HAS RICH RESOURCES Why Capital Is Invading the Little Isle of Cape Breton. One of the Itnrcit Spotx on thr At lantic Coamt—How n Urate Yan kee ticiM'ral Cnptnred LouU liurK Citadel. [Special Boston Letter ] tt*=tnElUl AI'S no piece of land em- I XJs bracing the same number of II acres presents more varied at tractions to the sightseer than the island of Cape Breton, and few are more neglected by tourists. Its coast line divides it from various bodies of water and it is indented in every direction by large bays and inlets. Fogs from the Atlantic ocean, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Gut of Canso, Cumberland strait, and, last but not least, over the neck of the peninsula of Nova Scotia from the Bay of Fundy, drift over it, enriching and deepening the color tones of its vege tation. Certain portions of the coast stand out in bold grandeur. Everywhere the scenery 1 is fine. In winter, the dark pines outlined against sea and sky and contrasted with the purity of the snow give an impression of great solemnity. This is heightened by the roar of the surf. In spring and summer, when maple, birch and oak trees furnish variety to the for est coloring, the effect is less severe. In autumn, when the frost has touched the leaves with glorious reds and purples, the island is magnifi cent. The atmosphere softens and blends everything. Grain grows in Abundance, although the inhabitants draw more or less on the United States for food supplies. Fish, of course, are used in large quantities, for the surrounding waters contain the finest fishing in the world, but the great wealth of the island has always consisted of coal, which is now being mined in great quantities. Cape Breton lies bat ween New foundland and the mainland of Nova Scotia, to which it was annexed in 1529, much to the disgust of its turbu lent inhabitants, who were as restless OLD BARRACKS AT SIDNEY, CAPE BRETON. «s the waves that surrounded them. 1 French and Spanish settlers super- ; seded the Indians; these were fol- < lowed by English an«l more French, t then more English. After these came, ] in 1800, Scotch Highlanders, driven 1 from their homes by unjust laws. , These latter settled in Nova Scotia i and Cape Breton. ( On the island the influx came chief- ■ ly from the inland districts of lnver- 1 ness and Argyleshire, Roman Catholic i and Presbyterian making common i cause and rendering the little island ; the Scotchiest of all Scotch districts ] outside the old country. Many araus- ] ing anecdotes are told of their man- t ncr of standing by each other, cast- ] ing religious prejudice to the winds. , Any kind of a Scotchman was bet- LOUISBOURG MONUMENT. (Erected in Honor oft 1,2 Yankee Heroes of ) 1745.) | I ter than the best representative of j another nation. These different na- j tionalities have never become amal- ! gamated, and not the least of the j attractions of the island are the speech and customs of its people. After many years of neglect, pub- He attention is now turning toward Cape Breton on account of the de velopment of its mines. It has been j called the ''long wharf of America," j and for about eight years past it lia.3 | hctu regarded as a future great. j -trlbuting center. It is well I for thes purpose and c Jtl j crap* 'out | F'PP.'minently in .t.rlous locaHW:s, no-1 ■*iably on the east coast WlVfts f r °ni j Morien Bay to North Dur-i ing the reign of Quee*. Elizabeth the j coal trade of Cape iftVeton flourished; j end Champlaiiv, "fti 1812, drew a map i of the island, ftut Nicholas Denys, j of Tours, was the first to make ref- j erence to the coal. A grant of the island was made to him in 1054, by Louis XIV. Its possession was fu- j rioualy contested with him and br. ] finally returned to Franc* In 1C72, ti*d wrote a work concerning his trouble some possessions, with a title as long as his years of disappointment. The mines since that time have been worked in a desultory way. An Eng lish company, the General Mining 1 as sociation, had a monopoly of the coal trade from 1827 to 1858, when their charter was amended, so that the legislature resumed all portions but the North Sidney part of the east ern coal field. Leases were at once made to different companies. The Dominion Coal company has been methodically handling the output for the last few years, and now the Do minion Iron and Steel company in tends to join in making Louisburg a headquarters. This venerable town, from having been an obscure fishing village for a century and a half, is liable to regain an importance equal to that of the dis tant past, though differing from it in kind. Wharves are being built into ihe waters of the harbor, looking down through which fish may be seen (lashing around sunken cannon. In 1893 a Boston capitalist consolidated all the mines not belonging to the old company. Old shafts have been en larged, immense new ones dug and modern machinery put into use. The Nova Scotia Steel company is equip ping a large steel plant. At different points large mines are being worked, and in 18U9 the Dominion Steel & Iron company at Sidney was founded with a capital of $20,000,000, being a ver itable Prince Charming to the sleepy little village, which is as jet hardly awakened to the fact of its future im portance. Cape Breton is a land of splendid harbors. Several railroads are expect ed to terminate at Louisbourg, and it is mentioned as the probable future landing place for British vessels. This little town is full of historic interest. Although Lief Ericson Is said to have been the first white mati to view these shores, there is no history of their having been trodden except by the feet of Indians until John and Sebastian Cabot landed there in 1497. All the na tions after this time sent boats to the surrounding waters for the fishing, Spain and France tukinar the lead. lu. 1713, by the treaty of Utrecht, Cape Breton was acknowledged to belong to France, and during the following- 30 years about $5,000,000 was expended on the fortress at Louisbourg. This town became most important to the French fishing interests as well as a key to French possessions in America. Authorities differ as to whether it was named after Louis XIV. or his suc cessor. It was established on the south side of a commodious landlocked har bor, and is about 25 miles from Sid ney, with which it is now connected by rail. The mouth of the harbor is about a mile in width, but a continuous reef reaching from the main shore to a large island near the center reduces the entrance to about one-third of a mile. On this island the French mounted a battery. Duchambon, the governor in 1745, was obstinate and incompetent. In de fiance of repeated warnings he neg lected taking proper precautions against attack, trusting in the strength of his fortifications. This fact ren dered an expedition under Col. Sir Wil liam Pepperill, of Massachusetts, a brilliant success. A lot of untrained New Englanders, without siege artil lery, captured the best equipped fortress in the country, upon which and its outworks were mounted 170 guns, and which contained a garrison of 1,500 trained militia ond 750 regu- i lars. Pepperill, while knowing noih- i ing of war, possessed a good fund of Yankee common sense which stood i him ix'i good steau at this time. Louis bourg surrendered June 10. By keep ing the French flag flying the victors i were enabled to capture the ship Notre. I Dame de Deliverance, containinga car- | goof cocoa, $2,000,000 in Peruvian gold and a large sum in gold and silver in gots. A garrisr «- ns left which occu pied the tow u , *iiiti 1 1743, when (ireat Britain turner it over to France, Dur ing the next ten years convicts We're employed in strengthening the de fenses. Tn 175S an attack was made by the British under more imposing, if less Romantic circumstances than the former one. Frigates, 2S ships of the line with 12,000 troops, came against 4,200 French and 12 ships. A landing was forced, and although the place , ably defended, the w., m<Mlt eTen> headed by Comir; a{ | nn , Drucour's wife, assis'_ inß . thi' *ol(!'ers, Loiils- Run't-ttdt-fcd wa July 27, but not [ until aftt'r A determined resistance j had Wolfe to defer his at j tack CM "QtteW-e until the following j year. The town was dismantled two | years later; even t.he cut stone of the ] houses, brought from France, wascar i ried t-o Halifax. Crass grows on the j site of the old fortifications, and but | little is left to indicate former impor | tance. But modern progress has i touched Louisbourg with its magic lin ger and strangers ore treading the ground once familiar to the feet of a | vanished civilization. tUKAfIP JULIAN. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1901. A RACE AGAINST TIME. Qraphlo Account of tlic Ilecord« llrenUiiiK Jonrncr of the Aus tralian-London .Mull. "Transportation," «aid a speaker recently before the internation al commercial congress at Phil adelphia, "underlies material pros perity in every department of commerce; without transportation commerce would be impossible; those states and nations are rich, powerful and enlightened whose transportation facilities are the best and most com prehensive; the dying- nations are those with little or no transportation facilities." Then the speaker uttered these two memorable sentences: "Trade follows the flag." "Trade follows the mail." If these statements be true, too great importance can hardly be placed vipon the recent achievement of an American Pacific liner and of the five great railroads making up the transcontinental sj'stem between San Francisco and New York, of which Mr. Charles Barnard gives a graphic account in the "Four Track Series." At the post office of Sydney, N. S. W., there lay, early in the morning of August 13, 1901, 367 sacks of the most important mail matter ever sent from Australia to England. There are two routes by which such mail could go. One is an all-British route by way of the Suez canal. The other is prac tically an all-American route, by way of Samoa, Hawaii, San Francisco, New York and thence to London. Of course, under the present arrange ment. the last lap, on the bosom of the broad Atlantic, is sailed under the British flag. The British route is the older one and also the shorter, being 12,500 miles, while the distance the other away around is 13,557, a difference of over a thousand miles. That morning, the 13th of August, the American tlag was flying on a new ship, fresh from the American ship yards on the Delaware. She was the best available ship that day in the South Pacific. The only thing to do was to place the important mail on board the new American, twin-screw steamer "Ventura," of the Oceanic Steamship company, which was done at ten o'clock in the morning. From Sydney the Ventura steered straight for Auckland, and entered that har bor on the 17th. Taking on freight, mails and passengers she again set sail, making for the beautiful and po etic islands of Samoa, thence for Ha waii and San Francisco. At seven p. m., September 2, she anchored at quarantine in San Francisco harbor, having made the voyage in 20 days and 9 hours. Had the Ventura been urged it is possible she could have ar rived a few hours earlier and landed those precious mail bags that day. As it happened they could not be landed till 8:30 on the morning of the 3d. They were at once transferred by teams to the Market street station of the Southern Pacific (Ogdenroute), and at ten o'clock they began their eventful journey across the continent to New York, 3,358 miles away. The officers of the Oceanic Steamship com pany and of the Southern Pacific were naturally anxious that the mail should make good progress and were kept informed by telegraph of the progress of the train during that day and evening. Suddenly the unexpected happened. The train arrived at Ogden, Utah, two dreadful hours late. . The mail was transferred to the mail car of train No. 2 of the Union Pacific. It was still late when it reached Omaha. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy put the single mail car containing his majesty's mail behind a special fast engine. It was a night run against time for No. 1080. On and on, lio miles an hour steady. The train entered Union sta tion, Chicago, at 9:08 n. m., on the 6th. Five hundred and eight miles in 555 minutes. No. G is the Lake Shore—New York Central "fast mail"—the heaviest fast mail train in America. She had left at 8:30. That train had to be over taken. A new special, two cars and No. 565, would try if it had to chase it all the way into Buffalo. At pre cisely 9:59:30 a. m. she pulled out from the Lake Shore station—and No. 6 one hour and 29% minutes .ahead. As the special ate up the , miles, it beenme evident that «hfi was laking up the lost time. She. would overhaul No. 6at Toledo. Two hun dred and forty-four miles in 265% minutes. The thing had been done. The two hours lost 2,000 miles away had been made up. At Buffalo, the precaution was taken to make up the New York Cen tral's No. 6—the fast mail—into two sections, sending on those mail bags from Australia, together with Uncle Sam's ma'l, in the first section. This was the fl/th and last of (he railroad lines forming the route across the United States. The train pulled into the Grand Central station the morn ing of the 7th at 9:s7—three minutes ahead of time. The Campania sailed at noon, with his. majesty's mail on board, 25 days find 2 hours out of Sydney. At seven o'clock Saturday morning, feeptemhej 14, the Australian mail was deliv ered at the post, office in London, n»« sorted and ready for the carriers. Instead of the old tilttQ of 3'i ilavs and hours by way of the Suez it was done in 32 "days less hours by using the American route. This is the natural way from London to the South Pacific, best and natural because it is nearly all with in the temperate zone. It crosses tlio tropics, while the Suez route keeps within the tropics, as torrid Aden testifies, as oClombo ar.d Port Said warmly prove. The great run with ! the Australian mail settled forever the question of the speediest route between the new commonwealth of Australia stud Europe. I i£&AT t N CtT is PEFRE 5^' 1 AND ACTS § G , PLEASANTLY AND GENTLY, H I I B TO OVER,COJAE: PERMANENTLY 0 With many millions of families Syrup of Figs has become the v? W ideal home laxative. The combination is a simple and wholesome Jj& one, and the method of manufacture by the California Fig Syrup Company ensures that perfect purity and uniformity of product, 'to which have commended it to the favorable consideration of the Aj. most eminent physicians and to the intelligent appreciation of all who are well informed in reference to medicinal agents. ||l Syrup of Figs has truly a laxative effect and acts gently with- out in any way disturbing the natural functions and with perfect [j[ freedom from any uupleasant after effects. J In the process of manufacturing, figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinally laxative principles of the Kr coi»:£)iuation are obtained from plants known to act most bene- W ficially on the system. To det its bervefkiaJ effects— § buy ihe by 1 FiqSyrapC® t jr Louisville. Ky. SArx F * r^rvc> ' sco ' New YorJvftX K5 for sale av all druocists price JQt PGR pottle A MATHEMATICAL QUIZ. Will of n Milwaukee .Man Divide* Ilia small I'Xate lu MoKt Puzzling Man ner. Heirs of Peter J. Gergen, whose will was filed for probate at Milwau kee, Wis., the other day, probably will 'be forced 'to resort to higher mathe matics to ascertain the amounts to which they arc respectively entitled. In its directions regarding the dis tribution of the estate, which is val ued at $3,500, the will is a curiosity. The property is to be divided among' the widow and eight children, and the allotment, to the children is made in •the following language: "Mary to receive for her share S2OO more than the other children, Nicho las to receive SSO less than the other children, John to receive S7O less than the other children, Anna to receive S3O less than the other children, Jos eph, Peter, Galbriel and Frank to re ceive an equal share, which shall be S2OO less than 'Mary, SSO nrore than Nicholas, £7O more than John and S3O more than Anna." Peter Gergen, one of the sons, was named as executor in the will. Salisbury ■■■ a Saint. It is not generally known that a statue of Lord Salisbury as a Chris tian warrior appears in one of the ni'tches of 'the interesting and beau tiful reredos in the chapel of All Souls' colleg-e, Oxford. About 40 years ago the premier was elected a fellow of this college, and about the same time an elaborate stone screen was erected in the chapel at tached to it he Fellows' house. The sculptor evidently preferred to make his own saints instead of accepting those canonized by the church, and Lord Salisbury was chosen to till up the vacant gap, and is therefore im mortalized as a Christian warrior.— Chicago Record-Herald. One-half the world smiles at the frowns of the other halt. —Chicago Daily News. THE MARKETS. New York, Nov. Z Flour—Active and firmer. Wheat—No. 2 red 77y s c. Corn—i.N'o. 2 at 63y s e. Oats—No. 2 white 44e. Cattle—Steers $4.15(55.05, veals $7.75(58.00. Sheep—Steady at $2.00(53.25, lambs $4.05(5 4.90. Hogs—Mixed $5.80(56.00. Cleveland, Nov. 2.—Flour—Winter .vheat, patents. $3.75(54.10. Wlieait—No. 2 red 73%e. Corn—No. 2 yellow 62% C. Butter—Best creamery 23 y s c. Cheese —York state ll(5l2c. Eggs—'Best 23c. Potatoes—Best grades 65(570c. Cattle Choice steers $5.00(55.25, calves $(>.00(5 0.50. Sheep Best, $3.25(53.40, lambs j $4.40(5 4.50, I II of;s—Yorkers SS.SO. East Buffalo, Nov. 2—Cattle— (Steady, unchanged. Calves $7.00@ 7.50. Hogs—Heavy $6.00(56.15, roughs $5.50(5 6.60. Sheep— Lambs $4.50(54.75, sheep $3.00(53.85. East Liberty, Nov. 2.—Cattle— Choice steers $5.20(5 6.00. llogs—Best Workers $.).90$i j.95. Sheep—(iood $3.15(5 3.2.>, lambs $3.00 | (ri 4.65. j Cincinnati, Nov. 2. —Hogs—Active at $3,65(56.15. | Cattle —Steady at $1.75(55.15. I Sheep—Steady at lambs $2.00 (y, 4.3 5. I'j - Y"\ made V- •• ■/fyf I\ "* C\f&\ Aw. L Douglas $4 Gilt Edgo Line * Jr \ V* & Cannot be Equaled at Any Price. /V.. If / fhereputatlonof W. L. Do&as $3.00 and S3.M# fc/i *ll J»v : J j / ' |Jr shoes for style, comfort and wear lias excelled m KSm' IB a © \Wl}> all other makes sold at these prices. This ex-M M^ r j Tas7# ut is, c '| A_ liut/ &•' celleut reputation has been won by merit nloncM &-j % fin w* \7ws Vri' 1 If/fll (V -fo . 1 12. W.L.Douglas shoes have to give bet- ■ E&afcajJa a ifWt V. ter satisfaction than other f-t.U? and ■ ■ mSt ,'i P clinf $3.50 shoes because his reputation for ■ ss_ i ■57.4 fj k *B® tained. 1 be standard has always been placedM I JB ■2 r to for his money in the W. L. Douglas $3.00 an 1 '.■' : " /fffiw MM Btf 'ZJk \ to 1 (&Es?' 'l f3.60 shoes than be can get elsewhere. \V. n Ei *"» V/"' X.V * Dnnglas makes and sells more Sn.oo and 53.60 shoes ■ ■£j -t\ : \ any other two manufacturers in tbe world. Font C'ol<»v/ r. '.<W 8 Kg- (Jap ~ Eyelet* u*e<l. W. L. f* sad 53.60 show are m ■it -Tp of Ihe same hlrb rrarfe leathers mod la 112 6 and $0 uhoes, and B are Just aa in e*erj way. CATAL(»O FrEK. I aR* j? Sold by r>3 Doug'as tfores in American cities selling direct from/actorym wg . C / to ictarer at one profit; and the. best shoe deal trs everywhere. laelet epea fcarlag W. L. T/onglaeelioee with name . g a s tional for carriage. Take measure |V foot asshown 8 "jyiPU w;sinwii»JJ-u,ifjyM . HiWfWr Tlie Kunilly Home Hun. The national game is frequently produe- | tive of "home runs," and one of the most j interesting of this variety of tallies was made by a Philadelphia batsman in Chicago. He hit the ball squarely, and drove it over the right field fence. It entered the window in the second story of a house, rolled down the back stairs into the kitchen and lodged in a pan of dough under the stove. The nat ural inference is that the family partook the next day of ball-bearing bread.—Youth's Companion. Tile I.nut Word. Mrs. Jigsby (the discussion having become somewhat personal)— You may talk till doomsday, George Jigsby, but you'll never get me to admit that a wife is bound to do as her husband tells her. Mr. Jigsby—By gravy, madam, if I outlive you I'll have it engraved on your tombstone that you were a good and obedient wife!— Chicago Tribune. Poor Chnmiilcleh, "Why, pa, this is roast beef!" exclaimed little Willie at dinner on the evening when Mr. Chumpleigh was present as the guest of honor. "Of course," said the father. "What of that?" "Why, you told ma this morning that you were £oing to bring a 'mutton-head' home for dinner this evening."—Philadelphia Press. Sea-«annhle Sentiment. "A romantic country, that!" "Yes?" "Sure. All along tne coast the buoys are hugging the shore!" (He might have added that the sound of the fishing smack was heard now and then as the waves kissed the beach, and that an arm of the sea half en circles a sandy waste, but —) —Yale Record. An Authority. 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