Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-28
81 A YEAR In ADVANCE

spring. Reader, unless you have ia sted
OF this you never drink clear, pure,
cold water. Just above the snow has
been lying (truthfully) for 5000 years,
huge nightcap forever on the heads
OF these monstrous rocks in this world
OF desolation. Nothing lives or moves
here. But this water from the snow
sweeps through these icy rocks. 1t is
new born from this eternity of frigid-
ity, Its coldness startles one. Your
ice water would taste warm after this.
AT every curve in the trail is some.
thing striking, awful. Of to the left
rises double peak $4,000 feet high.
No man ever scaled them; no man
ever will. Each peak is the shape of
human body, except the arms. They
are Cog and Magog. In many places
the trail is along precipices, not three
feet wide. A misstep and the bottom
awaits one, hundreds of feet below.
look up and there is a world above.
The huge rocks, weighing millions Of
tons each, which lie at the bottom of
the canyon piled on each other, came
originally from above. Timber line.
Nature in her most beautiful forms re-
fuses to dwell here. The awful and
sublime alone reign. Nothing but
rocks from the size Of pea to that Of
the largest city blocks. When one
sees large one like a ball unsteadily
above he ducks and hurries past.
Snow line. 1t is far above the timber
line. Here I found l did not before
half know my broncho. An icy 45o
inclined rock, He runs for it. If he
fails the top he toboggans back and
tries 1t again. The peak. How cold it
is. Let the often quoted fool, who
says in his heart there is no God, stand
here. Over 14,6OO feet high, he stands
with world at his feet.
He is spinning around the earth's
axis at the rate of more than 1000 miles
an hour. He is rushing with this mon
strous peak through the earth's orbit
at the rate of $4,000 miles the same
hour. He, with the whole solar sys.
tenn, is plunging though the space of
an unknown orbit, perhaps at the rate
of 100000 miles this same hour.
What this matter? What this force?
What the limitations of this spacep
These are effects. There must have
been an adequate cause. This cause Is
what the gentleman spoken of denies.
1t seems one might throw a stone
into Manitou; but Manitou is miles be-
low. One never felt before like this.
The head is light, the stomach sick,
the body cold. But through the thin
air of to the west the eyes see peak af-
ter peak rise, serrated, convoluted,
rived, nightcaped in snow forever. To
the northwest high, overleaning
peak is seen. Upon its head is snow,
with glacier down one side. Seem
ingly under is smaller peak. 1t does
not stretch the imagination to see the
mother at eventide peeping over the
bedside for a goodnight look at her
boy, 80 they are called Mother and
Child" Off to the northeast is Denver,
the queen city of the plains. Five
milesp No, seventy. Numberless
bright specks appear eastward on the
plsins-lakes. Silver threads are seen
rivers. Why can not we distinguish
yonder part Of country Storm cloud
below. What is that light and noisep
Thunder and lightning,
Go to the edge of the abyss of desola
tion. One turns away sick. Itis hard
to turn away at all. There is an in
describable desire to leap. One grasps
the rocks and crawls away shuddering.
1t is an awful chasm, almost precipi.
tous, and strange it seems one could
could jump down q mile. A little ex-
ercise will put one in bed in the old
signal service station house. Two
tablespoonfuls Of liquor will have the
same result. One can feel but can not
tell the awful grandeur about him.
Philadelphia Times.