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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-27
NEWARK OFFICIALS ACCUSED.
Two Arrested, Charged with Extortion to
Quash Criminal Complaint.

Justice Herman Simon and Constable Isaac
Binder. OF Newark. arrested last evening by
order of the Public Prosecutor on complaint of
Albert Haaf of No 270 Fairmont-ave. They are
charged with a misdemeanor. They resorted II
plant ' N"'-
This is said to be common practice among some
were held under 1900 bail N'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-27
STOLE $4,000 WORTH OF GOLD DUST.
Alaskan Robbers Wait Till Workmen Go to
Supper and Then Take the Cleanup"

Chicago Aug ga dispatch 20 The Record
Herald" from Vancouver. b c, says:
Four masked men last night held up the watch
man of the Featherstonhaugh mines. Alaska. and
stole nearly $4,000 worth Of gold dust which. ha
been collected in the sluices during the day Twenty
'ForAHen had just gone 70 supper and left the
watclman IN charge IL pinioned and gagged.
and fl twenty minutes the big cleanup was IN
canvas sacks which tie robbers brought They
fed IN the darkness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-27
STOCKHOLM MERCHANTS AT FAIR.

Copenhagen, Aug 26.-It is announced that one
hundred of the wealthiest merchants of Stockholm
will visit the United States and the St Louis Fair
in the autumn of 1904. chartering steamship for
that purpose.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-27
10 WORK AMONG 10 LEpERs.

Syracuse, X. Y. Aug. 2e.-sister Beata of Louis
VILE is al the Franciscan Convent in this city max
ing Preparations 20 accompany Sister Mary
lNonida 10 the Sandwich Islands. where they viii
work among the leUerg-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-27
Five Piece PdrlOr Suites
Closes Saturdays at Noon

SOS. from S56-Five-piece Parlor Suite;
mahogany finished frames, moulded; green
velour cover.
$3.50. from S75-Five-piece Parlor
Suite; mahogany finished frames. elab-
orately carved; cream tapestry cover.
$40. from S100-Five-piece Parlor Suite;
mahogany finished frames. moulded and
carved; tapestry cover.
S45, from S90-Five-piece Parior Suite:
mahogany finished frames, carved and
moulded: green verona cover.
$50 from S100-Five-piece Parlor Suite:
mahogany finished frames. carved and
moulded: damask cover.
500. from S11O-Five-piece Parlor Suite:
mahogany finished frames. carved and
moulded damask cover.
$3.50 from S115-Five-piece Parlor
Suite: mahogany finished frames, large
size. richly carved. tapestry cover.
SEQ from S120-Five- piece Parlor Suite;
mahogany finished frames. mahogany ve-
ueers green embossed velour cover.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22

proceeded TO examine inquisitively the
polished top of my tripod.
Many of the young albatrosses
would allow themselves TO be stroked
after a ludicrous show of displeasure.
that would soon disappear as if they hs:d
known us always. The little rai.,
scampered hither and thither, like d.
minutive barnyard fowls, but soon re
turned, craning their necks to discover
why they had retreated.
when we sat working, TIE litt;c
miller-bird came and perched for ia
moment on our table and chair backs.
and the Laysan finch and rail walked
about our feet in busy search for fifs
and bits of meat
THE beautiful little red honey-eater
visited us each day at meal time, ard
sought for 'millers' in the crannies and
seams between the boards.
Thus, wherever we went we wete
free to watch and learn and wee
trusted by the birds. 1t seems a most
touching and unique experience. ard
one which demonstrates all too forci-
bly, the attitude of wild creatures
which have not yet learned that MIR
is usually an enemy"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22

island, and Walter K. Fisher, the or
nithologist, who was one of the party
says that when they landed they got
into the petrol colonies, and that the
earth was SO completely honeycombed
by their burrows that the members of
the expedition were continually sink
ing to their knees.
From out of the shadow of the tus-
socks" says he, young albatrosses,
uncouth and awkward, snapped their
beaks at us and, occasionally losing
their balance from overhaste, fell for
ward on their chins. This proceeding
usually made them actively sick
Few of the birds seemed fright
ened, and with the exercise of littl,
care we were able to approach most
of the species as close as we wished.
1t was certainly gratifying to be able
to walk up to an albatross or BOBBY
and watch it feed its young, and to
record this domestic duty with the
camera.
: 1T might, perhaps, be difficult to
convey the pleasure l experienced
when, standing in a group of alba
trosses, one cameup and peered into my
face, and finding my intentions good,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22

wood that had formed around il. and
the tree might be ten times biggc
around than it was when you Drove
the. nail. But it would not havei
moved a single inch in height. Thei
tree has grown IN height in all that
time only by adding new tops.
Hollow trees often live and flourish.
and bear fruit. How can they DO it,.
When a tree first forms LAYER of
wood, that layer IS porous and full OF.
cells. Through these the sap runs.
freely as through human veins and
arteries. The wood is known then as.
sap wood.
As new layers form year by year
around the early ones, these earlt.
ones become harder and harder. til7
finally their cells are all closed up and
sap cannot run through them at ALI
Then this wood is called heart wood
1t is practically the bones of the tree.
Now, tree with heart wood can be
killed easily. 1t is necessary merely
to girdle the trunk-that is, cut all
around the tree and lift out big RING
of the sap wood. Then the sap, bef
ing unable TO penetrate the hear
wood, and having no way TO get
through the sap wood, cannot reach
the upper parts of the tree and il dies
off.
But many trees do not form hears
wood. Even their Oldest layers re-
main porous enough to convey a cerl
tain amount Of sap. Such trees caA
live for some years after they are
girdled.
The hollow trees that still live ars
those in which the sap wood reuains
healthy even after the heart wood has
disappeared through one cause or an
other. They really do not INSIST at
all, just as man might live without
good many of his bones. providing
he did not have TO move around.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22

immediately after being harvested
Therefore the buyers generally go to
the crop instead of waiting for the
crop to be sent to them.
When the sale is made, the bios
SONS are cut carefully from the stalks
and weighed. You may be sure that
the sharp-eyed buyers take great pre-
cautions so that they shall not have
to pay for anything except the bios
SONS. for they pay big prices. Thus
cents a pound, ionquils sell for 81
cents, jasmines for 80 cents, violets
for Fl cents, mignonette for 8 cents,
roses for cents, orange flowers for 4
cents, and pinks for 3 cents pound.
The men ,who distill the perfumes
from these flowers have their estab-
lishments close to the flower farms, SO
that the precious crop shall reach
them in the freshest possible condi-
ton
An immense quantity of flowers is
used each year In the district around
Nice alone fifteen tons of violets, two
tons of mignonettes and eight tons of
jasmine were used in one year, while
the consumption of orange flowers
reached the immense total of AS tons.
Around Mentone Us tons of orange
flowers and leaves are used each year.
Geranium leaves are another inn
portant crop, and the Mentone district
produces 1850 tons of them each year
Two and one-half acres will produce
from two and one-half TO three ana
onc-half tons. and each ton of leaves
yields about two and one-tenth
pounds of pure essence.
| In Grasse, the most important in
dustrial place in the entire Riviera.
there are more than thirty nanufac-
tories of essence of flowers now. They
use up 1925 tons of roses and $50 tons
OF orange flowers every year, and they
make about one million dollars worth
/ of essence.
One perfume that is made there is
neroli, which is the oil of the bitter
orange. Ii is distilled from the beat
tiful white orange blossoms, and two
! pounds of this oil are worth 500.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22

breathe oxygen IN and carbonic acid
gas out. They also breathe out wat
cry vapor. This is because the roots
of a tree take up a great deal more
water than can be used readily in the
tree. This water is sucked up into the
twigs and leaves.
When they are gorged the sap,
which is the product of the digestion
Of the earthly food and water taken up
by the roots, cannot enter these
water gorged parts, and the water
must be forced out of the leaves aid
the pores.
Sometimes the trees have so much
water pumped up through them that
they cannot ged rid of it all in the
form OF vapor, and il actually drips
in drops from the buds and leaves.
In most trees the water is pumped
up through the newest layers OF the
wood. The result is that the wood
that is formed during the seasons
when the tree needs a great deal Of
water is always thinner and lighter
than is the wood that is formed when
the tree does not make such great de-
mands.
This will explain how lumbermen
can tell, by looking at a felled tree,
which parts of its trunk were formed
in spring and which in summer. The
wood formed in the summer, when the
tree needs less food, is always heav-
Ter and stronger and often generally
darker in color than is the spring
wood, when all the trees pumps were
busily at work.
A tree grows in height only by
means of new twigs and added wood.
II you were TO drive nail into a
young tree, say four feet from the
ground tbis autumn it would still be
only four'feet from the ground in ten
years. 1t would be hidden by new
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22
Riskng Life for Queer
Pictures.
F ALL the amateur photo
graphic societies that are
scattered through the world

~ F ALL the amateur photo
\ graphic societies that are
~ scattered through the world
the most romantic is in ex-
istence in corner of Formosa.
The members of this remarkable So
ciety vie with each other to see who
can get the most unusual photograph:
in the most dangerous places, and
they do not have to hunt far for dan
ger, for they are surrounded by jungles
full of poisonous serpents, savage ami
mails, and still more ferocious races OF
men.
Among the most interesting exploits
of these amateurs was that of pene
trating into the interior with cameras
and calmly sneaking around in the
villages of the dreaded head hunters
to get pictures of their gruesome tro5
plies.
The photographers succeeded in
their quest and also in the some
NheaN itoiN IitPOA flldllCi vi y
ing their pictures and themselves back
into the fringe of civilization.
One OF these amateurs returned re-
Gently with picture snapped by him
in village far back in the interior.
which is probably unique, both in
point of subject and in point of the
daring and cunning necessary to OBJ
tain it.
1t is a photograph showing thirty
seven skulls piled up on scaffold of
Ibamboos.
These skulls are the trophies of a
single savage. He was Immensely
proud of them and had the display
neatly arranged by the side of his
| hut.
The savages in this village were not
good persons for photographer to
meet Their chief articles OF clothing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22

were 4 blowpipe full of poisoned darts,
4 keen curved knife about three inches
long and long harpoon-like spear
with a moose on the end or IT.
With the spear they reach out after
I fugitive and drop the moose over his
head. If he seems likely to be 4
tough customer, they pierce him neat
" through the back of the neck. IT
they want TO have some fun before
Killing him, they merely jerk the vic
tim over backwards and then sit OH
linn restfully and cut his head off at
their ease.
The severed heads are slung in nets
and after a foray the hunters return
home, each with his net full of head,
hanging over his shoulder.
At home they boil or smoke the tei
rible relics and then either hang them
in the rafters of the huts or pile them
up on platforms.
The photographer who got the pic
ture of the thirty-seven heads had 10
lie hidden in the jungle all one night
and then he managed to creep IN and
snap the display in the early dawn.
Another member of this adventur
picture of young woman whom he
met on trail in the mountain thick
cts. She looked so pretty and amiable
that he was quite proud of having
found such a beauty in the heart OF the
savage country, and he showed the
picture to every one
Finally he showed it TO native sub
chief OF police, who recognized her a
the daughter of the most blood
thirsty chief of ALL man who ruled
tribe that had become notorious
throughout the southeastern part OF
Asia. One year before, his warriors
had engaged in a series OF forays dur
ing which they massacred more than
seven hundred Japanese and Chinese.
whose heads were all hanging in the
huts of the tribe
The amateur photographer has beer
wondering ever. since how he managed
to get this picture of the woman and
get away with it and with his own
head.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22
WOrid'S Most Beautiful
Farms

~ T ALL the farming of all the
a world the most beautiful is
~ the farming that is done in
the southern part of France.
1t is the raising of crops OF scented
flowers for the production of per
fume.
This flower farming goes on almcs;
throughout the entire year. Hardly
has one crop been gathered before
another equally rich and glorious is
ready to be garnered.
In February and March, when in
more northern lands the farms lie
bleak and windswept, the farmers of
the iower-land harvest a wonderful
crop OF violets In April the glorious
jonquil is ready TO cut and gather.
Hardly has it gone before there
burst out the blossoms of mignonette,
roses and orange flowers. These
three crops are harvested steadily
from the end of April till well into
July.
They are followed by pinks, carna-
tions and tuberoses.
This odOrous harvest is no sooner
brought IN than the dreamy jasmine
is ripe and ready for the reapers. And
then, when in less favored countries
the golden rod and the aster wave
their gold and purple banners to mark
the retreat of the autumn and the huT
rying march of winter, the acacia
makes all the south of France beauli.
full. Through October, November
and December it blooms, and in
Christmas the harvesters there are
still busy bearing its grand sheaves OF
flowers to market.
The beautiful flower crop cannot be
transported Ike wheat or other farm
produce that is carried thousands oi
miles 10 find buyers. Too delicate
too evanescent TO bear rude handling
the flowers must be bought and used
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22

as being Important from the point OF
water transportation and traffic.
The government publications them
selves did not mention Berlin's activ-
ity in this regard until recently. But
in the past few years the Importance
OF the water traffic has become SO
striking that now the figures have
been made as regular a part OF the
municipal statistics as they would be
in any great seaport.
The growth OF it has made Berlin
rank among the most important ports
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22
Uherein the Trees fire Like You

no YOU know that trees
i breathe very much as you do?
- The lungs of the tree are
more beautiful to look at than
human lungs. They are brightly col
orcd and beautiful in shape. They are
outside OF the trees body instead of
being hidden as your lungs are.
The trees lungs are the leaves.
These leaf-lungs breathe steadily
and constantly. Like yours, they taxi.
in oxygen from the air, and it is con
verified into the life-sustaining sap
which is the blood of the tree and
which circulates through the trees
body just as does your blood.
Unlike your lungs, however, the
trees lungs need sunlight on them III
order to work. Therefore, while the
leaves breathe in oxygen all day and
all night, they do not exhale the waste
matter in the night very freely. Con-
sequently there is more carbonic acid
gas in the tree than it can breathe out.
In your body this carbonic acid
gas would poison your system and
Kill you. In the tree it burns UP and
forms carbon that makes the wood
and other material for the growth of
the tree.
If you will look at the young
branches OF birches, cherry trees and
poplars, you will see queer little OBJ
long and oval spots that are raised a
bit above the surrounding bark. These
are all like pores of the human skin,
and they, too, take in oxygen
Often, especially in the spring, you
will notice that trees will be dripping
wet even though there has been no re
cent rain. Orchardists will tell you
then that the trees are sweating That
is exactly true, and this is how and
why they do it.
The leaves of a tree do not merclv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22
Berlin May Become a Seaport

of the whole European continent
In one year 10000 passenger steara-
ers, large and small, touched at Der
lin. In the business of Transporting
freight, s4,27I towing steamers were
used
Freight was carried in I,7Io freigai
steamers with a total tonnage of 1917
sos tons.
And this not ALL In that same
year 7o.2o6 sailing vessels carried
freight to and from Berlin, amom.t-
ing to more than six million tons.
Four thousand RATS arrived there,
also.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22
y THE Hawaiian group of islands
is one, Laysan, that is possibly
the most wonderful home OF
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i the most wonderful home OF
birds in the whole world.
Uncle Sam maintains light house
there now, since Hawaii became part
of American territory, and the Stars
and Stripes that futter over this lone
ly little government reservation have
the distinction of flying over the
strangest population that is under any
American flag, for the population is
composed entirely of albatrosses,
BOBBY birds, stormy petrels, puffins,
lrigate birds, and other strange sea
fowl.
They all nest on Laysan Island. So
numerous are the birds there that,
long before the island itself can be
seen above the horizon from an APP
preaching ship, the crew will sight
cloud above it. That cloud is formed
by the birds that are forever rising
and settling.
Recently Uncle Sam sent an expe
dition of naturalists TO study the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22

wv = HEN you look at Berlin on
NA the map and see how far
!" inland il is, you naturally
do not imagine that one of
its strong points is steamship bust
ness.
The Spree, on which Berlin is stu
ated, is not large river. 1t is hardly
more than a rivulet when compared
with the mighty Rhine, Danube and
Rhone.
Therefore, even in the official books
Vi statistics, Berlin is never mentioned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22

T ALL the farming of all the
world the most beautiful is
the farming that is done in
the snrthern MT Of Erance
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-15
way of suitable laws will be much more
satisfactory than they have been in the

way of suitable laws will be much more
satisfactory than they have been In the
past.
Members Of the Progressive Gun Club
made the best totals in the shoot for the
trophy at the Central Gun Club grounds
last Sunday, scoring just one point more
than did the Centrals, who finished In
second position. TIL leading team made
a total Of al. while the Centrals totailed
$40. $50
ci henn Were high Fha men for the respective
teams. the last-named pair trying for the
lead on the Progressive team with scores
Of 43 each. Lenharth inc Daggs were
scoring As out Of a possible CO..
Quite an extensive shoot will be held at
French Village. one week from to-day,
the programme having been announced for
a meet at that point. Deletine and Two
or three other well-known experts are re-
sponsible for getting up the meet in the
Efforts will likely be made by members
of the local revolver clubs to have a pro.
gramme Of contests for that weapon heId
here next season. 1t seems hardly likely
connection with the Olympic games. so
the plans of the movers In the new enter.
prise provide for having q tournament OF
f their C stnies pn aevol fhs a Hssosiatio1 1i the
Following the system In vogue az tne
celebrated shooting gallery of CASTOR
Reinette in Paris. the local shots OF the
ST. Louis Revolver Club have adopted the
idea Of awarding buttons Indicative OF
Workmanship to all members who snow
an ability to make scores OF 70 out OF q
possible 100 in a series OF matcnes ut 1he
AZ the target used is the reduced stand
ard American. with 2A-inch bulrs-eye. the
making Of this score Is by no means easy
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-15

President Winkelmeyer and Secretary
Grether Of the Missouri Sportsmen's Game
and Fish Protective Association have Sc
lected the motto. 'In times Of peace, pre-
pare for war;" as the slogan OF their
club. They lave issued a call for a meet
Tuesday to express views on game laws.
Both AVE decided to start a vigorous
campaign along the lines Of suitable game
legislation and believe that the proper
time to commence such agitation is right
now. In their circular letters, addressed
to members of the club. they give express
sion to this opinion. and both have an
nounced that they intend to start active
campaigning to the same end.
The failure OF the last Legislature to
pass suitable game laws. it was thought
was due to the fact that the matter was
not carried forcibly enough to the people
at large. The ann in which one or
two Of the bills to protect game were
sidetracked led to certain insinuations
against some legislators. who are said to