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trip to Citlifoniisi. We wish you could have stiiyed 

 until alHHit this tiuio. or a llttio later. This State 

 has a vt'iy ditVcri'iit aspect now from wliat it had 

 wlieii \o(i were here. Then, almost every tliiiiK 

 looked dry and liarren: now, all is jji'»'t'n. Kven the 

 brown, dried-iip nuuintains :ire eoveicd with >ireen 

 folia>re and llowi'is of every culoi- of the tainbuw. 

 Grain is wavinj; in the wind, and alfalfa is about 

 ready to cut. 



The hee-inspector was here Saturday. He thouKlit 

 my lu-es were in jrood shape for woi'k. 1 have k"' 

 my extractiiiK-house completed that 1 was at woik 

 ou when you wore here. 1 have also k"' 'h'd ■''"" 

 evaporator completed. We have had quite a liti le 

 shock of earth«iuake since you were heic. It has 

 given us about a tliinl more wati>r in the spiings 

 and artesian wells; and the water in the siniii^is has 

 been considerably hotter since. .1. 11. Utstin. 



San Jacinto, Cal., Mar. 29. 



Well, well ! so the earlliiiaakes really loosen 

 lip water in the artesian wells, do they? This 

 is the lirst I ever heai'd of earthquakes doing 

 anybody any good. 

 Thanks "for the facts, 

 friend 1). And is it really 

 true that earilnniakes as 

 a general thing make hot 

 springs still hotter.' I 

 ani afraid I shall have 

 to go hack to my old 

 theory, that hoi springs 

 gel their heal from pent- 

 up volcanic energy away 

 down in the earth. 



While at San Jacinto 

 we were very pleasantly 

 entertained alwhal many 

 travelers might call :i 

 humble and unpreten 

 tious little hotel. It wa- 

 kepi by a widow lady and 

 her daughters. The spe- 

 cial feature that please 

 me was to see the daiigli 

 ters all taking hold u: 

 the work. I soon found 

 they were Methodist peo- 

 ple, and I had some curi- 

 osity to know how pro- 

 fessing Christians would 

 manage a hotel, especial- 

 ly on Sunday. The sit- 

 ting-room contained a 

 piano; and one of the 

 boys who belonged to the 

 institution played well 

 on the bass-viol ; and 

 during the whole of ev- 

 ery Sunday afternoon 

 that it was our good for- 

 tune to be there, they 

 had. In the best room, a 



little concert of sacred music. The young men 

 and women of the town dropped in, one after 

 another, and each look part in vocal music, or 

 playing on some kind of instrument. 



I was [(leased to note, t(X). that, in the town of 

 San Jacinto, the girl who wailed on us at the 

 table seemed to stand just as well in good socie- 

 ty as the banker's wife or anybody else. There 

 was a bar, of course, but no liquors, and several 

 of the boarders saw (it to pass their Sunday 

 afternoons in smoking, and in playing cards. 

 Mrs. Root wondered how our good Methodist 

 friends cotild permit this. Now. I do not pre- 

 tend to decide; the question right here, as to 

 whether a hotel-keeper should ab-soltitely pro- 

 hibit card-playing and tobacco-using in the 

 barroom or not. If I kei)t a hotel. I am pretty 

 sure I should undertake to get along without 

 thi'se things. But, at the same lime, my way 

 might not be the wisest one. I wish to say this, 

 however: That the good music and refined con- 

 versation in the parlor gradually drew away 



the occuptints of the barroom, one by one, until 

 tliQ card -playing and at W^ast most of the smok- 

 ing seemed to be dropped. Of course, it was tht; 

 landlady's daughters who were waiters at the 

 tables, and w ho performed the oflices of clerk 

 at the desk, chaiubermaid. or whatever needed 

 to 1)1' ilone. They were all /»/f/k'.s-, nevertheless; 

 and I really wish that all llie hotels in our land 

 might hold out such an influence for good as 

 does the San Jacinto hotel. Now. you must not 

 think, because 1 told you the young peoijje met 

 ;ind sung hymns all Sunday afternoon, that 

 San Jacinto is a model place so faf as morals 

 are concerned. The beautiful romance of 

 Kamona has most of its incidents located in this 

 vicinity; and every visitor to the placid should 

 read the book. Shooting is no uncommon thing 

 there; and the man who shot the Indian Ales- 

 sandro walks about the streets as thouiili he 

 had done a meritorious thing instead of having 



J. H. dustin'.s api>aratus fok watp:i{ixg 15i;i;.s. 



committed a crime. Although his photograph is 

 offered for sale side by side with ihat of tlie Indi- 

 an womati called Rainona, I did not care to pur- 

 chase; his picture nor even to shake hands with 

 him. Wcdl. the nearest station to San Jacinto 

 is called Alessandro. in memory of the book 

 Ramona. Mrs. Root was more inler(;sied in 

 the Indians, and in going to their Indian school, 

 than in almost any thing else; and at length 

 sh<! was gratilied to see the dusky children of 

 the forest actually at work learning tlnnr tasks, 

 like the children in any while school. And in 

 our next we will try ro give you a picture of the 

 Indian boys and girls at school. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The Cirolin.i Bee-keepers' Association will meet at the 

 Court-house in Charlotte, N. C , July 21. A. L. Beach, Sec. 

 Steel Creek. N. C. 



