You “want to be an angel?” Well, no need to look solemn; If you haven’t got what you desire, Put an ad. in the want column. The Presbyterian church at Rouseville, torn down years ago, was built, paid for, furnished handsomely and run nine months before having a settled pastor. Not a lottery, fair, bazaar or grab-bag scheme was resorted to in order to raise the funds. The Salvation Army once scored a sensational hit in the oil-regions. A lieutenant struck a can of nitro-glycerine with his little tambourine and every house in the settlement entertained more or less Salvation-Army soldier for a month after the blow-up. “Like a sawyer’s work is life— The present makes the flaw, And the only field for strife Is the inch before the saw.” “What are the wages of sin?” asked the teacher of Ah Sin, the first Chinese laundryman at Bradford, who was an attentive member of a class in the Sunday-school. Promptly came the answer: “Sebenty-flive cente a dozen; no checkee, no washee!” The first sound of a church-bell at Pithole was heard on Saturday evening, March 24, 1866, from the Methodist-Episcopal belfry. The first church-bell at Oil City was hung in a derrick by the side of the Methodist church, on the site of a grocery opposite the _Blizzard_ office. At first Sunday was not observed. Flowing-wells flowed and owners of pumping wells pumped as usual. Work went right along seven days in the week, even by people who believed the highest type of church was not an engine-house, with a derrick for its tower, a well for its Bible and a tube spouting oil for its preacher. “If you have gentle words and looks, my friends, To spare for me—if you have tears to shed That I have suffered—keep them not I pray Until I hear not, see not, being dead.” Many people regard religion as they do small-pox; they desire to have it as light as possible and are very careful that it does not mark them. Most people when they perform an act of charity prefer to have it like the measles—on the outside where it can be seen. Oil-region folks are not built that way. [Illustration: UP THE ALLEGHENY RIVER.] -RICHBURG, N.Y. 1879- -TARPORT AND TUNA VALLEY- GENERAL VIEW OF BRADFORD. ECONOMITE WELLS OPPOSITE TIDIOUTE A GLIMPSE OF WARREN -BABYLON- EXCHANGE HOTEL TIDIOUTE 1863 TIDIOUTE 1876 XI. A BEE-LINE FOR THE NORTH.