Show OVERWORK AND WORRY How Our Groaloat Statosmen Fight Thee Demons of Intel tootunt Exlsienoo = = Stdttuitit Who Get Their Kill on Hotuhttk How IMt Sm h CoM taJfe and JotCam RUt Sn lor Sla oft Itoity nd III llurutllm Robes 11mtr i < r rW lltallk and S > mH lr at la Ratlftlltr lIon Otmtreit aid OHeiiflraii unit tttlHanttA Pttf a l Ut HMart table II Ha IHiUt llntstt4Si > IUitgAt l ParsoNs Stuttari Wko Hindtike Cut ftiMt ti a Drain KtttMtr Somf If osjrfrW 7npa t Rig ChlcUll TaU n the Clod Earns tf CutgrtH tt liked Alas Mtliimn H rttn H < n > Stiulor ttst ConlHuUJ h Sit Ont ItumlrtJ Vial 0t Mn Who Rest Their Craini Ac Readier Frmth Aiul Somt Hko Itsa If MlmficiOr ITtiUinli at yllm Qttk d Relates tllltl SmulUitt Atatt IhrniMt tour MttlritH Tlnn PrtiUtnl Unttt tt Tt alMa ftttrJrer ions JfaMtat KUitlckt ffntufr < ftmf Ug ttiltt and Gtatfi HaiHitbnt Juofrr a H1tHf ntttt Miff Gd SltifAtt Unite light lgalnsl Insawenia etc tit lpnctat ereapondnsn rtl N a wt TIle Ireat American brain I Iboiling today to-day silt ha seldom boiled before financial fi-nancial trouble and business worries are bluing away under the kettle and the demon of overwork It stirring up the soup with ghoulish glee TIle newspapers paper dally record the suicide and insanity In-sanity of leading l men and the nerves ol rich and poor Are 11 lretcliedto their ul I mot A level head and a steady hand are greater necessities now linn llver and gold and the question of how our great men keep them If more Intrtlll to the matte than the discussions of Congress lam I surprised to ind how prominent men have to fight tat steady brains Half of the member of Congress Con-gress trays shattered nervous tyttemt and there area number of leading Senator Sena-tor who nre fighting the arch fiend of Iniomnla night after night AtC iiEHirts riaiir ion ILRRP Perhaps the wont ilceper who ever came to Washington wan Abram S Hewitt lie had a lull with A baker in the next block whose dog barked at the moon at midnight and lieu enl almost wild over a cock that crowed near him Intle early morning his kept house here for a time and had bed I In half a dOleD diflerent mount Ua would i change about from one room to the other In hli efforts for sleep and when In New York he would gu about from I haute to house lor the tame purpose During a part of hli I congieulonal I rlhea and he career e at Wormley had at this time the entire upper Door I embracing three bed room On the morning following the l lint night I he went to Wormlcy and complained of the dogs which kept him awake I can fix that said Wormley and the next day Im dog were taken away On the day follow I ing lie will said he was kept awake by the yowling of the cats Mr Wormier replied Th gale are hardir to get lid ol l than the dog I but I will Me what I CUM do ot get nil of them The Ihlnl niKhllltIti sante stout inure I dltgualed than ever and said he had lallnl to get sleep hecaiiM ol the noise IIJ I made by tine bird Wormley I item < upon i threw up I his hAnd < In damnr I dunft I know what I can da Mr I lew lit uid 1 he You rail potion noun and you cm hoot can hut the man has lo get up early who ldI kill all the paerosa and the larks Hcwitrilmomnia I I continued con-tinued through the whole of his con gr Mlonal career and Ihinfc he carried It back to New York with him osr aIr PKOH kXKKCiai A number of prominent mm get sleep from exerda Moke I I Smith beers its system In order by n honcback ride every day joseph C Cannon take a gallop into the country three lime a week and Henry Cabot Lodge lucndi apart a-part ol each day In the imldle borne of the greatest bon lover In tin United 1 Stale became interested In horse lleth through their resins to Ret away Ironi their work ibis was lie cae with the tale Senator Stanford lie hadlxtn working day and night on the Pacific railroad scheme when he begin to break down He lint l hit appetite fulled to aleep and ida doctor told him that he mud throw up otrythlnc and lake a ml He replkd that he could not da It and the phytlcUn thin advued him to buy M hone and drltu several hour every day lie bought the be t team he could ri rid and as he drove them he became Interested In them and his mind went from he building of railroad to the > p < < dliig of hone He iludied the morse and formulated a new theory for hone breeding In order to nupport It he had l hla fantoin photograph made of the hone In motion the taking and iHiblbhlng of which cost him over fo ooo Throughout the remainder iIIo tile he got lil < belt ret when he wa working with iris borne and hia sleek farm when he died wan worth millions HOW KOBIHT DOSNIR IBCUKkD IIRALTII It was tire same with Robert Honner the proprietor of Site freer honk ntgtr and the owner ol l Dexltr Maud b and 1 Sunol In so6 lUinner who began tile in an oft e tip I anil who up I to that lun hd l w irk d wulioiil toAliuil hen he-n to ml In IH dm I II e u1 nol iltp sri hln mriKlll nit I HMB Wllll him On ilaylmiimilj i pIli twin rime into lila fhce and raid Kooerl I want your chrck lr I173 Whit for aid 1 Runner M I have guts hone lor you replied the phtiHUn and I want you to drive him You are making a lot of money hut It will bi of no good 1 In you il 1 you ranl live and enju 11 and your only Mlvallon into I get Into the upon air for n part ol every tiny Well Uonner gave the Strum the chuk an < J got the hone lie I began lo speed him and tried in his drive lo pies ucn men us John Harper of llarprr llroiher and Commodore VAlid rbllt not w < rr taking Ihe same m iliiin < He noon bicam < lnu rested in hon 11h and bougut a Irani for fluoowhiin Ironed smile In J 51 Tin was cumidcred I ncr > last in titans day = rtr nrr but llinnrr wrnl on buying from year to year until one day he paid 10000 for the mare Pocihonlai whicn was the highest I price up to that tine ever paid foes hone Pwabonta went ID 117 and a en later lltmier gave 140000 more lor Dexter He alterward insist 1 tire aanM amount lo Vanderbilt forM for-M ud S and It w said that thv price he paid Stanford for Sunol WAA more than a hundred thotxand dollar All together to-gether he ha spent In line neighborhood nf hall a million of dollar slim horse and Ina chicl lienare In his old age is Mid to be driving John Rockileller get much ol 115 rest from hi horses Tie keep a good Iud and he used lo get up al A a in and upend hIs team loran lor-an hour Iwforu i breakfast The Ute mllhoniln Congressman Scott ol I Ienn sylvanla caned his brain with bone bon-e n and Don Cameron woo the god ol health by taking r long horseback I rides into the countr KKll PKOM CARD PIAVINO A number of our statesmen gel their rest from cards Secretary Carlisle play poker neatly every evening and Cy 11n J the financial problem ol the treasury fly away before tire excitement which cumea from a game of penny ante John Sherman wises lila mind with a game ol whiit and Gartltttl when he wo troubled with IrnomnU mrd 1 to pet up and pta solitaire In hi i night nlnrt Carlisle Im I told 1 play solitaire durIng dur-Ing Mime of hla hardest work Wolco t lion loin 1 Ihemtelve Cameron I and In masher Secretary and nearly Orrxluin nil ol the southern statesmen arr addicted to tills game Henry Clay 10 I laid to have bten the bet sevenun player In the state of Kentucky aol when he was making tire treat of uncut he relieved lila tumid 1 by winning all sorlsol 1 bet I from Albert Goliath Iowell Clayton of Arkansas Is fond ol piker und the good Deanm very Smith ol She tlncln 1 nntl Commercial CuteSt 10ld I to take lniu ml through card President I Irveland during lila stay In Rulfalo WHS ant salterS at pinochle and I nes lure to say hat he anti 1 Postmaster General lli sell hae squint game after IWir ulek cabinet affair are over Nearly all of the Supreme Court justices play whist I and Gray of Maunchutetli Is I Mild lo be the ablest whist player In Washington = tw Harrison I wm a good whist pla I > erand Secretary Poster could play almost any tort of card and play them well BILLIARD AND MAIN Illlllards to I one of the bet game lor boiled brain John Qiilncy Adam roejllht t Icre found this out yea ago toil he bought the first billiard table that ever went Into the While House There ia I 1 billiard table In the Uxeculhe Mansion today and it Is I Mid I that lr I < lent Cleveland handles the uo fu < n loJu I stIr time ufierhe hi tt en w a t I lath mir b OlhieMrker Insnl I nt O irln Id Wi 10 a loud billar 1 lnf l It I A alto fond ol croou t an I ball Arthur used the billiard liliL of the Wliiu house very freely outl bin best brain tonic came from a gam of Ihl irrI Kx Senator Palmer ol Michigan Iwd A billiard room In his banns where his fellow Senaton often came to play lie was troubled a good d In ai with intomma and oneol Ills best recIpe hoe sleep was togrt hylcnly tlrd l Senator flutler of South Carol pla A tooth g ime ol billiards ami I am t id thai Keed of Main and Cnap ol Georgia l are experts with tine cue I TATUMIN wiiii emil I understand that llokc inith caught no trout In tan hours in Slim Velluw stone Path this umnier This Is at Ihe rate 01 A trout to the minute and nukes Smiths fish story on ol the biggest on record Ho had thrrr hooks on his tine anti lie ofieri brought m Hire trout at a lime Vice Iresit ei I llrmlrltks once told me that hi had pulUM In our lish at once on une line one tunic on Ihe Allan tic coast The big h < h stories that a ou can hers In the mIami i > ms of the Capi c rat are mure wondirlul th m the late of Munchaiuvn Senator AUIrich will tell ion of the wonderful tarpon which he hAl ought m Florid I I Henalor lr > e will deacrlhe his tilnn In the Main worxU which he supplies willi trout Ironi the lake and sin ml and Il lit of Connecticut 1 will go lulu ictusic over the delights of cal mmmi t fishing Senator Quay h I a Rood hour slur n In all branches il Ihe 1 pUwatorial ri an I shernnii has caught but and slim nh One of the grealeM II > ortmen wln > ever came to the Senate wa Jolm Kmna of Wet Virginia When nu went awy trout worn It inns to rest Ins brain In the Uest Virginia mounlain lie alwa > s took a camera with h m and IK Illustrated hits slorlm with pholOKraplis enII had thoii I sonds of np shui taken In all pan of tine wood near his home antI for somt lime before his ilealh he cr5 con lenipLumc the publnatlon I I of a book of 1 ltunlungarlvnniurrmtuct l as he thought would be topular with the boys of the country livery one know now land f President Cleveland is of Wi fishing and how he I able to gel away from him elf I when he ha u fishing rule In sin hand It was the name wltli President Arthur and also with Andrew Jackson I Jackson used to go down lo Fortress Monroe and spend I a week nt a time on the old fort known as the Kip Rape fnhing lie was fond of horse racing nod cock fijihllng and he cased I iris brain by getting entirely away r11 bus 1 work Daniel Webster computed many ol tls pvech while out fishing and Mine ol the belt sentences In hra speech against Haynea were nude while he had a rod In hIs hand MUNTINO ON Till POTOMAC Quite a number ol the senator and big officials go down the Potomac to fish and nE You remember the hog that President Harrison shot during one of Iris vacation jaunti Vest ami Vance olltn go out to hoot reed birds during the ncaton and one of the best starlit told In the cloak rooms Ihl fall was ol a hunting excursion which Senator Vance llonell JncLson now usilcc of the Supreme court and Ihe late Senator lleik of Kentucky took a year or two ago It was during the Christina holiday holi-day and Deck Vance and Jackson wanted Vest In go wllh them to shoot duck Vet objecled laying ho didnt prupoic to get hn heS w 11 lo his waist lr I 11I1 I all diy and com home without a iiKl UiK ou itiuoa K ° nlHad ml I In and ll I i a venmtumre and I will I > r unite t local at nile Minn every can > un burk trta kill Alt I rughil rvlmlmelh lr Vance dt the others we will keep you lo your barrain I will stick to my word said I Vest and thr trio of United States toes started on Well Ihe hunter had A streak of luck llow ll jarhson proved himself a plen nuts hot Vance knows how 10 handle a gun and lUck killed his share They brought back a hundred duck mostly canvas back ilxly snipe and Iw goons They put the canvas back In a pile and srnt for enl Ills I white hair Mood on end as he thought of nIne Idea of rating too deck at one mral and hubs bIte fat round stomach perceptibly shrank lIe I got out of SIne mailer by selling up a champagne tupper to the crowd It and n inrtof this upper rmana limited nom bet of the canvo backs which the Senators killed As to tin exact nUll ber 01 Ilir ducks there Is I no certified fact the number above given h on the authority of one of the Senator who did the shooting IRNATOail WITH rAD A large number ol our public men find their rest In a chnnge of woik Some ol them take na vacation to speak ol and seldom go out of tine city Not a lew have lid by which In rest rb II their brain Senator Davis gets ims rest by reading i the classic and by throwing hlimelf Into French novels During the past campaign he read half a doten biographical I ind histo cal worka and he It I now ru rending hi Virgil One of his most restiul simile is I Napoleon llonarurle He buy nil he can find concerning him and he has more than few olumes about the great ifol Napoleon I He believe In hot baths before going lo bed ass good thing for sleep I he sara that tIne best rest lor nil overworked brain las change lli Intellectual I I Intel-lectual diet Allen G Tnurman read Trench noels to rest hit brain while he lhl ll t I was In the Senate and he varied I this by working out malhenullcil 1 piohlrmt Senator Hoar resin himself by looking up questions ol American history 1 Kx Congressman V White get hit rest by iudylng slum stan through a heIr assure and w 01 king out astronomical problems IAn lo the late uJ Justice i llradley got hit rest In mathematics HOW OSlO PKkSIUKNTK PtVV thy all odds the ablest of our Presidents Presi-dents are those who hate had some way of relsxing their minds George Washington Wash-ington was fond of n good horte race He got his rest in horseback riding and hunting and ho spent a good nart of every year at Mount Vernon Thomas Jefferson spent a part of every day In riding through the woods nbout Washington Wash-ington while he was President He was often nIt for a private I citiien and once In cresting Rock creek near here n man who wanted to ford the creek and not gel his fret wet asked him to carry him over behind him which he did lie rode every afternoon while he was President from I oclock until J and when be was almost crazy on account of Ihe death ol Irma wife 1 he roamed about for dan on horseback He was fund of good hone and hit coach l lionet cost fipos apiece Frank 1 Tierce wan another 1risident who thought that the benS cure for the Inside of a nun wis the outside out-side of a horse lie galloped about Ihe streets of Washington midnight while he was 1resident Ito was lond of riding rid-ing after dark and lilt favorite hone was blind James llnerunan took his I excrue In a carriage Grant drove a I great deal more than he rode and Iris I I five for horses Is t a matUr or history He I hail omo of the best horses tint Invi ev r bern in the Uliite House I itables and hiwas I AIa > s buying new ones President Arthur rode a great deal on horseback and I think that II Wat at the advice of his physician that he look hit dal y ride Jackson lpt good hon nra and he bet upon the race At one race nrar here his private Some tiny nod adopted ton Andrew J Jukson Donelton rntered IIO a horse and I have heard it old that Jackson lost f 10 ooo which ho bet upon him Cleveland It i loo heavy a man to ride horseback White he wai living at Oak View he straddled a steed occatlonally but hit fsvorlte exercise today to In I the carriage He drives every afternoon tu the Sol dienHome or out about Tonic Ion nand n-and I the trecla alone Imio line of march are now watered daily rIDHTIAL WALKU President Cleveland seldom goes on fool ouhride of the While House grounds Harrison I walked nImbi every day In coninny with one ol Ihe ladle ol hit family he could be teen every afternoon out About the While huh near the Washington monument or taking a stroll through Ihe rwrkt He I alwny walked lo church and when he was worrltd about public matters lie would drop hula work and go oIl for a long two or three mile walk Into the counlr Gen Grant wn often teen on the streets here during his life In the While House He I usually had a cigar In luau inoiMli and he would talk to any one who spoke lo him President Uncoln walked about somewhat but his cabinet were afraid to have him go out of the house and It WAS the who insisted upon the guard which he look with him when he went horseback horse-back riding Lincoln got a great deal r hmra rest irom the theater A box was reserved lor him at Sin Ihalr litre and he could go In and out at he pleated He was sometimes In the Ihtatcr I am told when the curtains ol the box were drawn and the spectators did nul know I that he was prettni He often took I Tad with him and the boy used logo behind the stage and once or Iw Ice in appeared In 1 minor parts where he had nothing to nay and S John J Oulncy Adams t walked from the While House I to Ihe Capitol and back every day When he wat overworked l ho would l taken long tramp or n swim In the Potomac I and there ins tradition here that during one of them swimming excursions his clothe were stolen and he had a hard lime get Sin Itretis back IIIIIIII to to IU tire Iue I t71 w John II ijuincy I Admit alto liked horses I though I lie rode but Itile and he used to walk out to the race rack two miles from heir and watch ihe race President Presi-dent Harrisons grandfather was a good walker and while he cuss In the While Home he trotted to market every morning morn-ing with Ins basket on hit arm And picked out hit own meats lie died AI much from worry and overwork os anything any-thing and hit I amtIrmrvswere littered In delirium concerning office seeker Gen Garfield was fond of UK ball mid he often attended the game here uorge Washington I was a noted jumper In I Ins diy ami when he wa j onng man taking a walk up the Potomac lie stopped At a plantation where there was a jumping match i As the story I goes the prlie hoe the best jumper J wat to be the beautiful dattghler ol the planter Washington entered the match and much lo Ihe disgust ol the oung lady 1 he distanced dis-tanced her lot er by full 1 ten Inches Noting No-ting the black rI looks I on the gbtlu lice I and the disappointed appearance nf every one ao to Ihe result he withdrew hit claim and I lIme real lover who up tin that time had never had his equal ass lumper In urns part of the country got back iweelheart I HANK G CAHriNTFK |