The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-07-20

pared to these miserable people.
They are most appropriate rep
resentatixes ct one OF the poorest
and most useless stretches ot
territory the sun eyer shone on,
and yet their lack Of ambition is
so great that they are cQntented
as coptentel as could be.
We got aboard at Yuma, and
ina few hours the splendid Souti-
erH Pacific train pulled us into a
country as prodigal|y blessed as
the Yuma desert seemed cursed,
and our awakening breath the
neXt morning game to rs heavily
laden with the fragrance Of the
orange, the lemon and the beau
tiful roses of glorious Riverside.
lie who hath not seen Riverside
has missed lite's goal. The city
embraces fifty square miles OF ter
ritory, populated only by ABOUT
la, coo people, and obi what a
paradise. The ladies were. wild
with delight, and the gentleman
were Qyerwhalema With the hue
ma vista hefoFe them. The cit
isens1 eamnirtee was at the train
to meet the editors and every one
was given a ride over this acme
otahHman bliss, this earthly par
adisa.
Riverside is a plaything for
mllionaires tg practice expert
mental agriculture, and well do
they utilize the great advantages
d benefcent greater has endowed
their country with, It is 2 city
of beautiful homes aud cultured
people, whose breasts are filled to
oYerAowiug with the milk Of hn
mar kindness.
Riverside's orange groves RIVAL
the tabled ltesperian fields at old;
it combines in the most ealinent
degreee the delights OF rural life
with the advantages of the mod
ern city. Within its composite
limits, and it is Only naturalt hat
we Iook for WHAT'S here in actual
fact, tpe post pleasing spot OF
earth. In a land so fair, so richly
endoWed by the Creator and SO
responsive to mans intelligent
efforts, assisted by irrigation, one.
looks for climax OF the beautiful,
the productive, the tr.rmphs OF
created art aud earth's richest
beauty, and he finds it in the
NATURAL home of the orange
Riverside. Grain hourishes as
we'll as does the orange tree.
phe town is a modern city,
built up of substantial brick
blocks, and has the neatest, the
cleanest, the widest streets of any
town We have seen inthe far
west. It is famous health resort,
WHICH accouuts fQr it's numerous
millionaires and ita most beauti-
full homes. Roses bloom here all
the year around. IN TACT, Rlver-
side is gu ideal city where one
gould come and sleep and dEaam
away a whole etern!ty's.existenoe.
If what we say OF Riverside ap
pears fulsonle, remember that we
lett one of the worst places OF
earth at sunset and at sunrise we
were amazed to awaken in an
earthly paradise.
From Riverside we sped on
our way toward Los Angeles, the
country along the entire route
being one continuoQs panorama
of beautiful pictures-the kind
that pen will not describe
through lovely valleys fripged
on either side with lovely orange
trees loaded down with their
luscious frqit, oyer towering
mountains, over romantic noun
taiu brooks filled with all the
varieties of game FISH, through
forests filed with great trees
whose topmost bQughs almost
reached to the heavens, aud at
last we REACH the city of Angels
and get out of our sleeping cars
for the first tine aad er.jov the
luxnvies OF = tall length bed.
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