Father Of Chile Sauce

Lorenzo Cbanter, of Jackson, a ma 80 years of age, wealtby and in gooc health, claims to have been the firs persou to introduce tomatoes, squash pnmpkins aud other vegetables iDto th United States. He was bom in the Is land of Malta and in 1822 he oame t Cape Cod on a vessel and settled there coming to Michigan 10 years later "One day," he says, "Inoticodthe peo pie at Cape Cod raised a few vegeta bles, and I asked my neighbor if the; had ever heard of tomatoes, or squashes or pumpkius, and they said no, I wrot bome for 23 different kinds of seeds an planted thetn. Immediately I left on fishiDg voyage for several months When I carne back my wife called ai tention to queer looking plants in tb garden on which tbere were ripe tomatoes. She dared not eat them but I did. Then I gave the neighbors seed. They planted the seed in flower beds and in cans in the house aud admired them as they did flowers. As far as I coald learn then or since they were the flist tomatoes raised in the United States."