The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-31

and determination into the hearts Of
interested capitalists removed from
their base of operations.
There is also, diametir4lly opposed
to this, the life in aiive mining
center, like Central City of BIackhawk,
where one meets typical people Of the
lower classes, and where everything is
just what it seems, or 1aa4hap little
better. Here would you Sd for a season
if, as student of real life IN its SIM
pier, more marked phases you would
see humanity without disenises. You
forego the theater and tie opera, ex-
quisite culture in people and unique
ornamentation in things, ma with the
delight of a Dickens stuGy tlle diamond
in the rough. And you fi1< it not all
unattractive either. The bSrd- handed
miner has his genuineness and his hu.
NOR, his warm heart an gady hand,
and his little daughter u sonais not
less responsive or fearless than him
self.
To the ordinary rambler the charm
of mountain residence ID dn the wild,
care-free life to be had ID such resort
as Idaho Springs. * ou have your hot
and cold mineral springs. yeur baths Of
all varieties tempting to iHvalids, and,
above all, your people of alI kinds, from
the man of culture to him of the phil
osophic mind the charnling and brill
liant conversationalist, the profound
student, and the deep lover of nature.
If gentleman and ydas would per
chance, spend a season ever to be re-
membered, you angle fofg tie shy little
brock trout in those cold clear mount
ain streams or, gun on Shoulder, go
forth to revel in the Stalking of elk and
deer. Or perhaps conten with smaller
game, eagerly you seize Upon wild tur-
key and quail; or, in an excess of en-
thusiasm, seek the bigshorn sheep or
mountain lion; or agSin, follow the
hounds in chase of antelope over the
plains. Perhaps, among the deep re-
cesses of the mountains, you track the
cinnamon bear or grizzly to his lair
not, however, disdaining wild geese and
ducks, the prize of the marshes, wher-
ever you may find then1s
But. wishing the swesfast most care
free life. equipped with rod and gun
and endowed with soti susceptible to
natures charms, you fiad dyour most in
tense Joy, not in oeead donaI tours, but
in camping out amon4 The pines, un-
troubled by mosquitoesIbx dies and with
the luxury of yenison al trout at your
command. Then nay ySW appreciate
to the full the pure, exhilarating breath
of the mountain breeges, the soul stir
ring beauty about, and the wild free
dom and richness of nature, prodigal of
all those benefits for which man most
yearns. One can, to be sure. enioy the
mountains at a distance, but he can
never appreciate the small fraction of
their charms until he has climbed by
the slow, winding trails to their sum-
mits, beheld their innumerable fine
vistas and looked down from above
upon their towering heights. And yet
nothing more astounds the novice in
mountain travel than the wonderful
beauty of the mountains in their quiet
er hooks, where fine natural parks alter
nate their pleasing quiet beauty with
the towering grandeur of peaks like
Pixies and Longs, Ouray, or the sum-
nit of the Uncompahgre range. And
nothing could be to him more striking
ly beautiful than the long rows of snow
clad serrated SUBMITS of such a range
as the Sangre de Cristo, outlined in
sharp saw teeth against the azure blue
of the sky, and contrasting finely with
the rounded SUBMITS of the nearer
mountains.
One is very deeply impressed, if he be
of a thoughtful turn of mind, with the
strange history writ in nature among
these rock-bound cliffs, crevasses and
regularly rounded hills. Here the rock
is wrought into all sorts of fantastic
formations, until it seems that the pud-
ding-stone in its varied forms is but
the plastic mold of an ingenious artist;
and the hills slona with On neoulior and