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Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-23
COMPENSATION FOR OFFICIALS.

1t seems the First Auditor of the Treas
ury has disallowed two months pay to
the Governor of Alaska on the ground
that his pay did not commence until he
entered upon the actual perform ance of
his duties. Whether such is the case we
do not know, but it would seem that the
moment he received his commission and
started for his field OF labor is the time
at which he entered upon his duties. He
certainly was allowed his fare, but
the chances are nine out of ten
that he travelled part of the way
on passes. There is nothing that SO dis
graces the Government as the fact that
all the Federal officials in the Territories
travel on railroad passes. 1t is often said
by those officials who travel on passes
that the compensation allowed by the
Government is scarcely sufficient to JUS
tify them in taking the Office, and this is
offered as an extenuating circumstance
in favor of officials accepting Hcourtesies'
from the railroads. If the salaries of
their office are so small that they scarcely
feel justified in accepting their
offices, let them decline the offices,
and they may rest assured that
the Government will not coerce them.
If the Government officers in this and
other Territories travel upon Government
business, Government pays their ex-
penses. On what theory, then, should
these officers travel on passes? The Fed
eral officials of Utah are DO worse about
soliciting passes than the Territorial |
officials are; but the Federal officials, |
such as the Governor, Secretary, Supreme |
Court Judges and Marshal have annual |
passes, while the lesser FEDERAL officials
and Territorial officials OF a certain grade |
get trip passes upon solicitation. 1t is a
noble sight to see the Government
officials paying homage to the railroads
for annual passes! The thing ought
to be stopped, and if the officials
have not sufficient respect to refuse
the Government ought to forbid
them to accept them. The Legislature
ought to pass law making it penal for
to give passes to either Federal
or Territorial officials, and should impose
1 heavy penalty upon any Territorial,
County or City officials for accepting one.
All public officials ought to be amply
for their services, but they
should not be allowed, under any pretext
whatever, to accept passes.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-23
EXPLAIN, PLEASE.

The Ne1cs of Saturday night had a very
nice reference to the DEMOCRAT because
the DEMOCRAT had exposed the sophistry
of the NemS on the question of plural
marriage. We trust the Neps will not
claim to have originated the idea about
polygamy not being intended for general
practice, as the late Epistle OF MIR. Taylor
and Mr.. Cannon gave authoritative Mt
terance to this new doctrine in this lam
guage:
1t should also be understood that the prac-
tice is not generally admissible among the
Latter-day Saints. 1t is strictly guarded,
the intention being to allow only those who
are above reproach to enter into the rela-
tlonshlp. The practice of the doctrine is
not for extension beyond the church, and is
even limited within its pale.
The News, always following on the
heels of divinity, like Ruth after Naomi.
made the following comment upon the
passage in the Epistle:
That Mormon" plurality of wives is not
for general practice, that it is only designed
for specified individuals; that even all 'sMor-
mons III there were women enough for
plural wives for all the men in the church
would not be worthy of the privileges of the
system, and that it is not promulgated for
outside acceptance and proselytism.
These passages are easily understood;
hat how does it come that new doc
trlne is now preached in regard to the
practice OF polygamy? The Mormon
people always claimed that it was a right
guaranteed by the First Amendment to
the Constitution, and it was on account
OF this belief that the case of REYNOLDS
went up to the Supreme Court. If the
practice of polygamy is privilege, and
is even restricted within the pale of the |
Mormon Church, will the Ne,cs please
explain why the case OF Reynolds was |
carried up to the Supreme Court, and
what the people here expected would be
the result of that appeal?
Seeing that the practice of polvgamy
according to the Epistle, is only permit
ted to those who are above reproach. the
is irresistibly forced upon our
mind that the present editorial staff of
the Ne'os is not above reproach, else the
thereof would either be in Eng
land or the Penitentiary.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-23

A GOOD many OF the Massachusetts
Democrats are complaining of the appoint
ment of Mr.. Saltonstall as Collector of
the Port of Boston, not on account Of any
objection to him, but because he seems
to have been championed by Secretary
Endicott. A Boston correspondent who
was against MIR. Saltonstall says: "There
is no particular objection to Saltonstall
as man or Democrat. He is clean
and capable, and will probably make as
good Collector as any of the rival candi-
dates would have made" The objection
is really more to the method than the
man; that is, the Massachusetts party
leaders didn't have their way.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-23
SHREWD.

Parnell's manifesto shows him to be
shrewd almost beyond compare. He has
succeeded in quieting all dissenting voices
IN Ireland, and has made himself dictator
his manifesto shows that he is using the
conservatives as mere tools, although
they seem to have had new life infused
into them on account of the manifesto
The manner in which Parnell speaks of
the past promises of the Liberals is we'll
calculated to draw attention to their short
comlngs, and to draw votes from their
ranks. The prospects in England are all
In favor OF the Liberals, and it was TO
damage those prospects that this mani
festo was issued. If the Liberals
and Conservatives can be made
TO balance each other so th at
on a division neither party can
feel that measure has great success
then Parnell will have gained an inn
portant point, and, holding the balance of
power SO largely as he will, will be almost
NPASaAAS All tiiC iiOQot. w UlcEfeynr Marty
may be returned to power, the probabili-
ties are that its majority will be nothing
like the majority that the Liberals had in
1880. If the Liberals are returned. no i
doubt the Queen will ask Mr.. Gladstone /
to form Cabinet, but between the Lib
erals OF the Gladstone type and the Lib
erals OF the Chamberlain type there is a
great gulf, and if Mr.. Gladstone were TO
pass away, it is doubtful ii there is anv
nan in the party who could bridge this
great gulf.
at present everything points to the
riumph of Mr.. Parnell in the next House
although ne cannot expect to SO far sue
eed as to obtain Home Rule on the
'asis Of repeal of the Union. He is
hrewd, and the manner in which he
Gems to have caught Lord Salisbury and
he Conservatives is amusing.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-23
MEDICAL.
Or. .FO0TE, Senior, ,
Of 100 Lexington Avenue, New York,
Hereby cautions the public NOT to
Employ or Communicate with a
man styling himself ssDr. Foot, Jr.
without making due inquiry.

This man came to Salt Lake City representing
himself as the son of Dr. E. B. FooTE of New
York, the well known specialist, as abundantly
proved by atfidavitS. As rumOrS came into Salt
Lake City from Dakota and Montana from an
expose made there, he changed his base and
represented himself as the son of more noted
specialist in New York City than DR.. E. B.
FooTE, the well known author Mr.. JOHN F.
IRoW, of the well known Trows Directory in
New York City forty years in the directory
business), Ex-Governor FRANK FULLER, of Utah,
Postmaster in New York City, also Surveyor of
the Port gave their affidavits that there are no
other doctors in New York by the name of FooT
or FooTE, excepting DR.. E. B. FooTE, the author
OF Medical Common Sense" ETC., and his two
sons, Dr. e. b. FooTE, Jr., and DR.. HUBERT T.
FooTE. The genuine DR.. FooTE, Jr, will here
after always employ the initials, E. B., in desig-
mating his name. Heretofore he has been
known not only at home but wherever his pub
lications have been circulated, by the name of
DR.. FooTE, Jr. Greater care will be taken here.
after, in view of the fact that an unprincipled
person has assumed to profit by his and his
fathers reputation.
Those desiring further and more detailed in
formation in respect to this matter, will receive
1t by addressing Box 414. Salt Lake CITY Utah
Persons having Information of advantage to
plaintiffs will kindly communicate the same to
J! w. !vey, with Sutherland & Mcbride, Salt
Lake City.
Those desiring to consult DIR. FooTE profes
sionally or to order remedies should address
either
DR.. E. B. F00TE, Sr. or DR.. E. B. FO0TE, ir.,
12O Lexington Ave., New York.
Consultation Free in person or by letter.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-23
MAINE ON DEMOCRACY.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, the distin-
guished writer on Ancient Law and kin
dred subjects, has just issued, through
John Murray, four essays on Popular
Government. He puts the following esti-
mate upon the worth of American de-
mocracy:
The short history of the United States has
established one momentous negative conclu-
sion. When Democracy governs it is not
safe to leave unsettled any important ques
ton concerning the exercise of public powers.
might give many instances of this but the
most conclusive is the war of Secession,
which was entirely owing to the omission of
the fathers to provide beforehand for the
solution of certain constitutional problems.
lest they should stir the topic of negro
slavery. 1t would seem that by a wise con-
| stItutlon Democracy may be made nearly as
calm as water in great artificial reservoir
but If there is weak point anywhere in the
structure the mighty force which it controls
will burst through it and spread destruction
far and near.
The estimate is not complimentary, and
what is of far more Importance, it is not
just. There is almost a sneer in the es-
innate. 1t is often said that the friends
of an institution or theory are incapable
OF properly weighing its worth, or of see
ing its defects. The same may be said
OF those who have no sympathy with an
institution Or a theory, or who may be
somewhat hostile to it. 1t would be unjust
tosay that Sir Henry has no sympathy with
popular government, for he has; but his
sympathy for popular government is only
for popular government as found in Eng
land. To the majority of Englishmen
the unwritten Constitution of England is
a thing for constant alteration. The
Constitution Of England may be epita-
mlzed In the maxim of the common law,
Parliament is supreme" and this means
that the House, in contradistinction to |
the Crown and Lords, is supreme. The |
English Constitution is worthy of the |
profoundest respect, and it is to the |
love OF freedom which it has ever
in the breasts of Englishmen
that America owes her own institutions.
The spirit which actuated the Fathers OF
the Revolution was the same spirit which
actuated Pym and Hampden, Milton,
Sydney and Cromwell, and it was this
same spirit which actuated those who
secession and freed the negro.
1t is an honor to mankind and a song
Of praise to democracy that the United
States stood the strain of the greatest civil
war the world has ever seen; but still
Sir Henry Maine sees no merit in writ
en Constitution. Certainly there must
be some merit in the written Constitution
'f the United States to have stood the
est it has and still be the fundamental
aw OF the land in which it had its birth.
After all, the safeguards of freedom in all
and under all forms of govern
nent must be in the hearts of the people
nd their attachment to liberty, and so
,reat is this in the hearts OF the Ameri : :
an people that they are we'll content to
bide by the law of the Fathers of the
revolution. i
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-23

THE New York Sun thinks that the
Presidents Thanksgiving proclamation is
a very good specimen. 1t says that it is
pious and well written, but that he ought
to have left the business to the Govern
ors of the States. Yes; but how about
the Governors of the Territories? Gov
ernor Murray has issued Thanksgiving
proclamation, and the same praise may
be given it that is given the Presidents
by the Sun. Now, if the Governor would
only resign true and honest" then the
Territory would have something for
which to be really thankful and the peo-
pie would give thanks every day in the
wear too
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-23
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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-01-29
To be continued
An Awful Experience.


"Taliin' about awful experiences" remark
Cd the tramp, "bet you never hcerd tell on a
worscr time than me an Bent Nosed Jack had
last Winter Twas the talk of the road all
Summer boss, an me an Jack was noted char
acturs, we was"
"What was this experience"
We'll, yer see, me an Jack was pikin' around
de railroad yards in Chicago one day last Win
ter, lool1in' fer busted cracker boxes or any
other lay out, when we got locked in ear.
There was no gettin out an so we made the
best of it. The weather was awful cold an we
was i'll that car when it got to San Francisco.
Three whole weeks on do road
Incredible You would have starved or
frozen to death. II you're telling the truth
you must have been mere skeletons when you
were liberated"
''Starve! Freeze! Skeletons, Say boss, you
hain't very flip, is yer? You don't ketch on.
In that car was hull lot o. Armour's packed
meats, ton or two O crackers an cakes in
boxes shipment of cigars, Il dozen cases o.
champagny, nice lot o. McBriar whisky, candy
boxes nuts, raisns, some Milwaukee bottled,
a hull lot O. overcoats, and merchandise gener-
ally. But the boss thing was some o these yer
oi-heatin' slaves. We hadn't any OIL but there
was a barrel o. alcohol there, and that did all
the same We had q eucher deck, too, and
played seven-up for champagny by de bottle,
an cigars by de box. Skeleton, boss The only
skeleton we had on that trip was de stuff in de
car when we got to Frisco We was week
lo1kin' out for that car, an you can bet it took
fine work to git hid III it widOut bein seen.
But it was de greatest lay ever known III de
perfesh an me an Bent-Nosed Jack made ou r
reps. OH it, we did. J"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-01-29
JANUARY JOKES.

Cold, should say so. Went home; lit a can
die; jumped into bed; tried to blow candle out :;
couldn't do it; blaze frozen; had to break it off,
Before hip pockets were invented every true
Kentuckian wore a long tailed coat and accident
ally broke a pint bottle about once week.-DetrOit
Free Press.
Yes, brethren" says the clergyman who is
preaching the funeral sermon, our deceased
brother was cut down in n single night-torn from
the arms OF his loving wife who Is thus left dis
cOnsOate widow at the early age of 2i years
Twcnty-two if you please" sobs the widow in
the front pew. emerging from her handkerchief for
an instant.-FigdrO.
A Madison County girl wrote to her cousin in
Brooklyn to come up and spend a month the
farm they were going TO have husling bees and
dead loads of fun. The Brooklyn girl replied that
she would not come as the last time she there
she stung by hOrrid bee, and didn't want any
more of it.-BroOkiyl Times
"A boy in a rural spelling school sat down a
word of one syllable. 1t probably patch.
Priest: Pat | believe / you asleep in
church last Sunday" Pat: No, indade, your
riv'rance didn't You moight a seen me with me
oies shut but dieil bit o sleep could / get any
how wild your screechn an your thumpin' of the
poor cushions-long life to ye, Judy.
Actually heard at dinner table in Ireland
"The cause of throuble in unhappy land is that
the whole country Is full of fa,sentees-d We under
sthand? We shall have relase till we're rid av
the whole bunch av them: and as | understand
we're an American and friend the ould coun-
thry want to tell YOU sorr that wan half the lies
they tell about US are not thrue. Boston CONNER
ciaL Bulletin.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-01-29
PERSONS AND THINGS.

The Marie Theresa dollar is the only coin
known in Abyssinia. Cloth and bars of rock salt,
10 inches long by two inches wide and deep, bound
with n reed, serve their ordinary means of bar
ter 4 recent traveller says he made everlasting
friendship with village chief by making him n
present OF empty Worcester bottle, the
glass stopper appearing to be source of delight
and comfort 10 him.
There is but one clean spot III the whole jew
ish district of Jerusalem. Ii Is the Old temple land
mt the western wall of HaI1un. loo feet iii length
and 10 feet wide. 1t is the place where the Jews
perform their lamentations There always a
few pilgrims there On Friday night most of the
Jews congregate there tn mourn the fall of the
holy city. In long Hebrew antophons they bewail
the departed glory, and lean their heads against
the walls and cry and kiss the stones
"A man named Senor Nicholas Anchelena, of
Buenos Ayres, recently deceased, is said to have
been the richest fur,ner in the world. He had
,zl0 square miles of land, I52,000 cows, 50O0o0
sheep, and 600 horses. His assets footed up Sl20
GO0,000.
The bone market along with other " indus
tries is greatly depressed. Still ton of ordinary
bones is worth about the same ton OF Ameri-
pig iron, while ton of really fir5t-ciass bones
is worth five times much.
The large Roman snail is still eaten by Cont-
mental epicures and called agreat delicacy. They
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-01-29
SCIENTIFIC CHAT.

New South Wales is said to possess a larger
number of Towering plants than are to be found in
the whole of Europe.
An English physician has been trying to count
the hairs on the human head. He quotes the aver
age number of hairs per square inch at 1G66, and
estimates about LIS 600 hairs for the entire head
a general rule.
The latest application of wood is as dressing
for wounds in the form of what is termed wood
wool" 1t is finely ground wood. such is used
in the manufacture of paper 1t is cate-fibered,
soft, yelowish-white substance capable of absorb
ing an immense quantity of liquid
DIR. VillenetIye, In a paper read before the
Academic des Sciences, stated that, for drinking
purposes, he had found distilled water far superior
to mineral waters as the of the latter are
often contaminated. He had used distilled water
for three years, and found that there is founda-
ton for the popular notions that it is disagreeable
to the taste, difficult to digest and does not
tain air. 1t is easily tested; solution of nitrate
of silver gives a precptate when added to ord-
nary drinking water, but is dissolved in the dis
titled article.
Complaint is made in England of the careless
ness of parents in sehdng children to school in
infected clothes. Many cases of diphtheria and
scarlet fever at Canterbury, fatal, have been
traced to this.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-01-29
PRINCESS wINNEMUCCA.
No Longer the Wild Indian Girl. but Q Lady OF
Culture from Boston.
Vrginia City (Ner.) Letter.1

tVfrginia City (Ner) LeHer.l
Sarah Winnemucca, daughter of the old
Chief Winnemucca of the Piutes, and sister of
the present Chief Naehes, has been here for sew
eral days, and she delivered lecture the other
evening. She has been In Boston and vicinity
fer a long time and has been made mnch of in
that city by the people who are inclined to
fonize somebody continually.
Sarah is no longer the gay young thing who
used to be known TO everybody on the Com
stock. She stole away from her old fathers
wickiup many years ago and came down among
the whites to live. She was then bright little
girl with irregular features and straight black
hair. She was dressed in the costume of her
tribe, which consisted of about the poorest stuff
that could be found anywhere, and the least of
it that frontier etiquet would permit of. A
white family took her in and cared for her,
giving her calico dress, of which she was very
proud. Soon afterward she got some stockings
and shoes and sun bonnet. She worked in
one family after another, going to school when
she could, and in this way earned living and
obtained the rudiments of an English educa-
tlon. When she grew to womanhood she
ceased working in kitchens and took in wash
ing. By this means she earned enough money
to buy herself such books as she cared to read,
and in the course of time she became very
intelligent woman, fully posted on English
literature. clever speaker and writer, and
conversationalist of great vivacity.
Certain Boston travellers becoming interested
in her. she was induced to go to that city some
years ago, and since then she has passed most
of her time there. Among the impressionable
Bostonese she has been accepted as type of the
modern savage, and, seeing in her much to
admire and wonderat, they have been generous
with money, sympathy, tracts, and old clothes
in their dealings with her tribe.
Instead of being proud of her and grateful
for what she has DONE the Piutes regard her
with suspicion. They know that she has
adopted the garb of the white sisters, and it is
even suspected that she uses soap and comb
and brush occasionally. To the genuine Piute
these things are inconsistent with the traditions
of the race. They came to look upon her as a
lost one when they saw her voluntarily at work
in the kitchens and over the washtubs of the
whites Her old father, who, though mighty
chieftain in his own estimation, was not above
fishing around swill barrel for something to
eat, and who always banqueted on cold victuals
passed out of back doors, could not restrain
feeling of contempt for his fair daughter, who
insisted upon working like a slave. She was
regarded as a little queer by everybody. The
ordinary Piute never cared to speak to her.
Chief Naches, her brother, does not recognize
her to this day. He cast her off years ago, and
holds himself much above her still. Since she
has been here this time he has made no effort
to see her, and she probably will not undertake
to hunt him up.