The Red Cloud chief., 1889-09-27

Youder 10 Sentinel rock, 3t27O feet high.
bold. solitary, standing guard among the
agss. its top seldom touched until . bride
one Fourth Of July mounte I lt and plante
the National standards and the people
down in the valley looked MP and saw the
head Of the noun ain turbaned with the
stars and stripsa Yonder are tbs 'Thres
Brothers" 1000 feet high; Clouds Rest
North and Soath Dome and heights "
captured save by the iisry bayonsts Of
the thunder storm.
No pause for the eye, no stopping place
for the mind. Mountains hurled ON
mountains. Mountains q mixed by mount
aina Mountains split Mountains
ground. Mountains fallen. Mountains
triumphant. As though Mont Blanc and
the Adirondacks and Mount Washington
were here uttering themselves in one
magnificent chorus Of rock and prscipice
and waterfall.
Sitting and dashing through the rocks
the water m down. The Bridal Vail
Falls. so thin you can see the fac OF the
mountain behind it. YOnder Is Yosemite
Falls. dropping 9 6:i feet, sixteen times
greater descent than that of Niagara.
These waters dashed to death on the rocks,
so that the white spirit of the slain waters
ascending in robe Of mist seeks heaven.
Yonder is Nevada falls. p.unging 200 feet
But the most wonderful part Of this
American cont nant is the Yellowstone
Park. My visit there last month made
upon me an impression that will last for
ever. After all pee ~ has exhausted it
self and all the MOrans and Pierstadts
and other enchanting artists have COM
pie ed their C .nvas, there will be other
revelatio - to make and other stories Of
its beauty and wrath, sp!enlOr and & my,
to be reei ed.
At the expiration Of every sixty-five
minutes one OF the geysers tossing its
boiling water 1S5 feet in the air and then
descending into swinging rainbows.
Caverns Of pictured walls large enough
for the s%epulcher of the human race.
Formations of stone in shaps and color Of
Gala lily, Of heliotrope, Of rose. of cow
slip. Of sunflower and Of g~ladiola- Sui
phur and arsenic and oxide Of iron, with
their delicate pencils. turning the hills
into q Luxembourg or . Vatican picture
gallery. The so-called Thanatopsis gey-
sey, exquisite as the Bryant penn it was
named after. and the so.called Evangeline
geyser. lovely as the Longfellow heroine
1t commentaries. The so-called Pulpit
terrace from its white elevation preaching
miehtisr sermon of God than human lips
ever uttered. Ths so.called Bethesda
geyser, by the warmth Of which invalids
have already been cured, the angel Of
health continually stirring tho waters.
Enraged craters with heat at five hundred
degrees only Q little below the surface.
Wide reaches of tone of intermingled
colors blue as the sky. green rs the foli-
age, crimson as the dahlia, white as the
snow. spotted as the leopard, tawny as
the lion, grizzly a the bear, In c;rcle4 In
angles, in stars in ~coronets, in s:alactites.
in s,alagmiteA Here and there are petri-
fed growths, or the dead trees and vege-
tation Of other ages. kept through . pro-
cess Of natural embalmment. In some
places waters As innocent and smiling as
. child making . first attempt to walk
from its mothers lap. and not far Oh a.
foaming and frenzied and ungovernable
IS . maniac in murderous struggle with
his keepers.
But after you has . wandered along the
geyserits enchantment for days and begin
to feel that there . be nothing more of
to soc, you suddenly como upon
the peroration Ct all majesty and grand
Grand canyon. It IL here that IL
seems to me-and l speak it with ever.
Jehovah seems to have sur
Himself. 1t seems . great gulch lot
down into the eternities. Hers, hung up
and let d OWN and spread abroad. are all
the colors of land and sea and sky. Up
Of the Lord God Almighty.
Best work Of the Architect of worlds.
by the Infinite. Masonry by
an omnipotent trowel. yellow! You
never saw yellow unless you saw it there.
Red! You Q saw red unless You saw
there. Violet! You never saw violet
unless you saw it there. Triumphant ban
ners Of color. In . cathedral Of basalt
and sunset, married by the setting
Of rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals and
Egyptian basilicas built before human
was born. Huge forti1ica-
Of granite constructed before war
forged its first cannon. Gibraltalp and
Sc blstopols that never can be taken. AL
hambras, whore kings Of strength and
queen rs Of beauty reigned long before the
earthly crown was empearled.
Thrones ON which no one but the King Of
Heaven and earth ever sat F0unt Of
waters of which the lesser hills are hap
tixed while the giant cliffs stand round As
sponsorA For thousands of years before
that scene was ~unvailed to human sight
elements were busy, and the o sers
were hewing away with their bot chisel.
and glaciers were pounding with their
cold hammers, and hurricanes were clear
ing with their lightning strokes. and
h%ailstones giving the finishing touches,
and after all these forces of nature had
done their best, in our century the cur
tain dropped and the world had . new
md divinely inspired revelation, the Old
written on papyrus, the New
written in parchment, and now
this last Testament written on the rocks
Hanging over n Of the cliffs I looked
Of until I could not get my breath, then
.retreating to q less exposed place I looked
again. Down there is . pillar Of
rock thai in certain conditions Of the at.
mospbere looks Ike q pillar Of blood.
Yonder are fifty feet Of emerald on . base
Of 500 feet Of opal. Wall OF chalk resting
On pedestals Of beryL Turrets Of light