Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-14

therefore, passes through my mind
three or four times"
Rudyard Kiplmg, 70 seems. is ad,
dicted 10 Wouing the Muse while cy,
Gins. II was thus according 10 hli
friend, Dr. W. H. Covers, that he com.
posed "Our Lady of the SHOWS" The
phrase had been haunting Kipling foI
some time before the thing happened
that furnished him with the needed In.
spiration. This was the news that
Canada had been extended a preferen.
tial tariff to British imports. which
would strike the ordinary mind AZ
about the most prosaic piece of intel
ligence that could be Cleaned from q
newspaper But It fred the magma.
ton of the Poet Of Imperialism. lie
heard IL on Saturday. ON sunday he
mounted his Wheel-he was then stay.
ing mt TorQuay-and when he returned
recited the verses TO DR.. Covers He
said that he did not intend TO publish
them for a week or two, but his friend
urged that they should be printed al
once, and they were dispatched red hot
20 the Times. il viii be remembered
that IN Canada some exception was ta-
ken TO the title and this Dr. Covers
considers IAN instance alike of ingrati.
tude and perverted oyer-sensitiveness."
AVllh ANtlNNll = lllldludllNll lot lilN
beautiful but faithless Lady Hamilton
is generally regarded as the one serious
blot on the memory Of England's
greatest sailor but I'm the estimation
OF collectors Of autographs letters that
fact will rather add to than detract
from the value Of an epistle he wrote
her and which Is 10 be- offered for sale
at Sotheby's early next month. 1t Is
dated september % 1905, and Is headed
Victory Oft Lisbon" 1t reads:
II am anxious TO join the fleet for II
would add to my grief II any other
man was to give them the Nelson
howl which we say is warranted never
TO fail. ! have read my Emma with
much interest your letters which ] got
at Merton, but / must have many
Others ahoat. do feel by myself; what
you must have felt at not hearing from
me from Jan % to after May 18th
fanced that they had been stopped by
the admiralty on the account Of sir
Johns orders. ] mention all
these circumstances that my dearest
Emma should never think that her
Nelson noglects or forgets her for one
moment, No ! can truly say you are
always present whcresoeyer ] go.
have this letter ready In case | should
fan I'm with anything from Lisbon
h0meward steering May God bless you,
my best. my only beloved, and with my
warmest affections TO Horatla be as
sured | am forever your most faithful
and aftectionate, etc.
This Is supposed 10 be the last COM
plete letter penned by Lord Nelson Ia
his mistress and II anything can con.
done his guilty passion in the eyes of
puritanlcal moralists 1t is the depth
and sincerity Of his affection for this
woman which is betrayed In every line
of It. An unfinished letter written by
him to Lady Hamilton ana found after
his death in the cabin OF the Victory Is
now among the nations heirlooms in
the British Museum, a letter written
by wellington the day after Waterloo
WIN also be a feature Of tho Sothehy
sale. The Iron Duke was proof against
any form Of feminine infatuaton and
his moral character was without stain,
hut for all that Nelson Is undoubtedly
the more popular hero Of the two.
HAYDEN CHURCH,