The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-27
AN EARTHLY PARADISE.
II We Would hut Look Around. We WOu1l
.inL 1t ~ Sur Doors.

II We Would hut Look Around. We Would
.'ind 1t ~, Our Doors.
That {, is earth # ctrs is becoming q
fat and embarrassing sort of place is /;
fallacy born of indigestion and a weak
imagination.
q. Their, Il considerable portion OF iu-
marty WHO measure their happiness by
what NJ: can kill. And still fo. thee
the rogue elephant tramps down the tea
plants in Ceylon and the man eating
tiger figures in the Indian iungles. 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 dangerou, than
any III this country except the grizzi.,
bear. The African continent stit
swarms with game. AMI except in the
equatorial belt is not too unhealthful To
visit. In many of our states WI haN.
reached the time when the enactment q!
game laws is Necessary. but there i,
sport enough vet in Idaho. Montana. tic
vast lake region ef northern Minnesota.
the Maine woods. the tarpon's and ALI
gators laTmis in Florida. and especially
the wild regions Il British Columbia.
The bison has vanished. but there WA
never much sport" in his senseIes-
slaughter.
Quieter minds find pleasure in the
study of men and cus;olns-past and
present. In our own land there is ma
terial for the a~rcheologists to study fol
many years. Whether among the won.
derful ruins of the cliff dwellers' village
or in the relies Of the mound builder.
there is work to be done rivaling Schlie-
mann's in the Troad. kayard's at Birs
Nimroud. or Champollion's in Egypt.
There are the living as we'll as the dead
the African dwarfs. the Fuegan giants,
the Melanesian cannibals. the Dyaks OF
Borneo. There are the north African
potentate, who will obligingly kill the
amateur photographer. and Kaffirs who
will feed him fat on juicy CONNECTIONS Of
grasshoppers and snake pie.
There are those who seek neither
beasts to kill nor men to study. but
pleasant places to HIDE where winds blow
soft. These there are and always will
be. so sturdily does earth resist its de-
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.
nubian states take one to fresh haunts
and homes. In British Columbia are
glaciers finer than the Swiss. and of the
coast are balmy islands where. lolling
on his veranda in the air of June, one
can look landward see towering peaks
topped with eternal snow.
For that matter. one doesn't have to
leave New York to find places where
only the green of spring is needed to
make a paradise. Where are wilder and
nobler crags than the Palisades, fairer
ranges Of low mountains than the High
lands and Shawangunks? The Golden
Horn is not more beautiful than the
Narrows, the Bosporus than our Hud.
son on whose western bank almost Op-
posite New York the rattlesnake still
sounds his alarm, strange birds fit at
dawn and mountain laurel and mulber-
~ grow in profusion.
Come, sirs, a truce to melancholy!
The world is fair. Needs but to see it
50 the artist eye, the poet soul, the gift
Of imagination. With these n mS
grip firm his communication ticket and
cry to all black blasphemy of pessimism
an answer stout, The earthly paradise
is here.'-New York Recorder.