SANTA CATAUNA ISLAND

I have not eaten any meat for about four or five years. I have better health now than I have ever had in my life. Before I quit eating meat I spent over one hundred dol- lars for medicine in four or five years. Since, I hare not spent one dollar. Before I used to drink and smoke t I do neither now. Very seldom use co&ee or tea, but use lemonade, instead with my meals.

I eat oatmeal for breakfast with milk. I eat Boston brown and Graham bread, beans and other vegetables for the other two meals.

Two years ago I walked from Los An- geles to Santa Barbara, one hundred aud twenty miles : went through to see the coun- try. One day I only bad one meal besides eating apples. I have been camping on the Island here all winter in a tent. I have been to every place on the Island. I walk about two hundred miles a month for ex- ercise. The sth of February I walked to the other end of the Island and back in fifteen hours and a half which is called by trail fifty miles over tlie moanlains. The high- est point is two thousand feet. I just had a lunch of brown bread and water. I haven't hunted or fished any for ten or twelve years. Never take life if I can help it.— -J. H. Freeman, Santa Cattilina Island, Avaton, Ca1., March 33nd, 1897.

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PHILADELPHIA,

MAY, 1897.

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REV. HENRY S. CLDBB, Editor.

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Dr. M. L. Holbrook lectured before the N. Y. V. S. March 23rd on ■' A Balanced Diet."

James Levy, BiTtningham, Ala., writes: "I have been a Vegetarian five yeurs aiid enjoy good health '

We congratulate Mr. & Mrs. Albert H. Snyder of Chici^o, on the advent of a son, March lotb, 1897.

We leam that the luannfacture of Cocoanut butter is to be lemoved from Chicago to Phil- adelphia and expect to be in operation in May.

I feel raucli interest in F., H. & G. and hope for the steady growth of its ideas. — Mrs. R. M. Webster, 139 De Lacy St., Passadena, Cal. — Such expressions coming from friends remote and near encourage us to believe the work in which we are engaged is being appreciated and will eventually be established on a self-supporting basis.

Our farmers are asking for a premium on exported wheat to enable them to compete in the foreign wheat market. We would rather give a premium on home made sugar so as to turn the attention of fanners from wheat culture (which is over done,) to beet culture which is almost neglected, and which does not impoverish the soil as does the wheat crop.

Tlie monthly meetings of the Phila. V. S'y are of increasing interest and attendance. Prof. James S. Doolittle delivered an excel- lent lecture on April 19th with cranial delineations. He showed the benefirial effects of a well developed alimentativeness. An interesting discussion followed. Mr. T. James of Chicago, and Miss Tabor of Battle

Creek, Sarah Hall, and Drs. Hanna ft Har- vey J. Lovell took part. The next meeting will be held May 17th.

The C. A. ft P. Society in addition to the action taken as reported in the Public Ledger, requested Josiah L. Leeds the historian to draw up a memorial to be signed by lead- ing citizens in regard to prize fighting and said memorial is published in our preseut issue omitting forty names of Bishops, Cler- gy, Editors, etc. We regard the brutality of prize fighting, modem foot ball, vivisection and general delight in public executions, in killing for sport, for the fiin of seeing creatures wreathing in the agony of death, and in preparing for war, as the natural re- sult of feeding on the flesh and blood of other creatures. All such blood shedding would soon become as abhorrent in America as it is in India were flesh-eating discontinued.