The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-04
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Find 1t at Our Doors.
That this earth of ours is becoming a
aat and embarrassing sort of place is q
IAllacy born of indigestion and Il weak
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 tea
paants in Ceylon and the man eatinc
tiger figures in the Indian jungles. The
South American possibilities in the hunt,
ing way are barely explored.
Frank B.. Sanborn reports that Albania
IL a splendid hunting ground for the
wild boar, IA quarry more dangerous THAI
any III this country except the grizzl!
bear. The African continent stir
swarms with game, and except in the
equatorial belt is not too ~unhealthful to
visit. In many of our states we have
reached the time when the enactment ~
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 has vanished. but there was
never much sport" in his senseless
slaughter.
Quietcr MAIDS find pleasure in the
study Of man and customs-past and
present. H. our own land there is ma
terial for the archTologists to study fol
many years. Whether among the Won
derful ruiusof the cliff dwellers' village,
or in the relics of the mound builders
there is work to be done rivaling Schiie.
mann's III the Troad, Lavard's at Bir
Nimrou,!. or Champollion's in Egypt.
There are the living as well as the dead
the African dwarfs. the Fueyan giants.
the Mrlanesian cannibalS. the Dyaks OF
Borneo. There are the north African
potentltes who will ohligingly kill the
amateur photographer. and kattirs who
will feed him fat on juice CONNECTIONS ~
Erasshoppers and snake pie.
There are those who sex neither
beasts to XII nor men to study. but
pleasant places to hide where winds blov'
soft. These there are and always vii
be, so srurdily does earth resist its 10
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 Off tht
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 wherf
only the green of spring is needed +
make a paradise. Where are wilder ana
nObler crags thar the Palisades. fairel
ranges of low mountains than the High
lands and Shawangunks: The Golden
Horn is not more beautiful than the
Narrows. the Bosporus than our Hul.
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
% the artist eye. the poet soul, the gift
Of imagination. With these one may
grip firm his communication ticket and
cry to all black blasphemy Of pessimism
IN answer stout, 1.-THE earthly paradise
b here!'-New York Recorder.