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CONFIDING Sirs JEWELS STOLEN r Showed them to Man, Who Attacked Her and Es caped with Her Valuables PARIS. —About a week ago a pri t ty young woman of Italian nationality made the acquaintance al onu of the music halls, which she was In the liuldt of frequenting of a smart huh \hlual. who tidd her of the estates which he owned In (he West Indies and as site noticed that his Ungers were sparkling with a number of ver\ big rings, she believed his story and Invited hltn to call at her dwell Ing. Yesterday aft< rnoon he appeared as usual, and waxed more eloquent ! than ever on the subject of his splen did property. By way of showing that she, on her side, was not altogether destitute of this worlds goods, the girl turned the conversation to her! own jewelery and treated her vlaltoi to a sort of Inventory. Show them to me. “he cried " “I am so fond of looking at pearls.” Going to a ward robe, she drew from It a case contain ing quite JL'.OOO worth of jewelry. Hardly had ahe opened it, when the man snatched It from her grasp. A •trnggle ensued, and the gt.l called out for help, hut soon she was lying : insensible on the floor, half strangled. Her cries for assistance had, how ever, been heard, and as the individ ual perceived that if he remained much longer in the room he would Inevitably be caught, he rushed out,' leaving her and her jewel case. Dash ing down tin 1 rtnlrcast, he contriv 'd | to reach the street without encoun tering any opposition. When her roscu ers arrived, they found the young wo. man in a very critical condition. Aft er she recovered somewhat. she was able to toll the story of her mis adventure of the police commissary of the district, and detectives are in search of her assailant. The girl is Still in a very serious stnto. Cheney's Expsctorant cuts coughs and colds short. Cures babies and grown people. 25c.. all druggists. BARK MATANZA3 SAVED. NORFOLK, Va. 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Sprays, lotions and other local applications will sometimes temporarily relieve the tight, full leclittg in the head, burning noises in the cars, uncomfortable, stuffy feeling of the nostrils, and help to loosen the mucus in the throat; but Catarrh is a constitutional blood disorder and until it has been entirely driven from the system thexe can be no permanent cure. S. S. cures Catarrh by removing the cause from the blood. It attacks the disease at its head and by thor oughly purifying and cleansing the circulation, and ridding it of every par ticle of impurity, and at the same time enriching the blood, allows the inflamed and irritated membranes to heal, improves die general health, and stops every disagreeable symptom. 8. S. 8. reaches down to the very bottom ami leaves no trace of the disease in the system. Book on Catarrh and any medical advice free to all who write. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. Edgar Allan Poe, Prince of Short Story Writers Paper Read By Prof. L. T. Baker At the Poe Cen tenary Celebration At the University of South Carolina. jgj (From the Columbia State.) Through the* effort* of Prof. George j Armstrong Wauchope, Ph. p.. professor ! !'f KngJlnh at the. University of South i Carolina, there was a most remarkable •hHervance in this city on the 19th of i January of the 100th anniversary of the j birth of Edgar Allan Poe. For his in j t* rest in the matter of perpetuating and ! extending the fame of this great man |of letters, Dr. Waucbr*pe has been , awarded a gold medal. The exercises were attended by many cultured men and women of South Car olina and the program who filled with brilliant discussions of Poe's life—as a man, as a llterateur, aft a genius. Mr. Robert K. Gonzales read an original poem, an elegy, and Prof. Leonard T. Rawer dis<ussed Poe as the master and greatest American exponent of the art of short story writing. Following is Prof. Baker's admirable paper; A little volume of 16 stories entitled “Tales of the Folio Club,” was pre sented in contest for a SIOO prize of fered in IMIS by the “Baltimore Visitor." The reading of these revived the Jaded interest of the three Judges who had been wearily wading through the senti mental slush so common in the maga zines of that day. "There was," says Latrobe, on© of the Judges, “genius in everything they listened to; there was no uncertain grammar; no feeble phrase' ology, no lil*placed quotation, no worn out truisms, no strong thought elaborat ed into weakness. Bogls and imagina tion were combined in rare consistency. Hoinetimes the writer created in his mind a world of ids own, and then de scribed it -a world so weird, so strange and withal so fascinating, so wonderful ly graphic, that It seeme<J for the mo ment to have all the truth of a reality. There was an analysis of complicated facts an unraveling of circumstantial evidence that won the lawyer Judges an amount of accurate scientific knowledge that charmed their accomplished col loague a purse classic diction that charmed all three." Their award that night to Edj; ir Allan Poe for “A Manu script Found in a Bottle’ marks the advent of a new master in the field of letters. “The Tales of the Folio Club" were but the precursors of “Ligela, “William Wilson,” “The Fall of the Mouse of Usher,” and some 40 other short stories whose originality of con ception, power of fascination and per fection of technique have been the de pair of Imitators and have made them almost perfect models for that new typo of fiction which is the first and only original contribution of America to the world of literature. The short story as constructed by Poe on the plans and principles laid down in his famous criticism of Hawthorne's "Talcs,” is as distinctive a literary form In narrative prose as is the sonnet or lyric in poetry. Its method, as first con spicuously applied by Poe, distinguishes It from ancient mediaeval and modern short fiction. To define the short story satisfactorily is difficult. Its name does not differentiate It from other stories. Matthews, who comes nearest of the present day critics in appreciation of Itj requirements, writes “short-story” with a hyphen. It is on comparison with oth er form of narrative prose that we can clearly mark its traits-—the least dis tinctive of which is its relative brevity. Stanhope Sams has tersely pointed this out, saying: "A abort story is not a story that is merely short any more than 14 lines of any kind of poetry constitute a sonnet." It is neither a novel nor a narrative which happens to h« short. Nor is it a condensed novel. Moreover, a short story can not he expanded into a novel. Both these forms are modern developments of the short prose narra tive. They arc most enslly din tin gulshcd, not by their length, but by the relation of each to the three elements— plot, characters and setting. “Silas Miirnor" for instance Is a study of the gradual and permanent change wrought in the character of Silas through the reaction of changing envir onment and his collisions with others in a series of dramatic situations; during the progress of the story our interest is about equally divided by plot, setting and characters, first one, %hen another coining into focus. Now, nothing of this kind is found In a Poe short story; here we have little or no change of environment or time, no evolution of character; the interest is focused either on plot or character or atmosphere, there Is always an absolute singleness of impression* “The Fall of the Mouse of Usher” is a story of at mosphere or setting—character and In ' *<lent are used only to intensify a unique ; Impression that of the effect of the I strange, weird place on the destiny of i » fear-haunted family. ‘The Murders | in the Hue Morgue." "The Purloined Let j 'and others of that class center ln i tcrest on plot alone, neither characters I nor surroundings! are elaborated. "Wil liam Wilson" in the story of a single REMOVES THE CADSE OF CATARRH dramatic incident effecting permanent change in character, namely, the killing of the hero's double —his conscience. Thus we see by our comparison that a single vivid impression is the result of the short story, while many diverse yet harmonious impressions follow the reading of a novel. The impression of a short story. HJce that of a painting or a statue, is due to its unity, intensity and symmetry of design; it is the totality that-holds and pleases. As Brander Matthews says, “It must not loiter or digress, It must have unity of ac\>n, unity of temper, unity of tone, unity of color, unity of effect; and it must vigilantly exclude ev erything that might interfere with its singleness of intention.” The vividness and intensity of effect of Poe’s “IJgeia,” Stevenson's “Mark helm" and de Maupassant’s “Necklace” iiould be attained only by extreme repres" sion and simplification. “Poe’s simplifi cation of narrative mechanism,” says Baldwin, “went in sheer mechanical skill beyond the skill of any previous writer in opening a o.rect course to a single re vealing climax. His gradation, too, was a progressive heightening and nice draw ing to scale. All this means that Poe divined, realized, formulated the short story as a distinct form of art. Before him was the tale, which though by chance it might attain self-consistency was usually and typically Incomplete, either a part or an outline sketch —from his brain was born the short story as a complete, finished, and self-sufficing whole.” Baldwin, however, does not mean that Poe is to be credited with the Invention or origination of she short story type. Sporadic instances of its casual attainment occur in all litera tures. For example, Chaucer’s "Pardon er's Tale," and at least, five tales from ’Boccaccio’s Decameron’’ arc good types. We might also certain tales from Greek and Roman literature and cull from the novels and essays of the eigh teenth century short tales, such as “The Sword," from the “Sentimental Journey, that anticipate and approach very near by the modern type. But it was not un til the middle of the nineteenth century that the real short story, with its econ omy of means and precision of effect, found its first perfect expression in Franc© by Merlmeo, Gautier and Balzac, and in America by Hawthorne and Poe. Although he is frequently mentioned as one of the masters, I uo not include Irv ing, ns his sketches scarcely meet the requirements of uie short story, cither in content or structure. Trent mentions "Hip Van Winkle" as the first American short story, it is not, however, of the Poe type. Jessup, by a nicer discrimin ation, places it on the divldng line be tween the modern short story and the ancient tale. It is the first of our sto ries of local color. Now Hawthorne and each of the French writers mentioned hud produced a true short story a year or two before Poe. "Berenice," Poe’s first of the true type, appeared in 1835; in iSlit* Merimee published “Mates Tal cono;" in 1830 Balzac produced "A Pas sion in (he Desert," and in 1832 Haw thorne wrote "The Gentle Boy.” The title of each of these to place I know has been disputed—they are faulty most ly* in their introductions and endings— nevertheless they conform nenrly enough to the canons of a type that has dis covered susceptibility to such diversity of treatment as to justii> their classifi cation as short stories. Their brevity, compression. uiUty and singleness of im pression differentiate them positively from the older forms of short fiction as well as from the Dickens-Bret Harte type now prevalent. Why, then, as cribe to Poo the mastership of his school? Because neither, in France nor In America, was his art applied con sistently and consciously until he had first fixed the method in his criticisms and exemplified the perfect form in “Ligeia" and the "Fall of the House of Usher." Cody haw pointed out that we are likely to And tho unconscious artists as sociated with the rise of an art, and the conscious artists associated with Us de cline. hut at the height of its progress we find one great conscious artist, who overshadows all others, conscious or un conscious.” Poe Is the great conscious artist, inspired by genius. It h? the union of genius and conscious are tliat made Shakespeare master of the drama, and Poe master of the short story. Gen ius without conscious art has never pro duced a masterpiece. The Parthenon, “The l.aet Supper,” "Hamlet,” "In Mem orlam” every immortal work represents the deliberate resolute effort of a skill ful artist. Genius must have infinite ca pacity for taking pains. • What really takes place in the mak ing of a great poem or story is trust fully revealed by Poe's account of his composition of “The Raven," which by the way is an excellent model of a short story “It Is my design,” he sold, "to render it Manifest that no point in its composition Is referable either to acci dent or to intuition—that the work pro ceeded step by step to its completion with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem.” So like wise In constructing a short story he de liberately selects some unique or single effect or impression of which the heart, soul or intellect is susceptible, such as terror, passion or horror, and then seeks or invents some dramatic incident or sit* nation or atmosphere adapted to bring about his preconceived effect. And, moreover, the initial sentences must I tend to create the desired mood or to 1 bring out the effect. Once the aim and the means have been settled, with a i swift, straight forward movement, vigil- I antly excluding everything that migat I Interfere with his singleness of QurpoM, ! nicely calculating every minute detail, I every element, word and sentence, to produce its proper Impression and con duce to It totality. .oe grasps and hyp notises the soul of his reader and trans ports It for a brief space into whatever THE AUGUSTA HERALE VON BERNSTOFF Count Johana Heinrick von Bernstoff, the new German ambassador to America, who has been given a reception in New York by the Chamber of Commerce and a dinner by the New Yorker Staats- Zeitnng. MRS. CORA BURTON DIED IN MADISON WARRENVILLE, S. o.—Mrs. Cora Burton, wife of Mr. John C. Burton, age about 25 years, died at her home in Madison Wednesday afternoon aft er a long illness. She was a devoted wife, faithful mother and was ad mired by all who knew her. She is survived by her husband and one child, a little boy, age about 4 years. She has been ill for some time, but nevertheless her death was a shock to the community. The funeral was conducted at the home at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon by Rev. J. W. Blanton, after which the remains were intered in the Granitevilie cemetery. realm of fancy or imagination the wiz ard may will. From the very first sen tence to the startling thought logical de nouement, we are kept in a "dreamland that knows no disturbing sound." In an the best sh*>rt stories of Poe, Kip ling, Stevenson and de Maupassant, we feel the effect of a wonderful art. Not even his most virulent detractors deny to Poe supremacy in technique and artistic construction. It Is oither the moou or the substance or, as they claim, the lack of substance in his tales that Puritan and realist unite in deploring. The one can not conceive of art for the sake of art and demands his ser mon, his moral, his "haec fabula doeet;” the other refuses to see that truth in art is something more than accuracy in fact and therefore to him Poe’s stories seem the ravings of a drunkard or the gibberings of a madman. It is only in this generation that Poe has begun to meet general appreciation in America. In his day the north was too much permeated with Puritanism and monevegetting. the south, though adapted in temperament to the genius of imaginhtion, was too engrossed in affairs of state. Hence, the one section has excelled In moral and religious lit erature. the other in polemics, and the nation left to France the discovery and proclamation of this new star in the universe of letters. One of his French contemporaries hailed Poe’s short stories as the most beautiful thing which “that off-scour ing of humanity” (America) lias pro duced. and pictures Poe as "trampled to death by the elephantine feet of American materialism.” Matthew Arnold said that foreign con temporary criticism is a forecast of an author's future esteem in the eyes of his countrymen. This has been borne out in Poe's case. In France a Poe cult immediately aryse. Translations were numerous. The journals teemed with appreciation. Ills stories estan llshed models and laws for a school whose are has culminated in de Maupas sant. a writer, whose stories are es teemed by some a* the supreme mas terpieces in the diffeult art of short story writing. Kngland was slow to follow Poe, but she has furnished tw*o past masters .1 Kipling and Stevenson. Every living author of note today has tried the short story on the Poe model with more or less success. Above all other literary forms the short story today occupied the focus of interest and critical study. There is no rashlne**,” says Matthews, in the prophecy that the short story will flourish even more luxuriantly In the immediate future than it has flourished In the immediate past. A greater genius, greater in variety. unvermUty and human sympathy, may arise, but his fame and achieve ment will only add fresh laurels to the great forerunner and founder of his art. EARTHQUAKE FELT IN MESSINA AGAIN T" ~ * MESSINA. —A severe earth shod; lasting six seconds was felt here at 8:30 o'clock Saturday evening It was preceded by loud subterranean roaring which greatly frightened the people, causing them to flee from their huts and houses. The panic was accentuated by falling walls of previously v,vecked houses. TJle shock was felt throughout eastern Si cily and along the notrebrn coast, in cluding Palermo. American consul Stuart Lupton who is at Catania, re ports the shock as very slignt at that place. \ ______ Reggio Shocked. REGGIO. —A violent undulatorv, vertical earth shock was felt here at 8:35 o’clock Saturday evening. It lasted ten seconds, threw down many damaged walls and caused a panic among the people. Fortunately there were no fatalities. The shock was felt throughout Calabria. Why is Sugar Sweet? If sugar did not dissolve in tne mouth you could not taste the sweet. GROVE’S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC is as strong as the strongest bitter tonic, but you do not taste the bitter because the ingredients do not dissolve in the mouth, but do dissolve readily in the acids of the stomach. It just as good for Grown People as for Children. The First and Original Tasteless Chill Tonic. The Standard for 30 years. 50c ENGLAND PLANS NURSING SERVICE Many Women Will Be Trained for Territorial Service and Will Be Ready for Emergencies. LONDON.—Taking time by the forelock is not usually the character istic of our English habit of mind, but Miss Haldane, the sister of the minister of war, seems to have the happy gift of foreseeing emergencies, and it is largely owing to her ef forts that the war office has estab lished a scheme for nursing service in connection with the territorial army. Under the former system there were no nurses • and hospitals pro vided for the home service, but un der the new conditions large num bers of women will have the oppor tunity of displaying their patriotism in a remarkable way. Two thousand seven hundred and sixty women—matrons, sisters and nurses—will be required, one hundred for each of the twenty-three hospi tals. Therefore, in time of invasion, should such a thing ever come about, not more than ninety-one of each staff would be constantly employed. The larger number Js to make al lowance for sickness or emergency. The Red Cross Society will be charged with supplying the provis ions of the quarters used for gene ral hospitals, for tihe transport of the sick and wounded, and 4he estab lishment of refreshment stations and convalescent homes. The queen has subscribed a thou sand pounds toward the scheme, and strange to say, the thousand pounds is provided by her own work, for the pnotograph book published by her majesty this winter produced no less than the enormous sum of ten thous and pounds. I have wondered as I turned its pages what was the extraordinary in terest, apart from the personal love which the nation bears the queen, which could induce people to buy these modest snapshots, charmingly taken, and thus provide so large a profit, but I think that it is explained by the fact that a number of per sons in this country like turning over the leaves of an ilbum. and hearing great personages called by pet names, and that to many it is a satisfaction to look at a picture under which is written, “Arthur Connaught,” “Vic toria” and “May,” or to see the pic tures of crowned heads like the queen of Sweden announced simply as “Maud and little Olaf.” There is a strange mixture in the English character of snobbery and affection, a mixture that makes peo- I pie love to be Intimately acquainted | with the details of the lives of great ! people, partly because they are great, f and partly because they belong to j the nation. But Queen Alexandra's | unfailing interest in hospitals of all sorts is too real a thing lightly to be passed by, and the fact that she i has been able by her own work to j produce so large a sum which she has generously given to these insti ; tutions must have been a happiness to her. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quintae Tablets. Druggists refund monev if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25c. YOUNG LADY'S ASSAILANT RIDDLED WITH BULLETS JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Juke Wades, the negro who was arrested yesterday in Gainesville, Fla., accused of being the assailant of Miss Irma Newell at Lake land. Fla., last Tuesday, was lynched today immediately following his Identifi cation by tha young w>,.an. A r< rsc of 25 men took him from, the t-air. and carried him to Ilia Newell home. Miss Newell said that there was no doubt that he was her assailant. He was hanged to a tree and his body rid dled with bullets. INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT INAUGURAL CEREMONIES Bibles Used Generally Have Some Peculiar Signi ficance To the President or His Family. WASHINGTON, D. C.—That the in coming president always takes the oath of office on a Bible and that the chief justice of the United States administers the oath is generally known, but where the Bible comes from is a fact concerning which the public knows much less. The one who is able to give more information oa this subject than any other is James H. McKenney, clerk of the su preme court, who is the man who al ways has ihe sacred book at the right place at the right time, and in whose hands, strange to say, it always so opens that the august personage who is about to pledge his fidelity to the constitution and the best interests of the people of the United States, finds his palm resting upon some passage which is an augury of good for all concerned. The purchase of the book is one of the “perquisites” of the clerk. “No,” said Mr. McKenney. in re sponse to a question; “no, we do not use our century-old Bible for the swearing in of presidents, but it of ten happens that the clerk supplies a new book for the occasion. It is the intention that the man who takes the oath of office should have the volume as a keepsake, and it generally trans pires that his family, if not himseif, set much store by it. Not always, however, nor even in a majority of cases, are we called upon to supply a new hook, for it frequently hap pens that the president or some mem ber of his family is the owner of seme treasured volume of the Scrip tures, which it is desired that he should use upon this sacred and im portant occasion. “This was the case when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated!*- He was the owner of a smail Bible, not longer than your hand, and which apparent ly had seen much usage. His mother had ipresentcd it to him when he was a boy, and he had treasured it ever since. When he was consulted about taking the oath, when first inaugur ated as president, he stated that he desired his mother’s present should be used for this purpose. When the oath was administered to him at the beginning of his second administra tion, the same volume, which on this occasion had been hunted out by Mrs. Cleveland, was again brought forward LANGLEY SOCIAL NEWS LANGLEY, S. C.— The Woman’s Home Mission society of the Langley Methodist church, will hold its next meeting at Mrs. Ida Britnall’s, No. 19 Front street, on Thursday after noon, February 18lh. Mr. J. F. Morris has returned from a trip to Columbia last week. Mr. Miliedge Benson has moved from Bath here and accepted a posi tion with the Langley Manufacturing company. Mr. and Mrs, W. E. Franklin are happy over the arrival of a fine lit tle girl. Miss Ophie Langston is visiting relatives in Orangeburg. Rev. Thomas Walker, one of Au gu'sta’s most able Baptist ministers, has accepted the peoples’ call to the pastorate of the Langley Baptist church. The Baptist people of Lang ley should feel proud of having such an able- man os the Rev. Thomas Walker as their pastor. Mr. E. F. Weatherford has resign ed his position at Oliver's Kaolin bed and accepted one with the Augusta- Aiken trolley line. Mrs. Ama Dean is visiting Mrs. J. M. Posey in Granitevilie this week. Mr. T. S. Glover, of Aiken, was on a visit to Mr. J. W. Anderson this week. Mr. J. A. Hall has returned from a visit to his parents in Anderson last week. $17.00 Washington and Return, ATLANTIC COAST LINE. Acconnt Inaugural Ceremonies President-Elect Taft. TICKETS ON SALE FEBRUARY 28th. to March 3rd, inclusive, final limit leaving Washington not later than midnight March 8. $11.95 For Parties 25 or More on I Ticket. GREAT MILITARY PARADE. For full information,reservations, etc., call on Ticket Agents or L. D. McCULLUM, Commercial Agent. M. C. JONES, City Ticket Agent. W. A. GIBBS, Depot Ticket Agent, Augusta, Georgia. MONDAY, FEBRUARY ID and presented as the which her* husband should make his pledges. “Quite in contrast with this little volume was the one used in admin istering the oath to Mr. McKinley. The negro bishops joined together and presented to Mr. McKinley one of the biggest books I have ever seen. It was an extraordinary large family Bible, bound in heavy morocco, trim med in gold and stored in a much or namented box. I remember very well that I was quite fagged out from carrying it to the senate chamber and from the chamber to the platform in front of the Capitol. After the Bible had been used for this purpose I turned it over to the president, but, notwithstanding he had already re ceived it, the donors afterwards call ed at the White House and presented it with formal speeches, to which Mr. McKinley made appropriate re ply. "President Roosevelt was sworn in on a Bible which had been used for the same purpose when he was in augurated governor of New York. We had bought a Bible for his inaugura tion when we received word from Mrs. Roosevelt that she preferred the use of their own volume, and it w'as accordingly substituted. “We still have on hand the Bible bought for that occasion, but we shall not use it for Mr. Taft. Un less he furnishes a book himself, we will get a new one and will keep the Roosevelt Bible on hand for emer gencies, such for instance, as occur red when Arthur took the oath of of fice in this city. He had been sworn in in New York, but it was suddenly decided that it would be safer to again administer the oath in Wash ington. Accordingly Chief Justice Waite and about twenty other people of prominence were called very sud denly together in the vice president’s room at the Capitol. I had to send uptown for a book, and had but a few minutes in which to execute the com mission. I succeeded, however, in getting the book in time for the cere mony and was one of the few pres ent when Mr. Garfield’s successor was initiated into his high office. “We now make it a point to have an available b’oolc o« hand at ail times, and will probably keep the Roosevelt Bible for that purpose.” Mr. Walter Blakely, ex-bookkeeper for the Aiken dispensary, has returr ed from a visit to relatives in Lau rens. Mr. West Bearden has accepted a position with the Ingle Sisters’ show and left last Tuescday for Thopnson, Ga., where they will show for the next two weeks. Mr. J. G. Chafee will soon put in a fine line of millinery goods and em ploy Miss Cora Mobley as milliner. Mr. Will Busbee, deputy sheriff and Mr. Tom Rabon was among the num ber from 9iken who came to the dance Friday night. Want to Contract -For -1,000 tons of Tomatoes 100 tons of Sweet Pota toes. 100 tons of Beans. t*' 100 tons of Peaches. Augusta Canning Co. FRANK ROUSE Pres, and Treas. ’Phone 477.
