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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06
CAPTAIN COOK AND CANNIBALS.

Portion of His Viscera Said to Have Been
Eaten by Mistake.
A new version of the alleged canni-
balism on the body of Captain Cook,
who discovered the Hawaiian Islands,
has been brought to light by the su-
perintendent of public works, JameS
Boyd. Captain Cook was killed in
177S near Kealakakua bay, on the
Kona coast of the island of Hawaii.
The British government erected a
monument to his memory near the
place where he was buried. Accord
ing to accepted accounts, parts of
Cooks body were eaten by the natives
who killed him, in the ferocity of the
passions engendered by the dispute
which led to his death.
Superintendent Boyd, who is part
Hawaiian, and well versed in Hawai-
ian traditions, recently visited Korl
and met many old Hawaiians, who
received the tale of Captain Cooks
death from eye-witnesses. Boyd gath
cred from them a well-connected &C
count, which varies considerably from
that which has been accepted by the
historians.
After the death of Captain Cook.
who had been regarded by the natives
as god, it was decided to make an
offering of his body to the gods. The
viscera was taken out and placed in
calabash, to be offered to one of the
powerful gods of the sea of Hawaiian
theology, the viscera being considered
higher and better Offering than any
other part of the body. The remainder
of the body was to be offered to an
other but less powerful god. While
the viscera was in the calabash await
ing a suitable time for the sacrifice, il
was found by children, who, mistak-
ing it for the viscera of pig, which
was considered a great delicacy, built
fire and cooked and ate most of j.
The remainder of the body. as all ac.
counts substantially agree, was after
ward returned to Cooks successor in
command of his vessel
Natives who gave this account to
Mr.. Boyd showed him the place where
the calabash containing the visceTa
children. The part of Kona where
Captain Cook was killed, though dense
ly populated and a very important
part of the islands at the time of
Cooks death, soon ceased to be i'm
portant by the removal of the King s
residence to La Hama, and afterward
to Honolulu, as kamehameha the
Great advanced with his conquest of
the islands. 1t has remained ever since
the place least influenced by alien
immigration. and today more than
anywhere else the Hawaiians of Kona
retain their primitive habits of living,
industries and pagan beliefs, and some
vestiges of the old practices. On this
account Mr.. Boyd thinks this account
Of the affair worthy of belief.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06
Alcoholis in GERMANY

A Society for the Suppression of Alec.
hoilsm met recently in Bresiau to con-
sider the drink question in Germany and
found that it had distinct cause for en-
couragement in its tremendous undertak-
ing. Americans are so used to hearing
German customs of drinking upheld az
the proper ones to be introduced in this
country that it is something of a shock
for them to learn that the per capita con-
sumption of alcohol in Germany is ten
quarts every year. or five glasses of gin
day for every Gsrman-man, woman or
chlld. The empire, it appears, spends
50.000000 year on drink. as against
$4,000, 100000 for food. In the light of
these statistics. the desirability of Ger
man beer gardens in our American cities
Is open to much question.
As matter of fact, although there may
be much less drunkenness in a beer-con-
Stunning country the dulling effect of the
drink upon the intellect and the physique
are too patent for discussion. A Munich
employer of many skilled workmen. in
speaking last summer of the difficulties
of competing with foreign and even North
German concerns. laid stress upon the
cheapness of Munich beer as one of his
greatest handicaps. "If we were on equal
terms in every other respect he said,
''the fact that my mems brains and bodies
are sodden with beer, day and night, would
put me behind in the race
The society in question denounced its
own Government for introducing alcohol
into its colonies. One-third Of the Ger
man imports into Tongoland and one-sev-
enth of those into German East Africa, it
appears, consists OF alcohol-New York
Post
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF lNTEMPERkNcE.

Loss Bv Fire and Loss by the Drink Curse
- Money Spent For Liquor in Two
Years Equals Fire Losses of Twenty
five Years.
In recent number of Leslies Weekly
there appears contribution in which the
losses by fire in the United States are in,
telligently discussed from the standpoint
of the statistician. 1t appears that during
the past twenty-six years fire losses have
reached total of $3.50, ia ,02l, and that
the uninsured losses aggregate about ST.!
l00,000,000. The losses OF the present year
slightly exceed $3.50, 600.
Commenting upon this the New York
Journal of Commerce says:
ut is clear that the enormous fire waste
United States, and it is strange that pub.
lie opinion is 80 dull regarding this waste,
No other nation could stand such a drain
and no other nation would.
These figures present a valuable compar.
lson by means of which it is possible to ap.
preelate with some degree of exactness the
enormous losses caused by the drink traffic.
The people of the United States pass over
the bars of the saloons and hotels in only
little more than two years time sum
OF money equal to the aggregate fire losses
OF the country for more than a quarter Of
a century. Every dollar, every cent. OF
that enormous sum is Just az really lost as
II the man who parts with it should burn
it up. Indeed, when all the facts of the
case are considered he is vastly worse off
than if he had lost by fire property to the
value of the amount which he spends for
drink, for he would be infinitely the gain.
er in the transaction if when he has put
his money in the liquor sellers hands that
worthy should refuse to carry out his part
of the contract and should withhold the
liquor that has been paid for.
A minutes consideration of the facts
will show that this is the proper way Of
looking at the matter. In the case of the
property destroyed by fire the loss lies not
in the fact that certain material objects
have been destroyed 1t would be per-
fectly possible that such destruction should
take place without any real loss to any
body. The loss lies in the fact that cit
izen, or certain citizens. have been obliged
to part with their possessions without val
liable return for them The parallel be-
tween loss by fire and loss by drink. this
principle being kept in mind, becomes
clear: The man who has spent the value
Of a house for drink has lust as really lost
his money as if his houee had been burned,
for not a cent of his expenditure brought
back to him the slightest valuable return.
These facts present an astounding mar
vel. Well may the words of the Journal
of Commerce he quoted: "It is strange
that public opinion is so dull regardinD
this waste. The New Voice.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06
Alcohol Does Not Heat.

Since alcohol contains no nitrogen is
cannot, of course, take any part in the
building up of wasted or worn-out tissue.
That alcohol is almost completely burned
up when taken in quantity OF a half ounce
or little more at a time, and that its
burning is attended, by the production OF
heat is also proved by exact methods of
experimentation. In spite, however, OF
the fact that 1T is burned and heat is thus
produced, the temperature of the body is
raised for only few moments and then
falls below the normal. These phenomena
are due to one of two causes or both of
them, namely, alcohol produces tempor-
ary dilatatiop of the surface vessels and
thus increases heat radiation sufficiently
to more than compensate for the increased
production of heat, if more heat is really
produced; or, the narcotic effects of the
alcohol diminish the heat produced by les
sening chemical change. 1t is quite GER
tain, however, that the first cause given is
entirely responsible for the fall of tempera-
ture. Recent experiments have been
made upon this same point and the con-
clusions drawn therefrom differ from those
above, which are universally accepted by
physicians to be true, but these conclu-
sions were based upon a misinterpreta-
tion of results. We may say, therefore,
without fear of successful contradiction,
that alcohol is not source of bodily heat.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

Signor Marconi, who is not prone 10
talking overmuch for publication, has
announced that at St. Johns, N. F..
he has received communications by
wireless telegraph from Cornwall, Eng.
"a distance of nearly 1000 miles. This
would be deemed incredible in he or
dinary course of events, since the gen.
eral public has become largely accus-
toned to discounting heavily the
dreams and indealistic aspirations VI
enthusiastic inventors. But Marconi
has used his utmost endeavor to es-
cape this fatal classification. What he
has accomplished in telegraphy with
out wires is a matter of scientific rec
ord, and the successful operation Of
his system of communication over dis
tances Of from $50 to 200 miles has be-
come recognized factor in maritime
equipment and service. The lines of
inquiry upon which he has been work.
ing are scarcely known even to him
self, and none would venture to set
bounds to their extension But the &C.
tual o'erleaping Of the Atlantic by =.
Marconi message is a startling expan-
sion Of what the scientific world had
heretofore insisted upon CHASING as a
sort of ingenious toy. Given the ini-
tial power to surmount the hitherto
insuperable obstacle of distance and
electrical invention will make short
work of the remaining elements of the
problem of wireless communication.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

After ALL the world doesn't move
very swiftly. James Hargreates, in
ventor of the spinning Jenny. was
mobbed Stage coach men tried to
kill the engineer who piloted the FIRST
railroad train. Now the Anglo-Amerl.
can Telegraph company orders Mar
conf to get off the piece of earth il
owns or stop trying to perfect an i'll.
vention that may injure It's cable
traffic.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06
The Crusade in Brief.

There has been a growing agitation in
favor Of temperance in France in recent
years.
Wherever the liquor trade is sanctioned
by law it's followers will be found to- be
stcklers for the law.
In the Canadian Parliament a resolution
is to be introduced asking for the passage
of prohibitory liquor law
From the smallest patch on earth you
can see the stars; from the grog shop you
can see the workhouse and the prison.
A great pledge signing campaign for
temperance forces of that country.
In 1900 the cost of elementary educatiou
in England was fS,973,8l7. The amount
spent in strong drink was fl60, 0,S9l ,7lS.
In 1898 there were III 900 drink shops in
Belgium, one for every thirty-five inhabit'
ants. These figures do not include hotels.
restaurants or small grocers.
Recently schooner left Boston harbor
for the west coast of Africa with cargo
of rum and gin valued at over $4,000. 1t
will take a good many missionary contrl-
buttons to counterbalance the curse of that
cargo.
The Grand Lodge of Free Masons OF
Georgia, recently in convention at Macon,
adopted report recommending that per-
sons who engage in the manufacture OF
sale of liquors after joining lodge shall
be expelled.
A writer in the New York Sun says y
venture to say that man with eand and
power to break policemen for failure to en-
force the law would close tine saloons SO
quick that reformers, ministers and every
one else would be surprissd."
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

child are asses. How can l explain?"
Suppose you leave the explanation
to your new secretary" said Emily.
Let me suggest" said Spencer, with
happy smile, that you leave 1T to
the junior member of the new firm Of
Quarles & Grant"
And then the grim old man chuckled.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

The Duchess of Sutherland anG An.
drew Carnegie are Jointly interested
in a technical school near Galspie,
Scotland. Its purpose is the instruc-
ton OF young men and women in the
art of earning a comfortable liyeli-
hood in the MISUNDERSTANDING
weaving, dyeing, needlework, cooking,
laundering, scientific dressmaking,
poultry breeding and dairying.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

The attempt to make all the people
Of Neuberg, Ger, go to bed at 1890
on pain of 10 days in prison, has re-
suited in a window smashing and a
general revolt From which it is clear
that one can't do everything he likes
in Germany, even in so simple mat
ter as going to bed.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

The late Philip Armour was said to
have incurred the disease which killed
him by overwork. This preternatural
activity is one of the prices of sue
cess, and one of the chief pleasures
of the lives of successful business
men. 1t is not merely or the dollars
that men of great wealth assume new
responsibilities, but for the pleasure
which they find in constant employ
ment. Mr.. Rockefeller is now said
to be suffering the consequences of
prolonged overwork. Able to employ
the most famous chef, his dietary is
limited to crackers and skinned milk
at blood heat. With the means to buy
the most rapid automobile and the fast
est horses, he is not allowed to ride
for pleasure, but must walk given
distance every day. He cannot cruise
about in his yacht nor indulge in
other pleasures which his income of
$3O,0O0vO0 a year would enabl, him
to do.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

Monte Carlo has special cemetery
for gambling victims who commit sui
eide. Since 1860 over 1000 graves have
been dug there.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

There are different ways of render.
ing a navy invisible Great Britain
is experimenting with paint. Spain
tried fighting, and it worked.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

Ontario has an abnormally low birth
rate, lower than that of any European
country, but not lower than that Of
some of the adjoining American states,
notably Michigan and New Hamp
shire, the former being Is in 1865 and
the latter 19 in 1895.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

The new Siamese minister at Wash.
ington is to devote all his time tn the
diplomatic relations of his country
with the United States. The old sys-
tenn under which he would have nad te
act as representative to England. Hol.
land and Belgium has come to ar end
This is very significant, as showing
the serious way in which the Orientals
now regard us as a world power. as
compared with their attitude even 9
few years ago.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

An Iinnois man after courting his
they might not be Temperament ally
fitted for each other, and so he com.
mitted suicide. She kept him guess.
ing a good while.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

Any one who is interested in tho
market value OF fame may like to
know that at a sale of phorograp phs
bearing the autographs of the subjects,
Mr.. Watterson, the editor, brought
$3.50 and General Miles $3.50. Three
dollars and half appeared to be the
military evaluation, for pictures of
General Sherman and General Sheri-
dan each sold for that sum. The pho
tograph of the late William Flarence,
the actor, sold for $3.50, that of Sena-
tor Blackburn for 81, a crayon Of
George Washington for $3.50, g pho,o-
graph of Buffalo Bill'' for $1.50, and
one OF General Boulanger for 25 cents,
or cents less than the current quo
tation of the bray generals fame.
states Golfers Weekly.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

A woman cashier has defaulted. This
should end all controversy over the
question whether woman can really
fill mans place or not.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

According to a recent bulletin of the
census office, there was one patent TAX
en- out in Connecticut in 1900 for each
100 persons. In 1890 the figures were
enc for each 796 persons.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

The Holland boat has one advan-
tage over all the other submarine
boats. 1t has demonstrated its ability
to come up after going down.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

1t is easier for camel to pass
through the eye of needle than it is
for rich man to please all with his
charities.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

II you want something with which
to resist electricity buy an elephant.
Old Jumbo II at Buffalo walked of
under 2200 volts
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

The moment a man ceases to grow
he begins to diminish. Such is the
conclusion at which German physi'
clan has arrived, after several months
careful study of the subject of human
height. Men, so it is asserted, begir
women a little before they are 40
Men, however, stop growing when they
are so, and for five or six years theii
stature remains stationary. Then il
decreases, at first very slowly, but af
terward more rapidly.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

Where did it come from. No tree
ern or northern Alaska, and yet thest
shores for thousasds of miles ant
the islands Of Bering sea are strewl
with immense quantities of driftwood
in places piled high on the beach
bearing testimony to the work of tht
rivers. This drift is the salvation o.
the Eskimo, furnishing him with fue
and material for houses, boats ant
sleds. 1t would seem that nature pro
vides for the necessities of the hu
man race under all circumstances ant
conditions.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

The first organ in Boston, offered
to the Brattle Square church in 1713.
was unanimously and curtly declined
by that organization; and its setting
up in Kings Chapel was attended by
about as much agitation as the intro
duction of the wooden horse into Troy.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

These Japanese mothers in Hawaii
work in the fields. the children being
left at home to grow up more like
animals than human beings. The wife
is the absolute property of her hus-
band, the child of its parent. and H.
year-old girls are sold for immoral pur-
poses for $40.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

A writer in the Westminster Re
view remarks that the attitude of Eng
land toward Russia has been ''vacil.
lating, absurd, and without result
and that the object Of British diplo
macy has apparently been to thwarf
important Russian schemes, in order
to obtain unimportant advantages fol
Great Britain. There is much trutf
in this view. Russia has been fol
many years, to the British ''nan ir
the street. whose views must ultt.
mately come to be those of the Brit.
ish government, a kind of bogey, al
ways plotting something TO the detri.
ment of England. For example, the
aim OF British diplomacy was for q
long time to cut Russia off from the
ice-free port on the Pacific which wai
q most legitimate requirement Of Rus.
sian expansion, and the natural ter.
minus of the trans-Siberian road
which, without such port, would lose
much of its usefulness. Now, IN spite
of Great Britain, though more at the
expense of American than of British
trade, Russia has acquired such port
in the Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li, and the Brit
ish opposition has been rot only un-
availing but irritating. 1t is certainly
not good diplomacy to incur az the
same time enmity and defeat
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

The bureau of animal industry has
in the last few years won Z high
place in the scientific world, and from
all the civilized countries comes l.;gh
praise for what it has accomplished
and for the impetus it has given te
investigation along similar lines.
Veterinarians, agriculturists and tht
consumers of meats the world ovei
owe much to the American bureau
said distinguished scientist from E,t
rope recently, who had come to The
United States to study the methods ol
this department. IL is far above any
other institution of The kind i'll tht
world, and our debt 10 it cannot bt
overestimated. It's officers are the
most enthusiastic AMI devoted scien.
lists l ever met, ami richly deserve
the applause of humanity for what
they have already done and what they
are doing"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-02-06

The Jordan is the "Descender.'
During it's course it falls over 120C
feet At no point is it navigable, even
by small craft, to any considerable
distance. and presents the unique
spectacle of river which has never
been navigated flowing into a sea
which contains not one living crea-
ture.
A Missouri sportsman tells of a nun.
ter who, on trip through the terri
tory, shot two wild turkeys from the
car platform The obliging conductor
stopped and backed his train SO that
the birds could be picked up. When
he sent in his report of the delay of
the "old man" he also sent along a
piece of wild turkey-and everything
was lovely.
A case which is. probably unique in
academic annals happened recently at
the Budapest university. A confirmed
lunatic, an inmate Of the local asy-
lIm, appeared at the university, ac-
companied by keeper, and applied
to pass his examination. He was
quite successful in all the tests, and
having duly received his diploma as
a professor he returned to the asy-
lIm.
In Siberia rivers flow over ice. ola
and solid as rock. A tributary of the
Lena river has underneath the soil
which forms the bed Of the river.
bed of pure ice over nine feet thick.
A freak of nature is the lost river in
Kentucky. 1t is known as the Hidden
river, because no one knows its orr
gin, and it vanishes into a cave lead
ing no one knows where 1t flows
without a ripple, and is of a pale
blush color. Speaking of color, the
Chinese believe that the Yellow river
has always been of its present hue.
except one day about 5000 years ago.
on which occasion a great man was
born, and tie water was clear for "a
hours
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-10-15
JOHN MITCHELL.

When reading of battling armies
one is curious to learn Of the generals
who direct the movements of the men
behind the guns. Wherever the tele-
graph or cable has told men and
women that there is strike in pro-
gress in the anthracite region in Penn
sylvania it has made mention that the
miners were under the leadership of
one John Mitchell, president of the
United Mine Workers of America.
"Who is this John Mitchell, and
where did he come FROM" is asked
by hundreds who have forgotten his
exploits in 1900 when he and his thou
sands Of followers were victorious in
their battle with the operators. Not
yet thirty-four years of age this.leader
of thousands of ignorant miners by a
800, 600, 900 upon the people Of the
United States. Who is the man and
whence came his powers of organiza-
ton and control? BY his own indom-
inaitable pluck and will John Mitch
ell has made himself the recognized
head of the mine workers of America.
He was fatherless at four years of age.
His education covered period of only
four years-from six until ten years Of
age he was a scholar in backwoods
district in Illinois. Upon entering
his teens young Mitchell was obliged
to shift for himself and secured en-
ployment as breaker boy at coal
mine. This boy who was destined to
lead one of the largest, if not the
largest, divisions of the industrial
army of America has had trade union
ism drilled into his mind since sixteen