The Most Wonderful Thing

Chicago Inter-Ocean. A correspondent asked a Zuni Chief who carne East last f all: 'What of all you saw ín yourjourney impressed you most with the superiority of the white men over thelndians?' The father of the Zunis turned his eyes tovvard me, and auswer slowly: 'The ease wíth which they can get water. The white man takes the river into the walls of his home. By turning i liüle iron stick he can get that which we pray for all our lives!" This was the mind of the Zuni, the inhabitant of the barren, rainless land, the triumph of civilization. I asked him if he wanted to go back to the States, and he said: 'Yes, I grow strong with anxiety that that I may grow again."