Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-10-20

been officially taken possession of by
the nation for the great entsrpri e Of
irrigation. Rivers that have been roll
ing idly through these regions, doing
nothing ON their way To the sea. will
bc la>socd and cnrrallcd and pcuncd up
until such time as the farmers need
them Under the same process the
Ohio, the Mississippi and all the other
rivers will be taught 10 behave them
selves better, and great basins will he
made to eaten the surplus of waters in
times of frcshet, ami keep them for
times o. drought The irrigating
process 10y which all the arid lands be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
are to he fortified i, no new expert
mcnt,
Ii has been going ON successfully
hundreds of years in Spain. in China.
in India, in Russia, in Egypt. About
500, 600, 900 OF people of the earth to-
day are kept alive bv food raised on
irrigated land.
And here we have allowed to lie
waste, given M To- rattlr>nailc and bat
and prairie dog. lands cnuu I'll To sun
port whole uatiouS of Industrious
population. The work begun will bc
eonsummatcd Here and there ex-
ccptional lands may bc stubborn and
refuse To yield any wheat or corn
from their hard fists. but if the hoe
fail to make an IMPRESSION. and the
miners uickaN will discover the rca-
son for it, and bring mp from beneath
those unproductivc surfaces coal and
iron ana lead and copper and silver
and gold, God speed the gculo rist> and
the surveyors, the engineers and the
senatorial commissions, and the cap
italists and the new settlers and the
hu>handmen, who put their brain and
hand and heart to this TRANSPORTATION
of the American desert! streams in
the desert
But while speak of the immensity
of the continent, | must remark ii is
not an immensely of monotone or
tameness. The larger some countries
are the worse for the word. Ihi,
continent Is not more remarkable for
its magnitude than for it's wonders of
construction. Yosemite and the al.
joining California regions! Who that
has seen them can think of them with
out having his blood tingle? Trees
now standing there that were ola
when Christ livcdi These monarchs
of foiaged rcigued before Caesar or
Alexander, AMI the next thousand
years will not shattcr their sceptori
They are the masts of the continent
their canvass spread on the winds.
while the old ship bears on its way
through the ages
That valley of the Yosemite is eight
miles long ana half mile " de and
5000 feet deep. 1t seems as if it had
been the meaning of Omnipotcncc To
crowd into as small place as posi- ole
some of the most stupendous scenery
of the world. Some of the cliffs you
do not stop TO measure by feet, for
they are literally mile high. steep
SO that neither foot of man or beast
ever scaled them, they stani in ever
lasting defiance. II Jehovah has a
throne on earth these are its
white pillars. Standing down in
this great chaSm of the valley YOU
look up and Y nj + is Cathedral
for the silent worship of the noun
tainsl Wonder is Sentinel rock, 3.21O
feet high, bold, solitary, standing
guard among the ages, its ton seldom
touched. until a bride, one Fourth of
July, mounted it and planted the ma
tional standards, and the people down
in the valley looked up and saw the
head of the mountain turbaned with
stars and stripes! Yonder are the
Three Brothers, 1000 feet high; Clouds
Rest, North and South Dome, and the
heights never captured save by the
fiery bayonets of the thunderstorm
No pause for the eye. no stopping
place for the mind. Mountains hurled
on mountains. Mountains in the wake
of marstains. Mountains flanlled by
mountains. Mountains split. Mount
aims ground. Mountains fallen.
Mountains triumphant AS though
Mt. Blanc and the Adirondacks and
Mt. Washington were here uttering
themselves in one magnificent chorus
of rock and precipice and waterfall.
Sitting and dGshing through the rocks
the water comes down the Bridal Veil
falls so thin you can see the face of the
mountain behind il. Wonder is Yo-
semitic Falls, dropping 1854 feet, l6
times greater descent than that of Nj
agara. These aters dashed to death
on the rocks, so fct the white spirit
of these slain v-Lcr- -- ling in robe
of mists se.,s- tine E.8v" -Sander is
Nsyada F.. - r.Lu-..s -.H feet, the
water in arrow, rH. rHr.. al rockets,
the water in pearls, the water in amr-
thysts, the water in diamonds. Tina
cascade filings down the rocks enough
jewelry to array all the earth in beau
ty. and rushes on until it drors into
a very hell of waters, the smoke of
their torment ascending forever and
forver
But the most wonderful part of this
American continent is the Yellowstone
park. My two visits there made upon
me an impression that will last for
ever Go in by the Moneida route as
we did this summer and save go miles
of railroading, your stage coach TAX
ing you through a day of scenery as
captivating and sublime as the Yellow
has exhausted itself concerning Yell
lowstone park, and ali the Morans
and Bierstadts and the other en-
chanting artists have completed their
canvas, there will be other revela-
tions to make, and other stories of its
beauty and wrath, splendor and agony.
to be recited. The Yellowstone park
is the biologists paradise. BY cheap
ening of travel may it become the ma
lions playground! In some portions
of it there seems to be the anarchy of
tine elements. Fire and water, and the
vapor born of that marriage, terrific.
Geyser cones or hills of crystal that
have been over 5000 years growing! In
places the earth, throbbing, sobbing,
groaning, quaking with aqueous
paroxysm. AT the expiration
of every Is minutes one
of the geysers tossing its boiling water
lS5 feet in the air and then descend
ing into swinging rainbows. He
toucheth The hills and they smoke, "