The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-09-25

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glonsl Who thai has seea them can think
ot hem without having his blood tinglel
lrees now standing there that were old
when Christ lived These mOnarchs OF
4 foliage reiEned before Caesar or Alexander
and the next thousand years win not shat
ter their socPtcr- They are the masts OF
the Continents. their canvas spread on the
winds while the old ship bears on its way
through the ages- Their size. Of which
travellers often speak, does not affect me "a
much as their longevity. Though so old
now. the branches Of some Of them will
crackie in the las. cO=aag-at:On Of the
planet
The valley Of the Yosemite Is eight miles
long and \ half mile wide and three thou
sand feet deep. II seems as IL II had been
the meaning Of Omnipo fence to crowd into
as small rlace - possible sor1cOf the most
stupeldoCs scenery 81 the world Some of
the cliffs you do not stop to measure bs feet.
for they are literally a mile high Steep 50
that neither foot Of man nor beast ever
scaled thsu, they stand in everlasting de-
iance- II Jehovah has throne on earth
these are its white pillars. Standing down
in this great chasm Of the valley you look
up aud yonder IL Cathedral Rock, vast,
gloomy minister built for the silent worship
Of the mountains Yonder Is Sentinel Rock,
A2sO feet high, bold, solitary, standing guard
among the ages, its top seldom touched un-
I'll bride one Fourth Of July mounted il
and planted the national standards, and the
poOP'e Gown IN tne valley looked up and saw
tne ne1u on INC mountain turoened with
S.Ars ane suiPes- fonder are the Three
DrUehs ,a. iour Thousand ieet hign
CiCuos nest, Nortn ana Soutn Dome and
nelku's never captured save oy tne merry
o.yonoes Oh ,ne tnunoer STORM
NO pause .or inc eye, no os'oppingpiaceio ior
.ne miuo- hountains nuried on mountains.
hyun'.nhs IN neWakeoi mountains NOUN
aims nahAeu py mouh'ains' mountains
Pun noun.A.ns B,ounu- mountains ia1en.
n,' noun'Ains uiumpnant as ''nougn mont
1-S D,Anc anu tne AuIrOnoacks and mount
Hsnins'on mero nere nuering themselves
N ~ oHo H.ss sulnoen. 0norus Oh rock ana preci-
PIC ana -WaeerialL strung and dashing
.nrOusn ING rocss, tne wafer comes down
Inc priaai van fsuA 50 thin you can see
.ne race Oh tne mountain oenind IL fonder
- fosemlte ralls, dropping 2oJa feet six
teen umes greater descent than that OF Nj
agarA Ihese waters dashed 70 death on
inc rOeAs, 30 tnat tne Wnite spirit OF the
sam waters ascending In robes of mist
seeks the heaven Yonder Is Nevada Falls
piunging seven hundred feet the water In
Arrows, me water In rockets the water In
pearls, the water In amethysts, the water
IN diamonds. Tnat CASCADE nings down the
rQcks 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 tor
ment ascending forever and ever.
But me most part OF this Amer
ican continent Is tne Yellowstone Park My
visit there last month made upon me an i'm
preston tnat VIII last forever. After all
poetry mas exhausted itself and all the
Morans and bierstadts and The other en-
chanting artists have completed their can
vas, tnere VIII DC other revelations 70 mako
and other stories OF its beauty and wrath,
spiendor and agony, to be recited. The Yel-
loWstone fark II me geologists paradise.
by cneaPening OF travei may II become the
nafon's playgroundI In some portions OF
there seems 70 % the anarchy OF the ele-
ments. fre and water, and the vaPor born
Oh tnat marriage, terrifc. Geyser cones or
hills OF crystal that have been over 5000
years growing. In places tne earth, tnroo-
oing, soooing, groaning, quaking with aque-
ous paroxysm- s-
Al the expiration OF every sixty-nve min
otes one OF the geysers tossing It's boiling
water I'D feet In tne air, and then descend
ing INTO swinging rainoows. Caverns OF
pictured walls larBe enough Ior me sepul-
cher Oh tne human race. FORMATIONS In
stone In shape and color OF Gala MY, OF hell
uope. OF rose OF cowsnp, OF sunnower and
Oh giadioiA sulphur ana arsenic, and
OXIDE OF iron, wltn tneir dencate pencils,
turning the hills into a Luxemburg or
vatican picture gallery. Inc so-called
fhanatopsis geyser, exquisite as the Bryant
poem II was named aiter, and the so called
Evangeline geyser, lovely as the Longfei-
low heroine II commemorate Ihe so
called fuiPit Terrace from its wnite eieva-
ton preaching mighuer sermons OF God
than human lips ever uttered. Inc so-called
Bethesda gey ser, by the warmth OF which
invalids have already been cured, the An
gel OF health continually SURFING the
waters. Enraged craters, with heat at fiye
hundred degrees, only little below the
surface.
WIDE reaches OF stone ct intermingied
colors, blue as the SKY, green as the tciage,
crimson as the dahlia, white as the snow.>
spotted as the leopard, tawney as the lion,
grizzly as the bear, in circles, in angles, in
stars, in coronets, In stalacutes, In stalag-
mites Here and there are petriiied growths,
or the dead trees, and vegetation OF other
ages, kept through process OF natural en-
balmment In some places waters as inno-
cent and smiling as n child making n first
attempt TO walk from its mothers lap, and
not far on as foaming and frenzied and un-
governable as a maniac inmurJerous strug-