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Beyond these also are palm-girt sidewalks twenty feet in breadth; while, here and there, reflecting California's golden sunshine from their glistening leaves, stand groups of the magnificent magnolias which give the avenue its name. "Why did you make this splendid promenade?" I asked in mingled curiosity and admiration.
It firmly held before the people the loyal responsibility of the state and declared that the ties of union were too sacred to be broken. It was the moral duty of the people to remain loyal. It truthfully asserted that California's influence in the Federal Union should be an example for other states to follow.
Her laughter diminished to a smile that lay on her lips, looking stiff and uncomfortable below the fixity of her eyes. "That's such a long way off," she said faintly. "Not so very long." "Oh, California's hundreds of miles away yet.
The California's crew manned her weather rigging, waved their hats in the air, and gave up three hearty cheers, which we answered as heartily, and the customary single cheer came back to us from over the water.
San Francisco might furnish a fitting bride to California's youngest senator." "I am afraid that my stay here must be brief, and limited to business," said Hathaway, who had merely noticed that the principal girl was handsome and original-looking. "In fact, I am here partly to see an old acquaintance Colonel Pendleton." The three men looked at each other curiously. "Oh! Harry Pendleton," said Mr.
"It's nothing but hardships and danger." "California's at the end of it, dearie, and they say that's the most beautiful country in the world." "It will be a strange country," she said wistfully, not thinking alone of California. "Not for long." "Do you think we'll ever feel at home in it?" The question came in a faint voice.
Washoe, Nevada Territory, or the State of Nevada, the new "Silverado" drives all men crazy. A city shines now along the breast of the Storey County peaks, nine thousand feet above the sea. The dulness of California's evolution is broken by the rush to Washoe.
And can any praise seem superfluous for California's apostles in particular for the saintly Serra? At the civil exercises, held in Monterey on the occasion of the celebration we are speaking of, Senator Reginaldo del Valle, of Los Angeles, Mr. Michael Williams and Mr. Charles Phillips of San Francisco each paid exquisite tributes to our hero whom the opening lines of Mr.
Addition is constantly being made to its group of noble buildings. Beautiful Stanford is the sparkling jewel in California's diadem. Not far from the University of California in the suburbs of Oakland is situated Mills College, which for many years was the only advanced school for girls of which the state could boast.
I became deeply interested in her before I learned that this wan bit of humanity was the once winsome daughter of Commandante Arguello, and the heroine of a pathetic romance of Spanish California's day. The hero was Rezanoff, an officer of high repute, sent by Russia in 1806 to inspect its establishment at the port of Sitka, Alaska.
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