The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-11-08

and courteous. The Temple, being built b
|, working out tithes, will be magnificent. As YET
it is only past the first story. The Tabernacle
the great gathering place for worship In sum
mer, has the second largest auditorium IN tn
United States. 1t is a wooden structure, will
the immense organ at one end, constructed il
all its parts by thar own artizans. In front o.
the organ are seats, rude benches, in a semi
circle. overlooking the audience, on which res
the bishops and other digntarles Of the Church
sat down in the seat OF the Chief of Sinners
Brgham's own; nathless he had stepped
down and out. The acoustic properties OF this
ungalleried hall are perfect. Wise builders
skilled artizans are they. The huge blocks Of
white granite, fecked with black, gIlttered II
the clear, rich sunlight. 1 could but think oil
it's model. the other Temple which stood by
Jordan
We build with that we deem eternal rock;
A distant age asks where the fabric stood
And in the dust, sfted and searched
The undiscovered secret sleeps
Leaving the Temple, we crossed to the Allot-
ment House, to which no Gentle is admitted
Oxen and horses unhitched from the loaded
wans, stood eating guarded by sad eyed women
or coarse, ignorant children, while waiting their
turn to be unladen of the tenth of everything
they possess. Busy mll-wheels and other
industries were in progress within the quad
rapgle fenced IN for the allotment grounds. A
large store, the Stewards OF the Mormon, was
selling everything, from a lace jabot of the
latest style to gunny bags. Two residences Of
Brigham Young's family are in ling and near
the Allotment House. The Lion House. pre-
sided over by sleepy lion, and the Eagle
House, over the gate of which stands a gilded
eagle, with uphfted foot on a beehive. "Ra-
pacity preying upon industry should be the
motto. That was not what it meant
The clearness and purity OF the atmosphere
were remarkable. " low far is Camp Doug
lass ," said friend to me. Half a mile:
fancy can almost look in the windows 1T
is three And the Smelling Works >" a tall
building clearly defined against the blue vault !:
= that is four miles," 1t is ten" So decep-
tive is the pure ether surrounding u.s. The
snow-capped mountains on either eide the
fertile valley seem to catch the vapors.
Two nights and one day drop one into the
valley of delight, OF which Sacramento City sits
the Queen. Sweet, soft southern airs, which
had foated over roses and China pinks, met US
as We dropped over the last pinnacle OF the
Sierra Nevada Range into valley Of surpass-
ing fertility. After a run up into the city.
while the passengers were dining, 1 entered my
car, where lady sat with a boquet of choice
roses. 'Oh, how lovely! Gathered from the
open air." "Of course was her answer. |
with look of contempt for the ignorance
the question. ventured no more
questions, except to ask the newsboy what tree
that peculiar, blue, dusty, miller foliage (the
and was told he didn't know. So
much for everyday sights The glorious
enca!ypt, which grows like Jacks beanstalk:
the boon OF California. from which forests are
grown IN three years, with Its blue, green
foliage OF sportive growth for 1t comes up q
broad leaved branch, with petioles like the
loneysuckle. After reaching twenty feet, the
caves lengthen out into sickles, and become
deep green with faint dust upon them.
Natives OF Tasmania, they take kindly to the
oil here, and will, eventually, change the rain
'elt OF the land. In this little city by the sea
OTIS are enclosed with the trees, three years
Id, from seed thirty to forty feet high. As we
each Oakland, the Brooklyn OF San francisco,
be sun descended from his golden car, and
ropped down into the Bay, as if he had
reversed the course in the cycle OF seven days !
had been en- route instead Of the twenty -four
ours since he blessed the eyes Of the northern
ONE.
It's beautiful sight in November, across the r
ay, to see the city epthroned on more than
lie seven bills, cupalo and tower emblazoned -
gorgeous sunlight, while shipping from
'ery land lay with furled sail in COSY. har- r
n bed; Goat Island midway over bed or
eenery and vernal airs greeting you, as if the u
1890 "NA~ -t"y' ChO otopo DaChWalu III TIC
ar; the snow and sleet. cold, bitter wind. ID
lere are they? The question is yet unan-
erred felt like the good King Hezekiah, set n,
ok fifteen years; no ice, no cold the brightest r.
might ever shed down from Olympus: the m
rest atmosphere, compounded by the alchemy
the Great Chemist Ir
Nature embroiders the earth with flowers he
u would go wild to see the gorgeous gerani- 10
. hedges blooming the year through; hello
pe and passion vine climbing up on verandas an
! and twenty feet. as richly freghted with
rfume in January as in July with US at the W
nth. su
The orange groves Can you close your eyes, G.,
] let me place Solomon's carpet under you
e you one OF the Eastern coast winds. and "
It you over the mountains, down under the
nged eyelids of the Sierra Msdre Range i?
este. Do you see the plains thlrty miles up, lis
teen down. bounded on the south with the va
;, rounded Mission Hills? Up to the far east no
he bald crown of grand old San Bernardno