11 Mar 1891
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1891
Page
1
A reflective poem traces childhood tenderness and life’s path through sorrow. The speaker recalls early days, moral trials, and a decisive divine grace. One radiant figure appears, filling the soul with hopeful light amid hardship and moral longing.
A nostalgic verse celebrates the comforting glow of a fire lighting a room. It contrasts bleak weather with domestic craft, noting that skilled hands and clever minds are needed to sew a simple patchwork square.
A poem from Inter Ocean reflects on equal burdens of life and shared endurance. It urges collective marching with song to lessen the strain. The speaker notes neighbors and brotherly rivals alike bear weight censored by pride and circumstance.
Marie More Marsh writes of an elderly man and his fragile brother Ben facing decline. The tale centers on a mirrored presence guiding the elder as he believes Ben returns from a trip for air. In a peaceful final scene, both move toward a shared end, with the elder speaking of going home with Ben.
A narrative recalls Tom Jackson at West Point praised for steady study, later famed for military career, and a New York visit where fellow officers joked about his fiddle hobby. The piece shifts to farm topics on crop rotation, nitrogen gathering and consuming crops, and balanced fertilization with potash, phosphoric acid, and lime to maximize yields.
The Chicago Tribune compares English and American speech noting English dialects and Irish brogue are hard for Americans to understand. It argues American English is clearer and more elegant, claiming London speech fails to match American pronunciation and names.
The excerpt recalls a traveler’s view of Portugal where modern change is tempered by enduring peasant life. Plowmen, cart drivers, and shepherds appear as in Roman times with goatskin coats and distaff maidens. Nature’s charms—vines, olives, streams, birdsong, bees—echo pastoral poetry and an idyllic countryside.
H. W. Babcock in The Fanciers Review outlines four main chicken comb types. The single comb stands upright and may revert in old breeds, the rose comb is broad and pointed with a cup variant in Sicilians, the pea comb resembles three single combs joined and is valued for frost resistance, and the leaf comb appears as two joined horns as in Houdan and other breeds.
The Illinois Experiment Station reports corn roots extend mainly within three inches of the surface. Most roots would not be broken by three inch cultivation, while deeper planting adds effort without benefiting root development or nourishment.
An offer promising one year’s subscription for Tar Man and the Philadelphia Weekly Press, advertised as the best and cheapest option for devout readers seeking inexpensive religious reading.
The article argues bloodlines matter for cattle breeding, highlighting herd books and pedigree tests. It notes individual family strength within breeds and that both sire and dam influence offspring, with improvement possible even from non pedigree stock through careful selection and years of breeding. It cites The New York World’s agricultural editor as authority.
A Cornell bulletin notes a new rust disease on red clover different from common forms. It says the first crop is usually safe, the second crop may suffer in cool mid summer, and plowing under in fall or burning fields could help. fungicides are impracticable.
W Sommerville told the Minnesota Horticultural Society that he manures bearing orchards yearly at forty loads per acre with thorough mulching. His 28 year old trees remain as healthy as 20 years ago and he sold four tons of apples from an orchard seven by nine rods. He notes that feeding bearing trees is essential as fruit production exhausts trees, while cultivation aids mainly younger trees.
Doolittle advises keeping prolific queens for large honey yields and letting brood combs stay filled in spring. An English correspondent suggests tea leaves in water to attract bees at drinking spots. Miller notes bees in cellars are quieter after windy periods. ventilation matters. Farm Stock and Home warns dark hive colors melt combs in heat, white paint preserves them. Bees aid plant fertilization and are not destructive. Editor of American Bee Journal says brood combs manage themselves in summer. In winter, box up and fumigate with sulphur to kill moth germs.
A Washington dispatch reviews the final session of the Fifty-First Congress with adjournment sine die in the House and thanks to Speaker Reed and Vice President Morton. It lists laws enacted, including copyright, land, immigration, meat inspection, and railway measures, plus a long death toll of twelve representatives and three senators.
The Mail office specializes in first class job printing with promptness neatness and cheapness as its motto. It offers legal blanks of all kinds printed to order and notes that The Mail is registered as second class mail matter at Warren post office.
Reports from Toronto show the Conservative government’s reduced seat tally with several seats turning Liberal in Ontario and Quebec. Laurier remains elected in Richmond and Wolfe and is acclaimed in East Quebec. Government plans likely to push trade talks with the United States.
Prof. Gossler reports on Koch lymph outcomes through year end. Of 1,061 internal TB patients 18 cured, 171 materially improved, 194 slightly improved, 586 normal, 44 died. Among 708 external TB patients 15 cured, 148 materially improved, 287 slightly improved, 298 normal, 9 died.
New York reports a 24,000,000 pound tea crop shortfall this year, pushing consumer prices up by ten cents per pound. Harold Weddle, a New York based tea grower and importer, cites blight as the cause, a disease hitting tea plants in China, India and Ceylon.
The treasury says the net surplus at the close of Wednesday was under 9 million dollars after a week of large pension payments totaling over 30 million. Officials expect the surplus to edge up toward 35 million as the drain ends for three months. In South Dakota, the world’s fair bill faltered in the House with 67 votes for, 17 against and 38 absent, killing the measure for the present session.
A census bureau bulletin due soon will report that the white population rose 24 percent in the last decade while the colored population increased 13 percent.
The opening meeting of a nationwide series to raise funds for a memorial hall at Washington was held in New York last evening. The drive aims to support a tribute to Union prisoners of the war with a dedicated memorial space.
March 6 report from Monroy, N. C. describes Thomas Pemberton of Little Rock Ark and Albert Bost of Bost's Mills N. C. killed in the fatal fire that consumed the local high school.
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