Telegram-herald., 1889-09-25


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thev .Ie literally uls ligA. S.eep 81 thaE
Uli--er fOyr ~ Ian nor beas. ever scElal
tle-n. they stand ~ everlasting defiance. II
je1oy4l has = throne oa raft1 these are its
waite pillars. Staining down il tLls great
chasla - Tie valley so4 lo0a up. and Wonder
Is Cathedral Rock, vass gloomy Iaias.er built
Tor J4o slisnt aorsllpof the mountains. y oa-
der Is sentinel koek o.2.O lee. hl1l Loli,
solitary. standing guard amglg the sses, is
top seldom touched until a b1le one Fa4rlh
or July mounted it and plsuLol the ~ -l1l41l
standard and lhs people down "a Eae valleys
loo2oi L uD and s2E Tie head of tie mountain
turbanel with Stars and Strips londer
are the Three Brothers" 000 feet high;
Clouds Resi- North and South Doase
All heights never captured save -
the fiery b4y0Dets 4 tie thunder storu No
pause for the eve. no stopping place for TIE
mind Aouataias hurled ca mountains
Mountains IN the wake q mountains Noun
tsins fanked By mountains Mountains
split. Mountains ground. Mountains fallen
Mountains triumphant AS though Mont
> acc aud the Adircndacks and Mount Wash
ias ,on were here uitering themselves in one
magnificent chorus Of rock and precipiee aud
waterfall Sitting and dashing through the
rocks the water comes down. The Bridal Veil
falls, 50 thin you can See the face OF the noun
tain behind H. londer is Yosemite falls
dropping 2,63i feet sixteen times greater de-
scent than that Z Niagara These waters
dashed 20 death on tho rocks 50 that the
white spirit of tho slain waters. ascending IN
robe Of mist SEEKS The heaven Ionder is
Nevada fails, plung.ng ZOO feet, the water ia
arrows, the water in rockets, the water ia
pearls, the water in amethysts, tho water IN
diamonds. That cascade fings down the
rocks enough jewels 10 array ali 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.
THE YELLOWSTONE PARK
But the most wonderful part OF this Amer
lean continent IS the Yellowstone park Ny
visit there last month made upon me an i'm
preston that VIII last forever Afyr all
poetry has exhausted itself aud all tie Mo
rams and Bierstadts and the other enchanting
artists have completed their canvas, there
VIII be other revelations 10 make and other
stories OF its beauty and wrath, splendor and
agony. TO be recited. The Yellowstone park
is a geolOgistS paradise. By cneapening OF
travel may It become the nations Playground
Ia some portions Of it there seems to be the
anarchy Of the elements. Fire and water,
and tho 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, so5bing, groan-
ing, quaking with aqueous paroxysm. At
the expiration Of every sixty-.ive minutes one
Of the Geyssrs tossing its boiling water 1S5
feet in the air and then descending into
swinging rainboHs Caverns OF pictured
walls large enough for the sepulcher Of the
human race. Formations Of stone ia shape
OF cowslip, of sunlower, 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 50 called Thanatopsis eeyser, exquisite
as the Bryant poem ii was named after. and
the so called Eyangeline geyser, lovely as the
Longfellow heroine il commemorate. The
so called Pulpit Terrace from is white ele-
va ion preaching mightier sermons Of God
than human lips ever uttered. The 50 called
Bethesda geyser, by the warmth Of which in
valds have already been cured, the angel OK
health continually stirring the waters; en-
RACED craters, with heat at five hundred de
grees Caly "a little below the surface Wide
reaches Il stone OF intermngled colorS, blue
as the SKY, green IS the foliage, crimson Us
the dahlia, white as the snow, spotted as the
leopard, tawny as the lion, grizzly as the
bear, in circlss, IN angles in stars. in coTo-
nets, in stalactites, 10 stalaglniteS. Here and
there are petrifcd growths OF the dead trees,
and vegetation Of other ages kept through
process Of natural embalmment. Ia some
places waters as innocent and smiling a q
child making first attempt % walk from
is motaer's lap. and not far or. a. foaming
ard frenzied and ungovernable as a maniac
in murderous struggle with his keepers.
THE GRAND CANYON.
But after You have wardered among tho
gevseritc cnchantEent for days ond begin 70
feel that there can be nothing more of inser-
est to see. you suddenly come upon the pero-
ration of all majesty and grandeur the
Grand canyon. Il Is here that il seer>s 70
Ine-and speak it with revorsnce-Jehovah
seems TO have surpassed himself. Il seems
great gulf let down into the oternities. Here,
hung up and let down and spread abroad, are
all the colors of land and sea and SKY. Up
holstering OF the Lord God Almighty Best
work of the Architect Of worlds Sculptu-
ing by the Infinite. Masonry by an omniD-
oteut trowcl Yellowi Y0u never saw vel
low unicss YOU saw Il there Red You
never saw red unless you saw it there Nio-
lett You never saw violet Unlegs you saw u
there. Triumphant bauners - color. In =
oatheirnl Of basalt Sunrise AMI SUnsst mar
riei by fhe setting of rainbow ring Gothic
s-chcs. C0r.ntLian capitals o5d Egyptian
tsdlicaz built before human architecture vss
born. huge Notifications of granite con
strucsed before war forged is frs. cznAon-
Cioraltars and Sebastopols that never can be
fare7 AIhamhras where kings Of strength
az s,u-r-ls of besutv reiEDed long bafcre The
first earthly crown was imperiled- Thrones
on which no one bat the King = heaven snd
earth ever sst F0unf q waters a which
tie lesser hills are baptized wbGe the giant
cliffs stand round "a sponsors F7r tbou-
sards II vears before tist sceHe wss uBveilei
n hu7sisn sgot the elements were busy. and
the eevzers we're hsxiar away with tbsir bot
eh,-el and glaciers were poGnGlng wlth Their
cod hammers and sgrricanss ~srs cissvinz
With t5sfr Lightning strokes snd hsilSton-s
si~laz ths flashing toaches, and sfs@r sl
thee f-r~rs of nature hsd done their best m CIR
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