The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-22
FIELD "REMINISCENCES.
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II was Eugene Field, we believe.
who made up that delicious story OF
James Russell Lowell, a Chicago lover
of literature, and George Sand;
When Lowell was in Chicago he had
occasion to speak admiringly OF
George Sand to a native who was IN,
troduced to him as an example OF
local culture. Eyes" said the native,
.Sand was one Of the best fellows !
ever knew "You we're acquainted
with George Sand?" asked Lowell IN
surprise. "Acquainted!'' SAID the
native. swell, | guess. When i was
in Paris | roomed with him ~ buiia-
10 Times.
How He Lost the Friendship OF Carl
The st. LOUIS Globe Democrat tells
how Field came to lose the friendship
of Carl Schurz. Says the Globe
Democrat. In 1874, when Gentry, the
Independent Democrat Tor 'Tadpole)
candidate for governor, was making
| his campaign, Carl Schurz, then Unit
| ed States senator from Missouri, wen,
out to assist him in the hgnt ana
made tour of the state. The journal
sent Field in his wake to report MS
speeches. One day when sen w was
speaking at barbecue in Clay coun-
ty. with an inverted dry goods box for
a table on which to rest his manu-
script, two drunken men came riding
through the woods and into the crowd,
and somebody set up the cry, Inc
James boys are coming! There was
a panic, and when it was over Schurz
! crawled out from behind the box,
where he had been hiding, but his
manuscript was scattered like leaves
Ion the stand. Field made the most
of the incident, and the humorous
manner in which he described is 10
the journal cost him the friendship
of Carl Schurz forever.
A Children's NJ onunient to Him.
There is to be monument TO Eu-
gene Field in Lincoln park, Chicago,
built by contributions from children,
ar by their elders on account OF chill
dren. as maybe. for the first contri-
hutton is by rich man of Chicago
ofor ten poor children. This wal
suggested by Rev. Frank Bristol IL
|, his funeral Grafton, and it was taker
IN at once, committee formed o
, newspapermen, and contributors ma.
send to Melville f. Stone, treasurer
, AT the Chicago Record Office. Als'
( there is to be public kindergarten
named for Field As it is Chicago
where this occurs, the poet is likel.
/ to be honored speedily.
His Love for New England.
7 Beneath his rather assertive loyalit,
to the West, the arena of his wori
and the environment where his tirs
t success was won, was an almost 70
5 mantle attachment for the section
t where his parents had come an,
S where his boyhood had been passed
. He loved the hills OF Massachu
$ sets and the honest ways and homel.
speech of her country folk. Wester
e Massachusetts was more home to hiI
0 than any other place until he real
: lied the ideal happiness OF his ow
n marriage-and when he came to writ
1 in the vein that brought him fame an
y an assured place in American literatur
e the appreciation that the most longe
o for and valued was that of New Eng
e land people. The Republican earl
: recognized the strong individual quail
e ity Of the sketches and poems ths
# have since then appeared betwee
/ book covers and took most OF thor
!, for its columns as they appeared
IS the Chicago News. This was yer
J. gratifying to Field. 81 want to reac
p the people of Hampden, Hampshire
e Berkshire and Vermont" he more tina
it once wrote, land thank you for pa
If sing my little stories and verses
n Them
IF And how often Field talked ov'
1t with eastern visitors the old days al
d the new at Monsop academy and Wi
d liams college, his life in the town
Amherst, and dwelt with delight {
p the placid beauties of the dear o
IS Connecticut valley. He was alwa