fn local"Rally day" will be observed tomorrow at

Mount Tabor Methodist Protestant Church.Kith street and Wisconsin avenue north¬west. The exercises will be In charge of theSunday school. The program Includes an

address by ex-Superintendent E. H. L.Myers; 11 a.m.. sermon by the pastor. Rev.J. Ernest Lltslnger, subject: "The RightArm of the Church;" Junior Christian En¬

deavor In the afternoon; address by Rev. T.B. Crouse, pastor of the Congress StreetChurch; «:30 p.m.. Christian Endeavor, con¬

ducted by Wm. J. Conlin; 7:30 p.m., evan¬

gelistic service, sermon by pastor. Specialmusic will be furnished by the choir at thepreaching servicesi

Arrangements have been made for a

meeting In the interest of the MethodistProtestant Church Extension Society of thiscity at the North Carolina Avenue M. P.Church. North Carolina avenue and Bstreets southeast, Wednesday evening, Oc¬tober 18. at 7:30 o'clock. Matters of im¬portance to the organization will be dis¬cussed.

The_twenty-first anniversary of the Cen¬tral Union Mission will be celebrated to¬morrow with a njries of services. Rev. 8.M. Newman will preach the anniversarysermon at 11 a.m., and at 2 p.m. a gospelwagon service will be held on Market space,followed at 3 o'clock by services at themission, In which local pastors will partici¬pate.Gospel wagon services on Market space at

C p.m. will be followed at 7:30 o'clock withanniversary services at Hamline MethodistEpiscopal I'hurch. An address will be madeby W. E. Andrews, several pastors will beheard, and Percy S. Foster will conduct themusical service.The annual business meeting will be held

at the mission Monday.The board of directors is as follows: O. B.

Brown, chairman: N. A. Robbln, secretary;J. C. Pratt, treasurer; George W. Wheeler,Charles J. Ladson, Clayton E. Emig, W. C.Tyler, Percy S. Foster. H. D. Gordon andW. L. Speiden. The following pastors con¬stitute the ministerial council: J. G. Butler,chairman; S. M. Newman, secretary; J. J.Muir. X'. I). Powers. H. R. Naylor, R. H.McKim. W. F. Locke, J. M. Gill, A. W.Pitzer and W. C. Alexander.

Rev. Oliver Johnson of Leslie, S. C. whoIs In Washington visiting friends, willpreach tomorrow morning at the CentralPresbyterian Church and in the evening atthe Eckington Church. Mr. Johnson's con¬gregation. which is probably the strongestboth numerically' and financially, in the se-ceder denomination, is now erecting a newhouse of worship, which will be one of thehandsomest and best appointed churchbuildings in the synod of the south.

Rev. Dr. H. T. Johnson, editor of theChristian Recorder, the official organ of theA. M. E. Church, published In Philadelphia,Pa., has arranged to deliver a free lectureIn Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, M Btreetbetween 15th and 10th streets northwest,Friday, October 20, at 8 p.m. The Brother¬hood of Allen, under whose auspice* thelecture Is given, Is composed of young menwho seek to help strange young men whocome to the city and give them a welcometo the A. M. E. Church.The newly elected officers of the Woman's

Home Missionary Society of the MethodistEpiscopal Church of the Washington dis¬trict are: Mrs. J. E. Gilbert, president; J.W. Duvall, vice president; 8. M. Lake, re¬cording secretary; F. T. Israel, assistantsecretary; D. B. Street, corresponding sec¬retary, and Miss Ella Stinemetz. treasurer.The department secretaries are: Mrs. C. A.Williams, supplies; Mrs. George A. Llnkins,young people; Mrs. Howell Bartel, wom¬an's home missions; Carrie M. Fernandez,mite boxes; Miss Grace Chandlee, readingcircles; Mrs. Emma Norris, systematicheneflcence; Mrs. E. H. Lamar, thank of¬fering; Mrs. R. L. Wright, literature; Mrs.M M. Mitchell, home guards Mothers' Jew¬els; Miss Helen Ferguson, children's homemissions; Mrs. T. C. Smith, secretary me¬morial members, and Mrs. Will H. Chan¬dlee, president memorial members.The society held its annual all-day meet¬

ing Wednesday at McKendree Church,Mrs. R. M. Moore presiding. At the morn¬ing session Mrs. Mary Leonard Woodruff,secretary for Porto Rico, gave an address,In which she spoke o- the rescue work Inbehal fof Chinese slave girls In San Fran¬cisco, "and of her experiences at the Indiancamp meeting held by Chippewas In thenorthern woods of Michigan. Luncheonwas served in the church and work wasresumed at 1:30.In addition to the election of ofneers and

reports read by department secretaries theafternoon session was diversified by a soloby Mrs. M. M. Richmond and short talksby Mrs. Street and Mrs. Roach. It wasannounced that the annual conference willbe held in the Mount Vernon M. E. Church,Baltimore, from October 31 to November 2.The Rev. Oliver Johnson of Leslie, S. C.,who Is visiting in Washington, will preachtomorrow morning at the Central Presby¬terian Church and tomorrow evening at theEckington Church. The late Joseph Wylieof Chester. S. C:, whose benefactions to the

colleges at Due West amounted to over$}*>.oo<>, wits reared In the church at Leslie,and Capt. William L. Roddey of Rock Hill.S. C.. who is said to be today the richestman in the Seceder denomination, has hismembership In the church at Leslie, whereh ¦ was born, and, though Leslie is sixmiles from Rock Hill, he and his wife, whileliberal contributors at Rock Hill, still wor¬ship In the church of their ancestors atLeslie.

BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW.Notices have lieen Issued for a meeting of

the executive committee of the Washingtonbrotherhood chapters at St. Paul's Churchnext Monday evening.

Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas, rector of theChurch of the Holy Apostles, Philadelphia,will preach at Trinity Church tomorrowevening, the service being under the aus¬pices of Trinit> Brotherhood Chapter.The brotherhood chapter attached to St.

Paua s Church has resumed Its regularme- tings for the fall and winter, holdingtwo meetings «ach month, the first anilthird Thursday p. The first meeting Is de¬voted to a P.ible class, under the directionof I)r. Koenlg, and at the meeting held thehitter part of the month a class on churchb «-tory is conducted by the rector of theparish.

An invitation was presented at the na¬tional brotherhood convention held lastye.ir at Philadelphia for the convention of1:*>7 to be held in this city. The Invitationw.i- r< vm : at the recent Chicago conven¬ts ii with the request that it bo made inter¬national In character. The question as toth. nvi ntion coming to Washington willte decided at the annual gathering of l'JOti.CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES.A series of committee conferences will1..- h. Id by the District Christian EndeavorVnion Friday evening of next VMk atthe First Presbyterian Church, on John

Marshall place between C and D streetsnorthwest. The object of these gather¬ings Is to discuss and consider in a prac¬tical way plans and problems relating tosome of the more Important lines of thework of Christian Endeavor societies.There will be five separate conferences,each held In a different room at the sametime. The subjects and leaders will beas follows: Prayer meeting and musiccommittees, by Miss Louie Dale Leeds ofSt. Paul's Kngllsh Lutheran Church; look¬out and calling committees, by A. WilburStarratt of the Vermont Avenue ChristianChurch; missionary committees, by M:ssKdlth M. Church of Metropolitan Presby¬terian Church; social committees, by Dun¬can Stuart ot First Congregational Church;Junior superintendents and other Juniorworkers, by Miss Ardell Payne of WhitneyAvenue Christian Church.The conferences are to begin at 7:30

o'clock and continue until ft. when all willgather in the church auditorium for ageneral closing meeting. The conferencesare intended for all Endeavorers. and ItLs expected thai each person will attendthe conference relating most particularlyto the line of work In which he Is en¬gaged or Interested.

At the monthly meeting of the ChristianEndeavor Society of the New York Ave¬nue Presbyterian Church last Mondayevening it wag decided to start a missionstudy class, to be under the direction of

Gburcfies.Mrs. D. E. Wiber, one of the delegatesto the Silver bay conference last summer.A dozen members put their names downto Join the class, and several others havesince expressed a wish to Join.The Christian Endeavor Society of the

Congress Heights Methodist EpiscopalChurch has elected the following new of¬ficers: President, J. M. McCauley; vicepresident. H. Harris; corresponding secre¬tary and Junior superintendent. MissMaude Fowler; musical director, CharlesJohnson; chairman of social committee,Herbert Talbert; delegate to DistrictChristian Endeavor Union, Rev. W. L.Orem.

The Christian Endeavor Society of theMetropolitan Presbyterian Church held its(annual installation service last Sundayevening. Rev. Dr. Albert Evans, pastor ofthe church, officiating. The outgoing pres¬ident, Miss E. M. Church, after a briefresume of the past year's work, thankedthe society and the pastor for the cor¬dial co-operation extended to her duringher term of office. After commenting onthe excellent progress made by the so¬ciety, she expressed the desire that thenew officers should receive the same gen¬erous support during the year just begun.Dr. Evans then installed the new offi¬

cers, taking occasion to express his ap¬preciation of the valuable work which thesociety has always accomplished "for Christand the Church," and assured them of hishearty co-operation agd sympathy. Thenew president, George C. Shinn, then tookcharge of the meeting and made some ap¬propriate remarks concerning the outlookfor the new year.The pther new officers who were installed

are as follows: First vice president, H.F. Mitchell; second vice president, H. I.Bingham; corresponding secretary, JamesBrearley; recording secretary. Dr. T. M.Chunn; treasurer, Frank C. Stratton; chor¬ister. Charles Davies. The new committeechairmen are as follows: Missionary, MissJulia Fernald; social, Miss E. M. Church;good litrature, Miss C. F. Boyden; flowerand Sunday school. Miss E. C. Espey;junior. Miss Lillle Zimmerman; usher. Dr.R. A. W. McKeldin.

A second tennis match between En-deavorers of the Ninth Street and VermontAvenue Christian Churches was playedMonday afternoon on the court of the Ver¬mont avenue society. The Ninth Street teamagain won, though the players on bothsides were well matched and all the setswere close. George W. Stose and R. E.KInsell played for Vermont avenue, andArthur G. Bishop and Harry S. Welch forNinth Street. The score by sets was 7-5,6-4 and 6-4.

The Christian Endeavor Society of How¬ard University has elected the followingofficers for the fall term: President, Ed¬ward P. Davis; vice president, Anna Bow-yer; secretary, Myrtle M. Jones; treasurer,Osceola M. Burls; librarian, John R. Sabo;delegate to district union, John F. Van-derhorst.

iffggSSSSSS!J5~P»sSl'SInterspersed throughout the suDDer nnri?onf|rstki>rWofeadell8hifM1 mu8ical numbers,

va mandolin solo by William

Jr. and vocal solos by Philip £!t£ n&and WJIIIani Clabaugh

P U

The officers for the ensuing year are-

Schroede?1 P.1*""?; Prank C.'

»«r ..a Miss o,:,,,!1,,::;;;

»u.v ftessri Kin?0.ni'ntl Vr.K d llterature. Miss Elva M

?f,lssr^nn,a M- Hughes Is the del¬egate to the District Union.

forrF,!.. Francis E. Clark has sailed

I sh^ 11 's sald' he wi!I take

Christianentering upon active

A c ,f i i0r work ln that continent

crennr.t nn if T. may be glven t0 thepreparation of a history of the ChristianEndeavor movement for its first quarter

which is now drawing to a close.Just before leaving. Dr. Clark sent the fol-

Dis rict riri«»l° Resident Metcalf of the"at

Christian Endeavor Union:

sea I f5r the other side of the

f®a- J- de£lrf to send you a word of greet¬ing and Godspeed In the work of the com-

year l^th*m.eVhat '? ,many aspects thisyear is the most promising and hopeful oi

moveS h'hICh ,the Christian EndeavoJmovement has entered. It will mark the

a°?<5.ioV«n of.our.flrst quarter-century associety, and will Inaugurate. I believe

new and larger things for the future.a L parts of the Christian En¬

deavor world comes good news of constantprogress and the blessing of God. Every

J0.1? e missionary lands brings tld-the way God is using Christian En-

deavor societies for the conversion of theyoung and their establishment In the faithIn our own country, I believe, the responseti Gods leadings will be no less promptf"d. earnest. From many quarters I hear

0t t.he four 'millions' pro¬posed at Baltimore has been adopted by theLndeavorers. and that they will strive fora million churchgoers, a million newchurch members, a million new Endeavorersand a million dollars for mlslons." I hopethat in the District of Columbia this ap¬peal may strike a responsive chord and thatthrongh the efforts of the Endeavorers thekingdom of our Lord may be greatly ad¬vanced during this coming year.

I shall often think of you and your work,and snail pray for God's special blessinerupon it."

6

A very pleasant social was held lastThursday evening by the Endeavorers ofPeck Memorial Chapel. The president ofthe society, Charles Thaden, extended awelcome to the guests, after which therewere several songs by Master Edgar Kid-well and a march by men bers of "the so¬ciety. Games were played and Ice creamand cake were served. The arrangementswere made by the social committee, ofwhich M:ss Rose Hodgson is chairman.

The Endeavorers of the Vermont AvenueChristian Church held their monthly busi¬ness meeting last Tuesday night at theheme of Misses Ixjuise and Helen McDer-mot. The following officers and committeechairmen were elected for one year: Presi¬dent. R. E. KInsell; vice president, MissLouise McDermot; recording secretary. A.L. Wlil'ams; corresponding secretarv. MissAlice Van Arsdale; treasurer, Irving Satim;pl&n St. Miss Ethel Summy; chorister. Mrs.A. Ij. Williams. Chairmen of committees:Lockout, Miss Helen Summy; prayer-meet¬ing. Miss Nellie Orchord; missionary. MrsC H. Dewey: social, Miss Ethel Summy;temperance. MHo W. Munson; music. Mrs.A. 1.. Williams: Junior. Miss MargueriteHires: information. Miss Ellis. The societyalso elected three new members. After thebusiness session the young people were in¬vited to the dining room, where refresh¬ments were served by the hostesses.

The normal class in mission study whichhas been conducted by the District Chris¬tian Endeavor Union for two seasons withso much Interest and success will be re¬sumed. beginning with next Saturday after¬noon from 5 to 6 o'clock ln the west parlorof the First Congregational Church Thesame leader. Mr. W. H. H Smith, will againbe in charge. Africa will be the subject forthis course, and the text-book will be "Day¬break In the Dark Continent." by WilsonS. Naylor. The purpose of the class Is toqualify its members to lead mission studvclasses in their own churches. The class isto meet each Saturday at the time andplace mentioned until the course Is com-

?. ^ Membership Is not limited to Chris¬tian Endeavorers, but Mr. Smith and the

of the union express the desire that

mav fe*l ^ wl«l>es to lake -the course

vear, fZLl VI to Join the class. In pastjears there have been In the class severalrepresentatives of other young p<Ws or¬ganizations Persons who desire to enrollor to obtain further information shouldcommunicate with the superintendent of themissionary department of the Christian En¬deavor Union. F. C. Schroeder. at the headquarters of the union, room 730. Bond build-

.A£°nwrfncP Sf the offl°er8 and membersof the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zlon ChurchChristian Endeavor Society decided to hold

i? j£jUal opening meeting of the societyIn ¦^Metropolitan Zion Church, on D streetsouthwest, beginning at « p.m. tomorrow

elm £nn,e Shelton, chairman of thecommittee on program, assisted by hercommittee, will arrange the program for

in- °£fa8lon- The society will at this meet-

irf- GThe officers

I '«!'^dd,eon Turner, president; Mrs MU Hockley, secretary; James a! Taylor,

Pennsylvania Conference ofUnited Brethren Church

TO MEET HERE SOONIN MEMORIAL CHURCH, NORTH

CAPITOL AND R STREETS.

Extent of Conference.Some Prominent

Delegates Wlio Will TakePart in Meeting.

The Pennsylvania conference of theChurch of the United Brethren in Christwill convene in its 116th annual session inMemorial Church, corner North Capitol andR streets. Rev. W. J. Houck pastor, Octo¬ber 17 at 2 p.m. Bishop J. S. Mills will pre¬side. There will be three sessions daily,from Tuesday to Saturday. The last day-will be given to the ministers and delegatesfor sightseeing.Sunday, October 22, will be a full day of

devotional services. On this day the ap¬pointments of ministers for the ensuingyear will be announced. This will close thesessions.Pennsylvania conference has a member¬

ship of 111 ministers, with 157 churches,the total value of which is $725,096. Thesechurches have a lay representation of sixtypersons and are located in southern Penn¬sylvania, Maryland and the District of Co¬lumbia.Lay representatives have all the rights

and privileges of ministers in an annualconference, except the right to vote uponthe reception or rejection of ministers andthe passing of preachers in their course ofreading.This conference has a membership of

16,275, with 145 Sunday schools, having21,634 scholars and 2,48'J teachers and offi¬cers, and 161 young people's societies, witha membership of 7,937.

Educational Institutions.The educational institutions are Lebanon

Valley College, located at Annville, Pa.,and Union Theological Seminary, located

treasurer; Miss Blanche Snowdeni organist.The organization of a Christian Endeavorchoir will be considered. A number ofpapers will be read and some good speakersare expected.

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HOUR

Conducted by Grace* Livingston Hill-Lute.For Sunday, October 15, 1905.

Topic: "Better Work Our Society Should Do."Hebrews vi:7-12; xiii:20, 21.

Hebrews, 6:7. For the earth which drlnk-eth In the rain that cometh oft upon It,and bringeth forth herbs meat for them bywhom it is dressed, receiveth blessing fromGod; ]8. But that which beareth thorns andbriars is rejected, and Is nigh unto .curs¬

ing; whose end is to be burned.0. But, beloved, we are persuaded better

things of you, and things that accompanysalvation, though we thus speak.10 For God is not unrighteous to forget

your work and labor of love, which ye haveshewed toward his name, In that ye haveministered to the saints, and do minister.

11. And we desire that every one of youdo shew the same diligence to the full as¬

surance of hope unto the end:.12. That ye be not slothful, but followers

of them who through faith and patience in¬herit the promises.Hebrews, 13:20. Now the God of peace,

that brought again from the dead our l-oidJesus, that great shepherd of the sheep,through the blood of the everlasting cov-

21 Make you perfect in every good workto do his will, working in you ih.it which iswell pleasing in his sight, through JesusChrist; to whom be glory forever and ever.Amen.

The Lesson.Do you remember those tirst days of

Christian Endeavor when all our heartswere on fire with zeal and we carrlcd tne

society upon our minds day and nightHow we went to the meetings, never miss¬

ing one for rain or snow or ugly wind!How we prayed for souls, and how we

went after them! Fruit? There was plentyof it. Thorns and briars? Not so many,and what there were, were soon choked outby the great love we had in our hearts.Did we think of such a thing as neglect¬ing our committee woik, or staying awayfrom the regular prayer meeting except foran absolute necessity? No. And how wesaved, and planned to go to the conven¬tions, and tried to bring our friends undertheir wouderful influence! You rememberit all. You know how many times you sac¬rificed your own pleasures in order to goafter some possible new member, or to talkwith some associate member and try toreach his heart and bring him nearer toJesus, that winter you were on the iook-out committee.Does not that time of blessing and fruit

bearing remind you of the simile In thispassage, of the earth drinking in the rain,and then, its dryness becoming saturatedwith the moisture, forth cometh greenness,and-beauty, and blossoming flowers, ripen¬ing into fruit in return for the bounty ofthe rain.The rain Is the likeness of the enlighten¬

ment of God's word touching our hearts.The fruitfulness is the result o.' our readi¬ness to respond to the knowledge of salva¬tion, our belief In Jesus Christ, our doing

I His will- To such comes a blessing, iou

at Dayton. Ohio, where are also located thepublishing house and headquarters for allthe general officers. The Old People's Homeis located at Mechanicsburg, Pa.,, and theorphanage and home for children is locatedat Quincy, Pa. These institutions will berepresented by Revs. Z. A. Colestock andH. J. Kitzmiller, respectively, while the col¬lege will be represented by Rev. Prof. H.U. Roop and Dr. D. Eberly.The missionary Interests will be repre¬

sented by Rev. Dr. S. S. Hough and Rev.Dr. H. H. Fant, the Church Erection So-cietj' and publishing interests by Rev. Dr.W. R. Funk.The total amount raised for all purposes

and reported at the last session was $145,-780.96.One of the items of interest will be the

election of a presiding elder for the ensu¬ing year. The Incumbent Is Rev. W. II.Washinger of Chambersburg, Pa.

Denomination at Large.In the United Brethren denomination, of

which this conference is a part, there are

forty-four conferences, with missions inWest Africa. China, Japan and the islandsunder this government. There are 4,035organized churches, 2,016 ministers, with a

membership of 253.641. The total valueof church property is $8,273,470. The totalamount of money raised for all purposeslast year was $1,810,679.66. Of this amount$112,960.08 was for missions.

know It. you have felt It. Those timeswhen you delighted in the service of theLord are sweet remembrances to you yet,though the blessings seem In the past. Is Itpossible What some of us are not bearingfruit as we used to do? That we have letthe rich gifts of God degenerate into weedsonly? It Is quite possible, you know, Insome soils, for the rain and sunshine tobring forth nothing but weeds and thornsand briars. Are we perfectly sure that wehave not let this occur in our lives? Letus see. There is that course of studyplanned for the winter, a business course,or music or German. You expect to giveevery evening to classes or study. Haveyou left free the prayer meeting night?Have you taken a thought to the commit¬tee you are upon, and left a possibility orwork for that?You are a member of a little social cir¬

cle somewhere, and you have friends andinterests which will bring you not a littlegayety and pleasure during the season.Have you planned anything at all for theother members of your society, that youm-ay give them pleasure, and at the sametime gain an Influence over them?And in your prayer time, have you set

apart a moment in which to pray for thebetterment of your Christian Endeavorwork?Suppose, for instance, you are on the

prayer meeting committee. It may be youare only an insignificant submember, whoseadvice is seldom asked. It does not mat¬ter In the least. If good work is going onit will certainly go faster if you put yourshoulder to the wheel and help. If thereis not much work, then get to work anddo something. It does not make the slight¬est difference that you are shy and bash¬ful, and never have taken tne lead any¬where. Begin now. If no one else doesanything, do it yourself, fatir the rest up.Don't say you can't; that they won't stir.Do it. There isn't a soul In the world whocannot stir others if he will try. It's be¬cause you never tried, perhaps, that youdon't see any use In it. Is there any waythat that prayer meeting of yours could bemade better? Think! is the attendanceas good as it should be? No? Well, howmany people have you invited to go withyou during the past year? And how manyhave you prayed the Lord 10 send? Youcertainly can do something for the meetingin that way. Stir the rest of your commit¬tee up to do the same.after you have be¬gun yourseif! You can do wonders atstarting other people it you only snow themthat you ace ready to practice what youpreach.Does your prayer meeting committee

meet to pray with the Reader five minutesbefore each meeting? If not, try to getthem to do It. If y<u fall, suppose youpray for the leader yourself before youleave your home. Tell the leader you willdo so. It will help him. There Is morepower in prayer than anything else wecan do.Do all the members pray in your meet¬

ings? And Is there much prayer? Agitatethis question. Be willing to pray a briefsentencS yourself and ask some shy friendto foUow you. Arrange this before themeeting.Suppose you are on the lookout commit¬

tee. How many souls are there In yourchurch and community that ought to bereached by your society who are not beingreached? How many associate membersare there in your society who ought to beactive ones and members of the church andare not? How vigorous an effort have youmade to change this? How many activemembers have you who are active only inname? What have you tried to do to bet¬ter this? Are you singling out a fewnames at every one of your committeemeetings for which to -pray? Have you

Bishop J. S. Mills,

put a member of your commute® lp chargepf these souls, given .them a sou] responsi¬bility, as it were, laid it upon them topray ana work for these certain souls un¬til they are saved? That you can do.You cah also learn how to say "the word Inseason" which shall help these souls nearerto Jesus. That Sa what our lookout com¬mittee used to be. you know. How has Itgrown so c«ld and dead?Are you on the social committee? Weil,

then, has your society social degeneratedinto a mad round of childish frames, wellenough, perhaps, to break the first stiffnessand get the shy ones to talking, but nevermeant to take up the entire thought of thesocial? Can you not plan some practical,unobtrusive way of getting your awkwardboy members and your backward girls todraw out of their shells, and .feel that foronce In their lives they are having a realtime of Intercourse and friendly minglingwith other members of the same church?Can you not do something to erase, at leastfor these evenings, the strong lines whichcaste, education, upbringing, etc.. aredrawing more and more distinctly amongthe people of God? Can you not help tomake all feel that they are members one ofanother, and one body In Christ?Does your temperance committee antago¬

nize every saloon that is opened inyour midst, every license granted? Does itcarry petitions about and scatter tracts andtemperance literature broadcast? And yourgood citizenship committee.but there isnot time to touch them all. And. after all.you know what each should do. You knowthe history of Christian Kndeavor.why Isit that the world now says so often thatChristian Endeavor Is on the decline? IsIt not largely your fault? Are you bring¬ing forth the fruit for the blessing thatGod expects for all the gentle showers Hehas sent upon you?Parallel passages.II Thessalonians, 11:15-

17; I Corinthians. i:8; II Thessalonians. iii:13; I Thessalonians, xll:13; Philippians, iii:13, 14; II Timothy. ii:15; Haggai. li:-i.Hints to the leader.The Endeavor Hym¬

nal. 33. 52, 82, 87, 111. 122. 137.Write upon the blackboard the different

lines In which you think the society oughtto go forward during the coming year. Getthe pastor and one or two representativeworkers in the church to tell briefly howthey think the society should do better. Askeach committee to hold a meeting before¬hand and look over the past year's work, de¬ciding in what ways they will improve, andselect a representative to say so. Empha¬size the great need of more prayer, and setapart a season for senlence prayers.Close by singing "I'll Go Where Tou

Want Me to Go, Dear ix>rd."

"My soul, thy leaves put on.Seeking for fruit the Mnater comm. and seeHe finds thee not. na erst He found the tree

Withered at early noon.

"Lord of the vineyard, come.And eat Thy pleasant summer fruit; for Thou,Thou only canst with fruitage load the boughAnd make the barreu bloom."

W. C. T. U. MEETING.

Bloomingdale Organization TransactsBusiness This Week.

The Bloomingdale W. C. T. U. met Thurs¬day in regular business session. The devo¬tional exercises were conducted by theevangelistic superintendent, Mrs. Everett,who drew a lesson from the Bible story ofSamuel. After the usual monthly reportswere heard a report was read from the de¬partment of health and heredity whichshowed muoh interest and good work ac¬

complished by Dr. Strobel. Mrs. Pyles reada letter from Miss Gordon, matron of theFlorence Crittenden Home, expressing ap¬preciation of the work done In this depart¬ment. Mrs. Everett made a report of theDistrict convention. Including the awardingof the prize banner by the District toBloomingdale Union for the largest per centincrease In membership during the year.

RELIGIOUS NOTESAND COMMENTS

According to a communication from theRome correspondent of the Boston Tran¬script, the pope has abolished the sale of in¬dulgences. The custom which the pope nowabolishes dates back, it Is said, to the timeof the Crusades, when funds were beingraised all over the world to support expedi¬tions against the Mohammedans, who were

threatening the Invasion of Christian Eu¬rope. The account says:"This abuse Pius X has now decided to

end, and It is altogether likely that he willsucceed, for the papal document Just issueddeclares that even those who are in posses¬sion of a copy of the bulla cruciata are notto consider themselves exempt from anyobligation imposed by the church, and thatall dispensations covered by it are now nulland void." This, says the correspondent. Isone of the most important reforms yet in¬stituted by Pope Pius X.

Some vigorous criticism is brought to bearupon the churches in general by Rev. Al¬gernon Sidney Crapsey of St. Andrew'sProtestant Episcopal Church, Rochester, N.Y., in his recent volume entitled "Religionand Politics." The gist of the author's con¬tention is that the modern church stands,outside the current of Influence wielded bythe "three great spirits at work creatingthe world that Is and that is to be," name¬

ly, the spirit of scientific investigation, thespirit of democratic revolution and the spiritof social evolution. The remedy for thepresent Ineffectiveness of the churches, hedeclares, is in th£ir becoming "scientific,democratic and socialistic," conditions whichwill result In a reuniting of church and stateIn a distinctly modern sense.

The striking suggestion Is now made toform a Jewish settlement in Queensland,and to use as the nucleus of this settle¬ment the Russian prisoners of war of Jew¬ish faith who are now stationed at Japan,or at least as many of them as do not wishto return to their native land. The prop¬osition is explained in a letter which hasJust been received by a prominent Hebrewin New York from N. E. B. Ezra, a mem¬ber of the Jewish community at Shanghai,China, as follows:"There is dawning a period of gpod pros¬

pects for some of our persecuted co¬

religionists in eastern Europe, and the co¬

operation of the whole mass of Jewry isneeded to face the Jewish problem that Isso thickly looming on the horizon. Theiehas been of late several proposals madeto transplant the less happier Jew intoa brighter atmosphere, where he can breathea life that is free from the dross of theInfections of anti-Semitism. The latest ef¬fort in this direction is notable, coming usIt does from a source that is wholly un-sellish In Its motives. It has just beenannounced In today's issue of Israel's Mes¬senger that the principal mission of Mr.F. Jones, the trade representative in theeast for the state of Queensland to Tok.-o,is to endeavor to .Induce the Japanese, gov¬ernment to permit Russian prisoners ofthe Jewish faith who do not wish to re¬turn to Russia to emigrate to Queensland,presumably after giving parole not to en¬gage in the war."The Japan Chronicle of the 30th of July,

while commenting on the above subject,makes the following striking observation:" 'it may be doubted whether the Japanese

government will be in favor of any suchscheme, as it might establish a precedentwhich would involve complications In othercases, while It would involve the Implica¬tion that one belligerent has the right todecide as to the future of the forces ofthe other party who may fall Into hishands. It may be questioned, however,whether the Russian government would of¬fer any objections to being relieved of a

part of its Jewish population.'"That the tone of the Jap; n Chronicle is

sympathetic is obvious from the followingconclusion with which it ends its com¬ments:" 'Communities, like Individuals, tend to

move along the lines of least resistance,and, given the necessary advantage as tosettlement, there seems no reason to sup¬pose that if Jews emigrate to Queenslandthere should not, under proper guidance,be a future for t.iem us agriculturists equalto that of other races.'"It is to be earnestly hoped that the mis¬

sion of Mr. Jones will be crowned «rith suc¬cess. 1 understand that the negotiationis still going on between him and the Jap¬anese government, the result of vuch willbe awaited with feverish interest.. I maymention that ±~.r. Jones has Interviewedsome of the member* of the ShanghaiJewish community prior to his departureon his contemplated mission to Tokio, andhe expected to be bacs in Shanghai withina fortnight."

Teacher."Tommy, how many more '.inifemust I tell you to stand up straight ar.lthrow your shoulders back?"Tommy Tucker (in desperation).'I've

*hrowed "em back aa far as 1 can, ma'tirn.They're fattened to m»l".Chicago Tribune.

Claimed to Be the LiveliestPlace on the Continent.

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HAS GROWN RAPIDLY..

REAL ESTATE VALUES EQUALTHOSE OF THE "BOOM" DAYS.

Buildings Put Up This Year Expectedto Beach a Cost of Twelve Million

Dollars.Scarcity of Labor.

BY WILLIAM F.. CI RTISSpecial Correspondence of Ihe Star and the Chicago

Record-Herald.WINNIPEG. Canada. October 6. 1005.

The people of Winnipeg claim that It Is"the liveliest city In America," and that no

city of Its class on the continent Is growingso rapidly. I have not been able to com¬

pare its statistics of growth with those ofLos Angeles, but am inclined to think thatIt ^should have the first place on the list,allowing Winnipeg the second. There Is no

doubt that Winnipeg, being the center ofall things and the focus of all affairs Inwestern Canada, receives some benefit fromevery person and every dollar that comesInto this country. Like all frontier cities.Denver, Los Angeles, Kansas City. Dallas.Minneapolis and other places In the statesthat we might compare it to.Winnipeg hashad Its ups and downs. Its booms and itsdepressions .have probably been more radi¬cal and extreme than those of any othercity on this hemisphere; perhaps It wouldbe safe to say the entire world. The lasttime I was here. In 1SS4, shortly after theCanadian Pacific completed its line fromthe east and began building the branchroads which have made Winnipeg a rail¬road center, it was the scene of the wildestspeculation. City lots were selling at higherprices than in Chicago or New York; auc¬tions were held every night on the streetcorners, and real estate changed hands likerailway shares on the stock murket. A gen¬tleman in our party bought a residencelot for something over $4,000, as a "tlyer,"and sold It the next night for an advancesufficient to pay the auctioneer's commis¬sion and leave a cash profit of $21. Thegreater part of the town site was tossedabout In that way, and the expectationsof "the future metropolis of Canada." asthey used to call it, and as they call It yet,were so great that business property onthe main street was selling at a higherprice per front foot than on Michigan ave¬nue In Chicago.At that time Winnipeg was a collection of

shacks scattered over a prairie, shelteringperhaps 10,(KX) people. When the boom col¬lapsed more than half of the Inhabitantsabandoned the town. They could not evengive their property away, because the as¬sessments made upon it by the tax commis¬sioners were more than the land was worth.A good story is told which Illustrates thesituation:A gentleman who owed some money suc¬

ceeded in arranging a settlement by which,among other assets, he agreed to transfer tohis creditor one city lot. In making out thedeed of transfer he put in twice as muchland as he had agreed to give, and when thelawyer called his attention to it he turnedpale and whispered: "For heaven's sakedftn't say a word! I didn't think any onewould notice it!"

On a Permanent Basis.But after a few years, when the real

wealth of the country began to be devel¬oped and speculation subsided, Winnipeggot down to a rational business basis and isnow a city of 100,000 Inhabitants, withbroad, well-paved streets, lined with hand¬some residences, and business blocks ofstone and brick. As an indication of Itsgrowth, the assessments of real estate ad¬vanced from $24,185,540 In 1896 to $50,505,800in 1804, and probably will exceed $00,000,000for the current year. The clearing house re¬turns were $184.1518,4S3 in 1901 and $294,601,-437 in 1004. and are expected to exceed $350,-000,000 for 1805. One of the most noticeablefeatures of Winnipeg is the massiveness ofits bank buildings, and as a financial centerit now stands third in the dominion, havingpassed such old cities as Halifax, Hamilton,Ottawa and Quebec.Last year the building permits were $9,-000,000. This year they have already passedthat mark and have three months more to

go on; so that the total Is expected to reachtwelve or more millions.almost as much asLos Angeles. But the growth of Winnipeg iseven more rapid than that of its Californiarival, as will be seen by the following fig¬ures, which show the permits for buildingsgranted during the past five years:

190 0 $1,357,430190 1 1,718,067190 2 2.865.325190 3 5,689.780190 4 9.651,7501905 <9 months) T 8,721,050Last year the permits were mostly forbusiness blocks, hotels and other expen¬sive buildings; this year they are prin¬cipally for dwellings and represent more

than 3,000 structures, with an average val¬ue of $3,240 each, which is very high fora frontier town. Strangers are coming infrom every direction and are compelled tobuild houses, because there are none forrent. A large number are from the UnitedStates. Winnipeg is the most American ofall Canadian cities, although its popula¬tion is very much mixed and representsevery race and nation. The woman whoruns the Bible Society office says that lastyear she had applications for the Good-"Book in thirty different languages and di¬alects.You can still see many of the original

wooden shacks on the main street, butmost'of them have been displaced by finenew buildings of cream-colored brick, andnew ones are being erected on almost everyblock. The business part of Winnipeg looksmore like Portland, Ore., than any othercity. The residence section is spread overa large area, with plenty of room betweenthe houses; but the'electric street car sys¬tem reaches every section and the bestclass of houses are being erected on theoutskirts of the town.

Convpared "With Other Cities.Mr. A. L. Johnson, president of the board

of trade, says that after twenty years ofups and downs Winnipeg has finally re-

covered the boom prices of 1884; but thistime they are permanent. Business prop¬erty on Main street has sold as high as

{2.000 a front foot. In his annual reportMr Johnson compares the building-permitsof Winnipeg with those of Canadian andAmerican cities of larger size, as follows:Winnipeg *?'Han'funKr"8Sfffaio B.63S.413Toronto 5.S85.U0Cincinnati.

i 'hhIMontreal. ...

Los Angeles does not appear in the list,and its figures are not available here; butmy recollection is that something over $13,-000,Opb worth of buildings were erected Inthat city last year.

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The erowth of Winnipeg is also shown bythe increase from 1903 to 1904 of 20 percent In bank clearings, 20 per cent in cus¬toms revenues, 18 per cent in Internal reve¬nues and 22 per cent in postal revenues.The Canadian Pacific Company has just

completed a magnificent new raUway sta¬tion, surpaseing anything of the Iclnd inthe west except that at St. Louis. On theupper floors of the building are the gen-

1st of June next, in time for the 1903 sea8on'

Railway and Jobbing Center.Winnipeg Is chiefly a milroad and jobbing

center. You cannot get into western Can¬ada without going through the town, andits wholesale merchants probably commandthe trade of a larger area than those ofany other city in the world, although thepopulation is comparatively scarce andscattered. It now surpasses all the othercities of Canada in the volume of Its Job¬bing trade, and the yards of the CanadianPacific, with over HO miles of track with¬in the city limits, arc claimed be more

*extensive than those of any tingle road ifllChicago or elsewhere.There Is very little manufacturing done

here at present, "but the Wtnnlpegers artbeginning to grind their own wheat. Thecity now haa two mills with a combinedcapacity of 3,500 barrels a day. I under¬stand that another and even larger mill Issoon to be erected. The city has hopes ofsometime being a great manufacturing aawell as a mercantile center, because of theenormous undeveloped water power In theWinnipeg river between the Lake of theWoods and 1-ake Winnipeg, which Is esti¬mated at 2.10,000 horsepower. There areseventeen miles of asphalt pavement, six¬teen miles of .block pavement, thirty-threemiles of macadam and sixty-five miles ofboulevard already completed, and the coun¬cil hgus authorized ten more mllee of pave¬ment which is now under construction.Winnipeg Is headquarters for "The Com¬

pany of Gentlemen Adventurers In Hudson'sliny." which was Incorporated In 1070. andwas originally a fur-trading enterprise.only,but that Is row only a very small part ofIts business. The company originally con¬trolled the entire northwest, but when thedominion was organised In lf*?7 It was al¬lotted one-twentieth of the land, which Ithas been selling to settlers on long timewith interest at 0 and 7 per cent From thlasource alone its stockholders have receivedso much money that the management laconstantly raising prices to discourage,rather than encourage buyers. Its tradingposts, throughout the entire British pos¬sessions In America, extending from Hall-fax to Alask<». and from the arctic circle tothe northern boundary of the t'nltedStates. have gradually developed Intogeneral merchandise and departmentstores, through which it doea an enormoustrade. The head of the Hudson's Bay Com¬pany. as it Is familiarly known. Is IvordStrathcona, who nlso represents the Inter¬ests of the dominion before the British gov¬ernment In London. C. C. Chlpman of Win¬nipeg Is The business manager.

Scarcity of Labor.Labor ia very scarce and wages are very

high at Winnipeg and through all the sur¬rounding country. notwithstanding therapid Immigration. The construction campsof the new railroads are attracting largenumbers of laborers from the t'nlted Statesbecause of the high wages offered.Various schemes for supplying the lack

of labor liart been suggested and are underdiscussion, one of them being the Importa- ,tton of able-bodied men from the crowdedsections of London, Liverpool. Birminghamand other large cities of England. It wouldseem that this might be practicable, and nogreater charity could be concieved, although,the selection of Immigrants would Involveconsiderable risk. One plan Is to have theBritish government establish a board ofImmigration to select the Immigrants andsupervise their transfer from English citiesto Winnipeg and other citle.s where laboris needed; and for the Canadian governmentto pay the expenses, which have been esti¬mated at not more than $100 per capita.If the immigrant prefers to be a farmer In¬stead of a laborer, he could take up landunder the homestead law. jMr. Rider Haggard, the novelist, who has

recently been making an Investigation ofthe colonization work of the Salvation Armyin the United States, recommends that thegovernment Intrust the work to that or¬ganization and authorize General Booth toselect every month a certain number ofable-bodied and respectable mechanics andlaborers from the tenement house districtsof London, and at public expense find thememployment through agencies located in dif¬ferent parts of Canada.

Br. Barnardo's Good Work.The late Dr. Barnardo of London,

who was a genius In the manage¬ment of such affairs, before his re¬

cent lamented death, had already placed10.000 boys, girls and young men andwomen In different parts of the do¬minion, and kept a record of every one ofthem.what they were doing, how they weresucceeding, how they were behaving. Hl9agents made It a point to pay a personalvisit to every one of the 10,000 at least oncoa year, to keep posted as to their circum¬stances, to encourage them and to givethem what assistance they needed. Dr.Barnardo himself came over three timesand met a large number of his "children,"as he called them. No man ever did moregood among his fellow-men. His Canadianheadquarters were at Toronto under the di¬rection of Mr. E. A. Strouthers and Mr.Owen. He had an agency in Winnipeg also,under the direction of a Mr. Davis, who ialooking after between four and five thou¬sand men and women who have been placedIn Manitoba during the last twenty years.A majority of them are prosperous; a fewhave achieved prominence In commercialand Industrial affairs, and although manyof them have failed and more have not ad¬vanced beyond mediocrity. Dr. Barnardo'swork has demonstrated that the plan of re¬

moving people from the tenements of Lon¬don to the prairies of Canada Is both prac¬ticable and profitable.

LAST DAY IN BUILDING.

Y. M. C. A. to Move to New HomeMonday.

Tomorrow will be the last day In thepresent building of the local Young Men'sChristian Association, so far as the men'sorganization Is concerned. Monday, the

10th, the business of the association will betransferred to the new plant. In view ofthis, a farewell service has been plannedby tlie religious work committee for to¬morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the oldbuilding, at which John W. Foster, Com¬missioner Macfarland and others willmake brief addresses. Surviving founderBof the association and the members of the"old guard," who have been from the veryfirst the bulwark of the association move¬

ment In Washington, will be present andparticipate.Members of the association generally

have been invited to join In this farewellservice. Mrs. William T. Reed, contralto,soloist, will sing.

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Modernizing Cuba.From the New York Times.

At Peking Itself the announcement that

~bows and arrows have been discarded from

the equipment of the Chinese army wiO

doubtless be received, by the conservative

party, with resentment. Confucius knew n»

other way of arming infantry, if unfortu¬nately there had to be infantry and it hadto be armed. It Is not of record that when

China had been beaten hopelessly by Japan,some representatives of that party solemn¬

ly memorialized the throne, saying thatthese defeats had all resulted from the

new-fangled attempts to be wiser than the

ancients. And yet these were very doubt¬

ful conservatives. For they did not recom¬

mend a reversion from the modern smallcaliber rifle to the bow and arrow, but onlyto the "Jingals." or matchlocks, whichcould not have come In before the compar¬atively modern invention of gunpowder.The Chinese archers are still, in spite of

foreign drill masters, the main reliance ofthe Chinese array. As against other arm¬

ies, If there only were any similarly armed,the reliance might be safe. But It is onlyChinese forces who can be killed or even

intimidated with Chinese bows and arrows.

The surgical statistics of the expedition to

the relief of Peking, were they available,would probably show that there were prac¬tically no casualties to the relieving force

which could be described aa bowshotwounds. To equip an army withlwws andarrows is of course to foredoom it to de¬

feat.But the abandonment of the weapon has

the effect of emphasizing how long It has

been retained, and thus gives us a measure

of Chinese conservatism, to which the con¬

servatism of the west, even the conserva¬

tism of the bourbons who learned nothingand forgot nothing, cannot In any way becompared. All the evidence goes to showthat China has learned nothing from thedisastrous and humiliating things whichhave befallen her. She Is absolutely at themercy of whoever with modern appliancesand on modern principles chooses to attackher. It now appears to be reservedJapan to develop and utilize the enormouipotential resources of the Chinese empire.That is a great task, and It must be per-formed In the face of an Inert resistance,of which It is to be supposed that Japanhas taken account. For there are no twoEuropean nations so temperamentally op¬posed as China and Japan, no two of whichthe Ideals and ways of thinking are so Ir¬reconcilable. And yet Japan will probablymodernise China with less Jar and friction,with less brutality and rapacity than. Judg¬ing from what has already been attemptedIn that way, could be expected at the handsof any European power.

"Don't you think a man generally passesfor what he Is worth In the community?"asked the other fellow."Tes," answered the man at the box office

window. "Mr observation Is that the jnenwho get the passes are usually men who areworth more money than ths rest ot U*.".Chicago Tribune.