Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-05-07
CAD PHASE OF LIFE.
,r.b,e State of Affairs in the bep,-s-,~ pIstricts of Sicily.

naa,orabIe State of Affairs in the
 pg,ning Districts of Sicily.
 ,.a4 once a startling and a reas-
 .uS fact that the labor question in
 Fine saams mainly to have interested
 ig gad;cal philanthropist, such we'll i nn m b;ologists as Angelo Mosso, of Ao resare Lombroso of the same
 al 'ln' and Napoleonc Colajanni, of 'pgg 2pss;na having each from his own
 ! z.,dno;nt contributed powerfully to E Ea,i,c;dation. We say startling"
 s,,se social evil that makes the ss 'zs;naI s;r man intervene is one that af- 'sss the vitality of the population,and ! J cav ..reassuringn because when ''.h Intervention has come about there ' sone that the condition of things sn he improved. We leave on @ # side for the present Dr. 's ,.,s iapni's luminous expose of the 's..r ',..ors of the sulphur mines in Sicily. s | a,e also postpone consideration of '. '.e ,ombroso's psychological study of ss ofFects of the system on character sa development Our present pnr- '. s<. ;s rather to draw attention to Dr. M so,s instructive facts and figures as he nhgsical deterioration induced {. sucb labor of the Sicilian prole- lTiat.
 for example, the province of .3sa n;setta ia the heart of the 1s- ',.a and ponder the following statis- z Ia the four years from 1881 to se3 the officers of the military levy a8 .e7a young solfarari under scruti' 5. of these only POS were found to 2 4t for service in the army; i,673 |a,.e riformati-that is, were tenta- s1I0 declared to be fit, then broke a@n after the regulation trials and s5 to be dismissed; and 1855 were re- 'ss.aed for further inspection at the zxf levy. Of the riformati 1,249 IoVed to be defective as to
 < st,.re. 69 were incurably narrow ,szfed. GA had constitutional debili- 25 developed malformation of the ,orax. 4s were ,hunch backed, 20 had Eber corporeal deformities, Is la bored uder malarial cachexia, IS became |;nd. and 80 suffered from diverse ail-
 enfs, And this, says Dr. Mosso, |,5 a province under the resplendent sy of Italy, on a soil bursting with |rtiiity. in land prolific in intelli- Bnt sons-out of 3,672 young men tVenty only 903 found capa ble of |iIifary service. It is with great grief nd lismay that we peruse these rures and think on our native land. :"
 Other provinces of Sicily showing boat a third fewer rejections for the lilitary levy than Ca1tanisetta were Iill far from presenting the normal de- elopment proper to youth mainly agri- altl1ral in occupation; but the nadir of |vsical and mental abasement was .ached in the mining districts, where ae nun Der of fanalfa beti unable to read I'd write) is about 90 per cent. But aera is an antecendent condition even
 orse than want of education. The Fes led by the poor children of the
 ines are in point of deceney, to say gthing of sanitary observance, as de- raded as humanity has ever sunk to.
 small room will accommodate" the 1ang solfararo with six other persons { both sexes and of all ages. As often not he pig, the foat. the ass, or the |nle have share O. the said room" :" i'd eye witnesses like Dr. Mosso and e. sonnino (the present finance min ter of the Italian kingdom, whose pok on Sicily is as painful as it is in xuetivel could not penetrate into its issaioa, such were the filth and the !fense to every sentient organ. n.-Lon- on Lancet.