The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-09

Of them without having his blood tinglel
Trees now standing there that were old
when Christ lived. These monarchs Of
foliage reigned before Cesar or Alexander
and the next thousand years will not shat
ter their scepter. They are the masts Of
the continents, their canvas spread on the
winds while the old ship bears on its way
through the ages. Their size, Of which
travellers often speak, does not affect me 80
much as their longevity. Though so old
now, the branches Of some Of taem will
crackle in the last confiagratioa Of the
planet.
The valley of the Yosemite is eight miles
long and half mile wide and three thou
sand feet deep. 1t seems as if it had been
the meaning Of Omnipotence to crowd into
| as small place as possible some Of the most
stupendous scenery of the world. Some Of
the cliffs you do notstop to measure by feet,
for they are literally mile high. Steep so
that neither foot of man nor beast ever
scaled them, they stand in everlasting de-
| fiance. If Jehovah has throne on earth
these are its white pillars. Standing down
| in this great chasm Of the valley you look
up and yonder is Cathedral Rock, vast,
| gloomy minister built for the silent worship
of the mountains. Yonder is Sentinel Rock,
| 1870 feet high bold, solitary, standing guard
among the ages, its top seldom touched UNI
til bride one Fourth of July mounted it
and planted the national standards, and the
people down in the valley looked up and saw
the head of the mountain turbaned with
stars and stripes. Yonder are the "Three
Brothers. four thousand feet high:
| "Cloud's Rest" North and South Dome and
heights never captured save by the fiery
bayonets of the thunder storm.
No pause for the eye, no stopping place for
the mind. Mountains hurled on mountains.
Mountains in the wake of mountains. Noun
tains fanked by mountains. Mountains
split. Mountains ground. Mountains fallen.
Mountains triumphant. As though Mont
Blanc and the Adirondacks and Mount
Washington were here uttering themselves
| in one magnificent chorus of rock and preci-
pice and waterfall. Sitting and dashing
through the rocks, the water comes down.
The Bridal Vail Falls, so thin you can see
| the face of the mountain behind it. Yonder
is Yosemite Falls, dropping 1884 feet, six
teen times greater descent than that of Nj
agara. These waters dashed to death on
I the rocks, so that the white spirit Of the
slain waters ascending in robes Of mist
seeks the heaven. Yonder is Nevada Falls
plunging seven hundred feet, the water in
arrows, the water in rockets, the water in
pearls, the water in amethysts, the water
in diamonds. That cascade filings down the
rocks enough jewels to array all the earth in
beauty, and rushes on until it drops into a
very hell of waters, the smoke OF their tor
ment ascending forever and ever.
But the most wonderful part of this Amer
lean continent is the Yellowstone Park. My
visit there last month made upon me an i'm
preston that will last forever After all
poetry has exhausted itself and all the
Morans and Bicrstadts and the other en-
chanting artists have completed their can
vas, there will be other revelations to make
and other stories of its beauty and wrath,
splendor and agony, to be recited. The Vel
lowstone Park is the biologists paradise.
By cheapening of travel may it become the
nations playground! In some portions Of
it there seems to be the anarchy of the ele.
ments. Fire and water, and the vapor born
of that marriage, terrific. Geyser cones OF
hills of crystal that have been over 5,OO(
years growing. In places the earth, throb
bling, sobbing grooming, quaking with aQue
GUS paroxysm.
At the expiration Of every sixty-fve min
utes one of the geysers tossing its boiling
water 1855 feet in the air, and then descend
ing into swinging rainbows. Caverns o.
pictured walls large enough for the sepul
cher of the human race. Formations IL
} stone in shape and color Of Gala lily, Of hell
trope. of rose. of cowslip, of suntlower anC
of gladiola. Sulphur and arsenic, ant
oxide of iron, with their delicate pencils
} turning the hills into Luxembourg or
vatican picture gallery. The so-callet
Thanatopsis geyser, exquisite as the Bryan
poem it was named after, and the so callet
Evangeline geyser, lovely as the Longfel
low heroine it commentaries. The so
called Pulpit Terrace from its white eleva
ton preaching mightier sermons of Goo
than human lips ever uttered. The so-callet
! Bethesda gey ser, by the warmth Of which
invalids have already been cured, the An
! gel of Health continually stirring tn,
waters. Enraged craters, with heat at fiv,
hundred degrees, only little below tn
1 surface.
5 Wide reaches of stone of interminget
{ colors, blue as the sky, green as the foliage
+ crimson rs the dahlia, white as the snow
Q spotted as the leopard tawney as the lion
grizzly as the bear, in circles, in angles, il
!. stars, in coronets. in StaactiteS, in Stalag
mites. Here and there are petritied growths
a or the dead trees, and vegetation of othe
/ ages, kept through a process of natural EN-
t balmment. In some places waters as limo
o cent and smiling as a child making a frs
n attempt to walk from its mothers lap an
n not far off as foaming and frenzied and IN
t governable as a maniac in murderous strug
b gle with his keepers.
But after you have wandered along tn
n geyserite enchantment for days and begi
+ to feel that there can be nothing more of in
!. terest to you, you suddenly come upon tn
e peroration of all majesty and grandeur, tn
5 Grand canyon. 1t is here that it seems b
: me-and speak it with reverence-Jehova
!, seems to have surpassed Himself. 1t seem
p great gulch let down into the eteruities
|. Here, hung up and let down and sprca
J abroad areall the colors of land and sen an
70 sky Upholstering of the Lord God Al
d mighty. Best work of the Architect Q
:, worlds. Sculpturing by the Infinite. MAJ
p sorry by an omnipotent trowel. Yellow
g You never saw yellow unless you saw
n there. Red You never saw red unless 70
+. saw it there. Violet! You never saw viz
n let unless you saw it there. Triumphar
n banners of color. In a cathedral of basal
n sunrise and sunset married by the settin
of rainbow ring ~. +
If Gothic arches, Cornthian capitols, an
ID Egyptian basilicas built before human srcl
re itecture was born. Huge Qualifications
,e granite constructed before war forged 4
10 first cannon. Gibraltars and Sebastopo
u that newer can be taken. Alhambras, whel
q kings Of strength and queens of beaut
Is reigned long before the first earthly crow
IN was emren rled III rnnes ON which No ar