Semi-weekly herald., 1909-04-19

yalho. Bradford Merrill and Edward c
n. Clark. officers of the Star company
publishers OF the New York American '
and Evening World, when Justice Ger I
ard in the supreme court upheld the {
writ of habeas corpus secured by the {
defendants and ordered them discharg
ed. Mr.. Rockefeller had complained
of the publication in the New YORK
American Dec. IT, 1908, OF an article
wrongly accusing him OF having orig1'
mated a peonage system TO which the
employees of certain breakfast 1000
company in Illinois were alleged to
have been subjected.
Alien relatives of foreigners killed
or injured in this country cannot re-
cover damages, the treaty between the |
United States and Italy Dotwithstand-
ing BY decision of the united
States supreme court, handed down
by Justice Moody in Washington, Ma
ria Guiseppa Raffaela Maiorano, wlte
OF an Italian killed in the wreck oil
the Duquesne Limited on the Baiti-
more and Ohio railroad at Dawson. is
divested of any rights, real or fancied
to recover damages. The case was
first heard in the court of common
pleas of Allegheny county, and Judge
McClung decided in favor of the rail
road company.
The Generalization of the youth OF
the fatherland, according to pastors
and schoolmasters, is the present peril
erce of the North German states held
at Hamburg the speakers despaired OF
doing anything to stem the tide OF
depravity which seems TO be sweeping
Alarming statistics of the increase OF
theft and assault were offered, the re.
formatories for the young were shown
to be overflowing and the moral status
OF the lower classes especially was
subject of the gravest concern. The
cases of girls who we're mothers al
! 10 and boys fathers at IA are toe
numerous TO be more than a momen
tary sensation. School children gel
access to vile books and pictures anC
there is a pronounced absence of botf
7 sexes from the Sunday school.
+ Dr. Edgar Cell, traveller and author
, The only man living who ever travel
ed the full length of the great wal
: of CHINA dangerous journey of 2,
: 600 miles--arrived. in New York Tues
; day aboard the liner Minnehaha will
wonderful tales of heretofore unchart
t ed portions of the mighty breast
works; of the discovery of tribe o
= hairy, wild Chinese pigmies whose an
/, cestors can be traced to 210 b. c.
= and details of general movement II
China to look to the establishment
e of a great standing agmy. The eS
/ plorer discovered the existence of tn
l. hairy pigmies through careful stud
|, of the great wall and the folk-lor
n in half a dozen dialects along it
r towering sides. 1t is said that 1000
n 900 men worked on the wall and tina
e every detail of construction was S
carefully watched that the unluck
d workman who left even tiny crevic
d through which spear point might b
N thrust was buried alive in the grea
o easement that was found faulty. TIL
S newly discovered pigmies, accordin
S to DR.. Cell, are men who could nc
S stand the pressure of work in 210 I
6 C. and ran into the wilds to becom
/. savages and maniacs on account c
d Ltheir frightful experiences. The sigh
Il of thousands of their relatives an
friends becoming part and parcel c
IS the wall, he declares, was too muc
l. for those who sought safety in fligh
e THE interesting folklore that / stut
e led through Interpreters" said the e,
G plorer, gave me a line on these littl
e wild men. and we located them ia
II in the interior. l have a man anon
o them now, and | am interested t
e know how he is faring." DR.. Ge,
e had many narrow escapes from deatf
J. both on account of the precipitous &c
il ing and at the hands of the native
OF Thibet, many of whom never ha
| seen a white man before and regard
/. ed him as some kind of an evil being