The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-08

about insupportable Down brakes
stop-I put on becoming air Of melan
choly, needing only clean white hand
kerchief to take a prominent part in
funeral, aud stepped slowly and steadily
from the platform. About two dozen
friends rushed at me, to welcome me, as
I innaceully thonght-and-ofTcred NE
oil stock asked NE obout-oil stock !;
fairly CREASED NE with-oil stock. new
er was more surprised in my life. Talk
about oil on the brain, here was oil on
the entire constitution oil in oceans
over our head and ears oleagiDous oily
oily oil such as David never dreamed OF
when Dr. Watts made him say
my head thou dost with oil anuoint,"
How are you old fellow, don't you wan,
some Imperial at 5?' 'Why,-, I'm
very glad to see you, let you have FIVE
hundred shares Sterling at g. Bless
you, my dear sir, if you want some der
seq Well at 2 I cal spare you some. =
'Holloa, -, delighted to welcome you
back, here's where you get the real gen.
uine HopeweN' 'Why-I am prond to
welcome you, Chamber. burg's favorite
son. | hEve saved for you, especially, a
tho lsand shares of Burning Sqrjng and
Rn6le Farm at q 'Huzza for --, let
us present him, as he halls from Brook
lyn, with two hundred and fifty shares
of Pittsburg and Brooklyn Petroleum
stock, price l. Welcome to c., shout
ed in inharmcnious coucert some six or
eight well known voices-'here CONES
our old teacher Buy some Pittsburg
and Cherry Run, one dollar, one twenty
FIVE, one fifty, one seventy-fVe, two, two
twenty five, two fifty. two seventy five,
THREE! Surprised, astounded, amazed
and confounded, as Blair's Rhetoric hath
it, knew not what to 90, particularly as
my speculative capital was limited to
fifteen dollars. I had braved the hack
men of New York and of Philadelphia
had escaped the pretzel mongers of Ian
caster, had avoided the temptations Of
the Harrisburg apple and chestnut
women, had passed unscathed through
the loafers of Carlisle, and the lazzeroni
of Shippensburg, to be boiled 10 oil as
was ST John of old--at least no thanks,
if they didn't succeed. to the brutes that
tried it on the aforesaid saint Islipped
through their fingers. promising all lib
orally, and hurried up town. 10 front Of
a scared and blackened ruin l encoun-
tered young lawyer. who wanted to put
me down for some Cherry Run. Teu
steps further on, young doctor stopped
his sleigh to ask How is Sterling? p
Thinking of { s. d., EXCHANGE on Eng
land, answered "about 2 %, and was
of course laughed at. Again | was hailed
TSdlve By learned D. D, who asked
me whether had seen the notice of the
oil we'll that Herodotus had spoken of
some two thousand and odd years ago, on
the Levant" Next [ encountered a
preacher, who called my attention to the
singular fact that Jacob, 1850 years
Ante Christum, had poured oil on the
top of the pillar he had set up at Bethel,
(not Big Bethel when he vowed tenth
as a royalty" Then l came across an old
Folack woman, who seeing me limp slightly
recommended Seneca Oil. Met u schoo
teacher, who entertained me with an cru
dte discourse upon the oil the ancient
athletes used. Heard an old man pray
at family worship for peace, in this wise
Pour oil upon the troubled waters" Ia
the evening there was no gas, and it was
reported that the gas company had been
changed to an oil company. | was agree
ably surprised to find that every family
had an ample stock Of Kerosene on hand
of which they were by DO means eccnom
ical. each one hoping by consumption to
enhance the value of their StockS In
attempting to amuse a domestic circle o
young America, | gided into the realm;
cf natural history, and having made the
acquaintance of Nantucket man il
Brooklyn, was naturally carried by ny
imagination into. the wonders of the grea
deep, with the usual accompaniment o.
seals, wa'ruSes. whales | informed tht
admirng audience that the whale, wheL
fully grown sometimes reached the lengt!
of seUenfy feet, and q circumference o
t0rty feet, and has been known to pro
duce t,centy tons of pure oil Now thr
would have affected my youthful mind,
know But yonng two years old drov,
me within myself by czclaiming, why
uncle -, what's thatto a Eve hundred
barrel oil we'll every day p l made
faint show of resistance by citing th
uses Of whalebone, and the enormous tor
pedo powerot the huge mammals tail ,bu
all for no use. | have been .nformet
that two young men locked themselve
up one entire night, for the purpose o
swapping oil stocks, and that they mad
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