IN the cable cars the other day I sat between two men on the down trip and between two bright boys on the home trip. A description of these environments will show why I was gloomy in one case and very buoyant and happy in the other. The man on my right was well dressed, wore an oilcloth coat (as it was raining) and a pair of spectacles which gave him the look of a German student. He was rather pale; seemed well-bred; was above the average for attractiveness, and I felt well satisfied with my seat-mate. But I was surprised to see him lean forward and discharge from his mouth an amazing large quantity of tobacco saliva. There were a number of ladies opposite. I observed them wince. But in spite of their distress he kept visiting the innocent floor with the wretched results of his mastication of black plug tobacco. He made of a dry place a pool. It seemed as if he must have swallowed the contents of a blacking box. What wonder that I was disappointed in my seat-mate? My first impulse was to say to him, "My dear sir, your expectoration is odious;" or, "My friend, don't you think that nicotine has deadened your nerve of politeness?" or, more pungently, "Sir, you are a hog." But I said nothing, except to myself. I said to myself, "Here is a fatal breach of manners. This well-dressed man is making himself wholly obnoxious. This is a question of manners rather than of tobacco. This is not the right way to chew tobacco." The best way to chew it is to eschew it.
The man on the left was a dignified, business-looking man. He had brown hair and a stylish goatee, well kept, I thought he might be a banker or a railroad magnate. He seemed a trifle solemn. "The cares of business," thought I. It was a relief to turn to this gentleman from my salivating companion on the right. I noticed his hand trembled in hunting for his nickel. I looked into his face. There was a dull, dreamy aspect of his eye. An amber shade was observable on his nose. He turned his face toward me—oh, misery! This solemn, dignified, impressive stranger's breath was almost strong enough with the fatal fumes of alcohol to light it with a match. It dawned upon me that he was just lordly drunk and nothing else. What a place to be in! I felt wedged in between two national vices until I almost screamed. On the right I seemed to hear the rumbling of a million jaws, grinding and munching, pressing out by muscular contraction the juice of the weed. I saw a million street-car floors, hotel floors, sitting-room floors, even church floors, bespattered with noxious pools, and disgusted faces of women mutely drawing back their skirts in their disgust. On the other hand I saw the black genius of alcohol rise in mist till he seemed to fill the whole car. I heard the gurgling of a million bottles; I saw the great giant's hand of drunkenness stretched out to clutch the whole land; I saw the drink bill of the nation blotted with widows' tears and smirched with orphans' blood. I felt crushed between the upper and nether millstone, alcohol and nicotine.
How wholly the scene was changed when on the home trip two bright and innocent boys sat on either side of me. These boys scattered the gloom for me and made the world look bright again. Their minds were not muddled. Their faces were not discolored by deep potations. Their breaths were not reeking with Gehenna odors so that no woman could kiss them without taking chloroform. God bless the boys, clean and pure! And by what process is that innocent boyhood changed into such manhood as I have described? They are eagerly pressing on to the future, but better that they should always be boys than that they should grow up—or rather grow down—to a manhood without manliness. When and how is the ink of vice first spilled on the white page of childhood? May all the holy angels shield the boys from contamination! I am sure that the solution of the tobacco question and that greater question of strong drink is with them. Mothers and teachers, pastors and relatives and friends should form a wall around the innocency of childhood. If the tares cannot be plucked out from the middle life, we can at least keep old Apollyon from sowing in the soul of boyhood the seeds of drunkenness and ill manners.—G. H. Grannis, in Advance.
INFLUENCE OF TEA, COFFEE AND COCOA ON DIGESTION.
DR. JAMES W. FRASER has recorded the result of an interesting series of experiments on the action of our common beverages on stomachic and intestinal digestion. The experiments have been most carefully arranged from a physical standpoint, and give us some valuable hints on the digestion of the chief alimentary principles. They are of much value in showing how standard preparations of the peptic and pancreatic ferments are modified in action when our ordinary daily beverages are allowed their free action on the digestion of various articles of food.
The digestive processes were carefully investigated, and absorption was imitated by a proper dialyzing arrangement. An artificial peptic juice, and afterward an artificial pancreatic juice, were employed, and the amount of nitrogenous matter dialyzed was carefully estimated. The food stuffs experimented on were raw and cooked serum and albumens, syntonin, albumen, casein, gluten, starch, and oleine. The results obtained show that all the three typical infused beverages—tea, coffee, and cocoa—retard the digestion and absorption of all the nitrogenized proximate principles of dietetic substances when peptic and pancreatic digestion are taken together, and that they uniformly retard peptic digestion, although tea may assist the diffusion of peptones from the stomach. Pancreatic digestion is also uniformly retarded, and diffusion thereafter is but rarely assisted, so that neither of them compares advantageously with water as a standard beverage for experimental investigations.—Selected.
Joy Between Two Clouds
Joy is a sunbeam between two clouds.
General Grant’s Honesty
WHATEVER the faults which are attributed to General Grant may be, they must ever be eclipsed by the virtue of his strict honesty and sterling integrity. In the dark ways of political intrigue or financial trickery he never entered; at the very door his upright soul revolted. Circumstances illustrating this frequently come to light.
Admiral Ammen has lately given out for publication a private letter from General Grant, in which he states that he is in receipt of an offer from Seligman, the great financial agent of De Lesseps, of the New York presidency of the Panama Canal, with a salary of 125,000 francs per annum. This he refused, giving as a reason that while he would be glad to be associated with the success of an inter-oceanic canal, he could not connect with what he regarded as a failure, and where those who intrusted their means must be losers. Personally he could lose nothing, his salary was secure, but to his honor be it said that he held the injury which might come to others before his own advantage and turned away from the allurement.
SECULAR.
—A recent fire at Myngyan, Upper Burmah, destroyed 2,500 buildings.
—It is said that an English syndicate is negotiating for the purchase of the Gatling gun patents.
—A vast amount of damage has resulted recently in Hungary, Austria, and Russia from floods.
—For the first time in the history of that country, a Socialist has been elected to the Holland Parliament.
—High water in the Delaware River stopped all the mills in South Easton, Pa., for several days last week.
—A railroad accident near Oswego, Or., on the 22d inst. injured twelve persons, one of them fatally, it is thought.
—Two freight trains collided in a snow-shed on the Central Pacific near Colfax, March 19. Four men were killed.
—Sailors are so scarce on the Pacific Coast that ship captains find it very difficult to secure crews to man their vessels.
—Three mining prospectors were wantonly murdered recently by a band of Kootenai Indians in Washington Territory.
—The English Government will, it is stated, ask Parliament for £5,000,000 (nearly $25,000,000) under the Ashbourne Act.
—The Kentucky State treasurer has absconded after robbing the commonwealth of about $250,000. A reward of $5,000 is offered for his arrest.
—The Carson, Nevada, Mint will not be closed as had been decided. The increase of business is such as to warrant the department in keeping it open.
—A solid vein of black lead ore, said to be the largest deposit of the kind found east of the Rocky Mountains, has been discovered near Gainesville, Ga.
—High water on the Upper Missouri River, in Montana, has been doing considerable damage sweeping away bridges and carrying off cattle, hay, and wood.
—Commodore Robert B. Hitchcock, of the United States Navy, died at New York on the 24th inst.
—Extensive preparations are now being made at San Francisco for the reception and entertainment of those who attend the National Educational Convention.
—March 23 a collision wrecked two passenger trains on Erie Railroad forty miles from Pittsburgh, Pa. Only one man was killed and but nine seriously injured.
—The secretary of the interior has instructed the attorney-general to institute suit against the Northern Pacific Railway Company for cutting timber on public lands in Washington Territory.
—Chief Justice Waite, of the United States Supreme Court, died suddenly on the 23d inst. at his home in Washington City. Judge Waite was appointed chief justice by President Grant, January 20, 1874.
—Reports from Spain state that there has been great suffering among the people in the rural districts owing to the severe weather. Many of the peasants perished in the snow, and cattle and sheep were lost in drifts.
—Two quite wealthy men, citizens of Durango, Col., were arrested a few days since and taken to Kansas, charged with a murder committed in that State twelve years ago. The evidence against them is said to be very strong.
—Mying Yan, an important military post in Upper Burmah, was destroyed by fire a few days since. Fifteen thousand people were rendered homeless, and an immense quantity of grain, hides, and other property was destroyed.
—The surplus in the Texas State Treasury will soon amount to $3,000,000, and the Governor has announced his intention to call an extra session of the Legislature for the purpose of making some disposition of the money.
—Nevada County, Cal., has recently been the scene of a series of dynamite and incendiary outrages, which were perpetrated by miners who had no other grievance than that the mine owners refused to discharge certain non-union miners.
—On the 21st inst., a very severe storm swept over several of the Southern States. In parts of Tennessee, Georgia, and West Virginia the storm assumed the character of a cyclone; considerable damage was done to property, and several lives were lost.
—A dispatch dated Berlin, March 18, states that the whole northern and eastern portion of Germany has been visited by a severe snow-storm. There is so much ice that communication with Sweden has been suspended for ten days and with Denmark for six days.
—Disastrous floods are reported throughout Hungary. Thirty villages have been ruined, and the town of Szathmar-Nemeth partly destroyed. The towns of Bekes and Csaba are menaced, and the inhabitants are struggling for their lives against the overflow of the river Koros. Many houses have fallen.
—March 21, the dome of the National Capitol was struck by lightning. The entire building was shaken to its foundations, and a great many people in the rotunda and galleries were very much frightened for a few moments. A great deal of telegraphic apparatus was destroyed by the strength of the current, but no other damage was done.
—Later advices fully confirm the worst reports of destructive floods in Hungary. The Szamos River has destroyed Fehargyarmot and thirty-nine villages. The Raab has inundated six villages in Oedenburg, near Pesth. A famine prevails in the Schult district. At Pressburg, 2,000 persons are being relieved by the Government.
—March 20 and 21 the Northwest was again visited by a very severe snow-storm. The cold was intense and in some sections the snow drifted badly. Railroads were generally blockaded throughout the storm-swept territory, and it is stated that on the 22d not a wheel was moving in the Upper Michigan peninsula except those propelling snow-plows.
—On the 20th inst., the Raquet Theater, in Oporto Portugal, was burned. The house was crowded and over one hundred lives were lost. A number of men in the second gallery acted like demons, using “their fists, shoes, and knives to cuff, kick, and slash their way to the front. Young girls, children, and women were literally butchered when they stood in the way of these brutes.”
—Maria Mitchell, the celebrated professor of astronomy at Vassar College, is seventy years old. She is the discoverer of eight comets, the discovery of one of which gained her a gold medal from the king of Denmark, and it is said that when she was a girl of eleven she made an accurate record of a lunar eclipse. She has received the degree of LL.D from three different institutions.
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ANNUAL MEETING.
THE regular annual meeting of the Society of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Oakland, will be held in the house of worship, corner of Twelfth and Brush Streets, Wednesday evening, April 4, 1888, at 7:30 o'clock. A full attendance of the members will be necessary in order that the proceedings may be in accordance with the law. By order of the president.
W. N. GLENN, Sec.
STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING.
NOTICE is hereby given that there will be a meeting of the stockholders of Healdsburg College Corporation at the South College building in the town of Healdsburg, California, on Monday, April 16, 1887, at 9 o'clock A. M., for the purpose of electing seven trustees of said corporation, for the term of one year, and for the transaction of such other business as shall be brought before said meeting.
W. C. WHITE, Pres.
W. C. GRAINGER, Sec.
SAN DIEGO QUARTERLY MEETING.
By William M. Healey
THE quarterly meeting of the San Diego church will, Providence permitting, be held in the new meeting-house, corner of Eighteenth and G Streets, beginning Friday evening, April 6, and continuing over Sabbath and first-day.
As there are a number of our people in this part of the State so situated that they cannot have the ordinances elsewhere, we cordially invite such to be with us on this occasion. We desire to see a general rally of the Sabbath-keepers in San Diego County at this meeting.
W. M. HEALEY.
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Obituary.
By White
IRWIN.—Rebecca Irwin, infant daughter of Sister Isabel Irwin, of Oakland, died March 14, of inflammation of the brain, aged fourteen months. The mother is comforted in her affliction by the hope that very soon her little one “shall come again from the land of the enemy.”
W.
BIBLE SANCTIFICATION:
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News and Notes.
By Editor
RELIGIOUS.
—It is said that in Illinois there is a population of between 500,000 and 600,000 wholly unreached by any regular religious ministrations.
—The General Conference (quadrennial) of the Methodist Episcopal Church will meet in New York City, May 1, in the Metropolitan Opera House.
—The first stone of the monument erected to the memory of John Williams, who was killed in the South Sea Islands, was laid by the son of the man who slew him.
—The reflex influence of foreign missions is illustrated by the fact that a young lady from Austria came last year to America to labor for the Bohemians in Cleveland, Ohio.
—Moravians have a noble missionary record. During the last century 25,000 of them have been sent to “the regions beyond,” while $300,000 have been expended yearly, and nine vessels been kept busy in the interests of missions.
—In Winnipeg, Manitoba, an Icelandic Lutheran Church was recently consecrated. The size of the building is 42 by 66 feet, and cost $4,000, and the pastor is Rev. John Bjarnason. There are said to be 2,000 Icelanders living in Winnipeg.
—The Spanish inquisition is not yet a dead letter, as may be learned from the fact that at Madrid, on the 12th inst., two Protestant Spaniards were condemned to six months’ imprisonment for having refused to kneel during the administration of the eucharist in a Catholic Church.
—The Chinese Evangelist will soon be issued in New York City. Mr. Yan Phou Lee, author of “When I Was a Boy in China,” Mr. Guy Maine, the son of a native Chinese missionary, and J. Stewart Happer, an American, born in China, the son of Dr. A. P. Happer, senior missionary of the Presbyterian Board at Canton, are to be editors.
—New York society is greatly stirred over a sermon by Dr. Morgan Dix in Trinity Church, in which the existing evils of society were too faithfully pointed out to suit the feelings of his fashionable audience. Many prominent clergymen say that the representations drawn by the doctor are true to the reality, and none too severe.
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NOTICE OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE RURAL HEALTH RETREAT ASSOCIATION.
(A CORPORATION.)
NOTICE is hereby given that a special meeting of the stockholders of the "Rural Health Retreat Association" (a corporation), will be held at the principal place of business of said corporation at the Rural Health Retreat Building at Crystal Springs, near St. Helena, Napa County, State of California, at the hour of nine o'clock, A. M., of the 6th (sixth) day of April, 1888, to consider the following propositions, viz. :-
First-To increase the capital stock of the "Rural Health Retreat Association" (a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California), from the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
Second-To amend the Articles of Incorporation of the "Rural Health Retreat Association" (a corporation formed and existing under the laws of the State of California), by adding a subdivision to be known as Subdivision 6th of Article II of the original Articles of Incorporation. Said Article II reciting the purposes for which said incorporation was formed, said subdivision 6th to read as follows, viz. :-
Sixth-To purchase, acquire, collect, and convey, ten (10) inches of water out of what is known as "Bell's Canyon," on Howell Creek, from a point just below a hydraulic ram belonging to W. A. C. Smith; located in the N. W. 1/4 of the S. W. 1/4 of Sec. 6, T. 8 N., R. 5 W., M. D. M., or other available points in this section; and Sec. 1, T. 8 N., R. 6 W., M. D. M., to conduct the same along such route or routes as are deemed most feasible and practicable (according to careful surveys made by the Company's engineers) to the said Rural Health Retreat, and to supply said Rural Health Retreat with all necessary water for the purposes of consumption, manufacturing, and irrigation, and also to supply the inhabitants of said village of Crystal Springs and vicinity with water for irrigation and domestic purposes, and to sell the water, and collect rates for the sale and use of the same.
Dated, Crystal Springs, Napa Co., Jan. 30, 1888.
Signed, J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH,
W. C. WHITE,
J. D. RICE,
W. A. PRATT,
A. B. ATWOOD,
Directors of the Rural Health Retreat Association
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Attest: J. FULTON, Sec'y.
HOME HAND BOOK.
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The Saloon’s Indictment
By Editor
The following indictment of the saloon is by Dr. Lyman Abbott:—
“As a deceiver and a liar it swindles the poor and rich; it creates the base and horrible appetite on which it lives; it is a breeder of crime and poverty beyond anything else; it corrupts juries and courts of justice; it fills almshouses and idiot and insane asylums; it makes orphans of children, and widows of wives, breaks up homes innumerable, robs men of their mental and spiritual worth; slavery never so robbed the workingman of his wages; Mormonism never so debauched womanhood, and struck so fatal blows at the home; it is a corrupter of the nation at the very source of its power.”
This is only a part of the charge which he brings against it, yet he advocates high license on the ground that “the saloon should be made to pay fully for the wrong it does.” Thereupon the Voice challenges the doctor as follows:—
“Now, will Dr. Abbott take pencil and paper and figure up for us just how high the license should be for the saloons ‘to pay fully’ in dollars and cents for these wrongs which it inflicts on society? Come, doctor, try your hand at it.”
In civilized countries it is not considered that money is an adequate compensation for a murder.
“Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.” The only way that the liquor traffic can do anything to atone for the wrong that it has done is to give up its life that the wrong may stop.
