Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-18
A JERSEY YARN.
How an Expert Juggler il Said to Have
Duped Maine Man.

The Jersey City Evening Journal Of Feb.
9th, gives the following account of the alleged
swindle of a confding Maine butter maker.
We have failed to discover any such a gen.
tleman as the one named in this article, and
are inclined to believe it a Jersey yarn and
like the mosquitoes of that section, a little too
large for credence- The Jersey paper tells
the story thusly:
The letter given below, and which has
come to the Journal by mail is worth reading
1t needs no extended comment, since its con
tents are clear as to the subject of which it
treats:
RIVERSIDE, Feb. 5, 1888.
Mr.. EDITOR
Dear Sir Glanced to see one of your
evening papers some two weeks ago, and |
would ike to subscribe for short time to
see now like the paper, and if possible would
subscribe by the year
If you will allow me- will tell you how
your paper has cost me fifteen hundred dol
lars. Some two weeks ago / was going to
Boston, and very polite and clever Young
gent, sitting in the same drawing room car
with me, politely asked me if | would like
to see New Jersey paper. Il pre-
sumo you keep plenty of Jersey cows he
said, Eyes and fine ones they are: | have
six The young man said: .You would be
surprised if should tell you, can make
more butter with one of them than you can
with the other five" | offered the young
man 500 if could do it. 81 800 and YOU
shall know, and | will satisfy you that the
butter is all right before you pay me the
cash, he replied | asked him his name
and he said he was from the great Jersey
country" he said his name was Ed. Knowl-
ton. DO you know of such man? He con
WINGED me. and gave him the money, and
| make pounds of butter out of 3 l-2 pints
of milk, but since he went back to Jersey
have tried the same way again, and cannot
do it. Now I want to take the Evening
Journal for while and see if / can learn
some way to eclipse that. He also intro
duced me to the Governor of Massachusetts,,
in the Parker House, Boston. Mr.. Editor
please inform me if such a man lives in
Jersey. What will your paper be for two
months. Please tell me, and | will forward
the same. Please send me the papers from
the coming of this week. Address,
A. ID. FOSTER, Augusta, Maine.
This is the very latest and slickest Ger
tainly the greasiest sample, yet reported,
Mr.. Foster evidently did not know that New
Jersey is not the original home of the Jersey
cows; he supposed that the jersey COW was
indigenous in the locality from which Mr..
Knowlton said he came. The wonderful
butter maker, Knowlton, who actually con-
WINGED the honest Maine farmer that he had
produced eight pounds of genuine butter from
eight and half pnts of milk, must be an ex-
pert juggler, and if Senior Hermann wants
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bawl out and engage 1.-THE young man from
Jersey" who got Mr.. Fosters 81 800 by his
neat, slcight-of hand butter making. We
will send our correspondent Foster copy of
the Evening journal of this date. and after
he has read it, perhaps he will awake to a
better appreciation of the peculiar operation
which the bunco bogus butter fellow succeed
ed in performing on him and his 81 800.