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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-25
N|NE CASES HEARD
IN DIVORCE COURT
Two Final and Three lnterlOc-
utory DEGREES Entered by
Judge Morse,
ORDERS TO SHOW CAUSE
Husband Accuses Wife of
Drunkenness; She Denies
the Charge,
ORDERS TO SHOW CAUSE

With the spporsch Of summer, the
weekly crist or tho divorce matinee
constantly diminishcs. Judge G. w
Morse yesterday heard one or both
sides Of nine cases and granted two
final DEGREES. three intcrdocutorv dc.
crccs and made rulings in four orders
to show cause.
Mrs. Nellie Kendblom petite bru-
nctte. bccomingly gowncd in brown
tailored suit with Il hat. strictly In
mode, testified that Arthur n. Kcnd-
blom had not only deserted her, but
that during the period whom no was
living with her. had treated her cruelty.
Mrs. Kendhom said that she has
lived I'm Salt Lake for more than ten
years, but that her husband is afflicted
with wandcrlust. 1t has taken over
eight months for the sheriff to serve
the papers in the case on him.
Her attorney said that she wanted
neither alimony. her maiden name Of
Nellie Clawson nor attorney Is fees, but
only divorce. The court granted an
interlocutory decree,
Winfield Hubbard, an employee of a
local commission house, was in court
on an order TO show cause why he had
not paid Lila T. Hubbard the full
amount of slimouy allotted to her when
her interlocutory decree was granted
last December. Mr. Hubbard produced
n note book and receipts TO show what
he had done. He explained that he
mad not paid his wife anything last
week because she came To his place
of business in an intoxicated condition,
and that he thought il better not to
pay her when in that condition. He
said that he had met her later and had
proffercd her SO, but that she had re-
fused the money.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-25
Guest Of NeWhouse.

Saturday night the eminent
ance man and his assistant will
guests Of Samuel Newhouse at a
vatc dinner at Mr.. Nswhonse s L
Mr.. Newhousc is no less close a 4
Of Judge Day than he was 10 the
Paul Morton, whom Judge Day
ceedcd as president Of the Equi
following Mr. Morton 5 death
Mr.. Kicker and a few friends
give a luncheon TO Judge Dav anf
Roseufeld SUNDAY noon. The a
@uished guests viii leave hcre'
Boise and Portland Sunday after
Prominent business men are oi
opinion that the visit Of Judge
will result beue6ciallv to this
The EQUITABLE company already
invested large sums In various 9
priseS in Salt Lake and it is dec
that further investments Of impor
are not unlikely.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-25
Judge W, A, Day VIII Be
Guest Of Z. A. Kicker al
Samuel NeWhouse.
5 FINANCIAL Pow
Belief Expressed That
Coming May Signify AID
tlonal investments.

Judge w. A. Day Of New York,
idcut Of the Equitable Life Assu'
company OF the United states. "A
panied bv his assistant. Henry u.
enfield, VIII arrive in salt Lake
afternoon at 2;0j O'Clock on the
land Limited from san Fran
Judge Day is on tour 10 visi
different agencies of tho compan,
investigate or inspect the vast fnf
investments in which tho Equital
directly or Indirectly Interested.
Elmer \, Kicker, local ageucy'
acer. attaches Of tho agency
friends will receive Judge Day
Mr.. EoScnfcld at the station and
escort them TO the Hotel Utah.
ing the afternoon an AMI omobile
10 points of interest, historically
commercially, will be taken. II
be Judge DAYS first visit to Salt
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-25
Wage Issue Raised.

COMMITTEE OF
Evening star., 1912-09-01
THE HEAVENS I'm SlEl

marked G will also be visible. These are
considerably fainter than the planet and
should not be mistaken for it.
Uranus is SO very distinct from the sun
that it receives but one four-hundredth
part as much sunlight as We do. Day on
Uranus is thus considerably brighter than
our brightest moonlit night. but far faint
er than the day with us. This world is
believed to be vaporous hot and rapidly
turning, just as Jupiter and Saturn are.
Its system of four moons, which move
backward around their remarkably tilted
orbits are beyond the power OF all but
the largest telescopes
On the morning OF September 20 the full
moon will pass very little way into the
earths shadow and part of its light Will
be cut off.
again witness the gradual but steady
transformation of the face of the heav-
ems into the autumn and early winter
sky The characteristic summer group Of
the Scorpion has half disappeared In the
southwest: the great constellation OF the
Virgin has wholly gone, while the Bal
ances. the Serpent and the brilliant. gold
en- Arcturus have sunk nearly to the
western horizon. Meanwhile the beauti-
full groups of Andromeda and Pegasus
lrave already climbed half way to the ze-
NTH in the east, and again we welcome
the royal star, Fomalhaut, which this
month reappears to pursue it's short
course across the southern heavens after
an absence of nearly a year.
If the observer will face toward the
north on any clear, moonless evening of
September he will readily find the Great
Evening star., 1912-09-01

f'uence and riches, who go morose. siouch-
ing in neglected clothes. Their only real
tompanions, fellow cluemen. cannot see
them.
So, the six blind players handled their
cards with smiles of SATISFACTION or
frowns Of impa,ience. They had no need
to train their faces They use their voices
for deception. or keep silence. One tail,
sallow plunger--the forgotten scion of a
great Jewish family foremost in finances-
received ace high on the deal. That man
knew each card before I. at his elbow,
saw II. His light fingers read their corner
pointings with nonchalant deftness, that
would have baffied the late Mr.. Sheedy
He had been blind from boyhood. when
he rescued a small sister from blazing
room.
l watched his face light up with humor-
Gus purpose as the others drew four, one
and three cards and two dropped out. In
monotone he raised 300 francs. and asked
for two cards. Silently the three men sat
intense. alert. to sense impressions be-
yond ordinary human delicacy, waiting
for clue.
The forid man with the blond beard
Wouiu uol pay lIduNs " uIdN iohi
cards: but. gently. the two others pushed
their chips up. The athletic brother Of
the second duke OF France Che lost his
sight by a gun explosion fifteen years
ago) smiled when lie filed his flush: but
the white-faced invalid at his side never
relaxed the refined strain a. he caught a
third ten-spot to his pair The original
buffer. holding his ace-high and two use
less cards. picked up his draw-two more
aces.
Exultation and hesitancy struggled on
his unguarded face-he was no buffer
now for he had three aces. He spoke no
word. He seemed careful not to move a
muscle of his body. He was hiding from
the other blind men.
The flush bet the smallest chip. The
Evening star., 1912-09-01
/ Still in the Cradle.

WILLIAM DEAN HoWELLS. the nov
w elist, said at a dinner at York Har-
bor apropos Of I. Townsend Burden. jr g.
declaration that Newport was no longer
suficiently exclusive for the American
aristocrat:
After all, the American aristocrat is
very young. isn't he? Only a generation
or 80 ago, he was peddling clocks or
hoeing corn, eh? The American aristo-
crat makes me smile.
He reminds me- rather. Of the bottle Of
burgundy at the half-dollar table d'hote.
1.-TWO men. you know. We're dining at
this table d'hote. and to round out their
dinner. they ordered a bottle of burgundy.
It came, like all wines that throw OF a
sediment, lying on its side In wicker
basket, or cradle.
THE first man said, as the waiter care
fully filled their glasses:
Why is this wine served in cradle,
do you know?
'"The second man took sip of the bur-
gundy, shuddered slightly. and answered.:
Because it 10 30 young.
Evening star., 1912-09-01

was blind. While the companion would
seat herself on a circular sofa the young
girl would stand a moment, pretending TO
glance negligently around. erect. laugh
ing and careless. No one guessed that
her knee was seeking the edge OF the
sofa while her elbow gained knowledge or
the exact position before she dared risk
sinking down with lazy grace beside her
compa panion.
Once she whispered: 'Oh, ! should like
TO dance. / dance nicely The lady to
whom she thus confided, pleaded with
Young gentleman. But | dare n, not take AK
TRY her" said the other. He consented.
was presented. and asked for the next
waltz. With pleasure, smiled the
blind girl. looking up him with two OF
the prettiest blue eyes in the world-you
would not dream that they were artificial.
When the waltz struck up a new couple
was seen dancing with joyful swing
the laughing blind girl and the kindly
Young man. who forgot his fears from
moment to moment.
There are strong souls who refuse to go
down under the blows Of misfortune.
They know how little money can do for
a blind person in comparison with cour-
age and self-reliance.
In the library Of the Rich Blind Men s
Club of Paris was fashionable young
fellow who had still much of his eyesight:
Vet he took feverish interest in the
titles of the volumes and their places on
the shelves.
He is going steadily blind from an
obscure trouble of the optic nerve" they
said. Science cannot help him. 4
year ago he saw with blur. Now he
bumps against people in the twilight. In
a few months daylight will seem evening
to him. Night gathers round him.
The unfortunate young fellow, in pre-
paration for his coming blindness. had
already joined the club of the rich blind
men and was spending his time in fixing
need.
These rich blind of Paris preach what
they practice.
They want their poor blind brethren to
bluff
Evening star., 1912-09-01

She wears porcelain eyes OF deep and
houid blue to match her blonde beauty
and fool the world.
With the lady companion she makes
and receives calls. enjoys matinees. runs
the shops. takes tea at the hig dress
makers, does her morning constitutional
in the Rois and suns herself with the
fashiona bles.
Last summer at Lauzanne, she stayed
at the Hotel Beau-Sejour. social center
for so many Americans. Evenings after
dinner she would enter the salon con-
fdently: the tulle at her shoulders or
lace at her wrists barely brushed against
the lady companion for guidance. and it
was sufficient.
None of the strangers knew that she
Evening star., 1912-09-01
Apocryphal.

A PROPOS of certain rich mans pur-
= chase of a mine for siO0OoO that he
sold for $50 O00, 600, a Chicago broker told.
rather bitterly perhaps. an apocryphal
story about him.
when he was baby" the broker
said, ''his mother used to sing him TO
sleep. Sing a song of sixpence,' was the
lullaby she employed.
'As soon as he learned to talk. his first
logical remark was an interruption to this
lullaby.
Sing song of sixpence. crooned his
mother.
And the baby, shaking its little head
and smiling in a wheedling way, said:
Make il a quarter. ma, and Ill 70
right or
Evening star., 1912-09-01
I'M SEPTEMBER THROUGEH A TELESCOPE

a rema rkable red and variable star. This
is sometimes of so deep red as to be
the reddest bright star of the northern
heavens; at other times it is orange
merely. It's color is best studied by COM
pairing it with the nearby white star at Is.
Its brightness also varies irregularly, so
that sometimes ii emits more than twice
as much light as at others.
1t is interesting to note that were We
on the planet Mars the north pole of our
heavens would lie nearly midway be-
tween the star X and the beautiful white
star of the Northern Cross at S. The
former Of these will be our own pole star
when fifty-six centuries have passed
away.
The observer has doubtless noticed how
rapidly the very brilliant planet Jupiter
has been sinking in the west. In a very
few weeks this beautiful world, which
has for so long time poured out its
steady, golden radiance in the south. will
have left us for another year, although
it will not actually enter the morning sky
until next December. But just as Jupiter
leaves our evening sky the most interest
ing ringed planet Saturn will enter it. and
meanwhile the brilliant Venus is steadily
Withdrawing from the suns rays in the
west. so that throughout the entire win
ter we will have these two most interest
ing objects with US.
Evening star., 1912-09-01

Pretend you are not blind" they say.
like us"
They antagonize the new enervating
nests of the French state. Themselves
rich. they know the final misery Of not
fighting it out.
Up to recently the French state en-
couraged the poor blind to fight 1t out.
OF $50 graduating from the national
institution % are deceased, . have per-
sonal fortunes, 13 are still beginning the
individual life. earn above $1,000 per
year. Is earn from 5000 to 81 900. IL earn
from 500 to $500, 81 earn from 800 to
500. 100 earn from $500 to 500 under
circumstances which render them COM
pletely self-supporting, 20 need occasional
aid. "A need habitual aid 10 have lost
OF ruined their situations
Now the French state proposes to park
together all the blind who are tired Of
struggling young. adult and aged. in
twelve regional institutions of the style
OF the Braille School of ST. Mande, where
an "illusion" of self-support is given by
means OF artifcialy high wages arti-
ficially low board, clothing. etc. and a
deficit to the state Of 5000 per year per
person.
The rich blind men of Paris advise their
working brethren not to accept it. Self
reliance withers under ill-disguised char
ity that "discourages the intelligent and
the strong by offering unfortunately
to ALL at the price of abdicating their per-
sonality. in sort of levelling down. a
special nest. specially prepared where ali
can live i'm peace. their needs assured,
sheltered for their entire existence from
the rigors of ordinary life
They say that If the French state should
offer an equivalent of that two-hundred-
dollars-a-year deficit as kind Of trade
accident pension to courageous outside
workers more and more professional
schools would turn out more and more
self-reliant blind. glad and able to lead
the individual life
do not abdicate your personality in a
Evening star., 1912-09-01

nest, say the T1cH DlluU VI dTIS W tHe
poor.
Get your education. then go out and
fight--weli help your
They call themselves the elder brothers
and sisters of the working blind. They
watch over them through the Association
Valentin Hauy--named after the inventor
of raised letters-a large rich and flour
ishing mixed employ ment bureau, print
ing Office library and club 1t issues two
"blind" newspapers, magazine, sheet
music and editions of the classics
Glance inside.
Who are these rapid, busy, laughing,
chatting, card-playing. letter-wrfting.
newspaper-reading folks?
All blind
Yes, they are the working blind OF
Paris. All have come a distance-many
without aid.
"Walking in the crowded streets Is the
hardest thing" said one who can still see
daylight, but cannot distinguish objects.
"Td gladly give up my useless impression
of light and darkness for some magnetic
machine like a watch to help suide me
in the street-it ought to be invented!
There are blind university professors
pierre Wiley, master lecturer of the fac
,1lty of Caen. Albert Leon, docteur des
lettres, professor Of philosophy Of the
Iycee of Bayonne). There are blind law
yers Q1e Cost advocat at Caen, ana tne
great Maurice de la Sizeranne Of the
Paris BARI.
There are blind organists in quantity.
from Hornisch. who is a celebrity or Lau-
same, down to fifty blind girl or.
ganists eking out the salaries of small
parishes by giving piano lessons; Music
indeed, has given the best results. FER
hans third OF the 1900 piano tuners OF
paris are blind and make good wages, oe-
ing given a preference.
There are over a hundred blind type
writer's working with graphophones ano
the "loaning'' of pianos and these other
instruments of trades, constitute help
to self-relianc, on which the elder brothers
place dependence.
Medical massage-not to be confoundeo
with the common, or garden KINDS Tue
Evening star., 1912-09-01

newest well-paid profession. There are
already. sixty such in France. averagins
81 rAr day. Because of the forced discre-
ton of the blind, their thoroughness, pa
tience and specialized sense of touch. the
demand is at present far greater than the
supply.
Acting as an invisible Providence. the
elder brothers and sisters spend
great slrns in secretly following up,
watching over and sustaining their more
self-relant proteges.
If they demand courage, they give the
example; because, while the rich are sell
dom blind from birth. the catastrophe
coming by way Of sudden accident or
few dread optical maladies Is all the more
terrible.
They are proud of their working breth-
rem, and the working brethren are gay.
They have fought and won out.
1t is astonishing how they get On with
out their sight.
deck!" said the librarian of the Valentin
Hauy Association. beginning a friendly
game with the organist of st. Peter g
Neuil1y. The cards come from the Rich
Blind Mems Club. and by accident there
were three too many in tie pack They
are ordinary playing cards with en-
bossed points added in the upper left-hand
and lower right-hand corners.
And these two consummate blind men
unembossed cards. Their supersensitive.
delicate, slender fingers felt the forms of
ink prints on the faces. Any Of the
players could distinguish the feel of a
picture card, and most could call on the
denominations Of pip-cards, ace, deuce,
tray, four, five and so on. Feeling the
suits is more delicate, and calling the suit
ard the value Of a picture card is the
height Of this blind mans tour de force:
Regularly, they read the embossed
points of the corners before you or
would see them, because they read as
they pick the card up.
But you ought to see the rich blind men
play poker!
Few outsiders get a glimpse Of their
private club, where they meet to watch
over the working brethren.
Among them are millionaires, men OF
great families. bearing well-known titles.
heads Of houses, lost to the world Dy
their blindness. Among them are blind
men who dress with meticulous coquetry.
faultlessly frock coated. in high hats
Evening star., 1912-09-01
Thought It a Fly.

LECTOR Won BAYER, architect Of the
: bureau Of fisheries, was telling fish
stories in Washington.
Il was once fishing for bass in Lake
Sunapee." he said. "Old jake was my
guide. Jake chose the fishing grounds.
andlhe also selected the flies.
The fish rose well till after luncheon,
then they vanished. After an hour of
vain casting said to Jake:
II guess they're taking siesta now,
eh?'
4 guess mebbe they are.' the old man
answered from hds armchair in the stern.
but any other fly with q bdt ee yAllee n
it Eould do jest - well" .---5-
Evening star., 1912-09-01
zaKnS aSHMGa EE1GS SEEs

pale invalid came with him-in one word.
What would the astntc Hebrew do with
his three aces Hoist the one card and
three card draws they deserved?
| think he must have waited half a min
ute. they hid from him in the black
void and he sought Ia feel some indica-
tion from them. Then. he just finished up
the little chip that calledH lie seemed 10
feel that there was flush out against
him.
Ii was. a stand-of. all-round for thosa
mind readers. And in the other hands I
saw played there was the same mineling
gives one the impression that these super
men OF the void have triumphs that We of
gross sight sensations know not.
Were II not for their faces I ssd
later, to the librarian OF the Nslentin
HaGy Association, Il would back those
men against any fun sight players
They have beaten sight players every
time they have met. he laughed Cards
and music are their strong pleasures.
They almost forget their blindness: or.
rather blindness adds new zest. diff
ferent Every afternoon there is a rapt
game OF poker In the card room of the
rich blind men Once. f,ll-slght player
being cleaned out. almost suspected that
the dealers fingers unconsciously. habit
ually. read the cards as they dealt them
ITO suspect a blind man Of cheating YOU
is strong | laughed. half wondering
But. no. Il noticed they deal always
from the middle Of the top card. ! said
surely answered the librarian, hut
a suspicion of a suspicion was enough.
Thenceforth they refused 10 admit any
full-sght party in the game. and very
seldom as looker-on. Among them
selves, they cannot see the dealer. but
they feel him.
II have been blind only five years" he
concluded. yet even ! would notice the
changed rhythm In dealers movements
should his fingers become occupied In
reading cards and his mind be charged
with remembering them"
STERLING lIEILIG.
Evening star., 1912-09-01
Four-year-old Savant Who
Knows Zoology Backward

nifty of print. hut il is really an amazing
feat of essay-writinC to have been per-
formed by little boy of -four. To show
that there was no deception. the infan-
tile Zoologist dictated a chapter on The
Pike" In the reporters spresence-chatter-
ing 1t of, as one might say. while he
played with his TOYS on the floor. Here
is part of II. which shows that this ju-
venile naturalist Is Dryasdust but
has keen sense of humor. which should
make his future works worth reading.
Other chapters of Scotts book are
headed, Beetles" Snakes" Common
Gold Fish" and Frogs" His chapter
on THE Diplodocus" begins:
THE diplodocus is large animal about
as big as house. He belongs to the
saur family
Scott never was interested I'm stories
said his mother: lin fact, he won't listen
10 them. Tell me something that teaches
me something, he always SAYS But
in spite of all he has learned he is not
at all self-conscious, and is a thoroughly
game-loving, boyish boy"
Evening star., 1912-09-01
Table Talk.

THE American aristocracy was being
discussed at a dinner at Newport
I'VE are not, alas, an aristocracy of in
tellect, like the French said Joseph E.
widener. I'VE model ourselves on the
horse-racing English. and all our table
talk
He smiled to give point to his epigram:
and all our table talk u stable
talk."
Evening star., 1912-09-01
In Reed Bird Season.

WI ILSON MINER was contemplating
W joyously the advent Of the reed bird
season.
eff only" he said. reed birds were q
little larger. They are small every where,
but in Philadelphia they are particularly
small. One autumn evening a Philadel-
phia waiter said to me. as he held q
match to my cigar:
And how did you find your reed birda.
sir?
"'Only by the aid or perseverance, ana
a pocket microscope. answered for the
blessed chef had gone and hidden 'euS
undsS q lsan- Of 0rees.'
Evening star., 1912-09-01
Too Clever.

HTOO many advertisements try to he
clever. Now ii is better for an
advertisement to be simple and direct
than clever. CIeverness confuses the is
sue
The speaker was Henry g Mines-tias-
kell. a London advertising agent, who has
come to New York to learn American
methods He resumed
The would-be clever advertisements al
ways reminds me of the shop assistant
Young man.. a lady asked him. will
this flannel shrink?
Desiring TO be clever when his one de-
sire should have been TO sell goods, the
shop assistant answered:
Not as much as ] would from telling
you it didn't, madam. il it did,
Evening star., 1912-09-01

liant yellow solar star. Capella, which
now lies almost on the horizon. Above
this stands Perseus, the rescuer of An
dromeda, whose place is marked by an
irregular group of bright stars, one of
which is the wonderful demon star. Algol.
five-sixths of whose light is periodically
cut off by the passage Of darker star
between Algol and us. This star may be
seen to have reached it's greatest faint
ness this month September ID at hour )
minutes am: September II at 10 hours
20 minutes pm. and September 20 at Z
hours 8 minutes pm. eastern Standard
time)
Above Perseus there is the well-known
Cassiopeia, between which and the Dra-
gon there is the rather faint but most In
teresting group known as Cepheus. At
this time of the year the observer will
have but little difficulty in tracing out
this constellation. which includes nearly
all Of the stars along the Milky Way ly-
ing between Cassiopeia and the Northern
Cross With a small telescope he Will
find that each of the stars marked A is
an interesting double. while at the point
r. nearly midway between the stars L
and X, but little above them, there is