RIV At is FOUND F t ifOR FOR UTAH WOMEN 1 She Shea is Is s Mrs J Jennie B. B Powers a r i of New Han Hampshire I v s t r L' L L r ft THE WOMAN I WHO DARES r T. T i a As Ir Deputy of Cheshire County j Y 7 5 UI Society A Agen cr She J Good Gowl Work Y AS- AS f Ulah's Utah's I t women peace of o. officers m cors several sev- sev eral of oC whom hom have ha received l more passing notice through the tho 1 Country have a rival In New Xe Hamp shire Mien For formerly former former- f t ly Iy deputy 1 t sheriff sherIf of Salt hake LaUe coup cotin- t was vas the tho first of the tho Utah female femaleS t to S II I I pace CO officers lo to receive extended c noS noi no- no S i The nh I In tn n tho rho press of the country rhe The class cia of ot work which h brought rought Miss lIss l org luon into prominence was as as simi elm similar 1 lag lar to that chat which Is being performed by the New Hampshire woman Mr Mrs rl Jennie B. B Powers of or Keene deputy J sheriff sherIf of oC Cheshire coun county Cy and general of the I Humane society s' s Both women have become well C. C li known wn for fOl their Chell fearlessness In deal deal- II Ing 1 with those who mistreat children ami anil un dumb brutes i V The 1110 Woman uman Who J Dares The Tho Woman oman Who Dares Dares that Is J lira Mra Powers Powers' title in I the Keene tho title f R that dint she has shown slown to be truly ruly tiers hers In the two years r Cl that the cit city has hasl L' L l Own Jt 1 D her and that Chat she has earned r E S with the work of oC almost a a. decade You lont dont have ha ave to J know now her name to find her hor In Keene Jeene Just ask for fort t 0 n tiro tift home of tho the greatest woman in j tiff 1 fOrca rica If you wish to put it that wi f. rand AntI nd you ou will be directed And I F wl when n you ou come to her you oU will find one who will disappoint you if IC you ou arc ro for an amazonian onlan creature crea crea- tit lurt ture with fire in her hen eye But you OU wi win I find Mrs Jennie I D B. B Powers Power's not nol 95 large but with a n determined l. l something something- in her face that will open I wide to tu you OU the book of the mystery of or the reputation she ho has made t i It lf has hM como corno to lo be a common sayIng sayIng say- say Ing In Keene Koene to anyone anono who Is abused abused- t Do Dont tt go 10 to tA the police pollee go o to Mrs Po Powers For although h the tho officials t may 81 y SR say We Wc will look loule Into that i mutter tomorrow it is ten to one that no nu matter maHel what tho the hour of or day or nl night ht I If she sho deems the cause worth worthy Mrs 13 Powers will act at al once SI SIu- SIu Is invested with the tho power of oft t sheriff and as above said she Is the woman who dares And it II doesn't have hoo to be a human beIn being who is tho the Injured InJure party Why h didn't she sheget shet get het t up ul at 3 J I o'clock In the tho morning not lIol Ion long a ago o to take an abused horse awa away any from a II cruel owner and put lut It misery with a bullet with her lc- lc fi-c fi J I t I Am AI Ami II d when a visitor found her I wasn't she wet through h with the tho fallIng falling fall Call Ing sleet having just led let a n suffering animal tour four miles mlle to a R place phloe where I It ItI I could be humanely put to death leath I In Ma l they Cho have tin fin finI asylum for worn-out worn horses thai I of ut Miss 1189 Harriet Bird at lied Hed Acre farm in Stow Mrs rs Powers Powers Powers Pow Pow- ers has haq high praise for Miss Birds Bird's work but bUI she Is Ig so 0 energetic In the theca ca cause rc of humanity to all things that hat In her own words sho she Just has to get gel out herself an and Cen tend to them Her Iier power to do things lies outside of oC her own personality In tho fact that she he Is not nol only deputy sheriff of or Cheshire count county but also has all the thc rights that Chat arc those of or the tho Inspector and general agent of oC tho the Keene Beene Humane Humano Hu- Hu mane mano society l i With fell Revolver Kc As famous as Mrs Powers Is her revolver re With Whit her behind behind be be- hind the tho sun gun un It has ha sent many a suffering suffering suf suf- fering Cering creature to the happy pasturing pastor pastur lug InK grounds 8 beyond these glimpses of or the che moon She knows how to Co use thin that weapon so well weB that In all her executions she sho has round found it necessary In only ono one case to fire 1110 two shots to bring brine about an everlasting e s sui sur- sur ic i c cease of or sorrow on the part of the vic vic- IcUm tim Um And on that occasion h was working under the handicap of oC a n dim thin i stable at et t twilight h I As showing tho extent of Iv hr work worl I It Il ma may be said FRIll that during t tw- tw past year eal she sc has killed thirty nine hl a cow and a a. mule mu She Is ye e much mucha a i believer In I iJU pulling Un suffering that g-that that i IK is Incurable suffering away suffering away by death so much so that the president of oC tho ho Keene Krone Humane Human society s Henry S S. S I Mackintosh said ahl to her In the reporters reporter's re- re porters porter's presence jokingly of oC course Well Its It's a nice day Mrs Powers lets let's go o out and kill 1111 a horse But dont don't Imagine for a moment fJ that lint MI Mm Mrs Powers looks after the big brutes on only She is the tho hope of abused abuse wives and chillI children ren her hOI determined Ined manner has frightened many a a. cowardly cowardly cowardly cow cow- ardly wife beating husband Into decency de tic- concy her efforts have ha put children that thal n never ee l' l knew a kind word into inlo tomes homs where the rule rulo Is kindness nc- nc Anything that suffers is what she sho seeks to find and find and when she sho finds It Itt It t Is safe to wager was that relief Is at land hand It tt Is told lold how once she carried a little Ittle squirmy squirm squealing pig pIS' twenty miles In her arms In a n. buggy huC-gy that the tho nourished Ill porker cr might receive what as she sho puts it was coming to tIm him according to nature Mrs Powers PO Is 13 an Amherst graduate and she Is a veterinarian so so much if of f tho the latter that she Is not to lo be befooled befooled fooled Coole l when whon the she attends salon sale 1 and andRee andRees Ree Rees ees animals put Jut up UJ at al auction which were vere better hotter lead dead She buys bus tho the suffering suf- suf fering ering animals at a small price if iC possible and kills hills them or If another vale sale Is 15 insisted l upon she sho follows up UI he the case and If It sho deems it fit fat arrests the new owner for Inhumanity Inhumanly Inhuman Inhuman- ity ly wizen when h hiS 16 attempts to lo work his new lew possession If Hone one should attempt to lo go JO into ho tho details of Mrs Powers Powers' work work work- what she sho has done cone and anti is doing doing It it would tape tae nearly nearl the space of which St 81 L John spoke figuratively figuratively the books would more than fill the whole world tars h Window o v. v But Dut one can appreciate the feeling ot of f the woman In whom still lives Jives the tho enthusiasm for mercy for all things that hat led her to jump through a window window win win- dow carrying screen creen sash and all 11 with her that she hc might reach the moro mono quickly the sl side e of ot a man who wn was h b boating I. I ln N his hor horse t She She stopped slopped him him and ant this his was was the precedent that has hns not been dc- dc vl d from When Whon Mrs Powers comes cru cruelty It ceases President Mackintosh l of the Humane Hu lIu- mane mane society says that ho hi can n not In an any wa way too strongly commend the wo-k wo of bf e Mrs Irs Powers Wo We o took nor her unto us as an nn experiment he asserts asserts asserts as as- but ut she sho has become the dependence dependence de lle- of or the society Iii In 1 she three months he said Mid traveled tl I nearly arl 1000 miles s In midwinter mid mid- midwinter winter over miles being in an open sleigh with tho the temperature on some mornings 20 degrees Fahrenheit Fahren Fahren- heit helt or more below zero Her lIer driver froze l hi his hands Over miles she traveled In th the steam cars She visited twenty five towns and villages some of or them rove several s-a s I times She Investigated fifty complaints of or alleged l cruelty killed mercifully two horses had hall three horses and two cows kill killed ell by their owners l one bo boy who mad had escaped from Crom a n reform arrested arrested ar nr- ar- ar rested another bo boy for or hammering a horse with a sharp Iron spike e. e Mrs Powers also oso inspected forty barns stables and hog pens and had hall them put in repair and tho the stock provided with proper food and bedding In a little over a year from the tho time she ahe ho bg began to work for us Mrs Irs Powers Investigated nearly 2 O cases of alleged cruelty and obtained l about thirty new members Tho question has hM sometimes been asked aske l Is this proper work for a woman Is It feminine A answer 1 qu question Is IR another another an an- other question It If the tho relief leUer of the suffering Is not a n womans woman's work worl what Is If IC the elevation of tho rho human human human hu hu- hu- hu man man rare race does doos not belong to lo th the eternal feminine what docs does It has been jeen proved l repeatedly that thal by reason reason reason rea rea- son of nf her remarkable qualifications lons and from the very fact that hint she hc Is s a woman Mrs Powers accomplishes better results for Cor good than an any man ratan mans Is 18 s capable of Keeping 1 I B tinly I at H It Mrs Irs Powers has the right light to iro rO over o into Inlo Vermont on her hOl CIT of If f mell mercy y put hut the work worl done there then i. i I i- i comparatively small omaH on account of Cr IlC lack ack of or funds But nut when ic he w arts K MH alter after a n. man In that state stale she hc doesn't let ct up UI even If sho she has to pl pay expenses out of her own pocket Here Is her hel story of oC one oile of her het fights A man In Brattleboro vIsited repeatedly ro- ro always owning miserable horses I I once bought a horse from him ilm for 75 cents and shot it was wa was complained of or for drawing ha hay twenty miles with poor horses one OIW lead dead lame and one ono having a heavy y gall on Its neck The lame one had fallen alien down and the tho hired man had beaten it then left leCt it seventeen miles from rom home homo My 1 agent at through which town the man passed pa sed raid fald no nn Witnesses could be bo secured as time iho team tam passed passe through In the night I 1 went to Co o Keo eo the tho horses myself m One stood In n the barn on three legs leg co covered with filth the tho other had a six-inch six gall on Its Hs neck The states slates attorney altorn made nado out papers papers for arrest Every Everyday day I r went to see wh why the trial did didlot not lot come como off The day before It tin tin- ally illy came off I was so uncertain about It ft because the tho man ha had money that lint I t tried to Co get to twelve e miles for witnesses awa away es Roads loads were blocked with ice fco from sprIng pring freshets which men were lowing blowing up with dynamite so I took tool two wo horses horseD went wont miles over o the hills hillsand hillsand nn and In found oun l twelve good men who came next day and then then hen the justice refused to hear th the case said case se- se raid id he hadn't time lime It was I nolle pressed l. l I spent lt days consultIng consulting consulting consult consult- ing lawyers anti and storming at t nt my attorney attorney attorney ney till I got Information filed filet for April county court Hearing tho too man had swapped horses T drove dove all Caster Easter Sun Sunday off ofT on the hills lams to see sec about that The roads were so at ba bad badI l lI I had to walk p part rt or of the way At the April court I was In Newfane New New- Cane fane two days trying to get tho case caseIn casein In in but It did lid not come to trial It was not on the docket I was abused and Jumped on on by every everyone one but no one would l help The rhe mans man's sister Bister called Ct me everything e and ami the mans man's uncle who owns the house we live In put up a n lot of ot money to tight fight the The Th man himself would snicker when he ho saw mo me At the September court we wo were wele all summoned an and appeared but the tho man was wn not brought ht up at atall atall all so we wo all went wont home homo again Rr-aln cussIng cuss 11 Ing everybody The next nest day lay ho he was taken to Newfane pleaded guilty and was fined finc l 20 without cm costs t I said saidI I would never no give It up If It it took my last breath and It came camo very near noar It Cost me 87 out of or my own pocket besides a box of or cigars I 1 afterward afterward after after- war ward sent to m my witnesses God bless them of fir Children You may get rel a little further ilea Idea of what this Woman Who Vho Dare Darcw Is doIng doIng doing do- do Ing through tho the recital of a few few few-a a avery ve very few few Cew cases Here are arc some somo hound Found a old 12 girl s-Irl sl six miles from flom Brattleboro beaten bonten by her father and stepmother el till her r body bo ly W was 8 covered with bruises She wan waa made mude to spread manure manuro at G Ii o'clock in the them m morning and ancl had not enough to eat cat Found beautiful home tot for her being I appointed guardian until the the child Is IS 13 A old months boy In a cold collI room shut in by himself no playthings but buta butI a stove lid nothing on but a n shirt and amI slip wet through pile of oC ra rahe rags ho lie slept on stuck to tho the floor with milu mildew w got ot the tho child good home parents parents par par- giving him up rather than bo be prosecuted prosecute Went on a n twelve mile drive In dead winter to an old house where lived a man and wife and amI four children Th They y occupied lcd only ono one room the only onh other living room being oln too badly exposed through holes In the floor The Tho youngest child In ht the tho Ia last t stages stage of rickets an and l then but a few days In from Its death dc slept with the parents parents' parent parent- anti and the other children slept on t tin the floor t removing th their lr cloth clothes Tho The mother had not combed combe l her hair to for years an and nor her hair ha had l become matted l KO so 0 It was Impossible lc to get gt geta I Ia a comb Into ft it h The clothing of ot all nil the family was ragged rag and filthy l Jr Mrs Powers provided medical attendance attend attend- attendance ance and sulta suitable Je clothing and had the man arrested He Ie pleaded guilty I to neglecting his family and was wa sent to the house hom e of correction Went seven miles after horse that had been sold l for 75 cents found It hu had bud been traded two two- or throe tines times bought It for 75 cents and paid a aman aman man mon 25 cents to bury It rode three miles more mere to find It in a 11 pasture where they thoy hunted In the dark dar and shot It b by lantern light These arc are Just samples If Ie you are aro Intending to practice any sort eort of or cruelty about Cheshire county New Nw Hampshire dont don't you think Mrs powers pow ers is some one to ho bo reckoned with