The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-04-21

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shades by the door of the hotel-and you
have the larger features Of a mountain
sanitarium. A certain furious river
runs curving down the valley; its space
never varies, it has not pool as far as
you follow it; and its unchanging, sense
less hurry is strangely tedious to witness.
It is river that man could grow to
hate. Day after day breaks with the rar-
est gold upon the mountain spires, and
and creeps down into the valley. From
end to end the snow reverbates the sun
shine from end to end the air tingles
with light, clear and dry like crystal.
Only along the course of the river, but
high above it there hangs far into the
noon one waving scarf of vapor. It
were hard to fancy more engaging fea-
ture in landscaper, perhaps it is harder
to believe that delicate, long-lastlng
phantom of the atmosphere q creature
of the incontinent stream whose course it
follows. By noon the sky is arrayed in
an unrivaled pomp Of color, mild and pale
and melting in the north, but towards
the zenith dark with an intensity of pur-
PIE blue. What with this darkness of
heaven and the intolerable luster of the
snow, space is reduced again to chaos.
an llou palutcI, cOnltS W L rduC0
late in life, declared with anger that
" the avenues were all wrong" Had
he got among the Alps on bright day
he might have lost his reason. And even
to any one who has looked at landscape
with any care, and in any way through
the spectacles of representative art, the
scene has the character Of insanity. The
distant shining mountain peak is here
An, ALL
colored house in comparison is miles
away; the summit which is all of splen.
did snow, is close at hand; the high
bear it no relations, and NIGH be another
sphere. Here there are none Of those
delicate gradations, those intimate, misty
joinings-on and spreadings out into the
distance, nothing of the art of air and
light by which the face of nature ex.
plains and wells itself into climes which
we may be allowed to think more lovely.
A piece Of crudity, were everything that
is not white is solecism and deties the
judgment of the eyesight; scene of
binding definition a parade of day
light, almost scenically vulgar, more
than scenically trying, and yet hearty
and healthy, making the nerves to
LlRuUSu auu tLlo lnOuJA w oulklc ouCA Is
the winter daytime in the Alps. With
the approach of evening all is changed.
A mountain will suddenly intercept the
sun q shadow fall upon the valley; in
ten minutes the thermometer will drop
as many degrees the peaks that are no
longer shown upon dwindle into ghosts
be rightly characteristic of the place, the
e1,x e. x<x rJo ,,.~hk <hrryr1,
prising key of colors. The latest gold
perhaps, the noun shall rise, and in
her gentler light the valley shall be mel
lowed and misted, with here and there
wisp of silver cloud upon hilltop, and
here and there a warmly glowing win
dow in house, between fire and star
light, kind and homely in the fields of
snow.
But the valley is not seated SO high
among the clouds to be eternally exempt
from changes. The clouds gather black
as ink; the wind bursts rudely in; day
after day the mists drive over head, the
snow flakes fiuttcr down in binding dis
array; daily the mail comes in later from
the top of the pasi; people peer through
their windows and foresee no end but an
entire seclusion from Europe and death
by gradual dryrot, each in his indifferent
inn; and when ut last the storm goes, and
the sun comes again, behold world of
snow, glossy-like fur, bright
like daylight, Joy to wallowing dogs
and cheerful to the souls of men. Or
perhaps, from across storied and malari.
GUS Italy, o wind cunningly winds about
the mountains and breaks, warm and I'M
clean, upon our mountain valley. Every
nerve is set ajar; the conscience recog-
nizes, at q gust, q load of sin and negli-
gences hitherto unknown; and the whole
invalid wof1d huddles into its private
and silently recognizes the
empire of Fohn.- Pail Mall Gazette.
F.rtIlity Of the Indian Country.
Col Dan L. Payne. the president of
the Oklahoma colony, and somewhat
famous as the leader of the raids in the
Indian Territory, in q recent interview
says: The entire territory is well wasered,
has an abundance of good timber, the
surface is diversified, and in the valleys,
which are extensive, the soil is the best
1 ever saw, and will produce any crop
that can be grown in the best soil in
the best part of Kansas, and many parts
will grow the finest cotton ever produced.
l have seen cotton growing higher than
my head, and Of a fine grade. The en-