South Carolina Tract Society, 1208 Calhoun St., Columbia, S. C.
South Dakota Tract Society, Drawer R, Redfield, S. Dak.
Tennessee, Eastern (See Cumberland Tract Society).
Tennessee River Tract Society (Western Tennessee), 509 Cole Bldg., Nashville, Tenn.
Texas Tract Society, North, Box 15, Keene, Texas.
Texas Tract Society, South, Box 755, San Antonio, Texas.
Texas Tract Society, West, Amarillo, Texas.
Upper Columbia Tract Society, College Place, Wash.
Utah Tract and Bible Society, 776 E. 6th South, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Vermont (See Northern New England).
Virginia Tract Society, 2705 W. Main St., Richmond, Va.
Washington Missionary Society, Western, 128 S. Brannan St., Auburn, Wash.
West Virginia Tract Society, 124 Marion St., Fairmont, W. Va.
Wisconsin Tract Society, Box 57, Grand Rapids, Wis.
Wyoming Tract Society, Crawford, Neb.
Above is a list of our authorized agencies and depositories, and we invite you to communicate with them if you wish to secure any books of periodicals advertised in this journal.
The Shadow of the Bottle
New Temperance Book
The Shadow of the Bottle
A Powerful Argument in Support of Prohibition
Just like “World’s Crisis” in size, number of pages, style of cover, and price.
Many Temperance StoriesSome StatisticsSixty-four Cartoons
PARTIAL CONTENTS
Down with the Bottle and Up with the Man
A Bloody Monster
The Saloon Keeper’s Advertisement
Tom Darcy; or Only the Husk
Drinking at Home
Sermon at a Maryland Drunkard’s Funeral
A True Story of One Woman’s Life
The Bridal Wine Cup
The Old Temperance Lecturer
The Prisoner at the Bar
“It Is Not My Business”
“Your Sign Is Down, Mister”
Tommy Brown
How Ned Barred Out Alcohol
Story of a Dry Town
The Growth of the Prohibition Movement
POINTS OF INTEREST
Cleaned from Its Pages
Does it pay to maintain 275 life-saving stations on our coasts at a cost of $4,500,000, and out of the same pockets maintain 25,000 life-destroying stations at a cost of $2,000,000,000 yearly?
Thirty-nine great railroads and many other industrial concerns forbid the use of alcoholic beverage among their employees.
Nations are going dry.
The ravages of drink are greater than those of war, pestilence, and famine combined.
The Titanic carried down 1,503 persons. Phelps estimates that alcohol carries off directly and indirectly 65,897 adults annually. This means 1,503 men and women every eight days the year around.
HELP! Remove the shadow of the bottle from the homes and hearts of men.
Demon Rum is still an unconquered foe, but he is on the run. Get into the fray at once, and have a part in the glorious victory just ahead. Your enlistment is needed. “The Shadow of the Bottle” is one of the best weapons that we have seen. Use it in your warfare against the liquor traffic.
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Destruction of the Lusitania
By Editor
Fierce Fighting, with Appalling Loss of Life, in Western Europe. The Allies’ Big Undertaking at the Dardanelles. America’s Difficult Problem of Keeping Neutral.
These are some causes of the revived interest in Europe’s imbroglio. The reading public is on the qui vive for the next sensational event.
What does the Bible say about it?
Read the SIGNS OF THE TIMES MAGAZINE, and know. It tells.
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES MAGAZINE, Mountain View, California
Health, Crops, and Spring Remedies
THE Journal of the American Medical Association, in reporting on some exhaustive experiments with cancer, reaches the conclusion that this dreadful disease cannot be directly transmitted in the line of heredity; but the child of cancerous parents inherits a tendency to develop the disease, and therefore should be extraordinarily careful, particularly in the matter of over-irritating any portion of the body.
THE University of California is conducting a series of correspondence lessons on growing dates. In their circular, they say that this is the newest and one of the most promising of California crops. It will be a fine thing if we can raise a good supply of this wholesome food product.
SULPHUR and molasses has been regarded as one of the standard remedies for the so-called “spring fever.” But Dr. Welzmiller, physical director of the Y. M. C. A. in New York, says, instead of taking such mixtures, “eat less steaks and more fruit salads and don’t forget exercise.”
Repudiating War Debts
THE discussion has already started as to whether or not Europe, following this war, will be able to carry the debt that will be created; and will not these warring nations repudiate their indebtedness? Theodore H. Price, in a recent number of the Outlook, discusses this question at length. He says:
“Nearly all students of the subject agree that the public debt of the belligerents, which was $22,300,000,000 before the war, will be about doubled by July 31. The taxation necessary to support and amortize this aggregated obligation of $44,600,000,000, together with the pensions and other financial burdens of the struggle, will be laid upon a population that found subsistence difficult enough on $57 per capita before the war, and will be terribly impoverished at its close.
“Bluntly stated, the question is: Will the people of Europe repudiate the debts now being incurred, either from choice or necessity?”
Following this statement, Mr. Price asks the further pertinent questions:
“Can they support the burden of the debt now being created? If they cannot, what will be the effect upon the world, and upon America in particular?”
In answering these questions, Mr. Price endeavors to show that it would not be such a great calamity; for to use his words:
“Nonpayment of a national debt simply means that a certain portion of the world's population is freed from the compulsion of being made to turn over part of its earnings to another portion who are thereby enabled to live with less effort. In this view of the matter, default would not be an unmixed evil. The result would probably be higher wages for the working classes, and increased cost of production in Europe, so that America would have less to fear from the competition of transatlantic industry.”
“Many of these theories are very interesting to think about; but why theorize on these great questions? A year ago, the world was convinced that it could never have any more war. It is now trying to make itself believe that this is the last war we will ever have, and many theories are presented as to what will be the outcome in the peace that concludes this strife.”
The hopeful and Utopian theories that are held out are not based upon a substantial foundation. Wherever you turn in this world, you find that society is crumbling. One of the difficult problems in England to-day is to keep down labor troubles while she is prosecuting her war. Germany must use a strong hand in order to hold the forces of socialism that are discontented with the present situation and would break away if they dared. And so it is throughout the world. These conditions of riotous discontent will be worse following this war than they have ever been in all past history. And instinctively, the people who do not know the ground upon which they are standing, will turn to a church and state religion as the only power that can curb these turbulent elements. We see already the strong currents that are tending in that direction.
SHELL FOR BIG SIEGE GUN
There will be a brief calm during that time; but it will be a calm that will be ominous to the individual who knows, through the sure, clear light of the prophetic pages, what to expect next. It will be the time to which the apostle Paul referred in the words, “When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” 1 Thess. 5: 3.
A World Gone Mad
By Editor
At this writing, Italy is just plunging into the great European war. What she will drag with her of the few small nations that are not actually in the strife, it is difficult to forecast. This leaves but very little of either Europe, Asia, or Africa at peace.
The United States has on her hands one of the most difficult diplomatic problems in dealing with Germany.
When we step aside from this actual war condition, we find England with difficulty holding down a strike that is liable to involve at least three million men. What amounts to a civil war is in progress in Portugal.
These terrible conditions of strife show the madness of the world. Is it any wonder that every little while editorial writers are repeating the statement, “It is a mad world, my masters”? When the Judgment day is pending, and the last great climax is just about reached, we read in the sacred Word that “the nations were angry.” We also read, in the same prophetic book, of the spirits of demons that would go to the kings of the earth and of the whole world to arouse them to the war of the great day of God Almighty—the great and final Armageddon.
The stage is already set for this awful work; the nations are in action; the climax cannot be far away.
Dogs and Rabies
TWO children in California have recently died from the bite of dogs that were afflicted with hydrophobia. This has led the State Board of Health to inaugurate a campaign to have as many dogs killed as possible, and all the rest of them muzzled.
There was an outbreak of hydrophobia recently among dogs, coyotes, cattle, and sheep, in Lake County, Oregon; and in view of such epidemics of this very dangerous disease, our State Board is urgent that such a high license shall be placed upon dogs that all useless curs will be destroyed, and that all others will be so cared for as not to become a menace to the public health.
Dr. Wilbur A. Sawyer, director of the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of California, urges “the importance of immediate and thorough cauterization of the bites of rabid animals, and of the avoidance of delay before the administration of the Pasteur treatment.”
Science has enabled the physician in this time, if given a fair chance, to stamp out epidemics and to save individuals from maladies that half a century ago were quite uniformly fatal; but regardless of all of our advancements, there is an increasing amount of work to do in meeting the inroads of epidemics and contagious diseases. A great deal of this is due to the fact that the average individual refuses to avail himself of proper assistance, and furthermore he does not co-operate with the men who are working so earnestly to cope with the ravages of disease.
Diseases Transmitted Through Public Baths
THE Journal of the American Medical Association says: “It may seem like an incongruity to speak of the hygienic dangers lurking in the public bath. The growing popularity of swimming pools has led to an increased interest in their sanitary condition. There is no longer any doubt that they can actually transmit disease. . . . Typhoid fever and diarrheal conditions have been traced to swimming pools in colleges and universities, secondary and elementary schools, gymnasiums, clubs, steamships, and special bathing establishments.”
In the olden days, when an individual was born, lived, and died in a little neighborhood, there was not the opportunity that modern travel presents for spreading diseases. But to-day an individual may become afflicted with an infectious or contagious disease, and travel extensively; and as he travels, he leaves the germs of his malady in all the public institutions that he visits. Conditions in this respect are very different from what they were a hundred years ago; and therefore those who really care to preserve their health need to be much more particular than ever before.
