THE MORG ANTON STAR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1887
; Husband your strength, husband your
earnings. You will need both the older
you grow.
Do not postpone your good deeds for
to-morrow; it may be too late to do the'
recipient any good, ts you may not live
till to-morrow, for with all the intelli
gence ancUall the resources man possesses,
he is only a tenant on earth, and often
without warning he must leave for the
-world beyond the grave.
At a recent meeting held in Alexandria,
Virginia, to further the project to build
l grand avenue from "Washington to
Mount Vernon, it was explained that the
proposed avenue would run for two
miles through the Arlington property,
and that it was expected that the Govern
ment would construct at least that
portion. The various states would be
asked to send trees to be planted in the
oarkine alonsr the borders of Mount
WE ALWAYS WAIT.
We always wait, the promise unfulfilled;
The sprinsr, the summer, the harvests we
may see; '
But never from the cradle to the grave, j
To any thought, however strong and brave, i
Shall full fruition be. I
The child would snatch a bauble of the j
moon.
The youth, the ecstasy of love that leagues
with fate;
Manhood, dominion that is lost so soon,
And age, the trembling shadows at the gate;
For hope grows weary of the solemn noon.
Wherein we always wait.
Behold the sodden fields, now newly sown;
And there the husbandman with anxious
eyes, -Watching
the wind and rain, in hope and
fear,
Till summer smiles, or blight and rust ap
pear; Where all the venture of his harvest lies.
The clouds are auguries of dread to him,
The sun a laggard, or the rains are late ;
The wind shall sometimes soothe him with
a hymn;
The spectral fog shall be a thing of fate;
For hope, the twilight of the soul, grows
dim,
Wherein we always wait
O paiient optimist a smile or tear,
Are honest kin, they spring so near to
getner.
Vrnnn hvrdiia. and it is honed that the i fo man nath ever lived aU satisfied,
. 1 JNo human heart that l
thirteen original States would be sum
ciently interested to place in life form,
in bronze or marble, the signers of the
Declaration or Independence.
According to the Troy Times, "the
prophet who, a few years ago, said that
agricultural fairs would soon 'play out,'
has gone into some other business. Fairs
still flourish, proving in most sections as
popular as they ever were. These fall
exhibitions have gradually improved.
They embrace a greater variety of the
fruits of industry. Farmers are raising
better stock and better fruits, and con
sequently when they come together at
the end of the season the display tells
' the story of improved methods and more
profitable rewards of labor. The charac-
ter, too, of the fairs has been elevated.
There is less reliance upon the meretri
cious devices to draw crowds. A few im
portant lessons have been learned and
put into operation within the last few
years, with the effect of giving the
public a more commendable class of
iasrricultural exhibitions. The time
ought not to come when farming com
munities shall think it wise to give up
this method of laying the results of
the year's tail before the public and re
ceiving all of the benefit which such
competitive displavs ensure."
- '"The United States not only continue
"their work of feeding the rest of the
world they steadily increase the amount
' of that work," says the Philadelphia
TdeoravJi. "For the ten months ending
- August 31 the exports of beef and pork
exceeded by 2,000,000 the exports of
the same kind in the same period in 1886.
The total was $65,500,000 or a ratio of
over $76,000,000 a year. The wonder of
this thing is beyond parallel, and it may
well claim a passing thought in' these
xlays of reflection upon the greatness, the
growth and the. illimitable future cf the
republic. Here is the contribution of the
United States to the dinner table of the
-world in only two articles of food con
sumption. All other meats than beef and
pork go to swell the enormous total, as
jdo breadstuHs, fruits and vegetables,
'canned goods, etc. We not only feed
ourselves more nourishingly and amply
than any other people are fed, but we
:send these hundreds of millions worth of
:f ood yearly to the markets of other na
tions. No other country does such a
work, nor in all history has it been done.
"Who could possibly have foretold such
a tale, surpassing any Arabian Night
narvel, 100 years ago 8"
is not sometimes tried
By bleak, unfriendlv weather.
There never was full measure of content,
Even to him most blest and nursed of fate;
The morrow brings its hazard for us all1 :
Some one demands oboli at the gate.
Whereat sit Hope and Fear, who sadly call
The souls that always wait
Not one is found to thwart the dead Parcae, ; ;
Nor stay the ravel of the ghastly thread:
Nor birth, nor pride, nor wealth, nor wit can
see
Escape or compromise with destiny;
The surge betwixt the living and the dead 1
. O, sapient sage, O, orator sublime,
Poet and priest, 'tis idle here to prate.
Of latent will, of creeds that mock at
time
Within the Law there is no small or great;
Man is but man, whether he fall or clime:
He waits; aye, he must always wait.
Must wait for what? the doubt, the great
"beyond !"
The new to-day, to-morrow will be old;
All human empire soon is desolate.
Decay and change, with sure, unflagging gait,
Trample heroic dust and peasant mould.-
The myth of Kings ! Republics! what are
tnese
But vague Ambition platting God's estate ?
No man hath warranty for aught a breath
Will cancel legacies of love or hate,
Will waft his latest title deeds to Death,'
On whom we always wait.
i
I 'Tis much to flutter on the broad highways,
Ana boast our opulence m wit and art;
To clothe in golden grandeur that which
dies
Man only owns the moment he enjoys,
In all life's comedy, a single part !
The splendid seenerv of seas and stars.
The gorgeous Cosmos girding him with state.
And all the costly trappings loaned of time,
Leave him at last alone and desolate,
Within the vestibule where all men go,
Alas ! and always wait.
One fain must laugh perhaps 'twere best to
weep
When some poor soul, a leader in the van,
Aspires by ethics or some covert claim.
To win himself a precedence in name,
And chant heroics o'er his brother man,
Be he high priest or Fortune's parasite,
Or plumed by circumstance (men call him
great)
Or placid, smiling mediocrity.
Here all must meet and jostle at the gate
Of that cold house where we in company
The players always wait !
We always wait our work is never done,
Our lives are full of all things incomplete;
The sun, the rain alike for every one,
May yet find gardens in our hearts begun,
To bloom or wither in the summer's heat.
Tho' flowers of Love and Hope may blossom
soon,
Or only ripen wearily and late;
The planet Peace must be our harvest
moon
Knowing these things, we find no fault with
fate
We enter doors where love is still attune,
Wherein we always wait.
Alas! some summers I have called my own,
Some scenes, some marvels of great lakes
and woods;
The thrilling paeans of the ocean sent
By starry pathways through the firmament,
These and the like were mine in the ancient
moods.
Here was no smell of parchment, dog-eareJ
fooolcs
IN or wiles of mortgage, lease or pawned
estate;
But by the mighty legacies of God,
Each plant that bloomed, each flower that
blessed the sod,
Shared my inheritance with a friendly nod,
Malting sweet murmurs, saying nothing
loath,
"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness
thereof,"
Wherein we always wait.
John Antrobus, in the Minneapolis Star.
that the great discovery of the coming got this man into a mesmeric trance. I
think ho would be a good subject, and
if I succeed, then we will have his story
with all his sensations at the time of fall
ing. I wish that if he proves a good
subject you would take your pencil and
get his words as nearly verbatim as you
can. By the way, do you write short
hand?" "Oh, yes, but the trouble is I can't
read it, nor can anybody else after the
notes are written, That has always been
my drawback with shorthand. "
"Well, do the best you can."
"When we got to the hotel the Doctor
invited the guide up to his room to have
a glass. lie asked the guide to sit down,
and I softly turned the key in the door
60 that we would not be intcrruped.
The doctor drew up his chair before the
guide, and said :
"You seem to be a very healthy man!1
The guide said he had to be. The
guide business was not an occupation for
invalids.
"I am a phsician. Please allow me to
feel your pulse."
The guide somewhat reluctantly gave
his wrist to the Doctor, who finally took
both the guide's hands in his own and
looked him straight in the eyes, while
his fingers seemed to cares the horny
palms of the guide.
The Swiss seemed very uneasy for a few
moments, but at last his stalwart frame
appeared to subside in his chair, and as
the Doctor's face moved closer to bis the
guide's eyes became fixed and glassy. It
was intensely silent in the room.
At last the Doctor moved his open
hands before the guide's face, and tha
disengaged hands of the Swiss fell list
lessly to his sides. His eyes closed.
" You cannot stand up," said tho
doctor."
The man moved heavily, bat seemed
rooted to his chair.
"It is the 10th of August, IS
"Yes," said the guide, hoarsely.
"You took a party across the glacier
that clay, didn't youi"
"No," said the guide, in, the samo
sepulchral voice.
"What!" cried the Doctor in surprise.
"Didn't you take the party across the
glacier and comeback by the short cut?
"Xo," said tho guide.
"Weren't you and your brother to
take a party up the glacier that after
noon?"
"No," said the guide.
The Doctor was nonplused. lie
thought he had mistaken tho date, and
nsked mo if it was correct.
"The date is the one ho gave us. Ask
him whit he did that day?"
"What did you do that day?"
"There was not much to do then.
Chamonix wa3 not much sought. There
were no accidents for a lon:r time. Acci
dents bring the people. My brother
Rudolph, he was the clever one of the
family. He said he must have an acci
dent. He is the clever one; I am the
strong one. "We went together to the
morane at the foct of the glacier.
Wc tried to go up some of the
crevasses at the bottom, but the
water was too strong. At last we
found one that was narrow and the cur
rent weak. Wc found we could walk up
long distance until it became too nariw.
He said that would do. Then wc broke
my alpenstock and I took one piece. He
went round to the top of the glacier and
century would be the utilization of that
mysterious force of which we get indica
tions in mind reading and that sort of
thing. Electricity, he said, was only
faintly known at the beginning of the
century, while now it is a household ne
cessity. He certainly did some wonderful
things with people in the mesmeric
trance. He would put a person to sleep
and have him actually describe the inte
rior of a house thousands of miles awav
known only to one of the auditors. Once
the sleeper vividly told how a murder
had been done that he had never before
heard of. The Doctor expects that when
he gives the result of his researches in
his forthcoming book it will be impossi
ble for any murderer to hide his crime.
When the Doctor and I went to the
office of the guides to secure our man,
the result of the Doctor's inquiries was
that Hertzofi! was the very man we
wanted. Hertzoff some years before had
ftad the most thrilling escape ever re
;orded in the Alps He had fallen down
. a crevasse in the great glacier of the Mer
de Grace. He was alone at the time, but
they found his broken alpenstock at the
lip of the crevasse and down in the
depths they heard the tooting of his
horn. It took 300 feet of rope to bring
him up, and ever since then he was a
fiiide much sought for by those who had
any choice in the selection of guides,
and, besides this, the recital of his thrill
ing story had filled his purse on many an
occasion.
So Hertzofi! took the- Doctor and my
self across the glacier that day. We left
the beaten path somewhat so that we
might se the- spot where he fell in and
hear the story just where it happened.
The crevasse was a wide one but it had
been narrower at the time the guide
slipped over. What made matters worse
was that at the time the guide was alone.
He had taken a party across the glaciei
and wa3 returning bj a short cut to Mon
tan vert. He and his brother were to take
a party up the glacier in the afternoon
and his brother, who was waiting for him
at Montanvert, became alarmed at his
absence. With another guide he started
to meet him, and knowing the short cut
that the guides generally took when
alone, they followed it. Coming to a
valley in the ice at the bottom of which
was the narrow crevasse, they saw
NATURAL GAS.
A TERROR TO Till: PRTROLKUJt
IVELIj nORCRS.
Its Adoption A I'nel ami the Io
portant Result "Which Have
Followed The C Supply
Not Inctliauntlblc
Gascon be fcluiv.j.j.j
vicinity. Gas cz
quantities
V 4fW4 9 m.m K . - 4
and no doubt alw ia o:hT r
so it is likely to I aa Inrt,;
in our industries for many veri
But exhaustion at Iat UcerU;
havini? no U!ori!orr r
a
of ia uh'ch to perpetual
A writer in the New York Commercial
Jidvertiser says: "A weird interest at
taches to mummies, and their cominr to
life, or exciting an occult influence when
resurrected in one day, has furnished the
: foundation for several romances. Here
is a prosaic and true story, with the scene
laid in matter-of-fact New York, which
goes far to relieve the romancers from the
: charcre of rcmanrrinor Snmfi timfi nimi
0 o o
Messrs. Tiffany & Co. recieved an in
voice of mummies' eyes. I do not go so
far as to say that they were the actual
eyes of leading citizens of Thebes and
Memphis, but they were taken from the
eye-sockets of mummies exhumed from
Egyptian tombs. They may have been
the actual eyes reduced to the hardness
of stone by the process of embalming, or
they may have been only false eyes
like those used by modern taxider
mists in perpetuating the life-
- semblance of some pet Fido or
Tabby. At all events they were dubbed
"mummy eyes," and the jewelers set
about getting them ready for the market.
They were amber colored, opaque and
lustreless. It was thought best to polish
them before setting, and a workman was
set at the task. Before he had been Ion 2
at the work he became ill of a fever and
another man was put on the job. He too
became ill of the same kind of a fever
before he had spent much time on the
job, and three or four other workmen who
succeeded him were taken with the same
- symptoms and suffered a similar illness,
although others, working on other jobs
amid the same surroundings and under
': the same conditions, were enjoying their
usual good health. Here is an excellent
opportunity for the Society for Psychical
Research. Were these illnesses simply
a coincidence, or did the mummy eyes
really exert some occult and baneful
:pjwer fpr their own protection J
DOWN A CREVASSE.
BY LUKE SHARP.
"Now," said Dr. Bunts, "I'll tell you
what we must have. We don't want a
common guide. We want a guide with
a story. When I reach a place ' I always
look out for some fellow who has had
an unusual experience. In such a spot
as this there must be dozens of men who
have had thrilling experiences. Right
here at the foot of Mont Blanc there
must be men who "
"Yes, but look here," I interrupted,
you have to take the guides as they
come. I understand that there are about
240 guides in Chamonix, and that the
traveler has no choice. They are engaged
in rotation."
"True," answered the Doctor, "but
there 'are exceptions to this rule. A lady
going alone, for instance, has her choice
of guides. You can talk English only,
and that aj times not unmixed with
slang, so voli can choose a guide that
talks what you call your language, and
as for me I have the privilege of taking
any guide I wish." "
"Why you more than another?"
"Because I am a member of the Al
pine Club."
The Doctor was a rather peculiar man.
T 1 m a rri n a ! o it i. T .1 i
""u6uu man u, n, umx iior. oeen ior a
misfortune
noted physician. This misfortune was
the death of an uncle, who left him a
large fortune. Then the Doctor gave up
practice, gave up his body to travel and
his mind to mystical science, as he was
pleased to call it. He expected to make
some great discoveries in the way of mes
merism. Even while he traveled he was
continually experimenting with anybody
who would allow him to experiment on
him. He said that the great discovery of
the present century was electricity, and
on the other side a broken alpenstock
stuck fast in an ice crevice that told the
whole story. " Hertzoff had come down
the incline as usual with ais alpenstock
to keep the decent from being too swift.
The alpenstock caught in the crevice and
snapped off. Hertzoff fell and slid help
lessly over the lip of the crevasse. lie
went down feet first. He tried to stof
himself by bracing his feet against the
opposite side of the crevasse, but he slid
dawn the blue, clear ice with appalling
swiftness. About one-hundred feet down
the crevasse turned, and from thence tc
the bottom he slid down on his back, and
in an instant found himself in two feet
of ice water that rushed to help form the
River Arve that flows tnrough Chamonix.
When his brother and the other guide
saw how matters stood and heard the
faint toot of the Alpine horn in the ice
depths, the brother shouted down to en
courage him to hold out, while the othei
ran back to the big hotel for ropes and
help. All the visitors and many of the
guides came back with him, and in a
short time they had the half frozen man
up on the surface again. It was a fear
fully narrow escape. Hertzoff tied rope$
around us and held on while we venj
down and looked over the edge of the
crevasse. The sides were a clear lumin
ous blue, darkening as they went down.
We could hear the rush of the water be
low. The Doctor dropped a stone intc
the chasm and that, more than anything
else, made us realize its depth. The
stone dropped to the turn in the crevasse
and then we heard it rincinjr oirainst the
sides a3 it went down and down, seem
ingly to the center of the earth.
As we returned the Doctor and i
walked together behind the guide, whe
was some distance ahead. We were botl
very much impressed by the story told
on the very spot where it had happened.
"That ought to be a great lesson foi
you," began the Doctor.
"Why for me 2"
"Well, in the telling of a story. Now,
if you were writincr that adventure thi
chances are that you would spoil it bj
piling up the agony. He told it in his
simple, direct way, that to my mind was
infinitely more thrilling than all the fine
writing in the world. What impressed
He about his narrative was the simplicity
f diction and the evident truthfulness,
and, besides that, there was an absence
of brag that strikes me as admirable."
"Still you must admit that the guide
is a man of rather coarse feelings; prob
ably the only sensation he felt was an
animal desire for safety. He did not
describe his feelings because he had
none. Take a more - refined and educated
person in the same situation, and his
sensations during that slow slide to the
edge of the crevasse would be something
painfully intense something that this
man could neither appreciate nor under
stand." T don't admit that at all. This man's
modesty prevents him from telling us
just what he felt. Human nature is hu
man nature all the world over. Now to
rove thi?, when we return I will trr and
I sat among the stones until he would
blow his horn. He fixed the alpenstock
in the crevice. Then he went to the
hotel and told them he wa uneasy about
me. When he and the other guide came
across the ice they blew thejf orps and.
I went up the crevasse and blew mice.
After a long time the rope came down. I
tied it aromnd me and they pulled me up.
When the accident was printed in all
the papers all over the world a great
many people came to Chamonix."
The Doctor himself seemed in a trance
while the guide slowly told how the deed
was done. He was amazed and cha
grined. His hero had crumbled.
"What I like," I said as I finished the
last of the writing, "what I like about
this story is the simplicity of diction ; the
evident truthfulness cud the absence ol
all brag."
"Oh, ye?," said the Doctor rousing
himself up, "of course I will never hear
the end of this if it once gets out. AS
the same, you believed his story quite a
much as I did, although of course yoi
won't admit that now."
He made a frw passes and woke the
guide up.
"You arc tired," said the Doctor, "an3
I think you dropped asleep for a few
moments." Ddroit FreePrtts.
Natural gas as a commercial product 1
an offshoot of the petroleum businc
For many years it wa one of the won
enemies the oil men hid to fear, and
many hundreds of lire have been lost 01
account of its outbreaks during the pro
cess of boring for oil. Perhaps the worst
event of this kind was the first, whet
twenty lives were lost. This hap pence
at Rouseville, on the lower fart of Ol
Creek, three miles from Oil City, ia the
early days of the oil development. The
dangerous character of the escaping gai
was not then understood. It is not K
volatile that it will always ascend and
frequently settles in hollows in the
vicinity of a well from which it escapet
in tne iormoi a wiute vapor. It some
times rushes with such force from the
fire-and-a-half-xnch pipe inserted in the
oil well before the gas was struck that
the coiso it makes can be heard six or
eight miles away.
Whether the gas is oc Crt or not, acci
dents are not apt to happen under thru
circumstances. If it is on fire there ii
an immense volume of fame, starting
some twenty feet above the pipe from
which the fuel escapes. If such a well
is not- on fire the gas seems to blow
away and be lost ia the atmosphere, al
though the white vapor may show for a
long distance from the well if it is located
in a valley. An explosion is to lie feared
when the gas mingles with the local at
mosphere in the proportion of one part
gas and three parts atmosphere.
Most accidents from. 1- at oil wtlli
have occurred when the drill has sud
denly broken into a subterranean vein of
gas, which comes rushing to the surface
before the men at work at the well can
extinguish the fires usd for heating the
drilling tools and running the engine.
When danger seems imminent in the
course of the drilling the fires arc usuallv
placed at a considcrab-Ic distance from
the well and the steam pipe connecting
the boiler with the engine proportion
ately lengthened.
r or many years pa rxp'.'wrons were
very common in the oil tc,;:oa, and when
they did not kill outright they would
oft.n leave such pears as would last for a
life time. The useful po-sibil'itics of
the gas were so little understood that for
years th's most valuable of fuels was al
lowed to go utterly to waste, while at
the same time coal would be brought 100
miles to keep the fires of the drilling and
pumping wc'.ls and at the pipe-line sta
tion going. The gas was a nuKmcc to
be gotten rid of. This wa accomplished
by burning it from pipes in the open air
near the wells, and at this time an oil
district in the midst pcrhips of a prime
val forc3t was at night ozc of the most
picturesque sights im.ig'nible.
Aside from embarrassing tc producer
on the surface of the earth, the presence
of the gas in his well wtuM often pre
vent the successful action cf the pump
valves, and so seriously interfere with
the flow of oil. In still another way nat
ural gas proved a detriment to the oil
pioneer, by occupying the crevices of
rock that would otherwise be occupied
tioa. .Vr )Vri CommfrrL,! I
ints of Luzon, the Lr-T,.
iportant of the Pta:!!
e divided into two ri- ,
A Race ef Uoakry Mrs.
The well known traveler. M. j j.
chut, contributes to the c . ,!r'
vjve aa interesting sta ly of tv t .
lauamiaais
most imj
T-t
uvj atv n mru luio IWQ TUt
pricing some fifteen tribes ti.-
gritos, supposed to U the aho'4'
dwarfs, averaging about frcrxtlj
feet ia height, but are w:i t.J
Huts or village are utAsowa
them, but they sleep where t:.:.-V?
their love of freedom. Wht-a tv
ineir numocr uics isey a'.tn:; ,
some evil influence, and arcs- i , ;
by killing some person of atL?rv,
and are constAntlr &t wi? -.., s
. .
selves ana wju tne savsgrt. TLr i
fcr ia most respects froni tie l
Their toe are verv fr
.--J t
used like fingers, they being t, ui
up the smallest thing with ti,ea f,
have even been seen t deKvtd ltr,
head foremost, ussn? tht-r f, .
- ' - i.T
a sunreme bcmir. one tnV
. . i-iri
rod who had two sons a:d toir-
ter. from whom (iMyn,! v. t
, ..v yjt
..vu.u.i.i,;
rmwuer. the tnf lili n.l
I - - - 1.1T
well as truth and r.n!' 11.
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hire bid srv.fitu Ale- at .1 . t-.
anil (uirnc 1 iiu-t - rttt -. i
- - , - .-' . (j-
U. .1 V - - - 1
of temples say they, for l;?-
fear neither wind, sua ncrraiar 1
- v.. 4 r
the apes for thir cuziis-. nTr
obliged to ray taxes. .Vr IV I
Gas territory" was always
A Prcsvnan Dri:e.
Mr. T). Wilkin, r:rrr n
Chicago M-t it, h rrtrat'.r -..: i :-l
wc arc credibly informal. !.; i- rr .
the extra cditioa of that y.-i c
ing the nsult of the !a!i:: v.;:
from I.?) to 2l,t) r.j:. A ',.
r t "
pre uses, about .1:) o'clock. 11" r.
detailed description of th tr.ivt!
thefixth inning. In :Ir
a m . . . u ..... u. . j . j- . . . v ' . m..rt
preceding them. At tiv V -.tr
iic rrc4d- nil scale, a t..rr i
ccircd directly from the yvtL '
prcs.sn.aa standing rra It. d h
i:nprt.s on the rtpectire I ! k tl
quired figures. As toi i r
totals inserted, the rn-.r!.:t '.: -motion,
and ia twenty-to -"-.zV
placed ia our lands; in '-"
minute the cewtbov ere .'"."..ir
on the streets nd Iwfjre !
the grounds had il;rvl ?-
waron was on lun 1 t
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14.
A School of Journalism.
A London exchange (the Printing
and Paper Tradet Journal) says: Mr.
David Anderson, a well-known leader
writer on the staff of the daily
Telegraph, has opened at the Outer
Temple, in the Strand, a schqol for jour
nalists. The intention is to teach the art
and mystery of journalism, either ia its
entirety or any of its departments, Mr.
Anderson undertaking, "in course of
twelve months practical tuition, to
make any fairly well educated young
man a thoroughly trained and expert
journalist, capable of earning from six
to twenty pounds a week on the press.
Candidates for the situations of from six
to twenty pounds must, however, bear ia
mind that Mr. Anderson's terms arc one
hundred guineas, payable ia advance.
Uasait2ble Arties.
I heard a racy story of r.-ir.;
the other day, sajsa wriria
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willing to pay the forfeit ' Y
lege of relating it. A J- "u:
literarv woman ca'.!c-l at tlr C'n
Ccc oa a rain7 da v. W l.o
t .v . .v - I -: 3
sun was sn n:ng so .: -rubber
shoes which ha 1
on entering. ?br::y alter i.t-,
Stockton came in, no:":d tl? '-'
. . . . 4 .1 t .-- i
iniormen to wnom ir.ej
asked permission to re:-m
receivesl her r-l br :!.- f
in accompanied bj s---
this :
Ornct or Tc rrvTt ?.r - -.'
New ior.K, ovtr-.T . v
by oiL
drcadctl.
Til? first uC made of g.. was in dis- J u:aad for the "Extra." .'. "j
placing coal in running the enrjiocs at
the wells; it was afterward conducted to
houses lor domestic uses. Single wells
have produced such a quantity of gas
hat one was able to supply fuel for
miles around, where there were hun
dreds of houcs and many thousands cf
inhabitants, the ts teen conducted by
argc and small pijvs over ground. A
gas well of this kind was ia the vicinity
of Fairriew, Butler County, Pennsylvania.
The trss went to waste for a vcar cr
more and afterward supplied, with bo
particular diminution of fiow, the country
round for a couple of years more. At
one dri.lins well where the boiler had
given out, the three-quarter inch gas
pipe, that connected with a larger pipe
over half a mile away and that brought
the gas for making steam, was attached
directly to the engine cylinder and the
gas had sufficient propelling force to ran
the engine in place of the steam. The
objection to it was the dirt and sediment
ia it which finally choked the cylinders.
Natural gas has attained great promi
nence now in the manufacturing world
by its use in Pittsburg and other towns.
Its tue, on account of the perfect com
bustion attending it, lias abolished the
cloud of smoke that once ovcrhunrr
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Pittsbunr and entitled it to the dis
tinctive name of the "Smoky City. Ia
the manufacture of iron, class, and
wherever steam is requisite, gas, whea it
can be had, is aa extremely important
factor, and oa this account specially
Pittsburg is was and has been for years
booming" with extraordinary pros
perity. How long Pittsburg will enjoy
this special advantage it is impossible
now to judge. Individual wells will
often give gas ia great quantities for two
or three years. In the case of Pittsburg
the exhaustion of one section will not
deprive it of its supply. There are too
many i3Troluci0S sections ia this
rrt
pinion ia rejard to ti
tbe enc.o! articles r"rir-
tbeyswm usjaiUlJ t t'. ' -
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A Small Brr.
The idea W-ics to prevail 3-
armies that it is better t J -
la battle than to kill hi- s' .
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4rn ivi':i Lfut. v .
wounded man than (" '
Hence oninioa at r re'cst .T
. .
oorc ior xnc uiJ-'-
introduced, and the
auomeu is aoou i-.-"- . w
only, instead of the h-' i ;
hitherto ia use ia K-rcr i
country. Aa advaatae cf r
bore is that the wM.cr cia
rounds of ammuciti 1 r
caa be maJe lighter.
whea consulted a!-t
being shct twice to bclrj