Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-02-16
WILL ENTER A NEW WORLD.
Strange Experience of Convict Who
Has Been in Prison As Years.

Has Been in Prison As Years.
For forty-f1ve years John Warren.
wife murderer. has been immured in
the Connecticut State prison. and he is
| about to seek clemency from the board
OF pardons. Since his confinement be-
gan the great world has been steadily
spinning down the rapid grooves Of
change.
In 1859, the year when Warren's long
period of civil death commenced. Oar
wins "Origin Of Species" startling
the world and revolutonizing scientific
In that year the use and development
of petroleum began. In that year
Oregon, discartling the short trousers
of territory. donned the garb of
Statehood and made the thirty-third
member OF the Union: now there are
fOrty-five States. In 1859 the popu!a-
ton Of the United States was 1000
600: now it is S2OOO.OOO. In 1859 the
people Of Connecticut numbered $50,
0OO and count of noses in the big
/
closed scarcely 10000 jewellers; now
the census of the State has bounded
forward to 10000 and of New Haven
TO 10000
Warren had been behind grim walls
nearly two years when the first shot
OF the rebellion was fired, nearly four
years when the awful carnage at Get
tysburg was moving down the flower
Of both the Northern and the South
ern armies and nearly six years when
the historic meeting between Lee and
Grant at AppomattoX Courthouse let
loose the dove of peace.
The first web-perfecting printing
preSS-a crude affair, but the forerun-
ner of the wonderful mechanism which
now turns off the printed daily mes
sage with the rapidity of the light
ning-wasn't invented until 1868 The
first successful submarine cable, span
ming the Atlantic and narrowing the
gap between the old world and the
Gatling gun, which can shoot down II
dozen men as quickly as one could be
shot down before, dates from 1861.
In the year when Warren WAS
rounding out his first full decade Of
penal servitude the initial transconti-
mental railroad, uniting with bands of
steel the mighty Atlantic and the
mightier Pacific, was completed In
1869, too. the antiseptic principle of
treating wounds-a great advance in
surgery was first applied. Warren
had been dead to the world seventeen
years when. in 1876. the telephone was
| invented. The next year the phono-
graph first began to absorb and repro
duce the human voice. In 1878 the
electric light first dazzled the eyes OF
produced five years later. and in the
same year of 1883 the Brooklyn bridge
was finished. Medical science was
making great strides the while, and in
| 1885 Pasteur first inoculatcd for by
drophobia.
| Warren had reeled off twenty seven
years of his life sentence when in 1856
at Scranton Pa, the first successful
American trolley was put in opera
ton. The Mcrgenthaler linotype ma
chine, the delicate and complete mech
anism by which this article Is put into
type, and which is now leading fea-
ture Of the equipment of every large
daily newspaper, was made practica-
bic. Warrcn's term Of Imprisonment
had mounted up to at least thirty-five
wears when the automobile was intro
duced, and it had passed two-score
years when wireless messages began
to be transmittcd.-lIar Times.