Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-04-22
I asked the president of the company where

asked the president of the company where
was his beat market. He replied, "the
Southern cities, especially New Orleans"
After the committees had spent near two
hours examining this mandatory and were
talking of returning to Washington from
Baltimore, where the factory described is 10.
Gated, the company insisted that we should
dine with them. The invitation was accept
ed, and as we sat down to dinner the host an.
nounced that he had by order of the company
procured few pounds of the best butter
from the best csamery in Delaware and as
many pounds Of the oleomargarine and placed
them in cakes promiscuously upon the table.
Within reach to my right upon the table
was round cake of beautiful butter. On
my left sat Northwestern friend who comes
from land better than Goshen, and within
his reach to the left was square cake of as
beautiful, and, perhaps, somewhat darker col.
ored butter. While dining we enjoyed but.
ter from both plates and pronounced them
both "giltedged" Presently my Alderney
friend said, Aiken, one Of these cakes is
oleomargarine. and can prove it to you.
Taking little from the round cake and
spreading it upon his bread, he remarked
"Now, don't you see that this is butter see
how beautifully smooth it sprcads7" Then
taking as much from the square cake and
spreading it, he said, Don't you see how
fatty and globulous the surface looks? I am
sure that is not butter
When we had dined the landlord was asked
how he distinguished the cakes? Said he,
"the square cakes are butter, and the round
cakes are from the factory and are oleomar-
garine."
The president of this company said he
would defy the most delicate palate or most
experienced eye to distinguish his 'butterine'
from the best dairy butter, unless when SUBJ
jected to melting heat, in which case butter
would gradually soften, but in hottest weather
retain some consistency. Oleomargarine will
melt if exposed to this heat and run into oil.
But he averred that they had experimental
with it in every possible way in comparison
with butter of the purest quality both on
land and on sea, and found that under ordi-
nary temperature, sub bject to any exposure,
the oleomargarine will keep sweet and fresh
where butter will become rancid.
The mandatory in Baltimore is the small.
est in the United States, and its daily product
tor eight months in the year averages thirty.
five hundred pounds. 1t is not manufactured
during the hot summer months. There are
many manufactures in Philadelphia, New
York, Boston, Pittsburg, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Louisville and St. Louis, and the aggregated
daily product reaches nearly half million
pounds. The greater portion of it is shipped
abroad, and chiefly to Berlin, Amsterdam
and other German towns, and Liverpool, and
the supply has not equalled the demand in
any of those cities.
On nv seturn from Baltimore bought a
cake of oleomargarine and had it subjected
to the microscope and analyzed at the Agri-
cultural department. The microscopic exami.
nation made it appear very unlike butter, but
the chemical analysis showed it contained SO
per cent. of fatty matter, 8 per cent. of wa.
ter, per cent of salt, and 2 per cent. of an
imal matter. Of the SO per cent. of fatty
matter 95 per cent. was butter. So it only
lacked 5 per cent. of being the genuine arti.
Gle at the worst.
One Of the committee expressed it when he
facetiously remarked, 81 understand it all +;
we are living in a progressive age, and the in
ventions of the day have enabled US in this
instance to "go behind the returns" we have
gone to the fountain head, and by mechan.
ical operation produced FROM the same source
in an hour the identical substance that ma
ture would have consumed twenty.four hours
in producing through the slow operations Of
Modification, if l can coin word, milking
and churning."
So much for the manufacture and consump-
ton of oleomargarine. Very respectfully.
D. WYATT AIKEN.
STONEWALL JACKSON, THE PROFESSOR.
My first recollection of Stonewall Jackson
is when was college boy at Lexington, Va,
in the Fall of 1860 I am not able to say
whether it was the peculiar carriage of the
stiff, military-looking institute professor who
daily passed the college grounds that was Of
chief interest to the students Of Washington
College, or whether the stories told Of daring
and reckless courage in his early military life
invested him with halo of romance, and
made him an object of hero worship in their
youthful minds. Whatever the cause, the
solid tramp of Major jackson on the plank
walk, would be the signal to stop all games OF
mirth that may have been in progress on the
college campus, until he had passed. The
stiff, stolid looking man would pass on, turn
ing his head neither to the right nor left, but
single touch of his cap was the silent recog-
milton given of the deferential respect shown
by the boys
"Old Jack" as he was familiarly called by
cadets and students, was go plain in manner
and attire, there was so little effort at show,
his feet were so large, and his arms and hands
fastened to his body in such an awkward
shape, that the cadets didn't take much pride
in him as professor. They feared him in
the lecture room, they paid the strictest def
erence to him on parade, but in showing
stranger the sights about the institute, cadet
was never known to point out "Old Jack" as
one of the ornaments of the institution. He
was more popular with the college students.
who did not have the same reasons for fear
ing the austerity of his manner, but who knew
him as the son.in-law of their college Presi.
dent, the Rev. George Junkin.
My first meeting with Gen. Jackson in the
social circle was one evening when be called
to see friend at our boarding house. l
shall never forget the impression his manner
and appearance made upon me- Boy as |
was, l looked upon him with reverential
awe. I had heard the stories of his struggles
in early life; of how he had walked from his
house in Lewis county to Washington to re-
ceive his appointment as a cadet to West
Point; of his being ill-prepared, and the diff
fculty he had in keeping up with his classes
and then I had heard Of his brilliant career
in Mexinn nf his mnnntinp the walls of