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-llarcb 13, lOOI
did we think they were placed on our brows by a
fair, snowy hand, instead of leathern talons blench
ed and cramped by the rheums of the centuries;
and if. when the grayi begins to sneak its unmasked
trail through the hair, and the stiffness of age
creepingly invades the joints and the intellect, we
could persuade ourselves it was the work of a
lovely, pitying woman, would we not, in all truth,
be more resigned to the enevitable?
And would it not more comport with our tender
reverence to that gentle sex could we think of its
representative, Time, scurrying from era to era
and epoch to epoch, seeing all the evil, the mani
fold meanness, the terrible mutations of recorded
and unknown history, yet retaining a serenity of
soul, and a sureness of the ultimate triumph of
truth, bidding defiance to the ravaging chisel and
wearing a calm sweetness of which we ever like to None
dream on the face of The Onlv Woman ?
Men Easy Prey
for Shrewd Women
which
topic
r/ke Sunny South is the oldest weekly paper of Literature,
Romance, Fait and Flftlon in the South ^ It is now res
Stored to the original shape and will be published as for,
merty every week & Founded In 1814 It grew until 1809,
when, as a monthly, its form was changed as an expert•
ment & It now returns to its original formation as a
weekly with renewed vigor and the intention of ectlps*
ing its most promising period in the past.
Does Revolution Bode In
India ?
Time; a Man or a Woman?
N old man, bent, wrinkled, his every
movement spelling decrepitude, his
sole claim to serious consideration
being a bright, cynical eye. is fig
uring very largely in current pic
torial history. He is the conven
tional conception of “old Father
Time,” neither artist nor writer ap
parently being able to get away
from the idea that this mythical
character is best represented by
hoary locks, creaking joints and an
expression which is a weird hy
brid between a satirical leer and a
tatu<5us benignity. He has done yeoman service
for many and many a century, and we will proba
bly hand him down, very reverently, as a precious:
traditional legacy to those who will take up the
tasks we will leave incomplete. Poor old fellow!
He has probably been the inspiration of more senile
and sublime odes, poetry and prose, more small
and worthy jests, and more undiluted sentimental
gush than any other one being in the realm of fact
or imagination. He has been accused recklessly,
of things he never conceived in his most malign
moments, and he has been credited with superhu
man attributes which would astound even him—
and if he exists at all, he must be a tolerably stolid
old chap.
Since he is not physically embodied, he cannot
HAT India which Kipling has so
graphically delineated in fugitive
verse and short stories is a coun
try but sparsely known to the man
not a native or a patient, life-long
student of its well-nigh indefinable
phases. The average man thinks
of it as a land made famous by the
impeachment of Warren Hastings
or the Sepoy rebellion, that gory
nightmare of British colonial his
tory the enormity of which even
yet reflects curdling echoes from
the chamber of the world’s grisliest
From time to time vagrant rumors to the i aid -'
N the cos* of Mrs. Leroy
S. Chadwick the point
that has caused the most
widespread Interest is
the case with which she,
an elderly woman with
out physical charms,
was able to borrow vast
sums of money from
shrewd o 1 d financiers,
whose experience should
have made them wise.
The secret of this ability
on her part is a mystery
has been the absorbing
of discussion for a week,
is more deeply interested
in this phase of the extraordi
nary ca»« than the criminal lawyer*.
Among them Delancey Nicoll,
whose years as district attorney and
assistant district attorney, to say noth
ing of his experience as counsel in crim
inal cases, have made him an expert
judge of the methods of those upon
whose transactions there is a shadow,
lias watched the developments with close
attention. A reporter asked him:
“How is it possible for a woman,
such as Mrs. ChadwicJ, to induce keen
old bankers to lend her hundreds of
thousands of dollars without security?’’
“A woman.’’ replied Mr. Nicoll, “ap
peals to a man’s sentiment. The very
fact of a woman proposing extraor
dinary financial schemes to a shrewd
man of business appeals to him when
such a suggestion from a man world
not even interest 'him. A man. no mat
ter how experienced, does not expect
duplicity in a woman, and his sentiment
is awakened when she asks him for
r~
K.
Along' the Highway
By FRANK L. STANTON
J
A THANKFUL WINTER SONG.
I.
Sing a song o’ thankfulness for Win
ter—let him blow,
An’ hide the summer flowers ’neath a
freezin’ sheet o’ snow!
We’ll all be just as happy as we once
were—long ago!
Sing a song o’ Winter in the
mornin'!
IF LIFE’S A DREAM.
I.
If Life he but a wayside dream
Of certainty, or doubt.
Pray heaven Death do not wake
us up
Until the dream’s dreamed out!
II.
II.
Sing a song o’ thankfulness for Win
ter-sing it free!
Though he trims with shiny icicles
each weather-beaten tree,
He’s just as hale an’ hearty as the
Lord would have him be—
Sing a song o’ Winter in the
mornin’!
III.
'Sing that song o’ thankfulness
Winter! Hands around.
to
What dream was ever wholly sweet,
Of unalloyed delight?
Some thorn there was to wound the
feet—
A shadow o’er the bright!
III.
the dream,
whate’er
E7>e Busy
Dream out
it he!
And then, when Death's in si
Fear not to fare unflinchingly
Into the Unknown Night!
Desultory operations
from Port Arthur, thei:
mg tae gradual e«c
Japanese lines oppose
but unavailing defense
General Kondravitch, R
limed in an assault, Gen
commander, injured by
horse and General Smilm
ed. These rumors com
nese source. Reports J
indicate the continuance
tternary condition as out
,n St. Petersburg, the i
uSaniiesto of the czar gi
rerorms and tentative
zemstvos, lias had ilttl
general zemstvo, which'; fc
.Moscow, has adjournei' r
mg its inability to ren ai
ilberatlve body, in the ft
rebuke which the czar
its request to be alloij
DA!
for !
THE WHOLE FAMILY.
“You think Poverty brings happi
When the banio an’ the fiddle make Jness?”
the halleluia sound! “De Lawd knows. It brings so many
The old Virginy reel, now!—ain’t we folks I dunno what dey name is!
kiverin’ the ground?—
Sing a song o’ Winter in th
mornin’!
the
blinding
“My experience lias led me to suspect
norrors. _ __ .
effect that the Englishman, m spite of his rare L of an age that p reclud es the possibii
genius for civilizing strange and inimical peoples, hty of tender emotions
has not succeeded to an}' extent in amalgamating j man’s judgment?’’
his ideas with the queer, esoteric life-of the east;! .“ My C!i P erlen “ 1
that British standards and conceptions are too succceds ln wheedling large sums of
gross for the subtle native ideals, and that charac- j money out of clever business men there
teristic English selfishness and stubbornness are is a i mo,::t always another and prettier j
working havoc with any good feeling which origi- £ » \
nallv may have existed between the conqueror and tar a s i have seen there has been no I
the conquered, have floated out mysteriously hint of such a thing, but if i were a ;
from this pearl of the “Seven Seas,” but up to the i P roSecutin s officer investigating a case
present time they have not been taken seriously. A ; try t0 flnd would he a young woman-
recent revolutionary utterance, however, by a na-1 one who could be used as a decoy.”
tive journal “Poonah Kal,” has abruptly aroused i ** has been reported, Mrs. Chad-
the English custodians from their prolonged nap
and caused endless speculation in Downing street.
This intemperate editor compares the British vice
roy to the assassinated Von Plehve, extenuates
his contemplated taking off, and declares that
“Asiatics hate Europeans, and Asiatic nations will
be drawn together by ties of natural sympathy.
RHYME.
RIGHT IN HIS LINE.
An old Georgia darky, having asked 1
for a pair of boots as a Christmas
present, was told that he might “see
snakes” in ’em, whereupon he re
plied:
“Lawd bless you. dat’s des what T
wants ter see! A dram is good fer
snakebite, en ef dey bites me I’ll sho’
git a dram!”
PROVERBS IN
I.
Providence is thoughtful.
But he know des how ter do:
He ain’t gwine tree de ’possum,
En th’ow him down ter you!
IT.
You can’t keep back dc weather,
You can’t control de rain:
Ef you never reach de station
You'll never ketch de train!
III.
rhcs.J LVaisft
Bird mine in Ou
he has taken ai?
out of the gror
missioner to the
when he electrif
icenea of hi?
Walsh was i> u* :i i‘
to this country
A hundred or more poems this year
are entitled, “A Christmas Carol.” i
and ninety-nine, of ’emm coral just
alike.
Dey ain’t no use in sighin’—
Ter lay back on de shelf:
De worl’ spread out de treasure.
But you got ter he’p yo’self!
•truck it rich
S bee;
that
social as vte the fir*
His wife, vim
f des
Small Canneries Will Solve
Many Southern Problems
ried before fortun ^d.
refined woman. fi.iny
efthe
MOE;ifl the
rnfand, g has
Dod;n sciei
By
speak in lus own defense and his chronicles, in, r pj ie day of retribution seems close at hand.”
=pite of the tons upon tons of history which crush
down the archieves of humanity, can never be com
plete or authentic even as they stand, until we get
a glimpse of the other side, and can look back on a
fairly decent perspective. For these reasons, he
has been the fertile source of “copy” for the hack
and the genius alike, and when other subjects
drowse the good old man comes forward and we all
take shots at him with more or less accuracy and
provocation, according to our several weapons and
our respective abilities.
Well, by the way of that spiceful variety which
is said to enliven life, why not ring a change and
The correspondent of The Kansas City Star is
authority for the statement that everywhere in In
dia the native press is hostile to the ruling powers.
Speaking of this recent outbreak, he says:
India has so long been regarded as thoroughly complacent
under British rule that the news of such bitter resentm^qt as
that displayed in the Kal comes with a certain shock. But
while such extreme utterances are doubtless rare, the. naitve
press is widely hostile to the ruling powers. Confirmatory evi
dence happens to be furnished by a recent issue of the Outlook
containing a review of Compton’s “Indian Life in Town and
Country,” by Birendo Nath Sasmal of the Middle Temple, Lon
don. This reviewer comments feelingly on the fact that India
is a country “with no political prvileges, no representaton
(but taxation!, and no members of parliament." i
He attributes the continued famines to lack of proper ex-
instead of portraying Time as an alternatelv agile I penditun* for irrigation and to the refusal of the British gov.
1. , i • . - G. | ernment to allow the peasantry the ownership c,f land. He
and shambling dotard, picture him as a rosy, guile- complains that one-third of the revenue of India. $400,000,000,
ful. knowing voilth, who has solved the secret ‘\ oe ;“ to England every year without any economic return
, . , S / ’ , T , , j whatsoever. And his final grievance is the personality of
which cost old Ponce de Leon his life and who,; the Angio-indfc
\nglo-Indktn, which he says embodies a “selfishness that
each year, bathes in the fountain of perpetual j the verge of cruelty.”
J ’ f . . - . r 1 | Such comment as this suggests the fact, •which Is confirmed
youth and conics forth, resplendent, rejuvenated, by Other testimony, that excellent as British rule may be it is
for his tasks for the next twelve months ? < nevertheless galling to a large class of educated Indians. Their
~ ... - . . t ,, ,« j d satisfaction arises inevitably from their exclusion from any
Or, It yOU like the idea better, revamp the Old (share in the national government. The British rulers, for in-
leeend, make Time a rforiouslv beautiful woman i ^ance. are oarryiner out a comprehensive irrigation scheme.
r k , %• I But such men as Birendo Nath finnml are dissatisfied be-
and have her, the first OI each \ ear, make the tcdl- j cause the work Is not being nushed faster. To the replv that
OUS and dangerous journev over those beetling! t1la government has too small a revenue for the ts.=k thev re-
. . V, , , e "* r - . tie i fort that there would he funds enonch provided the mi'itarv
precipices in the heart OI ."\tlica, to la\L nersell j establishment w^re cut down and salaries of English officials
in that roarinsr. rolling pillar of flame which proved were reduced. The apportionment of expend"Hires that pleases
alike the dawn and the doom of Haggard’s in- *^d Curson fails to satisfy many of the Indian taxpayers.
wick appealed to the men simgly
through their cupidity, and there was
no young woman in the case, how would
you expunn her power?"
OHADWICK CASE AN EXAMPLE.
"She must he a woman of extraordi
nary business ability,” replied Mr. Nicoil.
"Hers is evidently an exceptional case.
Most women have no head for business
at all, but she, it is certain, is a keen
financier, able to conceive aid carry
into execution gigantic schemes. This
very fact would enable her to win the
confidence and reach the heart of a
hard-headed old banker or capitalist.
Men of that sort admire such qualities
in women, for they are so totally unex
pected. They beoofne interested, then per
haps fascinated by her great financial
Ideas and at last they are easily duped.
“When woman, the ministering angel,
stoops to deception in financial affairs
men are taken off their guard.”
“Are women more skillful deceivers
than men?” put in the reporter.
“When they are deceivers they are
cleverer at it than men." replied air.
HELEN HARCOURT.
IT riiien for CAc Sunny South
OMB of the southern rail
roads are urging the peo
ple along the line of their
routes to establish can
neries for the saving of
the immense amount of
fruits and vegetables that
tgo to waste every year
for the want of a way
to utilize them. As long
as it is profitable to ship
them to northern or home
markets, this waste is not
noticed, or is regarded
with indifference. But let prices fall be
low the profit point, and at once ship-| case they will be
ments cease, and the ground becomes | their owners On
i where wild blackberries are very plen
tiful, was in the habit of canning, each
! season, several hundred quart jars of
this popular fruit, both for her own
; use, and that of her friends. She was
careful in her work, and the result was
I an extra fine article. Some of the
■ fruit came under the notice of a New
; York broker, who was so impressed
j with its excellence that he secured for
j the canner an order from one large gro-
! eery establishment, an order for 4,000
| cans of jars at a very fancy price, such
; as the lady in question had never
I dreamed of asking.
j Canneries on a good commercial basis
j can be established for from S250 up to
.several thousand. They may be owned
j individually or by a stock company
formed of several neighbors, in either
source of profit to,
of'the great advan
strowrn with fruits and vegetables that j tage s of the location of such a canner
are left there to rot. because their own- ! j„ the midst of a fruit or truck grow
ers have no means of saving them, ing region is that it does away entirel
Hogs may .be turned in to feed on them. | with the speculative or hazardous ele
merit in the grower’s "business.
scrutable “She.” At any rate, it would be vastly
more poetic to think of Time as a member of the
gentler sex, a woman whose beauty is as dazzling,
serene and unconscious as must have been that
of Eve when she stood forth in the garden in all
her primal innocence, and the insidious hiss of the
serpent had not intruded itself on that fragrant
silence, than as a man with face corrugated by care
and carriage marred by long and weary travels.
We could take the coroncls which come with the
deftness of the years, with more grace and joy,
While the noted dissatisfaction may only be a
sporadic instance, the general indications are that
it will he well worth the while of the British gov
ernment to take radical steps to placate the na
tives. British statemen are sufficiently perspica
cious and conservative to know that it is much
easier to forestall than to quell a revolution. With
the war in the Far East, the disaffection in Africa
and the rumbling in India, the scenario for a wide
spread racial war may be unconsciously prepar
ing.
Russia's Circum-Baikal Road One
of the Worlds Costliest Lines
JZ?
AKE BAIKAL has hitherto ! quality of file rock. The total length of j whole recede further from the shore.
made a very troublesome
break in the continuity of
the great Siberian railway.
This large sheet of water,
one of the biggest lakes in
the world, has had to bo
traversed 'by various
means, according to the
season of the year; by
steam ferry, ice-breaker,
and, when the ice was
strong enough, by carriage;
and finally, since the out
break of war, by a railway laid on the
ice. This line round the lake has been
under contemplation from the outset, but
the natural conditions of the country
through which it had to pass of feted a
the short line which was evrntua’ly
chosen is 243 versts, tita calculated ex
penditure Is 52,523,635 roubles, part of
the aggregate expenditure including some
works connected with the extension of
the harbor at Tanehoi, which materially
increases the capacity of the ferry traf
fic.
The railway Is thijs the most expensive
line ever built within the Russian empire,
ane the one which has presented the
most serious engineering difficulties, its
building necessitating a large number of
special constructions, such as tunnels,
•bridges, viaducts, etc. The coast of Lake
Baikal, from the mouth of the river
Angara to Kultuk, a distance of some
80 versts, is very mountainous, the rocks
in many places leaving but a narrow
i leaving ample flat land for the railway,
which, on the whole of this section, only
passes one tunnel. On the other hand,
several large streams have to be crossed
necessitating the building of bridges up
to 500 feet in length. The -country is al
most uninhabited, and the soil is always
frozen; the mean temperature of the year
Nicoll. smiling, as he‘walked abbut the
room. "They are certainly cleverer at
deceiving men. The instances of this
are too numerous to reeiao in detail, but
any man experienced in criminal Jaw
knows how easy a clever woman can pull
the wool over the eyes of the cleverest
of men.
“For she can arouse his sentiment, and
once this is aroused she is master. No
man knows this better than the lawyer.
You get a clever woman on the witness
stand and her testimony, even if you
know it to he absolutely false, is harder
to break doVn than is a man's undei
the same circumstances. The cross-ex
aminer must use finesse in dealing with
her. when with a man he can go at him
with a club. She has the sentimental
sympathy of the jurors whether she be
old or young, ugly or handsome. A tear,
a smile, will soften hardest of
hearts, and when a \\onmn goes to a
man and asks a favor he Is always pre
disposed to grant it. just because she is
a woman and he is a man. And whqp she
Is a woman of exceptional talents he ig
alT the more ready to help her. This
chickens and cows may account for
some of the .waste, but over and above
these sources of utilizing the surplus
age, there still remains a large amount
of waste.
NOW, mere ts to necessity -at »»I1 -»<>■-
this loss, which, talking the southern
state.s alone, amounts every year to hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. “Waste
not, want not,” is an old proverb that
comes in very .appropriately just here.
There .are two methods of saving all this
■waste product, and turning it into
money, and large money, too. One of
of these is in canning them, and the oth
er, of which we shall have more to say
in the near future, is in evaporating
them. Fortunately, our people are awak
ing to the importance of utilizing this
wastage, and of establishing canneries
for the purpose. It is no light boon to
the farmer and fruit .grower to be able
to save his surplus products, when the
market becomes unprofitable, and to
put it in a shape in which it can be kept
safely for an indefinite period, and then
disposed of at leisure, or when prices
are at their best. There are thousands
of dollars worth of cull, both of fruits
and vegetables, that are just -as good in
taste as the more perfect specimens of
their kind, that cannot be sent to mar-
undoubtedly explains Mrs. Chadwick’s ; Ret, because they must be sold at lower
power, unless it should turn out that
there was another woman, used ns a
lure, and who lias been carefully kept
Tn the background.”
ENGLAND’S HALE OLD MEN.
(From The New York Herald.)
The secret of long life is a question
which the editor of the weekly paper
called the Young Man has been askinc
of a number of well-known septuagenn-
lians and octogenarians, and the result
of the inquiries is now publiftied.
Lord Avebury, who. notwithstanding
a busy life in the realms of com
merce. science, literature and politics, is
still a hale man of 70. thus replies to the
query raised In a clear, steady hand
writing:
“I believe the secret of health is to eat
little, drink little, be as much in the
is half a degree eentrigra.de of frost. The ' °Pf n a ^ r as possible, keep the mind from
bridges are all built of stone and iron, , anxiety and the conscience from re-
as are the viaducts. The railway has the i morse.
ordinary Russian gauge and only one line
of rails, but the tunnels are constructed
wide enough for a double track. The
traffic, under ordinary circumstances, is
calculated to comprise seven trains daily
in each direction, a number which, how
ever, as already mentioned, can be
doubled. The maximum gradient is 8
per cent (in the tunnels considerably
multitude of obstacles to the engineers, i ^ tr ’ n foreshore, while in others they | less) and the smallest radius of curve is
and several distinct plans have been un
der consideration. This shou'd be taken
as only applying to the section as far as
Kultuk, beyond which place the direc
tion of the line was decided upon as
early as 1893, whilst the former section
*»ould riot be taken in hand till 1901.
The railway was not expected to be
ready before the beginning of next year,
but the work has progressed so fast since
the beginning of the war that it is now
practically complete. Although water
supply and the full complement of sld- . bends, at one tplace having
Ings allow of fourteen trains per day in ! ,n!et the lake. It has
descend sheer into the lake, rising to
height of 1,000 feet above the level of
the water.
These mountains are. besides, ln many
places Intersected by awkward crevices
and clefts. On this section of the line
there are no fewer than thirty-two tun
nels. in addition .to which there are 210
bridges, viaducts, special supports. The
rail wav. like a hugs snake, crawls along
the side or maizes its way through the
mountains in a variety of twists and
to cross an
often been
each direction, it was proposed to run I "Miesrary to take special precautions
only *even trains a day in each direction | •’Gainst the failing unon the line of pieces
and to use the ferry, the arrangements ! of loose rock, as the mountains in this
for which have been improved, as a j region have been mu.-li affected by vol-
t ind b? auxiliary and reserve. ' j canlc eruptions. Water is apt to make
^ , _ ; its way Into the tunnels from the same
THE LINE RUNS. | eause. Tile looseness of the rock ln many
The line evidently chosen is the one places has also pecessitated the bricking
proceeding from the station called Baikal I nn of tile tunnels to a far greater extent
to Kultuk, and from thence to what is J than was originally calculated. The
now the town of Myssowek along the ! amount of rock and earth work is enorm-
shore o.f Lake Bailcal. Proposals were | ous, the former even reaching the figure
made ln favor of an alternative Tfne ! of 10,000 cubic saschen (70,000 cubic
passing over the elevated country be- j feet) per verst.
tween Irkutsk and >fultulf, which at i The other section of the new line, from
places rises more than 2,000 feet above 1 Kultuk to Mvssowek. runs over an en-
the level of Lake Baikal, which is again '• tirely different kind of country and has
some 2,000 feet above the sea. Among the j in every respect been much easier to
reasons why this plan was discarded ' build, nor lias there been any wavering
were the heavy gradients, in some places j as to Its direction.
over 17 per cent; and tBe unfavorable | Beyond Kultuk the mountains on the
about I.C80 feet.
The whole of the railway round Lake
Baikal has been built by contractors, and
has not b“en split up ln such small por
tions as was the Trans-Baikal railway,
nor partly built by the government itself,
as was also the case with portions of that
line, and there is every reason to believe
that it lias been satisfactorily con
structed.
THE MASS OF THE STARS.
(From Harper's Weekly.)
To determine the masses oi* the stars,
situated as they are far off in space, it
is generally twmessary to know their dis
tance, and this has been determined for
only a few stars. In a recent paper sub
mitted at the Cambridge meeting of the
British Association for the Advancement
of Science. Dr. H. N. Russell, of the
Cambridge »«tservatory, called attention
to the fact that the masses of the stars
could be found by Kapetyn’s formula in
terms of the star’s magnitude and proper
motion. Proceeding on this basis, he
found that the average mass of fifty-five
binary systems was about three times
that of the sun, and that many groups
of stars were of the same mass, despite
the fact that they varied greatly in their
brightness and proper motion. The binary
stars seemed to be of the same order of
mass, though their brightness, motion
and spectre varied.
Mr. Frederick Harrison, chairman of
the English positivist committee, who
long since passed his three-score years
and ten. and who has been a great
traveler in his day, and, notwithstand
ing his years, still takes pleasure in
long walks, gives the following advice:
“Touch not tobacco, spirits nor any un
clean thing; rise from every meal with
an appetite, walk daily two hours, sleep
nightly seven hours, reverence all t •>
whom reverence is due and be content
with what you have."
To look at Dr. Haig Brow», master of
the Charterhouse, none would ever think
he had attained the age of 81, and he
attributes his long life and freedom
from sickness to a spare, temperate diet
in which he always indulged, freedom
from financial care and abundant work
with little leisure.
Mr. Justin McCarthy, who is 74, says:
“The best way to grow old is, according
to my experience, to keep up steady
regular work, have as murjr open air and
physicp.l exercise as possible and think
as little as may be about the advance
of years.”
William Tomson. Lord Kelvin, the first
scientist to be made a peer, who is now
in his eighty-first year, was installed
chancellor of Glasgow university last
week. It is remarked of him that even
at this good old age the brilliant intel
lect which has done mankind such infin
ite service for sixty years is as keen
as ever. Th* Imagination which has
pioneered so many epoch making discov
eries is still as vivid as in his early
days. Wealthy, famous and of prodi
gious learning, he Is still one of the
most modest and simple minima of men
wit.li a gentle face framed in snow white
hair and with the pleasantest of smiles.
prices than the perfect product, which
would mean loss instead of profit. There
are other thousands of dollars worth
of fruits and vegetables that, owing to
delays in shipment, or to storms or wet
weather, or to their dropping premature
ly. are perforce allowed to decay, that
could be saved and turned to profit, if
a cannery were available.
NOT NECESSARILY EXPENSIVE.
There is a general idea that a can
nery is of necessity a very expensive
thing. This is a great mistake. A can
nery, may, or may not, cost a large sum
of money Of course its capacity for pro
fit is in direct ratio with its size, other
things being equal. But the sooner our
people understand that small canner
ies can he established at small cost, and,
rf carefully .conducted, can (be made to
earn a handsome profit on the invest
ment, the better it will lie for every one,
whether producer or consumer. Can
neries aTC a blessing to any community,
for they not only furnish a home mar
ket all the time, for surplus fruits and
vegetables, but they give 'employment
to a number of people resident in the
vicinity. Canned goods are always In
demand, and the demand is constantly
increasing.
There is this difference to the grower,
between the canned and the fresh pro
duct. The former can be stored and
sold at any time, the latter must ‘be
ln Maryland, New Jersey and Main
for Instance, three r’ the greatest can
ning sections, the canneries are always
ready to take at a fixed price, all the
Lr» llxxa> tliat rc^U _ex£
feted. There are many fruit and truck
growers in those sections who prefer
to raise their entire crops for the can-
reries. at a certain fair price, rather
than take the risk of shipping to a dis
tance, with the uncertainty of profit or
loss. Of course, the prices paid by toe
canneries are much less than those
sometimes obtained by southern grow
ers in the northern markets, but, again,
the price is often, by its full amount,
greater than the returns received for
such shipments. The lower prices are
sure. The returns on produce turned
over to the canneries on the spot, are
certain to be on the credit, not the
debit, side of the ledger. There are
no glutted markets, no exhorbitant
freight charges, no dishonest commis
sion men, to put the balance on the
wrong side for the grower.
That the people are beginning to real
ize tile need and profit of canneries, may
be seen from the following passing men
tion of a few that have already been
started in the far south. in Georgia
there ar e quite a number of canneries
at work, and last summer these made
good their claim as a good investment.
And yet they worked at a disadvantage,
because of a short crop, and the conse
quent high prices obtained tor the fresh
products ln the markets. which cut
short the cannery supplies.
At Key West, Florida, there is a can
ning factory especially for pineapples,
with a capacity of 8.000 2-pound cans
a day. Also, at Tampa, is another can
nery for miscellaneous products. An
other. too, at Fernandina, which puts
up about forty carloads of oysters ev
ery day during the season. Again, in
several places, what is called a neigh
borhood cannery is operated. Such a
cannery is small, and not meant for a
commercial output, but is ample for
local use, and to save the surplus crops
of the people in the vicinity. To such
a cannery the grower takes the fruits
and vegetables he desires to preserve,
and they are canned fo r him at a cost
of 3 or 4 cents for 2-potind cans. That
is a great deal cheaper, you see, than
they could be bought, even at .whole
sale prices.
FARM CANNERIES.
Before interviewing a cannery on a
large commercial scale, let us see what
can be done on the farm by the farmers,
not only for the use of his family, but
for local sale. It was a voting man that
had been working in one of the most ex
pensive factories, who solved the problem
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son is propitious or not, and no matter I it; He felt satisfied that canning could
how the markets may be glutted. j be done at a much less cost than it was
It was a great thing not only for this j done in the factory alluded to, with a
•country, but for all the world, when the consequent cheapening of ihe canned
canning Industry was brought into prom- i goods, and he set his wits to work to
lnence. Its Inception in this country j discover the way to do it. He made h’s
was a curious one. and is worth record- j own outfit. He first constructed a boi'er
in.g just here. Many years ago. a parry i of galvanized iron. It was eight feet
of (gentlemen tourists, hailing from Cin
cinnati, were present at Pompeii, when
the excavations at that wondrous buried
city were just beginning. While they
were watching the workmen, the pan
try of a house was uncovered. In it
were many glass jars of preserved figs.
One of these was presented to the visi
tors. It was carefully opened, and the
contents were found to be fresh .and
•good,, although they had been buried for
hundreds of years.
The hint was taken as wen as the
figs, and the next year the new indus
try of canning was established in the
United States, whence so many good
things eminate. There is a growing
demand for southern canned goods in
the northern markets, and not only for
the product of large canneries, either.
Here is an instance in illustration.. A
Georgia lady living; in a neighborhood
long, three feet wide, and eighteen inches
■deep. The boiler was divided into three
compartments, one for scalding tomatoes,
one for exhausting, and one for process
ing. The sides, ends, and partitions of
the boiler were made of two by nine
teen inch poplar.
The crates and trays were also made
of wood, because it was so much lighter
to handle than iron. A simple crane serv
ed for lifting the crates from the boiler
The furnace for heating the irons was
made of sheet! iron, and was rather larger
than a tinner’s furnace. This entire can
ning outfit cost just ten dollars. It
proved so satisfactory that the young in
ventor if such he might be called, was
speedily called upon to duplicate it for
others, and scarcely had time to use his
own cannery so busy was be kept ln
CONTINUED ON LAST PAGE.
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ship. The shutters clo, P i01
and the shields along cabin
absent, proving that th, s Mead
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footboard is decorated raioli
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figures of men and a nit he
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tons per day, and the
coal by railroads is eqic
of this, or 400,000 toH s
fuel bill of a railroad o t In
10 per cent of the total
ation and 30 to 40 per
cost of running the loeoi
motive will consume
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