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Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-12
RECORD HIGH PRICES NOW.
Cost Of Living ~ Shown by Brad
streets Higher Than Ever Before.

Cost Of Livins ~ Shown by Brad
streets Higher Than Ever Before.
New York, Oct. 1.-THE cost Of liv-
Ing Is higher than ever, as everybody
recognizes, but reduced to a percent
age, as Is done by Bradstreet's index
number OF prices, which includes not
only food but metals, textiles, coal,
building materials, hides and leather
and a number Of other things which
90 to make up the ordinary necessities,
the cost Of living climbed up o In
September than In amy recent month.
Bradstreet's index number, 9.A61a.
deduced from the prices Of tho units
considered, for Oct. /, 10 not only
the highest on record, but represents
4 Jump Of 2.5 per cent over the Sept
! figures. AS compared with the pre-
vlous high record, touched on May !
last, the advance Ii 10 per cent.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-12
AN 1s POUND LOBSTER.
Caught OF New Rochelle With .,
Ordinary biaokksh Hook.

Caught on New Rochelle With an
Ordinary blaokksh Hook.
New Rochelle, N. Y, Oct 1.-THE
largest lobster ever caught in Long
Island sound was hauled In near
Huckleberry island. by Ralph King
of 5 Franklin avenue, New Rochelle,
who, with John 1. King, was after
blackhsh.
The lobster, from the end Of Its
feslers to the end of It's tail, measures
thirty-three inches. Each feelsr II
seventeen inches long. One claw ID
sixteen inches long and twelve inches
in circumference. Tho ctrcumfcrsncs
Of the body u fifteen inchsa The
whole lobster weighs eighteen pounds.
A young oyster was growing ON ono
claw. The lobster was caught With
an ordinary blackfsh hook.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-12
CHINA CELEBRATES REVOLT.
Parade and Sacrifices at Picking o.
First Anniversary.

PARADE n Sacrtncoo AZ Fektn0 on
First Anniversary.
Picking, Oct. 1.-THE first anniver-
sary of the revolution was celebrated
In an elaborate here. The
central feature was a parade of 49,
600 infantry, with a powerful rear
guard of artillery and cavalry.
President Yuan Shih Kai had a
thousand Chinese and European
guests, who watched the men 90 by.
The physique and discipline Of the
gray clad battallons greatly impressed
the o%nlookers.
Earlier In the day the members of
the cabinet made sacrifices before tab
lets erected In memory of the victims
who died for the republican cause.
Another striking feature was the re,
moval Of the name "Manchu dynasty
from the dynastic gate at the entrance
to the palace.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-12

EVENING NEWS cover. the neld.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-12

A very popular style OF bungalow
with well arranged rooms, all of which
open up together. Size % feet wide,
36 feet deep. Full basement; first
story, nine feet. Birch or maple floors
throughout. Finish birch or red oak.
Cost to build, exclusive of heating and
plumbing, 81, 100.
By special arrangement with the
architect the editor Of this paper viii
furnish one complete set Of plans and
Specifications for the sum of S18.
Upon receipt Of 81 the publisher Of
this paper will furnish Saxton's book
OF plans entitled american Dwell
ings." 1t contains 254 up to date de-
signs of cottages, bungalows and re%.
dences costing from 81, 900 to $4,000.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-12
TWO OF CABINET ON STUMP
Stimson Will Aid Taft In Now York
and Nassi In tho West.

VVl' NV III Q II
and Nassi In tho West.
Washington, Oct. 12.-Two of Presi.
dent Taft's cabinet officers, Secretary
of War Stimson and Secretary Of Com
merce and Labor Nagel, who recently
returned to Washington from their va.
cation, will start in a few days OH
stump speaking tours.
Secretary Stimson will first go OF
the hastings at Buffalo early next
week. During the remainder Of the
week he will speak in several places In
New York in the interest Of President
Taft and Job E. Hedges.
Secretary Nagel viii open Sunday In
st. Louis and stump Missouri and sec,
tons Of states adjacent until just be
fore election.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-12
A.h Deluxe In Ecuador.

GuayaQuil. Ecuador, Oct. IA great
quantity of burning ashes fell on Alau-
81. Chimborazo province. and also On
other towns 1t Il supposed the ashes
came from sanSay, an active volcano
Of The Andes
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-12
OPERATIONS IN
REAL ESTATE
Work on Terra Gotta Struc.
tures-- Complete Others.

Two factory buildings under con-
struction at Cortlandt and Catherine
streets for the New Jersey Terra Cot
ia Company were the largest build
Ing Jobs for which permits were is
sued the past week. A permit was
issued for q one-story brick store
building for Peter Skovboe, 26x42
feet in size, to be erected on the
westerly side OF Amboy avenue,
twenty-five feet north of Compton
avenue. 1t will cost approximately
$3,O0Q-)~
Buildings for the New Jersey ter
ra Gotta concern will cost approx
mately $4,000. One to cost S14,-
900, will be 200 feet wide and 21O
feet deep, one-story high, of brick
construction and will be erected in
block 262 between Catherine and
Cortlandt streets. The other, to cost
about $12, 800, will be seventy-six
feet and five and a half inches. wide
and n~inety-fve feet and one and a
half inches deep, one and two stor-
les high, of brick construction and
! will be erected on the westerly side
of Cortlandt street in block 262. The
; structures were designed by Archi-
fleets John H. Dayton and C. How
ard Smith.
The nurses home has been COM
pleted under the supervision of the
architects, Goldberger & Greisen.
Other buildings designed by that ar
chitectural firm, which will be COM
pleted the coming week are:
Two-story brick house for D.
Klein. in Smith street, near Kirk
land place; two-story brick and two
family house for Joseph Polkowitz,
In Park avenue near New Brunswick
avenue; t~hree-family brick tenement,
two-stories, for Joseph March,, In
Catherine street near Easton street.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04

seems to me far more mar
vellous accomplishment than
the most precious of sonnets.
If ! were not Viereck, I would
gladly be Edison. / some
times suspect that l would
rather have reared the Met
ropolitan Building than writ
ten my poem Queen Lilith."
The spirit of America has
eaten into my heart. Wall
Street is more interesting to
me than Parnassus, The
protagonists Of great indus
trial combinations impress
me more than the knights
Of King Arthur's Table or
the vassais Of Beowulf. Nor
gan himself. so | am told,
was poet before finance en-.
thralled him.
II one is 10 continue writ
ing poetry for many years
there are quite terrible dan
gers he must guard against.
Nearly all poets. as a matter
Of fact, become monomaniacs.
They get a fixed idea that
they must put everything in
u rhyme; they think in
rhymes; they almost talk in
rhymes. II doesn't matter
whether they are thinking OF
the menu Of a dinner, the
description OF scenery, a
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04

spirits of Lilith, Ashtoreth, Nero. catu,-
lus, Tiberius, the Queen OF Sheba and
Hadrian were haunting me- II wrote
long enough about the Sphinx. and
brooded on the subject with the morbid
intentness that some poets give to their
subjects. ! have no doubt that 1t would
become an obsession. / might develop
the hallucination that the Sphinx con-
flded her secret to me-
De Maupassant told Paul Bourget that
he often saw his double Were ! to go
so far and imagine I saw my double l
fear I might then really go mad-from
jealousy
could name many poets who took
to drink or went insane. There was Ger
ard de Nerval, who was first obsessed
with mysticism. He drank horribly and
when he went to the gardens Of the
Tuileries imagined he saw the gold fish
lifting their heads from the water and
inviting him to follow them into the
fountains.
Gerard de Nerval became haunted by
the imaginary beings he created. He
always said the Queen of Sheba was wait
Ing just around the corner for him. Imag
Inc my condition were to go so far as
to become convinced that the beast of
the Apocalypse" of which I've written.
was waiting about every corner for me!
As 1t is. I used to be afraid OF the dark:
since l decided to give UP poetry the
dark no longer holds terrors for me-
My fear was unquestionably due to an
overexcited Imagination.
Nerval also developed a curious mania
He dragged a lobster about the streets
Of Paris with him, and when his physi.
clan, a solicitous soul. objected, NeryaI
naively expressed his astonishment. He
saw no reason why any one should object
to his airing his pet-why, he said inno-
Gently, Holsters were more inofrensiye
than dogs; they never even barked Re-
Gently young man appeared In the Wal
dorf dining room with a cat on the head
of which was crown of brilliants,
am sure he was poet-no one but a poet
would do anything 80 extraordinary as
take an angora TO the Waldorf for lunch
Recently Richard LIE Gallienne wrote
me a letter telling me of wonderful
water bug he had caught and OF which
he made a pet His enthusiasm over
the water bug amazed mel thought he
was joking. Other letters followed He
wrote me about his daily observations
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04

~ OES writing poetry cause insanity
Does wooing the muse drive men
- insane, produce hallucinations.
make idiots of poets and produce disease?
Is 1t the most dangerous occupation lii
the world2
George Sylvester viereck. that shy
young poet OF whom you may possibly
have heard. says 30. He declares that
writing poetry is more dangerous :han
working In coal mine or q dynamite
factory; that II drives men TO drink. to
poverty, that it destroys the moral sense.
makes snobs. idiots and megalomaniacs
Of many who WELD the pen: and that, az
It induces diseases Of the mind. 1t 10
more to be feared than typhoid.
OF course, Mr.. Viereck ought to know
When Mr.. Viereck's irst book OF poems
"Nineveh." was published several years
ago, 1t created tremendous sensation
and TO this book, In Mr.. Viereck's opinion.
have been due the crime waves and taxf.
cab robberies that swept over New York:
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who simply draws from his brain color
less images that do not exist; who feeds
upon himself exaggerates his own i'm
portance and sees the world only, and
falsely within himself. II is tragic.
Why, few poets read the newspapers;
they are more ignorant Of the world than
monks in secluded monasteries. Is II
any wonder they so insane? Go raving
mad?
Writing poetry Is worse than alcohol.
man who gets drunk on alcohol may
get some benefit, ss alcohoi has 1000
value But poetry has 40 food value,
And the man who intoxicates himseH
writing poetry all the time becomes brain
starved, I have seen the brains OF poets
actually die.
The writing Of poetry unquestionaoly
drives many poets to dirk IL drives
many to the gutter | hav' no aoqot 'te 40
very obsession OF poetry drove roe 10
take relief In wine, that t drove MN 70
wander about, often half mad ana ,e eausee nsea
him to suffer Incredibly. II mlsht h1ne ho
been wonderful thing tor roc IA. ,ii,a n.
like Le Gallienne taken to farming h;aIf Gr ..a
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, interes.ead adi,nrlaIs
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tom. She was absolutely m!sgs,t
she didn't finish a sonnet a dsy.
known her to do kitchen recipes b
net form. Another poet insists ID
In sitting with his back 10 the vii
walking close to buildings in tls aI
Once l asked him why. T an lti|
open spaces" he replied.
There Is young poet In N1
who writes beautiful poems abo5
ness. He declares 1t the most So
thing in the world. That rather ~
however, that he is perfectly sana
Considering the dangers oi a
poetry, think 1t you'd be satG :
person to go through typhoid tim u
cumb to the poetic afflatus. Feu
survive it. So, for the time Mlg
least, ! shall write no me-a
With even the greatest Of n
the longer they write the more nS7
hensible they become. There % ~
Hardy. one OF the biggest men u =
literature. No one can undeutrf
last work, "The Dynasts." II lasa
mystery. With poets, hoTeYss, y
course Of years they become 50 y
Gus, so complex, that no one al
stand their work Why, found
ally necessary to write conHn
in my last book explaining my
After I write verses ] often folSS
they mean. I must keep oopou
Why, If l kept on writing poeM
was thirty book OF mine woHa
consist of one sonnet-the rest W.
a commentary explaining IT,
Recently I wrote poem, flsn%
Cited" I forgot to make nots e.s
It's meaning. And now, when ~
am mystifed, ' can no lonte1
stand ny own poem. So THIS
! shall write.
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Poet Viereck Explains Hot0 Wooing the Muse May
Bring the Queen OF Sheba to Dinner, Cause the
Gold Fish TO Stare and Change Dogs into LObsters

of the bug, how he kept 1t In glass
and gave 1t fresh water daily. He was
becoming very fond Of it. he said Then
] learned that during this episode ne was
deeply immersed IN writing a poem
fortunately the water bug died; other
wise he might have developed fasci.
nation for the beetle He expressed heart.
broken grief when 1t died.
Poetry has driven many men poets to
suicide. Nerval hanged himself / have
no intention OF bringing on such a fate
myself, although have no doubts many
Of our younger poets would rejoice at
such an act
Chatterton killed himself Kleist. a
widely known German poet, did also.
Many thought OF 1t, even IL they didn't
carry out their Neutrality-suspicious. them
the poet Cooper. Perhaps II might have
been well If he had done so; Il wouId
have saved the writing of much iuferior
drivel lei'of
Baudelaire might as we'll have k,,,os
himselt-he died from general nareata rls,Ia
He wrote wonderful poetry, but parssrs bans,, y
op onpm meh'iy Hs dyaS Unbalanced that he took to
OF lew poets TODAY who dya =, nuo"
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but not green. One
day Baudelaire tried to
strangle his father-in.
iaw-this fact, despite
the statement that he
died Of softening of
the brain, leads me to
suspect that he NAV
nave had lucid moments.
Poetry drives MANY
poets to drugs. There
was de Musset, who
drugged himself with a.
frightful mixture Of beer
and absinthe; he then
imagined he saw his
double and that sounds
hac colors. He often
hypnotized himself with
a gilt frame-most Of
the poets | know do 1t
simply with a mirror.
Poets often develop
the mania OF persecution.
They imagine that the
critics are always un-
fairly treating them. Ber-
nardin de ST. Pierre de-
veloped this idea so
strongly that he i'm
agined the people In
the street paused to
criticise him.
Other poets have had
curl ious alterations.
Schiller, the German
poet, useG to COM
pose with his feet on
ice. The odor of fer
menting apples delighted
him.
Byron, It is said.
had commissions when
he heard Kern re-
cite. He sometimes
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04

y, h,p only the papier mache imitation
but no longer. Sp'A ZIG ieAii'''
~ my Uandle and the Flame" will. in
a.. hhennood. be my last book of verse.
no no longer worship Beauty. Art for arts
sfa,'1 saSS seems Jest, literature only a
:. s.cnIy mirage OF life. My temperament
nno.I oSnsmic than aesthetic. Activity,
suS"' aIiures me. Brooklyn Bridge
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04

news interest and he will look blankly
at you. The only interest IF most poets
Is In their own mawkish sentiments and
their verses. Now life Is 1he great mis-
tress OF human beings-ari Is only tho
mirror. To love the image in the mirror
is unhealthy. Few poets snow anything
about life.
1t is horrible to think OF a person who
can only write: does nothing but write:
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04

imagined he was visited by ghost.
Poets develop all sorts Of habits they
cannot control l know a poetess who
worked herself into tho habit OF writing
sonnets. 1t became an irresistible Gus
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04

Ing money oho
to return it. That is very
pitiful, and seems In BAD
taste. Poe's worst nus
tees we're to himself; be
suffered poverty conse-
quently.
Verlaine was an ex'
ample of a man whom
poetry drove to the gut.
ter. He was so obsessed
with poetry that he be.
came a tramp; he lost
all interest In his person
al appearance; his poems
are wonderful, but peo-
pie who met him said
that at times it was
painful to look at him.
Certainly he was not
saue-it might have been
we'll had he given up
poetry for awhile.
De Maupassant who
wrote fiction besides
poetry, became insane.
He thought so intensely
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04
"De Nerval always said the
the Queen of Sheba was wait
ing just around the corner
for him."

suit Of clothes, or a high
ball-they think OF 1t In
terms of verse II they think
of love, the first thing that
occurs is what word can
rhyme to love. Their brains
pingle.
Now in the middle ages,
wher there we're great Taint-
e-s and poets, they did not
specialize. They distributed
their interests. Some tcok
Up carpentering, some were
engineers, most engaged in
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04

MOL III ulOoL luIII6o IUOI-
l can make no other eXcep-
ton except when ! see my
self In a mirror.
Besides, being solely inter.
ested in themselves. IN im-
agining that the universe
circles about them, most
poets are absolutely Hitter
ate. They are more illlterate
and ignorant than street ur-
chins. Ask a poet about the
Titanic disaster, the political
situation or any event or
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04
The Perils of Poetry
r. GEORGE Sylvester Viereck

SHALL give up poetEy for many rea,
poetYy leads to insanity, for
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nraetical occupations; thus they kept
eana. It would be great thing for their
sanity II poets to-day would take up addi-
tional pursuits, chemistry, engineering,
farming, the brokerage business, clerk
ing-anything practical. Richard LIE Gal
lienne recently took up farming. This
is an indication Of his sanity, AS matter
Of fact, ! know of no man poet who is
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04

visible horror in his "Horla"
that he began to imagine the
thing existed and actually pur-
sued him. I can we'll imagine
that II / let myself go and
continued to write. and thought
Of nothing but my poetic i'm.
ageries. that in all reality I
should begin to develop
Authorizations TIL at tn
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04

l. one thing;
poetry induces
diseases, for
another. ! am
certain that
the scientist lie
right, who says
that most liter.
ary geniuses
develop toxins
In their blood.
The writing OF
poetry is un-
healthy; my
health has been
better since I
decided to give
1t UP. More
over, 1t befogs
the brain. Most
Of the men
poets ] know
are idiots-I
am one OF the
few exceptions
OF my acQuaint-
ance who ara
not
OF course
poets are sup
posed to wor-
ship beauty.
Most. as a mat
ter OF fact,
worship only II
OF beauty, | on
but no longer.
NJ
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such work would have coH'
pe,led him to view sahe'
healthy life; TO realize the re-
snonsibilities Of life-hrst o.
all TO himself. Many people
fell anecdotes OF his borrow
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04

However, MT. viereck 10 never more
going to write o poem again. Here he
tells why:
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1912-08-01

SORROW, nor crying, i, thar $ Al,
t hcre be afy rolc pain: IN tbs
f"rme" things are passed a%ay.'
(Rav. 2l-1 to ~
This will lie the Grand \fillon.
Mil Day 20 all peor.n. and this aIl
Shall come 20 pass in the last
days, please read.
But in the last days it shall
come to pass. tlat the mountain
OF the house OF The Lord shall be
established in the top eff the
mountains, and il shall ho exalt.
ed above the bills and pooDlo
shall flow unto it.
And many nations snai! come
and say, Come, and let Us 90 ur
10 me mountain Ct The Lord. and
to the house of The Cod Of Jacob:
and he will teach us OF his WAYS
and we will walk in his paths:
for the law shall 90 forth of Zion
and the word OF the Lord from
Jerusalem.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1912-08-01

And he shall Judge among
many people. and reJuke strong
nations alar eft; and they shall
beat their swords into plough
shares. and their spears into
prurnirglCol<S, Eation shall not
lift up q sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any
more.
But they shall sit every man
puder his vine ard under fig tree:
and none shall m AXE them ffraid:
for the mouth Of the Lord of
hath spohen it, Micah dit
Here is he Millonnial Day to
all nations. ard every man shall
rlHy It, for every man shall sit
under his own vino and fig tree,
no more ste aling Of nominations.
But God shall put the govern
ment into tie hands Of the peo-
ple, what a g.ol jcus Day this
viii be.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1912-08-01
Homo Circle Column.

take the good of all the people in.
to consideration before contribut-
ing their vote to anyone, Then,
after all qccd government that
protects the interest of all must
rest entirely with the home.
Without coed homes CUR political
Institutions would socn crumbte
and decay. Look to the source
Of all things fer the cause CT all
ills. If there is weakness in
our form of government, trace it
back to the home and there YOU
will find the cause of the trouble.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1912-08-01
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