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The colored American., 1900-05-05
The Waters Brotherhood.

The Waters Brotherhood OF the Dis
tIict of Columbia is a new, but enc OF
the strong young organization of this
city It's purpose, as Its name indi-
Gates, is 10 bring together and harmoa
lze the large number Of men engaged in
hotel work. It's officers are President,
Mr.. G. T. Moore of tho Senate Restau-
rant; Vice President Mr.. George Hill of
the Chevy Chase club; Secretary, Mr.
Earnest Platt of Cairo Flsts, Assistant
Secretary; Mr.. William Swami, caterer,
Treasurer, MIR. William Queen. The
Brotherhood holds weekly meetings in
the third floor parl0rs at Gaskins and
Games, $50 9Th STREET, northwest, every
Wednesday evening. Owing TO the oc-
cupation of the members the meeting is
called at s:3e when large number are
always IN attendance, and lively dis
cussions are always in order and the
members usually wind up with q menu
of some kind. The membership is con
posed largely Of young men who are en-
gagged in the hotel profession and Wis
itors who have had the pleasure OF at
tending these meetings find it pleas
ant place for rest and recreation.
The colored American., 1900-05-05

The report of g. w. Rutherford, Bus.
mess MaEsger, shows that one year ago
only three regular employees were on
roll, now there are twenty'six, besides
there are more than thirty special can
vassers who give goOd portion OF their
time.
The following officers were re elected
for the ensuing year: William K. Scott,
IL. D., President; Rev. J. Anderson
Taylor, president; 5amuel Ruth
erford, Secretary and General Manager;
Susie P. Robb, Assistant Secretary;
Andrew J. G Wathney. d. D. g., Treas.
urer; Rober5 W. Brswn, NJ. D., Medi-
cal Director; Lewis Biggers, General
Northern Agent; John II. Braxton,
General Southern Agent. Board of Di.
rector: Miles B. jones, Richmond, Va.
q. Howard Blanks, Brooklyn, n. Y;
William b. Monroe, RoselIe, n. j.;
Lewis BIggers, Newark, n. J.; Robert
w. Brown, Washington, D. G Andrew
J. GwathHey, Washington, d. G; Su-
sic 2. Roth, Washington. % c.; Viii
liam K. Scott, AnaeostIa, d. o.; J.
Anderson Taylor, Washington, D. O..
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The colored American., 1900-05-05

The animal meeting Of tie National
Benefit Association which convened in
this city few days ago has awakened
widespread interest among the mem
bers over the country; the large mum
Der of promising inquiries lead enc to
believe that this will be q record.
breaking year.
The business sessions were held daily
at the Capital Savings Bank Building,
900 F street, which Is the Home Office
and depository Of the Association. A.
public meeting was held at Shiloh Bap'
tIst church on Thursday MI ght at which
time the public was we'll informed as to
the workings and progress of the Asso'
citation.
At he business session, devotional
exercises were conducted by the Vice
president, Rev. J. Anderson Taylor,
prayer by the Treasurer, Dr.. A. J
Gwathney. The President, DR.. William
K. Scott presided, and stated among
other things in his opening remarks
that Representatives are present from
fifteen Assemblies including New York,
New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and
the DIstrict Of Columbia. We have
passed the first milestone and the
reports of the Secretary and Treasurer
will show that we have closed success
ful year; and the National Benefit AS
ISOLATION is indelibly written upon the
pages of history"
The first days session was chiefly
devoted to routine work. There was one
notable exception however, which is Of
interest to the public. Numerous re
quests were received from different
sections of the country to add secret
department. to the beneficiary depart
ment Of the Association. The advisa.
bility Of such department. was sonsid.
cred at length and left 80 the discretion
of the Directors.
\ glance at the Secretary and Treas
urer's reports disclose the fact that this
organization has paid out more than
$35OO in benefits and running expenses
the first year. 4 total OF Sc, 900 worth Of
brsines has been transacted. The AS
sociation has sustained itself; and after
meeting all demands has to it's credi,
IN bank S747.7l and not one dollar of
'he stockholders money has been
touched; thus 1t will be seen that 8
agEt grip has been kept OF the Associ'
Nioh's purse strings. On February L.
1899 only five members were on roll, at
present there are 1897.
The colored American., 1900-05-05

Wetake pleasure in presenting 90 ne
readers Of The Colored American the
picture and sketch of that fiery religious
writer and editor of the Star of Zieu,
the official organ of the African Meth
Odist Episcopal Zion Church, published
at Charlotte, N. @. Rev. John Wesley
Smith, D. ID.
He is one OF the most talked of men
today in religious ci1cles because he is
enc Of the leadiI g-if not the leading
candidate pushed by host Of friends
tor the bishopTic in his great denOmina-
ton. Il is a debatable question as to
which is the strongest-he or DR.. John
W. AIstorh, Of Montgomery, Alabama
and since it is foTegone e0neusion
that the General Conference of the a.
M. e. Zion Church now in session In
this city will elect more bishops, the
index fingers seem to poEnt with GER
taInty to the election Of these two able
divines.
DR.. j. w: Smith is very popular in
and out of his denomination because
he has those qualities that win. He il
kind, genial, good natured, uDasBum-
ing and full of wit. He is so pleasant,
smiling and joky when one meets him
that it is haId to believe he ia the saas
]. W. Smith who writes such thought
ful, witty, sarcastic, caustic, clear cut
editorials which appear weekly In the
Star Of Zion. Il Is only when he Is in
a controversy and aroused that he steps
behind a hot pen and makes the tiger
turn tail and run for It's life. He has
the courage of his convictions, and
when he feels that thing should be
said, he says it.
In a newspaper controversy he Is
certainly at home. He never seeks one
and he never runs away from one. He
came into national prominence In 1892
when he made startling and unan-
swerable onslaught upon 1.-THE Basis,
Terms and Proffer of Organic Union"
framed in the Metropolitan A. M. e.
church in this city by the joint council
Of Bishops of the A. III. E. and A. d.
E Zion denomination. His attacks
caused him to be shelled by some OF
the Bishops, leading divines and the
chief organs of these 1.-TWO powerful
Churches, but he bravely stood his
ground, storming all who entered the
a.ena of controversy, placing thsm
hoEs de combat, until the question was
either killed or sIde.trscked for years 90
The colored American., 1900-05-05
PRICE FIVE CENTS
EDITOR ]. ". SMITH, D. D.

Prominent Candidate for Bishop in the
A, Nj. E. Zion { hurch. A Graceful but
Fearless and Courageous Wnter- His
Career.
The colored American., 1900-05-05

IN PROSPEROUS CONDITION.

The Annual Examination of the Affairs
of the National Benefit Association
Points to New Opportunities for Young
People. The Social Side.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-05

the workmen. This official gives the
u cavities an examination and also
carefully inspects the outer skin. Red
spots on the hide or granular tubercles
sticking to the Abdominal or chest walls
are the most common evidences of dis
ease found by this inspector. The red
spots indicate cholera and the tubercles
are evidence of tuberculosis, or con
sumption. The official goes through
the same tagging as was referred to
above, unless the carcass was one that
had already been tagged by the first ill.,
spector.
The yellow-carded hogs are run off on
a side track and all of them kept to-
gether until after they can be visited
by the inspectors after the killing day
is over. Each carcass is then given IL
more thorough examination than was
possible ut the time when they were
passing rapidly in front of the inspec-
tors. If it is found that the pork bears
evidence that it is impregnated with
disease to an extent that would render
its use in the least dangerous. condem-
nation is then completed. The two ends
of the wire which was passed through
the flesh by the inspector are pulled to-
gether, the loose end is imbedded In a
Slot in the piece of lead attached to the
other end and with pinchers the lead is
pressed over the wire. Thus the final
sealing is completed. On the lead seal
as well as upon the yellow cards up.
DearS "U. s. Condemnation"
All of the carcasses condemned are
taken to refrigerated retaining rooms,
where they are locked up by the United
States employees. no one. else having
keys to the lock. When Il room is filled
it is sealed as we'll as locked, and it is
u crime for anyone other than an in
spector to break the seals. When the
packing-house is ready to dispose of the
condemned pork the seals are broken
and the doors of the retaining rooms
unlocked by the officials and, under the
eye of an inspector. each hog is re-
moved and pushed down through the
hole in the top Of the big rendering
tank. Into this tank all kinds of offal
must be thrown, so that the pork may
at once be ruined for use as food. In
this tank the pork is steamed and boil
ed until is decomposed. The fat rises
to the surface and the bones and meat
sink to the bottom. The fat skinned
from the top to be used in the manu-
facture Of the cheapest kinds Of soap
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-05
Food for thr Euturn.

Only Il housekeepcr has any idea OF
the tremendous mass of material that
is not consumed. but is wasted daily in
preparing the meals. 1t is Il fact that
Il man eats seven times his weight in
food i'll Il single year. III he were 10
live on compressed food lie would lind
that he consumed only one and one
half times his weight, so great is tie
difference between the food OF The past
and the food of the future.
Tea is compressed so we'll that even
the aroma is preserved in the little ball
that stands for II cupful. You raj drink
n glass of mineral water by swallow
ing a little pill, and, queerly enough,
it will qucnch your thirst better than
the original. 1t is now said that Il man
can swallow Il cake of mineral water
the size of a visiting card. and require
no more liquid for the whole day.
The compression of meat has been
accomplished to perfection, so that YOU
can have n slice OF roast beef in the
shape of Il Pill or Il thin wafer of en-
tract. This compressed. prepared foot
will he of great value to the working
man. who will merely slip a lozenge or
two in his pocket, instead of carrying a
tin-pail full of all kinds of things that
are Il mess when it is time to eat them.
1t must he cheaper than the food of
the present. for it will be prepared in
large quantities, and there will be no
waste. All parts of the ON, for instance,
are equally nourishing, and the neck
will be as valuable for this food as the
tenderloin.
1t is impossible to think of all the
pNoblems that this food may aid in
solving. But of one thing we may be
certain, that it will be of infinite value
to the explorer and the traveller. Polar
expeditions will be greatly simplitied,
for n man can easily pull on Il sled all
the food he will want for a year in the
compressed form.-Ncw York sun.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-05
GOVERNMENT MEAT INSPECTION AT THE CHICAGO STOCK YARDS.

declined to pass, and the loss falls on,
the stockman. But after this antemOr-
tenn inspection the animals become the
property of the packer and all losses
through ultimate condemnation of the
stock must. of course, fall upon him.
A sheep which bears on its skin plain
evidence of "sheep scab," n hog with
large. red cholera splotches on his hide,
a steer with external tumors, sores or
assesses. OF any animal which exhibits
the ordinary indications of illness, such
as inability to walk. etc., will be cut
put. The law requires that the refused
animal must be killed and turned into
soap fat and fertilizer.
The number OF animals cut out at the
lntemortem examination varies so
greatly that the inspectors decline to
strike an average on the number ex-
GUIDED per day. Thousands may be
passed without II being refused, but
IN the next hundred 10 per cent or more
may be condemned. AS IL matter Of
Tact, however, many of the diseased
animals pass this first inspection with
out exciting the suspicion on the part
Of the inspectors, for they bear no ex-
terror evidence whatever of the fact
that they are suffering from n danger
ous illness.
Passing this first inspection success
fully. the animals IRE weighed and sent
to the slaughter-houses of the company
purchasing them. Hogs receive by far
the most careful inspection. Two in
spectors watch the passing Of the
slaughtered hogs. while but one ex-
lmines cattle, and there is also but
one each for sheep and calves. The
hogs are given the stricter examination
because Of their greater liability to dis
Ease and the greater danger to be found
b the incipient stages Of hog diseases.
and 1t, of course. goes without saying
that early stages of disease in any ami
mails are more difficult to detect than
those more advanced.
After going through the first opera
tons at the slaughter-house the hog is
strung up by the heels with hundreds
Of others and passes forward in q line
that seems endless. The device to
which the animals are strung IN is At
ted with a small wheel which rolls
along a single track. Not far from the
point where the hogs are first strung
up and only q few feet from the line Of
moving ~carcasses sits the first Of the
hog inspectors. AS each hcy passes in
front Of him . workman with two
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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-05
IMPURE MEATS.
GOVERNMENT ,NspEcTs CATTLE
AT CHICAGO YARDS.
Reeves, Hogs, Sheep and ca,vc. Are
Searched for Disease : Rigid Post
and Ante-Mortern Examination of
Each Animal by Lynx Eyed Officials.

Few people have even the least
knowledge of the great work done by
the national government in inspecting
the killing of cattle, hogs and sheep u
the Chicago stock yards. This inspec-
ton is being carried OH in the stock
yards of forty-eight other cities in the
United States, but it is operated on u
far greater sale in Chicago than at any
other point. Such Il sharp watch for
diseased IL Objectionable animals is
maintained that it is practically an inn
possibility for unit meat, designed for
Interstate or export shipment, to leave
he inspected slaughter-houses at the
yards. Every animal killed receives
two or three inspections and when Il
diseased one is found the carcass is
guarded as carefully as IL box of jew
elry until it is completely destroyed, as
TAR as edible purposes are concerned.
Two kinds of inspection are given
every beef. hog or sheep that goes out
of the yards as being fit to eat. These
examinations are a%ntemortem and post
mortem. Sometimes the first one alone
is sufficient to bar out animals and they
never get as far as the Strengthening
pens. The antemortcm inspection, CT
course, takes place ION the hoof' and
is conducted just before the animals
IRE driven onto the scales to be weighed
for purchase by the packer from the
stockman. The inspector examines
each animal as it is driven forward to-
ward the platform of the scales. Any
animal that is evidently affected with
disease o. is emaciated is ordered cut
out. The packer, of course, declines to
buy al animal which the inspector has
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-05
GOT CREDIT SHE DID NOT SEEK.
Embarrassing Position of an Absent.
minded Boston Woman.

Embarrassing Position of an Absent.
minded Boston Woman.
Here is u queer true story about some
umbrellas: A lady who keeps a sum-
mer boarding house at the seashore
gear Boston went down the other day
10 look the house over and find out
what must be renewed. She found nu-
merous umbrellas left by former board
Frs, and tying them together she took
the bundle to Boston, to have them re-
paired. She stopped in at uoveH'sE anu
laid the bundle on the floor ut her feet
at the counter. When she had made
her purchase she forgot her umbrellas,
and overwhelmingly picked up an UNI
brella lying on the counter, thinking it
was hers, or not thinking at all, and
started off.
Then the owner of the umbrella, n
woman standing neNt her, seized her
and said very sharply, You have taken
my umbrellas" OF course she apollo.
giZed, feeling much cut up about it, and
vent on, forgetting iii her tluster her
own bundle of umbrellas. The next
day, on her way to Cambridge. she
went to Hovey's and readily recovered
her lost package of umbrellas. which
had been kept for ller. On the car for
Cambridge she noticed Il lady cycling
her very closely. Presently this lady
leaned forward and said to her, with
elegant emphasis:
You seem to have been more fortu.
nate today"
1t was the lady whose umbrella she
had taken the day before.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-05
and the bones and meat are taken out
to he used i'll making fertilizers.

and the bones and meat are taken out
to he used in making fertilizers.
Pork for foreign export receives ex-
animation after passing this regular in
suection which is SO elaborate and
thorough that it can scarcely be COM
pretended by anyone who has not
made Il personal visit to the yards and
witnessed the work. From three diff
ferent parts of the body of every hog.
which is designed for export bits OF
flesh are taken for microscopic eXamin-
alton. Traces of tricllinae and other
diseased conditions which can be de-
tected only through the microscope are
sought for with the utmost diligence.
Accept Beef Inspection.
The requirements i'll regard to Ameri-
can beef maintained by foreign coun-
tries are by no means as heavy as those
on pork, and the United States inspcc.
ton given for Interstate trade is :c-
cepted as ample by all other coun-
tries. Cattle are not nearly 80 liable to
disease as hogs and on Il day when iif-
teen or twenty hogs might he thrown
out i'll IL single packing house there
might be only one, WI or three cattle.
Diseased steers are often among the
very finest appearing and heaviest that
are purchased. That they are WORTH
less is only discovered after they have
been killed and opened. Tuberculosis
is the disease With which the cattle are
most often found to be afflicted. 1t is
also often found among diseased hogs,
but cholera is most common with the
latter. The men who inspect hogs car
just as we'll as not sit down while per
forming most of the work, so they re-
main on duty IL half Il day at IL time.
but those performing work over cattle
must constantly walk about. so they
are kept on duty only two hours at q:
time, the men laboring in two Alternate
ing shifts. In the cattle Strengthening de-
partment one man does all of the actual
inspecting, but Il second official puts the
purple stamps on the bceves.
When the cattle inspector finds Il sus-
picious beef he tags it in the same way
as the hog inspector does Il porller, and
it is run Off into Il sidetrack, where it
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-05
State Colony Of Insane.

A bill which will go into effect in
Massachusetts, Jan. /, 1904. provides
for the purchase of from 1900 10 $500
acres in some tract, at a cost of not
more than $25 GOO and the expcndi-
ture of NOT more than $4,000
is to DO permitted for the
erection of buildings for the dwell
ings of the insane. Thus there will be
n state colony of the insane, living in
small numbers in separate cottages. II
is expected that the able-bodied insane
will be set to work on land as they are
able to do. and this will be better for
them than being kept in comparative
idlpnesS.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-05

Is held to await final examination. The
half beeves which are passed as all
rlshta are rolled on down the line to the
point where their dressing is completed
ana here stands the stamper with his
rubber stamp and linked pad ready to
afllN Il purple oval stamp about three
inches long, in which are letters half
an inch high. AT three different points
on the abdominal and chest walls. an
terror to the hind quarter, this official
places his stamp, the three sections
stamped being the three into which the
VI OF the body of Il beef is divided for
transportation to the butcher.
In the cooling room, when the outside
of the beef is more thoroughly dried.
the same stamp is placed oii the hind
quarter. making altogether four stamns
which are placed on each half of n
beef. Besides "U. $. Inspection" ON the
stamp there are Il letter and two nnm-
bers. n number being Immediately Mt
the side of the letter and the other be-
tween two stars which are at the be-
ginning and end of III. S. inspection y
which curves about the oval. Hy these
figures and the letter on the meat the
department officials can tell if they oro
ever called on to do so what insnecto-
passed the meat. in what abattoir II
was killed and the day upon which it
was killed. So. in case any dealer 70.
ceived "a piece of the stamped meat and
claimed it was not good he could re.
turn it to the stock yards and the GOV.
eminent officials would trace the iron.
BILE back to the very beginning.
Inspection of the Strengthening of ami.
mails was established by the govern.
ment in 1891, and since the year of the
founding of the great plan it has grown
and flourished and spread like the ira.
ditional green bay tree. Constantly in.
creasing appropriations for it's mainten.
ance and support and increase of scope
have been made by Congress and all the
hopes and expectations of the prolnot.
ers of the scheme have been realized.
The burden Of inspection is operated
under the government department. Of
agriculture.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-05
Silk Eqralizes Temperature.

1t is known to everybody that silk is
electrified by friction. Acting upon the
suggestion thus furnished a French
savant, NJ. Henry, has made expert
ments which show that the electrifica.
ton of the air Enclosed in n tissue of
silk produces a circulation of its par.
ticles which tends to equalize the tenn
.perature. a similar effect is observa.
BILE in wool, and hence the superiority
of silk and wool for garments intended
to protect the body against vicissitudes
of climate.