Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-15
the stanza {:
count my treasures o 'er with care Tho little toy my darling knew, A little sock of faded hue, A little lock of golden hair.

Al 1lltlG tocE Oi BOIucH ullf
 Then he went to the Kansas City Times as managing editor, and there he wrote the Little Peach, which was set 10 music and sung alloyer the coun- try. In 1881 he went to the Denver Trib- une, where he staid until he joined the Chicago News staff i'll 1883. He went to The News under contract to write what he pleased, but he was to furnish a column day of 1t. His col umn, "Sharps and Flats, was widely known, but the strain of the work told on him. He was faeile workman and produced i great deal of copy easily, but he always felt the burden of that daily column to be filled, and it worried him. Yet he never got away from it. He had repeated offers from eastern newspapers and magazines. One great New York daily offered him his own price to join its editorial staff. Always, at least twice a year, these tempting offers were made to him, but he steadi- ly refused them. He was in his clement in the west, he used to say, and he meant to stay there There was no ele- ment ill the east, only an atmosphere, and that was mighty thin. He wanted an element in which he could tumble around and yell without falling back ill a fit for want of breath. He was essen tially western man. His sympathies were with the western ways of life and his likings were for them. He was fear ful of himself i'll the east. He always felt tho greater formality, and feared that he would be hampered by the con ditions here So whatever tho attrac- tion and inducements offered he invarl- ably refused to give up his western free dom. He wanted to do as he pleased, and as long as he eould he proposed to do it. So he staid with The News and Record, as the morning edition of that paper became.
 Field used to say of himself that he was newspaper man and nothing else, but it was by his verse that he became most widely known. He published Ill all nine books. The best known of them are "A Little Book of Western Verse, y "A Little Book of Profitable. Tales, A Second Book of Verse and With Trumpet and Drum. Besides these he published an introduction to Stone s First Editions of American Authors, ; ''The Holy Cross and Other Tale" and Love Songs of Childhood, y of which the first edition was limited to 106 spe- cially prepared copies. A second edition of this has been made since, and there has just come from the press the first public edition of Echoes From the Sa- bine Farm, which was brought out first by Francis Wilson, the actor, who was a great friend of Fields, ill beau tiful edition prepared only for private distribution. Some of his work ranks with the best that has ever been done. His poems. particularly those of child hood, have been printed iii nearly every newspaper from Unalaska to Johannes burg. One of them, Wynken, Blynken and Nod, is little short of being the best child poem ill the language.
 Mr. Field was a most enthusiastic collector of everything that for any req son might be regarded as worth collect l ing. The last time he was in New York some of his friends found him ill his room at . Broadway hotel surrounded by old pewter pots and plates, old warming pans and porringers and every thing else that looked as if it might be old. He tried hard to believe that these things came over ill the Mayhower, and, no matter what the prices he paid, he thought he had made q bargain. This inability to refuse 10 buy anything said to bo a eurio gave rise to some ridiculous stories about him, but this