Show I CC 0 NEARBY AND YONDER ti tiOff Off the Beaten Path to Unusual Unusual Un Un- usual Places and Things e 2 By T. T T. T r MAXEY The GC General Grant Tree HE General Grant Is the only tree T THE TIIE In America to have hll n a national park lurk named for tor it It The G General Grant rational National pork park was created for tor the sole Iole purpose of ut pr preserving ln er this nand grand old olt patriarch This sequoia Is feet high over oyer feet teet In circumference estimated to be o over or r years old and contains approximately feet of ot lumber Its park covers about 2500 oo a acres res on the western slope of the tIfe Sierra Nevada Ne mountains In California Cali Cali- fornia John Mull Muir the naturalist lived among the sequoias lie He penned this beautiful word picture about them No o description can cnn hive give any adequate adequate ad nd equate Idea of their singular majesty much less of ot their beauty Only In youth does It show like other conifers u it heavenward yearning keenly aspiring ing lag with a n lon long quick growing top Indeed the whole tree to for I the first century or two or until to feet high Is arrowhead In form and compared with the solemn of ot n age e Is Js as sensitive to the wind as ns a squirrel toll tall The lower branches are gradually dropped as It grows Vs ro older and the he upper ones Olles thinned out till comparatively few V are left These however are developed eloped to great grent size divide de again and ond again and terminate In well rounded masses of ot leafy lenry while the time stead head becomes dome Then poised in fullness of structure and beauty stern stem and solemn In mien ralen It glows with eager enthusiastic life Ure quivering to the top of ot ever every branch and reaching far root calm as ns a n granite dome the first filSt to feel reel the touch of ot the rosy beams beam of ot the morning the last lost to bid the thc sun good goodnight goodnight night night- Our Tallest Battle Monument PICTURESQUELY PICTURESQUELY situated In a 1 lovely valley at nt the foot of or the tha Green mountains In the southwestern south corner of Vermont Yermont Is the peaceful l village vil vB lage Inge of Dennington Bennington settled In 1761 Here Hereon on August 10 W 1777 1771 when the British attempted to capture the time supplies sup plies piles housed l la fu the continental storehouse storehouse store store- house was fought the battle of Bennington Ben Ben- between the British army and the New Hampshire militia Here atop State State Arms Arnts hall hail overlooking overlooking over over- looking scenes of great natural beauty and the time graves ves of ot the heroic dead on August 10 19 1891 the 1801 the centennial anni annl anniversary of the admission slon of ot Vermont to the Union Union there there was dedicated Vermont's first historical monument erected by the states of ot Massachusetts Massachusetts New Hampshire and Vermont and the Hie national government at a acost acost cost approximating President President dent Benjamin Harrison was among those present and addressed the assembled assembled as as- multitude This simple but lofty granite pile Is la said to be the time highest battle hattle memorial memo memo- anal rial In the time world orld It Is 37 feet square at nt the ground and over oyer feet teet hl high h. h Its walls are arc 7 feet teet 0 Inches thick New v England granite was use used In Its construction Its sides draw In slightly slightly slight slight- ly as os Its height progresses About two thirds of ot the wu way up there are a It number of openings through which sightseers ma may view the time surrounding landscape These openings are arc reached h steel and by a n Iron wrought stairway built hullt within the time monument There Then are ore 31 81 landmass landings nn and 41 st steps ps In this stairway A silent sentinel keeping watch over this peaceful valley this great war memorial stands In mute testimony to generations to come of or the struggle le letor for tor liberty which hero here took toole place Kings Chapel Burying Ground GroundS S SLOPING G away from bus busy Tremont street In the time older section of Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton hedged In between the time city hall modern skyscrapers E an anti and a n moving plc ture turc theater Is a small plot pith of ot hallowed hal hat lowed towed ground round dotted dotte with time scarred grave stones This Is Kings Chapel burying ground round the first burial plot In Boston It dates back to 1630 1030 In It rest Mary Chilton WInslow the first white woman that stepped on American soil when the Mayflower landed at nt Plymouth Rock nock Capt John Winthrop the first gov governor of Massachusetts his son John Jr who was governor of ot Connecticut John Davenport Da who founded the city of New ew Haven Edward Bromfield who built hullt the first pipe organ in iu Aner- Aner Ica l a Henr Henry Prentice mem member era P of theP the Boston tea party purt Elizabeth Payne heater Hestor the heroine In ht Haw Harm thorne's Scarlet Letter who died November ember 20 G 1704 Many of ot the markers of these graves s are Hrc simple wood wooden n affairs which arc aro rent ren renewed wed ed from time to time thus Thu The oldest oldest old old- c est l grave stone In Boston Is IK sold said to the grave grue of ot William This particular greenish colored stone said saM was once C removed from lom the thc grave and was wan lo lost t for a mm number of ot years U only to be unearthed ll unexpected unexpectedly unexpectedly edly ed near the old elt city hall It carries car ries this In Inscription Here lyeth the bocI body of ot Mr lr William Paddy D Departed Departed De De- parted this life August 28 1055 t tether together together to to- gether ether with tills this peculiar vorse Here SI that one woes lie lief God GoJ Godhelp help us all nil to live that so when shall shull be that we thIs world must we wever over ver shall shull b be bulY bu py with William r. te O. 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