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Show MRS. AIvIELIA B. BAER, famous ( novelist, whose death Is re- I i ported from New York. I .. ! I fr yi "t" - ' yj&P$ ' I t " c ' I -A I t ? A AMELIA e. BARR, AUTHORESS, DIES ! . . Sunstroke Suffered Last Summer Fatal to Famous Fa-mous Novelist, y fcV-VV YORK, March 11. Amelia E. Barr, tho authoress, died last night. Mrs. Ban, who was within a few days .of being be-ing 88 years old, suffered a sunstroke last July and never completely rallied from its effects. Mrs. Barr passed the first half of her life in comparative obscurity. She ventured ven-tured upon her first novel when she was 50 years of age. During the following thirty-three years she producedher books at the rate of about two a year, until she had sixty-three to her credit. In addition she had wriLtcn hundreds of short stones, poems and magazine articles. For fifteen consecutive years she supplied an average of a poem and a short story a week to one publication. "The first time I tried my hand at literature." lit-erature." she said, "was when I was 6 years old. I amused myself by putting one of the Psalms into verse. The reward re-ward for my first literary venture was a sound whipping. That kept me quiet until I was 32. At that age I perpetrated a crude and turgid tragedy cm the life of tfencca. H is the only tragody I have ever written. I have lived all my tragedies since then. In my books. I have put al: the happiness that I could imagine." Tragedies Come Early. Tragedies came early in her life. She was born in Ul vers tone, Lancaster, England, En-gland, in 1&31, with the name of Amelia Huddlcston. . As . a little frirl, she ost three, young brothers ,ln quick succession by death. Then came straitened finances for tho family. Who set out as a teacher to earn her own livelihood.- Finally settling set-tling in Scotland,, she met and married at the age of 19 Hobert Barr, a young Scotch mill owner. Barr soon lost his mills and money. The young couple came to America, in IS..;; to sturt life anew. They lived and worked in Chicago, Memphis, Harrisburg (Texas'. Galveston and Austin, Mrs. Barr helping out by teaching school. They wore living in comfortable circumstances circum-stances in IStfT when yellow fever swept the city, and, during the epidemic, Mrs. H;irr Inst her husband and three sons all the male jromlcrs of her family. Xhe faced life anew tor the third time with Hi roe daughters and little money. Hnr attempts ;i t .elf-support proved fruitless in ihe Texan city. At the age of -it. she an ived in New ork. Turned to Literature. "I hod ?.V 1 S in my purse." she said, "and wnp absolutely alone in the battle of life, but confident that God and Amelia Hnrr were a multitude." She turned to literature for a living. UiMiry Ward Retchrr omployrd heron the st a ft of his new journal, t he Christ ia n I'nion. This leil to an acquaintance with many of tho leading literary men of the daw Working day and nn;i-.t to support her fa n ii j , she soon established a market mar-ket for her literary wares. "My c xp tis's a 1 the litre." sa.id Mrs. Parr, "were 5V1 a week. 1 bad to make .1 his. Sometimes I made less, sometimes more." When V y-rs old and confined to her honu- with illness, she hjcan to elaborate a short story into a novel. The result was her first novel, "Jan Ycdder's "Wiie." Krom that day ni.iil her death Mrs. Barr wrote novels, short stents, poems and n,aca7ine and 1 ( ws-paper articles constantly, con-stantly, and. as she once said. "t rt-'vpr vp)t a yfory which I was unable to sell." Most of her fa n.o:s chr. meters were ere a ted at her beautiful home. "Cherry Cro't." a 1 Cornwall. overlooking th Hudson r ver. where she. lived for more than thirty vcr.rs. I |