The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-21
PERKINS WAS FINED
GILT EDGE BUTTER THE SUBJECT
OF A CASE In COURT.

Wichita Man Put a Pound OF Butter in a
Pint of Milk. Said "Presto Change
and He Had Two Pounds OF Butter--He
Advertised His Enterprise. Thought he
Was Bercf:c of the Human Race
but his peIus;on Ended with an
Indictment--Uc Was Fined Ten Dollars
for 1t,
There was case in the United States
court yesterday that was quite interest
ing.
The case was the United States VS.
". J. Perkins, proprietor of the Planet
Manufacturing company. And it was
all about butter making or the making
Of something called butter.
Mr. Perkins discovered a process by
which he could take one pound of but
ter and churn il in one pint of milk
and the original pound of butter would
come out two pounds.
This second two pounds Mr.. Perkins
called '.GiIt Edge butter and he adj
ncrtised his Gilt Edge" butter COM
pound all over the coutry. And people
who preferred two pounds of butter to
enc were advised to buy the compound.
The compound WAS put into quart Of
milk before churnine.
When Colonel j. w. Ady was United
States attorney somebody sent him a
copy of the Baltimore American con-
tainnig Perkins advertisement in
which the compound was warranted to
make two pounds of pure Gilt Edge"
butter out of one pint of milk and one
pound of butter
Then somebody sent Colonel Joe Ady
one of Perkins circulars advertising
his compound and he took the circular
and the Baltimore American and hand
ed them over TO the United States
grand jury and that august body in
dictei Mr.. Perkins for using the mails
for fraudulent purposes.
Mr. Perkins was knocked clear off
his feet when he was indicted. He
thought that he had a discovery that
everybody needed and here he was in
aicted in a United States court for adj
NertiSinG il.
Mr.. Perkins retained Colonel Halo
we'll to defend him and yesterday when
the case was called Colonel HallOwell
filed plea in abatement and confessed
10 having used the United States mails
to advertise the compound and claimed
that it would make the two pounds as
advertised.
He even submitted tests made by
prominent chemists and they said it
would do it,
Then Judge Williams proceeded to
deliver his opinion. He said that out
side Of the law he had some knowledge
Of butter making himself. When he
was boy his mother used TO make
him churn the cream with an oid-fash-
toned dash churn. He would pound
away and every minute seemed an hour
He worked his two hands up and down
and made the ina ginary churn dash
fairly fly up and down. He said he
would churn and churn and churn and
then he would raise up the dash TO see
II the milk was breaking and then he
would buckle in and churn again.
If at this stage of the game some
body had come along with a compound
and put il in the churn and made two
pounds Of butter out of one with few
SplaShes of the dash he would have
recorded him as a benefactor of the
race. He would have regarded that
man as greater than Washington.
He then delivered the opinion in q
grave manner and said a man had a
right to use the mails to assist him in
advertising compound that will make
a ppund of butter weigh two pounds
is the addition of a pint of sweet milk
Then" he said, there is that ad-
Nertisement in the Baltimore American
in that you say il is pure Gilt Edge
butter. | will just fine you so and
costs in this case for saying it was
pure butter"