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Show SHASTA VS. RANIER. We notice thst old Reipier or Tseoma is put down as "our noblest glacier pfak.s' Maybe that is true, but old Shasta will dispute the claim. All our west coast mountains are glacier mountains. John Muir saj-a that there is still a glacier on one flank of Shasta, but it is moving away. In summer Shssta does not show at his best, but when the first snows of the autumn fall if one can get a reasonably reasona-bly clear view of Shasta about sundown on a clear afternoon, when all the height is robed in white and the sunbeams turn his solemn crest to gold, then if that person's hat does not come off in rev. erence, that person has no sense of reverence in his soul. We believe that Rainier is a few feet higher than Shasta, but Rainier is surrounded by his staff; that is. inferior peaks are near hut Shasta is a butte, rising abruptly from the valley, and with a majesty all his own looks down upon the world like a sentinel of Omnipotence, a height on which Omnipotence might stand as on Sinai, and deliver his decrees to men. When "see America first" becomes the rage in tho east, and eastern people come west to see the sights, on their return they will tell their friends that "when we go again to Europe and look sea in hn Mt. Blanc we will tell the famous old mountain tc duck his head; that he is, by comparison, a circumstance cir-cumstance to our Shasta." |