p. 254 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 16. (4/20/1888)

Health and Temperance.

By Kate Upson Clark

THE IMMORALITY OF SICKNESS.

THE head of a well-known seminary used to say to her pupils: "The time will come when men will be fined and imprisoned for being sick. In this age of intelligence and light, it is a crime to be sick." In a country and a race where hereditary weakness, dense ignorance, and unavoidable accidents are responsible for a large portion of the illness suffered, this excellent lady's sweeping prophecy will not come true at present. But, leaving out of sight the classes named, is she so very far out of the way? Among us who read and think, and are supposed to understand something of the laws of our own bodies, is there not a vast number of ailments which we might avoid perfectly well—except for blameworthy carelessness, or wrong indulgence of appetite, or silly fear of the criticisms of our "friends"?

A lady remarked, not long ago, that she had not been ill for years but that she could trace her trouble to some trivial risk which she ran with her eyes open. "I admit," she said, "that I, and I only, am to blame for those ill days which cause so much trouble to my friends, and so much wear and tear of nerve and body to myself. My Maker gave me a fairly good constitution, enough intelligence so that I know what I ought to do, and strength of purpose enough so that, if I choose, I can control myself—and yet, with all these advantages, I am silly and wicked enough to bring illness upon myself sometimes."

A prominent and respected citizen of one of our inland towns had a very nice pie for dinner the other day, and was helping himself to a second piece, when his daughter said, "Take care, father, or you will surely bring on one of your headaches."

"I declare," he said (as we have all heard people say sometimes under similar circumstances), "this pie is so good that it's worth a little trouble. I've got to have another piece, anyway."

He was laid up for three days afterward, and paid for three visits from the doctor during their painful course. Was not that man directly to blame for all the trouble he made others as well as himself?

Dr. Johnson says: "Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick." It is sure that, with the exception of some of earth's Heaven-inspired saints, most of us do lose what little virtue we possess under the spell of wearing pain, the consciousness that our business is going awry, and the other trials attendant upon illness. Our sanitary experts declare that the vast majority of the crimes committed in the world are due primarily to bad food, or to hunger. It is a well-established fact that very many men and women acquire the drinking habit from the craving of the stomach, which there is no nutritious food to satisfy. A thoroughly sane mind can exist in only a thoroughly sane body.

In view of the facts here presented, which are only types of hundreds familiar to us all, we are forced to admit that by exercising the faculties with which a kind Providence has endowed us—our intelligence, our self-restraint—we may avoid by far the greater part of the physical ills which our flesh is heir to. Since these ills bring trouble to our families, from the actual exertions they are forced to make; cause expense which we can often ill afford to bear; presumably shorten our lives, and make us less able to do useful work and bear hard strains in the future; and, above all, strengthen the always strong enough tendency in human nature to center its thoughts in self rather than in higher and altruistic channels—since these things are so, most of our little illnesses become absolute immoralities in us, and we should hate them sincerely, and shun them by every means in our power.—Kate Upson Clark.

IT PAYS TO THINK.

A STRIKING instance of the extent to which labor-saving machinery is carried nowadays, says the Industrial Journal, is shown in the tin-can industry. Everybody knows tin cans are made by machinery. One of the machines used in the process solders the longitudinal seams of the cans at the rate of fifty a minute, the cans rushing along in a continuous stream. Now, of course, a drop or two of solder is left on the can. The drop, on the outside can be cleaned away, but it is not so easy to secure the drop left on the inside. It wouldn't do, of course, to retard the speed of the work; better waste the drop. It is only a trifle, anyhow, and to ninety-nine men in one hundred it would not seem worth a minute's attention. The hundredth man worked for a firm using one of these machines, and he set about devising an ingenious arrangement for wiping the inside of the can, thereby saving that drop of solder, and leaving none to come in contact with the contents of the can. He was encouraged by his employers to patent his invention, did so, and has already received several thousand dollars in royalties for its use. As the machine solders twenty thousand cans a day, the solder saved by his invention amounted to $15 a day. It pays to think as you work.—Scientific American.

MEDICINE GODS.

By Good Health

The Chinaman, if a Taoist, consults, when sick, the "god of medicine," which is found among other gods in Taoist temples. He makes his complaint to the god, and the priest tells him precisely what medicines to take for the cure of his malady. His faith is unbounded. He expects a cure, and undoubtedly in many cases his expectations are fulfilled. This is the Chinese mode of mind-cure.

There are, in this enlightened land even, those who have medicine gods. One worships homeopathy; another, allopathy; another, electricism; another, hydropathy; another, animal magnetism; and there are some who even bow down to so gross a fetish as clairvoyance, or mind-cure. There is gradually growing among people, however, an abiding faith in rational medicine, a system sufficiently comprehensive to include every remedy of value afforded by the whole range of medical science, but which has no fellowship with charlatans of any sort, material or metaphysical.—Good Health.

CLEANING WELLS.

MANY farmers are almost criminally careless about cleaning wells, and their families often suffer in consequence from disease caused by the use of impure water. Someone has truly said that it is fortunate for many that the house well sometimes becomes dry, because it gives an opportunity for cleaning it thoroughly. If it has not been cleaned for two or three years, pump it dry and go at it. Anyone will be surprised how much sediment a well accumulates even when its top is carefully guarded. Bad water is a great enemy to health and longevity.—Selected.

TEA-DRINKERS' DISORDER.

By John Harvey Kellogg

A WRITER in the Practitioner calls attention to the frequent occurrence of dyspepsia in tea-drinkers, in particular, as the result of the astringent properties of tea. I have met scores of cases in which dyspepsia was readily cured by abstinence from tea or coffee.—J. H. Kellogg, M. D.

Mistakes as Teachers

No lessons are so impressive as those our mistakes teach us.—Woolsey.

"WHAT IS YOUR FATHER TEACHING YOU?"

By Canon Wynne

It is recorded of a certain philosopher, that a friend who went to visit him met the philosopher's little daughter before he met the philosopher himself. Knowing that the father was such a deeply learned man, he thought that the little girl must have learned something very grave, something very deep, from such a father, and he said to her, "What is your father teaching you?" The little maid looked at him with clear blue eyes, and just said, "Obedience." That was what the great and wise man taught his little girl, and I believe that is the most important lesson for children to learn, "to be obedient." It is a lesson necessary for happiness, for their safety, and, I think we may say, for their life.—Canon Wynne.

SECULAR.

—Afghanistan has a mean elevation of 4,000 feet above the sea.

—Considerable snow fell in portions of New York State on the 14th inst.

—The International Temperance Congress will be held next year in Norway.

—More than 167 African students matriculated in Berlin University this winter.

—Twenty-six hundred emigrants left Queenstown during the first week in April.

—A prairie fire in Dakota destroyed considerable farm property on the 13th inst.

—General Boulanger has been elected a member of the French Chamber of Deputies.

—Nova Scotia has 10,000,000 acres of land, about one-half of which is fit for tillage.

—The Wood Reaper Works at Youngstown, Ohio, were burned April 12. Loss, $250,000.

—The Oregon and California passenger depot in Salem, Oregon, was burned on the 14th.

—Forty persons were killed and about 500 injured by a tornado at Daca, India, on the 7th inst.

—The falling of a roof in New York on the 12th inst., killed one man and injured three others.

—General Boulanger seems to be the idol of the hour in France. The peasants hail him as liberator.

—April 14, the Big Sioux River in Dakota overflowed its banks and did considerable damage to property.

—Bricklayers and masons are on a strike in Mayence, Germany, and in consequence there has been some rioting.

—The fishing schooner James A. Garfield lost four of her crew off the banks of Newfoundland, a few days since.

—High water in the Mississippi River, at St. Paul, Minn., drove a number of families from their homes on the 12th inst.

—On the Khassaya Hills, India, the annual rainfall is 600 inches. Thirty inches have been known to fall on each of five succeeding days.

—The Belgium Government's extraordinary expenditure of 1888 is estimated at $10,000,000, mainly for new forts, military roads and artillery.

—March reports to the Department of Agriculture indicate that the crop of wheat and other winter grains this year will be below the average.

—It is stated that Alvin S. Clark, the great telescope maker, is considering the manufacture of a larger glass than that in the Lick telescope.

—Thirty years ago cultivated cranberries were unknown in the United States; last year the crop from cultivated plants amounted to 600,000 bushels.

—On the 10th inst. an explosion occurred in a dynamite factory at Grenoble, France, by which nine persons were killed and others seriously injured.

—At New York on the 8th inst., 1,500 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen passed resolutions indorsing the Burlington strike.

—A powder explosion on the 12th inst., in Russia, on the line of the St. Petersburg and Moscow Railroad, killed seven men and seriously injured several others.

—The New York Assembly has adopted a resolution providing for the submission to the people of a prohibition amendment. The Republicans voted for and the Democrats against it.

—It is claimed that Dakota has more schools than California, though the population of the latter is much the larger. California, however, is by no means deficient in educational facilities.

—It is stated from New York that the visible supply of grain for April is: Wheat, 33,583,420 bushels; corn, 8,803,951 bushels; oats, 3,777,491 bushels; rye, 327,276 bushels; barley, 1,556,142 bushels.

—On the 11th inst. Judge Brewer, of the United States Circuit Court, signed the final order directing the United States marshal to close the brewery of Seibold & Nagelin, Atchison, Kan., as a nuisance.

—Very high water is reported in the Eau Claire and Chippeway Rivers, Wisconsin, and considerable damage has been done to mills, bridges, and railroads. A great deal of lumber has been swept away.

—A Catholic priest at Livermore, Cal., has been sued for $5,000 damages for brutally beating with his cane a young man of nineteen years, for attending a base-ball match on Sunday instead of going to church.

—April 10 the water in the Vermillion River, Minn., rose higher than ever before known, and several bridges were swept away. Villages were inundated and at some points there was considerable distress.

—Thirteen persons were poisoned, two of them fatally, a few days since in Union County, Ga., by arsenic supposed to have been mixed with some corn meal by a discharged employe at the mill where the meal was ground.

—A few days since a deputy United States marshal and three Indian police attempted the capture of a gang of horse thieves in Indian Territory, when a conflict took place in which two of the officers and two of the thieves were killed. The deputy was seriously wounded.

—A trichina-infected ham eaten on Easter Sunday by a family of seven persons at Ridgeville, Ind., caused the serious illness of the entire family, and the death of the mother. Three daughters are not expected to live, and the other members of the family are in a dangerous condition.

—A number of Hungarian miners at Wilkesbarre, Pa., have been arrested for conspiracy to murder several persons who were witnesses against them two weeks since in a riot case. One man was assaulted and probably fatally injured. The methods adopted by these would-be assassins are similar to those of the Molly Maguires of twelve years ago.

—The Pope has written a letter to President Cleveland thanking him for his jubilee present of a copy of the Constitution of the United States. His "holiness" wishes peace and prosperity, and prays for the American people and the country, the perpetuation of their institutions of liberty, and the plentitude of God's favor. If any are inclined to doubt the sincerity of the "successor of St. Peter" let them study the history of the Papacy in every country where that iniquitous system has ever held sway, and these doubts will be—confirmed.

—One of the walls of the former Convent of San Fernando, in the city of Mexico, which was in progress of demolition, fell in on the 13th inst., burying many workmen in the ruins. Three dead bodies have been recovered. Fifteen or twenty persons were wounded more or less seriously.

—From the edition of Geo. P. Rowell & Co.'s "American Newspaper Directory," published April 2 (its twentieth year), it appears that the newspapers and periodicals of all kinds issued in the United States and Canada, now number 16,310, showing a gain of 890 during the last 12 months and of 7,136 in 10 years.

Obituary.

LENOX.—Died, at her residence in Gaston, Oregon, April 3, 1888, Mrs. Delia Lenox, aged nearly fifty-six years. She was born August 29, 1832, in Shelby, Ontario County, N. Y. For many years she was a member of the Baptist Church, but about six years since embraced the doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists, and until her death was a member of the church at Beaverton, Oregon. She leaves one sister, three brothers, a husband, and an only daughter to mourn their loss. A large and attentive congregation assembled at the house of worship, and listened to a discourse by the writer from 1 Cor. 15:19.

WM. POTTER.

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COOK.—Died at Pleasant Valley, Cal., March 30, 1888, of consumption, Don J. Cook, oldest son of Abraham and Lydia J. Cook, aged twenty years and seven months. The bereaved parents are comforted in their affliction by the hope of soon meeting their loved one where parting will be no more. Words of comfort were spoken by Mr. Lee, a Presbyterian minister, from 1 Cor. 15:55-58.

EMILY S. PINCKNEY.

COSS.—Died, March 7, 1888, at Maple Valley, King County, W. T. of pneumonia, after two weeks' sickness, Chester A. Coss, only child of Alpheus and Katie Coss. Age two years, one month, and eighteen days. Words of comfort by the writer, from Matt. 2:16-18; Jer. 31:15-17.

ALBERT BENSON.

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—It is claimed that Protestant baptisms in Japan average about 400 per month.

—A short time since Rev. C. H. Spurgeon said that till recently he knew by name and by face all the five thousand members of his church.

—An awful result of serpent worship in India is seen in the statement that 22,000 lives are lost annually by the bites of venomous reptiles and wild beasts.

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THE demand for well-educated physicians, who have been thoroughly trained in the methods of treatment employed and the principles taught at the Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, is constantly increasing. Recently, calls have come to us from various parts of the United States and from other countries, for competent physicians prepared not only to practice medicine, but to teach the principles of health and temperance reform. Two dozen competent persons could be thus employed at once, in addition to those who have already been trained for this work. The managers of the Sanitarium are sometimes called upon for assistance in the establishment of other institutions, which they would be very happy to render if they could do so without crippling their own work, which has continually grown faster than they were prepared to care for it to their satisfaction. They are ready and willing to provide for the increased demand for laborers in this great branch of the cause, by the education of competent persons, who, by now beginning the work of preparation, may be prepared when their services are even more greatly needed than at present.

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