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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1891
Page
6
A collage of international topics covers Latin American progress, English Liberal policy, American views on Britain’s naval power and London crime, German labor laws, population immigration schemes, and military observations. It cites analysts in Boston, San Francisco, and Marin County, with reflections on safety nets, insurance, and wartime logistics.
The verse compares a man who persists through loss to win again with a legendary conqueror in Gaul who slew a million. It lauds steadfast living over mere victory or fame, echoing moral praise from Joseph D. Miller in Godey's.
A rural drama unfolds as Lois Tafton sells Big Red apples to fund a wedding gown while Lotty plots and misreads affections. Ellis Harland returns to ask Lois for forgiveness, Lotty seeks redemption, and by spring the Big Red apple tale ends with a May wedding as Lois achieves her $30 goal.
A diminutive street urchin, about seven or eight in appearance and twelve in age, sells newspapers, boots, and runs errands for Wall Street brokers. He endears himself to most brokers, sparing only a few small men, and delights in taunting a short, irate broker who once tried to kick him. His sharp wit and mischievous pranks earn him the nickname shorty the kicker, a refrain the broker vents as he longs for a bigger target.
The captain of an Atlantic liner is responsible for the ship and the safety of the passengers, and is always on duty and in charge of the ship. When he lays the course it is never altered without his command, unless it be for a slight variation to prevent a collision. And in such emergencies, even if he is asleep, he is notified so quickly that he is always on the bridge almost as soon as the ship answers her helm. The captain always makes the reckoning of the day’s run. All the officers on the bridge take their own observations, but the captain does the official figuring. The captain also keeps the ship’s log. In addition to all his other duties, Capt. Watkine of the City of Paris makes it a point to cruise about among the saloon passengers and to see to it personally that they are made comfortable. In this respect he differs largely from most captains, who seem to confine themselves solely to the business of sailing the ship and are seldom seen with the passengers except at meal time, and then only at intervals.
A reflective piece recalls Mary Lee and her death after a five day combat on the Kansas plains twenty years past. The story describes a grave on a sterile mound near Sheridan, with a weathered headboard bearing a painted inscription that endures amid shifting storms and eroding soil.
A historic account recounts eighteen year old Mary Lee defending a wagon train on the plains in July 1967. Surrounded by hostile Indians she fought with a loaded Winchester, holding out for five days until starvation and heat led to her suicide. Her tale endures in campfire lore as a symbol of brave frontier womanhood.
The drive to reform wagon roads gains momentum as Cornell University and other agricultural colleges plan construction courses for road making. Plans include inscriptions noting costs, materials, and methods after completion, with agricultural institutes spreading practical techniques to farmers. The idea emphasizes road science and civil engineering expertise as superior to old dirt-and-rut methods.
A scattered column reviews curious facts from history and science, including an asylum for rats in Boston, a pine braced infant in Spain for luck, copper hardened to steel, the first Indian tobacco sign in Baltimore, a London guild training nurses, and the British Museum compiling vast newspaper numbers. It also notes a squirrel defeating a snake near Springfield, school attendance gaps in Louisiana, crustacean claw regeneration, and various oddities from Serbia to Missouri.
Berlin correspondent reports a new African remedy from Doctor Engels using the wild-growing black noble palm extract. In trials, 487 of 500 snakebite victims recovered in five days. among 67 rabid dog bite cases, 65 survived, two died from weakness. Injected under the skin, it causes a fever up to moderate levels then subsides by day three to seven with recovery.
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