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THE CHINA MAIT

SATURDAY, AUGUST ÷ 1924.

Conquering America's Mountain Peaks

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All the Thrills and Dangers Known To Alpine Climbers-Swiss Guides Smooth Over the Rough Spots--The Highest Moun-

tain in North America.

[BY KATHERINE LOUISE SMITH.]

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you will find experieneral | elinbar with popas. cliquering the high praks and lowed persons essaging short ebrale, You Vht think the whole world Das gone uspelin mud and before you kraw gut have dishes! prstence to the winds a clad u dugned shirt, Dancehes, hulbeid | mail,| boots and puttees and with Alpa stoel in hand, yon, tou, williert for victory.

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intemlent will tell you phot by making camp ach night at certain designated paints one travels by the ahortest route between camps, keeping above timber line and obtaining magnificent views.

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This is one of the most interesting may never by for untold ages, and one' scenie trips in the Pacifle mountaina: could mume many other peaks from Averaging twenty miles a day yeu, Coltrane to the north of Canada' that con swing 'round this grand circle ih | have beep scaled or attempted.. a week, but a mouth, ought to be set Perhaps the hardest peak that has been apart for the charms of Mt. Rainier. sealed in our West is Mt. McKinley in Alaska This mountain has been "But," I hear you say, "I cannot stiamted to be twenty thousand feet spend a month or weeks seeing Mt. high and it makes other mountains Rainier Mast forego this pleasure lank like entirely 7" "By no menis, Mr. Glabe Wietersham, a delegate

pygmies. In 1808. James Congress Tratter. You can reach this mountain from Alaska, tried to senle it but his

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dowering meadowland which reach fawurd the farters ngl you can go to Paradise hack, the one lee river in the work at the snu of an auto-boulevard only few hours it from large cities. math, how exaggerated the unles you hear of Mt. Rainier y seems to you, you can believe them all for it is i Tower lysium which you ess wade knee deep among daisies, anemones. larte-apurs and columbines. Well has it been named “Paradise” und John Muir

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memories, made two expetitions but apparently failed to reach the top. Interest grew and mountain climbers from all over the world were deter-. mined to accept the challenge and con- quer this towering giant, but it re- mained for Archdenenn Hudson Struck and three companions to reach the penk in 1913, seventeen yours after a loserip. Lion of the mountain was published.

Perhaps same one will ask why porsans want to climb mountains?. You

Catalian Roeldes who know and love f two men who made the asecht in 1870 in your antony than the sore-finted, the Seltirks where a

A little further work lien Glacier in the mountains of "The State" and and waved the Stars and Stripes from ays it is the richest sub-Alpinić guzder?! *uy it is not easy, often perilous and "yead," Jise pecially those uran Puget Sound. the top of Peng Sueres, which they he has ever seen. As far fake as 18% to know that perilous adven- sometimes disastrous. Granted But The Fund Rockies and Bant

aching wivesugers who may hate a glacier lis mountain to their credit.

Laepe from the In fact there are those who think that nimed. do what the 399 of the must experi

Hudson Pay botaniet libed this tures always have been a pawerful lare Wend nurt wilmand All Around this | Mu_ Rohier is the must desirable of all You will bursing interested, _con_in_pank-in-search-wildflower, but it for huntings al perkup always enced climber. The Alpine club makes. You will soon discover in the Ennuefiusalline4ive Alpine region, just as Ba ila bezal partyes on the slope of Sabhor Rockles that there the sine vers Bank Jake Louise them are to this mantan even if they have one hommes how kun the grinding | mountains, to climbing, and who res | the "building" of Mt. Rainier for no Mortain which be aver seven thousand who think Lake Louise und Glacier | ioanteriile traile for mountain enjoyed the Canadian Rockies. "fect righ mul on top of which is an afford the heat elimbing. Whether you eligaber sad, anteur explorers There

glaviera have, heen at work. Perhaps To appreciate Mt. Rainier you must you will agree with some geologists oleercatory. There are others auffant | agree or apt- you will certainly think ari wonky carey serenta ap 10 Lakerstung that it has many glavice that this mountain was once challenging ascents like that of Ms. Lake Louis is one of

xym- must charms Marin and observation Point which am three"penks, called Columbia Girent,

that its crater Edith Ben, where Dr. Stone ofing mountain bikes, A white you enjoy perhaps better than the Liberty Caps and Prak Success, All of plugged up with cool lav and tha Pardue University lost his life. If you | ularly is reflected in its bh waters, ps who hire Swiss guides, and these penki are over fourteen thousand, Penk Success, Liberty mra novitiate you may chopsy Cascade and around are Mounts Lefrey and Peak to Perch the summits of Eagle feet high aruh, the snow never melts on Columbin are slopes on this defanet Cap and Bundles Gráidually you will kerame | Vietoria glacier nud other penke, Peak, M, Avalanche "and Mt. Sir more courageous and have ambitions to Several mountain clubs have, the Hunald. The air is so puge al meus the unit the snow melts and forms be obliged

them. „Abpur four thousand feet below Ferster. But the chances are you will speculate on all this at jelitab M. Assiniboine, the “Matterhorn sa here and tires ary delightful, also stupendous you feel that glaciers, some of which are named after a safe distance from the top, for few of the Rockies," This lends ape to ask traits which you will take to Lake have reached the end of the world, brobjent mountaiprers, geologists of Įpersons gut that far. When you get “Why phound you cross sales to climb Agus and Mirror Lakes, Marainie Lake

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Tudiņi triben. Van Tramp and Stevens to Mt. Rainier you will hear of the Here are the peritius and the Valley of the Ten Hankew

lagjes eumarmorate the names of grand circle trip and the park super-

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Beset, afterward Ambandonmplate in most people to go into raised for the nutel Viscount James will be? There is the desire deeply Washington from Great Britain, to the unknown where no man has set suggest that this workable moun, fout. In other words, have you not tin he set aside for a national park fot the "arge," the lure of the un- He visited the West when the Northern known? Of course you have. WIN

Some Pacdür railroad was enpleted and as wise ous argus there is nothing to bụ drew eighteen square miles for the are at of this is 1800 Congress with enined from mountain climbing, that we now have aviators who can fly over benefit of the people,

mcontains and get better kies of the sunimita, glaciers and snow fields than 、 elimbers enn over hope to attain. Such togie will have little avail. To "climb in the mountains of North Anserien the mountains and get their glad tid- that have never been climbed, Sunge, inge" will always appeal to mankind,

Unconquered Peaks,

Of course there are hundreds of peaks

THE KING VOS BEATIS

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Birds and Animals Declared To Live Longer In death: How long wuta a neuntain

Captivity Care and Medical Attention In Zoos-Surgical Operations if Needed,

[BY FLOYD MONTGOMERY.]

h! What a shame," observed a fair visitor at the zoo. "It's too bad Le pen up those poor birds and animals that way."

But is it? Are the animals to be pitied their bare the birds

their Luger?

This question is newered in the negative by C-Emerson Brown, auper intendent of the Philadelphia Zoologi- cal Gardens, in a way that should pro- vidke food for thought:

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Does the pretection of captivity over balance the perils of freedom? Brawn thinks No. At least his argu- ment throws new light on the subject from

an, angle which should mitigato any excess of pity that otherwise might be lavished on the imprisoned beasts and birds.

Did anyone, for instance, ever hear of an animal or a bird in, the wild sinte dying of old age? It is improbable except in very rare instances,

In the wilds, a virtually unbroken, law of the animal and bird kingdom apella death sentenes for any of their

mumbar so unfortunate as to fall li from disease or to become enfeebled with growing age.

------ Animak-left-To-Die When they cannot keep pace with thus rent of the flock or herd, they ara Weft behind to full quick proy to matural enemies. Escaping death in

sheep with a broken leg live among its native exige and peaks not to mention mountain lions, wolves and grizzlies. These are some of the points suggested ty. Mr. Brown in a paper prepared for the Amerient Nature Association, that Tational friend and supporter of wild life in every form.

When the zoo animals begin to grow old and their fellows show signs of a desire to hurry along the operation of nature's law for the survival of thu teal, the creatures of failing strength

in the barnyard or the poultry yard? Whas not rescued a crippled and helpless chileken from a few murder- ously inclined hens or a ronater?

Nature in eruct, you any. Maybe, But the law of the survival of the separated from their would-be fittest is inexorable and no pravision | is made for old folk's homes in the Kingdoms of birds and, animals, Even to creatures in perfect health, eternal vigilance is the pries of existence and many fall in their prime, s'victim to a inore cunning or stronger enemy,

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executors, plaeed in separate rages, and permitted to live out the remainder of their lives pence.

Few birds or auknia in the wild stata live out the allotted span as do those in captivity: 1 not far fetched to say that in some instances the years of life have been doubled by confinement Haw different in the Zon! Protected by the very bars which cage them;

a well-kept zoo.. This, of course, with no fear to flood their savage applies to the cases in which creatures hearts in sudden panie; no day and have been cured of dikense which would days of unsatisfied hunger and thirst; have meant death in the wilda-denth no lying in walt for prey, theirs should resulting not necessarily from the din

anything but perfect health... They are either in perfect hesith or they are dead. There is no period of languishing illness, convalescence or recovery, as in the

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to be defeated by a younger animal andweither killed or left to die.

In 1908 the big Indian elephant

the American buffalo, or. bison, as is "Bolivar" died in the Philadelphi zou his correct name." It was only the at the age of forty-seven years. prompt, but almost too late, action in

crauling a few batalo farms that characterized by Mr. Brown s suved this animal, whose numerous "ripe old age" · "Bolivar" stood ten herds at one time dotted the "Great feet in height and weighed 12,00 American Desert."

pounds. The quail, or "bob-white," as it is Philadelphia zoo for as long as twenty- Bears have lived in the more fambiarly known, during the

summer months, is another of nature's seven years and a white-handed gibbon creatures whose hazardous life has has survived for fourteen years, which almost led to its extinction. Nesting

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he days of ellis contentiment and I case itault, but from starvation or from world of nin and Old Must Go

upon the ground the young from the is considered a récord for these upes, mument they are hatched, are in con- Many unimula in zoological gardens stant danger from prowling animals, live long enough to die of old age, Including cuts. Of all birds the quaft something which never occurs in the probably must be the most alert. wild. A little brown cebus monkey' Even when he is full-grown there is recently passed away of old age in hie the ever-present danger from the hawk twenty seventh year. Up to within a in the day time and prowling animale year of his death he seemed in perfect at night, to say nothing of the human health but looked the part of an old enemy with the shotgun. To this man,

his hair having turned, in spots comes the added danger in winter, on his head, from dark brown to white. when they bury themselves in snow at night to keep from freezing for undered on the protection of captivity Junt If any other arguments are need- auch, condicions a sleet or cold rain fobserve the attitude of the birds and A few years ago at the Cincinnati may form a heavy crust and effectually animals in zoological gardens when Zoo there died an aged pasaunger-imprisons the birds beneath. pigeon the last of the mighty flocką, of these birds which, in their migra It must be remembered that animals the requirement of perfect health or the

One of the most striking examples of tions not so, many years ago, used to and birds in the wild are continually alternative of death is seen in the deer

blot out the very sun, no "greal werD, struggling for food, and must be in family. A young buck deer in his primu condition to go after it to forestall the dunger of starving.

is well able to take care of himself in a This may be fuir fight with other dear of his size, nature's way of protecting species from exterminativa. A

ox to get away from larger ones; but a ...a matter of fact it

noon as he becomes old or the least bit is a part of naturn's first law-self-pro- zervation--rather than the operation of weakened from disenso, he is

quickly the so-called law of the survival of the

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Not only are they provided with food and water in quantities deemed sui- cient for their wants, but they are given every care necessary for their health and comfort, including medical attention. Even surgical operations are performed to prolong their lives ar to cure disonson or injuries.

Rapid strides have been made in recent years in prescribing for sickly animals in 2006. Minor and sometimen major

operations are performed with care and precision that would same be taken in operating upon kuman

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there is a crowd present. The chim panzee, who has been asleep, will come out for the apotlight and go through

most. How different the "bob-whites" in his

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manoeuvron; the their large enge at the zoo. There they peacock will spread his tail and struti their numbers. Billions-not millions are served the very best of grains the monkeys take on new life and billions of these birds were fresh drinking water is always within scamper after each other over the gathered in hugs flocks sometimes fifty easy reach, the cage is to constructed monkey house; eld Lee, the lion, roars und seventy-five mites lung and no one

that none of their enemies can possibly and even the seals show every evidenco knows how wide. Giant trees used as their roosting places at night were

reach them, they have a warm shelter that they appreciate being noticed and that thoroughly protects them, in all I will cavort in the water." sometimes found broken down from kinds of weather, and a keeper te in. the great weight. Now there is not attendance to watch every symptom Of course, there are those who The bull moose have many fierce one left. Whily, of course, all the zoos fights during the mating season, often

believe in the philosophy that-not only and report illness to the doctor. Se to the death, and in most cases the all of these birds, who will say that Ju the country could not have taken in

Animals and birds but man should have: younger and more vigorous animal is

Mr. Brown does not believe stories to fight for their existence and that the protection of captivity would not attriboting long lives to elephants. naturo's plan is the boat from tho large and fine a bull is or how long he and extinction ?

not as the length of an elephant's life, species or the race but the nature The Care of The Buffalo, he fixes the usual life of these animals, students and much to commend in the Perhaps a better example would be at little more than fifty years, Såprotection of captivity.

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After all, the plan of nature to sacri- flee the individual for the common wual The sparation of this law would com member cured, when the same condito explain why it is that we never think tion in the wilds would have meant of wild animals or birda an being in

has bean "King of the Forest," sooner

or later, ga ho grows old, he is our

thin, way the derelict is killed by his A fractured log is set or a diseasema the 'wisent, cruel as it appears. the winner.. But it matters not how have been bätter then that of libertyIpstead of 100 and 150 yoare variously standpoint" of improvement of the

own brothers. Who has not observed the execution of such a sentence right

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