FROM human bones?—No. From ivory?—No. From bone of dog or cattle?—No. The other day (writes a correspondent) I happened to call on Mr. Church, who is master of a small bone button factory in Birmingham, and was greatly interested in seeing a tailor's bone button made, just such a one as you would find on your ulster or a tweed coat. It was a queer little factory, made out of two or three cottages rolled into one. First of all, I was introduced to the raw material, which lay on the floor of a dark and dingy little workshop, in which a solitary workman was standing at his bench. "There," said Mr. Church, pointing to what I took to be potatoes, "there you see what we call vegetable ivory. It comes from South America, and grows in clusters of half a dozen nuts. That is the first state of the button."
We then went up to the workman who was cutting up the kernels of the nuts at a swiftly revolving circular saw, an operation requiring great dexterity, for a slip might cost him a finger. This is the first process. The kernel is easily extracted, the shell in which it is inclosed being very thin and fragile. Although the kernel is a nut, it would take a very strong pair of jaws to crack it, and the teeth cannot touch it. The little white slabs that are cut out by the saws are taken to the next department, where the button is really formed in the series of lathes through which it is passed. The tool maker, whose office is very important, works at one end of the room. The first lathe cuts out the button with the desired circumference, regulating by a series of gauges, the work being passed on to the others for the rim, and so on.
Two women were drilling the four holes of the buttons, this being done by taking up each one and subjecting it to the action of the four-pronged horizontal drills, doing their work with remarkable deftness and rapidity. The button, so far as its form goes, is finished. It now remains to do the polishing and dyeing. In another room are half a dozen hexagonal boxes revolving in an atmosphere of dust. They contain the buttons, which are now being polished by the action of some hard powder, which is placed with them in the boxes. There is a secret in every trade, and I fancy that the contents of the mixture with which the buttons are eventually stained are not divulged to the world. Down below I was taken to another room, in which there were scores of tins containing dye, and many buckets holding chemical solutions. When the buttons are ready for receiving the dye, they are placed on a tin tray, holding, I think, a gross. The dye is then blown onto them by a spray, which causes the liquid to fall very naturally. The trays are then put into a gas-heating oven, and the buttons are afterwards put on the cards ready for the market. Such is the interesting history of a bone button, one of the many wonders of Birmingham, that town of magicians.—Pall Mall Gazette.
The Home Circle.
By Mrs. M. J. Bahler
WORDS.
BY MRS. M. J. BAHLER.
Oh, never can we guard too well
These tongues, which oft, with fire of hell,
Set rolling words which surge and swell
Like fiery flames. And naught can stay
Their work of death; they leap and sway
Like cruel fiends in heartless play.
Then, oh jealously guard the treacherous things;
For they speed away as with eagle's wings.
We never can gather them back again,
When once on their mission, 'tis joy or pain.
In our weakened lives, oft a word doth serve
To guide or to hold, when from right we swerve;
Yea, a word may heal, or a word may wound;
E'en a word may lead to forbidden ground.
Oh, to utter words is a solemn thing!
Yet, unchallenged, quick from our lips they spring;
While the faithless sentry, the careless heart,
Has failed to perform its allotted part.
Let us earnestly pray, as the moments go,
"Set a watch, O Lord, o'er the words which flow
From these lips of mine. May my words be few,
Mild, compassionate, faithful, and true."
Oakland, Cal.
A QUEER THIEF.
IN 1865, when the telegraph was a comparatively new thing in Southern California, the operators of the Los Angeles circuit found their communication suddenly cut off. Linemen were sent out to discover the break and effect repairs, but they returned with the surprising intelligence that the break was a serious one, and called for a lot of supplies.
About a mile of wire and poles had disappeared as completely as if the earth had opened and swallowed them up. Further search showed no trace of the missing materials, and at considerable expense new ones were furnished, and the line was reconstructed.
Then a detective was employed to investigate the mystery. The country was nothing but a desert, and the detective worked for three weeks without success. At the end of that time, however, he stumbled upon a small ranch, at which he put up for the night.
He found the ground inclosed with a neat wire fence, and in the morning taxed the ranchman with having stolen the telegraph. The man admitted the fact at once.
"Oh, yes," he said, "I've been livin' here nigh onto three year, and have watched that old telegraph wire all that time. I never see nothing go over it, and reckoned it wasn't used."
There seemed no reason to question the man's sincerity, and the detective contented himself with giving him a lecture on the invisibility of the electric current. The case was reported to headquarters, of course, but no prosecution followed.—(San FranciscoExaminer.
The Cheerful Face
NEXT to the sunlight of heaven is the cheerful face. There is no mistaking it—the bright eye, the unclouded brow, the sunny smile, all tell of that which dwells within. Who has not felt its electrifying influence? One glance at this face lifts us out of the mists and shadows into the beautiful realm of hope. One cheerful face in the household will keep everything warm and light within. It may be a very plain face, but there is something in it we feel, yet cannot express; and its cheery smile sends the blood dancing through the veins for very joy. Ah, there is a world of magic in the plain, cheerful face, and we would not exchange it for all the soulless beauty that ever graced the fairest form on earth.—Selected.
Health and Temperance.
By Editor
STARTLING LIFE INSURANCE FIGURES.
THE statement that "60,000 deaths are caused by the liquor traffic every year in this country" has come to be one of the "stereotyped" declarations of the temperance reform. Few people stop to ask whether it is true or not, or whether it is beyond or this side of the truth. We desire in this article to present a few facts bearing upon this question for the consideration of the numerous readers of the Union Signal. If we strain the truth in any respect, we shall be glad to be corrected. We have no desire to charge this traffic with one single sin of which it is not guilty. Nor do we propose to apologize for the traffic by putting the figures one digit lower than the facts will warrant.
In 1840 the United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution of London, England, was established. Mr. Robert Warner desired insurance on his life. Being a total abstainer, the established life insurance companies of his time would not insure him, because, as they believed, no man who did not use liquors was a safe risk. Not being able to get insurance because he was a total abstainer, he called together a few of his friends, who were also total abstainers, and organized the above-named institution for the sole purpose of insuring total abstainers.
During the first seven years of the existence of the institution only abstainers were admitted, but at the end of that time the doors were thrown open for non-abstainers also. This step was doubtless taken for two reasons: first, total abstainers were so scarce that the institution could not build up rapidly so long as it confined itself to that one class of risks; second, the admission of non-abstainers would enable the company to experiment on the relative value of the lives of abstainers and non-abstainers. The two classes were therefore kept entirely distinct from each other, each bearing its own share of losses, and paying all the expenses of its own class.
From 1847 to 1882 there were expected, according to the established tables of mortality, 2,644 deaths in the temperance section, and 4,408 deaths in the general, or non-abstinent section. The non-abstinent section has always been nearly double the other. There occurred in the temperance section 1,861 deaths, or twenty-nine and one-half per cent. less than was expected, while in the non-abstinent section there occurred 4,339 deaths, or only one and one-half per cent. less than was expected, showing a difference of twenty-eight per cent. in favor of the temperance section. As the figures from which these conclusions are reached cover a period of thirty-five years we cannot see how their reliability can be successfully questioned. There is a difference of twenty-eight per cent. in the average death rate of abstainers and non-abstainers.
We note the fact also that this comparison is not between abstainers and drunkards, but between abstainers and tipplers only. No insurance company would admit a drunkard to membership. If, then, there is a difference of twenty-eight per cent. in the length of the lives of total abstainers and tipplers, there must be even a greater difference in the length of the lives of total abstainers and the drinking population of the country as a whole. Statistics show that while a total abstainer at the age of twenty will live, on the average, about forty-four years, a drinking man at the same age will live only about fifteen years on the average.
Substantially the same lesson is taught us by figures taken from the annual reports of the A. O. U. W. of Illinois. During a period of eight years ending with 1888, the average annual death rate in this order in the State has been eight per thousand, while the average annual death rate in seven of the strongest liquor centers of the State in the same order has been ten and five-eighths per thousand. It may be true that some other agencies helped to increase the death rate in the seven cities, but it is also true that liquor drinking has greatly increased the death rate in these seven cities.
There are some facts connected with the reports of this order in Illinois which are of special significance. For instance: Teutonic Lodge, No. 86, located in Chicago, is a German lodge. All the business of the body is transacted in German. A few years since an enthusiastic member of this lodge, writing to the organ of the order in this State, said: "Our lodge meets over a saloon. We hurry through with our lodge work, adjourn and go down to the saloon and have good times." The average membership of this lodge during the eight years, was a trifle less than 118. The average annual death loss was two and one-fourth, or about nineteen to the thousand. A careful study of these figures will show the actual cash value of the "good times" which these German beer drinkers had in that saloon after the business of the lodge was closed.
We now propose a practical application of these facts to the question in hand. If the moderate use of liquors shortens life an average of twenty-eight per cent., how many deaths are caused by liquor every year? During the past few months we have asked a great many intelligent people this question, "What per cent. of the male population in your judgment are total abstainers?" The answers have ranged from five to thirty. One old gentleman insisted that not more than five persons in every hundred were total abstainers. Others have thought that twenty to thirty per cent. were total abstainers.
We believe that so far as high-license Illinois is concerned, at least not more than twenty-five per cent. of the male population are total abstainers. We doubt if that per cent. of the male population of the whole country absolutely refuse to touch, taste, or handle liquors. If we are right in this estimate, then seventy-five per cent. of the entire male population comes under the influence of the drink demon, at least to the extent of what is known as moderation.
The wives and children of drinking men suffer as much in every way as the drinking men themselves. We have never yet found a man willing to dispute this proposition. If, then, seventy-five per cent. of the male population use liquors, and if the wives and children of these men suffer as much as the men themselves, then seventy-five per cent. of the entire population come under the influence of the drink demon.
There are in round numbers in this country 60,000,000 people. The annual death rate will not be far from 1 to every 50 of the entire population, men, women, and children included, or 1,200,000 deaths per year, in the whole country. Now if 1,200,000 people die every year, it must follow that over three-fourths of that number of deaths will come from the three-fourths of the population which come under the influence of drink; but for the sake of the argument let us suppose that just three-fourths, or 900,000, of these deaths come from the drinking portions of the population.
Thus if the figures furnished us by the United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution are reliable, twenty-eight per cent. of these 900,000 deaths, or 252,000 deaths, might be saved in this country every year by universal total abstinence. In other words, drink annually causes 252,000 deaths in this country.
We can quote eminent authority to prove that we are under, rather than over, the truth. Dr. Wm. Hargreaves, of Philadelphia, than whom the cause of total abstinence has no abler or more highly accredited advocate, says:—
"Taking into account the sickness and death of adults, and the thousands who die in infancy and childhood by neglect, imperfect nourishment, deprivations, etc., which result from the use of drink, fully one-half of all the sickness and premature death in the civilized world is directly or indirectly produced by the use of alcoholic liquors."
Rev. Dawson Burns, of England, in speaking of the figures furnished by the United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution, of London, says:—
"If in a comparison with selected lives of adults, the temperance section shows a superiority of 28 per cent., it is reasonable to infer that, taking the whole population and remembering how large a proportion of adult and infant life is sacrificed to intemperance, and its effects, an equal saving of life would result from the universal adoption of total abstinence."
That is to say, 28 per cent. of all the deaths that occur might be saved by universal total abstinence. Twenty-eight per cent. of the whole number of deaths that occur every year in this country, would put the figures up to 336,000.
Whether drink causes 336,000 or 252,000, or even the old number, 60,000, deaths every year, the figures are frightful. No man can contemplate them without a shudder.—Union Signal.
Gladstone’s Aversion to Smoking
Mr. Gladstone is said to have an unconquerable aversion to smoking. It is related of him that he was once offered and accepted a cigarette from the Prince of Wales. He did not find the result encouraging, and has never been induced to repeat the experiment. There was a time when Mr. Gladstone's dislike of the weed went so far as to prevent its inroad in any shape to Hawarden Castle.
The Alcohol in Liquid Peptonoids
A recently published analysis of the much-advertised "liquid peptonoids" shows it to be fifteen per cent. alcohol. It is advertised to be "concentrated beef and milk with gluten perfectly digested."—People's Health Journal Co., Chicago, Ill.
SECULAR.
—Six men were killed and two blinded while blasting rock near Butte, Mont., on the 14th inst.
—British ship builders are seriously embarrassed by an advance in the prices of iron and steel.
—The city authorities of Richmond, Va., have decided to discharge all colored men in the city’s employ.
—Postmaster-General Wanamaker proposes to extend the facilities for sending merchandise packages by mail.
—A Jersey City fire on the 17th inst. destroyed $100,000 worth of property and the lives of four persons.
—Some English capitalists are making extensive preparations for working the gold and silver mines in Honduras.
—A late report from Mexico says that President Diaz is ambitious to add Central America to the Mexican republic.
—Some theatrical performances in San Francisco are said to be so lewd that even the newspapers will not describe them.
—It is said that the volcano Cerro de Mono Pelada, in Tabasco, Mexico, is throwing out vast quantities of “water dyed red.”
—The emperor of China, who married against his will in obedience to his mother, now refuses to see either her or his wife.
—On the 10th inst., near Selma, Ala., the river bank caved in, burying three fishermen. All were dead when taken out.
—Owing to the severe snow-storms in Colorado, the Denver and Fort Worth trains were eleven days without a through trip.
—New Mexico has adopted a constitution, and will present it to Congress early in the session on application for admission as a State.
—The Prime Minister of Austria has offered the privileges of citizenship in any town he may choose to the old patriot exile, Martin Kossuth.
—The Union Pacific Railroad Company’s agent is said to have selected Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, as a Pacific Coast terminus of its Salt Lake line.
—Advices from South Africa report great distress in the Transvaal, resulting from drought. The Pretoria Government has abolished all tariffs on food articles.
—The Central American representatives now inspecting our country, are said to be in favor of an international railroad connecting all the isthmus republics.
—W. G. Arkill, proprietor of the Judge, has made a formal offer to the government of $100,000 a year for the privilege of advertising on the backs of postage stamps.
—The President has been bothered with hundreds of letters inquiring if he is a Mason, all of which he has answered in the negative. He belongs to no secret society.
—Citizens of Sacramento are subscribing money to buy the old Sutter’s Fort, and preserve it from the ravages of the march of improvement, as a memorial of the “early days.”
—The Farmers’ National Congress assembled at Montgomery, Ala., on the 13th inst., with delegates present from every State and Territory. A number of papers were discussed.
—A cable dispatch from Melbourne, Australia, says that the Germans in Samoa are withdrawing their support from Tamasese, and that all is quiet between him and Mataafa.
—Lady Forester, of London, is a practical philanthropist. Each week she sends to the factory girls of London upward of 2,000 bunches of flowers gathered by the servants on her estate.
—If “straws show which way the wind blows,” how near is the orthodox millennium at hand, judging from the general lionizing of the pugilistic fraternity by the public and the press?
—An Englishman and three native servants were recently killed and eaten by savages on the Solomon Islands. This is the climax of several attacks upon European traders within a few months.
—John Gilroy, son of the old pioneer, after whom the town of Gilroy was named, has been sentenced to forty years in San Quentin, for a felonous assault upon his foster-mother, while drunk.
—Bismarck is credited with establishing permanent accord between Russia and Austria, restoring Russia’s dominance in Bulgaria, and recognizing Austria’s possession of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
—The New York Herald is sending a party out from Zanzibar to meet Stanley and Emin Pasha. The party carries a stock of relief supplies for the almost destitute explorers and warriors.
—On the 12th inst., the Iowa delegation withdrew in a body from the W. C. T. U. convention at Chicago, declining to bind themselves to partisan politics, or to the support of the Prohibition party.
—Near Lockeford, San Joaquin County, Cal., on the night of the 11th inst., a book peddler and ex-preacher, named Orville A. Ross, murdered his wife and eight-year-old son, and then killed himself.
—Ex-President Hayes delivered an address before the National Prison Congress at Nashville, Tenn., on the 16th inst., and severely criticized the “inefficient jury system which prevails in most of the States.”
—There is promise of active measures on the silver question in the coming Congress. Silver is gaining favor, several of the staunchest single-gold-standard men evidently yielding toward a more liberal policy.
—The San Francisco Chronicle, and many leading citizens, are persistently demanding the reduction of cable-car fares from 5 to 3 cents. It is generally supposed that the companies realize enormous profits.
—The schooner Fidelity, while being towed into Eureka harbor, Humboldt Bay, on the 16th inst., was struck by a heavy sea and capsized. All on board, consisting of captain and seven seamen, were lost.
—A municipal ordinance of New York City banishes all the organ grinders; and these musicians propose to hold mass-meetings throughout the city, and will circulate petitions for a restoration of their privileges.
—The government of Mexico has decided to have a permanent exposition of Mexican products in either London or Paris, and has sent circulars to that effect to the different governors of the Mexican States.
—The London Post publishes the welcome news that the Russian Government has at last succumbed to public opinion and is going to abolish the banishment of criminals to Siberia. It seems too good to be true.
—The wife of Colonel Goodloe, internal revenue collector of the Seventh District of Kentucky, who was recently killed in a fight with another politician, will apply for the office made vacant by her husband’s death.
—Seventeen men were arrested in Stevens County, Kan., on the 13th inst. They are part of a gang of twenty-nine, who murdered Sheriff Cross and posse over a year ago, during a contest over the location of the county seat.
—Two women, one a correspondent of the New York World, and the other representing the Cosmopolitan magazine, left New York on the 14th inst., for a race around the world, one traveling east and the other west. The fastest time on record is eighty days.
—The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, made a complete change of waiters on the 9th inst., substituting white for colored men. Some of the old hands had been in the hotel since it was first opened, and the new proprietor says they thought they owned the house.
—There are about 8,000 Mormons in Arizona. Governor Shoup, of Idaho, reports a Mormon population of 25,000 in a total of 113,000. They are ready to trade with any party which will offer them protection, that is to say, which will wink at their violations of law.
—Third Auditor Hart, in his annual report, says the number of pensioners on the rolls July, 1889, was 490,000, and there will probably be added 35,000 more by June 30, 1890, thus giving for examination 2,100,000 vouchers, and requiring for payment at least $100,000,000.
—Owing to short crops in Spain, and the destruction in California by the October rains, the price of raisins has materially advanced. A Napa grower has expressed the opinion that those who saved half their crop will realize as much profit as they would ordinarily off a full crop.
—It is announced that the effort will be renewed in the next Congress to establish a penal colony in Alaska. This sounds rather retrogressive, just as the benevolent sentiment of the world has succeeded in inducing Russia to abolish her “blot upon civilization” in Siberia.
—In the past, it has been the California “fir trees” that have been “terribly shaken” in supplying railroad ties, but more recently railroad men are purchasing redwood ties. The Mendocino Beacon says that 45,000 were shipped to Central America last month in one cargo and thousands are being sent East.
—A sudden reversion in the government of Brazil is announced, the result being the inauguration of a republic in lieu of the empire. The revolution is a complete surprise in all parts of the world, as it was generally supposed that through the kindly disposition and popularity of the Emperor Dom Pedro, the empire was secure.
—A French countess, heir to a fortune, is working as a domestic in an Oakland hotel; she keeps her position in order to bring her mother to terms in regard to the settlement of her father’s estate. They are both dependent upon a will which provides that if they cannot agree in the settlement, the property shall all go to a French institution of learning.
—Several persons, including shipping agents, government and police officers, customs and railway officials, and immigration agents, are being tried in Vienna, on various charges in connection with inducing Austrian and Hungarian peasants to emigrate to America. It is charged that a regular slave trade has been carried on in Hamburg in connection with this class of emigrants.
News and Notes.
By Editor
RELIGIOUS.
—The Catholic Churches of Baltimore have begun a crusade against the saloon business, and in favor of high license.
—The “mystery” of the wonderful grace of God makes it none the less a fact. It is mysterious simply because selfish man cannot comprehend such unselfish love.
—Freeman’s Journal says: “There are now 65 cardinals. Seven are over 80 years old; 21 between 70 and 80; 22 between 60 and 70; 11 between 50 and 60, and 4 between 42 and 48.”
—In the Catholic congress at Baltimore, Charles J. Bonaparte called forth loud cheering by the declaration that “whether the pope be an exile or a captive, a subject he cannot be.”
—Bradlaugh, the infidel member of the British Parliament, has been seriously ill for some time, and it is said that every Tract Society in England has taken a hand in deluging his house with religious literature.
—Along the valley of the Nile, from Alexandria to the first cataract, are 79 mission stations, and 70 Sabbath-schools, numbering 4,017 scholars, while the day and boarding-schools have over 5,200 pupils. There has been an increasing demand for Bibles, 6,651 having been sold the last year, with 8,933 volumes of religious literature, and 17,179 educational books.—Missionary Review.
—The telegraph announces that the Vatican is preparing a new catechism for general use. Of course it will teach the usual lesson of the inconsistency of Protestants in observing Sunday as the Sabbath, while denying the church’s authority to establish other holy days and festivals. This is a point Catholics make prominent in their religious instruction, and it cannot be denied that the charge is logical.
—The first congress of Catholic laymen of the United States convened at Baltimore, on the 11th inst. Daniel Dougherty, of New York, delivered an address, in which occurs some items which will be news to most Americans. For instance: “In colonial times the Catholics suffered direst cruelties, in comparison with which slaves were high-bred guests, and the only religious martyrs in America were the Catholics.” Again he said: “The liberty which is freedom to worship God, was established in America by the Catholics alone.”
—The pastor of the First M. E. Church of Oakland, Cal., severely scores the public because so many of them show their estimate of his sermons by nickel contributions. From an evening congregation, estimated at 1,200, there were 273 pieces of coin in the collection; of these, 120 were five-cent pieces, 111 dimes, 38 quarters, 3 half dollars, and 1 penny; total, $28.11. This is something new in statistics, and its preparation for the daily press shows a state of mind bordering on desperation. Says the pastor: “They could not get into a theater for that amount, and would not expect to, and yet they come to church and put five cents on the plate!” Well, if the doctor is preaching for money and reputation, it is no wonder that he is discouraged with the comparative rating of his performance.
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NOTICE TO THE WORKERS.
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The Law of God as Changed by the Papacy
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As its title indicates, it treats of some of the leading prophecies of both the Old and New Testaments, showing the exact fulfillment of the predictions of the Bible, concerning Egypt, Tyre, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome, also of the prophecies concerning the first advent of Christ, which prove the inspiration of the Bible, and give assurance that other prophecies which are noted will as surely and exactly be fulfilled.
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