Earlier text: A Family SchoolNot to spit; it is rarely necessary. To spit on a slate, floor, or sidewalk is an abomination. Not to put the fingers into the mouth. Not to wet the finger with saliva in turning the leaves of books. Not to put pencils into the mouth, or moisten them with the lips. Not to put money into the mouth. Not to put anything into the mouth except food and drink and the tooth-brush. Not to swap apple-cores, candy, chewing-gum, “all-day suckers,” half-eaten food, whistles, or bean-blowers, or anything similar that is habitually put into the mouth. Teach the children to wash the hands and face often. See that they keep them clean. If a child is coming down with a communicable disease, it is reasonable to believe that there is less chance of infecting persons and things if the hands and face are washed clean, and not daubed with the secretions of the nose and mouth. Teach the children to turn the face aside when coughing and sneezing, especially if they are facing another person or are at the table.—Life and Health. John of Patmos
By Edwin Guthrie Brown
John of Patmos, ere he died,
By the friends who stood beside
Thus was questioned, thus replied:— “Master, while thou yet hast speech,
Thy disciples thee beseech
Wisdom’s highest law to teach.” Straightway spake the master then:
“Little children” (they were men),
“Love each other.” But again, From his friends: “Ah! master dear,
This we’ve practised many a year;
Wisdom’s law we wish to hear.” Clearer shone the master’s eyes.
“Little children,” he replies,
“Love each other; that is wise.” But the boldest, speaking low:
“Master, if it please thee so,
Deepest wisdom we would know.” Raised the master on his bed,
“Little children,”—sank his head,—
“Love each other.” He was dead. Manual or Constructive Work
Industrial training has a much larger place in the curriculum of to-day than even its most enthusiastic teachers and friends dared to hope for it ten years ago. In New York and most of the other large cities, cooking and sewing for the girls, and knife-work, iron-work, wood-work, etc., for the boys, are taught as a part of the course; and teachers have to fit themselves to the new demands of the situation. In country districts, all of this is not practicable; but some parts of the work that is done in the cities may be well done by the country teacher. Even if he has little or no knowledge of drawing, brush-work, etc., as such, he may at least allow the brighter children to take them up for “busy work” when the lessons for that day and the next are all prepared; and he will find them excellent aids in discipline. Water-color paints, a few camel’s-hair brushes, and some colored inks will be a source of grateful amusement and intelligent occupation to the younger children, and of inspiration to the older ones. The teacher may bring (or may ask those to bring who wish to undertake the work) such plants, vegetables, or other things as can be boldly outlined with the brush; and it will be no small surprise to see what even the very youngest can accomplish. After a fair degree of resemblance to potatoes, bananas, apples, grapes, small squashes, leaves, flowers of a simple kind, etc., is secured, he may encourage the copying, with a brush, of a simple landscape, showing how the “tones” are obtained by the number of times that the work is “washed” with the ink or paint. Very pretty black-and-white effects are so brought out, even by very young children. They may outline the school building, a bit of scenery that illustrates something they have read, or a story that has been told them. They may sometimes be given one in which a little competition will add to the interest—anything, so that they may be encouraged to find out what their hands hold in store for them. Small children, and some who are larger, will find both pleasure and profit in cutting figures from paper; and the skill developed by some will equal that of a fairly good artist with crayon or pencil. Pictures for a school scrapbook may be carefully cut and pasted, after a little practise; and it will be of great value in much of the class work. All will take part in this. The teacher may show how to make conventional designs with both the cutting and drawing and the “accidentals,” with the ink. The accidentals are made by putting a more or less liberal supply of ink on a sheet of drawing-paper (or common butcher’s paper), and folding the paper at once, so as to produce a blot, which, repeated at regular intervals, makes an odd—and often pretty—figure, that could be obtained in no other way. A bit of tracing-paper, placed over it, allows the child to get the outline, which is then cut out; and it is laid on his paper, at sections of regularly crossed lines, forming a pattern. I have seen leaves, butterflies, etc., developed in this way, that were afterward used for group work, and were more than merely creditable, although done by children who had been in school less than one term. Once the possibilities of constructive work are appreciated, the teacher has opened a big door for many a child; yet all this must be done discreetly, and not in a way to excite prejudice against the “paper tomfoolery,” as one irate man designated it. Broad principles are below it all; but it takes a broad mind to comprehend broad principles; and the wise teacher will strengthen his own hands by the judicious use of all ways and means with which to reach parents as well as pupils.—Selected. Suggestions by an Operator
By Claude E. Holmes
ALL educators are united in the belief that children should be educated in the art of composition, which, of course, includes spelling and grammatical construction. But the position of the type-setter is peculiarly adapted to discovering how thoroughly the training has been grasped and put into practise by the pupil. The writings of a mature person surely reveal the result of his early impressions. Because of ignorance and carelessness a vast amount of labor is required of editors, proof-readers, and compositors in preparing articles for public reading. From the view-point of a linotype operator, I would say that there seems to be a great lack of accuracy and legibility in writing. Recently some copy came to my hand, upon which, when held up before me, I could not recognize the form of a single word. I had to start at the first, and gradually unravel it, as one would unravel a stocking by getting hold of the right end of the yarn. The president of a railroad, while traveling over a division, was spoken to rather sharply by a station-master. On his return to the office, the president wrote him by hand, severely censuring him for his discourtesy, and also discharging him from the company's employ. His writing was of the Horace Greeley type. No one could read it. It is said that for several years the discharged employee used that letter as a pass over the road. In that case, poor writing was of some value; but it is not desired by linotype operators. There is about as much difference between setting type by hand and setting it on the linotype as there is between sewing by hand and running a sewing-machine. The copy must be readable, or the speed of the operator is retarded. He has to read every word and punctuation mark, and every error in setting is checked up against him. In preparing a list of customs a comma was once left out, and it cost the United States government a large sum of money before it could be corrected. In common words it does not matter so much if i's and e's look alike; but if the word happens to be the name of some German professor, a carelessly made letter means a trip to the dictionary: sometimes the word can not be found even there, and the writer wonders why a big printing-office can not spell correctly. Some copy looks like sentences diagrammed after the Reed and Kellogg system. The operator is obliged to chase words and phrases all around the outskirts of the sheet and in between the lines, and resuscitate words that have apparently fainted away under the shock of an eraser. Of course, some of this is excusable and necessary. Seventh-day Adventists are too well acquainted with the Bible to quote, “Cleanliness is next to godliness” as a text; yet about ninety-five per cent of the texts quoted in manuscripts have mistakes in them. This is really serious financially, if not otherwise. Hundreds of dollars are expended every year simply in correcting errors in quotations. I have heard it said that a number of years ago an article was sent to the REVIEW for publication which was so poorly constructed that the editor rewrote the whole thing. The contributor, after reading his revised thoughts, exclaimed, with pride, “I didn’t know I could write such a good article!” Spelling words correctly is, without a doubt, a fine art. But with the many dictionaries to be found to-day, there is not much excuse for many errors in this respect. I gladly excuse foreigners, however, in making mistakes, as I have wrestled with language work a little; yet it causes one to smile when he reads, “The climate is very embracing”! “dum animals,” “the Diety,” etc. These are only a very few compared with the many mistakes which are made continuously by educated writers. I might mention one other common error, and that is, the use of per, as, per week. This word should be used only with Latin words; as, per annum, per capita, etc. In conclusion, I would suggest that accuracy in writing and spelling be taught loud and long.
CLAUDE E. HOLMES. Simplicity in Teaching
By Raub
Jesus’ manner of teaching was beautiful and attractive, and it was ever characterized by simplicity. He unfolded the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven through the use of figures and symbols with which his hearers were familiar, and the common people heard him gladly; for they could comprehend his words. There were no high-sounding words used, to understand which it was necessary to consult a dictionary. He illustrated the glories of the kingdom of God by the use of the experiences and occurrences of earth. In compassionate love and tenderness he cheered and comforted and instructed all who heard him; for grace was poured upon his lips that he might convey to men in the most attractive way the treasures of truth.—“Christian Education.”28 The Mental Discipline of the Pupil
So far as the pupil is concerned, this is the chief object of the recitation. Private students, however diligent they may be in the pursuit of knowledge, never receive that culture and discipline of mind which come only from the competition of classmates in the daily recitation. None of us are quite sure we know a truth until we try to tell it. We may think our comprehension clear, but there is no certainty until we apply the test. Every recitation develops mental power on the part of attentive pupils. The teacher who can ask only the printed questions of the text-book is not a teacher, and the one who can impart no additional instruction to that given in the text-book is little better qualified to teach. It is the business of the teacher to impart instruction aside from that found in the book; it is his duty to make that of the book comprehended by the pupils. The best teachers are those who bring themselves to the level of the child mind, and then put the knowledge to be imparted in such shape as will enable the learners to grasp it most readily. Here is the teacher’s opportunity—not only to add new and important facts, but also to give moral instruction in an incidental way, and guide and direct the child’s powers in such a way as to give the most symmetrical development. It is important that the pupil should be able to tell what he knows, and tell it in good language. Nothing is of so much help to him in this respect as the class recitation. It is no easy thing to think clearly while on one’s feet. Daily practise, however, will enable all pupils in time to express themselves clearly and accurately. This is true of the written recitation also. It is wonderful how rapidly pupils improve in composition and the use of language by frequent written recitations. The men who can rise before an audience, and give their opinions calmly and intelligently, are comparatively few. Indeed, it is true of many of our ablest scholars that they find great difficulty in speaking before an audience, and this because of their lack of confidence in their ability to do so. Class recitation will not only in a great measure overcome this, but with proper criticism it will also help to repress the tendency manifested by some to speak too much. We know a fact more thoroughly after we have told it to another. Indeed, the very effort to retain it in the memory, in order that we may tell it, helps to strengthen that mental faculty, and to impress the fact on the mind. Every repetition of it also serves to make the impression all the deeper. Even the private student will find it to his advantage to tell his knowledge to his friends, or, in their absence, to the furniture in his room as imaginary school-fellows. Class competition creates interest. In general, the smallest classes are most difficult to interest. But in medium-sized classes, where there is an opportunity for every one to test his ability and compete with the other class-members, and where criticism of both teacher and pupils is of such a character as to keep all vigilant and active, interest in study rises to its maximum. The additional knowledge imparted by the teacher during recitation will also add greatly to the interest of the child; and thus study will be pursued with greater eagerness and under the most favorable conditions. It being true that class recitation will make pupils inquisitive, they will be better prepared to receive such instruction as the teacher may be able to impart. Having become inquisitive and desirous of knowing, the child places himself in the best teachable positions, and he will be led to search for knowledge and think for himself—an end greatly to be desired in all teaching. No matter how heedlessly a pupil may have conned his lesson while preparing it, the moment he enters the recitation, he feels that his attention must be given not only to his own assigned work, but also to that of his classmates and to the questions and instruction of the teacher. However negligent he may be elsewhere, here he must be attentive, and the influence exerted on him here will also be felt elsewhere. The correction of pupils’ mistakes by the teacher is a recognized duty. If the pupils are competent, and the criticism is kind, they should be permitted to correct one another’s errors; but in the event of their failure to do so, it becomes the duty of the teacher to be watchful and make all proper corrections. Many errors never can be detected except in class recitation; this is true particularly of errors in pronunciation. Judicious questioning, and judicious methods of conducting the recitation, will enable the teacher in a very short time to detect the idle as well as the studious in the class. Thus day by day also he will be able to determine which students are diligent and which otherwise. He will be able also to determine by the daily recitation not only the relative improvement of the class-members, but also the improvement of the class as a whole. He thus becomes prepared from day to day to assign, in advance, work of such a nature and in such a quantity as will give his pupils healthy mental and moral growth. The difficulties can be so simplified as to bring them within the mental grasp of the pupil, and such incentives can be placed before the child as will arouse in him increased vigor, and create a desire to gain the utmost culture.—Raub. Our Primary Schools
By J. G. Lamson
Most encouraging are the reports the Educational Department is receiving from the different conferences. North Dakota will have five church-schools, South Dakota ten, Minnesota six, and Iowa no fewer than twelve church- and family-schools. This, on the whole, is a creditable increase over last year, and means that our people are becoming aroused to the importance of a Christian education for the children and youth. Efficient, consecrated teachers are needed to-day. We have some, but we need more. We need young men and women who can discern the difference between God’s plan and the world’s plan in education. The one is for citizenship in heaven, the other for citizenship on earth. The latter closes with our earthly life, the former never ends. Here, short courses; there, long courses. Here, only the studies we must have; there, manifold mysteries to fathom. Parents, what are you doing for your children? Do not make the excuse that you can not get a teacher, till you have searched the country through. We have turned away no applications for teachers, and we shall not until we fail to find some one when called upon. As we make the call for help, the Spirit of God impresses hearts. There are still a number of young men and women who have been trained in our schools, but who have been teaching in the public schools, who will respond to the calls that come. These we purpose to aid in their effort to learn right principles, and as special terms of school are offered, these volunteers will take the training, and will become valuable workers in Christian29education. It is not too late to start a school if you really mean business. Address your conference educational secretary. Let the teachers send early for report blanks, and be prompt in filling them out. The very first day of school send a letter to the superintendent. Every word written helps, as only by the closest touch with the schools can the most efficient work be done.—J. G. Lamson, in Northern Union Reaper. Our Schools
By C. Sorenson
The Keene Industrial Academy opened September 30, two weeks earlier than our time of opening in past years. Although several of the young people living in the village had not returned from the cotton fields, there was a larger attendance of students from a distance than in former years. On the opening day of the school, several of the members of the Board were present, and their helpful remarks were much appreciated by all. After refitting the building formerly used for a sanitarium as a dormitory for young men, we fully expected to have all the room that could be called for this year; but in a few days after the opening of the school, it became necessary to rent rooms in homes adjoining the campus for a number of young men, until rooms could be fitted up in the upper floor of the academy building. At the time of this writing, nine rooms have been arranged on that floor, and others are in preparation. At this time last year there were only eighty-five in the school home; this year there are one hundred twenty-five, and others are arriving almost every day. The total enrolment is one hundred seventy-eight in the academic department, and forty-two in the normal department. A good spirit prevails in the school, and the prospects are good for the best year's work in the history of the institution. Teach Children to Think
By Ralph Tennal
You teach your children to use their hands, their tongues, their eyes, their feet, but have you ever thought that you neglect teaching them to use their brains? When children ask questions the answer to which they should know themselves, ask them a question, and let them use their own brains for themselves. The men who progress in the world are the men who think. When you tell a man to do something in a certain way, and he finds that way impossible or impracticable, but thinks out an alternative, look out for that man’s success. The man who always stands in the same place, or sits more likely, is the one who never thinks of other ways out of difficulties. God gave our children brains as well as hands. It is your duty to teach them to use both.—Ralph Tennal. Preparing for Emergencies
By Edward I. Bosworth
No man gets ready for an emergency in a moment. What he is in an emergency is determined by what he has regularly been doing for a long time. — Edward I. Bosworth. Oakwood (Ala.) Manual Training-School
By IDA DUNLAP
On arriving at Huntsville, I found a pleasant place, and many bright, earnest young men and women awaiting the opening of the school. As one realizes the needs of the work here, it does the heart good to see such a corps of workers in training to proclaim a risen Saviour,—one who forgives sins; who takes the lowest and vilest, and makes them clean through his blood,—new creatures, a power for good, a light in this dark, sin-cursed earth. As the work is fast closing in the South, with so many thousands still in darkness, hungry for the bread of life, dying unsaved by the way, let all arouse to the needs of the work. Let your prayers ascend daily for the work and workers here. Pray God to open the hearts of not only our people, but of many who have means to help in this work. We must work now, earnestly and rapidly. “Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.” Every moment some one is dying,—lost, with no hope of eternal life. Many more would enter this school, if means were procured to meet the expenses. The preparation of many is delayed because of lack of means. Let us all unite in praying God to open the hearts of all who can to help this needy field. Two New Books for Use in Our Schools
By Frederick Griggs
It is with pleasure that we note the production of another book which will be of great service in our schools. “The Speaker’s Manual of Pronunciation” is the title of a book on orthoepy, by Mrs. Fannie D. Chase, editor of the Youth’s Instructor. It includes in the subjects covered the “Correct Pronunciation of Nearly Two Thousand Words Often Mispronounced,” “Foreign Words and Phrases,” “Proper Names,” “Permissible Pronunciation,” “Homonyms for Class Use,” “General Suggestions,” “Drill Exercises,” and “More Than a hundred Don’t’s.” The subjects considered are most important, and they are treated in an authoritative manner. All grades of our schools should use this book. A general drill by the whole school for a few minutes each day, or two or three times each week, will yield excellent results. But a better way is to give the study a regular class period in connection with the English studies. It should be brought into immediate use. It is published by the Review and Herald Publishing Association, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C., and can be purchased from them or from any of the tract societies. “Bible Nature Series,” No. 1, the first of a series of Bible nature studies for our schools, has been issued by the Pacific Press Publishing Company. This series will cover the elementary science work done in our church and intermediate schools. The author, Prof. M. E. Cady, has long been known to our educational workers as a writer upon scientific subjects. If the whole series is to be judged by this first volume, it will constitute an exceedingly valuable addition to our text-books, and will greatly increase the quality of work done in the grades where these books are used. Connected as it is in this book with the Bible, science is given its true setting. The studied purpose is to reveal God as Creator and Saviour. This book should be in the hands of every teacher, and will be found exceedingly helpful. The Central California Intermediate School
By B. L. Howe
THIS school is located in the richest part of the fruit-producing section of the San Joaquin Valley. From the first, there has been a church-school department connected with the intermediate work. Oct. 1, 1906, our school, including both departments, opened with twenty pupils. Last year we enrolled seventy-five. At our opening this year, September 29, there were seventy-six present. At the close of the first month, our membership is eighty-seven, and next week we expect it will reach ninety-one. We have added a third room, and each room is crowded with pupils and work. Last year special instruction was given those who wished to labor in the Master’s vineyard. Eleven of this class spent a portion of the summer vacation in canvassing. They sold over twenty-two hundred dollars’ worth of books. Seven of these students were girls from the intermediate grades. This year we have already divided a territory ten miles wide and twelve miles long into sections, and hope to be able to say, at the close of this school year, that each family in this district has had an opportunity to hear or read the message. Two pupils take a division of the territory, and visit each house at least once in two weeks, with tracts, papers, or books to loan or sell. This work is under the direction of Mrs. Lenore E. Howe. At our Friday afternoon meetings some very interesting experiences are related. There is an excellent spirit in the school, and the pupils are making very satisfactory progress in their studies. Strode (Kan.) Industrial Academy
By N. W. Kauble
THIS school opened September 16, with an attendance of seventy-three. Since the opening, the attendance has increased to nearly one hundred. God's blessing has been in evidence from the start; and while we have been laboring under disadvantages in many ways, no word of complaint has come to us from any student. We are now quite comfortably settled. The furniture is all placed, and stoves are connected, so that some of the disadvantages do not now appear. We were able to rent a building close to the school, where other young men can find rooms; so there is still room for more. We can also provide for several young ladies in another building near the school. In more than thirty years' experience in school work, as teacher and otherwise, we never have met a more promising class of young people. It is a constant pleasure to us to labor for those who are so anxious to please their teachers, and who so earnestly strive to please God. It seems like home to us to be thus connected with the work, although sometimes it is apparent that the family has outgrown the home. The spiritual interests, as well as the intellectual work, are encouraging indeed. We need the prayers and co-operation of all.—N. W. Kauble, in Kansas Worker. The enrolment of the Emmanuel Missionary College on November 11, was one hundred three. The music studio, now building, is nearly ready for occupancy. Walla Walla College on November 2 had an enrolment of three hundred ten, about one hundred of whom are in the normal department. Prof. M. E. Cady reports that everything in the school is moving along well. The Department of Education is continually in receipt of inquiries which are well answered in the “Church-School Manual.” Not only will the conscientious teacher find this book of constant help in his work, but parents will also find it useful in meeting the problems that arise in the education of their children. Brother R. G. Ryan, principal of the Shenandoah Valley Academy, at New Market, Va., reports an attendance of twenty-six, with sixteen in the school home. Every student in the home is a professed Christian. The Missionary Volunteer Society of the school is doing excellent work, and a good spirit prevails in all the work. The brethren of the Lake Union Conference are raising two thousand dollars for the purpose of better equipping their schools with libraries, laboratories, and other necessary apparatus. Among the things to be purchased is a five-inch telescope for the union college. This money is to be subscribed in shares of fifty cents each. Three hundred shares were subscribed by the college students in a few minutes when the plan was made known to them, and there will doubtless be a general response. South Lancaster Academy is now lighted by electricity. The exhaust steam from running the dynamo is used to heat the home. This arrangement is proving satisfactory, and is effecting a large saving. A pipe-line is now being laid from the home to the academy, and it is the purpose to heat the academy from the steam plant at the home. It is thought that this can be accomplished with little loss of steam. This school has recently been quarantined for a few days on account of two or three slight cases of scarlet fever, but the quarantine has been lifted, and work is progressing as usual. [SPECIAL NOTICE.—We learn that objectionable literature is being sent in response to these requests, and urge all to examine with special care any periodicals or pamphlets received outside of our well-known denominational publications. Be sure that the literature which you distribute teaches the truth. Those responding to requests for papers should send only clean copies, neatly folded, and securely wrapped.—Ed.] The following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:— Susan S. Ward, Claremore, Okla., Signs, Liberty, and tracts. Mrs. Libbie J. Fay, West Park, Ohio, Signs, Instructor, Little Friend, and Liberty. Mrs. Luella B. Priddy, Milliken, Ontario, Canada, Signs, Watchman, and tracts. Mrs. C. T. Lane, Box 131, Brownsville, Tex., literature and tracts in Spanish. Tom C. Hege, Charlotte, N. C., REVIEW, Liberty, Watchman, and Signs, during January only. Mrs. Carrie Crawford, R. F. D. 9, Trenton, Mo., desires papers and tracts for missionary purposes. Mrs. M. E. Boaz, Noel, Mo., denominational papers and tracts on religious liberty, health, and temperance. The Student Idea is the South Lancaster Academy school paper, and is issued monthly by the students of the academy. It is kept filled with ideas and articles bearing directly upon the topics of interest to all our young people who are preparing for the Master's service. The paper was launched one year ago, and its publication was carried on during the year, under the auspices of the South Lancaster Academy “League of Honor.” The students supported the paper heartily last year by working hard for subscriptions and by contributing matter for the paper, and every one at the opening of this term was anxious to see the paper continued another year. The subscription list is growing, and the students are again working to secure subscriptions. The subscription price is 50 cents for the school term, with an additional 10 cents to foreign countries. Address The Student Idea, South Lancaster Academy, South Lancaster, Mass. Incidents in Signs Magazine Work
THAT the Signs of the Times magazine is a good seller, and that by this means good seed is being sown broadcast, may be gathered from the many letters we receive from agents. The following is from one who sells about 1,600 a month in Oregon:— “I find, as you say, the December number is very salable; in fact, it sells on sight. The numerous pictures are a great help; indeed, many buy it for them, and then they have access to the reading-matter.” Our St. Paul, Minn., agent, ordering 500 of the January number, speaks as follows:— “The papers will sell readily, as they are very attractive, and will appeal to the eye. I am of good courage.” A Southern California worker writes:— “I am very busy at home caring for others, but spend every moment I can spare in this work; for one is always repaid by such good experiences. There are only small towns here in the valley, not over four hundred or five hundred persons in each, and I am going to them as fast as possible.” If interested in this effective agency for reaching the masses, address your tract society, or Signs of the Times, Mountain View, Cal. This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper. Brief business notices will be published subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following— Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing and send it. We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order. A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents. No discount for several insertions. FOR SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor; keeps indefinitely; 5-gal. can, $3.50; 10-gal. can, $6.75; 62 cents a gal. in half barrel and barrel lots; 30 gal. and 50 gal. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky. MIDGET MASSAGE VIBRATOR.—Patent applied for. The only true massage machine ever invented that will run without electricity. Will last a lifetime. $3 to Adventists only. Send for folder. We make medical lamps for office and home use. Radiodescent Lamp Co., 54 South, Kalamazoo, Mich. To Adventists, North or East, who desire a warmer climate in best location and soil of southern Texas, an opportunity is given to locate and introduce the truth in a new irrigated country, lately opened. $2,300 has been subscribed for a $3,000 church and school. Building to begin December 15. Crops every month. Useless to come with less than $2,000. Apply for reading-matter. Address Andrew Hanson, Mercedes, Hidalgo Co., Tex. FOR SALE.—640 acres in Trego County, Kan., near Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads. Splendid farming land. Family estate of Elder C. A. Washburn. Land increasing rapidly in value, but as I am in the work, I desire to sell at once. For a limited time, price only $10 an acre for whole section; $12 for pick of quarter sections. Excellent climate. Purchaser's railway fare paid. Write to J. S. Washburn, 665 Decatur St., Memphis, Tenn. FOR SALE.—500,000 of the most beautiful Mottoes you ever looked at. We sold almost 31,000 of these beauties in the first twenty-nine days of November. We will mail 100 Mottoes, 12 x 16, for $6; or 100 of our Imported Bible Cards, 4 x 7 inches, for $3.50. Teachers will want these cards for their classes. Do not delay, but send order at once. Orders filled by return mail. Address, with two-cent stamp, Hampton Art Company, Lock Box 257, Hampton, Iowa.31 FOR SALE.—Cooking Oil, best grade: freight prepaid between Colorado and Ohio. One 5 gal. can, $4; 2 cans, $7.75; 3 cans, $11. Other States please write for prices. Address R. H. Brock, 404 North Second St., Arkansas City, Kan. FOR SALE.—26 acres one-half mile from Hildebran (N. C.) Academy, on Henry River. New house, fine spring water, beautiful scenery, healthful climate; 4 acres cleared; balance woodland. Price, $875. Address M. H. Johnston, R. F. D. 5, Hickory, N. C. COOK WANTED.—The North Yakima Sanitarium would like to engage a first-class hygienic cook to begin work about May 1. A woman under forty is preferred. Give sanitarium or café references. Address North Yakima Sanitarium, North Yakima, Wash. FOR SALE.—Twenty-acre alfalfa and fruit ranch in the celebrated Turlock Irrigation district; deep, rich soil, near railroad station and Adventist church. For particulars regarding property or this section of country, address L. M. Bowen, Hughson, Stanislaus Co., Cal. HYGIENIC VEGETABLE COOKING OIL.—Best shortening known. Guaranteed under pure food law. Keeps sweet and choice. 5 gal., $3.50; 10 gal., $6.75. Cans crated. ½ bbl. (about 32 gal.), 60 cents a gal. By freight from Louisville, Ky. Address Dr. O. C. Godsmark, Chattanooga, Tenn. NURSES WANTED.—Would like to correspond with graduate nurses who desire to secure permanent positions with good salary. No nurse over thirty-five need apply. State age, place and date of graduation, and experience in nursing. References will be required. Address North Yakima Sanitarium, North Yakima, Wash. FOR SALE, ESSEX GROVE RANCH.—½ section Finney County, Kan., 135 acres in cultivation; 10 acres alfalfa; 150 acres alfalfa land; splendid improvements; abundance finest water; well at house; spring runs through milk-house into barnyard. Sandstone barn; star mail route; close neighbors; best grove in fifteen miles. Young orchard and grove started, fenced and cross-fenced; value of hay crop alone, $1,000. Party wishes to devote time and means to Lord's work. Price, $8,500. Address John R. Black, Essex, Kan.