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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1875
Page
10
A grim bear invades a western pioneer cabin as Betty and her husband confront the intruder. Betty defends with blows while the husband urges, the bear dies, and the pair become local legends as the neighbor spreads word of their battle.
Ed Long, a poor but cheerful boy nearly beggars himself to work, is mentored by Mr. Grant who hires him after a kind stranger, Augustus Snipps, leaves town. Snipps soaps his life with wealth, but returns a ruined man to reveal Ed’s virtue, leading to Long’s rise and Snipps’s deathbed confession.
A long passage debates whether genius and national greatness are hereditary, citing Caesars and rulers like Augustus, Caligula, Charles V, Isabel the Catholic, and Charles the Third. It argues against hereditary power, notes the potency of grasshoppers as a sensational tale, and ends with a Western editor’s humorous appeal to delinquent subscribers.
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