The morning times., 1896-07-08

boy in wagon drawn by a goat. He wal
| an enthusiastic e. T.. even his goat wearing
bannerbetween hishorns,' W elcome c. E. u
One Of the delegates, who is a globs
trotter, remarked at the Arlington yester
day that-he had been in cities throughout
| the world but none could SO comfortably
entertain as many strangers as Washington
The first relay OF bieyclists came In yes
1 terday. One couple arrived riding tandem
with grip fastened behind and shawl
strap IN front, stopping pedestrians to find
out where headquarters were.
Chairman Watts OF the California dele.
CATION is not only good Christian but an
| excellent organizer, and the systematic
way lie is nostling To get the next conyen-
tion for the Pacific slope promises To be
| successful.
F. u. Stackhouse OF Denver, Col, is a
noted Prohibitionist. having run for gov.
ernor of that State On the Prohibition
ticket. He is now shouting for Teller. but
will not present his name to the Z. Z. Gun
vention.
Rev. Arnold Strenti. OF the English dele
gation. has just been called to the Coates
Church at Paisley, Scotland. The Coates
Church which cost S., COO, 900. was erected
by the widow OF Andrew Coates. the thread
ds Il
The business character OF the delegates
is very noticeable. The majority are
bankers, lawyers, physicians and mer-
chants Country cousins are here, but
as rule, the delegates from town or coun-
try would do honor to any convention.
Never has there been so large proper
ton or women on a program ut a religious
convention. Probably the most prominent
is Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, who is oneoftbe best
Iogicians and at the same time one of the
most versatile of American platform era
tors.
Rev. w. j. Darby OF the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, Evansville. Ipd., who
has built up one of the largest coBgrcga-
tons in the West, is noted as "a prison re-
former, and was closely connected in thai (
work with ex-President Rutherford b.
Hayes.
Mr.. p. L. Zimmerman. who has had
chsrge ot the Mt. Vernon Church section
OF the big choir. left last night for Char
lottesvilie, where he expects to join the
main body of the North and South Caro-
lima and Georgia delegations, and arrive
with them in this city early this morning.
K. C. Pearson Of Denver is prU babIy the
oldest attenda Mt upon the convention.
being cighty-two years old. When asked
why he joined a society called the Young
Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor
he said that unless one became as a little
child he could not enter the kingdom of
He3 ven, and as he was now a child he felt
eligible
John L. Farley, OF Name and Charles E.
Farley. OF San Francisco, viii be here
tomorrow. They are brothers, and forty
years ago Mr. Charles E. Farley went to
California. His family removed to Illinois
but subsequently returned to the old home
in Maine By accident the long separated
brothers heard of each other and arranged
TO meet at the convention.
George Clark of Texas who is q relative
OF the Waco statesman who was defeated
in his race for the governorshp, is some
what OF a statistician. The result OF q
hard days work yesterday. he reported. be-
ing that S18. .211 questions had been asked.
OF which 703I326dwere Can you tell me
where 1 will find Mr.. Smith, The rest
were addressed tesMr. Smith himself.
Rev. Ira lambeth OF Nashville, Tenn.
was born n China, his parents having been
missionaries to that country for the past
forty years AT one time they rescued a
woman and her child who had been thrown
into the street to die OF smallpox. They
nursed the outcasts and saved their lives.
The baby is nova grown woman, the wife
OF Ambassador Ube, who represents China
in the Korean court.
A young lady was in great trouble. She
had the address OF friend who lived on q
certain square. Can you inform me,
SIR" she asked OF gentleman at headquar-
tiers, where I can find this location?"
showing the paper. Directions were given,
but she said, II beg your pardon, sir: but
searched carefully for that location, and
could find no square, nothing but parallelo-
gram" She was a Boston delegate.
Rev. j. W. Bachman, d. D., for over q
quarter of century pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church at Chatta nooga, is one
Of the best mixers in the convention.
Everyone loves him, even the fish, which
bite his hook so freely that he Is easily
the leading clerical angler of the United
States. During the yellow fever epidemic
and the great Tennessee river flood, DR..
Bachman made national record as q
humanitarian.
h. The American Relief Association is well
represented by W. L. Warden Of New.
York, formerly newspaper man. He re-
ports that the revenue fund to enable
the Armenians to leave Turkey and colonize
in other Asiatic countries is gro wing sat.
isfactorily, the general opinion no " being
that this method is better than the dis
tribution of mere temporary relief, which,
as Mr.. wardell says, "only preserves them
in health for the Turks to kill"