Soldiers' Fate Sealed as They Yield to Destiny
Poem notes that men with swords reap fields and plant laurels after killing yet their nerves fail and they bow to fate. They surrender breath as captives to death, pale and subdued.
03 Aug 1899
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1899
Page
1
Poem notes that men with swords reap fields and plant laurels after killing yet their nerves fail and they bow to fate. They surrender breath as captives to death, pale and subdued.
A reflective poem about returning to childhood memory. The speaker contrasts careless youthful freedom with current sadness, recalling how summers, fir trees, and air felt like closeness to heaven. The tone is wistful and regretful as the speaker acknowledges grown distance from a once idealized sky.
An acorn sprout shades travelers and soothes love while a hidden spring saved many lives. A stray thought becomes a lamp of life guiding a genial mind, lifting a crowd toward hope. A nameless whisper inspires brotherhood, turning danger to salvation. We were little, yet mighty.
A compact meditation contrasts enduring natural forms with transient beauty. The text cites a sturdy oak versus a lily of a day and cites lines from Ben Jonson about perfection. It then critiques gilding gold, painting lilies, and other excess as wasteful.
A brief, lighthearted exchange centers on playful hyperbole in romance. Hicks declares a man named Dubbleupp has claimed to love his first woman yet, while Wicks prompts another example in a humorous dialogue. The snippet showcases flirtatious banter from the Boston Transcript.
The week brings intensified fighting in the Philippines as American forces capture Calamba with four killed and twelve wounded. Insurgents withdrew to Santa Cruz after learning of the assault. In South Africa the Transvaal issue remains unsettled with British debates in Parliament. A Dewey home fund reports $16,700 from 23 000 subscribers as supporters hurry to fund a Manila hero’s residence.
The Cleveland streetcar strike continues with only two deaths reported. Troops remain in the city but have halted patrols, ready to respond to emergencies, and may be withdrawn to avoid inciting violence. News notes suggest internal power struggles at the Andrews Stanley faction and mounting stockholder protests over Everett’s leadership.
The United States accepts Spain arranging a ransom up to three million dollars for release of Spanish captives held by Philippine insurgents. Washington will aid Spain to obtain their release, despite possible insurgent internal disputes and limited traffic with the outside world.
The assassination of President Heuraux triggers rebellion in Santo Domingo with insurgents cutting telegraph lines near Santiago and Moca. Don Juan Isidore Jiminez is expected to lead western forces against Santiago as the navy shifts to protect Santo Domingo, sending the New Orleans and Machias to the area.
Twenty locomotives from Baldwin and Schenectady locomotive works bound for England aboard the Nutfield mark the year’s total above sixty American engines exported. The move reflects quicker production rather than cheaper cost, supplying freight service on England’s Midland road.
Mr. Mallett-Prevost argues before the Paris arbitration tribunal that no Dutch colonization existed in the disputed Venezuelan territory. He shows no document in Dutch West Indies records confirming such colonies and contends the Dutch held only a trading station on the Essequibo in 1648.
The Hague meeting closes sine die after two months with sixteen states signing the arbitration pact and fifteen signing two other conventions. Seventeen join the ban on projectiles from balloons, sixteen approve the prohibition on asphyxiating gases, and fifteen adopt the ban on expansive bullets.
England and Germany welcomed a China Japan alliance, arguing it will reinvigorate China and strengthen its resistance to Russian advances.
The piece argues stability in Christian experience, warning against drifting from faith and worship. It cites biblical examples from Kings, Psalms, Hebrews, and Job, urging dependence on God, walking in the light, repentance, and steadfast service to avoid doctrinal or spiritual drift.
Gladstone believed in practice for willpower and planned a long walk to build constancy. A fierce rain storm arose, yet he completed the full distance to drill his mind.
At Laeken Castle King Leopold amused two stylish American women who mistook him for the head gardener. They peppered him with questions, met the Chamberlain Count d Oultremont, and rewarded him with a ten franc coin placed on his watch chain, an ornament he kept as a memento when later invited to the party.
East Indian famine scenes include paid priests praying for rain with costly processions, failing to bring rain. Angered villagers throw the idol into rubbish heaps and seal temple entrances with thorn bundles as punishment for keeping fields dry.
A North Carolina woman developed an appliance to keep poultices warm. The device features a hot water receptacle with a face opening where the poultice bag is placed and a water-changing opening for fresh circulation.
Slate is produced in France from open and closed quarries. The best quarries lie near Anger in Maine et Loire. Slate is mainly used for roofing tiles, and in some quarries for large labs, billiard tables, and public toilet rooms.
Epworth League article by Wm. KE. Fisher warns that drifting or instability among Christians hinders spiritual growth. It cites causes such as ignorance, inexperience, deception, and lack of moral backbone, urging believers to rely on Christ and Scripture while avoiding both error and rigid detachment.
The United States transport Senator bringing the Tenth Pennsylvania volunteer regiment arrived in San Francisco from Manila. Colonel A. L. Hawkins died July 18 aboard the transport two days after leaving Yokohama. Apoplexy was the reported cause. Remains were embalmed on the ship for shipment to Pennsylvania.
The preacher notes Matthew leaves his tax booth to follow Jesus after a healing in Capernaum. Jesus forgives sins and centers on reaching publicans and sinners, provoking Pharisee objections. The message: those taught by Christ seek His salvation, never forsaking His faith.
A reflection on preferring giving dutyful guidance over learning our own duties, noting that giving advice pleases the givers while following good counsel increases responsibility. The piece ends with a note about a Sunday show and the Times.
A collection of aphorisms on truth, trust, love, and social judgment. It links honesty to responsibility, warns that deceit strains mercy, and argues that public perception rewards success while condemning failure. Read as editorial witticisms from a late nineteenth or early twentieth century voice.
The mail steamer Dromedary collided with the Vendetta in fog off the Scotch coast. Dromedary searched for the yacht, which reached Millport at dawn. The Vendetta was cut down to the waterline but all 14 crew aboard were safely landed. the vessel was towed to port.
Irish bicycle racer Teddy Hale began a ride from London’s Holborn Viaduct aiming to cover 100 miles daily for a year, Sundays excluded, targeting a total of 313000 miles.
Havana reports Captain Fenton exonerated by a court martial over his link to the clash at Cienfuegos involving American soldiers and local police.
New York on call sits at 34 4 percent. Prime mercantile paper from 34 4 percent. Sterling exchange shows actual banker’s bills at 4.8644 4.86 for demand and 4.83 for sixty days. Posted rate 4.84 4.88. Commercial bills at 4.8244 4.88. Silver certificates at 60 percent 6lc. Bar silver 60 percent. Mexican dollars at 48c.
Wheat No. 2 red 76c fob, No. 1 northern Duluth 76c, options Sept 74c Dec 74c. Corn No. 2 36%4c fob, options Sept 35%4c Dec 34c. Oats various 26 35c. Rye No. 2 western 59c fob, state 64c cif. Butter Western creamery 18c, cheese large white 8% 9c, eggs state 16 16c western 15% 16c. PORK family 10.60 11.00. Flour winter patents 3.60 3.65, Minnesota patents 3.70 3.85. Buckwheat flour 83.6, cornmeal yellow 2.10 2.25. Hay shipping 60c. hay good to choice 65 60c.
Buffalo report lists wheat at No. 1 hard unavailable and No. 1 northern at 73 1/2 cents per bushel, corn No. 2 yellow 31 cents, oats No. 2 white 27 cents, rye No. 2 57 cents, flour prices for spring patent to low grades, butter at 18 to 18 1/2 cents, cheese full cream 9 1/2 cents, eggs state 14 14 1/2 cents and western 19 1/2 cents per dozen.
CATTLE Extra export steers 5.65 to 5.75 good do 5.26 to 5.35 choice heavy butchers 3.90 to 4.25 might handy do 3.25 to 4.00 cows and heifers extra 3.20 to 3.30 calves heavy fed 3.75 to 4.25 veals 6.00 to 6.26. SHEEP AND LAMBS Choice to extra wethers 5.15 to 5.25 fair to choice sheep 4.75 to 5.10 common to fair 4.40 to 4.76 choice to extra spring lambs 6.25 to 6.60 common to fair 4.25 to 5.50. HOGS Heavy 4.80 to 4.85 medium and mixed 4.75 to 4.80 Yorkers 4.80 to 4.85 pigs 4.30 to 4.85.
No 1 timothy per ton 13.00 to 14.00 dollars. No 2 timothy 12.00 to 13.00 dollars. Baled hay 13.00 to 13.50 dollars or 6.50 to 7.60 dollars per bundle for rye.
Utica, N Y sales show large colored at 9c and 9 1 4c for various box sizes, white and colored. small colored and small white mostly 9c with some 9 1 2c. Butter trading includes thirteen packages at 17 for and 150 at 18c.
Little Falls market notes cheese sales of 118 boxes large at 8 a 300 boxes at 9c 208 boxes on private terms and 5 263 boxes small at 8c Butter runs 29 packages daily at 16 lic from July 31 report.
A Chicago News reference depicts a comedian complaining that strawberries at a table were not prepared properly because they arrived with their caps on, provoking a tense reaction from the landlady as the singer listens.
A plumber comments on a recent employee saying he is not prompt enough to prepare bills nor procrastinating enough to complete work. The quote appears in the Chicago Post.
An exchange from a German feuilleton shows Mistress asking what Rieke is doing and if throwing dishes at a target proves craziness. The maid answers she is to be married, signaling a domestic comedy moment from Das Kleine Witsblatt.
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