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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, .TUNE 28, 1908
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BY JOHX S. HARWOOD.
THEIR HONORS, our Mayors of our
large municipalities. many of
whom will doubtless play impor
tant parts in the impending Presiden
tial campaign, number among them
some interesting and picturesque char
acters. Not the least Rifted In these respects
is Tom I. Johnson, beloved of the
Cleveland voters because of his 3-cent
traction views, and sharing with
George B. McClellan. of Now York, the
distinction of being the best known of
the country's Mayors. Brand Whit
lock's fame is commensurately larger
than the city of which he is chief ex
ecutive Toledo. In Boston George A.
Hihbard, the first Republican Mayor of
the Hub in years, has stirred up the
politicians mightily and is gaining a
National reputation as a business re
form Mayor by trimming the . city's
budget hundreds of thousands of dol
lars and doing other equally astonish
ing things.
After Kugene V. Schmltz, San Fran
cisco is having its affairs directed by
a man who started in life as a country
printer and has for years been one
of the 'Pacific Coast's leading physi
cians, educators and llterateurs Ed
ward R. Taylor. In Fred A. Busse the
metropolis of the Great Lakes has its
first Republican Mayor in a long time;
and in him, too. It has a Mayor who
has been in politics since he was of
age and who knows the game from the
ward division up. Besides having
gained wide notoriety by his strictures
on President Roosevelt, John E. Rey
burn, Philadelphia's chief executive, is
famed among sportsmen as having
been a member of the first four-oared
racing crew to use the new common
sliding stroke. That was back in the
sixties.
Not the least interesting experiences
in t lie career of Charles A. Book
waiter, Mayor of Indianapolis, the
home city of Vice-President Fairbanks,
were gained when he was "bumming"
about the country in freight' cars.
Jajnes C. Dahlman, Mayor of Omaha,
and close friend of W. J. Bryan, is as
expert a cowboy as ever left a high
pommeled saddle for the city. As for
Leopold Markbreit, of Cincinnati, he
who got. the country's ear not long
ago when he asked his City Council to
prohibit women running automobiles
in Cincinnati, on the ground that they
are fitted only to run sewing machines,
the Civil AVar chapter of his life was
prii-ilcally one continuous thrill from
l)e:;inninr to end. And thus the list
might be continued at much greater
length.
Markbreit, the Deserter.
Mayor Markbreit is one of the com
paratively few chief executives of our
larger municipalities who was born
abroad. James N. Adam, of Buffalo, is
another, but while Mr. Adam did not
leave 'his native Scotland for America
until 1S72, when he was 30, Mavor
Markbreit left Austria when he was a
boy. By the time the Civil War broke
out young Markbreit was in the law
office of Rutherford B. Hayes, after
ward President. Referring to this part
of Mayor Markbreit's career. Presi
dent McKinley, who knew Markbreit
well, once said:
"Hayes entered the service in 1S61 and
left Markbreit to take care of the office,
and Markbreit sacredly promised to do
so. At the battle of Carnifex Ferry
Hayes saw at some distance young
Markbreit approaching at the head of a
company. The latter was a striking lig
ure, handsome and soldierly in his bear--ins.
Hayes expressed great surprise to
find that the young man whom he had
left in Cincinnati should thus early have
deserted the oftice and come to the
front."
Marjibrett entered the Twenty-eighth
Ohio Infantry as a Sergeant. His brav
ery soon won for him a Captaincy, and
some time before December of 18fi3, when
he became a prisoner of war, he had
been made Adjutant-General to General
Averell.
"At the time 1 was captured." Mayor
Markbreit told me recently, "we were
making a raid in Southwestern Virginia,
and I had been overcome with illness.
The Confedcrale General, W. H. Jack
son, succeeded by an attack from the
rear in Cutting off a portion of our col
umn, thereby capturing about one hun
dred officers and men anci the ambu
lance's and the train. General Jackson
tent the greater part of his prisoners to
Richmond, but I was sent on to Warm
Springs to await the possible favorable
outcome of Special negotiations under
which 1 was to be exchanged through the
offices of General Jackson, whose com
mand I had frequently fought against.
Hut this order was countermanded and
I was sent on to Libby prison.
In Libby Prison.
"Within six months 1 and six other
Union officers were held as hostages or
pledges that a number of Confederate
officers would not be executed by the
North. These Confederates had been
captured within our lines recruiting in
Kentucky, and when captured wore the
L'nion uniform. They were convicted as
spies and ordered executed, but after
months of endeavor and on the plea of
the wife of Senator George H. Pendleton,
the sentence was suspended by Presi
dent Lincoln." '
Tlie first five months of Captain Mark
breit's experiences as a hostage, which
continued until a short time before his
release as a prisoner of war in February
of '63, were spent in one of the famous
six-by-ten-feet underground cells of Lib
by prison. The Captain and his fellow
hostages suffered greatly from foul air
mill lack of proper and sufficient food
ti.ey received- but one meal a day but
their greatest suffering came from an
other source. "Every now and then,"
the Mayor told me, "a rumor would reach
us of an exchange to le made, hut this
was soon followed by denial. Thus we
were treated to nl! the horrors of alter
nate hope and despair.
"When there was more need of soldiers
at the front." the Mayor continued, "our
Confederate guards would be substituted
by citizens. By the way they called out
wk could tell what was the nationality,
and when the suard was a German I
would talk to him. If he seemed friendly
we would get him to give us something
to read or a scrap to cat. Thus these
good guards kept us alive.
"When we. first entered the cells they
were tilled with rats. These our negro
attendants would catch and cook for us
to eat. We were glad to get them. These
negroes, too, would smuggle notes for us
to the prisoners above, and they in turn
would get the messages out and on to
our friends in the North. Some of thess
letters of mine have been printed In the
official records of the United States."
The hardship that war brought to
Markbreit and his fellow-hostages finally
undermined their health, and on the ad
vice of the physician who attended them
they were transferred to the Confederate
prison at Salisbury. N. C. Before this
transfer took place Captain Markbreit
had become so weak that the only way
he could get upstairs was to crawl on all
fours. Ho. and his fellow-hostages re
mained at Salisbury until rumors of an
outbreak among the Union prisoners
there at the time close on to 10.000
caused them to be taken back to Libby
prison. . ,
About two weeks before lie was re
leased Captain Markbreit was made an
assistant to General flays, of Boston, a
Union .officer and a prisoner, who had
been detailed to distribute among his
fellow prisoners donations of food and
supplies -sent to them by their friends
and families and by the Federal Govern
ment. "Then I got word that I was ex
changed," went on the Major. "Once
outside the prison walls I could hardly
realize the freedom I was to enjoy.
I saw the flag of our country only to
break into tears, and when the men of
bur Army came closer, and I could see
the uniform again I cried like a child.
1 was in rags: I got a suit of clothes
and pitched the rags into the James
River.
"One of the interesting little, incidents
of my war experiences occurred while we
were prisoners at Danville. Va. I was
suffering dreadfully with the toothache.
Our guard gave me permission to visit a
dentist and have the tooth extracted, but
as I had no presentable clothes of my own
my fellow prisoners contributed various
articlas of raiment, that I might appear
on the streets. After the molar was pulled
I was taken to a drugstore by the guard,
hut the clerk refused to sell me anything
because I was a Northern man.
"Of course, all that befell me as a
hostage was the result of war and the
passions born of it. The war has been
over many years, the country is united,
and I cannot find it in my heart to cher
ish resentment toward any one for the
hardships I was compelled to undergo
while a prisoner."
Captain Markbreit became Mayor of
Cincinnati last year. Since Civil War days
he has been one of the Queen City's big
men. As president and manager of the
Volksblalt of that city he has exercised
a wide influence in civic and state affairs.
Besides holding various city offices he was
Minister to Bolivia in the early '70s. and
immediately after leaving this position he
traveled extensively through South Amer
ica on a business mission. As a musical
and dramatic critic he is ranked among
the best in the Middle West, 'and one of
his recreations is the encouragement and
promotion of these arts.
Just as Ijeopold Markbreit is represen
tative of the foreigii-born Americans who
fought for the Union by the tens of thou
sands In 'Kl-'e.'i. so Charles A. Bookwalter,
Mayor of Indianapolis, is representative
of the comparatively young men in May
oralty and other high positions in tills
country who have fought their own way
into the public eye.
Bookwalter, the Fighter.
Mr. Bookwalter began his earthly ex
periences 48 years ago in a rude Wabash
County (Ind.) farmhouse that was not
overly comfortable. Until he was S years
old he lived on the farm: then the family
moved to Fort Wayne and the boy was
put into the public school. Two birthdays
later found him working for a living and
attending school between the hours of
labor.
He began his business career by carry
ing newspapers, having a morning route
which got him out of bed at 4 o'clock and
an evening route which made 8 o'clock
supper necessary. After three years of
this combination of work and study young
Bookwalter gave up the educational part
of it and got a job as printer's "devil."
He carried forms, mixed ink and did the
thousand and one things that an appren
tice in the old-fashioned print shops had
to do. Incidentally he learned to set type
and developed into a first-class compos
itor. He still holds membership in the
Fort Wayne typographical union.
As the days of his apprenticeship
were Hearing an end the printing busi
ness commenced to go to pot, so Book
waiter decided to complete his course
of study with a period of travel. He
had no money for expenses, but he
found freight conductors easy if not
accommodating. For a year and a half
he "bummed" from one state in the
West to an other, filling odd jobs here
and there and gaining an experience
which he row declares is his most
valuable asset in life.
Ill health, however, finally drove him
back to Fort Wayne, and, thinking that
outdoor life might prove beneficial,
Bookwalter got a job with the Wabash
Railroad Company, as locomotive fire
man. This he held for more than two
years, running between Fort Wayne
and Toledo. In 1SS4 the company's di
vision was changed from Fort Wayne
to Andrews, so he gave up firing and
drifted back Into the printing business.
The Fort -Wayne Gazette, the paper
which he carried as a lad, and the one
on which he. had served his appren
ticeship, needed a foreman, and gave
Bookwalter the job.
After two years as a foreman he
was offered the city editor's desk on
the Gazette. This was a new field of
activity for Bookwalter. as all his ex
perience had been in the mechanical
department of a newspaper, but ne ac
cepted the position, made good, and in
cidentally became acquainted with the
politicians of Allen County. Then the
Republicans and labor unions of Allen
and Huntington Counties united in
nominating Bookwalter for the State
Senate. He missed election by 1S2
votes In a district which was Demo
cratic to the core.
Mr. Bookwalter's first political plum
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dropped Into his lap in 1SS7. He was
then 27 years of ase. He was appoint
ed clerk of the State Printing- Board
and hl.i position brought him to Indianapolis-,
where ho immediately got
into the iwirl of state politics. When
Indiana went Democratic in 1S92. Book
waiter became jobless, so he entered
the real estate business. With several
others, he opened up a new tract of
land which then was regarded as the
country, but which now comprises the
best residence section of the city. His
venture netted him more money than
he probably had ever seen before. In
1893 fie was made secretary of tlie
Republican City Committee, and in 1901
he was nominated by his p:trty ror
Mayor. He won the election- by more
than 1600 votes. He was defeated In
1903 by John W. Holtzman, Democrat,
but re-elected In 1905 for a four years'
term.
Bookwalter is a flgrhter. TTn gives no
quarter and asks none. .What he has
today and all In: ever had was acquired
through fighting;. He is affable and
likeable and has a politician's way of
making, frjends. As a candidate ne
manages nis own campaign, and he is
the head and tail of nis own organiza
tion. As a campaign speaker he is In
great demand in Indiana.
Taylor, the Scholar.
One of the country's two most prom
inent reform Mayors at the present
time Edward R. Taylor, of San Fran.
tlsco is a former newspaper worker.
So also Is Mayor iicciellan. of New
York, who started as a reporter after
he graduated from Princeton in 1SS6.
Before he became treasurer of the
Brooklyn Bridge in 1SS9 he had filled
several editorial positions on the met
ropolitan dailies.
Mayor Taylor, with his 69 years the
dean among the more prominent munici
pal Chief Bxecutlves. was 24 when he
quit the office of the Booneville (Mo.)
Observer, in which he had worked as
an apprentice, and become managing ed
itor, and left for California. Here lie
took, first, his degree in medicine, then
his degree in law. Today he is vice
president of a medical college that was
largely founded through his instrumen
tality, and dean of a college of law. As
a worker for civic betterment he has
been famous for upwards of a quarter
of a century on the Coast, where his
first job was that of clerk on a steam
boat plying between San Francisco and
Sacramento; he went West when a vic
vlm of the gold fever.
Dr. Taylor Is distinctly a bookish
man. After his retirement from active
law practice and until he was chosen
to fill the post made vacant by the
deposition of Eugene V. Schmitz. he
spent practically all his waking hours
in his library and the bookshops of San
Francisco. He had not the least inti
mation that the men who had ousted
S hmitz were considering him for the
Mayoralty. When the summons came to
him to head the city government he was
found browsing around in one of his fa
vorite bookshops, and it was with a sigh
of regret that he left the dust-covered
volumes for the Mayor's office.
Though he has won a fortune through
law; though he Is esteemed by Western
educators as one of that section's pa
trons of education:- though the medical
men of the Coast look upon him as one
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of their leaders; and though pretty much
all of San Francisco is proud of his rec
ord as a reform Mayor, Dr. Taylor him
self is perhaps proudest of his position
as translator of the sonnets of Jose de
Heredia, a Cuban -born poet, who was a
member of the noted group of Parisian
authors who revolved around Victor Hu
go. These translations by Dr. Taylor
published privately have given him an
enviable reputation as . a litterateur
among the really critical of things lit
erary. In 1S70, while he was still private sec
retary to Governor Haight, of California.
Dr. Taylor married into the Stanford
family. Following the foundation of the
Leland Stanford. Jr., University he -was
a trustee of that institution, and until
a disagreement with Mrs. Stanford
caused him to resign from th5 board, hLs
was an influential voice in the affairs of
the university. Thoiwrh a Democrat in
National politics. Dr. Taylor has not
voted a straight municipal ticket in 45
years, and so comes pretty near being
the Coast's original independent voter.
San Franciscans generally were aware
of this fact when Dr. Taylor was up for
election as Mayor last Fall; it assured
them that he was thoroughly independ
ent in civic matters, and it doubtless had
something to do with securing him his
triumphant election.
Hlbbaitl of Boston.
In private life George A. Hibbard, who
Is trying to give his jnative city of Boston
a non-partisan business administration,
is treasurer of a corporation of tailors.
In politics he ifi a Republican, but since
he has become Mayor he has given as
cold comfort to the politicians of his
own party as to those of the opposite
faith.
A Republican: politician himself since
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ho attained his majority. Mayor Hibbard
at one time was chairman of the Repub
lican city committee of Boston and con
ducted a successful Mayoralty campaign.
As a member of the Massachusetts leg
islature he was regarded as a partisan
of partisans. He was serving his second
term as Postmaster of The Hub when
the politicians of his party, in their des
perate hunt for a man willing to stand
up against Mayor John P. Fitzgerald.
Democrat, up for re-election, turned to
Hibbard.
Mayor Fitzgerald's administration had
been denounced widely by his opponents
as wasteful and extravagant. Hibbard
seized on this cry. promised in his
speeches that if elected he would do all
in his power to remedy abuses, and
thereby got himself elected in a hotly
waged three-cornered campaign, the tri
angle being completed by the Indepen
dence party.
As soon as Hibbard was sworn in as
Mayor. the place-hunters naturall.v
swarmed down upon him. There was
nothing doing except straight talk by
the new Mayor to the effect that he had
promised the voters a business adminis
tration, and he intended to stick to his
word. To make matters worse, the
Mayor soon began to lop off hundreds of
thousands of dollars from the budget
and hundreds of names from the pay
rolls, and otherwise reduce the running
expenses of the city. Th programme
he has continued down to the present
day he has now been Mayor for half a
year and as a result the ward politi
cians of the Mayor's own party are let
ting him go it severely alone these days.
Mayor Hibbard Is a representative Bos
ton product. Born there 43 years ago.
he received his entire school education
In Boston, and all his business life has
been spent in that city. To him Boston
is the country's hub in fact as well as
In nickname, and his friends say that his
pride in his city has had much to do
with his determination to stick to his
campaign promises to give it a business
Administration, as far as in his power
lies.
Busse of Chicago.
Fred A. Busse. Mayor of Chicago, like
Hibbard, was Postmaster of his city
when he was nominated by the Republi
cans to make the Mayoralty race against
Mayor Dunne, Democrat, up for re-election..
Busse. too, has been a politician
since he attained his majority, and he
also Is a native product of the city whose
government he heads.
In many respects Busse has the distin
guishing and picturesque traits of the
old-school politician. He knows person
ally all "the boys' in the part of the
city four wards which he controls ab
solutely as a member of the so-called
Republican oligarchy. He is not averse
to having "a good time" with them at
night when the cares of official life are
put aside; and hundreds of his constitu
ents could tell stories of the helpfulness
extended to them by Busse in their hours
of dire need, such as sickness or death
In the family. In his wide acquaintance
with, and paternal care of his constitu
ents, the Chicago Mayor compares fa
vorably with the average successful
Tammany Hal! district leader.
Busse got his' real start In business
through an act of kindness to an old
expressman, a neighbor. Shortly after
he had been befriended by Busse, then
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in the first vrars of manhood, the man's
body was disrovrcrl swinging from a
stable rnftor. In one of his coat porkets
was found his will. It read: "I want
Fmd Busse to have my hnrse and wag
on." Busse took the legacy all that the
old expressman possessed in the world
and started in the express business with
it. t-.Ht.or he developed this business into
the coal business now conducted under
his name. In a flat above his business
office the owner lives wiih his parents,
for he is a bachelor. His father, a vet
eran of the Civil War. came out of the
struggle a Captain.
In the mayoralty campaign which re
sulted in his election, Busse, unlike Hib
bard, did not make a single promise from
the stump, nor once appear in public. A
short time after Ids nomination lie was
injured in a railroad accident while re
turning to Chicago from Washington,
whither he had gone in the interests of
his postofflce. This mishap kept him
housed when finally he was able to roach
home, and so it came about that Chicago
was treated to the novelty of a Mayoralty
candidate practically living in seclusion
while the campaign was at white heat.
IJke Hihbard. of Boston, Busse served
in Ids state's legislature. There he was
a member of the Senatorial coterie whose
Insanity and Genius Much Alike
Ac-cord injr to l"renc-li Scientist tlie Dividing Line Is Dim. ;
ONE feature of nearly every import
ant murder trial nowadays in which
the defense rests on a pl?a of in
sanity is the presentation of expert med
ical testimony, pro and con, to show, first,
that the accused is insane, and, second,
that he isn't.
Newspaper readers who have closely fol
lowed the testimony taken at one of these
trials have learned a great deal about
different brands of insanity and their dis
tinguishing characteristics. It is even
possible that many readers with a reputa
tion for sanity have discovered that, if
the occasion arose, they could plead in
sanity, with' excellent prospects of being
able to prove it. too.
Still newer and even more important
light has just been thrown on the sub
ject of insanity and semi-insanity by
Dr. Joseph Grasset. professor of chem
ical medicine at the University of Mont
p?llier and a member of the French
Academy of Medicine, in a remarkable
book, entitled "The S -mi-in-sane and the
semi-irresponsible," which Dr. Smith Kly
Jeliffe, Ph. D.. professor of mental dis
eases at Fordham University. New York
City, has translated for publication in this
country.
iV- A careful study of Professor Grasset's
remarkable book on tlie "demi-fous' leads
to two very decided and consoling conclu
sions: First, that all great men are moro
or less insane, and. second, that it is
not such a very dreadful thing to belong
to the "demi-fous." after all.
No Distinguisln Line.
There is not. as Professor Grasset points
J out, any way in which to draw a distin
guishing line between sanity and insan
ity. The shades, or brands, of on" over
lap and are interwoven with the other to
such a degree that it is impossible to
show where the one ends and the other
begins. In other words, you, for instance,
can be both sane and insane at tlie same
time perfectly sane, on certain subjects,
hut Insane, or partly so, on at least one
other. There are so many brands of In
sanity that, fortunately, not all of us are
Insane on the same subject.
"Between calm, cold reason and a trans
port of passion." says Professor Grasset,
"between originality and eccentricity; be
tween nervousness and agitation, be
tween a person who Is slightly touched
and ona who is demented, there are all
degrees of transition, and it is impossi
ble to say where insanity begins."
Admitting for the moment, then, that
everybody is more or less insane, it is
not a question of just how Insane a per
son is, but of the particular brand of in
sanity he has Inherited or acquired.
Brands by (be Score.
The brands may be counted by th:
score. Some of them are of real value,
especially to a man of genius. Others
p. re useless, harmless, or detrimental, as
the case may be.
The erotomaniac, for instance, falls in
love. But that is not all. He may love
two sisters with equal love at the same
time, and no matter how hard he may
try, he cannot make up his mind which
to marry. It is Impossible for him to
bear the thought that either of the young
women he loves should become the wife
of another. He generally solves the prob
lem by giving them both up and marrying
a third.
The dipsomaniac, who must not hn
classed with the habitual drunkard, suf
fers from an affliction which impels him
to drink whenever an attack comes on.
Then there are the kleptomaniacs. Pro
fessor Grasset describes them as "sick
people, who are driven, in spite of them
selves, to take what does not belong to
them, just .as we have seen that the
dipsomaniacs are driven by an irresist
ible power to drink."
Among other brands of semi-insanfty
may be mentioned sitomania. pyromania.
monomania and megalomania. Then there
are other brands which are characterized
by Illusions, hallucinations, jealousy, con
ceit, boastfulness, rashness, inertness, im
approval of proposed legislation was nec
essary to make It stand any prospect of
enactment. Busse, too. has bo.i :i pnlitical
potver in his rity for y ars. Hi!b:!rd is
an out-and-out Vank.' : Busse's f;i t ! r
was born in itrmany. and ho h-.s many
of the pronovmei'd Traits of the Anuric;i:i
born of Oc-rinan ivirentage. He is prob
ably th "hefii- sf of the ip.rg.--city May
ors; bis avoirdupois win:ld ke p him from
annearing dwarfed in riie presener. oi
"William II. Tiift. w!:ose b;;!k is world
famous.
Reybiirn. Who l?atis Roosevelt.
John . Reyburn. like other recent May
ors of Philadelphia not a naiive. of that
city, has held cHic most I t'-,e time dur
ing the past ,';7 years by grace of the Bt--pubhean
macl-ino of Ins eiiy. yar after
lie was admitted to the bar d-T' he was
snt to th lower hous tt( t'r-:- Pennsylva
nia Leis'ai are. Wlien he w.is t"ld o.T to
run as l.iyor last year r;;M:ist the re
formers' tick1! hV a serving his 'steenth
term as a Na . t'mal R-presen;;it ive. and
he hai lived In Wash in rt on so I rem t hat
many of Hip Quaker City poliiVians. who
are supposed to know who's who in that
interesting neck o' the political woods
rubbed their eyes in as' u-nj-hm.'iit and
askd m ?ekly : "Who's It--y burn ?" In
like fashion t u-y asked four years
before: "'Who's Wr.c.-er?" they wtto
told t hat Keyhui n's prrdi cessor in tl-;
Mayorait y cha tr won hi iu- 1 pa rty's
candidate.
Mayor Rr yburn's athnini.i v.i' ion has
been marked mainly by (-.is piet nr. si hl
strictures of PresM::t Hocseveh. uttered
luost frequently when ti" late panic was
at Us height, and by M rs. Key burn's
campaign to head I'hihuh -lpnia's excbisivo
hot as thi Mayor's wile, and h Mice, the
lirst lady of the city. This campaign she
conducted from "north of Ma-U -t si-, et"
ordinarily an exivccui-zly weak strategic
position for the socially a mli idii.s in Phil
adelphia. But she made consider a hi 3
headway. iivert h'Mess. in her d termina
tion to lead society, for no; long ago s)n)
was allowed to l one of the cirtli host
esses at the Philadelphia Academy ex
hibit, an annual event that since in
crption has b en prt sidrd o' r only by
the city's socially eicct.
1 n sport in ar circles Mayor Key burn is
known as a member of the lirst four
oared boat crew to ns the sliding
stroke. Reybiirn took part in the famous
race wit li Annapolis t ha t re duth mi zed
boat racing the world over. P-ats weri
not huilt in thise fhiys witli sliding S"ats,
so the Philadelphia four used highly pol
ished mah.ogany seais and slid on th:'se
as they rowed. When the Annapolis crew
saw tlie work of the visitors tie. y liidckly
secured a cna'h. who taught titeni lie
sliding stroke, and th i:gh tie-y l;ad only
a few clays' pract iee at it t ley won tit-?
race. You se . Re lurn and his tom
panions greased t lieir mah oga ny sea t s
witli oil to make them more slippery. But
the Middies had the frot houaht to grease
with tallow, which does not combine with
sea water to make a sticky suhianco, as
docs oil: and so they siid btier tiiau R y
burn and his companions and vi-tory was
theirs.
Tlunigh he is now in his (lit h yea r.
Mayor Roy burn still retains a deep in
terest in sports of ail sorts, and lie at
tributes his power to do an . ctio: in ms
day's work to his life-long pa.rticipat ion
in them.--( 'opy right. It"1, by tlie Asso
ciated Biterary Press.)
pulsiveness, timidity and many tonus of
eccentricity.
Insanity of .Some Great Men
Professor Grasset cites t h cas-s of
many groat men of past and present tini-'S
whose brands of insanity were manifested
in various ways. Puscal. f'r histanc
"could not stand seeing water without
falling into a perfect tit of paVsum."
Then August' mte, who has ex. Tie. 1
a vast and lasting intlucncc on the phit
osophicH I posit hm of the savant s i .f f h"
nintef nt ctjit ury. "was midouiucdl v
semi-Insane when he was not wholly in
sane. He wrot" incoherent letters. YVhil"
he was taking a walk one day he waited
to drag his wife with him into 'he lake
d'Kngiiien. hiring his mr-als h would
try to drive I knife into the table,
would order the mii'trl'Mi hack of a pig
and recite hits of Horner."
Of Gorky. Professor Grasset writes that
he "made an attempt to commit suieidn
at the age of 1 a nd b-dongs to the
category of the : mi-insane who have
been termed vaun bonds or wnd-rtr:;."
Ma ti passant Saw His Double.
Guy de Maupassant .it rd insane. He hiid
often confessed to Paul r.ourg-t thai In
frequently saw Ins doable, la going into
his own room lie would see himself seated
upon Ids own sofa. The roots of his dis
ease "seme(J to be. confused with the
very qualities of his tal-M'-i." Yilieinain
had ideas of prseeiit ion. Jea n ,I:iemes
Roussefi ii was successively dock maker,
mountebank, music niasjer. painter and
sTvanl. and t hen followed tlie pa: hs of
medicine, music, theology, n?id botany.
He used to meditate mare headed in -the
sun at mid-dny. He fen in love at 11.
H' would suddenly depart from an inn.
leaving his trunk behind him.
Gerard de Nerval, the poijnVal writer
and poet, was suhiect to ha 1 1 net nations.
He would be found oti tlie s!i.'t corn"!
his hat in his hn nd. lost in a sort of
rctasy. Tn the Tui Merits H. saw the gold
fish in t he Ml; fount :n n put Ur.u: h it
heads out of the water tryins to emi-e
him to follow them to the botfon. The
Queen of Sheha was w a it ine for him,
he said. He was found at the P.i i: in
Royal dra gainer a live lobster alone: at
the end of a blue rih'i.in. lie tried to Vy
like the birds, and one day. at a moment,
in one of the streets rd Paris, when he
waited with iris arms spread out for his
soul to mount to a star, he was gathered
in by a similar mo "because lie had pre
pared for his ascension by t akin a off hfs
terrestrial garni "ii t s."
"Tlie Beamy of Lire.
Reaudelaire dyed his hair green. He ra
an epicure of odors, and ns:"d to say tii.it
his sold soared upon prfuin-s n iha
souls of (it her men soared up. on mm ie.
Ori day aftr throwing a t::iv -ling
glazier down stairs, and brei!;h::r every
pane of glass. 1 -aud"!aire rc; i mr d ; "The
beauty of life; t ne beauty of lifer Ho
declared brer that he evp-i iei"" d at
t hat moment an "i nihil! e jnv." ! o a us
he was not yet insane, at least not offi
cially so.
He I a f ood Faddist.
Chiraao c f
I p1 1 y htm, j' nor jv vv
Hp I -iok 3 mi . ery vplinw.
He see mis so very ihvi.
Pom- fefi" that has r.nr ri t ;on
Mmhr put 1: im in i-n:vl:f :ei,
Put fat beneath his ?kin
tt fes'-H a lurk in sr orit
In fverj thine not sf-!-i.
He hs his vf,tf iM't'.rd.
His food is di.-dnfe- tpH
j n inn as It's pe!erted-
And cenpequf nt J,y spedd,
Petatoes. ln-ots and nii!9?h'S
With j r.t iropt ir washep
He npvor fail? to tret.
Hp has a most f urpriying-
HoMiy of analyzing
The things lie means to cat.
It's nil so una vnili'-'ff.
His appetit is faliinc.
Hff health r- Mire tn break.
.A tLd yet h hus the to
Suppose le lias- a lal1 to
Warn me against my steak-
t