The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-05

! tscrisners) are scattered many portraits and
anecdotes of tho great Americans of yesterday.
''I romornbor well seeing Mr.. Francis Parkman
when boy. and he made impression
this day. tall. slender figure In q long gray
coat with fur cap. In winter. drawn down
Beacon stroct. moving with great rapdity, n
heavy In each hand which ho restcd his
ing at tremendous pace, no would suddenly
stop and lean against house ruiug, e.
sumo his canes. and push away an II running
race ] learned arcr~ord that he was nj that
time much crippled and TINT only In this way
could he got air and exercise; but no could NOT
move deliberately and his intense nervous cnorgy
| drove him forward with restless rapldi,y, although
asklns my mother who the gentleman wos who
| thus arrested my wandering attention, and she
! explained To that 1t Mr. Frank Parkman
aud told what battlo for HE he wns com.
PEELED to make"
| discussed In a brief article THE Crowd In
Poltica,'' which The Living Age for October IS
reprints from Blackwoods.
! Douglas Maoch. author of the Doran book
Of verne. Tho Woods" short story writer
before bo found his real torto as tho poet OF tho
woods" On occasion he wrote thrilling
, Btory OF an Imaginary and unusual railroad wreck
To mako sure TINT such a wreck could really hap
pom In real life, no visited a roundhouse and read
| the story 10 three veteran locomotive engineers.
The story wan consigned to the waste basket when
could not happen
| The next wock Oh a New York railroad 1t did
G. K. CheatertoD 10 80 brilliant and whimncal a
| writer that people who familiar with his style
| are In the habit OF reading about 7thing that
he wrltos, whcthor his thome Is literature, public
| affairs. social questions Hls article on THE
| True Failure OF the Turk which The Living Age
for October II reprints IS In his most character
lstic vein,
Admiral Dewey contemplated the capture Of
it. Ts ssu. 'faay 3 OGsFs
in this passage OF his Autobiography which
Charles Serlbner's Sons havo just published:
while at Newport I had received my promo
tlon commander and 10 the spriug OF
| 1879. was given the Narrasanso,t again. =
| we In the Gulf OF California when the
newspapers arrived with word of the virginius
| affair, Resentment against Spain wao strong
| In the United states that war seemed Inevitable
sitting about In various attitudes OF dependency.
| Among them was Ensign, now Rear. Admiral.
we'll asked them why they were so blue. They
said tina, there was 10 bo "a var with With Spain and and.
| would be entirely out OF II.
ON h' eG1ay & y1 shall sai be very much in in
Narrngangett will take Manila
| The Living Age for October ls has for It's lead
Ing feature strong and suggestive article a on on
| Parker. reprinted from the FoTtnightly RoView.
Visitors to tho picturesque old missions OF Cali
| tornia may not always bs Of the crucial
| Importance to tho welfare OF the state and the
vast power OF these missions In the days OF their
greatest prosperity. Established wherever and
whenever tho Spanish couquerors planted them-
selves In California, tho missionary priests were
the renl rulers o, tho people and. the great con.
serving force which bent the Indians to the nov
| regime without boodshcd and with most probable
economic results Full juatice Ia done TO this
Norton In his history Of tho State entitled ''The
Story Of California" which A C. McClurg a
Co have Just published According to Mr. Nor
ton tho mission tntherB men OF great eI-
ecutive ability, who not only directed the natives
spiritually. but taught them agriculture and the
elements Of civilization. and to such good pur-
poso that In the height Of their prosperity. be-
| fore their oecularizstion and despollment by the
Mexican government, the migsionu owned 'ovoI
go 900 cattle nearly 20. 900 horses and mules and
| about 500. 900 hoad Of smaller livestock" The
grain production In its best yearo 125. oot
bushels The number Of Indians who bap-
tiged Is recorded IS. Ae OF whom many ns
| 25 900 wore In residence at the missions at one
| time