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FETR06rjVO'S FATE J3T ITALY.
Foreign dispatches every day last
week told of nolim fTn-t. tn ri
Flcily, to ferret out the slayers of
'"n x-eirosino. nead of the Italian
bureau of the New Tork Police De
partment. Petroslno -was shot to death
March 12, under the night shadows of
Marina Square, Palermo, obviously by
Italian criminals whom he had caused
to be deported from America, or by
friends of Italian criminals, whom he
had sent to prison In his country.
Search for the slayers by Sicilian
police has been a matter of Interna
tional interest. Thus far the quest has
been futile and. owing to the in
efficiency of the police, may not
bring the assassins Into custody. The
deed was evidently accomplished by
the Mafia, an outlaw society of Sicily,
' or by the Camarra, a similar organiza
tion of Naples. Petroslno was known
to be under the ban of both. The
deeds of murder, bomb-throwing,
extortion and kidnaping done by mem
bers of these societies are Imitated by
groups of Italian criminals In America
commonly called by the name BJack
Hand.
Petroslno -went to Italy to Induce the
police authorities of Naples, Palermo
and other principal cities of Southern
Italy that are infested with criminals,
to co-operate with New York police
for exchange of information about
convicts and other dangerous charac
ters that pass between the two coun
tries. Petroslno was also to indues
the Italian authorities to put up
stronger bars against emigration from
Italy to America of dangerous ele
ments, who have been making trouble
In their own land and bringing it to
this side of the ocean. On this mis
sion Petroslno was a sort of diplo
matic agent, and had credentials from
the State Department, although im
mediately in the service of the New
York Police Department.
The American emissary was an Ital
ian by birth, a native of Salerno. At
l,he age of 15 he came to America.
Of his thirty-four years in this country,
he spent twenty-six in the service of
tr.e New York police. His success
in ri.nntng down crime in the Ital
ian quarter of New York made
him one of the most prized men In
the city's service. Many perpetra
tors of Black Hand outrages were
detected by Mm; also many des
perate criminals of the Mafia and the
Camarra societies. Petroslno is said
to have caused the deportation of some
sixty persons of known criminal re
cords In Italy, and on his mission to
Italy he is said to have carried the
names of 300 more, many of whom
paroled from Italian prisons, had fled
to America. Petrosino's murder was
doubtless accomplished by members of
one of these criminal bands; perhaps
by the very men whom he drove out of
New York, back to their native
country.
' The general public has scant Idea
of the spread of Black Hand methods
In America, particularly in New York,
which has been a dumping ground for
Italian convict classes. These crimi
nal elements, unable to continue depre
dations In Italy, where they have be
come known, have been swarming to
America. While It is probably true
as Petroslno believed, that no wide
spread Black Hand organization exists
In the United States, still there have
been many criminal groups operating
under emblems of terror, supposed to
belong to that society.
This murder will have Important
consequences in America, In bringing
forcefully to the attention of the peo
ple and Congress the need of exclud
ing criminal Immigrants and of taking
means to detect them before they shali
be landed. American population is
continuously receiving a large Italian
Influx and for the most part the in
gredient is valuable on account of Its
Industry and sobriety. But immigrants
from Sicily and Calabria, where habit
ual criminals abound, under the fos
tering Influence of outlaw societies,
should be oombed out thoroughly
Petroslno met death in his work for
this result. But his work will not die
with him.
THE GOLD EXPORTS.
The back flow of gold from this
country to Europe Is running pretty
strong just at present, exports last
week amounting to nearly $5,000,000.
Argentine Is also in the market for the
yellow metal and Wall street advices
in yesterday's Oregonlan, report the
engagement of a shipment of $2,800,
000 for the southern hemisphere.' The
general financial situation, contrary to
precedent, does not appear to be
affected by this outward movement of
gold. Money has been so cheap In
this country, since the effects of the
panic wore off. that there has been
extreme difficulty in placing it to ad
vantage la our own money centers
and it is now going abroad because
the foreigners are paying more for
it than it will command in this coun
try. The movement Is assisted by
some of the New York bankers, who
would like to see the congested con
dition of the money market relieved
somewhat, so that their accumulated
funds could find more remunerative
employment at home.
The attractive rates on foreign ex
change, which have induced this ex
portation of gold, are also partly due
to the remarkable falling off in the
exports of agricultural products from
this country. According to the Gov
ernments figures, these exports for
the month of February reached a total
of but $63,751,000. a decline of 33
per cent from February, 1908, and
only about half as large as the De
cember exports. This decline in ex
Ports did not reach, proportions that
wiped out that heavy balance of trade
which our books alwavs chnw in
favor. There is a possibility, however,
that necessary remittances to the an
nual crop of tourists, which was nearly
up to record proportions last year,
may have figured to a considerable ex
tent In this change.
The several hundred thousand aliens
who fled from our shores with the
first breath of the panic at the close
of 1907 are also said to be in the
market for American funds. A large
proportion of them formed connec
tions while here that now permit them
to draw from this country a "stake"
of sufficient size to bring them back
to the United States. These sums,
while Individually of small propor
tions, in the aggregate make a vast
sum of money. This country still has
for sale a large amount of cotton and
corn, and several million bushels of
wheat can yet be spared to help out
the balance of trade If necessary. S,o
long as money remains easy at 3 per
cent to 4 per cent for prime mercantile
paper, and call money Is a drug on
the market, there will be no occasion
for alarm over gold exports, even
though they Increase quite materially.
FAKMF.Ka FAVOR FBEE LUMBER.
Agitation over tariff revision dis
closes the fact that It makes fully as
much difference whose ox is gored
as It ever did. Lumbermen of the
Pacific Coast and of the Southern tim
ber districts qultfe naturally are much
disturbed over the proposed change
In the duty on the on great staple in
which they are Interested. A reduc
tion In the tariff on lumber will affect
to a degree the profits of those en
gaged in its manufacture. This Is a
self-evident fact which needs no argu
ment, and not even the testimony of
the gifted Mr. Pinchot can make It
appear otherwise. The lumbermen
are fighting the proposed change in the
tariff because it is to their interest
that there should be no change. The
lumber consumers, on the other hand,
are fully as eager that the tariff should
be lowered or removed as the manu
facturers are that it should be re
tained. The Northwestern Agriculturist, of
Minneapolis, in a protest against the
retention of the duty, asserts that
"The great bulk of the population from
which our present Government de
rives Its power, the people of the great
central valley, the agricultural people
and those directly and indirectly de
pendent on agriculture, and the con
suming millions of the East, are al
most a unit in clamoring for the re
peal of the tariff on lumber." In the
opinion of the Agriculturist, the
wishes of the lumbermen are entitled
to scanty consideration. That spokes
man of the Middle Western farmers
is certain that "the test of the genu
ineness of this tariff revision will
largely be taken to be the action In
regard to the lumber tariff. Our peo
ple feel that if the tariff cannot be
taken off lumber, it cannot be taken
off anything; that If the lumber in
dustry needs protection, everything
needs protection, and that all this
talk about tariff revision is pure
bunco."
It may not have occurred to the
Agriculturist that the lumbermen
who, . in their camps and yards, are
large feeders of oats, barley, hay and
other agricultural products, might re
gard grain as a much more appropriate
commodity with which to make a test
of the proposed revision. Just at pres
ent this country is 'Importing oats in
large quantities from Argentine and
from Canada. Except In unusual sea
sons like the present, there Is so much
more wheat, oats and barley and other
grains produced in this country than
is needed for home consumption, that
the home buyer purchases on fairly
even terms with his Canadian neigh
bor. This season a low tariff or no
tariff on grain would enable the Amer
ican consumer to secure supplies at
much lower prices than he is obliged
to pay the American producer.
As consumption of grain In this
country increases, the necessity of im
porting it from other countries will be
much more pronounced than at this
time, and consumers will feel toward
the producers Just as the Middle West
ern farmers now feel toward the lum
bermen of the West- nr. c.,.v. n.
satisfy all the varying Interests affected
uy me ianrr is an Impossibility, but
the interest displayed In the subject in
all parts of the country would seem
to warrant the belief that some radical
changes are Inevitable and that it will
be difficult for lumber to escape.
THE "RAGE TO PRINT."
We all have it, at least all of us are
witnesses to the great and extravagant
and useless Ipnrtha that v, .
o iige xo
print has extended throughout the
ooineumes it nnds expression
through the relatively harmless desire
to see one's name, "in .
... . . u iJ Ci- 1 ,
s metimes in anxiety to fill space. In
.. mil. mo weeKiy pay or the scrib
bler may be equal to his weekly needs;
and again, entrench, i-n nfritoi '
sition, it takes the form of an eager
ness io appiy the printer's measuring
rod to evervthinir -in c. i i. . T -
o ... ... r, . . L. j ii Lite
first Instance, the fever that accom
panies ma rage to print is temporar
ily assuaged when th narr,a
....... "j'lv. a.i rt
in a conspicuous place in the society
iumu.01 me morning paper; in the
second, the hunger that leads up to it
Is perennial; In the last, growing by
its gorge, it waxes fat and arrogant
mil xnsatiaDie.
The Government printing office is
the fountain head of this disease and
therein it rases with ,,
ui a pes
tilence. State printing offices make
a good second in this line and the
uuuum names give evidence of the
affliction In a virulent . form, while
from' thousands f nrpoc .,i
r - - - . wiuiutss
fall constantly, telling of the rage to
i""".. worsea out in books . that
speedily droD out of sio-ht t
room for others equally pointless and
The virulence of the nuhiin
rage is made known by Its fruits Ud
i i ine vrovernment printing of
fice had turned out nearly 10,000 tons
of literature (printing) that nobody
would take as a gift. This vast bulk
was discovered In storage at Washing
ton by the printing Investigation com
mittee and some 3.00.0,000 volumes
were condemned to sale as waste, after
being vainly offered to 8000 public
libraries.
This intervention, though manifestly
long overdue, was timely, paradoxical
as this statement uiwnn cimu
by the printing of nearly 300,000,000
pages the following year (1907) was
blocked, with a resultant saving of
more than v $2,500,000, which would
..vo Buue mat year to feed, the fever
of the printing rage.
Coming close home, it will be re
called that, in cnnnpctlnn nrttv. n
grounded fear of collapse In the library
wing of the- Capitol building at Salem,
THE MORXIXG
it was lately asserted this danger lay
chiefly in the enormous amount of
waste from the state printing office,
the surplus accumulation of years. In
which the rage to print, fed by the
exorbitant prices sanctioned by law
and unchecked by the official con
science, brought fortunes to many
successive state printers. -What, if
anything, was done with this menacing
surplus has not been told. Most likely
it is still there, an unsightly monu
ment to official extravagance and cu
pidity and a more or less serious
menace, through fire or collapse; to life
and property. An utterly useless, as
well as menacing bulk. It certainly
should be sold as waste, or falling to
find a market, should be burned or
otherwise destroyed. The only pur
pose that It ever served was to accum
ulate fortunes, now largely dissipated
by time and chance, and to illustrate
the virulence of the "rage to print"
when given free official rein.
PKl'DESCE AS TO BRIDGES.
Portland has four bridges and four
ferries crossing the Willamette River
Including the ferry at St. John. Madi
son bridge is impassable, but provision
has been made for "renewing the struc
ture as soon as. possible. With all
these facilities, this city will have ade
quate means of transit between "its
two banks for several years to come
Growth of the city will make necessary
another bridge and then another as
population and traffic expand. This
year, however, is not the proper time
to urge construction of an additional
viaduct.
In the matter of river crossing, the
Interests of the whole city will be con
sidered, not the desires of any one
location that seeks special advantage
at the public expense. Fine thing it
would be to have six or ten bridges:
better still. In some respects, a bridge
at every street. But the cost of
bridges Is so large and there are so
many other necessary improvements
additional bridges can wait. When
necessities of business require there
may be many bridges, and when that
time comes the city will take care of
its shipping in ways that the bridges
will not obstruct. Every property
owner would be glad that time were
now, since if it were there would be
so much business and wealth in the
community that the expense could be
borne with comparative ease. That
the time will come every far-seeing
resident knows, for he realizes that
the progress of the city in the future
will Justify it, perhaps sooner than
many persons expect.
The East Side can afford to be pa
tient. It has as much to suffer as the
West Side from burdensome taxes.
The bridge question is not a sectional
one, nor is that of parks or water or
any other public improvement. The
committee of taxpayers, headed by
Mr. Henry, will try to "educate" the
East Side. That Is well, for some
residents of the East Side. But The
Oregonlan believes a majority of East
Side people understand the question
fully. The problem Is not with tax
payers, but with officials of govern
ment. They are the. persons respons
ible for the high taxes collected this
year. They have made all the ex
travagance of which property owners
complain. ,
STUDIES FOlt THE PUBLIC SPEAKER.
Young people of our colleges who
aspire to recognition as successful or
ators or debaters, will do well to read'
and ponder upon Bacon's short essay
upon "Studies." There is good advice
in every word of this short discourse,
the best-known sentence in which is
'Reading maker h a fnii
ence a ready man, and writing an exact
j. no ouccessiui orator must be
a reader,' not only of books, but of
men for it is no more important that
he should have a fund of facts than
that he should understand the effect
his facts and arguments will have
upon those whom he expects to ad
dress. College orations represent
months of special preparation for the
particular address. The ready pub
lic speaker must spend years of gen
eral study storing his mind with use
ful Information which he can use when
occasion shall arise. The ready pub
lic speaker must be able to address
effectively not only the crowd that
gathers in a college assembly-room,
but also the mass meeting of unlet
tered voters or striking laborers which
forms by no previous arrangement at
a time of critical importance.
The conference that makes a ready
man must be universal in Its scope
Conference with college-bred men, or
with aristocrats alone will not make a
man ready, in speaking to an audience
of ignorant laborers. It is a common
railing of "orators" to talk "over the
heads" of the people who gather to
listen. However polished an oration
may be, it. is a failure if it does not
accomplish the purpose for which it
was designed. An nri-.n,.i.,.
simply told, will often go farther in
wUvUVfiis a-n average audience than
will the Btronc-ftst -
of abstractions. Quotations in dead
louguiiges are entirely proper in an
address to npnnlo i.v. .j .
. ' " uuuvrauuia
them, but they show a fatal weakness
in the SDeakeT wVi-, t .
- -' -3 icm iii an
address to persons with only a common
eaucaxion. The conference
" maites a man ready must be
such as will make him ready on all
sorts of occasions.
That writing makes an exact man is
something which should not be over
looked by the student- who desires
success as a public speaker. Fullness
and readiness lead to- certain dis
comfiture if not accompanied by ex
actness. In these rl
. . a, uunv;
speaker s real audience is the large
"u.uuci m reaaers or newspapers, ex
actness is of much greater impor
tance than ever before. A few Inac
curacies either in facts or In language
may be overlooked when an address
is heard, but these will appear with
confusing prominence when the ad
dress finds publicity through the col
umns of a newspaper. The man who
Is full of Information and ready in de
livery Is likely to become careless In
preparation of an address unless he re
sorts to the expedient which encour
ages exactness writing. When a pub
lic speaker writes his address, he dis
covers his faults of language or his un
certainty as to facts. A correction in
advance is no more difficult and much
less humiliating than a correction after
the error has been publicly committed
and exposed.
Human sympathy is an essential ele
ment in the makeup of a successful
orator. Possession of that character
istic commonly known as "cold-blooded,"
is a complete bar to success as
a public speaker. The cold-blooded
man may be effective In discussing
questions of law before a court, but
he will fail miserably In an effort to
argue before a jury. To be in sympathy
twitb. his audience, the speaker must
OBEGOXIAX, 3IONPAT, MARCH 22, 1909.
know how to think a.nd fool se Vila hoot
ers WOUld think sinil ol or. J
this It is almost essential that he
should have lived the life they have
lived. The railsplitter was effective
as a public speaker largely because he
was in sympathy with his audience.
Though his language and his argu
ments were such as would appeal to
the most cultivated listeners, they were
within the grasp of men and women
of common education engaged in ordi
nary pursuits. His stories were drawn
from the ordinary occurrences of life
and he told them in a way that would
touch the hearts of the people.
The young man who would win suc
cess as an orator should study, not
only books and men in general, but
orators, and their orations in particu
lar. This study of orators and ora
tions should be directed less for the
purpose of discovering defects than
with a view to learning effective
methods. If an address carries the
audience by an irresistible force, why?
What is it in the speaker or speech
that exerts such an influence? De
fects and errors should be observed, of
course, in order that they may be
avoided, but progress is much more
rapidly made by studying perfection
rather than imperfection. He who
would succeed as a. public speaker
must mingle with all classes of peo
ple and meet them upon such a basis
as will enable him to learn their ways
of thinking, their desires, their faults
and their needs. He must be a man
among men, ready to rejoice with the
joyous and grieve with the stricken.
Australian onions are selling in Se
attle. Canadian oats are also on sale
in that market. Last month quite a
few Japanese onions were received on
the Coast. A carload of Florida to
matoes will arrive in Portland this
week. Eastern eggs have ceased com
ing this way, although the receipts in
Oregon and Washington for the sea
son amount to several train loads. Lest
our incoming colonists, who are arriv
ing by the train load, get the impres
sion that oats, onions, eggs, tomatoes,
etc., cannot be grown here, we will
explain that they can be grown here
to better advantage than anywhere else
in the world, but have never yet been
produced In sufficient quantity to sup
ply the home market at reasonable
prices. Florida tomatoes sell at prices
which would make the growing of hot
house tomatoes highly profitable, but
the number of people engaged In grow
ing hothouse vegetables is so small
that they cannot supply the demand,
even at fancy prices.
The Prohibition party of Oregon, the
Anti-Saloon League and the Women's
Christian Temperance Union will unite
In a grand effort to make Oregon a
"dry" state. The combination la. an
excellent one, and if it can get through
a campaign with harmony prevailing
excellent results will be secured. As
an aid, however, to the cause of pro
hibition, nothing so effective has yet
appeared as the saloonkeeper who in
sists in locating his glnmill in a re
spectable neighborhood where people
are bringing up children, or who sells
liquor to minors and intoxicated men.
The Prohibition party has done some
effective work against the liquor busi
ness, but its work has been feeble
and puny in comparison with that
which has been done by outlaws In
the liquor business.
The troubles of the Tuckers sail
haunt the news columns. The Colonel
has filed answer to his wife's suit for
divorce, alleging she "frequently In
dulged In violent sallies of passion."
Does not the Innocent warrior know
that Is one of the rights of the sex,
from the time of Mother Eve, who
began by raising Cain? Adam stood
it for the 930 years of his married life
and there is no record of a whimper,
though he may have gone behind the
barn occasionally and communed with
himself.
A Chicago policeman killed the
wrong man, the husband of a young
wife and the father of an 8-months-old
child. In frontier days a commit
tee of safety once made a similar mis
take by hanging the wrong man for
horse stealing. The committee went
regretfully to the widow to explain
matters and the spokesman said:
"We're sorry, lady; the joke's on us."
In this latest case the policeman felt
the joke sure enough; he collapsed.
A Chicago school teacher has been
arrested for saying Pontius Pilate be
came Theodore Roosevelt; Abel be
came Ethan Allen and then George
Cortelyou; David, who has lived 40,000
times, became John D. Rockefeller and
Kzra became Andrew Jackson and then
William J. Bryan. We suppose
Rameses, who was the champion ad
vertiser of antiquity, became Dr.
Woods Hutchinson.
The Mafia and the Camarra, which
murdered the New York detective,
Petroslno, in Palermo, do not make
that country, so barbarous, after all.
A year and a' half ago Harvey Brown
was "blown up" In Baker City and be
fore that the same fate was meted out
to Steunenberg, next door, in Idaho.
We are not much ahead .of the Italians.
A man was denied citizenship papers
in Judge Gantenbein's court Saturday
because he lied. If the law provided
for the disenfranchlsement of every
man who was guilty of a similar
offense the voting strength of some
cities would be considerably reduced.
Mr. John C. Young, Portland's new
Postmaster, refuses to give the news
papers his photograph. He ought not
to be so particular now that he has a
sure cinch on the job.
For the patriots who are trying to
get a "big" man for Mayor, the ques
tion is not alone "What is a Republi
can?" but also "What has been a Re
publican ?"
The many aspirants for Mayor of
Portland are backward, perhaps, be
cause they are waiting to see who is
to be dubbed the "machine" candi
date. In spite of burnt-out telephone
wires, gossip was not impaired. Now
we know how our forefathers passed
the word around.
After the new Federal Judge for
Oregon shall have been selected, a lot
of aspirants will wonder why the office
was created.
Kidnaping little children deserves
capital punishment and a jury of
fathers would so decree, regardless of
law.
Those wild animals in the City Park
Zoo are fortunate, after all; they are
not in Africa.
HEAVY DRAFT ON ALL CANDIDATES
Here Ia aua Interesting; Provtsdosi
of Corrupt Practices Act.
Grants Pass Observer.
When the primary nominating law was
first Introduced to the people of Oregon,
there was a, provision in It that appealed
strongly to popular favor. It was the
provision that any qualified voter could
offer as a candidate for primary nomina
tion, free of all cost, and requiring only
the signature of & certain percentage of
voters, which anyone could easily get, to
an election petition to be filed with the
County Clerk. Here was something that
caught , every aspirant for . office who
imagined that the people were anxious
to nominate him if he could only get
his name before them. This was the
cheap way to nomination, free to all. The
result was a whole bunch of ambitious
candidates for almost every office, most
of whom were necessarily voted to stay
at home. At last year's primary there
was not quite so great a surplus of can
didates, but there was more than enough.
It was easy and cheap to figure before
the public for a week or two even though
final defeat was certain. Men not lit
for poundkeepers could and did offer for
responsible, positions.
But the great XTRen and his unknown
lawmakers realized that this promls
cuousness of candidates was not healthy
for the pet primary law. and consequently
a bill was submitted to .the people last
June entitled, "Huntley Bill," the pur
pose of which was represented to be the
laudable one of preventing corrupt prac
tices at elections. This bill contains 20M
pages of small type, and probably was
not read by one votar In ion ni x,,,!
J not be understood If It had been read.
ii aevoives upon the courts to Interpret
this bill. The only thing clear about
it Is that it Is charged with tyranny,
strikes at the two great glories of Amer
ican freedom, free speech and free press,
and imposes a tax upon anyone who may
hereafter wish to be a candidate for state
or. county office. This precious law.
which was adopted by the people, pro
vides for the printing of an election
pamphlet at Salem in which every candi
date will have to buy space at $25 to
$100. State Senators and Representa
tives are let off with $10. 'It Is a mat?
ter of "shall." Following Is the sec
tion: Section 8. Candidates for nomination
Vt7 fr one pase ot "Pace in the
15 n.here,n Provlde' for as follows:
For the office of United States Senator In
Congress $100: tor Representative In Con
gress $100; for Justice of the Suoreme
court. 75: for Governor, $100; for Sec-
alnn'?' f- Si?1?' J?: for State Treasurer.
$100 tor State Printer. 10O: for State
Superintendent ot Public Instruction and
iiJTe7. Peneral; each 75: for Commis
sioner of Labor Statistics and Inspector ot
factories and Workshops, J50: for Senator
or Representative In the Legislative As
sembly. 10: for Circuit Judce and District
Attorney. $50 each: for candidates tor any
other office for a district consisting ot bne
or more counties, or state office J25. Anv
candidate may have additional space at
C",,1." of 1CK per pa- but no pavment
shall be received for less than a full page:
provided, that not more than three ad
ditional p-ages shall be allowed to any one
candidate. All payments required by this
section shall be made to the Secretary ot
State when the statement Is offered to him
for filing, and be by him paid Into the
general fund In the state treasury.
There, seems to have bee.i some caution
exercUed In the construction of that
clause, an evident desire to refrain from
specifically mentioning county offices!
lest there should be resentment. This
particular part of the law reads this way:
"for candidates for any office for a dis
trict consisting of one or more counties
or state office. $25." Now. Josephine
Is a district consisting of one county, and
it has to elect a County Judge, a County
Commissioner, Clerk, Sheriff, Treasurer,
Assessor and Surveyor every two years.
Candidates who aspire to any of these of
fices will have to yank up $25 as a starter.
This tax may be beneficial, In the way of
choking off undesirable candidates who
are not willing to risk $25 or more on
their chance of nomination, but it putsV"
end" to free candidature.
Then, too, consider the superlative in
justice to candidates, who are made li
able for the conduct of a "descendant,
ascendant, brother, sister, uncle, aunt,
nephew, niece, wife, partner, employer
employe, or fellow, official or fellow em
ploye of corporations." The unforunate
candidate- cannot possibly control the
persons named, and may be entirely Ig
norant of any unlawful election help
given him by any one or more of them,
but is nevertheless held responsible for
their doings. Isn't that scandalous? Un
der this wretched law It Is" a serous mat
ter to be a candidate for office, apart al
together from the toll that must be paid
for space in the Salem pamphlet. It looks
as though Oregon has had enough of this
tomfoolery.
Sparrow Slaughter in Michigan.
Marquette Cor. Minneapolis Journal
One thousand and sixty-four spar
rows were slaughtered by Marquette
boys in the three months of the open
season for these birds ending with the
close of February. At the rate of 2
cents a head the feathered prey netted
the youngsters a total . of $21.28 in
bounties. Larger payments were made
in other Upper Michigan cities. The
sparrow bounty law is not in much
favor in this locality, and there Is
hope that the Legislature will repeal it
or will at least make Its terms optional
with the counties. The opposition to
the statute is based on humanitarian
grounds.
Best Flower Work on Sills and Satin.
New York World.
Alfred A Fleming, aged 56 years
formerly a well-known artist, dropped
dead of heart disease in Dorchester
Mass. He was considered the leading
painter of flowers In Boston, and his
work on silk and satin was considered
among the best of its kind In existence.
Loses 17 Grandmothers la Four Years.
Milwaukee (Wis.) Dispatch.
Harry Ellefson, a student at the Ra
cine, Wis., High School, has In four
years presented to his teachers 74 ex
cuses, all written by himself. Every
conceivable reason was given for ab
sence. In the four years he lost 17
grandmothers.
Trains Monkey to Steal Jewels.
Washington (D. C.) Post.
The police in Paris have arrested a
man who had trained a monkey, small
enough to be lodged in one pocket, to
steal jewels from trays while the owner
of the animal diverted the attention
of the clerks.
Squirrel Kly 20 Miles to Get Home.
Rochester, N. Y., Dispatch.
F. W. Dunton, of Queens County,
New York, annoyed by flying squir
rels going around his house at night,
caught two and took them 20 miles
away, but they returned.
Bis Ribs Broken ElsBt Times.
Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch.'
John C. Shaeffer, a clerk at the Leop
ard Hotel. Lancaster, Pa., fell breaking
several ribs. It Is the eighth time he
had one or more ribs broken by accidents.
DO SUCH IDLE MEN WANT A JOB
Tnree Rnndred " "Unemployed" Hear
t With Laughter Appeal lor Help.
Chicago Record-Herald.
M. K. Burgess, a dairyman whose farm
Is In Kane County, Illinois. Is puzzled. He
wants to know why It is that hundreds
of men are Idle In Chicago, while farm
ers all over the country are desperately
In need of hands. He wrote a letter to
Hull House last week propounding this
question. It was read aloud yesterdav af
ternoon before the Chicago chapter of
the recently organized Brotherhood of
the Unemployed at the meeting at
Bowen Hall. Hull House.
The reading of the letter and the inci
dents that accompanied .It form an an
swer to Mr. Burgess' problem Here
they are:
Organizer J. Fads How Brothers, I
have here a letter from a man living
near Geneva, 111., who offers employ
ment. (Loud applause.) I will read the
letter. (Deep silence.) This man writes:
"There Is something wrong when farm
ers are needing help and men are idle.
(A voice, "that's right.") The reports
have been read of the gathering of the
unemployed at Hull House. (Cries of
"Good! Good!")
"We have a dairy farm S7 miles west
of Chicago. We employ two men. There
Is an opening for a second man. (Ripple
of laughter.) A clean and rapid milker
(more laughter) strong physically, fair
ly capable In field work, must not smoke
or drink. (Loud laughter.) Board and
washing and $25 per month. (Loud and
prolonged laughter.)
"These "requirements are simple, the
wages are all the farm can afford to a
second man. (Laughter.)
"If you have a knowledge of a man,
other than his own statement, send him
by next train to Geneva. 111., Kane
County. Inquire of station agent. He will
phone us. We will drive In and .bring
him here. (Laughter.)
"Remember, clean and rapid milker
(laughter) physically strong (more
laughter) with fair knowledge of plow,
harrow-and drag. (Loud laughter.) Will
ing to be directed In his work. (Derisive
laughter.) Twenty-five dollars a month,
board and washing." (Great laughter.)
There were 300 men at yesterday's
meeting. After It had adjourned Mr.
How was unable to find anyone who was
willing to take the Job. One of the pro
moters of the organization said that this
was because the men at the meeting
could not raise the money to pay rail
road fare to Geneva. He Intimated that
the Impossibility of their getting the fare
to Geneva was what had made them
laugh at Mr. Burgess' proposition. Gen
eva Is a little more than a day's walk to
Chicago. It can be reached by rail from
Chicago for 75 cents.
FTJTXTRE5 OF ALCOHOLIC PROBLEM
Altogether a Question of Sanitary Sci
ence and Inventor's Skill.
Dr. T. D. Crothers, superintendent Wal
nut Lodge Hospital. Hartford. Conn., in an
address before the American Society lor
the Study of Alcoholism and Inebriety:
There are positive vindications of the
early solution of this great problem by
means and measures that cannot be mis
taken. 1. Experience and laboratory research
have shown alcohol to be a narcotic and
its effects on the system produce a dis
tinct disease both curable and preventa
ble. 2. This question Is one of public health
and sanitary science. The saloon for the
promotion of the Bale of spirits is a cen
ter for the promulgation of this disease,
and Is doomed to extinction from a larger
and more exact knowledge.
3. Science shows that alcohol as an
anaesthetic has a value In medicine, but
its real power is that of a fuel, light and
force producer.
4. That cheap alcohols can be made
from a great variety of sources that will
be active competitors of electricity, gaso
line and steam.
. 6. What is needed is the Invention of
boilers, lamps and means to utilize and
make practical this great power of alco
hol, v
6. Every distillery and brewery In the
country will be required -for- the manu
facture and distribution ot cheap alcohols
when the inventor supplies the missing
links.
7. Alcohol will become one the great
rivals of electricity to do the world's
work, because it can be made from the
waste and byproducts in every section
of the country.
8. Beer, spirits and all other forms of
alcohol as beverages will disappear when
the inventor shows us how to harness
and utilize this new latent power of civ
ilization. 9. The future of the alcoholic problem
will be followed by a great revolution in
commercial industry and will be a ques
tion of sanitary science and inventor's
skill.
What Alcohol Is and Is Not.
Dr. W. S. Hall, tprofessor of physiology.
Northwestern University.
The following facts, based on the best
evidence, may be considered as author
itative and practically proven in scientific
circles:
1. Alcohol is a waste product of tissue
metabolism.
2. Alcohol produces a toxic effect on
living substances. ,
3. Alcohol In common with other- toxic
substances is oxidized' in the body.
4. This oxidization is a means of de
fense, as the products are far less in
jurious than the alcohol.
5. Because of this defensive oxidization
of alcohol, which takes place largely In
the liver, the ingestion of more than a
slight amount of that substance makes
the body more liable to other toxic in
vasions. 6. Alcohol cannot in the nature of the
case be considered a food.
7. Alcohol decreases the efficiency of
muscles, glands and nervous system. '
8. Alcohol is a narcotic in its drug ac
tion. 9. Alcohol given in minute doses to
lower animals seriously impairs fecundity
and increases degeneration and race sui
cide. Bill Calls for Red "Togs' on Hunt.
Harrisburg, Pa,, Dispatch.
If hunters after bear or deer do not
wear a red coat and a red cap they
will subject themselves to a fine of
$25. or 25 days in Jail, it a bill which
Representative James C. Cole, of
Adams County, introduced becomes a
law. Nobody could get into trouble
from the bill in that county, which has
no such animals in the wild state. "A
red sweater," the - bill says, will do
but it does not specify permission for
a red hat instead of a cap. The ob
ject is to prevent hunters from being
shot as supposed game.
NEWSPAPER WALES.
Nell When they -were married he prom
ised not to Interfere with her religion.
Belle Yes, and now he refuses to buy her
a new hat for Easter. Philadelphia Record.
"That young feller ain't long for this
world," opined Pizen Pete. "He looks
healthy enough." -"He is. But he wants to
play the bad man, and nature never In
tended him for the part." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
"I suppose your constituents ask you a
(Treat many questions." "ICo," answered
Senator Sorghum; "I make the first ques
tion serve as a text for a four-hour speech,
and .then they are afraid to ask any more."
Washington Star.
"Your honor," said the convicted beggar,
"can't you change my sentence of impris
onment to a fine?" "Suppose I did." said
the Judge, "where would you get the
money to pay It?" "Oh," replied the con
victed beggar. "I could beg a little every
day till. I had enough." Chicago Dally
News.
Officer Mi vni That fnr'm imAlrl.. V.
can't go in the park. Driver Can't go in
niw urn ; .vi y oear sir, inis car can go In
the most unexpected places, also turn flip
flops, climb trees, do a really good buck
and wing, it not only smokes, but some
times I suspect It of drinking. Possibly you
mean the car may not go in the park
There'' jnothlna- in God's world It can't do.
Judi
BLACK HAM) CRIMINALS RAM PA XT
Murder of Petroslno, New York Police
Head, an Act of Vengeance.
Assassination in Palermo, Sicily. March
13 of Joseph Petroslno. head of "the Ital
ian bureau ot the New Tork police, hns
brought anew to the attention of New
York newspapers the subject of Black
Hand outrages. Black Hand crime Is
widespread in New Tork City, where are
600,000 Itallans-probably a larger
Italian population even than In
the City of Rome. and almost
as large as in Naples. Petroslno
was active In detection of Black Hand
criminals and of Mafia and Camorra out-
SZ'j Th, i,Iafia is an out!aw so
ciety of Sicily that exacts blackmail and
T,, venZ on any one who in
jures its members or resists them It
is unsuccessfully suppressed by the' Ital-
Ka,LVerninent' but man' "a mem
bers have been forced to emigrate larc;e
numbers of them to America The Ca
morra Is a similar organization of Na
ples, but less formidable than the Ma flu
On the outrages of the Black Hand
in America the Brooklyn Eagle quotes a
prominent Italian, without giving his
name, as follows:
"The extortions of the Black Hand and
Maria are of daily occurrence and It is
safe to say that there is not a humble
Sicilian In a small way of business who
Is not paying tribute In some way or
other to the . scoundrels. There" are
scores of well-behaved Sicilians, indus
trious men. who are kept In a constant
state of abject terror by these wretches
The threatening letter la the Initial op
eration. Hundreds of these letters never
reach the authorities, for the victim of
the blackmailer knows that his life will
be In constant jeopardy If he tells the
police. It is only when the persecution
becomes persistent or when & letter Is
received by some man who is more than
normally courageous that anything Is
known of the operations of the extor
tioners. "There are weekly evidences that the
Black Hand is working, evidence found
in mutilated bodies hidden away in out
of the way parts of the city, in cases of
face-slashing. in bomb-throwing all
pointing to the fact that the blackmail
ers are in earnest. Every case of mur
der or bomb-throwing brings its result
in prompt, payment of tribute by tho ter
rified. "The police have not been able to fp
cure evidence against the miscreants for
the very good reason that the knife, pis
tol and hatchet are always in evidence
and the victims of the persecution are
willing to give up rather than to tell
what they know. It has been remarked
that there has been less of child abduc
tion of late, but the outright murders
have increased, and there Is no conviction
secured, although there are many arrests.
Child-stealing is a crime which awakens
the public at large and for that reason
the blackmailers and bandits who are
working in this crowded city just es suc
cessfully as they would In the Sicilian
hills are afraid.
"I have no hesitation in saying." said
this authority on the subject, "that every
day tradesmen of Italian or Sicilian blvtii
are giving up tribute to the murderous
loafers through fear. And there are
bands of these desperadoes in almost
every town and city In America where'
there is an Italian population. The work
Is done very discreetly. In every Italian
colony there is a bully, who does 11a
work, who always has plenty of money,
who mingles with the decent people be
cause they are afraid of him, and who is
really the recognized collector for the
criminal who writes the threatening let
ter? and who does the murderous work.
The plan of telling a storekeeper to put
a certain sum of money in some remote
spot some dark night is old-fashioHed
and Is not the method employed now. The
victim gets a letter, usually decorated
with rough drawings of daggers ami
bleeding hearts, crosses and tombstones.
He is told that he will be killed or his
house and family will be blown Into eter
nity if, within a certain given time, he
does not give up some sum, from $50 to
$1000, as the case may be. The squeez
ing limit of the victim is pretty well
known. The letter directs the unfortu
nate to pay the money to "you know
who," as It might be crudely translated.
And the person known to the victim is
the bully of the colony. That Is under
stood. "Usually after the receipt of the letter
the bully saunters into the store, bids
the victim 'good day but says nothing
that will in any way connect him with
the demand for money. If the cash asked
for is paid promptly to this agent there
are no more threatening letters for a
while. Sometimes the unlucky one will
agree to turn over a regular weekly sti
pend to the visitor and there Is an end.
then, to further persecution. But if the
bully is not recognized as the collector,
and no money Is forthcoming, there will
be more letters, sometimes violence and
all sorts of cruel devices are employed to
bring the victim to his senses."
With Her Pert Sbe Does Housework.
St. Louis Dispatch to ther New York
.f World.
Left without the use of her hands
and arms by Illness, Katherlne Krage,
aged 20 years, can sew, draw, write,
and do household work with her feet.
She Is a patient at the City Hospital.
Miss Krage, before being taken to the
hospital, kept house for herself and
did all the work. She scrubbed, made
beds, and kept the rooms tidy. The
women patients at the hospital during
the past month have carried away with
them crude drawings and pieces of
fancy sewing her work, and done
with her feet.
Miss Krage's condition is due to
whooping cough, from which she suf
fered when an Infant.
Saw In His He-ad Elghteea Years.
Ashtabula (Ohio) Sentinel.
Eighteen years ago Arthur H. Doty,
of South State street? Palnesville, had
an operation performed upon his nose.
A saw used was broken off and was
supposed to have been lost. The other
day while Doty was blowing his nose
the broken bit of saw was coughed or
blown out. It was over a half Inch
long and had been secreted in his head
all those years.
Gold Tooth Causes TbleCs Identity.
Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch.
In order to identify a girl arrested
in Philadelphia, charged with theft, it
was necessary to see if she had gold
in a certain tooth. Ordered to open
her mouth, she refused, but a detective
solved the problem by tickling her on
the neck, whereupon she laughed and
the gold tooth was observed.
Loan of a Nickel Leads to Marriage.
Baltimore News.
"When Miss Pauline Schweitzer, in
paying her fare, handed a streetcar
conductor in New York a bill he could
not change, Alfred Friedman, a strang
er, came to the lady's relief and loaned
her a nickel. The acquaintance thus
begun has just been followed by a
marriage.
Feeds Rabbits to His Hogs.
' Kansas City, Mo., Dispatch.
Leslie D. Long, a poultry and game
dealer of Whiteside, Mo., bought oo
rabbits; but, the market dropping, he
cut the feet and heads off and. hung
them up in his poultry-house. The
market continuing dull, he Is feeding
the rabbits to his hogs, which seem
fond of che food.
Burglar In Jail. Translates Greek.
Camden, N. J., Dispatch. ;
John Doe, found with burglar's tools
and a revolver in a schoolhouse at
Morristown, N. J., spent Sunday In jail
reading a volume of Alexander Popa
and translating Greek. .