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N.W. price. jal5-16d ny kind of Cake you wish—Chocols nu als Ponnd, Frait, Cocoa- ms, Ornamental Cake: Pastry. Fresh every 146 Center market. > K st. and Riggs mks. COPYRIGHT, 1395, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY : THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1896-FOURTEEN PAGES. 18 CAUSES OF DISEASE Establishment of a Sanitary Experi- ment Station Advocated. IN THS City 10. BE LOCATED Prof. Hird Expiains Some of the Benefits That Will Follow. VALUABLE INFORM ATIO: At the last meeting of the East Wash- ington Citizens’ Association, a report of which appeared in The Star, Prof. Hurd of the health office read an interesting paper, advocating the establishment here of a national sanitary experiment station. A brief abstract of this address was printed at-the time. There were,however, several features of the address the public interest in which warrants a more extended notice. He spoke of the agricultural experiment stations established in every state, and said that they performed a valuable ser- vice as educators cf the people dependent upon the cultivation of the soil for their livelihood. In the same way, he said, a sanitary experiment station would be a center of influence that would do much to- ward enlightening the public mind im re- gard to the causes of disease. He cited in illustration the case of typhoid fever epi- demics. “In the report of the state board of health pf Michigan for 1889," he said, . Kellogg calls attention to the conflict of opinion existing as to whether typhoid fever is communicable frem men to ani- mals and from animals to men. ‘No atten- tion is given to the drinking water of ani- mals. Wells and pelluted streams which humen beings will not use are considered good enough for cattle. If typhoid fever may be communicated to animal this may be a very common origin of so! out- breaks of typhoid fever; or even if animals have an immunity from this disease, yet, for all we know, the germs may pass through the animal without losing their disease-producing powers, and thus cause the disease to spread.” 5 “In this connection, Dr. Vaughn of Michi- gan, who is a leading authority on the sub- ject, believes that the common water bac- teria takes on virulcnt action under special conditions and causes typhoid fever. If this theory is true, then it becomes neces- sary to learn what those special conditions are. “That this belief is shared by others to a certain extent is shown‘ by a statement from Henry Lefman, M.D., Ph.D., a good authority on water, who states that bac- teriological analysis is not of much value in determining the purity of a given sample of water. Why? Because the germs that ROCKVILLE. - The board of directors of the Agricultural Sociéty of the county held a meeting hore Wednesday, Messrs. Dorsey, Gassaway, Bentley, Cashell, Trail, White, Hurley, Bogley, Offutt, Griffith and Fields being in attendance. Several committees of the last board made reports upon various subjects left to their consideration, which reports were acted upon by the present board. Mr. Benjamin Bean, tenant of the society's house on the fair grounds, was granted permission to build a mezt house with the lumber now on the grounds, and the presi- dent was authorized to make an agreement with the tenant. The election of officers for the society to serve during the ensuing year was then proceeded with, result ng in unanimous choice of Wm. Dorsey for ident, and John H. Gassaway as vice Joha J. Higgins was unanimous- pre: president. ly re-elected treasurer, and John E. Mun- caster was chosen on the first ballot as secretary. On motion the salaries of the secretary and treasurer were fixed at S100 each, and the president was authorized to receive and approve the bonds of these offi- cers. For several days prior to the meet- ing of the board rumors were afloat that efforts were being made to secure a change in the office of secretary, and some fecling was manifested in the matter. The result, however, shows but one change—that of Mr. J. H. Gassaway for vice president in place of Mr. F. C. Hutton, which arrange- ment is reported as perfectly satisfactory to both gentlemen. « In the orphans’ court yesterday the fol- lowing business was transacted: Letters of administration were granted Edward M. Beall on the personal estate of Edward L. Beall, deceased; Ruth G. Beall, widow of deceased, having filed a renunciation of her right to administer—bond, $2,500. Letters of administration were granted to Marcel- neHus E. Clagett, deceased; Jennie Clagett, ciation of her right to administer—bond, $s00, Mollie G. Brown, and final account in the personal estate of said deceased. Martha L. Magruder, ex- ecutrix of John F. D. Magruder, deceased, filed an inventory of the personal estate of deceased, and was granted authority to sell Brandenburg, admin- istrator of Sarah E. Brandenburg, deceased, filed a list of sales of the personal estate of the same. Oliver J. said deceased. Jacob Bool and Salinda H. Wilmot, executors of John H. Wilmot, de- ceased, filed a report of sale of real estate of said deceased, and a nisi order was sign- ed by the court. ‘An enterprising premium for the best and heaviest ears of corn, ed of shelled corn. unusual yield. Miss E. Jennie Hodges, town, nt é principal at school No. 5, election district No. Hyattstown.. ‘The clerk of the circuit court has issued marriage licenses to the following parties: Charles N. Ritter and Carrie E. Birch; John D. Burdette and Maggie M. King; Samuel E. Rabbitt and Emeline Robertson. ‘The directors of the Rockville Base Ball Club will hold an adjourned meeting Fri- day night at the residence of Mr. L. L. Nicholson for the purpose of perfecting arrangements for holding a fair and bazaar at the town hall on the 31st instant. The jary of condemnation, which was in ion here from Monday morning until Wednesday evening, for the purpose of condemning a strip twelve feet wide on the eastern side of the Washington and Grook- ville turnpike from the District line to Woodside for the use of an electric railroad to be built by the Washington, Woodside and Forest Glen Railway and Power Com- pany, agreed upon a verdict of $2,300 dam- ages for the turnpike company. Elder S. R. White married, on the 15th instant, at this place, Mr. Samuel E. Rab- bitt of Washington city and Miss Emma Robertson of Boston, Mass. 2 ARRANGEMENT OF THOUGHT. A Couple of Miustrative Incidents in a Preacher's Experience. From the New York Examiner. The appended anecdotes concerning the late President Robinson were too late for use wita the forthcoming autobiography, but are given to the public as too character- istic and too good to be lost. They are from the recollections of the Rev. Dr. A. J. Sage: “Once, in the class room, Dr. Robinson was expatiating on the importance of care- ful logical arrangement of thought in dis- course, when he drew the following illustra- tion from his own experience: ‘Once, when I was preaching, a peculiar incident occur- red. I had gone through my introduction and first division, when my memory failed me. I could not recall my second division, but instead of it came up the first point of the application. After vainly trying to re- call the missing head, I stated to the con- gregation that for a special reason I would pass at once to the application. I did so, hen I had discussed the first point, ing part of my discourse came back I went through it all without y. On reaching home I set sIf down to inquire the meaning of this ent, when I discovered tgat that which I had planned as the first poift of my appli- cation should have been really the second m of the sermon. The mind, in the f speaking, had been more loyal vn principles than I had permitted it in the toil of preparation.” to be “The doctor was speaking to the class on from apying and disturbing thoughts when about to speak ex tempore. He said: ‘L on my way to preach one Sunday morning, absorbed in’ my rourse, when a gentlemen met me, who said: “Have you heard that — is going to marry Miss "* mentioning two persons in whom I was interested, whose marriage would be arly unsuitable. The suggestion ession of my mind, and, in spite t efforts, I could not get rid of it. h my sermon my thoughts were full of the haunting idea of that unfortunate liianee. My discourse was a failure. You may imagine that my feeling toward the source of this ill-timed information was not eedingly amiable. I could have helped him over a tail fence.’ lus Etchison on the personal estate of Cor- mother of deceased, having filed a renun- administratrix of | Wm. C. Brown, deceased, passed her first farmer“in the vicinity of Browningsville recently offered a handsome and the same has been award- to Mr. Charles E. Mullinix of Long Corner. The ten ears raised by this farmer produced nine pourds and thirteen ounces This is considered a very formerly _assist- ant teacher of the public school at Hyatts- has accepted an appointment as 2, Miss Myra Wolfe taking her place at are today harmless may under special con- ditions become injurious tomorrow. “But again, to quote from tite same re- port ubove referred to, we find this state- meat: “The most general mode of spreading typhoid fever is probably by contamina- ticn of the water supply, from wells, etc., by the leaching from privies, drains, ete., s/s * but there are instances in which the disease seems to spread through the air. The conditions under which this oc- curs are not well krown.’ ‘Experimetts on this subject are needed to demonstrate the exact conditions.’ Disease Germs and Bread. “Water and milk have for a long time been bearing the brunt of the burden as the source of many diseases, and undoubt- edly they deserve all the censure that has been heaped upen them, while the bread that we daily consume has entirely escaped observation. ‘The reason for this lies in the supposition that no matter“what the condition of the dough may be, baking will destroy any disease germs. Whether or not this supposition is true so far as it re- lates to bread sold and consumed in this country, I do not know, ner do I know of any investigations that have been made in this country relative to the same. As the result of some investigations conducted in England recently by Dr. Waldo, medical officer of health to St. George's, South- wark, and Devid Walsh, assistant physi- cian in the Western Skin Hospital, Lon- don, for the purpose of determining whether or not the baking of bread act- ually destroys the various germs with which the dough is likely to come in con- ing did not these germs. necessarily destroy About Scarlet Fever. “There are several theories,” the speaker stated, “as to the origin of scarlet fever, the outbreak is infection from some pre- ceding case, and another that it arises de novo, having an apparent spontaneous ori- gin in any position in which the elements required for its development are brought together and then exposed to the proper physical conditions and Influences neces- sary to its growth. “One thing is, however, very certain and that is that scarlet fever is less amenable to prophylactic measures than other con- tagious diseases. The question naturally arises as to why this is so, and the reason must evidently be found in the fact that we know less regarding this disease than we do of most of the others, and are, therefore, unable to make use of the proper methods for its prevention. It seems to me that it is time that we did know some- thing regarding the sanitary measures to be employed for the prevention of this and other diseases. but before this knowledge can be obtained we must know something of the primary causes of disease. “Dr. Stickler of Orange, N. J., who is, perhaps, one of the most voluminous writ- ers on the subject, has frequently within the past few years reported the result of his observations concerning the causative relations of scarlet fever to milk from cows suffering with the peculiar symptoms, arcely observable, of an eruptive affec- tion of the udder, and to milk from herds where scarlet fever exists in the family of the dairyman. In the N. ¥. Med. Record for 1890 we find an article by Dr. Srickler on the foot and mouth disease in relation to human scarlatina, in which appears statistics. 18S4, a remarkable out- break of sore throat occurred in Dover, England, which was due to the drinking of milk from cows affected with foot and mouth disease. Two hundred and five were attacked. The cases of foot and mouth disease reported officially in England in- creased from 37,000 in 1882 to 46,000 in 1883, and following this large increase there was a large increase of diphtheria, the deaths alone in England and Wales numbering 1,270. He also goes on to treat of the subjec. of foot and mouth disease as a prophylactic in its relation to scarlet fever, one or two instances of which I will men- tion. Footh and Mouth Disease. had not previously contracted scarlet fever, virus taken from a cow with foot vical glands enlarged. After six or seven a boy sick with scarlatina. tact, the conclusion was reached that bak- one of which is that the primary cause of “Three members of the same family who contracted the foot and mouth disease | per copy. from milk. Three members of the same Fe Sere ear ‘ family who had had the scarlet fever es- W. Cc. T. ational Convention. caped the foot and mouth disease. A child} A decision has just been reached as to who had never had searlet fever, had in-| the place of meeting of the rext national jected under the skin a quartity of the| convention of the W. C. T. U. Invitations and mouth disease; a short time after the cer- days the child was taken to the bedside of subject of tuberculosis, and note the large number of deaths that occur from this dis- ease. When I first began the investigation of this subject I was struck by the fact that on an average consumption was re- sponsible for one-seventh of the total num- ber of deaths. This seemed to me to be unreascnable, as I did not then, nor do I now believe that consumption is an un- avoidable hereditary disease, and in this opinion I found that I was backed up by the opinion of eminent physicians all over the country. The opinion of Dr. Shakespear of Phila- Gelphia on the subject is as follows: “I wish to most positively affirm, from a full knowledge or the subject, that tuberculo- sis, at least in the human being, is an in- fectious and not an hereditary disease, and that it is undoubtedly preventable by pre- cautions which will render it impossible for the tubercle bacilli to find an entrance into the human system after birth. That RELIGIOUS SOCIETY Amerigan: Education Organization « With Headquarters Here, BIG CONGRESS IN APRIL ee & Steady Growth and a- Present Wide Influence for Good. ee these infectiovs bacilli can be excluded : from entrance into the stomach with at}S PEAKERS SELECTED least one article of food which furnishes so : large a propertion of nourishment for ———— , Namely, cow’s mllk;! is unquestion- tee In other words, those who affirm that! tuberculosis is not anthepeditary disease would claim that a humansbeing does not contract consumption assthe result of be- ing born of consumptivesparénts, but rather as the result of associationswith and nour- ment derived from the ntpther and from arious other sources. ¥! And it is further cldimed that the dis- ease is infectious, andethat many cases formerly supposed to have ‘been hereditary can be shown to have been contracted from other patients. Childrem brought in con- tact with consumptives'im ¢onfined spaces, such as school heuses, where there is poor ventilation, would be particularly suscep- tible to the disease, unless due precautions were observed. “It then goes on to Staté that ‘the im- pertance of protecting young people from censumption seems not to be generally sufficiently understood. Consumption is new believed to be most generally spread by the inhalation of dust from the dried sputa of consumptive persons, and while it may not be considered judicious to com- pletely isolate afl consumptives, it does seem judicious to protect all large assem- rome of persons susceptible to consump- jon.” 2 In response to a call to those persons in ‘Washington interested in religious works, but more particularly in religious education, issued by the American Society of Religious Education, which has its headquarters in this city, a number of gentlemen gathered at the Riggs House Wednesday afternoon, as stated in The Star, to discuss the pros- pects for holding a convention of the or- ganization and to adopt a program for the same. Quite a large number of the local pastors were present, and a deep interest was manifested in thg meeting. The sozie- ty, though having been removed to this city more than two years ago from Indianapolis, is yet not very well known locally, for the reason that a large part of its work is scat- tered all over the United States. The total membership is something over twenty thousand, and this membership will be rep- resented at the convention of the organiza- tion, or rather its first congress, as it is called, which will mest in April, by a large numbec of delegates. The objects of this assemblage will be to emphasize the im- pertance of religious education; to review what has already been done in this country by the Sunday schook the family, the pulpit and the college in imparting a knowledge of Christianity, and to consider the value of the methods and agencies now in us? in this department, and to determine what new methods and agencies may be necessary. The congress will be in two great parts, styled the senate and the house, meeting always in joint session. The seyate will be composed af fellows of the American So- ciety of Religious Education, and the in- vited speakers. ‘The house will include all other members of the society, and such mem- bers as may be arranged for. To insure such representation in tie house as will render the congress most profitable and in- fluential, the faculties of higher institucions of learning, especially those in which the Bible is a text book, including theological seminaries and biblical institutes, have been invited to elect delegates from among their number. The railroads have promised re- duced rates, and all those who are not ac- commodated by private citizens will be taken care of at the hotels at reduced rates also. The whole measure originated in the profound conviction that the interest in secular education, invclving large sums of money and engaging the best minds, should be met by a corresponding interest in relig- ious education, Investigntion Needed. “Thus were we to consider these various subjects, we become more and. more im- pressed with the idea that sooner or later we must begin a systematic investigation locking to the cause of these various dis- eases and the means to be adopted for their ccntrol. Then why not begin at once? If this were done I have no doubt. but that the five years preceding the beginning of a new century would be marked with great results from a sanitary standpoint. In addition to these subjects foods and their adulterations would receive speciat con- sideration, and there is every reason to believe that this subject in itself would furnish food for reflection for, some time to come. i “Drugs and their adulterants,patent med- icines, face washes, hair tonics, complexion Powders, ete., ought also to receive due consideration, as they undoubtedly produce in many instances diseased and ynhealthy conditions. ‘The investigation of all such questions as theSe, together with experi- ments looking to the improvement of our water supply, sewerage system, ventilation, heating and lighting, would pertain to such a department as I have referred to. The health departnients throughout the coun- ry could, by addition of a small appro- : priation, be made substations of this cen- ee otendy, Grote tral department, In this manner an ac-| The society under whose auspices the curate record of the various epidemics of congress is held began in Indianapolis in Gisease occurring throughout the country | 189, to cover a movement for the training could be kept and made use of. “In conclusion, T-desire to state first: | 01, Sunday school scholars. Three years That we have no national bureau of sant- |“#ter Its scope was enlarged to take in the ation, and secondly, it is absolutely neces-| Whole field of religious education, and to sary that we did have one.” encourage the development of character at ; all periods of life. Later its constitution was amended to engage the work of schol- ars who might be engaged in original in- vestigation, and two years ago the last feature was added—the establishment of an exhibit of requisites—and Washington was selected for the headquarters. The work has grown, until now it is embraced under a number of heads, each one of which is under the direct supervision of a standing committee, all of whom have as their chairmen men who are of national reputa- tion. The first cne is on fellowship, ex- Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Edwin Willits, chairman, and its duty is to rec- ommend to the executive committee minis- ters and scholarly laymen for fellowship in the society, and to devise and supervise their work. The fellows, as last published, are as follows: Gen. John Eaton, ex-com- missioner of education; John M.' Gregory, ex-member cf the clvil service commission: Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D., president of How- —_ OUR CURRENCY SYSTEM. Controller Eckels Says That Nowhere _ is One So Inadequate. Mr. Eckels, controller of the currency, delivered an address at the annual ban- quet of the Chicago real estate board last evening. = Mr. Eckels said in part: “Nowhere in any nation, whether of great or little power, is there to be found a currency and financial system so inadequate for the purposes to be accomplished as that of the United States. It presemts in its circulation fea- ture the singular spectacle of nine different kinds of currency, all except two being di- gectly or Indirectly dépendent upon the credit of the United States, The Treasury Department established’ by it is the great- est banking institution th the land clothed | Secretary of “the sociiy Bane Whine, with the last powers for gelf-preservation | LL.D., lawyer, Washington, D. C.; William and beneficial action.” L. Wil BREE Ue : He discussed particularly ‘the “greenback aot Peay aoe monsters emecat Rev. W. F. King, D.D., LL.D., president of Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Ia.; Prof. W. W. Grant of Providence, R. 1; Rev. S. L. Beller, vice chancellor of the American University; €. W. Dabney, assistant sec- retary of agriculture; Rev. T. H. Hume of the University of North Carolina; James H. Carlisle, president of Wofford College; Rev. J. B. Shearer, president of Davidson College, Davidson, N. C.; T. J. Morgan, ex- commissioner of Indian affairs; Rev. J. M. Otts, D.D., editor of the Alabama Presby- terian; Prof. N. K. Davis of the University of Virginia; Rev. S. Lander, president of the Female College, Williamston, S. C.; Rev. G. B. Patch, pastor of the Gunton Temple Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C., and Rev. J. F. Spence, D.D., LL.D., chancellor of the Temperance University, and formerly holding the same position at Grant University. Special Branches. The committee on home child culture, of which Gen. Eaton is chairman, is to super- vise the work of all those groups in which the home nurture of little children is con- sidered, and devise courses of reading- for their extension into all cities. Rev. Alex- ander Mackay Smith, D. D., has charge of one, whose dtity it is to supervise the course of Bible reading for individuals, suggesting improvements and_ devising methods for its introduction. That under Mr. John M. Gregory looks after the Sun- day Teachers’ Club, and has already es- tablished a large and flourishing one in this city, besides others in other cities. Dr. Rankin looks after courses of Bible reading for students of colleges, and An- drew B. Duvall, Sunday school extension. Other committees are those of finance, C. W. Needham, chairman; conventions, Rev. Dr. Gilbert;’on depository, Prof. it. B. Warder, and on lectures, William L. Wil- scn. That on lectures, headed by Post- taster Wilson, has already been before the Washington public through the course of lectures on the Bible which they conducted last winter, and which has already been started this season. clement,” saying: “There is'but one road to absclute safety and that lies through their payment nd cancellation. When that end is accomplished we will have done much to rid the people of the belief how entertained that in the fiat of the government is some mogic power which from nothing can be brought forth something of jntrinsic value.” Remedial Legisiation. “Little hope is ertertained that atiy reme- dial financial legislation Wiil'be passed at the present cession of Congress,” said Mx. Eck- els in an interview in Chicago yesterday. ‘The House has passed: thé coin bond bill, but, unsatisfactory as it is, there is little hope of it passing the Senate in any form that will be satisfactory to the House. If passed at all by the Senate, it will be with a free silver amendment attached. Under such circumstances it would not be necessary for President Cleveland to veto such a measure, because the House, as at present constituted, would not agree to the amendment, and the bill would never reach the President for his signature.” Speaking about the bond issue, Mr. Eckels said: “It cannot be said that the public feeling over the general financial situation is hopeless, despite the failure of Congress to enact the necessary remedial legislation. The opinion is generally entertained that the problem will eventually work itself out, ard that in time our national finances will be put upon a solid, permanent basis. The bond issue is expected to afford temporary relief. No doubt ‘is entertained of the sale being successful or of the whole issue being taken. Of course, it is an open question whether the gold, to be paid for the bonds will not be withdrawn from the United States treasury to pay for them. Shonld that be done the relief afforded will be re- duced just by the extent to which the gold is withdrawn. So long as the greenbacks are outstanding and subject to redemption in gold on presentation at the treasury just so long will our national finarfces be in an unsatisfactory condition. That is the root of the evil. And so long as jt is al- lowed to continue, so long will ‘we be able to reap the fruit: Some Speakers. The program, as prepared, will require forty-two speakers, and of that number the following gentlemen have already sig- tles of history, wars of the United States, | nified their intention of delivering ad- including the civil war, its principal bat. | dresses: Presbyterian—Rev. Drs. R. F. tles, the number killed and wounded upon | Campbell, Asheville, N. C.; J. B. Shearer, both sides, also’ the principal naval battles | ~ Sear a —— of the civil war, and an immense ‘amount of other statistical and general: imforma- tion will be found in The Star’s Almanac and Hand-book for 1896. For sale by all news stands and at The Star office. 25c. oe About Wars. Brief facts relative to the decisive bat- PSE IN TOWN, HONEY, Pancake Flour. A combination of the great staffs of iife— HEAT, CORN and RICK HERE'S OUR GUARANTEE—Buy a package of Coan Aunt Jemingi’s Self-raising Pancake ir, ere received from Seattle, Portland (Ore.), Portland (Me.), Kansas City, Los’ Angeles, San Francisco, Cnattanooga and Nashville San Francisco was chosen; October, “96, is - d Sf you do not find it makes the best cakes you “The pillow on which the boy had lain ali| the time. Mrs. B. Sturtevant Peet of San | Sra; ‘ate vetaru the empty bes to pour gree eae | through the fever had not been exchanged | Jose, the president of Northern Calffornia, | your naine, and the grocer will refund the ‘money for a elean one. This pillow was placed | will be the hostess of the convention. and charge’ It to us. on the boy’s face and held there for some ———<or BUY THE KED PACKAGE. H : = = TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES. | time. He was then made to inhale the A Veteran of Two Wars. Scientifically Prepared and Manufactured only by | breath of the patient, and afterwards re-| Brigadier General Charles A. Heckman, R. T. DAVIS MILL CO., St. Joseph, Mo. mained some time. The child did not de-| . veteran of the Mexican war and the re- Semi Tw velop” scarlatina. A number of similar | 2 ¥¢ eee cases are given. In an editorial on the| bellion, died Tuesday at his home in Ger- foregoing paper the editor says: ‘May it | mantown, Pa. He was séyenty-three years Voces and Chocolases not be true that these two diseases, foot | 014. = >» gare unexcelled and mouth disease and scarlatina, may be Sa mutually protectiv Dr In_ opposition to this, howevel James Law of Cornell University sa rarlatina prevails con- stantly in some parts of the United States, | whereas foot and mouth disease has been seen only at long intervals. prove, however, produced by eased, particularly from the milk of cows suffering with an eruption of the udder previously mentioned. Thus, I think you will see that there is not only room for an investigation along this line, but that such work is an absolute necessity. An to Tuberculosis. “And now let us turn our attention to the that scarlet fever not ‘This does not x miik of cows in some way dis- 2 for Purity of Deliciousness of Flavor. Their Pink Wrapper Vanilla Chocolate is 2 favorite for Eating and Drinking. Grocers everywhere. GAIL BORDEN IF ALL OTHERS FAIL, CONSULT DR. 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Congre- i—Rev. E. Blakesslee, Boston, Mass., and Rev. Dr. W. Nutting, Providence, R. I. The Program. The program adopted is as follows: First day. Monday, April 20, evening session—Devotions, reading of the 119tn Psalm; theme, “Religious Education and National Prosperity,” three speakers. Sec- ‘Only a Cold! Yes; but a cold frequently has a serious ending. Chronic coughs, pneumonia, bronchitis and consump- tion all start with a cold. Neglected colds cause more than two-thirds of all the deaths in America. There is a right way and a wrong way to cure a cold, but you can make no mistake in using Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey. ond day, Tuesday, devotional exercises; ‘ ates theme, “Religious Education Defined, It is a pure healthful sigmulant, paper and discussion; theme, “Religious| which quickens i ii Education in Different Periods of Life,” a the circulation and restores healthy action to every part of the body. It is a sure cure for colds, malaria, pneumonia. It as- sists nature and builds up the system. Do not be induced to take any in- ferior whiskey which your dealer may try to substitute, but be sure that you get Duffy’s. Nothing else can pro- duce the same effects. ‘Bargains by the storeful and five stores full of ’em. Every bit of stock we’ve got —is offered at prices that have been paper and discussion; report, “American Bible Society, Its Work and Results;” after- noon session—devotions, theme, “The Fam- ily as an Educational Institution Viewed From Scripture;” “The Family as an Educa- tional Institution Viewed From Its Struct- ure;” subject, “Family Methods and Helps Successfully Employed in Religious Educa- ticn,” paper and discussion; evening ses- sion—Devotions, report “American Society of Religions Education,” its history, work and plans; theme, “Religious Education and the Welfare of the Church,” two speakers. Third day, Wednesday, April 22, forenoon session—Devotions, subject, “The Preacher as an Educator Viewed From Scripture;” “The Difficulties of Pulpit Instruction Stat- ed and Removed;” ‘Methods and Helps to Pulpit. Instruction.” Afternoon _sessio “The Modern Sunday School, Its Scriptui Warrant and Its Historic Developmen paper and discussion; theme, “Sunday School Sodetics, Denominational and Inter- denominational;” address; “What Is Need- ed,” paper. Evening _ session—Devotions, business, “Religious Education and Social Reforms,” two speakers. Fourth day, Thursday—Morning —seance, _ devotions, theme, “The Bible and Higher Institutions of Learning”—what ought to be—paper and discussion: reporis—exhibits of what has already been accomplished written; “What Concerted Action Is Possible and Desir- able?” Afternoon _ session — Devotions, theme, “Truth. as a Weapon in Winning Reduced: Souls,” paper and discussion; reports, Ameri- for can Tract Society, American Sunday School Union; “What More Can Be Done to Carry Removal.: Bible Truths to the Non-church-going Pop- ulation?” Evening session—Bible-in-hand meeting in every church in Washington, with the theme “The Bible’s Testimony to Itself.” The plan is to have every one bring a Bible, prepared to read select pas- Sages and comment thereon, with song and prayer interspersed. The place of the-hold- ing of the congress has not yet been an- neunced, but will be shortly. In addition to the speakers given above who have announced their attention of being present, a number of others have tentatively con- sented, and it is expected that the orators present on the occasion will be of such representative men as Washington not very often hears. In other words—when our new building is ready for us we don’t want anything left on hand to be moved into it. Look ahead a little—and if you’re going to need FUR- NITURE — CARPETS — MATTINGS — DRAPER- IES—STOVES— RANGES — CROCKERY WARE— BEDWEAR — OFFICE FURNITURE — or any- thing of the sort—now is your time to buy. Whether you’ve got the money, or not, makes no difference—you’ve got CREDIT with us—and bats as good as g fortune in cash. ——.—_ Statue Aceepted. 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