The Washington Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1907, Page 7

HMARKABLE PATIENT , LIVER C. PERRY A _ Most! UNIQUE CRIMINAL. : | i ain Bandit, Blind Through His Own | Act, Refuses to Wear Clothing or Eat Prison Fare and Is Fed Through a Tube. w York.—Blinded by his own a0 ving for four years’ without ting food or wearing euter cloth- ; Curtiss Perry, whose train xploits in 1892 startled the »y their boldness and novel hods, is declared by insanity ex- be the most remarkable pa- the state hospital for the | ane. | declares he will never take ot food or wear a stitch of thes while he is in the Dannemora and Drs. North, Townsend | nald, his p! cians, believe m. Since November 19, 1903, Perry eived nourishment through a because it is necessary but y because he has determined to rer than to the regular eat ner is classed among the ane, but he declares he has a mo-| is actions. His refusal to be o feed himself in the fashion wry in Dannemora is not a ania, he argues, but is merely a bit q ornness aimed at what he de. . as unfairness, and he adds that tr aking of food and the wearing will establish his sanity in n of experts and get him to a regular prison he eat solid food and clothe himself. He ects to being treated unfairly, e says, and this is the basis for his ion in blinding himself, in explicable self-torture, he as- pribes to another motive. His family ad d ed him, he ys, and he n to come to see him. He at his father would see ts of his strange action and 1 to his cell. Days passed ing his parents to his Perry in His Prison Garb. he completed the pain inding himself which he hadt artly accomplished on his first i2 years old, in the prime of ind strangely enough gaining until he has become as ewy trained athlete despite c regimen, Perry gives indi- a g life. Seated in his cell, vered with a blanket, he told t s reasons for his acts eatest regret of my life | ied myself,” he said. “Ij xed up a machine which when heat- pped two sharp pointed my eyes. I had taken ne pain deadened, n | woke up I couldn't see at ! ttle light came into them, and when my father still fatled come to me I decided to my blindness. This time I | light bulb, crushed | rubbed the pieces was -ctric and ne entirely blind, but I father, and now f from sight of the world why they won't let me go could not do anything 1 got out, and all I could would be to go away some- | e and make a living by selling enc xr trinkets like other blind om my w. I prior to November 19, y had complained of the had been given him, and as declared that if certain > not included in his menu ve himself to death. His was not but till ad artificial Since then administered taken seriously, jays passed and he determ aation ssorted to as been tube. His weight ed from 189 to 120 pounds s As since been made up. » stopped eating his son suit to shreds, s shoes to: pieces an until a suit texture wus 2 1 wear worn neither coat nor and nothing more that a s covered his shoulders. } tection he uses only on ceeded in walking looking another ERAN ON LONG WALK. VET E. P. Weston Now on Way from Port land, Me., to Chicago. Portland, Me. — Edward Payson Weston, father of the long walk and apostle of out-of-door exercise, is now, at the age of 69, on a pedestrian jour- ney from this city to Chicago. 3ishop Leighton Coleman, who is 70, has just finished a ten days’ jaunt through two states and has returned to his duties strengthened and vital- ized by the exertions of his trips. Such performances as these by men of advanced years have again called the attention of all to the manifold ad- vantages of the old-fashioned heel-and- Z:°P:- WESTON Weston in Walking Attire. toe walking, with shoulders well braced back and lungs inhaling the life-giving country air. No better example of the value of his own teachings exists than does Edward Payson Weston, who in the last four decades has walked in public a distance equivalent to passing three times around the world. He is hale and hearty, and, thanks to his lifelong habits of moderation and sane living and abundant exercise, is now, in his old age, walking from Maine to the great lakes. That he is able to undertake such a feat at his age is due to the training | of a lifetime, for six days in the week | he walks from ten to 20 miles and | thus keeps his muscles in condition for | sustained efforts at pedestrianism. Mr. Weston stands five feet and eight inches in height and weighs when in condition for his walking trips 140 pounds. He is spare and wiry in build, although he could hard- | ly be called thin. His gait shows his abounding vitality, and the clearness | of his eyes and the steadiness of his gait reveal the athlete. A STEEPLE JILL. English Girl Who Is a World Beater at Chimney Climbing. London.—Having received no re piies to her challenge for a steeple or chimney climbing competition with any girl under 18 years of age, Lydia Akiens, the 15-year-old Leicester girl steeple-jack, claims to be the “cham- pion girl steeple-jack in the world.” Lydia recently climbed and walked Near the Top of a Tall Chimney. around the top of a 150-foot chimney. She thinks little of accomplishing a feat the very thought of which would cause thousands of men to shudder. Arrangements are being made for Lydia to climb a chimney near Liver- pool which is over 400 feet high, and one of the tallest in the country. On this occasion her ascent from start to finish will be recorded by the bioscope. A Pertinent Question, “You favor the theory that Mars is | inhabited?” “Yes,” answered the pro- | fessor. “It has been the subject of | some of my most interesting articles.” | But do you favor it as a scientist or | achieved by their husbands to whicy | they have contributed sometimes. as a literary man?” + Herkimer, N. | was the only | volunteers, most of them his friends | and neighbors, who set out in | side, crossed over at Oswego and, pass- | Gansevoort of the relief that was com- | | his horse shot from under him and a | side, he issued his orders and received | agony himself, he coolly took his tin- | fell on the battlefield and many more »his house, 35 miles away. : The base of the statue is a boulder | coroner’s jury HERKIMER IN BRONZE STATUE OF GENERAL RECENTLY ERECTED IN NEW YORK STATE. Revolutionary Hero Once More on Bat- tlefield of Oriskany—Is Shown with Pipe in Hand Direct- ing His Forces. Y.—The bronze statue of Gen. Nicholas Herkimer of revolu- tionary fame which has recently been erected here represents the general. with his leg shattered by a bullet, ! seated on the stump of a tree direct- | ing the American forces in the battle | of Oriskany. The sculptor is Burr C. j Miller. The piece was on exhibition in the salon in Paris this year and one of 460 pieces in bronze to receive honorable mention. Gen. Herkimer was at the head of | 800 hastily recruited militiamen and July, 1777, to take relief to Col. Gansevoort and his 750 followers in Fort Schuy- | ler. St. Leger’s forces had marched | up the St. Lawrence on the Canadian ing through the Mohawk valley, were investing the fort. St. Leger’s forces | consisted of 800 white men and 1,000 Indians, the latter under the command of the famous Brant, head of the Six | Nations. ‘ Gen. Herkimer sent word to Col. ing and asked that a sortie be made | from the fort when the relieving forces came up, so that the enemy’s attention might be distracted. When he got near the fort Gen. Herkimer waited for the signal from Gansevoort. It didn't come, and his young recruits began to chide him for the delay. He refused at first to risk the sacrifice of life which he knew an advance with his 800 men would en- tail. He continued to wait, but the re- marks of some of his officers and sol- diers became more insulting. They acéused him finally to his face of be- ing a coward and a Tory. The end of it was that against his better judg- ment he gave the order to advance. St. Leger had heard of his arrival and had sent a detachment to inter- Herkimer Statue at Herkimer, N. ¥. cept him. As the militia advanced in hasty march through a wooded ravine | near Oriskany the British regulars in ambush at the other end and the In-, dians on both sides opened fire. The rear guard of the Americans was cut off from the main body and was dis- persed. Early in the conflict Herkimer had} little later a bullet shattered his left leg just below the knee. When his friends urged him to leave the field he} replied: “No, I will face the enemy.” He ordered the saddle removed from his fallen horse and had it placed on a stump near by. Seated on this, with the wounded leg, which had _ been| hastily bandaged, hanging from one the reports of his subordinates. With his friends and neighbors fall- ing on all sides of him, and suffering der box, steel and flint from his pock-! et and lit his pipe. The statue shows him with the pipe in one hand, while with the other he is directing his forces. His coolness infused new ardor into the men. They fell to fighting the In- dians and British in their own fashion from behind rocks and trees, and finally, aided by a sally from the fort, they forced the attacking party to re- treat. About one-third of the militia were carried into captivity. Herkimer was carried on a litter to The ampu- tation of his leg was badly done and he died ten days later. In his last mo- ments he called for a Bible and read to those about him the psalm begin- ning: “O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.” s from the battlefield of Oriskany. This Gray Old World. A certain young man was once per- mitted to make the world over to suit himself; the world ard all that in it Was. And when he was done, he stood back and surveyed his work and ex- claimed: “A paradise! Ah, truly, a paradise!” But at the end of a week he was found dead and the verdict of the was that he had been bored to death—Puck. Women are happiest who are willing | to share in the reflected glory ‘ strong fight. ONCE RAN FOR PRESIDENT. Belva Lockwood Now Living Practically in Retirement. Washington.—The only woman ever A genuine candidate for the high of- Ace of president of the United States, and the first woman admitted to the Mrs. | practice of law in the United States courts, is Mrs. Belva Ann Lockwood, now living practically in retirement at Washington. The accompanying picture is from a portrait of her as she appears to- day. She was born in western New York, in Royalston, Niagara county, October 24, 1830, being the second of five child- MPS. ELA L,OCAWOOD. ren. She taught the district school at 14, and later attended Royalston academy. In 1848 she was married to Uriah H: MeNall, a farmer, who died in 185 Left without funds, she taught school for two years, and then en- tered and was graduated from Genes- see college. She was preceptress in two or more senools of considerable standing, and in 1866 went to Wash- ington, where she taught until 1868. There she was married to Rev. Ezekiel Lockwood, who died in 1877. In May, 1873, Mrs. Lockwood had graduated from the National uni- versity law school at Washington. Over her admission to the bar of the supreme court there was a bitter con- test, but she won, as she did in the later fight for entrance to the court of claims. She built up an extensive and profit- able law business, and in 1884 ‘was nominated by the equal rights party of San Francisco for president of this country. She accepted, and made a most creditable and astonishingly She was also a candi- date at the next national election. Mrs. Lockwood is still a very active member of the international peace bu- reau, and occasionally practices law, but has virtually retired. WHITE MICE ON BRITISH FLAG. | Novel Design Adopted by Submarine Branch of Navy. London.—The submarine branch cf the British navy has recently adopted for its exclusive use a novel flag of a design hitherto unknown to the Col lege of Heralds. The pennant is of three colors—red, blue and yellow— representing the three submarine depots of Portsmouth, Devonport and Chatham, and is divided into four FLAG OF BRITISH SUBMARINES. quarters. In one division appears a submarine and in another three tor- pedoes, while the other two are adorned with white mice. The right of these ?ittle animals to a place on the flag may be a little puzzling to the lay mind, but, as a matter of fact, no submarine ever goes to sea with- out some of these creatures on board. ‘They are extremely sensitive to the presence of gas and their actions en- able the slightest leak to be stopped in time, thus preventing accidents. Strictly Business. “Young man,” said the old gentle man as he shuffled into the parlor, “TI believe—in fact, I know—that you and my daughter are rapidly edging to- ward matrimony.” : “It is true, sir,” replied the poor but otherwise honest youth, “and while I am obliged to confess that it will have to be a case of love in a cottage, still ena “That's all right, young man,” inter- rupted the stern parent. “Love in a cottage is the true ideal of happiness. You have my consent = “Oh, thank you, sir!” x, “Upon one condition,” continued the old gentleman, “and that is, you must be able to show me the deed for the cottage. Good-night, young man.” exclaimed the Cars Kill Many People. Coroner Harburger of New York, has compiled figures which show that the city’s trolley cars kill one person every fifteen hours. He ascribes this enormous death rate to the lack of means for properly controlling cars. MORSE DOWA AND OUT RISE AND FALL OF PROMINENT WALL STREET FIGURE. Wrecked by Recent Financial Flurry —Organized Gigantic Ice Trust Which Made Its Stockhold- ers Wealthy. New York.—Charles W. Morse, who a few years ago went from Maine to New York with but small capital and in a short time humiliated the great captains of industry of the metropo- lis by gaining control of a dozen or more banks, and becoming the owner of acres of real estate and bales of rich stock, not to mention his connec- } tion with the ice trust and his great consolidaied steamship lines, is com- | pletely down and out. He was elim- ‘inated from the banking field of New York recently by the clearing house committee, and the great steamship lines of which he was the brain and push are to be reorganized with Morse left out of some of them at least. Morse was born at Bath, Me., in 1856, the son of a tow-boatman on the Kennebee. After graduating from col lege, he returned home to find hi father’s business grown to consider- able proportions, Morse, Sr., having a big fleet of up-to-date tugs, and “on the side” were excursion barges, natural ice plants all up and down the river. Young Morse was installed as bookkeeper, but the field was not | large enough for him,. and he left home for New York, where he began by speculating in ice by the cargo, in hard pine lands, in hard pine car- goes, in “pieces” of schooners and steamers and tugs. Then followed the big fleet of ocean carriers and tugs and the ice inter- ests were constantly expanding both on the main rivers and the coast, and in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington fields as well. Nine years after Morse went to New York there was but one {ce company of any importance, and at the head COMRLES WHOLE. of that company was Charles W. Morse. Mayor Van Wyck and several other politicians were interested in the cempany, and it made vast wealth for its stockholders, one year clearing more than $1,500,000 | Then Morse became a banker. The Garfield National bank was his parent institution. In time he dominated a chain of banks all up and down Broad- way. In the banking business he became associated with F. Augustus Heinze, of the United Copper syndicate, and when the United Copper syndicate hit ) Heinze, Morse, who is said to have sold 17,000 shares of United Copper, thus showed the weakness of the syn- dicate and, it is believed, caused the smash which resounded around the world and for a time threatened to cause a financial panic. Then followed the action of the clearing house committee. Morse was promptly eliminated from the follow- ing institutions, his resignations being demanded by the committee Resigned as vice president and di rector of National Bank of North America, Garfield National bank, New Amsterdam National bank, and as di- rector of Mercantile National bank, Fourteenth Street bank, New York Mortgage & Security company, New York Produce Exchange bank, Van Norden Safe Deposit company and Van Norden Trust company. Immediately came the actions which forced Morse out of two more of his strongholds, the Consolidated Steamship lines and the American Ice company. A plan for the reorganiza- tion of the ice company has been drawn up whereby Morse will have no further control in its management. Morse is therefore completely down and out, and, his former associates, the Heinzes and Thomases, blame him for the collapse of their copper cor- ner. There are r & Co. and the > & Hartford re affairs of the orts that J. P. Morgan New York, New Haven oad have entered the 1ipping combine with powerful influence. Thus was fore- shadowed the possibility of a greater combine, inclu he Morse com- New Haven trol the road's entire shipping trade of gulf. panies and the marine lines, tc American coastw:s the Atlantic and the German Nearly al! Railway Stations. t 2 ations in Ger- many are restaurants, and as a > 1 estaurasit only waiti ; and subsequently SS Sa GREAT IRISHMAN COMING Sir Anthony MacDonnell United States. New York.—Sir Anthony Patrick ; MacDonnell, permanent under secre- tary for Ireland, is on his way to the United States, but just what his mis- sion to this country is, is known only to himself. It is safe to conjecture, however, that it is to explain to the Trish leaders on this side of the water why he has failed to get Ireland home rule and a land act that would turn the property of the iand owners over te the peasantry. These were the to Visit aims he had in view when he entered SIR ANTHONY MACDONNELL. his present position under Mr. Wynd- ham. Not only was he a staunch Roman Catholic and home ruler, but an in- ‘tense radical as well, and the con- servatives writhed in horror at the idea of their leaders making MacDon- nell virtual dictator of Ireland. For Mr. Wyndham was not a strong man, while Sir Anthony is strength per- sonified. He had learned in India how ‘to take the land from the big land holders and return it to the. people. Before accepting the office he stated his views to Mr. Wyndham and in- sisted upon a written pledge that he should have a free hand. Immediate- ly he set to work to make himself solid with the Irish people. He won the support of the clergy, he manipu- lated the police in a way that won him the affection of the people who re- gard the police as their natural ene- mies, and he traveled the whole length of treland to plead with rapacious landlords not to evict help- less tenants. It was not long, however, before the tories of the old school raised a howl against the unlimited power giv- en to Sir Anthony, and Mr. Wyndham had to drop out after the reading of the agreement in parliament. This made no difference to Sir Anthony, for he remained in his office under Mr. Long, who succeeded Wyndham, and was as much of a power as ever, The party papers denounced the under sec- retary and ali his works, but the gov- ernment still retained him. It found itself in the position of the man who had a bear by the tail—he couldn't hold on and he dare not let go. When the Balfour government was defeated Sir Anthony remained as the adviser of the liberal government. Mr. Bryce became his chief and at the same time his tool. Mr. Bryce was no more successful than either of his predecessors, for the Sinn Fein move- ment, which sought to separate Ire- land by strictly legal means, had grown up and was working at cross purposes with Sir Anthony. Prof. Bryce gave up and Mr. Birrell took his place. Sir Anthony advised the “devolution” bill, which the Irish peo- ple, investigated by the Sinn Fein, re- fused to accept. Nor were his land measures more popular, and Mr. Bir- rell came to the conclusion that Sir Anthony was the champion of a lost eause. It came to a test of will power between a dour Scotchman and an obstinate Irishman, and the former seems to have prevailed. Hence Sir Anthony's trip to America. Sir Anthony entered the Indian civil service as a young man. He rose to the very highest position in the serv- ice, HMeutenant governor of Bengal, governor of the northwest provinces. He did much to reform the land tenure of Bengal. It was his dearest wish to do even more for his native land, and this is why, after retiring on a pension, he ac- cepted the under secretaryship for Treland. QUEER AND SLY CRIMINALS. Journeymen Barbers Who Make Their Living by Stealing. “There's a queer and nasty kind of criminal that we call the barber thief,” said Lecoq the detective. “He ts a journeyman barber who lifts your scarfpin while he is shaving you. “These rascals have learned some how or other to shave and hair-cut fairly well. They go everywhere in the rush season—California or Florida in the winter. Atlantic City in the sum- mer, and so on—-and there the over- worked boss barber, with handsscarce, . is only too glad to take them on, and to take them on without references. “It doesn’t take a clever barber thief long to make a good haul. In a day in Saratoga one of these men lifted out of millionaires’ and sports’ neckties is the ' diamonds and pearls to the value of $4,900.”