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1. 2 • pea n111 toe. ass , IS st• n or • In 15%, ornp , n Ir red. 01' 01,10 5. - LATE EUGENE --PIELD. -- - THE CHILDREN'S FAVORITE POET WAS GREATLY BELOVED. e A Sketch of lilt Life as Told by the Paper That Discovered a Plied Position in Literature Hie Own Serest UGEN E 'FIELD, one of the best known of western poets, died very suddenly last Mon- day at his home in Chicago. A short sketch of his life is published in the Chicago Record and is as MI- _ lows: A boy was born in St. Louis forty-five years ago of old colonial stock, who grew up in New England and the west, and thus came to possess as a man many of the characteristics of the dwel- lers in both these sections. While he was yet a little child his mother died, and he was placed in the care of his aunt, Miss Mary French, of Amherst, Mass. At 17 years of age he entered Williams college. His father, Roswell M. Field, a distinguished lawyer of St. Louis, who is, perhaps, best known as one of the counsel for Dred Scott in the famous slavery case, was a thorough scholar. He required the young stu- dent to carry on all correspondence with him in Latin. Before the son had been long at Williams college the fath- er died. Prof. John 'W. Burgess, who was appointed the boy's guardian, placed him at Knox college, at Galesburg, Ill. He studied there two years, and after- ward remained for some time at the University of Missouri. In 1S71, having attained his majority, Mr. Eugene Field went to Europe, where he traveled for six months. He became a newspaper reporter in 1871, being employed on the St. Louis Evening Journal, of which he soon was made city editor. He also worked on a newspaper in St. Joseph for several months, and later became managing editor of the 4.ansas City Times. About fifteen years ago he went to Denver as a member of the editorial staff of the Tribune of that city. There within a short time hie writings gave him a wide reputation. Tall, slender, boyish, blonde and ag- gressive, this promising young man came out of the west thirteen years ago. During those years the growth of his powers Was continuous and rapid. Light-hearted and kindly, fond of friends, and yet a scholarly man, de- voted to his family and a little child among children, he was learning les- sons of his art in a variety of schools. His capacity for work was prodigious. A pen capable of making only the fin- est hair strokes, when once set to trav- eling over a pad of paper on his knee, within two hours supplied enough of his beautiful, mieroscopic writing to fill a long newspaper column of agate type. Usually the sheets went to the printers without a blot or erasure. Yet Mr. Field's best productions were ey no means hastily done. A poem or a story grew in his mind for days, and sonic - times for weeks or months, before a word of it was written. Finally its turn came, and then the whole was set down in all haste. Apparently there was never a lack of subjects. The trouble lay mainly in the picking and ehoes- Rig. Realizing that his alelity to do good work was constantly increasing, Eugene Field was slow to publish his stories and poems in book form. His volumes were issued because not even their severest critic, the author of them, could help confessing that they deserv- ed to see the light. Queer Suit for Damages. Richard Tait. of Rochester, N. Y., has begun suit to recover $5,000 from Bernard Deutschier, a barber, who he alleges maliciously shaved off his lux- uriant mustache. Tait says that In' visited Deutschier's shop last Saturday and asked for a shave. Being tired he fell into a doze under the soft ministra- tions of the tonsorial artist. When he awoke he found to his dismay that he had been given a \clean shave\ and no mistake. Until that time he had worn a fine mustache, long, yellow and silky. It had been the result of years of culti- -- EUGENE FIELD. A BLUE GRASS DIANA. LORILLARCI SPENCER'S TRIBU - i E TO CAROLINE M1SKEL-HOYT. She Wax I.:decried In a Convent rod Nu Shadow of Scandal Ever Sullied licr Name -Such {Toupin Are Capable of Elevating the Stage. BLUE -GRASS DI- ana-tall, a s the daughters of Ken- tucky, God's gar- den, are apt to be - with eyes of tur- quoise blue and a cloud of undulant auburn hair -t h e kind called Titian - red - which lights up the head like an aureole ants storms the stage with beauty. Nose irregular, but then, with all due deference to the Greek god- desses, a straight nose on a woman is rarely beautiful. Sir Peter Lely, Eng- land's best fare painter, knew this and preferred to paint the upward, hopeful, piquant nose -the kind which Tenny- son was the first to exalt in rhyme, \tip -tilted like the petal of a flower.\ Her figure is as fetching as her face. Svelte -I hate this word that seems the especial property of lady and ladytied novelists, yet no other fits as well her • a/l/2/e/ y vatioa, and it will take years to grow another like it. In fact, a new growth will never be as soft as the one re- moved by the cruel razor. An angry altercation followed the discovery, but the berber,,Tait claimed, only latighed at his sorrow. He then consulted with his friends and they advised him to sue. Tait says he can prove actual pecuniary damages. He was keeping company with a wealthy young lady. whom he intended to marry some day. His yellow mustache he was sure was a most potent factor in his suit, and now, having lost it, he feels that his chances have greatly diminished. MR. RHINO AT WORK ON STATUE OF CALHOUN. Mr. J. Massey Rhind, the sculptor, Is now engaged, in his country studio at Closter, N. J., on a heroic statue of Calhoun. A good idea of the magni-' tude of the work is given by the Pict- ure. The statue, when completed, which will not be for five or sia months yet, is to be set up in the city of Charles- ton, S. C. Mr. Rhin(' receives his com- mission from the Ladies' Calhoun as- sociation of Charleston, which had or- ganized and raised a fund for the erec- tion of a statue of Calhoun when the war broke out. After the war half of the fund was expended on a statue which Is now standing in Charleston, net it is not a satisfactory one, and Mr. Ithind's is designed to take its place. of the original members of the emcees - t ion only four or five now survive. One of these is Mrs. Snowden, now ninety yaers old. She from the first has been president of the association, and Is said to have insured the safety of the fund during the Nal' by sewing the govern - came to New York in 1889, and who has since then produced some quite not- able work. His grandfather and father were sculptors before him; and the lat- ter produced the statue of William • Chambers, the publisher, and the re- clining statue of the Marquis of Mon- trose in St. Giles -works that are re- garded as among the choicest art treas- ures of Edinburgh. Mr. RhInd first studied for e short time in Edinburgh, then in London, and then in Paris un- der Dolan. It was soon after complet- ing hie studies in Paris that he came to America. The first work he did after coming was, for the decoration of the Theological seminary at Twenty-first street and Ninth avenue, New York. Ills reputation, however 4 wags estab- lished by his designs for the bronze doors of Trinity church, donated by William Walfforf Astor in commemora- tion of his father, and his designs for the King fountain in Albany, N. Y. He Is at present engaged on a large dec. 4tommixittr i p fe -1 : rffrtrfniftn_ to rn! 1 , r)drz, in which it Wda ruler:ter]. Into ller petticoat It is also said thr.t, i n t o r riling Ii vs. there Naga romantic meet trot lt\Pti her rind Calhoun./ Mr blurt is a young Srotehmao who 0 — WV(' flgere for the portico of the Alilerieall Surety building. New York, and AP elaborate seheme of deeoration for eo - iimerccorent hail Prineeton col- lege. cloud into his Office. He engaged her at once to play the leading part of Ruth, the minister's daughter, in \A Temperance Town.\ lie tried her and hie play on New England and the pros inces first, fur he ss as man of business as well as poet, and had the caution of his courage, the common - itemise of great talent a faculty very rare in combination with genius, though Shakespeare bad it as well as Goethe, Hugo and Dickeue, Miss Scales. or Caroline MIskel. according to he7 stage name, crtme oar under atlyt,n- tages, like Mark Taples under difficul- ties- strong, very strong.. The world knows the rest of her romance. The playwright fell in love with his star and the star with her poet. In their present combination they continue to give delight to vast audienves- clean, sweet merriment, set to the tune of ex- cellent acting. May the music always continue and increase in variety and volume! It is to be hoped, however. that the wonderful, swift success of Scales will not inspire too many girls with the idea that they can come to New York and do likewise. Almost all women of intelligence plus a Vivacious temperament can act quite a little off the stage In daily life or in private theatricals, but not enough to make an attempt at more worth while. Not is beauty, however great. a sufficient ex- cuse for the venture. Nor are there enough unmarried managers to wel- come every young girl of blossoming brains and beautyegive her a chance, • CAROLINE MISKEL-HOYT. form with its cunning curves of a full- ness that may be styled merely th , ate- ness of refinement. Voice and are here, likewise, in proper propor: to insure a just success. Her family name was Scales, and she was born Sept. 18, 1873, at Covington, Ky., but he:' parents removed to Toronto, tint . where her father resides. IlSr grand- father, C. J. Mendiez. was a man of note In his day, and died chief juetice of the supreme court of Kentucky. Thus this girl had advantages of breed- ing and station to start with which many actresses have to aequire--sorne- times In the face of heavy odds. She was educate , ' in a convent and no shadow of scandal ever sullied her reputation, lIt r first eneagemeet was with Robert Mantel], p',iying .n all part In \The Fare In the Moon; iv: - : ' nit trot see her In this and hart no in- formation as to whether she gave any earnest of her preneht force and finish. Very likely not. One of the best actors IN \A CONTENTED WOMAN.\ ever knew WIla a frightful stick his debut rind hls einess stuek at to him like glue for sortie titre !MSS Scales' next appearance was a Iiily's :Bei there she did show eomewiee of the wild colt fervor of Mary Anderson, and a hint of the ...Hole lIquid, hispiqh charm of Ada Remin, bean , - Ada ae- mitred the mono, hroine of manner tiii and lost her hold on !noel of the crir in, PV•Pilt flittlfill Willie and A ligustin Co. magnItieent. In I1193, confident of her abilities, and. of emirs°, not Wird to her own beauty. the Kerlin , Sy c I ne Z e e _ese 4./ / — marry her, compose plays for her, and stake her, at last, that rare combine - ,et -a theatrle artist and \A Con- -, reed Woman,\ welch latter, by -the - bye, Is the felicleutis title of the latest play written for Mrs. Caroline Miskel- Hoyt by her unusually clever husband. -Lorillard Spencer, in the Gallery of Players. - RACING NEWS. The new bicycle track at the Phila- delphia Driving Park is rapidly ap- proaching completion. Jack Prince is reported as being en- gaged to take charge of a covered bi- cycle race track at Nashville, Tenn. Augost Hansen, of Minneapolis, fin- ished a 24 -hour bicycle ride recently In that city, having ridden 375 miles in 231u. 7m. and 50s. At the Velodrome ci'lliver, In Paris, a short time ego, Banker, the American bicyclist, won a heat in the race for the Prix de Madagascar. The semi-final heat was won by Jacquelin, n French rider, with Banker second. Jacquelin won the final heat and the rare. Bank- er and Bouillon rode a dead heat for second place. No more promising candidate for '96 honors has appeared on the circuit this year than little Earl Kiser, the Dayton youth who is riding in the yellow col- ors of the Stearns team. Bald competitor the little defeat, and in time even it,,, e from Buffalo may be over. Wise In His Generation. W. H. Hoy, the deaf outfielder of the Cincinnati team, during the summer months accumulates all the popular publications and nettle then) to his home. When whit one-, en he has any amount of reading ma t ter to while away his time. The (-outing winter hr. will continue his reading of law and medicine, In both of which branches he is well- versed. An Errly Diller Dell, rerirect log the use of the (living bell ri Lures( ia the relation of an exhibit it T,J1,1(r . ises ee the Emperor Charles V in the tnidda , of the sixteenth Century. when INO Greet:9. In the presence of fil`V,ni! sand re•• IPt. thrdIT , eli..e dans a in the sr, re r in a large invvi - ti•(1 ttlo with roe ir ing light, and egain elset bring wetted. - Rea Itnthinif for Woreec Nethitte, does horses more good in solved on a coin) de thealr-, 1,0 moderation than sea bathing. It is me laid siege to Hoyt's. The practi, . I 'cc always easy to coos them into the of this brilliant nether and nets Ir , r Watfr, but once pp t the fringe of curl saw, and not a moment dorrhte-• 'If ing wPver and rarftg tide. they en vision that hail floatel Pee a in 'on y a n'IN as mush as anyone. Nurse must have some tea too; 11410 \ k'OR BOYS AND GIRLS. \ will be a lady just eotne In. Mre. Nunn please sit down in the locking chair. I think you Sun t take sugar in your tea?\ \No but plenty of eelk, please,\ said 5 th e nuree. seating beim, If. inionehes Balloon .... So the aft. moon pasted very 1114'1 I'm, longs and when evening I Lizzie sued; \It was a good thole: Li ei yeura. Mary, that we should pley et 'Attie - aeon Tea.'\ GOOD Spoke - STORIES FOR Tel e FoLKS. _ . LITTLE The Changing seaniin• - Mary'. Aft ern\... en - Selected with a Special Vies. in Phras- ing Juainr .1nierica. TANI/LNG where the stinse embotre. Crumbling, fall adown the skies, Autumn muses and remembers, Betiding stern re- gretful eyes. - The imperious pur- ple burning From her cheek hat hi burned away, And her bosom feels but yearning For the golden yesterday. Though her kingdom fall asunder Through seditious winds and frost, And the drums of winter thunder, And she sees that all is lost, Yet her royal pride ensureth That none whisper word of scorn; Haggard, battled, she endureth, With a spirit upward borne. Eyes that love her grieve serenely At the pathos of it all, In her bounty free but queenly, Now unbending in her fall. Balloon. Blanche came running into the house calling, \Grandma! grandma!\ in such a loud, excited voice, that poor grand- ma dropped her knitting arid hurried out to see what. was the matter. \0 grandma, dear!\ exclaimed Blanche. \Do you grow balloons?\ \Crow balloons!\ said grandma. \WhYe no, indeed, child, we don't!\ \Then they must have growed them- selves,\ declared Blanche, \ 'cause I found a little yellow one out by the melon -bed just now.\ \Well. I never did!\ said grandma. - Somebody must have let go the string and lost it!\ \Oh no, they didn'1,\ said Blanche, \ 'cause it's got a green stem 'stead of a string, an' It looks like a big Fourth' of July balloon. It isn't round like the ones the balloon -man sells. Not one bit rotund, grandma.\ \Well. I never did!\ exclaimed grand- ma again. \I must go and look at it directly.\ So grandma and Blanche walked quickly down to the vegetable garden. \There it is!\ exclaimed Blanche, as she pulled back a great green leaf. \That's the balloon, grandtna.\ Grand- ma smiled. \They used to call that a gourd, when I was a little girl,\ she said. \We dried them and used them to mend stockings over. I have one of them in my work- basket now.\ Blanche looked sober. \I don't like to mend stockings very well,\ she said slowly, \but maybe it would be nice to mend them over a bal- loon.\ \We'll dry it and see lilt won't,\ an- ewered grandma, as they both walked beak to the house again. Ile Took Tiro. to lite There was an old fellow who nevet had time For a fresh morning lock at the Veleta° sublime, Who never had time for the soft Send of prayer To smooth out the wrink1e-1;ot label and care, Who could not, find time for that service most sweet At the altar of home where the dear ones all meet, And never found time with the people of God To learn the good way that the fat here have trod; But he found time to die, Oh, yes! He found time to die. This busy old fellow, too busy was he To linger at breakfast, at dinner, or tea, For thr d al u e l r f r e y , small chatter of children a But led in his marriage a bachelor life3 Too busy for kisees. too busy for play. No time to le- Ice ing, no time to be gay, No health, eto replenish his vanieteng lth. No ti • m ea e lth to ; enjoy his swift-gatiterin vi g But he found time to die; Oh, yes! He found time to die! This beautiful world had no beauty for him: Its colors were black and its sunseine was dim. No leisure for woodland, for river, or hill, No time in his life just to think eel be still; No time for his neighbors, no tins for his friends, No time for those highest immutable ends Of the life of a man who is not tar al day, But, for worse or fcr better, termite and aye. Yet he found time to die? Oh, yes! He found time to die! -Amos R. Wells, in Harper's NV. tear. The Way of 1:1r14. \1 never heard a young girl say as young girie are fond of etying,\ ob- served an old lady in the boarding house, \what sort ef a man she will marry, and wli7it sort only, that I do not think of certain Fpeectiee to which' I, myself, have listened to from pretty, lips, before this. A us hool friend of mine so held New Jersey in detestallon that she tore Its map from her geogra- phy. She used to sty that nettling would induce her to marry a matt Who was a widower, or wore a wig, or lived in New Jersey: and the nian or her choice was guilty of all these tare° enormities. I used to !elk ever my fu- ture with two coustes. I waled riot marry a business man, I said. Kate would not think of a clergyman, or Mary's \Afternoon Tea.\ Carry a farmer; am) we married re- Lizzie, Mary and Ernest had been speetively, a tusiuses man, a eltiagy- looking out of the window, ,Watching man, anti a farm',' : It is all like, a, the falling snow, smart young Ana , : s sn 'help' hi niy i \It won't leave off,\ said Mary. \le grandmother's Icit sere who wns nt Is 3 o'clock now, and in winter it gets to declaim to its , sedreti on the us era dark very soon. We shall not be able in which she heel all men, al; sye to go out of doors again to -clay.\ winding up her (tenet , nit on of (le ,ee \But there will be plenty of snow by: 'No, I wouldn't marry any ean for snowballs to -morrow,\ said Ernest. \I shall not go out to -morrow if you make snowballs,\ said Lizzie. , \Because you don't like to have them thrown at you,\ said Ernest. \No I do not.\ said Lizeie. \Well said Mary. \don't let its riculture? te , any good reeson think of that now. Let us think of why the state sins ,I.1 'provide for the something to do in the house. Who; education of the farmers' boys ate! al - shall we do?\ low the girls to get their trateeng \I don't know,\ said Ernest, wherever they ean7 Wouldn't it be a - Nor Y.\ said Lizzie. good thing to i1r7(”I Ito - etillc:' , :!ori 'I. us play at 'Afternoon' Tea,' \ at the Massaehn: , .en ,eulturai sald Mary. lees\ These harm I -en The other children laughed. ' befcre now a e do not t .nk \Yes said Mary; \It would be quite 11,, , eeen like grown-up people. I will be mare- , iji Ile re. ha- u. : been suileSsnt ma and pour out the tea, and you and slant' on the !se: st the country Ernest shall be Uncle Tom and Aunt for an agri, education. It Susan staying with get the . may be that they are too desiroue to cups anti saucers out ,,, scrse's cup- leave the farm to think of preparing board, and you will see how nice It will themselves for woman's work on: the be.\ farm. So Mary drew a little round table up I near the nursery fire and opened nurse's cupboard, and took out some cups and saucers anti the sugar basin, and a Jug of milk that was there, and put them on the table. that walks on two rugs.' ene -he didn't. She married a ono -leer , I le me Agrieniture for Girls. An enthus:astic farmer's wife • lid why shouldn't girls study ag- After ilhirty %ears. At St. Louis. Mo.. a Sniff , blade Inches in length. was removed rev , i:ly from the shoulder of Niece Ityen. The blade had been in Rsen's body for \Why here is a piece of cake!\ said more than thirty yt tire, dad altho ugh Mary, \and there is the tea-caddy. If - it had prevented Ryan trent this freo we had only some tea!\ use of his left arm it had re xer g•,.en \Why what are you doing children?\ him much pain 'on said nurse, who just then came into with a band of 1 , . . to the room. \We are !Hiving n new game of 'At- the front In Peel ess stable In a melee and though e , errs in te the ternoon Tea,' \ said Mary. \I am mam- end of the war he was partially Bs - ma pouring out tea, and Lizzie Is Aunt shied from the wound. Susan and Ernest la Uncle Tone\ \Only you hat, e no tea to pour out,\ said nurse; \but I think .1 can help you.\ And she putt some tea Into her little teapot, and poured some hot water from the kette- upon it. \It will soon be ready,\ she mid; \so take your places rieind the table, and I will wait upon Is nee !less to say the ptisoner was c0114 'Oh, how nes , '\ Lizzie and e Mary • Thank you es en so much, nurse '• Selfish. rritte 1:iliio \j oit ra is about the moo selfish paga and co , , tlion hrt ;id ill loWll.\ 'It Is all (trite I. it.' alitl she gave Lizsie and Ernest Over of tea. \Do sou take sneer, tee - le Tom?\ \Yes do; I like thy tea vete sweet.' replied Ernrst. • Thgt Settled flip Dish. At Conersviiie. Ind tne ag:linSt man on trial for Sul gisry i:inged on a Snan's ability to a I uggle through a seven in, nit transom. Tire prosecutor got a 1 . 11 of the same size, pot it on th, r and crawled throegh it, to the gin ;,t , .iification of all in the court. It Row can you ee tests I saw him buying 10 -cent cn]..ii!. for you the other day \ \Yee: he ' , might thiee for a quarter, nut two in his poeloi and gave me the cold cent one. - N V Recorder. You
