CHAPTER XIV.
AU REVOIR.
Just as a woman is leaving her friends she ever has the most to chatter about.

How can I say _au revoir_ briefly when there is so much more to tell?
I so earnestly want to give California _en verdad_, or in truth.
There has been too much bragging from the settlers, as in 1887 the Los Angeles _Herald_ said that "New York would soon be excelled by that city." There is a general desire to surpass all the rest of the world in as many ways as possible, and a general belief that it can easily be done.

And visitors have omitted all that was unpleasant, and exaggerated the good points, so that one Californian speaks "of the dancing dervishes of travel, singing insanely from the moment they come to us." There is so much that is novel in this wonderland that it is hard to keep cool and look at all sides.

In 1870 all vegetables and grain were imported.

Mr.Webster declared long ago in Congress that California was absolutely worthless except for mining and grazing.