25 Jan 1893
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1893
Page
1
A collage of pithy sayings, wordplay, and moral reflections on kindness, perseverance, love, charity, and philosophy. Includes observations on bees, onions, rivers, law, and the humanity of everyday life. Concludes with spring imagery and delicate flowers.
The text extols immortality as the only true peace and happiness. earthly pleasures fade, while the promise of resurrection brings lasting rest. It contrasts worldly fame with divine peace, urging readers to seek pearls of eternity over shells of time. The message centers on Christ’s offer of rest and heavenly calm.
An aging man dreams at twilight as shadows of friends, family, and former joys pass before him. The procession of memories moves across the wall, bringing both tears and a final smile as his spirit joins the shadows. The scene ends with the lamp’s glare ending the vision.
A persuasive exhortation condemning intemperance as wrecking families and society. It links alcohol to crime, poverty, broken marriages, and national decline, urging removal of the tyrannical monarch to restore safety and virtue. The rhetoric calls for quarantine against the drink menace and a hopeful reform through love and kindness.
A sermon urges young women to seek forgiveness through Jesus Christ. It contrasts worldly wealth and fashion with spiritual peace, urging surrender to Christ as friend, comfort, defender, and life. It invites readers to join in faith, expressing vivid religious imagery of salvation.
A female patient pleads for medication while the doctor, after a pulse check, declares nothing serious and prescribes rest. The patient counters that a careful study is needed, pointing to her tongue as evidence. The doctor quips that also needs rest.
A reflection shifts from idealized matrimony to the blunt scene of a man returning home to a confrontational wife at the door. The dialogue exposes tensions between expectation and behavior within marriage and hints at consequences of shared life choices.
An editorial warns of hard times when luxuriously reared women cannot even afford chewing gum and must cut quids from abandoned overshoes. It urges tariff action, noting such hardships resemble times seen in historic sieges and urging states to prepare.
At a dinner with Benjamin Franklin a Frenchman proposed a toast to France while an English guest toasted Great Britain. Franklin then paid homage to George Washington, calling him the Joshua of America and claiming he made the sun and moon stand still.
A tense family scene unfolds as a man contemplates a confrontational talk with George about a possible proposal. Gracie pleads for more time, fearing harm if the talk occurs tonight, while the father shrugs, noting George’s yearlong courtship and his stuttering.
A calm man in a blazing building saves a life by throwing his mother in law from a third story window and then walks calmly down stairs with a tin cup in hand.
A fragment from a poem recalls a man who kisses a woman after delaying too long and returns to find two other bees present, framing a moment of jealousy and regret in a nocturnal setting.
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