The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-23

of construction. What a pity the Unit d
States government did not take possession
of Yosemite, California, as 1t has OF fel-
lowstone, Wyoming, and OF Niagara FAILS,
New York! Yosemite and the adJoinln8
California req. MS VINO t1at has see .
them can think Of them without having MS
blood tingle7 Trees now standing there that
were old when Christ lived these mon
archs Of foliage reigned before Caesar or
Alex snder, and the next thousand ears
will not shatier tNeir scspter. They are the
rnasts Of the continen their can as read
on the winds while the old snip bears ON
its way through the ages. heir siza, OF
which travellers of ea speak does n L stfect
me- so much as he T longevity. Though 50
old now, the b anches of some of them will
crackle in the last cOufagration of the
planet.
That valley Of the Yosemite is eight miles
long and a half mile wild and three thou
sand feet deep. 1t seems as If it mad been
the meant of Omnipotence 70 crowd into
as small place "a possible some Of the most
stupendous scenery Of the W rid. Some of
the cliffs you do not stop TO measure by feet,
for they are literally mile high. Steep 50
that neither { OF Of man nor beast ever
scaled them, they sta in everlasting def
ance II Jehovah mas throne on ca tn these
are its white pillars St .nding down il
this great chasm eff the valley you | ok up
and wonder is Cathedral Rock vast, gloomy
minister built for the silent w0rs ip of the
mountains. Yond T is Sentinel Rock, $3.50
feet high. bold, solitary, standing guard
among the ages, it, top seldom touched ~
til a bride one FOURTH Of July mouAted 1t
and pla ted the national stan ards and the
people down in the valley looked up and
saw the head Of the mountain turbanei
with stars and stripes. YOnder are tn
s'Three Brothers, four thousand feet mig :;
''Cloud's Rest" North and S nth Dome
and heights never captured save by the
fierv bayonets of e thunder orm
No pause for the eye, no stopping place
for the mind. Mountains hurled noun
tains Mountains in the wake of noun
tains. Mountains fanked by noun aims.
Mountains lit. Noun aims ground.
Mountains fallen. Mountains triumph mt.
AS though Mont Blanc and the Adiron-
dacks aud Mount Washington were here
uttering themselves ia one mag nifcent
chorus Of rock and precipice AID waterfall.
Sitting and dashing through the roc IS, the
water comes down. The Bridal Veil falls
so thin you can see the face of the mountain
behind it, Yonder is Yosemite falls,
dropping .634 feet, sixteen times greater
descent Than that of Niagara. These waters
dashed to death on the rocks, so tina. the
white spirit of the slain waters ascending in
robe of mist seeks the heaven. Yonder is
Nevada falls plunging 700 feet, the waite
in arrows, the water in ckets, the water
in pearls, the water in anne hvsts, the water
in diamonds. That cascade filings do Nn the
rocks enough jewels TO ray all the earth
iu beauty, and rushes on until it drops into
a very hell of waters, the smoke of their
torment ascending forever and ever.
But the most wonderful part of this
American continent is the Yelowston
park MY visit there last month made
upon me an impression that will | st for
ever. After all poet y has exhausted Itself
and all the Morans and BiersUadts and the
other enchanting artists have mpleted
their canvas. there will be other revelat ons
to make and other stories its beauty and
wrath, splendor and agony, to be re-
cited The Yellowstone park is the geol-
ogi,t's p,radise. by cneapening of
travel may it become the nations play
groundl Ia so ne portions ( il there seems
to be the anarchy of the elements. Fl @
and water, and the vapor born of thai
marriage, terrific. Geyser cones or bills of
crystal that have been over five thousAn &
years growing In places e earth, throb-
blng, sobbing, grooming, quaking with
aqueous pa oxysm.
At the expiration of every sixty-fi We
minutes one of the geysers ssing Is boil
ing water 1S5 feet in the air and then de-
see di 6 into swinging rainbOWs. Caverns
of pictured vail, large enough for the sep
ulcher of the human race Formations OF
stone in shape and color of Gala lily, of hell
trope, of rose, of cowsip, of suuhower ana
of gladiola. Sulphur and arse lic q oxide
of iron, with their dtlica e pencils, turning
the hills into q Luxembourg or a vatican
picture gallery. The S called hanatoDsis
geyser, exquisite as the Bryant poem it was
named after, and the so-called Evangeline
geyser, lovely as the Longfellow heroine it.
commentaries. The so-called Pulpit Ter
race, from its white elevation preaching
icrlff If InA h.,
ever uttered. The s1-called Bethesda gev ,er.
by e warmth of which ilvalids nav
already been cured, the angel OF health con-
tinually st ri g tue aterS. Enraged
craters, with heat at 500, only a little be-
low tie surface
Wide reaches Of stone of intermingled
colors, blue as the sky, green as the foliage.
crims' as the dahlia, white as the snow,
spotted as the leopa d. tawny as the lion.
grizzly as the ear, in circles. i "A angles,
stars, In coronets, in staactites, in stalag-
mites. Here and there are petrified growt :.
or the dead trees, and vegetation of othe
ages, kept through a process of natural en-
balmment. some places waters as inno-
cent and smiling as a child making a frs
attempt to walk from its mothers lap, and
not far off as foamGg and fire. zed and -
governable as a maniac in murderous strug-
gle with his keepers
But after you have wandered along the
geyserite enchantment for two days, and
begin to feel tnat there can lie n thing
more of Interest to see, you suddenl, come
upon the peroration OF all majesty an
grandeur, the Grand canyon. 1t is here
that it seems to me-and | speak it with
reverence-Jehovah S emes to have sur.
passed himself. 1t seems great gulch let
down into the eternities. Here, hung IL
and let down and spread abr lad. are al
the colors of land and Sc I'd sky. Up
holstering of the Lord G Aim htv
Best work of the architect of wo ids.
Sculpturing by the infinite. Masonry bN
an omnipotent trowel. Yellow! Yoi
never saw Yellow unless you saw it there
Redl You never saw red u less YOU saw i
there. Violet You never saw violet uales
you saw it there. Triumphant banners OF
col II. In a ca hedraI of asalt, Sunris
and Sunset married by the setting of raj
bow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals anC
Egyptian basllicas built before human
arcaitec ure was born. Huge fertilization
of granite constructed Def re war forge,
its first cannon. GibraItars and ebasto
pols that never can be taken. Alhsm1ras
where kings Of strength and queens O
beauty relgned long before the tirs
earthly crown was eInpearled. Throne
on which no one but the King o
heaven and earth ever sat Fou L o
waters at which the lesser hills are bap
tlZed while the giant cliffs stand rom,