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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-24

readily entered into Boyd's plans and
shared his enthusiasm. So also did
c. G. May of the Big Bend national
bank at Davenport. And not less in
terested was DR.. N. Fred Essig of Spo-
kane 1t was syndicate to brave
hearts, willing hands and ready
purses, and so in 1895 the tunnel was
started to cut straight through the
vein-ribbed side of the old Palmer
mountain. Work has never stopped.
The hackers found assistance neces-
sary, and they carried their en-
thusiasm to Ohio and Pennsylvania,
and returned with abundant means for
carrying forward the enterprise Am
pie machinery was installed. and pro-
gress became more rapid So it has
gone on without stop or hitch or
falter.
The tunnel is model Of engineer
ing, but no mining engineer ever
planned or suggested or in any way
contributed to the work. John Boyd
did it. The merchant proved himself
equal to the occasion. From the be-
ginning he has been the man behind
the tunnel Straight and true as a
bullets fight it has bored into the
hillside AS perfect piece of mining
work it is as one can see in all the
west.
But he big thing about this tunnel
is that in the veins which have been
cut at depth of 1000 feet in the
farther portions of the tunnel free
gold is as abundant as in the surface
workings. This proves the continuity
of the free gold of Palmer mountain
and demonstrates the worth of the
property.
Drifting is in progress on five of
the veins cut. Ore is going on to the
dump which will go away up in the
hundreds quite often. but the average
of all the ore encountered by the tun-
mel, as ascertained by weeks of samp-
ling by one of the most famous ex-
perts in the country, is $22 per ton,
That sounds evtravagant, but it is
literally and absolutely true.
Furthermore, the investigation Of
this expert proved that the entire
Palmer mountain formation is i'm
pregnated with gold to the extent OF
between So and So per ton The
whole thing will pay as well for mil
ling as does the ore of the Treadwell
or Homestake. while the many veins
intersected will bring the profit up.
The biggest wen yet encountered is
known as No. IL, which was cut last
July. 1t proved 40 feet wide from
wall to wall. and in it is pay streak
of five feet of blue quartz carrying
free gold averaging about 500 per
ton. The average across the whole
vein when cross-cut by the tunnel was
SIS. Drifting both ways has disclosed
even better values. with the pay
streak widening steadily
Within the next year the big prop
erty will be equipped with electric
power, with ample reduction works,
and will be well on the way to divi-
dends.-Loomis (Wash.) Correspon-
dence in Anaconda (Mont.) Standard.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-24
London Deserving the Top Hat.

Will the war leave it's mark upon
the social customs and habits of
London Little signs are not wanting
that it will. The comfort of the khaki
hat, for instance. has been an ex-
perience too prolonged in many cases
to be lightly left aside. The Duke of
Norfolk has early set an example by
having soft black hat. first cousin of
the wideawake, yet with a remini-
scence of militarism in it, made for
London wear He has edited the
Carlton Club with it during the last
two or three days and has already
made more than one convert. besides
confirming the faith of hating others.
Certainly in all the clubs on saturday
the top hat had number of deserters
far in excess of any figures that past
years could provide.-London Chroni-
Gle.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-24
CHAPTER XXI.
Once More in Fathers Arms"

once More In Fathers Arms"
Sybil Ayrton mourned for her hus-
band as good women and true mourn
Tor the man they love, be his death of
body or soul. Had Lyster Ayrton died
before their marriage, or during the
one perfectly happy week that followed
it, she would never have forgotten
him; but the Lyster she loved the
hero she worshiped, had been so long
dead to her that the fact of her never
seeing him again did not wound or
grieve her.
1t is terrible thing when the death
of a husband is a relief to wife. It
must have been SO to Sybil Ayrton.
She never owned it-she never al
lowed the thought to enter her mind.
She wept for him, shuddering as she
remembered the misery of long years.
She covered her golden hair with a
widows cap; she shrouded her slender
figure in heavy mourning; she tried to
forget the squalid misery, the poverty,
the loathing, the coarse violence, the
oaths and curses Of the latter time, and
remember him only as the fair haired
soldier, as she had known him at
ulynn. She would not admit the be-
lief-she would not own it as such
but it was something to remember that
there was now no need to dread
anathemas and blows, to feel that the
free, pure breath Of heaven blew over
her once more.
She wrote at once to the squire and
told him of her husbands death. She
sent the paper narrating the incident,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-24
SCIENCE OF SAUCEPAN.
Famous Cooking Society of Paris, the
Gordon BIeu.


Gordon Bleu.
Not satisfied merely with her repu-
tation for good cooking, Paris is found
ing culinary league, by means of
which she hopes to disseminate the
science of the saucepan.
Already she has a famous society OF
the Gordon Bleu. or Blue Ribbon,
culinary university conducted by past
masters of the art. It IS managed by
committee Of great chefs all OF
whom have borne the heat and burden
of the day in many q savoly kitchen.
They have their headquarters in that
famous rendezvous of gourmets. the
Palais Royal, and here they WELD the
most skilled basting spoons in France.
Around a corpulent old chef. crowned
with traditional white cap, a dozen or
more young women watch the confec-
ton of ragout AS he cuts up the
vegetables, prepares the sauce and
juggles with saucepan he maintains
learned disquisition, interrupted now
and again by question from an in
quiring pupil.
The Gordon Bleu has, been eStab-
lished for five years, and during that
time has turned out many efficient
cooks. It's aim is to teach the art OF
cooking well and economically. for
French housewives prefer a cook who
does not waste material. So the chef
explains that it is not necessary to
add a lump of butter to every dish.
''The natural fat of the meat would in
nearly every case be sufficient he
says, "and it is by no means neces-
sary to supplement every dish with
butter, or grease, or oil. These only
fatigue the stomach, and the best cook
is she who uses least grease"
The Gordon Bleu frequently has
English and sometimes American pu-
pills. For $40 a month a pupil may at
tend every day, learn to cook her own
dinner and have it served as soon as
it is ready. Her early martyrdom is
a happy augury for married happi-
ness One of the professors of the
school is decorated with the Legion Of
Honor, and all are at the head of their
profession. Recently the Gordon
Bleu has established circuit system
for the provinces. Each chef in turn
takes his tour, and the French govern
ment, which knows the value to the
nation of good cooking. makes a
grant in aid of these provincial lee
lures and demonstrations Mexican
Herald.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-24
A considerate Preacher.

North Carolina preachers are mere
considerate than Pennsylvania preach
ears. Rev. w. G. Jones, pastor OF q
Pennsylvania Congregational church,
charges Deacon Williams with having
slept Is out of Is Sundays while he was
preaching and last Sunday when he
caught the deacon mapping while he
was preaching the minister at once cut
short his sermon, dismissed his congre-
CATION and sent in his resignation. A
North Carolina preacher would he more
considerate. Some years ago, while
Rev. Jesse II. Page was preaching in
Morganton on a hot summer night, his
congregation noticed that he lowered
his voice almost to whisper. Later
on in the sermon, by way of explana-
ton, he said: Il hope the brethren
in the rear of the church will excuse
me if they can not hear I can not
talk louder for fear of waking up the
brethren who are asleep on the front
seats. Raleigh News and Observer.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-24

Minister Limontour's report of the
financial condition of Mexico takes up
the present financial situation, which
is characterized by monetary strin-
gency, and remarks: 1T is impossible
to disregard certain economical
phenomena and certain symptoms of
the present business situation, which
reveal condition of uneasiness caus-
ed by the partial paralyzat1on of trans
actions, and which, if continued for
long time, would probably occasion a
formal crisis in the commerce and in
dustry of large portion of the re-
public
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-24
PHOTOGRAPHER OF LEoNIDs.
Miss Dorothea KIumpke Is the Fore
most Astronomer of Paris.

Miss Dorothea KIumpke Is the Fore
most Astronomer of Paris.
Miss Dorothea Klumpke, Cali
fornia girl, is the foremost astronomer
of Paris. Lately she has been going
up in balloon to photograph the
leonids.
The leonids are a wonderful shower
of burning, dazzling, shooting stars
that dash through the edge of our at
mosphere at this time of year. There
are million miles of them. but owing
to combination of circumstances it
is not always easy to observe them
They are of intense interest to astron-
omers.
Miss Klumpke is one of the astrono-
mers of the French government and
carries on her studies regularly at the
Paris observatory. Whenever an
event of Importance to the astronomi-
cal world has taken place of late. this
young woman astronomer has been as
signed to observe it for the govern
ment. Thus she was one of the gov
eminent astronomers at the recent
eclipse or the sun.
She has made speciality of balloon
ascensions for astronomical purposes
and before the appearance of the
leoniods she made several trial ascen-
sions. When the time came she was
able to go up above the fogs and the
clouds and take number of splendid
photographs of the flying meteors,
which were invisible to otherNobserv-
ers. She has been warmly compli-
mented for her achievement by the
head of the observatory and is regard
ed with wonder and admiration by
scientists all over the world. She took
her balloon up to height of 5000 feet
in order to get perfectly clear atmos-
phere. Such high ascensions are nee
essarily perilous.
Miss K1umpke began her career by
gaining the degree of doctor of mathe-
matics, the first woman to do so in
France. Her thesis was "a Contribu-
ton to the Study of the Rings of
Saturn Then she won her position in
the observatory against fifty French
astronomers who were trying for it.
She has charge of the department
which computes the measurements of
the stars in the Paris belt. She has a
special building of her own in the
great observatory garden, covered
with ivy and surrounded with flower
beds. Here she works every day from
8 till 5, and frequently stays up at
night in the round tower with her
telescope.
One of her duties is to photograph
the stars in her belt. This is done on
small plates six inches square, and
two impressions of each are made. so
that there may be no mistake.
The plates are marked off in
squares a sixteenth of an inch across
by spider webs, as anything else
would be too coarse.
In spite of her science. Miss
Klumpke is of pleasing appearance
and dresses tastefully. One of her sis
tiers, Anna Klumpke, is a famous por-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-24
A Great Collection OF Mosquitoes.

Sir Joseph Chamberlain sent out
request to the Governors of British
colonies few months ago that steps
be taken to secure specimens of
mosquitoes in their respective juris-
dictions and that the same be for
warded to the Natural History
Meseum in London for scrutiny and
classification. The Secretary for
Colonies had already co-operated with
the Royal Society for a rigid investiga-
ton into the suspected relations be-
tween mosquitoes and malaria, mas
much as malaria fevers are said to be
the cause of more deaths than any
other malady in the tropical posses
sions of the Crown. Thus far over
5000 specimens have been received
and additions are being made to this
total almost every week. The genus
anopholes, which is held responsible
for the dissemination of malaria. is
represented by % species, at least 10
of which were until recently unknown
to science. Great variations both in
size and the markings of the anop-
heles have been detected, and, al
though the genus is practically world
wild in it's distribution, no single
species belonging to it appears to
have very extensive habitat. This
latter popularity is not equally
characteristic of the innocent culex,
one species of which has been found
in North and South America, the West
Indies, Gibraltar. South and West
Africa, India. the Malay Peninsula,
Hongkong. Formosa and Japan.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-24
On Shore.

The white gulls flash in the outer bay,
The sails are flushed with the dying
day,
o wind that creeps from the open sea,
Do you bear mine own again to me?
o steadfast lights that watch the main,
Make We his pathway very plain.
o faithful stars above the sea,
Show him the port where he would be!
Across the dunes hear the roar
OF the restless surf that walks the
shore;
The lamps are lit, the streets grow dim,
And my hungry heart cries out for him.
A Ketchum, in East and West.
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trait painter. to whom Rosa Bonheur
left her country house and all her
paintings. Another sister. Augusta
Klumpke, is a practicing physician in
Paris. The youngest sister, Julia
Klumpke, 10 years old, is vIiolinist
and the most brilliant of Ysaye's pu-
pills. The Klumpkes were born in San
Francisco. Truly, they are a marvel
Gus group of sisters.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-24
TUNNELING PALMER MOUNTAIN.
A Great Mining Enterprise in the
State of Washington.

The most extensive mining
progress on Palmer mountain,
which rears it's head just
back of Loomis Into this famous
hill, which set the whole Northwest
wild with gold stampede in the
early COS, a Spokane company is
driving monster tunnel to tap the
very heart of the mountain. That
tunnel is $3.50 feet in length, and it
has crossed IL veins. That is to say,
it has crossed that number of a width
of from to 40 feet. A score of other
veins, ranging from few inches to
between two and three feet have also
been cut, but the company is engaged
upon so great an enterprise that no at
tention is given to these "stringers,'
as they are termed, although many
mine has paid dividends for such
veins
The story of the big tunnel has
tinge of romance. The camp was all
astir in 80, and the excitement lasted
until the financial crash came in '93.
L AOA VAIL nF o5oht nOho6OAhOhC AAOC
it's usual WATERLOO. The mines all
shut down. Not one was left work
ing. The Black Bear and War Eagle,
which had been sending out beautiful
gold bricks with great regularity,
stopped work and soon passed into
creditors hands. Desolation took the
place of industry.
Tohr hoo
at Loon1is. During the boom days he
had the bulk of the camps business
and he laid by nice penny for
rainy day, which came all to soon and
Unexpectedly. The camp was desert
ed. Prunes and bacon lay decaying
on the shelves. Something had to be
done.
John Boyd was no miner, but the
abundant gold which he had seen from
the surface workings of Palmer
mountain gave him supreme faith in
the gray old hill. So he set himself
to the task of acquiring the claims
which the discouraged holders were
usually glad to drop for a fraction of
what they had once hoped to receive.
1t took almost three years for him
to get the plan in working order which
he had mapped out for himself It's
contamination was finally reached
when he had the whole south side of
Palmer mountain in one great group
of AZ claims, leaving only two in the
hands of other parties, the Black
Bear and War Eagle, now being OPP
Grated by Sopkane-Toronto syndI-
cate.
In this great group of AZ claims
were there that had yielded immense
values from the surface workings.
Veins ribbed the mountain side from
foot to summit. All Of these showed
free gold on the surface, and some OF
them carried bonanza values.
Boyd was told by the wise ones that
these free milling veins would turn to
base sulphides at little depth. If he
had been a miner he might have be-
lieved these croakers, and the tunnel
never would have been driven. But
he was business man, knowing little
of veins except that these carried
gold and that gold makes dividends if
you find enough of it. He went to
Spokane, and elected the support of
some nervy operators. D. NJ Drum
heller, president of the Traders
national bank, who had herded cattle
on Okanogan hills in early days,
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Helping Things Along.

Mrs. rabshaw-What's that you're
blowing on your bugle, dear?
Bobbie-The call to arms. ma. Sis
ter's young man has her under the
mistletoe.-Smart Set.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-24

Charles Kaeracter of Brainerd,
Mimi, committed suicide in a hotel in
Philadelphia.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-24

Wife, made you what you are,
John.
hater before I married you.-Smart
Set.
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Modge-You'd better not trust that
girl with book. She never returns
one.
Marjorie-But she won't keep this
its diary.-Smart Set.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-15
LIVELY DAY AT BOWERS BEACH.
Detectives Could Not Shut Down on the
Shell Game Man.

Over 1000 people swarmed Bowers
Beach Thursday to celebrate ''Big
Thursday" Because of the impend-
ing political crisis the occasion was
one of peculiar interest and every
candidate for office, from United
State Senator down to Coroner, were
found there working at their fences.
The crowd was too great for the
limited detective force and the shell
game and rolling faro men were there
and operated almost without fear.
They had come down from Philadel-
phia and Camden, N. j., and some
anchored off in a sloop Thursday night
with all their gambling accoutrements
on board.
j. H. Wyatt, who was serving as
whip for hack party, got his team en-
tangled in string of vehicles and
overturned a carriage when his horses
became unmanageable. Wyatt stuck
to his post and endeavored to conquer
his maddened horses, and was thrown
out some distance over their heads,
sustaining a compound fracture of his
right leg.
Among the politicians who were
busying themselves it was conceded
that Kent county would make no claim
upon the coming Democratic State
Convention other than for Congress
man, unless it might be for State
Treasurer. Former Sheriff Amos
Cole, who is now resident of Whining
ton, was freely spoken of for Insurance
Commissioner, with the belief that he
will get the New Castle county nomi-
nation. 1t is thought that State Com
mitteeman Edward d. Hearne, of
Georgetown, may get the short-term
Congressional nomination.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-15
PLEDGES TO BE CARRIED OUT.
United States Granting the Cubans Govern.
mental Control of the Island.

Those few public men of the Petit
grew stripe who hare been asserting all
along that the Administration never
had any intention of carrying out the
pledges of Congress in regard to Cuban
independence, will soon have to hide
their heads in shame-or, at least would
do so if they had any shame. The
Cuban elections are to be held in Sep
tember to elect delegates to a conven-
ton to form a constitution for the isl
and, and the people of Cuba will be
conducting their own Government in
the very near future.
There is practically no market for
Cuban products, except in the United
States. When Porto Rico has had the
benefit of another year or two of Amer
lean rule it will increase its sugar and
tobacco product to such an extent when
taken in connection with the product
of Hawaii and of the Philippine islands
as to greatly lessen the demand for the
Cuban product. Cuba will be so de-
pendent on our market that intimate
relations may be expected to continue
between the two countries, even if the
Cubans had no just appreciation of
what this country has done for them.
But they will probably more fully ap-
preciate that unexampled service as the
years go by.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-15
MIGHT HAVE MARRIED STEPMOTHER.
Applicant For a Marriage License Has the
Law Pointed Out to Him.

A man with a great flow of language
applied at the office of the clerk of the
peace Friday for a marriage license,
and Deputy Clerk of the Peace, George
Janver, who is rarely more happy than
when he is assisting towards the union
of loving hearts, began the preparation
of the document. He wrote the appli-
cant's name on a license blank and
then asked for the name of his bonds
man who accompanied him. 1t was a
French name and the clerk had it's
owner write it out for him.
While the bondsman was so engaged
Mr.. Janvier asked the would -be-groom
the name of the would-be- bride, and it
turned out that her surname was the
same as the groOms. But as such CO.
incidences happen every once in a
while, Mr.. Janvier did not have his
curiosity excited. 1t remained for the
voluble applicant to remark that the
bride-to-be was his late mothers wife.
in other words, his own stepmother.
Upon hearing that, Mr.. Janvier
looked up the Revised Code and
learned from chapter IA, section /, that
a man may not legally marry his step
mother.
This was news to the voluble appli-
cant, yet he said he did not want to do
anything contrary to the law. He ex-
pressed his thanks to the clerk and
went away.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-15
EXPOSES CROKER'S GAME.
Angry Congressman Claims that Tsmmany
Chief Tricked the Democrats.

Senator Jones return from New
York to Washington is followed by
many stories concerning the peace he
patched up between David B. Hill and
Richard Croker. The Senator is con-
ident that the party in the Empire
States is united and that harmony means
victory there.
There is in this city now a Demo-
cratic Congressman from BROOKLYN,
a member of the New York delegation
at Kansas City, who tells story strik-
ingly at variance with Senator Jones
happy-go-lucky view of the matter.
He is candidate for reelection.
''Senator johns" says he ''has simply
been buncoed by Croker. We who
are candidates generally know very
well that Bryan has not the remotest
chance to carry New York. Further.
more, Croker does not intend that
Bryan shall carry New York. Croker't
solicitude for '16 to 4 at Kansas City
was but piece Of clever duplicity by
which he hoped to win the confidence
and sympathy of Bryan.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-15
THE YOUNG MEN IN POLITICS.
Four Million Young Men Will Cast Their
First Vote This Year.

1t is estimated that nearly 4,O0O,-
0)0 men will cast their votes for
the first time for President, next No
vember. In 1896 President Mckinley
received 7,109, 1879 votes, and Bryan
6,5O2, ,6S5, giving the present Executive
a plurality of 6O9, 9,574, and clear ma
iority of the popular vote of 2SS, 753
over all opposition. The new element
in the contest, amounting we may as
sumo, to 8, 500, 900 votes is an important
factor. There is considerable shifting
of opinion in one way or another in
four years in this country, and it
would not be safe to say that all the
young voters will follow the lead of
their fathers or other older advisers
and cast their ballots as these have
been accustomed to do.
This is a great age for the young man
in politics, and he is taking advantage
of his opportunities as never before.
In Congress, in the State Legislatures
and in City Councils are found large
percentage of young men. A better
system of education is largely respon-
sible for this change. In colleges and
universities, nowadays, young men re-
ceive a scientific education which has
a direct reference to public life, and
they are encouraged to take an active
part in all matters that relate to Gov
ernment in any form.