The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-10-10

Leonard Merrick tells that tho flfs
money that he earned with his pen cam
from Ttt.Bifs-ie shillinss aud I penc'
tor paragraph called what DO womcl
Eat'" lie estimated that Tif.Bifs woult
be worth about ft0 a year 10 him aftel
that. lie began 10 feel himself reall,
and truly literary man when he con
tflbnied 5000 word story 70 another
paper for : shlllings and 0 pence. II wni
proud day when the editor sponta
neously raised him to 10 shIllIngs fol
other stories. Conan Doyle began e
write at school. editing a magazine of d
lioIslieyist tendency. Then he wrote the
prise poem. His first money earned was
ii for transIating an article about gas
meters for some Scotch technical paper
Ticn he received three euineas from
chanlbcrs's Journal for the story called
'Tle Sassassa Valley"
rrfIAT was In 1879. and Conan Doyle
L continues: There was hiatus then.
but wrote lot which. happily never
appeared. Then | had four or five short
stories, also very crude. In London So
eiefp, which was edited by Mr.. Hosg.
lie claimed the whole copyright. and
brought ont a book Of these later. much
TO my horror. but Il has. / hope. died
from It's own internal defects. also got
Into Temple Ear. An The reor Round and
finally cornhiH. but during eight or nine
years OF work never. at ms best. made
$50 In any year. Then wrote my prem
tice novel. The Firm OF tsIrdlestone. very
melodramatic. but no one would touch Il.
Then Micah Clarke accepted by Andrew
Lang after much turning down. Then
two short books on Sherlock Holmes,
which made no mark at all at the time.
Finally The White Company which
really cleared the road for me. I was 30
when | wrote It. After that came the
Sherlock Holmes stories'
JEFFREY FARNOL believes that his
q ambition to write began when as
very small boy he used to listen for
hours while his father read aloud, and
In that way absorbed Cooper. Thaclseray.
Dickens. Scott, Dumas and Stevenson.
At the age OF II lie was apprenticed to
firm of engineers in Birmingham and by
them returned to his parents with the
comment. mo good for work-always
Then he went TO New York,
and In intervals of scene painting man.
aged to exc out an existence by writing
stories for the magazines. Large por-
tions of "The Broad Highway were
written in the great studio. grimy and
rat haunted, at Thirty-eighth street and
Tenth avenue. It was returned by two
publishers, then by third. as being too
long and too English" Il sent the manu-
script to my mother, who was. and still
is, my severest critic, and she gave il to
her old friend Shirley B. Jevons, the
editor of the Sportsman who found
publisher. 1t is now in its twenty-first
edition." BIS
:
A VERY famous book Of twenty-five
"A years ago was Beatrice Harraden's
ships That Pass In the Night" which
has been translated into French, German,
italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, Rus
sian, Hungarian, japanese. Dutch and
has also been putt into Braille for the
blind. Miss Harraden wrote that novel as
4 result Of trip to Switzerland in search
IF health. OF 1t she says. g 1t was written,
like all my hooks. without any fixed idea
Of plot. Mr.. Blaekwood refused to pub
ish it because he did not believe that it
would sell. Then it was accepted. Many
leople wrote to me about the book. You
lave a sympathetic heart, l am sure
Please send my daughter to Italy to train
IS singer for three years. Please to
send me f30O to finance my new patent,
which will benefit yourself and the whole
yorld!' A great many letters reached
ne from Germany; one in particular from
/ Prussian officer, who told me his age
md his regiment, and when he had fin
shed praising me said that his letter
vas not to be taken as a proposal Of
MFR. BURGIN thinks that considering
lVl the mental stress and strain to
which writer's are subjected it is remark
bile that many of them live to advanced
ge "Fielding's death is ascribed to his
Medicines. Sternes lungs were naturally
dosing himself with qHack
With drafts of tar water Goldsmith was
worried. Smollett had slug
ish liver. Charlotte Bronte's health was
eriously impaired by the struggles (not
terary) and privations of her young
ays. Scott killed himself by struggling
B pay debts not his own. Dickens bfoks
own through the loss of vitality brought
bout by his reading tours and love OF
ing walks. Thackeray had terrible
amily troubles. Crockett read each Of
is $4,000 books and Scott's novels every
ear, and rose at o'clock after six hours
leep. It is a wonder he lived as long
$ he did. Mrs. Trollope died at IS, her
~ Anthony at 81. He might have lived