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SK"m, V : ' 4V The Italian Crimj "I* Shipping as a Stowaway, f/ie Black Hander | g i " Helped to Flee to this Country, Where / H*i ' | / He May Indulge His Atrocities, I ? ; Practically Unpunished. I Hami! ?y Lindsay Denison | a?mvv mc uicauo. o^ ^ ^ 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. timely He Is without work and In a strange country. It may be that happy chance ants i will And honest work for him at once. But usually it is not so. He becomes. ace f more likely, a willing and useful tool of the Black Hand, a dependent on the an esc generosity of more thoroughly acclimated criminals. The stealthy delivery seeded of blackmailing letters, the stabbings, the bomb plantings, and even the mur- iDg n ders of the Black Hand type are done by men who are so Ignorant and so train helpless that they face starvation if they do not carry out the orders of the placed Black Hand thugs who house and feed them after their surreptitious entry ;ng into the United States.?Everybody's. like t rams o o ^an 's only need < desira Q III ?f th< ) The Elements of Fun f &?? S ' { $25, OC * Frqm the Showman's Standpoint Certain Well* | fdejined Principles Must be Recognized. J Lon f patch I By Frederic Thompson ni^ 0HE difference between tbe theatre and the big amusement [an(je(; park is the difference between the Sunday school and the ^jani Sunday school picnic. The people are the same; the spirit 5un(ja and environment are wholly different. It is harder to make the picnic successful than successfully to conduct a session ^eir of the school; and it is harder to make a success of a big ^ to amusement park than of a theatre. There Isn't any lrreverence In this comparison with the Sunday school, for If the ^ ^ amusement park deo&n't attract people who are interested to In the Sunday school, it isn't going to succeed. n?j>) For I want to say at the beginning that ninety-five percent of the American provjr public Is pure and good, and It is this public that It pays to serve. This isn't jq Just a general statement. I always believed It. I have proved it by studying pr^pej the twenty-five million people who have visited Luna Park in the past five an(j ? years. I haven't any use for the bad five percent. As a showman I don't ttcjive want them to come near my enterprises. report 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 jjon { have a pretty bad reputation, there were good shows there, and clean shows, cre(j , 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. The clean, decent shows have driven the dives out of business. They can't pay ?,oj( fhp rpntn tho o-nnH ntooac nodlv ? ? ?" I States Secret board Jamnc Laughter ^ Prairi L % r cruise & Ey Tom L. Masson & * * Red < *? * AUGHTER is one of the principal things by which man is Was ?? X distinguished trom the bruies. It is used extensively by al Re< L* J man to conceal his sorrows. fo aid X The first laugh on record occurred in the Garden ot the m J Eden, when Eve got the laugh on Adam. Her example has alread x been used ever since as a precedent by Eve's descendants, f-ioishr t Laughter may be used to express reelings, or to hide work. them. The derisive laugh is used in family quarrels, mclo- Board drama, and in Congress. The hearty laugh is used by good tee, a fellows. It oftentimes balances the hear'ty cry indulged in by their wives. would The down-trodden under-classes, those who are below the poverty line, be sei and the idle rich, rarely laugh. In the one case they have never learned be ex] how; in the other they have forgotten. Babies cry long before they learn to laugh. They cry by Instinct, and learn to laugh only when their intellects come into play. Chit In many cases, laughter is caused by the sudden consciousness of one's sintrer own superiority. Silence usually follows this?when one realizes his mis- j take. extent Passing Jests make us laugh; permanent Jests make us smile. ereat A man with a true sense of humor laughs not only at the misfortunes of * others, but at his own.?From Life. ^ four 3 a vately his 8f piu t Will Women Vote? j h.T?? ^ ^_____ f Annis JL By JHlce Stone Blackwell ? twm *eld CORRESPONDENT of The Sun says: "Women would not men t I W V use tne 13(11101 lf they had It." of Ot I I The Colorado secretary of state. In a letter to Mn. of ag< I Charles Park of Boston says that 80 per cent of Colorado jury I women register, and about 72 percent vote. along ^ I The Wyoming secretary of state, In a letter to me. says torily M that 90 percent of the women of Wyoming vote. who Y In Idaho the chief justice and all the Justices of the state supreme court have signed a published statement saytag: "The large vote cast by the women establishes the fact that they take I a lively interest." Wa In Australia men outnumber women. At the last federal elections for inary Which we have the returns 628,235 men voted and 431,038 women. the ct 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 to ^ rpj vote; and the number of women voting has increased at each triennial par- vlLllamentary election. In 1893, 90,209 women voted; In 1896, 108,783; In 1899, ' miff: In 1902, 188,565; In 1905, 175,046. d in Where women have only the school ballot their vote Is small, as the vote ' n? jb of men Is always small at elections where schbol officers only are to be i J' chosen. Wherever women have the full franchise they show no backward- _ sees in using it. i*100* ifi -ft tfeTai "iii^a'? '' ?^gi - , * . , * N every vessel sailing Irom Palermo or Naples are a dozen bas la { | % or more members of the Camorra or the Malta, employed as jnn C( m ^ sailors, coal-heavers, and stewards. It is their fraternal < ! ? W m duty to aid their brethren to evade the passport law. It * [ T there are six or more members of a ship's company earnest- trial, < tmillll ly desirous of concealing a stowaway, the thing can always in Coi J | be done. There are recorded instances where a atowawav e(j ttttlaaaaX bas been hunted for three hours by twenty men, after all v the officers and crew have been sent ashore, and has remained undiscovered?because he was sewed up in a mattress In a bunk. posed When the steamship has tied up at her berth In an American port, the mote fugitive puts on the uniform or overalls of one of his confederates and easily bold i makoe his way off the pier. And thus, a seasoned and hardened criminal Upon his blood-stained hands against ull the world as the world's hands are against w-.. . 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 besouj of the system; one of them has admitted these facts. It Is the theory of by de me proiessional policeman of America that the Italian criminal comes to us Abd through France and Canada. That is nonsense; he has neither the intelli- . * ffpnro >*? Y-T, nn n n 11 Ve (1J IUL HAMiD A PRISONER ??d Sultan of Turkey, With i Tour Wives, Five Daughters, . o Sons and Servants, Taken ' >m Yildiz Palace to a Large ise With Wallod Grounds on a ght Overlooking Saloniki. istantinople, By Cable.?The | r ruler of the empire, Abdul il II, is to be kept a prisoner in e house with walled grounds on rht overlooking Saloniki, which itely been occupied by the Italammander of the international rmerie. He is not to be put on jj as has been widely reported n nstantinople,? for he is consider- c be above the law. .-as thought j ise to keep the de- a Sultan in European Turkey, re- j from the capital. His house- j, vill be administered for liim a generous scale, and his life c ie safeguarded, as he earnestly ^ ?ht when notified of his death 8 throneraent. ^ lul Hamid, with four wives, g lughters, and two of his young- 1 s, two eunuchs and a comparalarge number of female serv- 1] vas taken from the Yildiz pal- ^ uesday night and started under ort to Saloniki. The party pro- . I by steam launches to the land* .( ear the railway and a special u on which they were to be 1, left at 3 o'clock in the morn- ^ The constitutionalists would o get back part of the great ? of money that the former Sul- 11 supposed to have abroad, not c because the government is in 8 if the money, but because it is blc that he should be deprived r 5 resources for another coup 8 Speculation places Abdul 1< i's wealth at anything between 0,000 and $200,000,000. F g Many Slain In Mersina. don, By Cable.?A special dis- 0 from Mersina, dated Monday n savs vo Turkish regiments, which p I here Saturady, proceeded to t] i, where they resumed, late j] y night, the wholesale murderArmenians and the burning of y property. Thousands were burndeath, while those who ated tot escape were shot down P e troops. The destruction of ( wn of Adan-a is complete, he losal of life in the whole w ice of Adana is estimated at The losses of Europeans in rty are enormous. The British oreign warships here are in- t< Four Germans previously ed as having been killed at p evh, have arrived safely at lfi la. All the Armenian popula- ti it Bakdjevh have been massa- c< 9 g Arrive at Colon. n >n. by Cable.?The United dispatch boat Mayflower, with ary of War Dickinson on arrived here Wednesday from :in. Mr. Dickinson was prreeted ^ eutcnnnt Colonel Goethals nnd J* canal officials. He will make tmination of the canal construe- t( vork. The auxiliary cruiser P e has landed 800 men here who ? ?e transferred to the auxiliary 0 r Buffalo at Panama. , e 3rcss Aids Massacre Sufferers. shington, Special.?The Nationi Cross Society has undertaken a those who have suffered from 1, inssacres in Turkey. It has y sent $1,000 to Ambassador , nan at Constantinople for relief (j. Wednesday Miss Mabel man. of the cxeeeutive commitinnounced that the lied Cross D gladly receive contributions to ai it to Ambassador Lierhman to J pendcd at his discretion. t< Forger Implicates Two. . ^ ;ago, Special.?Peter Van Vils- f i, iiho last winter, confessed p le had forged mortgages to the c ; of $1,000,000 caused a e sensation in Chicago Tuesday 8 lie stated that his confession a rionths ago, was ante-dated by b rears by a confession made pri? d to men, who held $400,000 of $ lurious paper. t Hains Jury is Completed. shing, N. Y., Special.?The ti that is to try Captain Peter C. t for the murder of William E. , his one time friend, was finompleted Tuesday. It took just ^ days to select the twelve men, . n that time 450 talesmen were and examined. All the juryire married, with the exception . to J. Nicholas, who is 27 years p, and the youngest man in the >ox. The defense has fought all r for married men and peremp- P challenged the few bachelors. lave qualified. Waivod a Preliminary. w iTenton, Va., Special.?Prelim- I hearing was waived Tuesday ra ^ ?se of J. D. Harris, principal of v ligh school here, who shot W. h iomp9on, associate editor of The t enton Virginian, Saturday last e main street hero, Thompson i 1 in Washington the following <] Harris was held for the regu- s rand jury, which begins its ses- i May 24 next. a ? - ffl[ NEWS IN BRIEF r Items of Interest Gathered By ter^ Wire and Cable e>* i _ ord< GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY lL livei jive Items Covering Events of More side or Less Interest at Homo and iff 1 Abroad. T wou "Ike Morse has betrayed me. He c'en ias been going with me for the last ever tine years. He could not throw me crov Ivor n.1 It. ?? Q. ;j n . J- ? ?uu live ou &>mu acriruue Tafl )ouglas after shooting down the man dent it Nashville, Teen., last Tuesday. ]jste Thirteen-year-old Adele Boas, of S< few York, created a sensation by unti saving home to see the world and mar lake her own living. It was not a seve nse of kidnaping as was thought and with Ldele has come back home worsted espe nd wiser. the A tornado wrecked a number of the uildings Wednesday eveipng and did be I erious damage to crops and fruit at whel 'upela, Okla. Amc One person was killed and 10 were *\mo njured by a tornado which wreckd a large portion of Douglas, Kan., *le ' Wednesday evening. e A group of Chicago capitalists have jL" ?ased the Geo. W. Vanderbilt hunt- jQ, tig and fishing preserve near Ashe- . ille, N. C., for ten years at $5,000 e JVB" turei Mrs. Gonzales was killed and four addc tlier prominent society ladies were cont ijured at Pensacola on Monday by ontact of their automobile with a Or treet car. of y A tug sank in- the Mississippi the I iver, 40 miles south of New Orleans, on tl of the 15 persons aboard being by n 38t last Sunday. indil The danger from the ice at Niagara caus 'alls seems over as it is flowing along '.v ently. i Admiral N. E. Ijichi, commander f the Japanese, training squadron , ow at San Pedro, Cal., had a long ilk Monday with Rear Admiral A i dobley D. Evans. They agreed that cha? here is no danger of war between *m 1 be United States and Japan. re Sixteen acres of the home where wj,et efferson Davis was born, within 12 no^ t riles of Hopkinsville, Ky., have been urchased to be made into a park gher > perpetuate his name. .. Samuel Dempsler, of Pittsburg, has does ron a suit against Col. Win. D. the 1 lann, of Town Topics, getting ver- tive ict for $40,000 for libel. James Boyle, the kidnapper is said Th > be on the verge of a break down, the i The Daughters of the American os devolution Congress in Washington . ist week, declared for the preserva- "1Eec on of Fort McHenry as one of the Sulti msecrated spots of the nation. ceipt A number of women were hurt in Williamsburg (Brooklyn) bargain ish. was Four persons perished in a hotel j,ej^ re in Topeka, Kan last Sunday. previ Benson Bidwell and his son, body Charles, were convicted in Chicago reirrn ist week of swindling. The father's yean ealth gave way and the son agreed Ge > abandon an appeal and go to the Yale enitentiary on condition that his Unit ather receive a nominal punishment Haw f 10 days in jail. The scheme was Re ffected. lumb Simt Washington Notes. exho Tli Senator Nelson set the Senate in fernzv Thursday in a speech on the P!?P imber schedule. co."?r will Senator Rayner in a speech Thurs- siblv ay declared fre? trade to be iraprac- week cable. Th Representative Hollingsworth of *iave hio wants congressional action 'hity gainst the engraving of ex-President ant| efferson Davis on the silver service w'hicl 3 be presented to the Mississippi. Ding The remains of Major Pierre harles L'Enfar.t have been taken up Th rom its country resting place and the laced in the Arlington National f0Ho eraetery where it will be suitably p ommemorated in his honor for de- ^rati igning the plan of Washington city. jgOt] The American Red Cross society ingtc as undertaken to render aid to the of a esolate in Armenia and has sent on ip}. 1,000. It will gladly receive dona- iati0 ions to the cause. thrm i-resiuent Tart is very much conerned about the successful compe- ju ition of Germany over America in he Chinese trade. Coui cline Foreign Affairs. ture Holland is overjoyed that Queen insti Vilhelmina gave birth to a daugh- f0CKj er on Friday, the 30th. . It is estimated that 2,000 people rere killed in the battle at Constaninople last Sunday. The Russian expedition formed to port estore order at Tabriz, Persia, is re- and orted to have been checked. tarif The new government at Constant!- ter, ople has sent troops and has rescued mini he remaining Armenian Christians. disci Eleven men were killed and 11 ?ere injured by an explosion of an S? talian submarine boat on last Mon- gem lay. The story'is now going that Castro, ?ho is now in France, has a fortune serv turied in Venezuela, and is anxious Nori o get home on that account also. day, A MhlMram Mnn/1o? * ? B-_? .. oajD ca-? iCS- on 1 dent Roosevelt and son are both in- the lisposed from overdoing in the hnnt heai ind arc resting at the raneh of 3ir pres Vlfred Pease. Later newa says they of 1 ire again on the hunt. Son WASHINGTON NOTES denouncing the principle of n pr ive tariff as unfair in taking inoi from one man to give another i ir to encourage him in the pursu an otherwise profitable busines ator Bailey, of Texas, Monday d< red a set speech on the Democrat in opposition to the pending ta till. lie announcement that Mr. Baile Id address the Senate was sutl t to bring to the chamber almo: y Senator, and the galleries wei rded to their full capacity. Mr t occupied a seat in the Pres ;'s section and was an attracts ner throughout the session. rnator BaileV was not interrupte 1 he had proceeded with his ri ks for an hour or more, whe ral Senators engaged in colloquic i him. Senator Aldrich calle cial attention to r statement b Texas Senator to the effect tha duties of the pending bill migh owered 33 1-3 per cent and aske ther ho supposed the profits c 'rican industries equalled the unt. Mr. Bailey replied that i case of the United States Ste< believed they had, and he cite increased capitalization of tha nization as an evidence of er )us profit. He insisted that sue ivering of the rate of duty woul seriously affect importations be e he believed American manufae rs would be stimulated by th (d foreign competition and woul inue to supply the markets. i Tuesday, when Senator Scotl irTest Virginia, rose in his place i Senate to deliver a set speech ut he tariff, the hum of conversatio: iany Senators and their apparen Terence to listen to the speec ed the Vice President to rap loud >r order in the chamber, and gav Senator occasion to administer rebuke to his colleagues. [ do not wish the Senate called t r," said he, addressing tbe chaii lo not expect this argument t ge a vote and consequently ndiffereut whether Senators re :o the lobbies or indulge in con ition, because I do not car her thev listen to my remarks o f The chair does care," replied Mi man. i criticised the Senate bill ant not believe it to be as good a Dingley bill. He favors a protec tariff. e most important happenings ii lation's capital Wednesday wer allows: , ? ehemed V, was formally recog I by the State Department a m of Turkey, following the re of official advices of his acces to the throne. , le memory of Major L'Enfanl designed the national capitol honored by impressive exercise in the rotunda of the capitol ious to the re-:r.terment cf th< in Arlington Cemetery, afte ininff fnr mnvo tKnn awa ? e VUUU UiiU UUUU1CI j on a Marylnnd farm, orge W. Woodruff, a forme athlete, was nominated to b ed States District judge fo aii. tention of the existing tariff 01 er was strongly urged by Mr ons, of North Carolina, in ai ustive speech in the Senate, e present prospoot is thut thi t)sed amendments by the Senati nittee on finance to the tariff bil be postponed for some days pos until the beginning of nex e committee 's understood t< practically decided to place i of $5 per ton on printing papei of $1.38 per ton on wood milp ti is a slight reduction from th< ley rate in both cases. ie most important happenings ii nation's capital Friday were a ws: esident Taft attended the cele on in Alexandria, Va., of th> b anniversary of George WasM >n's inauguration and dedicatioi park to his memory, te President cabled his congratu ns on the birth of an heir to thi tie of The Netherlands. ? stice Stafford, in the Suprem t of the District of Columbia, de d to compel Secretary of Agricul Wilson to vacate hi? dv?ei?irtn fj tute prosecutions under the pur law against flour manufacturers use the bleaching process. m m m le Senate ed its subs minimum f bill, prac in that an; mum rates riminate against our produoti snator Tillman declared in th ite Friday, says the Washingtoi espondent to the Charlotte Oh er, that Senators Simmons, o th Carolina, and Fletcher of Flori had made Republican speeche umber. Mr. Simmons was not ii chamber at the time and did no p the charge, but the general in sion here is that he can take car limself in a controversy with th th Carolinian. ] ADANA MASSACRf! Missionary to Turkey Writllj J| in of the Horrors Perpetrated JJ I HER SCHOOL MENACED BY MOT J io Miss Elizabeth S. Webb, Missionary! j r- From Illinois to Asiatic Turkey,)] Writes Dramatically of the First! y Days of the Slaughter. j J9 A special from Adana via Const 3' tinople says e Webb, a nii? s. Hfll. 111., has- H j. Mie first days -e Adana when t she was attac v || j. | "Our friends came to school aJUVH n usual on Wednesday (April 21). Al-^ |l ,g though wo heard there was much und rest in the city, we went on with B| y preparations for a school entertain- B ^ ment, to be held next day. Soon IB d firing began and before noon we were IK d afraid to send the day scholars home. Wl f There was constant firing. We tried to go on with our annual meeting, B n but were interrupted by the scream;1 ing in the streets and the shooting. H d "Mr. Chambers attempted to go to K d the government building for a guard, but found it impossible to get p h through the mob. Our Turkish ehil- N d dren were prcsrnt and we thought it J r ?_ would be possible to send word of ?. our danger by a Turk who had come f e to take them home. Accordingly 1 d notes to their fathers and to the Governor were written, but there was no response. ? lt "As night came on fires began to n flare up in all directions and we were >. fearful that the rioters would break n into the school buildings. Finally, t about 0 o'clock, there came a knock . h at the gfite and in walked the English j L consul. He left three of his euard ot* H e I Turkish soldiers to take care of us. a "All through the night we seemed I to be in a state of siege. In the I o meantime tires about the city, had inr. creased and the sound of shooting 0 could be heard from even- point. At 1 last the consul passed. He was able (- 10 spare only one man, but t mghfc i- this one would be more useful than e the other three, who had mn away, r Soon after fires broke out in the adjacent streets. Unless something was . done speedily our school building must be destroyed. We had hung 3 Turkish flags on all sides of the s building, but this did not stop the i- thousands engaged ih the riots from firing their weapons, although apparently they were not directed a against us. e "If our building burned, the Chambers house must burn also. Our only - safctj' seemed to be to check the a flames. The women and girls carried i- water, while the men cut down the - shed and an old house in the corner of our yard. A shed on the opposite t, side of the street was also town down. 1, About this time we were horrified to s learn that Mr. Rogers and Mr. Maurer [, had been shot. It seemed that they e h?d been fighting the nic and were r not with the other men cutting down 1 the sheds. They were brought into our dining room. Mr. Maurer already r was dead and Mr. Rogers only lived e a few minutes. The Rev. Stephen R. r Trowbridge, who was near them at the time, escaped, i "A new misfortune overtook us. ? Our guard of one man. disappeared. i 1 came, to my room, where the girls were waiting. For ine to tell them e what had happened would only causey e a panic, so I said: 'We have done 1 all we can now; let us pray.' "Before I had finished praying, the t bugle of the consul's guard and the Turkish officials with whom he was ) patroling sounded, lie could not i spare a guard, but promised to send r one immediately. It was a terrible >, situation; women and girls practi9 callv alone in the building; a murderous, bloodthirsty mob outside, with knife and bullet for the a Armenians, and the torch for their homes. To add to the misery, there B were the dead on the floor below, * and the widow of one of them, Mrs. i- Rogers, with her infant, 10 weeks e old, to comfort. The afternoon and r-. evening passed and no guard came, a The following day we learned that the British consul had been shot in . the arm. That night young men > a from the Gregorian and Protestant committees patrolled the streets around our building. The situation e was grave. A great crowd, bent on plundering, had gathered at the rear of our house for an attack. Our Armenians asked those below fo send 0 one man to confer with a r > B tive of our side. i, "This was agreed to, bu pia<*~ of one man, hundreds s < 1 .? come. They demanded tha' up our arms, but this mea death. We decided to tak? -Jrl:; to Mr. Chambers' house. 1 < -."ugees cowered everywhere houses and court apparently i< been overflowing with refugees before our ' arrival. i. Four Lions Are Bagged. ? Nairobi, British East Africa, By a Cable.?Four lions are trophies of ex*" President Roosevelt's camp in the ' Man hills. The lions were bAgged Fri- v l" day, and Colonel Roosevelt's mighty * gun brought three of them to earth, each on the first shot. The fourth k- of the jungle kings fell before the rifle of his son Kermit, who, however, e took three shots to kill his quarry. Both father and son are jubilant. ... J