The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-31
BIG COTTONWOOD.
items Interesting and Ingenious
from an Itinerant
Big CoTToNwooD, Oct. IS. 'ss.

BIG CoTToNwoOD, Oct. IS, 'S3.
1t was before the snow storm and
we had started out to follow the
chase, Mr.. Holder and l; not. as
might be inferred, for sport, not to
satisfy a savage instinct to kill, or
mann or disfgure; it was question
OF meat. We were unmounted. and
no baylng hounds voiced our COM
ing. We had one hound. That ,s
ne was part hound. and part bull.
and part shepherd, but his Instincts
were too prCmiscuOus to be useful.
ana Holder referred to his maternal
descent ID way which implied re-
pfoach. Holder was ahead and had
tralled to the summit of a
very steep hill, had removed
ms nat and eXhaled the following.
I'll be Id if that isn't the pret>
test thing I ever looked at" By
This tune [ had gained his side and
was contemplating the scene which
mad given rise to his outer express
sion of admiration. Below us Law
crescent-shaped canyon, the sides of
which were garnished with huge
and unsightly blotches of color, red
and green and yellow, ETC., thrown
together III contemptuous disregard
OF rhythm or meter without elegance
OF grauatiOn, resonant but dis
sOnant.
could not repress smile of COM
mlSeratlon, in which there might
lave been an unconscious trace Of
modest annoyance. [ regarded
MI. Holder in this chilling
way for some moments anu
then addressing him with perhaps
undue severity, L said: "You poor.
miserable, unfortunate wretch! So
that discOrd of color is sufficient to
satisfy youruntutored imagination
That .preposterous prospect which
might possess attractions for a Pr
ute but which to the cultivated eye
Is simply ridiculous. True, there
Is color enough, too much, and the
arrangement is hideous, defective in |
incubation and pitched in too high |
a Key. to be restful or soothing
transmit it to canvas and no school |
OF art would tolerate it an instant.
There Is plenty of room here for
something instructive and to meet
the requirements Of art. After
sketching the outlines, which
are well enough, you should
open at the base. with a prelude of
dun or brown, follow up with an
air OF green and strain of yellow.
Where that hard blue lime crops
should come out with a hornpipe of
red, and in this / should be sun.
ported by the pre- Missouri Webfeet:
but doubtless the more aesthetic
would resent it as a presum etuous
piece of ultra-aboriginism, and
would demand polka of pink or a
mazurka OF violet. In either case,
IL would De proper to wind up with
3 refrain of mixed tones, with a
leading baritone of blue, and per
maps taper off with a tremulo Of :
This would be artistic, and in
certain lights soporific."
Holder here volunteered a remark
hat it might be emetic. I contin-l
leds at would not shock ones sense 4
If association.
In the foreground, an undershot
water wheel with a bucket or two
Missing would lend a subtle poetic
uggestiyenees. It would suggest if
interpret rightly that some man 9
lad went broke in the saw mill
BUSINESS. A man with his blankets
n his back heading this way would !
% Dreamy mpressiveness: it
you'd impress the realistic idea thatt
he labor market of the Park was
Pieces Of broken packsaddle.
lrewn around with mule, yelled N
y the Indian summer haze career
1g IN the distance might appeal to !,
ne sympathles, though the subiec. /
We treatment Of this refractory
lD]ect should only be entrusted to
ne whose hand had attained a firm
lough mild "insistence." No anna
:ur should attempt the Handling" q
the mule. These are mere acces. y
'rles. What wish to convey is
lat nature, when she ESSAYS the
ecoratlye. is too boisterous, tool
o"u. Auo olu udIno means well
lougn, but her loudness often -
erges on the scandalous. It is the h
easing province Of art to subdue l.
81, to hold her down, and this an
les to music as well.
Now that ear of yours seems bigt
Tough to take in a low down melo -.
" like Slavery Days" or 1--WE >
everS peak" but you would not
Re an opera too coarse, too umbra
GUS! Yet there are shades and I'm
If shades, tlnts and sub-tints of Nv
e!ody running through these com
sltlons, which delight and rejoice
g finer tympana. snc
was present once at one of these
rformances. 1t was a German
era, and that language stands un- ~
,aled for purposes Of musical dis IL!
Use. l had book to keep track
the business, but soon threw it
de to be ready to assist in the ar
use which l knew wal
ming when the sOpranol NJ
l reached the very highest point
apatible with safety. How the 81
Hence did come down not tumult.