Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-06-12
In a Sugar House.

Like brooding mother hen, the old
sugar-house spreads It's low roof-wings
1t either side upon the rivers bank
At one corner rises the towering
chimney, marvel in its way. round as
q needle and having its inner courses
like the thread of a screw that it NAV
thoroughly devour the black smoke
which. otherwise, would pour from the
lofty muzzle-
Ranks of corded wood on one side.
nm ssof blue. iuiey cane with shoots
and thick-swelling joints on the other
side; wagons coming filed with the
sweet stalks snd going to the fields
4g4in fun OF noisy children, men pass
ing to and fro every second one of
them munching cane: bright skies
smiling overhead; sweet birds, merry
birds. brilliant birds here. there and
everywhere: the odor of autumn in the
air, the sweet, gladdening sense of re-
warded labor in the heart-al these be-
token 1.-The grinding season. when
waving fields bow and fall PROSTATE
before glistening, flashing cane-knives
piled by vigorous hands, and the year
Is arranging his affairs for his ire
.rocable departure to the eternal past. -
y Soon the IaA touch OF preparation is
given, the boiler is scrutinized, the
great steel rollers are secured. kettles
are set Rfresh, tronghs are calked and
bright, new barrels and hogsheads of cy-
press are piled in readiness
1t is for other sugar-houses to boast
of steam train. centrifugal process or
vacuum pans. One advance beyond
the primitive suffices for the unambi-
fious spirits of such one as this we
view, and that is fully met in the long,
rectangular sheet-iron vessel, with its
row of compartments from 1.-THE grand
10 tie battefy'' instead of distinct ket-
Sex A&
#1Aekfre h lighted. and rears under
those large compartments or pans hlled
with water boiling furiousiy.
An armful of cane is thrown upon
..the carrier Another and another
and vet another, then an increasing
supply follows and up, up, up, it goes
on the moving. endless chain of wood
en- Stats, guided BY. skillful hands. it
falls into the insatiate jaws of the roll
ers and is munched and crunehed till it
falls away upon the farther side like a
big wad of bleached straw.
Along small troughs below the rollers
runs the sweet, white juice. through
fnmes of sulphur in the perforated chest
beEond, fhence pumped TO the are
neiyers'' aloft, treated with 1ime-water
and the word is. passed below Great
sfr,pers. whose handles are measured
hv the foot, fly rapidly. the water is
lifted quickly from the firsa of the pans
or ketfles-ethe grand -and the Juice
flows in to follow again, afterp while,
the still retreating water, until, at last,
an the compartments are filled with the !
s.pilinc foaming Juice alone.
Carefully. skillfully, the surface of
each is swept with long wooden blades,
fhn he back from each the Up
he mpuritiessdetached through the
--.ussinea agencies the sulphar Iumes
,Titkd h1ewater. SR.
kHhlM aerR goes on davA and might. 4
the divisions of time noted only for the
Incoming of one set of workers and the
,,t-vninp of another for needed rest
or foE,d. TT A..
Round and round, round and round /
che three huge rollers ceaselessfy re- |
-olre. while the many jointed stalks |
:.,,nn aad writhe and crackIe as they /
-. gy3 bed and crushed by the cylin- |
- steadily. CON inuously the little
IN ~ expressed sac marine sap runs to /
ea,e ,,urraforial publication of the sui
,,hur chest and 80 on through rs several
,r,srts. the work continues.
children, black and white and old |
-..s,s ard wnmen--Iaeir first color
-S,t ledaelmost away-and many more |
Of an Eesy2na OF every color, come
.-;th n6ocerf. vet awkward. requests |
- r. opeuncss of conscious reciprocity /
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