The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-09-06

ana mecblnR neI ~ tOui-oHDiNNo
that he raves over ss altogether lovely
Then he adds: 'she will never forge
me. have entered into her life, anC
ever after she will be different woman
for this meeting II his goo-gooini
affects her as It does most Of his readeri
she will probably expire Of curvature o
the spine, or at the very least biz
alleged love vibrations will start several
iugrowingtoenals on theyonng woman't
feet.
Some Western men who made all the
reputation they have on the Pacific
coast are making themselves smaller
than Is cents. For instance, there il
Bret Harte, who has expatrlated himself
to make money off Of the people OF Great
Britain because they would buy almost
anything he might wIite on the
strength of his reputation as humor.
let. lie has made money and intimates
that he is no longer sensitive TO the
opinions held OF him in America. 1t is
even printed Of him in the English pa.
pers that he no longer has even trace
Of American accent in his conversation,
and that his hazel eyss take on fiery
look when criticism Of his works APP
pears in an Hamerican newspaper. He
has also recently stated THAT his father
was professor Of t1reek, and in that
" ay he early imbibed taste for litera-
ture. He even went 30 far as to say
that the story that made him
lannon's, ."The Luck of Roaring
Camp" was not appreciated here and
he had 10 publish IL at his own ex-
pense. At distance, II looks as II no
nan ever got literary notoriety cheaper
han Bret Harte did with that story
about tidbit woman with saffy colorsd
lair dropping surreptitious baby in a
40er mining camp. Bret Harte, who
low delights to rub shoulders with
lords and Dukes came to the coast to
eek his fortune at l5 went to work in
.ountry printing office and took to edit
ng country newspaper and, like nine
nut of ten American literary men, il
vas the attrition OF the printing Office
Iru lgery that made him literary art.
at, and not the fact that his father was
school teacher and could read Greek.
lie might have STAYED IN "York State"
nd taught school under his fathers
lose all his life and never been heard of
nless it were as yelper on the
'lsachers at a country game of baseball.
IUw clap eyes on the great man
nd his scorn for the American
newspapers and theIIamerican haccent
t is too bad We appear such patched
Up lot Of people in his eyes when but for
he California gold mines and being
evil in mountain printshop his best
tories could never have been written.
esides the gentleman has held Ameri-
m Offices in foreign lands, and, as
homAs Jefferson pointed out, staying
DO long has unamericanized him. II
'ould seem to be the proper thing for
.mericans to pass him by when buying
ooks, and as a matter of fact among
he common run oipeople he is the least
cad OF any living writer who has any
lain on this country. 1t is also report
d that John Hay, now Secretary OF
tate, is becoming ashamed OF some OF
he earlier western poems that made
lin famous, and that he is going to
urppress them ON account Of adverse
riticisn. After he ia secretary of state
10 will probably be made minister to
England and il will be neediul to drop
lie Hamerioan haocent, il is even I'M
imated that his famous poem, Little
'reeches," is among the verses that are
low condemned and that he would glad
y see buried. As matter Of fact that
'oem made him all he 10 in literary
way and he was long known as Little
3reeches, The Pike County Ballads
bout Jim Bludsoe and similar sturdy
Western characters made him, in way,
ome nearer "flling his breeohes" than
nything he has ever done since. Here
8 the language of the rough backwoods-
nan, expressing himself at the thought
4 Little Breeches being In heaven. that
5 now limited at AS causing it's author
'ain for beiag blasphemy;
How DID he glt therep Angels.
Ne could never have walked Ia that storm.
They Jest seoOped down ana toted him
To whar Il was safe aud warm.
Aud think that saving llitle ehild.
And bringing Them 20 his own.
Is a deraed sleht better baslaess
Thaa lOafing around the Throne.