Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-17
NO. 22o
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to receive those unable to keep the straight and narrow way.
 Not content with the absurdity of its lo- cation, Petite Anse is wonderful in it's composition. Dig down anywhere twenty seven or thirty feet and you will strike white salt ninety y-nine and one-haH per cent. pure, the purest found on the face of the globe. Dig down two hundred feet and you will still find salt, and when you have dug thus far you will know as much about the extent of this big salt rock as anyone. Possibly it extends two hundred feet deep- CT, but no one knows. Twenty-Five years ago Deacon Keller, as honest an old darkey ss ever served 6 master faithfully, was sent down into an old well to clean 1t out, and in SO doing struck his spade against & rock, which proved to bo salt. To-day the Avery brothers, owners of the Petite Anse Island, receive royalty of from sixty to one hundred dollars per day from the New Iberia Salt Mining company, and Deacon Keller is ssAt yo' services, sah. Pse pol ole man, but I'm trabblin de road ter Zion mighty libely."
 The main shaft to the mine is one hundred and ninety feet deep, radiating from which are several immense cRverns varying in height from ten to sixty feet, grottoes with solid salt roof and walls. Do not expect the walls to sparkle; the miners lamps have smoked until scurf has formed which shuts in the glittsring salt. Only where 8 blast has been made recently does it look pure. It is mine that can be visited in very short time satisfactorily, there being very little variety to the salt,- and nothing to watch but the miners working with drill and pick by the light of the little lamps they wear in their caps, or the lights which twins kle in the distance or go fitting by in spec tral manner. Although the guide assures you that the roof is sufficiently thick to pre- vent it's caving, and that, even should 1t fall, 1yoT1 xvo,11H ho vx,o11 rrrocarvod if f1a06 to be shot up the shaft in the elevator to the pure air. A conglomeration of buildings of well assorted sizes and shapes, most of them filled with an endless variety of wheels and chains and belts and pulleys, constitute the mills. The salt Is first hoisted to the top of Q high tower, whence it goes down through series of crushers and siftefs, finally to be bagged up on the main floor and loaded into the oars Buildings and workmen are well seasoned, clouds of fine salt filling the air, giving everything hoary appearance, and even outside the mill clouds of salt fill the air, killing or stunting the vegetation in the immediate neighborhood.
 The Way It Looks to a Layman.
 From the Boston Transcript
 "And so that's what yer call base ball gameg' said Farmer CIovertop, after it was all over.
 "And how did you like it, unclea" asked his city nephew.
 ''Wa1, Tom, don't know When was a boy it used to take hull grist of us to play ball. It sort O seems to me when you get down to two men jest tossin' the ball back and forth for two mortal hours it's 8 trife slow But, Tom, who was them fellows standin' around thsre in small clothes and jocky capsa"
 "Why, Uncle Feb, they were in the game"
 "Jerusalem crotch all hemlocksl You don't say so. Then why in time didn't they give them two fellers a lift. Mighty mean to make lem do all the work, Tom"