Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-08-09
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The "GlOriOus Climate Of CaIiforny."
from Benz. +. Taylor's "Between the Gates"l
The climate of the Coast stimulates men
and women like wine. 1t gives them courage
that is not Dutch but weather, and confidence
that is not concet but intoxication. 1t quick
ems the pulse and the step and the brain. 1t
sends them wild for pleasurabe excitement.
/ 1t strengthens the passions. It keeps every
| body under whip and spur II makes him
| impatient Of patience You live ten years in
/ five. and it is secured against you. II is n
debt with inevitable payment. A man who
has not attained his mental growth can come
here and shoot up for ten years like a rocket.
/ But alua, when he comes down, it is sudden.
abrupt. like 'the stick" A man who has
reached his law Of Limitation can migrate to
California and flash up brilliantly Il little
longer.
Watch brckuyers, brisk in their motions
as busy ants Those men at the East would
move with the delberation of an old hall
clock pendulum with the weights Just running
down. It is the climate Seventy miles in
twcnty-four hours at the East, over satin
road in December, is Il Jehu of drive. Here
| sixty miles before suudown hurts nobody.
Your horse has been drinking California air
| He will do his best or die a-trying. But he
will not last, anymore than his master. Hewill
want an extra feed. He cannot be a chameleon.
lie cannot live forever on air He looks in
mmbler for stmulant. By-and-by he flick
crs, and il is ''Out, brief candle :" 1t is the
| climate. II sharpens appetite.
Boys and girls are born with percussion
caps on. Touch them and they explode.
They ripeu early, in this sun and tonic air.
| into manhood and womauhood You can see
mothers Of fourteen and see no marvel.
About forty thousand pupils are enrolled in
| the fifty-siX public schools of San Francisco,
and seven thousand in the hundred and TWEEN
| ty private schools and colleges. 1t is quite as
difficult to govern the young human Califor-
! mia animal as it is to catch up a globule of
quicksilver from a marble table with a thumb
and finger. Is it boy? He shouts. runs,
leaps struggles, just as his pulse beats-be-
cause he cannot stop it. lie has opinions.
though his beard is pcachy down. He is as
! positive as a trip-hammer. Is it girl: She
is as volatile as Cologne, her voice is Joyous,
her step dancers, her laugh contagious. She
! is as dnshing as yacht in white-cNp breeze.
l live neighbor to the Lincoln School, as
| fine structure as you will find anywhere.
aud set in the midst Of semi tropical garden.
! You should soc the twelve hundred boys and
girls ''let OUT at noon and then let UCmselres
| ont Swallows courSng mill-pond ephem-
era dancing in sunbcams bees swarming
when the hive is full: happy as Il speckled
! trout in the spring brooks, Izank Walton dead
and the anglers gone away not boisterous.
! but breezy not rude but eifervesccnt You
would not be surprised it the mercury in their
veins should distance the mercury in the ther-
mometer and stand at 40 degrees Quick
eyed, quick footed, quick -witted, they are for
ever on spree they exult in state of
chronic climate intoXication. They are Ian
| guild as lizards, clumsy rs humming birds.
and idle as beavers in high water. Lazness
is tried out of you and blown out Of you by
cloudless suns and trade-winds.
The weather is rs varied in California rs the
mind Of dosultory man. Three hundred heroes
at'the Pass of Thormopyln withstood hos
tile world. Excluding those that wear wool,
| there are rs many weathers ON the Pacific
Slope. When the king Of Dahomey and an
Arctic bear can breakfast together in the
morning, and each reach his own climate be-
! fore decent Puritan bedtime without leaving
the State, the man who fails to be suited
knows too little to be happy, and the bear
should be eaten by the forty children" who
alluded to the Prophets capillary destitution.
All the zones come to California for rehearsal,
and then they go home to delight Hottentots
| and Laplandcrs, cider ducks and cassowaries,
and all the SONS of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Nowhere in America are the seasons so
| ntighborly as in California. The impropriety
| of wint sitting in the lap Of spring has made
public scandal, but when September is on
whispering terms with May. and January bor-
rows Juues clothes, and July gives all her
rainhows to November, il is high time to talk
| The winter is in the summer and the spring
is in the winter. and harvest is in secd-time,
and autumn IS lost out of the calendar alto
gether and the siroccos blow from the North
and the cold winds from the South, and you
must sail by the almanac or lose your reckon
ing and get lost in the weather.
The effect Of this loose state Of society
among the seasons is Delightfully."- apparent.
You never saw such ignorant rose 5 in all your
| life. They bud and blossom the year round,
and never stop to undreSs or take wink of
sleep Ripening fruit and baby blossoms
show on the same bush at once as they do in
well-blcst human families Cherry trees 90
into the ruby business in April and keep It
up until October. The hills are emerald in
the winter Ireland would glory in them,
| aud the shamrock grow as big as burdocks.
! The hills are tawny rs African lions or Sahara
| sands in the summer. The grasses look with
cred aud dry as finder, but they hold the con-
centrated richness of the year cooked down
| by fire. Turn out an emaciated old OK that
resembles q hoopskirt with a hide on. and
though you would make affidavit that on such
fare he will resemble a hoop-skirt with the
hide oP in six weeks, yet the old yoke-bearer
will grow fat smooth and round rs a silk hat.
The cattle of California are unexcelled for
breed and beauty.
The dry spiry grass You see is hay. You
do not think that Balaam's beast would covet
it, 1t was cured without cutting. There is
no rain to wash out its strength, and it Just
stands there, desiccated grass, waiting for
somebody to eat. You do not have to tickle
it with a fork and toss it about the lot, and
| comb it with a rake, as they do at the East.
| Wheat cut green and stacked is used in place
of timothy. California is the paradise for
laziness and grangers, There's a field of
wheat ripe unto whiteness, ripe unto redness.
! No rain to rust it, no thieves to steal it, no
| touch to she'll it there it stands waiting for
its master. 1t would stand all summer. 1t is
| faithful as Ulysses dog 1t is not luggod to
the barn, and tugged out of wagons and
boosted in again. In this field they are
! threshing In that field they are bagging
and those plethoric sacks will lie there as safe
from rain as a heap of boulders That grain
! will never know its owner has barn.