The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-11-16

foliage reigned before Caesar or Alexander
and the next thousand years will not shat
ter their scepter. They are the masts 0
the continent, their canvas spread on tn
winds while the old ship bears on its wa
through the ages Their size, of whicl
travellers often speak, does not effect me s.
much as their longevity. Though so ol'
now, the branches of some of them vii
crackle in the last eonfagration of tn,
planet.
The valley of the Yosemite is eight mile
long and half mile wide and three thou
sand feet deep. 1t seems as if it had beer
the meaning of Omnipotence to crowd into
as small a place as possible some of the
most stupendous scenery of the world
Some of the cliffs you do not stop to meas
ure by feet, for they are literally milo
high Steep so that neither foot of man
nor beast ever sealed them, they stand in
everlasting defiance. If Jehovah has a
! throne on earth these are its white pillars
Standing down In this great chasm of the
/ valley You look up aud yonder Is Cathedral
Rock, vast. gloomy minister built for the
silent worship of the mountains. fonder
/ is Sentinel Rock, 3,270 feet high, bold
solitary, standing guard among the ages,
its top seldom touched until bride one
Fourth Of July mounted it aud planted
the national standards, and hcpeople down
in the valley looked up and saw the head
of the mountain turbaned with stars and
stripes. Nonder are the ''Three Brothers,
four thousand feet high; Clouds Rest,
North and South Dome and heights never
captured save by the fiery bayonets of the
thunder storm.
No pause for the eye, no stopping place
fer The mind Mountains huTl d on noun
tains. Mountains in the wake of noun
tains Mountains fanked BY mountains
Mountains split. Mountains ground.
Mountains fallen Mountains triumph
ant As though Mont Blanc and the
Adirondacks aud Mount Washington were
here uttering themselves in one mag
nihcent chorus of rock and precipice and
waterfall Sitting and dashing through
the rocks. the water comes down. The
Bridal Veil Falls, 50 thin you can seen the
face of the mountain behind it Yonder
Is Yosemite Falls, dropping , ,634 feet, six
teen times greater descent than that of Nj
agara These waters dashed to death on
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 wat-r in
pearls ihe water in amethysts. the water 10
diamonds That cascade filings down the
rocks enough jewels TO array all the earth
in beauty, and rushes on until it drops into
a very hell Of waters, the smoke Of their
torment ascending forever aud ever.
But the most wonderful part Of this
American continent is the Yellowstone
Park My visit there las, month made
upon me an impression that viii last for
ever Alter al poetry has exhausted itself
and all the Morsns aud Biers,adts and the
other enchanting artists have completed
their canvas, there viii be other revelations
to make and other stories Of its beauty and
wrath, splendor and agony, to be reeited.
The Yellowstone Park Is the geologist ;
paradise By cheapening Of travel may it
bocome the nation's playground In some
portions of il there seems to be he anarchy
~ the elements. Fire and water and the
yapoy born % that marriage, terrific. Gey-
ser cones or hills of crystal that have been
over 5,0UO years growing. In places the
earth, ,hrobbing, sobbine, groaning, quak-
iug with aqueous paroxysm.
A Ihe expiration Of every sixty-tive
minutes cne Of the gyysers tossing its boil
Ing water lSj feet in the air, and then
descending into swinging rainbows, Cav
crns Of pictured walls large enough for the
~epulchcr ol the human race Formations
in stone ia shap, and color of ealla lily, of
helitToPc, Of ro>e. of eowshp, of sunfiower
and Of sladiola Sulphur aud arsenic, aud
oxide Of iron, with their delicate pencils,
turning the bills into Luxemburg or a
vatican picture gallery The so-ealled
Thauatopsis geyscr, exquisite as the Bryant
poem it was named after, and the so-callel
Eyangeliue geyscr, lovely as the Langfel-
low heroine IL commemorate. The So
called Pulpit Terrace from it, white eieva-
ton preaching mightier sermons OF God
than human lips ever uttered. The so
called Bethesda geyser, by the warmth Of
which iuyalids have already been cured, the
Angel OF Health continually stirring the
waters Euraged craters, with heat at five
hundred degrees, only a little below the
surface.
Wide reaches of stone Of intermiugled
colors, blue as the sky, green as the foliage,
erimson as the dahlia, white as the snow,
spotted as the leopard, tawney as the lion,
grizzly rs the bear in circles, iH angles, in
stars, in eoronetS, in stalacties, in stalag
mites Here and there are petriied growths,
or the dead trees, aud vegetation Of other
ages, KEEP, through a process of natural en-
balment la some places water as inno-
cent and smiling as a child making first
attempt to walk from its mothers lap, and
not far off as toaming and frcnzied and un-
goveruabe as maniac in murderous strug-
Gle with his keepers.
But after YOU have wandered along the
geyserite cnchantment for days and begin
TO feel that there can be nothing more of
interest to you, YOU suddenly come upon
the peruration Of all majesty and grandeur,
The Grand canyon 1t is here that it seems
to me-and | speak it with reverence
Jehovah seems to have surpassed Himself.
( 1t seems great gulch let down into the
eternities. Here, hung up and let down
and spread abroad are all the eolors of land
and sea and sky. Upholstering 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! Yov never
saw red unless you saw it there. Violet
You never saw violet unless you saw it
there. Triumphant banners of color. In
cathedral of basalt, sunrise and sunset
married by the setting of rainbow ring.
/ Gothic arches, Corinthian capitols, and
/ Egyptian basilicas built before humun arch
itecture was born. Huge Notifications Of
4 granite constructed before war forged its
first cannon. Gibraltars and Sebastopol>
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 thous
and Of years before that scene was unveiled