Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1892 — No Pepper for Ben Butler. [ARTICLE]

No Pepper for Ben Butler.

An old friend who knows him well says: “Gen. Benjamin F. Butler is fond of good living, and likes his meats and vegetables made toothsome with all the proper condiments save one. He positively and emphatically refuses to touch the daintiest bit of cooking that is seasoned with any preparation of black pepper. Gen. Butler loathes black pepper, and will have none of it in his food if he knows it. The cause of this peculiar distaste he explained to me some years ago while lunching at a well-known Washington case. He said he had made a discovery that the South American hides which are shipped to this country are preserved in' their transit by the profuse use of black pepper, which sold at a low price as pure ground pepper to hotels and restaurants. ” " ' I '■ ■ ■ 11 " m \ Miss Schliemann, daughter of the famous archaa;ologist, has made an important Greek find on her own account. She is to marry the son of Mayor Melas, of Athens. Fbovidence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life. * We must not only look ahead; we most go ahead.