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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-23
Ries'-Home of the
Bohn Syphon

There are three distinct
classes Of Refrigerator
L. LOW GRADE-the
bargain sale kind. Cost
Iittle-worth less. Ice con-
sumption enormous.
2. MEDIUM GRADE -
pretty to look at, many well
built but all lacking two vital
essentials of refrigeration.
3. BONN SYPHON-pat-
ented system of rapidly cir
culating cold. pure, dry air.
Insulated with Flaxlinun. the
greatest heat resisting in
sulation ever made-Effi-
cheney 1909.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-23
Insects and EntOmOIOgiStS
Start Summer Campaign

The coming OF spring causes Us
in our temporary buoyancy Of the
balmy days. to forget the serious
and look for inspiration among
growing things. There are not a
few. however. IN northern Indiana
who are turning these Inspirations
into money.
Perhaps IN no other part OF the
state are there so many amateur
entOmolOgists and botanists. Just
as the youths OF a few years ago
spent time in collecting stamps. the
youths OF today look TO Lepidoptera
as means OF spending their time
probably.
Just as soon as the spring warns
the earth millions OF insects creep
from their winter hiding places and
fiji the air and earth until the frost
Of October puts an end TO their ac-
tivities.
Among the thousands Of insects
appearing in early spring are flies
and worms The cut worms. which
are caterpillars of dull grey and
brown moths with forewings often
delicately marked. come next. They
hide in crannies OF earth and under
stones and logs. emerging 10 feed at
culent vegetation substances can be
easily reached
Following these, sometimes ear
l.er. the beetle family begins activity.
the wasp and yellow Jacket and all
OF the rest OF the insect world.
Only one OF this fast breeding IA
mily OF insects is welcome, and that
is the honey bee. These busy little
insects began work early in march
"a soon as the maple camps were
opened Floral wagons on the
streets before Easter were visited
by these active hunters Of honey.
Their work was halted for a time
by the "fiuke" snowstorms
While the active plans OF destroy
ing the other insects is being plann-
ed by their natural enemies. bin DIS
and farmers, the chronological spe-
cimen hunters are laying plans for
the summer campaign.
One may see the specimen hunter
with his forceps. net and cyanide
bottle in most any woods. Many
valuable moths. butterflies and skip
pers. members Of the order Lepi-
dOptera, Of which there are 5000
species. have been captured here.
In hunting for these insects four
seperate specimens OF their life are
secured, the egg, larva. pupa and
| image.
The varied colored eggs are usual
| ~ found on the underside Of a leaf
or petal OF a flower where they
were deposited by the female.
The larva are found on small
shrubs or plants. The caterpillar
larvae when touched drops off at
the same time suspending them
| selves by a thread
Many larvae spin two leaves to-
gether and feed between them. Feed
| ing at night and returning to their
home in the day. BY properly pre-
| serving the pupae until they are
ready to come out as a perfect in
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-23
PROGRESSIVE G.O.P.
MEN ARE DESERVING
Committee of Forty-eight See
Hopes For Third
Party.

CHICAGO. June 2.-PrOgressives
IN the republican rank and file are
deserving and throwing their support
q the proposed third party. accord
ing TO claims here today Of the Com
mittee or Forty Eight"
THE boilers" according 20 the
committees statement, are followers
of t. s Sens Hiram Johnson and
Robert BaFOllette. ex-BuH Moosers.
Since the republican convention.
both the Chicago and New York
offices OF the Committee Of Forty
Eight have been In RECEIPT OF many
letters from followers OF johnson.
IaFollette and Roosevelt. expressing
disgust with the republicans and a
desire TO join new party" said the
statement.
Expect Success.
The spontaneous expression OF
voluntary opinion OF this kind from
republican ranks leads the Commit
tee II Forty Eight TO believe that it's
convention will be even A greater
success than was anticipated and
that the formation OF the new party
will be a political event OF real prac-
teal Importance"
Liberal leaders. according 10 Prof.
T. Rypins. an official OF the Com
mittee OF Forty Eight. also expect
many democrats 20 swing 90 their
sul port following the democratic
convention.
May Get Democrats.
The Committee % Forty Eight
feels that II the democratic conven-
ton carries out what seems TO be its
intention Of naming conservative
clnd.dates. there viii be an influx
of The liberal members OF the demo-
cratic party. just as large as from
ne republicans
claims OF the proposed third party
tnat they expect many democrats TO
join them was strengthened by the
fact that such prOgressives of 1912
as Jane Adams Harold lckes and
John Bass have withheld statements
explaining how they will stand on
The candidates. OF the standard
bearers Of the two major parties.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-23
Strawberries SELL
FOR So on MARKET

Strawberries. both Of the home
grown and imported varieties, were
offered on the city market Tuesday
morning in large numbers. Prices
ranged close 10 % cents per quart.
or by the crate, s.. Most OF the
vendors on the market Tuesday were
not producers.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-23
POPE CONDEMNS
RADICAL AGITATION
By United Press:

ROME, June 22.-Pope Benedict
today wrote a letter TO Cardinal La
Fountaine patriarch Of Venice. con-
demning radical agitation and I'M
rest based on class hatred. He
praised the establishment OF Cath
Ollie labor offices.
only the church can effectively
deal with present day evils with jus
tice." the letter said. It further in
vited the wealthy TO give literally
and act more in accordance with a
spirit OF equity than cold justice
He also held that labor should not
make unjust demands at the present
time.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-23
LNPAN IopGEs PRoTEsT.

BY United Press
WASHINGTON. June 22-Japan
has lodged what amounts 90 an in
formal protest with the state de-
partment against proposed leCisla-
ton i'm California providing for alb
solutp prohibition of ownership or
lease of land I- Japanese. IL was
learned today Serious compiled
tiOns may arise.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-23

the road leading into Terre Haute
and came on 10 this city TO watch FOR
the cars. two OF which are black.
The third is red and all bear Penns-
ylvania license numbers
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-23
POPULATION
FIGURES

WASHINGTON. June 1.-THE cen
sus bureau Tuesday announced the
following 1920 population figures
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Up Till 4 A. NJ.

While writing Eureka" Mrs.
GLENN relates, he never liked to be
alone, and she used to sit up with
him, often until 4 o'clock in the
morning, giving him coffee every
hour. She adds that he was as SIM
pie and affectionate as child, and
never in all the years they were
together did he fail to kiss her be-
fore going to bed.
While on a visit to Mrs. shew in
the city he is supposed to have def
nitely conceived through the sug-
gestive ringing Of some nearby
church bells his poem of "The Bells"
topic which he had long contem-
plated. Poe having remarked that
the ringing Of the bells disturbed
him, Mrs. Shew, according to her
own account, said: ooh, the bells.
bells, bellsl" Poe caught up the
monody, until later he developed Il
into the heightened verses.
Mrs. Shew's observation that Poo
had lesion of one side of the brain
and that he could not bear stimu-
lants or tonics without producing
insanity goes far toward explaining
many Of his misfortunes. In as
serting that Poe's life was not as
black as posterity has painted it, it
is well to remember that his lapses
seldom came except at times of gem
uine distress, that he never wrote
under the influence Of liquor, that
almost year before he died he was
strictly abstemious and that long
portions of his career were marked
by industry, tenderness for his wife
and devotion to literature. Virtue,
truth and beauty were not less
familiar to him than they were to
his calumniators.
The Poe cottage Is relic of
Americas most original literary
man. His life was as inscrutable as
his weirdest tales. His shortcomings
were no worse than those of Burns,
Coleridge or Shelley. He gave to the
world, with little return, the prod
acts Of an imagination which, in
large measure, was responsible for
his own undoing. His genius carried
him to the terrific realm Of dreams
no mortal ever dared to dream be-
fore"
"Look," said Carlyle Of De Quin-
cey: "this child has been in hell"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
ody throughout the world in the big
gest type Of all languagesl
"Ihe Raven" Brought $40

Ten dollars was Poe's reward for
producing work of which Elizabeth
Browning wrote, "This weird writ
ing, this power which is felt, has
produced a sensation here in Eng
land"
About this time Poe's fellow writ
ers began to pay him attention. Low
ell sought data for a biographical
sketch. In reply Poe portrayed a
mental attitude toward temporal af-
fairs which must be held RESPONSE
bic for many of his hardships. Il
am excessively slothful and industri-
Gus by fits" he told Lowell. "There
are epochs when any kind of mental
exercise is torture, and when nothing
yields me pleasure but solitary COM
munion with the mountains and
woods-the 'altars' Of Byron. l have
thus rambled and dreamed away
whole months and awakened at last
l..
Then scribble all day and read all
night, as long as the disease lasts.
| have been too deeply con-
scous Of the mutability and eva
nescence Of temporal things to give
any continuous effort to anything
to be consistent in anything. My
life has been whim. impulse, passion,
a longing for solitude, a scorn of all
things present in an earnest desire
for the future. I am profoundly ex-
cited by music and by some poems
those of Tennyson especially-whom,
with Keats, Shelley. Coleridge 'oc-
casionally) and few others Of like
thought and expression, | regard as
the sole poets. Music is the perfec-
ton Of the soul, or idea, Of poetry.
The vagueness of eXaltation aroused
by sweet air (Which should be
strictly indefinite and never too
strongly suggestive) is precisely
what we should aim at in poetry"
1t is precisely what he practiced.
Poe with Virginia frequented the
weekly gatherings in Waverley
Place Of group of artists and
literary persons. At such resorts,
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
VIRGINIA GLENN POE.
aOho died IN the house dt
Fordhdm

pressible gratitude to you Lest
she may never see you moro, she
bids me say that she sends you her
sweetest kiss Of love and will die
blessing you. But come-oh, come
tomorrow
On the next day Virginia died,
covered, as we have seen, with the
overcoat which her husband a few
days later wore to her funeral. The
rest is "the end Of the play" as Mr..
Woodberry calls it. Poe continued
to regard the Fordham cottage as
his home almost up to the time Of
his death, in Baltimore In October,
1849. Mrs. GLENN was mother to
HIM to the last In the spring fol-
lowing Virginia's death he would
have died but for the nursing of
Mrs. GLENN and Mrs. Shew.
Recovering from his illness, Poe
plunged into work, rose early, ate
moderately, drank only water, and
took abundant exercise, attended
his flower garden and his pets
Gagged birds, including q bobolink
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Buildiag Cost SI,250.OOO

Pearson, in mis- turn, sought the
advice Of the best co-workers and
decorators obtainable. Their prod
uct was an ediice costing at least
$1,250,000, and both IN its exterior
and interior appearances fulfilling
all the demands which its owner had
made. 1t was solidly, even massive
ly, constructed Of graystone in the
Tudor style. Above 1.-THE only
visible indication OF its American
ownership-there was placed as a
weathereock a great bronze model of
the ship in WHICH Columbus first
crossed the Atlantic Isolated on all
sides. surrounded by stone wrought
iron ratings. and with its lower
windows protected by heavy iron
gratings, it was almost literally
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Moved 10 Fordham

Commonplace rs are these refer
cnces, they serve as prelude to
what follows. Poe, Virginia and
Mrs. GLENN moved to Fordham in
the spring Of 1916. He was enmeshed
in ditficulties-poverty, petty debts;
he had lapsed into some Of his old
habits from which for a year he had
abstained; he was in poor health
and Virginia was an invalid. His
motives i'll selecting the cottage in
the country were doubtless the
cheapness of rent and consideration
for the health Of his wife, for whom
he seemed to show q tender soljci-
tude. The interior of the cottage
was much as it is now except for
the furnishings-on the groud floor
a large sitting room, a small room
into which just before her death
Virginia was removed for greater
warmth, and a kitchen; above up a
narrow stairway, two other rooms,
one, Poe's with a low ceiling and
small square windows, and the other
not much larger than closet. This
retreat, it has been said, although
at best mean dwelling, was the
pleasantest Poe had ever known.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
AstoriS London Building
Placed on the Market

burglarproof, and, indeed, 50 FAR
was this policy Of exclusiveness
pursued that there are said to be
very few Londoners who have ever
passed through its single entrance
a splendid gateway.
The greater portion Of the center
Of the house is occupied by an enor-
nous and elaborate staircase, which
is, in fact, so large that it IS said
the bedrooms on the upper floors
had TO be restricted in size on its
account-somewhat TO the discor-
fort Of Lord Astor, who, being a
large man, had trouble in getting
his bed into his sleeping chamber
A single room on the first floor has
marble floor which in itself must
have cost a small fortune. Oak
beams, mahogany paneling, costly
carvings, artistic brass fittings,
painted ceilings, siler-inlaid doors
and frescoes and pictures by famous
artists combine to make of the
structure the luxurious workshop
that il is.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Appeal for Aid

1--WE regret to learn that Edgar
A. Poe and his wife are both dan
gerously i'll with the consumption,
and that the hand Of misfortune
les heavy on their temporal affairs.
We ara sorry to mention the fact
that they are so far reduced as to
be barely able to obtain the neees-
saries Of life. This is indeed a
hard lot, and we hope that the
friends and admirers Of Mr.. Poe
will come promptly to his assistance
in his bitterest hour Of need"
This was TO doubt kindly meant,
but it inflicted a bitter suffering to
one already sorely tried. Non does
it appear that good came of it. On
January % 18z7. Poe wrote to
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
HIS poem is of the famous orittea by EDGAR
Allan Poe

teacakes (elegant), a good dish
(two dishes) of elegant ham, and
two of cold veal piled up like a
mountain and large slices; three
dishes of the cakes, and everything
in the greatest profusion. No fear
of starving here. Sis is de-
lighted, and we are both in excellent
spirits. She has coughed hardly
any. She is now busy mending my
pants, which I tore against a nail
We have now. got four dol
lars and a half left. Tomorrow l
am going to try to borrow three dol
lars so that | may have a fortnight
to go upon"
Reduced to borrowing Poe certain
" was, and with frequency, during
his sojourn in New York. A collec-
tor, after Poe's death, wrote to Hor-
ace Greeley for one of the poets au-
tographs and received this reply:
Dear sir: Among my liter
a.y treasures there happens to
be exactly one autograph Of our
country's late lamented poet,
Edgar A. Poe. 1t is his note Of
hand for $50, with my indorse-
ment across the back. 1t cost
me exactly S5o.75 (including
protest), and you may have it
for half that amount Yours
respectfully.
Genius was but poorly paid in
those blessed days. 1t was the period
of Poe's greatest literary activity.
For ten years he had labored in a
continuous output of poems, tales,
criticisms and work incidental to the
many journals he edited or assisted
in editing. Less than year after the
arrival here appeared "The Raven"
in The Evening Mirror for Janu-
ary 90, l845--and more inconspic-
uous birth great poem never had.
1t began half way down a column, as
if unworthy of too commanding a
position, and was printed in type
hardly to be read comfortably with
out magnifying glass. Puny, un-
promising birth of a poem destined
soon to develop lusty lungs and to
continue, long after its critics were
silent, to voice its imperishable mel
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
you a peaceful summer with
your devoted EDGAR.
Winter Brought Crisis

Winter brought a swift crisis. A
chance letter written by a Mrs
Cove, one of the few who took an
interest in the distressed family,
pictures scene comparable for its
pathos with any depicted in fiction
There was no clothing on the bed,
which was only straw, but a snow
white counterpart and sheets. The
weather was cold, and the sick lady
had the dreadful chills that accom-
pany the hectic fever of consump-
ton. She lay on the straw bed,
wrapped in her husbands greatcoat,
with large tortoise shell cat in her
bosom. The wonderful cat seemed
conscious of her great usefulness.
The coat and the cat were the suf-
ferer's only means of warmth, ex-
cept as her husband held her hands
and her mother her feet. Mrs. GLENN
was passionately fond of her
daughter, and her distress on ac-
count Of her illness and poverty was
dreadful to see."
Mrs. Cove on her return to New
York applied to Mrs. Maria Louise
Shew, the daughter of a physician,
who thereafter daily visited the Poe
cottage. A subscription Of $50 was
raised. The stimulus of this bit of
prosperity prompted Poe to write
one Of his weird tales
Aid was being sought for him
elsewhere, but in a manner filled
with humiliation. The country
which, now that he is dead, repub-
fishes his works in editions ad
infnitum, commentaries him in
bronze and marble and even puts a
telephone in that ghost of a cottage
for the transmission Of voices (alas,
no longer audible to him }, had a
paragraph in newspaper to give
for his relief. 1t read:
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
LONDON.
. nee again the attention Of
the British public is being

~ nee again the attention Of
" the British public is being
drawn to the Astor name.
This time it is through tho offer
for sale Of what is termed "the
most amazing commercial office
building in London" the Astor Of
fees on the Thames Embankment.
About the year 1894, when Will
liam Waldorf Astor had decided to
live permanently in England, he
conceived the idea of creating as his
business headquarters q building
which should, in the words of an
English commentator, combine the
inspiration Of the old and the bust
ness capacities Of the new" Forth
with he purchased the plot of
ground on the Embankment adjoin-
ing the huge structure which the
London School Board had built some
years previously, called in the
famous architect, Pearson, ard gave
him carte blanche in the designing
Of a building which, to be used
primarily for business purposes,
nevertheless should be beyond criti-
cism as a work of art.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
MRS. GLENN, mother of
1'A Virginia, qc}fe of the
poet

says George E. Woodberry, In the
midst Of a variously constituted
company Poe would sit, dressed in
plain black, hut with the head, the
broad, retreating white brow, the
large, luminous, piercing eyes, the
impassive lips, that gave the visible
character Of genius to his features.
Notwithstanding his natural reserve
his manners were pleasing, and his
conversation, although best when
but one or two We're present, must
have been engaging and impressive
even in the constraint and in con-
sequence Of general talk.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
tta8e Where Poe Lab0red Is in DANCER

left Virginia on the boat. and after
ouy'hg an umbrella for rs cents.
presumably secondhand one. went
IN search of boarding house Poe
already was we'll known and had
written the most celebrated Of his
tales, including The Gold Bug. of
which 100000 copies had been cir
culated. 1t is commentary on
authorship in those days that he
should find it worth mentioning that
he paid 25 cents for an umbrella.
Then I went up Greenwich
/ Street" writes Poe, "and soon found
boarding house. 1t is just before
you get to Cedar Street, on the west
side going up-the left-hand side.
1t has brown stone steps, with a
porch and brown pillars. 'Morri-
SON is the name on the door. I
made bargain in few minutes
and then got hack and went for
sis (Virginia). I was not gone more
than half an hour, and she was quite
astonlshed to see me back so soon."
Good Food Treat
We have furtive glimpses hero Of
scant meals in the past Else why
this rhapsody over the food at the
Greenwich Street boarding house?
For supper we had the incest tea
you ever drank, strong and hot;
wheat bread and rye bread, cheese,
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Suitable for Bank

William Waldorf AstOr spent
great portion of his time in these
Offices, but since his death, with the
transfer to the United States OF a
part Of the management OF the
Astor estate, and the disinclination
Of the present Viscount Astor.
whose political activities take up a
great deal Of his time, to engage
actively in business, it has been
decided TO remove the remaining
financial Offices TO another location
and to sell the building. 1t is sug-
gested that the premises might be
occupied by a bank, an insurance
company, or some other business
enterprise requiring stately head
quarters, but it is regarded as scarce
ly probable that the sale of the
building viii realize the great
amount of money which was Law
ished upon its construction
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Lack Of Money for Maintenance
Causes Fear Structure
Will Be Lost

gu, oar lore It scos stronger bg far
than the lore
OF those ,oho acre older than toe
OF many far actSer than ,ue-
And neither the angels in heaven
aboVe,
Nor the demons dozen scnder the
sea,
cen erer ijsscrer my soul from the
so,d
OF the beautiful Annubel Lee.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03

and . parrot ard enles-a,aed a
few friends. His tavori,e walk was
westward several miles 10 he bluf
overlooking the Harlem 2vo. at
High Bridge. There he med ta+ 4
those eerie distractions which he
afterward pat in ~Eu1sfa. and
there in his loneliness. as h .aooott
OF his lost Virginia, mast often l.svc
recurred to him, peering down mo
the depths, his own words:
Deep into that darkness peering,
Long stood there,
wondering, fearing. doubling, dreaming.
Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared
to dream before
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Poet Sought to Save Wife From
Want, but Failed IN Pa
thetic Fight

Mrs. shew. My poor Virginia SSH
lives, although telling fast and now
suffering much pain. May God
grant her life until she sees you
and thanks you once again. Her
bosom is full to overflowing-like
my own-with boundless, mex
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
4 GLIMPSE Of the kitchen
4 of the Poe cottage

Mrs. GLENN, a woman of dignity,
refinement and motherly devotion
to her children, kept the place i'm
maculate, although the furniture
was scant and the cupboard often
bare. On a table lay presentation
copies Of the poems from Mr.. and
Mrs. Browning. Otherwise we learn
the library consisted Of "some hang
ing shelves with a few other books
ranged on them"
Poor, i'll, with only disappoint-
ments behind him and, before him,
grief over the sufferings of the one
dearest to him, Poe faced the future
with fear and dread. Through fair
weather and bad, he journeyed to
Manhattan, certainly always part Of
the way, and doubtless often all the
way, on foot, to- earn a living at
literary work. But literary work
which had compensated him at the
rate of $40 for a masterpiece that
had set all America talking and, as
Mrs. Browning said, excited Eng
land, did not endow the future with
any bright prospects. The solitary
path through Fordham woods was
trod by as wretched a literary man
as crowded Grub Street ever knew.
But interviewer in the story of mis-
cry is the bright and tender thread
-Poe's abiding love for Virginia,
from whom, as her rapid decline
foredoomed, he was soon to part
forever. On one Of his migrations
to the city he wrote her a note fit
to be read with one of his poems: