Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-03-11


went 90 San EFamesse0stp devote him
self 10 islersfare oF the stage. He
failed and went back 10 Northern Ore
gon. The Baansck Indians attacked
sile camp where he was as . miner. A
company was atganized 10 Sight them.
Joaquin was elected Captain. and fol-
lowed them ~, and was s0op joined by
q small force Of regulars under Captain
Wavminesw hom heepeaks ofas abrzSe
and espabIe soldief and e tee . little
gentleman % ever lived. The Indians
whipped them.
Meanwhile, without his knowledge.
JOAQUIN had been elected Judge, quail
lied. and served four, years, and he
saw ,saan1inislered Iap. T /
know WHETHER: was law or MOI, but !
tried to administer iustice-with one
law book and two sevolvers." After
his term was over be praeticed Law for
. yesr or twos> Ambiiious for seat %
The Supreme Bench of The State, be
went 70 the Nominalisg Convention 70
securea place on the ticket. His wife
there served papers for divorce. By
mutual agreement the divorce was
granted. 10 the meantime be had pub
lished in pamphlet his Songs Of the
SueFras," bot they had attracted no no.
lice save kindly mention from Bret
Harse In Orerlsnd MonEkly. Joaquin,
abandoned bis political ambition whea
the divorce papers were served on him.
He went to San Francisco (he was 20
by this time.) stayed there month Or
two, and then started for New York, en-
route to Europe. AmOngthe San Fran
cisco literary people he met. he speaks
OF Ina ID. CcoIbrith as zone OF the
brightest and best women IN the worlds
who deserves more fame than do, Cor
she has done better things.
He landed IN Glasgow, stayed about
q month at Burns's old home. went to
the continent to the theater OF the Franz
CO. Prussian war, saw several battles,
was arrested both BY the Prussians and
in Paris as spy, and then crossed the
channel and lived three months near
the home OF Byron, writing poems and
preparing to descend on London. He
could not get publisher to print has
poems, and was forced to issue small
edition himself, which he sent 70 the
English papers. He became famous
at once. Since then he has lived chief
ly on English money--the copyrights
for his books OF poems and his novels
in England.
Rep.-How many books has b. pub
lished! tts&A - 1.A
J. r." Songs of The Sierrss,"
/" Songs of the Suhland, " 90 Songs
of Italy, 4" The Baroness Of New
York"-poetry. "One Fair Woman"
!" The First Fam'lses of the Ser
ras' and Life Among the Modocs. -
Since then he has been thrice to Eu-
rope; he has seen the best English hit
erary society, and he has twice rrevisi-
ted the Pacific coast. He has settled
down now in New York-at least he
thinks he is settled down. He has lee
:ured little. ] never heard hlm, but
| asked him once what sort of a leetur-
er he was, and he said: "The worst
in the country; can't lecture any more
than a nue." From what have heard
| guess this statement is correct, batting,
of course, little for poetical exaggera-
ton. Besides has books, he has writ |
ten the successful play of The Danites, |
and he has three or four other plays IN |
progress. He also dabbles in stocks.-I
He has made great deal of money BY |
bis books. He expects to write the
great American play, believe the
Chronicle is responsible for forcing him
10 write bis most successful book, 6nan-
riaIIy considered, Life among the Mo-
docs" The Chronicle, when he be-
came famous, mentioned the fact that
he had been once arrested and put in |
AL as horse-thief, and published the
Indictment. He was forced to tell the
story of his savage life to vindicate him.
sell. He made SIS. 900 out oft in
lew months. Miller says that wal
ker in Nicaragua" is the best of the
Songs OF the Sierras, and that Real
and IDEAL" in hls "Songs OF Italy," 10
The best poem he ever wrote; "but, " he
added, "few read il, and nobody likes
t." ~ i