Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-31
TO THE Choir MEMBERS
Professor Stephens Writes Giving an Account
Of His Outing.
MADE RECIPIENT OF SPECIAL HoNoRS.



TO give spuee 10 'pumy sclippHhBs ol
my wanueflhBs' VIII venture TO ad-
dress YOU through It's columns with an
oocount of the balance of my t,tn
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IL - ~ ''' '"'u"s' am stai'u
ing above the beautltul Yellowstone
Falls. My thoughts reach out to you
49,. van ara nbout ia heptn ,bs ea,g ~
as ~, ~, -,
prhise III t'e ue'' "'u iaperiiapie' Anu
in imagination the famlliar sight at
home seems TO set itself like forms I'm
:, ,,,,io Tor n,zzle, nicture into mi.
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Wohueriui VI nature Away
down in the Sauzy Whlrling mists of
the fails. whose lace-lllSe Wilderness is
,,,s,od with rainboyvs and oyer cbanr-
t'HsVN
ing into ueie"'e sH"ueS oi maj Nelous
hues 1 gaze,and fancy the home picture
interviewer with it, Amidst the
great swell OF tone from the
rushing waters comes the sound OF
the great old organ towering above
YOU. one moment / long to he with
you, another. | would be here forever.
Fancy, all fancy, yet how delightful!
| am sorry for the materialist-the
matter-of-fact person who looks on a
scene like this and calculates that
this enchanting picture is nothing,
but SO many drops of water, dropping
gorgeous canyon that frames in the
magic scene, only SO much dried mud
of various colors. j am thankful for
the gift Of Imagination that makes of
this u grand transformation scene,
wherein l feast on fances born of
realities. There Is here such COM
bine Of action and rcpose. that one
cannot tell which impulse controls.
The fearful rush of the river over the
cliff is met with the calm surround
ing Of immoVable cliffs, the whole be-
ing SO vast that 1t melts into mel
low picture, and the rushing waters
that now make you draw back and
shudder the next moment seem but
the many ringets of beau
titul child that you would caress.
the mighty thunders that one moment
as you venture too close. appall YOU
the next lulls you into dreamy fancles.
like distant music. But to stop rhap-
sOdiZing This Is one of natures beau
ty spots, and / wish You could stand
here and view II. To resume my ac-
count of our travels:
Yesterday august 40 we left the
scene of our mo- bear scare and Jour
neycd along the shores o. the beauti-
tiful Yellowstone I.akr.all the fore part
of the day and down the calm flowing
river most of the afternoon from the
outlet of the lake. All the hills here are
covered with groves of nine and many
groups of the same dot the valley that
lies each Side nf Tho stream IN
scene is one of ideal beauty in land
scape. To give IL a finishing touch
every now and then, as the roads wind
along lust above the river. we soc tho
graceful trout ruryln.r his way i'm the
clear water as a swallow would do i'm
mld-air And we were teated 10 an
other treat more rare. A beautiful doe
comes trimming down tho onnosita hin
towards the river; like some fomiliar
ing the river IL wndes In as unron-
cerned as II II were taking n bath in
the stiffness and ouIettIde Of nm ,inex-
pIored region.
Now II il swimminp swiftly ns II
determined to reach us before we mass.
W., stop To view IL. ON it comes with
the ease and grace of n skin. reaching
the land not thirty feet beneath us,
Apparently fun conscious of lis safety
il Chambers up the bank and looks MS
full in the face with its hstrous
beautiful eyes. calmly nassInr within
ten feet OF us. IL enters The trees be-
yond. shoot III If / were allowed nil
the fire arms in Christcndom. and n
bounty of 1000 was offered for its
tdeerl head. | could not have done il.
/ would ms soon think of shooting an
Innocent loving child II was a brief
dream of Eden, oh that the whole
earth was once more encircled with
that blessed feeling of security from
harm
Al night W., CANNED nenr Mud Gey-
Ser, whose horrible thumpings and
gurglings We're lust within hearing.
Here right In the center of peace and
beauty is set this. the ugliest attrac-
ton IN the Park, From under A hin.
in u loathsolne. dark hoip. nmonr
scrub pines and uedars. PUSHES in
and out, a lot of Sinking
black mud like some huge
fierce gurgllng rush outward has some
thing uncanny and dreadful about 1t,
and as we stood I'm the deepeninC dark
ness viewing IL 1T made me once more
feel as | did when a youth in mortal
terror of Spooks taking after me. when
travelling dark lonely path'
Later we see the moon rising. turn
ing the stream into n silver ribbon
laid winding over N fairy Handsome
The 18th finds us nj tho rails and
Yellowstone CANYON. will not ra-
neat my Impression AS have said
plenty in the openinp mart of nv let
ter. II cannot be described IL must he
seen to be aprreciated and then onIv
by the poetic mind ia "A mil extont
1t is one OF the few wholly satisfvinr
sights in nature that 1 have vet vii,
messed After snenJinr tho aftarnonr
there we hitch i'm in the carly
evening and drive over The divide into
Norris Basin. We mass hv tho wav
the place of the recent boId.un the
road being mostly cut through trees,
Later we pass some very prettv cas-
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