The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-15

breeds, the MeXicans, the Ishmaelites and the Indians of Arizona and New
 Mexico, and the '49ers, the New Eng flanders, and the restored consumptives of California,
 DIFFERENT CLIMATES.
 He also has a chance to test all kinds of climates, ranging from the gaseous and ghastly climate of Chicago to the golden and glorious climate of Califor- mia. What can be furnished in the cli- mate line during the journey is indica- ted by the fact that at mountain sta tion 1t was showing fiercely at 12 noon, and before night down below the tenn perature was from 100 to 120 degrees above zero.
 MANY KINDS OF LAND-THE DESERT.
 The traveller also has a chance to see many kinds of land. If there were as many kinds of water in the far West as there are land things would look more cheerful in some parts of that region. One feels a mild and pleasing interest in the fertile fields through which the first part of the journey Is made, but the real interest begins when the Great American desert is reached. The rail- road companies which cross this desert make light of it, and seem to wish they could give something else for travellers to gaze upon. They make mistake in this. That part of the desert crossed by the Atchison road is a tremendously in- teresting and impressive place, and no we'll constructed traveller would avoid it if he could. It is the sight of a life time to one who has not seen 1t. Great plains clad in sage-brush or cactus, or not clad even in those plucl1y growths. Wonderful rock antics resembling for tresses, castles, new high school build ings, chambers of commerce, etc., etc Canons which are only made unimpor- tant by the grand canon of the Colora- do, @ gash in the face of nature which is said to reveal more of the strata of the earth than any other cut known, and at the bottom of which one can stand in the daytime and look up and see the everlasting stars shine just as they do to one who stands on the surface of the earth in the nighttime. Great depres- sions where it looks as if the roof of the earth had sunk in, carrying one or two floors withit and leaving the rocky walls Lava beds. Craters of ex- tinct volcanoes and evidences of extinct earthquakes. Great rocks piled on great rocks in such a way that they seem to need only a gentle shove to send them tumbling and laundering to the plain below. Places where it looks as if there had been a fight among the old gods who could throw mountains around at will and mix up the everlast- l ing hills to suit themselves. Great pla- teaus, productive principally of obsid- Ian and the pin-cushion cactus. And all around and about circles of mountains which seem intent on keeping the be- traveller in the midst of cha os, but on and on through which the mighty train rushes and rushes until | the lastIbarrierh rhavingbeen overcome the | traveller sails down into the San Der 1ardino valley, a place flowing with ] milk and honey, where oranges can be | picked from the car windows, where the | ,attle wade in rich grass up. to their | 1rotuberant bellies, where every pros )ect pleases, and where if man is vile l le has no right to be. One of the most 1
 
 rip is the change from the weary des- .rt to this valley. It is very sudden and | so sudden and so surprising hat it is as if an angel flying through | he awful regions of space came to the gate of Paradise and was promptly ad- nitted to the fields of living green tnd the rivers of delight. Not that | ravelers are usually angels, but "as if" And there are really some angels lmong the travellers, even on a through rain. It is but simple justice to say hat they are females. They keep nice | md clean and good-tempered and look md act all the time as if they belonged n the paradise of San Bernadino and ot in the American desert of sand, ocks, ,canons and cactuses. This is a des- Tt and no mistake. The only things hose who have got their ideas ofagreat esert from the geographies will find 1cking are camels and ostriches. By | ight these animals should come to the rain at the desert stations and tick friendly and inquisitive noses trough the open windows. By and by erhaps they will. There are some wild amels in southwestern Arizona and OIIlt IlOI6 Ol ItSS Nil1 OSlIlCll III AsdI- | 'ornia. The Atchison road might get ome and keep them at the desert sta ions. They would be company for the Texicans and the Indians and fun for 1e passengers.
 SOME TRAGEDIES OF THE DESERT. There are impressive things in the ( esert besides the rocks the chaos and : le illimitable and awful barrenness. eople live there. How doth not ap- ear to the passenger on the through ain. But they do. And they die l lere. Away out in southwestern Ari- c ma, near one of the stations, is a lit- C e graveyard made by enclosing with
 rude fence a space on the top of a I tnd mound which stands up a few feet ' carer the pitiless sun than the sur | ,unding plain Here are some who s i've returned to dust "Dust thou art b nd unto dust thou shalt return has | l added meaning here. Boards with il umsy inscriptions tell that those who a } beneath them are not entirely for d ytten by mankind. And the Christian a .ith teaches that when in a short time t lese desert-dwellers shall be forgotten t 7 their race they will still be remem- O red by Him who keeps in mind even I ose who go to their last rest in the a