Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-24
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WULFF'S EYRE.
BY BENZ. F. WULFF. OF STOCK :
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COUNY, MISS. RESIDENT.
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Editor Greene County Herald. i
have Low for some time, at Intervals.
ATTEMPTED to please my old friends of
South astern Mississippi by writing
for publication in the Herald certuiil
reminiscent articles touching apo.
the thoughts, ideas and personalities
Of the past in dear Old Dixie and yll
ing a few imperfect suggestion a,l
the peculiaritieo Of this Stale.
California is great state in ufan
ways. There is no other state hirr
within this union OF states Its cX-
tent along the Pacific coast for spn,
seven hundred aud fifty macs, wltu
an average width of two hundred ami
fifty miles of surface extending IL
from the sea coast, over mountains
and plains Of var ed attitudes, aud
all tIeac under the variable Influence
of the japan current and lis attend
ant winds, produces diversified eli
mate varying with the ,ocality.
AS this state is extensive, aud eli
mate always depends mainly upon
latitude, altitude, oceanic currents
and winds, and distance from the
sea shore, we may reasonably expect
d greatly diversified climate within
the limits appointed n this expect
ancy.
The products OF this state, aside
from any general popularity, vary
with the locality, us does the climate.
All the industries are subject in Il
manner to the same mutations
The population Of California may
be said 10 be cosmopolitan, inaSuuch
as there is perhaps, no nation Or Iun-
try Of notice, unreprGScutcd in lis
population. Its population is pccu-
liza" IN the proportion OF its A>ial -
including Japanese and Chinese E7-
cry city or town Of any size has its
China town, and while the ia
panese do not have IL Jap town they
permeate certain quarters of the city
proper, which operates in measure
tending to produce migratorv propen-
stiles within The thinking apparatus
of the former white population. This
fact will In time perhaps produce a
condition similar to that which nov
prevails in re pect to the Chinese.
Now, in giving the foregoing facts
the writer was compelled TO intrude
himself into the realm of the geo
grapher, a thing :hich he did with
out any desire to treSpass, but sim
ply in sort of preface to what he
might say in the future.
The writer recognizes his inability
to handle this subject in a manner
crcditable to himself, even if it were
within the scope of his intentions
and that of the Herald; so we leave
this to the geogrIphcr and other de-
scriptive writer's of books, wno Lave
already amply elaborated upon this
theme.
However, much may be said about
the great state of California which
might possibI interest the readers
of the Herald; and it occurred to the
writer that if this paper and It's read
ers could tolerate the apparent egot-
ism OF the writer, In using uniformly
the first personal pronoun in writing
sketches OF his own personal eXper-
fence in this section of the country,
during Il period of some thirty years,
he might enter into such an under
taking in his feeble way, at Intervals
Of leisure, and incidentally touch up
on description of different localities
in which his sketches lay.
The writer may say in conclusion
that his advent made no change in
the roief Or climatic conditions in
California Everything went on just
ii, before. Even the feas of San
f, auci>c. vent On Just as they had
cviously done except that they
imtd to i,aiizc ttiaI was an emf.
ge.,lit .....l zoos possession OF Inc with
o.Janv rights of conveyance or sue
cession. They OK ,rcised every right
OF the .-quatter'' and proceeded to
bu SHE -. 1T was another case of
/; eets;ns hallsls with slight vari-
alions.
Yours truly,
BENZ. f. WULFF.
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