The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-24

plain view from the car windows. Take
side trips among the Cascades and see
icy fields, or take a trip by water to
Alaska, and enjoy a salt water voyage
unequal for sublimity on the planet.
Alaska, the mighty empire of the
North, and it's majestic Yukon, flowing
off into polar solitude.
Do you want to see waterfalls? Look
at Niagara, or the Shoshone down In
the cleft rock, or the Yosemite, welded
to the clouds by It's bridal veil of fall
ing water or the Spokane and st. An
thony, harnessed to wheels, or go to
the great falls of the Missouri, where
the longest river on the globe, after
breaking through the mountains, tum-
| bles five hundred feet over series Of
cataracts, and whose waters are being
utilized for human uses.
Do you want to see rivers? Visit the
ST. Lawrence, with its mighty volume
| and it's thousand isles, the Colorado
and it's awful canyon, the Mississippi,
or the Missouri, It's greatest branch
and muddiest of them all; the Column
bia, with it's gorges and majestic sur
| roundings; the Ohio, the Tennessee, the
Platte, the Arkansas, the two Reds,
d'Oreille or a score of other streams,
and what becomes of the Rhine and
the Rhone, the Nile and the Tiber?
The Thames, England's greatest
stream, or the proud Hudson, could
lose itself in the Mississippi or Column
bia, and not disturb their placid bo-
SONS or hasten their stately march to
the sea.
perior, the largest single body of fresh
water in the world. Half of the fresh
water on the earth is within radius or
| one thousand miles of ST. Paul Min
| nesota has ten lakes to every one in
the> British Isles, and each altogether
as lovely.
Do you wish to see hot springs, heal
ing springs, boiling springs and gey-
sers? They abo-lnd in the American
West. In Yellowstone park will be
found the largest springs and most
varied collection on earth. At the
Helena (Montana) hot springs can be
seen the largest plunge bath pool, COW
cred by the finest specimens of Moor
ish architecture, in America
Do you wish to see the finest inland
and safest salt sea in the world? Go
to Puget sound where the tides rise
and fall ten to twenty feet, sheltered
all about by Titanic mountains, whose
| crests are white forever as eternal
truth
Do you wish to see old cities Try ST.
Augustine among the orange trees, or
Santa Fe, or, stranger still, penetrate
the homes of the Zuni Indians in the
cliffs, or cities in the air; or visit the
people of the Pueblos, whose peculiar
architecture and skill in the arts Of
peace lift them far above savagery
and whose dislike of war is in sharp
contrast with the habits of their fierce
Apache neighbors; or, again crossing
the Rio Grande into old Mexico, see
the ruins of missions established in the
days of Cortes, and where the abso-
lutism of the church is still that of
older Spain.
Do you wish to see odd communities
and queer people? Go to Dubuque.
Iowa, and see the Mallary Monastery,
where the Brothers of Silence" lead
lives of labor and poverty, and never
speak with each other or with visitors.
Go to Mount Lebanon, Mass, the pres
ent town Of the Shakers, inviting to
tho Sc interested in the strange forms
of religion, has assumed. Go to Bethle-
hem, Nazareth and Lititz, Pa, where
the influence of ZinZendorf still fingers
among the Moravians, faithful today
10 the beautiful creed. and tender and
gracious traditions of their fathers. Go
to- the town of Liberal. No., where no
believer in Christianity is invited to
live. Go to the Community of Per-
fectionists, near Oneida, N. 2, among
people SO free from sin that they do
not consider themselves bound by the
conventionalties of society, and hence,
like the angels, have everything in
| common. Go to the quaint town Of
AD1ana, Iowa, among the Inspiration
lists" who have religion Of peace and
own property in common, but observe
the family relation. Go to the singular
communities founded by Mystics at
Economy, Pa, and Zoar, Ohio, where
life is severe and pJritannical Go to
Duchess county, N. Y, to see "All Saints
Home" where the Brothers of Nazar-
eth" Protestant community of
monks, who give their days to prayer,
mediation and mental service for the
poor and suffering Go see, If you can,
the converts Of the select and austere
sisterhood of Carmelite Nuns, to be
found in any of the larger cities This
severe order requires personal scourg-
ing with cords, rigid fasts, and meals
eaten from table containing human
skull. Go see the Monks of the Soil
tary,o and the 'Sisterhood of the Spirit
ual Virgins" at Ephrata, Pa. Go see
the unique Lacustrine village Of Saint
Malo In Lake Borgne, near New Or
leans, q queer town on poles, standing
far out in the SWampy lake, and only
reached by boats. Go among the little
colonies of men, peculiar communities,
scattered up and down the Atlantic
Coast states, like bumps on log, with
few and simple wants, and remote from
the centers Of civilization, and caring
little for what is going on in the world.
These are the charcoal burners the tar
and turpentine makers. who boil roots,
the Sand Hill people, the clay eaters,
the moonshiners, and odds and ends Of
humanity. whose highest ambition is a
supply of tabacco and whisky.
Do you wish to visit shrines? Go to
Mt. Vernon, or Riverside, to Spring
field, or out to Walla Walla, and linger
by the humble resting place of Whit
man, who rode to save Oregon to the
Union, and returning met his death by
the hands Of red men, whose souls he
sought to save.
Do you want to see China? Go to
the Pacific Coast, or Rocky Mountain
cities. John Chinaman can be seen in
his JOSS house, with marvellous cary
ings and candles burning before hide
Gus idols; in his theater, where the play
of many acts runs nightly for months
with music calculated to drive the lover
Of harmony to drink and madness: in
his restaurant picking up food with
chop sticks; in his gambling house.
''chiIdlike and bland" betting money
in strange games.
Do you want to see Spain? Go to
Old or New Mexico
Do you want to see France? Go 70
Lower Canada or Louisiana. See the