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Vtomaa’s Missiomiy ocie n.
This department, conducted by Mrs.
Robert Tompkins, of St. Marys, (ia.
will contain from week to week, mat
ter of interest to those who care for
extension of the Master’s cause.
•■Go ye therefore, and teach all nations.”
In that unspeakable book.
“Our i ountry,”by Dr. Strong,
we find the following state
ments : ‘ One fifth of the
wealth of the United States,
or #8,728.400,000 were in the
hands of church members in
1880 ; and this takes no ac
count of the immense capital
in brain and mussels. Of this
great wealth one-sixteenth
part of one per cent, or one
dollar out of $1,586. is given
in a year for the salvation of
seven or eight hundred mil
lion heathen. If Christians
spent every cent of wages,
salary, and other income on
themselves, and gave to mis
sions only one cent on the
dollar of their real and per
sonal property, their contri
butions would be $87,284,000
instead of $5,500,000. In
1880, they paid out nearly six
times as much for sugar and
molasses as for the world’s
salvation, seven times as
much for boots and shoes,
sixteen times as much for cot
ton and woolen goods, eleven
times as much for meat, and
eighteen times as much for
bread. From 1870 to 1880
the average annual increase
of wealth of church members
bers was $391,740,000. This,
remember, was over and above
all expense of living and all
benevolences! That is the
avierage annual increase of
w®lth in the hands of pro
fo«]d Christians was seventy-
FARME R and PL ANTER
PRODUCTION AND PRICE.
Th« Direct Cause of the Prevailing Low
iThe f direct Price of Cotton.« of price of
cause the low
c di+on is over production, or the nat
ural adjustment of the price to the sup
ply. That this condition will eventu
ally correct itself, if allowed to con
tinue, is a natural law of political
economy, but, while the correction or
adjustment is being wrought, another
natural law will also be at work—the
law of the survival of the fittest. The
weaker will be crushed out and the
stronger made more strong—the poor
be made poorer, the rich richer. “From
him that hath not shall be taken away,
even that which he hath.” The ap
proaching disaster should be modified
if not prevented.
The cotton planters ftf the south are
divided into two classes: First, Those
who raise cotton as a surplus or money
crop and at the same time produce
their own. supplies. Second. Those
who raise cotton and from the pro
ceeds of its sale purchase their sup
plies.
Those of the first-class, who are not
in debt, are in a better condition than
they imagine themselves. They should
further diversify and rotate their
crops, practice green manuring and
raise live stock. The reasons for this
are many and „ evident. ,
The majority of the other class are
truly in a deplorable condition. They
vanced^by 3^“
that so much aereage he devoted to
the production of cotton, and cotton
alone is required in payment for sup
plies. As the merchant now sees it, it
would be all the more to his interests
should the farmer devote his entire
time and energies to the production
of cotton. The farmer is forced to
sacrifice all other crops to the produc
tion of the one staple. He is always
one year behind with his debts, and
generally more than one.
The most plausible method of relief
that suggests itself is that the farmer
(until he is out of debt, at least) agrees
to furnish the merchant in payment
for his supplies advanced, not cot
ton, but so many pounds of pork,
bacon, beef, mutton, wool, hay,
so many bushels of corn, oats, potatoes,
rye, peas, peanuts; so many gallons of
Sf X’
would compel both diversity and
rotation of crops and provide abundant
ly for the home table. The fertility of
the soil would be increased instead of
decreased as under the present system.
And m this connection it might be re
marked that the importance of and
profits from increased soil fertility are
not fully appreciated. It has been the
ist i jricultajial. countries
The fire in the smokehouse must be
built so that no blaze will start from
the material that the smoke is to be
made from. In one corner of the
Smokehouse build a furnace out of
brick, eight inches deep, ten inches
wide and about fourteen inches high.
On the bottom lay two rows of corn
cobs, then a layer of maple or oak
sawdust, then a thin layer of slabs of
either wood, then sawdust, etc., until
the whole furnace is filled; now lay
live coals to the corncobs. Such a pile
will smoke the whole night. The saw
dust prevents the whole mass from
blazing. Hickory also is good, but
never pine, as this kind of smoke will
give your meat a disagreeable taste.
If you will keep this up night and day
for the small hams and sides for ten
days, the heavy pieces fifteen days,
your meat will have a nice, yellow*
brown color.
To keep the meat the whole summer
so it does not get strong and tainty,
there are sevefal remedies. The meat
will keep the best if packed between
chopped charcoal. Pack just as if you
were going to salt it down; don’t have
any vacant places. Also sifted ashes,
particularly those of beech wood, is
good, the last layer of ashes one and
one-half inches thick. Oats, salt, cte.,
is good, but I give the charcoal the
preference
SKATING IN CHINA.
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Its Utility in Carrying on the Internal
Trade of the Country.
Static. fy s the Pittsburgh DU .
patch, IS a b'isiness with the China
man, rather than a sport, for he
contrives to turn frozen canals into
convenient highways for his mer
c handise, as they do in Holland and
Denmark. Passengers are carried
in sledge chairs, propelled by an
active . Celestial skates, and there
on
is no more enjoyable way of making
a tour round the seventeen miles of
wall which encircles the ancient city
of p e king than in a sledge of this
description. The canals afford facili
ties for locomotion which are not to
found in the dirty streets, crowd
ed as they are with overworked hu
manity.
it is not likely that the Celestials
will ever asto nish the world with a
« Sees, (or they
d .° not aim at great speed of progres
sion ; but they are, nevertheless,
fairly qualified adepts in their way,
and there have been some efforts
made to introduce ice yachts out
there, which would, indeed, be a
grand thing not only for sport, but
Uie transport of goodsjat a time
when_jall tKfcffLj is Bra/.; 1 .TqILil. atm.
OAK, CYPRESS
AND
PINE LUMBER
SAWED TO ORDER.
WWe Make a Specialty of Sawing Orders of Fine
Lumber for House Building
Quotations on Heavy lumber for
Bridge Building –c„ Furnished
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