The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-11

Didn't know that could look through
your tricks, Mr. Doubleface did your"
shrieked the semi-maniac, now losing his
temper altogether. You will know 1t after
this, hope, or I'll have to convince YOU
In manner you will not be apt to forget.
You mind your own business henceforth,
and let me mind mine! Perjury and star
walton sooner than submission to the i'm
pertinent curiosity of such intrudersp'
Rousseau used TO lock himself up for
Gays, and as a natural consequence had a.
committee of gossps prying through his
keynotes; and hundreds of our more prac-
teal countrymen seek refuge in the will
derness, where they have to live self-de-
pendent in a dangerously comprehensive
sense Of the word but really contrive to
enjoy the luxury of the absolute seclu-
sion for weeks and months From he
wild men of the woods" who flee from
the approach of their fellow men to the
misanthropic recluse of the tenement at
tic there is only difference in the mode
of proceedings, and nearly every country
of the Allegheny highlands harbors refu-
gees from the worry of social life, who,
under pretext of better pastures or hunt
ing grounds, retire to the summit regions
of solitary mountain ranges, and are left
alone as soon as amateur detectives have
established the non-eXistence of secret dis
tilleries.
ancient nations of the Mediterranean. and
the modern Italians, too, are models Of
tolerance with the whims of moral dis
senters, but their jealousies are apt to
take the form of family feuds, and Prof.
Mantegazza describes an amusing lunatic
who fed with a whoop at the mere sight
of a stranger in petticoats. Get out of
this, for heavens sake" he would adj
monish his companions, "or you'll have
eight inches of steel in your ribs the first
thing you know"
Ours has been called an age of Doodle
transactions, whence, perhaps, the grow
ing rarity of patriotic monomaniacc.
They know" says Macmillan Harden,
that their eloquence would only serve
the purpose of lecture hall entertainments.
and that dollar and cent arguments would
discount their logic at the polls.
But disappointed reformers now and
then try to correct fortune after the man
ner of their opponents, and an incurable
at Longview, o., evinced an abiding faith
in the omnipotence of brides.
These visiting commissioners, he said,
would be all right if l could only con-
trve to fix them one at time, but they
naturally hesitate to discuss terms in the
presence of another. I'll have to buy one
of the doctors to hunt them up in their
private tin traps, or arrange things with
the governor by mail, after greasing the
paws of our old superintendent. It's all
my own fault he added. II ought TO
have used my opportunities better while
1 was at large; the expert only held out
for higher figures, and the witnesses could
have been brought to reason for $40
apiece"
The tramping penchant that prefers the
freedom of a hunted outlaw to the COM
forts of a permanent home has been ex-
planned as a reaction against the all work
and no play despotism of our tread-mill
communities, and attention has repeatedly
been called to the increasing percentage
of mental disorders in some of our north
west states, where the dearth OF popular
pastimes comedies with unusual hardships
of the struggle for existence. The bow,
too severely and necessarily bent, at last
splinters, and the resulting forms Of mem
tai derangement seem TO CONFIRM the the
ory that loss of reason is natures last eX-
pedient to mitigated the consciousness OF
otherwise ncurable evils. Peace-compar-
alive peace-of mind is thus produced by
an eclipse Of memory, and the mental IN
valids of cherries drudgery districts rev
ell in imaginary sports, raving about mer-
ry play grounds like fever-scorched Stone
wall Jackson about the cool tree shade
on the other side of the river.
II have to go rabbit hunting now
we're the last words of poor work house
boy who had never known the meaning
OF recreation on this side Of the eternal
hunting grounds.
with a still more curious transmigra-.
ton into opposite extremes the souls OF
victims of ascetcsm run riot In eplcu-
rean extravaganzas, and refugees from
metaphysical conservatism PROFOUND theo-
ries that would startle the spirit OF Pyi-
rho. the all-doubter. An obtrusive quaek
in the Bedlam Of Sonnenstein, near ORES
den, often gets into controversies Wlth
his living antithesis, an eX-professor OF
medicine who denies the possibility OF as
pertaining either the cause or the besI
cure Of any disease and denounces the
traffic in drugs as a horrid and unmiu-
gated evll-not TO mention such ne Plus
ultra delusions as faith cures.
"You are one OF those materiallsts VINO
believe In nothing but the value Of pee
for soupmaking purposes" sneered TIE
quack.
II deny that too said the medical rem
egade I'm by no means sure that tho
use Of animal food in any form has ever
benefited a human being"
A characteristic form Of modern mono
mania IS the mechanical invention craze,
and every one OF our American bedlAhis
can boast specialists whose brains teen
with cogwheel and pulley projects for th'
relief OF all heard-of human grievance
Russia 10 still haunted by mediaeval ~.
naticsm. glorying In self-torture, hus
France has advanced 20 extreme types o.
secularism. and Fourier's brain microbes
prove their vitality by International epi-
denies, while anti-Semitlsm rarely eA-
tends ne witch dances beyond the 90
minions Of Francis Joseph, and Wagnes
worship Is now almost confined 70
birthplace IN the capital Of the Bavar'aN
Bedlam monarch.