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4 AROUND THE WORLD.
chief is a Spiritualist.
So, doubtless, are the chiefs and medicine-men
of the other tribes.
Aug. 15 we reached Cheyenne, the capital of "Wyoming.
It is the most populous town between Omaha and Ogden.
The Black Hills in the distance were crowned with snow.
The railway cuts each side of Cheyenne show volcanic
matter, mixed with marine fossils. A rolling ocean once
swept over these plains and mountains. Here are found
beautiful moss agates. They are for sale, with rare mineral
specimens, at nearly every station.
of books, and Persia of roses, the West is
of geologists and mineralogists.
Wyoming is woman's political Eden regained.
here guaranteed her as a constitutional right.
If London is the paradise
the Elysian land
Suffrage is
And yet only
about half of the women in Cheyenne use this ballot privilege.
Why is it ? Are there not far more icomen than men
opposed to universal suffrage ? Laramie was the first place
in the world where a female jury was impaneled.
Sherman is the highest railway point on the Pacific route,
named in honor of Gen. Sherman. It is eight thousand two
hundred and forty-two feet above the level of the sea.
The air
here is light, pure, and bracing. It is just the place for an
astronomical observatory. The mountain-peaks are weird and
magnificent ;
while the general plateau is covered with short
grass, sage-brush, and stunted pines.
Desolate as the region
seemed, blackbirds were chattering upon telegraph-wires,
swallows were cutting curious angles, and eagles sailed and
circled above the mountain hights. Life and activity flame
everywhere. The universe is God's house ; this earth, one
of the smaller apartments. Entering, we found it already
furnished. What a carpet! — the emerald grass. What a
ceiling — ! the frescoed sky. What tapestried pillars ! — the
granite rocks. What a front-door! — the flaming sunrise.
What a rear-door — ! the sunset, through which the day goes
down into shadow-lands. What a chandelier! — the sun
and stars. What fields for explorations! — the interstellar