The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-24
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was true and if Arnold really lived on

was true and if Arnold really lived on
Campobello
why, certain,'' he said. 'sArnold did
business there for years and died there.
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, you
know, were settled almost entirely by
fueitives ana expelled Tories from the re-
VOTED colonies, and Arnold was made wei
come to them. There are good many
yarns about Arnold's hot temper. Have
you visited Washington's headquarterss"
"Where!" l asked in surprise.
upon on the Scnoodic river Great
large brown house, roof shopping to the
ground. Enormous andir0ns."
Nonsense, mani" said washington
was never here. Was never within hun
dreds of miles of here. Never could have
been. When was it that Washington was
here, do you think!''
"Just after he whipped the British at the
battle of Bunker Hill. Came up here to
week. Lived in his headquarters, over
yonder and fished in Schoodic.n
l came away, firmly convinced that G.
WIS head had more quarters than any
other head in historic times. knew that
the fellow was about to offer to sell me
seal skin that General Grant tanned in the
Luoec tannery, and show me the Identical
log that young Abe Lincoln RATED from
the Androscoggin pineries. So l re-
treated.
THE sARDINE FISHERIES.
AS fed took refuge in sardine fac
tory. This is the great industry of East
port. Two million dollars worth a year, it
is estimated, are sold from here. That
boXes-a good many. If the dear reader
should toss one box in the air every second
for twenty -four hours every day, without
leating or sleeping, or saying his prayers, i,
would take him two years to count the
boxes turned out here in single season.
They are not really sardines, like those
caught in the Mediterranean and put up sc
neatly at Marseilles. They are young her
ring-somewhat inferior to true sardines
and they are put up in cotton seed oil
somewhat inferior to true olive OIL Blu
the price of Eastport sardines is more in
ferior than the quality the sell for quar-
ter the price of the French sardines, anG
they are equally clean and equally whole
some. Only the rich can have as regula
diet brook trout, canvas back duck
venison, quail, mulligatawny, terra
payne. We ordinary people mus
eat things that are less expensive
and perhaps not quite so f1avourous. Blu
these cheaper edioles support ninety nine
hundredths of the human race, and furnish
abundant muscle and vitality. A grea
deal of liver will always be eaten by peopl,
who cannot afford lamb chops and tender
loin steak So these Eastport sardine.
have their abundant place in the commerce
and cuisine OF the world.
Eastport does not sell goods under false
Ipretenses. Every tin box OF sardines sen
to the market bears on its end, in large
type, the name of the manufacturer and the
words, ''Eastport, Maine" This is as i
should be. People ought to know what
they are buying, and that knowledge will
not destroy the market. Mr.. n. H. Kemp
led me through his whole establishment
Most of the employees are women, anG
they work chiefly nights, for the catch i:
generally in the daytime and the midg1ts
must be WISHED, baked and packed in oil al
once. Some young women earn S12 to ST.
a week, wien there is work.
First the fish are assorted then the
heads are cut off; then the bodies are
washed clean and prepared for baking
then they are baked in an enormous cavern
swung round in vibrating oven till they
are: oked through; then they are packe:
in Oil by the deft FINGERED girls; then the
cans are soldered and ranged in cases and
labeled for market. Every department is
neat and sweet-but it smells of fish. AnC
the packers are so oiled and so afsh-ridder
all the week that they smell of sardine.
wherever they go. They perspire sardines
L
the sleigh-rides, prayer meetings and balls
are redolent of sardines. You Scan smell {
"sardine" when you meet him on the side
walk. You may wash, you may isei se his
clothes as you will, the smell of the rdint
will hang round him still, as the immorta
bard has it. @.ib
For vast majority of human beings, il
is matter of no practical consequence
whether California claret is as good a!
French claret or not, or whether Eastpor
sardipes are as good as French sardines
the American article is quite as clean ant
wholesome and costs only half as much
and that decides the question and ought tt
decide it.
1t would not much matter if thes
sardines were less excellent than they are
There is good deal of humbug in tn
world about food, and millions go hungr,
because their table is limited to the preju
dices. / ate broiled horse in Paris and i
was just as good as broiled steer; / at
grilled flies and baked cakes of flies egg
in Mexico and they were quite appetising
and Prof. G.. v. Riley tells me that. Will
: he would not like to eat ,grasshoppers as
regular diet, they are by no means to b
despised as food in an exigency. Littl
herring as sardines are as good as pig hel
ring are in any shape, and | heartily er
dorse the apothgem of the venerable savan
whoever he was who said that the ma
3 who made two sardines grow where on
grew before is benefactor of the huma
race. w. A. CRoFFUT.