Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 21, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 September 1899 — Page 3

TO ENJOY LONG LIFE. A Prescription Prepared by Rev. Dr. Talmage. aclleion Will Offset the DluIpatlMl »' and Destroyers of Life—Tho iiospel a Chariot for the LIttag. (Copyrighted. 1S39, by Louis Klopsch.) Washington. Sept. 2L In this discourse Dr. T&imsge gives prescriptions for the prolongation of life and preaches the gospel of physical health. The text is Psalms 91,16, “With long life will 1 satisfy him.” Through the mistake of its friends religion has been chiefly associated with sick beds and graveyards. The whole subject to many people is odorous with •chlorine and carbolic acid. There are people who cannot pronounce the word ^‘religion” without hearing in it the clipping chisel of the tombstone cutter. It is high time that this thing were changed and that religion, instead of being represented as a hearse to carry out the dead, should be represented as ■a chariot in which the firing are to triumph. Religion, so far from subtracting from one's vitality, is a glorious addition. It is sanative, curative, hygienic. It is good for the eyes, good for the ears, good for the spleen, good for tha digestion, good for the nerves, good for the muscles. When David in another pdrt of the psalm prays that religion may be dominant, he does not speak of it as a mild sickness or an emaciation or an attack of moral and spiritual cramp. He's; calcs of it as “the saving health of all t aliens,” while God in the text promises iopgevity to the pious, saying: “With long life will I satisfy him." The fact is that men and women die too soon. It is high time that religion .joined the hand of medical science in attempting to improve human longevity. Adam lived 930 years; Methuselah lived 069 years. As late in the history of the world as Vespasian there were at one time in his empire 45 people 135 years old. So far down as the sixteenth century Peter Zartan died at 185 years of age. I do not say that religion will ever take the race back to antediluvian longevity, but I do say the length of life will be increased.

It is saiti in/Isaiah: “1 he child shall die a hundred years old.” Now, if, according to Scripture, the child1 is to be a hundred years old, may not the men and women reach to 300 and 400? The fact is that we are mere dwarfs and skeletons compared with some of the generations that are to come. Take the African race. They have been under bondage for centuries. Give them * chance, and they develop a Frederick Douglass or a Toussaint L’Ouverture. And, if the white race shall be brought ■from under the serfdom of^in, what shall be the body, what shall be the soul? Religion lias,only just touched our world. .Give it full power for a few centuries, and who can tell what will be the strength of man and the beauty of women and the longevity of all? • My design is to show that practical religion is the friend of long life. I prove it first from the fact that it makes the care of our health a positive Christian duty. Whether we shall keep early or late hours, whether we shall take food digestible or indigestible, whether there shall bcTtkorough or incomplete mastication, are questions very often deferred to the realm of whimsicality. But the Christian'man lifts this whole problem of health into the accountable and the Divine. He says: “God has given me this body, and He has called it the “temple, of the Holy Ghost, and to deface its altars or mar its walls or crumble its pillars is a God defying sacrilege.” lie secs God’s caligraphy in -every page, anatomical and physiological. Ilesays: “God has given me a wonderful body for noble purposes”—that arm with 32 curious bones—wielded by 46 curious muscles and all under the brain’s telegraphy, 35^) pounds of blood Tushing through the heart every hour,the heart in 24 hours beating 100,000

miiefe, uuring tne x* nours tne lungs taking in 57 hogsheads of air, and all this mechanism not more mighty than delicate and easily disturbed and demolished. The Christian man says to himself: “If I hurt my nerves, if I hurt my brain, if I bur*, any of my physical faculties, I insult Cod and call for dire retribution.” Why did God tell’the Levites not to offer to Him in sacrifice animals imperfect and diseased? He meant to tell us in all the ages that we are to offer to God our very best physical con■dition, and a man who through irregular or gluttonous eating ruins his health is not offering to God such a sacrifice. Why did Paul write for his cloak at Troas? Why should Such a %reat man as Paul be anxious about a thing so insignificant as an overcoat? It was because he knew that with pneumonia pnd rheumatism he would not be worth haif as much to God and the church as with respiration easy and foot free. An intelligent Christian man would ■consider it an absurdity to kneel down at night and pray and ask God’s protection while at the same time he kept the window of his bedroom tight shut against fresh air. He would just as soon think of going out on the bridge between New York and Brooklyn, leap- * ing off an€ then praying to God to keep him from getting hurt. Just as long as you refer this whole subject of physical health to the realm of whimsicality orto the pastry cook or to the butcher or to the baker or to the apothecary or to the clothier, you are not acting like a Christian. Take care of all your physical forces—nervous, muscular, bone, brain, cellular tissue—for all you must ■be brought to judgment. Smokingyour nervous system into fidgets, burning out •ftae coating of your stomach with wine longwooded and strychnined, walking with thin shoes to make your feet look delicate, pinched at the waist until you are nigh cut in two and net*

ther part worth anything:, groaning about sick headache and palpitation of the heart, which you think came from God, when they came from your own folly! What right has any man or woman todefaee the temple of the Holy Ghost? What is the ear? It is the whispering gallery of the souL What is thg eye? It is the observatory God constructed, its telescope sweeping the heavens. What is the hand ? An instrument so wonderful that, when the earl of Bridgewater bequeathed in his will $4O,0CO for treatises to be written on the wisdom, power and goodness of God, Sir Charles Bell, the great English anatomist and surgeon, found his greatest illustration in the construction of the human hand, devoting hiB whole book to that subject. So wonderful are these bodies that God names hispwn attributes after different parts of them. His omniscience—it is God’s eye; His omnipresence—it is God’s ear; His omnipotence — it is God’s arrp; the upholstery of the midnight heavens—it is the work of God’s fingers; His life-giving power—it is the breath of the Almighty; his dominion—“the government shall be upon his should er.’f ? “But,” you say, “professors of religion have fallen, professors of religion have got drunk, professors of religion have misappropriated trust funds, professors of religion have absconded.” Yes, but they threw away their religion before they did their morality. If a man on a White Star line steamer, bound for Liverpool, in mid-Atlantic jumps overboard and is drowned, is that anything against the White Star line’s capacity to take the man across the ocean? And if a man jumps over the gunwale of his religion and goes down never to rise, is that any reason for your believing that religion has no capacity to take the njau clear through? In the one case, if he had kept to the steamer, his body would have been saved; in the other case, if he had kept to his religion, his morals would have been saved. There are aged people who would have been dead 25‘years ago but for the defenses and the equipoise of religion. You have no more natural resistance than hundreds of people who lie in the cemeteries to-day slain by their own vices. The doctors made their case as kind and pleasant as they could, and it was called congestion of the brain or something else, but the snakes and the blueflies that seemed to crawl over the

pillow in_ the sight of the delirious patient showed what was the matter with him. You, the aged Christian man, *■ alked along by that unhappy one until you came to the golden pillar of a Christian life. You went to the right, he went to the left. That is all the difference between you. If this religion fs a protest against all forms of dissipation, then it is an illustrious friend of longevity. “With long life will I satisfy Him.” i Suppose you had a supernatural neighbor who came in and said: “Sir, I want you to call on me in every exigency. I am your fast friend. I could fall back on $20,000,000. I can foresee a panic ton years. I hold the controlling stock in 30 of the best monetary institutions of New York. W’heneveryou are in trouble call on me, and I will help you. You can have my money, and you can have my influence. Here is my hand in pledge for it.” How much would you worry about business^ Why, you would say: “I’ll do the best I can, and then I’ll depend on my friend’s generosity for the rest.” Now, more than that is promised to every Christian business man. God says to him: **I own New York and London and St. Petersburg and Peking, and Australia and California are mine/ I can foresee a panic a hundred years. I have all the resources of the universe, and I am your fast friend. When you get in business trouble or any other trouble, call on me, and I will help. Here is my hand in pledge of omnipotent deliverance.” How much should that man worry? Not much. 'VN hat lion will dare to put his paw on that Daniel? Is there not rest in this? Is there not an eternal vacation in this? “Oh,” you say, “here is a man who asked God for a blessing in a certain enterprise, and he lost $5^000 in it. Explain that.”

I will. Yonder is a factory, and one wheel is going north, and the other wheel is going south, and one wheel plays laterally, and the other plays vertically, I go to the manufacturer and I say: “0 manufacturer, your machinery is a contradiction! Why do you not make all the wheels go one way?” “Well,” he says, “I made them go in opposite directions on purpose, and they produce the right result. You. go downstairs and examine the carpets we are turning out in this establishment, and you will see.” I go down on the other floor, and I see the carpets, and I am obliged to confess that, though the wheels in that factory go in opposite directions, they turn out a beautiful result, and while I am standing there looking at the exquisite fabric an old Scripture passage comes into my mind: “All things work together for good to then) who love God.” Is there not a tonic in that? Is there not longevity in that? Suppose a man is all the time worried about his reputation? One man says lies, another says he is stupid, another says he is dishonest and half a dozen printing establishments attack him, and he is in a great state of ex.citement and worry and fume and cannot sleep, but religion corner to him and says: “Man, God is on your side. He will take care of your reputation. If God be for you, who can be against you?” How much should that man worry about his reputation? Not much. If that broker who some rears ago in Wall street, after he bad lost money, sat down and wrote a farewell letter to his wife before he blew his brains out —if, instead of taking out of his pocket a pistol, he had taken out a well-rend New Testament, there would have been one less suicide.

- - O nervous and feverish ]people of the world, try this almighty sedative! Toy will live 25 years longer under its sooth* ing power. It is not chloral that you want or morphine that yon want. It ia the Gospel of Jesus Christ. “With long life will I satisfy him." Again, practical religion is a friend of longevity in the fact that it removes all corroding care about a future exist* ence. Every man wants to know what is to become of him. If you get os board a rail train, you wan t to know at what depot it ib going to stop. If you g^t on board a ship, you want to know into what harbor it is going to run. An i if you should tell me you have no ' interest in what is to be your future ! destiny I would, in as polite a way as I know how, tell you I did not believe ' you. Before I had this matter settled with reference to my future existence the question almost worried me into ruined health. The anxieties men have upon this subject, put tog,-ether, would make a martyrdom. This is a state of awful unhealthiness. There are people who fret themselves to death for fear of dying. I want to take the strain off your nerves and the depression off your soul, and I make two or three experiments. Experiment first: When you go out of this world it does not make any difference whether you have been good or bad. whet her you believed truth or error, you will go straight to glory. “Impossible,” you say. “My commoi sense as well as my religion teaches th*i the bad and the good cannot live togeth« er forever. You give me no comfort in that experiment.” Experiment the second: When you leave this world you will go into an intermediate state,where you can get converted and prepared for Heaven. “Impossible,” you say. “As the tree falleth, so must it lie, and 1 cannot postpone to an intermediate state reformation which ought to have been effected in this state.” Experiment the third: Tblje |s no future worlds When a man dies, that is the last Of him. Do not worry about what you are to do in another state of being. You will mot do anything. “Impossible,” you say. “There is something that tells me that death is not the appendix, but the preface, to life. There is something that tells me that on this side of the grave I only get started and that I shall go on forever. My power to think says ‘forever,’ my affections say ‘forever,’ my capacity to enjoy or suffer, ‘forever.’ ”

Well, you defeat me in my three ex* periments. I have only one more to make* and if you defeat me in that I am exhausted. A mighty One on a knoll back of Jerusalem one day, the skiea filled with forked lightnings and the earth filled with volcanic disturbances, turned His pale and agonized face toward the heavens and said: “I take the sins and sorrows of the ffges into my own heart. I am the expiation. Witness, earth and Heaven aud hell, I am the expiation.” And the hammer struck Him, and the spears punctured him, and Heaven thundered: “The wages of sin is death!” “The soul that sinneth, it shall die!” “I Will by no means clear the guilty!” Then there was silence for half an hour, and the lightnings were drawn back into the scabbed of the sky, and the earth ceased to quiver, and all the colors of the sky began to shift into a rainbow woven out of the falling tears of Jesus, and there waa red as of the bloodshedding, and there was blue as of the bruising, and there was green as of the heavenly foliage,-and there was orange as of the day dawn, and along the line of the blue I saw the words: “I waa bruised for their iniquities,” and along the line of red I saw the words: .“The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all siu,” and along the line of the green I saw- the words: “The leaves of the 1 ree of JAfe for the healing of the nations,” and along the line of the orange I saw the words: “The day spring from on high hath visited ns,” and then i saw the storm was over, and the rainbow rose higher and higher until it seemed retreating to another heaven, and, planting one column of its colors on one side of the eternal hill, and planting the other column of its colors pn the other side the eternal hill, it rose upward and upward, “and, behold.

there was a rainbow about the throne.” Accept that sacrifice and quit worrying'. Take the tonic, the inspiration,, the longevity, of this truth. Religion is sunshine; that is health. Keligion is fresh air and pure water; they are healthy. Religion is warmth; that is healthy. Ask all the doctors, and they will tell you that a quiet conscience and pleasant anticipations are hygienic. I offer you perfect peace now and hereafter. What do you want in the future world? Tell me, and you shall have it. Orchards? There are trees with 12 .manner of fruits, yielding fruit every month. Water scenery? There is the river of Life from under the throne of God, clear as crystal, and the sea of glass mingled with fire. Do you want music? There is the oratorio of the Creation led on by Adam, and the oratorio of the Red sea led on by Moses, and the oratorio of the Messiah led on by St. Paul, while the archangel with swinging baton controls the 144,000 who make, up the orchestra. Do you want reunion ? There are your children waiting to kiss you, waiting to embrace you, waiting to twist gatlands in your hair. You have been accustomed to open the door on this side the sepulcher. I open the door on the other side the sepulcher. You have been accustomed to walk in the wet grass on the top of the grave. I show you the under side oi the grave. The bottom has falfen out. and the long ropes with which the pall bearers let down your dead let them clear through into Beaven. Glory be to God for this robust, healthy religion! It will have a tendency to make you live long in this world, and in the world to come you will have eternal life. “With long life I will satisfy Urn.” There are 1,000 vessels which cross the Atlantic ocean regularly ever* month, some of them twioe a month

URGE PARTY UNITY. Democratic Leaders Plead Strongly for Peace. RatlMal Committee Caanlmonilr Adopts Resolution to Hormoalse— • Factions Asked to Settle DlRerences. At a meeting of the national democratic committee in Chicago, Monday, September 18, ex-Gov. William J. Stone, of Missouri, introduced the following resolution, which was adopted by a rising vote: “The national committee of the democratic party in session at Chicago to consider the work of party organization, preparatory to the campaign of 1900, sends greeting to the democracy of the nation, with the assurance that the prospect of democratic success next year grows brighter every day. We have every reason for confidence as to the outcome. “The great need now Is party unity and thorough organization. “The committee appeals, therefore, to our party friends in all states, and especially in states where elections are to be. held this year, to put aside all local differences wherever they exist and support the regular party tickets earnestly and enthusiastically, keeping always in view the great struggle of next year and re-* membering that in unity there is strength and in division weakness. “Especially do we appeal to the Kentucky democracy to give loyal support to the regular ticket in that state,- headed by Mr. Goebel, and thereby make sure of a democratic victory in the state and the return of Senator Blackburn to the senate of the United States.” Wish Chicago Fight Ended. The members of the executive committee tacitly admitted aftertheirmeeting that the paragraph in the resolution dealing with factional differences was inspired by the situation that exists in Chicago and some parts of Illinois outside of Cook county. They want the fight between the regular organization, of which Mayor Harrison is the leader, and the Altgeld forces, that has been exploited at two meetings of the national committee through the medium of attacks on Editor Devlin, of the press bureau, concluded forthwith. To bring about this finale they have vested Chairman J. G. Johnson, of the executive committee, with extraordinary powers and established him at the head of permanent executive headquarters to be opened in this city within 30 days. Chairman Johnson is equally acceptable to the Harrison and Altgeld forces. ,

vnairman jonuson was invesieu wim power to assume command of all the der partments of the national organization. The executive committee empowered him to establish headquarters in the Unity building, and set on foot such schemes of organization, management and supervision as may in his judgment appear feasible and necessary. ' The ways and means committee placed him in charge of the work of the committee not alone as general manager, but as the resident member of the committee. Sam B. Cook, the present manager, is to retire to accept the democratic nomination for secretary of state of Missouri. The press committee authorized Mr. Johnson to assume immediate control of the press bureau of the National Bulletin. This commission places Editor Devlin under Mr. Johnson’s orders and will eventually enable him to select Devlin’s successor. Veiled with Great Authority. Mr. Johnson is therefore the embodiment of all the executive energy of the national organization of tk2 democratic party. More authority has been concentrated in him than ever before was intrusted to a single member of the party. The return of Senator.Jones in October will not impair the position of the Kansan. The senator selected Mr. Johnson for the duties he is going to perform. He will not interfere in the arrangements agreed upon, for they had his approval before they were constimmated. The only consideration exacted from Mr. Johnson in return for the honors showered upon him was a promise on his part to establish his home in Chicago until after the next national convention.

heeretary Charles A. v\ alsh, of Iowa, was also made a member ex-officio of all three committees, and after the close of the state campaign in Iowa will ( spend a great deal of his time in Chicago as Mr. Johnson’s associate at headquarters. Plans for Freqsent Meetings. Chairman Johnson’s present intention is to call frequent meetings of the executive committees whenever he thinks they ought to gather for the transaction of business. The executive committee will meet at least once every 60 days and perhaps as often as once •very 30 days. No well defined scheme of organization was offered by any member of the committee. It seemed to be the assumption of those present that Mr. Johnson ought not to be hampered at the outset of his work by a prearranged programme. He will be left to follow his own plans, which are sa!3 to have met with the approval of everyone to whom they were submitted. The first work the new chairman will undertake will be the harmonizing of dissatisfied democrats and the unifying of party organization in localities where there are factional divisions. He will devote a great deal of attention to the Kentucky situation and will endeavor to discourage those members of the party who have evinced a disposition to follow the bolting candidate for governor. It is Chairman Johnson’s intention to make frequent trips to states and districts where there is trouble to interview opposing leaders and advise them to bury their differences in the interest of party success. Ex-Gov. Stone said after the meeting, says the Chicago Chronicle, that the resolution had been conceived in a spirit of harmony and accepted by his colleagues on the executive committee in the same spirit.

“FersonaHy,” he said. *'I havecoiac* n» the conclusion that the democratic party cannot have too many members. We want as many as we can get. We have taken the key out of the lock and thrown It away. The door will be wide open hereafter. The efforts of the national committee from this time will be devoted to harmonizing existing differences and unifying the party. All schemes of organization governed by any other spirit would fail of their purpose. The men who comprise the personnel of the new working commiti&s are a unit on this matter.” Pleased with Work Done. Almost without exception the na tional committeemen expressed satisfaction with the results of the meetings. They said that while no essential positive business had been performed with the exception of the defining of Mr. Johnson’s powers, much, work for the future had been mapped out. They were enthusiastic over ex-Gov. Stone’s harmony resolution, which, they agreed, is a direct invitation to all democrats to get' together. t Following are some expressions of opinion about the spirit of the resolution: . ", Urey Woodsbn, of Kentucky—The language is unequivocal. The resolution is a direct invitation to all democrats to join hands with the party in its future battles. We are in favor of harmony. Adair Wilson, of Colorado—I voted for the resolution because it seemed to breathe the spirit of harmony. I was glad that ex-Gov. Stone introduced it, and I was equally glad that it was passed without a dissenting'vote. Thomas Gahan, of Illinois—There can be no sort of doubt after to-day’s proceedings that the democratic national committee is in favor of harmony. The resolution adopted has only one significance. It is an appeal to democrats tq get together, and its effect upon the party organization everywhere is bound to be good. J. G. Johnson, of Kansas—Ex-Gov. Stone’s resolution marks a new spirit and sentiment in the democratic organization, and I have no doubt that its effect will be far-reaching on members of the party.

neaatoeri in Ati»«Hce. Committeemen at the meeting were: Vice chairman, W. J. Stone, Missouri; secretary, C. A. Walsh, Iowa; J. Q. Johnson, Kansas; Thomas Gahan, Illinois; H. D. Clayton, Alabama; TJray Woodson, Kentucky; J. M. Head, Tennessee; J. M. Guffy, Pennsylvania; W. H. Thompson, Nebraska; George Fred Williams, Massachusetts; T. D. O’Brien. Minnesota; John R. McLean, Ohio. i . ---i— A SOLDIER SPEAKS. The llmanthoritntlve Assurance ot Senator liaaao Set at Kaussht. Lieut, Col. Jacob II. Smith, the distinguished commander of the Twelfth regular infantry, now winning renown in the Philippines, does not agree with those military and other optimists who are now predicting the early suppression of the Aguins^an insurrection. ‘^The United States’ 'must understand,” writes Col. Smith to Banker William H. Thomson, of St. Louis, “that we are only in the beginning Of this war and that it will take 100,000 soldiers to put down the troubles we are now beset with in the Philippines. The army here, which is minus the tried veterans,, has a very alarming amount of sick men and officers, and there appears to be no ltt-up, owing to our having so many soft recruits.” How differently this.sounds from; Senator Hanna’s confident assurance that the Philippine revolt will be ended within six months—and. coming from a tried and trained soldier like Col. Smith, who is on the scene of operations, how much more authoritative. Persons desirous of getting at the truth of the Philippine situation cannot fail to be impressed by this latest report. It sounds the judgment of a man whose business it is to correctly estimate the. qualities of a foe and to weigh carefully all the chances pertaining to a campaign.

It is natural, however, that Manna and his followers should wish to minimize as much as possible th ’ menace of the Philippine situation. Administration secretiveness concerning the administration policy regarding the per- ' manent disposition of the Philippines was largely responsible for the outbreak of the insurrection. Administration blundering and favoritism are responsible for the prolonged conflict. The administration must needs convince the people4hat the outlook is not serious—-if such a feat is now possible to its mouthpieces. Senator Hanna is pleading earnestly for the president when he so bravely predicts the early restoration of order in the Philippines. It is very unfortunate that, with the exception of the president’s favorite, Otis, the army officers now in the Philippines do not agree with the Hanna forecast. With Otis’ press censorship suppressing the dispatches of newspaper correspondents at the front., the people will be grateful for such bits of authentic information as are contained in letters like that of Col. Smith. They desire the facts concerning the Philippine campaign. If wt are in for a long war it is better that the certainty be known. The administration itself would act wisely in recognizing this truth and adopting a policy of greater frankness in its dealings with the people.—St. Louis Republic. -It is stated that Secretary of Wax Root is ‘‘studyingjthe Philippine problem like! a legal case.” This is an excellent idea. Mr. Root is an astute lawyer. Why doesn’t he sue Spain and require her to deliver the Philippine goods in accordance with the bill of sale, on which we paid her $20,000,000 in good money? Why not secure a mandamus or something of that sort to compel Spain to make good her “defective title” to the islands? Fighting under Gen. Otis i6 a slow and costly process. The law is the thing!—N. Y. World.

The Executive Committee Believes Prospects for Victory are Growing Brighter UNITY URGED IN THE PASTY’S WORK. §§|1| i Appeal to Democracy— Chairman Johnson of the Executive Committee V^ited with Extraordinary Powers In the DIreo* tlon of the Cominc Campaign, Chicago, Sept. !&.—J2x-Got. William J. Stone, of Missouri, vice chairman oi the Democratic national committee, introduced this resolution at Monday’* meeting of the national executive coup mittee and it was adopted by a rising vote: The national committee of the democratic party, In session at Chicago to consider the work of party organization preparatory to the campaign of 1900. sends greeting to the democracy of the nation with the assurace that the prospect of democratic success next year grows brighter every day. We have every reason for confidence as to the outcome. The great need now la partly unity and thorough organization. The committee appeals, therefore, to our party friends in all states, and especially in states where elections are to be held this year, to put aside all local differences wherever they exist, and support the regular tickets earnestly and enthusiastically, keeping always in view the great struggle of next rir, and remembering that In unity there strength, and in division weakness. Especially do we appeal to the Kentucky democracy to give loyal support to the regular ticket In that state, headed by Mr. Goebel, and thereby make sure of a democratic victory in the state, and the return of Senator Blackburn to the senate of the United States. Chairman J. G. Johnson of the execg£ thre committee was rested with extraordinary powers and will be at the head of the permanent executive headquarters to be opened in this city within 30 days. x. . • |§||J Chairman Johnson & equally acceptable to the Harrison and Altgeld forces .’.is'Z

The three national subcommittees— ways and means, executive and press —were in session alternately from 9:30 o'clock in the morning until nearly fire o’clock in the afternoon. The following members were in attendance: Executive Committee*—J. G. Johnson, of Kansas; W. J. Stone, of St. Louis; Thomas Gahan, of Illinois; J. M. Guffy, of Pennsylvania; J, M. Head, of Tennessee; H. D. Clayton, of Alabama; W. H. Thompson, of Nebraska; George Fred Williams, of Massachusetts, and T, J>. O’Brien, of Minnesota, Ways and Means ^Committee—John R. McLean, of Ohio; Urey Woodson, of Kentucky; Adair Wilson, of Colorado, and J. G. Johnson, of Kansas. * ,v T I’ress Committee—Clark Howell, of Georgia; J. G. Johnson, of Kansas, and C. A. Walsh, of Iowa. George Fred Williams, of Massachusetts, said the annual democratic convention at Boston; Thursday, would elect delegates to the next national convention. ' j John R. McLean, chairman of the ways and means committee and democratic caudidate for governor of Ohio, sharply questioned the propriety of any state naming its delegation to the national convention nine months before the convention is to be held. “It savors too much of snap judgment,*’ he The business t ratisaeted by the three committees consisted almost exclusively of investing Chairman Johnson with power to assume command of ail the depaftments of the national organiza- - tion. The exec vi ti ve commit tee empowered him to establish headquarters in the Unity building and set on foot such schemes of organization, management and supervision as may, ittTiis judgment, appear feasible and neeessary. . The press committee authorized Mr. Johnson to assume immediate control of the press bureau and National Bulletin. This places Editor Devlin under Air. Johnson’s orders, and eventually will enable him to select Devlin’s successor. ; ■ “i »*§

Chairman Johnson's present intention is to call frequent meetings of theexecutive committee and meetings of the other committees whenever he thinks they ought to gather for the’ transaction of business. The executive committee will meet at least once every 30 days. ■ ■" • The first worfc jfie; new chairman will undertake wiw be the unifying of party organizations in localities wher^e there are divisions. ■. ’ 7The report of General Manager Cook , showed that the subscriptions to the ways and means committee amount to about $100,000, most of which probably will be collected before March 1, 1900w The actual cash balance of the committee, however, is sraai||§f The democrats are booming the Dallas (Tex.) state carnival. The executive committee adopted resolutions indorsing the carnival and most of the committeemen who were in the city will attend. Destructive Dumber and Mill Fire. Lowville, N. Y., Sept. 2<\—Theodore B. Basselin’s large saw mill at Castorland and. ten acres of lumber ' were burned, causing a lo3s of $250,000. Care to Prevent tbnaltpox. San Francisco, Sept. 20.7-^Tbe military authorities here are taking every precaution to prevent an outbreak of smallpox among the men of the Thirty-first infaatryv one of its members having been stricken. Tuesday the entire regiment was transferred te the quarantine station on Angel island It is reported that the transport Grant will be dispatched to Manila within a few days with another regiment in place of the Thirty-first* which was to have departed for Manila Monday. "VSSxH;