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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17

~ oS = Jul y0oi lIt-AI
March without debt"
War and Continental Missions.
The directors of the LondOn mis-
sionary society have passed the fol-
lowing resolutions:
AT this first meeting of the board
of directors Of the London mission
airy society after the commencement
of the war in Europe in which Great
Britain has been drawn in reluctantly,
but by a solemn sense of duty to take
part, the directors desire to express
to their brethren who are responsible
for the administration of the mis-
sionary societies on the continent of
Europe their very sincere and deep
sympathy in the serious financial and
administrative difficulties which the
state of war in Europe must have en-
tailed upon them all. Their brethren
in France, representa-. as they do a
comparatively small community of
protestant Christians, are pressed by
peculiar difficulties and have a spe-
cial claim to the sympathy Of British
Christians with whom they have been
very closely and chivalrOusly asScciat-
ed in the Madagascar mission. The
directors and members of the l.. S. M.
will ever remeber with gratitude to
God the manner in which the Paris
missionary society came to the help
of the work Of this society in NADIA
SdScdf IN a Tune OF great and special
stress.
ITO their brethren in Germany, I'M
happily separated from them at pres
ent by strong national sympathies ex-
pressed IN a great and determined
conflict between the two great ma
lions, the directors desire to express
With special earnestness and sympathy
their Christian affection. They earn
estly hope hat in the work of Christ
they may be permitted ever during the
course OF the war to rende any help
1t may be their power to give to Ger
man missionaries who are working in
territories under British rule. They
venture to cherish the belief, and they
earnestly pray that when the war
ends, the leaders in Christian work
IN Doth countries will find large or-
~portunlties to stimulate in all round
them those sentiments of Christian
love which alone will suffice to heal
the wounds and remove the bitterness
OF feeling which are the sadly ineyita-
bic results of such a conflict"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17

$4,000 in excess OF last year r.
in a year of financial den-ae
which closed with a month Of -
pean war, IS q record which So
that the church has not given -,
encouragement nor panic. and ts.
les the expectation thai She vsu
tinue bravely to carry ON 49,,
SiOnary work.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17

Inc Commonwealth meteoroloEls-
VINO mas been making a close study =
A~ustrallan wheat areas, states t1at
me present production there Of abo-t
bushels a be increaset
to 1000, 600, 900 she OnIv 2 o.004
square miles in Australia are bei-s
used for wheat. which could be in
creased TO 5o0,00O square miles.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17
Episcopalians and Missions

a note from the Church Mission
House (EpiscopaD says:
The missionary treasury ,
with an indicated deficit for the 80
amounting to $4,000. This year
depressing, but it should he rau ulos
oered that the appropriations fnn
year were sS4,o 900 greater thar ttblne
o o .he sear preceding, and that leese
priatio rai'I feu 5 toy re paying appro-
$40, 900. amount about
IhereIore. as a matter of fao.
si"s OF the living in the chnrob me
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17
Facts That Count

Facts That Count.
There are eight Protestant der.nd-
nations at work in Cuba. with 1@o
pastors constantly preaching thu
gospel from over 800 pulpits .Tbcea
pastors have nearly 200 assistants ana
lay preachers to help them, and -o0
teachers in the Sunday schools give
weekly Bible instruction to H. 0o0
pupils. In about fifty boardino qrd
DAY schools of the Protestant de.
nomlnations $50 teachers come IN
daily contact with 5000 boys ana
girls.
The Epworth Herald gives the fol.
lowing figures concerning the 11eth6.
dlsts IN Germany and Switzerland. In
1886 there were 5,299 FL
switzerland, 1898 in South Germany
and 1858 in North Germany-a total
or l%4,l55. In 1918 the total for th.s
territory had increased to 38.083. "
an increase OF more tina two hundred
ana nifty per cent in twenty-seyen
years.
AT its September meeting the board
OF foreign missions OF the Methodist
episcopal church appointed fifteen
new missionaries TO work In -
foreign field.
A missionary society in Texas
writes hat at a recent meeting they
the hard times and un-et-
tled conditions owing to the war. and
oeclded that this was a proper time
dor self-denial. They had pledged
ssI:5o for the foreign work, but made
II 500 that afternoon. They say i
was the most spiritual meeting they
llau ever had. If all the societies
would emulate this example this
would be a year Of great advances .R
mission work and Of increased
power.
1t is said hat in the city Of shaug.
nal alone there are 200, 600 "ricksha
CONES. These men are overWorhel.
scantily clad, poorly fed, expose .a
al sorts of weather and are ta
especlal danger of accident. During
tne past year a special mission fer
mem mas been conducted in Shaue-
"A Mohammedan student al Trinity
eollege, Handy, Ceylon, son of
Iamlly of great wealth and GistIna-
tlon, was baptized on August 10. THIS
STUDENT, says Rev. A. G.. Frazer. had
neard of the college through a re-.-
I've ana ne packed up his trunk ard
came two thousand miles ID LEARN
IllSllsh. In the report of the college
LOT 1872 it is mentioned that r.re
ADULTS were baptized in the college
chapel, seven Of whom were the sons
oI chiefs and manager
temples.
me American Methodist miss.
IN India baptized 10000 persons
lsl2 and 10000 in 1913. This u-
precisely the number Of converts wen
" the mission in the forty years te-
tween 1856 and 1896. In one distr.c.
IN 1913, $500 persons registered the.-
names as applicants of baptism. who
could not be given the necessary H.
ers.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17
Bishop Nuelson to Visit Ccrmanv

In a letter written at Zurich Sen
tember Is Bishop Nuelsen states that
h American and German amhaesa'
dors at Berne, Switzerland, have
Iacll1ated arrangements for him to
VISIT Germany. and that he DlanneS
to make a flying trip to Berlin. FranL
fort and a few other centers' A IL
tie later he expects to visit the S.
dlnavian countries, as wen as on-
other European fields. 0oi
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North Africa, says: "There were
500 people present at an organization
service. One hundred and three
adults were baptised. We have
twenty-five evangelists out in the sur
rounding country and the native
Christians are giving enough to sup
port all of these and still have con-
siderable to spare for making seats
for the native churches, which have,
so far, been put up free Of cost by the
natives. We have nearly 1900 boys
in school.
In no other heather country has
Christian work shown greater success
than in Korea. About 200, eco Chris
tians have been gathered, according
TO the Missionary Review Of the
World, or an average of one an hour
Tor every hour of every day since the
first missionary landed there. Church.
eS nave been organized at the ate Of
two a week from the beginning and
during the year 1910 of one a day.
Skilled labor receives 25 cents a day.
unskilled from II to Is cents, yet their
jubilee fund reached $4,000 Ameri-
can honey
The Women's University in Tokyo
has over 1000 students matriculated
and sixty professors-graduates Of
cambridge, Yale, Harvard and the
japanese universities. While the in
otltutlon is not under Christian
@spices, yet it is interesting 20 learn
that the initial impulse to its found
ing came from a Christian.
Count Okuma, Japan's interesting
premier, is in his seventy-seventh
year, but is vigorous and we'll pre-
served. He has said Of himself that
he has three hobbies-politics. educa-
ton and orchids, and that he cares
little for other things.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17

Rouen has a neV railway brifs-
over the Seine.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17
Items Of

IL is said that twenty-five rationale
yes are represented in the First Bap-
1lst church Of Chicago. They are
Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hindu.
Cuban, negro, Jewish, French. Hun,
garian, Polish, Swedish, German,
Norwegian, American Indian, Span
nlSh, bohemian, English, Irish.
scotch, Greek, Italian, Danish, Dutch,
austrian and American. Out of the
zo9 children enrolled in the kinder
garten, there are sixteen rationale
ties. These children, it is said, come
from within one-half mile of the
church.
There are $4,000 deaf mutes in the
'Dnlted states. Twenty thousand of
these are in the Southern States.
Thirteen ordained clergymen, twelve
or whom are themselves deaf, are do
Ing evangelistic work among the deaf.
In New York city alone there are
twenty-five Italian Protestant church.
es. The two Italian churches of
fhlIaoelphla have a combined mem
Dership Of 500. The Presbyterians.
Methodists and Baptist have each
ters.
Their are $4,000 Indians in the
United States, exclusive Of Alaska. OF
these, 296,O00 are under the general
supervision of the Federal Indian
service. ~ the 177,401 who were
questioned as to their religions AZ
~flliations, 69,529 have professed
christianity, or SO per cent of the
total.
A chinese pastor in New York said
tnat on a visit to his native land he
met tWenty-Seven Of his countrymen
who had been converted IN this coun-
try and have returned to China as
missionaries. A Norwegian pastor in
the same city said that from those
who had Joined his church in the past
five years, thirteen have returned to
Norway as missionaries, and nine
have gone into different States of the
Union.
A missionary writing from Fulasi.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17

able US TO close our fiscal year next
March without debt"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17
How the Dollars Go.

ton, What becomes of the dollar
given to foreign missions?" is found
IN a recent statement in the Baptist
World, based on figures reported by
the foreign mission board of the
Southern Baptist conventions:
"Of the dollar SO cents was used
oy n State boards which are edu-
cational and collecting for
all our work. OF the 96.4 cents
reaching Richmond, 81 cents had to
be used for paying interest on money
borrowed because. the dollar did not
come IN earlier in the year. Four
tenths of q cent was used to nav an
%nuities, that is, small interest on
large sums to be given to foreign mis-
slons at the death Of the donor. For
salaries and all other office EXPENSES
IN Richmond, 40 cents was needed
and for all other administrative ex-
penses, 4.3 cents. while about one
cent was used for reducing the debt
we have been carrying for three or
four years. This left 1914 cents which
got to the right spot on the mission
lelo-Z.o cents going to Africa. 32.e
cents to China, So cents to .Janan
go cents to Italy and other Euro
pean points, S.3 cents to Mexico. 20 4
Genus TO Brazil, and Sc cents to Ar
sen'lha, some dollars do not go very
far, but the foreign mission dollar
evidently accomplishes a great daoI
Evangelism and the Sunday School
me large number of Sunday
school scholars owe twelve years ~
age VINO are not members Of tho
church shows that the Sunday school
as an evangelistic force has not hean
.aken advantage Of to anything like
the extent it should. The World,s
sunday school Association is trvine
TO correct this shortcoming by sonnd7
ing the evangelistic mot wit, clear
ness ana emphasis in it's communic.-
ions with the worldwide field An
Illustrated card has been issued Nv
lne department Of evangeIization m
george w. Bailey, chairman. show
ing graphically the necessity Of oi1Iina
the entire life for Christ. Rejieiol,s
papers with an aggregate cir ulation
Oh nan a million have given wide
pupllclty to this thought-DrovokinC
message.
There is encouraging RESPONSE 70
thlS eVangellstlc emphasis. In ~
Key the sunday school workers in
thelr recent annual gathering n1ada
evangelism through the Sundav
school the center of their pr0pram
In Japan a great Sunday school cana
palgn is going on simultaneors 1v uith
the thfee-year evangelistic camnaion
i~naugurated by the continuation na@
mlItee OF the Edinburgh conference
ana the ann of the japanese leaders
is to have the two capaigns snnn1a-
1nent each other and proceed in the
closest conjunction.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17
METHODIST MISSIONARIES ARE
OFFICERS IN HOSTILE ARMIES
Formerly Labored Shoulder to Shoulder in North African
Mission-One Falls, Was With the Germans-Other
With French Army.

(Southern Missionary News Bureau
Ida Clyde Clarke, Editor.)
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That Held
In Year 1915
Middle West Devastated by
Floods Which Caused Great
Loss-Jessie Wilson and
Helen Gould Brides

John Purroy Mitchell was elected
mayor.
President Wilson took personal In
terest in the gubernatorial election In
New Jersey and was pleased when the
returns showed that James Fairman
Fielder was elected. Fielder has been
called progressive Democrat and his
election was regarded as a personal
tribute to the president. In the No
vember elections also David |. Walsh,
Democrat. was elected governor OF
Massachusetts, and Henry z. Stuart,
Democrat. was elected governor of
Virginia.
Wher President Wilson entered Of
fee be was confronted with the tan
gleG Mexican situation. and toward
the end Of the year our relations with
that country came near the breaking
point. Matters became so threatening
that troops and marines were dis
patched to the border line. A great
heet Of American warships assembled
in Mexican waters. and the border
patrol was REINFORCED by several di-
visions OF regular troops.
Following the assassination Of Fran
cisco |. Madero Feb. % and the as
sumption of the presidency by General
Huerta. President Wilson fatty de-
clared that this country never would
recognize the new order Of things,
which was characterized as rule Of
blood and iron. This government fig
ured that Huerta was near the end Of
his financial resources.
The year had its usual quota of dis
asters and accidents. When the wire
less on Oct 9 told that the steam
ship volturno was burning in mid
ocean there came visions OF another
Titanic horror But the wireless
brought quick aid to the doomed
ship. and 500 of its passengers were
removed in safety to other vessels
that answered the calls for help. One
hundred and thirty-s Of her passen-
gers and crew were lost. There were
pathetic scenes when the ships bear
ing the survivors docked in New York
city.
Floods Sweep Middle West.
The great foods Of the middle west
which occurred in March aroused the
sympathy of the country for the suf-
ferers. For weeks great sections of
this country were under water. Entire
cities were marooned. Secretary OF
War Garrison took personal charge Of
the relief movement. 1t was impos-
sible for days to get any authentic
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Letter to Santa Claus.
written for last weeks issue.)

Written for last weeks issue)
Columbia, S C, December II, 1913.
Dear Santa Claus
The country children in South
Carolina have been very good during
the past year They have attended
school faithfully and have worked
hard. Their fathers have also work.
ed industriously and intelligently,
and Providence has smiled gracious
ly upon our State. They are all ex-
pecting fine Christmas and many
gifts from Santa Claus.
The Rural School Supervisor has a
special request to make of you.
When you are making up your gifts
for the boys and the girls of the
Palmetto State do not forget some
good reading suitable to the chill
dren. The country children in our
State have little access to libraries,
and many of them have in their homes
few books which they can read. We
should especially like to have you
bring them good paper suited to
the boys and girls. The writer
formed his reading habits through
reading The Youths Companion,
which came to him weekly as a
Christmas present when he was a
boy. Please send many of our boys
and girls in South Carolina sub
scription to this or some other paper,
which will be weekly reminder of
your love for the children. If you
will do this, we will promise you
brighter and better boys and girls
next year. Sincerely,
w K TATE,
Staff Supervisor Country Schools.
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like an aeroplane
NV through the atmosphere OF
w time, another year is gone.
L. h-n,,.rhk 20,
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LETTER FROM ERNEST JOYE.
champion Corn Grower Tells
about Washington Trip.

Editor County Record
/ thank you and the kind gentle
men of dear old Kingstree for their
liberal contributions in paying ex-
penses for one of the grandest trips
old Ernest has ever had. got in
Saturday after almost two weeks SOL
id enjoyment and pleasure. Do you
wonder that | feel so grateful to the
gentlemen and our next Governor,
Hon R Manning? The President
was sick and we could not see him,
but saw the mistress, with soldiers as
guards with their swords and uni
forms on, standing by her. Our Con-
gressman, Hon j Willard Ragsdale,
sent his magnificent car around Sun
day afternoon, taking US out to the
National park and cemetery-the
two ladies, Ralph Tate and myself,
all from South Carolina. were the
occupants. cannot begin to tell all
l saw or how enjoyed my trip, and
how l regret that l am now to step
out, as pa is moving to another Sec
ton; but to other boys beg to say
that trip to our Capital is well
worth the labor and expense, to say
nothing of the other reward of
showing and demonstrating the pos
sibilities of the soil of our dear old
State and county.
Yours gratefully,
ERNEST M JoYE.
Hemingway, December "a.
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Attention
War With Mexico Threatened.
Sulzer Removed-Volturno
Burned at Sea-Morsan
and Gaynor Died
BY JOHN J. sREEN.

TAT INGING like an aeroplane
" through the atmosphere OF
w time, another year is gone.
Each day brought its quota
of happenings. Come great and others
small. There were fast and strenu-
GUS doings in the world Of politics, the
grim reaper exacted its usual toll,
playing no favorites: the menace OF
war between the United States and
Mexico loomed large. and the Athletics
again showed the Giants how to play
the great national game.
President Wilson from the date of
his Inauguration started out to make
good on his promises Of tariff and cur
rency reform. After months Of jockey
ing by both branches OF congress and
after many amendments had been
written into the original draft of the
document the Underwood-Simmons
tariff bill became law. 1t is too soon
as yet to say just what effect it will
have on the prosperity Of the coun-
try. 1t has long been held by some
statesmen that a new tariff bill will
be q panacea for all ills, real or imag-
mary. Others have held that any
tinkering with this important subject
would result in a national disaster. 1t
is too early as yet to say who are
the false prophets.
Having succeeded in passing new
tariff bill, President Wilson at once
set about getting new currency
measure Toward the end OF the year
his supporters declared that he would
also win this fight. Just what kind Of
q bill would finally meet the favor Of
congress none would say. Some bank
ers maintained that any radical inter
ference with the monetary system or
the country would work disaster.
while bankers of the south and west
insisted that money reform would
greatly help the crops and would
make for unprecedented prosperity.
Sulzer Helps Mitchell.
1t is agreed that the removal or Gov
arnor Sulzer was q big factor In the
New York city election. Many who
thought Sulzer guilty wanted to re-
buke the forces that sought his i'm
oeachment. Sulzer announced himself
as a candidate for the assembly In
lower east side district in Manhattan
He ran on the Progressive ticket and
was elected. There was union OF
the forces against the Tammany Hall
candidate. Edward F.. Mccall. and
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-01-01

news from the stricken territory, and
exaggerated stories Of loss Of life were
circulated For days entire communi.
ties lived on the upper floors Of tall
buildings to escape the rising waters.
It was common sight to see entire
families go drifting by on trees and
small frame houses carried along by
the rushing streams. A conservative
estimate Of the damage to property is
S163.OOOOOO.
Other casualties which caused more
than passing interest were two wrecks
on the New York. New Haven and
Hartford railroad; cyclone which
swept the central and southwestern
states. entailing loss Of over 100 lives
and several million dollars in prop
erty: thirty-four killed and many in
jured by the collapse Of pier at Long
Beach, CAL; twenty killed and many
injured by the explosion of mill dust
in a Buffalo mill; fifty lives lost in a
factory fire at Binghamton. n. y;
twenty killed in a mine accident at
Tower City. Pa; Hot Springs, Ark.
was swept by fire. with loss estimat
ed at $6,O00,0O0 In wreck on the
Mobile and Ohio railroad at Bucka-
tunna. Miss. forty-five soldiers Of the
coast artillery were killed and 100 in
jured.
Two Of the social events of the year
which attracted more than passing in
terest were the weddings Of Miss Jes-
sic Wilson. daughter Of the president.
and Francis Bowes Sayre and Helen
Gould and Finley ]. Shepard. Miss
Wilson and Mr.. Sayre were married
at the White House Nov. Is and went
on a honeymoon trip abroad. MIR.
Sayre is a lawyer and when his en-
gagement was announced was attach
ed to the Office Of District Attorney
Whitman in New York city. Miss
Gould and Mr.. Shepard were married
on Jan. %. Mr.. Shepard was rail-
road man. and Miss Gould met him
while she was on tour Of inspection
of the Gould railroad properties in the
west
Among the noted men who died dur
ing the year were John Pierpont Nor
gan. the fnancier. and Mayor William
]. Gaynor of New York city. Mr.. Nor
gan died in Rome. whittier he went in
search of health. Mayor Gaynor died
aboard the steamship Baltic at sea.
He had just been denied a nomination
by Tammany Hall and had accepted
nomination rendered by body Of cit-
zens. His death had big effect on
the New York city campaign.
Other deaths in the year were James
R. Keene tinancier and turfman; DR..
Thaddeus s. C. Lowe, founder Of the
Lowe observatory: Captain Orir K.
Smith. designer Of the Confederate
flag: James McCrea. former president
of the Pennsylvania railroad; Con-
gresham c'Big Tim'D Sullivan Of New
York: Benjamin Altman. dry goods
merchant. and Charles G. Gates.
The crowning event in the sport
world was the triumph Of Connie
Mack's Athletics over John McGraw's
Giants. incidentally the series was
rebuke to the knockers who are ever
ready to cry fake. The series was
ended in Ave games. the Athletics win
ming four and the championship
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COTTON CROP STATISTICS.
Cotton Ginned I'm South Carolina
Prior to Dec. 13, Crops OF 1925.

Washington, D c. December 25:-
The preliminary totals for the State
were made public by the Bureau of
Census at 10 a. m. Saturday, Decem-
Der 20. The corrected total and the
amounts for the different counties
for the crops of 1928 are furnish
ed for publication in the local pa
pers,as follows, counting round bales
as half bales, not including linters.
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Chambeflain'S Cough Remedy.

This remedy has no superior for
coughs and colds. 1t is pleasant to
take. 1t contains no opium or other
narcotic. 1t always cures. For sale
by all dealers.
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eurs, Old Sores, Other Rsnsdls. Won't Cure

The worst cases, no matter of how long standing,
are cured by the wonderful, old reliable DIR.
Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. 1t relieves
Pain and Heals at the sane time. sc, b0c, $Lo0.