««M a ra »
THE GIRL WITH
A MILLION
---------- By D. C. Murray
A M
C H A P TE R X X .— (Continued.)
The widow with her tear-stained fads
wad crumpled drees, and her hair wildly
diraiisii«iiii, ran out of the' room, skim­
med downstairs llks a swallow, opsasd
the street door with her own hands, and
W t U wide behind her. Ths coachman
Jaatpod down, but she was at ths carriage
deer before him, and he stared at the
w ild disorder ia which she appeared.
-The Palace Hotel," she said. “ Quick­
ly . Go sa quickly aa you can."
“Oh, Julia,” Angela began, "how kind
We ealy reach­
ed town yesterday."
"Read th at!" said Julia, la a voice aa
harsh sad strange that It surprised her-
• l you to corns so soon.
mmtL
Angela took the wet sad twisted Utter
from her outstretched hand.
“ Julia l You are ill. You are la trou­
ble. Xoa are crying. What is the mat-
nepulsed her and said: "Read th at!"
mgain in the same strange voice. ’
Angela skimmed the letter ee a bird
wkima water, and arose to her foot.
"Angela Butler," said the little widow,
“ did you have that sent to a » ! "
“ No." said Angela. “ How dare you
think such e thing of me? How could
“ Who sent it?” abe sobbed. “ Who
dared to aead it?" Angela's mind waa
dartiag this way and that in swift in-
q s iry ; but abe knew too little of the pat­
rie ! sad bis again to find the faintest
«tow to an answer..
Who could have
unfold before him. In this mood ha set
out, aad la this mood to reached Dob­
roeki, who welcomed him with aa air
and manner of almost fatherly affection.
“ I have asked you to call thia
ing,” to said, “ for aa important
1 have received an offer of
thousand stand of arms on terqg which
are not likely to to secured again. The
political lull deceives tto vend­
ers, who think that no chance of sale la
likely to occur to them for some time.
T to anus are stored la New York, and
can be delivered at any time in Ireland.
We are not fit to use them yet, but tto
opportunity ia one that may never occur
again. This,” to went on, taking ap a
leather case aad unstrapping It as to
talked, "to a specimen. Ths rifls is tto
Berdan, and was mads for tto use of the
Russian troops during tto Russo-Turkish
war. Aa admirable weapon, little befcle
to get out of order, even with unskillful
usage. There are two mi 11 loo cartridges
to bo had also. I will show yon tto
contract, and you will use how very easy
tto terms ate made. It may be a year or
before we oaa venture to strike—It
be even three or four years bnt it
will to well to to ia readiness "
"Don’t bid for tto ammunition,
O’ Rourke. “ For my owa part I
shoot with last year’s cartridges; and to
take stuff for war that one wouldn't use
even in sport la tto sort of thing thst
only governments are guilty of. Lst tto
snwny do that,.but 1st us have
munition new. We can order it
want It Aad th a t" he added to him­
self, "w on t be In your lifetime, or mins,
old gentleman.”
“ That ia wise," said Dobroeki, march­
ing up aad down the room with hit hands
behind him. "That is sensible and prac­
tical. W s want practical hands for this
kind of work. A valuable suggestion.”
He smilid upon O'Rourke like a tether
commanding a ran. The stalls was so
raft, benevolent and gentle that ths pair
riot wondered at it a little.
to taka advantage of your weakness W s
will admit him, and hear what to has to
■ay."
O’Rourke waa shown into tto room. He
but his manner eras unde*
perfect control. He made no attempt
to approach Mrs. Spry, bat, having dosed
the door, bowed, and, advancing to the
evatar of tto room, laid both bands on
tto rail of a chair, which to told firmly.
He looked then at Angola, and his brows
contracted ever so little as If to Inquiry.
He waa playing to look aa if to asked
hhnralf what had Induced tor to adopt
a rols so extraordinary aa ths one
had taken up, aad his trained ssass of
ham bug cams so to his aid that to asked
hhnralf that question unfalteringly. Next
he looked at tto widow, and his glance
wma full of appeal. Neither of ths women
spoke a word, but Angola, with __
fixed upon O’Rourke, reached out a hand
side ways, and took tor Mend by the
wrist, sliding tor hand downward until
tto fingers of both wore interlaced.
" I have received a latter from yon.
Julia," O’Rourke began, “ containing an
Inclosure in the handwriting of a bitter
enemy of mine, a political rival, who to
enraged at hie owa want of success. I
am here to tell yon that that Uttar con­
tain« one Innuendo which to based on
truth, and only ana. I am indebted
to your friend, Mr. Maskelyne. Apart
fropi that one truth I deny every state­
ment tto letter contains”
“ Lot u i understand dbc I i o th if com“
Then to panned, looking from one to pletoly," raid O’Rourke, who, desperate
tto other of his auditors M rs Spry
■as to had fait himself toJto an boor ago,
drew tor hand from her companion’s, and
to f e w cautious again now that
half an sa bnt Angela checked bar.
face to
“ I begin to sea afar, that I have
mltoaWa w
suddenly that O’Rourke had poeeibly
Roast« f of his owa insolence. Men did
sack things—she tod read of them. Even
to the confused mind of tto sufferer An­
gela's passionate «tart at this fancy
assent no less than discovery.
“ He ia a wretch!" cried Angela.
“ Who? Who ia a wretchT’ demanded
(he little widow, with appealing hands.
Angels began to cry with tor Mend, sad
Cell to kissing sad mourning oter tor.
“ Oh,", cried Mrs. Spry, wringing her
—*■' and weeping all the more for these
firm ns stmt ions of sympathy, “ who— who
“ Hq to a wicked, tod, unprincipled
sa," said Angela. “ Oh, my dear; I am
sorry. I saw that yon were beginning
cu e for him; but I could not warn
« . Why are we so tooguo-tied when
i am thing« going wrong?"
“ Angela," mid Mrs. Spry, gulpingly,
•w dan you say so? I ’m son he’s
“ He's tto basest and most dlsboeormble
f u e a r cried Angela, Stung by her new
sspidon of him, which, following on her
Id certainties, mads her feel altogether
“ Angela," said the widow, dinging to
looking at her imploringly, "did
lev» to yon before he met me?"
“ Only a few days before," Angels an-
“ And to knew then that George
Mr. Maskelyne----- He professed
Se to Mr. Maakelyne’s dearest friend. I
hated him from the first----”
“ I don’t believe it !" said Mrs. Spry,
«wing her dinging hands and be­
st herself to walking op and down
« t o room. "You wanted him for your­
acil. You know you did."
“ You are very grieved, I know, dear,”
■aid Angela, "or you would never think
o r say such things. I did not want him
Ser myself. You know that Mr. Maske-
liw e mad I are going to be married? I
oag before to came over to
Se visit us. I should never have
another man if he had never
to me. But Mr. O’Rourke heard
Chat I had money and he tried to come
os and to separate us. I f to tod
that, I might have liked him
well. But he succeeded for awhile,
mad made us both vary unhappy. Then
.he met you, dear, and found that you
had more money than I, and so he pre-
to tell In love with you— the mer-
w retch I Then he boasted— I can
it all— to eome man friend of his
Us Impertinence to me, and I am
to seem as If be had thrown me
mway like an old glova. He is a base,
unworthy creature, Julia. Throw him
mway. Be brave and forget him."
This was one of those thlgs which are
much easier to advise than to do. Bnt
Angels since her engagement had learned
from her lover most that was to be
known from him, and she tried to
strengthen her friend’* mind with It to
ouch effect thst at length she drew from
her s declaration that she would see
O ’Rourke no more.
When she tod
■whtered this triumph, she took pen, ink
and paper and wrote this note, whilst
Mrs. Spry still lay dissolved in grief on
the rate.
“ Sir—Oblige me by reading the Inclos­
ed. Should yen desire to answer it you
n a y do w in person. I am staying with
Mias Butler, and yon may meet ns to­
gether at any time it may suit yon to
appoint-"
A fter a prolonged effort she succeeded
in persuading Che widow to copy this, and
to address it to O’Rourke, accompanied
by the Fraoer letter. This feat accom­
plished. tto poor thing was got to tod.
mnd after a, weary while to sleep. An­
gela rejoiced in this victory ter Mrs.
Spry’s own sake, and held tor saved from
«to most terrible of tetaa.
C H APTE R X X L
Spry aad Angela wars sitting to-
when O'Rourke’s hastily penciled
arrived. Mrs. Spry tors open ths
shvetope and uttorad a little cry.
“ He Is tore," tee said, tremulously.
“ He ia waiting."
Her shaking haad
tto card spaa Angela.
"I still wait until yon a n ready to
me," she iced. “ I tore a right to
myself. I t will to bast to speak to
B atiste
be Is taaoeeetr cried the
would not dare to coma tors. I have
read the letter you speak of." She could
go no further. _— i
___:
"I
supposed," «returned O’Rourka
“ from the note which accompanied it
that yon had done so. I supposed, also,
that yon support its statements. I do
not know how yon hare allowed younelf
to to persuaded of tto troth of thorn
statements, bnt I declare them, on tto
faith of an honest man, to to Without
foundation.”
“ Angela!" cried M m Spry. " I knew
it. I was ears o f It. .It’s all a mis­
take!"
"Thank you, J olla !" cried the patriot;
“ thank you.”
A t thia Angela took unexpected firs
and rising to tor fast in sadden self-
pomeraioo, faced tto patriot with flashed
cheeks and glittering eyes.
" I do not roly upon much from you,
Mr. O’Rourka upon which I might count
with safety from most man. Bnt I will
ask you a question or two, if you will to
so kind as to answer them."
I will answer any question you may
ask ma Mias Butler,” to answered, in­
clining his toad with grave courtesy.
“ Forgive me if I hurt too , dear," said
Angela, swiftly turning /to tor friend.
"You did not knew, Mr. O’R eu ita that
my Mend Mrs. Spry was wealthy until
she he reel/ told you so?"
I knew that she was well-to-do," re­
turned O’Rourka "bat I did not know
that she waa wealthy- Too will remem­
ber, Julia that year statement took ma
by surprise."
"You did not suppose her fortune to
to greater than ft ready ia?"
" I certainly did not," said O'Rourke.
He .actually smiled st thia as if the
thought amused him.
Angela rang tto bed and sent for Mas­
kelyne, who was in tto hotel. When he
came Angelo told him of whet tod occur­
red, end to st ones told o f his conversa­
tion with O’Roerhs about Mrs. Spry’s
riches
It’s a Me,” said O’Rourke, “ Fraser
asd I have quarreled, and to has invent­
ed this story to damage me with yon end
with my friend«.”
' T to widow suddenly fell on tor knees
end threw up her head with shriek on
shriek of laughter.
Maskelyne raised
tor, and rang tto belt for assistance.
O’Rourke stood staring st tto pair, as
much lost for tto moment as if tto whole
world had tumbled in ruins about his
ear*. A waiter knocked st tto door and
entered.
‘ ,
"Send a female servant tore, end ran
for a doctor," Angela called to him. Mrs.
Spry’s wild laughter ran through tto
house. A chambermaid looked in at tto
open door and ran to tor assistance. A
down people were In tto corridor, star­
ing with frightened faces.
O’Rourke still retained a grain of his
customary self-government He walked
down the corridor and ont of tto hotel.
His cabman bailed him. end to threw him
half s crown end strode toward hia cham­
ber», desperate, and half beside himself
with rage. His chambers reached, to
entered his bedroom without a word, and,
locking tto door, rat down to think. His
thoughts were too terrible to be endured
without emotion, end in a' little time he
began to pact wildly up end down. Now
end then to groaned aloud.
It was dark, and O'Rourke was still
raging up aad down his bedroom, when
tto maid brought up u note and knocked
at tto door.
“ What’s tto matter?" to asked, un­
locking the door end thrusting s pel*
face into tto light of tbs adjoining room.
"A note, sir," said tto girl, "marked
X X IL
A t first to had radolvcd that to would
to any noti os o f Dobroaki’s invi-
Nothlng sewn *ii to mattar any
Things wan going to tto bad ail
aad he was to a mood Is
m final
ia a _____ __ ____
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to teit fit ts Join la
Ada
Ireland until they are actually to be
used. The stroke, when it rnmiu' must
U bold, sw ift and unexpected. There
must be no sparring beforehand, to put
the enemy upon his guard.”
"W e are as one about that matter,”
returned DobroskL "T oo are a little
earlier than 1 expected you. I named
an hour for yon, but In a note which I
dispatched later I suggested aa hour be­
fore noon to my good friend Wrtelew-
akoff, and to Mr. Frost, who w ill ac­
company him. When they arrive we can
discuss business formally. They w ill be
here almost directly"
Almost as be spoke there cams a knock
at the door, and a minute later the maid
of the boom brought in a card.
“ Show the gentleman this way,” said
Dobroeki, when be had glanced at It. “ I
have a call from your old friend Mr.
Farley. It will be but an affair o f a few
minutes.” He ram to moot bis visitor,
and received him cordially. "Ton had my
note? That to well. I have your old
friend Mr. O’Bourk* to m "
The old
Monde bowed like old enemies, and Dob-
roekl looked tram one to tto other la
some confusion. “ Ha 1" to said, to Sera*
bis momentary awkwardness. "The child!
How da you do, little sir? Ws are old
acquaintances, yen and L
WH1 you
shake hand!? The brave little man. Sit
tore a while, dear little one.”
O’Rourke bad turned bis back upon
boat and guast, and was staring out of tin
window. Farley waa pulling at bis mae-
tache and bolding himself with unusual
ire tin «sa Dobroeki looked uneasily at
either of them. -
“ W ill you walk this way, tor?" to said,
addressing Farley. The novelist bowed
somewhat stiffly and followed him to the
next room, which was evidently the old
man’* workshop.
Having reclosed tbs door, and taking
a heap of manuscripts from one of tto
drawers of the table, to m t down aad be­
gan to talk In m picturesque aad animat­
ed a fashion that Farisy forgot all about
tbs treacherous old friend aad new ene­
my in the next room. Neither noticed a
new summons at tto street door or beard
voices in the next roans.
"M r. Dobroeki to engaged (or tto mo­
ment," said O'Rourke, when Frost and
tto good Wroblewskoff came ia together.
ton has spent considerable tim e in
W alla W alla, Columbia, G arfield and
Asotin oounties,
exam ining
many
bands of sheep that are kept in these
counties, aa to their general health,
with particular reference to t,aoah."
Reoently, in diaousring things of in­
terest he had observed in going from
one sheep camp to another, Dr. Nelson
came to the problem o f “ restocking
the ranges," which ia now so absorb­
ing to stockmen.
“ One o f the serious problems now
confronting the stockmen of this state
ia ths Question of rsslnriking the ranges
w ith the original boneh grass," be
■aid. “ Old settlers te ll m C a t when
they came here forty yea n ago, the
hunch grass was from two to three feet
ta ll, end very heavy. The promiscu­
ous graslng of the stock over the ranges
has put them in their present ban , car
■ansi-bare, condition
The reclaim ing
of these vast tiaote of graslng land is a
problem to which the agricultural de­
partments of various institutions have
given a great deal of atteatioa. .
“ Some seven or eight yean ago I
rode over these same ranges and found
the bunch grass practically a ll gooe ia
many places. 'T h is condition could
be observed for m iles sad m iles as the
ranges w en ridden over. Recently I
was very much astonished ia parsing
through these same regions to find that
thousands of sores had been fenoed,
w hile equally large traots w en not
fenoed, but w en held ns summer range
them. I observed that these ranges,
bate several years ago, w ets, at the
tim e of my visit, covered w ith a luxur­
iant growth of hunch grace, standing
from eighteen to th irty inches high. In
plaoee the grass was so heavy that it
could not be mowed for hay. I waa
also much surprised to see that in
plaoee that had been protected for a
lees number o f years, the heavy bunches
o f gram w «s* «Bettered, and between
the big bunches, bunches from two to
three yean old were w ell started. It
waa very easy to pick out a bunch of
two-year-old gram from among a num­
ber of the older bunches.
In looking
into the is quest ioc I discovered how it
was that them rangea had bean re-
■tooked.
“ The sheep are kept on these winter
ranges from the tim e they come out of
the moontaine lu the toll, during Sep*
Um ber and early October, until after
tombing, and a short tim e the follow ­
ing spring. Early in the epriag the
sheep eat the young, tender bunch
gram, hot the eheSp ere w ell scattered
(a good h e r d « nearly always keeps hie
■beep scattered) thé bunch grasp as it
gets older becomes tougher, and the
abeep do not lik e it so w e ll. By the
totter part e< A p ril and early in May,
the sheep prefer the many weeds, espe­
cia lly sun flowers, never touching boneh
gram at a ll. Many, many tim es dar­
ing my trips through these oountim, I
a w bands o f from fifteen to twenty-
five hundred sheep graslng in bunch
gram from one foot to eighteen inches
high and never touching it. They were
picking out the little weeds in between
the bunehm o f gram, and wherever
there were areas of sunflowers, they
would eat the flowers perfectly clean
wherever they went.
“ From the tin t to -w fifteenth of
June the «beep are taken into the
mountains and kept until the latter
part of September.
Now When the
sheep are brought back in September,
one-third the raine of all crops. W h ile
general farm ing ia somewhat more de­
veloped than in the Rocky Mountain
etatae, the graslng o f llrestoek )■ s till
one o f the principal industries. ,O m -
tain areas in Oregon, Washington and
region, clim atically and agriooiturallv,
Into tw o parts. Between the Cascade
mountains and the Coast range a n fer­
tile, well-watered valleys,
already
thickly populated. Upon the wsetsm "Mamma’s house; halloo! hallooi
ooest, owing to the Japan onrrant, the
Mamma Uvss at Rocking Chair.
temperature is the most equabls la
That yon, mamma? Stay right
North America. The o il mate ia more l ’va a mesnge all foe you."
like England than that o f any other
part o f the United States.
Ths soils arv m eetly o f a volcanlo
origin and a n unusually fertile and en­
during. The prairies consist of an ex­
panse o f rolling h ills. The layout of
the farms and general aepeot o f the
improvements ate sim ilar to those in
the newer portions q f ths North Cen­
tral states.
The people a n m ostly
native-born Americans from Urn older
settled states. IN bre la a general air
of hopafnLoess and prosperity among
them.
“ There a n «t ill 80,#00,000 acres of
unappropriated and unreserved public
lands ready for entry In this region.
h e best large body of pubftt yet
for settlem ent in the United
Oregon, W àshington and Idaho are
credited w ith about 80,000 torme. The
■eras, ths im proved arcs being about
9.000. 000 acres for the three eU tm .
The average elm of the farms is a trifle
over 880 acres, and the aven ge alas of
Improved farms la nearly 100 acres.
The state of Oregon akme has about
11.000. 080 acrea o f land in farms and
ranches, which to estimated to he worth
about flS per acre.
EXPERIM ENTS W ITH HYBRIDS.
Pullman Statimi Develops New Vari­
eties o f Wheat.
The Washington State college exper­
im ent station at Pullm an has brought
a lina of expérimenta with L ittle Club
and W h ite Track wheat to a point
w h en definite statements concerning
results aan be gives. Them hybridisa­
tion experiments w ere begun in 1899
by Professor B. E . E llio tt. One long-
beaded variety which ia sow growing
ia the eighth generation produem more
straw than any ether hybrid heretofore
grown on the stetion farm . Because of
this aad that it w ill withstand cold
nearly ae wall as Jeom ’ F ife, the sta­
tion staff bellevm it w ill be w ell adapt-
ed to the dry section included in the
greater portion of the B ig Bead country.
A length of six Inohm end 100 grains
to the bead is not unusual in this
variety.
Aaother hybrid ia remarkable for the
stiff asm of the s to w . On the farm a
plot of Red Russian and Arcadian were
cut to the ground by squirrels, w hile
the hybrid variety was toft uninjured.
The item grows too abort to bo Bailable
for dry land, but it to the most stable
variety yet produced and in several in­
stances produced 80 bushels per aero.
A long stem hybrid has u m peculi­
arity of growing w ith surprising uni­
form ity o f height, and the staff m y thie
wheat should be w all adapted to thresh­
ing with a oombined harvester.
The
evennem in length, and the fact that
it shatter« but little , makes it one of
being mattered over the ground. The the most desirable hybrids brought out
fa ll rains seem to soften the boneh on the college farm .
gram, m aking it tender so thst the
sheep set it greedily. In thie way, by
eating the early »boot« before the gram
fifl.tAto
IntaTSat
fl a
i n■ i « ■ rf
I
m m alia
goes to seed, and theu eating this ma­ m iu c «i i n i v r t i i A r u u B s a in u v p o f i i i
Around Ashland.
ture, semi-cured gram after It has gone
to seed, the seed to saved on the ground
th e recent work in developing the
and resown, and the itand o f bunch various coal prospects found in the v i­
gram to continually increased.
cin ity of Ashland, Oregon, has m et
“ This has demonstrated to me very w ith so much eoocem and has attracted
strongly, that if men owning large such widespread attention that It prom­
areas of gracing land expact to keep ises to incur« sufficient perseverance in
their ranges op to the present stand­ work along this line to determine the
ard, or even increase the stand of retd extent of the ooal deposits which,
bunch gram, that they m eet of aacee- beyond doubt, exist in this scot ion.
■ity protect the bunch gram at least There Is no question about the ooal be­
ing found and the quality of it, but
th en are «kept ice aa to the extent of
begins to farm until the am tura seeds the deposits. The scarcity and high
are shattered on the ground.
I am prtoe of wood for fuel has prompted and
convinced that the próbtom of restock­ encouraged the coal prospecting to a
ing the ranges may to * very large ex­ large extent, and the opening up of
tent be eolved by fin cing the graslng coal beds of am ple extent would be a
lands, and, at intervale, resting them .” welcome solution of the fuel problem,
which to a serious one aad promises to
be more serious before another winter
to over. The in ability to scour« wood-
choppers daring the peat year or two
Sidelights on Beaver State by P ro­ has greatly curtailed the wood output
fessor o f C ornell.
and has resulted in soaring prices.
Reoently no tom than two represent­
In his recent book on “ How to
Choose a Farm, W ith a Discussion of atives o f the Harrhnan railroad later-
American Lands,” Professor Thomas F .
Hunt, of Cornell university, devotee th « developments o f oeal prospecta in
several complim entary paragraphs to the immediata vicin ity of Ashland, and
farm ing conditions of the Pacific North­ have made a personal investigation to
west and to the rmoaems o f Oregon in report to headquarters, which chows
partioular. P i of essor Hunt acoom pa­ the general internet that is being fe ll
>
.
nim bis deeeriptions with tables of sta­ In local developments.
tistica Whtoh throw aererai intereeting
•ideiights on thè condii tona «xiaélng ia
thè Brarar State.
“ Thie ragion la eharacterlmd by ita
Immense fernet rscourem, Ite flshiag
Industries, and ths high
in the eastern
wheat by dry farmi
H H
along the Co­
lom bia river fie Oregon,” writes Pro­
fessor Hunt o f Oregon, Washington
and Idaho. “ Oae-thlrd o f the a n a to
covered fay forests of immensa commer­
cial value, white at leste one-fifth mora
to covered by trees o f toe* Importano«.
In W estern Oregon end Washington
are to be found m illion « of acre« of the
densest foraste, w ith «»n i tei one trees o f
great height, and terge diameters, of
which the Douglas fir aad the rad oedar
m
"W ell, you pi «ass to tsll the doctor
Dolly has tto stomach ache ;
Wants sou« peppermints to-take.
A ll tto day I ’ve sat aad roctod tor.
Many boys and girls have goldfish
as pstn, and would Ilka to know, per­
haps, tbs bast way to taka cars o f thorn.
They should bo kept In a broad­
mouthed glam vessel— a vassal with
straight rides to best—which should al­
ways be nearly fa ll o f water. A few
testis aad a ■nail quantity o f gravel
should bo pat Into the vssscL Many
persons a n In the habit o f dropping
broad crumbs into tbs water fo r ths fish
to cat, bnt that ia vary bad for them, aa
ths farced soon soars. Regularly pro-
pared fish food may be had, which
should bs given to them every day or
two. It la a good plan, toe. to keep
pises o f water-weed In ths ja r ; It
w ill grow floating on the water, and
tbs fish like to nibble at I t Ths water
should bs changed at toast twice a
week, and It should be riptwoed ont
not poured. Tbs beat way to do this
to to use a piece o f robber tubing, say,
18 Inches long. Pat one sod into ths
water, and tbs other sod In y o u
month. A fter sacking the w ater part­
ly np In tbs tubing, grasp tbs totter
tightly with your thumb and finger,
take the and ont o f your month, and
■till bolding It tightly, drop it Into
the vessel Into which the water to to
bs drained, which should be lower
than ths fish-jar. The water w ill at
ones begin to flow, and w ill continue
to do so as long as tbs drain end of
the tube is kept tower, than ths cod
in ths jar.
on,
Wot Cask
on.
There is a widespread belief that
tbs oil generally known as coal oil
was discovered within a comparatively
abort time. Aa a matter o f fact, it
known fo r centuries. Th en
to a wall, or spring, on ths Island of
Santo that has been flowing ’ for two
thousand years The Greek historian,
H srodotn« speaks o f this well.
It
Is said, also, that tbs people o f India
have used tbs oil from time immemor­
ial. Tbs boys and girls should remem­
ber that ooal oil la not the right nams
tor it ; It to really rock oil, its scien­
tific nams bring petroleum (from ths
Greek p stn , a rock, and ths Latin
otoom, o il). I t ia eallad coal oil bo-
many people believe that it
c o m « from coal down in the earth.
Boms o f it does, hat most o f It oomst
from rocks that arc mnch older than
thorn in which coal la found. U m
best authorities any that It baa fassa
made by ths dsoay o f sea weeds and
anima ls Ths oil aa it comas from tbs
earth Is one o f the moat d!«gnst!n|
known, so fa r aa appear
ansa g o «« bnt It ia o f tha p ra tes!
possible service to m as Many thing)
t a n In daily ora arc produced
at It, aa wall as valuable medi­
cines and tha moat beautiful od ors