Show wr whitin tan for this paper OVERWORK AND WORRY the great american brain is boiling today as it has seldom boiled before financial ti troubles and business worries are blazing away under the kettle and the demon of overwork is is stirring up the soup with ghoulish glee the newspapers daily r record or the suid suicides es an and in insanity of I 1 leading ding men and the nerves of 0 rich an and p poor r are stretched to their utmost ost A level head and a steady hand are greater necessities now than silver and gold and the question of how our great reat men keep them is is more interesting to the masses than the discussions of Con congress gess I 1 am surprised to find how prominent nent men have to fight for steady brains rains half of the members of congress have shattered nervous systems and there are a number of leading senators who are fighting the arch fiend of insomnia night after night ASK ABE HEWITTS FIGHT FOR SLEEP perhaps the worst sleeper who ever came to washington was abram S li hewitt lihwitt ewitt he had a suit with a baker in in the next block whose dog barked at the moon at midnight and dewent he went almost wild over a cock that crowed near him in tle the early morning hi he kept house here for a time and had beds in in half a dozen dif different lerent rooms he would change about from one room to the other in in his efforts for sleep and when in new york he would go about from house bouse to house for the same purpose during a part of his congressional career he boarded at Worm leys and he bad at this time the entire upper floor ern embracing aree bed rooms on the aioo in morning g following the first night he went to wormley and complained of the dogs which kept him awake 1 I can fix that said wormley and the next day i he be dogs were taken away on the day following 1151 lowing hewitt said he was kept awake by the yowling bowling of the cats mi wormley replied the cats are harder to get rid of than the dogs but I 1 will see what I 1 can do to get rid of them the rhe third night hewitt came down more disgusted than ever and said he had failed to get sleep because of the noise made anade by the birds wormley hereupon threw up his hands in despair 1 I dodot know what I 1 can do mr hewitt said he be you can poison dogs and you can shoot cats but the man has to get up early who would kill all the sparrows 91 and the larks hewitts dewitts He witts insomnia continued through the whole of his congressional ress ional career and I 1 think he carried IF f it t back to new york with him GET SLEEP FROM A number of prominent men get sleep from exercise hoke smith keeps his system in order by a horseback ride every day joseph G cannon takes a gallop into the country three times a week and henry cabot lodge spends a part of each day in the saddle some of the greatest horse lovers in in the united states became interested in horse flesh through their desires to get away from their work this was the case with the late senator stanford he had been working day and night on the pacific railroad scheme when he began irk to break down he lost his appetite failed to sleep and his doctor told him that he must throw up everything and take a rest he replied that he could not do it and the physician then advised him to buy a horse and drive several hours every day he bought the best team he could find and as he drove them he became interested in them and his mind went from the building of railroads to the speeding of horses he studied the horse and formulated a new theory for horse breeding in order to support it he had his famo famous S photographs made of the horse in motion the taking and publishing of which cost him over 40 40 throughout the remainder of his life he got his best rest when he was working working with his horses and his stock farm w when en he died was worth millions HOW ROBERT BONNER SECURED HEALTH it was the same with robert bonner the proprietor of the new york ledger and the owner of dexter maud S and sunol in 1856 bonner who began life as an office boy and who up to that time had worked without cessation began to fail in health he could not sleep and his meals did not agree with him one day his family physician came into his office and said robert I 1 want your check for what for said bonner 1 I have got a horse for you replied the physician and I 1 want you to drive him you are making a lot jot of money but it will be of no good to you if you cant live and enjoy it and your only salvation is to get into the open air for a 1 part of every day well bonner gave the man the check and got goethe the horse he began to speed him and tried in in his drives to pass such men as john har harper p er of harper brothers and commodore vanderbilt who were taking the same medicine he soon became interested in horse flesh and bought a team for 2000 2000 which trotted a mile in this was considered very fast in those days but bonner went on buying from year to year until one day he paid for the mare pocahontas which was the highest price u up to that time ever paid for a horse pocahontas wahontas Za hontas went in and a year later banner gave more for dexter he afterward paid the same amount to vanderbilt for maud S and it is said that the price he paid stanford for sunol was more than a hundred thousand dollars all together he has spent in the neighborhood of half a million of dollars for horses and his chief pleasure in his old age is said to be driving john rockefeller Rock eteller gets much ot of his rest from his horses he keeps a good stud and he used to get up at 5 a in and speed his team for an hour before breakfast the late millionaire congressman scott of pennsylvania eased his brain with horse breeding and don cameron woos the god of health by taking long horseback rides into the country REST FROM CARD PLAYING A number of our statesmen get their rest from cards secretary carlisle plays poker nearly every evening and the financial problems problem of the treasury fly away before the excitement which comes from a game of penny ante john sherman eases his mind with a gaite of whist and garfield when he be was troubled with in insomnia sonni used to 0 get up and play solitaire in his night shirt alt carlisle I 1 am told plays solitaire during some of his hardest work wolcott don cameron and secretary gresham lose themselves in poker and nearly all ol of the southern statesmen are addicted to this game henry clay is said to have been the best seven up player in the state of kentucky and when he was making the treaty of ghent he relieved his mind by winning all sorts of bets from albert gallatin powell clayton of arkansas is very fond of poker and the good deacon smith of the cincinnati commercial gazette is said to take his rest through cards president cleveland during his stay in buffalo Buff ialo was ai an expert at pinochle and I 1 venture to say that he and postmaster general bissell have a quiet game after cabinet affairs are over nearly all of the supreme court justices play whist and gray of massachusetts is said to be the ablest whist player in washington harrison was a good whist player and secretary foster could play almost any sort of cards and play them well BILLIARDS BILLIARD AND BRAINS billiards is one of the best games lor jor boiled brains john quincy adams found this out years ago and he bought the first billiard table that ever went into the white house there is is a billiard table in the executive mansion today and it is said that president Cl cleveland evelana handles bandies the cue for an hour at a time after he has been worried to death by office seekers president garfield was also a good billiard player and he was also fond of croquet and ball arthur used the billiard table of the white house very freely aud his best brain tonic came from a game of this sort ex senator palmer of michigan had a billiard room in his house where his fellow senators often came to play he was troubled a good deal with insomnia and one of his best recipes for sleep was to get physically tired senator butler of south carolina plays a good game of billiards and I 1 am told that reed of main and crisp of georgia are experts with the cue STATESMEN WHO FISH I 1 understand that hoke smith caught trout in two hours in the yellowstone park this summer this is at the rate of a trout to the minute and makes smiths fish story one of the biggest on record he had three hooks on his line and he often brought in three trout at a time vice president Hendrick sronce told me that he had pulled in four fish at once on one line one time on the atlan athana tic coast the big fish stories storie that you can here in the cloak rooms of the capitol are more wonderful than the tales of munchausen senator aldrich will tell ted you of the wonderful tarpon which he has caught in florida senator frye will describe his cabin in the main woods which he supplies with trout from the takes lakes and streams and platt of connecticut will go into ecstasies over the delights of salmon fishing senator quay is a good fisherman in all branches of the piscatorial i scat orial art and sherman has caught ab bass ass and white fish one of the greatest sportsmen who ever came to the senate was john kenna of west virginia when he went away from work it was to rest his bis brain in the west virginia mountains he always toola camera with him and he illustrated his stories with photographs he had thou of snap shots taken in all parts of the woods near his home and for some ti time before his death he was contemplating tem plating i the publication of a book of hunting adventures such as hi he thought would be popular with the boys of the country every one knows how bow fond president cleveland is of fishing and how he is able to get away from himself when hs he has a fishing pole in his hands it was the same with president arthur and also with andrew jackson jackson used to go down to fortress monroe and spend a week at a time on the old fort known as the rip raps fishing he was fond of horse racing and cock fighting and he eased his brain by getting gettin entirely rely away from his W work ork daniel webster ter composed many of his speeches while out fishing and some of the best sentences in his speech against haynes were made while he had a rod in his hands HUNTING ON THE POTOMAC quite a number ot of the senators and eilf bi big officials go down the potomac to fish and hunt you remember the hog that president harrison shot during one of his vacation jaunts vest and vance often go out to shoot reed birds during durin i g the season and one of the best stories told in the cloak rooms this fall was ot of a hunting hanting excursion which senator vance howell we I 1 jackson now justice of the supreme court and the late senator beck of kentucky took a year or two a ago go it was during the christmas holidays holiday and beck vance and jackson wanted vest to go with them to shoot ducks vest objected saying he propose to get his feet wet to his waist propose g and all day and come home without a single duck you fellows go ahead said he and it leave ave me here and I 1 will promise to eat at one sitting every canvas back you kill all right replied vance and the others 1 we will keep you to your bargain 1 I will stick to my word said vest and the trio of united states senators started off well the hunters had a streak of luck howell jackson proved himself a splendid shot vance knows how to handle a gun and beck killed his share they brought back a hundred ducks mostly canvas backs sixty snipe and tw geese they put the canvas backs in a pile and sent for vest his white hair stood on end as he thought of the idea of eating zoo loo decks at one meal and his litte fat round stomach perceptibly shrank he got out of the matter by setting up a champagne supper to the crowd and a part chis supper was a limited num her ber of the canvas backs which the senators killed As to the exact num ber of the ducks there is no certified fact the number above given is is on the authority of one of the senators who did the shooting SENATORS WITH FADS A large number of our public men find their rest in a change of work some of them take no vacations to speak of and seldom go out of the city c i ty not a few have fads ads by which to rest their brains senator davis gets his rest by reading the classics and by throwing himself into french novels during the past campaign he read half a dozen biographical and histo ical works and he is now re rereading reading his virgil one of his most restful studies is napoleon Nap dleon bonaparte he buys all he can find concerning him and he has more than volumes about the great napoleon he believes in hot baths before going to bed as a good thing for sleep he says that the best rest for an overworked brain is a change of intellectual diet allen alien G thurman read french novels to rest his brain while he was in the senate and he varied this by working out mathematical problems senator hoar rests himself by looking up up questions of american history ex congressman S V white gets his rest by studying the stars through a telescope and working out astronomical problems and the late justice bradley got his rest in mathematics HOW OUR presidents PLAY PLAY by all odds the ablest of our presidents are those who have had some way of relaxing their minds george washington was fond of a good horse race he got his rest in horseback riding and hunting and he spent a good part of every year at mount vernon thomas jefferson spent a part of every day in riding through the woods about washington while he was president he was often taken for a private citizen and once in crossing rock creek near here a man who wanted to ford the creek and not get his feet wet asked him to carry him over behind him which he did he rode every afternoon while he was president from i until 3 and when he was almost crazy on account of the death of his wife he roamed about for days on horseback he was fond of good horses and his coach horses cost boo apiece frank pierce was another president pres i dent who thought that the best cure for the inside of a man was the outside of a horse he galloped about the streets of washington at midnight while he was president he was fond of riding after dark and his favorite horse was blind james buchanan took his bis exercise in a carriage grant drove a great deal more than he rode and his love iove for horses is a matter of history he had some of the best horses horse that have ever been in the white house stables and he was always buying new ones president arthur rode a great deal on horseback and I 1 think that it was at the advice of nis his physician that he took his daily rides jackson kept good horses and he bet upon the races at one race near here his private secretary and adopted son andrew jackson donelson Oo nelson entered a horse and I 1 have heard it said that jackson lost which he bet upon him cleveland is too heavy a man to ride horseback while he was living at oak view he straddled a steed occasionally but his favorite exercise today is in the carriage he drives every afternoon to the soldiers home or out about tenleytown Tenley town and the streets along his line of march are now watered daily presidential WALKERS president cleveland seldom goes on foot outside of the white house grounds harrison walked miles every day in company with one of the ladies of his family he could be seen every afternoon out about the white lot near the washington monument or taking a stroll through the parks he always walked to church and when he was worried about public matters he would drop his work and go off for a long two or three mile walk into the country gen grant was often deenon the streets here during his life in the white house he usually had a cigar in his mouth and he would talk to any one who spoke to him president lincoln walked about somewhat but his cabinet were afraid to have him go out of the house and it was |