ACID PHOSPHATE For Dyspepsia, Mental and Physical Exhaustion, Nervousness, Prepared according to the directions of Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass. There seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical authority of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has ever been offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the general want as this. It is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste. No danger can attend its use. Its action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to take. (From Francis H. Atkins, A. A. Surgeon, U. S. Army.) "PROF. E. N. HORSFORD: "FORT GIBSON, IND. TER., February 1, 1879. "Dear Sir,-The Acid Phosphate medicinal preparation I have used quite extensively since 1870, and with great satisfaction. Have half a dozen patients using it here now, citizens as well as persons connected with the service. I have yet to meet a case where, being judiciously prescribed by a physician, it has failed to afford relief, and no other remedy have I seen people so generally hand about among their friends with commendation. For dyspepsia, whether in the lean or corpulent, in nervous debility, and in night sweats of consumption, it has commonly given speedy benefit, and some of my army friends are quite enthusiastic about it. I am sir, with great respect and esteem, "Yours respectfully, FRANCIS H. ATKINS." Horsford's Acid Phosphate is manufactured by the Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R. I. Prices reasonable. Pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free on application to manufacturers. Physicians desiring to test it will be furnished a bottle free of expense, except express charges, if they mention THE UNITED SERVICE. Manufactured by the RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS, Providence, R. I. Lundborg's Perfume, Edenia. Lundborg's Perfume, Maréchal Niel Rose. Lundborg's Perfume, Alpine Violet. Lundborg's Perfume, Lily of the Valley. Lundborg's Rhenish Cologne. A box containing Samples of all the above five articles prepaid to your nearest Railroad Express Office (which should be named) for Fifty Cents-Money Order, Stamps or Currency. Address: YOUNG, LADD & COFFIN, 24 Barelay Street, New York. DARLINGTON, RUNK & CO., IMPORTERS, RETAILERS, AND JOBBERS OF SILKS, DRESS GOODS, LADIES' WOOLENS, LACES, EMBROIDERIES, GLOVES, HOSIERY, 1126 and 1128 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Letters requesting samples or other information will receive immediate attention. PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. DEC 9 1885 THE UNITED SERVICE. DECEMBER 1885. THE BUREAU OF NAVIGATION, OFFICE OF DETAIL, AND OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE announcement was made on October 21 that the present chief of the Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department would on the next day be reappointed for another term of four years, because he "is next to the Secretary in the management of the affairs of the Department. He has charge of the detail of all officers, and his services could not well be dispensed with at present." This reappointment for the reason given by Secretary Whitney, taken in connection with his revocation on May 22, 1885, by Order No. 337, of the order of his predecessor, No. 332, dated October 1, 1884, relative to the mode of detailing naval officers, indicates his determination practically to abdicate, during his term, the supreme direction and control of the navy, as the representative of the President, its commander-in-chief, and to confine himself to the legal business of the Department, the work at the navy-yards, and his political and social duties in Washington. It informs the navy and the nation that the chief naval control will be permanently assumed by a captain, junior to thirty other line-officers on the active list, who has seen only five months' sea-service in his present grade, and only thirteen years' sea-service during his thirty-four years in the navy; whose sea-service is less than that of twenty-eight junior captains, and who is the only naval officer persistently evading the sea-duty which he owes by every rule. If this abdication of his highest power by the proper functionary, and the assumption of the relinquished duty by a naval officer of comVOL. XIII.-No. 6. 41 paratively low rank, concerned only these two persons, it might be passed over without notice until the official retirement of the one or the decease of the other should bring a termination. But the interests of the country and of the naval service demand that an arrangement so injurious and intolerable should be opposed by all who have those interests at heart. The method adopted violates the republican and constitutional principle of the subordination of the military to the civil power. Ours are not the army and navy of a monarchy. Our President is chosen only for four years. During that term he conducts the government through the seven heads of departments, authorized by the Constitution, established by legislation, and, from the beginning, selected from civil life, to represent the President according to his will, in performing the details of executive work, always in conformity to the laws of the Congress. Any To two of these civilian Secretaries, heads of the War and Navy Departments, each acting for the President always with the formality and force of a constitutional department, is given the direct command of the army and navy. The constitutional theory has worked well in practice. The people have thus constantly maintained the necessary domination over their army and navy without ever impairing in time of war the force and efficiency of the military arm. Any departure from the established system will be fraught with evil consequences, not only to the country, but to the army and navy themselves. deliberate attempts by military chieftains to supersede, by extension of their powers of command, the Secretaries of the two great Departments will arouse popular jealousy, and will at last prove ignominious failures. Without the intervention of the Secretaries wielding their departmental powers, the management of the army and navy by the Presidents, who serve only for short periods, would never reach to details, would be reduced to a minimum, and the army and navy would in reality be governing themselves. To this a jealous people have never agreed; on the contrary, they have expressly and carefully guarded against such a system; they will never submit to it; and any efforts to establish it by encroachments upon the powers which have been deliberately conferred upon the Departments will only result in reactionary popular sentiment and in congressional legislation hostile to the army and navy. To whatever disposition there is in the army and navy to encroach upon the civil control of the two military establishments is to be mainly attributed the opposition to extending the sphere of the officers and men of those services to all appropriate works of times of peace, which undoubtedly should be committed to the army on the land, to the navy on the ocean. Important and indispensable governmental work is now carried on by civilian employés which could be more appropriately |