The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-26

with fruit trees, but on the left the
hills quickly grow into mountains,
here tree-clad and beautiful, Again a
turn, and again the scene changes, for
now the heights become rugged and
steep, and immense clefts, straight as
though cut with gigantic knife, sep
arate them. Down each of these clefts
tumbles a sparkling, rolstering little
cataract that from distance looks
like thread Of frosted silver. Dur
ing centuries Of earnest effort the larg-
er Of these streams have deposited at
their mouths little triangular patches
OF gravelly soil, and on almost every
patch some wise man has built an at
tractive summer residence and sur
rounded It with pretty trees and
shrubs. To be sure, his front yard Is
usually series OF steps, and his kitch-
en- garden is made on shelves, but
that only adds to the charm.
The boat now approaches the Mar
rows, where the mountains on each
shore seem to lean toward each other
and their giant reflections almost fill
the lake. For the right bank now has
become as precipitous as the left, and
for some miles is an almost bare,
steep slope of peculiar formation hav-
ing the appearance of hubby, bill
lowy cascade of mud suddenly hard
ened into stone.
In the background snow capped
peaks now appear, and the nearer sum-
mits are tortured into fantastic shapes
ever changing and so fascinating that
one never tires of looking at them. At
Twenty-Five Mile creek Nature gives
you respite, for there the mountains
recede bit and permit large circu-
lar opening Of bench land, a spot OF
exquisite beauty. But at once the
steamer carries you on to scenes that
are unrivalled for grandeur, sliding
along under the walls of Round noun
tain. This is bare bluff rising from
an imposing preciplce, its dry face
gashed by chasms and crossed by
great rock terraces. Here the lake
bottom is at its deepest-1.419 feet be-
low the surface, or $40 feet below sea
level
Next Black Cap claims your atten-
tion and admiration, towering, round
ed rock faced into a bald bluff and
boldly fronting the lake, and after it
a dozen more heights as grand and
imposing. Where Fish creek flows in
from the east is long point Of sandy
soil where an enticing fishing resort
has been built, but the boat stops only
a moment, and soon after you come to
the north end of this wonderful lake
and to Stehekln Really Stehekin con-
sists only of hotel-and a very good
one-and the home Of park ranger.
Whether you want to or not, you must
remain there over night, and you do
not regret 1t. After a bountiful and
we'll cooked dinner you are ready for
the walk to Rainbow Falls, several
miles up the lovely little Stehekin riv-
er that flows from the glaciers which
are always in sight glistening on the
mountains miles away up the canyon
Through beautiful forests Of pine and
beech and fir you wander until mu-
steal rumbling tells you that the cas-
cade is near at hand.
Rainbow Falls is as pretty water
fall as one would wish to see. Straight
down from the brow of cliff 300 feet
high plunges little mountain stream,
into a self-made basin from which it
overfows in another fall to its rocky
bed In the Stehekin valley. II you
chance to see 1t In the dry season, as
l did, the cataract is the more beau