Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-12-24

! htiag great lover ~ poetry, had come
@ny his respects "a tho new poet
l gha, p4Ased between Whittier sud Gar.
/ r.s1B that summer day aixty years ago.
ana sptwern the pair Rnd this parents
4 - Whittier. can only lr eonjectuFcd
! non Tint they wers made 70 see
iAere was futurc for their boy may
b inferred fr0m the fact that before q
jFag was over Bic was sent % an aradc-
tn which was opened Ia liaverhilt
iis Cading seanty ~ il had been, had
inprcNaed him with tho necessity ~
hafing . better education than he had
trccged. and his determination 10
4 psse,a :; lcd him % learn the nystcr.
- % sh8e,malgiag. ilc became suiii.
sisnily proficient therein 20 pay for a
uga suit ~ clothes. and 10 lay mp
taough y pay his board and six
mgaths tuition. and thus equipped nc
vest 70 Ilaycrhili and began his
Studies % which, besides the ordinary
branches, he added lessons IN French.
IL boarded il the family of the editor
and Publisher II the Ilayerhili Gazette.
q whirh NJ might have been expected,
q hecanr . constant contributor.
Il there he. MS tho post declares, .
divinity that shapes our ends, rough.
aew them o. we may, the divinity that
shaped the ronRh.hcwu ends ~ Whit.
ter was tile power that presldcs over
ne printing press. II his rircu;n.
aianees had been more favorable, he
might have devoted himself 10 poetry,
a. Lougfellow did, but being what
II they were, he was constrained 20 sub.
mls 70 them, whether he would or no
mes compelled him to become jour
haihl, and they chained him to journal
~ for years. His ilrst literary em.
p9ymcut after quitting IIavcrhlll was
e sine editor ~ the American Mannfact-
ufef, a paper published in Boston and
aaSocaling protection 10 home industry.
US neNt employment was on the
llAferhill Gazette, Of which he was
lae editor for tho first ak months 81
isaA ilc was now In his twenty.third
year and was fairly well known
Afough his poems in the Yankee,
7hlen was published in Portland, Maine,
Il ana his contributions ia prose and
'eFse 70 the New England Weekly Re-
,'ew' which was published In Hart
b '2.h Tom. This last periodical was
s@'ed by George ID. Prentice. who
thought highly u his talents. aud who,
& y proceeding 10 Kentucky IN the sum.
,aer Of 1880 in order to write life Of
''ehfy lay, recommended him as his
soeceSsor, II have made some
.ae'nics, = he wrote. 'among
19se whose good opinion
'aiQe but no rational man can ever be
.ss enemy of MIR Whittier" During
~ year and q half that he remained
~ Vharge Of the New England Weekly
@g,iew h1 discovered the direction in
anleh MS talents fitted him 20 excel.
~ iaid the foundation Of his future
II pspu@tlon, He was as proud Of New
England rs Burns Of Scotland, and
as y was and had been was the
,'s' source of his inspiration. His
I a''onalitv was visible In all that he
ri 'VM tentatively In his contributions
n .no Journal he edited, and posi-
Ne,y "a his first collection, New Eng.
1 ANU Legends in Prose and Verse
wv and in his first poem of any
u TSgth' Mol Pitcher" us3s.)
Mot long after the death of his
B ,e'lef' IN the summer OF 1891, Whit.
M returned to lIaverhill and worked
NJ, N, larm, taking his place In the field
L W.. ,'u inc hired hands, aud driving his
Bun IN the autumn days "a
tS Js4 Bridge, the head of the
II Il, ae'water in the Mcrrimac, to lex.
~ ,alge his apples and vegetables
u Alt fish with the coasting vessels
In Maine. He still welded the
~ and was connected during
u ioe H. next eight years with several
als' writing for the New England
sez'ne of BuclSminstor, for Garri-
a,,, iLaoerator, and for the HRverhill
lie The poet within him svas
ma V,',uihate TO the man ut this period,
,ls 'ne man was dominated by morals.
yea with the noetie tcmnernment.