Daily British Whig (1850), 20 Jan 1906, p. 9

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will place your thoice only dependable quali- lutely the lowest prices Again this greatest red underwear, trashy ast--every sign of ex- on Monday f Kingston have been © ne of our always wel- d full rectification will or one of the greatest rers' sample lot of 31 offered in the following wv production" thirty-five' Barrels of pure | point to carry his distillation. When spirit and 105 of rosin, a camp has got into workin equip- he chipping of these "boxes" is the ment thers is rarely 'any' interval be- first thing to be done after the work | tween - the distillation. . So soon as | commences in the new camp, They are | the spirit has heen Arawn off the cut some ten inches phove the ground | rosin and refuse are uped from the and extend around about one-third of ingide of the still, fresh barrels 'of the circumfermice of the tree. The trees | "Acrape and "dip" are brought from are first "boxed" over "an ehtire ec: | the platform, the -&till 8 cha Nation tion. of the country before any: pres} Cap screwed on antl the Gistitation ; : to for the exiraction'] Proceeds once more. ¥ear dn and parations are nat y ut, excep on Sundays, this of the turpenting. Two or three weeks | Y87 OUY 4 i ' after these ""hoxes" have been made Process on ct cam is that at the workman goes the round of his Ulmer pea miles from ry a, oh the trees and 'streaks' them, scoring two wath coast of the peninsi 74 whirn downward gashes, which extend diag- ! thirty or forty comviete are @nploged,' onally toward the centre of the | All "of these wear. the regulation 'box,' cutting into the bark in the {stripes, except two. trusties, stillier's shape of a Vis These ents are mado | yesistant and an old driver. In spite with a shafp instrument, known as a | of theiv servitude, the lot of acorer,"" made in the shape, of an 8x, | men is by no utiendurable, and with a rounded and mueh-clongated they are far better in Ith and blade, which enables the wiplder of it 18 to cut through the bark without in pr , ste © juring the tree. These "scorers" are | 5 , beans, veget- made only in two towns of the Unit- | ables and one pound of bacon or a ed States. From the wounds thus | pint of syrup daily for each, Tobacco made the turpentine oozes little by | is supplied them by the company, and little and trickles downward into the | two or three times a month a hog is "box." | killed for theme A barber is employed The first crop of turpentine known | from among their number at a stipend as the "virgin" crop, is the richest | of 83 a month, On Bendays they re- over collected and generally flows with ceive 'comparative freedom, not only a profusion which enables it to he | of the yard within their stockade, but dipped out from the "box" with a | of the camp itselt where, so long as spoon, while subsequent crops, the they. do not stray beyond the watch product of successive "shrinkings," of the armed guards upon-the plat. | | . 2 i i F Eit harden into a white gum, which gnust | forms at opposite eoeners of the bie Seraped. Ax contrasted with this | *tockade, they may roam at will, "serape" the first crop is known as | Some have guitars and mandoling, the "dip." Yet the proportion of tur- | and card games are indulged in. Dy pentine which is thus collected is the | 00d bebavior they can gain fifty-two smallest possible residuum of the sap days a year off their sentences, Efforts which has issued from the wounds, | 8% communicatipn are made in the amounting to not more than one-tenth | tase of deserving prisoners, Upon the of all. The remainder has evaporated expiration of hig WentFice each man during the absence of the workman, | TiCeives 810 and a wuit of clothes leaving in its place a quantity of the The laws of Florida give exvellont- white, gummy substance known ag | 0 orecton to these _Nrjucners. Flog: "sarape." This is scooped from the ging. the omly ethad. of controlling the wnruly, is permitted to be inflict od at the disaretion of the captain of or Sacra Thin collet | oe Sint but Su' sarly resorted to, they are loaded into a woaggon drawn i i an the tase of a sop: r t viet who ix ubordinate or. refuse by mules and carried 'to the neigh) thes Ulmer Ci in ) 1e neighbor: | to work, At the Ulmer, camp it is ine flicted in an informal manner with & $195 lling 7%. welling 8c. ~& Son | large. barrel o ed in 600 cities 9 . + 8 solve them into rosin and: turpentine SceApE . . 14 contains a large | 0d in cities of the comntre, and ) § them outright or, more frequently "boxes" and deposited in a barrel. "Once" in turpentine, always in tur- |] wn enormous areas of forest land ! Wht 2, sufficient quantity pentine," the owners say, "so long as | where ro ows at its bas : i there's fruit "on the plum tree But | Vshaped nudity, which the score the plum tree has been well shaken 1 leaves on his journeying during the past decade, for the profits : have attracted an increasing number of men with capital, and the indus- try. which has been driven southward steadily with the depletion of the pine forests now sees itself threatened with of barrels into these sandy -solitudes SY : Ta ' A nH howd of the still, swhenee they are roll ing his path through the palmetto in ; : ; } s : Te y Hp the ranway to. the platform, | broadleather strap, which leaves no ), comes. the driprider, spying out 2 aT ih , ; j ¥ wre they are emptied into barrels | scar, F he eountry He traverses the whol : : ? ; : ; 4% daYing lock tops, in order to prevent | are said to be in use. Ans execllint mt of the newly acquired territors ha : ; atid" iy 1 y : Sraporalion. Afterward, as required Fprovision lies ih the appointment of tes where are the best trees, and ao : wv TE i ey are emptied for distillation into ax tineti swiod immeas a I tions afd 4 ls ; , : the still which has usuall extinction at a period not immeasin those most mature for operations, anc . 3 | fix the location f the still besid ; E 4 a 7 - of about. fifteen barrels, ixes the location of 1 st esidi 3 1 / some railroad and conveniently neay vs i ? 3 . ; ifs Hire the Flsowhere more rigorous means state inspectors, who Appear unan- v a capacity | nounced at irrogula¥ intervals and anestion each, prisoner in turn, white | erie product is speedily the guprda Are ordeted to. stand off ; $ : separated into its three main com. | ©°t of bearing, od out hiz ground he disappears ; ; ; r ponent parts of water, rosin and With such opportunificx, attempts at but in his train mule teams appear =pirit of turpentine. From the retort | ®scape are wade odeasionelle, hint with' mason -and carpenters, lumber ig gud 2 oath 4 " a ign leads through a barrel of | they are almost usifory ly amsuseoss- fi a . . : co Ww - deposited, a siding is laid down and a : i Aber: ably remote. From the pine regions of the Carolinas, out of Georgia, Missis stppi and Alabama, thé manufacturer ne. centre of habitation. Having of turpentine have been movine inte the central portion of Florida, and every year tho axe of the scorer mazes his was further aid further down the wpart of whith iss conftuet. | Ml: The actual" flight has frequmtly peninsula. village of huts springs up. The focus ud ; P or) ed back through At present these are palmv davs for | 000i] shrine of the new settlement ' oh 3 % ig ie drops into Florida. The. profits of a turpentinery are regular and considerable, and thousands upon thousands of acres are a little gutter and | fucceeded, for it in easy to eluds the e the still again, the effect | euards while passing from tres to Oe anaEl Sh 4 : ? b ine to prevent the contents from | tree. In such casen Bloodhounds, per, which will heneoforward be L 4 : { oiling over. Passing through the | Which are bred in the camp, are sot tinuously fed with barrels of the crude, 2 a worm, the disti'late soon beging 1g | on 'the trail of the fgitive, his photo- passing yearly into the hands of the |Login from the pine trees, and will r 3 SL. bg ow steadily through a tap into a graph and a notice of reward are post. manufdeturer, who either purchases . ( i : : It is built over a large furnace and unity of water, a smaller quantity his stripes, which are consvienous, FONERE § RI SOMIDSS buys "the privilege of oxtracting the lo nig bv a circular wall © E o Jurpemtine, a tittle woud alcohol, render his. prompt: recapture almost a es 1 resinous juices from the pine timber. joa waoden-roof shelters it, and a : ON ol phn acetic acid. The two. last | certainty, : From Jacksonville. on the north-east | J "fioht of "stairs loads to a strong] . ay proc ct, however, are present in =VICTOR ROUSSEAU. . coast, almost 16 the Everglades, mav | jotform level with | its top. whereon | mem---- --_----j,ne a _-- --- Tr -- TE Ty nA 1 fuantities and, not - | --_--_ -_ ET barrels and barrels of turpentine | ready for operations. The appearance § cone js exeopt some half a | the ap ghaps glepueyu an which is git the § boltmetcially of value, run with a : t : into the base of the tree, in ordi . - Samaria Stopped io \ will non he = 1 of the camp is pot spectacular, but as in the various elements gradually sett} ery hundred pigs, dogs and fowls, which tall | down td their own shares Ot " [ 4 Ihe vidage is a singie sired or $OEm ¢ the and i . His Drinking roomed shanties of wood with a brick éhimney built from the oround, work, each camp assumes a typics A London Lady cures her husband | .,d here the free negro laborers will § and traditional aspect. To the strong In recentable for the dip of the | This mixture which has > Ask yourself if Stomach, : y is A ALG Oo {recs have Lthranoh the sworae join Cit camp hunting among the refuse heap Tes mation A ir ave x WE hy i a raw placid | iver Bow yin r a i #4 » tes i iver and Bowels are in their The product of the average camp in | as many as three or four. "boxes" [contains roughly about six nhrts of Live: Passed : » joce i » water {o one part ntine : (Or¥as : b 2 | Plorida may be sot down at 900 caxks , apiece, but, owing to i small girth nirit iE Ren, o Surpenline He 'best condition for the long i + permanently of the drink habit veside, many with their families, dur-§ platiorm, which has been raised hori- | 4 year, each of which holds fifty-two of the pine timber in the it Wi ihe water, as rive nc id FOL SE 5 out his knowledge. jung the period that the camp in] zontadly with the top of the still, in | jing of turpentine, besides 2,700 | states, the average tree receives only Sho Pletal ope an oy taking , winter, If not, you know "ow glad T an that I . | which the convict labor is employed, numerable barrels of the crude mate: | porrele of rosin, The residual matter crap' of boxes averages in Hy) 5 dae, quid, when the . : Nk How glad Lam that 2aver, | I'l tite will he evinced by'n woud. rial are being. rolled. up ahinclinied | (hee wmaunts to thires times the quan urpertinie appears, siting to- the 'top | «what will put them right-- writing you for a Free : ade, built fr hole trunks } ranvay. A wumber are emptied into | i the distilled spirit . yy ool. ¢ proportion . of ; , : ot Sa s en stockade, built from whole trun A > tity of the distilled spirit, turpentine to water be , : 'At that time my | of tr with houses for the guards. | the retort, the furnace glows," the eop- | = 1 a ball bo eal a ¥ Dring Contant, and keep them right. A : ; ; recs, with | : ig : : From these: figure v se cal | ie line which separates the two com- : 8 husband was drink: | poo fier d period varying from three { per cap is fastened on, and soon the | at (he 600 stills i n wtate . ray i A ening Slip- [ape ak But a 3 De nines will have been | drip, drip, of the turpentine isshing enlated that the £00 tills in_the stato | Your nes are in | ponents always appears ane-seventh morning glass of 4 rae n het, \ 'e bl more the driprider | through the worm changes to a steady produce anniias § arly . el i of the donth of the barrel, and just : "Se wa. wchdusted. once we o ¢ 2 A : of turpentine a h on, ve thi ' i 5 i will saddle his horse and set forth flow. Under his roof the barrelmaker. gallons of} i it 0 - BI 3 De iE y atiove, thin Mark a pipe leads into a : outhward, the =till will.disapnear, the | hammers away merrily. Something 000,000 gallons id si 2 0 ~ # teiD pare a ang which the pure er, r 1 i siding. rust and the Invistio scrub | like twenty songs go into each barrel | Pears in its Hui SH hy Urpen burpentine is fdrawn. off as sdon as » regular i p ging. rust ang i pa ay 1 that hermakes, driven in to the melo. | dine brings. at wholesale about £30 qo q . the first harrel is full, The second ' ; f will graw uh uci the decaying 'has ny tapping of his hammer; | barrel and the rosin 85. About half " barrel now contains vure turpentine or imhirs of the cottages. 8 Ans 5 tk a we y is To ; it is 6 id i 3 i Y hes bi ror. 4} and if bv any chance the barrel should | of the amowii pr duced is utilized -in and as fost as it is filled the fluid is or Ae Dram, re I. FRE [he completed: before - the. air of that {the United States and; the remainder i ic i run off into bgrrels of oak wood HE ory much s. The ise of the eco . . x38 . {a : fw ins i . ace Boots id y ey much li it ae tore _ particular melody which ushers ip its | ©Xpori od, coated om the inside with glue. The : and pamphlet giving fu. * Sipe Re sind loud row Poe house the hirth, the cooper will continue tap Each laborer is expeéted to chop a turpentine. 18 pow ready for the mar: er enintansien resin. 1 particulars, teslinionial Ar IC, MAloaorous } Y 3 5" 4 5 1 "eran pi oF fo pa over his ket and needs 'to be put th h : . { de I le stables | Ping upon the woodwork till his song | "crop" "pac h year and o # pw rough no. and prictasut Plain sealed envelope, i | harrel factor x ud the = ih Hall 8 omnes. to an ond. A bright glow | tiees once every wa m three weeks further process of manufacture, By : 1 Raa A kbs nY CO, ig Jordan A DE it Tos. the Tab through the trees shows where the | and "streak" them. A "erop'" consists Pe La listenine at. the worm, an experien- Felt Slip- 35 ambers, Jordan §:., 3 di i i - g 0 1" ; Also for sale, by Henry Wad move in and the turpentinery is WOrkmeu are melting their glue, Ev-* of 10,500 "boxes," the pame given to ced stiller knows exactly to what ' e, c, overs. Wove nd Lhe 'r) y . ' ar eens eine {OE STORE

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