The Princeton union., 1901-03-07
FROM CALIFORNIA.

e The air and weather are better here
than in other places we have visited.
{ find here Col. Liggett, John Cooper,
|Mealy, OF MONTICELLO, Joel Bassett and
Mrs: c: H. Chadbourne, of Minneapo-
lis--a widow now-Judges. Collins and.
Start, and t@everal others. We have
taken excursions to Pasadena and San
Pedro. At Pasadena we had a tally-ho
ride through the city. There are
streets there too beautiful to be on
earth. Palatial residences surrounded
with ornamental trees and flowers and
trees loaded with oranges. If some of
our boys could be transported thither
ID the night and awake to find them
selves in one of these streets, it
wouldn't be hard work, to convince
them that they were in nparadise.
6 &. WAS down to see George Loring.
He is beautifully located where he can
see the ocean on one side and Los An
geles on the other, snowcapped noun
tains in the distance and ripe straw
berries in the next lot, with fruit and
vegetables in abundance all around
him. A nice healthy place I should
think. Mrs. Loring feel Lonesome, be-
ing away from her children and old
friends.
The National Soldiers Home is only
half mile away and is a beautifully
laid 'out place-a soldiers paradise.
There are about 1000 Of them, there.
George and I went over to see Tom
Hannay and we found not only him
but A. r. Tobey, who used to get our
watches in fix years ago, and George
Chamberlain, who used to whoop'er
up on Rum river-he has but one leg
now. Well, we enjoyed talking over
old times.
They have everything there, a
church, an opera house, museums,
libraries, a menagerie with a human
headed monkey, great big acreage of
garden, cabbages as big as half a
bushel solid, onions as big as saucers,
and everything nice. I saw two crews
picking peas near there to-day. Those
old soldiers are in clover and they ap-
preciate it too. The government treats
them very kindly: they have their
pensions to spend as they see fit and
can travel anywhere in the United
States for half fare. If a fellow gets
out OF the army alive he needn't worry
about the rest of his life. Verify,
when we see all of the institutions in
the United States for the care of the
poor and afflicted we must agree that
the world is getting better and the
time ought to come when people can
settle their disputes without killing
each other. - ~ ...--- -. ~
=. To-day [ inspected a .:California
creamery fifteen miles south-a coop
erative affair. They are not up to date
in machinery, running two oldtime
Russian separators. not skimming
clean. The COWS are nearly all Jer-
seys. January tests averaged as, but
terfsold at 80 cents and patrons got %
cents. To-day it is selling at Is cents
They sell lots of cream testing As at
Sl.20 per gallon on yearly contracts,
about four pounds of butter in a gallon.
They take in 200 pounds daily and
their skimming station 1000 pounds.
They have machine for cooling with
ammonia, which is better than ice
can freeze with it. Two-foot scrubby
wood costs $3.50 per cord SO they use
crude oil mostly; for fuel, using about
two barrels per day, costing about 81
per barrel. Inspectors don't inspect
much here. The creamery is making
fine butler all in two pound bricks,