The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-01-24
COL. K0NTNER TO fIISCuE
HE SAVES A REMNANT
OF THE SACRED
RELICTS.
A Lancaster Jewel Pre-
served.
A fit subject for a novel or
poem.


when the bold Atbenian pirates mad,
their successful raid upon the Hook
ing Canal, tn go ID eple of Ian
caster whose sentiments were so ell
oquently expressed by their four pa
pens, several daily, stood out hefur'
the eyes Of men, ,shivering victims o
malaria brought on by the Infection!
canal aud its pond attachments,
1t was iterated and reiterated tia
unless the canal was abandoned anc
its mud puddles drained, the breatl
OF Malaria would fall upon them
with the destroying havoc of tn,
angels wing upon the hosts of Sen
acharib, or the shower of worm,
from snow storm upon the reper
torial fingers of the Ancient Hite
The grave yard, sacred to Lancas
Ter because, ike a hill of pota.oe,
Its best parts are here, would be des
ecrated by the piles of commonality
!corpses tumbled IN there among the
the ashes of their deini gods.
"Delepaa est canalgo" was iuscri-
bed nRqn every board not preemrted
by the dead bea, advertiser and
The WORD in every mouth was
ihe greeting as well as the parting,
:'the canal must 60"
Sleeper and his Athenians tri
nmphei. The canal was confsva-
ted. Lancaster was happy. Fores,
Rose was issued in supplement!
by all the papers. Mayor
Carpenter sang poem. and
Jack Wright wrote another notice "l
a companion ghost to the Iagin hero
of the gas well.
Now it seems the smell OF the rot.
ting copse of the canal is more dis.
tresslng than the ,ing breath Of
fog, and the carcasses of dead cats
in the mud holes more pestllential
than the fish that disported in the
basin.
One day last week prominent
citizen, one of the leaders. of the
AntiCanal movement, concluding
that be would proceed according to
the statutes, and along in the line of
thought, promulgated 10y the papers,
proposed to cut the bank and dram
one of the s'Canal mud -pudd 'es, ~
f'Hog. waIlows' SO. called in the ma
liria period.
We read from the Daily Lancaster
Eagle-.'This attempted spoliation of
public property is an outrage. This
destruction of tine Beautiful Lake
is wicked and awful. Tue Reservoir
is an Eden for bathing and fishing.
This aower-fringed Lakelet is the
iuirror of Mt Pleasant, and the trys
ling place of MAIDS, Dryads and kim
..lred spirits of the good lnjun squaws
who nursed Weilzel or some old
tramp of that name, who shantied
rowe years ago in those parts-and
much more of the same sort.
So in their sore distress. to save
this "J-wel," to preserve this
.-Lakelet," to maintain a Bathing
FooP Col. IKE Kontner, Superin-
tendent of the late Hooking Canal is
called to Lancaster, and given the
keys of the city and the right to de-
clare martial law, do anything he
pleased SO that he save the remnant
of the canal, this mud puddle"
:''frog pond, thu pest breeding pool
We hope Col. Kontner will be
able to preserve this beauty spot to
our distressed brethren for season,
the counterpart, SO the Eagle says.
of Mt Pleasant.
With thu destruction of the Lake,
the Fountain, .c"ntrlved by the Ian
caster Ladies. will lose its suggestive
ness spJ cease to be an inspiration.
forest Rose the patron DIVINITY of
Lauc aster taste who appears approp :
ateiy in disarrangei clothes from
the sonew hat rough handling of
old Wetzel as he dragged he: oft of
the calamus swamp with asmall kee
of beer under her arm. will needs be
dressed in mere modern anti
Frog Pond, Mud Puddle fashion,
and The little naked boys, suggestive
of the batning which the lake offers
as the Eagle puts it, can have their
clothes put or, and look as if they
might venture to school.
We hope Mayor Carpenter will
AZ. -. thsu or,Ea,&- So,t f-Hn1 IT,,
Eantner and produce > poem, and
Jack Wright will give usit in heroic
IegenderY blank verse.
The Eagle and its cotemporarIes
might reproduce some OF their arti-
eles on Mad Pqddles, Malaria. Frog
ponds, Hog vsllowsi literature ill.,
and sug sestive if the Lake
y ptssasys asi other canal .ap