Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-31
KIPLING'S TRAVELS.
Intoxicated by Deep Draughts of the
Yellowstone Wonders.
A SIGHTSEEING FOREIGNER.
Astrids the Ciouds-American and English
Mannen Contrasted-yivid Word Painting
The New Hampshire Giri-American Caval-
ryDen and Cowboys.

AHbO bAN ~ ram LUZ Ou6h
Presently they came upon . few of the natural
beauties of the place and that carter turned his
team into his friends team, bowling:
Get out o. this. jim. All helrs alight under
our noses" And they call the place heI's
lied.
We, TOO. the old lady from Chicago, her hus-
band. Tom, and the good little mares, came to
bells half acre. which is about sixty acres in
extent. and when Tom said, Would you like
10 drive overit?" We said: Certainly not. and
n you do we shall report you to the park au-
thorities-"
There was a plain. blistered and peeled and
shominable. and it was given over to the sport
tngs and spoutings of devils who threw mud
and steam and dirt at each other with whoops
and halloos and believing curses.
The places smelt of the refuse of the pit, and
hat odor mixed with the clean, wholesome
aroma Of the pines in our nostrils throughout
the day.
LAID OUT LIKE
This Yellowstone Park is laid out like 0llen-
tcrf-in exercises Of progressive difficulty.
Heffs half acre was q prelude to ten o. twelve
miles Of geyser formation. We passed hot
streams boiling in the forest; saw whifs Of
steam beyond these and yet other whiffs break
ing through the misty green hills in the far
distance; w trampled o sulphur in crystals
and shifted things much worse than any sui
phur which is known to the upper world; and
so. journeying. bewildered with the novelty.
came upon . really park-like place, where Tom
suggested We should get out and play with the
geysers on foot. Imagine mighty green fields
splattered with lime beds. all the flowers of the
summer growing up to the very edge Of the
hume. That was our first glimpse of the geyser
basins. The buggy had pulled up close to n
rough, broken, blistered cone of spelter stuff
between ten and twenty feet high. There was
trouble m that plsce-moaning, splashing,
guFgling and the clank of machinery. A squirt
Of boiling water jumped into the air and a wash
of water followed.
removed swiftly. The old lady from Chicago
shrisked- what a wicked waste, said her
husband 1 think they call it the Riverside
0eyser- Its spout was torn and ragged like the
mouth Of . gun when a shell has burst there.
It grumbled madly for q moment or two and
then vas still. i crept over the steaming line
II vas the burning mari on which Satan lay
and locked f~earfully down its mouth. You
should never look q gift geyser in the mouth.
We drIfted on, up that miraculous valley. On
either side of Us were hills from a thousand or
dfteen hundred feet high, wooded from crest to
heel A. far as the eve could range forward were
columns of steam in the air, misshapen Jumps
0 lime, mist-ike preadamite monsters, still
pools Of urquoise blue, stretches of blue corn
bowers, Q river that cooled on itself twenty
dimes, pointed boulders Of strange colors and
bz0Bco u SAAll1S. s[Al4uS Nullc-
Ths old lady from Chicago poked with her
parasol at the pools as though they had been
alive. On one particularly innocent-looking
tttls puddle she turned her back for a moment
end there rose behind her a twenty-foot column
Il water and steam. Then she squealed and
protested that .'she never thought il would ha'
done il" and the old man chewed his tobacco
steadily and mourned for steam power wasted.
] embraced the whitening stump of a middle
lied pine that bad grown all too close to a hot
NJ l1n and thu -hAla NhT-~ --1 ~-a-
under my hand as q tree would do in a night
mare.
From right and left came the trumpetings of
elephants al play. II the long-haired NAM
noth OF the science primers he that was etched
~ primitive man had broken out from the
underground I should not have been in the
least surprised
Amoon-fsced trooper Of German extraction
never was park SO carefully patroled-came
up TO inform Us that as vet we had not seen any
Of the real geysers; thai they were all a mile or
20 up the valley and tastefully scattered
round the hotel in which We would rest for the
night
THE rRooPIR's STORY.
America 10 a free country, but the citizens
look down on the soldier. had to entertain
that trooper. The old lady from Chicago would
have none of him; 50 we loafed along together.
now across half rotten pine logs sunk in
ssenpy ground, anon over the ringing seyser
SA 0eA-A Az ALL
or brushing knee deep through long grass.
And why did you enist?" said i.
The moon-faced ones face began to work. I
thought he would have q Mt, but he told me a
story lnstead-sueh q nice tale of a naughty
little girl who wrote pretty love letters to two
men At once She was q simple village wife.
but q wicked family novelette," countess
couldn't have accomplished her ends better.
She drove one man nearly wild with the pretty
nrtae treachery, and the other man abandoned
her and came west TO forget the trickery.
Aoonfacs was that man.
GOBLIN BATH ruBs.
We rounded and limped over a low spur of
hill and came out upon q field Of aching
snowy lime, rolled in sheets, twisted into
knots, riven with rents and diamonds and
stars, stretching for more than half a mile in
every direction. The first mound that / en-
countered belonged 10 a goblin who was
splashins in his tub. l heard him kick. pull a
shower bath on his shoulders, gasp. crack his
joints and rub himself down with a towel; then
he let the water out of the bath, as a thought
fu man should. and it all sank down out Of
night TIL another goblin arrived. | was watch
ing q solitary spring well within the line of
the woods. catching at q pine branch over
head, when far across the fields and not more
than a quarter Of q mile from the hotel there
stood up a plume Of spun glass, incandescen,
and superb, against the sky.
That" said the trooper. sis DID Faithful,
He goes on every sixty-fve minutes to the
minute, plays FOR i've minutes and sends up a
column Of water $50 feet high. By the time
you have looked at all the other geysers he will
be ready TO play"
So We looked and We wondered at the Bee
hive, whose mouth is built mp exactly like q
hive, AZ the Turban (which is not in the leas,
like . turban), and at many, many other gey.
sers, hot holes and springs. Some of them
rumbled, some Missed, some vent off spasmod-
ically and others lay dead still in sheets Of
sapphire and beryl.
leaving the giantess to swear and spit and
who, by reason Of his faithfulness, has benche,
close 10 him. whence you may comfortable,
watch At the appointed hour we heard In,
water Tying up and down the mouth with the
sob OF a wave in q cave.
Then came the preliminary gouts, then a roa,
and . rush and that glittering column o.
diamonds rose, quivered q moment and stood
stu FOR Q minute. Then it broke and the resi-
wae . confused snarl OF water not thirty fee
night All the young lAdies-not more thar
tvensy-in the tourist band remarked that II
vas elegant" and betook themselves u
writing their names in the bottom of shallow
pools that sowed the ground. Nature fixes the
insult tndehbly and the after wears shall Iearr
that Hattie" sadie" Mamie" .Sophie'
and 80 forth have taken out their hal rpins and
scraWied IN the face Of Old Faithful.
UNCLE SANS SOLDIERS.
The congregation returned to the hotel II
put down their impressions in diaries and not,
books which they wrote up SYSTEMATICALLY in III,
verandaa Il was a sweltering hot dav a,h.;