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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17
ton by this legislature.

ton by this legislature.
Under the forestry decision, .
says State Forester Griffith, 1.-THE
state forestry department. as con
stituted, will continue as it is
now. The work of administra-
ton is not touched upon by the
courts decision. 1t is unconsti-
tutional until the constitutions is
amended for the state to pur-
chase any more land primarily
tor forestry purpose, but the
legislature can purchase addi-
tlonal lands to enhance the value
OF the trust fund land, and they
can be managed incidentally as
part of the reserve.
There is nothing to prevent
the legislature from holding the
land to be administered as a for
est reserve, but all the money
must be paid into the trust fund
Wee can carry on forest reserve
work as we have been doing, ex
cept that we cannot carry on
any logging operations"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17

DprOprlationS and contracts for
hepurchase of the forest reserve
lands are void, and that the di-
rrsiOn of between $1,000, 900
and 100000 and the placing
1.-THE same in the general fund is
legal, and that the state must
account to the trust fund for the
mounts diverted.
The amendment to the cOnsti-
luton designed to permit work
otmternal Improvement, at state
expense, as to forestry matters,
was not legally adopted, , says
the court.
The case arose over the attempt
made by State Forester Griffith
iosecure the payment of an in
EaIment of $4,000 due the G..
ESanborn Company on a land
contract involving 500, 900,
$4,000 of which had already
Been paid. Griffith applied to
Secretary of State Donald for a
warrant upon the state treasurer
9r that amount. Previous to
,aS, Chairman Scott of the
onance committee, when the APP
FopnatlOn was asked for, APP
9'5d to Attorney General Owen
or an opinion as to the state S
0Sat to use public funds for this
purpose.
Senator A. Pierce Tompkins OF
ashland, chairman of the legisla-
I'VE investigating committee has
announced that he will present
'aoIher amendment for adop-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17
CAMPBELL GIVES VIEWS.

The decision of the supreme
court holding the forestry law
unconstitutional will aid greatly
to develop the northern part of
The state, according to A. d.
Campbell of the Wisconsin Adj
vancement Association.
Settlers have been backward
about going into Upper Wiscon-
in, said Mr.. Campbell, ''for
fear the state would take up
their land, will now go without
fear. 1t will mean a boom for
the northern counties. The
.ate has $4,000 acres on which
part payments have been made
amounting to 100000, with
$4,000 still due. This will
have to be refunded and the
land given back to the land
companies.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17

dren with the loss of a husband
and father. Interment was made
IN the town of Conover cemetery
a mile from the Monheim school.
Besides the immediate family
there were present at the funeral
John Hedberg. a brother, Mrs.
Adolf Hendrikson, a sister, and
Hyalmer Erickson, a brother-in-
law, all from Ironwood.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17

The supreme court has decided
!. torestrv case, which has been
,,ourt for some time. aga inst
r5s court holds the state fores-
.,r reserve project of nearly a
,;.ron and half acres Il, 2S9,-
~oI invalid because the consti-
..-ional amendment to permit
4, plan was not legally adopted.
IN substance the court finds
hat forestry work is an internal
morovement and as such is pro-
Ihired BY the constitution, that
4, statutes taking from the
nmmon school the university
and the agricultural college and
n5er trust fund lands and put
aag them into the forest reserve
are unconstitutional, that the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17
DEATH OF ELLEN TILDEN
Mother of Tildens on Meta
Lake Expired Thursday at
age of 7O-Funeral Held
Sunday.

Mrs. Ellen Elizabeth Tilden,
over 70 years of age, died at her
home on Meta Lake at midnight
thursday night. The aged ladv
kad been steadilytailing in health
tor the past several months and
the end was not unexpected, she
having been in characterization
for the last two weeks.
Ellen Elizabeth Hatch was
born at Norwich, VT, on May
18th, 1886. She remained in the
east for about thirty years. At
the age of % she became the wife
OF George Tilden and to that
union were born four sons. In
1866 the family moved to ST..
Charles, ILL.,, and that place be-
came their home until the sons
reached manhood. Mrs. Tilden
came north to Eagle River for
the first time in 1901. Since then
she made several trips to her
sons home on Meta lake and a
few years ago took up her per-
manent residence with Them
Her husband died in November,
1910 and was buried in the local
cemetery. His death was sud-
den and the grief oft bore heav1-
~ on the aged wife.
Rev. L. H. Webster held funeral
services at the Tilden home Sun
dav afternoon and the remains
were laid to rest beside those of
her husband. Three brothers and
a sister living in Massachusetts
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17
At Chicago Cement Show.

Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. H. Jackson
returned from Chicago Saturday
after an extended visit with their
daughter, Mrs John Bode. Mr..
Jackson while away attended
the annualcovention of highway
commissioners at Madison and
also the cement show at Chicago
last week. Mrs. Jackson spent
several weeks with her daughter.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17
North Wisconsin Exhibit.

North Wisconsin farm products
are on dress parade this week.
An agricultural exhibit from this
end of the state is being placed IN
the lobby Of the assembly cham
Der. This exhibit is made to
bring to the attention of mem
bers of the legislature the rich
agricultural possibilities OF the
northern sections of the state.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17
Funeral Services Friday.

Funeral services over the re-
mains of thelate Dan E. Hedberg
were conducted 5v Rev. Wilson
of Ironwood at the home Friday
last. Hans Hanson of Pioneer
lake in a few we'll chosen words
paid impressive tribute to the
deceased, softening the grief that
comes to a mother and nine chill
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17

survive the deceased as well as
the four sons, Horace, Fred and
Charles of this place, and Louis
of Madero, Cal.
In the demise of Mrs. Tilden
the Tilden home and all who
knew her lose friend whose
generous soul and kindly manner
will be sadly missed. She was a
woman whose mode of living
showed true Christianity, help
to all who needed help and a
comfort to those about her even
in her declining days.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17

Funny how touchv some peo-
pie are A fellow said his doctor
told him ten years ago that if he
did not stop smoking at once he
would become feeble minded
When asked why he didn't stop,
he just stalked out and slammed
the door.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17
Gard of Thanks.

We take this means to express
our deep gratitude to all our
friends and neighbors who sym
pathized with us in our recent
bereavement and who, through
their kindness, softened the grief
OF the death of our beloved hus-
band and father.
Mrs. DAN E. HEDBERG
AND CHILDREN.
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A BIT % NOTHIN'
q
AsgsssesesseseeeeeesG
Ed Lacau has a goose.

Just a common, everyday do
mestlcated goose. Thereby lies
a tale, but owing to our friend
ship to the parties involved it is
unnecessary to spin the yarn.
However, if Ed would keep his
old goose home, rabbit hunters
wouldn't follow its track along
the lakeshore thinking it was a
wild one just arrived from the
southland.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17

Come in and see our line OF
American-made samples from the
famous Shackamaxon mills. The
best goods made.
Roderick's Tailoring Dept,
4 JOHN NoLL, Mgr.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-03
Early Mote on the Beaver.

John Clarke was chief factor Of the
Hudson's Bay company for many
years until his death in 1852. His
daughter in 1906 published a brief
series of pages from his notebooks.
David Goule, one of Mr. Clarkes staff,
thus reported to him regarding
beavers:
81 started with a trap for Beaver
Pond, about three miles from Fort Will
liam Cat the head of Lake SUPERIOR.
1t was early winter with only six
inches Of snow upon the ground. When
l got within a hundred yards of the
pond, the snow began to look as if it
had been trodden firmly down, and
was covered with a coating of ice.
Stumps and small bushes protruded in
every direction, and we're cut off close
to the ground as neatly as if with a
knife. Previous to the freezing over
of the pond, the beavers cut down very
sail brush close by, and dragged it to
to waters edge, where they fastened
it to the bottom of the water, to serve
as provisions during the winter. All
birch trees, too, On the edge of the
pond are cut down so as to fall into
the river. They also serve as proVi-
sions. The instinct of beavers in
choosing and cutting down the trees
is wonderful. 1t is rare to see tree
fall away from the pool instead OF
into it,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-03
Words of Mise Men.

Ignorance has no light, but error
follows a false one. The consequence
is that error, when she retraces her
steps, has farther to go before she can
arrive at truth than ignorance.-Col-
ton.
Difficulty is a severe instructor, set
over US by the Supreme Guardian and
Legislator, who knows US better than
we know ourselves, and loves us bet
ter, too. He that wrestles with us
strengthens our nerves and sharpens
our skill. Our antagonist is our help.
er-Burke.
True dignity abides with him alone,
who, in the silent hour of inward
thought, can still respect and still re.
we're himself, in lowliness of heart
Wordsworth.
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financial situation made a vacation for
both impossible that year. Mentally
each had reserved the right to three
days outing. They had spoken Of this
wish about the same time, and had
agreed to try ile holiday separately.
The train stopped at the station.
Durham walked toward the hotel, car
rying his bag. He had no sooner reg
istered than he made his way along
the boardwalk, and beyond it, to the
edge of the summer settlement.
His heart was beating faster than
normally. He knew that somebody ex-
pected him there. In point of fact,
he had received and sent postal cards.
When a man has the memory of sew
eraI impassioned love affairs, and his
wife has gone away for three days
well!
The girl in blue was waiting for
him at the edge of the rocks, just
where she had promised to be. AS
he approached she looked up with a
little smile. For moment both were
too embarrassed to speak.
so you camel" she said, after a
pause.
'Yes," he answered, taking his seat
upon the pebbly beach at her side.
Il came, my dear. What else could
you expect?"
"And your wife has gomez" asked
the girl gently.
He nodded. "She left this morn
ing"
There was a pause. The girl played
idly with her parasol. Then
You have been married two years,
WHIP" she asked.
Yes. And you about the same
length of time. Oh, my dear, if we
had known how we cared for each
otheri"
Care" said the girl, turning to
him. ''Will, / will confess that / care
for you more than for any man on
earth. I would ask nothing dearer
than to spend the rest of my days
with you?"
And your husband?"
ION, ne is ABSORBED IN MS aHalrs-
He is a man of millions-what is the
love of a wife to him?
And my wife," answered Durham,
sis shallow, worldly and emotionless.' .
''Win! What are you saying?"
81 should not have said that" he
admitted penitently. Il would not
have said it to anybody but you. But
to think that we have two clear days
together! Where are you staying
At the st. Regis"
eyes"
81 an there, too. went there IL
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-03

ancient sea, long since turned to
stone. became lofty plateau. Then
the rivers began their slow work of
cutting. carving and dissecting this
tableland. The result today is that
wonderful region of several hundred
square miles east of the Black Hills,
known as "The Big Bad Lands" where
nature has chiseled the soft rocks
into thousands of strange of curious
shapes. The cloudbursts of spring and
summer which visit the Bad Lands Gre
ate innumerable rivers, from small
rills to raging torrents, whose rushing
waters cut deep into the old ocean
bed-layers of hardened sand and clay
carrying it into most startling shapes
and forms. There is bewildering
variety, a Kaleidoscope change from
every different viewpoint. The Bad
Lands are not, as might be supposed
from the name, somber and desolate
in appearance. Bad they are for the
unwary travellers comfort, even in
deed his safety, since the watering
places are few and far between.
Chaos of Rugged Shapes.
Different from the titanic carvings
of nature, such as the great canyon of
the Colorado, which has been cut
largely by single river running cease
lessly through the endless centuries,
the Bad Lands present fine network
of comparatively minute sculpturing,
in hundreds rather than thousands of
feet. the result of intermittent erosion.
Neither does the wanderers eye rest
on any forests, glittering lakes, or
green meadows. Instead, there is
veritable chaos Of rugged and gro
tesque shapes fashioned by the rains
and the winds out of the crumbly
rocks, softly tinted with many hues.
The bright western sun reflects the
light from thousands of glittering
pyramids, towers, galleries, and "a
thedral spires, all bare of vegetation,
but casting back in subdued shades
everv color of the rainbow.
M land of fable could picture a
greater variety of fairy castles, with
watch towers, battlements and tur-
rets, impregnable strongholds built on
lofty cliffs, commanding the country
around, until the domain of the next
.ofty castle CO 3estling chateag Is
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mountain. What a vast amount OF
washing and erosion of the rock and
what endless centuries of time must
have elapsed to have cut away the
thousands of square miles which now
spread below this elevated remnant OF
the sea bed! From Sheep mountain
the views in all directions comprise the
most notable Bad Lands scenery in the
world. Below lies the shattered and
fantastic fragment of the once great
plateau, curved and cut and twisted
into thousands of queer and eerie
shapes. There are groups of great
gray birdlike forms; there are things
with long necks and heads that resem-
BILE ostriches; there are shapes that
might be taken for herds of some mon
strous, unknown animals, and gardens
of giant mushrooms; even profiles and
full views of the human face that
might surely, from their appearance,
have been sculptured by clever work
men of some forgotten race, so perfect
are the expressions of these heroic
statues-all carved, however, by the
rain and the wind blowing the sand
particles against the soft rock.
Once Termed With Life.
Absolutely deserted as are the Bad
Lands today, except for the occasional
traveller, this great plateau, in the very
long ago, when the world was very
young. was teeming with animal life.
No such animals are alive today; only
their smaller descendants. The huge
Titanotherium, which fed upon the
luxuriant growth of almost tropical
vegetation with which the Bad Lands
were at one time clothed, would have
made the largest rhinoceros Of the
present age look like a sucking pig.
This antediluvian monster was IA feet
lc.ug and stood nine feet high. Other
monsters were the Oredon and the
Elatherium, while a great cat or pam
ther-tiger preyed upon the herb eaters
Of the time The bones of hundreds
of these animals have been found en-
bedded in the rock strata OF the Bad
Lands. The region has ever been re-,
nowned as a veritable storehouse OF
the fossil skeletons of these pre-
historic animals which lived hundreds
of centuries before the epoch of the
first man.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-03
'URRETED CASTLES

reached. The fact that many of these
fantastic structures appear to be fall
ing into ruin in no way detracts from
the romantic charm of the scene; such
indeed seems in harmony with the ST.
lent, deserted aspect Of the region.
Fortress after fortress and en-
battlement after embattlement meet
the eye from different positions
as the traveller wanders here and
there through the Bad Lands, some
sadly in need of repair-long aban-
doned in the Observation-Disclosures
standing out bold and sharp against
the clear blue Dakota sky. Hardly can
there be anything more impressive
than the vast silence and great deso-
lation of the Bad Lands.
Over most of the region few living
things can be seen. Here and there,
in some favored hollow, a stunted tree
clings desperately to existence, and
animal life is equally scarce. A few
springs support little vegetation, Wv
idly green in contrast with the sur
rounding grays, blues, pinks and olive
shades of the rocks, while in two or
three places animals are found. A
high ridge of some extent located
near the center of the region, and
representing probably the original
level of the old plateau, has sufficient
soil and fertility to support a scanty
growth of grass and on this live con-
siderable numbers of the great Rocky
Mountain Bighorn, the noblest Of
American wild sheep. This ridge is
some 500 feet above the rest of the
Bad Lands, and is known as Sheep
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-03

| the hope that you would be there
Did you have any trouble in getting
away?"
Not a particle" replied the girl,
with trace of bitterness in her tone.
Il told my husband that I was going
away for three days. He said moth
ing, except to ask me how much / re-
CURED That is like him; he meas
ures everything in terms of money"
well, moneys a pretty good thing
to have" said Durham And now,
dearest, l have proposal to make.
Since this meeting is to be a remind
er of the days before we were mar
ried, let us forget that we've owe
anything to others, and be engaged
again, as we used to be"
But it's $3.50 horribly sentiment
al, WILL"
But isn't that what we came here
for?"
Yes she agreed. She placed her
arms around his neck. ooh, VIII, if
only if we had never married-othera,
| mean"
The two days passed like happy
dream. They spent the whole time to-
gether, at the hotel, on the boardwalk,
at the places of amusement. They
boated together, swan, joined in the
crowd of merrymakers. But as the
third evening approached the shadow
of the past seemed to fall across
them.
They were silent as they sat to-
gether by the sea that night
Tomorrow it all ends, WILL" sighed
the girl.
YES he answered. Tomorrow we
go back, / to my wife"
"And l to my husband. Oh, Will,
if we could spend three days together
like this every year,"
Another silence Then
"Will, did you mean it when you
said that your wife is shallow, world
ly and emotionless?"
NO." he confessed. II love ner
for what she is. l want to devote my
life to her, to try TO make her happy.
But you-is your husband really a
man absorbed in his business inter
ests? Doesn't he care for you? How
could he help caring?'
HE cares" the girl admitted. 81
was speaking falsely, dear. He loves
me. And so, we have our duties to-
ward these two
Yes he agreed.
The last few minutes were gone.
They rose and sauntered back toward
the hotel. In the shadows of the en-
trance, where nobody was, they ex-
changed a swift and furtive en-
brace.
81 shall not see you before you go?"
she asked.
mo, dear. | think that would be
best. We must take up our lives again
with these memories to sweeten them,
and without the pain of a new part
ing"
"You are right, WILL" she answered.
Goodnight, dear" she whispered
softly.
The next morning Will Durham
I1O lClC LILO 0uAIScboO
at the office and did not go to his
fiat until the evening. When he en-
tered there was a smile on his face
as if the memory of the past three
days had been forgotten.
At his ring the door opened and a
charming young woman fell into his
arms. He caught her and covered her
face with kisses.
"Dora!"
"Will, dearesti
Wasn't it great at Atlantic Har-
bor!"
"Will, you were perfectly dear. We
must go there every year"
1--WE must, indeed. 1t was just like
the days of our engagement. Don't
tell me that married people can't be
happy on a three-days' vacation-if
they go about it in the right spirit! =
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Copyright, 1915, by W. G. chapman.)

At half-past twelve Durham, just
home from the Office, looked about his
little uptown fiat. The fiat was empty,
and it seemed to inspire in him a
good deal of interest.
The living room was empty. The
dining room was empty, though his
wife had left substantial cold lunch
for, him before she went away. His
wife's room was empty and stripped
of her belongings. In fact, Dora Dun
ham had gone away for three-days'
vacation without her husband.
Durham sneered, but it was a merry
sheer without a trace of vindictive-
ness about it.
Il guess" he said, that when Dora
goes away and leaves me bachelor,
she leaves me the privileges of a
bachelor as WE'LL
Durham looked the sort Of young
man who might have made any WON
an happy. Yet he seemed in hurry
to- get away from his home. He ate
his lunch, packed his suitcase, left the
apartment and took ticket for Allan
tic Harbor.
At thirty many men have good
deal of the boy left in their systems.
Durham, the fifteen-hundred-a-ye
clerk, seemed to have shaken off the
cares of business and the RESPONSE
bilities of married life at the same
.nifn no RI a1
alone it had been understood that the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-03
~ HE Black Hills of South Da-
4 kota and Wyoming, which are
in fact mountains rising from

kota and Wyoming, which are
in fact mountains rising from
the great plains to an eleva-
ton of 1000 or more feet above sea
level, were millions of years ago, a
small, low island, surrounded by a
vast shallow sea. This sea extended
as far west as the Rocky mountains,
which were mere highlands rising
above it, writes Guy E. Mitchell in the
Utica Saturday Globe.
The average traveller today, much
less the bandits and Indians who have
in recent years infested this elevated
region, would probably, according to
their various nationalities, smile
grimly or laugh to scorn the statement
that this portion Of the country, now
so arid and barren, was once the
ocean, and later vast tropical
swamp, among whose rank and luXu-
RANT vegetation lurked strange and
huge reptiles, and on the shores Of
which roamed giant herbivorous ami
mails, which were in turn preyed upon
by the terrible fiesh-eating monsters of
the early world. Such, however, is the
fact as attested by the vast quantities
of fossilized bones which have been
found imbedded in the rocks and many
of which are now mounted in lifelike
attitudes in various museums Of the
country.
Following this age of sea and swamp
the whole region was uplifted thou
sands of feet by the dynamic forces
from within the earth; the hills be-
came mountains and the bed of the
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trivance as tank Of oil. It is the
belief now of the experts of the hy-
geographic office-the great govern
ment bureau whose duty it is to safe
guard ocean travel-that they can
save the appalling number of lives
lost in accidents at sea caused by fog.
by literally pouring oil on the trou-
bled waters"
The oil as it spreads over the
surface of the sea causes the fog to
clear away and prevents the closing
in on q shin of fog banks The thin