The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-27

trout, floats the old boat. still as well pre-
served as its owner. The millionaire de-
clares that she is his most precious posses
sion, and rain or shine, he goes to visit her
every day. When showing her TO visitors
he says: "She never was very much of a
boat IN the way of beauty, but to me she is
the most beautiful object under the sun
Twice she saved my life, and when l was
dead broke she was my only friend and a
faithful one, too"
DO you see that man. galloping pell nell
with Infinite clatter down the street
dragging strange brown bundle behind
That bumps over the stones like a huge
rubber ball: You would hardly imagine
That he was making butter. now, would
you: but such is the case. All the butter
That is eaten in Uruguay is made in that
same primitive manner. The modus oper-
andl Is as follows: The dairyman pours
the milk (warm from The cow. without.
stralning), into an inflated sheepskin.
which has the wool side turned in. he
ties 1t securely, bitches it to his saddle bv
good strong lasso, and
GALLoPs OFF TO TOWN,
perhaps five or ten miles away, with the
sack humping along behind him. OF course
the churning is thorough, and by the time
MS destination is reached the butter ia
made. Then he has only to go from door
sired quantities with wooden dipper. To
De sure, 1t does not taste much like the
luprlcator we are accustomed to at home
Delng white as snow and resembling curd
cheese; but 1t has the merit of being sweet
and without the abomination of salt. which
mas no business in civilized butter. Though
the better class of Uruquayan farmers
nave all manner of modern agricultural
implements, they cannot be persuaded to
try churns. They say that Yankee butter
tastes only OF salt; and maybe it does lack
the flavor of sleeps wool. Another note
worthy thing about Montevideo is the fact
mat she has twice as many daily papers. in
proportion to the number of inhabitants. as
New York, London, Paris or Berlin, for
she boasts of twenty three, with popula-
ton of barely 125,000. Mr.. William p
Curtlss, the weli-lrown author who has
written the best articles extant on Urn
quay, Will pardon me, | am sure for quot
Ing him as authority for the following
statements. In his excellent book. "The
Capitals of Spanish-America," he tells ma
that IN these southern countries papers are
not published so much for the dissemina-
ton OF news as for the propagation of
IDEAS, and therefore they give about ak
columns of editorial to one OF intelligence
publish all sorts of communications on mo.
lltlcal subjects and often run histories and
biographies as serials. One FREQUENTLY
taxes up daily paper and finds everything
In 1t but the news, so that last weeks Issue
is as good reading as today's. The reason
for having
so MANY NEWSPAPERS
is because every public man requires an
organ in order to set his views before the
public. The editors are ordinarily politi-
clans who devote their entire time to the
discussion of political questions, and expect
the faction to which they belong to furnish
them the means of living while so EN-
ployed. Each paper has director. who
holds the relation of editor-in-chief. while
sub-editor is man of-all-work, edits copv,
looks after the news, reads proof. and
stays around the place to keep the printers
busy. There is never staff of editors or
Re porters, as in the United States. and eeJ-
dom more than two men In the Office in
fact. there is no such thing as a reporter in
all Spanish-America, what little there is
being gathered by the editors The direc.