The beloved singer and poet, Edmund Maerklin, who is past seventy years of age, and who composed and sang many beautiful songs of liberty, country, and family life, has returned from Milwaukee with his faithful companion from a prolonged vacation. Although he suffered immensely a year ago, and his illness threatened to cause his death, his body is well again just like the poet's mind.

The aged couple lives here under the loving care of his brave son, G. W. Maerklin, a thoroughly trained and most conscientious pharmacist....