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'BOY FIEND'
MAKES PLEA
FOR MERCY
OSTON.—Jesse H. Pom
eroy, the one prisoner in
Massachusetts who Is
doomed to solitary life
Imprisonment, has writ­
ten an account of his prison life in an
effort to have the conditions of his
confinement ameliorated.
Pomeroy has been in prison for
thirty-six years. He was fourteen at
the time he committed the frightful
crifoes which won for him the title of
"the boy ftend." .Only his youth saved
him trom' hanging. The condition on
which his sentence was commuted to
life Imprisonment waB that his con
finement should be "solitary," and he
alone of the Inmates of the Charles
town state prison is never permitted
to see his fellows. There Is a con
vict whose duty It is to shut the door
of Pomeroy's cell whenever a visitor
enters the corridor.
Re was a newsboy, and his reading
was confined to dime novels. But in
the course of hli imprisonment he has
educated himself. He understands
several languages and 1b an omni
vorous reader. 1
He has.made.at least ten efforts to
escape, all of them characterized by
the utmost Ingenuity. Aside from this
he does not give his keepers much
trouble. In his written statement he
does not ask for liberty, but for the
mitigation of the hard terms of his
Imprisonment
The statement in part Is as follows:
"Massachusetts State Prison.
"Dear Sir:
"Whether my case can have your
sympathy I do not know. Still, an
effort to uplift this life would bring
you pleasure, as it brought pleasure
to Governor Gaston in 1876. His mes
sage to me (1888) was: 'I am not
aorry, I am glad I saved that boy's
life1.' He would not sign my death
warrant. (See council records July,
1875.)
"You know all about my case. Pub
lic feeling against me Is responsible
for the deeply rooted and persistent
newspaper misrepresentation, 'all
these years,' and' that public feeling
was due to newspaper exaggeration
end notoriety in 1874.
"Of course it cannot be denied that
the crime was dreadful and that pub'
lie Justice required satisfaction but
the truth is no effort has been made
from that day to this to better this
prisoner's condition.
"I have no friends, no influence,
cannot get a hearing from the gover
nor, I have been left to my own de
vice in titis cell all these years.
"I pat down a few of the mitigating
features' in my case.
Mitigating Features.
"1. I was fourteen years old when
arrested In 1874.
"2. Public' febllng swayed the
course of justice to my prejudice. The
Judge at the. trial told the jury 'to
bring In a verdict in the first de
gree or acquit for insanity.'
"That was illegal.
"3. The. attorney general was so
abusive that tjie jury Interrupted
him, .'saying, 'Cease your Invective.'
My ceeeajwas reoomriieBfded to"
mercy by the ~Juiy.
"5. Sentence as in this-case, 'to
solitary imprisonment at hard labor
for life' is unprecedented—there have
been at least live capital commuta
tions to this prison since 1874. Not
one was fourteen. Not one was a
solitary sentence. At least two of
them have been pardoned.
"6. I have shown a disposition to
reform. I have not led a criminal life
here. I would do well if given an op
portunity.
"7. There is a doubt whether I
was fairly tried, legally sentenced,'
legally held all these years In a cell,,
for reasons which I have duly laid
before our supreme court, and to this
date the judges have given no answer
as to the merit" of said contention.
(See their decisions herewith.)
"Reason as above. (I was tried un
der G. S., Gen. Sta'ts, 1860.)
Calls His Penalty Cruel.
"Solitary imprisonment at hard la
bor for life, on a boy fourteen years
old, is contrary to the constitution
and laws of Massachusetts. It is a
cruel penalty ex post facto it vio
lates the statute of pardons—(G. S.,
C. 177, s. 12, &c., St. 1837, c. 181,) in
not defining what he meant by his
solitary it is uncertain and vague
the law says it is a dark cell on bread
and water. (See G. S., c. 1748, s. 18
c. 179, s. 42). And he should have
said what'he meant.
"By the constitution and laws, no
one can be put out of the protection
of the law, or suffer illegal penalty
(see G. S., c. 174, s. 1, 13 Allen, p.
681) for customary penalties finally
the warrant does not show it to be
conditional. If so Intended.
"All of which gives rise to a well
founded doubt, if I was convicted by
good process of law as per article
of amendment to United States con
stitution No. 13, which by Article 6
of said constitution is the 'supreme
law of the land.'
"1 will conclude by saying that the
documents herewith are authentic
and official.
"My case Is now pending on habeas
corpus.
"I will add that some records neces
sary In my case are denied to me.-ac
by the list herewith and if you can
in any way assist me to obtain them
I shall thank you. I submit, too, that
my case is exceptional, worthy of
MIND CONTROLLED BY EYE
.. Utlca Doctors 8ay Left-Handed Per
sons Are Such Because Eyes
Demand It.
mm
Every human belie has a "dom
inant eye," and failure to recognize
this fact has caused the race untold
misery, say Dr. George M. Gould and
Dr. A. C. Durand of Utlca, after a
study of hundreds of cases In their
clinics.
The great superstition of "the evil
eye," they asBert, has arisen through
Instinctive appreciation of the fact
of the' dominance of one eye over the
other and over the mind and body of
•the possessor.
Right-handedness and left-handed
.ness, say these two investigators,
arise, in the first year or two of life,
land are caused by the dominance, re
spectively, of the right or left eye. In
'relatively 92 per cent of Infants the
right eye is the dominant or easier
seeing eye and in 8 per cent, it Is
the left.
The attempt to ofcange the estab
lishing habit of tofMiandedness In
In Solitary Confinement Since He Was a Boy of 14, Thirty-six Years Ago.
consideration, both as to privileges,
aB on its legal aspect, because 'cir
cumstances alter cases.'
"In the sincere hope that It may
move you to uplift, in some way, the
friendless life, 1 am, respectfully
yours.
"JESSE H. POMEROY."
To this he appends copies of the
records In his case.
Record of His Crimes.
One of Pomeroy's playmates wrote
his recollections of the murderer
about twenty years ago. He said that
as a boy Jesse was quiet,' retiring,
taciturn, and not fond of games. His
favorite reading was the dime novels
of Beadle and Munro. They used to
play "Indians," and JesBe's favorite
hero was Sipion Girty, {he renegade,
while the other boys swore by Ken
ton, Boone and the Wetzels.
"It was all wildly extravagant talk,"
said Jesse's schoolmate, "and not
worth writing about but for the fact
that at that very time Boston was in
a sea of excitement over the outrages,
perpetrated by some unknown per
son on little boys of from eight to
nine years of age.
"Qne week the .news would come
that a little boy was found tied to a
telegraph pole on the Old Colony, or
Boston, Hartford & Erie road, hor
ribly mutilated, with his back in rib
bons Bind caked with salt. The next
week or' month another little boy. It
wafe never a boy of Jesse'B' size or
age, or anywhere near it, would be
found in Chelsea, or East Boston, or
Jamaica Plain or Dorchester, muti
lated and cut in the same way. Some
times a boy was found tied to a tree,
sometimes in an old barn, but oftener
to A. telegraph pole on some railroad.
Fathers began to tell their boys to
?ber,carrful'ofanian'^th^d'hafeind
beard," 'as the Goth Was described by
his' victims, and mothers were anx
ious If their. boys were out of their
sight for half a day.
Jesse Always Silent.
'We used to talk of the acts of this
earlier 'Ripper' among ourselves, but
Jesse never had anything to say about
it, one way or the other. Then the
number of boys who were 'chased,'
and escaped by the enamel of their
teeth, at about this time was legion.
One boy's name I remember—the
others I've clean forgotten—was Oli
ver Whitman. The 'Ripper' had been
in his clutches, and he fought like a
tiger to run like a comet With awe
we looked upon OUle after that Jesse
said nothing. But he thought: 'What
a liar you are, OUle Whitman!'
One fine day there came into the
schoolroom In which Jesse had a seat
and desk the head maBter, a Mr.
Barnes, I think an officer, and one
of the unknown's victims. The little
fellow had been found, I think, in
Chelsea hung up and cut up. When
he recovered he said it wasn't a man
with red whiskers and hair who had
treated him so, but a boy who looked
to be four or five years older than
himself. So they took this poor little
mutilated chap around to ali the
schools In Boston, I believe, until they
came to, I think, the Blgelow school.
His Identification.
"'Do you see him here?' said the
master to the little victim.
'No-o,' hesitatingly replied the lit
tle fellow. Then, sharply, from the
lady teacher:
'Pomeroy! why don't you hold up
your bead?'
"Slowly Jesse raised his head and
the boy screamed:
"'That's him! that's him! I'd know
him by his eye!'
"And so Jesse was arrested, tried,
found guilty and sentenced to the
Westboro reform school. If Jesse had
been 111 that day—ill enough to have
kept himself in the house—he might
be rivaling Jack the Ripper now."
Pomeroy got out of the reform
school in about a year. Up to this
time he had always stopped short of
murder. What happened after his re
lease was told by his old schoolmate
as follows:
"In the following summer a Mrs.
Curran sent her little eight or nine
year-old girl out for some thread."
(Pomeroy's mother kept a small
store.) "The little girl—Katie—never
came back. She disappeared like a
Whiff of cigar smoke in a stormy mid
Atlantic. Her mother was frantic
with grief. Everybody became a de
tective. The months rolled away. One
rainy day a little deaf-mute pulled at
a policeman's coat and by signs In
dicated that hie wished the policeman
to go along with him, which he did.
Murderer Apprehended.
"They went out of the highways
and byways until they came to the
Dorchester marshes, which were as
gloomy In those days as the marshes
of Abel Magwltch and Pip. The lit
tle fellow was in a terrible state of
excitement, and soon the officer was
when they came to murdered and mu
tilated little Horace Millan, lying in
tbe mud and grass. They carried the
body to the station house, and then
had plaster of paris casts taken of
the footprints in the mud near where
the boy's body was found. They then
went to Mrs. Pomeroy's house. Jesse
was in bed.
"His shoes exactly fitted the casts.
He was arrested. While he was In
Jail his mother moved away from the
old home on Broadway for obvious
reasons. Then t$e house was torn
down to make room for a better one.
While the workmen were digging in
the cellar they unearthed the little
corpse of Katie Curran. Then Jesse
confessed that he had murdered her
and little Millan.
"She had come into the store for
the thread her mother had sent her
for. Jesse wdB alone In the store.
He told her to go back and get It—
to turn to the right.
Fate of Little Victim.
"In the meantime he had turned
the key in the front door, leading to
the street, returned, followed the lit
tle girl, and as she started back from
the cellarway he sprang upon her,
pushed her down tbe cellar stairs,
mutilated, then killed her. He then
dug a grave in the cellar, burled her,
came upstairs, washed his hands and
face, unlocked the front door, had his
dinner, and went to bed. He was the
only one in the world who knew of
that little corpse in his mother's cel
lar."
When Pomeroy was tried a petition
signed by thousands of mothers was
sent to the governor praying him to
hang JeBse. Because of his youth,
however, the sentence waB commuted.
One governor, years afterward, vis
ited him in his cell to hear his prayer
fdr liberty. "Why, man," said the
governor, after listening to htm, "If I
should pardon you, you would be
strung up to the nearest lamp post
outside."
It shocked and startled Pomeroy.
He hadn't thought of that But all he
said was, "Would that be justice?"
"Justice" is Pomeroy's hobby.
Many efforts have been made to se
cure his release. On one occasion a
number of Virginia women appealed
to a Massachusetts governor to set
Pomeroy free. The governor wrote
back:
"If Pomeroy had committed his
crimes in your state be would have
been burned alive at the stake, and
there would be no necessity for a
pardon."
Yet it is probably true, as has often
been asserted, that If science in 1876
had progressed as far as It has in
1910 In explaining the pathological
causes for such crimes as Pomeroy's,
he would have been sent not to soli
tary confinement in a state prison,
but to an asylum for the criminal in
sane.
Pomeroy was arrested in 1874. The
Millan boy, for whose murder he was
tried, was ofoly four years old. In
'1876 Pomeroy began bis life in
QharleBtown prison.
1
child Inevitably produces diseases of
many kinds, awkwardness, liability to
accidents, Incapacitates,. and it handi
caps in all the subsequent life. It
seriously lessens the validity of the
person In the struggle for existence:
Gould and Durand unite in saying
also that the public school law of
New York city which forbldB a left
handed child to write with the left
hand should be repealed. It is not
the hand, but the eye, that is wrong,
and!back of the eye Is the brain, all
of whose functions are disturbed by
any change in the use of the hand.
Many strange Instances of the ef
fect of interfering with the "dom
inant" eye are given by Gould and
his fellow worker.
A girl of twelve was left-handed,
but was compelled to write with tbe
right hand. The result was that soon
she began to reverse words having
similar letters or sounds, saying
"was" for "saw" and "on" for "no"
and "of" for "for," etc. She fell into
stuttering and stammering.
Four years later she came under
the observation of Professor Gould.
He put her to writing with her left
HI
Succeeding Beautifully^**'"
"How Is your wife getting on with
her social settlement work?"
"Great S-he's had her picture ,ln
ithe Taper twice this month."—De
troit Free Press.
hand. In two weeks she was profl
blent. Her other symptoms have dis
appeared with the use of ordinary
bifocal spectacles.
A woman of thirty-two has had a
life 'of great suffering since her moth
er forced her Into right-handedness—
swooning, insomnia, swelling of the
eyes and of the flesh around the eyes,
nervous prostration, and, finally, after
several suicidal attempts, she was put
In a convent and again in an Insane
asylum. She has always had great
confusion of mind,'speech and actlbh^
as, for Instance, putting flowers in?
stead of butter into the Icebox.
By Gould's advice she got spec,
tacles'to restore her "dominant" eye
to Its functions, and has taken up wri
ting, etc., with her left hand. Her com
fusions and other symptoms are al
ready disappearing and her memory
is greatly Improved.
Her Only Way of Knowing.
"Le lialllenne's wife says that poets
make poor husbands."
"Some poet's wife must have told
ber." ft pti
IMPOSES ON POOR
WOOL 8CHEOULE WORST IN
FAMY OF TARIFF SYSTEMl
Unjust Tax Collected at the Cost of
Health and Comfort of the
.... Masses—Manufacturers Only
Are Benefited.
•Ever since fabrics were first woven
to cover man, wool has been the most
Important article In such fabrics as
are worn In cool or cold climates. In
climates where wool Is needed for
comfort, the condition of the people
may be pretty fairly judged by the
amount of wool used In clothing them.
If they cannot afford to buy woolen
clothing they are either impover
ished or the cost of woolens 1B ar
bitrarily placed beyond tbelr reach.
The wool product of the world is suf
ficient, if properly distributed, to keep
warm those who need its comforts,
and the production is sufficiently pro
lific and the cost of manufacture suf
ficiently low to make woolen clothing,
woolen blankets and other articles of
woolen manufacture comparatively
cheap under a competitive system.
Yet the use of wool per capita in
this country has been on the decline
fbr about twenty years. It Is even
lower now than it was fifty years ago.
It has been replaced with cotton and
combinations of wool and cotton. In
many instances even the wool in these
combinations' Is the cheapest, least
durable and least protective quality.
It is often made of shoddy—worked
over material taken from old carpets,
old garments and waste rags—and in
many instances the' working over
process has brought the same mate
rial into use many tlmeB in the course
of years.
Of all classes, the poor need wool
most. Those who are comfortably
housed, who can afford plenty of
clothing, who are little exposed to
the cold In open-air employments or
Ill-heated houses, may get along with
comparatively little wool, if they
choose. But the poor—and in the
sense here meant the great majority
of the people are poor—need woolen
clothing in winter. Those depending
on medium or small salaries or on day
wages can no longer afford all-wool
clothing. They may think they are
wearing such clothing, and they may
be puzzled by its lack of warmth, its
lack of durability or its failure to
keep its shape but they may still
think they are wearing all-wool gar
ments. But they are not They are
wearing combinations of shoddy and
cotton, sold" to them, in most in
stances, on all-wool specifications.
Scientists have said that if the poor
were properly clothed the spread of
tuberculosis would be reduced by
hdlf that warm clothing Is more im
portant even than higher sanitation,
fresh air and special food. If this is
true of this one devastating disease,
It must be true in only lesser degree
of many other prevalent ailments.
The high price of wool and Its prac
tical prohibition among the poor con
stitute a national crime, legalized by
the congress of the United States. Of
all the infamies of the tariff system
that wool., schedule Is the most In
famous. It imposes a merciless cruel
ty on the poor and a.flagrant-imposi
tion even' on th? well-to-do. It can
not be defended, even qn the ground
that It ls'kn expedient to make /Amer
ica produce its own wool, for after
yearB of high tariff on wool the coun
try imports about 60 per cent of the
wool used. Nor does the large rev
enue accruing from this 60 per cent,
importation justify the tariff, since it
is collected at the cost of health and
comfort afid common, rights, among
the poor. Nor is this tariff justified
by the protective doctrine of develop
ing the industries, for the carded wool
Industry, ^representing vast capital
and an army of employes—the manu
facturers who make cloth for the
cheaper grades of clothing—implored
congress apd the president to make
such changes in the tariff as would
enable them to compete with the
comb wool importers, who make the
higher grades of cloth. But their
pleas were in vain, because congress
did tbe bidding of the woolen trust,
to which the carded wool manufac
turers do not belong. These manu
facturers, protesting against their in
ability to Import cheaper wools at a
rate that would enable them to make
cheap clothing without using cdton
or shoddy, were frankly told by Sen
ator Penrose of the senate finance
committee to go into other business.
And that represented the attitude of
the majority-of the Republicans in
congress.
n,i
Under a proper division Of benefits
would it be possible for men like Car
negie and his capitalist associates to
make fortunes while workmen in the
protected steel mills slave excessive
hours, and live in degrading poverty,
as it has been shown that many of
them do live? Certainly not. And
what Is true of the steel Industry is
true of many other protected Indus
tries.
Those Funny Fellows.
Next to William H. Taft speaking
upon the tariff, Richard Achilles Bal
llnger, orating upon conservation, is
the greatest humorist the Republican
party has produced.—Louisville Cour
ier-Journal.
"This government inspection costs
the meat barons millions of dollars a
year."—Mr. Clawson.
But that fact appears In nowise to
interfere with the increase of divi
dends, the accumulation of surplus
and the cutting of melons.
Under Tariff Schedule K.
Little Boy—Papa, this wool suit
you bought' for me the other day kind
o' rustles when I walk. Is It because
there'B some silk in It?
Papa—No8 my son it's because
there's a lot pf what we call Aldrich
In it.—Chicago Tribune.
Senator Lodge says be voted for the
wool schedule in order to save the
tariff but has he 1een convinced by
subsequent developments that the tar
iff was worth saving by resort to such
a desperate expedient?
Admitting that there was. selfish
ness' closely trenching oh graft in
the making of the tariff, even that
does nnot make the law just nor les
sen the burden It puts on the people
In general.
.The Democratic party has proved
that it can stand anything but pros
perity.—Winston Churchill.
iEspecially the tariff-made kind!
Mr. Aldrich naturally has no .busi
ness in Washington when legislation
on its merits gets bacjt op the job.
NOT DUE TO WILSON LAW
Claim That Panic of the Early 'Mi
Was Caused by Act Is Mani
festly Absurd.
When the manifest demagogue de
clares that the panic of the early '90s
was due to the Wilson tariff law he
does what is expected of him. But
when a man in high authority, the
head of a great national department
the presumed leader and instructor
of the people In husbandry and reia
ted economics, resorts to this wholly
discredited theory, the spectacle is
both disappointing and humiliating.
Mr. James Wilson, secretary of agri
culture, presented just that spectacle
in Rome, N. Y. In a speech that had
much to commend it, much that has a
direct and vital bearing on tbe cost of
living, much that should be seriously
considered by the people, he injected
the old query as to whether the peo
ple, by lowering the tariff, "want a
repetition of the experiences between
1893 and 1897, when the factories
were closed and the workmen were
idle."
The Wilson law did not go Into ef
fect until 1894, and, therefore, It could
not have been responsible for a panlo
that had its beginning and its worst
record in 1893. But the secretary gets
mixed in his own logic. After as
suming that the Wilson tariff was re
sponsible tor the low prices in the
'90s, he declares that the present tar
iff is not responsible for the high cost
of living now. He giveB sound rea
sons, independently of the tariff, for
the present high prices of many food
products, and gives good advice as to
how the rise In these prices may be
checked. But there is certainly aa
good reason for charging the present
high prices of foodstuffs to the tariff
as there is to charge the low prices
of the same article in the '90s to a.
different tariff. Also, if the Wilson
law was responsible for the panic of
the '90s, then the Dlngley law must
have been responsible for the lesser
panic of 1907.
The people suffer little and the
farmers profit not at all by the tariff
on farm products, for these are pro
duced in such abundance that we ex
port them and do not need to import
them. The villainy of the tariff la that
it makes burdensome increases in the
cost of almost every article of neces
sity that is not produced in this coun
try beyond the volume of consumption
In this country. The farmer has no
real tariff protection for anything he
sells, but he must pay tariff tribute
on nearly everything he buys. And
the great volume of this tribute goes
to New England, for the tariff pri
marily is of, by and for New England
~-that is,( the dapltaltsts of New Eng
land. The consumers of even that
section are learning fast, and they are
finally on the trail of a protective tar
iff that does not protect them.
That Dexterous Tariff.
The Aldrich-Taft tariff, most malo
dorous of a long line of cruel tariffs.
Indorsed by Mr. Roosevelt as a meas
ure in the interests of the American
people, contains some marvels of
statesmanship.
The sugar trust, which Mr. Roose
elt refused to prosecute, although he
had the same evidence that the Taft
administration used as its basis of
action. Imports annually into the
United States more than $90,000,000
worth of .raw sugar. The duty on this
Is 65 per cent, or about one-fifth of the
entire customs dues collected by the
United States on all Imports.
The annual importation of cut dia
monds, which can hardly.be consider
ed a necessity, amounts to (18,000,000.
The duty thereon is 10 per cent.
The millionaire who brings dia
monds from Europe to his wife or
daughter pays less duty on them than
the worklngman pays on sugar. Is It
a square deal?
Is a tariff that contains such unjpst
and dishonest provisions fit to be in
dorsed by any political party or by any
politician that seeks the confidence of
the people?
Put Party Before -Country.
It Is the wonder of the world that
we have stood so long, with growing
wealth and population. The whole
secret of our stability Is that until
the Civil war the exercise of the fed
eral power was kept within narrow
bounds. The whole danger to our
stability now is tha^ since the Civil
war the party which has generally
been in power has tried to push and
has pushed the exercise of the fed
eral power further and further into
fields which Washington and Jefferson
and Hamilton and Jackson and Web
ster thought ought to be kept purely
under state control.
The Republican party has found its
interest in forwarding this movement
the Interest that is, of a party, not of
the country. It has used the tariff as
one Instrument It has used the cry
of "new nationalism" as another.
It is time to stop, while the just bal
ance of power between the states and
the United States can still be restored
and preserved.—From a speech by
Judge Simeon E. Baldwin at New
Haven, October 6,
Senator Root ha3 put his high tal
ents at the service of many clients,
many political candidates and many
party cau.es, but was he ever before
reduced to defend so insincere and
false a party situation with equally
specloun arguments as in his plea for
the Big Boss as a means of upholding
the Taft administration?
So the tariff is not to blame for the
high prices. Well, if the tariff
doesn't raise the price, it Is a failure.
Why not devise sortie new scheme of
protection under the circumstances?
"Every year you pay more for your
living. And most of the'extra money
from your pocket goes into the farm
er's."---Railroad Advertisement.
And yet we don't hear of any farm
er declaring cent per cent., dividends,
adding millions to his surplus or cut
ting any large and juicy financial
melons.
"The tariff." says T. R„ "becomes
very emphatically a moral Issue." One
of the most Impressive morals is this
one: Don't promise tariff revision
downward unlesB you mean it
It was agreed that the tariff needed
revising the worst way—and that's
the way It Is being revised—Kansas
City Times.
Mr. Dolllver's estate inventories
$86,415. That is very much less than
Mr. Aldrlch's since the rise in rob
ber stocks
I'm not running for anything.—Mr.
Roosevelt.
Well, sir, what are you doing?—iu-
N
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AJP7
UNCLE SAM PURSUING A MINISTER
TfO/SASW /3ZA3S
BOSTON,
MASS.—The federal authorities are still seeking tor Rev. Nor
man Plass, president of the Redeemable Investment company whose offi
ces were raided by them recently because it was accused of being an ille
gal "get-rlch-qulck" concern. The maiager was arrested but Plass escaped'
and Is believed to be in British Columbia. Plass Is a graduate of Williams
college and of the Yale Divinity school, has held pastorates in Detroit and
other cities and was president of Washburn college in Topeka, Kan., from
1902 to 1908.
$190,000 (FORI A BED
mil
Top Price Paid by Stephen Mar
chand for Bedstead.
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Massive Piece of Ebony Bought by
^.American—Carvings Alone Cost
$64,000—Masonic Affair In
French Collection.
London.—Nowadays bedsteads^ are
comparatively cheap, and $100 is con
sidered a big price for even a rich
man to spend on a couch whereon he
may pass away in comfort his sleep
ing hours.
Occasionally, however, a millionaire
will spend a few hundreds or thousands
of pounds on the furnishing of his bed
chamber and he will not .be satisfied
unless the bedstead equals in splendor
the bedsteads to be found in the
world's royal palaces.
Stephen Marchand, an American of
vast wealth, made up his mind to pos
sess the most expensively fitted bed-
FR0ZEN EGGS FROM ORIENT
Sixty Thousand Dozen of Them Reach
Quaker City—Carried Half Way
Around World.
Philadelphia.—Sixty thousand, dozen
frozen oriental eggs which had been
carried half way around the world In
the refrigerating plants of different
steamship lines, were landed from the
American liner Marlon the other day
and placed In cold storage plants here
to await sale.
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The duty on them is five cents a
dozen. Notwithstanding the many
mlleB which the eggs have been car
ried, the temperature maintained
about them has never been higher
than 14 degrees Fahrenheit They
were stowed away In 44-pound tin
cans, and arrived in good condition.
Tbe shipment was hurried from the
Merlon's side in wagons driven rapid
ly, and the eggs were stowed away in
cold storage warehouses after under
going only a slight change in temper
ature.
NEW BOILER FOR SUBMARINE
Frenchman Devises System of 8tor!ng
Heat Created Above Water—Se
crecy Observed.
Paris.—The latest French subma
rine to be launched, the CharleB Brun,
is said to be fitted wilth a new form
of boiler about which great secrecy is
being' observed. Submarines gener
ally uBe steam when traveling on the
surface and electricity for under water
work. According to one account the
CharleB Brun is to be propelled by a
steam engine only, It being fitted with
a boiler which utilizes under the
water heat stored while the subma
rine Is on the surface.
Menellk's News Agency, feii'
Adls, Abeba.—The Abyssinian gov
ernment announces that it has found
ed a correspondence office under the
ministry of foreign affairs for the dis
semination of authoritative official In
telligence concerning Abyssinia.
DESTINY BY SCIENTIFIC MEANS
Measurements Will 8how What Career
You Are Most 8ulted For—
Instruments Not New.
Pittsburg.—Th6 general system of
mental and physical diagnosis of Dr.
Watson L. Savage, head of the depart
ment of health of the Carnegie Tech
nical institute, is destined to revolu
tionize educational methods. Dr. Sav
age bellev-s, also he is sure it will
better the health and Increase per
sonal effectiveness In all walks of life
when it Is generally practiced.
Dr. Savage means to size up a stu
dent by measuring him with fine in
struments from head to toes. A cer
tain type of mouth and throat, charted
after lnflntteslmally fine measure
ments, may show that the student
should oecome a clergymaan. Taken
in oonuectlon with other measure
ments of head and Internal organs
they will promise a career for him as
a ward politician.
Measurements will show whether
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chamber in1 the two' hemispheres, and
with this purpose In view he spent not
lesB than $100,000 on a bedstead alone.
It was constructed of massive ebony,
with elaborate carvings of
jf
Bolld
The bedstead was made by a large
firm in Paris and it occupied the finest
artisans of Prance for over two years
before It was completed. The hang
ings were of a special purple damask,
costing nearly $25 a yard.'
Mr. Marchand's bedchamber, which
was of elliptical form and measured
76 feet by 22 feet, had its wall paneled
with elaborately carved enrichments in
the style df Louis XV., costing no-less
a' Slim than $64,000. The ceiling of this
apartment was carved and decorated
by Parisian artists who were paid $19,
350.
A rich London lady, a. year or two
ago, spent over $50,000 in furnishing
her bedchamber. The rarpet—a grand,
hand-tied purple Axmlnster—cost $7,
600.
The chairs and other furniture are
of solid, carved ivory, with ebony and
gold inlay. The toilet fittings are of
oriental alabaster and cost some hun
dreds of pounds.
In the center of the room is a Cochin
China table, Inlaid with mother of
pearl and worth $760. The bedstead is
of brass, inlaid with fine-pearls, and at
the- head is an artificial landscape of
crystal. Ivory, amber, pearls and other
stones.
The bedchambers in the palaces of
Turkey are most magnificent and the
majority of the royal couches within
them are worth small fortunes.
When the German empress once vis
ited the ex-sultan Abdul Hamli
was placed at her disposal w'
talned a bedstead constructed
of solid Bllver, artistically chsj
many elegant designs. The
which surrounded it were of
material and design, heavily
dered with gold.
The shah of Persia possesses one
the finest bedchambers In exlsten
Its suite of furniture Is manufacture
from Holy and Inlaid with gold an
precious stones. The curtains and cu
tain hangers are of the finest Brussels
net. Interwoven with silk.
The chef d'oeuvre of the whole apart
ment is the bedstead. It is composed
entirely of crystal and delicately
chased fountains on the sides eject jets
of scented water at the will of the oc
cupant Above the bed Is a huge
chandelier, which, when lighted, looks
like a mass of monster dlamondB, all re
flecting their brilliance at the same
time.
In the French state collection of fur
niture there is a Masonic bedstead,
surmounted by a large canopy. It is of
extraordinary height and is ornament
ed with some of the most delicate carv
ing It Is possible for the hand of man
to turn out. The French government
has had several tempting offers for
this beautiful couch, and it refused,
some time ago, 15,000 guineas tor it.
MAGISTRATE PICKS THE ACE
New York Justice, Instructed by De
tective, Proves to Be Apt Pupil
In Monte Game.
New York.—The singular prowess
of Ah Sin, the heathen Chinee of Bret
harte's ceiBbrkted poem Ih playing
"the game he did ffot understand."
was matched by Magistrate Freschl
In the Yorkvllle night court
Detectives Cassassp and McKenna,
of police headquarters, brought before
him Edward McAllister and John lea
ver, whom they caught when Miey
raided a three-card monte gam* at
Sixth avenue and Twenty-eighth
street
ivory
and inlaid with gold filigree. At the
head of the bedstead was
ai
huge
trophy cut from one solid piece of
Ivory. A special Journey was taken to
Africa to obtain a massive tusk for
the purpose.
Detective Cassaasa tried to explain
the game to the magistrate, who still
looked puzzled. Finally Cassassn put
three cards on the desk before the
Judge.
"Now, your honor, pick out th» ace,"
he said.
The magistrate did. Cassassa was
surprised, to put it mildly. H« dealt
the cards again. The magistrate again
pointed to the ace. Then he did it a
third time. Respect for the majesty
of the law prevented Cassaasa from
acting, as Bret Hartefc. characters, did
under similar circumstances •oward
Aii Sin.
When the laughter In court h»d sub
sided Magistrate Freschi fined McAl
lister $10. Leaver was discharged.
NEW TYPES OF RIVER BOATS
Steady, Successful Navigation It Now
Assumed—Introduce New German
Oil Engine
ImSlw
St. Louis.—It ia stated that a com
pany actively Interested In the navi
gation of the Missouri river, between
St Louis and Kansas City will not
only introduce propellers on a vessel
now in preparation, but also employ
the oil engine that, invented in Ger
many, has made rapid progress in
that country and is to be employed on
a liner of the first-class. A survey of
navigation aB now conducted im
presses the fact that the material im
provements in the size, speed and gen
eral attractiveness of vessels have
been on the oceans and lakes, says
the Globe-Democrat. In no case
have permanent deep channels failed
to lead to the enlargement of the
boats used and to add to the comforts
of the passage. At the same time
safety has been promoted, and there
are few places where a sense of se
curity is better Justified than on an
ocean liner with its steel hull In com
partments and its wireless Instru
ments communicating with other
ships within a range of hundreds of
miles. Since lake channels were
deepened, by government appropria
tions, from six feet to more than
twenty, the type of vessels has been
greatly enlarged, the speed increased
and the facilities for loading and un
loading bettered much more than ten
fold.
As yet little has been done for a
permanent deep channel In the Mis
souri, but the appropriation for the
work in the latest rivers and harbors
bill is encouraging and insures a be
ginning on the right scale. River
boatB of a new pattern will come in
when a channel is assured, as has
been the case on the Rhine and nu
merous other rivers of Europe. Two
steamboats recently lost in the Mis
sissippi river by striking the bank or
the student should bend his efforts
on learning to be a farmer or lawyer,
physician or a civil engineer or a
banker^ whether in play hours he
should play ball or billiards.
The old method of sounding a man's
chest to ascertain If he has a good
pair of lungs, thruBting the fingers In
the side to see if one's liver is all
right, listening to the heart and other
stereotyped forms of ascertaining a
man's condition, he says, are back
numbers. Measurements are the thing
and l)e proposes to show that instru
ments will verify his opinion. And
the instruments which he will use are
not new to the scientific world.
Dr. Savage In one examination pro
poses to tell tbe student just what he
should not do—not
BO
much what he
should do. He says there la Just aa
much difference In the appearance of
the human heart as there is in the
human face. As for diet what might
be tbe ruination of one man would be
just the thing for another, -v.
other obstruction, would not have
gone to the bottom if provided with
steel compartment hulls. Existing
river boats have been built on the old
models, and the uncertainty In the
depth of channels has tieen a barrier
to a general spirit of Improvement.
Steel construction, propellers, turbines
and a speed of over twenty miles an
hour have become an old story on
ocean and lakes. Little that 1B new
has been tested on the rivers. But in
the light of what has been accom
plished in Europe, the steady, success
ful navigation of rivers is not a prob*
lem at all, but an assured thing. A
demonstration of improved navigation
on the so-called Intractable Missouri
would be a fine start for new river
conditions.
PIGS AND COWS ARE OUSTED
Sleek, Fat Hog Is 8upplanted by
Wheeze and Gas of Joy Car—Ani
mals to Background.
New York.—Not even the pig can
escape the onward march of the auto
mobile. The Mount Holly (N. J.)
porker has heard its honk and has
smelled its horrible odor and fled to
the background and oblivion.
Where once the thrifty patrons of
husbandry were wont to gape and
marvel at the sleek, fat sides of the
prize hog between races at the Mount
Holly fair, hereafter will reign su
preme the wheeze and the gas of the
joy car. The officials have ruled that
no more cattle or pigs are to be shown
at the Mount Holly fair, because the
space they used to occupy is demand*
ed by the automobiles.
Parasol a Wireless Phone,
Omaha, Neb.—Using a parasol
frame as an antenna, Dr. Frederick1
MUlener, an electrical engineer, per,
fected wireless telephone which
worked well in a "try-out"
Painted Wife's Face.
London.—At Blackburn a clerk
named James Ramsbottom was sum
moned by his wife for assault and de
sertion. Tbe complainant, a good
looking, fashionably-dressed young
woman, said her husband was intol
erably jealous. On one occasion he
a'sked her if she painted her face and
when she replied "No," be blacked
ber face with boot polish.
Some time afterward he painted her
face and neck with green enamel and
then spent two a' a half hours re
moving It with petr
For Coronation Plumes,"
London.—A movement has been
started in South Africa with the ob
ject of securing special recognition
for ostrich feathers by making the
,plumes, with the approval of King
Oeorge. and Queen Mary, the prevail
ing fashion at the coronation. It is
suggested that Queen Mary should be
requested to accept an ostrich fan as
an expression of loyalty from Caps
Cotonyiiv• finr.v