Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-04-10

MIA Avenue at Washington, bordering which
are planted pepper trees, tree some forty
| feet high something like the willow except
that it is covered with coral berries. On
either side of this avenue are little orange
groves of from ten to fifteen acres, and in
the centre Of each grove is the house OF the
owner. 1t is the loveliest picture [ ever
saw-a perfect Paradise. The orange groves
I was told pay from $500 to 81 900 an acre.
The people were a church going people as
we saw, for We were there Sunday and
they were out on their way to church
Strange to say you enter this Paradise from
an arid desert and you leave its single
street at it's fourteenth mile to strike into
the desert again. Irrigation accounts fof
1t all. Ten years ago there was 40 town
there.
| AN OLD SCHOOL NATE OF FEB VANCE.
AS I was sitting in the hotel at Los
Angeles 1 saw plain, genteel LOOKING ola
couple apparently about seventy years old
dressed in their best, the old lady wearing
a bonnet that was a marvel OF by gone
fashions. evidently looking for some one. /
asked if I could assist them. The old gen
tleman said: Eyes. was jest lookin to see
# Zeb Vance was here" / told him that
Senator Vance had left us at San Francis
co. 81 am pow'ful sorry for that. Nancy
here saw in the papers that Zeb was to be
| here and we amt had no rest Sence, for
come she must. You see Zeb was an old
school mate of Nancy's forty years ago in
Carolina" What is your name SO l can
tell Senator Vance when see him "NIy
name is Jim Taylor" You must have
come from Buncombe county? "Stranger
that is jest Whar | did come FROM" What
was your wife's name as a school girl SO
MI. Vance can remember her when [ tell
him. 'Never mind, you jest tell him that
it was Jim Taylor's wife, he'll know"
When I got back to Washington 1 told
Senator Vance and he remembered the corl-
pie well and greatly regretted he had not
seen them.
Did you meet any Virginians in Cali
fornia i?
THE VIRGINIANS.
Yes, I NETS and heard of many more.
l met Col. Bernard Peyton who lives at
Santa Cruz. He is a splendid looking old
fellow. and is a striking likeness of the pic
ture of John Howe Peyton with pipe in
mouth. He is cousin of Col. John
Lewis Peyton of Augusta. heard of, but
did not see ex-Justice Of the Supreme Court
of California, John CARRIER. His reouta-
ton is that of being the foremost
lawyer Of the State. AT Los Angeles l
met Judge Erskine Ross, a brother of Col.
/ J. II. D. Ross of Lexington. He had just
refused an offer Of $4,000 for his orange
crop of this year. One thing [ heard that
was extremely pleasant, and that is that the
great revival in Virginia development has
set the Virginians on the Pacific slope to
looking forward to returning to the old
State.
THE CHINESE.
Mr.. Tucker gave a most amusing de-
scription of his visit to the Chinese Thea
tire in San Francisco. Unlike the Joss
House in which they worship and which is
magnificentlY furnished, the interior of the
theatre is barely and poorly fitted up. There
was an audience of 5000 Cinnamon stand
ing and in the upper boxes sat the Chinese
women. The American party received the
courtesy Of seats on the stage. During the
hour they staid there they only saw two &C
tors singing monotonously. AS one would
wear out he would take seat and the 9th
Ell get up and carry on the singing. One OF
them was dressed as a woman-they have
no women actors. The audience Of Chinese
regarded the ''acting' with intense inter
est. AS is known their plays last a year OIL
two. MI. Tucker in his hour S stay saw
a part of one dynasty of it. MI. Tucker S
party was conducted through the Chinese
quarter of San Francisco and witnessed
the scenes which have become familiar to
the public by newspaper descriptions.
AN OBJECT LESSON IN TARIFF.
We stopped On our return, at Ell PaSO OF
the border, and went across the river into
Mexico, to the little town of Juarez. There
we got very graphic lesson that the ''tar
iff is tax and is not paid by the foreign
producer as our Mckinley bill friends have
) been trying to have the people believe. Oul
party boughta good many trinkets and small
toys at the Mexican store in Juarez. One
bought very pretty shawl fol $40. TIL,
duty On it is $3.50. On recrossing the rive
to Ell Paso we went into the store of thu
same man who owns the other store il
JuareZ. The same shawl was Oh exhibition
there and priced it. The reply was $3.50
Why, / said, at your store in Juarez the,
would have sold us the same shawl at $40
sob yes,'' replied the proprietor, 'but Their
is the duty to be added, you see.'' A buttol
; hook bought in the JuareZ store for Z
) cents, the same proprietor in the Eel Pas
store charged me 81 90 for. and so with man
: other things that we priced for curiosity
E We had a lot of fun out of the Republican
members of the escort on our way home b.
e throwing up to them this practical exam
Die of how their tariff bill fleeces the Anne
rican buyer and does not harm the foreig
seller.
Of course one can t speak Of Californi;
: without mentioning the big trees. w
saw these giants between Santa Cruz ant
todll JOSc ttlQ Jul PAL N6to COlllOl lttUl
accommodated in the interior of one whic
Il was 25 feet in diameter.
/ But allowing for the big trees and tn
L pleasure of pulling oranges from their trees
t and the other novelties of the Pacific coast
l the man who looks around him with obsel
Il want eyes, and measures the people in wit
> the country and its resources, can come t
e no other conclusion than that the great Va
ley of Virginia has future immediatel
u before it to which no land that faces on I'll
- Pacific Ocean can compare.