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thought that he was standing still and that every- 

 thing else was going to Jericho at the rate of 

 sixty miles an hour. Fond mothers reading Mr. 

 Steevens' prose would doubtless sooner send their 

 sons to Jericho instead of San Francisco. And yet, 

 humiliating as it may be to admit it, San Francisco 

 is not in any sense more " rapid " than other big 

 cities. Time was when she set a terrible pace ; 

 but to-day she "goes slow" in all things, as the 

 merchants will testify. Los Angeles, lacking nine- 

 tenths of the advantages possessed by the metro- 

 polis, moves much faster. 



