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Show « j, i "Mateiag S h a a t u n r T c i ? T S A iday January S I9|a# & ^ * * H A* iy is it that o&urelt steves are so auch more apt to saoke than other «eues : I wondered , as î sat in church t h i s norning * But the ehinese are the most patient under ffoysieal d i f f i c u l t é s ,-perhaps they are eommon to thea , ç e r t a i n ly saoke is, as but few of t h e i r houses hâve ehimneys fre a thé front raom9-lf indeed they hâve a front room* Ifr l a s t a a n was the preacher this â.M» ï toM hia after the service that I would like to see hia in the pulpit ey*ry other Sunday as I thought that it would keep the Chines®" preacher s , who are forai of spéculâting in t h e ir sermons , n«irrer the. cross , We had an application for the loan of È 2*0A to set a fat her and son up in tîie sue e t potato business . T^ay had a wheel barrow and buying the potat.es at whà esale and s e l l i n g thea at r e t a i l seeaed to promise a profit * ' After talking the mat t e r over between ourselves it seemed b o t t e r to gi?e thea il.OO out right than to loan thea- two f i Tais was s'atisfacttry and the wife came back last night to say that they had madef 30u cash (15 cents ) beaide 20 pds of potatoes that were not good eiought© sell which they would eat ; aho was qiHte elated .îJ**fOrtunaUly the season for thea i s . eoae*hat sh^rt but wi 11 last "fora oeonth or six weeks yet. A woaan shot by the robbars came- in yesterday .The bail had passed above ths breatbone, coming ou at the back . she will rocover m That is the sevond woaan beside five raen shot by tham during the last raonth . . Y ,„ ., '^hnn it i s possible thev are ; osait with suaaarily . în a v i l l a g e not far away , thev had rented an out cellar in -vhich t o storo their loot and to ni de" i n • winding thi th i r retreat the v i l l a g e r s brought cornstalks soâked in kérosène and barri cading the door saoked out the place suffocating the mtire ©and ,-how aany ï do not know À , _ Th<' floctor ha s just corne in froa Sun oay school 't se» a s that soae simple ainded person spread the ^ord that the church was goibg to give out meal agter church today and about 20o beggar women mû. children came in force to get sorae .Ths ch urch could not s fford seats for thea m they stood in the a i s l e s during the S*nday School, - .. . Let uis hope that soae of the number got more even than they had hoped to get , aven the breqd that nbduring unto everlasting l i f e , ^e hfxû. the .Boys school up yesterday P.M. -far an hour and a half .There seeias to be no o ne left now to invite unless it be the servants of the four households • •• . . . . .%*"' Taylor baby , two *eaks old yesterday ? i s dd ing finely and they hope to roturn home la a week now Y~ 7***'t h_ y f o r t u n a t e ly the I x t t l e raaide;^ has a cleft palate and ouglit to hâve an operatitf withln a yoar .»erhape it can be done at Pcitaiho ûnrir^ the Sum>ar/ ^ T I Î , * , » T-h* i c e hors© was l . i i i i e a -last week .1 kept at a respectful distance this year thankful ^ that Mr Eastman was on the ground to oversee i t .. ^ast winter I 3 worked sevsral days , showing the men how to "do it ,'and as a r e s u i t had a cold sève r a i m$k% ] T"e same parties put it in t h is year so probably did not née à so auch supervision. 1 » We dd not sucôee l a s t yar in ,:. keeping ice the «mtire season but 1 raade sorne im-provwoeents in the drainage and also in the v e n t i l a t i o n and think that it will do botter thi o year# î f 0 t that it a a t t e r s auch as a il the mssionaries expect t be away from tTune Ts t t i l l Septeaber and cool weather beglns shortïy after that „ , . I T hardly seeae possible th t «ice days of the naw tear are ' past aad within fiva months from t h i s writing we. expect to be on th* our ^at home 9 t We hâve not yet raade réservations as the l i s t s are nt out but they will soon be ;then we s h a l l be ab^e to state défi* n i t e l y ' the date of our sailirur . ."-t |