Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1896, Page 17

THE EVENING’ STAR, SATURDAY, © NOVEMBER 7, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. IN TOBACCO LANDS! Biggest Market in the World is in Virginia. HOW THE AUCTIONS ARE MANAGED Snuff Factories and Dippers, and How Cigarettes are Made. ON THE PLANTATIONS (Copyrighted, 1896, by Frank G. Carpenter.) DANVILLE, Vz., November 2, 159 I AM ON MY WAY south totakea bird's-eye view of the industrial situa- tion of the country. I propose to chief centers of the United States and to \y}) give the fa a" find them. hard times, we are said to be the wealth- jest nation on the globe. I want to show part of our wealth where a great comes frcm and how we get it. My f travels have been in the great tobacco belts of Virginia and North Carolina. Thi: region is filled with tobacco plantations. You the square log cabins, known as to- baceo barns, on every farm, and the farm- ers are now bringing in their crops in ms to the gr ion markets here. | The cco raised here is some of the best of the world, and buyers from the dif- the The Danville loose tobacco n the biggest of the kind in the world, and there is ao market like it under the sun. . Our Enor: Before I deseri idea of what tobacco means to the States. It is one of our great money crop and it brings us millions of doliars in gold from Europe every year. It amounts at times to almost as much as the product of | our min In 18% it sold for more than & 000, Of sold to America of 100,008), this and in 189¢ last and Sow 5 me from the farmer. Our tobaceo crop comes from nearly every state and territory of the Union, and it is of a dozen or more different kinds. Some is espe- | y fitted for export, som quantit of snuff for of the south. The tobacco and mixed with other fn- it is ground into the titil- is half rott gredients bef¢ vated and watched. They are hilled up like potatoes, and the weeds are kept down, The piants grow to a height of three or four feet. The leaves branch out in all directions, and where- each leaf joins the stalk suckers sprout out. These have to be pulled off again and again that all of the strength of the plant may go into the leaf, and for the same reason the top is cut off, in order that the plant may not go to seed. Every plant has to be examined night and morning, to see that worms and insects are not eating it. Man is by no means the only thing that likes a mouth- fui of tobacco. There are cut worms, wno attack the plants, fleas and beetles chew at it, and grasshoppers and crickets are fond of its juice. The worst enemy; how- ever, is the horn worm, or tobacco worm. This comes from a moth, which can lay a thousand eggs in a night. The eggs are not bigger than mustard seeds, and they hatch in a few hours into worms of the thickness cf a horse hair, and about one sixteenth of an inch long. They at once begin to eat tobacco, and within a week or so they are more than an inch in length ard as big around as your little finger. A full-grown worm will eat up a tobacco leaf in a night, and If not watched they will desiroy the crop.” Curing the Weed. “How is the crop harvested?’ I asked. “This is done when the leaves begin to turn yellow. Some farmers strip the leaves from the stalk and string them on wires. Others cut off the stal nd string them on sticks, which are siuck in the ground. They then carried to the tebacco barns and ung up to be cured. These barns are d houses. Each has a 3et of flues and rit, so that it can be heated, and by rmemeter the temperature is kept right point till the tobacco is This requires days and nights of the tobacco must be watched i this time. When the to- is cured all the moisture has been dried out of it. It has turned yellow, and it is ready to be prepared for the market. It has to be sprinkled to make the leaves soft, that they may be stripped from the stalk and sorted. Different parts of the planis go into different piles. The leaves nearest the ground are placed in one class, those next higher in another, and so on to the top. Then a half dozen or mcre leaves are tied together by wrapping another leaf about their stems, and in such bundles tne vhole crop is carried to the market or auctions, where it is sold and the farmer at once gets the cash for it. A thousand A TOBACCO ating nd toothsome product so largely in for rubbing with a chewed stick t the It is packed In ox blad- in balls ng in size from that of your fist to that of your head, and sold by the ource or pound. There is a smoking tobacco made in Louisiana, about fifty miles north of New Orleans, known as the s strong as aqua fortis. the fi tobacco made, for it is ts own juices, while other tobacco ixed with all sorts of swe i and 1 salted and flavor s toba is put cords, grows older nd ts too strong stomed to use it. grown aimest evel sreat difference d. In the regi st of cig dreds rolls said up and in wrapp to grow It is very ex- for th ho Smoking to- rywhere, but in the quality rette The tobacco , and it ha is a high How Tobacco is Raised. I had an idea until I came here that our tobacco was raised on big plantations, and { expec aundre d to find tobacco fields containing of s. The fact is that the mest of the crop comes from garden patch- small. The farm- of their crop not by y the hill. There are ab he acr d the million } of tol the whole United than half a milifon Acco €: year. The tobacco in is but one of a number of crops a farm. It is, however, like wheat in the north or cotton further south, the mon crop, and the farmer depends it for his ready cash. It 1s a very -xpensive crop, and requlres almost con- stant labor from planting in the early spring until about August or September, when is cured for the market. 1 met at Durham, Colorel Walker, an old tobacco planter, and now the leading buyer for one of the biggest tobacco firms of the world, and asked him to tell me in simple language the story of tobacco, from the seed to the mouth of the consumer. Said he: “Tobacco is a king among plants, ind it requires royal treatment. The seed 3 not bigger than mustard seed, and the jlanger is in using too much seed rather than too little. I was talking not long ago with a farmer outside the tobacco districts about tobacco raising. He became inter- ssted and said: ‘Well, I would like to raise a ttle tobacco, and I wish you would send me about a bushel of seed for a trial.” Why! a bushel of tobacco seed would plant the whole state of North Carolina. One yunce of tobacco seed contains 340,000 seeds, and a single plant will produce sezd enough for ten acres of hills. The seeds are so small that they have to be mixed with ashes or dirt before planting, in order gt to sow them too thick.” Raised ta Hot Beds. “How are they planted,” said I, “with a igi?” ‘o,”” replied the veteran tobacco raiser, ‘they are sown by hand in a plant bed or hot bed, much like cabbage plants, and when the little sprouts come up they are pulled out and transplanted in hills, like abbages or tomatoes. The making of the “lant bed ts not easy. The ground Is cov- ered with wood and burned so that the earth is roasted, and all of the insects and vegetable matter, seeds, etc., cooked out of it. It is manured heavily and after the seed Is sown it fs covered over with thin sloth, something like cheese cloth, to keep n the heat, and to keep out the insects. A plant bed twenty yards square will raise snough plants for 100,000 tobacco hills. Even Worms Chew Tobacco. “After the plants are set out,” Colonel Walker continued, “they have to be culti- nore on | and the lemon-col AUCTION, pevnds to the acre would be a very good yield.” The World’s Greatest Tobacco Market I shall not soon forget the auction rooms at Danville, which I visited today with Col. J. M. Neal, one of the oldest of the tobacco buyers. There are here eleven im- mens? warehouses, each of which covers several acres, in which thousands of pounds of tobacce are sold at auction every day. The sales during the tobacco year which closed last month amounted to 40,000,000 pounds, which brought more than $3,000,000 in cash. The warehouses are under ‘the centrol of the Danville Tobacco Associa- tion, and everything is dene by rule. The tobacco, raised as Col. Walker has de- scribed it, is brought in by the farmers and laid in long rows of piles, cach about as big around as a washtub, upon the floor. Each man’s crop is separate, and each pile is marked with a card which bears the name of the owner. The warehouses are lighted by many skylights and windows, d tobacco shines out in A rich tobacco aroma fills the room. I: is not like that of store to- bacco, but sweeter and purer. Waiking about among the piles are scores of tobac- co buyers. They are shrewd-looking men who have been in the business for many all its beauty. Ready to Dry. years, and who In tHe dark could tell to a cent the value of tobacco by the smell and feel. The sales go on from warehouse to warehouse, each taking its turn. Now the auctioneer appears. He is a hard-featured, buzzsaw-voiced man of forty. He begins at one end of the room and walks down a row cf piles, selling each lot as he goes. The crowd follow him. They pull out the bunches and smell and feel them. He talks all the while in that high, rasping voice, his jaws going like a corn-sheller and making much the same sound. He has to talk fast, for the rules are that he must auction off 175 lots every hour, or almost three to the min- ute; still some of these lots are worth hun- dreds of dollars, and each is the year's work of at least one farmer. The bidders, however, are accustomed to the work and they speak quickly. After finishing one row the auctioneer starts down another, and so ou to the close, when he takes an- other warehouse and talks on. As soon as a sale is made a bcokkeeper, who follows the auctioneer, marks it down, and within two minutes thereafter the farmer ean get the cash from the warehouse, which acts, as it were, as a clearing house for the buy- ers. The prices of tobacco so sold range all the way from 1 cent up to 75 cents a pound, and the best of judgment is required in the bidding. Have a Chew? Leaving the warehouses, I next visited a large tobacco factory where the yellow leaf is converted into the toothsome plug. The chewing of tobacco, eo far from decreasing, seems to be increasing yearly, and millions of pounds of plug and fine cut are sold every year. St. Louis has today the big- gest plug factory in the world, but plug tobacco of different grades fs made in many places, and the factors tell me there ig money in it. The factory I visited is going a good business, and this seems. to be the case with the tobacco establishments of North Carolina. Plug tobacco is as dif- ferent in its qualities as coffee or tea. It is made in different grades and sold at dif- ferent prices. The tobacco has to go through many processes before it, is ready for chewing. First, it must be stemmed, or stripped; that is, the stems must be pulled from the leaves. This is done by negroes in a room at a warm tem- perature, and the probability is that the Perspiration of the employes aids in the flavor of.the plug. The next process, how- ever, removes the evidence of any such odor. The tobacco chewer is not satisfied with the pure leaf. His chew must be sweetened and flavored to taste. A black liquid composed of licorice, sugar, glyce- rine, salt and flavoring extracts is evenly sprayed on the tobacco, as it is carried through an immense copper cylinder. It ts then taken to the rolling room, where hun- dreds of colored men and women, boys and girls stand at tables and press the leaves out into shape, and then rojl them into bundles, a little larger than the size of the plugs which are to be made from them. Here the bundles are weighed-as they are made, and are carried off to be squeezed by hydraulic pressure into the plugs of the chewer. Smoking Tobacco. It was at Durham, N.C., that I saw the Process of making smoking tobacco. I went through rooms where the leaves are cut into the bits composing the granulated to- bacco used for the pipe. Parts of the fac- tcry were almost suffocating with their smell and dust, and I sneezed again and again as I made my way through them. The machines which handle the tobacco make you think of those of an immense ficuring mill. The tobacco is raised by ele- vators from one floor fo another, and at the top it les in great piles as big as hay- stacks, and containing hundreds of thou- sends of pounds. The tobacco machines cut the leaves into bits, and separate the stems and the dust from the stuff saved for smoking. After the tobacco is cut it is fla- vored by squirting a mixture of what smelled much like rum and some flavoring extracts over it. This is done with a hose. I remember as I saw the gallons of aro- matic spirit flying in streams over a big Stack of tobacco the story of the Irisnman and the plum pudding came back to me. Pat/had had his first taste of the pudding, and was smacking his lips over the rum dressing: “Och!” said he, “what an illigant budding it would be if it was ivery bit dressing.” For the Cigarette Fiend. The same tobacco as that for the pipe is used for cigarettes. There are immense cigarette factories at Richmond, Va., at Durham, N. C., and in many southern cities. Cigarettes are made almost alto- gether by machines which are manipulated by white girls. This is the only branch of tobacco making I have seen which is not run almost entirely by negro labor. The Managers of the different establishments tell me that they consider their colcred help the best help in the world, and that it Is both efficient and steady. The tobacco area of the United States ts increasing. We are producing better tobacco than ever be- fore, and our shipments of cigarettes to foreign countries are enormous. We now send them by the million to China and Japan, and American cigarettes are smoked 'y part of the world FRANK G. CARPENTER. ———_-_ CONCERNED ABOUT HIS SON. The Old Gentleman Administered a Gentle Rebuke. From the Chicago Times-Herald. “George,” said the stern and stald pro- prietor of one of the leading dry soods sheps on the south side the other day, “I would like to see ycu for a moment in my “Yes, sald George, with assumed cheerfulness, though his heart was sink- ing, for whenever his father spoke to him in that particular tone George knew there were breakers ahead. The private office being reacted, the venerable father looked earnestly and sad- ly into his son’s eyes and said: “George, I am pained to hear reports that you have been engaged in gambling—' But, father—" “Don't interrupt me, sir; I don't care to hear excuses—I know all’ the facts. Last Saturday night you lost $ playing cards, aid yeu not?” yes, sir.” “That's right, my son; I'm glad you do not add evasion or falsehood to your other fault. Tell me how you lost this money. “Well, father, I and a friend were play ing freeze out—— “Excuse me, but what is freeze out?” t's a game of cards, st 0 I suppose, but I know nothing of these dreadful games. The name freeze out does not mean anything to me.” “Perhaps you would recognize the game under the more common title of ‘bluff’? “No, I don’t know that title. he game is also called poker.” “Oh, yes; I have heard of poker. One of our ministers to England wrote a book on poker, I believe. I have a slight literary acquaintance with that title. Well, sir, proceed. You and your friend were playing poker?” “Yes, and I got four jacks in the deal—" “Four jacks! Great Scott! But I haven't any idea what bearing that had on the game. Go on.” “I stood pat; my friend drew one card.” Yes.” ‘hen I bet five.” “That's where you made a mistake.” “sir?” “You began to gamble at that point.” “I'm afraid I did, sir.” “What did your friend do?” “Saw my five and raised me twenty- fv “The fellow nad nerve.” “What's that, sir?” “Never mind. Go on with your stor: acl. Saw his twenty-five and raised him went” “What's tha’ “Why, fathe “No excuses, sir. Proceed." “He saw my five and raised me fiv. e saw him and raised him filve—" “Idiot!” only five?” “Sir?’ “Go on, go on!” “He saw my five and raised me fifteen and I—' “What did you do?” “Threw my hand in the deck and gave up the pot.” “Blockhead! Didn’t you know it was a rank bluff? That fellow drew to a bob- tall flush and didn’t fill. He knew you hadn't any sand and started in on a bluff. You threw down four jacks? Why, you confounded chump, if I’d held your hand I'd staid with him until the cows came home. But, thank goodness, I don’t know anything about the game, and un- derstand me, sir, let this be the last com- plaint I hear about your playing cards.” George promised obedience, and as he passed out he heard his father mutterin; “Four jacks! Great Scott, what an op- portunity!" —— ee A Wonderful Speller. “You can't spell nothing," sald Willie Brown, As he held the old speller upside down. “You can’t spell dog, and you can’t spell cat, And you can’t spell this, and you can’t spell that.”* A look of serenity settled down On the fat little face of Baby Brown. “I can spell dog, and I can spell cat, And harder words than this and that."” ‘Spell turkey, then, and let me see. «Turkey,"” said Baby Brown, “A. 0." “Now, Miss Missy, spell chickadee. “Ghickadee,”” said’ Baby Brown, “A. B. 0." “I dare you to spell old donkey for me." a ‘Donkey, ‘said Baby Brown, “A. B. O.' “And now spell coffee and then Il tea."* Blithely Baby Brown, ‘A. B. C."” So all the morn! Willie Brown Held the old speller upside down, And Baby Brown, so little and fat, Spelled barder words than this and that. —Loutse R. Baker in Youths’ Companion. Apple Cores for Sale. From the Obicago Record. Of all the markets that combine to give South Water street its distinct originality undoubtedly the most unique, not to say unseemly, is the one which derives its life from the cores and peelings of apples. Per- sons who pride themselves upon their ad- herence to strictest economy, who eat ap- ples and throw the skins away, do not con- sctentiously feel that they have committed a deed of extravagance. If the cores, even the merest structure of the cores, and the skins were saved, dried and taken to the dealers in dried fruit !n South Water street they could be sold. The dealers in the street are never overtaxed for space to store the cores and peels that come from the people, but they always manage to have a supply on hand to satisfy the demand, which is generally small. led apple cores and peels sell at % of @ cent and 1 cert a pound. ANTS. IN HOUSES { Tusects That Ale a Great Nuisance to the Housekeeper. : FONDNESS FOR SWEET THINGS Methods Adopted of Getting Rid of These Unwelcome Visitors. DIFFERENT SPECIES HERE ARE A NUM- Tox: of species of ants often occurring in houses, the more Important of which are common to both hemispheres, and are probably of old world origin, writes C. L. Marlatt in a bulletin recently issued by the Agricultural De- partment. One of these,* the Ilttle red ant (Monomorium Pharaonis Linn.), has become thoroughly domesticated and passes its entire exist- ence in houses, having its nests in the walls or beneath the flooring, and usually } forming its new colonies in similar favor- able situations. Two other ants are very | common nuisances in houses, namely, the little black ant (Monomorium minutum Mayr) and the pavement ant of the Atlan- tic seaboard (Tetramorium caespitum Linn.), None of these ants are so destruc- tive to household effects or supplies as they are annoying from the mere fact of their presence and their faculty for “get- ting into” articles of food, particularly su- gars, sirups and other sweets. Having once gained access to stores of this sort, the news of the discovery is at once con- | veyed to the colony, and in an incredibly short time the premises are swarming with these unwelcome visitors. In habits and life history these ants are all much alike, and, in co:nmon with other social insects, present that most complex and Interesting phase of communal life, with its accompanying division of labor ! 2 The little black ant (Monoworium minutumy: A, female; sistent and pestilent house nuisance than | the true house ant. This seems to be the species referred to by Kalm in 1748 as often occurring in houses in Philadelphia, and manifesting a great fondness for sweets. He records algo some interesting experiments made by Mr. Franklin, indicating the ability of these ants to communicate with one an- other. The colonies of the pavement ant are often large, and they may frequently be uncovered in masses of a quart or more on turning over stones in yards or lifting flagging in paths, This ant may be often with little difficulty traced to its nest, which, if accessible, or not thoroughly protected by unbroken pavement, as of asphalt, can be rather easily exterminated. So well established is the species, however, that new colonies will usually soon take the place of those destroyed. Drenching the nests with boiling water and saturating them with coal oil, which lat- ter also may be introduced into cracks in pavements or walls, are effective means of abating the nuisance of this ant. Underground Galleries. There are several other ants closely re- sembling this last, mostly species of La- sius, some foreign and some native, which form large colonies in yards, throwing up earthen ant hills, beneath which are ex- tensive systems of underground galeries. These may often get into near-by houses and become quite as troublesome as the ants already mentioned. Excellent success has been had in de- stroying these ants with the use of bisul- phide of carbon applied in their nests. The method consists in pouring an ounce or two of the bisulphide into each of a num- ber of holes made in the nest with a stick, promptly closing the holes with the foot. The bisulphide penetrates through the un- derground tunnels and kills the ants in enormous numbers, and if applied with sufficient liberality will exterminate the whole colony. Whenever the nests of any of these®ants can be located, there is no other resource but the temporary expedient of destroying them wherever they occur in the hou The best means of effecting this end is to attract them to small bits of sponge moist- ened with sweetened water and placed in the situations where they are most nu- merous. These sponges may be collected several times daily, and the ants swarming in them destroyed by immersion in hot water. It is reported also that a sirup made by dissolving borax and sugar in boiling water will effect a destruction of the ants readily and in numbers. The re- moval of the attracting substances, wherever practicable, should always be the first ste Garrett Played From the Chicago Record. The newspaper biographies of the late Robert Garrett contained no mention of the fact that he once enjoyed the distinc- , same with wings; C, male; D, workers— inal). and diversity of forms of Individuals, all working together in the most perfect har- mony and accord. The specimens ordi- narfly seen in houses are all neuters, or workers. In the colony itself, if it be dis- covered and opened, will be found also the larger wingless females and at the proper season the winged males and females. During most of the year, however, the col- ony consists almost exclusively of workers, with one or more perfect wingless females. The Queen Mother. Winged males and females are produced during the summer, and almost imme- diately take their nuptial flight. The males soon perish, and the females shortly after- ward tear off their own wings, which are but feebly attached, and set about the establishment of new colonies. The eggs, which are produced in extraordinary num- bers by the usually solitary queen mother, are very minute, oval, whitish objects, and are cared for by the workers, the young larvae being fed in very much the same way as in the colonies of the hive bee. The so-called ant eggs, in the popular concep- tion, are not eggs at all, but the white larvae and pupae, and if of females or males, are much larger than the workers and many times larger than the true egg. As a house species the red ant (Mono- morium pharaonis Linn.) is the common one. It is practically cosmopolitan, and its exact origin is unknown. This ' species, nesting habitually in the’ walls of houses or beneath flooring, is often difficult to eradicate. There is no means of doing this except to locate the nest by following the workers back to their point of entrance. If in a wall the inmates may sometimes laying the great American game— ball, but poker, of course—with a real live king. Some time in the year 1888 he determined to journey to Mexico in search of health which he had lost in vexatious financie The original program was al- tered after the trip was begun, and it was finaliy extended to the Sandwich Islands and thence to China and Japan. He was accompanied by his wife and sister and a number of other relatives and friends. Mr. Garrett's party had scarcely been quartered in their hotel in Honolulu when the royal chamberlain of the Hawaiian monarch called upon them and said that King Kalakaua would be pleas€d to have the gentlemen take dinner with him, but prior to that begged them to witness a boat race that day between a Hawaiian crew and one from an American man-of- war lying in the harbor. Mr. Garrett was surprised to find the black king a courteous gentleman, speak- ing English fluently, and remiading him much of Chesier A.’Arthur. His greeting was decidedly funny. “Mr. Garrett,” he said, “I am pleased to meet you. We have a bond of union. You have just tried to borrow $5,000,000, and I have just borrowed $2,000,000. After dinner the king said: “Gentiemen, it 1s our custom after dinner to indulge in a game of poker, with a little limit of $5. Is that agreeable to you?” Mr. Garrett and a few other members of the party determined to have a go at the Hawatian treasury The company was seated in an immense hall, and when the cards had been shuified there appeared at one end of the apart- ment eight natives with harps; in front of these, elght mandolin players; a third row The pavement ant (Petramorium coespltum): aps nged female; B, same without wings; ©, ," Worker, male; be reached by injecting bisulphide of car- bon or a little kerosene. If under flooring it may sometimes be possible to get at them by taking,up a section. Unless the colony can be reached and destroyed all oer measures will be of only temporary avail. i The little black.ant (Monomorium minu- tum maT) is not strictly a house species, although frequently occurring indoors, and becoming at times quite as troublesome as the red ant. Its colonies usually occur un- der stones in yards, but are frequently found in the fields, and will be recognized from the little pyramids of fine grains of 1 which surround ‘the entrances to the excavations. If these colonies be opened they will be found to contain workers, and usually one or more very much larger gravid females. This species, when oc- curring in houses, can often be traced to its outdoor colony, and the destruction of this will prevent further trouble, The Pavement Ant. The pavement ant of our eastern cities (fetramorium caespitum Linn.) is in Eu- Tope the common meadow ant, and is two or three times larger than either of the other species referred to. It was early in- troduced into this country, and, while not yet reported from the west, is very com- mon in eastern towns, and particularly here in Washington. it has readily ac- commodated itself to the conditions of ur- ban existence, and commonly has its colo- nies under pavements, where it is often difficult of access, or beneath flagging or stones in yards. It is often a more per- was made up of eight choristers. The mel- odies were American, and consisted largely of improvisations on the names of the va- rious members of the party. It certainly was rather alarming to hear one of the soloists, in a parody on “The Colored Dude,” gravely sing: “Oh, there sits Robert Garrett, the Bal- timore dude.” This divertisement was almost too much for Mr. Garrett’s calmness of mind, and as a result he soon found himsel{ several hun- dred dollars poorer than when he entered the place. The Hawaiian treasury ap- peared very far away. But just then, during a large jackpot, he coun! pares) ee in = hand, and, after considerable betting, all the players except Kalakaua laid down their banda He had cee aes He wie with Garrett un- e Dot was up to handsome pri and then called. Renee “Your majesty,” said Mr. Garrett, smil- ingly, “if I had you in my hand I would, with what I have, be possessed of four very handsome kings.” His majesty was quick to see the point, and he promptly replied. “Well, that beats three queens,” and he at once wrote out a due bill for $200, be- neath which he signed “Kalakaua, Rex.” Garrett looked dismayed, but said noth- ing. Early next morning, however, while he was at breakfast with the ladies of the party, the royal chamberlain appeared be- fore him, bowed and presented the aston- ished American with $200. It required all his diplomacy to satisfy the ladies’ curiosity as to why he had such early financial dealings with the Hawaiian government, the } EPWORTH LEAGUE| Annual District Convention to Be Held Next Week. PROGRAM FOR THE VARIOUS SESSIONS List of Delegates Who Will Repre- sent the Chapters. TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION The sixth annual convention of the Wash- ington District Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore conference, will be held in the Metropolitan M. E. Church, 4% and C streets northwest, Friday, Saturday and Sunday next. An elaborate program has been arranged for the occasion. Among the important fea- tures of Christian werk which will be di cussed are temperance, missions, g00d citi- zenship, etc. Besides the general meeting conferences will be held by the several di partments of work. The convention will open Friday evening, at 7:15 o'clock, with a grand rally of worthians. The chapters will’ carry banners. Mr. Fred E. Tasker, Dis president, will preside. The song will be conducted by Mr. Wm. J District fourth vice president. dist bymnal will be us 1 the % Devotional exercizes at 7:30 o'clock will be led by Rey. L. B. Wilson, D. D., pre elder. Singing by congregation. which Rey. Robt. M. Moore of Kens’ Md., will talk about t internatiot vention, “Toronto, music by quartet, followed by an address by Madison Swadener of Cincinnati, supe tendent of the church extension and m| sionary society. Mr. Swadener made a de impression at the Harrisburg convention last June. The Washington Epworthians consider themselves fortunate in securi him for the convention. The custo fering will follow this After the singing of the Doxology the benediction will be pronounced by Re: . Bie Union M. E. Ch vices a reception w and friends in the 1 te cture room of the church. Saturday Sessions. Saturday morning from 10 to 11 o'clock, temperance rally, presided over by Mr. Robert E. Layton, Dumbarton Chapter; Mis secretary. Binging, by the conere; and invocation, by I stor of the Geor Vernon M. E. Church Foe We Fight,” Rev Waugh M. E. Church: tewart, Dumbarton ood City nship,” H. B. Moulton, Ham: line Chapyr; benediction, Rev. C. O. Cook, pastor Fletcher M. E. Church, ma Houcher, Douglas Chapter, ion; Bible read- Beall, Chapter; Eleven o’cloc! ee J. Clark, District first v pre- siding: Miss Emma Houchen, secretary. Devotional exercises, Rev. John L. Walsh, pastor Douglas M. E. Church; address, “Home Missions,’ Mrs. Clara Roach, Ham- line Chapter: singin; i Foreign Mi 8," Rev. W D. D., pastor Hamline M. Church; singing; benediction, Re Baldwin, pastor We: E. All missionary socie’ for . by cong pgation Si afternoon, 1:30 to 5 Department conferences. 1:50 0 o'clock, “Mercy and Help,” (lecture room), Mrs. M. M. Mitchell, District second vice president, presiding; Miss Emma Hum- phries, uch Chapter, secretary. Scrip- ture reading, Miss Mary ‘Tuthill, Metropoli- tan Chapter; prayer, Rev. W. G, Cassard, pastor Twelfth Street M. E. Church; sing ing, congregation; addre: “Value of Mercy and Help Department to the Church,” Rev. E. ©. Eldridge, pastor Waush M. Church; solo, Miss Ida O'Neal, Hamline Chapter: paper, “Does Material Relief Result in Spiritual Good? Miss Parepa Walker,'Bethesda, Md., Chap- THE GENUINE JOHANN HOFF'S MALT EXTRACT ; MAKES = FLESH AND BLOOD AVOID SUBSTITUTES ing prayer, Rev. O. A. Brown, Foundry M. E. Church. Junior Workers (lecture room), 4:15 to 5 o'clock. Miss A. E. Crump, District superintend- ent, presiding. Miss Mamie Murph: sccretary. Singing. Prayer—Rey. J. R. Cannon, pastor Ten- leytown M. E. Church. “The Catechism in the Junior League,” Mrs. J. L. Walsh. Douglas Chapter. “How to Get Juniors and How to Keep pastor, Fletcher Chapter, Them,” Miss Jennie Watts, Grace Chapter. “Epwort juards, Mrs Q. H. Al- ward, Fifteenth Street Chapter. General discussion--Discipline, leaders, business me bles. Announcements, Closing prayer—Rev. J. L. McLaren,pas- tor Anacostia M. E. Church. The Evening Session. tings, reading circle and socia- Saturday evening (auditorium), 7 ¢’clock, business session, Mr. Fred EB. Tasker, Dis- trict president, presiding; Messrs. F. T. Israel, Geo. S. Gibson, secretaries. Singing, devotional exercises, tor Dumberton M, RB J. B. Stitt, pas- Chur; roll-call of chapters, response with two-minute re- ports from pre annual reports from the officers, reports of committees, report of committ report of com- mittee on lutions, tis siness, new business, election of offi adjourn- ment, with be ction, Rev Wilson, presiding eld anday Rev. M. Swadener. Church, 3 o'clock, junior rally; « rs will bring their ban:ers; Mixs elle rump, District superintendent, presiding; song service, conduc by Mr. Wm. J Scripture ding member Metropolitan chapter; pray address, Rev. W. H. Richardson, pastor Gorsuch M Church; exercises by the juniors; singing, Kregation; benediction, Rev. J. R. Cannon, pastor 'Tenleytown’ M. BK. Church. day evening. ecration and t timony se ducted Rev. Hugh Johns’ D. D., pastor Metropoll- tan M. E. Church; benediction and fina adjournment. Sketch of M Swadener. Rev. Madison Swadener, who will address the convention, as sta was born and educated in the west. He is now tn the vigor of young manhood, and has had three years’ experience in Y. M. C. A. work as general secretary of a city association, fol- lowed by tweive years in the regular p torate in some of the strongest churches in Methodism, after which two rs were spent in special evangelistic work in the east and west, and for the past five years he has been engaged in the forwar we- ter; duet, Misses Nellie Allpress and Carrie | ment work in connection with the evan- Reiff, Fletcher Chapter; paper, “Compen-| gelization union of the Methodist Episeo- fation of Mercy and Help Work,” Mr@ R.| pal Church, with headquarters at Cincin- M. Moore, Kensington Chz general | nati, Ohio. “Since the organization of the discussion; closing prayer, - W. W. Epworth League Mr. Swadener has had Van Arsdale, pastor Fifteenth Street M. ge experience in the Epworth League Church. Literary (auditorium), 1:30 to 2:80 o'clock, e who take part in the busines ee who will take part in the business Moulton, lent, presiding ley Chapter, sect L. District third € Miss Grace Dowling, ptary; devotional ex- - McDougle, pastor Alex- hurch; “Reading Circle able Mr. Mark A. Wat- E. Are They Advi son, Hamline Chapter; discussion, “Other Literary Work,” M Amy May, Doug- las Chapter; discussion; “ it: How to Create and "Maintain It,” Mis Haines, Metropolitan Chapte tion drawer; benediction. Some Afternoon ™. ings. ‘Spiritual work” (Auditorium), 2 ) o'clock, Rev. T. J. Clark, District first vice presideat, presiding; Mrs, F. J. Mack- McKendree Chapter, secreta Martha 8. music; ques- Rev. G. W. Hobbs, pastor Trinity M. Chure'! Paper, “Our Devotional Meetings to Make them More Interesting fective Mr. W. S. Dewhirst, Metropol Chapter. Paper, “The Ideal Leader,” Mrs. E. J. Harper, Dougias Chapter. Paper, “The Use of the Bible in Our De- votional Meetings,” Miss Emma Harding, Twelfth Street Chap Paper, “Spirituality the Vital Force in Christian Work,” Mr. Geo. Hough, Ham Dis easurer, presiding opolitan Chapter, s azing. Praycr, Rev H. R. Naylor, pastor Mc- Kendree . Church Solo, Miss Mattie Gray, Metropolitan Chapter. Address, “The Financial Relation of Lo- cai ( japters to the Beard of Coutrol,” Mr. Fred. B. T: : League treasurers, e viding for Expenses of the trol. Discussion. Question box. Social (Auditorivm), 3:30 to 4:15 o’cloc Mr. Wm. J. Palmer, District Board of Con- fourth vice president, presiding; Miss Ida O'Neal, Hamline Chapter, secretary. Singing, congrefation. Prayer, Rev. S. M. Hartsock, pastor Ry- land M. E. Church. “How Can the Social Department In- crease Our Membership?” Mr. G. Warfield Hobbs, Trinity Chapte: Address, “How Can the Social Depart- ment Increase Its Efficiency?” Rey. Chas. L. Pate, pastor North Capiiol M. E. Church. Persona? suggestions. Bencdiction, Rev. L. Bryant, pastor St. Paul's M. E. Churen. Interesting Meeting». Secretaries (lecture room)—3:30 to 4:15 p.m. Mr. F. T. Israel, district recording secre- tary, presiding; Miss 8. Lizzie Fatrall, Ash- ton, Md., secretary. Prayer—W. L. Orem, pastor Forestville (Ma.) M. E. Church. Address—“The Mission of the Secretary Mr. W. Muiter, general secretary Y. M. Cc. A. Paper—“The Secretary's Pen: How and When to Use It,” Miss Bertha E. Walter, Waugh Chapter. Paper—“The Secretary's Place in the Spiritual Work of the League,” Miss Louise Duvall, St. Paul’s Chapter. “The Local Chapter Secretary’s Relation to the District League,” Mr. F. J. Metcalf, Fifteenth Street Chapter. Benediction—Rev. J. W. Steele, pastor Lanham’s (Md.) M. E. Church. Presidents (auditorium), 4:15 to 5 o'clock. Mr. Fred. E. Tasker, District president, presiding. Mr. 8. E. La Fetra, Metropolitan Chapter, secretary. Devotional exercises—Rev. J. O. Knott, pastor Epworth M. BE. Church South. Address—“All_ Wheels Moving,” Mr. J. Finney Engle, Waugh Chapter. “Enthusiastic Business Meetings,” Mr. 8. 8. Symons, North Capitol Chapter. ‘Address—“‘Every Member a Vital Part of the League,” Mr.E. W. Williams, recording secretary, fourth general conference dis- trict. Questions and informal discussion. Clos- proceedings of the convention and are ex- officio members are Mr. E. W. Williams and Harry G. Hine, offi of the fourth ence district, and residents hington district v. RM Moore and Miss Fanni ks, offic of the Baltim: League; L. B. Wilson, presiding r of the trict; the district officc Mr. Fred. E. Tasker, Rey T. J. Clark, Mrs. M. M. Mitch- ell, Mrs. H. B. Moulton, Mr. Wm. J. Palmer, Mr. F. T. Israel, Mr. Geo. S. Gib- om, Mr. Geo. Armstrong and Miss A. Crump; presidents of local chapters: rs. S. F. Stokeley, A. M. Green, Edgar vin, Wm. Broadhur J, Ri R. . Wolfe, J. H. Gibson, M. Dannison, Mrs. E. . Samson, R e, Chas Roberts, F. B. Littell, F Woodward, F-. t- calf, Mrs. A. V. on, W. H. Kerr, C. 8 Duvai!, D.C. Smithson, W Ly M. A. Watson, Rev. W. D.’ Beall, G. b. Fox, A. A. Hancock, James Posey, H. L. M Queen, J. Pheips, R. L. Middl 2, 5. Symons, W. M. Walt F, . L. Buell, H.C. Riley, &. C. Cissel, J. F. Engle and J. S. Barker. List of egntes, Jelegat to ntion local chapters, so far as r y, are ; a w Thompson, n. sda—Miss' Iona M. Lin to the Edith PL Snyder, hicum, J. i H. adhurst hapma A. Vernon Gale, Comer, Mary i Fifteenth Street- ale, F. J. Metcalf, borne and Cran li. Fletcher—Rev. C. ©. Cook, D. Buchanan, J. W. Allen, M. Fowler, Mrs. M. E. Fewler. Foundry—Rev. 0. A. Brown, R. L. Bains, W. H. Kerr, G. F. Cahill, Mrs. I. O. Ball, Miss C. Chandlee, Miss Mabe erry 3orsuch—Rev, W. H. Richardson, M. G. ‘olison, Misses A. E. Crump, May Biondi, ‘a Daily w. Ww. Misses I Van -kford, o. c ace—Key 0. WV. Leech, Thos. G. Young, Samuel rivener, Mrs. C. L. Lof- tus, Mrs. Flora A. Jones, Miss Amy S. Meiford. Hamlinc—Rev. W. R. Stricklen, Williams, H. B. Moulton, J. R. Mi P. Hamlin, Misses Irene Ban Wing, Jennie Mickle. Hunting Hill—Rev. W. D. Beall, Iradell Ward, Mamie Magruder, Ward, Mrs. Jennie Roswell. Kensington—Rev. R. M. Moore, W. Misses Victoria E. Dulin, Mrs. R. M. Moore, Mrs. W. E. Du- lin, Misses C. N. Little and Fannie Reese. Liberty Grove—Misses Mary L. Burton, Edna Wright, Alle M. Wootten, Walter Carr, M. T. Phelps. McKendree—Rev. MH. R. Naylor, 8. 8. Cul- berteon, A. W. Davis, Wm. Bushby, Mrs. F. J. Mackenzie, Misses Blanche Tomlin- son and Annie Davis. North Capitol-—-Rev. C. L. Pate, W. 8. Ayers, Misses M. E. Edson, Daisy House, Clara Deneane and Jessie Gray. Saint Paul's—Rev. S. L. Bryant, M. N. Richardson, Misses Loutse Duvall, Bertha Adams and Mrs. M. N. Richardson. Tenleyiown—Rey. J. R. Cannon, Misses Mary C. Deane, > Cc. Hieder. Shoemaker, Ida Paxton, Twelfth Street—Rev. W. G. Cassard, J. H. Alien, 8. C. Cixsel, Misses Mollie Lar- kin, Florence Burgess, Byrd Bobb and Em- ma Harding. Urion—Rev. A. Bielaski, A. 8S. Taylor, Misses Belle Meany, Mary Emmart, Sadie TT jor. Wesley—Rev. C. W. Baldwin, Fred Me- Kee, A. Faulkner, J. 8. Barker, Misses Ada Fowler and Grace Dowling. Delegates from ovt-of-town chapters Ge- siring entertainment during the conven- tion will be assigned to homes by Mr. Geo. 8. Gibson at Metropolitan M. E. Church, betwecn the hours of 8 and 5 p.m. Friday, November 18, 1896.