Yellowstone Park

"Oh look at tliat dead soldier lying over there !" s ',not an unusual expression heard by the stage-coach passenger in the Yellowstone, soon after startlng out li urn ilie Miinimotli Hot Springs Hotel, lint .-ohm t becoiues such a comniou oc cui renee tint il ia not noticed. One of the linliis in oiir party tliought it was "a ilwnriht slianie to leave the poor soliliers out unburied," until alie found that was the expression for an empty beer ur champagne bottle. No railroad can eMter the National I'ark, so a line of stajre coaches runs between ilic points of interest. The Park belnu lifty-five by sixty-five miles laige, at verul tours may be made, the usual one, howcver, being soine 142 miles, taking live days in heavy mountaln coaches drawn by six horses. One company runs tic coaches, while another owns the hotels ander a government lease, the two comblning in selling tickets for $48 good fur five days lodging, meals and transport.iüoii. llere i a collcction of wonders, such as geynn, paint-pots, canons, falls, pctrllied forast, wild búllalo, mountains of glass, etc. TheM last, called Obsidlan Cliffij, the mail passes uround on a shelf broken out of lüe side. In construclion it could nut be broken with a piek nor blasted, c.i; s. (jut'Mtly the englners had huge lires built. ïhen when the glass rocks were hot, cold water being thrown on, tliey were emeked open. It is a solid mountain of shiDy black bottle glass, - a woudi rful formation. But the Kyífifs are what make Yeilowstonc lamous. Scattered over a wide territory, no two being ulike, they shoot usually at reirular intervals. Some go onoe in 14 days, other in 3 days, another every otlier day, sevor&l have a spell every 8 hours while Old Faithful sends up a column of hot boiling water 200 feet high every ii' uiluuUM as regularly as a clock. We were In good luck to see the best ones in eru)tioii,especially the Excelsior, which had been quiet over two years. It has resumed operatious, giving an exhibition every 8 hours. Imagine a lake of cluar hot rutar the size of the Court house square with water boiling up about two or ilueu feet in the centre. When the proper timu com-s dense steam clouds arise, Wnves are thrown out against the shores, the centre becomes violently agitiiteil, when with pulsatlous higher and higher suddeuly a vast column of water is thrown up as high as the Court house tower, spreading uut au 1-ire as the building itself. The lii.-s of steam, the roar of the nood, the .spluslmifi of the angry waters, combine to make a spectacle awe inspirin bevond description. The l;tke overflows, mimin-r its builing water in torrente uto the rfver close at hand. Wenk man stands helpless beside this awful display of power, wonderlng at lts causf, s well as profouudly impressed by its . il', et. The Castle G ysur haa built up fot tselt ii high oone ffoin whicli ts eruptions puur iü'iiiriii' treti!H3 uid witli a loud ro ir. The River.-ide throws a clear stremn 90 li'i't liigli likt the Ktreiitn trom a uozzle. Each one has its piTii liarii irs, and it is no wonder the Indians avoided i h.it basin as the habltattóu of the Evil One. No vt'jíetatlnn yrows near the (feysers, aince the hot water kills everythlng, leaving a volonnic formatlnn: The ground seeraa hollow underneath, but scientists dlffer as to how far down the wateis are collected and heatcd. Aft-r an eruption, the reat pirt of the water thrown out runs back in to be riheuted and spouted ayrain. The Yfllowi-tone river runs through the park, making a canon, which at the falls is i'xceedingly beautlfal. These two falls are near each other, the largest one lening the river down in one great leap of 397 feft. The walU of the canon are steep and of many heautilul colors From a point juttiug out one can look down into the river 1,500 feet below. It is wild, pictuieíque, and beyond anytliiiiL' in Europe. On the higli crags eagles build tlieir nests safe trom intrusión, whlle large game set-k tlie unfrequent pathg. Buffalows roam the valleys; hufie goata scale the mountnins, while beavers dam the rivera for the antelope to cross on. All game is here protected by the troops camped everywhere. These soldiers watch touristf, campera, and the employees of tlie atage Unes to see tlmt no one kills the frame, ir.jures the formations or starts tires through the foresta. It is a wise provisión of the ffovernment thus to set apart this place for the preservation of s,uch noble creatures as the buffalo, antelope, eagles and the niount.iln goat. Even bears are numerous. Every night the keeper at Fire-Hole Rasin puts ont food wliich the bear comes to get, frcquently bringinü with him siveral of his fricnd-i. The mountaiu lion alao has his lair. We 8aw one, - ;i greit cat, the size of a Newfoundland dog, with glaring oyes, vickel claws and an el'gant set of teeth. Bilt in telling of the sighta of this wonderland we must not forget the Paint Pots, ly'ng in a b.tBin, where over 500 sprints of bolllng mud sizzle and sputter. It is like a great mortir bed, nnly the mushy stuff is of all colors like paint, which gives the basin its name. The attitude of the park is some 8,000 leet above the sea level,cons('quei)tly one aoon becomes out of breath in clambering over the mountain?. A climber may rcach the snow in many place, as it is uually in sigtit on the collosal walls of of this wonderland. Kverywhere are curious tlilnjrs whlch have to be seen to be appreciated. For instauce, tlicre are springs of Apollinnris water, soda water, and all minerals. Tliere is the Golden O.itc, a curious rocUy passage around a mountain. The Yellowstone Purk Is becoming more and more popular. This year over 10,000 will vlslt it. We hope at some time all the readers of Tuk Courier may have an opportunity for sreing this park, which is one of the wonders of the world. Democratie policy down south: "Dead men are very quiet, and never troublesome." "If anyone iittemta to vote the republlcan ticket shoot him on the spot," away down south in Georgia, do. Miss., Lm., Ark., S. C, X. C, Ala., Fia., etc. Does It par to mise sheepT Well, Juilglng from the followtng, we shoulrt tihbI ernphatlcally gay tlntt It don: Last fall, 8. B. Mullery liad a flock of '206 lisep. Last April he milïl f'X, wortli from the flock; hls wool clip broaght lilin 8337; a, few dys ago he sold SU sheep for $1009, a buck for $0, raak Ing a total ofSKifll frora the sald aheep, and ittlll hal (75 worili of the original flock left.- Kaadlng Telephone. But let the tree trade tarift'-for-revenueonly demócrata again get loto power, and then see where the sheep industry will be. The farmer will have to take his shevp and remove to the pampas of the Argentino Repnblic, or Australia.