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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17

sixty-nine feet the we'll began to flow
and the pumps thereafter yielded their
oleaginous treasure at the rate of 1000
gallons a day until the old Drake well
went dry. after giving up through its
crude appliances 1000 barrels of oil,
worth in the neighborhoOd of So bar.
rel. Nowadays the drill seeks and finds
petroleum hundreds and hundreds of
feet beneath the surface of the earth.
With his imperfect tools 1t Is doubtful
If Drake could have reached such
depths as are now considered usual in
the Pennsylvania region. He himself
always clasped to his heart an abiding
belief that the hand of Providence had
led him to the precise spot which he
selected as the one upon which to pros
ecute his derided enterprise.
Drake was New Yorker, born in
Greenville, Green County in 1919, and
he was 40 years old when as the Co.
lumbus of the petroleum industry he
made his great discovery. Within the
forty years which have followed the
trade in petroleum has attained proper
tons of which not even the sanguine
fancy of this pioneer dared to dream.
The fortune-a modest one-he reaped
from his success was swept from him
in his age by the dishonesty and rapa-
city of kener-minded men, and he died,
as has ben said already, a victim of i'll
health and poverty. Indeed, his very
name is now almost forgotten, except
in that region his sagacious mind en-.
riched, but none the less is 1t true that
upon the foundation of his foresight
and earnestness Of purpose has been
erected that extraordinary fortune
which promises to become the wonder
of our times.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17
0yER STseJE5

The most wonderful astronomical
photograph in the world is that which
has recently been prepared by London,
Berlin and Partisan astronomers. 1t
shows at least sixty weight million stars.
When a Philippine woman of better
class gets married, she sometimes
wears as her wedding dress a costume
of native manufacture that reaches in
value up into four figures. 1t takes
months to make a handkerchief or a
sleeve, so microscopic and delicate is
the fabric.
Travellers In Australia complain that
almost the only trees in the continent
are eucalyptus. and they afford little
shade, as they have learned to turn
their leaves edgewise to the sun. The
botanical gardens in the cities are
however, declared to be dreams Of
beauty.
Recent investigations have shown
that the principal source of the Gulf
stream Is not the Florida channel, but
the region between and beside the ISL
ands OF the West Indies. At Binioni the
volume of this warm water is sixty
times as great as the combined volume
of all the rivers in the world at their
mouths.
OF the 19,41O,554 cotton splndles in
the country, Massachusetts has 1901
1888. Rhode Island follows with 1882
$50, while New England as a whole has
3,431, 951. OF cotton looms the State
has 1928; wool cards, 1893 sets;
worsted combs 412, wooden looms.
2O,51S, and silk looms S43. 1t will be
seen that Massachusetts has over 40
per cent of the entire cotton spindle
age of the country. 1t has % per cent
of all the wool cards, and shows an In
crease of sixty-One sets within two
years. OF the 1873 worsted combs In
the country, Massachusetts has 412, or
about 33 per cent, while New Englar
has nearly go per cent. of the tot
The number of silk looms in Massachu
sets has increased about two hundred
within the last two years, but the In.
crease in the number of looms which
are working on cotton and silk or WOO
and silk must be much larger.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17

natural accretion would, it appears, ac-
complish such a result, for no longer
does he reckon his annual income by
millions, but by tens of millions, and
so vast are his holdings that it is doubt
full if he could himself compute with
in $5O,000,000 of his actual possessions
And yet the man to whose patient sa'
gacity, unresting energies and perfect
faith in himself and nature this ire
mendous massing Of capital was due
the man whose genius was the corner.
stone upon which rose the imperial
fabric of Standard Oil and its asso-
ciated tenets-that man died obscurely,
in poverty, stricken with palsy and rent
by broken heart. This was Edward
L. Drake, who after years of struggle,
of discouragement in his endeavor to
interest capital in his theories of sub
terranean reservoirs of oil in the rug.
ged creek country of northwestern
Pennsylvania, at last trimphed over
doubts, indifference and sneers and
forty years ago sunk upon an island in
Oil creek, a mile below the present city
of Titusville, the first producing oil
well, the pioneer in an industry now
encircling the globe.
The drawing illustrating the appear.
ance of this quaint derrick and engine
house is a reproduction from a photo
graph taken upon the spot in 1862
when already 1.-The Drake welr' was
Fastening to decay. The bearded and
beaver-hatted figure in the foreground
is that of Colonel Drake himself.
1t has been deemed remarkable that
this first producing well should have
'struck OIL at less depth than 1t has
since been found by any other well OF
whose drilling there is a record. Al
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17
Donald Got If

In a small. village on the west coast
of Scotland there was a natural called
Donald, who did odd jobs. especially
about the hotel One afternoon three
gentlemen were standing in front Of
the hotel, and along with them a small
terrier, when Donald happened to pass.
Wishing to have joke at his expense.
one Of them. taking out a half crown,
said:
eff you get this you may keep It,"
Then, calling to the dog to fetch" he
flung it away. The dog got 1t first; but
Donald, not to be done out of his half
crown, picked up a stone, and calling
the dogs attention flung 1t a piece
away. The dog Immediately dropped
the half-crown and tore after the stone,
when Donald quietly lifted and pocket
ed the coin.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17

An editorial commentator In London,
fn reviewing the recent Vanderbilt
Fair wedding in New York, puts forth
the following reflections: THE we'd
ding presents are said to be worth
f400,00 and the description of them
reads, as one lady irreverently said,
like chapter in Revelation, all big
pearls and gold. The incident would
not be worth mention but for three
facts of some social Importance. One
is that the plutocracy in America ex-
cites at least as much attention as the
arstocracy in Europe; another is that
plutocracy thinks it advisable to adver-
tlse It's splendor; and the third is that
che democracy, instead of envying this
wealth. evidently enjoys the profusion
Ct produces as a sort of highly colored
picture that breaks the deadly monot-
Ony of the scene around. The wedding
IS a masque with continent for spec
Gators"
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17

The spider has n tremendous appe-
tite and his gormandizing defies all hui
man competition. A scientist who
carefully noted a spiders consumption
of food in twenty-four hours concluded
that if the spider were built proportion
ately to the human scale he would eat
at daybreak approximately a small
alligator. by z a. IN. lamb, by 8
a. m. young camelopard, by o'clock
sheep. and would finish up with a
lark pie In which there were 120 birds.
Yet in spite of his enormous appetite
a spider has wonderful power Of re-
framing from food, and one has been
known to live ten months when abso-
lutely deprived of food. A beetle lived
in a similar state Of unrefreshment for
three years.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17

Some Of our foremost educators are
en- favor of saving time by shortening
the spelling of certain words. The idea
Is not new. and many newspapers have
Tong been accustomed to shorten such
words as programme" into program"
and prologue" into "prolog" Recent
ly Superintendent Andrews has recon-
mended to teachers in the public
schools of Chicago the following list of
words for amended spelling: Program
programme. tho (thOugh). thoro (thor-
ough). .thOrofare Thoroughbred, thru
Through. turnout (throughouD. cata-
log (catalogue), prolog (prologue), deca-
log (decalogue), demagog (demagogue)
pedagog (pedagogue). OF course this
list is simply a starter In the pathway
of reform. Just where the matter will
end it is difficult to say. John Billings
was pioneer in this line of endeavor,
and his 'fOnetic" spelling, which used
cause great amusement, and which
was the foundation of his fame as a
humorist, may become the scientific
method of the future. Billings tried to
prove that he could be funny without
"fOnetics," and wrote a lot of humor-
GUS paragraphs for the old Scribner's
Magazine, entitled Uncle Eseck's Wis
DOME" but they failed to make hit,
and Billings experiment was a failure.
No doubt the present spelling of many
words is cumbersome. but reformers
will find their task little short of the
impossible.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

comparative stranger, should claim
more than the friendship accorded him.
He would undoubtedly have gone
back TO business with his love untold
had he not Unexpectedly come upon
Belle In the little vine-covered summer
house one morning with a woe-begone
expression and traces of tears upon her
fair face. She hastily explained that
she had been INDUCING in a fit of lone
illness at the thought of her brothers
return, but the look and blush which
accompanied her words gave him new
couarge, and, taking both her hands
in his, he asked:
MAY l hope, Belle, that you will
miss me little, too, when l am gone?
Forgive me for speaking so soon, but
you have become dear to me, and l am
like me. Tell me, darling, that you can,
in time, care for me, and 1 Will try to
be worthy of your dear love-"
Whatever her answer may have been,
suffice it to say that when they emery
ed from their secluded nook an hour
later their faces bore evidences of their
new-found happiness.
by the way, Belle, I have not yet
met your friend, Matilda Brindle. Does
she not live in Customer
Belle stopped short in her walk and
looked at him. Then you are"
Charles Burton Smith, at your SER
vice." And he made a profound bow
just In time to receive a sound box on
the ear, administered by the little beau
ty beside him. Then she fed precipi-
lately.
Soon after their return to the city
Paul went to Burton's room, and see
ing one of Bellies latest pictures in a
costly frame, he slyly remarked:
"Eh, old fellow, changed your mind? p
30, well, you know, she is not my
sister" But the look which he gave
the sweet face spoke volumes.-Boston
Post
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17

The malaria microbe, as we'll as many
other disease germs, is an animal, en-
lowed with probably all the attributes
of higher brute life. To Nature mere
size is nothing. A microbe therefore
may be. for all we poor clumsy beings
may know, a more perfect being than
we ourselves are. Now the question is,
should not the Society for the Proven
tion of Cruelty to Animals, the anti
vivisectionists, etc, pounce on the men
who are using these poor little microbes
so roughly? We are all microbes.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17
Frances Match Monopoly.

The manufacture of matches is a very
strict state monopoly in France, and a
fine of franc per match is ruthlessly
imposed on all contraband imports of
the kind from abroad. Forgetfulness
of this lately cost an English traveller
the sum of 500 at the port of Bou-
logne, where he had to pay fine of 500
francs on box of wax lights, value 8
cents, which the custom house officers
found among his luggage.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17

ily practically live in what might be
called a Hat. The White House is IA
two-story building. and for strictly
family purposes only about two-thirds
of the second story can be used. Near
ly all of the first floor is devoted to half
public service. It's eastern third forms
the famous East Room, which is open
daily to the public. The Red Room.
the Blue Room and the Green Room
nominally belong to the Presidents
family, but are in reality Of little use
to them. On the walls of these parlors
hang famous paintings, some of which
have been presented by popular organi-
cations, like the painting of Mrs. Hayes,
given by the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union. The people, in visiting
the White House, assume the right to
see these paintings, and the privilege,
under certain restrictions Is usually
granted. In the Blue Room the Presi-
dent receives foreign ministers and
other distinguished visitors of state.
This destroys the privacy of the par
lors for family use. There is really
but one private room on this door-the
family dining-room, to which strangers
are rarely admitted. One-third of the
second floor is used for Offices There
is the Cabinet Room, the War Room,
with its corps of telegraphers, offices
for the President, his secretary, and
the half-dozen clerks who attend the
correspondence. The remaining two
thirds Of the floor are the apartments of
the President and his family. They are
relatively small and inconvenient. The
kitchen, laundry and other workrooms
are in the capacious basement.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17

The changes OF a century have made
the White House poorly adapted to the
requirements of a Presidential man
sion. The associations connected with
the historic edifice have caused hesita-
ton in making a decision to enlarge or
remodel 1t. 1t stands as the embodi-
ment of simplicity that characterized
the spirit and conduct of the govern
ment of our great republic In its ear
Hest days. The President and his tam
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17

t IL is somewhat surprising lHdL III InlS
age of improvement nobody has made
an attempt to reform the American
joker-the man who does scraps for the
comic weeklies and for the funny de-
partments of the dailies, and who. for
the time, is the chief exponent of the
humor of the nation, says a writer in
the Saturday Evening Post. That this
joker Is exceedingly effective as a
mirth-provoker one has but to watch
the merry reader to understand; but.
after all, is there not more to joke
than a mere laugh? Is not the effect
of a joke upon the serious tendencies
of the public a matter for thoughtful
consideration? Should not the joker be
governed by a sense of moral RESPONSE
bility? The subjects of the American
humorist are few and are mostly kept
in stock. 1t is scarcely necessary to
mention them seriatim. as they have
already been mentioned a large num-
Der of thousands of times. With the
tramp joke one cannot quarrel serious
ly, although perhaps it is not calculated
to discourage vagrancy or to fortify the
general sense of financial responsible
ty. The mother-in-law joke is showing
signs of decrepitude, after a vitality of
fifteen or twenty years, and may be dis
missed with the grateful reflection that
it has never been worse than an exhi-
bition of eXecrable taste. The joke of
the delayed lover and the toe of the
fathers boot Is no doubt useful in its
sphere of influence, and may be per-
mitted without cavil to delight, for
generations to come, those whom 1t is
capable of delighting. There are, how
ever, at least two of the stock subjects
of the American humorist which should
have been confiscated long ago, name
ly: liquor intoxication and the insecu-
rity of the marriage tie. Few funny
publications are considered complete
which do not picture a man reeling
home from the club with a maudlin
excuse to his waiting wife, or a welded
pair commenting fiippantly upon the
passing of love or the felicity and ia.
cility of divorce. The youngster who
is inclined to blame himself severely
for his first step in dissipation turns
to the humorist, and is informed thai
what he has done Is not a sin. but a
joke; why should he worry over some
thing about which the world is laugh
ing? The young couple having theil
first tiffs are grievously worried unit
they chance upon the sarcastic philoso
ply of the funny man; then they laugh
bitterly at each other. and ask why 81
absurd a thing as love should be takeI
seriously. Their efforts at self-contro
and self-abnegation diminish; it is use
less. they conclude. for them to strug
gle to maintain an ideal Relationship
In a society which finds opportunity fol
mirth in proceedings for divorce. Ii
such subjects as these there can be NJ
real humor. and the man who tries t,
joke about them is guilty of a mora
lese- majestic which should not go un
DuniShed
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17

A PIANIST says that he read Kipling's
palm before he became famous, and
that he knew. throughout the poets
illness last winter. that he would get
well. If he had seen fit to announce
the fact it might have relieved a very
widespread anxiety.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17

new telescope now being built for
che Paris exposition is warranted to
bring the moon within forty-one miles
of us. At too short range there may be
some danger that we are all become
tunaticS
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17
Siberian HoraehaIr.

Vast quantities of horsehair, which
is chiefly used for upholstering furni-
ture, comes to this country from ST.
IBERIA 1t is taken from the names and
tails Of horses ridden by Cossacks.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17

The rule against the wearing Of hats
ln place of public amusement has
now become sufficiently matter of
course that the woman who keeps on
"a hat-especially a hat of the present
season-throughout a concert or play
stamps herself as lacking in breeding.