There was a Chilian woman in the city of Conception, in South America, who came to hear Mr. Roe, the missionary, preach. At the close of the service she told the missionary that “some years ago her son was a sailor on board a steamer, where he became possessed of a Spanish Bible that was about to be thrown away. He was deeply interested in the book, and in course of time took it home. His eldest sister took to reading it, and became converted. Then she gave up the mass and the confessor. After a time the whole family were converted through the instrumentality of the Bible alone. One of the daughters married and her husband was converted; so that in a short time ten adults and some children were brought to the truth without any human instrumentality.”
Religious News and Notes.
—At last China has five miles of railroad. More is being constructed.
—Mr. Moody arrived in Chicago May 13. The next day he spoke in the Rink.
—At a meeting of Plymouth Church Henry C. Bowen was unanimously expelled.
—The next annual meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association of the United States and Canada will be held at Toronto, Canada, July 12–16, in Shaftesbury Hall. A large attendance of delegates is expected.
—The entire cost of the fountain placed by the Roman Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America upon the Centennial grounds will be $52,000. Of this amount $31,000 has been collected and paid to the contractors.
—At the General Conference of the Methodists, which was held in Baltimore the 1st of May, it was reported that the net increase of ministers and members, during the last four years, had been 234,640, and the increase of churches 1,193.
—The Presbytery of Oregon, during its session in the latter part of April, received a good report from the ministers who labor among the Indians on the Puyallup Reservation. They have an Indian Church of 89 members and two elders, and a Sunday-school with 100 pupils.
—The Russian journals publish a long report of the Commission charged by the Physical Society of St. Petersburg to examine the phenomena of Spiritualism. The report concludes that these phenomena are the result either of unconscious movements or of conscious imposture, and that the doctrine of Spiritualism is a superstition.
—Adrian Louis Rosecrans, a priest of the congregation of Saint Paul, New York, and the son of General William S. Rosecrans, died in New York, May 12. During the war he accompanied his father even to the battle field. After the war he came to California, where he was engaged in business until he joined the Paulist community of New York. He became a mission priest, and died at the age of twenty-six.
—Lively discussion was agitated at a meeting of the Methodist preachers of Newark, N. J., over the case of Rev. Geo. H. Woodward, an agent of the Temperance Brotherhood, who enters saloons, on Sunday, procures drinks, cigars, etc., and then on Monday causes the sellers to be prosecuted for violating the Sunday law. Should the church sustain Woodward, himself a Sabbath law-breaker? was the question raised. One minister declared that he would not scruple to sin a little himself that great good might come.
—“These seem to be good times for great church unions.” So says the Christian Union. “Pan-Presbyterianism is hardly a year old; the Pan-Anglican Church invites American Episcopalians to closer fellowship, and now the Methodists, in conference at Baltimore, resolve to appoint a commission to organize an Ecumenical Council, or World Synod of Methodism, to consider topics relating to the position, work and responsibility of the denomination in evangelizing the race.” “Much is to be gained,” says the Union, “by securing oneness of aim and method in church work, but there is danger attaching to large bodies that they may weaken individual responsibility.” Truly, union in Christ is to be prayed for, and unity of purpose will strengthen the advance of the gospel if no point of conscience is sacrificed for unity. But the unity of great bodies in the matter of creeds, while the sacredness of God's law is less and less regarded, and spirituality gradually dies from the church, is cause of no rejoicing.
—One very commendable feature of the English law is that no atheist or infidel is competent to be the guardian of children and to have charge of their education. This law has again been demonstrated by the recent case of the will of the late Viscount Amberly, son of Earl Russell, an account of which we copy from the Christian Statesman:—
“Mr. David Spalding is a gentleman and scholar who had for some time resided with the Amberlys, and was their most intimate friend. Viscount Amberly, in his will, named Mr. Spalding, as the sole custodian of the education of his children. When the will came before the Master of the Rolls for the testamentary nominations to be confirmed, Earl Russell objected to the carrying out of this portion of the will, on the ground that Mr. Spalding was an atheist. Mr. Spalding is not technically an atheist, but admitted a sufficient amount of heresy to warrant Earl Russell's plea that he would not bring up the children in any recognized form of religion. Mr. Spalding consulted counsel, who informed him that the case of the poet Shelley, who, while alive, was deprived of the custody of his children on similar grounds, is still the law of England, and that if he (Spalding) fought the case he would simply be saddled with the costs. The late Viscount left to Mr. Spalding the sum of £300 annually for the education of his children, and Earl Russell agreed that this should be regularly paid. It is stated that Mr. Spalding signed a paper renouncing his right to act as educator of the children.”
SECULAR NEWS.
—About 50,000 Sunday-school children were on parade in Brooklyn, May 24.
—In 1850 the area of cultivated land in Egypt was 2,000,000 acres; in 1874 it was 5,000,000.
—Col. Tom Scott expects to complete the Texas Pacific R. R. to Fort Worth. $1,500,000 have been subscribed.
VIENNA, May 24.—The Bulgarian insurrection is reported as growing to alarming proportions. The number of insurgents in arms is estimated at from 12,000 to 30,000.
—’Tis strange while many States have provided houses for disabled soldiers, that the rich State of New York has none. Brooklyn now leads off with thirteen thousand pledged for that purpose.
—France has one man under arms for every 82 persons of the population; Germany, one in 98; Italy, one in 124; Russia, one in 127; Austria, one in 150; and England, one in 212, without counting the men in the Indian service.
—Mexico is still in a state of anarchy. The prospect is on foot for Congress to declare the prolongation of President Lerdo’s term of office for one year as a political and military necessity. This scheme, if carried out, would greatly complicate affairs and cause an increase of anarchy and convert the Presidency into a dictatorship.
—The whisky war has broken out in good earnest in New York, beginning with twenty indictments and six arrests of prominent liquor dealers. The accused plead that if they handled crooked whisky they did not know it. If their connection with the Western revenue frauds is proved on trial, the fact that they were once respectable New York merchants must be deemed rather to add to than diminish their guilt.
—A new style of local railway is to be constructed in New York City, running from the Battery over the center of Church and Chamber Sts., West Broadway, South Fifth Avenue, West Third St., and Sixth Avenue to Central Park, a distance of five miles. It is to be supported by two rows of columns, with two sets of tracks, upon which trains will run every two minutes during the busy hours of the day. It is to be in operation by the first of August.
—Thirteen days’ skirmishing has sufficed to overthrow Salvador, and place her at the mercy of Guatemala. The decisive movement of the petty war was the landing of 1,300 Guatemalen troops near La Union, which they easily captured. They marched then on San Miguel, which, after three days’ fighting with the troops who barred the way, was entered in triumph. At last advices the President of Salvador was suing for peace, which has probably been granted.
—The obsequies of Baron de Palmacho, who died in Roosevelt Hospital, N. Y., was to take place at the Masonic Temple last Sunday. The ceremonials were to be carried out under the auspices of the Orphic Society, of which he was a member, with all the grand rites of the ancient Egyptian Ritual. The obsequies proper will be preceded by the singing of selections of the Orphic hymns. The baron had requested that no Christian priest or minister might officiate, but that the obsequies be purely Pagan.
MORE WORK FOR LAWYERS.—
A Chicago paper says, “The corruptions in our city government seem to be as bottomless as Dante’s Hell. The latest revelation is the defalcation of City Collector, Von Hollen, in the sum of about $100,000. It seems for four years he has been collecting the people’s money for taxes—putting a memorandum in the safe, instead of the money, and then visiting the low gambling dens of Clark street divide with his pals, or squander in gambling and carousing.” He has absconded, leaving his bondsmen to pay his debts if they are compelled to by long and expensive litigation.
—Unofficial reports from the Russian capital say that a change is near at hand. The Czar is old and weak. The Socialistic Propaganda, the financial embarrassments, and even the conquests in the East trouble him; for every new annexation absorbs many troops, and no one knows how soon they may be needed at the south to settle the Oriental question, or in the interior to keep down the people excited by “mischievous agitators.” If the Czar abdicates, trouble with Germany is anticipated, for the Grand Duke Czarewitch, is deeply attached to his wife, whose most prominent trait is hatred to the Germans.
National Evidence against Meat-Eating.
Prof. Lawrence, although himself a meat-eater, makes the frank admission that the Laplanders, Esquimaux, Tartars, Kam-schad[t]ales, and several other nations of similar dietetic habits, although living almost entirely upon flesh, are the smallest, weakest, and most cowardly people upon the globe. On the other hand, we find that, as a general rule quite free from exceptions, the most hardy, long-lived, robust, well-developed nations, both physically and mentally, are those whose diet is almost entirely, if not exclusively, vegetable. We have abundant evidence of this, even in our own country. The men who construct our extensive railways, who dig our immense canals, who bridge our rivers and tunnel our mountains, are almost entirely of foreign birth. The hardy Irish peasant, who comes to this country after having been reared upon a diet almost wholly made up of oatmeal and potatoes, far out-rivals the flesh-eating American in physical endurance and muscular power. And, in point of mental activity, the Irish are proverbial for their ready and characteristic wit. The same is true of the Irish girls who come to this country and engage in domestic service. Their readiness and activity are really surprising. But it is a very significant as well as patent fact that after having spent a few years in this country and becoming accustomed to the diet in common use, this difference rapidly disappears, so that in the second or third generation little vestige of former superiority remains. The same might be said of other nations as well, as the Germans, Danes, etc., and would be true of them, as also of the Irish, in a much more marked degree, were it not for the baneful influence of their great addiction to the use of alcoholic beverages.
But as it may be claimed that the instances cited the manifest difference may be due to natural disadvantages of climate or some similar causes, we will compare nations to which this objection cannot be raised. Take, for instance, the natives of New Zealand and those of Australia. Neither of these people, when discovered, possessed any domestic animals. The New Zealanders derived a considerable portion of their aliment from various vegetable productions, while the Australians subsisted almost entirely upon animal food, a large portion being procured from the sea. According to the accounts of reliable travelers, the difference between these two races is very great. The former are well-developed, and seem calculated to endure fatigue and hardship. Many of them are really handsome, and excellent models of symmetry. The Australians present quite a different aspect. They are ill-proportioned with small, thin, dwarfish limbs. One eminent writer says of them that they are “the most miserable of men,” while another, in speaking of them, remarks, “They are undoubtedly the lowest created beings that wear the form of humanity and claim the name of man.”
A similar comparison might be drawn between the Calmucks and the Circassians. Dr. Clarke says, in describing the first mentioned, “Nothing is more hideous than a Calmuck.” Their form and features are exceedingly uncouth, and, in the words of the same writer, “so horrible and coarse is the appearance of the women that it is difficult to distinguish sex.” The Circassians, on the other hand, have long been celebrated for their great superiority in point of beauty and symmetry. Their women are said to be the most handsome of any nation, and are remarkable for the delicacy and fineness of their features. Says Dr. Lamb, a noted English physician and writer, “Few will hesitate to pronounce that the ugliness of the Calmucks is the natural consequence of their diet.” It consists almost wholly of flesh, horses being to them what the reindeer is to the Laplander—his slave during life and food after death. With the Circassians, however, the opposite is the case. They engage largely in agriculture, cultivating barley, millet, and various vegetables. The national dish is millet porridge.
Here we have given two fair illustrations which ought to settle the question if no further evidence could be advanced; but this is hardly a beginning of the testimony. A large volume would be required to do the matter anything like justice. In addition to these evidences of a national character, we have the testimony of thousands of individuals in this country and England who have, during the last twenty-five or thirty years, adopted the vegetarian system. When the change has been properly conducted, it has invariably resulted in salutary effects.—Diet for Man.
Be Social at Home.
Let parents talk well at home. A father who is habitually silent in his own house may be in many respects a wise man, but he is not wise in his silence. We sometimes see parents, who are the life of every company they enter, dull, silent, uninteresting at home among their children. If they have not mental activity and mental stores sufficient for both, let them first provide for their own household. Ireland exports beef and wheat, and lives on potatoes; and they fare as poorly who reserve their social charms for companions abroad, and keep their dullness for home consumption. It is better to instruct children and make them happy at home than it is to charm strangers or amuse friends. A silent house is a dull place for young people—a place from which they will escape if they can. They will talk or think of being “shut up” there; and the youth who does not love home is in danger.
Causes of Disease.
In very many private houses of the well-to-do and wealthy, streams of devitalized air are nursed with the utmost care. There is the lumber room of the house, in which all kinds of incongruous things are huddled away from light and fresh air. There are dark under-stair closets in which cast-off clothing, charged with organic debris of the body, are left rest for days and even weeks together. There are bed-rooms overstocked with furniture, the floors covered with heavy carpets, in which are collected pounds upon pounds of organic dust. There are dressing-rooms in which are stowed away old shoes, and well-packed drawers of well-worn clothing. There are dining-rooms in which the odor of the latest meal never is absent, and from the sideboard and cupboards of which the smell of decomposing fruit or cheese is always emanating. There are drawing-rooms in which the scent of decayed roses, or of the varnish from the furniture, or of the dye from the table-covers is always present. There are kitchens in which there is the odorous indication of perpetual cooking. There are sculleries in which the process of “washing up” seems to be in permanent action, and where the products from change of stored bones, potato parings, recent vegetable green food, and other similar refuse are abiding. There are water-closets in which there is at every time of day and night a persistent faint ammoniacal odor.
Under such conditions thousands of families live, children grow up, and old people die. They may all go for years and suffer no acute disease, and those whose duty calls them daily into the open air may even be healthy; but those who have to remain nearly all day in the devitalized atmosphere of the house show the fact in paleness of face, languor of limb, persistent sense of weariness, and dullness of spirit.—B. W. RICHARDSON, M. D., in Diseases of Modern Life.
Business Department.
“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully,” (margin, negligently). Jer. 48:10.
Received for the Signs.
$3.00 EACH. C A Slade 3-24, S J Anthony 3-1.
$1.50 EACH. Geo Hutchings 3-23, John Stevens 3-24, D C Burton 3-24, Geo Griffiths 3-24, Rev Silas Osborn 3-24, E H Wood 2-48, C E Preston 3-6, O S Cook 3-24, Ezra Hale 3-24, M S Lathrop 3-24, Geo Greensmith 3-24, F W Duncan 3-24, Fred Israel 3-24, Almond Moore 3-24, Chas Brinton 3-24, Ellen F Witherly 3-24, Geo Pierce 3-24, J N Richardson 3-24, Wm Stanley 3-24, Joseph H Jones 3-24, W Brockin 3-24, L A Sargent 3-6, Mrs Pleasant Harding 3-24, A F Adams 3-24, San Juan Library 3-24, James W Bartlett 3-24, Mrs Mary Pennell 3-24.
MISCELLANEOUS. Mrs R A Borthwick $2.00 3-24, Wm Hutchings $2.50 3-24, A B Puffer 75c 2-48, C A Tuttle $2.00 3-1, Chas E Hyde 50c 2-30, Mrs Rachel Weaver $1.00 3-8, Joseph Jellis 50c 2-30.
Donations to the Signs.
A Friend $5.00, A Friend $10.00, C Bartlett $10.00.
Cash Received on Account.
Vermont T & M Society $25.00, New England T & M Society $150.00, Cal T & M Society $16.90, John Judson $7.00.
California Publishing Fund.
Sarah Ross $25.00.
California Conference Fund.
A Friend $10.00, C Bartlett $10.00.
Appointments.
By John H. Waggoner
OAKLAND.—Services in the Advent Hall, corner of Twelfth and Broadway, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 11 A. M., and First-day evening at 7:30. Prayer-meetings Wednesday evenings at 7:30.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Services at the new church, on Laguna street, between Tyler and McAllister, every Sabbath (Saturday), at 11 A. M. and First-day evening at 7:30. Prayer-meetings Wednesday evenings at 7:30. The Hayes valley cars of Market street and the Lone Mountain cars of the Central R. R. cross Laguna street near the church.
NAPA.—June 3 and 4.
ST. HELENA.—Wednesday evening, June 7.
MIDDLETOWN.—Sabbath, June 10. Meetings may commence Sabbath evening if convenient to the friends there. Arrangements for meetings through the week may be made after my arrival there.
J. H. WAGGONER.
Camp-Meetings.
IOWA,—Marshalltown, Marshall Co., June 8–12
WISCONSIN,—Sparta, “ 15–19
MINN.,—Eagle Lake, Blue Earth Co., “ 22–26
WISCONSIN,—Ripon, June 29 to July 3
MICHIGAN,—Battle Creek, Aug. 3–7
OHIO,—Norwalk, Huron Co., “ 10–14
VERMONT,—Essex Junction, “ 17–21
NEW ENGLAND,—South Lancaster, “ 24–28
MAINE,—Richmond, Aug. 31 to Sept. 4
NEW YORK,—Rome, Sept. 7–11
INDIANA,—Bunker Hill, “ 14–18
ILL.,—Waldron, Kankakee Co., “ 21–25
SOUTHERN IOWA,— Oct. 5–9
What Shall Be Done?
By W. C. White
We are sending the SIGNS to fifteen hundred persons who owe us for six months' subscription. Some of these were subscribed for by friends, who expected that at the expiration of the subscription, the paper would be stopped. Many others prize the paper and could pay as well as not, and intend to as soon as it is convenient. While still others are represented by the writer of the following:—
“EDITOR SIGNS: Dear Brethren, I address you a few lines to thank you for continuing to send us the SIGNS. We have hoped from time to time that we should get the money to send, but we have been disappointed. Money at present is scarce. If you will be so good as to have faith in us we will send the money as soon as possible.
“I cannot tell you how we prize our excellent paper. We have expected from week to week that we would miss it, and have felt that we could hardly know how to spare it.
“There are no Sabbath-keepers here but ourselves, and we sorely need refreshing from the Lord. We hope and pray that the Lord may direct some of his messengers to this land of darkness.
“May the Lord bless and encourage your hearts as you labor in the great work of warning the world.”
What shall be done that we may continue the SIGNS to several hundred like the writer of the above letter, who need the paper but cannot pay for it at present? And what shall be done that we may no longer send it to some who do not read it and do not wish to receive it longer?
First. Let all those who do not want the paper or do not think it worth the money, write to us at once that we may stop a needless expense. Those who have sent it to friends should find out if it is being read, and if not, they should notify us of the fact with orders to stop it or send it to some other person.
Secondly. Let those who have the ready cash, pay up, if in arrears, and let all who can subscribe one or two years in advance. This would give us means to send the paper three or six months to those who are waiting for harvest, or some other means to furnish money to pay for the paper. W. C. WHITE.
The Publishing Fund.
By John Norton Loughborough
In the SIGNS of April 13, is a report of a meeting of the Directors of the Pacific S. D. A. Publishing Association. In that report is a preamble and resolution passed by the Board of Directors as follows:—
Whereas, It is very desirable to free our Association from debt, and also to have a fund to invest in paper and books, and as many who have pledged to the publishing fund are behind on their subscriptions, therefore,
Resolved, That our brethren and sisters be urged to pay their pledges as soon as possible, and others be invited to take stock in the Association, in order that the above objects may be carried out.
There is still about five thousand dollars of the means that was pledged to this fund unpaid. Many of those, undoubtedly, who pledged this means and have not as yet paid their pledges, are designing to do so as soon as they can. The Association has a good lot and building nearly all paid for, and is now in special need of three or four thousand dollars to enable it to carry on its business free from embarrassment. Of course we did not contribute of our means to erect a publishing house to look at simply, but a house in which we could publish the truth. It will not answer to stop short of the object we are pursuing. Means should be raised to serve as a publishing fund.
We hope those who have still unpaid pledges to the publishing fund will make an effort to pay them as soon as possible. If there are any on this coast who have not taken stock in the Association, and can help in this enterprise, it will be most gladly received.
For the Directors.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
The Signs and Its Readers.
By Editor
The Signs has now completed one-half of its second volume; it has made you twenty-four of its forty-eight weekly visits for this year, and it is encouraging to know that its publication is not without results. Some write that they have been converted to the observance of the Sabbath and a belief in the soon appearing of our Lord by reading it alone, and many others report that friends have been interested and are earnestly investigating the truths it teaches.
We mean that the Signs shall advocate a pure religion and sustain a high standard of truth and duty, and that it shall also be a home paper with news and matters of interest for old and young. Particularly would we make it a medium of communication for our brethren on the Pacific Coast. The field is broad and our ministers are called mostly to new fields. Let bits of religious news, letters of encouragement, and reports of progress pass freely from church to church, to take the place, as far as possible, of the living preacher. The reports of meetings, of addition or loss in numbers, or the result of Bible-class investigations of the prophecy will be of interest to other churches. The columns of the Signs will ever be open to all such communications that are of general interest.
The article on the first page of this paper is the first of two, giving Jeremiah’s experience in testifying against the wicked king of Judah and his false prophets, relating his cruel imprisonment, and their final destruction. The subject of the atonement as taken up by Elder Wagoner in last week’s paper will open a vast field for study. Each paper containing these articles should be read, then given to friends.
The Freedmen in Texas.
In speaking of the interest taken by the colored people of Texas in the present truth, Eld. Canright gives a brief description of one of the night schools held for their benefit. He says:—
“Near here Eddie Capman, one of our young brethren, has a night school three evenings in the week for the colored people. I attended one evening. It was held in a little log cabin about 12x14. In this were rude seats with a rough table in the center. On this was an ordinary lantern for light. Around this table were seated about a dozen colored people ranging from parson Green Medlin, with his white locks, down to little children of eight or ten years. All the older ones had been slaves. Now they were learning to read, spell, write, etc. The younger ones seem to get along well; but the older ones had hard work of it. To me it was really touching to see a man of forty trying to learn his letters. But the effort is commendable, and many of them do better than could be expected.”
He further says that they are anxious to be taught, and would welcome laborers among them, but that a man could not labor for them and for the whites too, as the whites would not associate with him if he did. There is no objection to laboring for them, but it must be done separately. He therefore recommends that a small tent be sent among them in which could be held schools for the children and meetings for the older.
A New Book.
THRILLING LIFE SKETCHES is the title of a new book just published at the Review and Herald Office.
It is the Life of Bro. Francesco Urgos, an Italian of noble birth, who gives in it his remarkable experience as prisoner of the Inquisition, officer in the army of Garibaldi, and traveler in Africa and Syria. Bro. Urgos recently embraced the truth from the labors of Bro. Bourdeau, in Illinois. He is totally blind, having lost his sight through the machinations of the Inquisition.
Price of the book with portrait, post-paid, $1.25. For sale at this Office.
State Quarterly Meeting.
By John Norton Loughborough
The third Cal. State Quarterly Meeting of this fiscal year will be held with District No. 7, in Oakland, Sabbath and First-day, July 8 and 9. We hope for an attendance of all the directors in reach of this meeting.
J. N. Loughborough, Pres.
Brevities.
THE Post Office address of Elder J. N. Andrews is 68 Mullerweg, Bale, Switzerland.
THE yearly session of the Minnesota State Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Eagle Lake, June 20-26.
District Quarterly Meetings.
By John Norton Loughborough
The district quarterly meetings of Cal., for the third quarter of this fiscal year, will be held on the same date, except District No. 7, as follows:—
DISTRICT No. 1.—At Petaluma, June 24 and 25.
DISTRICT No. 2.—At Healdsburg, June 24 and 25.
DISTRICT No. 3.—At St. Helena, June 24 and 25.
DISTRICT No. 4.—At Bear Valley, San Diego Co., June 24 and 25.
DISTRICT No. 5.—At Woodland, June 24 and 25.
DISTRICT No. 6.—In Tehama Co., where the director, Bro. Disher, may appoint, June 24 and 25.
DISTRICT No. 7.—At Oakland, in connection with the State Quarterly Meeting, July 8 and 9.
DISTRICT No. 8.—San Jose, June 24 and 25.
DISTRICT No. 9.—San Francisco, June 24 and 25.
The librarians in each church should see that blanks for quarterly reports are placed in the hands of all their missionary members, in season to be filled out and returned to the librarian by the Sabbath before your district quarterly meeting. If any of the librarians lack blanks for reports, drop a postal card to your district secretary immediately on reading this.
Immediately after the close of each district quarterly meeting the district secretary should forward to the State Secretary, sister Lucie Bush, Woodland, Cal., a report of the workings of the district for the quarter. The report should state how many missionary members there are in the district, and how many have reported. Obtain as full a report as possible from every member in each district. It is hoped that every district will send in a full report this quarter, that the secretary’s report at the State Quarterly Meeting may be complete.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres.
Books, Pamphlets, Tracts, etc., etc.
By Editor
OUR BOOK LIST.—Any persons on the Pacific Coast wishing any of the publications named in our book list can obtain them by mail or express by writing to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, California, enclosing the published price of the same. When sent by mail, books will be post paid; when by express, at the expense of the one ordering the books; but in this case a liberal discount will be made when ten dollars worth or more are paid for with any one order.