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Show ', SOME AMERICAN TOURISTS. ' A London paper analyzet the record of visitors ; to Switterland during the present year. First ' came the Germans, then the English, then the French, and Americans, and it haa been a good , year for Switzerland. That is right, because the scenery of Switzer- land ia one. of the country 'a assets. They make 1 mora money upon tourists than they do from their ' soil. But of the Americana who went there, we ' would like to have their record. It ia safe to ; wager that nine out of ten of them, aa they took . off their hats in admiration of Mont Blanc, had ) never Been old Shasta, or Rainier, or Hood, or 1 "where rolls the Oregon," or the Grand canyon, r Tosemite, or Yellowstone park, and it is safe to aay that if any native Swiss guide, whfle they were : admiring Mont Blanc, had asked them if they ever . in their country had seen anything so majestic, 'they would answer, "Not at all;" that they hid ' seen Niagara, but that waa just a fall of water in eountry so flat that even the roar of, it ' carried but a few miles. And if some educated per-'. per-'. son had asked them about the wonders of their own country, he would have found to hia sorrow ' that they knew absolutely nothing. Not one in ; twenty could tell where the Yellowatone park ia or -. where Tosemite ia except that it ia somewhere in California near the big trees. There waa a very wealthy man in Nevada once. He made his money in a year in the Comatock. He built fine house in Washoe valley and had the door hingea made out of Comstock bullion. He engaged 4 friend to buy, a library for him, and with the library aome pictures. The writer called at hia house one ' morning, and in the din light of the hall saw u picture on the wall, and asked the owner what that was intended to represent. Hia reply was that "That la one of them there places on the upper Sacramento.", Going up to the picture, it waa seen that it waa the famous picture of Tosemite, which waa familiar to almost everyone in the west forty years ago. And'we suspect that if all those . tourists who visited Switzerland this year were ; shown picture of Shasta or Rainier and asked ( what it waa, they would answer: "It ia one of those places that we aaw in Switzerland, but we do not remember the name." - For their own sake, after Americans have '. made five or aix trips to Europe, they 'ought to make three months' trip to the west of their own . eountry, so that the next time they go to Europe ' they will be able to anawer intelligently the ordi- nary questions about their own eountry. |