The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-04-26

zuelans, Porto Ricans, Portuguese and
Italians, Dutch and Belgans, Swiss and
Yankees. This extraordinary COM
mingling seems to have worked well,
since it has weakened all racial bias and
prejudice. religious as well as political
Every body gets along well with every
body else, peace and good feeling pre-
vail, and there are fewer rows ana ar
rests in Scarborough and Plymouth
than in any other sea-ports III the
world The helmeted policemen nave
what is. known in Yankee land as "a
snap" with nothing to do by way OF
earning their salaries beyond now and
then carrying ad runken sailor from
foreign parts on board his ship in the
harbor. But thanks to the native rum,
which flies straight to the head OF one
not born to the beverage, leaving his
legs limp and useless as wet rags
there is seldom any lack of mariners de-
cidedly more than half seas over"
Several industries are in their infancy
here, which promise bright future II
properly developed. Arrow root cultura
is carried on in shiftless sort of way,
when ii might be made to pay better
returns than sugar with almost no IN
vestment of capital If a man is rich
enough to own a. sugar plantation, he
can well afford to stay at home without
work; but one going forth to seek his
fortune, may easily find it in the west
indies in dozens of now infant enter
prises, On the northern end of Tobago,
among roaring surges and flying sea-
fume, | saw a little patch of green
things growing with tender, feeble
pale-green leaves. like lettuce in hot
bed. The cultivated area was less than
quarter of an acre. and on one edge of it
stod a miserable straw matched shan
ty, inhabited by a black man and two
women and at least twenty children
varying in completion from oak 10
ebony 1t was the only arroW-root
plantation and mill on the island, and is
said to yield several thousand dollars
a year by the primitive methods now
employed. In the corner of the nut
stood large circular grater-not unlike
those used in our markets for grating
e-radish-turned by the braWny
arm of the man, at fitful intervals when
the spirit moved him so to do. In the
with a sheet stretched across the top.
On this sheep the grated arrow-root
was placed in handsful, and the women
squeezed the water out of it, exactly as
if making Dutch cheese. The root re-
sembles small white sugar cane, divided
into joints, growing five or six inches
long. After being grated and soaked in
water, the starch that is squeezed out
of it becomes the arrow-root of COM
merce.
Lime Juice is another West India pos
sibility, waiting to make millionaires of
the judiciously enterprising. 1t is a wild
shrub in Trinidad and Tobago, fairly
crowding the woods and hillslopes.
Only the expressed juice Of the lime can
be exported, either in that state, as OBJ
tanned by pressure, or after evapora-
ton to about one-tepth of it's volume.
The simple juice finds ready market in
America and the condensed juice is in
great demand in England, Lime trees
grow and bear in any soil, but of course
the better the soil the larger the fruit.
They are planted from twelve to sixteen
feet apart, and when young are pruned
and trained to the shape of an UNI
brella. If you We're going to form a
lime lantation, it would be well to
start an ursery the year before and
then transplant the young trees, pulling
them up from the soil, cutting off the
end of the pivot root, and then placing
them in the ground where they are to
grow. A fullsrown lime-trees is said to
yield yearly average of ten gallons of
Juice The fruit is all allowed to drop
off and is then collected and carried to
the works where the lines are first
passed through the cutter which rips
them open, and then between rollers
md through the press, which abstracts
the last drop of juice The latter is
hen exported, either just as it comes
from the press, or after condensation
by boiling | am told that a barrel Of
lines. to be had for the picking up, will
give seven gallons Of juice, worth here,
IN the spot. two shillings and sixpence
he gallon, reckoned in English curren-
" The essential oil Of lines is eX-
.racted from the rind, before the fruit
s crushed, by grating on rasps, with
he hand The oil thus produced is
Known as Handmade and commands
much the highest price One hundred
gallons of Juice will yield by distilla-
ion about three quarts of the essential
I'll, Tt is true as preaching'-un
truer than some preaching
hat fortunes lie in this novel industry, |
f carried on with little capital and a
,ood deal of common sense, almost any
where in the West Indies.
On one point the peaceful citizens of |