Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-10-11

i'hi1o 'ueii wares as Well. OOme OF tDeSe
women are taken as secondary wives
by the Chinese residents, and a sort of
family life established but as general
rule there are no families among them. and
few children
The occupations of these people are va
rious. There is hardly anything that
they cannot turn their hands to--the
work of women as we'll as men. They do
the washing and ironing for the whole
population and sprinkle the clothes, as
they iron them, by squirting water over
them in fine spray from their mouths
Everywhere, in village and town, you
see rude signs, informing you that See
Hop or All Thing or Sam Sing or Wee
Lung or Cum Sing wash and iron How
Tie is doctor, and Hop Chang and Chi
Lung keep stores. They are good house
servants; cooks, table. walters, and nur-
ses-better, on the whole, than the Irish
girls, and as cheap--$l5 to $25 month
and board One element of their useful
ness as cooks is their genius for imitation;
show them once how to do a thing, and
their education is perfected-no repeti-
ton of the lesson is needed. But they
seem TO be more in use as house servants
in the country than the city, they do
not share the passion of the Irish girls
for herding together. and seem to be con-
tent to be alone in house, in neigh.
borhood or, town.
Many are vegetable gardeners, too
In this even climate and with this pro
ductive soil, their pains-taking culture
much hoeing and constant watering
makes little ground fruitful, and they
gather in three, four and five crops year
Their garden patches, in the neighborhood
of cities and villages, are always distin
guishable from the rougher and more care
less cultured grounds Of their Saxon ri
walls. The Pacific railroad is being bull
by Chinese labor; several thousand Chi
namen are now rapidly grading the tracl
through the rocks and sands of the Sierra
Nevadas--without them, indeed, thi,
great work would have to wait for years
or move on with slow, hesitating steps
They can, by their steady industry. dC
nearly as much in day, even in thi
rough labor, as the average of white men
and they cost only about half as much
say $50 month against 500 Besides
white labor is not to be had in the quan
titles necessary for such great JOB al
this Good farm hands are the Chinese
also and in the simpler and routine me
chanic arts they have proven adepts--ther
is hardly any branch of Labor in which
uLder proper tuition, they do not or can
not succeed most admirably. The grca
success of the woolen manufacture her
is due to the admirable adaptation ant
comparative cheapness of Chinese labo
for the details. They are quick to learn
quiet, cleanly and faithful, aud have NJ
"off days" no sprees to get over. A
, factory operatives they receive $50 an'
1926 month, and board themselves
though quarters are provided for them OIL
the mill grounds Fish, vegetables. ric
and pork are the main food, which is pre-
pared and eaten with such economy tina
they live for about one third what Yanke
IlaboreIs can. .W if.
Thousands of the Chinese are CLEANER
in the gold fields. They follow in crowd
after the white miners, working ant
washing over their deserted or neglected
sands, and thriving on results that thei
predecessors would despise. A Chimes
gold washer is content with 81 to 81
day; while the white man starves o.
moves on disguised with twice that. 4
very considerable portion of the prcsen
gold production Of California must nov
be the work of Chinese painstaking anc
moderate ambition. The traveller meet
these Chinese miners everywhere on hi
road through the state; at work in th
deserted bitches, or moving from one t
another, on foot with their packs, or oft
en- in the stage sharing the seats an'
paving the price of their aristocr attic Sax
on rivals a..N e'.'
Labor, cheap labor, being the one grea
..aIoahIa naad of the Pacific states fla