Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — Page 7

Natural Gas Wells.

I visited the region of gas wells and saw nine wells furnishing gas. The gas from the three largest was still passing into the air. These are wonderful sights indeed. The gas rushes up with such velocity through a six-inch pipe, which extends perhaps twenty feet above the surface, that it does not ignite within six feet of the mouth of the pipe. Looking up into the clear blue sky you see before you golden fiend without visible connection with the earth, swayed by the wind into fantastic shapes, and whirling in every direction. As the gas from the wells strikes the center of the flame and passes partly through it, the lower part of the mass curls inward, giving rise to the most beautiful effects, gathered into graceful folds at the bottom, a veritable pillar of fire. There is not a particle of smoke from it. There are, of course, various theories as to the location and extent of the gas belt. Enough wells have already been bored in Murraysville district to indicate that it is about half a mile wide, and extends in a southeasterly direction from Murraysville for five or six miles. The wells bored beyond this encountered a flow of salt water in such great quantities as to nearly drown out the gas; for while some gas came to the surface it was not in sufficient quantities to render it valuable, and merely proved its eqistence. Experts have, therefore, concluded that, while the gas exists in such wells, it is under a basin of salt water. Several wells have been bored in the city of Pittsburgh and the vicinity, but the same trouble from salt water has been encountered there. A geological friend inforn s me that the stratum dips about 600 ieet near Pittsburgh, and his theory is that this depression has been tilled with salt water, and hence the attempts in that district have proved unsuccessful. Whether deeper boring, or some plan of shutting out the water, will overcome this difficulty, is yet to be seen. Northwest from Marysville but little has been done to prove the extent of the gas belt. So much for the Murraysville district, which is to day furnishing most of the gas consumed in Pittsburgh. Many theories are advanced to account for the existence of this fuel, but the most reasonable one is that given to me by Prof. Dewar, of Cambridge, who recently visited us, and who was deeply impressed by what he saw of this new mine of wealth. He holds that the gas is being constantly distilled from the oil, or from immense beds of matter which are slowly being changed to oil, and therefore that long after the oil region has ceased to give oil in paying quantities, we shall still have an abundant supply of gas; for the shallower the deposit of oil the more favorable will be the conditions for rapid distillation. Instead of occupying the bad eminence therefore of being by far the dirtiest city in the world, which it undoubtedly is to-day, it is probable that the other extreme may be reached, and that we may be able to claim for smoky Pittsburgh that it is the cleanest city. However this may be, I think that few will be disposed to dispute that, surrounded by such resources as I have attempted to describe, Pittsburgh is to-day, as far as subterranean treasures are concerned, the metropolis of the, richest district in the known world. —Andrew Carnegie, in Macmillan’s Magazine.

Biography Writing.

Those who have attained a measure of reputation which justifies a biography are entitled to treatment of a reasonable and discriminating kind. It is not necessary and it is not proper that their private papers should be ransacked for piquant details of their intercourse with friends and acquaintances, or that all the flippant and derogatory observations of envious contemporaries should be repeated against them. They have a right to justice not only, but also to a eertain degree of charity. By the act of becoming noted, they do not authorize ready liberty to be taken with their personal records. It is the duty of the biographer to sift all the facts carefully, and exercise a sound discretion as to what belongs to the public and what is none of the public’s business, and this duty he owes not less to his audience than to his subject. The best biographies are not those which go into minute particulars, and follow the theory that everything should- be told, .leaving the reader to do his own discriminating and to pass his own judgments. To tell the story of a great man’s life in a fair, correct, and impressive manner, it is quite as essential to leave certain things out as it is to put certain things in.— tit Louis Globe-Democrat.

A Find at Pompeii.

One house recently uncovered at Pompeii appeared to have been undergoing repair at the time it was overtaken by the terrible volcano storm of November 23, A. D. 79. Painters’ pots and brushes and workmen’s tools were scattered around, and spots of whitewash starred wall and floor. Pots and kettles had been bundled up in a corner by themselves, but dinner had not been forgotten. A solitary pot stood on the stove. The oven was filled with loaves of bread, and a suckling pig was awaiting on a brown dish its turn to be baked. But the pig never entered the oven, and the bread remained in it eighteen 'centuries. Monsieur FlorelH’s museum at, Pompeii contains the loaves—twentyone in number—rather hard and black, but perfectly preserved. “What is it?” shrieks a sensational divine, “that puts out the lamps of human joy ?” We would timidly suggest that t ght boots can come about as near doing that same as, anything outside df top het we can call to mind. • ' & • • »..

BARTHOLDI’S BIG GIRL.

The Prejudices Met by a Canvasser for the Pedestal Fund. The Bartholdi pedestal fund is nearly complete. The statue has arrived, and soon New York harbor will be graced by the most magnificent colossal statue the world has ever seen. ‘•Liberty Enlightening the World!” What a priceless blessing personal liberty is. It is the shrine at which people, ground under the heel of tyranny in the older worlds, worship with a fervency that Americans can scarcely realize; it is a principle for which Nihilists w llingly die the death of dogs; and fit and proper it is that at the very entrance of the Bay of New York this emblematic Statue should flash a welcome to the world. The press is entitled to the credit of this achievement. Mr. Philip Beers, who has been making a circuit of the country on behali of the pedestal fund, says that the fund will certainly be raised, as tfie World does not know the word fait. Mr. Beers says that he has found the most pronounced generosity among those of foreign birth. They seem more appreciative of liberty than do our native born. Moreover, among some u strange prejudice seems to exist. “Prejudice? In what particular?”

“I have ever found that however meritorious a thing may be, thousands of people will inevitably be prejudiced against it. I have spent most of my life on the road, and I know the American people ‘like a book.’ In 1879 a personal misfortune illustrated this prevailing prejudice. I was very ill, had suffered for several years with headache, fickle appetite, dreadful backache, cramps, hot head, cold hands and feet, and a general break down of the system. I dragged myself back to New York, seeking the best professional treatment. It so happens that among my relatives is a distinguished physician who upbraided me roundly for preaching so much about my own case, finally, with some spirit, 1 remarked to him: “ ‘Sir, you know that much of your professional wisdom is pretense. Y’ou are controlled by prejudice. Y’ou cannot reach a case like mine, and you know it, can you?’ “ I had him, and he finally conceded the point, for it was Bright's disease of the kidneys which had prostrated me, and the school men admit they cannot cure it. Having cured myself, however, in 1879, and not having seen a sick day since, my relative finally admitted that Warner’s sate cure, which accomplished this result, was really a wonderful preparation. Had President Rutter, of the Central Hudson, used it, I am certain he would be alive to-day, for he could not have been in a worse condition than I was. ” “I have found similar prejudices among all classes concerning even so laudable a scheme as this pedestal fund. Mr. Beers’s experience and the recent death of President Rutter, of the CentralHudson Railroad, of an extreme kidney disorder, proves that the physicians have no real power over such disease, and indicates the only course one should pursue if, as the late Dr. Willard Parker says, headache, sickness of the stomach, dropsical swellings, backache, dark and offensive fluids, prematurely impaired eyesight, loss of strength and energy occur, for they unmistakably indicate a fatal result, if not promptly arrested. “Yes, sir-ee, every cent needed for the pedestal will be raised. Of couse it will be a great triumph for the World, but would it not have been an eternal disgrace had our people failed to provide for this pedestal?”

Dynamite.

The indignation with which the dynamite crimes are regarded is very much greater than any terror which they produce. The means of criminal mischief were familiar long before the days of Guy Fawkes. Gunpowder and fire, the bullet and the steel, the bravo and the assassin, are all well known. But the ease with which a most destructive explosive can now be manufactured, and the secrecy with which it can be applied to its work, are so tempting to assassins that great catastrophes may be apprehended. But as they are merely wanton crimes, outraging humanity, and involving the lives and happiness of the most innocent persons, as, in fact, they are intended only to produce terror by indiscriminate destruction, they have but one effect—that of intense indignation and desire of vengeance. If every public building in London should be destroyed by Irish dynamite, the result would be, not Irish independence, but Irish extermination. Carlyle’s cynical suggestion that the true Irish policy would be to put the island under water for twenty-four hours would be the purpose of England. The atrocities of the French Revolution are explicable. They wele the mad outbreak of a misery and brutality which the Government had fostered, and for which it promised no relief. But this kind of explanation is wanting to the dynamite terrorists. Their conduct might have been extenuated as at least not surprising during the height of the abominable oppression of the penal laws. But for nearly a century there has been a constantly advancing relief of Irish suffering and correction of injustice in Ireland, until now there remains no abuse or inequality for which constitutional agitation is not the surest remedy. It is true, indeed, that the degradation and ignorance of a large part of Ireland are the logical result of English misconduct. George Mason truly said that Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. But. this cannot be pleaded in justification of the dynamite crimes. There is no people in the world that follow leadership more loyally than the Irish, and the Irish leaders, like Mr. Parnell and his associates, are neither ignorant nor degraded. Just so far as they yield to the brutality of their followers, they are guiltier than those followers, and the significant fact in the late crimes is not that'they were committed, but that Mr. Parnell, speaking in Ireland at the very moment when the whole civilized world protested, said not a single word. In protection against such attacks the cause of England is the cause of civilization. It is not a question of politics, or of a single national interest; it is that of orderly society against anarchy.- George William Curtis, in Harper’s Magazine.

Boston horse-cars won’t stop for you excepting at street corners, unless you happen to have a St. Louis girl with you. A St. Louis girl's- face will stop a horse-car anywhere. [P. B.—Chicago papers copying this paragraph will please remit at usual rates to this office.]—Somerville Journal.

E. ST. JOHN.

Well-Deserved Promotion of a Railroad Man. [Chicago telegram.] President R. R. Cable, of the Rock Island Road, has issued the following important, notice: “Mr. E. St John is hereby appointed assistant to the General Manager, appointment to take effect July 1. The general ticket and passenger departments will remain under the jurisdiction of Mr. St. John as formerly, and all communications in connection with those departments should be addressed to him as General Ticket and Passenger Agent. ”

The above announcement of Mr. St. John’s promotion will be lead with interest and pleasure by the many who have become intimate with him during a very long career. He has been associated with the road so long that he is always considered a part of the system, good, reliable, and ever on time. Mr. St. John entered the railway service in 1862; was clerk in the general ticket office and depot ticket agent of the Quincy and Toledo Railroad at Quincy, 111., until its consolidation with the Great Western Railroad, when he assumed a clerkship with that company in its general ticket department at Springfield, 111., remaining in its service until July 3, 1863; on July 4, 1863, and until November, 1864, he was employed as clerk in the general ticket office of the Chicago and Rock Island Railway. Nov. 1, 1864, to Sept. 1, 1869, he was Chief Clerk in charge of the general ticket department; Sept. 1, 1869, he was appointed General Ticket Agent, and Jan. 1, 1879, he was appointed General Ticket and Passenger Agent, which position he continues to fill. On Saturday, July 4, Mr. St. John will celebrate the twenty-second anniversary of his connection with the Rock Island Road; Mr. St. John’s promotion is another illustration of the well-known fact that the Rock Island Road appreciates the merits of its officials, and gives tangible evidence of its appreciation.

Harmony.

A certain political editor who had been making public some very rash statements was called on by a man from the opposition. “Did you write that article?” he inquired angrily, holding up the paper with his thumb jammed into the paragraph. “Yes, sir,” replied the truthful editor. “Well, all I’ve got to say is that it’s a lie, and you are a liar.” “Do you really think so ?” said the editor, without any evidence of anxiety. “I not only think so but I say so.” “That’s funny.” “What’s funny?” “Why, four men have been in here before you, to see about the same article, and every one of them said the same thing. 1 hadn’t any idea that there was so much harmony in your party.” The editor went on writing, and the visitor hadn’t the heart to disturb him further.— Merchant Traveler:

Sydney Smith’s Anecdote.

“Have you ever observed,” wrote Sydney Smith, “what a dislike servants have to anything cheap? They hate saving their master’s money. I tried this experiment with great success the other day. Finding we consumed a great deal of soap I sat down in my thinking chair and took the soap question into consideration, and I found reason to suspect that we were using a very expensive article when a much cheaper one would serve the purpose better. I ordered half a dozen pounds of both sorts, but took the precaution of changing the papers, on which the prices were marked, before giving them into the hands of Betty. ‘Well, Betty, which soap do you find washes best?’ ‘Oh, please sir, the dearest, in the blue paper; it makes a lather as well again as the other.’ ‘Well, Betty, you shall always have it. then.’ And thus the unsuspecting Betty saved me some pounds a year. ” The Right Reverend Bishop Gilmour, Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the many eminent church dignitaries who have publicly adde d their emphatic indorsement to the wonderful efficacy of St. Jacobs Oil in cases of rheumatism and other painful ailments.

Facts About London.

About 3,000 horses die each week. About 129,000 paupers infest the city. About 11,000 police keep good order. About 120,000 foreigners live in the city. About 10,000 strangers enter the city each day. About 9,000 new houses are erected annually. About 700,000 cats enliven the moonlight nights. About 2,000 clergymen hold forth every Sunday. About 620 churches give comfort to the faithful.

About 125 persons are added to the population daily. About 38 miles of new streets are laid out each year. About 500,000 dwellings shelter the population of London.

A New London Vocation.

A new industry for women is developing in London. It is that of adviser of household-decoration. As practiced by the sisters of William Morris it consists in driving from house to house and telling the newly rich what they want in the way of decoration. — New York Tribune.

“I Don’t Want Relief, but Cure,”

is the exclamation of thousands suffering from Catarrh. To all such we say: Catarrh can be cured by, Df. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. It has been'done in thousands of cases; why not in yours? Your danger is in delay. Inclose a stamp to World’s Dispensary Medical - Association, Buffalo, N. Y n fir 'pamphlet .of this disease.

The Ability to Bear Pain

Is the test of fortitude among the Indian tribes. But we defy any Cherokee, Sioux, or Comanche to endure the twint ee of rheumat'sm without wincing, these, indeed, are sights at first, but grow in intensity until they become unbearable. No malady is more obstina’e in its maturity than that which gives rise to them. Th? more need, then, of attacking it at the outset Foremost among remedies for It is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, safer and infinitely more effective than colchicum, veratrum and nnx vomica, all remedies which migh' prove destructive o. life in a slightly excessive dcse. Mineral depurents, also, when not positively mischievous, are far inferior in remedial power to thi< salutary botanic med cine. It entirely expels from the blood the acrid impurities which originate the disease, and eniich as well as cleanse it. Constipation, liver complaint, dyspepsia, and other ailments also give way to it.

The Bantam Grandmother.

Ordinarily a new-born chicken will follow any hen, and any hen will cluck and scratch for any new-born chick, if not over a day or two old, but not so with five little bantams recently hatched in Justice Poe’s hennery. His little boy, Harry, possessed a very beautiful little bantam hen, which was prized for its beauty and gracefulness, but no sooner had she served her time on the nest, and came strutting forth with five little beauties, then her worldly existence came to an end.

In this dilemma Harry tried to get another hen to be tender and true to the little orphans, but it remained for the grandmother of the orphans to assume this responsibility. The grandmother herself was on a nest and trying to raise another brood, but readily gave up the prospects and began to care for her grandchildren, and shows unusual affection and sympathy for the orphans. — Atlanta Cons tit u lion.

An Important Arrest.

The arrest of a suspicious character upon his general appearance, movements, or companionship, without waiting until he has robbed a traveler, fired a house, or murdered a fellow-man, is an impor ant function of a shrewd detective. Even more important is the arrest of a disease which, If not checked, will blight and destroy a human life. The frequent cough, loss of appetite, general languor or debility, pallid skin, and bodily aches and pains, announce the approach of pulmonary consumption, which is promptly arrested and permanently cured by Dr. Pierce's “Golden Medical Discovery.” Sold by all druggists. When grief comes to an honest man, he usually shows a clean balance-sheet. When a scamp comes to grief, he usually shows a clean pair of heels. Weak lungs, spitting of blood, consumption, and kindred affections, cured without physician. Address for treatise, with two stamps, World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. There is said to be a great similarity between a vain young lady and a confirmed drnnkard, in that neither of them can ever get enough of the glass.

Important.

When you visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hiro, and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, reduced to $1 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator, Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cabs, stage,and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union than at any first-class hotel In the city. There Is hope for dudes. A French scientist claims to manufacture artificial brains.— Philadelphia Call.

‘Put up” at the Gault House.

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SAD ACCIDENT. MR. OSCAR CRAIC.O Blown up by a Premature Blast in the Rosendale Cement Quarry—DESTRUCTION of an EYE —lts Subsequent Removal by Surgical Operation. Mr. Oscar Cralgg was foreman in a cement quarry at Rosend de, Ulster Co., N. Y. By an explosion one day in the quarry he lost an eyV—lost it totally. Under an impression that the matter was less serious the local physician told Mr. Cralgg that his eye was not lost wholly, but could be saved by treatment. The experiment was tried and failed. Worse remained behind, for he was in danger of losing the other also, through sympathetic inflammation. In thia strait he consulted Dr. 1 far id Kennedy, of Rondout, N. Y., who told him the Injured eye must be taken out to save the other. To this Mr. Craigg demurred, and went back home in doubt. His local physician said: “Go to New York.” To New York the patient wont, and,one of the most eminent oculists in the country, having looked at the case, said: “You have lost one eye entirely: go back and do what you can to save the other. Briefly Dr. Kennedy removed the auined eve, and treated Mr. Cralgg with "Kennedy's Favorite Remedy” to build up his system, and the result was successful. Dr. Kennedy s great success as a Surgeon is due to the uso of "Favorite Remedy” in the after treatment. Are you troubled with Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Constipation, or derangement of the Kidneys and Bladder, then uso Dr. Kennedy’s “Favorite Remedy.” It will not disappoint you. "Dr. Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy" for sale by all druggists.

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