The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-24

miles from my house and had hobby,
which was natural phenomena. He
was always on the lookout for that
sort of thing, and when he found it he
would study its nature and effect. He
was a man in the maturity of youth
and if the estate on which he lived had
not belonged to his mother he would
have spent much time and money in in
vestigating into natural phenomena.
He often drove over to see NE and al
ways told me how glad he would be if
he had an opportunity of digging q
well.
II have the widest desire" he said,
'''to know what Is in the earth under
our place, and If it should so happen in
the course Of time that the limits Of
earthly existence should be reached by
i mean if the estate should come into
my Hands, / would go down, down,
down until I had found out oil that
could be discovered. To own plug of
earth four thousand miles long andonly
know what is on the surface of the up.
per end Of it is unmenly; we might as
well be grazing beasts" !
He was sorry that / was digging only
for water, because water is a very COM
monplace thing, but he was quite sure
i would get it, and when my well was
finished he was one Of the first to con.
graduate me.
Having finished my well. l now set
about getting the water into my resi-
dence near by. l built house over
the well and put il it little engine.
and by means of q system of pipes, like
the arteries and veins of the human
body, l proposed TO distribute the
water to the various desirable points
in my house. The engine was the
heart which should start the circula-
ton, which should keep it going.
which should send throbbing through
every pipe the water, which. if it
were not our life, was very necessary
to it.
When all was ready we started the
engine, and in very short time we
discovered that something was wrong.
For fifteen or twenty minutes water
flowed into the tank at the top of the
house with sound that was grander
in the ears of my wife and myself than
the roar Of Niagara, and then it
stopped. Investigation proved that
the flow had stopped because there was
no more water in the well.
o. My non-succeSs was much talked
about in the neighborhood, and we re-
ceived . great deal OF sympathy and
coincidence. Phineas Colwell wss not
surprised at the outcome of the affair
He had said that the well had been put
in the wrong place. Mrs. Betty was
not only surprised. but Disguised.
1T Is all very well for you," she said,
'who could afford to buy water II it
was necessary. but it is very different
with the widow and the orphan. If
had not supposed you were going to
nave real well. would have had my
spring cleaned out and deepened. I
could have had it done in the early
summer, but it is Of no use now, the
spring has dried up
She told a neiChbor that she believed
the digging of NV well had dried up
her spring. and that that was the way
OF this world. where the widow and the
orphan were sure 20 come out AZ the
little end.
OF course did not submit 10 defeat
at least, without struggle. / had
well and If anything could he done
70 make that well supply me witt
water vas going to do it. / consult
ed specialists ana after careful con-
siceration of the matter they agreed
that it would be unadvisablc for me 10
attempt TO deepen my present well. as
there -was reason 10 sGCpoSe there was