Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-09

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- ~ streams" The drop
NlGGHH Of Indian blood with
MI in IL responds to
U wv the touch of widest
n nature. and whenever
4 we look backward the
desire comes over u to lay aside the
garments OF our workday life and re-
assume the blanket. the culver and
the bow; but further back, to the very
beginning. when 1.-The morning stars
sang together at the borning OF ere
alton. there is sublimity Of thought
in contemplation Of order forming cut
OF chaos. The Master waves his wand
and like magic the rocks fall into
place, each in its stratum, the fires
withdraw to subterranean caverns. the
waters seek their proper passages.
0, the mysteries that earth hides.
We. on the surface, only catch
glimpses of them. The sturdy miners
CAD pierces a bed of coal, layer OF
marble, a vein OF gold; his mattoek
unearths a ruby, a sapphire, dia-
mond Where did they come from?
A serpent of gold winds along the coast
of the Pacific. Its body flashes at in
tervals in California, its tail whips
Mexican soil while its head is reared
maiestirally in the Klondike. What
of the parts we cannot follow that lie
under the mountains and under the
ocean,
The geography of our childhood
made the sweeping assertion that
1.-THE earth is composed of land and
water What fund of speculation
there is in the problem Of the distri-
button of water through the earth!
There is the underground sea with
Gains of silent darkness and tempests
born not of the hurricane above but
o: internal fires beneath there are
the dense bodies Of water that lie
compressed from above and below
and ready to squirt out of confinement
when pierced by seekers after artesian
wells: and there is also that passive,
pure water so much sought after that
percolates through what is known as
the Potsdam sandstone. Water that
flows from this latter should not be
confounded with the smaller veins
that flow through the earth near the
surface and burst out in innumerable
little springs in this locality. Water
that filters through surface earth par
takes Of the impurities of decayed
vegetation and is of the general wash
of the lands surface; while that from
the Potsdam formation is as nearly
pure as water gets to be on account
of straining through first the upper
surface and finally through sand
bed deep down in the earth that is
tree of decay and consequently clean.
The spring that furnishes Lancas-
ter's water supply arises from the
deepest point in the Potsdam sand
stone formation. There are at least
two OF these springs near Lancaster
the second being the Day spring west
OF Lancaster city.
The Lancaster klondike Spring
j. situated a short league north and
trife west Of the public square in the
valley Of the Big Grant river The
lands that break away from the sur
rounding prairies in toward the spring
are first rolling and finally abruptly
billy. The picture on this page is a
correct photograph Of the spring and
its surroundings, although il does not
do justice to the scene it represents.
1t is picturesque spot. Surrounded
on all sides by bluffs and wooded hills
and knobs. the spring reposes in a
boundless glory Of trees and foliage,
through which the Grant river like a
silver thread winds its way to lose
itself ultimately in the mighty Missis-
sippi 1t IS a law spot remote from
the toil-worn and care-fraught center
where one can lay off the weights that