| Show I I nfffinown V Writers I I I I w tillf UKnllwll It 4 Harris Dill Nyo Frank Stanton i sip AboU Jool Chandler and Hamlin Garland 1 J Jdtslllow lit Received Girt tram tloilon and I tifflef Id Hi Frank Stjntox the Jamtt UMfeomt I Ktlt of the 14 4 Fs f aCl IC JTII A Un iblnlied Letter of Hilt N > t Cm ally I ° i K i It AtOl lJIII1N Garland Chat of Ihs life of Grant 11 Falls Exptrienre Ilotk I anJ Gives oSmllthin of the LV of 4 II TIP or IS first Lita rFinesetJe0Y lfjarf I arpenter Ffplka rn I d i Are b I I fulunle I P c Augusl So IS97 IKE a fresh breath fleas b pRSt I a prsonallet 0 hicb I found today ter In ooking d tT onr < Credence Forne of I Old < J I I mv 1 mi II nttell to me by < shortly before B1 K > e f oref I d is lull of J and bis I death Innuix1ith 3 I WI the hurcor and fun with bid he o delighted from week to I milieus I week dnrin his working lilt I I I A He AD extract from it I v ell 10 Well or so st havelleverbeen 50 oie book Is tbimmr OS Sit I bands slid a ublibers iI i 11 a > thrillustol1of Jn gI and is Jo It III make the study of but a de a duty hislOI cot only 1 A know that Paul M JG m qgIreadyknove the last coat ad I are just putting ill for Mr Palmers play tt on a DW I Itheaur Heed I hardly say that 41 IN 111 combines ire master y archi 1 t4 YMglh and the heaveriborn tit Ls i d I the toO t > authors in me way e Slltldttte most joyous and in OA Inlull It Is ca ld The Stag hili be enlivened by melo CMC on the barp sacbut and bull n FlIT rjounj I people of both sexes Soic over Ue stage and good n m limited quantities will be per JI beacei I the music m spandat the summer on the J 1P I ruroun I led by loving friends and I d people ho desire to dispose of I 11 HI 11 t IJckUme IU e discharged my old farm su tiidenl and secured one in hU I 40 t1 I ibitcan play a better game of golf all as must ktep beast of Ihe time 2 Ltthmdlt I I 1 on are looking well I had I quite ge v rnel lact wt ekiulhanewhlve I uhchlboutht I at Henderson tat stale Trey are called Ihe I uitd cr tailor ma le bees I I II 4 the hive home by tram this 0 ca The Pullman parlor car crn lid Sll going to put me oil but LL lit better of u When I set my Queen i 03 lmDi lalttajshatca Pull I i how and oily patronize his mhemg tanks I when I need a new ft u loan or a set of baM loels lot 1rta Cit net it I only reople v ho hav succeed 1 2A JLI antblD OUI 01 Fuming ill try ore two mtn Who have j u1kne Vand rllh I I I or OVlf vion salary nl Who now ovin I note there Mr Vanderbilt I Oie i to ma an account tpJ61 l farm life 1 keep one Young i r II l Ietr r stillitetime I love to romp I e ball and tool him Dv bounding ttlence a trifle in advance a him lhmot colored brother ho k antal Whi I Altenvarl I I 1 = J lteArcshiic baihe was to ulale she stelas appropriate iciviever i tilt I i ttlatna t e sIcame ncr liy siace couple oi children I 011 < his S otererely yours I yoursE W NE > P nOTlEs OF UNCLE Rittits irt jut heard some new stories of Hmus ihty relate lo tin ex Uhlulness He is so modest ttath oSk cannot t look a btranse 1Ibc lace and hen Ics h1 a is ler vewj a at t his nheo itbjhome m ord r 10 keen W tee honh att IOO hunters and auto tilittloitho a tack hurt a the feS I t i 1110nOffieall Ile Funds hculkli IV IOLO fuurI di i tilt AInta not ed e I lie A tit ere the int 1limmi Dts04 I villen a tall Oung Oman made be x ad I way Lti the cit I 10104 u1 ji o Th Ills t o The 1 door cre A girt loolea inDo at 1 it little I to Itind redheoded Do Ad I 1111 rllml > IP IIked the Dos It A pHd the redheaded maD Irasughtsty ant cld 4 t 0 see You It I far I the 8 10 d 05 03 Itill Ily ni Blank Le Ia A iIrJ I IOU ought a know in Said tf Il Re fortbi f d lIus lOoking I 10 111 ketpul tis Pper d lit to la I s5S5 I a chat mfi lIft lI I I c 5 11 lgO y raising he tit Mr 1 H an r IV 11 lug look at arris a I ft t 0 trI is tie which he laid Uncle Renault des lu I th 11 1 In Went or after a that coo r11r nant U youi on nt to in Laid un I goR J Rmls te 100 and With OIIao lelL to 00 nNIST EN OF liE eOUN fas TRY Cots Ii iMhe I oul ef I tall jrV1ceudl180b a I Ice l cO od could I be didcould no do all I favii it in I Ca rttien I b1hi CAllcr vinit seems 16 Ir clfrfec0sr I I Cso Cl I t Willi ot u ina 40 seat Is a Ili ra bwsPRper I 12 I Sol ta a a 41blal ads u r A I a I 11 I a or r ne1rJ In andi1r tle story lIr WOla lrorh cIrcus and when she aw thi nimal She s wo1 9 1 bgl l ore hllnln I pechless Astonish ment At la twlh n gosp she said to br us4Jd1AJb my int he plan I Well Mr Vieh U I a litle plain A qual which Is also ooesseIIt1 cr to1in extent by Mr lIal Mr N liso111 is i well known In Chicago lie is alo known in oilier quitters bethought ol course Mr Harris would know him by name So he ftcpped launtili into the eflicc and held out Ins hand and safe How are > ou Mr Harris Myna My-na is Visher liiclcRemus I looked up and as he did so held I out his hand and then burst into aheirty rwl hal hal Why how do you i do Mr Vibdiir Ihl l hat hal I ant glad to meet you Mr Vischer Ha b1 flat anti he went on latieling I as though he would split his fit Sides 01 I am glad to meet jousaid Mr Vlichcr Ie I straightened imilf I up a Ittle I indignantly Hut I cant see what on earth jou are laughing at At this Unto Remus burst into another an-other laugh and sU at he rather aflec liomTcly laid his hand on Vischers shall der Well l to tell jou the truth ilCi I1iI thl Mr Vischer 1 am laughing at you I like your looks YOII see I have il way had the rcpuUllen el being the ugliest man in the Unitc1 State < hut You beat me I vvint to lake > ou cut and Introduce you 10 my wile THs wa said In such a tone that Vischer could not get angry nt it He rathtr dipu ed the rosiiion which Uncle Remus bid tluust uro i him ns he lo ked at him Hut he hook h mis an1 I i little lit-tle later on the two well I out to Uncle Remus home tone her ViCher las delimited with Uncle Uemus Uncle Remus liked Vischer better upon acquaintance ac-quaintance and the two pla n men became be-came fast friends FRANK STANTON Tile WIIITCO I RILE OK THE SOUTH It was In the Atlantic Constitution of fie that I Frank L Sal hose poems are now quoted m neatly every uewipaper of the lard He writes a half column of bright rarajriplis and verse every day for the paperand at the same time turns out ft strate political 1 editorials Mr Stanton 11 a ilirk faced trlghlejed > oung mm of about Unity eilit rears ol ago His hair M rot Ions and his black tjc in ordinary comersa lion at I cavil is not lu line frenzy roiling roil-ing He has however the soul of a poet He is Ihe I lames U hlleomb Riley it the southFnil I Ivs I book bongs if the SOIl has had a very generous circula then Jnton was brou ht up oil Methodist hymns illS mo her made him l leam one every bundi > and Ie I can rile the hjlllii book from one end to the other lie begin Hi life uorkrs errand boy in tl c olhce of the S ivjnni News when Icel Chandler Hams laS one of Its editor He I I rose to be o repOrler and soon bgn to write verse r rporter Liter on he edited a coumrv neuspiper and his poems in it were widely copied Then the Consluutioi took him on its tall and now at ttiuty eight he is as S a idely quoted as any miter of the United Sttes 1115 I poetry is bimpc tender and full of foul It has cheered many a poor man ddte uornan and thousan l C C d lave dropped tears I ilea reidingeoni of f Ins sadder poems Mr btmlon is a poet of hope rather than despair Ills Ore is i ttimul ting and I helnlul onJ he I looks on the light tide of il ings rf IJn During ray call upon hon 1 asked him to write me sjmethiug for this letter In lely he printed the five I tile poems which follow The first reaus Oh II the future sky Is the bluest I sly VMh I never a cloud In Jew Hut the sky lodiy Is I the truest sky = And thai Is i tho sky lor youl The second poem is more in dialect It reads This world hu viere ahyln In Is Pill y hard to beat You gt a thorn vvllli every rose lIuton the re weell GOSSIP ABOUT HAML1N GARLAND Mr Hamlm I Garland las spent home mouths here at Washington asking upon 11 < hie ol Grant lie has already put > in h teen months of sol d labor gel IIIIZ his material and he is not yet nalf through lie has ravdNI over lirallt lootsiejs Minuet Irom hli birth to his death and he savs that he hopes to be able to tell Ihe story of General Grant with all the truthlul earn I lice there Is ill iL Said he to me the olhcr night I think the truth about Grant is mOle interesting thin any novel l could 1e and I fll1 that a book can be made which will be historically true and it the same time have literary merit All took wil be a complete of Grant It will give Ihe story of I Is bnvhooJ the struggles ol his early manhood the bright n1 duk days < I the civil war and his final Uiuinplu an J death 1 Will it be a large book I 1 a < ked No rephil Mr GHtlanr It will contain I suppcs about 125 ooo words and will sell for fi 150 There will he tile ecliln 1 uUisliei wlh illustraiioni and one which will be printed on good piper without iIIutrot OilS Tim list Ill be dr1 favorite I hope to make it Y 11 hel beet goILI that It will be readable without I the pictures Till O ItTOFTIIB IIOERS lIamlin Garhlld has made a cepula lion w ttin tile list few I cars a the poet I f the p I oncers 1 he story of his own hie h I quite ai interesting as miyihinK he I bees written lie told It to me the other n elit i cscnbinj how be was horn In Wisconsin tle son of a poor farmer ml how he went with his fuller Iowa and later on to Dakota trying 10 make a living by farming The poems he has wflten have bull to a Illge eloclent IRStedUroallsovin perltllre They hive thr Haver f the hot I rboul thei andhisli I tl Id of 1 terature which he co liders tint of the p oncer is I cue in whic halt thoroughly at home Dunne my cuat he referred to Ins Lo hood on Ihe farm and upcn my sugceMiog lhat farm woik wis not very bard he replied that I las mistaken nnd said I dont know what vou call herd work Lilt if 011 I have ever plowed you Yocil know something rf what work Ill I flawed bevcntv acres of land when I was Ina years chi and more each j car after that I was so small I I that hid to hil reach un lo catch hi Id ol ill A hand ce ol the plough but I did it I en remember well how I I felt hill I s TIed out for my first plowing in ill > > tlni My mu cIs I were lIe i tender my Icet sank do n 1 rain ra-in the soil throw ng mv weijht ol the Ankles and t neons of 1 ihe fee lly the cnd cf nit lit diy I wos a most ieid > Ji od op with pun 1 but Iliad I lo goon And hON my tones did ache the next tactful g when 1 VMS caled logo to I wok marked light aLnjr however gOlllg to school 1 in the winter until I was fifteen Then I went lo the Cedarvllle cidcmy Ths wn about five miles from my home It was i good school and U ere I got the bulk ol my educa tlOII A POEM nicn iioeGHT A SILK DRESS The conver ilion here turned to Mr Hamlm s lilerny work mid he told I me JybvdUroksaVe lo ldlng low Ie I was fir > t led lo wnt bv reading llawlhornes Moses From An Old Manse This book io delighted him tie it he wal tel to write essay like it lora lor-a living ind he practiced at this during 1racicld fhl hemterviUol I t I Ins I chool 1 1 leaching ind siudinq for ears It was not unlll he was older that he attempted filloll er poetry The story of Im firtt published article Is I a curious one bud he 1 My first literary success was a poem vl Ich 1 wrote for Harpers Weekly en filled Lost lu the Neither It ain a-in te cribmg a blizzard and the leel Cottn a 11 of a man lost in it i received f2s fcr 111 Tint must have been a good deal of money lo you then Mr Garland It was will the reply It was first money in literature and I spent t upon my lather and mother 1 paid fer a copy ol ll erants Memoirs which I i 1 sent lather and with the remiimngf 20 I bough a s Ik elves for my mother It was ihe firt bilk dres the had ever had OAKLAND IIRST STORY lien did you write your first fic lIod My mother got hall of the moiey I received for that replied Mr Garland as It was due to her that Iwrotci I I I had been sludlng In PostOIl flf several year when I went cut lo Dakota to isit mypjrtnf The main tfier lor rived I was talking with milhcr about old times and old friends She told me how one family had gone back to New York for a visit and had returned very happy In gelling rack to their eastern home As she told the story the pathos 01 it struck me I weal into anulu room and betin to write The story was niof the best chapters of m > book MamTrivtled Roads I lead it tier t-ier and hoiked it and upon lei I uj I er that I Ihought it nis worth at lent t t7S she replied Well if that is so I think you ought to divvy with me ice f J gave IJuO tile tory I will i said I and so when 1 to my 175 1 sent her a check for fJ7SO I got many other rood sug kestious during tint orip to Dakoti I wrote poems and stories Sonic cf the stories were pubhshd in the Ceului Magazine and I remember th II I received re-ceived f600 lithln to leekslrom its editors It was perhaps a year later before be-fore I pub Uhed my first book I tad a goo J fa c and I have been writing from that day lo this 11 THE was AS LITERARY OELD Hamlm Garland tpenJs a part of every ear m thewesl He has bough the 1 Ji home place where he sO born In Wisconsin and he bits I there a little film i of four acrts upon which he raises asparagus straw berries emons and bushels ol ether things His mother lues wiih him Dirng my talk with him the o her nlht he said I like the west and the western people I have been brought up with them and I expect ex-pect to devote my lie tow riling about thm I spend a portion ol each sum mr on the Rocky mountains camping out I like to go where I can sleep in the open air and have elbow room away Iron ihe crowded city During the chat I asked Mr Garland for a manuscript ve be or EO of his poery He replied tint he would give ms a poem which had never been published pub-lished It i see said be e4 curious tiling and It was made In a curious wy I gOt out of bed to write it I one night not long ago and I cnt tell how it J came I into my head Ills t I a dialect verse re IflesclunIg the re ere ofa game warden who was looking over lie flilds which once formed the burning grounds of the estate upcn which he was emplojed lure it is A SUrVI VAL Here I sand V I the murk o the weather An whusseateen ma thoombs But niter a boon is I at his tether An never a hoontsman coonews The wind Is wet II the heather Th hawk a 413 low today Nitcr ere been such meather Waoidowamlin a mon will say The moor Is Filet bell a Ateliers garden Thu hills are planted MI earn Thers naught mm left for the putr old ordo nu to rwng cop the rusty born Naught hut to stond F I the murk I the vAn leather v-An lunik ntween nu Ikoombs Though nlvcr hoon twigs at his tether An river a hoontsmn eooms l Ck4fializ 11 tttt |
