The summers are really more enjoyable than the winters.
When the Nicaragua Canal is completed it will be a pleasant trip to San Diego from any Atlantic seaport.

A railroad to Phoenix, Arizona, _via_ Yuma, will allow the melting, panting, gasping inhabitants of New Mexico and Arizona an opportunity to get into a delightfully cool climate.
THE INDIANS AND THE MISSION FATHERS.
As for Indians, I have never seen such Indians as Helen Hunt Jackson depicts so lovingly.

I have never seen any one who has seen one.

They existed in her imagination only, as did Fenimore Cooper's noble redmen of the forest solely in his fancy.

Both have given us delightful novels, and we are grateful.
The repulsive stolid creatures I have seen at stations, with sullen stare, long be-vermined locks, and filthy blankets full of fleas, are possibly not a fair representation of the remnants of the race.