Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-07

he is thoroughly at home. During my
caat he referred to his boyhood on the
farm, and upon my sugg estlng that farm
work was not very hard he replied that
was mistaken, and said:
"a don, know what you call hard
work, tut If you have ever plowed you
know something Of what work is, !
slowed seventy acres OF land when |
was ten years old, and more each ear
after that. Twas SO small that had to
reach up TO catch hold OF the handles o.
the plough. but did 1t can remember
well how ! felt wh,n S AIRED ou for my
first plo wing IN HI" spring. My mu cl
were then tender, my feet sank down in
to the soil throw ng nv weight on the
ankles and t.ndons of he fee. By the
end q the first day | was most ready
to d op with pain, but | had 10 70 on.
And hoH my ones did ache the next
morning when was called to go to
work. | worked right along, however,
going TO school in the winter until was
fifteen Then | went 10 the Cedarville
Ac ldcmy. This was about five miles
from my home 1t was a good school,
and there | got the bulk oil my educa-
ton"
A POEM WHICH BOUGHT A SILK DRESS,
Hamlin literary work, and he told me
how he was first led 10 write by reading
Hawihorne's "Moses From An OLD
Manse." This book so delighted him
that he wanted to write essays like 1t for
a living, and he practicsd at this curing
| the intervals OF his school teaching and
studying Tor years. 1t was NOT until he
was older that he attempted fiction or
poetry. The story of his first published
article is a curious one Said he:
''My first literary success was poem
| which wrote for Harperis Weekly. en-
titled Lost in the Nofther.' 1t was a
potm describing blizzard and the feel
ings OF man lost in it. received s25
| ior it,"
'Thst must have been good deal OF
money to you then, Mr.. Garland2"
at was. was the reply. at was my
| first money in literature, and ! spent 1t
upon my father and mother. l paid IS
| for a copy OF Grants Memoirs which
sent father and with the remaining $40
bought six dress for my mother. 1t
was The first silk dress she had ever
had"
GARLAND's FIRST STORY.
when did you write your first fc-
| tior2r
"My mother got halt of the mo1ey
received for that" replied Mr.. Garland,
''as 1t was due to her hat ! wrote ii. !
had been studying in Boston for several
| years, when | went cut 10 Dakota TO
visit my partnlS. The night after ar
rived was talking with mother about
| old times and old friends. She told me
how one family had gone back to New
| York for visit and had returned very
happy in getting back TO their western
home. As she told the story The pathos
| OF it struck me. went into another
| room and began to write. The story
was enc OF the best chapters OF my book
Main Travelled Roads, | read it t.
mother, and she liked it, and upon tel
| ing her that thought it was worth at
least IFS she replied: We'll, if that is so
| | think you ought to divvy WITH me, fer |
gave you the story 1 will, said !, and
so when go. my SIS | sent her check
| for S57. so. got many other Good sug-
gestlons during that "Trip to Dakota.
wrote poems and stories. Some Of the
stories were published in the Century
Magazine. and ! remember that | re-
| ceive d 5000 within two weeks from its
Editor, 1t was perhaps a year later be-
fore published my first book. had a
good sa c, and have been writing from
| mat day 10 this d"
THE WEST AS a LITERARY FIELD.
Hamln Garland spends a part of
every year 10 the west. He has bought
the old home place where he was born
in Wisconsin, and he has there a little
! farm of four acres, upon which he raises
asparagus, strawberries, onions and
bushels OF other things. His mother
lives with him. During my talk with
him the her night he said; 81 like the
west aud the western people. ] have
been brought up with them, and eX-
pect to devote my lie to writing about
them. spend portion oil each sum
mer on the Rocky mountains, camping
out. like to go where | can sleep IN
the open air and have elbow room away
| from the crowded city,"
During the chat | asked Mr.. Garland
tor a manuscript veSe or so OF his
poetry. He replied that he would give
lished. at is" said he, ga curious
| thing and it was made in curious way.
| got out of bed to write il one night not
long ago, and can't tell how it came
into my head. 1t is a dialect verse, re-
presenting the revere ola game warden,
| who was looking over the tllds which
once formed the hunting grounds OF the
estate upon which ne was employed"
| Here 1t is.
| A SURVIVAL.
| Here, sond / the murk O. the weather
| An whusslc aiween ma thoombs,
| But niver a boon is at his tcther
| An niyer ahoonisman coomcs
The wind is wet as the heather;
The hawk sails low today;
| Niver were seen such weather;
| WaaSn-wa-aslin mon will say,
The moor is plooed lax melers garden;
The hills are planted WI earn;
| There's naught now left for the puir old worden
| But to hang oop the rusty harm,
| Naught but to siond The murk i, the weather
An whussle atwccn ma thoombs
| Though niver a hoon toogs at his tetheT,
| An niyet a hoontsman cooms.
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