Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 September 1897 — Page 2

THE DAILY BANNER TIMES, GREENCASTLE. INDIANA.

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PT T \ IH1I vr MP EAITRE give no rights to the trustee of the ln-’ bLlAnDlMi 31 h. I ALIiL HOIvent b * nk to 8hare in the apse t s

of the rorpordtion until after the cred-

PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT itors of the corporation have been paid.

THE FRENCH PRESIDENT.

STOVE FOR HOT WEATHER.

It It idiatcft Cold Iniitead of Heat, and

Will He Popular*

Prof. William M. Watts of Still Pond. Md.. has a novelty jn the form of a cold stove. The stove is for use in the boated months of summer for reducing the temperature, just as stoves heated by (Ire are used to raise the temperature in winter. By the use of salt, a small quantity of ice and a patented chemical the most intense degree of cold is secured. So great is the cold that it is as dangerous to touch this cold stove when it is in operation as it would be to place the hand on a tire stove at a high degree of heat. The skin is instantly taken off and painful injuries are the result of the slightest contact. Prof. Watts states that during the hottest weather the temperature of a room may be run down and made pleasant by the use of this novel device. The new process was dicovered by a college mate of the teacher of the Still Pond sehool. The cost of operating the stove is very

slight.

AN EMBRYO TORNADO. c OALINC A B1C steamship.

Average

SI.

N VIEW of the re- ; cent assassination j of Senor Canovas. also the murderous attacks on the kiug \ of Italy and President Faure of France, a clear account of the precautions which are j being taken to prc- ; serve the head of

the French republic from all future dangers of this kind will be of timely interest. The general belief that the French president is constantly attended by a corps of policemen and detectives in uniform Is erroneous. On the contrary, few such persons accompany him on his daily journeys. Still, let a hand be raised against him. and from all quarters paid agents would rush to his assistance. Of course, the Elysee palace Is constantly guarded by soldiers, and policemen are regularly on duty wherever the president may happen to be. Not so much on them, however, do the authorities rely as on the detectives, whom very few see and hardly any one recognizes. Twenty such detectives are constantly at the Elysee. their chief being M. Gourdot. These twenty are divided into two brigades, each of which is on duty every second day. These men are carefully selected by the chief of police, and they receive their instructions from the officer in charge of the presi-

dent's residence.

When the president leaves Paris eleven of these detectives go with him and nine remain at the Elysee. The eleven receive each a salary of 10 frar.es daily, which is paid to them through the minister of the interior. Ten of them are divided into two brigades, and the eleventh acts as a sort of watchdog for the president's carriage, being assisted by five special guardians, who walk on each side of the carriage, two on the left and three on the right, the latter being the side on which the president always sits. These special guardians are expected to take care of the president's person. When he makes a tour through France he is attended by twenty-five or thirty

of them.

MAKES ITS APPEARANCE OVER NEW ORLEANS. It, Ontrif ugHl Action—C.uiie* It to l.irt at the Hottom and Form a Huge Sickle Followed hy llca\y Shower* of Katu.

SING IT.Alt phenomenon met the eyes of those good burghers of New O'Means, says the Times-Demccrat of that city, whose gaze happened to he directed skyward at half-past two o'clock yesterd a y a f t e r n oon.

Some excitedly called out that it was a cyclone, others called it a waterspout, and still others dubbed it whirlwind and tornado. Whatever it was, it was, at all events, very active and menacing for a quarter of an hour, and kept a large portion of the community in painful suspense until it disappeared. The whatever-it-was appeared dramatically over I.ake Pontchartrain, darting down in a lurid, sulphurous

What the I.aw ttcctdci*. An insurance company which under its contract elects to repair and fails to do so is held, in Henderson vs. Crescent Insurance company (l.n.), 35. L. R. A. 385. to he liable for the cost of the repairs without reference to the amount of the insurance, if the assured completes the repairs. The right of a bank to set off the onmatured note of an insolvent depositor against the deposit is held, in Thomas vs. Exchange Bank of Angus (Iowa), 35 L. It. A. 379, to he superior to the rights of the drawee of a check on the deposit, of which the bank had no notice until after it learned of the depositor's insolvency. Applying the doctrine that a loss or injury is due to the act of God where it is occasioned exclusively by natural causes such as c.mld not be prevented by human care, skill and foresight, it is held, in Wald vs. Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railroad company (111.), 35 L. R. A. 356, that an unprecedented flood by reason of which the baggage of a passenger is swept away is an act of God; but that where ticnecessary delay of a carrier made the loss of the property by such flood possible the carrier is liable. A trust under a will to dispose of property among the charitable and benevolent Institutions of a city as the trustees shall choose and in such sums and proportions as he shall deem proper is held, tn People vs. Powers (N. Y.), 35 L. R. A. 502, to be unenforceable because of the failure to designate or describe the class or kind of beneficiaries to whom distribution is practicable, or who can wMth reasonable certainty be identified. The New York laws of 1893, chapter 701, is held inapplicable to such a trust previously created under which the rights of property had become vested. The existence of an unpaid assessment against the shares of stock in a corporation is held, in Craig vs. Hesperia Land and Water company (Cal.), 35 L. R. A. 306, insufficient to justify a refusal to transfer the stock upon its books into the name of another owner. The right of the owners of a majority of the stock in a corporation to agree to be hound by the will of a majority of themselves in voting the stock for a term of five years so as to keep the control of the corporation from passing to other persons is held, in Smith vs. San Francisco & Northern Pacific railroad company (Cal.), 35 L. R. A. 309, to be valid when it was made by persons who united in purchasing a block of stock. In order to render a newly organized corporation liable at common law for the debts of an established corporation or firm to whose business and property it has succeeded it is held, in Austin vs. Tecumseh national hank (Neb.), 35 L. R. A. 444, that It should, in the absence of a special agreement, affirmatively appear that the transaction is fraudulent as to creditors of the old corporation, or that the new corporation is in effect a mere continuation of the former. Overdrafts of a corporation which was entirely owned by one member of a banking firm are held, in Potts vs. fithumucker (Md.), 35 L. R. A. 392, to

Current Toplra.

Therq is no effort for the Improvement of the people that has taken a more prominent form than that showing itself in the establishment and maintenance of public libraries. The multiplicity of books their low cost and the natural love there is of reading have led to the popularizing of public libraries until few villages of any respectable size are without collections of hooks to which the people have free access. Men of wealth have devoted their money to the establishment of large libraries and two of the very best of these in this country are in Chicago, the gifts of public-spirited citizens who left their wealtli for that purpose. ! States generally have provided for the support of public 'libraries, al- | though the average state legislator has about as much use for books as a duck | lias for an umbrella. Of all the states Minnesota has exhibited the best judg- 1 ment in its laws relating to libraries, i There is an annual appropriation made of $10,000 to ere >urage the establishment of public school collections of books. The law provides that $20 shall be given the first year and $10 annually thereafter to any sehool that raises an equal or a greater sum for a library, j the stimulus of which donation has | resulted in a large exc ess of individual giving over the amount donated by the state. This plan has been In operation ' for the last ten years and since it he- j gan over 1,800 public school libraries ! have been established, having an aver- ! age of sixty-five volumes each, making a total of more than 117,000 volumes. This number of books, large as it is, | is not so significant of public interest in the plan as the fac‘ that the growth of each library is continuous, while the j number of them is steadily increasing. ! The plan pursued in the state is not to purchase books at random or ae- j cording to the whims of any one indiv- J idual but to purchase a year's quota of looks devoted to one special subject, so that the result is the formation of a library especially adapted to reference purposes, which supplements the educational work of the school proper. Willie popular works of romance and travels are not omitted the body of the books may Ice considered as sup- | plementary to the text books and the ! work of the teachers. It is not probable that any equlva- I lent sum appropriated for any other | purpose brings the state of Minnesota so large a return as the $10,000 donated to the purchase of hooks for the pub- { lie school libraries and the example of that state might profitably be fol- [ lowed hy any other, especially at the [ west, where large cities are infre- \

Amount turrloil I'T the

I'aul !■ 3,000 Ton*.

All the ships of the transatlantic l ; iies are coaled bv practically the same j Made method. Barges of about 50 tons I capacity are brought alongside of the ! ship, liooms are rigged, and, hy tackle i cinirolled by a donkey engine, steel buckers are lowered to the barge, filled hy four men with shovels, and hoisted to a projecting platform, where two men dump the bucket and shovel the coal into a port hole. It is then tak^n by other men and stowed away in the ship's bunkers. Five and a half of these bucket loads equal a ton, and tally hy count of the buckets is the only record to show how much coal the steamer has taken aboard, in coaling the steamship St. Paul of the American line 48 men are employed inside the ship. The average amount of coal bunkered is 3.000 tons; the time required to unload and stow is about 40 hours, and the total average cost of the work is $1,000 (£200). These figures, varying only with the coal consumption of the ship, will apply to the vessels of the other transatlantic lines. Effort to reduce this expense has been productive of many ingenious mechanical devices, and the inquiry is often raised why none of these are in general use. The answer is gi\en in the

haze, and hanging like a great blue

black icicle from a heavy black pall of ! statement by a representative of one

of the transatlantic lines: "We have

cloud. Although a great distance from the center of the city, it could been seen that the cloud cylinder was revolving at a terrific clip in space. For a while it hung gracefully pendant, then by force the centrifugal action began to lift at the bottom until it had assumed the shape of an enormous sickle, thrust down angrily from heav-

en. ready to mow away all before it. The next change was one of gradinl

dissolution, the tail curling up md then flying off at right angles to the eastward in thin black, vermiculate streamers like snakes. At one time '.a the process of dissolution it looked as if it were going to reform, hut of a sudden gave over the idea and melted away in space, mui li as a cloudlet does

in the blue of a summer day. The local weather observer, although

he had not himself seen the phenome-

had many' offers to deliver coal to our steamers at the rate of anywMiere from 50 to 500 tons per hour, but what is the use wMien we can not take care of :t any faster than we do now." In a modern ship fuel must be stored wherever room can be found that Is not required or available for other purposes. Coal cannot he received on board faster than it can he stored away in the bunkers, which, in the ease of a modern liner, is at the rate of about one and one-half tons per man per hour. More primitive methods prevail in ports ol less importance than those at either end of the Atlantic lines. In the West Indies coaling is almost exclusively done by negro women, who pour in a ceaseless stream over the gang planks, each carrying about 100 pounds of coa! in a basket poised on her head. Ir

THE “HOLY ROLLERS.*’ A NEW SECT OF RELIGIOUS FANATICS. One, N. I_ A. K*»lro:»n Claim* to Be a McKNlati, anil I* Saiil In Perform A*touniliiiK Miracle* llunilreil* Leave Their ( liuri'tie* to Join Him.

A RECENT PHENOMENON IN LOUISIANA.

non, said that from the descriptions he had heard, the vermiform appendix to the big gray cloud was identical wl'h the western tornado. The meteoric conditions, however, were such that the stotm could hardly have done

much damage. Devastation by torn.:-

quent and technical libraries are rare, does Is always accompanied by very

low barometer, 29.80 or 29.70 degrees,

Irony of Fate. Guest—“Who is that pale, frail looking man with spectacles who conies here every evening and drinks a bottle of Apollinaris?" Bartender—“Why, that's the man who writes those lively drinking songs that the students like so."—Jugend.

!(<* fleet lonn. ‘Every man has ids price,'

said the

while there was a high barometric area over this section yesterday. Had the cloud reached down to the earth it might have upset a boat or overturned a house cr two, but as there was little or no forward motion the damage would have been confined to ti e

space of a few hundred feet.

As soon as the cloud had dissolved, or drawn back into the big nimbus from which it was born, heavy showers of rain fell from opposite ends of the

mar. wMth the bald head and the wor- niother cloud and soon cleared the al-

ried air. “but it is a sad state of af- j mosphere.

fairs when he marries and does

get it." Exchange.

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BLUNT THOUCHTOCRAPHS. Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be; such thy deeds as thy affections, such thy life as thy deeds. There is a great struggle between vanity and patience when we have to meet a person who admires us but who

bores us.

One of the highest mountains upon which we may stand in this life, is to be able to look back upon a long life

well spent.

Beware of prejudices. A man's mind is like a rat trap: prejudices creep in

Hi* itoiily wit.

An old lawyer in Paris had instructed his client to weep every time

Mediterranean ports the work is done by men instead of women, hut, for tne most part, with the same primitive instruments—shovel and basket. -Cassier's Magazine.

Turkey Itald on K4ii*ii* .Melon*, H. G. Toler was probably the mid-

dest man in Sedgwick county this morning, and when he left home lie told the boys to kill every turkey Mrs. Toler had on her farm at Tolerville. Mr. Toler is a good eater on most all occasions, hut what he particularly

lik^s is a good ripe cantaloupe. Last

fall Senator Peifer sent him a package of seed from a Tennessee cantaloupe

that the senator said would make Mr.

Toler's mouth water whenever he thought of them, after he had once eaten them. The former owner of

Ashland Wilkes and John R. Gentry

and the present owner of Myron Mc-

Henry planted his cantaloupe seed.-

and hoed them carefully. He pulled every weed that he thought was near

enough to rob those cantaloupes of

OILS' BRADLEY is the 15-year-old son of Mrs. Alice Bradley, a writer of some prominence in Rochester, N. Y. Under an influence which resembled hypnotism in iU most powerful form, the hoy left home and friends to join a hand of religious enthusiasts styled the Holy Rollers. He preached and roused his hearers to a frenzy. His mother's efforts to induce her sou to return were futile. At last the aid of the law was necessary. The boy is now with relatives at South Dansville, many miles from the Holy Rollers' camp. Save for occasional brooding, he led a life such a: most hoys lead out in the open air, free and careless. Then there came into the neighborhood two persons who were destined to exert upon him an influence stronger than that of friends or home or mother. These persons were N. L. A. Kastman and Emma Chase, leaders of a religious sect known as the Holy Rollers. They spoke to Bradley of their belief and urged him to be saved. In a few days a camp-meeting was organized and the exercises begun systematically. Bradley attended. The influence of the meetings was great upon him. He learned to abhor the acts of his past life and to live in a frightful fear of damnation and the tortures of a burning hell. Some two weeks ago he joined the Holy Rollers, convinced that God had called him to preach to his fellow-men. Then Eastman and the woman moved their camp to Bristol Springs, two miles from Seneca Point on Canandaigua Lake. Here Bradley also took up his abode, living for a few days with Eastman at Mill Village, a mile or to away. It cost him nothing for board. He had a few dollars with him when he left South Dansville, but money was nothing to him in his spiritual exultation. and he gladly put it in the Holy Roller collections. Then he preached. It seemed as if the hoy were outside and above himself when he harangued the awestruck audiences which crowded the tent. The people heard him in wonder. They listened to his denunciation of the wickedness and selfishness of the life they were leading, and trembled of his picture of the hell to which they drifted. Many, who had entered the tent doubting on the night the hoy preached were converted by his words. Yet all agreed that It was not so much what he said as a mysterious something which was in his manner and his gestures and the tones of his voice. All the Holy Rollers believed that the hoy was divinely called and Inspired. Prayers of thankfulness were continually offered that he had been reclaimed from the evil of the world to lie the shining light and exponent of the Holy Rollers’ faith. Mrs. Bradley in Rochester learned of what her son was doing. She was also informed that the relatives with whom he had lived at Spilth Dansville had already made one ineffectual attempt to have him return. Mrs. Bradley ascertained where the Holy Rollers were in camp, and wrote a letter to John. He refused to return and was taken by the officers of the law. Learning of the facts as given the writer visited Bristol. The Holly Roller- had announced an all-day meeting. It was to be the last one of the series and of especial value. Incidentally it was communion Sunday, which these strange people observe by passing bits of bread among the congregation in the fingers. All drink wine from the same pitcher. The meeting was well attended Long before the hour for service ar-

from neighboring villages: young girls and women with babies were there, and on the back row was a crowd • f tittering boys,who hardly knew whether to take the whole performance se. • lously or to consider it as a huge joke. Hell is the dominant note in the Hoiy Rollers' belief—a hell of real brimstone burning with flames which eternally torture but never consume the bodies of the damned. For this hell is destined every one who does not accept the faith. Yet it is possible to cheek the course of the river i f death, even on the brink of the awful gulf. Toward this river of death run thousands of tributaries, the vices and weaknesses of humanity depicted In the accompanying chart which the Holy Rollers distribute in great numbers. This strange sect has been operating in Ontario county for some time. They have been the wonder of the community, yet not wholly without good. Stories of men reclaimed from drunkenness and vices are many. Children have been cared for, and those v. hr have been converted are acknowledged to lead upright lives. Of the total enrollment in the country, all are recent converts except Eastman and Miss Chase, who came from the southern part of the state. The hold which the Holy Roller faith has taken or the people of Ontario county is scarcely conceivable. They came from far and near to the services, and all fairly worship Eastman. One enthusiast brought his cows and pastured them in a field near the tent. This was so he would have no necessity of withdrawing until that series

AN ELECTRIC HORSE. THE INGENIOUS DEVICE OF A\ ENGLISH INVENTOR.

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he struck the desk with his hand, but j drop of moisture and last Saturday

forgot and struck the desk at ilie wrong moment. She promptly fell to sobbing and crying. "What is the matter with you?” asked the judge. “Well, he told me to cry as often as he struck the table." “Gentlemen of the Jury,” cried the unabashed lawyer, "let me ask how you can reconcile the idea of crime with such candor and

simplicity?"—LTllust ration.

Him Pipestem Blew Off.

There is a young man in Terre Haute, Ind., who isn't as pretty as he

easily, hut it is doubtful if they ever j was. He bought a big bulldog pipe get out again. the other day and striking an attitude Want of prudence is too frequently on the corner lighted it. The stem was the want of \irtue; nor is there on genuine celluloid and it blew up when earth a more powerful advocate lor it get hot. He can see a little out of vice than poverty. one eye. hut his mustsche is burnt off Don't get the notion that you are cUar to the roots.—Ex.

the greatest person in creation. There are plenty of other people who are

just as small as you are.

The worst penalty of evil doing is to grow into likeness with the had; for each man's soul changes according to the nature of his deeds, for better

or for worse.

An Expensive Son|f.

Cumso—"You say that you bought this delightful country home for a | song’’” Cawker—"Figuratively speaking. yes. Its price approximated that : of a song by Patti."—Detroit Free

i Press.

Mr. Toler had about seventy-five of th* 1 finest cantaloupes he had ever seen. He figured that they would begin to get ripe in about ten days. Last Sunday he saw an old turkey hen leading her brood down to his melon patch and he thought they were looking for bugs. This morning he went down to view his cantaloupes and found that the turkey hen had eaten a hole in every' melon and picked out all of the seed for the little turks to eat.—Wichita Bea-

con.

Couldn't Find lllinnelf Anywhere F.l«e. A man far gone in drink called one night at the Paris morgue and in reply t( the astonished official in charge said: “I've not been home for the last three days and I’ve just called to see if I happen to be here."—Soleil de Dimanche. A Fontl Retrospect* "I wish," said the unhappy, perspiring man. "that I could find that little boy.” "What Ittle boy?” “The one who threw snowballs at me last winter. I'd like to forgive him."—Washington Star.

N. L. A. EASTMAN, rived Holy Rollers rolled up in wagons and carts. They pitched their horses to trees near the tent, and made preparations for a twelve-hour religious feast. The tent in which the meetings arc held is about 40x50 feet. Rude benches are laid on straw, which covers the ground. At one end of the enclosure is a platform, raised perhaps two feet, on which are placed clialrs for those who are to speak. The Bible, which is the only material adjunct to worship used, is placed on a stand made of a board and laid across two stakes. Beside the Bible, on another and higher stake, is hung a lantern. No other light is allowed, and, indeed, none is necessary, as no hymn book or psalters are to ho found. The congregation which assembled was a curious one. Old men dressed in the rough garb of the farmhand •at by the side of the country "swells"

EMMA CHASE. of services was at an end. Many cd the people sleep in their wagons oi on blankets on the ground, impatient foi the sun to rise so that the glorification may begin. Strange stories of the doings of these zealots circulate about the region. A meeting of especial fervor was hell the nigiit before the writer arrived. It began early in the evening and continued with glowing excitement until one of the women, leaping to her feet in the ecstasy of Spiritual emotion, fell to the ground in a trance. The preacher explained that she had the “rower." “Don't profane her by your touch!” ho shrieked, as some of the uninitiated bent over the prostrate figure. So she was left in unconsciousness, with eyes staring vacantly and limbs rigid as in death. Some time after midnight the woman recovered. She did not appear to have suffered harm from the five hours’ stupor. Others lapsed into unconsciousness for a few minutes at a time- at intervals throughout the evening. No attention was paid to them when thr-v "came to” they took up the hallelujah with the chorus. Semi-lapses were common. This s-ermed to be paralysis of certain parts of the body. One man raised his arm in supplication, stretching to his full height. He gazed for a moment toward the sky. He shouted and cilled on God to save him. Then his arn grew rigid. A sacrilegious spectator tried to pull it down. It might have been broken, but the muscles would net yield. This seemed nothing more than a case of mesmerism, although these who saw it attributed it to divine power. On this same night there was a baptism in Canandaigua Lake. The candidates were stripped and im morsed. They did not seem to feel the chilly water in the least. One effect of the promiscuous conversion to the Holy Rollers is in the disturbance of domestic relations. Cm man adopted the faith and left his wife, who was among the unsaved. He eculd not live with her for fear of contamination. During the latter part of April one of the members of Hie sect became ill. It was afterward learned that he had pneumonia. His friends who were not of the faith asked that something be done for the man, but the Holy Rollers are fatalists of a pronounced type, and would not oppose file divine will by petty human acts. The man died, and the Incident created no little commotion in the vicinity at the time. There was even talk of indicting some of the Rollers who would not allow a physician to minister to 'he dying man. Nothing was finally done. The Holy Rollers’ creed embodies doctrines which were conspicuous half a century ago It Is a belief that c inverts hy fear, as is evident from the class of people to he found at the tent meetings. It is strange fanaticism Dread cf eternal fire is the thing of frightening prominence.

An Objection. There, said the voluminous contributor. "are some gems of thought ” "Yes," relied the editor, as he reached for his blue pencil, "but they're uncut gems,"—Washington Star.

p=rj ORSELESS car.

’ r riages, while favored by many persons, are equally an eyesore to many others. These latter are, as a rule, ard e nt 1 o v ers of horses, and it naturally pains them

~ to think that the

* day is coming when the horse, as a beast of burden, will be rather an unusual sight In any large city. The former, as a rule have never cared much for horses, and consequently they naturally welcome any mechanical contrivance which is able to take the place and do the work of the animal. Mr. Blackmore, an English inventor, has been trying to make peace between the two factions, and with that object in view he has patented a one-horse electric carriage, of which an illustration is here given. This contrivance, he claims, should be welcomed by all—both by those who want a horse as well as by those who want an electric motor. He styles his invention the electric horse, and he insisLs that no other motor for carriages ean equal it. In the body of this not uncomely quadruped there are stored, not armed warriors, but peaceful electric i cc imuiators. The ordinary horse requires a goodly ration of oats before he will do a long journey; all this horse needs is a few volts of electricity. Two conductors transmit electric energy to a motor, which is placed between the legs of the animal, and power is thru transmitted to the hind wheel by means of a chain similar to the one used on bicycles. But this is not all. If it were the horse would be a mere dummy. This horse, however. can walk. trot, amble, pace, gallop and even ciracole. The automaton on the box seat has only to manipulate the reins cunningly in order to produce any desired motion. These reins communicate with the front wheel, and arc the most important part of the whole contrivance. They must he managed properly, or otherwise the electric horse will prove as unmanageable as any living Bucephalus. The tail. too. plays an important part. It seems that the animal will not trot unless the tail is moved a good deal t one side, and that it will not gallop unless the tail is removed altogether. Any one, therefore, who desires tokx come an expert driver of the electrir horse must carefully study the various

uses of the reins ami tail.

CURIOUS LANDS IN FLORIDA. A Subterranean raKRagc Which Is Fnvelopefl In Mystery. Payne’s prairie, three miles south oi tliis city, says the Gainesville Sun covers an area of 50.000 acres. A largf proportion of the prairie is now covereil with water, but there are thousands d acres around the borders of the lakrwh.ch has been formed on which horses and cattle graze. There is no way of estimating the number of cattle. but there are many thousands, an i they are in fine condition. The prairie or savanna, which it really is. occasionally goes dry, the water passing out through a subterranean passage ailed the sink. Where the water goes to h;u never been determined. When the sink is open the lake goes dry, and when the outlet becomes gorged or choked a lakifrom five to seven miles wide and about eighteen miles long is formed When the waters of the lake suddenlf leave it thousands of alligators, snakes fish and turtles are left with nothing hut mud for their places of abode. The fish and turtles perish, but the saurians and reptiles seek and find other quar ters. For miles along the northern border of the lake there is a succession of sinks, averaging in depth all the way from twenty-five to 100 feet SuL terranean passages run in every direction, leaving the ground in the shape of a honeycomb. The ground is liable to give way at any time, creating a new sink. The scenery around the lake, especially on the north side, is unique and grand, and is an attraclive feature to strangers who visit this city. The sink has for many years been a popular resort for citizens of Gainesville, who go there to fish, boat ride and in other ways enjoy themselves It is said that this vast area of land could be drained at trifling expense and were it drained it would be the largest as well as the richest tract of productive land in Florida. It is for the most part a bed of muck. The ’and is owned by various individuals

It is noticeable when two men are eating peanuts, the man who bought them always eats the fastest

III* OFolc*. It Is said that Charles Wesley wa ® sometimes easily annoyed, and on one occasion, at a conference, he became so irritated at the prolix remarks of a speaker that he said to his brother "Stop that man's speaking. Let us a" tend to business.'' But the offender w 2 " relating his religious experience, and though it was at so great a length, Joi" 1 Wesley evidently thought that no one had a right to interfere with It. He * J ' therefore allowed to continue, hut the moment came when Charles could cottain himself no longer. “Unless stops,” he whispered to John, "I’U l p8 ’ < the conference.” By this time •l p,r was enjoying the man’s simple ston and he only turned and whispered n nome one sitting near: “Reach ( har^ his hat!”

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