Bringing Fresh Contacts with Outside World rox Oct Own Consesronssv Taichow, Ku, Dec. 18, The Taichow missionary community thas enjoyed the presence of some dis~ fingwlshed guests lately"
Tr, Gray of the Lester Institute; the Bey and Mrs. W. Price and Jeht "ren of Nanking; Masier_ Hour. Fatiervon of Sulslen, Miss Jeffers of Yengchow, and the Rev., L. Harna-(per of Yencheng. There are few jeisres In the world where guests are more appreciated and enjoyed than Taichow. In this quiet spot where calmness and leisure and a_eertain fullness and stupidity are the usual forder of the day, a visitor from the Outer world where things happen, where news Is made where sin and suffering prevail, brings a. stimulus fand.a Joy to the foreigners of Tal-chow that brightens. their lives, en-argos their vision and makes them fee! that for a moment or two they fare a part of the rest of the world fand that they (00, are making history fand sharing in the hopes, ambitions fand plans of the human race.
The launch me connecting the Yangtze River at Keoan with Taichow has discontinued operations, Efforts the past have been made to run such a Tine but always with the same result, Two or three months con-vinees those Who think they have Toeated a bonanza that they have only found a way to lose their money, The ino-runners in these parts think that they are entitled to free transportation on all craft when seeking Whom they may devour, as it were, for when they get you in. their clutches they try to relieve you of every penny that you possess. Every trip of the Keoatt-Taichow launch was marked by 9 row between the laodah of the launch and some one or more Inn-runners, The receipts from the sale of tickets was so small that the "ola big" thought he should not be called on to carry. inn-runners for nothing. From the manner in which the. Inn-runners argued one might think that they were the owners of the launch line, Well, at any rate, elaine it on whom you will the Keoan-'Taichow launch line is no more, Mik for the Chinese For yenrs attempts have to introduce the use' of mil fond the Chinese, Of course many {vill say the Introduction has been ac~ complished and forgotten—Took at Shanghai with its ice-cream, its coffee with milk, its foreign tea with sugar land cream, ils pancakes and butt course, of course, Shanghai has Tot of these dishes and a lot of people who will consume them, but one devs Rot want to spend his' life drinking mile from atin can when he has heard of what fresh mille and cream is really like. Cows cost money and not only do they cost money but they feat a Jot and they destroy a lot when they. have a mind to. step on a ped-Jdler's pack or n small fruit stand as they wind their ways through the narrow streets of an inland Chinese city.
The Taichow missionaries have taken goats into their households and now depend on them for all the sugars, proteins, fats, car eatelums,—magnestums, otasslums, sodiums," phosphoruses, thlorines, sulphurs, irons, ferments, either free, or as salts, or in more Jor less intimate chemical and Physicochemical union with. proteins nal other argante bodies, which other people living In more favoured and cee crowded districts get from pure Goats are all right, Taichow would recommend them to' all who wish 10 raise their own mille supply economlically and in abundance. The goat Is the animal for China, A small area for pasturage is all that's needed and that can be dispensed with. Food Jcosts but little, The milk when properly handled Is excellent. Perhaps some day the Chinese people will become foot-minded and when they do the milk supply for Chinn will be settled,
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