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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SEtN'DAY , NOVJ3MHER 22 , 1800. AMERICA'S ' OLDEST REGIMENT Trio Third U , S. Infantry About to dole- bratc Its Ocntcnnary , A RECORD OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS "Mini" AnllioiiAVnyno It" Flriit Colonel y.ncluiry Tnj-lor n Lntcr Comma ml LT _ OliirloiiH Ilccord , In All Our Wnrn. The Third regiment of Infantry In the regular army celebrates the 100th annlver- tary of It * establishment In November. 1893 , it the homo of the regiment at Fort Snell- InV , on tlib Mississippi river , at the head of navigation hard by the cities of Minneapolis nd St. Paul. It Is the peat regiment of this aid and historic fort. The Third passes Its century milestone a far different body from what It was In No vember , 179C , different In uniform , In ac coutrements , In arms and In drill ; but It Is not a more steadfastly loyal body In 1S9S than It was In 179C. Other regiments have been as bravo and as loyal , and have fought OF run "PIGHTINO THIUD , " 1700. as vallixntly for the preservation of the country or the repelling of a foreign foe. Circumstances anil time and history , how ever , have given this body particular fltnosa for recognition. It Is the oldest regiment In the regular army of the United States. The original First was established In June , 1781. This , by nubscqucnt consolidation , was merged Into the present Third , eo that It Is , In real ity , n decade moro than a century old. On March 5 , 1702 , congress authorized the formal establishment of the regiment. It was then known an the Infantry of the Third nub- legion. As the army was reorganized In November , 1790 , when the Infantry ol the Third Sub-legion became the Third regiment of Infantry , the latter becomes 100 years old In November , 1SOC. This Is the same regiment which fought under "Mad" Anthony Way no when ho led his forces with Impetuous ardor against the Indians of the northwestern border ; which was so powerful a factor In the war of 1812 ; which paescd a decade or moro of Us llfo In the Great Lakes region when the fccblo garrisons along the Inland seas were co sorely In need of Its staunch aid ; which was foremost In the long and trying cam paign In Florida , where It maintained the splendid reputation as an Indian fighter which Jt has licpt for a century. It Is the Eiuno regiment which , when Texas would maintain her own definition of the boundary line between her nnd Mexico , was ordered to the southwest , where , through that spir ited and picturesque campaign. It fought Its way at I'alo Alto , at Rcsaca do la I'alma , nt Monterey , at the slego and capture of Vera Cruz , then onward under Scott on tint Irrcxlstlblo marc'i strtlght to the clt- ndcl of the Mexican capital. After the brilliant liattlo of Churulnisco , when the Third led the deciding cbnrge , nn'd when the colors of the regiment were the first to bo flung from tin- parapet of the old con vent , the regiment was ono of the first to march Into the conquered city over which floated the flag of Its nation. A CAHKEH Oil" GI.OUY. So onward the regiment fought , depleted OPFICHIl , "FIGHTING TIIIUD , " UUltllVJ MEXICAN WAU. jiiuuy iiiuua u > uuaiu uuu mni'uuu , na vrllm etcadlly filling again with the best blood or the nation , fighting against the Navajm and the Apaches In all the exciting Indian cam paigns from 1810 to 1SGO , until when the clc. ricnts of the greatest civil war of history were a-mlxlng , It was ordered to the north and from Itu long service on the soil of the Eouth. Passing through San Antonio , Tex. , It was suggested that the regiment march around , rather than' through , the principal streets of the southern city , ulicro tbo sym pathy with the cause of the south was co pronounced. A council of tbo officers of the regiment wan called and It was unanimously decided that It would never do for the oldest regiment In the army , n regiment which had never been In the habit of traveling rouuda * bout when the main traveled road was open It would never do for such a regiment to change Us policy under such ! conditions ; co , bedecked for the occasion in the finest garb of their wardrobes , with , as a writer of the day eald , "tho regimental colors flying , the band playing and every man and officer as flno as brass and bullion could make him , " the old Third marched onward through the streets of the southern city to take Its place in the great conflict then Impending. PRISONERS OF WAU IN FLORIDA. Thrco of the companies of the regiment , At V and I , were captured by the enemy In'Uio earlier part of the war , In Florida. ThoJr reputation was well kuown In the couth , and It was generally conceded that It wna ono of the * best di tiled , and most Im portant military bodies on the continent , > o every effort was made to Induce the mem bers of these companies to renounce al legiance to the general government and take up the cause of the south. The mem bers of the companies were offered positions AS olllccra in the southern army , aud no doubt there were few of them who were not for better fitted for high poslUono than A very largo number of the volunteer sol- fliers , north or south. Dut the captured companies remained steadfastly loyal to the government nud , after parole , Joined their regiment In the north and fought on tbrou&n the campaign. From the outset of the chll war the Third was in the uojut ! [ or l Ule. U .won Itn first recognition at the first opportunity which presented Itself , when It showed Its splendid qualities by Its masterly covering of the flight of the army at the first battle of Dull Run. Lieutenant J , II , Mctlao of the Third , the historian of the regiment , and to whoso statistics I am Indebted for the skeleton of the regiment's movements above given , says of the regiment at this first bnttlo of Null Run : "Its gallant conduct In thlo , the first great battle of the war , Its unflinching * stcadfastnces and perfect order In covering the flight of the panlc-otrlcken army , was but a prcsago of that which was to dis tinguish It throughout the war. " IN TI' K CIVll. WAR. Many times during the civil war the fighting qualities of the Third were called Into play. It took part In twenty-one battles and filcgcs , losing In killed , wounded , and missing 2G7 men , a number equal to Its average strength during the war. After It led the noble column at the close of the war In that last grand review before the president In the city of Washington , chosen from all the forces for this high honor , It once more became a frontier regiment , and nlnco that time It has been engaged In Im portant Indian campaigns In the west and southwest , aiding , too , In the suppression of the Pennsylvania riots In 1877 , and at other times In putting down riots In various parts of the country. It was honored by having a prominent part assigned it at the dcdtca- tory exercises of the Columbian exposition > ( at Chicago. I In the year 18S8 the Third became the' prat regiment at Fort Snelllng , located1 at a strategic point on the upper Mississippi , and covering several thousand miles of Indian territory , and wllhtn a'twelve-hour ride of Chicago and other western cities In the Mississippi valley. This regiment has drawn from the very bent fighting blood of successive genera tions of Americans. It has not only fought through all the campaigns of the century , but It has furnished other commands with leaders , helped to deplete exhausted reg iments , set a flnc pattern of soldierly sta bility for the Incoming bodies of volun teers , t NOTED COLONELS OF THE "THIRD. " Somn of Its commanders have been prom inent In the military and civil llfo of the nation such men as General Zachary Tay lor , afterwards president of the United States ; General Anthony Wayne ; Major Charles K. Gardner , author of the system by which companies are designated by let ters of the alphabet ; Colonel Lcavenworth , who selected the present slto of Fort Leav- cnworth , and who was a leading military figure ; Colonel Dcnjamln S. E. Ilonncvlllo , whose llfo nnd adventures Irving has so hap pily described. From the regimental offi cers who served In the war with Mexico , six major generals of volunteers were con tributed to the federal armies of the civil war , and ono major General and ono brig adier general to the southern forces. And what a revolution , or perhaps it would to better to call It an evolution , this regiment has witnessed as it has marched onward through the century , an evolution In arms , In accoutrements , In uniforms ; In deed , It has seen marked changes In the very flag itself. When the 1'RIVATE , "FIGHTING THniD , " DURING THB CIVIL AVAR. of them of the flint-lock pattern , which had ollowed the ancient matchlock and the wlm'1-lock , the latter invented in 1(77 , tbo gnltlon of the powder being effected by the icat generated toy a rapidly revolving wheel attached to the eldo of the nun. As early ai 1780 chlorate mixtures , exploded by per- cuwlon , b d been discovered in Franco ; In [ SCO julinlnato was discovered by Howard n England ; percussion priming wai cm- > loycd In 1807 ; tbo percussion cap was In u o a 1818 , nnd In 1839 the cap and nipple were iJoptcd la France , and their ui * npr ml to the regiments of the army in thta country Whllo the Chinese made UAO of n brooch loading gun at least as early as the yea 1313 , the arms of the regiments of the nine teenth century were , until some tlmo nftc the civil war , almost wholly of the muzzle loading type. Indeed , It Is estimated that a very largo per cent , perhaps eevcn-olghths of the soldiers of the war of the rebellion carried muzzle-loading muskets. The Third has kept pace with the ad vanccmcnt of the equipment of the years and Its arms and accoutrements are non of course , of the most approved modcrt pattern. When the regiment was organize thn war forces of the nation , thanks to Hi patience and the skill of the Irascible , many oathcd Unron Stcubcn , the inspector of tb continental army , had somewhat cmcrgc ( from the chaos In which ho found then when ho came over the seas to the aid o the struggling states. Could that profan but Invaluable old drill master , who wa wont to swear at the clumsy continentals I all of the languages at bis command , Imv visited the Third at Its centennial cclcbrn tlon ho must needs have been deeply gratl fled at the show of earnest discipline , th marked attention to details , the complct soldlerllness which were so striven for when ho was in the charge of the raw recruit of the revolution , THE THIRD NOT IDLE TODAY. The regimental llfo of this historic bed is not now so full of stirring events as 1 the days of battle , but the rrglmcnt is b no means leading nn Idle life. The pos duties nro full of education. There nr practical military maneiivorlngs , ocaslonn Jaunts overland to put In practice tno art of War , long summer days spent In camp where thb regiment follows nctlvo arm llfo to the letter ; these and the careful ! kept up drills , and study , and lectures and the like , glvo to the present member nt the regiment opportunities for such ad vanccmcnt as were not possible In the day when it was campaigning In Mexico , o sweltering in the swamps of Florida , o fighting rod men on the frontier , or battling with undaunted courage through the mos terrible civil war of history. The members of this , the oldest regimen In the army of the United States , aio vcrj proud of Itc history ns they gather In the autumn days to cclchrato the 100th annlvcr sary of Its birth. The regiment begins Ita second century under far different condl tlons than those which prevailed when 1 received lit baptism of blood at ol.I For Recovery under the splendid command o "Mad" Anthony Wayne , but It shall not be said when another century ends If , Indeed there shall be any need of rncn of war In that far day that in Its second teutury I woa moro loyal to Its native land , moro bravo In battle , moro potent as a patten for all who would win success In the mm game of war , than In the first hundred years of its llfo now so happily concluded in this unique centcnlary celebration. W. S. HARWOOD. D. L. Moody , the evangelist , Is to begin a scries of revival meetings In Doston 01 January 1. Rev. T. E. Vassar has resigned the pastorate torato of the First Daptlst church of Kan sas City on account of falling health and "FIGHTING THIRD. " FORT SNELL1NO , 1SOC. regiment was organized President Washington had been engaged with the republic of France In that charming inter national episode , when the colors of the two nations were exchanged in such formal and inspiring manner in the congressional halls of the two republics. The flag was then the same in colors as that of the sis ter republic over the seas , though It had the flvo pointed stars belonging to the her aldic dcvlco of the house of Washington , and with them the stripes or bam of the great general's arms , the first suggestion of the banner of the now nation. IT SAW THI3 FLAG CHANGE. The flag then had but Us thirteen" stars , but as the Third has carried It on through the century It has seen the whlto ntars grow and grow lu number on the beautiful azure Held , while the nation has been giving mighty birth to noble states , until today upon the ensign which floats atop the milk-white flagstaff on the wldu-horl- zoned parade ground of the regiment there are forty-flvo snowy stars , steadfast tokens of the nation's steadfast states. AVhcn the regiment received Its formal commission as a military ibody of the array of the United States , Its uniform was more or less nondescript in style , though the prevailing - vailing continental garb was followed. There were the long coat , caught back at the bottom of the bklrt by buttons , showing tbo more or less gay facings , the snug , spruce waistcoat , bright of hue , the knee-breeches and leathern leggings. When the century was young the leggings had lengthened out to the conventional panta loons of today , the coat had lost a good deal of its contlnentallsm tbo three- cornered hat had given way to tbo stllT , tall one with .its gay cockade. Aa the garb of the nation changed the regiment took on new drcst , and as the years passed the arms of the regiment changed In style , though not so markedly as the uniform. PREMITIVE EQUIPMENT. When the regiment uas established the muxkets were all muzzle-loaders , the moat will spend his remaining years in Newark N. J. , his old home. Ex-Postmaster General John Wanamakor has been re-elected president of the Penn sylvania Sabbath School association. Archbishop Machray. the primate of Can ada , who has Just returned to the Dominion Is the tallest bishop in the world. Thcro are two places In London where clergymen can buy sermons already printed They cover all subjects and can be bad for every beasoii. Rev. Helen Van Anderson has become pastor of the new Church of the Higher Llfo In Iloston. She was born In Iowa and Is about 35 years old. It Is estimated that the removals of the Wcsleyan Methodist ministers and their fam ilies and luggage this year in England have cost not less than $125,000. Miss Fannlo Whelan of Washington Is the treasurer of a fund now being raised by prominent Catholics In Washington and Dal- tlmoro to bo presented to Bishop Keane , who is at present the guest of Mr. and Mrs. O'Connell , of San Jose , Cal. "It is a well known fact , " says the Baltimore. American , "that when ho shook the dust of the Cath olic university from his feet and with pained and sorrowful heart started for California , whoreho , is now , he was practically penni less. Bishop Kcano'a income has been dis pensed In charity th.eso many years. Ho cared nothing for money , save when ho could get It for the advancement of the university , for which he collected hundreds of thousands , and when ho could relieve some destitute case which might bo brought to bis notice. " IMI'lUTIES. ' "A great rcr.ny people sleep between these walls , " said the guide , ohowlng the visitor through the ancient English church whcro the noble families were Interred. "Samo way over In our country , " -replied the visitor. "Why don't they get a better preacher ? " The following advertisements recently op- pearcd in an English paper : "A cultured , earnest , godly young man desires a pastor ate. Vivid preacher , musical voice , bril liant organizer. Tall and of good appear ance. Very highest references. Deloved by all. salary , iizo , Parishioner Doctor , what la the exact nature - turo of the union between tbo soul and the body ? Rev. Dr. ( Fourthly Mydear brother , them are some mysteries I hafrd never attempted to penetrate. Dut I have a young friend , Rov. O. Howe Wise , a recent graduate of our theological seminary , who Is writing a sermon on that very subject , and will du- llvcr It ono week from next Sunday. Don't fall to go and hear him. In a certain part of Danfi'shlro , Scotland , wbero the roads are as nearly precipitous as may bo imagined , a Ilttlo girl was ono day employed In her usual task of herding the cows. A minister , newly nettled in the parish , coming suddenly upon her , remarked ; "Thcro are awfu' bills you have hero , lassie. " Overcome , doubtless , with the feeling of awe for the cloth eo common in rural Scot land , tbo frightened lasslo answered , in apologetic tones : " 'Deed , sir , they were hero afore wo eam'l" A learned professor was In Edinburgh ono wet Sunday , and , desiring to co to church , ho hlicd a cab. On reaching the church door ho tendered a shilling the legal faro to cabby , nnd was somewhat surprised to hear the cabman say , "Twa ehulllns , sir. " The protestor , fixing his eagle oyea upon the extortioner , demanded why bo charged 2 shillings. - Upon which the cabman drily answered ; "We wliU to dlicourago traveling on the Sawlmth M much m possible , ilr , " WASTED STORES OF WEALTH Astonishing Storyfof' Millions Squandered in the Natural Gas Bolt. THE RISE AND FALL OF A BOOM I'rnillKlniiN AVit < e of \ nturtPud mill IlKlitInHoiMiTuciitlctlin or tlic Van * Siinnlr Ut terly ! , < > nt. "It was really the greatest conflagration In history , " said the old gas man , thoughtfully ; "the newspapers had hardly a line about It ; oven the public that was nwaro of It either didn't realize It or didn't care ; yet In ten ycara , hundreds of millions of property went up In smoke , and a great natural store of energy , which would bavo determined the commercial supremacy of four states for the next half century was gone forever. " It was of wnat ho called the stupendous wastage of natural gas that the old gnu .man was speaking , apropos of the gas ex position which will bo held In New York City about the beginning of the nuw year. Satirical , the old gas man called the ex position , because , he said , It Is Intended to Illuitrato the Immense advance wo have in a do of lute years In economical and convenient means of using gas for furl , light and power In short to show that gas , even when It Is manufactured , Is the best form of heat and power wo poisess. Yet , ho added , the people of Pennsylvania , West Virginia , Ohio and Indiana threw away millions upon mlN Ions at dollars wcr.'lh dt tlilr ? precious stun , and the prosperity of many locali ties 1ms been'ruined , nil because" they thought It wasn't worth whllo to bo eco nomical. It was going to last forever. The full story of tills stupendous folly , the old gas man went on to say , has never been told and It never will be , because , In the Mist place , of the utter Impossibil ity of obtaining any statistics that will bo worth anything , and slnco the story Is no scattered In I to details that It would bo difficult to gather It together. Hut I can glvo you a part of It , ho added the outline of It , as it were. This is the story ho told : If you are familiar with the matter at all , you will remember that the gas boom eaino' on about ten or twelve years ago. While it lasted , it was as wild a boom as this country over saw. It Is rather odd , on the whole , thab It "did not come long years before. In Kredonla , N. Y. , near Buffalo , for example , the KM wells have been burnIng - Ing pretty near from the beginning of the century. Ono of the big fields of Penn sylvania 'was thirty years old before people began to wake up to the fact that gas was widely distributed and that the great reser voirs of nature could bo tapped for a sons. But when the boom came , It was with a rush. It seemed a new way to make mil lions , ! and very soon millions were made In It , and then everybody tried to take n hand. The result was that people were boring for gas everywhere. Those were the days when the "wlld-cattcr" 'Woa In his glory , and ho had only to show up In a community , wander around on the outskirts of the town mysteriously for a. few days , and then whis per gas , to command all the money ho wanted. Curiously enough , It was to the "wlld-cattcr" thnt the wide extension of the gas fields was due , and undoubtedly with out his reckless , 'gambling spirit , many rich fields would have remained undis covered to this day. I bcllcvo It Is an In contestable fact that no expert ever located a new field , and my observation has been that tbo higher priced ho was , the less ho found. THE HALF AVinL NEVER I3E KNOWN. I said that there exist no statistics on the matter that nro at all Illustrative of what 'ollowcd. The government tried for years : o get at the matter and in the census of 1S90 attempted to cumputo the actual pro duction of the wells for the year of 1SS9. That year the flow was set down at 652.000- 500,000 feet , and its value at $11,000,000. Hut this really , doesn't mean much , and In particular It tells nothing at all of the stupendous waste that went on. Ono way the government experts tried to compute the production by years was by at tempting to find out how much coal the gas wells had dlcplaccd. In this way the re port on the mineral 'Industries of the country - > try show the production of natural gas ranged from a little less than G.000,000 In 18S5 to 12,000,000 for thv last year. This , you understand , does not represent the act ual value of the gas , nor any measure of Its [ > reduction , but alraply the coal displaced. The amount of the latter roao from 5,000,000 In 1S85 to 10,000,000 In 1SSG , 15.000.000 In 1SS7 to 22,000.000 In 1883 and to 21,000,000 In 1889. Thcso two years of 1888 and 1SSD wore the star .years. Then the boom was at Its height. Thereafter the fields began to fail and ever since the production has been going down steadily. Computed 'in this game way , as to the displacement of coal , It was 18,000,000 In JS90 , 15,000,000 in 1891. 14,000- 000 in 1892 and 1893 , and , as I said , about 12,000,000 last year. TOWNS THAT WERE BUILT-ON GAS. But these figures really mean little , for It was not In the old Industries where coal was displaced , but in the now ones , which were built UD on natural gas alone , that the chief value of the latter lay. When the gas boom came on whole new furnaces and factories , whose capitalization mounted easily into the hundreds of millions. Some of tlicso towns sprung up In a night and n day. The town of drapovllle , a Ilttlo way from Plttsburg , was only one example In mfiny. It is a literal fact that ono fall the hills where this town now stands were bare almost of so much as a dwelling house , and in the following fall there was a thriving , booming town of 22,000 people and something like forty factories. It bad nil the conveniences , all the "modern Im provements" of a big city , water works , electric lights , street railroads , an opera house and all the rest. The census of 1&90 docs not even name the place. And what was trtio hero was true all OVIT western Pennsylvania and Ohio and Indiana. From fifty miles east of Plttsburg ilmnst to Chicago cage there was a string of those gas toune , Flndlay , Fostorla , Munclo , Anderson and a raft of others , where men grew rich In a day. Sometimes the gas was found In scat tered localities , and again it seemed to lie In hugo fields. The biggest of thb latter , what was known as tbo Murrayvlllo field was something llko twelve or fifteen miles wide and fully forty miles 1033. The latter , 1 believe , is still going. Sometrme.s the wells were found in the very midst' Ilttlo towns , and then ngutn , and perhaps for the most part , on the 'arms. Hundreds of farmers that bad joon able to make only a bun living for rears , suddenly found themselves wealthy. When the boom -struck the country ovcry- jody was moro or > lcss looking around , hop- ng that ho would' ' smtco a wen .ioxt. The atter did not cost very much to put down , and it was a big * gamble , for where a rich veil was struck It often meant a fortune. HUNDREDS OP WELLS NEVER USED. I say often. This la where ono of the big arts of the waste came In. If ono man truck gas , everybody lso for miles around ikowlso went boring for it. Gangs of well torero went through the country , striking Job wherever they , could. Sometimes they tut down a well "for cash , and sometimes ust on a "spec. " It naturally followed that ' , where ono good .wall was found , the same c crvotr was tapped a dozen or twenty Imea , tbo value of 'all of them went down orrespoudtngly. And sometimes they went own so far that they were utterly worth- ess. Many a farmer or speculator or syn- Icato put down a well , expecting to got Ich out of It , and then discovered , often when they had etruck a bit ? flow , that there vas no market for the gas. You might think that some of the longer leaded ones would simply put a cap over ho pipe bottle tbo EOS up , so to speak , nd wait for the day when it would become aluablo , But In hundreda upon hundreds f Instances , they did nothing of the sort , ut simply let U burn , hoping that ono day purchaser would como along and take lie thing off their bands , There la no roomer or doubt that literally billions of feet of ; aa woe dissipated In thin Air la Just this way. And all thli ga never appeared In ny utatlfltlcs of production or In the amount f coal displaced. It was simply thrown But if enormous quantities were wasted a this fashion , evea greater quantities FURNITURE AND CARPET CO. . 1313-15-17 Farnam St. THE CO UJ 1 WHAT IS CHEAPNESS ? A ( ten O m ( 1X Cheapness is not peculiar to prices , Goods arc oftener cheaper than the prices 0r o Particularly is this true of household wares , and when it is discovered the purchaser r UJ feels that it is another case of "gold brick , " Not one of our thousands of patrons ever cu experienced this feelingWe have no cheap goods , though no one disputes the C/3 / cheapness-of our prices , Household furniture that costs careful judgment , " artistic powers and the highest workmanship , and is sold at the lowest prices , is the only real cheap furniture on the top of this earth. It is such that crowds our eight floors , The STtEL RANGES The CO Cold , 'Peoinsulaf' ' ' We sell the Gem Ideal and will take pleasure in showing ctfc Days it to any one. Look at this or M inter nrc week's prices. A Gem Ideal Burners UN. The wi"-stccl worth range , anywhere . ; J"Vt , ! " "ulcrand any time $40 , " " Xeeil no woril * z : D of iiralne to cold nna MU nr ly tlllS Week nlllrsu their DO woiithcr In yet to . . . e.xeellenee. O ID omno. Arc you prc- IDT T tvlm nre not nor- tec them to COCO llllt UN to Nlll f Cht hcnt : i roitniN nil "KSTATI3 OAIC , " nil winter on two ( OHM the only noft onnl of eoul. Ank jour nelKht CO Nlovc In the worlil lors IUMV they like the m Hint. will keep u "I'enhiMii Inr. " 1'rleo PI roiitlititniiM lire for / - = r c = r" PIe IT hour * ) ( lit * only + efcj/-pc ( * ) o Hiift oonl Hlovo ( lint rim lit * mime IIH n IIIIMO IIIII-IKT , o IIIK ! tvlutt'H more , It Stovef How nltniit n Cook UIIN < N only \Ve onvry iihonl illfferent All Sold Goods oil . liiimontto iiinkeM. KlvliiK1 nn . ' AM. GOUI1S SOMJ OX KASV 1'AYMKXTS UJ Easy Payments. iiHHortiuent nt rlillenloiiM lirleeN. 'I'liU week 11 line CL A Revolution Cook Slove ( not exactly COCO The Best Carpet Chance like cul ) worth CC in Bedding1. qtlU.OO , for CO CCO of the Season. I COoi CCQ .tp. Half AVool O oi A nice Comfort , worth Ingrain CnniutH Tfie All AVool Q One. n little liottor , worth FURNITURE. if.'I.OO , thlH week ijU.OO posted in A Imrvost for baycra A very line Comfortworth IlrilNNOlN the furniture line. , - , i ? i , : tr. ) ? > < )0 ) , thlH week sec Alt excellent Illiinkct , A'elvetN . - . ? : : > oo a : worth iUM : > (111 * week. . . . i-tl.r.O IH-tl llooiu SnlN. A Kiinil Ciillfornlii Illnnket , D Tioi-Mi 1-I.IO , thlu . . ? - week. Draperies. Iron Ilc < l A very lienry Illnnket , ijT.r.o tvorth if ( ! . ( ) ( ) , ( Ills -neek. . . . I. ace Curtains Tulile CO A iinlr of ( I iiouiiil IMIliMVH , ccD worth It.OO , thlH ivcek. . . . Curtains Slilelionril . . D A iinlr of line Kentlier IMI- Too IjCU.OO lloplcrr IOWN , worth 1-tl , ( Ills week HiKIn HOMO leather Neat i linlr of live Keene I'on-Ak MAOXiriCHXT DISPLAY OP ther 1'lllon-N , tvorlh i C.OO.V Sllknllne 1IOMDAV COODS IX Tllli COm thin vteek ui m\ All tiooilH Sold on Kaxy rnymcnlH. 1IASKMHXT. mUJ UJJ m - JCL Open until Be sure you CL CLO O 6:30. : get the right UJ m CL , Saturday place o until a LUX r X 10 o'clock. tn * * CO AlSl ' 91SI 'SISI "QQ XHdHVO QNV were wasted In tbo way that the gas was used. Take the city of Puttsburg as an example. There , today , natural gas is burned under a pressure of half an ounce. For years It has been under a pressure of eight pounds , that u to say , at sixty times the prcssuro that It Is now used. And oven this is fully four times as strong a pressure as would be required for use in the most economical way. N1NKTI3BN-TWI3NTIBTHS WASTED. It will not , of course , bo fair to jump at the conclusion that something HUe 250 tlmca as much gas was burned up as was actually required , but still , I think It could bo said that at least 19-20ths of all the gas used In Plttsburp was absolutely , recklessly and criminally wasted. 1 speak by the card when I say that In five ycara Plttsburg burned up enough gas to supply all Its factories und furnace for the next century. And dearly now Is It paying for Its folly. In the flush times of the boom , gas was sold In Plttsburg at 2 or 3 cents per 1,000 feet. It was piped through the streets and sold In the houses , at first under contract , at perhaps not moro than twlco this. Then when the supply began to fall , meters were put in and the prlco was put up to 10 cents , then to 1C , then to 25 , and now it is so high that produced gas Is able to compete with it. What is true of Plttsburg is true of hun dreds of other localities. The town of Findlay - lay , 0. , sprung from 0,000 to 30,000 in two years , There , you know , they struck the the famous Karg well , whoso flow ranged around 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 feet per day , and then a still larger ouo whoso flow of 30,000,000 feet at first was 18,000,000 feet when It settled down to steady work. Con template this enormous flow thcr6 was lit erally eo much gas that the people did not know what to do with It , and then remem ber that for a long tlmo It was thought tbo flow would last forever. Hero you have all the conditions for waste In the most reck less fashion. As soon as drilling for gas became a reg ular Industry tbo cost of the \volls was brought down to a minimum , and there was seldom a place where a "wlld-catter" could not go and ralso money to drlvo a h'jlc. The cost of the wells ranged from $1,500 $ to $5,500 , In tbo neighborhood around Plttsburg , whcro it was necessary to go down 1,800 to 2,800 foot. As you wont westward this steadily declined , so that In many localities in Ohio and Indiana the cost of a well was not over $1,200 and $1.500 , and around Brio and Buffalo only $800 or $1,000. GAS TORCHES FOR FARMS. At this rate It was often cheaper ; to drlvo . a well than io lay ovni a short pipe line ( to ono already in existence , In fact , In I I Bomo localities every farmer was his own gas company. Out in , Indiana there were four farmers who put do\ytv. aell for $1,300 that supplied them with all the fuel they could use for heating their houses and running their farm machinery and left enough over to light a torch that illumi nated all four farms. They could go plowIng - Ing and harvesting at night. In Fostorla and Flndlay and Munclo am hundreds of other places , the wells wcr allowed to burn all the tlmo Just for th flno sight they afforded at night. And 1 didn't oven seem worth whtlo to put them out by day. The roar of those wells stl rings In thp ars of the people who hear them , but In many places the torches ar extinguished and they will never bo llghtci again. You auk why all this reckless waste wa continued even lu the face of the fac that many fields failed after a short tlmo Well , in the case of the furnaces , thcr was for a tlmo a theory that high pres sure was needed to liwuro perfect com bustlon. They drove the gas Into th furnaces with the velocity of a cyclone The result was that the great bulk of was never burned In the turnacca at al v\w \ HOW A VAST STORE OF NATURAL WEALTH WAS WASTED. but went up In clouds of smoke through the chimney. Then again , there were billions of feet of natural gas burned elm- ply in the manufacture of lampblack. Nobody - body ever thought of using the gas twlco , oven where it was perfectly feasible to do HO. THE GAS WAS FJIEB TO ALL , Some of the companies tried to stop this sort of thing , but what could they do ? Anybody could put down a well , and pipe gas , and the result was that the compa nies were absolutely at the mercy of the consumcifl. The latter could do Juat what 'they pleased. In Plttsburg the Philadel phia company alone at ono tlmo eupplltd 1,500 million cubic feet of gas per day. And it was only one of a dozen or moro distributors. Most of the gas was used under contract , or else four or five neigh boring factory onncrs would combine and build a plpo line for themselves. Then everyone used Just as much aa ho could , for fear someone cl o would get more , and then mvoro that the other parlloi \voro getting all the gas. In the cato of the furnaces , many of them were kept at whlto heat all the time , day and night , whether they wore in use or not. If any body expostulated , the foreman wo'ild ex plain that the men had forgotten to turn off the etipply. Now note the result. In Plttsburg , as I said , ( ho prlco of natural gas has risen so high that manufactured BAH successfully competes with It. All over the whole urvu where gas la found , there Is the name utory of falling fields. A'ery often factories that were built up over a gas well have been compelled to move elsewhere In order to get cheaper fuel nud power. Plants that were worth millions of dollars have had to mid coal bunkers , now 'that the gas has given out. In many places , too , towns and cities went to largo expense to build extensive piping systems and very often elaborate plants to make the natural gas tniltablo for lighting purposes. In many places whcro this was done the supply has given out and tlicso plants made worthless unless other plants for the regular manufacture of gas have been added. AN ESTIMATE OF THE AVASTE. It In Impossible to compute the extent of the failure of the gas Holds or to put the wastage into dollars. An attempt to do so would be nothing moro than the wildest guess , nut It is possible to get aomo Idea of the reduced flow from the fact that , ac cording to the figures of government experts , the amount of coal displaced by natural gas Is now about halt what It was flvotfr - six years ago. Add to this the fact that ' the gas Is now being used at a few ounces pressure , where before It was used at six or eight pounds , and you get some notion of the difference. Then as to the waste. If 500.000,000,009 feet were actually consumed In 1SS9 , as the census experts estimated , It Is safe to say that In the ten years the total production. counting all that was consumed nnd all that was never used at all , must have been above flvo thousand billion feet. I be- Ilovo tbo latter figure would actu ally bo far under the mark. At an average of C rents a thousand fret , which Is far under the average value of tbu gas at the present time , tha total value of the gas produced In these ten years would bo $250,000.000. What proportion of this was actually wasted , no man , of course , could say. My own view , as I have already stated , Is that fully ntnotccn-twcutlcths waa absolutely thrown away. The flnalo of the story Is this : If any * thl in ; llko an approach to ordinary eco nomical use had been made there would bo Etlll gas enough to last for generations. From not spending a few dollars to put a cap over tha unuucd wells , many a city throughout the gas regions now languishes and many a man , who let hla ens go to \vasto , would now bo Independently wealthy , or If ho did not use the gas would leave a heritage for his children , If ho had merely taken the precaution to cpciid a few dollars for one of these same caps. All told , the waste of our natural gas Is the most reckless uxamplo I know of a per fectly needless and reckless dissipation of ono of the greatest natural icHourccs of the country. Yet I do not doubt that If anew now gas field of equal value were to bo found , the same story would bo repeated lu almost every detail. If. F. JOKOSA , Ph. D. Washington Star : "It's queer , " remarked the earnest man , "what sentiments you havu from unexpected sources. " "What's the matter now ? " inquired his cynical friend. "I've just been listening to Senator Sorg- num. lou Know winu ume-irieu iwisier of the facts in a case lit ) Is. Ho talked for ten minutes , bewailing the fact that moro people do not tell the truth , " "That's easily understood. The senator's Beginning to bo worried by tbo competi tion. " WOMEN xin WOMEN OwLTnro moil com. petent to fully nppriclato the purity , imu DCH , nnd delicacy of Curicuiu Heir , cad todlicovornowuaciforltdtlly. 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