The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-05-16
The Giant Geyser, Yellowstone.

Here one may study the modes OF |
life Of the prehistoric American as
they can be studied In few places. |
These aborigines had their civic CEN
ter and they had some progressive
ideas In city planning Community |,
life was the order of those times. One
house had 200 rooms for family use
and % for worship. Another one
sheltered $50 aboriglDes.
Mount Rainier seems to keep per-
petual guard over Seattle, Tacoma
and Olympia. Anyone who has be-
held It's many moods, who has watched
the ever-changing picture as varying
lights have played upon ITS summit,
who has coasted on its glacial rivers,
can understand why the Indians
called it "Tahoma-the mountain that
was god"
Mt Rainier has q glacier system
exceeding In size that Of any other
single mountain within continental
United States. From Its summit and
cirQues Is named and a number Of
unnamed rivers VI Ice pour slowly
down its sides These rivers Of Ice
have carved on what was once per-
/ feet cone II valleys through the solid
rock. A birds-eye view taken from
above the mountain would show 1t to
| be covered by an enormous frozen
octopus, stretching Icy tentacles down
among the rich gardens Of wild flow
ers and through forests OF fir and
cedar.
Switzerland, the playground Of Eu-
rope, visited annually (until 1879 by
more than 100000 Americans, cannot
compare IN attractlveness with the
High Sierra OF central California.
Nothing in the Alps can rival the IA
nous Yosemite valley, which Is as
unique as the Grand canyon The view
from the summit Of Mt. Whitney sur
passes that from any Of the peaks Of
Switzerland.
Wonderful Birds and Flowers.
And then. as 10 birds and flowers,
the High Slerras SO excel the Alps that
there is no comparison. Never Will
the writer forget the melodies Of the
, birds and the luxurance Of the mead
ows passed In the marches from Red
wood Meadow to Mineral King. and
then up over Franklin Pass; the fields
Of blue, red. yellow, orange. white and
,, purple flowers, all graceful and
fragrant, or the divine dignity Of the
great Siberian plateau, nearly 11,OOl
feet above the sea, and yet carpetet
from end TO end with blue lupine ant
tiny flowers.
From the educational point Of view
the High Sierras so surpass the Alps
that again no comparison can be made
In one days ascent We observed faun'
and fora TO see the equivalent o
which on the Atlantic coast We would
|, have TO make q journey OF perhaps
1000 miles. When We stsrted Ia TIT
morning We were hearing birds tina
correspond TO the latitude Of Charles
ton, $. c.; In few hours We had tray
eled northward TO Newfoundland an,
> Labrador, and then descended TO cam
smid feathered friends whose counter
parts are found around the writer
farm near Washington, d. G. A da
later We ascended ST. Whitney, tn
;. highest peak in the United State:
and had glimpse OF birds or III
arctic zone.
/. Oldest OF Living Things.
: Within the boundaries OF the fC
semitic and SeQuola national park
!, tower the oldest OF living things-th
!. SeQuola gigantea.
: IL Is an unusual experience TO stan
= under these big trees, to gaze upo
; their stately proportions. IL refieC
upon the storms aud stress they hav
10 survived. and TO visualize the strang
" changes In human history that hay
I, taken place since they were Seeding
- Long before Moses had led the Chi
a dren of Israel out OF Egypt long b.
y. fore his brethren had carried back
their father Joseph's blood.staine
coat OF many colors, long even befoI
The birth VI the patriarch. whose chi
Is dren. aud whose children's ctdldre
e TO remotest generations the Most HiE
n promised to bless, even before Il
D. aged pyOmids had reared their heat
E. ON the banks OF the Nile, long ce
turtles before the hanging gardens
Babylon had been constructed, the
trees had begun to grow.
Thousands OF years the Gener
sherman tree has stood, Offering
head to every passing thunder clou'
but SO strong and sturdy Is II thS
like Ajax, 1t can defy the lightning
The wnders Of the Yosemite n
ticnsl park are easily accessible
the Yosemite valley, where sccomm
dations srs provided for every degr
Of income. Desmond camps and q
cellent government trails enable q
visitor 70 see the giant trees, wats
wheels, and canyons. while the mo
adventurous. who desire to sscel
Mount Lyell and Its magnificent neie
bors, will find entertainment In Tu
lumne meadows at the hospital
headquarters OF the Sierra club. an {
sunizatlon OF mountaineers who hs
revealed the Sierra to the world
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