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LIGHT FASTER TIXAN SOUND
About a tl ousand yards from the
win. low where I sit is a factory which
L.ows its whistle every nOon.Tlie
steam always comes front the whistle
some little time before the sound is
heard. I once counted three seconds
between the time when the first steam
was seen and the time when the
whistle was first heard. The whistle
r is heard when the weatheajs foggy and
clear, hot or cold, windy or calm. It
is sometimes-; loader than at other1
times, but, it always takes three sec-
ends to travel the three thousand feet
from the factory to jny house,
i We also hear often an' echo of the
whistle, whieh conies two seconds later
than the first sound. This is the same
ou iid coming by a ronn.latMt.it journey
fi,00O feet long." It travels 1,000 feet
to a hill beyond, anl is then sent back
4,000 feet to our house.
A few days ag. I heard a land of
.musicians playing upon the. street, and
although- they were far distant from
me, the high tones of the piccolo and
the low tones of the bass horn reach
ed me exactly together, showing that
high and low tones travel at the same
peed.
During a recent thunderstorm I no
ticed a llash.of lightning and counted
ten seconds before the sound of the
thunder was heard. This showed me
that, the storm was about ten thousand
feet away. A little later however, the
time between- thee lightning and th
- t bander .began" to grow less, and the
'noise f -the thunder became louder,
which showed that th storm was get
ting nearer. Finally a dazzling flash
of lightning' was followed immediate'
ly by a deafening crash . of thunder,
. and at the same time the shingles flew
from a, patch of roof on a farm near
by. It had been struck by lightning
and was noon in flames.
. ROTAI TIPS. .
Some of the European monarchs give
ery large tips whenever they trajrel,
and others, on the contrary, are mute
niggardly. Emperor Nicholas of Bus
sia is the most liberal in this respect.
During his brief visit to France three
year ago he spent $16,000 on tips ta
servants and almost as mnch on pres
ents -to official and others. ; King- Ed
ward of England is not quite as gen
' erous, but as he travels a : good deal
both within his own realm and abroad
he is obliged to lay aside each year
$32 000 aa an allowance for tips. Era
neror William of Germany is much mere
cenerous in foreign country than at
home, and during hia recent visit to
Cowes, England, he spent 4 not less
tha $10,000 on tip. Ot the remaining
ruler, om PnJ rsonable sum and
other very little, but probably quae
much is they can affd. . . j.
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. 4 POWER OP GOLD, f
In one of our eastern, cities a cer
tain family suddenly found themselves
at the top notch of wealth and pros
perity. They then began to seek for
the secondary requirement of culture.
A most excellent master was engaged
to instruct their only daughter on the
piano, nis patience being taxed to
the utmost, the master complained to
the young woman's mother. '
Madam, I cannot teach your daugh
ter, longer." . : . 1 '
. "And why not? Doesn't my daugh
ter study! I will make her study. "
"It ees not sat, ' persisted the old
man.' I cannot teach her. She ha
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ED G Alt ALLEN POEj " FATHER OF i
THE SHORT STORY," DISCUSSED
By Qartrudo
Chancer is aptlv called the "Father
of English Literature ' ; Washington
Irving the "Father of American Liter
ature," and with equal candor can we
place beside them the name of Edgar
Allen Poe as the " Father of the Short-
story.". 1 By that statement we do not
mean to affirm that Poo was the first
short-story writer, and more than that
Chaucer or Irving was the jjriginator
o Jierature. ; There were many writers
in England before the time of Chancer,
many writers in America before Irving,
but each marks an epoch in literature;
they stand, out in history as land marks
that , denote a transition, a : material
change, an advance over that of earlier
times. J .. . '
Viewing Poe in t, the same light, we
readily see the wonderful advance, in
form, over the- short-story of the, fif
teen years previous. .Before l&JO. tne
publication of Poe's ;Jerniee," the
short -story was practically an experi
ment. The tales were , criticised for
lack of appreciation of material. It
was not this, for the writers did ap
preciate the wide field "of new material
which the New -Worm afforded, but it
was rather a lack of skill in expressing
it. There was a looseness in plot and
a decided tendency toward native
themes and local sketches at the sac
rifice of unity and time perhaps one
of the most generally violated princi
ples of the short-story, as well as plot.
The works 'of Cooper and Irving are
splendid examples of this local color
ing. Irving's "Kip Van Wrinkle"
shows a slight change in the tale, but
so slight that it can hardly eount n.f J attitude, but usel themas well
U,:nTel0p, ent f , f ,hort ,rtory-as the scenery, to forward the mood.
P. Willis comes a little nearer to thai. J ' ,; , - .
ideal ,n his .construction and I Haw-
thorne steps a notch higher because
of his great imaginative power, -which
Po says is not originality, but " pe
culiarity" and to be peculiar is to be
original; and this is the highest liter
ary virtue, -if it springs spontaneously
from an aetive imagination, giving col
oring and character to everything with
which it comes in contact. It is this
peculiarity which deprives Hawthorne
of popular appreciation But "the few
to whom books belong and who belong
properly to books, do not criticise like
the public, altogether by what he does
but estimate an author by what he is
capable of doing." One obvious point.
However, is monotony in tne use of
allegory, 'which seems to overpower
many of hjs subjects.
Among t be literary people of Ameri
ca, llawtnorne - holds much the same
place as Coleridge did in England- But
it is to Poe that the literary people
turn for their model of the short-story.
A model which outlived the author's
day a model for the futures
When we consider the large, number
of tales published, and the great de
mand for them in -this age of short
stories, it is remarkable to note how
very few have style. The short-story
has extensive and , fertile fields to
choose from, and, in many respeets,
has advantages over the novel, but at
the same time there are certain re
strictions whjeb must . be observed in
order to reach the highest degree of
skill. Perhaps the three most univer
sally broken principles, even of the
present day, are brevity of time and
space, and swift movement. William
Austin makes his "Peter Rugg" lab
ored and monotonous by giving too full
a treatment to a subject which conld
be made much more effective in less
time and with swifter movement.
Hawthorne falls short in his "White
Old Maid" by choosing, for a short
story, a plot dep enough for a novel.
In this, as well as many others, for
instance, Irvings 'Rip Van Winkle,"
"Peter Rugg," Hall's "The French
Village," the unity is broken by a
long lapse of years.
The secret of Poe's success was his
skill in starting in immediately upon
the story without long description, and
holding the mind of the reader with
intense interest until he had reached,
with swift and steady movement, the
inevitable climax. I have said it was
the secret of Poe's success; so it is,
out it was more his skill m usine it:
for it is this sympathy between writer
and reader which is the goal of every
author and a true test of any writer's
success. jus immediate attack and
rapid movement permitted him. to make
use of the unlovely and horrible, which
must necessarily be brief. Herein lies
an advantage over the novel.- His
story of "the Black Cat," "lierniee,"
"Ligeria,"! and "The Tell-tale
Heart" illustrate this necessity for
haste. "The Black Cat" covers but
five pages, and "The Tell-tale Heart,"
three, but could we longer endure the
awfulness of the scene, the intense rage
into which the innocent black cat
throws its master until he strikes his
gentle little wife In the bead with the
as"; or, in the latter case, the cool de
liberate murder of the master of the
house because of the one wicked-looking
gless eye, and then the sickening
sight when he eaimly cuts the bodv to
pieces and bestows it under the floor,
which Poe depicts with awful minute
ness. Poe's stories deal with plot and in
cident rather than with character. Yon
see his eople and feel their presence
ia the story, bot they impress you in
something of the same manned as n
large ero?I or persons merely . passing
along the street. , You do not get ac
quainted with them; any man or woman
might be substituted and not change
the story in the least, but put in the
place of the prisoner in "The Pit and
the Peadulom," 6 even Bret Hart's
gambier of f'Poker Flat," and immedi
ately we are interested to know just
bow th! cool, seiipossessed man of the
world will receive or overcome this cir
cumstance. We raa feel with him be
cause we know,: him. One might ask,
before, reading, ' are not i Berniee,"
"Eleanor," or "Morel L" character
stories f But finish reading and -von
find there is no definite character, you
are more impressed by. the even, ivory
"jujj 1 --v a ui urrnice man or any
definite -character1 of the girL In
"Morella," the quiet, silent suffering
manner of the .woman, ' in whieb we
v see no reason for her husband 'a
bitter repulsive feeling, ? is more ap- f
parent. In " Eleanors, 4Poe has" given
a description of the Valev of the
the
Ifanv-ednr.! -fi.. i..vf .
Many-colored Grass,'? hach,, to-my.
rV. Johnson.
mind, is the most beautiful piece of
wtwkmanskip that he ! has produced in
the) short -story. 'There. i a certain
irieloneLoly, bnt it lacks that weird,
grotesque, almost repulsive atmosphere,
characteristic of his works. But, after
all,' the sweet, innocent peasant girl
ib not a distinct living character to us.
On the other -hand, observe how he
makes his reader feel and live the in
eideat. In " The Descent 4 Into the
Maelstrom," the reader himself, seems
to be there; he sees the storm; he feels
the convulsive heave of the boat; and
at last he holds his breath as he beholds
the bottom of thewhirlpool and his
slow, but steady progress, as he whirls
round and round, each time nearer his
fate. Still, even through the most exciting-
moments, the reader ia made to
feel the inevitable end, the rescue of
the man who is telling the story. But
up to the climax, the question is, "How
is it to be done! " '
' In his plot tales, the same intense
interest is felt, only held for a longer
time upon a more complicated mystery.
In 'The Gold Bug," for instance, from
the moment the death's head is made
visible, by heat, upon the dirty, thin
parchment, aceidently pieked up by Le
gard to lift the gold bug, the plot
moves steadily on, each incident ad
ding strength to the main action. Even
the effect of the gold bug on the super
stitious old negro attributes to the i
mystery of the final discovery. This ,
use of loading eaeh incident and wordiy we find that it lacks colloquialism,
with significance is one great charm of
Poe. ell did not possess the wonderful
Vocabulary of Hawthorne, but made
use of the vocabulary he had by select
ing wrds charged with meaning, which
monrnful howl aB), pe0uHar actions. of
thJ fl while th diiB in the
dog while they are digging
wrong spot for the gold, and then his
sudden change when they find the right
place, add to the loneliness of the night
and the seeming madness of his. master.
In his "Ligeria," and also "Metzen
gerstein," the slow weird Miiovements
of the waving uraperies add to -the
surrounding gloom. The terrific storm
in the "House of Usher" coincides
with the perturbed minds of the in
mates of the house, and also with the
terrible destruction of the House of
Usher.
Unlike the short-story of the present
day, Poe's does not ueal with the social
problems. In fact, his stories are not
of any one place they lack locality.
I can think of but few tales that he
has definitely plaeed. "ThO Descent
Into the Maelstrom ' is laid off the
coast of Norway; "The Mnrder of the
Kue Morgue," "in Paris; hi first prize
story, "Ma Found in a Bottle," is
plaeed between Batavia of Java and
the Archipelago of the Sunda Islands;
and the "Adventures of One Hans
Pfall," is laid in Rotterdam. His lo
cations, as well as his characters, be
long to no one particular place or age.
Wc get, perhaps,, as in no 'other one of
his btones, : a slight glimpse of the
early Dutch of America, ia the tale
"The Devil in the rlelfry." He enters
into a detailed description of the ap
pearance of a Dutch settlement, the
mode of living, and some of their pe
culiar habits. We see the good house
wife' as she continually busies herself
auoui me one jiving room auu now ou j
then stirs with a long spoon a pot of J
jiHrrmge which iiaugs uvcr lue uiaze t
in a large open fireplace. We find just 1
outside the door the heavy-set Dutch
roan, who has sat in the same place, as
Poe says, "time out of mind," with
his long pipe in his mouth, a watch in
his hand and his eye fixed upon the
clock in the belfry. The watch and
clock were important articles in the
life of the Dutch, and Poo apparently
delights in setting off the extreme
hobby in the most ridiculous light
when he- describes the pigs walking
about with small watches dangling
from their tails. But it is in this
sphere of imagination that he lives,
and with such absurd situations he
f b a Ka irw.oir I li tab. f
mostly deals.
His earlier stories have this same
unreal, unnatural element, but lack the
smoothness and finish of most of the
later ones, and, to a certain degree,
lack that subtle reasoning "that is ap-
jii-ui in mi uesi Bionrs an.l especi
ally the detective tales, of which Poe
is master. In these, he seems to take
the tangled situation and with perfect
ease pick out each detail and arrange
them in such natural order that the
reader feels, when he is through, that
there could "be no loop hole, no flaw
In the reasoning, that every detail has
been so nicely investigated that no
other argument is necessary. Follow
Dupin through the, "Murder of the
Rue Morgue.". 8ee him at the scene
of the murder. How carefully he ob
serves the elightest ev-ence in favor
of, or against, the unknown murderer.
How his "lynx eye" immediately per
ceives the broken nail and the hidden
spring that has baffled the detectives.
He even discovers the little bunch of
peculiar looking hair tightly clutched
within the icy hand of tho old lady.
He notes the force which it must have
taken to thrust the bony of the girl up
the chimney, the unmolested gold upon
the floor, the flagpole outside the win
dow, wis fact, not a thing, inside or
outside, escapes: his scrutiny. Yet, how
nicely Poe conceals the real reasoning
of Dupin until all the others have giv
en their testimony, and t be police are
quite at sea, before he gives his argu
meats with great precision and care,
disclosing the whole mystery with a
masterly skUL "The Purloined Let
ter" shows the same shrewd thought,
but does not deal with quite so deep
a subject. "The Go,. Bug" Is another
illustration of his genius along thi
line. How cunningly he unravels a
plot which has been woven for the
sole purpose of unraveling. Legard
tpils silently, patiently, and wearily
over the figures and signs visible on
the dirty: parchment, testing each fig
ure over and over again, f Yet we are
not wearied by following him. through
all these trials, and, after the gold vis
found and we are still mystified as to
ine means by which be becomes ac
quainted with his great fortune, he
quietly and deliberately lays bare the
mystery. - - ; y ; , .. ,
All of his tales are earned on in a
sort of a monologue and his h.ibirnsl
" " """But auu ims nabitnai
use of the pronoun I," is exceedingly
conspicuous, giving "a sameness to all
fain works, altiiouet his best and moat
effective, stories -are written in this
way. . Since, as has been said, the.peo
rd of his tales have no definite char
acter, Poe has very -little use for dia-
1 ia 4 It a art iaii iini: at inn
UUCf Ml .9 - " -
of real lif es, A principle very much
emphasized by the writers of today.
After all, those books we; enjoy most
are those in which we become acquaint
ed and attached to the persons by their
peculiar speech, their quaint colloquial-1
isms and tueir personal mannerisms.
We no not need to have Smith of Bun
ner's " ae Live Letters of Smith";
described to us, nor do we have to be
told that he is an uneducated farmer;,
we see the character of the man. in.
the erude notes passed across the cor-'
nice. Shakespeare does sot have to de-I
scribe his people before he begins his
ply; we -cannot finish before each
character has become definitely formed
id our minds; each has become a liv-j
mg, moving being, to be admired or
abhored. itb Poe, We most look en-,
tirely to the incident of the story for.
the interest. For in .those tales in ;
which there is dialogue, it. does not
seem to throw much light upon the
character or manner of the individual, r
but is rather a more direet way ofr
bringing the reader into close contact
with the incident, or for the purpose
of making the incident stand out more '
forcibly.. With Poe s former descrip-'
tion of some peculiarities of Dnpin,
sueh as his uesired mood when think
ing, we infer through his long speeches,
when he is stating bis arguments, that
he is exceedingly calm and deliberate,
nothing ru.-.fS or excites him. The
only evidence of inward exeitement is
the sudden ehauge of the- color of his
eyes, and the "perfect whirlwind of
smoke," which envelopes hm at sueh
times. In the interviews between Dur
pin and the Prefect of i'olice, we come
nearer, having an informal conversa
tion, but if we examine it more elose-
and is rather the words of the author
himself. His little story of "Three
Sundays in a Week" is mnch more ef
fective because of the Short dialogue
between the uncle and nephew, which
opens the story. Here the author seems
to step' out of his usually gloomy fan
ingly calling him witty, when be' can
scarcely refrain . from calling him a
tasticality and indulge in a little good
natured fun. We have the old uncle
introduced to us in the first word by
the nephew: "Hard-hearted, dunder
head el, obstinate, rusty, crusty, musty,
fusty, old savage! with his feet upon
the mantle piece, and a bumper of
port wine in his paw, making strenu
ous efforts to accomplish the1 ditty,
Rem pi is ton verre videt
Viths ton verre pleint" -J"
However, he tries to conceal his
feelings before the old man under
bland smile and winning speech, laugh -
villian. The old man obstinately stands
by .his decision, that they' shall, be
married "when three Sundays' come to
gether in a week." Even when tho
two friends, Smitherton and Captain
Pratt, return from a trip around tDe
world, the one from the east and the
other from the west, making the one
from the east a day in advance bf Lon
don time, and the one from the west
twenty-four hours behind the time of
London, the old. man tries to make one
more effort to save himself by the
opinion of Dufcble L. Dee, but failing,
gives his consent.
. Poe has written a few others which
are not overeast with shadow or sloom.
but they all deal on too great a scale
with" the absurd to be appreciated f or
anything but the
structure of the com-
position. "
Besides the monotony eaused bv the
use of the persona! pronoun I, there is
another element which creates nracti-
eaily the -same effeet, and tbs
tat is, his
aDufrt mal imagination. It is quite
necessary to use one's imagination in
order to produce a EOO.J ' COTO
position,
nevertheless, I believe that 1
Poe has
1 a. r 1 1 t .
proven that it is possible to go to ex
tremes.' We can read a few of his
stories and enjoy them, but the perusal
of even, one volume without spicing it
well with stories of a different nature,
is exceedingly monotonous and. tire
some. The mind is kept too long in
the antie, unearthly atmosphere. The
continual gloom is too oppressive for
the average mind and we are prone to
lay it aside for something freer and
lighter. However, there is one thing
which prevents ,them from being in
tolerable and thftt is his great diversi
ty of subjects
It is true ihat every author leaves
more or less 'of his influence and char
acter upon hia work. The same state'
ment holds goou for the artist, the scul-'
ptor, or the musician, although it is
uiftre noticeable, perhaps, in the work
of the musieiaa and writer of liter-:
ture. Hawthorne was an optimist, and
though he wrote, as did Poe, from his'
wonderful imagination, his tales werej
not "a be all and end all here.- Foe's1
were, ite was a pessimist, a cynic,
and his stories all bear witness to the
fact. His. sad, dissipated, wasted life
is reflected upon almost every page,
and at times unutterable despair is. ex
ceedingly pathetic. In all of the nu
merous stories that he has written, only
one, I believe, has spoken of forgive
ness in the next world, of peace, love
and future life. Still, even as he ut
ters those words: "Hleep in peace!
for the Spirit of Love reigneth and
smileth . thou . art absolved,
for reasons which shall be made known
to thee in heaven, of thy vows unto
Klcanora"; it seems that there is a
sad note of longing and despair. In
fact, the whole tory of "Eleanora"
seems, to be a cry from his very soul
for the pure and beautiful life whieb
be has cast iron him and is powerless
10 regain. Alter having read that
story, I cannot agree with all of N. P.
Willis harsh criticisms, bnt must argue
who .a&rs. usgooa -in maintaining that
he was not altogether a hard-hearted
wretch who seemed to have no "moral
susceptibility " and whose ebief aim
was to rise or succeed that be might
gain a right to "despise a world which
gauea bis seix-eonceit." .
As to which of his stories is the best.
it is difficult to say, though most of his
aier woras snow an improvement over
the earlier ones. lie himself declares
that if they were all bound in one vol
ume he could not decide which one was
the best, for they are ail good, of their
kind. Still, he thinks that his "Lig
eria" may be called his best, as he be
lieves ;th highest imagination is the
loftiest literary virtue.
EOEN.
pBOHE On June 25, 1903, at Gopher,
,;Or, to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Grohe,
a son. William Norman..
jar. and Airs. Urohe n
pleye,of the asylum. -
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FOE S CHARACTER.
The essay on "Poe and the Short
Story" by Miss Gertrude M. Johnson
of this city is the one for which sh
was given the Shakespeare prize by
Mr. W, H. Biirknanlt at the school of
oratory graduating exercises recently.
Miss Johnson displays powers of both
criticism and literary composition in
the vssay, and the article will be read
by Statesman .readers this morning
with much interest. She shows at
least a high appreciation of the works
of Edgar Allen Poe, and also a deep
Study of bis writings, and her compari
sons of his short stories with others
Show a de.'n stu.lv of literature an.l
literarv method.' .The only thine
in
her article that will not be generally
accepted is- her acreptanee of the
charge that Poe was so dissipated that
h considered himself a failure. That
lie was a dreamer, is not denied; that
he occasionally drank to execs may
have also ben true, but that he wm a
subjeet of constant dissipation has
been denied by many men who knew
him. intimately. Rev. John B. ' Tabb,
known as the poet priest of, the south,
processor of English literature at St;
j Charles college at Carrollton, Md., was
one of Poe's friends an.l kuvw him
well. A gentleman of this 'city has
often heard Father Tabb speak of Poe
and of their acquaintance, and has oft
en heard his denial of the charge of
utter dissipation against Poe. Many
others have taken the same stand and
made the same statements as Father
Tabb.
That a gn?at many of Poe's critics
were such from pure jealously has been
often charged, and - seemingly with
foundation. P. L. Willis said of Poe
"that with a single glass of wine his
whole nature was reversed, the demon
became uppermost, and though none of
the usual signs of intoxication were
; Vc , 11 , ? P3Pa,,,T "same."
J oc . ' . Alur.n'an Ka,u
gar A. Poe's stories st-era all of them
10 nave been written under the inspi
ration or gin and water," but the
P.c5la.lor' g London critic,
' "a a lnal i stands ai
as much alone
; among verse writers as Salvator Rosa
among painters." .
Mrs. Osgood, however, did justice to
; Poe, and she appreciated his charac
ter. She esre(Ma''y referred to his ap
preciation of womanhood, and of his
Christian, graceful and tender rever
ence therefor. Hs wife's mother al
ways spoke highly of Poe, and said he
seemed more than a son to her in his.l
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This dMs not indicate that lie was
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