The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-08-24

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IS and wa wraaters edge. =
nvat u all, and were
restI~ LIT 1t WAS
:, IN J and deem
. I" .rle islands Here
K under the hsnk =
which had been torn nm
r,0Hshed smooth as glass bv
~ss flow But they were Iodyed
'ne sanded bank until some tresh.t
en- 10 some other resting nlane
=. an unyieIding resistless bower 80 pace
! Us "s ~ carry on It's bosom huge tees 80
| heaVy rocks. We are on he nnrfh lees aud
aiu far pack in the dim distance we sao
davaid 90 o' ,tiy olun ofa yeiowish grav coInr
ue'oiu oi all grass or vegetation TLa, ~
twenty miles distant ICY niay De
VI me SCUM side the bluffs come close DONE,
sorn 1 mate's euge forming the banks, which in
ait no PAGES Is twenty feet high, and coverad
vines whnh cat oGsny ana scraggy, and trailing
a.o' "Hen cutcDlus branch here and tharSs J
t Il iivIng veal Their delicate nor
so't;, S "nu Iohg tendriia Tipped with = ted
fair sand e n'nes gi,Inme'ed godenly, 10 suns
the rean'- ''N' :" on the pegd' while the
.r west its eNng = Ill; .nrew V, back 10
t,1Hr njants and fowers grew on The north
Lot INA the cottonwoc;t. trees with their long
sloe chains of cottru balls grew close to the
| senu adpe. and wp,lking out on the drift wood
.a.,hered 6oughs from them which hung far
nut over til water.
n,nre 40 than the MissouTi's into which they
empty. IT, ,,.u,
A. we Travelled day by day the valley gre"
beautiful TO me, the river on one side ana the
distanee jappled with sunlight anu sheoe' Vi
!. | he other: 4nd the smooth fair valley carPetet
, With living green, and threaded with streahlle''
|, bordered with widows and cotton Woou nees.
n these trees are peculiarly beautiful, wit
their slender branches dropping downward. .,
their long chains of cotton balls. ph-so bnI
1 look like green peas strung a." a obord, but on
;, ening them We tind them filled with white sui
Il stance resembling cotton l suppose it is thi
S. that gives it the name cottonwood
;. Some times we enoamped Qn tho open plain;
- On ths rive side The horizon would b
a tringed with low vapOry clouds, On the othe
side the bluffs dark and grand, and our whit
u tent wagons aud all the bright clear moonligh
st falling softly, with It's glImmerng sheen comm
up the river.
I could but think of tho novelty of our situa
he ton, little band living in our tents, and wag
ons there on the river side in a wilderness
co waste land, hundreds OF miles from other civil
th lied beings except an OCCASIONAL camper lik
ourselves.
n. Then sometime we encamped in the wooC
MI with lights burning in, and smoke ascemdin
from eight tents. The red men would con
wrapped in their blue, red, green or yeilo'
he striped blankets. Their culver of arrows al
their b0ws slung over their shoulders, and III
round their faces. 1t seemed 10 me that "
had journeyed back to the days when God
ty red children he'd their councils and sat aroun
al their camp-fres in every forest and valley
=" America,
on We cemped thus on Loup Fork, and in tt
&c morning crossing over on the Jerry boat-wer
90 in o the ferry man house. 1t small, mac
al of logs and chlnked with mud and matched vii
.o sod, bus ii STOOD among the cottonwood tre
nc in pleasant spot looking down the river, ant
lis his wife little pale, gentle looking woma
- kept everything in puritan neatness.
10 While vending in a slow train over plain
Lr through woodlands and ACROSS river for Il
past week, l often thought of the all pervadir
as Deity who had moulded them in SUCH pertec
bv beauty. Perfect as Himself, fer He is perie
- in the greatness OF His stI ength, the beauty
7rs His holiness, the deep tenderness of His mere
is the grandeur of His power, the subimity of
~ suffering and in the depth OF His yearnng cor
'al passion and pity. We need TO ne placed ia
g once in our lives where there is no help for u
Vi save in Gods protecting power to realize Il
- true beauty of implicit trust in Him.
THIsTLEDoWN.