Silent Wind Governs Ocean Organ Keys
A lyric meditation on the sea’s trembling threads and a wind choosing notes for an organ. The poem imagines an unseen hand pressing passive keys as waves hum.
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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1888
Page
10
A lyric meditation on the sea’s trembling threads and a wind choosing notes for an organ. The poem imagines an unseen hand pressing passive keys as waves hum.
In a rural scene Mary Hay declines subscribing to the Fund for Evangelizing the Eboe Indians citing debts and duty. Mrs. Biggard pressures Mary while Mr. Mildmay expects support. a quince-driven plan collapses as boys loot the crop and a $5 coin is offered but rejected to honor obligations.
In a parish scene at Mrs Biggard’s, Mary Hay confronts Mrs Biggard over a five dollar quinces gift. Mary offers to pay five dollars for the quinces, shaming the fund’s neglect. Larrabee recounts a moonlit raid tale as Mildmay and Mary’s engagement looms.
The article traces how epistles dedicatory informed by patronage gave way to reader prefaces. It notes the shift from personal dedication to broader critical prefaces, with Johnson’s Shakespeare edition and Lives of the Poets as prime examples.
In Omaha a playful exchange centers on a photograph described as an instantaneous shot of a ten thousand dollar corner lot. A Kansas City girl and local artist spar over whether the image truly depicts a picture or merely a dreamlike scene.
In a sixteenth century anecdote King Emanuel of Portugal sent an elephant to Pope Leo X. The animal, likely well trained, knelt before the pope and his retinue, an act that impressed the Holy See.
Senator Frye delivered a sectional broadside arguing that Democratic incapacity created the treasury surplus and that protectionist measures would shield American industry. He cited Charles P. Kimball’s shift from free trade to protectionism in Stuttgart and contrasted Britain’s open markets with Germany and Belgium gaining on British industry. He urged tariffs, defense spending, and education while denouncing the President’s tariff stance as harmful to American workers.
The Chicago Inter Ocean reports a sharp rebuke of Senator Voorhees for defending the President against charges by Senator Sherman. The piece quotes Voorhees arguing that surplus funds are harmful while detailing alleged budgetholdings and blocked appropriations totaling about 35 million dollars.
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