The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-05
AN EARTHLY PARADISE
AWe Would but Look Around. We Would
Find 1t ut Our Doors.

~ O0l0 nut Idol AUouuus g o~'~
Find II ut Our Doors.
That this earth Of ours is becoming a
lat and uninteresting sort of place Is q
fnllacv born of indigestion and IA weak
imagination.
There is "A considerable portion of hui
manity who measure their happiness by
what they can kill. And still for these
the rogue elephant tramps down the tea
plants in Ceylon and the man eatih3
Yer figures in the Indian jungles. The
South American possibilities in the hunt
ing way are barely explored.
Frank b. Sanborn reports that Albania
In a splendid hunting ground for the
wild boar. a quarry more dangerous thai
any in this country except the grizzl.
bear. The African continent stir
ewarms with game, II except IN the
equatorial belt is not too unhealthful to
visit. In many of our states we have
reached the time when the enactment OF
game laws is necessary. but there l.
sport enough yet in Idaho, Montana. the
vast lake region of northern Minnesota.
the Maine woods. the tarpon's and ALI
gators haunts in Florida. and especially
the wild regions of British Columbia
The bison las vanished. but there wa
never much sport" in his senseles,
slaughter.
Quieter minds find pleasure in the
study of men and customs-past and
present. IN our own land there Is ma.
terial for the archRologists TO study fol
= many years. Whether among the won
derful r1.Insof the cliff dwellers' village
or in tn relies of the mound builders
there is work TO be done rivaling Schlle-
mann's in the Troad, Layard's at Blrs
Eimroul. or Champollion's in Egypt.
There are the living as well as the dead
the African dwarfs. the Fuegan giants.
the Melanesian cannibals. the Dyaks o!
BOrneo. There are the north African
potentatek who will onhgingly kill the
amateur photographer. and kafiirs who
will feed hila fat on juicy corrections ~
g~rasshoppers and snake pie.
There are those who seek neither
beasts to kill nor men - study. but
pleasant places to hide where winds blow
soft. These there are an! always vii
be. so sturdy does earth resist Its do
spoilers. The most tourist infested spot
in the world. Switzerland, /, fnll of u!
visited nooks. while railroads imia iIt
heart of central Asia and over t!re Can
easus and through Bosnia. and the ba
pubiau states take one t. fresh .annts
and homes. In British Coiuln!t.l a,
glaciers finer than the Swi II Oh iAl'
coast are balmy islands where, lOiIl".
on his veranda III the air of June, o@'
can look landwarI see towering pea.
topped with eternal
For that ,natter. on. doesn't have :,
leave New York TO find places wher'
only the green Of spring L. Needed i,
make "A paradise. Where are wilder IA,
nobler craes than the Palisades. faire.
ange- of low mountains than the High
lands and Snawangunks: The Colder
Horn is not more beautiful than TIN
Narroys. the Dos! orus than our HUI
son. on whose western bank almost op
posite New York the ra~ttlesnake still
sounds his alarm. strange birds fit a
dawn and mountain laurel and muller
~ grow in profusion.
Come, sirs. a truce to melancholy
The world is fair. Needs but to see i
. the artist eye. the poet soul, the gif
Of imagination. With these one ma,
grip firm his communication ticket a N
cry to all black blasphemy Of pessimisn
On answer stout, 1.-THE earthly paradis
u here.'-New York Recorder.