Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-29
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The admirers OF Sherlock Holmes,
who arc numbered by the millions, VIII
be glad To- know that he has been
brought to life once more and that an
other of his adventurous experiences Is
contained I'm Golfers His story, which
is entitled The Singular Experience of
Mr. j. Scott Ecclcs,' shows That Mr..
DOYLE has lost none of his cunning.
Another very interesting feature OF
Golfers is a sketch of the late Samuel
q. Moffett. member of the staff. The
, editor pays Mr. Moffctt the following
tribute:
Death has broken In on the Collier
circle, and IL has taken one OF mo
sweetest of men. In the years that he
has been with us, Nh Moffett never
failed to come into the office with q
smile His courtesy was never lacking
to woman, child, or man. The world
saw his knowledge and oarnestness
and honesty. We on the inside saw
also his unfailing loyalty, his love of
thought his ideals. his goodness. He
was man who acted from no motive
but the best, and whose course never
wavered. His was IL character TO re-
member with affection and To mourn
with deepest sorrow, Death seized
him i'm the midst of vivid interests and
love of life. IT seized him from
happy and devoted family IT was
terrible, pitless, destructive. and CON
ISOLATION can be found only in trying to
remember not the loss but the posses
sion. His moment on earth was run
of kindness and usefulness, and 1t is
ended; we can only bow our heads and
think of the widow and her children;
we can only bow our heads and wait,
We must go on with the task, we hui
man beings. no matter who falls next
but It takes more courage When
friend has fallen-a friend VINO was
loved, and needed, and admired
Frederic s. Isham, author of The
Lady of the Mount" and other novels,
writes from Pekin, China. concerning
the effort to suppress the opium indus
try The movement has really made
marked progress In many large inland
places, says the novelist. and the people
whose interests are in the opium trade,
seem to be unselfishly cooperating with
the authorities. moreover opium-smok-
ing is now generally looked down upon
by high-CaStc Cinnamon, and those who
used to indulge publicly in the vice now
are prone to practise II In secret There
are other favorable indications that the
use of the drug is being steadily cur
tailed; but in giving UP his opium tho
Chinaman Is slowly but surely aCquir-
ing new vice--whisky drinking, Cheap
whisky is being imported and consumed
TO an extent that causes thoughtful
men much concern. The Chnaman
works hard; he Is not lazy; his food is
barely sufficient to sustain him, Tho
drug probably was much INDUCED in
owing to this fact; as its use is being
slowly curtailed. whisky seems to be
taking it's plnce-and very bad whisky
at that. The problem in consequence,
grows complicated; the white man de-
cries the opium in one breath, and Of
fers to furnish the whisky for the yell
low man in the next.
Moffat. Yard & Company announce
the publication, early In September OF
a novel by Frederick Palmer entitled
"The Big Fellow" This is a big story
with big American for It's hero-a
character, simple and magnetic, full Of
boyish indebtedness. "A real hero with
out even wanting to be one. The story
recalls. measurably the authors other
fine American novel, THE Nagabond -
but IL is maturer moro finished. better
in every way Mr. Palmer Is wholly
Mt home In this kind OF story, and this
IS much the best OF it's kind, on of any
kind that he has given us. The plot
carries us eventually TO one Of our Is
land possessions. where Mr. Palmer is
perhaps most at home, as everybody
knows and where our Big Fellow ac-
composites some of the big things that
Americans have been doing there these
recent years IT is a love story of a
fine, stirring kind.
II. Addngton Bruce, whose Riddle
for Personality was one of the very
few signal successes of last spring,
win publish this autumn through Mof-
Tat, Yard & company, "a book entitled,
Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters, -
il is AN exceedingly interesting col
lection OF the most celebrated ghost