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Douglas Island news., 1907-05-22
NORTHLAND GROWS THINGS.
Alaska and Yukon have 1000 different speci- mems of Flora, I,5oo of which Gustave Ger vais, prospector, has gathered together without any knowledge of botany.
[BY c. H. E. AsQUITHl

How many persons know that Alaska and the Yukon grow two thousand diff ferent specimens of flora?
 That is little hard. Try this one.
 How many persons know much about the Northland, except that it is land of cold and gold?
 That one is easier. The answer is: Very few.
 But after the summer of 1909 when the Alaska -Yukon-P Pacific Exposition at Seattle is over there will be large percentage of the people of the world enlightened on the subject. The pri- mary purpose of the great western worlds fair now in course of prepara- ton is to exploit the wonders, oppor- tunities and resources of the little known domain in the northwestern DOT tiop of North America. And in doing this it will demonstrate that Alaska and the Yukon can grow other things besides icicles.
 Already has an exhibit of the flora of the Northland been collected that will be revelation to the whole world, to the layman and botanist alike. This collection, the largest, finest and most complete of northern flora that has ever been assembled, is the work of a man who never opened book on bot any, and who has been guided solely by the quickness and correctness of his eye and the tenaciousness of his mem ory. Gustaye Gervais, prospector of Whitehorse, starting in the summer of 1905 and continuing last summer re- ceived fifteen hundred and forty speci- mems of Alaska's wild growths, fifty ot which had never before been known to grow in the north. He says there are five hundred more and that he will get these this coming summer.
 And all this in spite of the fact that leading botanists have declared that the number of varying examples of the vegetable kingdom near the Arctic cir cle was not more than five hundred at mostl
 Gustave Gervais, who is now in &c., attle, was born in Quebec some forty odd years ago. In 1897 he was carried north with the gold rush, but dropped off at Whitehorse where he found indi- cations which, so he shrewdly judged, would develop later into values as great as anything in the glittering El- dorado four hundred and eighty miles further down the river. So he built his cabin and settled in the Copper Belt by the head waters of the Yukon. While Gervais has not made any vast fortune he has a comfortable stake and has jus tified his early judgment. Also like so many old prospectors he has missed by very narrow margin, one or two chances of big fortune.
 It was only two years ago that Ger vais took up his present fad-the col lecting of specimens of all the growths of the vegetable kingdom native to Yu- kon and Alaska. Gervais is not an cd ucated botanist, but he has love for the flowers, grasses, trees and wild
Douglas Island news., 1907-05-22

plant life tell me that have some fifty entirely new specimens, specimens not yet named, and it is to the best inter- ests of science that there should be record kept"
 The collection covers four hundred feet of wallspace in spite of the fact that each specimen is closely mounted to the next one. There are thirteen different kinds of trees in the north, a fact that is somewhat surprising, as few hundred miles south one may find eight and ten times this number But only the hardest trees flourish in the north whereas the flowers, which have but a summer life, do nearly as well as their cousins in the south. The flora of the northern states is we'll represent ed north of fifty-three and there are few gaps in the rollcall.
 A beautiful portion of Gervais' ex- hibit is the different mosses. Some of the northern mosses are as fine as fur. The tree moss, black and as fine as silk, the variegated reindeer moss and the cabin moss form as fine contrast in color, texture and growth as anything in the north.
 The wild rhubarb of Alaska is prob ably larger than any grown outside. It has been suggested that some Bur bank might take the Yukon and Alas kan specimens and cultivate them and form new specie for the garden. The wild hay of the Yukon, too, is unsur- passed. There is also special clover which the writer has not met with else where. It is something like the red clover, but grows much nearer the ground and with shorter, finer stem. The flower is fully as big as the largest white clover, and animals seem to thrive on it as on the best pasture of the south. Indeed, three of the White Pass horses which in 1898 went astray were captured three years later, having spent three winters outside without any shelter, and were in better condi- tion than the stock that had spent that time in the stables. On the other hand some stock that the writer knew of was left outside during the winter of 1905 and was never seen again. It was gen. erally supposed, however, that the lean and hungry wolfpacks of the spring had more to do with their disappearance than the lack of food.
 Perhaps from a utilitarian standpoint the most interesting of the Gervais col lection is card containing some splen- did heads of fully ripened wheat, oats, barley and in fact all the cereals that men consume. As the great freight stages tore along the five hundred mile trail, the cereals occasionally ran out of the bags in which they were fasteu- ed. When summer came they would spring up tall and glorious. In the absence of any specific data, Gervais assumes from these specimens that wheat will grow along the upper Yukon. And, as wheat is the most delicate of all the cereals, one may we'll believe that in the years to come great wheat fields will wave where now the lonely trapper or prospector wends his way alone.
 The sacond bic fifty.mile race nuIled
Douglas Island news., 1907-05-22


 
 shrubs that grow in profusion, and whenever he meets with a specimen on his prospecting trips, he carries 1t care- fully back to his cabin and mounts it..
 The result in two years is surprising. la that time, pursuing the collecting only as amusement, and not at all as a business, Gervais has got together over fifteen hundred specimens of the Alas kan. Yukon flora. Indeed, so valuable is his collection, and so unsurpassed that he could not afford to put it into competition in the recent wild flower competition in Dawson City, seeing one of the conditions of the winning of the S250 prize was that the collection should become the possession of the committee until after the Alaska Yu- kon. Pacific Exposition in 1909. As the collection is worth a couple of thous- and dollars, and as he is constantly adding to it, he did not care to allow it out of bis possession until the open ing of the exposition.
 There are in all some two thousand different specimens of natural flora in Yukon and Alaska according to this collector. Owing to unique state of affairs, however, it will take some time to obtain the five hundred odd that Gervais still lacks. There are many seeds that lie dormant in the Yukon for years, and only appear when some peculiar condition arises. A particular ly dry spring, an extra wet spring, warm spring. wet summer, late au- tumn, all these conditions may bring and develop from the ground seeds whose presence are entirely unsus- pected. For instance in the summer of 1905, which was particularly good one for all growth in the north, dozens of plants and shrubs that were never be fore met with in the Yukon sprung up in abundance, and fiourished in many different parts of the country. The following year. just as in the summer preceding 1905 these plants were en- tirely absent from the flora of the country. Thus, it will be seen, the col lecting of plant life in the north pre- sents conditions not found elsewhere, and involves time and patience as we'll as a great special aptitude.
 "I am not," said Gervais, "educated as botanist. took this up as pass time. go away sometimes for three weeks at time on prospecting trip. Often am not able to take horse, a boat, or any conveyance with me. On these occasions have to keep in mind picture of each of the fifteen hun dred specimens have, and whenever l see plant that seems new l pluck it and bring it back to the cabin. l often have difficulty in carrying around iu the rough places that prospector's life naturally leads him, these speci- mems without damaging them. But 1 find that my memory can be depended upon, for it is very rarely that 1 pick plant thinking it is new one, only to find that already 1 have specimen.
 q am told that there are only three L. oQ al sfx,i, and giving name to each set of the collection I have with me. One is Prof. Macoun at Ottawa, and the others are situated at Washington and St. Louis respectively. I am going East as soon as possible to have the collection classi- fled, as those who have seen 1t and who know something about the science of
Douglas Island news., 1907-05-22

The second big f1fty-mile race pulled off last Saturday under the auspices of the Nome Tournament Club, was won by James Wada, Japanese boy, in ' hours, 49 minutes and 10 seconds.
Douglas Island news., 1907-05-22
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed.

Information for Everybody.
 The Fan-tail trail to Atlin is out of business.
 John Barrack is the new mayor of Fairbanks.
 Vice President Fairbanks will visit Alaska this summer.
 Secretary Taft has abandoned his Alaska trip for this year.
 It cost Fairbanks S25 day to care for it's poor during the past winter.
 Vice President Fairbanks proposes to make Alaska visit this summer.
 Judge deGrof shipped 97 tons of ore to the Tacoma smelter from Chichagof island.
 Nome is to have race track, and a pavilion capable of seating thousand people.
 The Seattle P.-I. demands that the frauds in locating Alaska coal lands be laid bare.
 The Juneau Alaska Electric Light $ Power Go. will burn fuel oil for pow CT purposes.
 Judge James Wickersham is to be investigated again this summer all right, but no one seems to be hanker'n' after the job. Seward business men are agitating the building of winter trail from Knik to Fairbanks.
 Peter Hunseth, resident of Ketohi- kan, cut his throat with a razor with suicidal intent.
 Reports come from Valdez of big stampede to Mcknight island, where copper is the magnet.
 The Ellamar miners have lost their strike and gone back to work without any advance in wages.
 H. M. H. Bolander will take 100 head of cattle into the Kuskokwim valley and start an experimental stock ranch.
 A s1O0,OOO dredge will be operated this summer in the tundra back of Nome, by the Nome Mining Company.
 Basket ball is an exciting game the way they play it at Nome. A man got his nose broken in just practice game.
 The sum of s25o,oOO will be spent in Nome next summer in the construction of drain from the third beach line to the sea.
 According to the Gateway, the strike at Latouche is ended, men having been sent from Seward to fill the places of the strikers.
 Nome is the land of the business out law, and, according to John W. Arc lander, who has had his eyes opened egarding processes there, many ot the business people should have the sign "Skinum & Cheatumn above their door.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-05-16
TO THE PUBLIC.

am informed by Norman w. John
son, that persons threaten to fish, when
and as they please, that part of the
Oconto River running through the land
owned or leased by me, thus making
themselves wilfull trespassers. The
fact that have preserved and added
largely to the fishing on this stream
must be well known to everybody in
the neighborhood. What l have done
has been unquestionably to the benifit
of the rest of the stream and l am ex-
ceedingly sorry to have any difference
or trouble with any one, but if my
rights are not respected am forced to
protect and assert them. i have there
fore instructed Mr.. johnson to secure
the best lawyer available and prosecute
every case of trespass to the utmost
limit.
G. Fl, FERRY.
Dated Nav 10, 1907.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-05-16
Dated May 10, 1907.
c. H. FERRY.

Miss Mae Kolanda and Anton Keln-
ofer left Saturday for Menominee,
Mich. where they will visit for cou-
pie of weeks.
A. L. Burgan has about completed
the new sidewalk on Cavour avenue,
from Hvbbards drug store down to the
ADVERTISER office.
N W. johnson of Carter was here
last Friday installing a new phone in
any news call up No. 2. Il
Rudolph Adams of Pound came up
last week and will remain month or
two with his brother Ernest and do
carpenter work about town.
Judge Goodland has appointed A. f.
Lawrence of Wapeno a Circuit Court
Commissioner for Forest county. MIR.
Lawrence is an excellent man for the
position.
Wilbur Butler had his thumb and
first finger of the left hand cut quite
badly in resaw Tuesday while en-
ployed at the Jones mill. DR.. Hubbard
dressed the hand
The explosion of lamp in room of
R. Antes' dwelling at Laona, Friday
night, set fire to bedding and the wood
work. The millinery stock of Miss AL
lender was damaged to the amount OF
$50. -
Rusch Bros: shingle mill. formerly
the Priebe mill, started up the first OF
the week. They will commence saw.
ing logs as soon as the shingle cut is
, out and some additional repairs are
made.
w. P. Hit, our prosperous jeweler
returned Monday from Chicago where
he had been to purchase new ano
larger safe for his jewelary stock. Dur
ing his absence B. G. Kopecky hat
cnarge of the shop here.
Postmaster j. E. Himley has received
notice that hereafter the Annuity ant
Lease moneys for the Kansas Pottawat
annie Indians will be paid direct to tn,
Indians instead of through the severa
postmasters g. L Williams, Supt
and Dish. agent, viii be at Phlox Ma,
II and 18th, at Marshfield May 20tl
and at Westboro May 22 and 23rd, ant
any Pottawatomie Indian entitled t,
money should meet him at the neares
point.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-05-16
NOTICE.

/ will be at Wabeno about the 18th
or Goth of this month with fine line of
Hats and Trimmings.
MRS. 4. j. KENFIELD, Milliner.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-05-16
Local and Personal.

Only two more weeks of school.
DIR. Crawford returned to Crandon
Monday.
Ernest Martin of Carter was here
Tuesday.
Norman johnson was up from Carter
yesterday.
Assessor Chas White was up to Padus
Wednesday.
Supervisor VIM. Rabbit was up from
Carter saturday.
Mrs. A. C. Rusch returned from
Mrrshfield Tuesday.
Land agent Chas. Rietzl was up the
line the first of the week.
Mrs Wp. Hubbard returned from
saltwater, Mimi, Monday.
Miss Frances Sheehan returned from
Iron River, Mich, Monday.
The Woman's Club met today at the
home of Mrs. A. L. Burgan
business caller in town Tuesday.
A. E. Lawrence was in Clark county
few days last week on business.
T. +. Moore passed Sunday with his
family at Eland returning Monday.
Rev. Weber of Crandon held services
at the Lutheran church Sunday.
Rev. Loerke of Laona conducted serv-
ices.at the st. Ambrose church Sunday. |
= Win Grossman of Appleton is EN-
ployed as bool1keeper for the Jones Co.
f. s. Keeney of Laona, with the La
ona Chief, was in town Wednesday eve
ming.
supper will be given at the Presby-
terian chu. ch Saturday evening, May
18th.
A. Weiss, the Gillett meat man, was
IN town Friday and Saturday on busi-
ness.
f. g. Williams, manager of the Gran
don Music House, was here the first of
the week
Miss Mae Roubal has succeeded Miss
Kolanda as saleslady at the A. E. Rusch
& Co. store. ~
Aaron Ritter of Gillett, formerly of
this burg, was a business caller here
last saturday.
=
County Judge DR.. j. II. Dawley of
Crandon was in town on business Tues
day and Wednesday.
Supt. Tipler of the Jones mill and
L. A. Richardson looked over some land
north of here Tuesday.
! The Imperial Moving Picture compa-
ny showed at the opera house Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings.
/ s. Van Bussum of Amigo was here
the first of the week in the interest of
the Amigo Music House.
United States Postofiice inspector, A.
L. Rice of Green Bay, checked up the
Wabeno Office last Friday morning 4
The rail road company has crew of
about forty men here putting in new
steel rails and repairing the track
The Misses Buckley, Mccormack,
Macdonald, Fitzpatrick and Quinlan,
visited the Bay Shore camps Saturday.
Services at the Presbyterian church
Sunday morning and evening.
REV. CALVERT, Pastor
Dahlia roots for sale after May 10Th.
at the home of Mrs. NJ. j. Quinlan.
Proceeds for benifit of st. Ambrose
church.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-22
Hints to the housewives

Breakfast Muffns-Six Mullins. Take
one cup of flower, pinch Of salt; scant
teaspoonful of sugar: heaping table
spoonful of baking powder; one table
spoonful Of lard or butter; one egg;
one fourth cup of sweet milk; mix
well with a fork. Drop in buttered
muffin tins and bake in hot oven un-
til a golden brown.
Corn Omelet-Boil one dozen ears Of
young corn 20 minutes; when cooked
salt. Separate five eggs; beat the
yolks till thick and add one gill Of
cream. After mixing we'll. stir it into
the corn by degrees. Beat the whites
until stiff and dry; stir lightly
through half at a time; have ready in
a frying pan equal quantity of lard
and butter. boiling hit; pour in the
mixture and cook rapidly. When
done. turn it out of the pan and send
to the table at once.
Beet Salad-Line salad bowl with
crisp lettuce leaves. and pile on neatly
alternate slices of boiled beets and
hard boiled eggs. Let the beets pre-
dominate. Sprinkle the top with onion
and parsley. chopped very fine, and
covered with Italiaon dressing. This
is a wholesome salad
Thoroughly wash one-haIf cup of
pearl tapioca in several waters. Cook in
water to cover, in double boiler. until
transparent. Put a layer of apples
pared and quartered. in the bottom OF
baking dish. pour the tapioca over
it. and bake in a covered dish until
the apples are tender. Remove cover
and brown. Serve with cream and
sugar.
/ Lamb Ragout-F1fteen cents worth
/ of shoulder of lamb gives a nutritious
ragout, but it requires more careful
handling than is ordinarily accorded
4 to this somewhat commonplace dish
Let the butcher cut up in two-incf
pieces, but be it your care to free eacf
piece most painstakingly from any
suspicion Of wool and also to remove
all superfluous fat. Some fat, o.
course there must be, but there is gen
orally three times too much of it. Rol
each piece in -four mixed with sal
and paper. and color lightly in tn,
saucepan, using very little butter a
first and then allowing it to fry in it.
own Juice. color also at the same tin'
q half pin Of sliced onion; add boiling
water TO almost cover and simmer yer!
slowly until the meat is tender. Gool
with boiled rice or baked potatoes.
/ Fish Chowder-Fifteen cents wortl
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-22

Pattern No. 5S34.-The shirt waist
shown in the illustration is one of the
most serviceable that can be had.
Tuck pleats are laid in front and back,
and band of the material is stitched
at the waistline to which the buttons
are sewed that support the trousers.
The rundown collar is attached to
the neckband, but may be made sepa
rately if desired. Linen, madras and
percale are all suitable for reproduc-
ton, but for everyday wear the col
ored shirtings are most favored and
they wear excellently. For a boy OF
eight years ~ yards of 36-inch ma
terial will be required. Sizes for 4, 6,
8, 10 and II years.
This pattern will be sent to you ON
receipt of 10 cents. Address all orders
to the Pattern Department of this paper.
Be sure to give size and numb of pat
tern wanted. For convenience, write
your order on the following coupon:
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-22
By REX E. BEACH.

''but that money stays here till It's
drawn out right"
The crowd paused at this show of
resistance, but Glenister rallied at
them:
Come on! Come on! What's the
matter with your" And from the light
IN his eye it was evident that he would
not be baked
Helen felt that a crisis was come
and braced herself These men were
in deadly earnest-the white haired
banker, his pale helpers and those
grim, quiet ones outside. There stood
brawny, sun Drowned men with set
jaws and frowning faces and yellow
haired Scandinavians in whose blue
eyes danced the flame Of battle. These
had been bafied at every turn, goaded
by repeated failure, and now stood
shoulder to shoulder In their resist
ance to a cruel law Suddenly Helen
heard a command from the street and
the quick tramp Of men, while over
the heads before her she saw the CLINT
of rife barrels A file of soldiers with
fixed bayonets thrust themselves rough
ly through the crowd at the entrance.
"Clear the roomw commanded the
officer
what does this meanT shouted
Wheaton.
at means that Judge Stillman has
called upon the military to guard this
gold that's ALL Come, now, move
qnickr' The men hesltated, then sui
lenly obeyed for resistance to the blue
OF Uncle Sam comes only at the cost
of much consideration.
They're robbing US with our OWL
soldiers" said Wheaton when they
were outside.
Aye" said Glenister darkly. eve
have tried the law, but they're forcing
US back to first principles. There's go
ing to be murder here"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-22
In MY Lady's BoudOir

Why will girls insist on asking for
and using rouges when the only posi-
BILE way of having good colorinG is to
work from the inside out. No rouge
is equal to the natural red of a heal
thy girls cheek. Even If one succeeds
in initiating the coloring well. there
will always be something about ones
appearance to tell the story. A thin,
nervous woman with prominent cheek
bones and deep red lines around her
mouth always looks frightfully made
up or else like a person in galloping
consumption with rouge on her cheeks.
Only yesterday I sat behind a woman
in the train who had a perfect imita-
ton of good health plastered over her
face. 1 should never have known the
difference, but-there is always but
she had put a wee bit too much rouge
on the lobes of her ears. That gave
the whole thing away. Then 1 began
to notice the tinting of her eyebrows,
the dye in her hair and all sorts Of
things that might have passed as genu-
Inc but for that one slip.
It isn't good policy. you see. merely
for appearances sake, for it is sure to
be detected by just the people whom
one hopes to deceive. 1t savors of
much of the cardboard palaces at the
cheap summer resorts. where the gaudy
colors and cheap gilt paint never quite
covers the ugliness underneath.-It is
a great temptation at times-any girl
will admit that-when one is going out
in the evening and isn't feeling quite
fit to touch up the colorless cheeks a
bit. At best, it is only a miserable
substitute.
Girls will use rouge just the same,
but If they will. why not have narm-
less rouge that can be made at home.
One girl has given me her formula for
strawberry rouge. 1t is very simple.
but might not be a success except in
the evening, as liquid rouges never are.
This is the recipe:
Fresh ripe strawberries. 8 quarts
| Distilled water. ................1 pint
Place in a fruit jar and set the par
in a saucepan of water over a slow fire.
Let the water simmer for two hours
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-22

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