.
A Vienna scientist declares blushing a nervous disease explainable by heredity. He cites patients driven to near suicide by taunts, a society woman humiliated by red surroundings, and a madwoman eased by green rooms. Summer offers easier treatment opportunities per the Chicago Chronicle.
The Persian rug from the Henry G. Marquand collection sold for 38,000 dollars in New York auction. Woven in the fifteenth century as a gift from the Pasha to the Sultan, it features silver thread inscriptions and arabesques. It parallels the Rostowsky carpet once shown in Vienna and from the same era, likely produced on the same looms for the Seraglio in Constantinople.
An old verse recounts the burial of Moses on Nebo’s slope in Moab. Angels cover the grave while a silent procession follows, praising the brave warrior poet and his deathless words. It muses on divine mystery and the quiet, solemn repose of a taipled hero.
A Housekeeper writer laments replacing maternal care with hired nurses as the old fashioned mother remains central. The piece defends motherhood as humanity’s strongest influence, arguing no fashion or social distraction should replace a mother’s presence and guidance for children.
The passage contrasts fashionable upbringing with the enduring duties of motherhood. It praises millions of noble mothers who dedicate themselves to training the next generation of American men and women, while noting faithless mothers exist but are few by comparison.
A Detroit visitor returning from Montana recounted a humorous, typewritten interview full of faux quotes. He claims he gained fifteen pounds, saw Indians and cowboys, rode a broncho, and visited canyons, while noting Montana’s climate, manners, and nonargumentative people.
A Kansas dispatch reports that John J. Ingalls will be memorialized with a native glacial bowlder placed at Mount Vernon cemetery in Atchison. The stone, a red prairie porphyry boulder, will bear only the name Ingalls in bronze letters, matching a wish cited in a Senate letter from December 10, 1890. A St. Louis Globe-Democrat note confirms such a stone is being sought.
A sharp courtroom exchange has a lawyer challenging a witness on hearing, forcing a joke about a ticking watch. The wit turns to a quip about a girl’s back buttoned waist, prompting a playful, offbeat moment.
A collage of quips and sketches from various papers, showing humorous dialogues and vignettes. Jests cover marriage, finance, timekeeping, and domestic life with playful, period voice.人物多名引用,地点与机构未具体化,呈现早期报刊的轻松段子风格。
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