Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-23
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TE4A FIRST STATE fPRIsONER s.

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BY GRANT THoRBURN. tSs a35f5
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landed il, New York, june, 1884, by trade
q rough naimaker, in the 22d year nv ace
IN october following, IWent up the Park to see
a man hung, Cat that time the Park was out5of
town, and only $4,000 inhabitants) With ten
thousand fools, some bigger and some smaller (.
tnan myself, we stood watching the vibrations
OF the rope and the iron hook, during, two lone
nogrs. Then the sheriff stood on the scafFold5
and read reprieve. coniessI wasvery much
no hangingiwas there. SE9Sij
The man was Noah Gardener He, kent I
large shoe store in! New ork. III He committafls
forgery, which, at that time,4 was death Inv the
'lSws of these United States. The state prison
'Ne~%9or was building this,tilne; this was
the irst prison erected lin the world for reform
instead ofhanging. The Society Of Friends
were the chief promoters of this humane svssa
tenn One room in the prison was now readvetoi
receive criminals. The Friends procured from
the governor q Communication from death to the
prison for life. 8
stool. wax, lasts;and avis, and here Commenced
the state prisons shoe mannfactory. Next court.
six Vagabonds were sent to keep him company:
them he learned to make shoes. Twisted the
prison three years after this. In one large room
satthree hundred .shoemakers: Noah was pro-
'OSE L4e! SualS WAAtllE through the ranks with
cane nShand, Furnishing eUi doerS and ipraisinef
them that did well. Seyensyears having passed
over him, the Friends waited on the GOVERNOR
Friend, said they, tsSsevenY Yearsago YOU would
have hung thisytnan; now here lis q reformed !
member sayedlto society," 4
he received an unconditional pardon, and
came out. The Friends found him a store on
Pearl street, found him money, endorsed his
notes and gave him their custom. Immediate
" he was in a thriving way. Heioined't the So
ciety ofFriends, and said thee and thou;with
the best of them He.hadi a wife, and children
arriveda at maturity.
His journeymen were chiefly men of families
and wrought in theirsown houses One iday.he
gave a man pair of boots. "Now, 4friend,n
says he, "thee must bring home these boots on &
fourth day evening. Says the man, ssYoui
shall have them" The boots did not come
home,till fifth day. evening. Noahwas wroth:--E
he gave the man along lecture on the evils of
disaPp Ppointment and want fpunctuality. When
he drew up to breathe, the man replied:
.'Slr, lam poor man; have wife and three
children, tho youngest only forty=eight hours
old. had to tend toymy wife and cook for my
children. 1t was not in my power to finish thea
boots sooner Noah still llicontinued to magnify.
the horrors Of disappointment The man grew !
angry the Scotch blood boiled in his veins; hes.
struck the counter with his fist. likea a sledge-
hammer. know" says he tsit's terrible
thlng4tosbe disappointed Irememb Der goingiup
totthe park tolsee you hung, and I never was
SO disappointed in my life when TsaW thelre-5
prieve!" 1 ~ R a&so iseg
Now this was knock down argument, as an
lTishman would Say,5 1t was a,caSe in point, as
they say court and .afact beyond all contro
versy, as they say in Congress. Noah was
dumb; he opened not hismouth He gave the
man another pair to make, kept him in employ-
ment, treated him kindly, but, as she man sale,
he never heard the word .disggpoiut drop from
hisilips thereafter. y U
Noah went on prospering and to prosper
One day he borrowed various sums of money!
and obtained,a number. of endorsements. The
bills he changed for gold; theend easements fhe
got shaved IN w all street That night he was
off for parts unknown, taking with him dear
sister, the wife of q young friend to cheer himl3
on the way. This story is true to the letter,
and beingthe tirstsubj bject of eprison reform,
the question whether hanging or state prison.
reform is the surest way of curing consrmmate
villain. His family and friends never heard
from him. d1lous Pict0ria1 - - z
= A B6sISEss WoMAN-Ch Chrfstiana, dowager
Queen of Spain is one of the Observation-Disclosures
in Europe, and probably the greatest business
woman in the world Her operations are not
confined to any one country, orfanY 5sngle ciass
of securities. She dabbles in everythng.--gl
Driven from Spain, she has her fsti every
speculative project in theaP Peninsula. She has
contracted with the Pope to build the railways
of the Papal States. Her investments lin the
French railways have beenlarg she has boughts
Malmiason, the former residence Of Josephine,
and now owns the Conrrieride Paris newspaper.
She has been one of the most successful opera
torsin the Cuban slave trade, and has innqmer-
able projects in Gnbar7among which are the
Havana gas works, several fine sugar estatessl
and many tracts of fine lands. at one time
whenssheI was paramount in Spain, 1t is said
she7offered to lend her Influence to the sale of