The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-05-16

Rooney POuklrs, you re a 1901
"Sho Don't talk So Betsey." r
"But / will talk SO, Rooney Podking. I
say you re a foolp . .-f.g .g.r.F
''Betsey, I shall have to let my angry
passions RISE" ..r
"Well I'd rather enough sight see your
angry passions rise till they ran over in a
food, than see you loose all your money"
Goodness gracious, Betsey, ] should say
yost was the fool! Thunder and gristmills
you spoose I'm goint to let such a chance
as this slip? No-not by plaguey sight
tell you I've looked into it, and know
all about" ..-,E..s.
''Yes-you've looked into o milestone,
and if you don't look out, you'll find that
there's another milestone under that one,
and you'll be lucky if you don't find your
self between EN-.
'"That' just like you women folks. If
there was shower of twenty dollar gold
pieces fallin' in our yard at this very min
ute, You be afraid to go out and pick EN-
up, for fear some on 'em might hit you on
the head. But I amt such fool. I'm
goin' to make hay while the sun shines. -
I've worked and slaved long enough, and
now | III goln to lay back and let somebody
else work for me. You neednt t talk, cause
it won't make no difference. I'm bound to
so in"
"Well, Rooney Podkins, you can go Ia,
as you Call it, but you can take my word Tor
it that when you come out you IL be like a
drowned rat. y
"Betsey Podkins, we shall see who'll
look like drowned rat. -
80 we shall see. Where are you going
now, Rooney
I'm going over to the tavern to have an
other talk with them ere lie men. y .~
And away went Rooney, without waiting
to hear any more from his wlte's ready
tongue. EEa1 fE#
Under the piazza of the tavern, and in
various other conspicuous places, were post
ed huge placards, giving notice to the peo-
pie that then and there was the golden
opportunity to make fortune by taking a
share in the property of THE BOILING
TAR-SpRING FLOWING OH WELLS Com
PANY. Property vatued at f1ue Millions
of DoHas.'
In the parlor set man, with numerous
maps and diagrams spread out before him.
He was a middle aged man, dressed in
the hight of fashion, sparkling with gold
and diamonds and apparently one Of the
most intelligent men that had ever visited
the quiet town of Boomerberg. To Il gap
ping assembly he described the manner in
which Petroleum was deposited in the deep
laid rock; he told how many ages and ages
how, ever since Adams tall-ths oleagi-
nous deposit had been forming, and how it
had been left for this generation of Live
Yankees to find it. He told how the whales
were being killed off in the Polar Seas, and
how, but for this marvellous discovery, com
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their way in almost total darkness, But
this was not so to be. A wise Providence
| had anticipated and provided for the went.
Geologists had divided the earthly forma-
tion into six grand periods, or strata but
| in this they had made grand mistake, as
present developments amply demonstrated.
At the end of the Fourth Grand Period OF
| Formation, the whole earth was covered
with water. In fact, it was one vast salt
ocean. In this period big whales grew,
ard increased, and fourished, until, at the
expiration of countless thousands of years,
they had become SO numerous that they
were fairly packed solid and they had used
the water all up. Over this surface Of what
was really the Fifth Grand Period, and
| which modern geologists properly term the
OLEAGINoUs STRATUM, a crust was formed,
and huge forests sprang up where the ocean
had been, Or rather, abore where the ocean
he oeen This forest in. urn was covered up,
and gave what we term the Carboniferous
Formation? Here is where We find our coal.
But-what lies beneath that Carboniierous
Stratum? Where and WHAT are those mil
lions upon millions, and quiptillions upon
sextillions of whales? They have formed 8
| most curious stratum. In some places they
,al,I III 4.
while in others they have formed east saI.
tearaaeda seas Of OILl Ll.A45 sf 5sh
As the man of science closed this part OF
bis subject. his hearers were more than in
terested-they were agap with eager won
der. Rooney Podkins, who had gained Q
place near the table, only wished that Bet
sey could be there to hear him.
"And now, gentlemen, continued the
agent, opening an elaborately drawn and
highly colorel diagram, which movement
was accomplished with grand flourish, u
will proceed to bring you into more intimate
acquaintance with this subject Of Oil. You
observe this broad tract which is colored red
upon the diagram, This is the land which
belongs to The Tar,spring Flowing Oil
Wells Company. You Will observe this
| figure here, just upon the edge of our land.
III iact, III is upon our ouF IdHu, Dub as the
men who had spent their money in develop
ing the wonderful and miraculous properties
of this tract were honest and weltmeaning,
and as they undoubtedly supposed they
we're upon their own land when they conil
menced to operate, we have let them keen
possession of just ten square rods of that
land, for which they readily paid US forty.
two thousand dollars. The price we had
ssrssd upon was four thousand dollars pei