Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-16
EFFECT OF LIME IN MILK.
What Drove the Liars OF Orange
County Out of NeWkirk,s store.


what Drove the Linrs OF Orange
County Out of Newkirk's store.
A group of men were gathered about
the big stove in Cobus Newkirk's coun-
try store, and, as they squirted tobacco
Juice into the fire, they strove to see
who could tell the biggest lie upon mean
men.
The first story of the evening was told
by Punch France, better known about
the county sas sas .s0ld Tyeeon," who said !:
II once knew man by the name of
Cummings, who was supposed to reside
in Goshen, but who in fact had no settled
residence. lie was worth nearly a
million dollars, which he invested princi-
pally in bank stock, on which he never
paid one cent of income tax. His scheme
was to travel continually from one part OF
the country to another, always on foot,
and sleep and eat at any farmhouse
where night overlook him, but he never
thought OF paying for his accommoda-
tions. He kept up this mode of lie,
never voting for forty years, to be able
to swear that he had no settled b Jme.
and thus escape payment OF income tax
When his daughter died at Middletown
he was up at Callicoon, and the fare on
the Erie road was only eighty-fve cents,
but he refused to pay that and walked to
Middletown, only to find that his daugh-
ter had been buried for over twenty-four
hours. think he was the meanest man
| ever knew"
"Pshaww exclaimed Hank st. John,
che amt marker to man l know
down in Deckertown, named Manus Van
HoJJtan Monrtc Aotr farr,
has been known time and time again to
let his nuttermilk stand in the churn un-
til it got thick, when he would churn it
over the second time and make what he
called white oak butter. Then he would
boil the liquor that was lett and make
pot cheese, after which he would add a
little precipitate of chalk to the whey
and peddle it out at Port Jervis as butter
milk. think he was the meanest man
ever knew"
"Well, you fellows tell pretty good
story, but think | can beat it," said
Bromp Deyo, "by telling ii story heard
many years ago down at Unionville about
an old farmer by the name OF Casper
Scraggs. Casper was never satisfied
with the amount OF cream his milk pro
duced, so he invented machine which
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Milk Pan Reverser. He contended
that certain amount OF this cream
was upon the bottom of the milk
in the pan, and after skimming the
cream from the top of the milk
he would put his machine in motion
and turn the milk in the pan like flap
jack and skim the bottom. This made
the milk SO weak that it could not bear
the lactometer, SO Casper would just add
little quicklime to make the tester float.
This milk he sold among the negro pop
ulation in Newton, and it destroyed the
coloring matter in the skins of quite
number of them, SO they turned white
from the effects of the quicklime
in the milk. After a while
likely young fellow with a creamy white
skin turned up at Unionville and fell in
love with Casper's daughter and married
her. Shortly after this the inspector
got some of Casper's milk and
made an analysis of it, and, find
ing the quicklime in it, he locked
old Casper up in jail. AS soon as
the supply of doctored milk was cut off,
the negroes in Newton began to turn
black again, and SO did Casper's son-in-
law.''
There was silence in the room as the
crowd melted out one by one.-[New
York Press.