The Wichita daily eagle., 1898-01-01

noticed by her. But in the mighty rae
for homes on April %, 1889, a vast foo
os people swept across ner prsiries an
poured along dner streams; and unos
people, too, came from everywhere. Il
every neigIbornood are representative
from almost every state in the Union
The native OF MGine touches elbow
with tie child of California, and tn
New Yorker, fresh from tine Empir
state OF the northeast, jostles egairs
/ the Texan, just arrived from the En-
pire state of the greet southwest. Cot
, eon and corn and wheat are I'D mort
neighbors here than are the men and th'
women who were born where each q
these products was an exclusive king.
Sucn conditions as these mean much
to the literary c-ea tor. Tiey are red
with life. with active and adventurous
lfe-under the most inspiring circuu-
stances. Here is a frontier OF romance
more than three centuries long. Here is
a borderland Of story more tnan thou
saEd miles in extent. Here thousand
threads OF history, OF society, NEST, To
be woven into one conerent result; and
! that result is to be new civilization
amid the wilderness. Here the nations
! Of the world clasp hands, and each yields
to the other quite as muctl as il contrib
utes TO the common product The result
/ IS not mechanical but chemical MKT
ure. 1T is something entirely new
something. let us hope, better than any
| of the ingredients that united to pro-
] ID.alr af1
/ ing them or mingliRg in them, il eager,
! hungry, ambitious human lne, actuated
/ by the strongest motives that can urge
I humanity forward. And t.lat life IS in
al forms and Of al QUALITIES It is re-
! fined end brutal; 1t is educated and ig-
ro9ant; it has red and Black and white
skins It's experiences sound the depths
and reach the heights CT human suffer-
ing. Whose shall De dhe master mind
tne't c2n picture this Cosmopolitan life,
inis ooraerlaDd OF song and story, in
satisfying are? Whose the master-pen
that SHAH delreate in language an eGa-
qu2te representation Of ti1is restless life
through all its dangers and vicissitudes.
its triumphs and achievements? For
him VINO snail accomplish the exalted
task, Tonor shall weave her most glori-
Eying cnaplets and fame shall appoint
MIN worldwide co-onation,
But as yet the fruits are meagre.
People must nave leisure before tbey
can become interpretive. When the
gaze has to be objective in order 10
achieve bre9d and butter today, it can
rarely become subjective in order to
produce work OF art tomorrow. Only
mere and there has a real beginning been
accomplished, OF course, there are writ
ers in Oklahoma today; no country on
earth was ever 50 written about, was
so recl1lessly abused or so extravagant-
iy glorified. But rarely indeed have
such deliverances risen TO the sublime
rank Of literature: rarely nave they
sought TO interpret the lives of tlios.
people who constitute the Oklahoma of
today and whose influence shall create
Fhe Oklahom2 Of the future These
abundant writings have been almost
wholly ephemeral in haracter-so-ca,l-
ed 'write-ups OF this or that locality, US
ually undertake for an immediate con-
slderation in dollars and cents and quite
as usually forgotten as soon as the
boom edition of the paper for wnicI,
they were pieced together has been sold.
Here and there pamphlets have appeared
or magazine numbers been published,
which thave said and done similar things
on more pro,enitious scale. But the
catalogue of books written by Okla
hora authors upon Oklahoma soil is
-e,l,-
life Of her people mas not yet found an
interpreter in language. The books,
stories, poems. articles, and other liter
ary products have as rule lacked To-
cal Color and would better become the
staid and puritanical scenes Of Massa- |
chusetts than the simple and unconven-
tional life of the west
Among Oklahoma authors vino have
written stories are to be classed Miss
Blanche Carr of Oklahoma City, who |
has contributed 10 the Southern Maga- |
zine, Munsey's Magazine, and other |
eminent publications; Mrs. Sally Pate
Steen OF Enid, whose story, His Mil !
honaine Client won a prominent prize |
in the Black Cat competition for short |
tales; and Mr.. Henry Walker of Okla |
noma City, whose stories have attract |
ed considerable attention in eastern cir |
cles. He MS also written excellent |
verse, spirited and readable In other |
lines. Mrs. Marion Rock published a /
history Of Oklahoma in $780, which con- |
%ains much valuable and interesting |
matter concerning the incidents OF |
opening and settlement and in regard TO /
the prominent figures connected with |
those stirring events. TIE campaign OF |
1895 called forth two volumes from Ok
lGhoma, which were used as campaign /
documents by the national committee
Of the Republican party. Sans Ameri-
can Sc:lOol, by Hon. Frank H. Greer OF
Guthrie, and The Poor Locking For
ward, by Hon. Sterling T. King OF SILL
water. In 1889. 'Bunky,' the pscudonym !
OF discharged soldier, published IN pa
per covers The First Eight Weeks Of
c Cses1saR, snferes;irg dsp1srt
product. 8. T. Hainer OF
Guthrie and Hon. D. T. Morgan of
Perry nave published law books which
have proved popular among Oklsaoma.s
barr.9ters.
And the poets nave not been siierr..
This land g red apple and clustering
grape has already inspired number
~ singers who war6le meloliously ana
whose verses nave found welcome ont
side the territory. The Century, the
Overland Monthly, the Midland Month
", the Youths Companion. the Arena,
and other prominent publications east