—August 4 Russell Sage celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday.
—The census bureau gives the population of Cincinnati as 325,902.
—Work in South Dakota harvest fields is stopped by the excessive heat.
—The United States gunboat “Princeton” has sailed from Amoy to Shanghai.
—The allied forces now marching on Peking number 20,000 men, with 170 guns.
—John Clark Ridpath, the historian, died in a hospital in New York City, July 31.
—The militia had to be ordered out in various parts of North Carolina, “to quell election riots.”
—King Humbert, recently assassinated, was insured for $7,000,000. His annual income was $6,650,000.
—Germany has refused the Chinese minister in Berlin the right to use the telegraph for secret messages.
—Six hundred and fifty men are out on a strike, on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
—Prince Eni Wha, son of the emperor of Korea, will enter college at Roanoke, Va., having just arrived in this country.
—Forest fires are sweeping the magnificent timber belt between the upper geyser basin and the lake, in Yellowstone Park.
—The fourth officer of the Atlantic liner “Deutschland,” being reprimanded for being asleep on duty, committed suicide, August 7.
—The British government is negotiating a $50,000,000 loan in the United States, to help defray the expenses of the Boer and Chinese wars.
—The Nicaraguan government has seized the property of the Maritime Canal Company, because it failed to fulfill the conditions of its contract.
—The Boer general, Christian De Wet, is reported surrounded near Reitz, whence escape through the strong British lines is considered impossible.
—Chicago packers have been asked to furnish 2,000,000 pounds of canned meat within thirty days, for the use of the United States army in the Orient.
—A train bearing United States Consul Stowe, and flying an American flag, was derailed and burned, at Honigspruit, by a flying patrol of Boers, August 4.
—The trial, in Missouri, of Alexander Jester, for the murder of a brother of John W. Gates, the steel-trust magnate, in the year 1871, ended August 1, with Jester’s acquittal.
—King Alexander, of Servia, was recently married to Mme. Draga Maschin, in Belgrade. In honor of the occasion the king granted an amnesty, and pardoned numerous political offenders.
—The wife of the Italian consul at Chicago has asked the protection of the police for her husband. He is related to the royal family of Italy, and an object of the hatred of Chicago anarchists.
—Owing to the great demand created by the Boer and Chinese wars, the meat packers of Chicago and Omaha have advanced the prices of their canned beef from $1.25 to $1.50 a dozen, for one-pound cans.
—Yang Thsun, a place between Tien-Tsin and Peking, was occupied by the allied army, Monday, August 6. “After a forced march from Pei Tsang, which was taken the day before, against great odds.”
—The Atlantic liners “Oceanic,” “Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse,” “Deutschland,” and the “City of New York,” are engaged in a race across the Atlantic, with American mail. The winner will carry the entire United States mail thereafter.
—The United States statute which provides that all railroad companies shall equip their cars with automatic couplers, went into effect August 1. The bill, which was passed by Congress in April, 1896, and has been extended several times, provides a penalty of $100 for each offense.
—Lord Roberts is in no position to help the British forces in China; in fact, he needs more troops himself, as “the ravages caused by sickness are more serious now than at any previous period of the campaign, and the weekly percentage of casualties has grown steadily since the occupation of Pretoria.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte, when asked by some of his officers to conquer and hold certain provinces of China, as Great Britain did in India, replied: “Better let China alone. The Chinese are harmless. They trouble no other nation, but they are a great people. We might conquer some of their provinces, but we should teach them the art of war. In time they might raise great armies, buy or build great navies, and conquer France.”
—The striking coal miners of Cumberland, Md., have resumed work.
—Since March 14, 257 national banks have organized and begun business.
—Russians near Tsi Chow, are reported to have killed 3,000 Chinese, August 8.
—An armed anarchist from America has been arrested at Caserta, Italy.
—The total number of Boer prisoners held by the British is estimated at 4,000.
—The weather in London, the third week in July, was the hottest of any in forty-three years.
—Italy prohibits the exportation of arms, ammunition, or other munitions of war to China.
—Two hundred and fifty persons were killed by a recent eruption of Mount Azuma, in Japan.
—Rain is falling in several of India’s famine districts, and prospects there are much brighter.
—Japan has, for the present, prohibited all emigration of laborers to the United States and Canada.
—The Secretary of the United States Navy has called for bids for the construction of six armored cruisers.
—Lord Roberts has telegraphed to the British War Office that 3,348 Boers have surrendered to General Hunter.
—It is reported that sugar manufacturers are at odds again, and that the public will get some benefit from the strife.
—Four troops of United States cavalry have left for the Far East, with orders to stop at Nagasaki, Japan, for further orders.
—The Michigan Stove Company, of Detroit, manufacturers of the “Garland” stove, have just received first prize at the Paris Exposition.
—Young Sipido, who attempted the assassination of the Prince of Wales in Brussels, April 4, has escaped from the reformatory where he was confined.
—The Krupp firm has secured an order from the Turkish government for 208 quick-firing guns, and also for armor-plate for two torpedo-boat destroyers.
—The Duke of Saxe-Coburg, second son of Queen Victoria, died July 31, of cancer of the tongue. His successor is his son, the young Duke of Albany.
—Field Marshal Count von Waldersee has been appointed commander-in-chief of the allied corps in China, which causes Germany to rejoice. Count Waldersee will have under his command an army of 80,000 men. He will embark for China in two weeks.
—A Chicago weekly says that “the conviction this week at Chicago of a little combination of photo-engravers for violating the anti-trust law of Illinois, has its comic side, when one notes the fact that the conviction was secured within sight of the smoke from steel-trust chimneys.”
—The Standard Oil Company, the gigantic oil trust, have declared a dividend of eight per cent, $8,000,000, payable to stockholders of record on September 15 next. Thus far during 1900 this company has declared three dividends: one in March, 20 per cent; one in June, 10 per cent; one in September, 8 per cent; or a total of 38 per cent dividends thus far during the present year. It is estimated that the company is making $131,506 a day, or $5,479 an hour. Mr. Rockefeller’s share of the profits thus far this year, from his interests in oil, has been $48,290,000; and this year’s fourth quarterly dividend is yet to come.
—Election returns from North Carolina, August 2, indicated a large majority for the Democrats and the disfranchisement of the negro. This means that the 75,000 negroes in that State will not be allowed to vote. Speaking of the matter, the New York Sun says: “The movement in favor of such changes in the suffrage as will, in effect, repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Federal Constitution, has spread so rapidly through the Southern States that there now seems every reason to believe that within the next three or four years more than three fourths of the negro voters in the United States will be disfranchised. Already four States have acted,—Mississippi, Louisiana, and North and South Carolina,—disfranchising 460,000 negroes; while two,—Virginia and Alabama,—have taken the initial steps to disfranchisement.” The question is being discussed in the States of Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia, though in the latter State the movement has received a setback.
—Thursday evening, August 2, over one thousand Italian anarchists of Paterson, N. J., assembled in mass meeting, ostensibly “to show that the Italians in Paterson had no connection with the plot to kill King Humbert.” The first speaker said: “If they ask us whether we planned the assassination, we answer, We did not. Still, it was inevitable. The people in Italy are starved and downtrodden. We can not answer for Bresci. Humbert himself, and the false social conditions, were to blame for this crime. I am not sorry for Humbert, but I am for Bresci and the tortures he is undergoing. We should stand our ground and fight for anarchy; we should resist the police when they attempt to deprive us of our rights. In the present condition of affairs the man must be a robber to exist.” The most moderate speaker of all said: “This is no time either to condemn or to praise Bresci’s deed; we must wait and see what the future will bring forth.” Yet some will still assert that the world is getting better every day, and that the United States has a world mission to teach people self-government.14
—Despite the protests of firearm manufacturers, the Belgian government has decided to prohibit the exportation of arms to China.
—It is expected that the exports of wheat this year from Argentina will amount to 75,000,000 bushels. In one week recently 4,300,000 bushels were shipped.
—All the military and naval forces in Italy have taken the oath of allegiance to King Emmanuel III, the successor of the late King Humbert. He was thirty years old last November.
—News has reached New Orleans that “a desperate battle between the Mexican troops and the Yucatan Indians” has been fought, “in which the government troops were badly routed and lost heavily.” The Mexicans numbered 3,000, and the Maya Indians 6,000 warriors.
—It is said that “although the new steel mill to be erected at Duquesne by the Carnegie Steel Company will cost more than $1,000,000, it will give employment to only 500 men, owing to the extensive use of labor-saving devices and automatic machinery for handling the product.”
—The latest combination in the iron and steel industry is the Crucible Steel Company, which embraces thirteen companies heretofore manufacturing crucible steel, and about ninety-five per cent of the output of such steel. The capital is $50,000,000, half common and half preferred stock.
—Governor Roosevelt said that “one of the things he regretted about leaving the governorship of the State of New York was the fact that he would not be able to carry out his plans concerning the cutting up of the Indian reservations in the State into homesteads, and the enfranchisement of the Indians.”
AUGUST STUDY OF THE FIELD: PART IV.
“Greece as a Mission Field: Part II.”
August 19–25.
(Text-book, Missionary Magazine.)
1. Who first preached the gospel of Christ in Greece?
2. What books of the Bible were addressed to these people?
3. How do the belief and practices of the Greek Church compare with the plain teaching of the Bible?
4. Give some evidences still existing which show that the Roman and Greek churches were at one time united.
5. Mention some of the differences that now exist between them.
6. What is the population of Greece? About how many Greeks are distributed in other countries?
7. What is the religious belief of these scattered ones? Give the total membership of the Greek Church.
8. What can you say of the number of places of worship, and the reverence shown them?
9. Describe the interior of the churches.
10. What can you say of the priests?
11. Describe the regular Sunday worship.
CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1900.
DISTRICT ONE.
Vermont, St. Johnsbury, Aug. 16-27
Maine, Ellsworth, Aug. 23 to Sept. 3
New York, Lyons, Aug. 30 to Sept. 10
West Virginia, Fairmont, Sept. 13-24
DISTRICT TWO.
Carolinas, Asheville, N. C., Aug. 23 to Sept. 2
Tennessee River, Paris, Tenn., Sept. 6-16
Cumberland Mission, Harriman, Tenn., Sept. 14-23
Florida, Terra Ceia, Sept. 28 to Oct. 8
Florida, Punta Gorda, Oct. 12-22
Florida, Ocala, Oct. 26 to Nov. 5
DISTRICT THREE.
Michigan, Ionia, Aug. 30 to Sept. 10
Ohio, Dayton, Aug. 15-27
Wisconsin (local), Green Bay, Aug. 20-27
Illinois, Kankakee, Aug. 23 to Sept. 2
Illinois (local), Salem, Sept. 13-23
Indiana, La Fayette, Aug. 16-26
Indiana, Muncie, Sept. 13-23
DISTRICT FOUR.
Nebraska (local), Oxford, Aug. 28 to Sept. 2
Nebraska (State), Seward, Sept. 18-23
Iowa, Parkersburg, Aug. 21-26
Iowa, Ruthven, Sept. 4-9
Iowa, Exira, Sept. 18-23
Iowa, Ottumwa, Oct. 2-7
DISTRICT FIVE.
Kansas (State), Emporia, Sept. 20-30
Missouri, Kansas City, Aug. 16-27
Oklahoma (State), Oklahoma City, O. T., Aug. 30 to Sept. 10
Colorado (State), Denver, Sept. 6-17
DISTRICT SIX.
California, Long Beach, Aug. 23 to Sept. 2
Montana (local), Red Lodge, Aug. 16-26
Montana (local), Bitter Root, Woodside, Aug. 30 to Sept. 9
North Pacific, Medford, Ore., Aug. 23 to Sept. 2
Utah, Salt Lake City, Aug. 15-22
OCT. 1, 1900, AND THEREAFTER.
By Editor
THE readers of the REVIEW have seen the announcement made through these columns as well as through the columns of our missionary paper, the Signs of the Times, that after October 1 of the present year the price of the Signs will be $1.50 per annum, in place of $1 as heretofore. The reasons why the brethren found it necessary to make this change have already been fully stated, and we are glad to note the quite universal agreement of our brethren in all parts of the field that this change was a necessity, and that they will do everything in their power to increase and extend the circulation of the paper, regardless of any difficulties that may present themselves before us as the work advances.
Owing to the fact that long-term subscriptions are less expensive to the office than short term, and in order to help any of our brethren who may desire to subscribe for the paper for a period of years, the Signs office will continue to hold open the offer that all those who subscribe for a year or more before October 1 can have the paper at the rate of one dollar a year. Of course this rate of one dollar can not be discounted to any of our Signs agents when the orders are taken for more than one year. Where a person orders the paper for two years or more, the full amount of one dollar a year must be sent in. Quite a number of our brethren and sisters are availing themselves of this opportunity. All orders for the paper should be addressed to Signs of the Times, Oakland, Cal.
NEW YORK CAMP-MEETING.
By George B. Thompson
The annual camp-meeting of the New York Conference will be held at Lyons, August 30 to September 10. Lyons is situated midway between Syracuse and Rochester, on the New York Central, West Shore, and Fall Brook railroads, all of which are two-cent roads. The grounds being accessible from all parts of the State, we expect to see a large number of our people present. Plan now to be there. A good company of canvassers have begun operations in the city and surrounding country, under the direction of the State agent, selling “Ladies Guide,” “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation,” “Patriarchs and Prophets,” “Coming King,” etc.
The meeting will be held on the fair ground, which is conveniently near to the city. It is expected that Elder M. C. Wilcox, editor of the Signs of the Times; Elder I. H. Evans, president of the Foreign Mission Board; Elder H. W. Cottrell, District superintendent; Elder Allen Moon, president of I. R. L. A.; and Professor Griggs, of South Lancaster Academy, will be present, and perhaps others, besides a number of our Conference laborers. And, best of all, Jesus and the holy angels will be with us to anoint us with the power of the Holy Spirit.
The annual sessions of the Conference and tract society will be held in connection with the meeting, and all delegates should plan to be present at the very first meeting. For further particulars see the Indicator. We hope all will fully appreciate the importance of attending this gathering of the remnant of Israel, and will not allow any ordinary thing to keep them at home. Bring the children. See Joel 2:13-16. Probation's hours are fast being numbered, the nations are angry, and Jesus is at the door. Come, and let us seek the Lord together.
G. B. THOMPSON.
Michigan Tract Society Annual Meeting
By J. D. Gowell
The Michigan Tract Society will hold its annual meeting, Aug. 30 to Sept. 10, 1900, at Ionia, in connection with the Michigan State Conference. The first session of the society will be held August 31, 1900, at 9 A. M. J. D. GOWELL, Pres.
Michigan Conference Session
By J. D. Gowell
THE next session of the Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Ionia, Mich., Aug. 30 to Sept. 10, 1900. We expect to call the Conference at nine o'clock Thursday morning. Let all the delegates be present at the first meeting.
J. D. GOWELL, Pres.
Michigan Conference Association Meeting
By J. D. Gowell
The Michigan Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, a legally organized corporation, will meet at Ionia, Aug. 30, 1900, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the body. The first meeting will be held Aug. 30, 1900, at 5 P. M. J. D. GOWELL, Chairman.
MAINE, NOTICE!
By E. O. Taylor
The next annual meeting of the Benevolent Association of Seventh-day Adventists of Maine will be held at Ellsworth, Me., Aug. 28, 1900, at 1 P. M., for the purpose of electing officers, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting. E. O. TAYLOR, Clerk.
Maine Camp-Meeting.
By H. C. B.
The Maine camp-meeting will be held at Ellsworth, August 23 to September 3. This is a new field, and we hope to see a good representation of our people present. We have secured reduced rates over the M. C. R. R., also over the B. & A. Tickets will be on sale from August 23 to September 2; also on the Maine Central, August 20, to accommodate those who come to the workers' meeting.
The annual session of the Conference will be held during the camp-meeting. Let each church elect its delegates, and send credentials to the secretary, E. H. Morton, North Deering, Me.
H. C. B.
CAROLINA CAMP-MEETING.
By J. O. Johnston
The camp-meeting for North and South Carolina will be held at Asheville, August 23 to September 2. The camp will be situated about halfway between the depot and the city, within half a block of the street-car line. Take the Biltmore street-car line, at the left hand, as you leave the depot.
When you buy your tickets, ask your agent for a “summer-rate round-trip ticket to Asheville.” This rate will be about two cents a mile. All are expected to bring what bedding they will need. If you wish tents, you should write to M. H. Johnston, 110 Haywood St., Asheville, N. C., or to the undersigned. State whether you wish a floor in your tent or not. Tents without floors will rent for two dollars each. There will be a dining tent on the grounds, where good meals can be had for fifteen cents each. Here the principles of hygienic cookery will be practically set forth.
Let all plan to be on the grounds promptly on Thursday. Do not put off coming till Friday, and thus be found unprepared for the Sabbath.
J. O. JOHNSTON.
ADDRESSES
THE permanent address of Elder K. O. Russell is Box 208, South Lancaster, Mass.
The address of R. W. Parmele is changed from 2313 Allis Ave., to 412 Troup St., Kansas City, Kan.
The address of J. H. Rogers is changed from Desmet, to Beresford, S. D.
Address of Mrs. S. L. Wood Wanted
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THANKS
By Chas. N. Eastman
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Our literature is eagerly read by the people when placed in their reach. There is a great work yet to be done, and the indications are that the time in which to do it is very short, so do not let your papers lie on the shelves; they are too richly laden with precious truth.
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