The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-07

of races Some of these half-breed wo-
men are singularly charming. Those
snail, dark, cat-like creatures, with little
black eyes, vivid as the eyes of a wild
animal, curved noses and thin lips are al
most Japanese. Then there is the olive
tint of Spanish blood, a most seductive
type of beauty with her dangerous ways.
mischievous eyes, and hair as black as
polished ebony. That swarthy one you
will at once recognize as Mexican The
she sings to the accompaniment of a
guitar,
"Soy purta mejicana;
NADIA tengo espanol
(''I am pure Mexican. | have nothing
Spanish about me.)
The negro is seldom seen here.
San Francisco is one wild whirl of BUSH
ness. The intensity of movement daZes
you. Men make fortunes before they are
of age and often lose them as quickly.
But they go down in splendor and die
game, then begin to build another fortune
twice as great. Here is opportunity, and
along the path of opportunity achieve
ment often passes.
And this leads me to say that the West
is the young mans country Horace
Greeley's advice, $50 West, Young Man.
is as good today as when he gave it-and
a little bit better. But to preach such
doctrine here is treason and my only ex-
.cuse for mentioning it is that l beheld
with my own eyes the glorious opportuni-
ties awaiting the enterprise and intelli-
gence OF the young and ambitious. Also
/ met men there from the East, from
North Carolina, if you please, who have
made immense fortunes in few years, or
who are leaders at the bar or in the pull
pit or in politics. If there are wrecks in
San Francisco they are hidden beneath
the great waves of humanity, and there
was no floating thing to tell that they
had gone down.. And what is true OF San
Francisco in this respect is true of all the
Great West. Wherever we stopped we
found one or more native Tar Heels and
all were doing we'll
At no place more than at San Diego
was / struck with the value of Eastern
enterprise in this Western country. From
San Diego we look across into Mexico, but
it's barren sands look desolate and we stay
where we are, preferring that Arabian
Nights hotel whose site a few years ago
was a sandSpit dear at ten dollars the
mile; now sandspit turned garden with
one of the finest hotels in America on it.
1t is all the work of the Yankee. What
could be more beautiful than this little
city erected on it's tilted sheet of sand,
the peninsula and it's great hotel the
blue islets of Coronado and the soft haze
that makes it all seem like a dream de-
spite the frequent rubbing of ones eyes.
San Diego, Santa Monica, San Jose,
Santa Barbara! One will be struck with
the names of places in California. Four
ffths of them are Spanish, and four fifths
of them a Spaniard would not recognize
as they are commonly pronounced. But
only the name remains, the face and form
are new The Spaniard has gone to the
wall but the Yankee with new wings
and room for them is there. He talks of
San this and Santa that but doesn't know
santo from a saddle and cares less.
What good to him is a patron saint, any
way? Money is good for what it will buy,
and the object of life is to live.
What beautiful country is this South
ern California! The warmth and damp
ness of the climate encourage all VegeIa-
ton to grow with surprising luxurlance
and rapidity; the buds of yesterday are
flowers today, and tomorrow only ruin is
left to tell the tale of beauty and frag-
rance. The general aspect of the Slope
during the summer months is harmony
of green's. and in the winter, they tell
me. there is little change. The ripening
scale that eliminates in the green grow
ing grass and dark foliaged orange groves,
made greener by contrast with their gold
en- fruit.
There are flowers everywhere-many OF
them rare even to the botanist. Lovellest
Of all are the immense wild roses. then
there are royal bush peoples, whole
groves of orange blossoms, hillsides light
ed by the tall gray shafts of fragrant
sage, fields of sweet peas and here ana
there on the high plateaus king among
floral subjects, the yucca, waves It's I'M
perial white plume.
The wide uplying pastures of oat and
foxtail grasses ripple in the wind IKE
a great lake. A world of mountains sur
rounds us and afar in the dazzling mlsts
of high noon may be seen the shadowy
outlines of more distant peaks.
Having seen and experienced these and
a thousand and one other pleasures incl
dent to this western country and it's peo-
pie. | found myself wondering why the
leisurely inhabitant goes for his recrea-
ton in winter to Southern Europe rather
than to Southern California.
Attractions of climate are not sufnclent.
If they were he would not brave the AT
lantic passage or shun the comfortable
railway, journey which will land him by
the genial smiling shores OF the Paclhc
where he may dwell in tropical gardens
and look upon aerial snow speaks-domes
rising in the serene air superior TO the
inhospitable Alps. The warmth, the col
or of sea and sky, the luxuriance of ever
lasting bloom of the Pacific slope would
attract him more than the fitful tenn
perature of the Mediterranean shores. He
must go as far as Egypt before he can
find any weather he can trust as he
can trust that of the stimulating Cali
fornia highlands.
For mere physical enjoyment, for con-
tinuing days and weeks when the temper
of the body is at one with the keen sus-
ceptibility of the mind to the delight of