The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-03

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 inn |
preston that will last forever, After all
poetry has exhausted itself, and all the
Morans and Bisrstadts and the other enchant-
ing artists have completed their canvas.
there will be other revelations to make and
other stories Of its beauty and wrath,
;Rs s yellowstone s@s as01F Park the gsS
ogist's paradise BY cheapening 81
travel may IL become the nations play
ground In some portions of II there seems
to be the anarchyof the elements. 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, quaxing with aqueous paroxysm.
At the expiration Of every sixty min
utes one of the geysers tossing its boiling
water 1875 feet In the air and then descending
into swinging rainbows, Caverns Of pictured
walls large enough for the sepulcher of the
human race. Formations Of stone in shape
and color Of Gala N.Y. of heliotrope, Of rose
Of cowslip, of sunAower and Of gladiola,
Sulphur and arsenic and oxide of iron, with
their delicate pencils, turning the hills into
Luxembourg or Vatican picture
gallery The so-called Thanatopsis
geyser, exquisite as the Bryant poem 1t was
named after, and the so called Evangeline
geyser, lovely as the Longfellcw heroine it
comniemorates. The SO called Pulpit Ter
race from its white elevation preaching
miEhtier sermons Of God than human lips
ever uttered. The so called Bethesda gey.
ser, by the warmth Of which invalids have
already been cured the Angel Of Health con-
tinually stirring the waters. Enraged era
ters, with heat at five hundred degrees only a
little below the surface.
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colors blue as the sky, green as the foliage,
crimson a. the dahlia, white as the snow,
spotted as the leopard, tawny as the lion,
grizzly as the bear, in circles, in angles, in
stars, in coronets, In stalacites, in stalag.
mites. Here and there are petrifed growths,
or the dead trees, and vegetation OF other
ages, kept through process of natural en-.
balmnient. In some places waters as inno-
cent and smiling as child making a first at
tempt to walk from its mothers lap and not
far OF as foaming and frenzied and ungov-
ernable as q maniac in murderous struggle
with his keepers.
But after you have wandered along the
geyserits 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 ma jesty and grandeur, the
Grand canyon. Itishere that Il seems to me
and speak it with reverence-Jehovah
seems to have surpassed Himself. It seems
a great gulch let down into the
down and spread abroad, are all the
colors Of land and sea and sky. Upholster-
ing Of the Lord God Almighty. Best work
OF the Architect Of worlds Sculpturing by
The Infinite. Masonry by an omnipotent
trowel. Yellow. You never saw yellow
unless you saw it there Red You never
Wv ,sw red unless you saw it there. violetl
You never saw violet unless you saw it there.
Triumphant banners Of color. In cathe.
dral of basalt sunrise and sunset married
by the setting Of rainbow ring
Gothic arches Corinthian capitals and
Egyptian baslicas build before human archi-
lecture was born. Huge Notifications of
granite constructed before war forged its
| first cannon. Gibraltars aud Sebastopols
| that never can be taken. Alhambras, where
kings OF strength and 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 be
| fore that scene was unveiled to human
sight, the elements were busy, and the gey.
sers were hewing away with their hot chisel,
and glaciers 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 a 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 looked off
until could not get my breath, then retreat
ing to a less exposed place / looked down
again, Down there is pillar of rock that
| in certain conditions of the atmosphere looks
like 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 Frightening into
golden. Snow Of crystal melting into fire Of
carbuncle. Flaming red cooling into russell.
Cold blue warming into saffron; Dull gray
flushing midnight shadows Auroras crouch
ing among rocks.
Yonder is an eagles nest on shaft OF
basalt. Through an eyeglass we see it among
the Young eagles but the stoutest arm of our
group cannot hurl a stone near enough to
disturb the feathered domesticity. Yonder
are heights that would be chilled with hor-
ror but for the waruis robe of forest foliage
with which they are enwrapped. Affairs Of
worship at which nations might kneel.
Domes of chslcedony on temples of por-
phyry. See all this carnage of color up and
down the cliffs, it must have been the bat
tie field of the war of the elements
Here are all the colors of the wall OF
heaven, neither the sapphire nor the
chrysolite nor the topaz nor the
jaseinth, nor the amethyst nor the jaspe,
nor the twelve gates of twelve pearls, want
ing If spirits bound from earth to HEAVIER
could pass up by way Of this canyon, the dasho
heavenly beauty would not be SO Uverpower
ing. Itwould only be from glory to glory
Ascent through such earthly scenery ii
which the crystal is so bright and the red Sc
flaming would be fit preparation for thu
'sea OF glass mingled with fire"
Standing there in the Grand canyon O.
the Yellowstone Park on the morning o
August 9, for the most part we held ou
peace but after a while it flashed upon m
with such power could not help but say +
my comrades. What a Hall this would b
for the last Judgment See that might
cascade with the rainbows at the foot OF il
Those waters concealed and transfxed wit
the agitations of that day, what a place the
would make for the shining feet of Judg
rainbows look now like the crown
to be cast at his feet. At th
bottom of this great canyon is q floor OF
which the nations of the earth might stan
and all up and down these galleries of roc
the nations Of heaven might sit And wha
reverbration of archangels trumpets Their
would be through all these gorges and fror
Why should not the greatest of all the day
the world shall ever see close amid the granc
est scenery Omnipotence ever built?
Oh, the sweep Of the American continent
Sailing up Puget Sound, its shores so Dol
that for fifteen hundred miles ships prov
). would touch the shore before its keel touche
the bottom, l said: This is the Mediterre
mean of America" Visiting Portland an
Tacoma and Seattle and Victoria and For
Townsend and Vancouvers and other cite
of that northwest region Though
to myself These are the DO
tons, New Yorks, Charlestons and Savannah
Of the Pacific coast. But after all this sun
mer's journeying and my other Journey
westward in other summers, ! found that
had seen only part of the American Con
tinent. for Alaska is as far west OF ga
Francisco as the Coast of Maine is east oil II
so that the central city of the American Cor
tinent is San Francisco.
have said these things about the magn
tude of the continent and given you fe'
specimens of some of its wonders to let 70
, know the comprehensveness of the text vine
it says that Christ is going to have domino
from sea to sea: that is, from the Atlantic
, the Pacific. Beside that, the salvation