The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-10

at night, and the hen during the
day. AS soon as Matched the chicks
are taken away and fed on green
alfalfa, and grow at the rate or n
foot a month. Full grown ostriches
are seven feet hight and weigh three
hundred pound apiece, and sell for
5000 a pair. Tuesday morning We
~strol1ed around Los Angeles and
went into a pretty little park where
we saw a monument dedicated to
the California soldiers who had died
ia the Philippines. About ten O'Clock
the same morning we take the train
for San Francisco, and again pass
through deserts and mountain
ranges. We go through twenty six
tunnels one Is a mile and a third
long. Then through the alkai
country. Wind blows hard here.
Mining is carried on extensively
along along through this desert.
They cannot get water here under
two thousand feet. Then after
awhile we can see orange orchards
in the valley we are passing through.
and snow Oh the mountains in the
distance. Then Oh through fine
country for wheat and barley and
stock.
On July the 18th we reached Oak.
land, and take a boat across the bay,
and as it only seven miles, we soon
arrive as San Francisco. What a
change here! Tie wind is. blowing
a gale, and it is quite cool, and most
of the people have on wraps and
winter clothing; and such a great
noisy bustling city it is, full of peo-
pie of many nations!
The day after our arrival we went
out to Golden Gate and beach, and
Cliff House and Golden Gate Park,
which is one of the largest and finest
in the United States. Here we saw
a herd of buffaloes and an immense
grizzly bear and other animals and
birds of every description, also a
conservatory full of plants from
different parts of the world. In a
museum we saw a Japanese tea gar
den, and the park was full of trees
brought from the tropics. We also
went to Sutro Heights, went upon
the Parapet, and through all the
beautiful grounds with their avenues
of palms, statuary and flowers.
We spent the whole day here and
the next we went to museums and
various places of interest.
China Town, the place I had read
and heard of and always desired to
see, we visited on Friday. We went
from store to store buying up little
curios to take home. It seemed a
very crowded plsce and not very
clean, although it had been under
going sanitary regulations the week
before by order of the mayor of San
Francisco. The low grade women
and children live in the cellars and
have an unwholesome look. Our
guide took US to a joss house where
we saw the Chinese men and women
performing some curious rites, as
n Of their prominent men had died
that day. They we're burning as in
scarlet and gilt papers, per
fumed with sandalwood, in furnaces
in the walls of the jess house, and
beating gongs at the same time to
drive the devil away. They had
a fine pig roasted whole, with pink,
artificial roses betreen it's ears, set
ting in a huge vessel on the pulpit,
which they were going to put on the
grave for the dead man to eat on his
way to the land of spirits. I begged
some of their sacred scarlet paper
which they reluctantly gave me.
The Chinese r very industrious
and save up every cent that they
may at some future day return to
China. After a man has been dead
a few years his bones r taken up
and sent back to China. If q China
man outs off his hair he is forever
disgraced in the eyes of his country
men, and can never return to China,
hence he prefers death, we were told,
in preference to having his long pig
tail cut off. I saw high-grade wo.
men and children, and they had
rather pretty faces, and their cloth
inn mo T0o6n nf Tinh ToO4n~So1 ThA I
women had on long, loose black
trousers, and they combed their coal
hlaoh hair snnnn4hlu hook and did Il |