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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
Lighthouse for Peace Memorial.

Would not lighthouse be fitting
memorial of the peace that has pre-
vailed on the great lakes since the
war of 1872? The neutrality of the
great lakes is triumph of common
sense and humane instincts over war
like impulses. 1t also illustrates the
superiority of the unwritten to the
written statute.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
KING MENELIk IS STRICKEN
Famous Ruler of Abyssinia Reported
Seriously III from ApopIexy-Prep-
arations Made for Successor.

Adds Abeba, Abyssinia.-
Menelik was stricken with apoplexy
on Thursday night. His condition
Sunday was considered dangerous.
The patriarch has appointed Prince
Lidj Jeassu, grandson of the king and
heir apparent to the throne, in the
presence of the ministers. in order to
be prepared for any eventuality.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
McMahon Pleads Guilty.

! Kansas City, Kan.-James Mcmahon
pleaded guilty in court Friday to the
murder of his two sisters. Rose Nc
Mahon and Mrs. Alonzo Van Royen,
and his brother-in.law, Alonzo Van
Royen. He was sentenced to life inn
prisoned in the penitentiary.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
Stage Held Up and Robbed.

Vancouver, b. C.-Two bold and
masked highwaymen held up the Carl
boo stage at the $50 mile house in
Cariboo and stole several sacks of
registered mail. 1t is believed they
obtained $4,000 or $4,000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
Naturally So.

There seems 10 be a great deal
about provisions in this north pole dis
cussion"
"Of course. there Is. Isn't 1t quite
natural for there to be something gas.
tronomic about feat which was per-
formed by a Cook?'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
Thirty-Flve Hurt In Wreck.

Fort Wayne, Ind.-In collision be-
tween a Chicago bound immigrant
train and an east-bound freight at
Tocsin, on the Erie railroad Friday.
35 immigrants-men, women and chill
dren-were injured, some of them per-
haps fatally.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
Peary to submit Proofs.

Washington. = Commander Peary
was in Washington Monday to sub
NIT his instruments to the inyestigat-
ing committee of the National Geog-
raphic society. which is passing on
his data covering his reported discoy-
cry of the north pole.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
Pacific EIeet al Manila.

Manila.-The United States Pacific
fleet, Rear Admiral Sebree command
ling, arrived at Manila bay two days
ahead of its schedule. The voyage
from Honolulu was uneventful.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
Deaths In Lodaine House Fire.

Bellingham. Wash.-Two lives were
lost, one woman was fatally in
jured and a dozen other persons
seriously injured in a fire that de-
stroyed three three-story lodging
houses in Elk street here.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
PythIans, seaIkeeper pea.

Nashville. Tenn.-Dr r.. IL C.
White, 22 years keeper of records
and seal of the supreme lodge.
Knights Of Pythias, died at his home
Saturday.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
Austria Holds Cremation illegal.

Vienna.--The supreme court of the
empire has ruled that cremation is
Illegal in Austria, and 1t is opposed
to the Christian idea of burial
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
A Mistaken View.

That lawyer conducted the cross
examination
"Why. thought he was real good
natured about it."-Baltimore Ameri
can.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-05
Eats Poisoned cabbaae; Dies.

Mount Vernon. Ill.-The four-year-
old son of e. s, Landgraf died Friday
as the result of eating cabbage, over
which poison had been spilled to kill
bugs.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1909-01-20

VIII dol IN ideal journalist for III"
intellectual; satiflst and Wit far out
side The sawdust ring OF The supposed
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the reviewers might rely on In thcil
effort Ia deny Poe the gift Of safirica
power. | put on the title page his owl
dicilim "A satire is. of course no
poem The little book was noticed
in the usual slapdash way when The
subject is painful and the finder of 81
remarkable II production Is not one
of the boys" The New York Evening
Post admitted that the claim was
proved
Nearly twenty years later the anony-
nous satire and Poe's parallel passages
were republished. with other new ma
terial \ great daily helped Itself 10 a
half PEACEFUL of HE original drawings
Of poc's face: II monthly followed sui
and many papers gave good space 10
the book, but not one Of our $50 poets
and critics during all these years has
vcntured to disproye the facts or upset
the argument based on them, which
hears oul he charge that Poe has as few
friends and begrudgcd honorS among
hl9 own people now as during his ham
pered life take II that. IN proud de
iiIfiF ol 'Ht' ioNlit press w III II 9hi'
pressed his lecture, Poe rhymed ana
printed II in 1877, thinking that In this
guisc ii would surely survive. But
Griswold was his literary executor and
destroyed many papers. There appear
10 be only three copies of lie satire III
existence Two days after Poe died
Grisw0ld wrote this in the New York
Tribune Edgar Allan Poe is dead.
This announcement will starie many,
but few will be grieved by il.
lie was well known in all this country;
he had readers In Engla 81 and in sew
eral Of the states of Europe. but he
had few or no friends" These last
words were printed in italics.
"'rhe Gold Bug" the "Literati" pa
pers and "The Raven" had capped his
fame with Il triple crown when III lS46
he took the humble frame house in the
then rural suburb of Fordham. Poe
was hailed as the bright particular star
81 the literary armament. High So
eieiy and the elect among the cultured
If New York yearned to lioni2e him rs
the aristocrary of Edinburgh did Rob
err Burns, once lion of the tribe OF
Demos, but under the petting and pam
pering of his titled patrons soon dwin-
died 10 poodle size and tuned his bark
to whine - lords a lord for a that"
Poe was no toady: he worshlped ideal
creatures of his soaring imagination
and tried 10 see the goddess in every
woman who won his reverence. He
shrank from conviviallty of the booty
kind ~ from patronage that conde-
scends. My life" he writes to Low
ell. has been whim. impulse, passion
passion for beauty and for poetry
which is Its truest expression), long
ing for solitude, n scorn Of all things
present" He consented 10 attend an
occasional reception where. one writes.
che IS The observed of all observers.
and 10 hear him repeat The Raven,
which he does very quietly is an event
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yerely just guardian paid the bill and
disinhcrited the prGdigal Offender.
Poe had graduated in Latin aud
French before he left the university
and at Mr.. Allan's wish entered his Of
ice as clerk. More causes than one led
10 the youth Of nineteen quitting this
dry work 10 launch into poetry Ian
prIane and Other Poems. by Il Bosto
nian, appeared IN Boston in hat year,
1927 The solitary copy Of This forty
puge booklet fetched 5000 n auction
in 1900 II that sum had come 10 Poe
In 1917 il would probably have pro
longed his life and enriched his rcpn
tation and his countrya literature So
poor was the prospect of y bare livcli'
hood by pen work he enlisted 1T Hoston
~ private in the army under u
changed name and the false age Of
twenty-five The author Of The Ia.
ven" and "Annabel Lee must have
squirmed when greatness WAS thrust
upon him in his appointment as ser
2eant major When lie applied to en-
Ter West Point as Il cadet at twenty
his honorable discharge was indorsed.
Habits good and entirely free from
drinking" His second book was al
Aaraaf, Tamerlanc and Minor Poems"
published in Baltimore shortly before
lie Went to Nest Point, July, 1890,
with II salary of sos a month and
board. He had passed the legal age OF
twenty-one, 50 reported his age as nine.
teen years and five months
In scholarship he stood high and was
regarded as a brilliant fellow with his
pen, but he soon tired of the discipline
OF West Point and by intentional de
fiance of rules WAS court martialed and
dismissed in 1881
Now appeared his thirG volume in
New York, dedicated to the cadets, who
expected ii would contain his satrical
and humorous pieces, and they re-
scented what are among the finest
poems the national literature can boast
He sought work in Baltimore as re
porter, as usher In school. and there il
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Copyright. 1909, by the
American Press Associations
By Oliver Leigh 20


er IN December 1911 The peor
creature was herself fated To be born
III sea and adopted by some one
who trained her Tor the stage. Fee's
nurse fed-or poisoned him ON bread
soaked in gin
\ public appeal had been nude for
the doomed faVorite of the stage. from
which resulted the adoption Of Edgar
10y Scotch merchant 1T the instance
Of his childless Wife, who admired the
pretty boy whose name. Allan, was
hus given him. and his sister Resale
was taken up 10y ncighbor From
his seventh to his twelfth year Edgar
had the good luck TO be- schooled in
London and reyeled in the charms Of
old Englands scenery, poetieal and his
torie associations, an experience for
such II wonder loving mind rs hts
which enlarged his View, lifted his 70
mantle nature forever above the plane
Of task work by which he had To live
and gave him standards other than
those of the market place he had 10
tread On their return to Richmond
Milan inherited fortune which in or
dinary course would have passed on
te Edgar Ihe overpctted and tlattcr
cd boy became the proud and envied
youth of the University OF Virginia
His brilliant talents provoked envy.
and his Scathing retofts in sniirieal
verses and lofty isolation from the
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A MAN OF ACTION.
He Got Out of His Tight Corner With
Flying CoIors.

Flying Colors.
He was Il husband who when he left
home for week or SO on a business
trip, invariably took with him photo
of his wife, and in the letters that he
wrote TO her he always made Il great
point of this portrait and dwelt upon
the fact that the sight of Ii was the
only thing that kept his spirits up
when he was far away from her.
one day, however, he left the home
and forgot TO take the portrait with
him But he was not going to let
little thing like that worry him.
Down he sat and penned his Gus
tomary amorous epistle, IN which the
portrait played its usual part. IL was
not until the letter was posted that he
remembered that the portrait had been
left a. home in Il conspicuous place
where his wife could not fail to dis
cover il.
The fat was indeed in the fire, but
he was man OF action and deter
mined 70 get out of his tight corner
somehow He remembered the shop
where the photo had been taken and
promptly wired there for another
copy, which he had put into beauti
full frame especially adapted for tray
cling,
On his return home his wife handed
out the freezing mixture" to begin
with and then dissolved in unquench-
able tears When under cross exam
lnation she admitted that the cause of
her grief was his cruel deception. he
produced the newly acquired photo
and then asked her. in hurt voice.
how She could possibly have suspected
him of working off mere tarradiddle
on his little wife.-New York Mail.
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i lea al that he was glad to be Il car
ricr of bricks. \ new weekly paper
had appeared. the Saturday Nisiter.
He Won It's 500 prizc with his story
"a Manuscript Found In Il Koltle"
One Of the Judges in tn" competition
was John T. Kennedy, a writer Of
merit Who WAS secretary of the navy
in President fillmorc's administration
He gave Poe 4 letter which led ia his
becoming editor ii tie Southern itei,
AIRY Messenger
While Poe NslS La ine on very short
commons III Baltimore his aunt. Mrs
GLENN, was struggling with poverty in
that city assisted by her daughter
Virginia, Il pleasing girl Of thirteen. her
cousin Edgar being twenty six II was
natural thai he should live with and
help them aud not less SO thai he
should become Nirginia's lover Against
the colmSelS of some relations in the
city they decided IL marry \ mar
ria@c license WAS taken oui III Septem-
her So md Il second aue In MaN
1896, followed 10y n regular marriage
ceremony Mrs. GLENN left no cNPla
milton.
In 1880 they removed 10 Richmond
Tor the work of the Messenger whi,1
had received a budget of the now IA
NOUS Tales His salary as editor was
SEQ year. rising TO $500, aud WAS 10
be $1,000 but the proprietor had oec,t-
Sion 10 caution Poe against drinks I've
fore breakfast" To his honored friend
kennedy The troubled editor wrote Il
am suffering under depression of
spirits such rs have never felt be
fore | have struggled IN vain against
this melancholy. You will he
lieVe me when | say | am still miser
able in SPITE of the great Improvement
la my circumstances Console me, for
yeu can. l.ut let IL be quickly or IL
viii be too late" Had the voluntary
or involuntary marriage any share in
casting this shadow over the first
CLEAN of sunshine in his broken IN
reer1
For lie detailed chronicle of poe's
ups and downs from his leaving the
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was inserted III the EVehihg mirror by
IhuIhas Duuh English, plltet rival OF
Zoe III the rhymlhg business, whose
literary iallle rests on the melody WHICH
noated ms song, On. Don lou ne
member Sweet Alice, Ben bolt
Foe Won his sun, iof Wonder ahd,
miracle ot miracles. actuailN got Nct'
diet "t So damages ana pocketed the
cash
AeHfS ago the present writer Whiie
fahsaeklhs old magazines TO nheafth
the MISCELLANEOUS prose contributed by
Zoe chiefly his literary crltielsins,
turned up Il eheaply printed booker
entitled File Poets ana Poetry OF
America by Lavante. In the catalogue
OF the Astor library As this MAS the
title Of the Key. Rufus GrisWoid com
pilauen. preiaced by us toploftS dis
tfibution of laurel9 and dainnattoh.
which had stirred Poe to fierce sareas-
tie wrath and VAS also the title he
chose for lecture he gave hrst Ill the
New York Historical society's library
in February. 1910, aud In other cities,
was curious TO see it. Ii was II satire
in the fhymed eouplcts now out OF
fashion. 1t satirized three aud thirty
of the poetical writer's of the day
Their names were printed In capitals,
and WAS all excitement to see what
IL said of Poe. the one strong figure
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EDGAR MAS ADOPTED i'll frail row boats.
BY scorcu MER- with genius and
'hAN4' ambition as oars.
but denied radder and ballast.
This is not the whole difficulty.
More perpleXing still Is the strange but
general ignorance of his eountrymen
of their one supreme master of the
literary art, except as the acknowl-
edged unrivaled originator of type
Of poems aud tales. And it was only
II few months ago that Il popular vote
la literary publication excluded Poe
name from he list of Americas ten
foremost authors and barred him OUT
from the New York unigersity,s new
Hall of Fame
Poe was not only an artistpoet.
but pioneer Of imaginative story
tellerS. Il horn master in criticism
and literary genius mo lesser word
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swimmer III his agony, we see him
striking bravely through the rising
wave that promises to bear him to the
shore till another falls upon him with
staggering force and downs him for a
last maddening effort II ever val
liant struggler shaved with brain and
Land 10 earn modest happiness for
only three lone souls, if ever mortal
endured kecner pang of brain dam
aged from infancy or earlier and OF
The wearing. endless drip of sorrows
from without, false friendships, starve
ling's wages the rich mans aloofness
and tile ISLANDERS of the malicious aud
the ihoughiless. that grim martyr was
Edgar Poe
Under his dread stress he walked
he streets III madnesS OF melancholy
ut is Griswod Who tells what he had
witnessed, with lips moving In indis.
tinct curses or with eyes upturned In
passionate prayers Tor their happiness
who We're III lh,u moment the objects
Of his idoauY, or with II face shrouded
in doom lac would brave the wildes,
storms. and all night. with drenched
garments and arms wildly beating the
wind ana rain. he would speak as II to
spirits
Mrs. Whitman good soul and brave.
would have riskcd her happy life to
have stvcd his and prolonged il for the
greater glory Of the nations literature.
but The eleventh hour was passed
Tossed 10 aud fro in his now irrcsponsi.
bic state. poor Poe WAS lricked into an
unknown death. ignominieIs in its
surface aspect. more than tragical rs
the staying before its time Of Il genius
that had stamina Of its own 10 have
rounded out u fun life II fate had
played fairly
The story loving public will never
let Poe die. nor the lovers OF jeweled
VERSE by an inimitable artiiicer nor
will the ever growing throng OF trained
intelleriS permit the coming genera
tions of Americans 10 forget that In
the sorely neglected, sad yisaged fig
TIRE of this master mind their country
can properly boast of having added to
the old worlds Walhala the shade of
q genius born out of due season. doom
ed while here to walk shrouded in Woe
and maybe to share forever the limbo
of the misunderstood
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~ or many

~ q Ii m II II v
" ars the
ritter en
Joy Ell IN et=e 81
less intimate ne
QulintalIcC With
sulN ~ Ing friends
Of Poe. including
his cha nPiou
George Il era
ham. uM ncr of
Grallanl&= Maga
line John SIR
tain. eminent
cileraVef OF Sll'=
taiilS Magazine.
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nf these who foI DISMISSED tReM
Iu6W Zoe best WIZ i"iN
are highly honorins 10 = Young mmi
whose prospects of ut least Il compc
lcnec and il fair start in life had been
3uddcnA ruined The FIRST editor of
the Messenger WAS l.alnbrr \ VII
uer We quote from our copy of his
remarkable book. Our Press Gang %
his iributr ia Poe, With whom he had
serious quArrcIs from time 10 time.
Writing after The lapse of years, he
saAe
The late idRar T. Poe has been repre-
,entcd bY tha American newspapers In
gentrai us II rct kiras iibrriiue and a cor
nrHcd mtbriate do no. recocuize him
bY this description, though was init
fusHtlA# acquainted with the man and bad
aver opportunity To- study his character
1 hate horn IN company With him every
dt4 for uany months together aud with
La 1T period II twelve ye.us did Hot see
4ita jnehriated no. mol in single in
tincc do not believe h WAS oyer
hlbituihl4 Incorporate until he was made
50 b. sttcf aud many bitter disdppont
Hents And with respect Ia the eAargr of
libertuism have similar testimony to
offer. OF al men THAT oyel knew he
was The most passlonlesa and / appeal to
Ibis writings for continuation Of TINS =. .
Poe meyer Wrote a line that gave expires
fon to HliIfnots thought Tire female
creations Of his fancy are al either
aiatucs o. angels tits cous crsatIon at all
times was as cliasta rs that of vestal.
and his conduct Whiic knew him vas
correspondence blaneless
Deeadent writer's Of France Eng
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Poor Jones'

Missionary Can you Give nif any IN.
formation about Deacon Zones. who
labored among your people three years
ago? Cannibal-Well, lhe last heard
about him he had gone into eaGsump
tfon-JudQe.
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A Dog Story.

Al - farmhouse 1T which we have
been staying II terrier Bau@h shares
always his masters tr=i breakfast,
tile bread and cream accompanying Il
cup of tea Three corners he breaks
Off and gives To Rough who eats The
first two OF the third he licks the
cream inen carries tho crust It. a
hen who each morning COMES across
The field where the fowls are Kept
and III he cate awaits hel. friend IS ar.
rival Should other, 81 d t hcne ap-
pear. Rough "barks them of while
his favoritc dcvours her portion 80
London Spectator
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MORE per
teNinE
service,

A 2 "'a rS':
eYiee,
pleas sing aud
painful. than The
faithful represer-
tation of Poe in
the compass Of
this study can
scarcely be imag
=lued The man
himself is puzzle
enough for ht
kcellesl analyst
II character. Hi
history Of body
and mind is only
undei,S ta1idablr
lN the few " lio
have had kinshiI.
" it'll the brother
hood Of the pre-
destined fail
TRES who have
been iloaled on
life'S stormy sea
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her well ioVeu
Eddie's distress
Ing maladies. All
this fawning Of
laekadaisica |
dolls of society
left the little
family chin deep
In the old power
ty. lille Poe
was making fine
poetry at home
his brave moth
or In law was
ira III pi Z the
streets OF New
York in the fire
E quently hopeless
search for pub
ii Is Ii RS. with
hearts as soft as
boiled paw In &
stones, prepared
10 la $ Ii ten
whole dollars on
pen work of i'm
perlSla BILE art
Like the strong
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u Is ! Ell s or III
=fssi until his
i ca tll in 1919
The Interested
student III Il : t
consult I he lat
est and the most
E satisfactory bios
raplN in the Viz
@inia edition. by
Professor James
III Uis o Ii,
" l1osc@ seventeen
.oltnleS contain
more of Zoe $ un
%niliai.W.iitn&
lt1liLa are argpsSi
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WHOLE NO. 1890

in ones life
Mrs. Whitman, 4 poet herself OF the
Boston school and woman of excep-
tional culture and position describes
Edgar Poe IN society:
As II conyersationallst | do not remem-
Der mis- equal / have heard the veteran
Walter Savage l.andor called the best
talker in EnslandD discuss with scathing
sarcasm the popular writer's of the day
80 have listened to the trenchant and
vivid talk OF the autocrat (Oliver Wen
dell Holiness. to the brilliant eolloquiaf
resources of John Neal and Margaret Full
Ter. TO the serene wisdom of Alcott and
treasured up memorable sentences from
The golden lips Of Emerson Unlike the
power of these was the earnest. opulent.
unprecedented speech of Edgar \. Poe.
Like his writings. IL presented u combina
ton of qualities rarely met with in the
same persona cool decisive judgment. a
wholly unconventional courtesy and grace
OF manner aud an imperious enthusiasm
which brought all hearers within the cir
Gle OF its influence
Virginia died in January, 1871 Mrs.
GLENN had now a heavier burden fn
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Virginia died in January, 1871 Mrs.
GLENN had now heavier burden fn