Southern California; . 138 inspiring in modern civilization. It is a region wheremen look not backward but forward, preserving only inthe countrys names the romance of an earlier day. Inthis forward look they see the commerce of the Orientcoming to their doors and an endless procession of trainsthundering across the continent freighted with the prod-uce of their fields and groves. Fourteen thousand car-loads of oranges were sent East during the past may not the future bring forth ? The mission bellsare cracked and the adobe walls have crumbled away,but phoenix-like upon their ruins


Southern California; . 138 inspiring in modern civilization. It is a region wheremen look not backward but forward, preserving only inthe countrys names the romance of an earlier day. Inthis forward look they see the commerce of the Orientcoming to their doors and an endless procession of trainsthundering across the continent freighted with the prod-uce of their fields and groves. Fourteen thousand car-loads of oranges were sent East during the past may not the future bring forth ? The mission bellsare cracked and the adobe walls have crumbled away,but phoenix-like upon their ruins has grown up a newlife and a new people, the pioneers of enlightenmentand


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