Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-11-25

plunging 700 feet, the water in arrows.
the water in rockets, the water in
pearls, the water in amethysts, the
water in diamonds. That cascade
filings down the rocks enough jewels
to array all the earth in beauty, and
PUSHES on until it drops into very
hell Of waters, the smoke of their tor
ment ascending forever and ever.
But the most wonderful part of this
American continent is the Yellow
stone 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 250
miles of railroading, your stage coach
taking you through day of scenery
as captivating and sublime as the yell
lowstone park itself. After all poetry
has exhausted itself concerning Vel
lowstone park, and all the Morans and
Bierstadts and the other enchanting
artists have completed their canvas,
there will be other revelations to
make, and other stories of its beauty
and wrath, splendor and agony, to be
recited. The Yellowstone park is the
geologist'sparadise. 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 vapor
born of that marriage, terrific. Gey-
ser cones or hills of crystal that have
been over 5000 years growing! In
places the earth throbbng, sobbing,
groaning, quaking with aqueous par
oXysm. At the expiration of every 65
minutes one of the geysers tossing its
boiling water 1875 feet in the air and
then descending into swinging rain
bows. "Ie toucheth the hills and they
smoke" Caverns Of pictured walls
large enough for the sepulcher
the human race. Formations Of
stone in shape and color of Gala lily,
of hciotrope, of rose, of cowslip, of
sunhower and of gladiolus. Sulphur
and arsenic and oxide of iron, with
their delicate pencils, turning the
hills into n Luxembourg, or vatican
picture gallery. The so-called Thana-
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
leopard, tawny as the lion, grizzly MS
the bear, in circles, in angles, in stairs,
in coronets, in stalactites, in stalag-
mites. Here and there are petrifled
growths, or the dead trees and vegeta-
bles of other ages, kept through a
process of natural cmbalmment. In
some places waters as innocent and
smiling as child making a first at
tempt to walk from its 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 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 oil
all majesty and grandeur, the Grand
canyon. 1t is here that it seems to
me-and speak it with reverence-Je
hovah seems to have surpassed him
self. 1t seems n great gulch let dowr
into the eternities. Here, hung VI
and let down, and spread abroad, are
all the colors of land and sea and sky
Upholstering of the Lord God AL
mighty. Best work of the Architect
of worlds. Sculpturing by the In
finite. Masonry by an omnipotent
trowcl. Yellow! You never saw vel
low unless you saw it there. Red
You never saw red unless you saw i
there. Violet! You never saw viole
unless you saw it there. Triumphan
banners of colors. In cathedral o
basalt, Sunrise and Sunset married by
the setting of rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals
and Egyptian baslicas built before
human architecture was born. Hug
Notifications Of granite constructed
before war forged its first cannon. Gi
braltars and Sebastapols that neve
can be taken. Alhambras, where king
of strength and queens of beaut,
reigned long before the first earthl.
crown was empearled. Thrones OF
which no one but the King of Heavel
and earth ever sat. Fount of water
at which the hills are baptized, Will
the giant cliffs stand around as spon
sors. For thousands of years befor
that scene was unveiled to huma1
sight, the elements were busy, and tn
geysers were hewing away with thei
hot chisel, and glaciers were poundin
canes were cleaving with their light
ming strokes, and hailstones giving tn
finishing touches, and after all thes
forces of nature had done their best
III OuT century INC Cui tam uiopPV'
and the world had new and divinel
inspired revelation, the Old Testamen
written on papyrus, the New Testa
ment written on parchment, and thi
last Testament written on the rocks.
1t is estimated that to irrigats th
arid and desert lands of America &
they ought to be irrigated, it will cos
about $1Oo,Ooo,Ooo to gather the water
into reservoirs. AS much contribute
and effort as that would irrigate wit
Gospel influences all the waste place
of this continent. Let us by praye
and contribution and right living a
help to fill the reservoirs You wi
carry bucket, and you cup, an
even a thimbeful would help. And a