The Volcano lubricator., February 12, 1874, Image 2

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V OLCANO Lu BK'tLWTOR ; j
GEORGE P. SAROSN'i', j
PLULISHER PROPRIETOR,}
Volcano fVi-st la.
THURSDAY VTURU ARY i-,'74 !
Producers Meetias.
Tbe Gil Producers held a meeting I
hut Saturday night, .it u-o Nicuo.asl
House, lor tlso purpose ot making ar- j
rangemcnts to further their o vn inter- 1
ests, in the wav of ^wtt.ng ;l ^air mar" i
k? price for their oil. Several plans |
were discussed, and a committee was
appointed to recommend some plan
wherebv the end aimed at could be ob
tained." We wish that the producers
would ever learn t?rc fact that their m
tresis arc identical, that any means ,
that may be adopted to help one. will
nccessari'y help all. At the meeting I
held last Saturday night, there were
fears expressed by some, that si the
producers of West Virginia asked a
fair market price for their production.,
that the buyers in Parkersburg
would combine and refuse to buy, and
thus starve them into having the price
of oil dictated to them. This, is all
mere gammon. The Parkersburg buy -
ersjbuV West Virginia Oils because
he can ni-r.ke mone; on '.hem. he buys
because it is to his interest to buy, and
not from any great love he may bear
the seller; it is strictly a business trans
action, not a matter of personal teel
ing. We know the history of one
man (Dr. Emery.) who started some
three vears ago to sell his cil outside
of the rins, and against v hom every
combination possible lornied to crush
him. And what w? the result? that
he has sold his oil and averaged five or
six dollars per barret more than he
could by any possible means have ob
tained "in "the Parkersburg market.
Let the producer* do the same thing,
ask a fair price for their production,
and if a combination is formed by the
buyers, it will on!v force the producers
to measures they should have taker,
voluntarily, long ago ot finding some
other market for their oil. Cultivate
the Baltimore market, make an outlet
to Marietta, and ai.-o to Cleveland,
and then they will have buyers com
petingvfor their production. The West
Virginia oil is the best for refining pur
poses, when properly handled, and it j
is the only oil produced that will re
duce well and make a lar^e yield; the
buyers know this and :t will govern
them in all their actions. .
We hardly think t':at the remarks j
made on Saturday night last by some J
of the oil buyer's friends, were j
warranted. We believe that the buy- ;
?ers are willing to pay a fair market
price for our oil, it asked. The oil
operators should perfect some kind ot
plan whereby thev can better protect
themselves. ' We will do all that lavs
in our pover to help them. W hile it
is our pleasure to publish the Lubri
cator, it shall be published in their
interests. Meantime, on." advice to
them is, to keep their eyes open, and
wc for our part will do our best to
keen them posted. Our attention has
been call to a little fact in their inter
ests, which we will soon :ook up. We
ask of them not to be afraid to assert
their rights. No man owns them be
cause they arc a little in debt, don t be ,
cowardly because you are under, small
obligations, and always remember,
"God hates a coward," Le he cither a
?moral or physio! one.
"ho Market.
"One dollar," "twenty," "forty,"
'"sixty,'* "eighty," "two ck?!lars," "two
twenty-five." Give it another hoist
and "three dollars" will be the watch
worJ. The healthy tone of the market
brings life and cheerfulness to every
branch of business. Buyers find it
difficult to fill orders, producers refuse
to bell :;t any price, and have stopped
pulling down wells, and up goes oil to
something nearer its value. "Three,'
we look for now and if producers will
only profit by the experience they have
ha?. and absolutely refuse to drill
another well, they must oi necessity
I'omnur.J their own price. Let due
descrction be exercised and there need
be no fear of depreciation in oil for an
indefinite time. There is a little sheet
issued each month, at Titusville, known
as Stowell's Petroleum Reporter,
which is under the control of the bears, j
It shows an increase every month since !
its establishment, done systematically,
with the intent to deceive the produ
cers. It reports last month's produc
tion at 34,000 barrels per day, average, 1
which Stowell well knows is a delibe- j
rate pcrvcreioi of the fact*. There is j
no man of ordinary sense who does '
not know that the production has been 1
falling ofT to a vcrv yrwit extent for the j
past three month1*, and 1I1.1t it does not
at this tinvoxcced - ;/><?.> barrels daily, j
Producers will pur no <"o:ifidence in !
v:h self evident Ir.m '? ? the ?ooi'.
?*r tiit* y cea?c the bet Petersburg
Progress.
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Tlie Advance in Oil
The present advance in the oii mar
ket is exceedingly gratifying to produ
cers, and may be regarded as a fair
God-send to the entire oii region. It
indicates better times, and inspires J
our people with renewed energy and
vim. The effects of the recent advan
ces arc already* perceptible, and if the
market continues to go up, and we be.
lieve it will, the oil region will soon
free itself from any encumbrances that
have of lute given it a back set, and will
be itself again. All we need is a fair
price for our product, and then we can
prosper. This, we have strong belief,
we will now have for a long time.
The falling off of the production, the
rapid increase in the demand for pe
troleum, and other circumstances, are
things that pipe companies and bears
cannot well contend against success
fully, and despite any efforts put forth
on their party we believe the market is
destined to continue to advance until
it reaches a good ,)r!ce, where we trust
it will remain for many years to come
Oil Men's Journal.
? ? ? ? ? -
The New York Commercial and
Shipping List in a leading editorial ex
presses fears that the supply of petro
leum for 1874 will not be equal to the
rapidly increasing demand. It further
assumes that before the close of this
year it may become necessary to make
up the deficiency from deposits of as
phaltum, wherever found on the sur
face. We can assure our contempora
ry that we can produce in the Pe n syl
van ia Oil Region suiticent petroleum,
to supply the world, provided the
world is Willing to pay for the cost of
producing it. Furnishing oil at a dol
lar a barrel is, we think, a thing of the
past, and it would not be at all supris
ing to see the price advance in 1874 to
a figure as far beyond the cost of pro
duction, as in 1S73 it was depressed be
low it. ? Herald.
The Vcnaftgo SpecatOr says that a
large producer in the Sutler county
region, grows more and more discon
solate every day as oil advances. He
sold his entire production "short" till
April 1st for seventy cents at the wells.
His case is but one among that large
class of producers whose necessities
competed them !o raise money at any
sacrifice.
Mrs. Skinner on Woman's Rights.
Miss President ? I am here, to-day
tor the purpose of discussing woman's
lighib.
As a success, man is a failure, and I
bless my stars that my mother was a
v.cman.
I not only maintain these principles
but maintain a *hiftless husband be
sides.
Thcv say man was created first.
S'psoin' he was! Ain't first experi
ments always failures?
The only decent thing about him
was a rib, and that went to something
better.
And then they threw it into our
faces about Eye taking ar. apple.
I'll bet five dollars that Adam boost
ed her up the tree, and only gave her
the core.
And what did lie do when lie was
found out?
True to his masculine instincts, he
sneaked behind Eve'6 Grecian bend
and said: "Twa'n't me ? 4twas her!*?
And woman has had to father every
thing mean since ? and mother it too!
What we want is the ballot; and the
ballot we're bound to have if we let
down our back hair and swim in a
sanguinary.
Bring up your little daughter to love I
and caress the ballot, and when they j
are old and scrawny, they will not part
from it.
Teach them that man occupies no
position lhata woman cannot fill ? even
a pair of pants.
Teach them that without the ballot
woman is simply a cooking and wash
ing machine; that with it she can just ?
rule her little roost.
Give 'em little ballots to play with.
We have plenty of ballet girls, but
what we want is ballot woman.
The male creature now sitting on
this platform, whom the law compels
me to call husband, says I've go tballct
on the brain.
He says I sleep with a ballot under
my pillow, and dream that I am <om
mander- In-chief of a large army of
ballots, and an cleaning out everything
that looks like the male sex while the
band plays.
"Si c the ennquering hero coincth!"
Such remarks show that man was
created lower than the beast of the sea,
the carrion of the air, or the rhinoceros
upon the prairies.
*
A poet says: "Oh! she was fair, but |
sorrow came and left his traces there." |
What became of the remainder of the j
hiniC" he do*:s not sta?e
The Church Spider.
Two spider*, so the story gscs-,
Upon .1 living bent, |
Entered the meeting house one day,
And hopefully were heard to say,
"Here we shall Have at least, fair play,
With nothing to prevent."
Each chose his plv:c and went to work;
The light webs grew apact?;
One on the altar spun his thread.
Hut shortly came the sexton dread.
And swept hint ell', and so, half dead)
ile sugyht another place.
"I'll try the pulpit r.cst,"iho said,
"There surely is a prize;
The desk appears so neat and cica:i,
I'm sure nc spider there has been:
Besides, how ot'ten have I seen
The pastor brushing dies."
He tried the pulpit, but, alas!
His hopes proved visionary;
With dusting brush the sexton came,
And spoiled his geometric game,
Nor gave him time or space to claim
The right of sanctuary.
At length, half starved, and weak and lean
He sought his former neighbor,
Who now had grown so sleek and round,
He weighed a fraction of a pound.
And looked as il the art he'd found.
Of living without labor.
"IIovv is it friend." he asked, "that I
Endure such thumps and knocks,
While you have grown so very gross?''
?"Tis plain." lie answered; "not a loss
"I've met, since first I spun across
The contribution box."
oust One Moment.
We sometimes hear it said, "A min
ute makes no differences." As we
grow older and more thoughtful, we
are likely to seethe mistake in that
careless saving. "Millions of money
for an inch of time!" cried Queen Eli
zabeth when she was dying, and there
ate occasions in the lifetime of many
persons when they would give all they
are worth for the advantage of a mo
ment. What consequences may hinge
upon a single minute we see strangely
proved by the following incident re
lated by a writer from Leeds, Eng.,
to the Christian Banner:
Not long ago, I walked the streets
of old Leicester, in England, taking an
antiquarian's interest in the scenes
around me. At one moment I gazed
on a bit of Roman wall, and the nefct,
the associations were connected with
the last of the Plantagenets. Yonder
Richard III, slept the night before the
battle ol Bosworth Field, here he cross
ed the River Soar a1? he marched with
his army to the conflict,- imd here his
remains iie buried.
But there was a spot of deeper inter
est than this. I looked on the bat
tered walls of Leicester, and noted the
breaches which were made by the be
sieging army of Cromwell; and, a few
paces farther I stood where a rollicking
young royalist soldier was posted with
in the walls as sentinel, who. handling
his musket awkwardly, was removed
from his post, and another man placed
there instead.
The next minute tiic new sentinel
was shot dead. Had that fatal ball
sped on its way one moment, sooner
there would have been lost to the world
one of its most loved and honored
names; for in that case, the name of
John Bunyati would never have been
set as a bright jewel in the coronal of
fame. One moment sooner, and the
grand old dreamer of Bedlord Jail
would have been cut off and his glo
rious vision of the pilgrims to the
Celestial City would never have charm
ed generations of men of every land and
tongue.
A Vttntriloquist's Trick.
It would be well if ventriloquist's
were often passing by when brutal
men are abusing animel's nobler than
themselves. Signor Blitz punished
one of those wretches by a good fright
in return for his cruelty.
As a drayman was furiously beating
his lank, half- starved mule, near the
Government Square, Havana he was
astonished to hear the animal ex
claim:
"Enough, you brute!"
The drayman looked aghast, and
searched under his dray and around his
mule to find the origin of this sepulch
ral voice, when again he was horrified
to hear from the animal, to all appear
ances:
"You are a brute!"
The drayman was dumbfounded,
and trembled like an aspen-leaf, and
dropped his whip as if stung by an ad
der. lie blessed himself, and was
about falling on his knees, when he
again heard;
"I was your mother once upon a
time!"
This capped the climax, and a gen
tleman from the crowd that had gath
ered around endeavored to explain to
the terror stricken drayman that some
times disembodied spirits return to the
world in the form of animals. Just at
this moment, Signor Blitz, accompani
ed by two friends, who had been look
ing'on the strange scene and enjoying
the fun, adjourned to the Union Coffee
House, on the neighboring corner, and I
left the crowd cndeavoi ing lo induce j
the animal to speak again, and the
dravman embracing the mule in a most
filial manner.
? Golden Words."
Don't deceive. ? Baron Munchausen.
lie humble. ? T. Tilton.
T.ove your country. ? Jefferson Da- ^
vis.
Don't read novels. ? Harpfcr & Bio's. |
\Ve concur in the above. ? T. B. Pe
terson & Co.
Don't smoke. ? U. S. Grant.
Mind vour own business ? Catacazv.
Beware ol" Mrs. Livermorc. ? Gen
eral Hall.
An honest man gathers no moss.
A rolling stone's the noblest work ot
God. ? P. V". Nasby.
Make money and do good with it.
? W. M. Tweed.
Don't marry until you can support a
wife. (Nor then either.) ? Malthus.
lie that in the world would rise,
must take the papers and advertise. ?
Confucius.
Let your motto be virtue, faith, hon
esty and industry. ? James Fisk, Jr.
Wisdom is better than soup. ? Dan
iel Webster's reply to General Scott.
1 altrybut mi sitkcess inn life to mi
devoshun to spellyng. ? Josh Billings,
What I don i know. ? 1 Greeley.
Wife, Mistress and Lady. ? Who
marries for love takes a wife; who
marries for fortune takes a mistress*
who marries for position takes a lady.
You are loved by your wife, regarded
by your mistress, and tolerated by j>our
lady. You have a wife for yourself,
a mistress for your house and friends>
a lady for the world and society.
Your wife will agree with you, your
mistress will rule you> your lady man
age you. Y our wife takes care of your
household, your mistress of your house(
.your lady of appearances. If you are
sick your wife will nurse you, your
mistress will visit you, your lady will
inquire after your health. You take a
walk with your wife, a ride with your
mistress, and go to a part} with your
lady. Your wile will share your grief,
your mistress your money, your lady
your debts. If you die, i our wife will
weep, your mistress will lament, and
your lady wear mourning. Which
will you have ?
LOOK ?!
The total exports of petroleum for
the month of January, 1S74, were
5o7SAj5 gallons, against 2,0:3,90s gal
lon's in the month of January, 1S73.
A differancc of 3,554,627 gallons;
equal to, SS,Sf>5 blls. and 27 gallons.
"Head L's." ? A clerk in a rural
town had a pet calf which he was train
ing up in the ways of the ox. The
calf walked around very pcaccubly un
der tMic end of the yoke while Mr.
[ clerk held up the other end. but in an
unfortunate moment the man conceiv
ed the idea of puiting his own neck in
the yoke, to let the calf see how it
would seem to work with a partner.
This frightened mister calf, and elevat
ing his tail and his voice he struck a
| "dead run" for the viilage, and Mr.
clerk went along with his head down,
straining every nerve to keep up, and
crying at the top of his voice; "Here
wc come, dang our fool souls; head us,
somebody!"
"A distinguished member of the
Kentucky Legislature" is reported in
the Louivillc Commercial, as having
candidly "acknowledged the corn."
Reappearing, alter an absence from
his seat of three days, he said, "he had
been sick.". "What's been the matter
with your" he was asked. "Well
some folks call it nervous chills; others
prononnce it a kind of alTection o( the
heart; but, to be candid, I call it a plain
case of old-fashioned drunk.'*
The young ortrto1!- in Illinois, who in
a recent speech, threatened to "grasp
a ray of light from the great orb of
day, spin it into threads of gold, and
with them weave a shroud in which
to wrap the whirlwind which dies
Upon the bosom of our western prai
ries," has concluded it wouldn't
pay
A local humorist at Brunswick, Mo.,
says: Parents should look more care
fully into the education of their chil
dren. A neglect in this direction is
apt to entail endless misery upon their
offspring. Only last night a youth lost
three games of seven-up in Kink
horst's saloon, solely through his igno
rance of mathematics.
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I have had occasion to observe that
a warm blundering man does more for
the world than a frigid wise man. One
who gets into a habit of inquiring
about proprieties, and occasions, often
spends his whole life without doing
anything to purpose. ? Cecil.
"This is the rock of ages," 6aid the
father, rocking two hours, and the
baby still awake.
\\ hen does a larmcr work a miracle?
when lie turns his hor.se to gra-s>.
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