Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 44, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 November 1901 — Page 1

VOL 44 JASPER, INDIANA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1901. NO. 10

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V0WELL CAVE IN COLUMBIA

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The eastern part of Dubois county contains many natural objects of interest, it is one or tne oestneias a a . r . i l . . i in Indiana for the naturalist, geolo-! gist and botanist. Perhaps the; most interesting natural oDjeci in j A - At a 1 1 A uuoois. county is owen s tave near the center of section twenty-! a -.-t t; a i - two, id vOiuujoia lownsjoipi on tue , old aiaie roaa ana anout one anu one-quarter miles from Crystal. , as ft

ihe nui containing the cave is oi.and at Kose s &prmg nity-nve ue-

crystallized limeatone formation The stone has no technical name, not being pure enough for calcite. On the summit are many sink boles or depressions which collect the wa-1 terthat falls within their reach, and j permit it to permeate Dneatn tne sur ace. lne limestone in this hill has many crevices, and the watt r, by constantly finding its way along and down these crevices, has caused several rocks to wear apart and thus reveal the cave. The hill is covered with fine specimens of all the na tive trees, hard and soft wood, per ennial and deciduous. They stand to-day in all the grandeur of nature. A few nights ago "Uncle Martin Mickler, a mighty pioneer hunter, seventy-eight years of age, Lieut. W. W. Kendall, and the writer, assisted part of the time by Wm. S. Winsinger, Jerome B. Vowell, the proprietor, and his sons, John B., J. Andrew and Jerome Raleigh, formed an exploring party for the purpose of finding out all we could about the cave. We were in the cave ten hours. The perimeter of our explorations is fully one-half mile. The figures mentioned in this article were obtained by actual measurements. The names given to various parts of the cave are at tached without apologies, and at the suggestion of parties present. The limestone in the cave shows plaialy that the rock is composed of the skeletons or shells of animals which lived in water. Names were attached to various parts of the limestone, as well as to rooms and halls. The mouth of the cave is an opening just large enough to permit us to scramble down, one at a time, for a distance of thirty-five feet and at an angle of about twenty degrees from the perpendicular. At twenty-five feet from the surface appears a tall otwvice in the limestone rock,

TOWNSHIP. DUBOIS CO., INDIANA.

Tower. which we At forty called Lawton'a feet are many un"lue, ill ti I i it

rocxs; one wecanea laiior uooee.i.hinfiil Mawir' rhmr nrf rmnnv

and one Mollie's Re lining Chair. These rest on what is the general SB l noor or me cave, ana near me stream oi water mat nows on one tide or the other of the cave. The . . i . l leniperaiure oi me waier Here as . a ft i i . at t nity-eignt degrees, ranr. At Maiaen's Spring it was fifty six degrees, greea. Beginning at the "Tailor's, Goose" and going north is the Grand Reception Hall, one hundred feet long, thirty feet wide, and ten! feet high. In here, as at various other places in me cave, are many "Dear wajiows, or Dear nests, or lairs, in wnicu mey nioernaieu

many, many years ago. Ihe hears hund red twenty-five feet is Carrie's have clawed them out the size of a Iron 8U9pended from the ceiling, large wash-tub. The prints of their It is fifteen fat ion f((Ur feel wi(e monster clawa can be aeen very dis- atKj very much resembles a smoothtinctly. In the wallows are de-jing iron it weighs n.any tons, bns of a bear nature, including what Near by is Frog Monument, appa"Uncle Martin" pronounces bearrentiy ready to Ieap uptm intruders;

iecea, ana ne ougnt to Know, ior ne , overhead ia a fair sample of the has hunted wild animals all his life, j m(Hlern crazy quilt. Here this arm At one hundred thirty-five feet is 0f the cave cloaea, ao far as passageMaiden's Spring and ita picturesque! way ja concerned. Nothing has basin and walls. Here also are the(D68n removed from the cave. MuTowera of Babel. These are talI,'tiition should not be permitted, circular crevices in the limestone,! Near Harrison Point, Raleigh about four or five feet in diameter caught a cave salamander. This and ao tall that we were unable, handsome liiard-like animal was of even with powerful flash lights, to L bright orange-yellow with numeran thea tntia Thara ara man anr ' . . t i . t. . i

r. r ous unci pol its uouy was fere rock, ami tataVftM nf t mhr nt'.i . a iT-ZL. i r.i

the base which have drouned V i i K V, V-' 8 tne oase wnicn nave dropped in appeared large and normal but its frnm nm nnnn no nn iUo nimm itL 11 t ..- l? J i ,t j

. T , T 1 nf tho hi mm aJaaftaJ ami oar At one hundred fiftv-fivs feet ia Roberta's .Kala'a Rrlr Po l hlih whan I uuivu, n i" ii

sat ease. t Ir r if h aft a rwi aft 1 1 sao kr na hn s-vft I neath the bell and around I pillar. Near here are the finest specimens .. sis .....i : i ...i oi BtaiButn,, BvuiaBuiics, anil w

oviuv.iv nuu m nuinn iuv ui ami toretinger and despatched u mer, rings throughout the cave. It We found but few specimens of the is a splendid specimen of suspendedanima kingdom in the cave, limestone. Here also is Roberta's, Raccoons visit this cave, as evi Grotto, a circular cavern east of the fenced by their tracks. To their bell. A stream of water Hows be-! visitation is probably due the ab-

acio stalagmites we iouna in me a 'COOn or an opossum, cave. in tome places in the cave the At two hundred twenty-two feet aides are draped and festo med with the stream fioas in a deep crevice atalactites and stalagmites, somein the floor of the cave. This we times hanging in graceful folds, or called Hudson River. It is one of ribbed with corrugations, bdt they the prettiest sights in the cavern. Iara m n0wise etjual to those in MaMickler's Hall begins here and runs'n0go CAve, in Crawford county.

seveuty-two feet; a long, broad, loir hall, with a splendid, smooth ceil ing, all of limestone. There is also a aide route here. At two hundred seventy-five feet in Kendall's Hall, similar to Mickler' Hall, hut angular, ending in Lover's Leap. At four hundred feet is Wilson's Hall, a tall, rugged specimen of subter raneun excavation. It contains

Hose's Sarins' of cool, clear wntpr At four hilnnVari f.r IT -füll ft foA I begins Lottie's Parlor, which contains, at four hundred sixty-four feet, the Masonic Spring with its checkered floor. From here one arm extends a little west of north for one hundred fifty feet. At six hundred feet the cave is practically closed, and cannot be explored farther without excavating. North of the Masonic Spring the stream was explored until we were six hundred sixty-four feet from the mouth of ,the cave. Here it became too low for extended exploration, without rubber suits. All water in the cave is crystal clear and cool. We found no Gsh though it is re ported fish have been seen in the cave. In Lottie's Parlor the writer found a cave hat, hanging head down. This Lieut. Kendall foraged and put in his pocket. The next morning "Uncle Martin" said he believed(?) in expansion and began with the bat. He inserted a goose qpUl beneath the skin in the back of its head and begsn to blow. The bat soon expanded and became nine inches long, five inches across, two inches thick, and almost transpa rent. In the north arm of the cave are many side passages, under and upper passages, side-rooms, crevices, and raverna. Let us now go back to i be Grand Reception Hall, ai d exploie the south arm. At fifty feet is Mc Kinley's River, Harrison Point, Carrie's Hall, and the Fallen Rocks. One of ihese limestone rocks is almost like an ashlar, thirty feet long, five; feet wide, and two feet thick. Here also is Mollie's Hall, fifteen feet high, the Grand Canyon and several bear wallows. At one hun dred twenty feet is the Auger Hole, and here also are the Four Cardiual j Points. These are four crevices in the rock above that follow the points of the compass, from the center to the vanishing points. une hundred seventy feet, and under the tast crevice, are the WorTear by is a bear wallow with quite an amount of feces. Near is Rock ' ft I. iHiarm ( arm running from it and uner an(j atound to Mollie'a Hall and Nellie's II II Bcventv-five bv fortv . . . ' j ie( with tnanv passage wavs It V -I 0 J I is a 8piendil specimen of a dry ex - teme(j excavation. In here was foun.i a ilIrtev bone, fhe remains of some animal's dinner. Lieut. Kendall appropriated it to add to kj. finiuPtion of miri,. for h i qUite a curioso. i one hundred ninet v feet is Lit ue Kound Top, Andrew's Slide and ievips pjue i lwo hundred five eet is the R,ck(,f Gibraltar, an imm.nae fallen tt. ne. At two

Bense oi Bignt seemeu to oe iimii-o.'or(,fl(i ln rtlll.n nnfj him w i. j JT. . . iorcea o return, ana wncn we

...u u... .u . " - 4 , . 11 ITlHilH no HUH DI L LO HHCADH I1IH ' n i .B- . na aiiin ri in i it nni wonn nid I no m n ' i ft aW s S . .... 8ence of crawtish, no specimens of which were found, for a 'coon will . . . enjoy crawtish as much as a uegro

Some places on the roof, stalactites hang similar to quill like tubes, fragile as glass, each tipped with a drop of water which sparkles in the lamplight like a crystal j-wel. Some parts of this cave are double floored, the upper being dry, the lower one having a stieam of water

Mowing through the greater part its length. In the cave and in the crevices of the limestone are deposits ot sandy suba ance, resembling what is "Ti" 7Frwuo ujiacu ajito wsi arm. , pronaüiy siliceous snaie : t fiat is, a snaie con taming a large percentage of sand or silica. Sometimes tuee expos

ed deposits are fifty feet long, tenheld back from enforcing auch laws ;eet wide and wo O. -three feetfor politic,) reasons; in others by

thick. It is on these that the bears clawed out their nests, their claws cutting fearful gashes in the hanks. Occasionally small pieces of sand stone are found in the stream. They must have been washed in by water. This cave, like most caves, is an uncanny place to the average visitor. Here eternal darkness reigns supreme, and the fabulous Cim merian people of old could have dwelled within its confines in a darkmssto suit their most fastidious nature. The walls and ceilings are of a terra cotta color, occasionally-covered with a mineral deposit, which "listened under the raya of our reflectors and lmps. Vowell Cave has a full quota of weird stories, such as being the den of highway robbers, horse thieves, lost women and wild ani.nals, but we saw nothing blood curdling. The cave, no doubt, has its origin in the slow, unceasing action of rain water upon the limestone strata in which it occurs. A hundred feet -T S I or more from its mouth is a spring fed by the water in the cave, and at times, after heavy rains, the water gushes forth with enough fores to wash away the milk and butter from the spring house. Then the water is "soft." After long dry "spells" it becomes "hard " The writer has known of this cave (for many years Part of it had s b. been explored betöre, but never measured nor thoroughly studied No mention was ever made of it in print before this article appeared. ithough descriptions of caves of Ismaller dimensions and far less in tereating formations grace the pages of government reports. When we had completed our explorationa "I'ncle Martin" sang for ua his favorite song, some line.' of which as well as I can recall, run as follows : "When we are twenty-one, toyo, when we are twenty-one, We'll east the fetters off, boys, onr pupilage is done, Before us is the world, boys, we'll try what it can do, Its promise is so fair, boys, we'll prove it false or tme. But hark ! I hear a voice, tys, that whix.iers "youth beware." Before we're twenty-one, Iwys, the dream mav disappear. The blooming cheek grow pale, boys, and dim the sparkling eye, And in Death's cold embrace, boys, the active form may lie. Tis mad tiesa then to sing, boy, and boafit of years to come, We'll quaff it long and deep, boys, with happy, jovial tongues, Now while the harvest waves, loys, the Reaper's garb put on, Andfgather sheaves for Heaven, boys, before we're twenty-one." The ravn no Honht loni7r i ne cave n. no aouor, longer than we have explored, but being -ithout nicks or shovels w. were WlinOUl piCKS Or SnoVelS Wi) Were I J iL. a : J t . i renoucu ine ouisme oi inoi ner eunn, I106 CreStent Ot a n nimgnt in on heads, in all the ouviiu v .'er our splendor of an unclouded October night, apparently extending a glad welcome to our successful return. Gko. R. Wilson. Nov. 1st, 1901. Stops the cougn and cures ths cold In U hours without nauseating. Price 16 cents. Give some people a chance to talk for 20 minutes and they will tell all

they kmow and perhaps more,

W.C T. U. COLUMN

CONDUCTED BY MRS. M. L. HOBBB. A Menseln Peril. Disregard for law hna loner lia..n a f characteristic of the saloon. In this aü(i bolder. Liuuor narJn, h.a. ilwUUnUA kik Luf-r-ijV hibitory laws. Liquor dealers' leagues have combined to shield atheir members from conviction and punishment f r law violations, and with much success. Executive of ficers have in some inatanea Kaan systematic payments for protection by the taloons. To such an extent has this been carried that in most cities the license laws, except in the one feature of oavment of thn an. nual license fee. have become al most dead letters. And now comes the boldest move of all on the Dart of thn ahum forces. In a case at Chicago a few days since, where a saloon keeper was put on trial for selling on Sunday, this condition of non enforcement of law, having become a custom, was set up as the only defense, riales were not dtnied, but the contention of defendant's attorney was that the Sunday saloonicloaing laws had been declared a dead letter by custom ! And the jury so held and brought in a verdict of not guilty! The result may be far reaching. In criminal caaes the people do not have the right to appeal to a higher court, so it may be that we will find officers and packed juries shaninir custom and ignoring all laws for the benefit of the rumseller, gambler, brothel and other persistent law violators. By such ruling prohibition and local option laws would be destroyed wheie public sei timent was not constantly kent un lo ih. enforcement point. It is a real danger which confronts the country. I'trhapa the Chicago case my prove one of those last straws, which eenas to be needed, to make people realize how the saloon power has practically set law at defiance and now insolently asks: "What are you going to do about it?" Phal. The Ministerial Association of Lorain, Ohio, recently adopted a resolution asking the papers of the city to refrain from the publication of tiquoi advertisements. The Demo crat looking over the list of minis ters who belonged to the association and found that all of them, except one, systematically rotfd the Re publican ticket. Then it proceeded to recite the history of temperance legislation in Ohio, and held the Republican party responsible for the enactment of the Dow law which le galizes the saloon. And then it says to the ministers : "But you, gentlemen of the cloth in Lorain, you have voted for it and given it life; you have taken its money in the shape of tax fees, and with your ballot reiterated evary year that you wanted the prevailing condition to continue, so that we cannot see how you are in position to consistently object to it telling the people what it is doing through the public prints. If it is such a bad thing why do you vote for it? The Republican party says, 'We point with pride to the Dow law' and that it will forever abide by the principle of taxation. In other words, it says to the saloons: "Stay here and pay us your Dow tax. And you say to the Republican puty : 4 Wo are with you.' "Now, honestly, if the saloon is bad, which is the greater sin to es tablish it in the community, or only tell that it is established after it had been done? "You preachers wbo vote the Republican ticket have established it and made it a lawful business ; the newspapers only tell what you have established." Ex. New Danger from Beer. The discovery of Prof. Tunnicliffe and Dr. Rossnbaum of very strong evidence that the recent epidemic of beer poisoning was not due wholly to the presence of arsenic in brewing sugars, has been followed by the definite announcement that the presence of the highly dangerous poison, known as selenium has been detected in nonarsenicil brewing sugars and in beer. 10 Not oolv shut the Sunday sain, but destroy ths legalised wtek day saloon.