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reas6lis why the e9ns2ference should be givsn the daughters. That the boys should have better advantages than ths girls is false and hurtful notion that has'eorffoHed many parents and worked irreparable injury toethe innocent and helpless and tof society.
 There ara many opportunities for the young man of limited advantages to de- yelop himself and rise in the world after he reaches t,s majority But in slIn5st every case the ydung woman Is pound by Jiss that sh= cannot break and hemmed in by environment she cannot control. Except in the very rarest in stances. woman never rises higher in culture, in social life, and in usefulnzss than ths position which her education and accomplishments give her prior to marriage. What a woman is at twen4y, largely determines what she will be evr after
 Alasi in every district we find so many women with th4 noblest impulses and loftfest aspirations, born to a higher destiny, endowed by nature with gifts and graces that would with proper train- ing be attractive in any sphere or sta tion, who arei' held down to the most commonplace lives. and like imprisoned birds are jailed in cages. they cannot open and beat in vain against bars, they cannot break. Yet if in their earlier years they had been given the freedom and the opportunity which were theirs by right, the world would hav= been all the richer because of the treasures of tn sir nobler deeds, and all the gladder be- cause.ef the beauty of their creation and the melody of their song.
 If preference must be given in educa- tion. then by every sacr5d consid ration. l parents should feel obligated to give 1t l to their daughters who otherwise can not rise above lifes commonest lev:l, and whoss character cuf ure and refine ment must. be reproduced in both the boys and girls of the succeeding nera- l tion.
 The education of woman should be the broadest possible, and her culture the most thorough and of the highest type. Gods purpose is that woman should first of,all beaue.n of the house. and sine should bring into the home all the gen tleness and refiifem mt needed to admin ister to f.s greatest happiness and adornme mt If thoroughly educated and cultured her influence will be most ele- vating and refining upon her husband and children. who will reproduce her character for'the benefit of the world. The more extended her information and the wider the circle of her knowl- edge, the more will different avenues of enjoyment and usefulness open to wo- manand mere industrial training. whils bettsr than no education is far beneath that which sheseught to have A wo- man industriously educated is limited 10 that line of, work. should she be ever called upon to earn her own living, and is not fitted for the higher spheres of usefulness and enjoyment that may open to her. 0nthe other hand woman of thorough eduea ton and classic culture is fitted for any sphere of life, and if fore q out into, the world to earn her own liv- ing, she will not find her previous train
 ns and advantages burden or a bar, but the ra;her blessing and benefit. an sotv sas , |, B. CUMMING,
 M Presidznt East Lake Athsneum.
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South Highlands Academy. Select Limited School for Both Sexes
 Tenth
F. M. ROOF. A. M.. Chairman of Faculty

THIS school smost pleasantly located the Six
 teenh Street and Avenue K in the beautiful and quiet dence portion the City of Birmingham has depart ments Academic and Law. It commands the patronage the intelligent and cultured of citizens combines maximum attention pupils with minimum of canvassng Its has reued the claim that school thrive unless the Principal by vigorous the competition of other schools It's prepare for admission Colleges and Universities Certificates of Proficiency and Graduation will be awarded pupils who complete
 For catalogue further information call address
 JOEL c. DnBOSE, A. M.. Principal Cor. 10th St. and Aye. K. Bir minghsm. Ala
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MARY S. w. ,TALIAFERRO. Pollock-Stephens Institute.- Birlning- ham, Ala.
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Now to take up the very smallest mo- tive which urges this plea for, higher edu- cation. It is an undeniable fact that many women must earn their own bread, then why should they handicap them selves at the very beginning, of the race , by insufficient preparation by the want of knowledge requisite to make them competent bread winners? How long will it be before sontharn4 women claim their Own2 .,-- 4
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Education asI u Builder of Character

Presidsnt East Lake Ath hsneum.
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DONALD MINERAL STRINGS WATER

Cures Bright's Disease. Dlabetis, Cysti- tis, Dyspepsia, Insomnia, constipation Malaria, Rheumatism, Calcul Nervous Prostration and Female Complaints.
 There are four springs. Water shipped in cases carboys and barrels. Hotel open the year round. ta -UspiR
 The most. wonderful testimonials frcsn people who have used this water are being receIvrd datly. Write for pamphlet of in formation and testimonials to
 DONALD MINERAL, SPRINGS co.
 On N. o. & N. E. R. R. S-29-sun-thur-1m. .s.-sa.ssss.
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HielneSl ]
 The Practical Baker >Sp Candy Maker
 ITO Nineteenth Sf. BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.

The first expert candy maker to open bus mess in Birmingham. efo v M'.
 The elite trade know his class of goods are neither boughS nor sold by one confec- tioner in a hundred, The general trade know he sells only the best goods. and his prices are the same to the rich and poor alike. The housewife recognizes his breads and cakes are not equalled by any other bakery. The entertainer has long since learned that none but the artist with his brush can equal his artistic skill in orna- mentation. sef s s.s
 The tidiest Ice Cream and Confectionery Parlor in the entire south, ,,xe
 S-S-sun-thur-tf
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which reduces them to variety known
as loose MuscateIs. The smallest raisins
are screened out and sold as seedless
Muscatels.
Next comes the packing. In the early
days of California S raisin industry each
vineyardist packed his own raisins, but
it was soon found that the work could
be done much better in a large and fully
equipped establishments, so that nova
days the packing is a separate branch
of the business.
The standard California raisin box
contains 20 pounds net of raisins, but
some of the finer grades of table raisins
are packed in half and quarter size
boxes. Haven't you often wondered how
the raisins could be packed in punches
so that the top of the box presented such
a beautiful and symmetrical appearance
when opened? 1t is one of the tricks of
the trade. Just as the growers of any
other kind of fruit put the largest and
finest on top, so does the raisin packer.
He calls it facing his boxes.
The raisins are not packed in the
boxes first, but are placed in a metal
frame which will just fit into the box.
When the frame is packed, it is subject
ed to heavy pressure in a press, after
which the compact contents are dropped
into the box, which has been lined with
paper OF fine quality. Next the label is
put on, the cover nailed down and the
raisins are ready for the market.
The facing used to be done wholly by
hand. and it was an expensive process.
The packer selected punches of fine
large raisins and spread them out even
1y Then he pressed each individual
i-sv7 h
In the concavity thus formed he placed
a smaller raisin and arranged the bunch
neatly. When the raisins were pressed,
those on top which had been "f1led''
spread out and appeared much larger
and plumper than they really were.
Now, however, this filling and facing
are done by means of a steel plate in
which are a number of depressions re-
sembling thumb marks. Into these holes
are rolled the filling raisins and over
them are spread those used for facing.
With one of these devices an unskilled
workman can face box of raisins much
better and far quicker than the most ex-
pert Spanish packer who has worked at
nothing else all his life can do it by
hand. The fancy raisins which are used
for the table are mostly hand packed,
however, and it is at this work that the
Fresno girls are now busy.
The Spanish still continue to raise
the largest raisins, but on an average
their fruit is no larger than the Califor-
MIA product. They force the growth of
a few punches by cutting off all but
two or three clusters on a vine; a proc
ess which California growers do not
believe in Even the best vineyards in
the Malaga district of Spain bear no
more than ten pounds to the vine or
five tons to the acre, while in CaIifor-
MIA few Muscat vineyards bear any less.
Not a few produce more than ten tons
to the acre.
But the Spanish grower has many
advantages over the American vineyard
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THE AMERICAN RAISIN.
That Is the Kind For You1
Christmas Pudding.
IMPORTANT CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY

The Work OF Raising, Picking, Curing and
Eor Many Hands-California's Advan-
tages Over the Spanish Vineyards.
In spite of the fact that the raisin
crop of Fresno has been badly damaged
by recent heavy rains most of the plums
in your Christmas pudding will un-
doubtedly be native born. They may be
sold under a foreign name-a name
which smacks of sunny Spain-but the
chances are that they ripened on the
equally sunny slopes of southern Cali
fornia. If you look in the encyclopedias
of comparatively recent issue, you will
find under 'raisin' the following
piece of exact misinformation
Raisins.-The dried fruit of the European
grapevines Wits viniferal. None Of our
tive grapes has yet afforded raisins suitable
for commerce.
In view of the fact that the chief in
dustry of whole counties in California
is the raising, curing and packing of
raisins this is refreshing. Not only does
California supply a large portion Of the
raisins used in the United States. but
the same vineyards have even produced
enough to cut some figure in the Euro
pean market during off years. AS long
ago as 1888 the raisin crop of the Pacific
coast was nearly 20, 900, 900 pounds, and
it has been increasing ever since until
now it is almost three times that figure.
Just now the raisin crop is being
packed. In the vicinity of Fresno thou
sands of young women are making their
pretty fingers fly with all the speed
that skill and long training can produce.
They are packing the raisin crop of 1897
and from their deft fingers the fruit goes
to the grocer untouched and unhandled.
It may be some satisfaction to know
that all of these young women raisin
packers are neat and wholesome to look
at. Many of them are pretty. The Fres-
no girls especially are noted for immac-
ulate shirt waists and white duck skirts.
If we were hunting for a hint of ro-
nance in the raisin industry, it would
be well to stop here, for with the raisin
packers all the romance of the business
ends. Perhaps you have imagined that
grape picking was a most idyllic sort Of
work. You may have pictured laughing
peasants plucking the big purple punches
of grapes and making love and music
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under shaded arbors. Perhaps that is
the way 1T is done in Spain, Syria and
the Egean isles, but in California the
raisin industry offers little for the in
spiration of the poet.
In the first place, many of the pickers
are Mexicans or Chinese, both men and
women being employed. They are hired
because their labor may be purchased
cheapIy, no special skill being required
in this branch of the work.
Then the punches are not purple.
Several varieties of grapes are used in
raisin making, but none Of them shows
the royal color. They are all a translu-
cent greenish tint when ripe and do
not acquire that dark, amber appear
ance until after they have been cured.
There are the Muscats, the GordO Blan-
co, the Corinths or ''currantS, - the Sui
tanas and other varieties, but they are
all white grapes and differ only in size
and shape Purple grapes are raised in
California, but they are not fit for raisins
and are shipped east to be eaten fresh.
Neither is the California vineyard a
succession of shady arbors- In that Sec
tion where the sun blazes down out of
a copper, cloudless sky from May to No
vember it is not necessary to train the
vines up into the air SO that the sun
light may strike the punches. In that
fierce heat the biggest punches and the
largest grapes grow best when shaded
by thick foliage, so the trunk of the
vine is only allowed to grow a foot or
two from the ground and upon the lat
eral branches close to the earth the
finest fruit is produced. So a California
vineyard looks more like a garden full
of currant bushes than anything else.
The punches are cut rather than pick
ed. With a sharp, curve bladed knife
the punches are severed from the vine.
Only the stem is touched, for to handle
the bunch would be to brush the bloom
from the fruit and injure its market
value AS they are cut off the punches
are carefully placed on a redwood tray
about feet wide and feet long hold
ing about 20 pounds of grapes. When
the trays are full, they are simply laid
on the ground and the sun is left to dc
the work of curing. Fermentation be-
gins almost Immediately, and after two
weeks the punches are turned over. This
is done by placing an empty tray over
the full onA Two men hold the trays
tightly togther with their hands and
give them quick, dextrOus flop a few
loose grapes Will roll out during this
process, but not many.
Ii the weather is favorable, the dry
ing process occupies about three weeks
but should there be any cloudy weather
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more time is required. When the raj
sins are nearly cured, the trays are
piled one on the other in the field in or
der to delay the drying and give time fo1
sorting. As the stacking progresses the
largest and finest punches are picked out
and placed in sweat boxes. These boxes
are then put in the sweating room,
generally separate building with walls
of adobe or brick. The object of this
room is to equalize the moisture of the
raisins and make the stems less brittle.
The smaller punches and the loose raj
sins are put in sweatboxes for a short
time and then run through a separator,
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SITUATIONS wANTeD-FREE.

Are you in need Of work? If so. you
are at liberty to use these columns for
assistance in that direction. While this
notice appears the State Journal will
publish free on Saturday. Monday and
Tuesday, for Topeka or Kansas people.
all notices of ''Situat atfons Wanted" not to
exceed FIVE lines, or thfrty-five words. in
length, provided that all advertisements
of that nature are handed in previous to
10 O'Clock Saturday morning; also on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday all ad-
vertisinE OF this class handed in by 10
o'clock Wednesday morning.
No advertisements of this nature to be
started except on Saturdays and We'd
nesdays. No obligation is incurred on the
part of the advertiser No worthy and
needy man or woman need hesitate to
take advantage OF this offer, No one in
business or having employment is ex-
pected to take advantage of IT. but all
others are invited to avan themselves
freely.
The Topeka State Journal guarantees
every day it is printed, to give a local
circulation by far more than all other
Dailies combined. This makes this pa
per the cheapest as well as the best.
daily medium in Topeka. the classified ad-
Vertisements below costing but
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ist, and it has been only by pluck and
ingenuity that California has made the
raisin industry pay at all. In the first
place the foreign growers have the ben
eft of the cheapest of cheap labor. Then
their grapes ripen much earlier, and to
cap the climax they can send box of
raisins from Spain to New York for
about cents while the California vine
yardist pays nearly 80 cents per box to
reach the same market. The greater
yield of the California vines, the inge-
nuity of the grower and packer and the
new tariff law which protects our raj
sin crop to the extent of duty of 2 q
cents per pound enable the California
vineyardists to undersell the Malaga
growers in the home market
JENNIE MoOREs.
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Advantages of Shorthand.

''We could adduce a hundred illustra-
tions to prove the advantages of shorthand
and the saving of time thereby effected
Only think, gentlemen, it took Goethe 40
years to write his Faust How many
years he might have saved if he had known
shorthand l''-Dorfbarbier.
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Mamma-Why did you strike little Elsie,
you naughty boy?
Dick-Well, what.did she want to cheat
for, thenP
Mamma-How did she cheat?
Dick-Why. we were playing at Adam
and Eve and she had the apple to tempt
me with, and she never tempted me, but
went and ate it all up herself.-Tit Bits.
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''Did your railway make money!"
mo" replied the promoter. "We
wouldn't let well enough alone"
"There was chance of its being profit
able them"
Yes, but we weren't satisfied with sell
ing stock. We had to go ahead and try to
build the road. ,,-Washington Star.
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A Possible Reason.

Mother-That makes the fourth time
I've had to tell you that. What makes you
forget everything 1 say?
Boy-Perhaps it's because you tell me
things that 1 dom t take any interest in
SomerviIle Journal
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Natural History.

a"Did you know, my little boy" asked
the solemn old gentleman, that bee can
fly faster than pigeon?"
81 didn't know it BEFORE said the lit
tie boy, but 1 know he can set down
heap harder. .''-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The End of Her Earth.

"Before we were married, - she protest
ed, ''you declared you would go to the end
of the earth to make me happy"
'Yes, " he replied coldly.
She shuddered.
Had he already run through her real
estate?-Detroit Journal
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ExpIaininR It.

Il presume the reason why the chain.
less bicycle ism t as well known as the 9th.
er kind, remarked Rivers is tl it al
ways travels in cog "-Chicago Tribune.
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Quite Like Them.

Oldun-Ah, there's nothing like the
good old circus jokes.
Plattby-Why, there are the new jokes
that are being worked off today.-Phila
delphia North American.
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Interviewer-Are you favorably i'm.
pressed with this country?
Eminent Foreign Lecturer-Very. Tn
raking in $1,000 a week.-New York
Weekly
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Small pill. safe pill, best pill. DeWitt's
Little Early Risers cure billiousness.
constipation, sick headache. G. W.
Stansfield, 632 Kansas avenue.
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The average girl does not want fiance
who is mean, though she may not object
to his being close.-TOwn Top IS
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FOR sALE-REAL ESTATE.

FOR SALE-One of the neatest homes in
Potwin, very cheap For particulars see
7 5. Collins & Co., 115 West Sixth ave.
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The Question Not Pressed.

Woman Lswyer-How old are you?
Woman Witness think l must b
about your age.-New York Truth
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Cremation Popular In 60.

Since the establishment Of a cremation
society in France ~, 900 bodies have been
iucinerated in Paris.
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Five Cents a Line,

or 20 cents line for a week: SO cents by
the month.
Average circulation for first six months
of 1897,
1854.
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NOTICE-TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN-Be it known that my petition
is on file in the office of the probate court
of Shawnee county, Kansas, asking for a
permit to sell intoxicating liquors 404
Kansas avenue. in the Second ward in
the city of Topeka. Kansas, and the hear
ing of the same is set for Tuesday a..
m, November 30th. 1897.
F. B. WALLACE
Topeka Kansas, Oct. 2S. 1897.
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statesmen WANTED

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WANTED-Salesmen for our new vel
low free-stone peach, three weeks
earlier than any other Full assort-
sortment of old and new varieties
Quality best and prices right. New helps
for our agents. Experience unnecessary
Lawrence Nursery Company. Lawrence,
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PAVING.
70 WHOM MAY CONCERN.

NOTICE-TO WHOM IT MAY CON
CERN-Be it known that my petition is
on file in the office of the probate court
of Shawnee county, Kansas. asking for a
permit to sell intoxicating liquors a 632
Kansas avenue in the Second ward in
the city of Topeka. Kansas, and the hear
ing of the same is set for Wednesday. 9 a..
m, December p. 1897.
G. w. STANSFIELD.
Topeka, Kansas, Nov. 6, 1897.
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MISSOURI PACIFIC.

TOPEKA & FT SCOTT ACCOM-. No. 2s6
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NJ ONEY TO LOAN on farms or city
Nhproperty at reasonable rates
W. NJ FORBES. u6 w 9Th Ave.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

WANTED-Board and room near Santa
Fe offices, by young man Address a.
b s, care Journal.
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LOST AND FOUND.

LOST-Saturday afternoon. between 4th
and Kansas ave. and Eighth and To-
peka, S1S5 in five dollar bills Finder
please return to 402 Buchanan, J. Olson,
and receive liberal reward.
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MONEY.

MI ONEY LOANED on pianos. organs,
WI sewing machines, watches. diamonds
bicycles, typewriters and any personal
properly. N. B. Campbell. COS Kansas ave-
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PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.


IDA c. BARNES, NJ. D.
Office 1872 Kan. Ave. Residence 18th and
Clay Office hours: 9 a. m. to II a. m.
and D. n. to p. Telephone 59S resi-
dence. and Is office
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WANTED

we want to make some gilt-edged loans
on farms in Shawnee county Call on
as at once.
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FUEL AND FEED.

7 EAVE your orders for COAL. Flour.
AFeed and Seeds with Van Slycks 500
w. 10th
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s95 90 A WEEK and expenses paid sales
men for cigars. Experience unneces-
sarv Permanent position. The w. l..
Kline Co., st. Louis Mo.
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FOR SALE-SO acres of land miles
south of Topeka, all under fence. 60
acres broke. Inquire of ThOs- Lyon, Ber-
ryton, Kan, or J. n. Mcfarland, Law
renee, Kan
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FOR SALE-Choice vacant lots in Low
man Hill, convenient to electric cars,
also near church and school Price from
$50 to SIS each W. N. Forbes, 116 West
Sixth ave.
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FLORISTS.

STAMPS. SEALS AND STENCILS
THE J. c. DARLING CO. .734 KAN AVE
Topeka Send for catalogue and prices
TRAPP MAKES STAMPS. SEALS
IL Stencils. 215 W. 5th. ground floor.
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II EDWARD EsTERLY, NJ. D.
- EYE AND EAR,
723 Kansas ave-.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-05-19

cles that form about it. There are
several ways to finish the process. If
the fruit is to be glazed, it is dipped
in a thick, viscid syrup and then
quickly dried in the open air; but, if
it is to be crystalized, it is dipped in
the same consistency of syrup and is
then placed in a kiln, warmed to 90
degrees f., and allowed to cool. The
latter process causes the syrup to
granulate or crystalize. Fruit. pre-
served in this way will keep for many
years in almost any climate, and will
bear transportation to the most dis
tant points.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-05-19

only admission they will make that
is in any way derogatory to the or
ange The gathering of fruit grow
ers at the Orlando meeting of the
State Horticultural Society showed a
body of men full of hope and deter
minatiOn.
In reproducing in last weeks paper
the article of capt. Rose, from the
Citizen, we referred to Capt. Rose as
having for several years been the
manager of the ST. Cloud sugar farm.
The fact is Capt. Rose personally es-
tablished this farm, and after it was
in successful operation sold a half in
terest to Mr.. Disston. After the mill
was built by the company Capt Rose
continued the management until he
and Mr.. DisstOn sold out to the new
company. In a personal letter to the
editor Capt Rose says there is mon
ely in sugar farm when j" is run as
a sugar farm, but predlcts failure
when it is run as a stock jobbing con-
Germ.