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 his hand under the hole in the pot presses upward and the molten metal exudes through the hole, when instantly with a piece of smooth wood in his other hand he presses down the soft metal and smooths it over. He continues this until the hole is filled, making a good job, for the pot does not leak- after. We have seen large pieces that were broken out of these pots thus replaces and welded in perfectly. No preparation is made for the work—the metal of the pot is not heated, not even cleaned.

"More is known of the coal fields of China than of the iron ore deposits. There are hundreds of coal mines that are operated in most primitive ways.

"It is estimated that in the Ping-Siang district, from which the steel works draw their coal supplies, there are 300,000,006 tons of coal in sight.

"The three mines of the Chinese Mining Company, northeast of Tien-Tsin, produced nearly one million tons in 1906. We are informed that there is a vein of soft anthracite forty feet thick in Central China. From this field the Yangtse-Eng company will draw its supplies of anthracite for power purposes,

Surely China has changed more in the past five years, than in the preceding three thousand. Even if these statements may be open to the charge of same exaggeration. From east to west, from north to south, throughout all of her borders they are making ready for the new life.

Nor is this true alone of China; India, with its population of 296,000,000 must not be ignored; this country is agricultural and in the march of progress, seems hopelessly in the rear. Yet there are today employed in the Indian textile mills 215,000 workmen and these mill hands begin work at 5 o'clock in the morning and stop at 8 o'clock at night.

Thus they sweat for fifteen hours, getting half an hour recess at noon.

The average wages earned by these mill hands in cotton mills is as follows:

Men, $4.60 per month; women, $2.40 per month; children, $1 a month. While considerable preparatory work is still necessary before capitalism can enter India, yet, since China is to stop using opium, is logically follows that India must stop raising it. That the agriculturists will turn to raising more wheat, corn, cotton,