How would any little girl who reads this like to be the only little girl in a whole town? To be sure Timberline wasn't a very large town; there were but three or four hundred people in it; but Maida Haven was the only little girl in the place.
Timberline was the name of a mining town, or camp, away up near the top of one of the most dreary and desolate of the Rocky Mountains. It was on the slope of the mountain just at the point where it was too rocky and barren even for trees to grow, and that was why they called it Timberline.
The houses were all of rough logs, and few of them had more than one room, with one door and one window. Mr. Haven, Maida's father, had built a rough little log-cabin about like the others, and had sent back to Ohio for his wife and little girl to come and live in it with him. Few of the miners and prospectors living in the new mining town of Timberline had sent for their families. They said that Timberline "wa'n't no fit place fer wimmin an' childern;" but Mrs. Haven insisted on being with her husband, and, as she was not very strong, the doctor said the bracing air of the mountains would do her good.
So one June day when the rumbling old stage slowly made its way up to Timberline, Mrs. Haven and Maida, then ten years old, were among the passengers.
Mr. Haven had not seen them for more than a year, and you may be sure they were warmly welcomed; and the novelty of their surroundings, and their joy at meeting Mr. Haven, made them think that Timberline was quite a pleasant little town, dreary as its every aspect was.
"What have you wrapped up so carefully in that paper?" asked Mr. Haven of Maida, soon after they arrived at the little cabin.
"That," said Mrs. Haven in reply, "is a little slip of heliotrope that the child just would bring with her all the way from home; she had a large, beautiful plant of it all in full bloom, and it was the only thing she cried about leaving. She teased so to bring a little slip of it that I put one in a little pot for her, and she has watched it all the way as if it were a baby. I told her I didn't think it would live in this climate."
"I don't know why not," said Mr. Haven. "We have sunshine here almost every day in the year, and the window of our cabin is on the sunny side. I'm glad my little girl brought it. A bit of something green growing in the window will brighten the old cabin up wonderfully, and it reminds me of the old home more than anything else could."
So Maida was very glad she had brought the bit of heliotrope, and it was wonderful how the little slip grew; for the sun came in, warm and bright, through the little window, almost every day, and the plant grew steadily.
It was never very warm away up there on the mountain-tops, but on the warmest days Maida set the little pot out on a flat rock before the door, where it grew and swayed gently in the soft mountain air. But it had to be taken in every night, for a heavy frost in midsummer was not an uncommon thing up there at Timberline.
Mrs. Haven hung a pair of snowy white curtains at the little window, and put the thrifty little plant between them, its dark, pretty leaves showing effectively against the white background.
It was the only plant there was in the town. The few women there were in the little, dreary camp, would go out of their way, as they went to and from "the store," to see the plant. It had "such a homey look," one of them said; and the miners going by the cabin noticed the flower, and some of them said to Maida,—
"Where'd you git yer posey, little gal?"
One of them offered her ten dollars for it; but she said, "No," very soberly, for Mr. Haven was a poor man, and ten dollars was a little fortune in Maida's eyes. The first bunch of delicate, feathery blossoms that came on the plant was cut off very carefully and tenderly by Maida, and carried to a neighboring cabin to lay in the tiny, waxen hand of a little baby boy who had lived but a week.
When the next blossoms came, a minister going over the mountains, in a missionary spirit came to Timberline, and began preaching in a deserted cabin. His pulpit stand was an inverted dry goods box with a colored table-cloth over it; and every Sunday, Maida's heliotrope, with its bunches of feathery flowers, added its charm and gracefulness to the little pulpit.
When October came, the plant, now tall and thrifty, was one mass of exquisitely beautiful and fragrant flowers.
One day the owner of the only valuable mine at Timberline came to the little camp. He brought with him his young wife, a handsome lady, who had begged to come to a real mining camp; and her husband had laughingly consented to bring her, warning her beforehand that she would have to "rough it" for the few days they were to stay in the place.
The day after their arrival she was taken dangerously ill. They sent twenty miles for a doctor, and did all they could for the suffering woman, but for several days her life was despaired of, and when she was at last pronounced out of danger, the doctors said it would be several weeks before she could be moved.
"She'll have a dreary time of it down there in that little old hotel," said a woman to Mrs. Haven.
"It is indeed a poor place for anyone to be sick in," said Mrs. Haven, "but I don't see how it could be fixed up much now. Her husband has sent to Denver for everything he could think of, but it'll be some time before they get here. I've been down and fixed things up the best I could."
It was an unusually warm day for October, and Maida's heliotrope was out on the flat boulder in the bright sunshine; she went slowly out to it, and said softly and earnestly:—
"Yes, you'll have to go. I don't know how I'm ever to give you up, but she's dreadful sick, and she needs you more'n I do; so you must go."
There were tears in her eyes as she said it, and the tears were still there, and her eyes shining, when, ten minutes later, the door of the sick lady's room opened softly, and Maida came in with the beautiful plant in her hands.
"Here," she said quietly, "I bring you this. They said there wasn't nothing pretty here; and this is pretty, ain't it? So I brung it to you."
"O John!" said the lady, "my favorite flower! Isn't it lovely! Where could the child have found it? And where did the dear little soul herself come from? I didn't suppose there were any children away up here. How beautiful the flower is! You are a dear, good, kind little girl to think of me."
"What is your name, little girl?" asked Mr. Lee.
"Maida Haven."
"Oh! you're William Haven's little girl? He works at the mine, and is one of our best men. I think you are your father's daughter. Well, you are a very, very kind and good little girl, and we shall not soon forget you."
You can't think how your flower brightens the room up," said the lady. "I do believe it has done me good already. You are a real little Samaritan, going about doing good, and you must come and see me again."
"A little Samaritan," Maida kept repeating to herself going home. She knew all about the good Samaritan of old, but could not understand how she had been in the least like him.
Hers was the good deed done without thought or hope of reward, the little kindness that does not, in our worldly way of thinking, count for much; but God sees it, and records it in the book of his remembrance.
The heliotrope came back to Maida again in a few weeks, when Mrs. Lee was well enough to go away. Its next wealth of blossoms was held in the hand of the first bride ever married in Timberline.
"I declare," said Mrs. Haven one day, "your heliotrope is a real missionary flower. I don't believe we can know just how much good it has done, or how much better it has made us and others in this dreary little place. It often cheers me up to see its feathery blossoms nodding out there in the sunshine."
Slips of the plant were given freely to all who asked for them, and soon there were plants in all the cabin windows where there141were women. Even two or three of the men living alone took slips, and cared for them. "It kind o' reminds a fellow of home," they said; and when men are far away from home and all its restraints, the things that bring home to their remembrance must be good and helpful and comforting to them, so that I rather think myself that Maida's flower was "a real little missionary."—J. L. H., in S. S. Times.
The Home Circle.
By Mrs. M. B. H. Hazen
PATIENCE.
DEAR heart, and does thy sail impatient wait
Upon the silent sea,
With not a breath of wind that, soon or late,
May waft thee safely to the harbor gate,
Where thou wouldst gladly be?
Be patient, heart, and wait thy time to go;
Be sure the hour will come
When either on the tidal ebb or flow,
Or when the winds may soft or fiercely blow,
Thy God will guide thee home.
'Tis easier far to reef thy fresh'ning sail
Upon a stormy sea,
To hold within thy hand the rudder frail,
And bravely face the coming of the gale,
Than safe and idle be.
Thy God, be sure, has set some task for thee,
All idle though thou art,
Some task whose outward form thou mayst not see,
Some work of hidden meaning, though to thee
It seem an idle part.
So heart, dear heart, be patient still, and wait
Upon the silent sea.
In God's own time the wind, or soon or late,
Will waft thee safely to the harbor gate,
Where thou shalt happy be.
—Mrs. M. B. H. Hazen, in S. S. Times.
IS IT ALCOHOL OR ADULTERATION?
ABOUT the only argument advanced or allowed by wine drinkers, and, in fact, by liquor men generally, especially distillers, against liquor drinking, is that of adulteration. If we could get the pure wines and liquors, say they, it would not work these evil results. It is the adulterations which poison. But this argument has no foundation in fact. The worst poison of all is alcohol. To ascertain the truth of this, the Christian Union employed an eminent chemist, Dr. Ledoux, who "has no superior in the country," to make some chemical examinations of different wines and liquors as sold in the second and third-class saloons of New York City. In his report of this examination he says:—
"It is a favorite argument of distillers that the evils of intemperance are largely due to impure liquors, and that pure articles do not produce injurious effects. And it is a favorite argument with temperance advocates to recite the adulterations of liquors and read the recipes for sophisticating them. But it is a fact that the flavors and colors used at the present day are either harmless or employed in such small quantity as to be fairly left out of consideration. They serve to increase temptation by making the liquor more attractive to eye and palate, but liquors manufactured and sold at the present time and in this city, so far as my tests go, are not injuriously adulterated by poisonous substances. Still, when the mechanic on the Bowery or the sailor on Water Street is crazed by drink, it matters little whether he bought a pint of pure forty per cent. alcohol brandy at ninety cents, or a quart of twenty-five per cent., flavored and diluted, at fifty cents: it is the alcohol he craved, and that which produces the effect."
Commenting on this report the Christian Union truly remarks:—
"The temperance reformer will find in it new evidence that it is not by drugs put into alcoholic liquors that the American people is being poisoned, but by the alcohol itself, and his efforts to rid the table of that poison will be intensified. With the temperance reformer's conclusion we entirely agree. It is alcohol, not foreign substances put into alcohol, that breeds crime, pauperism and death. It is alcohol, not the foreign substances put into alcohol, which is the Ishmael of our society, whose hand is against every man, and who should be banished by law from the public street, and by public opinion and an enlightened conscience from the private table and the social circle."
"THE MAN IN THE OFFICE KNOWS."
By W. D. Westervelt
SOME visitors were passing through a Colorado smelter. Men were wheeling ores of different kinds and colors into the large furnace-sheds. Yellow lead-carbonate, rich, glittering galena, green malachite, blue azurite, and dark iron ores, all combined in different proportions with silver and gold, were crowded in one upon another. The minerals were from all parts of the Rocky Mountains, now brought together in a variegated heap weighing hundreds of tons.
The visitors went on to see the furnaces. There the mixed ores were being cast into the yawning mouths of the fire-pits. Limestone and fuel were also thrown in to feed the fire, and to aid in separating the metals from the dross. A laborer was asked the question, "Why do you mix everything in this way?" The reply came, "That we may have the best results. We can do better with mixed ores than we can by smelting them separately." "By what method do you get the best results?" He answered, "The easiest and cheapest ways of separating the metal from the slag." "What will the metal be worth? What will be the real result of the work?" "We cannot tell. The man in the office knows."
The visitors passed on. They saw the precious metals drawn from the furnaces and placed in molds. They went into the room where the bullion bricks were taken from the molds and piled up for shipping to a refinery. The men in the bullion room were asked the question, "How much is this bullion worth?" The answer came, with a smile: "We sometimes tell the visitors what we think it is worth; but the man in the office knows."
Here is a large smelter, employing many men who carry on their work by faith, not knowing the results any more than those who have served God "not having received the promises [the results], but having seen them afar off." Men are ordered to wheel the ore and dump it on the floor. They unquestioningly obey, not knowing the value of what they handle. Men stand at the mouths of the many furnaces, and throw in fuel and flux and mineral, as they are directed, without asking a question about the worth of the metal that is drawn off in the room beneath them. Other men handle the bullion as they would handle so many bars of pig-iron, simply because they are ordered to do that part of the work. The full knowledge of the processes and results is not among the workmen. "The man in the office knows."
It is easy to see the absolute necessity of faith and obedience among the laborers in every machine-shop and foundry, as well as in every smelter of our land; and yet, now and then, one of these same laborers will question about rendering faith and obedience in the Christian life. It seems strange that any person should find difficulty in accepting this common-sense lesson of the Colorado smelter. The steady perseverance in trusting and serving God, must be infinitely more reasonable than the faith and obedience of "smelter men."—W. D. Westervelt.
Health and Temperance.
HOT MILK AS A STIMULANT.
THE New York Medical Record, under the head of "Natural Stimulants," says:—
Milk heated to much above 100° Fahr. loses for a time a degree of its sweetness and density. No one who, fatigued by over-exertion of body or mind, has ever experienced the reviving influence of a tumbler of this beverage, heated as hot as it can be sipped, will willingly forego a resort to it because of its being rendered somewhat less acceptable to the palate. The promptness with which its cordial influence is felt is indeed surprising. Some portion of it seems to be digested and appropriated almost immediately, and many who now fancy they need alcoholic stimulants when exhausted by fatigue will find in this simple draught an equivalent that will be abundantly satisfying and far more enduring in its effects. There is many an ignorant, overworked woman who fancies she could not keep up without her beer. She mistakes its momentary exhilaration for strength, and applies the whip, instead of nourishment, to her poor, exhausted frame. Any honest, intelligent physician will tell her there is more real strength and nourishment in a slice of bread than in a quart of beer; but if she loves stimulants it would be a useless piece of information. It is claimed that some of the lady clerks in our own city, and those, too, who are employed in respectable business houses, are in the habit of ordering ale and beer at the restaurants. They probably claim that they are tired, and no one who sees their faithful devotion to customers will doubt their assertions. But they should not mistake beer for a blessing, or stimulus for strength. A careful examination of statistics will prove that men and women who do not drink can endure more hardship and do more work, and live longer, than those less temperate.
We commend this hot-milk substitute for beer, recommended by so good a scientific authority as the Medical Record, to those weary and exhausted people who are accustomed to resort for fancied help to an alcoholic stimulant.—National Temperance Advocate.
Alcoholism and Increasing Insanity
LUNATICS have increased from 6,000 in 1870 to 10,000 in 1887, in one department of France, this increase being mainly attributed to alcoholism.
SACCHARINE PROHIBITED IN FRANCE.
THE following is an abstract of the preamble of the bill now before the French Chamber prohibiting the importation of saccharine into France: "The attention of the administration has been directed to a new coal tar product known as saccharine. This substance, which differs essentially in its elementary composition from vegetable sugars, possesses much greater sweetening power, a quality that was sure to lead to its being used as a substitute for sugar in many cases. We learned from our consular agencies abroad that factories were being established in certain countries for the purpose of bringing saccharine into competition with beet and cane sugar, not only in France, but also in other neighboring markets.
The high cost of that substance seemed to constitute an insuperable obstacle to its general adoption, but lately the situation has changed. It can now be more cheaply produced, and already it is extensively used, mixed with glucose, in the preparation of jams, sirups, and liquors. It has, therefore, become an urgent necessity to provide a remedy for the evil, in the interests of the customs receipts and that of the health of the consumer; for it has been shown by the report of Drs. Brouardel, Pouchet, and Ogier, in the name of the Consulting Committee of Hygiene, that saccharine, and the various preparations derived from it, are noxious to health, and ought to be prohibited. Wherefore, the Government has deemed it expedient to prohibit the importation of saccharine and saccharined substances."—Scientific American.
SECULAR.
—It is reported that Otto, king of Bavaria, is hopelessly insane.
—Small-pox exists to an alarming extent in Richardson County, Neb.
—Dr. W. W. Bliss, one of the Garfield physicians, died on the 21st inst.
—Cardinal Newman celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday on the 21st inst.
—James C. Flood, a wealthy Californian, died at Heidelberg, Germany, on the 21st inst.
—Editor O'Brien has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for violation of the Crimes Act.
—Joseph Cook is authority for the statement that $75,000,000 is employed in the liquor business in Boston.
—The wealth of the Vanderbilt family aggregates $274,000,000, from which they derive an income of $13,864,400.
—A new Cabinet has been formed in France with M. Tirard at its head. The Cabinet is decidedly anti-Boulangist.
—It is claimed that considerable numbers of Chinese are coming into the United States through British Columbia.
—It is said that £100,000,000 will be appropriated at the coming session of Parliament for the increase of the British navy.
—Numerous and very disastrous fires are reported from Japan. One conflagration at Ichibancho destroyed 1,000 buildings.
—A large portion of the town of Guerneville, this State, was destroyed by fire on the 21st inst. The loss was over $6,000.
—It is estimated that the cotton crop of 1888-89 will approximate, if it does not reach, the magnificent total of 7,500,000 bales.
—The potato crop of this country is estimated at 210,000,000 bushels, the largest ever harvested; hence the small shipments from abroad.
—The London Times has the figures to show that Spain has degenerated faster than any nation on earth—even faster than Patagonia.
—The British Parliament is again in session, having met on the 21st ult. The session promises to be one of the stormiest for many years.
—Prince Rupert, eldest son of Prince Ludwig, of Bavaria, heir to the Bavarian throne, is insane.
—One woman was fatally and several other persons seriously injured in Chicago on the 20th inst. by a locomotive running into a cable car.
—Horace Chase, superintendent of the Indian schools at Genoa, Neb., denies that he has been robbing the government, and challenges the proof.
—Twenty years ago there were ninety-two lightning rod factories in the United States. To-day there are but three, and those doing a trifling business.
—It is positively stated that three more German men-of-war—iron clads—have been ordered to Samoa. The Germans already have four vessels in Samoa waters.
—The Nova Scotian bark, Josie Troop, with a crew of seventeen men, was wrecked off Chicamicomico, N. C., on the 22d ult. Eleven of the crew were drowned.
—Twenty years ago, there was no Japanese public journal; now there are more than 500 periodicals—daily and weekly papers and monthly magazines and reviews.
—February 21, there was a heavy fall of snow followed by rain and sleet in several of the Southern States. The storm was especially severe in South Carolina and Georgia.
—Brooklyn, Ill., has recently had two well developed cases of hydrophobia. One of the victims, a boy of 16 years, was bitten by a dog, and while in convulsions hit his mother.
—The employés of the various canning houses in the State of Maryland receive $10,500,000 annually in wages. In all 35,000 persons are employed in this industry, including boatmen and dredgers.
—Ex-President Cleveland, on retiring from the Presidency, will make his home in New York City, and will resume the practice of law as partner in the firm of Bangs, Stetson, Tracy & Mac Veagh.
—It is stated that there are in the Chesapeake Bay 578,224,000 square yards of oyster beds, yielding about 10,000,000 bushels of oysters annually, and distributing about $2,000,000 among 50,000 people.
—The latest news from Hayti is to the effect that a serious conflict has taken place in which the army under Hippolyte was completely routed and 200 or 300 killed. It is also stated that Hippolyte has been killed.
—It is stated that famine prevails in the interior of Russia. The distress is greatest in Grenburg, where many persons are dying of starvation. Crops have been bad in the afflicted districts for the past four years.
—Coatesville, Penn., will soon have the largest steel-plate mill in the world. The rolls will be 34 by 120 inches, driven by a 36 by 60 Corliss engine. The fly-wheel will weigh 100,000 pounds, with a steel shaft eighteen feet in diameter.
—Water-gas is being used instead of coal for driving the machinery at the Leeds Forge Works, England. The cost of the gas delivered into the furnaces is eight cents a thousand feet, and the saving effected at this one mill is £10,000 a year.
—February 19, property valued at $1,000,000 was destroyed by fire in Philadelphia, Pa. The same day the machine shops, car shops, and locomotive house of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway, were burned in Cincinnati.
—The American Consul at Seoul, has written to New York that a terrible famine prevails in the southern portion of Corea. The people are reduced to the last extremity and many are starving. Need of assistance is urgent and relief funds should be called for.
—The bill for the admission of the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington Territory, has passed both houses of Congress. Dakota is to be divided on the line of the seventh parallel, proceeding due west to the western boundary of the Territory.
—An Ottawa dispatch of the 20th ult. says that the Dominion Government has been advised of the sale by the American authorities at Sitka, Alaska, of three British schooners—the Onward, Caroline, and Thornton—seized over two years ago for fishing in the Behring sea.
—Samoa, about which so much is said just now, is not the name of a single island, but is the native name applied to the islands that form the Navigators' group, about six hundred miles northeast of the Fiji Islands. The leading islands are Sawaii, Upolu, and Tutuila. The area of the islands is over 1,100 square miles, and the population is estimated at about 35,000. The Samoans are all nominally Christian.
—February 23 welcome showers began falling in different parts of California, and at this writing (the 24th), the prospects are good for copious rains. Thus far crops have suffered little if any in most places, but a few weeks more dry weather would have proved disastrous.
—The Chilian Government is to undertake the building of about 2,500 miles of railroad next autumn. A corps of American engineers are to superintend the surveying and construction of the road. The railway lines will extend from coast cities to the interior, where the silver mines are located.
—The reports of famine in China are most alarming. The destitution is said to be frightful to contemplate. According to the statements of missionaries, over a million and a half of people in Northern China are on the verge of starvation. Cold, stormy weather adds to the horrors of the situation.
—The Chicago Anarchists have selected Albert Currlin and Mrs. Lucy Parsons as delegates to the Paris Labor Congress. Before going abroad, Currlin proposes to travel through the United States, nominally to lecture on the eight-hour movement, but really to organize Anarchist Groups on the basis of the Chicago Arbeiter Bund.
—The boilers in the basement of the Park Central Hotel, Hartford, Conn., exploded early on the morning of the 18th ult., causing the complete collapse of the entire building, which immediately took fire, thus adding to the horrors of the catastrophe. The fire department was on hand promptly and the work of subduing the flames and rescuing the injured and imprisoned people began at once. Twenty-three lives were lost.
—News has recently been received at New York of an attempted revolution in San Domingo. The natives are dissatisfied with President Hereaux's rule, and organized an army, but a traitor informed Hereaux, who quickly suppressed the rebellion. The insurgents were surprised, surrounded, and routed with considerable loss in killed and wounded. Many rebels were cut down while trying to escape. The ringleaders were condemned to death, and the deluded followers were pardoned.
—America for February 14, contains a post-card in fac-simile from the Hon. W. E. Gladstone, testifying to his study of Washington "40 years ago with love and admiration." A singular fact in connection with this card is, that although mailed in Chester, England, November 30, and received at Chicago December 12, it was not delivered until January 29, thus bearing testimony, under the signature of England's greatest statesman, to the defective service in the second most important post-office in the United States.
—It seems that at last a means has been devised by which elevators can be rendered perfectly safe. The bottom of the shaft is so arranged that it is air tight and the elevator is made to fit it as closely as possible, thus forming an air-cushion. The Scientific American tells of an experiment where an elevator, weighing 2300 pounds, equipped with plate-glass mirrors and loaded with baskets of eggs and goblets, was cut loose and allowed to shoot down 80 feet. The air cushion received the elevator with so much ease that not a drop of water was spilled or an egg broken. The pressure at the point of concussion was 60,000 pounds.
Obituary.
By G. W. Davis
RUSSELL.—Died, at Maple Valley, Ring Co., W. T., December 18, 1888, of diphtheria, Maggie Russell, daughter of Brother and Sister Russell, aged about 5 years. Little Maggie was one of the flowers of the household, and is only sleeping till the precious Saviour comes. Funeral services were conducted by the writer. G. W. DAVIS.
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AMES.—Died at Maple Valley, King Co., W. T., three of Brother and Sister Ames' children, as follows: Elsie Floretta, died December 30, 1888, aged 8 years, 9 months, and 29 days; also Lucy May, died January 2d, 1889, aged 5 years, 7 months, and 29 days, and Keturah Ann, died January 3rd, 1889, aged 14 years, 3 months, and 21 days. They were all keeping the Lord's Sabbath with their mother. Keturah, the oldest, was a member of the Maple Valley Church with her mother. The dear little ones seemed to realize they were going to die, and their last request was that their papa would pray for them; and they were willing to go if he would become a Christian. We are happy to say that he has since been baptized and joined the church, and we with him hope to live faithful to the end, and meet the dear little children when the Life-giver comes. Words of comfort were spoken by Elder S. Dalton. G. W. DAVIS.
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News and Notes.
By Editor
RELIGIOUS.
—The Baptist Missionary Union has already begun to plan for the celebration of its centenary in 1892.
—The Baptists have in West Virginia 13 associations, 444 churches, 284 ordained ministers, and a membership of 30,652.
—Emperor William, of Germany, has signified to the Jockey Club of Berlin his wish that all sports should be discontinued on Sunday, in that city.
—Bostonians are discussing the advisability of selling Old St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church, on Tremont Street, the property being worth about $1,000,000.
—It has been stated that United States Justice Lamar was a Methodist, but the Western Watchman states that he is about to become a Roman Catholic.
—The native churches of Samoa have, in the last twenty years, contributed an average of $6,000 a year (or $120,000) to the London Missionary Society.
—It is proposed to hold a World's Sunday-school Convention in London, July 1-4, 1889. Six hundred representative workers from the United States will probably attend.
—Mrs. Mary C. Patten, ninety-three years old, has had charge of the infant class in a Methodist Sabbath-school in Taunton, Mass., for forty-eight years. She never misses a session.
—A church for deaf-mutes has just been consecrated at Philadelphia. It is the only one of the kind in America, and the only one in the world entirely managed by the deaf.
—Dakota, with its Indian population of 30,000, has proved to be a most fruitful missionary field for Roman Catholics. There are seventeen priests, twelve churches, and twenty-six schools, for 4,100 Catholic Indians. Bishop Marty says: "All will become Catholics if we can reach and teach them."
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Norway—Sundhedsbladet, 74 Akerspaden, 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, Quicksburgh, Shenandoah Co., Va.
West Virginia.—Mrs. Nelia M. Stone, Clarksburg, W. Va.
Wisconsin Tract Society—S. D. Hartwell, 1029 Jenifer St., Madison, Wis.
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CALIFORNIA CITY MISSIONS.—Mrs J C Wysong $5, Mrs E Spath $2.50.
CALIFORNIA TRACT SOCIETY.—Dist No 1 Lakeport $4, Dist No 2 Vacaville $10.01, Swasey $1.05, Dist No 3 Oakland $105.90, Rivulet Society $3.75, Dist No 4 San Francisco $60.85, Dist No 5 Fresno $32.45, Toll House $10.95, Dist No 7 Reno $5.40, Bro Olsen $8, Mrs E R Jones $4.05, J I Tay $4, I M Keague $5, E A Brown $3.75, N. N. Lunt $3.25, Mrs L W King $7, W C Clench $8.50, San Jose $11.15.
WASHINGTON MISSION.
By Editor
The address of Elder W. H. Saxley and the Washington City Mission has been changed to 217 Fifth Street, S. E., Washington, D. C.
SENTINELS FOR MISSIONARY WORK.
By Editor
Sixty back numbers (four different dates) of the American Sentinel sent post-paid for $1. Just the paper to hand to your neighbor or mail to a friend. All about the National Reform movement, the Sunday question, the Blair Bills, etc.
PAPER BOUND VOLUMES OF THE AMERICAN SENTINEL.
By Editor
WE have a few copies of Vol. 1 monthly Sentinel for 1886, and Vol. 3 for 1888, bound in strong manilla covers, with the name of paper and volume number printed on the cover.
These we can send post-paid for 75 cents per volume. Vol. 2 have all been sold, and if you wish either Vol. 1 or Vol. 3, send at once, as these will soon be all sold also.
Address American Sentinel, 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal.
AGENTS WANTED.
To canvass for the weekly American Sentinel, at $1 per year, to whom liberal cash commissions will be paid. Send now for sample copy, terms to agents etc.
M. L. Huntley, secretary International Tract Society, Battle Creek, Mich., is general agent for all that territory lying south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. Persons desiring to canvass in any State included in that territory will please apply to the secretary mentioned above.
Canvassers in any other States will write to the State T. and M. secretary of the State in which they wish to work, or to American Sentinel, 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal.
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Agents' complete canvassing outfit, including a sample copy of the illustrated pamphlet, "Prophetic Lights," post-paid, for 50 cents.
Agents' complete canvassing outfit, including a sample copy of the illustrated, 500-page, cloth-bound, popular edition of "Great Controversy," for $1.
Appointments.
By California Conference Committee
TENTS FOR CAMP-MEETING.
THOSE wishing to rent tents for the Central California Camp-meeting will please send orders at once to J. N. Loughborough, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal. The rent of tents is the same as usual: 10x12, $4.00; 12x16, $6.00; 14x19, $7.00.
CAL. CONF. COM.
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA CAMP-MEETING.
By John Norton Loughborough
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.