Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 51, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 June 1897 — Page 6

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HELPS AND HINDERS.

POLITICAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES r-F PUBLIC MEN.

A^tenec of Mind of John Sherman—Ir. Depew'» Keen Slemory—President McKlnley'ii Happy Faculty—The Late Senator Coke and Hit Peculiarities.

[Special Correspondence.]

WASHINGTON, June 14 —The secretary of state has been affording food for paragrapliers by his failure to recognise old friends who call on him at the department.

Recently be greeted as the sergeant-at-arms or the senate a former member of the house who had been one of bis warm political supporters and who thought himself on pleasant terms of intimacy with Mr. Sherman. At another time be greeted as a new acquaintance a man with whom he had served in the senate for several years just past.

The failure to recognize a man does not mean necessarily anything unpleasant, but the man who is not recognized is likely to take offense hence the ability to remember names and faces and to associate tbem becomes a valued asset of the politician.

No man in public life today has the faculty of remembering people as President McKinley has it. On the night of $he inaugural ball a newspaper man %to0had not met the president in four ytpfn said, "I supposo you don't remember where we last met, Mr. President?" "Oh, yes, I do," said Mr. McKinley. "It was on a train going from to and I remember you said And he quoted something the correspondent had said.

He remembered the circumstances better than the correspondent, to whose memory they were at first rather dim.

There is no danger that the president will fail to remember any of the men who wcro associated with him in congress. In fact, he remembers all the men who met him during the recent campaign, though few of tbem saw him more than once or twice.

Chauucey M. Depew has the same faculty. I don't know how President McKinley does, but Dr. Depew told me recently that ho exercises it on the plan of the teacher of mnemonics. He has not made a study of it. Its development was unconscious. But he remembers people and things on the principle of the memory systems, by associating them with their surroundings. "Two or three years hence," he said, "some-

TEX 4F»S CONFORM TO ETIQUETTE. thing may bring back to me what you have said, and I will know that you said it and picture you in that chair looking as you do now. "Our ChaunceyV Memory.

Dr. Depew says he never forgets anything ho reads, and ho reads a great deal. His retnarkabio memory not aloue cherishes choice stock of stories of assorted ages, but stores up quotations from the sayings of the great publicists and other history makers. Thus when he was summoned to h'ply to the Brooklyn speech of W. .T. Bryan in the last election he went over the speech and marked quotation from Beecher. There was a false note in the quotation. Somewhere, Dr. Depew kuew, he had read in Beecher's writings something like this quotation, yet different. But where? If he could demonstrate Bryan's argument false in one thing, he could prove it false in all. Mr. Depew's memory carried him to the book in which the sentence which Bryan had quoted incorrectly appeared. Then Dr. Depew went to Brooklyn and answered Bryan's argument.

Mr. Cleveland had a poor memory for names and faces, aud his faculty for forgetting men he had known in Buffalo was said by his old friends to be little short of marvelous. President Harrison could remember the record of an applicant for office clear back to his school days, and public men who went to him with recommendations were always surprised to find bow much he knew of their candidates. President Arthur could remember men if he wanted to. but he was not so democratic as President McKinley, and be did not care to remember many. Grant never forgot a friend.

Blaine's memory for faces was phenomenal. Whether he had seen a man once or ofteuer be was pretty sure to know him when they met again. Face* he always remembered, but names sometimes escaped him.

Statvftaien** W ay*.

When Algernon S. Paddock was a member of the senate from Nebraska, be had the reputation with the official reporters of speaking mon frequently than any othvr man on the floor. He spoke so*often and to so little effect usually that some of his colleagues gau to comment on it. and tbey came to the conclusion fiually that be was trying to get his name in The OJUgresaional Record every day. In fact, be evidently made eiwi for getting on bis f«t and addressing the chair, sometimes with

trivial questions, in a way that left little doubt that this was bis object. There are other senators and members of the house who like to see their names in The Record, and for that reason The Record has grown to be a volume of enormous bulk, and the sessions of congress, though long, show little practical result It is related of one member of the house that be never knew on what side of a question be was going to speak nntil he heard what he said. Another member, now happily retired to private life, who illustrated this tendency to fill time and gain a little advertising during the debates, was a man named O'Neill, who used to be at the head of the labor committee. One day a railroad bill was under discussion, and O'Neill went to the presiding officer and asked to be recognized in turn to make a speech. "On what side are you going to speak?" said the presiding officer. The speaker always keeps a list of those who have asked to be recognized and recognizes first one side of the question and tnen the other. "I don't know," said O'Neill. "Let me see. My town is a railroad center. I guess I'm on the side of the railroads in this matter. And as an advocate of the railroad side he was recognized.

In the brief speech which he made he used a story as an illustration, and a member of the present house, repeating it in the cloakroom a few days ago, said it seemed to apply to the present business situation in the United States. It was the story of two doctors who were consulting at the bedside of a man who was stricken with a very painful and apparently a very serious illness, and the regular family physician, unable to determine the exact nature of his complaint, had called another physician in consultation. The first doctor diagnosed the trouble as an affection of the kidneys. His brother practitioner was sure it was liver complaint. They argued the question, first in low tones, then louder and louder, until, forgetting the preseuce of their patient, one of them said, "I'll bet you $100 it is liver complaint, and the post mortem will show it."

The congressman said that present indications led to the belief that only a post mortem would show what was ailing the business of the United States, since the Democrats were sure Uncle Sam was suffering from currency complaint, aud the Republicans were equal ly certain it was affection of the tariff.

Due to a Llap.

The late Senator Coke of Texas was one of the most rugged looking men who ever sat in that body of statesmen. He had a head which looked as though it had been hewed out of a block of wood with a hatchet, and the bareness of the npper part of it was in strong contrast with the heaviness of the beard which hung from his chin. Mr. Coke's voice was a bellow, and yet, strange freak of nature, he had a decided lisp. Some men chop the air into chunks with their arms as they talk. Mr. Coke sawed out large blocks of atmosphere with his superabundant beard, and when he was excited the bellow of his voice could be heard nearly to the hall of the house of representatives. A few years ago the senate was considering some Texas election cases. A Republican committee had investigated charges of outrages at the polls. The Democrats in the senate vigorously repudiated the charges, and the report oi the committee of investigation was divided on party lines, the Republican majority finding that the charges were well ^rounded and the Democrats that they were without foundation.

Mr. Coke, as one of the senators from Texas, made the star speech against the majority report, and in the course oi his remarks he dwelt with great stress on the the evidence of three principal witnesses, oue of whom was named Schnetze. Mr. Coke's lisp made this name sound rather comical, and his col* leagues were showing some amusement at its constant repetition when the senator from Texas, growing furious as he approached his climax, hurled into the air a denunciation of Schuetze in these words, "Mr. Pwesident, I thay that that gentleman ith nothing but a dirty dog. The entire senate was convulsed with laughter, but it is doubtful if any one had the temerity to ask Mr. Coke tc explain how a gentleman could be a dirty dog or a dirty dog a gentleman.

Sent I'p Their Card*.

Senator Coke's experience with Washington manners gave him a knowledge of many of the customs of society, and one of them served to give point to a story about him which has been told, since the event occurred, about some other men. Members of the senate, however, say that Senator Coke was really the hero of the anecdote. Mr. Coke was visited one morning while be was dressing by a delegation of office seekers from Texas. They told the clerk of the hotel that they would "go right up to the old man's room," and tbey did, much to his discomfiture. When be opened the door, half dressed, at the sound of their knock, tbey filed in with noisy greetings. Boyth," said the senator, "you oughtn't to come up to a tbenator'th room like thith. We don't do tbingth that way in Wathington." "Why, what do you do in Washington?" said one of the party. "In Wathington," said the senator, "you mutht thend a card to a tbenator'th room, and he'll thend down word if be wantth to thee you." "Ob, all right," said the spokesman. "We want to do what's right Come on, boys. Let's go down stairs and send np our cards."

The party filed out and tramped down the stairs. In tbe office tbey lined np at the desk and laboriously wrote their names on tbe cards tbe clerk furnished tbem. A bellboy was summoned and be went to the senator's room. In two or three minutes he reappeared with tbe cards still on tbe salver be carried. The visitors looked at the cards and then at tbe boy. With a graceful twist tbe boy spilled tbe cards on the desk in front of tbe clerk. "Senator Coke's not in," be said.

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THE LONDON "BOBBY"

HOW HE STRIKES A CLOSE AMERICAN OBSERVER.

HI* Dress and How He Condncti Himself. Qniet Way of Controlling Traffic—Manner of Making Arreata—Number on tbe

Force—Pay and Pensions.

[Special Correspondence.]

LONDON, June 7.—One of the first things to attract the attention of an American in London is the London policeman. He is dressed in blue, like his brother across the water, and is spick and spanJSnd clean. Yet there is something about him that gives him a little the air of a country man. It may be the shape of his hat, which is much like the steamer cap, with a peak before

THE LONDON "BOBBY."

and behind, only larger. Or perhaps it is the long tails to his frock coat, or the rubber waterproof, rolled up into a cornucopia shape, that hangs from his belt in dry weather and keeps him snug when it rains.

It does not rain always in London. Those stories do injustice to the climate. There are at least three days every month when no rain falls, and fully two days to the month without a fog. So at intervals the policeman may be seen walking about with a black rubber cornucopia on his hip. But whether he is in blue cloth or black rubber neither American nor other person need mis take him for a country man.

When we see our West Point boys on parade, we exclaim, "How beautifully trained 1" And that is precisely the feel ing one has on seeing these mild man nered London policemen regulate the enormous traffic of these busy London streets. That word traffic, as applied to the crush of the streets, is so familiar in London that even the newsboys use it. One day an inch of snow fell and spread ruin and desolation. "Why, the traffio is stopped!" everybody said breathlessly. And so it was. But nothing could stop the London traffio for long.

The most loyal American, and I claim a near relationship to him, after seeing the London policemen manage the traffic of the streets, must admit that we have nothing like it in the United States It is all done so gently, yet so effectively. There are no shouting, no flourishing of clubs, no seizing of bridles. A single wave of the uplifted hand does it all. Even a raised finger would be an exception.

The London policeman carries no firearms no weapon but a tiny billy, kept out of sight in one of his ooattail pockets, and that seldom drawn. Having a desire to see one of these tiny clubs, I asked the officer in front of the British museum to show me his. He hadn't it with him. The uniform is all that is needed.

He is not to be called "officer,'' either, this London policeman. Not that be resents it, but he does not know what it means. The official title in New York is "police officer," and here it is "police constable." This shows that some respect is shown to official titles the world over, for our American policeman is to be called "officer," while in London the policeman is to be addressed as "constable." One may go up to him and ask him familiarly, "Robert, where is So-and-so?" He rather likes that. It is a sort of apotheosis of his common title of "bobby." But call him what you will, a civil answer is as certain as the daily London rain.

The constables whose business it is to regulate the traffic in tbe streets seldom make an arrest. Indeed in two months in London I have not seen a single arrest made, either of driver or pedestrian. Nearly every vehicle that plies tbe streets is licensed and numbered, and so is its driver. If the driver disobeys orders or makes himself liable in any way, tbe constable merely holds np a finger for him to stop, and be stops. Then ont come the constable's little notebook and pencil, and the driver most produce his license, which gives bis number, his name and his addresa, After these are copied into tbe little notebook, tbe officer gives a wave of the band and tbe man drives on.

Tbe man is then practically under arrest and ont on bail. When he reaches home, be finds there a subpoena requiring him to appear at a certain police court at 9 o'clock next morning. And be is sore to be there, for if be failed, without good cause, be would lose bis license. In tbe same way a respectable peraon is not locked np over nigbt in a police cell for any trivial offense. Tbe police sergeant takes bis name and address, be signs a bond requiring him to appear in court next morning under £3 or £3 penalty and goes borne. "But who would be foolish enough under such circumstances to give his real name and address?" an American might ask.

Most people do, because to do otherwise is dangerous. Tbe bail bond, in-

"TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL., JUNE 19, 1807.

It is doubtful if tbe annals of medical science have ever recorded an experience more remarkable than that of Mr. Arthur Davis, the proprietor of a sawmill at New Pennington. Indiana. It is certain that the scientists of to-day have no knowledge of a parallel case. Mr. Davis was attacked with a nervous disorder, the tortures of which unbalanced his mind. A commission of lunacy was appointed who pronounced him insane and he was condemned to an asylum by the mandate of the oourt.

citiaing the name and addresB, has to be sworn to, and if a prisoner falsifies the facts and is canght afterward he is punished for perjury.

Trustworthy as he is in most things, the London policeman is not to be depended upon by a stranger who is looking for a good restaurant. The bobby" does not live in the west end, and his ideas of a good restaurant are crude. He gives directions readily, but the stranger soon finds himself in front of soms little sixpenny place.

To see a policeman smoking his pipe in tbe street is surprising to an American. But the London "bobby" is alert, obliging and all powerful, and there is not much to be said to his discredit.

PMMUKED INSANE.

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MR. ARTHUR DAVIS.

His recovery marks one of the greatest victories ever achieved by the science of medicine, and dates the beginning of anew era in the treatment of disease.

A New Era reporter who visited New Pennington for the purpose of investigating the ease was agreeably surprised at the energy exhibited by Mr. Davis and the entire absence of any trace of ill health or mental derangement. "No." said Mr. Davis in answer to the astonishment expressed by the reporter, "to look at me now you would not judge that I have undergone such a remarkable experience as I snail tell you. "I have been married seventeen years and our home is made happy by four children. I had enjoyed good health until about two years ago. For some cause, I noticed that I was getting very weak and could not endure hard work. I was gradually running down. Nervous prostration resulted and I became rapidly weaker. My system was out of condition, my blood impure, my complexion colorless, and I could neither sleep or eat. My eyes became affected, likewise my hearing. I rapidly became worse. It soon developed that my mind was becoming affected. I would hear and see imaginary things, and my head was continually in an uproar. When I could sleep I was troubled with fearful dreams. "Existence was full of misery, and I seldom knew what I was doing. I was so miserable, that one day, in the midst of my suffering, I attempted to take my life. I fired, but the revolver was knocked down 'by my wife, and the ball went through the calf of my right lee." Mr. Davis exhibited the wound where tne ball entered and immersed He had attempted to put the ball in his heart.

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WAS OBDEBED TO AH ASYLUM.

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King Louis II of Bavaria, the brother and predecessor of "mad Otto," killed a couple of men during his reign, oue in a fit of fury, the other by accident, while be drowned a third —bis medical attendant—he himself succumbing at tbe same time.

The late King John of Saxony became insane three days prior to tbe date officially declared to be that of his death. His madness first assumed a violent form at a grand court ball, and 24 hours later he shot or kiried with bis sword one of his military aids.

The crown prince of Austria shot and killed the Baroness Marie Vetzera before be took his own life, (me somber January morning.

Tbe late Emperor of Russia shot and killed Gonnt Reutern, one of the officers of his household, under the impression that the count was a nihilist and a would be assassin. The count approached tbe czar in the dark at Oatchina, and as he neared the emperor made a movement that led his majesty to believe that the stranger was getting some weapon ready for murder. Without an instant's hesitation Alexander drew a revolver and shot the man dead, realizing too late bis terrible mistake.

Tbe father-in-law of tbe Infanta Eulalia of Spain, tbe late Duke of Montpensier, was responsible for tbe death of his cousin, Prince Henry of Bourbon, wbom he shot in a dnel at Madrid.

It was called a dnel, but some would call it murder. Tbe adversaries were to fire alternately, and, Prince Henry's bullet flying wide of tbe mark, tbe Duke of Montpensier walked quietly np to tbe prince and shot him through the bead.—Pearson's Weekly.

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"The neighbors were called in" he continued, "and I was considered dangerous. An inquest of lunacy was held, I was ordered put in an asylum. They were getting ready to take me when my nearest neighbor, Mr. Sefton Hart urged my attendants to give me Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. He brought a box over (he always keeps them for use in his family), and I began taking them. This was the first week of last November, and I was to be taken away the next Wednesday. But I never went, for when Wednesday came my health was so much improved that it was decided to wait a few days longer before taking me. I continued taking the pills strictly according to directions, and my condition kept improving. I found that a whole pill in my weakened condition was too strong for me, so I took but half a pill after each meal, then increased the dose to a whole pill three times a day. The dose was finally increased to three pills. I took the last dose about the middle of last February, having consumed eleven boxes. I am perfectly well now, in mind and body. My hearing and sight are entirely restored. 1 sleep ana eat well, and do not hear imaginary noises. I weighed 141

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iounds when I commenced taking Dr. WilPink Pills for Pale People, and now I weigh 184. I am as stout as before and am working hard every day in my mill.

Did I try any other treatment O, yes. When I first became ill my family physician attended me, but he did not benefit me. and I tried other physicians, but they all seemed to look upon my case as hopeless. One gave me sleep and temporary relief by putting me on opiates, but I was always worse afterwards. I used no other remedies while taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and I am sure that I owe my life to them."

Mr. Davis' statement is too fully verified to admit of a shadow of doubt as is evinced by the following affidavits:

NEWPOINT, Ind., May 1, 1897.

I hereby give my oath that the above is a correct statement of the facts regarding my illness and subsequent recovery. (Signed) ARTHUR DAVIS.

The above siory is a true presentation ot the facts regarding the case of my huslmnd. (Signed) ANNA DAVIS.

NEWPOINT, Ind., May 1, 1897.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, a Justice of the Peace, this the first day of May, 1897. (Signed), JOHN CASTOR,

Justice of the Peace.

After obtaining the affidavits of Mr. and Mrs. Davis the reporter decided to have a physician who knew nothing of the case examine Mr. Davis' present condition and in that way obtain the report of a disinterested person.

He was directed to consult R. G. Lane. M. D., of Newpoint, a successful doctor, ana widely known for his reliability and care in making a diagnosis. The following statement is the result of the examination made by Dr. Lane.

NRWPOINT, Ind.. May 7. 1897.

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To further substantiate the facts as given by Mr. Davis the reporter secured the statement of the medical attendant of Mr. Davis during his illness, which was taken by the court as evidence of his insanity, of the medical examiner, who was a member of the board which held the inquest of lunacy, and also the certificates of the justices of peace all of which are filed in the office of the clerk of Decatur County, Ind.

The following is a statement from the medical attendant: State of Indiana, County of Decatur, set.

Dr. L. W. D. Jerman, of said county, declares on oath that he has recently been the medical attendant of Arthur Davis, of said county, alleged to be insane that the following is a full and careful statement of the history and treatment observed and pursued by him in said case: "I have known Arthur Davis and have been his family physician for the last fifteen or eighteen years. I saw him about two weeks ago. He was suffering with a severe pain in bis head, and a noise in his ears also complained of tne chickens crowing, and a soreness in the muscles. At times he is rational, but a greater part of the time he is badly off. I believe that said Arthur Davis can, at present, be conveyed to a hospital for the insane, without danger to life.

L. W. D. JERMAN, M. D.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of November, 1896. JOHN CASTOR, Justice of the Peace.

The ollowing is a statement from the medical examiner: State of Indiana, County of Decatur, set.

Personally appeared before me, clerk of the circuit court, of said county, at the court house in Greensburg, Dr. Henry Johnson, whom I certify to be a reputable practicing physician, who, being sworn, declares that ne is not and has not recently been the medical attendant of Arthur Davis, of said county, alleged to be insane that on the instance of John Castor, Justice of the Peace, of said county, he has within a week of this date, carefully and personally examined Arthur Davis, and also the statement alleging insanity, that he has heard all the testimony given in this inquest that, in his opinion, said Arthur Davis is insane, and that his opinion is based on the following facts observed by himself, namely: "I was called in November, 18S6, to visit Arthur Davis, and came to the conclusion that in connection with the witnesses' testimony, that Arthur Davis is suffering with paroxysms of mania, and on the following facts, testified to by witnesses, namely: "On the 18th of November witness said that said Davis shot himself with intent to commit suicide also made threats at different times to kill his wife.

H. JOHNSON, M. D., Medical Examiner." Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 19th day of November, A. D., 1896.

M. D. TACKETT, Clerk.

The following statement is from the justices of the peace, who conducted the inquest: State of Indiana, County of Decatur, set.:

We, the undersigned, justices of the peace in and for county aforesaid, hereby certify that we have personally examined Arthur Davis, of said county, alleged to be insane, within a week of this date, and have this day held an inquest of insanity, according to law that, it is our judgment, upon the evidence of the party alleging insanity, of the medical attendant, of the medical examiner, and of all other witnesses, and pursuant to their own personal examination and that said Arthur Davis is insane, and is a proper subject for treatment in a hospital for the insane that his being at large is dangerous to the community that he resides in Saltcreek Township, saia county, and has a legal settlement in tne State of Indiana.

Witness our hands, this 19th day of November, A. I., 1896.

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