The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-10-08

| trees from flve to - feet through. rlSlns
up 800 or 400 feet without a limb, knot
or woOdpecker hole, and standing so close
together that you can not get bowie
| knife between them. No, sir; hardly gel
| n bowie-knife between them"
Presently one of his hearers recovered
sufficiently from his establishment to In,
quire, rs there any game in the woods! 2
ANY game!' responded the Californian
with the same scOrnful accent: 'the very
finest game in the world anywhere. You
can see deer running through the woods
| with antlers six feet broad-yes sir, sin
feet broad"
One of his hearers retained sufficient
composure to ask, How do the dears with
antlers six feet broad get through trees
which You can hardly force a bowie-knife
between?'
THAT is their business, SIR responded
the unabashed Californian.
We simply could not mention anything
without an instant assertion of how much
California excelled in it.
For example, one man happened to
praise the excellent meals we were having
on the train.
Nothing in comparison. sir, to what you
can get almost anywhere in California.
particularly in San Francisco broke in
a Californian. Nowhere in the word
can a man live so we'll and so cheaply. Not
cheaper supply of food than anywhere else
in the world. but we have the very best
cooks Not French cooks. but Italians
Piedmontese. There has been Il large immi-
grafton into California of the people from
Piedmont. in the north of Italy. They are
superior to French cooks in every way.
They have 4 strain of German blood mixed
with the Italian, containing the virtues of
both races. They seem to take to cook
u hpr in Snr, INrar
cisco you find one of these Pedmontese
with neat little restaurant and kitchen
which he runs himself He will get YOU
up dishes that can not be equaled in Del
monico's or elsewhere, and ut :; price that
people have to pay for an ordinary living
elsewhere"
This settled the cooking question. Pres
emily we got talking about labor. "The
best place in the world. SIR" broke in the
Californian, ito do work is in California
man can do better work there than any
where else. the climate is so absolutely
perfect-nevcr too hot. never too cold. No
freezing as in the North. nor roasting,
as in the South. The hottest Summer
days are a little cool, so that 4 man can
do his best, and in Winter he can work out
of doors every day without the slightest
discomfort That is the reason that Cal
ifOrnians work right up until the last day
of their lives. You see a man on the
street or hard at work at something. and
III day or two you may hear that he is
dead. No wasting sickness, no long drawn
out illness-he works right a .Ong until the
appointed hour comes and then goes off
like turning ont the gas
So it was with everything that we men
toned. No topic that was started but fur
nished an opportunity for panegyric for
CALIFORNIA; overwhelming superiority in
every particular line
= @'Hfrlnt: yes, sir. Unquestionabiy the fin
est in the world. The whole world is
crazy for our fruit. They prefer it to any
other. The only reason we are not sup
plying the world is because. of lack of
transportation. Last year twO-thirds of
our fruit rOtted on the ground. because we
couldn't get it to market Fault of the
damned railroads.
Then lie went off into denunciation of
the railroads and railroad managers-par-
ticularly G. =. Huntington. The railroads
are the fly in the California ointment. The
CalifOrnians are as cordial and unanimous
in their denunciatim of the railroads as
they are in extollingI everything else in the
State. To an outsider the roads seem ex-
cellently managed. and to be great factors
in building up the State, but the Cali
fOrnians do not think so.
A LOUISIANA MAN GETS AN INNING.
There was Louisiana man in the
smoking-car, and after listening to the
rhapsodies" of the Californian till lie was
tired. he got the floor and began to tell
what a wonderful State his was. I'VE
cal raise. anything there from the finest
cotton in the world to 100000 Democratic
majority" he said. Our figs and oranges
are perfection; Louisiana peridue tobacco
is. something that the world. simply can
not get along without, and the Sultan of
Turkey smokes it in preference to the best
Turkish. Our figs and oranges are in
comparable, and our rice is simply with
out equal in Japan, China or Hindostan.
We are sending our rice everywhere, and
it brings q higher price than any other in