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Evening star., 1907-10-29

Hyattsville Baptist-Rev. Ernest Nc
Even, pastor; ]. B. s. Norton: superln
tendent; O. A. Greagor, c. r. Glass. VII
liam L. Willis Mrs. William L. Hall, c
f. Vrooman H E. Davis, Mrs. G. n
Wells. Alfred Daniels.
Columbia Baptist-Thomas ". Binsted
superintendent; R. A. Bogley, Jr, + w
Ladson, Mrs. George Thomson. Mrs. K. A
Bagley, jr.
Rev G. Calvert Carter, rector; William
Oscar Roome, jr., superintendent; Frank
a. Currie. Rev Jesse Bicknel Miss Helen
wise, Miss Lille Tifrey, Miss G. NJ Ar
ledge. MRS: A. K Barrett, Mrs. r. a Cur
rie. Mrs. W. B. Baker, Clarence Reese,
Miss Ruth Millard. Ellyson Currie, Waldie
Hall.
North Capitol Methodist Episcopal-Rev.
E E. Marshall. pastor; S. S. Symons' su-
perintendent: Mrs. A w. Bentz Miss R.
Mr. Bell. Miss King, A. \. Jones, Z. Z.
Ledman.
Petworth Methodist rpiscopal-Rev.
Charles S. Cole, pastor; George c. Housh,
superintendent; W. T Bair, Mrs. Fannie
f. Underwood. ]. F. Atkinson. John L.
Daniels. Nrs. Ruth Gambel, A. NJ. Holm
burg. E. G. Russell Mr.. Grumley.
Congress Street Methodist Protestant
Rev. T. o. Grouse. D. pastor: George
w Graves. superintendent: f, H: Scott,
j. Stanley f1lSSiiLS. -1Io H. -. NrIlLIltS,
Miss Virginia Gaskins, r. T. Ballard,
John II. Moore, Miss May Grimes. Mrs.
J. Stanley higgins.
Northfinster Presbyterian-Rev. George
P. Wilson. ID. pastor; L. Cabell
Williamson, superintendent W, A,
Countryman. Robert a. Miller. Miss Kate
R. MacQueen. Miss Clara L. Clum. Mrs.
Annie D. Armstrong. Miss Lena BurgdOrf,
Miss Phoebe Lanterman, DR.. w. T. Dol
lson. Mrs. W. NJ. Pumphrey.
Second Presbyterian-Rev. II. Waddell
Pratt. pastor: John L. Beatie. Mrs. John
L. Beate. Mrs. F. NJ ~-uy, c. c. Myers.
Mt. Pleasant Congrega tional-Rev. w.
w. F. De Reimer. A. B. Carly
First Congregational-Mrs NJ. J. TulIy.
Mrs E l.. Washhurn.
Dudley Bucks Tie Deum' was sung by
the choir, after which Rev. DR.. S. H.
Woodrow pastor of the First Congrega-
tonal Church, delivered the benediction.
Officers and Committees.
The officers and executive comnittee of
the association are as follows:
President, w. W. MILAN; first vice pres
ident. H. B. F. Macfarland; second vice
president, P H. BristoW; secretary. II. l..
Buell.; treasurer. j. II. Lichliter; field
worker. ]. w. Reisner.
Executive committee-The above officers
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Branches of Work.

Mr. W. G. Pearce, secretary of the
adult and teacher training departments of
the International Sunday School Associa-
tion. who is to bear a prominent part in
the programme of this convention, visited
the city in January last. in the interest of
the two branches of the work which he
represents. A number of meetings and
conferences were held. and while the at
tendance a these was far less than had
been hoped for, it is certain that the seed
sOWn will be productive of good fruit. By
uthOrity of the executive committee a
committee on teacher training has been
formed. 1t is prepared to give informa-
ton and assistance to all who may desire
to enter upon course of reading to fit
themselves for Sunday school work. Mr.
Z. A. Gangewer is chairman of this COM
mittee. The attention of superintendent
is pecially invited to the circular letter
which he has issued outlining the commit
tees plans.
Recognizing the necessity for some
thing better than the haphazard methods
which have characterized much of our
training being provided. in harmony
with the reasonable theory that the Sun
day school teachers work Is as important
as that of the teacher in the day school
and requires as careful training.
Glasses Formed.
Glasses in two or three OF the schools
and in the Memorial United Brethren
school have taken courses of reading and
a number of individual students In few
other schools have completed courses
Outside of these, so far as we are advised
no work of this character has been under
Evening star., 1907-10-29
Foreign Children in Washington.

"One of the addresses at this convention
will deal with work among the foreig2
children of Washington. This is ques-
ton Of vital and growing Importance. The
| four Chinese schools are doing good work,
| but they touch but a small fraction of the
| field
"Our city. which we usually think OF as
| peculiarly an American city, contains
very considerable proportion of foreign
| born many being recent arrivals ne
| Italians alone in the District are salo TO
number several thousand. The best edu-
eating and Americanizing influence Whlch
can be brought to bear on these people is
| the Bible. a great opportunity ana
great responsibility lie here
| "Rv direction of the executive commit
.1e the matter usually embraced in the
reports of the treasurer and of the field
worker has been printed in connection
with this report. large NUMBER OF
schools have failed to forward their re.
ports. and the field worker has omitted
| them from his statistical table. II is
| therefore impossible to make a definite
| comparison with last years figures
Increase in Membership.
| 1.-The table in question embraces l2o
schools. and shows thirty-one not report
ing; total, 157-a gain or four. These l23
schools report 1OS1 of their members
uniting with the church during the year
a gain over the entire list of schools Tor
| last year. -
| The steady growth of some OF our
larger schools is shown by the following:
| list OF SCHOOLS HAVING AN EShOLLMrSl
u
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MAKES ANNUAL ADDRESS
Meeting of Primary Teachers Union
This Afternoon.
SESSIONS AT CALVARY CHURCH
Opening Of Association Last Night.
Addresses and Music-Number
of Schools Represented.

A discussion of primary methods took
up the second session of the fourteenth
annual convention of the Sunday School,
Association of the District of Columbia
this afternoon when the teachers of the
primary union held a meeting Mrs.
Amy May Gray presided. The devotional
exercises were in charge of Rev. George
A. Miller. Mrs. Nellie Shore Immediately
thereafter conducted a short service OF
song. Mrs. W. W. Gilbert was at the
piano. Miss Marietta Stockard. training
teacher of the Washington kindergarten
Normal School, then gave lesson for
beginners.
The remainder of the program includes
the rendition of beginners music by a
class of Calvary Baptist Sunday School
under the leadership of Mrs. w. H Hoeke
Work Among the Foreign Children of
Washington will be the subject of an
address by Mrs. William D. Window, after
which Mrs. Nellie Shore will sing a solo.
a lesson, "The Cities of Refuge" will be
line Methodist Church. Miss Hilda North
will give blackboard illustration. after
which an address upon Junior Work
will be delivered by Mr.. w. c. Pearce,
secretary of the adult and teacher train
ing departments of the International Sun
day School Association. Rev. w. J. Houck,
pastor of the United Brethren Church,
will pronounce the benedictlon
President MILAN will preside over the
third session Of the convention at 80
this evening. Mr.. George A. Provost. as
sisted by Miss Jessie Young, organist
and Mrs. W. w. Gilbert, pianist. will
conduct the song service. The devotional
exercises will be in charge of Rev. John
Compton Ball. pastor of Metropolitan
Baptist Church, at the close of which Miss
Char Mill cir =,
solo. Mr.. Pearce will deliver an address
upon The Organized Class Movement"
The annual election of officers, of mem
bers of the executive committee. and
twelve delegates to the thirteenth interna-
tiOnal convention will then be chosen
Rev. ]. Russell Verbrycke, pastor of Cur
ley Memorial Presbyterian Church, will
pronounce the benediction.
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Mr. Macfarland's Address.

1.-The state said Mr.. Macfarland. can
not teach the Bible in its schools, but the
teaching of the Bible is essential to the
state as well as the church. There lore
the state owes d great debt to the sun
day school and especially to the teachers
in it. Unpaid In money. they give ,,,a a
service which money could not buy. We
rightly spend about two millions OF dol
lars for teaching in our public schools.
But two millions of dollars a year would
not compensate for the loss OF the I'M
paid labors of the Sunday school teachers.
Secular education without any Bible
teaching by any one would not maintain
the spiritual life or guard the morality of
the community. AS Gladstone said the
Bible is the foundation rock of civic as
we'll as individual virtue. Chief Justice
Marshall, at the height of his great ca
reer marched at the head of a Sunday
school procession in Richmond to show
strkingly his belief in the necessity for
Bible teaching.
Things have changed gre atty since
then. There is less Bible teaching In the
home or in private schools and none at all
in public schools. But there is more Bible
study than ever before. and 1t is of better
quality. For this we must primarily
agencies have done valiant service in this
cause of late years. notably the Young
Mems Christian Association which today
has hundreds OF thousands of men study
ing the Bible Systematically.
"On behalf of the community want to
thank the teachers here for what they
are doing for 1t. 1t is priceless. indis-
pensable and patriotic work. The num-
Der of teachers and scholars engaged in it
is somewhat larger than the total enroll
ment of our public thing
over one-siXth OF our population. There
is no more important interes in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and every good citizen,
whatever his creed. must honor the vol
unteers who make such efforts possible
and who are saving the state anew every
Sunday"
Presentation of Ideals
Ideals of Sunday School Work Already
Achieved was the subject for short
address by Rev Charles Roods secretary
of the Maryland Sunday School Associa-
ton. He declared that the religious edu-
cation a child receives in the Sunday
school is of great value in after life. and
that the work for the children must be
pushed. He told of the neglect by some
people who should be engaged in the
work. and pointed to one woman of Pal
myra, n. Y, who watched over Joseph
Smith, the founder of Mormonism, in his
youth and neglected to instruct him in
Bible lessons.
She told of her negligence some years
ago." declared the speaker. Just look
what she might have done. Why, today
we would not be confronted with the
Mormon problem
President MILAN then announced the fol-
lowing convention committees:
Nominations-John E. Dawson. z. A
Gangewer James E. West. Mrs. Washing
ton Topham, Judge A. S. Taylor, I. A.
Baker and w. P. Hartley.
Resolutions-Rev DR.. D. c. MacLead, P.
H. Bristow. ]. G. Thayer, DR.. H. H.
Seltzer. A. NJ. Cooper, Mrs. c. F. Winbig-
ler and E. A. Zeigler.
Additions to Delegate List.
The following were added to the list OF
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First Session Held.

The first session was held last even
ing at 7:30 o'clock with President w.
w. MILAN in the chair. There was a
large attendance, and after 4 short
service of song by the large choir,
Zimmerman. the. anthem. 'Hark, Hark,
My Soul" was sung. Miss Marguerite
Allen was at the organ and Miss Flor
ence King at the piano.
The devotional exercises Were then
conducted by Rev. George E White
house. pastor of Emmanuel Baptist
Church in place of Rev. William French
Locke. pastor of Mount Vernon M. T..
Church South, who was unable to be
present.
President MILAN then made his an
nuaI address.
The Sunday School Association" he
said, is clearing house for Sunday
school ideas. plans, methods and ideals.
Its aim is to bEing into fraterndl and
Christian cooperation Bible teachers,
Bible students and the officials of Bible
schools.
The annual convention is, in the as
sociation, the great event of the year.
Here We meet in an effort to dis
charge. in some sense, the obligations
which, according to the highest stand
ards of progressive Christian thought,
we owe to each other. These obliga-
tions require the strong school and the
well-equipped teacher or officer to place
their best within the reach of the
struggling school and the poorly fur
nished worker They likewise require
the weak and the ill-informed to come
seeking aid. and to follow in the steps
of those who have learned to do by
doing. The condition of the school that
feels that it needs nothing from its
neighbors. individually or in their as
sociated relation is condition
scarcely less unfortunate than that of
the one which feels that it is so weak
its neighbors cannot help it. Tie as
sociatioH" believes that it offers some
thing that every school needs. and it
is sure that it needs the cooperation
nf school.
Evening star., 1907-10-29

taken by any OF our schools. Good results
during the coming year are anticipated.
"A committee the organized class
movement is in course of formation. Prof.
Mitchell Carroll of George Washington
University will be its chairman. His ex-
perience as teacher of the great Vaughn
class will make him a valuable adviser to
any desiring help In the line of the work
of his committee. It will be the purpose of
this committee to collect and disseminate
Information with respect to organized
mems and Womens classes. Its plans Will
be more fully outlined by Prof. Carroll
during this convention.
II strongly recommend that sys-
tematic house to house visitation through
out our city be undertaken in the ne ar
future. with a view to ascertaining who
are out of Sunday school and inviting
them to attend. Whether this can best
association or by apportoning the terri
tory among the several schools l am not
at present able to say | trust that the
incoming executive committee Will take
up this problem. House to house vista
ton by a few schools has been productive
Of marvellous good. One school in the
older part of the city has grown In three
or four years from 17o to 800 largely by
this means.
1T is much to be desired that our Sun
day schools could hold their summer out-
nss or picnics at some pleasure ground
where no liquor is sold at any time. 1t Is
little to our credit that the bars are
closed We would expect no less than
that with Sunday school people. Nhlle
this question must be reached through the
Individual schools concerted and decided
action would be a strong object lesson IN
temperance for our boys and girls.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-04-26
NO VALID REASONS
pATRoNizINe MAIL ORDER
HOUSES is WITHOUT EXCUSE.
GOODS NOT EVEN CHEAPER
With Freight Charges Added and
ouAlity Considered M Home
Merchant Docs
Best.

copyrighted. >1eos, By Alfred c. clark.)
The reasopS why people should
trade at hofhe are numerous, but Sc
far as we are able to learn but m
reason IL advanced for purchasing
goods Of mail order houses. That one
saving Of money-is often
no reason at all, for In many instances
the express charges or freight and
carriage will bring the cost of ar arti.
Gle that as quoted in the price list
seemed a wonderful bargain, almost
or quite up to the price charged by
the local dealer. But eve were n
able to save a few cents on the pur-
chase price by buying away from
home, 1t appears to us that the loss
is infinitely more than the gain, for
he who sends the money which he
earns in the home town out to swell
the Golfers of wealthy dealers In dis
tant cities cannot fail to forfeit in a
considerable degree the respect of
those around him, nor can he under
these conditions preserve his self
respect intact.
The man who p~atronizes mail order
houses must have a sneaking feeling
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-04-26
REASONABLE EXPLANATION.

j. ". writes to know why all
young physicians white their whis-
kers to a pencil point. This habit
was started by European medical
men, who found by careful expert
ment that by using whitfield whis-
kers the germs crawled out on the
point and dropped off, the pointed
whisker acting like the automa5io
device in the patent fly trap. All
flies can go one way, but are unable
to go the other. In the same way
the germs, trying to crawl back,
found the whiskers all against them
and we're crowded off. A careful
microscopical analysis of the tip
end of the medical whisker showed
a thin stream of germs continually
falling from it. This is where the
woman medical practitioner is at a
great disadvantage in her practice.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-04-26
AGAINST LONG SPEECHES.

Senator Hale is a concise and
trenchant speaker. He is opposed to
long speeches. He said the other
day: "The longer the speech the
less, as a rule, its effect. / have
heard some long speeches. will
name no names--that had no effect
at all. Yes, the long speech lacks
effect as the average quack claim
lacks truth. l overheard the other
day two quacks in conversation.
SHOWS business?' said the first.
"sSplendid,' said the second.
Glorious. Do you know, our re-
ceipts have nearly doubled since we
announced that we would treat all
patients gratuitously p"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-04-26

trade with the home merchant, yet n
other people followed YOU example
and patronized mail order houses.
there would be no home merchant to
trade with. II others bought Of him
only when they wanted things IN q
hurry, and sent out OF town for the
greater part of their supplies, he
would have left for more promising
fields long ago, or II he had stayed In
those circumstances, the sheriff would
finally have closed his doors. You
wouldn't like to live In a place with
out stores, and yet 1t may be that you
prefer to reside in q country town
rather than in a city. Do your share,
thea, toward making It possible for
the country merchant to carry on
business.
You must remember, too, that when
you send your money to some big con-
cern in a distant city, you lessen the
amount Of money In circulation in
your own residence town. II you had
spent 1t at the home store, some Of
IL at least would have been paid out
by the proprietor In the form OF
wages to his employees, they in turn
would have expended 1t for the neces-
stiles OF life, and 1t would have passed
from one to another of the home deal
ers. proving an important factor in
the prosperity Of the community. Hav-
ing sent it to the mail order house
the probabilities are that 1t will "
again benefit anyone in your home
town.
You should trade with the home
merchant because he is the n from
whom you ask and receive favors.
Perhaps you have had a run Of i'll luck
you have lost your position, had
long-continued illness in the family, or
have experienced difficulty In collect
ing money due you. You are in
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-04-26

Weston, and she would be delighted
to come! II would do the poor girl
good, too" she added thoughtfully;
she has been Ill 80 long and is just
beginning to improve. That's exactly
what Ill dol"
"Who Is Annie Weston" l asked
with interest, for the idea seemed to
have brought new hope into her eyes,
and / was glad that 1t had come from
my suggestion.
"Oh!" she was n school friend of
mine and is the sweetest girl that
ever lived" returned Miss Carney.
Her father and mother are both dead
and she Is quite alone in the world,
SO she a come just as well as not,
and l know she will love to be here as
much as I will to have her. I should
have asked her to visit me long ago,
but she was taken Ill soon after we
left school and is only beginning to
get back her strength"
The day after the funeral I returned
to the city and, rather than subject
Miss Carney to any inconvenience by
dCCeptluS HeT ole VI tH6 OUIU car
riage at her disposal since the stable
hands had deserted the place, ! rode
to the railway station in the trap that
had brought me down.
so you're old Carney's lawyer, be
ye?" inquired my driver, with rustic
familiarity, crossing his legs and lean
ing II arm carelessly over the back
of the seat in front of me.
/ admitted that / was, with monosyl-
Liable brevity, and we proceeded in
silence for a few rods.
dispose he left plenty O. money!"
was the next query.
Enough for the needs of his fam
ily," | replied.
"Pshaw!" he returned, in evident
disgust, that's all ye'd say II he was
worth ten thousand dollars!"
Another short period of silence
elapsed, and then he began abruptly:
Powerful strange to me haow a drink.
in man like him could acoomilate SO
much money an hold to it so tight
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-04-26

there, an then the place 'ud be ha'nt
ed same's the docks places mostly is.
90 course. we didn't pay no special
attention to her.
when her boy went up to the place
to work, 'baout a year ago, she took
on terrible, an allus said no good 'ud
come of 1t, an that somethin' would
surely happen. But they want no
other way out of it, fur they didn't
have a bite to eat nor a reg to wear,
an If the boy hadn't decided to accom-
modate Carney's folks l guess they'd
ha' starved.
"Ye see,' lie continued, in explana-
ton, "old Carney wouldn't never give
a cent to anybody that was able to
earn it, an when the parson come to
him an asst him to help the wilder, all
he SEE was, Send that big hulk of a
boy up here an I'll give him a Job an
good pay so'z he kin support his
mother like a man. he SEE. but 1
won't give her a damn penny so long
as he's able to work an carr It, he
sez."
But o haven't explained yet why
the men left" persisted, for we were
nearing destination and my time
was growing short.
I'm a-gittin' to that" he replied.
I'VE see, Carney was such a mean,
stingy cuss that, what with his drink
in an gamblin' an other vices. the
wilder allus claimed he'd never rest
easy in his grave. When the boy was
killed she carried on like a crazy wom-
an, an swore the place would alIus be
ha'nted less the estate did the honest
thing by her an give her enough to
pay her fur the loss of her son. That
night. more fur fun than anything
else. a lot of the fellers that was a.
settin' daown to Hoskins' went up by
the haouse 'raound midnight. but they
didn't see nuthin'. The mex night
that's after youa come--they all went
up again. an ! tell you they all come
back a-iyin,-"
what did they seer" / asked. with
renewed interest, as q sudden idea en-
tered my head.
GRO BE coNyINuEDJ
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-04-26
ONLY ONE HE EVER FOUND
Briggs Had to Admit Seeing This
"RedeemIng Feature"

They were men of exactly oppo-
site types, and it would have been
a hard matter, indeed, to find a sub
jcct upon which they could agree.
Briggs is a hard-natured, square
jawed individual, who looks what
he is--a retired police-inspector.
Wemys, on the other hand, is all
softness and sympathy, and the sort
of man who believes in his fellows to
the end.
"But surely v the most hard
ened criminals have some trace Of
a better nature" he urged.
Briggs coughed shortly, and said
if they had he had not noticed it.
"Do you mean to say" said
Wemys, "that you have never dis
covered a redeeming feature in an
habitual criminal?"
eyes, 1 did once" admitted
Briggs.
"Ah, / knew it" cried Wemys,
triumphantly. "No one is all bad.
What was it? Love Of home?
Kindness to animals? Love of chill
dren!"
NO." came the uncompromising
reply; ''it was a pawn-ticket!"