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The Detroit times., 1909-07-17

count 'em. lS-and neither side was
able to score. the result being ma
jor league, though not worlds rec
ord.
II Managers Cantillon and Jennings
want TO show a little sentiment when
that date comes around. they will
send Pitchers Groom and Summers out
to take matters up where they left
OF yesterday.
Such a ball game, double-headsr
without any intermission and without
any score for either side in its com.
plete progress. And only 5000 per-
sons or so out TO see the play, all but
the most hide-bound OF the regulars
disguised at the easy way in which
the Tigers had demolished the Sena-
tors in the three preceding games or
the series. and getting their affairs In
shape to go out when better Compel
ffon ehould he nrOmigedt
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29
FAKE EVIDENCE TO ORDER.

wv THIN few days very conspicuous divorce
w case has furnished an excellent example of the
wealth of evidence which may be collected Tor
such trials The layman in such matters doubtless
often wonders at the number of witnesses whlch
spring up every hand especially when persons Oh
great wealth or social position are involved.
.rbe manufacture of fake evidence has come to
be a fine art in New York. remarked prominent
criminal lawyer the other day. AN unscrupulous
lawyer can buy witnesses by the dozen from scores
of different occupations who will testify anything
YOU please and do it at surprisingly reasonable
figure | do not mean to say that lawyers OF any
standing buy them, but the supply nevertheless IS
large Nor do the lawyers have to look Tor IT, II
is brought ready made to their doors Let big
divorce suit come up and the lawyers are at once
besieged with offers by these accommodating wit
"The witness supply is especially large. as might
be expected. in the Tenderlon. If bell boy Is
needed to identify the defendant, an elevator man
10 swear that the victim out of bounds, maid
or cabby to give the most damaging evidence from
personal observation they may be found here by the
score 1t is surprising how familiar large class OF
such people have become with legal usage, and how
skiful in manufacturing just such fake testimony.
They to absolutely unsought with schemes
of testimony worthy of very clever lawyer"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29

third of the rookery perhaps more-the birds having
been shot off their nests containing Young. What
holocaust! Plundered for their pumes What
monument of human callousness! Two hundred
young left to die of starvation Seventy at least of
the nestlings had fallen into the water below and
been miserably drowned"
Similar accounts given by William L. Finley.
who is the Northwestern field agent of the societies,
of ravages by hunters Lake Malheur Oregon.
And Professor T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary of the
North Carolina Audubon Society, gives this ACCOUNT
Il had expected to see some of the beautiful herons
about their nests or standing the trees by,
but not living could be found, while here and
there in the mud lay the feess forms of eight birds
They had been shot down and the skin bearing the
plumes stripped from their backs. In four nests
young orphan birds clamorng pteously for food
The next spring visited this Site but found only the
old nests falling into decay. When man comes
saughters and extermnates, Nature does restore
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29
for WOMAN'S VANITY

When the customs officers seized the agrettes last
spring it was first decided sell them at auction,
as in the case of other smuggled goods The Audubon
Societies protested arguing that this would be against
the public interest" The Treasury Department later
decreed that the pumes should be destroyed where
upon the Feather Importers Association of New
York protested, arguing that dangerous precedent
would be set involving all imported plumage and cit.
ing ruling made by the Secretary of the Treasury
in 1908 that law restricted importation of agrettes
and another by John Cunneen, Attorney General Of
New York. to the effect that he knew of law pro-
hbiting the sale of imported aigretes in this State.
Mr.. Cunneen undoubtedly construed the existing
statute as applying only to the domestic birds. In
the Treasury Departments latest decision is merely
stated that the plumage be sold, as there have
been no prosecutions under the State law for several
years
Don't Regret the Agitation.
Although the Audubon Societies have not been vic
torious they do regret the agitation. The gen.
eral trend is forward, and public sentiment against
the ndscrimnate slaughter OF these birds is ncreas
ing" says B. S. Bowdish, who acts in the dual capac
lty of Special Inspector of Wild Birds and Animals
for the Department of Agriculture and Chief Clerk
of the National Association of Audubon Societies.
"Womans vanity is at the root of it all. You can
touch woman's heart on anything that doesn't con-
cern personal adornment but when you ask her to
sacrifice fashion you are asking about the greatess
sacrifice that be asked Of her."
The Audubon Societies records TEEN with accounts
of the ruthless slaughter by plume hunters. A. H. E.
Mattingly, of Melbourne, who visited a roOkery in
New South Wales to obtain picture Of an egret or
white crane" the birds styled there, feeding
it's young. draws this picture and presents photo
graphs to prove his statements
~ could large patches of white floating in the
water or reclining fallen trees the rookery.
As drew a sight met my gaze that made my
blood fairly boil with indignation. There. strewn on
the water weed and adjacent logs fifty carcasses
of large white and smaller pumed egrets-nearly one
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29

is true of the almost Identical varieties found In
Africa Southern Europe, China, Japan, Burmah Cey-
ion. India. the Philippines the Malay Peninsula and
Australia The birds feed on shrimp. small fish, craW
fish. aquatic insects and others forms of life found
along shores and swamps.
That the work of plumage hunting is going on
wherever the birds found is shown by the fact
that the largest aigrette house in New York uses
$25 600 worth annually. In England. where the hunt
send their spoils to be auctioned aigrettes are
called ospreys. and this is the current commercial
term for agretes in bulk. Naturalists say this term
is misleading, as an osprey or fshhawk. Is far diff
ferent bird.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29

The aigrettes appear at mating time on the male
and female adult birds alike. The millinery men say
the feathers are gathered off the ground by South
American or Australian hunters where they have
fallen in moulting and that the birds are left alive
to grow more feathers The followers Of Audubon
declare that the plumes lost by the birds are pracr
cay valueless as by the time the birds ready to
part with them they have become frayed and stained
Hence the hunters say the adult birds when the feath
ers are at their best and this is in the breeding
season the young herons and egrets are left in the
nests to starYe or drown inthe marshes.
Each of the snowy herons and egrets in It's prime
bears ABOUT fifty OF the lacelike feathers and this
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29
HOUSEHOLD CHORES.

tN /OU needn't wait for me-" explained the head
y of the house; 81 have dinner engagement, al
important business affair." and no doubt shall
be kept quite late"
At breakfast next morning ominous silence had
fallen upon all. The head of the house had no appe
fife and was evidently far from feeling we'll After
Dainful silence the husband, without meeting his
wfe's eye, essayed to start conversation
"It's funny about that clock" he said. Its
stopb, d and I'm sure I wound it last night"
'You are mistaken, said his wife Jelly; you wound
nm Wilie's music box instead and it played Home
Sweet Home till daylight. The clock in the hall
has also stopped, but find that you screwed your
Corkscrew into the barometer
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29

driven the birds to South America The birds select
bay bushes sparkleberry bushes in marshy ground
for their nests which they build of rough twtgs. at
from two to twelve feet above the marsh. They lay
from three to five eggs.
The snowy heron is smaller bird thu the Amer
can egret, and its pumes, shorter and .ecurved are
valuable The herons length from the tip of its
black and yellow bill the end of the TAIL is from
twenty twenty-seven inches, whereas the egret is
from thirtyseyen to forty0ne inches These dimen-
sons are exclusive of the agrettes. which in the
of the egret straight and extend from their base at
the top of the birds back Just below the neck to far
out over the tail.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29
IBroodng Egret-The dorsal train of nuptial
plumes is hanging over the tail feathers.

Co. All Rights Reserved
NEW YORK, Saturday.
IGRErTEs. those flmy white plumes so
priced by of fashion as hat adorn-
~ ments, have been accorded considerable pub
I licity recently through the arguments ad-
yanced by wholesale milliners and the Au-
dubon societies as to whether two consgnments.
smuggled into New York from Brazil, ought under the
laws to be sold at auction destroyed. Uncle Sam.
as In the debate has decreed that these par
ticular agrettes shall be sold, and Marshal William
Henkel is to preside at that function some time this
fall, when society women will have n chance to bid
against Fifth mliners for about $1,000 worth.
These plumes have occasoned far more attention
than their weight and bulk would seem to justify, for
they are the lghtest of ghtweights. Yet like all
feathers for the millinery trade they are bought at
wholesale by weight and New York dealers who pur-
chase pumage at the bi-monthly auctions pay as high
as $35 an for them And this isn't so much
when you consider that it takes about two hundred
=. the feathers to weigh an ounce
BY the time the retail miners get them the profits
of several mddlemen have been tackled and duties
assessed-and under the new tariff there Is respect
able addition to the rates-and the agrettes finally
placed on mfadys hat usually bring whatever the
seller DEGREES and ladys husband father Is per-
suaded to pay.
From the swamps along the tributaries of the ANA
zon to the Fifth window is something of
Journey but nearly every aigrete you see nowadays
has travelled at least that far The business of hunt
ing for aigretes, far as North America Is con-
cerned Is no longer profitable occupation. 1t was
once-immensey proftable-and plume hunter who
had shot the birds in all parts of the United States
once boasted that lie repeatedly gathered $4oO worth
of the plumes oneday, and that if he didn't gather
S12O worth before nine o'clock in the morning he
would deem that particular rookery not worth while
and elsewhere
Passing of the Snowy Heron.
Now the snowy heron egretta candidssima) and the
American egret ardea egretta. or herodias eGretta
are practically extinct along the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts and also along the Pacific in Oregon, where
twenty years ago thousands of the beautiful birds
hourshed
There was time-say up to about thirty years
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29

ago-when the snowy heron frequented swamps and
marshy lands in New York State. Never too plentiful
their numbers decreased after year as the value
of the plumage appreciated. and finally, though
too late, the game laws made TO include pro-
vision that the pumage of the white heron should
not be sold or had in possession for sale IN this
State.
This law, undoubtedly framed for domestic birds.
brought up recently by the National Association
of Audubon Societies legal bar to the sale of i'm
ported plumage, but the mliners' contention is that
it applies only to the native birds. Efforts to have
the last Legislature pass measure which provided
that the Feathers or plumage commonly known as
agrettes the feathers pumage of any species of
the heron family whether obtained within or without
the State shall not be bought sod offered or exposed
for sale at any time failed by a narrow margin.
As recently as twenty years ago snowy herons were
found near Stone Harbor, near Cape May, N. D.,
but the Jersey coast is bereft. Recent in
yestigations of the Audubon societies disclosed
rookery, containing few snowy heTons. near Beau
fort, n c.; three rookeres, containing five different
species of herons, not great many miles from
Charleston, S. c., and one rookery in Florida. There
rookeries, far the Audubon societies
aware, in Georgia.
Populous Rookery.
In the large South Carolina rookery one hundred
snowy herons have been counted, several hundre|
gray Louisiana herons, several hundred of the sman
green herons about hundred blue herons and
about fifty of the black crowned herons. The last
named variety is regarded great delicacy by the
poor whites and negroes, who manage to make many
a meal off the birds which must be shot surrepti-
tiously, as they protected by the game laws of
South Carolina and infractons vigorously prose-
cued.
In an effort to preserve a few specimens the Louis
lana Audubon Society is watching a rookery
butchers Island, named after William butcher,
president of the National Association of Audubon So
cieties where six eight pairs of snowy herons
constantly guarded by warden. The island is in the
Gulf and is within the Breton Island Reservation.
The society hopes to largely increase the colony.
Naturalists say there is no real reason why the
nor hn IN
mon If accorded protection in all the coast States
south of II degrees north latitude the Atlantic
coast and south of 45 degrees the Pacific coast.
After the breeding sragglers have been known
to wander far north Nova Scotia and Ontario.
The birds insist upon solitude. and their colonies
are usually we'll away from towns and railroads The
wholesale pumage dealers use this argument as the
reason for the birds scarcity asserting that the in
roads of civilization in Florida for instance, have
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29
SONGS.

BY JOHN ERNEST WARREN.
YaY NE happy day my heart went to you, dearest;
A@A One golden day your heart became my own
To me you were the dearest and the nearest;
o, tell me- dearest, whittier has love fowne
Love is not dead, dear heart nor is it dying;
It's sleeping where the morning gIories blow,
1t will find us, sometime, somewhere, dearest sigh
o, love will come again to us, know.
EWS asst year the skies were bluer
The fields were greener, dear;
The rivers song truer
Last year.
Last year my heart lighter,
And life was brighter, dear,
Because my soul was whittier
Last year.
4% Il -
TM7 NDER the olden, golden Skies
WN One summer day in bygone years
looked into your sweet, true eyes,
And in them saw love, through tears
The birds singing on the wing,
My heart singing in my breast;
No queen you envied, no king,
For love was our sweet, blessed guest.
Life flowed on like a rivers song,
One summer day, my dearest dear.
The day short, but love was long;
The rivers song sweet and clear;
The song my heart sang sweet
And sweeter than the mown hay,
Love made the melody complete,
Gre summer day; one summer day.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-25

Whereas, in times past it had been
the custom in sundry places and in divers
manners as seemed fitting, on the recur-
renee each year Of the season wherein joy
and friend1iness abound, for all to ex-
perience feelings of good fellowship and
express Fluctuations and best wishes in
acknowledgment of good relations and in
furtherence thereof
Now Therefore know ve that the
good things ye have said and done in our
favor in the past be not forgotten and these
presents bear witness to the gratitude we
hold unto thee, and signify our constancy
of purpose to continue in thy good favor,
IL
Whereas, it is wise and profitable to
interchange sentiments of cordial greeting
and friendship, expressly at this time, and
especially with those for whom sincere re-
gard is entertained, and
H.
Whereas, desiring that this laudable
custom may continue to prevail we hereby
in honest purpose and loyalty, bring to you
these presents,
H.
Wishing, you health, happiness, pros
perity and all the good things accompany
ing them, together with compliments of
this joyful season; also bespeaking for YOU
a most Happy New Year filled with b]es-
sings beyond measure.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-25
THE : FORBIDDEN FRUIT.
No Authority For Saying 1t Was an
Apple That Eve Ate.

No Authority For Saying It Was an
Apple That Eve Ate.
"Vhat d vast amount Of trouble the
human race might have avoided ii Eve
hadn't eaten that apple remarked the
grouchy individual when something
especially dispIeased him.
How do you know it was an ap-
ple?" asked the accurate man.
why, the Bible says so. doesn't it,
mo. 81. 1t has come to be popular
belief that the fruit which was eaten
by our first parents In the garden
eastward in Eden was an apple. but
there is no authority for this.
1T is called simply the. fruit of the
tree Of knowledge of good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food and that it was
pleasant to the eyes and tree to be
desired to make one wise she took of
the fruit thereof and did eat and gave
also to her husband with her, and be
did eat What is there here about an
apple?
"A great many popular quotations
are attributed to the Bible when in
fact they had other sources.
"'God tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb is not from the Scriptures, but
from "A Sentimental Journey to Italy,
by Sterne.
"'In the midst of life we are in
DEATH which is found in the burial
service. can be traced to Luther.
From St. Paurs utterance. The love
Of money is the root of all evil we
have twisted the saying. Money is the
root of evil Cleanliness Is next to
godliness' was uttered by John Wes-
ley in q sermon on dress. The merci-
full man is merciful to his beast is a
popular rendering Of the proverb, "A
righteous man regardeth the life Of his
beast The tongue is an unruly men,
ber' appears In the epistle of James as
The tongue can no man tame; it is
an unruly evil "-Philadelphia North
American.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-25
ROOSEVELT'S BIC HUhT IN AFRICA
How tie, Former President Stopped
Just IN Time the Charge Of
q Huge Wounded
RhInoCeros.

YIN the December Scribner's ex-
President Theodore Roosevelt In
his article on African Game
Trails" tells how it feels to have
big rhinoceros charging on one with
nothing between one and certain death
but rife. Describing how be killed
the rhinoceros with two shots. he says
''rhe huge beast was standing in en-
drely open country, although there
were a few scattered trees Of no great
size at some little distance from him.
We left our horses in a dip of the
ground and began the approach. /
cannot say that we stalked him. for
the approach was too easy. The wind
blew from him to us, and a rhino's
sight is dull. Thirty yards from where
he stood was bush four or i've feet
high, and, though it was so thin that
we could distinctly see him through
the leaves. it shielded us from the
vision of his small. piglike eyes as we
advanced toward it. STOPPING and in
single die, leading. The big beast
stood like an uncouth statue, his hide
black In the sunlight He seemed
what he was-a monster surviving
over from the worlds past. from the
days when the beasts Of the prime ran
riot in their strength, before man grew
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-25
TO WIN IN FOUR ROUNDS.

Jim Jeffries Dreamed Twice That He
Had Knocked Out Jack johnson.
Jim Jeffries, the pugilist who is
matched to fight Jack johnson for the
heavyweight championship of the
world. will knock out the negro pugil-
list in the fourth round of their mill
If dreams are made Of real stuff. JET
fries recently told his parents while
visiting them at Springfield, ILL.,. that
he dreamed twice Of the coming mill
and each dream found him winner by
the knockout route in the fourth round.
Just after the articles were signed
Jim dreamed he had won by, knock
out In the fourth, he told Sam Berger,
his. manager. In Akron soon after
ward Jeffries again dreamed Of the
fight. with the same result 1t is
long swing that is to put ont Johnson.
according to the dream stun.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-25
A BEAVER DAM.
The Feeling II inspired In univer-
sity Professor.

The Feeling II inspired In Univer'
sity Professor.
/ have yet to meet the man who can
walk for the first time through beav-
er works. as the range Of colony of
beavers is called, and not feel some
thing of the sentiment of human asso-
citation.
1t is sensation very similar to what
we feel when we come out unexpected
ly into a woodland clearing after q
long day spent In the unbroken soil
tudes.
once stood with learned professor
Of Columbia college on the bank of a
stream In eastern Canada and looked
down on freshly made beaver dam
one of the best in point of construc-
ton that l had ever seen. 1t was. In.
deed. really stupendous affair for a
beaver to have made. Built of alder
poles and brush. weighted with mud
and small stones. it was fifty feet long.
six feet high and raised the level OF
the water by about sixty inches.
Seen from the upstream side. it pre-
scented the appearance of a more or
less evenly disposed array of short
sticks protruding from long mound
Of mud just level with the surface of
the restrained water From below the
brushwood supporting the dam proper
was plainly visible and the ingenuity
Of its placing at once apparent
F., There was Of course none Of that
pile driving or basket weaving which
at one time pla yed so large part in
the picturesque descriptions by fanci-
ful writer's. but despite its roughness
it was a really remarkable piece Of
animal engineering. My companion in
spected it for several minutes in i'm
pressed silence.
I Il should be afraid to kill thing
that knew so much" he said thought
fully.-Bailey's Magazine.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-25
ILLUSTRATING a Definition,

In proving match to the browbeat-
ing lawyer the woman witness is prob
ably in the majority At recent case
in court a woman witness was giving
very damaging evidence against the
prisoner. and the attorney for the de-
Tense. nettled at her manner. decided
to embarrass her IL be could.
I'm giving your testimony. madam. l
observe that you are constantly using
the word irony May l ask If you
comprehend its true meaningr'
"Weli. think do. l will illustrate.
II were to cali you a gentleman l
should unquestionably be INDUCING in
most decided irony."-Ladies' Home
Journal
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-25
Graphic Pen Picture Of the Giraffe
as a Striking Feature Of
the Great African ....,
Landscape.

nary or prehensne Tipped rhinoceros--
the giraffe is a browsing and not a
grazing animal. The leaves, buds and
twigs Of the mimosas or thorn trees
form it's customary food. Its extraor-
binary height enables 1t to bring into
play to the best possible advantage its
noteworthy powers of vision. and no
animal is harder to approach unseen.
Again and again l have made it out
a mile off. or. rather. have seen it a
mile Off when it was pointed out to
me, and. looking at it through my
glasses, would see that it was gazing
steadily at us.
Looks Awkward Even at Rest.
1T is striking looking animal and
handsome in its way, but its length Of
leg and neck and sloping back make it
appear awkward even at rest. When
alarmed it may go Off at long swing
ing pace or walk, but If really fright
Iened it strikes into peculiar gallop
or canter. The tail is cooked and twist
ed, and the huge hind legs are thrown
forward well to the outside Of the fore
legs. The movements seem deliberate.
and the giraffe does not appear to be
going at fast pace. but If 1t has any
start horse must gallop hard to over