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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-12-08

the railway corporations has been often
asserted by the press of the state. A
legislative investigation which uncovers
all facts with relation to this important
subject will require much time and labor.
No dollar of the money required TO
prosecute such an investigation will be
wasted.
1t is a shocking disclosure of the de-
moralized business integrity OF the couh-
try when the admissions OF the hlghest
officials entrusted with the savings which
the people have invested in life insurance
and charged with the management OF
these funds show habitual violation or
their trust to enrich themselves at the
expense of policy holders.
The subjects of Insurance legislation
and expenditures of public service cor
porationS open up such wide held,
and there is such need for thorough in
vestigation that | recommend that
committee, with power to summon Wit
nesses, examine books, and with Ii pow
er necessary to investigate expenditures
and methods of doing business be ap-
pointed and instructed to make com
plete report to the governor on or be-
fore November /, 1906, who shall trans
nit the same to the Legislature at ITS
next session with any recommendations
he may make thereon.
Permit me to say in closing that
am sure you will conclude that busi-
ness of this session as promptly as 1t
may safely be dispatched with due rec
ignition to it's great importance.
ROBERT NJ. LA TOILETTE.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-12-08

had sense enough not to bore him by
gushing over her charms. l lust re-
marked in an off-hand way that
thought it remarkable that a girl who
had received so much attention should
not be spoiled | said, too, that any
man who wanted her would have to
look sharp, for she had too many adj
mirers to be easily won. He seemed
quite impressed and said that he had
always understood her to be a very
popular girl
Il was afraid that I had said too
much, so | added that | was sure the
right man needn't despair of getting
her. He glanced at me keenly, and I
felt that l had already awakened his
interest in her by my judicious re-
mark.
well, without making it too mark
ed, tried to leave them alone together
as much as possible I gave them the
use of the boat and pony trap, and
warned the children not to follow
them about. But they didn't appear to
get on well together, and / began to
think they would never come to an
understanding. They treated each 9th
er with formality that was almost
GOODNESS. Any effort on my part to
put them on easier terms seemed to
send them both into panic. began
to believe that there was a strong an
tipathy between them, and I regretted
4In4 TO- af J., oryiy1
them at the cottage together.
while in this state Of mind l went
out to our little summer house one
evening with lantern to look for a
book l had left there. To my un-
bounded surprise | found 1T occupied
by Lucy and young Everett. Lucy
had gone to her room early in the
evening and young Everett was, | sup
posed, smoking on the side porch.
They sprang away from each other,
and looking very guilty and embar-
raised, got into the farthest opposite
corners of the tiny house.
81 tried to appear unaware of any
thing unsual, but Lucy began to cry
and young Everett looked SO uncom-
Portable that | asked rather brusquely,
perhaps, What's the matter with you
two innocentsY
1--WE are mar-married. and we
didn't want anyone to know it, sobbed
Lucy
Married. l cried.
"'Yes. married. said young Everett,
coming out of his corner There IS no
reason why every one shouldn't know
| it We were married in Michigan the
week before Lucy came up here, but
she didn't want it known untll the
match had her guardians approval.
You know he went to Europe and left
her with that fussy old housekeeper.
Do you wonder that made her marry
| meY
".You'ye been so good to us, SAID
I,ucy. I was almost sure you had
guessed our secret. If you had only
| known it, what a lovely time we coua
| have hadr she sighed.
weren't you indignant asked tns
caller. what did you dor
81 lust asked them to stay anotner
week and have real honeymoon.
| While they were there kind message
came from Lucy's guardian. and SO we
had the marriage announced In the
newspapers. / think they'll be happy
oror after. but / can't fatter myseH
that / made the match. "-Cnlcaso
News.
| A Good Memory.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-12-08

o If fog pyrosoda is being employed an excess
@ has been high authority OF course
bt the to be used must
always be obtained from
reason +facory condition, be named to three
bS. on bay wing rubbed water the
S centmeters. This solution
AS example following
&Hho Given: developing halfplae SOAP
nS into the DISH then of
solutions referred No are
Pvic parts; alcohol so glycerne parts
vs. ca nars phite sodium, u parts soda parts; gycer-
nprs
with bromide papers patnotype is sfnguary
and marks often make their appearance upon the
@ [nr yellow stains occasionally either to
of muatc acid in place hydrochloric
nfept immersion print in the prevent
% old developer yet throw the solution away
~ after has bottles containing
e of potash other empty, and filter in
If the empty Then, after each print developed
Il % through the flternto the bottle, mixing
aoorng solution When bottle No empty No.
Anil when the process will be reversed the filter removing each
sediment
in panotype prints
surface absorbent soaking
& orug matter Only white bottng paper perfectly clean
this Marks dirty
removed by india rubber light friction being used Black
~ m nfnhoes negative be picked needle the
smoothed with india
gaahar
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-12-08
The Baby Terrapin.

When the baby terrapin chip the shell
in September, they are an inch and a
half long; but usually they remain buried
in the sand for six months or 50, to es-
cape the winters rigor and do not
scratch their way out until the follow
ing spring.
Partly for the purpose Of Protecting
them against predatory birds and other
enemies the young turtles are confined
in pens in the marsh. They burrow like
muskrats and to prevent them from es-
GAPING boards arc driven far down into
the mud Meanwhile. they are fed on
cabbage (of which they are extremely
fond and other succulent vegetables,
with plenty of crabs and fish. Under
ordinary circumstances a terrapin takes
half a dozen years to attain marketable
sige.-Outing Magazine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-12-08

A. : came on in August, when Lucy
49,, ~ was visiting me at Seemore
l,,s. lou Know she is an orphan.
n, wy, Iousnt for a long time that
IN, ssu' 10 marry and have a home
.s, ~ o"n' instead of living with her
i .,~ 1u and his cranky housekeeper.
~. 1,'eu 10 ME that she and that
d. -I'e'eltWere just suited to each
chi, . concluded that If they could
syn y ,oset1er for a time they would
5ss, Engaged. So I sent him an in
SS,. a 10 come for & week or two to
/, , 5s told Lucy that he was com
G,sE \. seemed very much startled.
bb,,sa 1t u at once, Why, how did you
NJ. W. 70 invite him?
eeI .a 9oAed at HE so searchingly
t,s, are She saw through my lit.
' l was quite embarrassed.
Asaf Az tell whether she was
! cnia 0spleased at the idea of
sssssr When they met their
ssss vas y, 50 stiff and formal that
"a Rn 10 think they disliked eacp
sseu5J h, IT reflected that if they did
slasia' " :, all the more credit to me
aa'at tes 'usn See each others good
y dera y. evening young Everett
q Inc, Ut and I sat on the porch
ss and the children had gone
BY on,u 'oOk the opportunity to tell
Of Lucy. OF course I
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-12-08
Grain and Warehouse Commission.

tram ana w aIeuOuSS NOmIHlSSIUH.
At the last session, the Legislature en-
acted chapters 10 and 81, creating a
grain and warehouse commission for the
licensing and regulating warehouses and
elevators, and for the storage, weighing
and inspection of grain in the city OF
Superior, and conditionally at other
points in said state.
I would recommend that the act be
carefully considered, and such amend
ments thereto enacted as will make the
legislative intent clear, and afford reme-
DIV for the evils complained of, to the full
extent of the constitutional power of the
state.
Chapter 46s, Laws of 1905.
For some years. until the present fiscal
year, the university has received it's sup
port from the general fund and money
has thus been available at the beginning
of each fiscal year for current expenses.
1t may be wise to amend chapter 46S 50
as to authorize transfer II 1916 SINH
Ia 10 .hct Eat.a t!s.s rear.
Corporations and Insurance.
From time to time these public service
corporations set up the claim that their
business was private business; that any
inquiry upon the part of anyone on the
outside was an impudent and meddie-
some intrusion. They can no longer
maintain this fallacy.
For many years there has been a con-
test on in Wisconsin, between pubic IN
terest on the one hand, and the railway
companies on the other. The people have
sought to secure a fair and Just transp0r-
tation charge for passengers and for
freight For years the railroads have re-
sisted this legislation. That the amount
of money necessary to meet these eX-
penses has come from the treasures OF
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-12-08
4 Good Memory.

I,enditt-You borrowed $40 OF nie
,ost month and promised to pay III
two days. You must have pau , n,sl =
ory spenditt- Fierce! ! remember =
perfectly Puck.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-12-08
Winter boar,
A MATCH MAKER.
~o0~o.~~0-o-~NN

r0-o-o.o0~-o-01-I0.~-~
N convinced that matchmaking Is
bit NY forte remarked young
HS, Candy, as she and her caller
over the events OF the last sum-
y did you try your hand at that
Nus OccupationF'
#el, l suppose every woman has
lever some time or other. My at
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-12-08

Golf is the national game of Scot
land. 1t was prohibited by the King
in 1857, but of late years has sprung
into renewed popularity and has spread
with amazing rapidity throughout the
world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-07
HANDS.

T. Surge Moore, in The Academy.
Sing. for with hands,
One thumb and four fingers apiece
They built the temples of Egypt and Greece,
Sing, for in many lands
Are things of use and beauty seen,
That without hands had never been
Without skilled hands,
White hands, deft hands,
No lily is more lovely, no,
Nor can the swan more graces show
Than lady's arm commands!
o strength as of a giants gripi
D firmneSS meet to steer a ship,
o Swart, male hands!
Frank hands, free hands,
When shall my little ones grow great
And clasp such huge ones for their mate?
Who thinks, who understands.
How hands of soldiers and of kings,
And all those by princesses waved,
Were baby's hands and craved
For jangling toys and shining things?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-07

chlef interests Of his life, politics and admins
traton, he has given us vivid glimpses of those
interests outside his personal share in them.
we perceive anew in these pages the pleasant
fact that many of the politicians of his time
and country have been, like himself often alb
sorbed in matters not at all concerned in admin
istrative occupations. He records a long con-
versation about trees, birds and bees in which
he Joined with Lord Clinton and Lord Kimber-
ley, during which the latter-who had held some
Of the greatest offices of the Empfre-said to his
friends: Il am not sure, after ALL If ones life
would not have been more agreeably spent, if
one had devoted ones self to subjects like these
And Grant Duff responded, 81 have often
thought that for man who was not ambitious
the most desirable life would be that of a for
ester in great European forest" So discourse
ing Of ambition, drove home together two men
who had gained and laid aside some of the great
est prizes offered to ambition in England.
Now and again among these notes we find
references to famous men of former genera
ton, in this remembrance Of Burke as an
orator, derived at second hand from old Lord
Lansdowne. He was asked if he had ever heard
Burke speak. YES" he said, "once; his utter
ance most disagreeable: he emptied the
house and 1 went away utterly bored. A few
days later was in the Isle of Wight and
asked bookseller whether there was anything
new. Yes he said. there's Mr. Burke's last
speech-I have only copy left and your lord
ship can have it if you please 1t was the same
speech to which 1 had in vain tried to listen
but when read it I was completely carried
away" An apt criticism of oratory by a great
orator of later day uttered by John Bright
who, when pressed by that much too elaborate"
speaker, Lord Leighton, to give his opinion of a
just delivered discourse, at last said reluctantly
TOO much confectionery, wasn't there?" An
amusing little story of John Bright by the way
spoke of Beresford Hopes "Batavfan grace"
Henry Grenfen afterward asked Grant Duff if
he had observed Bright Immediately after that
incident occurred go down and sit by Hope. The
author had not observed this, as it happened
and Grenfell continued: 1T was sitting by Bright
and much amused by so odd a conjunc-
ton that 1 ventured to ask him when he came
back to his seat what he had said to Hope
Obj was the reply Z said to him, Now you
will understand what I felt when In a public
speech you called foul-mouthed Quak-
err" Among the Disraeli stories here none are
more characteristic, perhaps, than this:
Tyrren told me to-day that Odo Russell had been
startled by Lord Beaconsield telling him that he
intended to address the diplomatistS assembled at
Berlin in French speech
Knowing that the Premier's acquaintance with
the tongue of the Gaul very imperfect, he was
in despair. but as usual, proved equal to the oc-
caSiOn.
ut will" he said. ''be a very great disappoint-
ment."
WHY" said Lord BeaconsfeId
Because" answered Odo, knowing that you are
great master of English eloQuence they have been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-07
Grant DUFFS STORIES.
The Last T'1co Volumes of Notes
from His Diaries.

NOTES FROM A DIARY 1896 to January o. 1901
BY the Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart f. Grant
Duff c.. c. S. l. F. r. S. In two vols, PIP. 33s-
BIC f. p Dutton & Co.
These are the thirteenth and fourteenth-and,
we grieve to say. the last-of the volumes of
Notes" which their author has extracted from
the Diary which he has kept for more than
fifty years. These are even richer in anecdotes
and in happy flashes of Characterization than
were their predecessors. They are in truth a
mine for the social historian of the future Grant
Duff has known and talked with a large pro-
portion of the most important and interesting
personages of his time; scholar and lover of
science and of nature his horizon has been wide
IT, he says he has avoided in his "Notes'' the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-07
DIRGE.
BY ETHEL COXON.

BY ETHEL COXON.
Let her sleep while April rain
Calls the blossoms forth again;
While the nightingales rejoice,
And the wild bees murmurous voice
HUNS the sombre trees among,
Like an echo of old song.
While the fading leaves shall fall
To one lonely thrushs call,
While the snow shall drift and pass
Like a shadow on LIES glass;
While the world shall onward roll
Nearer its mysterious goal.
Strew with violetS dim the sod,
Leave her epitaph with God.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-07

THE Dark Lantern" is the latest title to be be-
slowed on Miss Elizabeth Robbins's new novel
It is understood that the book is OF a sort not
intended for the perusal OF Miss Podsnap
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-07
MUSEUMS.
Their Place in the History of Human
Curiosity.

MUSEUMS. THEIR HISTORY AND THEIR USE
with photography and list OF museums in tbs
United Kingdom. By David Murray, LII D.. r
5 A In three volumes SvO, Do xiv, 70. Dc. 34l
Glasgow; James MacLehose & SonS)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-07

Modern publishing, according to a writer In
the London "Daily Chronicle is a distinctly
speculative affair, and what is more gam,
bling on the Stock Exchange is comparatively
safe in comparison" The publisher is described
as stalking, in expenses, on his conviction as TO
the Salable qualities Of n book IAN amount
which might on the turf, earn for him the
doubtful reputation of a plunger" Seeking
for some expedient which would help the pub
Usher along in his struggle to make both ends
meet, this commentator brings forward an idea
which is familiar enough in America, but which
seems to possess for him the charm of novelty.
The publisher of to-day" he says would be
more successful did he possess in some degree
the instincts of the journalist, the careful dis
elimination OF what the public wants, and the
knowledge that it accepts nothing else 1t
WouId be an interesting experiment were the
eultor or a popular newspaper to turn pub
Usher, Ills training would be an inyalua BILE
asset" If the English publisher has really
failed to take leaf from the journalists book.
he has been living in state of ignorance as
to the methods of his American brethren which
Is merely astonishing. Readiness to seek out
lhe contemporaneOuS thing, the thing that the
public IS waiting for has for years been char
acterIstc of the craft On this side Of the water
Indeed, there have been occasions on which ii
has carried the publisher too far, causing the
appearance Of books making only the most
ephemeral appeal But at bottom it is q soud
virtue, and it is hard to believe that It is wholly
neglected among London publishers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-07

SUNDAY, MAY Z, 1905.
ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT.

4 strange episode or the Ion QulAole eoi-
centenary in Spain is the presentation 10 the
government of a petition from nine hundred
convicts in the House of Detention at Oca1la.
They asked for their freedom as being the sort
Of thing which would form q fitting part OF the
celebration, and, in order to drive their point
home, they quoted Don Qui1Ote's remark to
Sancho PanZa on delivering the galley slaves:
1T seemed to him an act of cruelty to enSlaVe
those whom God and nature had made free,
and he did not think it right that honorable
should be the executoners of their Fellow
creatures How, in the face of such an In
geniOusly touching appeal, could the govern
ment have been hard-hearted? But govern
ments are nothing if not judicious. The au
thorties, says 1.-The Academy" replied by
pointing to the sequel of the story, which re-
lateS that the convicts had no sooner got their
liberty than they turned upon their benefactor
and, to his great establishment robbed him of
all his valuables" OF course the convicts at
Ocana would not have been so ungrateful, and
we are sorry that the government could not
bring itself to relent-it might have been sure
that the liberated men, no matter what their
depredatiOns, would always have drawn the
line at molesting any government official
In letter Of Professor Nortons, quoted by
Grant Duff, in the "Notes from a Diary" which
we IcNleW tOudy, OuC democracy is spoken OF
as having been disappointment Sin its ca
pacity to rise morally in proportion to its rise
in material welfare and in power" Turning
then to the literary side of the subject, the
writer says:
We certainly have lived in the most interest
ing times of the worlds history-far more inter-
esting than the period into which our children
were born; for we had the advantage Of know
ing the old things before their strength was
Slapped, and Of sharing in the splendor of the
poetic and imaginative expression of the mid
years of the century. How silent are the fields
of poetry now compared with the time when
we young!
Has the rise of Democracy had anything to
do with the decline Of poetry7 Perhaps; but
we sometimes wonder if the development of
what can only be described as the "profes-
siOnaP idea has not had more to do with the
matter. We spoke last Sunday OF the harm
done to the criticism of poetry by those mis-
applications Of scholarship which leave a mas
ter dissected as by surgeon. Poets as we'll as
critics have suffered from the spirit, fostered
not so much by Democratic modes of thought
as by the tendencies of the universities and of
literature generally, which robs the art of writ
ing of all its spOntaneity and naTvete. Your
modern poet is too knowing by half If he
reads one Of his predecessors for inspiration
he reads him also for style" The old fires
will not be revived in ''the fields of poetry"
until the poets think more of what they have
10 say and less of the way Of saying it.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-06-08
SIZE OF ANIMALS NOT LESS.
English Professor Explodes Theory
Regarding Proportions Of Their
Extinct PredecessOrs.

Prof. Ray Lancaster, of London, in his
concluding lecture on extinct animals
demonstrated at the Royal institution
how erroneous 1t is to suppose that liv-
Ing animals are on the whole smaller in
size than their extinct predecessors were.
In the miocene strata remains had
been unearthed which proved that at
one time there existed elephants as small
as a Shetland pony or a Newfoundland
dog. The horses of the present day, too,
especially the great Flemish dray horses,
were Of far greater size than any fossil
-horses" of which we had information
In former ages sharks attained i'm
mense proportions. Some teeth of one
of these monsters were exhibited in con-
trast with the teeth of shark known
to measure 30 feet long, and whose
mouth is two feet across. The fossil
teeth were four or five times as large,
and judging from this comparison and
other circumstances naturalists are If
the opinion that the extinct shark must
have measured so feet long and have
been capable of taking three or four
persons into its mouth at once. 49,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-06-08
NEW THEORIES OF RADIUM.
A Well Known Russian Scientist
Causes Stir by Announcement of
Possibilities of New Element,

New theories of radium and its Dos
sibilities as set forth by Prince
Tarkanor, the well, known Russian sci
enlist, have electrified Russian scien-
tific circles. The prince holds that by
use OF the rays of the new element Il
will be possible to solve the sex of
children. which Prof. Schenck failed to
solve, and that many human ills now
regarded as almost beyond the reach
of the powers of medicine and science
will be durable by means of radium.
At recent lecture before the mill
tary association. at st. Petersburg, the
prince presented before his audience
two cancer patients which he claimed
had been cured of malignant growths
on the face as result of the radium
treatment. The prince also said he had
prevented the development of hydro
phobia in dogs which had been inocu-
lated with virus by using radium.
The system of modern warfare
would be revolutionized, according 10
the prince. II quantities of radium were
available. as powder and other explo-
sives.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-06-08
A Wonderful Western Railroad.

From the Worlds Work.
The Rock Island system Of roads
covers the west like a giant cobweb.
On it's perimeter the threads are
anchored at New Orleans, Galveston,
FL Paso, Denver, Wstertown, St
Paul, Chicago and Birmingham
Within the sweep of its arms lie nine
teen states, with an aggregate area
Of 1855 square miles, nearly 40
per cent OF the entire area OF the Un-
ion, and forty cities and towns with
a population Of more than $4,000
people. In 1901 these nineteen states
produced corn worth 1920, OOO,O 900,
out OF q total for the country OF
$75O,000,0OO, or S3 per cent OF the
entire crop; and wheat worth $176,
900, 900, or 4S per cent Of the entire
crop.