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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-27

couver, and through the Lynn canal,
to Skagway, which he terms the gate
way to the Yukon, and describes as
"a wretched little town with decayed
wooden houses and grass-grown
streets, the scene of many rObberies,
riots and murders at the time OF the
gold rush, which the police authorities
had neither the power nor energy to
sontroI. Skagway is not, and can
hever be, of much use to the United
States except as an obstruction to
Canadian progress, but might be of
some advantage to the vast Canadian
hinterland less than twenty miles in
land
Skagway is surrounded on three
aides by a plateau of steep and rug
ged mountains through which two
trails lead to the north over the White
Horse and the Chilcoot passes, up
whose wild and difficult ravines thou
sands of fortune-seekers trekked and
struggled with their heavy packs,
tools and tents in the mad rush to the
expected FL Dorado over five hundred
miles away. Soon after the gold was
found in quantities a mountain rail-
road was built up he White pass
from Skagway to the summit and on
TO Lake Bennett, a distance of 40
miles, traversing a wild and iceworn
plateau of gigantic proportions,
strewn with moraines, sprinkled over
with lakes and inclosed by snowy
peaks 5000 to 5000 feet in height.
At the head of Lake Bennett lies the
deserted town of Bennett, where, at
the time of the gold rush, there were
lodged some five thousand people in
houses, huts and tents. The only
building now standing beside the rail-
road station is a wooden Presbyterian
church-which shows that at least a
few righteous men were among that
sordid crowd. 1t was here that the
first prospectors and miners got into
boats and canoes and navigated their
frail craft through lakes and rapids
for the remaining 531 miles of their
venturesome Journey to Dawson City.
The last stretch of the railroad from
Skagway runs along Lake Bennett to
White Horse, a few miles above Lake
Laberge, where safe navigation down
the Lewes river to Dawson begins.
Dawson City the Center.
Although the great ice fields CT the
early ages swept the greater portion
oil North America they missed the re-
giSn of the Klondike, and consequent
ly the gold-producing deposits re-
NAMED intact until the early prospec-
tors discovered them. The Yukon
goldfield Is confined mainly to the vi
entity of Dawson City. although
small quantities OF geld can be Iou2d
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-27
has dwindled down to less than tw,
thousand people.

has dWindled down to less than two
thousand people.
Three Ways of Getting Gold.
The various processes of recovering
gold in this region fall under three
main heads-individua by washing
surface gravels with shovel and pan,
or by sluicing with fiume and sluice
box; small parties, by working drift
with mechanical scrapers and sluices,
or drift-mining in shafts and sluicing,
and capitalists, by dredging with pow
erful mechanical plants, hydraulic
sluicing with monitors, or mining and
stamping ore in mills. The first class
includes poor mems diggings" and
the second requires more financial re-
sources and mechanical ability, but
successful man in the first may be-
come a member of the second class.
While the first two classes require
fairly rich ground, only men with ex-
ceptional ability and ample capital can
reach the third class and work the
low-grade placer gravels or quartz
veins successfully.
The author describes in detail the
several methods of extracting gold
from the frozen Klondike field, based
upon his personal observations, and
shows how man has changed the to-
Biography of this district, especially in
the valleys. First the drift miners
turned the gravel upside down, then
the dredgers plowed it all over again
and threw it into great ridges of stone
with mud banks between, and finally
where there were white gravels on
the high ground, the hydraulic
giants" washed them down into great
fan-shaped cones, sometimes reaching
across the entire valley, completely
burying all below, damming up gullies
and producing new lakes. All of which
operations have made tough problems
for the future geologist.
The vast territory of the Yukon dis
trict is imperfectly explored, and al
though it is far north, the climate in
summer is warm and favorable for ag-
riculture and grazing. Exploration is
now readily effected from Dawson, and
Mr.. CadeIl hopes that fresh enterprise
will reveal new resources that viii
lead to the permanent settlement of
this remote and almost uninhabited
outpost.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-27
NEW GARMENT HAS CHARM
Corset Cover, Easily Made at Home,
Will Be Source of Qualification
to Its Wearer.

If you are tired of just underwaists
bust kind and the wee camisole, try
making this quite new garment for
wear under your blouse.
Buy one yard of white silk muslin
at 25 cents yard, one and one-fourth
yards of narrow, stout lace and two
skeins of white mercerized cotton.
Make waist by kimono pattern with
very short sleeves, folding the goods
crosswise. Cut the neck V shape in
front and slightly rounded or equally
V'd behind; have the fronts of the
waist one-eighth inch longer thai the
back. Scallop the entire edge and ends
of sleeves and do it in buttonhole
stitch, preferably well padded. Then
put a double row of French eyelets
inside the buttonhole stitching. The
seams are under the arms. Put these
seams together with the lace; down
the front put the lace also, lacking to
one side: the other side may be fas-
tened with tiny snaps or with wee gold
pins Turn up the bottom of the waist
and fit by means of rubber band run
through the hem made. This, by the
way, is the easiest way to finish all
blouses just now.
Lace blouses are usually lined with
chiffon, and the chiffon shrinks when
the blouse is washed, leaving a gar
ment that has lost its loneliness.
With tho new corset cover chiffon lin
ings can be removed before the first
washing. No lining is needed with
such an underwaist.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-27
Quick Changes.

In an age when styles change over
night, it is not the part of sartorial
wisdom to lay so much stress on the
wearing qualities of fabrics that one
is left with old-fashioEed but perfectly
good frocks on ones hands. Few
women appreciate & remodeled gown
as much as a new one. OF course a
good quality OF unadulterated material
is superior to any substitute. What
one. should strongly protest against is
being charged for the real thing and
given an imitation.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-27
The Link-Buttcn Idea.

Buttons arc again 70 be featured in
the autumn styles. Big ivory buttons
are used on cloth one-piece frocks
with striking results The l1nk-button
idea is developed on some of the new
frocks. Two large buttons are joined
by a band of silk or a cord and are
thrust through two buttonholes IL the
sort of standing collar that does not
quite meet under the chin and
through the sleeves open at the wrist.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-27
Waists in Dark Shades.

Among the most attractive waists
in dark colors are those made of
sheer silk crepe, says the Dry Goods
Economist. Touches of hand embroid-
cry, these often showing both silk
and metallic threads, are especially
we'll liked. Embroidered silk dots
are often outlined with gold or silver,
or the small patterns are worked out
wholly in the metallic thread. This
touch of gold or silver on blue, brown,
green, gray or black gives more
dressy effect, thus making the gar
ment suitable for wear with the bet.
ter tailor-made suits.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-27
GETTING A START
By
NATHANIEL C. FOWLER, Jr.
,wspaper Syndicate.)
DON'T ANTAGoNIzE.


Nobody asks you to shelve your In
dependence or to forget your 1ndl-
viduality. You have right to your
opinion, and there is no reason why
you should not express it and live up
to your convictions. There is vast
difference, however, between display
ing manly courage and carrying a chip
on your shoulder.
If you are in business, your success
will be dependent, not wholly upon
your trading ability, but upon your
personality, and the way you treat
your customers and those with whom
you come in contact
Millions of dollars worth of trade
has been lost because statesmen have
vented their spleen upon their custom
ers, have annoyed them in little as
well as in big ways, and aroused IN
them feeling of antagonism, which
is sure to react against the store, as
well as against the salesman in it.
A great many people will tell you
that they avoid certain stores and GER
tain salespeople, simply because they
are not treated with common courtesy,
and because the sellers do not seem
to be interested in them as buyers.
Few statesmen seem to realize that
courtesy plain and simple politeness
lis one of the greatest selling assets
and that it contributes largely to sue
cess.
One may not be by nature good
seller of goods, and he may be def
cient in many other respects; but, il
he is uniformly courteous, if he shows
a marked interest in the customer and
is obliging, he is likely to sell more
goods than is an expert salesman who
fails to realize the Importance of
courtesy.
The popular salesman not only
makes, but holds, customers.
Thousands of buyers will wait a
quarter of an hour, or even longer, in
order to trade with their favorite
salesman They feel at home with
him. He meets them with a smile, and
is, or appears to be, interested in their
affairs, although he is not obtrusive.
The customer instinctively feels his
friendship.
Courtesy is valuable in every walk
of life, in business and out of it. The
polite man or woman is always popu-
lar, provided he does not carry his
courtesy into flattery.
The popular man is not always the
man of great intellect, but he knows
how to make friends, by charm of
manner by kindness of spirit,
which is readily felt, by a real or ap-
parent unselfish interest in those with
whom he is associated
Popularity counts in business, and
counts nightly. Popularity makes
friends, and friends in the mart of
trade mean customers
Those little things, which may seem
to be of no account, frequently stand
between success and failure.
The great trouble with people now.
adays is that they look into the clouds
and prepare themselves to handle mat
tiers of Importance, forgetting that
things of consequence are but collec-
lions of little things, and that nothing
great can be accomplished until the
accomplished has perfected himself
in the small matters which collective
ly produce the finished product.
Not what you do, il you are on the
firing line of business, but how you
do it, counts.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-27
Copyright. 1915. by the
GETTING A BETTER POSITION.

The stagnant pool is useless and a
menace to health. It's water is UNIT
to drink, and it's sluggishness will not
turn a water wheel. 1t either dries
up or it remains blot on the land
scape.
The man who stays where he Is,
without thinking of lettering his con-
dition is like the stagnant pool, Tor
sooner or later, unless he attempts to
create current, he will, like the
pool, dry up or else remain an unwel-
come member of society.
Conversely, however, there is al
ways as much danger in attempting
to rush as there is in remaining placid.
The mountain torrent, although act
i've, does not have the body or the
quantity of energy necessary for util-
ization.
However profitable your position
may be, you have right to consider
advancement, but when you carry this
consideration beyond the lines of or
binary caution, and plunge, leap and
run, you are likely to dash yourself
to pieces and to be no better of-per-
haps worse off-than you would have
been had you remained at stand
still.
Do not be dissatisfied with your lot
to the extent of making yourself mis-
cradle. Be dissatisfied only in so far
as it will encourage you to look ahead
and to attempt, with the use of your
common sense, to better your condi-
ton
Do not make a move until you are
reasonably sure that it will lead to
improvement; and, further, do not
take undue chances
If you have family or others de-
pendent upon you, you have no right
to jeopardize their interests and your
own by taking speculative chances.
Plant yourself firmly upon the rock
of your present position. Reach out
into the unknown with both your
hands. Look for opportunity. When
you think you have found it, subject it
to every reasonable test, for half OF
that which masquerades under the
name of opportunity is no f1rmer than
the idle wind which seems to come
from nowhere and to go nowhere.
Half of the failures of the world
are due to stagnation, to placidity, to
refusal to move when opportunity
suggests it, and the other half is made
up of those men who are forever dis
satisfied disconnected, and over-ambi-
tious; who, without thought, jump for
the first line that bangles before them,
without waiting to see whether the
other end is firmly fastened.
Thousands of young men have
thrown up present positions because
something else seemed better. They
knew how badly off they were where
they were, and they lid not investi-
gate the future or attempt to analyze
apparent or real opportunity. They
plunged ahead, leaving good founda-
ton, that they might reach what ap-
peared to be higher ground, and many
Of them floundered in the Quicksand
between.
Keep your feet firmly planted upon
the foundation of the present, always
looking ahead and upward. But look,
and keep on looking, for days, and
weeks, and months, and years, before
you allow this looking to influence
your action, o. until you have reason
able proof that what seems to be is a
reality.
The ship without an anchor is as
unsafe to navigate as one with torn
and battered rigging.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-27
Some Difference

Now, dis am de question, pahson !"
stated Brother Shinpaw. when de
minimum comes will folks quit work.
ing?"
No, sah!" replied sage old Parson
Bagster. "Dey will quit bein worked. :.
Kansas City Star.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-27
Anxious to Please

so you are expected to do kind
act every day."
Yes" replied the boy scout.
How about today?"
We'll, the teacher has been having
a little trouble with me. Don't you
think might stay away from school
aud give her a rest?'
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-27

Don't nurse opportunity too long
take it into active partnership with
you at once. lest it leave you for other
company" !
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-27

An Out-of-the-Ordnary Millinery Gre
alton in Season When Velvet and
Hatter's Plush Predominant, Is This
Close-Fitting Toque. The Material
Used Is a Cretonne; This Is Sewn
on the Close-Fitting Frame, Which
Is Shaped to Form Cone on the
Left Side, and Dropped on the Right.
Where 1t Is Knotted and Left to
Hang Loosely. A Band of Dyed Rae
coon Is the Only Trimming.
>-~o-~~O~O~-~-~-o~0~oo-~-~-
crown, with no trimming save folded
drapery drawn through a long dia-
mond buckle; the latter being placed
right in front of the hat. 1t is certain
that this model will be one of the most
fashionable novelties of the fall and
winter seasons.
1t is just the right hat to wear with
a Cossack coat; or with redingote
costume which is finished with jer-
sey silk sash. To women Of regular
features these position hats are in
finitely becoming. Lewis is making
his position shapes in many different
materials, though those in black silk
beaver are, perhaps, the best of ALL
Paris Correspondence of the Boston
Globe.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-27

An Early Winter Model by Redfern,
Long Cossack Coat With Full
Skirt to Match of Tan Covert Coat
ing, a Sash of BIack-and-T an
Striped Silk Jersey.
ular model is the Position hat in
black silk beaver.
This is truly a quaint shape. Mar
row in the brim and very high in the
The log cabin Democrat., 1915-04-13
POSTAGE FAMINE
 IN STATE OFFICES

Little Rock, April 13.-Many of the state departments are facing a post age famine as a result of the vetoed appropriations by Gov. Hays. With printing, postage and travelling ex- penses cut out, many of them are won- dering how they are going to manage. Some of them were shrewd enough to lay in a supply of postage, to the eX- tent of the balance on hand, on March 31, the day before the appropriations would have covered back into the treasury. Some departments thus se- cured as much as $500 worth of post age, but when that is exhausted, their only resource will be to secure an emergency proclamation from the gov ernor.
The log cabin Democrat., 1915-04-13
WANT EDITORS CURE
 TRIED ON 4 BUTTON
MAN Is SKEPTICAL OF LIVING
 STON' S SUGGESTION.

A news item tells of the death in Fort Smith of child who had swal
 lowed a button, the little fellow eX- piring before a physician arrived
 There is simple method which proves effective in most cases of swal-
 lowed buttons or coins, and while most people will laugh when the treatment is suggested, it costs nothing to try and every parent should know it. Merely take the child by the ankles, suspend him head downward and give him a shake or two, and nine times out of ten the object will come forth. The writer has tried it with his own boy, who possesses the usual boyish propensity for swallowing most any thing that is swallowable We had little faith in this ready remedy until the boy came screaming into the house with the startling announcement that he had swallowed a nickle. We at once yanked him up, prepared to shake the gizZard out of him or re cover the nicllle, and to our surprise the coin went rolling across the floor after the first shake. And so pleased was the boy with the experience that he often afterwards begged us to see if we couldn't shake some more nickles | out of him. A button, being lighter, might not come forth so readily, but
 he treatment is worth trying, no mat ter what the object swallowed may be- Russellville Courier Democrat. We cannot sanction this cure until i you allow the youngster to swallow a button and then try it on him. Of course an editor will shake harder to recover a nickle than to recover a but ton.-All-O Lover column, Ar | kansas Gazette.
The log cabin Democrat., 1915-04-13
5 and 10 cents
United Daughters of the Confectionery, to be held at the home of Mrs. J. w. Akin, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.
MISSES BOWEN AND
 SIMS GIVE RECITAL

The third in the series of delightful graduating recitals by the seniors in the conservatory of Central College was given last evening when the fac ulty presented Miss Grace Louise Sims, pianiste and mezzo soprano, and Miss Juanita Bowen, soprano, in most enjoyable concert The large au- dience seemed thoroughly to appreci- ate the skillfui rendition of many diff ficult numbers by these talented young ladies. Miss Allie Merle Conger was accompanist and accompaniments were also played wit hthe flute by Miss Faye Livingston, with the violin by Misses Mary Cureton and Della Wayne Utermoehlen and with the cello by Director W. G. Utermoehlen.
The log cabin Democrat., 1915-04-13
FORMER CONWAY
 MAN IS fLfCIED

Little Rock, April 13.-At a meet ing of the Democratic State Central Committee Monday afternoon. Vim cent NJ. Miles of Little Rock, was nom- mated as a member of the National Democratic Committee from Arkan- sas, to succeed Judge w. M. Kavan- augh, deceased. MT. Miles, late of Fort Smith, is member of the we'll known firm of corporation lawyers, Rose Hemingway, Cantrell, Lough- borough X Miles.
 Mr. Miles resigned as member of the sttae committee and nominated E. H. McCulloch, Fort Smith attorney as his successor, and he was elected Elijah Dalton, Pocahontas attorney, was elected member of the state committee to succeed A. J. Witt, de- ceased.
 E. H. ("Cricket') McCulloch is a former Conway man and brother of R. B. McCulloch of this city.
The log cabin Democrat., 1915-04-13
GIN. BRUCE NAMES
 3D BRIGADE STAFF
FOR RICHMOND REUNION
C. c. V. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCES BRIGADE APPOINT
 MENTS.

Gen. G. w. Bruce, commanding the Third brigade Arkansas division of United Confederate Veterans, has an nounced the following staff appoint ments:
 Inspector general, J. r. Evans, Fay etteville
 Chief quartermaster, J. A. Bost, Atkins.
 Chief of commissary, Joe H. Scott, Mulberry.
 Judge advocate, Carroll Armstrong, Morrilton.
 Chief surgeon, Dr. w. P. George. Berryville.
 Chief of artillery, w. K. Elliott, Quitman.
 Chief of ordnance, Polk Fancher, Berryville.
 Chief engineer, A. B. Lewis, Fay ettevillc.
 Chief paymaster, James Hickman, Bentonville.
 Chaplain, Rev. J. M. Denison, Con- way.
 Sponsor, Mrs. Etta Barton, Conway
 Maids of honor, Miss Mary Cureton, Conway; Miss Nannette Akin, Con- way, and Miss Elfreda Scott, Mulber- ry.
 All of the appointees are requested to prepare to attend the annual Con- federate reunion at Richmond, Va, June 1-3, and those who can do-so are expected to report to headquarters.
 The general order of the command ing officer is attested by R. A. Key holds, lieutenant colonel and chief of staff.
The log cabin Democrat., 1915-04-13
CONWAY INYINCIBLES
 TO PLAY NORMALITES

The Conway Invincibles will play the State Normal team tomorrow af- ternoon at 1 o'clock on the Normal diamond. Both teams are reported to be in tip top condition for the fracas, and an interesting contest is expected. The Conway team will present the fol- lowing lineup; Downing, pitcher; Jess Legg, catcher; McCulloch, first base Anderson, second base; McAnally, third base; Allison, shortstop; Doug lass Legg, left field; Charles, center field; Moore, right field, An admis- sion of 15 and 25 cents will be charged.
The log cabin Democrat., 1915-04-13
U. D. c. TO MEET.

Shiloh Day" will pe observed at a meeting of Robert E. Lee chapter,
The log cabin Democrat., 1915-04-13
UPHOLDS HAYS VETO Of
 SAWYER BILL
Special to the Log Cabin Democrat.

Special to the Log Cabin Democrat.
 Little Rock, April 13.-The veto of the Sawyer racing bill by Governor Hays was held to be valid by Judge Fulk in a decision rendered today in the second division of the Pulaski circuit court The courts order de- nied the petition for a mandamus to force the secretary of state to certify the act for publication in the official acts of the general assembly. Judge Fulk had had the case under advise nent for several days.
 It is stated that an appeal will be iaken by the proponents of the racing oill to the supreme court.
The log cabin Democrat., 1915-04-13

Dr. Harrod formerly lived at Cato and has numerous relatives in Faulk- ner county.
The log cabin Democrat., 1915-04-13
HEIGEL-GILLESPIE.

Miss Mary Heigel, daughter of Mrs Jacob Heigel of this city, and An thony Gillespie of Russellville were married at St. Joseph's Catholic church here this morning at o'clock Rev Peter Zell, pastor of the church assisted by Rev. Tynin of Atkins, of ticiated. Following the ceremony 6 reception was rendered Mr. and Mrs Gillespie at the home of the brides mother. They will reside in Russell Ville
The log cabin Democrat., 1915-04-13
MACHINERY FOR NEW
 LAUNDRY IS INSTALLED

Another carload of machinery re- ceived yesterday completed the equip ment of the Keep-U-Neat laundry, which is being installed by J. H. Lan- ders and F. w. Mays on the west side of the public square. The ma chinery is being set up and the new laundry will be ready for business on Monday, April 26. Messrs. Landers and Mays state that no laundry in the southwest is better equipped than their plant.
The log cabin Democrat., 1915-04-13
CARD OF THANKS.
Editor Log Cabin Democrat:

Editor Log Cabin Democrat:
 We desire to take this means of expressing our most sincere gratitude and thanks to our neighbors and many friends, who so kindly and unswerv- ingly gave their attendance and as sistance during the last days of suf- fering, and the death of our dear child, Lola, who was severely burned on April ?, and died April }, 1915.
 J. T. Brown and wife.
 Mayhower, Ark, Route 1.