Photograph by Hypo Coquille 

 UNCLE EPH^M AND HIS OLD GRAY MULE IN EROM THE COUNTRY : BAYOU SARA, 



LOUISIANA 



This is a surviving touch of the old South, of the days of "My Old Kentucky Home," 

 "Suwanee River," and "Old Black Joe" 



the places of natural beauty and the other 

 of the places of historic associations, are 

 under its control. 



INDEPENDENCE HALL AND VALLEY FORGE 



The State of Pennsylvania has her 

 share of shrines. In Philadelphia there 

 is Independence Hall, than which there 

 is no more hallowed edifice in Europe or 

 America, for it was in this old brick 

 building that democracy had its birth. 

 Surely no place in Europe holds as just 

 an appeal to the lover of liberty. 



And then there is Valley Forge, set 



aside by the State of Pennsylvania as a 

 park. How can Americans better com- 

 prehend the sufferings and sacrifices out 

 of which our nation was born than to go 

 to Valley Forge, and there on the very 

 ground read the story of that cruel winter 

 which moved the Father of His Country 

 to tears ! 



Within a few hours from Philadelphia, 

 Baltimore, or Washington is the battle- 

 field of Gettysburg, listed by the historian 

 Creasy as one of the fifteen decisive bat- 

 tles of all time. As you make your pil- 

 grimage to the sacred field through Mary- 



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