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Show THE TRAGIC STORY OF POE'S "BELLS." Tk The Composition of the World Famous Poem Due to a Suggestion Made by Poet's Friend, Mrs. Marie Louise Shew Poe'a "noils," In the original manuscript, was the other day sold at auction in Philadelphia for $?,145. Thib was $2,100 more than Poe .ccelved Co the manuscript and the publication rights half a century ago. A striking instance of the sarcasm of distiny! If Poe In his life had received aa many hundreds of dollars for the poem as the owners of th manuscript received thousands for the mere autograph that life would have been comforted In Its closing day3 or night even have been prolonged to a green and useful old age. For the dissipation which ended iu 1W fatal debauch at Baltimore, in June, 1S19, was prompted by despair, ond that despair resulted partly from domestic and partly from financial troubles. Poe had lost his wife.Vlrglnia Clemm, on January 30. 1847. Thereafter hu was as one distraught. "Deprived of the companionship and sympathy of his child wife." writes a friendly biographer (Mr. W. F. Gill), "the poet Buffered what was to him the agony of utter loneliness. Night after night he would arise from his sleepless pillow, and, dressing himself, wander to the grave of his lost one. and, throwing himself down on the cold tround, weep bitterly for hours at a time. He found it Impossible to Bleep without the presence of some friend by his bedside. For a long time after Virginia's death he seems to hare been desperately ill and unnerved. To deaden his grief he had recourse to liquor and opium, but Dr. Mott warned hU friend, Mrs. Marie Louise Shew, that the Invalid had a lesien on one side of the brain which would not permit him to use ptlmulents or tonics without rave danger of insanity." Sick aa he was, necessity forced him t take up his pen, and It was during ' these last years that he wrote his prose of "Eureka" and lyrlos entitled. poem "Ulalume." "The Bella" and "Annabel Lee." It was Mrs. Marie Louise Shew who proved Poe's greatest friend and benefactor In the period of abject misery. She bad done what she could by personal ministrations and by raising subscriptions from his friends to soothe the last days of the dying wife, to secure her decent burial and to rescue Poe from the pecuniary difficulties In which the long sickness of his wife had plunged him. To Mra. Shew, also, the widowed Poe owed the suggestion for "The Bells." It is a range fact that she had never found time to read any of the writings of the poet far whom j?he felt so deep in pure sportiveneBS she added this line: "The bills, the little silver bells." Toe took the hint and expanded the line into a stanza of six lines. Then Mrs. Shew suggested for the next stan- I "The heavy iron bells." This Poe expanded into eleven additional lines. He next copied out the poem and headed it, "By Mrs. M. L. Shew," remarking that it was her poem as she had suggested and composed so much of It. Such was the germ of this remarkable poem which melodiously mimics. so In verbal and metrical harmonies, marvelously the respective metallic tones silver, golden, brazen and iron, of sleighbells, wedding bells, steeple bells and alarm bells. It went through no less than three transformations, however, before it reached the public in the final form published in Sartain's Union Magazine, in November, 1849, one month after Poe's death. In a note accompanying the poem In this magazine Mr. Sartaln gave the following account of its evolution: "There is a curious piece of literary history connected with this poem. It illustrates the gradual development of an idea in the mind of a man of original genius. This poem came into our possession about a year since (consequently about December, 1848). It then qonsisted of seventeen lines. About six months afterward we received the poem enlarged and altered nearly to lis present size and form, and about three months since the author sent another alteration and enlargement, in which condition the poem was left at the time of his death." The original version, as we have seen contained only seventeen lines, divided into two stanzas, as follows: THE BELLS ' A SONO. TICKET OFFICE. eK-Lrif- 2 BEEF, PORK, VEAL, MUTTON, SAUSAGE, CHEES1 always on hand. BUTTER k Rio Grande I Kansas Daivar. OmalfS, CHASE BROS. UTAt NEPHI National Bank First St. City, fc r OF NEPHI. CAPITAL .... SURPLUS AND PROFITS $50,00t $90,001 . General Banking In all Its branoh es. .Special attention, given to .ou of town business. 3 GEO. C. WHITMORE, President W. S. McCORNICK, G. M. WHITMORE, Cashier. EUGENE GILES, Asst. Cashier. Vice-Prea- 't. Louis ind and Chicago iriinarj Without change. Free reclining chair cars Conducted Excursions. . Livery and Feed Stable. Personally Bus meets all Trains. DINING CARS, Service a la Carte on all through Trains. For latts, folders, free illustrated booklet, etc., inqulie of your nearest ticket agent, specifying the Rio Qrande route, or address H. D. G0LDSBR0UGH Manager ALLEN'S YARD. Main St. Agent for the celebrated OSTLER Salt DM Lake City. YVfTTTfTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTrTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT1 I. A. BENTON, G. A. P. Half Block North of S. P. V. on Main Street. CHASE & COLE Three BROS., THE work. s Goldsbrough JOHI KEICE1MS0I, and Wheelwrights. Sxttttw Proprietors. Crip 1 Eiffct.fl 1. Rocky Mountain 4 t in our line Anything Made to ordor or repaired, and Wines and Liquors. ported and Satisfaction Guaranteed Domestic Im Bell Telephone Co, Cigars. - UTAH. 4-- Residence rates $1.50 por montt within one mile of Central oflloa Thia company has recently completed ita line to I'arag jna, raixjwan, Summit and Cedar City, and will ex tend It to Kanaraville, New larrao ny, 8ilver Uef, Tokerrille, Leeds Washington and St. George.. Also completed our line to Leran, connecting with tlie system at N phi hope to make Nephl aa iicpor fl irtft rrip'tttelly toliclt.d. cut 'or fttton "R4 Top H) Tt tally in every case. f 1 H. C. Larsen, THE LOMAX Practical Tinnsr Barber Shop, a. Machine, uuns and Timvirf Neatly Orjj.uu and Ti Umm soiith of P. tant ctnler. Toll rates are for O. and up m-nd- eJ. Instru- all kinds ot Musical ments tuned and repjired. PLACE OF BUSINESS IT. Shaving, Hair-Cutti- Shampooing ilSBlJ.swMaaBBWwsa, 4 1 I j f I j S j 1 x feoxet bb.whp In Tl trhi'.i 2 MlfM 1p-- f OUT the frit! hk.h C. DeWITT & COMPANY. CI r Thh s!matHTC. w -- !: J TKI lAMIAtMr f r m Eronio Quinine T&bhts. 12 worths. pcit n fea fr profit. DIGESTS VXIAT YOU EAT 00 Fo Cure a Cold In One Bay Laxative To ftvtn VZLz-- to pay locaj ;any 1epnds on r 17 minute's tlmi the cheapeal the United State. Telephone rentals average about as other towns of the same size everywhere, and are Just about sut in fieicnt LJ E. fi done Known to bo In firWlass style. AT s. FfanMy and ng H. BROWN'S Residence "1 Market All kinds of FRESH AND SAX! MEATS, VEGE Doors North of Postoffic?. TABLES, FISH AND GAME IN SEASON City Liquor Store & Son, First-clas- General Blacksmiths NEPHI CITY, - City Meat NEILSQN, Prop. COAL, Try it and you will use no other- - . Leave orders at Livery Stable 01 Tithing Office. Courteous Treatment and WHEELWRIGHT AND CARRIAGE PAINTER "Bveridte wresented Indiana at the contest of which I have spoken. In the drawing of lots for places on th program a:e he was seventh. He knew that both audience and judges woull be worn out by the flood of eloquence long Lefore he appeared and he determined that he mu ?t da something to get attention. A visit was paid by a member of the Indiana delegation to the janitor of the opera house In which the speaking was to ta4e. plaoe. The Janitor was persuaded to lend himself t working out a little scheme. "One after another the orators spoke. Gradually, so Imperceptibly that it was noticed only by the boosier delegates In the plot, the llrM.s on the stage grew wear,-- . Py the time the sixth speaker had finished the audience was In N. A. BLACKSMITH ed tive to the interstate. CITY BARBER SHOP. GENERAL ' & KEMMERER THE Joseph Lindhart, I f3!f - Through Pillmaa "Then Beverlde was announced. In tho lights flashed up with The young Indianian bright frlare. leaped to the center of the stage and Id mot coll"?? Jinior Ere everyone In the audi'Gce pat up and of this art He eligible, although sophomores often try took notice. The was the i? in he! i U,t r.everldg got elor a'ntien it. The locsl rrr,''-of the than sny o'I.t f ; al ani he won rring Thn all ih New s. York TV the are in th snt or?an!ziti tate that pri7" fr v 1 Specially Equipped Fast Trains Daily Between OGDEN AND DENVER Via Three Separate and Distinct Scenic Routes. the bells. eot MeatMarkel Glenwood Springs. Aspen, Lcadville, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, and all points east. Ph1; only Transcontinental Line passing directly thorugh Salt La!,e Citv. The bells! Hear the bells! The merry wedding bells, The little silver bells! How falryllke a melody there dwells From the silver tinkling cells frv-:hme- CHASE THE SCENIC LTNE TO ': setnl-darkrej- UTAH STREET 79 W. SECOND SOUTH N Denver hoM a contest in the fall. The wii'i.T of this la the stale representa- the coun"Senstor, yau mty few hfs wh'le you in p ty with t in the Smite, but yni will never surpass the eff rt h whkh yo-- i won lv Interstate oratorical pri2 while jj't were at De I'auw university." "Perhaps nM," Raid the Senanr with a qulrrlcat smile. "Did you notice Bevertdge's m!j when I fpike of his college oratory?" asked the first spe,k. r after the hoos'rr won Senator had left the party. "II have a to trick that that prize by made him fimous even If he had not the ability to hark It up. "Among the WrMrr.i colleges the Interstate oratorical prize is the greal honor that can fall to the lot of tho Students be?ln traintin4ergrad':t'.te. ing for it by 0. tree they enter ,13 - PROVO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAsAAAAAA aid narked: Office at Sparks Bros. Drug Co. rAAAAAAAAAAaaAAAAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 1 Victor In a Debate in His Youth by U'.etnt of a Clever Trick. Senator lleveride vn rhit'iti? with some friend at tt" Wil' uf the other Bight when a mnilcr o the group r OPTHALMIC SPECIALIST SALT LAKE CITY. ... bt WON. - - utaw DR. J. K. FORMIS, - isucytar, R. F. NESLEN, General Agent, f- BEVERAGE Specialty. Guaranteed, ingenuity can devise. -- Werf All Dentistry a a1 Uniform excellence would be a description of these trains. Their appointments are as nearly perfect as human II. The bells! Ah. the bells! The heavy iron bells! Hear the tolling of the bells! Hear the knells! How horrible a monody there floats From their throats throats! From their deep-tonHow I shudder at the notes From the melancholy throats Of the bells, bells, bells! Of the bells! and affection. a'symp-ithPoe's enemies have charged that he One day Poe railed on her and said: Bold the poem three times over to dif"Marie lionise, I have to write a poem. ferent magazines. The charge Is enI have no feeling, no sentiment, no tirely false. Mr. Sartaln has explained! that it wns he who paid Poe three His bosteM persuaded him to have times for three versions of "The Bells." in the con- himself insisting on so doing because some tea, whiih thn servatory. Throueh the open windows the poems were substantially distinct came the fiaund of churrh bells. Mrr,. pieces. Shew salJ. playfully. "Here Is paier." "In the form he first submitted it." But the po"t. dHning it, decHrel: says Mr. Sartaln In his reminiAcenes, Is "I fo dlnlike the sound of VontItlnc of seventeen lines of small I am exhausted." I cannot writ merit, he received $13, but after he had I. an aud improvised it to one t:n tlie The lady thn tck pen. to ?is and thirteen lines he was paid h;:n lmr.'irM lmitit ntM. pretending wrote "The Heils, y !.'. A. Pj." T! a 5.0 u. ore." New York Herald. !' MORRIS, I. DENTIST. The Burlington road is the only company havine its own rails and running solid trains from Denver to St. Loui? Think of this when you come to make your Exposition trip this year. If you do you will use the Burlington. Yew can step into our St. Louis Special at Denver at a.oo p. m.. one day, and you are in St. Louis the next afternoon at 6.50, or you can take the vestibuled flyer leaving Denver at 10 35 p. m. arriving in St. Louis the second morning at 7.19. Could you ask for anything better? a za: Of to St. Louis Only Line . t t t t J. DR. YTTTTTVVTVVTfTTTTVTVVVVVTTTfTTTTTVTTVTTTVVVVVVVVVTVT , piVTTrVX fdf a SO cnta. t,?. Cures Crip In Two Dyv every 25C |
