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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05

spoken rs constituting the chief attraction or
Duny's h,ok for the American public, at this
time at least The pure Irish spirit whether
in its droll or serious aspect makes happy
spot whenever he reverts TO It. He repeats
the cpigram Of ex-editor OF a Galway paper
on the typical Galway patron "ile dimes with
the editor every time he comes to town. writes
libel once quarter. and never pays ms SUD
scription." Duny's experience on The Nation
would appear to have been more fortunate. but
with laugh he tacitly admits that his friends
remark was just. Smith OBren. thoroughly
typical Irishman. ne celebrates in a more cred
liable aneciote. This man was OF An i'm
peccable character. In duel he surprised
his opponent and the seconds by calling out.
stop. No signal | pray" just as the hand
<erchief was about to fall There general
dlsmly until OBrien blandly observed to his
opponents second. II want to call your atten-
ton To the fact that the gentleman opposite
me has let the cap fall or his pistol" From a
young priest Of his acquaintance Duffy quotes
story Of delightfully."- Irish quality. The
priest had accompanied his Bishop pas
toral visitation. and had been presented with
the horse he rode the occasion. In honor
u the giver he named the animal The
Bishop and In his stable 1t was customary
to hear orders to saddle the bishop or water
the bishop. or do this or that for the bishop.
The Bishop by and by came to visit the priest.
lie drove to the house behind the horse nc had
given to his protege. On arriving he sat down
to dinner with the notables Of the place. Enter
the groom. with q pressing desire to speak to
his master. He is denied. but Is still more
urgent, until the Bishop ntercedes for him. and
Mike proceeds thus: TITS horrId hot day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05
AN IRISHMAN'S STORY.
THE REcoLIEcTIoNs OF SIR CHARLES
GAYAN DUFFY.

MY LIFE IN TWO HEMIspHEREs by or or
" Charles Gavan Duffy. In Two Volumes ~
tavo PIP. H. 1856. xi. 1896 The Maci''''' N'"'
pany.
II is with some difficulty that the reaner se'S
through these two ample volumes. for the de-
tails of old Irish controversies In which they
abound are not Of a nature to excite senerai
interest Sir Charles Gavan Duffy has written
first and last not only for the Irish pat'i"' OUT
for the student OF political affairs who Is IN
s.ructed in the doings OF fifty years ago IN the
unhappy island. without some previous initia-
ton into the troubles Of 1S4S into the history
Of the rise and fall of DuTy's nationalist paper.
The Nation" and the interplay OF pohticai
passion between the powers at Westminster
and the macontents OF Ireland. even the au-
thor's most minute chapters-and he Is ofieh
terribly minute-are studied with limited en-
joyment The recent history OF Ireland, MADE
BY Parnell and Gladstone, has robbed the Tor
ties of half their interest for outsiders. More
over Duffy was himself detached from irish
affairs in midcareer and resumed his activity
as a public man In another hemisphere 1den-
tifying himself with the fortunes OF Australia
At all events, his extensive notes on Ireland
have only an academic interest, and the real
worth OF the book Is to be found In the anec-
dotes Of specially picturesque episodes. the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05

sketches Of celebrated people and the reports
Of their conversation.
The figure OF O'Conncil for example. H. more
attractive than the events connected with his
closing years Ills principal characteristic.
said Mr. Gladstone was n passion for philan-
thropy Sir Gavan Duny does not contradict
this but ne fills on, the portrait. showing the
famous Liberator as a patriotic but essentially
masterful man. capable Of VERY unpkilanthropic
action when the interests OF what he was
pleased 10 consider the national cause were at
stake our author nourishcd In his youth
perferyid conception OF the man who FOR some
years was to be his chief. but on making
acquaintance with his hero he suffered severe
disillusonnent. "lie belonged altogether to
the nineteenth century" he says. "ani not al
all to the region Of romance in which had
placed him. practical man OF affairs
caustic humorous commentator on the business
Of to-day. rising at times into flashes OF fire. or
settling down into cold logical analysis. In
which lie caught and crushed the case OF an
adversary like a 'casse-n oix' closing on
walnut. His attacks opponents surprised
me by their herccness and vulsarity as much
as by their inexhaustible humor" story
Illustrating this violent procedure OF O'Con-
nelrs Describes him in Al clcctonccr!ng con-
test wherein he assailcd one candidate as "a
fellow whose visage would frightcn horse
from his oats" Some observed
tically that no doubt OConncll was very
Hyperion. but obviously owed his good looks
to the ministratons VI his barber, and. robbed
Of this assistance would soon be discrcdIted.
O'Connell strobe to the front OF the platform.
faced the audience. snatched of his wig, and.
pointing to his raked head covered with O
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05

quantity Of Dryden letters. which are ~ ~
the most part believed to be UNPUBLISHED -
about to he sold in London with other W.
Of the Phillipps collection. In one Of these let'
ters dated November 7. 1863, there is TINS SuS
gestive passage:
III they (thc Court will consider me d" -.
man who has done my best 10 improve enS
language. and especially the poetry ana wv W..
be content with my acduescence unueI ' an
present government. and forbcaring satns s. un
1t. that I can promise, because ! can pe 1.sats
Il; but can neither take the oaths nor iuis '.os
my religion because | know not what Churcm
~ go to II l leave the Catholilue; they a.e ~
so divided amongst themselves In ma'tr,' o.
faith necessary to Salvation; and yet az =.
pIeasd to open your eye, as He has openo
mine"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05
LIMITS.

BY CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON.
On sand-loose sand and shifting
On sand-dry sand and drifting
The city grows to the west:
Not till its border reaches
The ocean-beaten beaches
viii ii rest
On hills-steep hills and lonely,
That stop at cloudland only
The city climbs to the sky;
Not tn the souls who make il.
Touch the clear light and take IT.
VIII ii die.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05

MY LIFE IN TWO HEMIspHEREs by or S,r
tavo pp. H. as5. xi, ss5 The Macmillan Oo'''-
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STORY OF FRIENDSHIPS TRIUMPH OVER LOVE.

to enjoy has become a habit They have learned to "lean upon each other in their trouble, their pleasures, their social and mental experiences of every kind They are inseparables. When Mime. de Tremors (who is musician composes song or suite 1t is to Philippe that she sends 1t to be praised or criticized. When Philippe who is not a saint) Is dragged into some tri- vial amourette, 1t is to Denise that he talks of his "bonnes fortunes"-as some men might take to their club friends, though-with a difference.
 Denise. however. has not wholly realized the imminent danger which besets. her when she writes this pas sage: My friend. have you not felt how wholly. solely, absolutely. I am yours? Apart from you nothing now interest me-
 So, slowly for a time. and then more rapidly, she passes from her earlier platonism to the absorbing passion of a woman's first great love. A dis paraging remark of Philippe about a new dress which she has worn at the opera angers her unreasonably, and for a whole fortnight she Is mot at home" to any one. When peace has been restored she sends him letters. which grow more and more pathetic.
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and Missouri are best represented among the more Western States The people nave come from cities ard rural villages in al most equal proportion. and the sclt, baimy climate and charm of fruit-sroW- ing in the semi-tropics have been the al. most sole causes or the immigration or these Eastern people. Some have come
 from very distinguished Eastern families, and some citizens here are famous throughout Eastern States.
 A prominent feature of Pomona Is the
 number of it's churches. are well
 kept and manv are models. several
 church structures here are particularly
 handsome and stately. All the great
 Christian denominations of the world are
 here represented by churches and large
 congregations, and there are smaller con
 gregations here of large part of the
 newer and offshooting denominations. In
 a word, think of all the Christian denomi-
 nations you ever heard of and you will
 find a representative of each in Pomona,
 besides several more Altogether, some
 twenty-eight religious congregations as- semble here on each Saturday or Sunday for worship. There are twenty-one odist Episcopal. Congregational. Chris tian Baptist, Presbyterian and Catholic and Episcopal have the largest congrega- tions in the order of their importance named above. The local clergymen took a census of the active church membership of Pomona a few years ago. and it was found that over 2300 people here were church members-a larger percentage of churchgoers than elsewhere in a town of Pomona's size in the Union.
 The public library of Pomona is an in- stitution in which every one here takes a just pride. It was established by the women of this city nine years ago. By a series of flower stivals-which. by the way, made Pomona famous throughout the newspaper reading world-severaI thousand dollars were raised for the library fund. The library is now public institution. and is supported by general taxes. It has over $500 volumes, besides a great quantity of pamphlets and peri odicals Its reading-room is well filled. and to the youth of the community who cannot afford to buy books and periodi- calls it has been an academy.
 Secret and benevolent societies have their quota in this place. The Odd Eel lows. Free Masons, Knights of Pythias and Foresters are the principal organiza- tions. There are a dozen others, and every weekday evening two or three so- cieties are. in session somewhere about | Pomona The Odd Fellows have large and costly building of their own, and
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Philippe is at her house constantly. He is her confidant. her squire, her more than brother Yet the innocence of the bond uniting them is never suilied. For she is really a good woman, and he does. not love-
 How is it, then, that having traversed one great crisis safely. Mime. de Ire mors at last feels that 1t is her turn to confess her human frailty?
 Partly, I suppose, the intuitive van itv of even the best women would ex- plain her lapse from inmaterial saint liness. Possibly she grows jealous of an incipient irritation between her very material niece and Philippe. Or, as the cynical philosopher assures us, per- haps she is at heart rake, like all of her sweet sex.
 One thing alone is sure-she falls in love.
 '.Women," again says that abomin- able Stendahl. "are bound to us by favors. AS nineteen-twentieths of their habitual reveries relate to love. afterin- timacy, these reveries become centered in one object.
 As in the case of Philippe, though love steals upon her treacherously. Philippe is almost a necessity of life to her. With him, too. the delightful. deli cate comradeship which he is privileged
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and San Bernardino with electric light ing, and furnishes power at the wonder fully low price of l cent per horsepower per hour.
 The one great industry. of Pomona Val ley is fruit. growing. To be sure there the here There are alfalfa and barley fields. extensive apiaries and nurseries, but 90 per cent of the capital earned by Po- mona people is in orange and lemon groves. peach, olive, prune. apricot and pear orchards and in some vineyards The boast of the Pomonans is the un- commonly wide. variety of fruit that may be grown in this valley in like luxuri- ance. Pomona Valley is said to be un- surpassed in this respect by any other section in the Golden State. While other horticultural localities may grow oranges and lemon in perfection, and those only, while still other valleys may have thou sands of acres of apricot or prunes oniy, here In Pomona Valley one may see groves of luscious navel oranges grow ing side by side with orchards Of peaches, and may observe rows of superb lemon trees bearing fruit alongside of alfalfa
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However hard my words may seen,' she writes, they tell the truth about my heart. I do not love you.''
 Then-he goes abroad In a year or so he comes back-cured.
 Love is a fever" says Stendahl 'Itis born and it dies. The will has nothing to do with it"
 The months run on. Philippe and Denise have resumed their old friend ship He loves his lady still, but in a different way. His passion has been changed to a less ardent sentiment To him she is, as ever, the most charming of all women But
 Tt is our malady," he signs. Tt is the malady of the century, that we have not the strength to love. You are one of the rare women whom I should have loved to love, even before I had met you. dearest lady. Now l feel what an abyss would have divided us if we had loved, and know what pain you would have caused me by exacting of me vigor of soul which Is not mine to give"
 Au fond, perhaps Mime. de Tremors reseuts the success of the treatment she has prescribed. But if she does she keeps her counsel well. Day by day the tender companionship becomes closer and--to her-more perilous.
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! or prunes. It is this unusual variety i of fruits growing in Pomona Valley that 1 causes a constant flow of money to | the orchardists and farmers of Pomona 1 Some fruit crop here is money maker, l no matter what the season or the mar 1 ket.
 1 First and foremost among the fruit
 grown in Pomona Valley are oranges. It | is estimated that there are over Il 900 per cent of them are of the navel va riety. The largest navel orange grove
 in the whole world is here. It is the Seth | Richards grove at North Pomona and it comprises $50 acres, or 30 900 trees. This season this great grove is yielding about
 145 carloads of fruit, valued at about s7C0
 a carload. At this writing the orange
 picking and shipping season Is on, and
 the scenes among the Pomona orange l groves and in the several packing-houses on any fine day are well worth going a scenes in the realm of horticulture more
 attractive than that of harvesting and packing a big orange crop The high noon of the orange harvest season comes in March. Then there are hundreds of men, women, boys and girls busy from dawn i till dark every day in picking and pack ing oranges The sum paid for labor in handling oranges every season is away
 up in the thousands. The last of the
 oranges generally go to market by the last of June.
 Prunes is the next most important crop | of Pomona Valley as a capital maker. In
 1896 the prune yield of this locality was | ! over 2500 tons. For weeks an army of
 adults and children were busy every
 hour of daylight in drying and preparing i Pomona's prune crop for the Eastern
 market.
 1 The apricot yield O. this. valley runs 1 from 5000 to $500 tons annually The fruit l ripens by the early days of July, and the l school children look forward to that for l the earning of many a tidy sum in vaca- ! tion days The apricot yield of Pomona l Valley is the largest in Southern Califor- | nia outside of Ventura County. | Then there are peaches. Pomona Val | ley grew over 2200 tons of them last year,
 and they were truly magnificent speci-
 mems of fruit.
 ! Pears nectarines. English walnuts and acres of small fruits are grown here. The l strawberry yield of Pomona Valley iS | worth thousands of dollars annually. i But the fruit that is more disinctively 1 Pomona's than any others is the olive. 1 For years Pomona has been the largest | olive nursery spot in the world. An l nually from 900 to 450,000 olive treea
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more outspoken, more appealing,
 If I dared, I would say to you that even your praises just now were pain ful to me to hear. It was cruel of you. Behold the weakness of my heart, the disorder of my life. Philippe, l am coming to regret I ever met you. Be- fore I knew you I was almost happy.
 For pity's sake, Philippe, help me; save me from myself"
 Much to his credit. Philippe does try to help her. Had she not helped him once?
 Most happily for him (and far more happily, indeed. for Denise) his cold replies at last have good results.
 Philippe. you are right; I was mad. I wanted your love, love equal to my own, and not your pity. writes Mme de Tremors on receiving what is apparently an offer of moral surren der. T am not cured yet, but I am calm. The crisis is past. l shall not die of it if I can keep your friend ship
 Months later, when the anguish of that second and most dangerous crisis has been dulled, Mme. de Tremors asks her friend-now honestly her friend-to send her back her letters. He obeys. And this is what she Writes after re-reading them:
 The beatings of our hearts, perhaps the best of them are in these leaves. What matter. dear. though we should both grow old, while we can be so mar velously, so amorously friends!'
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grateful I am to find that you are will ing to be merely a true woman, and not, as is the fashion nowadays, a tedious puppet, striving to talk learn edly of love"
 postscript to this letter seems to contradict his calm professions of good faith And very kindly Denise begs him to beware
 You must not mistake certain frank ness of mine for improprieties, writes Mme de Tremors. Maybe I have un- consciously taken too much pains to cultivate the budding flower of friend ship. Suppose we let it droop a little? Do you mind?'
 Nobody with the least knowledge of the human heart will need to be told that the more prudent Denise seems the more warm grows Philippe. Still, for space, no harm comes of the in- tercourse. The interest which the two take in each other waxes deeper and more tender every day.
 Denise soon comes to look upon her self as PhiIippes guiding star. his men. tor, his good angel. It is to her he tells his doubts and hopes, his discour- agements, his dreams.
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quoted nowadays for it's prohibition and temperance principles. There are two sa- looms now in this city of 5000 people. Each pays 5000 a year license, and each IS un- der the most watchful police survellia,noe. M ce
 That Pomona grows all the time IS dem- onstrated in many ways. The constant increase of school children shows 1t malne Iarge ly Four years ago two elegant, large expense of s40000. IL was thought then by every one that ample accommodatlon was made for the school boys and girls for at least a dozen years. For the last year the local Board of Education has been at its wits ends to provide room for the growing number of pupils, and there Rlans for more tbarg large sTa seh9o5 a0I n,,nils in Pomona's public schools; now there are over 12Oo The constant building of new residences and the scarcity of houses for rent show that the city is wax ing. The report of the postmaster and the growing weight of mail matter sent T, The broadening of business and the open ing of new commercial pursuits every
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The first to lose his head. of course, is Phillipe He does not reach the an1orous stage so quickly as more vul- gar souls. Oh, no. He first admires and then adores. He is still at the mystical stage of love when he indites these lines: Everything about you and your child, Helene, appears a har- mony. Do not tell me that l am mad; do not tell me anything, lest some ir- reparable word should come between us. Rather let me keep the thought of you within my heart as that of some thing holy"
 But the inevitable is not long de- layed.
 The hour has come,'' writes Philippe. T have deferred it till now, with all the will at my command. I have lived with my mad desire. suffering as of a physical disease. I was waiting for some opportunity of proving how utter ly my heart, my life are yours-I love you. I cannot live away from you"
 Gently and patiently Denise chides. reasons and expostulates. She does not affect prudery, She Is touched. pained, fattered by the mans failure to live up to his ideal of friendship. She for bids him to see her again for a time To help him. she will keep away from Paris for a time.
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K CHARMING French tale of
 H friendships triumph over love is l \ The book was heralded here as
 a posthumous work by Guy de Maupassant The dedication ITO Mime Laure de Maupassant," with deep ad- miration and tender respect" would seem to dispose of this theory
 Philippe de Luzy, an engaging dilet- tante in the thirties, met Denise de Tremors at reception in Paris He thought he saw in her a kindred soul, and he improved the acquaintance. He was a bachelor well bred and (for a bacheloT) well to do.
 She had for years been parted from her husband-a absolute diplomatist Since the matrimonial rupture she had lived irreproachably in her own world, devoted to her child, Helene. ~- It began with sympathy"
 "So I was not deceived" writes Phi lippe, after he had met his new friend once or twice. Tt was sympathy that led me to you surely though mysteri- ously. Yesterday, I own. as I entered your drawing room I was anxious. Ex- periments of this kind are so danger ous I was soon reassured.
 Flow good and charming you were; how trusting and how witty. How
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year speak of the growth of the city and valley, while all the clergymen here re- port a constant growth in church mem bership from among new corners from the Eastern States.
 Water Is as much a king in Pomona Valley as in other fruit growing regions of Southern California, and the fact that water may be so easily developed in abun- dance among the foothills and canyons along the northern side of the valley s1 a matter of pride and boast here. The mat ter of sufficient water for crops Is never a serious one in Pomona. The principal source of the irrigation water in Pomona comes from San Antonio Canyon, where stream is constantly formed by the melting Snows on the towering mountains all about. The water comes as cold as ice and as clear as crystal from the canyon even in the hottest days Of summer. The supply Is always so abundant that there has not yet seemed any need for dam ming the canyon and thereby creating a greater volume in the dry days of sum mer- A great quantity of water for irri,, gatiOn is had also from tunnels and wells in the foothills north of Pomona. In fact. all the water tunnels that have been dug into the water-bearing strata of the Pomona foothills during the last dec ade have been so much more successful than their projectors had planned that the marvellous abundance of subterranean streams there that may be tapped for the agriculturists' use is not yet fully com prehended Even in the years of greatest dryness these water tunnels and their tributary wells give forth steady vol umes of water. in the last two years the Consolidated Water Company has been formed for the purpose of supplying the city of Pomona with domestic water, and the source of the supply is so excellent and the fall of water so long that man. moth reservoir is now Tn construction for the purpose of relieving the pressure on the pipes at the lower end. For fire pro- lection no community in California can have a stronger and more abundant water supply than Pomona.
 One of the facts by which Pomona is widely known is the remarkable electri- cal power system here in use. In 1891 a company of Pomona men went to work to develop electrical power in San An tonic canyon-some fourteen miles north of Pomona. The greatest long-distance transmission of electrical power in the world was accomplished there in Novem- Der. 1891. A voltage equal to 1000 horse power was transmitted from San An tonic canyon to- San Bernardino and then to Pomona. The San Antonio Electric Power Company now furnishes Pomona