Mohave County miner., 1893-01-28
Thsy Drovs HIM Mad.

There lived in Normandy, where he
was born, in 1876, man named Solo
mon Caus. He was an engineer and
architect, and had had several important
positions. He wrote great many sci.
entitic works and papers Of which, how
ever, no one took much notice during his
life, and, finally, was seized with sn idea
which made his friends and relatives fear
that he was mad. Alter pestering the
king and the cardinal at Paris, he Was
ordered TO be taken TO Bicetre--the mad
house--snd there shut up. This was
done. They had just one way with mad
people in those days. They shut tnem
in iron cages and fed them through the
bars like wIld beasts. They did this TO
Solomon CAus. For long time he stood
behind those bars al. day and called TO
those " no would listen, and 10 them re-
peat-d the story he had told The cardinal.
He became the jest Of the place. Some
Of them even gave him writing materials
and then amid the misery Uf his surrond-
lngs, h- mInte down his ideas and amused
his alters 80 inurh the more However,
II could not be song before such lie,
such surrounding", would shitrer any
brain la tune Solomon G .us was as
IN "a seV VsryD ~ believed hun
l. xs III 1924 tn,t a. English noble
IN ,n InrI W,,r,.a. altar a.. n fu 4 ,YIs and
visited Bicetrs As lie vas passing
through the great court accomp MED by
th- x-e,,er. a hideou- fac. with matted
beari and hAIr appeared AT the grating
and voice shrirked wildly, "Srnp! top!
[ an no. mad. an shut mp here most
uni lstly I have made An invention
watch wonld enrich country that
adopted It"
"Wh., does he speak of?" the marquis
ASKED his guide. ION. that is his mai
hess" said the 'man. laughing That is
han called Sul"mon Ca, = {; he I> irom
Nprmaniy; he Del'~ves that by the use
ii thu steam OF boiling water he can
IA *. -hips 20 over the Ocrsn aid car
,iaG-s travel by band ln fact, tD all sorfs
81 wonderful things lie has even writ
ten a hook about ~, which | can tho"
,uu." Lord WU'ce-IsT asked for The
lo"r ,lsnced over iV and desired 10 he
condu,tri to The cell Ol he wrlter When
i,- ,-Inr,ed he bad h-em ."pIrg. The
,om man Ia ,e,ia,nly mad bOw,' he
-aid, but when you imprisoned hun
her. he wts he greA'es' genius ii the
a.a liz has certainly made n great dis
ruv-ry " Alter this Lnd Worcester
~ ID. man, ettT'S 10 piN,'ure the llf~ra-
",ui the man. Who, doubtless, would
have n ...n restored ~ reason Nv fteedOm
a,,i oriIn ,ry sIIr,Uun iIngs, hut ~ vain
ih- cardinal rSA- az tim-t hIn, aud his
r. .gIIsu iIIeDhs beE,n 10 fancy lie him
,-ii nad lost his sense-, Tor one wrote TO
another: My ! ni j. remarkable Tor
n.,er @ing sarisied With any rxplama
tIo,s Shich are gwen him, tut always
.ntIng TO KNOW iOr himself, although he
---ms to pierce to rhe very centre Oi
-p..ker's thOnghIs with his bIg blue
eyes that newer leave theirs. Al a visit
~ Bice,re he Thought he mad discovered
a genius in u madman, who declares he
wpILi travel the world over with d kettle
OF boiling wafer. hr desires to carry
him away ~ LOni IN ,nu ne might listen
~ ms extravng .uces from morning till
night, and would. thInk, IT the maniac
had not been actually ravIng and chained
~ the ~ail
Thus ~ Brefre died the m Al TO whom
after his AnTks were published III sny lH'U
pie gave the credit Ut eng tir di-cUVerer
II sIeA,n power, and II IL siid that from
Ihr manuscript written III his prison
Lord Worcester gathered the idea of
maciIiue sp ken vi as aaIeI command
ing engine" which he after wards Invent.
ed Historians have denied that Caus
DE in prison, hut there exists u leiIf
written by VI anon ne LJrnr, who was
si'h Lord Worcester ~ rh. time Of his
inr-rsieA AiM Caus. which tstabIlsi,rs
the TACT he, ond duub.