Water Valley progress., October 09, 1909, Image 2

About Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918

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HOW THEY LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
Ella—There aren't many faces like
mine.
Stella—No; but I guess the supply
will equal the demand.
CUTICURA CURED HIM.
Eczema Came on Leg* and Ankle»~
Could Not Wear Shoes Uecaus*
Of Bad Scaling and Itching.
“I have been successfully cured ot
dry eczema. I was inspecting the re
moval of noxious weeds from the edge
of a river and was constantly in the
dust from the weeds. At night I
cleansed my limbs but felt a prickly
sensation. I paid no attention to it
for two years but I noticed a scum
on my legs like fish scales. I did not
attend to it until it came to be too
itchy and sore and began getting two
running sores. My ankles were all
sore and scabby and I could not wear
shoes. I had to use carpet and felt
slippers for weeks. I got a cake of
the Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura
Ointment. In less than ten days I
could put on my boots and in less than
three weeks'"! was free from the con
founded itching. Capt. George P. Bliss,
Chief of Police, Morris, Manitoba, Mar.
20, 1907, and Sept. 24, 1908.”
Mur Drag a Cbem. Carp.. Sol* Prop*., Boatoa.
TRAGEDY ON A BANK NOTE
Ritter Words Found Written on a Dol
lar Bill by the Receiving
Teller.
“Yes. I collect queer bank notes,”
said the receiving teller. “I've been
doing it for years. You know there
are some very odd things written on
bank notes sometimes.” Me pointed
to a one-doliar bill hung in a frame
of black oak on the wall. “Read
that," he said. “And I’ve got queer
er ones than that even in my col
lection.”
On the bank note in red ink was
written in a feminine hand: “You
have robbed me of all the rest, and of
my soul also. May this burn your
hand when you touch it. May all
you buy with it be accursed. You
have the last. Are you now satisfied?
Murderer!”
The collector sighed sentimentally.
“Think of the tragedy,” he said, “that
may lie hid behind those single lib
tie phrases, eh?”
Trouble* of People on Venue.
Inhabitants of Venus, if there are
any, must feel it extremely difficult to
establish units of time. Venus always
turns the same face toward the sun;
80 the planet has no day, and the
lack of a moon deprives it of a month.
Finall, it has no year, for its axis of
rotation is perpendicular to the plane
of Its orbit, and the latter is almost
circular.
They Should
"My honest conviction, based upon
my own experience and that of my
frtands, Is that ‘Hunt's Cure* will cure
a larger per cent of skin troubles, espe
cially of ait Itching variety, than any
otter remedy. Certainly those afflict
ed with any form of itch should try It."
J. O. Moore,
Me per box. Atchison, Kaa.
She—She tpld me you told her Chat
secret I told you aot-to tell her. .-v,*
He—The mean thing! I told her
not to toll you I told her.
She—I promised hdr I wouldn’t tell
you,she told me. ao don’t tell har 1
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MYSTERIES OF NATURE
By George Frederick Wright,
A. M., LL. D. >| I
OIL “GUSHERS” AND THEIR ORIGIN j
The commercial discovery of petrol
eum dates from the memory of men
now little past middle life. Between
1850 and 1860 much alarm began to
be felt throughout the civilized world
because the whale fisheries were be
coming unproductive. The disappear
ance of whales meant the disappear
ance of whale oil. which was the main
dependence for light.
But It was discovered that oil could
be economically made from certain
kinds of coal, especially cannel coal,
which abounded in west Pennsylvania
and Virginia. Capitalists from New
For and began to Invest large sums
l'i these coal mines and to put up ex
tensive plants for manufacturing coal
oil. and numerous inventions were
mad. for its use as an illuminating
fluid The oil was sold at 25 cents per
gallon.
For some time, however, rock oil, or
petroleum, had been known to exude
in small quantities in western Penn
sylvania, and was put up in small bot
tles and sold for 25 cents as an oint
ment good for rheumatism and other
Ills. Sometimes this was called Mex
ican oil, but more generally Seneca
oil, from the name of the Indian tribe
settled on the Allegheny river where
it was chiefly found. But there had
been no thought of getting it in quan
tities sufficient for fuel and light. Still
in some places It formed such a
“scum" on the small streams that It
was reported the small boys who
went in’swimming were made so sllp
Jteqt dealt >oa pjnoo Xeqj jsqt X-ied
clothes on.
Titusville, Pa., has the honor of be
ing the place where rock oil was first
found in large enough quantities to
make it commercially valuable. There,
on boring down a few hundred feet,
It was found that oil could be' pumped
out of the rocks like water, and a
craze was started that is still going
on after more than torty years have
clasped and gives no signs of abate
ment. \
As the quality of this oil is nearly
the same as that derived from coal,
the Inventions already made served
for the utilization, of this also, though
in this as in everything else mankind
has kept going on to perfection.
Throughout western Pennsylvania)
West Virginia and eastern Ohio, which
were the main centers of production
for the first 25 years, the oil was
found in a porous sahdstone lying un
der the coal measures and above thick
deposits of Devonian shale, which
contained a good deal of carbonaceous
matter. These shales crop out con
tinuously from a little south of
Rochester, N. T., all along parallel
to Lake Erie to the vicinity of San
dusky, O., and then turn south, con
tinuing to the Ohio, near the mouth
of the Scioto river. Over all the area
south and east of this line these
shales are several hundred feet
thick, and are reached by the drill at
depths, ranging from a few hundred to
2.000 or 3.000 feet.
to two of hydrogen. A large amount
of gas almost always escapes from oil
wells, while oft«n gas only Is pro
duced. These were at first called dry
wells, and wore thought to be useless,
the gas being allowed to escape Into
the air. What was well called the
“Mulligan Snorter" for years poured
forth Its pent-up treasures Into the air
of western Pennsylvania with a sound
that could be heard for miles, like a
steamboat whistle.
But now the gas discovered is care
fully preserved, and other wells are
sought for on every hand to supply
the demand for it. Pipes are laid for
hundreds of mUss to warm and light
distant cities atjd to furnish heat and
some of the more delicate forms of
manufacture, like glass. Cleveland is
now partly supplied with gas piped
from West'Virginia.
MAP ON A HEN’S EGG
TOLD JUST WHERE LONG BURIED
TREASURE COULD BE FOUND.
That la Why Ezra Burt Hold* Price
leaa the Scrawny, Disreputable
Looking Fowl, Though She
Hae Never Laid Again.
Ezra Hurt, who lives about a mile
east of the Corners, has a hen which
no amount o£ money will buy, the New
York World says, it is a scrawny, ill
appearing fowl, with bedraggled feath
ers and a semibald head, and, what
Is more, it has laid only one egg in its
entire two years’ existence. Still, old
Betsy, as the hen is called, has a
niche in Ezra's heart and gets the
very best grain the farm affords.
The secret of all thin is that the
one-egg lletsy laid contained on Its
shell a raised water-line map of the
spot-where old Jeremiah Burt, Ezra's
great-grandfather, burted his gold at
the time of the revolutionary war, and
with the aid of this map Ezra recov
ered tlie treasure. Just how much
this was no one has been able to find
out, but it is known that the mortgage
on the farm has been paid off and the
Burt family Is living in comfort.
The Burts gave up hunting for the
secreted wealth 40 years ago, after
they had searched and dug until they
were tired out. They knew that the
paternal Burt sunk his gold some
where in the earth and went oil to
war without telling his family where
he had placed it further than that It
was on the farm.
Last summer a gypsy came along
selling beads and laces and offered to
go into a trance and solve the treas
ure riddle, provided Ezra bought a
dollar's worth of her wares. Burt
took up the offer and In her trance
the woman said that some day an old
scrawny hen would lay an egg on
which would be found a map. If this
were followed the treasure would be
found. Ezra thought be was "stung,"
but he paid the dollar.*
Nothing more happened until a
month ago, when Betsy was found in
tW wood box behind tbt kitchen stove.
Horrified at the Idea of having a hen
in her kitchen Mrs. Burt shooed her
out, and was surprised to find an egg
nestling In the shavings. The egg had
peculiar raised lines on the shell and
Ezra was called. He remembered the
prophecy of the gypey and carefully
studied the shell. Sure enough, there
was a map, with, a Uttle star at-the
base of an old taaiife tree In the sutler
orchard.
With a pick and shovel Burt sat
forth and gn. hour later returned with
a discolored copper soap kettle heavy
with gold. The family kept the secret
until the mortgage was paid, when It
became common property. All ef
forts to get Ezra to tell how much
money he found In the kettle have
failed.
Blind, But Picks Barrios.
One of the most expert strawberry
pickers In Ala country la s blind man.
Robert Jolly of Orcas, Wash., for
years has made bis annual expenses
picking strawberries and other fruit
for his neighbors, and so skilled is
be, and so rapid, that he earns as
much on the commission plan as a
man with good eyes. Jolly finds his
war along the rows of vines with his
stick, and carries a dosen crates with
him. His nlmhle fingers find the
fruit, and while one hand is piueklng
the berry the other Is ssarchlng for
Ki. Picking cherries or apples and
king around on a ladder is as
easy for him as far a school bap.
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DONT LIKE TO PAINT MEN
Miniaturists Declare They Are Too
Coaree and Harsh to Be Good
Subjects.
Perhaps woman suffragists don't
heed to be cheered up a bit, but if
they do they may find a note of glad
ness in the fact that there Is another
class of persons besides themselves
who have no use for a man. They
are miniature painters.
“Can’t you paint a man in minia
ture?” said the visitor, who had been
looking at dosens of dainty feminine
likenesses which reposed in a cab
.uet uncontaminated by association
with a single man.
"We can," said the artist, "and we
do, occasionally, but we don’t want
to. Men don’t look well in minia
tures. They are too harsh, too
coarse. If a miniature Is going to be
a real work of art it must have for
its subject something dainty, fluffy,
and lacy. There is nothing very fluf
fy or lacy about a man’s stiff linen col
lar, his unsightly lapels, his straight,
short hair. In the days when men
wore satin coats and powdered curls,
miniature painters might have been
able to work them up into a pleasing
picture, but you don’t meet many
men nowadays who wear satin ooats
and powdered curls. Of course, if a
man dressed in the ugly modern cos
tume wishes to be painted In minia
ture no artist is going to refuse th«
commission, but she certainly wil
i not approve of his taste.”
SIX MONTHS.
Mrs. BUI—Now, tell me at once—
where have you been all this time?
BUI — Why, dear, It hasn’t been
long.
Mrs. Bill—How dare you bill me
that? You have been out all night.
A Useful Baby.
Speaking of tricks to win the sym
pathy of Juries in criminal eases.
Judge WilUard M. McEwen, l»,;* -re
cent address before the TlUpols State’s
Attorneys’ association, said: “I know
of four cases where a baby played a
prominent part in getting the acquit
tal of the defendant,,and I later
learned that the same baby had been
used In each of the cases, although
the supposed mothers in- each case
were different women.’’—Law Notes.
So, What’s the Use?
’’Yes, I went fishing yesterday," be
gan the man who tries to be original.
“Luck? Well, some. I caught two
fish. One was three and a half Inches
long and the other two inches.’’
But was he beUeved? Not moefe.
After he passed on seme one com
mented: W dg
“Bet he didn’t get a bite."
PRESSED HAlfD
Coffee’s Weight on Old A«*