The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-14

II had been lit with stars now they were all
magnolia blossoms filling the wind with scented
whisper of Yes. yes, YES
They took their honeymoon in New York at the
Iy blissfu about the bills. When Alice afraid
TO buy something gorgeous. Seth would say
rle-ginggie? THAT'S the oil coming out of the
ground every four gluggles means dollar
They decided to run Eurone Seth
said that his right hand man. Tom Domfnick. would
take of everything He bought stateroom
on a steamer sailing the day. Just they
were leaving their suite at the hotel brought
"The oil has quit gushing: got to get air
compressors.
IT ought TO be on the spot groaned Seth
Europe fdea for q while? Or could Won taFe ro''r
mother and LET later, when CAM"
said Alice
4 week later The nAwenaner At Ratson's Prairie
''The norrIar ofl-nrod1cer Mr. Seth Paaford
and his charming hrfde Miss Alice Pavt"n, Of
rnaFe their soiotrn among our elite. Welcome TO
Now, grrsrere are free and vivacors Pumping
noachirer~ costs rnonev and brings loss oil The
nur2ns worried harder and harder. bnt the flow
wont 'ov.n- dovn--fown The shirts Of the Rad
forde followed +he nrice
~ don't oxactlv admiah the oil business said
A1ico
Gradnallv Ra+eons, Prairie lost nrestira Seth
hoU@ht Ground Ding moro wells Some
tirnns he struck pocket of oil tha+ only fatterv
could call susher He elad If it rnanaead 70
IFS cost before If netered ont Sometimes
after WARY work and tho encounte~in@ of good
after good till hone frantic. there
time when II plainly useless o drill
frrther-and several thousands Of dollars had
'Im afraid brought you bad luck. honey" said
Alice.
"vou are good luck eror~h inst hv voureelf"
Scth would answer with all the cheer he could
muster.
After they near1v bankrrn+ and the
majority of peonie had 1eft Basons' Preirfe. some
with fnlf nurses. some With fat IN time. Seth
roalizcd that there NOTHING do but shut down
the law wells. paint tho r'achinery prevent rust
and wait for field.
Waiting is hard wor',. ard Seth had been school
ed TO excitement. Then for while there
de'rcr than his own life that 70 he dearere
Fort"ne favored then, 18th smile ard. accord
ing we'll could be ovrerted" Child"
weighed ten mounds. ard vel'e1 like Piute: and
The amateur father and mother used r. i. taIk
ing of the prospects of their youn There
-'Th" hov ought 10 have bank said Seth
Th1v felt that they could hardly berfn It with
loss than hundred dollars. They used sit and
frtre ort how much that would amount to at con-
n vote Alice made IT sometime like three mill
ion aoI1c-s hrt Seth she was ca ess with her
very handsome md thew thoupht Of It whenever
thov dronped dime nickel into the little tin
the sum in their bank. for that dwfndled dali
CftNn. when Seth fanished for cigar. q
nnshed the money throurh the little tin slot, and
smoked tho aromatic weed or hope
Rnt the h1hy was not many mouths old whom the
O n
scene and snent almost his last cent In land He
established Mrs. and Master Radfo~d at hotel in
took the early morning train every dav to Humble
and returned at night. dirty. dishevelaa tired
din,n~-roor like gentlemen and gflded youth
WITH their handsome wives
Five big wells came in while Seth was drilling
The sixth was his and gusher. He put large
bill in tho baby's bank.
mower could save T. It was like finding roll Of
thousand-dollar. bills and afterward discovering
rlot +tav- ooJJo
caped end flowed nroner oil enough to put him in
finds r,I for While The third began million
Saline injection viii save dying mans life"
said T Seth hut a It's SIRE death de- to an OIL nan
Narth and he had ad ses 70 ,o spefd - s IN
riding. She had seen even sled
But their plans were mainly conversation
for was growing hard even to borrov none
him when he was at the Waldorf red.scov,ra. his
partv II meant three besides railroad fare sfb
declined e1rr71v
I'VE shall have each other honey" smiled
But we shsn,t have snow groenea the North
the porch at Christmas I want white Christmas
I'd give million dollars to hear sleigh bells
The next well was plainly to be his last He gave
N-Roads whore salt water had broken in to
exhausted every resource for funds. The bankers
when he called, regretful1v referred him little
stack of notes unpaid Most of his friends were as
himself. He wheedIed ont of them
small sum after small sum He began to pawn but
soon ran out of pawnables. He two
weeks wages. and it was increasingly embarrassing
Tor him TO go near the derrick. especially as the
drill had struck stratum of hard gypsum Some
times they could only make two or three inches a
day The siowness of the work got on the nerves
or the men. It made them thirsty. and it made
them surlv to have to borrow the price of drink
from another rig, when wages owing to them.
Alice had refused to stay at the hotel in Houston
any longer and run up bills After a bitter quar-
rel IN which altru1sm clashed with altruism she
forced Seth to allow her to come out to the field
town ana take a room in pine-shack. which
inc tame title of boarding house seemed to over
honor. The landlady was Mrs Runnell Her sis
ter Jane was the belle of the feld-whfch was not
saving much.
And 50 December reached It's twenty-fourth-a
warm and sultry day in which everything seemed
as lar as possible from the normal Christmas
ditons Late one afternoon Seth came in and