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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15
BOOKS.

In saul of Tarsus.' Elizabeth Mil
Ter has written her second great his
torical novel; and considering the
amount of research indicated in its
painstaSing details--in an incredibly
short time since the appearance OF
"fhe Yoke"
No more striking figure or incident
OF the early Christian era exists than
saul and his conversion to the creed
OF the people he had despised and per-
secuted; and It Is proof of the genius
of the writer that she could seize upon
these and work them into the admir-
able romance she has produced in her
last work. While Saul Is her chief
figure he is throughout rather a SYM
toliZation--appearing in person only
In the beginning and ending chapters;
but about him and his career of cruel
~ TO the despsed Nazarenes, the
story winds with delightful interest
and skill Marsyus a young Essene
neophyte and a near friend % the
martyr stephen, is the hero, and
breathes II personality throughout al
most as convincing and magnetic as
Rem Hur. To put him in the improb-
able attitude of a strict Essena-mem-
Der of that society most jealous of in
fractions of religious thought and law
ana at the same time a friend of one
OF the chief apostates from the creed
hating Saul for his religious zeal
and Ringing her story on his efforts
for vengeance Is difficult inspiration,
but the courage of conviction leads to
continuous happy results, and eli
max that explains and condones all
That Marsyus as well as Saul--bent
each on his daring scheme OF VEN
gcance should be oyertaken and con-
quered by the divine light that fell upon
the Damascus road is a master motive.
and one To which all things else fall
subservient. IL criticism Is anywhere
due 1t Is perhaps to the confusing play
of interest In the love motives of the
tale, but the Incidents. characters and
details are all vivid and there is en-
ough In them and the delightful de-
scriptions throughout to atone for dis
crepanoles.
What more unique and striking pic
ture than that of the dance OF Flora
with its surprise of denouement and
what more striking pen strokes OF
description than the bits OF life In
the Alexandria and Roman capitals
with the story threading with fascin-
atlng straightforwardness through all?
| The depletion of life in Alexandra
! with its religious, political and racial
| schisms Is admirable: and the brief
| glimpse Of Rome stepped In the vices,
| pleasures and ambitions of Tiberius
| and his rivals are tempting morsels
of historic flavor in the good general
1 feast A pretty and dramatic inspira.
| tlon is the meeting OF Marsyus and the
beautiful young Nazarene Lydia, with
| Marsyus on his way to settle UP af-
| fairs that viii free him for his re-
| venge upon Saul; an artistic begin
ming is the intermingllng thread OF
fate that finally link their lives
by such picturesque paths the story
treads, leading finally to the great
| climax near Damascus and the effec.
tive ending Of tho tale. Tho book
easily ranks itself with ben Hur"
/ and such classical romances as Will
outllve the mere literary fanclcs of
seasons and years.--Bobbs Merrill Co.
OF indianapolis are the publishers.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15
THE OLD MILL WHEEL.

What tale the widowed mill wheel tells,
AS It swings its axle old,
And the idle water slowly wells
From the creyices feeble hold
1t Is whrllng not to the streams full tide,
As It used in days of yore
For the power and use OF its days of pride
In the lands dim youth are DER.
And a younger spirit Yields the strength
That lay In the waters Drawn
For the Tapping belts through the new mills length
BY the streams pent breath are drawn.
As the seasons came with their changes fraught
To the toil-worn pioneer,
The wheel in its songs its silence wrought
An echo of or cheer
And So till the of time crowned
With the wealth of fertile soil
And the feeble whirr of its pulse drowned
In the noise of the streams def TOLL
And the old wheel hangs in its crumbling frame
Where the moss and the grasses live
And the only pride that its use may claim,
The poet and painter give.
For a picture Is drawn with touches bold
In its stains and its damp decay
4 mournful legend simply told
OF the pride OF another day
That whirled in the waters rhyme,
When its note the omen of human veal
In the struggles of olden, time.
Blthely II swung in the cheerful sight
OF the haryests golden yield
AIutey 1t hung when the crcket's blight
Swept over the waving field
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15

- HE early environment Of the Utah pioneers
was such that little poetry to be expected
In the natural scenery OF their new home. and
in their crude inventions to overcome press
ing necessities
However the picture Of the old mlllrace present
ed above Is Of a scene that has stirred more than
one Utah writer into creative effort Those who re-
member az al, as reality at me corner Oh state
street and North Temple win recall 1t with the ten
derest recolectons. Some there are who will main
tain that no Salt Lake child of three or four de-
cadcs ago properly brought up without riding
around In the old wheel when the water was turned
cage.
In its practical life, the old mill was not -four
Ing mill but was one of the series of institutions
founded to utilize the water power OF the canyon
streams before the day Of steam and electricity In
Utah a -four mill stood farther up the canyon
molasses mill stood near the present Social hall
state street and this millrace located at the old
mouth of City Creek canyon, the stream OF which is
shown passing the corner In the foreground.
The building shown was Utah's first foundry.
years general headquarters for the waterworks de-
partment In the old days Of OK teams. the
old shop, and the chises that cut the temple stone
were sharpened there The mill wheel ran system
OF belts inside that were used for general foundry
purposes When Frank Armstrong was mayor Of Salt
Lake the Church sold the property TO the city, and
later Armstrong himself secured 1t on trade to
the city for some other property
II built in the fifes. Back OF the black
smith shop a grst mill, consisting of two
and for time operated by the wheel 1t ground
such rough stuff as barley, while w of it an adobe
mill run by turbine wheel served for general grst
mill purposes. This was bulk by Heber c. Kimball
and operated by him for many years.
In the period when work was most active, and the
wheel did of its actual service Thomas Tanner
was the boss of the works. Afterwards Joseph
Evans, W. j. Player, Henry c. Cox and David A. Hill
ton blachsmlths on duty The stream has since
been diverted, and the old building torn down.
Time was when there was much beauty about
the scenery near the mill Nephl l.. Morris recalls
gathering bushels of from the grove OF small
trees that grew along the stream until it was en-
closed in conduit and the natural mouth of tho
canyon destroyed by street making, and grading
Miss Josephine Spencer remembers well the time
It torn down, and declares that made her weep
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15
Author Of 200 Novels Tells
How She Wrote IT,.

ONION. Dec. 5.--"Take n girl and
two men. Choose q locality. Slow
w add other characters. Dictate
about 1000 words a day In
fortnight you have a complete novel;
Something like the above Is the
ayowed recipe Of l.. 4. Meade the I'M
mensely popular English authoress,
Mrs. Meade laughs when one talks OF
the thinking out of plot. Il seldom
have one," she said TO me yesterday,
"and when have one, ! never Suck
10 II. The inspiration that comes mo-
ment by moment is far better
Lisbeth Meade ought 10 know, for
her novels are certainly thrilling ana
their plots are uncommonly complex.
Recently she published her 2oOth ro-
nance, which she called. 1.-THE Blue
Diamond" and she is now hard at
work on her 20lst. although could not
get so much as AN inkllng from her as
TO what it Is about. Perhaps, however,
seeing that II was begn so recently,
Mrs. Meade herself doesn't definitely
know
She is Irish. this versatile story
teller aud one Of a select band OF sue
cessfm authors who began writing at
an early age. She wrote her FIRST DOCK
"a story for children-when she was
seventeen. She Is one of numerous
and distinguished family. Her father,
an Irish clergyman, named her Lisbeth
Thomasina Her uncle is bishop Of
Cork; her cousin, Admiral the Earl Of
Clanwilllam, who 20 years ago COM
manded the North American fleet OF
the British navy.
Soon after her first book was pub
lished Miss Meade secured govern
ment post at the British museum. Her
distinguished relatives offered to get
her a government billet and she delib-
erately chose one that brought her IN
the midst OF books and musty docu-
ments and historic manuscripts. She
lived by choice In one OF the centuries
old structures In the heart OF the an
cient city-Bishopsgat Without--and
Sluul'i tuN OaoN NiAi Va hp's'N' e'@ 'NS
peoples.
In her spare time she scrubbed away
for dear life and attracted the atten-
ton of editors and publishers by her
magazine and newspaper stories. Then
came an offer of the editorship of AT
lanta," the girls magazine. For six
years Miss Meade held this post and
at the same time turned out several
| dozen books for girls, They were
mostly of school life and proved in
| tensely popular.
Then came her collaboration on a
novel, It's immediate success and the ro-
nance OF her life. She married DR..
! Toumin Smith No longer had she to
| be the slave of the market. She was
| able to spend all the time she wanted
| on the writing of her beloved books,
| Novel after novel appeared and then,
when her son and two daughters be-
gan to grow up, the mother went back
| to her books for boys and girls, with
| here and there n novel, always an in
| tenseiy dramatic work. One could
scarcely believe these were written by
the same author OF the many simple
and charming girls story-books.
| THE Brotherhood OF the Seven
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NOTES.

- OR most people the age Of chival-
- ry is the age Of gallantry and
high bearing. But there Is anoth-
err side as well. a side that has
never been insisted on In historical nov
els dealing with the middle Ages; 1t Is
this side that A. Conan Doyle brings
into relief in his new novel, "sir Nj
gel" which is the most realistic pic
ture Of an age hitherto almost wholly
RELOCATED TO the realm Of romance, that
has yet been given u.s. For fear how
over that any reader might think this
picture overdrawn. the author writes
rs follows IN his preface;
II am aware that there are incidents
which may strike the modern reader
rs brutal and repellant. 1t is useless,
however to draw the twentieth CEN
tury and label Il the fourteenth, 1t was
sterner age and mans code Of moral
fly was very different. There Is no in
cident in the text for which very good
warrant may not be given. The fantas-
Tic graces OF chyalry lay upon the sur
face of life, but underneath IL was n
half-savage population, fierce and ami
NAL with lit.lc ruth or mercy. II
was q raw rude England, fun Of ele-
mental passions, and redeemed only by
elemental virtues, Such / have tried
90 draw It,"
II Is very seldom that an historical
novelist lets US into his workshop and
lays bare the sources OF his crudltlon.
In his Introduction TO his new novel,
Sir Nigel" A. Conan Doyle gives an
Indication of the amount of scholarship
that must so to the making OF such
novel as he has written II It is TO give
us any new light on the life OF n period,
or 10 present no vulnerable points TO the
onslaught of the critics, He says:
For good or bad many books have
gone TO the building OF this one, look
around my study table and survey
those which lie with me at the mo-
ment, before | happily dispense them
forever
Then follows a list OF books which
would form a complete library for any
historical student beginning with La
CroiS's Middle Ages" and ending with
Wrighrs Domestic Manners" Mr..
Doyle may we'll stand as a model for
the ordinary hasty novel writer who
reads perhaps one or two volumes and
PUSHES boldly into his period, The sue
cess Of "Sir Niger bears witness to the
value even IN our day. of slow. patient,
honest labor In literature as we'll as in
other departments Of human endeavor.
THE Silent War; by MIR. John Ames
Mitchell Is Il rather new treatment OF
the soclalstic and oapitallstic problems
OF which we hear so much and so
Varlously IN literature today. His book
IS a romance which shows the people
Joined In q secret coalition for the de-
atruction Of such capitalists as refuse
subscriptions from their millions for the
cause of Advancement ~ the poorer and
laborlng classes 10 represents these
people in absolute control OF juries,
councils legislatures and other bodies
ana working steadfastly against the
moneyed interests. Secret assasslna-
tions are rife throughout the book and
thread of a love tale is interviewer
Say the publishers;
Mr. John Ames Mitchels The ST.
lent War has at least puzzled the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15

Fan" THE Garden of Allah" pub
lished last year"
Dallas, the heroine OF Eleanor Gates
THE Plow- Woman" discovers vein
of picturesque philosophy which occa-
sionaly yields real nugget of prac-
teal wisdom like the following:
Dads funny" she said refiectively.
Whenever we get 10 a chuck-hole,
where all of us ought to pull t'gether.
he goes slack on the tugs. Hes like
Ben cher mule) that way. So have
{ go UP 10 him. stroke his name. fix
his curb, and let some cool air under
his collar. After which, he gives
haw-hee-haw and goes on"
simultaneously with the publication
OF the trade edition OF Kipling's new
story, Puck OF Pook's HILL" the story
VIII also be brought out I'm the outward
Bound Edition subscription Of Kip
iing's works, published by Charles
Scribner's Sons. BY this arrangement
the subscriber may obtain a copy OF
Npllng's latest hook. uniform with the
others OF that set. as quickly as the
person who buys the general edition al
the store. The special features OF the
outward Bound" edition of the hook
are the Illustrations by Andre Cas-
taigne.
writer In NJ. A. p. reports that
Thomas Hardy has gone back tempor-
airy TO his old love--architecture Some
time ago he proposed that a tower
should he added to Holy Trinity church,
. In Dorchester, and 10, stimulate pro-
sress he Travelled back to the days Of
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15

critics. They do not seem to know
whether Mr.. Mitchell Is testing or I'm
earnest. The seriousness of part of
that story which involves warfare
between the masses and the Million
aires, with the latter on the defensive,
and the levity of the love romance which
becomes tangled up with the more SER
ious element In the story raise the
question of whether Mr.. Mitchell has
put out joke, sociological tract or
straight romance. Ii Is interesting
from any one OF these points OF view.
Life Publishing company, New York.
MY son." said Victor Cherbuliez,
1--WE should lay up stock of absurd
enthusiasms In our going or else we
shall reach the end of our journey with
an empty heart for we lose great
many Of them by the way The mes
sage Of David Starr Jordan In his new
book "Life's Enthusiasts" which the
American Unitarian Association is to
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15
MAGAZINES.

Our idea has been TO carry the good
cheer into the home" writes Maud
Darlington Booth In the December De-
llneaior. Christmas is pre-eminently
a home festival. II may be good, un-
der some circumstances. to call the poor
To q great dinner, and undoubtedly
much JOY has ben given to little ones
by the decking of the Christmas tree,
but so fsr as our effort Is concerned.
we feel that we can do the most by
bringing brightness into destitute
homes. However good the dInper, II is
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15

forgotten In the hunger OF tomorrow;
and the bright festival around the
Christmas tree makes the hreless home
the more dreary when the it'll ones re-
turn 10 IL. This thought has prompted
us to spend out Christmas funds In
sending food, fuel, CLOTHING. and toys
into the home and adding all the COM
forts possible 10 these cheerless lives
not only on that one day, but during the
winter season. The oranges and toys.
the Christmas stocking and the turkey,
together with good supply of coal
with which to cook Il mean warmth to
the chilly garnet and viii gladden. the
children's Christmas day, but what
comfort during the remaining winter
days will be the warm oYercoat and
good strong shoes TO the little ones
who had before TO SILVER to school In
broken shoes and thin cotton garments.
"Thousands OF families are helped by
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15

publish shortly Is a call to do things
because we love them, to love things
because we do them, 10 keep the eyes
open. the heart warm, and the pulses
swift as one moves across the ield OF
life
Brentano's will publish In the au-
tumn n luxurious new edition OF Ben
venuto Cellinrs autobiography one of
the most fascinating classics OF Euro
pean literature. The two volumes have
been beautifully made at The Merry
Mounty Press. The decorative title
page has been designed by Thomas
Maitland Cleland. and the cover, richly
stamped In gold, is adapted from a
design by Lawrence Houseman. There
are 40 Illustrations, reproductions In
protogravure OF Ceilin's own sculpt-
ures and OF portraits by Titan and
others OF personages mentioned in the
autobiography
Robert Hlchens, whose new novel,
"The Call OF the Blood" Is published
this week by the Harpers, was born IN
Speldhurt Kent. England. and educated
at Clifton college. After leaving COLI
lege he studied music for some years at
the Royal College Of Music. He began
carly to write musical lyrics and
stories, and later, after course at the
London School of Journalism, pic
ture OF which Is drawn In his Felix,
became a member OF the stan OF the
London World His Green Carna-
ton" published anonymously, and at
tributed to Oscar Wilde. created a sem
sation. II was followed by several
other novels. among them Flames"
Thu Slave" aud THE Lady with the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15

"a.
mo Volunteers in an,
while they are thus csr, olg elites a..
poor. ! have undertatsn,s Iof the ns sal
work the playing ~ " 81 u my spssS'
rartner' 70 the desti,,,s santa ciaesa
me men In prison. IN families \.
ihd on department we hS Vur voIuntss..
who 's are snd ages Of ali the intI,SSa'
BOOK, and It takes ne ! Vur Chris,n''
prepare for the eyontN,n noe month
the money generoual. gay WA
many sources. ! buv so, senI IN t,s
dollars worth Of warn 'S s, thous,,i
Christmas VIC used "a sSI oIas iaTI
f iiiaS ns stockings. TO an Pairs /
mas boxes s'sl "a We send the o' es ta
those IN New York Civ uoNed, but <
sonally from our exnya, "e deliver M
ehristmas eve tho eifts wagon al
GLADDEN. the little ones"' mat are 4
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15
POEMS EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW.
THE GREAT GUEST CONES.

while the eob5ler unused there passed his pane
bcggar drcnched by TIL driving pain,
He called him in from thu stony street
And gave his shoes for his bruised feet
The beggar and there came
Her face with wrinkles of sorrow
A bundle OF faggots bowed her back,
And she was spent with the wrench and rack
He gave her his loaf and steaded her load
AS she took her way the weary road
Then to his door little child,
Lost and afraid in the world Wild
In the big, dark world. Catching it up,
He gave it the milk in the waiting cup,
And le d home to its mothers
Out OF the reach OF the worlds alarms
The day went down in the crimson west
And with il the hope OF the blessed Guest.
And Conrad sighed the world turned gray:.
Why is it. Lord that Your feet deay'
Did You forget that this the dayP
Then soft in the silence Voice he heard
Lift up your heart for kept my word
Three tines came to your friendly door;
Three iraes my shadow your floor
I was the beggar with bruised feet;
l was the you gave to eat; 5lt
was the child the homeless street"
--From poem By Edwin Markham, in the Dec
cmbcr Dellncator
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15

Building

to see the old wheel dismantled. Like many another
Eighteenth ward girl and boy, she confesses TO have
played about the old wheel, and to have fshed for
minnows in the pool below the spill.
When the wheel In its mellow period OF hair
decay and manted with moss, Miss Spencer
wrote a poem upon It which published in the
News" several years ago. 1t is reproduced herewith.
The poem struck the fancy of Alfred Lambourne,
the poet-p painter, who sketched In oil picture OF
the old wheel and presented it to Miss Spencer with
his compliments.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-03-01
GREYSVlLLE.
Specialize tie Meas.

Specialize tie NeaOS
Sunshine is the order of the day.
w. L. Gerrin is on the sick list this
week.
Ben Green is visiting his grandpa
rents this week
Dave Smith has returned from Okla
homa to see his father and mother at
Whitwell
The Southern Railroad is progressing
nicely and work is plentiful and wages
good.
Miss Maud Dame has returned home
from Georgia after a two weeks visit
and reports nice time.
Dave Smith is visiting Mr. and Mrs.
w. L. Gerren this week near Jasper.
Mr.. and Mrs Jeff Lewis, of Jasper,
visited Calvin Lewis Sunday.
Joe Philips gave Cal Lewis pleas
ant call Sunday
Bill Colston gave Miss Easter Cheek
a pleasant call Sunday.
Mrs NJ. e. Gerren spent Sunday il
eve with Mrs. Clara Lewis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Brown, of Car
penter, were visiting their parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Eph Colston, Sunday.
Mrs. Jim Bailey and Mrs. Jim Quar-
les, of Whitwell, visited their parents
last week
Remember WELL remember true; re
member me and will you.
Sunhower.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-03-01
CAROLINE CHAPEL.
Stecial TO tie Ne7OS.

Special TO tie Ne70S.
News is scarce in this vicinity.
Mrs. Spears and son, of Caroline
Chapel are visiting in Chattanooga
now.
D. NJ. Griffith and family went to
Whitwell Saturday and returned Sun
day.
Miss Bonnie Rankin, of Whitwell, is
visiting at w. c. Moore's.
Well Mayhower you were off your
cazip when you thought Cherry Bios
som and Nip Tuck's Pap We're the
same person. Now, if were you I
wouldn try to be so smart. You are
as smart as Pumpkin Roller was when
he said he had visited my home many
a time. He was never in my house in
his life.
Uncle Tom, as You call yourself, /
don think You viii say anything alb
ont the non union men wearing patch
ed pants ii you will Just come to Whit
well ana see the poor union men who
are too lazy TO work and who 90 around
there with faded overalls ON which
look TO he a century old but-which they
have to take care of for they don [
know where the next pair viii come
from. CHERRY Blossom.