The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-02-11

TONS weight was designed for this purpose
as ~ was anticipated that dynamos OF the
horizontally driven type would be used
Professor George Forbs of London, was
consulted. and he advised a dynamo in
source. Nlkola Tesla, says that if the
company will deliver 100, 600 horse power
on me wires at Niagara, he will deliver 1T
sorlbed at length the plants at Portland,
oregon, where power is transmitted from
the falls of the Willamette river a dis
tn noe Of twelve miles, with loss of only
ten per cent. In addition over 1000 horse
power is leased to manufactures, the
capacity being $4,000 horse power, under
| forty foot head.
ga short outline of the production of
| lactlo aoid," was the title of paper read
by Charles W. Waite, Sec. B., of Rum
ford Falls. 1t was very interesting
document and gave at length descrip-
ton of the methods followed out at his
work in order to ensure absolute purity.
The paper showed that the uttermost care
is necessary and is constantly exercised.
The third paper was presented by W. H.
| Chapman, A. B., of Portland on "tha
electrical Transformation of energy" who
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electrical experiments.
Rev. Dwight Galloupe of St. Luke's
was introduced, and read very interest
ing paper on mental delusions and crime.
The nerve, play an important part in
human life. We see an excuse for Water
loo in the fact that Napoleon had eaten a
badly cooked omelet. John Calvins
lurid theology is to be traced to indiges-
| ton, and Hamlet's nerve centre was
diseased. Courts differ regarding the
question of legal responsibility for acts
committed under certain circumstances.
Something more should be required than
a knowledge of the nature of crime.
Shall the criminal law have one test and
science another? Take the assassination
of President Garfield. Thsre was case
where doctors disagreed. One set said
"He msnifests all the signs of insanity, !"
while another class said "He manifested
all the signs Il quote their own words
mind) of general moral cussedness.
! The dual nature of man is not always
recongized. Lot me give a familiar
illustration. A railroad engine dashes
wildly into crowd Of people killing
some and wounding others. We look at
it from two standpoints. If the engineer
was in charge of the engine we say 'that
was crime" If the engine was running
wild we say "that was an accident.
But when we come to men we do not
stop to ascertain whether the engineer,
the mind, had control of the engine, the
body. We may remember that the mind
information concerning outward things
that the nerves gives it, but we forget
that sometimes the nerves gives very
untrustworthy information. That bright
philosopher Bill Nye said, NERVES are
like women. We can't we'll live with
them and We can't live at all without
them" An intelligent man might be
led into wrong and destructive way of
thinking, and yet from false premises
reason clearly. logically and directly. He
might think for Tample that he heard a
voice say, go and set fire in the night
to the house of your neighbour and
obeying the voice rather than natural
impulses, might intelligently plan the
burning Of the building. Right here
should be the place for the trained
medical expert, who should be able to in
dictate whether the mind did really direct
the body when the house was fired.
When laboring under some decisions
what we hear and see is followed by what
we have seen or heard before. A clear
stream Of thought may get beyond our
control. The dual nature of man is to
be considered, and we must agree with
Aristotle when he said that like tn e
beast man has body and soul, but that
he has also something higher, the power
to calmly consider. decide and direct.
A man who is laboring under delusion.
who is suffering from disturbed con-
dition of his nerve centre, may reason
calmly and decide intelligently, but
along wrong lines.
Then there are those who approach
crime through the delusion of inspira-
Jion. Take Guiteau for example. He
heard no voices, he was laboring under
no delusion, but he believed in his in
aspiration. He was a perfect tpye of a
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fanatic. There was the successive steps.
The conception of the act, the hesitation,
the prayer to God for his direction and
guidance, the deliberate plan and the
calm and effective execution. His fanat.
icism was very like that of Henry Irv-
ing in his latter years, SO graphically
described by Carlyle. Mahomet was like
fanatic, and so to some degree was Oil
vor Cromwell. A common form of this
delusion grows out of religious feelings
A great revival of religion is too often
followed by lamentable scenes.
This may be test. Whether the orimi-
nal even in the midst of his delusions
had sufficient self control to have stopped
short in his course.
If crime results from yielding to
| what has at last beoome an ever mattlr-