The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-07

der. little more than a boy, and tried sew
eral means Of making a living, finally Sc
curing a newspaper position OF what fol-
lowed. here Is his own account:
Il wanted" says Mr.. Gable. ito be al
ways writing and they wanted me to be
always reporting. This didn't work well,
and so when summer came on and they
began to reduce expenses II was intimated
that my resignation would be accepted.
vowed that ! would never have anything
to do with a newspaper again. and l
went back to bookkeeping"
OF what next followed Mr.. Cable says:
Il was in a large cotton house, and 1
kept their accounts for awile, until | fin
ally offered TO take entire charge of the
counting room at so much salary per year
and hire what assistants l wanted. This
suited the firm as well as it did me, and l
began 70 90 more and more literary labor.
Finally l employed cashier, and all day
l would write a my desk, only being con-
suited by him on important matters l
was making a beginning then. l first car
red On a weekly column in the Picayune
but this writing of trihes after awhile
grew wearisome, and 1 resolved to put it
into stories" The putting il into stor-
les" frucHhed into "Old Creole Days"
Mr.. Cables first book, published just 20
years ago.
MIR. Hamlin Garland is by now well
started in his first visit to England For a
time at least. he VIII be especially under
the guidance of Mr.. Zangwif, with whom
he formed an intimate acquaintance while
they were both sojourning here in New
York this last winter one OF his projects
Is 10 go with Zangwin into the London
Ghetto and see the people and localities
that Mr.. Zangwin has made us all familiar
with through his stories, Children of the
Ghetto" "Dreamers of the Ghetto" and so
on. While Mr.. Garland's journey Is pri-
MARTY for diversion, the bred-in- the-bone
author instincGveiy finds material" in
everything, and Garland had begun to
put his journey 10 active literary use be-
fore he had taken the first step in it. He
had begun to write a story depicting the
feelings and experiences of a r-headed
stout hearted cowboy from the shadow of
the Rocky mountains called to make a
business journey TO London. Certainly here
is a fine opportunity and one which Mr..
Garland. joining his new experience of Eu-
rope with his old and oft-repeated eXper-
ience of the Rocky noun aims. is especially
qualified to make great use Of
Probably the author who is now getting
the best prices for his work after MIR.
kipling, is H. G. Wells the wonder work
CT. Il OF SAibii HAptN VI dN q d3t feii6 III
he is now getting as much as $500 This is
sin a hong ways below MIR. Kipling's roy
al rewards for he receives for a short
story of average length anywhere from 81,
200 to 81 5O0 but II is much above the ordi-
nary. The prices named are for American
rights as we'll as English rights, and thus
The burden of them is not apt to fail on
any single pair of shoulders some English
| editor and some American editor usually
| sharing IL between them.
Wells rise TO his present independence
| has been quite rapid one. Only five or
six years ago, he was struggling writer
| of special. or feature articles on the
| London newspapers. lie had been teach
err and he had written a scientific text
| hook. but he was not known even to him
! self as a writer of stories, Under some
| happy inspiration he wrote The Time Ma
chine. Ii came out in 1895 and had imme
| date success. Within a few weeks 5000
| copies of ii were sold in England, and 1t
| has been selling well ever since, here as
| well as there. Thenceforward Mr. Wells
| was a made man. He had no need TO bother
| further with hand to-mouth work for
| whimsical newspaper editors. but could
| become story writer pure and simple,
| and he his own master. He is man OF
uncertain health, and has had once or
! twice TO knock Off work entirely for IA
considerable time. He is stln only 80 years
| old. f. c. Martin.
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