Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 11, 1914, Page 12

interested in reading in . the other day, the 5to: nan who makes butter. nan, please observe. n. ' Nor a factory. Just a a farmers wife and the ughter of a farmer’s wife. A woman se mother was rated for forty years as “the best butte the county” and who has maim for herseif the inherited -reputation. Not a No matter about her name, now, nor “what she does doe that int me will interest some of you. w she ope and how and. I In the first place, what she does to make butter so good that she doe: 't bave fo sell it: it sells itself. All e is engaged before it is peoplo who come after it price the hiet in point of take more interest, how ords to As has been v to m a vowl “ha intimated, she learned from ner mother, d a wooden but- e. The n with a separ; ter-wor St b 9. Not a v ou see. How does she go at to get her with ator hurn till it has stood twelve Then she stirs it all together till it is of a velvety smoothness. She never allows one drop of cream to get sour. In summer she churns every day to avoid any possible dan- ger of souring. | She doesn't keep on churning till the | butter has made a greasy lump and been pounded over and over into stick- iness. The instant it “breaks” into ittle separate grains she drains off | the buttermilk, all that will run away, washes out every atom cf | left. “Some have told me,” iat if 1 left in more water | d'give weight to the butter and | 0 bring ‘me more; but I was trained to make good butter” (Please read those last eight words over again!) Next she spreads it thinly in the butter-worker, sprinkles it with best Dutter salt She can ounce to the pound, from six to ten hour: soak through. Then it is worked Into pound rolls, and passed out to_ the eager customers who are often w: ing outside to get the first chance, buy,—an —and_leaves it for the salt to | | | This farmer's wife hasn’t any pa- tience with her sisters who think they can’t make fancy butter because they i ford expensive machinery. “I make just as good butter with the old dash churn, bowl, and paddle as 1 can make with the’ patent affairs,” she says. “It isn't a question of what t make it with, but of how you ke it.” In which e statement, bretheren and_sistere s a more’ important practical truth than yow'll sometimes see a Dig book by a college pro- m t | _And the ultimate explanation of th, | whole mat | of it all, the great of her suc- found in that other remark, ted two or three paragraphs back, that she doesn’t leave water in her e > was trained “to make good butter.” In other words, she is more intent the | on dotug good work and making a §00d_product than in merely making money. Do you catch on? She does- »'t regerd her customers as mere spenders of money for her to get all she can grab from, but as neighbors to be treated by her as she would ask to_be treated by them. This_spirit is one which too many men and too many women sneer at: call “sissyish”: criticise as ‘“unbusi- Dessiike,” ete. Well, in her case, it seems to have proven pretty fair “bus- Iness”, after all. Five cents a pound better' than the highest market price, and a demand greater than her possi- ble production seem like tolerably good “business,” eh? But, after all, the one thing which has impressed me most forcibly in reading her story of how she does it | has been the vividness with which it | has brought back the old days when 1 | used to see my own mother making | butter from her three or four cows. The old dash churn; the cream kept sedulously cool and of even tempera- { ture; the vigilance against a drop be | coming sour; the careful protection i frum dirt and dust,and offensive odors; the almost finicky carefulness in working and salting; all these memo- ries of what was a common scene in my own boyhood come back. Really, how much improvement has there been in the quality of butter since those days? There have been | inventions and many macnines and much_talkee-talkee. The same woman | can make ten pounds of butter easier, | now. than fifty vears ago: she can { make more butter, now, with the same | effort, than she could fifty years ago. | | " Buf does she make better butter? | | Not much; not any even as good | | unless she goes right back to the very | principles and general practices foi- lowed by the best butter-makers of | | the past. ! good butter, then, and | Dutter, just as 'now. | | There always will be both, just as | | long as there are butter makers whose | first_aim 1s to make good butter, and | others whose chief aims are to skimp | labor and skin customers. It is quite likely that our mothers | and grandmothers knew less about the | chemistry of the churn than do lots of young men just now out of agricul- tural school. They probably never had heard of the relations between butter- at and butter. But they knew milk, and they knew cream, and they knew butter. And the very best thing any | living human being can say of the best | butter he can buy at any price today | is that it is “as good as mother used | There was | there was poor | Now, you ail know, by this time, | that I'm no reactionary. I'm a pro- | ) gressive from the bottom of my boots {up to the last hair nearest the sum- | of my bald crown. I've been more | criticised for my tendency towards | | “new-fangled notions” than for my | | bourbonism. ] | But there's reason in all things,—or ple who seldom show any signs of us | ing it doesmt prove that they don't possess it, any more than the fact that one 15 stone deal proves that he has Dot ears. And in this butter proposition, the simple truth seems to De that the best butter of today is just about the same thing s the best butter of fAfty years ago, and is made in just about the same way. Thi “improvements” in butter making and in butter machin- ery have resulted in reducing by a little the labor and st_of producing “commercial _butter.” They haven't enabled the making of better butter. Right there we open up the lid of a rather deep subject. Better things: or cheaper and easier things? Which are the more desir- able? Good work: or easler work and shorter hours? Which ought to be the aim of the honest workman? A struggle after perfection: or a arift with the current of circum- stances towards anything that prom- ises relief from labor? Which is the worthier? Sakes alivel Let's get out of that! It's too deep altogether for this every- | day column. But in the one matter of butter | making it surely looks as if our boast- | ed progress had been not so much a | climbing upwards towards better re- sults as a chasing of its own tail ‘round a circular track. We can make butter a little easier and a little faster than our mothers used to, and we can make a little more | of it. But, when we want to make it as good as they did, we have to fall back into their ways, in the main. ‘This isn’'t exactly the kind of “pro- gress” that is supposed to be meant when its orators go into spellbinding conniption fits over it. 1 confess it inclines me, for one, to feel a little humbler over the twentieth century. At least over twentieth cen- tury butter. I can_still join in bragging about telegraphy, and suicide by aeroplane, and Peary at the North Pole. none of these things touch me very closely, while I sit down facing a but- ter dish three times a day. There hasn't appeared thus far any Marconi or Wright or Peary in the butter making arena. The fgure which our dreams still draw as su- premo in that fleld is always. that of mother or grandmother, with her old- fashioned butter-bowl and paddle. ‘Wonderful is this Amazing is the Great is Progre Age of Tmproveme: Work of the Babcock tester.. iine as a fddle is the big Butter Factory, driven by a shining steam ensine and managed by men in freshly-laundered linens. But when we want some real, bans- up, creamy, nutty, meltingly ~sweet, long-keeping butter, we hitch up_and arive back into the hills to some farm where somebody’s Mother used to make it and where her Daughter has kept up the old methods and the old ideals, and thank our stars if we're lucky enough to get there before some- to have it welsh more because | ought to be. That there are some peo- | body else has gobbled up the whole morning’s churning! THE FARMER. %) [ORTUNE HUNTERS/ A\eoek and Find Wealth,, A ) ) Y AR <EL 1 ‘l r SOMEBODY = SE=— GOVERNMENT PROSPECTORS N CAMP Correspondence SK the average man, and he will tell, you the prospector, arrying his lean kit, and ever expectant that tomorros ng forth a golden Goiconda, 1s & thing of the p of t interim which foliowed 'the d ous metel in the Klondike, died est prospectors toda; In *49—men who with turing forth into every tion of Uncle Sam’s vast like the prospectors of old, @o not hunt in a b @lgging here or the on luck Thero are as earn as there were back slender Kits are ven- unexplored por- erritory. Un- though, they <arum fashion, gambler faith eol guided solely T Ermient Of wiF-ihough ttinually discovering lands wealth worth mililons they never all, mever stake off a claim, nor ffort to gain pos- For these modern hunt wealth at a regular sal- e Sam. They locate mining oniy that others may take and In a word, they look for wealth body else they with A Tremendous Work. xploring geologists under the direc- of the United States Department of or is the high-sounding title government give Some idea of the magnitude of their work mav be gicaned from the fact that since the first Legan prospecting they bave discov- ered more than 75,000,000 acres of min- eral-bearing land. = The monetary | vaiue of the land is impossible 8@ “compute. FSome ofit has never tion | been clatmea or even worked, though the Intertor Deartment will tell any one of its location and sell it for a song. Other lands found by them have been bought up and worked. have yielded millions in profit and are still ylelding. At the land office, that bureau of the Interior Department which sells or lends the tracts after they have been “discov- ered,” it was declared that the most con- servative estimate of the profit o pri- vate citizens who have been told in mi- nute detail where to dig mines by Uncle Sam's prospectors would mount into the T overnment prospectors never start out looking for gold or, indeed, for any other one mineral. They search for anything and everything. They start with the definite informa that there is a certain tract of primitive land, absolutely untenanted, on which the jand office has no report.” With this knowledge and & camp Kit, they start for that territory They g0 as far as they can by train, then in wagons or on horseback and finally, if necessary, on foot. And they have just tw: n view. One I8 ta every foot of land In other is to note every thing on that land, together with every geological indica: tion of evervthing in the land. If there are no indications of gold, they look for sfive v may find neither, or both. > they continue to look, b ences of coal, iron, . phosphate and even borax :d has no mineral value at all. they consi@er Its timber, to mote whether it ay be valuable fo a Iumberman. If there Is not enouzh a stream, which may be profitably zed for water-power purposes. Fin- ally. they test even the sol! to ascertain its value to a possible agrioulturist. Thousands in Salaries. o Qafinite objects ver, figuratively. the tract. The | | [ eicnor tha dant they. ao: ves. i ok coiirse practically " Valusless “From mineral siandpoint. Nearly all of it pos- Sosses minerals in some degree but ' not enough to make Mining a paying propo- 1t tne | timber, they hunt { stion. Frequently, however, they come across a tract that Is destined to make ‘multi-millionaire of the first person to clalm ft—for Uncle Sam plays no favor- ites, and the first person tfo put in a& rightful bid for any of this open public domain gets it Strangely enough, though, for all that { the government publishes the resuits of its prospectors’ work in the fleld every few weeks, valuable tracts frequently lie for months and vears without a single claimant. This maintenance of a huge corps of prospectors by Uncle Sam proves him a most_beneficent “avuncular,” for it is a losing proposition with him from first to |1ast.” Tt costs him thousands of doilars | every month in salaries alone, and thou- {sands more to pay the expenses of the prospecting tours. Then, finally, if he Sells the land, he is apt to realize less per acre for it than the average man Days for a pair of shoes. The average price runs from §250 to §5 per acre, depending on the kind of min- eral the land contains. That with zold silver in it costs $5 an acre, while lands containing borax. phosphates. talc, n_or oil are all sold indlscriminately for §2.50 per acre. - And at this price any man may buy 160 acres, or any portlon thereof. More than half the time, however, after Uncle Sam has gone to the huge expense of finding mineral lands, he is cut out of even the small return he might get from a sale. For it ls mot nocessary for one to buy this land in order to get s min erals. All that is necessary Is to work| it. It a man will settla on land and sink a mine. or even dig a little each dey with pick and shovel, he may take from it every particle of mineral it possesses, without paying the government one cent. Better still, that same government at its jown expense will safoguard him and | prevent any one else from usurping his| rights. | | Six Millions in Sales. “There are thousands of people Who have worked our lands and grown rich from them without ever buying a singled | Whenever the tract | money Lz W foot,” sald Commissioner of the Land Office Fred Dennett. “Still, we manage to sell a good many million acres at tha.. is particularly rich there is nearly always a sale. This i due to the fact that the person claimiag the land usually wishes to start mining on a gigantic scale. All that takes big capital however, more money usually than the claimanf can command from his own personal resources. So it Is necessary for him to organize a company, and, natur- ally, people are not going to invest with the proprietors of a mine unless they own that mine. The other Way, you there might be a strike. or something which would cause the work to stop for, say, thirty days. Thus somecbody else might jump the claim on the ground that it was not being worked, and there would be a pretty question to be settled at law. “We manage to make quite a few sales —last vear, for instance, they totaled more than $0,000.000. Bven at that, though, counting the expenditures of the land office and those Of the geological survey, the government probably lost Tt 1% not so much from the lands rich in gold and silver that Uncle Sam gets his recompense, however, as it is from Put | the lands containing that most humble Vet most necessary of all mineral depos- Acting Mayor Miner made accusa- tion at the last meelng of the court of common council that there were bunches of grafters in New London, | of varying membership, whose cardi- nal principle scemed to be to reach into the city treasurer and get some of the people’s money for some trivial or fancied injury to person or proper- ty. He sald that while it was true hat many cases of claims for damages had been settled rather than stand suit in court, he claimed that it was about time that a halt was called as that easy form of settiement seemed to en- courage the growing little army of grafters. He felt satisfied that some claims had been settled that would have no standing in court and that there are some deserving claims en- tered against the city the settle with- out trial idea has encouraged claims that would never have materialized. _ It was hinted that there are lawyers in New London who keep tabs on ac- | cldents that are reported In the news- papers and get in an indirect touch with the injured and that before tho time limit expires claims for damages are flled with the city clerk. It 1s al- 50 hinted that in order to avold sus- picion of having worked up cases | against the city, these lawyers asso- | ciate with other lawyers in the prose- | cution of the cases. Acting Mayor Miner said that there were cases pend- ing against the city for alleged dam- ages that would Dot be settled out of court if the cost of settlement was to come from the city treasury by the court of common council route. | | nce Alderman 5 ry of the fourth ward and Alderman Lafayette Budd of the ffth ward had a lively tilt at a meeting of the court of common coun- cil when the alderman from the fourth registered a vigorous protest against the sidewalk, or rather no sidowalk conditions that were permitted to ex- ist in front of the trolley car barn in Montaulk avenue, while property own- ers in all other parts of the avenue were required to pay for the construc- tion of sidewalks in front of their properties in conjunction with the city. The alderman from the fifth set up claim that it was an engineering impossibility to construct a sidewalk among the number of racks that were laid at the entrance to the car barn and took a side rap at Alderman O'Leary by hinting that the car barn was in the avenue beforo the alderman erected a $12,000 residence on a fifteen cent lot. It is not so very lon, James F. O'Ls % | | | its, coal. Strangely enough, t0o, the price of coal land is many times higher than that of any other. Land which may con. tain gold in unfold quantities may be bought at a cheaper price for an entire plot of 160 acres than the price demanded by Uncle Sam for just one acre of some of his coal lands. Fair Prices. For inetance, whereas land which Un- cle Sam will all but positively guarantes to contain gold may be had for $5 per acre, even the most indifferent sort of coal land will probably bring at least $10 an acre. And within the past three years Uncle Sam has sold coal land in Wyoming for 3500 per acre. Now, how- ever, this same Jand could not be repur- chased from the men who bought it from Uncle S8am for even $5,000 per acre. 1t is only within the past two or three years, however, that the government has Fotten even fair prices for its coal landa. Previous to that time $10 3 Gera wea tha high limit—that price being the result of the law-authorizing the sale of lands. It NEW LONDON FLOO Settling Without Trial Has Encouraged the Idea—Result of | the the Aldermen’s Tilt — Getting Into the Public Eye — Sealer of Weights and Measures at Work. DED WITH CLAIMS Alderman Rudd is superintendent of the East Lyme and Shore Line divi- ns of the trolley system, and Alder- man O'Leary whispered of an al- derman guarding the interest of the in- terests rather than his constituency. These two aldermen are intimate friends and while their thrusts were mad parily in jest they were none the. less effective. Alderman O'Leary does not go off at half-cock in city affairs any more than does he in his own private business, and he knew pretty near where he was at before he went ahead. He insisted that the conditions at the car barn be improved and the work of improvment is progressing. The crossing at the head of Denison avenue, next the bar barn has been changed to conform to the general grade and the work of constructing a sidewalk in front of the car barn is only a matter of a sort time. Plans have been made and constractors are making estimates preparatory to bid in estimate preparatory to bidding for the work. In the advancement of the improvement Alderman O'Leary has no tsronger supporter than Alderman years ago there was a local merchant who was something of a iner and his aim was to become the ig muckamuck of the organizations with whcih he was affiliated and in this he succeeded. He was not averse to publicity and furnished news items that concerned himself almost daily to the local newspapers and it was not unusual printed in the newspapers et frequent intervals. Announcement was made when he went out of town and an- nouncement was made of his return, with all the details, and almost every move he made in the organizations to which he belonged were chronicled in the local press. This condition ‘went along swimmingly for a couple of years or more and all of a sud- den It was noticed that that special feature of local newspaperdom was among the things that were and are no more, It was learned that a local dentist had made a practice of clipping every item that appeared in the newspapers that related to this individual, and also the severeal portraits. These he ingeniously compiled and arranged them into a book divided into chap- ters, and {llustrated, which made very peculiar and intensely interesting reading. The dentist presented the volume to a friend who considered it too good a thing to keep secret. So he showed the volume to an intimate for his picture to be | friend of the ”lllm gentleman and in_ due time the contents wers made known to the subject of the rare book and he fell to the attitude he bad taken in blowing his own horn and became as dumb as an oyster, and the jiner never thereafter spoke to dentist as they passed by. It is understood that the dentist is compiling a similar book with another personage as the subject. He gives the jiner here referred to big odds and wins as a self-advertiser and the day is dull Indeed when he does not 8ive some newspaper some item that concerns and is of but little interest only to himseif. Who? Bv- erybody who reads local newspapers knows and so does the other fellow. _Thomas E. Donohue has assumed new duties a: and measures and has established of- fice hours, with desk room in the basement of the county court house, termed as the temporary council chamber and where several city offices are temporarily located pending the completion of the municipal building. CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION BATTLE OF STONINGTON Preparations Are Well Under Way for Big Event in August at Stoning- ton, The citizens' committee on_the cen- tennial celebration of the Battle of Stonington are busied in preparing for the big event and the whole people are a unit in the preparation for a cordial reception to all visitors and special arrangements will be made for the entertainment of the visiting or- ganizations. and among the latter there will be several from New Lon- don. Stonington is noted for hos- pitality and past excellent records in that line will be broken next August. | Although the town received from the state only one-fifth of the appropria- tion asked for that fact will in no way detract from the greatness of the three days of celebration. The sev- eral fire companies have each invited fire companies from other towns to participate in the firemen’s day parade which will be a feature of the cele- bration, and it is expected that fifteen fire organizations will be in line and that each will be accompanied by a band in real old volunteer firemen style. Within a short time there will be several thousand cellulofd button sou- venirs in circulation advertising the celebration. On these buttons will be plctured the historical monument, the cannon and the cannon balls, and the words: “Stonington, Conn, August 8-10—1814-1914* There will also be a large number of buttons in bronze of like design that will ha offered for sale. All the historic places in the borough will be properly marked and everything possible will be done Dby the people to make the event the biggest kind of a big success, | Jane Addams says she doesn’t k.mrw] erough to be mayor. Neither do a lot of men we know, but some of them are mayors—Detroit Free Press, Ts O, FELD Was OPENED ThE FE.ow Hap To BE. DvmED WitH BAGS OF SAND was the investigation of the famous ningham claim accepted for lands that were estimated to contaln coal worth $300,000.000—that coused the construction on this law to be changed. Now the government charges according to the value of the deposits. Government estimates of value are fn- varlably so conservative, however, that while nothing is guaranteed, the pur- chaser can usually feel certain he is playing a sure thing. The prospector of the days of '49 would obably scorn the methods pursued y the fortune hunters Who work for Uncle Sam. Yet. in a way, the latter are more thorough. Certainly the salaried Prospector covers far more ground than his predecessor. But there is one vast difference. When the forty-niner cwme upon a_possible “strike” he promptly staked 1t off and made sure by digging. Single-handed, he wowid work his claim until he had a pretty definite knowledge of the width and depth of his veln, and a roughly estimated knowledse of its total value. All a Matter of Test. Uncle Sam's prospectors do none of these things.They use no picks or shev- s—where $10 an acre was | | | ASURINGAND TESTING _ WLY DISCOVERED COAL'VEIN els in their work. Instead their tools are their hands, thelr eyes and their pockets, They walk over the land, noting every rock on its surface, and as they walk they pick up a stone or a plece of quarts and tuck it away in their pockets. They Scoop up & handful of the sofl from the spot on which the rook lay, carefully and tuck that away, too. Later that rock or quarts Wwill be sci- entifically tested. So also will the sol. and from the resuits of these tests ! properies Baken of e earing. rock which appears on the e neusione will Also be drawn T ihe probatle amount of minerals | Bencath the surface | ™ot "iase ‘deauotion, however. s al- | waya® based Saiely on geotogioal condi- | tions: mever on actual dizsing. And no | report on the probable quantity of min- jerals is made at all. The prospector | Srare1y turne I & report saving that such | e “Mich Tand ives evidence of contain: | B stich and suoh & minerai. e the mineral be precious—gold or sil- ver—that Teport marks the End of © matter o far aa the government ls con- cerned. It Temains for some individual fo find_out for himself by practical in- Vestigation whether or not the Dhilan Ihropic prospector's scientific deductions aro correct.” If the mineral be coal | Rowever—ever since the Cunningham af | fair “the Interior Department has rather Sbectalized on coal—the man in search of 2 mine has his work ana his personal Tisk considerably lessened Checking Up the “Prospect.” Frequently it so happends that the prospectors find huge veins of coal which, for all their quantity, are of such poor quality that they are scarcely worth the mining. Several far wostern states. for instance, have huge beds of coal Iying not many feet beiow tho sur- face and extending aimost from one bar- der line to the other. Dig down aimost anywhere in either Washington or Oregon, according to the Interior Department, and you will find a Ded containing enough coal to run every rallroad in the country for twenty-four hours. 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