Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-30
ARTISTTALMACE AT HIS BEST
Gorgeous Rhet orio Describing the
Beauties of tho Yellowstone.
scuLPTuRlNe BY THE INFINITE.
A Carnage OF Color Turrets of Light
Falling on Floors of Darkness
A Masterpiece of the
Omnipotent
one of Nnture,s Palaces.


text, "He shall have dominion from sea TO
sea, "the Rev. r. DE Witt Talmage delivered
characteristic sermon yesterday, says the
New York Herald, based upon what he saw
during his recent transcontlnental journey,
from which he came back impressed with
the knowledge that the United States is the
greatest, ana grandest, and richest, and most
wonderful country on the face of the globe,
and that the vastness of the continent can
never be appreciated by anybody who has
not travelled over it. A good part of the
preachers address was devoted TO an en-
thusiastic description of the Yosemite and
the Yellowstone park, whose wonders he de-
scribed as follows
'That valley of the Yosemite is eight miles
long aud q half mile wide, and three thou
sand feet deep. 1t seems as If 1t had been
the meaning of Omnipotence to crowd into
as small place as possible some of the most
stupendous scenery of the world. Some of
the cliffs you do not stop to measure by feet,
for they are literally mile high. If Je-
hovah has throne on earth these are its
white pillars,
'No pause for the eye, no stopping place
| for the mind. Mountains hurled on noun
| tains. Mountains in the w AXE of noun
| tains. Mountains tlauked by mountains.
| Mountains split. Mountains ground. Noun
| tains fallen. Mountains triumphant. AS
| Though Mount Blanc and the Adirondacks
and Mount Washington were here uttering
| themselves in one magnificent chorus of rock
and precipice and waterfall,
"Yonder is Yosemite falls dropping 1894
feet, sixteen times greater descent than that
| of Niagara. These waters dash to death oil
the rocks, so that the white spirit of tho
1 i.
| seeks the heaven. Yonder Is Nevada falls,
| plugging 200 feet, the water in arrows, the
| water in rockets, the water in pearls, the
water in amethysts, the water in diamonds.
| That cascade filings down the rocks enough
| Jewels to array all the earth in beauty, and
| rushes on until it drops into hell of waters
| the smoke of their torment ascending for
| ever and ever.
But THE YELLowSToNEl
| "But the most wonderful part of this
| American continent is the Yellowstone park
| After all poetry has exhausted itself and all
the Morans and Bierstadts and the other
| enchanting artists have completed their can
| vas, there will be other revelations to make
| and other stories of its beauty and wrath,
| spendor ana agony, to be recited Yellow
| stone park is the geoogists paradise.
"In some portions of it there seems to be
| the anarchy of the elements Fire and water.
and the vapor born of that marriage, terrific,
| Geyser cones or hills of crystal that have
been over ), 600 years growing. In places the
earth, throbbng, sobbing, groaning, quak-
| ing, with aqueous paroXysms.
| 'At the expiration of every SiXty-hve min
| utes one of the geysers tossing its boiling
water 1856 feet in the air and then descending
into swinging rainbows Caverns of pict-
ured walls large enough for the sepulcher of
the human race. Formations of stone In
shape and color of Gala lily of helitrope OF
rose, of cowslip Of sunhower, and of gladi-
ola. SULPHUR and arsenic and oxide Of iron,
into Luxembourg or Vatican picture gal
lery. The so called Thanatopsis gey-
ser, exquisite as the Bryant poem i,
was named after, and the 80 called
Evangelne geyser, lovely as the Long
fellow heroine IL commentaries The sc
called pulpit terrace from its white eleva
tion, preaching mightier sermons of God than
human lips ever uttered. The so called Be
thesda geyser, by the warmth of which in
valids have already been cured, the angel o1
health continually stirring the waters. En-
| ragged craters, with heat at 800 de grees, only
| a little below the surface.
| I'm some places waters as innocent anC
| smiling as child making first attempt II
walk from its mothers lap, and not far off a!
| foamng, and frenzied, and ungovernable a.
| a maniac in murderous struggle with hi
| keepers.
THE GRAND CANON.
"But after you have wandered along tht
| the geyserite enchantment for days, anC
| begin to feel that there can be nothing more
of interest to see, you suddenly come upor
the peroration of all majesty and grandeur
the Grand Canon. 1t is mere 5hat it seems Il
me-and 1 speak it with reverence-Je
hoyah seems TO have surpassed himself. /
, seems a great gulch let down into the enter
mites.
"Here, hung up and let down aud sprea'
abroad, are all the colors of land and sea ant
| sky Upholstering of the Lord God AL
mighty. Best. work of the Architect o
Worlds. Scupturing by the Infinite
Masonry by an omnipotent trowel. Yellow
| You never saw yellow unless you saw
| there Red! You never saw red unles
you saw it there. Violet You never say
i violet unless You saw 1t there. Trumphan
banners of colors. in cathedral of basalt
. sunrise and sunset married by the setting O
; | the rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals, an
, ,, Egyptian basilcas built before human archi
,, lecture was born. Huge Qualifications o
1 granite constructed before war forged 1t
, first cannon. Gibraltars and Sebastopol
that never can be taken. Alhambras wher
; kings of strength and queens of beaut
reigned long before the first earthly crow
. | was impearled. Thrones on which no on
= but the king of heaven and earth ever sal
u = Font of waters at which the lesser hills ar
u baptized, while the giant cliffs stand roun
as sponsors.
a CARNAGE OF COLOR.
l. changing over one of the cliffs looked O
until could not get my breath, then retrea
ing TO a less exposed place l looked dow
again. Down there Is pillar of rock that
! certain conditions of the atmosphere look
like pillar of blood Yonder are fifty feC
:, of emerald on base of 500 feet of opa
u Wall of chalk resting on pedestals of berry
l. rurrets OF light tumbling on floors of darl
: ness. The brown Frightening into COLDER
+ Snow of crystal melting into fire OF ca
l. buncle. Flaming red cooling into russo
z Cold blue warming into saffron. Dull gra
kinding into solferino. Morning twiligl
flushing midnight shadows. Auroras croucl
ing among rocks. ,.
Q "See all this carnage of color up an
o down the cliffs; it must haye been the bait
?. field of the war of the elements. Here al
"a lcall the colors of the wall of heaven, neithC
"a the sapphire nor the chrysolite, nor u
N topaz, nor the jacintb, nor the amethyst, M
n the jasper, nor The twelve gates Of twel
- pearls wanting"
Sorghum Sugar Prospects Poor.
l. WAsHISGToN, Sept. 29.--Seeretary Rusl