The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-10-27

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iu the valley looked up and saw the
head of The mountain turbaued with
stars and Stripes! Ionder are the
Three Brothers, 1000 feet high;
Clouds rest, North and South dome.
aud she heights never captured save
by the fiery 0ayonets OF the thunder
storm!
But the most wonderful part OF this
American continent is the Yellow
stone park. My two visits there made
upon me an impression that viii last
forever, Go in by the Moneida route,
as We did this summer, and save $50
miles Of ra]ilroadiug, your stage coach
taking you through a day of scenery
as captivating and sublime as the Yel-
lowstone park itself. After all poetry
has exhausted itself concerning Vel.
l0wstone park, and all the Moruns and
Bierstadts and the other enchanting
artists have completed their canvas,
there win be other revelations to
make, and other stories of its beauty
ard wrath, splendor and agony, to be
recited. The Yellowstone park is the
geologist's paradise. By cheapening of
travel may it become the nations play
ground! In some portions Of it there
seems to be the anarchy of the ele-
ments Fire and water, and the yapor
born Of that marriage, terrific. Gey-
ser cones or hills OF crystal that have
been over 5000 years growing! In
places the earth throbbng, sobbfng,
g%roaning, quaking with aqueous par
oXysm. At the expiration Of every G5
minutes N Of the geysers tossing its
boiling water 1S5 feet in the air and
then descending into swinging rain
bows. "He toucheth the hills and they
smoke Caycrus of pictured walls
large enough for the sepulcher
the human race. Formations of
stone in shape and color Of Gala lily,
of heIiotrope, Of rose, of cowslip. of
]sunfower and of gladiolus. Sulphur
and arsenic and oxide of iron. with
their delicate pencils, turning the
hills into a Luxembourg, or a vatican
picture gallery. The so-called Thaua-
topsis geyser, exquisite as the Bryant
poem it was named after, and Evan
geline geyser, lovely as the Longfel-
low heroine it commentaries.
Wide reaches of stone Of informing
gled color, blue as the sky, green as
the foliage, crimson as the dahlia,
white as the snow, spotted as the
tawny as the Lion, grizzly as
the bear, in circles, in angles, in stairs,
in coronets, in s~talactites, in stalag-
mites. Here and there are petrined
growths, or the dead trees and vegeta-
bles of other ages, kept through a
process of natural embalmment. In
some places waters as innocent and
smiling as a child making a first at
to walk from its mothers lap.
and not far off as foaming and frer.
zied and un~goyernable as IA maniac in
with his keepers.
But after you have wondered along
The geyserite enchantment for DAYS,
and begin to feel that there can be
nothing more of interest to see. YOU
suddenly come upon the peroration of
al majesty and grandeur, the Grand
,anyon. 1t is here tbot il saon,s ta
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