Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-27


| the rocks the water comes down. The
Bridal Veil falls so thin you can see
the face of the mountain behind It.
| Wonder is Yosemite falls, dropping
2.G34 feet, 16 times greater descent
than that of Niagara. These wa ters
! dashed to death or the rocks. so that
the white spirit of these slain waters
ascending in robe OF mist seeks thu
| heavens. Wonder is Nevada falls,
| plungIng 100 feet the water in arrows,
the water in rockets, the water in
pearls, the water III amethysts, the
water in diamonds. That cascade
filings down the rocks enough jewels
20 array all the earth in beauty, and
r,lshcs on until it drops into very
he'll 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
Iowstone park itself. After all poetry
has exhausted itself concerning Yel-
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
biologists 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'
mcnts. Fire and water, and the vapor
born of that marriage, terrific. Gey.
ser cones or hills of crystal that hayG
been over 5000 years growing! In
places the earth throbbng, sobbing,
grooming, quaking with aqueous par
oXysm. At the expiration of every IS
minutes one OF the geysers tossing it's
boiling water lS5 feet in the air and
then descending into swinging rain
bows. "lle 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 hcIiotrope, of rose, of cowslip, of
s,ntlowcr and of gladious. Sulphur
and arsenic and oxide of iron, with
their delicate pencils, turning the
hills into II Luxembourg, or II vatican
picture gallery. The so-called 'Fhana-
topsis gcyser, exquisite us the Bryant
poem ii was named after, and Evan
gelinc geyser, lovely as the LongIel-
low heroine it commentaries.
Wide reaches of stone of informing
gled color, blue as the sky, green MS
the foliage, crimson as the dahIia,
white as the snow, spotted as the
leopard, tawny as the lion, grizzly rs
the bear, in circles, in angles, in stairs,
in coroncts, in stalactitcs, in stalag-
mites. Here and there are petriilcd
growthS, or the dead trees and vcgcta-
bles OF other ages, kept through II
process of natural embalmmcnt. In
some places waters aS innocent and
smiling as child making Il first at
tempt to walk from its mothers lap,
and not far OFT as foaming and fren-
lied and ungovernablc rs Il maniac in
struggle with his keepers.
But after YOU have wondered along
the geyacritr rnchautmcnt for days,
ana begin To feet that there can he
nothing more of interest to see, you
suddenly come upon the prroration of
all uaicSty and grandeur, the Grand
canyon. 1t is here that il seems to
me and speak il with revrrrnee--Je-
hovah seems to have surpassed him
self. 1t seems II great gulch let down
into the eterntirs. llcrr, hung up
and let down, and spread abroad, are
all the coors Of land and SEA and sky.
UpholStcring Of the Lord God Al
mighty. Best work of the Architect
OF worlds. Sculpturing by the In
finite. Masonry 10y an omntpotent
trowcl. yellow! You never saw ye!-
low unless You saw il there. Red!
\ on never saw red unless YOU saw it
there. \lolcG You never saw violet
unless you saw it there. Triumphant
banners OF colors. la "A cathedral of
basnlt, Sunrise and Sunset married by
the setting OF rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Curinthan capitals,
and Egyptian basilicuN built before
human architecture was born, Huge
Notifications OF granite constructed
before war forged it's first cannon. Gil
hraltars and Sehastapols that never
can be taken Alhamhras, where kings
of strength and queens of beauty
reigned long before the first earthly
crown was cmprarlCd. 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 us spon-
sors. For thousands of years before
that scene was unveiled to human
sight. the elemcnts were busy, and the
gcNscrs were hewing away with their
hot chisrl, and glaciers were pounding
with their cold hammers, aud hurri-
canes were cleaving with their light.
/ ming strokes, and hailstones giving the