The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-17
Few5Me1 VIII Betray Trust.

undertakings. lie worked IN ana out or Chl-
cage, coming to the city after each swapping.
He lived at downtown hotels and I readily
kept in touch with him and his enterprises.
Starts a Beet Sugar Factory
One Of his inspirations was to start beet
sugar factory In Michigan. He selected q
small town near Saginaw, which in appear
ance challenged his pride as promoter.
saw him when his enterprise was IN nc
preliminary stages OF inducing the farmers 10
plant sugar bcets and take the stock OF his
factory.
MY boy" he said-the friends OF Hotch-
kiss never grow old, theiryouth being pereh-
nial-".there is the grandest town-two sa-
loons--one church-genera store. and three
of the busiest roads. Bects? They can grow
beets in the highways.
He fortified and irrigated that town with
bulletins and reports Of the department Of
agriculture. Everything printed on the sub
icct OF sugar bects was carried In there by
the mails and distributed to the farmers for
miles around They.read and began to dream
of surar bcets by night. Then Hotchklss ap-
reared on the scene and started his factory.
Thc farmers took stock and signed contracts
TO plant a specified number of acres,
When IIotchklss came TO Chicago the next
tlme 7 knew that he had snapped again.
I" What is 1t this time?" asked.
MY boy" he said /" never believe in
sugar beets again. Never trust beet. l
don't recognize that bcets exist Poof! |
blow them off he menu card
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Everybody Needs Pickles.
He put his hand In his pocketand chuckled.
at viii take seventeen generations to
teach the American farmer to get down on
his knees and give bcets the care and atten-
ton they think they are entitled TO-, ne
said ''Thc American farmer wants TO ge'
out In the morning behind three morse
team and reap about ilfty acres OF grain pc
fore night You can get him TO spend lllS
life In one acre. ran that factory two weeks
on tho seasons crop and then snapped my
share in 1t for a pickle factory down IN In
diana. I1ow's that for fine? Pickles! Every
household got to have them. There's money
in II for Everybody. Ten churches for every
thousand population in the United states
Every church gives picnic every year.
Every picnic got to have pickles. NO picnic
complete without pickles Mefor pickles,
He disappeared out of town in as fine a
state of ecstasy over pickles as ever have
seen him in over anything, Along in the fol-
lowing September he Was back again,
My boy" he said, = nave Tie llnest
thing that ever was thought Of I'd be al
most afraid 10 tell even yon II didn't think
had ii cinched, I've swapped that pick lie
factory for an old mill. Pickles are all right
In their way, but they have their drawbacks,
Like beets they require attention. They de-
mand IT, They become unruly unless they
have It. And you can't setsthe American
farmer 10 give It TO them. had as fine n crop
OF pickles coming along down there in In
diana as you ever saw, Everybody had
planted pickles Maybe You don't know
the habits and disposition OF the cucumber
Well a cucumber that has.any ambition to
be a pickle has 10 be picked whenits about
three inches long. The farmers planted
them, but they wouldn't pick them. About
the time they were ready for the factory the
grain harvest came along and you couldn't
get farmer 10 look al his pickles. The
cucumbers grew To full. but useless man,
hood When the harvest was over my con-