Show t i n H 4 44 0 4 BRET HARTE f i iM M Mt 1 1 i 1 M 1 1 t I 1 M M M t 1 4 4 M U I M M MM M MA A London despatch to The Telegram today announces announces an an- the death this morning in that city of the famous American writer and humorist F. F Bret Harte The news will bring regret to legions of his fellow mostly of the older generation who have haTe been entertained b by his verse Terse his caustic wit and touched by the deep pathos of his tales of early days in California To thousands who have read a line of his writing for twenty years or more the tenderness and human of The Luck of Roaring Camp and Mliss keep those thos stories of the divine ine in man which the rou roughest hest s surroundings surround rr und und- ings and the most depraved associations never can quite destroy fresh in memory Years a ago o Bret Harte broken in health and p purse accepted a consulship and went to live in hi Scotland He lie has resided ever eI since in the United Kingdom and he has written a great great deal deal we we we regret regret regret re re- re- re gret to say mostly working over o the the tailings from prom his California mine of thirty five years ago The British public never has lost interest in his work because it has not understood do as we over o here that what were living pictures of mining life in the far f r West Vest in the sixties and early seventies s now are but visions of a past the phenomena of which live li only in the recollections of old people Jack Hamlin the Apollo and Chesterfield of gamblers and would be strange apparitions to the Californian of today who has his clothes made i in ii Picc Piccadilly dilly or her bel gowns confected by W Worth rth But once they were actual breathing g types w with th many many examples They T ey have gone with the gentlemanly road agents and the fascinating fascinating fascinating fas fas- but sanguinary Mexican bandits of earlier days and their own descendants who perhaps stare through monocles from the windows of Whites White's in London or the Union or University Uni in ew ew York at the pretty girls as they pass would know them not and regard them with a shudder of sho shocked ked propriety All the creation of Bret Hartes Harte's best thought hought and analysis have gone and now their ther author author au- au thor hor too has gone The world owes him a debt f for forthe r the he sermons he has preached to it s it-s it sermons erm ns which have ha sounded the depths of human sympathy and made all who have ha listened to them think better more gently and charitably of their kind |