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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1884
Page
6
Excerpted verse by Susan Coolidge in the Independent urges perseverance. The speaker reflects on rest versus progress, noting the law of forward motion despite fatigue and the peril of standing still on the climb toward a higher height.
In a Sierra Nevada mining camp a widow and two children face Christmas poverty. Miner Jack Dawson raises a blue stocking fund from gambling halls, gathering over 35,000 in gold and goods to bless the family. Four months later the widow marries Dawson, the children known as Our Santa Papa.
In St Helen, Alfred Grove posed as his twin brother Henry to marry Lottie Avery, age 19, after Henry wooed her. The ruse was uncovered a week later, prompting Lottie’s mother to drive the wedding party from the house and prompting a pursuit with a shotgun. Alfred fled to Portland as the twins’ deception came to light.
Landon reflects on seven years of progress for the United States and its friends abroad since the war of independence, noting expansion, cities, railways, and industry. He questions the moral and intellectual future as internal development follows settlement, praising American literature and arts and the eagerness for European culture. He predicts a promising intellectual future for the nation.
In Dover New Hampshire Uncle Bill and Uncle Jeff recall a cold Portsmouth ride with a jug in the wagon. Bill, nearly sightless, stopped at a watering trough thinking it was a well, prompting Jeff to joke about watering a grindstone as their adventure becomes a local memory.
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