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THURSDAY HARCii 31 1910
c c = ==Entered at the araorvHle 1Ios10fllce as
second olat e matter
IIrPROIIAIIIY some of the Pittsburg
councilmen are mad because it has
forOoTUCtheir votes
SOMK gentlemen would gladly pay
more than that proposed 10000topestay retired
WK have not such an overstockI
r of presidents and mnjorgcneralsthat we can afford to let them take
chances with refractory automobiles
A CHIBURATKU oculist says that
people seldom see things as they
arc Particularly is this true when
they look at get rich quick schemes
LOUISIANA is booming rice as s
substitute for meat without giving
terenpticon pictures of China nsiiafter taking argument
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A IAWYKK in a Francisco was
pod 100 a pound fur his brief We
have heard of weighing the vKuiiOI but this is the first case of weigiaiit
the fee
MR KOOSKVKIT will have to de
cltne about 99 percent of its lurid p ¬
4rcan invitations as he wants to gethome before the next presidentialelection
IT must have been more annoying1 for the sugar trust to disgorge 44
000000 in real money than for theoil trust to be fined 29240000paidjA 25000000 drug trust has beenformed to fight the cutrate drug ¬
store trust While the two are eatA ing each other up the people should
be able to get their quinine cheap
A PULLMAN car porter was broughtinto a New York police magistratescourt last week charged with exceed-
ing the speed limit in an automobileU Whose chauffeur are you themagistrate asked Nobodyssnid the porter If the car is mineOf almost as recent occurrence was
the trial of a divorce suit broughtagainst a taxicab chauffeur in New
York by his wife who testified thather husband made in the neighbor-
hood
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i of S too a week the most of itfrom tips In another case thwife of a porter asking for alimonysaid her husband came in for gratui ¬
r ties to about that amount everyweek This is all very well There
+ 16 no objection to the porter havingthe car and it is a pleasant thing tocontemplate a man and a brother infthe act of earning S100 a week butit might be just as advantageous toall these little brothers of the richif they didnt advertise it before theeyes of those who contribute
VB cannot quite understand thedisappearing hat which the New
Yorkwoman brought back fromEurope though we have carefullystudied the printed descriptions
II However the bringing out of a crea ¬
lion of this sort for theatergoerstheSShavw ebeen exhausted For some yearset strife was all in the direction ofgreater ugliness The final wordhaving been spoken In that line wenow turn our faces toward utilityThe disappearing hat is the first sug ¬
r gestion but doubtless itwill befollowed by others A tall hat withwindows in the sides would fill a
tr want particularly if the windowswere of magnifying glass so thatthe roan behind could see the showon the stage as though opera glassesBut this one suggeston merely seuvesto inllte rte the promising nature ofthe field which remains to be ex ¬
pluited
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By OTTO A ROTHERT
lIL1119ti 1 IN TIiiC IO-rrOUL
I lliAirEIt ilO NlUR mlIII ==CHAPTER Il
A year Ago I thl the readers ofrite RECORD about n trip Tom u
Taylor and I took to some of thctCliffs of Clify That chat was dm
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fined to Saltpeter Cave Wild CatHollow and other holloas iu their
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immediate vlihilty Reccitly a i
party c ftS + isited Buzzard BallcYard wlLh is one the great bluffs
the same Clift creek t
11milesBuzzard Ball Yard is in northern j
Todd county four miles from theMuhlenberg line and a few miles in
a northerly direction from the townIof Cliftyor Lickskillet assometimes called
I presume no locality in Todd or-
ttalked morelitthanto which nearly everyman and Itwoman in southern Muhlcnberg has
at one time or other planned to gobut to which few have ever goneOnly those who have been there realize what wonderful scenery we
have at our very doors The peapie who have once seen the view
from the top of Buzzard Hall Yardilwjiys gat there again or at leastearnestly desire to do no
Like nearly all others who haveDeco to the puce 1 too hall beendestine to pHn and talk for years
bout going before I actually wentAt it my chance carne
fui arty consisted of HenryMitchell better known asIt Penny
Ah in Gabriel Aiders arch inv+eifall from Jnylots Hill We
drove to Cull where we were joinedby James A and Horace Grovesvno live in that town and who were
our hosts and guides From Clifty I
we continued our drive to Log clapwhich is one of the few trails in the I
neighborhood leading from the gen-
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level of the country down intjthe narrow valley of Clifty CreekI
Tying our horses to some treesnear the west rim of the canon and I
not far from the head of this oldtrail we descended the rocky pathand then proceeded down the cliff
bound valley to Buzzard Ball Yard
On the west side of the big hol-
low
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the narrow trail or bridle pathwinds down to the foot of the cliff
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where the valley is about 200 yardswide The opposite or cast end of i
the trail was widened years ago andmade a wagon way Many logshave been hauled over that part ofLog Gnp but it is now used prin ¬
cipally by the farmers who raisecrops in the bottom
The name Log Gap is derivedfrom the fact that about half way
up this narrow roadtt fill in oflogs was placed in a hillside gullyin order that this dangerous placecould be crossed more easily Peo ¬
pIe wishing to enter the valley witha wagon and team may do so atthe east end they must go afoot orhorseback over the narrower partof the trail This western andnar ¬
rower part is frequently called theSam Gap in honor of Sam McGehee
The Log Gap was much traveledin olden times especially by themen on the cast side who had theirgrinding done in Bivinsville now
the town of Clifty The west endof this passage is at present almostabandoned and is becoming unsafe
Some twelve years ago W TKirkman better known as OldSquire Talwas leading his horsup this ball when in turning acurve the animal slipped and felloff a precipice 75 feet high TheOld Squire so the story is toldslowlywalked back down the pathfor the sole purpose of removing hissaddle and bridle and tt toting thenhome for he had every reason toflui t
eelm great was his surprise to findhis horse tt standing on all fours andandIl
up the path as though nothing unI
usual had happened and landedsafely at the end of the trail as theyhad done many a time before andas they have often done since
In the valley not far from thisnarrow trail and near the Old Samor Gum Spring istt Booger RockIt is one of the so called tt rockhouses that is a solid rock stand-ing
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in an isolated position and re
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sembling n house about as touch asbrickbat does a quart bottle
Booger Rock is a triangular massome 40 feet high which evidently I
fell front one of the cliffs ages agoand then rolled to where it ion
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stands wear the creek cued abouthundred yards from the bluff
To us it looked as lonely as a coun ¬
ry church on a week day Manypeople declare that altho this rockseems dead during the day a peculiar noise can often be heartaround it at night The only signsofIt bongers we saw were a few I
coon and possum tracks Had wewandered past this haunted placeabout midnight while a screech owlwas perched on Its topwe toomight have something to tell aboutthetchnnts that hant Booger Rock
A little further down the valley isDripping RocknnolherIf
house It is a somewhat cylindricalmass of sandstone 60 feet high andabout the same width Its strataarc tilted or inclined At rn angle o
about 45 degrees and its base is
pressed against the foot of u higcliff
While we were walking towardU Dripping Rock our guides in ¬
formed us that tradition says waterhas been dripping from its sods ev ¬
er since Moses smote the rockIud that uli en they SAW it last a
few years alto It was still doing soWe expected in find water tricklingfrom it like sip irrin a tapped sugartree in early spring But we weredisappointed After listening andlooking around the rock for aboutten minutes AC were forced to theconclusion that It Dripping Rock is
now as dry as a powder horn 11-
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discovered several small circularholes around its base which erv
edidently funned some time ago by
trickling streams but we found nofresh marks to indicate any recta t
dripping We therefore inferred thatthis rock hail gone dryabout thesame time Todd county went ttdry
James and Horace told us thatfurther up the hollow were otherrocks well known on account oftheir dripping qualities and were
called Sweating Stones Thyhad passed some of these only a
few dais before and noticed thatthe stones were still sweating bi-
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drops of water These rocks w i
likely continue to sweat until Dooms-
day for it is an old saying that theisweating is symbolic of what me
must do on these hills and flats toU make both ends meet
We continued our walk down th
hollow but halted at many placesMost of the timber below Lot Gahas been cut On many acres whereforests once stood we found corn andtobacco fields The soil in this va
ley is very fertile but unfortunatelyit is a cliff bound and almost inac-
cessible
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narrow strip of land Theaverage width of the hollow fromLog Gap down to Buzzard Ball Yardis a little over 300 yards We passedan old saw mill site crossed a temp-orary
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bridge built over Clifty Creekpeeped into a cabin and also foundwhat seemed to be the remains ofafox hunters camp
In the meantime we saw not onlyhigh clifls to the right and high clifisto the left but since the valleya winding one we saw high cliffs allaround us Each seemed granderthan the other until at last we beYardethe grandest of them all
This Gibraltar is indeed an inspir ¬
ing sight Our first view of it was
from near the banks of Clifl y CreekBuzzard Ball Yard is El Capitan ofthis valley ihe Yoscmiic of westernKentucky Ii stands out boldly nodmajestically from one of the chainsof bluffs that help form the deeprockwalled valley The exposedbase of the precipice is not on It
level with tic creek but rests on n
pedestal or hill some too feet in
height which slants gradually towardthe stream
As seen from below the bluff ofBuzzard Bull Yatd looks like theside ofa gigantic cylinder fringedwith vegetation Its naked projetting surface of solid sandstonehas the appearance of being framby the timber growing at its baaril the plants clinging to the bill
on either side The whole massbare rock is seemingly crowned by
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A few ords to tneIriuer
IIARE YOU RAISING ANY SHEEPI oIJ
Ifffyou are bear in mind that we are the strongwool buyers in Southwestern Kentucky We
your wccl sold at the highest price and
that enables us to give you high prices for your wool
IVhCH you have your sheep sheared bring the clip to
us and receive honest weights and spat cashJ JOfccdlan vc arc seeds
at Iqwest prices We still pay the highest pricesfor Hides Furs Ginseng Scrap Iron and Grain
TcicphoncNo272 E A L COIiENoRoark Bldg next door to Males
the trees in the background standing on a higher hill that slopes downto the top of the lock
After we had taken our first lookat the famous bluff an expression otagreeable surprise was heard fronteach of us for altho the view was
grand it was not sufficiently majes
speechlessI de ¬
clue Its surfc as pretty as a picturepostalfHenry snidU Gee whiz And only
hten miles from A Ls Whod a
thought it lint for some reasonor other it dont look just exactlylike allowed it would
Alvin commented thattc the hillsalong Hurricane in Perry over inIndiana cant hold a candle to thisfor this sight has got everything I
ever saw skinned a block J
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I chimed in bv adding u Its a fargrander sight than I expect d to secBut compared to Wild Cat HollowI must confess I think the Wild Catgorge beats it when it conies to wildand rugged scenery
Jim and Horace told us they hadoften gazedat this bluff and al ¬
ncverlhci ¬
U How on earth will we ever climbthat towering mass of millstonegritwas the question we now
asked To four of us it seemed animpossible feat When our guidesinformed us that they would carryus to the topwe threw ourselves
their hands And behold weIIUon U carried to the top each on
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