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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-30
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-30
Girls Full Length Winter Goats
Girls and Junior
Long Goats

Two different models Will be shown here this sea
son, each IN wide variety of fabrics. model
for Junior Misses is designed and cut the lines
of the young mems overcoats and is strictly man
tailored the materials shades in fancy
mixtures and plain cloths, yoke lining of skinner s
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-30

Since 1898, when the Idaho consti-
tuition was so amended that equal suf
trage was extended, Idaho has had u
woman state superintendent, and the
largo majority Of tho counties cr the
state NOW have women county superin.
tendents, and have had during these
years.
Miss Permesl French, Miss Mae Scott
and Miss Belle Chamberlain have each
been elected and reelected TO the of.
fee Of state superintendent Of public
Instruction.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-30
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Open TO D D. M. daily. Entrance ons
Third South. Good bread very cheap.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-30

a board Of revision of the school
laws of the state was created last
winter, consisting of Miss Chamberlain,
superintendent Walter r. Siders of the
Pocatello schools and President George
II. Black of the Lewiston normal.
This board had one meeting III Au-
Gpst and divided the work among the
commission. and adjourned to meet and
compare the result of their individual
efforts the last week in November.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17
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The fact is that Byron and Moore,
the idols Of literary fashion at that
time, influenced Poe in the beginning,
when at the age of is he published
'Tamerlane," and his somber magma
ton, with his histriOnic bent inherited
from his actor parents, brought this
melifluous quality to the strange
Towering of mad, morbid music
His genius corresponded almost ex-
actly to that of his French transla :
tor, Baudelaire, author of the Flow
ers Of Evil" and victim of hasheesh as
Poe was of opium. That explains one
of the strange phenomena of literature
Poe as French author. Through
the marvellous translation of Baude-
laire. Poe has become as we'll known
as any French poet, and gallicized
portrait of Poe are not uncommon
in which he looks welrdly Frenchified
Poe is almost the only American au-
thor we'll known in France.
Creepiness Of the Tales.
The same morbid and histrionit
genius breathes in his tales-fantastic
full of horror, ingenious, welding 6
weird spell. The Cask Of Amontil
lado," THE Fall of the House OF
Usher" THE Pit and the Pendulum
The Masque of the Red Death" are
examples of this. The little lad ir
Grimm's Fairy Tales who wanted
to learn how to SILVER should have
read some of these tales at midnight's
silent hour.
The finest tribute to Poe's genius az
the supreme original short-story
writer of all time" Is paid him by Co
nan Doyle, who says:
Not only is Poe the originator o.
the detective story; all treasure-hunt
ing, cryptogramsolvin yarns trace
back to his Gold Bug just as al
| pseudo scientific Verne and Well
ctories have their prototypes in tn,
Voyage to the Moon and the Gas,
| of Monsieur Vlademar. If every MAJ
who receives check for story TO
owes ints springs to Poe were to pay
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17
WOODMEN SANlTARiUM OPEN

The national sanitarium of the Mod
ern Woodmen of America, located on
a l.OO0-acre tract nine miles north OF
Colorado Springs, Colo. is at last an
accomplished fact. The first tent
colony, with 60 patients, was opened
this week. Other patients will be adj
mitted as rapidly as accommodations
are provided. If necessary the sani-
tarium will ultimately have a capacity
of 500 or more patients. Several of
| the local camps have adopted the plan
| of building and furnishing tent cot
tage.
The executive committee OF the home
| has decided to conduct the sanitarium
| free to all members afflicted with
| tuberculosis, but will admit only those
who are deemed durable or whose lives
will thereby be prolonged for con-
siderable length of time. This deci-
sion is based on experience which
teaches that the person coming to
Colorado in the early stages of the
disease has everything in his favor,
while those who wait until the last
stages before coming to the higher
altitude and land of sunshine have
the odds against them
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17

1.-THE to a monument for the master
ne would have q pyramid as big as
that of Cheops.'
The allusion to the Cryptogram III
"The Gold Bug" recalls the fact that
unraveling cipher messages was one
of Poe's fads. While in Philadelphla
he challenged his readers to send MN
anv cipher message he could not read
ily solve, let the key phrase be IN any
language they liked. About 100 clpher
messages were sent in, and he made
good his boast by solving every one.
The Poe Cult.
Poe's salary during his editorial Ia
bors on the Southern Literary Mes
senger," where he first won prize OF
500 for a story; on "Grahams Maya
zine" whose circulation he raised
from 5000 to 10000; on the "Mirror
of N. p. willis, in which THE Raven
appeared, was probably never more
than $40 a week. Today the slightest
scrap of his handwriting commands
higher price His letters have mar
ket value twice that of Shelly's, fVe
times that of Byron's, 100 times that
of Longfellow's. The original manu-
script of THE Bells" bought for $275
some years ago, would probably bring
| 10 times that price today. A single
COPY of Poe's first book, "Tamerlane,"
printed in 1927, has been sold at auc-
ton for $2,050. 1t looks as If the ad-
mirers of Poe might go as far as did
Lafayette to express his veneration
for Poe's revolutionary grandfather,
and kiss the sod upon his grave.
During this week of memorial ad-
dresses, monument dwellings, special
numbers, and even a Poe drama, 1t
| is worth while to reread William Win
ter's noble poetic tribute, penned al
most % years ago:
Cold is the pean honor sings,
! And chill is glory's icy breath.
And pale the garland Memory brings
| TO grace the iron doors of Death.
Fame's echoing thunders, long and
loud,
The pomp Of pride that decks the
pail,
The plaudits of the vacant crowd
One word of love Is worth them all.
With dews Of grief our eyes are dim;
All, let the tear of sorrow start,
And honor, in ourselves and him,
The great and tender human heart.
Through many night Of want and
woe
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17

poems like "Ulalume." The Bells"
THE Haunted Palace" "Annabel Lee
and "Lenore,' poems with such uD-
canny wizardry of word music? No
other poet in the world, except. per-
haps Gray and Sappho, who built so
high and enduring fame upon 80
few and brief poems.
His Theory Of Poetry.
This Is quite in harmony with Poe's
own theory Of poetry He has written
an elaborate essay on the subject,
telling how he composed his own
Raven" to illustrate the theory. The
fundamental principle Is that a true
poem must be short; long poem is
contradiction In terms. Words were
chosen for their musical value, not for
their definite meaning. One might
describe all of Poe's poetry as silver
trumpets sounding through golden
mist. Coleridge and Blake had done
this before him, but he first did it
conspicuously and supreinely Wen.
Yet his story of how he wrote The
Raven" must be taken with several
grains of salt. If that story be true
and Poe's theory admitted, poetry is
mathematical science, and the poet
who determines to write perfect
poem can only repeat The Raven
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17
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His frenzied spirit wandered wild
Till kind disaster laid him low,
And heaven reclaimed its hayward
child.
Through many year his fame has
grown
Like midnight vast, like starlight
sweet,
Till now his genius fills a throne,
And nations marvel at his feet.
One need of justice long delayed,
One browning grace his virtues
All, take, thou great and injured
shade,
The love that sanctifies the gravel
Gods mercy guard in peaceful sleep,
The sacred dust that slumbers here:
And, while around his tomb we weep,
God bless, for us, the mourner's tear!
And may his spirit lowering nigh,
Pierce the dense cloud of darkness
through,
And know, with fame that cannot die,
He has the worlds affection, too!
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17

whitman, whom he was engaged to
marry. declared that even in the de-
Iirium of drink "his words We're the
words of n princely intellect over
wrought, and of a heart only too sensi-
tive and too finely strung" There Is
also something humorous In the anec-
dote that he would never go to bed at
night without asking his mother-ln-
law for her blessing. and If he had
dspleased her In any way he would
kneel at her feet and humbly implorc
her pardon. There can be no doubt.
however, OF his chivalry toward
woman. his purity of heart and his
tender and sensitive spirit.
And there is even less doubt about
his poetic genius, although Emerson,
in n conversation with Howells called
him "the jingle man." Mrs. Browning
told the people who were haunted by
the "Nevermore'' OF Poe'S Raven"
and one of her acquaintance, who
has the misfortune of possessing a
bust of Pallas, cannot bear to look at
it in the twilight" Thomas Bailey
Aldrich said that "his imperishable
fame Ia in all lands" Swinburne de-
clared over n quarter of century ago
that Time, the eternal enemy of small
and shallow regulations VIII prove
the constant and trusty friend and
keeper OF Il true poets full-grown
fame"
!! Is there another poem 50 popular.
another more often quoted and
parodied than The Raven" for which
Poe received $40, while the owner of
the INNS. some years ago demanded
SIC, 900 for 1t? Are there any other
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17
TOWN HAS TROUBLE
WITH TIME
ELkO DOESN'T KNOW WHAT
TIME IT is AND WANTS A
STANDARD FIXED.

Elko, New. Jan. 16.--Elko is angry
at the Southern Pacific's refusal to do
something towards getting order out of
chaos in regard to the time and clock
proposition now existing In the east
ern Nevada town.
In 1888 the standard division of time
throughout the United States was
adopted This provided for third
division to be known as mountain
time and based on the 105th meridian,
and included all territory west of the
l05th meridian nearly to the western
borders of Idaho Utah and Arizona.
The fourth division covered the rest OF
the country to the Pacific coast, and
was based on the 120th degree.
At the time of the adoption of this
standard time changed at Ogden, Utah,
and Kingman, Ariz. Then the man
agement and control of the Central
Pacific changed to the Oregon Short
Line and for the convenience of their
train dispatchers the point for the
change of time was moved to Sparks
or nearly to the 120th degree mark
Elko did not change. Since then it has
had two clocks, two times; one rail-
road, one town.
Elko Is 115 degrees and 45 minutes
west, or with it's local time within II
minutes of Pacific time and 43 min
utes behind mountain time BY noun
tain or railroad time the sun rises AZ
minutes before the time remarked In
the calendar, by town time it rises II
minutes late.
An appeal will be made to the
Southern Pacific to regulate the mat
| ter and the citizens will call mass
meeting and endeavor to find out at
what time they shall arise in the
morning.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17

TINE MYSTERY and miracle OF
genius are again brought home
TO the worlds memory. as we
are celebrating the hundredth ann
yersarv of Edgar Allan Poe's birth.
There are those who account MIN as
our greatest man of letters In point
of influence only Hawthorne ana
Emerson rank with him; in point OF
originality only Walt Whitman. who
called him poor, wonderful roe.
seldom has an equal amount of biog-
raphy and literary criticism been com
pressed into three words. He was one
of the greatest of iinmortals and one
of the most miserable mortals fhat
ever trod this EARTH and his own
words may fittingly be applied to him.
self:
The fever called living
Is over at last.
Poe was born in Boston; Baltimore
is the city most closely linked to his
life where he lies buried; Philadel-
phia Is associated with his finest liter
airy achievement, and with the pos
New York saw his deepest misery and
contains the most interesting memorial
of his career. the cottage at Fordham
This poor shanty may yet be the chief
literary shrine of America, like Burns
humble cottage ut Ayr 1t was here
that his angelic Virginia, whom he
had married when she was but IA, died
of consumption on a couch of straw
where she had nothing but coat and
cat to keep her warm.
Poverty was the spect2r that pur-
sued Poe through all his days Like
most of the poets, he was wretched
hand at business. Improvldence and
intemperance again and again brought
him to the brink of restitution, If not
starvation. His death was one of the
saddcst of moral tragedies. Barrett
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17
oPIE READS TRIBUTE.

Il always feel that Colorado Springs
is a. sort Of queen among the cities Of
the United States, for she always ap-
pears so absolutely we'll behaved. 1t
is such relief to get away from any
other climate l have ever been in. to
the sunshine and bracing air Of Colo
RADIO. In the presence OF such noun
tains and beneath such blue sky, no
one can feel morbid or little" This
was Opie Reads tribute to the "City
of Sunshine" on a recent visit there
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17

Wendell gives the generally accepted
version of it in the following words:
He was passing through Baltimore.
either on his way to see his betrothed
or on his way from visit to her. In
that city an election was about to
take place, and some petty politicians,
in search of 'repeaters. picked him
out. got him drunk and made him vote
all over town. Having thus exhausted
his political usefulness, they left him
in the gutter from whence he found
his way to the hospital, whore he
died"
In recent years the rehabilitation of
Poe has been going forward with
vigor but there Is no use blinking the
facts of his folly and weakness, and
there seems no doubt that his misfor-
tunes We're mostly his own fault. The
| most that can be said in conformation
Is that an appetite for liquor was i'm
planted in him as a child by nurse,
who gave him gin to keep him quiet,
and later by his stepfather who, to
show off the clever lad, would often
place him upon the table to drink
toasts to tho guests,
The Poe Controversy.
1t would hardly pay to go into the
modifying subject of Poe's habits had
not 50 much eXaggeratlon provoked
SO fierce Il controversy.
On the other hand. the foulest lies
and ilbels We're given utterance and
ctcdcnce. His lite was one wild de-
bauch;" He starved his wife and
broke her heart" He had no faith In
man nor woman" He was naturally
| unamiable, irascible, envious;" He
displayed reckless absence Of all the
qualities of social rectitude;" Self
willed, proud, passionate. with meager
| moral sense. he forfeited success by
his perversity and his vices
On the other hand there has been
| extravagant Dedication Sarah Helen
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17
The Pure Food Law,

Secretary Wilson says: "One of the
objects Of the law is to inform the
consumer OF the presence Of certain
harmful drugs in medicines. The law
requires that the amount of chloro-
form, opium, morphine and other habit
forming drugs be stated on the label of
each bottle. The manufacturers OF
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy have al
ways claimed that their remedy did
not contain any Of these drugs, and
the truth of this claim Is now fully
proven, as no mention Of them Is made
on the label. This remedy is not only
one Of the safest, but one of the best
in use for coughs and colds. It's value
has been proven beyond question dur
ing the many years it has been in gen.
eral USE For sale by all druggists
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-01-15
TILLMAN MAKES REPLY
TO CHARGES Of PRESIDENT
South Carolina Statesman Says Chief
Executive Actuated by Malice
and Revenge.

Misunderstanding that the
president had been actuated by mo.
tives OF malice and revenge in attack
ing his course in connection with the
Coos, Bay, Oregon, land grant, Sena-
tor Tillman of South Carolina, from
his seat in the senate, on Monday,
made reply to the accusations OF the
chief executive.
His speech was read from manu-.
script and was q choice mixture OF
argument and invective Mr.. Tillman
rose to a question of personal privi-
Iege Immediately after the conclusion
of the morning prayer, and as his in
tention had been widely advertised,
he was greeted by an audience which
filled every seat in the galleries.
From the first the senator received
most careful attention
Senator Tillman's health is such
that he concluded not to attempt any
unusually severe language in his re-
Ply to the president. He said, how
ever, preceding his speech, that his
friends were counting upon the de-
Eunciation of the chief executive, and
would have no occasion to complain
If they would be patient, for he ex-
poets to find other opportunities be-
tore the close of the session to pay
his respects to the president, when
he promises not to disappoint.
A peal of laughter was called forth
when Mr. Tillman declared that he
had not known that the executives
hide had been so greatly stung by the
darts he had sent at him at various
times when he had criticized him in
| the senate. When he suggested that
| doubtless the president believed 1.-The
| pitchfork had gone out of business "
| another roar of laughter was called
| forth and the vice-president admon-
ished the galleries that applause OF
any kind was not permitted in the
senate, and if persisted in would ne
| cessitate the clearing of all galleries
In addition to his speech, which
had been printed in advance, Mr.
Tillman had prepared other brief re
marks, which he read.
SIT has been expected and desired,
he said, that having made my owl
defense, l should direct my batteries
on my assailant / do not feel tha
my strength is sufficient for the
double task, for my physicians have
warned me against overtaxing my
self. One of the truest and bes
sentiments in English literature Il
this from Tennyson:
"'Soiling another will never MAKE
ones self clean
1.-THE president lives in a glas
house, with even a glass floor in it
and should remember the old adage
He has exerted all the power of tn,
government to destroy me, but | fee
that stand unscathed, because, if al
other arguments fail to convince men
the character for rectitude, truthful
ness and honesty which 1 have build
ed in sixty-one years of my lif
would at least be my bulwark Me-
who have always been clean and hor
orable do not suddenly become liar
and hypocrites at 81 without any ne
cessity."
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-01-15
She Was a Real Orator.

Senator Beveridge during a recent
visit to Portland talked about oratory.
"The campaign" he said, has given
us 'oratory more remarkable for guam
tity than quality. True oratory is that
which brings results, is that which
converts an audience of supporters.
Such oratory is rare.
Il have friend whose wife, .suf-
fragette,' is a great orator. Her
speeches from the platform are won
derful, and her husband the other
day gave me an illustration of the
efficiency of her private speeches.
An agent called on my wife this
afternoon he said, and tried to sell
her a new wrinkle eradicator.'
"'And how did the man make out?'
said l.
He left in half an hour was the
answer, with a gross of bottles OF
wrinkle eradicator of my wife's own
manufacture, that he had purchased
from her."
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-01-15
MINISTER ADMITS GUILT.
confesses Crime of Murder and Then
Commits Suicide.

Carthage, Ill.-Rev. John ]. Car
michael, who, on Janaury 5, in the lit
tie Methodist church at Rattle Run,
Mich, killed Gideon Browning, the
village carpenter, and then burned
the body in the stove, committed sui
eide here Monday, January II, by cut
ting his throat with a pocketknife.
He died at the county hospital after
he had been taken from the board
ing house of Miss Miranda Hughes,
where, as stranger, he had been
living since Friday.
In a long letter found in his suit
case, Carmichael told in detail the
story Of the killing of Browning; how
he had fallen. victim to Browning's
hypnotic powers and meeting him in
the church Tuesday night, was COM
PEELED to obey every command; how
finally, when Browning attacked him
with knives, he, Carmichael defend
ed himself with a Ratchet. After kill
ing his victim with the Ratchet, he
said, the red-hot stove in the church
suggested itself as the best method
OF disposing of the body. Before put
ting the body in the stove, however,
he exchanged some Of the dead mans
clothing for his own. which had be
come despatched with blood.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-01-15
"Navluatesn His Farm.

A story which almost parallels that
told of Capt. Gray, the sailor-farmer
Of Teddy Pond, who is said to carry
compass on his pillow to run the fur
rows straight. comes from Cranberry
Isles. One sea captain, who enjoys
the proud distinction Of owning one
of the very few horses on the island,
got alarmed for fear that he would
lose his bearings in the recent smoke,
and on the veracious accounts of sober
citizens took the pinnacle from the
vessel and strapped it alongside the
seat of his wagon. fearing that the
weather might become SO thick that
he would lose his bearings and have
to navigate in what was worse than a
fog. 1t is currently reported that he
shouts at his team to turn to star
board or port, instead of the more
conventional. landlubber terms usual
1y employed. Kennebec (Me)
Journal
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-01-15
Night Riders Must Hang.

Union City, Tenn.-Judge Jones on
Saturday imposed the death penalty
on Garrett Johnson, It'd Burton, Bob
Ransom, Fred Pincon, Arthur Cloar
and Sam App1ewhite, the night riders.
who We're found guilty of the murder
of Captain Quentin Rankin. and sen
fenced Bud Morris and Bob Huffman,
the two other defendants, to twenty
years Imprisonment
The attorneys for the defendants
gave notice of an appeal to the state
supreme court. If this tribunal does
not interfere the first named six men
will be hanged on February 10.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-01-15
.dANY LIVES LOST
IN COAL Mine
Explosion Of Gas Causes Twenty
five Fatalities in Illinois CoIIiery
Owned BY Joseph Letter.
italian Youth Is Lone Survivor Of
Disaster.-Former Explosion In
G Same Mine Caused Death of
Fifty-one Workmen.


Duauoin, IlI.-A disastrous gas ex-
plosion, in which twenty-five men lost
their lives, occurred at an early hour
Sunday morning in Joseph Letters
famous eolhery at Zeigler. A spark
from a trolley pole of an electric
motor coming into contact with a
pocket of gas is assigned as the cause
OF the explosion.
The Americans killed in the ex-
plosion included thirteen, whose
bodies have been recovered, and eight
bodies remain in the mine.
Mr.. Letter personally conducted the
first relief party into the mine. The
lone survivor of the explosion was an
italian youth, who. escaped harm.
An expert, who had been expert.
menting with tha gases in the mines
at Zeigler, said he had placed the
mine in a safe position to be oper-
eted.
The men were engaged in clearing
away the debris caused by the recent
fires in the mine, and it was expected
that operations would be resumed
this week after two months suspen
sion
The mine was put In operation il
1903, and soon after labor troubles
began In April, 1905, an explosion
In the mine killed fifty-one men.