p. 525 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 33. (8/26/1886)

Health and Temperance.

Pasteur's System.

PASTEUR'S system of inoculating for rabies is thus described by the New York correspondent of an Eastern paper:—

"One of the principles of the Pasteur theory is the well-known one that the human system can, by taking gradually increased doses of any poison, become so habituated or hardened to it as to be unaffected by it. To carry out this principle of the Pasteur method the patient who has received the rabid virus from a mad dog's bite, and which, if it is allowed to run its course, is liable to bring its victim to death through the terrible hydrophobia, is inoculated with virus of gradually increasing strength until he becomes so habituated to taking this kind of poison into his system that not only is the original virus received from the dog's bite rendered innocuous, but he can invite rabid dogs to bite him with impunity."

"How to dilute the virus is one of Professor Pasteur's discoveries, and it is at this work Dr. Mott, who spent several months with Pasteur, has been engaged for some time past. He brought with him from Paris a rabbit that had some poison flowing through his body. On his arrival in this country this rabbit died from hydrophobia, as was expected. Then some of the virus from his body was introduced into the brain of a live and healthy rabbit through a small hole drilled in his cranium. Then on the death of this last rabbit the operation was repeated to another, and so on, the virus becoming, by transmission from one rabbit to another, weaker and weaker, and the length of time required for the virus to show its effects on each rabbit becoming more and more extended in the same ratio. Virus from each rabbit is carefully labeled and preserved in sterilized jars for future use as medicine."

"The first patient treated in America was a boy who was first inoculated with virus after its transmission through fifteen rabbits. The operation is a simple and painless one, a mere abrasion of the skin of the left breast and a touch of the virus, as in vaccination. This operation was repeated once each day for ten days, the patient receiving on the last day virus ten degrees stronger than that first used. The system is thus gradually accustomed to the poison and the original rabies received from the dog is rendered harmless."

The Turkish Army.

A RECENT letter to the Missionary Herald, from a gentleman in European Turkey, speaks as follows of the condition of the Turkish army, and of the relation of the soldiers to the towns in which they are quartered:—

"Fifteen thousand Turkish troops are in the border towns,—Djumaa, Bansko, etc.—but I have never known traveling so safe and business so undisturbed. Forced labor is paid for, and the Turkish soldiers often quartered in stables, etc., leaving, so far as possible, the homes of the Bulgarians free to their owners. The people of Bansko were not even required to draw wood from the near forests to supply the soldiers who, coming from the warmer regions of Smyrna and vicinity, poorly clothed, were suffering and dying without the hospital care they needed. I saw the rooms of the hospitals in which the only means for warming them was a stove for each room, made of a tin oil-can. In Djumaa we saw a squad of soldiers digging graves as we approached the place, and a Turk told us that 1,300 of the 10,000 soldiers who had come there had died since their arrival two months before. These soldiers, it seems, have received but one franc a month."

Scarlet Fever Spread by Clothing

By Editor

Another case showing the communicability of contagious diseases by clothing is reported from Bath, Me., where a girl had scarlet fever at a boarding-school. After recovery she returned home, and a trunk containing the clothing she wore while sick was put away in the garret. Six months later two little children were playing in the garret, and opening the trunk, took out some of the clothing. In a week both were taken very ill with the disease, and one died. There were no other persons ill with scarlet fever in the community.—Sel.

The Boy and the Cigarette.

THE City Council of Oakland last night passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor for boys under sixteen years of age to smoke cigarettes in any public place. . . . It was brought out in the testimony before the Oakland Council that a great many boys who attend the public schools are in the habit of smoking cigarettes. These are not the only ones. But the principal of the High School and other teachers had observed the pernicious practice and testified that the habit has a deleterious effect on the mental development of the boys. There is a loss of memory and inability to fix the mind steadily on subjects of study. In short, the boy who smokes cigarettes is in a bad way.

There is nothing new in these revelations. But the evil had become so great and obtrusive that something was required to be done. The prohibition of cigarette smoking in the streets by small boys is a very good sanitary regulation, and one having some regard for decency. It will hardly go far enough to reform the boy who is addicted to smoking cigarettes. Indeed it may well be doubted whether he is not already past reform. . . . In ninety cases out of every hundred, the boy who gets the habit of smoking cigarettes once fixed on him will never amount to anything. . . . He will in most instances have a weak brain, a lack of stamina, and will fall into the ranks of dullards.—San Francisco Bulletin, Aug. 17, 1886.

Wages Tested at the Saloon

By Editor

A MASSACHUSETTS manufacturer, who employs 700 men in the small town where his factories are located, recently presented each man with a new $10 bill which he had previously marked for identification. The second day afterward 410 of these bills had been deposited in the various banks by saloon-keepers, and in consequence the workmen are said to have organized a temperance society. It would be a good plan in several localities to make this test on the money paid for wages, and see how much of it gets into the saloon.—Sel.

Making Fabrics Uninflammable

By Editor

The following is given as a cheap mode of rendering fabrics uninflammable: Four parts of borax and three parts sulphate of magnesia are shaken up together just before being required. The mixture is then dissolved in from 20 to 30 parts of warm water. Into the resulting solution the articles to be protected from fire are immersed, and when they are thoroughly soaked they are wrung out and dried—preferably in the open air.—Sel.

Franklin and the Tallow-Chandler

When Franklin on one occasion was discussing State affairs with some English lords, one of them being short for argument became offended, and said, "It is a high time o'day when American tallow-chandlers assume to teach English statesmen!" We can readily imagine the twinkle in Franklin's eye when he replied: "If your honor had once been a tallow-chandler most likely you would still be one."

Poisoned Arrows

POISONED ARROWS.—Some Indian arrow heads were lately shown at the Societe d'Anthropologie which were poisoned with curare over a century ago, but still retained their deadly power. Small animals scratched with them died in half an hour.

SECULAR.

—The shortage of wheat in Great Britain is estimated at 60,000,000 bushels.

—Hogs recently killed and partially devoured a drunken man near Salinas, Cal.

—Tulare, Cal., was the scene of a very destructive fire on the night of the 16th inst.

—A large loan has been raised in France for the completion (?) of the Panama Canal.

—The triennial conclave of the Knights Templars will be held in St. Louis in September.

—Serious riots have recently occurred at Nagasaki, Japan, between the Chinese and Japanese.

—A deficit of $1,500,000 has been discovered at Havana, Cuba, in the funds in charge of the Public Debt Board.

—The population of the United States is estimated at over 60,000,000, and Russia is the only Aryan nation which now exceeds this country in population.

—It is stated that out of 4,600 men who last spring entered upon a strike on the Missouri Pacific system, less than 200 have ever been restored to their places.

—The loss by fire in the United States and Canada during July was $10,000,000, which is 20 per cent. greater than the average for the same month for twenty years.

—A recent London dispatch states that the attention of the Government is again necessarily directed to the Afghan frontier question. The situation is delicate, and may easily lead to war between Russia and Afghanistan, involving England.

—The convention of the Irish Nationalist League of America convened in Chicago on the 18th inst. About four thousand members were present.

—It is stated that of 7,000 persons inoculated for yellow fever by a Rio Janeiro physician only seven died of the disease, although the epidemic was of unusual intensity.

—News has been received at San Francisco of the capture, by the revenue cutter Thomas Corwin, of three British schooners which were engaged in seal-fishing in Behring Sea.

—Two thousand idle workmen sent a deputation to the Board of Guardians of Liverpool, July 22. The spokesman said that in fifty years he had never known distress to be so severe.

—A passenger steamer, plying on the river Volga, between Astrakhan and Saratov, the capital of the province of Saratov, in Russia, was burned on the 21st inst., and 200 lives were lost.

—A number of oleomargarine manufacturers in Chicago propose to test the constitutionality of the law recently passed taxing their business and compelling them to conduct it honestly.

—A woman has been arrested in Somerville, Mass., charged with having, at various times, fatally poisoned at least eleven persons, all her own relatives, the last victim being her son.

—At Havana, Cuba, August 16, 6,000 cigar makers struck for higher wages. Smokers, however, will continue to put in from ten to eighteen hours daily as usual, besides paying their own expenses.

—Affairs in Belfast, Ireland, are in a very unsettled condition. Mobs gather frequently, and indulge in acts of violence. Nine policemen have been arrested, charged with willful murder.

—A six-year-old Holstein cow, in Syracuse, N. Y., has during the past year given 26,000 pounds of milk, or about 70 pounds per day. The highest previous record was 23,775 pounds by a cow in Utica.

—The Knights of Labor of North America will hold a convention at Richmond, beginning October 4. The members of the convention will represent a constituency of 1,000,000 working men and women.

—It is said that the workingmen of New York will demand of the Legislature next winter a law legalizing boycotting; but the New York Mail advises them that a law will not do the business, but that they must first reorganize the State Constitution.

—A very disastrous storm swept over a part of Texas on the night of the 20th inst., doing immense damage to property. Buildings were wrecked, trains were blown from the track, bridges were washed away, and large sections of country inundated. Some lives were lost.

—The newly elected Parliament assembled in London on the 19th inst. The queen's speech, which contained only about two hundred words, was read. The only measures suggested were those which are necessary to the maintenance of the public service for the remainder of the financial year.

—An imbecile widow residing in Selles, France, was burned at the stake recently by her two sons, who had previously endeavored to obtain her admission into the mad-house. While the woman was suffering, her sons sprinkled holy water over her, and when arrested said that they had burned her because of religious motives.

—The new torpedo boat Nautilus, which made a successful trial trip recently in New York Bay, is a submarine vessel capable of being fully operated while completely submerged. The boat has attained a speed of nine miles, and remained under water half an hour. It is claimed that the success of this invention will revolutionize naval warfare.

—Telegrams from St. Petersburg state that the feeling in favor of an offensive and defensive alliance between Russia and France is rapidly growing. It is also believed that an understanding will be effected between Germany, Austria, England, and Italy, amounting practically to a coalition against Russia and France in the case of a breach of the European peace, which now seems probable.

—A large meeting of Anarchists was held in New York City, on the 20th inst. The purpose of the meeting was to denounce the conviction of the Chicago bomb-throwers. The speakers vied with one another in their denunciation of the trial, law, Government, police, press, and everything that did not suit them. Every mention of anarchy was cheered, as were also the threats against law and peace.

—Punched coins are thus valued by the Treasury Department: double eagle, $15; silver dollar, 75 cents; half dollar, 35 cents, quarter of a dollar, 18 cents; and dimes, 5 cents.

—It is stated that Dr. Gatling, the inventor of the Gatling gun, is in Washington, D. C. He will soon have ready a new form of his machine gun, specially devised for use by the police in large cities. The barrels of the gun are only twelve inches long; and the whole thing, when mounted on a police wagon, will not weigh more than 50 pounds. His idea is to have two or three of these guns mounted on a police wagon, which can be driven rapidly to the scene of a threatening riot. Each gun will fire at least 1,000 shots a minute.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—Over 80 per cent. of the people of the United States are nominally Protestants; but only about 18 per cent. of these—less than one in four—are actual church members.

—There is a point worth considering in the following anecdote concerning a certain bishop: “Why is it, Bishop,” inquired a lay friend, “that we have so many ordinary men in the ministry?” “Well, you see,” answered the bishop, “we do the best we can with the material we have to draw from. We do not select the clergy from the angels, but from the laity.”

—A newspaper in closing the account of a bank defalcation by one who had been stealing the funds for several years, said: “His character has always stood high in the community.” This is an instance of the too common mistake of putting character for reputation. The man had a good reputation, but a very bad character. Reputation is what we seem to be; character is what we are.

—And now the Christian at Work throws its influence in favor of tobacco. It says: “The Reformed Presbyterian Church refuses to license candidates who use tobacco. We thought but one denomination had incorporated the nicotine test in its standards, but it seems there are two. Stramonium, however, can be smoked as usual.” A paper that attempts a feeble joke at a step toward securing ministers who are clean in their habits, ought to be named “The Christian Asleep.”

—A Boston Anarchist says that Christianity must be abolished before they (the Anarchists) can succeed. Not necessarily. Christianity is entirely opposed to all Anarchist ideas and methods, but a short triumph of the Anarchists will not abolish it, and “the triumphing of the wicked is short.” Christianity has no connection nor sympathy with lawlessness of any sort, although many who wear the outward garb of Christianity give aid to the Anarchists by denouncing the foundation of all laws—the law of God.

—The drift of the “Christian world” may be learned from the list of subjects discussed at the “Inter-denominational, or Pan-evangelical Conference” opened last month near Pittsburg, Pa. Among the denominations represented were Lutheran, Baptist, Episcopal, Protestant Methodist, United Presbyterian, Reformed Presbyterian, and other Presbyterian churches. Among the subjects were: “Union without Absorption the Glory of Our Christianity;” “Our Nation a Christian Nation, and the Outgrowth of Christian Principles;” and “How Can We Best Subserve the Interest of Our American Sabbath?”

Appointments.

OAKLAND.—House of worship, northeast corner of Clay and Thirteenth Streets. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:30 A. M. Preaching at 11. Prayer and missionary meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:30. Seats free.

SAN FRANCISCO.—House of worship, 914 Laguna Street, between McAllister and Tyler. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:45, and preaching at 11 A. M.; also preaching every Sunday evening at 7:30. Classes in the English, German, and Scandinavian languages. Prayer and missionary meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:45. Mission Reading-rooms at the church.

EAST PORTLAND (Or.)—House of worship on G Street, between Tenth and Eleventh. Sabbath-school every Sabbath (Saturday), followed by services. Preaching or Bible-reading Sunday evening. Prayer-meeting Wednesday evening. The public is cordially invited. Free public reading-room, corner of L and Fifth Streets.

Camp-Meeting for the Northwest.

By North Pacific Conference Committee

A CAMP-MEETING will be held at Seattle, W. T., Sept. 1 to 6, which is especially designed for the Sabbath-keepers of Western Washington, many of whom have never enjoyed the privileges of a camp-meeting. Those who regularly attend these annual convocations, know their importance, and have felt a deep anxiety for those of this Conference who are at too great a distance to attend the regular annual camp-meeting. Now a provision is made for the wants of such; and it is hoped that none will permit any common circumstances to keep them from attending.

Quite a number have already embraced the Sabbath here at Seattle, and we confidently look for their number to be much increased. We want to have all the Sabbath-keepers together.

Brethren, be entreated to come, not only to obtain, but to bring God’s blessing with you.

NORTH PACIFIC CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.

Indiana Camp-Meeting and Conference.

By William Covert

THIS meeting is to be held September 29 to October 5, at Wabash, the county seat of Wabash County. The use of the Fair-ground has been secured at very reasonable rates. It is about one-half mile from the Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific depot, and three-fourths of a mile from the Cincinnati, Wabash, and Michigan depot. The camp will be found at the west end of the city, at the terminus of Hill Street. The ground to be occupied is high and dry, with an abundance of good water.

This meeting will be centrally located for all our churches north of Indianapolis. It will be held at a time favorable for a large attendance of our people, and we shall be disappointed if we do not see more Seventh-day Adventists at this gathering than ever before convened in Indiana. Begin in earnest now to prepare to attend this meeting. Do not fail to be there at the beginning. Make arrangements with your neighbors to take care of your homes so you will not think it necessary to leave the meeting until after it closes. We would further advise all who have made pledges to come prepared to pay them where it is possible to do so. But do not remain away from the meeting if you cannot redeem your vows.

Remember that we are one year nearer the Judgment than when we met twelve months ago, and that earthly possessions are depreciating in value as we approach the year of Jubilee. Lev. 25 : 8-16.

Workers’ meeting will begin one week earlier than the time set for the camp-meeting. We hope for an abundant outpouring of God’s Spirit at this annual gathering. Shall we all labor and pray for it? WM. COVERT.

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Parsons' Hand-Book of Business and Social Forms.

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THE GREAT CONTROVERSY

BETWEEN

CHRIST AND SATAN FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM TO THE END OF TIME.

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Brief and lifelike sketches are given of the works, the successes, and the persecutions of Wycliffe, Luther, Tyndale, Huss, Jerome, Knox, and other reformers and martyrs.

Considerable space is given to the life, work, and influence of later reformers and great religious leaders, such as George Whitefield, the Wesleys, and William Miller, and this is followed by chapters treating upon The Origin of Evil, The Agency of Evil Spirits, The Snares of Satan, and the Judgment.

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BIBLE-READINGS.

By Ellet Joseph Waggoner

IN TWO NUMBERS.

EMBRACING A PORTION OF THE

BIBLE COURSE AT HEALDSBURG COLLEGE.

(Including also the readings given at the State Meeting in Oakland.)

BY ELD. E. J. WAGGONER,

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NUMBER ONE contains 57 pages, embracing sixteen readings, as follows:—

	Ques.		Ques.
Daniel 2	93	The Law of God No. 4	32
Daniel 7	93	" " " " No. 5	31
Daniel 8	60	Ephesians 2:15	26
Daniel 9	94	Romans 6:14	23
The Sanctuary	179	Romans 10:4	17
The Law of God, No. 1	30	Galatians 3:13	19
" " " " No. 2	31	Romans 3:20	10
" " " " No. 3	28	Tithing	99

NUMBER TWO contains 46 pages, embracing twenty-two readings, as follows:—

	Ques.		Ques.
The Sabbath, No. 1	51	2 Corinthians 5:8	18
" " " 2	49	Luke 28:39-43	16
" " " 3	42	1 Peter 3:18-20	10
Colossians 2:14-17	19	Luke 16:19-31	37
Psalms 118:24	13	Living Souls	14
Penalty of Transgression	10	Nature of Man	18
Sanctification	43	Punishment of the Wicked	70
Second Coming of Christ	64	Work of the Spirit, No. 1	47
The Resurrection	59	" " " " 2	51
Immortality	18	Church Membership	61
Philippians 1:23	5	Missionary Labor	52

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