The age-herald., 1901-12-01


 crowd. Strangers in the gallery were wont to point him out as the chaplain of the Senate; but his political enemies insist that he has none of the virtues one expects to find among the cloth. His appearance Is responsible for this mis- take. He goes cleanly shaven, his face is grave and marked with intellectually, and he carries himself with dignity. "A boss he is and a boss he looks one of his successors as page in the Senate once enthusiastically exclaimed, whicn istate- ment was intended as a. tribute and was we.- deserved coming from that source; for not one of the Senators is more con siderate of the little Senate than he who was formerly a member of it."
 @> ORMER Governor Hogg of Tex 1T as, is in New York telling N2 for investments and the public generally about the Texas oil strikes.
 Hogg was a success in politics, and, judging from his manner of public talk in New York, he is successfully chasing the great American dollar.
 A little party of men who have dollars and are looking for hooks and corners in which to place them where they will produce others in the natural course of events listened to him in New York the other day, and this is the way he pro- duced words and sentences.
 "rll tell you how it was.' he said. After my family went away from my farm near Austin, and the children were off to the boarding school, why, I tried !, to stick it out there by myself. But want to tell you right here that I didn't have the gumption to stay there more than two oeor three nights I'm no beliey- CT in spooks or hebgoblins-not' on your tintype; but I can't stand for a how'll ing dog or any other animal a-crying when its feelings are hurt.
 You see I had a couple of dogs that were dead devoted to my girl, the one that is in a boarding school here in this town. Well, she couldn't bring those CUTS on here. The boarding school teach CT wouldn't stand for that kind of stunt so I said I'd give 'em their bones at home Well, the first night after my daughter went away the dogs howled so that the house was as bad as haunted. Nothing that could, do would hush 'em up. The second night the howls had grown to shrieks. Ana so I got my duds out and emigrated I.ere."-
 ''We hear up in this part of the country that you have made 100000 or $3, 900 out of your oil wells" sail a member of the rartv ssTs that roeaihJa2
 MT. Hogg calmly surveyed the speaker as if the latter was a pretty matter of fact kind of man, and then he said:
 ...Weil. now, I'll let you figure it out yourself. There is one of our wells which can fill fifty-eight trains of twenty cars each in day. And that is only one of half a dozen. I cont want to tell you about the amount of money that can be made in oil down there, because you would say that I was giving you a | fill"
 But am very much interested in your country said member of the group
 Well, then, here are a few facts" re- piled the Texan, and he wiped from his smooth face several huge drops of per spiration which the subject of oil had started from 1t.
 "Spindletop," he continue. where the big gushers are, and which is near Beau mont, is the greatest phenomenon that was ever discovered in the world, far exceeding the wealth of a dozen Klon- dikes and several dozen Cripple Creeks | For instance, we have eighty-five gush- CTS down there. By we. mean the people of Beaumont. None of these wells will produce less than 4OOo0 barrels each a day. Many of them will spurt 10000, and some shoot out of the ground 2O0,- | 000 barrels day. Now, your mind Is knocked out by such figures, the same | as contemplation of the distances be- tween the stars of the Milky Way On an average the wells down there give a daily output of 5,95O,O 900 barrels, or yearly supply of over 10000 OO,OvO barrels At 20 cents a barrel, this would make an annual yield of over s4,Ooo 100000 or more than double all the money in the United | States and England"
 The Texan oilborer stopped for a mo- ment to take breath, when he perceived | that the man who said he was so inter | ested in the oil trade was shaking his head.
 That's the way of you Northern fel- lows" said the ex-Governor quickly. You can't believe 1t till you see it. You are all like Thomas of old, But want to say this: The time is coming when oil will be used instead of coal for the generating of power. the propulsion of railroad trains and steamships. and for heating purposes, oil is superior. and 1t can be squirted into tank right here in this city at cents barrel Three and a half barrels are equal in heat producing power to one ton of your best coal. Down our way we're using 1t for almost every purpose It makes cook ing a cinch. You can cook Thanks giving dinner with 1t for two cent post age stamp."