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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25
GREATEST OIL SPOUTER.
Pours Out 10,OOO,OOO Gallons of Pc
trOIeum Before 1t Outlets Down.

From the New York Sun.
The Russians assert that they struck
the biggest oil spouter in the Baku pc
troleum fields last fall that was ever
tapped. They sank a new we'll in the
Bible district about three miles
southwest of Baku and reached a
depth of 1900 feet before they struck
oil. Then it went to spouting and is
said to have been the largest producer
for the first two or three days that was
ever struck. 1t is accredited with $780,
900 barrels a day for nearly three days,
and then the flow diminished a little;
but it continued flowing until it had
produced over 2.0000 600 barrels. This
happened in November last.
Before the we'll stopped flowing an
other big one was struck in the Ro-
mani district about ten miles northeast
of Baku. This spouter produced near
ly l 600 900 barrels and was still flow
ing at the rate of about $4,000 barrels
a day on Jan. 81 last. These were the
two great spouters of the Russian oil
fields last year.
Remarkable as it may appear. it is
said that the owners of the big well
which produced more than 1000 900
barrels IN NLIie over thirty Gays lOSI
money by this extraordinary outpour-
ing This would seem impossible with
out explanation, but the sad reason for
it is clearly set forth in Consul Chamb-
ers' report that has just been published
in Washington.
In the first place the we'll could not
be controlled High winds were blow
ing nearly all the time and every
house near the well as we'll as all the
buildings in the village, more than a
mile away, was deluged. 1t is said that
the owners of the well must pay for
repainting all the houses in the village.
The owners had to pay the govern
ment a royalty of two and half cents
for every five gallons of oil and they
could not sell the oil they saved at a
profit of more than about a quarter OF
a cent per five gallons above the roy
atty and their expenses. II is said that
this meaEre profit did not even pay the
heavy damages that had to be disburs-
ed TO the aggrieved property owners.
This Is not the first time that the viii
lage mentioned has been damaged by
a flowing well. Some years ago a well
In the same district sent a spray Of oil
10 this village and the owner of the
well had 10 pay damages amounting TO
$50 600. as he was compelled 10 repaint
the entire village. including fine Rus
sian church
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25

Mr.. B. L. Tullis returned yesterday
morning from Oliver where he went
to attend the funeral of his mother.
Mrs. Martha P. Tullis. She died near
Guyton Thursday and was buried in
the family burial ground Friday.
Mrs. Tullis was p years old and had
been i'll only three weeks. She suf-
fered a stroke of paralysis while at the
home Of her daughter. Mrs. w. G.
Haupt. near Guyton. Mrs Tullis was
well known in Savannah and left
eleven children. most of whom reside
In Chatham and Efingham counties.
The funeral services were conducted
by Rev. Cotton. pastor OF the Ogeechee
Baptist Church. of which Mrs. Tullis
was a devout member.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25
INTERNATIONAL POWERS STATUS.
Showing of Its Condition Made by
Expert Accountant.


Expert Accountant.
New York, May PA report on the
affairs of the International Power Com
pany was issued to-day by a firm of
public accountants of this city. The
examination dates from the time of the
c9mpany's organization, Jan. 10. 1899,
to April &c. last. and is supplemented
by a general balance sheet and income
and profit and loss accounts. The
earnings are reported for the period
since organization and not by the year
All the $500, 900 preferred stock and &c.
400 900 of $7,400,000 authorized
common stock are outstand-
ing with 1880 shares of the common
in the company's treasury. There is a
bonded debt of 100000 in first mort
gage As. The accountant has made an
exhaustive report of the companys
real estate. investments and equip
ments, and closes with tables of assets
and liabilities of 1929, $40 each.
After deducting present obligations
from the income there was a surplus
of $245. 467. Deducting $4,000 dividends
on preferred stock leaves a net balance
of S209 467
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25

Instructs Miners TO Pay no Attention
to West Virginia Agents.

Wilkesbarre, Pa. May 24.-Peace ru-
mors are again in the air. Around
strike headquarters to-day President
Mitchell was busy with personal af-
fairs and his movements did not give
the slightest indication that he was
considering any proposition from the
other side or that he was looking for
anything that could lead to a settle
ment of the strike.
President Mitchell before leaving for
the West, issued the following state
ment
The clergy are requested to an
nounce from their churches tomorrow
that mine workers should pay
no attention to agents now
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25

Lumpkin. Ga, May 24.-Dr. G.. B.
Battle of this place died at the home
of his mother in Columbus. Ga, Nav
%. He was buried near Omaha. this
county. on the 23d. DR.. Battle was one
of the most prominent physicians. and
up to six months ago, did a lucrative
practice in this town and surrounding
county. He leaves a family of five
children and a widow to mourn his
death. Mrs. Battle was formerly Miss
Minnie Fitzgerald of this county.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25
COLONIAL DANES ADJOURN.

Delegation Took Part In ROcham-
beau Exercises.
Washington, May 24.-The National
Society of the Colonial DANES of
America held it's closing session here
to-day at which unimportant business
was transacted, and adjourned to meet
in this city in April, 1904. An inter
esting feature of the closing day was
the presence of a delegation from the
society at the Rochambeau statue GER
emonies and the presentation of a
floral wreath from the organization.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25

Mr.. W. r. Barry formerly OF this
city. and for some time a resident or
Brooklyn. y. T.. died In that city at
his home on Pacific street Wednesday
Mr. Barry was well known IN Savan-
nah as agent for the Savannah river
line steamers. and on the inland route
10 Florida. Air Barry leaves widow
formerly Miss Ella q. Ives. and four
children, Two boys and two girls.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25

pie who had been cured by Peruna, and
determined to try a bottle. 1 felt but
little better, but used a second and
third bottle and kept on improving
slowly.
1T took six bottles to cure me, but
they were worth a kings ransom to
me. 1 talk Peruna to all my friends
and am a true believer in its WORTH
MRS. COL. E. J. GRESHAM.
Write for a book entitled Health
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25
DE-. PaImer,s Condition Is scrions.

New Orleans. May 24.-The condition
Of Dr. Z. NJ Palmer. the famous Pres
byterlan minister who was severely
injured by a trolly car a few weeks
ago. IS again regarded as serious.
prcstolic and kidney complications re-
curing. The age n the patient has
been serious factor IN the case all
along
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25
SENT FREE
TO MEN

Free Trial Package OF This New Dis
oovery mailed to Every Man Sending
Name and Address-Ouickly Restores
Strength and Vigor.
Free trial packages Of q most remarka-
bic remedy are being mailed to all who
will write the State Medical Institute.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25

here from West Virginia or other
fields as they come from unor-
ganized places where strikes now ex-
list. Consult the district officers before
entering into negotiations with them"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25
CLAGHORN OUT ON BAIL.
Released From Custody on $4,000
Bond.

Mr.. Il. c. Claghorn, who shot the ne
gro janitor. Jabez Mann. at the Guards
Arrnory Thursday night, furnished bail
Tor his appearance when called upon
night before last, and was released
from custody. The bond was signed by
his father and is for $4,000. 1t was ap-
proved by the solicitor general and
passed on by Judge Barrow.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25

Philadelphia. May zA-.The dual meet
between Cornell and Pennsylvania on
Franklin neid to-day waf won by the
itilaeanH ~ The score u " 70 % points.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25

Coronation Celebrations in the
s.-Squire-''Seems TO me that.
for the riverside. 1t would be capital TO
get a good supply a fiamheaux." Far
mer Nobs--"As a loyal subject. Squire.
I object / don't see the necessity o.
haVin' foreign birds. If we want EN-
at all. let 'em be British says IT.
Punch.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25

and Beauty" written especially for wo-
men by DR.. Hartman. Sent free. Ad-
dress DR.. Hartman, Columbus. o.
II you do not derive prompt and sat-
isfactory results from the use of Pc
runa, write at once to DR.. Hartman,
giving a full statement of your case
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus O.
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
WHERE MARRIAGE Is A LOTTERY.

The Chinese Girl Knows Nothing Of Her Hus-
band Until She is Actually Welded to Him.
Marriage is truly a lottery to the
Chinese girl, for she knows not what
she is getting until che is actually
married" " writes Sui Sin Far, in The
Ladies' Home Journal for January.
Sometimes it is a kind, good hus-
band, an amiable mother in law, and
much comfort; sometimes it is a
tyrant, a mo- 1her-in law who is etern
ally scolding, and a life that is a
weaTiness to both flesh and spirit.
The ceremonies of betrothal and
marriage cause much trouble and
anxiety. The young mans family
begin the negotiations. They engage
a GO between to o4l on the girls
f mily and tender a proposal of mar
riage If the young man is cOnsid
cred eligible by the girls parents
they consult fOrtune-teller, who
decides whether the betrothal would
D6 DIOD6I. IL LIS ISSAS4OA Is Ia OI
able the go between is given card
on which is marked the hour, day,
month and year when the girl was
born. This is delivered 80 the young
mans family, who in their turn con-
suit fortune teller. If he also pro-
nounces favorably festival is held
by both families, the betrothal con
tract is signed, and the bridegroom
makes a present to the bride of a
pair of bracelets, but neither he nor
she is present The betrothal, how.
ever, is not considered binding until
a pasteboard card has been inter
changed by the families. The bride
groom's family provide two of these
cards, one having a gilt dragon on
it's face, the other a gilt phoeaix
The phoenix card is retained by the
young mans family as evidence of
his engagement, while the dragon
card is kept by the girls family. The
betrothal is then complete"
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07

large variety Of chickens all nv own
and my living expenses paid for the
year.
I contemplate enlarging my sphere
of operations, and am inclined to add
TO my enterprise the raising of Pekin
ducks, Toulouse geese, and Bronze
turkeys, although some of nv
friends are trying to dissuade me-
from so doing on account of the in.
creased cost.
Girls, do as 1 have done strike
out for yourselves decide upon soma
line of business that will make Won
independent and don't, for goodness
sake, always be a burden upon
some one else. Mind don't say. On
into the chicken business as I have
done, but go into something whereby
you can maintain your indepeud.
ence, and not be a burden upon
those who are supposed to furnish
you at least a comfortable living
Stand straight up and be independ.
ent. MRS. LOUIE E. FLETCHER.
Polk Co., Iowa.
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07

DON s let them feel that we think it
is not quite good enough. We can
cultivate a thankful and pleasant
disposition and make those around
us feel happy as a result. On the
other hand, we can find fault with
everything and grumble and growl
until each member of the family be-
comes so disgusted with Us as not to
care to do anything to please Us,
knowing ahe effort to be useless.
Make an honest living. Be con-
tented with it. Be cheerful. Be
happy yourself, and that will make
those around you happy.
Put the bright side out all the
time. If you feel blue at times, as
most of as do, take it all to your
self and the good Lord and ask Him
who is able to deliver you and re-
store you once more to happiness.
We can be happy or we can be
miserable, just as we choose.
Duplin Co., N. G. NELLIE.
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
THE SECRET OF A HAPPY HOME.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE The short
crops this year are making
nearly everybody feel blue, but
really we ought to be more thankful
for the little we have it might have
been great deal worse. Maybe
we have not been thankful enough
for what we have had heretofore
know people who are nearly all
the time grumbling because they
have not everything they need and
a greas many things that they don {
need. Why can't we be contented
with what we have, and feel thank
full for it? I believe that this dis
position has as much TO do with max
ing home happy as anything else.
Don't always be wishing for so
many things that you have not and
grum bling because you do not get
them.
Surely there cannot be happiness
in hope without love and if there
has ever been any love there, why
not keep it there?
We can cultivate it every day if
we will. Be thankful for each and
everything done for up, let it be
by whom it may. Be content with
our lot, let it be what it may-that
is, if we feel that we have done our
own duty in every respect. Be
pleased with what others do for us ;
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
Our Social Chat.
EDITED BY AUNT JENNIE, RALEIGH, y. @. =

AS CONTRIBUTORS to thus department OF
The Progressive Farmer, we have some OF Lne
most Wide-awake and progressive young LADIES
and young men and some of the most entertain
ing writers among the older people OF this ana
other States, the ages OF the members ranging
from sixteen to more thOn sixty.
YOU ARE REQUESTED to join by send1ng
and writing thereafter as often as possible.
WHEN WRITING, give full name and post
office address for Aunt Jenn1e's 1nformauon.
If vou do not wish your real name to appear
in print, give name by which you wish 10 DC
known as q Chatterer.
elapse between the time letter Is written anu
the date of its publication.
ADDRESS all letters to Aunt Jennie, care Oh
The Progressive Farmer. Raleigh, N. @.
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
SHE WAS NOT WORRYING.

An English clergyman on0e
preached a sermon on the eternal
fate of the wicked. Meeting soon
after an old woman we'll known Tor
her gossiping propensities, he said;
"I hope my sermon has borne
fruit. You heard what said about
the place where there shall be wall
ing and gnashing of teeth?"
"Well, as to that" answered the
dame, sif l 'as anything to say, Is
be this: let them gnash their teeth
as has 'em-I amt
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
WHAT SHALL I LET GO WITH THE OLn
YEAR!


One of the secrets of right living
is letting that go which absorbs our
energies and retards our progress,
We should let our unfortunate past
experience drop into the world Of
oblivion. We should never recall
disagreeable memory or mistake
unless it be to arm ourselves against
falling into further errors. IF the
past torments and haunts you, cut
it off sharply as if with knife. Do
not allow it's shadow to darken your
present, or rob your future of Its
possibilities. Profit by the lessons
it has taught, but do not morbidly
brood over them.
Why should you suffer your mind
to be clouded with tear or anxiety?
Why let doubt or worry destroy all
your happiness? Why allow them,
like ghosts, to glide through your
mind unbidden, day after day, year
after year, when you have the power
to expel them, to expunge them as
if they had never existed? In fact,
they do not exist. They are not re-
alities they are but the delusions
of an unhealthy Imagination. Only
the good is true only that which ig
healthy and helpful exists in ulti
mate reality.
Those things which mock our sue.
cess, which fill our lives with ter
ror, pain and modification, which
chill our blood with fear, and crush
our happiness, have no tangible ex-
istence. Analyze the causes of your
unhappiness for single day, and
you will find that they we're anxiety,
doubt, fear that something might
happen, expectation of disaster that
never came. These are not realities,
but are merely the ghosts conjured
up by a morbid mental condition. If
we hold ourselves receptive to the
influences of the all creative mind
which guides the universe, if we
open our minds to the eternal verify
that all things are ordained for good,
and that evil has no place in tho
universal plan, we can learn to
rise above our paralyztng fears and
doubts, as a child rises into the con-
seriousness of the unreality of ghosts
which once seemed 80 real to him.
New Year resolutions have been
easily made and easily broken ever
since the dawn Of civilization.
Every new year seems brighter and
more hopeful than the last, and we
are ever ready to give our lives
new trial and shake off bad habits
The trouble lies in not being able to
keep the new, good resolutions which
we make. We need TO be more per
sistent in doing right, living right,
and working right,-O. s, Marden,
in January "Sucoess.
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
The Home Circle.
HOHENLINDEN.#

On Linden, when the was low,
All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
And dark as winter the flow
OF Iser rolling rapidly
But Linden saw another sight,
When the drum beat at dead of night,
Commanding fires of death 80 light
The darkness of her scenery
By torch and trumpet fast arrayed,
Each horsenan drew his battle blade
And furiously every charger neighed
To join the dreadful revelry.
Then shook the hills with thunder riven,
Then rushed the steed TO battle driven,
Far flashed the red artillery.
But redder yet the light shall glow
On Linden's hill of stained snow,
And bloodier yet the torrent flow
OF Iser rolling rapidly.
'Tis morn but scarce yon level
Can pierce the war clouds, rolling dunn,
Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun,
Shout in their sulphurous canopy
The combat deepensI On ye brave,
Who rush TO glory or the grave
Wave Munchl all thy banners wave
And charge with all thy chivalry.
Few, few shall part where many meetl
The snow shall be their winding sheet,
And every turf beneath their feet
Shall be soldiers sepulohre. Thomas Campbell.
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
I'm Two PARTS PART I.


In 1900, at the end of the century
before the last, only three per cent.
of the people of the United States
lived in cities. Ninety-seven per
cent. of the youth attended rural
schools, if any, and probably red
gchoolhouses. These were plain
buildings of one-story, containing a
school-room twenty feet square or
less, and sometimes a hallway, one
end of which was used TO hold the
wood-pile for the winter fires.
The benches for the older pupils
were placed against three wall Of
the room, under windows so high
above the floor as 60 afford the pupils
when seated no view of the outside
world. The benches were ten or
twelve feet long, with desks in front
of the same length, arranged with
an inclined upper surface for writ
ing, and a shelf underneath for
books. In front of the rear line of
desks were low benches for the
younger children.
This arrangement of desks left a
floor space perhaps eight feet square,
in the center of which Glasses stood
TO recite. The teachers desk oocu.
pied platform on the fourth side
of the room.
When had completed my fourth
year, 1 began to attend school in
house of this kind on the edge of
large forest. 1t had been covered
with red paint some years before,
but the weather had nearly removed
the coating from the most exposed
portions of the clapboards.
walked mile through the woods
from my grandfather farm on the
hill TO reach the schoolhouse. But
suoh d stroll was a pleasure in sum
mer. To my chi sh Curiosity was
presented the great variety of trees,
bushes, herbs, birds, insects and such
small animals as inhabit the woods
of northern Connecticut
The little red sohoolhouse on the
edge of the forest is remem bered in
old age as having a unique influence
on ones life, unlike that of all other
educative agencies that have come
later. For it was associated with
the sense of freedom in the presence
of untamed nature, an enjoyment
rendered keen by the contrast with
the repression of the schoulroom.
MY FIRST STUDY OF LATIN
The country school is called Gun
graded" because it has pupils of all
degrees of advanc cement in the same
room Those just entering school
are learning how TO read, while pu
pills from fourteen to eighteen years
of age are studying grammar and
algebra. 1t may happen that no
two pupils are of the same degree of
advancement in arithmetic, geog-
raphy or grammar possibly they
may not have the same text books.
One pupil brings a book used by his
father twenty or thirty years ago /;
another brings one used five years
ago by an elder brother or sister,
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07

and a third buys the latest edition of
a new one. As a consequence, much
freedom is allowed in the choice of
studies.
took a Latin grammar to school
when 1 was twelve years old.
had found it at the age of six among
my grandfather's books, and had at
that time committed 80 memory a
series of sentences and phrases with
their translations. 1 recall two ex-
amples "AdeGnllES SchOLGn1-Let US
go to school," "En1i Ji6runl dUO6uS
GsJi6us-I bought q book for two
shillings."
The schoolmaster picked up the
book from my desk and said, approx
ingly, "That is right. You may be-
gin on this page and learn by heart
the declension of pennG. From
that day I studied Latin, and after
some very imperfect work in memo
rizing infections, began to read in
Andrews Latin Reader, which was
kindly lent me by the teacher from
his private library.
The first reading lesson was a ia
BILE from Hsop, "The Kid and the
Wolf" l remember that translated
it TO the school ''visitor" or inspec-
tor-the clergyman of the North
Parish-when he examined the
school on his next round, constru-
ing it word for word
Many persons in those days began
their Latin in the red schoolhouse,
and we're led by this circumstance to
attend college years later This
happened oftenest where the rural
school had secured for it's teacher a
student temporarily out of college
that he might earn the means to
continue his studies.
The teacher, Mr.. Paine, who set me
TO studying Latin, left a great i'm
preston on the pupils of the dis
triot One day he brought TO school
copy of Walter Scott's clay of
the Last Minstrel" and after read
ing some lines of it, lent it to the
three or four oldest and most ad-
vanced pupils, requesting them to
select passages that pleased them
most, giving each the oppOr
tunity to carry the book home with
him for one night. No one of us
had ever before seen d volume or
even single poem OF Walter Scott,
but we never forgot the description
of the night visit to the tomb of
Michael SCOTT in Melrose Abbey, and
probably We all purchased Walter
Scott's poems when we came to own
books later in life.
have wondered how MANY Deo
pie now living remember Noah Web
ster's Elementary Spelling Book as
the chief text book of their early
school years The publishers told
me in 1880 that nearly a million and
a quarter copies were sold annually.
Ono large press, which printed the
entire book at each revolution, was
kept running continually. The
books were sold in packages of
dozen,-price one dollar,-mostly to
country dealers, South, North, East
and West.
THE CHIEF TEXT BOOK.
The book was used in rural schools
solely. 1t contained pretty solid
meat for small children In my day
is was the primer and first reader
the sole text book for two or three