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Show China baa not the resources to duplicate. China possesses one-twelfth of the solid ground of the earth,, and every variety of .climate found in the temperate and semi-tropic zone. When she gridirons grid-irons her country with railroads and makes available avail-able all her resources, she will be an industrial power that the world will have to reckon with. We hope that, with it all, the wages to her workers will advance, that they will eat better food, wear better clothes and have more holidays. One-half pound of flour daily to each of her -people would mean 4,000,000 bushels of wheat per day; one dollar per annum extra for clothes for her people would mean 1400,000,000 for the year. May be the introduction of the arts of civilization into the great empire will also introduce Borne Western comforts ' that they know nothing of now. S : CHINA'S RENAISSANCE. It would be most interesting re.-ruing in this country, could some one familiar with the Chinese : , Language, get the notes being, made by the royal Chinese commission now visiting this country, translate and give them publicity through the daily ; . press. We read that . the commission is already greatly impressed with the magnitude of the coun- . try and its agricultural capacity. That impression will be increased the further East they go. Chicago " and Xew York, with the cities between, ought to i very greatly impress them. Their country is 4000 . years old; when they see what has been done here ). in 100 years, they will have to admit that there is a difference in methods. They, ought, and doubtless " " will, stop off a day in Pittsburg, to see how iron ore : is manipulated, for China has vast iron deposits. We hope they, will visit Washington, and, at-1 tending the Senate some day, hear Senator Tillman arraign the President for sins of omission and commission, com-mission, and then figure up how long it would be in China before such a Senator would be decapitated. decapi-tated. We wonder, though, at their coming at this . season of the year. One would think their chief desire would have been to see how the land is cultivated culti-vated in America.- Could they have entered upon a eea of corn a little east of North Platte, and sailed throngh that sea to just a little west of Pittsburg, - they certainly would have concluded that one of the principal crops of this country is corn. The cotton of the South would have almost as greatly impressed im-pressed them. All the time, too, they would have been comparing what they' saw with the possibili- . ties of the different provinces of their own country. They will of course take in some of the great 1 factories of the East, the public common schools 1 and the universities; it may be taken for granted that they will not lose a trick on their "voyage of r discovery " for tbs?y really have come to spy out the , land, in anticipation of laving the foundations of the new China that is to be. And it must be remem-,2ered remem-,2ered that our country can produce nothing that |