The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-03-29
DOWN THE WEST COAST,
The Mountsin Defense OF Califor-
MAS Treasure Spots.
What One secs In IN Ocean Trip Along
the Picturesque iVatcr-Line of Our
Contlncnt-Tho outpost
of the Tropics.


The coast OF California from the
Golden Gate southwark gives little hint
Of The interior, writes Charles r. Lummis
in Hprper's Margarine. 1t is largely a
aarrieaae of abrupt brown ridges,
springing almost from the surf to hide
The real California from inquisitive
eyes and winds. Nature has spent too
iauch on the garden to have capital
lett for painting the fence, and it
stands the primal pattern which hu-
nianity has unconsciously followed iu
al such lands-Eden hidden behind an
adobe wall. Here and there through a
crack in the weathered fence q green
sendril Of a valley creeps, Yonder is q
BIT Of shore with It's dark citrus patch;
a barren candlestick of headland,
with the white shaft OF its lighthouse;
roadstead fieclled with fishers sails;
clouds OF sea-birds that snow upon
sraalt-ruilled reach oi sea.
With dawn of the third day we are at
the beginning of the wayside-tying-
IN, al San Diego, to the last wharf with
which our steamer win venture upon
sneh faniliurities in FIVE weeks, with
time to visit that Arabian Nights hotel
whose site l knew first us sandspit dear
4. ten dollars the mile: then as sands
pit plus auctioneer and buyers of lots
10 q million dollars; and now as sands
pit turned garden. whose chief fruit is
one OF the finest hotels in America.
San Diego is the last of the United
States, hut not the least, It is already
characteristic as New Englnnd-more
so for the New Highlander rules here
as not at home, Spain has gone to the
wall. and the Yankee, with new wings
and room for them, pervades all. One
nay half guess the patron saint of
Spain set down now in the lap Of his
namesaAe daughter, to rub his eyes Mt
the changed face of her, and at her
sons. who know not saddle from q
santo, and whose only saints ring their
own mass. 1t is the last anachronism.
The Spanish spirit is as fur to-day from
a. .l;va-fol,t front idea rs in the
c-,l,s,, os-e II tortss I'd III beuigbted
understanding still, money is good for
,,,hat \ y.;fl Inv ana IN. object N l;fe
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uarnes are oherisl,e with the distp--
,;on wl,i,,h Is the ne e,uliar Saxon priv-
jlet.a MA ior Fo,rr-fifths Of an the
.,l.ge -,a,,,.,s h California are SPANISH.
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