Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-08


topped his. No poet In Scandinavia
was more personally beloved by all
who came In contact with him than
was Jonas Lie. His strong featured
face with the humorous droop of the
wide mouth, topped by the queer black
cloth cap, without which, for years at
least, he was never seen; his charm
Of manner, his easy affability, which
had in it an unmistallable note of
genuineness; all these made the man
himself beloved and not easily for
gotten by those who We're privileged to
know him. And as Lie was the most
approachable of men. the number of
his devoted friends was legion.
Frederic S. Isham, author of The
Lady of the Mount" and other novels,
has been travelling in Russia and ST.
IBERIA for purposes literary and other
wise. 1.-TWO pictures seen In this big
realm. linger in the memory" writes
the author, to his publishers. One i'm
preston is bright, beautiful. shining;
that of Peterhof, the summer palace of
the czar. They were house cleaning in
anticipation of his coming, and the
statuary of the wonderful fountain or
series of fountains, recalling Versailles
were being gilded; the palace, favorlte
abode of Catherine, dazzled the gaze
with it's splendor. Paint, gilt, mar
Bile, flowers, Before II the sea. whera
Peter the Great was wont to stand, not
to dream. but to plan great accom-
plishments What is Nicholas thinking
of today as. like the monarchs OF old
he walks In these gardens enchanted?
OF the second picture? He has never
seen it.
Siberia A cattle train; that is to
say, fourth class. Fastidious people
complain of first class. Sodden faces:
dirt. filth, ignorance! Children-little
children piled i'm on shelves, looking
out through tiny upper windows; vague
usefulness cleaning on tiny visages
that already look old. By the side Of
the train, beggars in rags mumbling
prayers; hardly human in appearance:
people sleeping on the earth, curled up
together like animals for company
From short distance they look like %
Dig rag-bag, an inanimate refuse heap.
A little further aside, the town-tha
typical Siberian town. 1t resembles a
collection OF prairie-doE mounds: the
people within live close to nature; very
close-after the fashion of no other ami
mai but that Of the porcine kind. This
section picture repeats itself: again and
again. In unfods with little variety
tomnrrow-the day after the days
following. 1t is always with the travel
Ter across Siberia and yet Nicholas does
not see. The car who should be plan
ming free schools and the redemption
OF the myriad wretches, his children,
dawdles idly in gardens like dream
land or sits, passive, listening 10 the
Lydian whispers of the sun-llt sea
TO Peter tho water Numbered mes
sages; TO Nicholas, II whispers of COM
promises. VIII il never call out to him
Awake! Sweep away every vestige IT
superstition Plant everywhere the
banner Of education" Otherwise--Pe-
terhof will some day dlssolVe-fade
DC al,
like some chimerical igment OF poets
imagining"
According to the foregoing lists. the
six books which have sold best I'm the
order OF demand during the month are:
Points.
1. Mr. Crewe's Career. Churchill.
CMacmillanD sl.5O............. 325
2. The Lure OF the Mask Mac
Grath (Bobbs- Merrll) 1850. 287
3. Tho Barrier Beach CHarper)
N.50 Observation-Disclosures. $50
4. The Coast of Chance, Chamber
lain. Enthusiastically NJO., 30
g. The Chaperon. Williamson.
(McClure0 H5O.......,.....,.. rs
The Husbands Of Edith. Nc
Cutcheon. QDodd, Mead) $l25. 30
when Meredith Nicholson comes
downtown I'm Indianapolis these days
he waves OFT all his friends ana cries
'UntS'an, unclean." H. sometimes
takes the middle OF the road Those
who have heard about him whip up
as he passes. and he himself admits
that chauffours turn on their hill-cllmb-
ers 10 get away from him, while the
night blooming dogs contemplate him
with meanest mIen. II Is the whooping
| coughl
MY children are now whooping IN
| the hills north ~ New York some
where he says, land they gave It 10
me as / was leaving them SO that
| could not fail TO remember them In
| absence. AS memento, slight
souvenir 30 10 speak, the whoopng
cough has any other form Of momora-
! bllln whipped off the reservation The
Dssmographs at Washington. Green
wlch. and that most sensitive one on
| the Isle Of Wight, all record me now
/ - nave wilouped 0p innings down in
| Monument Place so that the lady on
| the Soldiers and Sailors monument
seemed 10 dance and | fear thar ono
whoop that | whooped listed the whole
monument TO starboard about AZ de
grees Fahrenheit, My whoop Is the
| purest symphonic In three movements
! and a choke. For orescendo work !