Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-11


azIne follow him. His particular inter.
est Is in the Golden Flood" Edwin
Lefevres Wall street mystery-story,
which began In the February number.
Mr., Lefevre is the financial editor OF
q New York daily and has intimate
knowledge OF the men and methods OF
the street. Therefore, Wall street
watches the unfolding Of the plot with
more than passing interest.
No one but A. b. Frost could bring
to the illustration OF Eugene Woods
stories of the oldtlme country boy quite
the same store OF personal recollection.
He was a country boy himself Ap-
parently nothing that ever came under
his eyes escaped the camera Of his
memory and SO he is endeared to all
the other country boys TO whom his pic
lures open rusty locks ana bare, for
gotten cupboards OF the memory.
Did Hans Peterson Of Walworth
county Wisconsin, ever read "The
Demon in the Canyon" II would be
interesting 10 know. a news story OF
Feb, IA tells how Peterson. freed by
wolves. emptied his whisky flask on the
back OF one OF his leaplng jailers and
then dropped a match on the saturated
pelt' The Wolf blazing from nose to
tan, made for the timber, followed by
the pack, and Peterson the story says,
got safely home.
Henry Wallace Phillips makes "Hy-
draulic smith play that identical trick
on a bear in THE Demon In the Can.
yon."
John Burroughs has left the Ice and
snow which surrounds his home on the
hudson, for al few weeks Of summer in
bermuda. One OF the chapters I'm his
latest book, Far and Near" tells of n
similar visit which he made several
winters ago TO Jamaica, Another we'll.
known author who has gone south for
the winter is Miss Mary Johnston au-
thor Of Audrey and ITO Have and
10 Hold'' She Is now at, Nassau.
Or. William Osler whose latest hook
Science and Immortality" has gone
through five editions in as many
months, received the honorary degree
or doctor of laws at the commemoratlon
day exercises at John Hopkins unlver-
slty on Feb. 70. DR.. Osler made n stir
ring speech in which he advocated
perpatetlc life. He considers that coll
lege presidents and professors ought 10
move about 10 prevent becoming self
satisfied and narrow Two Of his
fixed Ideas are that men over 40 years
or age are comparatively useless, and
mat those above 60 should retire as q
matter OF course. He VIII himself be
56 years old next July His speech was
In the nature Of valedictory address.
as he expects TO sail for England about
the middle Of May TO begin his work
as regus professor OF medicine at Ok
FORD university. A marble bust OF Or,
Osler ls now being made for presenta.
ton to John Hopkins university.
The late Gen, Lew Wallace served as
first lieutenant I'm an Indiana regi-
ment during the Mexican war, although
he was but nineteen years Of age. His
regiment was never In action, and the
chief result OF this first military ex-
perience was the conception OF his first
novel, THE Fair God" His magma
tlon was hndled by seeing about him
evidences OF a strange civilization, long
passed away. The book was begun
soon after he returned TO Indiana, but
because OF the Civil war and his law
work II was not published until 1873,
when II caused n great sensation. a
holiday edition, beautifully illustrated
by Eric Pape was published by Hough-
ton, Mifflin & co, IN 1895.
memorial TO the poet Edward Row
land sin has recently been unveiled at
Oakland, Cal IL Is In the form OF q
bronze sun-dinl, mounted on a granite
base, and Is the gift Of three classes OF
the Oakland High school where Mr.,
SIN was a teacher for a short time,
Though he was not born In California,
he spent the greater part Of his adult
life there, and as his poems bear Wit
ness he loved the land that he had
chosen for his home with q fine appre-
citation Of her diverse and wonderful
charms His poem, Christmas In
California" is one OF those which will
be longest remembered The poems OF
SIN are published In three volumes and
are reported 10 be among the best sell
ing poetry on the list Of Houghton,
Mi'nln q Co.
MIR. Alfred Y. Sheppard Is the author
OF a singular novel which the Macmll-
Ian company will publish under the
title OF The Red Cravat" The plot
turns on the kidnapping Of a young
Engllshman, who happens to be very
tall, for the famous grenadiers OF Fred
erick william, father Of Frederick the
Great OF Prussia. The story 10 said