"I WONDER what I shall get for a New Year's gift?" said Ellen Grant, on the day before New Year's.
"I'll tell you what I'd like to have," said little Mary. "I'd like to have one of the biggest wax dolls that could be found. As big as a real baby, and a great deal bigger, too. Wouldn't you, sister?"
"No; but I would like to have—let me see what I would like to have;" and Ellen sat and thought for a few moments. "Yes, I'd like to have a shawl just like Aunt Mary's."
"And I'd like to have a pony," spoke up Harry. "Oh! I wish father would buy me a pony for a New Year's gift."
Thus the children talked, first wishing for one thing and then for another, while Aunt Prudence sat knitting and listening to what they said. At last little bright-eyed Mary, the merry pet of the house, came and leaning her arms on the knees of Aunt Prudence, looked up into her face, and said:—
"What are you going to give me for a New Year's gift, Aunt Prudence?"
"A kiss, dear," replied Aunt Prudence, "won't that do?"
"I want something besides a kiss. I get kisses every day."
"Oh, yes, and what are you going to give me?" spoke up Ellen.
"And me, aunty?" said Harry.
"Wait until to-morrow, and we'll see. But I don't hear anything about what you are to give, only about what you expect to receive. Now, ain't that a little selfish? I am sure you might make somebody a present of something, and then be made to feel how true the words are, that it is more blessed to give than to receive. What do you say, children? You've got a good many dimes in your money boxes, and can make New Year's presents as well as anybody else."
"Sure enough!" exclaimed Ellen, "so we can. I never thought of that. I have got two dollars in my money box. What shall I buy? Mother shall have a present and so shall father."
"Can't you think of somebody," replied the aunt, "to whom you might make a New Year's present that would be useful? There are many people who have not the comforts of life, much less its luxuries. There are hundreds of poor children who never think of toys, and for whom New Year's day comes and goes without bringing a present of any kind."
Not far from where Mr. Grant, the father of these children, resided, lived a poor man named Barker, who from sickness had not been able to do any work for many months. He had four children. The two oldest, William and Jane, were only ten and twelve years of age, and Hetty and Philip were much younger. Since her father's sickness, Jane had got herself a place in a family to look after some children, for which she received a dollar a week. This, with about two dollars a week which the mother earned by sewing, was all the family had to live upon.
New Year's day came with a sober face to the inmates of poor Mr. Barker's comfortless home. The children looked for no presents, for even a full supply of nourishing food was lacking, and their clothing was now worn almost to tatters.
For breakfast they had some milk and water and a dish of fried potatoes. Hunger made these sweet to the taste, and they ate with a keen relish. After the table was cleared away, and the room swept up, Mrs. Barker sat down at her sewing—there was no holiday for her—and Mr. Barker took a book, as he lay on his bed, and gave each of his children a lesson.
"I wish they would let Jane come home to-day," he said, after he had given the lessons. "It is New Year's, and they might give the poor child a few hours' holiday."
As he finished speaking, the door opened, and Jane came in. The smiles that half awoke upon the father's lips died away as he saw that tears were in the eyes and glistened upon the cheeks of his child.
"Jane, dear," said he tenderly, "what is the matter?" as the child came hastily across the room, the moment she closed the door, and, sinking down upon a chair by the bed, hid her face among the clothes and sobbed.
Mrs. Barker threw aside her work, and came and laid her hand gently on the neck of her daughter, repeating what the father had said, with yet a more earnest and tender expression:—
"Jane, dear, what is the matter?"
But it was some time before Jane could find voice to express her grief. At last, putting her hand in her pocket, she took out a dollar, her last week's wages, and, handing it to her mother, said in broken accents:—
"They've sent me home, mother."
"Why, dear?" asked Mrs. Barker.
"Because my clothes are so poor, and my boots are all worn out so, they say I'm not fit to be seen in a decent body's house."
And the child wept and sobbed again. Poor Mr. Barker caught his breath several times, like a person who tries to conceal the emotion that nearly overmasters him; and Mrs. Barker, unable to contain her feelings, laid her head down upon Jane's shoulder to hide her tears.
At last Mrs. Barker, feeling that such weakness on her part was not right, raised herself up, and said, with a voice as steady as she could command:—
"Don't take it so to heart, Jane. We will buy you a pair of boots with this money, and I will alter you one of my old frocks to-day, so that you can go back to-morrow looking quite smart."
"But you need the money, mother, in the family," replied Jane looking up and drying her tears. "It won't do for me to spend it all for a pair of boots."
"You must have boots, you know, my child. These you have are all worn out. We can't expect people to keep you if you have not decent clothes. So we will buy the boots, and trust that Providence will help us to get along. If we use the money in the family this week, you cannot earn us anything next week, nor, perhaps, at all; but if we buy the boots, and you go back, you will bring us home a dollar next week, and so on week after week. It is therefore best for us that you should have the boots. Don't you think so?"
And Mrs. Barker turned to her husband.
"I do certainly," he replied.
And so it was determined that the boots should be bought, and that Jane should see about the house and cook their frugal dinner, while the mother altered one of her old frocks to fit her.
The frock was brought down from a closet upstairs, turned over and over by Mrs. Barker, and examined in every part, before she put the scissors into it. It was very thin in many places and worn clear through in others.
"It isn't worth the labor of making over," she at length said, letting it fall into her lap. "I am sure it won't hold together two weeks."
Just as she said this, someone knocked at the door, and William ran and opened it. A colored man stepped in, and, putting down a large hamper on the floor, said:—
"I was told to leave this here," and he turned and went out before anyone could ask him a question.
"What does this mean?" asked Mr. Barker, raising himself from the bed. "There must be some mistake."
"We will soon see," replied his wife, laying aside her work and taking hold of the hamper, which proved to be heavy. It was covered with a newspaper, which, on removal, showed a package neatly done up, marked, "New Year's gift for Jane."
Jane, to whom it was handed, hurriedly broke the string, and out fell a pair of strong leather boots very little worn, two pairs of stockings—but there was still something else in the package, which, upon examination, proved to be a handsome print frock.
While Jane was examining the contents of her package, the mother was going deeper into the hamper. The next thing taken out was a pair of India rubber shoes, a package of sugar, one of tea, another of coffee, and another containing six or seven pounds of rice, each marked, "A New Year's gift for Mrs. Barker." Then there was a very good jacket and a pair of trowsers for William, and shoes and stockings for Philip and Hetty; and last, a paper of sweet Malaga grapes, marked, "For13Mr. Barker," and as much New Year's cake as could be crowded into the hamper between the other things.
Surprised, bewildered, yet happy even to tears, was that poor family on that long-remembered New Year's morning.
"Where are they all from, mother?" asked Mr. Barker, as soon as he could speak, after the excitement of the first surprise was over.
"Heaven only knows," replied Mrs. Barker. "They are sent from above."
"And to God we are thankful," said the sick man, lifting his eyes upward. "He that feedeth the ravens will not suffer us to want."
"I know where they came from!" exclaimed Jane, breaking in upon her father's expression of thankfulness, and holding up the frock she had received at the moment she stood so much in need of one. "This is Ellen Grant's dress; I remember it very well. She wore it the day I went there, a few weeks ago."
"And this is Harry Grant's jacket," said Willie.
"Are you sure?" asked Mrs. Barker.
"Oh, yes, I know it right well. I've seen him wear it many a time."
"Bless the children!" ejaculated Mr. Barker, whose mind had a strong suspicion of the truth. "If it is their presents—if they have remembered us in their happiness—may Heaven reward them a hundred-fold."
Jane tried on her frock and shoes and they fitted her as well as if they had been made for her. She staid at home a couple of hours, and then went back to her place, looking so much smarter than when she went away that the lady said:—
"You should have worn those clothes before."
"But I didn't have them," replied Jane.
"Where did they come from?" asked the lady.
Thus questioned, Jane related, in the most artless yet touching manner, the distress of her father and mother when she went home; and then told of the timely relief that came from friends unknown.
We cannot stop to tell of all the beautiful presents that Ellen Grant, and Mary, and Harry received on New Year's day. Papa and mamma had not forgotten them. Nor had papa and mamma been forgotten by the children, who, under the direction of Aunt Prudence, had laid out all the money in their money boxes in order to buy presents; and in bestowing them they did indeed prove it to be true that "it is more blessed to give than to receive."
Evening had come—the evening of New Year's day—and all the children were in the parlor with papa and mamma and Aunt Prudence, when a servant brought in a note directed to Mr. and Mrs. Grant. On breaking the seal, Mr. Grant read aloud:—
"To MR. AND MRS. GRANT: For your generous kindness to us this day, our hearts are full of gratitude. Your presents came in a moment of great need, when we knew not which way to turn, and fully supplied that need. Jane was sent home from her place this morning because her boots were worn out, and her clothes not decent for her to be seen in a respectable family. The frock and boots just fit her, and she went back with a light heart. Comfortable boots and warm stockings were needed by the children above all things. You have supplied them, and may Heaven reward you a hundred-fold. Forgive this expression of our gratitude; but I felt that I could not sleep to-night without letting you know the real good you have done, and the warmth of our thankfulness. MARY BARKER."
"What does all this mean?" asked Mr. Grant. "Do you understand it, mother?"
"Not a word of it," replied Mrs. Grant, with a look of surprise. "There is some mistake. We are receiving thanks for benefits conferred by others. It is good to remember the poor, but we have forgotten them this day. That touching letter of Mrs. Barker's rebukes me deeply."
"Why, what's the matter, Ellen? and Harry? and Mary? What ails you children?" asked Mr. Grant, looking from face to face of the little ones, and being unable to comprehend the expression that rested upon each.
"Let me explain," said Aunt Prudence. And she told how the children had spent their money in buying things for a New Year's present to the family of poor Mr. Barker, and how they had sent clothing also, that she had picked out from such as they had outgrown or thrown aside. But how Mrs. Barker knew where they came from was more than she could tell.
"And my children have done this!" said Mr. Grant, with much emotion, drawing them to his side, and pressing his lips tightly upon their pure young foreheads. "How happy they have made me! And they, too, are happy—happier in thus giving than they ever were in receiving."—T. S. Arthur.
The Home Circle.
By R. M. Offord
A SONG AT MIDNIGHT.
"Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him."
THERE can come no sorrow
To this heart of mine,
But will bring me pity
From the heart divine.
There can fall no shadow
O'er the way I wend,
But my Father's presence
Will its brightness lend.
I can know no anguish
But he has a part,
Ev'ry woe he shareth
That can touch my heart.
In my grief I trust him
Though I cannot trace,
Words of peace he speaketh
Though he hides his face.
Though my eyes are weeping,
Though my soul is sore,
Still at heart I praise him
And his grace adore.
Nought can be my portion
But his love doth know,
All for good is working
Be it weal or woe.
—R. M. Offord, in N. Y. Observer.
Health and Temperance.
THE HYGIENE OF OLD AGE.
H. C. Wood, M. D., has an excellent article under the foregoing title in the December Good Health, from which the following, relative to food and how it should be eaten, is an extract:—
The first question is in regard to food. The teeth in old age are, of course, lost, and they should, unless under exceptional circumstances, be replaced by artificial teeth; for the thorough chewing of food is even more necessary in the old man than in the young, because in the old the digestive powers are apt to fail. With the best artificial teeth, mastication is apt to be imperfectly performed; hence, the food of the aged should be soft and readily comminuted, and especially should it be of easy digestion. Very few old people need stimulating diet; very many are injured by an excess of nitrogenous food. The kidneys, like all other organs, are feeble; and if meats and other rich foods are used in excess, they greatly increase the strain upon these organs. Milk and milk products, or preparations of breadstuffs cooked with milk, should form a very large proportion of the food of the ordinary aged individual; but individual peculiarities differ so much that personal medical counsel should in all cases be taken, so that the diet may be regulated to the needs of the individual case. Very many old people are hurt by the use of food in excessive quantity; but little exercise can be taken, all growth has ceased, and the bodily furnaces which make heat are able to destroy but very little of food fuel.
Before the Cross
By Chauncy Hare Townshend
Oh, what a load of struggle and distress
Falls off before the cross! The feverish care;
The wish that we were other than we are;
The sick regrets; the yearnings numberless.
—Chauncy Hare Townshend.
REVERIE.
In the dear old chamber at grandmother’s, and alone. Time, twilight; the day has been close and muggy; now a gentle breeze sways the leafy boughs overhead, and as I sit in the little old-fashioned rocker at the window, how my thoughts go wool-gathering! Back to the happy days of childhood, when life was all sunshine, and the future appeared so brilliant! And a dreamy, peaceful something whispers, Make the most of each moment; time flies, and wasted opportunities ne’er return. And a devout thankfulness to God fills my heart, for many things—just now for solitude. Often we most appreciate a congenial companion, truly we should; at other times nothing suffices but an hour all alone; it is fully as needful; but are we alone? Memory brings myriads of loved ones, gone on perhaps beyond the gates, but not forgotten; it may be that thoughts less kind crowd in upon us, for, alas! who has not regrets?
Dear heart, look not back upon the past, except it be to avoid like quicksands in the future.
In the last great day, when all alike may perchance see what the mistake of life has been, great the rejoicing of that soul who, not dwelling upon the things gone by, pressing forward with new courage and fresh life from the Giver of all good, marks a record in excellence surpassing all his first fond hopes. Take then the motto—only to-day—and waste no golden moments in regrets. A sincere prayer to the Father above will bring the needed strength when another sun rises, and “to-morrow” becomes “to-day.”—Christian at Work.
CONSUMPTION AND TIGHT LACING.
THE unnatural and most injurious habit of contracting the waist and chest by stays, in a vice-like grip, interferes with the functions of all the abdominal, pelvic, and thoracic organs. The circulation and proper function of the liver and spleen are greatly interfered with, digestion and chylification are impaired, the pelvic organs are depressed below their normal level, the diaphragm is prevented from proper play, and the ribs cannot expand the chest walls; and the inevitable consequence is deficient respiration and aeration of the blood [and consumption].
Under five years of age, the census of 1870 and 1880 show more deaths of males than females from this disease. They also show a gradual increase of females after that age, to ten years; and after that to fifteen the increase is quite rapid, so that at the latter age the census of 1870 gives deaths of males, five hundred and one, and of females, one thousand and fifty-six; and for 1880 the disproportion is still greater. Between the ages of fifteen and twenty it is considerably more than double. This is the tribute females pay to fashion at that age. Females continue to hold the ascendancy till thirty-five years, in the census of 1870, and to the fortieth year in that of 1880, when the males again come to the front, and lead the list the balance of life.—St. Louis Courier of Medicine.
—December 28 an earthquake-shock was felt in England.
—Snow-slides are causing trouble on the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
—The Russian Budget for 1889 shows a surplus income of 2,000,000 roubles.
—Several shocks of earthquake were felt in Southern Spain on the 27th ult.
—December 27 the town of Audubon, D. T., was nearly wiped out of existence by fire.
—Steps are being taken to develop the oil field known to exist near Gallup, New Mexico.
—Trains on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad are successfully heated by steam from the engines.
—During his recent visit to Victoria, B. C., the evangelist Moody established a coffee-house in that city for sailors.
—The entire business portion of Marblehead, Mass., was burned on the 26th ult. The loss is estimated at $750,000.
—Thread from nettle fiber is now spun so fine that it requires sixty miles of it to weigh two and one-half pounds. Nettle fiber is also extensively used in making ropes.
—The official journal of the French Government announces an increase in the army of 15,000 foot chasseurs, by the addition of two companies to each thirty battalions.
—The Hebrews who entered Utah with Johnson's army in 1868 have built a commodious synagogue in Salt Lake.
—A sister of Lord Dunallarey was thrown from her saddle and dragged to death while hunting in Ireland on the 28th ult.
—Bauereisen, the Burlington and Quincy dynamiter, has been found guilty and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.
—On the 28th ult. a shell burst in a powder magazine at Messina, Sicily, killing twenty-two soldiers and injuring many others.
—A young man who entered a burning house near Nebraska City, Neb., on the 26th ult., to secure some clothing, was burned to death.
—December 23 the Italian Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 175 to 32, passed a bill authorizing a credit of 145,000,000 lire for defenses.
—News has recently been received in this country of two more battles in Samoa. The killed and wounded numbered some two hundred.
—The most powerful artificial light in the world is at St. Catherine's light-house, in the Isle of Wight. It is estimated at more than 7,000,000 candle-power.
—Four men were instantly killed and two others fatally injured at Denver, Col., on the 26th ult., by the caving of the bank of a ditch in which they were working.
—Edison is working on an invention which he claims will enable him to produce electricity directly from burning coal without the use of boilers, engines, or dynamos.
—December 25 six out of seven members of a boating party on San Francisco Bay were drowned by the capsizing of their boat some distance off South San Francisco.
—A house in Harrisburg, Pa., in which a party of colored people were engaged in dancing, was blown up with dynamite on the night of the 27th ult. A number of the inmates were seriously injured.
—Nearly the entire village of Hermansville, Mich., was destroyed by fire on the 22d ult. No lives were lost, but owing to the severe weather and the poor shelter available many of the people suffered intensely.
—Dr. Alexander McDonald, general superintendent of the insane asylum on Ward's Island, has become insane. The Doctor was one of the experts whose testimony convicted Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield.
—The second inquiry into the recent accident to the Czar's train at Horkier resulted in attributing the disaster to a criminal conspiracy. All of the recently discharged railway employes will shortly be arrested.
—The attorney-general of Pennsylvania has begun suit against the Western Union and the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Companies for the forfeiture of their charters for violation of the constitution of the State by consolidating.
—The great strike of coal miners at Newcastle, New South Wales, was settled recently and the men returned to work after thirteen weeks of enforced idleness. The loss to mine owners and strikers is estimated at $1,500,000.
—From 1827 to 1852 suicides increased in France from 48 per million inhabitants to 102 per million, and since the latter date the increase has been scarcely less rapid. In Saxony the rate had in 1877 reached 391 per million.
—Work continues on the Panama Canal, and it is stated that there are at the present time about 9,000 laborers employed upon it. Notwithstanding the serious embarrassment of the company, it is thought that the canal will be completed.
—It is said that General Boulanger is rapidly gaining in influence in French affairs. He aspires to the presidency of the republic, and his cause has recently been espoused by General Montalbon, a very influential man in the councils of the nation.
—As to the number of children being educated in Anarchist Sunday-schools, the Pilot says, "Nearly 1,200 children, ranging from four to sixteen years, are gathered into those schools in Chicago to be brought up in antagonism to all religion and to all law.
—It is said that Mormons have been evading the law in Idaho and receiving the privilege of voting by being excommunicated from the church just before an election and being re-instated just after. The Legislature proposes to remedy this by requiring the test oath to declare the affiant's separation from the church to have taken place at least two years prior to the application to vote.
—The report of the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission for the year shows that 601 persons were killed, and 1,974 injured, on the Illinois railroads. The total income of the roads from all sources is $61,338,000, an increase of $4,500,000 over last year.
—The question of the probabilities of a European war are again being discussed by foreign papers. A late dispatch says that a tone of anxious expectancy is heard everywhere in all circles throughout Europe and that scarcely any sudden development would surprise the people.
—The steamer Haytien Republic, seized some weeks since by the authorities of Hayti for violation of the blockade, has on demand of this Government been delivered up to the American men-of-war sent to secure her release. The people of that country consider the action of the United States as an abuse of power against a weak nation.
—Recent advices from South America state that Chili has a second time interfered to prevent the settlement of the foreign debt of Peru, and it is now very plain that she will permit nothing to be done that will interfere with her purpose to annex the prostrate republic and extend her boundary along the entire west coast of the continent.
—Sunday morning, December 23, the steamer Kate Adams was burned on the Mississippi River, near Commerce, Miss., and fourteen lives were lost. The following day the propellor Lief Erickson was burned near Seattle, W. T., with a loss of seven lives. This was followed by the burning of the steamer John H. Hanna on Christmas-day, near Plaquemine, La., with the loss of some forty lives.
—The late school election in Boston, in which some 20,000 women voted, was held in connection with the regular election of city officers, and as the ballots for both elections were the same size and on the same colored paper, quite a number of women, either by mistake or designedly, voted the entire municipal ticket. Election contests will result, and the whole election may be declared void.
—A Central Pacific express car was robbed on the night of the 21st ult. near Clipper Gap, Placer County, in this State. The robbery was accomplished while the train was running between stations, the thieves having secreted themselves on top of the express car while the engine was taking water near the scene of the robbery. The amount of booty secured is placed by the express company at only a little over $3,000.
—December 23 three small boys entered a powder magazine near Mount Vernon, Ohio, for the purpose of smoking. Two of them seemed to realize the danger and ran away, but the eldest, a boy of fourteen years, remained, probably to show his bravery. In a short time an explosion took place, killing the boy who caused it, and doing immense damage to property. Seventeen men were badly injured, and several houses within a mile were wrecked. There were in the magazine 10 cases of dynamite and 210 kegs of powder.
—On the 23d ult. some Chicago Anarchists were prevented by the police from holding a meeting at a certain place in that city; it seems, however, that they had provided for just such a contingency as police interference, and the delegates repaired to a quiet saloon on West Randolph Street, where, in accordance with their program, they completed their formal organization. Before adjourning they elected Mayor Roche, Chief of Police Hubbard, and Inspector Bonfield honorary members of the Arbeiter Bund. The fact that the meeting was held was not learned until a late hour. The police were somewhat chagrined.
News and Notes.
RELIGIOUS.
—Illinois has 298 Christian Endeavor societies, with a membership of over 12,000.
—A new church edifice of Chicago has on its corner-stone the words, "We preach Christ crucified."
—A conference between committees of the Northern and Southern Presbyterian Churches, looking to perfect co-operation instead of union, was held in New York on the 28th ult.
—The Catholic priest whose occupancy of a part of one of the public school buildings in Pittsburg, Pa., for parochial school purposes, caused so much feeling in that and other Pennsylvania cities, has decided to vacate the building.
—It is said that the Hebrews of New York City this year quite generally observed Christmas. Religious services were held in the synagogues, and in most other respects the day was observed according to the general custom of those who make the day a semi-religious festival.
—A recent Eastern dispatch states that the trustees of the Normal College of New Jersey are considering the preparation of an amendment to the State Constitution prohibiting the establishment of schools, the purpose of which is to withdraw pupils from the public schools. The amendment is directly aimed at the parochial schools.
—On the evening of the 28th ult. the Presbyterian Union of New York gave a reception to the committee on the reunion of the Northern and Southern General Assemblies. Addresses were made by Revs. Howard Crosby, Charles L. Thompson, Moses H. Hoge of Richmond, and Joseph T. Smith of Baltimore. Dr. Hoge expressed the hope that the Northern and Southern assemblies would soon be together under one general head.
—The topics suggested by the Evangelical Alliance for the week of prayer, January 6 to 13, are: Monday, January 7, Thanksgiving and Confession; Tuesday, The Holy Spirit; Wednesday, The Family and the Church; Thursday, Reforms; Friday, Missions; Saturday, Nations. Sermons are suggested for Sunday, January 6, from Isa. 60:1; Rom. 13:14; John 15:5; Phil. 4:13; and for Sunday, January 13, from 1 Cor. 3:9 and 15:58.
—At the convention of theological professors in New York on the 27th ult. a national academy of theology was founded. The object of the academy is the prosecution of theology as a science. These officers were elected: President, Prof. James Strong, D. D., of the Drew Theological Seminary; vice-president, Prof. E. V. Gerhart, D. D., of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church, Lancaster, Pa.; register, Prof. Marcus D. Buell, of the Boston University and School of Theology; secretary, Prof. C. D. Hartranft, D. D., of the Hartford Theological Seminary; treasurer, Prof. F. Gardiner, D. D., of the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn.
HEALDSBURG COLLEGE,
HEALDSBURG, CAL.
A MODEL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, ESTABLISHED IN 1882.
SEVEN YEARS OF GREAT PROSPERITY BECAUSE FOUNDED ON SOUND PRINCIPLES. LABOR COMBINED WITH STUDY.
FOUR courses of instruction, classical, scientific, biblical, and normal; also preparatory instruction given in a primary and a grammar course.
Instruction thorough and practical, not only in the collegiate courses but especially so in the preparatory courses.
Discipline rigid, yet parental, combined with strong moral and religious influences.
Expenses moderate. The whole cost to the student for tuition, board, lodging, lights, washing,—all expenses except for books and clothes, from $18 to $20 per month of four weeks.
Spring term begins Monday December 31, 1883. For descriptive catalogue and further information address the principal,
W. C. GRAINGER, Healdsburg, Cal.
THE JANUARY SENTINEL.
By Editor
The American Sentinel for January, 1889, is one of the best numbers for general circulation that has yet been issued. This opinion seems to be shared by others, for various State Tract Societies are sending in orders for from 5,000 to 40,000 copies to use in their Conference for missionary work. Some societies send the Sentinel to all the editors in their State, others to lawyers, doctors, and educational men, while some distribute the papers among all that can read English.
The January Sentinel contains: "The Illinois Sunday Convention," "Principles, Not Parties," "A National Reform Ally," "Freedom in Religion," "The National Sunday Convention," "Sunday-law Arguments," "The Amended Sunday Bill," "Our Position Again Stated," etc.
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New England—N. E. Tract Society, Mrs. E. T. Palmer, Sec., South Lancaster, Mass.
New York City and Brooklyn, N. Y.—T. A. Kilgore, No. 43 Bond St., New York.
New York State—J. V. Willson, Sec., N. Y. Tract Society, 317 West Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y.
New Zealand—International Tract Society, Turner St., off Upper Queen St., Auckland, N. Z.
North Carolina—N. B. England, Newton, Catawba Co., N. C.
North Pacific—N. P. Tract Society, Charles A. Wyman, Sec., Box 18, East Portland, Or.
Norway—Sundhedsbladet, 74 Akersgaden, Christiania, Nor.
Ohio Tract Society—L. T. Dysert, Sec., 440 Floyd St., Toledo.
Pennsylvania Tract Society—L. C. Chadwick, Sec., Cor. Hepburn and Fifth Streets, Williamsport, Penn., Box 2716.
South Africa—International Tract Society, No. 5 Scott St., Cape Town.
Switzerland—Imprimerie Polyglotte, 48 Weiherweg, Basel.
Tennessee—J. H. Dortch, Springville, Henry Co., Tenn.
Texas Tract Society—T. T. Stevenson, Sec., Denton, Texas.
Upper Columbia—U. C. Tract Society, Mrs. L. A. Fero, Sec., Box 523, Walla Walla, W. T.
Vancouver Island—Bernard Robb, 14 Third St., Victoria, B. C.
Vermont—Lizzie A. Stone, 409 South Union St., Burlington.
Virginia—Amy A. Neff, Quicksburg, Shenandoah Co., Va.
West Virginia.—Mrs. Nelia M. Stone, Clarksburg, W. Va.
Wisconsin Tract Society—S. D. Hartwell, 1029 Jenifer St., Madison, Wis.