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But the fact is that (IaEOT AND LONNIE fci' -- HE DEFEATED IIIMSEtr lay the blame te YK, ANP'WflECE iIihilya.tpomthe' wj' R WATSON Historians Blaines '' Bell Pattern No. 1839-i available for sizes! J4, 16. 13, :q; 50 ;md 42. Size 16 h requires 4 8 yards of material Send 15 cents in coins. Send for the Summer Pattern Seek containing 10U Barbara Bell well planned, patterns. llxelusive fashions for children, joung women, and matrons. Send 15 cents fop your MW . Events in the Lives of Little Men . Barbara .utt r ram ft ."' Mipetb, am! rewtng simple,. Send for thii gorgeous frock now, from America . -t s. l tempt of that order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New San Francis Montgomery co, Calif. 1.1 II ROORBACK "to ADVERTISE; P?F , EklT e , ,So.uSltemv.PacifiSc information, see or writi D, R, Owen, .Genera) Agent 41 $o. Main St. Salt Lake City for . ' Motherly Weary Willie You say de lady treated ycr like yer was her own kid? What did she do? Dusty Rhoads Yes; she told me ter wash me face and comb me Bair, . ' His Speed Limited HfMiHDGMW FARMS Sailor Say, conductor, cant you run any faster than this? Conductor-rSuT- e I can, but I have to stay on the car. for sale or 8ule r- 60rrei good level farming land. I.akevlew Dletrlct, Klverelde County, Cal. Three good Welle, pumping equipment, property. Expiped plenty water cel k n t V or alfalfa, sugar beet seed, vegetables. grain., Frlre $60,000 Terms If desired. Can he eubdrvlded HBClIRITTf I1 I CO., JUVEKB1UB, CAL. turn-dow- - ' .' tive name. On August 21 of that year e letter was printed' in the Ithaca (N. Journal hith asserted that James K. Polk, tfip Democratic Y.) candidate, fcrahdgd his slaves" as though they were so Other Abolitionist'. 'cattle, many' Journals promptly reprinted the letter .to sway sentiment In "the North against and, it was as promptly denounced . by Poik' ', supporter. t The editor.- of tho Journal 'was attacked- viciously and he, retaliated by starting libel suits against ' his ;detractors. .H-e .declared that the truth of- the statement could not be dbubte'cL since the authority, for the' statement was a book which had "received ihe ' approbation of every American critic." .It was; s - - - ' ; ! FINNEY OF THE FORCE : Non-Sto- Flight pi Roorbacks "Tour Through .Southern and Western States in. the Year 1836" and Roorback. was, a foreign' dbserver with no .personal interests and no friends to flatter. Moreover hje had written hia book long before pojlk was a candidate for President : . But- Folks friends soon proVed that' the whple .thing was a hoax. They Bhowed that the Alleged quotation from Roorbacks had . been lifted from' George William' Feather'stonau ghs "E x it u r s i o n". - ' Through the Slave .giving States.' Aft--- er verbatim this English- man's description of a slaye trad- ers encampment, the- author . of the letter to the Ithac'a Journal .had added "Forty of- these unfor- had been purchased, I was informed, of 'the Hon. J. K. Polk, the present speaker of the house of representatives; the mark of the branding iron, with the initials ' of his name on their shoulders, distinguishing them from the - - tunate-being- I DlDNT.Yez. see that ntopM. SokSM? -- THERE YJAS NO LIGHT .there's. Tod MANY WAS DRNiWG SLOW WHEM I CAME To SA THE CORNER HO CARS' COMlMo- -- NO. HARM-WA- done- - . rWAL-'- WAN pays'-1- SUPPOSE I DIpttT SJP'T; MAY THIS STOP AMO, To -- l(M Tired - (SO DRIVING. Or-Thes- sedge.Yez Tell Go-- Ak' SfoPPROlVU)' M e s rest" . . After this revelation,' the whole villainous forgery" was investigated, the editor of the Ithaca Journal was exonerated and the author of the letter exposed as a Democratic officeholder, belonging to a faction opposed to Polk. The excitement over this incident died down before the election but by that time the fame of "Roorback," a man who had never existed, was firmly established and his name has come down in history as a synonym for a political forgery or a lie ii a whispering campaign. C WMtrt Nwappr Union. ' 6EE, DI22V, YOU OUGHT TO GfeT A MEDAL FOB YOUQ FAST THINKING ! "?a.-- . , . lime nears, watch ' "roorbacks" those campaign lies which are circulated is the last few days of ar campaign by. partisans of one candidate .to discredit and . perhaps . aid in de- -' ' testing another Candidate.' Weve had such Canards ir every political campaign since the days of 'John Adanjs' but it .wasnt until g44' that they were given their distinc- -' ASoutelection 'for": ts . '. . 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' CoiKiG4. air, Conditioned - Pattern , 4 On way !ara from Ogiien or Sail . . Lak City, good la ' ' boned coaches or chair cars. . $32' ROUND TRIP t. Le ; Angeles, $3 1 to San Francisco in Sure to Arrive said Mrs, Jones to her neighbor's little boy, run along and put this parcel on the bus. "Which bus? asked the lad. "An l us, replied Mrs. Jones. Its me husbands lunch, and he works in the lost property office." . ? ' Smn. .' "Heto, Tommy, , coy vs.coumey HiMiiiIp -- WM! to i Son Francisco , man is so 'wilting; his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, superemineht, overpowering turkey gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all the members of tbe house that I know it was an act of the greatest temerity to venture upon a controversy with him. But, sir, I know who is responsible for this. It is not his fault. It is the fault of another. That gifted and satirical writer, Theodore Tilton of the New York Independent spent some weeks In this city recently. His etters published in that with many serious statements, a little Jocdse satire, a part of which was the statement that the mantle of the late Winter Davis had fallen Upon 'the member from New York.. That gentleman took it seriously and it has given his strut additional pomposity. Tbe resemblance is striking, Hyperion to a satyr; Thersites to Hercules; mud to marble; duhghill to diamond;- a singed cat to.e royal Bengal tiger'; a whining puppy to .. a roaring lion. That brief talk It took only two minutes ruined Blaines political career forever. It completely squelched Conkling but It pierced his vanity to the roots. From that moment, he hated ,'Etlaine and tor the next 20 years devoted .himself to thwarting the Plumed Knight." Twice he kept the New Englander from getting the Republican nomination and once contributed to his defeat at the polls In November. paper-embraced- ' copy. Send your gentle- large-minde- d e .YOU GOT TO THINK STAY IN THE BIG LEAGUE. 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