The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-11-04

Anen Al q tne tHe pan vas p OF Tying the enuIe parry "se"u
with ropes lest some be lost or fall into dangerous places. For the use of
the compulsory suit 81 "a charged and besides this the regular fee for
the services of the guide was SO. Geological specimens, gathered by your
self, were figured according to your pocketbook. Statistics say that forty
million pounds of specimens have been carried from Mammoth w This
is lot counting those imported to he spot from distant points, in defiance
of the interstate commerce ruling as to the long haul clause.
AS for the cave itself, let it be known that it is for the nos part
perfectly dry; there are no dangerous places in it where the casual sight
seer is expected to take risks, and Mark Twain in a white duck suit could
did when he made that little journey in company with Phoebe Snow
said that the manager of the Mammoth cave was a lulu, the proof of
which lies in the fact that he attracted P 7. Barnum to this hole in the
ground. and Jenny Lind sang there, miles from daylight, at ten per; and
the money vas given to poor people who crawl on the earhs crust. So
they could afford to visit this wonder Of the world. People al from
Memphis, Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington to hear Jenny Lind MARBLE
below the surface Beecher nee preached in this I'M place from a
and so had services in the cave every Sunday for the spiritual benefit of
his guests wherein the preacher used a strictly underground vocabulary.
The communicates walked into the bowels of the earth, ZACH carrying a
lighted candle, and there had the unique satisfaction OF lifting up their
voices in prayer and praise to God, who, having made the a was doubt
less pleased with its USE.
One innocent little piece of pleasantly that good manager of the ohen
time used to practice "a in giving each person a lighted candle when the
assembled pilgrims stood on the steps of the vranda, clothed in ovgals
and their right minds, ready to descend to purgatoy. Down the hill they
walked in solemn procession, and as they filed into the mouth, the strong
draft that always blows outward in summer from the aver put nut
every light. About this time a nan with a candle would myseriously
appear further ahead, where the all vas still, and the wise virgins
would grope on a little way INTO the ebony gloom and there renew-ther
lights.
And everybody for a time ceased intr@pection md got a No 9 thrill
At the Mammoth Cave hotel is a large Newfoundland dog that has a
gravity of demeanor like unto that of William of Albany, o Bill Walker
of Fargo. This dog accompanies each party down the hill to the mouth
of the cave; and a they inter the cleaning the dog loses his nerve, and
turning about, still preserving his lightly, although with tail at half
mast, walks deliberately back to the hotel. Not long ago a humorous
swain, thinking to mus the ladies, and feeling sorry for the dog that vas
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the collar and attempted to drag him into the yawnng entrance that lured
and invited.
1t cost the humorst So for cauterzmg the region o. his gutins maxims,
this amout being paid to a local wire grass doctor, who refused to guaran-
tee against rabies until the patient had invested as much mre in the
Kentucy speciality for everybody. We all drank to the health of the dog
AS you o down the hill to the mouth If the cave you traverse a
hundred yards o SO If the finest woodland scenery in the world. 1t
looks like a virgin forest, where the hand of mar has never trd, to use
the phrase of my Hb@nan American friend, Col William Marion Reedy
Great, gnarled walnut trees stretch ut friendly branches we you; tall
sycamore tower 10 the sky as if on guard; cumps of pawpa "a and tan
giles of blackberries abound, while below a wilderness of ferns and MOSES
revel in Linnaen wealth. And through the branches you see that the great
trees ire held together in a common brotherhood by giant gnpevines that
wind in and out in hawserlike coils. The beauty of all this verdue i'm
presses itself o. one, just as we are told that a AN on III way to the
galows beholds a charm in nature that before he wwt lot of. Down be-
low us yawns the entrance to the cave; around it this beauteous mass of
vedure. Across the entrance to the cavern falls a Minnehaha veil of
water. You dodge the cascade and looking down, are surprised to find
that this falling water does not 6owon in a stream-it just disappears
right into the ground as it falls.
We pass on into the i've, that ma rows as W e walk. Fifty feet or Sc
and we con to a narrow barred iron gate locked with a paddock. The
guide hands his lantern to ne of the visitors and fumbes at the lock.
Through the gate we peer into impenetabe night; back behind rs can
still be seen a tiny glimpse of the blue sky.
"oh, I feel so fantl' cres a lady of u party. F1asks are produced,
for W are all Kentucky coonels Also there is a priest with us WI have
dubbed 'tthe Kentucky CARDINAL and he offers consultations. "she is not
faint-she only thinks she feels faint says her brute o a husband, who
has been conversng with a disciple of Mary Baker Eddy.
"Oh, dear, oh, dear, I'll have to go back, moans the lady. ''The dog
will show her the way suggests the guide in pretended dhsinterstedn@s.
The dog with his bishopric dignity has just turned back, and the lady fol
lows. We pass on into the nanows, W here that bear hunter. Hutchins. in
1902, cawled feanessly after me thing and discovered a greater, lust as