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Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-27
NECK AND NECK FOR HoNoRS
Amusing and Amusing Rivalry BE-
tween safe Makers and Safe
Crackers.

Crime keeps pace with civilization,
changes in the habits and customs of man
kind lead to new offenses, while some good
old standbys have become unpopular. First,
some cautious person invented an iron,
burglar proof safe; Immediately the cracks
man invented himself. This declared a war
of wits between the shoemaker and the
safebreaker. The door to the original safe
fitted in straight like any ordinary door.
They were so easy to open, by means Of
a Jimmy, that they did not furnish the
burglar with common amusement. 1t was
unsportsmanlike. The wedge-shaped door
was something more difficult, until the
craftsman found a way to manage II. Then
Mr.. Inventor devised a combination lock.
and thought he had utterly otuwitted the
thief. But the no less ingenious thief
bought him one and mercllessly studied
out its weakness. At first he did not at
tempt to break the lock, but devoted him
self to blowing 1t open. This was child's
play. He puttied up the crack all the way
around the door, except a tiny hole at top
and bottom. At the bottom hole he set a
small shelf OF very fine gunpowder. To the
top hole he attached a vacuum pump. BY
exhausting the air from the safe he Gre
ated a strong current at the lower hole,
winch sucked IN the powder. Then ne Tired
the safe. That was all.
The shoemaker met this advanced method
by corrugating the door to his safe and
fitting II was rubber, so as to make II air
tight. The craftsman took another twist
in his art, used acid, destroyed the rubber,
and again blew open the safe. As safe
doors were made harder and harder, so
did Mr.. Cracksman max his drills of finer
and finer temper. But all OF these methods
were accompanied by more or less noise,
and the craftsman dislikes notoriety. So he
began to experiment with the combination
lock and speedily found a means to open it.
The cracksman took the little finger on his
left hand and kept it bandaged for weeks
so as to make 1t highly sensitive to the
touch. Then he pared his pail down into
the very quick, laying the nerve centers
bare. Thus without drills or powder he
was able TO open a safe by placing the SEN
sitive end of his finger against the lock,
while me slowly turned the combination.
SO keen and delicate had his sense of touch
become that he could feel when each tum-
bier dropped into position. The safe would
be opened, rifled and closed again leaving
no sign to show how the trick was turned.
The craftsman was tickled nightly with
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-27
HAVING FUN WITH PARS0N
d of His FeIIowmen Bumps
ARafnst Some Unique
gUeCtmRna.

Rev. Charles E. Mccormick. D.. D., pastor
of the Pennington Avenue Methodist
church of Hartford, Conn, and one OF the
best known Methodist ~clergymen in the
state, is a student of human nature. He
likes to frequent public places In a lay
mans garb and study his fellowmen. One
warm day this spring. while on a visit to
New York, he was sitting in Madison
Square when a neatly dressed stranger
accosted him from a bench across the walk.
Soon the two were engaged in conversation.
Are you interested II horse-racingt"
asked the stranger.
81 like a good horse" was the noncom-
initial reply of the clergyman, whose bust
ness suit, crush hat and negligee shirt
belied his profession.
Say, I'm a tel~egrapher and get some
dandy tips every day. Maybe you could
use some. They're regular sure things"
Needless to say the offer was politely
declined. but as the stranger began to press
the matter, DR.. Mccormick, with a twinkle
his eye, told the fellow who he was.
The strangers discontinue was as pitifuI
as his departure was awkward and Iudi-
crous.
A day or two later the parson sat in the
same seat. and another stranger, an old
gentleman with a long gray beard and
kindly face, sat down beside him. One
remark led Il. another until the clergyman
in a burst Of confidence related his previous
experience. 1t tickled the old man nightly.
C~huckling in great glee and Shaping the
parson on the leg he exclaimed:
"He-he-he! That's a corker. old sport!
And he believed it!'-succsss Magazine.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-27
BRADsTREET's REVIEW OF TRADE
weather, Crop and Industrial RE-
ports Stin Irregular.
NEW YORK. March 26.-Bradstreet,s

Weather, Crop and Industrial Re-
ports Stin Irregular.
NEW YORK, March 26.-Bradstreet's
tomorrow will say:
Weather, crop and Industrial reports nre
still irregular, with more than ordinary
quiet noted In most line, Wholesale trade
feels the effect of tariff discussion and
uncertainties and, while a fair business Is
doing Gin excess of last year in nearly all
lines), disappointment is expressed at the
total volume of trade in the first quarter.
orders are numerous rather than large
and of a between seasons character at
best. Retail trade has been hampered by
stormy weather. but the approach OF
Easter is reflected in some Improvement
in. demand, largely in women's wear
relatively better than tina of the east
in this line. but cool weather arrests eX-
pansion the country over. In industri /,
dull. with the iron and steel trade, where
prices are weaker, one of the apparently
least favorably situated lines. Wage re-
auctions are becoming more numeroos,
especially in the iron and allied trades.
The coal trade is quiet east and west.
Dizziness in the bituminous trade Is az
Business and industrial conditions and the
large supply on hand discourage the idea
of q strike by the anthracite miners ON
April L. One of the best situated indus
tries in the country Is building. which is
reported active at nearly all points. with
some improvement in demand for lumber
and materials. Tariff uncertainty. how
ever, affects lumber as well as other
lines.
Business faiules in the United States
for the week ending with March 25 were
226, against 22t last week, 2S6 In the
like week Of 1908. 166 In 1907, 1859 I'M
for the week number rs. which compares
with 81 last week and Al last year.
Wheat. including flour. exports from
the United States and Canada for the week
ending March IS aggregate 2.O35, 7I5 push.
els. against 1884. OILS bushels last week
and p 9Na ga hn1hR ais this uraaE lags .Z
For the thirty-nine weeks ending March
25 this year the exports are l46.IO9.227
bushels. against 166, 547. O52 bushels i'm the
corresponding period last year.
Corn exports for the week are l.153. OOf
bushels, against S09.2S2 bushels last wee,
and S4b,l23 bushels in 1908. For ~
thlrty-nine weeks ending March 25 corr
exports are 23,740,366 bushels. against
I1,S0S,57T bushels last year.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-27
Benents of BreakAastinE In Bsd.

Those indolent persons who have been
now do so with an easy conscience-if they
haven't done 1t before. A German specialist
informs us that the practice Is beneficial
to nerves and temper, and that those ener-
pearing promptly and virtuously at the
family breakfast table, all groomed and
equipped for the day, are only digging
It seems Ia so favorable to digestion, and
to that peace OF mind that should accom-
pany the process that other specialists
are recommending 1t for all meals. We
ought, they say, to recline on couches at
our feasts, as the Greeks and Romans did,
but as that is manifestly impossible In the
dining room OF the ordinary flat. the best
the ordinary mortal can do is to break
fast In bed.-Detroit Free Press
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-27
Bee Want Ads Are Business Boosters,
tribute from Mexican Might Owls

There is a funny old custom in the city
OF Mexico which entities the Janitor, or
p~ortero. Of lodging houses to collect a few
cents from any tenant who stays out after
10 O'Clock at night" said p. II. Dugan. a
mining engineer OF that capital.
Some of the porteris put out signs,
which translated into nglish read about
this way; If you want me. TO open the
door you will nave 10 pay me, else l shall
keep IL closed Many a time I've seen
young ganants standing in the vestbule
lurchlng like a ship In a gale as they f1shed
in their pockets for the needful coin thai
would cause the heart OF the domestic to
relent and let them in."-Baltimore Ameri-
ran
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-27

For It's furniture $SOO,5OO was appropriated.
The building to date has cost 50, 499. 900, but
after July l. the beginning Of the new fis-
cal year, there is an additional appropria-
ton Of 1880 10 for the completion of the
approaches, the front of the building and
the court yard. The total, therefore, up
to the present time is s4,672, ~5OO.-Philadel-
phia North American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-27

the mystery and bewilderment he left be-
hind him.
The shoemaker invented new safes. one
after another. which could not be broken
In the same old way; the high grade cracks
man bought them, one altar another, took
them to his quiet workshop, studied every
detail Of their construction. and found new
ways to break them. Neck to neck ran
the armor plate OF protection and the high
power guns of attack.-Appieton's Maya
zine.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-27
sir Hundred Vaccinatea.

PHILADELPHIA. March 26.-Ftfteen
physicians left here today for Marcus
Hook. Pa, where they will assist in
va~ccinating $50 persons on board the
American line steamship Merton from
Liverpool, which is held at quarantine be-
cause two passengers in the steerage were
found 70 be suffering from SMALLPOX.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-27

e YORK, March pr. G. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade tomorrow
Blue-grass blade., 1909-05-16
PERSONAL TO OUR READERS.

Owing to lack of funds caused by the business and nan
cal depression now upon the country the scarcity Of
money in circulation the Blade has been compelled
slider a curtament of the expense of publication until
the effects of the panic have completely passed away
About the only thing that could be adopted tenn
porary measure with safety the paper ITSELF
pend for the time being, the publication of the portraits
and biographies, which we have been running for
eighteen months. The additional expense attaching by
reason of having to make hafone cuts justified in
the light of the being received Hence the Blade
will suspend the pictures and biographies until
opporme time. We shall only be too pleased TO resume
this feature Just circumstances will permit real
ling that they pleasing and interesting to many of
subscribers.
Blue-grass blade., 1909-05-16
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BLUE GRASS BLADE

good and mutual benefits
For years the question has been how to effect the
right kind of organization Innumerable plans have been
suggested Some have been tried Others being expert
mened with With them ALL it does not appear that plan
has yet been formulated that capable of receiving univer
sal assent universal support and encouragement All
admit the necessity of organization, but the difficulty is to
bring all together plane for the good
Some years ago, Eliza Mowry Blven started the Mater
ias Association. For long period she worked almost
single-handed, and alone Members in slowly. FL
nancial support slower STILL Today the Association
numbers upward of one thousand members, with fairly
good support for propaganda work. and the publication and
distribution of large quantity of Maerialist literature
is only contemplated, but actually under way. STILL
there many Freethnker standing for organzatOn
who will not join the Association, the ground that its
application blanks require dogmatc assertion regarding
god and future life Many earnest and capable minds
holding aOof this account On the other hand, the
founder and organizer of the Association having
pshed the obj ct originally intended. declines to permit
any change departure and the upward progress of the
Association for that reason necessarily slow and exact
ing.
The Church of Humanity under the leadership of w. H.
Kerr while standing for similar principles equally
dogmatic in its assertion, refusing fellowship with all who
decline acknowledge admit that a institution, it
is the beginning and the end of all knowledge concerning
god and future life To question the assertions made
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sonal gment denied, to be LIBERAL and the
iberay displayed becomes contention that bars hun
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named, while working, struggling, hoping, in their
pectve Spheres may accomplish good Every cause
having real merit behind it the prompting motive is
capable of rendering service. New thoughts may be
stirred, impulses quckened, investigation encouraged dis
coveres made, and in the end the object sought may be
reached.
During the past few months the Blade has been in
ceipt of a number of communications bearing upon the
question Of organization. Some propose society of fra
ema beneficiary character secret in its operations work
ing lodge system, with weekly meetings, and the
ber carrying life benefit certificate in fraterna soc
Blue-grass blade., 1909-05-16
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thought among the best Freethnkers of the country is
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The Washington times., 1909-03-14
MANY JACKIES. GO
WRONG ON CRUISE
One Hundred Already Sent
10 Prison and More Will
Be Sentenced.

PORTSMOUTH, N H, March IA
Results of the many coUrts-nrarti !
which took place on the ships that par
ticipated in the world-circIing tour are
beginning TO be felt ST the navy ward
here, where the naval prison and the
prison ships southery and Topeka are
stationed
Prisoners have been arriving in great
numbers The battleship Wisconsin
brought thirty from the feet at Hamp-
ton Roads. Yesterday twenty-four ar
rived from Norfolk. and today thirty
more came from the ships at Phjla-
delphia- II Is said that the total ar
rivals during the pssr week will ex-
ceed 100.
The men are under sentence for va
r1ous offences and their terms of i'm
prisonment range from six months 10
three years. II Is said that there ara
between 200 and 300 under Sentence
awaiting cour1-martial
The naval prison mas It's fun ouota
or men and both the prison shius have
about all they can comfortably handle.
and the sending of more men here from
the ships Of the fieey means that tbev
will be crowded FOR time
The Washington times., 1909-03-14
CHICAGO WILL AID
BLACK HAND FIGHT

CHICAGO. March 14.-Spurred into
action by the cowardly assassination
of Lieut.. Joseph Petrosino, most hated
foe OF banded Italian criminals, in Pa
Iermo. Sicily, the Chicago police de-
psFtment. working hand in hand with
the white Pand" Society, formed a
few months ago TO break up Black
Hand outrages. today began it's share
OF the work OF ridding the country
OF the BLACK Hand. scourge
81 received a message from Inspector
McCafferty,' said Chief Shippy, ask
ing the cooperation Of the Chicas 20
department in rounding up so-caiIed
Black Hand members and in trying to
rid the country OF Dangerous outlaw
band / Immediately turned the mat
ter over to Assistant Chief Schuettler
Il am not much OF a believer In the
Black Hand as a formal organization
and 1 question II there is an organized
band of Italians in Chicago. At the
same time I am convinced that many
former convicts from Sicily and other
Italian cities come TO America-men
who would not hesitate to commit
crime. even murder. for ill-gotten gain
The men meet others of their kind
whom they knew back in their native
land and doubtless many plots for rob-
berry and revenge are concocted by
them
We shall make vigorous eff ort. II
any rate 10 discover Just what ard how
much Stcilian and other Italian jnnnii-
trioutng 10 the outlawry ne en-
counter"
The Washington times., 1909-03-14

Of the century, It is said, is revealed in
the letters.
First, it is alleged. came the letters
descriptive Of his tour, "a which the
name or Emma Eames was first men
toned as a charming and cultured
woman with whom II mad been his
great honor TO be received on terms Of
friendship That was but natural and
the wife reJoiced that the son Of the
Brookiyn real estate agent had thus
advanced in his profession.
II Is claimed, raved about this frozen
queen of the muse OF the wonders Of
her voice, OF the subtle fascinations
that had already enchained him.
Still laterS admit ii is said admit
upon de GoSorza part that he has
nnatlY met the woman with whom ~ Is
alone possible 10 become perfectly hRy-
moRized.
In these, IL is said. de Gosorza. In
doing so he offers her financial induce
ments. He will do anything and every
thing 10 bring about a final and dig
nified parting.
Mrs de GogoTza has no intention
either now or in the future TO seek an
absolute divorce from her husband =
friend said today" Indeed, she does
not feel that she would have any
ground for such an action.
Moreover. II can De positively stated
That Mrs. he GogorZa will never consent
10 her husband marrying another
woman BY that IT must not be in
ferred that Mrs. de Gogorza Intin7ates
that her husband would seek a union
with Nine. EameS, who two years ago
secured divorce from Julian 81 orv. the
artist and sculptor"
The Washington times., 1909-03-14

truth that ! speak No. woman IS
sure TO be misjudged. The public, such
OF il as IS interested. has il all figured
out by this time. They say that that
they are travelling together: that they
are both Of the artistic temperament:
that they find that they are tempera-
mentally suited to one another, and
THE public reads these stories, but
i am afraid that they are not alwaN s
carefully analyzed. Let any woman
place herself III the position in which
T am and let her judge what would lie
the publics verdict in her case.
Must Bear Cross Alone
sIf 1 spoke for a whole day, il I
barred my SOU, I feel that / never
could make the public believe how
blameless I am in this matter and how
very, very unjust TO me. how terribly
unjust to me. this whole affair is.
There is nothing more that L can
say / must bear my cross alone nv
one consolation is IN the knowledge
that / have done nothing for which l
could be censured by the strictest
Judge. that I am an innocent party.
Il dc ask the public TO be as lenient
with me as possible under the circum-
stances"
That's the whole story" concluded
the friend Of Nine Games.
NO one VINO knows Nine. Eames
could fail TO have been impressed with
the truIhfulneSS with which she spoke.
J feel genuinely sorry for her. ! know
her and respect her as a woman first.
and a. a great artist after that. / be-
lieVe that she has been an innocent
party IN this case. and that the slightest
mention Of her name has done her a
great injustice"
The Washington times., 1909-03-14
WOMAN THE SLAYER
OF GOTHAM SLEUTH
Police Investigate Move
ments of Wife of Alleged
Malta Member.
Continued from First Page

te2tive was known TO every Italian
Black Hand member in the city, and
time after time when arrests were
made, his picture was found in the
watches or lockets of the prisoner.
Petrosino's death will make the bur
den OF routing out the Black Hand or
ganizatlon extremely difficult. It Is a
common sentiment among the rank and
file of the police force that Petrosino's s
mission to Italy TO gather data to bar
out immigrants connected with the
Malta, was one that should have Been
undertaken by the United States Gov
eminent. 1t is acknowledged, how ever.
that no man IN the United States pos
sessed so many qualifications needed
20 make the work success as Petro-
The Washington times., 1909-03-14
LIVED IN EXPECTATION
OF MEETING DEATH
Petrosino Knew He Was Marked Man--IIad Lonq
and Envable Record Of Work Among
Italian Criminals

7 NEW YORK, March f4-In the
Italian quarters OF the city news OF
1 the death OF Petrosino was received in
| sadness, and in some places with i'll
| concealed JOY. No man had more
friends among his countrymen than
the man who was assassinated in the
streets of Palermo, and none had more
enemies.
Short Of stature, built like a giant
oak that had been chopped down with
in five feet and a half of the ground.
the detective was rugged As a rock,
thick-necked. with muscles of steel
PetrOsinO. like q thousand other Ital-
ians who came here on the first great
wave Of immigration from his country
in 1879, was an ignorant chap when he
landed in New York. PietrO Isorla,
now barber at 81 West Houston
street, had preceded him to this coun-
try. lie met his friend at the boat
Began as NewSboy.
Joe's first work was selling newspa-
pers. From a newsboy he obtained a
position in the street department. He
could not read in those days In the
department he met an Irishman who
took liking to him and taught hip
The latent forces in the mind set
free. his advancement was rapid.
Alexander Williams, an inspector Of
police a man who admired Drawn, was
quick 10 see the possibilities in the
street cleaner. and. through Williams.
PetrosinO became a member Of the po-
lice force.
PetrosinO was the first Italian police
man, and loud were the OUTLAWS whsn
the young fellow. who spoke none too
perfect English. dOnned his uniform and
was sent TO a beat in the old Tender
lOin in October. 1888.
Mysterious Italian Murders
The mysterious Italian murders were
his to unravel after he came to Nul-
berry street under O'Brien. There was
the peddler found in the trunk, and the
mysterious barrel murder wherein ~
Bovo." the OK. was arrested. There
was the killing in the butcher shop in
East Houston street. and the many
cases wherein Italians were found stab
bed to death in various out of the way
places.
Then came tho formation of the Ital-
ian detective squad under Commissioner
The Washington times., 1909-03-14
TINY BABY KILLED
BY YOUNG MOTHER
NegreSS at Hospital Forces
Carbolic Acid Down
Child's Throat.

mary Smnault, negTeSS, seventeen
years old. OF 1888 L street northwest,
11ls morning killed her forty-one-days-
Ola oaby in the Columbia Hospital.
1Wenty-f1fth street and PENNSYLVANIA
avenue northwest, By forcing carbolic
ecld down the infants throat The xir1
was locked up at the Third precinct
station, and the child's body removed
20 the morgue. where Coroner Nevitt
will probably hold an inquest tomor-
row.
Apparently not realizing what she
had done. the Shinault girl told the
police that she did not want to bring
up the child and take care of it. and
rather than take the baby from the
hospital, she had decided TO kill il.
The girl had been in the hospital
about month and half, and was TO
naVs returned to her home this after
noon or tomorrow. She occupied a
room with several other coiored women
Anout o;SO o'cIoSk this morning she got
up and went~t to the bathroom. None
OF the attendants was in the ward at
the time, and the girl went To the
nurses room on the same floor, where
she procured a good-sized bottle of
CarboIic acid
Going back TO the bed where she had
left her baby asleep, she grabbed the
child up in her arms. and, forcing open
It's mouth, began pouring the poison
down the infants throat One of the
nurses had heard the girl get up, and
Thinking that she might need some at
tentfons went TO the ward. She was
JUST In time 10 see the mother pour the
last of the contents OF the bottle down
the child's throat
me mouse physician was summoned
but the baby lived less than five min
Etes-
Police OF the Thiro precinct were no
timed by telephone, and Patrolman j.
X. Strlngfellow vent to the hospital
and took the mother 10 the station