The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-12-06

visit there last month made upon me an i'm
preston that will last forever After all
poetry has exhausted itself, and all the
Morans and Bierstadts 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
splend0r and agony. 10 be recited-
The Yellowstone Park Is the geol-
ogist's paradise By cheapening OF
travel may it become the nations play
ground In some portions Of it there seems
70 be the anarchYo Of the elements Fire and
Fafei. and the vapor born OF that marriage,
terrific Geyser cones or hills Of crystal that
have been over i've Thousand years growing.
IN places the earth. throbbiug, sobbiug,
groar ing. quzldng with aqueous paroxysm.
At the expiration OF every sixty-tive min
utes one Of the geysers tossing its boiling
watei' 1855 feet IN the air and then descending
INTO swinging rainbows Caverus Of pictured
walls large enough for the sepuleher Of the
human race. Formations Of stone in shape
and color Of Gala lily, of heliotrope, Of rose,
Of oowslip, Of sunfower and Of gladiola.
Sulphur and arsenic and oxide Of iron, with
their delicate pencils, turning the hills into
a Luxemburg or a Vatican picture
gallery. The so-called Thanatopsis
geyser, exquisite as tie Bryant poem it was
named after, and the so called Evangeline
geyser, lovely as the Longfellow heroine it
eoInu leunorates- The 50 called Pulpit Ter
race from is white elevation preaching
nighiier sermons Of God than human lips
ever Uttered. The 50 called Bethesda gey-
ser, 10y the warmth OF which invalids hive
already been cured. the Angel of Health con-
tiuuallv stirring the waters. Enraged era
tefH with heat at five hundred degrees only a
iittiel,elow the surface
Wide reaches OF stone Of intermingled
colors, blue as the Sky, green as the foliage,
crimson as the dahlia. white as the SNOW,
spotted as the leopard, tawny as the lion,
grizzl as the bear, in circles, in angles, IN
stars, ia coronets. Ia stalacites, in stalag-
mites Here and there are petrifed growths,
or thu dead trees and vegetation Of other
ages kept through a process Of natural EN-
balHnlent In some places waters as limo
cent and smiling as a child making first at
tempt % walk from its mothers lap, and not
far of as foaming and freuzied and ungoy
ernabe as a naniac in murdarOus struggle
with his keepers
But after YOU have wandered along the
geyserite enchantment for days and begin to
feel that there can be nothing more Of in
terest to see, YOU suddenly come upon the
parOration of all majesty and grandeur. the
Grand canyon. It's here that it seems to me
and / speak il with reverence-Jehovah
seems to have surpassed Himself. It seems
great gulch let down into the
eteruitles. Here. hung up and let
down and spread abroad, are all the
eolors OF land and kea and sky. Upholster-
ing Of the Lord God Almighty. Best work
Of the Architect o. worlds. Sculpturing by
the Infinite Masonry by an omnipoteut
rrowei. Yellow You never saw yellow
unless YOU saw it there. Redi You never
saw red unless YOU saw it there Violet,
You never saw violet unless you saw it there.
Triumphant banners Of color. In cathe-
ORA! Of basalt, sunrise and sunset married
by the setting OF rainbow ring.
Gothic arches Coriuthian capitals and
Egyptian hasiiicas build before human archi-
lecture was born Huge Notifications of
granite constructed before war forged its
first cannon. Gibraltars and SeDastopols
that never can be taken. Alhambras where
kings OF strength and queens Of beauty
reigned long before the first earthly crown
Was enpearled- Thrones on which no one
but the King of heaven and earth ever sat.
fount Of waters st 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 we're hswing away with their hot chlsel
and glaciers were pounding with their cold
hammers, aud 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 diTinely 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 of
until l could not getmy breath then retreat
ing 10 a less exposed place ! looked down
a gain. Down there is Pillar of rock that
IN certain conditions Of the atmosphere looks
ike pillar Of blood. Xonder are fifty feet
Of emerald on base Of five hundred feet Of
opal Wall of chalk resting on pedestals Of
beryi. Turrets Of light tuinbling on floors
u dariness- The brown frightening into
golden Snow OF crystal melting into IRE of
earbuncle Flaming red cooling into russell.
Cold blue warming into saffron. Dull gray
kindling into solferino Morning twilight
s,,sisilas ssaia1ilglst shadows. Auroras crouch
ing among rocks.
Eondsr IS an eagles nest on a shaft of
hasalt Through an eyeglass we see 1t among
the young eagles, but the stOutest arm Of our
gr0up naunot hurl a stone near enough to
disturb tie feafhered domesticity Yonder
are heights that would be chilled with hor-
ror but for the WARM robe of forest foliage
with which they are enwrapped- Affairs OF
worship at which nations might kneel
DOmes Of chaicedurT 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 elemen-s n
Here are all the colors Of the wall .piyi
chTysoite nor the topaz nor SIN
a f , eIT t1s f 4elya nor ne. ne vatt
ing. if spirits bound from earth 10 h seq,
could ptssIIp byway Of this canyon, the-e
heavenly beauty would not be 50 oyera. eve
Ascent through e,1 such earthly lS scen;t to n
which the crystal IS so bright and the T.
fenliuE would be fit preparation fol l.
s'sea oil glass mingled with fire" he
Standing there in the Grand canyoi
the Yellowstone Park on the mOrnia kinC
eeaes tat after fs az while it dashed npe ali
with such power I could not help but
my comrades: what a Hall this W.
for the last Judgment See that L.
cascade with She raiIboWs at the foqSy
waters CONCEALED and transfzfo
the agit,tions Of that day, what pit
would make for the shining feet Of ne,
Of quick and dead. And Z
raiutosvs look now like the OF
4 Be cast at his fest Il i
9gSsSn The o' nations ss q the Earth igin en-
and all % and down these galler1e n
The nations Of heaven might sit. ION l. Z
revsr5riltion Of sTehangels t ~ rner- and
al Ties q csvarns and over HEARTILY Der
Why should not the created ~
the world shall ever 81 tclosf 4ck and
est scensry Onnipote 'eever IN lold
Oh, the sweep Of III Americ IS all OAO
Sailing M Puget Sound, its I;-to, veal
that for ffteeu hundred mile ilSOOH
would touch the shore befaresaIes are witt
the botNsn. / szids This -.
mean Of America Vis5 flights Of Luz
Taconln and Seattle and h.
Townsend and VancouyeNcy sacn AZ
Of that northwest rs.r NJ
10 myself These y RIOS
tons. View Yorizs, CharlestSn ehould snahs
q theF'aciic cosst. But al sum
mer's journeying and my lsoDQrrs-neys
westward m other summers - .Ehat
had seen only a part Of the American Con
tinent. for ALASKA is as far west Of San
fraucisco rs the Coast Of Maine is east # it.
50 that the central city Of the American Con
tinent Is San Francisco.
have said these things about the rnegni-
tude Of the continent and given you a few
specimt7s Of some Of its wonders to let you
know tie comprehensiveness of the text when
i says that Christ is going 70 have dominion
from e % sea; that is. from the Atlantic to
the fs.ciiic. Beside that, the salvation Of
this continent means the salvation Of Asia,
tor we are only thirty-six miles from Asia
at the northwest. Only Behring Straits
separate rs from Asia and these viii be
spannei by great bridge before another
Z century cloees and fgroI,efiv 1onor before