The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-07-12
JOB DEPARTMENT..
cares. the importunate demands that
crowd outside INV study door.

crowd outside my study door.
| This Is. however, by no means her.
metically scaled! AS 1 sit in my corner
and fill my pages with the number of
words habit has prescribed. my girls
come III with many u question-many
request for counsel and cooperation.
Formerly their dolls and toys occupied
prominent place in my special den.
/ then they disturbed me less! NIessen-
gers came in from friends who "know
they ought not to intrudc, but will not
keep me five minutes Nor can
l refuse them! And though the five
minutes often stretch to fifteen and
even fifty, do not know that I suffer
very great loss ultimately, for always
try to limit my working time to tho
morning. SO can steal an occasional
hour from the night to make up for
those tilchcd from me before noon.
Without being by any means method
ical, certain habits form themselves.
such as the time which allow for
accomplishing I, page, chapter, i.
volume; and though unavoidable in
tcrruptions come to interfere with nv
reckoning, on the whole, the average
is tolcrably even.
am not Il rapid writer, unless, in
deed, under some special pressure, for
like to live with my characters, to
get thoroughly acquainted with them,
and l rarely finish Il novel of ordinary
length in less than nine months. pre-
Ter to spend Il year upon the work, but
the process may be prolonged too much.
Over study and much elaboration ara
apt To destroy freshness Of coloring
and dlstinctncSs Of outline.
Finally. do not find the country or
secluded places favorable to the flow
of my ideas ! love the face of nature,
and enjoy laying up a store OF mental
pictures clllctl from her nexhaustiblc
beauty, but iind in contact with my
fcllowmcn The best inspiration, and am
ready to echo DIR. .j0imson's sir. let
us take Il walk down Fleet street
Friendly readers sometimes say I
give them pleasure and while away
what might be Il heavy hour by my
l'cnbr'ti"ns. They probably do not
know how amply they repay me by
their appreciation. 10 be in touch
with my fellows, and feel that there ia
a sprnlsling of sympatiz izcrs even far
away. to whom ! am not u stranger,
though unknown, is an infinite reward
for diligrnt work. | shall never for
get the delighted surprise with which
! listened to the question, What! did
you write Tho Wooing O'to" from IL
| charming American first of her
nation with whom made acqlaintan ce.
Then We know you well in tho
Statcs!' she added. Aud though
had satisfactory money proof that
my books were bought in America. L
never realized till that joyful
moment that WAS read and
liked. To the young giant across
the Atlantic, the American public 1
am warmly grateful for its full re-
cognition Of whatever merit | NAV
possess, and more, am proud to be
read by people who already possess IL
native literature marvclously rich,
considering how short the time which
has sutliccd for its creation. somc-
| times muse on the magnificent future
which lies before my American
cousins, on the wealth, intellectual
scientific material, which awaits them
i'll tho coming time. If only reason
and conscicnces stand the strain of
enormous prosperity. if they arc
| strengthened to show IL noble example
to the world. they may prove the
greatest bencfactors the human race
has yet known, aud none can wish
them 'God speed more heartily than
do, in their progress toward this
splendid cousummati0n. Alexan-
der, in Cincinnati Times.