The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-11-06

soa, who occupied the room with him,
heard him groan and putting cut his
hand found that death had already
taken place.
ESS. Field had been indisposed for
several days. but no serious results We're
even thought OF BY his family and I'M
mediate friends. George II. Yenowine,
of this city was at Mr. Fields bedside
when he died. MIR. Field and Mr.. Yen
soHiae intended to start together Tor
Kansas City, at which place Mr.: Field
was to read. Mr.. Field has "a wide ac-
quaintance in the city. and the an
nou0cement S his death causes a sor--
rowing shock.
&c has been said of Eugene Field that
he changed his ink witt his varying
moods and Intentions II he was blue,
the story goes, and did not intsNd to
labor long when he seated himself at
his desk, he used writing fluid ct deep
aznre hue; If he was in fine tettte ana
pulposed doing a quantity Of hls best
wora, he dipped his magic pen into ink
of a midnight shade; if he had it in his
mind to write love song, a oehcate
manye was chosen; if sarcasm and r1al-
cule were to Sow from his pens tip, the
color selected was q most sangunary
carnaine.
Is Eugene Fields life has not been a
monotonous one He was a native Of
ST. Louis, and was born Sept. 8, 1885;
but he passed most of his boShood days
at the home of his cousin, Miss Mary
Field French, at Amherst, Mass.
OF the details CT his youth there is not
much recorded. He was student at
the University Of Missouri at Columbia,
that state, and there met young
man named Comstock. They became
sschums'' and decided to travel together
for wear in Europe. Before the jour
pey was begun young Field accepted an
invitation to make few weeks visit at
fhe Comsseck home IN St. Joseph. His
friend had FIVE sisters Of such surpass-
irg fairness that they they were known
and are remembered as ''the pretty
Comstock girls"
The second of these young ladies, Ju-
liza Sutherland Couastock. was then only
8f6 years of age, but Eugene fell IL love
With her at once and IN earnest, and be-
fore he started for Europe with her
brother had proposed and was accepted.
-JJa from his foreign trp
Mr.. Field insisted On an Immediate mar
rage and carried hsf2int.
At the time of his marriage he was a
youue man Of considerable &ealth,
which had been left to him by his& -
;er. and he lived without an occupah0h.
That happened which was to be expect.
ed-the money wasted away, ana ne
was presently 'sbroke. 1t was not un-
I'll about this time that he began to
climb the ladder TO literary fame: The
first rang was reporters psNtaon ON
an insol7ent journal, and the struggle
for a time was q hard and well nigh dis
ceuraging one.
Later came employment on newspa-
per In whose Office salaries were paid
with that regularity that cheers the get
ter noof COPY, and from that time to
the present Eugene Fields literary
proeTess has been steadily upward.
Though his work was from the first
srch as to command attention, they
were then far from being sach finished
literary gems as he later produced. They
were mostly humorous, and In fact it IS
as humorist that he is better known
to this day, though much Of his laveS
literary work is instinct with a true and
delicate sentiment, .sueh as Is expressed
in the. poem entitled .'Yearning For
Home"
Mr. Field has for several years been
identified wssh the s::Sharps and Flats"
column Of the Chicago News, and pros
perity was his. He. leaves widow and
i've children.