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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-11
Why Poe Left West Point.
(FrOm Success Magazine.

Several army officers were sitting in a
New York hotel, recently, discussing
old times at West Point. The talk
turned on the instructors who used 70
put them trough their PAGES.
Il shall forget old Professor
Church. exclaimed one He always
impressed me as being about a hundred
years old, and l guess he was pretty
we'll along, because one day, up in the
library, when I happened to be looking
at a portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, he
Informed me hat he had taught the
poet mathematics, and explained how
the young man came to leave
ct was as much of a crime in those
days as now for a cadet to be of
limits without permission. 1t meant
dismissal. Poe, being an untamed spir-
it couldn't resist the temptation to take
a chance now and then and run down
to a resort at Highland Falls. He
and four other cadets stole off late. one
night, and were having a high old time,
when they heard a squad from the
Point coming down the road. You
can imagine the wild scattering. Two
cadets sought the cellar, and two more
the rooms above; Poe "A small and
vas lifted into a convenient sugar bar
rel. The -four other fugitives were
quickly discovered. 1t was an after
thought on the part of the lieutenant
in command to lift up the lid Of The
sugar barrel. He dragged Poe out, and
marched him, with the others, off to
the guard-house. He had offended be-
fore, and was regarded Is the ring
leader in the escapade, and so his car-
eer as a soldier came to an end"
And a nightly good thing it was
exclaimed one of the listeners, "for the
world of letters!"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-11
To Repair Government Buildings.

Washington, May 7.-Secretary Shaw
today submitted estimates TO the house
OF amounts necessary to be appropria-
ated to repair government buildings in
California wrecked by the earthquake.
To make the appropriation ample to
cover damage not as yet ascertained,
the secretary recommends that $3.50, 600
be appropriated. The estimate is &C
companied by photographs Of the
buildings taken after the damage