The Mena weekly star., 1912-04-04

with buoyant joy over every fact ol life, she left the flowing water and scaled the cliff beyond which in tho wilderness she was to find after all the world.
 The ascent was longer and more difficult and dangerous than she had imagined when she first confronted it perhaps it was typical and foretold her progress. More than once she had to stop and carefully examine the face Of the canon wall for a practicable trail; more than once she had to ex erclse extremest care in her climb but she was bold and fearless noun taineer by this time and at last sur mounting every difficulty she stood panting slightly, a little tired, but triumphant upon the summit.
 The ground was rocky and broken the timber line was close above heI and she judged that she must be sev eral miles from the camp. The canor was very crooked, she could see only a few hundred yards of it in any di rection. She scanned her circum scribed limited horizon eagerly for the smoke from the great fire that they always kept burning in the camp, but not sign of it was visible. She was evidently a thousand feet above ths river whence she had come. Her standing ground was rocky ridge which fell away more gently on the other side for perhaps two hundred at toward the same brook. She could see through vistas in the trees the uptossed peaks of the main range, bare, chaotic. snow crowned, lonely, majestic, terrible.
 The awe of the everlasting hills is greater than that of heaving seas Save in the infrequent periods of calm, the latter always moves; the noun tains are the same for all time. The ocean is quick. noisy, living: the mountains are calm. still-deadl
 The girl stood as 1t were on the roof of the world. a solitary human being, so far as she knew. in the eye of God above her. All, but the eyes divine look long and see far; things beyond the human ken are all re- vealed. None of the party had ever come this far from the camp in this direction she knew. And she was glad to be the first, as she fatuously believed. to observe that majestic soli- tude.
 Surveying the great range she won- dered where the peak climbers might be. Keen sighted though she was, she could not discover them. The crest that they were attempting lay in an- other direction hidden by a nearer spur. She was in the very heart of the mountains; peaks and ridges rose all about her, so much so that the gen eral direction of the great range was lost She was at the center of far flung cocavity of crest and range. She marked one towering point to the right of her that rose massively grand above ali the others. Tomorrow she would climb to that high point and from its lofty elevations look upon the heav- ens above and the earth beneath, aye and the waters under the earth far below. Tomorrow!-it is gen. orally known that we do not usually attempt the high points in life's range at once, content are we with lower al. titudes today
 | There was no sound above her; the rushing water over the rocks upon the nearer side she could hear faint iy; there was no wind about her to stir 1 the long needles of the pines. It was very still, the kind of stiffness oi body which is the outward and visible complement of that stiffness of the soul in which men know God There had been no earthquake, no storm the mountains had not heaved beneath her feet. the great and strong wind had not passed by, the rocks had not been rent and broken. yet Enid caught herself listening as If for voice. The thrill of majesty, silence, loneliness was upon her. She stood-one stands when there is chance of meeting God on the way. one does not kneel until he comes--with her raised hands clasped. her head uplifted in exulta tion unspeakable. God-oonquered with her face to heaven upturned.
 T will lift up mine eyes to the hills whence oometh my salvation.' her heart sang voicelessly. We praise thee, oh. God. we magnify thy holy name forever" fioated through heI brain, in great appreciation of the marvellous work of the Almighty shap