Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-28

Pierre resolved at once to turn
chiffonier; and even before the morn
ing sun had risen the industrious
young man had gathered about as
large a bundle of rags rs he could
carry in his emaciated condition.
For these he was paid to his aston
ishment, twenty cents, or about one
franc. After a few days of work,
with bag upon his shoulders, the
energetic citizen of France was en-
abled to purchase and propel his own
push cart. with it's round bags well
stuffed with rags and its merrily
jingling bells.
At the end of a year Leger resided
in a modest habitation Of the Five
Points" which he had procured for
himself. He no longer picked his
own rags. There were whole batal-
lions of barefooted and bare headed
gamins in the locality where helived.
He enlisted a great brigade of these
to pursue his profession in commun-
ity of interest. He called them with
pride his "Gardes Sans CulOttes," and
sheltered their captains in barracks,
up in the little garnet under his roof.
Another year of constantly in
creasing business passed, after the
first, and the faithful lover was en-
abled to send for Cochonette, his
plump little grisette, who had pa
tiently waited for him to bring her
his fortune; behind n counter in a
little second hand glove store near
the Mont de Plete, kept by one JAG
ques Legros, who procured his stock
from the unredeemed pledges oil the
famous pawn shop.
She came.
1t is a matter Of stonishment how,
after having once been stimulated,
the Fertile resources OF NJ. Pierre Leg
err were brought into play. Combin-
ing with one Hans Van Damschloss,
an emigre from Amsterdam, he erect
ed and successfully conducted n great
paper from the raw products OF his
rag business, which, as the years went
by, grew enormous in quantity.
Still later a magnificent idea struck
him. He "saw" several distinguished
American officials of the municipal
government of New York, and from
them obtained the contract of pick
ing over for rags the garbage OF that
great city. The other pickings in
this monopoly were farmed out to a
number of Italians, played out in the
hand organ business. This fat con-
tract warranted the very great ex-
tension of the Leger & Van Dam
schloss Paper Mills.
| In time the Legers moved to Fifth
avenue, on which noted thorough
fare their elegant mansion was one
of the most conspicuous ornaments,
AS tor Van Damschloss he had al
ready the early promise of having
another Evan" emblnzoned on the
Knickerbocker book OF peerage OF the
American metropolis.
| Upon these two men and their fami
lies fortune smiled brightly, distribut
ing her favors with lavish hands
The genius of American liberty haC
lifted them both far above the toll
ing masses of the Old World, whence
they came. But proud America
should yield them yet more of he1
treasures. 1t was the land Of inven
ton and from the untathomed mys
tery of further invention they shoult
wiring further millions OF riches!
While they are building thei1
mighty fortunes, steam power haC
been almost perfected, electricity hat
been further trained from simple teleg
raphic transmission to perform illum
mating, telephone and Photographic
work. 1t had been taught to vibrat'
on the tongues of the living and lingo
on the lips Of the dead. The genius O
the lightning had been curbed tt
perform mental hotel and household
services, and to rend the rugged
breast of the mountain with ex
ploded mine.
But there is ono other mysteriou
and sublime force in the system O
electro hermo dynamics which mai
has not yet controlled. Science ha
demonstrated the fact that natur
employs in the. evaporation and con
uciISuttOu vi Ouc SuIioli VI NutcI
subtle and sublime power capable q
removing range of mountains.
that force could be converted int
the controllable essence of motion b.
man. he could move the world. spill
continents Tor his mighty canals
like those of the planet Mars, blo'
loaded railroad trains along like tin
feathers or snowflakes before tn
fierce tornado's blast, and circum
navigate the globe in eighty mir
utes. These are some OF the mer
possibilities OF controlling but on
more thermo- electro force. Nj
K"ely has bn, so far toyed with it
fearful mysteries in obtaining motu
pressure OF Is, 900 pounds to TIL
square inch of motive surface. HI
volatile and vibratOry ether of waite
is but as breath of a body who's
muscle is capable of producing til
; enormous pressure ofat least 5000