The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-14

rs so necessary to stories of the unreal
althougn after reading the story il is
hard TO say what is real and what is I'm
real. This is undoubtedly one of the
best things that the famous author of
Dodo' has ever written. and short story,
readers VIII miss treat if they let it
so by.
SMITH S.-The fiction contained in the
holiday number OF Smiths Magazine. now
on the news stands. is of q kind To make
IT the heaviest seller of the month The
complete novelette,. THE Flesh and the
spirit. by Meth Boyce, is an absorbing
t tale OF wholesome American girl who
thought she had fallen in love with one
man while engaged to be married to an
otheT. The two men are of widely d.
NeIgent types, and the struggle between
"A Presentiment." by Helen Sherman
Griffith. is a study Of woman's nature
and Of the workings of her mind and
heart. 1t concerns things which women
seldom confess. and scarcely any woman
can read II without feeling a secret SYM
pathy for the heroine. Christmas
Waits by Charles Fort, is a Christmas
story. whimsical. humorous and sympa-
thetic. The womens departments i'm
Smiths are unusually helpful and attrac-
tice. The art work is splendid. the pic
lures Of children contained in this num-
Der being alone worth the price of the
magazine.
SUCCESS.-The Pacific Coast has a
district attorney who does things. Francis
j. Heney. who has recently been selected
TO push the prosecution of the grafters of
San Francisco. established new record
for effective public service in securing the
conviction Of the Oregon land thieves a
year ago. Success Maya zine for January
contains. under the title Francis J. He
ney-Fighting Man. a forceful character
ization by Henry Beach Needham of the
methods and achievements of this govern
ment attorney. who has been hailed as
the biggest man in the west" Out of
thirty-four men. government and state
OFFICIALS. bankers. lawyers and timber
spectators. thirty-three have been found
guilty. Surely a remarkable record. Mr..
Heney has lately joined the governing
committee of the peoples lobby. the new
bureau lately organized to operate at
Washington TO further congressional bills
In the interest of the people Samuel Mer-
win describes in this Issue the proceedings
OF the organizers Of the lobby to date.
My Life-So Far Josiah Flynts as
toundingly frank autobiography. is con-
tinued, with fuller and more intimate dis
closures of the wanderings and misad-
ventures of this student-tramp. whose
associates have been such men as Toll
stoi and lbsen, and again the companions
Of the road, the Jail and the box car.
THE WORLD TODAY.-NationaI poll
tics is a dominant note in the. World To-
DAY for January, although there is. as
usual with this Decent magazine. vari-
ETY. OF other topics The editorial conf
ments trenchantly on Senator Tiliman's
remark In regard to the fifteenth amend
ment to the constitution of the United
States-"To hell with such a law" There
are biographical sketches of Leslie NJ.
Shaw, secretary of the treasury. by Il. q.
Moorhead, and John T.. Wilkie. chief Of
the United States secret service. by G. II.
Forbes-Lindsay. Willard French writes
discriminatingly of Promotions in the
Cabinet" Two History-making Conven-
tons are reported. one, 1.-THE Lakes-to-
the-Gulf Deep Waterways Association, -
by Charles NJ. Harvey; the other. THE
Trans Mississippi Commercial Congress-
by W. r.. Williams. Among the beauti.
fully illustrated articles are The Story OF
the Seedless Orange by LaSalle A. May
nard: The Milan Exposition by Dex-
ter g. Whittinghill: Our Yearly Exodus
10 Europe by ]. NJ. Campbell, and
Leon Dabo. Painter of Space" by James
William Pattison. THE Presidents Visit
70 Panama" is also well pictured. and
there are full page portraits OF Leslie M.
Shaw, John E. Wilkie. ". e Burghardt
Du Bots Franklin Murphy and LILLIAN NJ.
y. Stevens. Nenry S. Burrage tells how
and Neviu q. Winter of "Guatemala: A
Land Of Opportunity" Both Of these are
fully illustrated.
THE NATIONAL-The National FOR
January Is "snappy'' number. Affairs
al Washington" b. IFS editor, Joe Mitch
ell Chapple. is exceptionally strong In
character: and several additional pages
are added to this department, giving 10
the reader an insight inte the affairs az