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THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1897. Washington Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Arennc Telephone (nil*. Business Office ~2SS ! Editorial Rooms... AB6 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Daily only, one month I ." 0 Daily only, three months 2.00 Dully only, one year 8.00 Dally, Including Sunday, one year 10.60 Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Dally, per week, by carrier 15 r t Sunday, single copy 5 cts Dally and Sunday, i>er week, by carrier 20 cts WEEKLY. JVr year 61.00 Kednred Kate* to Club*. Subscribe with any of our num ,- ous agents or send subscriptions to THE INDIANAPOLIS uhIRNAL, Indianapolis, Inti. Persons sending the Journal through thp mails In the United States should put on an eight-page paper a ONK-OEnT postage stamp; on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-cENT postage stamp. Foreign postage is usuafiy double these rate*. All oommunioations Intended for publication tn this papur must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. If it Is desired that rejected n anusertpts be returned, postage must in all cases te 1/lclOsed for that purpose. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can I>> found at the following places: NEW YORK —Windsor Hotel and Astor House. CTIIfAGO-—Palmer House and P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street. CINCINNATI—. 7. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C‘. T. Deerlng, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. RT, LOUIS —Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C.—lilggs House. Ebbitt House. .Willard's Hotel and the Washington New* Exchange. Fourteenth street, between Penn, avenue and F street. There are so many varieties of Democrats In New York city just now that the great variety of Democratic principles is not sufficient to give each faction one by Itself. The Dingley tariff law is entitled “An act to provide revenue for the government and to encourage the industries of the United States,” and it is living up vo its name. If Luetgert had known that his trial would have been so protracted and painful he might have pleaded guilty if he could have been assured of a sentence of imprisonment for life There has never been a more conspicuous and disgusting exhibition of judicial unfitness and professional triviality in the United States than the Luetgert trial, and that is saying a great deal. The Illinois bankers’ convention passed resolutions looking to the opening of larger markets for corn, which means that they are going to deal with economic problems as a means of expanding their business. When tho Kansas City Star states that the re-election of the Democratic regime in this city was “a splendid reform victory,” it did so to reprove the Democratic regime tn that city for opposing parks. The records of the Weather Bureau show that since its establishment frost has never occurred at New Orleans earlier than Oct. 31. That is therefore probably the earliest date at which cessation of the yellow fever at that point can be expected. If another get-rich-quick concern should etart up in tho city to-morrow it would have patrons who would be sure to be victims. It seems that thousands of people will not learn, m any other school than that of experience, and it Is a long time before some gain practical knowledge sufficient to keep them from being victims. In addition to having served the longest term as judge of the Supreme Court. Justice Field will have the distinction of drawing the largest life pension ever paid by the United States government. Under the law for the retirement of federal judges he will continue to receive the full salary of a Judge of the Supreme Court, SIO,OOO a year, for life.

The charges which Colonel Scharf, the Chinese inspector at New York, makes in resigning his office, to the effect that five hundred Chinese arrive at that port every month because of general corruption among officials, ore very serious. We have more of these people than there is room for, and we have more of other ignorant for* eigners than there is employment for. The number of railroad employes killed In 1896 was a few short of 1,900 and the injured were more than 30,000. These figures may not attract much attention, but the killed on the Union side in the battle of Shiloh were 1,735, and at Antietam 2,010. The country shuddered at these losses in battle, but the fatalities among railroad employes attract little attention because they are scattered over a whole year. The Democratic candidates for the Legislature in the Cleveland (O.) district have signed a pledge to the effect that they will not give their votes, if elected, to any millionaire or other man who has nothing but his money to commend him. This is aimed at Air. McLean, but includes Tom Johnson and also L, E. Holden, of Cleveland, who has been assisting McLean in his newspaper. Opposition to money legislation seems to come from New York and Boston, judging lrom the newspapers. A few months ago tho Boston Herald (Ind.) was .clamoring, assuming that the Republican party was false to its pledges because it did not "at once undertake currency reform. Now it says that currency agitation is futile and that our currency may safely be left as it is for many Congresses to come. The Milwaukee Sentinel says that no State suffered more severely from the panic on account of enforced idleness than did Wisconsin, yet so great has been the improvement of business during the past few months that a reliable agent who has supplied contractors with workmen from the city during the past twenty years, informs that paper that ho can now procure employment for twice as many men as he can find who are willing to go out of the city for jobs. It was probably a wise decision of the President to appoint a special commissioner to carry out the reciprocity provisions cf the Dlngley tariff law. It is desirable that they should be made operative as soon as practicable, and the multifarious duties of the secretaries of treasury and state would hardly permit them to give the subject adequate attention. A special commission ought to be able to do so with beneficial lesults. As to the President’s selection of a commissioner opinions may possibly differ. Hon. John A. Hasson, of lowa, is a decidedly able man, with an excellent record of public service, but he Is well advanced In years, being nearly seventy-six. Some men are In full possession of all their tcculties at that age, and perhaps Mr. Hasson

may be. To negotiate with foreign governments reciprocity treaties that will protect and promote the commercial interests of the United States requires a wide-awake man, and it Is to be hoped Mr. Kasson possesses the necessary alertness. He certainly does if his faculties have not been dulled by age. A PERSONAL STATEMENT. It is on rare occasions that the Journal Intrudes the personal affairs of its publishers upon its readers, but at this time it begs *heir indulgence for a personal statement from Mr. Harry S. New. one of the proprietors of the paper. On the eve of the recent city election, what purported to be an epitomized edition of Truth, the campaign paper issued in the Interest of Mr. C. F. Smith, an independent candidate for mayor, was scattered broadcast over the city. The sheet was devoted to what essayed to be an “exposure” of an alleged deal between the Citizens’ Streetrailroad Company and the City Railway Company, and contains a statement to the effect that “Director McKee” had said to Mr. Smith that there was in existence an agreement that would prove that Mr. New, in company with the editors or proprietors of other newspapers of this city, was involved in a scheme to hold up the Citizens-Street-railroad Company. It was added that three copies of this agreement were In existence, one of which was in possession of Mr. Ferdinand Winter, one in the hands of Mr. Verner and one held by other parties not named. Also, that Mr. McKee had said to Mr. Smith that he had himself held $20,000 in escrow for Mr. New in connection with this scheme. The paper—if a handbill of its character can be dignified with the name—proceeds to say, presumably upon the authority of Mr. Smith, that “Harry' New was one of the conspirators who was to get rich out of the City Railway hold-up” and “one of the largest sharers in the expected bopdle.” To dispose of these statements as. they should be requires very brief space, but to properly characterize the man or men who gave them birth and currency cannpt be done without exhausting the vocabulary. So far as Mr. McKee s alleged statements to Mr. Smith are concerned,' the Journal has no means at hand of knowing whether he made them or not, but from what it knows of the reputation in this community of H. Sellers McKee as a blackguard, b#odler and drunkard, it presumes that he did. If he ever made any such statement Mr. McKee is a greater liar than even ho has reputation for being hereabouts. The man is without character or standing in this community, a fact which must be as well known to Mr. Smith as it is to every one who knows McKee at all. There Is absolutely not one word of truth in the statement attributed to him. As to the other charges—those purporting to emanate from Mr. Smith—they are the blackest, most baseless of lies—“falsehoods” or “dntruths” does not meet the case at all. If Mr. Smith had consulted Mr. Ferdinand Winter before circulating his false and defamatory charges, he would have been informed by that gentleman that they were false. Mr. Winter authorizes the statement that he never saw or heard of any suc"h agreement as Mr. McKee and Mr. Smith describe. Mr. New is not now and never was a stockholder ih or member of any streetrailway company. He does not believe that there have ever been negotiations between the gentlemen comprising the City Railway Company and any other company that could reflect discredit upon them if the truth were known; nor does he believe for an instant that Dr. Henry Jameson, whom Smith assails in this connection, has erver done anything in that or any other matter that was dishonorable in the slightest degree, and it will take a better man than Mr. Smith ever was or will be to make the Indianapolis public think so. But these other gentlemen are fully capable of taking care of their own affairs, with which Mr. New has not now nor ever had anything whatever to do. The .Journal speaks for Mr. New, and with a full appreciation of the responsibility that it entails, it charges in the most direct, positive and unequivocal way that in so far as his remarks apply to that gentleman Mr. Smith lied. The man who deliberately and willfully circulates stories of such a character is a liar and a scandal monger, unworthy of belief, and not entitled to the respect of any honest man.

A DEPARTMENT OP COMMERCE. Last fall, after the election of Mr. McKinley, some of the Canton correspondents stated that he had expressed himself in favor of the creation of anew department of commerce, whose head, the secretary of commerce, should be a member of the Cabinet. It was said that he would recommend this to Congress, and it is possible he may do so in his first annual message' at the coming session of Congress. There are strong reasons for the suggestion. The United States has become a great commercial country. We are essentially a commercial people, with a great commercial future before us, and It seems entirely appropriate that there should be a department of the government with a capable head whose special duty it should be to aid in developing and promoting the commercial interests of the country, just as the secretary of agriculture does those of that industry. These interests are not neglected now. There are several bureaus in different departments which have to do with commercial interests, but, being separated and scattered, they have no adequate administrative supervision. There are several such bureaus connected witli the Treasury Department. For instance, there is the Bureau of Statistics, which is nothing more than a bureau of commercial statistics; the Bureau of Navigation, which in all its operations is related to maritime commerce; the office of steamboat inspection, which has to do with the protection of life and property on steam vessels and exercises important functions of a police nature; the Lighthouse Board, whose function it is to protect commerce and guide the mariner on his way by means of lighthouses, lightships, buoys, beacons, foghorns and bells; the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, whose chief function is to determine the hydrography of our coasts, bays and rivers for tho benefit of commerce; the Marine Hospital, which has national powers of quarantine over the vehicles and routes of commerce. In the Interior Department there is the office of commissioner of railways, which has to do exclusively with domestic commerce. There is also the Interstate-commerce Commission, which is not. attached to any department. For some years past the State Department has been collecting through our consuls abroad Information relative to the trade, commerce and manufactures of other countries. Many of these reports are important and valuable, but no systematic effort is made to bring them to the attention of manufacturers and business men. True,

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they are printed, but no attempt Is made to put them In the hands of those who would be most benefited by them. Without going more Into detail It is evident there is a vast field for useful work in the way of promoting the commercial interests of the country on lines entirely apart from politics. The various bureaus and offices above named, instead of being attached to departments already burdened with other business, should be subject to one head and animated by an administrative purpose. In this way, also, legislation in regard to commerce would be facilitated, and the business interests of the country would get more recognition in Congress. If the President would take the initiative in the matter by recommending to Congress the creation of a department of commerce the business sentiment of the country would undoubtedly sustain him. THE SALE OF THE PACIFIC ROADS. A class of yellow political papers are making much ado because the administration proposes to carry out the plans of its predecessor in regard to the sale of the Pacific railroads, whose bonds due the United States have already matured. The whole matter has been before the country and was fully discussed during the last session of the Senate. The Pacific railroad companies owe the United States an amount of money, principal and interest, probably in excess of the cash value of the property. Its bonds are a second mortgage. Consequently, the United States must first pay the first mortgage to obtain control of the property in order to foreclose and obtain possession. By this plan, at the outset, the government would be compelled to appropriate thirty or thirty-five million dollars to take up the first mortgage. This done, it could foreclose. It is probable that foreclosure would put the roads Into possession of the government. There are those who believe that the government should own and operate the railroads of the country. Experience in other countries and in States has not been of a character to induee sensible people to favor the attempt to manage the Pacific railroads, which cannot pay current expenses and fixed charges. Moreover, the government would have roads which could be paralleled for less money than the aggregate of the indebtedness of the lines in question to the United States Holding possession of the property by mortgage the government would have to get out of them $35,000,000 in excess of its present investments, which would be an impossibility. The plan of the Cleveland administration was to accept the offer of a syndicate for the government's interest. It has been since changed so that the syndicate bidding the highest for the government’s interest shall have its right in the property. To the men of experience in the Senate and to the administration this scheme seems the only one that is possible. It sustained the plan after an extended debate. There can be no question that the government will not receive as much as it has paid out, principal and interest, by many millions—some say by $50,000,000. That is because the interest of the United States is, like most railroad investments, not worth as much as it cost. The question at issue, or, rather the question which was at issue, was: Shall the government get out of the Pacific railroads by direct sale at a loss, or invest millions more to obtain possession of the property and take the greater risk of selling the larger value for a better price? At best, the government will lose in getting out of the railroad business, so the chatter of losing $50,000,000 and saving it by purchase and foreclosure is not truthful.

GREATER) NEW YOltlv AND LITTLE LONDON. The great excitement and popular upheaval which Greater New York is now undergoing over the election of its first mayor is in striking contrast to the choice of the lord mayor of London. The methods are as wide apart as the poles, one being an extreme .of universal suffrage and the other a survival of mediaeval forms. We all know what the election in New York Is—a hurly-burly of various political parties, conventions, mass meetings, Tammany proclamations, street parades, etc., winding up with the final arbitrament of popular suffrage in which the votes of paupers, criminals and illiterates count as much as those of taxpayers, philanthropists, millionaires and statesmen. In contrast to Greater New York one may say Little London, for the London of which the lord mayor is head, the city proper, is only a square mile in extent—the heart of Greater London. The latter, with its seven hundred square miles and seven million residents, has no executive head and no centralized system of government, and the lord mayor has no jurisdiction outside of Little London. Yet he is elected by representatives of what are called the liveried guilds of the great city. There are eighty of these, with an aggregate membership of about 8,500. They are self-perpetuating societies, and their membership is restricted to men of wealth. They are simply close corporations of rich and Influential men interested in the water, gas and transit systems of the great metropolis and in many other privileged monopolies. There is no popular election for lord mayor. When the time comes for an election, once a year, the liverymen, as the representatives of the guilds are called, convene at Guildhall, together -with the retiring lord mayor, the sheriffs and a lot of other dignitaries in court suits and robes, carrying maces, staves and other badges of authority. Everything has been “cut and dried” beforehand, and it is known who Is to be lord mayor. He must be an alderman who has also served as sheriff. The senior exsheriff is *he candidate usually selected. The aldermen are elected for life. They arrange in advance who is to be lord mayor, but custom requires that the crier read off before the assembled dignitaries the names of all the aldermen who have served as sheriff and who are therefore eligible for the higher office. Then the representatives of the guilds go through the form of nominating two of this number, and the sheriffs retire and go through the form of electing one of the two lord mayor. It must always be known in advance whether a candidate will accept the office, because, although eligible in other respects, he may not be able to serve as lord mayor. It is an expensive office, and only a rich man can hold it. It costs the incumbent anywhere from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO a year in excess of his salary and allowances. He Is expected to head every relief fund, subscribe liberally to everything, and entertain lavishly. Probably no lord mayor ever comes out of the office at the end of a year without being at least $50,000 poorer for the experience, but he has had the honor and he Is invariably knighted. He is never re-elected, and on his retirement from the office he nominally retains his seat In the Board of

.aldermen, which is for life. All this is in striking contrast to an election for mayor of Greaier New York. One is the very Incarnation of conservative, aristocratic government, while the other is—well, from present appearances it would be pretty liaid to define. WASTE OF NATURE’S RESOURCES. The disposition of men is to waste the resources of nature, particularly those of the forest and those in the earth, like coal and oil. Until geology became a practical science their finding was a matter of chance. Confor years such a finding was regarded as a bonanza, because no one dreamed the extent of the coal fields of the United States. When practical geology made It possible to locate the coal measures, hundreds of mines \Vere opened with a capacity far in excess of the demands of the country. For this reason the soft-coal industry has not been profitable, and great resources are waited by reason of inadequate prices for both coal and the labor employed in its production. The development of the oil country is another illustration of the waste of great natural resources. Already large fields have been pumped dry, or partially so, and abandoned for fresh ones. Often these are run wastefully. The oil excitement Is on In Indiana. Discoveries are reported weekly, almost daily. “Gushers” of so many barrels a day are heralded. Companies are organized, territory bonded, and, in short, the valuable deposits of oil in Indiana are in a way of being consumed or disposed of at prices which are wasteful. At this rate, in a few years, Indiana’s valuable stores of oil will be depleted, and depleted at a time when it will be of great value as fuel for manufacturing power at home instead of being shipped abroad at a low price. The forests of every State have been wastefully destroyed instead of being husbanded as a great source of wealth. It Is well-nigh too late to change from the policy of wastefulness to one of prudence; still, something can be done to make the remainder of the timber more valuable by the intelligent management, of woodland. The fact that the prudent have timber that is of value while neighbors as well situated have none shows what may yet be done to make timber a valuable part of the real estate of Indiana. It seems that the wasteful depletion of the oil resources of the State Is a matter of so great importance as to attract attention and excite a movement in portions of the territory, at least, to reserve them for the future, when the oil will be worth several times as much as it now is for the production of power for manufacturing.

A gentleman who recently returned from a trip through Mexico, where he investigated business conditions, says the Mexican merchant is getting his eyes opened to the disadvantages of the credit system, especially on a silver basis. Heretofore he has dealt with the European merchants because he could get from nine months to a year’s credit, whereas, when he came to the United States our merchants drew on him as soon as the bill of lading was sent. But this credit which the Mexican merchant prized so highly has proved ruinous to him, in the last year especially. When he bought his goods a year ago he bought and sold on the basis of $1.96 in sliver, which he had to pay for every gold dollar with which he was to make a settlement. The time has rolled round now for him to pay his bills, and he finds that he has to pay $2.30 in silver for each gold dollar due his European creditor. Such a lesson as that carries its own moral. The Mexican merchant is beginning to see that the credit system and the silver system do not work well together. When he decides to do business on a cash basis, as he probably will before long, he will trade with American merchants. Mr. George’s Socialistic platform seems not to please the thrifty workingmen of New York city. Many of them have homes, and they are not pleased with the theory of placing all the taxation upon land and letting the stocks and bonds of the rich escape. Others declare against free street cars because they will be crowded with loafers and all sorts of people with whom they do not wish their wives and children to mix. In other words, the more the thrifty wage-earners consider Georgeism from a personal point of view, the less delightful it is. The directors of the First National Bank of New Albany have called a meeting of the stockholders on the 26th inst. to decide upon the question of winding up its affairs and dissolving as a corporation. The bank was organized in 1565 and has had for its president such well-known financiers as the late W. S. Culbertson, the late John A. McDonald and Hon. Jesse J. Brown. Since its organization the bank has never failed to pay a semi-annual dividend, besides accumulating a large surplus. It is now in firstclass condition, its vaults being crowded with currency, and the only reason for the proposed winding up Is the unprofitableness of the business arising from the low rate of interest and the comparative small demand for money. The directors say that having always made good returns on the capital they feel unwilling now to run the bank simply to pay taxes, expenses, etc. Courts in the tidewater cities which have admiralty jurisdiction sometimes make decisions which would strike an inland judge as queer law. Judge Cox, of Washington, a few days ago sentenced four sailors to fifteen days' imprisonment in the District jail for having refused to obey an order to tar, with their hands, the rigging ropes of the schooner on which they had shipped. They demanded a brush with which to apply the tar, but the captain and first and second officers of the vessel testified that the proper way to do it w r as with the hands. The court held that the men were guilty of insubordination, and that mutinous acts on shipboard could not be tolerated. BUBBLES IN THE AIII. Ups and Downs. “My life,” said Mr. Lushforth, “has been one of ups and downs.” “Yes,” said his wife. “Hic-ups and falldowns.” Unprogressive Mu. Laura—Ma, here is one of the loveliest rainy day costumes in the magazine. Ma—Oh, there is. is there? Well, them old wrappers are good enough for you to wear around the house on rainy days. Could Recommend Him. Some of them were disposed to carp at the statesman who had appointed his son to the best place he had to dispose of. "Oh. he's all right,” said the statesman. "I know his family well, and it is a good one.” Superlatively Unfit. Said the kindly, yet truthful, friendly critic, “My dear boy, this story will not do at all. It is utterly bad.” •'Utterly?” repeated the young author. "Utterly. It would not even do for a prize story in one of those magazines that you have to subscribe for to enter the contest ”

CHRISTIANS IN FORCE ♦ LARGE ATTENDANCE IPON THE MISSIONARY CONVENTION. Finance* In Good Shape-President's Address—Notable Paper* by Women Prominent in the Work. ©_ The missionary conventions of the Christian Church opened with the first session of the Woman’s Christian Board of Missions at the Central Christian Church yesterday morning. At an early hour it became apparent that the building was wholly inadequate to contain all the delegates that desired to attend. Chairs were placed in all the aisles and every available inch of room in the auditorium and the lecture room adjoining was made use of. Despite this many could not obtain entrance, and these put in their time seeing the city or in participating in an all-day social at the English Lutheran Church. The sessions at the Central Church were almost continuous from early morning until late at night, during which time many interesting addresses were delivered and the preliminary convention business transacted. At the Denison the secretaries of the state missionary organizations held morning and afternoon meetings in which formed a permanent association and carried out a programme of addresses. The ladies of Roberts Park Church kindly turned their building into a restaurant and furnished roast turkey and other toothsome viands to the hungry visitors at both the noon and supper hours. No less than four hundred took dinner with them, and as the church is only three blocks from the place where the convention is meeting it was regarded as a great convenience, and the ladies having charge of the lunch are receiving much praise for what is termed their Christian courtesy. They, however, will not set any lunch on Sunday. DELEGATES NUMBER 1,200. The number of delegates who have registered thus far is something over eight hundred. but there are many who are stopping at the hotels and with friends who have not yet signed the blanks at the Lutheran Church. It is estimated that over twelve hundred delegates are now present in the city, but more are expected next week, those here now being principally such as are identitied with the C. W. B. M. The entertainment committee is still anxious to receive offers of more accommodations, as it is finding itself unable to supply all the demands made upon it. Howard Cale, who has practically lived at the Lutheran Church for a week, says that the committee lias done a mountain of labor, and that while things are running reasonably smootn, some trouble is being experienced in providing for the delegates. A postoffice and bureau of information is maintained at tne Lutheran Church, while a large number of pages are at all times at the service of visitors. Considerable discussion is going on among e delegates as to the practicability of uniting the work of the various organizations so far as the raising of necessary funds is concerned. As it is each church is called upon about once a month to make a contribution for some missionary purpose, and it is thought that it the collections were limited to four a year the members of the churches would give more liberally to the cause. It is proposed that each organization receive a certain proportion of the quarterly contributions, and that they all unite in making those contributions as large as possible. A general missionary fund would thus be instituted and no demands would be made upon any church for any special purpose, all money donated for missions of whatever kind being put into the fund for the use of all. Nearly all the delegates seem to be a unit in favor of this idea, and it will take practical shape before the conventions close. Many of the Indianapolis Disciples of Christ, and also a large number of those from outside the city are recalling the fact that the conventions of the church assembled in this city just ten years ago. They also met here in 1881, 1873, and 1870. The growth of the missionary work of the church has been very gratifying since the former meetings in this city. The American Christian Missionary Society reported receipts of only $4,529.91 in 1870, $6,153.34 in 1881 and $19,512.04 in 1887, while last year the receipts were $76,337.74. This is a statement of but one organization, but the others show' a similar growth. Since the meeting ten years ago the church extension fund has been organized, a fund which one year ago amounted to $129,741.55. Over three hundred loans have been made and not a dollar has been lost, a very remarkable showing, as church property upon which the money is advanced is of a character tl:t loan agencies will place no risks upon. The attendance at the present conventions also shows how great a growth has been achieved in the decade since the last Indianapolis meeting. Those who were present at that assembly state the attendance as being less than a third of the present gathering. The convention met in the old Central Christian Church, which stood on the corner of Delaware and Ohio, and all the delegates w’ere entertained at the homes of the church members. Since then a number of the leading spirits of the church have passed away, notably Isaac Errett, Samuel K. Hoshour and Love H. Jameson, and in general the younger element has displaced the greater portion of the delegates who met in this city ten years ago.

THE NIGHT .MEETING. Address*** by Mis* Farrar and Mrs. Encell. The Central Christian Church was filled to overflowing in the evening. Perhaps never before had so many people managed to squeeze themselves into the church, and large numbers who desired to hear the interesting addresses on the programme had to go away disappointed, because of their inability to obtain entrance. The meeting began with a praise service conducted by Mrs. A. M. Haggard, of lowa, after which followed the two addresses of the evening. Miss Birdie Farrar, of Virginia, delivered the leading address of the evening. Her subject was “The Educational Influence of the C. W. B. M. on the Young.” She spoke in part as follows: “The young woman of the Christian Woman’s Board of Missions is learning from the blessed Savior the secret of loving service. “Christ is the center of her life and as He came not to be ministered unto but to minister and to give His life a ransom for many, so she is trying to ‘let this same mind be in her which was also in Christ Jesus.’ By sending the glad message of a risen Lord to others, her own heart is strengthened. Her words are full of power and tenderness because her life is hid with Christ. She preaches a sermon every day in her home and among her neighbors by her ministry of love. Is there not a rich blessing in store for those who thus spend their lives in the service of our Father in heaven. Has he not all along richly blessed those who have given their lives in selfdenial for others. Even before Christ came w-e see in the life of Esther, the young queen, a beautiful example of self-denial. She was taken a little obscure girl from her humble home and raised to the exalted position of queen over 127 provinces. Possessed with rare grace and a wealth of love and power, she was willing to give up all these for the sake of her humble people whom she had not ceased to love. With these words on her lips, ‘lf I perish I perish.’ she risked her life, not even having a clear knowledge of the home which the dear Savior has gone to prepare for those who faithfully serve Him. Ruth also gives us a loving example of self-forgetfulness in following her mother-in-law. Leaving her native country she gladly followed Naomi, saving, ’Whither thou goest I will go and where thou lodgest I will lodge, thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest I will die. The Lord do so to me and more also if aught but death part me and the**.’ WHAT CHRIST DID FOR WOMEN. “It was a noble sprit which prompted these young women to such a loving service. Esther and Ruth were true servants of God, but they were not free with that liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. It was through Christ that Mary found that ‘good part.’ Her one desire was to knowmore of Him and to be used in His service. How beautifully her devoted life carried out the words of the psalmist: ‘Whom have I in heaven but Thee, and there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.’ For the salte of His dear love Mary was willing to lay aside for a time all ordinary earthly cares. More than 1,800 years have gassed since Mary made that wise choice, ut iratn her shoulders the mantle has fall-

en upon many of our young women of the Christian Woman’s Board of Missions. Choosing that ’good part’ that can never be taken away. Our Adelaide Frost, Alice Oxer, Bessie Farrar and many others, have put their lives in the trust of our kind Heavenly Father and have said: ‘lf I perish I perish, but I will go and lift the royal banner of our Lord, where precious souls for whom Christ died are only waiting for the message in order to receive it.’ And now from far away India comes these comforting words: ’Do not feel sorry for us and think it a sacrifice, for it is only a Joyful loving service for our Master. Tell the young people not to be afraid to come and join us. for we are so happy in our work for Christ.’ Such are the lives that have gone from the influence of the C. W. B. M. to gladden hearts and homes in foreign lands. Then there are our earnest young women, young women who are engaged in the home work as leaders and superintendents of mission bands—those who are having a part In training the young for lives of usefulness in His vineyard. What a blessing this work has proven to the young woman. 'Yes. we have a work for Jesus, living echoes we will be, of Thine own sweet words of blessing. of Thy gracious hope to me.’ “The work of our C. W. B. M. like the quality of mercy ‘is not strained. It droppeth like rain from heaven upon the earth beneath, it is twice blessed, it blesseth Him that gives and him that takes.’ You remember. dear sisters, when Solomon went before the Lord upon being made king, in that night did God appear unto him and say: ’Ask what I shall give thee.’ Then did Solomon ask for wisdom and knowledge to rule his people. In making that wise choice riches and honor were added unto him by our loving Father. So it was with our consecrated sisters who sought above all other things to bring glory and honor to the Lord. They did not ask for riches and honors for themselves, but for wisdom to do the Lord’s will in spreading His glorious kingdom. In making this wise choice the Christian wives and mothers were not only blessed themselves, but studying to know the will and wishes of our dear Savior they received a blessing for their children. An appreciation of this blessed work has entered the home. The little children have caught the sweet inspiration and with their motto. ‘Shine for Jesus,’ a host of little builders are doing their part to take the world for Christ. Through the influence of our auxiliaries, which were given to our consecrated sisters for the wise choice they made, many of their sons and daughters have so felt the love of Christ constraining them that they have gone into the dark heathen lands there to plant the cross of Christ. Not only are our sisters now called upon to give their time, talents and means to be used in His service, as w'hen the blessed work first began, but now their very loved and own are called to hasten the coming of our Lord. As I stand before you to-nighs a picture comes before me of an earnest Christian mother with her tw'o girls, one on each side, trudging across a long bridge going to the C. W. B. M. meeting. That evening a letter is read which tells of those who are perishing in heathen lands without the gospel of Christ and the great need of workers. The hearts of these little girls are touched by this appeal and on their way home the older one says to the younger: ‘Sister, when I grow up I am going myself to carry the gospel to those sad people. Will you not go with me?’ The younger replies, ‘lf I cannot go with you sister and leave my mother, I will do all I can to help send others.’ As these little girls grew into young womanhood those early influences w'ere strengthened by the spirited meetings of the C. W. B. M'. and in answer to earnest prayer the time came at lasj: when the older one could prepare herself for work in the foreign field.” MRS. ENCELL’S ADDRESS. At the close of Miss Farrar’s address, Mrs. Jennie Encell. of Syracuse, N. Y., was introduced. Mrs. Encell spoke in a general way of the C. W. M. 8., and made a fine impression on the audience. She spoke as follows: “At one of our district conventions in New York, in conducting a query *>ox, this question was drawn and given to our young Syracuse pastor to answer: “ ‘ls the C. W. M. B. a Side Issue?’ He hesitated a moment as if the question was a puzzling one, then answered thus: ‘I think we are apt to underestimate the importance of side issues. If we wish to belittle anything we call it a side issue, and that settles it at once. But what are often called side issues may be of lasting interest to mankind.’ Then opening Bible he said: ’Let me read you ’ side issue,’ and read this: ‘And Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upc dam, and he slept. And he took one ot . s ribs. And the rib which the Lord had taken from man made He a woman.’ “If this C. W. B. M. is a side issue we believe that, like the one spoken of, it is of God. At first, as Sister Jamison truthfully says, ‘we were called gleaners,’ and as such were permitted to follow the larger machines and glean in the corners and by-ways which they could not reach. But it was soon evident that there were rough, stony places and dangerous marshes, and thorny patches, and many stumps in the open field, and that the little 10-cent missionary sickles carried by the C. W. B. M. women and kept ever bright and sharp by constant use were needed there also. “Fifty years ago there was not a woman’s missionary society in America. Now there are forty general boards, thirty thousand auxiliaries and over a million women in these societies. In our own beloved C. W. B. M. w r o claim a membership of over thirty thousand. “The organization of these boards marked anew era in the evangelization of the world and in woman’s development as a worker for Christ. One Christian gentleman asked another what agency of the present ceemed to him the most farreaching in its power for good to the human fanviy. His reply was, ‘Not our discoveries in medical science, not the application of electricity to the practical uses of life, nor our improvements in mechanical power, but the establishment of women’s missionary societies and the work they aro doing for Christ,’ THE C. W. B. M.’S MISSION. “The C. W. B. M. has a mission to us as a people. Its first object is the spiritual development of the women within our churches. This is definitely stated in our auxiliary constitution: ‘lts object shall be to cultivate a missionary spirit, to encourage missionary effort in the church, to disseminate missionary literature, and to secure systematic contributions for missionary purposes.’ To accomplish this is to solve the great problem which will make us what we should be—the greatest missionary people in the world. “The second object of the C. W. B. M. is the missionary training of the children. “We call ourselves disciples of Christ, but how slow we have been to learn of Him. There has never been a period in the world's history when child nature was so much studied by teachers and so much done for children as now. Christ said, ‘Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones.’ The Christian Women’s Board realizes that the world will soon belong to the children, and that they belong to God; hence its mission bands, its junior societies, its helps to train them and hold them in Christ’s service. What object could be greater? “The greater part of Christ’s ministry was spent in cultivating the missionary spirit in the hearts of His disciples. That He permits us to bear a humble part in this primary work of His and has given to those who bear the message of salvation the promise of His constant divine direction and protection—this should fill our lips with praise and our souls with trustful confidence ‘that we shali reap in due season if we faint not.’ “The educating work of the C. W. B. M. has been felt not only by those belonging to it, but all our missionary organizations have been reaping the harvest of our sowing. It came in an opportune time. The old-fashioned sewing society was fast passing away. The churches were surfeited and many of them sick unto death with fairs and festivals, oyster suppers, New England suppers, pink teas, blue teas and green teas. The women were most of them like Martha, cumbered with many cares and much serving and in their mistaken efforts to provide all kinds of entertainments, to keep up an interest in the church, had little time to sit at the Master's feet and learn of Him. OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN. “It came in the right way. Heretofore the womtn were silent in all the meetings of the church (except their thoughts could be set to music), but the quiet auxiliary meeting w f as not in any sense a church service, and they might take part in it without the least danger of the assumption of authority. It opened up new opportunities for women to speak to each other heart to heart, and broke down the barriers which their own timidity and the iron hands of habit and custom had woven around them “It came with the right motto—‘The love of Christ constraineth us.’ It brought the timid souls face to face with their Lord and Master, and, forgetting all else, they could pour out their souls to Him in praise and prayer and go forth with new strength to serve Him with gladness. “It came to the right place; to each one’s home church, and gave new and larger opportunities for spiritual development, mutual help and encouragement and selfculture. It brought with it needed nelp—the Missionary Tidings, with Its Bible lessons, its carefully prepared programmes, Us missionary news, its words of cheer and instruction. It met a long-felt need. It increased their knowledge of the needs of the world, it enlarged their vision, and brought to them new objects of interest, new hopes,

new aspirations, after a fuller and richer life In Christ. “Through it they came into the consciousness of a larger fellow'ship; they no longer shut up within the narrow routine of their own local congregation, sadwned, perhaps, by its spiritual coldness, or discouraged by its poverty and lack of growth ar.d apparent failure. The spiritual influence of the auxiliary is seen in the home and graciously acknowledged by our brethren. "Brother Muckley says of it: ‘I want to hand in my testimony, after nearly seven years of almost constant traveling amo.ig our people in the interests of church extension: it is the rarest thing to find the husband of a C. W. B. M. woman opposed to organized missionary work.’ “Brother Arthur, of Rochester, says it is his best aid in the spiritual uplifting of his people. Again, quoting from Brother Muckley. he says: ‘Believing, as we preachers do, that men’s characters are molded very largely by Christian wives and mothers, and believing that need a very widespread missionary zeal among our churchea in order that local and general work may be conspicuously prosperous, how can we fail to push C. W. B. M. day? It will be a red-letter day for all our organized missionary work when the women in all our churches are enlisted in the work of the C. W. B. M. /. j “It is doing a ’-work that ncfttfßor missionary society is doing. It is developing the hitherto unused talent of the dhurch. It is training our future missionaries. “It is wonderfully adapted to woman's w’ork and ways of working. It is an economizer of force. As such at home, it uses just money enough to keep the machinery in good running order. Its large force of volunteer W'orkers gives it an untold advantage here. Our general and state officers, district managers, auxiliary officers and members are ever at work. This enables them to reach many communities. SENDING OUT LITERATURE. “In disseminating literature, it does not send out great piles of it once a year, to b© scattered over the seats and tables of tha churches, until gathered up by the janitor, in the vain hope of kindling a missionary fire. But it sends it to the auxiliaries to b© read, talked over and prayed over, knowing that the seed must be sown in human hearts in order to bring forth fruit. “Asa builder of churches in the needy West, as a helper of missionary points and weak churches In many States, of its Bible chairs, schools and varied work, we need not speak. In ail. and through all. it has exalted God’s word and has educated ministers, teachers and missionaries, and by the broad missionary spirit has stimulated the churches to a growth in knowledge and encouraged them to put forth greater efforts for the evangelization of the world. “The missionary correspondence begun by our dear Sister Pearrie, which first set the C. W. B. M. wheels in motion, has also been a source of spiritual growth and a moro intimate fellowship. Ik Marvel says: ‘Blessed be letters,’ and every true C. W. B. M. woman will say thrice blessed be these little white-winged messengers of Christian love, which have encouraged the disheartened, strengthened the weak, comforted the sorrowful and have been of such inestimable value to our scattered membership. “As I have watched and studied this work from its beginning and given to it my little* gifts, my earnest prayers, it has been my growing conviction that a woman’s board can find among the women and children of our own and foreign lands an open field. That it is the most neglected, the most needy, and will yield the largest returns here and hereafter. That this is largely our mission. First, at home, and then on to th© uttermost parts of me earth. “God is calling to this work. By the persecution of Christians in Armenia; by every unspeakable outrage of womanhood and childhood by tfie Turk; by its widows and orphans; by the famine in India; by what our dear missionaries have passed through during the last year; by their heroic sacrifices; by their prayers and pleading for help. Hear Bessie Farrar: ‘lt makes one cry out for laborers for the harvest when from here and tljere come repeated messages: Send someone to teach us; come and teach us; stay with us that we may learn.’ "Every time I hear of Sister Graybiel sending the orphans she has rescued from starvation to other missions because she cannot keep them, I say with her: We are as able as any other people to rear and train these children for usefulness in the kingdom of Christ, and we ought to do it. The greatest joy of my heart is that our New York sisters have shown their practical sympathy for our missionaries and the perishing ones, for whom Christ died, by adopting twelve of these little ones. “In Indianapolis to-night the torch-bear-ers are many, and the songs triumphant. . Afar in India a feeble few are standing. Their torches are lighted, but they gleam faintly in the murky light, where the pestilence walketh in darkness and famine wasteth at noonday. They are watching for more light-bearers. They are calling to us: ‘Send the light; send the light.’ ”

WORK OF THE AFTERNOON Largely Given Over to Young PeopleReports of Their Work. The afternoon session of the convention was given over to the young people’s department during the first hour and to the workers’ conference during the second hour. The meeting closed with a devotional service conducted by Mrs. T. A. Conklin, of New r York, after which Mrs. Burgess announced the committee on literature to be as follows: Mrs. Mary Graham, Miss Rachel Crouch, Miss Birdie Farrar and Mrs. A. J. Thompson. SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT. The superintendent of the young people’s work, Miss Mattie Pounds, made her annual report, which in part is as follows: "The receipts for the year are $10,035.87, an Increase of $1,627.54 over last year. Os this amount $5,861.13 was contributed to the builders’ fund and $4,174.74 to the orphanage fund. Thus, while the builders’ fund is almost S9OO less than last year, the orphanage fund is over $2,500 greater. This has partly heen due to the increased interest in th© work in India, on account of the great needs in that field, and partly to the fact that our building enterprises in the eariy part of the year were in a field comparatively unfamiliar to the boys and girls. “The increase in the number of societies contributing is still more encouraging than the increase in receipts. We began the year with a determination to win as many societies as possible into co-operation with us We have succeeded beyond our fondest expectations. Five hundred and fortysix junior and eleven intermediate !e. C. Eand 323 mission hands and thirty-one circles. a total of 911, made offerings to our "A national banner was offered to the State which should have the greatest number of these organizations to give to our work this year, for the first time. A careful and painstaking effort has been mad© to make the list correct and complete. It is with jov that we can report that we have 452 intermediate and Junior societies ana mission bands and circles which made their first offering. Os these Illinois is credited with 54, and so wins the banner. Ohio followed closely, .with 53; Indiana and lowa have 44 each, Missouri ST and Virginia 3a. The rest of the States have less than thirty €£ “The lists obtained from all States and from the headquarters of the United Society of Christian Endeavor give us a grand total of 1,743 societies, bands and circles. Those reported have a membership of 28.662, an average of twenty-three members to each organization. They subscribed for 6,130 copies of Junior Builders and raised $3,651.73 for purposes other than missionary work. It is with especial pleasure that w© record that 1,633 conversions are r- ported, for it is those young people who give themselves to Christ who can do the most acceptable work toward extending His kingdom throughout the earth.’’ Miss Pounds stated that at the close of the last fiscal year there was a much larger number of children reported in the orphanages than at any former time. At th© close of her address, a little girl brought to the platform a beautiful white banner on which appeared the inscription: “Young People’s Department. C. W. li. M. We for Christ Christ for All.” This was the banner won by the young people of Illinois for having the greatest number of societies that made their first contributions during the past year. Miss Pounds took the banner and in a few happy remarks presented it to Miss Anna Davidson, who received it in the name of tho Illinois societies. Miss Davidson made a speech of thanks and the convention heartily chem-ed her. WORK OF THE CHILDREN. After this enjoyable diversion in the proceeding Mrs. W. M. Forrest, of Michigan, spoke without manuscript on the subject: “Come, Let Us Live With Our Children.” Mrs. Forrest has an excellent delivery and her address was full of beautiful thoughts clothed in beautiful language. Only a portion of her address is given, as follows: “We give time and place on our programme to-day for a report of the work the children have done. We listen with earnest attention and glowing interest. We give grateful praise and thanksgiving to God for what has been done and for the golden possibilities yet untouched. All this is new and strange and wonderful, a thing unheard of until recent years, that children and the consideration of children’s work should play any important part in our deliberations. And yet, almost nineteen centuries ago, the Savior paused in the midst of a deep and solemn discussion when H® saw the children coming, and. waving th© older one aside, said, ‘Suffer th© little children to com© wnto me.’ As If Ho w'tmld say.