Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — Why Lake Disappeared. [ARTICLE]

Why Lake Disappeared.

Mr.'Peerabout was the typical tourist, so when on his wanderings he came across a depression in the ground, covering several acres, he pounced upon a native eagerly, firing his questions nt him: “What is this depression, can you tell me, my good man?” “That is the bed of a lake.” “Is that, so, really? And what has happened to the water?” “It was this way. There was a picnic here last year, and they had a spare case of anchovy, and as they didn’t want to carry it home they threw it in the. lake.” "Yes; I see! But what has that to do with it?” “Everything. The sish t ate them and the salt diet made them so thirsty they drank all the water.”