Christian herald and signs of our times . eturning the$1,000 already subscribed, she started on hertravels, declaringthat she was go-ing on Gods mis-sion and he wouldcarry her then she hasvisited the Hawai-ian Islands, NewZealand, Australia,Tasmania, Japan,China, S i a m,Straits settlements(Singapore and Ma-lay P e n i n s ula),Burmah, Hindo-MRS. M. o. leavitt. staii, Ceylon, Mau-ritius, Madagascar, Natal, Orange Free State,Cape Colony, England, Ireland, Scotland,Wales, Congo Free State, Old Calabar, SierraLeone, Madeira, Spain, France, Holland, Nor-way, Sweden, Finland, Denmark,
Christian herald and signs of our times . eturning the$1,000 already subscribed, she started on hertravels, declaringthat she was go-ing on Gods mis-sion and he wouldcarry her then she hasvisited the Hawai-ian Islands, NewZealand, Australia,Tasmania, Japan,China, S i a m,Straits settlements(Singapore and Ma-lay P e n i n s ula),Burmah, Hindo-MRS. M. o. leavitt. staii, Ceylon, Mau-ritius, Madagascar, Natal, Orange Free State,Cape Colony, England, Ireland, Scotland,Wales, Congo Free State, Old Calabar, SierraLeone, Madeira, Spain, France, Holland, Nor-way, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany,Italy, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. Shehas organized eighty-six Womens Branchesof the C. T. U., twenty-four Mens Temper-ance Societies, mostly in Japan, India andMadagascar, and twenty-three branches of theWhite Cross. She has held over 1600 meet-ings, travelled almost 100,000 miles and em-ployed 229 interpreters, speaking in the aggre-gate forty-seven different tongues. That herfaith was well founded is demonstrated by the. fact that her entire expenses have been paidwith money voluntarily given her at the differ-ent places visited. Mrs. Leavitt, whose por-trait is given in this page, intends to shortlypublish a book, describing her experiencesabroad and the general scope and progress ofChristian Temperance work all over the world. * * * . . A verdict of acquittal has been renderedin the jury trial of that distinguished orator,social autocrat and statesman, Chauncey and his associate directors in the NewYork, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad,who were sometime ago indicted for responsi-bility fof the deaths of several persons in anaccident on the road. After a collision, thecars caught fire from the stoves. It wasclaimed that the use of stoves was jury found that the accused had been in-dicted for committing a crime vicariously andthat such a charge could not hold in law. Inobedience to explicit instruction from the judge,they gave a verdict fo
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