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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-23

Nashville. Tenn. May 22.-Sanders pitched another winning game for Nash yille today. He has lost but one since the season opened. The leaders from New Orleans faced him today and until the eighth inning they failed to reach tho home plate. Attendance, S,0oO.
 RH.E. New Orleans .. .. 70 0O0001 3-4 9 6 Batteries-Sanders and Fisher: Stewart and Abbott.
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the pressure upon 1t and us is less than usual The ordinary pressure of the at- mosphere is fourteen pounds to the square inch If the, barometer falls an inch. that means seventy-two pounds less pressure pressure is decreased so much as this and rapidly into the bargain. the sur rounding air rushes inwards to fill up the vacuum thus created, and a gale results.
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Atlanta. May 22.-Henley's wildness to- day was accountable for the home team s defeat by Memphis. Baker was substi- tuted in the fifth. Ehret kept his hits well scattered. Attendance. 1900.
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 Boston, May 22.-IIome runs entered largely into today's game that of Mertes in the tenth inning winning the game. Attendance. i,5OG R,H E..
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 hard throughout and won easily. Wash ingtons work at times was very weak. Attendance, 3,0H. R.H: ES St. Louis . .. .. ..3 0 0 0 6-9 l6
 Batteries-Lee and Drill: Reidy and Sugden.
 Baltimore. May 22.-Howell had slight ly the better of S pitchers battle against Miller Attendance. 2,900. RH. E. Baltimore .. .. ... 70 Q 0 ? +-3 Detroit . .... .. 70 o 0 o 0 1--l :
 Batteries-Howell and Bresnahan: Mill Ter and Mcclure.
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 heavy hitting and errors of o-..Ission and commission Wiltse was practically re- sponsible for the loss of his own game, Attendance. 2,397 R.H. E. Cleveland :. =. .. ..0l204 4o12l-n IS Philadelphia Il o40 70 3 o. H
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St. Louis. May 22.-Boston won list less game from St. Louis Willis was faultlessly supported and the visitors had an easy time of it. Attendance. l,600.
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Chattanooga, May 2-Fast playing by the visitors defeated ChataQooga to- day. Dolan pitched great game. six of the hits being scratches. Luck won for Little Rock. Ballantyne and O Brien played their first game with Chattanooga. Attendance. 6O0. R.H. E.: Little Rock. .. .. ..2000O13 O--S 10 3 Chattanooga .. .. 70 0300+ 8 1
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Britannia rules the wave, AS we were told at school. But the world begins to crave The right to wave the rule.
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Chicago. May 22.-Chicago pulled the game out of the fire by a single, a two-
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Birmingham. May 22.-Ragged playing in Birmingham infieid gave Shreveport the game in the seventh inning Both Butler and Campbell were hit hard but Campbell kept his hits well scattered. At tendance. 1,200. R.H. E: Birmingham ..2 10 Q 0O O-3 5 Shreveport .. .. .. 70 00l % s-5 10 }
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Cincinnati. May 22.-The Cincinnati team lost through errors of the rankest kind. Both pitchers were hit freely in almost every inning. Attendance 500
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.Daily except Sunday. Sunday only.
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Sleepers between New York and New Orleans I'd 36 have Pullman VestI5uled Sleepers be- coaches between Washington and New Or
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The Washington times., 1902-09-21

World it became easy and natural for
men to sing. Hitherto the imagination
had been invoked to give wings and fire
| to high arguments for the rights of men;
| now the imagination began to speak, by
virtue of it's own inward impulse, of the
| things of it's own life. In religion, in
the social consciousness, in publ clife
| there were STRINGS of conscience which
revealed deeper life of the spirit
among new people. The age of pro-
vincialism, of submission to the judg-
| ment and acceptance of the taste of
older and more cultivated communities.
was coming to an end.
Poe stood alone among his contem-
poraries by reason CT the fact that,
while his imagination was fertilized by
the movement of the time, his work
was not, in theme or sympathy, repre-
sentative of the forces behind it. The
group of gifted men. with whom he had
for the most part only casual connec-
the time in which they lived; Poe shared
with them the creative impulse without
sharing the specific interests and devo-
tions of the period. He was primarily
and distinctively the artist of his time;
the man who cared for his art, not for
what he could say through it. but for
what it had to say through him. Emer-
son, Lowell. Holmes, Whittier, Bryant,
Irving, and, in certain aspects of his
genius, Hawthorne, might have been
predicted; reading our early history in
the light of our later development, their
coming, seems to have been foreordain-
ed by the conditions of life on the new
continent; and, later, Whitman and La
nier stand for and are bound up in the
fortunes of the New World, and its new
order of political and social life. Poe
alone, among men of his eminence, could
not have been foreseen.
This fact suggests his limitations,
but it also brings into clear view the
unique individuality of his genius and
the originality of his work. His con-
temporaries are explicable; Poe is in
explicable. He remains the most sharp
ly defined personality in our literary
history. His verse and his imaginative
prose stand out in bold relief against
a background which neither suggests
nor interprets them. One may go fur
ther. and affirm that both verse and
prose have place by themselves in the |
literature of the world
But after all. Mr.. Mabie touches the
secret of Poe's charm when he says:
Among the elements which go to |
the making of the true work of art, the |
daemonic holds first place. 1t is the |
essential and peculiar quality of ge-
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of it, that :, man who has left so strong
sE Impression as Poe upon our litera-
ture should be represented by volume
of poems SO thin as to be easily read
through in half an hour; but so It is.
Even his fiction is not volumjnous, but
every line Of it is instinct with individu-
ality. The same is true even of his
newspaper work, which will doubtless
be to many readers the most fascinating
part of the present edition of his works.
The editors have patiently ferreted out
of old files all that they could find of his
newspaper letters and essays. and his
casual contributions to magazines, and
The result is a proof that ne was not the
idle, vagabondish man Of letters which
he has sometimes been represented. but
4 fairly hard-working and steady mind
ed person. 1t is also pathetic proof OF
the sort of hack work to which he was
reduced to keep soul and body together,
and it is possible that, without anyone's
realizing the fact, he left his stamp on
the embryonic newspaper and magazine
world of this country quite as distinctly
as on the world of literature. He wrote
on all sorts of subjects, congenial. and
urcongenial, bringing the keen edge O:
his intellect to bear on them all. The
makers cf current literature in america
have always, of necessity, gone on the
pI inciple enunciated by Sir Jimmy HaH-
kins, IF one must use razors to cut
grindstones. l prefer the best quality
and numerous keen and brilliant minds
have been literally used up in the max
ing of the American press.
1t is only within the last quarter of
century that an American newspaper
man has had much chance of being any
thing but creative newspaper genius. |
1t took his time, his brains. his ideas, |
to build up the Unsuitable future. The |
of the American press was |
coeyal with its existence, and is only |
now disappearing. Even the magazines !
were long anonymous receptacles. AS |
late as the seventies the contributors to |
Harper's and the Atlantic" signed their
names seldom. if ever. and the new era
began about the time of j. G.. Hollands
of the old "Scribner's" Hence
we have Poe. in the company of other
and magazine hacks, now for
the most part forgotten, writing essays
On "The Philosophy of Furniture, - MA
elzel's Chess Player" Secret Writing"
'Anastatic Printing" "The Nebular Hy-
pothesis," and one of Longfellow's
poems. He would, in fact, be called at
the present time a very good all-round
newspaper man, and might be set at
almost anything from special war cor
to writing soap advertise
nents. That this versatility and thor
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.nadowed that of Poe. Henry Tim
j was another Southern poet who uset
the irregular meter in his nature poems
and political songs. apparently for its
superior musical effect and freedom
from the hindrances of set form Of
verse.
In fac:. perhaps the great charm, as
we'll as the strongest characteristic Of
the work of Poe is that it is not labor
ed or finished. Whatever in it is good
is the result Of irresistible impulse. not
of long care and polishing. Not even in
poems of such smooth and regular meter
as 1.-The Raven is there evidence OF
careful work, for the simplicity of the
meter would insure the ease Of writing
in 1t after the first few stanzas. In
other poems of more complicated form
effects have been secured by repetition.
not consciously, perhaps-Poe was no
trickster in words-but from the instinc-
tive feeling that it was better to repeat
the line than TO spoil either sound or
sense. With a formal meter like the
hexameter, or with set form like that
of the sonnet, Poe could have done lit
tie. He would have been haMpered,
vexed, and uneasy. His genius demand
ed freedom of form, of language, of
Imagination, of conditions; and much Of
the imperfection Of his work arose from
his inability to secure an environment
where he might work without daily care
and harassment. With an independently
income. a position which would have
brought him friends, but not overbur-
dening duties, and congenial society, Poe
might have written the greatest poems
in American literature. AS it was. he
has left us fragments of genius, and
helped to lay the foundations of Ameri-
can literary thought. and whether he
himself would have thought so or not.
these are worthy achievements. 1t is |
extremely doubtful If Foe would have
enjoyed the fact that lie has been the |
guide followed by more or less crude |
singers Of the South and Middle West, |
who felt the charm of his music and |
the weirdness of his thought, which they |
could not initiate. But, nevertheless. |
they have kept the path which he blazed |
from being lost or overgrown, and some |
day. perhaps, some young genius will
recognize the irregular meter, the per-
lection of sound, the spontaneity of feel
ing, the daring imagination, as charac-
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tics had been born, on whom all these
treasures of music and imagination, OF
passion and mystery had been bestowed
by some fairy godmother.,' .
There are some racy "reminiscences of
Poe's college days. which shed some
rays of comedy over an existence which
was in the main tragic, not to say pa
thetic, in its struggles and deprivations.
One grotesque function In which the
young poet student took part was the
eating of one Of the West Point pro-
fessors in efigy. the efflgy being an an
cient gander. This tale is told by
schoolmate, Mr. 7. H. Gibson.
Later there are some fascinating
glimpses of early American Bohemia
in the account of the beginnings of
"Graham's Magazine" and the Broad
way Journal" OF Poe at this period the
biographer says:
Conscience is an awkward ingredient
to mingle with things. The conscien-
community. Let it be known that
man has a conscience, that he means to
exercise it, that neither fear nor favor
will intimidate him from his sense of
duty to himself and to that community.
and instantly such a man becomes
bugbear, scarecrow, an offense, and
scourge to the evil-doer and the uncon-
scientious.
when he settled in New York for the
second time. in April. 1874. Poe had be-
come this incarnation Of the literary
conscience of the time. From the mo-
ment he had reviewed Norman Leslie in
the Southern Literary Messenger and
pricked the spangled bubbles that then
danced before the public eye, down to the
date of his departure for Philadelphia,
the critical instinct-the literary con-
science-had been growing in him with
vast strides. I have sometimes amused
myself he says in 'Marginalia. by en-
deavoring to fancy what would be the
fate OF an individual gifted, or rather ac-
with an intellect very far su-
perior to that of his race. OF course he
would be conscious of his own superior
ity; nor could he Gf otherwise consti-
tuted as man isl help manifesting his
Thus he would make him
self enemies at all points. And since his
opinions and speculations would widely
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were likely to do almost anything now
that they had begun to be original, and
this is quite true.
The biography of Poe, which occupies
c volume by itself. contains more in
formation which will tend to throw new
light on the character of the poet. 1t
is accompanied by an Editors Pref
ace" in which the purpose and char
acter of the present edition is ex-
planned. Mr.. Harrison says in part:
'The present edition Of Poe is based
on the poets own statement of what he
deemed fundamental in any reissue Of
his works: 4 am naturally anxious that
what have written should circulate as
/ wrote it, If it circulate at ALL
"This pregnant sentence-from the
preface to the 1S45 edition of the poems
has been constantly kept in mind by
the editor during the preparation Of
this work, and no pains have been
spared to apply it practically.
after thorough examination of all
the existing editions of Poe's works. the
editor became convinced that no salts
factory text of the poets writings could
be established without direct study of
the original sources in which these writ
ings first and last appeared. Existing
editions confiicted in SO many points
that no course was left except to reject
them all-beginning with Griswold,
whom all had more or less faithfully
followed-and extract new and abso-
lutely authentic text from the magazines,
periodicals, and books of tales and
poems which Poe himself had edited or
to which he had contributed. ="
The style of this biography is most
charming in certain passages. Here, for
example, is comment on Poe's ances-
try:
mo one can look at the portrait OF
Arnold (for such was her
maiden name) without seeing in it fore
shadowings of those ethereal Eleonoras
and Ligeias that haunted the poets
ties. their Indian-summer- like vague
ness; the childlike figure, the great, |
mysterious eyes. the abun-
1ant curling hair confined in the quaint |
bonnet of a hundred years ago. and
,hadowing the brow in raven masses. the
high waist and attenuated arms clasped |
in an Empire robe of faint. flowered de-
sign. the tiny but rounded neck and |
shoulders, the head proudly erect. 1t is
he face of an elf. sprite. an Undine, I
who was to be the mother of the nest |
sliish, the most unearthly of poets, |
whose luminous dark gray eyes had G |
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teristics Of true American poetry, and
will do the things of which Poe only
dreamed. Even now one poet-Lanier-
has brought one kind of verse to per-
lection, working along Poe's lines. ant
these lines have also been followed by
James Whitcomb Riley in the Middle
West, and by Edwin Markham in Cali
forpia. Poe is the dean of them all, and
of the greater genius yet to come. One
wonders whether Mariowe was not
proud OF Shakespeare. But it is para
dox that the work of which man is
not proud is often that which is most
valuable to the world.
At any rate, there is to be a Poe re-
yival during the present season, and this
new edition of the poets works is early
on the ground. 1t is appreciatively edit
ed, and the new matter which 1t contains
cannot fail to be interesting. There are
passages in Mr.. Mabie's essay on Poe
which have almost a ring of prophecy.
One of them is as follows:
Zone fact about our literature has not
received adequate attention-the fact
that 1t had no childhood. In it's begin
ming 1t was the record of people who
had long passed the age Of play and
dreams, and were given over to pressing
and exacting work We are g. young ma
tion, but an old people. and our books,
as distinguished from English books, are
the products of a mature people in
new world. The world in which books
are written has much to do with their
quality, their themes, and their form; but
the substance Of the books of power is
the deposit of experience in the hearts
and minds of race. In American liter
ature we have fresh field and an old
race; We have new conditions, and an
experience which antedates them. We
were educated in the Old World, and
man carries his education with him. He
cannot escape it. and would lose incal-
culabiy if he could.
"The kind of originality which inheres
in new race and runs into novel forms
we do not and shall not possess; the
kind of originality which issues out of
the direct and hand-t hand dealing
with nature and life we may hope to de-
velop on the scale of the Greeks or the
English. A great literature must be
waited for, and while we are waiting IL
is wise to be hopeful of the future: for
expectation is often kind of prophecy,
and to believe in the possibility of doing
the best things in the best way is itself
. kind Of preparation. To say that liter
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printed. There is biography, an auto
biographical sketch, and an apprecia-
live essay on .sPoe's Place in American
Literature by Hamilton Wright Ma
bic, besides photography and index. In
a word, it is a most complete little set
of books.
1t is hardly exact to compare Poe to
either Keats or Shelley, although the
comparison is almost inevitable. He
had, perhaps, more in common with
Keats in his love of pure sound and
melody, and the almost sensuous
imagery of some of his poems. but
neither English writer has approached
him in fiction, and even Hawthorne, his
contemporary in the world of weird
Imagination. does not rival him in his
own peculiar field. The weird tales of
Hawthorne are apart, impersonal. and
remote; they do not affect us personal
ly: but in The Gold Bug" THE Fail
of the House of Usher," and others of
Poe's grewsome fancies, the reader
seems to be himself taking part in the
scene which affects his imagination.
The fact is that Poe was figure alone
and to some extent epoch-making. in
American literature. He was the first
to depart from the models of the older
world, and strike out form of his own,
which was neither grotesQue, crude. nor
feeble, but of an exquisite, if fragment
ary, perfection. He was the man who
caught glimpses of a world of thought
into which some poet of the New World,
in a future age. will enter in full pos
session.
The genius of Poe is so separated from
that of the Massachusetts school of
poets, the only other literary group of
the age, that he is almost never even
mentioned in connection with them.
For this reason, and also because he
wrote little of a really popular charac
ter, his name has not been any such
household word as that of Longfellow or
Whittier. Although not Virginian by
birth or ancestry, his associations were
almost all with the old South during the |
formative period of his life: he is often |
claimed as Virginian poet, and his
poetry has many of the characteristics |
of the literary thought of that section of
the country, and much in common with |
that Of its later representative, Sidney
Lanier. While the irregularity OF
Lanier's metrical style was probably due
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porary writer's who were less idealistic.
| 1t was not an age OF commercialism.
Curiously enough, this crept into our
literature after the great struggle which
brought out the best and the worst of
national characteristics. Perhaps it was
that the -bellu,n literary spirit was
too vigorous to permit such taint with
out detection; perhaps the wave of
French influence which swept over the
country had something to do with it; but,
at any rate, the soul of the earlier Amer
lean school was clean and unbribed. The
writer's in England. where, probably, the
influence Of the Queen had swayed popu-
lar taste, and where. moreover, the yio-
lent reaction from the common morals
of the Georges had led to a prejudice
in favor of clean living, which natur-
ally led to other such bourgeois virtues
as conscientiousness and earnestness.
But the quality which distinguished
Poe's work is precisely that which Kip
ling was defining in his latest story,
Wireless" when he said:
Remember that in all the millions
permitted there are but five little lines
of which one may say. These are the
Magic. These are the Vision. The rest
is only poetry"
The five lines to which he refers ere
from two different poems. Two of them
are found in Keats lode to a Nlghtin
gale" and have been called by Rossetti
"the Pillars Of Hercules of human
thought
Magic easements opening on the foam
OF perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
The other three are from Coleridge's
"Kubla Khan" whose weird origin is
perhaps as nearly supernatural as any
thing in literature is:
A savage place as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath waning moon was haunted
BY woman wailing for her demon lover.
1t is impossible for anyone familiar
with Poe not to see that the same mys-
terious, indef1nable quality which exists
in these lines is to be found in his work.
though seldom, Of course, in SO perfect
form Take, for example, these lines
from 1.-The City in the Sea-" poem
scarcely known at all:
Lo Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West
Where the good and the bad and the worst and !
the best |
Have gone to their eternal rest
There shrines and palaces and towers
(Time-eate towers that tremble notD
Resemble nothin- that is ours
So blend the turrets and towers there
Tint all seem DendulOuS in air
While from q proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.