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...o much to the U.S. to keep it afloat that it practically owns New York and California! China, of course, was a vast agricultural land with a ... ...mbered in the America I left behind 20 years ago. And my brief glimpses of California last week did nothing to rinse the memories of the graffiti, t... ...he political consideration to make a state become beholden to the political party that gives it the most money. So you wouldn‘t expect politicians to... ...wers had contributed over $35,000 to his campaigns. Representative Farr of California added a $25 million subsidy for spinach growers who hadn‘t pro... ...m to the top as quickly as has China. It‘s getting it right. And as former party leader Deng Xiaoping said ‗to get right is glorious.‘ 11 ... ...a big gap between rich and poor. Civil liberties are barely surfacing. One party rule has many drawbacks. But the strong central government has made... ...truth to be known. The ruling group whether Communists, Democrats, Tories, Republicans or Labour has to adjust to the realities of the world and the ... ....‖ --―Not really, Democrats are not all cut from the same cloth and Republicans are not all made from the same dough. It‘s about the principl... ...hanged this a little. Certainly his low key attempt at truth countered the Republican lies and innuendos that had been successful in twice electing ...

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...eally aspire to be—ever since I was a wee laddie born and raised in Irvine, California—is a writer. I remember telling Mommy that I wanted to become... ...ing and her research. I don't even know why she uses the UCI (University of California, Irvine) library, since she goes to Stanford University, for ... ...I know they sold out. Speaking of minorities, the majority of people here in California are actually comprised of minorities, not Caucasian. And as e... ...er it: traditional and passé with antiquated Oriental cabinets, tables, and chairs. Lanterns, small and large, hang from the ceiling. Red New Year c... ...on the living room sofa while Jordan and I are sitting in imperial hardwood chairs across from them. Uncle pours tea from a black, cast-iron teapot ... ...eight men most of them elderly laughing and shouting as if it's a New Year's party and not — — a funeral. Intrigued and curious, I walk up to them to... ... during World War II and shortly thereafter with the rise of Mao's Communist Party? Even the mighty Romans experienced a complete collapse in their f... ...y is free, Asians are more than happy to participate, hoping that the other party really pays. For Asians, it's always about the money; for Johnson, ... ...t it. Did you know that John McCain was born in Panama but still became the Republican frontrunner for President? He was born on a military base but...

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...raduation,” Alex began, “Alicia and some of her classmates had arranged for a party that night – you know – the kind of party when you’re not sure i... ...hat I’ve pieced together from police reports, other teenagers who attended the party, and from their parents.” Alex paused and shifted behind the c... ...id just as a horn honked from outside. “It’s David. It’s going to be a great party,” she giggled. “Promise, I won’t be too late,” she said half-ski... ...the room. It was empty, except for the cot. There was nothing in the room. No chairs, no mirror, just the cot and the hard linoleum floor. Alex coul... ...ly tone. Antonio surveyed the room, at least a half-dozen men sat in various chairs reading the daily newspaper. Others slouched and snored on soft... ...s/Artemis CHAPTER 19 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA The dark, night covered the parade of expensive cars ... ... wanting to be on the team. "It originated from the number one drug lord in California. He wants out, and has asked that his family be secured in ... ...f somehow it would erase away his thoughts. "He's right," Nolan said. "The Republican's will have a field day. The opposition in Congress will be... ...yearned to feel the hot Santa Ana winds sweep through the valleys of Southern California, and the blue Pacific ocean he surfed in as a young man. He ...

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...ion processors, meaning they could be repurposed with new software, no third-party software industry existed. All software was bundled with the machin... ...are, beginning a slow evolution toward in-house programming talent and third-party software makers. Nevertheless, for years after the unbundling annou... ...veloped their own versions of word processing software to compete with third-party ver- sions, and the Microsoft antitrust cases of the 1990s arose fr... ...ined more a curiosity than a call to arms. Keith Bostic of the University of California–Berkeley computer science department described in a retrospect... ...ors open. The same goes for swords (they really make poor plowshares), guns, chairs, band saws, and even airplanes. Adaptabil- ity is clearly a spectr... ...ssor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. See Wikipedia, Computer Virus, http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/... ...its development has occurred in West Coast locations such as Silicon Valley, California, and Redmond, Washington. This code has been contrasted with t... ... R N, T Q  C (1953); Cass R. Sunstein, Beyond the Republican Revival, 97 Y L.J. 1539 (1988); Robert J. Condlin, Bargaini... ..., P 2, at 10 (2003). 64. This was a lesson learned by George Allen, a Republican candidate in the 2006 U.S. Sen- ate campaign who was caught on...

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...ost of his attitudes about L.A. were formed by colleagues who had left Southern California and settled in the Seattle area for a slower lifestyle. T... ...ith his performance. After the press conference, Alana had arranged for a small party for potential contributors and the I.E. entourage in one of th... ...nd asleep. "So much for caffeine," Alex Greene said to himself. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Johnathan Cross DAN JACOBS AND Emily Thompson debarked a... ...wer! But what's his connection with Matloch and I.E.?" :%. 18 *' LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA THE LE. BUILDING IT HAD BEEN three days since the Press ... ..." Alex­ ander Frank said, diverting the assault once again. "Well, I won't be a party to any cover up, especially if there's a threat to the public.... ...atthew knew what most of the secret meet­ ings were about - the Senator loved to party with prostitutes and drugs. He was told that these parties wer... ...an Cross is terrorism. There's a lunatic fringe that broke from the IRA (Irish Republican Army) after the peace agreement with En­ gland. They feel ... ...ator from Iowa's opening remarks do not reflect his lack of preparation. " The Republican Senator knew he was cornered. His veins popped a little r... ...chamber door, Jones and Rey­ nolds walked to the witness table and sat down. The Republican Senators stared at them with apprehension, while some of ...

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...n England, a similar change-dynamic happened with Cromwell’s severe religious Republicanism. As a result of this: England became a land of cottage-i... ...with the exception of the new recruits who had not yet taken part in a raiding party, or frequented a whore yet: literally all of Napoleon’s soldiers... ...indlessly abiding by the civilized laws and regulations, you yourself become a party to every corruption of that system. Thoreau insisted that in or... ... million years from now, digging up a speck of dust from the Hearst Castle in California; and by analyzing this speck of dust…trying to understand w... ...ng this speck of dust…trying to understand what kind of Culture humans had in California back then… Only there would be no way for you to know that... ...me from the Hearst castle, or that there were millions of expensive houses in California, and that all the people spent a good half of their lives wo... ...the chemical industry, and is a regular contributor to both the democratic and republican parties. They are an honored member of the entire system o... ...hey had a five-second mention of some demonstrations going on in front of the republican convention in New York… so what? It’s not important. Just ... ...ve there ever been one million people massed to protest against any political party? Any political convention ever? This shocking news should have ...

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...e Harvard law school. Johnson will study architecture at the University of California. Continued in the next isme. MONDAY. APRIL 15 7.80 p. m.—Last of... ...gus. Corning (N.Y.) Leader,Minneapo- lis .Tournal and Times, Denver (Col.) Republican, Bfaltimore American. The Bureau has now been taken in charge by... ...d, he might have had to avoid the stool.—tor all that, we stand np for the party of Theocritus. What it the sheep of Provence are not lily-white, and ... ...t at Keeler's hotel, Albany. An early start was made Saturday morning, the party going via the Delaware and Hudson railroad to Vorheesville, N. Y., an... ...und in this vicinity. The fain- ons ''Indian Ladder" was also visited. The party returned Sat- urday night. LastMeetingofthe ClassicalSociety \i a mee... ...s upon which wore placed the usual assortment of divans, sofas, and Morris chairs. Alternating streamers of yellow and white from the balcony railing ... ...n, a member of the New York Bar as- sociation, has been renominated by the Republican party of Troy, N. Y., for president of the com- mon council. Sin... ..., New York city, is running in the twenty-fitlh assembly dis- trict on the Republican ticket for the board of aldermen. After leaving Williams Mr. Joh... ... to lack of newspaper advertising, the audience was lost in a sea of empty chairs. The work of the clubs was ragged and not received with any particul...

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...ll of one of the parties and despite all the reasonable measures that the unwilling party adopted to prevent it. If a mother uses contraceptives in... ...ontract should be voided. Much more serious problems arise when we study the other party to these implicit agreements: the embryo. To start with, i... ...uninterrupted service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous cru... ...the siege of Leningrad), members of exploratory expeditions gone astray (the Donner Party in Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar exp... ...members of exploratory expeditions gone astray (the Donner Party in Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar expedition), famine-stricke... ...st 50 governments in as many years. The bloodiest civil wars in history erupted in Republican Spain and, seven decades earlier, in the United State... ...tory of some of the greater inventions to have been incubated in IDEO, a prominent California-based design firm dubbed "Innovation U." by Fortune M... ...roic Conception of Life" (an admixture of Brownson's Catholic Radicalism and early republican lore): "...a suspicion that life was not worth living... ...idualism play an important socio-cultural role in this semipternal game of musical chairs. Many products have a limited shelf life or an expiry dat...

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...ll of one of the parties and despite all the reasonable measures that the unwilling party adopted to prevent it. If a mother uses contraceptives in... ...ontract should be voided. Much more serious problems arise when we study the other party to these implicit agreements: the embryo. To start with, i... ...uninterrupted service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous cru... ...the siege of Leningrad), members of exploratory expeditions gone astray (the Donner Party in Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar exp... ...members of exploratory expeditions gone astray (the Donner Party in Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar expedition), famine-stricke... ...st 50 governments in as many years. The bloodiest civil wars in history erupted in Republican Spain and, seven decades earlier, in the United State... ...tory of some of the greater inventions to have been incubated in IDEO, a prominent California-based design firm dubbed "Innovation U." by Fortune M... ...roic Conception of Life" (an admixture of Brownson's Catholic Radicalism and early republican lore): "...a suspicion that life was not worth living... ...idualism play an important socio-cultural role in this semipternal game of musical chairs. Many products have a limited shelf life or an expiry dat...

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Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...is an equal opportunity university. 3 Frank Norris The Octopus A Story of California by Frank Norris Book 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I C... ... to make a big strike, and risk is better than sure failure.” “I can be no party to a scheme of avowed bribery and corruption, Mr. Osterman,” declared... ...e it. The railroad didn’t always act as a unit, either. There was always a party in it that opposed spending too much money. He would bet that party w... ... blanket over the couch seemed a mere patch of brown. Around the table the chairs in which the men had sat throughout the evening still ranged themsel... ...on of company in this district assured. Have secured services of desirable party. Am now in posi- tion to sell you your share stock, as per original p... ...aking a long tramp in the afternoon. For the moment they sat back in their chairs, their meal all but finished. Solotari brought black coffee and a sm... ... cloth, in great letters, were the words: “Vote for Lyman Derrick, Regular Republican Nomi- nee for Governor of California.” * * * The “Swanhi...

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... America V ol. 2 facts, was not the case. I had gone down the river with a party of ladies, and we were opposite to Mount Vernon; but on that occasion... ...re all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trollope ern party. Through the lines, into Virginia, they could not go at all. Up to Wa... ...ten, or that the Southern men feared that things were going bad with their party across the river; but that nobody seemed to have any faith in anybody... ...f the States had, in the first instance, been thought desirable. The young republicans hankered after the separate power and separate name which each ... ... Iowa was admit- ted as a free State, and from that day to this Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, and Kansas have been brought into the Union;... ... Democrat, that is, to hold South- ern politics, and unfashionable to be a Republican, or to hold anti-Southern politics. In that way the South has li... ...eowner from Georgia may call himself a democrat, may think that he reveres republican institutions, and may talk with Ameri- can horror of the thrones... ...ve special orders that a contract should be made with a man named Beard, a Californian, who had followed him from California to St. Louis. This contra... ...hough it were merely an extension of fron- tier. But this has not been so. California and Oregon have been very much farther from Washington than the ...

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...about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. They included a fountain pen and a silver pencil (always ... ... objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. They included a fountain pen and a silver pencil (always lacking a s... ...they will. You remember when you didn’t dress for the Littlefields’ supper-party, and all the rest did, and how embarrassed you were.” “Embarrassed, h... ...pite his strange learnings he was as strict a Presbyte- rian and as firm a Republican as George F. Babbitt. He confirmed the business men in the faith... ...ifth of April.” “Is that a fact! Say, old man, what do you think about the Republican candidate? Who’ll they nominate for presi- dent? Don’t you think... ...u— some genuine bargains that came in to-day: SILVER GROVE.—Cute four-room California bungalow, a.m.i., garage, dandy shade tree, swell neighborhood, ... ...abbitt every inch was individual and stirring. As always he noted that the California Building across the way was three stories lower, therefore three... ...-story hut which beside the granite and red-brick ponderousness of the old California Building resembled a bath-house un- der a cliff, he commented, “... ...ew the latest jokes, but he played poker close to the chest. It was at his party that Babbitt had sucked in the virus of to-day’s restlessness. Gunch ...

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...came the trial hour. Without cordial support from any large body of men or party on this side the Atlantic, and too far distant in space and immediate... ...arduous labor and heavy ex- penditure of editor and lecturer. The Garrison party, to which he still adhered, did not want a colored newspaper—there wa... ... want a colored newspaper—there was an odor of caste about it; the Liberty party could hardly be expected to give warm support to a man who smote thei... ...n magnificence and satiety. Behind the tall-backed and elaborately wrought chairs, stand the servants, men and maidens—fifteen in number— discriminate... ...he spring of 1845, endangered my liberty, and led me to seek a refuge from republican sla- very in monarchical England. A rude, uncultivated fugitive ... ...f so large a sum for the privilege of living securely under our glori- ous republican form of government. I could have remained in England, or have go... ...n its statements, because delivered before an audience supposed to be anti-republican in their principles and feelings, may view the matter differ- en... ...e engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men—digging gold in California, captur- ing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle ...

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...ainless private morals who votes for a thief for public office, on his own party’s ticket, and against an honest man on the other ticket. O.M. He has ... ...ent his spirit. He has no public morals; he has no private ones, where his party’s prosperity is at stake. He will always be true to his make and trai... ... by accident he get more light than he wants. In America if you know which party collar a voter wears, you know what his associations are, and how he... ... Mohammedan, the Spiritualist a Spiritualist, the Democrat a Democrat, the Republican a Republican, the Monarchist a Monarchist; and if a humble, earn... ...ir immaterials. Both have been zealous Democrats; both have been zeal ous Republicans; both have been zealous Mugwumps. Bur gess has always found ha... ...s: “In that region the weather —” “At that time it was a custom —” “But in California one never heard —” Eleven of them. They initialed the brief divi... ... erie. The Machiavelli whom he depicts does not cease to be politically a republican and socially a just man because he holds up an atrocious des po... ...d not take them in until we saw three boys spring into the rigging of the California; then they were all furled at once, but with orders to our boys ... ...ed hardly capable of supporting the great fab rics raised upon them. The California was to windward of us, and had every advantage; yet, while the b...

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...lldog. Their remarks were possibly not in tended to reach the ears of the party, but certainly were not so cautiously whispered but they occasionally... ...gth (in a society split up into many sects) of being able to rely upon the party sympathies of any one of them. The mob hated him with the blind senti... ...ass, a small desk table, standing on clawed feet; two or three high backed chairs, on the top of each of which was carved that same crest of the fabul... ...nd which, only half acknowledging the purpose, had availed to bring him, a republican, hither as to an ancestral centre. He even fancied that the beni... ...perhaps not,” said the Warden, laughing frankly. “I have been amongst your republicans myself, a long 113 Hawthorne while ago, and saw that your coun... ...spects, which it had not worn before; those deep downy beds, those antique chairs, the heavy carpet, the tester and curtains, the stateliness of the o... ...me distinguished, and, though so young, a leader, locally at least, in the party which he had adopted. He had been, for a biennial term, a member of C... ... its institutions, that I have a feeling unknown, prob ably, to any but a republican, but which is the proudest thing in me, that there is no man abo... ... from America, the East, and elsewhere; even the prai rie flowers and the California blossoms were represented here; for one of the brethren had hort...

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...il- grimage for the summary globe-trotter; but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount Saint Helena soon becomes a centre of interest. It is the Mont B... ...l unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, over the hill- tops of Marin county, in one great, shapeless, silver cloud. South ... ...ALISTOGA t is difficult for a European to imagine Calistoga, the whole place is so new, and of such an acci dental pattern; the very name, I hear, ... ...avels armed, and the stage is not only a link between country and city, and the vehicle of news, but has a faint warfaring aroma, like a man who shoul... ...ation at their driver’s huge, im- passive, fleshy countenance. He has the very face for 8 the driver in Sam Weller’s anecdote... ...velling families: one cumbered with a great waggonful of household stuff, settlers going to occupy a ranche they had taken up in Mendocino, or perhaps... ...o Hanson, and, in the passage, changed its name from the “Mammoth” to the “Calistoga.” I had tried to get Rufe to call it after his wife, after himsel... ...e in cutting out the interior of the plank, but whether as a dwelling or a store-house, I could never find. When I used to lie in bed in the morning f... ...here are certain hours in the after- noon when a man, unless he is in strong health or en- joys a vacant mind, would rather creep into a cool corner o...

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...ce in cheese-cloth in the moonlight. She was taken to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang th... ...said Bea. IV The recently built house of Sam Clark, in which was given the party to welcome Carol, was one of the largest in Gopher Prairie. It had a ... ...aited till Kennicott should rescue her. The 47 Sinclair Lewis rest of the party waited for the miracle of being amused. Harry and Juanita Haydock, Ri... ...n anarchist, too. Everybody who doesn’t love the bankers and the Grand Old Republican Party is an anarchist.” Carol had unconsciously slipped from her... ...ht. The Arab village of Djeddah—an intricately chased jewel-box. A town in California which had changed itself from the barren brick fronts and slatte... ... good sound be- lief in hell, like we used to have it preached to us.” The Republican Party, the Grand Old Party of Blaine and McKinley, is the agent ... ...ons of ap- parent intelligence and business ability do not always vote the Republican ticket straight; that it is not a uni- versal custom to wear scr... ... the towns leave them in old age, if they can afford it, and go to live in California or in the cities. The reason, Carol insisted, is not a whiskered... ...he clutched his arm. “You’ve got to be sweet to me, and kind! I’m going to California—mountains, sea. Please don’t argue about it, because I’m going.”...

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...l engine, and the movable rack on which he laid out his instruments. Three chairs, a bargain at the second-hand store, ranged themselves against the w... ...d in cheap Sunday finery. A cable car went by; on the outside seats were a party of returning picnickers. The mother, the father, a young man, and a y... ... young man got up and swung himself off the platform, waving goodby to the party. Suddenly McT eague recognized him. “There’s Marcus Schouler,” he mut... ...her had been a veterinary surgeon who had kept a livery stable near by, on California Street, and Marcus’s knowledge of the dis- eases of domestic ani... ... “wage earners,” “opinions biased by personal interests,” “eyes blinded by party prejudice.” McTeague listened to him, awestruck. “There’s where the e... ... a minute,” he answered. Marcus and his cousin Trina sat down in the rigid chairs underneath the steel engraving of the Court of Lorenzo de’ Medici. T... ...p. They walked for upwards of five hours that afternoon, out the length of California Street, and across the Presidio Reservation to the Golden Gate. ... ...on developed into quite an affair and began to assume the proportions of a Republican po- litical machine—he found he could make a little, a very litt... ... the City Hall and was stamped in one corner with the seal of the State of California, very official; the form and file numbers superscribed. McT eagu...

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...roups for the background. I think he is angry at our intrusion. He is very republican and self-important. But we eclipse him easily, with the aid of a... ...looks away. Her eyes hate to see him. In the village there is the clerical party, which is the majority; there is the anti-clerical party, and there a... ...ld, ponderous darkness over them, moral and gloomy. Then the anti-clerical party, with the Syndaco at the head, is bourgeois and respectable as far as... ... fixture was the thing she militated against. So Paolo went to America, to California, into the gold mines. Maria wanted the future, the endless possi... ...his, after the child of their opposition was born, that Paolo went away to California, leaving his San Gaudenzio, travelling with several compan- ions... ...compan- ions, like blind beasts, to Havre, and thence to New York, then to California. He stayed five years in the gold-mines, in a wild valley, livin... ...divided among themselves to enforce public opinion. Be- tween the clerical party and the radicals and the socialists, what canons were left that were ... ...riding out in some business of their own than like an army. They were very republican and very free. The officer who commanded them was one of them- s... ...nd the inmates from the cold. It was furnished like a hut, just tables and chairs and bare wooden walls. One felt very close and secure in the room, a...

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...the very considerable body of aristocratic feeling that lurks beneath this republican simplicity. I have on several occasions been made the confidant ... ...ELLUS COCKEREL, IN WASH- INGTON, TO MRS. COOLER, NEE COCKEREL, AT OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. October 25. I ought to have written to you long before this, fo... ...ises, his mysterious intentions and oracular words. They revile us for our party politics; but what are all the European jeal- ousies and rivalries, t... ...their rapacities and their mutual lies, but the intensity of the spirit of party? what question, what interest, what idea, what need of mankind, is in... ...d come and go, where I had a seat and a window to myself, where there were chairs, and tables, and food, and drink. The villainous little boxes on the...

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...Epic of the Wheat includes the fol- lowing novels: The Octopus, a Story of California. The Pit, a Story of Chicago. The Wolf, a Story of Europe. These... ...l form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consumption as bread in a village of Western ... ..., and their aunt—Aunt Wess’—were still waiting for the rest of the theatre-party to appear. A great, slow-moving press of men and women in evening dre... ...and their aunt to share their box with them. It had been arranged that the party should assemble in the Auditorium vesti- bule at a quarter of eight; ... ...you know.” “Well I think it is he,” continued Page. “He was to be with our party to-night. I heard Mrs. Cressler say she would ask him. That’s Mr. Jad... ...table confusion. Crates and packing boxes encumbered the uncarpeted floor; chairs wrapped in ex- celsior and jute were piled one upon another; a roll ... ...rhead gas jets burning under a tin reflec- tor. Before this board files of chairs were placed, and these were occupied by groups of nondescripts, shab... ...aded out fat, heavy, and well-favoured. In the great San Joaquin valley of California the ranches were one welter of fertility. All over the United St... ... the poor, and battened in the luxury wrung from the toiling millions. The Republican papers spoke solemnly of the new era of prosperity upon which th...

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...in the Gothic library with glazed black-walnut bookcases and finial-topped chairs which was the only room in the house where Mrs. Ar- cher allowed smo... ...ndred-and-sixty-four days of the year to shuttered darkness, with its gilt chairs stacked in a corner and its chandelier in a bag; this undoubted supe... ...r their own awning, instead of hiring it with the supper and the ball-room chairs. They had also inaugurated the custom of letting the ladies take the... ... Luydens do nothing by halves.” “No: how kind they are! It was such a nice party. Every one seems to have such an esteem for them.” The terms were har... ...The terms were hardly adequate; she might have spoken in that way of a tea-party at the dear old Miss Lannings’. “The van der Luydens,” said Archer, f... ...t an old friend of mine to see you—Mrs. Struthers. She wasn’t asked to the party last night, and she wants to know you.” The Duke beamed on the group,... ...e accustomed to the European courts to trouble themselves about our little republican distinctions. The Duke goes where he’s amused.” Mr. van der Luyd... ... ‘em out of it. When I built this house you’d have thought I was moving to California! Nobody ever HAD built above Fortieth Street—no, says I, nor abo...

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...as gen- erally stormy in these days. The fugitive patriots of the defeated party had the knack of turning up again on the coast with half a steamer’s ... ...n Costaguana. The old man, full of scorn for the populace, as your austere republican so often is, had disregarded the preliminary sounds of trouble. ... ..., muttering pious invo- cations to all the saints of the calendar. The old republican did not believe in saints, or in prayers, or in what he called “... ...racks in the shutters, ruled straight across the cafe over the disarranged chairs and tables to the wall opposite. Old Giorgio had chosen that bare, w... ...its closed-up silence. But the cautious movements and whispers of a routed party seeking a momen- tary shelter behind the wall made the darkness of th... ...ian’ Battista—” They heard him wheel his horse away from the shutters. The party he led were babbling excitedly in Italian and Spanish, inciting each ... ...King of Sulaco, and the head of the silver and steel interests far away in California, the conviction was growing that any attempt made by men of educ... ...luence of the old Garibaldino upon his countrymen. His austere, old- world Republicanism had a severe, soldier-like stan- dard of faithfulness and dut... ...ir he always carries everywhere. He had been away trad- ing in the Gulf of California, he said, looking straight past us at the wall, as his manner is...

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...one man who could. I knew he could, however, because he told me so him- self. He was a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had lived in a lonely cor... ...luted him also, and returned to their places. Everything was ready now; students stood crowded together in the fore- ground, and others stood behind t... ... young gentleman who was leaning against the opposite wall smoking a cigarette and restfully observing the duel then in progress. My acquaintanceship ... ...evere wounds, but got none of the consequence in return. At the end of five min- utes from the beginning of the duel the surgeon stopped it; the chall... ...ns, for I am afraid I should not have thought of them. How many shall I want? I supposed two or three will be enough?” “Two is the customary number fo... ...anything but furni- ture. I could not remember that there was much furniture in the room when I went to bed, but the place was alive with it now —espe... ...live with it now —especially chairs—chairs everywhere— had a couple of families moved in, in the mean time? And I never could seem to glance on one of... ... them.” “This is divine. Go on—it is not possible that you forgot to inquire into her politics?” “No, I thought of that. She is a democrat, her husban... ...Switzerland, and they must all be as elaborately declined as the examples above suggested. Difficult?—troublesome?—these words cannot describe it. I h...

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...interesting statement.” “There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that ... ...d man, with a very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock coat. “Ha! Our party is complete,” said Holmes, buttoning up his peajacket and taking ... ...e they came like a herd of buffalo and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the lodge keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for ... ...oad to the diggings. Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. “One day ... ...n 80 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to the negroes, and his dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to them. He was a singular... ...is approaching marriage with Miss Hatty Do ran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss Doran, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelo... ...property of his own save the small estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will en... ...n alliance which will enable her to make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress.” “Anything else?” asked Holmes, y... ....” “And who is her maid?” “Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California with her.” “A confidential servant?” “A little too much so. I...

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...in New York there were still a few altar-fires flickering in the temple of Republican sim- plicity, and Dr. Sloper would have been glad to see his dau... ...ond. The girl was at this time in her twenty-first year, and Mrs. Almond’s party was the beginning of something very important. Some three or four yea... ...ed. It was to celebrate this latter event that Mrs. Almond gave the little party I have mentioned. Her daughter was to marry a stout young stockbroker... ... with an easy smile, as if he had known her for a year. “What a delightful party! What a charming house! What an interesting family! What a pretty gir... ...ceptions, and it is im- pressed upon my sensorium that he has sat in these chairs, in a very easy attitude, and warmed himself at that fire. I don’t g... ...l- ways away, and he very seldom wrote to her; she believed he had gone to California. Mrs. Almond had, in her sister’s phrase, “taken up” Catherine v...

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...APTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE COAST?MONTEREY, 35 -- CHAPTER XII ? LIFE AT MONTEREY, 38 -- CHAPTER XIII ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 NIA . . . . . . . . 28 CHAPTER IX — CALIFORNIA—A SOUTH EASTER . . . . . . 32 CHAPTER X — A SOUTH EASTER—PASS... ...EISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS . . . . . . . . . 90 CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ... ...22 GRANDEE—’’SAIL HO!’’—A FANDANGO CHAPTER XXVIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPT... ...rooms which open into each other, and are furnished with a bed or two, a few chairs and tables, a looking glass, a crucifix of some material or othe... ...es fast, we went in. It was a plain room, containing a table, three or four chairs, a small picture or two of some saint, or miracle, or martyrdom, ... ...oot of the ladder and in desperate circumstances, just as a new political party is started by such men in our own country. The only object, of cour... ...l, it was not ten o’clock, and the night was long before us, when one of the party produced an old pack of Spanish cards from his monkey jacket pocket... ... this we escaped, having had a pretty good siege with the wooding. The water party were gone three days, during which time they narrowly escaped being... ...morality, and good government, by that peculiar invention of Anglo Saxon Republican America, the solemn, awe inspir ing Vigilance Committee of ...

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...hat as on one side no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which o... ... since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of gov ernment are justly considered, perhaps, as deepl... ...tated by no literary altercation, animated by no public debate, heated by no party animosity, I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good... ...12 determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of... ...AL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 13 principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a d... ...We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would w... ...tes] against invasion.” Now, how is it possible to afford this protection to California and our Pacific possessions except by means of a military road... ...on, and a close win ner of the 1968 election, the former Vice President and California Senator and Congressman had defeated the Democratic Vice Presi... ... the oath of office to the former broadcaster, screen actor, and Governor of California. In the election of 1980, the Republicans won the White House ...

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...y of State to declare openly that England intended to side either with one party or with the other, or else to remain neutral between them. I had hear... ...er of the cause and ground for revolu- tion, it is so very easy for either party to put in a plea that shall be satisfactory to itself! Mr. and Mrs. J... ...ed- less to show that a certain amount of fraud has been used by a certain party in a revolution. If the South be ulti- mately successful, the fraud o... ...nies will not admit of a divided accommodation; and the second is that the republican nature of the people will not brook a superior or aristo- cratic... ...the other. The ways of the people seemed to be quiet, smooth, orderly, and republican. There is nothing to drink in Port- land, of course; for, thanks... ...en in them there was till quite of late a strong section so opposed to the Republican party as to give a material aid to the South. This, I think, was... ...have then to account for the two already admitted States on the Pa- cific, California and Oregon, and also for the unadmitted Territories, Dacotah, Ne... ...pt to marshal these huge but thinly-populated re- gions in either rank. Of California and Oregon it may prob- ably be said that it is their ambition t... ...in which is included Washington, the seat of the Federal Government 75,321 California 384,770 Oregon 52,566 The Territories of— Dacotah 4,839 Nebraska...

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...ion begins, they’ll laugh. and wake up and throw themselves about in their chairs. Then, if they so delight in the narration, how is it possible that ... ...days when you might travel the world over without finding any- thing but a Republican. Anyhow, they went round the world. I think an anecdote is about... ...t struck him that the things to take for that purpose were oranges—because California is the orange country—and comfortable folding chairs. So he boug... ...chairs. So he bought I don’t know how many cases of oranges—the great cool California oranges, and half-a-dozen folding chairs in a special case that ... ...to tell me all, secure a divorce from me, and go with Edward and settle in California… . I do not suppose that she was really serious in this. It woul... ...erend Mother at the convent she had left and about whether her frock for a party when they got home should be white or blue. It hadn’t come into his h... ...enever the four parents met in London, Edward Ashburnham was always of the party. He was at that time twenty-two and, I believe, almost as pure in min... ...rse that he had been betrayed into a manifestation of anger before a third party. It was the first and last time that he ever was betrayed into such a... ...d discovered it was only that he was a Democrat. My own people were mostly Republicans. It seemed to make it worse and more darkly mysteri- ous to the...

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...feast-day, and the village was full of people. On our return we overtook a party of about twenty young black girls, dressed in excellent taste; their ... ...offer of allowing me to accompany him. 25 Charles Darwin April 8th. — Our party amounted to seven. The first stage was very interesting. The day was ... ... contrived to eke out a subsistence. At length they were discovered, and a party of soldiers being sent, the whole were seized with the exception of o... ...a barn in form, was well suited to the climate. In the sitting-room gilded chairs and sofas were oddly contrasted with the whitewashed walls, thatched... ...were without glass; the sitting-room boasted only of a few of the roughest chairs and stools, with a couple of tables. The supper, although several st... ...ough the room was about fif- teen feet high, the globules, dropping on the chairs and furniture, had drilled in them a chain of minute holes. A part o... ...al habits; for tyranny seems as yet better adapted to these countries than republicanism. The governor’s favourite occupation is hunting Indians: a sh... ... benefited by being compelled to turn their attention to agriculture, were republicans in the most absolute sense. In Tierra del Fuego, until some chi... ...stern coast, as Dr. Hooker tells me, it extends to the R. San Francisco in California, and perhaps even to Kamtschatka. We thus have an immense range ...

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...iftieth part of a line could not escape us. After the cabinets we took the chairs. The cushions we probed with the fine long needles you have seen me ... ...into the rung of a chair, for example. Y ou did not take to pieces all the chairs?” “Certainly not; but we did better—we examined the rungs of every c... ...“There is a game of puzzles,” he resumed, “which is played upon a map. One party playing requires another to find a given word—the name of town, river... ...ss of V on Kempelen’s analysis. If many were prevented from adventuring to California, by the mere apprehension that gold would so materially diminish... ...ths ago would have had material influence in regard to the settle- ment of California. In Europe, as yet, the most noticeable results have been a rise... ...l view the swollen and blackened tongue. I pre- sume that no member of the party then present had been un- accustomed to death-bed horrors; but so hid... ...my future felicity as secured. Upon the fourth day of the assassination, a party of the po- lice came, very unexpectedly, into the house, and proceede... ...t dark niche which has been already mentioned as forming a part of the Old Republican prison, and as fronting the lattice of the Marchesa, a figure mu... ...ttention. The more substantial furniture consisted of a round table, a few chairs (including a large rocking-chair), and a sofa, or rather “settee;” i...

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... naturalist, says of the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, that while his own party, who were well clothed and sitting close to a fire, were far from to... ...h I have not rendered an account, consisted of a bed, a table, a desk, three chairs, a looking glass three inches in diameter, a pair of tongs and and... ...t he need sit on a pumpkin. That is shiftlessness. There is a plenty of such chairs as I like best in the village garrets to be had for taking them aw... ... was the way these forms came to be transferred to our furniture, to tables, chairs, and bedsteads, — because they once stood in their midst. My house... ... preferred that society should run “amok” against me, it being the desperate party. However, I was released the next day, obtained my mended shoe, and... ...attle field I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other. On ... ... that his industry would not be worth much thereafter. I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest o... ... chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will. They tell me of California and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Conclusion ...

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...intry or inclement weathers row of venerable figures, sitting in old fashioned chairs, which were tipped on their hind legs back against the wall. Of ... ... old pine desk with a three legged stool beside it; two or three wooden bottom chairs, exceed ingly decrepit and infirm; and — not to forget the libra... ...pent a good deal of time, also, asleep in their accustomed corners, with their chairs tilted back against the walls; awaking, however, once or twice i... ...at shone so dazzlingly about the throne. How unlike alas the hangdog look of a republican official, who, as the servant of the people, feels himself le... ... and support him? Why should he work for his living here, or go to dig gold in California, when he is so soon to be made happy, at monthly intervals, ... ... metaphors, it is my sincere belief, that the active members of the victorious party were sufficiently excited to have chopped off all our heads, and h... ...it of malice and revenge has never distin guished the many triumphs of my own party as it n ow did that of the Whigs. The Democrats take the offices, ... ...t this season of peril and adversity, to be pretty acutely sensible with which party my predilec tions lay; nor was it without something like regret ...

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... thirty, or a hundred thousand at his banker’s, or if all Yorkshire or all California were his to manage or to sell, he would still be morally pennile... ...ayment of his fines. On the old man’s refusing to pay, they forced a large party of his neighbours to go with them and thresh his corn. The field was ... ...whom it looked; and my next most disagreeable remembrance is of a bracing, Republican postman in the city of San Francisco. I lived in that city among... ...r last snowball riot read us a plain lesson on our condition. There was no party spirit– no unity of interests. A few, who were mischievously inclined... ...l friends second them, until the society degenerates into a sort of family party. Y ou may con- firm old acquaintances, but you can rarely make new on... ...on the court, and two into the river valley. A dresser, a table, and a few chairs stood dotted here and there upon the uneven flags. Under the great c...

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....................................... .............................. 79 THE CALIFORNIAN’S TALE ........................................................... ...hey were rich, they had decided that they must celebrate. They must give a party—that was the idea. But how to explain it—to the daughters and the nei... ... to know it, but Helen spent the night at the Sloanes’. There was a little party there, and, although she did not want to go, and you so sick, we pers... ...iously at their triumph, THROUGH THE TEARS OF THE STORM. * * * THE CALIFORNIAN’S TALE THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO I was out prospecting on the St... ...relatives and friends, and be to them thenceforth as one dead. Round about California in that day were scattered a host of these living dead men—pride... ...d framed lithographs, and bright colored tidies and lamp mats, and Windsor chairs, and varnished what nots, with sea shells and books and china vases ... ...rink, and she’s here!” Joe brought the glasses on a waiter, and served the party. I reached for one of the two remaining glasses, but Joe growled unde... ...e orator of the day, and in November of 1840 he died again. The St. Louis Republican of the 25th of that month spoke as follows: “Another Relic of th...