The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1898, Page 18

18 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1898. END OF THE WORLD IS NEAR, SAY THE SEVENTH DAY 0000000000000 000 Although going regulariy about their business, the Seventh Day Adventists live in momentary expectation of the end of the world. “T expect to see it in the flesh,” said a prominent mem- ber of the Oakland church a few days ago, and he but voiced the sentiments of the whole congre- gation. The awful day may come to-morrow; it may not come for vears, but Adventists feel that it is their duty to be pre- pared. Following is a state- ment on this subject by Elder Wilcox of Oakland. PPOPVOPOOOPPOGOPCPPOOSOS @ 000000000006 060000 ®PPPIOODOOOODPOG®OOPO HE end of the world is assuredly close at hand. There can be no question about this, for a chain of Dbiblical prophecies leads ai- rectly to this conclus There are thirteen different lines of prophecies al- fulfilled, in process of ful- fillment, which present at least a score of special features, the existence of which no honest person can deny. 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 religious deceptions; the great decline of faith in things spiritual, and tha great increase of scoffers; the wide- spread expectation of, and prepara- tions for, war between the powerful nations of the earth. A1l these are in- disputable facts, and were plainly fore- told in the books of James, Ifalah, Habakku%, Daniel, Revelation and others. We are told that these things and many more, which are occurring all around us now, were to occur ready or “in the last days’—“in the time of the end,” and therefore we feel sure that the time of Jesus’ second coming is very near, “even at the doors.” The coming of Christ is to be an ac- tual and literal coming in the flesh, as resurrection. clouds accompanied by his angels, and the righteous, both the living and his glory and brightness. which we look forward to is not sim- ply a state or condition, but is a re- for 1000 years before their return earth. nets, It may be on one of the pla- or perhaps—and this seems sun itself, the center of our solar sys- tem. Wherever it is, however, a certainty, a place of “many sions,” where the righteous shall especlally blessed by the personal pres- ence of man- redeemed. olate and forsaken, and the who rejected the Saviour while they had the opportunity to obtain his grace, will wait in a dreamless sleep their final judgment. At the expira- tion 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 te 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 in an everlasting hell of fire and brimstone, but we do believe in an utter blotting out and de- is given them in this life, and they are to investigative judgment. some of us more likely—on the glorfous not attempt to even approximate ENTISTS free agents as far ac the acceptance or rejection of God’s mercy is concerned. There can be no repentance or forgive- ness after death; our record is kept faithfully, and by that we are judged. Our people do not set a precise date he was caught up into heaven after his for the ending of the world, for the rea- He will appear in the Son that we believe the Bible to be true and we are told therein that “the day and the hour knoweth no man.” dead, will go with him to heaven, while The definite prophecy made by William the wicked will perish at the sight of Miller was based on a miscalculation The heaven and a misconstruction of certain scrip- tural terms. He expected that the world was to come to an end in 1344, ality, & blessed abode wherein the elect but thit was in reality only the end will live and relgn with our Redeemer of definite prophetic time—the end of to Christ's priestly ministrations in hea- ven, and the beginning of the work of While we do the “great and terrible day of the Lord,” it i1s we are still sure that it is so near that some of those who were living in 1843-44 be will be living witnesses of the Lord's coming, and will go with him, with- him through whom they are out passing through death, to the New Jerusalem. This brings the time very For 1000 years the earth will lle des- near, but it i{s best that we should not wicked, krow 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- struction of the wicked. Every chance ventist Church. Editor “Signs of the Times.” e Great and oo ings Women Are Daing. ISS MARY CHANNING :\ASTERI 1 appointed a member of the hia Board of Public Edu- cation. She was especially indorsed by the Civic Club, of which she {s an ac- tive and highly valued member. A yor New York new per woman has been trying as an example and help | to poor working girls to live on 82 a week. reeded only in going hungry, | ares that living on such a | impossible, which fis | n encouraging thought for the | s of girls who are able to earn no more. Miss Lennie Abskire 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 pupll at the primary school nearest her home and studied diligently for three terms, eleven months in all, and then retired to private lifg 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 lovellest vose gardens in America. She cuts over 2000 roses every day and gives them away to hospitals, schools, “shut ins” and her | friends. i The Teachers' Annuity Atd and Pen- sion Fund Association of Philadelphia had nearly $40,000 " Chestnut-street National Trust Company, which its doors. The Woman's Club of Chicago during 1897 received $4231 §7 from the girls and | boys cf the’ public schools of that city, for the purpose of supplying warm clothing to poor schoo] children. Minnesota has opened a State School of Agriculture for women, with accom- | modations for sixty pupils Dr. Freda Lippert is physician for the new Girls' High School in She occupies the chair of ph also attends to the physical well-being of | the younsg worien under her care. | A St. Louis girl, who committed the | Bank and recently closed indiscretion of marrying at the age of | & 16, wants to continue her studies in the | public schools, but has been denied the | | privilege by the school board. There is a decided cifference of opinion smunzl the cltizens as to the board’s position in i the matter. The Maine branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union has sent a formal protest to the Governor against | the reappoiniment of Judge Enoch | JFceter of the Supreme bench, alieging that he !s moraliy unfit to occupy that position, The Judge is one of the most eminent jurists In New England, and in- | There is still living in quiet retirement | tion at Manchester, and desiring the bellige S. Mas hearts in Gillespie, T without any e wedding, but Miss Massey remained true to his memory. Last week Lee reap- | peared and called upon her, and as soon as a license could be obtained the two were married and started off on their long-delayed wedding journey. Mrs. Allle M. Da ph geon of the Lake County (Indiana) Ho: tends making a bitter fight against his | cian and sur- | 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 satisfactor: thel Evans Smith, a little S-year-old daughter of the Quaker City, shows a re- markable talent for free. nd drawi in which she has received no inst whatever. In a recent drawing contest she submitted a design so beautiful in conception and execution that, although the contest was only intended for boy: the judges gave her a special prize placed her work on public exhibition. Lady Henry Somersct has given the { town of Reigate, England, sufficient land for the erection of ten almshouses. One of the conditions of the gift is that no less than three women shall always be members of the almshouse board of gov- ernors Elsa Eschelssohn, recently appointed to the professorshlp of civil law at | the University of Upsala, is the second woman professor of univers weden. The late Sonya Ko ty rank in aleveky was | nppointed professor of mathematies in the University of Stockholm in 1584 A recent official report shows that there are in Germany three women employed as chimney-sweeps, thirty-five as cn as gunsmiths, 147 as coppersmiths, 79 as farriers and naflers, 309 as masons, eight as Stonecutters und 2000 in marble, slate and stone quarries. Miss Leonora Jackson, the Chicago girl who won the Mendelssohn annuity prize i at the Berlin High School for music, is deemed b Maestro Joachin the most marvelous violinist he ever has taught. Miss McLean of Glasgow has given a fund for mission work among the dwarfs of the Cameroons district, West Africa, and the work of evangelization is fairly begun. 4 i | in a pretty villa near Aberdeen a daugh- he Ettrick Shepherd over three s llection of he only an Infant shepherd” of 4 years 1835, r so when died, in Lady ter of ne Brudenel he Marquis of Alle r own y of Tr ter's cer- The board refuses to examine her because she % Mrs. Humphry Ward recelved $40,000 for “Robert Elsmere,” $80,000 for “Dav nd ¥ e | - » Tressady” $15,000 for “F » Costrell.’ | A pension has been granted to the widow of Knud Knudsen, a soldier in the late war, the back pay of which aggre- | gates over $4000. The man was a native of Norway and his wife has always re- sided the — e CURIOUS TELEGRAPHIC MISUNDERSTANDING | As long as private telegrams can only be transmitted from one person to another at the rate of halfpenny per word, so long will senders scheme for the saving of words, and at the same time risk misunderstandings, some serious, some laughabla. A couple of friends were staying re- cently at Ballater, in Scotland, and | were to be joined on a particular Sun- day afternoon, for the afternoon oniy, by two others from Aberdeen. In the | the afternoon, however, the rain poured down piteously at Ballater and | a wire was sent to Aberdeen informing | the pleasure-seckers of the state of af- | fairs and asking if they intended to | come. The reply sent was: “Certainly not. Raining cats and dogs here.” | Unfortunately this was read, “Cer- tainly. Not ralning cats and dogs here,” and the result was that two miserable beings, drenched to the skin, sauntered wearily about Ballater sta- tion for hours and hours till there were no more trains that night, 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 one time the name of another Scottish town was substituted for Aberdeen in this brief address, and the telegraphic authorities at the receiving end were puzzied. 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 exhibl- | | | | | stood by the return of one of them he wired, “Please send panel, ten by eight, V. nus and Adonis—Litchfield.” Tk message v as not in the least under- rciplents and w quently returned to the postoffice with s cons a note to that effect. They at once me to the conclusion that the last portion of the wire was an 3 nd sent it on to the of Litch | receiving an early, ly as “No such firm as and Adc known at Litchfield. Try Manche: ter!” It is well known that press grams ent to newsg gre and about 100 words appearing on each sheet. graph operators, knowing the sub-edi abbre te freely, s contractions as “biz" (business, “rhg"” (right hon. gentleman), and others of a like kind being regularly used, while new ones are invented as necessit arises. On one occasior. the late John Bright was making a speech on an ed- ucational topie, 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 pupll was on one occasion intro- duced into the sub-editorial depart- ment of a provincial newspaper and wasoceasionaliy intrusted with the fill- ing in of the “of'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 dispatch from the commanding officer of a British expedition, which was being carried out at that time, in which it was announced among the casualties that a private soldier had been killed. When official information of this character is comunicated the regimental numberof the victim is pri fixed to his name, and so the news in this case would be sent something like this: “Casuaities. ~Killed, 3087, Private 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 South’s name as unnecssary, and then sent it to the composing-room headed, “Terrible | | “Latest Ne i i | | | | I British Killed.” tion Catastrophe — 3087 Soldiers Fortunately for the reputa- of the paper the compositor's sus- ot Cannot Slee HE necessity of regular sleep for the maintenance of good health d [ has long been recogni: by ob- servant minds. The impossibility of picions were aroused and the e remedied in time. There is a tr: on of Nottingham | journalism which J. M. I e, who began his career on the Nottingham relates in one of his| Po; bly this the ori- gin of the present shape of | the tradition, though old pressmen say it has foundation in fact. A sub- editor elved telegram which read, “Zulus have Umbrage; English forces I to retreat.” A capi threw him off his guard and he se ed the map in vain for the Umbrage which had been captured. Pressed for time, however, he let it go, and on the contents placard next morning there duly appeared the remarkable lines, s of the War—Capture of Umbrage by the Zulus!” BT AR 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 be 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 Juliets of Japan are, of course, attractive, and the Romeos as anxious as those of other lands. But instead of serenades by moonlight and other deli- | cate ways of making an impression it is etiquette For the Japanese lover to approach the dwelling of his lady bear- ing some choice plant in his Jhand, which he boldly, but, let us hope, rever- ently, proceeds to 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 that the young man is taking such a liberty with the flower-pot outside their window. This act of placing a pretty | plant in the empty flower-pot isequiva- | ent to a formal proposal to the young | lady who dwells within. The youthful gardener, having set- tled his plant to his mind, retires, and the lady is free to act as she pleases. 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. sleep at w however determined one may nervousn: sibility become: Physical and moral sen- exaggerated. The sub- ject gets res impatient and ex- cited. He is tormented by an unceas- ing need of motion or action, but there is very little energy in him. He i 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 sleep comes only after a long period of cerebral excite- ment, or, on the contrary, is broken after an insufficient interval of repose, or sleep is constantly broken, the re- sults are exactly the same. But if apyretic insomnia has bad ef- fects on the organism, the absence of sleep is infinitely more painful in the case of patients stricken with fever. Hence the physician called in must de- vote all his energies to find a remedy, which 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 e 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- oscyamus, Indian cannabis and a num- ber of other hypnotics. | Having fe"ed 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 brings on a state of painful | | his br al Night Read This: an inch, breathing slowly and deeply, about eight times a minute, and counts aths. At about the twentieth inspiration the head, becoming fatigued, is allowed to fall back, and -the patient, 1 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 bodv. 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: It sleep does not come after the first cycle of movements, then they must be repated till f{t | 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- tion, says Household Words. Wanting one of the panels returned for some reason he telegraphed: “Please send panel eight by ten—Venus and Adon- is—Litchfield.” & The departmental head o¥ the exhi- bition was away, and his ' clerk re- turned the message to the postoffice as “Not understandable.” The postof- fice people, struck with a bright idea, then transmitted the telegram to the city of Liichficid, and received the fol- lowing reply: “No such firm as Venus & Adonis | on his bed, then raises his head half | known here. Try Manchester,”