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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1895
Page
7
A solemn nocturnal verse by James Thompson asks moonlight and stars to guard a beloved infant. The speaker pleads protection and divine care, expressing tender fear and parental devotion amid vast, heavenly gloom.
A dispatch rider recalls Boer war peril near Standerton in 1879. He avoids ambush, shoots a Boer in a moonlit donga, scavenges his gear, rues the act, and buries the foe with a rifle memorial while delivering his mission at dawn. The tale contrasts danger with Christian kinship and remorse.
To draw bees to your garden plant blue blossom bearing varieties. Sir John Lifybock notes bees show a clear preference for blue flowers, making blue blooms a strategic choice for pollinator friendly gardens.
A fragmentary verse tale describes a Sunday worship path where lilies bloom beside the road. A youth preacher delivers a sermon on the flowers’ beauty and providence, using the biblical “parables of the field” to teach humility and faith to harvesters and seekers. The narrator notes the scene as a simple devotional moment observed near a church, with a maiden admiring the blooms and the preacher finding inspiration in the lilies.
In Megara a holy festival blooms despite six months of siege as truce allows rites to the gods. Scylla the king’s daughter, Nisus the king, and a procession form around a white bull led by six rainbow maidens. King Minos appears, tall and regal, riding in purple as the camp watches from the towers.
Virginia Horton in Philadelphia Times recounts Scylla's crisis of fidelity to Crete, her siege of Minos, and the fateful ritual removal of her father’s purple lock. She pledges herself to sacrifice to free the city, betrays her city for Minos, and is transformed into a bird as vengeance persists.
Chicago Post notes a 1726 book laying down strict child conduct for boys and men of the era. It prescribes bowing to parents, never sitting without permission, respectful address, table manners, public behavior, and entering rooms with proper decorum. The author would be unhappy with modern children.
The article notes uncertain origins of Auld Lang Syne with Burns as a major render, but second and third stanzas attributed to Burns while Ramsay penned the rest. It mentions antiquity with versions dated 1716 and another claimed from the sixteenth century.
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