The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-03

thore was big demand for lumber lust
then In jamaica so he got chum,ny
with the Scandinavian and over their
cups he divulged his own troubles. The
lumber captain grew interested at once
Red flannel vests were popular at Nor
way, hard To get and expensive, so he
proposed trade, and after some close
olckering, In which Timothy's captain
insisted on and got nice sum TO boot
the deal was closed and in few days
tne exchange was made. The Norwe-
eian sailed away happy and the YAM
Eee put out for Kingston as fast as his
schooner would take HIM He sold his
lumber without the least trouble and
made big profit on It. Then he re-
turned to Havana
The warming pans were the next
problem, and here for n time he was
stuck. Nobody in Cuba had ever heard
ol warming pan. and had no more use
Tor them than they had for snowshoes
But something had TO be done with
them, and the skipper was too con-
scientious TO dump them overheard So
he fooled around Havana for days try
ing TO ngure out some way TO get rid
OF them. One day he happened to make
the acquaintance of n sugar planter
VINO took a fancy TO him and invited
MIN out to his plantation. Having no
cepted the invitation, and within
week he was the honored guest of the
cuban, who, with the usual hospitality
OF that delightful country, urged him
to consider the entire estate his own.
The skipper grew very much interested
In the method of making sugar, which
at that time was quite primitive
suppose you all know the process. The
cane is passed between heavy rollers
TO extract the juice, and then the juice
is put into large kettles and boiled until
the sugar crystalliZes, 1t was while
watching the boiling that an Idea
struck the captain. He noticed that
scum continuously rose TO the surface
of the liquid and this the workmen had
to remove. For this purpose they used
thin wooden paddles. and with these
crude implements the operation was
very slow and the results far from sat
isfactory.
Now. as you probably know the old
time warming pan was q shallow tin
vessel. with holes punched in the bot
tom, and had q long handle attached.
The good old New England housewife
used TO fill this pan with live Goals and
pass II over the sheet. so that thc bed
would be nice and warm when one got
into It"
That was a great scheme" broke IN
the red-headed man, and II we used
In overheated rooms. we'd all be health
Ter"
That's no lie. either" said the drum
mer from Kansas City. with cheerful
approval.
You're quite right" assented the
real estate man. as he relighted his ci-
gar. Then he continued;
We'll. the skipper remembered that
when his mother used to make lard She
used a skinner which wasn't so very
much unlike a warming pan. inasmuch
as II had a long handle and was full OF
holes. 1t occurred to him that with
little modification sugar sklmmers could
be made out of his warming pans that
would be a great Improvement on the
wooden paddles So he hastened back
to Havana and In few weeks he had
every one of those pans transformed. II
took little time 10 impress the CuDanS
with the merits OF the new skinner
for they're a mighty conservative peo-
pie. but when they got the Idea we'll
settled In their heads they had to have
them. The demand was so great that
the rush almost swamped the boat, and
those old warming pans sold for prices
that would have made Plymouth rock
turn over on Its bed If 1t could have
known. Well. TO end a long story the
skipper got back to Boston with mint
money ana llulOlliJ DtNNtl OiiNS
more congratulated himself on his busi-
ness ability, but SO far as he was con-
cerned 1t was luck. and nothing else"
There was a meditative silence for
few minutes. during which the smoke
thickened perceptibly, and then the
drummer from Kansas City opened his
mouth.
You gentlemen have won your case
and I'm not going TO offer any argu-
ment In opposition" he said. but we
can't overlook the fact that there's two
kinds OF luck, good and bad, and I'll bet
a dollar against n bone collar button
that bad luck strikes oftener and hits
harder than good luck any day in the
week"
We'll, IL you've got story go ahead
and get 1t OFF your chest urged the
red-headed man In the corner.
IAN right. pardner. I'm coming to
It." answered the drummer Now, L
had little experience last March that's