Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 55, 10 April 1908 — Page 8

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TOE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGHAM, FRIDAY, APRIL 10. 1008.

MUSI KEEP FINGERS OUT OF POLITICS

Postmaster Spekenhier and Employes Receive Word From Washington.

FEAR PATRONAGE CHARGES.

AT LEAST IT IS THOUGHT THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION IS ATTEMPTING TO HEAD OFF ALL SUCH ACCUSATIONS.

Today, Postmaster A. J Spekenhier was notified by the United States Civil Service commissioners that if he or any attache of the local postoffice takes an active interest in politics, their services will no longer be required by Uncle Sam. Mr. Spekenhier states that this order is the result of complaints made over the country that this year federal office holders have been taking too active an interest in politics. It will be remembered that a few weeks ago it was charged that federal office holders were in the field working for the nomination of Secretary Taft. The order received by Postmaster Spekenhier from the civil service commissioners reads as follows: "The Commission in recommending punishments for violations of Subdivision I of Civil Service Rule I has heretofore been guided by the fact

that the 'rule was one only adopted in June, 1907; and that while the President's Instructions prohibiting political activity on the part of competitive classified employes have been public ever since 1902, yet in actual practice the effective and thorough-going enforcement of the President's Instructions In this connection has only dated from the adoption of the rule in June last, which gave the Civil Service Commission the right to investigate and report on charges of improper political activity on the part of those in the competitive classified service. For this reason the Commission has heretofore been lenient in recommending punishments. But a sufficient time has now elapsed for us to assume that the Civil Service rules are understood throughout the service, and we believe therefore that the time has also come for a somewhat greater degree of severity for the penalty inflicted, at least in aggravated cases. We recommend therefore that the several Departments be requested to publish to their employes in the competitive classified service the fact that any man violating the provisions of the rule in question renders himself liable to punishment by removal. We desire that the subordinates in the several Departments be acquainted with this recommendation so that in the event of any misconduct by them in the future, the Commission may feel at liberty to recommend their removal. We have the honor to be, very respectfully, JOHN C. BLACK, HENRY F. GREENE, JOHN A. McILHENNY, ' Commissioners.

WILL HAVE TROUBLE IN GETTING MARRIED

A MXD OF BLIZZARDS

THE FIERCE GALES THAT SWEEP AND WRECK SEISTAN.

Archbishop Speaks Mind on Maloney Case.

Philadelphia, Pa., April 10 In no

uncertain terms Archbishop Ryan indicated last night that even if the marriage between Miss Helen Maloney and Arthur Osborne be annuled by process of law, he will not marry her to young Samuel Clarkson, or any one else, and that ecclesiastical law will have to be satisfied before any priest of the Roman Catholic church may marry her. Archbishop Ryan also denied that Clarkson is in Philadelphia.

HE DIDN'T SWEAR.

But Court Record Quoted Him as Using Strong Language. One day during a term of court at Macon, Mo., Judge Sheltou, who was running through a stenographic record of a trial, detected a sentence which reflected upon the piety of appellant's senior counsel. Major B. R. Dysart, an elder in the Presbyterian church. "Major." he said, "I have just been reading this record. I was inexpressibly pained to note m it some very disrespectful language you used in the presence of the court." A funereal solemnity would fall short of describing the appearance of Dysart's features. "What do you mean?" he asked. "Of course you may have been excited a bit during the trial, major. 1 know those other fellows were worrying you like everything, but that is hardly an excuse for using cuss words. You should have waited until you got outside. It won't do" "Does your honor mean to Intimate that I swore in your presence while trying a case?" demanded the major sternly. "I don't intimate anything, major, but you Just look at that." And he handed the transcript to Dysart. There, nestling in the midst of a long argument over an objection, printed as plain as type could make it, were the words : "It is a damned obscure injury." It required nearly five minutes for the major to think out how it happened. Then he grabbed a pen, shoved it into the ink bottle and viciously scratched out the ribald sentence, over which he wrote: "It is a damnum absque injuria," meaning a damage without an injury. Kansas City Star.

SHOPPING IN CAIRO.

CITY STATISTICS.

Deaths and Funerals. . JHATTEL. Magdalene Schattel diea yesterday at the age of 57 years at her home, South Twelfth street. The funeral will take place Saturday afternoon at -!:x o'clock from the home. Rev. E. G. Howard' of the First English Lutheran church, will have charge of the .services. Friends may call any time. Interment in Earlli6.ni cemetery. Births. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Arlington Henley, 71- North Fifth street, a girl, third child. To Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Van Zant, 717 North Sixteenth'Street, a boy, third child. To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Graham, 70S South street, a boy, third child. To Mr. and Mrs. Victor St. Meyer. 4 Lincoln street, a boy, third child.

Gaddie ilili lells me he' a professional actor now. Wiseman Oh, no; he's a eemlprofessional. , Gaddie But a professional Is one who is paid for his services Wiseman Yes. and Hill is only half paid. Kxcbange.

Where Bargaining Is the Perfume, the Poetry of Trade. "I entered Sidi Okba's shop in Cairo." said the man with the oriental labels on his luggage, "and a handsome carpet caught ray eye. 'What is the price of that?' I asked. " That carpet is not for sale, Sidi Okba answered. 'I bought it at great cost for my own delectation only. Howbeautiful It is! But will not monsieur partake with, me of coffee and cigarettes?" "I partook. The next morning I was in that neighborhood again, and Sidi came forth and saluted me. He had changed his mind about retaining the carpet. Allah forbade selfishness among the true believers, and since I desired the thing he'd let me have it for $1,000. " 'I'll give you $10,' said I. "He fell buck, almost fainting; then in a weak, pained voice he offered me coffee again. "Next day when I turned up he came down to $000, and I went up to $15, and we drank more coffee and smoked. Next day he dropped to $800, and I rose to $17.50. We were very cheerful over the coffee and tobacco that day. We had the carpet spread before us to admire. It was evident that we would strike a bargain yet, and just before I left Cairo we did strike a bargain. The carpet became mine for $50. It would have cost $250 at home. As we shook bands in farewell Sidi Okbn said: "'I love a good bargainer like yourself. Bargaining is the bloom, the perfume, the poetry of trade. I adore it' " Exchange.

A young prince of the house of Monaco was asked why he had married a rich old woman. "My word:" was the gay young prince's reply. "What poor fellow In a hurry to get a bank note cashed troubles himself to look at the date of it?" Liverpool Mercury.

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These Terrlc Windstorms Always Blow, its They Have Done For Ages, From the Same Direction A Panmoniam of Xoise, Sand and Dost.

Every one who has visited Seistan or written about Seistan has mentioned its celebrated win called the "bad-1-sad-o-bist roz," or wind of 120 days, i which blows in the summer. Few of '

these hare had the misfortune to experience It. but as we went through

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to say something about it. It more

than justifies its reputation. It sets in at the end of May or the middle of June and blows with appalling violence and with little or no cessation till about the end of September. It always blows from one direction, a little west of north, and reaches a velocity of more than seventy miles an hour. It creates a pandemonium of noise, sand and dust and for a time gets on one's nerve3, but it Is in reality a blessing In disguise, for it blows away the insects which from April to June make life in Seistan a perfect purgatory, mitigates the awful summer heat aud clears the country of typhus, smallpox and other diseases rife in the country in May and June. One would think this 120 day wind enough, but violent wiuds prevail all through the winter from December to April, and blizzards are of constant occurrence. These winds always come from the same direction. The winter blizzards are terrible, and the wind attains a terrific velocity. In a blizzard at the end of March the anemometers registered a maximum of 120 miles an hour. The average velocity for a whole sixteen hours was more than eightyeight miles an hour. The extraordinary frequency and violence of the Seistan wind and the regularity with which it blows from the same quarter are very remarkable. That it has blown from the same quarter in past ages is proved by the fact that all the ruins of Seistan are built at the same angle, with their front and back walls at a right angle to the wind and their side walls at the same angle as the wind. No wind can blow with such violence and frequency without leaving its mark on the country. Its effects are everywhere visible in Seistan. Everything looks wind swept and wind stricken. Over the greater part of the country not a single tree exists. The present villages and habitations are all built with their backs present: lng lines of dead walls on the windward side. The old ruins are oriented at exactly the same angle on account of the wind. The effect of wind is everywhere visible on these ruins. Their bases are undercut by wind as though by water action. The thickness of the walls, the excellent quality of the burned bricks made and used by the ancient inhabitants for the lower courses of their buildings and the extreme hardness and durability of the Seistan soil when made Into the suu

dried bricks of which the upper portions of the ruins are composed, have withstood the destructive effect of the wind in a wonderful manner, but in the older ruins we often find that the

walls facing the wind have entirely disappeared, and only the side walls remain, while in still older ruins only one or two solitary pinnacles remain to mark what were once large, massive and extensive buildings. The wind has buried large tracts of the country under sand. Many of the old ruined towns are wholly or partly buried in sand, and this burying process goes on all the year and every year and is covering up not only valuable lands, but inhabited villages. In Seistan, as elsewhere, the invading army of sand is preceded by lines of skirmishers in the form of traveling '"burkhans," horseshoe shaped sand hills, which 6teadily advance until they meet some obstacle which retards them until the reserves come up to their support and bury all before them under hills of sand. On our arrival in Seistan we found Kilainau, a big and flourishing village, built on the south side of a high ridge for protection from the wind. Before we left the sand had attacked that ridge, surmounted it and buried the village, forcing the inhabitants to build a new village elsewhere. An example of still greater rapidity was afforded

at the village of Kilalkohna. lp to June, 1904, this village had a large, deep pond on its northern side. By September that is, less than three months this deep pond was converted into a sand hill some ten feet high. The wind, however, did not confine Its energy to burying only. While it covers some tracts deep In sand, it also sweeps other tracts clear of sand, rendering valuable land available for cultivation and exposing long buried ruins once more to view. These are, however, only the milder effects of wind action. Tbe Seistan wind in its more destructive moods has in places removed not only sand from place to place, but has scoured away the whole face of the country. Everywhere we find the sides and banks of the canals which irrigated the lands on which the dwellers of the old ruins depended left standing like walls high above the present surface of the surrounding land. Th?se banks, having been hardened by water, have withstood the action of the wind better than the surface of the land, which has all been blown away to a depth of several feet. This depth In places Is very considerable, and we find the outlines exposed of still older canals which existed at some yet earlier age and wftich must have been

buried deep in the ground when the canals above them, old as they are, were In use. Geographical Journal.

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HANGED TWO HEARS AFIERJIS CRIME Thurman Murdered Walter Dolson.

Norfolk, aV., April N. Leo Thurman was executed here this morning for the murder of Walter Dolson, over two years ago.

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FIERCE CANINES.'

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Wolfish Dogs of Newfoundland

and Labrador. On the extreme northern coast of Newfoundland, aa well as on Labrador, the fishing villages and settlenieuts are all situated In the harbors and creeks along the seashore. In the summer all Intercommunication with the various villages is by water, so that the roads are very primitive. In winter, wheu the ground Is covered with snow aud the marshes and lakes are frozen, the people utilize dogs and "comaticks" to travel to and fro, and also for hauling firewood, building material, etc. Those dogs are savage mongrels, closely allied to their progenitor, the wolf; In fact, they are half wolf. The residents do not trouble much about these mongrels in the summer,

and they are generally kept In a state of semisavage starvation. They feed on fish offal during the fishing season and occasionally band together and go a-hunting on their own account. On these occasions they will attack anything they come across, man or beast, and so fierce are their depredations that caribou, which are plentiful in Labrador, can only on rare occasions be found withn twenty-five miles of the seacoast, as these mongrels have destroyed or driven them all inland. Last winter it was reported that a team of those dogs turned on the drlv-

i er and devoured him aud his wife and i child, who were accompanying him to j a distant settlement. It has been long I recognized that these packs of savage : dogs were great obstacles In the way of the progress of the people in these ! parts. It was Impossible for them to keep cows, sheep, goats or even poul

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ries high and the second and third floors will be used for flate, with two on each floor. The material will be pressed brick with stone trimmings, all wires will he in conduits and the construction is to be fireproof. The ground for the site was purchased from the West cot t heirs. Mr. Murray will retain control of the New Phillips and will use it for stock companies anil such other attractions as he may have occasion to present there.

"EARTHWORMS.

Savage Crabs. The most savage specimen of the crab species is found in Japan, seeming to dream of nothing but fighting, to delight in nothing half so much. The minute he spies another of his kind he scrapes his claws together in rage, challenging him to the combat. Not a moment is wasted in preliminaries, but at it they go, hammer and tongs. It sounds like two rocks grinding against one another. The sand flies as Ihe warriors push each other hither and thither until at last one of them stretches himself out in the sun, tired to death. But he does not beg for mercy or attempt to run away, only feebly rubbing his claws together in defiance of the foe. That foe comes closer, and, with his claws trembling with joy at his victory, the conqueror catches hold of one claw of the vanquished crab, twists it until it comes off and bears away the palpitating limb as a trophy of his prowess. Such is a battle between warrior crabs.

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Arctic Dog Life. Nowhere in the world has the dog such unrestricted right of way as in our most northerly possession Alaska. In winter, when the more than 000,000 sqiiare miles of territory are sealed up In solid ice, dogs are almost the sole means of getting from place to placeIn fact, they seem necessary to life Itself. The aristocrats of arctic dog life are the mall teams in the service of the United States government. They are today a superior breed to the dogs employed some half dozen years ago before great gold discoveries demanded Increased mail service. Lida Rose McCabe in St. Nicholas.

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W. R. C. MARKET. The Women's Relief Corps will give an Easter market tomorrow at the Peter Johnson stove store.

The Twilight Of Life. The muscles of the stomach ia old are are not a strong or active as in yonth end in consequence old people are very (object to constipation and indigestion. Many seldom have a bowel movement without artificial aid. Many, also, have unpleasant eructations of eras from tbe stomach after eating. All thls'can be avoided by the nse of Dr. Caldwell's Syrap Pepsin, which permanently regulates the bowels so that passages come narnrallv. and so strenctheti

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They Can Move About Only When the Ground Is Damp. Ever since Darwin wrote his remarkable book on earthworms the general public has taken an interest in these lowly creatures. Everybody has observed thousands of them on the cement walks during and after a rain, but the true cause of these remarkable wanderings Is not often written about. The fact is that earthworms can move about only when the ground and the grass are wet. The truth of this is easily shown by placing an earthworm on some dry sand, when the dry grains will stick to Its slimy skin and make it helpless. All living creatures are endowed with the instinct to move and spread

over the earth. Human beings, higher

animals and birds prefer to move about in fair weather. To the earthworm and other lowly creatures, like frogs, salamanders, slugs and land snails, rainy days are the only fair days for traveling. When the sun comes out and dries tb roads and the meadows, they withdraw into their hiding places. As earthworms cannot see clearly, they crawl about in an aimless sort of way. If they happen to get on a board or cement walk, when the sky clears they soon die and shrivel up. When a dry season or winter approaches, the earthworms burrow deeper Into tbe ground. At a depth varying from six inches to two feet each worm coils up Into a little ball. By aid of secreted slime It makes a case of dirt round itself, and in this state it remains dormant until abundant rains or the snrine thaws call it back to a more

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A Useful Tree. The carnahuba palm of Brazil may be said to be the world's most useful tree. Its roots make a very valuable drug, a blood purifier. Its timber will take a high polish and is in demand among cabinetmakers for fine work. The sap becomes wine or vinegar, according to the way it Is prepared, and starch and sugar are also obtained from this sap. The fruit of the tree is a cattle food, the nut is a good coffee substitute, and the pith makes corks.

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