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The Government Coast Guard

THE government report is the sole history of our unpretending "heroes of peace," and a very dry history it is. The story of San Juan Hill has been told in newspapers, magazines, and books in detail and at length. But of nearly twenty thousand wrecks and rescues not a word is printed, save a bare record of the time, place, lives, and property saved.

In every instance a small band of men went out to a mortal struggle, sometimes right up to the verge of death. A few went over the verge, so simply and quietly that their names remain unhonored and unsung. They battled alone, far away from towns and cities, and the applause of watching crowds. They had the direst odds to contend with, and no stimulus save that of their own stout hearts and the sense of duty. In nearly every instance they brought to huddled wretches staring death in the face the glory of life, and they gave sunshine and joy to many a home. But of them scarce a word has been told.

It is impossible to cite, even a few daring, almost superhuman, rescues; it would be unfair, too, to the rest of the twenty thousand, and, suffice it to say, that in these wrecks, since 1891, more than one hundred thousand souls were at stake and saved with a loss of less than one in one hundred.— December Circle Magazine.

What She Learned

"I THOUGHT it was a pretty fair sort of telescope for one that wasn't very big," said Uncle Silas. "I rigged it up in the attic by the north window, and had it fixed so it would swing round easy. I took a deal of satisfaction in looking through it — the sky seemed so wide and full of wonders; so when Hester was here I thought I'd give her the pleasure, too. She stayed a long time upstairs, and seemed to be enjoying it. When

she came down, I asked her if she'd discovered anything new."

" 'Yes,' she says. 'Why, it made everybody's house seem so near that I seemed to be right beside 'em, and I found out what John Pritchard's folks are doin' in their out-kitchen. I've wondered what they had a light there for night after night, and I just turned the glass on their windows and found out. They are cutting apples to dry — folks as rich as them cutting apples!'"

"And actually, that was all the woman had seen! With the whole heavens before her to study, she had spent her time prying into the affairs of her neighbors! And there are lots more like her — with and without telescopes." — Christian Uplook.

Suspicion's Destructiveness

By S. S. Times

If we are in doubt as to whether a person is seeking to harm us, the surest way to bring about that harm is to make our suspicion apparent. Nothing antagonizes two persons more completely and destructively than either one's expressed suspicion of the other. Many a time has the friendship of two persons been wrecked because one got to suspecting the other of an unfriendliness that never existed until it was brought into being and cultivated by the openly expressed belief that it was there.

We ought not to show suspicion; and we ought not to have suspicion. If our own lives are as they should be, we have nothing to fear from any one: suspicion only breeds trouble and weakens us. And our resolute refusal to doubt the goodness of others will often help them to do away with an unworthiness that might indeed have worked harm to us, if encouraged to continue by our expressed belief that it existed.— S. S. Times.

Big Enough to Stand Snubs

NOTHING tests a person's greatness more sharply than the way in which he takes slights and snubs. It is not difficult, nor always wholly unpleasant, to be attacked or differed with or denounced for holding a certain view or following a certain course of action. There is an implied compliment in being considered of sufficient influence to be worth attacking. But to be passed over as not worth noticing — that wounds our pride. And it takes real greatness to ignore one's own wounded pride. The greatest man in any roomful of people is the one who thinks so little of himself that he does not expect any one to think him great. No one but a truly big soul can stand being considered small and keep sweet under it. When others show that they think we are built on a small scale, the surest way to prove that they are right is to take offense at it. — Anon.

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Vegetable Ivory

THE plant yielding the vegetable ivory is known to botanists as Phytelephas macrocarpa. It is a native of South America, found chiefly along the Magdalena River, in Colombia. It is a stemless, palm-like plant the top of which is crowned with from twelve to twenty very long leaves.

The fruit consists of a conglomerated head of six or seven sections, the whole being enclosed in a woody covering, forming altogether a globe as large as a man's head. A single plant sometimes bears six or eight of these heads, each weighing from twenty to twenty-five pounds. When young they contain a milk-like fluid, which, with age, hardens until it becomes valuable as a substitute for real ivory.

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By Editor

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Is Pleasing the Workers

By Editor

The April Number of the Signs of the Times ☀ ☀ Monthly ☀ ☀

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Patten and the Wheat Market

By Editor

The Congress of the United States, or the executive department, ought to find a way to stop such men as Patten, the wheat plunger, who are making gold at the price of blood. Where the bread of the people is at stake, justice ought to control in some way the markets. In such matters wise, determined, immediate action should be taken, tho its every step may not be prescribed by statute law. The action of such men as Patten breeds anarchy.

Javanese City and People

By Editor

Mrs. Fulton gives us a very interesting description of the Javanese city and people in her article in our Missions Department.

The Great Threefold Message Concludes

By Editor

The articles on the Great Threefold Message close with this issue. This number is long, but it should be carefully read and studied.

The Bible in Greece

By Editor

We begin the series by Professor Howell on the Bible in Greece next week. They will be of genuine interest to those who desire to know modern Greece.

General Conference Delegates’ Special Car

There will doubtless be a special car carrying delegates and others to the S. D. A. General Conference at Washington from the Pacific Coast. It will probably leave San Francisco and San Jose the afternoon of May 6, and will proceed to Washington via Los Angeles, and New Orleans, without change. Those desiring to go should correspond at once with C. H. Jones, Mountain View, Cal.

Indifference to Greater Liberties

There were bills before Congress the last session which involved the liberties of every American citizen. The great mass of the people were utterly indifferent to these. Some earnest people, lovers of liberty, have tried to arouse the conscience and energy of the country, but comparatively few have been stirred. Hon. Serenus Payne's bill on the tariff, however, has stirred up a perfect storm from one end of the land to the other over the proposed increase of duties on stockings. In towns galore people are signing protests against raising the duties on ladies' stockings which will increase the prices thirty-three and one-third to fifty per cent. Surely it would be worth while if men and women would take at least a modicum interest in things of far mightier import.

Mountain View

By Editor

Mountain View.—It is not the business of the Signs of the Times to advertise towns, communities, or sections of country; if it were, we could find much to say of Mountain View. But if any of our readers wish to know of the beautiful borough by that name, let us advise them to send for the Mountain View Register of April 16. If Mountain Viewers wish to let their friends know of the little city, they could do no better than send them a copy. The price is only ten cents, post-paid.

A New Editorial Fellow-Laborer

By Editor

The editors are glad to welcome as a fellow-laborer on the editorial staff of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES Mr. L. A. Reed, B.S., M.S., formerly president of Healdsburg College. Professor Reed brings with him a good teaching and study experience in Bible and science, as well as other branches. He is the author of a charming little book, "My Garden Neighbors," illustrated by himself. His articles will be signed by the small capital "R." We trust that his coming may be pleasant to him and of great profit to the paper and its readers.

Distracted and Torn Turkey

By Editor

Distracted and Torn Turkey.—Since our note on page eleven was in the page, the Sultan's coup has proved a boomerang. It barely struck ere it rebounded with telling force. Fanatical Moslems took courage in the meantime to rise against the Christians in Adana, the town has been partly burned, and hundreds of Christians, mostly Armenians, are reported slain. Tarsus is also reported partially burned by Moslems. But the Sultan miscalculated the strength of the love of liberty his subjects had tasted. Practically the whole army is in revolt against him; 20,000 troops, it is said, loyal to the Young Turks, are marching on Constantinople. France, Great Britain, and Italy are sending war-ships to the scene. Two American missionaries are reported killed at Adana, but the report is unconfirmed. All races and political parties seem yet to hold together against the Sultan, and in this lies hope of early peace and quietude; but the slightest thing may bring universal strife in Turkey, then interference of the powers, and then, no one knows what. It is wise to wait. God yet rules in the kingdoms of men.

Raisin Day

April 30 is Raisin Day for the raisin producers of California. They are sending choice raisins and good literature to all parts of the country. They want the people of the land to sample them. They want their raisins tested. "By their fruits" would they advertise. People ought to know about them. All through the East men and women will pay from ten to fifteen cents a pound for old, dried, wormy, and candied raisins, when California has thousands and thousands of tons of splendid raisins to sell, sun-grown and sun-cured, full of sunshine. Raisins are splendid food. One man, a government forester, lives on them solely for weeks at a time, eating seeds and all; and he gets along finely. If the East knew what a food raisins are, there would be a demand which would greatly exceed California's annual crop of 60,000 tons.

Walla Walla College Free from Debt

By Editor

We have received from Walla Walla College a neatly printed program of exercises in celebration of liberty from debt. This will be held April 22 in the college chapel. The service is one of praise for victory and we heartily join with them in their rejoicing to know that the burden of debt is lifted and that Walla Walla College is free. We wish that in the picture of the bell which they published on the first page of the program it had been one without a crack. When the old Liberty Bell rang out freedom to all the land in this country, it was a whole bell. Let us earnestly hope that that will be the case with the Walla Walla school, that the liberty in which they are rejoicing shall be liberty without a fault forever.

Admiral Cervera Dies

Admiral Cervera, of Spain, died April 3. He will be remembered for the part he took in defending Cuba in the Spanish-American War.

The Time Has Come.

An Eastern paper has the following: "The time will come," remarks a skeptic to the philosopher, "when men will no more believe in God than they now believe in ghosts." "Should that time come," was the rejoinder, "they will begin again to believe in ghosts," and that time has come. With the skepticism which has come in concerning the Bible there is a tremendous increase in superstition.

Vitality of a Toad

Vitality of a Toad.—Two years ago some miners working 500 feet below the surface of the earth near Butte, Mont., turned out a large and solid stone. That stone was broken, and pocketed within was a living toad asleep. A slight breathing was manifest. He was sent to the Bronx Zoo in New York and named Rameses II. He was estimated to be at least 1,000 years old and to be the oldest toad living, tho there may be many other rocks enclosing toads. Unfortunately he died just the other day.

Fort Worth Fire Destroys Adventist Church

By Editor

We made a little note last week regarding the fire at Fort Worth, Texas, in which the branch office of the Southern Publishing Association was burned. By that conflagration 500 families were left homeless, five persons were killed, Presbyterian and Baptist churches burned, seventy blocks consumed, and $4,000,000 worth of property destroyed. We sympathize with the sufferers, and we sympathize with our sister branch office. We know a little of what fire means. We earnestly hope that they may soon recover and increase far beyond what they were before the fire. We learn from late news that the Seventh-day Adventist church was also destroyed.

Mail for Regina, Canada

By Editor

Mail for Regina, Canada.—The superintendent of the Saskatchewan Mission Field, Elder H. S. Shaw, writes us that the office address is “Box 244, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.” This includes all mail for the Western Canadian Union Conference office, the Saskatchewan Mission Field and Tract Society, the Saskatchewan Herald, and his own personal mail. Correspondents are particularly asked to make note of this and act accordingly, on account of local conditions. It may save delay and loss. The Pacific Press Branch is “Box 666.”

Lulu Wightman Addresses Missouri Legislature

By Editor

The Missouri Legislature, April 10, passed a resolution asking Mrs. Lulu Wightman to speak before that body in the chamber of the House of Representatives, on April 12 on the "Rise of Religious Liberty in the United States." The resolution was offered by the Democrats and seconded by the Republicans. The same address was given in the auditorium in Lincoln, Neb., to 2,500 people, among whom were William Jennings Bryan, Ex-Governor Sheldon, and many state legislators representing all political parties. We are glad that this excellent speaker on religious liberty has these splendid opportunities of spreading these glorious principles.

Death of Dr. Daniel March

Dr. Daniel March, the author of the hymn beginning, "Hark the voice of Jesus calling, who will go and work to-day?" and that wonderfully helpful book, now unfortunately out of print in this country, "Night Unto Night," or "Night Scenes of the Bible," passed away March 2. He has resided in Woburn, Mass., for fifty years. His age at death was ninety-two. He was a noted Greek and Latin scholar, and was the author of various works; one of which was "Morning Light in Many Lands." Together they reached a circulation of over a million copies. He was an eminent and worthy man of God, and the world is better for his having lived.