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Review and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 28.

— A. A. PROCTER
Earlier text: Porto Rico

The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund

By W. T. Bland

FURTHER partial list of the donations received on the Washington building fund at the General Conference office:
The donation of $1.50 credited to Mrs. Asa Champlin in the REVIEW of June 16, should have been divided as follows: Mrs. Asa Champlin, $1; Mrs. Maria Champlin, 50 cents.
Previously reported ............ $14,440 73 Phillip Ansteth ............ 100 00 Sister Stoiber ............ 75 00 Fleetwood (Pa.) church .... 50 00 J. Wilken Eden ............ 50 00 Lake Union Conference ..... 27 00 Fannie M. Dickerson ....... 25 00 Emily A. Goff ............. 20 00 Julia M. Rodes ............ 20 00 J. Warren Wright .......... 20 00 Mrs. Mary I. Small ........ 15 00 Mrs. M. Thomas ............ 14 00 Jennie Williams ........... 10 00 Miss L. L. Hooke .......... 10 00 Mrs. L. A. Clarke ......... 10 00 C. F. Stewart ............. 10 00 Geo. and Arthur Cary ...... 10 00 A. M. Caster .............. 10 00 Mr. and Mrs. Iver Christenson 10 00 Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Hansen 10 00 Mrs. O. H. Peck ........... 10 00 E. E. Nelson .............. 10 00 Guy Holmes ................ 10 00 Wm. Ploeger ............... 10 00 Mrs. J. Cooper ............ 10 00 Mrs. Sarah McMulkin ....... 10 00 T. W. Manchester .......... 10 00 Thomas E. Thornton ........ 10 00 Daniel Jensen ............. 10 00 L. A. Hansen .............. 10 00 Jacob Arnold .............. 10 00 Walter D. Baldwin ......... 10 00 J. C. Peter ............... 10 00 Young People's Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia ... 7 00 Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Anderson .................... 6 00 H. B. McConnell ................................ 6 00 Capt. J. S. Leacock ................................ 6 00 Riverside Sanitarium Family ........................ 6 00 Sarah C. Haskins .................................. 5 00 Mrs. Loretta Hildreth ............................. 5 00 M. Wahner ......................................... 5 00 Mrs. J. P. Jasperson .............................. 5 00 Nels Burtelsen .................................... 5 00 Ellen Balser ...................................... 5 00 Mrs. Parmelia Campbell ............................ 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Ladeau ........................ 5 00 William Ettia Stanley ............................ 5 00 Mable Stanley ..................................... 5 00 Mrs. W. H. Stanley ................................ 5 00 W. H. Stanley .................................... 5 00 S. S. Odell ....................................... 5 00 Mrs. M. E. Rathburn ............................... 5 00 A. E. Devereaux ................................... 5 00 W. Harper ......................................... 5 00 Nancy E. Young .................................... 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Hallock ........................ 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. H. Nicola ............................ 5 00 Andrew Lindsay .................................... 5 00 Lucie M. Lindsay .................................. 5 00 John M. Sanborn ................................... 5 00 Barbara A. Sanborn ................................. 5 00 Mrs. Geo. Dean ..................................... 5 00 John S. Youngquist and family ..................... 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. James V. Mack ........................ 5 00 Almira (Mich.) church ............................. 5 10 S. W. Stull ....................................... 5 00 Susan Noland ...................................... 5 00 A friend ........................................... 5 00 Claus Buggy ....................................... 5 00 Mrs. Claus Buggy .................................. 5 00 Alice H. Paige .................................... 5 00 W. H. Holmes ...................................... 5 00 Melissa Holmes .................................... 5 00 Pearl Holmes ...................................... 5 00 Mrs. Sarah L. Mead ............................... 5 00 Mrs. Mary J. Lamont .............................. 5 00 G. W. M. ......................................... 5 00 Joseph Redoute .................................... 5 00 Mrs. Mary Soare ................................... 5 00 A. L. Evans ....................................... 5 00 Andrew Anderson ................................... 5 00 Peter Anderson .................................... 5 00 Mrs. Eliza Greer .................................. 5 00 L. D. Robbins ..................................... 5 00 Mrs. Jane Cash .................................... 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Klement ........................ 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. James Taphouse ...................... 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. Z. F. Warren ........................ 5 00 Z. T. Thorpe ...................................... 5 00 E. N. Tailleur .................................... 5 00 A friend ........................................... 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Thweatt ........................ 4 00 Chas. G. Stubke ................................... 4 00 F. D. Dexter ...................................... 2 00 H. H. Hostler ..................................... 2 00 May White .......................................... 3 00 Della Woodruff .................................... 3 00 Harison McCormick ................................ 3 00 Ernest Liebman .................................... 3 00 Mrs. Prudence L. Jones ............................ 3 00 Mrs. J. H. Seagler ................................ 3 00 Mrs. M. W. Hill ................................... 4 00 C. W. Stone ....................................... 3 00 Newton Lugenbeck .................................. 3 00 Mary Finch ........................................ 1 50 D. Hildreth ....................................... 1 00 Greenfield (Ind.) church-school .................. 12 00 Elizabeth Taylor .................................. 1 00 Mrs. M. S. Foster .................................. 2 00 Carrie Borg ........................................ 1 00 Amanda Jasperson ................................... 1 00 Mrs. John Larsen ................................... 1 00 H. C. Jorgensen .................................... 1 00 Marie Burtelsen .................................... 1 00 Sophia Christensen ................................ 1 50 Mrs. H. C. Jorgensen ............................... 1 00 Mrs. J. C. Neilsen ................................ 1 50 Mrs. A. Christene .................................. 1 50 A. W. Smith ........................................ 1 85 Sophronia M. Housler .............................. 1 00 J. H. Stilwell ..................................... 2 50 Mrs. J. H. Stilwell ............................... 2 50 Mrs. E. Beebe ...................................... 2 25 Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Cran ........................... 2 00 E. P. Crary ........................................ 1 00 Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Dana ........................... 2 00 Sophronia Perry .................................... 1 00 L. G. Kidder ....................................... 1 00 Mrs. Martha Chipman ............................... 1 00 Mrs. J. W. Untiedt ................................ 1 00 Mrs. L. E. Hill ................................... 1 50 Ida E. Hill ........................................ 1 50 M. Holliday ........................................ 1 00 Mrs. J. S. Rouse .................................. 1 50 Mrs. F. Thomas ..................................... 1 85 Mrs. J. Klump ...................................... 1 16 A friend ........................................... 2 00 F. M. Darling ...................................... 1 25 M. J. Humphrey ..................................... 1 00 Glennie Morrow ..................................... 1 25 Dora L. Mapes ...................................... 1 50 A friend ........................................... 2 00 Mrs. Catherine Bawman ............................. 1 50 Henry Ricketts ..................................... 2 00 Mrs. Mary J. Mallernee ............................ 1 75 Emily Kirkwood ..................................... 2 50 Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Bartshe ........................ 1 00 Mrs. C. G. Sanborn ................................ 1 00 Abbie L. Frost ..................................... 1 00 W. S. and Kate G. Boone ........................... 2 00 Mrs. V. Weeks ...................................... 1 00 Alex. Lindsay ...................................... 1 00 Mrs. Mary Pollard .................................. 1 00 Mrs. Lucy Hill ..................................... 1 00 Mrs. A. E. Blewett ................................ 1 50 W. J. Jordon ....................................... 1 25 Walter Jones ....................................... 1 00 W. L. Hayes ........................................ 1 00 Alice Hayes ........................................ 5 00 A sister .......................................... 1 00 Eva C. Clark ....................................... 1 00 A. W. Judson ....................................... 1 00 Isaiah Rhiner ...................................... 1 50 Catharine Rhiner .................................. 1 50 Mrs. E. J. Batton .................................. 2 75 North Michigan Tract Society ...................... 1 13 Bennie Anderson .................................... 1 00 Anna M. Jensen ..................................... 2 00 Sallie E. Martin ................................... 50 Kate Randall ....................................... 50 W. H. Camfield ..................................... 50 B. G. Cowles ....................................... 1 00 Clara Griswold ..................................... 25 Antigo (Wis.) church ............................... 1 00 Bertha L. West ..................................... 2 00 Elder S. Swinson ................................... 2 50 Hundred Mile Grove (Wis.) church .................. 1 00 Mrs. A. E. Ailberry ............................... 1 00 Lavinia Martin ..................................... 2 00 Alice DeVine ....................................... 1 00 Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Dann ........................... 1 00 C. Waterman ........................................ 1 00 August and Ida Klein .............................. 2 50 Mr. Fred Boys ...................................... 1 00 Mrs. F. Stull ...................................... 1 00 Mrs. A. E. Cary .................................... 2 00 Mrs. C. E. Chapman ................................ 1 00 H. W. Counts ....................................... 50 John T. Eden ....................................... 2 00 F. T. Thompson ..................................... 2 00 F. G. Dunkin ....................................... 25 Mrs. C. Carson ..................................... 50 Mrs. A. B. Hammond ................................. 25 B. Kervin ........................................... 25 Mrs. Anna Hopkins .................................. 25 Mrs. Muth ........................................... 50 Miss E. Mahony ...................................... 25 Mrs. McIntire ...................................... 25 Joe Lane ............................................ 25 Mrs. G. Graves ..................................... 50 Mrs. Martha Fairbanks .............................. 2 00 Mrs. Kiler .......................................... 1 00 E. H. Bowersock .................................... 50 Miss M. Thompson ................................... 1 00 Mrs. G. W. Thompson ............................... 1 00 Mrs. Margore Bernard ............................... 1 00 Ella M. Knox ....................................... 1 00 Mrs. A. H. McAdow .................................. 1 00 Alta M. Barnard .................................... 1 00 Mrs. C. H. Moler ................................... 50 C. H. Moler ........................................ 1 00 Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Whitlock ....................... 2 00 Mrs. Pauline Heady ................................ 2 00 Mrs. E. H. R. ...................................... 1 00 Mary E. Huston ..................................... 1 00 Ida M. Cronk ....................................... 50 A friend ........................................... 1 25 Eliza Gurr .......................................... 2 00 Ella Beardsley ..................................... 50 Anna Hallstine ..................................... 50 Maude Cullen ....................................... 50 Lois Hallstine ..................................... 10 Deborah Bennson .................................... 50 Alice B. Roots ..................................... 50 Mrs. Grandgeorge ................................... 35 Mrs. Wm. Glettly ................................... 25 Mrs. F. Nettleingham ............................... 25 May Fisher .......................................... 25 Mrs. Sam Morton ..................................... 1 00 D. A. Piper ........................................ 1 00 W. H. Zeidler ...................................... 2 50 Nathan Klapper ..................................... 1 00 Edwin Hayes ........................................ 18 Mrs. E. G. Bennett ................................ 50 Orville Rockwell ................................... 1 00 Mrs. Josephine Squires ............................ 1 00 A. R. Squires ...................................... 50 A friend ........................................... 25 Edward Squires ..................................... 1 00 Mrs. Anna Hamilton ................................. 25 Mrs. S. A. Wheeler ................................ 2 00 Mrs. Bertha Sherer ................................ 50 W. A. Soare ........................................ 1 00 Geo. A. Hill ....................................... 1 00 A friend ........................................... 1 00 Julius Jensen ...................................... 1 00 Geo. Tohsen ........................................ 2 00 Clara J. Lewis ..................................... 2 00 Marcia Pike ........................................ 1 00 Herbert Robbins .................................... 2 00 M. E. Miller ....................................... 1 75 Gracia Hunter ...................................... 25 P. M. Watts ........................................ 2 00 Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Marsh,     Jr. ........................................ 50 00 Total reported ................. $15,602 57 A further list will follow. W. T. Bland, Assistant Treasurer.

The Special Watchman in Texas

By R. L. Routt

As the Lord has been and is now blessing us in the sale of the Signs number of The Southern Watchman, and as we know that in order for him to continue so doing we must be a blessing to others, I take pleasure in writing some of our experiences, with the hope that others who believe that the Lord will soon come may receive the same kind of blessing that we have by telling perishing souls of his coming and the end of the age.
I have been in Nacogdoches four weeks, working with the Watchman, and the Lord has wonderfully blessed me in my efforts. Souls have been warned; some have accepted the truth for this time; others are deeply interested in the truth.
My dear brethren, it is not the will of our Lord to leave this special number of the Watchman on the shelves of our tract societies and the publishing house; but God wants us to “arise and shine,” and circulate this paper. It should be in the hands of every man and woman in the world. The truth it contains must go to all the world before the Lord comes. You and I will never enjoy the beauties of the new earth until this message goes to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. May God impress us with the importance of getting this truth before the people, and thus hasten his coming and the end of the world.
The Lord has blessed us in the sale of this paper. We are now on our third thousand, which we hope to sell soon. My wife and sister were in New Orleans, and sold five hundred there. The Lord was with them. We have yet seven thousand, which we hope to sell before fall.
R. L. ROUTT.

First Adventist Tent-Meeting in Alberta

BROTHER J. W. BOYNTON, who is laboring in British Northwest Territory, says in a recent letter: “We have our tents pitched in Ponoka, and the first Seventh-day Adventist tent-meeting in Alberta is now in progress. We pray the Lord to give fruit of our labor.”

Field Notes

Eight new members were received into the Loup City, Neb., church by baptism, June 18.
Tent-meetings are being conducted in Ohio at Toledo, East Liverpool, Rowsburg, and Clark.
Elder S. F. Svensson reports the baptism of four persons near Idaho Springs, Colo., June 19.
Nine persons, eight of whom were of youthful age, were baptized at Palisade, Colo., June 18.
Six persons were baptized at Norfolk, Neb., May 28, and the prospect is good for a church organization at this place.
A church of nineteen members, ten of whom are new Sabbath-keepers, was recently organized at Glen Elder, Kan.
W. W. Stewart, assisted by W. R. Smith, George Casebeer, and Daisy Afton, is holding tent-meetings at Nampa, Idaho.
A tent company, consisting of W. S. Holbrook, F. D. Wagner, and John Little, is at work in Wasco, Sherman County, Ore.
A course of tent-meetings will be conducted during the summer by Elder C. H. Bliss and Brother J. E. Dunn at Williamsport, Ind.
The new church building at Pueblo, Colo., was dedicated June 19. This replaces the house that was destroyed by fire some time ago.
Two families in London, Ark., have expressed an intention to keep the Sabbath, the truth having come to them through recent tent-meetings conducted by Brethren H. C. Griffin and U. Bender.
Brother E. W. Catlin, of Minneapolis, reports that there are ten persons keeping the Sabbath in that city who seem to be about ready to go forward in baptism and unite with the church.
The following word from Farnham, Va., is sent us by Elder H. W. Herrell: “We are having between three hundred and fifty and four hundred persons in attendance at our meetings each Sunday night, and at least one hundred and fifty in attendance during the week. Two have already decided to keep the Sabbath of the Lord.”

The Farm a School

We do not get anything like a complete apprehension of country life when we speak of its profits and pleasures. The chief fact to be considered is that, in the country, we are at school. Some years ago a French author published a book entitled “The Population of a Pear Tree.” He found every tree very full of peoples. The relations of all these lives to each other, and to human beings, is a volume that nature opens before any one who cares to study. Asa Gray used to speak of the trees as his professors. The college that he attended was “the valley before his homestead, set around with orchard-covered hills,” and everywhere man and nature at harmony. President Jordan, of Leland Stanford, says that “the best thing that a college can do for a young man is to bring him into the right sort of contact.” The country home not only does this, but it furnishes the curious mind with the very best object-lessons, to inspire the mind and purify the heart.
Professor Search in his “Ideal School” insists that every child is a born naturalist; that his eyes are open to the beauty of the flowers, and to the charm of all life about him, as an endowment of nature. So it comes about that in making a country home you are really establishing a school. Every leaf, and each twig, and the pebbles in the brooks are object-lessons to be studied. You did not think that you were building a schoolhouse, but a mere dwelling-house; yet see how wonderfully things come about. You find that your whole property, not the house only, but the garden, the orchard, the corn-field, and the potato patch, are all parts of an educational plan; and children are born into it to find out what they can of its wonders.
But even more important is the fact that the home in the country, with wise and open-eyed parents, becomes not only a school of instruction, but of application. Every one of the sciences can here be immediately put into practise. Botany goes to work in the garden, and entomology in the orchard. Geology finds its place everywhere about the farm, in its soils and watercourses; while chemistry is the very basis of systematic agriculture. The idea is just beginning to dawn on the minds of our leading educators that, after all, the greatest educational institution is a well-conducted farm. It is learning by doing. Professor Kern wisely states it in this way:—
“Along with his study of the kangaroo, the bamboo and the cockatoo, why not study the animals on the farm, and their proper feeding; the care and composition of the soil of the farm, the improvement of types of grains and vegetables, and the protection of birds beneficial to the farmer?”
We have come upon a few homesteads where it is understood that arithmetic does not find its highest application in problems of banks, stocks and brokerage, but in the practical affairs of production. He solves a greater problem who doubles the quantity of corn grown on his father’s acres, or improves the quality of potatoes and beans, than he who succeeds in working out a quantity of theoretical examples without practical application.
Professor Whitman, of the Marine Biological Laboratory, at Woods Hall, writes that the study of living plants and animals, under control and cultivation, is what is now most needed for further advance in biology. He says that we can not hope to make much more progress in the study of the laws of heredity until we have the means of investigating the phenomena in a series of generations, and under conditions that admit of decisive experimental tests. It is along this line that the aviary of Professor Scott, of Princeton, shows its practical nature. The project of a “biological farm has interested me,” says Professor Whitman, “and I believe that is our next step in the study of nature. The biological laboratories of to-day, in design, equipment, and staff, are almost exclusively limited to the study of dead material.” Botanical gardens and zoological parks have been utilized to some extent, but they are adapted to show purposes mainly, and are of little value for research. A biological farm, which brings observation, experiment, and reflection together, makes them omnipotent; but disjoined, they become impotent. The biological study of to-day has not too much laboratory, but too little of living nature. The farm will certainly do much to mend this deficiency. The farm would enable us to work out life history, bring us face to face with instinct, put it under control, so that we could handle it, photograph it, analyze it, read its history, and extort from it an answer to our question. We are following Professor Whitman somewhat closely in his argument, because he seems to appreciate most fully, among our educators, the exact relation between knowledge and the application of knowledge. He wants a huge research farm established in conjunction with Woods Holl, in order to make biological research something practical and complete. He says:—
“The farm would enable us to approach all the fundamental problems of life from the two sides of observation and experiment. It would furnish material for study with precise records; and would make it possible to sustain continuity in experimental study.”
This is a deserved and magnificent recognition of the farm. It does not fully acknowledge the great fact that, while many of our ablest men have been working in laboratories and museums, other equally great men and able men have been plowing out, and hoeing out, and planting out some of the most important problems in life’s history. Great progress has been made already on our best farms in the way of biological research and the solution of those problems which bear upon human progress. The laboratory has done its work, and the farm has done its work; the problem now is how to bring these two together, so that every farm shall ultimately become a true school of nature, a place where botany, entomology, and zoology in all its forms shall be made contributive to human welfare. Nor is there anything to hinder just as direct application of mathematics and mental sciences. Mathematics on the farm measures wood, surveys land, and solves hundreds of every-day problems for the individual and family, and there are not a few farmers to-day who have in hand work that, with a just estimate, exceeds that of marine laboratories and most elaborate analysis. Farm work is characteristically synthetical, and while it does not often write books, it traces out life problems. There is, however, no need of jealousy—none of comparison. The farm recognizes the value of the school; the school begins to recognize the value of the farm. Bring them together, and in their co-operation you will have secured that complete education which will hereafter be furnished every human being—knowledge, but not knowledge heaped up in the brain; knowledge applied to life and living.—The Independent.

Report of Donations to Missions From July 1, 1903, to Dec. 31, 1903

By W. T. Bland

Funds Atlantic Union Conf. Pacific Union Conf. Lake Union Conf. Southern Union Conf. Central Union Conf. Canadian Union Conf. Northern Union Conf. S. W. Union Conf. No States Mentioned Totals
Annual Offering $ 1,008.09 $ 848.38 $ 478.18 $ 54.75 $ 244.40 $ 11.00 $ 30.50 $ 59.00 $ 3.00 $ 2,737.30
Australia Fund 1,704.74 1,826.90 1,355.68 52.29 1,565.03 97.94 649.64 294.03 120.98 7,667.23
African Field Fund 9.45 95.52 65.03 11.22 185.50 262.46 105.43 734.61
British Sanitarium 171.87 71.75 53.16 13.41 145.89 10.29 14.25 3.15 483.77
Chinese Fund 474.94 71.06 612.92 736.77 .25 106.49 2.33 1,218.29 3,223.05
Canadian Field 30.05 1.00 1.80 1.75 34.60
European Field 220.00 1,903.22 505.00 248.48 10.90 30.00 10.00 2,927.60
Egyptian Field 105.10 81.40 39 50 2.50 189.89
Finland Field 25.00 25.00
Gold Coast Fund 855.57 106.00 226.87 26.26 119.25 2.00 202.83 17.66 25.91 1,582.35
Greater N. Y. Field 1.00 20.75 2.50 4.00 28.25
India Field Fund 4.33 29.89 227.62 60.66 31.49 353.99
Italy Field Fund 18.90 18.90
Japanese Field Fund 15.16 30.43 3.14 54.70 4.75 108.18
Jamaica Church 29.00 56.00 135.30 6.00 95.00 3.00 28.78 12.25 5.00 370.33
Missions 936.32 3,210.44 1,813.91 19.05 1,871.83 3.00 2,051.17 21.08 152.25 10,079.05
Mexican Field 7.50 300.00 307.50
Nyassaland Field 6.00 45.00 131.50 182.50
Nyassaland Student Aid 500.00 33.00 4.00 22.54 559.54
Norway Field 93.98 93.98
Porto Rico Press 4.40 4.40
Porto Rico Field 7.69 7.69
Polynesian Field 21.79 21.79
Scandinavian Relief 63.18 7.00 3.00 23.43 18.50 .25 115.36
Sabbath School Donation 1,624.76 3,267.19 1,389.66 97.49 1,451.34 128.65 550.90 358.57 8,868.56
Southern Field Fund 120.15 31.75 71.48 99.98 1,632.52 5.00 15.00 1,975.88
South American Fund 18.81 50.12 5.00 15.77 70.00 159.70
Skodsborg Sanitarium 5.00 1.00 33.75 10 39.85
Sumatra Field Fund 278.86 5.00 70.86 354.72
Turkish Field Fund 50.08 8.90 5.00 63.98
West Indian Field Fund 214.03 19.40 1.25 62.25 115.10 412.03
Weekly Offering 2,228.84 2,973.48 1,936.31 133.09 2,942.26 180.50 218.93 404.49 13.99 11,031.89
Totals $10,319.98 $14,664.99 $9,329.02 $439.24 $10,457.66 $431.34 $6,029.36 $1,349.46 $1,742.42 $54,763.47
W. T. BLAND, Assistant Treasurer.

Christian Education

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference.
L. A. HOOPES, Chairman; FREDERICK GRIGGS, Secretary.

Please Remember

By Editor

WILL our friends please remember to give their full name and address every time they write us? If you have a street address, or a post-office box, or are on a rural free delivery route, be sure to give the full address. Some friend recently sent us forty cents in coin, carefully wrapped in tissue paper and enclosed in an envelope, but without a word of instruction as to what should be done with the money. The State in the postmark is so indistinct we can not read it, but the letter was mailed at Reynolds. There are thirteen post-offices by this name in as many different States.
If, perchance, this paragraph is read by some one living at a Reynolds who sent us forty cents, will the writer please let us know what to do with the money? It may be for a three months' subscription to the REVIEW, but if so, we do not know to whom to send the paper.
One more suggestion. Be sure to give both your old and new address when you wish the address of your paper changed.
By carefully following these suggestions, our friends will greatly facilitate the prompt filling of their orders. Address The Circulation Department, Review and Herald Publishing Association, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.

Current Mention

—Fourth of July casualties, as computed from reports immediately after the celebration, show 25 persons killed and 1,384 injured. Property loss $177,800.
—A train filled with delegates to the Democratic convention, and visitors to the world's fair was wrecked at Litchfield, Ill., July 3, by an open switch. The train left the track and the cars were overturned and almost immediately caught fire. Nineteen persons were killed and many others injured.
—A flood which has left thousands of people homeless was caused by recent storms in Kansas and Oklahoma. Armourdale, Argentine, eastern Kansas City, Riverside, Abilene, Emporia, Ottawa, and Wichita, Kansas, and Clinton, Oklahoma, are the places most seriously affected. Six lives are reported lost at Clinton, and one at Wichita.
—The list of great disasters at sea was increased by the loss on June 28 of the Danish steamship “Norge,” which, in a fog, ran on Rockall Reef, a lone rock some distance off the coast of Scotland. The “Norge” was bound for New York from Copenhagen, with seven hundred immigrants on board. The captain backed his ship off the reef, whereupon it filled with water, and sank in a few minutes. About one hundred and fifty of those on board were saved in the ship’s lifeboats.
—The Japanese are reported to have advanced to a point within three miles of Port Arthur on the land side, capturing a number of Russian forts. The town of Kaiping, also, an important strategical position, was captured by the Japanese, July 8. The Japanese outposts in Manchuria are said to cover a stretch of territory over two hundred miles in length, and skirmishing with the Russian outposts is almost constant. A general forward movement of the Japanese forces, with increasing activity, is reported. It is rumored that a division of the Russian Baltic squadron will sail under sealed orders, July 28.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By Editor

Camp-Meetings for 1904

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Eastern Pennsylvania........... Maine......................... New York...................... Southern New England.......... Vermont, Hardwick ............ Aug. 18-23 Virginia, Stanleyton ......... Aug. 5-14 West Virginia ................. Sept. 8-18

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Maritime ..................... Quebec .......................

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Alabama, Mobile .............. July 28 to Aug. 8 Cumberland, Winchester, Ky.... July 7-18 Florida, Plant City .......... Oct. 13-23 Georgia ....................... Aug. 5-15 Louisiana, near Shreveport, July 28 to Aug. 7 Mississippi .................. North Carolina, Statesville... July 29- South Carolina ............... Tennessee River .............. August 19-28

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

East Michigan ................ Indiana, Martinsville ........ Aug. 18-29 Northern Illinois, Streator... Sept. 1-11 North Michigan ............... Sept. 1-12 Ohio, Marysville ............. Aug. 11-22 Southern Illinois, Decatur ... Aug. 17-28 Superior Mission, Gladstone, July 28 to Aug. 8 West Michigan, Allegan ....... Aug. 18-29 Wisconsin, Oshkosh ........... Aug. 30 to Sept. 12

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Alberta, Ponoka .............. July 12-17

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Colorado, Longmont ........... Aug. 18-28 Kansas, Wichita .............. Aug. 25 to Sept. 4 Missouri, Columbia ........... Aug. 11-21 Nebraska (State), Omaha ...... Sept. 1-11

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Arkansas, Russellville, Pope Co. Aug. 11-23 Oklahoma, Guthrie ............ Aug. 25 to Sept. 4 Texas, Keene ................ July 27 to Aug. 7 Texas, Hughes Springs (local) .... Aug. 16-26

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

British Columbia, Vancouver .... Sept. 15-25 Southern California, Los Angeles . Sept. 1-11 Utah, Provo .................. Aug. 10-17

UPPER COLUMBIA CONFERENCE

British Columbia, Vancouver .... Sept. 15-25 Southern Idaho .................. Sept. 12-18 Oregon, La Grande ............... Aug. 30 to Sept. 4 Washington, North Yakima ....... July 19-24
The presidents of the various conferences are requested to send us information regarding any meetings not mentioned in the preceding table, so that we may be able to give a complete list. Please inform us at once of any corrections or additions that should be made to this report.

Young People's Convention Report

By M. E. Kern

LET all who desire the report of the Central Union Conference Young People's Convention held recently at College View, Neb., send in their orders at once. The report will be ready July 15. Price, 10 cents a copy, or $6 per hundred. Every paper and address has been carefully edited, and the gist of all the discussions of the convention will be given. Every one interested in the progress of the young people's work should have this report. Those subscribing now for the Union College Messenger will receive the report without further cost. Price of the Messenger, 35 cents a year. M. E. KERN.

One Hundred Persons Wanted!

By Editor

We want one hundred persons to sell the new journal Life and Health.
The topics considered in this journal are of the utmost importance to every individual, so many people are ailing, and do not know how to live right. A large number of these can be reached and interested in a journal which will help them healthwise. The instruction is simple, practical, helpful.
The price is so low that hundreds of persons could readily dispose of from 100 to 1,000 copies of Life and Health each month.
One gentleman said he thought he could easily sell 100 copies a day.
We want one hundred persons to sell Life and Health. To assist these in getting started we will furnish to each one who will send us $3 for 100 copies of the August issue, 100 copies of the September number free. In other words, we will send 100 copies of Life and Health for two months for the price of one month. This will give an opportunity to start the sale of the magazine.
This offer is good only till July 25, when the August issue goes to press. The price thereafter for Life and Health in lots of 100 or more copies to agents will be $3.
We make this offer for advance orders only, and remittance should accompany each order. The August number will be ready about July 25.
We hope to secure at least 100 persons who will sell from 100 to 500 copies of Life and Health every month.
Address Life and Health, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.
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