Earlier text: How Not to Do ItStockholders' Meeting, Healdsburg College.
THE third annual session of the stockholders of Healdsburg College Corporation convened at the South College, May 1, 1885, at 10 A. M. Upon roll-call it was found that there was not a quorum. The meeting therefore adjourned to May 3, at 2 P. M. SECOND SESSION, MAY 3, 2 P. M.
The stockholders met according to adjournment. President W. C. White in the chair. Upon roll-call it was found that there were 470 shares of stock represented in person and 725 by proxy, being 352 shares more than a majority. The minutes of the last annual meeting were read, after which the treasurer presented the financial report. Elder Haskell made commendatory remarks concerning the reports given. He said the amount of the liabilities of the South Lancaster Academy is about the same as that of Healdsburg College, and that the valuation here exceeds that of the Academy by nearly $10,000. The principal followed with some remarks concerning the nature and progress of the school. The chair appointed the following committees: On resolutions, J. H. Waggoner, J. N. Loughborough, A. T. Jones. On nominations, Geo. Mills, Wm. Ings, James Creamer. W. C. White made some remarks concerning plans for the coming year. He stated that though some of the professors were going East, their interest in the College was unabated, that they would return with new vigor and courage to undertake the work for the next College year, and would push it forward with renewed energy. He stated also that there would be additions to the faculty the coming year, especially in the Biblical department. Elder A. T. Jones would come after the camp-meeting to commence the work in this department and also in history. He stated that Prof. C. C. Ramsey would probably go East to teach in South Lancaster (Mass.) Academy. He was convinced that the South Lancaster school was in need of assistance; that in Healdsburg College we had three men experienced in managing schools, while they had none at South Lancaster of equal experience. While we appreciate the services of Professor Ramsey, and realize the loss we shall suffer by his going away, yet the need of help at South Lancaster leads us to consent to his changing his field of labor. The Committee on Resolutions presented the following report:— WHEREAS, The number of students in the Biblical Department this year was nearly double that of other years, and the term of instruction was so short as to exclude many important studies; therefore, Resolved, That we recommend that the Biblical course begin soon after the State camp-meeting. WHEREAS, There are many of our people who would like to have their children under the influence of the College, but who for various reasons are not able to send them; therefore, Resolved, That it is the duty of the different churches, especially the larger ones, to start schools of their own. And that we call their attention to the fact that there are young men and women who have attended the College, and have been trained in the methods of instruction there employed, whom the faculty can recommend as teachers for church schools; and that we request our brethren who wish to engage teachers to apply to the College before making application elsewhere. WHEREAS, We believe that while our students are gaining a knowledge of the Bible, they should also be gaining an experience in actual missionary labor; the success of the missionary departments in the schools at Battle Creek and South Lancaster having demonstrated the practical efficiency of such instruction; and, WHEREAS, There are many who need such instruction, and who would attend the College if it were provided; therefore, Resolved, That steps be taken to open a missionary department at the beginning of the next College year. Resolved, That we invite Sister M. L. Huntley, of South Lancaster, Mass., to come to California and assist in establishing the missionary department of the College on a firm basis, and to take charge of it for the first year. Resolved, That we recommend the expenditure of from $300 to $500 for philosophical apparatus, such apparatus being very necessary in giving instructions in certain studies. Resolved, That we regard it an excellent testimonial to the economical management of the College, that notwithstanding the depression of hard times it is able to present so favorable a balance-sheet. Elders S. N. Haskell, J. N. Loughborough, J. H. Waggoner, W. C. White, and others spoke in favor of the resolutions, and they were unanimously adopted. Adjourned to May 4, at 6 o'clock A. M. THIRD SESSION, MAY 4, 6 A. M.
The report of the Committee on Nominations being called for, the following candidates were presented for election as directors for the ensuing year:— W. C. White, J. N. Loughborough, John Morrison, J. H. Waggoner, S. Brownsberger, F. V. Harmon, Jos. Leininger. They were all elected unanimously. The Committee on Resolutions presented additional resolutions as follows:— Resolved, That we urgently request those who have made pledges which are unpaid, to pay them as soon as possible, and others to take stock in the Educational Association, that the College may be relieved of the burden of paying interest, which unavoidably adds to the cares and perplexities of those who manage it, and cripples their efforts in its behalf. Resolved, That Section 2, Article 5, of the Bylaws of Healdsburg College Corporation, be amended so as to read as follows:— The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of this Corporation shall be held on the third Monday of April, in the College building at Healdsburg, Cal., at which meeting the annual election of trustees shall take place. Carried unanimously. Adjourned, sine die. W. C. WHITE, Pres. S. BROWNSBERGER, Sec. Nebraska Camp-Meeting.
By A. J. Cudney
It is now decided to hold our spring camp-meeting at Norfolk, Madison Co. Our object in selecting this place is that it is a railroad center. It is especially easy of access to our people in the northern, northeastern, and northwestern parts of this State. Never before have our brethren been favored with a camp-meeting in this part of the State, but have been compelled to go long distances to attend these gatherings. We expect that many will come with their teams, as this will be the cheaper way when there are several coming together; but for the benefit of those wishing to come by rail, we have secured very low rates over all the roads leading to this place. We would be glad to welcome all the Nebraska readers of the SIGNS at this meeting. There are many, no doubt, who have been reading our papers that would like to become better acquainted with the doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists and also to become acquainted with the people. This will be a very favorable opportunity, as a brief synopsis of the Adventist faith will be given, and an effort made to have all feel at home and their stay both pleasant and profitable. There will be family tents to rent at very low rates; and to those not able to pay they will be furnished free. All should bring a good supply of bedding and provisions from home. There will be a well furnished book-stand on the ground where will be found a large stock of all the books published by our people; also Bibles in all styles of binding, and different languages. We trust none of our people in the northern part of the State, and those within a reasonable distance on the south, will think of staying away, or leaving their children at home. Come, brethren, bring your children, seek God yourselves, and pray for their conversion and for the general interest of the meeting. Come at the commencement of the meeting and stay till the close. A. J. CUDNEY. FROM Les Signes des Temps we take the following report from Elder J. G. Matteson in Stockholm:— "I am working now in Orébro, with Brother Johnson. I have passed five months in Stockholm, during which time I have held 158 meetings, visited 115 families, baptized 32 persons, and received 51 members into the church (which now numbers 66). With others who keep the Sabbath and attend meeting, we have about 70 Sabbath observers. During this time about 2,000 persons have heard the truth. On the last day of meetings, we had in the forenoon about 200 hearers; and in the afternoon about 250. They testified to their appreciation of the truth by depositing 250 francs ($30) on the plates, as well as by their amiable adieux, and invitations to return." "During my sojourn in Stockholm, I have received 1,545 francs in gifts, and 187 subscriptions for our journals, for which we have received 431 francs." St. Clair, Nevada.
By E. A. Briggs
I HAVE been laboring in this place and vicinity for more than a month, and a deep and widespread interest in the present truth has been manifested. Twenty persons have taken their stand to keep God's commandments, nearly all of whom are adults. Some of them, however, do not as yet realize the separation that Christians must make between themselves and the fashions of this world. On the whole, the outlook in this district is very encouraging. My post-office address is now Virginia City, Nev. E. A. BRIGGS. May 21, 1885. Testimony No. 32.
By Alonzo Trévier Jones
WE take this occasion to speak a word further to our brethren in regard to this important work. As time grows shorter, the importance of diligence in the work committed to us, and of carefulness in individual action, becomes greater. And in this Testimony the attention of all is again most forcibly called to the dangers and duties that lie all about us. This number is of special importance to all in every department of our great work—to the minister, the missionary, the colporter, and the canvasser; to parents, to children, to husbands, and to wives; to the sick, to the well, to physicians, and to nurses; to churches, and to individuals. We would not attempt to select any one part as more important than the others, but we will mention a few of the portions which are particularly worthy of careful and repeated perusal. These are: "The Influence of Unbelief—Deceitfulness of Sin—Marriage with Unbelievers—The Manufacture of Wine and Cider—The Support of City Missions—Young Men as Missionaries—Importance of the Canvassing Work—Business and Religion—Responsibilities of the Physician—The Coming Crisis—Joshua and the Angel." This number is put up in durable shape, being well and handsomely bound in cloth. It contains 238 pages of closely printed matter, and the price is only 50 cents. Let the orders come in, large and fast. Nobody is to be enriched by it but the buyers. A. T. J. "He that walketh uprightly walketh surely." THEY had been the very best of friends. The pretty country houses were near together, the sunny fields lay side by side, and the grain and corn nodded to each other in sociable fashion over the dividing wall. The orchards ripened amicably together, and the different varieties of their rosy and golden treasures were frequently exchanged when autumn came. The "line gate" was seldom closed, and the feet from one side or the other were always tripping through it on some errand of neighborly kindness. When Mrs. Archer's little Lizzie was sick, it was Mrs. Sherwood who faithfully shared the mother's vigils; and when Mrs. Sherwood's unexpected guests arrived while she was disabled by a burned hand, it was Mrs. Archer who rendered every possible aid. Pity that a few stones out of place should have spoiled so much good fellowship, but they did. It was that miserable dividing wall—a part of which was either thrown down, or blown down, or tumbled down, nobody quite knew which—that made the trouble. Mr. Sherwood was sure that it was the careless driving of Mr. Archer's threshers that had done it. Of course he could help to rebuild it—it was not a matter of very great consequence—only he was a careful and prudent man himself, and did not like such hurry-skurry ways of doing things, especially when other people's property might be injured by it. "Slow and sure" was his motto, and he thought it high time his neighbor learned it. Mr. Archer was equally certain that it was Mr. Sherwood's Durham which had been loose in the adjoining field the day before, which was the cause of the mischief. The animal was not kept securely enough and would yet do worse damage than knocking down that old wall, Mr. Archer declared to his wife, if his neighbor were not more cautious. He was willing to help rebuild the wall; such a trifle was not a thing to make a fuss over, but when he found Mr. Sherwood viewed his obligingness and conciliatory disposition in the matter as very scant honesty, he was offended and indignant at once. Mr. Sherwood was also ready to help repair the breach, but he was not willing to be imposed upon or have his forbearance misconstrued. There ensued a long argument, waxing warmer and more forcible with every reply, in which each man succeeded in thoroughly convincing himself that he was entirely right, and had been injured and insulted. So they parted, a far worse breach than that in the wall having been made. It widened day by day with the cessation of kindly offices, with the stiff greeting at any occasional meeting, and with the report of every foolish speech of one or the other by unwise attaches or malicious mischief-makers. Both families missed the old pleasant intercourse and felt the deprivation, but, of course, each intended to show the other that it was possible to live without them, and to manifest proper dignity when their rights were tampered with. There was one who was upheld by no such pride of character, and that was the small laddie, Johnny Sherwood. He sadly missed his constant playmate, little Lizzie Archer, who came no more to the fence or the house, and all his requests to go and see her were promptly refused by his mother, who said she did "not believe Mrs. Archer would like to be troubled with him." His visits had never before been considered troublesome, and he was sure Lizzie wanted to come and see him too, if she were not forbidden because "everything had got so queer and crooked," as he said. But there seemed no help for it, and his sore little heart grew only sorer; until one Sunday he could not keep back his tears when something in the Sunday-school class reminded him afresh of his trouble. The teacher had been trying to interest them in missionary work, telling them of many ways in which even children could help. "And how many of you will try to do something yourselves, and interest your little friends, too?" she asked. Several small hands were raised, but Johnny's curly head went down upon his folded arms with a half-choked sob. "What is it, dear?" asked the teacher as soon as the others had passed out, "what is the trouble with Johnny?" "Oh, I haven't any little friend to ask; cause I can't play with Lizzie any more," sobbed Johnny. "The miserable old stone wall is down, and my papa is 'justly indigent' about it, so mamma says. I don't know what it is, but I 'pose Lizzie's papa's got it too. They both act like children do when they're awful cross. Nobody speaks to anybody any more, and we don't like each other, and there isn't anything nice. I do want Lizzie so!" The lady listened rather nervously in the fear that she might be obtaining information that did not properly belong to her. A few questions she asked—very few because of that same fear—and then she said soothingly: "I'm very sorry, Johnny. It is always a pity to have friendship broken in that way, but I hope it will all come right soon. You must just be patient and gentle about it, and pour oil on the waters when you have a chance. Even little children can be peacemakers, you know." "Do you think I could do any good that way?" asked Johnny, lifting a pair of round, eager eyes. "I think it very possible you might, dear, only you must be careful not to say or do anything disrespectful to older people, you know, but watch for chances and work quietly and softly." Johnny walked home with a plan slowly maturing in his busy young brain. It was the last thing he thought of at night, and the first thing he remembered in the morning—a bright, fresh, dewy morning, that in itself was enough to make a little boy hopeful. Johnny made his preparations carefully and surreptitiously. He was very glad Miss Neal had said his work must be done silently and secretly, for he felt that he could not bear to meet anybody and explain as he stole softly down through the orchard with a tin can in his hand, through that unlucky breach in the wall, and up to the well in Mr. Archer's yard. A swift glance at doors and windows satisfied him that nobody was looking—indeed he had risen early so that nobody should be looking—and then he climbed upon the mossy old curb, so nervous in his haste that it was fortunate that he did not plunge into the cool dark opening below. A minute later Mrs. Archer's Bridget, coming to the kitchen door, espied the lower section of a pair of knee-breeches, a pair of bright red stockings and copper-toes showing precariously from the well-curb, and called out, "Is that you, Johnny Sherwood? And what are ye doin' there?" But Johnny had accomplished his mission, and without replying he jumped down and ran away to await results. They followed very speedily. The water served at Mr. Archer's breakfast-table that morning had a very peculiar but unmistakable odor and flavor, and questioning rose high. Bridget recounted what she had seen. Then indignation swelled into positive wrath, and Mr. Archer sought his neighbor's house. "I thought the little difficulties that have grown up between us were unpleasant enough, sir, but I did not suppose you would instruct your family to begin a series of petty annoyances and persecutions." "What do you mean by that, sir?" demanded Mr. Sherwood, his stiffness struggling with bewilderment. "I mean that such a child as your Johnny would never have dreamed of such a contemptible piece of malice as trying to pollute a well, unless—" But Johnny rushed out of his hiding-place behind the curtains and answered for himself. "I didn't try to p'lute it nor nothin'; 'twas just oil. I love Lizzie, so I do, and we want to play together, and I'm tired of everybody being cross. I cried about it in Sunday-school, and Miss Neal said, 'Be a peacemaker.' She said, 'Pour oil on the waters,' and I chucked the whole canful of kerosene down your old well—so there!" Johnny was sobbing with shame and disappointment, while swift changes were flitting over the gentlemen's faces; then they both laughed. "I was a fool to make such an accusation as that," said Mr. Archer uneasily. "And I have been another—in several ways," answered Mr. Sherwood with a sudden moisture obscuring the mirthful twinkle of his eyes as he extended his hand. "Neighbors and members of the same church! 'A little child shall lead them,' Archer?" But the other's hand was already in his with a warm, firm clasp. So the breach was healed and the wall rebuilt. The next Sunday, Johnny snuggled up to Miss Neal and whispered: "I tried it, and it did it, too! Lizzie 'n me's going to have a missionary hen and raise chickens to sell for the heathen."—Central Christian Advocate. The Home Circle.
By Fannie Bolton
THERE came to the freight-house quite early one morning,
Two youths who were looking for work.
Said one, "I'm intelligent, apt, sir, and surely
I'm fitted quite well for a clerk."
The truckers were wheeling their carts up the alleys.
Said the youth, "That is low work to do;
It is fit for coarse fellows." "Well, yes," said the master;
"But it's all I can offer to you." The youth turned away with a haughty "Good morning,"
And passed through the great creaking gate.
"And now," said the master, addressing the other,
"I suppose you won't handle the freight."
"Indeed, sir, I will. 'Tis the best that is offered,
It is work that is honest and true.
I despise not small sources, great rivers flow from them."
"Very well," said the master, "you'll do." The honest young fellow worked faithfully, truly,
Was manly, and gentle, and true;
The truckers all liked his frank cheer and bright nature,
And nodded, "Young fellow, you'll do."
"You see," said the master as higher he raised him,
"Promotion is not due to luck;
I can tell very nearly just what a man's made of
By the way that he handles his truck. "And whate'er a man says of himself goes for little;
His words never make him my clerk;
But I put him at trucking, right down at the bottom,
And his future's foretold by his work."
And step after step rose the honest young fellow,
Doing well all the work at his hand;
And his fortunes increased, he was temperate and godly,
Well honored was he in the land. So whatever shirks tell you of fortune or witchery,
A poor thing to lean on is luck.
Be faithful in little. Promotion won't fail you,
Even though you begin with a truck;
All over the earth if you look you will see it,
Naught ever is won by a shirk;
But the highest ambition has hope of fulfillment
To the one who has courage to work. Oh, gather great thoughts, my brave lads and sweet lasses,
And banish the thoughts low and coarse;
For remember the river can never rise higher
Than the fount at the river's own source.
And do with your might all the work that is given;
Success is forever for such.
Be faithful in little, and here and hereafter,
You'll surely be masters of much.
—Fannie Bolton. A Woman Who Fears the Lord
"Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates." Health and Temperance.
By Editor
Handmaids of Dyspepsia and Death.
"As the sands of the sea, where the tides ebb and flow;
As the leaves of the forest, the flakes of the snow;
As the stars of the sky, swiftly speeding through space,
Their trackless way lighting with glory and grace,
In millions as countless as the footprints of men." are the household recipes of the present day. Almost every housewife has her cook book or books, or, if not this, her scrap book or recipes of her own invention, or copied from her neighbors' books of similar character, or, yet again, from some fugitive cook book or stray newspaper. In short, it is but truth to say that our cooking is quite generally done "by the book." But, such books as some of them are! The crudeness with which they are prepared, the lack of common sense, even, that many of them display is frightful to contemplate; and when we come to consider the fact that these are "law and gospel" in multitudes of kitchens, we cease to marvel at the rapid pace with which dyspepsia walks abroad, to wonder that "good digestion waits on appetite" no longer, or to accept as true the statement that indigestion numbers more victims than pistols, powder, and bullets. There are, it is true, a few good cook books, but they are sandwiched in so closely with such as are good for nothing and only "made to sell," that it is indeed hard to sift the wheat from the chaff, to separate the gold from the dross, and to draw the line well between the Simon pure and the poor—and very poor, at that. And again, Miss Parloa, whose books are of the Simon pure variety—by the way, every recipe which she prints having been thoroughly tested by her own hands—says, with much truth and soberness, that the best of recipes can never bear good fruit when brains are left entirely out of the mixtures. These, of an average quality, at least, are necessary to the bringing forth of good results in about equal proportions of judgment, consideration, and care. One housewife or cook will make most excellent bread from the same materials or "ingredients" that another will produce the same article from that is "not fit to eat." And so on, down through the whole detailed list of items in the cooking calendar. A recipe is often considered as worthless when it is really excellent, the only fault being in reality, in the manipulation. One weighs and measures carefully and another carelessly, the result being that one drowns out all the virtues of the "thing full" of this with the overpowering measurement or the short weight of her "thing full" of that. The wide range in size of spoons and tea-cups is also a great drawback to the correct rendering of recipes in practical operation. A tea-cup may almost be said to range in capacity from that of a thimble to that of a bowl, and a "flowing bowl"—overflowing, at that. Spoons also vary, but not so radically as do tea-cups. This article of household use, however, has so wide a variation in size, that in compounding recipes by the "spoonful" great care and much judgment are necessary. Eggs, too, vary in size and quality, there being as radical a difference in the flavor of eggs as there is in potatoes, and equally so as to richness in different pieces of meat. And then, too, when we read—as we do while these lines are being written—that "eggs are quoted in Montana at ten cents each, in Georgia at ten cents a dozen," it makes some difference whether one is using eggs in Montana or Georgia. A good cook and a good cook book make a good combination, resulting in good cooking, but from the combined efforts of a good cook and a poor cook book and a poor cook, "good Lord deliver us." Could there be a statute passed against hodgepodge or worthless recipes being published, and another against carelessness in handling them, as there is already one against carelessness in the handling of fire-arms, we should be able to keep dyspepsia and indigestion at bay much more successfully than we now do. But as there is little prospect of making such laws a job in the way of money-making, there is as little prospect of getting them enacted, so we must fall back on the next best thing, and that best thing is honesty in the editing of cook books and intelligence among those who make them test books in cooking. Good Housekeeping will do its best to help the good cause along in both these departments of kitchen economy. "Too many cooks" need not necessarily "spoil the broth," however many there may be of them, if the materials used are "honest Indian," and if they will all season with knowledge, experience, judgment, and care.—Good Housekeeping. A GREAT many men have no bent. They spend their life in trying to find out what they are fitted for, and fail for want of the discovery. The average boy goes through school and college (if he goes to college) with no idea of what he is going to make of himself. He knows as little on graduation day as on the day he entered. Now, however, he can wait no longer; he must do something. He tosses up. His dice are labeled law, medicine, ministry, journalism, business, bank. He throws for a choice. He goes into the ministry because this gives him three more years of agreeable student life at little or no expense; or law because law is a highway into a variety of professions; or journalism because he enjoys seeing the fruit of his pen in print; or business because he wants to be well off, and he does not know that over ninety per cent. of business men fail; or he goes home to live, or teaches for a living for a year or two, because he cannot make up his mind what to do or be. Perhaps he chooses his father's profession, because it is his father's; more probably he repudiates it, for the same reason; perhaps a stronger classmate awakens a short-lived enthusiasm for some calling, to be followed by a lifelong regret that he did not take some other; perhaps he just stumbles in at the nearest open door, merely because it is open. Blessed, therefore, I say, is the boy who has a bent; who knows what he wants to be and do. By all means encourage him in it.—Sel. Real Homes.
By Golden Rule
Will it not be well for parents to reconsider thoughtfully the question of home-making? Do your children love their home? Do they prize it? Is it the "dearest spot on earth," or a mere boarding-house? If there is a fault, whose is it? If a lack, who is to blame? Home-making, be it remembered, is a work in which all have a part. Fathers may not shirk their duty by saying that it is "woman's business." Neither can it be done without forethought, direction, and effort. Oftentimes it involves the sacrifice of selfish comforts and pleasures. The happy tumult of the youngsters play may disturb your after-dinner doze. A "children's hour" in the early evening, given up to games and entertainments, in which you are their companions and leaders, may not be so agreeable as to spend the time at play, at the club, or in neighborhood gossip. But you are under bonds, morally, to give yourselves to your family as the need requires. If you do no more than to "raise" your children, you have, before God, no right to have any. Make your house a real home—cheerful, bright, beautiful in spirit, happy in all its expressions—and you will be a good deal better fitted to begin enjoying Heaven at once, when you get there.—Golden Rule. Manufacturing with Petrified Wood
The petrified forests near Holbrook, Arizona, have been purchased by a company. They have commenced the shipment and manufacture of the petrifactions into tablets, tiles, and various ornamental articles in building and finishing. In this connection, the Prescott Miner has the following: "Governor Tritle informs us that while in San Francisco he inspected an establishment recently started for the cutting and polishing of petrified wood taken from the wonderful forest of petrification existing along the line of the Atlantic and Pacific in this Territory. "The parties engaged in this work state that the petrified wood is rapidly driving California onyx from the market as a material for mantels, etc., as it is susceptible of a much finer polish, and is also more permanent and lasting than that of the onyx. Several companies have already been formed for the purpose of getting possession of portions of the forest by pre-emption," thus promising to further push the manufacture.—Sel. IN early times it was the custom to give the body a regular spring cleaning. Beginning with the flow of sugar water, sassafras tea was substituted for coffee; then followed an occasional drink of an infusion of sarsaparilla, burdock, prickly ash, or wild cucumber. These were often combined in the form of bitters, using whisky in the place of hot water to extract their virtues. In addition, white walnut, mayapple, black snakeroot, rattleroot, bloodroot, pokeroot, and many others were used to meet the special indications. There is still too much dependence placed in the efficacy of pills, potions, and powders, and not enough in the means of health prescribed by nature. Those who feel languid and dull prefer taking quinine or bitters to indulging in exercises which induce perspiration and good, sound sleep. Iron is a more convenient appetizer than an air bath and a restricted dietary, and alcoholic stimulants a more agreeable means of supplying vital force than those embodied in the original plan. While these may seem to answer the purpose, and may do so for the time being, they are purely delusive and wholly untrustworthy. When they appear to be adding to the stock of vital energy, they are really consuming it, or at least impairing the energies through which it is generated. Sufficient exercise in the open air to produce free but not copious perspiration, is one of the most efficient means of freeing the system of effete and poisonous matter. This is in reality an air bath, and as such is more effective in the elimination of many deleterious substances than the water or vapor bath. The exercise dislodges the particles, and they are carried out with the escaping fluids. These principles are embodied in the Turkish and the Russian bath, but are not so well adapted to the purpose as when applied in the manner prescribed by nature. As Sir Philip Sidney said,
The common ingredients of health
And long life are
Great temp'rance, open air,
Easy labor, little care. The Duty of Preserving Health
"TAKE some food; for this is for your safety." It is a Christian duty to look out for one's safety. Life and health are gifts of God; their possessor is responsible to God for their preservation and wise use. Even though our health and strength may seem of little worth just now, we must take care of them in view of what God may have for us to do in the future. It is just as truly a man's duty to look to his health as to be faithful in prayer and Bible reading, or in Christian work. And a Christian clergyman is not beneath his business when he is counseling his people to eat and to drink that which is best for them.—Sel. —Grant's night-rests are improving.
—Grasshoppers are nearing Calistoga, Cal.
—Stockton, Cal., is warring the opium dens.
—The small-pox is spreading in Montreal.
—Ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen died at 5:30 o'clock, May 20.
—The prospect for a large crop of peaches in Maryland is said to be very good.
—The New Orleans Exposition, which closes the 31st inst., is to be opened again in November.
—A check that was drawn in 1832 was presented for payment at a Hartford, Conn., bank recently.
—France is anxious for peace with the Hovas of Madagascar, where she has been raiding for some time.
—Cubans report the probability of an uprising in Cuba that will free the island from the dominion of Spain.
—Over $6,000 was paid into the land office at Stockton, May 19, for timbered land in Tuolumne County.
—The Immigration Association reports the arrival of 1,062 immigrants in the State of California last week.
—Ex-President Hayes has been drawn to serve on the grand jury of the United States Circuit Court at Toledo, Ohio.
—The aggregate loss of property by fire throughout the United States and Canada during the month of April, was $7,750,000.
—A. P. Swineford, of Michigan, who has been appointed Governor of Alaska Territory, is said to be "the right man in the right place."
—A death-dealing cyclone passed over Rooke County, Kansas, May 15, injuring about fifty persons and destroying much property.
—The Spanish Government has asked the French Government for an explanation of the hoisting of the French flag on Spanish territory in Africa.
—A Frenchman, carrying a sack on his back, in New York City, was arrested the other day. The sack proved to contain the dead body of a woman.
—The death of a man found dead at the foot of his bed in San Francisco is explained by the fact that nine empty liquor bottles were found in his room.
—Several of the most important posts on the North Saskatchewan, belonging to the Hudson Bay Company, have been plundered and destroyed by hostile Indians.
—One of the most severe rain-storms ever known in this country passed over southern Kansas, May 15, drowning six persons and doing a great deal of damage to property.
—The English combined naval reserve squadron are to meet in Bantry Bay, Ireland, to participate in the grandest sham battle and torpedo experiments ever witnessed.
—May 13, Brands' lager beer brewery in Chicago, was burned. Loss $250,000; no insurance. We extend to them the comfort that their loss is the world's eternal gain.
—A water-spout descended upon a ravine near Kearney, Neb., in daylight, washing a family of emigrants named Scott from their wagon and drowning two of their children.
—Wheeling is no longer the capital of West Virginia. On May 9, the capital was moved to Charleston, West Va., which is now the permanent seat of government for that State.
—May 15, John A. Logan was re-elected United States Senator from Illinois. Blaine, in congratulating Logan, says: "Your contest is unprecedented; your victory is memorable."
—It seems that Director-General Burke's resignation is now accounted for in that he became personally responsible for debts contracted in behalf of the New Orleans Exposition to the amount of $150,000.
—Just to show how easy it could be done, Captain Boyton swam out to the British war vessel, the Garnet, lying off Tomkinsville, Staten Island, and successfully attached an uncharged torpedo to her bottom.
—James J. Ayres, Superintendent of the California State Printing Office, has gone to Chicago for the purpose of purchasing presses and machinery for printing the text-books for the public schools of California.
—Grasshoppers in great numbers are reported as having crossed the mountains between the Santa Clara and San Joaquin Valleys, and being at their destructive work near Calaveras Valley, thirteen miles from San Jose.
—"In a German grist-mill recently a sack of flour fell down stairs, opened, and scattered the contents in a burning gas flame, set fire to the dust, causing an explosion which lifted a part of the roof of the mill and broke almost all the windows."
—May 19, Prof. Robert E. Odlum jumped from the Brooklyn bridge into East River, a distance of 135 feet, and lived after being rescued and resuscitated only long enough to ask in a whisper: "What kind of a jump did I make?" Are the fools all dead now?
—The jury of inquest who were trying to ascertain the cause of the death of First Sergeant Hake, who was assassinated at Whipple Barracks, A. T., received an anonymous letter, warning them that if the efforts to find the murderer did not cease, more deaths would occur.
—In a discussion of the use of superfluous words, by David Dudley Field, at Columbia College, N. Y., he cited two passages from our Constitution where superfluous words are claimed to have been used; he further said that in our ordinary deeds of transfer 860 words out of 950 are superfluous.
—A terrible sight was witnessed on the Columbia River, at Fort Spokane, W. T., May 19, by the giving away of a cable a large barge was set loose, which drifted rapidly toward the rapids until it struck a huge rock severing it in twain. All were rescued but three, who perished in the rapids. One of those rescued, afterwards died from injuries received.