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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1898
Page
4
A meditation on choosing how to spend time to raise a noble edifice of thought rather than a flashy shallow house. Readers are urged to pursue enduring light, truth, and freedom over vanity and tawdry display.
Hugh Elliot, in charge of The County Journal, tries to finish a missing ending for a serialized tale. A visiting young woman exposes his improvisation, reveals the real plot, and forces a corrected finale while he contends with nosy romance and comic missteps.
Hugh Elliot, editor of the Journal, seeks forgiveness from Ruth Somers after a row and rivalry with Tom Engle. At a tennis match, an ending he wrote for a story is deemed abominable, but Ruth praises his work. They improvise a plan to replace the ending with their own happy one, merging fiction and romance.
A medieval tale recounts John Lambton, heir to Lambton Hall, who curses the Wear after a Sunday fishing misdeed. He battles a giant worm at Worm Rock, defeats it, yet must break a vow when his father returns. Nine Lambton lords supposedly die violently during the curse, ending with Henry Lambton in 1761 on a new Wear bridge.
The Jewish Voice asserts that agnostics and so called liberals show far greater intolerance than conservatives of any religious faith in their experience.
A collage of brief notes cites figures from politics, navy, philosophy, and arts linked by wit and rumor. Dewey formed from De Lome and Weyler. Reed's portrait displeases enemies. Lang and Mrs Carlyle claimed gypsy origins. Dole’s travel bill plus Maine relief. London’s Park Lane mansion with ugly building. naval lineage and “Turret Jacks”. Burke on justifiable war. Danish queen’s altar piece. Olympia Raleigh Boston officers, 1863. Schaeberle resigns from Lick Observatory. UC Regents approve leave with pay. Pere Cotet in Paris’s Latin Quarter. Nietzsche rumors denied by sister Elisabeth Forster-Neitzsche. no hopeful prognosis.
Fehman Bros offers curva and decorated ware at very low cost. Limited stock and low prices described in the notice.
The New York Tribune describes this season's styles with light tints, lace and embroidery, and Scotch plaids. Beaded seams replace old tailor made straps, and tan face cloth jackets feature white and gold designs with jet bead yokes. Hosiery colors match gowns, corsets shorten, and flower hats in forget me not tones with turquoise accents appear alongside braided straw hats with turquoise ribbons.
A report from Gur whal Forest describes three elephants sent to Myapore for education at a forest bungalow. Two full grown elephants are chained and supervised by mahouts while the younger, unrestrained elephant explores and coaxes for sugar. The piece notes elephant height comparison and includes a Spectator quote.
M Paul Legrand known as Pierrot dies at 82. Henry Arthur Jones may write a new comedy akin to The Liars. Mme Lilli Lehmann receives royal imperial chamber singer title. Berton adapts The Magistrate in Paris. My Innocent Boy by Sims and Merrick may reach London. Henri Marteau plans appearances in Europe and U S next spring. Massenet oversees Sappho rehearsals in Milan and Thais in Paris. Rev Leighton Leigh leaves pulpit for stage life on $12 weekly. Wilson Barrett tours Australia amid heat and success. William Archer attacks Potter as a minor talent and lacks intelligence in The Conquerors.
Munich artist Joseph Rieda proposes an electrochemical process to cast steel reliefs from plaster models. A gypsum column is saturated with electrolyte, steel is pressed onto the plaster, and iron dissolves into the solution while the piece sinks to form a copy. The method claims applicability to other metals though not yet final.
The New York Tribune notes six members of the Naval Academy class of 1897 have suffered serious misfortunes since the war began. Names starting with B include Brumby Baldwin Butler Barnes Breckinridge Bennett Bostwick Boyd Bagley Bose. Bagley killed on the Winslow. Boyd disabled the Cushing. Breckinridge drowned. Bostwick gravely injured on Ericsson. Baldwin injured after a fall. Merrit from the same class died with the Maine.
Items of interest discuss human vision and shortsightedness, Tolstoi colonies in Russia, Alexandria's harbor, river weight, Alps glaciers, neuter gender in languages, French seniors and hospices, and Worcester cathedral silver paten found in Walter de Cantelupe’s coffin.
A Glasgow magistrate rules a clerk is not a workingman under a fare law. Street car lines offer reduced fare to workingmen during set hours, but the clerk who fought the privilege was convicted for refusing to pay the legal fare. The court defines workingman as artisan, mechanic or day laborer, defeating the law’s aim to help those in need. The clerk’s longer hours and better dress were cited against him. The case highlights the narrow reading of the term workingman.
Wavy defines debt as floating wealth while Wit sees through distortion. Bluff mocks brains as a substitute for thought and Bribery stays in bloom year round. Agnostic mocks knowledge, Amateur hides incompetence, Matrimony burns love to ashes in the crematory of marriage. Hope magnifies success, Bargain saddles a woman with unaffordable purchase.
In a narrated card game Sheridan bluffing turns to a dramatic reveal when Conkling points to aces misread as a diamond ace. The trio laughs as the hand is ruled foul and the pot divided, with Sheridan calling himself an involuntary swindler and Chamberlin urging fair play.
A wild young man vows reform and counts debts to 145017 francs 35 centimes. He plans to pay 17 francs 85 centimes now and arrange the rest, as quoted by Gaulois with a note on sweeping changes. The Boston Transcript weighs in with a wit about experience.
Admiral Dewey, guest of honor at a Washington dinner, said he expects swift action against Spanish colonies in Asia and a large fleet. He stated he will fight promptly and may be the first to capture Manila before breakfast, signaling readiness for war.
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