St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-31
HASA SILVER TONGUE.
That Is What Is Said Of the
/ New Minister, Rev.
Tiffany.
His Lecture on the Yosemite
a Fine Sample OF Word
Painting.
Relief for Suffering DakotanS
Not Pouring In Rap
idly.
Inspector Clausen Gives
Inspector Clausen Gives
Knute Nelson Pointers
on Grain.

DR.. o. II. Tiffany, the lately-ap-
pointed pastor of the Hennepin Avenue
NJ. E. church. of Minneapolis, made his
first appearance on the lecture plat
form III the West before a Hamline au-
dience last evening. DR.. Tiffany in his
introductory sermon two weeks ago told
his people that he came to them simply
as preacher. and not a lecturer upon
either scientific or political questions.
nor as a pulpit orator. But last even
ing this gentleman proved that outside
OF the pulpit he was both lecturer and
an orator. His lecture was upon the
Yosemite Valley" and perhaps by no
other man has this wonderful valley
been so fittingly or beautifully de-
Scribed. As a lecturer, DR.. Tiffany'S
strength is in his wonderful power of
word painting, and many passages of
his lecture were given in a style
both simple and grand. As is
well known. he never attempts
any great flights of oratory, but there is
that in his delivery which both holds
and attracts his hearers. His fund of
humOr is not limited, and often his wit
sparkled and frightened his discourse.
Dr.. Tiffany is a pOrtly gentleman and
well advanced in years, but he is still a
vigorous man and the pOsSeSsor of a
good clear voice.
THE LECTURE.
DR.. Tiffany in his opening remarks
said that to visit the Yosemite was an
experience of lifetime. Twenty years
ago he found that enc to reach this spot
must undergo terrible experience in
travelling. The lecturer, before enter
ing upon his description of the valley,
stopped to give some description of the
trees of California and relate few of
the stories told about those trees. Trav-
elerS, he said, generally lied about
those trees, He would never believe
story that made one of those trees over
325 feet in height or 92.7 feet in circum-
ference, for those were the greatest di-
mansions. Upon his arrival at the
brink of the Yosemite valley he de-
Scribed the scene IN the following
words: 'After climbing hills all day
long the guide called out Yosemite
We having started to reach a valley,
and having now for two days been as
cending mountains, supposed for
awhile that this was one of the guides
practical Jokes. We diSmOunted and
found ourselves standing among vast
masses of rocks, entangled with thick
underground of shrubs, and obedi-
entity taking the guides hand and
stepping few PAGES forward, looked
over an abrupt edge of rock, and saw
thousands of feet beneath us a lovely
sylvan plain, carpeted with vivid green,
divided by winding stream, which lay
like a giTdle OF pearls in the Lap of the
valley. The cliff which overlooked IT
oil ho L. x1yhi oh
could see rose also straight up from the
valley, while here and there from off
their peaks the waterfalls seemed to
FLOAT LIKE PENNoNs
in the air. OF the valley as whole, no
words can make adequate. 1t is new
thing in nature, and can be compared
with nothing but itself. 1t is as unlike
the other valleys in California as they
are unlike the valleys in the East. 10
see 1t is to be convinced of the correct
ness of the strange theory of Prof. Whit
ney. 1t is apparent at glance that no
CONFUSION ever rent the mountain
apart and sundered the hills, for there
is no correspondence or brotherhood be-
tween the spurs and canons on
either side. The river could not
have worn the mountain away, for it es-
capeS by so narrow assure that a man
may not press Ills way through it. Moth
ing of this sort will answer by way OF
explanation. The only possible con-
cluSiOn is that the crust of the earth was
not strong enough to support the super
incumbent mass or gneiss and granite
heaped upon it by some volcanic erup-
ton, and, giving way under the pres
sure, half of everything dropped down
some thousands Of feet into the earth,
to make an everlasting delight and mys-
tery,n