Telegram-herald., 1889-09-23

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t1er arc literally = miis Ligh Steep So ftat
reIeasr f9ol II nan uor beast ever sc1Lsl
tLel4 Iney s-z-4- ~ e. SIl1sI-aE defiance. II
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uLlts lIiars staining dowu ia tlls great
caasn u the valley Y0u leok up. and yonler
Is Cat1s1rai Rock, vast glooWy mllst1r tailt
for t1c sllslt - .Tsllpoi tls Inoustalas \ ca
der Is SeltlAel Kgck. SEs0 feel h.sa. ieli
so.ltsry. standing guard among the sees, as
tou s4ld0m touched until a bride one Fourth
II Jaly mounted Il aud planted TIE r1.iousl
staAlsid and the pe3fls .9Na "a tAs valleys
loozel ~ an3 saw tie head ~ tae mountain
tusbanei with STAR and Stripes Yonder
are tie Three Brothers" 000 feet hisa.
"oouds Rest, North and South Dome
a1l heishts never captured save 10
tie fiery bayonets q the thunder storm No
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miud Mountains hurled On mountains
Mountains ia the " axe of mountains Noun
tairs hanked BY mountains Mountains
split Mountains ground Mountains fallen.
Meantains triumphant As though Mont
o.scanA the AdiroldacAs aud Mount " ash
irston we're here uttering themselves ia one
magnificent chorus Of rock and precipice and
waterfall Sitting snd dashing through the
rocks the water comes down. The Bridal Neil
falls, ID thin You can see the face OF the noun
tain behind il. Ionder Is Yosemite falls
dropping q ,53i feet, sixteen times greater de-
scent than that OF Niagara. These waters
dashed 20 death on tho rocks - that the
white spirit Of the slain waters, ascending in
robe OF mist. seeks tho heaven Eonder is
Nevada falls, riunging 7O) feet. the water in
arrows, the water in rockets. tho water in
pearls, the water in amethy ysts, the water in
diamonds That cascade dlngz down the
rocks enough jewels 70 array all tho earth IN
beauty and rushes on until IL drops into a
very hell Of waters, the smoke OF their tor
ment ascending forever ana ever
TIE YELLOWSTONE PARK
But the most wonderful part OF this Amer
ican continent is the Yellowstone park Ny
visit there last month made upon ne an i'm
preston that VIII last forever After ali
poetry has exhausted itself and ali the No
rams and Bierstadts and the other enchanting
artists have completed their canvas, there
will be other rev siatiOns 20 make and other
stories of its beauty and wrath. spiandor and
agony, TO be reclted. The Yellowstone park
is 4 geologist's paradise. By cheapening OF
travel may IT become the nations playground
in some portions of it there seems to be the
anarchy Of tho elements. Fire and water,
and the vapor born of that marriage, terrific.
Geyser cones or hills Of crystal that have
been over FIVE thousand years growing. In
places tho earth, throbbing, sobbing, groan-
ing, quaking with aqueous parorysm. At
the expiration Of every sizty-flve minutes one
Of the Geysers tossing its boiling water ls5
feet in the air and then descending into
swinging rainbows Caverns of pictured
walls large enough for the sepulcher OF the
human race Formations of stone IN shape
and color OF Gala lily, Of heliotrope, Of rose,
OK cowslip, Of suDaower, and Of gladiola-
Sulphur and arsenic and oxide Of iron with
their delicate pencils turning the hills into a
Luxemburg or Vatican picture gallery.
The SO called Thanatopsis geyser, exquisite
es the Bryant poem it was named after, and
the so called Evangeline geyser, lovely as the
Longfellow heroine it commentaries. The
so called Pulpit Terrace, from Its whito Gle
va ION preaching mightier sermons Of God
than human lips ever uttered. The 50 called
Bethesda geyser, by the warmth OF which IN
valids have already been cured, the angel OF
health continually stirring the waters; en-
ragged craters, with heat at five hundred de
grees only little below the surface. Wide
reaches Of stone Of interminsled colors, blu,
as the sky. green as the foliage, crimson a.
the dahlia, white as the SNOW, spotted as The
leopard, tawny as the lion, grizzly as th'
bear, in circles in angles, in stars, in coro
nets, in stalactites, IN stalagmites. Here anC
thero are pctrifod growths or the dead trees
and vegetation Of other ages kept through
process of natural embalmment. In som'
places waters as innocent and smiling
tLliA I41hitrs al 81 1bVtAhhN W VAN hA'At
its mothers lap and not far of ss foamins
and frenzied and ungovernable as n mania'
in murdercus struggle with his keepers.
TIE GRAND CANYON.
But after you have war1ered among th
ceyserite enchaatmeat for days and begin Z
feel that there can he nothing more Of inter
est 10 see, you suddenly come upon the pero
ration Of all majesty and grandeur, th
Grand canyon. II is here that it seems q
me-Aud / speak IL with reverence-.JehOval
seems to have surpassed himself It seems
great gulf let down into the etcrnities. Here
hung up and let down and spread abroad, ar
all the colors Of land and soa and sky. Jp
holsterin0 Of the Lord God Almighty. Bes
work of tho Architect of worlds Sculptuv
ING by the Infinite Masonry bv an omrip
ofsnt trowcl Yellowl You never saw vel
low unless YOU saw 1t there Ped Yo'
never saw red UaleSs yov saw II there VIC
lett You never saw violet unless YOU saw
there Triumphant banners of color. In
cath.slral Of basalt Slnr.Se and Sunset mar
ried by the setting II rainbow rlnr. Gothi
arches. C0rinfhian capitals and kgTpnal
hssii;cns built before human architecture wa
horn Huge foTtifcations cf granite COT
s+-,,~tad before war fo-ged Is first cannon
Cihgaltars and SebaStopols that never can d
t.la, Alhambras where kings Of siTen-t
sr4 queens n beauty reigned long before th
frrt earthly crown was imperiled- ThroDs
~, xbirh 20 one bas the King u heaven az
earth ever sat F0unt II waters a. whic
tho lsS-sr hills are baptized while tls Eial
cliffs stand round ss sponsors For thor
sands q vsars before tt~t scsne va uBveDe
% hg-nan sixht. the elements we're busy, an
the ravsers were bswlnE away with thesr he
ch.seI ard glaciers were pounding With the.
cid hammers ana hurricanes weTe clesvin
-isN fbair lightning strokes and haiist0ns
Ts~.aS sbs fuisaiug t0uchrs. and after a
.sse forces ~ m tgIre hsd done their besf in m