Daily Republican., 1879-03-25
NeighbOYly Seasons.

The weather is as varied in Califor
MIA as the mind of desultory man.
Three hundred heroes at the Pass o.
Thermopyla withstood hostile world
Excluding those that wear wool, there
are as 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 before decent Puritan bed
time 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 des-
titution. All the Zones come to Cali
fornia for rehearsal, and then they go
nome to delight Hottentots and Lap
landers, elder ducks nd cassowaries,
and all the sons of Shem, Ham and
Japhet.
Nowhere in America are the seasons
so neighborly as in California. The
impropriety of Winter sitting in the
lap of Spring has nadea public scandal,
but when September is IN whispering
terms with May, and January borrows
June's clothes, and July gives all her
rainbows to November, it is high time
to talk The Winter is in the Summer,
and the Spring is in the Winter, and
harvest is in seed time, and Autumn
is lest out ofthe calendar altogether !;
and the siroccos blow from the North,
and the cold winds from the South, and
you must sail by the almanac or lose
your reckoning and get lost in the
weather.
The effect of this loose state OF society
among the seasons is delightfully."- aP-
parent. You never saw such ignorant
roses in all your lie. 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. .blest human families. Cherry trees
go into the ruby business in April, and
keep it up until October. The hills
are emerald in the Winter Ireland
would glory in them, and the shamrock
grow as big as burdocks. The hills
are tawny IS African lions, or Sahara
sands in the Summer.
The grasses look withersa and dry as
finder, but they hold the concentrated
richness of the year cooked down by
FIRE. Turn out an emaciated old OK
that resembles hoop.skirt with hide
on, and though you would make afti-
davit that on such fare he will resem
BILE a hoop.skirt with the hide off in
six weeks, yet the old yoke-be bearer will
grow fat, smooth and round as a silk
hat. The cattle of California are une1-
celled for breed and beauty. Go where
you will, the splendid "milky mothers
of the h-rd' look handsome enough to
sit to Landseer Rosa Bonheur would
be tempted to. desert her kind ard live
with them. The butter of the Coast is
as sweet as TIE dew OF June.
The dry spiry grass you see is hay.
You do not think that Balaam's beast
would covpt it. 1t was cured without
cutting. There is no rain to wash out
its strength, and it just stands there,
dessicated grass, waiting for somebody
to eat il. You do not have to tickle it
with a fork and toss it about the lot,
and comb with'a rake, as they do at
the East. Wheat cut green and sacked
is used iI placed of timothy. Califor-
MIA 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 shell it; there it stands
waiting for its master. 1t would stsad
all summer. 1t is faithful as Ulysses
dog. 1t is not lugged to the barn, aad
tugged out of@agons, and "hoosted"
in again. In this field they are thresh-
ing. In that field they are bagging,
and those plethoric sacks will lie there
as safe from r&in as a heap of boxld-
ers. The gram will never know its
owner has q barn.--B. +. 7dyher's
"Betreea tie Gates."