Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-30
New Series, Vol. 80, No "A
Election next Tuesday
THE FUTURE

: Or FRUIT CULTURE IN SOUTHERN CALL
FORNIA.
Chas. W. Warner, in Harper's Magazine for Nov
The time is not distant when thi
corner of the United States will produc
in abundance, and year after year with
out failure, all the fruits and nuts which
for thousand years the civilized worlC
of Europe has looked to the Mediterra
mean for supply. We shall not neet
any more to send over the Atlantic fol-
raiSins, English walnuts, almonds, figs
olives, prunes, oranges, lemons, lines
and variety of other things which we
know commercially as Mediterranean
products. We have all this luxury and
wealth at our doors, within our limits
The orange and the lemon we shall still
bring from many places; the date and
the pineapple and the banana will never
grow here except as illustrations of the
climate, but it is difficult to name any
| fruit of the temperate and semi-tropic
zones that southern California cannot be
relied on to produce, from the guava to
the peach.
1t will need further experiment to de-
| termine what are the more profitable
products of this soil, and it will take
longer experience to cultivate them and
send them to market in perfection. The
pomegranate and the apple grow side
by side, but the apple is not good here
unless it is grown at an elevation where
frost is certain and occasional snow may
be expected. There is no longer any
doubt about the peach, the nectarine,
the pear, the grape, the orange, the lem
on, the apricot, and so on; but believe
that the greatest profit will be in the
products that cannot be grown elsewhere
in the United States-the products to
which we have long given the name of
Mediterranean-the olive, the fig, the
raisin, the hard and soft shell almond,
and the walnut. The orange will of
course be staple, and constantly i'm
prove its reputation as better varieties
are raised, and the right amount of irri-
CATION to produce the finest and sweet
est is ascertained.
EASY METHODS OF EDUCATION.
Chas. Dudley Warner, in Harper's Mag. for Nov
The notion appears to be spreading
that there must be some way by which
one can get good intellectual outfit
without much personal effort. There
are many schemes of education which
encourage this idea. If one could only
hit upon the right electives" he could
become scholar with very little study,
and without graphing with any of the
real difficulties in the way of an educa-
tiOn. 1t is not more shortcut we de- |
sire, but road of easy grades, with
locomotive that will pull our train along |
while we sit in parlor car at ease. The
discipline to be obtained by tackling an |
obstacle and overcoming it we think of
small value. There must be some way
of attaining the end of cultivation with
out much labor. We take readily to
medicines. 1t is easier to
dose with these than to exercise ordina-
~ prudence about our health. And we
readily believe the doctors of learning
L
when they assure US that we can ac-
4uire new language by the same meth
ID by which we can restore bodily vigor;
take one small patent-right volume in
six easy lessons, without even the neces-
sity of shaking" and without regular
Doctor, and we shall know the language.
Some one else has done all the work for
rs, and we only need to absorb. 1t is
pleasing to see how this theory is get
ing to be universally applied. All
can be put into a kind of
Demican, so that we can have it con-
1ensed. Everything must be chopped
up, epitomized, put in short sentences,
and italicized. And we have primers
for science, for history, so that we can
acquire all the information we need in
this world in a few hasty bites. 1t is an
admirable saving of time-saving of
time being more important in this gen.
eration than the saving of ourselves.