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Show -- Only Yam of War Ever Told by Lee Confederate l eader's Idea of Brave and Cool Deed by 1 wo Scouts. wns c.i'ier a grest talker (x- iiuder 1'iie coiiditMn ul:d w hen he that hud young ladles to rater ain, for t en Ins imiun.1 gallantry got tl.e belter of Miu, nnd l e u a ehurmii'j companion. ihnug;i not m'glit be called lmiuadoan, nml he did iul rare to talk i f the war. preferring to choose other topics It ns In iicc.p, however, that lie so far yielded to tl.e desires of u couple ef fair vision i,k to spin a yarn, lie I ad Invite,! two yoni g ladies, cousins ef his. te dine with him. and It was to them and at their persuasion that he told the story of the "Two Uniifed-eratSeoul, which a writer lu the lhl!ade!'l.l:i Time who knew the grout I'oufederale il. Minutely declare to he the only war story ever told by him. Uarcfuly arranging hi I'aphln on the table lu front of him nnd anting perfeet'y erect lu hi chair, a was hi custom, General l.re sai l: When this war I over you will bear n great ileal of praNc given the lenders of Hie armies, and lu the nilcmpt to do ibeiu honor the private soldier will to s certain extent he overlooked. This I unfortunate, since some of the nobb-s- t and most daring dri! of Hie war were done by private ou both side. I was once In absolute ticoil of positive Information a to Hie movements of Hie enemy. My regular scout were out, so 1 lmd to select from a regiment of mcti who were familiar with the section of llie country. If not wllh tlielr iiiixshui. After ferreting out the seercls of the enemy they started ou liio return trip, hut were deluiued by a terrillc rainstorm of several hours' duration, which forced them In shelter uni il night. When they reached the river they found lo their chagrin that 1' d was Pm much swollen to be in a cams, and llie only tiling left was to make u bed of Hie pine lug on llie ground and sleep until morning, when they would proem! unmolested. Bui Ibey had reckoned without, tlielr IiokI, Tbe enemy's pickets, who bad also been driven to shelter by the rain, were out early next morning invest I gating, and seeing fresh tracks suspected something wrung. Five of them started on the trull, plain In the soft earth, and soon mine upon the sleeping scouts. Feeling confident of havsecure, they prisoners ing their thought to have some Innocent fun wllh them and proceeded to Jah them In Hie hack wllh the xdnt of tlielr bayonets nnd request them to come In nut of the rain. "'Hello Johnny, what are you doing sleeping out here In the wet like this? You will take cold. Come on with un nut of (he (lump.1 Bui the ileeplng Confederate could not he aroused, nnd the sentinels hud a big tough over t, particularly so when one of them would pnrthilly turn over nnd grnun out, Oh, What are you poking ine stop that for? Il Nn't time for reveille yet, as If he thought he was In bin own camp safe and sound. Just In the midst of their greatest outbreak the scouts, with the agility of wild anlmala, sprang from their couches and with tlielr pistols shot down the two front men, then as quickly dropped the other two as the fifth man hastily leaving his gun behind him. When the scouts heard the federal squad advancing on them they were too close to admit of retreat, so they resorted to strategy and feigned sleep, arranging between them that at a given signal both should rise and fire on different men, taking them so by surprise tliut the others could he shot also before they could get tlielr guns np. The trick worked perfectly, and to It those men not only owe their neck, hut the vnlunhle Information for headquarters nnd four good Snider rl Ill's nml warm overcoats. I iln not believe that any deed of the war surpassed this in coolness and bravery." Chics go Herald. IFF Brouter all tt-- tbi.n sc; ret ti world ! Mourn .,( (! . i it. linin', r i single peak j s t ;n with Ito l' '"iii g'ai'lers bus n ;:. I. Crater I . ', ples tl'.r nf-.e- r a large vuVie-i- i hul slipix'd k , k Into n i er o r u r t h' through Its iuvn r!:n ; It Is the deepest i,n,l bluest n.''ssllile Inn In the woriil The Siii..iia cn.i- tolns uii 're il :m n Mil- e 1 lion Big Trees. " 11,-00- 0 of wl icli are mure than l' fee! In tll.in-ete- r; seine are mure than eter fet i In diammill ure the lurg- - eat and oldest living things of earth. Hawaii National Park cntital.is the largest living voli'ii.in In the world. Manna and Klkiuea, Lua; continuously active for a rent'll.r. with its Lake of Tin, which draws v Niters from all the world. Mount McKinley la scenh-ullthe world's loftiest mountain, since It rises more than 211.1k hj feel above sea level and 17.000 feet uhove Its surrounding t alleys. Mesa Verde cro-xc- con- tains the ni'Wt notable nnd best preserved prehistoric cliff dwellings lu the UnitIn ed 8tines, If not the world. JOHN DICKINSON 8HERMAN LACIER NATIONAL PARK, up next to the Canadian line In Montana and By a public playground of the first does, had Its most successful season la 1923 and will doubtless set a new record this year. Glacier will come to Its own In the matter of attendance with the completion of Its Transmountain Road across the Continental Divide, over Logan Pass, tow In the third year of construction by the national park service. Already the service Is plan-slo- g n fur substantial extensions to present for visitors, which will then be necessity. Says Stephen T. Mather, director of the national park service, In his 1923 annual report to the secretary of the Interior: In common with (he majority of the other national parks. Glacier experienced her most euecese-fteat'in, enjoying more patronage than In any prtrlou year, 1I.S88 vfieltore having registered In M park us compered with SI, 885 visitors In 1821. This Is only a forerunner of a tremendous Increase In tmrel Diet Is certain tt taka place on the of the Transmountain Road, now In its third of construction. Motorists traveling the yixr kirihtrn highways to Glacier never have had a jurert route across the Continental Divide, this Mrrler requiring a detour of severe hundred mllee J? thf eouth. Trenemountaln Roed, crossing . Continental The Divide through Logan Fees, will, June from furnishing a direct mesne of traversing mountains, attract thousands of motorists by lu unMirpnssvd scenic qualities. This Is guild as far as It goes, but the situation By Ik niiuli' plainer by a more detailed explanation of Glacier's hard luck la the matter of nuto-D- e highways. An attendance of only 83,988 f s national park like filnder la a Joke-- uni h bad one. But the reasons for this omiMiniiiveiy Rmnll attendance are easily found. A few ago the bulk of the tourist travel j ,IP h.'i ih oiui parks was by railroad. Now the of II Is by private car. The per cent varies fontrusiing examples: Rocky Mountain, In 1923, Md fil.HKi private cars in which prohnlily more min Wi per rent of its 218,000 visitors traveleil. arler hnil 5, Mm cars; not more than M) private P'f rent of Hu 33,988 visitors arrived by private This (oils purt of the story. Rocky Monn-ut- a is of no higher rlnss than Glacier nnd Is only hut Mie quarter ns Inrgi1 100 square miles in n, fii'l 1.B39 In the oilier hut Rocky Miiun- B s H; most easily amsslhle by iiutomohlle "in the gi'iigraphienl nnd population renter of Uw ,,,"i'i ry of Hii the 19 nntlonnl parks. Annthor fiiriur In the ntlendnnee roinpnrlsnn Iiiiciy Mountain and Glacier Is this: Each Wfli bus mi Independent east and west entrance 0,1 'W'or shle of the t'oiitlneiitnl Divide, each lui.hij. f w,nnite and distinct llnis of ii.urlst travel. In Rooky Mountnln the es eiitraiiivs nri Estes Park nnd Grand Jlnt iu ciurior lliey are Glni'ler lark and Ilel-nhi Lucky Mniiiilnln llie Kail hirer Road rfi".'", 1(, c(inin,.ni;il Divide, connects Estes I':irTt ni'l 'rand Lake and makes possible through r.iflh-which otherwise would he Impossible. In ,irer niiiiiiiiiiiiii,, tourist travel from Isith the fB- mul vveit halts at the rmitlneiital Dlvlile, Thi Nnrilurnl wlilrli mrvi,n (Under nnd "huig the Houih line of the purk, aiindiorntes slti'iitii.ii hjr maintaining dally shipments of ii'"tiir curs iietvviMM the two entrance. Unless jMiirUu take nilvnntiige of this rail shipment lieve t iiinke a whle ihtonr either through "Miia.i us far smith as Helena or through accom-nodatln- ul com-Vietl- first-rlna- r- n T i i"oi:-,n,- f 1 ,11:111:1 ' h:ii i ,e Full Hirer Rond does for ltm'ky Moun-1,,l Truammintaln Komi will do for Glneler. 1,,r' i" w lm the nr3 reports says of tin progress i 1 Hip vwirk : n ,1' on spconi! section of the Trnnsmoun-- 1 !"ui tlie west side wee begun end shout null d estendlng from the end of the first tln of leike McDonald, up McDonald l shove Avalanche Creek, will be finished eec-hee- this fall (lilt). Alao a eontraet has bssn let for the construction of eight or nine miles, on the eeet J&CnTjIGENiiun (tCaT Ornnd Canyon, elde, Including the eonetruetlon of a bridge eeroee earth's largest and the 8t. Mery River, extending from 81 Mery Chalet noblest example of along the north chore of Bt. Mary Lake toward Chalet With eonetruetlon under gorgeously erosion, oa both aldee of the Continental Divide, the way carved and colored, 1s one of the natural wonder Tranamountaln Road can be puehed with more of the world. apeed to completion. Curiously enough, Mrs. Rtnehurt omitted mention And here la a glimpse Into the future that promof the one feature that. In the opinion of ninny, ises all kinds of things for Glacier: It will be does entitle Glaeler to a place among the unique only a short time before the national parks Ite Iwto Overt hr ust" snd tha This road runs Boundary Bond Is Improved. gorgeoui coloration of Its mountains. Zion Nathrough the Blackfeet Indian reservation adjointional I'ark In Utah, Bryce Unnyon In Utah, likely ing Glacier on the east nnd will connect with the to be made the Utah National I'ark, and Grand Canadian National parks highway system. The Canyon probably surpuss (Hurler In coloration, hut k connects National Highway, which tlielr colors are down In the depths, while Glaall the western national parks, la In full operation cier's are flung up Into the sky. nnd getting better every season. The Now, don't be wared by the Lewis Overthrust. Highway across the Canadian Rockies, Heres hrlefly what the geologists mean by the opened last year, makes direct connection with term: The rock nearest the center of tha earth k the National Highway at Spokane, to culled Archenn nnd the geologists know very litWash. tle about It. The next oldest strata are the Algnn-klaWith the Bonadnry Boad and which were laid as un ocean bottom sedithe Transmountain Boad completed, Glacier will ofment something like 80,000,000 years ago. It to In owner fer much to automobile tourists. Any car this Algonklnn group that are exposed In Glacier; the United States or Canada can easily reach Glanowhere In the world are they displayed la such on. Scenic The entire or to either go stay cier, area, profusion nnd variety uml In such magnifiWest, American and Canadian, will be open to him. cence of coloring. When Glacier comes to Its own. Its attendance These Algonklnn rocks lie In four differently-colore- d will Jump up amazingly. And whst It gains It will strata, all of which the Glacier visitor may keep, for Its visitors have a habit of going back see for himself. The lowest to the Altyn limestone, year after year. Glacier has Its devotees. Just as about 1,G00 feet thick. It weathers a pale buff. have Rocky Mountain In Colorado and Tosemlte There are whole yellow mountains of this on the In California. Yellowstone, oldest, biggest and eastern edge of Glacier. Next above lies a most ftimons of all our 19 national parks, has been stratum of Appeknnny argillite, or green shnle, to date. lacking In this about 3,400 feet thick. It weathers every possible Take Mary Roberts Rinehart nature lover, outshade of dull green. Next above that lie aleiut door woman, novelist and nature writer she's an It 2,200 feet of Grinnell argillite or red shale. And Glacier. In much been She has example. weathers every possible shade of deep red and purhere Is the way Glacier got her. ner enthuslnsm ple. On top to ahout 4,000 feet of Slyeh limestone, Induced her to write an Appreciation of Glacier" gray and running In plnres to yellow. Horizontally for publicity purposes. And heres what she saye, through the middle of this most one to s broad in part: dark hand culled the dlorlte Intrusion. There ere no "Keep Off the Grass" eigne Iq GlaNow, when these brilliantly colored strain were cier National Park. It la the wildest part of Amerthrust up from the bottom of the set, they were of most all unique ica. It la prrhnpa the Then there came a glgn.vtlc level. practically moat the magnifiae Is It our parks, undoubtedly cent. . . . Here the Rocky Mountains run nnrth-wesqueeze. The strata yielded In long Irregular, baand southeast, end In the glacler-rarve- d wave-lik- e folds. Finally they orarkeu and then sins are great spaces; cool, shadowy depths In One broken edge, the western, wits thrust broke. s mountain-sidethreaded with which lie blue lakes; over the other. Tills western edge and lake or hidden some from upwnrd glneler white, where, wus thousands of feet thick. It overtopped the far above, the overflow falls a thousand feet or more, nnd ovsr all the great silence of the Ruckles. eastern edge ten to fifteen miles. . . . Hero Is I he laet home of a vanishing rane Tills to the TmwIs (Bunge) (oerthrust. It Is this the Itlnekreet Indiana. Here la the last stnml of overthnist (lmt lo'ivnnts for I he Inconceivably the Rocky Mountain sheep snd the llueky Mountain goal; hero ars elk. deer, black and grlzsly tumbled chnmeter of the vuM rocky masses. There hears, and mountain lions. Here are trails that to a sag where the park he. A horizontal line follow tha old game trails along ths mountain drawn straight ncross Glneler would pass through l, side; here sre meadows of June macN. the bottom of the Altyn limestone on the east nml larkspur, nnd Indian palnlhniali growing beside glaciers, snowfielils nnd trulls of a beauty to west hoir.Hlnries mid In the middle of the park mnks you gasp. . . . Hut there Is no voice In through the top of the Si.veil ll nestone. It would all the world so Insistent to ms as the wnrdleaa cut dlugomilly through the green and red slsiles call of these inounlNlns. I shall go back. Those who go once always hups In go back. The lure of on both sides of Hie ('ont'.iient.il Divide. In Is blood. free their the great spares The iiiil.ifonued tourNt doiihl'ess says to hw tine ciin Imagine without the slightest illflhMilty self, as he hemls the flivver wet. "Thne fine nan liming of devotees of other .liitloiinl parks surMountain. Yellow tional parks In a row rounding Mrs. Rinehart, bawling her out In perstone and Glacier. All three In the Ruckles and on the Continental Divide. Probably all much fectly polite language, of course and asking In How do you get that way, Mary?" And unison: alike. See ir.le nml I've sc"' them all." the hnhel, sifted out, Interpreted nnd reduced to of the cimipnlgn of edThat shows the pecc-crprosaic uli era nee, would coiituin these stateucation that the federal g.oernirent mid the ments: Parks association and many tout ion are waging to get the American peoThere's nothing In Glacier wilder than are areas In other parks, tilaeler Isn't "ierhii!s the ple to see tlielr nntloi'ul park with understandsiost unique, " nor Is It undoubtedly the most ing. ns well ns emotionally. For Rocky Mountnln. Yellowstone and Chide, other parks linve "glneler-carvemagnllleeiit." nre essentially different. i:d.v Mountain to solid basins," lakes, glaciers, falls, wild animals and flowers. Yellowstone heats all the parks exivpt granite, a most nstoiiNhini aggregation of lofty (leaks and beautiful valleys I'orehod on the top possibly Mount McKinley for wild animal life. of the Uontilientul Divide. Yellowstone Is volcanic, Kooky Mountain probably has more moiintiil.1 Hie chamIs with volcanic activities everywhere In evidence. Mount than Rainier Glacier. sheep twlstisl nnil Jumbled Cinder to sedimentary pion "Wild Flower 1ark." The Blackfeet are a and gorgeously colored. liability rather than an asset. Inasmuch ns they slaughter relentlessly the park game that strays Congress has Just pasted an ad authorizing the Into tlielr reservation; the big game on the east milking of n budget for road building purposes la Hie nntionnl parks, carrying a total of $7,r00,tot0 side of the Uonthientnl Divide Is gradually being over three years. If funds are appropriated. GlaCinder's highest mountain. Mount wiped out. This would cier's tentative Hllotmcnr Is Cleveland, Is only 10,438 feet ; Rocky Mountain hus 43 between 10,000 snd 14,2T!t feet. doubtless hurry the Trnnsuiountiiln Road to comGetting down to the really unique features of tho pletion. 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