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San Francisco Graft Prosecutions. "They who Strike in the Dark." By Will Irwin. American Magazine, v. 67, p. 564 (Apr.). Exceedingly interesting stories of plots, abductions, dynamiting and attempted mur der undertaken against the San Francisco graft prosecution. "The 'Parkside' bribery case against Abe Ruef was on the docket. The evidence of the prosecution, know to both sides in advance, was very clear--an unbroken chain. Ruef's hope lay in a prejudiced jury. The fight then centered about the 'box' of 200 men, from which, according to California practice, the jurors were selected. Haas was in that box. . . . "He was hardly seated in the box, when Burns discovered that one Anixter, a juror who was under examination and who had passed provisionally, had served a term in the House of Correction. . . . The court de cided against Anixter. "The day after Anixter retired, a Jewish tailor named Cohn telephoned to Heney: "'You have another ex-convict on the Ruef jury; come up and see me about it.' "A Burns detective saw Cohn and learned all about the past of Haas. He had been in the San Quentin penitentiary for embezzle ment. He had long been intimate with Cohn's wife. Cohn had heard him say to her: "'I am going on the jury to get Ruef off and make money and pay my debts.'" Haas was put out of the jury box, and, a little later, shot Heney in open court. A few days after this he shot himself while in jail. Social Evil. "The White Slave Traffic." By Harry A. Parkin, Assistant U. S. Attorney for Northern District of Illinois. 9 Phi Delpha Phi Quarterly Brief 7 (Mar.). "We find that there is a society, or syndi cate, thoroughly equipped and organized and extremely wealthy, which in the past im ported on an average of two thousand foreign firls from Paris, Montreal, Austria-Hungary, apan, and Italy. . . . "In the northern district of Illinois there have been returned in the last six months thirty-eight indictments. About half of these indictments have been tried and convictions secured. Girls are being deported every month who are taken from these houses of shame and are returned to their parents in Europe. "The only remedies are segregation, regis tration and thorough medical inspection." Stock Speculation. "A (Hireling of Wall Street. By a Manager. Everybody's, v. 20, p. 505 (Apr.). "Boiled down, my principal occupation was: Meet men—crawl into their favor by being a good fellow—make them like you—and get them to trade. Then watch out that they don't get away from you. For this work I received the salary of a United States gen eral. ... In almost three years I had over

two hundred accounts, and not only have I never seen anybody make any money to keep, but I have seen many a fortune wiped out.' "The Game Gets You." By John Parr. Everybody's, v. 20, p. 499 (Apr.). "When the broker lends you capital for margin speculation, he compounds the inter est on it monthly. He does more. He charges interest on his commissions. Ask your broker if that is true. Take him some monthly transaction of yours and suppose that, instead of its being closed in one month, it stands open for two months. "You will find that you are paying interest on interest and interest on the commission, and it would be so compounded monthly as long as the account stood open. Is it to be wondered at that brokers are secretive about the interest account?" Tariff. "Juggling with the Tariff." By Ida M. Tarbell. American Magazine, v. 67, p. 578 (Apr.). "'I wrote the bill of 1870,' the late Joseph Wharton, iron master, steel master and nickel king, once told the writer proudly. 'Three men will make the next tariff bill, not one of them a member of Congress,' Mr. Havemeyer told David A. Wells in 1894. He was right. That bill, like all its predecessors, for nearly forty years was made in practice by the representatives of wood and woolen, of iron and steel and sugar. And in spite of all the signs to the contrary it is probable they will control the bill of 1909." "Europe's Tariff Laws and Policies." By Frederic Austin Ogg. American Review of Reviews, v. 39, p. 427 (Apr.). "Of the three European nations with which the trade relations of the United States are closest, two,—France and Germany,—have long been strongly protectionist, and one,— Great Britain,—has maintained steadfastly for over half a century the policy of free trade. But in all of them tariff is today a very live issue, and although the three do not, of course, comprise strictly for the United States the Europe of commerce, no one can doubt that so far as our tariff system is to be affected by European influences at all it will be the measures of these three powers that will weigh most heavily." "Unemployment; Its Cause and Cure." By Sir Nathaniel Dunlop, LL. D. Blackwood's, v. 185, p. 459 (Apr.). Advocating tariff duties as the most effec tive means of promoting the prosperity of England. Women (Turkey). "Prisoners of the Harem." By E. Alexander Powell, F.R.G.S. Everybody's, v. 20, p. 465 (Apr.). "So long as the harem exists in Turkey, just so long must slaves be procurable. The internal organization of the harem is as de pendent upon the slave as were the cottonplanters of the South before the war."