Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-10

: ated in this age writes DR.. Holt,ss"thats
s knowledge of the proper care of the
Z child does not come by intuition, and
that maternal instinct, no matter how
strong, is not a saft guide" Miss
Wheeler herself hazards the belief that
the fact that maternity in these days
is often anticipated With a deplorablc
dread, Is due not to the handkerchief
ness of the modern woman, but to her
of her own unsafe ignor-
anco.
Everett Hale, who died at his home in
Boston, June 10, aged ST. must be in-,
Guided among the classics of the Eng
lisll, Language and cassed among the
very best productions of American lit
erature have been voluminous,R and In.
some cases conspicuous. He has been.
s everybody knows, a man of great
andNaried activity, within and without
literature.
No American author has held IL
warmer place i'll the hearts Of his coun-
trynen. He had the affections OF all
classes and conditions of readers.
His writings expressed the best ana
noblest of that great and pure New
England character which has stamped
itself deepest on the life of this Re-
public.
When the works of a contemporaries
Gus writer receive embodiment in a de-
fnitive edition q certain stamp of
classicality seems to be set upon him
so far at least, as the word "classical''
can be applied to literature that is cur
rent, DR.. Hale attained this distinc-s
ton in his ripe old age for q. uniform
library edition of his works in 10
volumes, issued several years ago by
his Boston publishers, Little, Brown &
Co.. under his own supervision, with
new prefaces in which DR.. Hale ex-.
pressed himself in his best vein of
genial "Reminiscences.
This library edition contains prac-
tically all of his best known books, in
Guiding his famous "The Man Without
q Country" and "In His Name.'' Ten
Times One" The Brick Moon.'' Philip
Nolan's Friends "A New England
Boyhood," How t. Do It., Addresses
and Essays on Subjects OF History,
Education, and Government" "syba,-
is" and How They Lived at Hamp-i
ton,' and Poems and Fancies.''
William Dean Howels' daughter.
Miss Mildred Howells, is the latest
writer to be added to the list of SUP
posed authors of ",rhe Inner Shrine"
The list of suspects as flied in the Hair
per archives now numbers 81.
Hamlin Garland is at his summer
home. MapIeshade, in West Salem,
Wisconsin, where, despite his am
nounccd resolution not to write any
more novels-only plays-he is said to
be now and again occupied with page
of fiction.
Lighting hundreds of incandescent
lamps in the Omaha auditorium by
electricity transmitted without wires
from a plant six miles. away is the
wonderful achievement of DR.. Freder-
ick Milliner of that city.
This remarkable demonstration of
what may be done by wireless cleo
trcity opens UP vast possibilities. The
same inventor. a year ago made an
electric truck which was successfully
operated without wires in the Union
Pacific railroad yard at Omaha whici,
indicates that naval torpedoes may be
guided and exploded in the same way,
from ship or shore. In fact, such an
invention is said to be in the posses
sion of the British government.
IT seems possible that wireless cleo
tricity may revoiutionize the world. II
1t he feasible by this means to eN-
plode powder magazines on board war
vessels in Notifications. from q dis
lance of miles, war may soon be a
thing of the past.
1t Is not clear whether, in writing
Elusive Isabel Mr.. Jacques Futrellc
had wind of the work of DR.. Miliner
or had heard of the experiments of the
British government, the secret of which
mas been so carefully guarded. Perhaps
the ideas which he develops in his
romance for the explosion of submarine
mines by wireless we're only dreams of
the fictive imagination. arts anticipa-a
ton OF science. II is in any event GER.
tain that he makes ingenious use of.
these ideas for the purposes OF his plot.
He sunposes that the Latin races
have combined against the Anglo Sax
on. Both alliances have submarine
mines, equipped with a cap. tuned, 50
to speak. to a certain number of vibra-
lions and half-vibtations; a wireless
instrument of high power, with a fnodi-#
flying addition. has only to be set In
motion TO discharge 1t at any distance
up to % miles.
# Now the tuning of the caps which
the Latin races use is known only to
t .'.Aiaa- in Elusive Isabel" while the