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, CUM Crfc*s4JV 4 JT* HE luro of allitudo 8 0 c m 3 1 ? ^ 11 v 0 f \ caugni ai inu hiihh / f \ J of man to lead him y ( \ | Ys struggling up almost \\JAf unscalablo peaks ~~ from earliest times. However, It may he JT s:il<l that only wlthin the last half cenclimbing become the flBfiOBggS phy; daring scientists have conquered more mountains in that period than during any other time in their search for geological data, and many lives have been sacrificed at the shrine of science by her devotees while pitting skill and strength against enduring nature. Soon little was left to learn in this field in Europe, so those intrepid mountaineers, ever struggling to reach the top of the world, turned their eyes toward Asia, Africa and America, seeking other difficulties to overcome and hailing with joy any word of the discovery of a new gigantic elevation. In the \ < stern world r was found a fertile field for their efforts. Ton thousand miles of mountain, from tHo Circle to the Horn, with peaks piercing the skies from the snow lands of Alaska, aslant America, through the tropical table lands of Ecuador to the wilds of Patagonia. The elevations of the southern half mi mm liium; illiU IlilVC S1I1CO IIC'KI IIIO interest, of scientist and traveler alike, were almost unknown ami unnamed, and South America to the Alpine mountain climber was terra incognito indeed. A dim knowledge of the mountain majesty of the - northern half of this range had conio to thom t t> i mug?! hi me onriy explorers. .> voyages, the tales of Bering's travels ; ries of Cook's voyages in tho Pacific talned references to high inountalns from their ships; hut it would seem McKinley, the highest peak of the ra Rockies, received little notice from e: ers, although in favorable weather it c for a distance of 150 miles, a great that dwarfs the many hills surround fact, in 1 Sl>7. when Mr. \V. A. l)i< ke; ascended the Susitanl river and had I named Mount McKinley, upon returnit zal i(?n flPRrrihPil hi?4 .Hc^Avnrtf believed, and the whole account of h! treated as a traveler's tale, lloweve reason to believe that Vancouver saw tain In 1793, and it was long known to of the vicinity as "Tralelka," a word w "Great mountain," and when the lluss Alaska they called it "Bulshala," a w same significance. Even before Mr. I)i attention to it and named it Mount M< prospectors of tbo Yukon knew It as F more's peak. Mr. Dickey's estimate of O/V AAA ? 4. I- I I + I n!(!i, ih liuereHiing in view of ID subsequent measurements showed th only 300 feet out of tho way In his p figures now given by the geological tallied by taking tho mean of twent; ments, arrived at by triangulatlon, height as 20,300. This great mountah attempts to dominate Its peak until spring of 1010, whon an expedition nn<l Lloyd mado a dash for the top and aft< Incessant toll reached tholr poal. Mount Falrweather, tho most Imp rising flush from the sea level, was so Conk In 1778. There are no records ever been climbed, although its altit feet, would not indicate that the ascen cult. More Interesting than Fairweather a peak ilrst seen by Hering i gi- n -i > name because the day of dlsi sacred lo St. Ellas. Its height was ( matter of acrimonious dispute \mong f? (!./. e il.- - ?... in iin- >< KIIIIIIIIK >>i inn ICIMI t-fiuury . a French explorer, by measuring tho distances of adjacent mountains and t relative angles with )isextant, dote height as 12,<">72 foot al)ove soa level ai tlon as eight leagues from the roast.. I spina gave the figures of elevation as hut now the figures arrived at by the survey give the altitude as 18.021 fee Lieutenant Schwalte of the United S' made an attonint to ascend Mount Ht was followed by Mr. Topparn In 1888, BFD?/ !KED? HT.MfMiMLttrO'O Co, HF"~ /; ,*,;;^m"1- V'' ?- * **< '' *1>* * ,v *Vv ?; >tr K3o%(? v) r??nMuv---i / ? A^Sii K6.;i^^V'' \ hrough tho fi^ssor Russell made tv laeKenzlo's 18'Jl, and In tho latter uid the sto- small margin. The hone ocean con- of the north was reser often seen Abruzzl, who solved tl that Mount geology In 1S!i7, while li nge of tho voyages in search of tin uly cxplor- \\'i> will leave the gi an ho seen consider the mountains i rtimt? i mien huuos proper, ini; it. In Hooil and Rainier earl; ? , who lind alpinists of our country ocritoii and climbs of Clarence Hint iK to civili- interesting and well writ rv was not logicnl exploration of tl Is trip was Spanish word that sigi r. thero is it also nionns "?n\v" In this iiioun- was applied to certain tho natives eanse of tho fancied res< lileh moans to that of this earpontd ians owned In the Sierra Nova Hid of the prominent peak is Motini ekey railed of tho famous ICngllsh Klttley tho especially notable as br IMMItt- nil! IlllJfil H'llIlirKaDIC ( Its height, mountaineering, when 1 e fact that once King, lit* was at at ho was tho California state go tioss. Tito boon sent out with othoi survey, oh^ Whitney to mako goolo y moasix^^ This climb was not ; pianos tho altitudo (for the mount i defied all height) as in tho matto imp cany aim oeeaiiHe or the rurir lor Thomas a howlo knife, which ar >r weeks of annals of alpinism. There are higher sun rising peak western states. Mount i named by of Prof. J. D. Whitney that It has peak In the I'nlted St< u<ie, iii.zvz it-oi nnovo mo level of I t was dim- dominated I>y Hcngalo, 1N7:'. Mount Shasta, la Mount from tho Indian trlho fi i) 1741, and snow and stiver crown covery was Is perhaps ono of tho or years a our country. scientists. In Mexico, a land t VI. Degclat, mother of volcanoes, reciprocal mountains of interest, aklng tiieir and lilstory. Orizaba, of If. I,... . I. - tid its loca- (Mountain of the Star), ,ater, Mala- ft beautiful lime-white c< 17,800 feet, The honor of being geological peak belongs to an An t. In 1880 noMs, second lieutenant fates army attached to Scott's arm> liliaR, Ho accompanied him, and < while Pro- have included several : 7 FAKSi urnv_yv LJ ^ -W j '1 "'" V^N jr A* '**> c - sxrou -tnt Avrnvst* show* mi -y- tktlo. aut thl touovflka ^ ^ufvi"a'.'5i,ki,iltv?lilt?09c' sfen " colombia-so - ? " uc|| " icuadok -1 ft m 83 ' ukit1 "iltan? ?? " " h v??umla -i 1 - - ? ? k'o attempts In 1890 ami effort failed by a very ir of conquering this giant veil for the duke of the lis stubborn problem of f was making one of his I t I I I I I ' r> I. IIWI III, ivat peaks of Alaska an.l >1 (ho Pacific slope in the Mounts Whitney, Shasta, >' caught the eye of tlio , and the account of tho , in t iiiiioriiiii is ;i most ten story of tho first goo10 Sierras. Sierra is tho llflos a mountain raiigo; tho Castilian tonguo, an<l geological formations bo?mblance of their outlines -,s tool. da mountains tho most L Tyndall, named in honor sclent is-.t. Tills peak is dug tiie object of 0110 of limbs in the history of t was ascended bv (Mar that time a member of w,wSn,n nunrj ami IllMI rs by Prof. Joslah Dwight gloal invostigatlons. is roniarkablo In point of nin Is but 14,380 foot In r of (llftlouliios ovorcomo "is aids used, a lasso and ^ wucu/ij uiiM|in; III UIU limits than Tyn.lall in tljo Whitney, named In honor , is perhaps the highest ites proper, being 1 1,502 tho sea. This height was Lucas and Johnson In Us name being derived aste or Shastika, with Its i shining in the clouds, most beautiful peaks of hat might ho called tho wo find three majestic both because of altitude almost perfect geometric Indians as "Citlaltepetl" rises over IS,000 feetone. the first up this glorious lerlcan, William P. Heyof engineers, who was ' In 1818. One Maynards :in party Is supposed to soldiers. ?. ? Orizaba is a sacred mountain in Aztec myth oiogy. Tho legend runs that Quetzaleo.atl, "Go< of tho Air," an.i indeed the: great prophet an< most important figure of the Toltec religion, cor responding to Confucius in China, Mahomet it India, and of whom the Messiah myth was alsc ^urrent, died at Coatzacoalcos and his body was brought to Orizaba. I lis royal remains were con sumed by a divine fire and his spirit flew heaven ? cn u mimi I HI' mi III CM a Of'(till 11 11 I I H'clCOC K . Ixtaccihnat 1, the ruin of a volcano, might b1 known as tho despair of the American schoo teacher, because of its seemingly unpronounce able name. However, "white woman," for tha is what the word means in the Aztec tongue, i of saying, and if one pronounces Ixtacci bnatt h-j if ' were written Is-tac see watl, it wil bo close enough in view of our meager knowledgt of this ancient idiom. This mountain is IC.,200 feet high with a snov line at 11,.100 feet, and Cortex was the lirst ICuro pean to cross it when he passed to the vallej of Mexico on his campaign <it" conquest. A (lor man named Sonneschmidt dominated it in 177J while almost a century later, in 1 s.j;5, a party o Wen oh engineers rented sdonini' And now wo come to that Vesuvius of Amor lea, I'opocutnpetl, "111 o mountain of smoko," fo such is the significance of (lie word in ihc Ian guage of the A/.lees. It rises in glorious elevn tion 17,7!'l feel above the sea, and although som 50 miles from the City of Mexico seems to statu a sentinel al its very gates. Indian tradition ha it that both I'onooatapetl ami fxtaccihnatl wer< thrown up from tile plain after a violent earth quake ami have attained their present height, by the gradual piling up of lava and rocks afte various eruptions. The last of tluse disturbance: occurred in 1 S??ii. To whom the honor of first surmounting IV pocatapetl belongs is dillicult to determine, bu jg lls^ ^ >? y ??w?:?' Vv''"'-'-'^ '( -v.r.-. }^i^r'l mt&s&ms'&i ?jsr J "ofi ^I? " ,"" tfR*W'<"\/ Hon. William Sulzer, recently conquered tht "mountain of smoke." South of the isthmus are situated the mour tain monarehs of the western world and it i only within forty years that these geological j?rolj lems have received the attention of ndventurou scientists, although llumhohli made exploration and ascents in South America as early as 1802 lit4 it was who attempted to scalo Chimborazc 'the white watcher of the western seas," bu failed to get beyond 1!>,000 feet, a most notabl achievement however. under the circumstances determined to surmount their topmost heights) Acancagua, tho highest of the An.l. in peak: (23,080 feet), was the llrst to fall a^ a pri/.o t< daring climbers, for Mr. IS. A. Fitzgerald, tin English geologist, fitted out an expedition ii 1\'J7, and although personally compelled liv sdck ness to abandon bis attempt to reach the summi when within a short distance of realizing hi: ambition, one of his companions, llurbriggen, tin guide, went to the very apex, and later Mr. H Vines and Santi Nicola, members of the Fitzger aid expedition, also arrived at tho top. Later, li 1808, Kir Martin Conway, another Intrepid Kim lish alpinist, made the ascent of Mount Acanca gua and placed the peak Illimanl to bis frclit Conway was not, however, content with this vie tory, hut pushed on t<> placo Mount Sorato ot his roll ot' Hrst ascents. ? % The nloi \ of its conquest belongs to that man t?r of the Matterhoin, Edward Whymper, win fought his way up the rugged, snow-clad shies ti the top, 20.198 feet above the broad Pacific Tlx* great mountains Antlsana and Cavanibji both over 10,000 feet elevation, also succuntbet to the untiring Whymper, and the record of hi deeds of danger climbing in the equatorial Ando: is a classic of the annals of geological explora tion. After these colossi of the Cordilleras ha< been conquered, the eyes of the alpinists lnrne< southward, where still more lofty peaks of undo termlned heights wore known to e\i t. In tin great tahh'land of Chile stood cloud crested Aean cagua, rising grandly to the skies, while Tupun gato, lllimani, and Sorata still defied tlx1 mos ra?ii' i wiuiuk ix wkmmt 11 BRAND ' NEW WORJD fei How ol.l 's ii v :M? they're nskin', An' they whi ]> r in our I'ars Thnt they'll hih>h tmmaskln' j Tho number of i y?-.u s. 'i'lu-y reokon it l?y i l ions. Tlii>ir ti^nroH till w ill, An' soni<> say it I.- I . . .1 l!ut kIio'k not ol 1 ai :i | fOio's l>r!in<l now . tr.in' In silver sunlight tli*. t i "With J1??\v 1 >- for ad'iri.l'i' 1I?T path from oast \ > w< ; Sin? Isn't ki'owln' dI t- r. She's youiiK us younn i) Though nn?' Is urowln" I? ?i 1 !* ' Kaoli day with you an" mo. ITho (jooil r.npl sowln th^> showo;:), Tlio sunshine nil' th?> dew, Tito sweet breath o' the '.lowers Knch ?lay t > inako her now? i \vi;mi iii.' uumjuit us worthy In tho ohlfn days To rcfitly he eurthy An' walk in newer ways. I so.-. tho stars n-shinln' I.iko Is every ni?ht. Tho nv>rnin' glories twinln' Kaih tnornln" In tho li^ht, An' all thi.-..? tl in^.j together Hlcnil with tin- :si>iilt ilsat's sung In nil tho summer w-.ath'-r: J Tho world's forever young. I She's young ns when < rent ion First felt tho pritn-il thrill. When onrli star took it;; .station * Aeconlln' to His will. J She's brand now evi ry mornin' 4 In silver sunlight d^osaed, wiiii nowcrs rot* arturnin' I lor path from east to west. j Parlor Magic. I "To do this trick with cards," cx' plained the parlor magician, "ycu t must first slip the card selected upon a the bottom of tho pack. Then, while talking on .nine interesting subject, 1 you should peep at tlx? card. 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