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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1886
Page
6
A short verse fragment questions future meetings between two lovers as one goes east and one west. The speaker describes a calm, unconfessed love and wonder at its outcome while noting uncertainty and divine guidance from God as the guiding force. James Freeman Clarke is noted.
In 1865 at Big Lick Junction Tennessee a one-armed station agent helps a desperate stranger and a determined woman confront a murderer. The sleeve button and pistol link a past crime to a planned assassination, ending with the killer shot by Miss Milner, avenging her father. The incident leaves the narrator as a witness and keeper of the relics.
Superintendent Baker of New York State Prisons argues a dark cell fails as punishment for desperadoes. He recalls a prison visit where a violent inmate injured a youth and notes paddling is abolished. He stresses the need for a harsher, lawful remedy beyond isolation.
Mr. Richardson of Davenport Iowa writes from Peking that the Great Wall of China is the world's greatest wonder. He describes its 1200 mile span, 25 feet high walls, 40 feet thick sections and massive ramparts, noting its history, scale, and construction without debt.
A passage from the Pall Mall Gazette describes a colossal clock built in Germany by Christian Martin. It features a ten by ten foot face with 122 figures and allegorical scenes marking years and leap years for a thousand years. The piece notes mechanical changes needed after centuries of operation.
An old piece explains stage makeup methods from burnt cork to modern powders and rouges. It describes applying blue, brown, and white powders to age or transform actors, crafting bald caps, false teeth, and whiskers with paste and wax for dramatic effect.
A romantic scene on the banks of a brook with Adelbert and a beloved maiden. The couple shares a tender farewell as he pledges to return, while they gaze under wavering elm branches and hopeful stars.
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