THE SCBANTON TMBtJNE -WEDNESDAY MOBNING, JULY 22, 1896.
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ONE YANKEE TELLS
ABOUT THE DERBY
Quite (he Most Important Event in the
British Calendar.
IS THE CELEBRATED DERBY DAY
Elwyta A. Barron, Iho Versatile Lou
do Correspondent of Ibe Chicago
TimewIIerald, CJive a Polished
Description of Hi f'irxt View of
Thin Momentous Afl'uir.
Next to th rrown the most Important
thin In English esteem Is the Derby;
and when for the first time In consider
ably more than a centuiy the prize Is
borne off by a Prince of Wales, and that
prince extremely popular with all class
en, you may imagine that the degree of
Jubilation Is nothing less than In ex-i-elals.
For my part. I had never wlt
vuBSrtd anything equal, in point of en
thusiastic demonstration, to that scene
tf Joyous commotion and excitement
when it became known to the vast mul
titude the Persimmon had passed the
post u winner.
Derby day on Epsom Downs (they
were known as Banstead Downs in th
days of the inimitable Pepys) is always
the thing of the year; but the conditions
and experiences of yesterday made it
one of the red-letter events of a tif
tlint. 1 count It a blessed bit of fortune
to have ben present, und I owe It to
our good friend, the admirable Wlllard,
that the most favorable circumstances
attended me. Mr. Wlllard had tele
graphed up from Banstead, one of th
loveliest spots in England, "Come down
and we'll drive to tin races. Dinner
and a bed to follow." an Invitation that
only madness would gambol from. Ban
stead being happily and sweetly re
moved from that curse of rural ro
mance, the railway, he met mo with his
trap at Sutton, the way by which the
great tide of pleasure-seekers rolls
down from London In every sort of
"conveyance," from the swelf four-in-hand
to the humble donkey-cart of the
coster, to witness the Darby.
AN EXTRAORDINARY SIGHT.
We pulled out from the road on a
hilltop and became spectators of the
heterogeneous pageant. An extraor
dinary sight, indeed, is the tide of ve
hlcularate humanity that ovcrtloods the
road to the Derby. The like of it Is to
be seen nowhere else In the world.
Everything on wheels Is conscripted for
service on this imperial anniversary
and everything that passes Is heaped
und crowded with an unuccustomed
load of eager holiday makers for once
the uncouth occupants of the strangely
decked butcher's curt, or the groaning
prehistoric chaise, or the covered van,
jogging along under the dust and shu
dow of the royal coach In common pro
cession. A wagonette Is filled with the
artisans of some establishments, who
have spread newspapers over their
knees and are beguiling the tedlousness
of the long ride with cards; a brake
speeds along with two horns blowing;
Immediately fololwlng Is a wagon that
has on the box with the driver a lusty
pair of lungs discoursing prodigious
music through a cornet; almost invisi
ble among the throng of four-wheeled
affairs is a shabby two-wheeled, bar-,
row-like cart, on which four persons are
seated, drugged reluctantly by a dimin
utive donkey that might well have been
put In the driver's pocket; other wagon
loads cheered by cornet or bugle; here
a cart-load of stout Voiced fellows
shouting a coster chorus; omnibuses
with four horses chartered for the day,'
their tops crowded with merry parties;
fashionable equipages, with crests on
the panels, and postillions; a group of
equestrians, ladles and gentlemen; the
Inevitable bicycle contingent; her grace
the duchess and her lovely companions
in white and making way a little for
the prancing steeds the cart In which
'Arry and 'An let are swelling It like
East End haristocrats.
And so, higgledy-piggledy, high and
low, rich aud poor, prince and beggar,
coach and carriage, and bus and trap
and cart, and pedestrian In a grand
fantastic procession of unassorted dem
ocracy wind their picturesque way
through town and village and hamlet,
along paved highways and through
stretches of tree-bowered, hedge-guarded,
llower-decked country lanes, over
sweeps of downs, with the green way
side commons tempting one to leap
down for a roll among the billowing
daisies and so on to those splendid,
wide-reaching downs where the Derby
Is run, on the turf, over a course shaped
like a horseshoe, a mile and a half
about.
THE IMMENSE THRONG.
A there is no charge of admission
to the course (excepting, indeed, to the
litclosures about the grand stand, with
Its stalls, private boxes, clubhouse, etc
to enter which you must pay 11) there
is no restraint upon popular patronage
and there is no possible way to ascer
tain the number of people In attend
ance. But surveying the grounds from
a commanding point at the top of the
grand stand, seeing the hill In the center
of the horseshoe black with people and
the dense mass along both sides of the
track from Tattenliam corner to tho
finish, a distance of five furlongs, be
ides those In the grand stand and
on th rear slope. It seemed to me the
throng was even more numerous than
that upon which I looked down that
memorable "Chicago Day" In '93. Per
son who are familiar only with Amer
ican race tracks and the scenes which
there distinguish the chief events of
meetings can have no adequate Idea
of the spectacle at Epsom Downs on
Derby day. It is like getting to a
huge fair.
As you drive up you seem to be com
ing upon the encampment of an army.
Thousands of tents, of various sizes
and in every shade of gradation, from
approximate white to the grime of age
and use, give the impression that an
advancing host has pitched its camp for
a brief sojourn. This idea is heightened
by the number of horses, their harness
till on their bucks, munching their
feed in open Inclosure of rope or can
vas, or under awnings, while here,
there and everywhere are gypsy vans
veritable houses (gayly painted)) on
wheels. In which families live year in
and year cut, journeying over country;
Vehicles of all kinds drawn up on order
ly way about these stabling booths;
tands for every kind of refreshments-
periwinkles or whelks served tempting
ly In large oyster shells for a penny,
being the favorite supply of the multi
tude; and above all that subdued roar
vi inarticulate sounds that comes up
from the busy, happy multit ide, like
the wash of the sea heard at night on
a rocky coast.
THE BOOKIES.
That which you hear most distinctly
the cry of the host of "bookies" of
ferlng tremendous odds on the horses
no on cares to buy, or on shorter terms.
permit ting you to "name one, bar one,1
which means they will give odds
against any horse you will name, the
favorite excepted. These "bookies In
the open have huge placards erected in
front of them bearing their names,
where from he who reads may deter
mine their descent as well as their re
sponsibility. One of the most conspicu
ous of these bore the nominal biography.
Issy Isaacs," and from one you muy
know all, the bookmakers of kss racial
distinctness having their betting-stands
within the inclosure at the grand stand.
Showmen's booths are ranged along the
hill slope within the horseshoe, the
monster fat woman" being advertised
In gaudily painted pictures on bellying
canvas In rivalry to Punch and Judy,-
pantomime and other forms of the art
of mimicry and deception dear to the
holiday heart.
Then there are swings and merry-go-
rounds, besides such pastimes as throw
ing at cocoanuts. striking with mallets
on automatic machines to test your
force, watching girls dance on the turf
to the quavering lamentations of a
hand organ, or forming a ring about a
rather buxom young woman In lilac-
colored tights and close-fitting sleeve
less red bodice, who engages in a few
bouts at boxing with a chap who seems
to have come from Whitechapel for the
purpose. When she has done boxing
she slips a dress skirt on over her head
and. subsiding Into her aboriginal state.
becomes a typical female cockney, not
bad looking There are lings, too, about
men here and there who make rather a
good thing out of the euger crowd by
giving tips at a shilling er on the im
pending races, and stimulate desire by
crying: "I gyve It to yo rolght enough
lawst tyme, didn t I? Come on. now;
I'm only a charging ye a bob to uyme
the winner in the next ryce. Who wants
a card' Lively now; the 'osscs won't
wyte for ye to myke up ycr minds, ye
know."
MANY GYPSIES.
The gypsies tell fortunes at their van?.
or make themselves importunately un-
useful ubout tho grounds, or give .thi-lr
Indolent attention to refreshment
stqgids, to paronlze which requires the
uncritical appetite of a "navvy. All
these dwellers in vans are not uypsies.
however, for a goodly percentage of the
lower British public lives and breeds
families in the cooplike houses In order
to have a home of their own, and yet
escape the payment of rates as house
holders. There Is always a hopeful
group of these folk In the vicinity of the
brakes und coaches of the blessed rich,
who have brought humpers of wine and
other things precious to the stomach,
and who Improve the times between
races In gastronomic merriment.
When these nomads have a suspicion
that their social superiors are quite
light of heart they feel emboldened to
discharge verbal challenges to vanity
and benevolence. "Won't the prltty
lydy throw me down a copper? I'm
sure my lord can spare a body a trifle!"
The mendicancy of England will be as
troublesome tie long us that of Italy If
travelers do not tuke the time to reulize
that the promiscuous "chucking about
of brass" Is the nurse and propagator
of pauperism. Why, In addition to the
countless ragumulllns and tatterdemal
ions of every age that hover aloifg the
roads leading from town to the downs,
I saw shoals of school children, at In
frequent Intervals, under the care of
women teachers, drawn up In line be
hind fences, begging In chorus for the
pennies showered among them by the
passers, who thought only of the fun
of seeing the youngsters scramble for
the coppers, and did not know or care
to remember that the pauper and de
pendent classes are Increasing In Eng
land in direct proportion to the growth
of charities of all sorts, pocket and sys
tematized. The Derby not only attracts
every beggar who can get within range,
but it draws from Londoin every thief
and pick-pocket who is able to stand
the fatigue of elbowing his or her way
through the crowd. 'Nowhere Is a more
motley assembly to be found In all the
world than at the Derby. From prince
to coster Is the confine of all social de
grees, and It seemed to me I saw repre
sentatives of every race under the sun;
and the experienced patron of the turf
knows that betting brings odd ex
tremes into contact Just as politics
makes strange bedfellows. There was
such a mingling when the Derby was
won.
WALES WON.
As I have said, the fact that Persim
mon, against whom odds of live to one
had been laid not an hour before, shot
so smartly to the fore after an uncom
monly well-run race, set the people wild,
and they came rushing onto the track
behind the horses like a black deluge
roaring their Joy und bearing down to
ward the Judges' stand, where the po
licemen were already forming their
circle to keep clear a space Into which
the horses should be ridden before un
saddling. In the meantime the excite
ment in the royal box was even more
intense than that elsewhere. The prince
flushed and then turned pale like a
schoolboy receiving his first prize, and
then mude a rush to the ring to lead in
his victorious colt. The Princess of
Wales quite discarded dignity to ap
plaud w it'll genuine heartiness and to
shake hands with her daughters, who
were as fluttered as ever young prin
cesses were. The sight of the Joy In the
royal box was a new inspiration of rap
ture to the crowd, so that when the
prince, followed to the gate by felici
tating friends, took Persimmon by the
bridle, not attempting to conceal his
pride of triumph, a cheer that might
have reached London swelled out from
half a million throats.
And It was genuine. I Imagine that
even the heaviest losers on the result
were gladly sympathetic with the prince
in his good fortune in the achievement
of the highest of England's sporting
honors; aud as for the public at lurge
well. If the radicals have any doubt that
the people of Great Britain are wedded
In love and fidelity to royalty let them
say why there was such a convulsion
of happiness because the Derby stakes
were1' gathered In by the Prince of Wales.
No one was more radiant than our
li lend Wlllard, who had stubbornly re
fused to yield assent to the prevailing
opinion that St. Frusquln was preor
dained the victor. He backed his con
fldence in Persimmon liberally with the
bookmakers, nor did he hesitate to
double his bets after the horses had
come onto the course for the parade and
It was learned that the royal colt was
too nervous - and fractious to be led
down In that way without endangering
his chance of success.
BEFORE THE START.
You know that the starters In the
Derby on being brought from the stab
les are led at a walk past the grand
stand, etc.and are then ridden by at a
gallop before they are taken to the
starting point at the further end of the
horsephoe, about half a mile across the
downs from the. Judge's stand. The
course is an uphill run at first and
down hill afterward toward the home
stretch. Many a race Is practically lost
at the famous "corner" where the slop
ing turn Is made, and It Is always aclean
race down that great, broad avenue of
close worn turf In the full view of the
spectators. It Is the finest running
course In the world, and when there Is a
full field, thirty or forty starters, the
tight of the horses, aeetninf to move
with the smoothness of a machine, and
their vividly garbed riders. Is some
thing to thrill the most phlegmatic tem
perament. There was no pretense at stolidity on
the part of the Americans present, and
their name was legion. They uttered
their delight with more than English
fervor when Persimmon made that sud
den lunge ahead, thrusting his nose aud
then his neck in thAlead of the splendid
ly laboring St. Frusquln, as they shot
toward and passed the post. The roy
alty has Its penalties, and more than
once in the afternoon I heard the du
bious phrase: "Do you suppose it was
arranged to let the prince win?" So
the great? achievement of the gullunt
and spirited colt has this smudge of
skepticism to dim its luster, although
there Is Just about as much chance to
"tlx" the Derby as thore Is to dig gold
out of a limekiln.
The Prince of Wales could not afford,
were he disposed, to take a race other
than by sheer merit. All England re
joiced over his victory; all England
would have blushed for and execrated
any "contrivance;" and It Is very well
known to princes and potentates, r.s
well as to meaner oreutui'O, that "Jobs,"
like murder, will out. soon or lute.
CANDIDATES IN DEFEAT.
Ilisturic Imliiiict's Shcwiiiic Ho A'
t't-nl Their Chagrin ut mi 111 Tutu oi
Fortune.
From the Times-Herald.
Thute are few men who can bear de
feat with equanimity, pniticulaily when
the- lost piize is the greatest to which
mull may aspire. Consequently, when
Mr. Keed expressed himself mole for
cibly than politely at 1.1s recent defeat,
with sjine lenmiks us to tho manage
ment of tho canvass by his friends, the
temporary ebullition of iage was ex
cusuble. He Is not the lirst defeated a-"-piiant
lor a nomination who has shown
temper over his loss, ur.d there me num
erous traditions and anecdotes still ple
at! ved fhowlnif how r .me of them
ucttd. Henry Clay was u candidate for
tl..- presidency in ai d ug-iin i.i lSJ,
ne ither tif which times hud he the least
cliuuce uf election. Cut in KiO the cur.
rent hud ctanstd and it was evident
that the v.'hls weie bound to Lis suc
cessful. Clay os the leader of his party
was entitled to the nomination, and
there Is no doubt that the rank und file
of the party eagerly wished him for
their candidate. But the politicians,
Thiirlcvv Weed part'cu.Uily, weie op
l.jsod to him. and looking around for
an "available" candidate they pitched
upon General William Henry Harrison.
The whlir convention met at Hairls
burg in December. 1WJ, to nominate
candidates, and the names of Clay,
Harrison, and General Scott were pre
sented. It Is the universal testimony
that a liiujority of the conventions were
rt-ully In favor of Clay, but owing to
tho extiaordinaiy method of making
the- Humiliation-un Invention of Thur
low Weed Clay was defeated and Har
rison nominated.
Mr. Clay was in Washington when he
received the news, and Henry A. Wise
has related his outburst of passion and
the sturm of curses and imprecations
that he called down upon everybody
connected with the whole affair. Ris
ing from his chair and walking the room
rapidly, lifting his feet like a horse
string halted In both legs, he stamped
ut'on the lioor, exclaiming: "My Mend
are not worth the powder and shot it
would take to kill them." He men
tioned the names of several of them, in
voking upon them the most dreadful
imprecations, and then cried out: "If
there were two Henry Clays one of them
would make the other president of the
United States."
"When remonstrated with for his un
seemly passion he said: "It Is a dia
bolical intrigue, I now know, which has
betrayed me. I am the most unfortu
nate man In the history of parties; al
ways run by my friends when sure to
be defeated, and now betrayed for a
nomination when I, or anyone, would be
sure of an election.
Clay sulked for a time, but soon re
lented and gave unwavering support to
General Harrison. His superb oratory
carried everything before It In the long
and hilarious campaign of 1810.
THE CASE OF WEBSTER. .
Daniel Webster was a standing candi
date for a presidential nomination from
IS 30 until IS52. In 183 he was nominated
by his own state, Massachusetts, and
received its electoral Vote, but no other.
In 1S4 Harrison carried off the honors
and in 1844 Henry Clay, but in 1S48 there
was a chance for Webster, but again
Thurlow Weed used his "fine Italian
hand," and under the old plea of uvaii
ability secured the nomination of Gen
eral Taylor. '
This angered Webster, and he did not
hesitate in expressing himself. "A
JOSEPH
i rem t'j Chicago 7im Herald.
nomination not fit to be made," he said
In a public speech. But he was Anally
brought Into tine and made a number of
speeches In behalf of the whig ticket,
But it was in 1S52 that he exhibited
his keenest disappointment, and gave
expression to his feelings.
It will be remembered that his famous
7th of March Bpeech in advocacy of the
compromise measures of 1S50 had es
tranged the northern whlgs, and It was
charged that his speech was a bid for
southel n support.
When the whig convention met at
Philadelphia in 1852 the candidates were
Fillmore. Scott and Webster, and not a
single vote from the south was cast tor
Webster. He received the lowest vote
of ail the candidates and Scott was
finally nominated. It was the severest
blow Webster ever received In his long
public career.
Wheti the Mississippi dcvejatU u called
upon him In Washington, on their way
home, he told them he was surprised at
not receiving a single southern vote
"not one" In the numerous ballotings,
and repretted they had deemed It nec
essary to treat him in sush a manner.
Of course, he must submit, but It was
impossible lor him to hide his disap
pointment'. In fact, the blow hastened his death
und he died the following October, sev
eral weeks before the el.'ctlon Prior
to hu death he said to Mr. Hatvey that
GeniTui Scot, would not cairy six
states. That the people knew he wcilld
be a mere puppet In the hunds of the
New York whig regency controlled by
Weed und Sewaid, and he added. 'The
people of the It.d Statss will never
Intrust their destinies und the admin
istration of the government to the
hands cf William H. Seward and his
associates. Mr. Seward Is an able man.
but Subtle ai.d unscrupulous, and will
make everything bend to the one Idea
i f making himself president of the
Vnlled States."
The words were prophet!?. Scott only
rallied four states, and eight years
later, when Seward thoucht he had the
nomination within hl3 grasp, it was
snatched fiom him at the moment of
his anticli'uted victory .
.2 WARD'S CHAP.GIN.
How Seward took his defeat at Chi
cago In lstio does not appear except as
It may be Inferred from "Wetd's Mem
oirs." Seward had too much control
ever his feelings to give general ex
pression to them, but doubtless his in
tlmute f: lends at Auburn witnessed his
dejection. .But Weed makes no con
cealment. That hardened politician
who had placed the bitter cup at the lips
of both Clay and . Webster was now
obliged to swallow the draught himself,
and he plainly relates that he did hot
like It. For the consummate orator
and statesman to be passed over by the
ungainly and unknown Lincoln was
too much to endure.
Both Seward and Weed found out by
and by who Lincoln was. discovering
at the same time that he was no puppet
for them to manage.
Impulsive and outspoken as Blaine
was by nature, he gave no outward
sign of disappointment over his defeats
In the convention of 1876 and 1890. He
could console himself In those instances
with the fact that his rivals were also
defeated, and that "dark horses" car
ried off the prize.
In his recent memoirs John Sherman
makes no concealment of his chargln at
his defeats In 1S80 and 1888. particularly
In the former year, where he places the
responsibility upon General Garfield.
THE ABILITY' TO BUY.
If free wool will secure cheaper cloth
ing to the people by the same process of
reusonlng, cloth duty free and untaxed
ready made clothing, will diminish the
price still further, and give to the co.i
sumer the very consummation of low
puictis and cheap wearing apparel. If
every consideration but the mere cheap
ness of the fabric be discarded then no
reason can be found why with free wool,
there should not come free cloth and free
clothing. Things, however, are some
times the dearest, when nominally they
are the cheapest. The selling price of
an article Is not the only measure: the
ability to buy, the coin with which to
purchase, Is an important and essentlul
element, and must. not be dismissed from
our consideration. If a man Is without
means and without employment, and
there Is none of the latter to be had, ev
erything Is dear to him. The price Is ot
the smallest consequence, however cheap,
if it Is beyond his reach. Hon. William
McKlnley.
Sic Trans t Gloria Muudi.
Lay away the bright brass buttons
That our Paddy used to wear;
In a tight down on Canal street
Paddy climbed the golden stair.
Lay away the great big billy;
Lay away the awful pop;
Paddy has a pair of wtnglets;
Paddy now is a fly cop.
D. M., in Chicago To Date.
HEDILL.
By tb Courtesy cf H. II. Kuhlsatl
BOTH CHIPS FROM
THE SAME BLOCK
Insanity and Genius Are Really Very
Closely Allltd
DR. M'DONALD'S PSYCHIC STUDIES
The Genius Has Urgiunlily and Crit
ical Power.-Tuc Insane Temper
ament Hat Orginnlity, bat Lack
Critical Pover-Some of tho Ureal
.Men of the Past Who Have Had
Periods of Inunuity.
From tha S-n.
Dr. Arthur MacDonald, ot Washing
ton, the Bureau of Education expeit
in criminology and sociology, hui de
voted hl3 life to the study cf fsychlc
men. In his eyes a gie.it per.lus and a
great ci lmlr.al are both ubnoimal in the
sense of diverging n ush frjni the aver
age man. Genius is taken in in? ram?
category with titnai.it ix -.i crime. All
aesthetical Ideas are entirely removed,
and in an investigation of insarl.y and
geniu.1 which Dr. MiuDoi.a d lid) mau.
he has taken uway all those ethical
Ideas that wo have besu accustomed tJ
iassociate With lhej t.Mms. Th? ituuy
was prepared for a work of the Euieau
of Education ly Dr. MacDonald on the
abnormal mar.
Some icu. a:keb!y In'.frestlng facts In
reyard to the sreat geniuses of the
world are brought to light in this woik.
In some cases the Insanity wa so very
near the renins that there ,-vas or.ly a
slight line of Oemarkatlon. The mani
festations of san tv in some ressecti
cannot be distinguished frcm thoss of
Insanity. The fluctuating line between
ranlty and Insanity, as freciifent'y seen
In public and private life, may o;cll:ate,
It seems, between the extremes of gen
ius and mental disease. Such men are
cure to show peculiarities In thought,
feeling and action.
The great mass of people dub them
strange or foolish, because the great
majority of men feel or act otherwise.
They may become so eccentric as to b?
said to have a strain of m-diris In
them. They have a defective cir.d tlon
of morality a tendency to sudden cap
rices, to act Indepently of society, and
a personal gratification that seems to
others a sign of great vanity. Many
of them, however, aie endowed with toa
sensitive a nervous system, and while
this may be a part of a person's genius,
it is not of the highest order, for It
lacks the power of the critical sense
and the vast Intelligence of the genius
which permits him to correct his void
imaginations. The Insane temperament
shows originality, but lacks the critical
spirit. The ordinary normal mind has
some critical spirit, but lacks oiiglnal
tty; the genius possesses both origin
ality and critical power.
NOTABLE EXAMPLES.
Dr. MacDonald speaks of a number ot
examples of insane temperaments
ranging from inspired idiots to Inspired
geniuses. He says that DeQuincy. Cow
per. Turner, Shelley, Tasso, Lamb and
Goldsmith may be reckoned as having
had In some degree the insane temper
ament. The discrimination between the
very highest flights of genius from In
sanity Is a difficult and at times an
Impossible undertaking, for they may
exist in one and the same person. Tasso,
Burns, Swift. Mozart, Haydn. Walter
Scott, Blake and Poe all exhibited
strong signs of Insanity toward the
close of their lives, If not during their
lives. On the basis of biographical
facts It Is discovered that among dis
tinguished men one finds the largest
number of insane, and that the children
of geniuses are inferior even to those
of average men, owing to convulsions
and cerebral diseases In Infancy. As
Dr. MacDonald puts It, "Genius is al
ways Isolated; it is a summum of na
ture's energy, after which her procrea
tlve forces are exhausted."
Some of the geniuses the iworld has
known have had some Interesting ideas
on this same question. Aristotle said
that under the Influence of congestion
of the head persons became poets,
prophets and sybils; Democritus made
Insanity an essential condition of
poetry. Cato said before committing
suicide: "Since when have I shown
signs of insanity?" Cicero calls It the
furor posticus; Horace calls It the am
abllls Insanla; Lamartlne called genius
a mental disease; Schopenhuuer con
fessed that when he composed his great
work he carried himself strangely and
was considered by the people about
him to be Insane. Dr. McDonald says
that It has been a most difficult mat
ter to obtain tacts of an abnormal or
pathological nature, or other unfavor
able data, for the reason that authors
In recording the lives of geniuses have
not only concealed such data, but have
not considered thern of sufficient im
portance to record. These Interesting
facts, however, he has gleaned from
every possible source.
HAD HALLUCINATIONS.
Socrates had hallucinations from his
familiar genius or demon. Pausanlas,
the Lacedaemonian, after killing a
young slave, was tormented until his
death by a spirit, which pursued him In
all places and which resemlled his v c
tlm. Lucretius A as attacked with In
termittent mania. Bayle says this
mania left him lucid intervals, during
which he cmposed six books, "De rrum
tiutuia." He was 44 years of ag3 when
he put an end to his life. Charles V.
had epileptic attxeks during his ycuth;
he stammered. He r.tr.atcd to a mon
astery, wh' r he h d theslnguljr phan
tasy cf celebrating his c wn fun-1: al r t33 '
In his own presence. His n.o'.her (Jane
of Castle) was Insune and deforced.
HU giand.'atner (Ferd'nar.d ot Arag-.n)
died ct ti e age cf 62 In a state cf pro
found melar.cholti. Peter th; Great,
durinpr his Ir.fancy. wa? subject to ner
vous nttaci-3, which deflrentiatod to j
epilepsy. Cn or his ar-r.s had ra lucin-
atlens; onotfcjr cor.vuk'.ons. Caesar i
was tpiler.t c. of feeble constitution,
vith pallid skin, and subjec: to h:aU- i
aches. Llnr?, a piecocl us genius, hsd.
a cranium hydrocephalic in tirm, He
suffered from a strike of f ara'ysls. At
the fnd cf one attack he had f .rgcf.en
Ms rame, He died In a ttate tf senile
dementia. Harhael eupe- line;, temp
tations to sulci J. He hlmre'f says, in
deBctlbinii h: u!t mi t?d ruM.lt:
"I tld the fisherman's cords which
t found In the host eight times uround
her body and mine tightly as In a wind
ing sheet. ra?d her In my arms.
Which I h1 kept fres In order to prec p
liate her with me Into the waves.
At the iron ent I was to le?p, ti be
wallowed forever with her. I felt hnr
head turn upon my shoulder lika a d?ad
weight and the body gink d-.vn upon
my knees."
Pascal, from birth tl'l death, ruffered
from nervous troubles, At ons year of
age he fell Into a languor, during which
he oould not see water without mani
festing rt outbursts of passion; and,
till more peculiar, he cwulij pot bear
to see his father and mother near one
another. Walter Beott. during his In
fancy, had precarious health, and be
fore the age of two was paralyzed In
his right leg. He had a stroke or apo
plexy. He had this vision on hearing ot
the death ot Byron: Coming Into the
dining room he. aaw before him the
Image of his dead friend; on advanc
ing toward It he recognized that the
vision was due to drapery extended over
the screen. Voltaire, like Cicero,- De
mosthenes, Newton and Walter Scott,
.vuh born under the saddest and most
alarming conditions of hen'.th. His
feebleness was such that he could not
be taken to church to be christened.
During his first years he manifested
an extraordinary mind. In his old age
he was like a bent shadow. He had un
attack of apoplexy at the age of S3.
His cutopsy showed a slight thickness
of the bony walls of the cranium.
Michael Angelo. while painting "The
Last Judgment," fell from his eaffoId
and received a painful Injury In the
leg. He shut himself up and would not
see any one. The elder brother of
Richelieu, the Cardinal, was a singular
man; he committed suicide because of a
rsbuke from his parents. The sister of
Richelieu was insane. Richelieu him
self had attacks of Insanity: he would
fisuw himself as a horse, but afte:r.vard
would have no recollection of It.
DREAMS AND VISION3.
De3caites, after a lorg retirement,
was followed by an luvls.bie peison who
urged him to pursue his investigations
after the truth. Goethe was sure of
having perceived the Image of himself
coming to meet him. Goethe's mother
died of an apoplectic attack. Cromwell
when at school had an hallucination In
his room; suddenly the curtains opened
and a woman of gigantic stature ap
peared to him, announcing his future
greatness. In the days of his power he
liked to recount this vision. Cromwell
had violent attacks of melancholic hu
mor; he spoke of his hypochondria. Hli
entire moral life .was moulded bv a
sickly and neuiopathical constitution,
which he had at birth. Rousseau was a
type of the melancholic temperament,
assuming sometimes the symptoms ot
a veritable pathetic Insanity.
Joan of Arc was a genuis by her In
trepid will; she had faith In her visions;
her faith rested upon the immovable
foundation of r.unr.eious hallucinations
having the force of moial and Intellect
ual Impulsion, making her superior to
those around her. Dr. MacDonald
thinks that science can pronounce to
her Inspirations, but Its judgment does
not diminish In the least the merit ot
her heroism. Mohammed was epileptic.
He persistently claimed to bs a messen
ger from God, receiving his first revela
tion at the age of 42. Henry Heine died
of a chronic disease of the spinal col
umn. Lotze was often melancholic,
Mollere suffered from convulsions; de
lay or derangement would throw him
Into convulsion. Mozait's musical tal
ent was revealed at 3 years of age; be
tween 4 and 6 he composed pieces with
expertness. Mozart died at 38 ot cere
bral hydropsy. He had a preaimtlmtnt
of his approaching end. He was subject
to fainting tits before and during the
composition of his famous "Requiem."
Chopin ordered by will that he be
burled In a gala costume, white cravat,
small Bhoes and short trousers. He
abandoned his wife, whom he loved, be
cause she offered another person a seat
before she offered It to him. Mme. d?
Stael died in a state of delirium, which
had lasted several days; according to
some authors, seveial months. The au
topsy showed a large quantity of cere
bral matter and a very thin cranium.
Moreau of Toui s says she had a ner
vous habit of rolling continually be
tween her fingers small strips of pap&r.
an ample provision of which was kept
on her mantleplece. She used oplu'n
immoderately. She had a singula" Idea
during her whole life; she was afraid
of being cold in the tomb; she desired
that she be enveloped In fur before
burial.
HALF CRAZY WRITERS.
The English men cf leiers who have
become insane, or have haUMclnations
and peculiarities sympotornatlc of In
sanity, are Swift, Johnson, Cowper
Southey, Shelley, Bryon. Goldsmith!
Lamb and Pone. Swift was also cruel
In conduct, but he was hardly respon
sible, as his Insanity was congentlal.
His parentlal uncle lost speech and
memoy and died Insane. Swift was
somewhat erratic and wild as a un
iversity student. Shelley when young
was strange and fond of musing alone,
and was called "Mad Shelley." He
suffered from somnambulism and
dreams, and was excitable and Impe
tuous. These symptoms tnceased with
age; at twenty he constantly took
laudanum for his nervous condition; he
had hallucinations: he saw a child rise
from the sea and clap its hands, a vis
Ion which was difficult to reason away.
Charles Lamb was confined In an In
sane asylum. Johnson was hypochon
diacal and apprehended Insanity, fan
cying himself seized with It; he had
convulsions, cramps, and a paralytic
seizure depriving him of speech; he had
hallucinations of hearing, Carlyle con
sidered Southey the most excitable
man cf his acquaintance. Southy's
mind failed and he became an Imbecile
and died; a year before his death he
was In a dreamy state, little conscious
of his surroundings. Southey wrote
verses before he was 8 years of age.
His maternal unsle was an Idiot and
died of apoplexy. The mother oi South
ey had paialysis. Cowper was attacked
with a melancholia at 20. which oej.
tinued a year; at another tlm.4 It re
turned with greater force.
Keats was an extremely emotional
child, passing from laug"', to tearg.
he was extremely n.S9;)nate. using
laudanum to caU-, hmsef: sometimes
he fell Into J8r,0ndency. He prophe
sied tru' oiat he would never have any
res until he reached the grave. Coler
luge was a nreccclous child, self-absorbed,
weakly, and mcrbld In Imag
ination; this morbidity was the cause
of his running away from home when a
child and from college when a student:
he enlisted as a scldler and again went
to Malta for no reason, permitting his
family to d'rvr.d upen charity. Alex
ander the C:eat had a neurosl3 of the
muscles of tho neck, attacking him
from birth and causlnr? his heed to
Incline constantly urorf his shoulders.
He died at the age cf 32. having all the
cymptcms cf r.cut delirium tremens.
His brcthor Arrchids was an idiot.
Do Balzac fHrncre) died of hypertro
phy cf th: hezrt. a disease that can
predispose one to cerebral congestion.
The eccentricity cf his Ideas are well
known. Lamartlne says he had pecu
liar nottons about everything: was in
contradiction with the common sense
of "this lower world." His father was
33 peculiar. Lord Chatham did not do
things as others. He was mysterious
and violent, indolent and active. Im
perious and charming. Pope was rick
ety. Lord Byron was scrofulous and
rachitic and club-foot?d. Sometimes
he imagined that he was visited by a
ghost. Thl he attributed to the river
excitability of his brain. H? was born
It) convulsions. Lord Dudley had the
conviction that Byron was Insane. The
Duke of Wellington died of an apop
lectic attack. Napoleon I. had a bent
back, an Involuntary movement of the
right shoulder, and at the tame time
another movement of the mouth from
left to right. When In anger, according
to his own expression, he looked like a
hurricane.
WHITHER DO WE DKIFTt
The Bicycle Mmy I'pset All Oar Old
. Kocial Castoas.
At a recent widely-advertised anil
fashionable affair, for "sweet charity's
ake," for which society waa pleased
to stand sponsor, and attended, sold
flowers, poured tea and mad itself use
ful for once, there appeared over th
door the sign: "Bicycles checked."
Dear me! This sets one to thinking,
says a writer in the New York Even
ing Telegram. Where are we drifting?
What will be the function ot the future T
Will we be forced. In time, to witness
Gussle Knickerbocker leading a cotillon
at Sherry's on opening an assembly ball
with Miss Murray-Hill in bicycle cos
tumes? Instead of leaning gracefully at tha
door of her trap, "saying goodnight
again soft and low," while she nestle
back in her sortie de bal, will be assist
her to her wheel?
Instead of her chaperon ending hi
pretty adieus by the magic word
"home" to the footman, will hi speech
es be cut short by a sharp clang of th
bell, leaving him standing with uncov
ered head as he watches her falry-lik
form disappear between th row of
lamposts?
Will there be morning, afternoon ant
evening cycling costumes?
Will it be bad form to be seen on th
drive tn the afternoon with tan shoes,
or In the morning with a Sail bicycle
hat?
Dear me! These are question t
puzzle over, and only the twentieth
century girl can answer them.
JtT TO ALL.
If the policy of Protection Is not to be
just In its application, and national In it
scope, baaed upon broad principle, then
the sooner it is relinquished the better.
It cannot be sustained, and ought not to
be, for one class or Interest or section,
and denied to others equally within th
contemplation of Its purpose. Th raw
materials class have right which cannot
be ignored. Those who think otherwise,
forget that the advanced product is only
the manipulation ot the less advanced,
and the less advanced of th still is
finished product, 'with 'human, labor a
the chief factor In ell: and PnWntloa,
upon the one cannot be successfully aad
peirnaneotly maintained without Pro
tection of the other. Hon. William Mc-
Klnley.
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Maude Does she show It?
Clara I should say so. You ought t
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