The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1892-10-06

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suspended frnm crane, he hung motionless
all the time we looked at him. Purcell wad-
died out into the wafer waist deep and
turi ed his lubhclly back to MS, and wulloped
his ribs at lines with his puffy paws He
would occasionally turn his face around and
grin. lie enjoved 1t much he couldn't
Speak. An elder man apd his fat wife con
Quoted the side show. lie was noticeable Tor
the length Of hair under his ms,plucking at
which rOnStitutel the priAciple part of his
bathing performance. The woman was ugly
and l"5beriy. she was about five ieet i'll
stature ana wore about two feet Of circGs
e.othes. Her bair hung down her back and
breast in twists, and her chef-d aeuvre was TO
swing her head about, making The ttss of
lRlir slap round her boldly like the tail of n
COW, drne.rd ia the wet from tail weeds.
Ne only saw the one bathing attraction. Its
iapliehts can he seen in its specially nsthette
and fly infested COWS abound.
THE LIARS DEN
One Of ihe innocent cheats, ieluSivc at
fractions is re' rvs Gave. The cave is owned
b. II voHble iiiterate Franco Prussian who
can speak ncIti' Dutch nor English, and
cant trll the truth. lie is more Interesting
tnrn his cave In the bareficed lies he details
to his g,ping inquIsitors. sI
Tue. frtnco-PruSSlan is Il well digger Has
dug 81 wells ana found 2G caves Perry's is
the only one ON exhibition. 1t is reached by
going down IA well forty feet deep through
the lltn'' lIt cave is All ODeEliIg some
three or four hundred feet in length by about
half that i'll width The roof is irregular
and from I've to ten feet in height from the
rocky, uneven TOOr.
The well digger has placed old fashioned
lamps along The line of inspection, which
shed as fnurSey and binding ~ light as q
Black Jack coon hunters pine knot torch. or
the five loot gas jets OF Main street. Logan.
Tie @rimy cave was full of stinking, sitting
smoke, and it became II question which it
wns bes. to keep shut, nose or eyes, to fully
ny,t tnyt a tf 4 hn nd nj NATL
we first stumb bled over is Il pool OF water 1t
is the fashion to drink from the tin dipper
the most fashionable to drop nickle IN the
greasy paw Of the cave owner. He told las
this was II spring from the lake nine miles
oil, that the outlet was navigahle only when
the sign OF the moon was down. In anoth,r
nook we felt, but couldn't see, where om-
modore Perry kept his state papers for fear
the British would get them and eat them.
Here in the secluSion of this cave the old sea
dog used to Si and mediate, and formulate
plaDs for his great victory. We were shown
the Identical flag stone upon which the heiU
cooked his bacon. This as indeed IL curio.
The entertaining guide gave the ladies of our
party spalls from the rock as sOovneers. The
sooven ears came pretty Dear getting our liz
dies by the ears. After we had got out of the
old liars den, IA close Inspection of the relics
was made in the sunlight and fresh air. MIS-.
4 ecker declared, after Il careful smell of the
spall she had, that the Old commodors bacon
was smoked from hickory chips. Mrs. Sim
mons insisted tina: she very clearly detected
the smell of snake from corn cObs. The bat
tie about smoke threatened something more
thnn an end in smoke when the old Annnnias
called ,ruce by announcing that the smoke
was from leaves ne had carrie down a short
time before long ago. And this Is what We
know of Perry's Cave 1t costs fifteen cents
to go down in IL. We would cheerfully pay
| a dollar next time to keep out OF it.
Whilst We Of the inqurng turn of mind
Were thus studying caveolOgy and being
played for tools by the old gnome. AInideedO
and Miss Wynn were inspecting the churches.
and we are satisfied they found prettier and
pleaSanter attractions than we did, and d d
not become in, ensed to tell a lie about what
they 81 W. as we do vhen we relate the daZz-
ling and bewilering wonders of the smoke
hole forty ieet down at the bottom of the
well VIII ch Perry dug. and where he kept his
papers and eat his smoked bacon.
THE EVENING SESSION
Of the Association was of Unusual interest to
the barbarian audience. among whom were
the city council of Sandusky, bridal party
from Cleveland, portion of the school from
Mentor, Mrs. Gov. Foraker. and the Tammany
Chief John r Fellows. The entertainment
we gvne was fiee. ana of course the spacious
parlor was crowded. 1t is the rule that on
oce7.siOiis of this kid the editors are all
compelled to make speeches. This is some
thing none OF them can do. nut is self i'm
posed pennance tor the wickedneSs with
which they tear to pieces the orations OF the
silvrr-tongued, Spell-binding speech makers
on school commencement day. The rule OBJ
served Is the rule OF "buttOner, DuttOner
whose got the button" each IN turn rs you
OF a chair ANA the company strung around
'hiIr in ring. Miss Simmons, the accom-
plished writer COR the Portsmouth Tribune,
led OF in an eloquent recitation of the city
boys death just as he was about to catch the
life and health restoring perfume of the
country. She was followed by Miss Halle
Purcell, OF the Log g,n Republican Gazette,
WHO very happily showed the prominence
OF women in the journalistic field, and
claimed chat the tone of all great movements
OF the future would be largely modulated by |
the women, incidentally mentioning Queen |
Isabella. At This, Antonio Barle"n, his Span |
ish Elood rOusing to Mysteries, leaped TO the |
fl >Or, ont OF turn and place, began his pane
gyric on Columbus, which he expects to speak |
ut Homer JonesfOwn on the four hundre.th !
centennial. The Com modore called him to |
order, claiming he was not in his turn, and |
mis- topic not in season, not ripe for month |
or more. Chairman Purcell, who is groom |
Ing Tony Tor the Spanish Succession, let him |
g., on to the "rea danger of the mirror before
VIII. h he seSticu!ated. A hubbub grew out |
Of tins daring, audaclous exploit and a |
'night," such as befel CorteS in the city of |
Montezumas, threatened for a time to close !
about lis valerouS dcScendent in the parlOrs |
OF the hotel Victory. Simon, of Portsmouth, |
who gets lofty notion OF terrestrial size from /
the heI.ht OF the Kentucky hills that over
look his sanctum. serted thai it wasn't |
much credit, II any at all, for Columbus TO
discover America He couldn't see how he
could have got round as big a thing as A mrr-
lea is. Elliot, OF McI'On nelsville. declared |
That Columbus did not discover America, he |
happened on an Island, and that is not
\ Iaerica. Times Star Miner, who deals In |
pardons and gcts great familiarity in his dis
charge of duty in this service with crowd |
of tolerably tough customers, denounced old |
Christie as II tramp. He put up n Oh on Mrs
isabella. saying he had ascheme to find "a
short cut tn India, where Doodle was abund- !
ant. She Staked Lin" Interposed Pursell |
"She put t,riffon Malaga crap: and raised
the revenue" Says John A. White of the
.-only" and State Farm Reformer severaily,
This is bordering on politics. and we must
have none of il. In our management of the /
BOYS in" Here Pursell threw at John a
whisper, "Vickers is not present" and for
moment it was hush. But Tony kept on.
Col. Fisher
THE VERSATILE CONTRIBUTOR
OF railroad news items to nj, the papers, in
quired of the Spanish agitator if dead head
tickets were allow ed on the palace coach Pin
Ia, as the lynn otht ee of the Columbus eXeur-
sion, us it was important for the transpDrta
lion service TO keep an eye on possible cut
in excursion rates. Green, oil Far,town. star /
lied the com mpany by this declaration that Co
umbuS was not in it, That America was
discovered by the Irish! North men. North
If Ireland men. He was proceeding to prIve
4 by recitations in the Gaelic yernacular.
Dhis confused Chairman Purseil who talked
himself hGarse in an endeavOr to say some
and put the pending question
simmons. daughter of lack, U. s. Marshal
or our district, well known to us all, particu-
arly to the moo nshiners of Green's Ash Cave
md Fishers Cantwell rocks bat house, cut
he CON, plication which Pursell found worse
han gOrdian knot by remarking that it
lidn't make much difference who discovered
merica it was glory enough for us to know
hat Americas Vespucius an Editor, put his
immortal imprint on the continent, and we '
all our country by ris name, America. The
ride from Cleveland, in her satin, cream
OlOred, grOsgrained trouSseau simpered to .
Ter cham berlain, "How uBcultured, ah, to
se such pronuncations for the name ah,
AmmereegO, Vespook ,h." Then she tainted,
Admiral Tony was elected historian of the
association. Miss Seymour the expert stem
grs pher of the c H.V. & L. RHilroad and the
[. & y. V. Editorial Association, made full
otes of the meeting which will appear in
he forthcoming vol ume which the historian
ordered to hasten through the water power
reSSes OF the Vinton Record.
We only print the stupid matter,
LIFT THE VEIL
,lSt little for a peep for the little boy and
irl readers of the SENTINEL, who properly
link that editors know everything, to show
lem when discouraged ard puzzled at the
a I'd questions the teacher may ask, to see
ow difficult it is for us wise ones, who know
all, to answer. and give the correct answer,
IN agreed statement OF fact" to rs common
question from the teacher ,-"Who discov-
ed American"
HOMEwARD BOUND.
We left on our boat i'm the afternoon, leach-
g Toledo in time ior our train, and landed
fely that night in Columbus IL capital city
every sense, where the ACTIVITY, energy,
lteIprise OF men on the move, brushed Oft
e laziness OF our JGll on tile lake and the