— The charters of more than 35,000 corporations doing business in Illinois were recently canceled because of failure to comply with the law of 1901.
— A harvester trust, to be known as the International Harvester Company, with an authorized capital of $120,000,000, was incorporated at Trenton, N. J., August 12.
— It is expected that President Roosevelt will convene the Senate in extra session after the November elections, in order to dispose of the Cuban reciprocity treaty before the regular session of Congress.
— There is trouble between Emperor William and his oldest son, the crown prince, it is reported, the latter having fallen in love with an American girl whom he met in England, and declared that he would renounce the throne if necessary to marry her.
— A recent dinner and ovation given by Prussian soldiers to a Prussian lieutenant who had been sentenced to prison for killing a person in a duel, but was pardoned by Emperor William, shows how dueling is glorified in the Prussian army.
— The steamship “Mariposa” arrived recently at San Francisco from Tahiti, having made the trip across the Pacific with oil as fuel, to the use of which her boilers had been adapted. The officers report that the experiment was a complete success in every way.
— Members of the Chicago council special tax committee appeared before the board of review, August 11, and made the statement that eight railroads dodge taxation on real estate in that city worth $50,000,000, by fraudulently listing it as “trackage.”
— A good deal of fighting, in which the insurgents have the advantage, is attending the progress of the revolution in Venezuela. The important town of Barcelona has fallen into their hands, and considerable damage to the United States consulate and other consulates there was done by the revolutionists. The United States has dispatched a gunboat to the scene of the fighting.
— The “Soo” power canal, which has been in process of construction the past four years at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., was opened August 11. It opens into Lake Superior, whose waters it receives at the rate of 30,000 cubic feet per second. It is two and a third miles long, 220 feet broad, and deep enough to float the largest lake steamships. Its current operates turbine wheels of 40,000 horsepower capacity. The cost of construction was $5,000,000.
— A British trade commission has been investigating trade conditions and prospects in South Africa, and in their report say: “Our revelations will come as a surprise to the British public. The situation here is far more serious than any one imagines. There are fine openings in South Africa for energetic and up-to-date manufacturers, but trade is hampered by trusts and combines which threaten to cripple the development of the country.”21
— Four murders of more than usual prominence, two being of police officers, are agitating the police department of Chicago.
— The Treasury Department at Washington is confronted with the problem of finding currency to move 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn and wheat this fall.
— The profits of the northwestern railway combine, of which J. J. Hill is president, will, the latter says, be $150,000,000 for the year beginning July 1.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, son of the poet, has been appointed by President Roosevelt to the United States Supreme Court, taking the place of Justice Gray, who retires on account of ill health.
— At a final session of the British Colonial Conference in London, August 11, a resolution was passed for adopting the metric system of weights and measures throughout the empire.
— The estimated wheat crop of the year in the United States is 633,000,000 bushels. The yield of corn is estimated at 2,500,000,000 bushels. Oats, barley, rye, and potatoes also promise large crops.
— In Brittany, the most Catholic section of France, the government agents have experienced much difficulty in closing the religious schools, the priests openly inciting their followers to armed resistance.
— Cholera is reported to be raging at Kharbin, Manchuria, the average daily mortality being about 150. Many of the Chinese drop down dead in the streets and other public places. All who are able to flee are leaving the town.
— There is much distress among the families of the striking miners at Shenandoah, Pa. The funds contributed by the miners’ union amount to only $1.50 a week for each married man, and seventy-five cents a week for single men.
— An Austrian journal, the Arbeiter Zeitung declares the recent assassination of officials in Russia to be the work of a vast secret revolutionary society, which embraces the whole of the empire, and numbers 12,000 members, who are drawn from every class of society. The society has ample funds, is well organized, and every member of it has sworn to give his life, if required, for the cause.
— Bishop O’Gorman, of South Dakota, arrived in New York, August 12, after a three months’ tour abroad, bringing with him a present from Pope Leo to President Roosevelt, and also a letter from the secretary of state for the pope addressed to Secretary of State Hay. What the import of the letter from the pope’s secretary of state is, he does not say.
— The coronation of King Edward VII took place without any disturbing incident on the appointed date, August 9. The king appeared to be in fairly good health, and seemed not to feel the strain of the imposing coronation ceremonies. The crowds in the streets of London were very enthusiastic, and there is great satisfaction throughout the empire over the successful outcome of the event. It is worth mentioning that King Edward’s coronation overthrows a prediction of the soothsayers to which many people had given credence.
— Plans for a deep waterway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi are under consideration by army engineers.
— Premier Combes, of France, says he has obtained possession of official reports of a royalist plot to overthrow the government.
— The revolution and misgovernment in Hayti and San Domingo have led to serious talk of the annexation of the island to the United States.
— The legal restriction against high buildings has been removed in Paris, and the erection of “sky scrapers” is anticipated in the French capital.
— The Cleveland, Ohio, board of health have begun a war against dirty bank notes in that city, claiming that smallpox and other contagious diseases are spread by the circulation of such germ-infected currency.
— An epidemic of typhoid fever which now prevails in Chicago, was supposed to be due to the use of impure water until the health department made an investigation, and found that it is mainly due to bad vegetables and infected milk.
— A dispatch from Rome states that the action of the Philippine friars in selling their lands to syndicates of laymen is disapproved at the Vatican. The lands are considered to be church property, inalienable without the consent of Rome.
— A riot occurred at a coal mine in Duryea, Pa., August 14, resulting in the wounding of two men and the shutting down of the mine. In the Shenandoah district the strikers have made life unsafe for nonunion miners, and even women and children are threatened with personal harm.
— The statement comes from Washington that while the United States government regards the proposed Cuban loan of $35,000,000 as a violation of Cuba’s agreement with the United States, the latter will not interfere with the effort of Cuba to negotiate the loan.
— The automobile is acquiring a considerable reputation as an instrument of slaughter. The latest and perhaps most sensational occurrence in this line was the killing of Mr. Charles Fair, of San Francisco, son of the millionaire, in an automobile wreck near Paris, France. His wife was with him, and was also killed. The machine was going at the rate of a mile a minute, when a tire burst, and the automobile swerved sidewise, dashed up an embankment, turned a somersault, and crashed into a tree. Mr. Fair and his wife being buried beneath the wreck.
— A telegram from Pierre, S. D., gives particulars of the organization of a farmers’ trust, to be known as the Farmers’ National Co-operative Exchange Company. The trust has filed articles of incorporation, with a capital of $50,000,000. The purposes of the trust, the dispatch says, “are to buy, sell, and deal in grain, provisions, live stock, and all kinds of produce, on commission and otherwise, and for that purpose build and equip grain elevators, warehouses, cold storage plants, stockyards, and whatever may be necessary to carry on the business of the corporation. One fourth of the capital stock will be used for building the elevators, yards, branch offices, etc., and another fourth will be made a cash fund for the purpose of dealing in cash, grain, and provisions on the board of trade. The remaining half of the capital stock will be left virtually with the farmers in various banks where the money has been raised, to enable them to carry their crops for a more favorable market.”
— Pope Leo having kept silent while the French government was closing the religious schools in France, the Gaulois says it is because the pope fears the abolition of the concordat with France, which is described as an agreement “resembling a marriage contract between the church and the state.”
— The long-considered project of laying a Pacific Ocean cable seems now to have a fair prospect of early realization. President Roosevelt having authorized Attorney-General Knox to close a contract with the Pacific Commercial Cable Company for the laying of a cable from San Francisco to China by way of Honolulu, Guam, and Manila. It is expected the work will be pushed forward rapidly.
A Brave Sister
In western Washington lives a sister who felt that God was calling upon her to do something for the relief of Walla Walla College. She had a little babe which had never been out of her arms for any length of time. She left it, however, and went twenty miles from home to secure suitable territory. Although it was a great sacrifice for this young mother to leave her child, she determined to trust the Lord, and remain in the field until the work was done. In about three days she returned home grateful for the precious experiences both of sacrifice and work which she had gained.
Selling “Christ’s Object Lessons” by Telephone
At the Relief of the Schools office we have record of sales of between one and two hundred copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons” which have been made “over the telephone.” Many of our brethren who were engaged in business have taken this way of selling books to men and firms with whom they are doing business, and have been remarkably successful. Possibly some one who reads this has a telephone over which he has never sold a copy of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” Maybe he would like to see how nicely it works.
“The Gentiles Shall Come to Thy Light”
A SISTER in a Western State, having a large family, left them alone for two days in order that she might go to territory assigned her, and sell “Christ’s Object Lessons.”
During her canvass she found a woman not of our faith who was so anxious to assist in the good work that she took a book, and used it to secure orders from her friends. Thus we see that the Lord can use those who are not of our faith to further his cause. The plan of relieving the schools by the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons” is light from heaven, and the promise is, “The Gentiles shall come to thy light.”
The Children Sell “Christ’s Object Lessons”
THE Seattle (Wash.) church school was closed for a week in order to give the children an opportunity to engage in selling “Christ’s Object Lessons.” Many of even the youngest children sold at least one book apiece, while the older ones did remarkably well. The word is that even the children should have a part in this work, and thus it is being fulfilled.
“Why Should the Work Cease?”
It takes persevering effort to accomplish great things. Mammoth enterprises are undertaken by shrewd men of the world. Large systems of railways are undertaken, the making of long tunnels and bridges, and the erection of huge buildings, etc., which require great outlay of means, time, energy, and arduous labor. But the results, they think, are fully remunerative for the effort.
When engaged in rebuilding Jerusalem, and the enemies of that enterprise sought to cause the work to cease, they came to Nehemiah and entreated him to come out onto the plain, and hold a council with them. Here is his reply: “And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?” Four times they sent the request to come, and four times these words, or their equivalent, were returned unto them. Nehemiah realized that he had a great work, and he was sharp enough to see that should he leave it, it would cease. The time to talk was past. The plans were all matured, and the thing to do was to do the work.
Our work with “Christ’s Object Lessons” is a great work. It is small IF all will go at it, and do it, but it will take much earnest, faithful work to complete our task. Many have begun well, but, Shall we finish well? is the question, Why should the work cease? Do you have unsold books in the house? Have you paid for them? If you have, this is far better than to have them in your possession, unpaid and unsold. Each book is as good as $1.25 in cash idle in your hands. We earnestly urge all to be quick in selling the books. Do not let these books lie idle. “Why should the work cease?”—New York Indicator.
BROTHER W. L. KILLEN, of North Carolina, has been greatly blessed in selling “Christ’s Object Lessons.” He has demonstrated that he can sell books faster for the cash than by taking orders. A number of our brethren and sisters have tried this plan, and have found that it works well.
Elder J. J. Graf Sells Christ's Object Lessons
ELDER J. J. GRAF, of Minnesota, took two hundred and eighty copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” as his quota. He writes that he has already put out a much larger number than that, and he likes the work so well that he expects to keep at it a while longer.
List of Missionary Acre Pledges
John Olderbak, $1.
Mrs. Ellen Hullett, $2.
W. Penland, $5.
Nora Verplank, $2.50.
Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Verplank, $5.
Ralph Cushman, 2 sacks of potatoes.
Ada & R. D. Cushman, $3.
Helen Cushman, eggs laid in April.
Bert Crary, ½ acre of buckwheat and ¼ and 1 acre of corn.
D. Eaton, $2.
O. A. Roderick, $2.
Mrs. F. M. Briggs, $5.
Clarence Currier, $5.
O. J. Olson, 1 acre of wheat.
Wm. E. Crandall, proceeds of 1 acre of wheat and 1 acre of corn.
P. A. Anderson, proceeds of 1 acre of wheat.
Mrs. Anna L. King, proceeds of 1 acre of wheat.
Charles Springer, 1 acre of wheat.
W. W. Hanson, 1 acre of wheat.
F. M. Conklin, 1 acre of wheat.
Adelia Seehler, $1.
Tillie Houck, $2.
N. C. Kier, $10.
Emery Urich, 1 acre of flax.
C. S. Tervilliger, 1 acre of wheat.
C. O. Overton, $2.50.
John J. Bye, $10.
Ida M. Lindsay, $5.
Mrs. A. Hopper, $1.
Ira S. Jones, $1.
H. G. Miller, $2.
Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Vedder, $5.
Mrs. E. P. Warner, $2.
H. E. Warner, $5.
Mrs. F. M. Conklin, $5.
Mabel Hammond, $1.50.
Mrs. Mary A. Wadsworth, long row of lettuce.
Bertha Wadsworth, long row of lettuce.
Ethel Wadsworth, 3 tomato plants.
Mr. Wadsworth, 3 tomato plants.
Thomas H. Gansett, proceeds of half of garden.
Mrs. Lula H. Gansett, 5 days' sewing.
T. J. Frost, 4 stands of bees.
J. A. & Lydia B. Sweeney, eggs laid on Sabbath during June and July.
Matilda Leach, $2.
Carrie E. Leach, proceeds 1 lamb.
Nellie B. Leach, proceeds of 1 lamb.
A. J. Denman, proceeds of 1 acre of wheat.
Business Notices
BRIEF business notices will be published in this department, subject to the discretion of the publishers. A charge of one dollar for one insertion of six lines or less, and of twenty cents for every line over six, will be made, though in the case of the poor who wish employment, the charge may be remitted. Persons unknown to the managers of the publishing house must furnish good references.
WANTED.—A good, reliable man, married or single. Must be a Sabbath keeper and first-class milker. Address T. H. Flockenberg, 563 Jefferson St., Portland, Ore.
WANTED.—On a small fruit farm, a good, strong man. Good wages, by the month or year. Must live health reform. Address J. C. Bauer, 901 W. Seventeenth St., Santa Anna, Cal.
WANTED.—A trusty boy 12 or 15 years old, to do chores and help on farm. Wages by the year, or will give home to right boy. Can go to school in winter. References given and required. Address C. H. Alger, Sparta, Wis.
WANTED.—At once, a cylinder pressman for book, periodical, and half-tone work. Steady employment. State experience, also wages expected. Address South Lancaster Printing Co., South Lancaster, Mass.
WANTED.—A consecrated Adventist with a missionary spirit (no other need apply), who has a few hundred dollars, as a partner in a good, paying business. Church and church-school privileges. Pleasant location. Address C. W. Stone & Co., Franklin, Ky.
FOR SALE.—Green Mountain farm of about 90 acres; house, 2 barns, good water, wood for fuel, small sugar bush, apple orchard. About 1½ miles from S. D. A. church, from Jamaica Depot, 4 from Bondville. Address C. N. Pike, Jamaica, Vt.23
FOR SALE.—Cheap, on easy terms, 150 acres. Best-producing farm in Berrien County; 5 miles from Berrien Springs. Address G. S. Lewis, Berrien Springs, Mich.
FOR SALE.—Sixteen hundred dollars buys 40-acre fruit farm; 3 miles from Berrien Springs; good buildings. Address Geo. L. Fawk, Niles, Mich.
Kansas, Notice!
By C. McReynolds
THE time of our State conference and camp meeting is drawing on. Conference will open at 4 P. M., September 23, and the camp meeting will begin Friday, the 26th. It is very important that two or three things be noticed and borne in mind. If you want a tent, send your order to N. B. Emerson, 821 W. Fifth St., Topeka, Kan. Tents will be furnished at the usual price. Reduced rates will be secured over the roads, a definite statement of which will be published later. Every church and company in the conference should see to it that some representatives are present from their place at the beginning of the conference, since, according to the action of the conference at its last session last summer, no delegates will be elected, but each member in good standing will be responsible to act as a delegate. It is necessary that this matter receive attention.
The conference will open at the appointed date promptly, and those who are present will proceed at once to transact business. I trust that the business of the conference will not be left to a mere handful. We are expecting a larger camp meeting in Kansas this year than we have had for several years, and we hear from all parts of the State that the people are planning to come. Let all plan, definitely, to come at the beginning of the meeting, and remain until the close.
C. McREYNOLDS.
Illinois, Notice!
By Allen Moon
The thirty-first session of the Illinois Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Springfield, Ill., August 28 to September 7, for the election of officers, and the transaction of any business that may come before that body.
ALLEN MOON, President.
Northern New York Camp Meeting
By G. B. Thompson
A GENERAL meeting, or local camp meeting, for northern New York will be held at Brushton, Franklin Co., Aug. 25-31. We hope to see a general attendance of the Sabbath keepers in this part of the State at this meeting. Elders Whitney and De Vinney are engaged in tent work here now, and will be present at the meeting. Professor Griggs and the writer also expect to attend. Important instruction will be given, and we hope that all who can will come.
G. B. THOMPSON.
Benevolent Association of Maine Annual Meeting
By E. C. Taylor
Notice!
THE fifth annual meeting of the Benevolent Association of Seventh-day Adventists of Maine will be held at Waterville, Me., Aug. 28, 1902, at 5 P. M., for the purpose of electing officers, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
E. C. TAYLOR, Clerk.
Maine Conference
By P. F. Bicknell
The thirty-sixth annual session of the Maine Conference will be held in connection with the annual camp meeting at Waterville, Me., August 21 to September 1. Tickets will be on sale at the principal stations in Maine. One and three-fourth cents a mile will be charged each way.
P. F. BICKNELL,
President.
Course in Hygienic Cookery
THERE is an opportunity just now for three young men or women to receive a three months' special course in hygienic cookery. Those who are interested should apply at once by letter to Hygienic Café, 54 Farrar St., Detroit, Mich.
Camp Meetings for 1902
By Editor
PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE
Place
Month/date
Dates
Washington, Olympia,
Sept.
4-14
California, Fresno,
Oct.
Montana, Helena,
Aug. 29 to Sept.
7
British Columbia,
Sept.
11-21
NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Place
Month/date
Dates
Minnesota, St. Peter,
Sept.
9-14
Minnesota, Long Prairie,
Sept.
23-28
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE
Place
Month/date
Dates
Iowa, Ames,
Aug. 28 to Sept.
7
Kansas, Junction City (State meeting),
Sept. 23 to Oct.
6
Missouri, Boonville,
Aug.
13-25
Nebraska, Lincoln,
Sept.
3-14
SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE
Place
Month/date
Dates
Oklahoma, Dover,
Aug. 21 to Sept.
1
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE
Place
Month/date
Dates
Wisconsin, Grand Rapids,
Aug.
14-25
Illinois, Springfield,
Aug. 28 to Sept.
7
Michigan, Alma,
Aug. 20 to Sept.
7
Indiana, Franklin,
Sept.
10-21
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Place
Month/date
Dates
Tennessee, Erin,
Sept.
4-
Tennessee, Cleveland,
Sept.
12-22
Georgia, Alpharetta,
Aug.
15-25
ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE
Place
Month/date
Dates
Vermont, Barre,
Aug.
20-31
Maine, Waterville,
Aug. 21 to Sept.
1
West Virginia, Parkersburg,
Sept.
11-21
New York, Brushton,
Aug.
25-31
The presidents of the various conferences are requested to send us information regarding any meetings not mentioned in the preceding table, so that we may be able to give a complete list. Please inform us at once of any corrections or additions that should be made to this report.
Kansas, Attention!
By C. McReynolds
THE annual meeting of the Kansas Conference Association will be held on the camp ground in Junction City, Kan., at 9:30 A. M., Wednesday, Oct. 1, 1902, for the purpose of electing the trustees for the ensuing year, and transacting such other business as may come before the meeting in harmony with the articles and by-laws of the association. All accredited members of the denomination are voters in this meeting.
C. McREYNOLDS,
President Kansas Conference Association.
