Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1905-04-27
NJ TriPs - t.; Northwest.
YELLOWSTONE PARK.

into the valley near by: this col
oring IL mainly yellow and orange.
This mound is barren and its APP
pearance presents a strange ef-
iect upon the senses. A day or
two can he spent probably here.
Here are found Fountain geyscr,
the Paint Pots, Clepsydra geyser
anu hundreds OF strange things.
The great Fountain geyser is one
OF the best in the park and its
eruptions can be seen from the
MOTEL piazza. Its eruptions &C.
u about every four hours. and
it plays for Il quarter OF an hour
at n height of from forty to sixty
feet.
The great Fountain a. this
place is another wonder and in
the vicinity of Fountain geyser.
about two miles from the hotel il
a collection of pools. geysers and
springs that have many facina-
ton and marvellous characters
tics.
Here are also found the mann
moth Paint Pots-strange cook
ing utensils these. One of these
huge pots, the largest. is forty by
cixty feet and il constantly cook
ing with a suffering, a white
mortar-like substance making
beautiful olayey flowers Of rare
and artistic beauty. These huge.
pots hold the mind with their
strange imitation of mans rude
cuisine accomplishments.
%On one side the basin il a
strangely formed rose-colored
fiat, scanned and cracked and
dried like a swami where al be-
meath had been 4 slow ire which
has cooked the crust into many
strange forms; this space is all
dotted with cones of many hues
and in the twilight it seems
strange, mystic and SD.
Let's visit Fountain geyser, it
is time for it to speak . message
from the demons. Stand near
the crater, thirty feet in diameter,
look at the furious water seeth-
ing, boiling, swishing, from side
to side. gurgling up from faith
oms below, hear all the demons
groan, growl. roar and begin their
death grspple, the sentinels all
around, the little geysers and
steam vents sound the warning.
get back from the crater. the
earth shivers beneath your feet,
the sound grows louder. deafen-
inc. 1t seems the demons try to
snake the whole earth INTO this
crater and would hold high car
niyal If only they could add you
10 their tormented victims.
The scene is awful but sublime.
We stand spell-bound. All at
once with an unearthly shrek
this seething, angry mass shoots
upward thirty or forty feet, whilst
small fountain jets from this tow
er of water shoot fortyfeet higher,
and this huge volume of water,
steam and spray presents to our
astonished gaze a sight of the
earth unearthly. The sight is so
sublime that the picture in all its
grandeur never will grow dim on
memory's tablet.
In the twilight We return to the
hotel with souls wrapped in a
strange, grand, magic spell.
After supper we go out to see
Bruin. Many are here, some of
them are easily frightened, 9TH
ers are holder. They behave
hoggishly at supper time. There
are two varieties in the park the
silvertip, a species of the grizzly
and the cinnamon, a huge black
bear. Next morning we are up
early for only nine miles away is
the Upper Geyser Basin, the
greatest freak of all these won-
ders. But every step of our way
IS full OF wonders and | won't take
you too fast since the strange
Middle Geyser Basin is on our
way. This seems to me to mark
the place OF the Oldest of this
strange phenomena, and / believe
this view is held by the geologist:
for now there is a calmness over
this basin that the physical sur
reundings snow have not always
existed.
/. Al Middle Geyser basin is found
and we e the crater of the mon
ster geyser of the world, rightly
named Excelsior. This old giant
Is asleep, his last upheaval took
place in 1888. When he wakes
up he puts all the others to flight.
lie has no opposition and revels
IN the discontinue of his ene-
mics. His last eruption struck
terrOE TO all who we're permitted
to gaze On his rage. Those who
know MIN say he is soon to wake
from his long sleep to again show
his mighty powers. He is a great
water volcano when in action.
No word will describe Pris-
matte lake. 1t is a body of water
25O by 300 feet, this sheet of wa
ter is but a great spring, its sides
are solid rock. and the biologists
say the most perfect spring in the
world. The water is so clear that
one ear see into the bowels of the
earth. During the countless ages
this beautiful spring has been
bubbhng up, the overflow, con-
slant and even, has built up a
cone or mound, sloping regularly
and gently in all directions for a
distance of about hftyfeet. The
water runs away in tiny rivulets