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LITTLE THINGS
How often in cur busy life
We speak a bitter word;
We ca t who the listeners are,
We care not where ’tis heard.
We do not know within our heart
To what it may amount,
And truly, it is only one
Of little things that count.
We often wound the trusting heart
By being insincere.
We do not think that which we do
May cause a lonely tear.
We give it but a passing thought,
And bother not about
The little things that rise and cause
The trusting heart to doubt.
We citen wrong within ourself
The ones who love us true,
Because ‘they tell us of a fault;
We're all impatient, too,
And do not down the angry words
That to our lips may mount,
But watch and wait; ’tis only cone
Of little things that count.
THAT COUNT.
How often from our very heart
We let our anger rise,
And never mind the pleading looks
That come from soulful eyes;
We crush, we bruise, in‘passion’s hour,
And scorn the falling tear;
Little things, oh, little things,
Vhat sorrow wrought you here!
You count, oh yes, you little things,
You count, but not for gain;
You count to sadden trusting hearts,
“ou count for naught but pain.
You count as clouds in some one’s sky,
You darken some ome’s day;
O cruel little deeds and words
We can’t undo, unsay!
Then cver speak the kindly word
Instead of one of pride;
“Twill banish sorrow from a soul,
And anger turn aside.
The loving word and deed and glance,
Is borne on angel wings,
And angel voices echo true:
Be kind in little things!
—Kathryn C. Murray, in the Hartford Daily Courant.
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Everybody ‘round Pimly set up a
faugh when Peter Jethson and his
wife moved over on ¢0ld man Grant's
west eighty and set up for farming.
Peter was always regarded as some-
thing of a joke in Hoke County, and
the facet that he had married Sophie
Grant, the prettiest girl for miles
arcund, didn’t save him. He was a
sort of second cousin to the old man’s
first wife, and, of course, when he
came to Kansas his kinsman took him
in.
The objections to him were good-
natured but numerous. He was al:
dressed up, he had no more
knowledge of horses, cattle and pigs
than a Kansas City dude, and for the
first year of his life in Eoke County
he didn't do anything but court
Sophie. Old Grant never would have
agreed to it if he didn’t know that his
son-in-law-elect “had money,” for the
youth was’ quite worthless from a
bucolie point of view, and after six
menths trying to interest him in farm-
ing the old man gave in with:
“Well, ye kin have her, Pete, but
goll darn ye, how you all goin’ to
make out?”
Peter grinned quietly, saying,
“Guess we won't starve,” and went
away to tell Sophie. They were mar-
ried at Christmas, spent a week’ in
Kansas City and then came home to
settle down. Everybody thought
they’d open a store in Pimly, but they
TORE COUNTY
away whistling, while Sophie in the
kitchen smiled confidently and her
father grumbled in his whiskers.
It was like that all summer and fall.
Pete didn’t do anything in the way of
work’ except what he did secretly in
his shop or on his well. The neigh-
bors would stop at his road gate some-
times and shout at him: “Hey, Mis-
ter Jethson, struck -watter yit?”’
Wheréat he would smi'e gently, shake
his head and answer, “Not yet.”
Sometimes, if they happened to ask
him, “How ye gettin’ along?’ he'd
crack his little joke by answering,
“Getting a long well, thank you,” and
then he’d laugh like a pleased boy.
And so it came about that the folks
at Pimly and rcundabout in Hoke
County came to talk about Peter Jeth-
son as “Poor Pete,” the women pitying
Soplkie and the men pitying old man
Grant, who had given his pretty
daughter to a “half-wit.”
It was along in the spring when
everybody found out that Peter had
taken a ten-year lease on the Brown-
son place adjoining his own untilled
acres. Maycr Jenkins of Pimly voiced
the public sent:ment about this trans-
action when he scid: :
“Brownson has just took advartage
o’ pore Pete. Them hundred an’ sixty
acres o’ his’'n ain’t wuth two dollars
a year. Won't raise nuthin’ an’ yit,
come t’ think, they can’t raise no less'n
Pete’s eighty.”
DOWN INTO THE TIMBER, WEERE LE COUNTED THE WALNUT
TREES.
didn’t. Pete leased the® west eighty
from his father-in-law and built a cot-
tage, declaring that he meant to make
his fortune right there. He started
by bringing from his old home in the
East all his books, fishing tackle, guns
and other inipractical effects. When
the Kansas winter vanished belore a
matchless spring he began to roam
ever “our farm.”
“What you going to do first, Petc?*
Sophie would ask.
“Just look around for a while, So-
phie,” he would say, and march off
whistling toward the creek or down
into the timber, where he counted the
walnut trees and shot an occasional
squirrel. Then he rigged ap a shop
near the barn and bought a lot of,
second-hand gas pipe, iron rods and
queer implements that had nothing to
do with farming.
“What ye goin’ to do naow, Pete?’
the old man asked, eyeing him with
unexpressed wonder.
“I'm going to make a well,”
Pete, smiling like a willful child.
“Well? You don’t need no well;
you got one an’ a cistern. There's
the pond and the creek, an’ it’s good
an’ rainy in Hoke. Well, fiddle! Ain’t
you goin’ to put in no crap?”
“Later maybe. I'll get around to
said
that later.” And Pete would saunter
Whereupon everybody laughed and
repeated Mayor Jenkins’s jokgg Then
the wags out Grant’s way began to
“put up ‘ jobs” ‘on Jethson. They
would stop by and ask casually if he
wanted to lease any more land, and
when they realized that he was dead
in earnest about getting more acres,
that he wasn’t particular about the
quality of the land, so long as it was
near Pimly, and could be leased for
ten years or longer, they began to
«get a vague idea that “mebbe Pete
was up to suthin’.” Then for a while
old man Grant was waylaid on the
corners in Pimly and at intervals
along the road, by farmers who want-
ed to know what Pete was to do with
his leased lands. When Grant said
he didn’t know, they either disbe-
lieved him or pitied the necessity of
veiling his son-in-law’s mental frailty
and went their ways. But the old
fellow was now bent on knowing. He
refused to accept the theory that Pete
was ‘‘daffy,” preferring to estimate
his eccentricities as ‘“‘pure ornery lazi-
ness.” At last he got the young man
into a corner of the sitting-room, when
Sophie was away, and quizzed him re-
lentlessly.
“Now I kin keep a secret, Pete,” he
concluded; ‘folks is beginnin’ to think
yore daffy and it’s agoin’ to hurt Sofe
own up, what is your idea
leases when you ain't so “1 )
farmin’ truck?’ FRE
“Gas, dad,” said Peter, Cadietly.
“Just keep it as secret as you can, but
there’s gas under every foot of this
ground.”
It was not a very satisfactory ex-
planation to Grant. He didn’t see
what particular good gas might do,
and the next time he saw Dr. Jewett
in Pimly he let slip the secret about
Peter's idea. From the doctor's of-
fice the story spread, reaching ears
that were not indifferent to the story
of a possible gas belt under Hoke
County. Strangers who had snick-
‘ered at Jethson began to cross-ques-
tion him, but he put them aside with
a childish smile and a harmless joke.
“How you goin’ to git the gas?’ they
asked him.
“Dig for it,” he would say, laughing,
“Arn’ if you git it, what then?”
“Then it’s up to you,” grinned Jeth-
son, as he walked away.
Some of them did cig, or rather bore
Into their farms. Ashamed of their
enterprises, thcy kept them secret
from each other, but swhen they had
vainly gone down 200, 300 and 500 feet
through rock and clay and water, rage
against the innocent Peter took hold
of therm, and they watched for a
chance to get. even. Ceorge Hough
set the pace by actually leasing the
‘‘gas privileges” of his farm to Jeth-
son for mninety-nire ycars for the cash
sum of $1C0, which was paid the mo-
ment the deed was signed. After that
there was a rush to “do business” with
Peter. The malcontents who had speit
work and money sinking for gas
wanted revenge, but they were afraid
to give the victim ‘long terms,” for
fear when his mental condition was
discovered his engagements would be-
come valueless, so they did business
with him on a cash basis until his
money was gone and he had ‘“‘the gas
privilege’ on cvery farm ard free
holding near Pimly. :
“What air you goin’ t* do nacw?”
groaned Pana Crant when Pete admit-
ted that he’d like to borrow a hundred
dollars.
“I'm going’ to give Pimly a fire-
works exhibition,” he answered naive-
ly. “I'm going to town now to put a
card in the Banner announcing a show
over at my place.” \
And he did. The erratic annouace-
‘ment drew every man, woman and
child for miles around. The “fire-
works” was all gas, it is true, but
from a hundred jets along the drive,
around the lawn, in the house and out-
side, it flared in clear white glory.
Peter showed them his lathe and his
pumps all run by burning gas. The
men who had ridiculed him aside, ad-
mitted that they had dug for gas too,
“Just on his say so,” but that “they
want no gas within five hundred feet,
an’, Pete, ef ye want to stan’ from
under that lease, why all right.”
But Peter didn’t want to “stand
from under.” - :
“Digging for gas, boys,” said Peter,
radiantly, “is like sizing ip your fel-
low men. It's no use unless you go
deep, say a thousand feet or so.
And they smiled with him, ‘but they
didn’t mean it—John H.' Raftery, ia
the Chicago Record-Hcrald.
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First in order in activitied of this
kind come cleanliness. Clean streets
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anything like the same extent in com-
muaiities where there has been such
agitation.—Sylvester Baxter, in the Ccn-
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and cut loose from associations and lo-
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for this well-known fact by recounting
the fascinations of the. “art preserva-
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This may be the case in some de-
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one has engaged in the newspaper
business he acquires some partial
knowledge of all the ordinary pursuits
and avocations, and this seems to un-
fit him for centralizing his faculties
upon any of them. Consequently he
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SOLID PETROLEUM.
'& Queer Mile That Was Worked With
"Profit For Several Years.
The Cairo field fn West Virginia con-
tains a relic of the earliest production
of illuminating and lubricating oil— |
a wonderful deposit of solidified pe-4
{roleum—bitumen, some call it, wheather
rightly so will not be known until the
result of certain tests now being made
by Eastern chemists is announced.
Oil companies from this and other
cities are operating around Cairo,
Ritchie County, with success. The |
fiuid is about the same quality found |
here, but some difficulty with water |
is experienced. The oil and water seem |
to mix, contrary to all theory, and in |
summer the raw products of the wells |
must be steamed before the water
will settle. In winter the s uff is aw-
ful to handle. Oil is to be found at a
depth of about 1600 feet.
Six miles from Devil's Hole, at Mc:
Farland’s schoolhouse, where once was
a prosperous settlement, now quite de-
serted, is the old Ritchie coal mine
or bitumen deposit. Early in 18350 +t
became known thatthere was a strange
outcropping of what was termed coal.
Instead of lying flat underground, as
most coal mines do, here was one, the
wondering prospectors found, that
stood on edge. A sliver of it burned
like a torch and left no ash. A shovel-
ful of it would blaze like grease and
no kindling was needed.
S. H. Wilson, now a resident of
Parkersburg, was among those who in-
vestigated the peculiar vein, and he
organized a company for development.
He is still one of the owners and his
son, Edward Wilson, is associated with
him in lumber and coal interests. Af-
ter some experimenting it was found
that the new raw product was unfit
for fuel. By melting or distilling it
was seen that oil could be produced,
and that there was less than ten per
cent. waste.
A company was formed and a narrow
gauge railway thirteen miles long was
built, connecting with the Baltimore
and Ohio at Cairo. Expensive machin-
ery was placed in position, .and opera-
tion was begun, going on for eighteen
years uninterrupted by the Civil War
save for a short time. Great caldrons
and retorts with engines and boilers
were unloaded from the new trains,
and a thrifty town sprang up. It was
probably the first boom town in oildom,
for Pithole was just then beginning.
It paid to distil the stuff, for oil was
selling as liniment by the pint for what
a barrel costs now.
Some extended explorations proved
that the queer vein was about three-
quarters of a mile long, and three to
six feet wide. Down each side were
perpendicular walls of sandstone, how
far down no one knows. Active work-
ing penetrated 365 feet, and then it was
abandoned owing to crude methods of
mining employed, and the cheapness’
of oil elsewhere. The costly vats are
rusting into scrap; cobwebs cover the
office windows, and copperheads crawl
about the vitals of the furnaces and
engines.—Pittsburg Gazette.
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the first club organized to play it was
in New York in 1845. Singularly
enough, this club, like the one first or
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“The Knickerbocker Club.” After 1851
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