St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-09
OUR OWN COUNTRY.
Home influence and Home knowl-

OUR OWN COUNTRY.
Home Influence and Home knowl-
edge.
we Americans are busy, hurrying,
pushing people. We lun under full
head of steam from Iife's beginning TO
its end. Our main object seems to be
to make lily ing and get OIL in the
world. Both are very laudable charac-
teristics, if not pushed to the extreme
In many instances we would save time
and make more money by going slower
and giving more thought and STUDY 10
our surroundings. Not only this, but
every American ought to consider it a
patriotic duty 10 be well posted about
his country and its special cbafaeteris-
tics. LII love of country and bravery in
defending its honor, 10 other nation
or people excel us; but in q general
knowledge of our native land, its seem
cry. its mountains, rivers, lakes, gia-
clerS, canyons, waterfalls, SuperiaIlve
wonders of our natures handiwork,
possibilities and resources of different
sections, and the varied characteristics
OF its people, we are undoubtedly behind
the citizens OF other nations. There is,
or has been, 81 rea son for this. Perhaps
several Of them. In the first place we
are too busy to travel and a very large
majority of us have not the means to
travel if we had the time. Then,
again, our country is so vast that it
would require almost fortune to travel
over 1t and study its features as 9th er
people in the smaller countries which
they inhabit. These very substantial
obstacles have been removed to yer v
large extent by the recent publication
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A drawing or engraving, be it ever
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photograph gives 1t the living imitation
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others, but no extra charge will be made
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The first number, now ready, contains
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descriptions and text matter:
A Country Stream; On the Banks of
the Meramec: Summer Time in Mime
haila; Minnehaha Creek Below the
Falls; Old Fort Smelling; Phantom
Rock. Camp Douglas, Wisconsin; Min
nehaha in Winter; Mirrored Rocks,
Dells Of the Wisconsin,; Rafting in the
Dells of the Wisconsin,; Beleagured
Castle, Camp Douglas; Witches Gulch.
DeIls of the Wisconsin; Romance Cliffs,
Dells of the Wisconsin; Sugar Loaf,
Mackinac Islaud. Lake Superior; Whale
back Steamboats, of the Northern Lakes;
Summering in the Apostles Islands.
Lake Superior; Camping in the Pine
Woods of Wisconsin; Scene on the st.
CroiX River. near the Falls; Flowing
for Wheat in Northern Dakota; Pictured
Rocks of Lake Superior; Rustic Bridge
in the Black Hills of Dakota; Some
bad Indians" Belonging to the Gov
eminent Police; Camp of Ojibway In
dams. Minnesota: A Ranch in North
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LAX Superior; Sioux Indian Hut of
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