Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 28, 7 December 1911 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1911.

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ASKS PARDON AFTER 52 TEAK 111 JAIL John Warren, Uxorcide, Petitions Conn. Pardon Board for Release.

(National News Association) HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 7. Among the thirty-six convicts at the State priaon at Wethersfleld, whose applications for parole or pardon will be considered by the State Board of Pardons when that board meets here next Tuesday, is John Warren, the oldest inmate of the prison, who has spent fifty-two years of his life In that penal Institution. In the fall of 1859 John Warren was convicted of the murder of his wife and sentenced to prison for life. He entered the State prison at Wethersfleld November 14, 1859 and has remained isolated from the outside world ever since. Several times he appealed to the Board of Pardons for his release, but in every case his application was denied. This year he has again petitioned for a pardon and his friends confidentially expect that this time the Board of Pardons will be leu obdurate. The history of Warren's crime is rather unusual. In the early summer of 1859 John P. Warren, then only twenty-one years old, and his 18-year-old wife lived on a small farm in Wellington, a little town in Tolland county, in the northeastern part of Connecticut. On a warm morning in July of that year Warren and his wife took a walk in the woods. It was hot and when they came to a brook not far from their farm, Warren proposed that they take off their shoes and stockings and bathe their feet in the cool waters of the brook. His wife consented and, having taken off her shoes and stockings, waded into the brook. Warren sprang at her, threw her down and held her head under water until his wife was dead. Just what fury or passion animated Warren and prompted him to commit the coldblooded and apparently unprovoked crime, has never been ascertained. Warren himself, although he confessed the crime, has never given any explanation of his action or the motive of the deed. He secreted the body of his wife in the woods, where it was soon found. Warren was arrested and put through the Third Degree. He confessed his crime, but refused to make any explanatory statement. After a preliminary hearing Warren's case was set for the September term of the Tolland County superior court. On the night of Wednesday, August, 10, of that year, while confined In the Tolland county Jail, Warren managed to obtain possession of a big butcher knife, with which he attacked Jailor Griggs. Warren managed to escape, but was caught shortly afterward in Eastford, near Willimantic. The trial of Warren was short. The prisoner pleaded guilty and his attorney confined himself to a strong appeal for the life of his client. The appeal was successful and Warren was sentenced to imprisonment for life. From the very beginning of his term In the State prison at Wethersfleld, Warren was a model prisoner. He obeyed the prison rules strictly, gave no trouble to the warden and the other officials of the prison and tried to make himself as useful as possible under the conditions. After a number of years the warden, who placed unusual trust in Warren, relaxed the rigor of the prison rules to a great extent so far as Warren was concerned. The prisoner was made gardener and for many years he took excellent care of the flower garden of the prison and of the grounds surrounding the official residence of the warden. When the present warden, Garvin, ' came to Wethersfleld prison about fourteen years ago, he continued to allow Warren the privileges which the former warden had granted him and not only retained him as gardener, but also placed him in charge of the furnace of the warden's residence and made him a sort of general helper about the house. For many years Warren had the privilege of passing unchallenged through the prison gates and frequently he spends all day outside of the prison in the pursuance of his garden work, but never did he make an attempt to escape or to violate in any way the confidence which the warden of the Institution had placed in him. The comparative freedom which he enjoyed, had a beneficial effect upon Warren's physical and mental condition. Although he is, now more than seventy-two years of age. he is still active and energetic and looks scarcely more than fifty. His gair is turning gray, but he stoops but little and his step is still elastic. In case the Board of Pardons should release Warren, his two younger brothers of Willimantic and his nephews and cousins, all people of excellent standing in their respective communities, are prepared to take care of the old man, who, unless his health should unexpectedly fail, seems fully able to tak care of himself for some years to come. The co-operative system of handling the apple crop of Nova Scotia has proved a decided success. The benefit of co-operative packing secures a reputation for apples thus put up. Learn the Truth About coffee By a change to PdDSTOM and better feelings. w There's a Reason"

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The Season When Your Relatives and Friends Send You Old Things You Don't Want The Appeal to the Child's Imagination.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. "Bought in madness and bestowed in despair." Upon this text this column once animadverted at length otherwhere. But it is worth quoting again. For it refers to the hated Christmas present. This is the time of year wnen you take a paper and pencil and add up, subtract, divide by three and one-half, multiply by forty-nine and two-thirds and then decide it will be impossible to give either Sal or Marguerite a single thing. Although, hold, why not take that pink thing Sal gave you last year and which you have, never used because you were somewhat doubtful as to its exact identity for it might be anything from a stove-lid to a house afire and make it over into a lampshade for Marguerite. Excellent idea! But how about Sal? Won't she recognize it? You decide in desperation that you don't care if she does. You ran t afford to spend another cent and if Sal gets mad because you don't give her anything, you can't help that. Still you do remember that Sal did give you the pink thing and that Marguerite presented you with a half dozen green candles left over from her last party when you knew perfectly well she gave Min a lovely brass bowl bought at the charity basaar and which was marked three dollars. Of course you don't know that she actyytfly paid three dollars for it but you have no evidence to the contrary and so when you received the fix green candles wrapped in purple tissue paper and tied with a light blue piece of baby ribbon with a card bearins the strange legend, "With love from Marguerite," you threw them Into a corner of the sofa and never noticed them until a week later when you were cleaning up. So, after all, why worry making over the pink thing Sal gave you for Marguerite. Why not send Sal that yellow bowl Cousin Jane gave you last year and which Sal may think is a jardiniere. For it was nice of her to give you the pink thing. Think of Marguerite's nerve sending you those beastly old green candles! She can go to the any place and stay there for all you! And then you sink back and reflect on the ridiculousness of it all. Of your feelings on Christmas morning when you beheld the weird assortment of junk, each in turn divested of its paper cuticle! How you gnash your teeth when you think of the old things given you by those to whom you have presented chef d' oeuvres upon which you spent time and thought in trying to get something they really would care for! How you rise up and execute a double shuffle of disgust when you think of the strange objects of wearing apparel sent you by your lovfcng relatives, of uncanny ornaments for heaven knows what disposal which may or may not have been purchased at the ten cent store; of hand made jewelry that looks as if it were chopped out with an ax, of odd jugs and bowls and I have the general appearance of dating from the stone age! Of satin pincushions with love from Cousin William's wife, of bags to hang behind doors with the best wishes of Aunt Martha, of mysterious things to put on bureaus purchased at church fairs, of books you have already read or don't care anything about, of stockings from Uncle Jerusha which never fit, of thick handkerchiefs that make your nose red from your sister-in-law who could afford to buy you one trimmed in rose point of all the odds and ends tied with gilt cord from people you don't give a hang for you and only sent them because they thought you would send them something of the whole dreary mess of "Christmas cheer." Is there anything more maddening than the useful present? How charmingly excited you become when a messenger boy runs up the steps, rings the door-bell with a sharp jerk or two, throws a package into your hands and retires impertinently to the outer world. A package wrapped alluringly in white tissue paper and tied with red and green ribbons with a piece of holly tucked coquettlshly into the loops. You rush into the dining-room, say and with trembling fingers unwrap the lovely thing when out rolls a union suit or a flannel petticoat j or a half dozen pairs of thick stockings or a package of paper bags for cooking, or a pair of bed-room slippers you know how it goes. These are from great cousin Ellen, twice removed, who has the erroneous idea that you are about to go on the county and that to keep the family from eternal disgrace she must stock you up with the barest necessities. The whole matter of the exchange of gifts on Christmas has become a sort of social graft, has resolved itself into a howling farce, has evolved into a ghastly kind of comedy, has, In fact, lost all its beauty and significance. For there is nothing more delightful than gift giving and. Indeed, in gift receiving. To say yon only want to give presents, not to receive any, la to say that which Is not true. Or, if true.makes you oat abnormal and unnatural. But the indiscriminate interchange of presents among people who are mere acquaintances, and not particularly congenial ones at that, the compulsion of the gift to be returned in kind and in equal value, the distasteful bestowal of gifts to those whom you feel under obligations through ties of blood or "past services rendered" is as senseless as it becomes positively criminal. It fastens a burden, frequently, un

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on those who can ill afford it. It plunges people not able to stand the financial strain into foolish debt. It ends, oftener than not, in nervous collapse, bitter "feelings," broken friendships, and general disaster. If you want to make people happy at Christmas, give presents to chil- j dren and the old. The ingenuousness I of the former is no more touching than ...4 I. 1 . . i 7.k.wT SItt"luuc "l " Children are easily pleased, easily amuseu, easny cnarmea. isoining gives tnem more superlative delight than the Christmas-tree it looks like a fairy thing to them with its many colored lights, tinsel and snowy decorations, its branches swaying with the pretty gifts straight from Santa Claus, its twinkling and chameleonhued ornaments. Christmas, o children, is a sort of ' irtoxicatfon and its illusions should ; Ya nroQcrvoH a a Inner act nncoiKlA tSoiiit' people love to disillusion children. They sneer at Santa Claus. They laugh down fairies. They jibe and mock at the lovely infant imaginings. Such people are divested of every beautiful and lovely quality. Imagination is the wonder of life. Some children hare it in excess, all have it in part. it peoples their worlds, no matter how sordid the reality, with wondrous shapes, marvelous beings, portentous but exquisitely mysterious happenings, with color and melody and perfect form, with flowers and music, fairies and angels. To destroy this fabric of poetry, which exists in every child's fancy, is a sad and terrible crime. To foster the imaginative faculties but to guide them into normal channels is the purpose of the kindergarten and kindred organizations. Children are all love and ardour as natural and spontaneous in expression as the song of a bird. It is a pitiful thing to see this gradually crushed out by unwise and often brutal treatment. If it could be preserved what a leaven it would be to society in after years. The conservation of childhood should be one of the tenets of the more sublimated philosophy. To the old give the pretty, the attractive, the useless thing. The old are old only in the external, the physical shell. At heart they are often very much like the little children. They love the color and glitter and baubles of Christmas. Give them a box of candy rather than a handkerchief. A box of flowers instead of a woolen neck wrapper. Some gay trifle instead of the sober-hued solidity. Christmas is a beautiful thing. It should not be spoiled by the snobbish folly of custom. Attend the opening of Jenkins' Treasure Palace Friday afternoon and evening. i no minchut. The name "Manchuria," to designate the country of the Manchus, is not known to the Chinese, but was invented by French geographers. The Manchus are a tribe of Tartars who gained the ascendency in China in the! seventeenth century. Manchu is Chinese for "pure" and was applied by an ancestor of Shun Che, the first Manchu emperor of China, to his dynasty and his people. The Manchus resemble the Chinese only to the eye of a stranger, just as we think that all Chinese laundrymen look alike. To themselves the Man chus are distinct from Chinamen in appearance, as in race, and one who knows eastern races easily distinguishes them. Most of them are short and good looking, with brown and ruddy skins. New York Tribune. Spain is famous for its onions and garlic. The annual production of the 1 former is 10,139,300 bushels, and of the latter 1, 939,574 bushels. Over three thousand bushels of saffron are also j produced.

SKEE1NG IN THE ALPS. Ploturesque Sport on the Ordsr of "Follow Your Leader." The skeeing clubs form one of the most picturisiue sights to be seen in the Alps in winter. With their bright colored blanket suits. tasseleU caps or tam-o'-shanters and huge white mitts, they go through the snow covered woodlands across the white mountain slopes usually in single file, perhaps fifty sliding along after the leader in true Norwegian fashiou. Indeed, it is a variety of the old game of "follow your leader," for what he does the others are expected to do. So if he comes to a ledge and jumps off all are supposed to leap. But jumping with the skees is not so easy as it look., and the end i3 of-

less one is very sure of his footing th j Io namiw wooden slaLs twist j or turn without warning, and over you go. With the skee one can go over hard snow at a very rapid rate, but when he strikes a patch of tiie newly fallen snow it is a case of stow to be sure, for any minute the bottom may sink away with him. But it is healthfnl as well as Invigorating, and the women have found that they need not tools awkward even in this form of outdoor dress, with a ribbon here and a tassel there and some even adorning their skees. St. Nicholas. HE TOOK THE CASE. The Lawyer Said He Would Attend to It, and He Did. A Washington attorney is rather noted for the facility with which he forgets financial obligations. He has owed a certain grocer $8 for a year or two. The other day the merchant concluded to try a new course with him. Meeting him In his store, be said: "Judge, I have a customer who owes me a small bill, and has owed it for a long time. He makes plenty of money, but won't pay. What would you do?" "I'd sue him," said the lawyer emphatically. "Well, I will put the account in your hands." And the merchant presented a statement of the account against the lawyer himself. "All right. I will attend to It." said the disciple of Blackstone. A few days later the merchant received the following note from the lawyer: "In the case of versus . I took judgment for the full amount of your claim. Execution was issued and returned 'no property found.' My fee for obtaining judgment is $10. for which amount please send check. Will be glad to serve you in any other matters in which you may need an attorney." Washington Star. The Bashi-bazouk. Like each of the various clans of the Kurds, the bashi-bazouk can easily be distinguished by his costume. His shoes, or "yemenys" (meaning leather), are red or black. Ills golflike stockings, which leave the knee exposed, are elaborately embroidered in black, his short Turkish trousers are of homespun, while about his waist is a short sash of wool or silk, surmounted by a leather belt in rich colors and embossed in red. This is divided into three or four sections, in which he keeps his revolver, his chibouk, or pipe, and his yataghan, always kept sharp. The bashi-bazouks never carry daggers, as the Circassians do. A cartridge box hangs from the side, as also a small silver snuffbox. They wear two jackets, the under one with short sleeves and the outside one with long. At the elbow Is an opening in which they carry in a leather bag written quotations from the Koran as a talisman to protect them from the bullets j of the adversary. About the neck is a chain of silver coins, from which is suspended a powder box. Dividing Something. A farm laborer in one of the western counties was requested to vote for a candidate at the" election, but he refused. Being asked for his reason, be made answer: "Why, because them chaps be well enough paid." They "then tried to explain to Hodge that members of parliament in this country were not paid for their services. But he was not to be convinced. "Doan't 'ee tell me:" he replied somewhat angrily. "1 believe my eyes, and when I zees in the paper as they divides almost ev'ry night 1 knows they be divldin' sumruat!" Loudon Tit-Bits. 4- .J-...-.U11..UHU.

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She Knew the Reason. He was smoking and musing over the ways of the world. "Odd. isu't It." he said at last, "how few people attain their Ideals In this world?' "In what wayl" inquired his wife suspickus!y. for she was not a woman to be caught off her guard. "Well." he replied slowly. "1 was thinking of Wllmer when I spoke. He had an ideal woman that he was always talking about when he was in college. She was tall and stately in bis dreams, and he-seemed to have no place in his heart for a small woman, and yet and yet" "Well?" "Why. he finally married a little thing who hardly comes to his shoulder. I wonder why it was." "Perhaps. Fred." she said very slowly and distinctly, "he is like the majority of other men and was afraid to take any oue of his size." He changed the subject.

A Shocking Treo. There Is n peculiar tree in the for ests of central India which has most; curious characteristics. The leaves of the tree are of a highly seusltive na-i ture nd so full of electricity that' whoever touches one of them receives I an electric shock. It has a very singn-i lar effect upon a magnetic needle and will influence it at a distance of even seventy feet. The electrical strength of the trees varies according to the time of day. It beinjr strongest at midday and weakest at midnight. In wet weather its powers disappear altogether. Birds never approach the tree, nor have Insects ever been seen upon it Old English Fairs. Fairs and feasts were formerly held In churchyards iu honor of the saint to whom the church was dedicated. In consequence of these popular gatherings being mucb abused they had to be suppressed in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Edward III., as appears by the following extract, quoted by Spelman: "And the Kyuge comma ndeth and forblddetb that from henceforth neither fairs and markets shall be kept la churchyards for the honour of the Church. Given at Westminster, the VIII of Octobre. the XIII yeare of Kynge Edwarde's relgne," London Queen. Vary Suggestive. Mrs. Towne There was a spelling competition down at our institute the other night. The pastor gave oat the words. Did you hear about It? Mrs. Browne No. Was it Interesting? Mrs. Towne Rather. The first three words he gave out were "increase," "pastor, "salary."

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