The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-25
Tuesday. July -. 1893.
AZ EARTHLY
II We Would hut Look Around, We Would
Find II mt Our Doors.

Find II at Our Doors.
That ifiis earth OF ours is becoming a
fat and embarrassing sort of place is a
fallacv born of indigestion and "a weak
imagination.
There is IA 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 eating
tigee 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. quarry more dangerous than
any in this country except the grizzly
bear. The African continent still
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 of
game laws is necessary. but there is
sport enough yet in Idaho. Montana. the
vas 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.
Quieter minis find pleasure in the
study Of mer and customs-past and
present. In cur own land there is ma
terial for the psychologists TO study fo1
many years. Whether among the Won
derful ruins If the cliff dwellers' villages
m -, Che -4|r.- sc sI, ,1 1l...>
there is WORK 10 be done rivaling Schlie-
mann's in the Troad, Lavard's at Birs
Nimroud. or Champollion's in Egypt.
There are the living as well as the dead
the African dwarfs. the Fuegan giants.
the Melauesian cannibals. the Dyaks OF
Borneo. There are the north African
potentates who will obligingly kill the
amateur photographer. and katfirs 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, 50 sturdily does earth resist its De
spoilers. The most tourist infested spot
IN the world. Switzerland, is full of mn
visited noois. Willie railroads into thu
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 the
coast are balmy islands where. lolling
on his veranda in the air of June. one
can look landward see towering peak.
topped with eternal snow.
For that matter, one doesn't have t.
leave New York to lind places where
only the green of spring is needed to
make a paradise. Where are wilder and
nObler crags than the Palisades. fairel
ranges of low mountains than the High
lands and Shawangunks: The Golden
Horn is not more beautiful than the
Narrows. the Bospurgs than u Hud.
son. on whose western bank almost OBJ
pOsite New York the rattlesnake still
sounds his alarm. strange birds fit n
dawn and mountain laurel and mulbor.
~ grow in profl>iol.
Come. slrs, u truce 10 melunchoiy.i
The world is fair. Needs but To see il
- 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, The earthly paradise
II here:"-New York Recorder.