The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-04-20

- washing of half continent and the loaded
sAe SXel with SILT all the o Manaos
e4S sySI We entered the by the
,p island of Marajo, wound
before reaching the main stream The Amazon delta is
yonr past islands of many
shapes between walls of The flows slowly
and the looks like vanished The beyond
scpon The times reach for hundred
ship The canals make think of Holland The
places small through
the cities OF populated by monkeys aud
butterflies and beautiful flowers color the
is wild all the the Para the city
mouth the metropolis of the whole Manao although
thousand miles
Outside of these cities there collections
here and there wide distances the
then clearing big enough for garden
made of poles and the garden of few banana plants
and The huts thached with palm
little than shelters keep off
place. mind with that beautiful
interesting than which
instance trip through the Golden Wewh it's rivers and
it's mountain scenery.
Interest you at
home the grand State of Colorado there mountains
and which beyond description
wind their through countless There
mighty Colorado River which has BY
the mountains of Utah and Arizona form Grand Canyon
through region, of which the white has and
which wild and rough be almost inaccessible;
banks being bored by that tell of
dating back years.
fought with the cliff dweles for supremacy.
Here and there the rugged cliffs notched with
of human by boat and arduou exploring
along trails that lead steep
OF natural grandeur the beauty of which describe all
within the borders moon
give thought rivers Rivers play role IN
literature and scarcey ALL that
the forest and the The Holy
Hndus the Jordan the
Egyptians great epic
gill and the sheen the through Comedy
the Rhine has flowed through
Nibelungs the days OF Hene and Auerbach.
The Thames linked with the mighty and
Magma Cnarta inspired Hugo;
lerend dOf
Hollow and of brakes Cupr Fay The Mississippi gamored De
Soto and became his and wandering Colorado tells
through its tremendous that God powed earth
and drove his furrow deep The Columbia belongs
this majestic brotherhood and the road down which Lewis
Clark opened the for the United States the that
borders the Pacific The people Golden West have fallen
der the spell of the They love
heart and regiouy sensitive the creative of God who
made it ALL
Some of the early settlers along the banks the mighty
lumba have of how it happened be there 1t begins
with the marking the with completion
highway the through the the In
beginning western ocean washed the suniest
the Rockies Then heaved the Cascades the
Nevadas from the soundess the heavens formed
inland Mountains fire worked through countless till
stied the volcano Eternal topmost peaks
Glaciers powed the srewel the rich soil the
valleys Then the Cascades
for the Columbia Herds of uunberless bison
roamed the rich pains bound denizen of the traced their
liquid paths through the Pmeua arrived The In
dian houhd through while the
for the coming of the white and his civilization.
Spanish explorers pushed the South,
French English broke
country Captain Gray found the Columbia from the Pacific Asor
planted the flag the United
Clark established American claim the Whit
blocked Rockies
settlers coonze Theodore Winthrop loveness
of the land appreciated the spendor
of the Columbia Its grand and
wonderfully wild beauty highly finished
will be exquisite.
Think of the hearts the people had that settled
and grand Golden West Their work worthy the
of praises Some their will rise with the vision
and the faculty epic the Winning the West