THE greatest woman painter of the world furnishes an example of privations overcome that would have discouraged any ordinary person. Her father was a struggling artist, giving drawing-lessons, while his wife gave lessons on the piano from house to house, sewing late into the night to help provide for their children. Poverty and hard work killed the young mother, and the three oldest children were put with a plain woman, while the youngest was sheltered by relatives.
Rosa did not love school, but would roam for whole days in the fields and come home with her arms full of daisies and marigolds. As she did not love books, the father, plainly seeing that she must needs support herself, found a place for her with a sewing woman. The child was well-nigh broken-hearted; she disliked the close sewing-room more even than the close school-room. She longed for the flowers and sunshine, made her fingers bleed from the hated needles, and grew so ill that her poor father took her home again and put her in school. Very sensitive—as what poet or painter ever was born otherwise?—she cried herself sick because her shoes were coarse, her dress of calico, her cup tin, with an iron spoon, while many wore silk, had silver mugs, and looked refined and artistic.
Well-nigh discouraged, the father took Rosa home again and let her hang about his studio, busying herself just as she chose. He observed that she modeled and copied whatever she saw him do, and sang at her work the whole day long. Finally he awoke to the fact that the little girl who hated the stitching had wonderful talent. He began to teach her carefully in drawing; he sent her to the Louvre to copy from the old masters. She worked with an ardor and persistency almost unheard of. Finally an elderly English gentleman said to her, "Your copy, my child, is faultless. Persevere as you have begun, and I prophesy that you will be a great artist." These words put new life into her breast. She went home thinking the same thoughts she had in school when she ate with the iron spoon—that sometime she would be as famous as her school-mates and have some of the comforts of life. She sold the copies she made, and gave the money to her father, who meantime had married a widow with two children, and now a baby had come into the home. To support a wife and seven children would take quite all the talented father and daughter might earn.
Rosa was now seventeen. She had painted a goat, and was so pleased that she determined to make animals a specialty. But, as she had no money, she must go into the country on foot to the farms. Would not the people be amazed at a slight girl coming alone to paint? She never asked. She had a distinct purpose, and nothing could swerve her from it; nobody could consume her time with idle talk or social calls. She usually took a piece of bread in her pocket to eat at the dinner hour, but often forgot to eat it. Often she came home drenched by the rain, but she had painted, and that was happiness enough. But she must use other means to study animals. She would go to the great slaughter-pens just outside Paris. So tender-hearted that she could not bear to see the slightest insect hurt, she forced herself to see the killing that she might know how to depict the death agony on canvas. As she sat on a bundle of hay with her colors about her, the drovers and butchers would crowd near, but no insult was ever offered her. They soon became proud of the enthusiastic girl, and probably would have killed any person who would have harmed her.
After the hard work of the day was over, Rosa would illustrate books at night or model little groups of animals for the figure dealers. Her two brothers, Auguste and Isadore, had become, the one a painter and the other a sculptor. Poor as they were, they improvised a sort of garden on their roof, where they kept a sheep with long silky wool, and the boys made for Rosa's birds a net into which they could fly from their cage. Very often Isadore would carry the sheep down on his back from the sixth story, where they lived, to the ground below, and then bring him home again to the topmost story.
At nineteen Rosa was to test the great world. She sent two pictures to the fine-art exhibition, "Goats" and "Rabbits," and the press gave kind notices. The next year three pictures attracted more attention. Two years later she exhibited twelve pictures. Then, in 1849, when she was twenty-seven, and had worked constantly for over a dozen years, the time of triumph came. Her great picture "Cantal Oxen" took the gold medal, and was purchased by England. Vernet, the president of the commission of awards, in the midst of a proud assemblage proclaimed the new laureate and gave her a superb Sèvres vase from the Government.
The young artist was profoundly thankful, but the poor father was overwhelmed with joy. He was made a director in a Government school, but the release from poverty and unremitting labor came too late, and he died soon after, and Rosa was made director in his stead.
Orders now poured in upon the young artist from every side. Four years later her "Horse Fair" was painted, after a year and a half spent in preparatory studies. It was purchased by A. T. Stewart, of New York, and last year was given by Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the one picture being worth over fifty thousand dollars. For this picture Napoleon III. was asked to bestow upon her the cross of the Legion of Honor, but he hesitated because she was a woman. Eugénie, however, had more courage; and when she visited Rosa Bonheur at her beautiful studio at Fontainebleau threw her arms about her neck and kissed her; after the empress departed the artist found pinned upon her breast the cross of the Legion of Honor. She received the Leopold cross of honor from the king of Belgium, said to be the first ever conferred upon a woman. Her brother Auguste, now dead, received the French honor two years after Rosa. She gives away much of her very large income. She dresses simply, always wearing black, brown, or gray, with a close-fitting jacket over a plain skirt. Her working dress is a long gray linen or blue flannel blouse. She is small, with a noble and intelligent face, and is an indefatigable worker. She says: "Art is an absorbent. It demands heart, brain, soul, body, the entireness of the votary; nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art; it is my husband, my world, my life-dream, the air I breathe."
When Prussia conquered France, orders were given that Rosa's home and paintings should be carefully preserved. Thus does the world honor genius.
Henry Bacon, the artist, says of her home: "Behind the house is a large park divided from the forest by a high wall; a lawn and flower-beds are laid out near the buildings, and on the lawn, in pleasant weather, graze a magnificent bull and cow, which are kept as models. In a wire inclosure are two chamois from the Pyrenees, and farther removed from the house, in the wooded part of the park, are inclosures for sheep and deer, each of which knows its mistress. Even the stag bearing its six-branched antlers receives her caresses like a dog. . . . The studio is decorated with stuffed heads of animals of various kinds—boars, bears, wolves, and oxen—and birds perch in every convenient place."
THE FIRST TANGLE.
By Congregationalist
ONCE in an Eastern palace wide,
A little child sat weaving;
So patiently her task she plied,
The men and women at her side
Flocking round her, almost grieving.
"How is it, little one," they said,
"You always work so cheerily?
You never seem to break your thread,
Or snarl or tangle it instead
Of working smooth and clearly.
"Our weaving gets so worn and soiled,
Our silk so frayed and broken;
For all we've fretted, wept, and toiled,
We know the lovely pattern's spoiled
Before the king has spoken."
The little child looked in their eyes,
So full of care and trouble,
And pity chased the sweet surprise
That filled her own, as sometimes flies
The rainbow in a bubble.
"I only go and tell the king,"
She said, abashed and meekly;
"You know he said in everything—"
"Why so do we!" they cried, "we bring
Him all our troubles weekly."
She turned her little head aside;
A moment let them wrangle;
"Ah, but," she softly then replied,
"I go and get the knot untied
At the first little tangle!"
Oh, little children—weavers all!
Our broidery we spangle
With many a tear that would not fall
If on our King we would but call
At the first little tangle.
The Shadow in Our Sunshine
THERE is always a spot in our sunshine; it is the shadow of ourselves.—Carlyle.
Sharing Others’ Joy and Grief
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your own lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
HEALTH OF SCHOOL-GIRLS.
Mrs. M. E. Blake, writing to the Boston Journal, makes the following sensible points in regard to the causes of ill health among school-girls:—
It is not the schools which are answerable for the decay of vigor among our female population. Aside from the few cases of peculiar weakness and dullness which must always be found as exceptions to the mass, there is nothing required in our modern plan of study which should overtax the mental or material strength of any young person. Brought up, as she should be, on simple fare, in simple dress, with care for her hours of exercise and sleep, and kept religiously apart from the vanities and excitements of fashionable dissipation, there is no honest reason why her intellect, her nerves, and her general welfare should not be fully and splendidly developed under the amount of brain work required of her.
Where cases can be found in which the home life even approximates to healthful treatment, there will be no stain of physical or nervous decay found with the girls. There will be instead good digestion and clear eyes, straight backs and sturdy limbs, and an enjoyment of the simple pleasures of every-day life, which will be the best assurance of a capacity for innocent and lasting happiness afterward. The child will not wear the outward semblance of the woman at fifteen; she will not have been delivered over to the outrageous distortion of the corset at the time when nature needs the freest use of her nerves and muscles in order to adjust fairly and strongly the delicate balance of maturity. She will not know the weights of bustles and heavy skirts dragging her out of the gay lightness of childhood into the weariness of backache and headache. She will not be familiar with the unhealthy brilliancy of the theater or the unseasonable diversion of the ball-room; and her eyes will be as free as her soul from any stain of heaviness. She will not be coming home on foot or in a carriage at a time of night when she should be hours deep in peaceful slumber; with the further hindrance of dubious escort, and the climax of frivolous and worthless small talk, sweeping away the bloom of modesty and candor and that sweet audacious innocence which should be the pride and crown of her nature.
These are not the conditions to help a girl in preparing her tasks without weariness, and bringing a clear head to the solution of mathematical problems and Latin sentences. The modern child-woman has sometimes one, sometimes another, sometimes, alas! all of these make-weights to contend with. And the parent, or guardian, or friend—who notes the beginning of nervous strain, the unnatural fluctuation between feverish vivacity and great lassitude, the energetic remonstrance of tortured head and stomach—cuts the Gordian knot of difficulty by blaming the school instead of his own weakness or wickedness.
HISTORY OF THE MAGNA CHARTA.
KING JOHN, son of Henry II. of England, was one of the most wicked and overbearing of monarchs. At length, being overcome by the evils which had been brought on his kingdom by his own misconduct, he yielded his obstinacy, and became reconciled to the church.
Fearing the invasion of his dominions by the French king, Philip II., he delivered his crown to the Pope, from whom he agreed to hold it as a vassal; but still his natural love for tyranny seemed to increase. He scorned his nobles, and sought every opportunity in his power of infringement upon their privileges. At length the barons were unable to endure his tyranny, and, directed by Lancton, the archbishop, they formed a conspiracy against him.
They assembled at Runnymede, and after much opposition compelled him to sign and seal a famous document, called the Magna Charta, which is still regarded as the "great bulwark of English liberty." After he had signed it, and the people left, he gave vent to his rage in very exciting language.
By it important liberties and privileges are secured to every order of men in the kingdom.
The Magna Charta was signed on the 15th of June, A. D. 1215.
King John died the following year, after a reign of eighteen years, "with scarcely a single virtue to redeem a thousand vices."
He was succeeded by his son, Henry III., who was only nine years of age.—Selected.
OVERGROWN BOYS.
THERE can scarcely be a more refined method of cruelty than that of ridiculing the awkward movements of a boy whose superfluity of flesh or stature prevent his moving gracefully among his more naturally formed brothers and sisters; and yet fathers and mothers, as well as thoughtless friends or playmates, are often guilty of thus wounding the feelings of the overgrown boy who is so unfortunate as to have been born among them. Even the attainment to a noble and perfectly symmetrical stature (which the years always bring to such an one, if his health does not fail under the extra imposition of labor which his mistaken friends require of him) cannot atone for the cruel hurts he thus receives. If he be a sensitive child, they rankle in his very soul, and do untold harm then.
Some parents are in such haste for their children to become men and women that they force them on, hasten their development in every possible way, and if nature favors them by bestowing a more than ordinary growth in bone and flesh upon any of their children, they are rejoiced to have the excuse to impose duties and exact behavior according to the number of pounds avoirdupois, when in reality that is no standard to go by. Too many children are thus defrauded of their childhood, and who is prepared to answer to such a charge, by and by, when it shall be brought against him?—Good Housekeeping.
HOW TO DRINK MILK.
Some complain that they cannot drink milk without being "distressed by it." The most common reason why milk is not well borne is due to the fact that people drink it too quickly. If a glass of it is swallowed hastily it enters into the stomach and then forms in one solid, curdled mass, difficult of digestion. If, on the other hand, the same quantity is sipped, and three minutes at least are occupied in drinking it, then on reaching the stomach it is so divided that, when coagulated, as it must be by the gastric juice, while digestion is going on, instead of being in one hard, condensed mass, upon the outside of which only the digestive fluids can act, it is more in the form of a sponge, and in and out of the entire bulk the gastric juice can play freely and perform its function.—American Analyst.
SALE OF TOBACCO TO MINORS.
A LAW prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors was passed at the last session of the Illinois Legislature, and its good effects are already apparent, in Chicago at least. The Chicago Tribune having made an investigation of the subject says: "It has put an end effectually in this city to the sale of cigarettes to school-boys, a traffic from which the proprietors of the petty school stores derived considerable profit. One of the principals who had most reason to complain, says the effect of the law has been so beneficial that there is scarcely a boy in the school of which he has charge who now uses tobacco in any of its forms. The women principals have been specially zealous in securing observance of the law."—Fire and Hammer.
Solomon’s Strict Temperance Pledge
THERE never was a more strict temperance pledge than that of Solomon. We think it sufficient to say, Drink not; but he said, "Look not on the wine." The color, the sparkle, the very sight of the intoxicating draught, is enough to awaken the appetite of some men, so that it becomes necessary for them to make a covenant even with their eyes.—Sel.
Texas Fever and Anthrax in Cattle
MR. A. S. MERCER, editor of the Northwestern Live Stock Journal and agent of the Bureau of Animal Industries of the United States, has recently visited the Salinas Valley, this State, in an official capacity, and reports that at the time of his visit large numbers of horses and cattle were dying in Monterey County of Texas fever, anthrax, and other diseases. The germs of anthrax cannot be killed by burial, but the carcasses of its victims must be burned to exterminate them. The disease is so very contagious that persons engaged in butchering become infected and die. In Gonzales the Spaniards have been taking the beef killed by the disease, jerking or drying it, and selling it in the Salinas market, from whence it is shipped to San Francisco.
The Board of Health appointed Dr. Barrows, a veterinary expert from Washington, with two assistants to subject every animal butchered for the San Francisco market to critical inspection.
RELIGIOUS.
—Palestine now has 500,000 inhabitants, “not as many,” says the Jewish Times and Observer, “as the city of Chicago.” Of these only seven per cent. are Jews.
—A Jewish paper states that the Baron and Baroness Edmond de Rothschild are about to visit Russia, in order to examine the condition of the Jews there.
—A Catholic priest from Millhousen, Ind., recently returned from a visit to Rome, is credited with the statement that “the affairs of the church in Italy are in bad condition, the Pope and the priests being daily subjected to abuse by the Government and the people. The greater portion of the people in Rome are infidels, and this is one of the reasons why they are so bitter in their hatred of the church.” The statement that the greater part of the people are infidels is not at all surprising since infidelity is the legitimate fruit of Catholicism “gone to seed.”
—The American Hebrew characterizes as “a pious outrage” the expending of $500,000 annually in efforts to convert the Jews. It calls the missionaries “miserable wretches,” and says that the money expended by them “is put to a disgraceful and disreputable use which should cause a blush to mantle the cheeks of those who contribute thereto.” These are bitter words and certainly indicate that a people who cherish such feelings toward those who are trying to do them good stand sadly in need of conversion, whatever may be their prospects for such a change of heart.
—“Peter’s Pence,” which is no small part of the Pope’s income, is said to have been originally an English idea, and was at the start a voluntary tribute paid by the English kings to the Pope. After the Pope began to lose his domains, the French began to contribute to his needs by what they called the denier de St. Pierre, and in France the greatest sums are yet collected for this purpose. Since 1822 the French have given to the Propaganda Society alone the sum of 220,000,000 francs. In the year 1887, of 6,648,000 francs contributed to this Society, France alone sent 4,355,000 francs, or more than two-thirds of the whole sum.
—Thibet is now the only country barred to missionary operations. But notwithstanding the fact that at present they are not permitted to give the gospel to the 10,000,000 inhabitants of that country, the British and Foreign Bible Society has translated the Scriptures into the Thibetan language, and now has a warehouse filled with Bibles printed in that tongue. The society has confidence in the purpose of God to give the Bible to the whole world, and to open the doors of the nations to his word.
—Ever since the occupation of Rome by the king of Italy, until the first of July last, the Pope has refused to accept the annual stipend voted to him by the Italian Parliament, and it was placed in the treasury subject to his orders. Since that time, however, he has been drawing upon the fund. It is thought that this action is due in part to the falling off of receipts from Ireland, where the Pope’s rescript has had a disastrous effect upon contributions. Some also regard it as an indication that the Italian Government is to be recognized by the Vatican. The Italian premier has already announced that when this recognition is accorded the State will make all reasonable concessions to the church.
SECULAR.
—Snow fell in Montreal October 9 to a depth of 5.8 inches.
—The steamer Baltic sunk at her dock in Liverpool October 9.
—Petrel, the first war-ship built in Baltimore, was launched the 13th inst.
—The official bulletin up to October 13 shows total number of cases of yellow fever in Jacksonville as 3,536; deaths, 311.
—The first labor trouble on the Northern Pacific occurred October 13, when all the yardmen went out on a strike for higher wages.
—Over $100,000 were raised in New York and Brooklyn for the yellow fever sufferers, besides $50,000 which passed through Mayor Hewitt’s hands.
—It is stated that the Italian Government is unearthing a huge Socialist conspiracy. It has been decided to greatly increase the strength of the expedition for the relief of Emin Bey.
—Twenty thousand Yorkshire colliers have given notice that they will strike unless ten per cent. advance in wages is granted them. Fifty thousand more will probably follow their example.
—Three dhows, having 204 slaves on board, were captured recently off Mocha by the British man-of-war, Osprey. The captain and four slaves were killed before the slavers surrendered.
—A secular paper says: “There are 40,000 unemployed men in Chicago. And in face of this the cardrivers strike! Labor organizations, it appears, can only learn wisdom by bitter experience.”
—The Cincinnati and St. Louis Express after leaving Washington at 10:45 P. M. October 6, came in collision with the East bound freight train near Dickerson. Three train men were killed and six injured.
—In one hundred years the population under the rule of Great Britain has increased from 35,000,000 to 330,000,000 people. The territorial extent of its dominion is estimated to be 10,000,000 square miles.
—A passenger and a freight train collided on an Ohio road near Massillon, October 11. Both engines, two passenger coaches, and several cars were completely wrecked. Four men were injured, two of them fatally.
—Lord Salisbury, under pressure of the Canadian Government, has instructed the British minister at Washington to protest against President Cleveland’s retaliation message as an act of hostility toward a friendly Government.
—A biography, relating solely to the domestic life of the late Emperor Frederick of Germany, the authorship of which is accredited to his wife, will soon be published in London. The profits are to be devoted to the hospital for the treatment of diseases of the throat.
—A disastrous fire along the New York wharf, the 11th inst., burned several vessels, loaded with oil and naptha, and destroyed warehouses along the dock. Four firemen and a laborer were badly burned in consequence of an explosion. Total loss is estimated at $365,000.
—A terrible railway accident occurred October 10, on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at Mud Run, Pa. A large excursion train was run in sections from Wilkesbarre and other points along the line to Hazelton. On the return trip a rear section ran into a forward section. Several cars were telescoped. Eighty persons were killed outright, and it is estimated that twice as many were injured.
—The British steamer Wensledale was detained October 11 opposite Hospital Islands, N. Y., on account of the illness of most of its crew with chagres fever. The captain died of the fever September 22. The vessel is filthy, and the sufferers seemingly have received little care.
—The steamer Queen, of the National Line, came in collision with the fishing schooner Madeline, off the banks of Newfoundland, October 5, cutting her in two. She sank immediately; the crew were asleep in their bunks, and only those on deck were rescued. Twenty persons perished.
—Dr. William Pepper, consulting physician during the last illness of the late General Sheridan, refuses to render a bill, but desires that his services should be regarded only as an expression of the deep and lasting obligation which he, in common with all others, owed to General Sheridan.
—Since 1871 there have been about seventy vessels wrecked in the Arctic waters. The Government vessels since cruising there have rescued over 400 men. There are over 2,000 men employed in the Arctic whaleships; but there is not a doctor among them to apply to in case of serious need.
—On account of the recent advance in wheat, the local bakers of Chicago and New York have decided to raise the price of bread one cent per loaf. According to one baker’s estimate, 10,000 barrels of flour a week less will be consumed in New York so long as the prevailing stringency continues.
—The greatest depth measured in the ocean exceeds 27,000 feet, and it has been estimated that the mean depth is about 12,500 feet. About 5 per cent. of the ocean area is less than 600 feet in depth, and a somewhat smaller proportion more than 18,000 feet. About 17 per cent. is less than 3,000 feet.
—The Genesee Conference, at Rochester, N. Y., after a heated debate, adopted resolutions disapproving high license by a vote of 132 to 58. Strong resolutions pledging the Conference to abstain from political action of any kind, or influencing members of churches in political action, were adopted unanimously.
—Four German frigates lying in the Bay of Naples for the purpose of firing a salute in honor of Emperor William upon his arrival there, received orders to proceed instantly to Zanzibar, to protect German residents, whose lives and property are endangered by a rising among the natives. They carry 1,630 men and 66 guns.
—In the Bohemian Diet at Prague, Count Thun, German Conservative, expressed the hope that Emperor Francis Joseph would signalize the fortieth year of his reign by crowning himself king of Bohemia. The suggestion caused a sensation. Vienna papers in comments on the matter do not approve the suggestion.
—The vineyards of Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties are infested with a disease that baffles the skill of the most expert viticulturists, and threatens to destroy the vineyards. The leaves and the fruit are both shriveled up, and a microscopic examination shows a plentiful growth of fungus on both stalks and leaves.
—An increase in the corn crop of 1888 over that of 1887 will be produced almost entirely in the seven great corn States, viz.: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. The total for the seven States is 1,435,184,859, as compared with 780,425,000, the yield reported by the department of agriculture for 1887, or a gain of 654,759,858 bushels. Assuming that the crop in other States will be equal to that reported for last year by the department, viz., 675,736,000 bushels, the total corn crop of 1888 will be 2,110,920,858 bushels.
—At Reading, Pa., the ceremonies attending the laying of the corner-stone of St. Mary’s Polish Catholic Church, were interrupted by a serious accident. A temporary floor had been laid across the joists and walls of the new edifice, upon which about one thousand people were crowded. The newly constructed walls suddenly gave way, one-fourth of the floor fell, and two hundred people were precipitated to the ground, a distance of eighteen feet. Fully two hours expired before the wounded could be extricated and cared for. One hundred and sixty are on the list of the injured.
—The street-car strikers of Chicago declared a few days after the inception of the strike that cars would not be permitted to run until their demands were met. Several conflicts have occurred between the strikers and the police. The efforts toward a settlement have proved fruitless. The command to the strikers is to “see that no cars go out of the barn,” while the chief of police declares, “We shall meet force with force and the cars will be run.” One man succeeded in driving a car through a frenzied mob; but when he reached the barn, his jaw was broken, one cheek cut open, one eye closed, and the backs of both hands were cut to the bone.
THE RAISIN INDUSTRY.
THE profits of the raisin industry in California are such that there would be no hardship to extensive grape-growers if prohibition were to become a law in this State. When Mr. G. G. Briggs, the father of the California raisin industry, first began to ship raisins to the East he received seventy-five cents a box. The same quality raisins now sell at from $2.50 to $4.00 per box, and will average $3.00. In Fresno County there are vineyards that yield ten tons of grapes to the acre. These dried would make 250 boxes, which, at $3.00 per box, would bring $750. At these prices and at the present demand for California raisins, our citizens need not be afraid of ruining our grape industry by adopting prohibition.
ICE IN THE SICK-ROOM.
To keep ice in the sick-room, cut a piece of flannel about nine inches square, and secure it by a ligature about the mouth of an ordinary tumbler so as to leave the cup-shaped depression of flannel within the tumbler to about half its depth. In the flannel cup so formed pieces of ice may be preserved many hours, all the longer if a piece of flannel from four to five inches square be used as a loose cover to the ice cup. Cheap flannel with comparatively open meshes is preferable, as the water easily drains through it, and the ice is kept quite dry.—Selected.
Sanitarium Training School
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
Regular Term begins November 1. Students Received at Any Time.
THIS school has now been in operation for several years with constantly increasing patronage and success. A large number of young men and women have been fitted for eminent usefulness, and are now engaged in positions in which they are proving the value of the instruction received in the relief of suffering, and earning an independent support. There is no field of usefulness in which intelligent and well-trained young men and women can more easily find employment and opportunity for philanthropic effort accompanied by fair remuneration.
Special Advantages.
The advantages offered by this school are in many respects superior to those offered by any other, not excepting the older schools in the large cities. Its special advantages may be briefly stated as follows:—
1. This school is connected with the largest Sanitarium in the world, which affords opportunities for practical observation not to be found elsewhere.
2. The methods, appliances, and facilities which are utilized here far surpass in extent what can be found anywhere else, affording a better opportunity for gaining familiarity with scientific methods than any other school.
3. Students in this school have an opportunity to acquire a practical knowledge of much that is taught only theoretically in other schools, or is omitted altogether.
4. A pleasant home and agreeable social surroundings instead of the prison-like atmosphere of the ordinary hospital.
5. Permanent employment will be given to those who prove themselves competent and worthy of encouragement.
For further information desired, address,
SANITARIUM,
BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN.
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By E. J. WAGGONER.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF,
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Emperor William Visits Rome
WILLIAM II., the young German emperor, has made his contemplated visit to Rome and has been honored by both the King and the Pope. Contrary to the program announced some time since, William first paid his respects to King Humbert and later to Pope Leo. It is now asserted that "the desperate and almost undignified attempts of the prelates surrounding the Pope to extort a pledge that the visit of the youthful Kaiser was not to be regarded as an acknowledgment on his Majesty's part that Rome was the capital of United Italy, came to nothing, and the Emperor entered the Eternal City uncommitted in the present and uncompromised for the future upon the quarrel of the Vatican with the house of Savoy."
It is stated, however, that Emperor William observed carefully all the hair-splitting etiquette, which the Vatican persists in demanding of those who visit the great infallible after having enjoyed the hospitality of the Quirinal, and that he "bent his knee to the Pope." In the interview between the Pope and Emperor William, the former emphasized the necessity of the restoration of the temporal power, and said that all sovereigns should unite to assure it.
The Emperor replied that it would be more to the Pope's advantage to unite with those who represent the principles of order and social conservatism, and thereby better secure the peace of the world.
Alluding to this interview, the Osservatore Romano, the Papal organ, says that it has not changed the position of affairs, and that Europe will never enjoy permanent peace until the temporal power of the Pope shall have been restored.
