ME CITIZEN, FIHDAY, JULY 28, 1011.
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RELIEF FOR A
BOY MURDERER
No PardonOnly More Freedom,
For Jesse Pomeroy.
THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS IN CELL
Case Remarkablo In Criminal History
When Fourteen Years Old He Killed
a Boy and a Girl His Youth Saved
Him From the Death Penalty Wom
en Urged Executive Clemency.
Jesse H. Pomeroy, known for al
most four decndes as "the boy mur
derer" and held by an earlier genera
tion to be the most desperate criminal
abnormality of the age, Is 6oon to
leave hl8 cell for greater freedom In
the state prison at Charlestown, Mass.,
after having spent thirty-seven years
In solitary confinement
Governor Poss, Impressed by evi
dences submitted to him from many
sources of the great change In Pome
roy's character, has decided to nllow
the life convict to enjoy many of the
liberties granted well behaved pris
oners. Governor Poss will never grant
Pomeroy n full pardon, and It Is gen
erally believed no other governor ever
will take such action, but to give the
man who has Inspired dread in the
hearts of even his keepers ever since
the day when as a fourteen-year-old
boy he was thrust Into a "punishment"
cell In the Charlestown prison any por
tion of the freedom onjoyed by tracta
ble convicts is considered evidence of
a transformation In the criminal's
mnkcup.
Governor Foss' determination to do
what many of his predecessors have
refused to do in the face of prayerful
petitions signed by women in all parts
of the country is set forth in a letter
he has sent to John Ernest Warren,
librarian of the American Dramatists'
club of New York. Warren, who was
a playmate of Pomeroy, recently mndo
an eloquent plea in behalf of his life
long friend, nnd Governor Foss lu his
reply made known that Warren's pre
sentment of the facts had much to do
with his reaching his decision.
But Pomeroy's greatest champion has
been his mother, now a sad faced,
white haired woman noarlng her seven
tieth year. Although denied even the
right to see her son and having to
accept the truth of the fact that he
was regarded all over the civilized
world as the most atrocious example
of a wanton murderer, his mother nev
er faltered in her faith in his Innate
goodness nor forsook for a moment her
plan to gain for him his freedom. At
each holiday season, on Thanksgiving
and Christmas, as well ns on his own
birthday, she has goho to the prison
with a big basket of good things to
eat, and It Is she also who has kept
him supplied with current magazines
and books.
Pomeroy killed two children, a boy
and a girl, after treating them with
barbaric cruelty. He inveigled other
children into isoluted sections, stripped
them of their clothing, tied them to
trees or upon boards nnd then bent
them until they wore unconscious. He
delighted in sticking pins Into their
unconscious forms and cut them deep
ly with a knife. When this juvenile
monster, then fourteen years old, was
finally run down and captured ho bare
ly escaped lynching. Ills youth alone
saved him from the death penalty.
"COMPLEXION ROOM."
It Is Designed to Make All Women
Diners Look Beautiful,
One of the big Chicago hotels is
making a bid for women patrons
through the novelty of a "complexion
room."
No matter whether the fair diner's
big hat is crowning a medley of Jet
black rats, puffs and real hair or
whether her dome is topped with n
bunch of drug store straw, the coif
' fure will look stunning in the complex
ion room. No matter whether the roses
on the cheeks were procured at the
corner chemist's or whether her coun
tenance In general Is of the "marble"
variety, she will "get away with It"
in the complexion room. Said the
president:
"You know that certnin colorings,
decorations, wall paper nnd floor cov
erings will set off to disadvantage
some complexions, especially by can
dlelight or nt night, making them look
far from hnndsomo. Wo will over
come this nnd make tho cafe a ver
itablo complexion room that will en
hance the beauty, natural or artificial,
of any woman."
ECCENTRIC WOMAN DEAD.
Lived With a Hundred Dogs Wore
Mourning When One Died.
Tho rich and eccentric Mrs. Sarah K.
Gabbett of Atlanta, Ga., who was
known as the "Irish peeress," is dead
at tho ago of seventy-seven.
Boforo her marriage she was a Miss
nichardson, daughter of a physician
of Savannah. Iler husbnnd, Henry G.
Gabbett, was said to be an Irish no
bleman who had sworn never to live
under British rule.
Mrs. Gabbett kept moro than a hun
dred dogs In her mansion. She dress
ed In costly attlro and made a great
display of Jewels. When a dog died
ithe went Into mourn inc.
SCALP SEEKING
IN THE THROES
Congress Probe Rent, and
Its Members Yearn
For Target.
WITH twenty-four separate in
vestigations now under way
before special and standing
committees of the house oi
representatives and tho nine members
of President Taft's cabinet in demand
ns witnesses in connection with Demo
cratic attacks upon the Republican ad
ministration official Washington ia in
tho throes of a party probe such as has
not been seen beforo In nearly forty
years. At that time when tho first
Democratic congress sinco tho civil
war was enjoying power the Demo
crats turned loose with inquisitorial
powers. Just as they have in the pres
ent special session, tho committee on
expenditures in tho executive depart
ments nnd other special probing com
Ulttecs. A reign of terror was creatod In the
national capital, and ns n result of tho
investigations Secretary of War Belk
nap was impeached, jobs were abol
ished, salaries reduced and a big cut
was made In the actual expenditures.
Biggest Sensation Promised.
To accept the word of some of the
house Democrats Just now one would
get the idea that tho big storm of near
ly forty years ago was merely a
zephyr to the cyclone that is gathering
as a result of the labors of the present
probe. As a mntter of fact, however,
tho Democrats were exceedingly dis
couraged up to a few days ago at the
lack of success that had attended their
labors in the probing line.
Most of them had been confident that
after sixteen years of Republican
"misrule," as they are pleased to call
It, almost any committee not too much
hampered by a sense of fairness nnd
actuated largely by a desire to stir up
stuff suitable for campaign material
could acquire great merit In a short
time. But as n matter of fact the
steel and sugar special committees and
tho committee on expenditures in the
state department were tho only three
that up to recently had managed to
stir tip sufficient Interest to secure any
considerable amount of publicity, and
in this connection it should not bo over
looked that the steel and sugar com
mittees havo had big men prominent In
tho public eyo before them, while the
etato department committee managed
to discover that $1,GOO was mishan
dled in tho state department in 1000
under n now obsoleto system of book
keeping.
But the cropping out of tho Wiley
controversy nnd tho charges against
President Taft and Attorney General
Wickersham growing out of tho Con
troller Bay and Alaska syndicate prop
ositions havo given tho Democrats re
newed hope of stirring up somcthiug
of sufficient size to assist in making a
campaign against tho present adminis
tration.
list of Investigations.
Ignoring tho Lorlmer Inquiry at the
senate end of tho capltol, here nre tho
Investigations authorized by tho house
which aro now under way: Steel trust.
Controller Bay land tangle, Indian land
scandals, trust busting expenditures,
Foster big fee case, effort to oust Dr.
Wiley, threatened extinction of Pribi
lof seal herd, government of the Dis
trict of Columbia, irregularities at
Washington navy yard nnd alleged
general extravaganco In naval service,
alleged persecution of Lewis publica
tions, railway mail service trouble, al
leged favoritism shown to Major Bay
of tho army and other charges.
Extravagance in the United States
army, charges against Attorney Gener
al Wickersham In connection with
Alaska syndicate frauds, parcels post
proposition and other postal service
matters, fire protection in government
buildings and governmental methods
of constructing public buildings, viola
tions of civil servico law, creosote un-
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HOW TO BE HAPPY IN BOSTON
Eat Beans, Read Emerson and Carry a
Green Bag.
How to bo happy though living in
Boston or its suburbs is exemplified
by n writer in tho Christian Register,
n Unitarian weekly. The things one
must have, must do and must be are
listed below in part:
Eat beans Saturday night and fish
balls Sunday morning.
Select the Puritans for your ances
tors. Have a sheltered youth nnd be a
graduate of Harvard.
Read Emerson.
Havo a profession or literary call
ing. Speak low.
Bo a conservative lu politics and a
liberal In religion. ' '
Drop your r's.
Mo fond of tho antique.
Wear glasses and bo fond of tomb
stones. Carry your parcels in a green bag.
Bo a D. A. R., a Colonial Damo or
a S. A. R. or belong to the Mayflower
society.
Bo neighborly to the unmarried.
Shudder at the west, but go to Eu
rope frequently.
STATESMEN
ME
OE MUCH
Nine Cabinet Officers Wit
nesses In Twenty-four
Investigations.
devaluations, government's rental o)
the Union building, recoveries on sugai
frauds, irregularities in the custonn
service.
Jealousy Among Chairmen.
The success of a few of tho commit
tees In stirring up questionable propo
sitions of popular interest and the non
success of others have led to a gooo
deal of jealousy among the chairmen
of tho many committees. For instance.
Representative Cox of Indiana, chair
man of the hoase committee on cxpen
dlturcs in tho treasury department, ap
pealed to several newspaper men th
other day to turn up something foi
him.
"I don't believe there is anything
much wrong in the treasury depart
ment," he said in a discouraged tone
"That is, our Investigations so fai
haven't revealed anything. Can't yoi
put mo on to a good scandal or two?"
The newspaper men, confessing theli
inability to "produce," Mr. Cox looked
over the field nnd decided to butt in ot
tho activities of the committee on ex
pendltures in tho interior department
which is investigating the Controllei
bay land tangle, by introducing a res
olutlon asking President Taft to inforn
the house whether ho was influenced
by his brother, Charles P. Taft, or bj
any of the Guggenheim agents it
throwing the Controller bay water fron:
open to entry.
Being unable to get anywhere witt
this resolution, which will not bo fa
vorably reported, Mr. Cox decided tc
borrow a little of the glory of the
Wiley inquiry from the committee ot
expenditures in the agricultural de
partmcnt, so ho introduced a rcsolu
tlon asking how many kicks had beer
made ngalnst Dr. Wiley in recent yean
with tho Idea of showing that the in
forests are persecuting tho govern
ment's expert This Immediately irrl
tated Representative Moss of Indiana
chairman of tho agricultural expondl
tures committee, who had presented
tho subject himself.
In addition to this feud, tho commit
tees on military affairs and expendl
tures in the war department are noi
quarreling as to which shall lnvestl
gate the! case of Major Ray, who, it it
contended, as a result of his close re
lations with President Taft during thi
1008 campaign, has been shown fa
voritism in tho army.
Officials Kept In Town.
The big batch of investigations hai
resulted in keeping all tho members ol
President Taft's cabinet In town. In
deed, it has been many a day slnci
tho official family of any chief execu
tivo was ever so pestered.
Secretary of War Stlmson expecti
to be called boforo the Hnrdwlck spe
clal sugar committee and tho house
committee on expenditures in tho de
partmcnt of justice to tell how it hap
pencd that after resigning as Unitec
States attorney for tho southern dis
trict of New York ho was employed bj
tno department of justice ns a spocia
assistant and was paid a big fee foi
his work in recovering on undervalua
tions of sugar Imports from the sugai
trust
Attorney General Wickersham ha
already testified before tho committee
on expenditures in tho department o
Justice concerning tho trust bustinf
expenses of tho government and is tc
bo called by tho houso committee ot
Judiciary to tell what ho knows of the
charges of Delegato Wickersham o!
Alaska that he favored tho Alaska syn
dlcato by permitting tho statuto of llm
ltation to run when be had In his po
session evldenco of fraud.
Several other committees may alsc
call Mr. Wickersham In connectlot
with other allegations which have beei
made with other phases of tho wort
of tho department of Justice.
" a
WOMEN'S FEET BIGGER.
Nos. 2 and 3 About Gone Averagi
Sizo Now Is 4 to 5.
Women's feet nre bigger than thej
used to bo and still growing, say th.
shoo manufacturers of America. A
canvass of opinions among tho deal
ers nt n recent convention hold iu Bos
ton revealed that tho average sizo oi
shoes that women wear today is from
4 to 5, whereas twenty yeara ngo tht
average was from 3 to 5. Tho No. 2
size in women's shoes has practlcallj
disappeared. Only one in twenty re
tailors handlo them. 1
It was also said that many firms are
sending their products out with a code
number in place of tho actual size
number. Women refused to wear the
number that fitted them. Now what
ever size they ask for, whether It b
2, 4 or 0, tho dealer gives them th
nhoo that fits them best, nnd ho alone
knows what size she wears.
Pavilion of Demography In Chile.
Tho Chilean government has let the
contract for tho construction of the
pavilion of demography of tho Insti
tute of nygieno nt Santiago. Chile,
to Joso Junens nt a cost of $37,80C
United States gold. The work la to be
completed beforo tho close of 1011.
DEFENDS THE HOUSEFLY.
Expert 8ays It Warns That General
Cleaning Up Is Needed.
Tho housefly is of extreme value as
a danger slgnnl to indicate the pres
ence of insanitary conditions, nnd It
Is these conditions, and not tho fly It
self, against which wo must wage war,
according to Dr. E. Porter Felt state
entomologist of New i'ork.
Tho expert makes clear his position
on tho fly question, saying:
"Few people know much about tho
fly controversy beyond tho fact that
tho housefly Is a carrier of the germs
of certain diseases, such as typhoid
fever, intestinal disorders nnd tuber
culosis. "Tho fly is man's good friend and
a necessity, so long ns man tolerates
filthy or Insanitary conditions. When
man as an animal becomes n clean pig
tho flies will naturally disappear.
"1 do not see much logic In the cry
'swat tho deadly fly. Tho cry should
bo 'swat tho insanitary conditions that
breed flies.' When man neglects to be
clean, naturo provides scavengers In
tho shape of flies to consume the dirt,
tho refuse nnd the diseaso growing
matter.
"I believe that If the housefly were
exterminated it would tend to upset
tho 'balance of nature nnd result In
somo other plague that might be a
thousand times worse than the flies
could over be.
"Similar things have happened be
foro. The decimation of tho coyotes
resulted in n ploguo of gophers. The
English sparrow wns imported to de
stroy the measuring worm, nnd now
people nre wondering how to kill off
tho sparrow, which has increased so
alarmingly ns to becomo n pest
"In the event of tho disappearance
of the housefly there Is the possibility
that the stable fly might become domi
nant nnd inflict moro serious annoy
ance upon mankind and be vastly
more efficient ns a carrier of disease."
Syndicate Controls Potash Industry.
Consul Talbot J. Albert of Bruns
wick states that tho potassium syndi
cate is now in full control of the Ger
man potash industry, with tho excep
tion of the Schmldtmann mines
(Solldtedt and Ascherslebcn), which
have their representatives In tho Unit
ed States, where tho syndicate is also
represented.
New Railroad In Spain.
A concession has been Granted to tho
Spanish Railway company (limited) for
building a steam traction line 152
miles from Mndrid to Utriel. province
of Valencia. This will connect with
tho lino from Valencia to Utriel and
thus afford Madrid another direct line
to the Mediterranean.
There ia aii obllerae way oi reproor
which tabes off from the sharpness of
It Steele.
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Sterling, Pa.
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It Is the friction of tho nlr that sets
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