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ONTARIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1905. = SO ==== -- rE & a California has some of the most in- | teresting parks in the world--mational |. parks, forest rescrves--controlled by the government, protected by it and thrown open' to the: people. A short time ago, figuratively speak- ing, the big 'troes 'of the Yosemite re- 3 a t gion were being cut down and the re- gion Sevasteny by 'sheep, man and beast, but. most of this region is now under government gontrol, and troops kept in the park to drive out all de- feedotors of all kinds. It is a singu- ar fact that there are thousands of intelligent human beings who can see no reason why. they should not cut down and saw up a tree 6,000 years old, and it is fortunate that there are ten times as many who believe that men holding such views should not be . allowed to go at large, and it is this sentiment that has brought about the forest reserves and the ' national parks The Sierra Nevada and the South- ern Sierras--the Sicrra Madre--have, in a few years, become excecdingly popular as a camping ground. For- merly only tourists went into them, now thousands of Californians cnter the various passes, and one meets people in the deepest solitudes or in localities like King's River Canon that was comparatively unknown a few Years ago The ppproach to the Sierra Nevadas v is through the San Joaquin Valley, which in extremely hot, i SNLGZTHE' UPEPEE IMAEIPOSA Ch ROVE . WS BLEICOrE IEE. JTArIPOOA Gr BOVE -~ summer is lying between the Sierra Nevada 3 in the » | séquoia-sempervirens, the giant red- Range and the Coast Mountains, but in the upper, splendid spires wood of the coast. The tree had been the heat and dust of the valley are | stepping stones that connect to-day ent down by some vandal back in the soon forgotten when the canons are | with the time when the Christian era fifties, but the stump had thrown out Stared and the mountains close in be gga. : ; hah pet shoots all. around, which had grown nn one. we efleet © 1 DIF trees on itey . : to the size of large trees, formin a No such wonder is kifown in the Pent people varies. As 1 write I have perfect room with the sky as a EL world as the Mariposa Big Tree Grove e in view--I sce it every day 1m i i lig Tree Grove | one in 3 Such an illustration (figure 4) gives and to spend a week or more amid | Pasadena, Cal.--a young one, not over definite id a re the ry of sh these solitudes, sleepin i fee height, vet few ol : . y : 8 g¢ among trees | thirty feet in height, I 1 so the gre Waw chic of such size, camping out or sleeping | pass it by without turning am eg ugh Bh hich hus on the ground beside and beneath | at it again. There "is no ot rt oy sohic $ i ; : : 1 : 1 vous re o , . them, is to some men one of the great | like it: its trunk grows directly -up o This . I be i - re og rivileges to be had in California. | ward-<large, firm, imposing for the t limensians; oe r the hiv Big Tree Grove is cight miles | amount of foliage, but the message ovis: sii of the 'bark Rion =F o from Wawona, and the forest, which | that it carries to me is of something reat r Jl of shoeolat Jored iy covers an area of about two miles | built to withstand the. fires and res eh -- A Sr Ope ar . sare, stands on a gentle slope of the | storms of centuries It i& as though a Es r ae * RE . i ne Sonyey mountains, forming what is known as Washington's monument or Bunker = ne <ing impression of age and sta" the upper and the lower grove: It is | Hill should throw out foliage and be ity not the largest, but is the easiest trees. The coach literally rolls through its come reached, and contains trees that make | The trees of the Mariposa forest are very heart the most notable tunnel the impression of a lifetime upon the |disappointing to some they do not 3 not excepting the Simplon and Mount average person. scom so large at first, but day hy { a Reni, in the world. . : For years the Yosemite and its ad. | day they grow on the stroller, and me of = the most interesting trees here is the Telescope tree (figure 5), a lofty and angient pile thet still lives, though" its very heart seems to have been eaten out, and its top blasted perhaps by lightning. It might have been. dead a thousand years judging from its size, but the top has thrown out a few branches; dimmutive in at the end of two or three weeks the idea has entered his mind that here is something stupendons, something left the race of time and eter into the Jacent hig trees was a secret hidden away in the heart of the forest, and known only to the few natives who happened to cross the range at this Point from the de beyond, and we can imagine the surprise and terror of the magn who first 'came upon this vast gash in the earth from the east, AZArLrLEr lIOrialEZCrH or THE FORZEST Lehind in nity. The lofty pillars grow in mind, there is a majesty or beau them, that takes entire possession of one, and you return again and again and hopeless desert suggestive in mer of death and despair Every tree in this splendid forest has rounded by scenery that for beauty and majesty has no counterpart in the world, or at least in America, stéod, and looked down into it. There | and hunt for new and different points If nature had selected this site as a' a peculiar interest; several are used | comparison to the size of the tree, i of view. throne for this king of trees it could | as camps or huts; (fig. 1) the house | whose magnitude can be ciated They stand among other trees in a} not have succeeded better) 'on almost | being literally in the heart of the | by eomparing it to the forest of amal- ¥ the beauty of which cannot fevery side desp abysmal precipices| tree. One of the most stoking of the [lor trees growing about it, which ere ark, Ralls be described. The-ground is often covered with mountain flowers, and Jone is impressed with their lack of verdure and leaves for so large a tree: wa Giants stands by the eabin and is a splendid example of « growth and size of these appears to lie in long of extroordinacy size; yet they vould be bunched into tens and twenties and then not equal to the bulk of this one troe--which was old when Colum. stand, as though to entrap any invad | er, deep canons which wind about, : nd | beyond these peaks and mountains | t that reach 10,000 to 15,000 feet into | Effervescent vérdure and foliage which often appear Lempyrean. | ridges as. a soft, rich, brown | bus discovered America: 3 * vo. more like a greer haze or a "mist ol Around about this stately tree | color 'res to the eve. Huge but pale apple green.' stretches a wilderness that in wild | tresses s | to reach ont from its a Why these trees are found here and [ness and picturesque beauty hardly ; base descending 'into the ground, the L All Tt Needed. . - nowhere else is due doubtless to the fhas its equal on the globe. One might | mavs presenting a most imposing spec There is more real oxy, in a tm . rable elimateof- California. Their limagine, that natu elocted this | sacle, EY rr... )liquified form im the "Sc ation _of Almost its greatest use is to coeds are extremely small and litht--a | last resort of th equoia and | The vast size of the roots and their Uzone (the coupon Kindy % than in any . singular fact when their vast size is built up its ramparts, thrown about § extraordinary shape is illustrated in| other preparation of a similar nature, Prevent sickness. ABBEY'S taken into comsideération, + | ite <astellated form ditches of infinite | figure 3, which shows one of these] As a prompt eure in the killing of all inside germs of throat, lungs, ® or bowels it has no equal when coup- led with "Celery King", the famous laxative. That the stringent Ozone needed a tonic of this nature to pro- cure the best results was so apparent monarchs uprooted. How many thou- sand vears ago this tree sprang into life it would be difficult to tell; but ite vast rodts that have perhaps wea thered the winters and summers of ten centur «till stand reaching up un- | depth. walls of colodsal height, buried | deep 'in the heart of titanic moun safe from the marauding hand Only a few years ago they were known, except to the trapper and the [it tains SALT kets you so well, that there is no chance of Stomach, Liver and Bowels going wrong. few Indians, but now the park is Vis ited by thousands who live and camp here far into the fall. There is a great difference in the age tion in the state still itn srther emphas this precaution ¥ . ana of] one "side lied the great plain of the like count arms=an extraordina | that the Public Dru, of 3 . and appearance of the . trees--or f| one "side h es ¥ 4 . . TY . gf company, It is the ounce of preventation x In pea sbastres 160 feet n San Joaquin and the ocean, on the spectacle sig is this prone tree that | Bridgeburg, Ont., offer thi our the largest mea § lesolate pl th : i I de | d ist ' f pack: "ca : 4 cumference and like a king it seems to | other (the most desolate place on the | an entire company of cavalry can ride | druggist a free age elery { that is worth tons of cure. «land amid fitting surronndings. It [Yace of the earth, the death valley . upon it and then not eover it. King" with every filty cent or one } rises in a little valley nt the head wa- | country, the * Pantemint mountains | The writer once watched a. ball go- [dollar bottle of "Solution of ('zone In wandering thro this grove one is. condtantly com upon some tree that challenges co . In figure © is shown one in which the the side near the ground has doulst- less been burned away ages ago so that it forms a huge room, and a great _ flying buttress reaches as high: as an ordinary house, forming a remarkable arch giant. While one is occupi in admiring the' trees, hoting 3 their size anddin onsions, 'it is interesting serve the injuries they have received. abused and Doubtless they have been ill-treted by & man feown timd ime memorial. ~ This entire country has been swept by fires time and again; Mexican Pi for years have driven their herds into the groves when the fodder of the lowlands gave out, and have moved on, leaving their camp fires to start up at the first strong wind, the flame sweeping through the grove, eating up the young trees and doing great damage to the old ones. On some of the trunks evidence of fire and other damage a thousand years ago can be seen, Again, many have been set afire by the miscreants in = human form, and there are men so lost to all sense of the proprieties that they have cut such trees down and converted them into lumber. One can wander on through this for- est, camping near one group, spending days in the vieinity of certain trees, and have the consciousness of living in the most remarkable forest in the world--a forest that seems to belong to the age of Titans, something that has been left behind in the race of time, Figures and measurements convey but little idea of the actual size of these giants, yet they are interesting. In all probability one of the most striking is the Grizzly Giant (6). This tree s 3-8 branches over 100 or more feet from the ground, that are them: selves, larger than any trees found in many parts of the world. ; This splendid masterpiece, doubt- less 4,000 or 5,000 years old, stands in a wolli'wopded forest of other trees that form a rich, green alcove about it, and which brings its rugged form out into high relief, and one can glance down long arcades of green throtigh other forests, and the impres. sion grows upon one that these other trees have gathered about the master to protect it and shut it in; but no thing could hide this gigantic column that seems to preserve its size as it rises and to have thrown out a forest of gigantie 'trees high in air as branches, any one of whith would make » giant standing in the forest by itself. CHAS. F. HOLDER. The Earl Was Revenged. An Irish tourist who recently visit- ed Roxborough demesne, at Moy, County Tyrone, describes a "black "head" which he noticed in the fromt of the castle. It ia a grim stone figure of the late W. E. Gladstone. Upwards of thirty years ago. when the late Earl of Charlemont was enlarging his demesne, ~he found it necessary to acquire the lands occupied by several of his tenantry. As was too common- ecupiers with very scanty "tion, Bit Mr. Gladstone ed the Land Act, of 1870, under which better terme were securid for an eject- ed farmer. So exasperated was the sarl that, = climbing a ladder, and reaching the stone bust, he. with his own hands, covered it with tar! and so had his revenge. compensa: If you had taken two of Carter's' Little Liver Pills before retiring vou would not have hed that, coated tangue or bad taste in the mouth this morning. Keep a vial with yon and is sur- | that environ it, and beyond a fierce | ing on a platiorm formed of a single | (the coupon kind)," 2 ters of the Kawea river, « AT BIOGBTS, ¢ 950 AND 0OC A BOTTLE for occasional use. lost her voice : Mme. Sch or aiichor for the | PPR ly done, the earl turned out the oe-| Thad just pass- | PEACH OF A STORY. How Mme Schumann-Heink Lost © Her Woice. New York World has this bit try as to how the madaifie The of in "Love's Lottery," closed her son in « Ba n areived here os Eng cans note ie nt Finig t, Schumann -Heink, 10st her voice, as 8 friend tells it. Recently while Canada with her opera went for a ride in an ails and chanced to pass a peach orchard, which the fruit had been harvested. On a tree near the roadside, far out wpe on a slender, dancing limb, the ma- dame whizzing by in ear, single luscious peach which somehow ay escaped the fingers of the glean- ers. She stopped the automobile, see ed the fence, and to the horror of chaffeur, climbed the tree with nimbleness of a fourteen-year-old girl The peach was almost in her grasp, when the treacherous limb broke and the great singer fell to the earth. : When she arose ta her feet she was peachless." 43 ------------ Every girl imagines she would bea queen in society but for the fact that she has more sense than beauty. . ETT EET. THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL. Few People Know How Useful it is in Preserving Health and Beauty. Nearly everybody knows that char coal is the safest and most ufficient disinfectant and purifies in nature, but few realize its value when taken into the human system for the same cleans § purpose. Charcoal is a remedy that the more you take of it the Detter; it is not a drug at sll, but simply absorbs the gases and impurities always present n the stomach and intestines and car- ries them out of the system. Charcoal I swasiepa the breath after smoking, drinking or after eati on~ ions, and other odorous aL, Charcoal eiicotualiy clears and ime proves the complexion, it whitens the teeth and further acts us a natural and eminently sale cathartic, ; It absorbs the injurious gases which; collect in the stomach and bowels; it disinfects the mouth and throat from best charcoal money is in Stuart's Charcoal Lozeng- dw; they are composed of the finest wdered. Willow charcoal, and other rmless antiseptics in tablet form or rather in the form of large, pleasant tasting lozenges, the charcoal being mixed with honey. x The daily use of these soon tell in a much general health. batter com- the benefits of vise Stuart's Charcoal