MATCHES didn't fall in the coffee-pot, nor a spider in the tea-kettle, neither did they eat poisonous herbs for greens. The fact is, the mother ought to have known better; but she didn't, and her friends were not their sister's keepers. It happened that the newly-wedded couple occupied a 10x14 unventilated sleeping room, consequently each one breathed the air of that room every ten minutes or so, breathed it over and over again twelve times every hour, one hundred times every night. After a time into this bad air came an heir, comely and good, which barely maintained its gravity, being inflated with escaped gases from the bodies on either side. The advent of heir No. 2 was soon recorded, and the inflation process was repeated. No. 1 was transferred to a cot within the mother's reach. In due time No. 3 was welcomed, and five human beings breathed the poisonous air of the 12x14 room, for air once breathed is poisonous.
It followed that the poor innocents had colds, croups, and pneumonias, and as the sickness increased the more closely the doors were guarded, and the higher the temperature was raised. A consultation of doctors was called, and although the children survived the rhubarb and quinine, hot packs, and homeopathic pellets, they have not, nor ever will recover from the air poisoning.
But the mother pondered on the problem and finally solved it. A windmill in the center of that 10x14 room to-day would be in danger of collapsing, for the north, south, east, and west winds wash the room and its belongings. Up stairs in separate rooms three snowy cots, bathed in the same pure fluid, laugh and point their fingers at the doctors.
Prof. Norton in his late lecture said, but the gentlemen on Main Street did not hear him, that wherever there was an offensive odor there was contagion. This woman, who has learned a little at so great a cost, may possibly inspect the pipes and troughs about the premises, and apply deodorizers and disinfectants.—Missionary, in Woodland Democrat.
Dive Practice.
A POOR man has just escaped from a six months' job as bar-keeper in a city dive and has gladly accepted a very low-priced employment elsewhere. He says he was horrified at the shocking robberies committed at the dive. Men would become intoxicated and, surrounded by the painted women of the dive, would treat them at the bar, throw down a $10 gold piece and in place of getting back $9 and more in change, the bar-keeper's duty was to put two or three dimes in his pocket, clap him on the shoulder and call him a good fellow. Another game was when a visitor who had $100 or $50, and showed his money, became tipsy, a kind friend belonging to the concern, perhaps the bar-keeper, would take him tenderly one side, saying, "My dear fellow, you are careless, you will lose that money or be robbed to-night sure; let me take care of your money till you come for it tomorrow when you are all right." Greeny hands over his money without counting, reserving a little small change. If he does happen to remember having surrendered his money, he comes for it, and when he is calmly told the sum was only $5.25 in place of $25, $50, $100 or more, he has no means of recovering more, and either don't remember or knows it is of no use to complain.—S. F. Rescue.
A New Horror in Cigarettes
A NEW horror has been added to the cigarette in California. "Leprosy," says a San Francisco physician "is revealing itself about the lips and tongues of boys who smoke cigarettes made by Chinese. The disease, though fatal, is slow in giving tokens of its first approaches." No less than one hundred and seven cases of infection by cigarette smoking had come under the physicians' notice.—Mendocino Beacon.
That Heathen Chinee.
By Clara Marshall
MY DEAR NELLIE: "Alice Raymond, the new girl, is as nice as she can be, and so free from vanity of any kind that I tell her she really does not think enough of herself."
I quote this from your last letter; and now, to show you I am a prophet, I shall quote from one written, say a month hence:—
"Alice Raymond is the most tiresome girl in the world! Always angling for compliments, and vexed if she doesn't get them."
You have read, I have no doubt, that it is considered the correct thing in China to continually disparage one's self and one's surroundings. The elite of that country always speak of their mansions as "miserable hovels," their wives as "the wretched creatures in the inner apartments," etc.; but we outside barbarians soon become excessively tired of this "pride that apes humility," and that is the reason why my school-mates and I lost all patience with Hattie Morant, and some of us, when particularly annoyed with her counterfeit humility, dubbed her "that heathen Chinee."
"Why do you call her so?" asked a new girl of Mollie Archer, on hearing this epithet applied to her for the first time. "Her feet are not so wonderfully small."
"No, her feet are not Chinese, but her manners are," returned Mollie. "She is always running herself down, and there is only one way to stop her."
"What way is that?" asked the new girl.
"By agreeing with her," was the reply.
This seemed like a very harsh censure, but to be convinced of the truth of the assertion one had only to bring Hattie Morant and Nannie Burt together. Poor Nannie, who always imagined that her companions meant what they said, and who herself had a perfect gift for saying, in the most innocent way in the world, the very thing she ought not to say, never comforted persons in their humility, whether that humility were genuine or feigned. For instance:—
"I wish, Nannie," said Hattie Morant one day, "that I had your brilliant color instead of my pasty complexion."
"You are dreadfully sallow, that's a fact," returned Nannie. "But then I suppose you are not so sickly as you look."
Hattie, who had possibly expected to receive some such soothing reply as "Don't envy me my red face—lilies are prettier than peonies," was somewhat taken aback by this rejoinder, and soon afterwards rather pointedly remarked, "My face may be pale, but, thank heaven, it isn't always covered with pimples."
Nannie, although she had two tiny pimples on her chin, was quite unconscious of this retort, and good naturedly observed:—
"I had a room-mate last year that looked like a ghost. She was almost as pale as you are, and the doctor gave her some preparation of arsenic, which did her ever so much good. If you would take something of the kind I am sure you wouldn't look so cadaverous as you do now."
"That Nannie Burt is the greatest idiot I ever saw in my life," exclaimed Miss Morant as soon as Nannie had left the room; "and quite as ill-bred as she is idiotic," added she, further exasperated by the smiles of those around her.
"So you didn't find her remarks agreeable, although she agreed with what you yourself said about your pasty complexion," observed Mollie Archer. "It is dreadfully difficult to please some people."
On another occasion Hattie remarked in Nannie's hearing:—
"I may as well give up music; I haven't ear enough for it."
As she played rather well, she probably expected a shower of complimentary protestations from her companions; but if such were the case she was disappointed. The other girls kept quiet, and let Nannie take the floor.
"Oh, I should persevere if I were you," remarked that young lady encouragingly. "You can make up for your want of ear by paying more attention to your notes."
"I have as good an ear for music as any girl in this school," exclaimed Hattie, provoked, for once, into frankness.
"Well, then," asked Nannie in amazement, "why did you give us to understand that you hadn't?"
"Because she hoped to hook a real big compliment," replied Mollie Archer, for Hattie, instead of answering, flounced out of the room.
"I don't believe I have mind enough for mathematics," said Hattie, as she was coming out of Mrs. Southgate's class-room the next day. She made this remark to some of her class-mates who had been inclined to praise her for her quickness at figures, but now, instead of paying her any additional compliment, they kept quiet, for they saw that Nannie Burt was standing by, and they waited, with expectant smiles, to hear what she had to say on the subject.
"Poor child," observed Nannie kindly, "if you would bring your arithmetic to me some time, perhaps I could help you out of your difficulties. I always get a good mark on arithmetic."
"Thank you very much indeed, Miss Burt," returned Hattie scornfully, "but it would be something new under the sun for a girl in the first class in arithmetic to go for help to one in the second class."
"In the first class," exclaimed Nannie, "I thought from the way you talked that you were with the little girls in the third class."
"It doesn't matter in the least to me what you thought," said Hattie as she walked away with her chin in the air.
"Hattie Morant reminds me of one of papa's patients," observed Mollie Archer. "She was an old woman who lived among the sand-hills, in a little one-room log cabin that she prided herself on keeping in apple-pie order. She was taken sick one day and sent for papa, who lost no time in going to see her. 'Come in, doctor,' said she, when she caught sight of him at the door; 'come in, if you can get in for the dirt.'"
"'I don't know that I can madam,' replied he, 'but I'll try.'"
"So he went on taking long strides and tiptoeing, at the same time assuming such a disgusted expression of countenance that the old woman flew into a rage and ordered him to 'get out,' saying she could cure herself with yarb teas, and she 'never did believe he was no great shakes of a doctor, no way.' I remember mamma's saying afterwards, when they were speaking of this case, that it was quite as ill-bred to disparage as to praise one's self; and I am sure, according to my experience, it is ever so much more tiresome to those who have to listen, because when people praise themselves you can give them credit for telling what they believe to be true, while, in the other case, one cannot help having one's doubts." —Clara Marshall, in Christian at Work.
The Home Circle.
I F.
If our path were strewn with roses
That concealed no stinging thorn,
If the hour when one joy closes
Saw another newly born,
If our dreams were full of beauty,
And our waking hours of peace,
Would we feel for those whose duty
Never gives their hearts release?
If our dwelling were a palace
Where we knew no pang or pain,
Where the red wine in life's chalice
Bore no bitterness, no bane,
Would our sympathies awaken,
Would our generous hands be spread
For the outcast, the forsaken,
Who have neither home nor bread?
If we knew no lack, no losses,
Disappointment, toil, or care,
Would we succor him whose crosses
Are too wearisome to bear?
If we slept on silken couches
Pranked with costly gems and gold,
Would we pity him who crouches
By the wayside in the cold?
If the world were juster, truer,
In its censure and its praise;
If our doubts and cares were fewer—
Fewer weary nights and days—
If there were no graves behind us,
Where the loved and lost ones sleep,
No sweet memories to bind us,
Would we weep with those who weep?
If our hopes were never blasted,
If our love grew never cold,
If our strength and beauty lasted
Till a hundred years were told,
Would our hearts be humbly given
To the Giver of such bliss?
Would we ever think of Heaven
As a better place than this?
—The New Age.
As Others See Us.
THE Frenchman says that our impoliteness is next to heathenish. Go out into one of the suburban districts of Paris, and every little hatless gamin by the roadside will make you as courtly a bow as a dancing-master, and every bare-legged girl will dip her skirts to you with a respectful, "Bou jour, monsieur;" whereas, if you should go out over the Long Island sand-hills beyond Brooklyn, or along Boston's famous Brighton highway, ten to one the first urchin you meet would stand in your path, with his hands in his pockets, and cry, "Say, mister, where you goin'? Gimme a cent, will you?" And then a bevy of girls would giggle at you, and make slangy comments on your personal appearance.
The German says that our family life is not gentle and polite and loving, like family life in the fatherland. We have not kindness enough at home. We are too selfish, too much absorbed in our own individual interests. We have separate rooms at home. There is no great warm, comfortable family apartment, where all meet of an evening and talk and read together, and play quiet games. A sort of boarding-house coldness prevails, even between parents and children, brother and sister. The manners of the German are heart manners. He is not, as a representative national type, outwardly polished and graceful, and so he does not criticise our mere external behavior as the Englishman and the Frenchman do. But he does criticise, and justly too, the home manners of our people. He is astonished when he sees how much more affable we are to strangers than to the members of our own family circle.—Interior.
Intelligence of the Crow.
JAPAN is the birds' paradise, as fire-arms cannot be carried except by special permit. Though their punishment of criminals is sometimes extremely cruel, to shoot birds for sport or for scientific purposes would never enter the heads of this kind-hearted people. I noticed, says a writer in the Science, in many parts of the country, that the crow felt a sense of security, meeting man boldly, conscious that he is a benefactor—and acknowledged as such—by killing injurious grubs, even though he collect a few grains of corn in the operation. He scorns to fly at your approach, and fears not a stick pointed at him, which he never takes for a gun. He is as familiar in Japan as he is shy in America and Europe. Another instance of this birds' intelligence came under my observation as I was walking among the crumbling arches of Caracalla's baths in Rome, in April, 1882. When near the walls, a stone nearly as large as my fist fell at my feet. Fearing a recurrence of what I supposed was an accident of perishing masonry, our party went farther toward the center of the area. A second and third fell near us; and, looking up, I saw some crows circling above our heads, one of which dropped a fourth from his claws. It seems that we had been strolling too near their nests in the walls; and they took this method to drive us away—a very effectual one, as a stone of that size, falling from the height of sixty feet, was an exceedingly dangerous missile, and perhaps only prevented from being fatal by the failure of the bird to make allowance for the impetus given by its own motion. The aim was accurate, and the discharge right over head; but, as both we and the bird were moving, it fortunately missed its mark.—Selected.
The Cost of Vanity Versus Missions
The following figures are astounding! Read carefully and then ask yourself to which sum you contribute most: "We spend annually for saving 700,000,000 blood-bought heathen souls, the sum of not more than $2,500,000, while the total contributions of all the churches in America for all causes do not exceed $77,000,000. For intoxicating drinks on the other hand, we spend $900,000,000 every year. For tobacco, $80,000,000! For ladies' foreign dress goods, about $125,000,000! New York City alone spends for theater going and other amusements three times as much as our whole country gives for foreign missions. The kid gloves it imports alone cost ten times as much. The ladies of America actually spend more for artificial flowers every year than do all the churches for the spread of the gospel! How does this seem to the conscience? For Christ, $77,000,000." For vanity, liquor and tobacco, $1,105,000,000.—Moravian.
A Quiet Conscience
By Clara Marshall
—Clara Marshall, in Christian at Work.
A QUIET conscience causes a quiet sleep.
News and Notes.
By Editor
-A five-pound gold nugget was brought in from the gold fields near Guaymas, Aug. 12. Another weighed two and three-fourths pounds.
-It now appears that Cetewayo, the Zulu King, was not killed, as reported, but that he is alive and exceedingly active in warlike matters.
-The wife of Senator Allison, of Iowa, drowned herself in the Mississippi at Dubuque, on the night of Aug. 12. She suffered from nervous and mental diseases.
-A strike at the Bethlehem Iron Works, in Pennsylvania, has ended by the strikers applying for work. The most worthy were offered work, but not all who went out.
-Russia is not quiet. A dispatch to the London Times from St. Petersburg says, referring to the situation of affairs in that country, that arrests of students occur daily.
-The city of Galveston, Texas, is suffering a “water famine.” The cisterns are drained, the gardens dried up, and the effects of the drought are plainly seen in the poverty of the vegetable market.
-While thirteen men were being hauled to the surface at a mine near the town of Redruth, Cornwall, Aug. 15, the rope attached to the car broke, and twelve of the men were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft and instantly killed.
-The prohibition of the importation of Egyptian cotton into Switzerland has called forth many protests from various quarters. If the authorities persist in enforcing the prohibition, 30,000 persons employed in manufactures where this cotton is used must be thrown out of work.
-Alarming signs of another earthquake on the island of Ischia. The springs are drying up and smoke is issuing from fissures in the ground. The Minister of Public Work has issued an order for the immediate erection of huts for the accommodation of the people in case they are compelled to vacate their houses.
-The Court of Criminal Correction in St. Louis holds that the State must prove that street cars are not necessary, in order to convict the officers or any of those who are on trial for violating the law by running cars on Sunday. All the cases instituted against street railroad companies under the Sunday law will, therefore, be dismissed.
-Judge Jeremiah Black died at his home near York, Pa., at 2 o’clock the morning of Aug. 19. Judge Black was 73 years of age. He has been prominent as a politician and jurist for many years. He held high positions, having been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and Attorney General in President Buchanan’s Cabinet.
-The plea in defense of the late Oakland City Clerk, who embezzled the city funds with which to gamble in stocks, was that he was insane on stock buying! Now let every burglar insist that he was insane on house-breaking, and then—abolish our courts. They are becoming unnecessary expenses. P. S. He was found guilty. Courts may be retained.
-The great event of the year in San Francisco is the Triennial Conclave of the Knights Templar. The number in attendance is very large, and the display imposing and grand. In fact, if display were the object of life, we might well pronounce this assembling an “eminent” success. The corner-stone of the Garfield monument in Golden Gate Park will be laid the 24th inst.
-A dispatch from Suez, Aug. 17, says: “Two thousand Bedouins attacked the sanitarium at Sinkat and were repulsed with the loss of sixty killed. The soldiers defending the place lost seven men, the civilians five. Sinkat is fifty miles from Suakin, a town in Nubia, on an island in the Red Sea. The attack was incited by the False Prophet. It is reported Suakin is also threatened with an attack.
-A terrible railroad disaster occurred at Winchester, Ky., eighteen miles from Lexington, Aug. 17, at a crossing. A freight train on Kentucky Central stood across the track of the Chesapeake and Ohio. A train of the latter ran into the freight train, demolishing a car containing four hundred kegs of blasting powder. The powder exploded. The depot building, eating station, the Chesapeake and Ohio engine, and three cars were almost completely wrecked, and several persons were killed.
-A mob of 500 men attacked the Jewish quarter in Prague, the night of Aug. 15. The rioters were dispersed before doing much harm. The prevalence of riots has caused much alarm among the authorities of Austria. The police and military officers have been ordered to crush with the utmost energy every outbreak, however small. Forty of the populace and six were wounded in the riot at Agram, Aug. 14. The mob subsequently forced open the jail and released the rioters.
-A dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 17, says: “A cyclone swept through the city yesterday afternoon. Three railroad depots were unroofed. A large number of other buildings were unroofed and several blown down. Several casualties are reported. There was a heavy hail-storm at the time, and many horses ran away. One was killed and many injured. Only one telegraph wire outside the town remains intact. The telegraph business in the entire South is delayed here, and business is seriously injured.”
-The strike of the telegraph operators in the United States is ended in a disastrous failure. Aug. 17 the President of the “Brotherhood” issued an order announcing the failure, and a permit to all who could to return to work. But so many positions have been permanently filled that a large number will be obliged to seek other employment. The following is announced as the result to those who are received by the Western Union: “Each person, as a preliminary of employment, signs a paper agreeing to abandon the present Brotherhood of Telegraphers, and not again become a member of any brotherhood while in the employ of the Western Union Company.” It is a hazardous proceeding for so many laborers to place themselves at the mercy of a few ruling men who can throw them out of their situations at any time by a word. This is the severest blow that Labor Unions have received for many years.
Nebraska Camp-Meeting.
By Nebraska Conference Committee
It is now decided to hold our camp-meeting five days longer than heretofore announced: Sept. 19 to Oct. 1. There will be preaching three times each day, in the English, German, and Scandinavian languages.
Four large pavilions will be pitched and comfortably seated for the preaching services. There will also be over one hundred smaller tents on the ground, some of which will be for sale and to rent; so that every one can be provided with a comfortable home while in attendance. No pains will be spared to make the grounds pleasant, and the meetings profitable.
A well-supplied provision-stand will be on the ground for the accommodation of the attending public.
A large book-stand will also be provided to supply the increasing demand for our publications.
The names of the speakers will be announced in the future; we expect able speakers from New England, Iowa, Dakota, Minnesota, and California.
Any one expecting to travel over the U. P. Railroad to and from the meeting, should apply at once to Eld. A. J. Cudney, Fremont, Neb., giving name, and stating the station at which you wish to purchase ticket, and you will receive a certificate which will entitle you to a round-trip ticket on presentation to the local agent, for one and one-fourth fares. This certificate will be required at all stations on this line, and will be good as early as Monday, Sept. 17; and the tickets will be good until the second day after the close of the meeting. Persons living on this road north of Columbus should buy their tickets only to that point, and thence over the B. and M. Railroad to Crete, for three-fourths of one fare for the round trip.
Those living on the U. P. Railroad north of Hastings will buy tickets to that point at the same rates as those given above to Columbus, and from there will buy round-trip tickets over the B. and M. Railroad; but we cannot now give the rate of fare from that point to Crete and return, but will make it known in the future.
Those living north of Omaha on the line of the C., St. P., M. and O. Railroad will pay full fare from their homes to Omaha, and there will buy round-trip tickets to Crete and return, for three-fourths of one fare, over the B. and M. Railroad; and at the meeting you will be provided with a certificate that will entitle you to return from Omaha home for one-fourth single fare.
Our brethren in eastern Iowa and northern Kansas will be heartily welcomed to this meeting. Come, and with us seek the blessing of God. And let none of our brethren in this Conference think for a moment of losing the benefit of this annual gathering, which, we confidently expect will be much the largest ever held in this State. Lay your plans to be on the ground the first day, and let nothing interfere, and stay till the close.
Neb. Conf. Com.
California Sabbath-School Association.
By G. D. Ballou
THE sixth annual Convention of the California S. S. Association will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at San Jose, Sept. 6-18. We hope to see every school in the State well represented. At the camp-meeting Sabbath-school, the senior classes will recite the current lessons in the Instructor. Special lessons will be prepared for the junior classes. The secretaries will please bring their school records. Let all come prepared to inquire into the best methods of making the Sabbath-school work effective to the salvation of souls.
G. D. BALLOU, President.
California. Tract and Missionary Society.
By S. N. Haskell
THE thirteenth annual session of the Tract and Missionary Society will convene on the camp-ground at San Jose, in connection with the camp-meeting, Sept. 6-18, 1883.
Not only the missionary work of this Conference and the Ship Mission, located at San Francisco, but the foreign missions, and what can be done for the islands of the Pacific Ocean, Australia, and New Zealand, will be considered. Many important questions which pertain to the missionary work, that will interest all, will be considered.
S. N. HASKELL, President.
California Conference.
THE twelfth annual session of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at San Jose, Sept. 6-18. This will be as important a session as was ever held in California. Every company of Seventh-day Adventists in the Conference should be well represented. Delegates should be chosen, so that the wants of all parts of the field may be known, and future labor arranged accordingly. Individuals living alone, who cannot attend, should make known their wants and condition by letter addressed to the SIGNS Office. We have reached an important and interesting time in the history of the cause on the Pacific Coast. Advance steps must be taken, and now is the time to move forward in the opening providence of God. The cloud is rising. The judgments of God are already in the earth. There are many indications which show that what is done must be done quickly. We expect to see a general rally of the friends from all parts of the State.
S. N. HASKELL,
I. D. VAN HORN,
M. C. ISRAEL,
California Conference Committee.
Appointments.
California Camp-Meeting.
It has now been decided to hold the camp-meeting for northern California at San Jose, Sept. 6–18. It will be held upon the fair-ground, near the depot of the Narrow-Gauge Railroad. The horse-cars which pass the railroad station also pass the camp-ground. The ground is level and covered with shade trees, presenting a beautiful grove in which to pitch family tents. Only one spot is large enough for the tent 60x100 ft. Had the ground been designed on purpose for the camp-meeting, it could scarcely have been improved. The committee will do everything possible to make it comfortable and to accommodate all that come.
We hope this will be the largest camp-meeting ever held in the State of California; and in many respects it certainly will be the most important. Provision will be made for man and beast.
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Tents for Camp-Meeting.
By Editor
THOSE wishing to purchase new tents can have them made by writing to Pacific Press. A tent from common stripe, awning cloth, 12x16 ft., three-feet walls, can be made with poles, except pins, delivered upon the camp-ground for thirty dollars. White cloth, same size, cheaper.
Tents will be rented as heretofore. Prices from four to six dollars, according to size and quality. Second-hand tents sold at reduced rates. For tents apply immediately to G. D. Hager or M. C. Israel, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.
The Way of Life.
By Editor
THIS picture has been entirely recast, and is now engraved and produced in the very highest style of art. Of its merits and design we shall not speak, as the purpose of this notice is to call attention to a pamphlet of 48 pages, just issued at this office, containing a “Key to the Allegorical Engraving entitled the Way of Life from Paradise Lost to Paradise Restored.” The Key is a well-written description or explanation of every part of the picture. The whole affords an interesting and suggestive study. It is not a mere ornament for the wall, but a lesson of instruction, covering the whole field of God's providential dealings with man from the Garden of Eden to the New Jerusalem.
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The Signs of the Times
By Editor
Oakland, Cal., Fifth-day, August 23, 1883.
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