Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-31

| Bridal Veil falls so thin you can see
| the face of the mountain behind it,
Wonder is Yosemite falls, dropping
1904 feet. IS times greater descent
than that of Niagara. These waters
dashed to death on the rocks, so that
the white spirit of these slain waters
ascending in robe of mist seeks the
| piunging 700 feet, the water III arrows,
the water in rockets, the water III
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
rushes 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 $50
miles of railroading. your stage coach
taking you through a day OF scenery
as captivating and sublime as the yell
lowstone park itself. After all poetry
has exhausted itself concerning yell
/ 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 it's 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'
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 IS
minutes one of the geysers tossing its
boiling water 195 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 cowslip, OF
sunfower and of gladiolus. Sulphur
and arsenic and oxide of iron, with
their delicate pencils, turning the
hills into a Luxembourg, 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 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 as
the bear, in circles, in angles, in stairs,
| in coronets, in stalactites, in stalag-
mites. Here and there are petrifed
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 a child making a first at
! tempt 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 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 peroratlon OF
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. It seems a great gulch let down
into the eternities. Here, hung up
ano 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 yell
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 cathedral of
basalt, Sunrise and Sunset married by
the setting of rainbow ring.
GOthlc drcneS, COfInLnlan Cd plIdlS,
and Egyptian basilicas built before
human architecture was born. Huge
Notifications of granite constructed
before war forged it's first cannon. Gil
braltars and Sebastapols that never
can be taken. Alhambras, where kings
of strength and queens of beauty
reigned long before the first earthly
crown was empearled. 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 spon-
sors. 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 were pounding
with their cold hammers, and hurri-
canes were cleaving with their light
ming strokes, and hailstones giving the
finishing touches, and after all these