Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 332, 4 October 1908 — Page 5

TJttJC KlUMfllOJND PALLADIUM AND STJN-TE LEGJiA CTOBER-Sr-1908. PAGE FIVE.

GERMAN EDITOR WHO SUCCEEDED HASKELL ON DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE

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HERMAN RIDDER. Ridder is the editor and proprietor of the New York Staaz-Zeitung; who succeeded Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma, as treasurer of the democratic national committee. He has already started things moving around him.

PRISON FOB DEBT

Way Law is Macia to Fit the Case in England is Shown.

JAIL FACES THE DEBTERS

It is commonly supposed that in these days there is no imprisonment for debt In England, but the sui.posltiou is wrong, both lu substance aud 'In fact. True, the term "imprisonment for debt la done away with, perhaps because the debtor does not pay his debt by going to prisan, yet to prison he goo for it all the same, although in the eyes and in the phraseology of the law he goes there for "contempt of court," whereas in 90 per. cent of such cases the poor defaulter suffers his seven, fourteen or twenty-eight days "close confinement" solely because of his inability :o pay the monthly sum ordered by the judge or the magistrate. Hot, as already said, does the incarceration pay what is owing. For if the creditor chooses to do so he can have the debtor committed again immediately after one term has been served and so on as long as the debtor lives, because the judgment goes on forever unless the amount of it be paid. But a second commitment on the same judgment is very rare. At the jail in a certain eastern county, where the writer of this article spent fourteen days, he was not received quite as a felon would be, but decidedly not as a nonlawbreaker should be received and treated. The time of arrival was 2 p.m. 1 He had no dinner, so after his pockets had been emptied and the articles tabulated he was given six ounces of brown bread and four ounces of "Harriet Lane" i. e., tinned Australian mtton. . He was then put into a "receiving cell, eight feet by four feet six inches, with a concrete floor six feet below the level of the earth and decidedly damp as was proved by the wet salt kept 'sw for the tu'tsoner's use.

Two hours iUcvf lie was rernoved to another receiving cell, this time with a wooden floor, twelve feet long and six feet wide. At 6 o'clock there came his supper, a pint 'of weak oatmeal gruel and eight ounces of the ubiquitous brown bread the staple article of diet and the best. His bed was a two inch thick mattress of coeoanut fiber laid on three boards supported on crosspieces about three Inches from the floor. The bedclothes were ample, but the pillow and bed boards were of a decidedly hard nature.

At a quarter to 8 a loud bell rang

to go to bed, aad at 8 o'clock the gas

(!n a small hole in the wall and shut

out of the cell by a piece of thick corrugated glass) was turned out. All

debtors get tbis treatment. On the following morning at 7:30 there came breakfa3t a pint of weak tea and eight ounces of the brown bread. Then the doctor called. "Are you all right?" "Ye3, thank you." And the door banged like a clap of thunder. Then came the chaplain, a clergyman from outside, rather old, much crabbed and certainly uuflt for hia post. He snapped like a terrier with toothache, yet there was a growl in his snap. "Umph! What are jou hero for?" "Debt." "Debt! Umph! Why don't you be honest and pay your debts?" And the door banged louder than before. Finally came the governor on his daily round of inspection. A day's routine was simply this:. Up at the ring of a bell at 5:43, dress in the dark; then came lights, beds and bedding were put a way, cells and corridor swept and dusted and cell utensils cleaned; at 7:30 breakfast, each prisoner being then locked in his cell till 8:30, at wiich time all were mustered and marched to cbapel. Then from chapel to cells again, to be locked in until the governor made hi3 smart pace round of inspection, saying as he sped past each cell door, "Any complaints?" but one had to be there a week before the two word3 became clear enough to be understood. Wben he had gone all the debtors were put Into a room to pick cocoanut fiber. Then came an hour's exercise In a large yard, after that dinner and another locking iu till 1:30 p. m., followed by another hour's exercise and more fiber picking up to 5:30. At 5:35 there was tea, when each man was again locked in till 6 o'clock next morning.

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MEXICAUULIUBES

How These Birds Haunt the

Arid Alkali Plains For Prey.

PICTURE OF WILDERNESS

At night the moon looks down upon a desolate, arid plain, stretching away to the great Sierra Madre mountain chain, deep, shadowy blue, against the western sky. The air Is chill, and a bleak wind searches out every fold in our blankets we might almost be spending a night on the tundras. With scarce a moment of dawn the sun floods everything, a most welcome warmth for awhile, soon to make one gasp in its breathless heat. Long before the rainy season actually begins vegetation seems to feel a quickening In the air; the plants scent the coming moisture weeks beforehand; the rushing streams, swollen with the melting snows from the lower mountain tops, bring life to the lands through which they flow; spring is awakening everywhereexcept on the alkali plain. Where a thin rind of red brown

grass roots partly covers the white

dust, parched mesquite bushes find root, and strange, uncouth organ cacti

rear their columns, like mammoth can

delabra. Ilere wild eyed cattle roam

uneasily, nibbling occasionally at the

bitter grass stems. Farther out in the desert, where even

the mesquite and cacti fail, we ride

slowly across the parched surface,

wondering if a single living thing can endure the bitterness of the earth. In

the distance move the whirlwinds of

dust, tall, thin columns with perfectly distinct outlines, undulating slowly here and there, both life and death in

their silent movement.

Most remarkable it seems to us when

a stray great blue heron now and then

files silently up from the desert (what can possibly attract these birds to such a place of death as this, distant even from the bitter pools?) and flaps slowly out of sight. Twice a great ebony raven sails through the dusty air over our heads the same bird repassing. No other life is visible save the balanced black specks high against the blue, as invariably a part of a Mexican day as are stars of the night Herons.

vultures, raeu all move slowly, seeming less alive than the distant dust columns. But we feel the real spirit of the eternal desert when, as we turn to retrace our steps, we spy a something white, different from the surrounding earth, and the spell of past ages falls upon us. The bitter water Is ever drying up, the whirlwinds carry the dust from place to place, the birds come and go as they please, but th'3 relic of an elephant of the oWen time brings past and present into close touch. What scenes has the desert looked upon since this mammoth staggered dying into the quagmire which proved its tomb? Our eyes smart from the dust as we reluctantly turn our horses heads on the back trail, for we should like to stay and search out these fo.: sils more fascinating in a way than the living beasts and birds which people the tropics beyond. One of the most wonderful of the exhibitions of bird life vouchsafed to us in Mexico comes as we leave the alkali plain- and ride away among the mesqnite scrub. A confused mass of black appears in the air, which soon resolves itself into hundreds of individual specks. The atmosphere is so deceiving that what at first seems to be a vast cloud of gnats close at hand Is soon seen to be a multitude of birds blackbirds perhaps, until we approach and think them ravens and, finally, when a quarter of a mile away, we know that they are vultures. Three burros lie dead upon the plain. This we knew yesterday, and here are the scavengers. Never have we seen vultures so numerous or in such order. A careful scrutiny through the glasses shows many score of black and turkey buzzards walking about and feeding upon the carcases of the animal. From this point there extends upward Into the air a vast inverted cone of birds, all circling in the same direction. From where we sit upon our horses there seems not a single one out of place, the outline of the cone being as smooth and distinct as though the birds were limited iu their flight to this particular area. It is a rare sight, the sun lighting up every bird on the farther wide and shadowing black as night those nearest us. Through one's partly closed eyes the whole re;? appears as a myriad

of sTowly revolving wteeia, lnierseevlng and crosing each other's orbits; but never breaking thetr circular outline. The thousands of soaring forms hold us spellbound for minutes before we rode closer. Now a change takes place, as gradual but as sure as the shifting clouds of a sunset Until this moment there had been a tendency to concentrate at the base of the cone, that portion becoming blacker and blacker, until it seemed a solid mass of rapidly revolving forms. But at our near approach, this concentration ceases and there Is perfect equilibrium for a time. Then, as we ride up a gentle slope Into clearer view, a wonderful ascent begins. Slowly the creeping spiral wings upward; the gigantic inverted cone, still perfect in shape, iif ts clear of the ground and drifts aft ay; the summit rises in a curve, which. little by little, frays out into ragged lines, all drifting in the some direction, and before our very eyes the thousands of birds merge Into a shapeless, undu latlng cloud, which rises and rises, spreading out more and more until the eye can no longer distinguish the birds, which from vultures dwindle to mere motes floating and lost among the clouds. C. William Beebe In NeM York Post

GRAND OPERA LOSES ONE OF GREATEST STARS

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Mme. Emma Calve, who has arrived

Said the optimist, "If a man gets lntc the habit of hunting trouble he's sure to find it."

"Yes." replied the pessimist, "and if he Is so lazy that he always tries to avoid it, it wiil find him. So where is the difference?" Catholic Standard and Times.

"KING 0FJ00TERS" This is Title That Will be Given Rockefeller by Cleveland Fans.

THEY WANT HIS MONEY

Cleveland. O., Oct. a All Cleveland is suffering from an aggrevated attack of baseballitls, and unless plansmiscarry John D. Rockefeller is to be crowned "king of the rooters." That is, if Cleveland wins the American League pennant, which -KKJ.S91 rabid fans here declare it will, and if

Mr. Rockefeller is willing to $5,(X for a title, which, it is declared, will be as bona fide as that found for him in' the dusty archives of European libraries by an expert genealogist. Should "Larry" Lajoie and his assistant ball tossers obtain the right to contest for the premier base ball honors of the world with the National League champions, Cleveland wants to give Mr. Lajoie a celebration that will go down in history. The first question was one of funds. County Clerk Salen appeared on the scene with a brilliant idea. "Let's ask John D. Rockefeller to donate something and head the list"

Fine," was the echo. So Mr. Salen Is now practicing a

little speech, which will be delivered to the Standard Oil magnate if Cleveland wins. Mr. Rockefeller Is known as a sport enthusiast, but so far his favorite diversion has been golf not the national game. But Mr. Salen and -he other base ball fans think that in view of the prospective victory of Cleveland, the oil king will be willing to head a subscription list with a paltry $3,000 in order to see that his native town does things up brown. And if he does hear the list Mr. Rockefeller will be given the title of "king of the rooters," and he will also be allowed to sit at the right hand of Lajoie at the banquet and will also be introduced to "Addie" Joss and Birmingham. Greater honors than these are not conceived in the mind of a Cleveland fan.

BitmarcK and the French. Bismarck had no great opinion of the French. H telieved that they are too easily swayed by popular catchwords. "Talk to a Frenchman about liberty, equality and fraternity, tell him that his nation is the greatest in the world, and you can do anything with him. You can impress the French more than any other people if you tell them it is done in the name of freedom." Asked his opinion in the case of a certain French spy, he said: "It's a sad case. You've got to hang him, but do It with the utmost politeness, so as not to hurt his feelings."

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