Show OILED FOILED IN HIS OWN WN TRICK I Scheme 3 or elling Selling a Farm arni and rid d its ts Dramatic Climax New Orleans S ome 3 years ears ago said the narrator an oil boom hit Litchfield Ills and everybody e v dy for miles around was seen for tor oil and every stranger sus p of being an an ri expert looking for tor a I go d thing AP An old farmer farner named Lo mia had a i big place plad three t miles Ies out but u t of Qt town which would have b been een en a for tune for him had he not lot been bee pos p s ofa mania Tar for a p raJ attempt atten if to In hia hi land for twice Its value When the boom was at nt the top notch Loomis Deceived a visitor who took uch interest In the S liked Us tt appearance appear nce location etc that the old Ia farner tar r scented scent d a nn sa Y long Qt b ln a shrewd map man Loomis did not care to take any an un J n chances with and on on the quiet he sent the hired man juan out the thC back way with orders to dump the kerosene can into the w well ell The rile liked Uke t the entire place Inspected inspect d the barn arn the chicken yard and then as Bt if by chance chane chan e as asked ked for Tor a drink Q water wat r Loomis was waiting for that and d hauled up a brimming bucket before e the mans own eyes and d poured him out jJ a of liquid with a fine opalescent scum curn upon It IL The visitor smelled It tasted it made a wry face and asked if the th waiter w was as always like that Oh Ob yes yea said Loomis but you soon get accustomed to the toe taste and our doctors say this is the finest water on earth for the stomach Well I am ding danged If Ill ever get used to it was the unexpected response I 1 Iam Iam am looking for a farm fa 1 not an oil on well welland welland welland and If it f I have h ve got gol to haul my drinking water three miles from Litchfield I Iguess Iguess guess Id rather buy nearer town It took six abc months to get getie the ie taste of if oil OU out of 01 well ell and an d by that time the boom b PID w as over and arid nothing noth poth ing was left of Q the oil craze but rotting derricks ks and abandoned shafts |