Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1909, Page 13

WHEN ALLAH WILLS A FIRE Then is the Really Great Chance of the Turkish Fireman. TOPSY TURVEYISM THEN ON TAP To Striwe to Put Out the Blaze Would Be n Sin, and Therefore Loot | the Fireman's Object, with o Follow. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 3.—A wag of an Irishman visiting Turkey recently sug- Sested that If there wus but one way of doing a thing the Turk would do it the opposite way, It does seem indeed that every idea of the western world Is reversed in this topsy turvy city. The Turk nods his head when he means to say no and has a way of shaking, or rather wwinging, it for yes. not frgm left to right, but In the other direction. He takes off his shoes, but never his gez, when he enters a mosque or a home. ‘““Yavash" (slowly) is his word on We street Instead of the American eory, *'Step lively Heo rides In a creeping street car with a ticket punched for the place at which he ®6ts on. To cut a plece of wood he rubs it on a saw, which he holds between his legs, and until recently he has killed Chris- tlans - while guarding the lives of dogs— in fact T heand recently of an old English- man, a coachman for an embassy, who ‘was done away with by polson because, dis- turbed by the nightly howling of street dogs, he had shot several that lived fn his street, Until recently salt could not be brought into. the country because there is a monop- oly here. Firearms were prohibited, though they were alwhys sold openly on the strects Bducation was dreaded by the people as well as the government. Steam machinery and electrical appliances were forbidden, the first for no given reason, the second Decause - the word dynamo too closely resembled dynamite. Dictionaries contain- ing the worde elder and brother were censored because Abdul Hamid usurped the throne from his elder brother. Words of ohemistry were debarred because H20 could mean only “Hamid second zero."" 014 Order Still Wo Nor has everything been changed with the coming of the Yonug Turk and his western {deas acquired I exile in Europe uso of Moslem prejudice among the masses the old sultan remains upon the throne, the dogs still blockade what side- walks there be; for the purpose of extorting backsheesh one's luggage is still examined when leaving ‘he country, and the mad fire brigade still scatters dogs, beggars and pedestrians in its ridiculous chase through | the streets. There s nothing more typical of this extraordinary country than the fire bri- &ade of Constantinople, which Is the model ©f all the others throughout the emplire. 1t possesses and displays strikingly all the fallings of Mohammedanism and the Turk —vanity, stupldity, cupldity and tion, bravery, arrogance, cruelty rest. ©am be no real hope of reform in Turkey, for only their passing will mark a true change ot attitude In the nation. For the moment the new government, ‘which permits the alscussion of the dog problem in the Parllament, would hardly venture upon that of the fire brigade for fear that the thousand rival bands com- Posing it would unite fn opposition, would even attempt to destroy large sections of the cityt For the reactionaries, who would like to revive the old order, have already glven the city a lesson In this thing. Hvery night and almost every day weird, unearthly call pt corrup- and the the is heard in the streets of the capital. One myst hear this call to know what it is. It can neither be described nor imitated by a man not of the east. A Wonderful The effect it hLas for the first time though not a word of it Is understood. But the warning is not of an element, it would seem, that man knows and is ca- pable of conquering; it is of something supernatural, In which the Almighty plays & part. It is a sound that only & man with a deep bellef in the other world could utter. It is not loud, but you cannot fall to hear it, and no matter what the hour of day or night, it will come upon a still- ness,’ for all the city seems to hold its breath to let the runner call. There are two great ancient towers in Constantinople, one on the heights of Pera, whence the Romans in their day surveyed the Bosporus, the other on the high ground of Stamboul, rising ev.n above the minarets of the mosques upon the seven hills. At the summit of these towers, up a spiral staircase of 300 steps, which the stranger climbs taper in hand, stands always a watcher looking round the horizon. A white triangular flag with a great red | ball upon the center is lifted as a signal to gunners in the antiquated harbor forts and their cannon aunounce the discovery of a fire. Every one at the sound knows that & fire has been sighted, but for ten or twenty minutes no one knows where it is till the call begins to ring through the nar- row atreets. The men at the top of the towers have descended and the word has gone round to @ score of red-coated, often bare-legged, Warning. upon one hearing | men, who grab thelr four-foot spears and | to let | start, each in a different direction, She city know in what section the fire would #sem to be. generally from mosque to mosque, where the call s taken up by the muezzin, who chaats it from the minaret, or at night by the beckyi, the watchman. ldle Turks Blink = Bit. Meantime all idle Turks arouse them- seives from their coffee and cigareties to move as far as the corner of the nearest of the highroads—of which there are but two or three in either Stamboul %r Pera. At the bends in the road these Turks and some Greeks take up their stand to watch the race of the firemen Miat has begun; strangers, Loo, are In the crowd. A captain on & dwarfed nag leads the better companies, Which number from twenty to forty men. The chlef is dressed in everyday clothes, often European except for'the fez, for his work s only to bargaln with the owner of the burning bullding and direct the men, as no Turk ever works it he is able to make some one else serve him. The crew—clad generally In the slim- mest of short trousers, striped or spotted undershirts and usually barefooted or wear- ing light slippers—come carrying a diminu- tive hand pump. The object seems o be not to get the most effective apparatus, but one so small and light that it will per- mit the company to beat its rivals to the scene of the fire. There is & regular order about the pro- cossion, The man who carries the hose nozslo follows on the heels of the pony. The pump, carried on two long poles by eight men, comes next. On either side of the pump run the extra men, who take their turn every 200 or 300 yards in carry- ing It. Bringing up the rear comes the man with the hose, a thmg such as one would use at home to water a garden The band pump and the hose comprise He writes Until these tiremen are gone there | the red coated ; Tunner with the spear, the emblem of duty, | distinctly of warning, | Everybody. steps aside for the | runner with the spear, who makes his way THE ( the entire Ladders those of thev volunteers. tor and equipment hose and would impeds the their object Is to got to Ject of getting to the f o put progress e fire. The ob « not primarily to be, Indecd, a But the plck It out; this srems considerhtion aw min hand first plunder. Rival Brigades Mix It there are rival brigades on the same purpose, and when any a terrific being on | | | of the gives a ¢ Of course bent two meet in a street fist fight ensues. Bome fires are casy to find because blaze can be seen at a distance, nelghborhood may have the scent and | able to direct the firemen; but little fires. at which there is often much loot to be had, are difficult to discover In the net work of twisting, alleylike streets, the atstrict having been discovered by the watcher on the tower. There s, of ecoutse, a dignified | brigade than these lawles packs of volun teers, a brigade so large and that it cannot hasten nd seldom on the scene tiN s might be ealled the. patd department | 1t ta composed of soldvers and tered at central barracks in Stamboul Pera. Mdunted officers are in command. The handpumps carried In drawn by four and ndzes, and hooks, as well as Iadders form of the equipment. Tha ladders are where from fifteen to twenty fest and will reach to the second floor most any house® The soldler firemen at night which no one who stantinople would ecare to bugle blast which clears the them not to be mistaken, and you turn to sce a flare of ofl torches shedding a dim light on a more extraordinary aggre- gatlon than any that has passed. race, a running the only or mora the f is quar- a an miss. Soldier Firemen Are Wonders. ‘While the voluntee hurry along small parties by the light of a paper lan tern the soldier compan numbers from 200 to 30 men. Thick woolen uniforms of a reddish brown for as well winter, are not sufficlent impediment to speed; every man must wear the regula- tion high army boots, while on his head Is & domed helmet of steel enameled in bril- llant shiny red. From these helmets, giv- ing the company the appearance of malfled crusaders, a leather hood hangs down to the shoulders, covering all the head ex- cept where the face looks out. With the short hatchets and loops of rope that these men carry at thelr belts it fs a wonder that they and the torch bearers can follow at a slow trot; yet they manage to get to the fire in time to drive off the snarling rival packs of volunteers tighting among themselves over the plunder. The customary procedurs of a volun- teer company on getting to a fire Is to seck the owner of a house near that which |18 burning and bargain with him for sav- ing it. The negotiations are conducted rapldly at the top™of the volce, with tre- mendous gesticulation. While this Is going on the crew of the blackmalling chlef prepare the pump; not that there fs any danger of the soldiers arriving upon the | scene. but because other volunteers are | pouring In, competition s growing rife and prices tumbling. Pouring Water Into Pump. All avallable buckets and tubs have al- ready been brought 18to serviis and water 18 being fetched from thé nearést foun- tain, before whose gentle drip the mem- bers of varlous crews are fighting. At last the water comes. It fs poured into the pump. The muscular arms swing the levers. The nozazle sputters, then squirts for three minutes, then sputters again amd stops il another bucket is brought. Sometimes you see a man—not a volunteer—with the supreme Intelligence to throw the bucket of water direct upon the blaze. | At last, when the fire has burned itself | out. the soldiers reach the scens, drive the pack from the wreckage and stop the yell- rg. the fighting and the destruction of property. | A sight of these creatures at a fire, was- ing a hopeless fight against an element in which they recognize the hand of Allah, cpens to you an understanding of the mean- ing of the cry of fire In Constantinople. The idea pervading the mob is that nothing can really be done, because this is God's will; that it would, indeed, be wicked to orpose the flames too strenuously. Fires easlly extinguished are put out because God permits it; but no serlous effort is ever mace, and you may see Moslems through- out the crowd standing idly by, lifting not & firger to save their homes. Tt is because there is no adequate fire department in Constantinople that Europeans and native Christlans of means are careful to bulld all large houses as nearly of fireproof ma- terial as possible. Then the Blackmafl. The day after the fire, nevertheless, the volunteers careful to go around to the | houses of all Christians in the neighborhood to levy blackmail, declaring that to them was due the stopping of the conflagration’s | ravage. A wealthy house owner may be called upon by the chiefs of ten or a n of thege brigades. And as the volunteers number always the most desperate of the | local brigands it may be dangerous not to reward them to some extent, say a tenth | of what they first demand | It was these firemen who formed a nu- cleus of the bands that conducted th Armeniac of some years and they are to be counted today among | the reactionaries who would revive the old regime of Abdul Hamid, vnder | thrived. Of course they are all dars. At a recent fire which I attended with a companion, where two mcsques had been destroyed and things were going very bad | for the Moslem community generally, a Jewish youth wearing a fes came up to us, and, speaking French, called our attention summer as massacres whom they Mohamme- the crowd, and suggested that we wolld be wise to leave the scene. It has been | the cry of the reactionaries here that the numerous fires that have stricken Constan- tinople In the last six months have been sent by Allah bécause the country defied the Caliph and wrung from bim the con- stitution. FREDERICK MOORE. SCORES ACT OF PRONOUNCING BENEDICTION ON AIRSHIPS Camille Flammarion Declares Act on Par with Practice of Medleval Ag PARIS, April 3.—Camille Flammarion, the astronomer, has published an article in which he describes the recent pronouncing of a solemn benediction on & new drome and two aeroplanes at Julsy Monsignor Amietto, archbishop of Paris, as unworthy of the church and on a par with the prayers of intercession In vogue in the middle ages. “This act,” M. Flam- marion says, “was a piece of Inexcusable childishnes in face of the progress of mod- ern sclence and philosophy.” Sturdy oaks from little acorns grow— advertising In The Bee will do wonders_for your business. approximate whereabouts mportant | arrives out. This wagons hains art long of al- make a spectacle visits Con- The streat for to the fact that we alone wore hats in all | aero- | by | ’ {ENCLAND SEERING AIRSHIPS Great Increase Noted in the Popular Interest in Aviation. | ‘DEVEDOPI'E]!TS MARK AN EPOCH nm«-nu. Wake Up to Fact that Franece and Germany Are in Lead, Testa of Fiying Ma chines Will Be Made, ence or the April 3.—This year will mark aviation as far as England is ed. The most important event will, of course, be the arrival of the brothers | Wright in this country for the purpose cf | demonstrating before the War office au- | thorities the capabilities of their aeroplane. The Invitation extended to the American aeroplanists was the result of the report or sent to Pau by the War the practicabllity Detalls of thelr visit are settled, but it Is understood that to engagements in Rome In will not arrive in this country or June. The scene of the flights, too, is at present unfixed, but it is prob- { able that the Messrs. Wright will declare the War office grounds at Farnborough too confined for thelr purpose and will | conduct their experiments on the new ground of the Aero club at Shellbeach, on the Islo of Sheppey. Shellbeach, the headquarters of the Aero club, promises to be the principal flying ground for aeroplanes in England. The club has secured enough land to permit an uninterrupted flight of pver ten miles In a straight line, with a considerable expanse in of a spe oitice clal offi to investigate thelr machine not yet they May the vielnity of the sea, and at low water | there 15 a large extent of hard sand also available. Providing Buildings. construction and already being built, ar there will be garage sheds for the accommodation of | twelve aeroplanes. A number pf villa resi- in | A | 1s huge dences, which are to be let exclusively to | members of the Aero club, are being erected. The idea Is that an enthusiastic aviator will find it just as necessary to keep a villa at Shellbeach as a man de- voted to other branches of sport does to maintain a shooting or hunting box. Wealthy sportsmen will then spend week- ends on the spot, either flying or watching others fly. The inauguration of this aerodrome takes place early in April, and at least five avia- tors will at once essay flights, Including J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, the only Bng- lishman, with the exception of Farman, who has made any notable flight heavier-than-alr machine. As the sport ad- vances prize meetings and races will be held. flying machines, and arrangements are belng made by which these will be placed at the disposal of the government for experimental purposes. Sheerness, the naval station, is less than ten miles from Shellbeach, and it Is understood that the admiralty officials welcome the opportu- nity offered them of ascertaining how aeroplanes may be employed in conjunc- tion with torpedo craft for scouting and other purposes. * Harold Perrin, secretary of the Aero club, is convinced that as soon as flights in England have become an accomplished fact there will be an extraordinary demand for aeroplanes In this country. The mak- ing of aeroplanes will be a business taken serfously fn hand by motor car makers, carrlage buflders, yacht bullders and firms who make motor boats. Sportsmen will buy them with a guarantee of a flight of a certain distance or time. To Wake Aeroplanes Cheaper. A Wright machine now costs $7.000, Perrin asserts that aeroplanes will become cheaper, and ft should be possible to secure a first-class machine before long for $2,600, or even less. The Wright brothers have given an order to Messrs. Short, an English firm, for the immediate construction of six of their aeroplanes. They will bullt on the Aero club's ground at Shellbeach. When the factory is finished it will be possible for the Messrs. Short to turn out one finished aeroplane a fortnight. In additlon to these six to be bullt in England, four other Wright aeroplanes are coming fo this country, Jarrott & Letts, an automobile firm, having secured the machines from the Astra factory at Billancourt In France, where the holders of the French patent rights of the Wright aeroplane have the construction work car- ried out. These four machines are all that can be sent to England from Irance be- fore next October. Two of them will prob- ably be delivered in May, ome in June and the last in July The first will be offered to the govern- ment, upon the second an_Australlan has acquired an optlon, the tnird will be used by Jarrott & Letts themselves, and the last one is open to be purchased, the price being $7.00. The aeroplanes will be exact duplicates of the machine used by the Wrights and each will be guaranteed to fly for twenty minutes at least. A pupll of the Wrights will demonstrate this with each of the four aeroplanes. Untested Machines Shown, At exhibition at Olympla London there are on show specimen fI machines by English makers which can bought for as little as $70, but as none of machines has flown they must be regarded as doubtful bargains., Mr. Moore- Brabazon says the fact that the Wright Mr. soon the in ing be master patent for the warping of wings Is likelv serlously to handicap others who are | trying to solve the problems of flight. He has been seeking to get similar results in another way, but he found it difficult to attain the proficiency which the Wright patent gives. He has nevertheless suc- eded in flying distances of three or four miles with his aeroplane The exhibition contains a collection of fourteen full sized aeroplanes, all different in design, including monoplanes. triplanes, quadruplanes, hellocopters, ortho oters and other contrivances with weird names and weirder shapes. Among the elghty-five model flylng machines and dirigible balloons are to be found many small specimens of the Wright, Farman | #nd other types. The Aerial league of the British empire, recently founded with the object of assist- ng Great Hritain to ‘secure and maintaln the command of the air" and to “place our marine in the same predominant | position that our navy holds today,” pro- | poses to establish a national aeronautical in order that the best Instruction may be available for Englishmen In matters | of aerial #ight and navigation According to the official plans “such an institution would have its theoretical and practical departments, each of which the corollary of the other. In other words, it will provide under one roof courses of sudy in the mathematics, dynamics and mechanics involved in the problem of flight; in ‘the laws of alr-resistance and skin friction, the stability of air craft, the meteorological, physical and topo- graphical conditions peculiar to aerial navi- | gation and the large number of other sub- | brothers hold what he considers to be the aerlal of | Apri | until | of country for circling. The ground is in | repairing shed | in af Many members of the club are acquiring | biplares, | ] Tet us estimate on your win« dow shades and draperies. We carry the largest and most de- sirable stock in the ity Beloochistan Bug, size 2-7 Beloochistan Rug, Beloochistan Rug, size 2-9xi Anatolian Rug, size 1-7x2-9, sale tion, automoblile seat, with pannel plush, finishe dull finish; price Unless you see the new McDou- gall all improvements, you will never realize how perfect a kitch- en cabinet can be. Come and see them; you will never regreét it. Orientai Rug Sale sell Gas Ranges, the kind that saves gas and is positively odorles the Vulean Gas We have just received our new spring stock of ORIENTAL RUGS, among them are many rare pieces of unusual beauty and worth. This collection consists of Jarge and medium rugs—Kiskelim Couch Covers and Draperie such as Royal and Princess, Bokharas, Kazacks, Carabaughs, Ca« sizes in room-size Hundreds of the smaller bestans, Daghestans, Shirvans, Anatolians, Beluchistans, Sennas, Mosuls and many other other weave: Many dealers purchase their rugs of eastern importers and pay them enormous profits. These Oriental Rugs are shipped to us direct from the Orient by ouh Oriental Rug Buyer, thus saving the profits asked by the New York importer. This not only saves our customers many dollars, but assures them that every plece is genuine. We would be pleased to have you call and inspect this grand dis- play, feeling that it will be a source of oriental rug education and inter- est to you. that it 1s not difficult to fit any space yo! There are many varieties and such a wide range of sizes may require. The prices we herewith quote are but an index to the general run of values this sale offe Cashmir Rug, size 4-6x7-6, sale price Cashmir Daghestan Rug, size 3-8x4-11, sale price Daghestan Rug, size 3-3x56-4, sale price.. Daghestan Rug, size 2-11x5-1, sale price Daghestan Rug, size 8-7x6-4, sale price . Bokhara Rug, size 3-4x4-3, sale price ... Bokhara Rug, size 3-10x4-7, sale price . Rug, size 4-10x6-6, sale price. . 9, sale price size 2-10x4-3, sale price ... 3, sale price Beloochistan Rug, size 3-8x5-4, sale price Anatolian Rug, size 1-9x2-11, sale price .. Anatolian Rug, size 1-9x3, sale price. Solid Mahogany Rocker, like {llustra- upholstered in a rich $ Bokhara Rug, size 3-8x4-8, sale price ... Bokhara Rug, size 4-6x5-3, sale price Mosul Rug, size 4-1x6-6, sale price Mosul Rug, size 3-4x6, sale price Mosul Rug, size 3-2x7 sale price. . Mosul Rug, size sale price Guenji Rug, size 3-6x6-11, sale price Guenji Rug, size 4-1x6-4, sale price Guenji Rug, size 4-9x6-8, sale price Kazak Rug, 4-5x7-0, sale price Kazak Rug, size 4x9, sale price Kazak Rug, size 4-3x7-11, sale price Shirvan Rug, size 3-4x6, sale price . Shirvan Rug, size 3-4x4-9, sale price $14.00 -$16.00 $24.00 -$27.00 - 85.50 -$7.00 --$9.00 Speclal Sale of Rockers and Chairs We have gathered together all chairs and rockers of which we have only one or two of a kind and offer them this week at greatly re- duced prices. They are a select assortment of the best and most desir- able styles to be had. We herewith quote some of the values which this sale offers: $21.00 Solld Mahogany Rocker, high back, Colonial design $14.00 $26.00 Golden Oak Rocker, leather back and leather seat $17.50 $24.00 Quartered Sawed Oak Rocker, high back, leather seat 16 00 $9.50 Ladies’ Golden Oak Rocker, wood seat $8.00 Golden Oak Rocker, wood seat .. $6.76 Golden Oak Rocker, wood seat $5.50 Mahogany Rocker, wood seat $7.00 Mahogany Rocker, wood seat $8.00 Mahogany Rocker, wood seat $10.50 Mahogany Rocker, wood seat $11.756 Mahogany Rocker, wood seat . $14.50 Mahogany Rocker, colonial design, ‘wood seat . ... $17.00 Solld Mahogany Windsor Rocker. & $25.00 Solid Mahogany Rocker $27.00 Solid Mahogany Rocker, spring seat and pndded huck prlce L NR22322223: DORD IS B @ S g2 MILLER, STEWART & BEATON 413-15-17 South 16th Street Shirvan Rug, size 2-9x4-2, sale price . Allwin Go-Cart, Other .$20.00 $24.00 -$27.00 $29.00 $34.00 $37.00 $40.00 $19.00 $15.00 Iike {llustration, one motion, collapsible, trimmed in' rich dark “brown ‘leatlier With hood—- price carts, up L ‘We are exclusive -genu for the Bohn Syphon System and Minnesota Refrigerators, the best hefrigerator made. jects attaching directly or Indirectly to this modern science. “The Institution will have Its own work- shops and laboratories, where practical ex- periments and tests of all kinds (bearing upon the subjects upon which Instruction is given) will be carrled out. Finally a trial ground will be procured, where aerial machines made in the workshops of the college by students, or aeroplanes and dir- igibles bought abroad, If necessary, or lent for the purpose will be tested and students taught to fly." Arranging for Instraction. The Aerial league has further arranged for a course of lectures to be given in a number of the leading public schools. The government's invitation to the Wright brothers and the setting aside of a considerable sum from the new naval estimates for the bufiding of an aerial warship and experiments in aerial naviga- tion are accepted as an indication that the naval and military authorities are gradu- ally waking up to the fact that they are being left behind by France and Germany. It is true that for some time the military authorities at Aldershot have been carry- ing on experiments with tha Cody aero- plane, but the series of mishaps which has befallen that unfortunate machine has not led the public to hope for much from it. Bvery trial has had its accldent, and although the machine actually ascom- plished a short flight on the last occas’on the feat was marred by its erratic behavior and its final fall to the ground from a helght of a dozen feet. 8. F. Cody. whp seems to have borne A charmed life (hrough it all, has been | greatly handicapped by the altogether un- | suitable conditions under which has had to conduct his experiments, the space of ground placed at his disposal being much too small for the purpose. “All things considered.” says the Times, “Mr. Cody has done marvels in bullding a to withstand the rough usage It subjected to, and he certainly evolved one of the most carefully stanchly constructed aeroplanes yet | duced.” Which Is praise—of a sort. | Government Laying Low. The government has made no detailed statement of Its aerial policy. Minister of War Haldane has announced that the army council proposed during the ensuing year to consider the machines of private inventors, but it would be premature to forecast what experiments are to be made. For this purpose $%,00 have been put aside. France last year expended 32,330,000 | on its balloon battalions, and Germany $008,765. It is understood that the Admiralty is deeply interested in an aerial warship now being constructed at Portsmouth under the supervision of two naval officers, the de- signers of the machine. Much secrecy is being observed in the undertaking, but It 1s known that the framework Is of very light, hollow steel tubing and wood, and the large boxlike fans to serve as wings, will be covered with patent prepared silk. The motive power will be furnished by @ forty-horse power petrol engine. It will be some months be- fore the machine will be ready for its trials, which will be conducted by the Ad- miraity ne and pro- One om Nel a. Von Blam—1 see that the Nebraska legis- lature has made it & crime to play bridge whist. Chicane—Gee! That's an outrage! Von Slam—Eh? I don't see how it af- fects you. Chicane—Because 1 am not a Nebraskan? Von Slam—No, because there is nothing |tn the law to bar persons who only thinl they play the game.—Cleveland Plain Dealer CLERICALS FIGHT PAPERS FOR BELITTLING MIRACLES Priests Manufacturing Aparitions Have Names of Petrosini Slayers Mexican Newspapers Charge with to Frighten People, Believed Authorities at Rome Know Murderers of New York Detective. GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Aprii 3.—Arch- bishop Ortiz and the priests of the Catholic church here have declared open war against the anti-clericals here, the latter of whom are seeking to belittle the mirac- ulous power of the Virgin Mary. An anti- clerical newspaper charged the priests with “manufacturing apparitions” in order to frighten the people into believing that the Virgin Mary was appearing at varlous places. The archbishop, In a sermon, de- fended the docirine of miracles and adjured all members of the church to remain firm in their faith. The attacking paper was reinforced by two other newspapers, which rallied to their support, and in retaliation the clericals started a boycott against all three publications and in addition posted PALERMO, April 3.—It that the names of the assassins of Joseph Petrosini, chief of the Itallan bureau of the New York detective force, are known to the inspector of the ministry of the in- terior sent down here from Rome, and that they have been comumunicated to Premler Glolott Twelve of the men arrested tion with the murder der suspicion. is believed here n connec- in custody are un- placards on houses throughout the town bearing the following Inscription: “Honor and glory implous paper recefved in this house.” Further to confuse the churchmen the newsppapers mentioned have now begun a crusade against what they term the ex- cessive number of church holidays observed in the republic. They assert that out of 36 days In the year 168 are observed’ as church holidays. to ed Virgin Mary; no Love on a Big Scale. Dr. Plerce Underhill recently delivered a lecture on divorce in a fashionable church in Indtanapolis “Extravagance,” big causes of he began, “is one of divorce. My cousin, a bank clerk. married a pretty girl and took her home to a nice little flat. But she frowhed and bit her lip, Oh, Jack,' she cried, tiny flat like this! “‘You don't love me when you say that, darling,’ sald my cousin. *‘Oh yes, 1 do,’ sald sne, such a small scale.’ "—Judge. the ‘1 can't live in a ‘but not on Little Girl Blind le Years with Scrofulous Humor Eyes affected soon after vaccination — five physicians, including the best specialists, did her no good — Cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. ‘“Elmira Heights, N. Y., Jan. 31, 1909. (. L Hood Co,, Lowell, Mass. ““Gentlemen: I believe I can give Hood's Sarsaparilla as good & recommendation as any one, for I have seen its wonderful effects upon my own little daughter. She was entirely blind for two years, and Hood’s Sarsaparilla cured her. her life. You see to give it » her, never use her e) which are intended | It is wonderful, and do you think it surprising that T feel very grateful to this medicine? “‘My story is, briefly, as follows: We had her vaceinated, so that she could go to school, Pretty soon, however, before her arm healed, she hegan to have sore eyes, They kept getting worse, and we took her to the doctor. Pretty soon she was blind in one eye, and could see very little with the other. They told us she had ulcers on the eyeballs, and we had five different doctors, some of the best specialists, and paid out over $200 for her treatment. They told us she would lose her sight. She could not stand the least particle of light, and so we kept her in a dark room for weeks at a time. Ocecasionally she would be a little better, but she became so poor and nervous that she could not ¢leep, and 1 did net know what on earth to do, and was just as dis- couraged as could be when my mother said to me: ‘T want you to give her Hood’s Sarsaparilla.’ I did not think it any use, but I did as she ree- ommended, and 1 am glad I did. When I had given her eight bottles her eyes had so much im- proved that she eould not only stand the light, but was able to go to school for the first time in We wish we e reliable neighbor; that we derful eures. There is not t asm? You should too much for Hood’s Sarsaparilla. as much pleased wi finest needle work! not praise Hood’s enough.”’ ley, 212 Homer street, Elmira, N. Y. solute truth eoncerning the Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Careful inquiry would prove to you beyond a doubt that every testimonial we publish is if it eame from your most trusted why it is that I eannot say She is just ith a new bottle of Hood’s as with anything we can get for her, and if 1 forget she will say: ‘Now Mamma, give me my new Hood’s.’ ““To think that once we thought she conld s, and now she can do the It is wonderful, and we ean- Mrs. Jennie Beards- ould convinee you of the ab- testimonials for have more testimonials than we can possibly publish; that every one we use is genuine and truthful as far as we can learn, and entitled to your entire eonfidence, We say this much in presenting the letter from Mrs. Beardsley, printed above. of thousands of letters we have, telling of won- This is only one he slightest doubt that as a thorough blood purifier at all times of year and for all blood diseases, Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the greatest medicine that has ever been discovered. Do you wonder at Mrs. Beardeley’s enthusi- certainly ‘take Hood’s Sarss parilla for your spring medicine, Get if today,