The Aberdeen weekly., 1911-08-11
CHAPTER XIII.


a mountain summit, from which
two rivers flow. The one arrowy
Pecos, rolls TO the Southeast -
and the other, the foaming San
ta Fe, dashes off towards the
West. Both have the same sour
ce, and both have the same ultl-
mate destination rising, each, IN
in the mountain lake and empty
ing the far famed Rio Grande.
The waters of each, like friends
leaving the same household, and
separating, for the nonce, TO go
a different direction TO the same
place, part with affection, and,
after having jouneyed asunder,
many and many a league, meet
and mingle in common chan
mel, which hurries them IN joy
full glee to their ocean home. To
this lake, Dongotha conducted
Olatha. Olatha was Delighted at
the unique sight that of its kind
red waters feeding two rivers
running in different directions.
And his delight was heightened,
when he learned from Dongotha,
that though they would flow a
part for a great distance, yet
they would meet and mlngle to-
gether, before they reached the
ocean.
1t was bright, clear morning
the morning ON which Olatha and
Dongotha arrived at the lake and
the air was deliciorlsly soft and
balmy. MIdest zephys with gent
lest touches stirred the waters
and the slant sunbeams sparkled
III their ripping wavelets. Tall
est pines lined the margin OF the
lake, whose gently vibrating tops
were glassed in his crystal dep
tbs. A solitary swan floated on
its bosom, as the gentle breeze
drifted il over It's surface, and
Il brood Of wild ducks were div
ing into maa'shy border, fish
ing up seeds Of grass. For leag-
ues around the whole country
was in view. Plain and valley,
dotted with round mountains Cd
larger and lesser elevation, and
variegated with forests and cul
tivated fields, villages and farm
seats, interspersed, all most pic
turesquely with rivers, riverlets
and rills, spread out in magnl
ficent beauty to the eye. To the
west, the far off mountains whic
rise in the land of the NavaJos
10 the north, the tall peak Of old
Baldie, capped with snow; TO the
east, the distant buttes, which
stand on the boundless prairies
and to the south, the Placer Sier
ras, teeming with gold, and them
loot hills abounding in turquoise
all were visible. The prospect
was superlatively grand, and in
deed, beantiiful, ami pictures
que
The eye luxauiates In resting
and lingering on such vast am
plitudes-sky piercing noun
tains, fathomless chasm, and hor
izon, kissing plains -deftly var
led every where with SO much
Of the magnificiently grand, the
rapturously beautiful, and the
wildly and terribly sublime =
in nature Oh: Low clogging, c
brous clay, when, from such h
gh stand points, the eye wan
ders over such boundless field:
of magniiicence. The imprisoned
soul enyies the eagle his pinions
with which to fly and lave it
self in the etheral oceans, spread
out, in quiet expanse, over tn,
extended view; or sighs that i
cannot seat its inert tenement OF
a floating cloud and navigate al
the aZune realms.
Vain, . mortal, is the aspira
ton; the most that thou cans
do, IS, TO gaze, and to feed OIL
thoughts which beget thought!
and to store away in their fmit.
mlnd, images of enchantment.-
pincked from Observations o.
natures phenomena in the rea
world-thiS lower world.
And is the real world, this
lower world, still so beautiful
cursed as it has been by the fal
of man.
y yes, are not oceans and thu
mountains, lakes and valleys, riv
ers and pains, forests and fields
pinats and flowers, all left with
fowls, too, In the air.. beasts in
the field, and fishes In the sea
ph shame to man, and with all
tals left TO moartals. must they
sfhi murmur and live inhatred
strife, and enmity among them
selves, and levy cr uel wars
wasting the earth, each other
TO destroy. Who that holds in
MS bosom a loving heart. does
not crave to stand where Olatha
stood, on that tall mountain
towering 70 heaven. and pour
out his soul to Him who holds
tins ponderous globe in his hand
olatha and Dongotha.. s,nit
with the grandeur of the scene
iitted their hearts, in prayer and
thanks, to the God Of Montezu-
ma But, amid such scenery they
nad hyed from their childhood
! ct II was not so much the attra,
I1veness OF the prospect, that
had drawn them to the lake. Il
was It's celebrity as the abode
Of an enchantress.
Down deep in the crystal dep
ths OF the mountain lake. the
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