Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-02-18

admiral was passed, and consideration OF
the agricultural appropriation bill begun
One of the fiercest contests of the SEES
SION was IN progress when 4he house met
Wednesday The friends and opponents
OF the resolution to attach the Nicaragua
canal bill to the sundry civil service APP
preparation bill were working assiduously
and every argument which could inhu-
ence members one way on the other was
brought to bear. The fate OF the canal
blll at this congress was in the balance
Mr.. Bailey of Texas advocated govern
ment construction OF the Nicaragua canal
and Mr.. Dockery of Missouri appealed to
his fellow democrats not to break down
one OF the bulwarGs of the minority by
voting to repeal a rule of 40 years
standing, forbidding general legislation
ON appropriation bills He also minated
that sinister influences were behind the
present plan.
Perfect Floral EIysium.
From an article by John Muir in the
Atlantic Monthly for January, 1898, en-.
| titled 'The Wild Parks and Forest Reser-
! vations of the West."l
/ The Mount Rainier forest reserve
should be made a national park and
! guarded while yet its bloom is on; for if
in the making of the west nature had
what we call parks in mind-places for
rest, inspiration and prayer-this Rainier
region must surely be one of them. In
the center of it there is a lonely noun.
tain capped with ice; from the ice cap
glaciers radiate, in every direction. and
young rivers from the glaciers; while its
TANKS sweeping down in beautiful curves
are clad with forests and gardens. and
filled with birds and animals Specimens
OF the best of natures treasures have been
lovingly gathered here and arranged in
simple symmetrical beauty within regu
lar bounds.
OF all the fire mountains which. like
beacons, once blazed along the Pacific
coast Mount Rainier is the noblest in
form, has the most interesting forest GOV
er, and, with perhaps the exception Of
Shasta, is the highest and most fowery
Its massive white dome rises out of it,
forests, like world by itself. to a height
OF $4,000 to $4,000 feet. The forests reach
to height of a little over 5000 feet ano
above the forests there is a zone of the
loveliest flowers, fifty miles in circuit anG
nearly two miles wide, so closely planted
and luNlriant that it seems as if nature
glad to make an open space between
woods so dense and ice so deep, were econ
T. omlzing the precious ground, and trying
to see how many of her darlings she car
get together in one mountain wreath
daisies, anemones, geraniums, columbines
erythroniums, larkspurs, etc, among
which we wade knee deep and waist deep
the bright corallas in myI-iads touching
petal to petal. Picturesque detached
groups of the spiry Ables sub-alpina stan,
like islands along the lower margin of tn
garden zone, while on the upper margin
there are extensive beds of bryanthus
cassiope, kalmia, and other heath worts
and higher still saXifrages and drabas
more and more slowly, reach up to tn,
edge OF the ice. Altogether this is tn,
richest sub-alpne garden | ever found-i
perfect floral elysium. The icy dome need
none OF mans care, but unless the reserv,
is guarded the flower bloom will soon bt
killed, and nothing of the forests will b,
lett but black stump monuments.