Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-01


Conan Doyle finds Il more difficult
than he ever imagined to get rid Of
Sherlock Holmes. Though he has tried
to rusticate him on a bee farm In Kent,
the public Is not willing TO let its ia
vorite so. Or, Doyle daily receives
scores OF letters in regard to his fam
Gus character. one of the most in
terestlng came with the address writ
ten entirely In the little skeleton fig
ures used as the clue In the story In
'The Return of Sherlock Holmes"
entitled THE Dancing Men" The
writer, not content with his achieves
ment on the envelope, wrote a long let
ter TO DR.. Doyle using the same char
acters. Not the least interesting part OF
the story is the fact that the letter
passed through the malls, the address
being properly read by the mailing
clerks. and was delivered to DR.. Doyle
without any undue delay.
Here are some nuggets Of wisdom
from Annie Payson Calls new book,
"The Freedom OF Life little, Brown
q Co., publishers, Boston), In which
she breaches the gospel OF orderly liv~
ing;
II is not the work that tires you. II
IL the way you do Il.
Concentration does not mean strain
ing every nerve and muscle toward our
workit means dropping everything
that interferes, and strained nerves and
muscles constitute a very bondage OF
interference.
Many people are In bondage because
Of doing wrong, but many more be-
cause OF doing right In the wrong way.
Real freedom Is only found through
obedience TO law,
There are laws for rest, laws for
work, aud laws for play, which, II we
find and follow them, lead us TO quiet,
useful lines Of life,
II il right for most people to sleep
eight hours every night. The wrong
way OF doing II is TO go to sleep all
doubled up, and 10 continue TO work
al night In our sleep. instead OF giving
W and resting entirely.
IL Is right to play and amuse our
selves for rest and recreation. We play
IN the wrong way when we use our
selves up In the strain OF playing, In
the anxiety lest we should not win In a
game, or when we play In bad air. To
worry is wicked; II is wickedness of a
kind that people often 30 not recognize
ng such, and they are not fully respon-
sihle until they do but to prove II to
be wicked is an easy matter, when
once we are faced toward freedom; and,
to get over II, as have said, Is mat
ter Of steady, persistent patience, Hur-
ry, worry, and irritability all come from
selfish resistance TO the facts OF life
and the only permanent cure for the
waste OF force and the exhausting dis
tress which they entail is Willingness
to accept those facts, whatever they
may be, In a spirit OF cheerful and rev.
erent obedience to law, Resistance
which Is the mental sourse OF hurry,
Is equally at the root OF that most
harmful emotion-the habit of worry
ing
Circumstances, however difficult, are
always without exception-opportunt
ties, and not limitations Sci pity Is
one OF the states that interferes most
effectually with making the right use
OF circumstances. To pity ones self
is destruction to all possible freedom
Stewart Edward White, author OF
"Blazed Trail Stories" and THE Silent
Places" IL a good deal of a jack-ot-all-
trades. Just previous TO his marriage,
about a year ago, he drew up the plana
for the house In which he was to live
with his bride at Santa Barbara, Cal,
VI
tended. He calls II THE Jumping on
Pluce." When It became time to move
in, Mr., White turned his adept hand %
carpentry and jolnery, and built a largo
part of his furniture, He Is now busy
again with his hands, and this time he
appears IN the guise OF boat builder
He has put together stanch little
sloop, in which he intends to carry on
all exploration OF the islands that lie off
his property about 10 miles out In the
Pacific.
Funk e. Wagnalls company, New
York, have In preparation new Stan
dard Bible dictionary, to be used In
large single volume OF about 100000
words. This Is to be prepared undo
the editorial direction OF Melanthon w
Jacobus. dean OF Hartford Theological
Seminary and professor OF New Tesla
ment literature and criticism; Edward
r.. Nourse, professor Of Biblical theolo-
gy IN Hartford Theological Seminary
and Andrew G. Zenos, professor Of &c.
cleslastical history IN Mccormick Theo
logical Seminary, Chicago, Chicago
men OF comprehensive and active scho-
arship evangelical yet fully abreast
the best scientific Biblical learning OF
the age. In association with them az
contributors 10 the articles will be
American and German scholars OF the
FIRST rank.
The Standard English Bible Diction-
airy will not IN any sense be a composite
book secured by adaptation from Other
publications, but will contain first hand
material especially written for this
work, II will thus be a work prepared
by Bible experts OF both continents IN
a way which viii make II In touch with
the problems OF today, II viii be con
else In form and yet comprehensive In
extent OF subjects treated II viii con-
fine itself TO Biblical matters, avoiding
extraneous material an excellency not