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H March 17, 1915.
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B Music by Harry Girard
M Lyrics by Joseph Blethen, Jr., and Oliver
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. AMBROSE BIERCE
I knew the man well. ' He was a fatalist and did
not believe in assisting fate. There are those
who affect to believe that ho is letting the re
ports of his death go uncontradicted that he may
enjoy the reading of his obituaries. But I should
say that this were very unlikely. Vain he was,
and not a little curious as to what men thought
of him, but not so vain or so curious as that.
Ambrose Bierce had a peculiarly anomalous
position in the world of letters. The public,
seeking out the best sellers, was little acquainted
with 'his writings. This was partly for the rea
son, strange as it may seem, he despised popular
ity and all that the word stands for. This was
not merely from the desire to bo different, but
for the reason that he lived and thought entirely
out of the groove. Like Thoreau, he held "men
and their dirty institutions" in utter contempt.
He would have lit his cigar with a page of Emer
son and would have thrown Longfellow into the
ash can.
He would never defer in the slightest to the
literary or philosophical opinions of his fellows,
cared nothing for what they might say of his
personnal conduct, however singular or offen
sive, and though he committed many breaches
of custom and gave many affronts, he never apolo
gized. Probably Bierce was more widely known in
the west than in the east, although he lived and
worked on the Atlantic side during his best pe
riod of produtcion. He made no friends among
the literati, and was constantly finding fault with
them in public print. He thought nothing of cru
cifying a popular idol. If anybody wrote about
war, for example, he was pretty sure to be chal
lenged by Bierce, who was deeply versed in army
affairs, not only .having been a military engineer
with General Thomas, but having the whole the
ory and practice of modern warfare at his fingers'
ends. There is no doubt that to Bierce, the Con
stitutionalists owe not a little of their success.
Bierce, who was of New England parentage,
was in Ohio when the Civil war began. He en
listed for the north in 18G1 while in his twenty
first year. Because of his marked ability and
great bravery as a soldier he rose rapidly from
the ranks, and in the course of time became a
captain of infantry. He was wounded at Chicka
mauga, the scene of one of his most vividly writ
ten and most horrible tales. Of the end of this
After the war, from which he emerged as
Major Bierce, he flipped a coin to see whether he
would go in for litrature or a military career.
Literature won and he began to write essays and
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