a noble aspiration to be closely associated with the building of a State. Though we adopt a new home, we are more than mortal if we rise superior to the sentiment that attaches us to the soil of the old one. It is not a supreme matter in what part of our common country we are born, or where we experienced the earliest throbs of ambition. But whatever the spot may be, it is of supreme importance that we should feel for it that tender attachment out of which patriotic impulse springs. We may not glory in ourselves without shame, but he who

does not take pride in his native State, and hold in loving regard the place of his birth in this Union of States, he who does not tenderly regard the scenes of his youth and the field of his early manhood in the American Republic, is not only insensate, but less than hu

man.

J. A. Woodson.

Hon. Schuyler Colfax furnished D. R. Leper for his work on Indiana Argonauts of '49, 122 names of Indianans who came to California in '49 from the one small section about South Bend and Mishawaka. This indicates the large contribution Indiana made to California in its infancy. Ed.

HE distance from Paris to Edinburgh is not greater than the distance from Capay Valley in Yolo County to the heart of the Californian Riviera at Santa Barbara. Four hundred miles, as the crow flies, separated us from the scene of the Battle of Flowers; mountains and barren mesas intervened and yet, as far as the climate, the

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natural scenery, and the products of the soil were concerned, we might still have been in one of the ever-sunny valleys that lead off from the old Mission Santa Barbara. There were differences, we plainly recognized, but not the differences that exist between Paris and Scotland. We were no longer in the land of poco tiempo; the luxurious enervating traditions of the Spanish days played no part in the lives of the people about us. It was as if the active, hard working, economical farmers of New England had settled at Santa Bar

stand in the middle of the broad hard-packed road that traverses the valley from end to end and look to the right and left down aisles of fruit trees to the foothills on either side and not pick out a weed or brush; or across great fields of yellow grain that do not stop at the foothills, where a combined harvester and thresher and twenty mules are at work, without wondering whether it is "volunteer" or not. You soon discover that every farmer's first ambition is to own his own farm no matter how small, after which he may possibly indulge in a big house, but more than likely he has his eye on the 40 acres that adjoin his. The very method by which most of the land owners of this fertile little valley have bought their land is conducive to this habit of thrift and economy.

fornia that its owner must be equally generous and the result is always the same. Nature tires out and the ranch passes into other hands. It is no use trying to live the life of a retired country gentleman until you have something to retire on. There are no costly ranch houses from one end of the Capay Valley to the other-not

one.

In fact, one is struck with the utter disregard for show exhibited. The houses are small, neat, one-storied and possibly only temporary. Money is not laid out in walks, parks or flower gardens, yet there is an air of well being about them all. It is easy to see however, where the money and labor have been spent. It is on the land itself -on the great orchards of apricots, prunes, peaches, figs, pomegranates, pears, almonds, English walnuts, and on the school-houses that meet one at every turn.' You can

'Governor H. H. Markham in his State report of 1893, states that the number of schools in Yolo County, which according to census of 1890, had a population of only

A great company named after the valley bought 10,000 acres out of the 40,000 in the valley. They then resold and are still selling their acres so that the purchaser, if he is industrious, can buy without capital and make the land pay for itself. The only requirement is 6 per cent interest for the first five years, and that a reasonable proportion of the land so purchased be planted in fruit trees or vines. At the end of the five years the land will be in a position to much more than pay for itself, for the fruit trees will be bearing earlier than in any other portion of the State, so 12,684, was 78. School children between 5 and 17 years, 3,478, more than one fourth of the entire population. School money, $99,315.09.