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The oasis., 1894-12-20

The still is a large copper vat hood ed with a close-ntting airtight cover in which is a funnel which in turn is connected with the worm" of the still This worm runs down into an- other vat near at hand, and in this vat the fumes or yapor of the heated gum are distilled into turpentine. Fire under the copper vat heats the gum and the volatile parts rise to the funnel, pass into the still and are con densed by the water in the second vat into spirits of turpentine. The resi- dunn left in the vat is the resin or commerce. which is passed through a series of strainers and sieyes to the barrels, which are made on the spot. The turpentine, however, cannot be barreled so easily, for it will work through an ordinary barrel. It is placed in white pine barrels which have been coated inside with several coats of strong, hot glue until the bar rel is impervious to the subtle fluid.
 The trees are worked for five or six seasons, and then the turpentine maker moves to another part of the woods. He started in North Caroli- ma, crossed over to South Carolina, and is still moving toward the gulf. Forest firest destroy the pines faster than the hacker does, for the inflam- mable trees catch the sparks readily, and the flames sweep over large areas before they die out. Careful owners of turpentine woods have the pine straw and fallen underbrush raked away from their trees before the sea son begins, and, collecting this mate rial in some safe spot, wait for aquiet day when no wind will cool the wet finger, and then they burn the rak- ings.
 Negroes are common laborers of the turpentine woods, but white men are plentiful. They live in rough shanties in the woods, with the ctables for the mules and horses near at hand. Nc work is more healthful than turpen- tine making, for it is all out of doors in the depths of the balmy, health giving pines, free from the malaria of the swamps and from sudden changes of weather.
The oasis., 1894-12-20
Modern Steel.

Conan Doyle in his interesting tale of "Micah Clarke" tells Of old Iron side Joe's sword. which cut through helmet of proof steel' without turn ing its edge Sir Walter Scott relates marvellous stories of the terrible sword of Richard the Lion Hearted, which could cleayc q twO-inch bar of iron when wielded ny King Richard. Legends of the wonderful temper, strength and elasticity of the Damas- GUS and Toledo blades figure exteps- lively in the historical novels which relate to the romantic days of the Templars and the Saracens.
 Some of those swords of the middle ages and the crusades are still in the museums of Europe, and modern steel makers who have examined them with professional criticism, while admiring their beautiful workmanship and ex- Quisite art, unhesitatingly say that none of them can compare with the steel made today.
 An American manufacturer of tool steel declared that an American hand saw was made of tougher, stronger and better steel than famous Toledo blade exhibited in France. Hcproved his assertion, for sword made of the same steel from which the saw was made stood the tests to which both both swords were subjected. and then cut the Toledo blade in two without nicking the edge of the American sword.
The oasis., 1894-12-20
\ New View of the Drink Problem.

The Patriot, published at Morris town. Tennessee presents the follow ing peculiar views on the liquor ques- tion:
 Suppose all internal duties, licenses and liquor taxes of all kinds were re- pealed. that everyone could make and sell whisky as freely as rye flour or corn meal; what would be the result?
 First. The price of whisky would be reduced to, perhaps, twenty-five cents q gallon.
 "Sccond. There would be no partic- ular profit in selling liquor. The sal cons, except a few in the largest ci- ties, would close. There would be more profit in selling bushel of corn meal than gallon of whisky. A man would as soon think of opening a store for the exclusive sale of meal as for the exclusive sale of liquor. And the sale would not be pushed by the gem eral merchant. He would make as large q profit in selling anything else as in selling liquor.
 "Third. Treating would disappear. TO treat to liquor worth, perhaps, q hall cent a drink, would be an insult.
 uFourth. A fair field would be open to temperance work, The state would .. l.,,.,,, fi.rl+ .l,n church "
 The Patriot fails to consider that liquor was made and drank, with all the evils attendant, long before the traffic was subject to an excise.
The oasis., 1894-12-20
Good counsel from the Kansas pub

Good counsel from the Kansas pub fishers state paper: "A printer never collected a cent by whining. Just think how unmanly it is to vail; We have to pay bills and buy coal and live and yet people owe us.' If they do, collect, like any other business man. Get your money some way. Sue ac- counts, if necessary. Make it hot for those who won't pay and preserve your self respect. Don't whine. If people won't pay you for your paper, it is not worth paying for, or else they havn't any money; and if they haven't you should cut them of you list"
The oasis., 1894-12-20

"The child should be taught at school as well as at home that care and economy are not meanness, and that it takes only few small things to equal the value of a great one. This is actually one of the greatest services that the army of 600 GOO teach CTS could do the Republic-to teach the value of small things and the val ue of time
The oasis., 1894-12-20
Riches at Home.
Prescott Courier,

Prescott Courier.
 Certainly distance lends enchant- ment to viqy' more in mining mat ters than others. While our prospect ors and mining people generally dilate on the reported gold finds in South Africa and the abundance of nuggets in the newly discovered fields near Coolgardie, Australia, they lose sight of the fact that at similar period in the hist ory of Prescott men went over Rich Hill, Weaver district, with baskets, buckets and pans, literally picking up chunks of gold from the top of the ground like rocks, and when the surface had been skimmed for years afterwards the golden harvest was still reaped from beneath and even to this day the fruitful search is kept up and Rich Hill nuggets conti- nue to struggle in and are at pre- mium in the local market. Some months ago a crowd of Mexicans gath cred on this remarkable hill with crowbars and other primitive lifting devices and proceeded to overturn the great, moss covered bOulders with which the mountain was covered to ascertain if the presence of gold ante dated the placing of these silent senti- nels on their yigils through the cen centuries. One by one they were roll ed over and sent crashing into gulches below while the newfound gold which they had so long concealed reflected the suns rays seeming to assert be- yond question it's priority of occupa- tion of the soil. The gold was there before the placing of the big rocks, but how did it get there is question which has caused much discussion among mining people. Gold in gulches was washed there, but nuggets Strewn on the sides and top of mountain, | they claim, must come from the de- composition of some mammoth gold bearing quartz ledge which crumbled and yielded up it's treasure as the war ring clements wore down the noun tain and exposed the once protected gold rock to destroying conditions, and, as if in support of this theory, such ledge was found and located on the east side of Rich Hill by miner named Johnson who called the mine Johnson and who subsequently, perish ed under a downpour of dirt from the roof of tunnel which he dug into the Johnson mine. When the after death grab-alls sat on Johnsons estate (his body was not recoveredl the Johnson mine found ready sale, as it was known that Johnson had araStraed much rich ore from it. While the ledge is large and affords much good ore and many splendid specimens, still it has not yet quite fulfilled the expectations which it's surroundings warrant, and no one would be surprised any day to hear that blast had exposed fabul- ously rich showing of gold. Superyi. sor Smith, who is interested in the mine showed the reporter a gold spe- cimen from it's recent workings which is really more gold than quartz, and not the wiry, fiakey, spongy gold SC common in quartz but perfectly solid .----.-ss-..s.ss-ss...s--.--.. ----.-ss-..
 The Riclt Thing nt the Wrong Time
The oasis., 1894-12-20
The New Diphtheria Cure.

A telegram from St. Louis dated the 10th says the city health officials have inaugurated preparations for the culture and distribution of the new anti-toxine serum. Four horses have been inCculated with toxine and within four months are expected to be immunized, when distribution of the serum will begin. In addition, test tubes and Leffer serum are to be dis tributed at accessible points, so that physicians in doubt as to throat cases under their care can place germs therein promptly and forward them to the city chemist, whoes duty it will then be to propagate and study the germs and determine their character
The oasis., 1894-12-20
The Right Thing at the wrong Time

"Yes indeed, my dear, l would will ingly die for you, remarked an aged suitor to beautiful but lively young girl.
 Well, perhaps you 'Rlink so now but am sure you would forget all about that afterwe were married. 5
The oasis., 1894-12-20
Turpentine Making.
Chicago Record.

among the 'tdr-hcelS' or the CarOil- mas, Alabama and Georgia. In the cool depths of the turpentine woods with the gashed trees yielding up their resinous gum, the balmy air and the picturesque packers" dippers" and 'scrapers, with the ever yigilant rider" watching everything, is a phase in southern life which has long been the delight of authors and the pleasure of artists. The crudity of the implements and the stills used in the making of turpentine and resin lends additional interest to this old industry, and the gypsy-like habits of the turpentine-makers add to their ragged, illiterate charms.
 Turpentine Is the distilled gum of the pine trees of North and South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and part of Florida. The season begins when the first spring sap rises and ends when cold weather checks the flow of the trees blood. In January or Feb ruary the hacker" with his keen bladed ax, begins the round which ends with the season. He is the ex- pert of the woods and knows his trees, and just how much hacking they will stand. His task is to cut the "boxes' in which the thick gum of the wound ed tree will collect. A box is a wide incision about six inches deep, a wedge-shaped cut in the tree, and he hacks from 90 to 100 boxes a day. The first boxes are cut near the roots of the tree, and they are cut as close to- gether to the height of mans head as can be done without killing the pine. The hacker leaves width of bark between each box so as to pre- serve the vitality of the tree. When the trees are leased to the turpentine- makers the terms of the lease limit the number of boxes to each tree, but when it is desired to work the pine to the fullest extent the gashes are car ried up to a height of twenty feet or more.
 After the hacker comes the man who "corners" the boxes. This "cor- nern is a cut In the top of the box to guide the sap into the cavities left for the gum, and the man who works" the crop goes systematically from box to box, starting the sap anew with fresh incisions, working in this way 10000 boxes during the season. The sap or gum fills the boxes with a clear, sticky, thick fluid, and this is remov- cd by the 'dipper.n Scattered through the woods are barrels in which the ''dipperr deposits the gum, which IS then hauled to be still. About quart of sap is taken from each box by means of the trowelshaped scoop used by the dipper, and then the hacker comes along and starts the flow afresh by wounding the tree again. The tur. pentine maker watches his men close ly. for the tarheels are an easy-goine people and require to be urged by the ''rider, who goes through the woods on horseback examining the crop, hur rying the dippers and hackers anc sending the barreled gum to the still
 The first Of virgin sap which ilow' in the spring makes the best resin and the poorest is the product of the hardened gum which is left on the sides of the boxes when the sap "turn' down. in the fall. This is removed by the "scraper,n who moves througl the woods with his scraping tool oathnriny tha leavinps.
The oasis., 1894-12-20

NRTTRAIGIA cured by Dr. Miles P4r PILLS. ..One cent dose" At all drug91~
The oasis., 1894-12-20

Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder
 Worlds Foir Highest Award
The oasis., 1894-12-20

Monthly Pains cured by pr. Miles Pain Pills.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-15

New orleans. Nov ii.--Hog products
flrmer; pork, sls,s7 i-2; dry salt should
ers, $3.50; sides, s5.62 t-9; bacon, Sides,
$3.50.
Hams-cholce sugar cured, $3.50
1875
coffee-Rio Arm; ordinary to fair.
10 2-4@la 1-ic,
Rice-stendy; ordinary to good. l.2
o. l-ec.
Flour-Flrmcr; extra fancy, S2.J08
. 60; patents, s. 75u2.S SO.
Cornmeal-Easier, 81 80.
Bran-Flrm. 75@S0c.
Corne-Easier; No. ?. sales, mixed
and white, Ole, yellow. Gee
Hay-Qulet; prime. SiS O1Isii. so.
Sugar--F'irm; open kettle. prime,
li-l6c; fair TO fully fnlr, 0-15G2 5-Sn.
common to good common. l-i02 1-2c.
centrifugal, plantation Trnnulnted.
J i-i6cWie: choice white 3-sG3 il-ige.
on white. 1903 0-16c; gray white.
2 1903 5-lGc; choice yellow. clarified,
10; second, 2W3 l-lGc.
Molasses--Open Kettle active: fancy,
32c: choice, 90M3lci strictly prime Csc;
good prime. 26d2iei prime. 2j024o;
good common TO good fair 2i6t22c; COM
mon. lsUioc: centrifugal choice. isc;
good prime to strictly prime, limllc;
good fair to prime, 7dil0c; good common
to fair, sQGc, inferior 10 common. iflDc.
Syrup-lSd2tc,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-15

Chicago Nov. l4--Thcre was a lower
market FOR all descriptions of cattle.
with the exception OF choice corn fatted
steers. All but about $500 of the TWEEN
ty odd thousand were natives. good To
fair, and ruled very dull. and at the
close showed loss Of 1Oc per loo
pounds. sales OF native steers were
largely at S3.50Ts 50. and from 1880
% bought most OF the cows There
Wore 2h0O westerns aud 1000 Texans.
They sold ut steady prices, As con-
sequence Of heavy supply they lust
btoyancy, Buyers filed their ord. rs at
'Ctcl5c from yesterdays closing
AT the decline there WIS free buying.
the range OF sales for common to good
hogs was Si.o0Gi so: medium weights
sold generally Mt from 81 bNfri 10
though as high as %.G0 was paid for
light.
The market ofened weak for sheep
and lambs, the former being Ice lower
ana lambs 1bU25c lower than at close
Yesterday. The receipts are the hcl =
lest on record for any three consecu-
tive days, roday's quotations wor.,
~ 10 for poor to choice sheep. the bulk
Of sales being at 50 ONT2.75.
Receipts Cattle q ,Oc0: gord calves
900; hogs $4,000; sheep 1900.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-15
COTTON, GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
An ADVANCE OF 4 DOLLAR A BALE
ON FUTURES.
wheat over Cent Highcr-oorn
ana oats Both Hirhcr-Thc Pro-
vision Market Firmer--LivestocL
Notwithstanding of Cattle.

F. g. MePeak & Co, In their review OF
the October market, say:
"A very strong feeling has prevailed in
the cotton market during the entire SEES.
sion to-day and as result contracts
close dollar per bale higher thar
last night, Liverpool being the first on
which the market turned. The opening
over there was about Aid higher than
last night the close showing further
strength on recording an advance for
the entire session OF from i-2 TO esd
with spots l-s2d higher at . l-s2d. Sales
10000. New York responded by an ad-
vance OF points and later In the ses-
sion worked up 10 points more, making
an advance for the day OF % points.
the closing being very steady only IL
lower. Sales. 222.000 Spots In New
YORK, lis up or 1i-f6 Spots In New
orleans l-Sc up or l-l6. safes by fac
tors, 1850, To arrive, $3.50 Market
strong. Port receipts, 55,0Is against ~,
$50. Estimated Tomorrow for New or
leans, 1900 10 1900. AS the move
ment Is being studied very closely at
present and will have considerable TO
do with the future course of the market
we publish the following. which was
issued by us direct from Houston this
afternoon:
II. Il. Easterwood. OF Hearne, Tex,
oie OF the largest cotton planters OF
TIE Brazos. says In letter to the
Houston Post, which will be published
tomorrow:
In our territory we have made
good crops somewhat better than usual
and three-quarters OF It has been mar
keted. II has not been held back. It
has been rushed from field to gin and
from gin TO the market Cotton has
had no friends from the beginning and
Is so to-dov frlendless. Bra7os ninn-
tiers are holding no cotton ms In former
years, there being only one lot OF about
$50 bales now held against several thou
sand last year ana previous years Our
Bruzos planters are amply able TO hold
their cotton and we have as suhstan-
tlal O class OF planters financially ns
there Is In the south. but they missed
II by holding last wear and year before
and they pursue the tactics this year
aud we venture the assertion that this
Is the case all along the line We have
had several farmers already to bring
us In their last bale. We have had an
unnrecedented favorable season for
picking and the farmers have made
use OF II, have imported hundreds of
plckers that they might get their cotton
out before storms, rain and bad wealth
er comes, but weather has been all that
could have been asked and the cotton
has simply disappeared from tho field
and gone to market to swell tho enor-
nous unheard OF receipts hut this now
II thing of the past. As soon as the
20 ltswuAa ~ NJ thnlss sapa ~
blockade along limos YOU Will gee = ma
rTifaI falling on In receipts and the
people will then see what fools they
have been to allow one mans opinion
10 govern the price and force Il down"
nnnrc of prIccs nj Nr,A NnrIr
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-15
PROVISION MARKETS.

New York. Nov. -wheat-Rc-
celpts. 1881 800 bushels; exports, 7l.7Oo
bushels; sales, l2,s7O,OOo hughels futures;
spot none.
Spot nomlnally steady. No. red,
store. 50 Use; No anoat. co s-sG5O D.
Sc: No. l Northern, CO 3-sc delivered,
No. hard, 70 1-se delivered.
options active and strong all day
on good foreign buying, said to be due
to Argentine crop report. excited COW
crlng by local shorts, higher cables.
an Unexpectedly heavy decrease In
Bradstreets European stocks. Closed
at i-sc net advance. No. 2 red. jan
uary. 60 ll-l6ds0 5-se closed, co 5-Sc;
February. 60 l1-ledsl 5.se; closed, Gi B.
Sc: March closed g. 5-sc May, 90 3-Sag
e4c: closed ,64c; November closed % i-sc;
December. 80 7-SG59 5-sc; closed, 50 5-sc.
Hldes-Steady,
Lenther-Steady.
Wool-Dull and Seak
Pig iron dull; Scotch, Sl9.0On2O,O0.
American, s1V. OOGl3,00
Tln-Easy. straits,ii4.i7 l-2@it.57 ~;
Lead-Firm; brokers prices. $500; ex-
change price. s3.l2 IL.
Copper--Stendy; brokers price, 81. 50:
exchange price, $3.50 asked. Sales on
change, 20 tons, February tin, al TO-.
Cotton seed oil-Firmeri prime crude,
25gp25 l-2c: prime yellow, a9GaOc.
Coffee--Optlons opened irregular with
nrst cali bids showing 10 points adj
vance on September and others 8 lower
10 o higher. Ruled active and strong
on covering, following strong Havre
cables, causing general advance Of 10
l,i0 points. chiefly on near months,
eased under realizing. closing barely
steady at $500 points net advance.
Sales. 10000 bags, Including November,
sl4. OOMl4. O5; December. yls.l5ni3.s0;
january, si2 65Wi2 50; March. si2 05fp
i2.i5 April. sil.Soqll,S5; May, sil.7Odp
spot ooffee-RIo Arm; No. Z. 10 i-2o;
milo. steady; Cordoya, IS 1-tnlgc; sales.
1000 bags. Santos. Nos. and 0, 10 l-2c
and #; $50 bags, Santos. spot, II a-Sc;
recently 5000 mats inferior Pahang spot,
~ 8-1I23 l-2c. and p tons Plaenburg. 20
arrive. prl-ete terms; by auction. 600
bags, lava. 10 i-sa20c; Santos. firm;
good average Santos. no quotations,
receipts. 81 900 bags: stock not given.
Hamburg steady; prices. l-4sI2-l pfen-
mig advance: sales. 1900 bags,
Havre opened steady at i-2di IL
franc advance; at u M. steady, un-
changed: al 8 .. m. steady. i-4I3-i
frame advance; closed steady at s-4q2
francs net advance. Total sales. $4,000
bags
RIO frrn; No. Z. 11.70oi exchange, II IL
Ied: receipts. 5000 bags. Cleared for
Tie United states, 1000 bags; cleared
Tor Europe. 1000 bags; stock. 5000
bags, cleared from Rio. November 10,
22 900 bags.
Warehouse deliveries from New York
yesterday, 1850 bags: New York stock
today. 1884 begs; United States
stock. 23s. 7a0.bags. anoat FOR the United
states. 2c0. Oe0 bags: total visible for the
United States, $3.50 bags. against 49,
1877 bags last year.
sugar-Raw. QUIET; refined, steady.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-15

up: cash and November Is Csc; De-
comber 46 i-sci May a l-ec-
Oats-Wcrc strong, advanced 1-2at
b-Sc, No cash 30 l-io: November and
December 20 use; May 81 s-ld3e 7-Sc.
Rye--No, east side offered on call
at Sic.
Barley--Strong, higher; sales Mime.
sofa fancy bgo; other sales b9iCh9c.
Bran-Flrm; oi@Gi i-ac sacked east
track
Flaxseed-Flrm; Si.A2
Timothy socd-N NQ5.25.
Clover Scnd-SI 1904
lIay-Primc to choice timothy S0,0G1b
900
Buttcr-Qulet at recent advance.
Eggs STEADY. iG i-2c.
Cornmeal SO S012.aj.
~ Nfatt, 81 %
Cotton Tioa-Gsc.
I'aggnE- Unchanged,
Provisions lcagicr
pork--Standard mefs johhlng Si26o
9rd-lrimc steam 50 90. choice
Dry Salt Mcats-Loose shoulders
1850; longs S6.37 1906 5O ribs S6.bON
6.G2 L.; shorts Sc Isl i-2fIT 90,
BNcon---pnclSc shoulders 50 "a, longs
1917 l-9i ribs s7.37 i-297.5os shorts
q 1907 IL.
Receipts-Flour 5000; wheat 1900;
corn % 600; oats 1900
shipments Flour d0O0: whont 1909:
corn 1000: oats 1000