The Republican journal., 1902-05-01

has cured and is curing thousands Of
cases of female trouble.
That Smithsonian expert could not de
termine all the bloods and races that
I make up the mongrel population. Here
and there are descendants of aboriginal
Caribs and other red types: the negro
is largely in evidence, along with
mestiZo descendants-such as mulatto.
quadroon, terceroon, quinteroon, oeta-
room. .gritfa and Zambo: fair haired Sean.
dlnavians, English, Scotch and Irish.
| German and French. Spaniards Nene-
zulans, Porto Ricans Portuguese and
Italians, Dutch and Belgians, Swiss and
Yankees. This extraordinary com
mingling seems to have worked well,
since it has weakened all racial bias
and prejudice, religious as we'll as
political, Everybody gets along well
with everybody else peace and good
feeling prevail, and there are fewer
rows and arrests i'll Scarborough and
Plymouth than i'll any other seaports in
the world. The helmeted policemen
have what is known in Yankee land a.
"a snap with nothing to do by way Of
earning their salaries beyond now and
then carrying a drunken 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 lis
legs limp and useless as wet rags-there
is seldom any lack OF mariners decided
Iy more than half seas over
Several industries are in their infan
cy here, which promise a bright future
il properly developed. .Arrowroot
culture is carried on in shittless sort
of way, when it might be made to pay
better returns than sugar, with almost
no investment of capital If man is
rch enough to ownaa plantation, he
can we'll afford to stay at home without
work: but one going forth to seek his
fortune, may easily find it in the West
Indies III dozens of now infant enter
prises. On the northern end of Tobago,
among roaring surges and flying sea
spume, | 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 or one edge
of it stood a miserable, straW-thatched
shanty, Inhabited by black man and
woman and at least twenty children
varying IN complexion from oak to eb-
ony. 1t was the only arrowroot plan
tatlon and mill on the island, and is
said to yield several thousand dollars a
year by the primitive methods now en-
ployed, In one corner of the hut stood
large circular grater-not unlike those
in our markets for grating horse-radish
turned by the brawny arm of the man
at litful intervals when the spirit moved
him so to do In the middle of the
room stood hogshead with sheet
stretched across the top. On this sheet
the grated arroWroot was placed in
handtuls, and the women squeezed the
water out of it, exactly as if making
Dutch cheese. The root resent bles
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 be
comes the arroWroot Of commerce.
Lime juice is another West Indian
possibility, waiting to make millionaires
of the judlclousy enterprising. 1t is a
wild shrub i'll Trinidad and Tobago.
fairly croWding the woods and hill
slopes. Only the expressed juice of the
lime can be exported, either in that
state, as obtained by pressure, or after
evaporation to about one-tenth 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 umbrella. If you we're
going to form a lime-plantation, it
would be we'll to start nursery 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
full-grown lime-tree is said to yield a
yearly average of ten gallons of juice.