Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1890 — The Chinese as Farmers. [ARTICLE]

The Chinese as Farmers.

A year ago I sold for a friend in San Francisco a lot of land in a then unbuilt western suburb. A Chinaman had been using it as a garden. The land was sandy and had not more than 390 by 250 feet surface. The Chinaman, therefore, had the full use of but about two and one-half acres. For this speck of ground he regularly paid $75 a month, and he lived on it with an assistant. He used the land to grow vegetables, which he sold to Chinamen to be peddled through the city. Despite the high rent, he was making money. The Rev. Mr. Vrooman, now Chinese interpreter in the California courts, who was for twenty-five years a missionary at Canton, and was subsequently among the Chinese in Melbourne, informed me that he knew of two Chinese in the latter place who made a living for themselves and a horse from a quarter of an acre of land. In addition to thus supporting themselves and the horse, they each sent SSO yearly to their relatives at home. Chinese now rent at least 50,000 acres of fruit and bottom lands within a radius of 100 miles of San Francisco, for which they pay from four to ten times what a white lessee could afford to pay for the same. Land in their hands is farmed in earnest, and with them its richness increases rather than decreases.— Thomas Magee, in the Forum. The first university degrees ever conferred on women came from Oberlin College in 1841, the recipients being Mary Caroline Rudd, Mary Hosford and Elizabeth Frail. The Chinese say. “When the wind blows your Are, it’s useless to tire yourself.” About halt of your toil can be avoided bv the use ot BAI-OLIO. 7 No use to recommend an Indian mixture for bringing out the hair to a man who has once been scalped. A father lovss his child. A mother worshipsit Both decide the child should occasionally be given Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. To the paragrapher: Be sure you’re bright, then go ahead.— Whiteside Herald. Beecham’s Pills cure Bilious and Nervous ills. Spiritual manifestations cannet stand the ordeal of a spirit lamp. The best cough medicine is Plso’s Cure for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c.