, 1890-04-13

lNu hlNAla htAi "a kiNhN hIAi " S"Ai
iornia before you see it, because TIE Cali
~fornIan is so infatuated with his state that
he cheerfully gets up in the night 10 brag
about her. and yet, somehow, when you
see the real state you are not disappoint-
ed. A great many people go to Caliior-
MIA, but few return. This is because the
majority do so well they DO not care to
return. and the balance do so poorly they
cannot get home again.
San Francisco is the American Paris,
and seemed TO me like getting heme again.
Ii is the ABIDE Of wealth and refinement.
The newspapers of San Francisco have
done much to bring wealth 10 the coast.
They have done more than the railroads
in that way. The latter have brought a
good deal Of money to California, OF
course, but have forgotten to divide after
it got there.
Times are said to be dull in California
a; the present time | must say that |
did not see any evidence 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 tunes arc good, | know. among our
set. With the common people and trades
men OF course | could not say positively,
but | am told that the suffering is greatly
exaggerated by enemies OF the coast.
| rode on the bay clear into the open
Pacific in The Examines steam launch.
IL is a beautiful and swift little craft
which MIR. Hearst aud. his staff use while
recovering from BRAIN Tag. When weary
OF the hurry and turmoil of opinion
molding, and the thought ganglia begins
to sag and the intellectual joints to wab
Bile, and thought itself becomes a burden
to the teeming brain, they hitch up the
yacht, and allowing the trade wind to
meander through their whlskers, they
smell the salt sea air and the seal rocks
and the wood ~violets, and in an hour the
world again looks inviting; the odor OF
printer INK and hot machine oil and
political records can again be endured
cheerfully and even hilnriOusly, and all
is well. | wish that the steam yacht
could become more general among news
paper men, and hope to see it adopted
SCOT throughout the country in place of
the buck saw and other outdoor sports.
The bay is too well known to my read
ers to need a description. At this season
OF the'year it is a CLASSY stretch of quiet
water Vt 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 a desirable
place to live in during March. March
everywhere else points to itself with par
donable pride as the champion in the
bette noir business. 1t is the meanest
month on the calendar. Ii is a month
that is replete with suicide and hot soap
The screaming winds carry everywhere
the odor Of burning articles in the front
yard and 90 searching with sinister eye
and stealthy tread for the man who has in
IN ungar led moment shed his winter
yagers.
In California March has her tashes
drawn by the soft air IRON a gentle oceanic
current, the weather bureau drops her a
tender little isothermal line OF two, and
the robins nest again, the clouds roll by
aud the spring time has came, gentle An
nie.
Before | forget 1t | must allude here
to a little sensation which has not yet
been printed, and as the public will occa
sionally 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 |
vas registering and said in a low voice
that unless things were reformed there
he would 20 away. Il am o partich
lar, he said. las a general thing. but
I've about decided hat this has gone far
enoIgh.
The landlord asked him what was the
trouble. He said that he had heard the
voice of lady in the room of a drummer
several tines. The landlord Investigated
it. pounded on the door. and made a good
deal OF trouble, but found that it was the
lady's own room. Then be tackled the
sad man, and he said it 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 p%rotruding from
various doors all along down the hall.
Finally a stern man from st. Louis said
that this thing had gone far enough and
that be knew the lady in question, and
that while the charge was substantially
correct it ought to be explained a little.
The lady herself was a 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
to the depot to pay his excess bag
gage bill, also with the landlords money.
believe that there are three women act
ne as travelling men now, and this was
of tbe-.
The coast is beginning to feel an in
terest in the Worlds fair and will do its
share handsomely is the way of a dis.
play. A general hope is expressed that
America will not sacrifice beauty and
worth to blow and advertising. Art be-
comes no longer art when it is obscured
" the price mark. aud literature suffers
wnen It becomes = reAdins notice. In a
monument Was built to the memoir Of