The Globe-republican., 1890-05-21
Up SPURTS \ STEADY STREAM.

Up SPCRTS \ STEADY STREAM.
emily had plenty of money, for he lived
we'll and bought considerable land.
"All OF sudden, without giving any
notice, Pipkin shet up his saloon and
went to work to build cider mill 1t
want no one-horse mill, neither. II
! wur big affair, with a cooper shop and
every thing complete. At the same time
| Pipkin built himself large, two-story
| house. and set to work with hull lot Of
| help TALL strangers to farm his land. He
| had the biggest farm in Wood County
| nigh on to 1900 acres, though more'n
| half Of it wer woods.
Inside Of two years Pipkin wer doing
the biggest cider and vinegar business
in Northwestern Ohio: only what puz-
zled the neighbOrs wus where on earth
he got all his apples-for Wood County
warn't much OF apple section them
days. However. no body cared much about
Pipkin's affairs. The women gossiped
consider BILE, but the men folks let him
alone. Pipkin warn't inclined to be
noways neighborly; he never gave any
one round them parts job. and he done
all his trading way of. All his help
was strange, and even the teamsters he
hired he fetched from Toledo. Once
old Uncle JEFF Smiley. as wer kinder
old and inquisitive like, did undertake
to ask Pipkin where he got his apples,
but he didn't get no satisfaction for his
pains. We all took the hint and didn't
bother Pipkin, and it got to be that no.
body 80 much as passed the time O. day
to the surly codger.
but apples or no apples, friends or'no
friends, Pipkin run that there cider mill
Of his'n full blast. and jist eyerlastingly
kept three and four teams a-hauling
cider and vinegar in barrels to the rail-
roads He shipped the stuff all over
to Cleveland and Pittsburgh and Toledo
and Detroit, and even as far as New
York City.
We'll, sir. by the end of the fourth
year Sam Pipkin must have made pile
Of wealth, and it wer about tibet there
time that my old uncle, Seth Sander
son, died Uncle Seth had lived for
years in Sandusky. but owned land in
Wood County, which he, being sorser
misery, wouldn't sell for no price.
There was nigh on to two hundred
acres, and Uncle Seth willed it to me.
This lot, mostly in timber. was west Of
Pipkin's line, and, being a sort of mar
row strip, ran out clear to big Wood
County swamp, nigh on to two miles.
First thing knew Pipkin came to
me and wanted to know my price for
Uncle Seth's strip. But as I hadn't
thought it over l put him of for week,
and the next day, with Levi Ransom.
I set out to kinder inspect my new be-
longings. We got poking around in the
sile, and purity soon Levi he run his
and then struck something real hard.
and curious like. Then we both of us
scraped and scratched. and at last we
managed to clean of two or three feet |
length Of iron pipe-small pipe, such as
city folks use for gas pipe.
"'Wal, I'm burned" says Levi, and |
says I: We'll, I'm burned
I'VE speckerlated and guessed till we
was tired, and at last says Levi: L have |
it, says he; I'll run home for drill
(Levi being bl.cksmith), and he went.
He wer back in an hour, and in few
he had little hole drilled.
Then up spurts steady stream, Ia ller'n
a man. OF pure, strike-yer-dizzy ehiskyi
Yes, sir, whisky, aud no foolin'!
"Well, sir. you might have knocked
me and Levi over with straw. and we
had to both Of US sample the liquor jest
to brace up our nerves But We didn't
go of half-cock. by no means. Levi
plugged the pipe with small stick of
wood, covered up the hole and We
started OF for Toledo. When we came
back We brought with US the supervisor
and two or three deputy United States
marshals.
"Next N orning. bright and early, we
tracked that pipe line, sir, right through
Uncle Seth's strip way into the swamp,
md brought up at a big pretty we'll
built shanty. The marshals captured
The place and two men. and discovered
,ne of the finest whisky stills you
,ver heered tell on! Then we followed
.het pipe back again for more'n five
niles, and we landed right into Pipkin's
:ider mill.
"'well. sir, it wer considerable Of
oke on Us Wood County sleepyheads to
;hink tibet Their Teller Pipkin had fooled
Is for years, now, waren't itr'
cider? Ha. har'
'vinegar? Ha, Ia. ha:"
We'll, Pipkin didn't get ahead of tho
evenue men to any large extent and
le put in about ten years at Columbus.
les, SIR. these pipe lines are mighty
handy things, but you see tho Standard
int the first to lay one in this section
''Here comes your train-"-W. H. S
Atkinson, in Detroit Free Press.