ry abounds all over the vicinity. The most
remarkable group of the cliff dwellers is to be seen in Walnut Canyon,
eight miles from Flagstaff. This is one of the deep gorges, the cliffs
rising several hundred feet above the valley; and they are sheer
terraced walls of limestone, running for over three miles. In these
terraces, in the most singularly inaccessible places, are dozens of the
cliff dwellings. Some of them are divided into compartments by means of
cemented walls, and they retain traces of quite a degree of
civilization.

The petrified forests of Arizona are a most extraordinary spectacle,
with its acres of utter desolation in its giant masses of dead trees
lying prostrate on the ground. Arizona is a land of the most mysterious
charm. The Grand Canyon alone is worth a pilgrimage around the world to
see,--a spectacle so bewildering that words are powerless to suggest the
living, changing picture. "Long may the visitor loiter upon the rim,
powerless to shake loose from the charm, tirelessly intent upon the
silent transformations until the sun is low in the west. Then the canyon
sinks into mysterious purple shadow, the far Shinumo Altar is tipped
with a golden ray, and against a leaden horizon the long line of the
Echo Cliffs reflects a soft brilliance of indescribable beauty, a light
that, elsewhere, surely never was on sea or land. Then darkness falls,
and should there be a moon, the scene in part revives in silver light, a
thousand spectral forms projected from inscrutable gloom; dreams of
mountains, as in their sleep they brood on things eternal."

[Sidenote: A Tragic Idyl of Colorado.]

I hung my verses in the wind,
Time and tide their faults may find.
All were winnowed through and through,
Five lines lasted sound and true;
Five were smelted in a pot
Than the South more fierce and hot;
These the siroc could not melt,
Fire their fiercer flaming felt,
And the meaning was more white
Than July's meridian light.
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,
Nor time unmake what poets know.
Have you eyes to find the five
Which five hundred did survive?

--EMERSON.

Not only verses, but lives, are "winnowed through and through," and time
and tide reveal their faults and their virtues. In the history of the
State of Colorado there is one man whose life and work stand out in
noble pre-eminence; whose character is one to inspire and to reward
study as an example of intelle