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TllL UAKUWUOU K L (_ O R D 



piiKluil soiiuMliliiK Invlsllilc iiwiiy fnmi liliii 

 flj:nin. 



"Tho i-vIIiiiUt wnH worn owntiliU'nibl.v 

 iinil wlion \v«> put In now jmi'kiiii; I" lit 

 tlio contiT of tlu- cylliuU'r. iiml stnrtiil up, 

 tlio llrst simkt"— I'liiiK— "111" woiilil stlrk. in 

 flic oml. when' It wiis siiiiillcr. 



"Hut I nx<Hl It. 1 K<'t uu' a nowlmr 

 ami whoui'vor sin- st\ifk I prUil licr loose, 

 anil she'll run :i few strokes luul sllek 

 apnin. Hut I stiiywl rliilit there ami used 

 Ihe tTowbar until the paekln;: was worn 

 down. It.v the time it was worn down 

 ami was running smoothly it wonltl leak 

 ID badly that we would have to pai-k it 

 again. It was the most maddening' tiling' 

 I ever saw. If I could have taken a sliHljie 

 bnmnier and have driven that pump down 

 Into tho earth I know it would have adde<I 

 a year to my life in the satisfaction it 

 would have iriven me." 



"Hut how did you bruise your hands?" 

 "How ilid I bruise my hands?" holding 

 tlic-m up before him. "How did I bruise 

 nij hanils? Say. do you know that every- 

 thing that was dropped or that blew up 

 or came off hit me? Hit me, the General 

 Mnna;,'er. Well, it's so. By gad, sir, it's so. 

 "See that thumb?" and he held up a 

 thumb witli a big black and blue mark 

 under the nail. "I don't believe there was 

 ever anything in the world that hurt like 

 tliat did. I was partly under the engine 

 trying to tighten a loose nut. Was lying 

 flat on my back with the piston rod flying 

 back and forth just above me. At the 

 «nd of the stroke there was about a quar- 

 ttr of an inch between the end of the 

 piston rod and a steel cross piece. And I 

 got my thumb between the end of the rod 

 and the cross piece. Say, it did hurt. 

 And I couldn't throw the wrench, or dance, 

 or anything. I had, to crawl carefully out 

 fioui under the engine before I could even 

 boiler." 



"Hut what really became of .vour 

 glasses?" 



"Say, I've told several stories about 

 those glasses since I came back. but. of 

 course, they fell down that hole." 

 "What hole?" 



"What hole! Why that hole. The hole. 

 The hole of holes. The SCX)-foot hole. 



"It was funny the way things would 

 fall into that hole, which was only twelve 

 Inches across. The few things that were 

 dropped, or that fell, or came off, and 

 didn't hit me fell into that hole. And 

 some of them did both, hitting me and 

 then bouncing off and falling into the hole. 

 An iron collar on one of the jack's flew 

 off, and although it was nearly as large as 

 the hole it fell in, down the twelve-inch 

 pipe, into the eight-inch pipe, and lodged 

 across the top of the six-inch pipe, in such 

 a way that it took us three days to get 

 by it." 



"But what are you going to do about it?" 

 I aske<l. "About the well, I mean." 



■•I dunno," he said, shaking his head 

 despondently. "Going on down some way. 

 But we've got to have a new pump." 



From Nea^r OLiid Fa^r. 



LOCAL GOSSIP. 



.M. II. Iiigalls. Innilier liroUci. jim- iii..^..1 

 his oflli 1- from :;.'{ .Marine building, to room 

 ■I'J'J. at 11.'. I,a Salle street. 



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Vinncdge Hros. are putting In new foun- 

 dations throughout their yard on Goose 



Island. 



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rink. lleidUr \- Co. were recently In- 

 corporated for ii!'2r..llO(l. The style of the 

 lirm has not been changed vi'ry mucli. 

 They will operate here.iflcr as Fink-Heid- 



ler Company. 



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Mr. Tred Hriiening. a n.ilive of Ger- 

 many, btit who has resided in America for 

 the last fifteen years, and has for a consid- 

 erable time been connected with a large 

 wholesale mercantile company of Chicago, 

 has decided to join his brother. Mr. Henry 

 Hruening. in the lumber business at 

 Hremcn. Germany. The firm of Henry 

 Hruening has a large acquaintjtnce among 

 the exporters of this country, having been 

 engaged in tlie importation of hardwoods 

 for tlic past twenty-five years. The firm is 

 particularly well known as dealers in 

 liicUory liandle stock. l>uring a call at tho 

 Keeoiil otiice tliis week. Mr. Tred Hruening 

 state<l llial lie would call on the export 

 trade at the principal markets, as (t pre- 

 liminary, before sailing for Hreinen. and 

 wlien he had sufliciently learned the de- 

 mands of their customers on the other side 

 would rettnn to America for the purpose 

 of extending their business connections in 



tills country. 



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Mr. Wm. II. AVhite of Boyne City, Mich., 

 was in Cliicago for a couple of days last 

 week. He met one qf his steamers here, 

 it having la'ought down a load of lumber, 

 and sent it back witli a load of stock cattle. 

 i> » • 

 Mr. G. Von I'laten of Boyne City was 

 also in Chicago, looking after some of his 

 shipments. With his usual thouglitfulness 

 and consideration, he stowed a dozen cans 

 of maple syrup, the pure home product, on 

 one of tlie barges and distributed them 

 among his Chicago friends. With our 

 usual good luck we got one of them. 

 » « « 

 Mr. A. H. Garrott. of W. W. Carrott iV: 

 Son. hardwood lumbermen of Frankfort, 

 Ind.. was a caller at the Record office on 

 Saturday. 



■WHERE TO GO FISHING. 

 Soiiie of the best places ill the country 

 for fishing are in .Michigan and can be 

 reached by the Grand Rapids & Indiana 

 Railway. This company have .Issued a 

 book typographically fine and containing 

 information of a most complete nature as 

 to where to go and what you will find at 

 the various places. 



OUR MEMPHIS LETTER. 



The It. .1. Iiariii-ll l.iiml'i'r Conipaiiy is 

 building a lumber plant at Hiirllng, Miss. 

 This mill will have a capacity of '.IT.M) 



feet per day. 



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C. A. Stanton, Memphis manager for 

 the Houston Lumber Company, Is spend- 

 ing the week at the HI'-'b Mlss.i luills 



of Ills firm. 



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The Blanton Stavo & Lumber Company 

 of Blanton, Ark., have again established 

 an olHce in Memphis. .Major H. T. Blan- 

 ton is in charge. 



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Fred Schaefer is now with the .1. M. 

 Card Lumber Company of Chattanooga. 



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F. B. Robertson, of the Goodlaiider & 

 Robertson Lumber Company, is in Arkan- 

 sas. 



• * • 



D. D. Hartlove, representing Price & 

 Ileald of Baltimore, was in Memphis re- 

 cently. 



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The .T. O. Nesson Lumber Company of 

 Manistee, Mich., are beginning to ojjerate 

 the old mill of Murphy & Dicbold. wlilcli 

 they have leased. 



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.7. A. Fraser of Tupelo, Miss., will be- 

 gin this week to operate a new lumber mill 



at that place. 



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Memphis lumber circles have been much 

 interested the last thirty days in the tide 

 of matrimony that has in a wa.v irresistible 

 won several of its members in fact or by 

 relationship. On Wednesday evening, the 

 •29th, W. X. Wrigut, a well-known lum- 

 berman, and Miss Bennett, daughter of 

 E. T. Bennett, were married. 



On Thursday, May 30, at high noon, 

 Vj. E. Goodlaudor, of the Goodlaiider & 

 Robertson Lumber Company, and Mrs. 

 E. B. Knapp were united in marriage. 

 The ceremony took place at the residence 

 of the groom's partner, F. B. Robertson. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Goodlander were presented 

 with a couple of silver cases by the Mem- 

 phis Lumbermen's Club, of which Mr. 

 Goodlander is an officer. 



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l,ou Lesh and Theodore Fathauer of 

 Chicago were in Memphis this week, 



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The Goodlander & Robertson Lumber 

 Company has just closed a deal for a 

 large timber and mill outfit in Arkansas, 

 tho former consisting of oak. ash and hick- 

 ory, and the latter with a capacity of 20,- 

 000 feet per day. 



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The Kinard Lumber Company of Eldo- 

 rado, Ark., has filed articles of incorpora- 

 tion in that 'state. The capital stock is 

 .«;'2.'.f)00, of which .$10,000 has been sub- 



