The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-07

Evening Journal In October of that year
l married MISS Julia Sutherland Com
-tc@-- 1oorn IN Chenango county, New
York; OF 81 Joseph, MO. at that time ii
- of 10 We have had eight children
Jnree daughters and hVe sons.
iii heaita compelled me TO visit Europe
in 1SSS; there l remained fourteen months,
that time being divided between England,
Germany, hOhand and Belgium. My resi-
dence at present is in Duena park, north
shore suburb OF Chicago.
NJ newspaper connections have been
follows: 1906. city editor of the st.
Joseph, Mo, Gazette; 1850 editorial
w-it e on the St Louis Journal and St
Louis Times-Journal; lSS0-Sl, managing
-s,-.-- OF the Kansas City Times: ISSi-S3.
managing editor OF the Denver Tribune
Since 1885 have been a contributor TO the
News
i wrote and published my first bit of
verse in 1873 It was entitled Christmas
T-'-2curer' tsee Little Book Of western
NersC.'D Just ten years later began sdo-
denly to write verse very frequently;
-.-ezr.whito DSS3-1SS9g I had labored dill
gently at writing short stories and tales.
Met OF these l revised half a dozen
times. One. The Werewolf as yet IN
published, I have rewritten eight times
Cu--n- the last eight years
My publications have been, chronoiog-
ically. as follows:
~ The Trioune Primer Denver 1882
(Out Of print, very scarceD cThe Model
Prime illustrated by Hopkins; Tread
way, Brooklyn, 1872. A private ediuon-)
- Culture t1arlana,' IIcknor. BOs-
ton, 1887. (Out of PRINT
a Little Book of Western Verse,
Chicago. 1892 u-drge paper, privately
printed, and limited)
a Little Book of Profitable Tales
Chicago, 1889 large paper, privately
printed and limited)
- a Little Book of Western verse,
SCTibners. New York. 1890.
~ a Little Book Of Profitable Tales
Scr-bne -. New York, 1850 -. s1-,,,
- With Trumpet and Drum, ScTib-
nerS New York 1892
70 Second book Of Verse ScribneTs,
New York, 1898
translation of Horace; McClurg, Chicago,
In CoIlaboratio With Ny Brother, Ros-
well Martin Field
tons of American Authors, Cambridge,
% The Holy Cross and other Tales,
Stone & Kimball Cambridge, 1893
= have a miscellaneous collection Of
books. numbering $500, and l am fond OF
tho quaint and curious in every line. l
am fond of dogs. birds and all small pets
"a passion not approved of by my vile
My favOrite Hover is the carnation,
NY favorite hymn is Bounding Bill
MY favorites in fiction are Hawthorne's
Scarlet Letter Don QuiXOte' and Pill
grim's Progress.
81 greatly love Hans Christian Ander-
sons Tales and I am deeply interested
- folk lore and fairy tales / believe in
ghosts. in witches and IN fairies
u sSouId like TO own a big astronOm-
ical telescope and twenty-four-tune mu-
''E:v heroes in history are Martin Lu-
Their, Nine. Lamballe, Abraham Lincoln ,
ny favorIe. poems are .kIorneT.s Battle
Prayer. WadswOrth's We Are Seven.
Newman's Lead, Kindly Light, Luther, $
hymnS.- SchiteF's The Diver, Horace $
SATURDAY Night 1 dislike Dante and
Byron / should like to have known Jere-
miah, the prophet, old man POggio, Aor-
ace. Walter Scott. Bona }arte; Haw-
He-.s Andersen.
MY fssvorite actor is Henry Irving; act
-c--. Mms. MOdjeska-
81 dislike 'DohGcs,' so-called-
Il should like TO have the privilege OF
voting extended to women
Il am unalterably opposed to capital
punishment
I favor system of pensions for noble
services In literature. art. science, etc.
approve of compulsory education
. If | had my way l should me- ke the
abuse of horses, dogs and cattle penal
offense; should abolish all dog laws and
dog catchers, and l would punish severe
~ everybody who caught and Gagged BIRDS.
L dislike all exercise, and play all
games very indifferently.
Il love to read in bed.
'I believe in churches and schools;
hate wars, armies, soldiers, guns and
II ike music OimitedD
u have been great theatre-gOer.
81 enio~ the society Of doctors and
clergymen.
Il 90 not care particularly for sculpture
or for paintings. I try not to become in
terested in them, for the reason that If J
were to cultivate a taste for them !
should presently become hOpelessly bank
rU-t
am extraxagantly fond of perfumes.
Il am Door diner and drink no wine
or spirits of any kind; do not smoke to-
+ u dislike crowds and I abominate func-
IT am six feet in height: am OF spare
bU,los wei@h $50 pounds and have shock
- taste N dress.
But I like TO have weil-dressed people
1-,o-s- me
MY eyes are blue, my complexion pale,
nv face is shaver and / am inclined 10
badness.
ct is only when I look and see how
Young and fair and sweet my wife Is that
/ have a good opinion of myself
Il am fond of the cOmpanionShip OF wo-
men. and have no uncomfortable pre1u-
dice against feminine beauty. recall with
pride that In thirty-two years of active
journalism ] have always written in rev.
eFential praise of WOma nkind-
II favor early marriage.
Il do not love all children.
Il have tried to dnalyZe my feelings to-
ward children. and think discover that
I love them in so far as I can make pets
Il believe that. f live, I shall do my
best Ntc-ar.- work when / am grand
father.
Il give these facts. conf ssions and OBJ
servations for the information of those
who. for one reason or another. are apply
ing constantly 10 me for biographical data
Inc al