Show OIL WELLS the following is taken from vest rocket pocket essays written by george fit filfli ell the humorist well known to us a few years ago and is especially applicable just at tills this time an ali oil well is a hole in ili the ground about a quarter of a mile deep into which a man may put a small fortune or out of which he may take tahe a big one and he never knows until the hole is finished nothing is as non as an all oil well that finished A is garrulous beside it but when it is fili flushed shed it either goes on being behig quieter than ever or it begins spouting automobiles trips to eurol e and large nobby mansions in new york it takes a couple thousand dollars several months and a couple of non lion men in mud plastered overalls to dig an all oil well they begin begill by going up about eighty feet when they have finished their derrick they hang a drill in it weighing half aton a ton then the men hitch the drill to an all engine and punch a forty two centimeter liole hole in the earths crust sometimes after they have been punching away tor for several weeks the hole blows the derrick into the sky utterly ruining it then ali the owner shrieks with glee and employs mento catch the spouting oil in barrels but sometimes the derrick Is as good as new when the hole is finished then the owner curses and takes the derrick away to some other place which smells oily an oil well with its tancy fancy work on oil top clutters up tit the landscape lands rape a good deal but nobody seems to mind in ili cleveland ohio some of the finest residences tit hi the city are de faced by well derricks in their back yards but the owner ot of the house does not tear his hair and mourn because ills his encumber cucumber virles vines are getting trampled on oil ile he merely sings a low scot song on the first ot of each month and goes down to the safe deposit vault to cut coupons we would enjoy being a rich man and having an all 0 oil il ve nell invade our back yard we wohld even consent to be a very poor man it ir an oil well would como come and deface our asparagus bed and fill our cellar tull full of petroleum and our sock full of 20 gold pieces an ali industrious oil well is one of the pleasant companions tomp anions on earth evenda even ae it does gum auni up the surround ings a little it is one of the tow few earth which rinds finds a warm welcome everywhere arthur M jacobs and family left last week tor a visit with her folks in wayne county our victorious arras arms announces tile the kaiser have not yet succeeded in entirely breaking our enemies ine e neales mies will credit the royal potsdam mer for once with a thoroughly Y statement new or cans times pic picayune ayune |