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nounced: Help yourself, pardner.
You heard the boss" g.
When Furlong had fully salts
ed himself as to conditions he took
off his coat and went to work. He
knew of nc fishing tool so designed
as to pick up an object so small
and as easily movable as a six-inch
bolt, therefore he made one He
took a short length Of steel casing
of a diameter small enough to slip
into the we'll, and in one end of
this he cut teeth several inches
long. 1t was a labor that consumed
time: he was still at work when
Betty reappeared at the we'll about
dark and advised him that his sup
per was waiting.
Mrs. Durham had returned from
town. She was a woman of indie
terminate age. Her eyes were pale;
her nose was hooked like the beak
of a hawk; her lips were thin and
set in avaricious lines. Immediately
upon meeting Furlong she wanted
to know whether he believed his
experiment would succeed, how he
proposed to go about it, how long
it would take, and the like. Ben
was noncommittal and he refused
to raise her hopes. Before he had
finished his meal he had convinced
himself that the woman stood in
some sort of dre2d of Tiller Mad
dox and that her fear of antag-
onizing him almost equalled her
anxiety for Furlong's success. Ben
wondered why. Another fact he
dscovered-Betty and her aunt
were not on the best of terms.
After supper, by the light Of a
gasoline torch, Furlong resumed his
work the while Maddox vainly
tried, with the new device which
his employer had brought out from.
town, to grapple that obstinate bit
of steel a fifth of a mile beneath
his feet. But it was blind work,
monotonous work, dispiriting
time after time the clumsy
tool was raised and lowered
but its jaws refused to seize the
troublesome bolt. 1t was a job as
hopeless and as battling as trying
to pick up a pin with a pair Of
fire tongs attached to a string.
The engineer of the rig watched
work with the interest
Of a fellow machinist, and of him
the latter inquired finally:
"Say! How come Mr.. Durham
to get killed."
"He was blowed up. 1t was when
the Planet Company was getting
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ready to put down that we'll on
the northeast corner. Maddox was
workin' for the company then
movin' the rig onto the ground.
A powder wagon came by and the
driver stopped to ask his way.
You've seen them trucks-six hun
dred odd quarts Of nitroglycerine
in square cans ali set in fe1t-lined
racks to keep 'em from Earring. I
allus been scared of 'em, but them
drivers pound their wagons over
these rough roads like it's so much
molasses they got. Old man Dur
ham went across the road and give
him directions-he stood there
watchin' the wagon as it drove on.
The driver was trottin' his bosses,
an when he crossed the railroad
track it let go. Jar set it off, I
s'pose. Tiller says he saw it all,
but he don't remember hearin' a
sound or feelin' a shock of any
sort. All he seen was a big black
cloud, an when he looked for Old
Man Durham he wasn't there. The
fence was gone, too."
What happened to the driver?"
"What d'you reckon happened?
All the trace they ever found of
him or the outfit was part Of a
hoss's leg hangin' on a telegraph
cross-arm about a hundred yards
up the grade. There was a hole
thirty foot wide where the wagon
had been and the railroad iron was
corkscrewed for a quarter of a
mile. They found quite a bit of
MI. Durham-enough to hold a
funeral over"
"And Maddox wasn't scratched!
That stuff certainly act queer at
times!"
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Maddox grinned. That's what
we been tryin' to do, but it's
tempered harder than the bit. 1t
dulls every tool we use and all we
been doin' for two weeks is sharp
en-, STEEL"
Cant you drill past it,"
Elbow you goin' to sidetrack a
six-inch bolt loose in the bottom
of a hole?"
"You can drive it into the wall"
"Oh, you can, can you? We're
into a stratter of iron pyrites and
the rocks dam near as hard as
the bolt. It's much as ever a tool
will cut at all. That bolt just shifts
around in the bottom of the hole
like it was a steel cup, an it's too
small to grapple. I s'pose we could
get holt of it with some fancy
kind of a magnet that would get
holt Of it." Again Maddox grinned.
Betty Durham was staring at
Furlong with an apprehensive
pucker between her brows. "Ain't
that our luck, for a bitty old bolt
to ruin everything? Can you
think of any way"
II can think of one way that
won't cost much to try"
II don't want any strangers ex-
perimentin' around-" Maddox be-
gan; but the girl exclaimed sharp
ly,
"You've been experimenting for
two weeks at a hundred dollars a
day, haven't you? It's our we'll.
Let Mr.. Furlong have a go at it,"
The driller executed an exag-
gerated gesture of acquiescence.
Fright you are, Betty! But if this
Teller puts it on the bum, don't
blame me-" Then to Ben he n
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-10-18
FIRST INSTALMENT

Ben Furlng came to the South
ern oil fields looking for work. He
was very dusty and quite hungry
when at last he stopped in at the
Durham House.
This was a rather better-lookine
place than the average Texas home
stead, and when he knocked at the
kitchen door a girl appeared who
was very much better-looking than
the average Texas homesteader
She was, in fact, a very pretty girl
She readily fetched Ben a drink
of water, and while he rested she
talked to him. That was, no doubt,
because of his smile. He informed
her that he had been raised in the
Pennsylvania fields and was a
good, practical oil man.
There being no chores to do,
Ben sat in the kitchen and chatted
with the girl while she cooked
something for hina, and in the
course of the conversation he learn
ed that he name was Betty Dur
ham, that her parents were dead,
and that the farm belonged to her
aunt, with whom she had lived
ever since she was a little girl.
The aunt had gone to Opportunity
in the family aivver.
Funny, you cooking for a
tramp driller like me and your
aunt owning acreage like this, %
Ben remarked. ISN'T this land on
the structure?"
"Sure! It's worth a lot of money.
That we'll over yonder" fork in
hand, Miss Durham indicated a
derrick not far away-"belongs to
u.s."
From where he sat Furlong could
see that the timbers of the tower
were still bright and unstained,
thus advertising the melancholy
fact that the well itself was not
a producer, so he inquired:
whats wrong with it? Dry?"
DRY nothing! They re not down
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"They figured some air current
was responsible. Kind of a Godsend
for Tiller, wasn't it,"
mot to be killed? Sure"
NAV! To get in with the wild
der an Betty. Lucky for them, too
that he took to lookin' out for 'em.
If he makes this well they'll be
movin' into one of them Dallas
mansions with marble bedsteads."
"Humph! He'll never make a
well if he keeps dropping hardware
in it. In my country a driller that
careless would lose his job"
"Tiller won't lose his job," the
engineer asse1ped positively. "He
don't lose anything he goes after"
In the course of time Furlong
finished cutting the end of his
steel casing into a series of teeth,
and these teeth he then bent slight
ly inward. This done, he attached
the device to a tool and lowered
it into the hole. Even Betty and her
Aunt Mary, who looked on with
growing suspense, understood now
how he proposed to pick up that
bolt. He had shaped those taper
ing teeth so that they resembled
the curving fingers Of a hand, and
his delicate task was to drive the
casing home against the bottom of
the well until those fingers closed,
until he clinched them over the
obstacle. 1t was a task less difficult
than it sounds.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-10-18

yet. They've got a fishing job
been at it for a couple of weeks
"Gee!" The visitor shook his
head. That's running somebody
in debt"
"When the first oil talk COM
menced we'd of been glad to get
the farm drilled on almost any
kind of royalty, but nobody would
lease it. When they finally got
ready, Aunt Mary wanted a bonus
two bits an acre-and she
wouldn't listen to Uncle Joe's ar
guments. Bye and bye they offer
led two bits, but by that time she
wanted a dollar. Then the COM
panies got together, Or the boom
kind of petered out, or something,
and it began to look as if Uncle
Joe would be lucky to make any
kind a. Of deal. He finally laid
his ears back and leased a small
block. Then he up and got killed"
THAT'S too bad"
1T was an accident. A pow
der wagon let CO." The speaker
face grew wistful, she stared out
across the arid countryside for a
moment or two. Uncle Joe loved
me, but-Aunt Mary's his second
wife; we're not really kinsfolks.
1t might just as we'll have been
Maddox who got killed; he was as
close to the wagon as Uncle Joe
and yet he wasn't touched. Funny,
too, because he's always been afraid
of the stuff and has a bunch he'll
be blown up. All you have to say
to him is powder and
How'd your aunt come to put
down this new well?"
Maddox drilled the we'll On the
lot we leased, and after Uncle Joe
was killed he quit the company and
sort Of took charge of things for
Aunt Mary. 1t wasn't a big well,
but the royalty is enough to pay
for this one 1 won't cook any
more ham and eggs, SO you'd better
make the most of these. Yes, and
you'd better come and get them;
they're DONE" Miss Durham set a
plate on the table end Furlong
drew up his chair.
With the curiosity natural to
his calling, the visitor inquired
more specifically about the nature
of the mishap that had halted Mad
dox's progress, but he learned little.
He inferred, however, that the
royalties from the first we'll were
dwindling at an alarming rate and
that any considerable delay in COM
pleting the new well might there
fore result in ruin to the owner.
1t was a prospect that naturally
gave Betty and her aunt grave
concern.
When Ben had finished eating
he said: MAYBE I can give this
driller of yours some help. I've
worked on a good many fishing
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-10-18
Farmers Urged Not
To Buy Work Stock

Every year North Carolina
farmers r buying outside the
State approximately 600, 900
worth of stock that could be
raised at home.
This is clearly a waste of money,
in view of the fact that it costs
almost nothing to raise a few hor-
ses or mules for farm. use, said
Fred M. Haig, professor of animal
husbandry at State College.
When a mare drops a colt in
the spring, she need be away from
work for only a few days. In fact,
it is better for the colt and for
the mare to keep her at work, ex-
cept for a few days at foaling time,
Professor Haig stated.
On farms cooperating with the
AAA crop adjustment programs,
there is a considerable quantity of
land which has been removed from
the production of cotton, tobacco,
wheat, or other basic crops.
This land may we'll be used to
raise feed for work stock, Profess
sor Haig continued. Four acres
will produce all the feed needed
by a horse or a mule for one year.
The number of horses and mules
in the United States has been de-
creasing steadily, with the price
going up, he pointed out. In North
Carolina, the number dropped from
100000 in 1925 to $4,000 at
the present time.
Good work stock will always be
in demand, he observed, and the
price will remain high as long as
the supply is low.
Unless North Carolina farmers
breed and raise more stock at home,
they will have to pay out large
sums in the future for work ami
mails, or else try to get along as
best they can with an inadequate
number of animals to do the work.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-10-18
For Bad Feeling
Due to Constipation

Get rid Of constipation by taking
Black-Draught as 20 as you notice
that bowel activity has slowed up or
you begin to feel sluggish. Thou
sands prefer Black-Draught for the
refreshing relief 1t has brought them.
Mrs. Ray Mullins, of LATE, Ark,
writes: my husband and I both take
Thedford's Black raught and find
1t splendid for constipation, bilious
ness, and the disagreeable, aching,
tired feeling that comes from this
condition" With reference to Syrup
Of Black-Draught, which this mother
gives her children, she says: '"They
like the taste and it gave such good
results
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-10-18

Are you one of these nervous
people who lie awake half the
night and get up feeling "al in?
Why don't you do as other light
sleepers have been doing for
more than two generations
take DR.. Miles Nervine?
One or two pleasant. effervescent
Nervine Tablets or two or three
teaspoonfuls of liquid Nervine
will generally assure a night of
restful sleep. Perhaps you will
have to take Nervine two or
three times a day just at first.
Nervous people have been using
DR.. Miles Nervine for Sleepless-
ness, Nervousness, lrritability,
Restlessness, Nervous Indiges-
ton, Nervous Headache, Travel
Sickness, for more than fifty
years.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-10-18
How A. T. s. T. Ownership
Aids Your Service

MERE is no mystery about the fact that the South
L ern Bell Telephone Company is owned by the
American Telephone & Telegraph Company, and that
the Western Electric Company is the manufacturing
branch and supply agent of the entire Bell System.
The Bell System set-up is a natural one. 1t wa:
created by the evolution of telephone. service over a
period of fifty years, as there developed a need for
the various units. 1t has made possible the extensive
and %unequalled telephone service which North Carolina
enjoys today.
Striking illustrations of its economy and value were
given when a disastrous fire crippled the local and long
distance service in Birmingham, Ala, when seet storms
devastated the telephone plant in the Carolinas and
Tennessee and when floods and storms isolated large
sections in the gulf states.
In each instance equipment, apparatus and supplies
were speeded to the scene by truck and by train from
Western Electric warehouses in Atlanta, New Orleans,
Louisville and more distant points. Skilled Western
Electric workers and experienced Bell telephone con-
struction crews were rushed from far distant points.
The entire resources of the Bell System are available
to the Southern Bell Company in any emergency. This
relationship makes it possible to restore a vital service
quickly and in an orderly and economical manner.
1t is this coordination of effort and resources that
has made your service so valuable and dependable,
and such an important factor in the welfare and
happiness of the people of this great State.
F. J. TURNER, Carolinas Manager
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co.
tlssssssssssd)
Evening star., 1935-03-04
Reich Curbs Copper.

Germany has further restricted the
use Of copper in the electrical in
dustry.
Evening star., 1935-03-04
Warship to Be Built.

Construction Of the new 35,000.ton
battleship for France Ia to be started
shortly. I
Evening star., 1935-03-04
BRUNO'S WIFE GIVEN
$1,000 FOR DEFENSE
Mother of Two Offers to Take
Hauptmann's Place in
Chair.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PASSAIC, N. j., March Mrs.
Anna Hauptmann addressed more
than 1000 members of German Amer
lean societies at the Turn Verein Hall
yesterday and collected more than
$1,000 for the defense fund of her
husband, Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
convicted slayer Of Charles A. Lind
bergh, jr.
Mrs. Hauptmann was escorted to
and from the hall by an honor guard
of uniformed German-American
World War veterans.
A mother of two children offered, in
q letter to Gov Harold G. Hoffman
yesterday. to take Hauptmanns place
in the electric chair if assured her
daughter would receive the necessities
of life.
Mrs A Gauthier of Rockville, Conn,
said she would be only too glad to
die, if they would get the right care" :"
Anthony Cerrone of Philadelphia
wrote the Governor offering to 60 to
the chair in place of Hauptmann for
So 5000 in order that his wife and three
children might live in comfort"
Last week Stanley Prystup of Brook
lyn asked $4,000 to substitute for
Hauptmann.
Evening star., 1935-03-04

closed maps down at the Capitol.
Armed with the weather code tele-
grams, in the marble room on the
Senate side, he daily draws the first
chart. On this huge map the cities
names are printed, showing through
a little visible square on the slightly
frosted glass covering over it.
Uses Different CoIors.
DECIDING the syllables of the crypto-
grams, he rapidly marks of in red
chalk the temperatures; in yellow. the
precipitations; then paints on with a
stencil, the various symbols for rain,
snow, cloudiness, ETC., in white, blue
and red.
BY this time messenger has ap-
peared bearing the national weather
forecast and the barometric pressure
lines, drawn in pencil on the basic
map by the Bureau men. With white
chalk Mosby follows these curves on
his glass map, and completes the
weather chart for the day by a sue
cinct forecast for the country, written
in the lower left corner. Yesterdays
was Fair and not quite SO cold to-
night; lowest temperature about 22o.
Friday fair, slowly rising temperature.
When he has finished this chart,
Mosby duplicates it on the similar
map on the House side of the Capitol.
For more than so years the Weather
Bureau has had a man drawing this
map daily in the Capitol. Until two
years ago, r. o. Lacenby drew a daily
map in the lobby Of the Union Station
Upon his retirement a wave Of econ
omy set In which carried away the
service so long accorded travellers at
the depot and witnessed daily by
thousands.
Translation of Code.
Just in case you were interested in
knowing what the code gibberish at
the beginning of this article meant,
here is a translation:
Observation-Disclosures, D. c.
GibbonS-Barometer reading, 30.46;
temperature, 18.
Evening star., 1935-03-04
miners RAID
COURT HOUSE DOOR
Police Fight Back Waves OF
Workers Affected by
Strike Hearing.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILKES BARRE, Pa, March A.
State police fought back crowd Of
more than 1000 miners today on the
steps of the Luzerne County court
house, as cheering, jeering workers
tried to get into the building for
hearings on an order hating o
strike.
Riot sticks were carried by the
troopers. The persistent miners and
their womenfolk time after time
rushed up the steps and stormed the
doors. No one was injured; the po-
lice did not bring their clubs into
play On the fringe of the throng,
deputy sheriffs poised tear gas bombs.
One hundred and fifty State police
men stood guard from early morning
on the broad lawns of the court house
on the bank Of the Susquehanna
River. Legal controversy has grown
out of efforts to halt a walkout
called by the United Anthracite
Miners of Pennsylvania, rival to the
United Mine Workers of America.
Capt. William A. Clark of the State
police summoned reinforcements as
he sensed a turning point in the
union quarrel for which a score of
dynamitings and at least two deaths
have been blamed.
Despite the order against demon
strations and parades the crowds
were on their way to the court house
at dawn.
Evening star., 1935-03-04

w cenTon:n mpich ,est vo,, b.vs
begun to think there is
something radically wrong somewhere,
is merely recent weather report for
Washington in the approved code of
the Bureaus official forecasters.
casters.
Faced every morning for the past
20 years with batch of telegraphic
reports containing 200 of these cryptic
lines, their rapid DECIDING no longer
troubles Samuel L. Mosby. He trans
lateS their SyllableS into a simple SyS-
TEN of figures, symbols and curving
lines in four colors twice day at the
Capitol for the benefit of weather.
minded Senators and Representatives
Vice President Garner, anxious about
his Texas property, is daily student
of the chartists' handiwork.
Report at Same Time Daily.
Every morning at 8 o'clock, Eastern
standard time, 200 employees Of the
Agriculture Department Weather Bu-
reau, located in important cities of
each of the 48 States land a few
strategic spots in Canada, click of
one of these weather-word puzzles to
the Bureaus headquarters in Wash
ington. Fronted with a basic map
containing only an outline of the Ma
ton and myriad of scattered small
circles, the decoders untangle these
words, draw a series of involved con-
centric curves on the map based on
information dug out Of these key
words and-presto!-the weather wiz
ards have today's climate plotted for
the people.
All this is going on while Mosby
is busy at his S feet by 2 glass-in-
Evening star., 1935-03-04
counterfeit RING
BELIEVED SMASHED
Three Men Arrested as Producers
of Fake Five-Cent
Pieces.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March "A counter
felt ring which Government agents
said had flooded five States in the
last year and a half with 100000
to S25O,000 of fake Scent pieces. was
smashed today with the arrest Of
three men in farm house near
Goshen, N. Y.
Directed by Alan G. Straight. chief
of Treasury Department agents in
New York, a raiding force waited
all night at the house in Chester
Township and arrested Louis Ehlers,
AZ, who said he was a garage me-
chanic, and Leo Gailie, 80, machinist,
who were found in the building.
The third man, who gave the name
of George Ehlers, 40, brother Of Louis,
was arrested when he arrived in an
automobile bearing Delaware license.
Three hydraulic presses, one of AZ
tons, with total capacity, the agents
said, of $4,000 to 10000 nickels day,
were found in the basement of the
abandoned farm house.
Evening star., 1935-03-04
us. COURT ANNULS.
POWER LINES SALE|
T. v. A. Contract With Ala.
bama Firm Voided-AppIi-
ance Sale Halted.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March "A
contract for the sale Of certain prop
critics by ths- Alabama Power Co. to
the Tennessee Valley Authority today
was annulled by Judge w. I. Grubb
In United States District Court.
In the same degree Judge Grubb
annulled a contract between the util-
ity and the Electric Farm and Home
Authority, Inc, and restrained the
Alabama Power Co. from acting as an
agent for the Electric Farm and Home
Authority in selling electric appliances.
Dam Building Held Legal.
The Judge held the contract Of
January 4, 1884. between Tennessee
Valley Authority and the Alabama
Power Co. for the sale of the latter's
transmission lines ito be IN further
ance of illegal proprietary operations
by the Tennessee Valley Authority" :"
While the contract for the sale OF
certain of the utilitys properties was
annulled, Judge Grubb held that con-
struction of Joe Wheeler Dam was
legal and the utility which sold the
site to the Tennessee Valley Authority
should not interfere with the continu-
alton of the work.
Negotiations Favored.
Forney Johnston, attorney for the
group of preferred shareholders of the
Alabama Power Co., who brought the
suit in which the decree was issued
suggested Friday that compensation
for the site could be worked out ir
negotiations or by Government con.
demnation.
To safeguard electric service to mu-
inequalities and county associations
now receiving current wholesale from
the Tennessee Valley Authority, the
decree stated that the interchange
agreement between the authority ano
the utility, part of the annullec
contract, should continue in force for
four months after date or decree OF
final appeal.
Evening star., 1935-03-04
CAR KILLS !, HURTS 2

COLORADO SPRINGS, March 4
R).-John Prinzy, 81, of Chicago was
killed yesterday and two companions,
E. w. Wood and Henry T. Banks
we're injured when run down by an
automobile in the Black Forest.
The three, all workers at transient
camp, we're hiking back from a dance.
The car, driven by William Reming-
ton of the Black Forest, came over a
hill and crashed into them.
Evening star., 1935-03-04

Refiow-Wind direction, west;
weather cloudy; wind velocity, 8 m.
p. h.
Senberry - Pressure (barometric)
rising; rising .04 inches in last three
hours; minimum of IA during the
night.
Maiden-Relative humidity, So;
maximum temperature yesterday, 240
Cebron-Clouds (of the type known
as alta -stratus) from the west; less
than 8
From st. Louis this morning the
climatic message read: Saint Geld
ing Nutbush Fade Nailful Curry" So
1 fyoure from Missouri