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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1893
Page
3
The poem reflects deep melancholy and longing as night and day blend into gray. Imagery of sunset, mist, and sails conveys a memory of a lover, with lines echoing wistful, immortal sorrow and muted emotion.
Courtland escapes bloodhounds in a swamp chase as Cato flees. In the moonlit search he recalls Sally Dows and Chester Brooks’s cemetery, then is aided by a passerby and receives care for a gunshot wound while a familiar voice helps him recover.
In Redlands, Colonel Courtland awakens in his room with a wounded arm and Sophy the housekeeper by his side. He recalls the night’s events, debates if Cato’s attack was real, and endures medical restraint as he contemplates the political tension and bloodhounds used to threaten opponents. The piece shifts to a political analysis blaming Democratic victory for stock declines.
Republican papers weigh the August 7 extra session and the tariff silver issues. Editors urge confidence in business, defend honest dollars, and forecast repeal of the silver purchase law while warning against demagoguery and rash monetary reforms.
The Washington Post joins critics of the Louisville Clarkson speech but argues Republicans should not fear new issues. It urges affirming protection for American industry a sound currency and equal rights while pursuing progress through positive energetic leadership. It asserts future success rests on progressive principles, not GOP blunders.
The piece argues the Sherman act is blamed by Democrats for national ills since its 1890 enactment, contending Republicans engineered repeal and Democrats bore responsibility for retention. It cites silver prices, British influence on policy, and party dynamics to defend Sherman act support and criticize Democratic strategy.
The Minneapolis Tribune urges the Democratic Party to reassemble and locate its stance on tariff reform and policy. It notes Cleveland’s selective repeal demands, party divisions over McKinley and silver issues, and argues a new convention is needed to unify scattered ideas and reset leadership.
A collage of 19th century editorials and notices from Toledo Blade Albany Journal Chicago Inter Ocean New York Advertiser Minneapolis Tribune and Albany Express. It criticizes Democratic policy and Cleveland administration tariff plans while noting Republican responses and press sniping. It mentions Secretary Carlisle delaying a report on tin plate industry to avoid protectionist implications.
A compilation notes diverse religious and educational items including the first Chinese Christian Endeavor society east of California formed in Chicago, Wesleyan seniors' expenses and a national naval review. It cites Moody and Sankey’s gospel work invite, a Washington University gift lecture ship plan, andColumbia's next year elective courses. It also mentions Exeter bell-ringers, Salvation Army US stats, Wesleyan Methodist England growth, and the Pope’s seal ring with its fish cipher and destruction upon death.
A collage of aphorisms and jokes from various newspapers delivers pithy lines about money, manners, and misunderstandings. The mashup lumps humor from the Elmira Gazette, N Y Herald, Washington Star, Detroit Free Press, and more, with playful exchanges and wry observations.
Confederate veterans recall panics and a Texas prairie scare during the Civil War. The tale centers on 1863 organizer Smoky Henderson of Houston who led a prize fighting company in the Trans Mississippi department and earned sport among locals.
A hard ridden Confederate cavalry company roams a gulf coast peninsula near Matagorda, engaging a Yankee gunboat with grapeshot and shell fire. After panicked dismounts and frantic horse escape attempts, the unit scatters toward the mainland, with their captain falling into a cistern during a roof inspection and being rescued.
A first person account of frontline skirmishing. Soldiers advance in open field under fire from hidden sharpshooters across a creek. The narrator describes crouched movement, the chaos of casualties, and the moral resolve to kill the enemy in war.
A war torn monologue questions the moment of firing a weapon as the speaker imagines a foe's fate. The piece conveys tension fear and uncertainty amid battle smoke and the ambiguous outcome of death or wounding.
A. M. Warner of Boston says war kept him from ever sleeping in a bed. He slept on blankets for twenty years after four years in service, finally abandoning beds and choosing a bedless room at home. He reports good health and confidence in longevity.
In a whimsical Washington Star snippet, a talking comet complains there is no room for it on earth while the earth retorts there is no space. The luminous visitor laments being crowded out for lack of space and asks who it believes itself to be Vox Populi.
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