Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-21
FROM EAST TO WEST.
HOW THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS I'M
PRESS A ThoUGhTFuL TOURIST.
Monuments Of Aimiehtiness-Ma MI
crocssm Denvsr's Railways aud
tho Business OF Western Road.
,correspoudopee Of ne Ricnnond Dispatch

fcorrespcudcnee OF she Richmond Dispatch.l
IpAHo SpmSos, Cor. August II Leaving
Richmond the cd day of August, spending
day in Chicago and four days in Denver,
your correspondent arrived here Wednes-
day. 10Th instant. n. 2. Willis said that
he liked Trenton Falls better than Niagara.
because the latter Is incomprehensible
But there is something in these Rocky
Mountains. unable though one Is to take
them in. which il peculiarly enjoyable.
They dispose to silence. they soon get ono
beyond the range of thinking, they invite
TO a condition Of recepuvlty 10 impress
their awfulness and unutteraoleness.
The xposition-Grounds and buildings
Mt Chicago. as exponents OF human
art and science and energy. filled with al
miration. The multitudes Mt Denver
celebrating the twenty-htth triennisi
concave of Knights Templar, Jupi,sns
under boundless bunting, countless Me,
sonic emblems. and dazing rainbowed
electricity. all with perfect order and good
Will. gave pleasurable thoughts OF the
fraternity OF human nature and the pro-
press OF Christian civilization: But, IKE,
Trenton Falls, man appears fathomaole aad
so his works However varied and vast.
however momentous and multitudinous
are his manifestations, they seem reducioie
10 the human individual, who, after all, Is
only some phase of ones own conscious
humanity. This analysis tends to check
glorying in the best and most important
Of mans works and characteristics.
THE INFINITE.
But in these mountains. rooted in the
heart OF the earth and losing their snow
capped peaks IN the clouds of Heaven.
a. - or htnn QuUOaSffyQ or the Inn
mite, the Omnipotent. the Everlasting
something awe-Inspiring, because persist
ing to what is past finding out. At brst
blush this is in deep contrast with self
and humanity and human things. Yet
may not this view be superficial Is not
man q microcosm? In more or less DIS
tinctness does be not embodv the elements
Of the universe? This must be SO be-
cause of the model of his creation. ibis
is manifest to the profoundest conscious
ness. Man is linked with what Is back OF
these mountains, suggestive or the lnt-
mite, the Omnipotent. the Everlasting.
SO the good manifestations of man, even
the least of them. As the flower on
the mountain side and the ores in the
mountain vein are as truly related TO this
invisible and almighty power as the noun
tain itself, SO mans sentiment end prln-
ciple and enterprise that Me good
and for the good of his fellows are linked
to the great unknown and unknowa-
BILE as he himself is linked. thus
man and his phenomena stand In the
midst OF the same awful presence as DO
these lofty monuments OF almigntlness
and of infinite wisdom and goodness.
Man seems more subject TO cnange. VI
cissitude is inscribed on the ensign OF nu-
man life. But man is as much IN Him who
Is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever
as are these mountain ranges, in whlch
there seems to be no variablenesS nor
shadow of turning. The foundation OF
physical aud human nature is one and the
same.
his GLORY.
Man Is more than the accidents OF his
life. and so are the moral elements or MS
works. Let him, therefore. glory IN numan
development. whether IN the beautiful and
grand things OF a worlds fair, the WELL
cultured golden fields or Iowa and Ne
braska. and the worthy enterprises of Old
Virginia, the social military civil displays
of this Knights lemplar celebration, or IN
the deeds OF everyday life. Dropped I'M
consciously from the mint of reyerential
hearts. stamped with an unmistakable
image and superscription, all human good
has its foundations where these mountains
let him glory beyond himself. This
is his highest glory. And let him be hope
full. Neither he nor the heavens will tum-
bic down because this or that vicissltude,
personal, political, or providentlal, comes
TO pass. The world progresses. The hand
on the reins is sovereign. Let pessimlsm
90 under. Hold up the banner with cross
encIrcled with :" In Hoe Sfgno Vinces." Only
be sure of heart In harmony, with the
sign and a will in accord with the Will
regnant and all-conquering. Grip the In
.vfotkfa b1o of ~ xuprlHfa n1nUamaQf and
the car of lite speeds on to glory.
COLORADO RAILWAYS.
This reminds by shallow association that
Chicago and Denver seem to prefer the ca
ble-cars to our Richmond trolley-electrlc.
And this reminds, getting down to things
beautifully less. that il was estimated IN
Denver, a city regarded overstocked with
street-cars, that, if the cars ran now at the
rate of one every minute, they could not
accommodate, during this festive week,
half of the people who wish to ride,
collect the fare of all the passengers. The
rallroad-travelling also is at its maximum
in Colorado. The Central Depot ticket
Office in Denver took in for tickets yes
terday-an average day-$28, 900. On the
Union Pacific Narrow Guage, running
through this Clear-creek canon, in which
Idaho Springs is nestled. there are passing
daily not less than 5000 excursionists.
REMEDY.
In reply to not O few letters about hay
fever let me say, Messrs. Editors. that /
know nothing for it equal to big pill of
Rocky Mountains, having tried it for three
summers after exhausting in twenty years
all the high mountains east Of the Rockies.
II the sufferer lives in Richmond or there
abouts | commend to HIM the PeGnsyl-
yania road from Washington City 20 Chi
caso: the Burlington road from Chicago
to Denver, and the Union Pacific to Idaho,
Springs. as furnishing. in comfortable sc-
commodatons, official courtesies, and
rapidity of transit all that the most cul-
tured taste and the most enthusiastic
traveller could desire.