Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-04

courtesy of the Bobhs-Merrin Company.
Husband she must produce him an heir to
his millions. The old doctor who had made
this deception possible. having been seized
with vigorous attack of repentance Tor
his past miSdeedS threatens exposure I'M
less thu. child be returned to her own moth
er. who. now that she is in aftiuent circum-
stances. is consumed with mother love for
her abandoned child. Mrs. Ocumpaugh
fearing her husbands anger II he learns
OF her deceit prefers to relinquish the ut
tie girl. and arranges it that kidnapping
shall be suspected or what would give her
surer peace of mind, that she was drowned
in the river at their summer home.
The plot holds the attention from begin
ming to end, but loses some of its value as
detective story because the young man
VINO brings all things to light Is possessed
of too much Inside information about the
lives of the people.
The MORMON MENACE; Being the
Confession of John Doyle Lee, Dan
lite, an Offieial Assassin of the Nor
mon Church Under the Late Brig
ham Young Introduction by Alfred
Henry Lewis. Illustrated. New York:
Home Protection Publishing Com
pany.
John Doyle Lee was executed by the
United States government at Mountain
Meadows. Utah March %, 1877, in punish
ment for his participation in the massacre
at that point very nearly twenty years be
fore of 40 emigrants, by order of those
high in the Mormon Church. While in
prison awaiting execution he wrote an &C
count of his life and statement of his
share in the massacre, involving the claim
that he had acted with others and under
the specific direction of the supreme au-
thorities of the chu1ch whom he had been
taught To obey without question. In his
Introduction to the present volume Mr..
~ il fas-.i on w b.
Iisled within few months following Lees
death adding:
But the disclosures were such that the
Mormon Church became alarmed; the book
might mean its downfall. In the name OF
Mormon safety Brigham Young, by money
and other agencies, succeeded in the book
suppression. What copies had been SOLD
Were, as much as might be, bought up and
destroyed, together with the plates and
forms from which they had been printed
At least two volumes escaped
These have been placed in my hands by
certain patriotic influences. and are here
reprinted as The Mormon Menace.
The value of such a book today, apart
from its character as a biogra phical, liter
airy or historical curiosity, depends wholly
upon it's bearing on Immediate questions
Mr. Lewis urges that the Mormon Church
remains menace to the cherished institu-
tons of society, that it seeks to hold the
balance of political power in the United
States, and that it has by no means aban-
Therefore, he AYERS that John Doyle Lees
frank statements concerning the absolute
power of the church leaders are of i'm
portance now showing the true quality
of the organization which is at present viz
tualy on trial before the United States Sem
ate in the person of Senator Smoot.
Lees story Is of absorbing interest to
any one who wishes TO study the growth OF
the Mormon Church during the days of
PROSECUTING and persecution in Missouri and
Illinois. and the later days of comparative
security in Utah, prior to the massacre. 1t
is the personal point OF view sharply TO-
cused. Lee was DANTE, a member of
the band of 'avenging angels - whom
Prophet Joseph Smith and his successor
Brigham Young. used for their dark deeds
OF discipline, terrorism and revenge. He
was evidently a of uncompromising
loyalty to the faith. Even in the bitterness
OF swiftly approaching death he wrote for
slvingly OF those above him in the HER
archy who had, according to his own tale
placed him in his fatal predcament He
was a polygamist of no mean record hav-
Ing been sealed" to no less than nineteen
wives.
CHILDREN OF ENDURANCE, Being
the Story of Latter-Day Prophet
BY Lucas Cleeve, author of The
Man in the Street" &c. London: T.
Fisher Unwin.
The Children of Endurance are the
modern Jews who believe in their religion
and try to live according to the ancient
faith The "latter-day prophet is such
a Jew. son of London financier. The
father is a reformed Jew" the son Is
orthodox. An irresponsible conflict arises
between them. The father seeks to ar
range marriages between his children AMI
those of Gentlles of rank and position.
Thus the story deals powerfully with one
of the most difficult of social questions in
modern English life. There is deal of
theology in the midst of the narrative and
the author shows the results of her init
mate study of the doctrines and arguments
Of the two traditional opponents She de-
Vises an entertaining and ingenious Moi
eliminating in an Inflated effort by Young
Raphael Ritter to conduct crusade for the
restoration OF the original Jewish spirit In
the very city of Jerusalem. A tragedy closes
the tale with a dramatic suggestion of a
modern century parallel of the event of
nineteen centuries previous.
A striking anachronisfn mars the othervise
smooth texture OF the novel The author
presents In the prologue purely incidental
character, head master at Elton, of whom
sne says:
He was sorry, very sorry for the Jews:
ne had studied good deal of their habits
ana history; he was an admirer of Fang