Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-01-01

ent often dispenses entirely with awk-
ward facts in the fervOr of his poetical
descriptions. Here is specimen oi
the florid writing which comes under
our class No. 1; it is an extract from a
letter printed in the Ventura Signal
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December is here with the balmy breath OF
| June; perfume OF flowers upon the breeze,
shimmering OF sunlight over all the deep
hued, brilliant blossoms in our garden and
an intensity OF rest and calm in all the at
mosphere. The mountains have just u touch
of green upon their graceful slopes-the shad-
ows lie heavily through the deep cadOnS,
from which at night the mists come creeping
up the heights, carrying the secrets of the sea
! There is so much of beauty and poetry In
these days that when one reads of "fierce
storms" and drifting snow" beyond the Sier-
ras, he az a new-comer) finds a thread of un-
reality in all. When the uplands are being
sown in rye, wheat and barley; when the
markets are filled with yellow pears and
scarlet strawberries, with purple grapes and
| golden oranges, when the standing corn rus
Ties in al The fields there is no realization of
Winter and December is but myth.
The place is blaze of flowers, with beauti-
ful shiubbery and pampas grass, moving Its
| softly tinted salmon flowers in the sunshine.
Climbing "Lamarques" and Marshal Neils"
| open their creamy petals from the verandahs
| and the bright "Agrippinas" burn their GRIM
son hearts upon the bushes. This Is but u
| type of the MANY beautiful homes Los Ange-
| les contains. There is a soft langour in the
| air seemingly inconsistent with the crowded
| streets and busy life of the city. II is great
resort for tourists, and is said to have had a
! greater rush of visitors this season than ever
known before, coming from all parts of the
| globe to this land :
"Where the sun goes down
And golu is found by tide and stream;
Where maidens are brown as the cocoa brown
+ And life is love and love is a dream"
This is all we'll in its way, but the not
very astute reader upon its perusal
would picture to himself perfect
Eden. While there is not an untruth
in the extract, the subject is dressed
up in such poetical verbiage and
such an interesting hiatus is left that
the imagination goes on and fills it up
with all sorts of false impressions.
Thus it is that enthusiastic people
allow their fancies to run away with
their Judgment and work an absolute
injury to the country which they in
tend to benefit. When these effu-
sions fall into the hands of other peO-
pie as sentimental as the writer's. a
wrong impression is formed which in
time is certain of disappointment.
These over-wrought fancies are like
the Dead Sea apples that turn into
ashes with the tasting. Sensible peo-
pie, of course, will not be deluded by
such fruit, but even with them an in
jury is done, as an article which they
know is false in its imputations in
clines them to scepticism concerning
the whole subject. Intelligent, think
ing people must know that Southern
California is subject to it's share of the
asperities of our common country, but
they should also learn that it is a Sec
tion possessing many practical advan-
tages which practical people may ap-
preciate and enjoy.
correspondents. They are people who
come to Los Angeles and are disap-
pointed in their expectations. They
went out to find land of milk and
honey and everything they meet turns
to gall and wormwood. They are an
unfortunate class who are never hap
py, and most of their ideas emanate
from bilious stomach. The same
weakness of reasoning faculties which
betrayed them into u belief of i'm
probabilities before coming here turns
them into as great a scepticism regard
ing everything they see. In conse-
quense the country press and some of
the metropolitan papers through the
East are filled with unjust animadver-
sions upon our country, and the pub.
lication is often inspired on the part OF
the press by sectional jealousy. Nota-
BILE among this class of correspondents
is one George Washington Linton,
whom one of the city papers charac-
terizes as "peripatetic humbug."
From letter recently published in
the Akron (O.) Argus we summarize
his views as follows:
He continues to find fault with ev-
erything he sees. He sneers at our
people because they are composed OF
nine different nationalities; he finds
that hundreds of our families live in a
shiftless manner; that lumber costs
$50 per thousand; that We are overrun
with squirrels, flies, fleas, mosquitoes
and goph9rs; that our climate is not
what it IS represented; that an incred-
ible number of land titles are not good;
that owing to scarcity of water but "a
\ very small portion of our county is
available for agriculture; that he
knows instances where parties have
failed to find flow of artesian water;
that our vegetables are tibrous and
lacks flavor; that there is not much
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