Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-26
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cight-hour law to the U. S. Supreme
Court in the case OF III. F. Garbish,
who forced men to work on govern
ment levee near New Orleans more
than eight hours per day in August
last year. The government caused the
Indictment Of Garbish on the ground
that there was no danger of flood at the
time OF the alleged offense and that
there was no excuse for working the
men over time. Circuit Judge Foster,
Louisiana, sustained demurrer On the
contention that there is always danger
If Hoods and that an emergency may
exist at any time. The Department of
Justice appeals from Judge Fosters
decision.
The Department OF Agriculture today
took steps designed to protect farmers
who buy seeds abroad and prevent
swinding. The Treasury Department
issued orders all customs officials direct
ing them TO take from all importations
OF one hundred pounds or more two
ounce samples and send them to the
seed laboratory of the Department of
Agriculture. The order applies chiefly
to grass. clover and forage seeds.
Infantic paralysis is spreading
among the babies and children OF
Washington at an appalling rate. The
disease is considered by doctors to be
as communicable among children as
scarlet fever. The medical profession
seems powcrless to check the spread OF
the malady. us little is known of it.
Psychologists have not as yet succeeded
in identifying the bacteria of infantile
paralysis and they are turning for aid
to the Rockefeller Institute for medical
research in New York City.
As indefagitable as ever was Mr..
Pcggotty roaming the world over for
his little Emily" John 0. Small, a
planter of Talbot Co., Md, today turn
ed his steps southwark along the Poto-
mac, seeking his daughter Nellie. The
father says that he will go on and on
until his daughter is found which he
blindly believes must be. BY the tales
of swarthy gypsy, Nellie was cnticed
from her country home to follow the
romany pattern. With band OF
gypsies the girl took up the endless
wandering OF the Gypsy Trail" and all
through the gaudy booths of the fortune
tellcrs that follow the fairs and the
summer resorts, the father says he will
follow. The police OF three states are
helping the distracted father. The girl
would be easily noticeable,i it is said, by
her odd beauty, petit thong h plump,
with raven black hair, dark olive
complexion and large brown eyes.
Following the Dc Lapparent theory
of determining the age of the earth
through u study of the maximum thick
ness of sedimcntary rocks and the time
rate of their disposition, Secretary Wal
colt, OF the Smithsonian Institute, has
estimated the age of the earth to be
about 20, 100000 years. The investi-
cations were commenced by Walcott in
1891. Lis estimate for the lapse Of
time since the base OF the Cambrian is
81 ,6lO. 600 years and he allows for the
Algonkian period of II 800, 900 years,
With allowances for the imperfection
of the data obtainable he places the
maximum age of the earth at 10000
600 years. The estimate OF De Lap
parent made in 1890 was from 81 to
80 million years.
1t is reported that Senator Frye, Of
Maine. is TO retire.