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Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-08-25
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Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-08-25
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ATTORNEY.GENERAL MARsHALL'S REPLY TO
HON. I. Z. JONES.
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY -GESERALl
OF THE STATE OF CALIFORSIA,

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GESERAL)
OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, :
SAN FRANCISCO. March IS. lSs4S
Hon. T. E. JOnes-MY DEAR SIR: / have Just
received your letter of the 18th. DR.. Mac Len
nan has wonderful power. God knows what it
is-Galvanism, Magnetism, Electricity or spir.
itualism-I do not know what But he was OF
great and singular service to me. would GER
tainly try him If were in your place, He has
worked some wonderful cures within my
knowledge.
Respectfully, E.. MARSHALL
CHARLES CRoCKER, the railroad million
aire, cured of rheumatism in three treatments
DIR. HENRY SLADE says: INV case was con
DR.. MacLennan restored me the use of my
limbs in less than twenty minutes, being par
alyzed for over four months"
The following testimonials are from patients
residing in Salt Lake City:
d. Delouche, No. 25s Third East street, says
Having been unable 10 walk or straghten my.
self up on account of great pains in my back,
was completely relieved of all suffering and
pain bytwoadministration OF DIR. MacLennan's
method of treatment"
DR.. LeBaron Havington says: ~ can freely
and conscientiously recommend DR.. MacLen
nan to the afflicted, especially those chronic
cases where hope has fled"
Mr. Olsen, of 523 First East street, says: "Am
6l years OF age, and on account of my ailment
nave been unable to do any work for ii years
yet, after ten minutes treatment by DIR. Mac
Lehman, went home and slept well, without
any of the oldtime suffering and to-day / feel
perfectly we'll"
Mr.. =. Gunderson of South First East street
says: II am machinist, but for IA years have
been unable to follow my trade. owing TO an
aniicting trouble in my head. The doctor by
applying his remedies, has entirely relieved
me"
Charles Holt, Sixth Ward, says: "Dr Mae
Lehman cured me of a severe afiiction by one
treatment now feel like a new man."
Mrs. Delouche says: During a period of Il
years was afflicted with swellings OF my ears
and cutaneous eruptiOns on my bowels. In the
treatments find myself wonderfully improved
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-08-25
DIR. MACLENNAN Treats Successfully

All Broken Down Constitutions, Nervous and
General Debility, Weak Spines PrOapsus aud
private nature or otherwise, brought on either
by abuse or excess, Diseased Liver Kidneys,
stomach, Spleen, Heart, Lungs, Throat Head,
Weakness of the Limbs, Weak Back, Weak
Eyes, Dyspepsia, rheumatism, Asthma, BrOn-
chitis, Deafness Diabetes, Epilepsy, Consump-
tiOn, Paralysis, Matured Tumors Cancers and
many other Chronic and Painful Diseases, too
numerous 10 be mentioned
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
STORY OF A POEM.
How "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight"
Was WrittCn.


OF the hundreds of residents of the
city of San Antonio. Tex, only a few
who frequently meet tall, slender
lady, with raven brown eyes and hair,
and with singular attractiveness in
her face, know that she is Mrs. Rose
Bartwck Thorpe, whose famous poem,
"Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight" :"
has given her Il reputation in both
hemispheres. How, at the age of six
teen years, the young country girl was
led to write the poem, now so widely
known, is thus narrated, as furnished
by her personally for publication: 1.-The
poem was suggested to me by the read
ing of story, Love and Loyalty in
April, 1867. was then plain coun-
try schoolgirl, not yet seventeen, re-
siding with my parents at Leitchfield,
Mich, and under pretext of working
out mathematical problems, with my
arithmetic before me, 1 wrote the poem
roughly on my slate. was forced to
carry on my literary work under these
difficulties because of the opinion of my
parents that my time could be better
employed than in idle dreams and
useless rhymes Iwrote the first copy
on my slate between four and six
o'clock in the afternoon, but much
time has since been spent in correcting
and revising it. had no thought that
l would ever be able to write anything
worthy of public notice. The poem
was first published in the Detroit COM
mercial AdUcrtiSer in the fall of 1870.
The editor. upon receipt of my manu-
script, at once wrote me lengthy
letter of congratulation and praise, in
which he predicted the popularity for
the verses which they have since receiv-
cd. l had no literary friends. not even
n literary acquaintance, at that time,
and did not know the simplest require
ments for preparing my manuscript for
publication" The poem at once at
tracted popular attention, and bestowed
upon its young author a reputation
which each succeeding year has enlarg-
ed. Although it has been published in
ana collections, and has been translated
into French, German and other Ian
guages, the poem has never brought its
author any financial remuneration, as is
too often the case. at raised me-"
WRITES MIS-. 1hOfpe, IRON Sny, oD-
scure country girl into public notice,
and brings to my side yearly hosts of
new and delightful friends. Wherever
60 my friends are there before me,
and the poem, which gave to the pub
lie with no right reserved, while it
has made fortune for others and has
dropped golden coins in other pockers,
has reserved for its author admiring
friends" Mrs. Thorpe spends her
summers in her native climate of Mich
igan, where she yearly recuperates from
the effects of Texan winter. The au-
thor is thirty-six years of age, is happily
married, and is enabled to quietly en-
Joy the respect and love of her neigh
bors and friends. while her literary ad
mirers are legion. Brooklyn Maga
zine,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17

iron tanks arranged down the middle
CT tho vessel in front of them. These
tanks were closed with round lids that
screwed in, and as they had to ba
opened night and morning to give the
animals drink the cunning creatures
soon found out tho way of unscrewing
them and helping themselves In the
night when all was quiet. Men had at
last to be put on as sentries over the
tanks, or the whole supply would have
been drunk up in q couple OF days.
Another thing they did was when they
received their allowance Of sugar-cane
in the morning they would immediately
lie down upon it and then try to steal
from their neighbors. II any delay
took place in serving out their food
they would trumpet and bang their
trunks against the water-tanks, Great
ing such disturbance that 1t made the
people ON passing ships wonder what
the vessel had ON board. = Chatterdor.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
BRILLIANT LEGIsLATINo.
Senator Edmunds' Measure to Reform tn,
Much- Abused Civil Service.

Senator Edmunds' Measure to Reform tho
Much-Abuscd Civil Service.
Senator Edmunds has brought in
bill for the reform of the civil service.
1t is a simple measure. 1t gives the
President the appointment of all the
minor officials without the advice or
consent of the Senate, but makes them
irrcmovablc during their term without
a trial on charges before United
States Judge. One does not need to
know much about the United States
civil service to know what the result
would be. One only needs to know a
little of human nature. No man of
capacity or business experience would
take charge of an Office containing a
large number of subordinates il he
could not get rid of any of them
without formal trial in law court.
Four-lifths at least of the things which
make clerk incompetent are small
things, any one of which would seem
ridiculous on paper, and absurd to lay
before United States Judge. 1t is the
repetition of them which mostly de-
cides that man is not worth his sal
ary. Nothing in the whole art of ad-
ministration, whether civil or military,
is 50 well settled as that there can be
no proper responsibility in the chief if
he have no discretion in the selection
of his subordinates. Some capable
men might be found ready to take
charge of offices under Mr.. Edmunds'
bill. but if they did SO they would
probably at once go to work to break
it down. They would let inefficiency
and disorder have full swing, and re-
fuse to go into court with trumpery
stories about AS coming late, and BIS
drinking, and C's being unmannerly,
and DIS spelling badly, and blotting
his books, until the public offices be-
came public nuisances, and the law
was repealed.
Nothing is more wonderful in the
history of this whole Civil-Service re-
form movement than the way in which
public men toll and moil and twine and
twist in order to avoid having the Gov
ernment business conducted like other
business. Every bank and corporation
in the country furnishes a perfect ID odel
of the way in which the treasury and
post-otiice should be manned and man.
aged; and yet there is hardly any ex-
pertinent too queer or fantastic for
grave statesmen to attempt with the
Government service in order to avoid
initiating these old and well-tried priv
ate methods. If the stockholders of
the Pennsylvania road were to propose
that the manager should not be al
lowed to dismiss any subordinate with
out filing a bill in equity against him.
we should consider them crazy; but
when Senator proposes it about the
public offices, we bury our faces in our
hands, ponder the plan deeply, and
discuss it at great length in the public
prints, T. Post
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
DEMOCRATIC SENSE.

AS Mr.. Edmunds compares 1886
with 1884 he must feel slight depress-
ion of spirit, consciousness OF an
aching void beyond the consolation of
any cocktail. He has had his private
diversion and revenge, but at what en-
pense! Now let him promise and
swear to support the Republican can
didates in 1888 or he is u lost statesman.
N. Y. Sun.
President Cleveland does not be-
lieve that measles affect the spinal col
umn except in pension cases; nor that
diarrhea causes sore eyes; nor that sui
cides by drowning and morphine
poisoning were the result of injuries
received in the service. On all these
points of practical medicine he takes
issue with Dr. John A. Logan.-Sl.
Louis Republican.
President Cleveland's disposition
to use the veto is of bad augury for the
advocates of eXtravagant appropria-
tons. During the year and y quarter
that he has been in Office he has inter-
posed many more vetoes than any of
his predecessors; in fact he has more
than doubled the highest record thus
far, that of General Grant. Most of these
vetoes have been called forth by pri-
vate pension bills, and doubtless there
would have been many more if the
President had time to examins the
mass of this class of legislation which
has come before him. he President s
disposition is happily adapted to the
needs of the time.-Bradstreets.
An elderly man in jamestown,
ID. T., it appears, has been attracting
attention by throwing away money
and revealing himself as a cousin OF
Mr.. Rutherford b. Hayes, of Fremont,
0. The first piece of evidence natur-
ally threw doubt upon the second, and
the prodigal Burchard was committed
for lunacy. 1t appears, however, that
he really is cousin of Mr.. Hayes.
When there was found among his eff
fccts letter from that statesman Of
fering to pay him his annuity of 5000
down if he would take 81, or 2 per
cent, off for cash, the people OF James
town could no longer dispute his claim
of kinship, though ut his desperate
prodigality they marveled greatly
N. Y. Times.
The love of the Republican party
for the colored man was most conspic-
uously exhibited in the rejection of
Mr. Matthews by the Republican Sem
ate. Mr.. Matthews was nominated by
the President to succeed Fred Douglass
as recorder of the District of Columbia.
He was rejected because he was a
Democrat. The Republicans are par
ticularly hostile towards war veterans
and colored men who are Democrats.
There was not the slightest grounds for
the rejection of Mr.. Matthews beyond
the one fact that he refused to consider
the Republican party as the rightful
owner of his race. The Democratic
party has shown far more practical
good will towards the colored man
than the hypocrites in the Senate who
only seek to utilize him for political
purposes. ALBANY Argus.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
BRITISH AGRICULTURE.
Its Ruin Brought About by American, I.
dian, and Australian Competition.

Its Ruin Brought About by American,
dian, and Australian Competition.
1t seems now to be settled that under
existing conditions it does not pay to
grow gram or raise cattle in the best
part of the continent and the British
isles. For this curious and alarming
state of affairs the world is indebted to
the extension of steam navigation to all
parts of the earth. Wheat, barley, oats,
ETC., can be grown on almost any
arabic land. 1t follows that wherever
the factors are most favorable that re-
gion gets the benefit of this cheap
access to the consuming market. A
few years ago India contributed but 9O,-
600 bushels of wheat to countries out
ply is now about 50,O00,00O bushels.
and with the extension of the railway
system it will have fully 100, 900, 900 for
outside consumption.
The secret of India's ability to sell in
distant markets is the extraordinary
chcapness of labor, which does not
command more than ten cents day of
our money. The United States, Ats
trala and New Zealand can produce
wheat and lay it down in Liverpool at a
price which is simply ruinous to the
English and European wheat grower.
This is because of cheaper and more
fertile lands and the use of machinery
on the broad prairies and
plains, which dispenses with costly
labor. Recent statistics show that
tenant farmers in the British islands
who confine themselves to cereals and
cattle rising can not make both ends
meet II they undertake to pay their rent.
This accounts for the distress among the
agricultural classes in the Old World,
and more especially for the abject mis-
cry OF tho Irish people, who have no
diversified industries, because the island
is without coal or iron, and British laws
discourage manufactures of any kind in
that unhappy country.
This inability to raise grain is effect
ing social revolution. 1t has struck a
fatal blow at the authority and prestige
of the Peers, who are tn, great land
owners, and it will end in agricultural
land being transferred to tho peasants,
in England and Scotland as we'll rs Ire.
land. These agricultural workers, hav.
no rents to pay, will be able to make q
living out Of the soil, for they can raise
perishable vegetables, poultry, eggs and
dairy products, as these are safe from
foreign competition. In the meantime
the cities of Europe are growing rapidly,
and are yearly consuming more and
more, not only of the grain and cattle
raised In distant regions, but also of the
vegetables, poultry, fruit and dairy
products of nearby production. This
explanation OF the agricultural stu alton
throws good deal of light upon the
political and social changes now taking
place in the Old World. pemorssPl
Monthly.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
THE ROADRUNNERS.
Shrewd Birds Which Destroy RattlesnaI<e
in Most Methodi Manner.

Shrewd Birds Which Destroy Rattlesnakei
in a Most Methodical Manner.
These birds have most remarkable
habit, SO remarkable that for many
years was extremely skeptical about
it, never being able to find any one who
had actually seen the performance, but
was fortunate this winter in convers.
ing with two persons who can testify tn
the truth of the story that is to be found
in at least one work on birds. 1t ap.
pears that the roadrunner has strong
and decided antipathy to the rattle,
snake, upon what grounds it is difficult
to tell-probably the snake preys upon
the birds, old and young. However,
the birds actually destroy the snake in
most methodical fashion, and in a
way that shows that something more
than mere instinct has been brought
into play.
When a rattler is discovered asleep in
the sun the birds are very careful not to
disturb it, and proceed with great dill.
gence to collect the detached leaves of
the prickly pear, in which their nest is
often built. These they place in an ir-
tCSuibh SiiSic 8DOat VuC ciCCPihs lCPtilCs
piling them up higher and higher. until
finally the snake is in the center of u
corral of the spine-covered leaves. Now
the latter is awakened by a peck from
the bird, and strikes and is wounded by
the spnes. This enrages it, and every
move adds to its torture, until finally It
is completely impaled by the horrible
weapons that cover the leaves and either
dies from this cause or falls ready VIC
tim to the powerful bill Of the road
runners. One of my nformants stated
that he watched the operations of pair
of these birds for several hours, during
which time they hauled the heavy leaves
considerable distance to pile them
about their enemy. My other informant
had never seen the birds at work, but in
Arizona had frequently found the prick
ly pear corrals, in the center of which
was the skeleton of the rattlesnake. In
stinct prompts the attack upoa the
snake, but it Is intelligence that dicta.es
to the bird that the prickly pear leaves
bear spincs that will be fatal to the rep
tile.-Los angeles Cor. San Francisco
call.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
BLAIR VS.. THE PRESIDENT.


Tho Republican Senator'S Weak and Dis
honest Attempt to Cast Discredlt upon
the chief Executives Efforts to Uphold
the Prerogatives of Ills ONCE.
Senator Blair's defense of Congress
from the imputations of recklessness or
dishonesty put upon 1t by Mr.. Cleve-
lands veto messages Is very weak
affair AS Senator 1t is his privilege
to secure the passage of these vicious
bills in spite of the Presidents objec-
tions il he can do so, but he can not
criticise the vctoes as he does without
placing himself in the attitude toward
the President which he thinks 1t is
wrong for the President to assume to-
ward Congress. In spite of the dem
agogy which Mr.. Blair has introduced
into his report, and of his attempt to
create the impression among ignora-
muses. that Mr.. Cleveland has no right to
veto these little jobs, the fact remains
that he has such a right, and that it is
his sworn duty to exercise it If he re-
CARDS the measure presented to him as
dishonest.
In the case OF every one OF the sixty
or seventy private pension bills which
the President has vetoed he has given
good and sufficient reasons for his
course. He has shown that the great
majority of the bills objected to were
in the interest of frauds, bounty-jump-
ers and desertcrs, and in cases where
the hardship was undenied he has
shown that the relief proposed was no
more properly pension charge than
would be any other instance of destitu-
ton occurring without reference to the
war. The reasons given for the vetoes
have satisfied as well as surprised the
country. Pleased with his resolute OPP
position to the most contemplate form
of swindling, the people have been as
tonlshed at the extraordinary capacity
OF the Congress of the United States for
such dirty work.
Senator Blair's attempt to shield HIM
self and his grabbing associates
by casting discredit upon Mr.. Cleve-
land will hardly succeed. He writes
like man who is in the wrong and
who knows it. Against his generali-
ties and innuendoes it is all-sufficient
to get the facts which the veto mes
sages complained of contain. Chicago
Her1H
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
A BOY GROWN UP.
How and When Good and Bad Manners
Are Formed.

How and When Good and Bad Manners
Are Formed.
Ycung people rarely realize, when
criticising their elders, that the traits
or habits that seem to them obnoxious
were formed in early life. If their
manners are rude, If they lack tact, if
they are not we'll informed, it is be-
cause they have not made use of their
opportunities. Manners are the truest
indications of character. A discourte-
Gus person is both careless and selfish,
for the best manners are but the ex-
preston of the Golden Rule; they are
A friend can introduce you to good So
ciety, but he can not keep you there;
that depends on yourself.
A boy of kindly nature is rarely rude.
A boy of selfish nature is polite only
when his own desires are not interfered
with.
Every man is the result of his own
boyhood and youth. If he has read
good books, kept himself informed on
passing events, he becomes what the
world terms well-informed, intelli-
gent man. If he has wasted his time
in tritling conversation, read only sem
sational books and papers, neglected
to develop the talent which he surely
possesses, he becomes superficial,
tiresome, if not wicked, man. B;
If as boy he has not cultivated the
graces and amenities of life, he can
not expect to become that most de.
lightful Of men. polished gentleman.
If as boy he has not studied to avoid
collisions with those about him, has
not recognized the rights of others.
has not cultivated desire to lead men
to higher motives, to give to others the
benefit OF his own opportunities, he
becomes that most unfortunate person,
tactless man; nuisance wherever
people are brought together. One of
the lessons every boy can learn is to
watch those men who arouse adverse
criticism and carefully avoid their hab-
its both of mind and body. Remem-
ber the old adage: ''By others faults
correct your own. Christian Union.