Show I The Italians and Tripoli oli oliBY BY A ITALIAN Concluded from flom last Sunda Sunday Italy's looking over U 1 history from tho the days of ot l ll 1748 l H IL until her Independence was lI j J won viewing tho long long II list 1st of ot martyrs heroes and P tJ patriots who died for their country the tile distracted provinces pro inces utterly bare of or crops or mono money food or nj comforts a pray to lo the tho awful cholera a mass maHS of ruins beside which our Jur south land after the tho close of ot the rebellion wa was a n garden arden spot It Is In viewing that country countr toda today almost irn- irn to realize the Immense tasks s Italy and her people have e done Over or 1000 miles of or railroad reunite the peoples o of ot the tho peninsula an area but little larger than tho Over Overa a a. hundred thousand miles mites of ot splendid splendid did roadways tunneling and cutting the Apennines s here and there thero have been built while farms and villages with new vim Jm and life lite are regenerating the tue lost peninsula modern cosmopolitan wards rise amidst the ruins of or the Forum For For- um urn and like places schools and colleges growing growing- up everywhere and free tree public schools backed hackett b by compulsory attendance attendance attendance attend attend- ance dot the country nel neighborhoods In weighing the facts no nation on earth has made greater strides In overcoming 11 Illiteracy 11 te rac Italians Acquire Property The rapidity J with fth which tho the Italians of ot Now New cw York Philadelphia and Chicago o onre tire arc accumulating real estate and tho the I enormous number of ot abandoned Yankee farms which the they aro are turning Into galdon gardens gar gar- dons don literally making by their theil patient Industry two blades of oC grass to grow where one grew rew before tully fully answers the char charge e that they aro arc mere birds of passage The Tho Italian does not work worle for Cor less wages than he ho can get Jet He lie can not and does docs not compete with American labor at all an nor with Irish and G German Immigrant Immigrant Im Im- un- un migrant labor an any more Not ot man many men of ot these nationalities will dl dig in ina a trench nowadays and shovel and work Is almost the only kind of or labor Jabor laborthe laborthe the newcomers from Italy can cnn do Italians in Science and Learning From mediaeval val Italy spread to al almost almost al- al most all the countries of or Europe tho the rudiments of law Jaw an and 1 letters and In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries In Instruction Instruction instruction In- In In poetry art and science To all at af which and their natural In Increase increase in- in cr crease lUo America m today oda Is heir Let 11 It never DO oe lor otten that an nn Italian Hallan discovered America Let it be remembered that In 1609 Invented the telescope Be it kept In mind that in 1659 discovered d tho the microscope found the air coIls colls from which t the blood gets Its oxygen found fount out the connection of the arteries and the veins published a no treatise on nerves of ot the e ton tongue ue explained the nature of ot the cells ceUs containing the tho coloring colorin matter matter matter mat mat- ter of ot tho the negro skin and anel described how th o 6 silkworm secretes a Juice which makes thread and how it changes Its Hs former body Galvani a a. Bolognese In Ir 1737 detected the tho effects effect of currents currents currents cur cur- rents of on th thA limbs of ot a frog hence frog hence Galvanism Volta rOlta a pro- pro sor of at natural history In the tho University Uni Uni- of or Pavia indented the tho voltaic tile lile which glorious deed led to the tho making of ot the tho electric telegraph discovered the Juice and the tho principle of ot dl digestion estfon Europe Europe and and therefore America America- owes Its tastes for hymns to for br extended poems and epics to Dante Tasso and Ariosto for Cor ascetic writings to St. St Catherine of oC Sienna and for Cor the classics to the Italian authors of ot the then n Renaissance In tho the fifteenth century So declares a writer In th tire Catholic World orld of ot June 1883 and In that ono one sentence each of or which Is 5 casU easily verified von veri ted red by hy the student there Is enough to prove Italy the tho of or the highest high- high est eat American culture As an engineer the tho Italian has likewIse like like- wIse T distinguished himself The Tue Italian engineer Parro Invented tho the stadia and first applied It to extensive sur sur- veys VC'S topography Photo was Jon long a ago o oUE UE ed b by the military en engineers of Italy while among us the thc old-fashioned old tint tintype tin tin- t type pe was tas still sUIl common and the American Ameri can n civil engineer today Is about a century behind the times In topography Although our book markets are crammed with cheap ill-digested ill en engineering engineering en- en literature tho the Irrigation schemes here Inaugurated are aro but mild departures from tho the systems handed down by tho the Italians of ot long ago Com Com- tined Nned with his fine tine mathematical qualifications qualifications tho the Italian en engineer possesses an accurate and artistic outward observance observance ob ou- ob- ob servance of ot nature and terrain two terrain two qualifications which combined In a single Ingle Individual are arc generally recognized recognized as a rare gift Sitt of nature The Italian Soldiery Although tho the youngest army in Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope ropo today the Italian army has in Europe long been recognized as one of ot tho the first In efficiency Its soldiers excel In all departments The cavalrymen cavalry cavalry- men are b by far the most expert horsemen horsemen horsemen horse horse- men In tho the world The ber bel seel eel yae reo ree Is a splendid body of or finely finely fine fine- ly y built men sharpshooters while the Alpini and grenadiers aro are likewise admirable In their particular capacities The writer who has served servell with both the Italian and United States armies observed the conduct of or the Italians on the fatal field of at where a few tew thousand of ot them knew how to hold In check and almost counteract counteract counteract coun coun- groat great hordes of Aby Abyssinians who secretly armed armell with excellent arms arnis and ammunition b by the tho Russians outnumbered tho the Italians ten to ono one and dared not climb over o the vast heaps of ot their dead to pursue their victory victor Ictor further And yes CS tho the Italian Hallan commissary is Js well acquainted with tomato rations The Tho Sardinian troops In tho the Crimea who won everlasting I admiration for tor their conduct and fight Ight- ing In- ability used tomatoes in a a. sort or of bottled form torm while our venerable grandfather believed ell ved tomatoes were poison polson fruit nf or ot France recognizes the tho superiority Italian mountain artillery though though Inthe In tho the United States Franco France Is re regarded arde l las as first t and now the horse and flow field artillery supplied with tho the new ne 75 5 mm gun superior to any other In Europe are fast tast excelling In III those branches I The officers of the tho Italian army areso aro are that frequently frequent frequent- capable and scientific BO so other I European Eu En- borrowed borro b by ly Iy they ar are aro countries as Instructors In mil mil- science and engineering engineering- The Italians In their own remount have lavo bred a class or ot horses stations a famed Arabian superior oven even to the tho feet teet Ho He readily takes a fence eight Is 15 h has splendid footing hl high of the tho lugi and though well bred brell stock lie ho is In everY er wn the tho equal of ot tho the tough North Dal Dakota Daoa ota In endurance hut but as ns asa asa horse not anI only In times of ot hardship At the a rustler In shows in London and Paris horse Italy's cavalrymen make malo the tho best shoeing show show- showing showing prizes Uca first frequently taking the tho Pi ing and anti similar feats and dur- dur Jumping for In I 1907 horse sho Spanish In lug the tho carried four fifths or of the o prizes were awa away b by th the Italians though h picked riders from all nil leading nations par r schools are arc Her military Institutions of ot their kind splendid of or of spirit Not only does doe a genuine s comradeship pervade tho the Italian army writes General Marazzi but tIle tho people peo peo- peO- peO Se of oC their army for forthe proud plc too are to march the they behold It as ever vcr read ready ready 1 to como come to Into danger clanger ever er rea their aid in tho the cholera year ear of of at Naples Inundation of ot the cne o oin In the tho serious Liguria la and in the earthquakes earthquake of or L gui f disastrous 0 volcanic In the Calabria Italian the and ever or eruptions eruptions- always s 's with the people nn and army endeavored fraternized to the tho best of or their theli ability their misfortunes misfortunes' I to aid them In S The Italians in Tripoli suc succesSfully success success- ess- ess war nr department The Italian mobilized and embarked 1000 fully tuBY soldiers without the ot of theother the tho other powers a difficult to to do doIn doin In EUrOPe full tull as It Is with spies Is the world at a loss to know Not ot on only 1 but In oln in Tripoli what Is going on Ital Italy itself tho outsiders have thus far been entirely outwitted In reference to the conduct of ot the campaign Nothing points to the anticipation of or an nn easy cosy conquest of or Tripoli b by the Italians but developments have thus far shown their measurements to bo be the maximum and rate Not ot only It Is reasonable to stamp ns as false the rumors of or massacres of ot Arabs but those reports emanate from the greatest nation of murderers Inthe Inthe in inthe the world world the the Turks Every er da day we wc read of ot some awful atul disaster to tho the tho Italians Twice have hl tho thio Turks let retaken ken Tripoli slaying In all about out Italians to day clay sinkIng sinking sink sink- In Ing about seven Italian cruisers and a 0 afew afew Ce few more moro disasters likely have been heen added to the list all coming from Malta talta and Constantinople There has been heen no dispatch from Rome in Inc ing these items Pu published bl I shed hed What Docs Does the World Owe Turkey Although history falls tails to record a single Italian massacre even en In nal Italy Italy's s 's a darkest days when she gained temporary ar ary power over her oppressors what a about Turkey An And what does docs tho the world owe to Turkey Is It sympathy for Cor her hel after aCter those Armenian n mas massacres against which all Christian Christian- It Ity a aghast with horror has cried out Fanatically brave e arc nrc they Are trey not the tue fanatical brave men who in their massacres deH delight h t to spear with tho the bayonets helpless babes shouting with Joy as the bodies of or the little Innocent ones drop to the earth carth with a thud Has lias human history over ever succeeded in associating this class of ot conduct with what white men call bravery brayer Or has It In a single lc In Instance Instance instance In- In stance shown where an arm army of or such material could shamefully worst an arm army of any Importance No hat What hatarA am are these noises we hear henr about Plevna na nn Fort Forty thousand or more Turks repulsed the assault of ot the Russians who trying to Introduce tactical novelties novelties novel novel- ties and systems gathered from Crom the Prussian Franco war that were not yet fully learned supplemented with arms Inferior to those of or the entrenched Turks unsuccessfully assaulted the works at Plevna nn but hut were able nevertheless nevertheless never never- to force Corco Its capitulation This so-called so fanatical bravery usually requires about one unsuccessful assault against ns trained troops to come to an end Its history in this regard re is one of or long monotonous repetition For the sake salce of ot Christianity and civilization and the progress of ot the world the tho sooner this heathen Ottoman Ottoman Ot Ot- Ot- Ot toman empire Is hurled burled In a holo hole the better All civilized men desire to see sec Italy successfully colonize Tripoli and redeem barren plundered wastes to commerce and man And that accomplished pushed sho she will once again havo have added to tho the lon long list of ot blessings R for which mo modern ern society can well wen thank Italy Itah The American citizens are arc willing to trust Italy in Tripoli Italy's problem Is solved The northera northern northern north north- ern era Italian i Is uplifting his less fortunate fortunate fortunato fortu fortu- nate nato brother of ot tho the The Tho long separated territories with diverse civilization civilization customs and characteristics are aro fast last uniting into a national union well weli supplied with orl originality Ilu Ruled ed edby by the tho royal house of ot Savoy a royalty unstained b by disgrace or Incapacity during tho the ages Italy by tho the valor of ot other her redeemed people has ascended ed those entrenched and stupendous can stir sur- heights which only greatness g sur-I sur and thanks to the tried and true blood of or her sons tho the tricolor of or her freedom continues to flutter In the I breeze |