The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-11-15
WHOLE NO. 1884.


sea, and all made accessible by the street car
lines, made very enjoyable December month.
Holiday season was magnificent. Every hoGse
seemed decorated with fragrant. aromatic ever
greens, brought from the mountains. Not con-
tent with the evergreen foliage Of the most
beautiful OF trees, the pepper tree; the long
spray OF leaf stems are somewhat like the
accacia; branches dropping IN the graceful
manner OF the weeping willow; long stems OF
scarlet berries bang among the branches some
trees are in bloom: some have the green ber-
ries. and some the ripe. The flower is
feathery brush OF delicate tilleul green. mingled
with the funeral cypress .he accacias OF differ
ont varieties, even TO the fiue-leaved gun
Arabic tree. with the fir, spruce and pine in
every conceivable shape; rose trees as large as
my wrist blooming all the year fuschias as
large as my arm, covered with tinted balls;
many fine ones have never seen at the North,
81 growing and blooming in the open air; Ger
man ivy, English ivy. IVY geranium, bearing
pink cluster blossom and climbing over high
board fences; fragrant boneysuckle. sweet
scented jasmine. calas by the cart-load. Yon
nay we'll think my 6rst walk 10 church was a
delight. "Oh. Earth thou beautiful Earth
one can scarcely see thee for the flowers :" The
passion vine. in flower and fruit, was growing
on many houses. That day is marked WITH the
white stone IN my memory After church. NV
brother said. "Do You feel equal 20 a little
walk?' In that exhieratiug atmosphere,
could have risen to the skies
We went where all the visible Fay could be
seen. The entrance to the sea. the ocean.
which seemed just beyond the narrow vista we
! looked through; Islands in the Bay. Oh. it
was SURPRISINGLY beautiful. But the markets
IN holiday week, decorated with wreaths trees
OF evergreen. flowers and green ribbons on the
meats, cut papers in fanciful designs, vegeta-
bles and fruits of every variety. except peaches.
apricots, and fresh figs. which are not in season
until June. eve have here a peach tree IN
blossom.) There were potatoes (fresh) from
Tahiti, only think Caulifowers looking ike
csmelias, so white were they large as a peck
measure, for dime: cabbage. lettuce. cress-
everything for salad; green peas and siring
beans. ripe tomatoes. fresh beets. turnips. sweet
potatoes, yams, strawberries, raspberres. mus
catel purple, black and rose -colored grapes,
APPLES from Oregon. what more can tell.
except that it was as il Eden had emptied bas-
ket and store ! shops you have seen: intensity
gold and gems, and you have those OF San
Francisco
1 left San Francisco on January 2nd, coming
through the dessert to Los Augelos. Those
angels have chosen a beautiful spot in which
to sit down for an earthly sojouru, giving
choice to Gabriel; for San Gabriel, ten miles
out on the plain, is garden.
The long stretch Of plain is dotted over with
pretty farmeres, looking like the toy villages
children set up; but as YOU approach them,
you find enclosed pretty hermitage. Orange
groves abound. Sometimes you see orchards
looking like our apple orchards, only YOU might
fancy the trees laden with small pumpkins the
yellow globes are so large and rich It is
luxury TO pick an orange as large as you ever
saw from the trees, and eat it, dropping rich
juices as you 90. They are luscious Lemons,
lines, abound. In the warm sunlight the
orange ard lime trees yield rich fragrance, as
you walk under them the fruit is guarded by
long thorns-beware Birds are fitting about
and singing as in June they much affect the
pepper bud which is filed with a sweet. pungent
pulp. sweet to the taste, but much like the egg
the Danbury News " admins cred to his hen
a few years ago. After eating it, one 4: inclined
+ TO cry FIRE..
By The way, these Mexican huts are al deco
rated with strings of red peppers drying in the
sum should think, bushels TO a house.
Everything dries in the sun here. Meats dry
on the outside in an hour or two. There seems
toIbe no putrdity in the air. Carcasses lying
out seem to dry [ There will be no odor from
them. Ravens and buzzards soon destroy them,
for they evidently =" scent the prey from afar."
These mountains shielding US from the north
ern blasts, and the Mission Hills on the south,
how can describe them, 1t requires the pen
OF Christopher North. How he would have
Ievelled in these mountains, VINO was SO in
spired By the rugged, frowning peaks OF old
Scotland. San Bernaidno, SIXTY miles east,
puts on his snowy cap, on which the sun beams
CLINT and dance radiuntly; 10000 feet above the
sea he stands, with two peaks, and slight
depression between. San Jsclnto, further wsst,
and not quite so far, emulates his ponderous
neighbor in glory. They seem not ten miles
away in the clear, Itch sunlight. The nearer
Sierra Madre are grey and dark, dipping their
feet in the valley. Along their sides already
the colored poppy, with many small highly
tinted flowers, have appeared. Only think: this
morning saw an advertisement for machine
to separate morning glory seed from alfalfa
whats that?" Why said my nephew,
the seed is troublesome; the plant is Wild
here" as dores, the Marvel Of Peru, and
wild heliotrope, cactii Of every grotesque varie-
~ horder fields making an impenetrabe