Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-04

Whcreupon The latter approached Us
| anu submitted the ring for inspections
didn laugh. 10 was too obviously
Silly To laugh at How the barker on
nus perch ever expected anybody 70
'fall for that rs cnrat Hall marked,
genuine ruby tale. / cannot imagine.
rho auctionew finally asked me y
J would mako a bid. shook my head
sadly. Whcrcupon hc turned his at
tention to the natives. He repeated his
ron story and snuc one bid ~ cents
more than dollar He repeated W
again and after a long walt some one
bid Sl25 Evidently fearing that the
last hiddcr would regret it and mako
his escape the auctiuuecr Announced
the ring sold go quick that he almost
chopped the last word OF the bidder
IN two
LAUGHED IN WRONG PLACE
"Well, now. it struck me SO funny
that real ruby rings should he going
for a dollar and quarter, and that
the auctioneer could acrept such a bid
with straight face. that | burst out
laughing I'm afraid that thero was no
restraint in my laugh. IL Wcs just
a good loud ma! ha. The rest OF the
crowd looked at me reprovingly, While
the auctioncer turned purple with rage,
He he he!' he exclaimed. imitat-
ing my laugh az best he could. Get
out of here. you bloomln Yankees
"My friend turned red and wanted TO
fight. ! am philosopher and wanted
to laugh even more heartily than l
had before. took my companion by
the arm and led him outside"
EARLY TO BED,
Futrelle is stopping at the Hotel Ce-
eli where they file the raw edges on
the English customs for their Amet-
can guests. Yet the management can
not monkey with the law, and ara
compelled to close their restaurant at
1880 every night This custom ap-
peared rather funny and at the same
time lnconvenient to Futrelle coming
from The United States where the run
hardly starts until after midnight at
which hour the sight-seers and the
visitors begin to go home from the
naughty" restaurants and the ''regu-
lars get "a chance at the tables.
LIGHTS OUT"
~ went to the theater couple OF
evenings ago.. said Futrele in
| telling me of his experience. After
1 the show we went to dinner. You never
| saw such a wild scramble i'm your life.
| 1t was the greatest race against time,
| with the longest kind of odds on time,
| that ] have ever witnessed. ! had
| everything from soup TO nuts, but the
courses came SO quickly that | thought
| | was eating nut soup. At 1890 the
| head waiter came around and yelled
last CALI and a minute later the lights
| went out They wanted to put us out,
too, but ! declared that l was paying
| for the meal in front of me and ] was
going to finish It, And | did, while the
waiter held a suffering candle
From the subject of hurry or you'll
| get arrested" dinners, Futrelle switched
| TO music halls.
LOUD" SONGS.
"The 'als, as they call them here"
| he said, are very amusing, but as Joe
| Weber would say. They are not I'm the
| presence of ladies' They are not eX-
actly polite Even New York wouldn't
| stand for some of the e'ongs. ON the
| other hand, some of the actors here are
al the candy [ saw Seymour Hicks
| in The Gay Gordons. He's a wonder
! don't know just how to describe him
I because we have no one like him in the
| United States. He's Eddie Foy. Joseph
| Wheelock and Willie Collier rolled into
/ one and played straight
Futrelle Is going to remain a little
| longer in London. Then he goes to
Cay Paree" for Il stay. About May
| l he returns to England to take ship
| for New York.
The popular writer entered the pro-
| fession through the newspaper office.
| He started on paper I'm Atlanta, Ga.
then came to New York where he was
for many years on the Herald. Despite
! the fact that he was sure that his
| talents lay IN writing, ne was never
! given IA chance to do any original work.
| Instead he was given desk work on the
| American" While there he wrote Il
| short story which sold to the first pub
| Usher TO wham he submitted It. Other
successes followed and after two
months he retired permanently from
| newspaper work.
CHARLES OGDENS.