Phantom Joy: A Hart Vance Poem From the Current
The poem narrates a speaker's pursuit of a elusive beloved spirit that appears in May and under sunlit leaves. He battles doubt and longing as the phantom yields glimpses of divine beauty yet defies realization. The verse questions whether joy and desire lead to true completeness or remain an eternal mystery.
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Hart Vance
A Second Thought The Story of a Wife's Good Sense
Mrs. Whitman confronts financial strain and extravagance in a tale of marriage. She learns to resist costly gowns and repays debts by returning a jeweler's watch, revealing a shift from vanity to prudent shared responsibility between wife and husband.
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Mary
Mr. Whitman
Mrs. Whitman
George
Vice in Brussels and Parisian Depravity Echoed in Brussels
A Brussels dispatch compares local vice to Paris, detailing cabarets and private rooms imitating Palais Royal salons. It condemns public corruption, political bribery, and social hypocrisy across tea parties, balls, and caucus clubs, noting cross national complicity among British, Irish, French, and American figures.
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Brussels
Chicago
Palais Royal
Paris
Faubourg Montmartre
Seine
Mme. A
M. B
Mme. C
la Monnaie
Taken Firm Stand
A Buffalo Express excerpt recalls a young woman in a Methodism heavy household who declares she is a Taman Episcopalian when asked by the pastor if she is a child of God. The exchange highlights personal conviction and religious identity.
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Max
Taman Episcopalian
Buffalo Express
Forty Five Years of One Fayette Family’s Rise in Missouri
A Missouri family from Fayette, Howard County, built a notable legacy. The eldest son died young after a naval career, the second son Eugene Hendrix became a prominent preacher and was elected bishop at thirty eight, and the third son Joseph Hendrix rose through journalism, politics, and church service with high salaries and key roles in Brooklyn and St. Louis.
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Atlanta Constitution
Fayette
Howard County
Missouri
Naval Academy
Eugene Russell Hendrix
Central College
West
M. E. Church
Methodist Church
Joseph Hendrix
Cornell University
New York Sun
Brooklyn
Wy Eg
M. K
United States
Fearful and Wonderful View of the Human Body Lab
An editorial extols the human body as a grand laboratory. It compares the blood as a purifying river, the lungs filtering air, and nerves signaling pains, warning that neglecting health leads to failures and disease.
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H. Lassing
M. Die Wr