p. 20 | Review and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 14. (4/4/1912)

Earlier text: Kindly Thoughtful of the Aged

The Question of Sanitarium Rates

By L. A. H.

The Other Side

LAST week we considered the question of sanitarium rates as affecting our own people, from the standpoint of the people. The brethren in charge of the sanitariums, looking at the matter more from the standpoint of the institutions’ needs and abilities, can not well be blamed for exercising caution in protecting the interests of the work given into their charge.

From the standpoint of the sanitarium management, the question of rates, and especially of discounts, is a very vital one. This article is written with the desire to give an honest presentation of what our sanitariums are doing in relation to this question of special consideration to Seventh-day Adventists in rates.

The following statement of special rates should not be taken as an advertisement or bid for patronage at these figures. Neither should the figures given be considered terms for general acceptance. They speak for no one sanitarium in particular, nor are they authority for any. Persons desiring sanitarium care, and expecting special rates, must first correspond with the institution to which they wish to go. The information here given is only of a general nature.

Special Discounts

All but two of our conference sanitariums in this country make special terms to our people. The two that are exceptions state that their rates are already so low that they can not give a general discount, but do make an allowance for special cases.

The general aim of our sanitariums seems to be to accept our own people on a basis merely covering the cost of their care. The exact figure would be difficult to ascertain, so a general schedule is adopted by each institution, ranging from twenty-five per cent to fifty per cent discount from regular rates. With some, a difference is made in rates to sanitarium employees, conference workers, and our people in general. In some instances members of the sanitarium family are cared for free of charge during sickness, with wages continued for a time. In some others, free care and treatment are given, with no salary during disability.

In most of our sanitariums, conference and institutional workers receive a liberal discount, the cost of care ranging from nothing to seven or eight dollars a week. Family members dependent on these workers for support are included. Denominational workers visiting the institution are usually entertained for a reasonable time without charge.

Our people in general are offered rates as low as a dollar a day, covering board, room, medical attention, and regular treatment. In some institutions the rates run to eight, ten, or twelve dollars a week. Examinations may be free or with a minimum charge extra. Nursing is usually billed at actual cost. Surgical operations are either free or at greatly reduced rates. Rates to Seventh-day Adventists unable to pay the prices charged our people are generally made by special arrangement with the local conference or church, or with friends of the sick.

A material difference is thus made in dealing with our people. The general discounts are usually given regardless of the financial circumstances of the applicant. The principle governing the matter of concessions to our own people is that of mutual dependence and obligation, the institution recognizing the toil and sacrifice of the people in helping to build up its work, and our people seeing the value of the sanitariums as missionary enterprises and doing all possible to support them as such.

Caution Necessary

These special rates are not quoted in catalogues. They must be carefully guarded. Any departure from them must be an exception, and by special arrangement. If some one writes for terms, the regular rates are, of course, given. Any of our people should not be surprised or disappointed at not getting other information if they do not give careful explanation of conditions requiring it. Neither should offense be taken if the sanitarium people are careful to ascertain definite conditions before granting special rates.

It would seem unnecessary to drop a word of caution to the effect that when our people are extended the special rates, they should be very careful not to speak of this fact to others in a way to cause dissatisfaction on the part of those paying regular rates. Much embarrassment is caused at times when this caution is not heeded. Neither are these discounts applicable to persons not of our faith. It is not particularly helpful to our institutions, either, to recommend largely a class of patients that require discount rates. It might be surprising to some to know how much work in this direction is being done by these institutions.

Operating Expense

The casual observer is not in position to determine the extent a sanitarium can give service at reduced rates. The cost of operating these institutions is heavy, and is constantly increasing. One of them reports that it costs $19.36 a week for each patient, based on an average patronage. Another exceeds this figure considerably. To do much work at the low figures already mentioned, would materially affect the annual balance-sheet of the institution.

No Endowments

Were our sanitariums endowed with funds, or did they receive state help, as is the case with many hospitals, they would be in a position more nearly to meet prices that are made by some of the outside institutions. But they have only their own earnings on which to operate, and we all know too well some of the financial burdens they carry. Even with this, they report seventy-five thousand dollars a year in charity work, without saying anything of the general discounts.

Taking them as a whole, the outside institutions do not offer better terms than our own. Some of them have rate schedules far in excess of ours. Some exceptions are made, and it is possible to get hospital or sanitarium care at very low rates. Perhaps in some instances very large fees from the well-to-do may make this possible, another resource in which we are limited. The same may apply to outside physicians.

The question of expense in operating must affect the ability to do free work, or work nearly so, whether of institutions or physicians in private practise. One factor affecting this considerably in connection with our sanitariums is the nurses’ training-school feature. A careful study of the reports of several years, as covering our sanitarium work, will show that the institutions conducting training-schools have a greater investment and operating cost for the number of patients cared for than those which do not train nurses. More building room is required, more physicians and others to act as instructors are needed, and more general help is necessary. This increases the interest account, makes a bigger salary list, and causes a generally larger expense. Recently three of our sanitariums have discontinued this feature in an effort to save on expenses.

The Responsibility Ours

After all, our sanitarium managers are but representing the will of the denomination. Our sanitarium boards are elected by the people. They then make the sanitarium rates, and place upon the managers the responsibility of making the institutions succeed. Should some of these same board members be unfortunate enough to require sanitarium service, they would not be strangers to the rates offered; for they are their own making. If lower rates are to be made to ourselves, the first responsibility is with ourselves.

With what is generally known about our sanitarium finances, can those institutions afford to do more in the way of general discounts? May the provision for ourselves not already be ample? The class that suffers most in this matter is the poor among us. There is undoubtedly a crying need for more provision in this direction. No sanitarium superintendent or business manager can be oblivious to the distress of this situation and be long in his place. The appeals that come almost constantly pull at one’s sympathy, and lead him to stretch things at times to meet them. But what can be done with our limited resources? It of necessity resolves itself very much into a question of dollars and cents.

There is one solution to the question of caring for the sick, more or less already known and practised among us. It is for our churches to assist in meeting the expense. Hardly an institution among us but will meet the matter fully half-way. A zeal in helping the institution to secure an ample, paying patronage will also greatly assist. Many patients can be referred to the sanitariums if we will be interested in that direction.

Last, but not least, there is the “Ministry of Healing” campaign, with all its advantages, appealing to every one of us for a share of cooperation. Worked to a successful finish, this movement would answer a number of sanitarium questions now before us.

L. A. H.

Heeding God’s Danger Signals

God allows no child of his to go on to personal disaster without doing much to avert such disaster by unmistakable danger-signals. We all know what our own danger-signals are; when a crash comes, it is simply because we would not heed them.—Sunday School Times.

Medical Missionary Department

Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference

GEORGE THOMASON, M. D. - - - - Secretary

L. A. HANSEN - - - - Assistant Secretary

The Ohio Constitutional Convention

By S. B. H.

THIRTY amendments to the charter of the commonwealth of Ohio will be submitted to the people of that State next fall for their rejection or adoption. Among these is an amendment, which, if adopted, will give to women full and equal enfranchisement with men.

The liquor traffic has been the cause of considerable strife in the politics of Ohio for sixty years. It is now proposed to limit the traffic to one saloon for five hundred population, prohibit brewery-owned saloons, and preserve all existing local-option laws. The business is to be licensed. Press reports indicate that the temperance and local organizations have asserted that they will not oppose the approval of the proposal by the electors.

Of the proposals which affect the principles of religious liberty, we learn that Proposal No. 121, which provides for the declaration that Ohio is a Christian State, has been indefinitely postponed by the committee having it in charge. The proposals concerning Sunday legislation have not been acted upon as yet.

S. B. H.

Letting Our Light Shine

“UPON every believer to whom has come the light of the third angel’s message, there rests a solemn responsibility to let the light of His truth shine forth clearly.” I do not believe that we half appreciate as yet what a mighty truth we have in the principles of temperance and Christian education. There are many who are appalled at the inroads that sin is making in their lives and in the lives of those about them, who will gladly listen to those seeking to uplift Christ in their lives and teaching. There are opportunities opening all about us. Let us beware lest we hide our light under a bushel.

The following article, taken from the Pasadena (Cal.) Star, shows what one of our young men is doing by voice and the scattering of the printed page, while taking work as a student in one of our colleges:—

“School circles of this city have been much interested during the last two weeks by a young man who is doubtless the youngest of the official lecturers working under the direction of the W. C. T. U. He is Edmund Jaeger, of Riverside, and came to Pasadena under the auspices both of the W. C. T. U. of this city and of the school board.

“Mr. Jaeger has given lectures at all the schools on the subjects of medical temperance, hygiene, and social ethics, illustrating his interesting talks with pictures.

“At the Pasadena high school yesterday he spoke to four hundred students assembled. At some of the schools he was summoned back for other lectures, on request of the pupils. At one of the schools the boys begged that recess hour might be given up to a continuation of the lecture.

“Widely Active

“Mr. Jaeger seems little more than a schoolboy himself, but has a record to be proud of. He was graduated from the Riverside high school at fifteen years of age, taught school four years, and found many opportunities to give temperance talks to boys. So helpful were these that friends persuaded him to give more of his time to such work.

“To enlarge his opportunity for good, he is now taking a medical course at the Loma Linda medical college.

“In two and a half years he has spoken to 200,000 children of California’s schools.

“He circulated 186,000 pages of literature, mostly among boys, last year, and in that time contributed seventy-five columns to the daily press, the health magazines, and educational journals. His chosen subject is temperance and hygiene, and his efforts are mainly in the interests of boys of the schools.

“Keeps Them Good

“The young man has one favorite axiom to the effect that it is better to keep a boy good than to let him get bad and then try to reform him.

“In Riverside schools he is giving regular monthly lectures on applied physiology. Besides the lectures for the young people, he has been invited to speak to teachers’ institutes and to parent-teachers’ associations. He has been appointed a State lecturer by the young people’s branch of the W. C. T. U.

“The attractive personality of the lecturer, his bright and interesting way of presenting his subject, and a real earnestness of purpose have made him a most effective speaker in local schools.

“At the polytechnic building of the Pasadena high school yesterday Mr. Jaeger spoke, in part, as follows:—

“Too Many Sick

“There are 27,000,000 sick people in the United States all the time. These people are not getting much pleasure out of all their indispositions; and by the habits by which they have brought on all these home-made diseases, they are laying a foundation of degeneracy for the future nation. We have learned to be prosperous, and we have learned to be ambitious, but we have not learned to have foresight in matters pertaining to our national vitality. It is time we were ceasing to do evil and learning to do well. Insanity is increasing three times faster in proportion than the population. Bright’s disease, diabetes, and cancer are increasing by leaps and bounds.

“Tobacco and Liquor

“But you must remember that the curse does not come causeless. Last year the men and boys of our country smoked enough cigarettes so that if they were put in a line, they would reach three and a half times around the earth at the equator. Then we used enough alcoholic liquors to give every man, woman, and child in America twenty-three gallons. Now I did not use any, hence somebody must have used my portion in addition to his own, making forty-six gallons, enough to fill an ordinary-sized bath tub. No wonder some men were sick.

“When people eat veritable mustard plasters in the form of pepper-sauce and other foods that taste hot when they are cold, they are sure to have an irritation and a thirst in their bodies that nothing but alcohol or tobacco will satisfy. Dr. Lauter Brunton was right when he said that the frying-pan drums up trade for the saloon. He also made another significant statement when he said that “ill-cooked joints and poorly boiled potatoes put asunder what God hath put together in matrimony.” Diet stands in direct relation to morals and health; don’t forget that.

“Tobacco is killing off our men on the instalment plan; that is why we do not notice the effects so much. It kills by ambush, as it were, hardening arteries, raising blood pressure, and causing numberless forms of digestive troubles, which are always blamed to other causes. Increase of Bright’s disease and apoplexy is proportionate to the increase of the use of tobacco and alcohol.’”

Christian Liberty

By K. C. Russell; S. B. Horton

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience

Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau

K. C. RUSSELL . . . Secretary

S. B. HORTON . . . Corresponding Secretary

An American Governor Indeed

By S. B. H.

At the recent St. Patrick’s day festivities in Boston an incident worthy of comment took place. The Charitable Irish Society invited to its one hundred seventy-fifth anniversary dinner President Taft, Governor Foss of Massachusetts, Cardinal O’Connell, and other distinguished persons. Governor Foss did not attend, and the reason is given in the Boston Globe of March 19:—

“The absence of Gov. Eugene N. Foss from the dinner of the Charitable Irish Society at the Hotel Somerset last night was in some ways a conspicuous feature of the occasion.

“A place at the head table had been reserved for the governor.

“The governor was to have sat at the left of the presiding officer, President Lane, while on President Lane’s right were President Taft and Cardinal O’Connell.

“The printed program called for an address from Governor Foss in response to the toast ‘The Commonwealth,’ and this toast came third on the list. The first toast was ‘The United States of America,’ by President Taft, and this was followed by the toast ‘Civil and Religious Liberty,’ by Cardinal O’Connell.

“No explanation of the governor’s absence was given at the dinner, but it was learned that the governor’s absence was intentional, and that he refrained from appearing at the dinner because he felt that the state was not accorded its proper place, that the dignity of the commonwealth required that its representative should speak before the representative of any foreign or ecclesiastical body.

“The trouble had been brewing all day, so it developed, and efforts were made to placate the governor, and to persuade him that the state, as represented by President Taft, took precedence over the church. But the governor could not see it in that light, and he concluded to remain away from the dinner, all efforts to change the order of speaking having failed.”

The governor’s position was warranted and justifiable, and it were well for America if there existed more public men of his stamp.

S. B. H.

Christian Education

By H. R. Salisbury

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference

H. R. SALISBURY Secretary

Columbia Union Conference

By E. R. Brown

THE third biennial session of the Columbia Union Conference will be held April 11-21 in the Carnegie Library Auditorium, Hamilton and Lang Avenues, Pittsburgh, Pa. Officers for the ensuing period will be elected, and such other business will be transacted as may properly come before the meeting.

All those arriving at the Pennsylvania station will find frequent suburban service from the union station to Homewood station, one block from the auditorium. Those getting off at E. Liberty Street, may take a Frankstown car to Lang Avenue, and walk three blocks to the auditorium. Those coming on the Baltimore and Ohio can get a Hamilton Avenue car at Smithfield and Fifth Avenue, down-town, and ride direct to the meeting.

All those who expect to take advantage of this occasion should at once send their names, with request for the accommodations which they will require, to the West Pennsylvania Conference, 7049 Hamilton Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. All mail for those attending the conference may also be sent to this address.

E. R. BROWN, Secretary.

Washington Foreign Mission Seminary

By W. T. Knox; M. E. Kern

The annual meeting of the constituency of the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary, incorporated, will be held at Pittsburgh, Pa., on April 17, 1912, 11:45 A. M., in connection with the Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, for the purpose of electing nine trustees for the corporation, and the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting. The constituency of the corporation consists of the executive committee of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and the president of each local conference in the United States. A

quorum for the transaction of business consists of not less than ten members.

By order of the trustees.

W. T. Knox, President; M. E. Kern, Secretary.

News and Miscellany

— The Swedish government is planning to introduce a bill admitting women both to universal suffrage and to membership in parliament.

— Telephone communication was recently established between Denver and Boston, a distance of 2,400 miles. This is said to be the greatest distance ever traversed by the human voice.

— The old battle-ship “Maine,” which was recently raised from Havana harbor, where it was destroyed fourteen years ago, was towed out to sea and sunk, on March 16, in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

— It is estimated that there are 4,000 evangelists, men and women, who give their time to rescue mission work in the United States. They come in contact annually with as many as 300,000 persons of all degrees of wretchedness.

— The first railway to adopt electricity instead of steam for traction purposes in the Rocky Mountain region is the Butte, Anaconda, and Pacific Railroad. Heavy grades and the high cost of coal are given as reasons for the change.

— The Swedish government, following the example of Germany, has expelled all Mormon missionaries from within its borders. Lind, the great authority on Mormon history, affirms that one fifth of all Mormons are of Scandinavian extraction.

— A Vienna despatch to the New York Times of March 18 says that apprehension is expressed in political circles in Vienna, owing to the concentration of Russian troops in the Caucasus, and of Turkish troops on the Persian frontier. These movements seem to foreshadow serious complications between St. Petersburg and Constantinople on account of the Persian question.

— Recognizing in Mexico the existence of conditions of domestic violence promoted by use of arms and munitions of war procured from the United States, President Taft, by authority of Congress, has issued a proclamation putting into force the revised neutrality law, and forbidding all exportations of arms and ammunition to Mexican territory. This action is greatly appreciated by the Mexican government.

— Four passengers and several sailors are believed to have been drowned on March 16, as a result of a collision between the Peninsular and Oriental liner “Oceana” and the German bark “Pisagua” off Beachy Head in the English Channel. The “Oceana” sank, carrying to the bottom $5,000,000 in bullion, part of the loan advanced by English bankers to the Chinese government.

— Church women in Chicago have demonstrated by experiment that for fifteen cents it is possible to provide a dinner consisting of a soup, a roast, with potatoes, a vegetable course, a dessert, and coffee, and make a profit on the meal. Thus a dinner for 150 persons was furnished at a total cost of $17.48. The World says the dinner thus described would have cost three dollars a plate at a fashionable café. In a good restaurant it could have been had for 75 cents, and for 50 cents in a boarding-house.

Southern Idaho Conference Association

By J. M. Willoughby; A. C. Bird

The annual session of the constituents of the Southern Idaho Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, a corporation, will convene on the camp-ground at Nampa, Idaho, Tuesday, May 21, 1912, 9:30 A. M., for the election of a board of trustees for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may come before the session.

J. M. WILLOUGHBY, President; A. C. BIRD, Secretary.

Southern Oregon Conference

By F. S. Bunch

THE second annual session of the Southern Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene at Roseburg, Oregon, May 10, 1912, at 9 A. M., for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and of transacting such other business as may properly come before the delegates. The conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting (May 9-19) in Bellows Park, the same beautiful grounds we occupied last year. Each church is entitled to one delegate for its organization, and one additional delegate for every ten members. Members of the executive committee, ordained ministers, and other conference employees, and representatives of the General and North Pacific Union Conferences are delegates at large.

F. S. BUNCH, President.

Southern Oregon Conference Association

By F. S. Bunch; J. P. Wheeler

The Southern Oregon Conference Association will meet on the camp-ground at Roseburg, Oregon, Wednesday, May 15, at 9:30 A. M., for the purpose of electing a board of five trustees to have charge of the legal affairs of the conference for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the delegates. Delegates to the conference are delegates to the association.

F. S. BUNCH, President; J. P. WHEELER, Secretary.

Columbia Union Conference Association

By E. R. Brown

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Columbia Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in the Carnegie Library Auditorium, Hamilton and Lang Avenues, Pittsburgh, Pa., at 2:30 P. M., April 12, 1912. All accredited delegates to the Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists are members, and may vote at this meeting.

E. R. BROWN, Secretary.

West Pennsylvania Conference Association

By B. F. KNEELAND

THE annual meeting of the constituency of the West Pennsylvania Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, incorporated under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, will be held in the Homewood Carnegie Library Auditorium, Hamilton and Lang Avenues, Pittsburgh, Pa., Tuesday, April 9, 1912, at 3:45 P. M., for the purpose of electing the officers of the association, and transacting any other business that may come before the meeting.

B. F. KNEELAND, President of the Board.

West Pennsylvania Conference

By B. F. Kneeland

The tenth annual session of the West Pennsylvania Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held April 7-10, 1912, in the Homewood Carnegie Library Auditorium, Hamilton and Lang Avenues, Pittsburgh, Pa., for the purpose of electing officers, and transacting such other business as may come before the meeting. Each church in the West Pennsylvania Conference is entitled to one delegate without regard to numbers, and an additional delegate for every ten members. These elected delegates from the churches, together with the ordained ministers of the West Pennsylvania Conference and the conference executive committee, constitute the delegate representation at the conference session.

The auditorium is easily accessible, being but one block from the Homewood suburban station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and is also reached by the Hamilton Avenue and Frankstown Avenue car lines. As this meeting is immediately followed by the biennial session of the Columbia Union Conference, and is connected with the special series of meetings to be continued from April 7 to 21, inclusive, we hope for a large attendance at this session. Special institute and convention work will be carried on during this entire time, April 8-10 being devoted to church workers and officers. We are assured of the presence of the leading officers of the General Conference during these meetings. This will undoubtedly be the most important meeting ever held in the conference, and we hope for a full attendance of our people.

Special arrangements are being made to accommodate all who will attend. Those who are coming should send their names at once to the West Pennsylvania Conference, 7049 Hamilton Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., giving the accommodations that will be required. Meals will be served on the cafeteria plan.

B. F. KNEELAND, President West Pennsylvania Conference.

Southern Idaho Conference

By J. M. WILLOUGHBY; T. L. COPELAND

THE fourth annual session of the Southern Idaho Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene on the camp-ground at Nampa, Idaho, May 17, 1912, at 9:30 A. M., for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the conference.

Each church is entitled to one delegate as an organization, and one delegate for each ten members thereof.

J. M. WILLOUGHBY, President; T. L. COPELAND, Secretary.

The “Signs of the Times Magazine” for May

Awakening Memories — The Old Army Post Flag

An appropriate Decoration day cover,—the old soldier, his daughter, and the old regimental flag. Will appeal to all.

Readers of the REVIEW will find several helpful articles in the Health department,—“The Wonders of the Liver,” “The Price of Health,” “Correcting Heredity,” and “Nosebleed in Adults.”

Editorials

“Memorial Day Reflections.” A time for profitable reflection. Some worthy thoughts for all.

“The Men and Religion Forward Movement,” by J. R. Ferren. A clear and forceful picture of this great work.

“Evolution, Creation, and the Sabbath.” A rather novel presentation. Facts from both revelation and science. From a Bible-nature standpoint. You should read it.

“The Advance of Socialism,” a living issue. Its astonishing growth. Will its designs be realized? The authority of the Scriptures. Important.

General

“The Fifth Universal Empire, the Kingdom of Eternity,” by Charles L. Taylor. Many misconceptions. The kingdom, its territory, its subjects, its character, and its time are all outlined. How we may become heirs.

“The Second Coming of Jesus,” by George W. Rine. Another article under this general title, but presenting another special phase. Ably written and convincing.

“The Advance of Rome,” by Frank S. Weston. Remarkable advancement. Its place as a sign of our times.

“Man Created a Living Soul,” by William Covert. Is man immortal? Where does the soul go at death? and similar questions answered. The first of this series. You should read all these articles.

“Glimpses of China,” by F. E. Stafford.

“The Kingdom of Christ”—a Bible reading. Timely current topics, as usual.

Well illustrated.

This number of the Signs will be found a valuable one to distribute among the people. This list of good articles fills it with live, timely matter. It is a real Message number. 10 for 50 cents, 20 for $1, 50 for $2. Address your tract society.

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BIBLE MOTTOES AND POST-CARDS.—Sold over one million,—English, Spanish, German: 25, $1.25; 100, $4; 300, $10. Pure Cooking Oil: 5 gallons, $4; 10 gallons, $7.75; 50 gallons, $31. Hampton Art Company, Nevada, Iowa.

WANTED.—A first-class linotype operator who is willing to work at case when necessary. Must be a Seventh-day Adventist, and furnish best of references. Address Southern Publishing Association, 2119-2123 Twenty-fourth Ave. North, Nashville, Tenn.

COOKING OIL direct from refinery; pure, healthful, delicious. Eight 1-gallon cans, $6.40; 5-gallon can, $3.75; 10 gallons, $7.25; 30-gallon barrel, $18.30; 50-gallon barrel, $30. Cash with order. Lookout Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

COOKING OIL.—Noted for quality. Free from animal fat. Keeps indefinitely. Eight 1-gallon cans, $6.60; 5-gallon can, $3.90; 10 gallons, $7.60; 30-gallon barrel, $19.80; 50-gallon barrel, $32.50. Cash with order. Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.

SENT FREE.—Seeds for children's flower bed. Send for seed circular, enclosing self-addressed, stamped envelope. Will send very valuable plant secret, and seeds of Wonderberry for ten cents. Address Mrs. Addie H. Parker, 19 Port Watson St., Cortland, N. Y.

CANNING OUTFITS for home or market. All sizes. Latest methods. Full information free. Every Seventh-day Adventist should know about it. Retains the fine natural food flavors. Keeps indefinitely. Write to-day, Royal Canner Company, 77 News Bldg., Chattanooga, Tenn.

WANTED.—The Nebraska Sanitarium, Hastings, Nebr., desires a consecrated graduate male nurse to carry the bath-room work, give instruction, etc. To receive attention reply should state salary expected, and give references as to character, ability, and experience. Address as above.

COOKING OIL.—Best quality. Delicate flavor. Purely vegetable. Guaranteed. Extensively used by best cooks. Five gallons, $3.75; 10 gallons, $7.25; 8 1-gallon cans, $6.40; 6 5-gallon cans, $19.50; 30-gallon barrel, $18.30; 50-gallon barrel, $30. Purity Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

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