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Show I FLORENCE : N- (Correspondence Intermountain Catholic.) I Florence. Colo., Nov. 2S. Dr. and I Mrs. Rambo have returned home from Leando, la., where they have been visiting vis-iting friends for some weeks past. - Miss Bessie McConnell left Monday for Denver for an extended visit. Mr. and Mrs. George Morrisey have been entertaining guests from Pueblo. Miss Ethel Williams has returned home, after a delightful visit in Texas. Charles C. Neely, manager of the electric light plant, was in Denver .this week on business. On Friday. Nov. 2i, a handsomely appointed ap-pointed luncheon was given at the home of Mrs. Alva Lynn Kountz. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Kountse left on Tuesday for Denver, where they will spend Thanksgiving with relatives. . Thursday afternoon Mrs. M. F. Fleming Flem-ing royally entertained at her cosy, home on Pike's Peak avenue. Her invited in-vited guests were Mesdames W. E. Mitchell, Alfred R. Mitchell, A. L. Kountz, W. M. Sheridan and Misses Walsh and Sullivan. Mrs. Dr. William M. Sheridan, at her home on North Pike's Peak avenue, j gave "an afternoon" on Saturday in I honor of Mrs. William Ernest Mitchell, I who leaves Monday for her home in Idaho to spend the winter. Those present pres-ent were: Mrs. Alfred R. Mitchell, Mrs. Michael F. Fleming, Mrs. Alva Lynn Kountz, Mrs. William , Ernest Mitchell. Miss Nellie E. Walsh, Miss Bessie Sweet and Mrs. C. M. Richmond. Our Representatives In Coloaxod. The Intermountain and Colorado Catholic extends sincere thanks to our subscribers at Delta. Roubideau, Olathe. Montrose and Gunnison for the hearty support given to our representative representa-tive whilst visiting these towns. Our agent, Mr. Roth, will next visit Lake City, Sargent, Canon City ard Florence. I EDGAR ALLEN POE AFTSR TIE-TY TIE-TY 'YEARS. (Wm. Fearing cnTris. Fce- When Rufus yv Griswold, the pedagogue ped-agogue vampire " as he was aptly termed term-ed by one of his contemporaries committed, com-mitted, the immortal infamy of blignt-ing blignt-ing a collection of E&S" Aller? oe works,- which he found ready at hand, by supplementing his perfunctory labors la-bors with a calumniating memoir of the poet, nearly fifty yea1'3 ?BO. there were many protects uttered by the poet's contemporaries at home and abroad. Charles Baudelaire, the Poe of French literature, in his tribute to the dead poet indignantly wrote: "What is the matter with America? Are there, then no regulations there j to keep the ours out of the cemeteries?" cemeter-ies?" In view of the fact that the (iris- j wold biography of Poe lias been incon- j tetstably discredited, and proved to be j merely a scaffolding of malevolent ; falsehoods the outcome of maliceand j mendacity the deference paid to Oris- wold and his baleful work in the mem- j oir accompanying the latest publication j of Pope s writings seems wen nign incomprehensible in-comprehensible professor Woodberry excuses the detractions of Poe's vilifier, "in view of the contemporary uncertainty uncer-tainty of Poe'3 fame, the difficulty of obtaining a publisher, and the fact that the editorial work was not paid for." Most amazing reasons, indeed, in justification of Griswold's interposi- tion as the poet's biographer an office that had been specially bequeathed by the dying genius to his bosom friend, Nathaniel P. Willis. Had Willis shirked shirk-ed this responsibility, there might have been some excuse for Griswold and his horde of guttersnipes, who wreaked their venom upon the name of Poe, out- County Wk-klow, Ireland, has been successful. Tonight Thomas F. Smith, private secretary to Richard Croker. and general secretary of Tammany Hall, presented to the lord mayor, in the name of Tammany Hall, a certified check for 3.000 to save the Parnell homestead. This was $5,000 in excess of the amount needed." raging every tenet of common decency; bat Willis performed his delegated duty reverently, sympathetically and adequately. ade-quately. No publisher with any senise of justice would have presumed to include in-clude any other memoir than that of Willis in the original edition of Poe's works. The Griswold . . memoir was. on its faCP. a nicw rf nffinlnim audacity not ' only a libel upon Poe's fair fame. but an insult to the best standards of literary biography. biog-raphy. It is certainly to be wondered at that so enterprising a city as Chicago Chi-cago should have been unable to find fresher material' at hand for a biography biog-raphy of America's most original genius gen-ius than a rechauffe of the scandalous estimate of "the Catullus of American literature," voiced by one who frankly wrote, forty years ago, speaking of his attitude toward Poe: "I was not his friend, nor was he mine." It may be safely answered that, in the present instance, the "editorial work" of this malicious biography, which accuses the poet of "a habit of intoxication," which no literary expert in his sober judgment can honestly believe be-lieve existed, was, probably, not given to the publishers without adequate compensation, however Griswold may have fared with his disingenuous original orig-inal memoir. The calumnies of puritanical puri-tanical bigots, like the late Charles F. Briggs, should not be permitted to stand against the poet's own analysis and ithe testimony of many near associates asso-ciates during his life as N. P. Willis, Thomas Cottrell Clarke. William Gow-c.nn Gow-c.nn and George R. Graham. Poe's own defense of himself from the attack upon him character bv William E. Burton, which, unfortunately, was not made known by the late Dr. J E. Snodgrass until long after Grlmvold's memoir of Poe was published, cannot with impunity be ignored in any printed print-ed record of the poet's career. In a long and exhaustive reply to Burton's charges, Poe writes to Dr. Snodgrass: "In fine, I, pledge you before God the solemn word of a gentleman that I am J temperate, even to rigor. From the hour in which I first saw this basest of calumnies to the hour in which I retired from his office in uncontrollable disgust at his chicanery, arrogance, ignorance and brutality, nothing stronger than aier ever passed my lips. It is, how- ever, due to candor that I inform you upon what foundation he has erected his slanders. At no period of life was I ever what men call intemnerate: I never was in the habit of intoxication (the italics are Poe's); I never drank drama et cetera; but for a brief period, per-iod, while I resided in Richmond and edited tihe Messenger. I certainly did give way, at long intervals, to the temptation, temp-tation, held out on all sides to the spirit of southern conviviality. My sensitive temperament could not stand an excitement ex-citement which was an everyday matter mat-ter to my companions. For some days after each excess I was invariably confined con-fined to bed. But it is now quite four years since I haw abandoned every kinrt of alcoholic drink four years, with 'the exception of a single deviation devia-tion that occurred shortly after my leaving Burton, and when 1 was induced in-duced to resort to the occasional use of cider with the hope of relieving a nervous attack. You will thus see, frankly stated, the whole amount of my sin. , "The accusation (Burton's) can be disproved by each and every man with whom I am in the -habit of daily intercourse. inter-course. I have now' only to repeat to you, in general, my solemn assurance that my habits are as far removed f.rom Intemperance as the day from the night." And this was alr-o the consensus of opinion of these who knsw Poe intimately inti-mately up to the time of his death. He had unquestionably an abnormal sensitiveness sensi-tiveness to drink a single glass of the -J' 1 .,.,'llllllll---- iuiuii'iii ) nninf F quor would affect him to the rmi salification; but he was in iff e an hab'tual drinker or a disso-I disso-I rilY; m?n' as he been painted by his detractors for fuliv half a century-since century-since nis untimely death at the hands 01 the political "rc-peaters". of Baltimore. Balti-more. Alas, poor Poe!. Was not-your punishment in life, your poverty, your anguish of privation, a suffieienetly terrible ter-rible expiation for your occasional 1 lapses of will, that your memory should ! be held up to the execration of poster-! poster-! y by those unfit to loose the latchets I of your shoes? j Today we honor Willis, who in life : fraternized with Poe as a companion and a gentleman, worthy of the friendship friend-ship of the ideal Chevalier Bayard of his time. We concede the laurel of genius to the lamented Poe, but we stab him in the back while proffering t, and prelude the study of his matchless match-less genius with materialistic and abhorrent ab-horrent pictures of his personal character. char-acter. We are told that a Poe propaganda, prop-aganda, which will reform aI1 ilie injustice that has been done to the immortal avthor of 'The Raven," is to illumine the closing hours of the waning century. We who honor I not our .own prophets, but have given most liberallv of our tribute to the ! memorials of English authors and have aided in preserving the homes of Shakespeare. Carlyle and other lumin- ciiit-s or tne mother tongue, are to believe that public interest will, at no distant day, be awakened in "the unhappy master whom unmerciful dis-j dis-j aster followed fast and followed faster." In the half-century that has passed since the spirit of Poe "conquered the fever called living" in his untimely death at Baltimore, the world f letters has awakened to a realizing sense of the majestic proportions of this chameleon-like genius "this diamond that sparkled even in the darkness," as the late Edwin P. Whipple has said. And when another decade has rounded out a full century since his birth in that eventful year (1809) which also gave to the literary world a Charles. Dickens and an Oliver Wendell Holmes, we may look for a recognition of the great southern poet that shall be worthy of his peerless genius. THE HOLLAND BOAT. ' An Irish-American's Invention. . John Patrick Holland, well known to Irish American Fenians, has had his famous submarine torpedo boat at last accepted by the Government which had not sense or foresight enough to usre it In the late Spanish-American war. His first experiment was the "Fenian Ram," of several years ago, a perfectly practicable engine of war, but one laughed at by incredulous experts. A New York dispatch says: t "The technical reports upon the Holland Hol-land submarine torpedo boat were made public today. The report of John Lowe, captain United States navy, na-vy, who wa9 on the Holland boat at the time of the official test, gives technical details of the principal circumstances which took place within the boat, and tnen, in part, says: 1 "I report my belief that the Holland a successful and veritable submarine torpedo boat, capable of making a veritable attack upon any enemy 'unseen 'un-seen and undetectable, and that, therefore, there-fore, she is an engine of warfare cf terrible potency, which the government must necessarily adopt Into its service. "Concerning the worse than worth-lessness worth-lessness of. the present above-water j torpedo system, and the absolute need of a real torpedo system, such as the submarine system, I have already reported. re-ported. "In addition I would like to give further fur-ther reacons why a submarine service should at once be organized as a matter of .public necessity and security. We must concede that the time has not yet arrived for nations to disarm. That nation, which is not ready to fight, that ceases to use the most frightful warlike appliances when war is made, is already in the position of China, a pacious. "If. then, we propose to fight, we must fight with every fighting appliance, appli-ance, and, therefore, if there is anything any-thing valuable in submarine torpedo J warfare, we must not permit our hand to be tied behind our backs by i any Hague conference of pusillanimous humanitarianism. forbidding such appliance. consider ' where the United States is weak and how to resist attack. . "We have distant dependencies, the j Philippines. Hawaii and the like. Will I an enemy seek to bring us to terms by I attacking these? We could afford to offer these as a gambit, upon which the enemy could waste its strength, while we were developing counter moves. "Any powerful enecny would not play at war arter that rashion. They would strike us In the vitals. An eight-day dash across the Atlantic would bring their ships at Montauk Point, where they would encounter the American fleet, which, being destroyed by force of numbers, the remainder of the enemy's ships could pass on and anchor in Long Island sound in perfect security, and shortly Long Island would become a foreign possession. "It seems to me quite a necessity that this government should not allow the skill and knowledge 'possessed by the Holland people to pass out of its own hands from native to foreign hands, but should at once purchase the Holland Hol-land and put the Holland people under some ban. whereby they will be prevented pre-vented from disclosing secrets to the disadvantage of the United States." : -CS-4 . ' TJp-to-dat3 "vTaists For Theatre "Wear. The separate fancy waist is dearer than ever to the girl cf farSion. No matter how manr complete costumes she owns, she never centers her wardrobe ward-robe satisfactory nowadays unless it contains a half-dozen- or mere of odd j waists. For shopping, golf and traveling, she j wears the winter shirt waist of flannel or velveteen. For theatre wear and ; impromptu :dlnners she has , an assort- I ment of fancy waists to choose fr&m. ! And they are gorgeous creations this , year, some of the imported models cost- j ing as much as SI-O. One of the most novel of-there new waists is - shown in the center photo- graph on this page. It is trimmed with cloth fringe. The waist is made of white velvet elaborately trimmed with the curious cloth fringe and with nar- 1 row white braid, studded with gald j fceado. It is shaped like a bolero pocket and cut open to show a vest. The bread I turn-over collar, which spreads out in ( j revers, irf made of white velvet, edged . I with sable. ' The revers finish in two V loops and ere caught with an exquisite j i buckle formed of a pinkish cameo set ' in dull gold. The vest, which is also cf the white velvet, is almcct covert I with a necktie cf faint viclet velvet, and then there are another set of revers in the palest tint of turquoise blue. The color combination of thta waist is charming, and the design extremely j becoming, especially to a slight figure, j Separate waists of just bands of ribbon rib-bon are another cf the season's novelties. novel-ties. They are made shirt-waist fash-Ion, fash-Ion, and the prettiest effecte are obtained ob-tained when the ribbon is trimmed with ' fringe. The bands 'of ribbon are con- ( nected with hemstitching done in silk or with any fancy stiches, and here and there the fringe is introduced. Ribbon , shirt waists of this sort are made with j a broad box plait down the front, the plait fastening on each sido with jew- r eled buttons. The' ribbons are so ex- quisite this year that these waists are i really marvels of beauty. A ribbon i waist made to order for a thls season's J debutante was of pale yellow ribbon, scattered with an indistinct design of ; violets and trimmed with fine gold fringe and small buttons of real ame- thysts. Much more simple waists are made of j pale tinted silk, cut after the shirt I waist pattern, with the yoke and box 1 plait hand embroidered in, some small L flower. Waists of faint green silk, em- broidered with tiny white daisies, are ? extremely dainty and pretty,. o |