The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-14

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Rarely. For fifteen years Eay f1tfsr
paid my tuition bis regularly. bszt dio
rot 20 % school lie seat me 70 college,
DIT ran away snd was expesled. Teachers
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so What then. general. do yoa owe
your liberia education
cHAr AnorT rAxIY LrTK
my e1nsasion, snch =. i Is. IS chiefly
due 70 mT fathers library The book
= nfch haf most influence over me vas and
- set 'P.ufsreh's Lsves-' Even nos a.
ths age Of -. when sny sill grows drossy
and begins 70 halt. | take up that olo
book. aud if acts xith the cd charm i
am sell again directly"
Did yoa tb5nk Of writing stores when
voa sere very youngg" was asked
Il a3says had the idea of doing 80 81
some period Of my life. Verses. tales.
pictures evea, were always sling my
brain while / vas reading. Even when
/ beceme a busy bread-winuer they fol-
Ioxed me still aud sometimes took mate
rial shape aad found their wsv 10 paper
'tYog enjoyed writing. then
-
psrative with me. and have often Jeff iny
lawyers desk and dry siatntes for the
recreation Of the pen"
@And your characcers7 Do they seem
to y0y ike real beings. or merely the
creations OF your osn fancy :"
MY characters are essentially living.
breathing. human creatures 10 me. |
know them every one personally. As 1
write see them before nay eyes. ] become
acqualn ted With them as do the persons
gho come into my house and nlagie with
me IN my everyday life.
~But how do you feel toward fhemf
Have you likes and disIikes toward
them7 %
'-yery decided ones. Some Of them /
utterly desest" A fash OF the keen eye
gave force and point 10 the exclamation;
then. With smile. be went on: ''Some OF
them only respect and admire. Others
love teBderiy, aud the grief which touches
thegn touches ne. suffer when they SUI
fer: rejoice when they rsjoice."
What time do you consider most favor
able 20 eomposition7
'That varies With circumstances. Much
OF nay literary labor has been done st night
as matter Of convenience. ! write at any
time, Dut | most enjoy ont-oi-door writing
in summer. My fayoFite spot Is beneath
one Of the grand old bceches in the grove
surrounding oar GrawforcsyIlie home
There can be as secluded as p,ease; by
the iow-hanging branches, can have
cool. fragrant breeze and the best music IN
she world from the thousands of birds " no
Claim the grove as their home. too. am
fond Of holding communion with the
visible forms Of nature. Ny mind never
works more freely and clearly than when
/ am IN the fresh air and sunshine"
GIN wALLAcE's HABITS or WORK.
During the winter the general writes in
his comfortable study. but with the
earliest breath Of summer, this lover Of
nature, however. flies from the curtained
study aud the gas fire 10 the shades OF the
old grove and the seclasion of the little fiy
tent He is seldom without companions
in the quiet grove. Timid Wild rabbits
scErry across the grass at his feet. the
friendly ''Bob White" pipes his merry
song close by and the birds are his especial
pets, sometimes even yentur!ng 10 fly
down and perch upon the broad shoulder
which has stood so steady in
tent and study are deserted. and the
worker hurrying away TO some clear lake,
or the shores of his favorite Indiana river,
the kankakee. occupies himself with rod
and reel. lie is devoted lover Of Ixaak
Walton's gentle sport. and has pursued it
not only in his own country. but in the
Mediterranean sea, on the banks of the
Nile, and OF many famous European
streams. Just in front OF his house stands
a fine sugar maple, brought as a tiny twig
from the banks of the ksnkakee. The
fisherman planted il at his door. where il
has grown beautiful and strong, draping
his v.randa each successive autumn with a
curtain of respondent dyes.
This morning the general will attend
services at the First Methodist Episcopal
church, and in the afternoon be present al
a dinner party given at the Arlington ho-
tel in his honor. Monday he will get up
early in the morning and try his hand a:
fishing in the bay. After his lecture Mon
day evening he will be rendered another
reception at the church. Tuesday he wiil
60 to Tacoma and thence 10 Portland.
Hfs DISTINGUISHED cAREEg.
Gen. Lewis Wallace was born In Brook
vile, Franklin county. Ind. April 10, is17,
and received q common school education,
and 1T the beginning of the Mexican war
was law student in Indiana At the
call for volunteers he entered the
army as first Lieutenant in
Company II, First Indiana in.
fantry. He resumed his profession in
lsls. which he practiced in Covingson. and
subsequently in Charlottesville aud served
four years in the state senate. At the be-
ginning of the civil war he was appointed
adjutant general OF Indiana, soon after
ward becoming colonel OF the Eleventh
Indiana volunteers, With which he served
In West Virginia, participating in the