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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
APRIL 4, 1907.
Just the same as if he had been nine
ft long.
"The wolves didn't leave many par
tridges In that country, I saw dozens
of places where a wolf had sneaked
along to the spot where a partridge
had made a dive at sundown to get a
soft, warm bed underneath the snow.
There would be Just a few feathers to
show where the brute Jumped on top
of the sleeping bird before he got hold
of it."
"Why did you not poison the pests?"
"Well, say, I did try. Now and then
I snared partridges arid I would fix
them up with dope carefully and then
cover them In the snow and smooth
everything off ever so nicely.
"I got a fine cross fox one moon
light night, and most times wolves
came to the right place, but they never
touched the doctored bait unless it
was to scratch out a dead bird and
leave jt lying on top 'of the snow, as
much as to say, 'No, you don't come it
as easy as all that.'
"I have always heard that it is
pretty hard to fool a wolf. One day I
came on a still warm, half eaten deer.
The brutes must have heard me com
ing and cleared off in a hurry.
"I cut In with my knife and ladled
out styehnine with the point, and then
pushed it into the cuts, taking care
that none of it showed and that my
hands did not touch the meat. It must
have been pretty well done for I got
a fox and two martens that week.
But though the wolves kept the snow
all padded down about the carcass,
For Italian Farm Colonies
Plan to Lessen Congestion
MILWAUKEE, April 3.
An agricultural colonization scheme for
Italian immigrants is proposed to re
lieve the congested districts in large
cities, particularly in New York, Bos
ton Washington. New Orleans and
Chicago, and to reduce the percentage
of criminality, which it is argued is a
direct result of factory life and the un
natural conditions which surround the
immigrants in a large city.
In connection with this scheme Dr.
Brunialti, an Italian government in
hpector from Borne; Dr. Guido Serva
dlo, vice-consul at Denver and tempor
ary manager of the Italian labor
bureau in New York city, and State
Senator Schmidt of Colorado will start
in a few days' -: on a tour of inspection
through the states of the central west
and the narthwest. Signor Arminio
Conte the newly appointed Consular
Agent at Milwaukee, expects to co
operate with the inspector and will
urge the consideration of Wisconsin
and Minnesota as states offering ex
ceptional advantages to such colonies.
Dr. Brunialti arrived in New York
from Rome last Sunday, having been
sent t' American' to investigate condi
tions in the north and the south, and
to make a report as to where the colon
ization experiment should be made. He
was accompanied from New York by
Dr. Servadio, and after a brief stop in
Chicago proceeded to Denver, which
will be the starting point of the in
spection tour.
As Signor Conte was until recently
secretary of the Italian consulate in
New York, and as a part of his duties
in connection with the newly created
Milwaukee office will be to act as agent
for those Italians who nre to be sent
to the northwest for settlement on
farms under the arrangement to be
made with the Italian government, it
is probable that he will be successful
in his effort to interest the inspector
in Wisconsin. It is probable also that
a tour of the state will include a visit
to Arpin, Wis., where a successful
colony was established three year?
ago for Jewish immigrants.
"Ilia largo percentage of crime
among the Italians of New York city
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never a one touched the meat again.
"Just about two weeks ago I made
a fine haul in the traps, and because
they were too heavy for me to lug
around I hung a bunch of mink, musk
rats and two fishers in a tree till I
could get back for them. I finished
my round and was near the place
again when it struck me that maybe
the wolves had found my game.
"So I crept along very carefully
the wind was strong against me and
I got near enough to see seven wolves
whining about the tree. I was only
just in time, too, for they had hit
upon the right plan to get down my
pelts.
"Two old wolves were reaching up
high as they could, and then another
one sprang on their shoulders, and
from that cleared easily the ten feet
from the ground to the fishers and
grabbed them." I got that wolf with
a shot clear through his forequarters
just as he straightened out. His mates
cleared off without waiting to tear my
dead things.
"But it got on my nerves to have
the cowardly beasts dodge me about
all the time, and I gathered in the
whole line of traps right away and
came down. Of course it's early yet
to leave the woods, but" I got $300
worth of fur, which is good or five or
six weeks' trapping nowadays.
"For my part I never had such a
grand season for trapping, but every
one up that way says wolves have
never been more plentiful than they
are just now." , ,
and Crime in Big Cities.
we believe to be directly due to factory
life, and it is to reduce this criminality
and to solve other social problems
which are the result of conditions of
living unnatural to our people that we
are anxious to adopt the agricultural
colonization plan and place them on
farms," says Signor Conte. "Personal
ly, I believe it to be theonly solution
of the serious problem confronting us
and I have been studying conditions
in New York ever since I came to this
country five years ago.
"The Italian suffers intensely when
forced to work in factories .and that is
practically the only field open to him
in the large cities. He is unused to
the long hours of confinement and to
the life he is forced to live in those
quarters into which the 400,000 Italians
of New York are crowded. He grows
resentful under it, social evils ppring
up, and then crime follows.
"Under natural conditions the Ital
fan is no more inclined to crime than
any other race, and we hope to prove
this and to preserve the virtues of our
people and the good name of our race
in America.
"Italians are naturally farmers.
They are accustomed to living in the
open air and they are not adapted to
factory work. It is absolutely impos
sible, however, for them to become
farmers in this country unless they
have financial aid.
"The immigrants as a class are poor
people. When they arrive in New York
they have but little money, scarcely
enough to pny their fare out here.
They have no capital with which to
begin farming and consequently thft
majority of them are forced into the
factory, where they work ten or twehe
hours a day for an average of $1.20.
"While I have used New York ns a
specific example, because I am more
familiar with conditions there and be
cause the problem is gravest there, the
opening of this new northwest district
is designed to relieve ' the congested
conditions in all the eastern seaport
cities. It is probable that the couthern
cities It is probable that the southern
problem for the gulf ports, New Or
leans especially.
"The contrasting conditions or
Italian colony In Milwaukee, where I
find our people living in comfort and
peace and much better in class, and of
the one in New York, where we have
many of the worst class to deal with,
is proof of the beneficial influence of
room and uir.
"The adoption of the colonization
plan which the labor bureau in New
York has under consideration, will mean
that a large sum of money must bo
raised in some way and this is one of
th serious difficulties. It is possible
that the co-operation of landlords in
sumo way will t sought.
"Another uestion under considera
tion Is whether to send the ltall.uifi
north or south, it being urgd by nnrno
that th climate in the north went in
too cold and the winter too .severe for
our people. This i only a temporary
question, however, for Italian Immism
tfoti s increasing rapidly tuu-li year,
aiid t'Vrn though tha colonization mny
begin in the south Home of it tnuxt
eventually rne to tha northwest.
"Vlifcirin un.l Wist Virginia, as we'i
n,i KtatfM further mhuIi, ire lelng fav
ored beenu of thtlr wanner cllmau,
but the value of the field for cultiva
tion purposes must also be considered.
The rich lands of the northwest wiI
bring this part of the United States
into strong competition for favor and
so far as the climate is concerned I
have found no great difference between
the weather here and in New York."
The Italian representatives are mani
festing special interest in the condi
tions in the various localities with ref
erence to their possibilities for grapi
culture for the manufacture of wine.
It is believed that the establishment
of vineyards has a prominent place in
the plans under consideration.
TIIR MANY TRICKS IX INDIA.
"As commonly described in travel
ers' tales, the tree-growing trick of
the Indian jugglers might seem impos
sible of explanation, but if the specta
tor expects to see a seed placed in
the grbund, the leaves starting up
above the soil, the growth increasing,
the shrub spreading and the fruit ap
pearing and ripening directly under
his eyes, he will be grievously disap
pointed," says Mme. Adelaide Herr
mann. "The Indian juggler or fakir makes
a little heap of moist earth, perhaps
six or eight inches high, on the stone
steps or carriage drive in front or the
hotel where the traveler is staying.
The juggler, dressed only in a loin
cloth, squats on the ground behind the
heap, places in it a nut, usually that I
of the mango tree, and spreads a
cloth over the whole. After a short
time, during which he waves his hand
in the air or assumes to call upon
some pagan divinity, he snatches
away the cloth and two or three
tender leaves are seen appearing above
tne son. He spreads the cloth again
over the whole, the plant appears to
be growing rapidly and , pushing the
cloth up. The juggler again snatches
the cloth away, and a largo and wide
spreading shrub is seen, its leaves
covered with dew.
"When the leaves are just visible
above ground, the juggler lifts the
plant from the earth and shows tne
spectators how the nut has apparent
ly swollen and germinated, pointing
to the rootlets that extend from the
nut through the moist earth. If,
when it is fully grown, there is no
fruit on the little tree, the juggler
once more covers the plant with tne
cloth, after a short interval removes
it, and discovers two or three mangoes,
which he breaks off and presents to
the spectators. This is what the spec
tator usually sees.
'What I saw in Madras was this:
"When the juggler apparently placed
the new mango nut in the earth, he
really placed an old, split nut there,
palming each nut in turn. As, he first
spread the cloth, he dropped the whole
nut into a fold of his loin cloth, bring
ing back in his palm a small plant,
two or three inches long,or a little
twig of mango, to the end of which is
the root of some other plant. This he
completely buried, removing the cloth
and showing the mound of earth.
"As he returned the cloth he In
serted the mango twig in the split
mango nut, allowing its two or three
leaves to appear above the surface.
When he again removed the cloth,
there was the 'sprouting' tree and, as
he removed it from the earth with one
hand to show its roots, he took with
his other hand a piece of branch fully
a foot and a half long from his loin
cloth, concealed it behind his arm and
with a swift movement slid It under
the -cloth while apparently replacing
the small plant. The big branch,
which was at least half an inch In
diameter, was well provided with
leaves and twigs, closely bound down
with a wet cloth. While spreading
the larger or cover cloth, he un
wrapped the branch, spread out its
leaves and twigs, stuck it in the soil,
squeezed the water from the wet cloth,
and palmed the little plant as he with
drew that hand. All this time, of
course, he was using the other hand in
gesticulations calculated to distract
the spectators' attention.
"In the same manner he slipped the
fruit under the clothe twisting the ends
of each stalk around one of the
twigs. When he pulled the fruit he
was careful to break the stalk close
to the fruit
"I might as well confess that while
I saw most of this, much was told me
by one of the caste, upon whom I
made an impression with a little of my
own sleight of hand. But it is literally
true with the Indian fakirs that I saw
that the hand is quicker than the eye,
and even if the average layman knew
exactly how the trick was done, he
would bo unable to catch tho fakir
at it."
DOLLS OF ALL KIND
I'rlnrraa Clementine of Ilelgitim linn
I. arrant Coller (Ion In the World.
Princess Clementine of Belgium. Kins
lipoid youngest and only nut liter
daughter, owns a remarkable onNec.
lion of dolls, which wu lately put o
exhibition here for tho benefit of the
Calvary (Julld for poor tutreu!o,tU ,u.
tlenta in UrtiwHta, nay a Brue til,
patch to the Chicago Inter Ocean It
U paid to be tho mot t xtcnMvi) collec.
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tion of this kind in the world, contain
ing every imaginable kind of dolls, an
cient and modern.
Tho oldest dolls in the collection
were found in the ruins of Babylon and
presented to Queen Louise of Belgium.
Princess Clementine's grandmother.
These dolls are small terra cotta fig
ures an divories, beautifully carv'd,
which must have been most fascinating
for the children of Babylon.
Next in point of antiquity are Ro
man dolls, of which Princess Clemen
tine owns three varieties dolls of
ivory, wax and clay. The Roman clay
dolls, with Jointed arms and legs, am
among the oddest and the most val
uable in the collection. There are sev
eral Greek dolls. Though less ancient
than- the Roman dolls, they are more
valuable, as the number in existence is
very, limited, and Princess Clementine
has some of the finest specimens. The
Greek dolls represent gods, heroes and
common mortals. There Is one kind
with flexible limbs whose clothes were
made to take off and put on, and every
doll had a bed of its own. There in
likewise a dollhouse, with lead dishes
and tiny kitchen utensils, which wr.uH
seem to show that the Greek maidens
were, in this respect, as advanced as
are their sisters of today.
There are some queer dolls from
Greenland, which were cut out of bones
and mammoth teeth and dressed in soft
tanned skins. They were presented to
Princess Clementine by the Duke of
Orleans who brought them back from
his latest Arctic expedition. Another
rare specimen is the Fosti doll, from
Assam. British India. It is made of
stiff pape rand cardbard painted red
to represent an old man holding a fan,
and is supposed to portray a per.son ad
dicted to opium eating.
Still another novel specimen is one
of the first dolls taken into France dur
ing the reign of Charles VI. by an
Italian from Padua named Pusmo. The
dolls Pusmo took to the French court
were images of famous empresses and
other celebrated women of the old Ro
man empire,, carved after statues and
coins. King Charles sent for Pusmo
to amuse him and was so greatly taken
with the statuette of Poppea, whom
Nero is said to have killed with a ki"k,
that he bought it. As the king called
this doll Poppea, the courtiers did the
same and thus were derived the French
word for doll, "poupee." It is this or
iginal Poppea which figures in Princess
Clementine's collection.
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