The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-10-10

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the &e@ &B &H taihS tulMM with
H 500 No. assbn d. ara Three
Brothers" FOUR thousand feet high;
Clouds Rest" North and South Dome and
heights never captured save by the fiery
layonets Of tho thunder storm.
No pause for the eye, no stopping place Tor
the mind. Mountains hurled on mountains.
Mountains in the wake OF mountains. Noun
tains flanked by mountains. Mountains
split. Mountains s-groand.s,Mourtalns fallen.
Mountains triumphant. As though Mont
Blanc and the Adrondacks and Mount
Washington were here uttering themselves
in one magnificent chorus OF rock and precl-
pice and waterfall. Sitting and dashing
through the rocks, the water comes down.
The. Bridal Vail Falls .sQ thin txQp rssap see
tia facesM tllk niSu athifS Sbeh hsGa vt. ,SonSter
isl osehAe EllsStRpp8g &63g fss$ stxs
TEN tiXessrreHftf descent than that " Nf'
agara. These waters dashed to death Oh
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 watefdn- -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 tor
ment ascending forever and ever.
But the most wonderful part OF this Amer
ican continent is tho Yellowstone Park. Ny
visit there last month made upon me an i'm
preston that will last forever. After all
poetry has exhausted itself and al tho
.Morans and Rierstadts and the other en-
chanting artists have completed their cam
vas, there will be other revelations to make
and other stories Of its beauty and wrath,
splendor and agony, to be recited. The Vel
lewstone Park is the gcologist's paradise.
BY cheapeping of trsvel may it become the
nations playground! In some portions Of
it there seems tCSe the anarchy Of the Gle
uselpSi Fire epd waterS laa asabofbosn:
Of that marriage, terrific. Geyser Cones or
hills of crystal that have been over 5000
years growing. In places the rth>throb-
bing, sobbing, groaning, quaking with aque-
Gus paroxysm.
At the expiration of every siXty-hve min
utes one Of the geysers tossing its boiling
water 1S5 feet in the air, and then descend
ing into swinging rainbows. Caverns OF
pictured walls large enough for the sepul-
cher of the human race. Formations in
stone iI;shap d.col6rof ealEailfly, of hell:
trope, of rose, of cowsGp, OF suntioWer and
of gladiola. Sulphur and arsenic, and
oxide of irons with tRsir delcate :gt4teas,
turning the hills into Luxembourg OF a
vatican picture ,,ga lldry. ] 'Fhdl shsenSpd
Thauatopsis geyser, exquisite as the Bryant
poem it tsas named $ftdE; aud the}' So taiied
Evangeline geyser loyely as, the: IongSfeIIii. S! i.
low heroine il icddhmetiforates! ! Hrhe" ST.:
called ,P.ulpit Tergaco from it's whitsleleSat
ton preaching inightier; sermons Of God
sthspth pthsynanlip ips svea.ptter Fhe eso-csllel
Bethesda gey ser, by the warmth OF whlcn
finSaliSs have alEeady yF;bsen ;Tureds the ahsf
gel Of Health continually stirring, the
rSsater& .EhfagSd 6raters, with Aeat at five
hundred desress' only ie. little g below ' ! the
surface. "''
Wide reaches O, stone az intermiagle
colors, blue as The sky, green as the foliage,
crimson as the dahlia, wtite As ;2the smssvl
spotted as the leopard, tawney as the lion,
grizzly as the bear, in ctrdlsss is: aHgleSs HI
stars, in coronets, in stalactltes, ia nstallag'
mites. Here and there epeEitscAE Er6wehs,
or the dead trees, and Ysgsta tigra efI Gf9sg e
ages, kept through process tf Natural en-
balmment. In some playas:syatsss. as; i4pQt
cent and smiling as child making tlrst
attempt to walk from its mothers lap, and
not far off as foaming and frenzied and un-
governable as maniac in murderous strug-
gle with his keepers.
But after you have wandered along the
geyserite enchantment for days and begin
to feel that there can te nothing more Of in
terest to you, you sud lenly come upon the
peroration of all majesty and grandeur, the
Grand canyon. 1t is here that it seems to
me-and speak it with evercncc-Jehovah
seems to have surpassed Himself. 1t seems
great gulch let, down into the iearnitics,
I Hnrd Ahu1rE up -af1d sffet ~fown' anu 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
sonry by an omnipotcnt trowel. Yellow! !
You never saw yellow unless you saw IL
there Red! You never saw red unless you
saw it there. Violet You never saw vlo.
let unless you saw it there. Triumphant
banners Of color. In Il cathedral OF basalt,
sunrise and sunset married by the setting
of rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthan capitols, and
Egyptian basilicaS built before human arcl'
itdcsusaYas boSa. Huge 4fGtiticat Aa0 s1sa
granite constructed before war forged its
first cannon. Gibraltars and Sebastopols
that never can be taken. Alhambras, where
kings of strength ana queens of beauty
reigned long before the first earthly crown
was empearled. Thrones on which no one
but the King Of Heaven and earth ever sat.
Fount of waters at 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 gcy'
sers were hewing away with their ho,
chisel, .and glaciers. wcres pounding with
sseit cold hammers, and ..burrlcanes3wer
tt&avfhg %fth tGeirShg httthg 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 lew and di
vincly inspired revelation, the Old Testa
ment written on papyrus, the New les
lament written on parchment and now
this last testament written on the rocks
Hanging over one of the cliffs 7 looked Of
until | could not get my breath, then re
treating to a less exposed PLACE ] looket
| aowp:sgsia:-, Down there is pillar Of -Toel Tel
that II certain conditions of the atmosphere
looks like a pillar of blood. Yonder art
fifty feet of emerald on base of hvo hun
| dred feet of opal. Wall of chalk resting OF
pedestals of beryl. Turrets Of light tum
| bling on floors Of darkness. The brown
Frightening into golden. Snow and crysta
| melting into fire Of carbuncle. Flaming RET
| cooling into russet Cold blue warming int
/ saffron. Dull gray lkinlling into sOlferino