The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-06-17

Seventeen hundred pounds d batter
% handle Ia one day, md each day i
- me foftnoDu. = quite 3 br1xi-
ness:. And dis wxs done by faizIy
lnse1heentlooking men. wofking e
~ mcnth and boarding themselves.
Ibey we've men who knew how, and
thsy handled their work with def
hands. AZ this vas more axt0nishesl
thAn anything before learned Three
o. Thee were men Of families and an
|sa5d they reeeiFed nothing for the
exssa Sunday work The fuo sys-
tens Of Cream gathering and sep
ayAtang' vere freely eanvax>ed. the
one BY setting the milk a. home and
sending only the cream 70 the factory.
the other by receiving the milk Is
like IT this place and ssparstins the
cream from the milk b. machinery.
II 4 claimed that by de s.seyarsfin =
systsm absolutely all the impurities
are removed from both the crearr and
milk. On the other hand I. i claimed
that cream viii keep longer raised the
.sold way and n better where wanted
10 send 10 market. ] charged it as
being . wasteful method. when the
superintendent said that they get less
than fhyee pounds Of butter 20 the
hundred pounds Of milk, bat he
answered that il was on account Of the
cows not being good stock. Al another
establishment the proprietor sail the
range was from two and . hall TO four
and q half pounds Of butter 10 the
hundred pounds Of milk, but he In
sisted that al the cream wa. obtained
where ANY kind OF care Was exer-
eised. =
A drive through the county de-
yelDpsd some VERY fair looking cpvs
and SOME good blue grass pastures.
bat many Of the clover fields had
gone up. to use the expression os |
the gentleman who accompanied me.
Nevertheless the fact remained that |
there was large area In clover yet
left, but you can't get Vifginian to !,
cut 1t early enough. NOR 10 stop curing |
IL quick enough. All and all. the
country looked more thrifty than one |
would expect. taking into considera- |
ton the great change that has come
over the state. I'VE have better barns |
than before the war" said . farmer to |
me, flor many Of the old ones were !
burned and we built better ones in |
their place" As we conyersed. he |
pointed out in full view from his house |,
wisers union battery had been
planted. and told how the shrlIs flew |
about. and how he and his family fed /
to the cellar, and how "a rebel regi- |
ment q use his Words went round |
there, pointing 10 a piece of wood |
land, "and got In the rear and cap
turcd the whole bilin Of EN-" An |
other told me Of what he. as an un- |
1-tfffn0 fat - 81.
bridge that the union troops We're try |
Ing 10 take, where their dead we're |
actually piled sewn deep, one upon
another. and the blood running Ia a |
riypiet around the end OF the bridge |
and clear down TO the water" from |
the mass. as they lay there in the |
CHASTITY pile. He did not tell II ex-
liitlngly. but seemed to recoil from the
recital.
The people talke'l calmly about the
scenes and results Of the war All
who said anything about II agreed that
they had no other thought than that
the rebellion would succeed, and were
amazed when they found that il had
not The firm impression left upon
my mind Is that they are satisfied now
that they did not win. but they said
that further south the case was diff
ferent. The facts are. | presume, that
their free labor does not cost them
more than their slave labor did. and
they are Grid OF the care OF them" as
an old gentleman said. which has mod |
lied their views somewhat and softens
the sting OF defeat
A sudden flash in the twilight as |
sat on the deep porch OF a boarding
house surrounded by shade trees. and
which stood back from the village f,
street hundred feet or more, at |
tracie1 my attention. Then another
aud another. Ithad been nearly forty |
years since had Witnessed the light |
ming hugs t''glow worms. We call |
them. my landlady sadl in my boy
hood home The shriil whistle of the |
whip-poor-wil was family heard from |
over the ridge in an adjoining field. as
sharp and clear as ever; in the sink
near by two species OF tree toais @cre
screaming or shouting something that
| fancied sounded like the katy-did,"
and this seemed 20 complete the quar-
tefte of home memories, to iull me
almost into dreamland. and TO
realization that after all sight seeing
was work, and tiresone work. This
which may be readily realized when
when one settles himself down To
thought and rest .sYes. | believed l
would 20 to bed early" in response 10
a thoughtful suggestion of mine host,
and so. with this music still dinging in
my ears. and the sights still fitting
across my mind, crept between the
whiscst. cleanest OF sheets, in the
little quaint front bedroom, to soon
forget for long time all about the
huitermilk and butter, the colored
people. scenes of the war. the whip
roor.wiIl and all that, TO awake next
morning refreshed long after the sun
was up. but ready for another day
outing in - way down in Old Nir-
eiuia.H T. NJ