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Show Making Things Even, It would bo difficult to find a region whero the ups and downs of fortune have buui so sudden ami extremo as In California. In Its early days, bo fore Its production of grain was equal to tho demand, wages of farm hands wero high, but ns production Increased the price? Ioul 1 faster than the rato of wnges A, fanner employed an Industrious In-dustrious Irishman for' fivo years, nt tho rato fifty tlolhuu a month "and found" Wird, lodging, washing, and mending At tho end of the term ho said to his man: "I can't afford to pay you the wages havo been paying You have, saved money, and I have saved nothing. At this, rato you will' poon own my farm." "Then I'll hlro you to work for mo," said tho other, "and you can get your form back again." . |