Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-11-29

Nebraska, and so link the east with the
west, was Major Frank North, much
neglected American hero He was as
certainly builder Of empire as Daniel
Boone, Kit Carson, or Sam Houston,
but not half so widely known Even
the Nebraskan country where he
fought and endured has only recently
been described for the first time in fic-
ton In Ella Higginson's capital no.
vel, "Out of the West" The author has
laid her realistic scenes in columbia
Junction"-the present Columbus, Neb.,
whose site was the Sioux battle-ground
of final protest against the great rail-
road.
Mrs. Humphry Wards country home
is at Stocks Tring, near the village OF
Iyinghoe, which Is said to have given
its name TO SCOTS "fvanhoe," The
estate is an old one, and Is mentioned
in Domesday Book. In the seventeenth
century the poet Waller lived there
and Sir Walter Scott Is said to have
frequently visited the house. The gar
dens are quaint and old fashioned, with
statuary here and there. There Is a
nine-hole golf course on the estate,
which lies on the dividing line between
Buckinghamshire and HertfOrdshire
and is within u convenient distance of
London. Mrs. Wards novel, Lady
Roses Daughter" which Is appearing
serially in Harper's Magazine, is con-
sidered by many readers the most dis
tinctly entertaining story she has ever
written. Mrs. Ward works methodical-
ly, and usually selects the morning
hours.
one of the mourners az the recent fun
eral OF Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
was the first woman ordained
as a minister In this country, Mrs An
toinette Louisa Brown Blackwell of
Henrietta, New York. Mrs. Blackwell
is now In her seventy eighth year. She
was one Of the pioneer workers for the
rights of women. including suffrage,
and endured With them the usual fate
( innovators. According 10 Harpers
Encyclopaedia Of United States His
tory" she was graduated at Oberlin
college, o.. In lSi7, and at the Theologi
cal School at oberln In 1850 She be-
gan In 1886 TO speak In public, and first
preached In lSiS. She became the reg
ular pastor Of an orthodox Congrega-
tlonal church at South Butler and Saw
annah, New York, at the age OF u, but
resigned year afterwards. Later she
adopted the Unitarian belief. She Is the
author of several works of note.
Anthony Hope, whose new novel "The
Instructions Of Peggy" has brought
him again prominently before the pub
lic has lately been busy in collabora-
ton with Mr. H. G. Rhodes, IN drama
tlzing short story which he wrote
some years ago entitled Captain
Dleppe." which Charles Frohman is to
put on the stage this season. Not salts
fled with his many successes as novel;
let and dramatist Mr. Hope Hawkins
is said TO have political aspirations.
Mr.. owen Wister lays stress upon the
historical value OF Mr. Frederic REM
Ingtons pictures OF western life, in his
introduction TO the artists latest port
folio Of drawings. Done In the Open"
when he has also provided with verses
explanatory of the scenes and charac-
tiers depicted. This collaboration of
the author OF the "Virginian" with Mr.
Remington gives the portfolio great
err value. or the drawings themselves
II may BE- said that the artist has never
done more striking. more picturesque
more virile work than here. The whole
west that is passing or is already past
Is depicted here-the Indian. the cow
boy the scout. the soldier. These are
types worth preserving IN word and
drawing, that posterity may know them
and their free. wild life, the advance
guard OF civilization OF n continent. Mr.
Remington has furnished one colored
double-page -plate-the last stand OF a
scout and two soldiers In y deadly cir