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MISSIONARY LIFE 
ready put quite a number to growing cottee and 
other things which they see can be made profit- 
able to themselves and the country. Our black- 
smith, carpenter, and tailor shops are exerting an 
excellent influence, as may be seen in the fact that 
more and better clothing is worn, better houses 
and boats built, more furniture and conveniences 
in them. It is wonderful how many things are 
becoming a necessity to the people around our 
mission-houses, which a few years ago they had 
no use for at all. 
Said Chief Caulker to me the other dav, — and 
in this he represented the sentiments of all the 
better class of men in that country, — I would not 
know how to get along without the mission ; its 
schools, shops, farms, stores, and the religious 
services have become a necessity to my people 
here. To the Sherbro people it would be like if 
Americans had to dispense with railway and tele- 
graph lines and daily papers to have no mission 
now. Our blacksmith and tailor shops do con- 
siderable work for them. Our store sells them 
large quantities of goods. It will not be long 
until other kinds of business will be in demand 
‘there, such as shoe-making, millinery, and dress- 
making. We now need at Shengay a good black- 
smith, who could play tinner also ; a good car- 
penter, cabinet-maker, and painter; a tailor who 
