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12 NYE IN CALIFORNIA. He Roams at Large in the Luxu riant Orange Groves. Why Ho Will Not Vist the World's Fair. Something About a Big Hotel and How It Is Located. ICopvrlKht. 1803, by Edzar W. Nycf.f Among the Oranges and Lemons. 1 March, f The contrast between Maine and south cm California as rival winter resorts i very great Here the orange is picked during the entire year, and it is csti mated that enough oranges fall oil and are plowed under as fertilizers each yeut to supply the new wtate of Wyoming completely the year round. It is estimated that established orange orchards of' a good quality yield 10 pet cent <>n the investment. Os course poor brands of oranges just like ill chosen orchards of poor mis. rable apples, yield intieii less A young orchard not only does this after it is in bearing, but in creases very greatly in value each year This iidorniaiioii 1 get from old and tried friends and not from agents, and 1 speak es]>eeially ot Riverside, where the orange is found in its greatest perfection aud free from disease The banana grows in southern Cali forma bnt would rather not. K was in duced to try this country by the taran tula which flourishes here and loves to dust off mie s chest with his hairy legs An amateur Cleopatra here used the ta rantula with great effect in taking her own life in theidosing scene, but the bite of the tarantula Involved so much skirt , ! mcing ami calisthenics that the scenic / eil<a‘t was good and did much to revive Cleopatra on the coast. As i write this it is raining great big ivon csof eastern rain of the wet kind and yet a hospitable man has tiis open •> < loriaat the door for me to go riding f .i the purpose of adding to my collection <>l scenery Hospitality is one of the best products of the human heart, and there is no dan ger of overproduction, but 1 am so thor onghly gorged with scenery from the Natural Bridge in Virginia totheGolden Gale that when any one says scenery to me I writhe Orange orchards are rare and beautiful sights, but when I can sit in this warm room gathered about a big coal tire aud see miles of them from the window why should 1 put on my fur overcoat ami a mackintosh in order to freeze and cry out with assumed delight every nail mile while 1 gradually get Pomona of the lungs? > r'j Wlj z H®Sl <\ & ®L'/ o— I’l ,;>: '/ f ...j '■ i ■ r 'JI I IN AN ORANGK ORCHARD. Everything grows here that one can j well ask for except hard wood and coal 1 Coal here mostly conies from British Co : Jumbia and Australia. The seasons of the year here don’t j know enough to come in when it rains i As a well known San Francisco poet and I chiropodist so truly and sweetly de I scribes it “I'is the land where It’s always afternoon. The seasonsof which the savants tell us “ are four- viz. spring, summer, autumn ) and winter but they are not used here at ] all You have to keep a calendar in order to know whether it’s Christmas or the Fourth of July, and though roses grow in great big masses wherever you put them a bearskin overcoat with the pock ets full of moth powder should not be over eight feet away the year round. in California you don t ask for a room at the hotel where you get a fine pros pect. You ask for ouo that the sun shines on and iu. California will doubtless supply the most beautiful and interesting exhibit of any state at the World’s fair. 1 shall not go to the exposition, for 1 cannot bear the humiliation of seeing North Caro lina s meager showing compared with the enterprise and wonderful beauty of this state's exhibit. An entire orchard of oranges in bear ing has been taken up bodily, and with the trees carefully boxed and the roots and soil complete will be reproduced at Chicago That is only a little pointer on the style of enterprise that will crop out wherever California’s name appears. 1 compare this with North Carolina be cause on j of the fair officials irom North Carolina has spoken to r e several times about her utter negligence iu regard to the matter and the sorrowful display as it will appear when compared with other states. Should this reminder be the means of arousing a sickly ambition 1 am content. North Carolina beats the world on ap ples. and the pokeberry ink grown there is redder than any 1 have ever before en countered. As the poet so truly and so graphically goes on to state: Oh. how 1 love to write upon the hotel letterhead And chase a thought with nimble, trenchant pen. To squeeze the berry of the poke judiciously And jerk with Joy a drop of ink! Oh. what a glorious thing is thought. Ami whal a toy to make a nation thinkl In using the above and quoting from myself I give utterance to a sentiment that every one has experienced. The Coronado Beach hotel, near San Diego, is about the largest hotel at which 1 ever put up so much as I did when 1 same awiv from the plftce. The surf, is nearu oeaiing witn a low nah 'bf'Jo boom against the beach. Thia boom costs one $2 per day. Food, lodging and | boom each $2. Still that is cheap for a ■ boom. I remained three-quarters of a day at the San Diego hotel and then resumed work. I hate to be idle. The Coronado : cost a very large sum of money, but did } i not pay, so a creditor bought it for SIOO,- ; 000, and while he was thinking what he J would do with it was offered $1,600,000. i Be accepted it at once, as he already had r another hotel. ', It was full when I was there at living rates, say $6 to $65 per day The court yard contains 80 acres of land, which is very valuable, as people are constantly settling up in the neighlxirhood—if they can The dining room is bounded as fol low < Beginning at the southeast corner at a sideboard; thence running 8 poles 2 chains and 8 links to a palm tree; thence south 11 poles 2 chains and 4 links to a fir place; thence west 47 degreesß poles 8 cuiun.s and 2 links; thence north 10 poles 1 chain 2 links to place of beginning. Invalids are admitted if they will agree not to die in the house. In one room, under the bell push, the following state ment was made: ; rWHUBHU need not ring for water, as a t ; good spring will be found in the bed. The way to find the Coronado hotel on landing in San Diego is to look first for the Opera house where we appear The fol ( lowing is a drawing of it from memory: / ,ID ,’J 0 o a o a o A rrprpMentJ* the auditorium. B proscenium. C dressing room I) people gayly entering. Inquire there, and you will be shown the Coronado which you will recognize 1 by the rates which come into view long 1 before the hotel is reached. ! Carriage lure and Mount Hood are the ! two highest things on the coast aside | from that. San Diego county is larger than Massa- I chusetts. but not so thickly populated. It is a balm for the consumptive if he i will tea little careful about taking cold. I The climate and bay are so soft and i equable that most, every consumptive has ! a nice big palm over his grave. This statement is not intended to re- ; fleet on the climate Many consumptives come liere aud live as long as they care to. Still it is a lovely spot. At Riverside 1 met my old friend W J Mclntyre Y ears ago he was the agent of the government at the seal islands. i He staid therewith his family for years I among the Aleut Indians and studied the whole hhiii imluHtry He made a long and careful re{H»rt, showing howthe gov ernment might with a thorough, careful BupervtHlon kill 100.(100 weals per year and not damage the plant. This report took all tits spare time while there. He re turned in fur garments he aud his wife ; and little girl, and with a head of whisk i ers tiiat people came hundred of miles i to see The New York press was eager to get ! some ol the matter contained in his re i port but he said 'No it belongs to the 1 government So. although he was not; rich, hi l was loyal He took the report to his chief and offered it to him. The chief who is now no more, hav ing been ere this judged for his crooked ness.’ said haughtily to Captain Mcln tyre. ‘When the government wants a report from you. it will signify it. Good morning.' Captain Mclntyre, who was redheaded then and did not know that cabinet officers sometimes stood in with a seal killing syndicate, threw the care fully prepared document in the grate 1 and began the practice of law. His ad -1 vice would, if followed, have saved all I Behring sea trouble. He has been rewarded, and I am glad ' to see that things are going his way. I Honesty is not always fatal to prosperity. California is rioted for its roads and j streets. 1 took a 12-mile ride the other 1 day without fatigue, ate 16 large navel ! oranges and picked out a good orange ; grove for my wife. Orange groves are worth from S7OO to $l,lOO per acre, ac ! cording to the age of trees and the quality or variety of the fruit. Ten acres or 1 twenty is the size of the average orchard. 1 A man can be hired reasonably to take care of the trees and attend to the mar keting. 1 took half an acre. ■ II I®® EATING SIXTEEN LARGE ORANGES. I got a good man who promised to take j care of it at a reasonable price per year ’ and not eat any without consulting me ’ at New York. I thought of this plan my self and will introduce it into California The Pacific ocean reminds me very much of the Atlantic and evidently be longs to the same family. It contains ' salt, seaweed and the Sandwich Islands 1 The people of California are, after all j the best feature of the whole country 1 The cream of the ambition, kindliness ’ industry and thrift of the older states is ! i here. It explains why you sometimes j strike an old deserted village in the far j east, where only the old or incapacitated i are to be met with. The young are here. Booms may come, and booms may go, ! but California will go on forever, tl I I P. S.—Thanks are hereby extended to j I M” Isaac W. Lord, who attended our par- THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, APRIL 12, 1893. ronnanev at san Bernardino and laugnea heartily during the evening. “YES r Cf all fair wx>men. grave or gay. The one I ofteneat bless la she who never falls to say In tones Inquiring, “Year* Naught else an well a mas can teach Ills real thoughts to repress And seal his Ups and soul from speech As this mild, neutral “Yea?" Her charming grace I prize and praise, Iler worth, her loveliness, And quite approve of all her ways Except thia maddening "Yea?" Life must, I know, perplexing be Ah baffling game of chess. But any fate I'll brave if she Will only not say "Yes?" I oft resolve my woe to tell. My grievance dire confess. But what's the use? 1 know quite well bU>'ll gently murmur “Yes?" —Pittsburg Bulletin. The Wrong Man. III»' IL H i LJi if fjl Kr i r M I * is l \ kt.. .ml .*! 1 Wf’ # i ... A wj/ bw® $ in. f/i I fr J I ■ F ......J *— rv. —Harper’s Ba jar. Polite. Few of Ezra Hinckley’s frienfe and few of the village poor had ever tiken a nteal at his house, yet he was rich though to have fed ths hungry often “wthout feeling it,” as his neighbors used to say But one day a Frenchman, who /id odd jobs about the town, found hiaway to Ezra’s heart. I Ezra rebuffed him once, but axer that he gave orders that whenever Antoine came he should have the best thJ kitchen afforded. / One night at dinner, after the f oup was removed, he sat for some momlnts look ing in pleased anticipation inti the face of a beautifully browned littleroast pig Suddenly he heard a movement. He looked up. There stood Antone. “Pardon, monsieur, I see 1 nterrupt a tete-a-tete!” said the Frenchtsin and re tired. —Youth’s Companion. I Anxious to Know! Old Mrs. Boffins—Oh, doaor, do you think there is anything ,s<riously the matter with my lungs? Dr. Pulinon (after caretil examina tion) —1 find, madame, that your lungs are in a normal condition. I Mrs. B. (with a sign of ppus resigna tion) —And for how long cifc I expect to live with them like that?—lndy. To the Poinn Ten girls in a composlion class in a Cincinnati school were sold by their teacher to write a telecam such as would be suitable to seiJ home in case of a railway accident yhile traveling One of the girls WTOter’Dear Papa- Mamma is killed. 1 aJ in the refresh meat room.”—New YorJTribune. The Root Jit. “What makes you adAire Shakespeare so much?” / She—Because he tails about the sqven ages of man and neve/ mentions that of woman.—Chicago Int/r Ocean. \ Truly E/gHsh. “Wheah is Cholli/ I not met the dealt boy saw a-peek.” “He went to Lunfion to get his haib cut.” —Indianapolis Journal- READING THE FUTURE. Great Things Shall Come to Pass in 1993. The Railways and the Steamships Will be Obsolete. Prophecies from Miller the Poet and Miller the Statesman- [Copyright, 1893, by American Press Associa tion.] Man, having conquered the earth and the sea, will complete his dominion over ruv turc by the subjugation of the atmosphere. This will be the crowning triumph of the coming century. Long before 1993 the jour ney from New York to San Francisco, across the continent, and from New York to London, across the sea, will be made between the sunrise and suuset of a summer day. The railway and the steamship will be as obsolete as the stagecoach, and ft will be as common for the citizen to call for his dirigible balloon as it now is for his buggy or his boots. Electricity will be the mo tive power and aluminium or some lighter meta) the material of the aerial cars Which are to navigate the abyss of the sky. The electric telegraph will be supplanted by the telephone, which will be so per fected and simplified that instruments in every house and office will permit the com munication of business and society to be conducted by the voice at will from Bos ton to Moscow and Hoang-Ho os readily as now between neighboring villages. This will dispose of the agitation of the proposition to take the railroads and tele graphs away from those who own them and give them to those who do not. Domestic life and avocations will be ren dered easier, less costly and complex by the distribution of light, heat and energy through storage cells or from central elec tric stations, so that the “servant prob lem’’ will cease to disturb, and woman having more leisure her political and so cial status will be elevated from subordiniv tion to equality with man. The contest between brains and numbers, which began with the birth of the race, will continue to its extinction. The strug gle will be fierce and more relentless in the coming century than ever before in the his tory of humanity, but brains will keep on top, as usual. Those who fail will outnum ber those who succeed. Wealth will accu mulate, business will combine, and the gulf between the rich and the poor will be more profound. But wider education activity of the moral forces of the race will ultimately compel recognition of the fad that the differences between men are or ganic and fundamental—that they result from an act of God and cannot be changed by an act of congress. The attempt to abolish poverty, pay debts and cure the ills of society by statute will be the favorite prescription of ignorance, incapacity and credulity for the next hun dred years, as it has been from the begin ning of civilization. The condition in the United States is unprecedented, from the fact that all the implacables and malcon tents are armed with the ballot, and if they are unanimous they can control the purse and the sword by legislation, but the perception that the social and political condition here, with all its infirmities, is immeasurably the best will undoubtedly make our system permanent and preserve it even again, t essential modifications. , Our greatest city in 1998? Chicago! It Is a vortex, with a constantly increasing circumference, into which the wealth and population of the richest and most fertile area of the earth’s surface is constantly concentrating. When this anniversary re turns Chicago will be not only *he greatest city in the United States, but in the world. JOHN J. INGALLS. The Future of Cotton Manufacturing. [From Our New York Correspondent.] Mr. M. C. D. Borden has within the past year gained distinction as one of the great powers in a certain branch of the commer cial and business world. He is an authority on cotton manufacturing especially, and has recently completed one of the greatest cot ton mills in the world. When asked his opinion of the future of manufacturing in terests, especially cotton manufacturing, Mr. Borden said: Cotton manufacturing in the south has come to stay. It is going to lie greatly de veloped in the next century. It is going to be of vast benefit to that section of the country. The number of mills will be grei - ly increased and the quality of the product steadily improved. This will add million 1 to the wealth of the cotton producing states. The pre-eminence of the New England states in cotton manufacturing will not, however, be threatened by this great and healthy development in the south. I do not look for any serious competition be tween the manufacturers of the two sec tions, but. lam inclined to think that in the next century it will be found that Ameri can cot ton manufacturers will have wrest ed the markets of the world from the great manufacturers of England, who have for the greater part of this century controlled these markets. Just as surely as the tide rises, just so surely American cotton goods in the next century are going to command the markets of the world. We have already almost reached that point. We are compet ing in some sections of the world with Man chester, and successfully. I think this is true, too, of many other lines of American manufactures. Our peo ple are slowly, perhaps, but surely reaching the time when American goods will be in greater demand than those produced in Great Britain or upon the continent of Europe. In the next century the dawn of that day when our manufacturing suprem acy is acknowledged will be witnessed, and, I think, by many people who are now living. The commercial development of the United States in the Twentieth century will be prodigious. Those of us who are in business life now get some hint of it, and it is clear to me that while we are to be the greatest agricultural nation in the world we are also just as surely reaching forward for commercial and manufacturing suprem acy as for supremacy in these products of the soil. It is going to be a great century so live in, this one which begins seven years hence. Joaquin Miller’s Prediction. I am not wise or learned in things to be, but will venture a few predictions. In the first place, our government will be less com plex and go forward year after year with less friction and better results—like an im proved machine. We will cut off the for eign vote, the ignorant vote and the ver dant vote. As we grow better in body and mind venerable men will have their place of honor, os of old. If a good man by tem perance and healthful toil and wise care preserves his body and mind, like Glad stone, for example, he has saved the life of at least one citizen, a brave thing to do of old. And it is not fit that such a man should be put in a prize ring to fight with lusty young adventurers for his place in the sen ate. It is already his by right. Let 10,000 entirely qualified voters, representing at least 100,000 people, send up to the state capital their oldest man, and it is all on the register. Let the state then send to Wash iiuztou its two oldest Glads totes qs .se’-lu urn., aiirr ho on up io me presiaeui, tutu Et, on down to the juntice of the peaea. What a saving of time, temper, tamnhood, money! When we have grown a generation or two of Thurmans, Blaines, Gladstones, we will leave elections in the hands of God, where we found them. This U my plan, my prophecy. As for cities, we will build new ones, on pleasant, beautiful sites, as men now build hotels. Even now millions are waiting for those who will build a new c*ty, complete sewers, pipes, pavements, all things com plete, and empty the unclean and rotten old into the healthful and pleasant new. We are going to have great cities, such as have not been. Whereabouts I don’t know, but all the world is going to town. Ma chinery has emancipated man from the fields. What about big fortunes? Well, I think we will some day require the bulk of the rich man's money, when he is done with it, of course, to build national parks with and in other ways help the nation which helped him to get hold of it. As for literature, our writers will surely soon turn back to the oriental or ideal, as against the realistic school, and remain there. They cannot very well improve on the Bible, Arabian tales or Shakespeare. Meanwhile the sensational and personal newspapers of today will disappear down the sluice ami sewer of indictable nuisances. Discoveries? Truly it seems to me that very soon some new Columbus will come from among us to launch his airships on the great high seas and gulf streams that surge and roll above us. Yefr maybe this faith is founded on what has been rather than on any sign of what is to be. Who will be best remembered? Why, Edison, of course. Yes, most certainly we will be handsomer, healthier, happier, too, aud ergo better, for man is not a bad animal at all if he only has half a chance to be good. And he certainly has such a chance to be good now, and to do good, too, as never was known before. And he will do his best with it. Let us believe in him and trust him entirely, for in that way is the good Gud. JOAQUIN MILLER. Warner Miller on the Nicaraguan Canal. [From Our New York Correspondent.] Ex-Senator Warner Miller, in speaking of the Nicaraguan canal project, said: “In the early years of the next century it is go ing to be possible to go from NeW York by steamer to San Francisco or the South American countries without making the trip through the Straits of Magellan. The Nicaraguan canal is as sure to be built as tides are to ebb and flow and the seasons to change. If the United States does not build it, either by private subscription or through the encouragement of the government, it will be built by those who live in other lands. The canal is inevitable, and the ef fect of its construction upon the destiny of the United States is something almost in conceivable. "It is to be as conspicuous an engineer ing triumph of the next century as the Suez canal was of this. The tonnage which will be carried through it will within five years after opening exceed the tonnage that passes through Suez. Its effect upon the railway problems of the United States no man can accurately forecast, but it will be enormous. It is going to furnish means for the development of the magnificent wealth of the South American countries, and if the United States controls the canal, or United States capital does, this develop ment will be enormously to our own ad vantage. “I cannot speak with enthusiasm enough of this vast undertaking which is to see its triumph in the Twentieth century. I don’t believe any man, however vivid his imag ination, can fully suggest the enormous in fluence which this artificial water highway will have upon the commercial destiny of the United States. If I should suggest one half of what 1 believe to be possible I might be regarded as an absurd dreamer.” From Chief Statistician Bruck, of the Treas ury Department, I believe that in 1993 we will have the most perfect republican form of govern ment in the United States that was ever conceived in the minds of the wisest states men, and the social condition of the people will be such that there will be no suffering from the deprivation of the necessities of life. All will have happy homes. Vice and immorality will largely if not altogether have ceased to exist. There will be not only great intellectual but very great moral advancement. We are making wonderful strides in that direction now. There will be less government than there is now, and it will be more simple. There is no likelihood that the railroads and telegraphs will ever be managed by the state, for the reason that when the state takes charge of railroads and telegraphs there would be the same reason that the government should take charge of all other enterprises which are now owned and con trolled by individuals, such as street car lines, manufactures, steamship lines, farms. Individual enterprise and opportunities would largely cease. There would be no incentive, or comparatively none, for in vention or for individual effort of any kind. All citizens would simply become wards of the nation and would receive their portions from the state and would return to inaction or indolent effort. Probably the government will then own and control all the products of our gold and silver mines, and they will be held by the government, as now, for the purpose of redeeming the paper obligations of the gov ernment, although such redemption will largely be unnecessary for the reason that there will be such stability in our financial laws that the people will not question the value of any of the obligations of the gov ermnent. The people by this time will have become educated to such an extent that the vice of intemperance will largely cease, saloons or public drinking places will probably no longer exist, and stimulants of any kind, if used at all, will probably be only seen in the family. Improved methods of treatment for the confinement and punishment of criminals will be inaugurated and much more atten tion be given to their reformation than to their punishment. Wealth undoubtedly will be much more evenly distributed. There will be great com fort and prosperity with the masses as well. The condition of the laboring classes will be less dependent and greatly improved, and there will be more friendly relations existing between employers and. the em ployees, better understanding and greater equality. Methods of agriculture will be such and the improvement in agricultural machinery so great that all the immense population of 1993 will be amply provided for, and American citizens will continue to be the best dressed, the best fed and the best housed people of the world. There will be great advancement in all the professions in literature, music and the drama. People will be longer lived. They will understand much better tqje nature of their wants and the treatment bf diseases. They will be better natured and more con ciliatory; consequently there will be less need of the laws and laws’ methods. The whole tendency of the race will be to ward comfort, leisure, luxury, cultivation, simplicity in dress and broader charity in all social relations. The race will be hand somer, healthier and happier than ever be fore in the history of the world. S. G. BROCK. ALWAYS READ THE CHRONICLE FOR NEWS. ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when. Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers aud cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. LOUISVILLE, KV. AflV WRK, N.V. LURES ALL SKIN AND BLODD DISEASES. ’ PnysiHana'«Ddora< P. i*. P. as a" splen<tid combination. and prescribe tt with greet satisfaction for the cares of ail “Fynhllb, Syphilitic RbsnmatUm. Scrofulous (Hcera itfid Sores. Glandular Swellings, Rheumatism, Malaria, old /Ihronlc Ulcers that have resisted all treatment, Catamlf „ nnaccyi?Es Kr.r.taDPQisoi st?n ,^!ea*e»?'^kreaST^hrontc Bl ßma!?TomplSul? curial Pulton, Tetter, Scald Head, etc., etc. P. P. P. Is a powerful toiric, and nn excellent appetlfW, fwSbz wße Ladles whose sy.terns are poisoned and whose blood la in cures .r.r.MAiARiA bjnE7*wouderful ‘tcmSd J cleansing properties of P. P. P., Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium. L.tpt't'- a’ - 'iiics., •SruggUs, AHSAfI, OA. We’re All Glad Winter’s over. Are’nt you tired of it—that suit you’ve had since last fall ? Wouldn’t one of our new stylish blue grays do you good make you feel fresher ? Our $35 line are cer tainly the prettiest pat terns ever gotten up for j men. We’ve a $25 line, ; too, that is better than most $35 goods elsewere. j To one who knows, it i. means a great deal to say that our suitings as good as our makeup and finish. They’ve always been good—they’re bet now than ever. Dorr, Tailor, Hatter, Outfitter, 718 Broad Street. Subscribe to the Chronicle. J ‘ i • -