The sun., 1908-01-26

man could walk on il Rhe dreve q fsnes
stake through the sod. Withdrew It and
jumped on the sod. a fountain Of clear
water would squirt up with each jump.
A brook flowed out OF this turf covered
lake until a quarter OF a mile away IL dis
appeared In a rocky hillside. Listening
at the place OF its disappearance. ono could
hear the echo OF the falling water In cavern
far below.
Perhaps half a mile further on the brook
came obligingly TO the surface In q corner
Of a farmers barnyard. furnishing spring
water for his stock the year around. Thence
It rippled down a ravine and Joined the
southwark flowing stream that keeps on to
Chesapeake Bay.
A farmer on the east drylots who offered
his farm for sale drove prospective buyer
over his fertile acres, and the stranger s1-'
pressed himself as thinking well OF H.
Now said the farmer, Il have shown
you the upper side Of the faEm. Come and
see the under side Of it. .. ..'r
The farmer took a lantern and drove
with the stranger to a depression half q
mile from the farm buildings. They de-
scended by an easy decline and walked from
cavern to cavern. At length the farmer
stopped and said;
"Listenl"
Il hear humping noise said the other
man.
THAT one OF my men threehing oats with
a fail on my barn floor just over US said
the farmer
The stranger said that a one story farm
was good enough for him, and asked to be
conducted to the surface.
Not far away is another cavern that
opens toward the north. the entrance being
an easy slant. The cave 10 not large, but
because of the situation Of the entrance
it is sometimes possible to find a bank OF
snow inside ON the Fourth OF July.
Persons driving with strangers in the high
! ways often call attention TO a peculiar sound
| made by the horses hoofs-a hollow, ring
! ing sound.
, we are passing over a cavern is the
explanation.
Near a roadside there used to be two
funnel shaped depressions some fifteen or
! eighteen feet deep, nearly round and with
\ grassy sides. They were so near together
that boy could toss his cap from one into
the Other. When one Of these tunnels was
nearly full Of water there was just enough
water in the other TO cover the bottom in
it's deepest part.
When the water in the nearly full de-
preston began to sink IL began to rise in
the nearly empty one, and the change went
on until the latter was filled almost TO the
brim and the former was almost dry. These
depressions we're never both full or both
empty at the same time. There was no
watershed into them, and rains had nothing
to do with the changes they showed.
On the west dry lots farmer boy while
king his way through a piece OF wood
stepped into what he thought was a wood
chuck hole. He withdrew his leg picked
up a dead branch of a tree and ran il up
and down in the hole.
Then he found a cobblestone as big as his
head and chuck ed il In. For an instant he
thought that the stone had lodged in the
soil. Then came a sound OF splintering
stone on rocks far below. followed by a
sound OF fragments spIashing in water still
further down. and these sounds we're echoed
back as il from the walls Of a large SUBJ
terranean apartment.
A cavern with a large entrance, spacious
enough to admit yoke of oxen, opened
straight down and was a constant tempta-
tion TO daring youngsters who looked into
the big, black and seemingly bottomless
hole. One day they rugged up a talloW
candle on a block of wood and let IL down
on a piece OF twine,
The dim light revealed a shaft Of Jagged
rocks surrounding the dark centre Then
the fame burned the twine in two, and the
candle fell into the black hole.
The boys went and Clt down a small
hickory tree trimmed 1t of its branches
and dragged it 10 the mouth Of the cavern.
There they up ended it and let it down
until it's butt seemed to rest on something
solid. One of the youngsters Skinned down
until he came to the end Of the pole.
There he found what seemed in the dark
ness to be ledge Of rock. He picked up
loose piece OF rock and threw it forward
as far as he could without having room to