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New-York tribune., 1909-12-19

in London from injuries received in an
automobile accident three weeks ago 1t
was not until after the accident that IL be-
came generally known that the Young man
was engaged 10 Violet Asquith. daughter Of
Herbert II. Asquith. the Premier. When
attempts were made TO see Miss Ascaith
regarding the attack by William Watson IN
his poem, The Woman with the Serpent 3
Tongue she was found at hospital watch
ing over her fiance. Supreme Court Justice
George II. Fits. Of Albany, was found
dead III bed from heart disease.
Leopold II. for forty-four years King Of
Belgium. died after an operation for an
obstruction of the bowels"
THE whole civilized world and part OF
the unsivilized," said Busy Man. will miss
Leopold-like you miss a chronic ache when
it is gone. What else has happened that I
ought 10 remember
otto Belt, TO whom his brother. the late
Alfred Belt, the South African financier,
left the greater part of his millions. has
given ts25,00O to London University for
medical research. This. added TO the $3.50 900
bequeathed by Alfred Belt for a similar
purpose, gives a total of sl.075.OOO, the in
come OF which will be devoted to providing
sl,25O tenable for three years
Miss Mary Hoadley Dodge. daughter OF
the late William Earl Dodge, OF New York,
according TO announcement made in Lon
don has given s350.O00 TO the fund for the
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in London
"A militant sunragette gave Chancellor
Lloyd-George a public shaking and up
braiding in his own automobile as he was
arriving at Queens Han. London, TO de-
liver an address. AS the car drew up to
the curb the suffragette sprang inside il
and seized the Chancellor by the shoulders
Another suffragette jumped on the foot
board and held the door OF the car shut
while her vigorous comrade lectured him
on the subject OF votes for women The
Chancellor merely smiled"
Public men in England should supply
themselves with chaperons" said Busy
Man; "but go on
BY landslide vote The people OF
Worcester. Mass. the largest no-license
city In the world. decided for the return OF
the saloon by a majority OF 3.7i0 as against
no-llcense majority last year of 20s
Captain Thomas Franklin pleaded guilty
before United States Circuit Judge Hand OF
having embezzled the mess funds OF the
cadet corps at West Point. where he was
treasurer lie was sentenced TO spend two
years and six months In the prison at At
lGnta.
Twenty three persons were killed by
New-York tribune., 1909-12-19
In MURED 30 YEARS
II FREED, WARREN
WON'T KNOB WORLD.
Nutmeg State Uroricide Vii
Find Many Things to
Marcel At.

MIddlstown. Gem. Dec. fs-John War
ren. who has served fifty years OF a life
sentence in the Connecticut state prison at
Wethersfeld, and who is probably the only
convict IN this country 20 have reached a
golden" prison anniversary. Is petitioning
the Board OF Pardons 70 release him. The
case has attracted much attention because
OF its unusual circumstances aud because
Ex-Governor George P. Mclean. who Is 10
run for the United States Senate from this
state against Unired States Senator Nor
gan 9. Buiksley AZ the cor1ing session OF
the Legislature. is pushing the case in
behalf Of Warren.
Though John Warren IS serving a life
sentence for the brutal murder OF his wife,
Mr.. Mclean is OF the opinion that the con-
vict's crime was due TO brain storm" {"
pure and simple, but such pleas were not
made in the period when his trial occurred.
Society can have nothing to fear from the
release of John Warren. Mr.. Mclean says.
His punishment is made the more terrible.
Mr.. Mclean explains. by the fact thar he
Las received one hundred months allow
ance for good conduct. by which. Of course.
having a life sentence. he Z. unable to
preft.
There appeared before the Board OF Par
dons two brothers Of Warren. Alorzo and
Joe Warren, and a niece Miss Rosie
Marsh, all OF whom promise to care for the
old man IL he is released. The board will
hold further hearing before deciding
The world has not waited for Warren.
and il will be with simple. childlike eyes
that the aged prisoner. if freed. Will view
the changes OF the half century. When
Warren was free there were stages plying
TO and fro in the main streets OF cities
In that time the steam engine was to his
mechanical instinct probably the embodi-
ment OF all advancement. II was the day
when the steamboat and locomotive were
feeble and unsainly devices. and tedious
overland journeys by stage were q part OF
ordinary travel.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-19
Character Sketches of the Principal Members of His
Cabinet, Drawn by Ex-Attache.

made by the government 10 the clergy.
and are so pronounced in their hostility
that the question has recently been
raised again as 10 whether in the event
OF their achieving victory the Papacy
might not be compelled 10 abandon both
the Eternal City and the peninsula and
to seek refuge in some other country
Germany. Great Britain and the United
States being among those said TO have
received consideration in this connec-
ton.
For the programme of the RADICAL Re
publican ultra Socialist combination in
cIudes the suppression and dishanding
OF all the religious orders, the confisca-
tion of their property as in France: the
abolition of all schools conducted by
priests and Sisters OF Mercy, and the
prohibition of religious teaching in the
public schools. the placing of the Holy
See and the administration of the Church
On the same footing as business corpora
tions, thus forcing the Vatican 10 render
public account OF the funds which il re-
Ceives and spends, and the deprivaI or
the Pope OF the extraterritoriaI priv
ileges. similar to those OF foreign am
bassadcrs, which he now enjoys with re-
gard 10 his person, his encourage and his
residence. In fact, the official organ of
the ultra-Radical com animation, the
Avanti." owned by Bis.olati. probably
the ablest OF living italian parliament
taTians. not long ago went so far as TO
advocate the conversion of ST Peters
into a huge place of public amusement,
and indicated a programme OF the man
ner in which this should be done.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-19

The two other most important members
OF the new Cabinet are Francesca Guic-
ciardini who resumes his former place
of Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Luigi
Luzzatti, next to Sonnino the ablest
fnancier and political economist in all
Italy. possessing as such international
fame. Count Guicciardini has numerous
American friends, whose acquaintance
he made during the years which he spent
as Mayor of Florence. He belongs to one
of the oldest houses of the great Tuscan
aristocracy, is descendant or the ceIe-
brated Francesca Guiceiardihi who hour
ished in the fifteenth century at Rome
under the reign of Pope Leo X, as his
torian and as a diplomat, and is mar
ried to the only sister Of that Leoni
Strozzi. Prince OF Forano and Duke OF
Baguolo, who. declining the lucrative OIL
fers for tho purchase of his ancestral
home at Florence, left this world famed
ralace, with all its priceless arehiVes
and most of it's contents, TO the nation
on his death, eightec months ago.
Tall and powerfully built, with a short
gray OeaTQ anu d IdlIlLl S%AApo~ AN~~~' w.
count suggests in his manner the gravity
of the North rather than the frivohty o.
the South Indeed, he gives the impress
sion of so much earnestness and serious
ness that it-is not difficult 10 believe MS
contemporaries when they insist that he
never sowed any wild oats In his early
DAYS and that his youth was quite as tree
from any indiscretions as his present
life. With all that, he is a most agree
able companion, wonderfully we'll read,
travelled. and popular alike with the
aristocracy Of Florence and with the
lower classes of that city. but still more
even on his estates in Tuscany, where
he passes for a most kindly landlord
He must not be confounded with his
nephew, Count Carlo Guicciardini. in
whose matrimonial differences with his
pretty Argentine wife the divorced
Crown Princess OF Saxony was impIi-
Gated.
With regard to Signor Luzzatti. II will
doubtless create surprise that he should
have been assigned to the Department OF
Agriculture rather than that OF Finance.
But unless agriculture is foStered and
developed by the government the ex-
chequer suffers, for the bulk OF the popu-
lation is agricultural. and therefore it is
the peasantry which furnishes the
greater portion OF the revenue. When
agriculture languishes the national treas
ury suffers. and the emigration evil be-
comes acute. That is why the portfolio
of agriculture is in italy one of the most
important Of the Cabinet, and is gen.
orally allotted TO a statesman OF the
highest rank.
1t is not only the economic questions
of his own native land that Luzzatti has
studied, but also those Of foreign coun-
tries, and he has written a series of most
interesting and authoritative articles in
the 'Nuova Antologia Reviex" on the
New-York tribune., 1909-12-19

hand that he possibly introduced these
measures with the knowledge that they
would be defeated and would enable
him 20 fall. after nearly four years of
office. on a popular issue of democratic
taxation. rather than on the unpopular
question of steamship company conven-
tions, to which his Postmaster General
Schanzer had committed the Cabinet.
If so short a life is predicted for the
Sonnino administration, ii is because he
xiii be compelled TO depend for work
ing majority in Parliament upon the
adhsrents OF Giolitti, and will virtually
hold office at the latteFs pleasure. for.
in view Of the fact that a general elec-
ton only took place last spring. the King
would not for a moment permit at this
stage enc of these appeals TO the coun-
try 10 which new cabinets are accus-
toned TO resort in the hope of securing
& numerical superiority in the Chamber.
II is doubtful, indeed. if any such ma
;ority could be obtained, even by that
means for, whereas, here in America
there are but two great historic parties,
the Republicans and the Democrats, in
Italy lftIe dIG dL ledSL seven, one VI
which is again divided into several fac
tons. So that il is only by purchasing
the alliance of two or more of the par
ties by means of concessions that it is
possible for a Premier to get his meas
ures through the legislature.
Thus. there is the Right the support
Of which had been obtained by Giolitti
n 7fc Of Lo Of
Minister of Foreign Affairs to Tittoni.
Sonnino hopes TO retain its cooperation
by giving the portfolio of Agriculture in
his Cabinet to Luigi Luzzatti. Sonnino
himself represents the Centre, or consti-
tutional opposition, and may be regarded
as a Conservative. although he has ex-
pressed himself IN favor Of universal
suffrage, extending the 7Ote even TO
women. Next comes the Left. OF which
ex-Premier Giolitti has been the chief.
and which is of all parties the most
important. Then there IS the ex-
treme Left, to which Prince Scipio
Borghese. of Peking- to- Paris motor race
fame and editor of the Italian counter
part OF The London Spectator" be-
longs. as well as the Prince of Teano.
son of the late Duke of SermOnetta, the
Ultra Radicals and Republicans and the
Socialists, the CIericals constituting
the seventh OF these parties. Their di-
visions are determined less by any set
political programme than by a personal
sympathy for one OF the other OF the
leaders, and this further contributes to-
the instability Of Italys parliamentary
regime since a man is guided in his leg
islative work less by conscience and doc
trine than by the state of his relations
for the time being with his chief: in one
word, il is men. not measures, and Cabi-
net crises are constantly arising not
from any political issue, but from some
personal quarrel among politicians.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-19
Constant Reader Tells Him What He Missed in Last
Weeks Papers.

dren of the well 10 do as well as the poor.
Another result Of the investigation is the
development OF the fact that while re-
1lovaI from Europe 10 New York has had
a beneficial effect upon the physique OF
East European Hebrews, the result has
been the opposite upon the Sicilians, the
conclusion being that the surroundings in
New York are better for the Jews than in
their city homes In the Old World. while
the cramped quarters which the Sicilians
occupy in New York are not so desirable az
their rural surroundings in Southern Italy"
New York mas frequently been called the
New Jerusalem, " said Busy Man. There
was more reason for it than we imagined
What has been going on In the world OF
commerce.
In addition TO the acquisition of the
stocks of the United States Long Distance
and Cuyahoga Telephone companies, J. z.
Morgan 6 Co. purchased a majority OF the
stocks OF the Toledo Home Telephone Com.
pany, the Citizens Telephone Company OF
Columbus, the Dayton Home Telephone
Company. the Indianapolis Telephone Com
pany. the New Long Distance Telephone
Company Of Indiana and the New Tele-
phone Company of Indianapolis. The COM
panies have an aggregate capitalization OF
So, 10000 bonds, S4,5O0O00 preferred stock
and 81, 100000 common. The actual value
Of the physical property is estimated at
s2s Oeo 00o Morgan & Co. are said 10 have
paid approximately 100000 cash for their
holdings The system thus acquired en-
braces I0l.5OO telephones and 5000 miles Of
long distance lines, covering Ohio. Indiana
and Michigan.
organized labor Of the United States
and Canada issued a formal declaration Of
war against the billion dollar Steel Trust.
The decision TO fight long and hard against
the stand taken by the Steel Corporation in
ia open shop policy was reached by the
labor conferrees only after hours Of debate.
The forty thousand worlSmen Of the cor
narration sgf,s. hold stock and draw dividends
regularly from the profits are looked to
stand fast, no matter what acton may be
taken by the labor unions
Further proof OF the laxness and slip
sbod methods In the weighing OF importa-
lions of raw sugar AT the port OF New
York for a good many years and OF the ex-
tent 10 which the government suffered by
This loosepess was given with the an
nouneenent that the firm OF Ar6ackle
prothers rad paid over 20 the government
sss5 -. This amount represents short
New-York tribune., 1909-12-19

Have re established a stable govern
--sr- - Nicaragua yete' asked Busy Nan
IS hs nat Constant Reader last evening
It's & little tco soon 20 decide that
poInt' was the reply. but President
Zeia-s resigned his Office, inspired by the
knowledge that his power was rapidly wan
ne sld that many OF his former adherents
we're only awaiting a favorable oppor-
unity u turn and rend him. He asked the
Nica-aguan National Assembly 70 elect his
successor. and he blamed the United States
tcr his downfall"
a lead we can easily carry said Busy
Man. What has been going on at Wash
tngtca?'
TIE President nominated Horace IL.
---Ttca, q Tennessee. 70 be an associate
justice OF the Supreme Court Of the United
states He IS sixty-ive years old, and viii
succeed the .ste Justice Peckham, Of New
YORK
Secretary MacVeagh made public the
T--es which viii govern the Treasury De-
partsnelt IN the collection OF the corpora
ron tax. OF most interest. perhaps. is his
oean.tion q ne. income which he says
means not only net profits arising from the
operation OF the principal business Of the
corporation. but ell items OF income re-
celve1 from other sources. such as invest
'neIts. holdings II other companies ana
Businesses. etc
That the physical form as well as the
habits % living and ways OF thinking OF
nc cesccndants OF foreigners who emil
Erate % America is different from that OF
tneir ancestors Is the conclusion OF the
Immigration Commission, as embodied in
ne preliminary report OF that body which
az presented 70 Congress. The discovery
= regarded as Of Importance ia anthropo-
i''gical science, as indicating the develop
ilent o. distinct American physical type
~ persons OF European descent. The re-
port indicates that the descendant OF the
european immigrant changes his typs'
'Fen In the first generation. almost en-
-lIFiy- Children born even a few years
3it"f the arrival q the parents develop IN
<ieh way that they differ essentially
ron ne latter. These differences seem 70
NsFtlop during the earliest childhood and
h'fsist throughout life. The commission
3S' Aas made the discovery that as rule
sie D. a falling on In the size Of families
-ttI sfTirsl in the United States. and co
Iti9e-4i with this discovery has come tho
-''T ~ IorLznt revelation that az the num-
DI children fiecrcesa tie size OF tie in
'----S iEcre4stss inss among The ch.l'
New-York tribune., 1909-12-19
HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE.

Great men have risen and disappeared In
the last fifty years. Names have been i'm
mortaiized, and while the prisoner has at
tended his trivial tasks. other men have
stirred the continent with their deeds.
Three Presidents have been assassinated
and millions OF strange people have settled
in the coast cities. Religion has changed
with new conceptions OF life and death.
Darwinism has awakened the world 10 a
new truth.
In the homes OF the people are thousands
OF comforts Warren never dreamed Of and
the palatial business houses and sky
scraperS are almost beyond comparison
with the rude office quarters OF two genera
tons aso. Swaying crowds OF people will
choke the lanes where COWS were driven
In the old days and familiar faces OF boy
hood friends will be gone. IL the prisoner
returns to his own
Oftenumes when men have been taken
from long accustomed SURROUNDINGS the
abrupt change OF habit which follows has
proved fatal Does not the lack of re-
straint and dull routine OF the colorle.s
prison life and the very fulalment OF hope
mean danger 10 the liberated mane Steadi-
ness and careful adjustment TO new condi-
lions OF ease appear TO be necessary. War
ren must need confidence and stability 10
offset the constant and deadly realization
that nifty years OF his life are empty.
IL was In December. 1859. that Warren
entered the state prison. after having mur-
dered his young wife In the summer OF
that year AM kept the sheriff and his
posse hunting for him for three months
during which time he was hiding under
his fathers barn. Next came two dashes
ior liberty, fuily thirty years apart. both
New-York tribune., 1909-12-19
THE CRIME HE EXPIATEs.

John Warren is the son of Ziba Warren,
Mansfield farmer. When less than twenty
years Old he was obliged 70 marry Julia
E TOwne, fifteen wears old, OF Belchsr-
town. Mass. as il was asserted that hs
was the father OF her child Il was not a
happy marriage. and the presence near
the Warren homestead IN Mansfield OF an
attractive girl whom the young man Is
said 70 have loved did not make his Ior
happier II is said that this ~othsr wor-
an" urged Warren to murder his wife.
At any rate. one afternoon in June Warren
sent a request TO her that she visit the aeId
where he was working. he Induced he-
10 20 wading N a nearby stream called
Roaring Brook and then he attacked her
and held her head under the water until
she was drowned
Mrs. Warren's mysterious disappsarancs
caused great excitement. seIectmen La
tErop and Manning and ssvenry-dvs nsIsh-
oors searched the neighborhood- The crowd
finally abandoned tha search bur the SCI
iSctmen and companion kept tt up, an
they were rewarded by finding the body IA
narrow neck OF land in Ellington. extend-
ing 20 the WiIamantic River. Thsreupoa
Warren fed from his home and was capt.
ured In Northampton. Mass.
The murdered vas taken back to Con-
necticut and locked up ia the ToIland Coun-
= jail In two months he escaped. ant the
the tatler was discharged. For three
months the search for Warren was kept
up Finally the shsri1 was informed thas
a suspicious Character had been seen CON-
ing out OF the barn owned by Warren's
father. Thereupon the sherin collected a
rosSe and surrounded L.
Sheriff Foster tcld Warren's father that
he would set IRE TO the barn and Law ths
building and the man beneath II In ashes
unless the father ordered his son 20 come
out The father wilted and shouted TO his
son that he had better come out and sur
render and the murderer emerged
IN August. iSSs. Warren attempted 20
escape from the state prison. One nisht he
could not be found Three days later y
guard found a loose plank IN the aoo- OF
tne OF the new shops he pulled up the
plank and found a passage Jwo feet IN
cepth between the floor and The ground
No trace OF Warren was found however.
SO one OF the officers said 10 the guard:
Hold the lantern away and III empty my
six-shooJer into the shaft
Instantly voice IN the underground r,ss-
sage shouted: Hole ont De.st shoot, IN
ccme outr Then out cravled Warren.
weak from exhaustion. Hs had lived In the
eramFsd quarters for three days sustained
by scraps Of food which he had hidden IN
his pockets before escaping.
For years Warren has been an exen,olarv
prisoner and has seemed 10 take his i'm
rrisonment pkilosOphieallS. y recent NUM-
Ter OF The Monthly Record the rrison
newspaper. has a efedits6le article s.saed
Registered No. l." which Is warren's 3
number
New-York tribune., 1909-12-19
JUST BEFORE CIVIL WAR.

Trips to Europe meant two weeks or
more. and Cape Horn was the easiest route
70 San Francisco. The population OF this
country. 51.000,O9o. only a third OF its pres
ent size, was rent with dissension, and the
North and South were ready to leap II
each others thToats-
Since then the whole world has taken on
a different aspect. The United States has
fought two wars, developed a great navy
and risen 10 an international Importance
second 20 that OF no other power. Ger
many has become an empire, Italy has
been reunited and Spain has fallen from
her high estate. In Turkey, the ancient
home of despousm, a revolution has oc-
CURED. and in Russia great changes have
come to pass. Japan has become a fore
most nation. and China and other parts OF
the Orient have been largely converted to
the ideas OF the West. Egypt is now a
thrifty nation and Africa has become quite
widely settled. IN the heart of Tibet ex-
ploration has opened new doors; Australia.
with lifted head. stands among the great
communities OF the earth. Alaska. which
was bought for s.. 10000, is yielding thrice
that amount yearIy'and has astounded the
world with her natural resources.
II Warren is liberated. IL will not he a
wood burning steam engine which will
bring him to New York. Great electric
engines Of loo horsepower are now speed
Ing zouthward from Stamford. Through
city streets he VIII see electric cars
and elevated railroads IN operation Mann
moth bridges, subways and aqueducts
VIII testify TO the labor expended IN
the long interim. Telephone. telegraph,
cable and wireless have arrived and the
great discovery OF radium has opened the
eyes OF the world 20 hitherto unsuspected
possibilities in science. \ thousand me-
chanical creations have slowly come 20
move the wheels OF progress az different
speed since 1S59. Giant turbines, gas en-
gines. wonderful cranes and dredges are 20
be seen IN an indnity of shapes. Battle
ships have been made and implements OF
war have been invented which surpass all
prophecy. Ocean liners nearly a furlong
in length and double the speed OF the
ships Warren knew are crossing the At
lantic in four days.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-19

subject Of the tariff and the relations Of
capital and labor in the United States,
on the tariff reform and Lloyd-George
financial projects in England, on the
financial crisis by which the French gov
ernment is confronted. and on the eco
nomic outlook in Russia and japan.
These articles have been translated into
many foreign languages, have been
widely quoted and created an immense
amount Of discussion, exciting much ad-
miration by reason Of their lUcidity and
breadth OF view. EX-ATTACHE.