Rum

a distilled liquor, akin to whiskey. It is prepared from the fermented juice of the sugar-cane or from molasses. The sugar growers of the West Indies save all the skimmings from the evaporators in which sugar is made. It makes the highest priced quality of rum. In colonial days rum was an important article of New England trade. The slavers of Liverpool, too, used to set out with a stock of beads and gewgaws to be exchanged for slaves on the African coast. The slaves were sold in our Southern States and the proceeds were invested in Jamaica rum for a home cargo. In this way three profits were made in a single trip. In 1902 Cuba exported 1,308,634 gallons of rum. In the same year Great Britain imported over a million dollars' worth of rum from her West India possessions. Rum is distilled largely in New England also. See Alcohol; Distilling