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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-31
FIND DAUGHTER
DEAD IN BED, A
VICTIM OF GAS
Believed That lI-year-Old Eliza
beth Girl Accidentally Caused
Her Own Death.
LspeeIal o the EyenIng star.I

ELIZABETH, March 3l.-Pretty
Maximilamic Gassner, IL years old,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Max iGass-
ner, Of 311 High street, a found dead
in bed today by her parents, death be-
ing due to a~sphyxiation.
The child slept in a room off the
Kitchen on the first floor. For several
days she had been. suffering from neu-
ralgia and 1t is believed that she got
of bed some time during the night
and in the dark accidentally turned on
the gas.
The county physician said that the
case was accidental and granted a
burial permit.
The body will be cremated Sunday at
Rose Hill Cemetery.
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coNKLIN, JR.

rRANKLIN CONKLIN, JR, of
Johnson avenue, whose wedding
to Miss Marie Berriam Riker, of
Lincoln Park, will take place April g.,
entertained a few friends at a fare
well bachelor dinner in the Hotel
Astor, New York city, last night.
Covers were laid for eight. The table
was prettily decorated with ferns and
spring flowers. Mr.. Conklin's guests
We're Ludolph Conklin, a brother of the
brldegroom-elect, who will act as best
man, and the six ushers. Joseph
Marsh Riker, jr, Andrew Van Blair
com, a brother-in-law of the BRIDE
elect; Laurence c. Ward and Philip
Hedges, all of Newark; Harry Wright,
or Detroit, Mich, and Henry Dick, of
Elizabeth.
Miss Florence d. Murphy. of High
street. will be the hostess at next
weeks gathering of members of the
sewing class of the guild of the Babies
Hospital, A meeting was held yester-
day at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-31
NEGRO LYNCHING
OF WHITE Man IS
BARELY AVERTED
Police Charge Mob in Georgia
Suburb just in Time to
Prevent.

ATLANTA, Ga, March s1.-The time
~ arrival OF the police with loaded rifles
stopped what threatened to be a lynch
ing in Brownsville, "A suburb of Atlanta,
early today. The man threatened was
b. r. Chaplin. e young white man, and
he was surrounded by a threatening
crowd of negroes skhen two county Of
fcers came to his MD and drove the
mob back.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-31
MAKES HIS SLEEP ETERNAL.

HACKENSACK, March S1.-WiIham
T. Knapp. an old resident, is dead at
his home from an overdose Of lauda
mum. He had been suffering from in
sonlnia. Mr.. Knapp was in the whole
sale liquor business with his brothels
IN New York city.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-31
LIBRARIAN GOING ABROAD

John Cotton Dana. librarian Of the
Free Public Library, win sail for I'll
rope on Thursday, April 0, to purchase
books and en~gravings for the library.
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BoTn HOUSES CLAIM DALMoREs.

NEW YORK, March .S1.-Charies
Dalmores, The Hammerstein tenor, hase
been sued by the Metropolitan mar
agement to sing at the Conried hor
or pay $40. 900. There is a dispute 9
contracts.
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UNABLE TO
UNITE FACTIONS IN
FIGHT TO ADJOURN
Governor Holds Conferences
with Senate and House
Leaders.
IFrom a SAD correspondent.l

TRENTON, March 3t.-Following ef-
forts made last night to settle on a
date for the adjournment of the Legis-
lature. Governor Fort today had two
conferences, one with House leaders
and a second with Senate leaders. and
both without effective result other than
the decision by the Governor. President
Hillery and Senator Robbins. Speaker
Jess and Leader Martin that there shall
be a joint conference of the Republi-
can majority this afternoon. Martin
would not agree to a caucus so it was
decided to call the gathering a con-
ference.
Those who are trying for early adj
journment planned to vote to go into
caucus when the joint conference was
called.
Notice was served by the New Idea
men thai they would walk out If this
were done
Assemblymen Martin, Morgan and
Colgate refused to concur in any plan
for final adjournment when Governor
Fort and the eight Assemblymen who
we're with him last night conferred
again today. They said they were pre-
pared to approve of adjournment on
April 8 il the Republican pledges had
been fulfilled then.
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They agreed to a resolution to shut
out all new bills after today.
The conference was stormy and broke
up without any definite plan.
As 0 as it was oyer the Governor
sent for President Hi1lery and Majority
Leader Robbins, of the senate, and
asked Speaker Jess and Leader Martin
to return.
President Hillery put forth the joint
caucus proposition as soon as he reached
the Governors Office, and after some
discussion this was agreed to.
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sIeetIng q stormy Ono.

Those at the c%onference last night,
which was a stormy one, were Speaker
Jess, Leader Martin, and ~Assemblymen
Buxton. of Morris; Moxon, of Union;
Colgate and Morgan, of Essex; Thomp-
son, Of Mercer. and Prince, Of Passaic.
The Governors appeal to settle on
a date and to carry out the party plat
form pledges were UNDECIDED.
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THE PRIZES

LIST Prize-A magnificent $3.50 Webster Piano
will be given to the person whose definition, in the
opinion of the judges, best describes the Ideal Amefl-
can Home"
End Prize-A credit certificate good for S12S on
the purchase Of any new piano in our store.
The remainder of the appropriation will be award
edin certificates ranging from 800 to $25, and will be
awarded to the contestants according to the marking
of their definition by the judges, until the entire
$4,000 in certificates has been distributed.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-31

''Home, Home, Sweet, Sweet Home
what a rush of sweetIy sentimental thoughts the sing
ing of this old melody brings back to our memory
How dear to our memory are the recollectionS OF our
childhood's pleasures! And with what varied emotions
do we review our Home life in after yearSl
Surely, mothers and fathers, you know what
Home means to you the prattle and laughter OF
healthy, happy children. the CHEEKY Preside and the
many other things that 60 to make life worth living.
And you, young men and women, who still enjoy
the shelter of the paternal roof-you certainly know
what ''Home'' means to you who still get a fond
fathers smile and a mothers loving care.
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What is your definition of the Ideal American
Homer" The subject is an easy one, and one with
which all of us are familiar.
We don't want a ''postical." "high-downa or
"flowery' effusion, but a definition that defines in the
simplest words the Ideal American Homs.' The
plainest words framed in the crudcSt manner may
appeal to the Committee on Awards as being the best
definition, or one of the best.
Don't make a strained effort or write a long
drawn-out ESSAY" Answers must not contain more
than one hundred wordS-the fewer tn: better.
Begin writing your definition now-do not put
it off until the last moment. Devote some thought
and care to your answer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-28

legs in their attempts to kick through the
wires.
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The male always picks out the place
for the nest. He then kneels down on his
breast bone ard kicks out a round dish
shaped hollow in the sand. When it is
fixed to his satisfaction he coaxeS the
hen ostrich to it and gives her instruc-
tlonS to lay. If satisfied she goes to
work and lays one egg every other day
for about twenty days. She may then
take rest, and begin to lay again. keep
ing on until she has laid forty or more.
When she thinks she has enough she be-
gins to set and here the male comes
again on the job. He sets on the eggs
fully half of the time, and. as a rule takes
charge of them at night. If the hen stays
off too long he grows angry and drives
her back to the nest. At the end of forty
two days the eggs are ready for hatch
ing and the chicks begin to kick their
way out. In this the male often assists
them by breaking the shells with his
breast bone and the farmers sometimes
go from nest to nest and gently tap or
crack the shells. that the chicks may
break them apart.
The chicks, when first born. are dear
little things with feathers of the downy
nature Of chicken just Matched. They
are as big as full-grown hen, and
seem to he all eyes and neck. They
WdOQle ABOUT Ike little uuCkllHSS anu are
very delicate. Here in South Africa they
are often kept away from their parents
at night, being placed in packing cases
which are f1oored with dry sand and
covered with bagging- After they are
two or three months old they are allow
ed to sleep together the floor Of a
warm room and after six months they
can run about and will stand almost as
much cold as the old birds. They grow
fast. At the age of a month they are as
big a turkey. and at seven or nine
months their first picking begins.
Harvesting the ostrich feathers goes by
the general name of plucking. This gives
one the idea that the plumes are pulled
out This is not SO. Such treatment
would cause great pain and injure the
birds. The process should be called clip
ping or cutting. for the quilts are shipped
off with shears: and this causes the os
triches just about as much pain as shear
ing does sheep. The first feathers of a
chick bring but little more than two dol
lars; but after that the plumes improve
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learned how to raise oStriches on less
and less land At the start the birds
were allowed to run in camps of from
1000 10 5000 acres, and twenty acres was
allowed for each. This is still the case
on the great plateaus. known as the
karo. but there are now farms about
Oudtshoorn, and elsewhere. where two
ostriches are kept on one acre, and where
they are fed like fine stock. so much grass
and other food being allowed to each
per day.
It has been recently found that great
deal of money can be made in raising
ostriches on alfalfa or lucern, and espe-
cally so where that crop can be raised
on irrigated lands. / have estimates
showing that five ostriches have been
kept in this way on one acre, and that
they have yielded feathers to the amount
of $25. or $50 per ostrich per year. This
means that one acre of land brings i'll
something like $3.50 or more per annum
and that from fifty acres man can make
from $4,000 to $4,000 per year.
On all such farms the ostriches are kept
in small fields. The usual paddock is an
acre with a wire fence about it. and the
fields are separa ted by paths three feet
or more wide to prevent the birds fight
ing and kicking one another. Two birds, a
cock and hen, are kept in each pad
dock, and one acre of alfalfa amply suf-
fees for their grazing the year around.
Some of the farmers cut and stack the
CROP and then feed it to the OStricheS
when other food is short. and some let
the birds Craze. Alfalfa-fed birds have
glossier feathers than those fed upon
wild grass and hristles. Their quilts are
heavier and they weigh more. They also
break easily and for this reason are not
so much liked by the dealers as the
plumes of the birds from the veldt. II
rigated land suita BILE for ostriches is fast
increasing in value: l am told that the
best now brings 81 900 per acre.
During my stay in Africa l have seen
many wild ostriches. There some in
the Sahara. They live along the Dor
ders of the desert, and sometimes
swimming through the air. over the
sand. l saw a few in the Sudan, and
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States last year. The most of the ostrich
feathers used by man are now raised on
the farms of Cape Colony. There is
something like 100000 birds engaged in
the business. and they produced more
than million pounds of feathers last
year. Those feathers sold for more than
s100O.0OO bringing from $40 to $50 per
pound.
The chief ostrich feather market is Port
Elizabeth. The feathers are sent in by
the farmers and country merchants and
are sold here at auctions which are held
every two weeks. They are carefully
packed in boxes and sealed before Ship
ment, and are consigned to licensed
agents who sort them and sell on a COM
mission of y. per cent The sorting is
done at SO much per pound.
sFhe auction sales here are held in what
is known the feather warehouse. This
covers more than an acre. and it consists
Of great room filled with trestle-work
tables, Upon these tables the feathers are
laid out in lots. and the feather buyers
from all parts Of the world look over them
sale. Sometimes hundred thousand dol
lars worth of feathers are displayed at
one time. and the yearly auctions bring
In several millions.
After buying the feathers are resorted
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right along. and 1t is not uncommon for
grown bird to ssield over one hundred
dollars worth in one year.
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The cutting OF the feat hers is done
every eight or nine months. The plumes
from the wings and the tails of the full
grown male birds are the most valuable
and il makes n great difference in their
value as to how the feathers are cut.
There are twenty-five long white plumes
on each wing Of cock. The rest Of the
feathers are black on the male and drab
or grayish on the female. In addition
there are smaller feathers known as the
ostrich tips and others. that one bird
will yield about three hundred at pluck
ing. After the feathers are taken off they
are carried indoors and sorted into about
twenty different lengths and colors They
are then tied up in bundles, weighed and
packed up for the market. The cheap
tips bring something like s. a pound,
while the plumes from the wings and
tails are worth 500 per pound and up
ward.
Plucking an ostrich is no easy matter.
J would rather tackle mad bull than
one of these great birds, If / had no
means OF defense The only thing the
male is afraid Of is a thorn bush. and
this only because he fears 1t may put
out his eyes. Without that he might
run at you and kick you to death The
ostrich kicks high, and the best remedy
IN Such cases is to throw yourself fat
on the ground Then the ostrich NAV
kneel on you and squeeze you, but he
cannot kick so as to hurt
At the time for plucking the ostrtches
are driven by the farmers or the native
blacks into plucking boxes These are
little pens made for the purpose They
are just about large enough for one
ostrich to stand in without moving around
After the door is shut the bird can do
nothing, and he cannot kick as the sides
iOh III a tC bon rsat 49,.
of a stocking or great cloth mftten
which Is drawn over his head. His wings
are now raised. and the plumes cut Off
with scissors the work going on until
all the feathers are taken. The ostrich
roars mournfully during the process, but
in reality 1t hurts him but little. When
turned out he looks ugly as a sheen
after shearing, but within few weeks
the stumps of the quilts die and fall out.
and the new feathers begin to appear
FRANK G.. CARPENTER
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THE FAMOUS FLAMMARION FAMILY.

years. when mother worked herself sick
had been left-an extraordinarily bright
student of fourteen--for free board and
tuition at LangreS religious school,
spending his vacations with the old grand
parents. and Soeurette had been taken
by friendly family. Father. at the
express companys office: Berthe and
Ernest at school. were comfortable by
day. But when mamma. breaking down
with typhoid. was sent to the hospital
YOU should have seen all those cour-
ageous children hustle
Camille. running away from the studies
where his heart was. labored for ten cents
per day and his food in the workshop OF
tyrannical Observation-Disclosures. Ernest
earned fifteen cents daily selling papers
on the street. And Berthe. the eldest
fifteen years old. took up the embroidery
that had laid out mamma.
1t was all to rent a big. bright, fifth
floor room that had a chimney-freplace
against the return of mamma; they
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must have warmth. light. food and air
for her. Oh, the pride of that home-com
ing. mingled with romantic adventures!
In the HAPPY days at Langre the
little Berthe amused herself with cutting
arabesuues in folded paper. 1t made
patterns when you pulled it out Well. one
day in a stage coach. when the cholera
scare was young, the children went to
visit Uncle Charles, Berthe with her roll
of arabesques
An ugly lady got into the stage coach
and such odor emanated from her that
the children whispered. frightened, Its
the cholera" to Uncle Charles. as they
piled out on arrival. mo, she only has
a hand cheese in her satchelr' he laughed,
and they all laughed; but Berthe found
that she had lost her arabesques.
You know how children keep joke!
During the three years Of misery that
followed, in both Langres and Paris. the
Flammarious joked about 1.-THE ugly lady
all the more As Ernest. on their arrival
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expensive operation he woke to the world
and the fact that his brick-yard creditor
was selling them out To the very house
hold effects,
1t was clean sweep. Now behold the
Flammarion kids, Berthe. Ernest and
Soeurette. living III the dfrest poverty
with father and mother IN one small.
dark ground floor room the Boule-
ward des capucines. Paris where the in
1,lred father couid md no better job
than SIG per month in an express com
pany.
During two years they never had fire
except trfie for cooking. And there.
deprived of heat. air and sufficient light,
the mother earned 20 cents per day at
doing fine embroidery for n house on the
boulevard whose principal she never saw,
she dealing with the clerks.
Camille Flammarion, in these two
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in Omdurman was able to buy the choic-
est of white plumes from the wild birds
at about s. apiece. There are many
ostriches in british East Africa and
Somaliland. All along the Uganda rail-
road. from the Indian ocean to Lake Vic
tOria. they may be seen feeding upon
the high plains ! understand that there
are some in Abyssinia and many west of
Rhodesia. in the KaIihari desert. The
feathers of the wild birds are oily, and
they have long quilts. They are freer
from bars and other blemishes than are
the pluInes from the tame birds, and
they bring a higher price in the market.
Down here in South Africa wild birds
may not be caught. hunted or shot, and
the man who takes wild ostrich eggs
from any of the crown lands without a
license Is subject TO a fine of 500. The
same penalty is attached to hunting or
wounding a wild bird upon private lands
without the owners consent.
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During my stay in Egypt I visited a
large ostrich farm near Cairo. 1t has
something like 1000 birds. and the feath-
ers are largely retailed to tourists. The
farm lies on the edge of the desert not far
from Heliopolis. where Plato taught
school, and near the tree under which the
Virgin Mary and the Baby Jesus rested
about nineteen hundred odd years ago.
This farm has been carved out Of the
desert 1t is divided up into fields, which
are surrounded by high mud walls. There
are alleys in some of the fields, and you
can walk over the farm. seeing ostriches
of all ages. sizes and sexes engaged in all
the occupations of ostrich life. Some of
the birds are eight feet in height and
some are no bigger than Plymouth Rock
Mems. The male and female ostriches
are kept in pairs, and usually there is
one pair or more in each field. AS I
went through I shook my fist at one lady
ostrich. and her husband got angry. The
neck, head and legs of the old cock turn
ed as red as blood. and he snapped at
me with his bill like an angry dog. He
tramped up and down the pen. lifting his
big tWo-toed hOOfS high. and the tur-
baned Egyptian who went with me told
me that Il kick from him would kill
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horse or knock my head from my shout
ders.
1t was on the Egyptian farm that [
first saw ostricheS Matched in incubators
The farmer told me that the eggs were
taken from the nest every day. leaving
one for i nest egg just as we do for
chickens. About twenty eggs are allow
ed to each pair of ostriches when set
ting, and the balance of the forty-odd
eggs. which the hen lays, goes to the in
cubatOrS. ] saw several hundred eggs.
Each was as big as the head of a six
month-old baby 1t was of a smooth.
ivory white freckled over with little
black Specks
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In the fncubators the eggs are laid in
padded boxes and are kept in room
where the temperature is just about 100
degrees Fahrenheit. AS the time for
Matching approaches they are tested day
after day by placing them in hole in
the wall of dark room. This hole just
fits the egg, so that the light shines
through and shows It's condition. If the
egg is not fertilized the light comes
through the she'll If it is there will be
only light at the larger end, where the
air chamber is.
The eggs are turned every day, and
when the chicks are just about ready
to hatch the shells are broken with a
tack hammer. The baby ostriches are
then taken out and laid away for TWEEN
tyfour hours in boxes of warm cotton.
Before going further they have their
eyes tested. and if they are lightish in
color they are killed. for the light-eyed
ones are albinos and are of no good for
laying
The most of the farmers of South Africa
now use incubators. but many let the
birds hatch their own eggs and on nea rly
all the large farms you may see these
great creatures sitting on the nests which
they have dug out Of the sand. The breed
ing season begins in June and lasts until
the end of September, but if the birds are
well fed they will continue to breed all
the year round. AS the time for breeding
approaches the breeders are camped off
in pairs, field Of six acres or less being
given to each male and mate. The fields
are often separated by double fences, as
the male ostriches are very jealous when
i heir mistresses are laying and they will
fight one another and often break their
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at Paris. was sure that the ugly lady"
saw and chased him down the rue de Ia
PaiX one evening
Now for the romance! Berthe had taken
the embroidery back TO the boulevard
shop. when a voice called to her from
the back
Its you, my little, good fairy! On,
how I've been looking for your
ITS the boss!' the clerks whispered,
awe-stricken, as 1.-The ugly lady rushed
out and threw her arms around the
startled Berthe.
without knowing it, YOU made my for
tuner! told the ugly lady. The roll OF
patterns you dropped in the stage coach!
NV embroidery business had been running
down and was desperate. I saw your
arabesques were beautiful and novel. 1
had the inspiration to come back to Paris
and apply them to all wall hang1ngs and
all larger tissues. They have made a
genre and I am getting out an instruction
book about them. YouahalI have half Of