'IBB 0IT1ZKN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1011.
Canadian Piinclpalily of French
man Woriii Fortune.
ANTIGOSTI BEING DEVELOPED.
Wood Pulp to Be Exported to United j
States, as Menier's Property Is Not '
Amenable to New Dominion Law. ;
Half a Million to Be Expended on
Improvements.
Aiitlcostl, tlio Canadian Island prin
cipality of Henri Mentor, tho French j
chocolate mau, la shut out from the ;
outside world for anotlier season, llio '
last boat .having arrived hi Quebec i
from there, and nothing more will be
beard from it till navigation In the
lower St. Lawrence and gulf is opened
ja tho spring. Great changes are go
ing on In tho island, which is rapidly
becoming Important Industrially.
Henri Menler has tried many things
to make the island self supporting. In
cluded In these enterprises have been
lobster and other fisheries and even
tlio breeding of silver foxes, only to
result in failure.
New Markets Opened.
Thoro is a great amount of sprue
and fir timber on the island, but it is
for the most part not of a size suitable
for deals, and until now tho haul from
Antlcostl has been considered too long
for successfully marketing the pulp
wood.
But with tho adoption by the prov
.nce of Quebec last spring of its policy
of prohibiting tho exportation of pulp
wood from crown lands tliore came a
boom on tho island, and now great
plans are on foot for the exportation
of pulp wood to tho United States In
vast quantities, beginning next spring.
Mr. Menler Is building one of the
largest rosslng plants In tho world,
with a capucity of 400 cords a day.
Rosslng plants arc mills In which the
bark Is removed from pulp wood by
machinery, the logs being cut into two
foot lengths and these two foot blocks
held against a rapidly revolving disk
In which are sot knives which cut the
bark nway.
Not Affected by Law.
As Mr. Mentor owns the island in
fee simple tho prohibition of tho ex
port of pulp wood from tho province
of Quebec docs not affect him, such
prohibition applying only to wood cut
from the crown lands. Not less than
30,000 cords of this rossed wood will
bo shipped from Antlcostl next season,
all of It going to points in New York
state on the upper St. Lawrence and
Lake Ontario.
Tho population now numbers 1,200.
Mr. Menler will spend next summer on
tho Island, and ho is planning to ex
pend 5500,000 In improvements, includ
ing the construction of twenty miles
of railway. Miles of now railway will
bo added each year till tho road runs
the whole length of tho island.
Six hundred laborers are employed
this winter in cutting pulp wood. A
wharf a mile long has been construct
ed at Ellis bay, where it will be loaded
on to steamships.
DISCOVERS NEW MINERAL.
Princeton Professor Names It Gageitn.
After a Trenton Man.
Dr. A. II. Phillips, professor of wiu
oralogy at Princeton university, has
announced the discovery of a new min
eral In the vicinity of Franklin Fur
nace, N. .1. Professor Phillips names
his discovery gagette, in honor of It.
B. Gago of Trenton, through whose ef
forts sufficient material was gathered
to make tho necessary analysis. The
new mineral Is said to belong to the
family of leucophoeuiclte, and its prob
able existence has been predicted by
mineralogists since 1009.
Gagelto is found In a transparent
crystalline formation and possesses a
high vitreous luster. Thus far none of
tho mineral has been found anywhere
but In tho Parker shaft near Franklin,
where it wns discovered lodged In the
walls of small cavities and In fan
shaped groups.
It is not believed that tho new min
eral will bo of any value commercially.
LIBERTY TREE MADE OF ZINC.
Haiti Bound to Have Durabla National
Emblem.
In front of tho presidential residence
in Haiti is a giant cocoanut tree, but
its leaves nro always In tho same con
dition. In storm or sunshine their se
renity is never disturbed.
Tho tree Is the republic's tree of
Mberty, When tho republic wns es
tablished it was thought that a tree
should be planted to signalize so great
an event, but Haiti, It seems, has but
one tree, and that the cocoanut tree.
But tho cocoanut treo Is hardly the
, Bpeclos to bo chosen for u tree of lib
erty, for It grows to a good height and
becomes bare as Its ago increases.
now was tho difficulty to be over
.mo? It wns a very simple matter,
Ono of the council suggested that nn
imitation cocoanut treo made of zinc-
should be ordered from London, with
tho leaves, etc., painted to represent
aturc. Tho Idea was adopted.
$40,000,000 For Japanese Navy.
Tho sum to bo spent in Japanese
naval expansion has been definitely
fixed at $40,000,000, gold, to be dls
tributed oyer five years.
HKH HADING" THK PEACH TREE
Pcnch Tree Only Tree That Will
Stand Such Treatment.
Tbu peach la iho only kind of a
fruit tree that will stand "behdil
ing." oi "dehorning" as It isi some
times called. This Is a very foitu
! nate circumstance for several rea
sons. One Is that the peach s
, sometimes killed back to the stem
by flovra winters, but alter having
tho Jead wood cut away, will sprout
out and form a new neau.
Another Is that th peach is ds
ually the first ieo to be attacked by
NEW GROWTH ON OLD STUMP.
the scale and is often completely
encrusted by that pest before it 'a
discovered. In that case It is soma.
times thought that the best way to
get rid of the scale is to behead the
treo and let It form new head.
Again, It the habit of the peach to
bear fruit only on the wood of tho
year before and for that reason the
fruit Is constantly getting further
and further out on the limbs. Whllo
this can be checked by regular and
severe pruning, the tree Is often per
mitted to grow until It becomes top
heavy and in a good crop year tho
limbs break down under the burden
of the fruit carried out on their
enls.
When a tree has been neglected,
the oest way to get it into good
shupti again ' to brhei.i It, by which
I mean cutting all the limbs off
close tc the stump leaving stubs
about a foot long.
It Is tlio custom with some to
postpone the pruning until It Is
seen whether tho trees are going to
bear a crop. If they are not then
the pruning can be- done properly
and severely. If there is a promise
of a small yield, then the pruning
is either madt very light or omitted
altogether. If thero Is a very heavy
yield of fruit then tho pruning
should be made with some eye to
thinning the fruit to save hand
thinning and to distribute It even
ly over the tree and to prevent any
limb from being overloaded, for In
a good peach year the trees will
overbear If not thinned and will not
recover vigor for overal years. This
pruning can be done after tho dan
ger of frosts Is over without Injury
to the tree.
Picking Plums to Slop Rot.
Plum? that grow In clusters aro
most apt to be affected by mildew
or rot in the growing season, and
the only thing that can be done to
prevent that or control It, is Bor
deaux' mixture, spraying every ten
days with the mixture during tho sea
son, says H. H. Dunlop, Cham
paign Co., 111.
The plums, if any of them do
rot, and sometimes that Is the case,
should be removed by either a hook
on the end of a light pole, or else
the treo may be shaken and most
of them will como down that way.
Tho rotten plums ought not to be
left on the treo any longer than can
possibly bo avoided, because tho
spores will produce rot on the oth
er plums. The thoroughness with
which the spraying is done will re
sult In its control more than any
thing else. If the spraying Is half
done it is hardly worth while to do
it
Now Variety of Spinach.
A new variety of spinach which
has never been listed In any of tno
American catalogues Is being grown
at Valverde, near Donvor, which Is
creating very favorable comment on
the Denver market. The seed was
imported from Prussia, and for the
lack of a better name it is called
German spinach. Its chief advan
tage lies In tho thickness and Juici
ness of the stems, which prevent
the rapid wilting of tho plants when
placed on the market an(l also add
to its bulk when prepared for tho
table. Denver Field and Farni.
To Prevent Scabbed Potatoes.
When cutting potatoes for seed
throw in a handful of sulphur to
each 100 pieces and shako until
each piece is well coated with sul
phur before planting.
Sugar Beets on Alkali Soil.
,)eot fields subject to alkali are de
scribed as being characterized by a
very uneven stand, considerable Ir
regularity in the size of the plants
and the prevalence of chlorosis of the
older leaves.
WASHING MADE EASY.
A Woman May Do the Work In Thirty
Minutes.
Eighty-five dollars will pay for a
washing tnachlno of family size that
will wash better than any woman ,cau
wash by hand. A good machine may,
perhaps, bo bought for even a little
less. The machine is equipped with a
wringer that Is also run by power and
a one-eighth horsepower motor. A
plumber in a day will make tho hot
nil cold wnter and drainpipe connec
i( n. Then tho machine Is ready for
business, Bays tho Delineator.
How simple washing bccomcsl Soap
the clothes. Put the clothes In tlio
tnachlno. Turn a valve and let In the
hot water. Turn a switch and let in
Iho electricity. Close tho top to keep
In tho steam and smell and go about
your other business, not for a day or a
half day, but for twenty minutes.
Then come back and turn off tho pow
er. Open tho valvo at tho bottom and
let out the dirty water. Let In clean
water and run the machine two min
utes to rinse tho clothes. With a twist
of the wrist, switch the power to tho
wringer and wring tho clothes into a
waiting tub of blued water on tho oth
er side. If thero Is any starching to
be done, do it. If not, hang out the
clothes to dry.
That's the whole operation. A quick
woman can perform it in thirty min
utes. Most of the time she need not
work. Nor need she lift tho clothes
from the time she puts them into tho
machine until she hangs them out
All she must do Is to feed them through
a wringer.
Furthermore, -washing done this way
can be done'two or three times a week
instead of once. It is better with a
machine to wash frequently. Simply
use the machine ns a clothes hamper
and when it Is full turn on the water
and the power. Instead of a bugbear,
washing becomes not much more of
nn ordeal than winding the clock.
What He Forgot.
The one woman Invited to attend
tlio meetings of the first conference of
governors held at tho White House in
1003 wns Mrs. Sarah S. Piatt Decker
of Denver, then president of the Gen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs, and
during her speech to the conference
she told this story:
One evening Farmer John came back
from ills weekly trip to town, half a
dozen miles uway, and after unhitch
ing his mare walked over to tho pump
for his customary scrub and then
joined his son and daughter at supper
In the kitchen.
"Sort o' 'pears to me 's though I'd
'a' forgot something or other," ho re
aiarked toward tho end of the meal
as he searched for his tobacco.
"Why, pa, did you get the reel of
thread and tho pink gingham for my
dress?"
"Yep."
"And the crock for butter and the
bag of flour and the vaniller fla
v'rtng?" "Yep."
"Did ye git the harrer mended and
shoe old Jinny?"
"Yep, Sam."
"Well, pa, I don't ree'lect that ye
had anything else ye ought to have
brought back."
But still pa did not scorn quite sat
isfied. He chewed awhile reflectively,
his gnze fixed ruminatingly on space.
Suddenly he smoto his thigh with a
prolonged exclamation: "By gosh!
It's mn I've forgot!"
"And that," observed Mrs. Decker,
"has been the trouble all along. Ma's
been left behind. But now she has
given up waiting. She has arrived by
a path of her own, and she's not going
to lie forgotten again." Hlldegarde
Hawthorne In Century.
Makes Pies For the President.
Mrs. Philander C. Knox, wife of tho
United States secretary of state, sent
a Jnr of homemade mincemeat to
Mrs. Taft, who made it into pies for
the White House private table. The
president likes pie. no is fond, too,
of a certain kind of spiced homemadu
sausage, and ho received some of that
also. Mrs. Stephen B, Hiking sends
many good things from her own kitch
en, and many of tho charitable Insti
tutions of Washington as well as official-homes
enjoy her Jellies and pro
serves. Mrs. Joseph Bailey, wife of
tho Texas senator, is one of the best
cooks In Washington. Her cakes arc
famov-t and aro in constnnt demand at
charity bazaars. She also sent them
as Christmas presents to personal and
official friends.
Cleaning a Veil.
To clean a veil, tako ono pint of
wood alcohol and put into glass Jar.
Drop veil into Jar, cover and shake
thoroughly for several minutes. Re
move veil, squeezing gently and allow
ing the dripping to drop back into
vessel. Shako in the open air and
draw into shape on a round, perfectly
clean stick.
Cement For Tinware,
An excellent cement for mending
tinware is made by mixing litharge
and glycerin to tho consistency of
thick cream or putty. Tho mended
artlclo must not bo used until the co
taent has had time to dry, which may
bo a week or more. Tho litharge can
be secured at drug stores.
To Iron Embroidery.
To Iron embroidery tho iron should
b applied to the wrong side nnd n
thick ironing blanket should bo used.
In. this way tho embroidery will stand
out well Instead of being flattened and
looks Its very best.
$56,200 NEEDED TO STOCK
HUGE LINER FOR ONE TRIP
Experts Figure on Necessaries
Olymplo and Titanio.
For
Some $00,000 worth of American food
and drink will be loaded aboard tho
new ocean steamers Olympic and Ti
tanic each time one of these big boats
docks In New York, according to tho
commissary officers who are victualing
such ships.
Should the government muke their
landing hero possible by leugthening
two piers these two ocean liners can
bring and take away 2,700 passengers
on each voyage In addition to a crew
of 800. If both boats are able to begin
their regular trips hero next spring
to piers adapted to their bulk $1,D00,
000 will bo spent in New York in a
year simply to stock up their capacious
larders.
For mcnts alone $15,000 is to bo paid
each time cither of tho big sister ships
comes Into port Largo quantities of
beef, lamb, pork, veal and mutton will
bo brought from nil over tho country
nnd stacked away In refrigerators that
must hold enough to feed 3,500 people
on a transatlantic voyage. Wagon
loads of poultry costing $5,400 are to
bo added to this array, with piles of
fish worth $2,000. For shellfish tho
orders of the ship's cooks will amount
to $1,200 in addition.
Farmers from all about tho neighbor
ing country will be called upon to
kpihI $4,000 worth of buttor, cream and
milk to be used on each trip of tbeso
big boats, while $1,800 is also to be
spent solely for eggs and $3,200 for
vegetables. Fruits worth $3,500 are
to bo added to tho ship's stores, while
its bakery will lay In flour to the ex
tent of $2,300 on each voyage. The
biggest bill next to that for meats will
bo $5,500 for all sorts of groceries.
Far nway In tho frigid depths of tho
now liners' cold storage compartments
$1,200 worth of Ice cream Is to be
stored, and for cigars $2,000 will bo
spent. Wines nnd spirits costing $5,000
are set down as necessary for each
shipload of passengers, together with
some $3,000 worth of beer and mineral
waters. Altogether tho lowest cost of
victualing such boats ns the Olympic
nnd Titanic is set down as $50,200.
COLORADO LOSES LANDMARK
Last of Taverns on Denver-Leadville
Trail Is Destroyed.
To enable Sterling Jones, owner of
the property, to erect a brick dwelling
on tho site workmen aro now tearing
down tho old stage road house outside
Sallda, Colo., that has been standing
since 1805 and occupied as a ranch
dwelling and storehouse for several
years.
The stage house was a large, long af
fair built in the old fashioned style
with a long porcli and was visible
from the Illo Grande railroad track
east of Sallda. It had become very
much dilapidated.
One end of the building was fitted
up for living purposes until Mr. Jones
should decide to build a residence, and
the rest of the building was left va
cant. It was the last stage house on
the route between Denver and Lead
ville to be torn down, and it was
looked, upon as a relic of tho time
when Indians roamed through the Ar
kansas valley.
While the workmen were excavating
they uncovered some human bones. In
the dump also wcro the remains of
some tomahawks, flintlocks and other
curios, supposed to huvo been left by
Indians.
SPIDER KILLS MINNOW.
Remarkable Fi3h Story Comos Forth
From Missouri.
Whllo at tho ico pond fishing recent
ly W. R. Sweeney of Keytesvlllo, Mo.,
noticed a lnrge spider on n leaf at tho
edge of the water that seemed to be
fishing also. Tho spider would put
ono leg In the water, shako it a little
bit and then wait. By nnd by a min
now came to tho top nnd grabbed tho
spider's foot.
This seemed to be what It was wait
ing for, and without n minute's hesi
tation it sprung on to tho minnow, be
ing carrfed under tho water several
times, but never releasing Its hold on
tho fish until it ceased to struggle and
was dead, when tho spider hauled its
prey ashore to bo devoured at leisure.
In trying to land the struggling min
now tho spider would lay hold of a
leaf with a deathlike grip and at last
landed his cntch in that way.
USE WHEELS IN ASTRONOMY.
Scientists Take Bicycle Kind to Figure
Meteors' Velocity.
An interesting use has been found
iu astronomy for tho blcydlo wheel.
By fitting such a wheel with a series
of opaquo screens placed nt regular
intervals and then rotating it with tho
aid of a small motor at the rate of
from thirty to fifty turns in a minute
before tho cameras used to photograph
meteors one investigator has succeed
ed In measuring tho velocity of tho
meteor's flight.
Tho principle depends upon tho in
terruptions produced by the screens in
tho trails of light mado upon tho pho
tographic plates by tho flying meteor.
The velocity of tho wheel is known at
every Instunt by menns of a cbrono
graphlc record, and tho length of tho
Interruptions indicates tho speed of
tho meteor.
( We wish to secure a good
correspondent in every town
in Wayne county. Don't be
afraid to write this office for
paper and stamped envelops.
Salt Codfish, Spanish Stylo.
Cut Into small pieces enough salt
codfish to mnko a heaping cupful. Re
inovo the skin nnd bones, put the fish
in an earthern dish, cover with boiling
water, keep hot for two hours, then
drain, .cool nnd shred fine. In one tn
blcspoonful of butter fry ono chopped
onion. When delicately browned add
tho prepared fish, sufficient wnter to
cover, ono cup of stewed nnd strained
tomatoes and ono fnblospoonful of
chopped green pepper and let simmer
one hour. Season with salt and serve
on squnrcs of toasted broad.
Renovating White Fur Cloth.
To clean white fur cloth, first brush
Die garment to get all tho dust out.
then dip a perfectly clean sponge hi
alcohol nnd wash the nap thoroughly.
While it is 'still wet sift Into it all tho
powdered starch It will hold. Mix fine
borax with the starch in tho propor
tion of one part borax to three of
starch. Put the garment away in a
box, free from dust, and leave three
days, then tako it out and beat and
brush out nil tho starch.
A Competent Critic,
A famous actor at an elaborate en
tertainment at n Fifth a enue million
aire's palace in New York rose to re
cite Mrs. Browning's "Dead Pan." As
he announced his subject nlid prepared
to begin he heard a lady near him say
distinctly:
"What is tho next piece? Some
thing funny, I hope. Oh, yes-'The
Dead Pan!' Dear me, how odd! Of
course it must bo funny something
about bad cooking, I suppose."
The Supreme Test.
"Do that couple near you really love
ench other?"
"Do they? I have absolutr proof ot
It."
"What is it?"
"Ho smokes tho cigars she buys
him."
"Well?"
"And she wears the hats he selects."
Baltimore American.
A WELL DRESSED MAN
COMMANDS RESPECT
and GAINS SUCCESS
To dress well and look well
is one half of the "battle of
success" won - - -
A poor fitting and bum
mauc sun. oi ciomes is worst; &
than a ton of bad luck to the
man who wants to mako a
success of life.
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Anything and everything that a man needs for Comfort
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JADWIN'S
" ANTS BUILD SKYSCRAPERS.
Somo Remarkable Structures Roar
cd by the Termites.
Tho white ants or termite are
great builders. A naturalist ex
ploring in Somallland recently cama
across a cone-shaped mud and clay
hill which they had coLstructod
which was eighteen feet in height
whllo many other were from ten to
fifteen feot high.
When ono compares tbe slzo ot
these ants with that o men it bo
comes apparent that these hills aro
real skyscrnpers from tho tcrmlto
viewpoint, If there is any,
Whllo tho average man Is five and
onc-hal" feet high, the ants are only
half an inch high. Therefore u 10-foot
ant hill Is 240 times the slzo of ono
of Its builders, while such a struc
ture as the Eiffel tower, though ris
ing 984 feet, Is only 179, times tho
height of average man. Philadel
phia Press.
Tho Rat.
The rat's sins aro manifold. Tha
damage which he does In a year to
crops, cargoes, stores, granaries,
poultry and game, dairies and out
houses, foundations, walls, and dralo
ago cannot be calculated exactly, but
it must bo enormous. He is ubiquit
ous; ho swarms in fields, hedges,
coverts, farm yards, cellar, sewers,
docks and ships; he Is clover in get
ting out of difficulties, extremely
courageous, able to exist on almost
any kind of food, and horribly pro
lific. Spectator.
Pupcr Coffins.
Some undertakers, hose custom
ers are poor people, are using cof
fins made of paper. The cofllns aro
mado In all styles of pressed paper
pulp, the same as the common paper
buckets. When they are varnished
and stained they resemble polished;
wood, and In point of durability It
Is said they are much better than
wooden ones.
We have the moBt dressy
the best made, the finest pat
terns and the largest assort
ment of Gent's Clothing and
Furnishings in Wnyno county.
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