The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-14

service. In foot note he remarks that he
claims $4,000 by the private bill, but if his
case should be sent to the Court of Claims
he should claim about 100000.
But it is unjust to delay longer the infor-
nation contained in the eighteen where
ases,' which set forth with more or less
clearness just how Mr.. Mark1e suffered any
where from $4,000 to 100000 worth of
damages to his physical, mental, moral and
religious constitution. 1t might beinterest-
ing to give the 'swhereases'' in all the beau
ty of their legal literary style, but as Mr..
Markle has nothing else to do at present
he has evidently spent a great deal of time
in preparing the bill, and as consequence
1t is somewhat verbose, so that an abbre-
Walton is absolutely essential.
The first Whereas sets forth that Mr.
Markle entered the War Department on the
9th of March, 1888, endowed with ''good
bodily health, sound mind and feelings,
good reputation and social standing,' and
was discharged from the service on the 23d
OF March, 1892, on account of sickness and
Injuries. incidentally it might be noted
that the collapse of the Ford's Theater
building did not occur until the 9th of June,
1888. A glimmer of light begins to dawn
upon the case in the second Whereas
which announces that "several weeks after
entering the War Department the said o.
j. Markle was made an object of annoyance,
and ridicule, for no cause of his therein, by
one or more officials, clerks or other en-
ployers in the office, to which annoyance
or ridicule were soon added insults and
provocation by these or their employees will
fully or maliciously or negligently uttering
one or more words. phrases or sentences, or
making one or more signs of the hand, coun-
tenance or otherwise, which conveyed
meaning greatly injurious to him in reputa-
tion, feelings or otherwise, treating him, he
verify believes, as no other clerk in ne
departmental servie has ever been@ treated
since the formation of the government,
annoying, ridiculing, insulting and provok-
ing him, causing him sorrow, grief, anger,
undue excitement, modification of feelings,
etc., and concentr ting the attention of
other clerks and employees detrimentally
upon him till he was injured exceedingly"
WHAT THE WORLD LOST.
For several ''whereases'' the effect of this
persecution upon Mr.. Markle as a member
of society is detailed, and then he gets
down to bed rock, and tells how the world
has lost great and shining literary light.
And in perhaps the most pathetic sswhere-
as of all, by odd condolences number thir-
teen. this great disaster is thus set forth:
Whereas the said O.. J. Markle on enter
ing the government service had literary
work completed and ready to be copyrighted
after some revision; and had also book on
English grammar decided on, and outlined
and written in a large measure; and had
furthermor novel to disseminate theories
of life and morals decided on and outlined
in full and some chapters partly written;
and had second similar novel decided on
and partially outlined and much written
and much original material gathered for
it and had third and fourth similar nov
ell under decided contemplation with some
outlines and same material noted down;
and not long after entering the government
service he contemplated writing as early as
practicable a fifth and sixth novel of
historical nature for each of which he jotued
down notes from observation and otherwise;
and in order to write better some of his
books he purchased special books and di-
rected his reading along a special line from
books drawn from the Congressional Libra
ry &c; and he has now on hand this COM
pleted literary work and the outlines and
parts of these books and material above
mentioned ready to produce under oath
at any time to prove his assertions
1t has long been serious question with
literary producers just what constituted
the best market for wares and beginners
especially have been puzzled by the problem
of what to charge for their compositions.
The evidence of Mr.. Markle on this point
will therefore be very interesting and valu-
able. In the following whereas he shows
how any man with stock of mental pabu-
lum on hand can estimate the market price
of his wares. He states that by correspon-
dence with publishers. by estimates of prop
able sales from statistical reports and by
comparison of his proposed works with the
works of some other authors and the sales
and income from their books he ssveriIy''
believes that had he not been injured in the
government service one or two of his books
at lest would have been issued from the
press before this and already brought him
an income of $3.50 600 or more with constant
ly increasing sales; that he also verify be-
lieves that before many years few of the
aforementioned books would have brought
him an income of $5O0,000 or more to saw
nouhing of fame OF course his process of
estimation depending as it does upon the
somewhat based view of the author bir,sa1f