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proceeds of the public lands and the an
nexation of Texas, but his writings give
no sign that he ever heard OF the fracas
and, like Mr. Allworthy, seated between
ThwaclSism and Square. he appears TO
be perfectly neutral. True. he did cor
daily dislike Boston and the Bostonians,
and publicly and severely ridicules both
the place and the people, but this dislike
had no political basis. He does Incl
dentally and casually mention President
Polk but in a perfectly neutral way.
That he had some leanings toward
the south is dimly discerned from two
circumstances. lie accounted for The
slight recognition given to certain
author by saying that he was born too
far SOUTH" and he depicts the south ern
slave with sympathy and appreciation,
in the character and conduct of old
Pompey in the Gold Ring" Indeed,
the portrait of Pompey is MASTERPIECE &c.
AS a critic, when he lets himself
alone, and is not warped by his jealous
les, or his prejudces, he is able aid
accurate; indeed, l count him the NEST
brilliant of American critics. though the
most untrustworthy. In splendid re-
view OF Hawthorne, he pronounces him
to be destitute of originality, and then,
after some pages OF discussion of the
various kinds originality, he EN-
phatically says: MIR. Hawthorne il
original at all points,
During the late fight over Free Sill
Yer" We heard thousands of people
who had never read line of Poe's writ
ings fiercely bandying the title OF
"Goldbug." The term was a party
shibboleth- in two presidential cam
paigns, and the whole country, from
Maine to California, was ringing with
it. What an unconscious tribute to tia
genius of Poe!
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Life of Robert Toombs, whom he knew
personally, but whose biographer's name
has vanished from memory; but neither
snow without, nor loneliness within, could
make Longfellow go down" for reading
him was drearier than any weather, and
wearier than any loneliness.
Poe's rank is accorded to him rather
for what he~showed capacity to do than
for what he did. If we are TO accept
his own verdict, he did not achieve any
high excellence, and he evidently felt
mortified that he had done so little
Though the stamp of genius of a high
by no means the highest-order is visible
upon number of his poems-notably
THE Raven" "Annabel Lee and THE
Haunted Palace"-yet no small part of
the little that he wrote is unworthy of
that genius. Even "'rhe Bells so largely
bepraised, is mere filigree work in words,
and does little but jingle.
OF local coloring Poe is well-nigh desti-
tute, and of moral tone utterly so. THE
Raven" might have been written in Tim
buctoo as well as in Richmond, and after
repeatedly reading all his published
works, have found not trace of moral
tone-good or bad-in anything that he
has published. His works are, morally
speaking, as colorless as McLaurin's The
orem or as the Rule of Three. In his
"Diddling. considered as one of the exact
sciences'-a title evidently based upon
DeQuinceys Murder as one of the fine
arts-he gives in minute detail a remark
able number of yillainous swindles and
never expresses the least disapproval-
indeed. you could not learn that he md
not think them all right.
AS a master OF music, meter and mel
ody, when at his best, he stands unsur-
passed. If not alone. He did not believe
n pathetic nor in ddactic poetry; and
he has persistently and consistently
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now is full of these children of Cain
who live in their dens and lend money
to government clerks at 10 per cent a
month, and compounded every payday.
or course there never yet was a spider
whose parlor did not swarm with flies.
And of course it would be more honor
able, certainly more chivalrous. and may
hap more respectable, to pick a mans
pocket than to lend him money at 10
per cent month usury.
Well. "Old Bob undertook the case.
and regardless of the law which the
little doctor was shrewd enough to evade,
he made demagogue speech full of in
vective and humor, and the jury gave
him a verdict very common occurrence
when he was of counsel before twelve
men in a box.
The next morning "Old Bob with other
lawyers and some hangers-on, was sit
ting in front of the courthouse engaged
in current gossip. when the little doctor
came up, pale with anger and furious
with chagrin Approaching Bradley, he
exclaimed. "Ill see you at Philippi. Bob
Bradley; I'll see you at Philippi; I'll
see YOU at Phlipp. sir . "Old Bob
perfectly imperturbable, brushing the lit
tie man aside and emptying his mouth of
a teacupful of tobacco juice, calmly said,
"T won't be thar"
A roar of laughter that sally brought
forth which caused the little litigant
to scamper away as fast as his legs
could carry him.
As Burks said when young William Pitt
made his maiden speech in parliament, 1T
it is not a chip off the old block, 1t Is the
old block itself" so we may say for Will
liam O. Bradley when advocating cause
before a jury. Whether as lawyer at
nisi prius or as an orator on the stump,
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"Helen. thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicran barks Of yore
Which gently DER a perfued sea
The weary. wayworn wanderer bore F.
To his own native SHORE.
"On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacintb hair. thy classic face. thy
Naiad airs have brought me home
& To the glory that was Greece, and the
Grandeur that was Rome.
10. in yon brilliant window niche
How statuelike / see thee stand:
The agate lamp within thy hand.
All Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy Landr'
The beauty of these lines is absolutely
when we remember the ex-
IRENE youth of the poet, and that the
splendid ALTERATION, weary, way-worn
wandercr,' should have occurred to a
mere child Is almost miraculous.
1t is coming to be generally conceded
that Poe was the most brilliant poetical
genius that America has produced; and,
upon the whole, I am disposed to accept
this estimate. This, however, gives him
no very high place among the poets of the
world. Poe himself held Longfellow to
be our leading American poet, though he
scored Longfellow with criticisms free,
frequent and severe. Now, If Long
fellow leads the van, the company is not
illustrious Some time ago this scribe
was showed up in mountain hollow
in Virginia. Looking around for some
book with which to beguile the weary
day indoors, he saw 'Longfellow's
Poems and not much else. Now, he has
done some pretty dry reading in his
day He has waded through the life of
his friend and brother, Gov. Joseph
Brown (author's name forgotten) and the
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ppyright, 1910, by Frank G. Carpenter)
Hongkong.
HHE booming cities of the world are
now on this side of the Pacific.
The awakening of Asia. is bring
! in capital from Europe and the
hited States, and the whole continent
bins to have sprung into life. Yokoha-
! has doubled since I last saw 1t. Toxic
now bigger than Chicago, Osaka will
nix with Philadelphia and Shanghai Is
cad of Boston or st. Louis. Hong
n Ing. away down here at the southern
! of China, has now population of
900, and it promises to be one OF the
latest cities of the world. 1t belongs
| the British. 1t had only 1000 Chinese
lermen in 1t when they took hold or
Eeeveral years ago. 1t is now one OF the
eat ports of the world and the people
re claim that 1t has more tonnage than
|verpool oil London.
Within the past year a railroad has
en- started at the suburb of kowloon
the mainland This is being built to
linton, and it will give Hongkong rail-
Injections with that city and all interior
lima The road Is known as the Can
a-Kowloor railway. At Canton 1T joins
trunk line running north to Hankow,
COnCeSSlQD iOI WliiCil w az 6AfSii W ~ =
nericans, but sold back to China. The
inese are now building that road, and
hon It is completed there will be a
rough freight and passenger service
bm Pekin to Hongkong and the whole
the empire will be tributary to this
n. Canton itself has a population of
- 100000 Hankow and its sister
les are still larger, and that trunk road
tap a population fully as great as
nt Of the United States. Several other
ilrQsd systems now building will con-
ct with 1t and this city will then be
southern gateway to China by rail
well as by sea.
Il = a question whether Hongkong will
Il soon surpass the other ports Of the
bra in the amount of Its shipping. 1t
~ handles about $500, 900 worth, OF
eight year, and more than Il, 100000
he Of goods come In and go out of Its
rbor every IL months. This freight Is
rr.ed upon about $1,000 different vessels.
he most of them are Chinese, but there
3 also great steamers from Europe and
United States. There are five diffef-
/ Nres which connect HonRkong with
nerica, and more than that which 80
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mise. which was rejected. On the advice
of his counsel the farmer employed Brad
ley who went over to Danville and eN-
amined the record. After a thorough
study of it he asked YerlIes: What did
you want me in this case for? We have
not a leg to stand on To which Yerlles
answered: IAN you have 10 do is to make
Bob Jacobs mad He has the last speech
and follows you
And so they went into it. And such a
speech as Bradley did make, He started
out by saying that under the laws of Ken
lucky you could not administer ON a
sane mans estate until he was dead. Then
he gave an imaginary consultation be-
tween Jacobs then perhaps the first law
yer living in Kentucky. and LIE bank Of
hcials This was a side-spltter. though
Bradley was as solemn as the town clock.
and Jacobs white with rage. The land
had been surveyed by professor of Gem
ter College and the defense claimed lie
had made n big mistake, reporting a vast
ly greater area than the tract contained.
Bradley declared that the professor might
have had his feet on the ground, but his
head was in the clouds. Finally he turned
on Center College itself, and raked II over
the Goals.
To say that Jacobs worshipped the col
lege is putting 1t mildly. and when he rose
to reply, furious with rage he pitched his
voice in the highest key. defending the
college. and continued on that line for
more than an hour. and then said: Now.
gentlemen. | come to argue the merits OF
this case"
thine is up!' roared Bradley, and SO
1t was. and after protest Jacobs sat down.
The jury returned a verdict for the bank,
with rents. profits and damages less than
one-third that had been offered by the
defense for a compromise of the litiga-
ton.
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electric light to watch the night crowd
as it passed 1t was a cosmopolitan one.
such as yo- will see nowhere except in
Hongkong. There were red-turbaned,
black bearded Sikh policeman guarding
the traffic, British soldiers in uniform
who belong to the garrison, and soldiers
in We different dress of a half dozen ma
tons. The navies of the world come to
Hongkong and their cadets and marines
may be seen any night on the streets.
There were many East Indians clad In
their calicces, brown-sklnned MaIays
from the Philippines and Borneo. Japan
csc just off the vessels, and Europeans
from all parts Of the west. Sampan wo-
wen in wide calico trousers and cotton
chemises moved along here ana there on
bare feet, and rich Chinese merchants
took up the greater part of the side
walk with their silk gowns and cloth
boots. The mid-streets were filled with
coolies, and over the roadway passed an
endless procession of rickshas and chairs.
One long line of the latter was filled with
English young men and women going to
dance of the Centipede club. This club
has so members. and hence 100 legs. all
OF which delight to trip along in the
barn dance and waltzes. Then there We're
also Parsee girls with white shawls over
their faces, riding about with their low
ers, and black-skinned Killings half clad
in white cotton.
BY and Ky It began to rain and the
water came down in sheets. 1t drenched
the sampan girls. so that their chemises
chung to their skins, outlining their per-
sons. The sailors ran for shelter and
the policemen put on raincoats and caps
over their turbans. The ricksha men and
chair bearers dragged out coats of palm
leaves and covered their heads with hats
of rattan as big as umbrellas. The lat
ter were painted bright blue. the palm
leaves looked like feathers. and as they
trolted along inside the shafts they SEEM
ed to be yellow-legged birds, with blue
topnots, harnessed to the chairs and car
riages.
This is a good place to shop. The
travel is so great that curio dealers and
other merchants from all over the east
have opened stores here, and they offer
the most beautiful goods of the Orient
There are many East Indians who sell
emhroideries. silver and carpets. and
Chinese VINO display all the wealth of
Canton. The silverware is beautiful and
cheap. 1t is made Of coin silver and is
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no chance TO get money on saints days,
race days or any other holidays. When
there is cricket or football match every
financial Institution shuts its doors. and
the clerks go out TO play or look on.
These Britishers Of the far east are fond
OF amusements, and they believe in the
college boy motto:
when fun and duty clash let duty 10
to smash
They have their clubs at every port. I
foiSnd them in all the leading Japanese
cities. and also in Tientsin, Pekin and At
the other places in China where foreign
ers stay. Shanghai is city OF clubs,
and its British and German club houses
are among the finest of the far east.
The races of that place are national
events which bring crowds from the coun-
try about. They are participated IN by
gentlemen Jockeys who train their own
ponies.
Hongkong vies with Shanghai as club
center 1t has a dozen or more of such
institutions. The Hongkong club house
Is situated down by the sea. 1t 10 mag
nihcent building which compares we'll
with similar houses in New York and
Chicago. The Germans have a club here.
The Portuguese meet together in Shelby
street, and the Japanese club has build
ing on the Ice House road There are
a number OF recreation clubs. One r.
made up OF the government clerks, an
other Is the Ladies' Tennis club ana 9TH
ers are devoted to cricket. football and
golf There are chess clubs, polo clubs
ami yacht clubs, the latter holding re-
gattas every December The Jockey clubs
have their biggest races in February.
and in addition to these there are an
nual athletic meets between the residents
and the soldiers of the garrison, as we'll
as swimming matches and boat races.
Ionglxong has a philharmonic society
and an amateur dramatic club. II haa
also large Chinese theatres which are
open day and night.
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steered clear of both. As a poet. he is
not the apostle of any great truth, nor
the advocate of any moral reform. He
believed that the proper function. of
poetry was to give pleasure by exciting
and directing the imagination and the
ideal power of man, and "he stuck to
his business"
He often violated his own poetical
canons. He held that the passionate and
the dreadful have no proper place in
poetry. and 1.-The Raven and "Annabel
Lee are two of the most passionate. and
1.-THE conquerer Worm" and THE
Haunted Palace two of the most dread
full poems ! ever read.
Poe almost created "the short tale, -
and in this field at is eclipse first, and
the rest nowhere Compare the average
magician STORY of our day with the
Murders of the Rune Morue." the "Pur-
Joined Letter or THE Gold Bug" and
you will see my meaning. The "Ratiocina-
ton Tale" when at its best, is high or
der of literary work and in this field Poe
IS q master-nay, he is alone.
The only reasoned and readable work
on Meters" that l have ever seen is
Poe's Rationale of Verse" He professed
to believe that there is no such thing as
demonstration, and II TINS treatise does
not demonstrate some things, then he
was right, for no small part of its Is as
logical as Euclid.
Why Poe should be called "Our South
ern Poet | do not know, for he was
born in Boston. lived large part of his
life in northern cities, and seems to
have taken no part in politics on either
side of the line. Indeed, you cannot learn
from his writings that he had any politi-
cal opinions whatever. During his mature
life the wings and democrats were fight
ing furiously in the bank, the tariff, inter-
nal improvements distribution of the
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right as to the fundamental principle of
civil liberty.
Now the Kentucky tobacco growers
were laid under onerous and intolera-
BILE tribute by an Illegal trust, formed
serfs the 10000 and more tobacco grow
ers of Kentucky. There were just two
buyers of the crop in the state, that pro-
duces nearly one-half the tobacco grown
in the United States, and more than one
half OF the chewing tobacco. One was the
tobacco trust, a New Jersey monopoly,
and the other was the buyers who
bought for France, Spain, Italy and per-
haps England and Germany. These two
entered into a conspiracy to divide up the
state and not bid against each other, and
they got tobacco for one-half what it cost
TO produce. Suppose that had happened
In Vermont. Instead of a single murder,
as there was in Kentucky, there would
have been 100.
( Is the hardest work known TO the
farm in America, or out of America-the
growing of tobacco, and the fixing it for
market as 1t Is done in Kentucky. and
between the preparation of the plant beds
and the pricing into the hogsheads is a
period of IS months. The burning of the
plant bed, the blowing of the field, often
new ground the transplanting of the
plants, the cultivation of the soil, the
housing, the firing, the striking down, the
stripping, the bulking, the rehanding, the
rebulking, and the pricing, all these mean
an immense deal OF the very hardest and
most irksome manual labor. and millions
of pounds have gone up in smoke during
the firing process In the 'black patch"
Moro than 100000 Kentuckians are engaged
in that industry, and here comes a grasp
ing, greedy, infamous and lawless monop-
oily, the very active principle of the
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solitary Chance.
From the Washington Star.

From the washington Star.
"Tlc way TO run this country" SAID
the egotist. sis to put thoroughly wise.
capable. alert and honest men in control
OF all affairs"
YES" answered Miss Cayenne, nut
what are you going to do? There's only
one CT you"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-02
DEATH AT EAGLE HARBOR.
Miss Kate Rice, An Old Resident of
That Place, Passes Away.

An old copper country resident pass
ed away yesterday at Eagle Harbor,
i'm the person. of Miss Kate Rice, aged
about 55 years. The decedent had
been i'll for some time, and her death
was not unexpected. The late Miss
Rice is survived by a sister Johanna,
and brother George, both residents of
Eagle Harbor, and several relatives in
Duluth and Superior. Arrangements
for the funeral will be made as soon as
these relatives are heard from. 1t like
ly will take place Friday morning with
interment in Eagle Harbor cemetery.
The late Miss Rice, in company with
her sister and brother, for years owned
and conducted the Rice hotel ut Eagle
Harbor, and are known throughout the
copper country. Both the decedent, as
well as her brother and sister have
spent all of their lives in that dis
trict.
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UNLISTED STOCKS.

j. A. Minnear & Co. say today:
The market continues active with n
higher range of prices all through the
list today. There are several advances
Of over n point and it certainly looks
like much higher prices i'm the next
month or two for coppers. Metal is
selling freely at 10 cents and better.
Political news is having practically no
effect and it is not likely it will for
II has been pretty well discounted.
Lake was a feature selling up to S41%
an advance of 2% points for the day.
Indiana, East Butte and Ray Consol
idated were also leaders.
Santa Rosalla continues weak,
though the trading is on n large scale.
l.. S. & A. sold today at s2R. n new
high price on the movement. Greene
Cananea and Giroux should do better,
also South Lake The closing is the
best prices OF the day, with every indi-
cation of a continuation of the up
ward swing
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MoRELANo IN SAME POSITION.
Rough Sea Compels Wreckers to Leave
Boat Temporarily.

The steamer Moreland is practically
i'm the same position off the Eagle Ri
yer today. according to advices re-
ceived from the River this morning.
The wrecking crew engaged in lighter
ing the cargo of iron ore, was forced
to quit work last night owing TO the
rough sea that was breaking over the
boat and steamed to the canal for
shelter.
There has not been a typical fall
storm as yet. and If fair weather con-
ditions prevail for a short time, there
are fairly good prospects of getting the
steamer off the rocks in the near flu
ture. 1t is feared however, that if
one of the good old-fashioned Lake
Superior gales spring up that it will go
hard with the boat. A big expense is
being daily incurred in Tightening and
to save the craft from de-
struction.
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Minnear 4 Co.'s Gossip

one of the news agencies prints a
story TO the effect that the copper
merger negotiations have again been
resumed and that conferences are be-
ing held daily in connection with the
matter. In the same article it is in
cidenty remarked that there is little
probability of anything definite occur
ring until such time as the Standard
oil and Tobacco decisions arc out of
the way.
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LIVELY MUSIC IN DlsFAvoR.
State Sunday School Association May
Abolish Rag Time.

Grand Rapids. Mich, Nov. THE
question of playing time music in
Sunday schools is one of the most i'm
portant matters to be discussed at the
annual convention of the Michigan
State Sunday School association,
which assembled in this city today
for n three days session. A spirited
debate over the subject is expected.
Some of the Sunday school leaders are
understood to favor the lively music
as n medium to attract and interest
the children, while others hold firmly
to the belief that sacred songs should
constitute the only music in the Sab
bath schools.
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ever there was advances made In tn,
metal issues on report that the copper
situation was improving and that
large sales had been consummated.
In the Boston list there was great
activity with Allouez. Lake. North
Butte, East Butte. Superior Copper
and Ray Consolidated the features of
strength.
Allouez sold at i6 1-2. Lake Al ga.
North Butte SO l-2, Superior Copper
"a, Ray Consolidated 81 rs. and East
Butte 10 is.
Utah Copper sold at 81. Winona at
10 SIS. Nevada Consolidated 21 Ia
and Indiana II 1-2.
The curb list while not very active
showed signs of advancing prices and
the close was fractionally higher.
All the best information obtainable
seems To point toward continued up
ward movement.
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as much enjoyed as that of Monday
the opening night. Prof. Barnum car
ried out numerous interesting hypnotic
features, making "A number of hypnotic
subjects do just as he pleased He
demonstrated that he is past master
IN his profession.
The work OF Raffles was myslifyinS.
proving that not even straight jack
ct" could hold him a prisoner. a new
program will be presented this even
ing.