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Bram SUGAR BOOM.
THE NEW TARIFF WILL HELP AMER-
ICAN PRODUCERS.
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All the Raw Sugar Used by American lie-
fmcries May in time be Raised by Our
Farmers—Hot, Arid Districts the Best
for Beet Growing.
The men interested in the beet sugar
industry believe that the new tariff will
bl. am that industry, and that ultimate-
ly all the raw sugar refi.:ed in this
country will be produced here. This
means great profits for the fa ::;ers and
the upbuilding of a great indu;try.
Experience has shown that by far the
most favorable localities in the United
States for the industry are in the arid
regions where the weather s not too
cold, where the land is sui:al;le, where
there is a long period of sunshine each
year, and Where there is water for ir—
rigation. There is no doubt that the
ideal place for carrying on this indus-
try successfully is in the. irrigated val-
leys of the arid region. There is al-
ways water to give the plants when
they need it, and the ripening and har-
vesting seasons in the fall are dry and
the winter is mild, so that the bee:s
can be worked up n the factories with-
out the great expense of protecting
them in pits. For these reasons the
factories in New Mexico, for instance,
can run from 140 to 150 days in the
year with more safety than the factor-
ies in France and Germany and in oth-
er parts of Europe or the northern
parts of the United States can run 90
days. The average length of the cam-
paign, as it is called in Europe and
Nebraska, is about eighty-five to nine-,
ty days. In California, owing to cli-
matic condtions, the length of the cam-
paign is about 120 days.
suitable for the cultivation of sugar
beets there are at least 300 clear days
in the year. Even two or three days of
fog will take much sugar out of the
beets. Sugar is principally carbon and
oxygen.
sorb these things and store them up in
the beet.
Beet sugar factories are at present
Sugar beets cannot be raised by care-
less farming. The proper seed must be
provided. The land must be of the
proper quality and all the workmust
be done with the greatest care. It us-
ually requires two or three years for
the-intelligent cultivator to produce a
maximum crop, but after the farmer
gets used to it there is no trouble in
producing the right kind of beets under
proper natural conditions. It will be
only a short time before our farmers
are as well able to do it properly as
they are able in France and Germany.
So far as the profits of the business
are concerned the fundamental thing is
to get beets rich in sugar and not con-
taminated with deleterious salts,
which ruinously interfere with the
manufacture of raw sugar. For in—
stance, a factory capable of working
100,000 tons of beets in a. season or
campaign and using beets running 16
per cent. in sugar, could make a profit
of 20 per cent. on the
where the same factory working on 14
per cent. beets would make nothing.
The factory working on 16 per cent.
‘ beets would get 2,000 tons more sugar
than it would working on 14 per cent.
beets, and at practically the same cost.
The 2,000 extra tons of sugar would be
worth at least $160,000.
The cultivation of sugar beets in the
.proper localities is extremely profitable 3
to the farmer in the Pecos valley. They g
free man and not as a slave.
receive $4 a ton for beets running 14
per cent. in sugar, and 25 cents a ton
more for each extra 1 per cent, so that
a farmer raising 16 per cent. beets
would get $4.50 a ton with no extra
expense to himself. After two or three
years’ experience a farmer can safely
ecunt on growing twelve tons an acre,
which at $4.50 a ton, Would be $54 an
acre. The total expense, including fair
'wages for himself, would not exceed
The leaves of the beets ab- =
In that part of the arid region most $30 an acre for the beets delivered at
the place of payment. The crop is al-
ways contracted for by the factories
before it is raised, so that the farmer
knows exactly what he will get and he
knows he will get it in money without
any discounts or c0mmission.——New
5 York Sun.
established in Nebraska, and have been i
fairly successful. One has been estab-
lished by the Mormons in Utah. This
has been running six years, and has
been very successful. There are two
in California, not very far from San
Francisco, which have been running
several years, and have done well. The
largest of these is owned by Mr.
Spreckels and his friends, and it has
been very profitable. It produces raw
or unrefined sugar which it sells to the
American Sugar Refining Company in
San Francisco. At Clino, Ca1., there is
a very large plant capable of working
1,000 tons of beets daily. There is a
factory in Pecos Valley, N. M., which
was completed in November, 1896, and
has been very successful for a first
year. '
NOTES OF INTEREST.
All birds when perched on trees or
bushes serve as weathercocks, as they
invariably arrange themselves with
their heads to the wind.
In certain parts of China the young
women wear their hair in a long, single
plait, with which is intertwined a
strand of bright scarlet thread, which
denotes them to be marriageable.
It has often puzzled the uninitiated
why musicians tune their instruments
in public, and not before they enter
the orchestra. If they manipulated
them before entering the theatre or
concert—room, they might find the tem—
, perature different in' the place of per-
formance, andtthe instruments would
not be in tune.
investment, '
HE SOUGHT LIBERTY.
STORY OF THE LAST SURVIVOR OF
THE NEGRO INSURREGTION.
His Family Were Free and He too Longed
{or Freedom—After a Vain Efi'urt to
Run Away He Was at Last Allowed to
Buy Himself.
There is living in Lexington an old
negro, Harry Slaughter, who is the
last survivor of the negro insurrection
of 1849. He was born on March 18,
1818, and grew to be a. man of remark-
able physique.
In 1849 he was owned by Miss Sid-
ney Edmiston, who had at that time
one of the most costly residences in
Lexington. She had a fondness for
male servants of gigantic proportions,
and on acount of his size he was made
a dining—room man. Although well
treated, he longed for freedom. This
is the story he told one day of his at-
tempt to obtain it. He is now in
his eightieth year.
“I was in my prime, going on 32
years old,” he said, “when a man
named Doyle came to me and told me
that he would pilot me across the
Ohio River for $100 and guarantee me
safe conduct. All my family were
free, the girl to whom I was engaged
to be married was freeborn, and I
wanted to marry my sweetheart as a
On a
Saturday night in the first week in
August, 1849, Doyle and forty-five of.
us negroes left Lexington by way of
the Russell Cave Pike. We were
armed with pistols and bowie knives.
I carried an old fashioned pepperbox
revolver and a large bowie knife. The
movement was afterward referred to
as an ‘insurrection,’ but it was mis-
named. We did not intend to fight
unless attempts were made to capture
us, but we pledged ourselves that if
we were overtaken by white men and
they made an effort to capture us we
would fight as long as possible.
“We travelled all night that first
night and remained hidden during the
day in the bushes. We ate roasted
ears of corn which we gathered from
the cornfields through which we pass-
ed. Sunday night we continued our
travels, and we reached a point by
daylight on Monday morning near
Ruddell’s mill.
On Tuesday night we were within
five miles of the Ohio River.
“The news of our escape from Lex-
ington had reached the people of that ‘
, will last much longer, but I thank God
. that I have lived for forty—six years a
and a posse of twenty-five
men, including county officials, was
in close pursuit of us. The men scat-
tered in all directions, and only one
remained with me, a negro known as
‘Shad.’ When we reached the Licking
River we plunged in and swam and
waded across. Then ten or a dozen
white men surrounded us. They
section,
quickly captured Shad and tied him i
but I was determined they should not
take me. I cried out in a loud voice:
ROSALIND POLKA.
A
“ ‘ .t, 1897, by Musical News Co.
By A. HIMAN.
A
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“'I will not be taken! The man
that kills me is my friend! I had
rather die here and now than go back
to slavery!’
“Miss Sidney’s nephew. Maury Pin-
dell, had, unknown to me, offered
$500 reward for my safe return to
Lexington. The men who had sur-
rounded me were working for this re-
ward, I afterward learned, and that
is the reason they did not try to kill
me. The men tried to take me, and
as fast as they would come within
striking distance I would knock them
down. I fought them for five minutes
with my fists. I had thrown my bowie
knife away for fear I might kill one of
them. When the ten men found they
could not capture me they called to
the other members of their posse, fif-
teen in number, who were on the
mountain. They came down. They
were led by a great big man with a
coarse voice. He wanted to know
why they didn’t take me. One of the
men told him that they couldn’t. The
big man got very mad and declare
that he had never seen a negro that he
couldn’t take. He made at me, and
when he came within striking distance
I knocked him down. Several of his
followers tried to help him out, but I
knocked them down as fast as they
came to me.
with gray hair, who was called Major
by the men, began talking to me. He
said they didn’t want to hurt me, and
if I would go with him he would take
me to Brooksville and would not allow
me to be harmed. I respected his age
and his gray hairs and told him that
I would go with him.
"The next day they reached Brooks—
ville with us and I was kept in jail
for seven weeks. I was charged with
being one of the ringleaders of the ‘in-
surrection,’ but Madison C. Johnson,
Maury Pindell and Judge Graves came
. down to Brooksville and interceded in
my behalf. They proved that we were
:not insurrectionists, but were simply
trying to obtain our freedom. Well, 1
was taken back to Lexington and put
into Pulliam’s negro jail. I was kept
there for a month‘ or more. Miss Sid-
ney had a long talk with me and con-
sented to let me buy myself. I immed-
iately borrowed the money and married
my sweetheart, and in just five years
and six months from that day I had
paid every dollar of the borrowed
money, with interest, the total amount
being $987. All the other boys who
were with me during that struggle for
liberty are dead. I don’t suppose 1
free man.”—New York Sun.
Every,soldier knows that a horse
will not step on a man intentionally.
It is therefore a standing order in the
British cavalry that if a trooper be-
comes dismounted he must lie perfect-
ly still. If he does this the Whole
1 squadron will pass over him without
injuring him.
\
Rosalind POlka.
Finally an old gentleman.
MARK TWAIN AND HIS BEST JOKE.
How the Humorist’s \Vlt was Edited by I
Proofreader.
It is a Denver newspaper tradition,
says the Chicago Times Herald that
the funniest bit of journalistic work
ever done by Mark Twain was strano
gled by a too—friendly proofreader.
Mark was given an assignment to
write up the opening of a saloon—
quite a noteworthy event in those days
in the Colorado town.
He thought it would be funny to
make his account of the festivities
bear silent witness to the potency of
the free refreshments dispensed. The
article began soberly enough, but soon
the diction became misty, then the
spelling grew confused, and finally the
Whole thing degenerated into a mand-
lin, incoherent eulogy of the saloon-
keeper.
It was funny. Mark read it over
and‘laug-hed until he cried. But the
next’morning when he eagerly scan-
ned the paper he could not find his
work. In an obscure corner he saw a
two-line item statingwthat “the Alca-
zar saloon was opened with appropri-
ate festivities last night.” That was
all.
He rushed down to the office and in-
quired about the article. The manag-
ing editor knew nothing about it. The
city editor couldn’t tell what had be-
come of it. The foreman said he had-
n’t seen it. .
As Mark was snorting about the
“outrage,” and was running about the
office trying to get track of his miss-
ing “copy," a proofreadev slyly nudged
him and said confidentially: “You owe
me a cigar.”
“How is that?” inquired the humor-
ist.
“I’ve earned it,” was the reply. “I
saved your job for you last night.
Maybe you don’t know how the old
man here feels about such things, but
he won’t have it if he finds it out. He’s
fired three men since I’ve been here—
just that way.”
“Just what way?”
“Why, just as you were last night,
you know. Your stuff wouldn’t do at
all. It was simply awful. I know if
the old man saw it you were gone, so
I fixed it up myself.”
HE KEPT HIS SEAT.
On a Barrel of Gunpowder in Order to
Protect it from 8 Shower or Sparks.
During one of the naval engage-
ments of the late war a sailor by the
name of John Davis performed an act
of bravery that has rarely been
equaled. While the battle was at its
height a shell entered the Valley City,
of which ship Davis was gunner-’5
mate, and exploded on the berth deck.
setting it on fire.
Captain Ghaplin, the commander of
the vessel, jumped down into the ma ga-
zine, and while directing his men to
extinguish the flames, passed up with
his own hands the loose cylinders of
powder.
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The fireworks on board be- ,
came Ignited. RockéE thziéd and
blue nights blazed up in the midst of.
the ammunition. The shell room caught
fire, and it seemed as if the Valley
City must be blown to pieces. ,
John Davis, appreciating the danger
and desirous of doing all in his power
to avert it, jumped up on the head of
an open barrel of gunpowder and sat
down on the head, covering it with his
person as well as he could to protect it
from the showering sparks.
Captain Chaplin, seeing him quietly
seated While everybody else was at
work, ordered him in peremptory
tones to “get down and help put out
the fire.”
The young gtnner’s mate stayed
where he was and cal-mly‘replied:
“Don’t you see, sir, I can’t? For if
I do the sparks: will fall into the pow’
der. If I get down, captain, we shall
all go up 2”
Notwithstanding the terrible danger.
Captain Chaplin could not repress a
smile, and Davis’s heroic action was
rewarded after the battle by immedi.
ate promotion.—Youth’s Companion.
Ingall’s Visit to the Senate.
During the discussion of the Tariff
bill, (ex-Senator Ingalls of Kansas en-
tered the Senate chamber through the
main door. He was attired in a long
gray over coat reaching to his heels,
steel blue trousers with spots to match,
and carried a broad-brimmed cream~
colored felt hat. Always dramatic,
Mr. Ingalls evidently expected to cre-
ate a stir in the chamber, but if so he
was greatly disappblnted. His recep-
tion by the body of which he was so
long a. member, for many years its pre-
siding oflicer and always one of the
picturesque and conspicuous figures,
was chilling. Not a Senator left his
seat to greet him, and the small num-
ber of his old colleagues who shook his
as d in passing showed a, striking
.zt‘ck of cordiality. After sitting neg-
lected on a rear sofa for a while, Mr.
lngalls passed out into the lobby to
visit the Vice-President’s room, which
was so long his official headquarters.
\Innunt 0f “'ork Done by Musicians.
A v-rrlirer in the St. Louis Globe-Dem»
JL‘i‘d. says that few persons have an
ll,l:‘l;‘..ll‘e idea of the amount of labor
'_wsz.--v.'i_\cl by virtuosi in practicing
upon l'll-Jll' chosen instruments before
apptariug as public performers. When
Liszt was learning piano playing he
practiced ten hours a day for over
twelve years. Ole Bull spent over
twenty years in almost constant prac-
tice on the violin. With Paganini the
violin was the study of a lifetime. For
over twenty-five years he never al-
lowed a day to pass without eight or
ten hours spent in playing exercises to
improve his fingering and facility of
execution. Rubenstein devoted over
fifteen years to studying the piano.
Pad-erewski has devoted a. lifetime to
his instrument.
Salt used in sweeping carpets keeps
out i;.;ths.
D. C. a! F2322.
Norwalk Chronicler