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surrgR's 6AwmuArc?Qiar?At&i7 September 9 Is 75 th Anniversary of Her Admission to Union By JOHN DICKINSON 8HERMAN ALIFORNIA this year Is celebrating the seventy fifth anniversary of her ad mission to the Union. Ad mission day is September 9. but with characteristic ex uberance many cities are throwing in fiestas and pa v V geants of their own for good measure. Merely a local affair? Hardly. Call - foruia may rightly assume that the United States?and pretty much all the rest of the world?is directly or In directly Interested in her celebration. For all the peoples of the civilized world contributed to the gold rush of 1848-50 that made the Golden state al most overnight. The Forty-niners, you see, rushed California into the Union away ahead of her geographical turn. This upsetting qf the geographical sequence by the admission of Califor nia as the twenty-eighth state Intro duced new factors which hastened the development of the Indian country. Out of the demand for communication between the Mississippi and the Pa cific came the Overland Mall of the Fifties, the Pony express of 18G0, the St Louis-San Francisco telegraph line of 1861 and the driving of the gold and sliver railroad spikes in 1869 at Ogden ?each a story in Itself. Moreover the "ifs" of history have a fascination all their own and Cali fornia furnishes several which will long Interest historians: If {he Monroe Doctrine of 1823 had not notified the Russians that further extension of their Pacific coast activi ties would be regarded as the "mani festation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States"? If the raising of the "California Re public" flag by Americans June 14, 1846, had not been followed three weeks later at Monterey by the annex ation of California to the United States? ' If Admiral Seymour's British fleet had arrived at Monterey before Com modore Sloat of the American navy hod taken possession, instead of just after? If gold had been discovered in Cali fornia during the Mexican war. in stead of Just after the region had be come ours by conquest and treaty Then, too, the rise and fall of thv California missions is of Interest alike to historical student, economist an<l religionist. - o Jesuits began the establishment of the missions of Lower California. With their expulsion In 1767. the'Domlnlcans were given the work, while the Fran ciscans were called upon to begin on upper California. Father Janipero Serra, padre presldente. had founded nine missions along the Cnmlno Ileal from San Diego to San- Francisco when be died in 1784. They prospered. New Afghan Coinage The government of Afghanistan has Introduced a new system of coinage which has for its unit the amanla. a silver coin worth approximately thtf same as the Kabnll rupee (about 16 cents). The name of the new coif Is derived from Amnnulla. the name of the present ameer of Afghanistan. In addition to the amanla there will be coined lialf-araanla pieces and nickel coins of smaller denominations. Ac ySLAxr cZdRixxS.MrcMY&gFS??-?*> When Mexico secularized the mis sions of California in 1834 there were 21, with a force of 30,000 Indian neo phytes. The padres had about S10.000 cattle, sheep, horsey and mules. Their annual grain crop was 245,000 bushels; their annual income from sales from herds was $550,000. The result of sec ularization was this: "A few years suf ficed to strip the establishments of ev erything of value nnd leave the Indi ans, who were In contemplation of law the beneficiaries of secularization, a shivering crowd of naked und, so to speak, homeless wanderers." Again: California has such a bag of tricks for visitors from ordinary spots. It has, for example, assorted climates at all seasons for all comers. It's Just as easy on a summer day to stand on a snowbank on the slopes of Mount Whitney (14,002) nnd catch steelhead trout In an Ice-cold lake as it Is to cook eggs In the sun In Death valley (-270)./ And at San Diego not even a native son can tell by the thermometer wheth er It's Christmas or the Fourth of July. Then there is Mount Lassen, the only active volcano, and the big trees and redwoods, the oldest and big gest living things on earth, and so on. California's very name suggests the romance of her early days?and her historical beginnings are very old. Cortez, conqueror of Mexico, gave the name to Baja (Lower) California when he made tils settlement at La Paz In 1534-5. California Is the name of a fictional island, inhabited by Amazons under Queen Calafia and rich in gold, diamonds and pearls, in an old Span ish romance. "Las Sergas de Esplandl an," by Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo (1510). In Alta (Upper) California, Cabrillo national monument marks the spot first sighted by Juan Rodriguez Cab rillo in June of 1542. He was a Portu guese navigator flying the golden castles of Castile and the red lions of Leon. So the flag of Spain was the first to float over the coast. In June of 1579 a strange ship flying the red cross of St. George swooped down on the coast of Alta California and captured Spahiards, galleons and treasure galore. It was the Golden Hind on her way rotund the world un der that great sea captain, Sir Francis Drake?part gentleman adventurer and purt pirate. Drake landed north of San Francisco. to<?k possession In the name of England and named the re gion New Albion. '? The , Russians, blundering down through Behrlng strait In 1728, prose cuted the fur trade vigorously, estab lished their fortified posts as far south ?s Shn Francisco bay and had the ?^Spanish Callfornians terrorized. The i Monroe Doctrine put an end to their I \ cording to press reports the required silver has been purchased in India through a German firm und he nickel through an Italian firm. T'ie manu facturing stamps have been Imported from Europe. Maryland'* Flag a Copy The state flag of Maryland repre sents the escutcheon of the paternal coat of arms of Lord Ifciltiinore.^The first and fourth quarters consist o.' six vertical bars, alternately gold und - ? va ) s " dreams of an empire on the American Pacific, Including Hawaii, and Inciden tally gave us Ala&ka by purchase In 1SC7. The red and yellow of Spain came down In 1821, when Mexico won her Independence. Thereafter the Mexi can flag floated In nominal sovereign ty over Alta California for 25 years. June 14, 1846, a company of 88 Americans took possession of Sonoma, made prisoners of Gen. Mariano G. Vallejo and his small garrison, hauled down the Mexican flag, proclaimed the Republic of California and ran up a unique flag especially made for the occasion from Ave yards of unbleached cotton cloth and a can of red paint. The "Bear flag" waved proudly over the Republic of California for Just 24 days. The Mexican war had been on since ,May 13, though nobody in Cali fornia knew it When the news reached Commodore John D. Sloat, In command of American naval forces In the Pacific, he sailed Into Monterey,, took possession of the port and on July 7 raised the Stars and Stripes and pro claimed the annexation of California to the United States. Admiral Sey mour torrlved with a British fleet a few dajfc later?Just too late. The "California war," set going by the hoisting of the "Bear flag," came to an end with the signing of the "Ca huenga capitulation" of January 13. 1847. The next year saw the end of the Mexican war. A momentous day for California was February 2, 1848. On that day was signed the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidal go, which made California safely ours by conquest and purchase. And on that day James W. Marshall picked up a nugget of gold In the raceway of the new sawmill at Coloma In the Sacra ntmto valley, Just built by Capt. John A. Sutter, of Sutter's Fort and New Helvetia fame. At the close of the Mexlcail regime there was the miserable presidio and pueblo of Verba Buensi at the entrance to San Fmnclsco bay, with* 200 inhabi tants. By the winter of lS4J>-.ri0 this miserable village had become the city of San Francisco, with oO.OOO people in canvas tents, tin houses and wooden cabins, scattered all the way from the beach to Telegraph hill?and as many more on the way via the Horn, the Isthmus and the overland trail. So that Is what the discovery of gold at Sutter's mill did for California. And why California's gold, lying almost In plain sight, shonid have escaped the Spaniard?the most indefatigable goJd: hunter the world ever saw?Is a inysr tery?unless, one believes In the guid ing hand of Divine Providence In the progress of the one nation of earth dedicated to liberty, equality of rights t:nd the pursuit of happiness. ? _ I ( / "i " ' . v I black, with a diagonal band, on which the colors are reversed; the second and third quarters consist of a quar tered field of red and white, charged with a Greek cross, Its arms terminat ing in trefoils, with the colors trans posed, red being on the white ground and white on the red. and all being represented as on the escutcheon of the present seal of Maryland. ! 1 ? f?,h . */ The beaver, though looked on as an embodiment of industry, sleeps hours a dajr. /?* , < - i L ? 0 ' MY FAVORITE STORIES f ? By IRVIN S. COBB (Copyright) i Absolutely No Hurry About It The other day somebody told me a story of a man under sentence of death to whom the jailer came with the word that he might follow any con genial occupation he pleased during the time which would elapse before the fatal date. The prisoner had only tc nominate his choice and the facilities for prosecuting it would be provided Indeed, there was rather a suggestion that if the condemned man had not completed the favored undertaking by that day, there might be a delay in the execution of the lpw to give him an opportunity to finish IL ' . The situation having been made clear, the messenger awaited the cap tive's decision. ??/ "Well, old man," he said finally, "what Is it you want to do?" "I think," said the prisoner^ "I'd like to learn Chinese." . The hearing of this story reminds me of another?a blood brother to it? which was current in Tennessee years ago. 1 One chilly evening in the early part of March the sheriff entered the coun ty jail and, addressing the colored per son who occupied the strongest cell, said: ' "Gabe, you know that under the law my duty requires me to take you out of here tomorrow and hang you. So I've come to tell you that I want to make your final hours on earth as easy as possible. For your last break fast you can have anything to eat that you want and as much of It as you want. What do you think you'd like to have?" The condemned man studied for ? minute. "Mr. Luklns," he saW, "I b'lieves I'd lak to have a nice wortermelon." "But watermelons won't be ripe for four or five months yet," said the sheriff. "Well, suh," said Gabe, "I kin wait" Absolutely Unfitted for the Role A few months before his death Gen. Basil Duke of Kentucky, who com manded Morgan's cavalry after the killing of his brother-in-law. Gen. John Morgan, told this tale at a Con federate reunion in his home city of Louisville: He said that during one of the Tennessee campaigns Morgan's men surprised and routed a regiment of Federal troopers. In the midst of the retreat one of the enemy, who was mounted upon a big bay horse, sud denly turned and charged the victo rious Confederates full-tilt, waving his arm and shrieking like mad as he bore down upon them alone. Respect ing such marvelous courage, the Con federates forebore shooting at the ap proaching foe, but when he was right upon them they saw there was a dif ferent reason for his foolhardlness. He was a green recruit His horse had run away with him?the bit had broken, and, white as a sheet and scared stiff, the luckless youth was being propeHed straight at the whoop ing Kentuckians, begging for mercy as he came. Jeff Sterritt, a noted wit of the com mand, stopped the horse and made a willing prisoner of the rider. Sterritt, who had not washed or shaved for days and was a ferocious looking per son, pulled out a big pistol and wagged its muzzle in the terrified Federal's face. . - ' k'I don't know whether to kill you right now," he said, Mor wait until the fight is over!" "Mister," beggeC the quivering cap tive, "as a favor to me, please don't do it at all! I'm a dissipated charac ter?and I ain't prepared to die!" When a Tailor Made the Man There used to be a southern born colonel of one of the negro regiments of the United States army whose first name was James. He was a small, dapper man, very dignified and very much aware of the Importance of the position he filled. He was a great be liever in athletics and he organized three baseball teams among members of his battalions and started a series of games for thfe regimental champion ship. One afternoon two of the clubs were playing an Important game of the series. The commander, watching from the side line, thought the rivals were not showing sufficient spirit, con sidering that the score was so close and the championship at stake. He decided to show both outfits that gin ger was requisite He yanked off his service coat, grabbed a bat and de clared himself into the gajne. ''Now, then." he stated, as he ad vanced to the plate, "for just so long as I've got no shoulder straps on I want you men to treat me as if I were one of you, I'm not your colonel?I'm s player. Let's go!" The pitcher sped the ball across the plate and the colonel cracked out a three-bagger. He tried to stretch it tnjto a homer. As be turned third base, on the dead run the coacher for his side opened up: "Run, you pore 111' sawedoff, pop eyed. Jbyw-legffedl homely white runt! Bun!" he shouted. - "Now slide old Jimboy, dadgum you?SLIDE!" The colonel slid and got there Then lw wont over and nut his mat nn I ASAKY GRAHAM-BONNER. , CO^THGHT it WHUX W?wu u?no?? THE JAGUAR The Jaguar had heard a conversa tion between the Lion and the Tiger. Each had been doing much talking. The Tiger had been saying that the Lion spent mbst of his time in roar ing, while he, the Tiger, did the clever things in life. What the Tiger had said was per fectly true, but It had made the Lion angry and he had roared more than ever. "Well," said the Jaguar, "as I am al most as large as the Tiger I think I ought to be heard from, too." "What do you mean when you say you ought to be heard from?" asked a young Jaguar, a new arrival in the zoo. 1 s ' "I mean that I ought to tell yon something about myself," the Jaguar said. "Well, why don't you?" asked the young Jaguar. , "I believe I will," said the Jaguar. "Ha, ha." said King Lion, "I am not the only one who wants to boast." "Nor I," said the Tiger. "I didn't say I was going to boast," snarled the Jaguar. "I remarked that I should be heard from and that I should tell something of myself. "I may tell something very, very dreadful." "Not much chance of that." said King Lion, tossing his mane and look ing very proud and superior. "Not much chance of that." said the Tiger. i . Even the young Jaguar added: "Not much chance of that." "Maybe not." 6ald the Jaguar, "and again, ma^be so." , 'Oh. don't waste so mnch time," said Kins Lion, "go on with your story." That's the right idea." said Tiger. "Yes, go on with your story," said the young Jaguar. "Ah, you're all Interested," said the * ii i i ii i i i m ii ii m LX X "I Am the Fine Jaguar, I Am." fa' '?! Jaguar, ''for there is no other reason In wanting me to hurry. "You're not going to catch a train, as folks say; King Lion. "Nor you, Tiger. "Nor you. Jaguar." "No, I'm not going to catch a train." said King Lion. "I wouldn't go on one of the silly, puffing things. "I don't have to puff, for I can rour." "I don't have to catch a train, It is true." said the Tiger. "Nor do I think that a very sensible remark." ? Kven the young Jaguar agreed with this.?> "I thought I was going to have a chance to speak." said the Jaguar. "To be sure." said King Lion. '"I'm only waiting for you to begin." "Only waiting for you to start," said young Jaguar. "Only waiting for you to commence." said the Tiger. "Then let me get started," growled the .Tnguar., "Let him get started," said the Tiger. "Let him get started." said young Jaguar. "By all means, let him get Rtarted." said King Lion. "Not, of course, for a train, lAit with his story." ^ "That's what we mean." said the Tiger. "Yes. that's what we mewi." said the young Jaguar. .. ,? "Well," said the Jaguar, "I will tell you. 1 ? , if ' "I came from South America and I had a very exciting trip here. "I came In a boat. I did. and so I know about boats, even though trains are beneath my notice. "Every oruer admired my handsome yellow coat, my strength and my beau tiful big bead. "Yes, I am the fine Jagunr. I am." "True," agreed the young Jaguar. "He boasted, too," grinned the Lion, roaring again. "He Certainly did." said the Tiger. "But my boasting made a true story," the Jaguar added delightedly. ?ii ' I' >' Enough for a Penny While waiting at the railroad sta tion, Brown put his six-year-old daugh ter on the slot scales. "Only 40 pounds?" he said. "You ought to weigh more than that." "Well, daddy!" exclaimed the little girl, "Isn't It enough for a penny?" Everything Counted Esther went for a picnic with some frltMdfc When she got home she said. "I want'something to eat." "Why,** 'wfl3 her mother, "didn't you have lunch with the Smiths?r "Yes," she answered, "1 had some but everything was counted." * ( ? . ? V . \ i . : PLAY INC SAFE 1 am going to spiak over,, tomorrow night." le( "I shall listen in vrith p*. est," said Miss Cayenne. 1 41 shall talk1 ahum the i<kait i modern culture." "Simply wonderful!" ? "Would you like to w I hand?" \ nik\ "No. Save it; s<V that if \ flo. pen to like It I can : ,.ne 0ut . * favorite hotel orcl..-sjra> J" ton Star. '' SPORTS IN PROPER PUj College Head?And spurts haves proper place in our currieulct] eourse. Student's Dad?Glad to hear it to know my boy will have somei 'to study, you know. Had No Honker Here he sleeps. One Johnny Fonker; He rounded a turn ' Without a honker. / Too Late "Good heavens! Who gaveyonti black eye?" "A bridegroom for kissing the I after the ceremony." "Bui surely he didn't object to t ancient custom?" "No?but it Was two years after n ceremony." Subject tb Releate She?But, Algy, I'm very cross *111 you, really! You promised iaithM to bring your engagement ring & night He?Bellevo me, dear, I'm sort The truth is?the other girl basnt n turned It yet?Stray Stories. Not Too Realiitic "That's my statue of Peace." "You've made her very beautiM too beautiful." "All, well, you see, I didn't dm her from nature."?Paris L DIM? tlon. | ? i - Botton Oating "We must pause," remarked tbep fessor, climbing out of the auto. "Yes, dear," agreed bis wife heard the tire puncture"-Ameria Legion Weekly. v Unthinkable ' Mrs, Scales?Scientists say that ? really laugh and grow fat Mrs. Diete?Of course! ? would grow fat and laugh I PERFECT GENTLEMAN 'He's a perfect gentleman, f think 7" ,TeJ ' "I do?he always rises ana g lady his seat in tbe barber shop Health Again To get bla wealth he epenth "j. then with might ??? He turned around and ?p?nl To get hie health *g*la ln Every Home ^ "Are you going anywhere tfifP* asked the maid. tiJ i "No. We are planning to home." ' . ? coal" "Anybody going to call on . ' "I think not" ? ? < . for C "Then Itm be perfectly sa , to order onions for the dlnne . D.pr.ciaUd^" ^ Mistress?Jane, thats a * V I ?
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