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district work" October 10, twenty t20)
district captains. who each employed two
men on the last two days Of registration,
$500. November 8. twenty t2o) district
captains, $50 each. for poll workers watchers
DC, no person receiving more than s5
each, 1.8O0." One thousand nine hundred
dollars was expended apparently In items
under IS each, no names are given showing
TO whom the payments were made, to
which extent the statement Is evasive.
Kings county, Democratic. Twentieth
Assembly district. by George F. Carew,
shows receipts Of N.7os.So. 5000 of which
was received from the county committee
expenditures. si.70i 90: items Of interest
are as follows: November 8. campaign
expenses. twenty-four l2O districts, Sa40. :"
November 8. election district workers,
In twenty-four t24) election districts, sseo. :"
New York county. Republican, Twenty
fourth Assembly district. by Emanuel s.
Berge, shows receipts Of s2.2s7. s3,iI7 Of
which was contributed by the county oom-
mlttee: expenditures. 81 ,23s 81 The follow
ing items only are OF interest: November ?,
treasurers Of election districts, s7ls, for
election purposes October s a nd g.
workers. $40. for registration purposes. :"
October 10 and IL. workers, $40, for
registration purposes"
New York county. Republican, Twenty
ninth Assembly district, by Gordon Knox
Dell. shows receipts Of s5.Sls, no part of
which was received through any superior
expenditures. s4,lSsse. Under
head Of Checkers and other workers" ap-
pear nineteen ue) items, aggresating about
81 ,oss. the names Of the persons receiving
the money and the districts represented
by them being given, but no further ex-
PLANTATION appearing. Under head OF For
workers in getting out registration appear
twenty i2o) items. ranging from ss to SIS,
the names OF the persons paid and the dis
tricts represented ty them being given.
To the extent Of about 81 ,Oss the statement
Is evasive.
Westchester county. city of Yonkers,
Twenty-six t26) statements on
file. showing a total expenditure OF 81 ,e2s,
all of which. with the exception of si03, was
received by the several committeeman
throughout the city from the city committee.
In only two instances were there apparent
efforts on the part OF the persons making
The statements to comply with the law: the
majority OF them set forth that they re-
ceived 500 from the city committee, and
under Expenditures set forth that all tho |
money was expended In sums less than IS. |
This matter Is one worthy OF attention, for |
n reality s2.5?5 Is absolutely accounted for |
n no manner
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tice Il rneted cut to the colorod man,
the same justice that he would receive
II he were not colored, and upon the
colored man IL imposed the duty 10 make
himself O useful oitizen, to 80 behave as
to win the respect OF his white neighbor.
the attention OF all who care TO listen to
me to the notew orthy record of the town
Of Mound Bayo', In Mississippi. .lstopped
at Mound Bayou year ago while going
through Mississippi. Twenty years ago
the. place was an wilderness. Now a
thriving and prosperous town has been
built, with a thriving and prosperous
the town. every man In the country round
about, is a colore1 man. There is not
saloon nor vicious resort OF any kind IN
the town. There are some 5000 people
on the tract of land Of which the town Ia
the centre. This tract includes about
forty square miles all OF II owned by the
colorei people themselves. Ten thou.
cultivation. There Is q big cotton crop.
and In addition the colony produces
four-ffths Of the corn and hay 1t needs,
with many hundred of horses. mules.
cattle and hogs. In the town itself there
are six churches and three schools. There
is bank with a capital stock Of $40. 900,
which does a thriving business. The as.
COcoOt nihc vi ttc lhib III 'i'S sN"h
is nearly S25.OOO There are eawmills.
gins, blac acksmith shops. bakeries, all with
out a white inhabitant in the neighbor-
hood.
THE people are prosperous and sin
Sularly law abiding: Their white neigh
bors have treated them well. The
county Sheriff employs q colored man to
act in the town in tho capacity Of deputy
sheriff and the railway and express
company have a colored man in their Office
since the depot was establi lished in the
town; while the board Of supervisors
appoint colored road overseers.. The
town has forty-four mercantile and busi-
ness houses, big and little Of all kinds,
which do an aggregate annual business
Of about 5000, 900. Surely such a showing
by an exclusively colored community
means very much for the future of the
colpred race. OF course. the founders
Of the community we're picked men, -
Nevertheless It is an OBJ ject lesson fullof
hope for the colored people and therefore
full of hope for the white people, tao.
for the white man is almost as much in
terested as the colored man in seeing that
the latter rises instead of ia lis
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POLICE SEE MURDER DONE.
Patrol Wagon Was Passing just as One
Sicilian Shot Another.

A patrol wagon driven by Policeman
Harry Jacobs with Policeman Lake as
guard was passing through Hester street
on its way to the night court at o'clock
last night when Jacobs and Lake heard
three pistol shots. They saw man with
a revolver in his hand standing over a
man who lay on the sidewalk in front of
lit and 179
Jacobs and Lake jumped OF the wagon,
leaving two women prisoners inside. and
caught the man with the revolver just
as the policeman on patrol. Stevenson,
ran across the street. The man on the
sidewalk had been shot twice in the back.
He died In the patrol wagon.
The man who was arrested said he was
Carmine Luongo, rs years old, a tailor,
living at 1e7 Hester street The dead
man was identified as Francisco Gum
berri. 2l years old, tailor living at l21
Mott street. Gumberri's wife identified
her husbands body She told the police
that the cause of the shooting was
jealousy. Both men are Siclians Both
men frequently had been warned by the
police for creating a disturbance in the
street.
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ESTABLISHED OVER ,EAlf.A.CNTuRY
Union Labor Covets the Flor,da.

The offiosrs of some Of the unions who q
members are employed in the New Yor
Navy Yard reported yesterday that mGa p
men who had been laid of FOR lack OF
work and were preparing TO leave thu
city have decided TO remain in anticipa.
ton Of getting work on the battleship
Florida, which is to be built here. Ay
soon as work begins on the battleship an
appeal will be made to put a large foros
OF men 10 work. So me OF the men now
at work in the navy yard would like T.
have only small force of men employed
80 as to make the work last longer. but
the unions will agitate against any propo-
eition TO that effect.
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COL. HARRY c. PAGE DEAD.
He Edite1 the "New York Era" Twenty
Iears-Long Newspaper Career.

ht T|t~ tOFh "Cutt
fears-Long Newspaper Career.
Col. Harry c. Page died yesterday
after a lingering illness at his home.
1874 Humphreys avenue. Bayonne. at the
age Of rs years. His death was due to
complication of diseases, which pre-
vented his actively looking after the
affairs OF the Bayonne Herald, Of which
he was the owner and editor. for the last
seven or eight years. He Is survived by
his wife and one son, Major Edward Page
of Brooklyn.
Col. Page was born in Troy. N. Y.
prentice with the Schoharie Republican.
He left that paper to go to Chenango
county. and in 1852 became the editor
of the first newspaper at Cobleskill. the
Schoharie County Sentinel. During the
Administration Of President Pierce he
was editor Of the Workingmdn' Advocate,
dS sSSr %am SKen 6 cd@e ss sor fe Of the
Democratic Freeman at Hudson. N. Y.
Later he worked on the Hudson Gazette.
and then moved to Albany, where he
reported the proceedings Of the Assembly
for the Register and was correspondent
for THE NEW YORK SUN and the New York
Express. While young reporter he Vas
called upon late one night to cover a fire
in Troy. He was then located in Albany.
and there being no train for several hours
he secured horse and rode to Troy
The ferry had stopped for the night and
Page was obliged TO swim with his horse
across the stream. He got his story and
wrote 1t in cemetery. using memorial
slab as desk. and telegraphed 1t to his
paper.
In 1859 Mr., Page was admitted to the
bar and went to live at Dansville, where
he was editor of the Herald. He founded
the Livingston Sentinel and was appointed
Collector Of the Port. In 1890 Mr.. Page
established in New York city the New
York Era In the interests Of Stephen A.
Douglas. who aspired to be President.
and William Kelly OF Rhinebeck. aspirant
for the cftice Of Governor. For twenty
years Mr.. Page was at the head Of the Era,
and during the civil war it represented
the @War Democrats"
After spending several months In
Europe sending letters to the American
Queen. a New York SOCIETY journal, Mr..
Page in 1881 purchased the Bayonne
Herald. He was elected president Of the
Democratic Editorial Association Of New
Jersey In 1855, and at the time Of his death
was vice-president of the Editorial Asso-
citation OF New Jersey. He served as
president OF the Bayonne Democratic
League.
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L.. r. LATSHAW ARRESTED.
Washington Police Believe He Has Oper-
ated III Many Cities with bogus Checks.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 26.-The police to-
night arrested a man who they believe
has operated in many cities with bogus
checks. He is registered at police head
quarters as Lawrence T. Latshaw. A
printing firm reported to the police yes
terday that a man stopping at a down.
town hotel had had twelve checks printed,
the checks purporting to be on the First
National Bank of Chicago. A Central
Office man was detailed to watch Latshaw.
Latshaw tonight paid his bill at the
hotel, and going to the depot bought a
ticket and boarded train bound for
New York He was arrested and brought
to headquarters. In his travelling bag
were found cards bearing the names
G. r. Haynes, representing the Dayton
Lighting Company = Dayton. Ohio; D. c,
Bacon. representing the American Insu-
lated Wire and Cable Company, Chicago;
d. X. Gould, representing the Western
Gas Fixture Company. Toledo, Ohio;
l.. T. Latshaw, representing the American
Insulated Wire and Cable Company,
Chicago; II. E. Weston, the Lyooming
Electric Company, Williamsport, Pa.
and II. A. Plenes. the Catlin China Com
pany, Kansas City. Mo.
The police say that Latshaw's method
Of working was to register at q hotel
where previously he had sent a letter
addressed to himself containing a bogus
check. The letter was written on q letter
head Of the firm which he was supposed
to represent. This check he would cash
In Latshaw's satchel we're found letter
heads aud black checks OF the firms
corresponding with the cards which
he carried.
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DIVORCE STATISTICS BY STATES.

The number OF divorces reported for
each State in each twenty year period
and the divorce rate in 1880 and 1900,
based on a five year average. were as
follows:
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ne ne nNe year period OF which the census year Is
!, faI IA, lave permitting divorce were repealed
N;9sgS. N;osSsnses tESm ,.a par. Of Dakota TERRITORY
counties then eompr,snS otS psSoss Tefr,orn ps sae
distributed between North Dakota and South
Dakota according as the counties are now located
IN one or the other OF these States.
Two-thirds OF the total number Of
divorces granted, in the twenty year
were granted to the wife.
CAUSES OF DIVORCE.
;. The most common single ground for
divorce Is desertion. This accounts for
$50 per cent. OF all divorces (period 1887
hall, OF those granted to the husband
and s3.5 per cent. or ope-third. Of those
granted to the wife.
Ihe next most important ground Of
divorce is. for husbands, adultery, and
for wives. cruelty. or the divorces
granted to husbands (lss7 to IbOo) 2s.S
per cent. were for adultery. and OF those
granted TO wives 27.5 per cent were for
cruelty. Only 10 per cent. OF the divorces
granted to wives were for adultery Of the
husband and 1915 per cent. OF divorces
granted to husbands were for cruelty on
the part Of the wife.
Drunkenness was the ground for divorce
In % per cent. OF the cases in which the
wife brought suit and in Ii per cent. Of
the cases In which the suit was brought
by the husband.
The above percentages represent those
cases In which the specified cause was the
sole ground on which the divorce was
granted. Very frequently, how ever, d.
vorces are granted not upon one ground
only but upon two or more in combina-
ton.
In many cases in which drunkenness
or intemperanoe was not recognized ia
the decree Of the court as a ground for
divorce it appears to have been present
as a oontributory influence. Intemper-
ance was In fact reported as an indirect
or contributory cause Of divorce in s per
cent. OF the divorces granted to the hus-
band and in 1S per cent. OF the divorces
granted to the wife, and appeared as a
direct or indirect cause In 1875 per cent.
OF all divorces and 28.3 per cent. OF those
granted to wives and 6.i per cent. OF those
granted to husbands.
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SOLDIER A SUICIDE.
Corporal In the Coast Artillery shoots
Himself I'm Salvation Army Hotel.

George Willoughby, n corporal OF the
Eleventh company Of the Coast Artillery,
2a years old. stationed at Fort Schuyle-,
killei himself yesterday morning in
room 2s at the Salvation Army Hotel
ls Chatham Square, by shooting himself
In the heart He wrote his name and ad-
dress with a pencil on one OF his cuffs.
He registered at tho hotel about Q
O'Clock Wednesday night and aslSei 10 be
called at O'Clock A. NJ. An attendant
knocked on his door at that hour. VII
loughby responded 10 tho knocking and
fifteen minutes later shot himself
The commanding ofice- Of Fort
Schuyler was notified BY. telephone and
his second enlistment and had enlisto
In New York city. He was unmarried.
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Obituary Notes.

Augustus Wiggin, who died at Rye.
England. on November 4, 1877. He was a
tary Governor Of New Ha@pshire, and the
the hna'S old banking house OF r, wiggin 4 Co.
OF London, New York and Boston. Mr..
ggn Tas nT vsars a. in bsness
city as banker and merchant. In. 1854
he married Annie E., daughter OF the
ss @ P4ssde1 deF of Of The EYE ls Ehf
since sin their marriage. MIR. wigeIn was
member OF Christ nd Church rye, a9T r0rsy
warden and treasurer. He was also for
several years treasurer OF the archdeaconry
Of ae TdSs sSnn sSS Frank H Ho. %ssn Sf
Mrs. ThomasT, sherman. Mrs. John 4. Perry
and Miss Mary E Wisgne The en- fsnsral snsra
day at 2:30 p. NJ.
Eugene j. Cotrey died at his home, $40
Degraw street Brooklyn. yesterday. Mr..
ey ness Hs was Senrs hs old Snd
politics % and 4, at OF one Ii time held a post in The
fors Post 10 tbree ae sse% Sne p
the broth hers is the Rev, Father Daniel A.
Cofrey Of Columbus. Ohio Mr.. Cofey was
not married,
e.mnra m.,ai nonseI ~ naeheu9n LOT may Rris and
Western Railroad. died suddenly Of oere.
bral hemorrhage at Indianapolis last
night He was born in Ohio In 1885. was
versity and studied law in the ONCE of
Calvin 8. Brice. He represented Brice In
terests in the Lake Erie and Western Com
pany for years.
Mira. Nancy s. Bishop. wife OF Deputy
Surveyor OF the Port j. NJ. Bishop. died
early Yesterday morning at her home at
2aS West i0Sd street in her thirty-ninth
months, She was Miss Nancy s. Jones
Of Washington and married MIR. Bishop in
New-York tribune., 1908-04-06
OPIUM AND ALCOHOL IN CHINA

The substantial suppression Of the opium
traffic and therefore Of the major part of the
opium habit in China in the measurable future
now seems TO be assured. There is no ques-
ton of the good faith Of the British Indian
government in moving for the abolition of the
export trade in the drug from that country TO
China. The essential condition of such action
. is, of course, the cooperation of the Chinese
government in simultaneously abolishing the
domestic manufacture and sale Of opium ex-
cept under restrictions for medicinal purposes,
and happily there is reason 70 believe that the
Chinese government has at last decided to take
that momentous step. and perhaps still more
10 the point most Of the influential viceroys,
who are the real rulers of the empire. are also
sincerely committed to that policy.
In view Of that epoch making action, how
ever there rises in the minds of both physiol-
ogists and sociologists q question Of great sci
en1ifc interest and Of equally great practical
imporance-to wit, What, if anything, will be
substituted for the opium habit: II is possible
that nothing viii be. and that shall see
the inspiring spectacle Of a vast people free
from any form of intoXication or drug habit.
Much as this is to he desired, we should be sur
prised if ii We're to be the case in China. at
least in the near future. The melancholy rec
ord of history is that the tribes and nations
OF the world generally, since the time of Noah.
have been 10 some degree addicted TO such
habits. Both sacred and prOfane writings
abound IN references 10 indulgence in strong
drink which convince US that inebriety has
been a common vice for uncOunted centuries
The followers Of Mahomet have been supposed
10 be comparatively free from IT, though the elo-
quent quatrains Of Omar indicate that the SUD
position is far from universally correct and even
where abstinence from alcoholic drinks does
prevail indulgence in opium hemp and other
drugs is common
The Chinese have q fine reputation for tenn
perance in drink. In both California and New
York drunken Chinaman is one Of the rarest
of phenomena. In China itself alcohol intoxi-
cation is almost unknown. One missionary of
forty years residence there testifies that 1t
is exceedingly rare to see a drunken man"
ana another declares that in twelve years he
saw only five cases of intoxcatiOn, and that
deIirum tremens is quite unknown. II will
not 40 however, to conclude from this premise
that the Chinese have always been sober, or
even we fear, that they viii never indulge IN
alcohol. The fact is that in old times before
opium smoking became their national vice
lhe chinese were one Of the most intemperate
oI peoples Chinese literature is saturated with
Aicohol The literary remains OF reudaI times
contain lnnumerable eIh0rtations not only 10
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drink wine but to get drunk, and make it clear
that drunkenness was a common failing WIN
kings and mobiles and, presumably, with all
the peonIe The same is true of the literature
of later ages Confucus himself was a tenn
perats man, though not total abstainer. Inc
native Chinese drink was wine made from rice
or from milet while with the advent or the
Tartars a highly intoxicating form of koumiss
was introduced Grape wine also came into
use thousand years ago and In the seventh
century of our era one of the national poets
OF China wrote when every one else is drunk
how can alone bear TO keep soberE
Drunkenness appears TO have disappeared
with the advent of opium smoking, not because
the Chinese We're superior TO any such prac-
tces, but simply because they preferred opium
TO alcohol. Opinions differ as to the cOmpara-
tive evils of the two habits Excessive IN
dulgence in strong opium Is undouDtedly
deadly as is overindulgence In distilled spirits
But there are those-both psychologists and
sociOlogists-who declare that moderate use
of a mild brand Of opium Is innocuous and
possibly even beneficial. This last statement
will be pretty generally regarded with skep-
tcism, and thoughtful observers will reckon
the abolition of opium smoking IN all forms
cause for profound congratulatiOn. But rejoic-
ings in that achievement will be seriously
marred If the pipe merely gives place to the
return of its predecessor. the glass. There
will be the more danger Of the revival Of alcO-
holic intoxicatiOn through the increased inter
course of China with the alcohol drinking ma
tions Of Europe and America. 1t would be
deplorable to see nation of smokers trans
formed into a nation of drunkards and to see
Western nations instrumental In revlving in
China q vice which they are vigorously en-
deavoring TO suppress among themselves.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-06
4 HUDSON RIVER COMMISSION.

There is and there should he a reluctance TO
multiply the number of commissions which are
engaged in the public work Of the state and TO
add to the cost of government But there is at
the same time an inevitable recognition Of the
facts that there is an increasing amount and
variety of work to he done, and that some of
it can scarcely be done through merely enlarg-
ing the powers or adding to the duties of exist
ing functionaries. but requires the constitution
of new and special agencies. The true test Of
any proposal is after ALL not whether ii would
create new offices or entail new expense, but
whether the work needs or deserves to be done,
and whether the doing Of it would serve the
public welfare of the state.
II is such test which should be applied TO
the proposal now made at Albany for the crea-
ton of permanent Hudson River Commission
for the general purpose of protecting the natural
scenery along that river and for the special and
immediate purpose of securing scenic and his
torc reservation comprising the Highlands.
Such work would be an extension Of a series OF
similar undertakings which have been made IN
various places at various times and by various
agencies. such as the rescue of the Palisades
and Of Hook Mountain, or Of what was left OF
them, and the establishment Of the Stony Point
reservation, and 1t will widely be regarded as
similarly desirable There are few nobler pieces
Of scenery in this part of the world than the
Highlands Of the Hudson, and few places OF
greater historic and patriotic interest We may
add that there are few places the beauty Of
which could more easily De rreparably impaired
by injudiciOus sordid operations
1t would be worthy achievement 10 protect
the Highlands from possible spoliatiOn and T.
preserve them in their natural beauty and with
all their historic relics and landmarks, as q per
petual heritage for the people Of the state and
nation. 1t would moreover, be well to have
established over the whole extent of the Hudson
River such supervision as would protect its
scenery at all points from needless disfgure-
ment Whether that end is best 10 be attained
by the creation of the commission proposed
is question worthy Of consideration. To judge
from the effective and economical achievements
Of the Palisades Commission, II may be entitled
TO an affirmative answer.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-06

Proving a negative is ungrateful task at
best, readers OF the current North
American Review may have once more OBJ
served when they came TO the article IN which
Mr.. Gaetano d'Amato seeks to disprove the
istence Of the Black Hand. The author. after
demonstrating that a society thus named once
1ourished in Spain but never in Italy. admits
that there thousands OF italian criminals in
the United States, and that for ten years many
Of these have adopted this fear-inspiring name.
Furthermore, Mr.. d'AmatO comedies that these
desperadoes do have accompIices and underlings.
All this suggests the question, When is a Black
Hand organization not a Black Hand organiza-
ton? Mr.. d'Amato virtually says When II is a
lot Of little Black Hand organizations" AS you
like It: but. while we agree with the Italian
apoIogist in his denial of a great. worldwide
criminal society, with officers ritual. lodge fees
and all like mummery. we believe the records
bear incOntrovertibIe evidence of a constella-
ton Of petty criminal bands having each from
five to twenty members. perhaps. and operating
systematically Why begrudge these little gangs
the title they accept? In view OF the general in
competence OF police and detectives throughout
this country OF politically controlled police de-
partments. a hundred tiny Black Hand societies.
however primitiveIy organized. are about as bad
as the mythical world league would be.