The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27

public. This secret and silent service is
employed for purposes of both protection
and aggression. Many of the greatest
conflicts and disputes between modern
nations have arisen from or been averted
by. the schemes OF this underground
army.
short time ago conflict of arms was
confidently predicted between the United
States and Japan. In silent Service Mr.
Bronson-Howard discloses the most inter-
esting and important portion OF the I'M
foreground history of this crisis me
complications that arise keep the reader
guessing as to the outcome or events uh-
til the last page.
In addition TO this complete novel the
August number of the Popular Magazine
contains big instalments of three serials
and eleven interesting short stories. alto-
gether 22i pages of strong, virile fiction.
YOUNGS.-A tawny haired. green-eyed
sculptress. a fascinating. vaudeville act
reSS, a brilliant, newspaper man, a slanSy
cloak model, an adventurous multi-mil-
lionaire, a demure little Puritan girl, ana
an elegant clubman are among the char
acters who make love and eplgrams with
equal celebrity in "A QuakeresS Astray IN
the August number of Young's Magazine
It's a dashing tale of decidedly modern
flavor in manners and morals. ana from
the multi-miilionaire to the model, they
are flesh and blood people. If a Man
FALL by Frederick NJ Smith, measures
unsparingly the standard OF men ana
morals that women have made by their
cowardly blindness in refusing to see
what they know they must condemn
The Sabine Woman" by Mary Roberts
Rinehart is a strong love story. wherein
a dainty, sheltered. society girl and
flambouyant, glowing beauty of the peo-
pie meet in a contrast that grips with
keen pathos gayer little love tale Is
Fire and Tow by Jean Ellis. charming
ly vivid and ardent. The Eclipse of Car
lotta" by Richard Harold Warner Is
lively theatrical story and Time Waits
on No Man by Aubrey Lanston is a de-
licious bit of satire The French transla-
tons are widely varied and cleyer and
ION Broadway and OFF, and AT the Sign
of Eros are full of pleasant smiles and
hearty laughs.
TECHNICAL WORLD-Table of con-
tents: In the Sweat of the Planets. Hen
ry NJ. Hyde: Death in School Drinking
Cups, Alvin Davidson. NJ. s., Ph.D.; Road
less America in Transformation, G. +.
Carter: Submarine Fishing Boat, DR.. AL
fred Gradenwitz: Resource Becomes a
Menace Roy Crandall: Sending Pictures
by Wireless. Cecil Bembridge; In a
Drowned Volcanoes Crater. Rene Bache:
Three Hundred Billion Bees at Work. Roy
Crandall: Boys and Girls and the Farm.
H. G.. Hunting: Railways Divide New
Kingdom, William Thornton Prosser'
Finding the Worlds Radium. P. Harvey
Middleton: One Tree to Save a State 5
l.
Scouts Whisper From the Sky. {. III.
Claudy; New System of Submarine Wire
less. A NJ Hoffman. Twenty other ar
ticles, 100 illustrations.
POPULAR MECHANICS is a faith
full chronicler of everything new in the
line of mechanics and kindred subjects.
In the August number there are 15o arti-
Giles and 1873 illustrations-every story
written so you can understand it." The
mechanical features of the Republican
national convention are described; a con-
tributor tells about visit to Hudson
Maxim, where he saw some startling, al
though incredible. things. Mr.. Maxim
uses high explosives for cooking purposes
as unconcernedly as if 1t were wood OF
other fuel Wireless waves are now used
for controlling electric trucks. and an in.
teresting article tells how ii is accom-
plished. A big elephant at Cincinnati, o.,
swallowed valuable diamond ring, and
the X-ray machine was used on the beast
to locate the gem. Jumbo didn't like II
very well, but he finally submitted, as the
illustration accompanying the article In
dicates. Other features are "A Portable
Canning Machine for Farmers. Failing
With a Wrecked Airship." THE Grea'
Junk Industry" How Stage Sounds ano
Storms Are Made" etc. From so many
good things it is difficult to choose few
The Shop Notes department is up to its
! usual high standard and there are ter
/
| SMITHS for August has an article OF
| interest TO all women interested in beau
! tiful Irish laces. The author writes OF
/ the new industry which has sprung up In
j the ireland of today:
| Beauty and sorrow, soft green hills anC
! half-fed children, gentle speech and hope
| less eyes-that is the Ireland of the past
| But today there Is a new Ireland forsak
| ing the futile political talk to learn bust
ness habits, developing its Industrial re-
| sources, and showing the confident hops
of getting enough to live on. Every Chile
! of Ireland is helping, and among these the
lace makers are bringing more than the
widows mite.
| "A few years ago the Irish peasan
| women sat with hands empty of needle
/ inside their tumble-down huts while theil
| husbands lay in the sunshine outside oil
| listlessly titled their starvation five acres
| What was the good of keeping up tn,
| place? The landlord only raised the rent
| What was the use of making lace OF
| sprigging? No one would buy. Today
! because of the new land acts and the CO
| operative associations, the husband works
| hard on land that he will soon own: wifi,
and daughters make lace and crochet. EN-
| broider altar coverings and weave ciotf
and baskets, sure of some kind of sale.
! PEOPLE S-These hot days one crave:
| a real good funny story like a cool drinl
with a straw in 1t. The Peoples maya
zine for August fills the bill completely
it is full of chuckles. First and fore
| most Is the yarn by Will Gage Carey
THE Fanatical Fans of Fantii Isle.
which is a story with stick In it-tha
| is II has the real, unadulterated humor
Gus flavor Two castaways In a canni
| bal isle coach the gentle man-eating ma
tives in the art of our great nationa
game. and in order to save themselve
from becoming pate de wrecked sailor,
get up a match-the losing coach to sur
render himself gracefully to the stew It
How those chocolate drops OF NATIVES
stood-is well worth finding out
| Another entertaining tale is John Yegt
and Cupid" by Edward s. Ellsworth. II
this story Billings gives two rollickin,
young millionaires course In hoboism