Show r 1 C S O s 5 o Nearby and Yonder g By OJ T T. T T. T MAXEY K Vj tt ff S O 1 Bertie The General Grant Tree TreeT 1117 General Grant Is the thc only tree T TIm Tun In America to have hn n a notional national park lark named for far It U. The General Gront National Nn I 10 pork park wens n wn created O for tor the theole sole aole ole puP purpose II se of preserving this grand old patriarch This sequoia Is 01 feet teet high over r feet teet In circumference io to 10 lie he If o over COO 1000 years old and ond contain approximately feet of lumber Its park parle covers J about 2510 ores acres on the western slope Mope of the Die Sierra Kleria Nevada Ne mountains In Cull Cull- John Muir tile the naturalist lived Among till the lie He penned l this beautiful word picture about them No 10 description cnn enn rive give any mi- mi equate Idea ot of their singular In ty much I less ss of 01 their beauty Only In youth dues does It show slow like other conifers n A heavenward yearning keenly aspirins log ins with n a long quick crowing growing top Indeed the chute tree for tho the first century or two or until to 10 10 feet high lilith Is arrowhead 1 In form Corm and compared with the solemn rigidity of III age IH is as ns sensitive to the wind as os a n squirrel tall The lower branches are ore gradually dropped ns liS It prows grows s ro older and the upper ones thinned I out ont till comparatively few DTP are left Theses These to 10 rent great size however lr fire oro developed Ill divide 1110 again and again and terminate In tn well rounded mn masses of leafy tR while le the llio II head becomes dome Then pol paired ed In fullness of structure and beauty stern nn and solemn In mien It glows with eager enthusiastic lIp life quivering to the thc top of every very branch end and reaching far root ns as n a granite dome lome the first to feel tho the touch of ut the tile rosy beams of the morning the lost last to bid the sun Bun good goodnight night h I. I tUT Union |