The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-02-22

cook From the basket they go to the '.paste
and are labelled, then the "boxer" prepar
them for shipment, and you may find the
any day at your grocer's and can guarant
| them clean. ,g, 8.
AHthe cans and boxes are manufactured
the building. Upstairs an evaporation W;
daily preparing thirty-fye bushels of appl
for the market in the shape OF sliced dried al
i Piles. These are first washed, then machil
pares. cores and slices them a i at one tim
One stroke of a knife separates the ski
f ready for the dry shelves. and the cores an
peelings are dried to use as stock for jellies
various kinds, most of the delicacles of tn
sort which are known as pure currant jelly
! or peach, or ounce, or plum, getting its fru
flavor from apple cores, aided by little Ia
taric or other harmless acid. Their relation
ship to the luscious fruit jellies in the stol
rooms Of thrifty Virginia housewives is to
distant to permit the most devoted tracer {
kinship any hope of settling the exact statu
The Glucose mandatory with its wearyin
flights of stairs leading up and down its seve
stories, is enough for chapter by itself, s
1 that must wait. 81 .tss Hpt8 YaNQ
The streets Of the town were filed wit
loads Of fine looking apples, which were sell
ing at twenty cents busheL Shippers Wer
sorting and barreling them, filling orders fron
remote sections of the country The two brew
cries closed for repairs [of the Slate laws] ha'
been converted into store-rooms and tillet
with apples held for rise in the market.
| Fuel is very cheap in this city. In fact if
family was too hard pushed they might sinl
shaft in their cellar and get supply, as tn,
town seems to be located either over or very
near to coal bed. Manufacturers pay only
| from two dollars to two and halfper ton, anC
small consumers from four to four and half
The convict labor of the State is being util
lied in an excellent way. Near the peniten
| tiary which is located few miles from Leav
enworth is a coal mine, and already the con.
v1cts mine sufficient coal to supply all the
State and charitable institutions in Kansas
and soon they will exceed the demand from
those sources and bring revenue from their
labor. They are not associated in any way
with other laborers, and a coal mine doesn't
offer any special inducements to that class
which doesn't object to the penitentiary if the
labor is light and food sufficient.
LeavenwCrth has the handsomest court
house saw in the State, but her churches are
not as fines as those of Topeka; neither are the
streets so broad, and the pavements are exc
cradle. Like Stanton, if it would clean up,
clear the sidewalks of boxes, barrels, chicken
coops and odds and ends, it would impress a
"handy'' to have things lying around, but it
does not help the reputation of the town
abroad, when the business streets all look as
if an earthquake had just tumbled things all
together.
FORT LEAVENWORTH.
The military reservation known as Fort
Leavenworth, lies two miles northwest of town
and comprises between eight and nine thous-
and acres. About 1900 acres are under cul-
tlyation, but they are rented to outside par
ties. If common sense entered into the man
agement of affairs connected with our military
little more than it does, this land would be
cultivated by the prisoners confined there, and
thus make the prison self-supporting, and
would be ofyery great benefit to these prison
ers. 1t doesn't reform man to any very great
extent to keep him il idleness on the contrary
it is the best training school for vice that Satan
has entrance to.
There are six hundred soldiers stationed at
the Fort, and at the date of my visit four hun
dred and sixty-five prisoners were confined
within the prison walls; some were at work
upon the new buildings going up. and some
were lettering in the prison yard. A Longing
man always looks to me as if he is trying to
hate himself to death, and when his idleness
Is compulsory it makes me sorry for him.
The Fort is a charming place with pictu-
rescue scenery about it, pleasant quarters,
clean, wholesome streets, a quaint little church,
and pretty homes for the officers. Gen. Pope's
house is an unpretentlous, gray brick, in the
midst of a pretty, sloping lawn, which is
with foliage, plants and flowers
and shrubs
In the new houses, brides were expected
with the Christmas bells, and l think it is to
Fort Leavenworth that Lieut-Col. Coppinger
takes the bride he welded the other day. Miss
Alice, daughter of Hon. James G.. Blaine) If
they never know more of the dark side of
soldiers life than they see in that quiet spot,
they will go through life thinking a military
lie means only gold lace and brass buttons.
ATCHIsoN.
did not visit. nor was / able to learn much
about it. There are numerous towns having
from three to seven thousand inhabitants,
which are remarkably prosperous. Nearly
every county-seat is a dourishing town. Law
renee, midway between Leavenworth and To
peka is pleasant little city with bright
for the future. Emporia, sixty nine
miles west of Topeka, is among the older
towns, and is noted for her solid business, ex-
cellent schools and cultured society. United
States Senator Plumb has his home at this
place. The citizens recently donated thirty
five acres Of land to college and subscribed
thirty-fiVe thousand dollars toward the build
lngs, which are to be near the city.
Wichita, the county seat of Sedgwick coun-
ty, is characteristic western town, wide
awake and ready for anything that promises
to advance the interests of the place. In ad
diti0n to the A. s. s. F road, the St. Louis
and' San Francisco line passes through the
place. The two furnish ample transporta-
ton for all the produce that portion of the
State. When l was there in October, the
daily receipts OF wheat were about seven
bushels; every kind of business
was booming, and every person was full of
hope for the future. 1t isn't as pretty town
rs Emporia, but the surrounding country is
rs attractive as any saw in Kansas, and for
q place not yet in its teens itshows marvellous
Development. Parsons, Winfield, Newton,
Florence, Salina, and many others are NOV
ing steadily forward, and in few years |
lime will show great changes in all of them.
In the way of climate Winfield is most
located, and l conscientiously |
it, Too far south for the severely |
cold weather to harm it, sheltered by hills |
rom the sweeping winds, with broad, clean
streets and good water, excellent society, good |
'ailroad facilities, good schools, churches,
ETC., Winfield has much about it to attract
persons seeking new home.
MINERALS.
Kansas Is not rlch IN minerals. Coal and |
building stone are about the only ones mined
extensively at present. Experiments with
zinc ores in the southeastern portion of
he State have not been successful, or, at least
lot profitable. The salt wells will some day
,e worked profitably, and the springs recently
opened near Salt City, in Sumner county, bid
air to make that place as popular as the Eu-
eka Springs have made Arkansas. There
re seven in the group, all within radius of
twenty-five feet, and no two alike So far as
ested they show wonderful power in reaching
md relieving rheumatic and kidney troubles.
| saw, recently in Kentucky, an old lady
Who assured me that by actual demonstration
he could prove that common salt is the pam
lcea of every i'll that flesh is heir to; that its
LIBERAL use will heal a grieyous sore or patch
Up broken head, open the eyes of the blind
md unstop the ears OF the deaf; that it is
FOOD for cuts and for consumption; for burns
md for bunions; for measles and for mumps
that it will cure everything but an unbri-
He'd tongue. If that be in any degree true