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THE BALTIMORE SUN ALMANAC, 1903. 43
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CECIL RHODES, THE EMPIRE MAKER--Continued.
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Family estates in England to relatives.
Winners of the Rhodes scholarships
are to be chosen not only for proficiency
in studies, but for athletic accomplishments,
manhood, force of character
and other qualifications. The specific
requirements in the election of a
student to a scholarship are:
"First--His literacy and scholastic
attainments.
"Second--His fondness for or success
in manly, outdoor sports, such as
cricket, football and the like.
"Third--His qualities of manhood,
such as truth, courage, devotion to
duty, sympathy for and protection of
the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and
fellowship.
"Fourth--His exhibition during the
school days of moral force of character
and instincts to lead and take interest
in his schoolmates, for these latte
attributes will, likely, in after life, guide
him to esteem the performance of
public duties as his highest aim."
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FRANCIS BRET HARTE.
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Francis Bret Harte, the American
poet and novelist, died May 6, 1902, at
Redhouse, Caberley, near Aldershot,
in England, where he was visiting some
friends. The cause of his death was an
affection of the throat, from which he
had suffered a long time. He had been
living quietly in England for some
years, spending most of his time in the
country. He was born August 25,
1839, in Albany, New York, where his
father was a teacher. In 1854 young
Harte went with his mother to California
in hope of bettering the family fortunes.
On the Pacific Coast he had
varied and eventful literary experiences.
He began his literary career as a
compositor on a newspaper at Eureka by
putting in type some of his own little
sketches and printing them. He was
in 1857 a compositor on the Golden
Era in San Francisco, and worked up
to a position on the editorial staff of
the paper. In 1890 he published his
"Condensed Novels," a series of clever
parodies on popular novelists. The
Story of M'liss" was run as a serial in
the Golden Era. "The Legend of Mont
Diable" was published in the Atlantic
Monthly in 1863.
Under the impulse, always strong in
him, to found a school of distinctive
Western American literature, he wrote
"The Society of the Stanislaus," the
first of his humorous and original dialect
poems, in which Truthful James,
afterward famous for his remarks upon
the heathen Chinee, made his first
appearance.
Between 1860 and 1865 he published
a number of striking poems and lyrics,
which, in the latter year, were collected
in a volume with the title of "The Lost
Galleon," the subject of the leading
poem in the book. The publication of
the verses usually called "The Heathen
Chinee," in 1870, greatly added to his
reputation. This poem ran like wildfire
through the newspapers everywhere.
From 1864 to 1870 he filled an
appointment in the branch mint at San
Francisco. At the same time, dating
from 1868 to 1871, he was editor-in-
chief of the Overland Monthly, in
which he first published "Th Luck of
Roaring Camp." Oddly enough this
story was generally disapproved in the
office of the magazine, and its publication
was made an issue of his
remaining as its editor. The result fully
sustained his judgment, for it aroused
the whole reading public in the East.
He moved to New York in 1871 and
lectured with great success in the
larger cities on "The Argonauts of '49."
He was appointed Consul to Crefeld,
Germany, in 1978, and afterwards
transferred to Glasgow, where he was
well received by literary men of Scotland
and England. He resigned the
Glasgow Consulship in 1885, and after
that time resided in the suburbs of
London. He and his wife separated 28
years before his death. Of their union
there were two daughters.
Mrs. Harte and her two daughters
moved to Plainfield, N.J., and
afterward to New York City.
The works of Francis Bret Harte include
the following: "Luck of Roaring
Camp," 1868;" "The Outcasts of Poker
Flat," 1869; "Niggies," "Tennessee's
Partner," "An Idyl of Red Gulch,"
1870-71; "Mrs. Skagg's Husband,"
1872; "Echoes of the Foothills," 1874;
"Thankful Blossom," 1877; "Story of
a Mine" and Drift from Two Shores,"
1878; "The Twins of Table Mountain
and Other Stories," 1879; "Found at
Blazing Star," 1882; "In the Carquinez
Woods; "A Millionaire of Rough and
Ready," 1887; "A Phyllis of the Sierras,
"Drift from Redwood Camp and
"The Argonauts of North Liberty," 1888;
"The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh," 1889;
"A Ward of the Golden Gate," 1890;
"A Sappho of Green Springs. 1892;
"Three Partners." 1897, "Tales of
Trail and Town," 1898: "Stories in
Light and Shadow," 1898: "Mr. Jack
Hamlin's Meditation," 1899; "From
Sandhill to Pine," 1900, and "Under the
Redwoods," 1901.
His last volume of fiction was "Openings
in the Old Trail."

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