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REPORT OF LABOR AMONG THE GERMAN CHURCHES.

By H. SHULTZ

The fore part of the winter I spent with the churches in Oklahoma Territory; found them of good courage, increasing in the knowledge of the truth, as well as in numbers. Some of the churches had a church school, and some had none, being divided on the matter. There are many hindrances to the church-school work: (1) a lack of instructors competent to teach the branches necessary, and to hold the attention and respect of the pupils; (2) a lack of consecrated and God-fearing men and women who are acquainted with God, and are able to teach the young the way to Christ Jesus, who loves the lambs of the flock. To accomplish the desired object, it will take the oldest and most experienced of our laborers out of the field; for no one can lead another to Christ except the Father dwells in him.

After leaving Oklahoma Territory, I attended the Missouri Conference, held at Utica. Everything passed off pleasantly, and very little change was made in the officers. I am now spending a few days at St. Louis, to aid in getting the work started among the Germans. Brother H. Gellert, of Texas, is here to do missionary work. The St. Louis church, under the labor of Elder Porter, has now a fine church of its own, which cost about six thousand dollars. It is free from debt, a sister furnishing most of the money to pay for the building—an example worthy of imitation.

Any one having clean copies of our German paper, Christlicher Hausfreund, or who would feel it a privilege to donate a club of fifty or a hundred, more or less, to be used in missionary work here in this large city, is kindly requested to send them to H. Gellert, 714 Walton Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

There are about two hundred and fifty thousand Germans living here. We ought to have at least five hundred copies a week for a year or more. Who will come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty? Help is needed at once. Any one wishing to give a club of the Hausfreund can send the money to Christlicher Hausfreund, Battle Creek, Mich., stating that the papers are for St. Louis, and they will be sent at once from that office.

The work among the Germans in America is moving steadily onward. The old pilgrims are taking new courage; our numbers are increasing, and many of those who were carried away by the false holiness movement, are seeing their mistake, and are returning to the fold again. H. SHULTZ.

FROM JAMAICA TO TRINIDAD.

By George F. Enoch

From Mission Board Correspondence.

Our last few weeks of labor in Jamaica were spent in making a special effort on our church buildings. We were much hindered in our work by the unusually heavy rains. Yet we are able to praise the Lord for what was accomplished in spite of hindrances. The brethren and sisters have taken hold of the work with a commendable spirit, and surely merit the sympathy and prayers of our brethren and sisters in other lands. We had desired to have baptism in each company before leaving, but rain prevented. However, we had two, one in John's Hall, where fourteen were baptized; the other at Sherwood Foust, where five went forward in the same rite.

Before going farther south, we bade farewell to the brethren and sisters in Portland, to spend a few weeks in the mountains of Jamaica, to get the benefit of their bracing climate, and also to labor for some of the isolated companies.

We spent one Sabbath with Elder W. J. Tanner and the new company at Grove Town. They are straining every nerve to build a house of worship where they can worship the Lord according to the light of the Third Angel's Message. We found them of good courage, fully resolved to keep the banner flying until Jesus comes.

I then went up to Troja, where a few were keeping the Sabbath as a result of reading, and of the faithfulness of some of the lay members. Our limited time was spent in studying the fundamental principles of the message. The Lord drew very near, and all were comforted and strengthened. Sabbath morning, September 28, Elder W. W. Eastman buried ten precious souls in a watery grave. The baptismal scene made a deep impression in the community.

I also labored for the company at Above Rocks one week. It is cheering to see the zeal and courage of these brethren and sisters who are faithfully holding up the light in these mountains. May the Lord continue to bless them richly.

Tuesday, November 5, we bade farewell to Jamaica, the scene of so many conflicts and victories. This beautiful island, with its thirty-one Sabbath-schools, and a score of church buildings, either dedicated or in the process of erection, with all the busy activities connected with the proclamation of the Third Angel's Message, holds a large place in our affections. It was with genuine sorrow that we took our last look at her shores before night closed in upon us. May the Lord bless the work, sustain the workers, and save many of her people.

Sabbath morning we arrived at Barbados, and were glad to meet with a good company of Sabbath-keepers. It is encouraging to know that the standard of present truth is being planted in so many parts of the world.

Tuesday, November 12, we arrived safely in Port of Spain, Trinidad, after a pleasant voyage. Port of Spain is undoubtedly the prettiest city in the West Indies.

Friday, November 22, Elder W. G. Kneeland, Brother Raymond Crowther, and the writer, went to the village of El Mamo, about twenty-two miles east of Port of Spain, to hold a few meetings, dedicate the new church buildings, and organize the company into a church. Of their own selves, with but little assistance from the Mission Board, these brethren have got out all their material, and built a neat little chapel, with tapia walls and a timit roof. Sabbath we organized a church of sixteen members, and Sunday morning six were baptized. Sunday the church was dedicated. Elder W. G. Kneeland preached the dedicatory sermon.

The question of church buildings is a most important one in Trinidad. We have begun the building in Tunapuna, and are pushing it forward as fast as means will allow. Our members there are few, but all have a mind to work.

I would that I had the power to place before our people the need of a church building in Port of Spain. This beautiful city, standing at the gateway to Venezuela, with its mixed population, affords an opportunity for extensive missionary operations, and should appeal to us. Yet we are struggling on in miserable quarters, far from representing this great message in its true light. The brethren and sisters are poor, but have taken hold with a will, and are lifting all they can. The government requires a fireproof building, and land is very high. Who will render us assistance? When we see the progress of the work under such adverse circumstances, and with so few facilities, should it not stir us to renewed energy and self-sacrifice?

GEO. F. ENOCH.

Port of Spain, Trinidad.

THE CUMBERLAND CONFERENCE.

By Smith Sharp

The first annual session of the Cumberland Conference convened according to appointment, at Graysville, Tenn., Jan. 1, 1902. Besides the Conference laborers, Elders A. G. Daniells, W. C. White, and R. M. Kilgore, and Brother E. R. Palmer were present. Eight churches, having a total membership of four hundred and seventeen, were represented by thirty delegates. There has been an increase of thirty-seven members, and a small increase in tithe during the year. Brother Geo. W. Wells, who has held license for several years, was ordained, and received credentials. The Executive Committee was increased to seven. Three of its members (Elder O. C. Godsmark and Brethren Osborn and Brice) live in Kentucky; and the remaining three associated with me on that committee

(Elder G. W. Wells, Professor Tenney, and Dr. Hayward) reside in Tennessee.

On account of the Southern Union Conference, which was appointed to convene at Nashville, January 3, our session was brief, and much important business was left for the Executive Committee to transact. Brother E. W. Carey, 46 Lexington Ave., Lexington, Ky., is Treasurer of the Conference and Secretary of the Tract and Missionary Department, and Mrs. Mary Eldridge, of Graysville, Tenn., is Secretary of the Conference. The tithe was sufficient to settle the accounts of all the laborers, and the debt on the tract society is rapidly decreasing.

SMITH SHARP.

INDIANA

By I. G. Bigelow

New Albany.—We desire to thank those who so quickly responded to the call for books, tracts, and periodicals, but we can use many more; in fact, what we have received is but a beginning for our needs. Shall we not look for others to respond immediately? We could use copies of Good Health and Sister Henry’s tracts on healing. Remember the call is for books, tracts, and periodicals. This call is urgent. Many who read these lines want to do missionary work. Now is the time. If you have no old stock on hand, a small remittance to any of our tract societies will bring us the much-needed supply. We need your help now, right now. Who will respond? The work is very encouraging here at present. I. G. Bigelow.

NORTH CAROLINA.

By D. T. Shireman

HILDEBRAN.—We are of good courage in the Lord. Yesterday I baptized eight persons, all young people. The watchword is, Go forward. We look for a continual revival from this time onward. To-day we expect to dedicate the Hildebran meeting-house. Elder J. E. White and Professor Brownsberger are with us. D. T. SHIREMAN.

WHAT IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED?

By S. H. Lane

Those who are at work on the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons” are very much encouraged. This book can be sold at the present time as rapidly as in the past. The time has come to make a decided move in this respect. The Lake Union Conference is to put forth a greater effort than ever before to get the books out this winter. Professor Sutherland and the writer met the Michigan Conference Committee at Cedar Lake a few days ago, and it was there recommended to make a decided effort immediately to put thousands of these books into the States which compose this District. We hear many good reports. Brother Van Eman, of Elgin, Ohio, writes as follows:—

“At the camp-meeting held in Dayton, Ohio, I agreed to take ten books. When I received them, I decided to do all I could to get my neighbors and friends to buy them. The first one I sold to one of my neighbors. One stock buyer bought one, and when I saw him afterward, he said, ‘You said that was a good book, but I think it is a real good book.’ One Sunday a stock buyer came to look at my stock, and I told him that I had something that I would rather sell him than a horse, although it cost only $1.25. I showed him the book, and told him what it was good for, and he said, ‘I do not read the Bible.’ I said, ‘You ought to, for it is the best book in the world.’ He said he had a good wife at home, and I told him to take a book for her, and see if she would not enjoy it. He bought one, and about four weeks afterward called again, and said he had been reading it, and it was good. One morning as I was going out to work, I met a stock buyer who wanted to know if I had anything to sell, and I told him that I was not quite ready to sell my cattle, but I had something else that I would like to sell him. So I showed him ‘Christ’s Object Lessons,’ and told him the name of the author, and that the book was a gift to our schools. He said he had read some of the author’s writings, and bought a book. As I deal with men in a business way, I make it a point to try to sell them a copy of ‘Christ’s Object Lessons.’ At four different times I took a copy of that work with me when I went to our county seat (Van Wert) to transact business. I sold three each time. I sell them to my friends and to people with whom I do business. One banker gave me a dollar on the debt, but did not buy a book. I have had twenty-three dollars given me to help pay for the materials in the book. I now have out seventy-five copies, and I wish to increase the number to one hundred. I do not want to discontinue the work even then, for I wish to sell all I can, and thus help pay our school debts. I have had many rich experiences as I have tried to interest the people in the Lord’s work. I want to urge all our people to put forth an effort to sell this book. It can be sold to bankers, merchants, stock buyers, and all with whom we have dealings. Make special efforts to get your friends to buy the book. If all will put forth earnest efforts, we can soon pay our school debts, and then sing the ‘song of jubilee.’”

The rich experience of which this brother speaks is enjoyed by all who heartily engage in the work. We should not let this winter pass without disposing of many books in our Union Conferences. What Conferences will unite with the Lake Union Conference in putting thousands into the field at the present time? We should begin immediately. We should not let the debts remain upon our schools. The interest is all the time accumulating, and the sooner we sell these books, and pay off the debts, the sooner we shall get full and complete relief from the burden of debt. We should not make the debt the main object, but we should dispose of the book because of its value. It is one of the author’s best, and should be in the homes of Protestants, Catholics, and all classes.

S. H. LANE.

MEXICO

By G. W. Caviness

In response to an article published in the REVIEW AND HERALD a few weeks ago, we have received so many letters of inquiry that it would require a large amount of correspondence to give each separately any satisfactory answer to the different questions about the country and the opportunities offered for self-supporting missionary work. We are glad there is such an interest, and will do what we can to give a faithful portrayal of the country, its needs, and its possibilities.

Although lying mainly within the tropics, the climate of Mexico is generally delightful, and perhaps as free from extremes of heat and cold as any place in the world. There is a narrow strip of land on both the Gulf and Pacific coasts which is low, hot, and unhealthful; but a short distance from the coast it becomes mountainous, with extensive valleys between the ridges, at various altitudes, ranging from three to nine thousand feet above the level of the sea. The temperature varies according to the altitude, but may be described in general as perpetual spring. Here in the valley of Mexico the thermometer has recently fallen three or four degrees below the freezing point, which is so unusual that the daily papers have been commenting on the subject, and looking up the records for hundreds of years past. Baron von Humboldt, who visited the country in 1803-4, says: “In the capital of Mexico the thermometer has been known to fall several degrees below the freezing point; but this is a very rare phenomenon, and the winters are as mild there as at Naples. In the coldest season the mean heat of the day is from 55° to 57°. In summer the temperature never rises above 75°. The mean temperature of the whole table-land of Mexico is in general 62°, which is equal to the temperature of Rome.”

The papers say there has been no important variation from the preceding citation in the last hundred years. This is for the valley of Mexico, at an elevation of about 7,500 feet above sea-level. Within four or five hours' ride on the cars, one can reach other valleys at an elevation of five thousand feet, where frost is unknown. Another consideration is that the winter comes in the dry season, when the air is almost entirely free from moisture, and the sun shines nearly all the time; so the extreme cold of this altitude is only a fair frost at night, with the thermometer a few degrees below the freezing point; and this does not last but a few weeks.

Neither do we have extreme heat in summer. The heat has never made me uncomfortable enough to cause me to look at a thermometer. For a few hours in the middle of the day the sun's rays seem quite hot, but one rarely perspires, and never feels oppressed by the heat. Such a thing as sunstroke has never happened so far as my knowledge extends.

The heat of summer is modified also by the fact that it comes in the rainy season. The rains begin in May or June, and last till October. During this time it rains almost every day, usually in the afternoon, but all the rest of the day, except while the shower lasts, is fresh and delightful. In the matter of climate, Mexico certainly is far ahead of most parts of this old earth, and offers a resort to those who would escape the rigors of less favored lands. But climate is not everything, and a too mild locality is not the best to develop the energy and push of the “strenuous life.”

G. W. CAVINESS.

Tacubaya, Mexico.

TO PERSONS INTENDING TO SETTLE IN MEXICO.

By A. G. BOWELL

SINCE sending my last article to the REVIEW, I have obtained some information that may be of interest to those who are thinking of coming to Mexico. Under the colonization laws of this country, those who are coming here for that purpose are allowed to bring furniture, farming implements, machinery, animals of different kinds, such as cows, horses, etc., also food and clothing, free of duty, provided none of these things are brought for the purpose of selling. They are also exempted from all taxes, except stamp and revenue, for ten years.

But in order for any to obtain these privileges, it is necessary to know where they will settle. Then an application must be made to the government, giving the name and age of father and mother and of each child, also the nationality of each person coming, and a list of all the articles that each person desires to bring with him. When the concession is obtained, the government at once sends word to its customhouse officials to allow these persons to pass without paying duty on the articles described in the list.

The following are the prices per hectare, established on government lands for the coming fiscal year in the different States. A hectare is about two acres and a half. This list is taken from the Mexican Herald, Jan. 14, 1902:—

Aguascalientes ........................................ $2 20 Campeche ................................................ 1 95 Chiapas .................................................. 3 00 Chihuahua ................................................ 1 10 Coahuila .................................................. 1 10 Colima .................................................... 1 10 Durango ................................................... 1 10 Guanajuato ................................................. 2 20 Guerrero ................................................... 1 20 Hidalgo .................................................... 2 50

Mexico .................................................... 2 75 Michoacan .................................................. 3 00 Morelos .................................................... 4 40 Nuevo Leon ................................................ 1 10 Oaxaca ..................................................... 1 20 Puebla ..................................................... 3 30 Queretaro .................................................. 2 20 San Luis Potosi ............................................ 2 50 Sinaloa .................................................... 1 20 Sonora ..................................................... 1 10 Tabasco .................................................... 3 50 Tamaulipas ................................................. 1 20 Tlaxcala ................................................... 2 20 Veracruz ................................................... 2 75 Yucatan .................................................... 2 20 Zacatecas .................................................. 2 20 Federal District ........................................... 6 10 Territory of Tepic ......................................... 2 50 Territory of Lower California ............................. 55

I am now on a trip to the southern part of the republic in the interest of our paper, and at the same time I am looking for land.

A. G. BOWELL.

CALIFORNIA

By M. J. Gilmore; J. Belle Way

PASADENA.—I thought I would send you a report of work done by our little band here in Pasadena. At some of our meetings there were no more than four or five persons present, and never more than nine. Our church is small. If you so desire, you may publish this report, as it may be the means of causing others to go and do likewise.

YEARLY REPORT OF CHRISTIAN HELP BAND AT PASADENA, CAL., FOR 1901.

Number of all-day meetings held, twenty-four; money solicited, $40.35; value of wood, coal, and groceries donated by merchants and dealers, $17.62, making a total of $57.97. Garments solicited, 165, 10 pairs of shoes, 5 hats, 3 second-hand comfortables, tops for 4 comfortables pieced and given to our band; 295 garments given to needy families, 23 pairs of shoes, 2 hats; 20 garments made, 65 repaired; 9 comfortable tops pieced out of scraps; 13 comfortables tied and given out; 3 second-hand comfortables given out; 20 needy families supplied with food, fuel, and clothing; 1 barrel of men's second-hand clothing repaired and sent to the Helping Hand Mission at San Francisco.

MRS. M. J. GILMORE, Pres., J. BELLE WAY, Sec.

PROMINENT GOSPEL WORKERS AT THE SANITARIUM.

Dr. A. J. Barton, of Little Rock, Ark., a prominent Baptist minister and educator in the South, recently conducted the regular Sabbath morning service at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, his subject being the importance of Christian effort, according to the divine commandment, rather than impulse or feeling, which, he truly claimed, governs the life of the majority of those who profess to be followers of Him who “pleased not himself.” Dr. Barton is an earnest, able speaker.

He also modestly referred to the prevalent custom among his own people, of selecting certain commandments as all-important, and discountenancing all persons with different opinions, thus violating the primary inner principle of love while crying loudly for some secondary, outer ceremony or theory of worship,—an ailment common to others besides Baptists, we regret to add.

Last week, Col. Henry H. Hadley, the noted New York evangelist, occupied the Sabbath service hour, relating how wonderfully the prayers of his mother were answered by his conversion years after her death, when he, a drunkard, was conducting a paper in the interests of the breweries and distilleries of America. He emphasized the promises, “Ask and receive,” “Seek and find,” “Knock, and it shall be opened,” as unfailing, in God’s own time, and warned his hearers not to sincerely ask for anything without expecting an answer. He spoke gratefully of the benefit he had received since adopting healthful principles during his former visit to the Sanitarium, when utterly collapsed at the close of his five-hundred-and-eighth successive gospel meeting in New York City.

Ira D. Sankey, the life associate of D. L. Moody, is also at the Sanitarium on a second visit, and is favoring the inmates of that institution especially with some of the old-time gospel songs that have made his name famous.

FREE HOMES IN ALBERTA, CANADA.

By Henry Bergey

BRETHREN desiring to settle on good free land, will find it to their benefit to correspond with me concerning the soil and climate. Thousands of free homesteads are waiting the arrival of settlers. The soil is unsurpassed; the winters are not severe; markets are handy. Inclose a few stamps to pay postage. Address me at Olds, Alberta, Canada.

HENRY BERGEY.

Literary Mention

By A. J. B.

Health is the title of a physical culture and hygiene magazine published by the Health Pub. Co., 1562 Broadway, New York City. Price, $1.00 per year, or ten cents a copy. It frequently contains articles of value.

Good Housekeeping, a ten-cent monthly magazine issued by the Phelps Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass., is a publication which should be read by all homemakers. It is well edited, clean, and wholesome. The publishers will gladly send you a sample copy.

The Hygienic Caterer is the title of an eight-page monthly published at Guadalajara, Mexico, “in the interests of correct dietary.” The January, 1902, issue is Number 6 of Volume I. Its editor is D. D. Fitch, and the subscription price is 35 cents per annum. Postage stamps accepted. Address Numero 200. Calle de Escorza, Guadalajara, Mexico. This little publication publishes interesting items concerning the work and the whereabouts of our health reform cooks, cafés, etc., and also contains some valuable recipes and household hints.

C. H. TOWNSEND, of the United States Fish Commission, has written a most interesting article for Everybody’s Magazine for February, 1902, entitled “The Life of the Deep Sea.” It is fully illustrated from photographs, and will teach the reader many wonderful truths concerning the great deep. The same magazine also contains an interesting article regarding Mr. F. B. Behr’s Monorail train, entitled “Traveling One Hundred and Ten Miles an Hour.” Mr. Behr’s invention has proved so practicable that the British Parliament recently passed a bill for the construction of such a road between Manchester and Liverpool, England. John Wanamaker, publisher, New York City.

THE Review of Reviews, of New York City, has a valuable feature each month which might be overlooked by some. It prints the best articles found in the many other leading magazines of this and other countries, and, in addition to that, furnishes one with a list of all the articles contained in said magazines, enabling one to purchase the specific magazine or magazines which he desires, for the month. Published at 13 Astor Place, New York City. Subscription price, $2.50 per annum. It is clubbed with other good magazines at a cheaper rate.

A. J. B.

Leading Events, Feb. 2 - 8.

By A. J. B.

— Waterbury, Conn., experienced a $3,000,000 fire the 4th inst.

— Japanese troops in Formosa kill between 300 and 400 bandits.

— On Jan. 1, 1902, there were 237,800 British troops in South Africa.

— J. Santos Zelaya is inaugurated President of Nicaragua for the third time.

— Gold is discovered on a farm near Depeyster, N. Y., the dirt assaying $75 a ton.

— Rear-Admiral Sampson is very weak. It is not expected that he will live long.

— Myron T. Herrick, of Cleveland, declines the United States ambassadorship to Italy.

— Archduke Leopold, of Austria, and the Archduchess, make a 200-mile balloon trip.

— The Protestant churches of Chicago plan to unite in union revival services next summer.

— A mine explosion at Hondo, Mexico, the 4th inst., killed 106 miners, Mexicans and Chinese.

— An addition will be made to the White House at Washington, for the departments of State and Justice.

— Dowie has agreed to pay Mr. Stevenson, his brother-in-law, $178,000 damages, in order to settle the case.

— The Vanderbilts and Goulds are engaged in a struggle to secure control of the Delaware and Lackawanna railroad.

— An edict of the Empress Dowager of China abolishes the prohibition of intermarriage between Manchus and Chinese.

— The London Sun enters a slander suit against Arthur Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, “for accusing the paper of faking.”

— Two hundred persons were made homeless by the destruction of the University Flats, Chicago, by fire, the night of the 6th inst.

— A negro was lynched the 6th inst., at Nicholasville, Ky. He was accused of having attacked a white girl. The women present cheered.

— The Bulgarian Minister of Public Instruction was assassinated at Sofia, the 6th inst., by a man who failed to get a position. The murderer suicided.

— Judge Taft states to a Senate committee that the majority of the Filipinos favor American rule. If that is so, the Filipino majority should be able to stop the Filipino fighters.

— Foreign dispatches state that “the first monthly installment, amounting to 1,820,000 taels ($1,200,000), of the Chinese indemnity has been paid to the Bankers’ Commission of the Powers, at Shanghai.”

— Thomas Byrne, owner of the University flats, Chicago, which were destroyed by fire the 6th inst., gave each of the forty-seven families which were thereby rendered homeless, the sum of $100. After the fire he had the inmates conveyed to hotels in carriages, and ordered all bills sent to him.

— Viljoen, the Boer general recently captured by the British, will be deported.

— The Senate passes a bill increasing the salaries of federal judges twenty-five per cent.

— Emperor William is doing all that he can to oppose the establishment of Christian Science within his domains.

— The Empress Dowager of China instructs her officials to discourage the binding of the feet of Chinese girls.

— Ex-Queen Margherita, of Italy, will visit the United States incognito, traveling under the name of Countess Stupinigi.

— President Roosevelt decides not to render a decision in the Schley case until after his return from the Charleston exposition.

— The Archduchess Elizabeth, of Austria, renounces her right to the Austrian throne, in order to marry a subject not of royal blood.

— President Schwab, of the great steel trust, accompanied by Sir Thomas Lipton, called upon King Edward, at the Marlborough House, the 7th inst.

— On the 4th inst. the Standard Oil Company declared “a dividend of twenty per cent, for the first quarter of 1902, upon its capitalization of $100,000,000.”

— Lord Salisbury declares that England is “ready to accept any settlement in South Africa that recognizes the rights of the sovereign, and offers security to the empire.”

— Eleven persons were killed, and twenty-four seriously wounded, by a gas explosion which destroyed a meat shop at Archer Avenue and Twenty-second St., Chicago, the 4th inst.

— Lord Kitchener’s report of Boer casualties for the week ending the 3d inst., “shows that twenty-nine Boers were killed, six wounded, and 142 made prisoners, and that forty-eight surrendered.”

— A committee of the faculty of Northwestern University, Chicago, recommends that Professor Pearson be requested to resign from the faculty, because of his recent utterances regarding the Bible.

— The United States federal reports show that “smallpox has invaded twenty-three countries and every quarter of the world,” Germany, the best-vaccinated country in the world, being also included.

— The Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the British government “has rejected the overtures for peace made by the Dutch government.” The Boer war will go on.

— In order to avoid the placing of the Zion lace industries in the hands of a receiver, John Alexander Dowie paid his brother-in-law, Samuel Stevenson, $178,000 in cash, the 4th inst. Dowie also pays the cost of the trial.

— Winds and storms do great damage in Europe and England. Venice has more snow than for twenty-five years past. At Rome the Tiber rose thirty-five feet, the Forum, the Pantheon, and the Temple of Vesta being flooded.

— The Ways and Means Committee of the United States House of Representatives unanimously approve “a bill repealing all the Spanish war-revenue taxes except the tax on mixed flour. The repeal is to take effect July 1, 1902, except the duty on tea, which will take effect Jan. 1, 1903.” The total annual reduction will amount to $77,000,000.

— The text of the Danish treaty with this country, regarding the Danish West Indies’ transfer, is made public. The United States agrees to pay $5,000,000 in gold for the group; and this country becomes in no way responsible for the $2,000,000 indebtedness of the islands to Denmark. Those islanders who so desire may retain their Danish citizenship.

— A Boer burgher near New Orleans, La., writes a letter to President Roosevelt in which he threatens to make a raid on what he terms the “British camp” in that vicinity, which supplies the British in South Africa with mules and other army supplies. It is thought that he has many sympathizers. He claims that by allowing this traffic to go on, the United States government is not neutral.

— The United States Supreme Court decided on the 3d inst., that the filled-in-land on the lake front, at Chicago, should be awarded to the Illinois Central Railroad. The State of Illinois has for years disputed the railway company’s right to this land, which has an area of fifty-three acres, forty-four having been filled in and nine being still submerged. Its value is estimated to be $10,000,000. Chicago wanted it for a park.

— And now the German Foreign Office confirms a story printed in a Berlin paper, that England wanted to help Spain in the Spanish-American war, but that Russia spoiled the plan.

— A terrific three days’ gale on the North Sea causes many wrecks and great loss of life. The French ship “Chanaral” was wrecked off Ushant, England, and only one of the crew of twenty-two saved. An Italian ship was wrecked off the Scilly Islands.

— According to Chicago dispatches, the health department of that city is “making every effort to organize a co-operative crusade to crush out smallpox in the middle West.” It seems that smallpox is now “more widely spread than at any time since the great seven years’ pandemic of 1879 to 1885. During 1901 there was an increase of 911 per cent in the number of States of which Illinois is in the southern tier. Between Dec. 28, 1900, and Jan. 24, 1901, only 1,070 cases were reported from this territory. During the similar period which closed last month, 10,820 cases were reported.”

— It is understood in Germany that the United States has virtually abandoned the Monroe Doctrine. Professor Jellinek, professor of international law at Heidelberg University, who is “in close touch with the German government,” thus expresses the situation: “The Monroe Doctrine had for its converse that the Americans would not touch any territory outside the American continent. In entering upon a colonial policy in the Philippines, the United States has not observed this, and therefore the Monroe Doctrine is no longer tenable.” It is thought that Prince Henry’s visit to this country will result in the waiving, to a certain extent, by this country, of its Monroe Doctrine policy.

— On the 4th inst. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, “presented a petition to the Senate, asking for a suspension of hostilities in the Philippines, and an opportunity for the Filipino leaders to be heard by the American government, free from the restrictions which have been placed upon them by the American authorities in the archipelago. This petition is signed by “some of the most prominent men in the country, including Carl Schurz, Geo. F. Edmunds, Charles Francis Adams, Geo. S. Boutwell, W. D. Howells, Mark Twain, Bourke Cockran, Bishop Huntington, Bishop Vincent, William Lloyd Garrison,” and thirty-six University of Chicago professors. This is certainly a most reasonable request.

A. J. B.

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