Show EMERSON AT YOSEMITE Since Emerson was so soon lo vanish I i concluded to slop with him says John Mulr In the April Atlantic He hardly spoke a word all the cvmilng yet t It was a great pleasure simply to bo near him warming in the light of his face as at a fire In the morning we rode up the liall through a nobl forest of pine and fir Into the t famous Mariposa grove and stayed an hour or two mostly in ordinary tourist fashion looking at the biggest giants measuring meas-uring them with a tape line riding through prostrate firebored trunks etc though Mr Kmorson was aloiu occasionally sauntering about as If under un-der a impel i Walking with him I through a line group he uuotcd There were giunls in those days recognizIng time antiquity of the race To commemorate commem-orate his visit Mr Galen Clark the guardian of the grove selecled time fin enl of thu unnamed trees and requested him to give It a name He named It Samoscl after the New England sachem sa-chem as the bosl that OCCttrIeI lo him The poor bit of measured time was yoon spent and while the saddles were being adjusted I again urged Kmerson to stay You arc yourself a sequoia 1 said slop and gel acquainted with your big brethren But he was past his prime and was now as a child In the hands of his affectionate but sadly civilised friends who seemed as full of oldfashioned conformity as of bold Intellectual In-tellectual independence Tt was the afternoon af-ternoon of the day and time afternoon of his life and his course was now westward down all the mountains into LImo sunset |