p. 15 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 9. (2/27/1912)

Arrested for Distributing Mormon Books

By Editor

Two men were arrested recently in Plainfield, New Jersey, for distributing Mormon books. The charge was, “Violating peace and good morals.” The trial was adjourned to February 26. We certainly have no faith in Mormonism, but we would like to know on what grounds they could be arrested. It will be of interest to learn the outcome of the trial.

A National Christian Church for China

The question of a national Christian church for China is being agitated. Dr. Sun Yat Sen is said to have given his endorsement to it. Humanity seems to be so constituted that it likes to try the same experiments over and over again, even tho those experiments have always met with failure. It would seem, however, that the past experiments with national or State churches ought to be sufficient.

Causes of Domestic Discord

There were 3,883 persons arraigned in the “Domestic Relations Court” of New York City during the year 1911. In commenting on these cases [[FIGURE]] Miss Rose McQuade, the probation officer of the courts, said:

“The chief source of discord between married people that sends them to our court is the mother-in-law. The second source of trouble is drinking on the part of the husband, and slovenliness on the part of the wife. But underneath it all is the vital fact that the average weekly wage of the men arraigned here is between ten and twelve dollars.”

Renowned Women Join Catholic Church

Mrs. Henry W. Taft, sister-in-law to the President, and Mrs. Post, sister of Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt, are two renowned women that have renounced their former religion and accepted the Catholic faith during the last two weeks. So says a despatch dated February 14. Bernard Vaughan, the famous Jesuit priest from England, is said to have brought about both “conversions.”

The Unseen Empire of Finance

Dr. David Starr Jordan, in speaking recently on the subject of war, stated that the kings of finance have it in their power to prevent war by refusing to loan money to the war-ridden nations. He spoke of those financiers as “The Unseen Empire of Finance.”

Antiforeign Sentiment in China

The antiforeign sentiment is said to be growing in China. The Japanese have landed a large force at Dalny because of the threatening situation in Manchuria.

The Sources and Outlets of Intemperance

By B. G. Wilkinson

HE road to wealth, in the eyes of King Alcohol, is through the enslavement of the nation. To prey upon the weaknesses of men and to buy and sell them as slaves, is plainly designed or not fully understood by all the advocates of strong drink. The liquor lord intends to buy his automobile by selling to his weak neighbor a potion which impoverishes. And if he can not secure this advantage from his neighbor, he seeks to ensnare his neighbor's child. Thus throughout the land there is formed a great conspiracy against your boy and my girl.

We are informed that on one of the main streets of Chicago there are twenty saloons that have annexes in which to entertain children and teach them to love the liquid that is sold in the main barroom. It has been well said, "Sow a thought, and we reap an action; sow an action, and we reap a habit; sow a habit, and we reap a character; sow a character, and we reap a destiny." It is the business of those men who seek to exploit their fellow men, always to fasten upon their brothers some habit which will turn out to the schemer's advantage.

A street-car company in one of the leading cities of Oklahoma was unable to make the operation of its lines pay. So the company advertised free rides for several months. It was very convenient for the citizens, even if they were only going one or two blocks, to hail a passing car and ride free of charge that distance. But unconsciously to themselves they were forming a habit. At the end of the time advertised, the street-car company announced the end of its free rides, and charged the people the regular fare. The lines ever since have been a success, for the people of the city had formed a habit.

Away down in the tender years of childhood the agencies of the drink traffic are at work.

Neither have the distillers or the brewers forgotten the youth. In the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, it is reported that the brewers have passed out amongst the school children tickets which entitle them to so many glasses of beer free of charge at certain saloons. The church desires to secure the youth; the public schools seek to mold the youth; and the saloon is fastening her ravenous eyes upon the same. The age of youth is the time of life in which to form the sentiments of the growing man; for then the mind is like wax to receive and like marble to retain impressions.

Physiologists tell us that the body is composed of a certain number of cells, which we break down by the millions through every action we perform, and which are built up again during the hours of rest throughout the night, with the tendency to perform the action through which they were broken down. Thus we run the hands lightly over the piano keys in the endeavor to learn how to play the instrument. Countless cells are broken down. As we sleep the following night these cells are restored, with the tendency and the aptitude to pass skilfully over piano keys.

The rumseller knows this. Fix upon the youth, he thinks, an irresistible thirst for drink, and we have secured to ourselves for the future the control of the man. The welfare of our homes is involved in these devices; the future lot, whether for weal or for wo, of wives and children is at stake in the contest against the liquor element. It was related by one we know, that one morning he stood on the platform of a suburban station of New York City. As he was waiting for his train he saw a lady, heavily veiled, come pushing a baby carriage onto the platform, followed by two little children. She appeared to be in trouble. He had only to wait a few minutes to learn the cause of her distress. A big express rolled in, the vestibule doors of one of the coaches were thrown open, and a gentleman came to the bottom step. The lady lifted her veil, and turning to her little children kissed them fondly. As she passed them up one by one to the gentleman, who received them and took them into the coach, she sobbed continuously. The train swept out. The lady drew down her veil, and started to leave the station with her baby carriage.

The gentleman turned to one of his acquaintances and asked if he knew the history of this case. "Why, yes," replied his friend, "of course I do. She married one of the most brilliant lawyers in the place. But the day came when he took his first glass. He became a heavy drinker, and later a pronounced gambler. He lost his practise, his business, and his standing. He consumed all his money, his house and lot, and all his possessions, on his degraded appetite, and finally in despair he committed suicide. The wife endeavored to keep the little family together in order to continue as their mother, but being forced to surrender in the struggle, she was obliged to pass on her children to a friend, who took them this morning to rear them as his own."

Such is the influence of the first drink. Such may always be the outcome of the glass when it is received. But further than that we may note for a moment what is the influence of the drunkard. An inquiry was recently conducted in the United States, relative to the heredity of good and evil qualities, by the superintendent of destitute children in the Province of Manitoba, and the following are the facts concerning the contrast presented by the descendants of two American families named Edwards and Jukes. We quote from a contemporary newspaper:

Jonathan Edwards, an honest, hard working man, was born in Connecticut, in 1703. Research made in 1900 brought to light the record of 1,394 of his descendants. Of these 13 had been presidents and 64 professors of universities, 60 doctors of medicine, 100 ministers of religion, 75 officers in the army and navy, 60 authors, 80 public officials, 3 senators, 1 vice-president of the United States, 1 president of a great shipping company, several were governors of States, members of Parliament, mayors or ministers plenipotentiary. Thirty-three American cities and ninety-two towns, outside of several foreign countries, had profited by the beneficent activities of this family, no member of which was ever sentenced for any misdemeanor.

Max Jukes, born in 1720, was an idle drunkard. Of his descendants 310 died in hospitals, 300 perished during infancy, 440 from venereal diseases, 400 became ill or infirm as a consequence of their vices, 50 were notoriously immoral, 7 committed murder, 60 passed on an average of twelve years in prison, 130 were sentenced for more or less frequent or grave offenses. None of the descendants of Max Jukes contributed to the general prosperity. On the contrary it has been calculated that this family has cost society about $1,200,000.

Happily it appears to be extinct. [It still exists. Ed. S. of T.]

Unfortunately, many times those who love most these tempted ones, unconsciously co-operate with the liquor conspirators. Many mothers, like those of Southern France, believe that their children should begin to drink wine as soon as they are born. "I hate my mother," cried a once promising young man, in one of his moments of sanity, as he was dying of delirium tremens, "for she it was who fed me on liquor from my infancy. And now my life is cursed." This is putting the child on the road to intemperance direct.

But it is in the indirect method that the home coöperates with the saloon. The liquor dealers are seeking to produce in the youth a demand for alcohol. Unconsciously many mothers are doing the same. They load their tables with spices, condiments, mustards, horseradish, and similar fiery articles such as the saloon-keeper works into the food he puts on the free lunch counter near the bar. "We must have something which will give the appetite a twist," cries the one in charge of the cooking. And the appetite gets twisted; it gets crooked. Mothers, clean off your tables of the false appetizers, then your Johns and Henrys will not seek the gilded bar to continue the process of stimulation begun at home.

The shelves of the medicine closet need converting just as much as the shelves of the pantry. You may find the soothing sirup there containing, as soothing sirups usually do, about one half grain of morphin to every two ounces of the drug. Leaving behind the natural use of the products which nature so thoughtfully provided for us in hours of extreme pain, the human race has gone to the intemperate use of cocaine and morphin in the hours of peace. Every tenth person we meet is addicted to the use of these drugs. "If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?"

Many statesmen and temperance reformers cry out against the sale of beer, containing two to five per cent alcohol, and yet are silent regarding those patent medicines which are charged with a greater amount than that. Alcohol coming from the drug store is just as deadly as the alcohol which comes from the dram-shops. One medicine firm is reported to use 450 barrels of whisky each week.

Another feeder to the saloon is the tobacco shop. For tobacco using is just as sure a violation of the principles of temperance as excessive drinking. Many authorities, especially in the case of the cigaret, claim that it is worse. "If ignorant smokers were not permitted," says one writer, "to blow poisonous smoke into the lungs and hearts of dimpled babies, we would save ninety per cent of all that die of infantile paralysis and tuberculosis." Tobacco fumes contain a deadly poison which is destructive to the blood-cell, and in fact to all cell life. "Bees, birds, frogs, and other small animals die when exposed to the fumes of tobacco in a confined place. Tobacco smoke causes Bright's disease, insanity, color blindness, and inclines to drunkenness even those who are hard to poison."

By these and by many other sources, the general tendency of the age is to set man in the path toward intemperance. The whole constellation of rum conspirators seem to stand forth as the one set of pirates who grow big by consuming the people of the earth. Tho they are not the only aids of intemperance which ought to be aggressively assaulted, nevertheless they are a difficult foe to dislodge. Drive the saloon interests from one position, and they soon marshal all their arguments and forces to entrench themselves in another. No license they would like; low license they long have had; and now they are battling hard to maintain themselves under the arguments of high license.

But what is their record? Chief Justice Coleridge, of England, said, "If we could close the dram-shops of England, we should do away with three fourths of our pauperism and nine tenths of the crime."

"If the dram-shop is responsible for three fourths of the pauperism and nine tenths of the crime," says the Rev. H. H. French, "then at its door must be laid the cost of three fourths of the pauperism and nine tenths of the crime. The items of cost are police courts, jails, prisons, almshouses, and asylums. Does any one imagine for a moment that a license fee, however high, meets a tithe of the expense of those items? and even if it did, would you perpetuate an evil on condition that it pay for itself? Apply this principle to murder, stealing, highway robbery, and so on, and the absurdity of it appears at once. . . . The mayor of Philadelphia comes out and declares that the saloons decreased under the high license from 5,789 to 1,340. This seems to be overwhelming. But when we consider that this Brooks law is operative in the whole State, and that there was decrease in forty counties, increase in twelve, and no change in the rest, and that in the whole State aside from Philadelphia the decrease was only 890, the result is not so overwhelming."

No argument whatever can ever justify the existence of the saloon. It is a foreign body which has thrust itself within the living organism of the State. It will never be condemned by its friends. If this foreign body is to be ejected, the work must be done by the energy of those who have been enlightened to the conditions of things.

That work can never be done, however, by easy methods, or by leaving the task to the hands of others. It will need earnest labor, it will need sacrifice, it will mean hard work on the part of those who stand as defenders of the homes and of the future of our commonwealth. But if the people of God, if those who despise the vain things which charm mostly the multitude, are to accomplish this task, they must enter into it with all their heart; they must be enthusiastic; they must bring to bear upon the issue their great moral as well as social weight. They must be in earnest, like the lad to whom a gentleman addressed this question: "How much do you weigh, bub?" "Well," replied the young boy, "ordinarily I weigh about ninety pounds, but when I get dead in earnest I weigh a ton."

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne; But that scaffold sways the future, And behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, Keeping watch above His own.

Something of Our Own Work

Annual Meeting of the Pacific Press Publishing Association

THE eighth annual meeting of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, the reorganized company, was held according to appointment at the office of the association at Mountain View, California, Monday, January 22, 1912. This would have been the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the old company that was reorganized.

The president, H. W. Cottrell, in his annual address, called attention to the marked care of our heavenly Father over the institution and its employees. Among other interesting things he said:

That purpose for which this institution stands is the greatest thing in the world to-day. It stands for the world-wide proclamation of God’s Spirit-filled Gospel message in its final and thrilling setting as penned in Rev. 14:6-14.

Financial prosperity has attended our work during the year. The total retail business for the year, including books, papers, tracts, etc., was approximately $400,000.

With careful and economical management on the part of directors, and the continuation of the prosperity of the last two years, the near future will put the institution out of debt. And I hope under God that we may soon reach the time when the entire net gain of the plant may be invested in the publishing work for the extension of Gospel truth in those fields beyond, where the millions of people are groping their way in midnight heathen darkness; and to this end we labor on.

Treasurer’s Report

The treasurer’s report showed that not only had faithful work been done to increase the volume of business, but earnest and continual efforts had been put forth to economize and reduce the cost of production. The volume of business in 1910 amounted to $388,000; the volume of business in 1911 amounting to over $397,000, a gain in the volume of business of over $9,000, and all, too, on denominational work exclusively. The interest-bearing debt

showed a marked reduction. At the present time the assets, including real estate, plant and equipment, and supplies at Mountain View, California; Kansas City, Missouri; Portland, Oregon; Calgary, Alberta, Canada, amount to $296,903.67. The liabilities amount to $155,426.40, leaving the present worth of the association January 1, 1912, $141,477.27.

The association has recently purchased a lot and erected an office and storehouse in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and has also purchased a lot in Kansas City, Missouri, on which they have decided to erect a new office building.

General Manager's Report

From the general manager's report the following is extracted:

My report could be summed up in the brief statement that the past year has been not only one of the most prosperous, but the most prosperous year in the history of the institution, both as to volume of business and financial gain. Therefore we have every reason to be devoutly grateful to our heavenly Father for His prospering hand that has been with us, and we trust that this evidence of His love may lead us to renewed consecration to His service.

FINANCES

Over fifty car-loads of paper, binding material, etc., were used in the printing and manufacture of books, tracts, and periodicals last year — averaging more than one car-load a week, and costing $68,764. This exceeds the amount purchased during 1910 by nearly $13,000.

BOOK DEPARTMENT

Ever since the fire in 1906, the book department has shown a steady gain in volume of business, and this year it amounts to $285,000, including the sales at our branch offices.

We attribute this steady gain to more thorough organization, a better corps of trained workers, and a higher standard of attainment.

NEW PUBLICATIONS

The following new books have been published during the past year: Acts of the Apostles, Great Controversy (revised), Last-Day Tokens (revised), Steps to Christ, Spanish (revised and illustrated), Questions and Answers.

"SIGNS OF THE TIMES" WEEKLY

A total of 1,620,700 copies of the weekly SIGNS OF THE TIMES were printed and circulated during the year.

MONTHLY "SIGNS OF THE TIMES MAGAZINE"

The total circulation of the Signs of the Times Magazine for the twelve months was 381,216, a gain of 42,133 over the preceding year.

"OUR LITTLE FRIEND"

The circulation of Our Little Friend for the year was 694,795.

SPIRITUAL INTERESTS

We are aware of the fact that all satisfactory growth, prosperity, and success center in spiritual things, and we are glad to be able to report that nearly all connected with the office are earnest, devoted Christians. During the week of prayer special services were held in the various departments, and it was a season of great spiritual revival, every person expressing himself as desiring to renew his consecration to God or to give his heart to Him.

We also feel thankful for the union and harmony that has prevailed throughout the various departments, and the hearty cooperation of all in trying to carry out the plans and purposes of the institution. And especially do we feel grateful to conference officers and our brethren and sisters throughout the field for the interest they have taken in the circulation of our literature, and also to our splendid corps of earnest, devoted canvassers, who have done so much to help bring about this satisfactory showing. May the coming year be one of still greater prosperity.

Resolutions Adopted

Resolutions were adopted expressing gratitude to God; requesting the General Conference Committee to give the SIGNS OF THE TIMES consideration when selecting a medium for the next Harvest Ingathering campaign; approving the continuance of the plan of issuing the SIGNS OF THE TIMES in series of twenty-five; looking to an increased circulation of the Signs of the Times Magazine, also Our Little Friend; the use of one tenth of our net profits to assist in our publishing work in the great Orient; and concerning proper educational and moral standard for those who are accepted as employees in the office.

The articles of incorporation and by-laws were amended to provide for a board of seven directors, with an additional advisory board of nine members, the personnel of which is as follows:

H. W. Cottrell; C. H. Jones; H. G. Childs; M. C. Wilcox; H. H. Hall; A. O. Tait; B. M. Shull; G. A. Irwin, president Pacific Union Conference, S. D. A.; R. A. Underwood, president Northern Union Conference, S. D. A.; E. T. Russell, president Central Union Conference, S. D. A.; C. W. Flaiz, president North Pacific Union Conference, S. D. A.; H. S. Shaw, president Canadian Union Conference, S. D. A.; E. E. Andross, president Southern California Conference, S. D. A.; E. W. Farnsworth, president California Conference, S. D. A.; C. L. Taggart, president Northern California-Nevada Conference, S. D. A.; J. H. Behrens, president Central California Conference, S. D. A.

The following organization was effected at the first meeting of the newly elected Board of Directors: president, H. W. Cottrell; vice-president and general manager, C. H. Jones; secretary and treasurer, H. G. Childs; auditor, J. J. Ireland; manager book department, H. H. Hall; manager periodical department, G. C. Hoskin; manager Kansas City Branch, James Cochran; manager Portland Branch, J. F. Beatty; manager Canadian Branch, W. V. Sample; editor SIGNS OF THE TIMES weekly, M. C. Wilcox; associate editors, A. O. Tait, L. A. Reed; editor Signs of the Times Magazine, L. A. Reed; associate editors, M. C. Wilcox, A. O. Tait; editor Our Little Friend, Miss K. B. Wilcox; associate editor, Mrs. Vesta J. Farnsworth; publishing committee, H. H. Hall, M. C. Wilcox, H. W. Cottrell, E. W. Farnsworth, A. O. Tait, L. A. Reed, C. H. Jones, J. O. Corliss, H. G. Childs, J. R. Ferren, F. H. Gage, G. C. Hoskin.

Bibles

By Editor

Bibles.—Remember that we are headquarters for anything in the Bible line. We shall be pleased to send you our catalog of Bible selections on application. Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal.

Underwood Standard Typewriter

QUALITY—NOT PRICE

In buying a typewriter the price should be the last consideration. There are many cheap typewriters on the market and many price cutters after business in the effort to survive. The UNDERWOOD is sold strictly on quality and is worth what you pay for it. It is a mechanical masterpiece, and in ease of operation, speed, accuracy and durability, is unequalled.

"The Machine You Will Eventually Buy."

133 Sutter St., San Francisco, Cal.

California Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association

The fifteenth annual meeting of the California Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association will be held at Sanitarium (chapel), Napa County, California, Wednesday, March 13, 1912, at 12 o'clock M., for the election of four or more directors, the consideration of the advisability of amending, repealing, or adopting new by-laws, and the transaction of such other business as may legally come before the meeting.

H. W. Cottrell, President. J. B. Giddings, Secretary.

For Sale

Ten acres of land, part in fruit, good pasture, balance under cultivation. Near church and school, good buildings. Also painter's trade, established eight years. Will teach trade to buyer free. Address Charles Dessain, R.F.D. 5, Box 71, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.

Free Sample of E-Z Washing Tablets

Mrs. J. Valentine, Salem, Oregon, writes:

"One lady to whom I sold a quarter's worth of your Washing Tablets came a few days later and took $1.50 worth. Said she never saw anything like it."

You will say the same if you try it. Send your name and address on a postal and receive a free sample. Address Alfred Mallett, 721 H St., Sacramento, California.

Bees for Sale

I desire to sell as soon as possible my prosperous bee business located in the famous honey district of Honey Lake Valley, Lassen County, California.

Honey crop never fails in this valley. Reason for selling — I desire to devote all my time to missionary work. If interested write Hayden Gilstrap, 47 Wilson Avenue, San Jose, California.

Two Farms for Sale, one thirty, one forty acres. Buildings on each, wood, pure soft water, mild climate, choice fruit, well-distributed rainfall, near railroad, good markets. Will sell separately or together. Reason for selling — called to Cuba. Address George M. Brown, R.F.D. No. 1, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Pages from

Christian Science

and Divine Healing

The revised and enlarged edition of former "Christian Science" pamphlet

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE # 7 # Christian Science and Divine Healing ## In the Light of Reason and Revelation # CHAPTER ONE ## Creation, Sin, Atonement In the investigation of Christian Science, every person should be fair-minded enough to bring its claims to the same test that the noble Bereans did when the apostles brought to them new light and truth. Acts 17:11. We are admonished, however, by the inspired Word, not to believe every message that may come, without putting it to the test of the Bible. In 1 John 4:1-3 we are exhorted: "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God; and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God."

By what means, then, shall we test the teachings of Christian Science? Answer: "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isa. 8:20. Not all that claims to be Christian is found to bear the genuine stamp of Christianity. Nor is all that is claimed to be science worthy of the name; for we read of a "science falsely so called: which some professing have erred concerning the faith." 1 Tim. 6:20, 21.

In view of the fact that many are led to accept the faith of Christian Science without a knowledge of what its teaching involves, I wish to present to the reader some of the plain statements of Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and compare the same with the teaching of the Bible. If the claims of Christian Science are founded on the doctrines of Christianity and the facts of science, then every lover of Christianity and science should accept its teaching. If it is not founded upon the word of truth, it should be rejected and exposed. We should test the doctrines of Christian Science by the word of Jesus Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega of Christianity, and the Author of all laws by which true science is discovered and maintained. John 1:3; Heb. 1:2, 3.

To be entitled to bear the name "Christian," one must believe in the religion of Christ, and conform to the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Him. We shall test by this simple rule the claims of this teaching to the name "Christian." True science is a revelation of what is truth. Christ, the Author and Source

(Facsimile of pages much reduced)

CHAPTER NINE

Divine Healing

Is divine healing a Bible doctrine? Is there need for healing? May we experience a miraculous healing of the body? These questions are clearly answered both in the Bible and by human experience.

While so-called Christian Science claims to heal, and for this reason the doctrine is accepted by thousands of afflicted people as a panacea for all the ills of life, at the same time Christian Science teaches that there is no such thing as disease, sickness, or death, that no one in reality is sick. All pretended Christian Science healers are enjoined never to admit that any one is sick.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," edition published in 1905, page 447, we read, "Expose and denounce the claims of evil and disease in all their forms, but acknowledge no reality in them." Speaking of a patient, the same author says, "In her belief, the woman had chronic liver complaint and was then suffering from a complication of symptoms connected with this belief." Page 389. "Deformity . . . is not real, but is illusion, the mirage of error. . . . Man in science is neither young nor old. He has neither birth nor death." Page 244. "Truth makes no laws to regulate sickness, sin,

Would you not like to have, with these, the other 109 pages of this work in form to study for yourself, and to pass on to friends who may be investigating? Seventy-eight pages deal with the principles of Christian Science from the standpoint of Scripture, in chapters: Creation — Sin — Atonement, Christian Science and Pantheism, Spirits, The Holy Spirit, Heaven, Spirit and Matter, Christian Science's Claim to Heal, Wresting the Scriptures, Christian Science and Spiritualism.

The chapter on "Divine Healing" contains twenty-four pages, and is followed by a review of the entire subjects.

The pamphlet is well printed, attractive, and bound in substantial, heavy paper. Fifteen cents, its price, will bring it post-paid to you, or direct to each of the persons to whom you may request it mailed. Fine cloth binding for library, 50 cents. Make up your list at once, and send to your tract society.

(Prices 10% higher in Canada)

Pacific Press Publishing Association

Mountain View, California 1109 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. Calgary, Alberta, Canada 61 Park St. N., Portland, Oregon

Editorial Staff

By Editor

Editor .................................................................... Milton C. Wilcox Associate Editors ..................................................... A. O. Tait L. A. Reed

Address for Manuscripts and Business

By Editor

Manuscripts should be addressed to the editor. Address all business and make all money-orders, etc., payable to the Signs of the Times, Mountain View, Cal.

Notice About Unsolicited Papers

By Editor

N. B. We send no papers from this office to individuals without pay in advance. When persons receive copies without ordering them, they are sent by other parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of the SIGNS are not indebted to the office, and will not be called upon to pay for them. Please read the papers you may receive, and hand them to your friends to read.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES

By Editor

Three months ................................... $0.50 Six months ........................................ .90 One year (50 numbers) ........................ 1.75 With "Questions and Answers" ............... 2.00

Subscription Rates and Offers

By Editor

1. One new yearly subscription and one renewal, or two new yearly subscriptions, sent at one time, $3.00.

2. Two new yearly subscriptions and one renewal, or three new yearly subscriptions, sent at one time, $4.00.

3. Three new yearly subscriptions and one renewal, or four new yearly subscriptions, sent at one time, $5.00.

Sample copies sent on application.

Weekly and Monthly SIGNS one year, combined, $2.25.

DATE OF EXPIRATION

By G. C. Hoskin, Circulation Manager

The SIGNS wrapper bears date of last issue due on your subscription. Unless renewed in advance, paper stops with expiration date.

If herewith is an order-blank, you will know you have overlooked sending renewal. You will not wish to miss a single issue. Back numbers often can not be furnished.

G. C. Hoskin, Circulation Manager.

IN THREE DAYS

SAN FRANCISCO

Overland Limited

TAKES YOU

To Chicago

ACROSS GREAT SALT LAKE

AND

HIGH SIERRA BY DAYLIGHT

Luxurious High-class Equipment

Electric Lighted Throughout

Pullman Drawing-room Stateroom Vestibuled Sleeping-cars Careful and Attentive Dining Service Parlor Observation-car with Library and Cafe Ladies' Reading-room Gentlemen's Smoking-room Daily News Bulletins Latest Papers and Magazines

Southern Pacific

Continue reading: Some Strong Statements and Pertinent Questions