a
' WIND vetoes.
Wind, that art wailing through the night.
With the voice of a soul in pain!
Thou hast waked the waves that slept on the
shore:
I hear them rise. and dash once more -
'Gainst the sullen. fixed and changeless rock
Which has- stood unmoved through many a
shock .
or the raging storm. and the breakers white
That must sweep to the sea again. .
Wind. that art wailing through the night,
With the voice of a soul in pain!
Thou hast waked the passion or wild regret,
Which slumbered so long-J—to rage and fret
'Gainst the pitiless. fixed decrees of life: -‘ ~
As well» may the waves with the rock hold
strife! - *
Back—to the tide of the Infinite,
Poor heart, that has ‘crled invain!
Wind. that art wailing through the night, -
With the voice of a soul in paint
Thou hast gathered up'each cry of earth
That from mortal anguish ever had birth,
At the door of the living to enter in,
Weeping for sorrow and death and sin:
Yet heart. make answer, . “God's will is
right." '
And rest in His peace again.
—Mary Gorges, in Chambers' Journal.
LOST RIVER IS A WONDER ’
The Remarkable Features of an
Indian Stream.
.————.——
It Disappears and Rises Again Several
Miles Away—A Subterranean Water-
fall. and Caverns Descending
to Its Banks.
—-._._
Of all those vagaries of nature which
attract’both scientist and curio seeker
in southern Indiana there is none, per-
haps, more interesting and more mys-
terious than Lost river, which takes a
second lease of life in-the upper world
this place, writes an Orangeville (1nd.)
correspondent to the Chicago Record.
For fourteen miles or more in an air
line—for fifty miles and more if all
the ramifications and gyrations of the
bed are followed—this river flows un-
der the surface of the earth. It enters .
its subterranean way by running into a
hill. It emerges, clear and cold, from'
beneath the base of a tall bluff. In a.
nutshell, a river, or, rather, a good-
.sizcd creek, rises in W'ashington county,
{lows a short distance, and disape
pears in a hole in the ground. Miles
away, at Orangeville, in Orange county,
ii reappears, and thereafter in most re-
spects behaves itself like any other
stream until it loses its waters in the
mist fork of the White river and event-
ually in the beautiful Ohio.
This stream has something Of a coun-
terpart in Stamper’s creek, which sinks
near where Lost river sinks and rises
at Spring Mills, forming the soilrce of.
l-‘rench Lick creek. That these streams
iiow. for so many miles under ground
seems due to the curious geological
structure of this portion of the country.-
There are hills rising from th-nee to four.~
hundred feet, seemingly independent 01‘
.-::ch other. The country is wild and
the timber land in many cases is still
untouched; Lost river flows in ordi-
::ary channels until it commences to
lose itself in sink holes. These sink
holes are common. The whole country
"eems to be hollow. ' The subterranean
channel of the river is not a simple,
straight, cavernous opening like a sew»
or, through which the water rushes,
but is a complex arrangement of mains
a nd leads in two distinct systems, each
of which is a counterpart of the dry bed
on thesaurface of the ground. In ordi-
nary weather all the water. in the river
is taken in at the first sink hole. The
water simply flows into a hole just as if
it were flowing into a great sewer.
When there have been heavy rains and
the flow of water is greater, it appears
that all the channels and chambers of
lire lower subterranean system are
filled, and the overflow water runs along
the dry bed for several miles until it
reaches a second sink hole, where it dis.
appears. In times of unusually high
water this second system of channel
chambers is fillpd, and the overflow
zushes down the dry bed of the river
on the surface, like any other stream.
All of these systems reunite at Orange-
‘rille—or, at least, very near there. The
:ystem through which the ordinary
<. :irrcnt runs appears from the bluff. on
which the village is built. The dry bed .
circles around the village and merges
with the bed ofthe stream as it reap-
pears, just below the village. About a
mile further down the second channel
chamber system gives up its water and
the reunited stream is regular there-
after. The channels do not follow the
course of each other, however. In sev—
eral places the lowest channel is several
miles from the dry bed. All are more
(21‘ less in connection with each other
and many curious phenomena result.
For instance, about ten miles east of
()rangeville the dry bed and the lovVest
<<hannel are connected by three open-
ings,which are known as “wet-weather
rises.” It is knOWn that the lowest
channel receives a large amount of
water from underground branches dur~
ing its course. Sometimes these
branches supply more than the usual
:zmount of water and the, ovérfiow is
forced up through these three openings
into the dry‘bed. Then there is the in-
ieresting i'spectacle Of 'water flowing in
ihc lowest and the t0p systems, but
none in the middle system. ’
The dry bed of the river is not an open
channel. It has the appearance of the
bed of an ancient river long since gone
dry. Not only is there the usual vege-
table and timber growth common to
river 'banks’along its shores, but in the
bed itself are to be found majestic for-
est- trees. It presents one of the wild-
est and 'mOSt picturesque scenes imag-
inable when filled with rushing waters
following a heavy rain, the stream-
_ seemingly being lest‘in the depths of
the forest. The timber growth is heavi-
est in the bed of the stream itself.
The underground stream winds and
twists about like any surface stream.
It has. its shallow placcs‘and its'deep'
falls and its tribiitariesy About eight
miles from Oran’gevillé a ”cavernous
passage leads‘from the surface of .the
ground .. to. the; brink-4 of the dark
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' in‘ every valley.
stream. The descent is gradual and
several years ago two white men and a
negro took. a. boat in and explored the
river for several miles, finally being
stopped by a waterfall. The-current
became very swift just before they
started to return, and for awhile it
looked as though the party would be
carried 'by the dark w‘aters over the
falls to a' fate fascinating in its horror.
i The stream can also be reached through
a small cave in the side of a hill: near
this point. Indeed, natives say that it
can be reached almost anywhere. Sink
holes, large and small, are to be found
Fer a native to stick a
fence rail down one of these, climb
down and get a drink and then out by
the same means, is a feat of only or-
dinary occurrence. ' The Whole country
hereabouts seems to _be honeycombed
‘ by underground streams, of which
Lost river and Stamper’s creek are but
' surface developments.
One of the most interesting phenom-
' cna of this great underground water
_ . . of this country. '\
system is what is known as Lost River
gulf. Less than a mile north of the
village there seems to be a sort of
break in the high tableland on which
the surrounding farms and homes are
located. Here a deepa‘avine, or, rather,
a series of four ravines uniting in the
shape of a great star, are formed.
These ravines are covered with dense
underbrush and many large forest
trees. On the southeast side the land
is somewhat lower than on other sides
and a river bed seems to stretch away
for half a mile or so, one of the features
of the depression being a huge pile of
weather-worn limestone rocks which
appear in' the ancient river. These
ravines run down‘ about seventy-five
feet from the level of the surrounding
country and there meet the surface
of this gulf. The gulf itself is about
four hundred feet in circumference.
its waters come from no one knows
where. No one knows how deep it is.
f or its banks are the sides of the ravine,
and are almost perpendicular. The
water is clear and very cold, showing
that it has long been under ground.
If perfect silence on‘the part of the
visitor is "maintained for some time,
blind fishes will appear on the surface
of the gulf and will swim slowly
around with their upturned white
mouths close to the surface in search
of food. The slightest noise will
disturb them; their sense of hear-
ing is their only protection from an
enemy. Blind crayfishes also are to
be found in the gulf in the shallow
water where the great white pool emp-
ties itscif.
To the west and to the northeast
the great ravine lengthens itself, and at
the extremes of the ravine in these
directions the waters of the‘gulf proper
flow under the blufis at these points.
The “opening into swhich the -wes’r
streams discharges itself is somewhat
larger than its counterpart and-can be
entered for ten or twelve feet.
times of wet weather on the area
drained by. this stream the water in
the gulf risesphigher and higher, until
it overflows the southeast side, where
the land is lower, find the rushing
flood sweeps across the fields over the
great limestone ‘rocks heretofore men-
tioned, losing itself in the dry bed of
Lost river. Just what portion of the
county is drained by this stream is
not known. The stage of water in the
gulf is entirely independent of the wa-
ter at Orangeville or in this vicinity.
and the coolness of the water, the
blind fish, and all other circumstances,
clearly show that the water flows for
a great distance through a subter-
ranean channel. The pressure neces-
sary to raise the water in the gulf high
enough to overflow into the dry bed of
Lost river is enormous, almost enough
to move the everlasting hills them-
selves.
There are no wells at Orangeville.
in the first place, no one would dare to
dig one :for fear he would fall through
the botttOm into one of these subter-
ranean streams. The earth hereabouts
is hollow. Sink holes in barnyards,
into which one might toss a stone and
hear the splash of water, are too com-
mon to be noticed by a native. Then,
wells are not necessary. These gulfs
and springs are too numerous. At the
top of the bluff from under which Lost
river appears there is a Windlass ar-
rangement, called a “telegraph” by
the natives, by means of which a bucket
is drawn up full of water. A similar
arrangement is in uSe at the gulf of
Lost river. .
Orangeville is some distance _from
any railroad, has no hotel, and, gener-
ally. speaking, is not much of a town,
but in matters of interest to a tourist
, it has more to the square fool than any
other. village in the Ohio valley.
_ The Migration of Brains.
A medical authority asserts that a
post-mortem examination of the fin-
gers of a blind man discloses, at the
tips,'a deposit identical with the gray
matter of the brain. It has for years
been a noted fact that blind people
become marvelously apt in detecting
things with their fingers, and this
statement gives rise to the query just
what is brain matter, and‘how does it
act? This authority seems inclined'to
the belief that nature compensates for
the ‘loss of sight by transferring to the
finger-tips some of the perceptive mat-
ter of the brain, and this accounts for
the supersensitiveness of the touch of
people of defective vision. Blind per-
persons who perform no manual labor
have very delicate hands and finger—
tips, and there may be some truth in
the theory of a brain migration. It is
quite as plausible, however, to believe
that there are in the finger-tips latent
cells that develop when the necessity
for them presents itself. Indeed, this
seems much more likely than that there
is any actual transference of brain
matterjrom one part of the body to
‘ another.—N. Y. “Ledger.
places, its eddies, its ripplesgitslwatcr- 7
resembling the ”Ordinary. soft felt hats
now much used in the rural districts
V
In~
—The petasus was a Roman hat, pon- .
- sisting of crown and brim, and closely
Mrs. Luther C. Whitney and» son
Frank are on the sick" list.
James M. Creagh of Bethel is a guest
of James M. Creaghof. Nor-walk. '
Two Lives Saved. \
Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City,
“Ill. was told by her doctors she had Con-
sum tion, and that there was no hope
for er, but two bottles of Dr..King’s
New Discovery completelycured her and
she says it saved her life. Mr. Thomas
Eggers, 139 Florida St., San Francisco,
suffered from a dreadful cold, approach-
ing Consum tion; tried without result
everything e so, then bought one bottle
of Dr. King’s New Discovery and in two
weeks was cured. 4 He is uaturally thank-
ful. It is such results, of which these are
samples, that prove the wonderful efficacy
of this medicine in coughs and colds.
Free trial bottles at E. R. Weed’s Drug
Store, Norwalk and Monroe’s New Ca-
naan. Regular size 50c. and $1.00.
The Over River school dance will be
held at the Athenaeum, next Friday
evening.
Mrs. Ira Brothertou has been sick
with what her physician pronounces to
be diabetes.
Dr. Hand’s (Jolie Cure in Sozuh'Boeton.
South Boston, Mass, March 19,
1895.—'—‘ ‘Dr. Hand’s Bemediesfor Chil-
dren have been of such benefit to me, I
desire to write a short testimonial. I
am the mother of six children, and in
the past few years have used' Dr.
Hand’s Colic Cure and Dr. Hand’s
Chafing Powder, and would never be
without them. For colicky babies
nothing ever made equals Dr. Hand’s
Colic'Cure.—-Mrs. Charles E. Molloy:
17 Vinton street.” At H. R. Hale’s, 250
An excellent picture of C. Ford Seeley
and his bicycleappears in Spaulding’s
official bicycle guide.
Miss Marjorie and Master Franklin
Bishop 'are sick with the measles at
their home on Belden avenue.
Old People,
Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys ‘will
find the true remedy in Electric Bitters.
This medicine does not stimulate and
contains no whiskey nor other intoxi-
caut, but acts as a tonic and alterative. It
acts mildly on the stomach and bowels,
adding strength and giving tone to the
organs, thereby aiding Nature in the
performance of the functions. Electric
Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids
digestion. Old People find it just exact-
ly what they need. Price fifty cents and
$1.00 per bottle at E. P. Weed’s Drug
Store Norwalk and Monroe‘s New' Ca-
naan. .
The Girls Literary Club issued invi-
tations yesterday for a dance to be
given byv'them in the Ath'emeum on the
14th. It is looked forward'to by many
see large number of invitations have
been sent to the friends of the girls.
Dr. Hand's Remedies for Childven. .
New Haven, Conn., 71 William St.—
“I first knew of Dr. Hand’s Remedies
for Children five years ago, and I am
continually recommending other
mothers to use them, and always with
the best results. My baby was deathly
sick with cholera iufautum, and Dr.
Hand’s Diarrhoea Mixture cured it al-
most immediately. Dr. Hand’s Colic
Cure is also excellent—Mrs. N. A.
Daniels.” Dr. Hand’s Colic Cure and.
Dr. Hand's Diarrhoea Mixture are sold
by H. R. Hale. 25c.
The Golden Rule Circle of K. D., will
give a cake sale in Raymond’s grocery
store on Main street next Friday after-
noon from 2 to 5 o’clock.
If the ground-hog came out of his
bun-ow Sunday with the expectancy of
being able to see his shadow he was in
no wise disappointed in finding it.
Rheumatism Cured In a Day.
“Mystic Cure” for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in 1' to 3 day s.
[is action upon the system is remark-
able and mysterious. It removes at
once the cause and the disease imme-
diately disappears. The first dose
greatly benefits, 75 cents. Sold by W
A. V026! and Edward P. W'eed, Drug-
gisis, Norwalk. jan-l-ly
Selectman Isaac Sellcck says that if
they wish, the Y. M. C. A. can purchase
a lot on High street at the rear of the
Centennial building at $.50 per front
foot.
The Hewley buildings at the corner
of Main and Keeler street, Danbury,-
burned down some weeks since. are to
be rebuilt as soon as the weather will
permit.
Bucklln's Arnlca Salve.
The Best Salvein the world for Guts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hende-
Chilblaiue, Corns and all Skin Erui.
”one, andpnsitivelyoures Piles. or or-
Payrcquired. It is guaranteed to gim-
perfectsatisfaction,or money refunded
Price 25 cents per hnx. For Sal: by
E. P. Weed, Norwalk and Monroe,
New Canaan .
The Condition of Miss Esther L.
Smith W410 has been confined to'her
bed at her home on West avenue for
the past fourteen weeks, does not seem
to improve.
V
Very Popular in Minnesota.
We have a good trade on Chamber-
. ain’s Cough Remedy; in fact sell as
nuch of it as of all other cough medi-
~":ines combined and we handle 'more
ban adozen different kinds.—.RAE &
EETERSEN, Druggists, Pelecan Rar'ls,
) inn. '
This remedy is popular because :5: can I
Llways be depended upon. Its prompt-
aess 1n curing bad colds. crcup, and
whooping cough, maker: fl; a fav0rite
jvermvhere. For sal’ ‘v E. .3. Wood.
llruggist. . >
Another "measles‘in this house” card
-hus appeared on‘lhe door of another
huuw on Orchard sheet, and unless
the usunlfsigns fail there will be still
another one in 11 um time ’ ’
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MISCELLANEOUS prams.
which they cultivated with sedulous
care.
—In the twelfth and thirteenth cen-
turies the French and Spanish nobility
wore hats profusely ornamented with
gold braid, feathers and sometimes
precious stones. -
-.—Ludwig IV. of Germany and Otto
III. of the same country were each
designated the Infant. The first as‘
cended the throne at the age of seven;
the second at the age of three.
-—Dr. John A. Smith, a dentist, [of
Staten Island, N. Y., while pulling a
cident.
ing, it is feared, the permanent loss of
sight.
—The destruction of life in modern
warfare is something frightful. In
the Franco-Prussian war from August
thousand Germans ; and French were
killed outright. to say nothing of the
many thousands more who afterwards
died in the hospitals from their wounds.
-—A Yorkshire plasterer'who was up
for bigamy before the West Riding-
assize"court explained that he had sold
his first wife to another man some
years before for three shillings and six-
pence, and as she had gene of willing-
ly he had decided to have nothing more
to do with her. He was found guilty,
however. *‘
——Valladolid, Spain, the Roman Pin-
tia dud the Moorish Belad Walid,‘ was
recovered by the Christians by Ordono
II., the first king of Leon, A. D. 914-23.
It became the capital of Castile in the
fifteenth century. It was taken by the
French J anuary, 1808, and captured by
the English June 4, 1813.
"Christopher Columbus May 20, 1506.
-—Robert Emmet, the Irish patriot
and orator, was born in Cork, in 1780,
and in early life became one of the
leaders of the “United Irishmen._” In
July, 1803, he led a party of insurgents
which killed Lord Kilwarden, then
chief justice of Ireland, and several
others. The insurgents were soon dis-
persed by the troops. Emmet was ar-
rested, and, after having defended
himself with great eloquence, was sen-
tenced to death. He was executed in.
September, 1803.
-'—The first white child born in Man-
hattan island was Isaac du Trieux,
son of Philip du Trieux and Susanna,
his wife, who, according. to the records
of the Reformed Dutch church in New
Amsterdam, first saw the light on
April 21, 1642. The distinction of being
the first born- New Yorker of white
parents is sometimes claimed for Isaac
Bedlew. But the date of the latter’s
birth was 1643. The first white child
born within the limits of New Xork
State appears to have been Sarah Rap-
elje, daughter of Joris Rapelje, who
was born at Albany, June 9, 1625.
_ —A man who gave his name as George
Wilkins committed a bold robbery of
the ticket office of the Montana,_Central
depot at Butte, Mont, recently. An
Anaconda, when he ran to the ticket
window and grabbed a sack containing
about fifty dollars and, before anyone
could catch. him, jumped upon the
train and was gene. A switch engine
with several policemen was soon in
pursuit, and after a hot race of ten
miles the passenger train was over-
taken and -the robber arrested. The
money, however, was not recovered.
He had evidently passed it to a confed-
erate. , __;_
OUTLETS AND ONION SAUCE.
The Preparation of a Dish That Is Very
Palatable.
There is an undoubted prejudice
against onions still existing in country
districts. French cookery has largely
rooted out this prejudice in the- Cities,
and many city housewives do not at-
tempt their soup or meat braizes and
stews without a little of the flavor of
the onion. Most croquettes and minces
of meat and other “made" meat dishes
require this among the many flavors
of herb and vegetable which 'go- to
making them perfect. In all these
dishes the onion is used sparingly, and
does not. assert itself as it does in
soubise sauces and onion soup, of
which it is a component part. The
onion is one of the most wholesome
and valuable vegetables we have, and
it is an ignorant prejudice that has so
largely prohibited its useqin general
cookery. For cutl ts with soubise
sauce egg bread crumbs and fry in
boiling fat six nice cutlets. Those
taken from the shoulder and neck are
juicy and inexpensive. Be careful to
trim them if they are lamb or mutton,
removing all the fat you can, especial-
ly on the outside of the chop, as this is
the fat that often imparts a strong
flavor. To prepare the soubise or on-
,ion sauce boil three white onions in
:water for half an hour. take them up,
throw of! the water, put them into a
mixture of half water and half milk,
hour longer, or until they are soft
enough to mash through a colander.
cream sauce or white sauce; let it boil
up once andvpour it around the chops.
——N. Y. Tribune.
Stub Ends of Thought.
The ‘superlative egotist is the indi-
vidual who finds fault with everything
except himself.
Prosperity is one of the things we
don’t think we have until we lose it.
A man 'never think: but once that a
woman’s temper isn’t loaded.
A patient forgets 110w glad he was to
see the doctor, when the doctor comes
around with a bill, after he is well.
N o m'an is a romantic hero to 3 mar-
ried woman. -
‘A man can’t take, a , woman’s word
for anything—he must take a. dozen or
more. _ '
A man who will borromand not pay
is too great a coward to steal.
If a man’s head were broken every
time his promises were broken he
; would be in ahospital'most of the year.
I
animalg—Denbit Free Press. ‘
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—The early Saxons seldom w'ore hats '
and still more seldom caps. Their sole '- .
head covering was the long fiaxen, hair.
patient’s tooth, met with a strange ac-' ‘
The tooth broke and a part of '
it struck the dentist in the eye, cans-i
4, 1870, to August 18, one hundred.
Here died
excursion train was pulling out for.
and let them cook for a quarter of“ an I
Thin this puree of onion with a little'
__Mentally only. man is :t-he superior . "
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