A MIND'S-EYE MAP OF AMERICA 



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Photograph from Horace M. Albright 



FEEDING TWO DEER IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: WYOMING 



Last winter many of the wild animals in America's largest national park suffered severely. 

 Here one of the rangers is feeding two of the shy, graceful deer which, under the protection 

 of the government, have become partly domesticated. 



Eden, they fell sick, and the Lord was 

 very much disturbed about them, and he 

 called a council of his angels and wanted 

 to know where they should be taken for 

 a change of air, so that they might im- 

 prove. 



"The Angel Gabriel suggested that they 

 should be taken to the Eastern Shore of 

 Maryland, and the Lord said, 'No, no; 

 that would not be sufficient change !' " 



It is somewhat in that same spirit that 

 every Californian speaks of California, 

 and that is the reason why one of us has 

 given the name of Californiacs to all 

 those who are expatriated like myself. 



THE ROLE OF THE PADRES IN DEVELOPING 

 CALIFORNIA 



■California was peopled by the Indians 

 first and followed by the padres, and it is a 

 strange thing that wherever the Catholic 

 Church has gone in that State you will 

 find a most fertile spot. The rich centers 

 of California are all gathered around 

 those exquisite missions which those be- 

 loved fathers taught the Indians to build. 



The Mission Fathers brought with them 

 the art of irrigation, which was a new art 

 to this country; and they brought their 

 sprigs of vine and of orange and of fig 

 and laid the foundation for the wondrous 

 productions of that State. So that to- 

 day you will find from the very northern- 

 most part — from Klamath Lake, on the 

 edge of Oregon — down to the Imperial 

 Valley, in the south, the lands of Cali- 

 fornia watered and made as fertile as 

 the valley of the Nile. 



As you journey down the State you 

 see some of those superb things that God 

 has made for the delight of his people — 

 Mount Shasta, the Yosemite Valley — yes, 

 and the great redwood trees, the oldest 

 living things on this or any other conti- 

 nent. They were there, those great se- 

 quoias, when Christ came upon earth ; 

 they were there when Moses brought 

 down from the mountain the tables of 

 stone — five thousand, six thousand and 

 more years old. And because of com- 

 mercial reasons — out of the mere desire 

 for railroad ties — people are cutting 



