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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30
riser ANA vui.ure of the Sea,


If the killer" whale is the tiger OF
the sea-" as tie writer of an interest
ing article in the September Windsor
has II, the orcas surely are the vu!tures
of the ocean. In connection with whale
catching the author of this interesting
natural history article tells of the fol-
lowing incident: Some years ago a
whaler In the northwest Ind killed IL
large whale and had the animal along
side when it was attacked by Il school
of orcas. They doubtless were half
starved and, crazcd by the scent of
blood that extended away long dis
tance, probably followed it up like
hounds. Immediately attacking the
whale. The, men, with spades and
ianccS. cut ana slaslicd ut them. In
iliciIng terrible blows. yet despite this
The orcns literally tore the whale from
the ropes and carried ii on. This ccr-
tain'y shows that the occas, together
with very fair share of intelligence,
are also creatures OF extraordinary
courage.-Dundec Advertiser.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30

When nj its zenith The Roman en-
pre- la!d all the barhalc countries of
tl:e world under contribution to supply
the tables of It's ncblcs end wealthy
cItl2eMS With the fine lIN,lrics of life.
Asia and Africa poured in the rich
spices and fruits of the tiopics. Ger
many aud the great north countries
raised the grains ana Wild berries. Ita-
~ and the fertile lani Of tile Franks
cultivated the vineyards to make or OK.
press the wines. every strip of Seucoast
from the Mediterranean To the Baltic
contributed it's quota OF fish ana the
forests of Britanny yielded the wild
game of the wools-br,ls, beasts and
fowls--for the banquets Of the proud.
absolute rulers OF the vast empire.
With the choice products of Il great
world so easily obtained there were
wanton waste, foolish extravaganza
and strange disregard Of the value of
expensive Injuries, and the historian
dwelling upon these times delights in
rccapitulating the various articles of
Eict arranged in tempting manner up-
on the grooming tables at the great
feasts aud banQucts But, excepting
Nero's dish of peacock tongues and
ileopatra's cup Of wine with the dis.
solved pearls in ii, the menu OF our
modern Danqnets would compare IA
vorably with those spread in the times
when Guttoiy and greed for luxury
were nsidiously sapping the strength
of Rome
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30

Mr.. Dawes ought not to jump OH
the Sherman antitrust law at time
when the G.. o. p. record needs
strengthening at every point. 1t
may be, however, that Mr.. Dawes
wishes to give the much harasseu
corporations a little comfort in their
time of distress.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30
Melting Fire Clay with suns maya.

McitinF Fire Clay With Suns Rays.
There is nh apparatus Which conccn.
TateS the rays of the sun from more
Than COCO small mirrors on spot
ibout seven inches in diameter Tie
neat generated is about 1900 dc.
Erees Il. Iron can be melted in less
Than minute and fire clay fused In
about three minutes by this machine.
Magnesia, one Of the hardest things to
melt. requiring a heat of about G.4Uu
degrees H.. can be reduced to y motion
state In twenty minutes. For the ben.
eli of those who wish TO forget Tie
name of this instrument it is called
the pyrhcliophOr.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30

Out in the wilds Of Nebraska n
man has found skull of n prehis-
torlc creature which a Columbia pro.
lessor says is the head of the frs.
thinking human being, which goes
TO show that the west raises some
thing besides corn and cyclones.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30

From the howl which has gone up
from the whisky rectillers over the
pure food law we are inclined to sus-
pcct that DIR. Wiley grossly exager-
atcd the conditions when he intimate.
that 10 per cent. of the whisky sold
in the United States is comparntivcl.
pure.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30

In labored defense of Tammany
Hall Richard Croker calls attention to
what the organization has done for
New York. but just how much the
city has been done for" by the gang
probably never Will be known.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30
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The Ute uprising out in Wyoming
might make few more heroes. bu,
there are not so many rivers for the
army men to swim as there are on,
in the PHILIPPINES.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30

MIR. Hartman. who has founded n
school for train employees, probably
VIII start in on the announcers OF
stations alang the way.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30

The Sage of Athens" Hon. Chas.
III. Grosvenor, says his Old district
will go Republican this fall, but
he does not feel the same personal
interest in the prediction which he
once felt.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30

Car Nicholas could give Uncle
Sam few facts about the Japanese
which might be instructive as well
rs interesting.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30

Yes Waldo; it is cal.i | STRAW
vote because it shows which way the
canyassers want The wind to blow.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30

Castro is back to work and the
revolniionists are taking to the woods.
SO one evil overbalances the other.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30

The English government has turned
against the soap trust. The ruling
class there probably is making bid
for the hobo vote.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30

More trouble for Americans. Gorky
is going to write book about us.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-30

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py the PUBLISHER OF TlIK DAILY PRESS.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-04-30
NORTHWESTERN AND OMAHA
ROADS TO APPEAR.
WILL RESIST REDUCTION
Carriers Will Represent That They
Make Little or No Profits from
Passenger Traffic and That Low
err Rate Would not Be Compensa-
tory.
Madison. April Is.

Madison, April 70.
The state railroad rate commission
will today hear the attorneys for the
Northwestern and Omaha railroads
in their resistance to the two-cent
fare movement inaugurated by Sec
rotary of State Houser and many
other citizens. The hearings were
set for early in the month but were
postponed from time to time at the
request of the railroad companies,
who desired more time for the prepar-
alton of statistics in regard to the cost
of the passenger service and the av-
erage income on the traffic. 1t is
said that the companies will argue
that the passenger traffic is carried
now at an absolute loss, that the serv-
ice costs more than the money re-
ceived from it, that rate of three
cents mile is not compensatory in
fact, and that the earnings from
freight traffic are sometimes, on some
roads, used to make up losses sus-
tanned in the passenger service. 1t
will also be argued that by reason of
mileage books, credentials, excursions,
and many forms of cheap rates and
reductions, the average passenger
rate in Wisconsin is only fraction
over two cents a mile, but that if a
fiat rate of two cents mile were
fixed, it would eliminate all profit if
there is any now, and that it would
necessitate the cutting off of all Gre
dentials, mileage books, excursions
and all forms of cheap rates. Some of
the roads, it is said, will argue that
instead of a movement for two-cent
fare the railroads would be justified
in asking for a minimum rate of three
and a half or four cents.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-04-30
CHAPTER XXxIV.

Yorke walked straight out of the
club, leaving the two men staring az
each other in amazement.
He went home, and saw by Flem-
ing's face that he had heard the sad
news. Poor Fleming tried to look
cut up but it was hard work, seeing
he had been saying to himself since
the moment he had read the para
graph, MY master will be duke"
Dreadful news, my lord" he said,
in the tone proper to the occasion.
Yes, yes, Fleming" said Yorke,
graveIy.
your lordship will go over, sup
poser"
Eyes. Get things ready and look
out the time table
I'm to go abroad with you, my
lord?' said Fleming
You can if you Hke-just as you
like"
"Thank you, my lord, will go.
Your lordship may want some things
done, and I may be useful"
Yorke said You are always that"
YOrke went off to White Place that
night He was tired; but he could
not sleep in the train, though he
tried His mind was too overbur-
dened with thought Late as it was,
he ladies were up, and they had
heard the news from a servant who
had brought an evening paper from
town.
There he ISL said Lady DENLY, as
they heard Yorke's step In the hall.
For Heavens sake, don't breathe to
him the charming sentiments you
have favored me with"
Lady Eleanor shook her head and
bit her lips to bring the color into
them.
DO not fear" she said 1T is only
when I am alone or with you that
show my doubts and fears"
Yorke came in, and took her in his
arms and kissed her.
You have heard the news, Eleanor,
see"
Yes; it is DREADFUL, dreadful! To
think that all three should be gone
those two poor boys! You are go
ing over. Yorker" for he had got on
his travelling ulster
Yes; 1 am going to meet Fleming
at Charing Cross tomorrow morning.
shall have to go back at once
"At once! 1t was good of you to
come so far Just to say goodbye; but
you are always good to me, Yorke;"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-04-30
PAN-AMERIcAN RAILWAY.

The project for a railway 10 OEH9
New York into direct communication
with Buenos Ayres is aptly teEhlo'
the commercial corrollary OF Jns
Monroe doctrine" and that SucA
project is not wholly chimerlcaI .
shown by the fact that at the DeST
ming of this year every Central anu
every Central and every Sos'H
every South American country ~
we are told, has a definite policy VI
aiding railway construction as al NJ
tegral part of the Pan-Amerlcan 'J'
tenn, and some of them, as IN 'D'
case Of Peru and Bolivia, have end''
ed special legislation. All Oh 'n7"
are sympathetic toward an lnIeI'o"
tinental trunk line because us oolD
cides with their plans for internal ~
velopment and external trade.
The distance from New 1oTh
Buenos Ayres is about 1881 nL'01'
Of this 5,7O9 miles of railroad are q
ready in operation, 703 miles are ~
der construction and only 1859 mllso
remain to be built. The lines uhu-i
construction are sufficiently adFanog1
to assure us that the journey lIV.a
New York to Guatemala City ma! -
made without change Of cars by u,
close of 1907, and another year w.
suffice to complete the line to the Wv
Of Salvador in the heart OF Ce1 emu
America. Some of the lines "n.o
have been built in the Andes are ili"0
terpieces o scientific engineering =,
The manufacturing pharmacists -,
the United States should lay INC. -.
plans now to reap the harvest
trade which will follow the comp, 1o
ton of this pan-American road ~
pioneers who now establish corulai -
lations with our southern nelghp w.
will be in command of the sltu@'i ~
when it becomes possible to SNIP W. -
load lots direct from New YORK "
Buenos Ayres.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-04-30

Continued.
hats the matter with your"

WHATS the maCLef WIN you
"Hush!" whispered Vinson; and he
clutched the mans arm and led him
to a part of the room out of reach of
Yorke's glowering eyes. by great
goodness! talk of luck! Look here!
Oh, Moses, did you ever?"
Let me see!" said his friend, i'm
patiently you clutch that paper
as if What is it? Eli? OH"
They both stared at the paragraph
to which Vinson pointed in silence for
moent or two. Then Vinson said
in a whisper:
do you think he has seen it?"
mot he! Do you think he would
sit like that?"
"Then-then we ought to break it
to him, eh?" said Vinson. "By George!
I don't half like the job. Here, you
come with me-"
They both approached the table,
and Yorke nodded to the other man,
but did not extend warmer greet
ing.
Not in Scotland, old man." said
VinsOn.
What do you mean? I'm here, as
you see."
mot even yachting? Er-er-when
did you see Lord Eustace last-your
uncle, you know?"
What? When did 1 see Why do
you ask?"
"oh, show it to him! I told you I
should null it,"
The other man held the paper to
Yorke and pointed to paragraph, and
Yorke taking it-and not too courte-
ously-out of his hand, read this:
I'VE regret to announce the death of
Lord Eustace Auchester and his two
sons. His lordship was yachting in
the Mediterranean, and the vessel,
being overtaken by a sudden squa1l,
capsized. Their lordships and the
crew, four in number, were lost. Lord
Eustace Auchester was the heir to the
Dukedom of Rothbury, which will
now descend to his nephew, Lord
Yorke Auchester"
Yorke gazed at the printed words
for a time as if he failed to grasp
their significance. Then his face
paled-paled slowly till it was white
Hold up, old man. said Vinson.
as death.
Dash it all, I wish I'd broken it bet
ter! Here, take some wine!"
But Yorke, pushing the wine from
him, rose, the paper still in his hand,
and, as if he he had forgotten the
presence of the two men, stared
wildly before him. Then, to their
horror, he broke into hoarse laugh.
why, she should have waited" he
exclaimed, bitterly, and as if he were
speaking to himself. yes, if she
had waited she would have been a
duchess, after all!''
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-04-30
BIOLOGISTS HARD AT WORK.
San Franoisoo's Unique Location Con-

sdered-Various Explanations.
Prominent biologists and scientists
Of all the universities are studying
conditions which led to the San Fran
cisco disaster. They have called at
tention to the fact that the great
belt Of fire" which embraces the
shores of the Pacific ocean marks out
the most earthquake-shaken regions Of
the globe.
San Francisco is strikingly located
on top of high peak on the point OF
peninsula and is on the line of de-
markation between the submarine and
subterranean volcanic disturbances.
1t is on archaean rock which shoots up
from fathomless depths of the ocean.
The western part of the United
States abounds in volcanic piles which
so far as known have given no signs
of activity. In the western region
may be found tens of thousands OF
square miles of land which have been
overlooked with lava and the sue
cessive strata are thousands of feet in
thickness. In many portions of the
west indications point to a very re
ogists say it is by no means improb-
able that some of them have occurred
since the year 1921.
According to reports from Los Ange-
les today the country between Monte
rey, Castroville and Tajaro shows I'M
mistakable signs of the terrible
wrenching and the tremendous up
heaval of the earth. Great de-
pressions extend along the railroad
tracks as far as the eye can reach,
ranging from four to six feet deep. Be
tween CastroviIle and Monterey. along
the railroad in the fields, mud geysers
have been melted into action, spouting
boiling hot. bluish-colored mud to the
height of ten to twelve feet In places
the geysers are only four to ten feet
apart.
Biologists say that earthquakes
may be due to the sudden collapse OF
underground cavities such as are
found along the western coast of the
United States. They say, too, that
others have been caused by the snap
ing of strata subjected to great strain
or tension such as might have occurred
ina series beginning with the sudden
release of hundreds of thousands Of
tons of molten lava from Vesuvius
less than a month ago
1t is also suggested that subter-
ranean supports may have snapped
one after another until the breaking
up reached the Pacific coast. Stats
tics show that the larger number of
earthquakes are connected with vol
canic action and most of these appear
to originate beneath the sea, their i'm
mediate cause being probably the
flashing into steam of water which
found its way down through assures
to the underlying heated rock.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-04-30

La Crosse Chronicle-To people in
the old settled parts of the country
wild horse would be a novelty, but
they seem to be plentiful up in
Oregon. The Oregonian states that
during the present month there is to
be rounding" of about $4,000 wild
horses in Douglas county. They have
multiplied till they have become a
real pest, and it is proposed to en-
ploy four hundred cowboys to corral
them and rid the settlers Of what is
a great evil. What seems still more
strange is the further statement that
these animals are all to be killed.
They are a breed of horses that for
many years have run wild, constantly
deteriorating in quality untamed and
untamable, and the object in view is
to rid the range of these droves of
grass consumers as a work of neces-
sity. We presume the hides will be
saved and that is all, but to us such
a slaughter of horses seems not only
cruel but wasteful. They are not
considered worth the trouble of at
tempting to domesticate them and
will be put out of the way with as lit
tie delay as possible.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-04-30
CHAPTER XXXV.

A fortnight later Lucy was return
ing from a rather lengthy ramble.
She had companion, one of the
school girls, this being the universal
holiday, Saturday afternoon, and they
both carried a basket full of roots and
leaves; for whenever Lucy went
out she managed to bring home some
thing for planting in the little gar
den of which she and Leslie were so
fond and proud.
81 hope you're not getting tired,
Jenny she said to the girl who trip
ped on proudly beside her.
"Oh, no, Miss Lucy
well, I'm glad you are not" re
marked Lucy; 'for we are long
way from home yet"
"And it is going to rain" added
Jenny, with that placid Indifference
to the weather which distinguishes
country children.
what! and l have brought no UNI
brella, and you have only that thin
cloak, Jenny. But perhaps you are
wrong. I always notice that when
people say it's going to rain it in
variably turns out fine, perhaps for
weeks"
tits going to rain now, Miss Lucy"
repeated Jenny, still more confident
ly; and moment or two afterwards
she added: "There!"
"You must let me carry this, Jenny,
because we shall have to hurry all
we know. 1t will never do to go in
wet through. What would Miss
Leslie say?"
This formula, which she found of
great service when admonishing the
children, lent speed to Jennys small
feet, and Lucy and she hurried along
the road But as quickly as they
went, tne rain caught them up, and
presently it came down in a torrent
Jenny laughed, and Lucy, being
rather careful Of her clothes and in
clined to take matters seriously, was
constrained to laugh too.
"We must get under tree" she
said. There, squeeze up against the
X, L
you and shelter you as well as l can.
oh, what would 1 give for an UNI
brella!"
Jenny leaned against the tree and
amused herself by twisting a spray
of brown ivy leaves into wreath and
looking up at the weather now and
again; and Lucy was rapidly sinking
into that semi-indifferent, semi
despairing condition which such cir
cumstances produce, when she heard
the rattle of a cart coming along the
road.
Jenny, there is cart, and be-
lieve il is going to Newfold," she said
with sudden hopefulness. Perhaps
it is some one we know-one of the
tradespeople If so, we will ask them
to give us lift"
"They won't wait to be asked, Miss
Lucy" said Jenny, shrewdly, and in
deed truthfully, for the two school
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-04-30

improvements and addition.
have been made to perfect ito
increase its tone and sonorjrv
facilitate its action. AS
strength and durability ali.
piano of today is truly a giant :.
pared with its earlier prAaos
Yet. in some of the most IN
particulars, but little proora
been made, despite consider.s
Fermentation. Now, wherein
the deficiency?
The sonatas of Beethoyar
many respects miniature ~
MES orchestrally conceived
the hands of a List, a Tsusi.
Rubinstein, even the mecbanis.,
projections of the instrument ~.
some respects overcome, so ge., L
the genius of these men. Ind,
spell of Rubinstein's playing II
were absolutely forgotten, AND
single tones-and that not aIvs
rapid but also in slow moyen.,s
were so admirably blended !.
phrases that the sound of a sins,
sharp or B fiat, for example n
even suggested itself. These Y
aimed at what the Germans wm3
propriately designate as gesann'
effekte general tonal effects
The artists mentioned succeeds
converting the piano into an orcbs,,
Even the compositions of Chan
though by no means entitled n 4
classification Of orchestral, geDa,,
demand a tone almost vocal n
fullnss, and a close connection
tween notes and chords akin To 4
produced by the voice or a vd
Now, this fulness and roundDess
tone and the power of sustaining f
equal volume or diminish #
pleasure-true essentials, as We h
here seen, of all pianoforte q
positions worthy of the name,
not be secured on instruments a,
present constructed. BY means
tremendous strength, marvellous e
nique, and genius Of the very higt
order, the three before-mentu
pianists forced even the instrumen
their day to do their bidding:
numerous were the devices to wi
they were compelled to resort to 0
come in a measure its mechan
deficiencies. What a boon it VI
therefore be to our pianists-and
number is legion-if they were abb
last to overcome the present
nounced asthmatic character of
instruments and to produce the e.
intended by our great composer
Joseph Sohn, in Forum.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-04-30
INVENTORS WHO DIED POOR
Enriched the World by Their Genius
but Others Reaped the Benefits

but Others Reaped the Benefits
Trevethick invented the first steam
locomotive. He exhibited it in Lon
don on a circular track. 1t ran fifteen
miles an hour. Trevethick, though
made nothing out of his invention
People laughed at it-they'd have
none of it-all Trevethick accom-
plished in his life was to pave the
way for Stephenson success, He
died in poverty.
Koenig invented the steam printing
press. His partner, Bensley cheated
him. Koenig to support life had TO
sell his patents. He died poor ma
chinist, working for about IS week.
Whitney, the inventor of the cotton
gin, didn't make a cent out OF his idea
Howe, the inventor of the sewing
machine, sold his patent rights for
passage to England. He was mill
hand when his machine was putting
millions in the pockets Of other MEL
jacquard, the inventor of the famous
loom, might have become a biulonaEe
This unseIfish Frenchman, thougl
gave mis- invention to the goYernmeI
and all he got in return-all ne aSke'
in return-was a pension of Sl,OoO
wear