The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-21
soUlHERN CALIFORNIA.
Look Before Yoo Janp ana You Wm Light Top

Is frequently EQil Clown 1akS ana
during the wild insane boom, when
people were making special arrange
ments to be robbed, there existed |
class who employed methods that |
would make a bunko man loose self |
conceit. Cappers were used and truth |
stood not in the way of a sale. If our
Sunday school training has not faded |
from our memory it was a real estate |
deal that got Annanias into trouble. |
Perhaps the California dealer is a de-
cendant of ,Annanias and it may be
constitutional with him. But while
his long arms are still reaching across
the continent to pinch humanity, we
earnestly beg ofyou, for your own good
not to say harsh things of him. 1t is
humilating to find that you bave
sprung a chestnut that has its second
sight. Should you ignore politics,
pleasure, business and religion for six
ty days and devote your entire time to
birthstone language and come to the
Pacific Coast, you would not have a
single d-m IN store that would not
| look so pale and slim that you would be
ashamed to turn it loose here in Cali
| fornia, The real estate agent has been
| consigned to a certain place that is
said to be passed with good intentions,
| by every body from the Greaser to the
| Millionaire. He has been accused of
everything. Even the Murchison let
ter was said to have been sprung on an
innocent eastern public for the special
| indirect purpose of booming Pomona
real estate. If public sentiment does
not change His Satanic Majesty may
be able to take long needed rest while
the real estate agent comes to the front
In the future Sunday school book OF
Southern California.
Being completely at a loss how to say
anything original against him we will
simply admit that he is frequently a
twenty-four karat fraud and dismiss
him.
While humanity rushed in the wild
chase to get something for nothing;
leaving reason and Judgment crippled
and forgotten far in the rear, while old
timer and the tenderfOOt went over the
precipiceOf speculation together, moth
er nature alone remained true to her orr
ginal plan and when we sought her aid
she gave it with an extended hand.
| Fortunately she has not saw fit to trOwn
during our folly. The sowing season
came, the flowers bloomed, the vine
and the tree bore their burden of fruit
and the grain ripened as if the good old
Dame wanted to asure US that if the
golden mirage had Knocked us she
would not. A man who figured him.
self rich yesterday doesent like to be
called at $50 a. m. in order to get in a
full day hoeing potatoes tomorrow.
1t was rather sudden and we probably
fooled away a good part of the fore
noon before we realized that necessity
, knew no law; but we gather some com.
! fort when we find that the potatoes
ane not small or few in the hill.
After a years residence in California
do we like the country well enough tC
remain in it?
Yes but it is no evidence that you
would and therefore we beg of you moi
to go off half cooked. Nobody in the
world can tell you whether you would
better your condition here or elsewhere
Moreover you yourself could not tell
, if you were here, whether your wife
, (if you have one) would be satisfied
with the change. AS rule ladies are
more strongly attached to their per
sonal friends and immediate surround
ings than men, and as a consequence
adopt themselves less readily to new
surroundings. Hen pecked(P) oh no
we don't mean to say anything of The
kind. OF course you do as you please
Still its well enough to remember that
} If kite should ignore its tale it would
soon run afoul of the ground. II you
, are down on the weather and believe
that things are not like they used to be
and that the country is going to perdi.
ton on general principles and you have
: a gnawing desire to catch up with the
| setting sun we would advise that along
about the last of February when the
weather is trying its best to make life
miserable you say to your better half
> my dear suppose we go out to Califor
mia and see what kind of a country il
| is" Don't sell out at a sacrifice and
put up a job on yourself so that you
can not return if you wish to do so
The longer you can arrange tC stay the
better idea you can form as to whether
you wish to remain permanently
Every dissatisfied citizen is a detri
ment to country and a bore to him
self. If you find California below pal
when compared with Kansas, bott
D states will be better off if you are free
= to return.
. Any of the Santa Fe ticket agent.
, can give you all necessary information
concerning your proposed trip. W.
: will remark however that first elias!
| ticket and a Pullman Car while very
nice viii not be absolutely necessary
: either to your dignity or comfort. Thu
idea that the emigrant cars are filled
. with people who do not affiliate with
soap and who lack pedegre Is entirel,
: ERRONEOUS. You will meet as good PEG
= pie in the tranScOntinental emigraD
cars as you will find elsewhere. You
will frequently find pullman passen
gers with elaborate wardrobes ant
i, brains that would be excellent materia
s to initiate balloon. An able bodied
!, lunch basket is always desirable trav
cling companion and will not deba
you from ordinary society here on thu
:. Pacific Coast or be raked u agains
you should y on run for office. Whel
your train has passed through the Cot
= tonwood and the Arkansas vallies ant
E you have watched the wonderful pan
Drama of marvellous progress and i'm
provment and you think of the uneX
haustable resources of your countr
!, you may wonder that you did not hay
a little more patience with the weathe
and you may grow spoony on the oil
graSshopper state and half decide
find California a cold damp fat tai
are.
When the south eastern corner G
Colorado has gone by; when New Mez
leo with her mountains and valleys
passed, when Arizona with her pin
forests, her glistening lava beds an
her wild-wOnderful scenery bids 70
adieu and you cross the Colorado rive
~ anu o0cp OH CdlllOIHid 6O11 dG J0O 106S
r. les remember that you have not quit
Il don't tell the real estate agents Whs
we sayl reached the Garden of Eder
III A circus tent would not cover ever,
"a thing in California that Is not as
o should be. Therefore you will not II
greet the absence of the apron of f
leaves. QUILP.
% Temperance Versus lntemperanee.
II The wild wave of fanaticism that h;
u been sweeping over the couptry for IL