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Show SIMPLE MEAMd. The Nnffl Xniplinent L'acil tn Iltitnotr Uua from u Well. IA good workman likes good tools but In 'nn exigency ho can get along i with very slmplo and homely contrtv-nnefs. contrtv-nnefs. The bt. Louis (i lobe-Democrat cites a ntrlklng example. A well wns to bo cleaned, but tinman tin-man who had undertaken the job wo' afraid to go down until ho hud tested the quality of tho air tit tho bottom He let down a lighted candla ami whec It wns about tl.: feet from the bottom It went out cs suddenly ns if a whin? ot wind had struck It. That told tho man nil he needed to know. Tho well wnn full of poUotiout gns. Ho took n smnll umbrella, tlod a sArlng to the handle nnd lowered It .ctben into tho woll. Thon he drew It il(p, carried It n few feet from the well land upset it. This operation he r pcuted twenty or thirty times, with the b. tondcrs, who nro never nbson on nin-h occasions, all laujhln,? nt him After this he let rtorn another e::r dlo. It burned clearly even St tlio bo: torn. Ilofore going down to his wor' he explained to those who hnd bci making fun of him that the got lu tbi well was carbonic acid gns, which 1 heavier than air, ami therefore could be drawn up In an umbrella aslf It hnd been to inuoh water. |