CALIFORNIA AND WESTERING SUN 329 



The Ancient Wonders were built by slave labor 

 and the brutal sacrifice of innumerable human 

 beings; this Modern Wonder has taught man- 

 kind how to preserve the workers in a tropical, 

 miasmic climate and is therefore reckoned one of 

 the greatest scientific achievements of the age. 

 What the effect of the Great War, the Great Ex- 

 position and the Great Waterway will be upon 

 agriculture throughout the world, it is impossible 

 for me to conjecture. 



And still the ink flows freely from my pen but 

 rather than weary you I leave it to your imagina- 

 tion to complete this life of a farm boy. I have 

 left much unsaid for my life has touched many 

 that are still living and there are some things too 

 personally sacred to be put in print; but otherwise 

 I have written with the frankness of youth and 

 with cordial goodwill. Before you have finished 

 these pages I hope you will have become my friend 

 and so I invite you to come and see me in this my 

 adopted country. Come in the heavenly spring- 

 time but " bring your heavy wraps for while the 

 days may be bright and warm the evenings will be 

 cool." This is the stock advice of an acclimated 

 Californian. 



Bring your purse along too, for this country has 



