Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-07-06
Glimpse Of Beauties
Of Yellowstone Park;
See. America First
A Mere Glimpse Of the Beauties and
Awe-Inspirins Scenes to Be
Witnessed There.


having departed, via the automobile
route, fo rthe National Park, other
wise known as the Yellowstone Park,
which occupies the northwestern cor
ner of Wyoming, perhaps The Sat
urday News readers would be inter-
ested in learning something about a
few of the things to be seen there,
For instance, it is said that one
may catch trout in the Yellowstone
lake, lying nearly ten thousand feet
above the level of the sea in nook
of the Rocky Mountains, and, with
out moving from his tracks, hurl his
catch into boiling spring to be nice
ly cooked for breakfast.
Well, no one who has not actually
observed the possibility of such a
feat would believe it-but seein' is be-
levin.
A Beautiful River.
Again, following the streamlet
known as the Yellowstone river from
this beautiful lake to the great falls,
sixteen miles distant, one. beholds the
most beautifully painted bed the mind
of man can conceive.
The rivulet having developed, into
a fair-sized creek, the bed widens out
to about one hundred feet. The water
seems not to move at all, and it is
so clear that fish may be seen swim
ming $50 to 200 feet away.
A trout darts hither and yon, finally
floating with it's nose at the surface
Fof the water, seemingly awaiting the
presence Of a fly. Presently another
trout, moving so slowly as scarcely
TO make a rifle, is observed near by.
If the watcher does not make a
quick motion, the trout pay no atten-
tion to him. They dart about with
the suddenness and swiftness of
| lightning, and then drop back into a
pose at the waters surface. Although
the water is from six to ten feet
deep for a atretch of nearly half a
mile, every peculiarity of the streams
bed may be easily seen.
A Painted River Bed.
For half mile down stream cne's
Eattention is riveted on. the gorgeous,
| ly painted river bed. ~
! At were as il, ages and ages ago,
! before winters SHOWS began to
trickle down the mountain side, some
lsmastermind had hewn canvas from
the sandstone and had then covered
! it with ten feet of water SO as to
place it out of the reach OF the van
dal, so as to preserve it until the ad-
vent Of eternity for the delectation
of intervening generations.
A diamond Of azure blue merges
into another of olive green, which, in
turn, blends into one of orange
which again melts into one of cardi-
nal red, and SO ane throughout all the
colors and combinations OF colors,
merging and blending and blending
and merging with marked distinct
ness and yet with such delicacy as to
defy detecting where one ends and the
other begins.
No one who has not seen it would
believe that Nature could produce
such an exquisite piece of art with
such geometrical precision.
Gods Masterpiece.
Fo1iowing the river, a little fxrther
along one comes to the little falls,
where the crystal waters, grown to a
considerable stream, take their first
plunge after leaving their temporary
home ii the beautiful lake,
About a quarter of a mile furxheg
on, the stream drops straight down
for over 300 feet and boisterously
| flows through the canon, whose walls,
stretching up and away for 1000 feet
on either side of the raging torrent,
resemble, in their variegated hues,
what one may conceive to be the
monster canvas of some prehistoric
artist whose inspiration has been lost
in the ages that followed the com
pletion of his work
The late DR.. Talmage describes this
canon as the Creators masterpiece
the painting which He left until the
last in order that He might put into
T 1t all the experiences of creation.
We stood upon an overhanging jut
of rock and gazed down upon the
seemingly tiny stream nearly a half
mile below. We glanced a1ong the
mile or SO of wall that rose receding-
" on the opposite side. We drank in
its beauties and its awe-inspiring
scenes. We beheld all the tints that
we had seen in the rfver-bed above.
only more inspiring and more artis-
tically interviewer and more varied in
colorscheme and more marvellous in
combinations and outlines. And
then, barring our head and looking in
to the ethereal blue that envelopes the
universe, we exclaimed, with bated
breath, Surely none but God could
have wrought this e
si The Danger Sign.
We wandered one morning IN one.
sof the several geyser basins he
places in which and around which.
and about which and near which the
igeysers live and move and have their;
being. We saw the 8 Minute Man. e