The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-17

down your pipe-you might grease it for
that matter-and twenty feet in length,
IL would be an enormous weight, and in
slowly descending for about an hour a
oay, for that would be long enough for
your puIping, and going down a thousand
Ieet, IL would run your engine for year
NOW then, at the end of the year YOU
could not expect to haul that weight up
again. You would have a trigger ar
rangement which would detach it from
the rope when it got to the bottom. Then
you would wind up your rope, man could
90 that IN short time, and YOU would
attach another cylinder of lead and that
would run your engine forianother year
minus few days, because it would only
go down nine hundred and eighty feet
Inc next year you would put on another
cylinder and so on. l have not worked
out the figures exactly, but l think that
IN TINS way your engine would run for
thirty years before the pipe became en-
tirely filled with cylinders. That would
De PROBABLY as long as YOU would care
to have water forced into this house"
Yes, - said |. Il think that is likely"
He saw that his scheme did not strike me
fayorably. Suddenly a light flashed
across his face.
Il tell you what you can do with your
pipe, he said, Just as it is is. You can
set up clock over it which would run
for forty years without winding"
smiled and he turned sadly away to
his horse, but he had not ridden ten
yards before he came back and called to
me over the wall
If the earth at the bottom of your
pipe should ever yield to pressure and
give way and water or gas. or-anything,
should be squirted out of it, beg you will
let me know as soon as possible
promised to do So
When the pounding was at an end my
wife and child came home. But the sea
son continued dry and even their pres
ence could not counteract the feeling of
aridity which seemed to permeate every
thing which belonged to us, material or
immaterial. We had great deal of COM
miseration from our neighbors. | think
even Mrs Betty Perch began to pity us
little, for her spring had begun to trickle
again in a small way, and she sent word
to me that if we were really in need of
water she would be willing to divide with
me. Phineas Colwell was sorry for us,
of course, but he could not help feeling
and saying that if ! had not consulted
him the misfortune would have been pre-
vented.
1t was late in the summer when my
wife returned, and when she made her
first visit of inspection to the grounds
and gardens, her eyes Of course fell upon
the unfinished well. She was shocked.
II never saw such a scene of wreck
age" she said. "It looks like western
town after a cyclone. l think the best
thing you can do is to have this dreadful
litter cleared up, the ground smoothed
and raked, the wall mended and the roof
put back on that little house, and then, if
we can make anybody believe it is an ice
house, so much the better -
This was good advice, and sent for a
man to put the vicinity of the well in or
der and give it the air of neatness, which
characterizes the rest of our home.
The man who came was named Mr.. Bar
net. He was a contemplative fellow, with
a pipe in his mouth. After having worked
at the place for half a day he sent for me
and said:
81 will tell you what would do if was
in your place. I'd put that little house in
order, and I'd put the engine into it, and
the pump down into that 30-foot well you
first dug, and I'd pump water into my
house. 4"
looked at him in amazement.
'There's lots of water in that well, =" he
continued, land if there's that much now
in this drouth, you will surely have ever
so much more when the weather isn't so
dry. / have measured the water and l
know"
l could not understand him. II seemed
to me that he was talkly wildly. He
filled his pipe and lighted it and sat upon
the wall.
Now" said he, after he had taken a
few puffs, 'Ill tell you where the trou-
ble's been with your we'll People are al
ways in too big a hurry in this world
about all sorts of things as well as wells.
| am well digger and know all about
them. We know if there is any water in
the ground it will always find its way to
the deepest hole there is, and we dig a
well so as to give it deep hole to go to in
the place where we want it, But YOU
can't expect the water to come to that
hole just the very day it's finished. Of
course, you will get some because it's right
there in the neighborhood, but there is al
ways lot more that will come if you give
it time. It's got to make little channels
and passages for itself, and, of course. it
takes time to do that. It's like setting
up new country. Only few pioneers
come at first, and you have
to wait for the population
to flow in. This being a dry season, and
the water in the ground little sluggish,
on that account it was a good while find
ing out where your well was. If l had
happened along when you was talking
about well, think should have said
to you that knew aproverb which would
about fit your case, and that is Let well
enough alone"
felt like taking this good man by the