Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-09

months ago. and Goldsmith's house. as
1t is called, had to be propped up on
that side It's wall being covered with
huge tarpaulins held In place by ropes,
which gave the place a most funeral
aspect.
No. 8, a corner house fetched e2,SOO
showing that sentimental considera-
tions had no weight In determining
prices. The "housebreaker' will soon
get TO work on the old home Of the
creator Of the Vicar of Wakefield and
another interesting relic Of eighteenth
century London will be known no more
The Old Cheshire Cheese backs on
Wine Office Court almost opposite No.
c. and doubtless DR.. johnson made
many trip between the chopbouse
Cstill standing) and the home OF his
gentle friend.
Delying in the files OF a London news
paper of the year 1916, correspondent
OF the Westminster Gazette discoy-
cred an account Of how they brought
the good news of Waterloo from Client
to London's Stock Exchange that con-
flicts somewhat radically with the YER
sion Of the story furnished TO the Lon
don journalists last week by Mr.. de
Rothschild a grandson of the banker
to whom the news was brought
Many authors find II more difficult TO
name their books than to write them,
in Merry Mood, a Book Of Cheerful
Rhymes" Nixon Watermans recent
popular work, was entirely printed
with the exception OF the title page)
before the versatile poet or his publish
ers could determine upon title for Il.
Then the authors wife came TO the
rescue with the very appropriate title
and further contributed to the attrac-
,iveness OF the volume by designing the
beautiful cover.
1.-THE Legatee." which is published
this month, is the first novel by Mrs.
Alice Prescott Smith. Although OF New
England ancestry, Mrs. Smith was born
at ST. Paul, MINI, In 1865, When she
was II years old, her father, a Congre-
gatIonal Clergyman, went as missionary
TO a lumber village In the northeastern
peninsula OF Wisconsin. Fifty miles
from any railroad. and connected with
the outside world only by steamers and
miles OF mud and corduroy road. II was
a country remote and wild enough TO
capture any Imagination. and to child
who had known only the prairie OF the
valley II was full Of wonder
and romance, Her fathers parish COW
cred a wide district. and IN his long
drives from farm TO farm he made a
Of his daughter There was not
q village she did not know. and for
weeks she often STAYED with friends on
the forest farms. There In the even
ings around the kitchen stove. she
heard the stories Of the dread 9Th OF
October 1871 "a day observed as a time
Of mourning for years afterward-and
learned what Of heart and endurance II
meant to conquer a new land. The half.
cleared forest farms supplied necessl-
more. In one district there
was but one rocking chair, which was
carried from house to house In cases OF
sickness II was this pioneer life that
has given Mrs. Smith the background
for her novel, although the details OF
The story and setting are fictitious and
apply equally well 10 scores Of ports
vllles," and bays" through all the
northern country. Mrs Smith was edu.
,ated at home and In private schools
md taught school herself for short
lime. For the past 10 years she has
lived on the Pacific coast. She WAS
married In 1891 and since th~- A-- home