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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1892
Page
5
A long poem extols a distant homeland of liberty, praising its mountains, rivers, forests, and the valor of its people. It imagines pioneers from oppression seeking a brighter day, lauds nature’s beauty, and venerates the land as a goddess of valor and love. The verse blends national myth with imagery of progress and endurance.
Marie MacDonald schemes with neighbors to avert Solomon Libby’s jail by using dinner horns to frighten Sheriff Watson. The plan succeeds when Libby pays his debt and five women celebrate, while county gossip portrays Marie’s bold French finesse over cautious men. Dora ANNIS CHASE.
A mysterious applicant arrives to fill a keeper position after a previous official was shot. The roadmaster and the High Bridge keeper describe the puzzling stranger as officers and the superintendent grapple with his identity and purpose aboard the special car.
The narrator recalls meeting Argus Steele, keeper of High Bridge, whose quiet intellect and solitary post conceal a mystery. Steele recounts surviving the 1883 Casamicciola earthquake while his wife perished and his child vanished, fueling a lifelong quest. He explains how, during a recent Southwest quake, he saved a train by riding a wheel across the bridge, believing the act would reveal his child, who may soon rejoin him.
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