New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-20
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is more dust than would suffice for q new human
race and presently deep granite quarry, and PEN
itentiary where nobody repents, and then the
Warm Springs and hotel where we are set down
for a bath and dinner, and where Carson comes by
deputy, 70 meet us. The baths are big stone tanks
through which the Spring water constantly runs,
and row of little wooden lighthouses opens upon
them. Being ready, cautiously crceps down nail
dozen stairs into the pool which Is up to ones neck
and buoyant that it is almost impossible to STEP
without being swept off ones feet Catching hold
of safety rope, staggers and fiops about Like
light seal for the five allotted minutes not daring
for ones life to let go the cable but most luxuriousy
entreated the while by the soft hot apsing stream
1t delicious but coming out without the shock Of
a cold shower one has a certain limp and
waterlOgged sensation all day. So doubt
whether Natures Hot Baths adapted 10 the en-
ergetic and result-compellng man of our time They
were admirable no doubt in the Orient. where the
people had nothing earthly to do after them but to
loaf and invite their souls" [Shade of Marco Poloi
attend Are there Warm Springs IN India and Per-
STA ?!
Somebody gave us relics made by the inmates
of the Penitentiary. / wonder why prisoners,
architectural thoughts intent always churches
and crosses out of their mutton-bones and bits Of
stonei One might suppose that some secular sub
ect to speak, would have the advantage of greater
familiarity and interest. But at this moment be-
hold five models of churches Of very peculiar aud
ford ORDER wrought in chalk bone, soft stone and
wood, the legacy of five different prisons. Not
many of us went to see the Penientiary. IL looked
clean and cool, outside but it such
bmzen thing, this gazing at the poor
creatures as if they were wild beasts in show,
less one has something of value to offer them--as a
pass key, for instance, or bottle Of that magnetic
strip lately invented in France to make everybody
virtuousl
SO, following superb sunset field Of fire where.
in the black pines on the crest of the Sierras lighted
themselves aud glowed with color we all drove on
again, and found what looked like the Happy Valley.
The Carson River had dressed itself with yellow
lilies and great wreaths of floating leaves and ran
lightly on beside us all the way, delighting in the
green fields it had rescued from the waste. For for
the first time in days. days of desert sand and
barren mountains meadow and wheat field and
garden and orchard smiled on us through the dusk,
and seemed to have dearer than human welcome
Carson is such cheerful and undaunted
little town, it settled down SO brightly in
q fOrbdding place, and went to work 80
blithely to make it fair, it has so much
to do and yet never neglects TO look pretty and
wear such festive green, it seems to have sueh
mountains behind for shelter and the busy river for
help, and even the ugly waste for not eneroaching
further-that it seems in memory one of the most
charming and admirable places it has been my good
fortune to know. New friends who insisted that
they were old friends made us welcome, and there
was even a Levee at the Governors which for
all the world like Levee at Albany, except that
there were fewer people, and they were rather
extensively dressed. After we went back-Diana
and Ito our quarters our bright hostess sang
MS Spanish songs with Spanish grace and bright
ness. and Italian songs with Italian passion and
English songs with sweet English truth and feeling.
And our wise host, who knew all the law that ever
was declared and all the books that were writ
ten, and who crack farmer besides, told
us how Carson had grown up, and what
irrigation will do for all the bar
rem waste around; and how. IN q single season.
under that sun, shrubs shot into trees,
and seeds of fruit grew up almost to bearing.
Carson thinks il parsmony not to offer two or three
where our more niggardy fields feel 10 gem
erous TO have yielded one. Every year her agricu-
tural trumphs are greater and friend the Judge
laughed to remember how being appointed Committee
on fruit at the County fair seven eight years ago,
he had found one gnarly apple plate, the en-
tire display and awarded the first prize TO its exhib
itor feeling that he could afford 10 laugh when now
ms own garden was FAMOUS IOr ltb Irult, ana tho
whole county eager to excel Carson houses are the
small white cottages again. but there is scarcely
without its poisoning dooryard and crowded gar
den ant better STILL its busy citizens have planted
trees in all the streets.
LAKE TAHOE.
That fell sergeant, Time. ordered on again. and
next morning small family with much of the
excellence of Virginia and Carson, set forth for Lake
Tahoe No rain in these Attitudes, not even little
cloud no bigger than mans hand in all the blue
magnificent and cruel sky, dust binding and
grinding. the road ever climbing like the
Geiger grade, up dangerous, frightful noun
tain Sides but not smooth and safe
like that because il is the famous stage-road which
the new railroad has superseded, and now it is
longer watered and kept in park order, but given
over to the big freight teams that ride. and gutter
and ruin it. But heat. and glare, and dust. and
broken roads notwithstanding. 1t was wonderful
DAYS ride Already the air was so strong and bright
that nervous eagcrness and susceptibility possessed
One The great mountains, many, so many, the
giant pines that looked like Oy-trees, we climbed
higher and higher above them, the sheer precipices
of granite the cafons opening, narrowing, opening
again, the loneliness and grandeur, the perlous
excitement of driving on that narrow shelf of road
hanging over so Jagged deep abysses. the strange
Undertaking stiffness Of the place, when, having far
out-drven the rest, stopped our buggy sometimes
to look back on the road we had come. which we
saw. perhaps, catching the rough wall hardly q
stones throw across some gorge from which we had
wound. down and up, and up and down mile aud
more TO get our present footholdhow wild and keen
an it all was BY and by We had toied up to
the level, aud were driving throughwonderfu forests
of pines smooth. round, five feet through above the
base and towering straight and clear three hundred
feet IN air. Basams and frs under their softer pumes