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Show M Tilt'! MAFIA. J lotrreitlng !! Itegarillng U Orlirlr, B C1irocItt led llllorr of lht HJ Secret SncIHj. The murder of Chlfl of i'ollca lltnnrs.y last October lu New Or leana m one of the moat sensational Ttiili of our tlmo. Thlt crime waa charged to the members of Italian society railed I.a Mails. It waa known lint Hcunet-y was particularly dla-liked dla-liked li tills society. The arrest of paveral members soon followed, but altera long trial they were acquitted. On llio day of Ilia acquittal a card u Issued by a lawyer named J'arrar, prrsldeotof tha Iaw and Order Boclely of New'Orleant. ,lt read at follows: All good cltlxene era Invited to attend a mass meeting on nalunlay, March lltli, ellOo'clock a. lii. at the Clay statue, lo take iter to remedy tlio filluro orjustico In the llrnncsay vane. Coma prepared for action. At tba hour and laco named .1000 men congregated. Title body marched to the prison where tlio Itallana were Incarcerated. The Jail wan entered; fourof the Italians were at once abot dead. Another, named l'ollnl, was pushed outside the prison. A rotiewaa llaced around lite nock and hit liody waa aoon daunting from n pott. What la now known aa the "New Orlrana lynching" occurdel barely fvtty.flee tiilnulet. When tbo mot. reached the JtllltwaalOiSu.nd at 11:01 the lut victim (llaguetto) waa strung up. Ncwsof thla dreadful drama aoon spread all over tlio clvlllrcd woilJ. I n connection with It waa meutlontd everywhere the word Mafia, the name. It was said, of an organised baud of iniirderera, all hailing from Hlrlly. Ill 1HJ0, a Hit Men dramatist wrote play entitled "I Mafia." He eald Ihu word was simply alaug for a covenant made between prison wanlena and i rlmluala. There la a wont commonly used In Klurviice which though tltui. lar to Mafia has no relation to It lu meanlnir. The Florentine word la "MaMa" and tneane orcny Travel-in Travel-in In Hlclly ticak of the word Mali aa a name for a band of criminate or ganlid for robbery, blackmail and In-. In-. llniljutlon. They My that nulwrth-atahvllimthocllurie nulwrth-atahvllimthocllurie of the authorlllea to tuppirsalt, Itsllllrtmalna Intact. Heveral attempts have teeh made recently to trace the orlirln au J history cf IheMtrla, but ao conflicting are the versions that It la lmOMibIe to arrive at any reliable conclusont. The Bocltty It well known ami In the annala of Hlclly It figures largely. There la ono very romantic account given of Ha origin. The Incident In-cident on which thlt account la founded la a historical lact, hence the pots), bllllyof Us truthfulness. In the thirteenth century Charlea of Annu, brother of Ioult.t of France, ooliqucred Hlclly. The Kronrh becanio tiotsissarsof alfthe wealth and aplen-dor aplen-dor of the country. They compelled the Hlclllans to work llkeslsvcs. They Insulted women and gltla.and dldprei. ly much a they pleated. riieHlcllltnt did not rellh Una treatment. Hie feellin! lowarda the Kreiieti dewl. opid Into deadly hatred. Whether a secret society wat nrganlieil or not l not staled, but a phrase became be-came cutreut among the Hlclllana which finally developed Into a ta worth Thla waa the Italian phta- "MorteAllaKrnnela Italia Annela," which translated literally, meant "death to France Italy d.alrcs." Thla beliu too long n aeuten tu repeat on all ooca.lons, the Initial h-lt-ruf etch word waa Ukeu and Ihu word Mafia was coined. Headers of history will remrmticr the Incident kDOWIl at the "rtkllletl Ver." It occurred lu 12.:!, and waa one of the greatest masacrca of ancient or modem llmee. The Hirll-lam Hirll-lam were celebratliiK an Katter festival festi-val at AChurt h ntar Palermo. A mtr-rlage mtr-rlage ceremony wai about to lake place. Ju.l aa the younf bride wat leaving leav-ing the church n band or Krvuch soldiers apM-ared on the a-enr. One of tha tiddlers Insulted the bride. by placing hla baud on her boeom, ami acting In decently In other ways. A young rllctll.u w-iio wltneeeed the Intuit, In-tuit, uttered the wordt alwve mentioned, mention-ed, and tho unmannerly eoldler waa stabbed to the heart by nuothcr Hlolllan atandlngclosaby. Then rung nut the word Matla, ami not a Frenchman present Iwl watelaln there and then. The cry apread all nver Hlclly, and plliu ol ntiaailnated Freiichineu were to tie aeenou every aln-at and hlghwny. Wherever a man tupimeeil tu lw a Frenchman wat teen the cry of Mafia waa rained, and he waa Immediately Immediate-ly killed. In tome ra-a men protetted that they were not Frenchmen, thru a toil of Inquiry w at Instituted. It waa very ahnple. A Frenchman alaaya pronounced the Ilallau wor I crt aa icrt, the pror pronunciation pro-nunciation Mug ibechl. Thlt lot waa applied, ana- II the unfortunate man ut.il tbu French invtbod, that ended hit lift-. The French wire completely driven out of the I. land, and a new government govern-ment Itiatltuted, with a telon of thoold lloute of Hohenttnufen, l'edru the Third of Oregon, at king; . ltltpotelhle that n eoclely eilttiil with the phrue atxivo mentioned an I la motto. 1 he ri-aaon for thla cooclutlon la that tho nuaarre waa anuulvirtal, and ao ftlmultuneoua nil over Hlclly that aooie eencral uu-ditlandlng uu-ditlandlng mtiit hnvu exltttii Thlt ttory of the Maria l fouuJed on fact, and the counectlou la plaut-Ibleand plaut-Ibleand logical. Other wrltera trace the word and It" hlttory lo Arabian aourcie, and even tho eoclety It aald to lieuf Arabian origin, ltladoubtlraa true that the Hlclllana aiu largely tinctured with Arabian blood- Hut It hat imt l-en aatltfactorlly tlemon'trated by any writer that either the aocletrorthe name Malta la directly of Atallau origin. Though Hlclly haa been Ita cradle yet It hat extended nil nver Italy. However, Blclly It Mill lit atronghold and It It from ill fro that the wclely receive lie unlert and lntrur-tlona. lntrur-tlona. Amemlieroflhe orgaiilutlon la technically termed Maflita, and it It Mid that Hl.lllii.t ran Invariably n cognlre mrmlier by hit apuiarance and tnaimir. lilt coui.tenancn It a rloue, hlal.K.k lnilent, hit cirrlage awagerlii, hla hair Im.hy au I curly, crowned with it wide brimmed hat. lilt only I lea oritiucepllou of honor It Ittoorny In relitlon to the ellalrnl hit order, and rilthfulniM III all caea tonfelloa.memlr. A I.I .w or an In Jury Ifforgiivenhurcgaidtaa Ih mark ufncnaanl. He nevir furglvea, and hla dagger It alwaya ready to avenge au Intuit whether real or fancied. At onetime not alone In Hlclly lut Inaeveralof thullallan provlncea thla .Mafla dominated eochty. Many n wealthy landowner and merchant ld large euma Lf miney at the tlmple demand de-mand of the onlrr. They would rather do thlt than have their rattle maimed or their pro ny dittrnyed. Hooutrageuuehadthedolnca of the Malta tperome that In 1872 all at ne of Mcurlly haddeparlitl from the Hlcll-lam. Hlcll-lam. Aluut thla lime (Irmral I'lanell Coute 1'allonltclno, nud Colonel Ml-lou, Ml-lou, three dlitluguUhel Italian tot-dl.lt tot-dl.lt were omml-lonid to envllcato the Mafia and aocletlet of a kindred character from the Italian dominion", I'lanell eclally waged an unrelenting unrelent-ing war on the order, At find the strength mid lufluencu of the Malta ballled him, but III time he overawed Ittleodere. Th.utaudt fled to America, Amer-ica, while three who rcnitlned at home kept tl.eimelvi a very ipiltt. Hut the order It ttlll lu, eiltlence lu Hlclly and III other provlnrea of Italy, tliouuh not na active aa formerly, Italy, lrliapt, more than any other country In the world la the land of aecret t icletlet, of landltt, brigand, and rrlmiur.lt of all kind". Thla la tlncular. contldcrlng the pla.t held ly that nnllon In all and In llterttute. However, It Ita fart, and the hldnry uf It It largely made up of factions, fciida, Inlilguea nnd rlvalrlee. liyn brtgaudage tlieru waa w odceully lent that It nttrartnl the uttentlon uf ttieta nnd nmlM,ert. The ebtry of Fra Dhtvido llie terrible brigand chlnf it familiar h mort rendera of ireneral literature. Ilia real namo wat Mlkel'oua. lilt title or Fra Dlntolo or "friar Devil" he anpilrrd bceaueeof hla Iiraviry and good fortune. The ditto nml rapture of Fra lllavolo br t.'olouel Hugo, tbefatUerof theFrelictl authir, Victor Hugo, It matter of hl-tory, awrroudallku a chapter of au American dime novel, Italy It honeycombed wllh organ-Ixatlout organ-Ixatlout of the Mafia geniut. It la maintained by mnuy obtervera that the cnuita of three toclelleartm la found in tho mariners' hahlla and customa of the ltillan reoplc. Olbora contend that the polltlral.soclnl and rilltflout coudltiont of the country coun-try originated these aocret and oath-Inundorganlmtlnna. oath-Inundorganlmtlnna. As to the political o ndltlon, at Ihuea Italy has beeu one of the worst governed nallona In the clvllliod world. Above all things, there have been In perlodt of her hit-tory hit-tory no law, no Justice, no resect for the oorer claws. Tho innreUeucn was. that aorlellia uf the Mafia kind ilcveloMid. The New Orleans trageily, nolwllh-standing nolwllh-standing all tha iicllemeiil and literature lite-rature avolved from It, hat demouttrat rd nothing Itnglble. Tim grand Jury riOlt of a few ilaya ago, shows nothing noth-ing uf n deterinlna'o character rrgard-tiir rrgard-tiir the Malta aa eoclily. MayTth, Ml. Jl'MUa. |