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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1886)
2B0 THE WEST SHORE. eyes, lie draw back out of Lor range of vision. She ruined herself and memory came buck. " Oil, aunt!" wan all sho said, but the two words con tained so much hopeless misery that John stepped for ward. " All a mistake, my girl," he said, huskily. And the next iiibUi.t Lu daughter' onus woro clinging tightly round his neck. He held her to his breast, and ho alone caught the ohlNil-out words "Thank heaven! Thank heaven!" Tho next morning Tom Blakoly presented himself at the farm to apologize for his stupidity. John Mil ward was out, so Miss Mil ward sent him to Emily, who was in the garden robbing a laden plum tree of its gol den fruit, a course of action loudly protested against by Rome dozens of wasps that were reveling in the mellow food. Having disposed of him, Aziihah went back into the kitchen and busied herself in preparations for dinner. After half an hour, she camo out of the back door with her strong hands whitened by pastry-making. "That girl must have forgotten alout tho plums!" she said, half aloud, as she passod along tho turfy path. Suddenly slio started, for from beind a bower of green almost close at hand came tho words "Hut not yet not for a long while yet I must show that I can bo a good daughter lcfore I try to be a good wife." HOW TO DISAPPOINT A BALKY HORSE). Tho l'itchburg Sentinel tells how a Leominster farm er cured his horso of a balky freak by gentlo means. Ho drove him, attached to a rack wagon, to tho wood lot for a small load of wood. The animal would not pull a pound. He did not beat him, but tied him to a tree ami let him stand. He went to tho lot at sunset and asked him to draw, but he would not straighten a tug. "I made up my mind," said the farmer, "when that horso went to tho barn, ho would take that load of wood. I went to tho barn, got blanket and covered the horse warm, ami ho stood until morning. Then he re fused to draw. At noon I went down and he was prob ably lonesome aud hungry. He drew that load of wood the first time I asked him. I returned and got another load before I fed him. I then rewarded him with a good dinner, which ho eagerly devoured. I have drawn several loads since. Once he refused to draw, but soon aa he saw me start for the house, he started after me with the load A horse becomes lonesome and discon tented when left alone, as much to as a terson, aud I claim that this method, if rightly used, is better for both man and horso thau to beat Uie animal with a club." Wiikn man, listening to his conscience, wills and does tho right, irrespective of inclination as of conse quence, then Le is the free man. Tho universe is open before him. THE PETROLEUM OIL WELLS OF BAKU. We have at different times described the great estab lishment of Messrs. Nobel Brothers, at Balakhani, adja cent to Baku, and the operations conducted them The boring of oil wells, the pumping, refining, and other prry.pf.BPH, are not the only task which the petroleum in dustry of Baku has to carry out The transport of the article to tho consumer has also to be accomplished. It is known that for many centuries past there has been more or loss trade in naphtha with Persia and other neighboring regions. The great problem was to get the oil into Russia, aud send it into all the principal townB of that widely extended country. The distant position of Baku made this a most difficult undertaking. The oil has first to be sent in steamers to Astrakan; but at the mouth of the Volga, owing to its shallow water, a transshipment into barges has to take place. Some of the oil is sent on by the river, but the greater part is transported by rail. Trucks of a peculiar form have been made for this purpose, and they are now to be seen at all the principal railway stations in Russia. Messrs. Nobel Brothers, who have brought all the science of Europe, as well as the experience of America, to bear on the manufacture of the oil, have also carried their ability aud energy into the organization of trans port They have a spleudid fleet of iron screw steam ers, fitted up with tanks, which carry the oil to the Volga, with barges carrying it on to Tzaritsin. At this town they have a large depot, from which they send the oil by rail to depots in all the principal towns. By this means they now supply the whole of Russia, and the American oil has been entirely driven from that coun try. They have begun to extend the supply into Ger many, and it may be looked upon as only a question of time when a great part of Europe will receive its petro leum from Baku. Petroleum oil is now largely used as a fuel to heat the lxulers in tho Caspian steamers. The oil is brought to the furnace by one pipe, from a tank, while another pie brings steam from the boiler; the oil is poured into the blast of high pressure steam, and iB thereby pulver ized or blown into miuuto particles, which become a sheet of flame underneath the boiler. If a sufficient supply of this fuel could be procured for our ocean going steamors, many advantages could be derived from it Among those may be noticed that it occupies less bulk than coal; a ton of astatki the Russian name for dregs iB equal to about two tons of coal The furnaces burning this material require no stoking, thus saving hands. On the Caspian a ton of astatki is about thirty or forty times cheaper than a ton of coal. In proper tanks it is perfectly safe-even safer than coal, the dan ger of which we have had experience of not long since. The disagreeable process, more particularly to passenger ships, of "coaling," would thereby be done away with. It would thus be cheaper than coal, safer, and its use would be conducive to the comfort of passengers and all on board ship. Scientific American.