Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-12-18

grlmS landed, Is an erratlc boulder OF SVEN
ite, that was movedby theice from Roxbury
in Boston. Indeed, the New England coast
is plentifully streWn with these large rocky
visitors from the North, and good many,
no doubt lie submerged in the waters of
Long Island Sound and of other sounds and
bays to the eastward as far as Cape Cod,
forming no inconsiderable portions of the
hidden dangers to navigation alongthe New
England c0ast.-COnRecticm paper.
THE TEXAS sEDEN.-Traveling on the old
Mckenzie trail, on the third day we stop
ped to lunch and water our horses at the flow
out of the Blanco (or Whitc) River, which
flows through Blanco Canon for forty miles,
and which, it should be remembered, is the
only fresh water fork Of the Brazos. We
had halted at the great gate Of the Texas
Eden, where the painter would have stood
entranced, pencil and brush being all too
tame to put in lines or color the grand land
scape where earth and brush and hill and
cloud and sky mingled into an indescriba-
BILE picture. The sun was shining brightly
adown the valley and upon the mountain
bluffs, looming up hundreds of feet above
the lmpid stream flowing through the CEN
tire of the canon. The grass, which was
tinged with the autumn brown in the open
valley, appeared in green plats and patches,
in the holloWs and under the shadows OF the
canon bluffs. Myrads of flowers, blooming
and withered, cropped out from the hillock,
rOck-base and open prairie. Rare among
them was the Texas star, a tive-leaved How
er, which heads to the north-a veritable
flower magnet. Rare tits, and growing still
rarer, as the rude hoof of horse and cattle con-
tinue to trample it out. The hardy flower
ing cactus is everywhere. Nature makes
big effort in the spreading mouth Of Blanco
Canon. This canon is about forty-five miles
long and widens from its source like
wedge, until at its mouth there are fifteen
or sixteen miles of plain and blush and rich
grasses. AS we cross the crystal stream
flowing over limestone and gussum beds we
follow the trail up the bluff, where the fos-
sill sea-shells crop out on every bare surface,
and there, stretching away to the far dis
tance, we see and for the first time realize
the extent Of the ranges known as the
"Staked Plains" In the wonderfully clear
sunlight we see herds Of cattle feeding, and
away towards hill range some startled
antelOpes are Scampering OFT in alarm.
This trail up the steep bluff over which we
have Just come has been beaten into a
smooth path by the countless feet of buffalo
and Indians for centuries. Here, where
the savage in his primitive brutality once
hunted the noble game, we now see cattle
feeding undisturbed in the great range OF
the Kentucky Cattle-Raising Company.
The buffalo have departed but in their place
have come short-hOrn cattle, showing the
peaceful marriage between the wild cattle
of the West with the thoroughbred5 Of the
Bluegrass of Kentucky.-Leiter to the Louis
riUe Courier Journal.
LOUISIANA FOREsTs.--The scenery OF
this land where it is still in its wild state is
weird and funeral, but on the banks of the
large surrounding wilderness and on the
CLASSY waters of the narrow and tortuOus
bayOus that move among its shadows, in
the last hours of day those scenes are often
illuminated with extraordinary splendOr.
From the boughs of the dark, broad-spread-
ing live oak and phantom-like arms of lofty
expresses, the long, motiOnless pendants of
pale gray moss point down to their invert-
ed images in the unrutfied waters beneath
them. Nothing breaks the widespread 81
lence. The light of the declining sun at
one moment brightens the tops Of the cy-
presses, at another glOws like furnace be-
hind their black branches, or as the voyager
reaches western turn ofthe bayou, swings
round and broadens down in dazzling GRIM
son and purple upon the mirror ofthe stream.
y
heron, white or blue, takes flight, an alli-
gator crosses the bayou, and broad fields Of
corn, of cane and Of rice open out at frequent
intervals on either side of the bayou, push
ing back the dark pall-like curtain of the
moss-draped swamp and presenting to the
passing eye the neat and often imposing
residence of the planter, the white double
row OF tield-hands' cabins, the tall red CHM
ney and broad gray roof Of the sugar house,
and beside it the huge, square, red-brlck
bagasse burner, into which during the grind
ing season the residuum of crushed sugar
cane passes unceasing day and night, and
is consumed with the smoke and glare of a
conhagration. Even where the forests close
in upon the banks Of the stream there is
wild and solemn beauty in the shifting
scene, which appeals to the Imagination
with special strength, when the cooling
lights or the warmer gIows Of evening i'm
part the cOlOrS of the atmosphere to the
stream sending out long tinted bars of wild
ening ripple or on some high fire blackened
limb till flock of roOsting vultures, sill
houetted on the sky, linger with half-opened,
unwilling wing and flap away by ones and
twos until the tree is bare. Should the
traveller descry first as mote intensely
black in the midst of the brilliancy that
overspreads the water and by and by re-
yealing itself in true outline and proper
ton rs Il small canoe containing two men
whose weight seems about to engulf it and
by whose paddle-strokes it is impelled with
such cvenness and speed that a long, CLASSY
wave CLEANS continually at either side
full inch higher than the edge of the boat,
he will have before him a picture OF nature
and human life that might have been seen
ut any time since the French fathers Of the
Louisiana creOeS cOlOniZed the Delta. -
GEO. ", cute.
RECREATION.-Ther is Il homely saying
among the fishermen ''that those who will
not mend their nets will soon be unable to
catch fish ~ and one is seldom found so i'm
provident rs to let hole grow larger and
larger until the net is useless. The nearest
approach to absolute rest is sleep, and ofthis
every man, woman and child should have
an abundance, proportioned to his cOnstitu-
ton and occupation; but there is relative
rest, quite as important, and more neglected
by most busy men and women, this rest IS
recreation. The 81 haven't time" excuse,
although as pOpuaras ever, is sadly thread
bare. \ man owning property can afford to
invest i thousand dollars though he with
draw 1t from active business, If he Is sure
that the money will double itself. we all
have twenty-t0ur hours every day to invest,
and if one hour withdrawn from business
can be better invested, is it not a wise thing
to d0it? Relaxation, however, to be profit
able, must be whOle-hearted. 1t is not rest
for the business man to bring his affairs and
worries home with him. 1t is not rest for
the student to brood over theories and form
ulas when he walks, neither is it rest to take
ones fear and anXictics toOur friends table.
If we have no heart to throw Oft these bur-
dens, we should make the effort in spite Of
ourselves. We have been bound to Ourcares