Connecticut western news., 1889-10-02

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 1t drops into very hell of waters, the smoke of their torment ascending forever and ever.
 But the most wonderful part of this Ameri- can continent is the Yellowstone park. My visit there last month made upon me an i'm pression that will last forever. After all poetry has exhausted itself and all the Morans and Bierstadts and the other enchanting artists have completed their canvas, there will be other revelations to make and other agony, to be recited. The Yellowstone park is the geologist's paradise. By cheapening of travel may it become the nations play ground! In some portions of it there seems to be the anarchy of the clements. 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 the earth, throbbing, sobbing, grooming, quaking with aqueous parOXysm.
 At the expiration of every siXty-five min- utes one of the geysers tossing its boiling water 1So feet in the air and then descending into swinging rainbows. Caverns of pict- ured walls large enough for the sepulchre of the human race. Formations of stone in shape and color of calla lily, of heliOtrope, o1 rose, of cowslip, of sunhower and gladiola Sulpher 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 as the Bryant poem it was named after, and the so called Evangeline geyser, lovely as the Longfelow heroine it commentaries The so called Pulpit Terrace from its white elevation preaching mightier sermons of God than human lips ever uttered. The so called Bethesda geyser, by the warmth of which inralids have already been cured, the Ange of Health continually stirring the waters. Enraged craters, with heat at five hundred degrees. only q little below the surface.
 Wide reaches of stone of intermingled colors, blue as the sky, green as foliage, crim, son as the dahlia, white as the snow, spotted as the leopard, tawny as the lion, grizzly as the bear, iu circles, in angles, in stars, ill coronets, in stalactites, in stalagmites. Here and there are petrifed growths, or the dead trees, and vegetation of other ages, Kept through process of natural embalmment. In some places waters as innocent and smil- ing as child making first attempt to walk from its mothers lap, and not far off as foaming and frenzied and ungovernable as a maniac in nurderous struggle with his keepers.
 But after you have wandered along the geyserite enchantment for days and begin to feel that there can be nothing more of in- terest to see, you suddenly come upon the peroration of all majesty and grandeur, the Grand canyon. It is here that it seems to me and speak it with reverence-Jehovah seems to have surpassed himself. It seems a great gulch let down into the eternities. Here, hung up and let down and spread abroad, are all the colors of land and sea and sky. Upholstering of the Lord God Al. mighty. Best work of the Architect Of worlds. Sculpturing by the Infinite. Mas: .onry by an omnipotent trowel. Yellow You never saw yellow unless you saw it DnIf coxly rod nrIQ QSg you saw it there. Violet! You never saw violet unless you saw it there. Triumphant banners of color. In 8 cathedral of basalt Sunrise and Sunset married by the setting of rainbow ring.
 Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals and Egyptian basilicas built before human archi- lecture was born. Huge Qualifications of first cannon. Gibraltars and SebastopOls that never can be taken. Alhambras, where kings of strength and queens of beauty reigned long before the first earthly crown was impearIed. Thrones on which no one but the King of heaven and earth ever sat. Founts of water d, which the lesser hills are baptized while the giant cliffs stand round as sponsors. For thousands of years before that scene was unveiled to human sight, the elements were busy, and the geysers were hewing away with their hot chisel, and gla- ciers were pounding with their cold hammers, and hurricanes were cleaving with their lightning strokes, and hailstones giving the finishing touches, and after all these forces of nature had done their best, in our century the curtain dropped and the world had new and divinely inspired revelation, the Old Testament written on papyrus, the New Testament written on parchment, and now this last Testament written on the rocks.
 Hanging over one of the cliffs I looked of until I could not get my breath, then retreat ing to less exposed place l looked down s-~ lIn -oa1-k klx &, certain conditions of the atmosphere looks like a pillar of blood. Yonder are fifty feet of emerald on & base of five hundred feet of opal. Wall of chalk resting on pedestals of beryl. Turrets of light tumbling on floors of darkness. The brown brightening into golden. Snow of crystal melting into fire of carbuncle. Flaming red cooling into rus. set. Cold blue warming into saffron. Dull gray kindling into solferino. Morning twi, light flushing midnight shadows. Auroras crouching among rocks.
 Wonder is an eagles nest on a shaft o1 basalt. Through an eye9lass we see among it the young eagles, but the stOutest arm O1 our group cannot hurl stone near enough to disturb the feathered domesticity. Wonder are heights that would be chilled with horror but for the warm robe of forest foliage with which they are enwrapped. Altars of wor ship at which nations might kneel. Domes of chalcedOny on temples of pOrphyry. Set all this carnage of color up and down the cliffs; it must have been the battle field O1 the war of the elements. Here are all tht colors of the wall of heaven, neither tho sapphire nor the chrysolite nor the topaz nOl nor the twelve gates of twelve pearls, want ing. If spirits bound from earth to beaver could pass up by way of this canyon, thu dash of heavenly beauty would not be SC overpowering. It would only be from glory to glory. Ascent through such earthl! scenery in which the crystal is so bright snt the red so flaming would be fit preparation for the ''sea of glass mingled with fire"
 Standing there in the Grand canyon of tn, Yellowstone park on the morning of Aug. g for the most part we held our peace, bu after while it flashed upon me with sucl power could not help but say to my com rades: ''What a Hall this would be for thu
 last Judgmentw See that mighty cascad
 with the rainbows at the foot of it. Thos
 waters congealed and transfxed with the agit ations of that day, what place they would make for the shining feet of Judge of quicl and dead. And those rainbows look nov
 like the crowns to be cast at his feet. At tn bottom of this great canyon is floor ol | which the nations of the earth might stan,
 and all up and down these galleries of rocl the nations of heaven might sit. And wha
 reyerberation of archangels' trumpet ther
 would be through all these gorges and iron
 all these cayerns and over all these heights W Hot tuc SIcdtcSI Ol IuC uny | the world shall ever see close amid tn grandest scenery Omnipotence ever builts Oh, the sweep of the American continent Sailing up Puget sound, its shores so bol' | that for fifteen hundred miles ships prov | would touch the shore before it's keel touche' | the bottom, I said: s'This is the Mediter | ranean of America" Visiting Portland an, | Tacoma and Seattle and Victoria and For Townsend and Vancouvers and other citie
 of that northwest region, thought to my | self These are the Bostons, New Yorks | Charlestons and Savannahs of the Pacifi
 coast. But after all this summers journey | ing and my other journeys westward il | other summers, found that had seen onl | a part of the American continent, for flask ! is as far west of San Francisco as the coas l nf AT.s, i, of thott tho fro1 nif