The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-06
FROM THE PACIFIC SLOPE.
MT. Cunningham Continues His Enter
tanning Correspondence.-some Form
erly-of-Iola People Heard From.


LosASGEIEs, CAL March 18TH 1874
Only two days ago | wrote you
about Riverside, Rutlands, and San
Bernadino, and then l thought my
vocabulary was exhausted and Los
Angeles and Pasadena would have to
go untaken; but 10. must tell you
of the damp fogs and the musky
mornings and the asthmatic condi-
lions that has kept me from falling In
love with the place. Still there is a
silver lining to almost every cloud
and the silver lining here is the peo-
pie. Allen county has a good many
representatives and TO me they have
been good. You all know Jas. Boyd.
He has ranch of seven acres mile
from the station in South Pasadena.
One day he took me in his buggy to
San Gabriel Mission, where we saw
one grape vine that has borne 20 tons
of grapes in a year, and then to Lucky
Baldwins ranch of $4,000 acres and
back over the finest roads in the
world to Pa adena where we rode
through streets and avenues on which
the millionaire of the east seem to
have built their homes. Greens
August Flower, Ayers Cherry Pee
toraI, Dobbins Soap and a hundred
other well known articles of COM
merce have furnished the money to
make Pasadena truly the "Crown of
the Valley" and their owners live
here in the winter. DR.. LaFary has
a ranch near Boyd's and he is plant
ing it to oranges and regaining his
health. No longer Democrat, he
favors protection, because the bust
ness he is in needs it.
r. H. Knight also has home in
Pasadena and it is home in all its
appointments and all it's beauty. He
and his son Charley live there. The
son once every two weeks comes from
his school near Pomona and the faith
er "goes it alone" every night.
Knight has a large and paying prac-
tice and he deserves it. Charley is a
good steady boy; has 10 bad habits
and islands without hitching" as all
good boys do. No tears are shed and
no hearts broken when this can be
truthtully said.
Two days later than when l began
this letter.
can almost say the "winter of my
discomfort has been turned into glor-
ious summer by the sunshine of
Kansas coming from its eastern home
to set beyond this western sea.
Peach trees and apricots that seemed
dead three days ago are now in bloom.
Birds are singing and flowers are
blooming. "Hope teammates Earth
and Sea" and everything is glad even
me. You bet I'm glad. for TO search
for health and recreation amid fog
and rain is tedious business and L
have often in the last week said, give
me Kansas with all her faults.
Californians are truthful people.
The smallest matches aid the tallest
members of the Ananias Club are in
digenous to the soil. They have no
cyclones and yet the tall steeples of
two churches in Pasadena were blown
to splinters not long ago. No thunder
is ever heard here and yet only a few
months ago two clouds met near Pas
adena and played thunder" on re-
sounding keys for more than an hour,
louder and still louder until nervous
prostration became an epidemic. Did
you ever see a live oak tree. 1 al
ways thought they were tall and
straight, used in ship building. Here
they are scrubby, too crooked for fire.
wood in any country but this. have
had another drive. This time l like
it better. Every field is garden.
No wonder they raise big crops. If
half the nursing and half the love of
the business was put into Kansas
farming that is lavished on the soil
here, no garden in the world would
out bloom the Kansas farm, Here
nature and man work in the same
harness and the result is success.
Every business should have an en-
thusiastic lover to manage it, and no
business is good without it.
WIN CUNNINGHAM.