The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-07

bushels of eyes before 1 became acquainted
with it and learned how to treat it, This
settled me, and | thanked the Lord that |
had not gotten in on the first bushel.,
Think of it''
SENATOR MANDERsoS's STORY OF FAMOUS
DOCTOR.
Eyes, " said Senator Henderson, who was
listening to the above. II prefer an old
doctor to IA young one any time. But gray
hairs are by no means sign of medical
wisdom. / found this out when | was
young man practising at the bar in Ohio. A
murder case was being tried and the Hon.
john McSWeeny, then the most noted law
yer in Ohio was the attorney for the muir
derer. The circumstances OF the crime
were that this man hal Quarelled with his
friend and in che affray which ensued, had
stabbed him with knife. McSweeny's
line of defense was that it was the doctor
who had dressed the wound and not the
stab which had killed the man. This doctor
was an old gray haired quack of note. He
had put plaster right over the wound and
McSWeeny showed in his argument
that this plaster had confined the pus and
brought on blood poisoning. He examined
the gray haired physician before he made
the argument, and the doctor had no idea of
his line Of defense. He wanted, you know,
TO show the mans ignorance, and he did it
effectually. He asked him number of
questions, to which the man promptly re-
piled He referred TO his large practice,
spoke of the wound, and then asked him if
he had not performed the post norton eX-
animation on which the charge of murder
was found The doctor replied that he had.
You are accustomed to performing post
mortem examinations, are you not.' oh,
| yes replied the doctor. That is part
| OF my business Then you know all about
| it, aaid McSweeny. Il do was the answer.
Them said McSweeny, as he picked
up law book which looked very
much like a noted surgical work,
You of course know of Dungleson'
! Treatise on Surgery" Eyes" replied
| of our authorities Then continued
McSweeny, as he opened the book, II sup
pose you agree with him where he says on
page $50, paragraph 100, that post NOR
| TEN examination Can be performed just as
well before as after DEATH Certainly
certainly" replied the doctor, without
thinking That's ALL" said McSweeny
Before tho doctor knew what terrible
! blunder he had made, he was out of the
stand, 1t is needless to say that Nc
Sweeny won his case, and that the doctor
was the laughing stock Of the community
PERSONAL NOTES.
| | met Senator Spooner In the war de
partment today He has not yet decided
what he will do when his present term in
the Senate ends, but the probabilities ar,
that he will practice law in Milwaukee
He is ore of the brightest lawyers in III,
| United States and he was getting ten thou
sand dollars year from Que railroad a
the time he was elected to the Senate. H
could, | am told, get a salary twice al
i big as that of q supreme cour
Justice from another road, Blu
this would necessitats his leaving tn,
state of Wisconsin, which he does not wisl
TO do. In the meantime he is fond o
Washington life, and he might probabl.
! take the attorney generalship if it wer
offered to him and Judge Fuller were ele
waited to the supreme bench. Senate
Spooner says that the public school Law
was the cause of the Republican defeat il
Wisconsin, and that the question of his re
: turn to the Senate did not enter into tn
canvass.
Admiral Porter is much better and it
, now believed that he will get well. He ha
wonderful constitution and he has &C
complished great amount of work with
i the past few years. He has written sew
, eral novels and number of magazin
articles and he has other literary work i
, view. He is one of the fastest writer
, among our public men and the greater pal
: of his literary work has been done standin
! and with pencil and. pad. He is an il
, ventor as well as lawyer and a literateul