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CHRISTIAN HKRÄLD r The Yellowstone Park. posits harden into terraces as they dry, and glisten in the sunlight. ssl ; x riv xxvx vzxip^Tyov ernct' x/iiiin, Fkrin hr " — -that I’l'eshhmt. Arthur and. JL4U.waters.are hntand seethe up his friends are sojourning in the from below with angry aspect. Water is the strongest drink. It Yellowstone Park, it may interest There are many immense geysers, drives mills; it’s the drink of lions hur readers to know that an illus the earth arbund which rumbles And horses; and Sampson never trated manuel for tourists, describ and shakes, and the air is hot with drank any thing else. Let young ing that region, has been prepared fetid odors. There are springs of men be teetotalers if only for econ- by II. T. Winser, and published by boiling mud, white, green, violet, —... omy’s wake. The lieer mnne.y,„jaill The apostle of the Indian l’heis- TTT. Putwain a Sdtte7"‘At Giving- "purpfi, biuwff; and blutf. r—T hr. re-are- soon build a house. If what went into the mash-tub went into the tic church lately declared in. Birm ston the traveller leavps the main huge cones, with, openings at the kneading-trough, families would be ingham, England, that " fifty per line of the North Pacific Railway top, whence issue columns of noisy better fed and taught. If what is cent, of the educated natives of In- and takes a branch road fifty-seven steam. There are petrified forests, .. to .tlie Mammoth where the ground is strewn with against a rainy day, work-house? toxicants,” having acquired the ha Hot Springs, near the north-west trunks and limbs oftrees winch would never be built. The man bit of drinking from contact with ern coiner of the Park. This is have solidified into clear, white who spends his money with the sa our Western civilization. If the about twenty-five hundred miles agate. There are mountain sides loon-keeper, and thinks the land tnofe self-governed and resolute from New York City, and the jour worn by glacial action into spectral lord’s bow and “ How do ye do, my manhood of the Western nations ney in a Pullman train costs about shapes weich look almost human. good fellow ?** means true respect, falls before.free intoxicants, it is $150. At the entrance the travell There are cataracts of most stu is a perfect simpleton. We don’t not strange the feebler manhood of er finds saddle horses, guides, car pendous majesty and power. There J light fires for the herring’s comfort, the Orient decays Jiefore them. As riages, and other comforts for ex are cratered hills, with rocks all around that are warm to the touch but to roast him. Men do not keep prohibition has saved India and ploration. ’ It will surprise most readers not and hollow to the tread. There is pot-houses for laborers’ good, if China, it alone can save them or .0 that of they do, they certainlynrnissrtKeTf" ■ the Western nations in tho Utturo, learn that this Park is larger than Virginia. In- describing the Hot aim. Why, then should people — Watch Tower. theStates of Deleware .andB.hode Springs of the Yellowstone Lake, drink “ for the good of the house ?” Noah Porter on temperance ed Island together.. It is situated on Mr. Winner says : Seldom are the If I spend money for the good o’ « any house, let it be my own, and ucation : “I bave no doubt that the borders of Idaho and Wyoming water and deposits of any two not the landlord’s. It is a bad well the State, in its public schools, Territories, and was set Apart for a springs alike. There are coral, hon-‘ into which you must pour water; ought to give instruction in respect National Park in 1872» though its eycomb, brasintone, pebble, scale, and the beer house is a bad friend, to those duties and moral relations striking characteristics were dis and crystal formations, the whole because it takes your all, and leaves which are generally acknowledged covered ten years before. It is six making kaleidoscopic groupings of to be essential to the welfare of the ty five miles long, from north to color and design. Down in the . yeu nothing but headaches. He who calls those his friends commonwealth. A knowledge of south, and fifty-five from east to limpid depths of many of the who let him sit and drink by the the duty of temperance, and the sin west. It has a number of rivers, springs are grottoes, ar.d arch-like hour together is ignorant—very and evil of intemperance, are both but its largest stream is the Yel structures. One dazzling- white » ignorant Why, red lions, and ti recognized as essential to this wel lowstone, and its largest lake has pool, the very type of purity, en gers, and eagles, and vultures are fare. It follows that the State has the same name. It has a number trances the visitor, who stands with all creatures of prey, and why do the right, and is under the obligi- of mountains, ranging in height wondering eyes, to look far down so many put themselves within the tion, to give such instruction as from seven to ten thousand feet, below upon what may only he lik power of their jaws and talons ? may thus promise to be useful and capped with snow all the year, and ened to a resplendent fairy grotto full of geological curiosities. Vol of frosted silver encrusted with Such as drink and live riotously, effective for g<x)d. canoes and glaciers were evidently pearls. Another crystal, clear and and wonder why their faces are so I do not believe that a nation in operation there at a late period. colorless basin has a rim blazing blotchy and their pockets so bare, would leave off* wondering if they controlled in its government by The roads run through chasms and with hues of sapphire, opal, ruby, had two grains of wisdom. They rum sellers and rum drinkers can gorges, and over the beds of streams and emerald. Still another pool, might as well ask an elm tree for long exist as a republic—and to now dry. The greatest variety of full to the brim, has the corrugated pears as loose habits for health and that condition this country is fast wild anamals is there. There are sides of its profound deeps adorned wealth. Those who go to the sa approaching. Our political conven buffaloes in the basins, and elk with tints of reddish gold. Several loon for happiness elimb a tree to tions, our national, State and local graze on the mountain sides. Moose basins of unknown depth are man elections are largely controlled by haunt the marshes ami heavy wood tled with a saffron scum of the con- i find fish.— Rev. Mr. Spurgeon. the organized forces of liquor deal lands. Six species of bears inhabit sistency of calf’s leather. This lea A mad dog roams the streets. ers and liquor drinkers. 1 know the forests, and small game abounds thery substance is not of a vegeta Children are going up and down. this to be an unwelcome tiuth, though reptiles are few and far be ble nature, but is deposited by the "They are warned. With the bold nevertheless, and we may as well tween. Two thirds of the area of mineral constituents of the springs. curiosity of youth they venture face it first as last. Senator Pratt, the park are clothed with dense It forms in layers, which are bright . near. One says, “ He doesu’t look of Conccticut. forests of fir, spruce, and pine ; ly mottled with red, yellow, green, cross : I’ll handle him.” he is bitten choke-cherries, gooseberries, and and black on the under surface, and and dies in the arms of his father. The Governor of Missouri is currants both black and red grow the lowermost strata are solidified Some people say, its a shame ; the bravely committed to the enforce along the streams. The meadows Into pure, finely grained sheets re dog ought to be put off the street.” ment of the Sunday law. Ho says are bright with familliar flowers. sembling alabaster.” It was cer Others say, “ No, the children he will make it the supreme effort Pasturage is excellent. The nights tainly a very happy forethought should have kept away, and they of the ballance of his administra-. are frosty, even in the Summer ; and wise acton the part of the Fed would not have been bitten.” Is tion. This sounds very much like very hot days are seldom known ; eral Government to set this won the street designed for mad dogs, Grant’s promise.“ to fight it out on and the winters, though snowy, are derfully picturesque region apart or children ? Kill the dogs and let this line if it takes all summer.” not severely cold. The most re for a National Park, to be kept for the children run ! So ^vith the sa- Such men are wanted everywhere. markable features of the park are the enjoyment of visitors forever.— loon. Society is for the people,; ■—Union Signal. its cilcareous springs, whose dè- Christian at Wurk. - Temperance Department. I not for those wl.o prey upon the people. Instead of'asking that the "pqwptirnliuiild we should demand that these places avoid the people. The streets are for the citizensfif any one has to vacate, let it be the enemy:— The Crusader.