Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-21

A acurious phase, s"rhe Uncle Toms
Cabin of NIexiso," having been several
times applied to "The Planter, Herman
Whitakers Mexican novel of which the
Harpers have had to print several edi-
TONS 1t seems fair enough to ask why
The reason appears in some of Mr..
/ Whitaker's personal statements, which
are left out of3qthe novel wisely, no
doubt, since horrors in fiction are nei-
Their so new nor 50 salutary as they
I werrs IN Mrs. Stoves day. Yet no whip-
pii.a8of any slave of the infamous Lee
gree approached the outr;Lges to these
enganchadores contract laborers),
and to the slave Yaquis on the Next
can rubber plantations.
81 saw, writes Mr.. Whitaker to his
publishers, "a man fogged, a poor devil
of a runaway who somehow did not
: seem to apprecia te the fetOr and squal-
or Of the galera after 16 hours labor
in the hot fields. Stripped naked, he
was thrown down and tied. with arms
stretched at length above his head, to
stakes driven into the ground: then
the American contractor and two NIexi Z
can cabores beat him at once with slim
bejucas: beat him to a bloody pulp.
! then sent him out again to the fields
after throwing vinegar over his
wounds. In the galera of one planta-
ton, the president of which is .superin-
tendent OF a Sabbath school in Chica-
go, one man walked around on the
bare bones of his feet from which the
flesh had rotted away, walked around
for two weeks, then was loaded into a
canoe, taken down river, and dumped
on the bank at the railroad; where he
died under the car windows. 81
Under such conditions, the death
rate of course is frightful. The poems,
who are no more fitted for the climate
than a white man. and they die like
flies. especially during the rains. I
saw one draft of 90 men paid off, all
plantation manager uttered the very re-
mark which l put into Hertzer's mouth
inEthe novel. There's only one OF EN-
can live out the month. To which he
added, We're only supposed to have
them six months. We manage to keep
them Il year. and in that time calcu-
late to get out all that's in. They're
through with Them Another planter
told me that out or a draft of 60. he
had only "a men left after the rains.
The others were all out In the jungle
thatis the secret graveyard.
The new copyright law which has
just gone into effect extends the pro-
teCElOl on DOCKS Ia years, making 4tne
period Sc years instead of AZ as hereto
fore.
Henry G. Shelley, the talented author
Of "Tntrodden English Ways. John
Harvard and His Times" and Liter
airy By-Paths in Old England" has re-
turned to England and taken up his
lesidence not far from London. MI.
Shelley is writing life OF Gilbert
White of Selborne for fall. -f
May Robson has achieved her great
estet success In the role of Aunt
Mary" In the dramatization of Anne
Warmers THE Rejuvenation of Aunt
Mary In which she has been appear
ing from one end of the continent to
tfle#other for two seasons. The book,
pronounced by some critics even better
than the play, is now In Its twelfth
printing.
The Missioners.% Oppenheim' g Janu-z
airy novel. was for two successive
months included among the six best.
sellers compiled by the BookInan, and
his June Novel, The Governors
ssgually popular Miss Ray The
Fridge Builders" Miss Knapp's But
5Still a Man land Rowland Thomsr
The Little Gods, y fave Just gone into
n he third edition. In NJ ysterious
Way by Anne Warner, and "a Royal
Ward - by Percy Brebner. are already
IN the second edition. while Sidney Me-
CARS new story Red Horse HILL and