Earlier text: World News: Nicaragua, South Africa, Samoa, Berlin

PROGRESS NUMBER OF THE SIGNS.

By Editor

We expect to have copies of the Progress Number of the SIGNS ready to mail by May 12. This special number will bear date of May 24, will have a cover, and will be profusely illustrated. Will you aid in giving it the circulation it ought to have? Prices: Single copy, 5 cents; 5 to 24 copies, 2 cents each; 25 to 99 copies, 1½ cents each; 100 and above, 1¼ cents each, $1.25 per 100. Send in your orders at once, if you have not already done so. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal., or your State Tract Society.

Editorial Note on the Signature Law

By M. C. Wilcox

There is a foolish law on the statute-books of this State, called the signature law, which prohibits, under the penalty of a thousand-dollar fine, any reflection on any man that is dead which may serve to blacken his memory, from Cain to Durrant, or any reflection on any man living, morally, mentally, or physically, which may tend to bring him into contempt, etc., unless the article is signed by the writer. For all articles in this paper unsigned, the editor is responsible. The assistant editor signs by his initial, T. In the present status of this uncertain law we hope this is sufficient compliance.

M. C. Wilcox.

CASUALTIES AND CALAMITIES.

By Editor

Among the “casualties and calamities,” for the last week, reported in our news columns on page 14, it will be noticed that Nebraska was swept by wind and hail-storm; a portion of an island of the Caroline group, together with some of its inhabitants, was swept away by a tidal wave; earthquakes occurred in California and Indiana; the famine is still raging in Russia; a terrific tornado destroyed a large part of the property and people of Kirksville, Mo.

We can not fail to notice that storms and calamities are becoming most numerous, and they are being felt in unusual places. And it should be remembered that what the world is seeing in these lines now is only a very small matter as compared with what lies just ahead of us. Scientific men and weather prophets try to account for all these things, but their skill is baffled. There is nothing that stands the test except the writings of the inspired prophets of old. They have fully foretold us of these things, and they also tell us what they mean.

Good Health Magazine May Table of Contents

By Editor

The May number of Good Health offers us the following most interesting table of contents:—

How to Eat for One Hundred Years, New Mexico as a Health Resort (illustrated), My Freedom Suit (illustrated), The Hygienic Management of Insomnia, The Physical Training of Children, The Underclothing (illustrated), Aerated Bread, The Genealogy of Certain Diseases, The Nose and Throat, General Hot and Cold Applications of Water, The Pancreatic Juice (illustrated), The Care of the Bath-room, Employment for Little Fingers, Educating the Baby to Masticate, The Sedentary Horse, Starving on Beef Tea, Embalmed Beef, Consumption and Leprosy, and An Eighty-year-old Vegetarian.

It is also announced that the June number of Good Health will contain a finely-illustrated article on “The Industries of the Navajos and Mokis,” by G. Wharton James.

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