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Show REPUBLICAN, INTER-MOUNTAIN THE JANUARY SUNDAY, 24, 1909, sete, || DY CC0RbC Tei Del ae poph Cn COPED eC. FOF 2e Poe 206 S CRAVE Q@MATMAMRCLIMZICRIE HO SCLALIALICC®? CBUP CAP AR A rs DOTTLAIOFPC , again and again brougbt him to the briok of destitution, if not starvation. His death was one of the saddest mora} of tragedies. Barrett Wendell gives the geaerally accepted version of it In the fol- || lowing words: "He was passing through Baltimore, eltber on his wny to see bis betrothed or "He had no falth In man nor womnan;" on his way from a visit to her. In that naturally "He ws vunamilable, trascible, elty an election war nbout to take place, envious; "Tio ab displayed a reckless and some petty politiclans, In seareb of sence of al) the qualities of socina! recti‘repeaters,' picked Lim up, got bim drunk Hav "Self willed, | proud, passionate, and made bin vote alj over town | tude; with moral sense, t e meager forfelted ing thus exhausted his political usefulsuccess by bis perversity and bis vices." ness, they left him in the gutter. from On the other band, there has heen exwhence be found his way to the hospital, Sarah Helen Whit where he dled. " | fravagant deiNcation.. whom he wns engaged to marry, In recent years the rebablilitation of [oe | man, The fever called living bag been golng forward witb vigor. but declared that even {pn the delirtum of drink Is over at last. "his words were the words of a princely there {a no use blinking the facts of his | no Poe was born in Boston; Baltimore fs folly and weakness, and there seems overwrought, and of a heart { intellect the city most closely Inked to his Iife, | doubt that his m!sfortunes were mostly his | only too sensitive and too fin strung." where be Hes buried; Philadelphia !s asown fault. The most that can be sald io | There ts also something humorous in the sociated with his nest Ilternry achlevecondonation {s that an appetite for Nquor anecdote that be would never go to. bed ment, and with the posthumous defamawas {mplanted in bim as o child by a { at olght without asking his mother-in law tion of his cbharmcter; New York saw his | uurse, who gave him gin to keep him for her blessing, and if be bad displeased deepest misery and contains the most in- | quiet, and later by his fosterfather, who. | her In any way be would kneel at ber feet | HP mystery avd miracle of genius ore again brought home to tbe world's momory, as wo are celebrating tbe hundredth anolversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth. There are those who account bim as our greatest man of lettera. In polnt of influence only Hawthorne and Emerson rank with him; tn point of originality only Walt Whitman, who called him "poor, wonderful Poe." Seldom bas an equal amount of blograpby and Wterary criticism {oto three words a greatest of {mmortals and one of the most miserable mortals that ever trod this earth, and s owb words may fittingly be applied to himself: 2 VIPUZIIG ClEZNZA teresting meimorial of his career, the cot | to show off the clever lad, would often tage at Fordham. This poor shanty may | place him upon the table to drink toasts yet be the chief literary ehrine of Amer- | to the fea, Uke Burns' bumble cottnge at Ayr. It was here that bis angelle Virginta, whem bebud married when she was guests. mits bat 14, dled of consumption on a couch straw, wher she bad nothing but coat and a cat to keep her warm GA It would meb hardly | and | cnn | a sakehoans 4 7 pay to go into nn- | "4 enduring humbly implore her pardon. There | Yel be no doubt, bowever, of his cbiy- alry toward woman, hfs purity of beart avd his tender and sensitive spirit. And there is even less doubt about the Thonias. Balley Aldrich sald that "his Swinimperishable fanie {ts In ol! lands." burne declared, over o quarter of a cs entury the ete rool enemy that ago, "Time, Wiil reputations, small eballovw aud of prove the conetant nod trusty. friend and keeper of a true poet's fullgrown fame Is there onother aopoem so popular, other wore often quoted and parodied Raven," for which Poe rea he than celver 1 $10, while the owner of the MSS. some years ago demanded $10,000 for It? ny otber poems Iike "Ulalume," Are't here "The Bells "The Haunted Palace," ‘ oobel and ‘Lenore,"' poems uncanny wizardry of word music? such perNo other poet {n the world, except, hapa, Gray , und Sappho, has built so high S . : poetic genius, although Emerson. a fame poems. His Theory This 1s quite in upon of so few and Poetry. barmony with a golden mist. Colerldge and Biake had done this before him, but he first did It consclously and supremely well. Yet his story of how he wrote "The Raven' must be taken with several grains of salt If thot story be true and Poe's theory admitted. poetry 1s a mathematical selence, and the poet who determines to write a perfect poem can only. repeat "The Raven." The fact Is that Byron and Moore, the {dols of literary fashion at thot time, influenced Poe [n the beginning, when age of 18 he published ‘‘Tamerood his somber imaginntion, with his bistrionle bent, Inberited from bia actor parents, brought this mellifuous quality to the strange flowering of mad morbid music, His genius corresponded almost exactly to that of his [french translator, Bandelatre, author of the "Flowers of Evil," and victim of hasbeesh as Poe was of oplum. That expialus one of the strunge phenomena of Iterature-Poe as a French author Through the marvelous transwizs lation of Baudelatre, bimself a word ard, Poe become as well bas known as any Freoch poet, and gallicized portraits of not Beenehifieds: uncommon, Poois tin which he Wincise'Poe valaresale: almost ( the Rte at entai n author tor ell kubwh i France. : Creepiness Poe's eitus wochia- own theory of poetry. He has written an | breathes "ip bis bis | elaborate essay, gu the subject, telllug | horror, ingenious, in how be composed his own "Raven to | ''The ‘Cask of of acd the Talen. Klottaaie cenios lee tannin De of wielding a weird spell..| Amontillado,""'T Fal On the one band, the foulest Iles and | Iibels were given utterance and credence. "His fe was one wild debauch;" "He | starved his wife and broke her heart; | ermore'' of Poe's "Roven,"" 2nd one of | her acquaintances. ‘‘who has tbe misfortune of possessing a bust of Pallas, can- | not bear to look at it in the twilight.' terms. Words were chosen for their musical value, not for thelr definite mean ing. One wight describe all of Poe's poetry as silver trumpets sounding through numbers, and eyen a Poe drama, { worth while to reread William Winter's noble poetic tribute, peaned almost sv years ago: Cold {s the pean honor sings, And ebill Is glory's icy breath. And pale the garland Memory brings To the fron doora of Death. blg as that of Cheops." The allusion to the eryptogram tn "The Gold Bug" recalla the fact that unraveling clpner messages was one of Pooe's fads. While {In Philadelpbin he chellenged his readers to send him any cipber message he could not rendily solve, let the key-phrase be {n any language they liked About 100 ciphers were sent tn, and be made good his boast by solving every one, The Poe Fame's echoing thunders, long ond The pomp of pride that decks the The plaudits of the vacant crowde- ¢ worl of love is worth them al lond, pall, With demas of grief our eres aro dim} start, 5 Al), let the tear of 8c stow And honor, to ourselves 2nd him, The great and tender buman heart! Through many o night cf want and woe His frenzied spirit wandered wild- Till kind disaster Iald him low, And Hearen reclaimed its wayward chid Cult, Poe's salary during his editorini labors on the "Southern Literary Messenger, where he Orst won ao priz $100 for a story; on "Graliam''s Magazine," whose eIrculntion he raised from 8,000 to 40,000; on the "Mirror'' of N. P,. Willis, to which "The Raven" appeared, was probably never more than $10 a week. Today the slightest ecrap of his handwriting commands a higher price. His letters have a market value twice. that of Shelly's, five times that of Brron' n hundred tlines th: Longfellow's. The original mapnuseript of "The Bells," bought fo 275 some years ago, would probably bring ten times that price to Through many 6 year bis feme hag starlight Like midnight Till cow bis ge And cations marvel at his feet. Ah, meed of justice crowning graco take, The lore God's thou long bis grown- Y sweet, delayed, great that eanctides the grare mercy guard In peeceful sleep. ed dust thet elambers around this tomb we wees, for us, the mourner's tesrt nigh. bh spirit hovering cloud darkness throngh the dense know, hn forme pone cannot die, hes the world's affection, tool mar ce . And Ho « HB the reports during during United made from Cubs, ' both | the Palma administration and tke provisional government by States, which bas now come to larger surplus and still have a every year F since ep ee fer eadons ee es nethy: Uist ar ec panioie whe hemOnhadirerolation an end, have proven that Cuba cap afford | jarag 2 P9y all tho legitimate expenscs of her A bond government comfortable | new of | edifying subject of Pve's lablts bad not |. conversation with Howells, called bim | illustrate the theory. The fundamental | of t House of Usher," "The Fit and | Surplus lefto tonal gore meat a | S09 much exaggeration provoked so fercea} "the Jingle man.' Mrs. Browning told | principle $s that a true poem must be | the Pendulum," "The Masque 6f the aes ig ne eiaeyy Gumee 42 ont controversy. of people who were haunted by the "Nev- | short; u long poem fs a contradiction jn | Red Death ar cere b ee ein one $5,000, 000 a vai ints if sewerage aystem Poverty was the specter that pursned Poe through al! bis days Like most of | the poets, be was a wretched hand at | businese: Improvidence and intemperance | LALA ALG EF OPFLS A single copy of Poe's first book, day. "Tamerlane," printed {n 19827, has been sold at auction for $2,050, It looks as if the admirers of Poe might go as fac as did Lafayette to expreas bis veneration for Poe's revolutionary grandfather, and "the supreme original short-story writer of all time' ta pald him by Couan Doyle, who says: "Not only {s Poe the originator of the detective story; all treasure-bonting, ceryptogram-solving yarns trace back. to his ‘Gold Bug,' just as all pseudo-scleaotife Verne-and-Wells stories have thelr prototypes in the ‘Voyage to the Moon' and the ‘Case of Monsieur Valdeoar.' If every man who receives a check for a story which owes {ts springs to Poo were to pay tithe to a monument for the master, be would hnve a pyramid as aguinet then, 4% pay er inlet tn the Span- tssue has been discussed for the Cubano regime, but financlers declare ene tes pe ones ge ee a ts well ee har th the ‘United Bes as ' ae oe = "eek to pa ae = oe a . v ra ae a as 4 ¢ 000,000 yt . = ae whated to learn how to ehiver should under Havane and $3,000,000 Into pay all her ordinary ‘ read some these tales mid- | waterworks system for Clenfuegos. for {mportant ig allent he The Cubans had a surplus of over $8,- | without putting out The finest 4| to Poe's genlus as | 000,000 in 1904 and have bad an even | national debt r se running expenses and public {improvements bonds and creating a Crrcle Sanus "RD 2 WAL Dorr LAWCETL FT 4 ey Stare £0021, WLaPe are increased greatly since \ { United COWPTCELELT alime "Refies Call22f the part of other Cnbfset officers of from tinie to time nsking the secretary of the Tressury to "loav'' them Secret fervice men to ferret out matters In their respectable departments. Thus gum shoe men from the Trensury's unique detective bureau were "loaned" to the seerctary of the interlor «sd rendered important service in securing ert- Theodore | dence Statea against allowed to accumulate until It Is eonvenlent to destroy lng to law. ae ZLOZIOS COLP LIGHT BY MWALDQY FARA I a Qoosevelt entered the White House. It | was this broadening of Secret Service |} operntions that Congress protested egainst last year and finally put a stop to by means of restrictions placed upon the nse of the money provided for the main tenance of the Secret. Service It was this curb In turn that angered the Pree! Gent nnd caused bim to make those statements in bis recent mesange to Congress that precipitated the present ili feeling pr‘The Secret Service was created marily to catch and punish counterfeliors and to protect the person of the presl- ot of the "Th OxIE ILE CBTLOP? Bucrecr Where are Kept Com nere ecards 0 7! -- LE COLLIS ‘IEN the announcement was first made that the United States Secret Serrtce might be 1nvesti-' guled by Congress as a sequel to the Dreseut controversy between the President and the ontional legisiature the sugeestion provoked the niost widespread interest throughout the country, No wonder, for the Secret Service has long been the most mysterlous branch cf our natlonal goveriment, the one federal actiyity regarding whict the publie aot large could learn very IUtt!le aud regarding whieh thelr curlosity uaturally tucreased, Proportiouately. This Leennesa of the reading public for peeps beblnd the scenes at the veadquartera of the "Black Cabinet' In Wushlog tou Is attributable lo part to the fact that the scope of activities of the Secret Service has Kept all Cont rceled Con mLeALC2ZE ERS an cranks 20d assassins. Por many years these respogelbilitics comprised the sum total of the duties of thie !nteresting branch of tbe Treasury Department, but durlug the | vast decade there grew up # practice on tn -onnection with the Iand fraud cases in the West. Otber Secret Service men had m hond 10 exposing the sengatonal "cotton report leak'' {n the DePartment of Agriculture, and eo the list might be prolonged to incinde practically all the executive departments of the government, not forgetting the part played by these cleverest of plain clothes meno {mn {ovestigating charges against uava! officers. To such extent bad <he practice grown ere Congress put a stop to it fow months ago that the Secret Service Bureao was coustantly carrying upon Its rolla at leset 20 more mep tr would bare been required for the work of tho service iy necordance with {ts origina! parpose. These extra Secret bService g gents when working for some department other then the Treasury were cot paid out of the $125,000 fund which Con stess bas each yenr set aside for the maiutenauce of the Secret Service. but received pay from whatever department they served. At the same tline they continued to be carried on the rolls of the Becret Service and were directed by the ehlef of the Secret Service and made thelr reports is hit Veteran members of Cougress recall that once before-some 25 years ago- there waa aon Uproar hecause of certuin methods of the Secret Service and at that tine-a Wmitation - was placed upon it very similar to that restriction which Wns renewed at the last session of ConSress and which aroused the iro of Prosident Roosevelt. As matters now xtand the Secret Service men cannot he de tniled for any duty other iban that of acting as bodyguard to tbe President or traliiug suspected counterfelters. This hedging about of the activities of the Trensury's secret police has tuconven- fenced the Treasury Department itself, for 3 i ; = ER PRS CBRE. VILLE, CRT" OD FRC GATE, DF Farvwe in b ranch % WCLLLIZ. eee » mints, subfreasurles, na assay ete, The verve center of the Secret Service, upon which publie attention Is now being focused co strongly, occuples a very unpretentious. suite of offic: 3 90 the secoud oor of the Treasury Bullding, ar the sent of government. Here are the pri vate offices of the chier of the serylee, Mr. Join B, Wilkie; who receives a sy!ory of $4,000 ; per year and, the oasletant eblef, Willam Herman Moran, who is pald $3,000 per year, Thero is a cler{eal division enploylog about half a dozen where of all persona; ao {dentification bureau, are kept on file the dotnatled records Epown counterfeiters aod other un- the Secret Service sleuths bad been repvGerling signa! service Iu keeping tab upon sospected smugglers and detecting frauds dcairabio Gpon the customs laws aud o in investigating robberies and (rreguierities etc,, wher e€ citizens, eng @ largo storeroom confiscated counterfelting outiits, 'iD seized Seer Service ralds are CLO such them time as accord- The equipment of the Secret Service lendqnuarters embraces some luteresting features, Inelvaing speclaliy prepared Maps, upon which are outlined tn advance the movements of operatives; dellente senles for weighing coins the genuloefess of which ts in question, and a 7 consisting of a monster } phs of offenders aguinst the law. The 'Secrét Service Bureau hag, iu effect, 25 branch offices Scattered iu all parts of the country. On the Seeret Service map the. United States Is dlvided into 25 districts, and In cach of presumably always to be found § territory, just as' q patrolman nen on duty should be on a given beat, Heweyer, perhaps the most picturesque work of the Secret Service is. performed by its "flying squadren''-the free lanca field workers who may HWterally be sent to-any place at noy time: Most of these men. are oot much above 20 yeara of age; indeed, the average age of all Secrot Service meu is under 33. ~Bud they are aiert, energetic, resourcetul and capabje | of assuming almost any diaguise demand¢d. Moreover, they regard it as al) in the day's. work to be ordered 2g hour's votice from New York to Texas from the mountalns of Tenuesseo | or to -allfornia, | Calt j may Surprise many of o | | | learn that these sovernment prototypes of Sberlo Holwes recelvye what are tn reality very modest salaries, If one takes {nto account the hardship and danger tnvolved A new recruit in the Secret Service starts out ag an assistant operative at $3 per day, and ff he proves worthy {s promoted in due course to the rank of operative at $5 per day. As ano operative his pay may increase to 37 per day-in addition, of course, to traveling expenses-but ere a Secret Service man attalns this topnotch Salary he must have made good in no vncertain fasblon and acquired a considerable fund of that practical experience which ig the most valuable asset of a Secret Service onictal, The prominence receatly given to the Secret Service in the newspapers bas had the effect of flooding Chief Wilkie's desk with applications from men fn all parts of the country who are. eager to enter this fascinating fleld. However, most of the aspirants confess that they are totally devyold of practical experience in this Ine of work, and there {s little prospect but what the head of the secret police will bave to continue to depend for reerults upon. certaln sources that bave come te be recognized unoficially as preparatory achools for men ambitious to Win places in Uncle Sam's confidential corps. The claim éepartments of the great railroads of tho country bave graduated # number of men into the Secret Service and 60 likewlse hove the hig mercantile fgencles where lbveatigation work Ip. reduced to 9 One scieuce. A few govern. ment sleuths have paved their way by service tu law offices, where certalo kinds of detective work are necessary, and yet others hb ATG a quired experience in jo s ste mate private detective organisations. Perhaps the most raluable men on the Secret Service roster are those who hare come from the departments of pubiie safety in foreign countries, and who have, in consequence, a kuowledge of foreign tongues and nmiaoneriams that is essential for successful investigations among foreign-born anarchists and Black Hund plotters. Two of the best men in *he Secret Service were formerly heads of municipal police departments and sereral began thelr careers as United States deputy marshals. _One of the most mystertous PpiLases of Secret Service work concerps the main tenance of communication between the ceotra!l office at Washington and its field operatives. Of course, the Secret Service men ure provided with the moat baffilag the real fectually diaguised, be never dispatcher it openly to the chief of the Secret SeryIce, but Instead addresses tt to some prilndividual, Previously agreed upon, wines over the message to Chief kle or bis assistant. The go-between {9 not likely to violate ecopidence, for though he may know the orizin of a mes. sage, he cannot decipher ita Durport, beause he is not familiar with the code in which {t ig couched. alas average Not to mention be skins sf ess > _-____._.__. roduce 3,000 copies of the bible, prayer ooks, every day. 100,000 animals. are used Op The "covers, of) Oxford |