The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, April 18, 1901, Image 1
BM ARP TAI^KS OP APRIL; and wondered. I started on again and
got a little closer. Still the for*, i^as
Lots of! ,,eadle »a* Uroad shoulders and arms
The Orandchildren
Fun Out of the
This month did not begin rigid.
April means to open, but it did not
open. It was an April fool. Nothing
shows in my garden but the pea* and
onions. The flowers make no progress.
There is no sweet south wind to
breathe upon them—no sunshihe. On
Monday the grandchildren imposed
upon me with their Hindoo pranks.
They gave me a cup of chocolate with
whipped cream on top, and it was
nothing but soapsuds. 1 pretended to
be fooled, but 1 wasent; I paid them
back in various ways. The Hindoos
started this childish custom away back
in the ages, and it still pleases the
children. And now Easter day is at
hand that is another name that came
down from the Pagans. Ostera was
their goddess of spting and it was cor
rupted into Kstera. How these old
heathen names do slick to us. The
names of the days of the week and of
the months came from them. So did
the planets and the constellation*.
Even the prophets and Job had to take
them from the Egyptians, lint the
Scotch people don't call it Easter.
They say l*a*cha day, or pasaover day.
They won’t pattern after anvbody,
but John Knox, and he said Pascha.
But there is a reason for railing it
Easter, for the coamg of spring—ihe
opening of the eerth abd the flowers is
emblematical of the resurrec ion—the
opening of the Savior s t Mob and His
return to blees and comfort Hu peo-|ta»t two
pla. Tbieday corraepjods rloaaly witb | was fnmi
wj tbev
akimbo. Nearer and nearer I drew to
it, but it made-no sign. My horse
pricked up his ears as-if alarmed. The
road forked not far ahead, and I had
resolved that if the ghost took one
road I would take the other, when
suddenly an old man stopped to cough
and took'lhe sack from his shoulders
and laid it upon the ground. 1 knew
him instantly—old Uncle Tom Wilton,
the hunchback—going borne from the
mill with his grist across his ■shoulders
and bis head bent forwani so that I
could not see it iu the dusky twilight.
Now, if both of us had reached the
forlU of the road and had separated I
shoiwd always have believed I saw a
gWtT
That old mill road and chuich and
grive yard made lasting impressions
upon me, and so did the mill and the
poud and the spring-board and big
whtel and the soothing sounds of the
water falling over the dam. We had
various adventures wi’h the country
schoolboys on the wsy, for they dideut
like the town boys—and they don’t
yet. 1 remember that it was on April <
fool day that I saw in the road just
beyond tbe scboolbouse a package
done np in brown paper, and as I bad
met a man in a buggy » little while be
fore, I supposed he had dropped it. 1
stop|<ed my burse and got down. Pick
ing up tbe package I untied tbe string
and took off the wrapper and founo
aoothei wrapper and another string
and then another and another and at
Mg black bifg*, whose odor
>ar. That kn J of bugs tba*
advauc
backward, ami
>omn—i t»t
J—t then a
the i»U*h<ra
** Ann
hardtt
1 never •
ihtakiai
bating
1 April f«
•k* A
At»l
A»4rnt
I mm
the Jewish
•tklJLJU r -
Xow I want tbe yowag people to
know that lust m another word that
in—aa spring. It is preceded by lb si
foolish festival called marrft gras—or
fat bstf and conun—a forty davs ta
remembrance of tbe Heitor's tong feat,
aa 1 it enda with Easier, and tbe cum-
man too and other rejotJingt. As tbe
eld time almanacs wmsU say, a hoot
this time took for Easter beta and
ftowrre and Anerf.** Christ at— t* aa-
etber festival day that is common to
all Cbn*uea —me. The— are man v
other day* dadtcnif d te the aamta, bet
Ml cow— of time m eaa found that,
there were net e«wmgb days Mi the
year to go roand, and — tbe pope
atoypot tbe aatauag ef w many and
baa ana day set apart aa Alt a—wia
day. Tbe —at day after that Is AW
Sonia dev , an wbbb m—* * a—i by
tba ftvmes t ‘ethanes far tbe aunts >4
tbe deed who are Ms pergatwry. It
~l that abont 900 yeera age a pti-
from tbe bely land found a her-
In Mrtly who told turn ef en open
betw—a tbe cliffs ef the mono-
by that remmenireU'1 wnb
Plato bved and that be
—Ipheru— sasnk
grun— of tbe 1 <
who were being tanneaied la I
be bad known some of lhem i<
tinmgb tbe prayers of tbe 10*
this made tba devils Very mad
could bear ibem cwmag tbe pneeta
with awfnl iasprecat— Tbe ptlgnm
|pld all ib* ta tbe abbota and m»ekt,
and they bad a day art apart to pray
lb—e bn1 aen* «mt of bell or ttad«e or
ptrwalorv or ebatever it Is.
H—idee the— leternational days
Ultra are aatkmal dtfis 1a every coun
try. Here we have i— Fourth of Jely
and W—biugtoo's birthday and Hvco- thought with
ration Day aad some other* (iennaay t tempt at its
vka can't trU
•ivertebc 'em
Hore of h->vs juiuj- .1 fn m
and idled aad screamed
F«*ol !** 1 was so u»l I couhl
mount my horse again, but 1
woM.
baling
mv w
took it l
M* -at
fee that
But bto
>ui 10
i'uial
1 that
How the First Discovery Was
Made-May Give Cheaper Fuel.
The excitement over the discovery
of seemingly inexhaustible oil deposits
in Texas appears to be growing. The.
government experts, geologists and
conservative business men consider the
location of oil iu Texas and Ualifornia
of far more hoportatofe than the dis
covery of gold in. California. In fact,
it is looked upon as a development that
will have a tremendous economic yi-
lluence on all the industries of the
southwest. George F. Adams, an ex
pert of the geological survey, has been
sent to Texas to make an investigation
and report upon the extent of the oil
deposits and the manner in which they
are being worked. An oflicial of the
geological survey iu speakine of this
matter to the Brooklyn Eagle's Wash
ington correspondent said :
--** Tbe oil is not the illuminating va-
riety, hut is used fur fuel. It will
supply the one thing that was before
lacking to enable the tremendous re
sources of that countiy to be properly
developed. Texas is nearly the rich
est Slate iu the I'uion iu natural re
sources, but there are no coal deposits
there. She has gotten her fuel in the
past from Indian Territory, and after it
bad been mined and *hip|»ed to 1 exas
it cost between and i'J a ton. The
excessive cost of fuel has done much
toretani tbe operation of tbe de|K>sita
of cement, iron and other tires with
whirb Tex— ahnumts. The discovery
I of a cheap fuel within her bordere
j will work wonders with Texss inter-
****• |»aratus
The utmost excitement prevails all cone ret
I through Texas, and excursion* are run ,«riatn tba*
(from tlit-tow— We—mowMo —*»«»- ■watw «■« to**
big .geyser. Four thousand pe so—
J recently visited Beaumont in a single
j <LsV. .is may be supposed tbe town
| ba« * Xpertcneed a tremendous br-om
| 1‘eop.r are fl * king in and scouring
and another dam constructed. The ut
most caution had to be observed to
prevent a spark from dropping into the
oil, for a fire meant complete disaster
for everything within reach. Had a
conflagration occurred U would have
extended to the spouting geyeer and
would have been burning to this dfiy.
An armed patrol of men, mounted on
hordes, kept guard of the lake night
and.day, and special care was taken to
see that no sparks were dropped by
passing trains.
The great problem then before the
mining engineer was how to control the
flow and thus save the precious (laid.
Finally her hit upon a scheme. A. long
section of eight-inch pipe was secured
and mounted on a movable carriage.
One end of it was fillfed with a valve.
Half way up this pipe a T-joint was
made and a branch of a six-inch pipe
was run out, also lilted with a valve.
This structure was'then moved up to
the side of the geyser, aud the eight-
inch pipe slipped into position over Off
old six-inch tube. The oi«eninga of
the smaller pipe were. filled up with
oakum and other material, so that the
oil was escaping only through the lop
of the main pipe an-1 out of the side
section. The valve si the top of the
main pipe was then closed, thus divert
ing the entire stream off to one side
through the branch section. This
made it (tossihle for men to work
about the base of the well. A deep
trench was dug all around the- bsse of
the geyser and then tilled in with a
bell of roncme. Fr< m this concrete
heavy supfioMing lines were run to ihc
to
>f the p
the
*
was
lbe o-unify
buy mg np h
If
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almost
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twiag th* di
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th<r
ope, so that the wttol
as securely anchored t
foundation. When it
veiything was ready. tbe
branch |M|m» w— tl—4
and the stream was cut off. This
operat.ou ruusumtd nine days, and in
the meantime tbe oil was |M-unng out
at the rate of any where between ?o AOU
iu<t lisi.iaai barrel* a day. The esti
mated value of tbe rrt
iH-twcea 4u and ’«0 t eiiU
n til |*e seen that en* h day 'a pi
was worth in tbe ntighborh
I'-o.iaar. After tbe fl*tw Lad
• l*«« krd a Are occurred in obe
ad -sk- • and 7ZUJUU> twirls we
*tew, reirfeaenuna a Usm id
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ran
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re 4e-
abowt
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t>re* of to! in IMuhar
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I Ml * I>
M * he i
tA*}Af4
gfroaely, Hat It hoavtn*
all ead
ahea a bea ansi
* foil
uoqie Ui
k«A the |
Among tIho* ■ ho be«
eerep*
•a her* naearthed
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tea fat
worm?
that oil rtisred andci
ale end
Icog ssperware
hAf 1
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hi th# 1
t s Nr nelt>f R y. r KJ
emi he
foMl that •he Mill
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k brrkr ns.
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r i* at a
farm*
, who
l-esdent
•nnk 1
11-- niaiiglctl .1 -mly dial
iwtr impatient com pa
topic td interest :t gets
Uealment a* tbe norm
is a national |ifct|ln
t uick-witted and sc
such fari-ity that any at-
elaboratios gets on our
#C
h o«her until
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lilt#;
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of the
■ear*, tl bt a
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n*
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tide ajli
re, thus
making
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IA
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•hip it 1
by wet*
re at int
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rr the <
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leclarv
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a train ot 1
that the
‘oil Mill
fnrnieh
a e
hm
p fuel
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ne here the iarg-4
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hortelghlr.! p*f-
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•one. TLe cl
f itAt etl
.e ten* ot the o\0
Luther and tbe kaiser. Scotland that
of Sir William Wallace ami Bruce and
Jobs knox. Iu old Euglan-I they cele
brate the queen's birthday, Magna
( barter day and Waterloo day and
May day. May day is the happiest of
all aad haa been long remembered in
Tin Loxu !>i«tamk Trolli.v.—
I A'. Johnson tells the I’hiladclpbia
i Record that he Dow has all the uccer-
jaary rights fir the rinislruction of bja
|pn-|K*e.l electric line between Fhila-
aud that it will
Dot only for the local industries of
Texas aad‘New Mexico, hut for Iran*-
umf ■MTPAmponktt'TTi—snd -f.-r
hipping interests in the gulf andWesT
nMAA.
. j • 1 1 delphia and New York, and that it will
varsaand tong and in dancing around bt> ^ ( lhe ro(mt ; tth , UnlU1 HU<!
’ “''.I' — - f-nfoMning
aweet poem called the *• May (Jueen.
Mexico celebratea all the Uoinan
Catholic day a and has one other that
the rabble.call Judas Iscariot’s day. It
ia the next day alter Easter. On the
beautiful trees in the piazza or park
they suspend pasteboard images of
Judas Iscariot— images as large a* life,
with little holes bored iu l^em from
head to foot and in every hole is
fastened a cannon cracker. At a given
sigpal the fuse in every cracker is
lighted nnd all of them explode nearly
at the same time and such a terrific
popping was never heard outside of a
battlefield, and poor old Judas is torn
and rent into a thousand pieces. This
is just a sign of what they would do
to him if they had him there alive, but
I reckon it is more for frolic than any
thing, for they shout and laugh and
dance the hornpipe nnd' make dll the
racket they can.
Ben Franklin said that man was a
bundle of habits. He might have
added u and supersitions,” for most
all people have some * belief iu super-
* natural things. Two hundred years
ago almost everybody believed in
witches. Shakespeare wrote about
them in “ Macbeth” and Burns in
“ Tam O’Shanter.” The Puritans
drowned many innocent women from
mere suspicion of being wilches,^ The
conceited, self-righteous rqscal? never
accused a mao of being a wizard. It
is tba women who have sufferetl in all
ages. When I was a boy tbe young
people were more afraid of ghosts than
they are now.
Ghosts arc very scarce in these days.
I havent seen one in a long time. Iu
my early youth I was the mill boy and
I remember that one evening in the
early twilight as I was astride my home
and grist and going slowly home. I
neared the country graveyaid of Fair-
view church and saw, or thought I
saw, a ghost ahead of me in tbe big
road. It had anna aad tags, bat had
no hand. It was whit* and going
slowly from me. I checked my ham
respect to the finest steam railway
road-bed. The track will be laid with
ii.’i-pound rails .tnd the cars will he of
the latest and most improved pattern,
seating sixty‘people, aud will run at a
speed of at leaat fifty miles do Four.
There will be no grade crossings so
that the cars will go with uninterrupted
speed. The faie from the heatt of
Philadelphia to the heart of New York
will be fifty cents, but fer'distabces of
twenty miles tbe faft* will be only five
cents. There is talk of a trolly line
between Washington ami Baltimore.
The trolley is growing piore popular
every, day. /
Kansas ^’ity, Mo.-, is claiming to be
a great fruit distributing point, and in
proof of the same “ points with pride”
to these two consignments: In one
day 1,000,600 bananas were received
from the tropics, and on March 4th 2,-
006,000 oranges came -in, the shipment
being made from Los Angeles,, Cal.
This orange tiain was composed of
tbirty-eiifht cars and a caboose. Thet;e
were 3G4 boxes of oranges to the car,
making 10,192 boxes in all. ;
A mammoth black walnut tree on
the farina of E. P. Gaus in Williams
County, Ohio, has just been sold for
14,000. Several lumber dealeis have
examined chips from this tree, and al
have declared it to be the, finest sped
men of that kind of wood they ever
j’ saw. The t ree was eight feel in dia be
tei, forty feet above the flump ant
extended seventy-three feet from the
butt‘to tbe first limb
The women of a Long Island village
improvement association have given
up iheir office*, to the tn«o, as they
feel, the latter are better quahlbd to
discharge the duties. The idea
giving up a public office because tbe
milder thinks soother better Ailed to
da the work it aa exdiutitly fenunioe
idea, which would work hay
diverted into practical naiitiaa i
POINTA OF HUMAN ANATOMY
The Differences Between Men
nnd Women Eve*. Earn. Ton.-
goes. Height.
A Desperate Charge Under a Storm
of Shot and Shell
The Charleston Sunday News con
tains a most graphic description of a
thrilling incident at Murfreesboro,
Ttnn., which is from the pen of Rev.
Hjmry F. Hoyt, D.D., of Harmony
Grove, Ga. The-Kero of the occasion
was Rev. J. E. Dunlop, now a zealous
and honored Presbyterian minister,
living at Georgetown, S. U. Dr. Hoyt’s
account is as follows :
In the summer of 1802 a Confeder
ate cavalry force, consisting of four or
five regiments, was encamped at Mc-
Minmille, Tenn. Forrest, afterwards
general, but at that time racking only
as colouel, was iu command of the
brigade. The 3d Georgia cavalry regi
ment, commanded by Cul. W. J. l«tw-
ton, was'‘part of the fot;e. . In it wai
a company commanded by the Rev. J.
E. Dunlop, a Presbyterian minister,
who had resigned the charge of hi*
church in Baiubrulge, Ga., to buckle
on the sword, and had lieen elected
capum of a cavalry company, which
he bail been instrumental in raising
aud to whom his men were perfectly
devoted. *
At Murfreesboro was a force of
Yankees, consisting of cavalry , artillery
aU-1 lulautry, ami c*»usai«ral*lv out-1
miiutiemig the Confederates. Cul. For-
'est' decided to surpiiae and capture
the Federal*, ami (bus gel auppiiej
Vttd #rm* for htsVuen, hmm<v of whotnj
11 that tune 'had o« thing more rffef. {
live than iloubU-bairvl shotguns. Ac-
FffWBgfjni^BWtr »itwip one*»iTt»’diT
aik , alter marching ail eight, reached
Murfreesboro Xundav mottling just at
the dawn of dry. Thw Federal |drk-
«la acre captured, without giving an
alarm aud our foe, aii urn •»o*i mus of
danger, was quietly steeping. They
were in two camp*, one on the oppo
site sat* of 1I1* town from our ap-
peunt h ami tb* other to the light aa
a a entefwd. Thw gallant Wharton, of
the Texas Itangwra, a ub part of thw
command, was -w-twred to aim k the
"Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs but to do or die."
Riding down the sharpshooters,
clearing the woods, out in tbe open
field they were met by a tempest of
grape nnd canister from the artillery
aud of minie halls from the infantry.
Many a gallant* ridet and his horse
went down under the storm of shot
aud shey. But nothing could stay the
headlong course of the fearless leader.
Passing between the battery and the
iijfantry, he sabred’one gubner, drove
theiu all from their guns and caused
the whole line of infantry next the
artillery to waver.
Had this gallant charge been follow
ed immediately by that of our whole
command we undoubtedly would have
won the day.st that moment. But it
was not. done. Capt. Dunlop dashed
on after cutting through the line ot
battle to the rear, anti when out of
range of their shot baited to see who
were left of his command. Seven men
bad followed him through, and were
all that were left. Turning to them,
he said, with grim humor : “ Boys,
the command w*s to reform and charge
bick.” One fc>f the men replied :
“ Weil, Captain, wc have followed you
this far, but if you are going back
through that line*of battle yon will
have to go by yourself. We have had
enough of it." < f course lie had uo
thought ol doing »•. He was only
putting his men pi the test. Riding
(•round their line and ont of range of
their »hot, the heroic little bend
j-dnrd their command.
It u not my intention to continue
the hist
Deacon Jones—what do yon think
of our latest new convert? Do joo
think It a genuine' case of conveisionf
Deacon BHSwn—Dam afraid not. In
the remarks he has made in prayer-
raee$hg thus far he has not boaeted of
being the vilest of sinnera.—Boston
Transcript.
She—,1 want you to promise to do
what 1 ask before I tell yon what it
is.
Papa—But why not tell me what it
is first?
She—Oh, if I did you wonldn’t do
U—Brooklyn Life.
Buffers —*Buncom is a self-made
man, isn’t he ?
Wiffers—Yes. What made yon
think so?
Buffers—He seems to be so well eat*
isfled with (be job.—New York West-
iy---
The Justice—I don’t remember ever
seeing you before.
The Accused—No, Yoar Honor;
you see, you don’t belong to war set.—
Boston Transcript.
The Old Man—Yoor love for my
daughter seems to have grown very
fait since you found ont I was worth
*0 much money.
The Young Man (admiringly)—No
faster, sir, than the subject
—Detroit Free Frees.
no
it |
pn
hr
pto
tAhr I
the
art* 11
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1 end
rvptng
wv •*
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•*
<bl.
it.i
- nr 1
’ part, was ta a
npfwaW* »**(*-
e attack wa* a 1
h* enemy, Vi it
bte Ranger* b
camp, yyiffhg
it lbs tWrfiAed
i
WRll
r
ShlM
Ariel
ih* ir
h*’d
“5
re* I
k the on*
«4 the town,
intupiele MU-
thovt warning
it.‘at into the
and shouting,
I vdrrsle, sud
p>waeeet*m of lhe
, seeing the smell
ante, the I enkrrs.
lUOtt*
I-
is an
Kelt
see with
*f lhe human
icreeae n
not
Uuniwest of maluni).
s stnnlletl interval of ***und 1
tier d.eungui*hed with one
with high. The nails uf t
ted, and, alter
Mb iilurtiN 1
| £ tuied
irt un-l* r Furr
Georgia, w<
1* li< tl**l of lh<
mi the stony
••ugh the to*
laoilaot*. e h-
wildly eb«iu
mthueo
irh th«
•hurt
00, an*
it
Iheir
to n
mp, 1
Then,
Acuity a*-**,
towu, directly
which we were
•IWDtM
WuW
4 the <
ret, ia whu
re nut so
1 horse* ' b*i
grow ltd a* 1
rn s* uke tl
» rw*hed (
dug and cl
»»m r -t.-ug
ears of the
distarce out
.(her unrxp
In the ren
fronting the
1 charging.
m Aghi, Mi
•4*4. they
•mp Tbe
h wee the
sessfni.
striking
char*
sue
ory ft the battle. My only pt
JpiMg was tii n»imrt Ih, m««t
rcharge i* svir witne-ased during
T-wr years'expenenc* in the war. I
; Acrut to sny (hat hy sundown we
raptnrrd the whole i-*ice t-f the enemy.
The boy* threw away their shotguns,
replacing them with improved arm*.
The battery we kept till the war cioeed
end good service it dal again*t its fore
mcr owners. That night we started
hark fur McMinaville, hailing only
•••sg eaongh to parole our prisoners,
with wh-en F-wrest did not wwh la he
bardeae-l. W«
remcoed owr ramp at
MeMianvilie aoowt ao*Mt aw Monday,
baling been in the saddle about fufty*
eight hoars. That ireltle secwisd For
rest's pe iwwmdh to the rank ef gen.
erwt, and <*nr gsllant t apt. Ikwnlen
sfterwenls heemne redone! ef kie isgt-
■seni, and was loved aad admired b
I e*«Ty ri-se IU Ins coauuaixl. Ixwij
m*i he live to do valient service to lb
army of the Ijttd ol Uooto wader th
iendershtp ml the great t'aptaia of an
hoivatton. U. T. litre v.
Harmoay tirnee, Ga.
** The boy," concluded the ocaUst,
** is coloreb lad.”
Then, what do yoa tktak WAI
put him at ?”
•* t\ ell, what'e the matter with
mg aa imr—ii.si— ps.«L» g/ him r*
—1 WUII^GI TIAiM.
** Trane mean*
teachsr, “ eaa any boy
illustmitoa of He ass ?*'
** Yee, ma'am,’' spoks ap
•• ‘trwwe parwat,' a
itiUedriphts Reaoed.
filHs;
I
bs skeptug
al to greet
ecriag, end
such a din
sleeping
of t.
A uoi-ju* battle leak place in North
Itergea, N. J., a few deye ago. John
anil hy resident, recently
e black
-I
• n.
lit
re of the
street up
stood Uie
IWw
added Spaniard, a ha-id
stallhm, to kts stable, aud tba aroerei
Uua waa received with anger hy Itewey
bark atalUoa of great beauty
They fought whenever oppo,minty of
t. nm
.• broke their
into the yard,
tkai
brick loan II me
Federal guard, k
some prison*rs
tduruu 1
In
thia w
waU b
ss a
over
As soon as lbs head
•me iu sig'it this guard
Tfce story of bow the first oil strike
stumbled wo ami the ofiaumg uj-
of the uuiookr<l for riches read* like a
tale from *' Arsl-iau Nights.” A. F.
.ucss.a Wa-bington milling engineer,
was engaged as *uperinlt tnlenl of the
Avery Hock Sait rainy*, in Louisiana,
but having a disagreement with tbe
management, he left and drif.ed over
to Texas, lb aching Beaumont, which
11 about three hoers' ride from Galves
ton, he weiit out pVo8{)ecUng for sul.
pbur. He stghik some sulphur springs
antTBbseavrd that a small quantity of
natural gas was coming from them.
n putting down , a well he ran across
a slight deposit of oil, and this fact,
together with the presence of natural
led him'to believe that oil was to
be found there. He accordingly sank
a well for oil. About 1,000 feet were
penetrated and asixf-inch pipe inserted,
nside of this a section ol four-inch
pipe 720 feet in length, was dropped
The oil stratum had not actually been
teached by the drilling machine, but it
seems that it was almost touched al
the lime the four-inch ^ipe was put
inside the larger pipe. Suddeplj -those
win were working the derrick th it was
owering the smaller tube noticed that
it tvas acting queerly. Something was
lilting it from the bottom. Mr.^Lucas
understood the signs and called to his
men to. run for their lives. Thg oil
had truret through the crust of earth
that separated it from the drill and
came spouting up with terrific; force.
It pushed the pipe through the derrick,
carried away all the machinery and
finally threw the 720 feet of pipe high
into the air. Fortunately, the pipe
came down end first and hurt no one,
but it buried itself deep into lhe earth.
It has not since been-dug out. Turn
ing about Mr. Lucas saw a slre.im of
oil shooting out of his six-inch pi^eTo
a distance of 200 feel in the air and
flowing off over tbe plain at a terrible
rite. There was no way to check the
flow of the valuable fluid, and an il
spread over the prmine aid was synl for
to build dmms.^. Soon all thd male
population of Beaumont waa out on the
plains throwing np a wall of earth to
hold the tei. A monster lake e>oo
formed sod breaking through the dam
ran off to a railroad track.
A culvert
tii. u. o* >tu. ul the nut
ha U-i.rt UnuMG^ l uik uucjt-
peced attack delayed F-*rrc*l and frus.
tl leg i« •ir-mger I
ihau the right. Toe bones of an aver-1 t (e >on-J. V\ but we got there, 1^.
ige human male •kdt f'itf wt igli twenty j of Utkihg them hy •urprise, we reund
pound*; those ef a woman are six them drawn up iu Hue of tialtle on the
pounds lighter. crest of a dope in an old field, havtug
That unruly member, the tongue of a gpivndid battery of six guns and a
a woman, is also •unriler than that of | | utl g line of infantry supporting it.
*d.
grows the slowest, la fifly-t«>ur casts
out »*f abuudred the left leg i* stronger |trai(<| his plan of surprising tbe camp
•eyn ml. V\ b< n wc gi-t ibt r< , ipiAt nd
another i
Ut(bt * ft. r.»
frrr-d, rod one n .
biltrr* in i itaib<d >>ul
• *nt 111 g together with eoch forte
it seat b>Ah la the griH*wd. Qwickly
Dtcking themeelvee np they rsenmed
h-auliUes, kicking aud bui^ t■ ragalj
Dewey Anally InaUned hi* teeth in
>l«uuni's thruft and did not release
h*e hold until the block wee J, 4-1
wa* ouVetvd wah blood
le
“I
a man, given a man and woman of
equal size and weight. It may be ap
palling to reflect, but it is nevertheless
Hue, that tbe muscles of the human
jaw exert a force of over 000 pounds.
The symmetry which is the sole in
telligible ground for our hlea of beauty,
the proportion between the upper and
lower half of the human iiody, exists
iu nearly all males, but is never found
in the female. American limbs are
more symmetrical than those of any
other people. The recking chair, ac
cording to an English scientist, is re
sponsible for the exercise which in
creases the beauty of the lower limbs.
The push which the toes give to keep
tbe chair in motion/repeated and re-
teated, makes the instep h gb, the calf
round and full, and it makt^rlhc ankle
delicate and slender.
British women are said to' average
two inches more iu height than Ameri
cans. Averages tor the height of wo-
'Eufcn show that those bora yt summer
and autumn are taller'than those born
in spring and winter. The tallest girls
are.born in August. As far as boys
are concerned, those who first see the
light during autumn and winter are
not*0 tall as those born in spring and
summer. Those Iforii in November
the shoitest; in July the tallest. * -•
An average bead of fait hair consists
of 143,040 hairs, dark hair of 105,000,
while a red bead has only 29,200. Fair-
haired people are becoming less numer
ous than fortuerly.
A person who has lived aevenjy years
baa had pass through his heart about
075,920 tons of blood, the whole Of the
blood in the body passing through tbe
beiul iu about thirty-two Beat*. The
heart beats on an average of seven'y
times a minute, or 3(1,792,000 tiraea
in the course cf a year, so that the
heart of an ordinary men 80 years of
age baa beaLrn 3,000,**00,(.•)•> time#.
Th* heart beat* ten stroke* a mtouie
lees when oo< te 1) tog down than when
OM
York Nwm.
We were t.ie party surpnaetf. ’^tidcr
this ui-looked for condition of things
Forrest ordered Col. Ijtwton to draw
up his regiment in frontof the Fedcal
hues, iu a piece of woods which theh-
tcred us to some /xtent, saying that
he* with the rest of his foop, would
ride around ^em and attack them in
the rear, and ordering Lawton as soon
as he heard his guns in the rear to
charge them in front. Thus we stood
for about two h urs, I suppose, wait
yig to hear Forrest’s guns in the rear.
In the meantime the Federal*, know-
dug that We were in the woods, kept
up an incessant lhe with their aitil-
lery, Sending a continual stream of
shut and- shell screeching over our
hiqds, cutting down the limbs of trees,
bursting over us, doing no particular
damage it is true, but terrifying and
demoralizing the men, most of whom
had never been under fire before.
Thus matters stood : We, with, our
shotguns, listening to the music of the
shells, ayd the Yankees-having, a per
fect picnic in the way of target prac-
lice; we being the ta-getr-
Finally, becoming ennoldened by
our continued silence, the sharpshoqt-
Northern Indiana fanners are ex-
pertmentrng in ihh domestication of
quail and the results are reported as
highly gratifying. Nearly evary far
mer in that section has from one to
three coveys on hi* farm and Is giving
them kind and careful attention. Dur
ing the snow season tbe birds .are fed
regularly and on some of the fsrras they
have become so tame that they roost
with the barnyard fowls.
The Uhitsd^ States Navy Depart
ment will exhibit at Buffalo an 8 by 20
foot map of the world, on which wil
be placed 307 miniature lead model*
representing the War fleet* of all na
tions and their location from‘day to
day.
Judjre John J. Jackson, of Parkers
burg, W. ^'a., in point of service, is
the ol lest judge on the United States
bench, having received his commission
from Lincoln in 1861.
Dr. H. F. Gray-of Los Angeles,
Cal., i& said to have purchased 5,000,-
000 acres of agricultural lands in
Mexico, and to have obtained' a con
cession from the Mexican government
for the establishment cf a number of
Mormon colonies thereon. These
lands are divided into several large
ers from the infantry crept down tir tracts, wbteh are situated in the States
the edge'of the woods and, concealing
themselves in the uuderb isli, began t->
pick at Us wi h their rifles, and. the
whizz of tl eir bullets was getting to be
uncomfortably close to our beads. CoK
Lawton, noticing this, directed tits ad
jutant to carry a verbal order to the
major to send a squadron—two com
panies—to charge those sharpshooters,
drive them back and return to the com
mand. The adjutant, to his excite
ment, misunderstood the order and,
riding up to the major.he said; ‘*The
Colonel ord. i a that you send a squad
ron of men to charge that line of battle,
reform the men and charge tack. The
order was delivered to Capt. Dunlop
to axecule. I saw him straighten
bimeelf to hi* full height in the saddle.
1 earn the fire, ol bailie kind.* in hie
eye. I saw turn draw hie tab re and
of Durango, Tamaulipas, Coahuila and
Vera Cruz.. He says that he will bring
6,000 Mormons from Utah and other
parts of the United States to M< xico
within the next few months and 1 cate
them upon the lands which Jie haa- pur
chased. Tbe Mormon colonies in the
State of Chihuahua have had their
population increased by the arrival of
over 2,000 Mormons from Utah dur
ing the last few month*. .
*
** l c
Hut the gtri gave no aign tl
cal affection.
“ And my life,” he continued, M Is
insured for 120,000.”
“ I am yoar*.” she sighed, M till
death.”' HBleilelphi* Free*.
Miatree* I hop* I didn’t disturb
you nod your lover when I went into
the kitchen last night.
Cook—Not st ail, mam. Ot told
him that yon was my chappyroo*.—
Puck. * .
New York city's tree planting asso
ciation, composed of public spirited
citixena, not only aet .oat *3,126 shade
tree* last year, bnt secured tbe paaapge
of law* empowering the park commis
sioner* to take entire charge of street
tree planting, *o that the work can be
done on an exteoeiv* ecaie and ta .h*
effective
“ He would never have become so
addicted to drink if it hadn’t been for
the trouble ho had.”
“ Why, what trouble did he have ?”
** He had trouble in keeping away
from it.’’•-Philadelphia Press.
u You are awfully, foolishly extrava
gant,’’ said the matronly fnend.
“ I know I am,” replied, tbe girl,
‘i Papa never wilUet me have money
as long as 1 have a cent.”—Indiana
polis Press.
A good story is told of a Scottish
soldier at Bloemfontein, who was just
recovering from an attack of enteric.
One day he suggested to the doctor
whe called to see him that he would
be grateful for awe* drappie. ‘‘No,
no,” said lhe doctor. “ Do you know
that your stomach is m such an nlcei^
atei condition that a spoonful of
whisky would kill you ?”
*‘ Aweel, sir,” replied the patient,
“I must jult do without it; but, doctor,
just come up close to me.” .The
doctor obliged him.
“ Ah v doctor,” said the soldier, sigh
ing contentedly, “ yer breath’s vena
refreshin’ I”—Scottish American.
“I wish J bad the man where I could
get at him,” said the yon woman.
“ What man ?” asked the elderly
woman.
“ The one that advertised how to
rid-oftaugb, red hands—for a doL
■get i
Mr.”.
You sent the dollar ?”
“Yes', and what do yua think the
baleful thing sent?”
** I have no idea."
» He said the aaria* way was to
pay off the rough,
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