MENIER'S ANTICOSTL
A FRENCHMAN OWNS AN. ISLAND OF
TWO MILLION ACRcS.
He la Sole Proprietor of u spot of Luml
in the St. Lawrence Rich Knougli to
Form a King'a ltealiii The Inland in
About 135 Allien Long and 4U Wide.
"Henry Menier, now in his 48th year,
was born in France in the year 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 he 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.
"'Ah, Anticosti?'
"The Englishman nodded.
"'The price?'
" 'One hundred and twenty-five
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 solo ownership of an island
which he new contained more than
two millicn acres of land, it was really
rjdj?i' l ous,
" '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, but 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
djotails interesting to the degree of
fascination. Ho learned that Anti
costi was a great bulk of land 135
miles long and 40 miles broad, lying
at the mouth of the St. Lawrence
river, and that it had for its nearest
neighbors Labrador and Newfoundland
and Halifax, names which conjured up
visions of icebergs and dreary solt
tud-s
„(*■ ....
"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
tt.
"Tt is only £25,000, persisted
Kendrick. 'A simple sum of $125,f00.
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 of 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 fishing in
valuable; the spruce forests covering
the island are almost ample enough
to supply the world with paper pulp.'
In brief, the reports gave Antieostl 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.
rnpyrldfltte, a New Roofing Material.
A new 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 lie given any
desirable tint, and can be made to
look like mosaic or marble.
CETTINC CATTLE TO YUKON.
l!ow the Noi-lherti Military I'olta Are
Miliplied with Iteet*.
E. B. Hanley, who has a government
contract for furnishing live bees to
the various military posts of the Yu
kon, is 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 bo
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 en 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. "It is true that con
siderable grass grows in various por
tions of the territory." he said, "but
the growing season is too short, and
domestic animals have to bo 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 ho 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."
GUAINT 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 car comes to a down grade they
jump on and ride. The coolies who
work this unique road are said to bo
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 THOUGHT.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
The dust we tread upon was once
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
Is 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,
j Some people are so fond of ill luck
that they run half way to meet it.
I There is nothing so powerful as
truth—and often nothing so strange.
| There is no refuge from confession,
I but suicide; and suicide is confession.
1 A blessed companion is a book —a
book that fitly chosen is a life-long
j friend.
That is the best government which
I 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 Kcported by u Alan
Who Wanted to Get 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 he 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 tho 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
middie 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 hand borrowed
of tho 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!
Very old persons and very young
persons are apt to be great sticklers
for etiquette. Queen Victoria was an ex
ample of the one, and Lord Ueauchamp,
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 be
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 tho pair reached the audience
chamber, there was trouble. The
lady declined to he 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 were suffered to
mingle together. But the fair one
was equal to the occasion.
"Nonsense." said she, as she pressed
forward; "what do you take us for?
A seidlitz powder?"
The aide collapsed. And yet It is
sometimes said that women have no
sense of humor.—New York Evening
Post.
ITlnta to Wlvea.
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 wsight of books in one year.
ALARffiINGJORTALITY.
Noticeable Among the
Weak and Ailing.
Sniing the Time Death Reaps Its
Largest Harvest.
Thare 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
daily life.
Statistics show that at no other sea
son of the year does BO 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 dis
ease has much to contend with during
the Winter months. Insufficient exer
cise frequently has been taken. Too
much starchy and fatty foods have 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
their vitality has becomo very low.
The same thing is true of people who
are naturally sickly and weak.
This is the season of the year when
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 This great medicine
has been in many cases, and will con
tinue to be. the means by which the
black angel of Death has been driven
from the threshold. It dispels the
gTim 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 i
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
mo. I was so run down that I could
not sleep at night and everything wor
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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
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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 Nervura. 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
ihe convents of France many centuries
:io.
There Is more Catarrh In this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed tube
incurable. For a great many years doetors
pronounced it a local disease anil prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it in
curable. Science has 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 cure 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 hey offer one hundred dollars for uny case
it fails to euro. Send for circulars and testi
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Sold by Druggists, 76c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best
There are nearly 200 Bishops of the
Catholic Church within the British Em
pire.
TJcst FOP the Bowels,
No matter what alls you, headache to •
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. OABCARXTS help
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ust 10 cents to start getting your health
tuck. CASOAAHTS Candy Cuthartlc, the
genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tab
let has 0.0.0. stamped on It. beware of
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 laim?
to be enjoying a boom.
The great public schools of the largo cities
use carter's ink exclusively. It is the best
ana coals no more lliau the poorest. Uut it.
Several unique bills were introduced
in the Wisconsin Assembly recently.
The queerest was that by Mr. Young,
of Eau Claire, which provides that alter
January 1. 1904, railway companies shall
equip their trains with devices that will
keep them on the track after derailment.
Mrp.Winslow's Poothing Fyrup for children
teething, sofi.en s the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, t ures wind colic. 2T>c a bottle.
MulligaittWiiey is nun. an East India
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down, for an hour or two, the flesh on my elbows and knees
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The humiliation I experienced, to say nothing of physical
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that in the near future electric traction
will be universally employed on canals.
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