Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-01-07
SINGULAR FRUIT FOR A TREE.
Chinese Product That Bears Taliow
 Brought to South Carolina.

The people of China are emirently practical, and have added much to the civilization of mankind by their habits of industry, of which the method of obtaining vegetable tallow is an excel lent example. The tree producing this tallow Is called Stiilingia Sebiferd, and .he words remind Us ot tue dropping product and its soapy nature. The Chi nese pick the seeds Of this tree in au- tumn, and first place them in a wooden cylinder, open at the top and perforat- cd at the bottom. After being steamed over fire for ten or fifteen minutes the tallow is aoftened and is then moro readily separated. The seeds Ire trans" ferred from the steaming cylinder to a stone peortar, in which they are gently Neaten They are then thrown on sieve, heated over the fire and siftei, by which process the tallow is separat~ ed and resembles coarse Indian meal. In this state the tallow is put between circles of twisted straw and these plac- ed i'll a press, by which the taliow Is forced out and falls into a tub. Freed from all impurities, it is then a seml fluid of a beautiful white color Candles made Of it easily melt in hot weather and on this account they are dipped in melted wax of various oolors-red, green or yaliow-and are exposed for sale by tallow chandlers and other shopkeapers. This remarkable tree is found on the banks of the Min, in Sze- chuen. It also grows near SoochoW, and bas been transplanted to North and South Carolina. It is tree with shining green leaves and small yellow flowers at the end of the branches. They are succeeded by dark colored seeds and vessels containing delicate white seeds. In late autumn, on the banks of the Tsien-tang river in Cho- kiang, south of Hangchow, this tree is a striking object. The leaves are then of a blood red color instead Of hgnt green. When the tallew has been squeezed out of the seeds the remainder Is preserved to be used as fuel or te surieh the land.-Phladelphia Record
 Whn1e a Disturber.
 Last year the sardine fishery on the Biscayan coasts was a good deal spoiN
 
 which seemed to have got itself "cor- nered" in the wedge of the bay ot which the Bidassoas estuary makes the apex. All the sea here, for some thing like 200 miles out, is shallow. go one can imagine the commotior that rather badly fustered whale would make on finding himself threat ened by stranding among the sardine population. Naturally enough the fishery did not prosper with suck large disturbing influence about Bu. 1t is not little singular that this year again, so far as the season has gone, little has been doing, and surely this cannot he oecasioned by fear ot last years whale. But whatever the reason, the fact is too true that the sound of the lookout mans born has been seldom heard (they post man on v1tch for sardines in the Day whose duty it is to sound his horn on their appearance, to summon the fish ernen to the boats1, even though the ceremony of the "'Interlo <a los sar- dinos" has taken place. with all it's childish pageantry, in all the Biseayap villages that the sardne fishery con- cerns. Luckily the Basques are not wholly dependent upon their fisher les; but, of course, their degree of sue cess makes {, difference to fhpH.-~ Chicago Nova
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