Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-08
MUSIC LIFE IN MILAN
STRUGGLE BETWEEN AUSTRIA
AND ITALY-ExCAvkTIoNs.

| Special Cablegram to The Star. 80
ROME, April S.-Milan is as full Of music
as Towering lime tree, and between the
singers who flock to the capital of Lom-
hardy and the bees that greet the flower
time of their favorite tree there is little to
choose in point of industry.
Milan is either free from licensing laws
| or does not trouble to regard them, for it
is always easy to sup after the Scala has
locked its doors.
Apart from the doings of New York in
connection with the opera Salome. Salome
claims the largest share of attention a:
Milan. 1t has been given in Turin and may
be given in Bologna or Ravenna before the
summer Is over.
Recently the American police reported to
their Italian colleagues the departure Of a
dangerous anarchist from Paterson, N. j.
The MN arrived in the peninsula and Joined
his family at Montepulsiano, near Florence.
He was watched by the police, day and
night. and was heard to b. st of the fact
that he knew Bresci, the murderer of King
Humbert. Secretly, accompanied by wo-
man, he left for Pisa. Three policemen In
plain clothes entered the train. but when 1t
arrived at Pisa the anarchist and the wo-
man had disap peared. 1t Is thought that
he must have got off at station en- route.
The police are now anxiously searching for
him.
Italy and Austria are engaged in a most
important struggle for their respective pre-
ponderance In Albania, especially at Scutarl.
| through the schools and the clergy. Aus
tria claims that she is entitled to protect
Catholic worship there by the treaties or
Sstova and Passarowitz but according to
the Italians she is attempting gradually
of sovereignty. When. therefore, Italian
schools were instituted there the clergy.
! urged by Austria held council at Scutari
without the authorization of the pope and
\ 10, lol Co., 1ta~
who send their children to the italian
schools 1t is said that q rue difference
between the Italian Snd Austrian schools
and the establishments under the Austrian
protectorate is that the Italians support AL
bantam nationality. while in the others the
| teaching is said to be summarized thus:
God save the Austrian kingdom and our
EMPEROR
The Corriere della Sera has at last been
moved to protest with all it's force against
| the dead stagnation of political life in Italy.
Tie important Mlanese journal is not the
first to cry its warning to a country More
than one newspaper which a few months
ago would have been cassed as ministerial,
has felt itself obliged to complain of the
inaction of the government in the face of
growing dangers and the urgent need of
reform in certain branches of the admin
iStratiOn.
The program for archaeological schemes
in this country is not generally understood
The government has promised. .ormally
promised in fact, that the Herculaneum eX-
cavations will be carried out by Italians
with Italian money; it suggests now that
Neapolitan psychologists will be entrusted
with the work if it undertaken: but it
has not yet officially announced that the
work will be undertaken. and in view of
the fact that most Italian archa biologists are
agreed in urging upon the government the
more pressing need of excavations in Magma
Graecia there Is reason to believe trat Her.
culaenum may yet have to await its turn
for fairly long period. AS II the archae
illogical program described in the same mes
sage ii should be remembered that much of
it has been before the country for long
time before Signor Rava took over the min
instr and that little has been accomplish
ed in spite Of promises and messages. The
Passegiata Archae ologica originated with
Signor Bacelli and has never received any
support from the archaeologists, who seem
TO regard it as costly and rather doubtful
establishment of Rome.
Lately the police have arrested many people
in several towns of Italy for passing spuri-
Gus silver coins. Other arrests for the same
reason We're made at MarSeilles by the
Frencl police. 1t having been discovered
that the metal came from a certain Saverio
Zaraffa of TunZs. who lives in a elegant
country house at Bagno Ripoli. near Flor
ence. the police of that town searched his
residence and found there complete a chemi-
cal laboratory and next to it a large. mag
nlf1cent room hung with rich stuffs and
turned into a temple of the BLACK art fur
nished with triangles, church missals white
robes and chalices upon altar. All this
evidently served for mysterious ceremony
the owner refusing to make any explana-
tons. He only stated that by mixing an
timony with mercury he had succeeded in
composing new metal similar to silver
which he put On the market, not knowing
1t might serve for forging coins. He has
been arrested. but so cunningly has he con-
Quoted his operations, often throwing the
shadow of religious mysticism around them
that the police despair of making a case