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MENIER'S ANTICOSTI. A FRENCHMAN OWNS AN ISLAND OF TWO MILLION ACRcS. He Is Sole Proprietor of u Spot of Land in the sr. Lawrence ltlcli iiiiouijli to Form It King's Realm The Inland in About 13S Miles Long and 40 Wide. "Henry Menier, now in his 48th year, was born in France in the yea;- 1853. His family had acquired many mil lions of dollars in manufacturing. Henri, always a quiet youth of studi ous habits, and intelligent beyond his years, was called upon to take charge of the father's vast interests at 18. "He literally walked in one day from a schoolroom to the private office of a business measuring in capacity and importance more than one hundred million francs. At 19 ho had mastered the details, at 20 he began to enlarge the plant, at 25 he had practically doubled the output, at 30 his name was a household word in four continents, at 35 his fortune had reached the enormous figure of 200,000,000 francs, and at 42 this man in whom practical science, a philosophical disposition and commercial shrewdness struggled for the mastery, bought the island of Anticosti. "The act was typical of the man. He was approached one day by an Englishman named Kendrick, who an nounced that he had an island to sell. " 'Where is it?' asked Menier. " 'At the mouth of the St. Lawrence river,' was the reply. " 'All, Anticosti?' "The Englishman nodded. "'The price?' " 'One hundred and twenty-live thousand dollars.' "Henri Menier had paid double that sum for a steam yacht. The amount was a trifle, not one month's income, and for sole ownership of an island which he new contained more than two million acres of land, it was really ridiculous. " 'The title is absolutely clean,' re marked Kendrick. 'We can prove it from the time the island was granted to one Joliett in 1627 by the king of France.' " 'Why do you wish to sell it?' " 'Because it is an elephant upon our hands,' was the frank reply. 'I am the secretary of a company called the Island of Anticosti Company, limi ted. The company bought the island in 1889 from the former owners, who had failed to make it pay, and now we wish to get rid of it. The price is small.' "Mr. Menier fully agreed with the latter statement, hut his business in stinct would not permit him to close a bargain without due investigation. The purchase of an orange, or a horse, or a locomotive for the private rail way on his country estate, receives equal consideration. " 'Return tomorrow,' he said, briefly. •I will look into the matter.' "Then he began to absorb informa tion regardingthis strange island which had so unexpectedly crossed the hori zon of his daily life. He found the details interesting to the degree of fascination. He learned that Anti costi was a great bulk of land 135 miles long and 40 miles broad, lying at the mouth of the St. Lawrenco river, and that it had for its nearest neighbors Labrador and Newfoundland and Halifax, names which conjured up visions of icebergs and dreary soli tudes. "On the following day Kendrick visi ted him: he said, briefly, 'I am unde cided. 1 will send a commission of three to investigate and report. Until then we will wait.' "It was simply the business shrewd ness of the man, the shrewdness that had made him a king among financiers at 25, and a multi-millionaire at 30. With him the golden crown worn by Croesus would have had to bear weight and test before a franc was invested in it. " 'lt is only £25,000,' persisted Kendrick. 'A simple sum of $125,*00. The wood on the island is worth more than that.' " 'I will send a commission,' replied Menier, imperturbably. 'lf you do not care to wait ' "Kendrick waited. "A commission of three men select ed by Menier set out at once, and in due course or time an enthusiastic cable message reached Paris. Then the commission returned and supple mented the message with more enthus iastic comments and reports. " 'lt's a wonderful place,' said the three. The soil is fertile, the iishing in valuable; the spruce forests covering the island are almost ample enough to supply the world with paper pulp.' In brief, the reports gave Anticostl the very best character. "His business instincts satisfied, Menier closed the bargain at once, and became the sole owner of a spot of land great enough and rich enough to form the realm of a king."—H. H. Lewis, in Ainslee's Magazine. l'lipyrinette, n New IJooflntr Material. A now roofing and flooring material has been invented by Mr. Gehre. who was the inventor also of papyrolith, over which the newer material is said to present advantages. Papyrisette can be adapted for various purposes; but it is especially intended to serve as a solid, impermeable and jointless roof or floor, which, when laid down, will present a smooth surface, as if made in one continuous layer. It is claimed to be absolutely fireproof and a non-conductor of cold or sound, and, although as hard as stone, it has a soft, linoleum-like feeling to the foot and is noiseless. Moreover, it can be cut, sawn and bored, can be given any desirable tint, and can be made to look like mosaic or marble. CETTINC CATTLE TO YUKON. llow the Northern Military I'oMs Are Supplied with heel'. E. B. Ilanley, who has a government contract for furnishing live bees to the various military posts of the Yu .kon, iB spending a few days at the Imperial. He is preparing to take up a drove of cattle with him in the spring of 1901, and expects to go in by Skagway. freighting the stock from that point to White Horse Ra pids by rail, 100 miles, and thence down the Yukon by boat and barge to the military posts, such as Circle City and Fort Yukon, says the Port land Oregonian. Mr. Hanley says the forwarding of cattle to Alaska is attended with many difficulties, and there is danger of loss from upsetting of barges or from the animals straying into the deep woods along the Yukon, and so beef is worth a good figure by the time it is safely landed at its destina tion. The stock has to be landed along the route frequently for the pur pose of feeding, as the cattle have to live off the country they pass through. The woods are mostly of the dense or der along the Yukon in American ter ritory, and once a steer gets out of sight he becomes wild and scampers off where there is no possibility of following him. Horses cannot be used in that region, and the men on guard at night have to depend on their own fleetness of foot in heading off a "critter" which attempts to break away. The cattle, however, are usual ly very gentle by the time they reach the camping places along the river, as they have had a sea voyage, a freight car ride and a trip on the river boats. They are in good beef condition when they leave the states, and much care is bestowed on them while cn route in order that they may hold their own until they are received by the govern ment's agents. Mr. Hanley does not think any part of Alaska will ever become a stock raising country, although much has been said in its favor by persons who are not conversant with the stock raising business. "!t is true that con siderable grass grows in various por tions of the territory." ho said, "but the growing season is too short, and domestic animals have to be fed and housed at least nine months in every year, even in the most favored por tions." He has been along the coast of the Alaskan peninsula, and found no place where cattle can be main tained at a profit, and he considers that the men who call that a stock country know very little about the business. He has never attempted to take sheep into Alaska, because these ani mals could not be protected from the dogs which are numerous In that re gion, and so he thinks domestic mut ton will always be at a premium there. "The Alaskan dogs," he said, "are trained to hunt the mountain sheep, and so cannot discriminate in favor of the domestic article when a band of these is brought into the country. The wild sheep are still numerous all over, and their flesh is considered fully equal to mutton. They run in droves above the timber line, and there Is very little danger of ex terminating them for many years to come." QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Phoenix, Arizona, recently had a pro cession in which groups of cowboys were followed by groups of Indians, city officials, and Chinese. California is the only place in the world where salt is harvested by plow ing. Nature has made an inexhausti ble deposit on the surface of the ground in the heart of the Colorado desert. A patent was taken out on a pas senger elevator 66 years ago. But the first patent for a complete and practi cal elevator was given to Mr. E. G. Otis, of Yonkers, N. Y., in January 1861, so that, while the idea is much older, the elevator is only 39 years old. One of the police officials of Chicago has discovered that that city has an ordinance which prohibits other pointed instruments, under penalty of a fine ranging from $25 to SSO. The law has long been a dead letter, and even the city owns many such pro scribed fences. Dr. Mac Donald, the resident surgeon of the Geraldton hospital, asserts that the complaint known in North Queens land as the earth-eating disease is as suming serious proportions at Gerald ton and other northern towns, says British Australasian. It has raged at Cooktown and Townsville, and is ex tending nearly as far south as Bris bane. Dangerous results, he says, must ensue if immediate steps are not taken to suppress it, especially among children attending the public schools. A curious street car line is that be tween Atami and Yoshihoma, two coast towns in the province of Izie, Japan. The line is seven miles long, the rolling stock consists of a single car, and the motive power is furnish ed by a couple of muscular coolies, who actually push the car along wherever power is necessary. When the ear comes to a down grade they Jump on and ride. The coolies who work this unique road are said to be astonishing specimens of physical de velopment. The fare for a round trip over the road, including the expected tips for the crew, is 21 cents. A statue will be erected to the mem ory of Dr. Pierre Potain, the famous physician of Paris, who died the othei day. PEARLS OF THOUCHT. To be great is to be misunderstood. The dust we tread upon was ouce alive. Literature is the thought of think ing souls. Property has its duties as well as its rights. Clever men are good, but they are not the best. Silence is as deep as eternity, speech te as shallow as time. What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger is woman! Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. All who joy would win must share it—happiness was born a twin. Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run half way to meet it. There is nothing so powerful as truth—and often nothing so strange. There is no refuge from confession, but suicide; and suicide is confession. A blessed companion is a book—a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend. That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self distracting, self de structive one! Adversity is sometimes hard on a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity. Government is a trust, and the of ficers of the government are the trus tees, and both the trust and the trust tees are created for the benefit of the people. WITHOUT THE FRILLS. A Church Wedding liepnrted by a Man Who Wanted lu Gel Even. An editor who was thoroughly tired of the foolishness that goes on at a church wedding finally got even as follows: "They were married in great style. All the elite of the town were invited, principally because it was thought that they would be more like ly to bring elegant presents for the bride. "Of course the ceremony took place in the church, and the church was most beautifully decorated for the oc casion. Potted plants were borrowed here and there, wherever they could be secured without making the owner mad enough to fight. "The bride's young lady friends had the decorations in charge, and when they were not making nosegays they were chewing the rag about the trou ble and work, and wishing that the bride had sense enough to get up her own wedding. The ushers wore claw hammer coats, parted their hair in the middle and stepped high when they walked down the aisle. The coats were hired from a costumer, and their white gloves came from an under taker's who kept them on hand for funeral occasions. "It was a ring ceremony. The ring was a monstrous gold band borrowed of the village jeweler. People called the bride lovely, but she was so home ly that hollyhocks wouldn't grow in the dooryard where she lived. The bridegroom was dressed in conven tional black, so called because his father once wore the coat to a Demo cratic convention. The presents were simply elegant. They came from peo ple who couldn't afford to hire the washing done or buy baker's bread. Then after a 'sumptuous supper' the bride and groom went to St. Louis on their wedding tour, where they spent more money In 24 hours than both of them can earn in a month."—Atchison Globe. Tlie Very Idea of It I Very old persons and very young persons are apt to ho great sticklers for etiquette. Queen Victoria was an ex ample of the one, and Lord Beauchamp, the present governor of New South Wales, of the other. Since the latter has occupied the government house at Sydney he has been at great pains to make official receptions as imposing and dignified as possible. With this end in view, he has ordained that only guests of a certain rank should he permitted to approach the presence through designated doors. To these blue tickets are awarded; to others of inferior mould, white. At a recent function, through some mismanagement, an important public man received a blue card, while a white one was sent to his wife, and when the pair reached the audience chamber, there was trouble. The lady declined to be separated from her husband, or to abandon the aristo cratic blue ranks. An aide-de-camp endeavored to reason with her, and explain the commotion that would en sue if blue and white wore suffered to mingle together. But tho fair one was equal to the occasion. "Nonsense," said she, as she pressed forward; "what do you take us for? A seidlitx powder?" The aide collapsed. And yet it is sometimes said that women have no sense of humor.—New York Evening Post. Hint* to Wives. Be adroit. Find occasion often to say: "You work too hard, dearest!" . Thus permitting your husband to reply: "Well, I don't work as easy as some, If I do say it myself!" Men think they are smart, and are gratified with the opportunity to he humorous.—Detroit Journal. Leipzig, in Germany, sells 10,000 tons weight of books in one year. IfILARMINGJIORTALIIY. j Noticeable Among the Weak and Ailing. ; Spring the Time Beatli Reaps Its Larpt Harvest. There is a Way of Eluding the Grim Destroyer. Every Spring it is noticeable how many people are taken away that we have been accustomed to see in our I daily life. ! Statistics show that at no other sea son of the year does so many deaths ! occur. Especially large is the mortality among weak and sickly people. The reason for this is apparent. The body that is weakened by age or dls- I ease has much to contend with during I the Winter months. Insufficient exer ! else frequently has been taken. Too j much starchy and fatty food shave been eaten. The system has been allowed to become run down, and when Spring ! comes with its bright, sunshiny days, older people will begin to realize that j their vitality has become very low. I The same thing is true of people who are naturally sickly and weak. This is the season of the year when i even a strong person feels at his worst. That tired, restless feeling is experienced by too many. There need not be as many deaths this year as usually take place. A lit tle care will ward off many Spring fu nerals. If one is weak or ailing they should take time by the forelock and take Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. This great medicine I has been in many cases, and will con j tinue to be. the means by which the ; black angel of Death has been driven from the threshold. It dispels the grim destroyer in a scientific way, for it purifies the blood and gives strength and vitality to the nerves. It tones up and restores to a healthy con dition all of the great life-giving or gans of the body. Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy will enable those who take it to throw off little ills that prove dangerous only when they at tack a system already wasted and weakened. From many people, who have ex perienced benefit from this greatest of all life-lengtheners comes the fol lowing from the famous General Long street of 1217 New Hampshire avenue, Washington, D. C. He says: "It gives me great pleasure to add my testimony with many others for Dr. Greene's Remedy, which I have used with highly beneficial results and I am able to recommend its virtues from experience. I have used it for catarrh and have derived help." Mr. Wellington Hynes, Elizabeth town, N. Y.. writes: "I feel It my duty to tell how much good Dr. Greene's Nervura has done rae. I was so run down that I could not sleep at night and everything wor ried me. I had no appetite and could not work, my head ached all the time and there was an all-gone feeling in my stomach and I was always looking on the dark side of everything. I be gan to take Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy and in less than three weeks I felt like a new man. I can now do as much work as is expected of a man my age. I advise any one who is troubled to take Dr. Greene's Norvura. Do not go to a doc tor, but get a bottle of Dr. Greene's Nervura. It is cheaper than a doctor's bill." The latter part of Mr. Hynes's ad vice might be profitably disregarded, however, if you should feel you would like the advice of a physician. You can have such advice and have it free if you will write or call on the great est known blood and nerve specialist, Dr. Greene, 35 W. 14th St.. New York City. The art of manicure had its origin in ;he convents of France many centuries i£o. Thorn In more Catarrh In this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed tobe Incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treatment, pronounced it in curable. Science bus proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional euro on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. 1 hev offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi monials. Address F.J. CIIBNKY& Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 76c. Hall's Family Fills are the best. There are nearly 200 Bishops of the Catholic Church within the British Em pire. Hest For the Bowels, No matter what alls you, headache to A cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. OASOAUETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, liroduoe easy natural movements, cost you ust 10 oeuts to start getting your health >ack. CASCAWKTH Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up lu metal boxes, every tab let has C.C.O. stamped on It. beware ct imitations. In the year ending March, 1900. the number of boys and girls educated free in Berlin was 207,510. People who are not really ill—just languid and indisposed—will derive great benefit from taking Garfield Headache Powders, which are made from Health Giving Herbs. Charleston, S. C., now sits up as the metropolis of the Southeast and *lainn to be enjoying a boom. The great public schools of the large cities use carter's luk exclusively. It is tbo best and costs no more than the poorest. Get it. Several unique bills were introduced in the Wisconsin Assembly recently. 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AS a sufferer for thirty years from the worst form of Psori asis, finally cured by Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, I wish to tell you my experience, that others may benefit by it. I was so grievously afflicted that the matter that exuded from my pores after the scales had peeled off, would cause my underclothing to actually gum to my body. After remaining in one position, sitting or lying down, for an hour or two, the flesh on my elbows and knees would split, so thick and hard would the crusty scales become. The humiliation I experienced, to say nothing of physical agony, was something frightful. The detached scales would fairly rain from my coat sleeves. I have read none of your testimonials that appear to represent a case so bad as mine. But as to the cure. I commenced bathing in hot Cuti cura Soap suds night and morning, applied the Cuticura Ointment, and then wrapped myself in a sheet. In two weeks my skin was almcfct blood red in color, but smooth and without scales. Patches of natural colored- skin began to appear, and in less than a month I was cured. lam now passed forty years of age and have skin as soft and smooth as a baby's. Hoping that others may benefit by my experi ence, and regretting that sensitiveness forbids me from dis closing my name, I am yours gratefully, J. H. JUL, Boston, Mass., Sept. 30, 1900. IVHllions of People Use Cuticura Soap A Misted by Cuticura Ointment, the grent ekln cur®, for preserving, purifvlng, and beautifying the skin. for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, anil the stop ping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and healing red, rough, aud sore hands, for baby rashes, Itchings, and chaflugs, and for Mil the purposes of tho toilet, bath, and nursery. 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