The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-07

dark, tangled, lonely, mystic; its rushing
rivers. its great lakes, its resoundinS
falls. its white deserts and its fantastic
sculpture in the cliffs, writes c. NJ. Skin
ner in the Brooklyn Eagle. Steal out of
camp at night and be alone with gey-
ser, when ii shoots al the stars, or ram
bic along the gorge of the Yellowstone
at sunset, when the low red light paints
with additional depth OF color the re-
splendent rim of that ravine, and you
know a new impression, a new awe.
The Yellowstone country is a reversal
Of common experience. Water flows u2
into the air springs are hot instead of
cold, rocks so slendeTly balance on their
pedestals that you half expect to see
the long dead buffalo hanging in the AIR
about them, exemplfyihg the truth Of
the old frontiersmans remark that here
the laws O. nature are petrifed," so
there can't be any gravitation. Let us
thank heaven and congress every day
that this region was set aside for the
common American people, and all others,
instead of being turned over to specula-
tors and adventures who would put
fences around the geysers and charge
half dollar to climb the terraces of the
Mammoth Hot Springs,
Campers who neglect to put their fires
out and so destroy hundreds of acres OF
ancient forest, are dreaded by the au-
thOrities and their fellow citizens, and
so are those curious people who cannot
see any ming of interest without trying
TO break piece from it, whether it be
the Venus Iii Milo or President McKin-
ley's head. These vandals go about with
hammers and try to pound the geyser
cones to pieces and hew off stalactites
from the front Of the spring terraces,
end they would do it, too, if it were not
for the United States cavalry that has
been detailed to keep just such people
out of mischief.
Maps of this country printed before
the tiities mark this region as Golfers
Hell because Golfer, of the Lewis and
Clark expedition, went through 1t on his
way home to ST. Louis and when he got
TO that town he told such tales of Won
der as had never been rected, even by
the most experienced drinkers. He was
set down as a shocking liar, and St.
Louis apoloSized for him, but somehow
his name attached to the place and
would not be forgotten In 1868 a COM
pany of prospectors wandered into 1t
ana started the government into an Off
clal investigation. Thomas Moran the
Fainter who went with the survey pres
entity made his report In the shape of
tho picture of Yellowstone canyon, that
hangs in the capitol of Washington and
lClkS said, GO to! II is theatrical and
overweight" But curiosity regarding
what could inspire so fantastic an inn
district and presently congress had a
superintendent in there protecting the
GtySerS, ana men came from England
TO critiCise the landscape
The weird and pranklsh scenery of the
b2d Lands IS fit prelUde to the bigger
wonders OF the Yellowstone, and If one
has the time he should certainly get off
AT Lite Missouri and go I'D to the Rurn-
Ing mountain. From the buttes you will
see purple and crimson and tawnv
ttsJ-atlcn such as yOu have never seen
before un'ess it may be in your dreams.
Hell with the fires out" is what the
cowboys used to call it.
The heights that guard the Yellowstone
RE from S,CC0 to 11,OOO feet above the
s-a and one Of the first of them to at
tract your attention is Cinnabar noun
tain, red brown mass with a band of
rcd rock running from top to foot as
smooth as if Tlaned and edged with
Dasalilc RIGGS. Legend hath it that the
DlNVie slid down the mountain at this
p int and the copious animal heat in
hi system scorched it all the way down.
Ike these names and legends They
Sow that the vigDr has not run out Of
me saxon sLeech nor the Saxon magma
Ton Thee are lots of places out in the
Western country that have vigorous
n mes, and if any man attempts to pull
tEem down he should be shot with not
buns on the spot. He'll Roaring creek.
one OF our camping places is to be
named Daisy Rivulet. Is It? HeFs Half
Acre where the worlds biggest geyser
plays and rips up the banks and floods
inc ~ mole Tor day, is to be named
L2V-nlaS Wasnb0wl, is if? DEVILS
Thumb is to be Angellne's Thimble is it9
Sinking water is to be Mignonette river
Is 1t? Devils Inkstand Is to be Sarab's
spring, is it? Well not if there's anv
lynch law left on the farther side of the
Missouri
Instead of weakening the names, a lot
OF them want toning up. Mammoth
not springs Is an explanatory title. but
II doesn't signify does it? Cali them
Juplters Throne If jupiter didn't mind
suing IN a damp place, or the Hill Of
Opals' or the Baths of the Titans or
something with meat in it. Most of the
6tysels nave names that you can stand.
Giant, Giantess, Beehive Castle Cro+
70, Lion, Lioness, Sawmill Fan rurho,.
old Faithful, Splendid, and the snrings
ana blow holes are not all bad. either.
as witness the Paint Pots Wash NH
ack Boiler, Blue Glass, Brown Sponqe
Dlshl an brill, Hell Pot, Iron Pot Devils
Kitchen, Kidney, Little Joker, Loco
g Goslvf' PerPStual spouter. Soap Kettle,
steamboat Thud and Velvet.
GU nave to go around among these
places with caution, unless YOU know vonT
ground. When you hear the ernst orecl,
ana feel yoUr heels suddenly growing rot
ana the painting and grooming of he'll
SOUND louder below and around Won al
most instinctively go somewhere else
some quleter cooler drier place. where
you can think different set of thoughts.
you never know where you are going to
De steamed. Vapor so heated that II 70
invisible, gushes out at you from a cracl,
IN rock, ana peels your l1nuckles in an
instant. - Old
Ire waters of some Of the hot spr;ngs
are so charged with lime and silica and
sulphur that they will coat dish or a
hottle with mineral crust In a week.
nearly an eighth of an inch found q
snake skin cemented into one Of tho
mounds although they say that reptiles
are not found in the park and one OF
the me mDers of the survey found a mass
OF grasshopperS fastened into the crust
Here and there are trees that have been
oFerHoWed and killed by the hot water.
and half buried in the mineral-gaunr
bieached Skeletons they are. with
branches that seem to writhe out of the
killing clutch of the stone, appealing to
be unburied
or course you have heard of the glass
cliffs that had to be cracked by fires in
order to build a road along their feet
IT isn't quite the same as bottle glass.
Obsidian Is a volcanic product. and mora
nearly resembles Stag from a foundry.
IL Is brown and black, and the Indians
used II. for spear and arrow heads. though
green variety can be cut into a respect.
able gem. In Mexico you find, to this day.
knives of obsidian that are supposed n
nave Been used for carving I'm the IN,