Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-03-05

they mature at about FIVE years, when
a pair ma. es for life. and live together
happily for rs to 100 years-no di.
vorces. A young newly mated couple
acts just like newly-wedded humans.
The honeymoon is over in about a
year, but during that time they act
very Tightly, making nests in all
kinds of impossible places, dropping
eggs around in promiscuous places,
and never really getting down to
serious business until the second
year when the hen lays twelve to tif
teen eggs and they solemnly take
turns sitting on them in a manner
that at least goes toward establishing
the theory OF equal rights. The fe
male sits on the eggs from daylight
until about 4 D. m. when she rustles
her lord and master and makes him
do the incubating act from p. m.
until daylight next morning. The
young ones resemble a bale of cotton
waste when hatched but soon get on
ostrich manners and grow long legs
and begin to pick up a living on
their own hook, Living as long as
they do pair Of ostriches must earn
the proprietor a fortune, as the tourist
business alone must pay
The next stop is half an hour at
San Gabriel mission where you are
shown the baptismal font at which
Romona was baptized and othef an
tiquities Of an architecture Of nearly |
three hundred years ago. This ms
sion Is built after the old Spanish
style-onestory with bastions and
very thick walls against earthquakes
that were then more of terror than
now--as we see all over this region
the sky-scraper buildings that would
make r pretty mess If there should
come along a real quaker. The priest
Of San Gabriel, in rich Irish brogue
and in a very entertaining manner
shows the visitors through, delivering
good talk on the ancient spanish art
hat adorns the walls. Two Of the
'hime of six old bells brought from q
spain via Mexico are missing. One 6
vas sent by the state to the Chicago 7
Worlds fair and never got back and I
here is a tradition that the other one @
ould be found somewhere on the \
lucky Baldwin ranch. h
To the left we pass Mt. Low. 6100 d
eet high and Mt Wilson. 1000 feet.
'oward noon the mountain chains on b
ach side takef on brilliant colbrs. G
ut lack the brilliancy of the Wasatch I
hahn Of Ogden although they are a
much nearer to you. But here we I
re, the Lucky Baldwin ranch of 54..
DO acres extending from the Sierra 2
'eyadas on one side to the foothills
n the other. A two-hour tallyho ride
axes you over large parts of the
anch. The grounds prepared for the .
with artificial terraces and
axes palm groves and fowerbanks p
nth Islands all set to calla lilies and a
ther tropical plants, was laid off
nth grand style and effect. but the o
wner never finished his residence. as =
ne home is very unpretentions, and o
he proprietor is living most Of the <
me In large cities. The ranch is man. B
sed by Chinese and Mexicans over.
zen by whites. 2
There are great fields. CRANES
caches, almonds, olives. English B
alnuts, oranges, lines, lemons and
runes-cultivation extending far IN 2
Ito the foothills where the finest &
ayel oranges grow. <
The Southern Pacific tracks RIM q
trough It and there are two towns
d the ranch, Arcadia and Monrovia
o get a charter for these towns
aldwIn had TO import five hundred 9
.eXican families to have the requisite 3
'pulation. But he got them and has Z
lllt very rrJtty towns. His request 2
'r a charter met with a great deal 2
opposition from Los Angeles as il B
as feared no would run wide-open z
'wns aad establish regular Monte ~
arlo gambling places, but no such re- .
ilt has materializad, It is said the !,
state is heavily mortgaged but that :
probably true OF many OF the land. 2
'or gentry OF early California days
There Is a fine tourist hotel on 3
Ie ranch where you get a fve-course 4
'bledhote dinner with wine for I
cents, as fine as in any large city Z
nile there are thousands OF acres J
fruit you are not permitted TO eat q
n.y. There We're but few ripe
Ives left although the orange crop 3