Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-28

above the sea-leyel. He has been three
times around the Horn, once in the
Antarctic ice, and few years ago, just
by way OF variety, he went up in bal
loon from the ground OF the Crystal
palace. near London, and came down
on the historic Field Of Agincourt, IN
France.
AS boy, Griffith shipped before the
mast and had his first adventures dur.
ing three years spell among the
South Sea islands, He has been lost
~ the Australian bush, too, but bis
most interesting wanderings have been
IN South America, where he claims 10
have found the true source OF the AM
azon-a little, hot lake under Monte
Rosa IN the Peruvian CordiIleras In
another Of his Journeys Griffith man
aged TO get mixed up In lively South
American revolution, and had rather
an exciting time OF It. Perhaps The
'jnunt' which he most likes to tell Of,
however, was that I'm which Griffeth
followed the route of Pizarro and his
companions ana explored the ruined
Inca cities and fortifcations. The re-
suit Of this Journey was his historical
novel; The Virgin OF the sun but
apropos it may DE said that this au-
thor's own adventures have furnished
him with grist for his ronancng min
20 a much slghter extent than might
have been supposed His best known
books are, perhaps. "The Angel OF the
Revolution and In An Unknown
Prison Land"
In the course OF his varied career.
Grlffeth has been a sailor stock
rider. a butcher a newspaper man and
a schoolmaster but now he gays he IS
going to take life easy In his new Manx
home, and divide his time between
yacht sailing--whlch Is his greatest
pleasure I'm life--and novel; writing.
about which he Is less enthusiastic. He
is, however rather hopeful for the sue
cess OF Il new novel, on which he has
been at work for some time. and which
Is to bear the title Of The Great
Weather Syndicate"
How Infinitely more interesting fic.
ton is than fact was demonstrated
afre5h the other day, when the an.
nuuncement was nude that the ancient
crypt of the Church OF 81. George he
Martyr in the Southwark district ot
London, was TO let" for storage pur.
poses, A crypt to letl-the statement
seems surprising enough, in itself but
II may be explained that the re-
gions IN quite number Of
these old London churches where
once people were buried have been
cleared out In recent years and em-
ployed FOR intensely unitarian pur-
poses; In one case for a bakers shop
and In another for a combined soup
kitchen and bllliard-room! So IL Is
really not so very startling to hear that
the crypt of st. George the Martyr
which once was crammed with collins
to the extent of li00-is now to be had
I'm 90 ftgIu .sHs
Now this particular London church
mas quite number of historical assoc
Citations of an interesting nature 1t
was, for instance. the marriage place.
in 1852. OF General Monk. who restored
the throne of England to the Stuarts.
and IT was the burial place Of the fam
Gus Bishop Bonner, who died In the
nearby Marshalsea prison in 1867. as
well az Of Cocker the arithmetician. to
whom We owe the phrase according to
Cocker But was 1t because of these
that all London was interested In the
announcement + gardlng the crypt" OF
the famous old church? No, but be-
cause this Church Of st. George the
Martyr was the place where Dickens
Lit lie Dorrit" restad after the night OF
the famous party when she was TOO
late to return to the Marshalsea pr,~
son, and where she was actually mar
ried!
In other words, II Is famous for what
never happened and not Tor what real
ly did happen--a tribute to the genius
Of Dickens. From the eastern end OF
the church can be seen the whole of
the original south front Of the Marshall
sea debtors prison. and at the eastern
end of the long roof the very window
1nf % a.f Ia. Ia.
the crypt still held its population Of
dead, but Dickens was probably not
aware Of the charnel- house beneath the
church floor, or It is more likely that
st. Georges would have been treated
by the novelist as was that burial
ground off Russell court where poo,
Memo lay, and at the iron gate OF which
Lady Deadlock died. This plague spot
also has been swept away, and its site
Is Ike the crypt OF ST. Georges, "spaci-
Gus and dry
~. b." M. A. p" "P. T. o." This
Is not a new form OF cryptogram, It Is
only the progress, TO date, OF one of the
cleverest and most successful Inshmen
Of his time. "Tay Pay" OF course. in
other words. T. p, OConnor, NJ. p.
Somehow you cannot get away from
initials III referring TO Mr.. O'Connor,
and 1t Is all his fault, for not content
with getting to be known as ct. p"
he insisted, when starting the weekly
paper which Is now so well known In
England in calling II IN. A. p" when
means Main" About People" And
now Mr. O'Ct n is going to sever his
connection Ais journal and start
a new one and this latter, he says.
will be called "P. T. o." which. Il
should be explained. Is the English
a breviation for please turn over"
That is all very well. but it may be
observed that this initial business Is La
Bile to be overdone. Already another
penny collection of snIppets has made
its appearance as 1T. A. IT, (Tales and
Talk. and the thing is likely to go on
until request for a few periodicals at
bookstall will sound Ike the univer-
sity degrees of the most illustrious PEI.
sOnage of all those enumerate I'm that