Manchester Democrat

The tide of travel will set heavily toward Europe next spring. Paris and the great French exposition will be the objective point. Thousands of Americans will then visit Europe for the first time, while other thousands will simply score another annual trip. More and more Americans visit Europe each year. They are attracted by those nameless charms which age alone can bring and which is a fascination of the older civilization.

But even before the trip to Europe should come the trip to America. We have in these United States a vast and diversified country which, politically, is working out the highest conception of popular government the world has yet attained. In a relative sense it is new and it is crude. It presents few ruins, venerable or otherwise, but it has within its confines some of the noblest scenery the sun shines upon. The man whose vision is limited to Manhattan Island or the New England States sees the play of 'Hamlet' with Hamlet left out. Back of him for 3,000 miles, clear to the Pacific Ocean, stretches a wealthy and populous country, the people of which have grappled with and conquered novel problems, have made the American desert blossom like the rose and made productive the flinty heart of nature.