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Show him, 'Good morning Elder Smith?" Or do you say, "Good morniuir lleverend Smith?" Oris it ''Doctor Smith," that you say? Wrong, all wrong, and all show bad breeding. breed-ing. The only proper form of direct address ad-dress is piam "Mr. Smith," and anything else is objectionable. Even if our clerical friend is a doctor of divinity or a bishop, or an archbishop, "Mr." is his Tight title in this country and the only one that should be used when we speak to him. In speaking of a ministerial friend we may say "The Reverend Mr. Smith," if we wish to, and it may be best iu general to do so, in order that we may bo understood. And in addressing address-ing a letter to a minister, the abbreviated form "Rev." properly goes before t!ie nam-j of every preacher of every sort; and to add D. D., or to put "very" before the "Rev." or to use "E.der" or "Rector" Instead, are all n bad taste. The rule to he deduced from this is, "Rev." on the envelope and plain "Mr." to his face. . Two or three weeks ago the Bv. Mr. Thorp decamped from Cowgill, Mo., on the pretext of having to fill an appointment in a neighboring charge. He lied. Instead, he came to Salt Lake City and here deserted the Methodist church iu which he had been ordained or-dained and supported, and joined another, lie apostatized. Certaiu funds belonging to the church at Cowgill, of which he as pastor had charee, left that town simultaneously simul-taneously with Thorp. He absconded. At the same time he abandoned a wife who was true and loyal to him, as he subsequently confessed, and it is said two children also, to poverty aud wretchedness. wretched-ness. He did what no dog would do. Immediately Im-mediately on his arrival in Salt Lake he sat deliberately to work to court an innocent young girl whom he toid he was a sinsrle man. He deceived her. On Wednesday morning at 3 o'clock be was to be married by a Christian minister, min-ister, and all the preliminaries for the ceremony cere-mony were perfected when the bride's father discovered the fraud aud prevented its con. summation. Thorp was willing to become a Digamist. Baffled m tiiis villainous design he threatened to shuffle oil Ids mortal coil by way of suicide a coward's escape. All this within less than three weeks, and the Itev. Mr. Thorp is still a very young man. On Thursday night Le wandered into Mr. Mills tent and experienced a change of heart and demonstrated it in a dramatic scene. What the yirl experienced at the same time, or what his family may experience when it hears the 6tory, deponent sayeth not. But the reverend rev-erend convert promised to go back homo and make restitution. Let us watch the elheacy of a revival in this most extraordinary extra-ordinary case. If Thorp's conscience i permanently revived it will be a good hidex to the work of Mr. Mills iu general. Trouble is Vewiug for two physicians in the SU Lake Medieal society. One of them Is Dr. McKiobia, who will be ousted at the next meeting of the society, on account of unprofessional conduct in connecting himself him-self with tht Keeley institute. The medical society in this city, and in all the cities, does not deny the efficacy of the Keeley cure, but it condemns the methods of Dr. Keeley in shrouding his remedy in secret. That is contrary to practice, and any physician ttuiity of aiding in it violates the code of ethics. Heuce Dr. McKibbin will be expelled. ex-pelled. Then the Medical society means to proceed against another one of its members hereto- I fore in good standing. Ths charge against him is that he has hired out to a notorious quack who professes to be able to cure certain diseases when in fact he knows nothing noth-ing whatever of medicine, but catechises patients pa-tients when they come to him and then reports re-ports their ailments to his hired medieus who prescribes accordingly. In tiiiscase it is possible that the quack and his institute may be prosecuted besides for obtaining money under false pretences. The last legislature after a great deal of labor delivered itseif of a medical bill which provides for a boari of examination to be appointed by the governor. The board has not yet been appointed, though it seems to be very much needed. THE FIIEE LANCE. Barney Quinn, mininsr recorder of Bingham, Bing-ham, was in Salt Lake City this week and, what is almost synonymous, iu The Times with an interview. He was sober at the time, perfectly so. In fact, though . Barney is a fierce and furious Democrat, his failingr stops at that. He has no other. Nevertheless Neverthe-less his name appeared the following morning morn-ing in the police court record as drunk and t disorderly, and his honor mulcted hiin in the sum of $5, aud ever since then Mr. ! Quinn has sought a personal interview with the fellow who has used his proxy without authority. Naturally enough, he does not like it. Still, it is an every-day practice with bibulous bibu-lous gentlemen when they confront his Honor, to assume an aiias. Not Ions: since a well-known druggist occupied the mourners' mourn-ers' bench, considerable the worse for his experience on the previous night, when the prosecuting attorney called his name, "John Dennis." John Deunis did not move. He had forgotten his incognito.' Finallv the p. a. walked up to him and se.id: "You are John Dennis." The druggist remembered and settled with the court. But it is not right for all that; not right to John Dennis who might prefer " to attend to this business at his own cood time and in person. A better plan would be for the estimable citizen who wants to make n exhibition of himself anywhere except in the newspapers to assume a nou-commitlal nou-commitlal name, like John Smith, when he starts out and commit it to memory while he has any, for "Oh, what a difference in the morning." The question how to speak to a preacher, seems to present much difficulty to many good people. Suppose your preacher' name is Smith, do. you say when jou .meet '"' " " " |