The independent., 1907-04-04

people complain shall be eradlcateu. Ills
pay is fixed at figure hardly enough to
justify an able-modied man in taking the
job but the fact that the hotels are re-
quired to feed the inspector when ne VS.
its any of them in his ofhcfai capacity,
makes it reasonably sure that he will be
able to get enough to eat such as it is.
No job like that would do for me,
crave not such feast;
With hash that l must eat I'd be
On speaking terms at least
Sometimes the rooms are IN muSS
And nothing is in place;
| And bugs-but let me not discuss
That feature Of the case
The coffee is too weak to live,
Though almost black as jet;
The cream-its absence / fogive
But cannot soon forget.
In the state prison at Wethershed,
Connecticut, John Warren is serving his
fiftieth year of a life sentence In tine
spring of 1857 he murdered his young wife
| by holding her head under water IN
brook near their home. He had Jeai-
Gus disposition and the fear that she
loved another aave him him brain
storm that didn't calm down until after
| it was too late. 1t was shown at the
| trial that the crime was without sem
blance Of justification, but the court took
| into account that the boy was afflicted
with an error of belief and mercifuily
substituted ninety-nine years in the pen
for the death penalty, which he was ex-
| pected to pronounce To visitor with
whom he was permitted to converse the
| other day the old man said L do not
have any sorrows here, nor any joys
| either, like people on the outside. l
don't have any priyatlons or any bad
| luck, and am never sick so 1T is not
/ so hard, only / would like to go out
beyond these walls where I would never
hear the click of the locks again while
/ live. few weeks ago petition FOR
| his pardon was sent to the state BOARD,
which Is composed of men mean enough
to pass it up. The old convict has hope
| that when he has been there fifty years
| maybe the board will take pity on him
| and let him out. So far as he knows his
| boyhood friends and near of kin are all
| in their graves.
In the senate the university appropria-
ton was pared down $1SO,0OO.
That / am grieved need not say
By these returns;
| Where is the old-time power today
OF Joseph Burns?
He long has been our favored son,
Right on the spot
He used to speak and things were done;
Now they are not.
see him PROSTATE, rent and torn,
Stretched at full lenght;
Some fair Delilah must have shorn
Him of his strength
Those wreteched henchmen of the Bee
Upon us crept
And wrought great wrong, | plainly see,
While Joseph slept
He used to be alive and brave,
Alert and bold
Is Joseph now to sloth a slave
Because he's old?
He used to be as full of schemes
As is a Turk,
But now he sits and sleeps and dreams
While others work.
How often have we trusted him
With our concerns;
And now he's designated Jim
Crow Joseph Burns.
How oft the honors that he sought
Were his to hold;
But now the hand that defty wrought
Lies limp and cold.
. My tears are she'd this sight to see,
In large amount,
To think that Joseph Burns should be
OF no account.
What we're you doing, Joseph, pray,
Upon the date
when it was time to rise and say.
Appropriate?
Did not the sound of booming gun,
Tne drum > tDHS TUlt
1 Nor cen the voice Of Epperson
Stir your dead soul!
And now / simply appalled,,
My sad tears now
. From fear that you will soon be called
e Back. Number joe
: III Sister hilmne hasn't been deceived
| by the local historians I'm eastern Massa
y chusetts and the southwest corner o
: Maine, Mary Baker Glover Patterson Edd,
. had a very human experience IN the Ions
: | years she lived and laborsd and suffere,
. prfvation and disappointment in prepara
ton for the fuller entpyments eeinciden
= upon her arrival az the place towxs
J which she tomrneyed What IN she dls
} derive the Inspiration for her metaphy
steal Investigations from the writings ans
, public utterance Of phlneas Qulmby7 Shl
, has amply accomplished what he at
tempted and failed. lilo was powsrfulll
y impressed With the thought that minI
. was the controlling force back OF ever,
= effort 20 achieve. but he didn't grasp ans