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address Other speakers aUo did well and there was an exhibition of Vegetarian foods and inventions which attracted much attention.

Walter Savage Landor says it is a hard thing to take away what we cannot give, and life is a pleasant thing, at least to birds.

Siam, under the present king, is making progress in education. The American system of education will supersede dog- matic theology in making real progress.

Clara Barton is reported by a newspaper correspondent to have found sick and wounded men being fed on hard tack and bacon, when she immediately changed their diet to gruel, saving many lives thereby.

The Journal of M. B. S'y sums up Budd- hism as establishing the Brotherhood of Man, the raising of woman to equality with man, and inciting to compassion toward all living creatures, stopping the destruction of animals for food.

Madame Veigele, whose experience we give on page 149, is now engaged in prac- tically promoting the Vegetarian cause by running a Vegetarian Supply Store at 87 Praed Street, Paddington London.W., Eng- land, and in lecturing, giving cooking dem- onstrations, etc.

The reports that reach us of the Anni- versary Meeting of the Vegetarian Federal Union in London on September 12 and fol- lowing days are encouraging. President Hills broke all former records of his eloquence and zeal and made a masterly 152

An artillery officer states that during the summer of 1864, General Grant telegraphed to the War Department : "I will not move my array without onions." The next day, three train loads of onions were moved to the front. He regarded onions as an ante- dote for dysentery and other camp diseases.

Bayaid Taylor reported that Siam prac- tices Buddhism more simply and purely than any other nation. That there, Budd- hists were more likely to convert Christians to Buddhism than were the missionaries to convert Buddhists to Christianity. Flesh- eating missionaries have no influence in Siam.

Dr. A. H. Reeder in the Chimgo Weekly Inter-Ocean shows that feeding oxen and hogs on com to produce beef and pork is an immense waste of good food, as it takes from three to five pounds of com toproduce one pound of beef or pork, which contains two-thirds less nourishment than one pound of cereal.

The ladies of the Presbyterian Church, Plainwell, Mich,, gave a supper on Sept. 19, 1898, providing canned beef. The result was, one-tenth of the population of the village was made sick, fifty-five persons were poisoned, twenty ill and four expected to die. Vet people will continue to eat the vile stuff, even at church festivals. Bnt if they would trace the nicely -label led cans of beef to their source in the blood-stained slaughter-houses of the city, where the ver>' air is laden with the stench of blood and fifth in various stages of decomposition, and would listen to the shrieks and sobs and moans of the dying, the sight of the November,

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qoivering limbs and piteous eyes of helpless struggling; creatures, sure their "Christian hearts" would yield and they would cease to feed on such abominations.

The Vegetarische Warle recommends Italy for Vegetarians on account ot climate, abundance of Ihiit, low rents, etc. Our Italy is Florida, California, New Mexico or Washington. The Sandwich Islands are our islands equal to any in the Medit- erranean for climate and productiveness, to say nothing of Cuba and Porto Rica. We need not go to Europe to spend the summer or winter.

We desire an expression from Vegeta- rians, especially those residing in New York and New England, as to their wil- lingness to cooperate in making the Peace Camping Grounds at Mystic a rendezvous of Vegetarians during the hot season and holding meetings there for the practical demonstration of Vegetarian principles and practices. Let us hear frxim you, friends ! Shall we have a convention there next Summer? Let us have some volunteer offers of aid in this project. It is a most delightful place for such a purpose and is liberally offer^ by the U, P. Union. With co-operation, we will undertake it. We must have that.

DR. HAIG ON DIET. Alexander Haig, M. A. and M. D. Oxen., F. R. C. P., Physician to the Met- ropolitan Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Women and Children, an accredited authority, has issued, through the Church- ils, London, a work entitled Diet and Food in Relation to Power of Endurance in which he attributes much of the sickness of mod- em life to the large amount of uric acid and advises a diet free from that poison. In his ample bill of fare, flesh-meat is on this

principle, entirely excluded. He prescribes milk and its products, the pulses, bread- stuffs, cereal foods and glutens, nuts and nut foods, vegetables and fruits, fresh and dried. As this is a thoroughly scientific work, not gotten up in the interest of Veg- etarianism, it must command the attention of the medical profession.

THE LANCET ON FLESH-EATING. So unsensational an organ as the London Lancet is giving no slight satisfaction, of late, to the Vegetarians. It argues that nervous diseases and weaknesses increase as people come to live on the food of warm- blooded animals — a point to which, it thinks, attention has not been adequately directed — the fact being that meat is highly stimulating, and supplies proportionally more exciting than actually nourishing pab- ulum to the nervous system. Furthermore, according to this authority, the meat eater lives at high pressure, and is, or ought to be, a peculiarly active organism, like a pred- atory animal, always on the alert, walking rapidly, and consuming large quantities of ■oxygen ; on the contrary, however, it is found that, in practice, the meat eater does not live up to the level of his food, and, as aconsequence, he cannot or does not take in enough oxygen to meet the exigencies ol his mode of life. — Vineland Paper.

The Lancet is usually far away ahead of the medical professional practice. Years ago it exposed the beef tea &llacy and warned the profession against it. Now it boldly exposes the flesh-eating delusion in regard to all warm-blooded animals. 6y- and-by it will expose the danger of eating shell-fisb and such-like filthy habits.

Every friend of the cause is invited to sub- scribe to the quarterly. Our Postscript : sets, for I copy, 25 cts. for 10 ; f>i for 100 ayear.

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THE WHOLE WHEAT CRAZK. In part of our issue on the article on ' ' New Nutritives," page 158, the Evening Post is quoted as speaking of the "craze for wheat flour." It should have been "whole-wheat flour" and was so printed in the ^f«/i«^ Post. We are glad to know that the "whole-wheat craze" is passiug, as we always believed it was a temporary senti- ineut that would abate when understood. It was a misnODia, and conveyed awrong im- pression. The supposition that the outer cuticle of wheat is injurious to anyone, with all deference to those who believe it is, we regard as an error. There is nothing bad in a kernel of wheat either inside or outside, and when it is properly reduced to flour, bran and all, as is done by the Veg- etarian Society Mill, it is more valuable as food than when any portion of it has been abstracted. "Whole-wheat Graham" is the true flour. True in name and true in science and experience.

CAPACITY OF THE VEGETARIAN SOCIETY MILL. The mills which we advertise have a capacity proportioned to the amount of power applied. The handmills with one person power will grind about three quarts of wheat an hour without great exertion and when a half-horse power motor is ap- plied to it, it will easily double this output, even grinding bran and all according to directions. The power mill, (cut No. 4 in circular) with tight and loose pulley. 190 revolutions, and one horse-power motor will grind two bushels of wheat per hour, and the large mill. No. 5 in circular, will grind three and a half bushels of wheat an hour with a two-horse power motor. Wheat is harder to grind than nuts, which i;ui bt ground nuicli more rapidi}' and with imich less power. Hand power is ample for keeping an ordinary family supplied

with Graham flour and nut butter, but to make a business of supplying several fam- ilies or a whole neighborhood, it is best to have a motor and driving pulley.

For general manufacturing purposes, the larger mills and one or two-horse power motors are best.

CENSUS AND COLONIZATION. The educational advantages of Vegeta- rian colonization cannot be over-estimated. We want at least one whole school district where the School Board and consequently the teachers are a nti- carnivorous. This can be accomplished by colonizing in some of our newly -settling territories. We are endeavoring to obtain a census of \'egeta- rians so as to enable practical reformers to co-operate and accomplish greater results than can possibly be accomplished by isolation and ignorance of each other's existence. Blanks will be furnished all who will co-operate in completing a census of Vegetarians. Each State, Territory' , and if possible, each City and Village where there are Vegetarians, must be known and recorded. There is a distinction between colonizing and forming social communi- ties. Men are not necessarily socialists who form a colony for the establishment of a good neighl>orhood and pleasant co-oper- ative arrangements so as to cheapen the necessities and comforts of life, and to unite on such co-operation principles is right as far as it goes, but the objecl of a Vegetarian colony is not simply to live and secure tlie advantages of co-operation for the colonists, but to so live as to exemplify the advant- ages, physical, moral and spiritual of a Vegetarian life uncontaniinated with the influence of slaughter, bloodshed and the destniotion of animal and bird life. The nspimlions of Mr J, 0. Clark, as shown by his advertisement and its results, (see page 148) is not a selfish one. He wants to live where his children will not witness slaugh- ter nor be innnred to its cruelties. He has a right to seek such a location, net merely for the heiii-fit of his children, but for the efffct ;in(I influence that chil

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