Arizona republican., 1903-05-31
PARIS LETTER.
Motor Mania a New Disease of the Nerves Brought About by the
 Automobile.


 of the importance of his utterances scientific circles have become much inn pressed and the press asserts that the crusaders against intoxicants should turn some of their energy against mo- torists. We begin to find out that motor driving produces an intoxication that may be attended with greater loss of life than the cumulative violence of inebriates. The mental and moral state of the driver become abnormal. He grows vindicative, furiously aggressive and lets himself be carried away by an angry impulse of the moment. The high rate of speed works him up into the very same state of mind which makes the habitual drinker of alcohol regardless of consequences. Both abuse, swear, and use vile language
 M. Hachet Souplet quoted a number of instances from police reports of trials of automobilists in which self control and the sense of dignity entirely deserted gentlemen of high education and breeding. Dr. Berillon, an eminent man, corroborated everything M. Ha- chet Souplet had said. He called at tention to the conduct of motorists when arrested for excessive speed. In communications received from police commissions. they were uniformly spoken of as forgetful of all the re- straints their social station required, and in a state of dementia. According to pr. Berillon. they become as mad under the effect of the onward rush of the motor-car as the dancing dervishes or the Arabs in a fantasia. A human life appears of no account to a motor ist going at high speed, to the dervish warmed by dance. or to the Arab in the intoxication of fantasia. Dr. Berillon knows a motorist who ran over peasant and rushed on after he did SO as furiously as before. He re- turned home in the state of depression that follows q long rush forward at the pace of an express train, and never gave a thought to his victim on the road until he read three days after how he had killed him. He then felt very sorry. declared himself guilty of the death of the peasant, and settled an annuity on his family. Dr. Berillon. after Investigating into q large number of the police cases against chauffeurs. as we call the motorists, believes they cannot help their reckless driving The furore steals on them. In setting out they intend to go at a moderate pace but as they warm to the work they must rush on faster and faster. The fitting landscape through which they tear forward produces the kind of gid diness which Arabs say takes hold of them in the fantasia. In this state would run down those nNbr- set and dearest to them as unhesitat- ingly as though they were so many many peasants.
 KING EDWARDS VISIT TO PORTU-
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 King Alphonso. Spaniards tell me must feel greatly hurt at King Edward making no sign of recognition when he passed close to CadiZ. It would not have done to have sent a polite tele- gram from the Rock. An unpleasng might have been put up- on Gibraltar message by some Oppo- sition paper at Madrid. A Madrid pa per l have received asks whether Lord Lansdowne fOrgets that Spain is a power. and has a longer seaboard than Italy or France. which the king will visit in his regal character.
 The queen of Portugal's health we all know is delicate. She has the consti- tuition of her father and of his mother and stood with difficulty the test of the usual diseases of infancy" But her two sons enjoy robust health, and the eldest-in his seventeenth year-is old enough to resign. The second is over fourteen. One might imagine that Queen Amelie would be glad of all the object lessons which the arrival of King Edward at Belem and the ex- and fetes in his honor must have affarded them. I cannot help. therefore, fancying that the royal family are afraid some transaction be- tween the Portuguese and H. B. Ms government relating to Delagoa or some other African possession, may prove unpopular. They therefore thought we'll not to let the queen ap- pear to be in any way associated with it or with the visit of King Edward, which, perhaps, had some connection with a lease, or sale, or concession of British companies by King Carlos. She and the duke of Braganza were wei! out of the way before King Edwards arrival in Lisbon, and the agreeable task of acting as hostess devolved on the queen dowager, who is merely a dressy princess.
 Queen Amelie visited the Palias d Or leans at Palermo, where her great grandfather Louis Philippe, and her reat-gandmother Marie Amelie spent the first six years of their married life. It became the property of the prince Of Salerno Bourbon of Naples), and through the marriage of his only daughter passed into the hands of the Due d'Aumale. The palace is heavy, massive building resembling an Italian monastery. But the chapel is a gem, and glorious, perhaps, in it's internal colorings as the mosque of Omar at Jerusalem. Louis Philippe and Marie Amelie were married in that chapel. Jacquet, an eminent French artist. when visiting it with old Dumas, thought he would. perhaps, win the patronage of the citizen king and queen Marie Amelie if he brought them back a picture which evoked a brilliant vis-