Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-09-14
WON FROM DISASTER
SUCCESS AT TIMES FOLLOWS SEEM
INC ILL LUCK.


The Baku petroleum deposits, which
have yielded millions of pounds worth
of fine oil, are situated in Russian eau
casus.
Years ago q number Of cattle were
placed on several tracts of land we'll
covered with herbage. The animals,
however, refused to feed at first, but
later, in their hunger, they ate up the
grass ravenously. All Of them were
taken ill, and number died.
The cause of their death puzzled the
owner for some time. In the long run
he discovered, with the assistance Of an
Englishman, that below the meadows
were rich oil springs which caused the
grass to be poisoned with paraffin. The
loss of his cattle brought fortune.
A summer or two back sea wall on
the Suffolk coast was blown down dur
ing d strong gale, and when the tide
rose many acres of low lying land were
flooded by the sea. The farmers who
rented the land were in despair, and In
order to save their crops they started
draining the water off.
Two days later the water sodden
meadows were sight wonderful to be-
hold. They were one thick carpet of
fine mackerel! A big school Of the fish
had swept in through the breach in the
embankment and been carried to the
fields by the incoming sea.
The farmers hired scores Of carts to
collect the mackerel, and within TWEEN
ty-four hours the fish had been packed
into boxes and were ell route to Bill
lingsgate, where they were sold for
over 1900.
Starving, ill clad and bootless, Robert
Hyams, a homeless Jew, wandered to
the top of lonely hill on the Yorkshire
moors. There was a strong gale blow
ing from the east, and to protect HIM
self from the cold blast he entered a
big shed of wood and Gor5e on the sum-
nit which was used to store fodder for
the sheep.
Stepping through the door, which
opened to the eastward, he was aston
ished to find inside over sixty wild
ducks, half stunned, but quacking vio-
lently. lie slammed the door tc and
started catching the birds and wiring
ing their necks.
The shed lay right in the flight lines
of the myriads Of wild ducks that come
to Britain from the north, and, flying
low in their hundreds, some of them
had entered the door of the shed, which
had been left open by the shepherds,
and stunned themselves on the rear
wall
Hyams sold the lucky haul for a sum
exceeding IS, and with this he was able
to clothe himself respectfully and thus
find employment
On the beach which fringes the preci-
pices below Cape Nome there is now a
prosperous city peopled by 10000 min
ers but at one time. and not so very
long ago, the spot was uninhabited.
The discovery of the gold in the dis
trict and its ultimate prosperity was
entirely due to n seal.
Two American hunters had wounded
the strange creature, and it led them
pretty dance across the ice and into
an unknown bay, where the seal was
killed after badly wounding one of the
hunters.
In it's death struggles the seal flung
up the ground, and tie hunters, to their
agreeable surprise, found themselves
on n golden strand--the richest one in
tue world
The death of mule brought great
wealth to Frederick Butler, Klon-
diller. who took part in the memorable
rush" to the gold fields cf Yukon. He
left his mule standing one Cay on a
plot of land faH away from the
claims" and another miner who bad
grudge against his fellow digger shot
the animal in the neck with his re-
N0lver.
The mule fell and IN its agony kick
cd up the ground with its hoofs. When
it's owner returned he found several
''pebbles" of strange weight and shape
lying around the dead animal. He
cleansed the supposed pebbles and they
proved to be nuggets of virgin gold,
Tic dying mule had struck one of the
richest veins in Klondikc.
A similar case of gold being discov-
cred by an animal occurred in Scotland
in 1865. \ dog. badly wounl0d by a
shot from Il gamekeepcr's gun. scratch
ell up some gold Oh ground which was
afterward known as the Dunr0bn gold
mines, near Golspie Over 100000
worth of the precious metal was wash
ed cut of the mine by the owner of the
fortune bringing dog.
The Patori silver mines III Spain
were also discovered by Il wounded
dog. and II is said that the famous dia
mond mines Mt Kimberley were first
revealed to wide awake Boer by
SOW which he had shot.
Gold to the value of some hundreds
Of pOundu was dino ont Of y nN"tinn of