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The Italian Criminal Shippingas a Stowaway, the Black Hander is Helped to Flee to this Country, Where He May Indulge His Atrocities, Practically Unpunished. By Lindsay Denison ?J? N every vessel sailing from Palermo or Naples are a dozen or more members of the Camorra or the Malla, employed as sailors, coal-heavers, and stewards. It ls their fraternal - duty to aid their brethren to evade the passport law. U there are six or more members of a ship's, company earnest ly desirous of concealing a stowaway, the thing can always be done. . There are recorded instanc?? where a stowaway has been hunted for three hours by twenty men, after all the. officers and crew have been sent ashore, and hes re mained undiscovered-because he was sewed up in a mattress in! a bunk. 1 When the steamship has tied up at h??r berth in an American port, the fugitive puts on the uniform or overalls of one of his confederates and easily makes his way off the pier. And thus, a seasoned and hardened criminal lus blood-stained hands against all the world as the "world's hands are against him, is turned loose in the land of the free and the home of the ..brave. Every steamship man concerned in the Mediterranean trade knows something of the system; one Of them has admitted these facts; It is the theory or the professional policeman of America that the Italian criminal comes to us through France and Canada. That is nonsense; he has neither the intelli gence nor the means. " - , The ex-convict has the New York address of one or more members of his society in Italy. He makes his way to this address as" quickly as he may. H? is without work and in a strange country. It may be that happy chance will find honest work for him at once. :But usually it is not so. He becomes, more likely, a willing and useful tool of the Black Hand, a dependent on ihe generosity of more thoroughly acclimated criminals. The stealthy delivery of blackmailing letters, the stabbings, the bomb plantings, and even the mur ders of the Black Hand type are done by men who are so ignorant and so helpless that they face starvation if they do not carry out the orders of the Black Hand1 thugs who house and feed them after their surreptitious entry Into the United States.-Everybody's. , The Elements of Fun From the Sho wman's Standpoint Certain Well* defined Principles Must be Recognized. By Frederic Th ompson i HE difference between the theatre and the big amusement ;?ark is the difference between the Sunday school and the ?Sunday school picnic. The people are the same; the spirit lind environment are wholly different lt is harder to make the picnic successful than successfully to conduct a session of the school'; and it is harder to make a success of a big amusement park than of a theatre. There Isn't any irrev erence in this comparison with the Sunday school, for If the amusement park deosn't attract people who are Interested in the Sunday school, it isn't going to succeed. For I want to say at the beginning that ninety-five percent of the Amerfciin public is pure and good, and it is this public that it pays to serve. This Un't just a general statement I always believed it. I have proved it by studying Che twenty-five million people who i\&ve visited Luna Park in the past five years.. I haven't any. use for the bad five percent As a showman I don't want them to come near my enterprises. .In amusing the million there are other essential elements besides gaiety. One is decency-the absolutely necessary quality in every line of the world's business. There is nothing that pays so well. When Coney Island used to have a pretty bad reputation, there were good shows there, and clean shows, but the influence of evil dives was dominant The police couldn't, or at least didn't check them. The Hooligan was everywhere. It's different now. Tho clean, decent shows have driven the dives out of business. They can't pay the rents the good places easily afford. ? - Ey Tom L. Masson liiflitil A9- A f AT?JHTER is one of the principal things by which man is % distinguished from the brutes. It is used extensively by Li * I. man to conceal bis sorrows. The first laugh on record occurred in'the Garden of Edon, when Eve got the laugh on Adam. Her example has been used ever since as a precedent by Ev?'s descendants. Laughter may be used to express feelings, or to hide them. The derisive laugh is used in family quarrels, melo drama, and in Congress. The hearty laugh ls used by good fellows. It oftentimes balances the. hearty cry indulged in by their wives. The down-trodden under-clfesses, those who are below the poverty line, and the idle rich, n-rely laugh. In the one case they have never learned how; in-the other they have forgotten. Babies cry long before they learn ter laugh. They cry by instinct, and learn to laugh only when their Intellects come into play. In many cases, laughter is caused by the sudden consciousness of one's own superiority. Silence usually follows this-when one realizes his mis take. Passing jests make us laugh; permanent jests make us smile. A man with a tree 6ense of humor laughs not only at the misfortunes ol others, but at his own.-From Life. Will Women Dote? } By Alice Stone Blackwell ? CORRESPONDENT of The Sun says: "Women would not use the ballot if they had it." The Colorado secretary of state, in a letter to Mrs, Charles Park of Boston says that 80 per cent of Colorado women register, and about 72 percent vote. The Wyoming secretary of state, in a letter to me, says that 90 percent of the women of Wyoming vote. Ii?. Idaho the chief justice and all the justices of thc state supreme court have signed a published statement say lng: "The large vote cast by the women establishes the fact that they take a lively interest." In Australia men outnumber women. At the last federal elections foi which we have the returns 628,235 men voted and 431.03S women. In New Zealend when woman suffrage was granted in 1893 the estimated number of women in the colony was . 139,915. Of "these 109,461 registered t( vote; and the number of women voting has increased at each triennial par Uamentary election. In 1893, 90,209 women voted; in 1896, 108,783; in 1899 119,550; in 1902,. 138,66?; in 1905, 175,046. Where women have only the school ballot their vote is small, as the vot< of men is always small at elections where school officers only are to b< chosen. Wherever wom?n have the full franchise they show no backward ness in using it ^ A Funny Family. "W'.at makes your htir snap so?" asked the child who was watching his mother comb her hair. "Electricity," his motlier replied. "We are a funny family," remarked the child after a few moments of thought. "The other day you said papa had wheels in his head and now you've got electricity in you hair. If you put your heads .together you might make an electric motor, jpi^htn't you?"-New York Times. \ Hire an Expert. If you want a think well done, don' do it yourself in spite of what th proverb says. If you really want i well done hire an expert. If you tr to do it yourself you are pretty sun to botch it.-Somerville Journal. Happiness in Worry. Some people like to worry so wei that they wouldn't enjoy being napp unless they could worry for fear the; wouldn't always be.-Atchison Globe WSssionary to Turkey Writes of the Horrors Perpetrated; KER SCHOOL MENACED BY MOB Miss Elizabeth S. Webb, Missionary From Illinois to Asiatic Turkey, Writes ^Dramatically of the First Bays of the Slaughter. A special from Adana via Constan tinople says: Miss Elizabeth S. Webb, a missionary from Bunker Hill, Ul., has written as follows of frbe first days of the massacres in Adana when the girls' school to which She was attached was in the greatest danger: "Our friends came to school as usual on Wednesday (April 21). Al though w? heard there was much un rest in the city, we went on with preparations for a school entertain ment, to be held next day. Soon firing began and before noon we were afraid to send the day scholars home. There was constant firing. We tried to go on with' our annual meeting, but were interrupted by the scream ing in thc streets and the shooting. "Mr. Chambers attempted to go to the government building for a guard, but found it impossible to get through the mob. Our Turkish chil dren were present and wo thought it would be possible to send word of our danger by a Turk who had come to take them home. Accordingly notes to their fathers and to the Governor were written, but there was no response. "As night came on fires began to flare up in all directions and we were fecrful that the rioters would break into the school buildings. Finally, about 9 o'clock, there came a knock at the gate and in walked the English consul. He left three of his guard of Turkish soldiers to take care of us. "All through the night we seemed to be ip a state of siege. In the meantime fires about the city had in creased and the sound of shooting could be heard from every point. At last the consul passed. He was able to spare only one man, but thought this one would be more useful than Hie other three, who had run away. Soon after fires broke out in the ad jacent streets. Unless something was done speedily our school building must be destroyed. We had hung Turkish flags on all sides of the building, but this did not stop the thousands engaged in the riots from firing their weapons, although ap parently they were not directed against us. "If our building burned, the Cham bers house must burn also. Our only safety seemed to be to check the flames. The women and girls carried water, while the men cut down the shed and an old house in the corner of our yard. A shed on the opposite side of the street was also town down. About this time we were horrified to learn that Mr. Rogers and Mr. Maurer had been shot. It seemed that they hal been fighting the fire and were not with the other men cutting down ,the sheds. They were brought into 'our dining room. Mr. Maurer already was dead and Mr. Rogers only lived a few minutes. ] The Rev. Stephen R. H Trowbridge, who was. near them at the time, eScaped. "A new misfortune overtook us. Our guard of one man disappeared. I came to my room, where the girls were waiting. For me to tell them what had happened would only cause a panic, so I said: 'We have done all wc can now; let us pray.' "Before I had finished praying,' the bugle of the consul's guard and the Turkish officials with whom he was patroling sounded. He could not spare a guard, but promised to send one immediately. It was a terrible situation; women and girls practi cally alone in the building; a mur derous, bloodthirsty mob outside, with knife and bullet for the Armenians, and the torch for their homes. To add to the misery, there were the dead on the floor below, and the widow of one of them, Mrs. Rogers, with her infant, 10 weeks old, to comfort. The afternoon and evening passed and no guard came. The following day we learned that the British consul had been shot in the arm. That night young men from the Gregorian and Protestant committees patrolled the streets around our building. The situation was grave. A great crowd, bent on plundering, had gathered at the rear of our house for an attack. Our Armenians asked those below to send one man to confer with a representa tive of our side. "This was agreed to, but in place of one man, hundreds started to come. They demanded that we giya up our arms, but this meant certain death. We decided to take the girls to Mr. Chambers' house. Here refu gees cowered everywhere. Both houses and court apparently had been overflowing with refugees before our arrival. Four Lions Are Bagged. Nairobi, British East Africa, Bj Cable.-Four lions are trophies of ex President Roosevelt's camp in the Mau hills. The lions were bagged Fri day, and Colonel Roosevelt's mighty gun brought three of them to earth, each on the first shot. . The fourth of the jungle kings fell before thc rifle of-his son Kermit, who, however took three shots to kill his quarry Both father and son are jubilant. . Many~KiUed in Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-The storm which, for three days, has beet sweeping eastward across the South em States Saturday night was pass ing out of thc South Atlantic State; into the Atlantic ocean. Twelve were killed in the vicinity of Cedartown and (! a few mile sou tl of Albany. The Georgia death lisi by towns Saturday night is: Buchan au 13 reported dead; Albany, G. Meigs, 1; Cedartown, 12; Bowden 1 Gainesville 1. It seems certain thai al lela&t ?50 kaye been killed, Depose^ Sultan of Turkey, With. His Pour Wives, Five Daughters, Two Sons and. Servants, Taken From Yildlz Palace to a Largs House With Walled Grounds on a Height Overlooking Saloniki. Constantinople, By Cable.-The former ruler of tho empire, Abdul Hamid II, is to be kept a prisoner in a large house with walled grounds on a height overlooking Saloniki, which has lately been occupied by the Ital ian commander of the international gendarmerie. He is not to be put on trial, as has been widely reported in Constantinople, for he is consider ed to be above the law. . It was thought yise to keep the de posed Sultan in European Turkey, re mote from the capital. His house bold will be administered for him upon a generous scale, and his life will be safeguarded, as he earnestly besought when, notified of his death by dethronement. Abdul Hamid, with- four wives, Ave daughters, and two of his young sr sons, two eunuchs and a compara tively large number of female serv ants was taken from the Yildiz pal ace Tuesday night and started under an escort to Saloniki. The party pro ceeded by steam launches to the land ing near the railway and a special train on which they were to bo placed, left at 3 o'clock in the morn ing. The constitutionalists would like to get back part of the great ?ums of money that the former Sul tan is supposed to have abroad, not only because the government is in seed of the money, but because it is desirable that he should be deprived Bf the resources for another coup d'etat. Speculation places Abdul Hamid's wealth at anything between $25,000,000 and $200,000,000. Many Slam In Mersina. London, By Cable.-A special dis patch from Mersina, dated Monday' night, says* "Two Turkish regiments, which landed hore "Saturady, proceeded to Adana, where they resumed, late Sunday night, the wholesale murder ing of Armenians and the burning of their property. Thousands were burn fed to death, while those who at tempted tot escape were shot down by the troops. The destruction of the town of Adana is complete. "The losa of life in the whole province of Adana is estimated at 30,000. The losses of Europeans in property are enormous. The British, and foreign warships here are in active. Four Germans previously reported as having been killed at Bakdjevb, have arrived safely at Morsina. All the Armenian popula tion nt Bakdjevh have been massa cred." Arrives at Colon. Colon, by Cable.-The United States dispatch boat Mayflower, with Secretar}' of War Dickinson on board arrived here Wednesday from Tamarin. Mr. Dickinson was greeted by Lieutenant Colonel Goethals and othc-r.?anal officials. He will make an^examination of the canal construc tion work. The auxiliary cruiser Prairie has landed 800 men here who will be transferred to the auxiliary cruiser Buffalo at Panama. , Red Cross Aids Massacre Sufferers. Washington, Special.-The Nation al Red Cross Society" has undertaken to aid those who have suffered from Mie massacres in Turkey. It has already sent $1,000 to Ambassador Leishman nt Constantinople for relief work. Wednesday Miss Mabel Boardman, of the execeutive commit tee, announced that the lied Cross would gladly receive contributions to be spnt to Ambassador Lieshraan to be expended at his discretion. Forger Implicates Two. Chicago, Special.-Peter Van Vils singen, who last winter, confessed that he had forged mortgages to the extent of $1,000.000 , caused a great sensation in Chicago Tuesday when he stated that his confession a few months ago, was ante-dated by four years' by a confession made pri vately to men, who held $400,000 of his spurious paper. Hains Jury is Completed. Flushing, N. Y., Special.-The jury that is to try Captain Peter C. Hains for the murder of William E. Annis, his one time friend, w*as fin ally completed Tuesday. It took just seven days to select thc twelve men, and in that time 450 talesmen were culled and examined. All the jury men arc. married, with thc exception of Otto J. Nicholas, who is 27 years of age, and the youngest man in the jury box. The defense has fought all along for married men and peremp torily challenged the few bachelors, who have qualified. ' Waivod a Preliminary. Warren ton, Va., Special.-Prelim inary hearing was waived Tuesday ra the case, of J. D. Harris, principal oi tho high school here, who shot W A. Thompson, associate editor of Thc Warreriton Virginian, Saturday lasi on tho main street herc, Thompsor dying in Washington, (he folio wini day. Harris was held for thc regu lar grand jury, which begins its ses sions May 24 next. Coopers; Motion Over-Ruled; Nashville, Tenn.. Special;-judge William Hart Tuesday over-ruled, the motion for a new trial in tho case oi Col. Duncan ?. Cooper and Robin J Cooper, his son. both eonvictel of the murder of former United Slate's Sen ator Cormack. Thc court's opinioi was that there was no ground for set ting asido the verdict ol' the tria jury. The defense at once pave no tice of an'appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Thc appeal wa; granted. The bond remains the sara-' and the sarre bomJsrue' a^sli?ed. ' ?, . , ... ME NEWS IN BRIEF Items of Interest Gathered By Wire atid Cable GLEANINGS FROM MY TO BAY Live Items Covering Events of Llore or Less Interest at Borne and Abroad. "Ike Morse has betrayed ma. He has been going with me for the last nine years. He could not throw me over and live." So said Gertrude Douglas after shooting down the man at Nashville, Teenv last Tuesday. Thirteen-year-old Adele Boas, of New York, created a sensation by leaving home to see the world and make her own living. It was not a case of kidnaping as was thought and Adele has come back home worsted and wiser. A tornado wrecked a number of buildings Wednesday evening and did ?erious damage to crops and fruit at T?pela, Okla. One person was killed and 10 were injured by a tornado which wreck ed a large portion of Douglas, Kan., Wednesday evening. A group of Chicago capitalists have leased the Geo. W. Vanderbilt hunt ing and fishing preserve near Ashe ville, N. C., for ten years at $5,000 per year. Mrs. Gonzales was killed and four other prominent society ladies were injured at Pensacola on Monday by contact of their automobile with a street car. _ A tug sank in the Mississippi river, 40 miles south of New Orleans, 8 of the 15 persons aboard being lost last Sunday. The danger from the ice at Niagara Falls seems over as it is flowing along gently. \ Admiral N. E. Ijichi, commander of the Japanese training squadron now at San Pedro, Cal, had a long talk Monday with Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans. They agreed that there is no danger of war between the United States and Japan. Sixteen acres of the home where Jefferson Davis was born, within 12 miles of Hopkinsville, Ky., have been purchased td be made into a park to perpetuate his ?ame. Samuel Dempsler, of Pittsburg, has won & suit against Col. Wm. D. Mann, of Town Topics, getting ver dict for $40,000 for libel. James Boyle, the kidnapper is said to be on the verge of a break down. ^The Daughters of the American Revolution. Congress in Washington last week, declared for the preserva tion of Fort McHenry as one of the consecrated spots of the nation. A number of women were hurt in a Williamsburg (Brooklyn) bargain rush. Four persons perished in a hotel fire in Topeka, Kan last Sunday. Benson Bidwell and' his son, Charles, were convicted in Chicago last week of swindling. The father's health gave way and the ison agreed to abandon an appeal and go to the penitentiary on condition that his father receive a nominal punishment of 10 days in jail. The scheme was effected. Washington Notes. Senator Nelson set the Senate in a fernzy Thursday in a speech on the lumber schedule. Senator Rayner in a speech Thurs day declared ire? trade to be imprac ticable. Representative Hollingsworth of Ohio wants congressional action against the engraving of ex-President Jefferson Davis on the silver service to be presented to the Mississippi. The remains of Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant have been taken up from its country resting place and placed in the Arlington National cemetery where it will be suitably commemorated in his honor for de signing the plan of Washington city. The Ameriean Red Cross society has undertaken to render aid to the desolate in Armenia and has sent on $1,000. It will gladly receive dona tions to the cause. President Taft is very much con cerned about the successful compe tition of Germany over America in the Chinese trade. Foreign Affairs. Holland is overjoyed that Queen Wilhelmina gave birth to a daugh ter on Friday, the 30th. It is estimated that 2,000 people were killed in the battle at Constan tinople last Sunday. The Russian expedition formed to restore order at Tabriz, Persia, is re ported to have been checked. The new government at Constanti nople has sent troops and has rescued the remaining Armenian Christians. Eleven men were killed and ll were injured by an explosion of an Italian submarine boat on last Mon day. The story is now, going that Castro, who is now in France, has a fortune buried in Venezuela, and is anxious to get home on that account also. A cablegram Monday says ex-Pres ident Roosevelt and son aro both in disposed from overdoing in the hunt and are resting at the ranch of Si i Alfred Peas*. Later news says the) are again on Hie hunt. Explosion on Submarine. Naples. By Cable.-Eleven mer were killed and ll others wen wounded as a result of an explosioi here Tuesday on board tbe Italiar submarine Foca. The American gun boat Scorpion,, although only 00 feel distant from the Foca, suffered nc damage. Launelies from the gunboai helped in the work of refloating th< Foca. Lieutenant Commander Geo W. Logan, captain of the Scorpion has expressed the condolences of th< American navy. t rr Poor Sandy! 'The young Scotchman never liked his mother-in-law and thtii._weighed heavily on the mind of his wife, who was ill. (Calling her husband to her bedside she said to bim, "Sandy, lad, I'm varra ill and I think I'm gang to dee, and before I dee I want you to gie me a .promise." 'TU promise," said Sandy. "What ls lt?" "Weel, I ken that when I iee pl have a fine funeral, and I want yci to ride up in front in a carriage wi' my mother." "Well," sadly responded Sandy, "I've gled ye me word, an' It's na rae that's gang back on that : but I"ll tell ye one thing, ye've spoilt the day for one."-Success. A large majority of aliens adm?t ted to (the port of New York are un der 14 years of age. M"H f M?M"1?M"I- 'l"I"l"H-hM THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, AUGUSTA. GA. L. C. KAYNE, CHAS, R. CLARK, President Cashier CAPITAL $250,000.09. Surplus & Profita $190,000.00. The business of oar out-of-town friends receives the same careful attention, aa thu: of our local depnsiion. The ncoonnts of careful cunsev fatlve p?opi? solicited. \"l"lm*lmi"l"i"lni"Iml 1 i * A ? I I ? "* "J tn -i i i-i-H-i-i-i-r-i-i-i-i-i-i-; 9 ii ne namers .?fi? Savings Bank Augusta, Ga. Pays Interest on Deposits, Accounts Solicited. LC. W?YNF, Ci?AS. C. HOWARD, PREalDK.W'. OASHIEu. RBSOtNCES OVi=R $1,000,000. i INSURANCE 1 now represent a strong line of Fire Insurance Companies and can insure your property. Your patronage will be appreciated. GOTO HAULING Before insuring elsewhere Old Line Companies. kt The Farmers ] J. NC Agent, ?d?< THE I.H:C ; YOU . want an engine that runs like a top, smoothly and uninterrupt edly. If an engine balks or Stops and you have to fool away your time to lind out the cause, you don't want that engine because it means a waste of fame and energy. -:- -.- -:- - E. J? ? Light Saw, Lathe and Shin gie Mills, Engines, Boilers, Supplies and repairs, Porta* qle , Steam and Gasoline En gines, Saw Teeth, Files, Belts and Pipes. WOOD SAWS and SPLITTERS. * Gins and Press Repairs, Trv LOMBARD, AUGUSTA. GA. ? SEE & BYRD ? Wegreprcsent the Bes* & BYRD> Bank of Edgefield m tm ppij S OuSlOOOInsuranc? Age' 17 tO 20 2 T 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3o 35 Premium $W 95 14 29 15 63 *5 99 1637 16 77 17 i3 17 62 18 08 1857 19,08 22 io . ENGINE i. H. a engines are s? prac tical and so simple that when you start them they run until you stop them whether you are watching or not Never out of repair; don't wastefueL Od! on us and we will gladly explain thetgood points of the I. H. C engine- <* "." r*T "?* torrie.