Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-30

how the author came by his technical
knowledge OF the realistic details put
into his pages.
The purpose OF this minute pictura
OF the horror OF elecsIocutlon win
be explained in the fact that MIR, Whit
lock is one OF the most noted advocates
for the abolition of capital punishment
IN his position he has In many ways
alIeViated the condition OF the prisora
the following story being told In evt-
dence!
+''ro give an example OF the sort OF
thing that he is doing, here Is one re-
form OF the many he has carried
through and OF which Is particularly
proud. In the workhOuse he has abol-
ished the striped ralment. He has in-
trodpced parole SYSTEM and a parole
officer has been appointed, II is the
officers business to look UP situations
where he who has been an inmate pt
the workhouse will still be given work
The inmate whose conduct lis satIsfac-
tory Is given a leEter to the wouId-be
employer. He is sent forth with the
letter alone. No guard goes with him
None has ever run away their honor
was enough To- hold them And this ~
only one of the many things Of similar
nature that he has done"
Whatever effect the book may have
upon the condition 1t describes, Me-
Whitlock Will have az least won for
himself new honors, the kind that
comes from an honest and extremely
courageous enterprise of holding UP 10
public scrutiny and criticism proceed
ings of one OF the strongest of Amerl.
can institutions, the legal bar. the trial
by Jury and the conduct OF American
penal institutions A majority of peo-
Pile may not read the book; few HAYS
read THE Jungle but those who reau
.hern are the thinkers of the world and
thought is the germ from which all re"
form and revolution comes
Bobbs Merrill Co.. OF Indianapolis
are the publishers. on sale Deserct
News Book store,
''Tne PIowwoman, by Eleanor
Gates. is new and delightful venture
In American fiction. 1t deals with the
days of the Sioux troubles. when Gus
ter and scores OF gallant men took
risks OF life in defending the frontier
settlers from Ihe terrible raids OF the
ircensed tribes the story taking up
the life OF a family newly settled in
North Dakota on farm which they
have inadvertently Jumped" The
heroine. the little pillow woman" Is
Dallas Lancaster the eldest daughter
of a shiftless. fretful and crippled Tex
rs railroad hand. whose helplessness
throws the CIlteI DuTQen Oh the ranch
labor on his plucky girl A simple
and refreshing love story makes the
thread which weaves together story
of frontier life Including ske tehes of it's
rough details, soldier life in the near
military post. and the evsr-impsnding
peril from Indians. the VIII ole making
a most entertaining bit of realistic ma
tlonal fiction. Mcclure Phillips are
the publishers
"The Iron Way" by Sarah Pratt
Clark is story OF the Central
Pacific railroad. The completion
OF this great enterprise in 1857 pro-
vides the material for a tale fun
OF action and the power OF big events.
The author has made sleillful use &c
some of the giant promoters of that
day--Leland Stanford, Coils r. Hunt
ington, Mark Hopkins and Charles
Croker upon whose Initiative the
railroad was planned and built. or
course 1t is not all railroad, for there
is most attractive love story involV-
ing the fortunes of Alfred Vincent and
Stella Anthony, and there is plenty Of
the lively action characteristic OF Cali
fornia in her early days The railroad
lis but the vehicle for the tale The
author Is the daughter Of one OF the
men who did important work ON the
big railroad being assistant gen eral
supeTint endent. She was with him
during the completion OF the stupsn-
dous enterprise and many OF the de-
tails and incidents OF the story are
from real life, II Is a volume pleasing
and interesting throughout A 81
MccluTg publisher,