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Business Notices

WANTED.— Twenty reliable Seventh-day Adventists to take nurses’ course. Address Colfax Springs Sanitarium, or W. D. Kinney, M. D., Colfax, Iowa.

WANTED.— A man to work on farm for four or five months, beginning about June 15. Wages, $26 a month. Address E. L. Nesmith, Watertown, S. D.

WANTED.— Ten good working men on farm and in woods; wages, $1.50 a day and free house to either married or single men. Address D. Whitmarsh, Vanderbilt, Mich.

FOR SALE.— One house and lot at Keene, Tex.; house 16 x 32 ft., with three rooms downstairs, two upstairs; well 85 ft. deep; some outbuildings; 40 trees bearing peaches, pears, apples; 1¼ acres of land; one block from school grounds; price, $350. Address E. E. Woodruff, Graysville, Tenn.

WANTED.— An Adventist family, unable to pay rent, to occupy house, free of rent, also to have half acre for garden, and what fruit—apples, cherries, grapes—they wish to use. Three miles from S. D. A. church; 40 rods from district school. For further information, address Peter H. Nunamaker, Arbela, Mich.

Dr. Anderson's Dry Cooking Process for Starchy Foods

• WHAT appears to be an important discovery in relation to the problem of preparing starchy foods for easy assimilation by the human system, has been made by Dr. A. P. Anderson, of Columbia University. It consists of a process of dry cooking, by which the starch granules are broken up and brought into a condition to be easily acted upon by the digestive juices. “Instead of adding water,” he says, “I am able to effect the complete swelling of the starch granule by means of dry heat. This I do by subjecting the starch granule, grain, or starchy mass to a rapid heat in a saturated atmosphere.” Cereals treated in this way expand in volume from four to sixteen times, and become white, porous, and bread-like; and in this condition they can be kept indefinitely without spoiling. When eaten, they dissolve readily in the mouth, requiring but little if any mastication.

A Letter from St. Vincent

WHILE reading the reports of the recent volcanic eruptions in the West Indies, many have doubtless thought of our workers who are located near these scenes of disaster. The following letter has been received from Brother E. Van Deusen, and we think it will be of interest to all:—

KINGSTOWN, ST. VINCENT, W. I., May 20, 1902.

DEAR BRETHREN: The condition here is indeed serious. Sixteen hundred persons suffered death by the crater-burst, and one thousand were rendered homeless. About one hundred and sixty persons sustained serious injuries from the heat and the falling stones.

The crater is continually ejecting lava. Sunday at 8:20 P. M. an eruption occurred, the volume of steam being larger than on any previous occasion. It lasted about an hour. Yesterday a small steamer started on a coast trip around the island, but on account of heat and smoke could not pass on the windward side of the crater. A man who went to investigate the situation, returned last evening. He says that the whole country is changed. The land next to the sea seemed to be lifted up, and where it once sloped gradually to the sea, it now presents a high perpendicular front. Where once were deep gulches leading from the higher land to the sea, there is now a plain. The whole country around the crater is ruined. That part of the island was the most productive. Where were fields, herds, and peasants' hamlets, there is now a lava bed. Indeed, the whole island is ruined. Relief is being sent from other islands. Prices have already advanced, and food is high.

You may ask what I am going to do. Well, I do not feel like leaving just yet. What awaits St. Vincent I know not. I fully believe that this is a visitation from God. The wickedness of St. Vincent is appalling. It is a hard place in which to labor, but there are some here who are obeying God's word, and we believe that others will do so. To leave now would seem not the thing to do.

Yours in the blessed hope, E. VAN DEUSEN.

Index to Volume 78 Available to Subscribers

ANY subscribers to the REVIEW who desire a copy of the index to Volume 78, covering the year 1901, can have the same on application.

Summer Assembly at Berrien Springs Begins June 12

Remember that the Summer Assembly at Berrien Springs, Mich., begins its session on Thursday, June 12. A large attendance is assured.

Bible Training School Monthly Paper Announced

A SIXTEEN-PAGE monthly paper, the Bible Training School, has been issued by the workers in the mission in New York City. The price is twenty-five cents per year. Address Bible Training School, 400 W. 57th St., New York City.

Brother Cornell Returns from England to Battle Creek

Brother W. E. Cornell and family have returned to Battle Creek, after a stay of over three years in England. Brother Cornell was present during a part of the European General Conference, and reports an interesting meeting.

Africa's Dark Degradation and Missionary Opportunity

“AFRICA” — dark, degraded, despoiled, yet with tremendous opportunities and possibilities for good as well as for evil — forms the subject of many fascinating descriptions and stirring appeals in the June number of the Missionary Review of the World.

The June Issue of the Life Boat

The June issue of the Life Boat is an exceedingly valuable number, and ought to have a wide circulation. It is an “anti-cigarette number,” and deals vigorously with this great evil. Price, 1½ cents per copy. Address The Life Boat, 28 Thirty-third Place, Chicago.

Oakwood School Barn Burning Investigation

A LETTER received from Brother B. E. Nicola, principal of the Oakwood Industrial School at Huntsville, Ala., states that a careful investigation has been made to discover the party guilty of burning their barn, and that it has resulted in establishing very conclusively that it was done by one of their own students whose conduct had made it necessary to place him under discipline. This criminal retaliation against proper discipline is very much to be regretted. The offender will pay the legal penalty for his crime.

Papal Diplomacy and the Taft Vatican Mission

It appears that the pope is exerting himself to turn to the utmost account the "mission" of Governor Taft to the Vatican, in the direction of securing the establishment of permanent diplomatic relations between the United States government and the Vatican. The pope cares little about the disposition of the friars and their property in the Philippines, in comparison with the point of securing recognition from a government whose fundamental principles are a protest against the whole papal system, and which has done much to emancipate humanity from papal dominion. This is the tremendous stake for which the pope is playing, and he is very willing that Governor Taft and the United States should be engrossed with the Philippine side show while he weaves more closely about them the net of papal diplomacy, until he will make it appear that the recognition he seeks is the only consistent course remaining open to this government.

A Year of Disasters

THE following quotation from the Chicago Tribune of recent date shows how the minds of observing men are being impressed with the extraordinary and ominous nature of the times we have now reached:—

“One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, so fast they follow.” Public interest in the recent disasters among the West Indian Islands has hardly begun to abate before reports come of others, which, but for the exceptional magnitude of the former, would be regarded as unusual in their fatality. The cyclone which struck the little town of Goliad, Tex., on Sunday, not only nearly destroyed the place, but left in its wake ninety dead and over one hundred injured—an unusual cyclone record for a single locality. The mine explosion at Coalcreek, Tenn., is the worst of the year, not one of the one hundred and fifty men employed in the mine escaping. Simultaneously with these events comes the news of a terrible hurricane which swept over the Province of Scinde, in British India, carrying away houses, bridges, and embankments, and washing away miles of railroad tracks. The few words “many lives were lost,” are significant.

The prophets who predicted that 1902 would be a year of disasters were correct. . . . Nature has not been so busy with her forces of devastation for many years past as she has been during the first five months of the present year. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes have destroyed 48,450 lives, storms 704, tornadoes 416, cyclones 220, floods 333, avalanches 228, tidal waves 103, snowslides 39, and waterspouts 12, a total of 50,505 lives destroyed by nature’s elemental disturbances. If to this were added the lives lost by agencies over which man has more or less control, such as fires, mine disasters, explosions, railroad accidents, and vessel wrecks, it would be increased to over 60,000, and this takes no account of individual lives lost in this country, which would bring the grand total up to about 100,000 lives lost in the short period of five months.

In the presence of these great natural convulsions man is powerless, and probably always will be.

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