. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . at the last witch in the United States did not go up in thecruel smoke of old Salem, but that there is still within ourborders a vast domain wherein witchcraft is as fully believedin as yesterday is, and where somebody is executed everyyear for the strange crime of being a witch ? These are but a few of the strange things at home ofwhich we know not. There are thousands of others; and ifit shall ever become as fashionable to Avrite about Americaas it is about Africa, we shall have chance to learn that inthe heart of the m
. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . at the last witch in the United States did not go up in thecruel smoke of old Salem, but that there is still within ourborders a vast domain wherein witchcraft is as fully believedin as yesterday is, and where somebody is executed everyyear for the strange crime of being a witch ? These are but a few of the strange things at home ofwhich we know not. There are thousands of others; and ifit shall ever become as fashionable to Avrite about Americaas it is about Africa, we shall have chance to learn that inthe heart of the most civilized nation on earth are still sav-age peoples, whose customs are stranger and more interest-ing than those of the Congo. As to our scenery, we are rather better informed; andyet every year thousands of un-American Americans go toEurope to see scenery infinitely inferior to our own, uponwhich they have never looked. We say there are no ruins inthis country, and cross the ocean to admire crumbling pilesless majestic and less interesting than are in America. We. z o 12 < ua 2 < td IH (I. O td !d S b 2 THE GRANDEST GORGE IN THE WORLD. 7 read of famous gorges and defiles abroad^ and are eager tosee them, unknowing tliat in a desolate corner of the UnitedStates is the greatest natural wonder of the world—a canonin which all the worlds famous gorges could be lost not one American in ten thousand has ever looked uponits a^v^ul grandeui*. Of course^ we know the Sahara, for that is not American;but you will seek far to find any one who is familiar with anAmerican desert as absolute and as fearful. We are awareof our giant redwoods in Cahfornia,—the hugest trees inthe world,—but did you ever hear of a petrified forest cov-ering thousands of acres ? There is one such in the UnitedStates, and many smaller ones. Do you know that in oneterritory alone we have the ruins of over fifteen hundredstone cities as old as Columbus, and many of them far older ?Have yo
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