Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-13

accumulated millions of the little com.
mune at Economy Pa, came under his
control
This rather sensational announce
ment which has been going the rounds
ct the papers, is curiously enough con-
nected with n recent novel, Hearts
Haven a story of peculiarly gentle
and unsensational type. The plaintiffs
In the suit against the bandmaster are
three descendants of Father George
Rapp. who founded the strange CELL
hate community, first at Harmony, Pa,
| then at Nov Harmony, Pa. Hearts
Haven deals with the fortunes of the
society during It's Indiana period Its
author, Mrs. Katherine Evans Blake,
spent years in the study of the hstori-
cal aspects of her story
Charles n. Crewdson. author of Tales
Of the Road, Is superstitous. He was
raised among the darkies. His play
mates were sam and Olson, two darkey
boys, who insisted that II he ate ID
jaybird he would surely go to hell
the very next Friday. AS conse-
quence he would never touch game pie
of any kind for fear q stray jaybird
might possibly have found It's way into
the DISH He was told that If rabbit
ran across the road IN front Of him he
must make a cross mark with his left
foot and spit upon II or some calamity
would befall him. Many OF these boy
/ hood superstltions have left him, but
he has never been able TO rid himself
of the belief that Il is "A sure token of
bad luck to see the new moon over his
left shoulder, or through the brush
The night after he had signed his con-
tract with his publisher he was walk
ing along Van Buren, street, In Chicago,
when suddenly he saw the new moon.
Instantly he turned himself, also his
friend, so that they both saw the new
moon over their right shoulders. After
explaining. Tales of the Road Is
going to gol You may call all this rank
neutrality-suspicious. It is--but | can
feel I'm my bones that this new moon
Is as good n sign as ! want
II do not know better boys book
than Ernest Ingersolls An Island in
the Air." writes Mr.. George Cary Egg
gleston IL say this In fun conscious
ness OF the fact that have written a
good many boys books on my own
part
In his Washington and the West
THE Century Coz. Mr.. a. Il. Hubert
prints the diary OF Washington's jour
hey To his lands on the OHIO, In 1874,
and accompanies II with running
commentary based upon personal visits
to the localities and research among
historical records. The result is an In
terestlng and valuable book, somewhat
too strongly colored by certain preiu-
dices which affected the editor from the
beginning OF his task. Washington can
hardly be held up as AN ''eXpanslonist
IN the modern sense Of the word, and no
one would have sooner shrunk from
such place of IL lily as the Philippine
purchase He was content wit, the
rcspon siblities entailed by tire terri
tory defined by the treaty OF 1888, and
he looked upon the Mississippi as the
true western boundary OF the United
States. His interest lay I'm developing
the western territory In such a way as
to give II commercial connection with
the east. This he desired as a national
policy. and incidentally because II
would make his large holdings Of lands
In the Ohio basin profitable to himself.
The journey was primarily to View
those lands and settle disputes with
settlers who had refused to recognize
his title. secondarily. he wished to see
the possibilities OF connecting the Vir-
glnia rivers with the Ohio, 80 as to tap
the growing commerce OF the west, and
enable Virginia TO compete successfully
With Pennsylvania and New York.
The diary was printed In Sparks but
not In full. and Mr.. Hubert claims to
give an exact reproduction OF It's text.
Unfortunately, his copyist has played
him some tricks. and especially In the