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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-19
Calling Western Reports.

Snecial Correspondence.
yVIAsHINGTON, Sept. 17.-rhere
w have not been very many deVel-
onnents this week which have
caused the Republican leaders
any great amount of jubilatiso'nE.i.
On the contrary the reports from some
of the western states are even more
calling than they We're last week for
Instance political snarl has deVei-
oped in Iowa which has caused great
on,botrassment. THE Young Turks
~ that state had made up their 1nindsa
IN kick over the and-patters, o. ne
followers of the sultan, who in thls NJ
stance appears to be Senator DolliNef,
ana 10 elect Gov. Cummns to the sen
atc Ia succeed the late w. b Alison 4
And all this In spite of the prob2sts u
the so-called stand-patters' IN we
other hand, the stand-patters are re,
noI.ted to have declared that tneS MI
tie mn the Iowa legislature linti, altci
election, rather than submit 70 the e ~.
yation of Gummins. VINO SHOWS -
r,,,,,,e poIitical sense in his ability 70
Ina thc signs Of the times than do the
folIn,ycrs OF. Deliver, Perkins, nt ".
same years ago the late T. 9 l ,t
,ieiI. mo of the most astute politieai on
ss,.re.s who ever wrote for u neWsla"
I,er IN Il trip through Iowa saw Wy
evidences Of. revolt against inc. ilis''
nrotective policy Of the Repnbliran par-
~ He wrote an article for the new
York Times. in which he ADVISED ti,r
politicians or the east to heGp so YOU.
10 an Iowa, Mr.. Gunnell Was
liuehed al upnercifufly and ms M, ~
,,li,d preilictloi .hat Iowa mlsh I, ~
fnfnd IN Tho ijeNiccrauc column t .Ii'i
5sstT Mas; nor bus.le out by the fesul,s.s !
i3ut iowa has seen light SINCE mos nos,
dav4 and the farmers who have ,gleli
,.i,mpelled to pay tribute TO tne ~. ~
yestel. Trust. the Irvine Trust. Tic, li.e
standard Oil Monopoly and an lh .i',,,
trent agglegations OF capita. VIII ,li,i
have heen built UP under the Mor.li,-
i:elly- pingley-AIcKinleS high protes
ifty4 policies no longer depend , ui.o',
,,amptign speecheS and biased L, poilt. .s.,l
Ne for tkeir ideas. they p 'tt
t;yo and two together NOWADAYS IN
,,ev Are able to see. because they reaa,
fh,,tj the policy which has islaus ~
multi millionaire Z by S.'i y
,,assihIe the organization OF trusts ~
'i,5,nat .iveFy line of manufacture na S,
h"en irin1ira to their Interests /, N !,
INA II perhaps the foremost OF az ~ we
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-19
Stampede of Voters.

Special Correspondence.
NY AsHfNGroN u, c., Sept, L.
wv The Republican national and
congressional committees do not
propose that rhe voters en-
ployed In the departments here
shall be deprived of the privilege
of casting their votes in the coming
election because of any lack of effort
on the part of the political managers.
There are somewhere between five and
ten Thousand voters employed in the
departments of Washington who have
the right of suffrage in practically
every state Of the Union. Some of
them, OF course. are too far away from
their homes to think or proceeding to
their legal residences just for the sake
of casting a vote. But all of the
northern, middle western and eastern
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the water after rinsing his cans stares
pententiary. sentence in the face ANA
the interstate commerce commission
IS preparing Il code which will make the
punishment fit crime" in case the elec-
trio railroad fails to furnish a seat for
a fare.
II is n misdemeanol, to own Il rooster.
which crows before $3.50 q. m; q high
crime TO spit on the sidewalk and al
most q felony il you serve a free lunch
and leave a handful offorks in q glass
of dirty water available for your Gus
toners while helping themselves to the
cold beans, and saucikraut or the
pickles.
These questions are attracting, almost
as much attention Just now as the
speeches of Messrs, TAFT ma Bryan
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Republican states IN It's Willingness to
listen to financial reason. Cummins
has done as much in this connection for
Iowa as the late Z. RosaWater did for
Nebraska in pointing out the way for
the voters to cut their bonds. And the
Republican leaders are fearful that
should the contest between Cummins
and the stand-patters growAas bitter as
1t now threatens to become, that Iowa,
that rock-ribbed Republican state, may
really open its eyes, with the result
that its electoral vote-wild as this pre-
5dction might have looked 10 years ago
may even be found. recorded in the
Democratic columns.
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political parties this year, at
least so far as the Washington
END 80 tt X Is concerned The
/ Democrats have adopted the brass
{ band policy and are doing ali the shout
ing up TO the present time rhey are
apparently jubilant cockg and conti-
dent and every man who returns from
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-19
Difference il, Campaigns.

Special Correspondence.
AYIAsHINGToN. d.! c.. Sept. g.
tween the methods ofEconducting the
campaign between the two great
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-19

SAMUEL GOMPERS, LABOR 1LEADER7 IN POLITICS.
TO
urging to get into politics This campaign however is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
LOUISE BAY0uZET
will be sorry when they see that they
have made a martyr of an honest woman.

will be sorry when they see that they
have made martyr Of an honest woman
In conclusion. 1 will narrate. as it was
told to friend by Jeanne Weber her
self, an incident which throws flood OF
light on the Vaccinations which so nearly
worked her ruin.
1t is in connection with the death Of her
little boy. Two days before the child
died. his mother. who had been out all the
afternoon. went to fetch him from school.
Little Marcel was trembling and in tears.
When asked what was the matter. he
replied that his father had beaten him.
The chiids body was black and blue from
the thrashing he had received Next day
Marcel complained of Internal pain. and
remained in bed. and twenty-four hours
later was dead. The doctor certified diph-
iberia as the cause Of death. and Jeanne
held her peace about her husbands bru-
tallty. Some of the neighbors, however.
reported the matter to the police and
from that moment Jeanne's husband and
her two brothers-in-law showed bitter
enmfty against her. One of them actually
wrote to the woodcutter Bayouzet urging
MIN 70 accuse Jeanne. and adding: you
may be sure she killed your child. You
Will be doing a good action by securing
her punishment. On the day of her con-
domination 1 promise to send YOU 800
frances
But M. lie JUICE d'instruction's self-im-
posed mission was to prove Jeanne's guilt.
not her Innocence. and so such trif1es left
MIN Indifferent. 1t was reserved for q
generous lawyer. backed by the all-power-
1ui press. to redress the leaning balance
of justice. r ERANKIIN
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SUBMARINE CABLES ENEMY.
Little Creature of the Sea That Is
Fond of Gutta Percha.

From the Magazine of Commerce.
The vicissitudes of a submarine cable
many. 1t may be torn by an anchor,
crushed by rock or seriously damaged
by coral reef such abound in the
tropics. Some of the growths often found
on cable tend gradually TO decay the
iron sheathing wires. Then. again, .
cable is sometimes severed by seaquake.
1t may be fatally attacked 10y the snouc
of sawfish or by the spike of a sword
fish.
But perhaps the little animal that makes,
itself most Objectionable from the cable
engineers standpoint is the insignificant
looking teredo nayalis. This little beast
is intensely greedy where gutta percha 10.
concerned, working its way there between
the iron wires and between the serving
yarns. The silica in the outer cable COM;
pound tends to defeat the teredos effort0
at making a meal off the core, and this
defeat is further effected by the core DO.
ing enveloped in thin tapping OF brass.
But where the bottom is known to b0e
badly infected with these little monsters
of the deep the insulator is often COM
posed of india rubber. which has no att
traction for the teredo and possesses q
toughness. moreover, which Is less suite0
for its boring tool than the comparatively
cheeselike gutta percha.
From one cause or another faults occur,
in most cables from time to time. These
require to be electrically localized irons
the cable-testing hut and a ship sent QUIZ
to the supposed position to grapple for
the line, pick II up and effect the neces~
sary repairs. When the cable has really
been hooked and picked up-an operation
which may entail several weeks or even
months, If only in waiting for favorable
weather-the blight is secured at the bows
and afterward cut. Each end is then
brought on board alternately and tested
electrically. If found to be sound the nee.
essary repairs are then effected.
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Instructions to Correspondents.

From the Kansas City Journal.
The late Sol Mller's instructions to
county correspondents were characteristic.
Here are a few of them: Mich COW.
when speaking of a milk cow. can never
ge; into these columns il we are about,
and have our senses. The person who
so writes ii incurs our deadly enmity.
The writer who is writing OF
two or more married ladies and calls
them "mesdames" would rob henroost,
and we hate him. We will not
countenance a writer who. in speaking OF
a married lady, and wishing to give her
maiden name also. says Mrs. Brown.
'Eee' Jones. - If any writer speak
ing or the bill of fare set up at any meal.
CALI it a menu" we shall club him at
sight. Any person who writes US,
Pre- losing to give a resume" of certain
events may as well not spoil his paper
AMI waste his time. ink and postage
Those who wish TO describe a
dance or party will please take notice
that Wee sma' hours" "Trip the light
faHt astic toe" and "All went merry as
a marriage bell!' are completely worn out
and indicate that the writer has not suf-
ficient brains to express himself in lam
guage Of his own.
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AS PLAIN AS A NOSE.
Commuter Emulating Sherlock
Holmes Tries Deduction.

From the New York Sun.
Don't look up now" said Mr.. Hemlock
Homes to his fellow commuter, the horse
doctor, but when you do look up take
particular notice of the man sitting direct
ly across the car from us. who seems to
be half asleep
The veterinarian raised his eyes after a
brief interval and regarded with search
ing look the person indicated.
What do you deduce?" asked Hemlock
Homes
We'll" said the horse doctor, II see no
evidence of heaven: his mind seems to be
all right. 1 should say that he has
neither rIngbone nor SPAWN. But l should
want to see his gait before saying that it
has no springhalt.'
"These things are matters of obServa-
ton and not Of deduction said Mr..
Homes a trifie nettled. Now endeavor
to follow me.
THAT man." Mr.. Homes went on. lis
employed in an office: his liver is slightly
out of order and he wears spectacles when
at work. :"
"Wonderfulr' exclaimed the veteri-
marian. How do you make it out?'
at is as plain as your nose on my face.
said Hemiock Homes. IF you Will OBJ
serve him closely you will see that the
eyelashes on the upper lid of his left eye
slant toward the left"
$50 they do" said the d. V. S.
well. that tells the whole story, so far
as my deductions have progressed" said
Mr.. Homes. THE eyelashes of the upper
lid Of his left eye slant toward the left be-
cause the spectacle lens over that eye
when he is at work presses them over in
that direction.
1.-The reason why the lens presses them
over is that his right ear stands out
further from his head than his left ear.
making the spectacle bow on that side a
loose fit and making his spectacle sit
slantwise. The reason why his right ear
wings out further than his left is because
he sleeps on his left side.
He sleeps on that side because his liver
won't let him rest comfortably on the
other.
Wonderful-wonderful!" exclaimed the
horse doctor.
The train halted at station. and as
Mr.. Hemlock Homes and the veterinarian
arose to alight the man opposite looked
up and said:
Hello, Doc! Everything all right? Yes.
thanks Just been to town to get fitted
with some eyeglasses. Never wore them
before Must be getting old 1 guess SO
long"
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The Speaking Voice.
From Harper's Bazaar.

There Is a theory that it is dangerous
to go beyond the mere freeing OF the in
strument in either vocal or physical
training. In accordance with this theory
l was advised by well-known actress
to conf1ne my study for the stage so far
as the vocal and pantomimic preparation
was concerned. to singing. dancing and
fencing: Get your voice and BODY un-
der control" she said. make them free.
but don't connect shades of thought and
emotion with definite tones of the voice
or movements of the body: don't NEEDLE
with Delsa1te or elocution." This advice
seemed good at the time. It still seems
to me that it ought to be the right meth
Cd But have grown to distrust it. One
or the chief sources of my distrust has
been the effect of the theory upon the art
or the actress who gave the advice. She
Is perhaps the most graceful woman on
the stage today. and her voice is pure
music But her gestures and tones fail
in lucidity; they fail to illumine the text
of the part she essays to interpret One
grows suddenly impatient of the meaning
less grace Of her movements, the mean
ingless music Of her voice.
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Before the prison gates a great crowd
had collected. part being hostile and a
part favorable, but all equally anxious to
see the "ogress'' Of whom such terrible
things had been related. It was, there
fore. decided by the authorities. in order
to spare her this supreme infection, that
she should be taken along an under
ground passage connecting the prison and
the Palais de Justice and be let out from
the latter building. But a crowd is quick
to scent a ruse. and when poor Jeanne
Weber came forth she found dense mass
Of human beings in front Of her.
When. however. Jeanne Weber, sad and
tinhd. and with her eyes red from weep
ing. appeared, a wave of compassion
seemed to pass miraculously over the
crowd. Not a hand was lifted, not a
voice was raised in insult Many of the
spectators murmured: Poor woman.
But Maitre Henri Robert did not intend
that his generous aid should cease with
Jeanne's release from prison. There is a
Paris judge, M. Bon1ean by name, who is
famous for his charitable ufe He is the
president of various benevolent institu-
tions and M. Henri Robert had no dim
Guilty in interesting him in Jeanne Webers
sad case. Thus it came about that q
man was waitin~ in a motor car to con-
vey Jeanne to M. Bonjean's house at
Paris. She had not been there long before
seventeen letters were received from chart
table people offering her a home In
day or two Jeanne will leave Paris to
start life afresh. Her eager desire is to
prove herself worthy of M Ronfean's
trust and kindly sympathy. THAT will
be my revenge on the wicked people who
made me suffer so cruelty. Perhaps they
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Age of the Legal Wig

From the London Morning Post.
The use of wigs by judges and barristers
is not very ancient. 1t was introduced. l
imagine. toward the end of the seven
tenth or at the beginning of the eigh-
teenth century. when it had become the
fashion at court. Bishops continued to
use wigs longer than their clergy. but
they have discarded them, to their great
advantage, for many years now.
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A Good Sign.

At the dinner given here recently in
honor of Admiral Deweys SEVENTEEN
birthday, the famous sailor, after drink
ing from a loving cup that had belonged
to George Washington. said:
This wine is superb. II is as fine in
its way as the sign that ] once saw over
An inn door in Germany. The sign said:
".Good beer sold here. hut don't take
my word for it,
HANS SCHWARTZ, Prop 4"
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The Best Kleptomania Cure.

when Justice Brewer" said a Kansas
lawyer, was on the Leavenworth cir
cult as a criminal judge, he had no pa
thence with the pleas of hypnotism and
such like new-fangled notions that then
were coming to the fore.
Once. l remember. a man was being
tried before him for shoplifting.
"A witness said he thought the prisoner
had kleptomania-
presume. judge he added. won
know what kleptomania is, Ell"
Yes. said the judge. I do. 1t is
disease that am sent here to cure"
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1t was Germaine Bavouzet who revealed
the secret Of Jeanne Weber's identity to
woman in the village. by whom 1t was
diligently repeated. Groups of gossipers
collected. Jeanne's guilt was as clear as
daylight to every inhabitant. the police
were Informed, and once more the hand
of fatality descended with crushing force
on its hapless victim.
Drs. Audiat and Bruneau of the neigh
boring town of Chateauroux were direct
ed to hold a post-mortem examination on
the exhumed remains Of the child
Auguste Bavouzet.
After some hesitation they reported
that death had been caused by a criminal
hand. They testified to the presence Of a
dark line about three-quarters of an inch
broad running round the neck, but at
irregular intervals. and to a second violet
line running from below the left temple
to the middle Of the right temple, such a
mark as might have been caused by a
bootlace. They summed up by declaring
that violence had certainly been used on
the child's neck, and possibly on the
heart as well.
This damning report sealed Jeanne
Weber's fate. She was arrested on sus-
picion of being the murderess. and was
locked up in the prison Of Chateauroux,
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When Maitre Henri Robert wrote to in
form the JUICE Construction that he had
undertaken Jeanne Weber's defense, NJ
Belleau few into passion and sent for
the prisoner.
What" he said. you have dared to
apply again to that man to defend you!
How guilty you must feel. Why. that
fact alone would suffice to convince me Of
your guilt. You ought not to have ad-
dressed yourself to that man. told you
I would choose you a defender myself
from among the counsel OF the Chateau
roux bar Well, let me tell you this
much It's not NJ. Henri Robert who will
prevent your being sent to the galleys.
promise you that!'
Incredible as such q state Of things may
seem in a country where sentimentalism
is so strong as to save even the loath-
some Apache from the guillotine, there
appears no doubt that Judge Belleau, by
a gross abuse of his authority. trusted to
this slow process Of mental torture to
wiring a confession of guilt from his vic
tim. Imagine the mute despair Of this
wretched peasant woman, whom each
encouraging letter from her kindly coun-
sci In Paris only plunged into a deeper
abyss OF torture at the hands of her tor
mentor! Only few days before her re-
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The Sparrow.

From the Leeds Mercury.
1t is a curious anomaly to find that our
domestic sparrow is the first bird to go to
iroost in an evening. and the last bird t.
get up in the morninA
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lease this medieval inquisitor sent for
her and said:
II have just received the experts re.
port. It is very long. and have no time
to study it now. 1 have other more inn
portant matters to attend to-"
Jeanne Weber had the courage to re-
mark that she had been already kept In
prison for eight months pending the ar
rival of the report which was to decide
her fate
what does that matter to me?" he Is
reported to have replied. Justice holds
you and will not be in a hurry to let you
go. Whatever may be the conclusions of
the report. even II it affirm your innocence
to be in error. and shall send you be-
fore the assizes. where you will be con-
demned. you may count upon that
But Belleau's pitiless tyranny was at
last beginning to cause public scandal
Throughout the length and breadth of
the land the judges inhuman conduct
raised indignant protests. Several organs
of the press took up the case 1t had al
ready leaked out that the final report of
the medical experts was favorable to the
prisoner. 1t had occupied them two
months. and toward the middle Of Deem
Der It was handed over to NJ. Belleau,
the announcement Of the experts being
that little Auguste Bavouzet died from
natural causes. Belleau still refused to
relinquish his prey.
At length the court of Bourges, gall
vanized to action by the force Of public
opinion. sent a peremptory order to the
juge Construction at Chateauroux to re-
lease the prisoner Immediately, and on
the afternoon of January 6 Jeanne We
ber's long martyrdom ended
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to the Judge to say that he was away on
his holidays and remembered nothing
about the Weber case.
Toward the close of the second day the
advocate general. speaking in court
crowded to it's utmost extent, said: There
were and there still are in this case
strange and bewildering circumstances
which defy explanation. We are living
in the twentieth century. If Jeanne
Weber had lived 400 years ago she would
have been tried as a witch and burned at
the stake
In reading these words one is involunta-
rily reminded OF the fate of poor Calais,
the Toulouse tradesman who was accused
of poisoning his son, found guilty and
broken on the wheel in 1862. The great
Voltaire, convinced Of Calais innocence.
labored for three years to prove it. and
at last procured the dead mans rehabilita-
ton.
The elaboration Of the jury was short.
Almost Immediately it returned a YER
dict Of mot guilty." and Jeanne Weber
was free.
murmur-it was nothing more-of ap-
plause passed through the court. 1t was
clear that the verdict was not popular
one. I remember hearing a young work
man beside me say: lit Will go hard with
her If they catch her alone on a dark
night"
Humbly, meekly, without a word and
without a tear the little Breton woman re-
ceived her acquittal and disappeared
from view The curtain descended on the
"ogress'' and the affair was quickly for
gotten.
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Lost.
From Transatlantic Tales.

''Well, Sepperl. what about the goose
your father was going to send me?''
Dunno, teacher, but it's getting we'll
again."