Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-30

| lots inns year. These heures are proof
| or LongfellOw's pre-eminent place as a
| poet of the people. for no other Amerl-
! can poets boyhoOd home is SO sought
| by enthusiastic pilgrims. Longfellow's
! publishers Houghton. Mifhin q CO..
! have brought out two new volumes Of
! his work this season; one the famous
/ story ot Paul Reverc's Ride issued
| Tor the first time in "A separate volume,
with appropriate Illustrations and dec
! oratons. and the other a beautiful
little edition Of "LOngfellow's Sonnets."
now for the first time collected.
Lieut. SakuraL as he himself lay help
lessly wounded after furious attack
on Port Arthur witnessed one Of the
most atr0ciOus acts to which warfare
over gave rise. In his book entitled
Human Bullets" he says
| has noticed a Russian officer re-
pcatedly pointing 20 his wounded leg
and making signs with his hands for
help. Later ! saw Japanese hospital
orderly. himself wounded. go UP to the
Russian. Without attending 20 his own
wound. he took out bandages from a
bag at his waist and baudaged the Rus
sian. He did his duty OF love and
mercy faithfully thinking that the
wounded foe was not Zoe any more.
only hero who bad toiled for his coun-
try. His kindH rs IN dressing the
wound - the Russian was so beautiful
and holy that fearful gratitude was due
To- him even from a hard-hearted saw
age But how did this Russian return
the kindness Of this hospital orderly?
Tears Of gratitude? MOI A hand
shake Of thanks? No, Indeed. mol L,o
this beastly Russian officer bestowed a
pistol shot upon the japanese benefac-
tori Do not forget this, you people Of
Justice and humanity As soon as the
orderly had finished bandaging. the
Russian pulled out his revolver from his
hip pocket and took the life of the good
Samaritan with one shot, MY heart was
bursting with indignation at the sight
of this atrocious outrage!
Evidently having in mind the saying
1T takes nine tailors to make a man."
Mr. Eugene Presbroy despaired of max
ing "a stage hero OF Charlie Steele Ina
his decentralization Of THE Right of
Way" for when Steele made his reap
pearance IN the third act IN the cabin
Of Joe Portugais he was discovered as
"a maker OF crucifXes and other sacred
symbols As everybody knows Sir Gil
bert Parker's original character IL a
tailor, but his readers were probably
not fully aware OF his almost unique
In daring 20 give steele this
very unromantic occupation only ono /
other great novelist that we can re- |
member has dared 10 place his hero In /
a sartorial environment. Ia wit. George /
Meredith. in Evan Harrington. A GU 4
Iious incident "a related as having Civ /
m Sir Gilbert the idea OF making Steele 4
a tailor. For a long time he had IN 1
mind the earlier part Of THE Right OF |
Way. ending with Steele's unaccounta-
Bile disappearance, and was loath to /
et e go as a short story. feeling in
that some day Il might de-
rclop into o novel. One day he was
allied suddenly 10 New fork--it was
4 Wednesday-an he decided 10 sail on 4
ne following Saturdays steamer. He
ordered three suits OF clothes, and
warming the tailor that he was To leave
London on Saturday. he made him
Promise TO N him carefully, and de-
liver the clothes on Friday morning
rhc suits were delivered on time, but
.lasl not one OF thom fitted. There was
i0 time 10 lose. and the great novelist
brew the clothes over his arm. and
rom his house IN Carleton Terrace
vent around the corner 70 his tailors
u PicCadllly. In a rage he asked the
ailor what he meant by bungling his
oh. and the tailor apoi0gized for his
utter. explaining that he was a new
nan instead of the one familiar with
.ir Gilbert's measure. zone moment"
D begged land / win fetch him. I
r0mise the suits viii be made right
ma delivered this afternoon" The tall
,r disappeared through door IN the
Jack of the shop, and moment later
here ln the doorway strange, pathe-
choking figure. with a monoclo stuck |
% his eye Tho likeness to the figure
4 Charlie steele as Sir Gilbert had cone
olyed ID was as striking that he exc
laimod under hiH breath. "Grcat
.eavcuH Charlie steele" The next
Moment he was absorbed ln the occu-
ntion ~ huing but before h. reached
gew York. De- had evolved the novel as
.e know g. and that is how Charlie
tcele came 40 BE- "a tailor