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18 END OF THE WORLD IS NEAR, SAY THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS $> «> $> Although going regular"! y about ♦ • their business, the Seventh Day ♦ <> Adventlsts live in momentary <S> €> expectation of the end of the ♦ ♦ world. "I expect to see it In the $> <$> flesh," said a prominent mem- ♦ <?* ber of the Oakland church a few <?> ♦ days ago, and he but voiced tho «$> <€> sentiments of the whole congre- <$> ♦ gation. The awful day may come ♦ <$* to-morrow; it may not come for ♦ <& years, but the Adventists feel ♦ <S> that it Is their duty to be pre- O •S> pared. Following is a state- <?> ♦ ment on this subject by Elder ♦ «• Wllcox of Oakland. <» <?■ <?> THE end of the world Is assuredly close at hand. There can be no question ahout this, for a chair, of biblical prophecies leads dl rectiy to this conclusion- There are thirteen different lines of prophecies al ready fulfilled, or in process of ful fillment, -which present at least a score of special features, the existence of which no honest person can fleny. Among these are the increase of riches, and knowledge, and disease; the wax ing old of the earth as evidenced by earthquakes, cyclones, failures of crops and the like; the rise of all kinds of relig-ious deceptions; the great decline. of faith in things spiritual, and th<* great increase of scoffers; the wide spread expectation of, and prepara tions for, war between the powerful nations of the earth. A?I these are Jn disputable facts, and were plainly fore told in the books of James, Isaiah, Habakkuk, Daniel, Revelation and others. We are told that these things and many more, which are occurring all around us now, were to occur "in The Great and Good Things Women Are Doing. MISS MARY CHAKKIKG WiSTBR has been appointed a member of the Philadelphia Board of Public Kdu cation. She was especially indorsed by the Civic Club, of which she 1b an ac tive and highly valued member. A young Xv>v York newspaper woman has been trying as an example and help , to poor working girls to live on $3 a week. ! Having succeeded only in going hungry, i she now declares that living on such a j sum is utterly impossible, which Is i BcarceJy an encouraging thought for the thousands of girls who are able to earn no more. Miss Lennic Abshire lived for seventy two years in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, and then suddenly determined to learn to read and write. She reported as a pupil at the primary school nearest her home and studied diligently for three terms, eleven months In all, and then retired to private life again with enough education to make the remainder of her days happy. Mrs. E. W. Cole of Nashville is the owner of one of the largest and loveliest rose gardens in America. She cuts over 2CX» roses every day and gives them away to hospitals, schools, "shut ins" and her friends. The Teachers* Annuity Aid and Pen sion Fund Association of Philadelphia had nearl) MO. fl Chestnut-street National Bank and Trust Company, which recently closed its doors. Tho Woman's Club of Chicago during isr<7 received 54231 S7 from the girls and boys cf tho* public schools "f that city. for the purpose at supplying warm clothing to poor school children. Minnesota has opo;i*d a St;ito School of Agriculture for women, with accom modations for sixty pupils. Dr. Freda Lippert is physician for the new Girls 1 High Schorl i:i Now York. She occupies the chair of physiology and also attends to the physical well-being of the young women under her car ■. A St. I..ouis girl, who committed the indiscretion of marrying at tho apre of If,, wants to continue her studies in the public schools, but has been denied the privilege by the school board. There is a decided difference of opinion among tho citizens as to the board's position in the matter. Th« Malnn branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union has sent a formal protest to the Governor against (be reapnblntment of Judge Enoch FcHler of the Supreme bench, alleging that ho Is moraliy unfit to occupy that position. The Judge Is one of the most eminent Jurists in New England, and in tends making a hitter fight against his feminine antagonists. Miss Phoebe Cousins has almost re covered from her recent illness, and is preparing lectures on Cuba and Hawaii. She believes Cuba's belligerency should 1,.. recognized, but Is opposed to the an nexation of Hawaii. < 'v. r a q : or-nt ury .■;. ■ : W. I><c> and l-i' he-arts in I I i<\ j. lisapi without any explanation Jus! before tho wedding 1 , but Miss Mnssoy remained truo to his memory Last week !.•■■' reap peared and called upon her, and aa as a license could be obtained the two were married and started off on their long-delayed wedding journey. Mrs. Allie M. Day is physician and sur geon of the Lake County (Indiana) Hos pital and Asylum. She Is a graduate of the Central College of Indianapolis and the first woman ever appointed in her State to such a position as the one which she is now filling: most satisfactorily.. Ethel Evans Smith, a little 8-year-old daughter of the Quaker City, shows a re markable talent for free-hand drawing, in which she has. received no instruction whatever, In a recent drawing contest she submitted a design so beautiful in conception and execution that, although the contest was only intended for boys, the judges cave her a special prize and placed her work on. public exhibition. Lady Henry Somerset has given the town of Reigate. England, sufficient land for the erection of ten alnmhouses. One of the conditions of the gift is that no less than throe women shall always be members of the almshouse board of gov ernors. Kisa EschoTssohn. recently appointed to the professorship of civil law at the University of Upsala, is the second woman professor <>f university rank In Sweden. Tho into Sonya Ko^alevsky was appointed professor of math* the University of Stockholm in A recent official report shows that there j are in Germany three women emp j as chimney-sweeps, thirty-five as slaters, , seven as gunsmiths, 147 aa coppersmiths, ; 179 as farriers and nailers. 109 r.s mi | >: K lit as St..: . cutters und 2000 In mart,:.-, ■ quarries. Miss Leonora Jackson, the Chicago girl i who won tho Ifendelssohn annuity prizo j at the Berlin High School for music. Is I deemed 1,-. Maestro Joachin th<- most marvelous violinist, ho ever has taught. Miss McLean of Glasgow has given a fund for mission work among the dwarfs of the Camaroons district, v>"est Africa. and the work of evangelisation is fairly begun. j There is still living in quiet retirement THE SAX FKAXCTSCO CALL, STTNDATT, JANUARY 10, 1898. In a pretty villa near Aberdeen a daugh 1 >gg. the Ettrick Bhepherd. The lady, now well over I . clear recollection of her gifted father, for she WM only an of 4 years or so when "the shepherd" Qeßrudenell-Brace, daugh ter of the liarqoia ot Allesbury, •. to sail her own yacht, and has appli : : a for a mi ■- The board refvaea to examine • la a woman. Mrs. Humphry Ward received I f<->r "Robert EHsmere," ~ : • ■ and "Marceila." J76.00C ■ady" and '''■str.'li. 1 A pension has l.r. f . n granted t widow of Knud Knudaen, ;i soldier In the war, the back pay of which aggre gates over Mow. The man was i native of Norway and his wife has always re sided there. CURIOUS TELEGRAPHIC MISUNDERSTANDING As long as privnte telegrams can only be transmitted from one person to another at the rate of halfpenny per word, so long will senders Bcheme for the saving of wordß, and at the same time risk misunderstandings, some serious, some laughable. A couple of friends were staying re cently at Ballator. in Scotland, and were to bo joined on a particular Sun day afternoon, fur th^ afternoon onJy, by two others from Aberdeen. In t lie the afternoon, however, tho rain poured down plteously at Rallater and a wire was sent to Aberdeen Informing the pleasure-seekers of the state (<t af fairs and asking if they int. tided to come. The reply sent was: "Certainly not. Raining cats and dogs here." Unfortunately this was read. "Cer tainly. Not raining cats and dogs h« re," and the result was that two miserable beings, drenched to the skin, sauntered wearily about Ballator sta tion for hours and hours till there were no more trains that nipht, when home was sought and temper freely exhibited. Another story told of Aberdeen is that there was a gentleman, well known there of the name of Saint. Any telegrams addressed "Saint. Aber deen," would have found him. But on> time the name of another Scottish town was substituted for Aberdeen in this brief address, and tho telegraphic authorities at the receiving end were puzzled. They at once returned the message over the wires with the inti mation and instruction, "No Saints here. Try Aberdeen." A well-known art dealer once exhibit ed some of his treasures at an exhibi tion at Manchester, and desiring the return of one of them be wired, "Please sm.l panel, t >n by eißlu, Ve nus and Adonis— Litchfield." The message Mas not in tho least und.-r ■ quently returned to the postoffice with a note ti» that eft came to the conclusion that the last portion of the wire was an ad I and sent it on to the city of Lltchfleld, ring .-in early, reply as foU "N*i. such nrm .-'.s Venus and A known at LltchfieUL Try Manches ter!" It i- well known that press tele prams are sent to newspapers at groatly reduced rates nd are deliv ered on large sheets of tissue paper, technically called "flimsy," about 100 words appearing on each sheet. Tele graph operators, knowing the skill of sub-editors, abbreviate freely, such contractions as "biz" (business , "rhg" (right hon. gentleman), and others of a like kind being regularly used, while new ones are Invented as necessity arises. On one occasion the late John Bright was making a speech on an ed ucational topic, which was being tele graphed to the press, and found it nec essary to frequently make use of the word "children." "Chn" being the un derstood abbreviation for "chairman," the telegraph clerk could discover no means of shortening the word, but at length became tired of writing it in full and put "kids" instead, trusting to the sub-editor to make it right. Un accountably, however, the sub-editor passed it, and when the paper came out Mr. Bright, to the astonishment of his admirers, was represented as hav ing spoken of "the dear little kids." A pupil was on one occasion intro duced into the sub-editorial depart ment of a provincial newspaper and wasocoaslonally intrusted with the fill ing in of the "nf's" and "the'.s" in the condensed telegrams, one time in the absence of his chief a Press Associa tion telegram came with the text of an official dit-patch from the commanding officer of a British expedition, which was being carried out at that time, la which it was announced among the casualties that a private soldier had been killed. When official Information of this character is comunicated the regimental number of the victim is pre fixed to his name, and so the news in this case would be sent something like this: "Casualties. Killed. MB7, Pr South." The budding Journalist, know ing nothing of these things and be lieving that news of alarming import ance had arrived, carefully "subbed" it, knocking out Prtrate Bouthi name as unneej;sary, and then went it to the composing-room headed, "Terrible Rritish Catastrophe — SOS" Soldiers Killed." Fortunately fur the reputa of the paper the compositor's sus picions were aroused and the error remedied in time. There is a tradition of Nottingham journalism which .1. Id Barrle, who :i his career on the Nottingham in one of his bly this is the ori gin of the present shape of the tradition, though old pressmen say it has foundation in fact. A sub • legram which i "Zulus have taken Umbrage; KnKlish d to retreat." A capital l* thrt w him off his guard and he b »'<l the map tn vain fot the Uml which had been captured. Pressed tor time, however, ho let it go, and on the contents placard n*-xt morning there duly appeared the remarkable lines, "Latest News of th<^ War — Capture of Umbragre by the Zulus!" ROMANTIC COURTSHIP IN FAR JAPAN. Japan is a long way off, and this charming story of how courtships are carried on among the elite of the so ciety of the land of the rising sun has not been confirmed by travelers, yet it is pretty enough to lie true. In certain districts in houses wherein reside one or more daughters of a mar riageable age an empty flower-pot of an ornamental character is encircled by a ring and suspended from the win dow Or veranda by three light chains. The Juliots of Japan are, of onurs", attractive, ami the Rompos as anxious as those of other lands. But instead of serenades by moonlight and other deli cate ways of making an Impfeaslon it is etiquette ¥>r the Japanese lorer t<> approach the dwelling of his lady I lr.g some choice plant in his % hnnd. which he boldly, but. let us hop.:;, rever ently, ]■!■ ceeda t' plant In the empty vase. This takes place at a time when he is fully assured that both mother and daughter are at home, neither of whom, of course, is at all conscious xh:it the young man is taking such a liberty with the Bower-pot outside their window. This act of placing a pretty plant in the empty flower-pot Is equiva lent to a formal proposal to the young lady who dwells within. The youthful gardener, having set tlad his plant to his mind, retires, and the lady is tree to act aa she pi If he is the right man she takes every care of his gift, waters it and tends it carefully with her own hands, that all the world may see the donor is ac cepted as a suitor. the last days" — "in the time of the end," and therefore we feel sure that the time of Jesus' Becond coming Is very near, "even at the doors." The coming 1 of Christ Is to be an no tual and literal coming in the flesh, as he was caught up into heaven after his resurrection. He will appear in the clouds accompanied by his angels, and the righteous, both the living and dead, will go with him to heaven, while the wicked will perish at the sight of his glory and brightness. The heaven which we look forward to is not sim ply a state or condition, but is a re ality, a blessed abode wherein the elect will live and reign with our Redeemer for 1000 years before their return to earth. It may be on one of the pla nets, or perhaps — and this seems to some of us more likely — on the glorious sun itself, the center of our solar sys tem. Wherever it Is, however, it is a certainty, a place of "many man sion?," where the righteous shall be especially blessed by the personal pres ence of him through whom they are redeemed. For 1000 years the earth will lie des olate and forsaken, and the wicked, who rejected the Saviour while thoy had the opportunity to obtain his grace, will wait in a dreamless sleep their final judgment At the exnira ti"n of this period of the Lord and his people will descend to earth and the doomed shall be summoned to their ac counting, after which they are to be ut terly consumed by fire from heaven, which is also to burn and purify this whole earth, and make it fit for the oc cupancy of the great family of God which is to live in happiness and glory inexpressible forever. We do not believe Jn an everlasting: hell of fire and brimstone, but we do believe in an utter blotting out and de- Btructlon of the wicked. Every chance is given them in this life, and they are If You Cannot Sleep at Night Read This THE necessity of regular sleep for the maintenance of good health h;is long been recognized by ob servant minds. The Impossibility of sleep at Will, however determined one may be, brings on ii state Of painful n< rvinisn ■ ss. Physical and moral sen sibility becomes exaggerated. The sub ject gets restless, impatient and >x dted. He is tormented by an unceas ing need of motion or action, but there is very little energy in him. He is particularly accessible to morbid in fluences and predisposed to adynamic forms of sickness, according to the New York Herald. This summary of the evil effects of insomnia holds good whatever the form It may take — whether deep comes only after a long period of cerebral excite ment, or, on the contrary, is broken after an Insufficient interval of repose, or Bleep is constantly broken, the re sults are exactly the same. But if apyretic Insomnia baa i>ad ef fects on the organism, the absence of sleep is infinitely more painful in the case of patients stricken with fever. H< nee the physician called in must de vote all his energies to find a remedy, v. ich must in each' case be preceded by a study of the original cause of the trouble. It is correct to say that besides the insomnia Cue to abuse of coffee, tea or alcohol, the sleeplessness due to chlor osis, anaemia, arteri-sclerosis or ex treme pain, there is a whole category of essential insomnia, so called be cause its cause is unknown. For all these varieties of sleeplessness, and more particularly for the one last named, the remedies used, with differ ent results, are: Opium, chloral, hy oseyamus, Indian cannabis and a num ber of other hypnotics. Having teed with the aid of these drugs to cure a case of persistent in somnia following upon a carriage ac cident. Dr. Learned had recourse, in sheer despair, to the following rather complicated treatment, which had the desired effects: The principle of this method is to tire out the muscular system by a ser ies of exercises carried out in bed. The patient first of all stiffens himself out on his bed, then raises his head half free agents as far a. \h* acceptance or rejection of God's mercy is concerned. There can bo no repentance or forgive nop.a after death; our record is kept faithfully, and by that we are judged. Our people do not set a precise date for the ending 1 of the world, for the rea son that we believe the Bible to be true and wo are told therein that "the day and the hour knoweth no man." The definite prophecy made by William Miller was based on a miscalculation and a misconstruction of certain scrip tural terms. He expected that the world was to come to an end in 1844. but that was in reality only the end of definite prophetic time — the end of Christ's priestly ministrations In hea ven, and the beginning or the work of investigative judgment. "While we do not attempt to even approximate the "great and terrible day of the L,ord," we are still .sure that It is so near that some of those who were living in 1^43-44 will be living witnesses of the L,ord's coming, and will go with him. with out passing through death, to the New Jerusalem. This brings the time very near, but it is best that we should not know its exact limit. One thing is certain — the general ■war which is to precede the end will not take place un til God's work, the spreading of the gospel in all nations, is done, but events follow each other rapidly, and there are no obstacles in the way of ap pointed things. Whether it be to-day, or to-morrow, or years from now, it is our duty to be prepared and to help to prepare others, and to do what good we can to the poor and suffering. Hav ing done our duty the swiftly approach ing end of worldly things will have for us no terrors, but will be full of ineffa ble joy and gladness. Statement of Elder Milton C. Wil cox of the Oakland Seventh Day Ad ventist Church. Editor "Signs of the Times. " an inch, breathing slowly and deeply, ab.»ut eight times a minute, and counts his breaths. At about the twentieth inspiration the li. ooing fatigued, is allowed to fall inch, and the patient, still re maining stiff, raises his right leg and lets it fall when tired, alternating with the left leg. When the muscles are not employed for these exercises, they must be tensed in stiffening out the body. The patient also must raise his body, supporting himself on the back of his head and his heels. Then turning on the right side, the sufferer begins the whole series above mentioned and does the same on his left side. It will thus be seen that eight suc cessive positions are taken, involving constant muscular exertion. The author adds: "If sleep does not come after the first cycle of movements, then they must be repated till it does." Mr. Learned must be congratulated on having codified and scientifically regulated the time and movements of what we may call "the art of turning in bed." But I must admit that I have no great confidence in the soporific value of his process. The retort may be that it succeeded in his case. At any rate, it is harm less, and that is in itself a reason for trying it. STILL UNKNOWN. F. Litchfield, a well-known art-deal er, exhibited some panels of old tapes try at the Manchester Jubilee Exhibi tim. says Household Words. Wanting one of the panels returned for some reason he telegraphed: "Please send panel by ten— Venus and Adon is— I.itchfkld." The departmental head o* the exhi bition was away, and his ' clerk re tnmed the message to the postofflce as "Not understandable." The postof fke people, struck with a bright idea, then transmitted the telegram to th» city of L,..chfield, and received the fol lowing reply: "No such firm as Venus & Adonis known here. Try Manchester."