The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-17

they made him the editors assistant.
and the editor. when Harte was not
busy setting type or Running the press.
allowed him 10 write pieces" He
wrote, and the spell was on him
-The Hesthen Chinee.-
Finally, through some stroke Of luck
which nobody has o. ken the trouble 10
explain. he was appointed secretary OF
the San Francisco miut. This gave
him considerable leisure and ne began
to write frequently for the more i'm
portant California papers- 1t was then,
In 1865, that ne was made editor OF the
Overland Monthly. he contributed
The Luck Of Roaring Camp" TO the
first issue that appeared under his man
sgemeut as has been told, dad did L
notable t!ring the next year By writing
and printing his poem. The Heathen
Chinee," which was intended to be an
ephemeral political satire, but which
turned out to be a queer sort of Amer
lean classic. That same year he WAS
sIpointed professor OF modern Iitera-
ture in the university of California. but
he resigned the chair In q year and
started east He was received eY-rv-
,where'he went with great reclaim
His success in the east had been a great
deal bigger than his recognition On the
coast had led him 70 expect. For q
while he lived in New York, writing
all the time and occasionally going on
q lecture tour, adding every moment to
the measure OF his fame. Finally.
however, be went to England % live
principally because, il is said, o. the
impossibility Of protecting his books
from foreign thisving Publishers II he
lived on this side of tho water. Since
then he hasreTnsined a resident Of Lon
don, but he has never lost his exuber-
ant AmericauiSm-the qualify that has
made HIN one Of the best loved writers
whose pan ever dealt with the things
of this great republic.
founded a BROAD scheoi.
he was the originator OF a new
school. A school that Is founded On
realism, hut on ths realism Of big
things. The scenes Of Bret Harte's
etories are big; the emotions which
play in them are big. the results are
big with importance 10 the people
whom he paints in them. He does not
try TO gee how infinitely exact he can
be in portrayinc commonplace There
is life, and real nfs, in what he writes,
but it is sctive instead ~ passive.
A 1-n.sris-.
Not less remsrks bio than his pbcog-
milton Of the truly dramatic ~ lres rec
.ognition Of the truly humorous. ~ was
that very appreciation Of the funny
that led him % iDdiIeOsl5 give his
great brother American 70 the world.
Samuel Clemens when a man Of no IN
portenee whats~er. told Harte tho
story Of the "CalaveTss Freq Hs-te
insisted that II ought 30 Re written,
and after Clemens had protested for =
time. he finally wrote ", sLgning f.
Mark Twain. u Was ohe Of The arrf
things TO win the recognition frotz tf-
publlc Which has Anes wideEsd into
international fame.
Feoicd Lsbsuehsrs.
HIS most famous london Joke made
b Victim Of q celebrrte3 ran- Dressing
himself in the thresi bare frsyed.
ifringsd and faded garments virieA
lvonld, quito Ekclr, BE- ~orn b.
cross between BohaaoiAn jourrsliz.
and . tramp. Brvt HArte visitad The
Office OF Laboucbere's Truth szd asked
% see the eminent tournelist He IVES
!usAered into the holy q holes TIE IN
-ner Office ~ th4 nsvspaportal ~ p,
and told him thst Re Rad poem v1ich
Re would De piee-~d - sell. snS asked
f-r. Lsboucbere % lnosc u ever. Bat
The "a nous rcs-ks-!er 81 ths London /
pTss1 at first refused n glsnc- ~ me
offering, but upon HsrtAs ezrnest.7
pleading his immediate need q un1zsy, I
DIP. Labonchere hastily eKsrnf-es Dc
production Then rs returned Z WITH /
Is re<5arsz
Il eennSt B.- tfEis --azh
''But, az GO6T exclaimed bare. Tn
esyTinFr'
What do yos want to- IT, Inquired
Lsb0-ehsrs
Is Il worth pouDGT" =slG Hs-te.
with an expression indicating "a. -
bea-1 va eE7wling up % the vscIniiJ'