Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1897 — Page 2

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JEFFERSON’S INAUGURATION The Story That He Rode on Horseback Unattended Was a Fake. No inauguration myth has been more tenacious of life than that which pictured Jefferson, attired as a plain citizen, riding on horseback to the capitol, hitching his horse to the palings and walking unattended into the senate chamber to take the oath as president. To have done this would have been in accordance with his previous utterances, for he had strongly condemned as savoring of monarchy all public ceremony at the swearing in of a president. When the time for his own inauguration arrived, however, the case seems to have looked different to him. Whether it was because he was to be the first president inaugurated at the new capital, or because of an unwillingness to disappoint the large numbers of his friends and partisans who had assembled to honor him, is not clear, but the fact is that he did permit a considerable display at the ceremonies. He was met at the door of his boarding house, which was only a stone’s throw from the capital, by a militia artillery company and a procession of citizens, and, escorted by these, he went on foot to the capitol. The horseback story, or “fake,” as it would be denominated in modern journalism, was the invention of an Englishman named John Davis, who put it in a book of American travels which he published in London two years later. In order to give it an air of truthfulness, Davis declared that he was present at the inauguration, which was not true. A veracious account of the ceremonies was sent to England by Edward Thornton, who was then in charge of the British legation at Washington, and in this Jefferson was described as having walked to the capitol. These facts, together with a great mass of interesting matter about Jefferson’s inauguration, are set forth in detail by Henry Adams in his “History of the United States ” and leave no doubt that the Davis version was a pure fabrication.—Joseph B. Bishop in Century. THE PRESIDENT’S MAIL. He Receives as Many as Eight Hundred Letters Per Day. “As many as 800 letters in one day are received at the White House, but comparatively few of these, only the most important ones, reach the president, for if he dealt personally with all his correspondents he could do nothing else,” writes ex-President Harrison, telling, in The Ladies’ Home Journal, of “A Day With the President at His Desk.” “Very many of the letters addressed to the president,” he adds, “are trivial, not a few of them impertinent, and some of them angry and threatening. These, if the private secretary is a judicious man, the president never hears of, and the malicious intent of the writer is thwarted. The requests for autographs are scarcely numerable. Patches for bedquilts and lunch cloths add to the burden. Begging letters, for number, take the second place in the president’s mail. They come from every part of the land and relate to every possible subject. Some appeals to aid the writer to get an education, or to pay off a mortgage, or to buy a piano or a pony, and no form of public appeal is absent — to aid the building of churches, to endow schools, to build monuments, and to aid every other good purpose for which men or women or children associate themselves. On one day the requests for specific sums aggregated $9,000. These appeals are unavailing in the nature of things, and self respect ought to restrain the practice. ’ ’ ( Nelson’s Last Entry In His Diary. Captain Alfred T. Mahan writes on Nelson’s engagements for The Century and relates the following anecdote of the great admiral: The admiral in person, accompanied by the train of frigate captains, inspected the Victory and her preparations throughout all decks, ample time for the tour being permitted by the slowness of the advance. At Ila. m. he was in his cabin, where the signal lieutenant, entering to prefer a request of a personal nature, found him upon his knees, writing, and it is believed that the following words, with which his private diary closes, were then “May the great God whom T worsliip grant to my country, an( for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may noViscouduct in any one tarnish it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet. For myself individually, I commit my life to him W’ho made me, and may his blessing light upon my endeavors for serving my country faithfully. To him I .resign myself and the just cause which is' intrusted to me' to defend. Amen, amen, amen. ” The Proofl She—Are you sure that it was a year ago today that we became engaged, dear? He—Yes. I looked it up in my check-, book this morning.—Pearson’s Weekly. — New and original designs for ornaments, patterns, prints, pictures to be printed, cast, woven or otherwise worked in or on an article to be manufactured may be patented.

ODD CHARACTERS. Some of the People Who Seek Fame Through Uncommon Channels. “I think if all the cranks iu this country were corralled,” remarked the clerk i in the treasury department, “and put I under a shed somewhere it would require one bigger than all the buildings at the World’s fair.” * * Would t here really be anybody to do the corralling?” inquired a pessimistic old party, who thinks there is none good —no, not one. i “As I was saying,” continued the treasury clerk, ‘ ‘it would take the biggest shad on earth, and still there is a new kind. This time it is a man or woman who has been sending in 10 cents at a time as a contribution to the conscience fund, with a name signed in full, and there is no such name on the treasury books and never has been. I suppose it is merely some crank who thinks he or she will get that name in the papers and have that much fame out of it.” "That’s silly enough,” chipped in a postoffice inspector, ‘ ‘but I heard of the oddest chap on my last trip down south. You may not know, or, if you do, don’t pay much attention to the fact, that there is a fine of flO for sending written matter through the mails under any rate except 2 cents an ounce. Very likely you have sent enough stuff written on papers, books and so on to bankrupt you if you bad the fines to pay, but Uncle Sam is easy, and I don’t know of a case where anybody ever had to pay the fine. In this instance a man came into a certain office down south and gave the postmaster SSOO, being the amount of fines he owed the government for violation of postage laws as far as he could recall them. He was a young man, and he stated that he had violated the law while in love with a girl to whom he sent papers and books occasionally, and, though he wrote to her every day, he couldn’t let the others go without writing something on them. The postmaster didn’t know how to act in the premises, and just what he would have done finally nobody knows, but the next day the young man’s father came to the postmaster and told him that his son had been jilted by his sweetheart, and it had crazed him. This was an explanation which satisfied the official, and the money was returned. ” “Ugh!” grunted the pessimistic old party, in no wise affected by the pathot of the little story. “Only a crazy person or an idiot would ever think of settling square with Uncle Sam for a little bunko game like that.”—Washington Star. MARCH HAS ITS VIOLETS. And There Is a Bright and Cheerful Side to Everything. Edward W. Bok, under the title of “The Odor cf Spring Violets,” writes most forcibly in The Ladies’ Home Journal on the theme that there is a bright side to everything—even to March, the most disagreeable month of the year, for it has its spring violets. “It is true,” he writes, “that it is difficult sometimes to see the bright side of sorrow, sickness and death. And yet there is distinctly a bright side. No sorrow comes to us without a reason. We never know cur friends until sorrow or illness comes to us. We never know what loving kindness and thoughtfulness mean until we stand in need of them, and our hearts seem to beat against the walls of a cold, merciless world. We learn something from every grief and from each pain which comes to us. We learn to distinguish between friends, and what more priceless possession is there in the whole range of knowledge than this? What develops us more than trouble? Virtues of heart, which we never dreamed of as existing within us, reveal themselves when we are sorely tried. That is why sorrow and trials are given us—not to give pain, but to develop us, to bette« equip us for something unknown which lies in the future, and which we could not meet or understand unless we had first gone through certain experiences. “We are far too apt to regard actual blessings as calamities, to look upon the dark side of things. Some sorrow comes to us, and we rebel. It never occurs to us that perhaps we need the experience which sorrow alone can give. Illness comes, and We fret. But we can not always be well. Ailments are very often given to us to make our appreciation of goodjiealth the keener. God has an aim, a direct purpose, in everything he does. His blessings come in different forms. Nor “are these forms always such as we would choose. Lessons can be niore effectively taught in innumerable cases thropgh sorrow than through pleasure. We should never know what a pure, beautiful color white is if we did not have black to bring out the contrast. We want only pleasure in our lives. When sorrow comes, we rebel and refuse to recognize it for what it so often is—a blessing in disguise. We cannot always have it June. There must be March. Yet March has its spring violets. ” i 41 ~ “We heard some of the strangest, most outlandish things last night,” began the woman who gossips. “Yes,” replied the woman who doesn’t, “so a friend who attended your musigalfi.usaa.telliix me. Exchange.

' HALLUCINATIONS. 6OME OF THE CURIOUS EXAMPLES RECORDED IN HISTORY. file Lives es Many GrenA Men Have Been Influenced by Visions—Frequently They Have Been Prophetic; at Other Times They Have Caused Tragedies. The importance of the part played by dominant hallucinations iu tho history of tho world can scarcely be overrated. Julius Cmsar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Socrates, Lqther, Ignatius Loyola, are but a few of the great men whoso lives wero intimately entwined with ruling delusions. In these cases the illusions seem to have been persistent and not to have been produced by any voluntary effort on the part of the seer. On the other hand, Talma could walk on to the stage and after staring at the brilliant and applauding audience for a few seconds, would see nothing but rows of'grinning skeletons. In this he seems to have forestalled Herr Roentgen, for the skeletons were in the exact positions of the members of the audience and changed their postures with every variation of their positions. It was to this grisly “house” that the great actor delivered some of his grandest histrionic efforts. Goethe, as might be expected, called up pleasanter and more peaceful visions. At will he could see a flower in the center of his visual field. He thus described it: ‘ ‘This flower does not for a moment preserve its form; it is generally decomposed, and from its interior are born other flowers with colored, or sometimes green, petals. These are not natural flowers, but fantastic, nevertheless regular, figures, such as the roses of sculptors. ” I The capacity for thus producing at will a lovely object had, however, the disadvantage described by Abercrombie in his famous “Inquiry Concerning the Intellectual Powers,” that they were not as a rule dismissible at pleasure, j Blake, after studying a model seated in a chair, could continue seeing her clearly - when the chair was empty. This must I have been an economical way of hiring ■ a subject by the hour and would be an ( acceptable talent in these days of highly feed models. The ghastly case described . by Sir Walter Scott of the man who knew that he was dying, and knew equally well that there was nothing whatever the matter with him, is perhaps too familiar to need more than passing mention. The black cat that this luckless man saw was, to use his own words, “no household cat, but a bubble of the elements which has no existence.” This animal was as complex in form as the seer’s metaphor, for it would turn suddenly into a court j usher, and the usher in his turn would become a skeleton. This man showed no symptoms of insanity and was fully aware of the unreality of what he saw, which must greatly have added to the persistent misery of his condition. An old gentleman described by the late Dr. Elam had a power of conjuring up, often without voluntary effort, two or more charming dancing girls, and the antics of these nymphs continued until sleep came to the rescue. The old fellow was of a particularly pious and proper turn of mind, so that their gratuitous ballet was presumably wasted on him. Nicolai of Berlin, a very level headed ' savant, was troubled for two months . < with the vision of a corpse. The hallu- < cination lasted as a rule exactly eight 1 ; minutes, and the body was apparently , j always steady at a uniform distance of ■ ; about ten feet from the observer. I,

This trouble supervened suddenly after a violent quarrel in which Nicolai had been engaged. Ultimately the corpse and all the poor man’s other delusions were driven back to their own sphere by the prosaic attacks of leeches on the temples. This treatment was also most effective in dispelling the visions of a certain clergyman in Hampshire late in the last century. He habitually engaged in personal encounters with the devil, until the leeches drove the foul fiend out of his visual field. Dr. Bostock, the psychologist, saw the heads of his friends “in relief, like medallions.” Curiously enough, he could never conjure up their bodies. The great Napoleon was, as is generally known, invariably attended by a star. This story was implicitly believed at the time, and it is said to have been first related by General Rapp, who, on visiting the monarch’s tent at night, found Bonaparte excitedly pointing to a corner of the tent, crying: “Do you see that —my star? It is shining there before you!” At the period of the reformation wrestling with the evil one in propria persona was by no means an uncommon exercise. Luther several times indulged in these combats. Mr. Lecky tells us of the young monk who rushed up to Sts. Pachonius and Palaemon in the desert and told them excitedly of the beautiful woman who had tempted him in his cell and, “having worked her purpose,” bad vanished miraculously in the air, leaving him half dead upon the groumj. The story goes on to say that the young monk, ‘ ‘with a wild shriek, broke away from his saintly listeners * * * and rushed across the desert till he arrived at the next village and there leaped into the open furnace of the public baths and perished in the flames.” Cazotte was reported to have habitually dreamed with his eyes open, so that at the dinner party when he suddenly said that he saw Condorcet, who was one of the guests, in prison and taking poison to avoid the headsman’s ax nobody paid much attention. The event, however, happened within two years under the precise circumstances described. —London Standard. The New Yorker of the present day Jg inclined to smile when he reads that on the Fourth of July, 1795, the parade of soldiers in that city numbered 900 jnen. Their route was from the Battery up Broadway to the new Presbyterian church, where the Declaration of Independence was read by Edward Livingston.

-I AM EO GLAD YOU OAM E/* Pr«##te« my hss4. brt rtamMtns M my name, ••I mi •• start yea some," abe mid and ■railed. Thea turned te ssert her ether gnerta, wbe tied Part where eke Mood, Mr la her trended frame Os palme and flowers. Aad still she spoke ttrt Mme Sweet, unmeant phrases to tbs chattering rout I Os well clad drones who compassed her about. And as I listened the remembrance came Os mother eyes that looked at mo through tears, And mother arms, so eager to Infold The wayward child she never ceased to hold Near to her heart through lonely months and years, And mother lips, too tremulous to frame Those silly words, “I am so glnd you camo!” —J. L. Heaton in “Tho Quilting Bee." IN A LONDON THEATER. A First Night as Seen by the Artist C. D. Gibson., A London audience is brilliant. Every one is in evening dress, and the audience is often more entertaining than the play. This is especially true on a first night. At such times the pit is watched most anxiously by tho management, as the success of the piece generally depends on its verdict. It has often occurred to me, when I have seen people on a stormy night forming aline on the pavement outside the pit entrance, taking it all seriously enough to stand there for hours before the doors were opened, that by letting them inside, the management might improve their spirits and they in their turn might be more gentle. And it has also occurred to me when I have seen a stout man standing in the aisle fumbling for a sixpence or a shilling in pockets that probably only contain a bank note and a goldpiece that the management might further improv# the spirits cf its audience by doing away with women ushers, and by selling the programme at the same time it sells the seat, for it is hardly fair to the first act of a play to make it over come the fretfulness caused by annoying attendants before it can hope to amuse. But the second act is sure to have a fair start, and if the play isgqodfrom there on it will have no reason to complain of the audience.—C. D. Gibson in Scribner’s.

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