THE CAMHRA. 



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ing voice, characteristic of her family. 

 There she is — the lule wren climbing 

 that dry brown reed with saucy tail 

 perked up and bright eye peering with 

 open curiosity and disapproval of our 

 presence. 



The long beach between the sea and 

 the Spanish bight, lying clear and calm 

 in the sunlight, stretches to North 

 Island beyond which is the entrance to 

 San Diego harbor. The crash of the 

 breakers upon the cobblestones is fol- 

 lowed by a volley of detonations ri- 



valling the echoes from the target prac- 

 tice at Fort Roseerans on the sunny 

 sloprs of Point Loma across the bay. 

 Stand upon this beach, watch the huge 

 green wall rise with slow, majestic 

 swell and sweep smoothly forward to 

 break with the thundering roar of a 

 cataract and exclaim with the Psalm- 

 ist ; "Let the sea roar and the full- 

 ness thereof — Let the floods clap their 

 hands — For the sea is I r is and He 

 made it." 



A Gorgeous Display of Nature's Tinsel. 



Remarkable photographic studies of foliage 

 of frozen fog or cloud. 



BY WM. M. HEINEY, CROMWELL, INDIANA. 



As the clouds pile and bank one 

 above the other against the sky it re- 

 quires some stretch of the imagination 

 on the part of the average person 



to realize that they are only masses of 

 fog floating far above the earth. Proof 

 of this fact is not easily found, but 

 some persons living high in the 

 mountains occasionally have oppor- 

 tunities to see fogs that reach up into 

 the sky and become clouds. 



If one were to ascend from the sea 

 level straight up for one and one quar- 



"ALL IN BLOOxM IN FEBRUARY." 

 This is "snapped" on the morning of the sixth day, just as the sun is breaking 

 through the clouds in the southeast. The clouds have lifted but are still clinging to 

 the mountain top to the northwest while lower down in the canon beyond and to the 

 right they are still resting on the lowlands. 



