The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-05
AN EARTHLY
II We Would but Look Around, We woult
Find 1t At Our Doors.

We Would but Look Around, We " oult
Find 1t ut Our Doors.
That this earth of ours is becoming 3
dst and nninteresting sort Of place is a
lallacy born Of indigestion and a weal
imagination.
There is a considerable portion of hu.
manity who measure their happiness by
what they can kill. And still for these
the rogue elephant tramps down the lea
plants in Ceylon and the man eatiua
Tiger figures in the Indian jungles. The
South American possibilities in the hunt
Ing way are barely explored.
Frank B. Sanborn reports that Albania
Is a splendid hunting ground for the
wild boar, a quarry more dangerous THAI
any III this country except the grizzl,
bear. The African continent stia
swarms with game, and except in the
equatorial belt is not too unhealthful L.
visit. In many of our states we have
reached the time when the enactment Of
game laws is necessary. hut there il
sport enough Yet in Idaho, Montana. tic
vast lake region of northern Minnesota.
the Maine woods. the tarpon's and ALI
gators haunts in Florida. and especial,
the wild regions of British Columbia.
The bison has vanished. hut there was
never much sport" in his senseless
slaughter.
Quletef minds find pleasure in the
study OF men and customs-past and
present. In our own land there is ma.
ter1al for the archfeo'ogists to study fol
many years. Whetl er non the won.
derful ruins of the CT # dwellers' village.
or in the~relics Of he mound builder,
there Is work to be done r~ivaling Schli-. |
mann's in the Troad. Layard's at Eir-
Nlmroud, or Champollion's in Egypt. |
There are the living as well as the dead
the african dwarfs, the Fuegan giants,
the Melanesian c~annibals, the Dyaks of
borneo. There are the north AfricanI
potentates who will obliyinylv kill the
amateur photographer, and kaffirs Who'll
VIII feed him fat on juicy CONNECTIONS %
grasshoppers and snake pie.
There are those who saek neither |
beasts to kill nor men to study, but
pleasant places to hide where winds blow
SOFT. These there are and always will
De, SO sturdily does earth resist its lie
spoilers. The most tourist infested spot
In the world. Switzerland. is full of un
visited hooks. while railroads into the
heart of central Asia and over the eau.
casus and through Bosnia, and the Da.
nublan states take one to fresh haunts
a homes. In British Columbia are
glaciers finer than the Swiss. and off the
coast are balmy islands where. lollino
his yeranda in the air of June. one
can look landward see towering peaks
topped with eternal snow.
Fol- thar matter, one doesn't have to
New York to find places where
only the green of spring is needed Il
make a paradise. Where are wilder and
crags than the Palisades, fairer
ranges of low mountains than the High
lands and Shawangunks: The Golden
dorn Is not more beautiful than the
Narrows, the Bosporus than our Hud.
on whose western bank almost OBJ {
New York the rattlesnake still
his alarm, strange birds fit at
and mountain laurel and mulber.
y grow i'll profusion.
Some, slrs. a truce to melancholy. n
he world Is fair. Needs but to see il s
0 the artist eye. the poet soul. the gift h
I imagination. With these one NAV +
mp hrm his Communication ticket and I,
to all black b~lasphe1ny of pessimisn o
q answer stout, The earthly paradise p
here'"-New York Recorder. Il
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