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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1888
Page
8
A poetic meditation on how unseen forces shape action and will. The speaker likens unguessed impulses to wind moving a familiar organ through unseen hands and notes. It ends with a prayer that different tones align toward a good end under God.
Mary Hay plans to raise funds for Pastor Mildmay by selling orchard fruit but finds them stripped by local boys. Mrs. Hay laments the loss while the community shifts to support the subscription, Mary receiving help from her father and neighbors amid town talk and a light theft incident.
In a village scene at Mrs. Biggard’s, Mary Hay confronts a parish fundraising row over quinces. Mrs. Biggard tries to skip payment, but Mary insists on contributing five dollars, sparking tension and a hint of upcoming marriage between Mary and Mr. Mildmay.
The piece traces the origins of the epistle dedicatory and the reader’s address in prefaces. It notes how dedicatory letters led to reader prefaces, their purposes for patrons and hostile critics, and how Johnson’s time reshaped prefaces into elaborate critical essays, with Shakespeare editions and Lives of the Poets.
A humorous Omaha Herald exchange praises a photo as utterly sweet and divine, then reveals it is nothing but an instantaneous image of a ten thousand dollar corner lot. The other excerpt recalls King Emanuel I of Portugal sending an elephant to Pope Leo X in the sixteenth century, which knelt before the Pope.
U S Senator Frye delivers a strong attack on President Cleveland’s tariff stance arguing that free trade would ruin American industry. He cites Charles P Kimball Cleveland’s consul at Stuttgart as an example of shift from free trader to protectionist and contrasts European wage data with U S wages. Frye condemns Democratic leaders, predicts British market fears, and urges protectionist policy to sustain American jobs and industry. The speech also discusses surplus funds, temperance politics, and proposed uses for revenue.
The Chicago Inter Ocean derides Senator Voorhees for defending the president against Sherman’s charges. It mocks his surplus critique as misguided, arguing government and household surpluses differ. It notes $38,000,000 kept out of circulation due to budget standoffs and vetoes.
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