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ar Fl.ORKXCK. March S.—The recent wntenee of eleven bandiU in Sicily has been signalIm<1 to the world at large by the papers, both Italian and foreim, as indicating an increase in the brigandage that afflicts some of the Italian provinces. As usual, in such cases, the strictures were exaggerated and d for remedy was loud. Much good was then tendered to the govern,t with that special unerring inibijity which betrays an absolute igooixnce of the matter in question. The general demand was for energetic intervention and a consequent increase of police

officials and earabineri.

If polico officials and earabineri were a true remedy for a social evil, there would not be such a thing as social science. It would be quite enough to divide populations into two great factions; the duty of the first being to manacle the second. Unhappily for the worshipers of the so-called energetic measures, in reality a social evil must be cured according to science, and this cure is a complicated affair, which requires time and constant attention. To note the symptoms is only a part of the cure, and not the cure in itself. Let us examine the origin of brigandage in Italy, its development, the mathematical lines that rule it, and the meant requisite for its suppression. - . ,. First of all there is no such thing as an Italian brigandage; there is a regional one in that section of the kingdom which is an appropriate hotbed of such a local disease. This regional brigandage differs so greatly according to districts that it may be said there is hardly a connecting link among

them.

m.D TIMES AND NKW. North Italy has been free from any sort of brigandage for the past twenty years. The clearing of all fore8t*land, the network of railways and highways, the density of rural population, together with the increase in elemental instruction, have worked these good results upon the country and ruined all good prospects for a would-be brigand. Hence criminal instincts were forced to take a more refined add less romantic form; they emigrated Into towns where rogues of many varietfe* thrive as long as no one detects them. The days of Maine della Bpinelta, of Mottino an# Berra (this latter was hanged some thirty years ago in Turin) are past ant^ona forever. Petty larcenies of various finds abound, and most unhappily frequent is-the loss and theft of property along the Italia* railway lines, the inferior officials upon which have a most unfortunate aptitude for picking locks, and they are permitted to do this with deplorable impunity, little or no attempt being made on the part of the railway companies to bring their offenses home. This lockpicking is the modern form of highway robbery in Italy. Alaa, how Dick Turpin must blush in his corner of Paradise— “These my successors? Oh. shame!” Moreover in north and central Italy public offenders find it relatively easier to escape abroad. The Alpine frontier is not only a convenience for the smuggling of goods, but also for voluntary exile. - But as soon as wo reach geographically the thicket-covered Maremmu and the Boman Campagna the question changes. Population to the square mile decreases, ignorance prevails, seaports are scarcely frequented by steamers; therefore, any man who In a village brawl, or who for a loveaffair has struck a knife into a fellowvillager, or shot a rival from behind a fence, resorts to the woods for shelter, where lie will drag on a curious sort of existence, a hunted-animal life, generally resorting to his rifle only for self-defense in fighting against the earabineri or in that other form of self-defense, which consists in shooting

maliuulrinagfio) has not even the paltry excuse of political pretext Never since have the Bourbons had partisans among the Sicilians, nor is the local clergy at all intransigent The bande muster a very limited number of men actually composing them. They recruit, so to speak, occasionally among the rural population, and are headed by vulgar assassins, and robbers escaped from prisons, and they are noted for their crass ignorance. Sicily never enjoyed a good government. She passed from the supinely tyrannical rule of the Bourbons to the stern command of men sent to the island from north Italy as to a place of exile. No link of sympathy united the jovial Lombard, the bold and alow Piedmontese, the wily and quick Tuscan officials with the reserved and resentful Sicilian. How could the rulers understand the ruled? Even the wide difference in the patriot proved an obstacle to good administration. Tiie Sicilian soil is divided into large feudi; the small landed proprietor who is the backbone of the northern population does not exist in the beautiful island. Most of the big lords are absentees and prefer town to country life; many reside, on the continent. Thus the rand districts are left entirely in the hands of inefficient state officials and of local elements which rule at will the weaker section of their brethren. The amount of petty tyranny exercised by the powerful on the weak is absolutely incredi-

not at all endanger social Ufa; it does so, on the contrary. must act boldly Mafia. This is renlly she Mafia has its hand in everything, comprising the elections, political as well ns administrative. Of late there has been an increase In brigandage, and just outside the city of Home peaceful ciiiwns have been' stopped and stripped of their money and clothes. This is ths result of the recent financial crisis which has overwhelmed the city. A vast number of the rural population were attracted to the towns by the lure of work, then the failure of the building contractors ruined their prospect*. They went home and found no work of any kind; as a matter of course they resorted to highway robbery. This petty melandrinaggio is only one that can be enred with patrols of earabineri. Its reason for existence is transitory, and will cease as soon as Italy will set to work hard and in earnest arranging her finances on a stable basis, which alone can be done by reducing her military footing to its true proportion. ' A MORAL AND SOCIAL EVIL. Brigandage in Sicily is socially and morally a great evil. To cure It constant work is required. Does the Government,thus work? We regret to say that we must answer no. The Mafia’s influence extends over Senators, members of Parliament and the press. The real brigands should not be sought in the mountain fastnesses, but in

bushrange

i-*cifio traveler; sometimes they «eir pipe at the cigar of 4 sportsman; they get food Fom the peasantry, to whom, if they think convenient, they even do a good turn. *ne seldam hears of any useless, cruel deed /omraitted by them. At most they exact some paltry sum of money from the bailiff of aricli land owner when they want a little cash. On the whole it would be wise to leave them undisturbed, as putting into the balance the cost of prosecution and the advantage of their capture, the former is a muclfinore costly affair. Of the type of the above kind of brigand, are the most famous pair, Tiburai and Ansaini, the former of whom was killed by the mounted police some time ago. Generally speaking the usual end of the average Marenima lu.ndito is a shot from the rifle of a carahinere.

BRIGANDAGE ON SARDINIA.

The island of Sardinia has a brigandage similar to that of the Maremma. The vindictive Sardinian, takes to the woods

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ble and breeds as a natural consec uenee a thirst for revenge. It this abnormal state of things, any bold character may assume the role of arbiter of power, and at the same time that of rearesser of wrongs. This explains the unbounded popularity of such brigands as Antonio Leone, who found accomplices in every village of the province of Palermo, whom no one durst betray, who could walk in the capital and take his ice at the swdlcst cafe of the city and enjoy the performance at the opera-house, even when King Humbert (then crown prince) was present. This Antonio Leone ; who succumbed in fair fight with the carabinerci, was the bloqUy flower of a bad tree grown

naturally on the Sicilian soil.

In order that a handful of men should be able to exert such power over their countrylidartf men, they must have much personal energy; but even thaj is not enough. They must be at once the masters and the slaves of the populace. Such is always the case with the Sicilian brigand. His courage, cunning and want of scruple single him out from among

his fellow-villagers, who respect him

his feilow-viUagers,~wbo respect him acton ingjy. For these qualities they beegme his slaves. But he also wants shelter, help, information and ammunition; there he is their slave. Around him a net of interest is woven by the deft hand of the Mafia.

ABOUT THE MAFIA.

Now, no. one can understand the true nature of Sicilian brigandism if the Mafia is ignored. The Mafia isNffirastitution peculiar to the island of Sicily, and which the Sicilian residents in New Orleans tried to plant on American soil. As is well known, the attempt resulted •in the lynching of many persons. The Mafiosi are the adepts of the .society, which is secret. Their

„„ __ aim consists ip overawing all legal like*his"Corsican consul, in consequence of I or power in order to annihilate them, a family feud that hus broiight about some Whoever resists or attempts to resist the

towns, gambling gayly at the clubs and

courting government favor.

Almost every one nt Palermo is aware of this, if you speak of it, they reply Mali I with a shrug ot the shoulders, this supine lludan interjection, which is a compound of huts and ifs. This inertia prevents many good measures from being put on foot. Anil the best would be the multiplication of rural schools. Ignorance has too much «wnv among the Sicilian plebs, that is destitute of anv ethical principle, although steeped in all the supc|stflious practices of Romanism. In the uncultured.'brain of a Palermo plebeian Santa Rosalia is far superior to Almighty God. Santa Rosaha and the Madonna (“Mnria brdila

mat re" anglice, Mary, beautiful

E Correspondence of The Indiana polls News.) Athens, Greece, March 5.—The American School of Classical Studies is one of several educational institutions here maintained by foreigners. It is under the control of the American Arclueological Institute. A French school has been in operation here for forty years, the German school for nineteen years, while the American school is only eleven years old. In those “years, however, it has collected a large and useful library, has invested $30,000 in a building at the foot of ML Lycabettus, and has accumulated an endowment fund of $50,000 which is yearly increased. Twelve American institutions are members of the American school, including Yale, Princeton, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Ann Arbor, Columbia and the University of Vermont Each of these institutions contributes $250 a year. When the endowment amounts to $100,000 the contributions will cease and the proceeds of that endowment will meet all necessary expenses. Both men and women are admitted. To be eligible they must have the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The French and German schools exclude women. The American school has two directors—permanent and annual. At present Frank B. Tarbell, of Harvard, is permanent director, and Mr. Wheeler, of the University of Vermont, is the annual director. Dr. Charles Waldstein, the American authority on Greek art, at present lecturer on artat Cambridge, Ensriand, has been the permanent director for several years and until this year. He is now u lecturer on art in this school during

March.

The attendance is not large. This year there are twelve students. Nearly all of them are —' f ~ *-

Princeton

Butler, Ann Arbor,

versity at Washington, and, perhaps, others

are represented this year.

THE SCHOOL’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS. Young in years the American school has yet accomplished much that has been recognized as important. To the antiquarian the work outlined for schools of this class possesses uncommon interest. Being devoted to more than ordinary research it cultivates mind and body» Travel, physical labor and ample mental activity are combined. For instance, this school has excavated a great theater at Sicyon in Peloponnesus; on tfte island Assos it has found many valuable inscriptions; at Argos it has excavated the temple of Hera and found, among other things that have historic value, a beautiful head of Hera; in Euboea, at Kretria. a the ater lias been excavated, and the tomb of Aristotle, as Dr. Waldstein thinks, has been discovered. The school has explored and carefully mapped the battlefield of Plataea. In Boeotia notable work has been doueut Anthedore undThisbe. At Icaria lc }he site of the Attic deme, or township, Was found, together with many valuable remains. This is the greatest work of the

j school as the site was never known before.

This year the school has devoted its time the study of inscriptions of all periods

from the stones, or squeezes (impressionsof an inscription on paper), and to an examination of the remains of Greek civilization, such as statues, grave monument* and tem-

ples.

DR. DORT'FF.I.D’S lectures. One of the privileges esteemed by the American school is the permission to attend Dr. Dorpfeld’s lectures on all thft great ruins in Athens. He is the shining light of the German school. Th^ Doctor’s name carries weight everywhere. Yesterday we listened to him for two hours and a half. Sometimes he lectures iu the shadow of the

have merely taken the place of the Hellenic ; Acropolis; aoiuetfnie* iu the xcuvation of a Aphrodite Eryx and of the Cartiiugeninn i buried theater, and we always have an obMylittu. Only radical reform in public ed- ! ject lesson ns well as a lecture. It is an inucation and justice administered with a smration to the teachers to work here. We

blood spilling. A Sardinian bamlito is by no means necessarily a bad man. Sometimes he is a deservedly popular character among his fellow countrymen, who are quite ready to screen him from the police authorities. It is more likely than not that he shoots his first man in obedience to local customs, in accordance with an, unwritten but stringent local law that our more refin*! civilization refuses to recognize. He will go on shooting if they hunt him down; lie will keep inoffensive if left undisturbed, Some, old bppditi enjoy much respect and

sympathy.

Now let us cross the old frontier between the Neapolitan kingdom and the former States of the Ohu.vh. From here to the Straits of Messina a vigorous brigandage raged during ten years, that Is, from 1SU0 to 1870. It took the appearance of a nolitical movement in favor of the Bourbon dynasty. Indeed, it was a sort of plebeian rural Yendee. Thc'ItaUan army was obliged to keep the field against well-armed bands, somelimes numbering many hundreds of horsemen. Chiuione Cfocfo Donatello, Ninco Nanco and such cani-banda (leaders) were not destitute of-strategy and skill. Some other chiefs, like the two brothers, Giona d Ciprinno la Gala, frere noted iefly for extraordinary cruelty. As Vet no history of the political urignndag# of that period has been written, it would be a valuable and interesting work, revealing many curious incident*. In Malta and in Rome were the head centers of the standing committees, who were active in directing the bloody w ork of the bands and in furnishing their leaders with valuable information, excellent riflas, accoutrements and ammunition. The army had hard work to do, and often they had to be pitiless. Court-martials and criminal court); were quick in judging, and prompt in shooting or hanging. Those foreigners who clamor for the restitution of the temporal power to the Pone must

surely ignore f

i that it was above all the vicar

common assassins lifc and gave them shelter of Wa state. The

of Christ who countenanced many of the — —ii ke Ciprlano la Gala

within the frontiers

Italians’ relentless

derire to take possession .of Rome was the resuk of sheer necessity ; only thus

hev Insure tranquility to the un-

D of the south. Few life and property in those betweeb b

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IdCl and 1870

Thir terrible state ■Briflt the occupafew remnants of the

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ittle of that money came to him and

r town frieuds sold the at exorbitant prices to

liis companions: their town friendsaold the

louities of life

will of the Mafia falls a victim to it All means, however foul, are considered fair, provided they insure final victory. The Mafia recruits its votaries among all classes; even gentlemen of exquisite manners and noble blgotf are known to belong to the association. Many a bloody deed committed in Sicily is worked up by the Mafia, for brigandism is but one of its many tools. It is the Mafia that provides the rural brigand with the valuable information about the designed victim; it is the $lafia that instincts the highwayman concerning the sum of money to be demanded for the release of the captured traveler; the Mafia that provides the means for the convenient payment The whole system is so peculiarly local that any tor-

least accident; because being foreigners the Mafia ignores them, as it has not the needful information regarding their financial means; and, accordingly, can not fix on the

needful sum for ransom.

But such is not the ease with a man belonging to the native gentry. The Mafinsi knows to a franc whabsum his family can raise in less than a week for bis release; they know the exact measure of affection they bear to this sequestered member. This explains the fact that no Sicilian brigand ever caught a foreigner (Mr. Rose, although an English subject, is constantly at Palermo, where he is In business) or a continental Italian. Buch captures would be useless. The Mafia is the head, the brigand is the hand. An anecdote will illustrate the link between Mafia and brigandage.

THE CAPTURE OF A DUKE.

Some few years ago Duke Notarbartolo di S. Giovanni, director of the bank of Sicily, was captured a few miles from Palermo and brought to a grotto in the mountains hard by. As customaiy in such cases, a heavy sum was fixed for his ransom, and death threatened if not paid within a certain time. After his release the Duchess Notarbartolo related at a friend’s house how her husband had been treated daring his durance vBe not only with the highest marks of respect, but that the polite banditi chieftain begged him to order for his meals whatever he desired. It sounded strange indeed to hear that the Dnke was able in this mountain cave to eat his customary ica after dinner as in his own home. The chieftain was talkative and complained of hard times and of depression in the trade. He gave that as a reason for the exorbitant sum demanded, adding with a sad smile that

_ been said above concernin Italy, the reader way ing conclusion: That ii it is so because it is a section of the peofctardiaia banditiam does

no special regard to class, will, with the help of time, cancel the bloody stain of brigandage from that great and fertile island. Violent measures will not produce any beneficial effect Meantime, however, the tourist who would visit Sicily need not be debarred 4rom so doing by fear of brigand*. Tlmy will not touch him. He doc* not fall under

the category of the bandit’s victims. V ECC^i 1-ZiRMERM.

A CHILD PIANIST.

music-loving paon January 8, 1885, at When not three years

Poland Has Produced a Musical Prodigy Who Composes at Eight Years. {St. Louis Poet-Dispatch.) The “latest musical prodigy.” Raoul Koezalski by name, has just finished a successful tour through the principal cities of Europe. He is the sou of music-loving Barents, and was bora Warsaw, in Poland. old he gave ample proof *f his Diaiiistic precocity. It was lu* mother who taught him first, and from her hands he passed into those of L. Marek, of Lemberg, one of Liszt’s most prominent pupils. A mere child, his breast is adorned with as mauy decorations as that of a veteran, among them being a magnificent star given him by the Shah of Persia. The boy’s technique is marvelous, and while his fingers can hardly span an octave, he plays the most complicated compositions with an ease and grace which nut to shame many rivals, who, in point of years, could easily be his fathers. His performance is free from the taint of mechanical drill, and more like an inspiration of his own, with his fingers guided by a supernatural power. He is not a piano gymnast, but a soulful, powerful player, who interprets such masters as Bach, Mendelssohn. Chopin and Liszt with wonderful individuality. Even as a composer this wonderful child has achieved renown, although his works display an imitative' leaning toward great prototypes, particularly his countryman, Chopin. - Unemployed ot Chicago. {New York Frets. 1 Isaac Trumbo a Western mine-owner, who was in Chicago recently,Isaid yesterday: “Chicago is overran wRh idle men and women, some of whom are starving to death. The prospect of employment—that the World’s Fair would prove to be an Eldorado for those seeking employment— has drawn thousands of single and married men to that city. They had very little money, which they soon spent, and now they are suflbring.” Too Comnton. [Pittsburg Dispatok.] 'Tm going to change my colors,” said Miss Columbia. “You surprise me,” said Uncla Sam. "Why should you do that?” ‘‘Because they seem to have been adopted by every prize-fighter on earth.” Fated. A stable at Georgetown, D. C., caught fire for the fourth rims, in the abort specs of a month, Saturday. v

spiration to the teachers to work here. We Americans are taking no little pride—a national characteristic—in the fact that we have the best library of all the schools here. It is daily proved that ail of the facts relating to the antiquities have not been disclosed, and the pupils of the schools feel that instructors can now prepare themselves more satisfactorily in post-graduate work here than could formerly be •done when these schools were not in existeace. At least they can get into the Greek spirit, which is one of the things coveted. Students are assigned upon request to certain work, and are expected to present a thesis upon it based upon original research. Members pursue their own studies at will—some choose inscriptions, 'some history, some vases, some architecture, some topography and some literature

purely.

At the conclusion of the term as the chill winds become wanner, and the cholera and other warm weather diseases, always latent, begin to appear, the school prepares for the summer disintegration. Excursion parties are made up for interior points, where celebrated nuns, not yet disturbed by the explorer’s spade, are to be found. Early in April the Americans will tnm homeward, stopping on fhe westward journey at Sicily ana other islands, where aUcient* aud modems have left their sign.

Dkmarchus C. Brown. Ex.Senator Palmer's Dogs.

Ex-Senator Palmer, of Michigan, minister to Spain three years ago, and afterward president of the World's Fair Commission, had three dogs when he lived in Washington, and took them about with him almost constantly. One, a tiny terrier, was generally carried in his overcoat pocket, or inside his waistcoat, from which place the •mall, black head was thrust out whenever a familiar voice was heard. The other two dogs were King Charles spaniels, for whose exercise on rainy days, when a run out of doors was undeeirable, there was rigged up in one of the rooms an ingenious walkingmachine.

Misapprehension. [Philadelphia Record.]

"Grandmother, here’s the minister,” said her pet granddaughter in an awe-struck voice. Minister and parishioner talked very pleasantly until he touched on sanctification and foreordinatiou, and, in a sadden burst of eloquence, said: "Madam, do yon not believe in Him who took you out of thi

lies are told about me! x nave never been past the Falls of Schuylkill in all my life.”

A Rapid Fellow. [Troy (N. Y.) Press.)

Hawker—So Mings bat moved to Chicago, eh! la he making it go there? Dixby—Making it go! I should smile. He’a a motonuan on a street-oar. Popular Clamor For Their Appointment.

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