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Show BEAUTY IN NATIONAL PARK. There It a Wealth of Coloring to Be Found In the Yellowstone. Nature Is n most exquisite colorlst. Nowhere is her work more lovely than olorg the crested rims and overflow catmols of -warm spring pools. Tourists Tour-ists aro seldom nwaro that these harmonious har-monious and brilliant tints owe thoir oilgln mainly to plant life They aro usualb told b) so called guides that tho colors aro duo to mineral matter, mat-ter, which tends tOMmhanco thalr horror hor-ror of underground waters. Algae flourish equally well In tho. waters of all gejser basins nnd on the terraces ter-races of Mammoth Hot Springs Water Wa-ter bolls on the plateau at 198 degreo Fahrenheit and rudimentary organ-Isms organ-Isms appear at about 185 degrees Fahrenheit, Fah-renheit, although nT definite lino can be drawn beyond which all llfo ceases. Wherever these boiling waters cool to the latter temperature, algous growths appear, Piul bv tho lowering of tho temperatuio on exposuro to nlr still moro 1 lghl organized forms gradually come In. It Is said that nt about 140 degrees the conditions nro favorable for the mpld giowth of tov-oral tov-oral species Tho development of plant life at such excossivo tempera-tines tempera-tines nnd on n bcalo of such magnitude magni-tude seems a marvelous thing. Nowhere No-where else enn thla bo seen as well as In the Yellow stone park Scrlbner's Montlvb- |