Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-06-05
DOWN TURNER'S POINT.

.If you will look out of the window
IN your right, when the train gets
fhough the cut, you will have q fine view
Il the grand chasm," says the polite con-
6notor, lifting his gilt lettered cap.
THANK you very much" returns the
quiet little lady in dark blue, quickly
1EEing her eyes from the page of her
guide book.
s'Oh, Aunt Tina" says shrill excited
vuice at her elbow, 'tlet me go out on
t1ae platform, do! I'll be just as careful
and hold on to the breaks as tight"
'sDon't think of such thing for a
mnmentr' in quick, decided tones, while
her alert eyes are upon each movement
Of the restless bit of humanity ather
side
She is quiet looking little lady no
longer.
The train is approaching Tallulah,
Tallulah the Terrible, Georgia's greatest
and most famous wonder, and the pas
sangers are in fever of impotence to
catch the first glimpse of the tremendous
canyon along the dizzy edge of which
the railroad makes its way. None more
80 than the wideawake bit of humanity
referred to, who boy like, cannot under
stand why it is that his twelve years of
life do not entitle him to greater show
Of privileges-ike that-for instance, of
standing on the platform as the others
are doing.
He thinks his auntie unnecessarily
cautious and particular, yet he dosen't
get ugly about it at all. He has never
besn very headstrong, nor very disobe-
dient boy, only somewhat wilful one at
times, with strange ideas of his OVID, the
expression of which, after fashion
peculiar to himself. has gained for him
among his mates tine title of ''the queer
1sllow."
There is nothing in tie bare sides of
of the cut through which they were pass
ing, nor in the mountainous stretches OF
pine barrens left behind to give even a
hint of the grandeur of the scene that
now bursts upon their vision.
Down through a gorge 1900 feet in
depth and over 1000 feet in width at its
narrowest point, dashes the Tallulah
river, over ruggedly massed boulders, in
foam-tossed cascades that throw their
spray in air nearly hundred feet.
On either side rise sheer walls OF solid
granite, worn smooth as polished silver
m many places by the floods of centuries
and like silver glittering in the SUMS
nyR
conductor, pointing just to the right of
them to stupendous mass OF rugged
granite shelves, soil covered in many
places that juts out more prominently
Than the others into the dizzy gorge.
with but one exception" continues the
conductor, sit is the highest point on
HE chasm, and is full 900 feet above the
bed OF the river"
IA tremendous fall thatP exclaims a
nervous little gentleman behind him,
provided anyone wanted to try it,"
shouldn't think they'd particularly
want to try it." returns the conductor
dryly, yet some Of them do"
iGood gracionsp cries the nervous
little gentleman again, ''you don't mean
10 say that some one has fallen down
fherer
30, no, not that only that some OF
The more adventurous have tined to climb
down by means of the clumps of stunted
yerdure you see."
'And did they succeedf"
sOnly as far as partial decent
about one third of the way 1 believe"
Arrived at Youug's hotel about the
dirst person whose acquaintance is sought
by our restless bit OF humanity, other
viee Aunt Tina's nephew, Swain Con.
nor. u Monk, the veteran guide.
II ssy, Mr., Monk" Swain broke forth
immedistely that he has that worthy SO.
sarsly penned in an out Of the way cor y.
- Al he verandah. ~ want you tc
80 ms down to Turnsrs Point
APhsw r whistles Monk, thinking thu