The sun., 1916-11-12

"rhcrc's one advantage about climb
ing a mountain remarked the little
girl. you don't have to say that you'v,
lost your breath. All that YOU need
say Is that you've stopped to look al
The view-that Is. If you've got breath
left to say enything at all"
As We had all stopped At this point
TO look down the valley we laughed
and proceeded. And now the trees wero
fewer and more stuntcd, the bare Spots
increased. then rock. thCn the summit.
Oh, the glory of it. even though w"
were Only 1850 feet above sea level
To the west far as tie eye coulI see
We're mountains and forests-no roads.
no smoke arising from locomotive OF
habitation to PIT a blot ~ the
landscape. Directly beyond was Buck
Mountain. l.2iO feet. highest of these
eummits: to the north more mountains
and forests. ana in n Cul between two
hills We perceived Ia. place where lies
Greenwood Lake.
in the direction from which We had
come were the Ramapo Hills, a riot OF
color In tho light of the descending
sun. and in the ha2y distance ""
thought that we discerned the south
ern CatskiIls. Nearer was the valley
Of the pornpton, with the great du
Pont powder works strung along over
many mics from Haskell down 10
Wayne. picturesque AT this distance.
but-not the wilderness when the
atmosphere IL very clear thu high
buildings Of New York may be seen.
hut on This day they were not visible.
out " tho b.dckncss Of the forest too
low a younS-laWk winged It's SOLITARY
hight into some unknown beyond. olt
this was not the season for birds. In
early June. when the bird census ot
the United states was taken. euumera-
tors. including Ernest lrgefsoi and
Prof. Lock- wood ~ Columbia. count
forty-eight different species ui
foathercd inhabitants among the,
hills.
We had found AZ the summit. n a3-
dit.ou 70 the Wow ana the exh.srstioa
another couple from whom the .ocI'
tor OF the lodge vas learned. t to
girl ami ! had lost all Interest ih to
lodge. We took the tral wGlgn .ead'
over tho summit into the west. Dow,
INTO q valley. then up again on "a.
next mountain. then into a forest -
deep that the sun could scarcely pcue'
trate through the trees, then over
some rocks on which there was fresl
paint.
"Thc 'rai, builders must no out"
remarked THAT paint has been there
for less than twelve hours"
| had Just previously pu' NV iinVe'
or the paint.
Then still on toward tho SINKING
sun. then We became aware that SOM.
thing was approaching We perce.v''
a pain, pot and a r'f haudauua hand
~kcrch.ef. II subsequently transp.rot
that the ono was on tho head and ,E'
other In the hand Of a man whom U'
knew lnstinctively 20 y" FRO! Monroe
in his working clothes. The latter
conclusion WAS not instructive. Il We
obvious.
Prof. Monroe cordially invited us d
return to the lodCe-thet elusive lodge
-and have SUPPER. BU' W" had ~
mind thnt We might 20 10 Macopin
Yes, Macopiu was about ten miles
away, and the tran which was orIc''
na.ly an Indian tran. and hadn't beer
used much since m. red man had IN
voluntarily abandoned that part of the
| country. was in very had condition
or We might continue on into Haskell
some four mics on but wc had better
return with him and have supper.
we succumhed That Prof. Monroe
had been building trails was obvious
That he had. almost unaided. con-
structed the twenty miles or trail "