Subject: UFOs In Our History.           Part 5.                     Jan. 30, 
2012.

  This talks about some people who were seen in a spaceship and
they were about 12 feet tall.

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As the title page of the paperback copy I own informs the public,
the Silent Friend is A Complete Guide To Health, Marriage and
Happiness, Embracing Subjects Never Before Scientifically
Discussed - With Magnificent Illustrations In Anatomy Of The Lungs,
Fistal Delivery, Monstrosities, Uterine Tumors, Generative Organs,
Deformities, D-seases, & C. Also, Valuable and Practical Receipts
In Medicine, The Arts, Etc. And in 382 pages printed in minute
type, Dr. Earl delivers a breathtaking range of quaint and curious
lure. Sandwiched in between advertisements for male safes
[c-ndoms] made of white Indian rubber, and herbal cures for
gonorrhea, were recipes for making wood more durable than iron
and practical advice for would-part-time mesmerists.
Of course, many books of the time dealt in similar subjects, but
not quite with Dr. Earls panache: "To transfer a pale and sallow face
to one of beauty," he tells us, "take one dozen common iron nails,
about 2 inches long, one tablespoon of extract of aloes hepatica,
put these into a large bottle and poor upon them two quarts of eider,
(JW He may have meant the word "Cider".) cork them up tightly
and shake them every day for one month, then strain off the clear
liquid, and of this take one table spoon upon rising and going to
bed, when all paleness will leave the face, and it will ultimately
attain beauty."
Whether this beauty is attained in life, or ultimately achieved upon
the d-ath by p-isoning of the patient, Dr. Earl fails to say. Among
all the snake-oil clap-trap contained in this entertaining bit of
Americana is one entry that, in its strangeness, and its use of
specific names and places, stands out from the rest. On pages
253-256, we find this startling entry: "Do the Inhabitants of other
Planets ever Visit this Earth? I propose in this connection to make
a few remarks on the following: Mr. Henry Wallace and other
persons of Jay, Ohio, have recently detailed to me the annexed.
There are thousands of such cases on record. These gentlemen
state, that sometimes since on a clear and bright day, a shadow
was thrown over the place where they were; this necessarily
attracted their attention to the H-avens, where they one and all
beheld a large and curiously constructed vessel, not over one
hundred yards from the earth. They could plainly discern a large
number of people on board of her, whose average height appeared
to be about twelve feet.
  The vessel was evidently worked by wheels and other mechanical
appendages, all of which worked with a precision and a degree of
beauty never yet attained by any mechanical skill upon this planet.
Now, I know that thousands will, at this recital, cry humbug,
nonsense, lunacy, but I know that there are other thousands who
will read and reflect. It is for these latter thousands that I write.
Once upon a time there appeared a celebrated reformer, who
arose among the people and taught a new doctrine, that from its
reasonableness and its simplicity, electrified the hearts of the
thinking people. But the party who didnt think, and who h-ted
reason, and new ideas, cried out, away with him to the
crucifixion.
And they did crucify his body, but they have not yet succeeded
in crucifying the reason, and new facts and ideas that be taught.
In view, then, of the above, I venture to advance the following
remarks: I believe that the time will come when all of the
inhabitants of all worlds or planets in the solar system, will
regularly visit each other when in the fullness or fruition of
things, an interchange of ideas and commodities, visiting and
greetings between the respective inhabitants of all worlds or
planets, will be common and universal. I believe that the grand
aspirations of an advanced humanity on this earth, is not
without a good cause and a good reason.

I believe that when the respective atmospheres seen surrounding
the different planets in the solar system, indeed, of every part
of the universe, shall have passed into the highest condition of
excellence and purity of which it is capable, that it will then
give life to a more exalted and finished condition of genera
and species, or inhabitants. That all of the planets are now
inhabited by a kind of beings suited to their respective planetary
and electrical conditions, is, I think, certain. And that the
inhabitants of thousands of these worlds, that roll with eternal
beauty throughout the boundless regions of the immensity of
space, have attained that advanced condition in their planetary
being, I have no doubt, whatever.
And that this ship which Mr. Wallace and others saw, was a
vessel from Venus, Mercury, or the planet Mars, on a visit
of pleasure or exploration, or some other cause; I myself,
with the evidence at hand, that I can bring to bear on it, have
no more doubt of, than I have of the fact of my own existence.
This, mind, was no phantom that disappeared in a twinkling,
as all phantoms do disappear, but this aerial ship was guided,
propelled and steered through the atmosphere with the most
scientific system and regularity, at about six miles an hour,
though, doubtless, from the appearance of her machinery, she
was capable of going thousands of miles an hour, and who
knows but ten thousand miles an hour. What can be more
wonderful as an illustration, than the Electric Telegraph to
connect the old world with the new. And why then, may not
the scientific geniuses of other planets have done as much
as ours have?

Besides this, if I had room, I could draw an argument from the
electrical condition of the media existing between the planets,
to show that a body once in motion at a given distance from
a planetary body in space, will move with nearly the speed
of electricity till it meets again the resisting media, or
atmosphere of another planet or body in space. That all of
this knowledge, and a million times more, may be known to
some of the exalted beings of other planets in space, I have
no doubt. But as I was saying, this aerial ship moved directly
off from the earth, and remained in sight, till by distance
she was lost to the view. The foregoing is my firm and decided
conclusion and belief in this matter."

Dr. Earl lived on to publish a new, enlarged Illustrated Silent
Friend, as well as The Parent's Companion; On the di-eases of
infants and children; Woman; her duties, relations and position;
A medical and social work; Seven Causes of Debility; and Moderate
the pace that K-lls; High pressure business life; all in 1878 and
catalogued by the Library of Congress.
Of course, the crux of the matter is this: was there really a Henry
Wallace of Jay, Ohio? The most logical place to search would be
the old census records for Ohio, and this is exactly what I
determined to do. Because of logistical difficulties (I live half a
world away), I contacted the Ohio Historical Society via the
internet, paid the requisite fee, included a self-addressed envelope
with my written request, and received, by mail the following
letter dated April 21, 1999:
Dear Mr. Glass:
Regarding your request for information from the 1850 Census,
please see the attached materials. You will note that there are
several "Henry Wallaces" listed in the Index to the Federal
Census of Ohio; unfortunately, none of them are listed in a
county that includes a town by the name of Jay.
However, there is a town named Jay in Erie County, which is
just east of Lorain County. So we copied the Lorain County
listing for a Henry Wallace in the hopes that this was the man
you are interested in.
The appended pages included copies from the 1860 census
of Ohio. I scanned through the spidery and antique handwriting,
and there he was!
Henry Wallace of Eerie County, and presumably of Jay, was
number 549 in the records.
His age in 1860 was 30 years old. He was married to Cloe, 28, and
had a daughter named Eva B who was 12 years and 8 months old
at the time.
Henry and his wife were Irish; his occupation was listed as "Sailor."
What is more, the entry just previous to Henrys is for one David
Wallace, 27 years old, and also from Ireland. He too had a wife
and a young daughter to support. Davids occupation is listed as
"Ship Carpenter."
Presumably, David and Henry were brothers and next-door neighbors
in Jay.
  Further perusal of the page indicates that their neighborhood
was composed primarily of sailors, millers, farmers and domestics
i.e., Henry and his family appear to have been members of the
working poor of the time. Their position in society was no doubt a
difficult one, as was that of many Irish immigrants.
  Add to this the probability that Henry Wallace was corresponding
with Dr. Earl because of a s-xually-transmitted d-sease picked up
during his sea-faring life, and an interesting picture emerges: either
the sailor was aconsummate blarney artist practicing his gift upon
a big city snake-oil salesman, or Wallace was a simple person
telling the truth to one whom he--mistakenly--believed to be a man
of science.

Part 5.

John Winston.   johnfw@mlode.com