CHRISTIAN HOSTS. Twenty Thousand of Them Invade Montreal. Convention LcudcrH—Clorffy and Lay. mu Who Will Address the Y. V. S. C. K.—Canadian Hospitality-Murnhall ing for the Good Fight. | COPYRIGHT, 1893.1 Tho twelfth Gubernatorial Christian Endeavor convention is to be held this year at Montreal, opening Wednesday, July 5, and closing Sunday, July 9. Tho phenomenal growth of the Y. P. S. C. E. since its humble origin twelve years ago in a Maine parsonage has ranked it among the yearly events of national importance to church socie ties and railroad managements, to thousands of delegates and the public, who wonders and questions concerning tho methods and reasons of these annual gatherings. General interest was first excited last summer when 82,000 delegates of societies located in America, Europe, Asia and Africa and an Immense following of unofficial visitors flocked to New York. They packed the auditorium of Madison Square gurden—the largest audience \ hall on the continent —and overflowed in groups of a thousand and more into the neighboring churches. The last mans meetings were held simultane ously in Madison Square garden, Car negie hall, the Metropolitan opera house and eight churches. Hbtel man agers, boarding house keepers and hospitable Christians were put to it to accommodate an influx of people which astonished even flexible New Yerk, although a canvass had been made for the entertainment of visitors. With this in mind the C. E. managers of the convention in Montreal are already making extensive preparations for the thousands of young men and women expected in July. The hotels can accommodate but a few of the delegates; a personal house to-house canvass of private houses is in progress. An authoritative state ment gives the rate in boarding houses and private families from seventy-five cents to one dollar and twenty-five cents without meals and from one dol lar and fifty cents to two dollars and fifty cents with them. A hospitable idea is that which pro vides for the reception of guests by a 1 committee which will send scouts to meet each incoming train and boat one hundred miles from Montrcul and es cort travelers to the city. The mem bers of the committee will wear white yachting caps to distinguish them in the midst of big crowds. Meetings will be held in Drill hall, a fireproof building, seating 9,000 peo ple, and in an immense tent pitched across the street, seating 8,000. This does not provide for tho overflow meet ings; they will bo held in various churches simultaneously with the reg ular programme of the two main halls. Over 10,000 delegates have planned to oome —delegates who pay their own expenses can expect no aid from tho general convention, which is unlquo DR. FRANCIS F. CLARK. among conventions in that no names arc officially handled. A delegate may accept aid only from his local society, voted him upon his election or subse quently. Pennsylvania sends 2,000, New Yorli 2,0(K), Missouri 500, Illinois TOO, and New Hampshire but 750 delegates; forty-five states, five territories, seven teen provinces and several foreign countries will be represented by speak ers upon the programme, while twen ty-five different evangelical denomina tions will be heard from. The chairman of the convention Is Dr. Francis E. Clark—"Further En deavor" Clark, as he is known among the members of the society he has founded and fostered. The general secretary is John Willis Daer, a young man who was prominent last year and has identified himself heart and soul with the society. There are number less conference committees, branch and subcommittees, besides officers and committees to govern the various branches The leaders Include scores of prominent ministers and more lay men than have ever before appeared upon a Christian Endeavor convention programme. The programme is so elal>orate that the endeavorers will be forced to se lect those parts in which they uro most interested to the exclusion of many others. Some of the speakers will dis cuss the following topics, included in the general programme. The Wednesday evening meetings will be held in the four largest churches of Montreal. They are called "Pre paratory," since the first hour will be devoted to prayer. The meetings will close with simultaneous addresses in the four churches by Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D., of Brooklyn, on "The Prayer that Has Power;" Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D.. the evangelist, on "Receiving the Holy Ghost for Power," Rt. Rev. M. S. Baldwin, D. I)., bishop of Huron, on "Individual Consecra tion," and Itov. Frank M. Bristol, I). I)., of Chicago, on the "Secret of Power.' ' The exercises Thursday morning will be opened by the usual "early prayer meetings," which are held every day of the convention. Following v. ill be three or four addresses of welcome in Drill hall. Tiio dominion government will be rep resented by lion. George E. Foster, minister of finance; the city pastors, by Rev. MacOilvery; the Y. M. 0. A., by Secretary Budge, and the Montreal ejideavorors by A. A. Ayer, chairman of 'OS's committee. Thursday afternoon will be devoted to Junior C. E., under the charge of M?.. Francis Clark, who has been as active in this work as her husband. Dv. Wavland Iloyt, D. D., of Minneap olis; Miss Katy 11. Haies, of St. Louis, and J. VV. Cowan, the first pastor to organize a junior C. E. society, will give addresses. President Clark's annual address and the secretary's report will be given Thursday evening, alternately in Drill hail and the tent. Following these will be the presentation of banners to W 11.1,18 BABB. chc state which during the year has made the greatest absolute gain in tho number of societies. Friday's speakers include some of the most brilliant men who attend the convention. lion. \V. E. P. Breckin ridge, of Louisville, Ky., will deliver an address on "The Age and Its Possi bilities," in lieu of that which he was prevented from giving In New York. The tent sj>eakers will be Bishop Arnett, D. 1)., of Vicksburg, representa tive of the African church, on "Chris tian Steward's Tip," and lastly, ltev. David J. Burroll, D. I)., of New York, on "Good Citizenship." Subjects for several discussions Fri day morning will bo: The five essen tials of aC. E. society. It is possible that the foreign representatives will largely occupy the time. No sessions will be held In the Drill hall and the tent during the afternoon. "Commit tee conferences'' will be held in the churches instead. Saturday morning will be given to missions. Missionary literature will bo discussed by Mr. ft. L. Mershon, of Evanston, 111.; "Missionary Meeting" by Miss Ellu MacLauin, of Chicago, and lastly, a "'Free Parliament," con sisting of ft great nnmber of speeches one and one-half minutes long, will bo conducted by Rev. Gilbert Iteid, of China. Saturday afternoon will be the time of friendly rivalry in the denomina tional rallies held in Montreal's churches. The chairman of the de nominational conferences will make all the reports. At Drill hall in the evening, the roll call of states, provinces und foreign lands fills the ilrst half of the evening, to be followed by an address on "In ternational Fellowship," by Rev. George Wells, D. D., of Minneapolis. In the tent will be held a most inter esting session known as the pastor's hour. Speeches are but ono and one half minutes long. The closing ad dress on "The Christian Endeavor So ciety a Typical Church Institution," will be delivered by Rev. Kerr B. Tup per, D. D., of Denver, Col. Sunday, the last day of tho convention, will be as crowded as the most enthusiastic delegates can desire. In the morning the Christian En deavorers will be expected to attend church. The first regular meetings of the convention will begin in Drill hall and tho last at 2:30 p. m. "Gospel Tem perance" will be discussed by Mrs. Frances Barnes, superintendent of the National Y. W. 0. T. U.J "The Re ligious Press," by Rev. Hooke, editor of the Independent, London, England; "Foes to Society, Church and the State," by Anthony Comstock. In the Drill hull meeting T. E. Mur phy, the temperance evangelist, will also discuss "Gospel Temperance;" Rev. G. Douglass, D. D., L.L. D., presi dent of Wesleyan theological college of Montreal, gives an address on "So cial I'urity," and Mr. A. N. Milbury, of *,, ;4., 7Vr ' DRILL II ALL, MONTREAL. New York, will talk on "Reaching tho Masses." Then come the great closing mass meetings and the sermons. President Clark will preside l and lead the con secration meeting, called the "Miz pah," because the famous phrase is re peated in unison by the thousands present, and Rev. T. 11. Lewis, D. D., president of Western Maryland col lego, will preach the sermon in Drill hall. In the tent Rev. Fay Mills, the re vivalist, will both preach and preside. And, besides these chief meetings will be many others, such as the junior rally, the conference of state officers and the local union and districts secre taries' conferences which are, says the general secretary, equally important. Tlif Fool of the Hnaion. To celebrate he points your way The ancient gun corroded; And as you die you hear him any He didn' t know 'twas loaded. THE CENTURY'S MARE'S NEST. I A Western Newspaper Takes Seriously a Magazine's Absurd Statement. The Century lias entered upon a larpe and daring task. It has undertaken an investigation of labor unions with a view to finding the status of the American Workingman and tho ohances for tho young American mechanic. It affirms that under the present condition of trado Instruction the American hoy has no rights that organized labor is obliged to respect. He is denied instruction as an apprentice, and if he is taught his trade in a trade school he is refused admission to nearly all the trades unions and is boycotted if he attempts to work as a nonunion man. Character and skill, so The Century alleges, may count against him, but they will not count for him. The Century believes that tho reason of this is that trades unions are so largoly composed of foreigners, and that they follow their patriotic principles and con tinually admit foreigners to thoir ranks, but close them against Americans. In short, it appears that America has prac tically surrendered her mechanical labors to foreigners, and that it has been made so futilo for Americans to learn trades that the American mechanic is becom ing almost obsolete. The passing away of the old apprentice system and the enormous immigration to this country from all partsof Europe nre at the bottom of the trouble. If skill or intelligence were made the criterion by which young mechanics were admitted to the unions, all would be fair enough. The Amer ican and the foreigner would then have an equal chance. And that is all that is asked. But a good American workman, it is said, would not stand as much of a chance as a poor foreign workman. The Century promises to show in subsequent articles that while tho unions combino in this effectivo conspiracy against Ameri can boys they freely admit to thoir organizations foreign workmen who have not served full apprenticeship, and who have only a slight knowledge of their crafts, and instruct them to a fuHer* knowledge, while obtaining for them pay as journeymen. If this is reully so, there is causo for active alarm—there is a demand for a new policy. There must still be achance for the American mechanic and tho American apprentice. The sons of Amer icans cannot be allowed to grow up in idleness because they have been crowded out by foreigners. There would bo neither sense nor justice in such a thing. And there are ways that it can be pre vented. Wo still humbly submit that wo have a right to earn our bread in our own country, and that, if it bo true that foreigners having trades come over to work only during the "busy season" of their craft, are admitted to a union and return to their homes with the money they have earned here, whilo American boys aro refused admission to the union ranks under the plea that there is no room for them, then certain ly it is time to make laws that will touch the case—laws both prohibitive and active.—Omaha World-Herald. Two Kinds of Boycotts. Now that the 14 clerks discharged by the railroad on suspicion of betraying office secrets have been reinstated, and peace once more reigns at Fourth and Townsend stroets, it may do no harm to give a moment's thought to tho state ment of the clerks at tho time of their removal that so long as they wore un der the ban of the Southern Pacific they could not hope for employment on any other railroad in America. This fact was not put forward as a grievance. It did not seem to occur to any of the vic tims that there was anything unnatural in it. And yet if such a universal boycott had been attempted by the Federated Trades against a corporation, what ser mons we should have luul on the tyranny of labor organizations! The officers of the federation would have found them selves in jail for conspiracy as soon as a federal judge could got time to look into their case, and it would not have taken him very long to find time. The boycott is no invention of labor unions. In tho form of the blacklist it has been a weapon of employers for a longer time than rocords can measure. In the hands of capital it is secret, swift and effective. Manufacturers and rail road corporations do not have to distrib ute dodgers on the streets warning tho public not to hire an obnoxious work man. They do not bring themselves into collision with tho law. By qniot corre spondence, which no labor union has tho l>owor to trace, they make a boycotted workman an industrial outcast. As long as the courts do not touch this fonn of oppression they should bo cau tious about interfering with tho feeble efforts of labor to rotaliato. Of course violence and crime must bo suppressed, but if moro advice not to patronizo par ticular firms is to bo treated as an illegal conspiracy there should bo an attempt to do a little regulating on the other side. —San Francisco Examiner. "Protection" In Canada. Workingmen are apparently now fully cognizant of the fact that protection only protects tho employer, not tho employee. There is no duty, either ad valorem or specific, on the commodity that he has to sell—namely, his labor. It makes but little difference how high the duty en products may be, the artisan can get for his labor'only that reward which ho can compel his employer to pay. What this reward shall be is not regulated by tho duty or by the employer's profits or his generosity, but by the state of tho labor market, and so long as our ports remain free j)orts for the admission of labor that market will always bo pretty liberally supplied and in an active state of com petition. This truth was clearly ex pressed by Mr. Emmet of the Iron Hold ers' union. He said that "since tho na tional policy had been adopted they had been compelled to fight thu manufactur ers right along, and the fact was that they had never had to accept such low terms. They had had to submit to re ductions such as had been unknown un til that time."—Toronto Globe. KELLMER PBOTflfla a PHira will make for the next 30 days ONE DOZEN CABINETS of our "French Finish" (regular price, $4.00) for $3.00. Make two negatives and show proofs to select from. AVTT T r A MTFF BETTER WORK THAN CAN HK HAI> >\ lillj V* U iYIXiYiN XiliXU ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE REGION. 13 West Broad Street, Hazleton. NEWS AND COMMENT. Prof. William F. Roberts, of Hazleton, a noted geologist, died 011 Saturday even ing at the age of 81 years. llazle township school directors elect ed Peter McKiernan, of Jeanesville, as music teacher for the schools on Satur day evening. Tillie Baker, an eleven-year-old girl of Hazleton, was run over by one of Arnold & Krell's brewery wagons on Thursday and died the next day. Anthony J. llrexel, head of the bank ing firm of Drexel & Co., of Philadel phia, died of apoplexy on Friday at Carlsbad, Germany, aged 67 years. Governor Pattison has vetoed the bill which appropriated $26,571.60 for the expenses of the honse committee on election. The question now is who wil] pay for the contests. President Cleveland has called an extra session of congress to convene on August 7 for the purpose of taking some action that will relieve the present finan cial situation of the country. _£te+hen Maguire, cashier of White Haven Savings Bank, has resigned upon request of the directors, as the state bank examiner has found him to be $1,200 short in his accounts. The Locust Mountain Coal Company is closing up all the coal crop holes on its land to guard against their being set on fire. The.recent experience in put ting out a fire in a crop hole was a costly one. John F. Iliggins, a prominent citizen of Shenandoah, died suddenly Friday morning of heart failure. He was one the first three months men in the Union army, and served as tax collector in 'ill and '92. Part of the Hazlc Mines school build ing was burned last night, and the prompt work of West Hazleton fire com pany saved the whole structure. The damage is over SSOO. Origin of the fire is unknown. A device that will be appreciated by railroad passengers is the new self-opon ing window, which is released and flies up when a knob is pulled. The Penn sylvania has adopted it for all of its new passenger coaches. The appointment of- Miss Anna G. Webster as postmistress of Weatherly is accredited to the influence of Postmaster General Bissell's wife, who interested herself in the young lady's behalf. Miss Webster is telegraph operator at Glen Summit, where the Bissells have a cottage. Miss Olive Edwards has sued the edi tor of the Olyphant Gazette, W. J. Schubmelil, for SIO,OOO damages for backingjout of a marriage contract. If Schubmebl bad much dealing with pat ent medicine men he ought to know how to get out of a little thing like a breach of promise case. At a "church hugging bee" in Strouds burg the other evening a man while blindfolded hugged his own wife for several minutes, and when he learned the fact he got mad and demanded his money back. This made his wife mad, and she demanded double rates for her part in the transaction. The rate of wages to be paid the miners in the employ of the Beading Company in the Schuylkill region for the last half of June and the first half of July was fixed at $2.4(1. This rate is 1 per cent, below the basis but 2 per cent, above what was paid last month and at least 50 per cent. ICSB than what they are entitled to. It lias often puzzled people to know why the end of a year's course of study should be called "commencement" day. To those who havo had the graduating experience and lived many years after ward the reason is very obvious. It is actually the commencement of real life. What passed before was only visionary and conjectural. 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