IN THE MAMMOTH CAVE
EXHILARATINC EFFECT OF THE COOL
AND CERMLESS AIR.
It I» Not Known by What Process tlie At
■ nogphpre Is Sterilized Waves of Melo
dy- Wonderful Effect of Music 111 the
Caverns In Kentucky's Natural Wonder.
John R. Procter, formerly state ge
ologist of Kentucky, writes of"The
Mammoth Ca"e of Kentucky" for the
Century, the article having many
striking illustrations by Castaigue.
Mr. Procter says:
The entrance to Mammoth Cave is
reached by descending a picturesque
pathway leading from the hotel down
the hillside over jutting moss and fern
covered limestone cliffs into a beauti
ful glen extending from the top of the
hill down to Green river, which is 194
feet below the mouth of the cave and
about half a mile distant. If the
weather is warm, as we near the en
trance we step into a bracing, cool,
pure air, welling up from the cave and
(lowing down the glen beneath the
stratum of lighter and warmer air. I
have stood near the entrance and ex
tended one hand into a temperature of
90 degrees, while the other hand was
extended into a cool flowing river of
air with a temperature of about 60 de
grees. The air within the cave has a
uniform temperature, summer and
winter, of 54 degrees. The cave may
be said to breathe twice a year—in
haling during the winter and exhaling
during the summer. This breathing
of the cave, and the purity of the air
and its freedom from germs, are among
the most interesting problems to be
studied. By what process the air in
the cave becomes sterilized femains to
be determined.
But our faithful negro guide has
counted the party, selected the requi
site number of lamps and given the
word, and we follow him in single file
down the rude stone steps into the
vestibule of the cave. Turning, we
look up at the beautiful effect of day
light which we are leavincr, and ad
mire the delicate cascade falling from
the overhanging arch at the entrance.
Here our lamps are lighted and we
snter this silent, mysterious, change
less abode of eternal night, where the
heat of summer and the cold of winter,
the storms and thunders of the outer
world, never penetrate. A few hun
dred yards and we feel the peculiar
sensation of emerging into expanding
space. We catch only glimpses of
white limestone projecting out of black
shadows of the far-away walls and
ceiling of an immense, almost circular
room about 70 feet high, which oui
guide proclaims the Rotunda.
We note the peculiar musical effect
of the human voice. Years ago it was
my good fortune to hear a celebrated
tierman musical society sing in this
Rotunda. I went away in one of
the great avenues leading from here,
blew out my light and sat alone iu the
darkness and listened while the great,
ahthems rolled and reverberated
through the lofty corridors in majestic
waves of melody. I could then ap
preciate the inestimable privilege of
the few who heard Jenny Lind sing
here, and who in the Star Chamber
heard a member of her party render on
his violin the prayer from "Der Frei
schutz."
When the Rotunda is illuminated,
we note the perfect clearness of the
atmosphere, the freedom from dust
particles of any kind; and we soon
learn that nowhere in the cave wil.'
even dust rise upon our shoes. We
note also the exhilarating effect of the
air upon the memberß of our party. It
is believed that the air has become
oxygenated by chemical process; cer
tainly, from its purity and dryness, it
enables one to undergo exercise for
hours without a sense of fatigue.
Here before us is evidence of the won
derful dimness of the air. The salt
petre vats erected iu 1812, and the
timbers which have remained in their
present position since then, show no
evidences of decay. In these vats the
saltpetre was leached from the nitrous
earth abounding in the upper and
middle dry avenues, and used for the
manufacture of gunpowder. The war
of 1812 was fought, on the American
side, with gunpowder made from salt
petre taken from caves, and Mammoth
Cave supplied the greater part. One
wonders how, in the absence of germs
and of decay, the earth becomes
charged with nitrogen. It has been
claimed that nitric acid in the atmos
phere, combining with the limestone,
forms nitrate of calcium, and the dis
integrated waste from the walls and
ceiling yields the great supply of ni
trogen abounding in the cave.
It requires a day and a half to make
ihe regulation journeys through the
cave; one half a day to what is known
as the Short route, and an entire day
to the Long or River route. But that
bv no means exhausts the objects of
- "it.and one may spend days in
avenues and chambers and
included in the regular
Jim" Ilowle.
determined and
„ James Bowie sought ad
" its hazards, and he was
■nong the first to take up
exas independence. Three
perate men were never
ogether than Travis, Crock
iwie, as they took then last
tin the walls of the-Alamo,
'.elpless in bed on that last
iy, "Jim" Bowie died fight
\lexican ran forward to kill
sed himself by a supreme
ight his assailant by the
ged the fatal knife into his
fell back dead,
the story of his death was
sh old mother in Louisiana,
*1 am sure 'Jim' never died
""'I in his back," and with
<mile turned again to her
dutie«.
A Home Set on Fire by » Poultice.
Fire insurance companies have all
sorts of experiences and their officers
can tell many curions stories. One of
the queerest fires fell within the busi
ness of the Connecticut Fire Insur
ance Company, of this city, recently.
A house was set on fire by a bath
tub and the tub was set on fire by a
poultice. A man in a Western city
was suffering from a bad cold, and his
wife, at the doctor's orders, prepared
a poultice for his chest. When she
started to put it on it proved to be too
hot. Accordingly she took it to the
bathroom and set it into the bathtub
to cool. This happened to be a fine
tub lined with celluloid, which served
as a sort of enamel. The heat of the
poultics started the celluloid a-going,
and the burning tub set things going
generally. The department was called
out, and the house waswell wetdosvn,
for which the company had to pay.
This, so fav as is known, is the first
instance on record where a bathtub
set a house on fire or where a poul
tice kindled a bathtub. —Detroit Free
Press.
A Small lteward.
The engine driver who took charge
of the train from Falkenberg to Leip
sic on December 13 prevented an acci
dent in a very ingenious and plucky
manner. Between the stations Tor
gau and Mockrehna he noticed that
the rails running parallel to his own
were broken, and that the next train
that would pass over them must in
evitably be wrecked. He at once
wrote a few words explaining what he
had seen and giving an exact descrip
tion of the place, and when passing a
group of railway workmen he flung
the paper to them, which he had first
rolled round a piece of coal. They
read the warning, sent telegrams to
the stations interested,the trains were
stopped in the nick of time, and the
accident happily prevented. This
praiseworthy conduct of the engine
driver was duly brought to the notice
of his superiors, and lie has just been
rewarded with a present of two shill
ings. Even life is cheap in the
Fatherland.—German Railway Xe»vs.
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Recently a peculiar incident hap
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