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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1893
Page
3
A review titled Class Criticisms reflects on a satirical fable about talking beasts and pride. The piece quotes a critic named Lullie E. Barr from the New Ledger describing a lion, a goat, and a deer whose voices impress yet comedic moves reveal folly in human fashion.
In a Mississippi river chapter, the Cotton Queen pulls into port at Marre with thousands aboard. The narrator spots Conrad Bostock amid gamblers, a tense confrontation erupts as a pistol is drawn during a high stakes cards game while the crowd watches the unfolding scene.
A crowd on a river boat bags a gambler after accusing him of cheating at cards. Captain Norris intervenes to spare violence, opting to land him two miles below at a shore settlement. The scene shifts to Donalsonville as narrator continues his journey along bayous toward lower Louisiana.
The narrator travels by river through a rich sugar country with levees, plantations, and a mixed white French and Black population. He meets a lazy attendant who carries his trunk, while hearing harsh talk about enslaved people and orders to whip or sell. The scene unfolds at Hostock's house near a bayou as the heat and tension rise.
A long discourse on hunting as a metaphor for life is delivered from the Brooklyn Tabernacle. It contrasts morning pursuits of worldliness with evening spiritual rewards, urging instant conversion and a life devoted to Christ, citing biblical figures and historical examples.
Campfire recollections recount Petersburg bombardment and a stubborn homeowner who stayed under fire until a direct hit drove him out. The narrative describes shell strikes, destruction, and civilians' ordeals during Grant and Petersburg operations. It also retells Gen. McClellan’s Antietam memorial and lessons on leadership and misjudgment from Civil War history.
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