The herald., 1895-10-20


home was high, as evinced in a little in
ago. He remarked to trienu: sHow
raridly your boys and girls are growing
into young men and women" YES"
said the friend, adding in a moment of
despopdency and half-regret as he
MED his family by life in the valley
'Yes, and into heathens, too" Mr.. Has
kins quickly replied mo child can
grow up heather IN Christian fam
ily." Doubtless we have all heard him
express the conviction that no place was
better fitted naturally to develop q high
type of true and noble character than
our own valley.
That Mr.. Haskins was an idealst must
be conceded, but that his ideals had no
foundation in reality, cannot. Some OF
the greatest events in history had their
origin in ideality, in theory-and some
of the greatest discoveries in science have
sprung from the same source. Some one
has SAID our ideals are not merely con-
ceptions OF the mnd-airy nothiags
without foundation simply visions
Heating through the filmy mists of space.
but realities discovered. The law of gray
itation existed as an ideal in the mind of
Newton before he saw the apple drop
from the tree, and the law flashed
through his mind. That the earth was
round was an image in the mind OF
Calico before he was condemned by the
council of Florence for asserting the fact.
From the fantastic play of electricity on
earth and sky and cloud. Franklin gained
an ideal which led him to fly his
kite. and bring the lighting to do
MS bidding. All these ideals
Sed SsCamo most .Gr'an' fs,Ins effGc. realities and
scientific world, though 10 the minds O:
the age in which this great one lived
they presented themselves as the merest
flights of an active Imagination. So true
realities are they now that we scarcely
believe them ever to have existed only IN
theory. These may be called extreme
cases. but they show the power of vivid
fancy when turned in pract cal direc-
tion. They show, too. the value of ideals
and of having high ideals as well. These
ideals were as real TO Newton, Calico
and Franklin as though the voice of
science had spoken IN trumpet tones, or
the still small voice of inspiration had
revealed to them the truth.
1t has often seemed to me that Dr.
Haskins had spiritual vision, so much
was he able to see in the future. He was
weak and fral and often came to us op-
press I'd by the fog and heavy air of Los
Angeles. This pure dry air invigorated
anu strengthened him so that after few
days he was new man and ready for
another business venture. When such
results were manifest just from breath
ing pure air. is it any wonder that he
WAS an optimist. an idealist in regard to
our valley and its future?
Some of us recall his first impressions
of the valley as recorded in private let
ter to an eastern friend comparing it to
views in Palestine. The wonderful light
upon the mountains, the shimmerIng
haze across the valley, with the blending
and harmony of color over all, was such
as is rarely seen in this country.
q plxyf ha oF ba
set and the clearness of the air and the
artistic contour of mountain and valley,
but with prophetic eve discerned the
utility as well. As seldom happens, util-
ity and beauty ran IN parallel lines, as
was evidenced by the fields of waving
upon acres of luxuriantly growing orch
ards and heavily laden vineyards.
| cannot close this imperfect and in
com plete memorial without alluding
briefly to the influence of character. No
one could come in contact with DR.. Has
kins without feeling how earnest his pur.
pose, how thorough his convictions, how
sincere his efforts. how convincing his
ar suments Whatever he undertook he
determined to make successful, His was
no half f-bearted nature. 1t has been said
to be quite impossible to drop the plum
met OF thought to the bottom of the word
character. 50 deep and manifest are the
meanings of this highest and most en-
during of all the aspects of human life.
The noble characters in each generation
are the prophets of God. 1t matters little
whether they are gifted in speech or not,
there is an eloquence in spirit, in aim
and in life which no language can COM
pass. Sp,ech is effective and convincing
only while audible; character makes
golden tongues out OF silence Itself. The
character which can thus speak makes
a lasting impression upon humanity. Ii
makes us feel more than all else that
God created man in his own image and
breathed into him breath OF his life.
such character. we peileve was that of
our friend, DR.. Haskins.
COLONIES.
Space will not permit description OF
the growth and beauty of the various
colonies which will from time to time be
described in these columns. Some beau
tiful photographs of the TERRA Bonita
colony have recently been exhibited in
the Herald windows, and attracted much
admiring attention.
An interesting little ,story is told in
with one of the pictures.
THIS summer. while Mr.. Chaplin and Mr..
Palmer of the TERRA Bonita culony were
ca mping with their wives and a nun Der
of their friends in the mountains, they
lad photographer with them, and one
their horses and approaching q creek
the scenery tenn pted them to have
negative taken. They found it impossi-
BILE to keep their horses quiet, the ami
m ais showing an unusual nervousnss sss
and being almost uncomfortable, SO that
the photographer had to take a snap shot