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TH?NDERI! jiu!1.1." ?'*?"?_:,jna j Helen Harcourt, ia In Upson County, Georgia; four teen roi es weet of TbomaBton, and tbree mi ea from the Flint River, is a very rei larkable spring. It is called (be Thi ndering spring, and there is a good reason for the mime, as vre shall' see. The sprigg is little known. It is in ap out of the way section, and for this reason has lived out its strange life in an unmerited obscurity. At the foot of a steep hill, some three or four hundred yards from a public road, it bursts oat of the ground in a volume sufficiently strong to drive a mill wheel, and it is quite possible, in these romantic and pro gressive days, that it may yet be thus utilized, if indeed, it has not already been put to work.. It certainly baa, if its power hae been needed. The spring is about four feet across, and is constantly boiling np fine sand, which is thrown off every day, forming a curious derk ring, jost the size of the aperture. The strangest thing about this sand is that it all stops juBt sixteen' inches below the aurfaoe of the water. From thia point up? ward, the water is asolearas glass, be* low it, as dark; aa if soap fat were boiling. In fact, where* tho water is at rest, this lower strata- looks very mach like that evil-smelling concoc tion, so far as color ia concerned. Bot once in a while large bubbles riso in tho center of the spring, stir ring the, suspended sands as they make their way through the -dark strata, and burst on reaching tho sur face. It is then that the sand rings are thrown out On the margin of the spring. The bubbles make a pecu liar rumbling sound for some time be fore they reaoh the surface, and it is from this* fact that tho Thundering spring received its name. No one knowB how deep ,. tho spring is, but that may be simply because no ono has evey "tried to sound its mysterious : depths. ; . There ts a ourious legend connected ?'. with this spring, and has been band- ; ed down frcm father to son among the i Indians for generations. This is the ? blots- On top ?f th? mil,. ?Du ???r the present publia road, is'.abig hole in the ground, lt is about fifteen '? feet deep, and ten feet in diameter, ; from bank to bank. The latter ara ? well covered with .stunted trees and shrub?. Once upon a time, many,; ! many years ago? ^ie big hole contain- j ed the Thundering:".r?pring.''V M?n?'' ? years ago, and yet not iso long ago but - that the indians had learned to lij&?j $ the fire-water o? tb?^^to" nwr^ and ": that the white man had learned how t to make hisprofit thereby. ? A pasing traded i thiB coveted fire-water to a certain In- i dun? trijr? ^ ;, the wonderful spring. ; ? < who becan?^ '] wear," waa the chieftain of the tribe, i Self-willed and obstinate at ali times, j the fire-water intensified these quali? ? ties, and made havoc of his brain, i until no fancy was too wild or out- f i rageous for him to; attempt to carry .1 oat, Oo this special oooaoion tho i idea came to him of riding over every- i one and Jeycrything ho saw, and bf : doing eyerything he w asked not lo j do. M?unti?g his pony, ho rois j hither and thither at full speed, over- j terning the teepee of his people, r.nd j" knocking down or riding overall wbf, vero nojL?ni^ ^ fais way! Tho trader ?t? had.' ?o?d - the misohief making firetwaterYoad ?. erected a iittlo hot IO shelter hie gooda . during bis brief strand now he met jost reward, boronga the low : dooiwgy rode the .erased, ohieftain with wild whoops, nad a tramping of hoofs thai caused tad havoo;: among J ? toa ehaitcls of thev-Tftder to the dis may of 5 the Utter* aaa* tho d??|?p|' 3 ibe Indians, ? Having done ?li tho damage in hia rower, the chi*ftain roda out again, i took Ms: way,- heediOng, tc the . fP?og,;shont?Dghis intention to ffl&: 1 . ^m}^ j .?JW been -fte lapins , With awe and re^eno^, not liaised i ?Vi heott?ti? *MW&9-&t?tK ?) bles that often zoso- to : th? ?urfaco, < Wh low rumbling a^ia&terings, \ fs though ?ou?e terribie giant were ! lacprisoaed ?blow a?'d struggling ito to ? Tr ; Whoo before, tho drautan*. ?hJcfta?n propose* io 4e???t^ Jtfcrs by p\*?^*il$^m*ft ! m own pstsc?; but tha^f hi? pony, ] jila > uMm&??m^^^?M^& S?G SPRING. if 3o\it?i Gr borgia. ibo Sonny South. grow moro and moro violent, and the mutterings swelled almost to a roar. Tho Indians drew back from the brink affrighted. AH but the crazed chieftain. He alone stood his ground, and shouted with laughter at the awe stricken terror of thc others. "See how I will serve the bubblosl" ho oricd. Then he struck his restive pony, and with one wild leap it spr&ag out into the ecu ter of tho boiling, spring. As the water wa.3 a lr-ok, it ceased to boil upward, but instead, went downward with a rush and roar us of a whirlpool, carrying with it tho chieftain and hia pony, f! In a few mo ments all that remained to mark the spot where had been the sacred spring, was tho dry hole that may be econ to day. A short time afterwards the spring reappeared at the foot of the hill, where it now is, hui no trace of the chieftain dr his pony was ever found. His terror stricken tribe left the fatal spot, and never dared return. And this is the legend of Thundering spring. Lei ?B now turn from a legend to a known and modern fact. Io previous papers we have econ instances where natnre voluntarily drained great lakes through open sink holes, and left dry or marsh lands, where before had been large bodies of sparkling water. We have afao seen how, when science and capital united to supplement this drainage, and increase and render it permanent, the said sinks seemed to be endowed with life, and io *. "*ke in resentment j refusing to go fu^ .her in their volunteer drainage, or even to retain such lands as they had already reclaimed. But sometimes the sinks reverse their plan of action. The eastern suburb of the pretty little town of Orlando, in Orange County, Florida, has boon having such an experience, ui late that ie somewhat unique, and; moire than somewhat unpleasant. From time immemorial thei'e has been in that locality, a deep sink hole with a subterranean outlet. It was o? in estimable Value to all that section, as lt could be relied on fco carry on ali the overflow water of more than a dosen lakes in thai vicinity, and has: probably served this beneficial part a thousand years or more. -? ?hef water ran into the sinkt in a large streSm. The north j side of the sink ?B a lop-sided oponing at the base pt^^a hil look. A stranger, taking a walk, and following up the banks of a Spod-Bisfd jBtream.; would fied his, ramble by its banks brought suddenly to eu end by too sight* bf the stiseaur Sliding Out of sight into a big bolo in the/ground. This on au approach "rom ono direction. - Coming up from mother he would bo startled by seeing the stream sinking into the ground-at;, ^?yeir??,??e?f: with i;faji?t?d.' rush that gave.... warnin^4^ :irjiai)ger from mother step forw?*4/ ititi icBui .the, strangei(^;late would have seen something. . different from this. Only a few moo tbs gates below; ;were swjldei&?^: <i'lo??eidv ;;;??r".tfe?i. ?rsiliime';wjtWn the >nem?Vy ot man, and no doubt far beyond. The down rush of t?ie'w?t?rs e??sed. Soon they alte^,^ ther/begau to spread over the adjacent ^'autty, , '\ Now? if .all that ??untiy, yli ke many par^ of ths to aha^eedHa would hay merely a . cunoslty, ^hd nothing more. i chanced; thai there ; was: a negro set- ' ement in ; that swthin^^aei^aS there i on the outskirts of most of the these, superstitions as mo?t ??groes^ are, and ever - on the watch for: the presence temhly irlgntenedi as soon >svthby'.' found that the tink Was folding: fast ^be^atertbaii 7 were y ot morofrightened when ^siwftVhe Water spreading away onx U in vey?ry direetjion? and ba?k - p to thoir ver>-door yards. ,' : Ii so ' ?$^efes&^ them had,: only, ??ore^ f^en ii^ or wHh dire^e?A;terrible pun$shmen|: tot their aies. ?ndnow th?y thought ??hat they were geiUng ii ib tho a! _ f on otb er flood. It was tb^??ji outwit ?4?e ?ood, these sin m //.jo :p?itk... ^p^.igjg^raonal with tho largo cod down, and theo cut off across tho middle, so that the pointed upper part is missing. Such is the shape of the open mouth .of thia naughty sink hole. It is about 35 feet ?leon, and from the base of the .r??iuuj, the opon?cg of more than 45 feet, so that tho depth of the entire sink is about 80 feet. Of course, something had to bc done, and done quickly, not only OD aooount of the frightened negroes, and tho threat against their homes, but ap*rt f-ora this, there was th< danger of flooding all the oouofrj thereabouts. Ii was only when thc sink closed its great mouth thar, th< people realised what it had beet doing for their benefit. It has boei one of the many familiar blessingi that are not recognized as such unti they aro loBt. The first thing to b< done ?as to relieve the negro settle ment of danger, and also to save th< surrounding country fron: tho over flow. This was accomplished for th time by outting off the water that wa flowing towards the sink all the tim from the surrounding lakes. Bat this was only a temporary re lief and effective only so long as th dry season oontinued. In Juno th rainy season began*, and thereaftc until the end of September rain fe almost every day. With the fi? heavy rains the water in the-sin began to rise, even though the las overflow waa still shat off. The lake wonld soon rise ?ad must be pn vided with aa outlet, and this eon) only be done by digging a oaual to lower level, which meant the expei dituro of not loss than $20,000. Bat the danger was imminent ac some action must be taken. Aocor? iogly, an expert sink diver was sar moned to Jonestown, the negro se tlement ia question. He had be< successful a few years before in ope ing another clogged sink, who waters had overflowed for a distan of twenty miles, and it was hop that be would be equally fortuna here. The diver went down to thc botte of the Orlando sink and on his retu tb terra firma reported that the on chance waBln doing as he had do in tho other osBe, ox plod e a charge dynamite at the bottom. A fifi pound oh argo was secured and pl ac at the bottom of tho eighty-foov, ho and then . exploded. But so far could be judged from results, the h< was left'as:tightly dosed as over, was, thenr: suggested : that the si j might be pumped dry, and cloggi '.debris be ?ag or sagged oat. Mei while, wtilo plans were being di sou od and rejected, the waters kept encroaching on the flats and meade adjoining, uotil it looked aa if ( negro settlement would have to abandoned io the "evil" spirit^: iof t sink hole, whom many of tho negri (irmly believed to be at the bottom tho trouble-and of tho sink. An effort vms made' to p?n?p %hen ter but of the holey bot this waa an tor failure. It waa then decided, a! i many pros and : cons, to sink a i j inch abafti v ThiB" was) done,. and s jjd?ptb of 137 feet deep th* water be !^o flow downward. Bat this trian .;**8 ot short ;.; duration. The on w?s utterly iosnffioie&t to carry off -water aa fast as it CoHee ted. Ano! shaft waa sank, aa eight-inoh 1 t?me. Tais one also penetra the obstruction and Carried off a k Tolarno of water. But still, even \ the. two shafts in .operation, ^?-il relief waa ie^^ he rains of tho rainy season were d being added co the depth of the lakes and streams whose overflow had always before been carried away by the sink holo. Finally, a third shaft was sank; a thirteen-inoh shaft thia time, and this supplementing th? other two, has at last solvod th> problem of how to disposo cf the surplus wators aud restore tho surrounding country to its normal condition. The overflow has been a ead thing for tho colored settlement, many of tho negroes having had to abandon the homes they had boon toiling for year6 to acquiro and to improve. They are now, however, again installed in their homes and making up for their IOBBCB. With tho threo shafts in operation, it is not likely that suoh a catastrophe can ever ooour again. If it did, the solution has beon found. It would simply moan more sh&ft3.. General Hamilton's Order. I Ia the Boer war ono of tho columns, half Canadian and half regular, under General Ian Hamilton, became so no torious for looting that the soldiers wero nioknamed "tho Thousand Thieves." Consequently General Hamilton reviewod them one day in a small village nea? Bloemfontein, says the writer of "Some South African Beminiso?noes" for the purpose? of warning them agaiuBt any futuro de predations. The ooltrma had jost drawn up and was waiting for the general to begin the review when a ragged rooster ran out from a hut and aoross the front of the line. Suddenly a private left tho \ line and ran after the rooster. "Halt!" shouted Hamilton. The soldier ran on. Ho soon over took the rooster and turned baok, wringing the neck of the fowl. As he passed the general ho noted tho ? o roo scowl on his face. The soldier, an Irish Canadian, was not easily denot ed, but this time he temporized. Throwing tho defunct rooster at the feet of the general, he said, "There, now, I'll tacho yo fe*' halt whin the gineral says so!'* At whioh the column roared with laughter, and even the general smiled, and the soldier got only two days' imprisonment for one of tho most bare-faced breaches of disciplino in . the records of the army. The Curse of RicheB. \ From an address by President Eliot of Harvard: .The very rich aro by uo meanB the healthiest members of the community, and to escape the perils pf luxurious living require unusual will po ?or and prudence. Great capital at the disposal ?2 a bingle individual confers on its pos sessor great power over the cou *LO of industrial development, over his fcl io w-men and sometimes over the great public events, like peace or wir between nations. It enables a man to do good or harm, to give "joy or pain, and places bim in a position to bc feared or looked up to.- There ls pleasure in the satisfaction' of .direct* i og suoh ? power,' and the greater tho ch ar ac ter the gr eater may bo thesatis faction. ?n givingthis ; direction the great capitalist : may find au enjoyable and strenuous occupation; For a? con scientious, dutiful man a great sense pf ; responsibility accompanies this power.. It may boppmeso powerful as to wipe out the enjoyment itself. ' There are no more suooessfnl busi j'noss enterprises^ than ire thpse .'con ducted by remarkably intelligoat au tocrats, and probably the same would be true of governments if any mode had been inveuted of discovering ?ad puttiug into pla?o desirable autocrats. The prevailing modes of selection, such as heredity sod transmission, havo been so very unsuccessful that autocracy as a mode of government has fallen iuto disrepute. In business enterprises tho existing modus o? dis covery and selection of autocrats seem to bo better than in tho government, for autooracy in busiuess has been juotified by results. j Tho most serious disadvantage un der which tho very rich havo labored is tho bringing up of children. It is well-nigh impossible for a very rioh man to devolop his ohildren from habits of iudiflcrence and laziness. These ohUdron aro so situated that they havo no opportunity of doing produotive labor, and do nothing for themselves, parents, brothers or sis ters, no oue acquiring tho habit of work. In striking contrast are thc farmer's children, who oo-oporato at tender years in the work of the house hold. _^ w _ Good Wishes Misapplied. It was at tho closing session of the annual eonvention of a a certain re ligious body held in a town near this oity some time eiooe, and the preaoher who occupied the chair announced that they were $100 short of a desired fluui and hoped that the amount might be rained before Anal adjournment. "I will start the good work with $251" oried a man who was a stranger to the preaoher. "Thanks, brotherl Thankst" ex claimed the nomine, effusively, "I don't know your name, but may Heaven bless your kind heart and may your business during the coming year bo doubled !" Instantly there was a laugh that was both long and loud, and the per plexed preaoher gazed at tho dele gates in astonishment. "What hove I dono?" said he. "What" "Nothing," replied a fellow preaoh er, "only the man who donated that $25 is an undertaker." Kentucky Literature. "I understand," said tho publisher to the oritio, "that Wiggins is engaged upon what is promised to be the best novel ever written of Kentucky man ners and euotuias, past and pres ent." "Not'is,' bat'was.*' oorrooted tho oritio. .?Wfco? Has hs gi?en it up?" "Well," explained the oritio, "you see ho permitted his two loading oh arno tors, a colonel and a judge, to get into a quarrel, io the first chap ter, and the lie-passed between them." V "That's a fine start-realistic and with, the proper verisimilitude. 1 should think it would be a great book. I moat soe about getting hold bf it." ". ..' "Tao needn't try," said the oritio, "it was too realistic-too much veri similitude. 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