Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-15

gathered in great Psychological basins
will produce us much as 80 acres from
the dcwnpour Of rain as seen in our re.
gions. We have our freshets and our
droughts, hut in those lands which are
to be scientifically irrigated there will be
neither freshets nor droughts. AS you
take pitcher and get it full of water
and then set it ON table and take q
drink out of it when you are thirsty and
never think of drinking q pitcherful all
at once, so Montana and Wyoming and
Idaho will catch the rains of their rainy
season and take up all the waters Of
their rivers in great pitchers CT reser-
voirs and refresh their land whenever
they will.
Gods Earthly Throne.
The work has already been grandly
begun by the United States government.
Over 400 lakes have already been off,
cially taken possession Of by the nation
for the great enterprise of irrigation.
Rivers that have been rolling idly
through these regions, doing nothing
on their way to the sea, will be lassoed
and corralled and penned up until such
time as the farmers need them. Under
the same processes the Ohio, the Missis-
sippi, and all the other rivers will be
taught to behave themselves better, and
great basins will be made to catch the
surplus Of waters in times of freshet and
keep them for times of drought. The
irrigating process by which all the arid
lands between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans are to be fertilized is no new ex.
pertinent.
1t has been going on successfully
hundreds of years in Spain, in China,
in India, in Russia, in Egypt. About
100000, 900 of people of the earth today
arc kept alive by food raised on irrigat-
ed land. And here we have allowed to
lie waste, given up to rattlesnake and
bat and prairie dog, lands enough to
support whole nations Of industrious
population. The work begun will be
contaminated. Here and there excep-
to yield any wheat or corn from their
hard fists, but if the hoe fail to make
an impression tho miners pickaX will
discover the reason for it and bring up
from beneath those unproductive sur
faces coal and iron and lead and copper
and silver and gold. God speed the
biologists and the surveyors, the en-
gineers and the senatorial commissions,
and the capitalists and the new settlers
and the husbandlnen, who put their
brain and hand and heart to this trans
figuration of the American continent
"Streams in the desertr'
But while speak Of the immensely
Of the continent, must remark it is
not an immensely of monotone or tame
ness. The larger some countries are, the
worse for the world. This continent is
not more remarkable for its magnitude
than for it's wonders Of construction.
Yosemite and the adjoining California
regions! Who that has seen them can
think Of them without having his blood
tingle? Trees now standing there that
were old when Christ lived! These
monarchs CT foliage reigned before Caesar
or Alexander, and the next thousand
years will not shatter their scepter
They are tho masts Of the continent
their canvas spread Oh the winds, while
the old ship bears on its way through
the ages!
Our Nations Playground.
That valley of the Yosemite is eight
miles long and L:lf mile wido and
5000 feet deep 1t seems as If it had
been the meaning CT OH impotence to
crowd into as small place as possible
some of the most stupendcus scenery OF
the world. Some of the cliffs you do
not stop to measure by feet, for they
arc literally mile high. Steep go that
neither foot Of man or beast ever scaled
them, they stand in everlasting def
ance If Jehovah has throne on earth,
these are its white pillars. Standing
down in this great chasm of the valley,
you look up, and yonder is Cathedral
rock, vast, gloomy minister built for the
silent worship Of the mountains! Yon-
der is Sentinel rock. S,270 feet high,
bold, solitary, standing guard among
the ages, its top seldom touched, until
bride, one Fourth Of July, mounted it
and planted the national standard, and
the people down in the valley LOCKED up
and saw the head of the mountain tur-
baned with stars and stripes. Yonder
are the Three Brothers, 1900 feet high !;
Clouds Rest, North and South Dome
ind 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 mountains Mountains thanked BY
mountains. Mountains split Mountains
ground. Mountains fallen. Mountains
triumphant. As though Mont Blanc
and the Adirondacks and Mount Wash
ington were here uttering themselves
in one magnificent chorus of rock and
precipice and waterfall. Sitting and
dashing through the rocks, the water
comes down. The Bridal Veil falls SO
thin you can see the face Of the noun
tain behind it. Yonder is Yosemite
falls, dropping 2,634 feet, l6 times
greater descent than that of Niagara.
These waters dashed to death on the
rocks, so that tho white spirit of these
slain waters ascending in robe of mist
seeks the heavens. Yonder is Nevada
falls, plunging 700 feet, the water in
arrows, the water in rockets, the water
in pearls the water in amethysts, the
wo..r in diamonds. That cascade filings
down the rocks enough jewels to array
all the earth in beauty and rushes on
until it drops into very hell of waters,
tho smoke of their torment ascending