Life — August 22, 1901 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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area sty repare | Su. e Pha abodical nscions The Mlicilliwact Valley is a winding trough, which, fortunately for the projectors of the Canadian Pacific Railway, runs from the Columbia upwards to Rogers’ Pass at the summit of the Selkirk Range. Here all that is grand and sublime in nature unites to make land which are at the same time the delight and the despair of the painter, But if the brash ustice to the wonderful panorama, what shall be said of the camera? How ean the lens do that marvelous displ: of color? Miles of dazzling snow fields ; leagues of eternal hundreds of square miles of gnarled and twisted pines; snowy torrent and grey —the mind of man never conceived so grand a landscape. It was hard, grim work that the cers had to face when they forced their way with transit and level through the irk Range, but at last the detern ati and resourcefulness of Major Rogers conquered nature, and, twisting and turning like a hu python, the steel rails leave the Columbia a few iiles below Donald, and wind along the Beaver, climbing higher and yet higher, until at length the straining cngine pants ; for a few hundred yards the train rolls ina manner normal to trains, and then the whistle is sounded for the brakes and the locomotive slides down the banks of the Upper Illicilliwaet to Glacier House Station. Ifere, at an elevation of over 4,000 feet, the Canadian Pacific Rail Company has built a hotel which is so popular that it has been enlarged to twice its previous capacity a couple of times during the last ten years. Within a mile of the hotel is the tongue of a glacier which is larger than all the ice rivers of Switzerland combined. To the southeast Sir Donald's mighty mass rises ainile into the air. On the other side of the Illicilliwaet the great lonely known as the Hermit Range stands like a line of frowning fortresses, walling in the valley to Here, during the Jong, bright, summer days men come from far and wide to climb or simply to luxuriate, and in the early autumn the sinewy hunter makes it his head- quarters, for near by are grizzlies,“black*bear, caribousand School of Bookbinding for Ladies All yon have guessed — : About life tosarance may SCELEOSING & ADAMS, 256 West 234 S1,, 8. T. City. be wrong. If you wish to know the truth, send Gockptates Designed and Engraved, Artistic Bookbinders | © How and Why,” txsued by. the MeTval Send for Prospectus Lire, 921-35 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Pears’ Pretty boxes and odors are used to sell such soaps, as no one would touch if he saw them un- disguised. Beware of a soap that depends on something outside of it. Pears’, the finest soap in the world is scented or not, as you wish; and the money is in the merchan- dise, not in the box. All sorts of stores sell it, especially druggists; all sorts of people are using it. ABBOTTS oniciva Angostura Bitters ABBOTT & CO., Baltimore, MG Why not subscribe for Lire through your vacation? Subscription for three months, $1.25. Forelgn post- age 2cents per copy extra. Address can be changed asoften es desired, If notice is received two weeks in advance. Pennsylvania’s choicest whiskey— Old 4 YPSILANTI Periget Fitting Overholt Made just as it was a : century ago apf In all sizes and best materials, At Your Dealers. Bottled in Bond. Send for booklet tothe makers, A. Overholt HAY & TODD MFG. Co. @. Co. YPSILANTI, MICH. Pittsburg, Pa. ALL THE GREAT RESORTS are reached by the NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES and their connections. You will get a great deal more valuable information in regard to the great resorts of America and how best to reach them from the now famous “Four Track Series’’ the New York Central's Books of travel and education, lustrated catalogue will be sent ldress. on receipt ¥ George H. Daniels, , Grand Cen. comicbooks.com