Signs of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 12.
"COME YE, BUY AND EAT."Page 1
Earlier text: THEN SHALL THE SANCTUARY BE CLEANSEDFINANCIAL STANDING OF THE ARKANSAS TRACT SOCIETY.
By W. G. Smith
STATEMENT showing the financial standing and business transactions of the Arkansas Tract Society, from its organization, May 21, 1888, to January 1, 1889:—| Invoice, May 21, 1888, |
$176 63 |
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| Liabilities, May 21, 1888, |
108 14 |
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$ 68 49 |
| Cash donations rec'd to Jan. 1, |
346 50 |
| Total amount capital stock, |
$414 99 |
| Stock in hand, |
$308 26 |
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| Office supplies, etc., |
32 28 |
| Accounts receivable, |
317 40 |
| Cash in hand, |
137 40 |
| Total amount of assets, |
$795 34 |
| Bills payable, |
$202 78 |
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| Deposits, |
158 73 |
| Total amount of liabilities, |
$361 51 |
| “ “ assets, |
795 34 |
| “ “ capital stock, |
433 83 |
| Increase of capital stock, |
$18 84 |
The following business has been transacted:| Total amount mdse. received, |
$1,408 47 |
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| “ “ cash “ |
1,251 10 |
| “ “ sales mdse., |
1,199 18 |
| “ “ cash paid on mdse., |
1,043 68 |
| “ “ profits on sales, |
118 87 |
| Loss on freights, |
$12 44 |
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| Postage, |
21 08 |
| Stationery, |
4 36 |
| Rents and sundries, |
22 50 |
| Expenses borne for canvassers, |
39 65 |
| Total, |
$100 03 |
| Profits, less expenses, |
$18 84 |
W. G. SMITH,
Per M. T. E. To drink and thirst again is the disappointment of the world. To drink and never thirst is the portion of the gospel. "My blessed hope," said a dying Christian, "is worth a thousand worlds. This is the grand discovery—the summum bonum indeed. God would have us rejoice in our labor—enjoy our earthly blessings, but not rest in them. Let earth be the cistern only, not the fountain. Let its best blessing be loved after him, for him, as the sunbeam of his love. Let nothing of earth be our rest. God never intended so poor a portion for his redeemed ones. Our rest is built upon unchangeable promises. Meanwhile the real joy is when God is the center, and the Saviour (as one of the German Reformers beautifully expresses it) is to us the treasure and the key of all the good things of God.—Bridges. Principles for Christian Living
By Golden Rule
THERE are some persons who are constantly asking for special rules of life. They would have an individual Bible with particular instructions for each hour of their lives; but Christ dealt with great principles which are to be the basis and motive of all action, and from these, with the aid of his Spirit, we are to draw out our own applications. Repentance and Faith Together
By Robert Traill
Repentance without faith is the devil's repentance, and faith without repentance is the hypocrite's faith. If they be true they go together; if rightly acted they act together.—R. Traill. TOMMY'S GEOGRAPHY LESSON.
TOMMY came home from school with a cloud on his usually bright face. Auntie put her arm about her boy, and asked him how he had fared at school, and if he had been perfect in all his lessons. Tommy knit his brows in a puzzled way, and said, "I knew every one except my g'og'aphy, an' I didn't know that at all. It seems zif I can't remember how the old maps look, and when Miss May asked me if there were any mountains in New Hampshire, I couldn't remember to save me. I don't s'pose I'll get the prize, just because I can't learn g'og'aphy. If I could only go up in a balloon, and look down on the world, I could see for myself where the mountains an' lakes an' such things are, an' then I'm sure I wouldn't forget." This speech of Tommy's on behalf of learning geography by means of a balloon voyage set auntie's wits to work. She was anxious to help the little fellow gain the prize he was striving so hard for, and if maps would not answer, some other way of learning his geography lesson might be thought of. After a second or two she said, "Suppose we play that we are in a balloon, how would that do?" "Jolly!" exclaimed Tommy. "But then," the smile fading a little from his rosy lips, "I don't know that I could learn my lesson any better even if I did put my map on the floor, an' stand on a chair to look at it." Auntie laughed and said, "That isn't my idea. If you will help me, we will soon be able to look down on something much nicer than a map." "All right!" promptly returned Tommy, as he snatched up his hat, and stood ready for any command. "Has the pile of sand been taken away that I saw a little further down the street yesterday?" asked auntie. "No'm; I saw it when I came past just now." "Then tell cook to give you the two-quart tin pail, and go ask the men if you may have it twice full of sand." In a flash Tommy had gone, and almost before auntie was ready for him he was back again. "Auntie!" he shouted; "Auntie!" "Here, Tommy!" answered a voice from the direction of his play-room, and rushing in, Tommy found his aunt pinning a large sheet to the carpet. "Pour the sand right in the middle of the sheet, and go for more," and again auntie bent to her work. When Tommy came back the second time, the sand was smoothed out on the sheet until it was about an inch deep all over. The second pailful was put in a pile by itself a little way from the rest. "Now what'll I do?" demanded Tommy, becoming more excited as the mystery deepened. "Bring your atlas," said auntie, "while I look up a few things I think will be useful." The atlas was close at hand, and Tommy waited rather impatiently while auntie returned with a bunch of wooden tooth-picks, a handful of flat button moulds of different sizes, a sheet of writing paper, and a pair of scissors. With the scissors auntie commenced cutting the paper into slips about one inch wide and three inches long. "Now get the mucilage, and show me your geography lesson for to-morrow, Tommy," she said. The lesson proved to be questions on the map of the New England States, especially New Hampshire, and auntie, picking up the wooden tooth-picks, began to form with them the outlines of the State. "Oh, my!" exclaimed Tommy. "I know what you are going to do. Let me help." "To be sure you may help; but put your map in front of you, and shape your State as nearly like that as you can," said auntie, as she broke the piece of wood in her hand to form a sudden little curve in the coast line. Pretty soon, leaving Tommy to lay the outline of New Hampshire by himself, auntie took up one of the slips of paper she had cut, and pasted one end of it neatly around one end of a tooth-pick, forming a little flag. This proved satisfactory, so she made several more. "I wish I could make this look like water," Tommy remarked, after a short silence, as he laid down the sticks for the boundary between New Hampshire and Vermont formed by the Connecticut River. "Well, so you can," auntie replied. "Have you any narrow strips of glass?" Tommy jumped up, drew forth a box from among his toys, and set it down in front of his aunt. In the box were a great many narrow strips of glass of various widths and lengths, which the glazier had left, after fitting a number of panes in a window. Beside these there were some old bits of broken mirror. "This is just what you want, Tommy," auntie said. "Make your rivers of these strips of glass, and here is a nice large piece of looking-glass for Lake Winnepesaukee, and you can shape it by bringing the sand over the edges." "What fun!" exclaimed Tommy. "Let me put it in now." "Don't you think it would be better to finish the outline of your State first?" remonstrated auntie. "Yes," said Tommy, "I will. I'll put in the Connecticut and the other river, too, and I can pile up real mountains, can't I? Why, I ought to know the White Mountains 'cause I was there last summer, but perhaps I was too close to 'em to see where they were." Tommy went on tracing out the river courses with his bits of glass, building up mountains with the extra sand, placing the lakes, and chatting merrily all the while. When he had about finished he suddenly cried, "Auntie, we've forgotten the cities!" Auntie smiled a little as she said, "Is this the first time you have thought of them?" Then she produced the flags, upon which she had written the names of the cities given on the map, and, choosing the largest button moulds for the principal cities, and smaller ones for the less important, she looked on the map, found the exact spot for a city, and laid a button mould on it. Then, taking the little flag that bore the name of the city, she pushed its staff through the hole of the button mould into the sand. This held the flag erect and kept the city in its place. Tommy arranged the other cities, and as he planted the last flag-staff, auntie said:— "Now, we will ascend in our balloon and take a bird's-eye view of New Hampshire." "What's a bird's-eye view?" Tommy asked as he struggled to his feet, and stood by auntie's side. But his question was forgotten when, gazing down, he saw beneath him one of the United States in miniature. He danced and capered around, shouting: "Hooray! I'll go up in a balloon every time to learn my g'og'aphy lesson. I won't forget again that the Connecticut River is between New Hampshire and Vermont, 'cause I put it there myself. What a goose I was not to know the White Mountains were in New Hampshire! Don't they look cunning, auntie? just like the real ones, only they haven't any snow on top, but I know what I'll—" Auntie did not hear the rest of the sentence, for Tommy dashed out of the room, to return directly with something held tightly in his chubby hand. This something proved to be salt, which he proceeded to drop carefully, a little at a time, on the top of his mountains. "There!" he exclaimed triumphantly, as he straightened up, "now they really are the White Mountains, and have snow on the top, just like the ones I saw." "Yes," said auntie, "that was a bright idea, and it does look like snow. Now we will pretend we are up in a large balloon looking down on the State of New Hampshire." Then they looked down and talked of the cities they saw, calling each one by name, and remarked upon the peculiar shape and more peculiar name of the largest lake, and what course the rivers took as they passed through the State. Several times Tommy descended from his balloon to make some slight alteration in his work, and once he pasted a red star on the flag of the capital "to make it different from the other cities," he said. When they gave up the sport, Tommy had learned his lesson; and you may be sure he never forgot it, for "I made the State myself," he proudly stated to his teacher the next day.189 After this first delightful experience Tommy learned all of his geography lessons with the aid of his sand, and when papa returned, after a two months' absence, he was so pleased with his little boy's progress in the study which had been such a stumbling-block, he had the tinsmith make a large, shallow tin pan three feet square and three inches deep, especially to hold Tommy's sand. The glittering new tin bottom of the pan represented the ocean nicely when islands were to be made, and also when countries to be represented had a coast line. The other advantages of the pan were that it could be set upon the table, and the sand could be left in it and need not be emptied into a box, as it had to be when the sheet was used.—Youth's Companion. WHAT can a mother's heart repay
In after years,
For watchful night and weary day
Beside the cradle passed away,
And anxious tears?
To see her dear ones tread the earth
In life and health and childish mirth. What can a mother's heart repay
For later care—
For words that heavenward point the way,
For counsel against passion's sway,
And earnest prayer?
To watch her little pilgrims press
Along the road to holiness. This will a mother's heart repay,
If that loved band,
Amidst life's doubtful battle-fray,
By grace sustained, shall often say,
"Next to God's hand,
All of true happiness we know,
Mother, to thy dear self we owe."
—Selected. Health and Temperance.
By Editor
It seems that the wine growers of this State are in a rather despondent mood because their wines do not find a ready market at good prices. In fact, there has been an overproduction of wine in California, and at a recent meeting held in San Francisco in the interest of viticulture it was plainly stated that if the business was to live and thrive on this coast "the people must be educated to drink wine"! Commenting on this the California Prohibitionist says:— The first fact that is patent from the proceedings is that there is an oversupply of wine. "There is wine in abundance, but there is no outlet for it," says Mr. McIntyre. And how is it proposed to remedy this state of affairs? Ordinarily, a surplus of any commodity is rectified by curtailing the production. But such political economy as this is not to the taste of the wine producers. "A market must be developed." How? By transforming the vine into some more useful and desirable commodity? Not at all; such methods may do for ordinary economists, but the master mind of Hon. Charles Wetmore, Viticultural Commissioner, rises above such mediocre plans of thought and action, and proposes a plan which shall be both heroic and effective. "The people will have to be educated to drink wine." The sunny slopes and the verdant valleys of our fair State are to be prostituted by unscrupulous or unthinking men to the base use of producing an article which degrades and debases all who use it, and then when the people of the State and the country refuse to respond to the wiles of the wine maker, they must forsooth be compelled to do so, under the guise of being "educated." And how are the people to be thus educated? Do the wine makers propose to themselves bear the expense of providing missionaries and preachers of their "grape gospel"? By no means. They cannot afford it, poor fellows, in the face of an oversupplied market. But what they are not willing to do for themselves they want the people of California, through their representatives, to do for them. "Mr. McIntyre laid particular stress upon the necessity for legislative aid to the wine men." Mr. Portal also "called attention to the need of legislative assistance by the wine men." Mr. Wetmore also spoke of "the need of legislative assistance." And for what? To remunerate them for destroying their vineyards? No; to sustain a State saloon, where people may be "educated to appreciate wine," and to pay Miss Kate Field, "who is doing so much good on the lecture platform in the East." And for this purpose at least $30,000 a year is required. The English language fails to supply words of sufficient force to fitly characterize the brazen and unblushing impudence and effrontery of men who could be capable of making such requests on such grounds. They have gone into a business, hoping to profit from the debased appetites of their fellow-men. But in their greed for gain they have produced more than the demand justified; and now, instead of bearing the results of their own grasping policy, they whine and cry for legislative assistance. And what does that mean? Why, that every man, woman, and child in our State, no matter if they are not addicted to the use of wine themselves, no matter if they have pledged themselves before God to touch not, taste not, handle not, must help to make a market for the crime-causing products of a class of grasping pets of the commonwealth. Out upon such men, and such legislation! Let the sober, clear-thinking citizens of our State protest so loudly and longly and emphatically, at home, through the press, and at the polls, against such an abominable iniquity as State aid to the wine makers that the Viticultural Commission will be abolished, the State saloon closed, and Kate Field and her ilk, who are willing for hire to debase the appetites of a nation under the mask of temperance, will be relegated to the obscurity where they belong. [To all of which the SIGNS says, Amen!] Alaska Awaits Election Returns
FEW people have any idea that there is a section of the United States where the result of the presidential election will not be known until July, 1889, eight months after the official returns are published to the world. Such is the fact, however, says the Alaskan. The settlers of St. Michael's, the Sea Islands, and those domiciled along the banks of the Lower Yukon, will remain in uncertainty as to the outcome of the contest until after the midnight sun has come and gone during the midsummer of next year. Even the denizens of Kodiak and Ounalaska will have to wait patiently for the news until the end of March, there being no communication whatever between San Francisco and those settlements during the winter months. Verily, to bury one's self in these outlying portions of the national domain is exceedingly like living entirely out of the world.—Selected. The Origin of Brother Jonathan
WHEN General Washington, after being appointed commander of the army of the Revolutionary War, went to Massachusetts to organize it, he found a great want of ammunition and other means of defense, and on one occasion it seemed that no means could be devised for the necessary safety. Jonathan Trumbull, the elder, was then governor of the State of Connecticut, and the general, placing the greatest reliance on his excellency's judgment, remarked: "We must consult Brother Jonathan on the subject." The general did so, and the governor was successful in supplying many of the wants of the army; thenceforward, when difficulties arose, and the army was spread over the country, it became a by-phrase, "We must consult Brother Jonathan." —Gleanings for the Curious. The Emperor’s Strict Family Regimen
By Editor
To the youthful readers of our journal who may think that rulers, or the children of rulers, have an easy time, we commend the following for their consideration. It is a picture of a part of the life of the imperial family of Germany:— “The Emperor rises at five o'clock. He makes his children share his own severe régime. The Princes are roused at 6 o'clock, and often breakfast with their father at 6:30. Their lessons begin at 7 o'clock. The Crown Prince has just obtained his first grade in the army, having been appointed Gefreite, a position similar to that of Corporal. He has now his own suite of rooms and household. Twice daily he is instructed in military drill with his brothers. He is allowed one and a half hours daily for play. This scheme of lessons and life for each hour is rigidly executed.” The Romans, under the republic, were prohibitionists after a fashion. Men of honorable family were forbidden by law to drink wine before the age of thirty, or to drink to excess; while for a woman of any condition, free or slave, to touch wine except on some solemn occasion, as a sacrifice, was an offense visited by severe penalties. It seems that the old Romans had not discovered that wine-drinking promotes temperance. The "gospel of the grape" is of modern invention, and instead of being in the interest of sobriety, is in the interest of wine growers and dealers. Tobacco Consumption in Europe
According to the Uhlands Wochenschrift, the total tobacco consumption of Europe is about 2.25 pounds by each inhabitant. In the Netherlands the proportion is a little over 7 pounds to each inhabitant; in Austria-Hungary, 3.8 pounds; in Denmark, 3.7 pounds; in Switzerland, 3.3 pounds; in Belgium, 3.2 pounds; in Germany, 3 pounds; in Norway, 2.3 pounds; in France, 2.1 pounds; in Sweden, nearly 2 pounds; in Spain, 1.7 pounds; in Great Britain and Ireland, 1.34 pounds; in Italy, 1.25 pounds, and in Russia, 1.2 pounds. In the United States the proportion is said to be greater than that of any European country except Holland—4.25 pounds per inhabitant. The greatest revenues derived from tobacco are those of France, Great Britain, Austria-Hungary, and then Spain and Italy. Belgium’s Excessive Drinking
The Belgians have gained the unenviable reputation of being the heaviest drinkers in Europe. Official statistics show that each person, women and children included, consumes two hundred and forty quarts of beer, and thirteen quarts of spirits, annually. To such an extreme has the bibulous habits of the people been carried that the Government has become seriously alarmed at the situation, and restrictive measures are to be put into operation. The right to collect by legal process debts incurred in drinking houses has been abolished; it is forbidden to sell drink to persons under sixteen years of age, and to sell anyone liquor until he is drunk, is made a crime. —Saratoga Union. —The city of Rome has twenty-two places of Protestant worship. —The only colored Episcopal Church in New York, St. Phillip's, was dedicated Sunday, Feb. 24. —A New England church is mentioned which spends $3,000 a year on its choir, and only $150 on missions. —Stern's "Statistics of the World" gives the number of Catholics at 201,000,000 and Protestants at 106,000,000. —A French missionary in Tunis says that the most shameless drunkenness reigns among all classes of Mussulman society there, notwithstanding the Koran prohibits the use of wine to the followers of Mohammed. —March 15 information was received at Fort Smith, Ark., of the murder of Deputy United States Marshal W. A. Moody in Indian Territory by men whom he was trying to arrest. Moody is the sixteenth deputy killed in the Territory within a year. —It is stated that missionaries stationed in every quarter of the Chinese Empire, and representing all the mission boards in the United States, have joined in a petition to President Harrison for the retention of Col. Charles Denby, of Indiana, as American Minister in China. —The New York Tribune is authority for the statement that the Rev. Peyton G. Bowman, formerly a well-known Methodist minister, has modified his faith, and has published "numerous writings on the subject of Christ's pre-millennial coming and conditional immortality." —At a meeting held not long since at Scandinavia, Wisconsin, the representatives of all but one of the Norwegian church bodies in America united upon a basis for organic union. A constitution was adopted, and a new general church body organized, to be known as "The United Norwegian Lutheran Church in America." The participants in this new movement are the Norwegian Conference, consisting of 100 pastors, 204 parochial school-teachers, 384 congregations, and 30,221 communicants; the so-called anti-Missourian of the Old Norwegian Synod, consisting of 110 pastors, 150 congregations, and 30,000 communicants; the Hange Synod, consisting of 60 pastors, 100 congregations, and 8,000 communicants; the Augustana Synod, consisting of 30 pastors, 100 congregations, and 3,500 communicants. —According to the London Truth, there are in that city seven livings, having an aggregate annual income of $74,500, and an aggregate resident population of 2,724. The incumbents add, in some cases, considerably to their stipends by letting the residences which belong to them, and one of these, having been turned into offices, brings in $5,000 a year, and another $3,500. On the other hand, there are seven East-end livings, just outside the city boundaries, which have an aggregate annual income of $9,100, and an aggregate resident population of 85,131. The living of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, which is in the gift of the Merchant Tailors' Company, is worth no less than $12,500 a year, the population being 431; while St. Andrew's, Undershaft, held by the Bishop of London's assistant, has an income of $12,000, and a population of 327. —It is said that Blaine advocates an extra session of Congress. —Paper is now used as a covering for lead pencils, instead of cedar. —Constitutional prohibition has been defeated in New Hampshire. —The actual value of the real estate in New York is said to be $18,000,000,000. —Hon. John F. Swift, of San Francisco, has been appointed Minister to Japan. —Twenty lives were lost in a colliery explosion at Wrexham, Wales, on the 13th inst. —Owing to the civil war raging in that republic, flour now costs $20 per barrel in Hayti. —Five men were instantly killed by a boiler explosion in Pittsburg, Pa., on the 14th inst. —An epidemic of scarlet fever is raging in De Lapere township, Lincoln County, Dakota. —Parnell has brought suit against the London Times for £100,000 for defamation of character. —About 35,000 tons of twine are now used annually in the United States on self-binding harvesters. —A boiler explosion in a St. Louis mill on the 10th inst. instantly killed two men and badly scalded another. —Heavy rains in various parts of California caused floods, washouts, and landslides on the 12th and 13th insts. —It is thought that the new navy yard which it is proposed to establish on this coast will be at Tacoma, Washington. —The yield of corn in the United States in 1888 was 2,000,000,000 bushels, or thirty-two bushels to each inhabitant. —There is in this country nearly 250,000 Indians, exclusive of Alaska. Some 5,000 of these live in the State of New York. —It is claimed that New Hampshire will give 7,000 majority against the Prohibition Amendment soon to be voted on. —The Government has decided to establish a quarantine station at Hospital Cove, Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay. —Sir Edgar Vincent, in his report upon his tour of inspection in Upper Egypt, declares the Soudan to be in a state of famine. —It is stated that illiteracy is increasing more rapidly among the white citizens of Louisiana than among the colored citizens. —An attempt was recently made in Mexico to murder President Diaz by wrecking a railroad train on which he was traveling. —Six thousand persons were present at a recent reception to Parnell, in London, given in honor of his triumph over the Times. —President Cleveland vetoed 278 bills during his term, 157 more than all his predecessors from Washington up to the present time. —Anti-slavery societies have been formed in many of the chief cities of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Spain and Portugal. —The Pennsylvania railroad system makes the creditable record of losing only three pieces of baggage, out of 5,000,000 pieces handled in 1888. —Delphi, where once stood the famous Temple of Apollo, has been offered to the Americans for £16,000, for the purpose of carrying on excavations. —It is stated that the Governor of the Province of West Prussia, in view of the scarcity of farm hands, has suggested the introduction of Chinese labor. —Patrick Fochry, of Rochester, New York, celebrated his 107th birthday on the 16th inst. He was born in Kings County, Ireland, and is a very active man for his age. —The Pennsylvania Railroad is arranging to connect New York and Philadelphia at the rate of a mile a minute. Distance, eighty-eight miles; present time, two hours. —A number of dynamite cartridges, fulminating caps, and three bottles of nitro-glycerine, were found by the police at the Garfield Park gate-house at Chicago on the 13th inst. —Lady physicians are permitted to practice in Russia, but it is stipulated that they shall only attend on adults of their own sex, but are permitted to attend children of either sex. —March 14 Robert Sigel, son of Gen. Franz Sigel, charged with irregularities while a clerk in the Pension Agency at New York, pleaded guilty before the United States Commissioner. —A soldier has been sentenced to death in Oran-Algeria, for throwing a quid of tobacco into the face of Colonel Thierry while Vertjoie was being tried by a court-martial for attempting to desert. —England's "oldest" clergyman, Rev. Bartholomew Edwards, is dead. He lacked but a week or thereabouts of being a century old, and had been rector of one church for seventy-six years. —Araba Pasha, who made so much trouble in Egypt some years ago, and who was transported to Ceylon, is allowed free liberty of the island, and the guard about his residence has been withdrawn. —A gang of robbers recently visited several farmers in the vicinity of Uniontown, Pa., and by torture compelled them to give up all the money that they happened to have by them. Fire was the argument used. —Four boys, aged about sixteen years, stole a quantity of blasting powder at Akron, Ohio, and started into the country to explode it. On the way the powder was ignited from matches in the pockets of one of the boys, and exploded, frightfully burning all four. —John A. Kasson, of Iowa, William Walter Phelps of New Jersey, and George H. Bates, of Delaware, were appointed on the 14th inst. Commissioners to represent the United States at the Conference to be held in Berlin concerning affairs in the Samoan islands. —The Russian Government has been pushing forward the new defenses at Vladivostok, in the Pacific, for some time, and now a sum exceeding 5,000,000 roubles is to be sent for the defense of that place. Several large guns and a quantity of ammunition will be shipped from Odessa next month. —Charles Ashburner has submitted to the United States Geological Survey a statement showing that the total product of iron and coal of all kinds has increased from 129,975,557 short tons in 1887 to 145,363,744 tons in 1888. The value in 1887 was $182,556,837, which increased to $208,129,806 in 1888. —A passenger train on the Trans-Caspian Railway, Russia, was, on the 10th inst., thrown from the track in a tunnel, owing to the removal of rails by train wreckers. The result of the derailment was frightful. The killed and injured numbered fifty. The band of robbers who tore up the track was captured. —Several Chinamen have been arrested in Milwaukee charged with debauching young white girls. As a result of the charge the windows of nearly every laundry in the city were broken and several Chinamen narrowly escaped lynching. In some cases the personal effects of the fleeing laundrymen were destroyed and the United States Government will be asked to pay the damages. —An Auckland dispatch of the 14th inst. states that everything is quiet in Samoa and that there was no basis for the sensational rumor of the engagement between the Nipsic and the German corvette Olga. The proclamation of martial law has been publicly withdrawn, and the Germans have abandoned all claim to the right of searching incoming vessels for contraband of war. Appointments.
By John Norton Loughborough
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA CAMP-MEETING.
The annual camp-meeting for Central California will be held (D. V.) at Fresno, from Tuesday, April 2, to Monday, April 8. This will be preceded by a workers' meeting, to commence March 27. It is desirable that as many of our people as possible come to the camp, so as to have the benefits of the workers' meeting. In addition to the usual features of the workers' meeting, there will be one hour each week-day devoted to practical instruction in hygienic cooking. We wish to state that those who will impart this instruction in cooking have attended a thorough course at the School of Domestic Economy in Battle Creek, Mich. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, for CAL. CONF. COM. SHEFFIELD.—Died at her home in Peoples Township, Boone County, Iowa, January 16, 1889, of dropsy, Mrs. Ann Sheffield, wife of E. S. Sheffield, aged 60 years, 3 months, and 28 days. Mrs. Sheffield has been a devoted and loving wife, a kind and affectionate mother. In 1853 she, with her husband, became believers in the faith of the near approach of the second coming of Christ, and the unchangeableness of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, made a public profession of their faith, and put on Christ by baptism. Her faith remained firm to the end, and a short time before her death, after the singing of some hymns by the family, among which was, "Trusting Jesus; That Is All," she said, "Sing that over again." A husband, three sons, and three daughters survive her, and, together with a large circle of friends, mourn for her, but not as those having no hope. JOHNSON.—Died at Healdsburg, Cal., February 23, 1889, of consumption, Sister Sylvana Johnson, aged 82 years. At an early age Sister Johnson gave her heart to God, and for many years she lived a worthy and consistent member of the Methodist Church. Seven years ago her attention was called to the Sabbath, and the truth of the Third Angel's Message, which she readily accepted. After baptism she united with the Healdsburg church, and was a constant attendant to all the services, until health failed. She bore her affliction with Christian fortitude, and died as she had lived, an example of true devotion to her heavenly Master. "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." Words of comfort were spoken to a large congregation of sympathizing friends by Brother Isaac Morrison. WM. INGS.