Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-02-21
The Dark Secret.

| visited at the Dark Secret, one fine
winter day
The sun glistened on the oil derricks in
bright array.
The wat Eph can cook, it beats the band
/ ate so much ! could hardly stand.
Watson, Thompson and Eph will tell
their wives some day with pride,
How once in the Dark Secret they did
abide.
They always gave their visitors a fair
deal
For they made it point TO give them a
square meal
A pumper's life il jolly one.
From the rising until the setting of the
sun.
Away from the city with all IFS snares,
out in the country where they SOW the
wheat and not the tares.
They took me around to see the engines
that pump up the oil:
When the engines started with lightning
like speed it made me recoil.
Bnt those hardy boys seem to have no
For they see them go every day in the
year.
There is a fascination in the life a
pumper leads,
With plenty Of money to meet his needs.
When on night turn he can commune
with the stars;
Study Saturn, Jupiter and Mars.
/ shall not soon forget my visit there.
When around their sumptuous board !
fully done my share.
They We'd with each other TO make me
feel at ease,
And done their very best to please.
There is an old saying that pierces like
"a dart,
That is the best Of friends must part =
So / resolutely tore myself away
Thinking had never passed happier
day.
There is one thing cannot pass by,
Eph gave us grape nuts for dessert, in
stead OF pie,
It was fine, good and sweet.
! tell you as cook, Eph can't be beat
] hope the boys will visit me and that
right away,
| win give them the best in the house
without delay;
! will do my best to make them feel ut
ease,
And try as they did my best to please.
| must not forget sammy the beagle
hound;
He sprang from race, Of great renoun.
That day he took notion 10 roam.
He followed me nearly half way home
Boys may your shadows never grow less
May you always have plenty and ready
TO help any one in distress
And in the evening Of life when your
work is done.
May you have happy entrance into the
Kingdom Come.
/ must now end my yarn;
] know you will say ii is not worth a
darn.
But / enjoyed my visit. it was treat
So ends my tale Of the Dark Seer etc.
Slippery Rock.
The Trax farm il situated in Slippery
Rock twp. instead Of Brady twp where
this oil well was struck and il the
same farm that Charles Coventry
owned, and sold TO William Trax, a
nail cutter from New Castle Pa. in the
early seventies. As it il the fret oil
well in our twp. we want our own
claim.
The Paul Kiester farm was sold at
! Orphans court sale on the premises,
Feb. 2, by J. { Kerr, Of Slippery Rock,
and Oscar ID Kiester WAS the lucky
one. Glad Of it Oscar we all know a
good neighbor when we see him.
Work has begun on the Maria Shep-
herd farm which lies north Of the TTax
| farm in slippery Rock twp, on a lease
/ owned by a company from Slippery
! Rock
] Joe Daughertv, of Etna Mills, who is
| teaching school in Middlesex twp,
came home on visit TO his mother,
I Friday Feb s. He is looking well and
! getting along first class. Joe is model
Z young man.
Messers Watson and Pond, Of Mt.
Chestnut, and Cheseman, of Porters-
Vile, this county. have purchased the
old Hickory Mill from John Il Kiester,
az Kicster, Pa.
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