The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-19
Old Sci AZ his Bess-Sand. Scenery and
the Pacific Poet.

Especial Correspondence.l
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. ST frankly BE-
! Eeve that the sunshine o. California is SUI
| perior TO the sunshine that brightens up
any other part of the planet. This aSser-
ton at first sight may appea, 10 be rath-
er clumsy way of saying nothing but
am sure that every globe trotter will agree
with me in saying that difference in lat
itude makes corresponding difference IN
the suns rays. Sol, who is at once so bril-
\ liant and ancient. has varied ways Of max
Ing himself felt. In Bombay he scorches
the life out of you, in London he makes
you tired because of the modest WAY IN
which he wells his face with fog in Green
land he is pale and ethereal and seems rs
f, If he belonged not 10 this world, and 80
on. But in California-ah, that's where
! he makes up for his deliuquenciesl lie
behaves himself His rays are at once "a
brilliant as they are in Bombay and IA
mild and genial in their effect they are
| in England. Cnsultry brillianoe-that
the way TO put It.
/ 1t may seam odd to talk so much about
| climate in a letter of this kind when there
are SO many hard facts chasing around
/ But let me tell you that climate is the
most vital topic in California lie is tho
/ first, second and third thing that IS talked
I about. Why people who have been in the
| country but a month become confirmed
/ climate expounders. 1t Is impossible 10
/ escape from their lucid and exhaustive
way of putting il. IL a conner from the
I cffete east wishes 10 become unpopular and
| despised. all he has 70 do is 20 barely hint
/ that the climate here is not quite absolute
/ perfection.
HOweve-, there is one thing here that
! the CaliforniaDs refrain from praising 10
1 the skies, and it is part of the climate too
/ This thing is sand. II you are foolish
/ enough TO walk along Market street in the
4 afternoon when the trade wind is blowing
/ from the Pacific ocean, you will speedily
/ become acquainted with this sand. It
is an affectionate-and pleased to meet you
/ kind of sand, and gets into your eyes,
mouth, nostrils, ears, pockets, under your
I vest and everywhere IL can. after il has
dallied with you for about a quarter Of an
! hour you begin TO feel sorry for ever hav-
1 ing come 10 Frisco and 10 wonder feebly
i at the Californ;ans climate praising fac
/ ulty. When next you hear him losing
/ himself in apanegyric concerning the gid
( ed climate, you will, IL you are unwise,
/ hazard a sarcastic remark about the bene-
/ fits of this sand. For answer the panegyr-
I ISL viii look at you IN reproachful silence,
as though you had struck blow beneath
| the belt
! The Chinese have a great hold I'm San
/ Francisco. All you have to do is 10 turn
/ up Clay street from kearney street, walk
I "a block or two and, To- you arc practical
/ ~ in Chinese city. You are in the midst
/ OF the fifth, squalor, IN a sense, pictur-
| sequences and persistence Of the Mongol
/ Here are their jvsshoUses, their theaters,
their uncanny looking shops and them
selves smoking opium mixed with tobacco
/ from queer looking pipes. Even the very
streets are Us narrow and uneven a. they
are in the lower quarters Of town in far
away China. SuEcly this old race Is pos
sessed of "A wondrous vitality Little Chi
ncSe children, who look for all the world
like strange animated wax dolls, move
around together gravely. Their playing
with one another, if such their solemn
movements can be called. has all the
/ gravity Of some religious ceremony. How .
/ unlike the children Of the Caucasiansl F..
/ There is solemnness in all things Asiatic, .
from decapitsting TO playing Chinese .
women, TOO, may be seen sitting in the .
shops. How odd the Chinese language +
sounds sort Of ingsong gablllei won
/ der how our language sounds 70 thcrni "A
/ ent their manner j. eraver and more sol /
emn than ever. They arr hearing bad
news about the China-Japanese war.
Across the bay over ia Oakland. lives
/ joaquin Miller. He has renowned the .
world, with all lis pOmps and vanities,
wears long hair and hide boots and has
cultivated pict uresquenes- Of look. &c .
CasiOnally be may b. seen Ia the streets az
Oakland walking along straight ~ an ar .
I0w and looking neither % the night nor
left. He is a fine looking man, with picrc-
ing eyes and handsome, stern face. POCr
joaquin What a struggle be had for rec /.
ignition in his early days The AmeTi- /
can publishers would have none ~ him,
50 he went over 10 try his luck in London.
There thing went mighty tight with him
for awhile but 1t last he Obtained tie .
fame for which De was scrking- London
went wild over him. The most exclusive {
English aristocrats made much % biJD and .
invited him 10 their bones, for ssy what
you will about the English ar1stocrat. he .
at least rcverences intellect and when Il
comes u pinch considers u the only true .
patent q nobility. In THIS particular -
could give a much needed lesson u jhe .
vulgar bourgeois. would ie swell Amer .
can who brings contempt upon the grand
the v.lest English toady. % ooUrse when .
Miller came bsck be Wa reosived Win .
sciat
4 month ago 7 vas IN saniS Rsr5ars .
\ few miles away from g. under the .
shadow - . great mountain, = a Jesuit .
mission house 20 YEAR Old Tie scrne-y .
around this part q Califaynis s. - nag
mind The usost wonderful and t-saatsful - .
fee world IL usalIr@a tins Ideal % the .
l,rsates: descriptive writer's Byron hans
slIf could not t1lagIuC = LAID p.r;urr rnore .
u4a0uif-er-E ] lave gone through tl1s
Eimalsyas. stood APPALLED, befrs-c Chin
iorazs aazsd on tic Alps. rsssghcd .
through rne ardes ~; never have ts7-z
"a d part q tbe sroTiG where Eubs3mity.
grandeur exquisite c1lorlug ard tesu-y.
marvellous atmosphere Sad Tseh- ssoflgls
s4nllghf we're hlence1 to = ErllF ~ In
tt.ralLrr. Grand land q f-r arle -sss.4
Ve.l II gAs AIsserlesns - p-0ud - tacel
EaI.z AEs ALL.
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