Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-19
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r. r. DEL VALE,
of Los Angeles.
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The HERALD. the other day. objected
70 series OF articles which bad appeared
In tho columns Of the Times aud which
were being used by Santa Barbara pa
per. and with great effect, as it boasted.
TO discourage immigration to this cou nty.
Our esteemed morning contemporary Is
naturally Of an atrabilious temperament,
we regret 10 say. II is always evolving
from its morbid Imagination something
gruesome an Of tho character Of hypo-
chondriacal chimeras dire to qualify the
pleasure most people feel at the growth
Of highly favored Section. Last year
1t committed itself unequivocally to the
iden that we were about to have one of
those periodical drouths which we're in
cidents of stage of growth, or, rather,
Of lack Of growth, which at times char
acterlzed this county in the old shiftless
days. Az a result, perhaps, of its
mournful vaticinations, we had rainfall
IN Los Angeles county ranging from for.
ty-five to seventy-five inches, according
TO locality. The HERALD met this lugu.
brious outgivIng at its earliest stage'by
offering to bet its low.spirted
contemporary $500 TINT the mini
mum rainfall Of the season would be
sixteen inches. We asked it 10 put
up or shut up. 1t failed to cover our
money, but it went on in the old melan-
cholic measures pntilit was drowned out.
It also tried 70 get mp Yellow Fever
scars>iast year, which the HERALD met
BY offering to cat tho corpse OF any
Angeleho who should take the disease
In Los Angeles and die from it in our
city limits.
This year this member OF the Journal
istic Dismal Family has concentratedi itself
upon the poor prospects OF Orange grow
ers and the imminent danger of yell
low Fever epidemic in Los Angeles. 1t
describes the uniformly cheerful out
givings Of the HERALD us "slush," prob
ably because this journal has declined
to indulge in the dispiritng ''rot' so
fashionable in the columns Of its con.
temporary. The truth Is that the HER
AID has always INDUCED in this sanguino
spirit and il has seen Los Angeles grow
from veritable village to city. 1t has
seen the country, also, fill up as II by
magic. From town Of eight or nine
thousand inhabitants the HERALD has
seen Los Angeles advance to the status
Of n city of thirty thousand people,
the county keeping along pari passu;
and this journal has been very instru-
mental, besides, ip bringing this most
desirable and pleasing result about.
Even at the danger of hearing our al.
ways cheerful outgivings pronounced
"slush, we must say that we are proud
of the uniformly optimistic role we have
played, and we have not been obliged to
emulate Mark Tapley. either. 1t was
emphatically not case of being cheer.
full under difficulties.
In that most fascinating of all Shak-
speare's plays,,"As You Like It., Orlan-
do and old Adam, his faithful servitor,
nre represented as vending their way
through the forest of Ardennes, the lat.
ter very faint and weary. Orlando turns
to his companion and says, Live lit
tie, good Adam; cheer thyself little"
We feel nightly inclined to tender this
well meant advice to our esteemed con.
temporary. Let it live little; let it
cheer itself little. 1t really lives in
country which has had a great deal of
outcome in it and which will have
great deal more.
For the purpose of infusing a little
cheerfulness into the thin and CHILLED
blood of our esteemed contemporary we
beg to invite its attention to the unexam.
Piled increase of production in Los An.
geles county shown by the following ia.
Bile, which we take from the illus
TRATED HERALD: