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Imperial Press
Published every Saturday at
Imptrial, San Diego County, Cat
deuif C. Heed, Editor and manager
SUBSCRIPTION:
Om year • - • $1.50
Six Month* . . . . J5
ADDRESS: Imperial Pkrss, Imper
ial, San Diego County, Calif.
Application made to enter at the Postoffice at
Flowlngwell, Cal., as second-class matter.
Saturday, May 4, 1901.
Texas has a human wonder in
the person of a member of the
legislature who has resigned his
seat because of the "general bad
character" of that body; and not
satisfied with this, he is saying
so many mean things about Lone
Star lawmakers, that it is doubt
ful whether any man in his coun
ty can be induced to stand for
election to fill the vacancy, says
me San Diego Union.
While it may be true in this
case, it is certainly a departure
from the general rule, for a fav
ored son to be so strong in his as
sertion of self-righteousness as
to leave the ways of his father.
About ten miles west of Im
perial is found the ruins of a fort,
the history of which would be
remarkably interesting to the
present inhabitants of Southern
California were it possible to
read it. It has been suggested
that soldiers were perhaps sta
tioned here for the purpose of
protecting the U. S. mail when it
was carried across this country
by stage. If this be true it is
forty to fifty years since this fort
was in use.
The very best evidence of the
enterprise in any town is the ad
vertising support it gives the
local paper. There is but one
business in Imperial that is not
represented in the columns of the
Press, and this is due to the
fact that the said business is
changing hands. The new pro
prietor, W. F. Holt, is preparing
an advertisement for the next is
sue.
If this oil business is to be con
tinued at the present ratio much
longer the country will be so full
of holes that one can not plow.
Why not make a few big holes,
get the oil out and quit.
It would seem that the Los
Angeles Journal is walking upon
holy ground without removing
shoes when it concludes an edi
torial by stating that "the Jour
nal . -1 ways right."
The new battleship Main will
be launched the 30th of this
month in Philadelabia.
Imperial lpreea
ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT
The following, which is so ap
plicable to this country, is taken
from the Texas Farm and Ranch:
Many farmers, who would oth
wise have homes of their own,
continue to rent and move and
rent and move againt, because
they cannot buy as much land as
they want at prevailing prices.
There is a distinct advantage in
owning a large farm, just as there
is in owning a large bank deposit
or a large amount of valuable
property of any kind. But, be
cause we can't have what we
want, shall we refuse to have
what we can? People in the
Southwest have been brought up
under a cheap land and large farm
system, and have been accustom
ed to spreading their crops thinly
over as many acres as possible,
and calling it farming, and now
that land is so dear they cannot
practice that system, they know
not haw to shape their course.
The question of a large or small
farm, at least, resolves itself in
to an alternative — a small farm
or none, and the farmer takes
his choice.
A farmer who has not the abil
ity to get more than four or five
dollars per acre from a fertile
soil, should have a large farm or
go out of the business; but for
one who can farm land to some
thing near its capacity, a small
farm may be better than a large
one; or, he may accumulate
enough in a few years to add to
his holdings all the land he can
handle. A large farm affords
more room for expansion, for
growing crops and live stock on
a large scale, and for making
larger profits with less physical
labor, and is adapted to the views
and ability of many farmers.
But there is a higher considera
tion connected with the possess
ion of a farm home. A man with
a family of children should avoid,
above all things, bringing them
up to a life of vagabondage, and
the best security against such a
contingency is a horne — a real
horne — however small or humble.
A small home with independence
is better than a large estate with
a load of debt added.
While the recent floods in the
Ohio river did some damage, it
did some good as well, in as much
as it saved the inhabitants along
the river the annual task of
cleansing their cellars.
At Beaumont the other day a strang
er asked for time to consider a deal
which involved the investment of fif
ty thousand dollars cash. He was
asked how much time he wanted; he
replied a week. He was given two
hours, with the remark that back in
California if a man took two breaths
before closing a deal the trade was de
clared off.— El Paso Herald.
Correct. We are a progressive peo
ple of few words, and little considera
tion for the snail, which we leave "to
spin around in a circle and end where
it started."
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THE PRESIDENT'S TRAIN
The special train on which the
president and his party are mak
ing the 10,000-mile trip to the
Pacific Coast, started from Wash
ington last Monday morning and
is composed of an engine and
seven cars. The combination
baggage and smoking car Atlan
tic, the dining car St. James,
two compartment cars, each with
seven state rooms and two draw
ing rooms, the Omena and the
Diana, two 12-section drawing
room-sleepers, the Pelion and the
Charmion, the private car Olym
pia, which will be occupied by
President and Mrs. McKinley.
The Olympia will be used only
on the trip out. The return will
be made in the private car Cam
pania. It will be one of the finest
trains ever put upon a railroad
tract. The Olympia, in which
the president will come to the
coast, has been used by him on
several other occasions. It has
five private rooms and one sofa
section. Two of the rooms con
tain brass beds, large mirrors,
wardrobes and every convenience.
The dining and observation room
is located at the rear of the car.
It is finished in vermillion; the
private rooms in maple, mahog
any and koko and the kitchen in
English oak. The Campania is
almost a counterpart of the
Olympia.
The compartment cars, in
which the members of the cabi
net and their wives and other
guests travel, are finished in ver
million, elaborately carved, and
the rooms are painted in ivory
and gold. The ceilings are beau
tifully decorated and the uphols
tering and draperies are in har
mony with the general color
scheme. The combined baggage
and smoking car is fitted up with
a barber shop, bothroom, writing
cabinets and a library.
Says the El Paso Herald: Kan
sas has suspended the prize offer
to mothers of triplets, because
under a republican administra
tion the crop is so prolific that it
has been a heavy drain on the
state treasury. Yet Kansas votes
against bounties whenever she
gets a chance.
THE DESERT LAND
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is probable that, for a time at least,
this will be a stock country. At any
rate it is an ideal country forthe raisin
grape, for the crop can be dried with
no fear of loss from rain, and it is also
ideal for the cultivation of the sugar
beet, as the analysis has proven the
soil just the proper thing for this in
dustry. Barley will also do well, and
competent authorities in such matters
declare it an ideal country and climate
for the cultivation of Egyptian, or
long staple, cotton.
"I could talk till yon were entirely
tired out and your space entirely filled,
about the possibilities of this country,
but it is hardly necessary to ' dilate.
We saw the country completely, east,
west, north and south, and while there
are some patches of it which are possi
bly not the best on earth, there is
such an indescribably vast amount of
good land out of which can be made
all that anyone could hope for in any
country, that there is not a member of
our party, who will not be most en
thusiastic in his description of its
possibilities.."
HE GAVE CARNEGIE HIS START
James D. Reid, the veteran
telegrapher who had the distinc
tion of giving Andrew Carnegie
his first job as a messenger boy,
is still living. In success for
April, Mr. Reid recalls the inci
dent which occurred fifty years
ago, in the Atlantic & Ohio Tel
graph office in Pittsburg, as fol
lows:
"He was so determined that I
became interested in him at once.
He seemed to have determination
written on his face. His earger
ness to work and learn were very
noticeable. Before he had been
with me a month, he asked to be
taught telegraphy. When I con
sented, he spent all of his spare
time in practice, transmitting
and receiving by sound, and not
by tape. He was the third oper
ator in the United States to read
the Morse signals by sound."
This, in Mr. Carnegies mind,
was his best move. After long
and successful years, Mr. Carne
gie wrote of this change:
"My entrance into the tele
graph office was a transition from
darkness to light, from firing a
small engine in a dirty cellar, to
a clean office where there were
books and papers. That was
paradise to me, and I bless the
stars that sent me to be a messen
ger in a telegraph office."