| Show I HO NCE L IX IN REALISM REALIS For genuine thrills commend us to IC the tho report of 01 Captain J J. J W. W Powell on or 1 I Ithe the exploration of ot the Grand Canyon I of the tho Colorado It If there is a story extant more crowded crowde with incident more impressive In the quality of the themen i men engaged more valuable to the therace trace Irace race or more charmingly told ive we have bave not found round it The book is not easily acquired The Republican is under obligation to II H. L. L A A. Culmer for tho ho loan of ot his volume a a. gift from froma froUla a member of ot Captain Powell's Powells party The trip was sas made mado in 1869 and the complete report was rendered to James i then a congressman ann and speaker of the tho House of ot Representatives tives live years yeal'S later It Is In passing Just one more evidence of oS the public service of the Man Ian front from Maine The party started at the tho v very ry beginning beginning be be- c- c ginning of the tho Grand Canyon Canon and threaded Its dread abysses until t emerging into the desert down on th the Nevada ada line Une Their adventures were I without number their thell hardshIps hardship j great and the value of oS their thell service ice to tho nation is quite beyond cornI com corn puling August twenty eighth wa wasI was I I I their bI big da day the climax cUmaC of or their ef effort effort tf- tf fort tort and und experience Let us fl a rl fragment from rom that old book It wi willI will be lie good reading for I a u. people who wh I have been driven to lesser literature literature- because tho the b best t is fa no longer pro pro- cI i All night long I pace up and down dow on in a little path by the river Is rs It wise vise to go on ou I go to the boats a again aln and und look over our rations I feel Ceel satis saUs- I j lied o wo cant can get over tho the danger Im- Im irn- irn j mediately before u us but ut what there ther 1 may be below I know not From our outlook yesterday on thu tho cliffs tho the canyon canyon seemed to make malte another great cat I bend bond to the south and this means more moro an and higher granite walls I am amnot amnot not Pot sure euro we can climb out of or the tile canon can- can on you yon I I Tue The last thing thinS before h leaving a I write I a a letter to m my wife and It to toI I Howland who was waa not going down this last rapid in the tho first boat bout Forthe For ForI I Rho the la last t time Um the they entreat us ua not to z so o I I on an and 1 say It 1 lit s madness to sot set ot out tram front this place 0 Seine tears arc are shed ailed It Is rather a n. solemn partIn part- part In lug Ing Each party part thinks tho the other 13 la taking the thc dangerous course They go through tho the first of or tile the rapids and anti then thon Captain Powell climbs up the rocks to get a a. better view of oS the tile river rl It is below WOt wo o than ho lie had believed e i I hasten down to t stop top the boats bonts When I arrive c I t tho the men have havo let lel one down to tho the head of ot tho the fall She Sho is in swift water and they thoy aro not ablo abio to pull her hack back Nor are the they able ablo to go on with tho the line lino as asIt asIt asit It Is not long enough to reach to tho top of the din cUll I send two men back for the other line lino Tho The boat is in Inet et very verr swift water and I Bradley is standing In the open compartment compartment com corn holding out his oar to pr prent prevent prevent pre pre- vent ent her striking the tho face taco of tho the cliff Now she site shoots out into the tho stream n and up as far tal as the line hue will allow zillo and then whet wheeling lIng drives headlong against tho rock Tock A As soon as the second sec sec- sec fec- ond line linc is 18 brought broughto o wo pass paP s 8 it down to him but his lila attention Is all taken up with his own situation and ho does not see seo that n we e are aro passing the line I r stand on ill a a. projecting rock waving my lily hat bitt to attract Iris hit attention for tor I I m my voice voke Is drowned b by the tho roaring of ot the falls fails Just at this moment I see him hint take talo his from flom its Us sheath and step atop forward to lo cut tho the line lie He has hai el evidently e decided It is better bettel to go over with the thc boat as it is than to wait walt for her to be broken to pieces As he leans over o the boat shears rs again into the tho stream tho the stern post breaks away and she he is loose With perfect composure Bradley seizes the great scull oar places It Inthe Inthe in inthe the stern storn rowlock ro and pulls with all his power and he ito i Is an to turn tho thio bow n of tho the boat bont down stream One two strokes he lie makes and another another an an- another other Just as she goes over o The boat Is 18 fairly turned and she goes down almost beyond our sight though we weare weare weare are more than a hundred feet above the river Then Thon she conies comes up again on a great wave and down own and up then around some somo great rocks and il is lost In the mad white whito foam below We st stand nd frozen with fear tear for we wesee wesee wesee see no boat Bradley Is gone so It seems scenic But now awa away below we see seo something something some sonic thing come out of or the thc waves wa It is evidently a a. boat boaL A moment more and we see sec Bradley standing on deck deckand deckand and swinging his hat to show how ho Is 15 all right t. t There are aro near three hundred royal nl octavo octave pages with that sort of or recital fairly o cr every overy ono one of them Of or course Captain Powell could be casil easily Instructed In the tho art of or composition lJ by scores of or writers But Is one inc ne of or them who ho KOCS oes so directly to the mark who tal takes such hold on the tho imagination and the heart who ao so convinces There Thero should be fairer attention to this primitive style this elemental manner of setting forth the nets facts The Tile world Is not better belter advised by br the lat lat- lat lat- day ter-day polish |
