Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-02-01
LETTER FROM COLORADO.
Canon Citu, COL. Jan. 10Th.

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LETTER FROM COLORADO.
Canon City, COL, Jan. 10Th.
Dear Monitor, Amid the hustle
and activity incident to the establish
ing of a highly comparative CONNER
cial enterprise, in Ito myself) new
country, and under the very guns of
the enemy's stronghold, | could not
find time, even during the holidays
(when all Christendom is supposed to
take rest) to pen you ga Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year,"
but since their flight, a violent at
tack of fever, which has held me in
durance for several long days and
nights, convinces me that one may
give little attention to demands
outside of business if they will, and
are sometimes compelled to, "wheth-
er they will or no." Although remiss
in expressing in due season the afore-
said conventional good wishes, I
will yet, even though late, express a
hope that for you, both occasions
may have been all that could be de-
sired, and that they may be succeed
ed by many more, equally as enjoya-
BILE, in the years that are to come.
Being warned by my attending ply
stefan against the risk of quitting my
bed at present, will attempt, al
though feebly, to comply with your
request, to send you something of
''descriptive character" which may
be of interest TO such of your readers
as have not enjoyed tour of obser-
walton to the ''Great West"
AS l have, during my brief season
here, been able to give but a limited
study of the manifold wonders which
| everywhere abound, / shall take the
liberty of drawing largely from the
stock of those who have preceded me
in the same field, whose pen-pictures
however cleverly sketched, can never
awaken in the mind of the reader
the emotions which view of the
| scenes described stirs in the heart of
the beholder. To receive an unfad-
ing impression of the nadequacy of
speech, of the poverty of language,
there are points of observation upon
which one may stand (who has due
appreciation of the beautiful, the
grand the sublime in nature) and
gaze and wonder and worship in ST.
lence and awe.
Old Woodcock says that ''If Provi-
idence had not made him justice of
the peace, he'd have been a vaga-
bond himself" No such kind inter-
ference prevailed in my case. | was
a vagabond from my cradle. | never
could be sent to school alone like 9TH
er children; they always had to see
me there safe, and fetch me back
again. The rambling bump monop-
olized my whole head. / am sure my
) godfather must have been the IVAN
dering jew or a Kings Messenger
Here | am again, en- route, anG
sorely puzzled to know whither-The
loiterings of Arthur O'Leary. There
are the Rocky Mountains | strained
: my eyes in the direction of his finger
but for minute could see nothing
Presently sight became adjusted Il
| a new focus, and out against brigh
e sky dawned slowly the undefnet
e shimmering trace of something lit
tie bluer, still il seemed nothing tan
, gible. 1t might have passed for
+ vapor effect of the horizon, had no
r the driver called it otherwise. An
S other minute and it took slightly more
certain shape. 1t cannot be describ
ED by any eastern analogy. No 9th
: er far mountain view that / ever say
? is at all like it, If you have eve
seen those seaside albums which la
Y dies fill with alg@ during their sum
mer holidays. and in looking at thos
+ albums have been startled, on turn
i ing over page suddenly, to see al
, exquisite marine ghost appear, al
most evaneScent in its faint azure
a but still literal existence, which
o had been called up from the deeps
:, and laid to rest with delioacy an,
l. difficulty, then you will form som
: conception of the first view of tn
: Rocky Mountains. 1t is impossible
e to imagine them built of earth, rock
e anything terrestrial; to fancy ther
g oloven by horrible ohasms, or shagg
with giant woods. They are mad
out OF The all and the sunshine whio
q show them. Nature has dipped he
: pencil in the faintest solution Of al
: tramarine, and drawn it once aoros
y the western sky with hand tende
: as Loves. Then when sight become
= still better adjusted, you find tn
q most delicate division taking plac
n in this pale blot of beauty near it
d upper edge. 1t is trimmed with
g mere thread of opaline and crystal
line light. For moment it sway
) before you and is confused, hu
If your eagepneas grows steadier, 20
IN see palmer and know that YOU ar
t. looking on the everlasting snow, til
sc ice that never melts. AS the entir
" fact in all its meaning possesses 20
! completely, you feel IL sensatio
;. which is as new TO your life as it |
in impossible of repetition. | confes
II Il should be ashamed not to comics