Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-17

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until it drops into very hell of waters,
| the smoke of their torment ascending
| forever and ever.
The Work of Gods TrOwel.
| 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 forever.
Go in by the Moneida route, as we did
this summer, and save $50 miles of rail
roadirg, your stagecoach taking you
through a day of scenery as captivating
and sublime as the Yellowstone park it
self. After all poetry has exhausted it.
self concerning Yellowstone park and
all the Morans and Bierstadts and the
other enchanting artists have completed
their canvas there will be other revela-
tions 20 make and other stories of it's
beauty and wrath, splendor and agony
to be recited The Yellowstone park is
the geoIogist s paradise. By cheapening
of travel may it become the nation S
playground! In some portions of it there
seems to be the anarchy Of the elements.
Fire and water and the vapor born of
that marriage terrific. Geyser cones or
hills of crystal that have been over 5, 900
years growing! In places the earth,
throbbing, sobbing, groaning, quaking
with aqueous paroxysm. At the expira-
tion of every So minutes one of the gey-
sers tossing it's boiling water 1S5 feet
in the air and then descending into
swinging rainbows. "He toucheth the
hills, and they smoke.' Caverns of
pictured walls large enough for the
sepulcher of the human race. Forma-
tions of stone in shape and color of Gala
lily, of heliotrope, Of rose, of cowslip,
of sunfiower and of gladiolus. Sulphur
and arsenic and oxide of iron, with
their delicate pencils, turning the hills
into a Luxem burg or Vatican picture
gallery. The so called Thanatopsis Gey-
ser, exquisite as the Bryant poem it was
named after, and Evangeline Geyser,
lovely as the Longfellow heroine it
commentaries.
Wide reaches of stone of intermingled
colors, blue as the sky, green as the
foliage, crimson as the dahlia. white as
the snow, spotted as the leopard, tawny
as the lion, grizzly as the bear, in cir
cles, in angles, in stars, in coronets, in
stalactites, in stalagmites. Here and
there are petrified growths or the dead
trees and vegetables of other ages, kept
through process of natural embalm-
ment. In some places waters as limo
cent and smiling as a child making
first attempt to walk from it's mothers
lap, and not far off as foaming and fren-
zied and ungovernable as a maniac in
struggle with his keepers.
But after you have wandered 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 all majesty
and grandeur, the Grand canyon. 1t is
here that it seems to me-and [ speak
it with ACKNOWLEDGEMENT seems to
have surpassed himself 1t seems a
great gulch let down into the eternities
Here, hung up and let down and spread
abroad, are all the colors of land and
sea and sky. Upholstering of the Lord
God Almighty. Best work of theArchi-
tect of Worlds. Sculpturing by the In
finite. Masonry by an omnipotent
trowel. Yellow You never saw yellow
unless you saw it there. Red You new
er saw red unless you saw it there. Vic
lett You never saw violet unless you
saw it there Triumphant banners of
color. In cathedral of basalt, sunrise
and sunset married by the setting of
rainbow ring.
The ArchangeIs' Amphitheater.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals
and Egyptian basilicas built before hu-
man architecture was born. Huge forti
fcatiOns of granite constructed before
war forged it's first cannon. Gibraltars
and Sevastopols that never can be taken.
Alhambra where kings of strength
and queens of beauty reigned long be-
fore the first earthly crown was en-
pearled. Thrones on which no one but
the King of heaven and earth ever sat.
Fount of waters at which the hills are
baptized while the giant cliffs stand
around as sponsors. For thousands of
years before that scene was unveiled to
human sight the elements were busy
and the geysers were hewing away with
their hot chisel and glaciers We're
pounding with their cold hammers, and
hurricanes were cleaving with their
strokes, and hailstones giving
the finishing touches, and after all
these forces Of nature had done their
best in our century the curtain dropped,
and the world had new and divinely
inspired revelation, the Old Testament
written on papyrus, the New Testament
written on parchment, and this last
testament written on the rocks.
Hanging over, one of the cliffs, I
looked off until I could not get my
breath, then. retreating to a less ex-
posed place, j. looked down again. Down
there is pillar of rock that in certain
conditions of the atmosphere looks like
a pillar of blood. Yonder are so feet
of emerald on base of 500 feet Of OPAL
Wall of chalk resting on pedestals of |
beryl Turrets of light trembling on