Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 September 1899 — Page 7

Ikt f ik t County Jlroortat M. MeC. STOOPS, Editor ud Pt opr I* tor. PETERSBURG, : INDIANA-’ THE BOY AND THE TOY. . One day before a window There stood a little boy. Who gazed with earnest leasing _ Upon a pretty toy— Who thought with its possession Would come earth’s greatest Joy. Day after day he saw it— He sighed day after day— And trembled lest some other j Might carry it away; Day after day new splendors Were centered where it lay. He gazed into the future— Life’s story was begun— • He stored his little earning. ' And when the days were aone His sleep was full of visions Of treasures to be won. There came a day of triumph, ^ He carried off the prize. And, loi at once its splendor ' Died out before his eyes!— The little boy wa% foolish; But, then, are men so wise? —8. E. Kiser, in Chicago Times-Herald.

fjo Johnston’s Adventures ! JKXOW this story is true, for Johnston told it to me himself, and he has not imagination enough to invent an untruth. .1 He told me that if you should attempt to enter into conversation with a fellow passenger in a Chicago train he probably would present you with the •card in question as a delicate hint that? be wanted to be left in peace. *“! am going down to Warwickshire to-nuw'row,’ I said”—continued Johnston—“ ‘to spend a few days with Scoble, and 1*11 take this card with me. If some one insists on talking to me when I’m reading my paper I’ll try what landing him the card will do.’ ‘‘I took the train at Huston, traveling second-class. , *‘My fellow passenger was a fine-look-ing woman of about 30. The heat of the day and the excitement of catching the train had given her a florid color, and I could see that the desire of •condemning the weather and exposing the wickedness of a cabman was strong within her. “Presently the woman caught my eye and said: ‘I beg your pardon, but: will you tell me the exact time? My cabman—’ “But here I handed .the woman the Chicago card 1 had received the day before. “She read it and then saidt M), indeed ! So sorry. Pray excuse me,’ and

/Ml 1 HANDED HER THE CHICAGO CARD. then lapsed in silence, while 1 resumed my newspaper and congratulated myself on the efficacy of the American plan of dealing with railway bores. “It is true that my conscience did .give me an occasional twinge, for the -distinction between telling a lie and handing a person a ready-made: lie printed on a card was not very perceptible, I asked myself whether in giving the woman a card- with Ihe words: *1 am deaf and dumb,* I had mot been guilty of lying as certainly •as I should. lvtve been if I had told her •the same £' Min sotaany words. “At WW.4f.-4tK-,n Junction another pas- • senger got in. This time it was a young lady who was evidently expected by the -elder lady. “By and by my attention was aroused in spite of myself by hearing the elder lady mention my name. ‘You see,’ she ^aid, ‘I had to come down to-day because Jo|m has asked that tiresome .Johnston to spend a week with us, and of course it wouldn’t do for me to go stray.’ “ ‘But, auntie,’ said the other, ‘ho\y ■do you know that he is tiresome if you ha$0 never seen him.’ “ ‘I know it, for one thing, because John’s friends always are tiresome. It ■does seem as if he deliberately selected the most stupid men he could find and asked them down to Greencroft, just to make life a burden to me. And then, my dear, for another thing, I tried to read this detestable Johnston’s books. .Anything more stupid and silly you -can’t possibly imagine.’ “So I was actually traveling in the same carriage with Seoble’s wife and niece, and the former was dreading my -arrival at her. house and looking upon me as a tiresome nuisance. “The two ladies talked on, but happily seemed to forget the existence of the unfortunate Johnston. Once Mrs. JScoble came to the window where I » was sitting, to point out something to her niece, and the swaying of the carriage nearly threw her on my lap. “Just then the elder lady began one of those nervous and hurried searches for her purse which women when traveling are so prone to make. “‘It is gone!’ she exclaimed, ‘and I am sure that fellow in the corner picked my pocket when I was looking <©ut of the window.’ “ He would not have done that,’ re

plied the niece, ‘for I was looking a% him at the time, and he never once took his hands or hilt eyes away from his newspaper.’ “ ‘My dear child! Do you suppose yon are quick enough to watch the motions of a professions! pickpocket? That man' has my purse, l am perfectly sure of it; and I shall give him in charge the moment we get to Rugby.’ “It was clear that I must bolt from the carriage the instant the train reached the Rugby platform, and before a policeman could be called. The train was already slowing, and I hastily gathered up m3’ rug anti umbrella and prepared to move toward the door. “‘No, you don’t, my man!’ said Mrs. Scoble, rising and taking possession of the door by the simple process of thrusting half of her ample person through the window. “I saw at once t hat the game waa

‘“That man has pickedmy pocket,* said Mrs. Scoble, as soon as the police* man opened the door. ‘Search him and you’ll find my purse in his possession. It is marked ‘A. D. S.’ and has four fivepound notes, two sovereigns, and some change in it, besides my ticket.’ „ “ ‘What do you say to this?’ the policeman asked ine, evidently impressed with the eertainty of my guilt. “ ‘Simply that it isn’t true,’ I replied. ‘I kno% nothing of the lady’s purse, and I can easily convince you that I am a respectable person.’. “'‘My. goodness!’ exclaimed my accuser. ‘Why, the fellow isn’t deaf and dumb after all! Constable, he pretended to be deaf and dumb. That shows what a scoundrel he is!’ “I rose up to follow the policeman, and my foot struck against something that was lying on the floor of the carriage. I stooped and picked it up. It was the missing purse. “ ‘Is that your purse, madam?’ I asked, as I held it up. ‘You must have dropped it when you were looking out of my window.’ “ ‘I wouldn’t advise you to play that game any more,* said the policeman, severely. ‘Let me tell you, sir, that if you travel under false pretenses you needn’t be surprised if you find yourself in trouble. You’ll have to give me your name and address, in case anything more comes of this.’ “I gave him my address as soon as I could get away from the carriage, and at the same time I gave him a surreptitious five shillings and asked him not to give my name to Mrs. Scoble. “I saw Scoble on the platform as the train drew up at. Greencroft, but he did not see me, for I had concealed myself behind the curtains of the carriage. I watched him until his back was turned and then sprang out and bolted into the cloakroom, which was close at hand. I had hoped to remain there until Scoble had left the station, but I was disappointed. The porter in attendance, finding that I had no pai?-^ ticular business with him, immediately suspected me of designs upon the property under his charge and told me that I must not stay in the cloakroom. I tried bribery, but the action only confirmed his suspicion, and he roughly ordered me to go about my business or he would have me arrested Just then Scoble spied me. / ” “‘Why, here you are, after all!’ he exclaimed. ‘Where on earth have you been?’ The niece had returned, and was standing looking in bewilderment, first at me and then at her uncle. Suddenly she took in the full meaning of the situation, and, After saying to me: ‘Is this Mr. Johnston?’ burst into uncontrollable laughter.

mere never was anything so contagious and irresistible as that laugh since the world began, and the flash of the girl’s mischievous eyes would have made John Calvin smile even in the act of burning a heretic. I could not help it, but in another moment 1 found myself joining in the girl’s laughter, while Seoble stood and gazed at us with an almost frightened expression. “The niece was the first to speak. ‘Uncle,’ she said, ‘there has been a mistake that would have been perfectly awful if Mr. Johnston had not been a real humorist‘and seen the funny side of it. Auntie has driven home, for she could not wait any longer, and we will all three walk home together, and you shall know all about it.’ “I hesitated for a second and then said to myself that I would meet 50 aunts sooner than say good-by to the niece before I, had convinced her that I was not always stupid, and that I could sometimes be « other than a nuisance. I not only walked home with her and faced the dismayed and repentant aunt, but I staid my full week at Greencroft. When I went away I was engaged to be married, and had already begun to call Mrs. Seoble ‘aunt,* partly to show her thai I bore no malice and partly by way of emphasizing the triumph that the man whom she had called stupid had won.”-—Pall Mall. An Indian's Romantic Story. A chief of the Omaha Indians died recently in whose career was wound up a romantic and wonderful story. He traced his lineage on his father’s side to the haughty Bourbons who once ruled over France. His grandfather was Francois, Marquis de Fontenelle, who, when Napoleon was rising into power, left France and settled in New Orleans. His father ran away from New Orleans, became a trapper, and eventually was adopted into the Omaha tribe of Indians and married the daughter of the great chief of the nation. Stranger still, this half-breed Indian was a good classical scholar. As a trader with other Indian tribes he amassed a fortune.—Chicagu Chronicle, Queen WlUtelmlaa’i Coronation. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has received from the Butch journalists five large bound volumes containing all the accounts of her ooronation that were written by the foreign journalists w«T/Q attended it.

A SERVICE OP SONG. Rev. St. Talmage’s Sermon on Music in Religion. The' Beit Mule leiicKi Ci4er Troohle- C>4 Meaat All «• Sims—The Proper Mute for m Choreh.

ivopyngm, u>u» tviopscn. ish.j Washington, Sept. I Dr. Talmage to-day discussed a most attractive department of religious worship—the service of song. His ideas will be received with interest by all who love to lift their voices in praise in the Lord's house. The text is Nehemiah 7:67: “And they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.** The best music has been rendered under trouble. The first duet that 1 know anything of was given by Paul and Silas when they sang praises to God and the prisoners heard them. ' The Scotch Covenanters, hounded by the dogs of persecution, sang the psalms of David with more spirit than they have ever since been rendered. The captives in the text had music left in them, and 1 declare that if they could find, amid all their trials, two hundred and /forty and five singing men and singing women then in this day of Gospel sunlight and free from all persecution there ought to be a great multitude of men and women willing to sing the praises of God. All our churches need arousal on this subject. Those who can sing must throw their souls into the exercise, and those who cannot sing must learn how, and it shall be heart to heart, voice to voice, hymn to hymn, anthem to anthem, and the music shall swell jubilant with thanksgiving and tremulous with pardon. Have /you ever noticed the construction of the human throat as indicative of what God means us to do with it? In only an ordinary throat and lungs there are 14 direct muscles and 30 indirect muscles that can produce a very great variety of sounds. What does that mean ? It means that you should sing! Do you suppose that God, who gives us su«h a musical instrument as that, intends us to keep it shut? Suppose some great tyrant should get possession of the musical instruments of the world and should lock up the organ of Westminster abbeys and the organ of Lucerne, and the org^n at Haarlem, and the organ at Freiburg, and all the other great musical instruments of the world. You would call such a man as that a monster, and yet you are more wicked if, with the human voice, a musical instrument of more wonderful adaptation than all the musical instruments that man ever created, you shut it against the praise of God. Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God, But children of the heavenly King Should speak their joys abroad. Music seems to have been born in the* soul of the natural world. The omnipotent voice with which God commanded the world into being seems to linger yet with its majesty and sweetness, and you hear it in the grainfield, in, the swoop of the wind amid the mountain fastnesses, in the canary’s warble and the thunder shock, in the brook’s tinkle and the ocean’s paean. There ore soft cadences in nature and loud notes, some of which we cannot hear at all and others that are so terrific that we cannot appreciate them.

iuc (uuiuaicuiac uavc uicir uuumlv;, and the spieula of hay and the globule of water are as certainly resonant with the voice of God as the highest heavens in which the armies of the redeemed j celebrate their victories. When the breath of the flower strikes the air, and the wing of the firefly cleaves it, there is sound and there is melody; and as to tho.se utterances of nature which seem harsh and overwhelming, it is as when you stand in the midst of a great i orchestra, and the sound almost rends your ear because you are too near to catch the blending of the music, so, my friends, we stand too near the desolating storm and the frightful whirlwind to catch the blending of the music, but when that music rises to where God is, and the invisible beings who float above us, then I suppose the harmony is as sweet as it is tremendous, In the judgment day, that day of tumult and terror, there will be no dissonance to those who can appreciate the music. It will be as when sometimes a great organist, in executing some great piece, breaks down the instrument upon which he is playing the music. So, when the great mprch of the judgment day is played under the hand of earth* quake, and storm and conflagration, the world itself will break down with the music that is played on it. The fact is, we are all deaf, or we should understand that the whole universe is but one harmony—the stars of the night only the ivory keys of a great instrument on which God’s fingers play the music of the spheres. Music seems dependent on the law of acoustics and mathematics, and yet where these laws are not understood at all the art is practiced. There are to* day 500 musical journals in China. Two thousand years before Christ the Egyptians practiced this art. Pythagoras learned it. Lasus of Hermione wrote essays on it. Plato and Aristotle introduced it into their schools, but I have not much interest in that. My chief interest is in the music of the Bible. The Bible, like a great harp with innumerable strings, swept by the fingers of inspiration, trembles with it. So far back as the fourth chapter of Genesis you find the first organist and harper— JubaL So far back as the thirty-first chapter of Genesis you find the first choir. All up and down the Bible you find sacred music—at weddings, at in- | augurations, at the treading of the wine p>£ss. The Hebrews understood how to saake musical signs above the musical [ text- When the Jews came from their

distant homes to the freati festivals at Jerusalem, they brougtu hairp and timbrel and trumpet and poured along the great Judean highways a river of harmony until in and around the) temple the wealth of a nation's song and gladness had accumulated. In our day we have a division of labor in music, ajnd we have ■ one man to make the hymn, another man to make the tone, another m»« to play it on the piano and aaiother man to sing it. Not so in Bible times. Miriam, the sister of Moseat, after the passage of the Red sea, composed e doxology, set it to music, clipped it on a cy mbal and at the same tipie sang it. David, the psalmist, was at the same time poet, musical composer, harpist and singer, and the majority of his rhythm goes vibrating through all the

stringed strings of ten e fingers was the ut of the en there cymbals, There were in Bible tim instruments—a harp of t playing by fret and bow, a strings resounding only to of the performer. Then the: crooked trumpet, fashioned horn of the ox or the ram. were the sistrum and the clapped in the dance or beajten in the march. There were 4,000 Levites, the best men of the country, wjhose only business it was to look after {the music of the temple. These 4,000 Levites were divided into two classes and officiated on different days. Can you imagine the harmony when these white robed Levites, before the symbols of God’s presence and by the smoking altars and the candlesticks that sprang upward and branched out like trees of gold and under the wings of the cherubim, chanted the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Psalm of David ? Do you know how it vras done? One part of that great choir stood up and ehanted: “Oh. give thank?, unto the Lord, for He is good 1** Then part of the choir, standing other part of the temple, wouli with the response: “For His dureth forever.” Then the would take up the song again “Unto him who only doeth g ders.” The other part of t would come in with overwhe sponse: “For His mercy end ever,” until in the latter par song, the music floating back forward, harmony grappling mony, every trumpet soundi bosom heaving, one part of this great white robed choir would lift! the anthem: “Oh, give thanks unto {the God of Heaven!” and the other part of the Levite choir would come in with the response: “For His mercy endureth forever.” 1 But I am glad to know that all through the ages there has been great attention paid to sacred music. Ambrosias, Augustine, Gregory the Great, JCharlemagne, gave it their mighty influence, and in our day the best musical genius is throwing itself on the altarsl oCGod. Handel and Mozart and Bach and Durante and Wolf and scores of other men and women have-given t)t»e best part of their genius to church music. A truth in words is not half so mighty as a truth in song. Luther’s sermons have been forgotten, but the “Judgment Hymn” he composed is resounding yet all through Christendom. I congratulate the world and the church on the advancement made in this art—the Edinburgh societies for the improvement of music, the Swiss singing societies, the Exeter hall concerts, the triennial musical ceavocatjion at Dusseldorf, Germany, and Birmingham, England, the controversies of uiusic at Munich and Leipsic, the Handel and

MUJUA UU1UIUJU1V UUU 4UU4.U1 l DU--. cieties of this country, the academies of music in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Charleston, New Orleans, Chicago and every city which has any enterprise. Now, friends, how are we tojdecide what is appropriate, espeeialljy for chureh music? There may be « great many differences of opinion. In some of the churches they prefer a trained choir; in others they prefer the melodeon, the harp, the cornet, the organ; in other plaees they think these thfhgs are the invention of the devil. [ Some would have a musical instrument played so loud you cannot stand it, and others would have it played so soift you cannot hear it. Some think\ musical instrument ought to be played ojnly in the interstices of worship, and! then with indescribable softness, 1 while others are not satisfied unless there be startling contrasts and staccato passages that make the audience jump, with great eyes and hair on end, as from a vision of the witch of Endor. But, while there may be great varieties of opinion in regard to music, it seems to me that the general spirit of the word of God indicates what ought to be the great characteristics of church music. And I remark, in the first place, a prominent characteristic ought to be adaptiveness to devotion. Music; that may be appropriate for a concert! hall, or the opera house, or the drawing room, may be inappropriate in chjurch. Glees, madrigals, ballads, may be as innocent as psalms in their places.! But church music has only one designj, and I that is devotion, and that which domes w|th the toss, the swing and the display of an opera house is a hindrance tio the worship. From such performances we go away saying: “What splendid execution! Did you ever hear such a soprjano? Which of those solos did you like the better?” When, if we had Wen rightly wrought upon, we would have gone away saying: “Oh, how my soulfwas lifted up in the presence of Got! while they were singing that first hymn! 1 never had such rapturous views of Jesus Christ as my Saviour as when they were singing that last doxology ” My friend, there is an everlasting distinction between music as an art! and« music as a help to devotion. Though a Schumann composed ft, though a Mozart played it, though a Sontag sang it, away with it if it does not magej the heart better and honor Christ. Why should we rob the programmes of worldly gavety when we have so wfrwy

appropriate songs r ad tun« composes in our own day. a! well as that mag nificent inheritance of church psalmody which has come down fragrant with the devotions of other generations—tunes no more worn out than they were when cur great-grandfa-thers climbed up to them from the church pew to glory? Dear old" souls, how they used to ting! When they were cheerful, our grandfathers and grandmothers used to sing “Colchester.” When they vere very meditative, then the boarded meeting house rang with “South Street "and St. Edmund’s.” Were the/ struck through with great tendert ess, they sang “Woodstock ” Were they wrapped in visions of the glory c f the church, they sang “Zion.” Were they overborne with the k>ve and glory of Christ, they sang “Arich.” And in thoee days there were certain tunes married to certain hymns, and they have lived in peace a great while, these two old people, and we have no right to divorce them. “What God hath joined together let no mao j put asunder.” Born as we have been, amid this great, weal :h of church music, augmented by the compositions of artists in our day, wt ought not to be tempted out of the sphere of Christian harmony and try to se?k unconsecrated sounds. It is absurd for a millionaire

/iu evcai. I remark, also, that corectness ought to be a characteristic of church music. While we all ought to take part in this service, with perhaps -i few exceptions,, we ought at the same time to cultivate ourselves in this saceri art. God loves harmony, and we ought to love it. There is no devotion in a howl or a yelp. In this day, when there are sq many opportunities of high culture in this sacred art, I declare that those parents are guilty of neglect who let their sons and daughters grow up knowing nothing about music. In some of the European Cathedrals the choir assembles every morning and every afternoon of every day the whole year to perfect themselves in this art, and shall we begrudge ' he half hour we spend Friday nights in the rehearsal of sacred Song for the Sabbath? Another characteristic must be spirit andi life. Music ought to rush from the audience like the water from a rock— clear, bright, sparkling. If all the other part the church service is dull, do not have the music dull. With so many thrilling things to sing about, away with all drawling and st upidity. There is nothing that makes me so nervous as to sit in a pulpit ami look off on an audience with their eyes three-fourjths closed, and their lips almost shut, mumbling the praises of God. During one of my journeys I preached to an audience of 2,000 or 3,000 people, and all the music they made together did not equal one skylark! People do not sleep at a coronation; co not let us sleep v. hen we come to a Saviour’s eruwniug. In or tier to a proper discharge of this duty, let us stand up, save as age or weakness or fatigue excuses us. Seated in an easy pew we cannot do this dnty half so well as when upr ght we throw our whole body |»to it. Let onr song be like an acclamation of victory. \ You have a right to sing—do not surrender your prerogative. If in the performance of your duty, or the attempt at its you should lose your place in the musical ses.le and be one C be ow when you ought to be one € above, or you should come in half a bar behinc?, we will excuse you! Still, it is better todoasPaul says and sing “with the spirit and the understanding also.* '

Again I remark church music must be congregational. This opportunity must be brought down within the range of the w bole audience. A song that the worshipers cannot sing is of no more use to them than a sermon in Choctaw. What an easy kind of church it must be where the minister does all the preaching and the elders all the praying and the choir all the singing! There are but very few churches where there are “245 sing ing men and singing women.” In some churehes it is almost considered a disturbance if a man let out his voice to full compass, and the people get up on tiptoe and look o' er between the spring hats and wonder what that man is making all the noise about. In Syracuse in a Presbyter! in ehtorch there was one member who came to me when I was the pastor of another church in that city and told me h s trouble, how that as he persisted In singing on the Sabbath day a committee, made up of the session of the choir, tad come to ask him if he would not just please to keep still! You have a right to sing. Jonathan Edwards used to set apart whole days for singing. Let us wake up to this duty. Let us sing alone, sing in our families, sing in our schools, sing ih our churches. I want to rouse you to an unanimity in Christian song that has never yet been exhibited. Come, now; clear your throats and get ready for this duty. 1 never shall forget hearing a Frenchman sing the “Marseillaise” on the Champs Elysees, Paris, just before the battle of Sedan, in 18TQ. I never saw such enthusiasm before or since. As he sang that national air, oh, how the Frenchmen shouted? Have you ever in an English assemblage heard a band play “God Save t|he Queen?” If you have, you know something about the enthusiasm of a national air. Now, I tell yoSgjthat these songs we sing Sabbath by Sabbath are the national airs of the Kingdom of Heaven, and if you do not learn to sing them here how do you ever expect to sing the song of Moses and the Lamb? 1 should not be surprised at all if some of the best anthems of Heaven were made np of some of the best songs ef earth. May God increase our reverence for Christian psalmody and keep us rom disgracing it by our indifference andfyivolity. | Bramble—Dobbs thinks he s a good poker player, doesn't he? Thorne—Yes, but it costs hi m a good deal of money to think so.—V. Jour ul

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St. Louis. A ■ays: At the Democratic aa in Chicago, a to reorganize the committee, and posed of seven a new executive of 11 members, tee, composed Stone, aeting committee, y sub-committees, advice from yet in Europe, Among other naming these ■The Republic meeting of® the committee, held ion was adopted ways and means a new one com* also to name ittee composed a press commitmembers. Gov. of the national anounced thes« having received Jones, >vbo i* ng the same. assigned for mittees was the fight by Chicago democrats against Gov. Aitgeld, then a member of the ways and means committee, and P. J. Devlin, manager of the democratic national press bureau. Gov. Aitgeld and other members; of the old ways and rnenas committee resigned, and the press committees * will have full authority over the press bureau. Presumably, Mr. Devlin's wings will ha clipped, and of||r hand! will direct the bureau. Gov. Aitgeld is out of the committee entirely. Thomas A. Gahan, the Illinois ber of the national committee, led the fight before the committee against Gov. Aitgeld and Mr. Devlin. He is made a member of the new executive committee, which will have general supervision of all the affairs of the national committee when that body is not in session, follow: Executive Com new committees Messrs. JohnStone, of Michigan; son, of Kansas, of Missouri; Shanklin, of Indiana; Guffey, of Pennsylvania; Gahan, of Illinois; Head, d Tennessee;. Clay loop: of Alabama; Thompson, of Nebraska; Williams, of Massachusetts, and O'Brien, of Minnesota. ■ Ways and MeansCommittee—Messrs. McLean, of Ohio, vice chairman; Woodson, of Kentucky; Wilson, of Colorado; Dwyer, of California; Tillman, of South Carolina;?; Campion, of New York, and Johnson, of Kaus&s. The former members ol the ways and means committee, namely, Messrs. Alt A 11™ __v wraus cuuuuiuw, .uessrs. geld, Allen, Teller and Stone, retired, and requested the chairman to name their successors. Press Committee—Messrs. HoweiU of Georgia, vice chairman; Daniels, of North Carolina; Troup, of Connecticut; Walsh, of Iowa, and Johnson, of Kansas. ; The chairman of the whole committee will be ex-officio chairman of ail subcommittees. In his absence the vice-chairmen will preside over their respective committees, and in u general way will at all times perform the duties of ehairnw*o.g||;c ■ Concerning the >#ttpmuttees. Gov. Stone said: “After the committee meeting at Chicago, I wrote Senator Jones fully what had been done, making such suggestions as I thought proper, trod requesting him to name the sub-com-mittees as soon as possible. In reply he wrote me as follows:

Chairman Jo»«r Letter. “ ‘Glasgow, Scotland; Aug. 10,1880.— William J. Stone, vieie-Clutirnian, etc.: My Dear Governa*^S|*m glad to receive your letter and to have the information and suggestions contained therein. I think the action of the* committee wise and timely, and in .compliance with the resolutions adopted I will select the following gentlemen to constitute the several committees. (Then followed the committees as stated.) •• :- “ Tt is impracticable for me to write each of these gentlemen, notifying him of his appointment, and I respectfully ask that you yjpf have the kindness to do so. '' “ Since you have been selected by the committee to act cs chairman in my absence, I feel much less reluctance to obey the orders of my physic cian and remain abroad until October. I know that the interests of the party will be carefully watched over by you. and all that a wise discretion and entire devotion to the party interests can do will be done bv you. Sineerely yours, JAMES R. JONES.’ “I will write the members of the several committees in a day or two re- - questing them to meet me at Chicago in about ten days, so that we can map out our work and begin to prosecute it actively without further delay.” At the approaching meeting referred to by Gov. Stone, plans will be outlined for prosecuting the 1900 compaign between the present time and the meeting of the democratic national convention. It is the idea of the leaders in the national committee that the party should be thoroughly organized before the next campaign opens. The question of thdpjnture of the press bureau will also be determined. That it will be continued, seems evident', but whether headquarters will he left at Chicago or moved to Washington is not known. A; v - , Afalut Des Moines, la., Sepi. A.—-Tfc* Iowa people’s party state convention, which , met here Wednesday, nominated a full state ticket, declared against fusion, and indorsed Whart«&Barker, oi Pennsylvania, and Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota, for president and vicepresident in 1900. Ininrceat* Abaudoa ike Job. Manila, Sept. 1.—The Fourth infantry having prepared to give the insurgents a warm reception, the latter have ceased their preparations for at •ttack on Imus. ^