. Our country: West. d to console ourselves by talking with aworkman, who looked over the terribly beautiful abyss andsaid wearily that folks came there and made a fuss about it,but he was sure he didnt see why. At last we turned our steps toward the chariot, which waskindly waiting to drop us over the brink. This time, insteadof the bottom dropping out of things, it was the top of every-thing which rose and soared away, while we went slippingdown through space, until it was in a kind of wonder that wefound ourselves above the ground when we stopped. In eight minutes we were among the ferns an
. Our country: West. d to console ourselves by talking with aworkman, who looked over the terribly beautiful abyss andsaid wearily that folks came there and made a fuss about it,but he was sure he didnt see why. At last we turned our steps toward the chariot, which waskindly waiting to drop us over the brink. This time, insteadof the bottom dropping out of things, it was the top of every-thing which rose and soared away, while we went slippingdown through space, until it was in a kind of wonder that wefound ourselves above the ground when we stopped. In eight minutes we were among the ferns and oaks of thecanon ; in another fifteen we sped between the fields of wildflowers; in half an hour more we stood in our own rosegarden, with the scent of the orange groves heavy about us ;and from the tropic of our palms and bananas and lime andlemon we could gaze straight up to the snowy Sierras, andmark a slender white line cutting the purple side, the routeof the white chariots. Grace Ei^i^ERy Channing. ?^tlTiit. •^?^wl California Raisin-Making. Until within a few years all the raisins consumed in theUnited States were imported from Europe. It was supposedthat they could not be produced in this country because itsclimate was not warm enough and dry enough, for a seasonof sufficient length for the purpose. But when, in 1849,California was invaded by American gold-hunters, they notonly found the largest and finest grapes growing they hadever seen, but discovered that the surplus quantities left onthe vines, after ripening, became raisins ! These raisins were not, however, of the best quality, forthe vines on which they grew were such as the Franciscanfathers brought with them from Spain, a hundred yearsbefore, when sent among the native Indians who thenlived on this Pacific coast. But enterprising Americans, aided by foreigners from thewine and raisin-making countries of Europe, imported manyvarieties of the best kinds of vines that could be these were the white
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