Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-28

this end of the world? or course not. So
for few weeks at least, shall send you
letter from this side of the continent in
stead of the other.
HOW TO GET THERE.
Take any route you choose to Chicago,
and then take the Chicago and Northwest
ern Road TO Omaha. Take Pullman cars,
fyou have to go with one meal day
less, for the comfort of riding all day in
them and sleeping in them nights, pays
for more than ten times the cost II you
have any regard for your bones, take the
Pullman car at Chicago, and pay the
price without grumbling. There is a
blessing on any seat in them. At Omaha,
it is Hobson's choice, for there is but one
railroad-the Union Pacific. You can
walk to San Fran cisco, but would not
advise it. A walk of 1000 miles is no
joke. know something about it, for
not only had a substitute in the army
who was IN Shermans march TO the sea,
but was personally in the late blockade
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the Union Pacific, and was compelled to
walk four miles around il. At the start l
thought could walk the whole distance
to San Francisco at the end of the first
mile l concluded to take the cars again
at Ogden, 900 miles ahead, and by the
time l got to where the train was that
was TO take us on, was quite conlented
TO crawl into the Pullman, and permit
steam to do the walking for me- Don't
walk it. that is if you weigh 240 pounds.
THE COUNTRY
From Omaha through the entire State
ofNebraska, the eye is delighted with a
succession OF views of the finest country
that lies out of DOORS Vast plains of the
| most beautiful lands in the world stretch
out on either hand, intersected by the
| most lovely streams of clear, rapid rum
ming water, the tables rising one above
the other. Rich, prosperous towns are
located at convenient distances, and ev-
erywhere there are visible signs of thrift
and prosperity.
| When you leave Nebraska, however,
| you strike another kind of country.
| Through Wyoming Territory the sage
brush and alkali plains abound, and they
continue till the eye wearies of them.
Imagine vast plain, reaching farther
than your eye, treeless and grassless, COW
cred with wild sage and the still more
disagreeable grease-wood, and inhabited
by no living thing. A tomtit would
starve on thousand acres, and snakes
| grow poor there. There is no water for
vegetation, and no vegetation for water
The sage and grease-wood seem TO grow
T-0,, Il
bad landscape worse.
After crossing the Rocky Mountains,
you find some good lands till you pass
Ogden, in Utah, then you come to sage
brush again, with rocks thrown in to add
to the general dreariness of the scene On
the west slope of the Sierra Nevadas, you
get patches of the most delightful cOun-
try till you get down to the California
| plain, when you strike country the
beauty of which may be imagined, but
| cannot be described. It is simply gor-
geous. shall have something more to
say OF the country from Omaha to San
Francisco, hereafter.
By the way, if you want to know all
about Nebraska, send a postal card to o.
F. Davis, Omaha, Nebraska. asking him
TO send you copy of the Pioneer, which
he will do free of charge. 1t is reliable
and truthful, and is full of valuable infor-
nation about that country.
SAN FRANCISCO
| is a modern wonder Scarcely twenty
| years old, it contains nearly 200,000 peO-
| pie, and as many fine buildings as any
other city ofits size in the country. Ma
/ ny buildings-indeed the most of them
are low, three stories being the regular
height, which gives the city something of
| a sou atty appearance, but there is a rea-
son for this. Earthquakes are somewhat
common on this coast, and when they
come they shake up things rather lively.
But why they build low on this account,
l cannot see. If building tumbles
down what difference does It's height
make? If stone weighing ten tons is to
fall on me in an earthquake, don't see
| that il would make any difference wheth-
er IT dropped from the top of three or a
six story building. But there may be a
difference And if / can employ China
man, at a reasonable price, to make the
experiment, will do so and send report.
1 am willing TO do almost anything 10
get at facts. Speaking Of
| CHINAMEN,
here you have them in all their native
ugliness. They come here first, and
majority of them stay here. They do the
| most of the housework, all the washing
and ironing, and very large proportion
| of the cobbling and cigar making They
are not particular as 70 how they make
living, so that they make it. They will
wash your linen, clean your windows
scrub your floors, wait at your tables or
they will go out into the mountains and
shovel dirt On your railways. They are
industrious, quick, active, and. as rule,
faithful and, accustomed as they are to
strict obedience, they are easily mauag-
ed. As cooks and chambermaids, or
rather chambermen, they are favorites
| with California hOuse-keeperS, for they
are neat and trustworthy. A Chinaman
rafting at table, with his clean. cotton
trousers and frock, his nOlslrss step ana
nimble movements, is sight Tor SICK
stomachs to one who has inWardly re-
belled at the greasy men walters oil tne
East BY the way, why don't the people
of the East, who have been 50 long under
the iron heel of BiddyOcracy, send here
for Chinese servants? Think, Oh, ye
house. keepers how delightful il must
be TO have q servant who can cook, chop
wood, clean windows, clean buggies, run
on errands make up beds and do every
thing else with the silence and precision
of a machine-who can understand all
YOU say, but whose only answer Is, "Al.
ieelite." That's the kind of u slave to
have. And you can get them for from $I2
to $25 per month. They are so cheap
that am going TO have three of them.
have nothing under heaven for them to
do, but they are so cheap that 1t seems
pity not TO indulge in Chinamen.
They ought TO be put In the mines and
on the railways of the East for the sake
of peace-and quiet They dent strike or
combine, and they never get drunk sat
urday nights. And it Is mistake 10
suppose that they are OF no use 10 Tue
communities in which they dwell Ihey
earn their money and spend 1t as do 9th
er people. True, they save something
every month, but never heard that
thriilness was vice. Nor are they go-
ing back to China TO any alarming ex.
tent, At the beginning, they did go back
when they had made their pile, but now
they put II in town'lots, and'stay. They
have discovered that they can live here
aud die here-that they can live better
here than IN China, and here they are