The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-30

shown upon hillside. the site of the
"burning spring" which WAS we'll
known in the vicinity long before Dor
Ing for oil was thought OF in "these
parts" Here the inflammable gas is
sued from a crevice, and readily igni-
ted on the application of a match to the
surface of the water. But the spring
has ceased to flow and the illumination
Is no longer visible.
A very pertinent question in connec-
ton with these statements is "DOes it
pay ?" AS Anna Dickinson says when
charged with being man hnter, SIT de-
ponds upon the man." a Pennsylva-
MAN who came to Cow Run some three
years ago soon used up the small amount
OF capital he possessed, and for time
was probably IL little worse than moth
ing. At present, his income is about
$40 per day, over and above expenses,
and he owns an interest in number OF
the best producing wells OF the Cow
Run territory. Others have been less
fortunate, and considerable Currency"
has been poured by capitalists and 9TH
ers into the small but dark and deep
circular openings that have been made
so abundantly in the ground-currency
that sunk down silently out OF sight
and was never heard of more.
Oil is advancing in prices, and is more
buoyant generally than il has been for
some time. This improvement in the
market will exert favorable in1lu-
ence upon oil operations i'll this lOcali-
ty, and l learn that with the opening of
spring, several tracts which lie above
Marietta, nearer the Ohio, and about in
line with the oil regions OF West NiT-
ginia, will be- made the scene of new
operations In search of the slippery
fluid. Indeed, in the places In question,
oil has already been found IN small
quantities. Meantime, should any
thing of note occur, / shall hope TO
keep you posted.
Yours, J. L. b.
Sensible Talk about HOman's Wages.
The following is from the Weekly
Mirror, Mrs. Jane q. SwisshGlnl, asso-
ciale editor:
The husband and wife are equal part
nerS. The husband is out door head OF
the firm. and the wife indoor member.
Her work in the house Is of as much i'm
portauce 10 the welfare of the family AS
his work out of doors. No family can
be well managed unless the wife and
mother faithfully performs her part;
and if she does this, the husband and
father does no more for the advance.
ment and interests of the family. This
being the case, she is entitled TO one,
half of the income, to onc-half of all
that he and she accumulate. This half
should DO hers ifshe survive him, and
he should divide his half as he pleases;
or if he dies interstate the law should
give it to his heirs. If he have children,
the widow should get none of it, il he
have no children, she might be one of
his heirs. If she dies before him and
have not disposed OF her half by will,
it should be secured to her heirs, and he
should get none OF it if she have chill
dren. If not, he might be one of her
heirs.
Repeal the slave code for wives-thG
law which says. "All that she can nc.
quire by her labor, service or act,
during coverture, belongs to her hus-
band"
This law was made for the old Saxon
swineherds, in the days when Alfred
the Great was King. 1t gives the hus-
band exactly the same power over his
wife's earnings that the South Carolina
slave code gave to the master over the
earnings of the slave. Emancipate
wives, make them equal partners with
their husbands, and thus give them
the same motives for industry and
economy that are given to men, and see
if you do not, with one stroke of the
pen, dash out nine-tenths OF the ex-
travagance and fashionable folly of
women, multiply marriages four fold,
and get rid of the talk about woman'S
wages. There is something wrong
when woman is out in the world con-
tending with men for wages. She
should find her reward in her own pro-
per work, keeping house and raising
children; and when the masses of wo-
men are emaDcipated and paid for do
ing the work that no man can do, the
exceptions who teach school, sell dry
goOdS'nrd write for newspapers will
find the wages question very easily set
tled.-MrS. iSiviSShciDI.