, 1886-09-11
GET OUT OF THE CITY.
SUCH is THE ADVICE OF THE POET
OF THE SlERRAS.

What joaquin Miller Says of New York
The yine-CIad His of tho Carolinas-
Mexico.
Get out OF the cities and stay out OF the
cities. The cities OF the United States are
too big entirely. mean to say that our
population in the cities is fearfully dis
proportionate to our population in the
country. To say nothing o the cold,
clear truth that neither genius nor great
judgment ever fiourished In n city with
out first drawing its milk from the coun-
try. | beg you to compare England's
country population with her city popula-
tion, and then ours. Take France ii you
lik It better, or Germany. You will be
startled. But have neither space nor
disposition to debate or cry out against
this cowardly disposition to hide away in
the commercial. pork packing cities d
America. But | will say this of New
York. II city | know fairly well from some
yea rs OF residence there: / never saw such
ignorant people anywhere on earth as the
people OF New York. Yes, they read. But
what do they reads The papers. And
the papers they read ARE the New York
papers. They simply read OF themselves
their own sins, tnelr own follies, their
own weary and ~tireless round and repeti-
ton OF crimes, set and served as n break
fast dish by the brilliant men of the pens.
Get ont Of that place and stay ont OF it.
Get out OF all such places. Get into the
country. into the lifted hills IL you can.
IL is oniy II little distance to the glorious
green and vine clad hills of the Carolinas.
Send some one of your number dow there
to See those fruitful md healthful hills,
and my word for it you will not willingly
spend all your life inside the line of folly
which makes up life in a great city. Get
out of those places with your children. No
English gentleman who can afford 1t Will
leave hts children to the follies and tho
sins OF n city. No wise man Will. OF
whatever land. And so IL Is with n warm
heart should like to respond to this cry
which appeals to me from the cities for
homes and Information about homes in
the west.
Frankly. then, l would first say go
down into the pleasant mountains of the
Carolinas first, because that Is close by.
Get a bit of LAND there IL you like it. Get
IL now. IL Will never be cheaper thar it
is now. Next year it may be double its
present price. AT least, inquire there
rather than OF me. Do you know that
nearly all our grapes in the eastern states,
ms well MS elsewhere, came from the Caro-
linas long ago' Do you know that the
medical herbs of the Caroiinas took the
worlds prize in Parisi Do you know
that these silent and volceless states
have given the world the only
new gem that has been named
since Christ was borni &c down and look
at these states. They are close by, and no
wild beast or wild man will dispute your
path. Go to Cherokee county. You will
lind gold there. You will find plenty of
Cherokee ndian there still. have seen
at one time ut least twenty free born
daughters OF these brave people standing
in the water to the knees washing for
gold. Go down there and see these lands
first.
II you do not like it there, and can at
ford to come 10 the Sierras, why come
here and companion with the peaks. Only
get out OF the cities. l repeat it for your
own good, for the good of the nation, get
out of the city and stay out of the city.
But don't come to California with the
idea that you can be idle. There are too
many here who are possessed with that
notion already.
If you want IA great future TO be won
with great enterprise, go to Arizona and
tfhAt ~ hiO PAVoA ihCA u kl ass anu uht
your chances on finding water some
where dow in the earth. | would say
the same thing of New Mexico. And |
advise either of those territories before
California, simply because they are closer
at your hand-the very same reason for
urging the Carolinas on your attention
before other places.
Let me say this, IA n traveller and a man
who loves Mother Earth aud makes him
self familiar with her: All lands are more
alike thar you imagine. And wherever a
man has set his foot and found the land
of milk and honey no has remained. The
honey IS in the possession OF the other
man all the time, wherever you may
travel. Goodnessl didn't we go through
all this when hunting for gold here
long ago. How many an old miner will
turn to you now and testify that II he
only had staid where he was in some
mountain gulch, with pure air, pleasant
surroundings, he would have, all In good
time, had as much gold as he could carry.
But no; IL was always n little further
on. Oftentime 1t was far, far way. Now
it was Owens river. away in the south;
now it was Frazer river, far in the north;
yet either place. as IA rule, 10 better than
the nearest little gulch TO our cabin door.
So, in settling, decide what you want TO
do. And decide first this: That no man
has any right to stay in IA city unless he is
bound by his duties to stay there. The
mean and selfish desire to stay in a city
for pleasure is about rs low n desire as |
can think OF. Indeed, the sell fish pursuit
Of pleasure anywhere, or of any kind,
merely for pleasures sake, IL unworthy
OF any man. The pursuit of pleasure is a
woman's pursuit; and "A very weak order
OF women ut that.
AS ] said before, il it is big money you
want, and big work, large Drained enter
prise, take possession OF Arizona. There
are no Indians there, as n rule. The news
paper must have It's indian story every
week. But there are no indian to rouble
you there. | am almost in sight Of Capt.
Jack : old ava beds here. And down ut
the bottom of the beds are settlers who
have been there entirely undisturbed for
a quarter OF a century.
Go to Arizona II you like. Leave your
guns and take your plows. l spent a week
down there, as you all know. last spring,
when the Indian stories were full size,
and rode far and wide looking at tho
lands And | always rode alone, md. OF
course, uuarmed.
But II you are leaving the city In search
OF health simply, come here. Come here
and settle on IA hill so steep that a bear
can knock you half way TO the bottom OF
1t In the first round. And my word for it
the work of climbing ii in this sweet air,
with these white trout streams all about
yon, will cure you OF almost any malady
before tho year is over. But you will not
get rioh.-Joaquin Miller In Chicago
Times.
bananas In Rcrame
Rip. and palatable bananas have been
srown Ina n Sacramento garden this sea
son without any sort of artificial protec.
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