Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-29

peepu a-weitin' and de bride in her
o'ange wreath
but Georgia Missouri, interrupt.
ed, what about the bridegroom? You
haven't said q word about him.
Georgia Missouri rolled her eyes
until they looked pretty much all
whites.
Law Miss Halle said She would
yer blieve it, dat black Niger, he neb-
Der showed up a-talll''
The statement has been made In sew
eral quarters that the scene Of Miss
GWendoin Oyerton's new story, Cap
tains OF the World Is laid IN Pitts
burg, and that the strike described In
Il Is the Homestead Strike Of '92. Miss
Overton states positively, through her
publishers, The Macmillan company,
that she has not described any one
pace-that the scene OF her story Is a
cCnglomerate OF many places and OF
pure imagination, Also, anyone who
knows the great Homestead Strike at
all viii know that nothing I'm the strike
IN Captains Of the World" Is quite like
II, The basis and cause Of the strike
itself are totally different. in this case
too, there are bits Of numerous strikes
and the rest is pure invention Miss
OVerton has not copied any event in our
industrial history. The Macmillan
company viii publish Miss Oyerton's
novel on oct, H.
Mr. Hopes new book Double Harness
tMcClure Phlllips) is a story Of mar
ried Londoners quite fitting in subject,
since Mr. Hope himself has recently
become both a husband and a father.
AZ n bachelor he was one OF the most
s0ught-after-me I'm IOndOn's society;
and even now anchored by the possess
sion Of a very beautiful wife and baby
daughter he Is no less IN demand,
Many speculnted somewhat as to the
results Of marriage upon one who was
one Of the most distinguished and In
evitable persons at first night theater
parties. smart studio teas, luncheons,
cotillons and dinners But London
hostesses are not bercft Mr. Hope
Is safe to society, and his American
wife H. II anything, the more popular
of the two. Her triumphs the undis-
gulscd admiration she excites by her
pretty wit and frank, cordial manner
seems source of never-ending satls-
faction TO her scholarly husband
Lafcadio Hearn, who died In Tokyo
the other day. was born at Leucadia,
Santa Maura, In 1850. His father was
an Irish officer who, while stationed
there, won the love Of beautiful Greek
girl Of the IonIan Isles, and Lafcadi0
was their second SON. His early years
were passed I'm Wales, Ireland, England
and France and he was educated at a
private school and nj various Roman
Catholic institutions, Including a
French convent He was left destitute
by the death OF his relatives and came
to Cincinnati in 1869 After trying var
lous kinds of work he became a reporter
on one OF the city dailles and almost
Immediately so superb were his artl-
cles In style and finish and symmetry
his work became the standard by which
that Of every other newspaper man IN
the city was measured. He drtfted TO
New Orleans, where he tried keeping a
restaurant, until his partner ran away
with the funds and the cook Mean
while he wrote mystical essays, studied
deeply into metempsychosls and VOC
dooism; also, he lived with the Creoles,
and long before Gable wrote his Creole
stories he had reoreated their folklore
for American readers. The literary re-
suit OF his journey to the West Indies
IN 1857 was remarkable book portray
ing the tropical atmosphere and civ
ilization. Early In the nneties he went
TO Japan; whore, after teaching Eng
llsh IN various coast towns, he became
Professor OF English literature In
Tokyo University, took out naturaliza-
ton papers, married a japanese, and