The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-12-18
OUR THREE GREATEST CANOMs.

Yosemite, Yellowstone End Grand Canon
of the Colorado Compared.
The justly famous Grand Canon Of
the Yellowstone is, like the Colorado,
gorgeously colored and abruptly coun-
tersunk in a plateau, and both arc
mainly the work Of water. But tie
Colorado Canon is more than thou
sand times larger, and as score or
two new buildings of ordinary size
would not appreciably change the gen.
eral view Of great city, so hundreds
of Yellowstoncs might be eroded in the
sides Of the Colorado Canon without
noticeably augmenting its size or the
richness of its sculpture. But it is not
true that the great Yosemite rocks
would be thus lost OF hidden. Nothing
of their kind in the world, so far rs
know, rivals Ell Captain and Tissiack,
much less dwarfs OF in any way BELT
ties them. None Of the sandstone or
limestone precipices Of the canon that
I have seen or heard of approaches in
smooth, fiawless strength and grandeur
the granite face of Ell Captain OF the
Tenaya side Of Clouds Rest. These
colossal cliffs, types of permanence, are
about 5000 and CC10 feet high; thos, OF
the canon that are sheer are about half
rs high, and arc types Of heetlnS
change; while slorious-domed TiSsiack,
noblest of mountain buildings. far
from being overshadowcd or lost in
this rosy, spiron canon company, would
draw every eye, and, in serene majesty
"aboon them a." she would take ner
place-castle, temple, palace OF tower.
Nevertheless, a noted writer, comrar-
ing the Grand Canon in general way
with the glacial Yosemite, says: "AEd
the Yosemite-ah, the lovely Yosemite!
Dumped down into the wilderness OF
gorges and mountains, it would take
guide who knew of its existence long
time to find it," This is striking, and
shows up we'll above the levels Of COM
monplace description; but it is confus-
ing, and has the fatal fault OF not being
true.-John Muir, in Tie Century.
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Insurance Against Surgical Operations.
In England people of moderate
means are beginning to insure them
selves against surgical operations. Tie
plan is that subscribers who pay an
annual fee shall be entitled either to
free admittance to a hospital OF nurs-
ing at home and free operation Oh to
a fixed sum paid down to defray the
cost Of an operation if one becomes
necessary. In England, as here, the
cost of surgical repairs to the human
body has become oppressively great
to persons who just manage to pay
their way. People who are obviously
poor get great dea! Of excellent SUI
gical and medical treatment in hos
pitfalls and elsewhere for nothing, but
for the next class above them a serl-
Gus illness-especially if it involves
an operation-is almost ruirous. 1t
would seem as if the time was near
when societies for insurance against
specialists might be profitably organ
lied in the larger American cities.
The specialist has come to be a very
mportant-inded. an Indispensable
institution, especially to families in
which there are children. The office
of the family doctor has now become
s:mplified to the task of coming IN
and telling the patient which specialist
to go to. 1t is not that specialists
charge too much, for their honorable
services are above price. 1t is that
landlord, butcher, baker, grocer, milk
man, coalman, dentist, and trained
nurse do nc. leave you money enough
to pay them appropriately. To sub
scribe considerable sum annually
and have all the repairs and desirable
improvements made in ones family
without further disbursement would
be comparatively simple way out of
a troublesome observation-disclosures
Weekly.