The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-09-26

had not tnen seen the SChAAh8nhsn ans OF
the Rhine, no less beautiful than Niagara. though
not so majestic aud impressive.
had not then sccn iuccrne. glrt about with
its beautiful Alpine peaks and Nesting beside one
the lo,elicat and cearcst lakes in all the world
from whose blue waters rise the sheer walls of
massive hoavcn-kiasing mountains towering high
above you ia rugged grandeur which contrasts
strikingly With the serene beauty OF tho lake it
self
had not then titanic juaEtrau. aa have
how dope-shouldcring out the Sky wIth its o,oT-
nal mantle of snow while the thick clouds gradu-
ally unveiled it's glorica TO our cycs arts the
great cap breaking out atfully againa; tho sky
far ~ above the noecy masses aud ihon more and
more OF the great giant of mountains coming In
to viow until tho ~holc majestic form. dazzling Ia
tho sunlight. awcd ua Nth lta solemn raaincsa
There came to mind tina, passage In tho Dble In
which Moses asked TO sec tho Almighty face
and the Lord put him In cleft Ia Tho rock aad
Let but part OF IiIa gIory paas before him. iest
the great leader of lAfacl should BE ovovpowered
by vioSing too much glory at once. 90 ~as nalca-
tic JuuEtfau gradually unveiled before our oyes
had then ncon Lake 0caoya beautiful
beyond the poser Of words describe. bursting
upon our slight from tho tunnels
mouth II IT acre a vision of Paradise. Ths
any ~aa perfect. and but fo~ long lazy summer
clouds nestled suais,inctly against tho TAR hoFEoa
the ahoon O. tho was"r mln.llng wlih them unti
II waa impossible TO distinguish where laka ended
and aky began a taIry-like sail boat drifting idly
on tho bosom OF the ~aiors completing tho scene
aud making II ethereal that ono seemed to
have come a, aa; 10 the land of tho lotus-eAtora
tho dreamy ros,-And ~horo 1, ia always afternoon.
Only the Catalina Islands OF the ooas, o. Calf.
tornia have brought 10 my vision Seoae little
Of the earth earthly. charged ~i,h tho beauty
aud charm of the tabled tales o. liosporsdcs.
Nor had / then econ tho glaciers. those Eroa,
mills of the goda that do ladeoi grind slowly but
grlnd exceedingly small: working wi,h tho calm
patience Of eternity. quietly and wlth such su.
pFeme scorn Of mans tovcFiAh haste In his littlo
lifetime that long generations OF puny men and
came aud wcnt before they learned that
these titanic cc-riycrs actually move at aii-,hcao
colossal masses miles In length and width. thA,
down tho mountain sides With tho rclcnt-
icnSncha Of death and grind the mighticat bouid.
erR into posdor or break them into thousand
fragments. or carry them In rraIAoas clutch far
away from the place where they found. IL
Ia almost as IL were seeing of the bclated pro-
ceases of creation. looking do upon one of IN.
primal forces of the earth. of tho forces with
which tho Almighty Power toniy with strength
and fury ten thousand times more ntriking) lev
eled tho mountains. followed the seas aud carved
out tho continents after Ills pattern In tho long
ages before lie gave man dominion over tho mn
ihhcd work of creation
IL Is fitting. then that about these glaciers
the clouds of Heaven should hover. now revealing
aud now concealing peak and valley and hillside;