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Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-11

on doing good work and making a good product than in merely making money. Do you catch on? She does n't regard her customers as mere spenders of money for her to get all she can grab from. but as neighbors to be treated by her as she would ask to be treated by them.
 This spirit is one which too many men and too many women sheer at: call "sissyish'': criticise as 'unbusi- nesslike," etc. Well, in her case, it seems to have proven pretty fair bus iness'', after all. Five cents 8 pound better than the highest market price. and demand greater than her possi- ble production seem like tolerably good business" eh?
 But, after all, the one thing which reading her story of how she does it has been the vividness with which it has brought back the old days when l used to see my own mother making butter from her three or four cows. The old dash churn; the cream kept sedulously cool and of even tempera- ture; the vigilance against a drop be- coming sour; the careful protection from dirt and dust and offensive odors; the almost finicky carefulness in working and salting; all these memo ries of what was a common scene in my own boyhood come back.
 Really, how much improvement has there been in the quality of butter since those days? There have been inventions and many machines ana can make ten pounds of butter easier, now, than fifty years ago; she can make more butter, now, with the same effort, than she could fifty years ago.
 But does she make better butter?
 Not much; not any even as good .ha ioI,t hoo n fha principles and general practices fol- lowed by the best butter makers or the past.
 There was good butter, then, and there was poor butter, just as now. There always will be both, Just as long as there are butter makers whose first aim is to make good butter, and others whose chief aims are to skimp labor and skin customers.
 It is cutie likely that our mothers and grandmothers knew less about the chemistry of the churn than do lots of young men just now out of agricul- tural school. They probably never had heard of the relations between butter fat and butter. But they knew milk and they knew cream and they knew butter. And the very best thing any living human being can say of the best butter ne can buy at any pT1Ce lOuay is that it is "as good as mother used to makei"
 Now, you all know, by this time, that I'm no reactionary. I'm a pro- gressive from the bottom of my boots up to the last hair nearest the sum- init of my bald crown. I've been more criticised for my tendency towards ''new-fangIed notions" than for my bourbonism.
 But there's reason in all things,-or ought to be. That there are some peo- pie who seldom show any signs of us- ing it doesn't prove that they don't
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-11
NEW LONDON FLOODED WITH CLAIMS
Settling Without Trial Has Encouraged the Idea-Resu of the Aldermen's Tilt - Getting Into the Public Eye Sealer of Weights and Measures at Work.

Acting Mayor Miner made accusa- ton at the last meeing of the court Of common council that there were punches of grafters in New London, of varying membership, whose cardi- nal principle seemed to be to reach into the city treasurer and get some or the peoples money for some trivial or tancied injury to person or proper ty. He said that while 1t was true that many cases of claims for damages had been settled rather than stand suit in court, he claimed that it was about time that a halt was called as that easy form of settlement seemed to en- courage the growing little army of grafters. He felt satisfied that some claims had been settled that would have no standing in court and that there are some deserving claims en- tered against the city the settle with out trial Idea has encouraged claims that would never have materialized
 It was hinted that there arc lawyers in New London who keep tabs on ac- cidents that are reported in the news papers and get in an indirect touch with the injured and that before the time limit expires claims for damages are filed with the city clerk It is all so hinted that in order to avoid sus- picion of having worked up cases against the city, these lawyers asso-
 
 cution of the cases. Acting Mayor Miner said that there were cases pend ing against the city for alleged dam ages that would not be settled out of court if the cost of settlement was to come from the city treasury by the court of common council route.
 1t is not so very long since Alderman James F. O'Leary of the fourth ward and Alderman Lafayette Budd of the fifth ward had a lively tilt at a meeting of the court of common coun- cil when the alderman from the fourth registered a vigorous protest against the sidewalk, or rather no sidewalk conditions that were permitted to ex- ist in front of the trolley car barn in Montauk avenue, while property own CTS in all other parts of the avenue were required to pay for the construc- ton of sidewalks in front of their properties in conjunction with the city. The alderman from the fifth set up claim that it was an engineering impossibility to construct a sidewalk among the number of racks that were laid at the entrance to the car barn and took a side rap at Alderman O'Leary by limiting that the car barn was in the avenue before the alderman erected a $12, GOO residence on a fifteen cent lot.
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was the investigation of the famous Gun ningham claims-where $10 an acre was accepted for lands that were estimated to contain coal worth S30o, 900. .0Oo-that caused the construction on this law to be changed. Now the government charges according to the value of the deposits Government estimates of value are 1n- variably so conservative, however, that while nothing is guaranteed, the pur- chaser can usually feel certain he Is playing a sure thing.
 The prospector of the days of '4e would probably scorn the methods pursued by the fortune hunters who work for Uncle Sam. Yet, in a way, the latter are more thorough. Certainly the salaried prospector covers far more ground than his predecessor. But there is one vast difference When the forty-niner came upon & possible strike he promptly staked it off and made sure by digging. Single-handed, he would work his claim until he had pretty definite knowledge of the width and depth of his vein, and 8 roughly estimated Knowledge of It's total value.
 All a Matter of Test. l Uncle Sam's prospectors do none O these things. They use no picks or shev-
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possess 1t. any more than the fact that one is stone deaf proves that he has not ears.
 And in this butter proposition, the simple truth seems to be that the best butter of today Is just about the same thing as the best butter of fifty years ago, and Is made in just about the same way. The Improvements" in butter making and in butter machin- cry have resulted in reducing by a little the labor and cost of producing ''commercial butter" They haven't enabled the making of better butter. Right there we open up the lid of a
 Better things: or cheaper and easier things? Which are the more desir- able?
 Good work: or easier work and shorter hours2 Which ought to be the aim of the honest workman? A struggle after perfection: or a drift with the current of circum- stances towards anything that prom ises relief from labor? Which is the worthier?
 Sakes alivel Let's get out of that! It's too deep altogether for this every day column.
 But in the one matter of butter making it surely looks as if our boast ed progress had been not so much a T suits as chasing of it's own tail round circular track.
 We can make butter a little easier and a little faster than our mothers used to. and We can make a little more of it. But, when we want to make 1t as good as they did. we have to fall back into their ways. in the man.
 This isn't exactly the kind of pro gress" that is supposed to be meant when its orators go into spellbinding conniption fits over it.
 feel a little humber over the twentieth century. At least over twentieth cen tury butter.
 I can still join in bragging about telegraphy, and suicide by aeroplane, and Peary at the North Pole. Put none of these things touch me very closely, while sit down facing but ter dish three times a day.
 There hasn't appeared thus far any Marconi or Wright or Peary in the butter making arena The figure which our dreams still draw as su- preme in that field is always, that of mother or grandmother, with her old fashioned butter-bowl and paddle.
 Great is Progress Wonderful is this Age of Improvements. Amazing is the work of the Babcock tester. Fine as a fiddle is the big Butter Factory, driven by a shining steam engine and managed by men in freshly -laundered linens.
 But when we want some real, bang up, creamy, nutty meltingly sweet, long-keeping butter. we hitch up and drive back into the hills to some farm where somebody's Mother used to make 1t and where her Daughter has kept up the old methods and the old ideals, and thank our stars If we're lucky enough to get there before some body else has gobbled up the whole mornings churning!
 THE FARMER
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And the ultimate explanation of the whole matter, the profound mystery of it all. the great secret of her sue cess is found in that other remark, quoted two or three paragraphs back, that she doesn't leave water in her butter to have it weigh more because she was trained ito make good butter" :"
 In other words, she is more intent
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&ecial Correspondence

sesrial Correspondence
 "A SIX the average man. and he will
 N tell you that the prespector. carrying his lean kit and ever A & expectant that tomorrow will
 bring forth a golden Golconda, is thing of the past-that the romance of the search for gold, barring the brief interim which followed the discovery of the precious metal in the Klondike, died with the Forty -niners.''
 But he is mistaken. There are as earn est prospectors today as there were back in '49-Inen who with slender kits are ven turing forth into every unexplored DOT tion of Uncle Sans vast territory. Un- like the prospectors of old, though, they do not hunt in a harum-skarum fashion. digging here or there on what gambler would call "hunch'' and ptnning their faith solely on luck. Instead, these pros pectors are all scientists
 Their search is guided solely by knowl- edge. and-strangest of all-though they are continually discovering lands with mineral wealth worth millions they never dig at all, never stake off a claim, nor ever make the slightest effort to gain pos session of their finds. For these modern prospectors hunt wealth at a regular sal property only that others may take and work it. In a word, they look for wealth for somebody else.
 A Tremendous Work.
 Exploring geologists under the direc- ton of the United States Department ot the Interior is the high-sounding title which the government gives them Some idea of the magnitude of their work may be sleaned from the fact that since they first began prospecting they have discov- cred more than 75.G00, 900 acres of min eral- bearing land The monetary value of the land is impossible se rcomPute. Some of it has never l
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-11

Thomas E. Donohue has assumed his new duties as sealer of weights and measures and has established of- flee hours, with desk room in the basement of the county court house, termed as the temporary council chamber and where several city offices are temporarily located pending the completion of the municipal building.
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Jane Addams says she doesn't know enough to be mayor. Neither do a lot of men we know. but some Of them are mayors.-Detroit Free Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-11
THE oLD-TIME WAY OF MAKING GOOD BUTTER

(Written Specially For The Bulletin.)
 I was much interested in reading in farm paper. the other day. the story of a woman who makes butter.
 A woman, please observe. Not a hired man. Nor a factory. Just g. daughter of a farmers wife. A woman whose mother was rated for forty years as the best butter maker in the county and who has maintained for herself the inherited reputation.
 It is what she does and how she does it that interests me and. hope will interest some of you
 In the first place, what she does is to make butter so good that she does mt have to sell it: it sells itself. All she can make is engaged before it is churned by people who come after it to her door and pay her five cents a pound more than the highest price offered for any other butter in the market.
 The second point of interest, how she does it. will take more words to explain
 As has been intimated, she learned how to make butter from ner mother, with a dash churn and a wooden but ter bowl and wooden paddle. The milk was skinned with a tin skinner from shallow pans. Now, because the milking herd has grown too large for the continued use of such tools, she uses a separator, a barrel churn and a butter worker. The separator and the churn cost SIP each and the butter worker S6.50. Not a very extraVagant plant, you see.
 How does she go at it to get her fancy butter? Well. the striking thing about the whole process is that, with the single exception of using separator cream instead of skinned cream. she does practically just the same things in the same way that her mother did fifty years ago. She keeps her cream at a uniform temperature. She never adds fresh cream to that already in
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1 the churn till it has stood twelve hours. Then she stirs it all together till it is of velvety smoothness.
 She never allows one drop of cream to get sour. In summer she churns every day to avoid any possible dan ger of Souring.
 She doesn't keep on churning till the butter has made a greasy lump and been pounded over and over into stick mess. The instant it breaks" into little separate grains she drains off the buttefmilk, all that will run away, and then washes out every atom If whats left. ''Some have told me-" she says, that if I left in more water it would give weight to the butter and so bring me more; but was trained to make good butter" (Please read those last eight words over again)
 Next she spreads it thinly in the butter-worker, sprinkIes it with the best butter salt she can buy,-an ounce to the pound,-and leaves it from six to ten hours for the salt to soak through. Then it is worked into pound rolls. and passed out to the eager customers who are often wait ing outside to get the first chance.
 This farmers wife hasn't any pa tience with her sisters who think they can't make fancy butter because they can't afford expensive machinery. T make just as good butter with the old dash churn, bowl, and paddle as l can make with the patent affairs" she says. Tt isn't a question of what you make it with, but of how you make it.''
 In which terse statement, bretheren and sisterer, lies a more important practical truth than you'll sometimes see in big book by a college pro fesor.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-11

Alderman Rudd is superintendent of the East Lyme and Shore Line divi- sions of the trolley system, and Alder man O'Leary whispered of an al- derman guarding the interest of the in- terests rather than his constituency. These two aldermen are intimate friends and while their thrusts were mad partly in jest they were none the less effective. Alderman OLeary does not go off at half-cock in city affairs private business, and he knew pretty near where he was at before he went ahead. He insisted that the conditions at the car barn be improved and the work of improvement Is progressing. The crossing at the head of Denison avenue, next the bar barn has been changed to conform to the general grade and the work of constructing a sidewalk in front of the car barn is only a matter of a sort time. Plans have been made and constructors are making estimates preparatory to bid in estimate preparatory to bidding for the work. In the advancement of the improvement Alderman OLeary has no tsronger supporter than Alderman Rudd.
 Some years ago there was local merchant who was something of jiner and his aim was to become the big muckamuck of the organizations with whcih he was affiliated and in this he succeeded. He was not averse to publicity and furnished news items that concerned himself almost daily to the local newspapers and it was not unusual for his picture to be printed in the newspapers at frequent intervals. Announcement was made when he went out of town and an- nouncement was made of his return, with all the details, and almost every move he made in the organizations to which he belonged were chronicled in the local press. This condition went along swimmingly for a couple of years or more and all of a sud- den 1t was noticed that that special feature of local newspaperdom was among the things that were and are no more.
 It was learned that a local dentist had made practice of clipping every item that appeared in the newspapers that related to this individual, and also the severeal portraits. These he ingeniously compiled and arranged them into a book divided into chap ters, and illustrated, which made very peculiar and intensely interesting reading. The dentist presented the volume to a friend who considered it too good a thing to keep secret. So he showed the volume to an intimate
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in, due time the fluff contents were made known to the subject of the rare book and he fell to the attitude he had taken in blowing his own horn and became as dumb as an oyster, and the jiner never thereafter spoke to the dentist as they passed by.
 lt 10 understood that the dentist is compiling a similar book with another parsonage as the subject. He gives the jiner here referred to big odds and wins as a self advertiser and the day is dull indeed when he does not give some newspaper some Item that concerns himself. and is of but little interest only to himself. Who? Ev- erybody who reads local newspapers knows and so does the other fellow.
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course practically valueless from mineral standpoint. Nearly all of it pos sesses minerals in some degree but not enough to make mining paying propo-
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No matter about her name, now, nor where she lives.
 It is what she does and how she does it that interests me and. l hope will interest some of you
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Uncle Sam's prospectors do none of these things. They use no picks or shev-
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There was good butter, then, and there was poor butter. just as now. There always will be both, just as long as there are butter makers whose first aim is to make good butter, and others whose chief aims are to skimp labor and skin customers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05
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"The Alabama Home"

Money is the marvellous instrument to which we are indebted for our wealth and civil ization; economy avoids all waste and applies money to the best advantage"
 The universe is governed by law, and every planet moves on in the most pitiless order The only thing that seems governed by chance is that poor, fragile thing call humanity. Some few of our ancestors brought little order into their affairs, and so a few of their posterity own and govern the earth.
 We write these lines to provoke thought in those who have only crossed the threshold in trying their success in life.
 Beginning this article with the subject of money as a marvellous instrument-as a very steam engine to help you on your way-would 1t not be well for you to become acquainted with ''The Alabama Home. , which by its methods of order and system has become of the most complete pieces of financial machinery that sts in America, and can be of much assistance to you either as an investor or borrower
 We have had quarter of century of sue cessful experience, and our vast resources can be of much service in aiding the individual and in the upbuilding Cf the community.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05
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 r,olumbus Miss 2-2S-14t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05
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FOR RENT. Bungalow, Fountain Heights; hardwood floors, furnace heat 6 rooms: rent 80 i. per month. JEMISON REAL ESTATE & INS. CO, 2l1 N. 3th St. Phone 52SQ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05

PARKER TAXICAB CO, 5-PASSEN-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05

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WANTED-Feather beds; pay from s4 to ol5 bed. Phone Main 6443 and I'll call.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05
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