The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-11-24

tlOna, standards, and the people down
in the valley looked up and saw the
head OF the mountain turbaped with
Stars and Stripes! Ionder are the
Three Brothers, 1900 feet high;
Clouds rest, North and South dome,
and the heights never captured save
by the fiery bayonets of the thundex
storm!
But the most wonderful part of this
American continent is the Yellow
stone Iark. 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 railroading, your stage coach
taking you through day OF scenery
as captivating and sublime as the Yell
lowssone park itself. After all poetry
has exhausted itself concerning Ye!-
.owstone park, and all the Morans and
lherstadts and the other enchanting
artists have completed their canvas,
there will be other revelatio to
and 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 eie-
mcnts. Fire and water, and the vapor
born of that marriage, terrific Gey-
ser cones or hills of crystal that have
been over 5000 years :srowing! In
places the earth throbbng, sobbing,
groaning, quaking with aqueous par
oxysm. At the expiration of every 65
minutes one of the geysers tossing it's
boiling water 1S5 feet in the air and
then descending into swinging rain
bows. ''He 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 heliotrope, of rose, of rowslip, of
| suntiower and of gladiolus. Sulphur
| and arsenic and oxide of iron, with
their delicate pencils, turning the
hills into a LuXembWg, or a 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 interming-
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 as
the bear, in circles, in angles, in stairs,
in coronets, in stalactites, in stalag-
mites. Here and there are petritled
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 child making first at
| tempt to walk from it's mothers lap,
and not far off as foaming and fren-
zied and ungovernable as 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 of
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canyon. 1t is here that it seems to
me-and speak it with reverence-Je-
| hovah seems to have surpassed him
self. 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 Al
mighty. Best work of the Architect
OF worlds. Sculpturing by the In
finite. Masonry by an omnipotent
trowel. Yellow! You never saw vel.
low unless you saw it there. Red!
You never saw red unless you saw it
there. Violet! You never saw violet
unless you saw it there. Triumphant
| banners OF colors. In a cathedral OF
basalt, Sunrise and Sunset married by
the setting of rainbow ring.
1t is estimated that to irrigate the
arid and desert lands of America as
they ought to be irrigated, it will cost
about $100,000,000 to gather the waters
| into reservoirs. As much contribution
and effort as that would irrigate with
| Gospel influences all the waste places
OF this continent. Let us by prayer
and contribution and right living all
help to fill the reservoirs. You will
carry bucket, and you cup, and
even a thimbeful would help. And af
ter awhile God will send the floods OF
mercy so gathered, pouring down over
all the land. and some Of us on earth
and some of us in Heaven will sing
with Isaiah: ''In the wilderness the
waters haze broken out. and streams
| in desert" and with David: "There is
a river the streams thereof shall max,
glad the sight of God" Oh, fill up tn.
reservoirs! America for God!
| Ieartlessness.
The crying evil of the day is hear:
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