"I tell you, gentlemen, this thriving little town needs a canning factory, as we all know; but more than a canning factory it needs a Boss,one of those strong characters that make tools of their fellow-men, who rule our cities with an iron hand but take care to keep the hand in a velvet glove,a Boss that is diplomatic, yet an autocrat.

These included a can-opener, which now did duty on the smoked tins.

" The next day he noted that John Merrick's holdings were mostly in western canning industries and tin-plate factories, and again he recollected that Uncle John had once been a tinsmith.

But then possibly that might be only Sallie, obeying another call from the kitchen, where the good woman was so busily engaged with her canning operations.

[In reference to Prof. Attfield's statement contained in the closing paragraph, we remark: It is well known that mercury is an ingredient of the solder used in some canning concerns, as it makes an easier melting and flowing solder.

During the fruit season the company runs a canning department upstairs, preserving all kinds of fruits, jellies, pickles, and that sort of thing.

In the early days of canning, it is just possible that the use of "spirits of salt" in soldering may have resulted in the presence of a little stannous, plumbous, or other chloride in canned food; but such a fault would soon be detected and corrected, and as a matter of fact, resin-soldering is to my knowledge more generally employedindeed, for anything I know to the contrary, is exclusively employedin canning food.

J.W. knew this by the exchange of experiences he listened to while he sold milk strainers and canning outfits.

Care as to the cleanliness of the cans and their sterilization is also important, and after the canning process is completed, all vegetables put up in glass should be kept in a cool, dark place.

Ah, no, the canning season is at hand, When summer scents are on the air distilled, When golden fruits are ripening in the land, And silvery tins are gaping to be filled.

Spiced or Pickled Apples Spiced or Pickled Cherries Spiced Cucumbers Spiced German Plums Spiced Grapes Strawberries and Pineapple Strawberries in the Sun Tomatoes Watermelon Pickle BRANDIED FRUITS Brandied Cherries Brandied Peaches Brandied Pears Brandied Quinces French Prunes in Cognac Melange CANNED VEGETABLES Directions for Canning VEGETABLES PRESERVED IN BRINE Boiled Beans Corn

Up there, on the rude shelf above the stove, was a row of old tomato-cans brimful of Bonanza gold.

He has the Canning venom about him still, and said we should still regret having lost Huskisson, &c. I said NEVER.

It was only a can-buoy, lifting lonely to the swell.

Well my dear Country-men, what ye lack, if you continue and fall not back upon the first broken shin, I'le have you chronicled, and chronicled, and cut and chronicled and all to be prais'd, and sung in Sonnets, and bath'd in new brave Ballads, that all tongues shall troule you in Saecula Saeculorum my kind Can-carriers.

They gave me a couple of fish, of the kind called pe-can-o by the Indians. 24th.

The holder of the spoons jingled them in perfect harmony with the accordion, and the can-operator tapped and thumped the tin, so that the three made a singular and tingling music.

"I suppose," said he "that if a Mun-da-wah-can-ton had told you to kill a buffalo, you would have done it, but you do not regard what a Sisse-ton says."