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News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

—Eight cadets at West Point were found to have smuggled liquors into their quarters, and to have become intoxicated upon them. They were tried and dismissed from the service. President Taft confirmed the sentence dismissing four of them, and commuted the sentence of the other four, who are to suffer some kind of humiliation as a punishment.

—In a résumé of the ethnological losses caused by the fire in the State Capitol at Albany, N. Y., last spring, the American Anthropologist notes the curious fact that almost the only articles that escaped injury were those having a religious significance. The medicine masks and other paraphernalia of the Indians’ religious rites were uninjured, while the rest of the valuable collection was almost totally destroyed. In another age this might have been considered significant; now it is only a freak of the fire-fiend.

—The government brought suit against the United States Steel Corporation in the federal circuit court at Trenton, N. J., on October 26. J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie are among the eighteen individual defendants in the suit. The court is asked to say that all the defendants are violating the law; to restrain them perpetually by injunction; to order a dissolution of the company, its constituent companies, and the companies of which they were made; to declare the ore lease illegal, and to cancel it.

—This year’s apple crop is about 30,000,000 barrels. It exceeds last year’s by twenty per cent. One sixth of it is in the State of New York.

—The Greek steamer “Lord Byron,” from Theodosia for Antwerp, foundered in the English Channel during the gale on November 6. Twenty-two of the crew of twenty-five were lost.

—Almost a million divorces were granted in the United States between 1887 and 1906. Last year there were 72,062 divorces as against 13,180 in France, which has the next largest number.

—At a meeting of the members of the Philadelphia Hotel Association November 8, the members who are the managers of the leading hotels of the city agreed to act in conjunction to do away with the “tipping” system.

—More than a score of deaths, several million dollars’ property loss, and much suffering and inconvenience resulted from the sudden fall of temperature through the central portion of the United States, November 11, 12. In many places severe storms accompanied this cold wave.

—The death roll of aviation for 1911 promises to be of shocking length. Including the tragedy at Macon, Ga., when Eugene Ely volplaned to death in a brilliant flight at the State fair, thus far since the first of January sixty-five persons have been killed, as aviators or passengers or as spectators watching flights.

—President Taft returned to Washington November 12, having completed his trip across the country. He has visited Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois again, and Pennsylvania. The journey covered about 13,000 miles.

—The union between the Free Baptists and the regular Baptists of the Northern States, which has been under discussion and negotiation, has been effected. The Free Baptists numbered 80,000. Hereafter, they will support the missionary and other work which has been maintained by the Baptists. The separation thus ended began in 1780, and grew out of doctrinal differences.

—On November 13, Secretary of State Knox received $966,000 from the government of Chile in settlement of the long-standing Alsop claim. At the time of the treaty of peace between Bolivia and Chile, the mining territory which this company controlled was ceded to Chile, with the understanding that she settle all outstanding claims with the firm. This she tried to evade, and a payment has just been forced.

—Complete agreements between the telegraph operators and officials of the Southern Railway and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, by which the employees of the former will receive an increase of twelve per cent in salary, and those of the latter will be given a six-per-cent increase, were reached recently. Shorter working hours and other concessions were also granted the men. The agreement will cost the Southern Railway approximately $120,000 more annually. The signing of the agreement ends negotiations that have been pending for several months.

—The schooner “Edith E. Dennis” was sunk off Fort Terry, N. Y., November 13. Four persons were drowned.

—In the recent contest for the world’s baseball championship, on each team one of the most skilful players was a full-blooded American Indian.

—It is said that 2,500 daily newspapers are published in the United States, 1,500 in Germany, and only 250 in Great Britain. Japan has 400 dailies, one of them with a circulation of 400,000.

—The streets of New York have become so littered with piles of garbage as the result of the street cleaners’ strike, that Street Cleaning Commissioner Edwards has begun the use of disinfectants.

—Tolstoi’s estate, which would have been divided among the peasants living thereon if the owner’s wishes had been carried out, is, it is reported, to be sold for the benefit of his family. It is urged that the house be bought by subscription, and kept as a memorial of the novelist.

—Recent reports say that the whole Persian cabinet, together with the regent, has resigned. This action follows the presentation by Russia of an ultimatum demanding an apology and reparation for insults to her consular officers, in connection with the confiscation of the property of the premier.

—“The bank deposits of Butler County, Kansas, show more money per capita than any other agricultural county in the State,” says a newspaper despatch. The reason assigned is that the Kafir corn, which is largely raised in this country, withstood the drought of last summer, while other crops failed.

—The Mormon Tabernacle Choir of Salt Lake City, Utah, is to make a tour of the country. This is said to be one of the largest musical organizations in the world, comprising six hundred members. The choir’s repertoire will include grand opera selections, oratorio, part songs, and some “characteristic Utah pieces.”

—English meteorologists have to go back in their records for seventy years to find a summer with as high an average temperature—namely, a fraction over sixty-six degrees—as that of 1911. The hottest day of last summer, August 9, when the thermometer registered 100° at Greenwich, has also had no parallel since the summer of 1841.

—A new naval training station is to be established at Lake Bluff, on Lake Michigan, a few miles from Chicago. Secretary Meyer is reported as saying of it: “This naval training station will be the finest in the world. I believe that when the station is in full operation, seventy-five per cent of the men joining the navy will enlist from the Middle West.”

—Not more than 60,000 of the 4,000,000 books in the British Museum are in common use, the museum’s chief librarian is reported as saying. Only occasionally is one of the other 3,940,000 books asked for by a delver in forgotten lore. “Acres and acres of books here are uncut,” says the librarian, “and have never left their shelves since they were placed on them.” And yet in the future any one of these forgotten books may prove to some special student to be of priceless value.

—At the recent International Prohibition Conference held at The Hague, Holland, thirty-nine countries were represented. The reports were of the growth of temperance sentiment and the enactment of prohibition legislation. The conference unanimously agreed on a memorial, addressed to all governments, asking for suppression of the liquor traffic, and proposing an international convention.

—A new archeological expedition has left England for Jerusalem, to continue the work on the site of ancient Zion, with a view to discovering the birthplaces of David and Solomon. Captain Parker, brother of the earl of Morley, is in charge, and has taken with him some English laborers, who will resume the work in the underground passages on Mount Ophel, a cabbage garden which now supplies Jerusalem with vegetables, and is supposed to be the site of the ancient Zion.

—Vigorous efforts to stay the ravages of the chestnut bark disease, which already has destroyed $25,000,000 worth of valuable timber in the Eastern States, are to be made by the Department of Agriculture. Dr. Haven Metcalf, in charge of the work, is taking the question up with the authorities. At a conservative estimate, the chestnut stand of the country is worth between $300,000,000 and $400,000,000; and as the disease spreads rapidly, it will mean a great economic loss to the country if we can not check the infection.

—While American missionaries are traveling to the ends of the earth to make converts to Christianity, an insidious “heathen” propaganda, so it is claimed, is undermining our spiritual health. Mabel Potter Daggett, who, in the Hampton Columbian Magazine, writes at length of this heathen invasion, finds that women are its chief victims. “Eve,” she says, “is eating the apple again.” She continues: “Yoga, that Eastern philosophy the emblem of which is the coiled serpent, is being widely disseminated here. And before a charm that seemingly they can not resist, thousands of converts are yielding to the temptation to embrace its teachings of strange mysteries.”

—After an agitation of several years, the women teachers of New York have at last won their fight for equal pay for both sexes in the public schools. This will add $3,500,000 to the annual metropolitan budget. The bill for equal pay has passed the State legislature several times, but until now has invariably been vetoed. In some New York school grades, the women teachers already have equal pay with the men, and there are many large cities throughout the country where uniform compensation for both sexes is the rule. The increase to the New York taxpayers will be four mills on the dollar. While the result of the campaign will be to give higher pay to the women teachers now in commission, it will probably be the means of opening the way for the appointment of a larger number of men teachers, who will be chosen for certain grades the more readily that pay will now be equal for both sexes. In other words, it will now be a question of absolute fitness in deciding appointments, instead of being one largely of economy or favoritism as formerly.

—Dr. Wu Ting Fang, ex-minister of China to the United States, is writing a book on his impressions of this country, especially American women. The completion of the book is said to be held up by Dr. Wu’s present efforts to secure foreign recognition of the revolutionists. He has already signed a contract to have the book published by an American company. Dr. Wu declares that the American women are astoundingly clever and beautiful, but that they are no more free than other women. Corsets, he says, are as bad as the tiny shoes of the Chinese women. While he finds America a great nation, he thinks that many of its social customs are outlandish.

—A shipment of specimens from the National Zoological Gardens of the Argentine Republic, at Buenos Aires, was received at the Washington Zoo last week. Two half-grown tapirs, of a species that is fast disappearing, are the stars of the new troupe of arrivals. The male, only one year old, weighs almost 500 pounds. Two handsome coypous were also in the shipment. They very much resemble the muskrat that abounds in this country. A pair of owls also arrived. These birds are about twice the size of the American owl, and their feathers are of a deeper and prettier brown than those of their American cousins. A stork, four feet high, of a species that is almost extinct in South America, was also sent. The shipment was completed by two agoutis, a branch of the rabbit family.

—Miss Margaret Kelly, a woman thirty-five years of age, is to-day in actual charge of the manufacture of coins of the United States, having been made examiner of mints, and being in actual charge, in the absence of Director Roberts, of the money-making institutions of the United States. She is the highest-paid woman in the employ of the United States, her salary being $3,000 a year. She received $2,250 as chief clerk of the Bureau, from which position she was promoted. Beginning as a stenographer, she has occupied almost every position in the Bureau, and “is acknowledged to be the greatest authority in the country on mints, excepting only Director Roberts, her chief.” The next highest-paid woman on the government pay-roll receives $2,500.

—The Canadian census figures show a total population of 7,081,869. In 1901 the population was 5,371,315. The population of certain cities and their gains are as follows:—

	TOTAL	GAIN
Montreal	466,197	198,467
Quebec	78,067	9,227
Toronto	356,240	167,200
Winnipeg	135,430	93,090
Vancouver	100,333	73,323
Victoria	31,620	10,084
Edmonton	24,882	22,256
Regina	30,210	27,961
Saskatoon	12,002	11,889
Moosejaw	13,824	12,266
Ottawa	86,340	26,412

The parliamentary representation of the West will now be increased; that of the East reduced. The basis of representation will henceforth be one seat to 30,000 population, instead of 25,000. Even so, eleven new seats will be added, bringing the membership of the Dominion Parliament up to 232.

—For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, according to the official figures issued by United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue, R. E. Cabell, the consumption of distilled spirits was 134,600,193 gallons; the consumption of beer during the same period was 1,952,722,381 gallons. These totals represent an increase of over 8,000,000 gallons of whisky and of over 113,000,000 gallons of beer over the figures of 1910, and break all existing records for liquor sales in this country. The combined increase is 121,049,823 gallons, which represents an increase of 1.3 gallons per capita, making the total per capita consumption of liquors to-day 22.29 gallons. The highest previous consumption of distilled spirits was for the year 1907.

—The United States is the world’s greatest cotton producer, the estimate for the last season being 10,155,000 bales of 500 pounds each; India, 4,186,000 bales; China, 1,200,000 bales; Egypt, 970,000 bales; Russia (Asiatic provinces), 768,000 bales; Mexico, 125,000 bales; and miscellaneous, including Brazil, Peru, Persia, Turkey, and other countries, 645,000 bales; making the total world crop for the season of 1909–10, 18,049,000 bales. Of the product of China, 200,000 bales are now annually exported to Japan. Of the cotton crop of India, slightly less than one half is exported. Of the Egyptian cotton, practically all is exported, going chiefly to Europe and the United States, its long staple and silky luster rendering it especially valuable for use in conjunction with the shorter-stapled cotton of other parts of the world. The value of raw cotton imported into the United States during the year 1910 was, in round terms, about $15,000,000, of which $10,000,000 worth came direct from Egypt, $2,000,000 from the United Kingdom (presumably also chiefly from Egypt), nearly $1,000,000 worth from Peru, and $750,000 from China.

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By A. J. S. Bourdeau

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For SALE.—Cooking Oil, finest quality: Barrel (50 gallons), per gallon, 61 cents; ½ barrel (30 gallons), per gallon, 62 cents; 5-gallon cans, $3.50; 8 1-gallon cans, $6.40. Cash with order. Lookout Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

LIBERAL OFFER.—Best Cottonseed-Oil for all cooking and salads. Wholesome, nutritious, fine flavor, keeps indefinitely. Guaranteed free from animal fats and all impurities; 5 gallons, $3.25; 10 gallons, $6.25; ½ barrel, $17.60. Purity Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

COPYING WANTED.—I wish to do typewriting for our own people. Can furnish correct copies at such a low figure it will pay you to send your manuscripts to me. References from General Conference. Address Vida V. Young, Siloam Springs, Ark.

Dr. GODSMARK’S Hygienic Cooking Oil is used in thousands of homes, schools, and sanitariums. The most highly refined vegetable shortening. 5 gallons, $4.50; 10 gallons, $8.50; ½ barrel, $22.60. Cooking formulas free. Order to-day. Hygienic Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Christmas is coming, and we have 1,000,000 Bible Mottoes to sell. Size, 12 x 16. Special offer: 25, $1.50; 50, $2.50; 100, $4.50; 250, $10; 500, $17; 1,000, $30. Express prepaid. Spanish, German, English. Address Hampton Art Company, Nevada, Iowa.

WANTED.—To correspond with an able farm laborer. Must be honest, kind-hearted, Seventh-day Adventist married man. Prefer one who can teach Sabbath-school, but if right in other ways would be accepted. Must give good references in first reply. Austin Stitzel, Lakeville, Holmes Co., Ohio.

FOR SALE.—Forty acres, fine farming land, near Covert. Church and church-school privileges. Twenty acres seeded, rest in cultivation. Apple- and pear-trees and strawberries. Barn, well, house newly papered. Soft water in house. Only $1,800 if sold soon. Address Mrs. Mark Wilbur, R. F. D. 5, Eaton Rapids, Mich.

FOR SALE.—Fifty-acre school farm of the Eudora Agricultural and Mechanical Academy. The school building will be donated and deeded to the conference. An opportunity to take up self-supporting school work, as the founder feels called to take up work in another field. Address Eudora Academy, Eudora, N. C.

ELEGANT imported gelatin Scripture Cards—new on market. Handsomely illustrated hymns, greetings, birthdays. Assorted, post-paid: 10, 10 cents; 100, 99 cents. Beautiful lithographed Bible Mottoes (12 x 16); sample, 6 cents; dozen, 65 cents; 100, $3.75, post-paid. Stamps refused. Waterbury Specialty Co., Brandon, Wis.

Obituaries

Painter.—Died at his home near Stanley, Va., Oct. 11, 1911, Joseph Painter, aged 73 years, 9 months, and 22 days. Before his death he expressed a bright hope of life beyond the grave. Funeral services were held at the Seventh-day Adventist church, conducted by Brother A. J. Painter, assisted by the writer. B. F. Purdham.

Botimer.—Mrs. Catherine Botimer fell asleep at her home in Vassar, Mich., Oct. 23, 1911, at the age of 57 years. She accepted present truth about thirty years ago, and from that time was a faithful worker for the Lord. She was the mother of nine children, seven of whom survive, with their father, to mourn their loss. Words of consolation were spoken by Elder William Ostrander. D. Malin.

Thompson.—Amanda Thompson was born in Evinston, Canada, in 1836, and died in Erie, Pa., Oct. 20, 1911, aged 75 years, 8 months, and 8 days. She came to the States with her parents when about nine years of age, and was married to James R. Thompson in 1852. About thirty years ago she heard the message of a soon-coming Saviour, and by the help of the Lord lived ready to meet him. She leaves to mourn their loss seven children, four sons and three daughters; and also a grandson, who has been a comfort to her in her old age. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Rev. 14:13. P. N. Williams.

Haskell.—Mattie J. Haskell was born at Plattsburg, N. Y., July 29, 1876, and died at Brayton, Tenn., Oct. 27, 1911, aged 35 years, 2 months, and 28 days. Sister Haskell was raised in the Adventist faith from childhood, her grandmother being a believer in the great advent movement of 1844. At the early age of fifteen, Sister Haskell gave her heart to the Lord, and was baptized by Elder M. G. Huffman in 1891. Her life gave evidence of a genuine Christian experience. When she fell asleep, it was with the confident assurance that she would awake at the sound of the Master's voice, and be numbered with the redeemed. The funeral service was conducted by the writer at her home church, in the presence of a large circle of her friends. P. G. Stanley. Ornell.—Died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Elin Violet Ornell, infant daughter of Brother and Sister L. Ornell. She was born Nov. 1, 1909, and fell asleep Oct. 28, 1911. The parents and four sisters mourn their loss. Words of comfort were spoken by Elder N. P. Neilsen and the writer. E. Rosenwood.

Boist.—Ethel Boist died in Detroit, Mich., Nov. 4, 1911. Besides her parents, she leaves four sisters and one brother to mourn for her. Services were conducted by Elder Ostrander, who spoke from Revelation 22 and Matthew 5, bringing out many words of comfort. Interment took place in St. Charles Cemetery. Mrs. Lucy Theile.

Lafferty.—Llewellyn Leforest Lafferty, son of Brother and Sister James Lafferty, was born July 5, 1908, and departed this life at his home in Cedar Lake, Mich., Oct. 23, 1911. The parents mourn the loss of their little one, and miss his prattle in the home; but they are assured that it is well with the child, and that when the Life-giver comes, little Llewellyn will be placed again in his mother's arms. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, assisted by J. H. McEachern. Roscoe U. Garrett.

Bullock.—Mrs. Orill A. Bullock was born Sept. 11, 1851, in Greeley, Iowa, and died at her home near Esbon, Kan., Oct. 27, 1911, being 60 years, 1 month, and 16 days old. Sister Bullock united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church when twenty-two years of age, and continued faithful till the time of her death. She now sleeps, awaiting the trumpet call at Jesus' glorious appearing. A husband and seven children, four sons and three daughters, survive her. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Rev. 14:13. O. E. Jones.

Clow.—Sister Clara Clow (née Thompson) was born in Waubeek, Wis., May 24, 1859, and died Oct. 29, 1911, in Duluth, Minn., at the age of 52 years, 5 months, and 5 days. Until 1894 she made her home in Wisconsin, but in that year she went to Portland, Ore., where she was married to Mr. Henry Clow. To them one child was born, a son now ten years of age, who, with her husband, one brother, and two sisters survive her. When a young woman, Sister Clow accepted the Seventh-day Adventist faith, and was a faithful member of that church until her death. Funeral services were conducted by the writer. E. L. Sheldon.

Two Good Pamphlets

By John Norton Loughborough

I HAVE been impressed to prepare two more pamphlets. One I have called “Last-Day Tokens,” and it has 206 pages. It calls attention to the rise of the advent movement in various parts of the world, and its progress down to date. It has three chapters showing the fulfilment of the word of the Lord by the prophet Joel, when his servants should “sound an alarm. . . . The day of the Lord cometh, it is nigh at hand.” He would “show wonders in the heavens.” In these three chapters is an account of fifty-four such wonders that have been seen in various countries. There are pictures of thirty-six of the same. Twenty-two of these, found on sixteen pages of the pamphlet, are in the same colors as witnessed. An astronomer, who is in charge of the telescope in one of our California observatories, recently said to me, after seeing these pictures, “No astronomer can explain these things. The only solution is they are produced directly by the power of the Lord.”

Many persons who have heard my talks on spiritual gifts and their manifestation in connection with the advent movement, in which I have told what I have seen and known of the manifestation of the gift, have desired these things in print. As the older workers decline in strength, and the labor falls upon younger persons, who “must take up the work where the old ones leave it,” it seemed best for me to prepare another pamphlet of 104 pages, entitled “Prophetic Gift in the Gospel Church.” In this pamphlet is not only the Bible testimony on the perpetuity of spiritual gifts, but also twenty-two comparisons of the manifestations of the gift in connection with the third angel’s message, with its manifestations in connection with the Scripture prophets.

An edition of each of these pamphlets has recently been printed, and can be secured at the following rates: “Last-Day Tokens,” 50 cents each; “Prophetic Gift,” 10 cents each. Let the pamphlets be out in the field doing their work. This they can not do on the shelves of the publishing offices. Order from your tract society. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

South American Workers and Signs Circulation

ELDER F. L. PERRY, wife, and son of eight, after two years in the States, sailed from New York, Monday of this week, again to take up work in South America. Brother Perry will have charge of the work in Uruguay. Miss Cassie Wilson, of the Foreign Mission Seminary, a Bible worker, accompanies them to South America, her chosen field. Also on the same boat Elder Henry Meyer, wife, and three children leave for their field in Brazil. It is a source of encouragement that after the earnest and long-continued pleas from South America for additional help, these workers can respond. May the Lord bless their labors in this needy field.

FOLLOWING the distribution of the Missions number of the Signs of the Times weekly, let an effort be made to permanently increase the circulation of this excellent journal. Secure yearly or short-term subscriptions for the paper from your friends and neighbors.

Elder Daniells Reports on Ministerial Institute

A NOTE from Elder A. G. Daniells speaks of the excellent ministerial institute that the Lake Union Conference is holding in Battle Creek, Mich., which Elders W. A. Spicer and G. B. Thompson also are attending. He says: “We are having a fine institute. It is different from any of the others we have had, but it seems to be as good and profitable as any. Our class numbers about one hundred seventy-five. Of course at night we have the auditorium full. Last Sabbath we had the largest attendance that has been in the Tabernacle for many years. The church here seems to be doing well. The Lord has not deserted those who have taken a loyal stand for his truth.”

IN this age when so much is being said about germ diseases and the necessary measures of sanitation and disinfection in order to prevent them, it is strange that the simpler and common forms of cleanliness are not more carefully observed. Doubtless, if the facts were known, we should be startled to learn how many diseases have been communicated through failure to observe ordinary cleanliness of the person. The article “Dirty Hands,” by Dr. F. M. Rossiter, in our Home and Health department, is worthy of a careful reading, and not only of a careful reading, but the good instruction which it contains should be put into daily practise by every reader.

Second Sabbath Readings

No Second Sabbath Readings are being sent out this month, as the week of prayer begins December 9. The next service will be Sabbath, January 13.

Robert Beckner Injured in Fall

WHILE attempting to open a church window at Rangoon, Burma, Brother Robert Beckner fell about six feet, and struck upon a water-pipe, breaking one of his legs midway between the knee and ankle. He was taken immediately to the hospital. Fortunately, there have been no serious complications, and we trust he may make a favorable and complete recovery.

Tamil Literature Work in Bangalore

In order to prepare more literature in Tamil, and to secure a change and rest for a time, Brother J. S. James has removed to Bangalore, leaving Brother and Sister Lowry to carry forward the work at Nazareth and its vicinity, south India.

Educational Secretaries Council Meeting

LEAVING Washington last week, Prof. H. R. Salisbury spent several days at the ministerial institute at Battle Creek, Mich. Later he will proceed to College View, Neb., where, from November 29 to December 5, will be held a council meeting for the educational secretaries of the American union conferences.

Home and Health Books on Sale

By Editor

The Review and Herald Publishing Association still has left a few copies of “Home and Health” in the library binding that were slightly damaged by water at the time of our fire. The books are not hurt for practical use. The regular price in this binding is $4, but we will furnish these at $1.25, post-paid.

Elder Evans Sails for China

ACCOMPANIED by Miss Eunice LeMaster, a stenographer and office helper, Elder I. H. Evans and wife sailed from San Francisco, Wednesday, November 22, for China. Brother Evans's children remain in the States to continue their studies. As Brother Evans resumes his work, accompanied by his wife, many earnest prayers will be offered that God's blessing shall rest in a marked manner upon the efforts put forth for the advancement of the message in the Orient.

New Mission Station in the Canary Islands

B. B. ALDRICH, wife, and babe, of Rome, N. Y., sailed from New York, on the “Baltic,” Wednesday, November 15. Brother Aldrich and his wife spent one year recently at the Foreign Mission Seminary, and now go to open a new mission station on the Canary Islands (Spanish), off the west coast of north Africa. This will also provide a near-by place for workers on the Gold Coast, West Africa, for rest and recuperation.

Prayer Requested for the Munson Family

IN a letter from R. W. Munson, of Java, dated October 1, he writes that the previous Wednesday night, at midnight, his wife was suddenly seized with a hemorrhage of the lungs. Others followed, and although everything possible was being done by physicians and nurses, she was in a very critical condition. If Sister Munson should rally sufficiently to be able to leave, he planned to start for America at once. About three years ago Sister Munson was afflicted in the same manner. The prayers of God's people are requested for this dear family.

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