The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-10-08
IN OTHER CLlMEs.
P. j. Braud Writes Interestingly of Things
That Happen in Far-of California.

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p. j. Braud Writes Interestingly of Thing
That Happen in Far-off California.
The editor OF The Chief is in receip
Of very interesting letter from Pau
y. Braud, at one time managing editol
of this paper and for the past foul
months a member of the reportoria
staff OF the Daily Times-Index, pub
i lished at San Bernardino, Cal. The
i following extracts from Mr.. Brand
letter, which is dated Sept. 4, vii
doubtless prove of much interest te
i. that gentleman's many friends in this
community and to our readers gen,
orally:
/ We spent the day in the city today.
under the impression that, the month
being September, summer was on the
Wane, but the weather factory put On az
extra shift and the mercury roasted on
the 106 mark nearly all day. That is
no high temperature for this country,
and since we have been here the tenn
/ perature recorded has been as high as
/ 1I3 degrees without causing US any in
i convenience, but today it was, as an.
other school girl said, 'sjust toe
! awful There are storms raging on
| the desert. which is not more than
| about 30 miles from here, and when
the cloudbursts get ready for business
! it gets quite as saltry here as it is in
/ Louisiana, and you may imagine Wh at
| that means when the heat is as great
as l05 degrees.
In the forenoon we went to the
mineral baths, some four miles from
here, and remained in the pool until
noon, about two hours, but the water,
which comes from the spring at a
| Temperature of 80 degrees or more,
az ally felt cool today by contrast
with the greater heat Of the atmos-
pierre.
As hot as it was, however, the eholo
women never let out a single reef in
the great shawls they wrap about their
heads, and the men sopped in rather
more vino than usual. OF course, their
consumption Of the Hchile.n which is
not at all chilly, increased in proper
ton with the heat, and the chile con
carne stands did land Office business
all day.
[ was forgetting. talking TO you Of
sscholos' as though you had been
among them all your life. The cholo,
you must know, IS native of the pro.
vince Of Sonora, Mexico. He is said
to be half-breed of Mexican and
Yaqui Indian parentage, but the as
sertion that he is cross between the
devil and cactus has never been dis
proven. In appearance, the cholo re-
sembles a mulatto roustabout-minus
the agility and enterprise, also less
the pride of person. He wears straw
hat with a sugar-loaf crown about
eighteen inches high and brim some
seven inches wide. That is de reggie.
No properly constituted cholo will
wear coat, his attire consisting solely
OF a shirt of dark material made
darker by contact with everything that
is not a bath tub, and a pair of blue
trousers that never, under any cir
cumstances, come within four inches
of the position they should occupy
aboutthe waist, leaving the occupants
abdomen free to be distended into the
mosphere-within the limits of the
shirt, of course-with vino, chile and
tortililas. To this, add a liberal as
sortment of stenehes, a large bunch OF
stinks and a profusion of smells, and
you have the cholo.
A good thing about the animal is
that he will STAY his own kind when
ever the vino may be obtained il suf- |
fcient quantity. His only weapon is a
knife-any old kind of knife. Wear
ing a grin like a jackass eating cactus,
he will walk up to his enemy with |
every manifestation OF friendship and
flirting his coat into his victims face, |
ii,
! said that the cholo wears no coat,
his arm for this purpose. Never has
a eholo been known to testify against
a murderer, not even when the victim is
his father or mother. He prefers to
meet him on the desert or in some box
ear and stab him in the back. He is
even more reticent, in this respect,
than the Italian feudists.
Last Sunday we went to Los An
geles and to the ostrich farm near
Pasadena. Fine birds they were, but
do not think l would care TO tackle
drumstick, and I imagine that their
Nishbone must be something fierce.
There are two or three ostrich farms
n southern California. In the Office
of the one we visited we saw ostrich
oiuth053 ICdtI4CISf OOdS, IdQS anu Obn0f
rifles, making q stock worth many
thousand dollars. Jack wanted one Of
he boas and the man wanted $50 for
+. There IS no law against wanting
n this country, and aek and the man
are still at large. If ever you are
compelled by dire necessity to pur-
,hase ostrich vegetation, write to
cawston Ostrich Farm, South Pasa-
lena, California, and you will be sure
o get the genuine article. An inter-
sting thing about the yards was a
,ovey, or flock, or gang-I have it, a
lumber Of baby ostriehes, some Of
hem only one day old. The smallest of
he bunch was a big six week Plymouth
Rock puilet. The birds are danger
JUS, and when they are to be plueked
hey are driven into funnel shaped {
'ens at the corners of the enclosures.
nd there hoods are thrown over their
eads, the man who is to do the pluck
ng coming up to the bird from the
ear The ostrich strikes ont In front
vhen fighting, and his talon is brought {
own with such force that it willis
asily rip open a horse. They are
tucked every nine months, and are
AIRED for five years before they arrive !
t the age of discretion. :
While we were waiting on the GAL
Try OF the Office at CaWston man
anne up with two women and signed $
he register, John Hopkins and wives. {
os Angeles. That was the first Nor /
ION revealed To 81 aelS II and che ~ \