The National tribune., 1909-05-13


a driveling idiot. What has actually
happened is the remarkable part of
Jesse Pomeroy's history, and what
prompts this mention of him. During
these 33 years of confinement Pomeroy
has become an educated man. By con-
stant study and reading he has convert
ed his unframed, chaotic mind into that
of the scholar. He has mastered the
higher mathematics, French and Span
ish and knows something of Latin. He
is a trained bookkeeper and could cas-
lily pass an examination for admittance
to the bar if he had the chance: He
has the history of the world at his FIN
gers ends and there seems to be no
subject under the shining heavens that
he does not know something about.
When it is remembered that at the
time of his conviction he was an ignor-
ant newsboy of common birth and pre-
Sumably no intellectual inheritance back
of him, with decided crook in his own
brain, this result does, indeed, seem
remarkable.
Quite a movement is on foot among
the colored people of the country to
found a memorial in the shape of an
Industrial Home, something on the Or
der of Tuskegee and Hampton. to Har-
riet Tubman, probably the most re-
markable negress in America Harriet
l.
lives on the farm in Auburn, N. Y,
which she purchased from Secretary
Seward in the days of the Dred Scott
decision, and it is this farm which it is
proposed to enlarge and convert into
the Industrial home and school. This
aged negress is said to have been one
of the founders of the underground
railroad" and to have enabled hun
dreds of her race to escape from slav-
cry to freedom. Born in Maryland,
slave of slave parents, she made her
escape in s1S49, and was befriended by
the good Quakers of Philadelphia. Soon
after this she began her work of bring
ing slaves North, and it is said for 10
years made frequent trips South for
this purpose, in spite of the fact that
placardS announcing rewards for her
capture were stuck up everywhere.
Maryland offered an additional $4,000.
But Harriet was quick-witted, resource
full and careful, and tho she had many
narrow escapes never was caught. Nat
uraIly the Northern Abolitionists We're
very much interested in her, and, liv-
ing for a time in the home of Emerson,
in Concord, she knew the Alcotts, Will
liam Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips
and all that group of distinguished
men, who gave her their support. Dur
ing the war she was scout, spy, nurse
and cook for the Union army, tho un-
attached to any one organization. When
the famous 54th Mass. was ordered to
Port Royal Harriet trotted along and
cooked for Col. Shaw. A number of
years ago Congress granted her pen
sion for her manifold services during
the war, which has kept her very COM
Portable during her declining years.
Even to this day she is unable to sign
her name to document, but can only
make her mark"
During the recent excitement in Tur-
key, which has resulted in the deposi-
tion of the late Sultan and the placing
of new ruler on the throne, there
have occurred many scenes of Orienta al
picturesqaeness. To the Occidental
mind, however, specifically speaking,
bit of local color than that of the row
of eunuchs sitting in front of the main
gate of the palace. watching the groups
of sentinels scattered here and there
over the grounds between them and
the blue Bosphorus, the officers moving
about. and all the strange goings-on un-
der the new regime. There they sat on
chairs, a long row of them. their eyes
blinking in the bright sunlight. Now,
your eunuch may not look unlike any
other man of his nationality and his
dress may not be 1"rticularly pictur-
esque. tho it oughr e. pa. But what. an
air of mystery and nance hangs over
Nights enchantment and splendor, Of
hafem secrets and intrigues are insep-
arably connected with him! What
tales could that row of blinlting-eyed
creatures, admitted by reason of their
strange Office into the intimate life of
the hundreds of so-called wives of the
late Sultan, tell il they chose! Perhaps,
really, nothing specially interesting; but
the person Of imagination refuses to
believe this.
The youthful bride, tenderly attached
to home and mother, who during the
honeymoon sheds few tears on the.
sly in longing for the parental roof and
the maternal breast, awakens sympathy,
of course. We are a very tentier-helrt-
ed, sympathetic and sentimental Nation,
and can well understand the sorrow
which every good girl feels en- leaving
her home, presumably forever, no mat
ter how much she may be in love VITA
the man to whom she has intrlsted her
future happiness. But the male crea-
ture who is SO much of "mother's
boy" that he is unable, even after mar
riage, to content himself away from the |
maternal environment, and who gives
iaerymose evidence of this longing, is, |
happily, most rare. No one can fail.
therefore, to fully sympathize with Mre'
Eugene Grcnboidt, of Trenton N
in her recent application for divorce
from her husband, Frederick. Mrs.
Eugenie may or may not have been a
good wife; that has nothing to dc with
the question. All that concerns the
present is the extremely trying conduct
of Frederick. Just 6 days after they
had been pronounced man AMI wife
and in the full radiance of the honey
moon. Frederick cried all night for his
mother, and as soon as daylight came
he rushed home to her. He came back.
1t is true, but every few days he would
have these spells of weeping which
nothing would cure but soiourn under
the maternal roof and a season OF moth
er's petting and pies. This sort OF Thing,
so very trying TO the pride and temper
OF Mrs. Eugene, continued for eight
months, when, after n particularly
weepy night, Frederick went home new
er 10 return to his unappreciatei and
pauence-exhausted spouse. Consequent-
ly she applied for divorce, and got it,
very properly.
Amid much Oriental pomp and cere-
mony the body of the late Emperor of
China has just been taken so miles
from Pekin for final interment The
royal catafalque was borne by l2S Off
cials in pageant two miles long ana
II took four days TO reach the western
tomb, over road only used for such
purposes. Altho the body of the EN-
peror has been removed TO this place,
his tomb will not be completed Tor two
years, and when Ii is will cost cogsid-
erably over 1000, 900, so it is fortunate
that China does not have to bury an
Emperor very often. The pageant was
ers, among whom were the special en-
htffaraIlf nj. to