Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-04-09

You always hear great deal OF Call
fornia before you see it, because the Cali
fornian is so infatuated with his state
that he cheerfully gets up in the night to
brag about her, and yet, somehow, when
you see the real state, you are not disap-
pointed. great many people go to
California, but few return. This is be-
cause the majority do so well they do
not care to return, and the balance do so
poorly that they cannot get home again.
San Francisco is the American Paris,
and seemed to me almost like getting
home again. 1t is the abode of wealth
and refinement. The newspapers of San
Francisco have done much to bring
wealth to the coast. They have done
more than the railroads in that way. The
latter have brought good deal of money
to California, of course, but have forgot
ten to divide after it got there.
Times are said TO be dull in California
at the present time. / must say that l
did not see any evidences of it, though
travelling over the state for some time
constantly. Certainly there seemed to
be very little suffering on Mob Hill, and
in fact times are god, | know, among
our set. With the common people and
tradesmen of course l could not say posi-
lively, but am told that the suffering is
greatly exaggerated by enemies of the
coast.
rode out on the bay clear into the
open Pacific in The Examiners steam
launch. 1t is beautiful and swift lit
tie craft which Mr.. Hearst and his staff
use while recovering from brain fag
When weary of the hurry and turmoil
of opinion molding, and the thought
ganglia begins to sag and the intellectual
joints to wabble, and thought itself be-
comes burden to the teeming BRAIN
they hitch up the yacht and, allowing
the trade wind to meander through their
late whiskers, they smell the salt sea air
and the seal rocks ana the wood violets.
and in an hour the world again looks in
viting; the odor of printers ink and hot
machine oil and political records can
again be endured cheerfully and even
hilariously and all is well. i wish that
the steam yacht could become more gen
eral among newspaper men, and hope to
see it adopted soon throughout the coun-
try in place of the buck saw and other
outdoor sports.
The bay is too well known to nv
readers to need description. At this
season of the year it is CLASSY stretch
of quiet water at the feet of green and
velvety hills. Later on the grass gets
brown and so the effect is not so good
As it is now, there are few flies upon the
bay. For the first time / have found
desirable place to live in during March.
March everywhere else points to itself
with pardonable pride as the champion in
the bette noire business. 1t is the meanest
month on the calendar. 1t is a month
that is replete with suicide and the smell
of hot soap. The screaming winds carry
everywhere the odor OF burning arctics
in the front yard and go searching with
sinister eye and stealthy tread for the
man who has in an unguarded moment
shed his winter yagers.
In California March has her tushes
drawn by the soft air from a gentle
oceanic current, the weather bureau
drops her a tender little isothermal line
or two, and the robins nest again, the
clouds roll by and the spring time has
came, gentle Annie.
Before forget it / must allude here
to little sensation which has not yet
been printed, and as the public will oc-
casionally read a sensation, if truthful, /
beg leave to give it here. / will not use
names, because they are not necessary.
A sad faced man, with a little vox hui
mana and the tremolo pulled out on his
voice, came to the desk of the hotel as
was registering and said in low voice
that unless things were reformed there
he would go away. 81 am not particu-
lar" he said, "as a general thing, but
I've about decided that this has gone far
enough"
The landlord asked him what was the
trouble. He said that he had heard the
voice of lady in the room of drum
mer several times. The landlord inves-
tigated it, pounded on the door, and
made a good deal of trouble, but found
that It was the lady's own room. Then |
he tackled the sad man, and he said il |
might be the lady's room, but that il |
they would search it they would also
find the drummer. Much excitement |
was excited and money rapidly changed |
hands. Curious faces of both sexes were |
seen protruding from various doors all |
along down the hall. Finally a stern
man from st. Louis said this thing had |
gone far enough and that he knew the
lady in question, and that while the
charge was substantially correct it ought
to be explained little. The lady her
self was the drummer.
The man with the tremolo in his voice /
then paid his bill out of the landlords |
money, took several deep draughts at the
bar at the landlords expense and hurried
down to the depot to pay his excess bag
gage. bill, also with the landlords money.
believe that there are three women act
ing as travelling men now, and this was
,ne of them.
The coast is beginning to feel an in
crest in the Worlds fair and will do its
hare handsomely in the way of dis
,lay. A general hope is expressed that
America will not sacrifice beauty and
worth to blow and advertising. Art be-