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Mohann1edanism.

bus. This man was like Bu6dha. in
that he left his throne, renounoed
the world, and started out as Der
wish to help the afflicted and free
himself from all earthly possessions.
He was a writer. and many OF his
verses have become proverbs.
The whirling order is now governed
by his iineal descendants. and every
member has to serve for 1,0G1 days as
a noviate before he can be admitted.
The MeyIevi, as these Dervishes are
called, have exercises every Tuesday
and Friday, when they whiri wildly
around on their toes and dance about
the room. circle within circle, to the
sound OF a tambourine, chanting
about the unity Of God and the van
ity of earthly existence. During this
time they hold their arms out, the
right above the head and the left
below. with both hands open. Their
eyes are closed. and their heads are
h2at zi5:--;se on the shoulders BY
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and metal swords Before the serv-
ice began a man in turban and gown
brought in an iron bowl as big as a
wash basin, filled with hot charcoal.
in which were heating two iron
spoons with fat bowls and handles
about a foot long. 1 saw the reason
for these preparations further On in
ceremony.
The first work was to excite the
worshipers. This was done by the
old sheik. who made little sermons,
after each OF which the believers,
still sitting, threw themselves back
and forth, whirling their heads
around as though on a pivot and
shouting the name OF God ninety
nine times while the sheik counted
ninety-nine beads on his rosary. One
OF the sentences they said was LA
ilah lila llah." They divided this
into six syllables. AS they uttered
the first they bent forward, at the
second they raised themselves up,
and at the third they bent back
wards and then swayed back and
forth. crying and bowling. They
sang together with increasing rap
fdity TO keep time with the music.
After a while the motion was 50
quick that the syuables became one,
and at the%ast il was nothing but a
wild cry Of IT. and 'Lah," inter-
rupted now aud then by the shout,
"Hu. Ia hu. which means 'He, o
He lis God)-"
As they went on their faces grew
red. Some OF them foamed at the
mouth and got what You might call
the jerks" Then they rose to their
feet and whfrled around, jumping up
and down and stamping as though
they were crazy
During the shouting the Goals in
the bowl on the floor had died down,
but the old sheik famed them into a
glow, and little later took out the
red-hot iron spoons and gave them
to two OF the worshipers, who trotted
around the room. gingerly licking
them, while the audience shrieked in
ecstasy. AT first it seemed to me that
the licks were gentle ones, for no
steam arose, and 1 could not see the
nesh sizzle. They must have burned.
however. As the iron cooled they
kept them IN their mouths longer and
longer, and finally handed them back
to the sheik.
while this was going on other de-
voices took the steel skewers 1 have
described and allowed the old sheik
to run them through their cheek&
How this was done without causing
the blood to fow I do not know, but
am sure the long pins went through
the flesh, for could see the wooden
knob on one side OF the mans jaw
and the steel point, having passed
through the cheek, on the other. One
man took a stone, and, pressing the
point OF the skewer through his cheek
against o wooden post Of the build
ing, pounded on the knob, mailing
himself. as IT were. to the post. After
a while the old sheik came and pulled
out the skewer. He put some Of his
spfttie on the wound, and I suppose
that made It well.
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doing this they are able TO send their
souls into the world OF dreams, and
they claim that for the time their
souls leave the body and become one
with the Creator.
They have particular phrases for
the invocation of God, which they
must repeat hundreds of times a day
and which are supposed to prepare
them for the separation of soul and
body.
1 have just spent two hours with
the Howling Dervishes. Their order
was founded by a man who lived
more than 700 years ago, and it's be-
lief is such that it has held it's own
from that time to this. The men try
to throw themselves into a crazy
ecstasy, during which they cat glass.
lick red-hot spoons, run knives
through their flesh and batter their
heads against the wall, falling down
at times on the floor and foaming at
the mouth In their religious fervor.
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Concerning Tantalum

that aesingle pound OF tantaium sue-
fces to furnish 5000 lamps, each OF
twenty-five candlepovcr.
The metal in SO hard that It is said
that q diamond-pointed boref. max
ing 5000 revolutions a minnie, pro-
duces In II. after three days OF work,
an excavation OF only one-dfth OF an
inch in depth
No sooner has some previously un-
used metal been found applicable 10
some branch OF industry than many
other unexpected uses are discovered
for it. This is srikingly true Of tan
talurn.- originally called into requfsi-
ton to furnish an improved form Of
6iament for electric lamps. Sicoia-dot
had found that tantAluri and its almost
inseparabie companion. coIumbfum
when added in certain proportions to
steel make the steel very hard, but
leave it at the same time, ductile.
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EKEBEEG, the Swedish dfscoyerer
~ of tantaium, gave that name TO
the metal because OF the tantaiizing
difficulties he encountered while in
vestigating il 1t has not been many
years since tantalum was obtained in
state of purity, anl the rapidity with
which il has been produced in re-
sponse to the demands of commerce
and industry is extraordinary. 1t
furnishes excellent filaments for cleo
trio lamps, although tungsten lis more
highly regarded.
Only a little while ago the mineral
from which tantalum is obtained was
SO rare that not enough could be
found to supply specimens to all the
mineralogical museums. Now Aus
tra!ia produces something like one
hundred tons Of tantalum a year
This does rot eeem like 4 great
quantity but it is to be remembered
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around here all yr lifeT reject Hon.
n. Yorker with asperin tone.
Hon. Sgt. could not answer that
hard reply. Therefore We rode back
to Bizarre where all our Round the
World Cruisers were buying things
to smuggie through Custom House.
AT one Bizarre I try TO purchase a
postcard with. which to vampire Miss
Mamie Furaoki at long distance. But
a dust-colored Aibino from Arabia
jump up to me with a Spanish man
tiilio while shouting.
Lady. I stal! sell this for :ss and
ruin myself"
Because are no lady I shall offer
soc, which il are not worth" This
from me.
Take il, and the curse OF Al Laia
be on my house for going bankrupt
on you, lady" he snagger while
wrapping up that Spanish rnartiilio
& making 1ec. more by giving me
wrong change.
While I were retreating OF with
the dry-goods hear him say to Hon.
Assistint.
"Ishmael, put that sale down to
profit & loss. We only cleared 2ec.
On this Unbeliever."
How much would he make IL was
a Believer? I ask to know in a state
Of comma.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly
ITASHJMUEO TOGO.
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in long gowns. One man, remem-
Der, had an American costume as
far as the shirt, trousers and vest
were concerned. He wore no coat,
but a green turban covered his head.
showing that he has made the pill
grimage to Mecca. When this man,
in the height of his ecstasy. took of
his turban his long, stringy black
hair hung down from his semi-bald
head to the buckle on the back of his
vest
There were some boys OF ten or
twelve in the crowd. little fellows.
dressed in black and wearing fez
caps. aud also q little girl Of six. who
looked i'll and who was TO have .
place in the exercises near the close
of the ceremony. All of the wor-
shippers sat upon their heels on the
floor.
Behind the sheik were long, sharp
steel skewefs with wooden knobs on
one end. knives OF various kinds
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Fanatical Dervishes Still Flourish in Republican I,

This operation OF railing them
selves TO the post was performed By
half a dozen different Dervishes.
Three OF them were within ten feet
Of me, and I do not see how there
could have been any deceit in the
business
In the meantime the hovitrg had
risen to an insane fury. The semi
bald Mohammedan from Mecca was
one OF the most violent He rolled
his head around as though it were
on bail bearings, making something
like 100 revolutions per minute. then
all at once made . dive for a wooden
pillar on the opposite side Of the hall,
butting 1t with his head. Tho noise
was like the crack of 9 pistol He
did this three times. and then. ex-
hsusted. sank down On the aoor.
A LITTLE later the old shefk besar
to cure the sick, not by the lay
ing on OF hands, but by the stamping
OF his feet. The little girl have de-
scribed was brought into the room
and laid face down on the floor. The
sheik stood on her back. and. placing
his hands on the shoulders of two
down. The little one did not CRY. but
why know not He next trod sick
boy of ten the same way. and then,
SO it seemed to me. took special de-
light in performing an up-snd-dowTl
dance on the body OF sick man who
was spread out beneath him The
whole affair was horrible in the ex-
trene, and the crying and fcaninG
at tho mouth OF these howlers will
remain in my mind whenever think.
OF the depth OF religious superstition
and Of how It can cloud the intellect
OF man.
So much for the darker side OF MO
hamnedanisH- Now let me give you
some OF the brighter lights IN this
wonderful maze OF the great Mosiem
world. You all know that, centuries
ago, the Mohammedansw were among
the most famous scholars OF mankind
They were skilled in the sciences,
and especially in mathematics and
astronomy. the universities Of Bag
dad. Cairo and Fez being noted all
over Europe Today the mosques OF
Constantinople are full OF books
written in languages which are large
ly AhC ufOSQuc O1 odDlds
Sophia has more than 5000 volumes,
most of which were written by hand.
They are now being ca1alogued and
repaired.
Among these books saw a remark
able illuminated Koran. Another and
much larger volume in Persian script
is said to be the third book ever
written about the stars. The author
WAS an Egyptian who lived 1900 yea rs
ago, and his name in on the title
page. No one can read the book. and
II is safe to say that its Astronomical
discoveries have long since been sur
passed
The library has books on botary
and 1sedicine, written by Persian Mo
haEtmedans many centuries ago, and
these Ii one by DR.. Ayicen, q famous
philosopher and physician Of Khori-
san Persia. which is said to have
beer translated into every language.
| His book was written about the year
$50 A. D., and the copy in Santa Sc
phia was made several centuries
later. II Is on parchment. written
/ and illustrated with a pen. There
| are pen and ink sketches OF plants.
fishes or insects on every page. and
| all the illustrations. made with DIFF
| ferent inks, are in the natural colors
OF tho plants Or animals.
J tca-yeute-'s TeEsd T1rets, Copyright. 1874 y
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TIE sPIUDGE IS A LAND-CodNC BARGE"

gtneers looked up traffic laws and
found out that same only govern
street cars, automobiles. motor cycles,
horse-drawu vehicles, pedestrians
and go carta Wei, the Spuige aIn't
included IN any of these classes, and.
IN fact, you can't tell what IL is By
looking at il, and most generally the
verdict is that the Spulge In q land
going barge propelled By an ocean
going snail which Amt within the
law and you can't arrest it. On some
occasions where II has been arrested,
the car makes SO much more noise
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always in the front seat and the
other in the hack seat and gener-
ally always they don't want to go
the same place. In the Spuige you
can go both places at once without
no argument and the car can be put
together again later the same even
Ing. Along these lines the Spulge has
aptiy win the pseudonym OF acme OF
Nebraska built touring cars.
A feature which ] better mention
before it is forgotten has to do with
the general appearance of the Spulge-
Before building this motor the en-
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died and that from now OH ths iIoAS
of the prophet and the lambs OF the
Christians would lie down together.
The truth is that the new democracy
is confined largely to the educated
Turks, the officials, and, for the time,
to the army controlled by them. There
has been an apparent separation OF
church and state. but under the sur
face the church will probably con-
tinue to rule. The earnest, honest
follower OF the prophet is as fanat-
ical today as he was when Mohammed
II conquered Constantinople in 1853
and made 1t the capital OF the otto-
man empire. Instances of such fanat-
icisn are 10 be seen everywhere
throughout the interior, and the fer
ycr Of the believer is evident IN his
religious celebrations here in Con-
stantinop!e.
Think Of tens Of millions, almost
every one Of whom reads his Bible
in public, goes through his prayers
! five times a day. whether in public or
private, and fasts from sunrise to
sunset for a whole month every year.
Think Of mosques better attended
than our churches, and Of soldiers
who are ready TO meet death In holy
| war. These are some of the features
! OF the Moslemism Of today.
AS to the fanatics. the Mohamne-
dams are divided into almost as many
different sects as the Christians, ana
they have scores Of orders that are
| committed TO this or that way OF
union with God. Among these are
the Deryishes, Of whom the Path
| finders Survey of Copstantinople,
published in 1922 and undertaken in
! cooperation with Robert College,
| the Near East Relief. the American
! Red Cross, the Y. II. c. 4. and other
! organizations, says there are 1T diff
| ferent orders and suborders supposed
| ly active inside the city. 1t is not
| known Just how many orders there
| are III the country. but the Dervishes
are to be found everywhere, and
their religion is said to be their whole
life. They have something like 2sS
public meeting places in Co3Stanti-
! nopie, and each order has its special
day and it's own peculiar ceremonies
and customs. They claim TO represent
the spiritual and mystic side of Mo
haInmedapism, which. through deny
ing the earthly body, seeks TO bring
the soul closer TO God.
4 X 1: (:
TAKE the WHirling Deryishes, who
have one mosque in the Grand
Rue de Pera, the European section
| Of Constaatinopie. There you may
| see the whiriers go through their
gyrations Tuesdays and Fridays every
week the year through, In another
! quarter is a house devoted to the
Howling pervishes, where the be-
lievers are even more fanaticai. This
Is in Pera, on the side Of the hill Just
below the Y. M. G. A.
The Whiriing Dervishes wear man
ties like that Of Mohanaued, and
high gray sngar-ioaf caps, which.
they say, have the form OF the vase
in which Mohammed's soul was kept
IN the spirit world that existed be-
fore the present world was created.
They claim that their order originated
with q sultan who lived more than
2aa years hefere the dsra cr CoIur,-
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designs the Spulge has been apuy
ricknamed the dachshund of Sabraska
motor cars
base the biggest innovation in the
Spulge is the double steering system.
back seat az well as the front seat
The car can be steered from the
In modern motoring. where the hus-
band and wife is both in the same
car, IL seems like one Of them is
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HI FRANK G. CARPENTER.

. ROM what has been published
- concerning the new Turkish
I republic one might think that
d the old Mohammedanism had
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Ampte WhnIa 1and
Nail land
Look attn Alexander O
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NER. Editor, this Rock Of Gibraltar
3s4 have been bored go full OF tun-
nils that IL are one great bore. so
speaking. One fatty gentleman from
n. Y. who come along with Us, bring
ing 10 pretty daughters. look around
those vast inside caves and say fol-
lowing wiSedom:
Pretty good subways," he say so.
f'but IL Americans had built them
they would be lined with white tiles
like 4 hst.-cc!a. Ttts r.cccec inst -
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sequent sudden increase in the num-
Der of chronic Summer colds"
The hay fever clinic of the Wom-
ans Welfare Association, which is
located in the Social Service House,
has been administering preventive
treatments to. susceptible individuals
on Tuesdays at pm. To insure
success, it has been found best for
patient to begin treatment from six
to eight weeks prior to the onset of
symptoms. Those who have failed
or were unable to begin the course
sufficiently in advance may still de-
rive much benefit from seasonal
treatment. According to recent ex-
perience, the daily administration OF
small doses of pollen protein has
yielded good results.
From May 1 until further notice
the clinic will furnish aeasonaI treat
ment for victims of SUI mer hay fever
and preventive treatments for the
large class of autumnal hay fever
patients. The symptoms of the lat
ter extend from the middle OF August
to the first killing frost.
Tie results OF treatment in the past
are said to compare favorably with
those achieved by the best clinics OF
the country During 1928, however.
the previous record was Surpassed d
because of recently developed i'm
proyementS in technique.
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PENDING RETIREMENT
CHANGE UNDER FIRE
Civil Service League Secretary
Says Higher Salaried Would
Pay Too Much.

Senator Stanfield's bill to amend the
civil service retirement act is criti-
cized in letter written by H. w.
Marsh, secretary OF the National Civil
Service Reform League, to Senator
Dale, chairman of the subcommittee
on civil service.
Mr.. Marsh says he hopes the bill
may be modified so that persons
earning higher salaries may not be
compelled to carry part of the bur-
den of contributing a disproportion-
ate amount toward the pension fund" +"
The amount deducted from en-
DloyeS salaries is alike for both the
low grade and the high grade posi-
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CAMPAIGN SCHOOL
PLANS ARE CHANGED
Meetings of Republican Women to
Be Held at Hotel Washing
ton May 5 to 8.
PARTY LEADERS TO SPEAK
Cabinet Members and Legislators
Listed OF Give Addresses.

The District League of Republican
Women, which will conduct politi
cal campaign school here May to s,
announced last night that the meet
ings Will be held at the Hotel Wash
ington instead of at the New Willard
Hotel as previously planned. This
change was made necessary. it was
said, because of the large number
Of enrollments for the course. \
limited number of students still will
be accepted, and application should
be made to Mrs. Henry Lockwood.
chairman Of registration, either at
the headquarters in the Gordon Hotel
or by telephoning Clarendon 1876.
Attorney General Store will give a
lecture to the students during one
Of the sessions, it also was an
Secretary of Labor Davis, Secretary
Of the Navy Wilbur. Mrs. Harriet
Taylor Upton, vice chairman of the
Republican, national committee: Mrs.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant
attorney general; Brig. Gen. II. NJ
l1erd, director of the Budget; Senator
lanes II. Watson OF Indiana, William
Tyler Page. clerk of the House, and
many RepreScn tiVeS and Senators
Yet to be announced. In addition to
RenShaw Will give instruction
daily in public speaking and the
'students"F "Fwill be examined in this
subject by Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor.
The course" win be as follows:
Monday. May Topic, morning
session. political PARTIES: afternoon
session. public speaking and the psy-
chology OF the crowd; evening ses-
SION, the Constitution Of the United
states and state responsibility.
1lGS03E of "a
Republican party; Fundamental differ
cnces between the Republican and
Democratic parties: afternoon session,
labor and immigration problems
night session, foreign relations.
Wednesday. May 7-Morning ses-
sion, forecast Of the Republican party
platform, presidential succession; af-
ternoon session, public meetings; eve
nlng sessions, financing i republic,
tariff. taxes and the budget.
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tions, the letter states, which means
that the employees with higher sal
aries may pay a relatively larger
proportion of the fund.
I'm effect, it means that persons
receiving high salaries must con-
tribute toward the pensions of the
lower -salaried persons" Mr.. Marsh
continued,
The result may be, he said, that
the higher-paid employees might be
induced to leave the government
service. Mr.. Marsh suggests that a
necessity in the bill is the keeping of
records Of the aggregate amount de-
Quoted from the salaries of employees
and an account Of the annual cost
of the retirement fund chargeable to
the government
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The most notable contribution of
this clinic to the control of hay fever
is the improved method of extrac-
tion of pollen protein. Thus, in the
preventive treatment Of the fall type.
which is the most stubborn, the fan
ures were reduced from 10 to per
cent. OF the 95 per cent benefited, 40
per cent of the patients were prac-
tically free from symptoms Hither-
to the best record for complete relief
has been 25 per cent of those treated.
The hay fever clinic is rendering
service to large number of work
ing men and girls. To extend the
scope of usefulness of the associa-
ton to the community is the an
nounced purpose of the newly elected
president, Mrs. Macpherson Crichton.
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Bridge for Hospital.

A bridge and five hundred party is
to be given for the benefit of the
Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hos
pital at the Raleigh Hotel next
Wednesday at pm. by committee
from Christ Church. Washington
parish. Members of the committee
are Mrs. John G. Gordon, chairman;
Mrs. S. r. Caswell. Mrs. William Cur
tis White and Mrs. F. H. Brumby.
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the staff of this hay fever clinic,
which has had such a successful rec
ord for the past few years. report
he blooming of Poa Annuis, which
although it's pollen is scant and
causes distress to but small pro-
portion of hay fever patients, gives
warning that other and more uncon-
genial grasses will soon be Towering
in succession. In this locality sweet
vernal grass, June or blue grass and
orchard grass all begin to pollinate
about the middle of May, with a con-
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POa Annuis Blooming Is Bad Ne,us
To Some Hay Fever Sufferers of d. C..
Clinic of applied Imnunology Getting Gratifying
Results in Treatments, Supporters Declare.
Other Grasses Soon to Shed Pollen.

Poa Annuis is in bloom again.
This will be news to some, and bad
news to a certain class of hay feve'
sufferers, those whose troubles are
due to the pollen of this. the first
member of a large family of grasses
to begin shedding.
Rose fever" is the name, fire.
quently but incorrectly applied to the
vernal type of hay fever. according
to physicians in charge of the clinic
of applied immunology maintained
by the Womens Welfare Association
The field observations conducted by
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Traction Men to Vote on Strike.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, April GA
strike vote of the 1900 motormen
and conductors of the Pittsburgh
Railways Company will be taken
Monday, it was announced today by
union officials. The order for the
vote was issued when negotiations
between representatives of the union
and the company for a new wage
scale were discontinued
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Newspaper Writer Dies.

GREENWICH. CONN, April 20
Elisha Jay Edwards. known widely
In the newspaper fraternity under
his pen name Of "Holland." died at
his home here during last night, aged
seventy-siN years.