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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1875
Page
3
The Schenectady Star reports a disputed authorship claim for a circulating poem. The paper says the verse was written by Mr. St. Clair for the Star but only recently reached them after rounds in the Einstern papers.
The speaker recalls a beloved line of sunlight on a brow, cherishing a memory that outshines Grecian statues. The vision stands as a sustaining source of joy amid tears, a solitary faith where early blossoms grow and the cherished face rests in memory.
The scene opens at a hillside cottage with dust, a mossy outbuilding, and sunlit floors. An elderly man sits in his patched chair by the hearth as a maiden kneels beside him, while memories of war and time linger in the worn muskets and powder flask.
An elderly lady urges Charlotte to curb reserve or risk never marrying. The dialogue imagines a life without a husband or social entitlements, listing imagined pleasures and freedoms from flirtations to shared finances, furniture, and daily routines.
A Texas letter meditates on human folly and hypocrisy, praising honest souls while warning that the world favors outward piety over true virtue. It contrasts historical figures with modern Pharisees and laments social snubs toward genuine goodness.
A noon sighting on Howard Street shows a man reclined under a shade tree in his yard with a pillow, magazine, and a calm demeanor as a city bell rings. He abruptly rises in a hurried rush, dashes through a house, and responds to his wife with a comic exclamation before fleeing, amid a yearbook list of 1875 calamities and assorted humorous vignettes from the era.
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