The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-10-24

teet. III seems so strange that cold and
hot water should be in such close con-
tact. In one place in the Yellow Stone
lake, the hot waters of neighboring
may be caught in the coollo depths,
| and cooked on the way out.
| The voice of the giant can be heard
afar, as he shoots up an immense col
umn of water $50 feet high for an hour
and half.
Rudyard Kipling once visited the
park and he thus wrote regarding the
geysers:
"The first mound encountered be-
longed to goblin, who was splashing
in his tub. heard him kick. pull a
shower bath on his shoulders, gasp,
crack his joints and rub himself with a
bath, as a thoughtful man should, and
it all sank down out of sight till an
other goblin arrived"
"All the geysers went mad together
spouting, squirting and believing till
men feared they would rip up the
whole field. Mysterious sympathies ex-
list among them, and when the Giantess
speaks they all hold their peace. She
is a woman"
OF the lakes and springs, the Prisma-
tic is said to be the most perfect spring
in the world. 1t is circular spring 300
feet in diameter, and is so clear one
can see the water rise in the very bot
tom. The surface shows wonderful
ing Glory is beautiful, transparent
pool of delicate colors and resembles to
wonderful degree, the flower from
which it's takes it's name.
The Queens Laundry is curiosity
Handkerchiefs can be put in the spring
at one place, they will go out of sight
and in few minutes come back per-
fectly clean. OF course, we all had our
handkerchiefs laundried.
In the geyser region are also found
the Paint Pots, great beds of clay,
which boil continuously after the man
ner OF huge pots of mush. On one side
flat.
The road from Geyser Basin to Yel-
low Stone Park crosses the great con-
tinental divide twice. Here one may
see two lakes-one on either side of the
divide, the Shoehone, whose waters
are drained through the Snake and CO.
lumbia rivers into the Pacific ocean and
the Yellow Stone, whose outlet is the
Yellow Stone river, a tributary of the
Missouri.
We crossed the Yellow Stone lake in
a steamer and spent a delightful after
noon and night on its shore. 1t was
here we saw a dozen or more bears,
old ones and cubs, around the garbage
heaps near the hotel. If you leave the
bears alone they will not trouble you.
The fishing in the lake is fine. Some of
our party certainly felt happy over
catching in an hour twenty or more
fish, each about two feet long.
The Great Falls and Grand Canon
defy all description. A cash in the
earth ten miles long and 1000 feet
deep, with wonderful painted walls and
pinnacles. The eagles. standing by
their nests, looked like sparrows. It's
sic of the rushing waters. The most
wonderful of all the marvellous features
of the canon is it's color-every tint
imaginable. A trail has been made to
the very bottom of the canon, where a
magnificent view of the falls can be
800 sS5".Gd feet high GHs' G6e great %s. greensh
mass of water dashes over the precipice
into many streams of molten silver.
which quickly break into mist. The
river is concealed from view for a
hundred yards or more by the mist In
the sunlight several rainbows span the
chasm. Everyone stood speechless
while gazing upon this spectacle of
grandeur, "a spectacle the world else
where cannot produce.
May many of you, who read this,
have the pleasure of taking this trip,
of viewing these wonders of nature for
yourselves. Words are inadequate to
give anything like fair description of
this Wonderland