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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-18

to split. Striking a rock wi / have
the same effect Fishermen and
whalers give the bergs wide berth
fearing that they will be caug!, be-
meath a portion should the berg split
The noise of the rending Of the bergs
along the Labrador coast during July
and August it said to be almc,3, deaf
ening at times.
But in spite of the long drift and
the many distractions some of the
huge Dergs do reach the open waters
of the North Atantic and there have
been, from time to time, reports of
having sighted gigantic foes, some Of
which were said to be 800 to 900 feet
high and 1000 to 1000 feet long. Allow
ing a little for Imagination. and some
thing for the breadth of the berg, one
has to admit that a steamer striking
such foe would have but little
chance.
In one instance an iceberg proved
W NC q llOtlllll6 lOAlO III u COMPANY
of TWEEN; y-seven men, members of the
crew of the exploring steamer Polaris,
which, in 1872 was crushed in an ice
pack. The men managed to save Z
vast quantity of the ships stores and
were also fortunate in finding them
selves upon solid ice when the pack
broke up. In a short time the men dis
covered that they we're upon a berg
that was drifting to sea. AS long as
the be-, he'd together they felt that
they were safe, although there Is no
knowing the many horrible hours they
had through the 1875 days and nights
they were adrift upon their strange
craft. II was on the last day of April
that they managed to attract the at
tention of the sailing steamer Tigress
and in a little while they were safely
on board and enroute to civilization.
Surely no party could have, had a
more terrible experience or a closer
shave.
| Another instance in which a berg
proved TO be a life raft was when
the crew of the steamer Castlegate
sought refuge upon a berg with which
their vessel had collided and sunk
from the injury For two days and
nights the men were adrift with prac-
ticGlly no shelter, whereas the crew
of the Polaris had tents and ample
supplies. In this case, however, help
was quick, for they were rescued by a
sealer; and just in time, for there
sprang up a blizzard that broke up
the berg.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-18

or whatever it may be. This whole pro-
cess, therefore, forms a sort of arc or
loop-incoming nerve current, cell ac.
tivity, outgoing nerve impulse.
Now, for all this, there need be, and
usually is not, any sense of conscious
ness. The incoming sensory impress
sions are passed over TO the motor
without involving any conscious or
deliberate intent. This is called re
flex action" and even the most highly
developed man never outgrows this,
since whenever he blinks, when an
object is suddenly approached near
his eye, it is a reflex action, involving
no thought or consciousness.
In the training of the child much de-
ponds upon the sympathetic co-opera.
ton of the various nerves and mus
cles Says DR.. Meyer:
when a child says tome instead
of come or 'dood instead of good,
il is not necessarily. as one might he
inclined to believe, because he cannot
pronounce gutturals-they are the
class of consonants most easily pro.
duced. The reason why tome
is produced instead OF come is be-
cause the nervous conductor is more
ready to serve t and m together both
of which are produced by the speech
organs located in the front of the
mouth, and cooperating naturally in
many ways, than to serve k and m to-
gether-of which the former is pro
duced by the speech organs located in
the back part OF the mouth and there.
fore less naturally cooperating with
the other"
Such are the fundamental laws OF
the nervous system and It's functiOning
as elaborated very ingeniously by
Prof. Meyer in his Fundamental
Laws of Human Behavior" We create
or make In ourselves new paths OF
channels all the time, and especially
do we do this in the first days OF in.
fancy. Once a channel has been cut,
once a path made, it is always easier
for the nervous currents to pass over
that path. Hence the difficulty OF form
ing new habits. That is why old ones
are easier! A habit. once formed in
the nervous system, Is hard 10 change
or eradicate. For this reason We should
learn early in life to cultivate good
habits to make our nervous system
our friend instead our enemy. In
this way, it will always be easier for
us to do the right thing than the
wrong one.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-18

mingle there is frequently difference
of twenty degrees in the. temperature
of the surface sea water within a
distance of few hundred yards, and
not piece of ice within twenty miles.
On the other hand, in clear weather
these same shipmasters have passed
close to huge bergs and noted no diff
ference in the temperature of the wa
ter they have drawn to test.
Not in many years have there been
so many bergs reported as during the
past few weeks. Not only have the
floating fields been larger in extent
but they have been reported many
miles 10 the south of where they have
been reported in the past. From West
ern Greenland, where the bergs origin
ate, come reports of remarkable free
dom of ice, indicating that the entire
formation has worked lis way into the
Atlantic to become a menace to ship
ping.
In Western Greenland the bergs are
in formation all of the year, but in
the middle of summer the ice begins
to break up, setting adrift thousands
of these f1otillas Of majestic but ter
ror-inspiring formations, many OF
which reach the Grand Banks the fol
lowing spring. In size these bergs
vary, but one that is from sixty to 100
feet to the top of it's walls, with spires
or pinnacles from 200 to 275 feet high,
and a length of 1000 to 1900 feet IL
considered to be an ordinary Arctic
berg. These measurements, however
apply only to the part that may be
seen, which is generally conceded tc
be but about one-ninth of the size
eight-ninths being under the water.
When a berg, such IS described
breaks adrift from the ice pack il
starts on it's southwark journey via
the Labrador current. Its drift is no
an easy one, however, for the whole
coast of Labrador is cut up by nu
merous islands, headlands and bays
that form serious, and, perhaps, for
tunate distractions for the bergs
Some of them ground in the Arctic
basin and are ground to small pieces
others reach the shores of Labrador
where they continually ground anC
float, each time reducing their bulk
Many of them disappear entirel!
through the steady grinding.
It is remarkable how little it some
times requires to break up a hug,
berg. Often the conclusion of gun
fire will cause huge white monster
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-18
WHY THE BABY SAYS 'DA" AND
NOT GA" WHEN HE POINTS

Everyone knows that the averag
baby says "Da," and points at thing
with his tiny. chubby little finger, his
face beaming with delight and happi
ness meanwhile. Why Lhould he not
say "ba," or ga" or "ta," or "ra,"
and similar sounds,-instead of always
"da?"
The reason for this, says Profes-
sor Max Meyer, is because the nervous
impulses which are called into play
in the act of pointing, are connected
with the nerves in the front portion of
the mouth, and not with those of the
throat. The latter belong to an entire
ly different set of internal muscular
and nervous influences; and are not
so directly Connected with the move
ments of the arm in pointing. Because
of this closer connection 1t is more
easy and rational to say "da' than
to say ga" Try for yourself and you
will find it much easier to make use
of the dental than the cultural sounds,
when pointing.
This shows us that the reason for
tine childs behavior-in this particular
instances due, not to training, or
teaching, or imitation, or because OF
any mysterious interior promptings
but simply and solely because of the
fact that the paths of nervous energy
run more simply and naturally in that
way, 1t is due to the universal tend
ency to take the path of least resist
ance. II is upon this principle that
Prof Meyer builds his whole system
Of the training of the nervous sys-
stem, and the rearing and education
Of children
The life of the baby depends entirely
upon the condition of his nervous sys-
stem The life of any animal depends
upon the same thing. The early be-
havior of any animal may be explained
entirely by a study of the nervous re-
actions, says DR.. Meyer, and We need
think of nothing else in studying the
actions of a very young baby or the
life of the lower organisms.
The nervous system of the baby
is arranged in this wise: There is first
the nerve for the incoming impulse,
then a nerve-cell of center, and then
nerve for the outgoing impulse. The
first nerve brings in the impulse from
the outside world the cell of center
decides and acts upon It; and the re-
naming nerve carries along its inner
surfaces the impulse to move a muscle.
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port to tell there are many, indeed
1t is a question what does happen
to the ship that is pos ted as miss
ing month after month until the
years elarse and all hope Is abandon
ed
Even steam craft built especially TO
withstand the hard usage OF Arctic
ice succumb. The Wolf, the Hope, the
Mastiff, the Resolute, the Eliot and
many others are on the records as lost
in the ice-some by being caught in
packs and crushed others from collid-
ing with bergs. Among the long list
of missing is the Collins liner Paoif-
ic, which is supposed to have struck
a berg and gone down with all hands.
A few years ago one of the "Turret"
steamers, huge freighter, sailed
from Baltimore with wheat for Europe.
She took the Northern route and she
has long since been posted as miss
ing" Her fate is not known. but Il is
not unlikely that she struck a berg.
II is no wonder that the sinking OF
the Titanic has caused every ship
master running a transatlantic route
to be Gpprehensive lest like fate be.
fall him.
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I forty-five per cent. fog and in few
years the coast around Cape Race be
came strewn with wrecks of vessels
that had lost their bearings and had
piled up on the rockbound shore.
About ten or twelve years ago the
several big steamship companies made
an agreement to adopt a course known
as the Northern route for westbound
steamers and a Southern route for
eastbound steamers The Northern
route for westbound steamer took
her from Queenstown in a Southwestern
ly direction to about forty-two degrees.
North; forty-seven degrees West, at
which point the course was changed
almost to due West for New York
Eastward, from New York the course
was almost due West to forty-one,
North; forty.seven, West, thence the
course was changed northeasterly.
BY these routes even the northern
most was more than 700 miles from
Cape Race, and it passed by seventy
of more miles the outer edge of the
Grand Banks and it's dreaded fog and
ice zone. The accident to the Titanic,
however has shown that even the
fact that she Yves fully sixty miles to
the south of the course she should have
followed having been in the path of
the eaGtbound ships, did not put her
clear of ice, and so the various steam
ship companies have laid off new
ocean lanes, this time still farther
to the south.
To the armchair navigator nothing
is more certain than the belief that
if one will draw a bucket of fresh
sea water and place in it thermom-
eter, a rapid fail of the mercury will
at once denote the pres ence of ice.
This is a fallacy, proven by numerous
experiments by ship masters and by
naval officers who have sought, and
sought anXiously, for some real indl-
cation of the whereabouts of bergs
when the air is thick with fog.
Shipmasters, IN making experiments
along this line, have found that at the
point where the waters of the Labra
dor current and the Gulf Stream com
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-18

watts each were installed with a Their.
mostatic control TO keep the tempera
ture of the air chamber always at
thirty-four degrees Fahrenheit.
On January and 6, when the be-
low zero weather froze almost every,
thing solid, the operation of this de
vice was watched with interest by the
electricians who had installed it, They
we're delighted to find that it worked
exactly as they had planned that il
should. AS soon as the temperature in
the air chamber fell to thirty-four, the
thermostat acted automatically and
set the heaters in operation. When
these had warmed the air sufficiently
the current was automatically shut
off until it should be needed again. The
water in this exposed tank never froze
throughout the winter.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-18

The sinking of the giant White Star
liner Titanic, after having collided
with an iceberg, going down
with more than 1900 souls, has quick
ened the pulse of every master of the
great stes mships that ply the North
ern route between this country and
Europe. And we'll it may, for all perils
of the deep are as nought compared
with the awfulness Of striking one of
these huge pieces of floating ice.
That it was submerged shelf of
ice that dealt the death blow to the
Titanic there is no doubt and it seems
strange that there should be on rec
ord an instance of another vessel be-
ing similarly injured, although not so
seriously, for she managed to make
port. This vessel was the British
steamer Nessmore which made Halifax
a few years ago with her bows stove
in. When she was locked for repairs
1t was found that there was a deep
score extending two-thirds the length
of the hull. Four frames were broken
and many of the plates were almost
cut through, showing that had the
impact been greater the plates would
have been cut through and the vessel
mu have been overwhelmed by the
thrush of water which no pumps could
have checked.
A; the inquiry that followed the
skipper of the Nessmore testified that
after striking the berg he backed of
and changed his course and expressed
the belief that it was possible that the
steamer had struck a projecting ledge
deep under the water, for there was
clear water between his ship and the
berg up to the moment of striking.
Icebergs have always been a ter.
ror to navigators since the sailing OF
the first transatlantic vessel from
America for European ports. In the
beginning it was customary for steam,
ers sailing eastward to edge along
the coast until they made Cape Race
on the lower extremity of Newfound
land, their last landfall and, sailing
westward, to make this point their first
landfall. This course took vessels fair
~ across the Grand Banks, a region OF
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-18
AUTOMATIC SELf-SUPPORTING BUSINESS

We read that President Taft has re-
ceived an offer to invest in a cat farm
which is shortly to be established in
Tripoli and which it's promoters claim
will yield unusually handsome prof
it's. The offer was sent to the PreBi-
dent by Thomas J. O'Brien, American
Ambassador at Rome, who, in forward
ing a letter from the promoters of the
cat farm. sent note to the President
saying:
MY Dear Mr.. President: l haven't
the heart to keep you from taking
stock in so good thing"
The letter which Mr.. O'BTien for
ward to the President was written by
an American resident in Tripoli, whose
name was not disclosed. He says that
a large corporation will be formed to
exploit his cat farm. His letter was in
part as follows:
THE object of this company will be
to own and operate a cat farm in
Tripoi, near Rerna, where land is
cheap and the climate is good.
ITO start with, the company will
collect in Italy, say, 100000 cats. We
can count on each cat having an aver
,age of twelve cats a year, which would
he full grown in less than three
months. The skins will sell for from
ten cents for tine white one to seventy
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-18

her native element 1t is SAFE TO say
that no more passengers with cameras
will be accommodated by that partic-
! ular shipmaster, who afterwards de.
clared that it was the narrowest es.
cape from disaster that any man could
have.
Even the hardy Newfoundland fish
ermen, with all their knowledge and
ski are sometimes victims. Their
was the bark Nellie that sailed in May
1904, with a crew of ten. Before dark
the two survivors were back in port,
having been picked up from a floating
spar by another fisherman. The Nellie
had struck berg. The sealing schoon-
er Albatross, with crew of twenty
two, sailed in March, of the year be-
fore, never to be heard of again The
presumption is that she struck berg
shortly after leaving port for the
weather was foggy.
There is not a year but that Ash
ing and sailing craft hailing out OF
st. Johns and other far north ports
disappear, victims of what no one
knows, but it is generally conceded
that icebergs play principal part in
the tragedies that are never tod.
From April to October the Grand
Banks off Newfoundland are yelled
by heavy fogs through which the giant,
pallid glaciers drift in silence, borne
by the currents and wind in a general
southerly direction, sometimes fast,
sometimes slow, and not until they
strike the warmer water that flows in
the Gulf Stream do they begin to melt.
or the ships that have co'lided with
these floating islands and not reached
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-18

The most unusual experience that
ever a ship had was when the skip
per of the Portia, in 1895, was per-
6uaded to approach close to a berg
30 that some of the passengers might
take pictures of it. The genia skip
per accommodated them and steamed
close in. The steamer ran over a
portion of the berg that was under
the water The movement of the
steamer disturbed the equilibrium OF
the berg and it turned over, The Por'
tia was lifted clear of the water Gs
the sheet of ice under her arose, and
what might have happened it mat
ter of conjecture, but the ice broke
and the ship once more settled into
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-18
WHY MILK ,souRs IN
A THUNDERSTORM


II has often been observed that some
foods, such as milk, meat and soup,
go bad when there Is a thunderstorm.
This has generally been attributed 10
the electricity causing an extra supply
OF ozone in the air, but experiments
conducted recently by Prof Trillat I'm
France do not confirm this theory.
Prof Trillat has proved that lnanl.
tesimal traces Of the gases OF putre-
scence cause tactic ferments TO pro.
gress with great rapidly. Il is known
that atmospheric depresslons cause the
gases lying In the earth and In ali
other objects to come TO the surface.
This is what makes odors more percep-
tible after a storm. From this Il was
natural deduction that atmospheric
depression accelerated decay By lber.
ating the gases In milk or other perish.
able foods.
Prof. Trillat made many experiments
with substances under varying de.
grees OF atmospheric pressure and
proved that the lower the barometer
the more rapid the decay
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-18

five cents for the pure black ones. The
average output of from twelve TO
fourteen kittens per cat per annum
means an output of 100000 skins
per annum, which would sell at an
average of thirty cents each, making
our revenue $4,000 a day gross.
"A man can skin fifty cats a day.
Such labor would cost us an average
of so per day per man. AS it would
take 100 men to operate our plant, the
expense per day would be 5000. Our
profit would be, therefore, $4,000 a
day
I'VE will feed the cats on their natu-
raj food-rsts. To secure the proper
food supply, we will start rat farm
adjacent to the cat farm. The rats
multiply four times as fast as cats.
If we start with 100000 rats we shall
have four rats a day for each cat-an
abundant food supply.
I'VE will, of courLe, be able to feed
our cats on the rat supply exclusively,
and we will in turn feed the rats on
the skinned carcasses of the cats, thus
giving each rat for its days allowance
of food one-fourth of cat.
ut will be readily seen that this
business will be self-supporting, auto
matte and self-acting. The cats eat the
rats, the rats eat the cats, and we
skin the cats"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-10-22

Cardinal Farley, New York, his
vicar general, Mgr. Michael J. La
velle, D. D., and secretary, Mgr.
J. V. Lewis, arrived here today
en- route to Denver.
Mathew Manhattan, $500
Wentworth av., teamster, thrown
from wagon when struck by
street car at 10Th st. and Calumet
av. Seriously injured.
Christopher Gutenberg, 1886
Trip av., slightly hurt when
Cottage Grove car struck his
auto truck at E. 44th st.
James Bagley, 5144 w. Lake
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-10-22

Oh, see the happy little man in
the big new hat! Isn't he cum
ming? No, it isn't really too large
for him. That's the way they are
wearing 'em over in Lunnnon,
you know-down on the ears like
a stage tramp. The above snap
shot shows Andrew Carnegie, our
busiest little peace propaganda,
just off the boat from Europe.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-10-22
WIS Of ne DAY C0NCERNLNG CHICAGO

Former Congressman ]. R.
Watson, Indiana, to speak for
Taft at Orchestra hall meeting
tonight.
Announced at Taft headquar-
tiers today that ex-Gov. F. S.
Black, New York, is coming west
to make a few speeches. He nom
mated Roosevelt for president in
1904.
Mrs. Edna Phillips and Thos.
J. Sharum, alias Little Juff
Davis" arrested today by post
office inspectors and are being
held as alleged members of a
gang of postal money order
thieves.
Miss Margaret Fitzgerald and
Miss Blanche Walter, the two
nurses who attended Col. Roose-
welt at Mercy hospital today re
ceived solid gold ''bull moose"
pins, as gifts from their patient.
James Mccarthy, IS, 27O2 w.
Harrison St, ran into horse and
buggy while riding wheel at S.
Oakley blvd. and Campbell park.
Seriously injured.
Mrs. Victoria Allen, 250o Viii
cox ave-, struck by auto of w.
Kil1im, 1924 Ogden ave-, when it
backed up at Western ave. and
w. Madison ST., to let wagon
pass. Severely injured. KILN
not arrested.
Mrs. Rubertha Mary Kantoos,
IS E. Madison ST., found guilty
today of obtaining money by
means of confidence game.