Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-24


ther what is the Difference between a
stinchy man and a economical man p
Well mine son. a stinchy man is more
economical than i economical man.
When YOU are ready to leave the falls
You are not ready. You go back and
take another look. and then after din
ner you walk out to the Upper Falls
again and drink in their beauty once
more.
The Grand Canon.
And now we come to the canon.
What shall | say? What can l say
Nipling and Stoddard and falmage and
Fishop Earl Cranston and u host of
others have tried their hands, and L
certainly shall not try. Kipling's word
Painting is superb. and yet he does not
convey to the minds eye q picture ot
the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
Stodd,lrd says it the best way when he
says: "4ts l beheld it today, its long
Kaleidoscope of varied colors. its castles
and cathedral spires sculptured by the
Deity. and heard the Voice of its mag
rificent cataract I felt it WAS Il place
where the Finite prays. the Infinite
hears and immensely looks on The
words of a Japanese scholar are very
beautiful. They say my land is the
land of the rising sun. For a million
years this has been the land of the set
ting sun. The sunsets of the past are
dissolved on these long walls; they are
the colors OF all the Yesterdays 1t re-
manned for Talmage to give it touch
OF the opera bouffe: Jehovah seems
to have surpassed himself. 1t seems a
great gulch let down into the eternities.
Here hung UP and let down, and spread
abroad, are all the cdlors of land and
sea and and sky: upholst.ring of the
Lord God Almighty; best work of the
Architect OF worlds; sculpturing by the
Infinite; masonry by an Omnipotent
trowel. What a hall this would be for
the last Judgment! See the mighty
cascade with the rainbows at the front
OF it. If those waters, concealed and
transfiNed with the agitations of that
day, what a place they would make for
dead! And those rainbows look now
like the crowns to be cast at his feet.
At the bottom OF this great canon is a
floor on which the nations of the earth
might stand, and all up and down these
galleries of rock the nations of heaven
might sit. And what reverberations of
archangels' trumpets there would be
| thru all these gorges and from all these
caverns and over all these heights.
Why should not the greatest of the
days the world shall ever see close amid
the srandest scenery Omnipotence ever
built??'
| And as we draw a deep breath we
ask, Why not' To picture the Saviour
of the world walking in his bare feet
on frozen rainbows, with all the nations
| OF the world crowded in narrow gulch
with all the angels of heaven perched
on jutting rocks overhead, may be very
| like Talmage, but it is very absurd.
The canon proper begins at the
Great Falls and continues three or fou,
miles. The falls are near the hotel. The
river here plunges over a precipice $50
feet in height, more than twice the
plunge of Niagara, but the volume OF
water is not nearly so great, hence not
so imposing or impressive. Neverthe-
less, it is a wonderful thing TO look at
| Then the many-colored rocks line the
valley and as You stand on one of the
| Jutting crags and look down the river
seems only a silver thread
You can take a coach at the hotel and
pay ST., or you can walk. Ii YOU are
Well and have good sense you will
walk. In fact YOU have to walk to see
the canon, anyway The coach keeps
the road, of course. Before you are 1.
mile from the hotel you will ask the
driver to stop and let you alight. You
follow the fcot-path to one of the many
jutting points, and here you sit down
and view the Grand canon of the Vel
lowstone. When satisfied with this
view you wander on to the next point
of view. You have no further use for
the coach. SO you so on and on and
wonder that you do not get tired. To
inspiration Point, the furthest point
where u fine view can be obtained, it
is nearly three miles, and when you re-
quite five miles you can not believe it.
Walking is the best of exercise and
healthfu when the mind is occupied,
when You don't know YOU are walking.
1t is only this kind of walking. the kind
that don't make you tired. that does
one good. Mechanical walking for ones
health is all nonsense.
Standing on one OF these jutting rocks
you hear little peep peep for all
the world like the cry of 4 young tur-
key. Looking down 200 or 800 feet
you see an eagles nest, and you realize