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The News and Observer. VOL. XL VI. NO. 127. LEIOS ALL NORU CAROLINA HUES II IEIS All CIF&ULATION. METROPOLIS OF FLORIDA Cleanest City in the South ern States, COST OF ORANGE FREEZE MORE DESTRUCTIVE) OF PROP ERTY THAN ANY EARTH QUAKE THE WORLD HAS KNOWN » THE UNIQUE OSTRICH FARM It is a Fine Investment and is One of the Only Two Ostrich Farms in America Not in the Ostrich Trust. Jacksonville, Fla.. August 3.—(Edi torial Corespondenice.) —This is not a noted summer resort. People who visit Florida ordinarily come in the winter when its mild climate affords a delight ful change from the snow and ice of the North. Rut. though I was here when the thermometer registered 94, and it seemed hotter than at any other point, I found hy reading the state of the weather at other points that the ther mometer registered as follows in several cities: Jacksonville, 92; Raleigh, 92; Charlotte. 92; Cincinnati, 98; Kansas City, 94. Memphis. 94: New Orleans. 96; St. Louis, 96; and Vicksburg, 96. These were the points where* the thermometer registered' highest. 1 was greatly sur prised upon finding that Raleigh. Char lotte and Jacksonville registered the same, 92. In one point Jacksonville has the advantage of both Charlotte and Raleigh. While the maximum tempera ture was the same, the nvinirnuap temper ature in Jacksonville was 82. while it was 84 in Raleigh and 86 in Charlotte. One other advantage Jacksonville en joys is that it is on the noble St. John river, only fourteen miles from the At lantic ocean, and within thirty minutes hy rail of what Jacksonville people claim to be ‘‘tin* finest sea beach in the world.'’ It has nine miles of river front, and most of Ihe time enjoys a breeze: It is claimed in the advertising literature gotten up hy the hoard of trade that “Jacksonville’s mean temper ature Is seventy degrees, and is cooler in summer than Boston or Chicago.” However that may lx*, there is no doubt that the breezes from the St. John’s river moderates the heat, though its far southern situation renders its summers hot and long, and I do not believe the board of trade claims that it is a model summer resort. « Old as it is, Jacksonville is in every essential a modern city. Named for "Old Hickory” in 1822, it swears “By the Eternal” and grows younger and more energetic as it waxes strong and rejoic eth in its vitality. It has the creed ex pressed by one of its oldest and most influential citizens: “I am as young as when L came to Jacksonville as a young man.” * * * You will not find a cleaner city in the country outside of Washington city. Its cleanliness accounts for its healthful ness. the mortality averaging ten in a thousand. But its glory Is its superb system of water works and Its miles oL splendidly paved streets and sidewalks. The city owns its water supply, for which it owes .$206,060. The water weeks is supplied from artesian wells, flowing 5,000,000 gallons daily. The power house and offices are in the city, and are surrounded by a small park of tropical plants, making a very restful and lovely plaee. When first pumped up (the water comes from artesian wells 650 feet deep) there is a suggestion of sulphur in the water, but that soon passes away, leaving a pure a: ! 1 whole some supply, ample for all uses and for the fine tire department, the pride of the city. The water supply is owned by the city. I talked with some of the* leading citizens and all of them agreed that municipal ownership has proven more than satisfactory. ‘No city,” said one of them, “•light to Ik* dependent upon private corporations for its water supply any more than for its administra tion of justice. 1 have known few cities that deiKuvded upon a private company for ‘its water supply that did not have frequent disputes and much trouble. Mu nicipal ownership is the only correct thing.” I thought of this In connection with the controversy between the city fathers of Raleigh and the Raleigh Wafer Company. The people of Raleigh ought without much longer delay to avail themselves of their option ami have the city to own the wafer supply. * * * The streets of Jacksonville look as clean and bright, as a pin. In most places the paving has been done with vitrified brick, and they make a good ini press inn ami are said to give general satisfaction. A gentleman, who knows all about such things, ways the brick are laid on the sand and will last, seven years where the travefl is heavy. an<l then they can Ik* taken up and the bot tom side placed on top when they will last another seven years. This is said here to la* the cheapest method of pav ing. and it certainly makes clean and attractive looking streets that make a good impression on the visitor, ami the cost is said to be much less than an;* other system of paving that has been used. The oxjierience of Jacksonville mi gift be worth something in expending the SIOO,OOO bonds issued by Raleigh for street improvements. t * * In the centre of the city St. James Park occupies a square graced by a $2.*,- 000 Confederate monument erected last year by the generosity of a rich Texan and unveiled while the troops were in camp here and. grouped about it are the chief hotels, churches, opera house, and handsome* residences that make Jacksonville the Mecca for Northern visitors in the winter. They come in great crowds, most of them “rich as cream,” seeking health and pleasure and recreation no matter at what cost. The regular population of Jacksonville is 30,000. In the summer it goes down to 25,000 and in the winter up to 40,000 and sometimes even more, if 1 were the mayor of the city, I would take the census of the city in the winter when 1 could count in all the Yankee visitors and the influx of servants and others who come to wait on them and get the sheckels which they scatter. “Talk about gay times,” said an old resident, you ought to be in Jacksonville at tin* season. There’s more fun to the square inch here than anywhere in the United States. But it comes high.” * * * Living is high in Jacksonville. 1 talk ed with a young North Carolinian who is making liis way in the commercial world. After graduating at the Univer sity lie said he borrowed a little money and came to Jacksonville to make his fortune. "It costs more to live here than in North 'Carolina,” he said, “but you can make more. There are more openings and more money pours in here.” One gentleman told me that, upon a guess, he would say that eighty per cent of the .money invested in Jacksonville was invested by Northern men. They came here for health or pleasure and found opportunities to make eight to ten per cent on investments, with chances of doubling it. Many of them withdrew their New England three per cent invest ments and put their-money in Florida enterprises. The big men like Plant and Flagler built great systems of railroads and steamboat lines, electric ear lines and modern hotels. The smaller capi talists invested in everything from alli gators up to orange groves. * * * People outside of Florida Jo not ap preciate the magnitude of tin* loss sus tained by the folks here when the orange groves were destroyed by the big freeze a few years ago. It will *lk* twenty years before the groves are again bearing as when cut off by the most disastrous freeze of which there is any history. “Think about what we lost." said a well informed gentleman. “There never was an earthquake, a famine, a shipwreck, a pestilence that cost so much in money as the cold that killed the Florida orange groves. I doubt whether the people of the country have ever realized that the disaster was so great.” It was a blow from which many will never recover. One gentleman—not a resident of Florida —had for many years invested till his earnings in an orange grove and incurred some debt". For several years prior to tin* freeze he had been in receipt of a net income of SO,OOO a year from his oranges. He had just gotten out of debt when the freeze destroyed every dollar of a lilt* time’s saving. He cannot retrieve his fortune (because he has not the money to expend on another grove, and if he had, the necessities of his family demand that he go to work at something that will bring in quick return. And his condition is that of many others. The destruction of the orange crop brought loss on all sides. The railroads, which had done much to develop the orange business, lost heavily in freights on the oranges and the bulk of business which good/ prices brought in the sections where they are grown. But you find nobody in Florida sitting down' wringing their hands, and crying over the milk that is beyond re covery. Those who can have gone to work to grow new groves and others have gone into other lines of industry, for Florida is a State that is confident of its future. If Florida has lost its orange money for some years, it still has two sources from which it can get a Jiving— Yankees in the winter and potatoes in the summer. As long as these crons hold out, Florida will not be downcast at anything else that may overtake it. * * * They have no politics in Florida to di> ert them from digging potatoes in summer or trading with Yankees in the winter. At least, Florida has no parti sail politics. ’File Australian ballot law is in force here and it disfranchises most of the negroes and a few of the white folks. The result is that Republicans take no interest in politics, and compara tively few of tlie people take the trouble to vote. The Total vote of the Spite in a recent election was only 12,000. only a few less than were cast in Wake county. But the Democrats have polities till you can't rest a minute in the party prima ries. There is no fun and no coy test at the regular election, but enough to make up for it in the Democratic primaries. A nomination being equivalent to an election, there is a dug fight over the nominations, especially to the most im portant places, and there are not want ing well organized factions within the party, but the primaries are regulated by law and there is general acquiescence in the decree of the primary. A man rarely holts the .primary nomination. It lie does, he invites and receives political annihilation. The white people of Florida had a bitter dose of negro and carpet bag rule up to 1877. and they have not forgotten it. They are resolved to permit no appeal to tin* negro vote. Now and then an attempt is made in-some local election, hut the sentiment in favor of abiding by the white primary is too strong to permit any headway to be made. $ * * • The new Senator from Florida. Mr. Taiiferro. lives here. He has never be fore held office, though he has taken an active ino-rcsl in local politics. He had no public record except that he has been a public-spirited and successful business tnau who has been true to the Demo-' I (Continued on Second Page.) RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST (i, 1899. AWQMAN MAKER OF PRESIDENTS An Interesting Chapter of History Recalled, DEATH OF MRS. SPRAGUE ROISCOEI CONK LI NO OBEYED HER NOD FROM THE GAL LERY. DAUGHTER OF SEC. SALMON P. CHASE Who Spent her Life in Trying to Place him in the White House. She Married Sprague for His In fluence. (Phil ad e 1 phi a Times.) Washington, July 21. Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, wife of w former Governor of Rhode Island, ami tlx* daughter of tin* lnlfte Salmon P. Chase, Governor of Ohio, United States Senator and Chief Justice of the limited States Supreme Court, died at her hoim*- stead. Edge wood, in WaWliiugton’s su burbs, early this morning. She was 50 years old. For three months she had lieen suffer ing with a complication of liver and kid ney troubles, bult had consented' to medi cal treat in cut only ten days ago. She grew steadily worse and the end came a few minutes after 2 o’clock this morning. At the bedside were luer three daughters. Miss Kiltie Sprague, who lived with her mother; Miss Portia Sprague, of Narragaie>tt Pier, and Mrs. Donald,-ion, of Brooklyn, N. ’l ■ A FAMOUS WOMAN'S CAREER. Some one has staid that Kate Chase Sprague was the Mine, do Staid of America, but later years will have to furnish the perspective necessary to set a proper seal upon that likeness. Those thiit have known her in her day will always s|k;i k of her as a brilliant, am bitious. spirited and daring woman, in tense in her puriKisvs. indefatigable In her efforts. She had great personal beauty and a ready wit, an ability that enabled her to reign in the social world. She inherited much of the genius of her father, Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, which, com bined with an intimate and practical knowledge of governmental workings in the days of the war, gave her ti political jower such as probably no other wo man in this country has ever ]>osisessed. She was horn in Ohio in 1840, and was barely more than 20 when she went to Washington with her father, who was to take liis place in tin* Cabinet. Young ns she was, she bad seen service in public life. While her father was Gov ernor of Ohio'she haul' been liis confiden tial secretary, and by constant associa tion with him had taken on many of his manners and, habits of life and thought. He was- imperious and higli trmpered, ami l so Was she. His self esteem was one of liis greatest infirmi ties, and the daughter was net a step behind him. 1 >OM FSTI (’ 1N FE LICITY-. It whs 'the dream of her young life that she should some time .see her father President of the country, and. it is cer tain she subordinated many of her lift* plans to this one overpowering idea. Her beauty and her father's place in the Cabinet placed her in the front rank of society in Washington, and it was not long before illie whs using her pow er to attract the leading men of the cap ital to her. Those in public life vied tor her favor, and she accorded it In propior ti'on to their position and influence, Im mediate or prospective. For tlx* men that came to her in a marrying mood she bad no thought in those early days, and pastsed Them away with freezing imperiousness. They had no place In the plan of her campaign. The women of the capital she never heeded. She considered them as useless as the love-lorn men, and could not see how they Could ever help her to the realization of her dream. But the ene mies she then made wlere never lost to her, and surely counted against her hi the days that came. When she Was 24, however, there ap peared as a suitor for her hand, Gover nor William Sprague, of Rhode Island, He was a man of great wealth, had served with honor in the battles of the war, and there was that about him which made the young woman believe he might Ik* of great use to her. She mar ried Inn as a mere step forward in the furtherance of her ambition, and not wilt hi any thought of love, ns events wen* made to show. HER MARRIAGE A FAILURE? This marriage proved to la* the mis take of her life, and it was unit many years lw*fore she realized it. Her hus band, Governor then and Sennit or after ward, brought no addition to her power and helped her not at all in the cam paign in her father's flavor. But she was not Cast down to the point of for saking her plan, and when, after pas>- ing from the Cabinet, her father went into the Supreme Court, of the nation, then* to become its Chief Justice, she redoubled her efforts. She employed every method known to the science of polities to advance his cause. An enor mous fund was raised and a systematic corruption of the newspaper eormspou ih*nlts at Washington was attempted. The list prepared by this clever, auda cious woman, contained the names of men who should receive SIOO per week for advocating the nomination of the Chief Justice. She once boasted to the writer of this arti cle that she had the receipts of many men, whom she named, for money ac cepted in this service. In that list are the names of several ix-rsons who stand very high in wealth and political power today. But all the cumpaigining was for naught. All she could do wins id vain, and when, in 1872, her father died, with out her hopes having been realized in the slightest degree, she gave up and whatever power six* had ever had was at an. end. AMBITIOUS FOR HER FATHER. Her li in fried life had never lieen hap py. Her husband had established her in a palatial resadteaice at Canoneliet, R. 1., destined to be the scene of a great sensation in a later day. She was ex travagant in everything, and this led to a feud between her and the fnembers of h<*<r husband’s family. They warned him that she was leading him, on at too rapid a pace, and when she learned of this she vowed a lasting vengeance. The first child! bora to her Was a sun, but she never cared for him. \\ hat cver mother’s love Lhere was in tier heart was saved for the daughters that came afterward. Not one (of the children served as an additional bond between her and her husband. The death of her father was 1 followed by the panic of 1873. The vast for tunes of the Sprague family were not thought to be in danger, and if all the members of the family had stood to gether it would not have been necessary for any of them to go to tin* wall. But the Senator's wife had estranged the others, and in the wreck that came tlx* Senator was the only one that suffered to the extent of losing all his posses sions. At that time the Senator and Mrs. Sprague, although living in the same house, never spoke to each other. When everything was gone Mrs. Sprague tiM»k hpr three daughters and left flu* house, never to see her husband again. Long before that there had been talk of a divorce, but tlx* world hail known little of their troubles. There was however, the incident in which Roscoe ('onkling figured. He had been marked in his attentions to Mrs. Sprague and Continued so until cue afternoon, at CnDoiiehet, when tile husband chased him from the place with a hatchet. A NOD OF TREMENDOUS IMPORT When Don I ’ln tit was publishing the Sunday Capital in Washington he print ed an editorial (said to have been writ ten hy Colonel A. ('. Buell, now with the <'ramped in which it wax charged that Conkling was «ailed from the fioor of flu* Semite by a nod from Mrs. Sprague in the Senate gallery, ami that the sum moning' of OonkM'ng in this manner had much to do with tlx* passing of the electoral <-oinmission hill, which resulted in tlx* seating of Hayes in the White I louse. But nothing ever came of the mutual charges of misconduct made hy the Spragues, and it wins not until 1882 that a divorce was granted to Mrs,. Sprague on the grouixl of non-support. Meantime, she had been living on a lit tie estate, culled Edgewood, in the su burbs of Washington. Tins had been left to her by her father, and at that time it was of little value. But the city be gan to grow out in that direction and w hen the time came to cut the land up into building lots, Mrs. Sprague found herself in comfortable circumstances. Hot* natural extravagance, however, led her to encumber the land by a mort gage. and* it was only by the personal intervention of some of her friends, among them Levi P. Morton, of New York, that it was saved to her. IiATI IE R NEGLIG EE. llow L'eutenaut Brumby Welcomed tlx* (Fitts! urg Dispatch.) (Pitslmrg Dispatch.) Flag Lieutenant Brumby, who is now with Admiral Dewey ait. Trieste, is n dapper little man, who is most puncti lious ultout his uniform and deport ment. 11l elceiitnliy lx* is as brave ail officer as ever scant a ship into ac tion, and his native State of Georgia lias a handsome gold-filled sword ready t*o present to him when lie gets home from the war. On one occasion, how ever. Lieutenant Brumby made a most lamentable slip in the matter of uniform. Up to- this time tlx* story has never been told in print. lit occurred while the Olympia was still lying Indore Ma nila. One of the duties of Lieutenant Brumby was to receive all who came to call on the Admiral. On llx* afternoon in question he had gone down Into his statercKWii to take a nap. I't was terribly hot, and before lying down he removed iiis spotless white canvas coat, trousers and cap. Half ail hour afterward an orderly hurried down to announce that tlx* launch of the cap tain of the British ship I minor Tail ite was alongside the Olympia. Half asleep, Lieutenant Brumby pult on 'his coat and hat and rushedi on deck in order to be* in readiness, to receive the guests. During the hot weather no work was done on the warships be tween 10 o’clock in the morning and 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Consequent ly, most of the crew was on the up per deck enjoying the breeze. They took one look at the dashing young Lieutenant and then burst into a laugh which not even naval discipline could restrain. Tlx* Lieuteuant hurried Ik*low decks for his trousers, while another officer temporarily took liis place in the reception of the guests. RAGTIME IN REALITY. “Do you have any ragtime here?” asked the man with the guitar. “It’s always ragtime down here." re plied tlx* hard-times citizen, with a lugubrious sigh, "nothing but rags; badly any patches.” THE NEGRO SHOULD 3 00 TO TOE INDIES Emigration the Solution of the Problem, IN CUBA AND PORTO RICO the NEGRO OF INDUSTRY AND SMALT, MEANS CAN 1)0 WELL. CONGRESS SHOULD GIVE $20,000,000 To Aid the Southern Blacks in Going Says Waller. A Negro Now in Cuba Writes of the Future of his Race. San Luis, Island of Cuba—When American soldiers freed tlx* Cubans they opened a pathway to liberty and happi ness for tlx* colored people of the United States. The solution of tlx* negro prob lem lies in the direction of a partial emi gration of tlx* colored population of America from tlx* South to Culm, Porto Rico, and tlx* Philippines. What with lynching* in tlx* South, and oppression in tlx* labor market in tlx* North, it seems j that tlx* eolored man of North America ! has lus choice Ik t ween three things: First-Gradual but sure annihilation,] as in the case of the North American In dian. Second —Gradual amalgamation, which is physically impossible and undesirable from all points of view. Third—Emigration. In my earnest opinion tlx* gradual em igration of the colored people from the South to Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Phil ippines—the two former islands more particularly—will furnish a sure solution of the many wrongs and persecutions to which the recently emancipated people have been subjected during tlx* past thirty years. There is before this people now an “open door.” as a result of the Spanish-Americaii war, which makes it possible for tlx* colored people of the States to emigrate in large numbers to tlx* islands comprising our new posses sions and still be under the protection of the Stars and Stripes. MUST BE HUSTLERS. I would not advise any )>ersoii or per sons to emigrate to either of the islands mentioned unless they possess tlx* same hustling qualities which were found in tlx* early colonists of North America. The class of people who should come must possess the following qualifications: Nerve, manhood, determination, an inde pendent spirit. S2OO or S4OO. mid a good team. They must burn tlx* bridges be hind them and come here to stay, to make a home for themselves and their posterity. The man or men who will come here or go to either of the other islands, to sit on the seashore and sigh for the old plantation, had better remain where they are. There are millions of fertile acres in Cuba only waiting the brawn, sinew, intelligence, and enteV prise of tlx* colored |K*ople of tlx* States to turn this island, now uncultivated and poverty-stricken, by reason of the late war, into a field of plenty. Lands can be either leased or bought at reasonable prices and on reasonable terms. They are supplied with an abun dance of water and jvill produce almost any vegetable grown in the States. In addition to these, sugar cane, tobacco, coffee, cocoa, and sweet potatoes are grown in great abundance in Cuba. Corn and cotton are also produced here. Or anges. bananas, grapes, mangoes, lemons, limes, figs, and many other fruits are abundant. A thrifty and energetic far mer who gets a fair start in Cuba can treble liis money in one year. CUBANS ARE FRIENDLY. The kindly treatment accorded the dis tressed Cubans by tlx* Twenty-third Kansas. Eighth Illinois Volunteers, and Ninth United States Volunteer Infantry (colored) during their six months stay in tlx* province of Santiago has created a friendship between the American colored l>eople and the Cubans that will always make the former welcome visitors to tlx* island, despite the fact that there have lieen efforts on the part of some white men high in station to discourage it. I would be pleased to hear from one or two of the leading eolored men in each | of tlx* Seates who favor a partial emi- j gration of our people from the South, to the three islands referred to, to the end that we.may co-operate in an effort to induce tlx* Congress of tlx* United 1 States to make an appropriation of at least $20,000,000 for the purl wise ni‘l ing such eolored people who desire to em igrate to either Cuba, Porto Rico, or the Philippines. It must lie remembered that I am shaking only of such persons of the race as may desire to try a home in the islands above referred to as a solution of tlx* wrongs now inflicted nisni our race.i There can easily be spared from the | South 2.000.000 colored people. 2.000,000 j of wham should emigrate to Cuba, and j the remainder divided between the ofliei I two islands, or, if desirable, 1 mba has room, for them all. This would chum* I such a reduction of colored labor in tlx* South as to create a demand tor the re tention of tlx* remainder of that race in tlx* States, and it would forever set at rest the bugbear of negro domination, j as feared by Ulie Southern white. I hex, too, the news of tlx* success of the de parted 3,000,000 would ultimately result SECTION ONE —Pages 1 to 4. 'RICE FIVE CENTS. the emigration, of at least 70 per cent. _ the remaining portion of the colored people from tlx* South, and the negro problem would be solved as was the Israelitish problem ami the Protestant problem, wtiich latter resulted in the es tablishment of the early colonists in North America, from, which a goveru imiift has been founded that lias become the strongest among the family of v na tions. The intermingling of our race with that of the Cuban (both are similar) will in fuse new blood, new life, and awaken new enterprise in the pt*ople of this country tuat will make them one of tlx* strongest, most energetic, and fearless people in the world. The coming of our race to this island would! result in the foundation and establishment of one of the greatest settlements in the West Indies. Congress com Id well afford to appropriate the $20,(MX),000 for the pur pose, to save the name of our country from further shame and disgrace. . wuerica has given the Cubans $3,000,- 000. The colored American has done far more for our country than the Cubans could do in the next 500 years; yet we were turned out of bondage without a dollar, despite the fact that 200,000 of our race aided the North in saving the Union. We were loaded down with the ballot when each freeman should rath er have Iks* a given a hundred and sixty acre farm, a good team of mules, wa gons and farming utensils. This would have placed the colored man in a better position and made him able to maintain and appreciate the ballot in 1900, quite early enough to give him enfranchise ment. By 1900 the negro would own proper ty, banks, railroads, factories 1 , machine shops, packing plants and foundries, and e able to retain thereafter equal repre sentation in Congress. Having had the right and exercise of the ballot since the ..rs-t administration of General Grant, we are only able to appear at the end of thirty years with a people fairly educated, a great number of churches, a limited proportion of other property, and a single* member of the race (Mr. White, of North Carolina) to represent 10, <A,0,000 people ini Congress. We mice had seven members upon the floor of Congress at one time. We now have one. It w ill be many a year before more than three colored men will be members of the American Congress again at the same tune, and the generation is not yet born that will see another colored man in tlx* United States Senate. PLAN FOR APPROPRIATION. But to return to the plan for the ap propriation by Congress of $20,(100,000 to make this energetic idea possible. If will naturally la* asked; "How if. the money to »e returned?” The whole am omit would be paid back into the Treasury of the United States an the way of revenue aml duties on exports in less than five years after its appropria tion. When the amount is appropriated it should Ik* stipulated that the whole or such portion of the sum as is neces sary to carry out the purposes for which it was appropriated be disbursed from time to time by the Secretary of War, or the Minister of the Colonies, should such a department lx* established. The law should safeguard the money appro priated as the wisdom of Congress may deem expedient. JOHN L. WALLER (Col.) Late Chaplain Twenty-third Volunteer Infantry. METHODIST U< INFERENCE. The Local Preachers and Lay Work ers’ Conference of the M. E. church, wihcTi is now in its thirtieth year, will be held at Clayton, N. August 17-20. The following is the program: THURSDAY, AUGUST 17. 8:00 p. m. —Rev. J. B. Lloyd, presi dent. Annual Address: Rev. J. T. Dra per. Response. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18. 9:00 a. m. Conference —Rev. T. N. Ivey. I). D.. Sermon: Rev. I. A. White, Suburban Mission Work; Rev. J. W. Jenkins. Church Orphan Work; Rev. R. C. Gulley, Inspired Work vs. For mal. 2:00 p. mi. Conference. —Mrs. Mamie Terrell. Woman's Work; Levi Branson. “Let him that heareth say Come;” Capt. George Baker, "Except ye be* convert ed,” etc.. The Constitution of the Church: Rev. .T. O. Guthrie. God's Love and Man’s Destiny; Professor Bassett, Muttering Thunders; Prof. W. I. Cran ford. The Great Battle. SATURDAY, AUGUST. 19. 9:00 a. m. Conference. —Mrs. B. R. Adams, The Joy of Christian Work; ncv. Peter M. Briggs. The 'More Abun dant Life; Rev. 11. 11. Horne, Special Discourse: E. B. Thomas, The Hidden Mystery; Miss Lottie L. Best, Woman’s Devotion to the Master; Prof. John E. Kelly, Industrial Education; S,vm]>osi uni. What the Lord Has Dome for Me. 2:00 p. m. Conference. —Prof. Charles 11. Mebane, Education and the Gospel; Rev. R. H. Wfiitaker, D. I)., The Great ness of the Gospel; Rev. A. B. Cram pier, Does the Blood Cleanse from all Sin? Rev. T. 11. Bain, Modern Mis sions. SUNDAY, AUG IST 20. W, H. P. Jenkins, Local Preachers by My Time. 9:00 a. m. —Symposium: P. M. Briggs and others, What the Lord Has Done for Me. 11:00 a. in. —Rev. .1. B. Floyd, Ser mon. 2:00 p. m.—Rev. T. N. Ivey, Sermon. 3:00 p. in.—Rev. James H. Buffaloe, Special Sermon —Rev. A. G. Kirkruan, The Live Layman. 8:00 p. in.—Rev. A. B. Crumpler, The Blood Cleanses. The Committee on Entertainment comfists of E. B. McCullers, C. M. Thomas, W. E. Barbour. Members of different denominations will take part in the conference. JAS. B. LOYI), President. Rev. .Tames B. Floyd is presklent of tlx* conference and Rev. Levi Branson, secretary.