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Show Would Lose His Identity. (Detroit Free Press.) Great were the influences brought to bear on Kugene Field after he had made his successes on the Chicago papers. The east wanted him. Personal visits from prominent publishers, accompanied by financial inducements, failed to move the popular poet. Along 'came Mr. Dana of the New York Sun with such-a tempting 1 proposition that Field begged for time to consider it. He refused the offer. Julian Ralph, a very close fr-iend of the poet. was astonished that such an unusual offer of-fer should have been ignored. He questioned ques-tioned Mr. Field on the subject and learned the reason. "Are you nware," said Eugene Field candidly, "that spots on tfie sun are invisible in-visible to the naked eye? Removed from the sun those spots would attract more attention." -- |