THE MONEY ARGUMENT

The following table is compiled from two of the best authorities upon economic chem- istry, being mainly taken from "Farmer's Bulletin, No. 23" published by the U. S. Dep. of Agriculture. This pamphlet ts by Prof. W. O. Atwater of Wesleyan University and may be obtained free by anyone, on applica- tion as above. Certain additions marked C. have been based on the analyses of the emi- nent English chemist, A. H. Church, whose valuable volume "Food" is on sale at the office of this periodical.

Neither of the investigators from whom we have drawn our figures are vegetarians, hence their determinations cannot be considered to be warped in our favor.

Samples of the <rAfii^.c/gradeiiof the various articles have been uniformly selected because, eoutrary to what might be expected. Prof. Atnater's tables clearly show that these give the most true food for the money. The arti- cles are arranged according to amount of nutriment beginning with the highest. Col-

umn3 will enable anyone to adjust the table to a different tariff from Prof. Atwater's, or arrange these foods irrespective of cost.

It will be observed that percentage of ali- ment changes the order of the table. Vege- table foods, as a class, still hold the lead. But fat pork now comes second and potatoes, apples and cabbage drop to hnmble places with milk, oysters and cabbage. Fat pork is a cheap food as to fuel nutriment, but contains little flesh-forming material and ia peculiarly apt to cause diseases of the liver and stomach and is, perhaps, the most objectionable flesh aliment.

Grains, fraits and nuts are the most natural and healthful of foods, usually combining (tdvantageous bulk with a sufficient amount of all kinds of nutrients, — fuel, fle.sh andbone forming elements.

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Cora meal

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Apple. (C)

Port, fat, lall

Cabbage (C.)

Beef. Deck

Muttot., \ft

Beer.alrloin

CodSih, dried

Fowl, (C.)

I shall work now as in the past and send subscribers as fast as I get them. — Mrs. Dr. La Pierre, Mattawan, Mich. — It will take all our old friends and many new ones to work to make F., H. ft G- self-supportin°r-

Lord's Farm where I am boarding has adopted the use of cocoanut butter through my suggestion.— J no. C. Roe, Woodcliff, N. J. — Mr. Roe at his own expense, printed Lady Paget's article on Vegetarianism and circulated it among his friends.

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MEMORIAL TO THE CITIZENS OF U. S.

IT is related of the Greek philosopher, Demonax, of the isle of Cyprus, who at t)ie beginning of the second centuiy resided at Athens, respected for his simple life, and full of kindness to all, that when a show of gladiators was about to be exhibited, he presented himself before the assembled people and told them that they should pass no such decree until they had first removed away the aitar of pity. Only in the preceding genera- tion, the Apostle Paul, standing in the midst of Mars' Hill, had declared nnto those Athe- nians who was the "Unknown God" that they ignorautly worshipped, rebuked them for their idolatry and snperstition, and rea- soned with them of righteousness, temperance and judgment to come.

To-day, eighteen centuries further along in the world's course, the demoniacs of the prize ring are let loose upon society, a multitude of people bow down in all their idolatry of animalism, and the Lord Christ, who is the "Altar of Pity", Head over all things, is certainty far removed from their hearts. Vet may we devoutly thank God that it was by no decree of the Nation that within the borders of the smallest populated of its States, there was given opportunity to inglorionsly prepare and to enact the recent brutish spectacle of the prize ring. One after another bad the States (with a single exception perhaps of the one unnamed) by legislative enactment brought pugilism under the ban, while Con> gress itself had fortiidden prize-Sghting in all the national domain.

The good name of the nation has been out- raged, not so mnch by the disgraceful event of H specially brutal encounter between two human beings, as by the very reprehensible course of a large number of daily papers in exploiting from first to last the prize-fighters and the fight. "We can recall no one thing in the history of thecouutry" says a promi- nent, influential daily, "that has done so much to demoralize the press and the pub- lic as the continuous babbling between prize-fighters and their associates that has

found publicity in the newspapers during the last five years." "There is every reason to expect", continues the same editor, "a whole- some reaction of public sentiment, not only against the reckless and babbling bruisers of the ring, but against the public journals which have done so much to teach brutality and lawlessness as attributes of modeni manhood."

Unfortunately, some millions' of onr people, especially those young in years, who will have been so seriously damaged, morally, through the papers which gave them the babbling of the prize-fighters and their sym- pathetic associates, will know little of the wholesome reaction of public sentiment that is expected to set in. They seek only the classof papers which may be depended on to cater to their unhealthily warped or depraved instincts. Before the Congress that ended with the late presidential administration adjourned, there was an opportunity present* ed to uphold the nation's good name, by the prompt passage of the bill entitled "A bill to prohibit the transmission by mail or inter- state commerce of any picture or description of any prize-fight or its accessories." The Commerce Committee of the house of Repre- sentatives (Aldrich, chairman), in its favorable Report of the bill, properly said that it "sim- ply protects the more advanced States which have forbidden pugilism as brutal and brutal- izing, against having prize-fights brought into their borders in pictures and descriptions which are only a little less harmful than the degrading sport which they describe." May the simple enactment of this (re- introduced) bill, mark as well the healthy reaction, as an honest purpose to protect the honor of the conntry at a point where it has been so grievously assailed to its hurt I

Please 1 All citizens of the United States who are interested in the welfare of the nation write yourSenators and Congressmen urging the passage of this bill at this present session of Congress ! Signed:

STEPHRN J. FIELD, Juttice of the Supreme Court U. S. WuhiDglon.D. C.

And forty other prominent citizens.

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A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST'S VIEW. There are, no doubt, many who helieve a vegetartan diet to be the best, yet they do not adhere strictly to it. So it is with many S, D. A's. they kuow certain articles of diet should be discarded; but they have not stepped out into the tight yet.

We, as a people, reject not only flesh meats as a. diet, but also the products of the ani- mals viz : Cheese, batter and eggs, and many tilings in the vegetable kingdom which we know hygiene teaches is hartfnlto the tinman system and that it would not be in accordance with the word of God to use them as a diet.

We can also go into the mineral kingdom and there find something of common use, salt and soda which should be used quite sparingly as they are only irritants.

Most all will readily see that all fermented and alcoholic liquors and narcotics, including tobacco, should not be used. The more common things like tea, cofiiEe, peppers and spices, and even the othef animal product, milk, should soon fall into disuse; for so many of the cattle now are found to have sym- tonis of the dreaded disease — ^tuberculosis.

We profess to be Adventists, those who are looking for the Lord to come and receive ns nnto himself preparatory to setting up his kingdom, and if we would be perfect and obey him, so that we shall be ready to meet Him, wc must put aside tMrything that would defile or destroy our physical being in the least. God says to his people : "j'e are the temple of the living God," and beseeches them ; "Present yonr bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable nnto God." So we must follow ont the injunction given us : "Whether there- fore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do alltothe glory of God."

And should not we return to the original bill of fare which the Creator gave ns in the beginning i which we find recorded in Gen- esis 1 : 29 ? And only because of the hardness ofthe hearts of the people, and his mercy toward them, did he permit them to have other things for food ; just as be permitted them to be divorced from their companions in

marriage. (Matt. 19 ; 8, last clause.) — S. H. Camahan, College Place, Wash.

WITHSTANDING HEAT & COLD. I have followed the Vegetarian system mostly and with great advantage. Economy is the least of its benefits although this is important. Though more than 60 years old. I have been able to withstand the beat of summer and the cold of winter, the grip aud other evils. Occasionally in coldest days I have imagined that a little bacon would be a desirable addition to my diet bat one day's experiment would suffice and I would have no further hankering for the flesh pots. — P. J. Reed, Kansas City, Mo.