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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. _ 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 f