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

| and command high prices owing to
| their Incompatible beauty 1t is also
being utilized for jewelry. 1T is OF such
intense hardness that saving 1T is a
tedious and expensive process. A firm
| located here at st. Paul and Sioux
Falls is engaged in manufacturing it
into ornamental articles. Chips from
| these trees were formerly used By the
Indians for arrow and spear heads
Knives, scrapers. and various kinds of
implements, and these are now found
at places far remote from the forest.
When 1t becomes the fad to know and
write OF America as we do Of Africa
and ASIA we will come to understand
that we have savages in our land who
practice rites as frightful and believe
in superstitions as prepostcrous and
appalling as any known to the people
| OF Congo or Thfbet Everybody knows
about the bOomerang-throWers of Aus
tralia, but how many know that the
| Pueblo Indian boys and men in Colo
RADIO, New Mexico and Arizona, are
familiar with the crooked stick, and
use it in games and in killing rabbits
and other small animals. Many Ameri-
cans have seen the passion play at
| Oberammergau, but how many know
the fanatic penitents of New Mexico
have yearly representations of the
crucifixion with real victims dying on
! the cross? Few of the many un-
American Americans who yearly visit
other continents to see ruins and old
1 cities are aware of the existence Of
hundreds OF cities in the sandstone
cliffs and volcanic caves of Colorado.
New Mexico and Arizona, and in the
4 awful walls of the canyon of the Colo
RADIO; or of huge stone houses or
| Pueblos," from three to six stories
nigh and often containing hundreds
of rooms. Two houses at Pecos ~ M.
| contain
once occupied by a people who ex-
hibited wonderful ingenuity and cease
| less activity to sustain themselves
! against cruel foes and no less cruel
heat, cold and hunger. Before Column
BUS was born, and no knowing how
| long before, these community houses
existed by hundreds all over the Ameri-
can Southwest.
DO you desire good railway service and
atten t1on? Travel on American roads,
over 100000 miles of track, across forty
eight states and territories, without re-
strictions or customs exaction and i'm
| position. No equal accommodation
can be found In foreign countries.
! where cars are usually unheated, where
| changes of train are frequent where
| baggage is not checked where inspec-
ton is made at the constantly occur
| ring frontiers, with new speech and
customs and requirements at each.
DO you wish to visit the underground
| world? For natures own handiWork
go to the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
| and see the most wonderful excavation
In the crust of the planet of any known
| to man. 1t has hundreds of miles Of
passages and many score rooms, and
rivers containing eyeless fish. Visit
| the Luray caverns in Virginia, and the
Wind cave in the Black Hills. To fol-
low mans explorations into the ground
go to Butte, into the copper mines. to
Leadvllle into the silver mines or into
/ the Comstock mines in Nevada, so deem
| that the miners work in the midst OF
| Steaming water
DO you wish to see the largest and
most powerful artesian wells in the
! world? Go to the James River valley
| IN the DakOtaS, where the water comes
to the surface with a pressure as high
as 10 pounds to the square inch and
| spouts hundred or more feet in the
air, furnishing fire protection, water
Tor lrrlgating purposes, and power for
mills and factories.
DO you wish to see lakes and rivers
OF stone on earth? Go to California.
arizona. Utah, Nevada, Oregon and
Washington, and become acquainted
with the most remarkable lava-coyered
areas on earth. Far back in the early
/ ages of the continent the molten lava
| burst forth from single cones in vol
uueS SuilIcienL TO spread q sea of fire
| over regions as broad as modern East
ern states. 1t Is estimated the lava
/ beds of the Pacific states have an aver
age depth of 1000 feet All the lofty
mountain peaks of the coast noun
/ tains are volcanic. San Francisco
peak in California is a compact lava
| pyramid. mile in height. In New
| Mexico and Arizona the track of the
| lava flows are palmer and apparently
more recent. From hundreds of craters
| the boiling rock has poured forth over
| and filled the valleys. now frozen to
| eternal stone, covered with bubbles.
| Jagged irregularities or splintered
points across which no living creature
! can walk.
DO you want to farm or raise fruit
or stock, or engage in mining? Go to
the Mississippi valley or to the vast
country extending to the Pacific. with
millions OF acres of farm lands ranges
and pasture lands awaiting occupancy.
and mineral veins asking DEVELOPMENT.
Do you want to see the architectural
tr1umphs of the world? Look at the
buildings of Chicago, ST. Louis. St.
Paul. Minneapolis, Duluth, Spokane,
Seattle, San Francisco and other
American cities.
Do you want to see engineering skill.
such as was never seen in the old
world? Visit the bridges and tunnels
of America
Do you want to see what inventive
genius is doing in applying machinery
to almost human uses? Search America
and not Europe.
Do you want to see the largest gold.
silver, copper and lead mines in the
world? Go to the American West.
Do you want to read the best news
raperS, magazines and books? If so.
take American publications.
Do you want to see the best fed best
clothed and best housed people in the
world? Travel over the United States.
Do you want to see the most COM
Portable homes, and associate with peo-
pie among whom there Is a more gem
eral diffusion of intelligence and moral
ity than there is in the most enlight-
ened countries of Europe? Go any
where you please throughout the
Northwestern, Eastern and Northern
states.
DO you want to see the handsonlest
women, the prettiest and healthiest
children and the brainiest men? Look
for them in the North Temperate zone
on the parallels of Boston, New York.
Chicago, st. Louis, ST. Paul. Helena
and San Francisco.
Do you want to see a country where
every prospect-that is, nearly every
prospect-pleases, and each one has a
chance, where schools are free. where
religious tolerance is the rule. and
where the home life is the bright guild
ing star? Travel over the United
States.
There are no ruined castles. nor cities
entombed in the dust of centuries: no
crumbling moss-covered temple walls.
nor broken columns in our land, sug-