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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-08-07
MANS NEW FAD.

Steel Wastcoat the Latest Paris Craze
and ST. John Gaffney first Ameri-
can to Adapt 1t.
Bullet and sword proof waistcoats
Of beautiful polished solid steel are
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-08-07
No Protecting Arm.

Marjorie-Miss Oldgirl fell out OF
a hammock the other day.
Madge-Was she awfuIly humili-
ated?
u should say so. 1t showed she
hadn't a man with her."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-08-07

the latest Partisan craze. st. John
Gaf'ney, New York society man, is the
first American to adopt it. The
curious vests are of beautiful patterns.
Here is the waistcoat and the gent"
who adorns 1t is Saint John himself.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-08-07

Gent proof to warrant serious dis.
cussion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09
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cept bad taste why they should not have
a real existence. The gloom of the fir tree,
magnificent. no doubt. in its own northern
forest. is mere homogeneous dreariness
when 1t is dotted about a suburban lawn.
Nothing will thrive under it. and often il
will not thrive Itself. but the apple, with
all the associated beauty of the country
side. gives us fruit and blossom and CRATE
full shade. In the grass under II will grow
daffodils. columbines, irises and many
other plants. Or 1t may be trained as
hedge to divide one part of the garden
from another. and with all these uses may
still produce great crops of fruit. Ii would
be pleasant task for the suburban gar
dener with his half-acre OF ground to grow
three or four choice apple trees with the
care that others give TO rosesA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09
MYTHS OF HAWAII.
Cannibalism Not a Habit of the Is
land Aborigines.
Prom the Honolulu Advertiser.

Prom the Honolulu Advertiser.
Nothing seems to be more firmly fixed
In foreign opinion about the native people
of Hawaii than the idea that they once
were cannibals and that, at the time of
Captain Cooks visit they numbered 400
coo souls. \ recent issue of the Anglican
Church Chronicle quotes the Rev. DIR. Geo.
w. Vandewater as saying that a congre-
CATION Of 5000 native Hawaiians showed
what had been done by the church with
people who. but fifty years ago were eat
ers Of human flesh" 1t was a most amaz-
Ing statement to come from any pulpit
but it fairly represents the average. unin-
telligent opinion of the masses To such
critics all islands between Cancer and
Capricorn were once inhabited by canni-
balls, though scientists declare that very
many of them indeed. including particular
ly the Hawaiian group. had no man-eat-
ing savages
The native traditions here 50 far as
can be traced. are quite accurate. For
example. their mele which tells of the ar
rival on the beach some three hundred
years ago of two white strangers who
when they got ashore. knelt and told their
beads. corresponds almost precisely as to
date with the Spanish narrative of the
loss OF ships by kona storm from a fleet
of galleons, passing south of here while
trading between Acapulco and Manila As
10 the Cook tradition. as 1t exists in the
Kona district. where the British nayiga tor
was killed and where the natives are more
nearly in their primitive state than else
where. it discards the cannibal theory by
means Of a simple explanation.
According to- the account. after the
death of Captain Cook, who, during most
of his intercourse with the natives had
been regarded by them as a god it was
decided by the natives to make an Offer
ing OF his body to the gods. The yiscera
were taken out and placed in a calabash
to be offered to one Of the powerful gods
of the sea of the Hawaiian theogony, the
Viscera being considered higher and bet
: ter Offering than any other part of the
i body The remainder Of the body was to
! be offered to a less powerful god. While
! the yiscera was in the calabash Ii was
found by some children, who mistaking It
; for the viscera of pig which was con-
; sidered a great delicacy, built fire, cook
ed and ate It OF part OF Ii. The remainder
OF the body, as all accounts substantially
agree. was afterward returned to Cook 8
successor in command of the vessel
A bit of circumstantial evidence lies in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09

the fact that, many years ago, native
lived in Hawaii who was practically an
outcast among his people because ne was
Relieved TO have once eaten human flesh.
name Indicative of horror and contempt
was coined for him.
AS to the theory that 100000 people lived
here in Cooks time 1t was disputed about
forty years ago by James jackson Jarves
and has never appealed strongly to other
Investigators. The 100000 estimate was
Cooks own, and he based it on the vast
crowds he met at every landing place and
upon the number of natives he saw along
shore. He did not know that the Ha-
waiians, good walkers and runners all,
followed his ship from point to point and
that he was seeing thousands over and over
again. Furthermore. there was not food
enough in this group for 100000 people, nor
was the social system of the people calcu-
lated to stimulate the growth Of popula-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09

to spare the life of ones feliow-being, the
cow. how about sparing the life Of one s
fellow-being, the asparagus? There is in
India a class Of people who wear cloth
strainers over their mouths to keep out all
insects and to avoid the taking of the life
Of any creature. This is part Of their re-
lfgion. When the English micro
scope proved to them that there were mil
lions of creatures in the water they drank,
their religion was some time in a state of
transition. So with the yegetarians. Their
what discredited by present-day science.
The argument from the standpoint of
physical welfare, however. is still to be
heard. Here every man has to judge for
himself. Stomachs, like stars. differ from
ninety on canvas-back ducks and pIuri-
bus unum cocktails. To one man 1t Is beer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09
For the Encampment.

the Senate today passed a resolution
authorizing the Commissioners to Issue to
steam railroad companies In the District
permits TO temporarily occupy additional
parts of streets for the purpose of accom-
mOdating the travelling public attending the
encampmeut of the Grand Army of the Re
public in October. 1902. Such temporary
occupation shall not exceed the period Of
fifteen days. and shall be subject To condi-
lions prescribed by the Commissioners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09
First Corps Plans.

All veterans of the artillery or infantr
who served with the LIST Corps of the Arm
OF the Potomac are requested to meet a
the red parlor of the EbbItt House. Satur
day. May TO- at 40 pm. TO consider way
and means for the entertainment Of III
corps comrades during the 6. A r. en-
campment next October.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09

that is poisonous. to another man 1t is
benedfctine. Your truly catholic man. of
course. finds nothing common on God s
EARTH" and eats and drinks everything set
before him, making himself the well-round-
ed product of all the edibies and potables
in the world. Narrower natures have a
narrower range. Climate, too, must be con-
sidered. One shonid not try to live on
whale-blubber in Bengal on rice in
Greenland. Nature herself has directed man
in such matters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09
Apple Trees for Beauty.
From the Tendon Speaker.

T rom The Lcnd0h Speaker.
Apple trees are so beautiful. even when
bare of bloom and fruit, that they should
be grown in pleasure gardens. like liIacs
and lal,urnums. Tennyson speaks of or
chard lawns, and there is no reason ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09
A VEGETARIAN REVIVAL.
Hard to Define the Line Separating
Plant and Animal Life.
From the CHICAGO Tribune

Now that soup bones are sold by the
ounce and steak is measured out like cav
lar, the voice Of the vegetarian is heard In
the land, calling upon the public to save
its money. regain its health, and cleanse
Its soul by change of diet. Now. of all
times, Is 1t opportune to cease from prey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09

ton. Between the wars and the sacrifice
Of the young and the occasional lean years,
1t Is doubtful II the aborigines, when at
their numerical zenith, had among them
more than 10000 souls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09

Your purchases will be
charged at actual cash
prices; payments weekly
or monthly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09

The Hecht Stores will
be open for your shop
ping convenience until Q
pm. Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09
ing upon ones fellow animals. and to begin
to nourish ones self on the fruits of tee
earth. Now, as Mr.. Gilbert would say:
sentimental passion
OF vegetable fashion
Must arouse your languld spl
An snection a ic Plato,
For a bashful young potato,
Or NOT too French French

Or not too French French bean.
It will be difficult, of course,>s all vege-
tarians must admit, to fix exactly the line
between the vegetable and the animal
worlds, and to make trespassing impossi-
BILE. AS a recent writer has pointed out
the general acceptance Of the evolutionary
theory has precluded any such line of divis-
ion. There is a gradual rise from the blade
of grass to man. and the declaration that
all flesh Is grass has a physical as well as
a spiritual meaning. No one can tell just
where the vegetable merges into the ami
NAL. The one is a living thing and so Is
the other. If, therefore. one Is anxious
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09
: $50: -HECHTS1 GREATER STORES = $780,
The Hecht &erAine Is &atiSfactorn Sax,ice .

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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-18
Doll From Martinique.


An interesting relic of the ill-fated
town Of Saint Pierre-to-wit, an old:
fashioned Martinique doll-has been
installed at the Musee Pedagogique,
where there are dolls representing
many French reigns and nearly all the
French colonies. The doll from Mar
Unique left the island a few days be-
fore the great eruption. This play
thing is survival of the time when
black slaves wore certain stuffs in
troduced into Martinique by the Nor
mans, who originally colonized it. AS
did the planters wives of former times
and as do the negresses Of the pres
ent day, she wears a red and yellow
handkerchief tied round her head,
with the ends rising up above her
forehead, and gown of coarse eta
mine or canvas cloth, so called be.
cause it preceded the hair sieve as a
strainer, and cambria apron of stuff
that in the early days of the last CEN
fury the children of the Saint Pierre
Orphanage used to weave The gown
and apron are much longer than the
rudimentary legs. The head is large,
and the body stuffed with bran. The
doll was found with other toys in a
press after the decease of a very old
lady, who received it., when nearly
grown up, as relic of her grand
mothers childhood The fashion in
which it is dressed prevailed from the
time the island was first cOlOnized nv
Normans, in the plantations, almost to
the present day.-London News Paris
telegram.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-18
How "Road-Runners" Kill Snakes,

Wonderful sagacity is shown by the
bird of Southern California known as
the "road-runner." AS these birds
can outrun the swifest horse they
usually choose to escape pursuit by
their speed. The road-runner, how
ever, has one mortal enemy, the rat
tlesnake. This reptile is fond of de.
vouring the road-runner's eggs when
ever it comes across a nest in the
sagebrush. But the birds often have
opportunities of revenging themselves.
Whenever they come across a Sleep
ing rattlesnake summing himself on a
warm rock they Immediately prepare
a trap for his destruction. Prickly
pears abound in those regions. The
road-runners, generally pair, at once
begin picking up the spiny- covered
leaves of this plant and piitng them
about the sleeping snake in a circle.
When their. work is completed they
give their ehemy a few pecks to awak-
en- him, and then retire to watch the
result. -
In vain the rattlesnake tries to es-
cape. The ring of prickly leaves hold
him a prisoner. At every move he
makes the spines prick him, until at
last in despair he turns, bites himself
and dies. 49,. 5<..{4.>a
y. Travellers often come across these
circles of dried leaves, with the dead
snake in the center. At first no white
man would believe the Indian tales
of this strange method the road-ruln-
ner employed in killing their mortal
enemy, but they have since been Oh.
served IL the act by several eminent
naturalists, who have corroborated
the stories told by the Indians.
The male bird is not larger than 4 {
common barnyard rooster, and His
feathers arc as gayly colored as those
Of the peacock. The hensis Of Is dark
brown sagebrush color I.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-18
SAFE IN, FIXING DATE.
Sister Took No Chances in Predict.
ing Brothers Funeral.

Sister Took No Chances in Predict
ing Brothers Funeral.
Judge Pennypacker, in public adj
Dress, once predicted a certain pop
i1lar movement as sure to occur with
in a. given time. A friend asked the
Judge If it were not rash to make q
positive statement regarding a spe-
=cific date for any occurrence, arguing
that nothing is certain. In reply, the
Judge told of a Celtic cook who asked
her mistress one Monday for leave OF
absence the following Sunday to at
tend her, brothers funeral. II IS s. =. =;
81 why exclaimed the mistress,
"this is only Monday Surely, no
body's going to keep a dead body a
whole week!"%E @. s~St 5f=2s1 ..E :
. I" He's not dead yet, mum, Z sex.
planned the cook. s5 5 Is Is E.s.. +
(. MOI Well, he may die to-day or
he may live a month. No doctor can
safely say that 9 person will die at
such q time that Z day may be set for
the funeral" "a s. IS. s s55 81
The doctors nothing to doswid It,
mum, & was the. further explanation.
{. i'm sure Sunday II be All roight, II
he's sintinced to be hung Friday. 8 81
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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-18

machine. Very we'll! We will make
boring machine by following the laws
of gravity and equilibrium. We need
only few things, sewing needle, a
cork, two pocketknives of equal
weight and bottle closed with a
cork. We insert the pin in one of
the corks and the eye end of the sew
ing needle in the cork, closing the
bottle. Then we open the two pocket
knives and insert them in the free
piece of cork, as shown in the illus
traticc. Now we have to balance the
two knives on the pin. For that pur-
pose we place the pin on the tip Of
one finger and have somebody else
move the knives to and fro until the
balance is reached. Then we place
the whole apparatus on the point of
the needle, as shown in Illustration.
The balance is easily reached by
slightly moving the pin one way or
the other When the balance is fin
ally reached we set the knives and
cork with the pin in motion by blow
ing at it. AS the sewing needle is of
hard steel, the pin of softer metal, the
turning motion of the needle will bore
a hole in the pin like boring ma
chine.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-18
WHERE HE WAS LACKING.
Railroad Man Makes Professional
Criticism of Minister.

Railroad Man Makes Professional
Criticism of Minister.
Ministers, as a. rule, are not at all
averse to telling a good story, even
at their own expense. A Baptist min
lister was SO much amused at a witty
criticism of his own preaching as he
'wcu'o have been alta similar comment
on another mans sermon.
One Sunday morning a we'll known
railway magnate came in and took
seat in a pew. It was the first time
that he had been seen at the chapel,
and his presence created some little
stir. The minister preached his SER
mon, and then, perhaps to make the
most of his opportunity, he travelled
over the same ground again in lang
uage calculated to be more impress
sive. Thus the discourse was spun
out to unusual length.
When the service ended, one of the
deacons waited for the great man and
expressed the hope that he had en-
joyed the sermon.
. eyes, it was all right" said the Wis
itor. There's only one drawback
with your minister's preaching"
what is that?'
''IIe doesn't appear to have very
good terminal facilities"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-18
Mosquitoes Hum Located.

The members of the Royal Society
OF Edinburg, reports the Detroit
News-Tribune, were interested, at a
recent meeting, in the announcement
by A. E. Shipley and Edwin Wilson of
the discovery Of an apparatus, hereto
fore overlooked or neglected, at the
base of the mosquitoes wings, where
by the characteristic humming of that
insect may be produced. The species
examined was the anopheles maculi-
pennis, and the apparatus consists of
a slightly movable bar provided with
a series of well-marked teeth which,
as the wings are raised and lowered,
rasp across a series of ridges. The
structure of the apparatus Is de-
scribed as very complex, but the mu-
sic produced, as everybody knows, is
extremely effective.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-18
Ruling Vice Strong in Death.

h Tales of the prison-house generally
come from chaplains, and make for
edifcation, Not altogether consoling,
perhaps, from that point of view, but
interesting to students of all-round hui
man nature is. q little episode which
lately happened in the grimmest Jail
in the London district. In the prison
infrmary was q man who had served
many successive terms for theft, and
who. was now wasted away and at the
point Of death from consumptio How
he fingered on was puzzle to the doc
tor, who, with his stethoscope, leant
over him for q last time. As he did
so, he saw a tremulous shadow OF 4
hand raised to his wafstcoat pocket.
and his watch distracted and put un.,
der the dying mans PILLOW. It was
the thief's last effort, a smile Of tri-
Eumph passed over his face and he Was
laad 8.s}s 49, :3;s sS
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-18
Both Were Handicapped.

On one occasion Bishop Potter was
a guest at the Storm King club Of
New York. After comfortable din
ner he sent a telegram to one OF the
officials of the New York Central rail-
road asking him to stop the night ex-
press at Storm King station, on the
opposite side of the river.
He drove down the mountain and
hired boatman to row him across
Arriving in good time, he and the
boatman waited in the rowboat until
the approaching train warned them to
seek the station, only to see the
train arrive, rush by, and disappear
into the darkness.
The bishop was irritated.
WELL" he said; II am bishop of
the Episcopal church and I suppose
my calling will not allow me to say
anything"
"We1l" replied the hoatman. 81 e~,
Methodist and my principles will
not let me say anything"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-18
[LO Y E in a COTTAGE
fcuPID's TRIUMPH OVER (. COLD,
&. s CALCULATING FATHER. &
Sweet Girl Takes Old Gentleman's
\ Own Figures and Works His Dis
"a comfiture- undreamed Of Luxury in !,
Her Reach. r.. r.. ~ :sz$ .s..s M

He was a cold, calculating father,
and he made his figures on a canary
colored blotting pad with a blue PEN
Gil. When he had finished he called
his daughter Rose into the library and
said: - ~ -, e..
Rose, that young Randall has asked
my consent to marry you." r..
| u Eyes, father" she answered, while
| blush as red as tomato mantled her
face. 49,,
Ellis salary is $40 per week."
Eyes, know, and we must practice
economy"
II have some figures here to show
you. After you have paid the rent
on your woodbine cottage, laid in
ton Of coal, paid the cooks wages, and
allowed for his cigars, you will have
! omething left out of his weekly sal
| ary.''
THAT'S the way we figure, father"
"You will have enough to buy half
a pound of poor tea, two pounds of
fish, and peck of potatoes" he stern
ly said, as he showed her the figures.
"Oh, father, but I'm so glad-so
glad! When I tell Will tonight he
| will be overwhelmed with delight"
HE will, eh? What's the matter
! with you?" gasped the old man, as he
realized that the belt had slipped off
somewhere.
why, father, we have figured on
it hundred times, and the best we
could make out was the fish and po-
tatoes, and we expected to have to
drink water for the whole first year.
We must have made mistake some
howl"
And you-you-"
II will marry him and be, oh, so
very, very happy! Thanks, darling
papa! No one can equal you when
you take pencil and sit down to
figure
He leaned back and opened his
mouth to say something further, but
! the words would not come. In the
face of such love and economy as
| that he was dumb. And she ran away
to telephone to Will that they could
also have tea twice day, and the fire
in the CRATE f1ickered and died out,
| and the incandescent light winked at
| the old man with both eyes, and he
got up and kicked the cat and growled
| to himself.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-18
BEGGAR'S NEAT COMPLIMENT.
Certainly Worth the Small Contribu-
ton Taken Up.

Certainly Worth the Small Contribu-
ton Taken Up.
Speaking of beggars the other day,
Judge Lee of Trenton told a story
which is clever enough to bear repe-
tition. On the night when the late
Gen. Sewell was chosen by the Repub-
hcan caucus as candidate for the
senate Judge Lee and two other DO
htlcal friends were standing on a
street corner, after the convention,
discussing the nomination. While
they talked a ragged and rusty speci-
men of humanity approached, and,
with courteous sweep of his tat
tered hat and bow that would have
done credit to count, addressed
Judge Lee.
Sir" said he, II trust you will
pardon me for irtruding, but 1 am in
most Strengthened circumstances, and
l would like to solicit your assistance
in my distress. I have small amount
OF money, sir, but not sufficient for
my purpose. wish to get to Newark
to see my daughter, whom l have not
beer with for many years. You are
g father, perhaps, and you can doubt
less realize the heart hunger of man
in my position. Might I ask you in
some way to assist me?"
Judge Lee was struck. by the mans
Chesterf1eldian bearing and manner.
and his hand sought his pocket. Turn
ing to his two companions, he asked
if they would care to assist the man,
and they both contributed to the little
fund AS the tramp bowed his hanks
and voiced his gratitude he turned to
Judge Lee again.
Sir" said he, 'are you the gentle
man who was nominated tonight as
a candidate for the United States sem
ate?"
NO. answered the Judge.
Great heavens" replied the tramp.
what a mistake the convention did
make Then he ambled along.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-10-18
The Mesmerized Hat,

Provide yourself with an old hat
and an ordinary black pin bent in. the
shape of the letter C. Put the hat on
table, crown upward, and secrete
the pin in your right hand. You will
borrow the hat from somebody in the
audience. On receiving it, take it in
your left hand, and while walking. to
the table place the right hand inside
and quickly push the point of the pin
up through the crown and stand the
nat on the table. You make a few
passes over the hat as if you were
mesmerizing it. Lay your left hand
fat on the hat. Slip your second fin
ger in the hook and slowly lift the hat
from the table. After this bring the
hat to the table, remove the hand, and
in returning the hat you can easily
withdraw the pin.