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The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
 HAIL! THE ERA OF GOOD FEELING
By Congressman Cannon Chairman House 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 . 2 ooo 2 q 2

answer to inquiry the floor of the House said
 the other that the would in neghborhood
 of $600000 900 it should If three E times long and times much 1t will be
 worth it all in the feeling of unity and amty with which 1t has the whole country and the vista which before the American people, From present indications believe that this be succeeded by another "era of good feeling such that which fol- lowed the of 1812 in Monroes time continued Mr. Cannon do not necessarily that the exact condi tions to be repeated that party lines will wiped out But looks though there would be renewal of unity and good feeling such has not been witnessed American politics the question into prominence
 The first requisite for of good feeling general prosperity agricultural interest," be entering period improvement and revival and the close of the will give great impetus to American com nerce, especially in the direction of foreign trade
 unexpected he intervenes change the trend of events this good and goodfeeling. For another thing shall have the close of the interests Our will drawn from ourselves outside borders shall therefore forget differences. Whatever te the solution of problems which will confront the country when the has to close their final disposition will the united wisdom of the peoples leaders be- the time for such action the United
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
! LOVE AND MEMORY GONE

derstand. The voices were to him tumble of noises.
 A great awe came over Miss Cook and the others about the afflicted man. There had arisen before them condl- tion that stunned them. His sweet heart spoke to the young man in tones that a few hours before would nave thrilled him, but which then conveyed nothing to him.
 He was motionless save for the in voluntary muscles. He was in the full possession of his strength, but he could not move. He did not know how.
 For hours MT Hanna lay motionless. He watched the doctors. One of them moved his hand in gesturing. The imi- tative faculty, the first characteristic in the human mind, was aroused. MT. Hanna tried to move his arm. It waved up and down. It delighted him. He moved it faster and faster. One of the doctors was struck by it with con- siderable force The doctor imagined he was being attacked and grasped the arm.
 MT. Hanna tegan moving the other one. He could not understand why they should try to hold him. It was fine to wave his arms. He eXerted all his great strength and then he was bound hand and foot.
 Mir Hanna showed no resentment. He realized that he was being treated roughly. and 1t showed in his face. Presently the bonds were removed. Again he began moving his arms.
 Miss Cook offered him a glass of water. He made no sign. She drank herself, and he initiated her, at first with much difficulty.
 Food was offered him. It meant nothing to his mind. And he craved food-the specian-ts ts who afterward at tended him said so.
 MT. Hanna could not eat the delicious food about him because he did not know how to eat. Again his fiancee be- came his teacher.
 She took an apple and bit into it. She handed him the apple and he ate it. carefully watching her the while.
 Soap and water were placed beside him while his face was being bathed. He picked up the piece of soap and bit into that, but spat it out quickly enough.
 The young man was in bed two days. He did not know enough to get up, and they did not understand his malady. At the end of that time he was dressed and raised from his bed. man stood on either side and tried to walk him alone
 He did not know how to control his legs and sank to the floor. Speedily ne began to lHIltdLe hio o'L Within a few minutes he found that he could stand. The floor troubled him. He could not tell where it was. It seemed directly against his eyes. He felt his way as man does in the dark
 When he looked up he started pack affrighted He thought he was running into the wall twenty feet away.
 That night he saw star. He reached for it a hundred times. He could not i,nderstand why he could not grasp 1t. Tn the day he reached for distant trees.
 At the end of two days Miss Cook realized that her fiancee must be taught as a child without knowledge, without experience. Her quick wit made her appreciate that the first ne-
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03

" HE first Fourth of July celebra-
 ...tion took place in Philadelphia
 four days, after the adoption of
 the Declaration of Independence,
 on July 8, 17f6. "a. warm, sun shiny morning,:': as one of those who was present described the day. John Nixon read. the declaration in the yard of the State House: and the great as- sembly of people gave. three. repeated huzzas."' The. Kings arms were. torn down from their place, and then the proclamation was read before each of the five. battalions on the commons. In the evening, which was clear and star. light bonfires were kindled; cannon were fired, bells were rung, with other demonstrations of joy upon. the una nifnity and agreement of the declara- .tion." =.
 On July g Washington himself di- rected the celebration which was held in New York The declaration was read in the presence of the army, and the assembled people indulged in displays very like those of the preceding day in Philadelphia. although the New York celebration went. a step farther, for in their enthusiasm the people tore down, beheaded and melted the statue of George III in Bowling Green, the troops. long having had an inclination SO to do."
 The news was hurried forward to Boston, and the. messengers made such
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
REV. THOMAS HANNA AND HIS BRIDE
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They made careful investigation. Dr. Goodhart's clinical examination disclosed that there was no sign of fracture of skull or of lesion of any kind.
 They said the patient was suffering from amnesia. That is the technical term for loss of memory, and those about MT. Hanna knew that this was his trouble. But with the scientists it meant much more. They had a certain definite grasp of the cause of the trouble, and they believed that the young clergyman could be cured
 They made no promises. They knew they were entering upon strange fields. Here is an extract from Dr. Sidis' s notes taken at the time:
 MT. Hanna regards the history Of his life before the accident as an expert ence that has occurred within the life of quite another person. The accident may be considered as the boundary line separating two distinct lives of the same individual. What happened be- fore the accident is unknown to the personality formed after the accident. Two different selves seem to dwell within Hanna. It seems to be a case of double consciousness, and the patient is now in a secondary state"
 It Is difficult for the lay mind to un- derstand exactly what happened to MT. Hanna The scientists explain swiftly enough, but the ordinary mind cannot penetrate tl-ese psychological mazes. It
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
INTERESTED

should be borne in mind that there was no functional injury to MT. Hanna's brain. The trouble may be explained thus:
 "The trouble was caused by the cleav- age of the association cells of the brain. These cells are connected with each other and with the brain centers by prolongations, or little arms. The as- sociation cells are the channels of com munication. MT. Hanna's fall detached these arms. Thus everything relating to past events that brought them into relation with the upper consciousness, the ego of the man, was suddenly cut off. These memories sank into the sub- conscious regions"
 It is like breaking an electric current, this snapping of the little arms con- meeting these millions of microscopic cells.
 At the instant the diagnosis was made the doctors had determined upon the treatment. They realized that it was necessary to connect the arms of the cells. to make the circuit complete They knew that the memory, that is to say the association cells, were not dead but dormant. As they express it they were in the sub-conscious regions.
 And what think you was the question they asked most eagerly and listened to with the keenest attention?
 They directed MT. Hanna to tell them of his dream.
 They did not ask him If he had dreamed, they were sure of that. He told them he had two kinds of dreams, "clear picture dreams visions" as MT. Hanna characterized them, and the ordinary dreams to which most people are subject. The visions" were pie J1n a e
 These visions were of the deepest in- terest to the doctors. They knew that the sub-consciousness was asserting it. self while the afflicted man was asleep and the upper consciousness was 1or- mant.
 The physicians directed MT. Hanna to come to New York. Dr. Goodhart took him to his house at 133 East Sixty-first street There he was kept under con- stant observation night and day. From the moment the scientists first saw him until they pronounced him cured one or the other was constantly with him.
 At the end of the first week in New York a great change came over MT. Hanna, and he furnished the most per feet illustration of alternating con- sciousness that Is recorded by science. So skillfully did the physicians develop the Sub-conSciOusness that 1t began to assert itself at different times. It was about noon one day in Dr. Goodhart's office that MT. Hanna fell into a sleep.
 Half an hour later he awoke and his primary self was in control. He was the Rev. MT. Hanna, the Baptist clergy man, the university man, familiar with Hebrew and Greek, with his mind per fectly clear and conscious of all that had happened up to the time of his accident. He wanted to know about his fiancee, about his friends, about a thousand things. For half an hour he was his old self.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
THe ACCIDENT

" HIS is the. strange story of a man
 of good faculties who lost his
 mental self through an accident,
 lived with a double consciousness
 for weeks and was if ally led back to his original mental self by love and science.
 The strange case of Rev. MT. Hanna Is really a triumph for science-prob- ably the greatest triumph ever achieved in medico-p psychology; and aside from an achievement in restoring the mental faculties of man whose mind had become a blank is tho added interest which cannot be dissociated from the study of a case so strange, so puzzling and so absolutely without a parallel.
 In brief 1t is a case not alone involv- ing loss of memory as the result of an injury to the head-that in itself is not of unusual occurrence. In this instance a double consciousness ensued, which really amounted to a dual personality.
 The Rev. MT. Hanna did not suffer from epilepsy. Something merely snapped in. his head, and his memory was gone He became as new born babe. He remembered nothing. of what had occurred previous to the accident that had robbed him of his reasoning faculties. His parents, his friends, even his fiancee, all were as strangers to him. The windows of his soul were clouded. He had to begin life anew.
 And last Tuesday he was married to the girl he loved since boyhood, the girl who had passed out of his life as com pletely as though the grave had claim ed her, but whose tender solicitation and great love had at last conquered.
 At the time he met with the acci- dent that made. his mind blank he was preaching in the Plantsville Bap- tist Church. That was April 15, 1897.
 MT. Hanna was driving with his brother on that afternoon when a wheel struck a stone. MT. Hanna was thrown from the wagon. He struck with considerable force on his head. He was unconscious when his brother picked him:.up Not far distant was the house. of Miss Anna Barnes Cook to whom he was engaged, and the clergyman was taken there.
 He remained unconscious for two hours. Then he opened his eyes. As he sat talking in the wagon he was a man of ripe learning for his years, versed in classics, in philosophy, in theology. When he opened his eyes in Miss. Cooks home he was as lacking in knowledge as when he first came into the world;
 He looked at those. about him won deringly. His eyes had the steadfast, wise stare of baby. The rise and fall of his: chest. caught his gaze. It sur prised and then fascinated him. To his newborn intelligence it was won- derful. thing, that steady movement.
 They addressed a thousand questions to him He heard but he. did not un-
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03

War of this State. In the morning the Delaware frigate, several laree ~alleys and other continental armed vessels, the Pennsylvania ship and row galleys and guard boats were all hauled off into the river and several of them were dressed in the colors of all nations, dis played above the masts, yards and rig
 ging. At 1 o'clock the ships were all manned; that is the men were all or dered aloft and arranged upon the top yards and shrouds. makino a striking appearance of men drawn up In order in the air Then I went on board the Delaware with the President and sev- eral gentlemen of the marine commit
 tee, soon after which we were saluted with a discharge of thirteen guns, which was followed by thirteen others from each of the armed vessels in the river, then the galleys followed the fire and after them the gunboats. Then
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03

the President and company returned in the barges to the shore and were sa- luted by three cheers from every ship, galley and boat in the river The wharves and shores were lined with vast concourse of people. all shouting and huzZaing At 8 we went to dinner and were very agreeably en- tertained with excellent company, good cheer and music from the band of Hes sians captured at Trenton and by con- tinual volleys between every toast from a company of soldiers"
 The letter then goes on to describe the processions and salutes of the sol diers, and expresses the surprise of the writer in the evening to behold al- most every house lighted by candles In the windows, though a few surly houses were dark. I had forgot" he continues, the ringing of bells all day and evening. and the bonfires in the
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03

streets, and the fireworks played off. Had General Howe been here in dis guise or his master, this show would have given them the headache"
 The anniversaries had been cele- brated In the army by the discharge of guns, the setting free of prisoners. and festivities In which the wives of the generals had been very active, Mrs. Knox and Mrs. Greene being especially interested The year when peace was declared witnessed the introduction of the oration. Guns and bells, of course, continued to be much in evidence, and toasts were drunk and responded to at the dinners, which were provided on every village green or city common. George Washington" The constitu- tion, "The United States" and The Daughters of America" came in for a goodly share of attention in oration and in toast. Squirrels, chickens. green
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03

Dr. S. P. Goodhart, the attending physician in the department of nervous diseases in Bellevue College, who had supplemented his studies in America by a long course in Berlin, Vienna and Heidelberg, was asked to make an ex- animation Dr. Boris Sidis, associate in psychology in the Pathological In stitute of the New York State hospi- tals, was afterward summoned as an expert. They went to Plantsville five weeks after MT. Hanna'S fall.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
Called Rack..

He possessed the power of inductive and deductive reasoning within the compass of his knowledge. But his lack of experience and of precedents placed him at a loss. Yet he thirsted for knowledge.
 While MT. Hanna was In this state he had no realization of God. There was no innate religious feeling, as 1t is ordinarily understood. But the soul of the man was pure. He turned from the ugly, the deformed, the evil with
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03

cessity was to instruct him so that he could make known his needs. She gave him a drink of water.
 This is water" she said slowly
 Water" repeated MT. Hanna, thickly
 He did not forget He never forgot anything that was told him. It dawned upon those about him that while he was wholly lacking in knowledge, while his mind was clear of all impressions, like that of babe, he possessed the intelli-
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 Unprecedented in medical of the lev Thomas Hanna developed person. ality the result living separate distinct lives and finally being restored his similar has before been scientific aspect strange which ended last Tuesday in the merry peal of wedding bells
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
Unique case Of q clergyman who /ost hs mmd
 through an accident and lived n double con- : .sciousness for long lime
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& "Mr Hanna regards the history of his before the accident that of quite person. The accident may boundary line separating distinct lives dividua What happened before the accident personality after the accident different selves eo within Mir. to be a case of and secondary state.n-Extract the report of Boris Sidis
The Advocate and news., 1898-10-12

womanhood were touching and beau
tiful devotion.
For the tie between father and daugh-
ter was unusually strong. 1t had all Of
comradeship and intellectual appTecia-
genial and sympathetic.
"There were no differentials; their
minds and hearts were united, and their
pursuits, necessarily, because Of their
quiet life, literary.
"She was at home in drawing-rOom.
She would have been the center OF
salon. More than anything else, she had
the gift of extreme tact. 1t amounted
to an irresistible magnetism and made
every one her friend. It was inherent
and came from the heart, the courtesy OF
a lovely, accomplished gentlewoman.
I'm her young girlhood she accOmpan-
led her father to a public function in
Atlanta, and her extreme savoir faire,
her graceful and ready response, her
dainty and happy faculty Of saying the
right word to everybody, was remarked
by all who came within the radius of
her sprightly and modest conversation
This charm and ease Of manner was an
unfolding graciousness She felt kindly
toward every one.
"She was loved and petted as child,
and, wholly unspoiled by 1t, she was
adored as woman. Wherever she went
she was surrounded with people and had
a perfect court of admiring attendants.
"Her health had been delicate for two
years, and last year she succumbed to
spell Of nervous prostration.
Last March she went to Egypt and
there contracted the malaria which de-
VelOped in to the acute disease which
caused her death.
"Her last public appearance was at
Atlanta, Ca, where she attended Con-
federate reunion. She rode in an open
carriage, the top of which was confined
by its floral and flag decorations. A
shower came up and she and the ladies
of the party were drenched. Rather than
disappoint the thousands who were wait
ing to see her, she remained in her wet
garments, shaking hands with ALL She
was completely exhausted by this or
deal and returned north with the illness
which was fatal"
The Advocate and news., 1898-10-12
Club Women.

This is day Of clubs; clubs for read
ing, studying, pleasure, charity and what
not. Almost every woman belongs to a
club Of some kind, and alas! a great
many women to two or three.
There Is no doubt about the good work
done by some clubs, but there are hun
dreds that never do their own members
or any one else the least little bit Of
good. They jog along in the same mar
row tracks each year, they have their
annual fuss, they give their annual party
or reception, and adjourn until the sum-
mer is over.
Then there is the club which makes
out program Of reading and studying
enough for lifetime, and lifetime Of
hundred years, too. It's members mean
to learn so much, yet at the end Of the
years work they have forgotten what
their first topic under discussion was.
SO 1t Is with great many clubs. They
do but two impotant things each year,
to meet in the fall and adjourn in the
spring.
But there is another side to club life,
and we find some of our clubs doing
grand, good work.
The Looking Forward Club" OF New
York sent one Of its members who was
a. trained nurse to Montauk to aid in the
care OF the sick soldiers. They saw that
she needed nothing, neither money nor
delicacies for the sick, and this young
woman felt that she had body Of wo-
men ready to respond to the least call
for help. To such club we say God
bless it," and many poor, sick soldier
said the same
Many clubs give out wealth of ear
nest thought and intellectual aid which
is much needed by hundreds OK women
The Advocate and news., 1898-10-12
Good Cooking.

It has been said that good food will
sweeten ones temper, and every house
wife will testify to the truth Of this.
1t is hard enough to be patient and
kind at all times, even under the best Of
circumstances, but it is more than hard
to be so when one has to eat poorly
cooked food three times a day.
It is as much of a duty for mothers
to teach their daughters to cook as It is
for them to send them to school to learn
to read and write.
Not every woman can have good
cook, and even II she could she should
know how to instruct the cooking In her
kitchen. To cook we'll is more Of an art
than the playing Of the piano, and no
girl can afford to neglect this part OF her
education. or course, it takes time, but
it is time we'll spent, and it is good exer-
else, too.
The Advocate and news., 1898-10-12
Condolences.

1t is better to be too reserved rather
than too much given to condolences with
ordinary acquaintances. The most mo-
mentous affairs Of your life are of little
consequence or interest to the greater
part of the people you meet What you
have suffered or done is Of little moment
to them. You may be burning with your
wrongs and bursting with anxiety to re-
late them to somebody, but to ninety
nine out Of every hundred people you
The Advocate and news., 1898-10-12
Winnie Davis.

Winnie Davis, the Daughter Of the
Confederacy," died a few weeks ago.
She was the beloved Of the South, and
her loss is deeply mourned. She was a
beautiful and brilliant woman, Of strong
personality and Of rare gifts.
She was the idol Of her father, and was
his constant companion during his life
time. She accompanied him on all his
speaking tours, and was with him when
he was captured, even staying with him
when he was prisoner at Fortress Mon
roe. She says of her father, I'VE chill
dren always believed that there was no
problem too Obtuse, no upheaval too stu
pendous, to be dominated by our father
AS / look back on his tenderness, his
fortitude, his unselfishness, his sterling
honesty, which neither friend nor enemy
ever doubted; his merciful justice and
his indomitable courage, words fail me,
and, like Hamlet, l can only say, He
was a man, take him for all in all,
shall not look upon his like again. ="
This shows her utter devotion and faith
in her father.
Mrs Regina Armstrong Hillard, a
close friend of the Davis family, pays
this tribute to the memory of Winnie
Davis:
"Varina Anne Davis was truly the
Daughter of the Confederacy.' She was
born in the very midst of hostilities be-
tween the North and South, and her
baby steps were through thoroughfares
of strife and the hazards Of war.
"The fine Seddon house, in Richmond
was purchased as the executive man
sion Of the Confederacy, and up and
down its corridors she romped and
played and made friends with the states
men and warriors who came and went
through its solemn portals.
"She even then had the gift Of max
ing friends gift that remained with
her all her life, and in her last days Of
illness made the solicitude Of the hab-
itues of the gay and fashionable hotel
at Narragansett so paramount that 1t
was necessary to keep bulletins of her
condition constantly displayed.
"The childish steps did not falter be-
fore the grim walls Of Libby prison,
where her father was confined. She
came and went through it's dark recesses,
winning the smiles and devotion of its
jailers and attendants. In the larger
cell to which he was transferred, In Car
roll hall, Fortress Monroe, she was wont
to spend hours with him-the baby sol
ace and joy that In her girlhood and