Preparing For The W. C. T. U.

Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 14.- Preparations for the National W. C. T. U. convention are progressing rapidly. The committee is composed of 120 laches. The Music hall committee is in receipt of many applications for seats from every state in the Union. Many have already been sold at $1 apiece. All boxes are sold. The 600 delegates will occupy the front seats in Music hall. The forty departments will held daily meetings outside of the great mass-meeting at Music hall. The living shield, composed of 2,000 Buffalo children dressed in red, white and blue, on exhibition during the parade of the national G. A. R. encampment, will be reproduced for the W. C. T. XJ. convention. The music committee has secured a magnificent chorus choir of fifty female voices.