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Dispatches Indicate That
Colombian President May
Negotiate Treaty Under
Certain Conditions.
WILL BE SPECIFIED BY
THE SENATE AND HOUSE
1t Is Not Believed That Such
Measure Would Require
Further Action on Part Of
Colombia.

DIR. Herran, the Colombian charge
d'affaires, has received dispatches from
Bogota announcing the appointment, by
the Colombian senate, of a committee
of three which is to act with similar
committee from the house in preparing
measure which will make possible the
ratification OF a canal treaty with the
United States by the executive of Co
lOmbia. This enabling act is TO be passed
by the two houses of congress, and will
outline the terms and conditions on
which the treaty is to be based.
Dispatches from New York indicate
that William Nelson Cromwell, attorney
for the Panama Canal Company, has
had advices from Colombia similar to
those received by DR.. Herran. Both DR..
Herran and Mr.. Cromwell were unwilI-
ing TO believe the refusal OF the Co
lombian senate 10 ratify the treaty a
final action and are delighted at learn
ing that the so-called rejection was only
step toward the preparation of a
measure which will meet with more gen.
eral approval.
Confirmed by Press Reports.
Dr. Herran's dispatches concerning
the joint committee bear the date OF
August Is. Mr.. Cromwel's dispatches
are dated August Il. Since then press
dispatches have been received from
Bogota, which state that bill is ready
which authorizes the government TO
make a new canal treaty with the United
States and provides for the modification
of the national constitution This dis
patch is supposed to indicate that the
joint committee has prepared a measure
and has it ready for submission to the
congress.
The chief cause of the rejection of
the original treaty is said to have been
the contention that it granted the Unit
ed States sovereignty over the canal
strip and was in violation of the Co
Iombian constitution. None OF DR.. Her
ran s advices indicated trouble over the
question of compensation. The chief
duty of the joint committee is supposed
to have been the preparation of a mea-
sure which would make it possible TO
overcome the alleged constitutional OBJ
iections to the treaty.
Ho-oo Tpfarxyiaxu
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OFFICERS CLUBHOUSE ROBBED.

dispatch from Brooklyn states that
thieves entered the officers clubhouse at
the Brooklyn Navy Yard and stole near
ly all the valuable siIverware belonging
TO the club. A large silver punchbowI
was among the pieces taken.
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EDUCATION FOR REAL LIFE

IlO VA L1O4N Wv AS41G11 LII II
1864 For Sons and Daughters at 1923
SPENCERIAN BUSINESS COLLEGE,
Academy Of Music Building, 9th and D n ".
Beautiful, spacious halls. Entrance, 403 9th ST.
All Of the departments open Monday, Aug 81, for
Day and Night Sessions.
Rapid LeRible and Beautiful Writing.
Thorough English, Correspondence. Rapid Cal
culations, Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewrit-
ing, Civil Service Training, Civics, Laws Of
Business ScieDce of Wealth.
PHOTOGRAPHIC SPEED DICTATI0N.
Night classes Monday. Wednesday. and Friday,
9 TO 8.
For new announcement OF further Information
call at Office OF address Mrs. Sara A. Spencer,
Principal and Proprietor.
Leonard Garfield Spencer, Secretary aul6-lmo
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Corea Gives Interview.

DR.. Corea. the Nicaraguan minister to
the United States. who is in Paris on a
vacation trip. was interviewed there on
the canal situation. He refused to dis
cuss Colombia's action, but spoke as
follows concerning the attitude of Mic
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CHEVY CHASE COLLEGE (Ineorparatedl

Resident and Day School for Girls and Young
Ladies. Ten-acre park. Cultured home life.
Number limited. Regular and elective courses,
Music Art Expression, Physical Training, Prep
aration for foreign travel Most healthful suburb
Of Washington. Water artesian; official analysis
shows "this 10 be q very pure water" Send
Washington d. c., Lock Drawer s4I, or Chevy
(hnssn- Nd
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SI.oo to Harper's Ferry and Martins
burg and S2.oo to Cumberland
and Return

m Sunday, August %. Returning leave
Cumberland 6, Martinsburg s, and Harpers
Ferry S:40 p IN. same day.
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ST. MARYS ACADEMY.

AIoylndrla. va.
Boarding and Day School for young ladies
and children, will reopen Monday, September 8.
Terms moderate.
Address SISTER SUPERIOR. aul6-30t
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Individual Instruction.

The secret Of the success Of this school lies
in its method Of dealing with the student in
dividuallv In this way the pupil is interested
from the start. There no idlers.
Those who graduate in shorthand and type
writing will be guaranteed Positions Fifteen
calls in one day.
Call, write, or telephone. IT'S better 70 call.
Catalogue and map Of the United States for the
asking.
$500. 600 aggregate annual salaries of former
students aul6-u
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One Thousand Rooters.

The New York Yacht Clubs steamer
Monmouth left her dock In the North
River at 9:15. On board were 1000 en-
thusiastic rooters for the cup defender.
She was followed by vessels of every
description. from the small launch 10
the big ocean going excursion steamer.
all loaded to their capacity with a
happy conglomerBtion of humanity,
armed with tin horns. giant rattles.
megaphones and apparatus warranted
to make a noise.
The experienced yachtsman and the
novice were side by side. the former
chiefly noticeable by his silence, while
the inexperienced friend took every op-
portunity to make use of the nautical
terms he had culled from the news
papers during the past few days. What
did it matter to him-or her-that they
did not know their meaning? They had
reference to nautical matters. and tnat
was all that was cared for.
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WOODS
COMMERCIAL
COLLEGE.

COURT F. WOOD, LIN, LID. President
EIGHTEEN YEARS OF UNPARALLELED
SUCCESS
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ACME SCHOOL OF sTENoGRAPHY AND TYPE
MRIIING. 1905 Street n. W

Stenography, Typewriting, and all Business
Branches thoroughly taught by competent
teachers. Preparation for civil service exam
nations. English taught to foreigners.
PHONE MAIN 92CY. G30t
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ROCKVILIE, MD, ACADEMY FOR BOYS.
Home life and individual and instruction.
Terms moderate Address W p. MASON, l.. 8.
n. n iylS-2mos
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ATLANTIC CITY.

''The Salt Breath of the Sea Brings Health"
GALEN HALL. Atlantic City, y. j.,
sanatorium and Hotel. New building hand
some and elegant in every feature Physicians
and nurses. Rooms with private baths and sea
water place for rest and health seekers
Table and service first class. Booklet
+. L. YOUNG. Gen Mgr.
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airs and rolling sea. which pounded her
fat boat Hot a little
Shamrock dropped her tow before
reaching the lightship. and she. also.
quickly broke out her head sails and
began to lazily beat about in the light
breeze.
A Dead Calm.
The wind was almost dead fiat. and
the regatta committee on the tug Navi-
gator stood by the lightship awaiting a
breeze. The excursion fleet began to
gather in numbers about the starting
line. sending up great volumes of smoke
from their pipes. 1t was. indeed, LIP
ton weather. and 1t seemed as though
the usual postponement flag would have
to be flown unless the wind picked up.
The excursion fleet as in former years
worked out in procession down the
Narrows. the big steamers rolling from
side to side with their decks black with
people.
Preceding them came the fleet of reve-
nue. cutters. which were to act as police
boats of the course. The fleet is in com
mand of Captain Walker of the revenue
cutter Gresham.
All New York AflOat.
The largest crowd that has ever wit
messed an international yacht race is
afioat in vessels of every description.
The scene along the docks in the early
morning hours was one that will remain
long in the memories of those fortunate
enough TO witness it. Every cross
street leading to the water front was
filled with pedestrians. garbed in every
conceivable article of clothing. Short,
stout men with large barred mackIn-
toshes. topped with long peaked yacht
ing caps. rubbed elbows with tall, lank
individuals. whose clothing accentuated
their leanness.
Mixed in the crowd were hundreds of
fashionably dressed women, whose ardor
not even threatening skies could daunt-
Withal II was an intensely patriotic
crowd. There was none but admired
Sir Thomas Upton and personally
wished him well, yet in every heart the
wish was predominant, may Reliance
xufn
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$50O,OOO.OO

3Il East Capitol st.
Telephone East 80.
Dag and evening ses-
sions.
Open all the year
Special proposition 70
August enrollments.
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A few minutes before O'Clock Cap
tain Barr informed Mr. Iselin that sail
was made. and the tug Guiding Star was
hailed. A towline was passed to the
defender. and dropping her mooring
buoy she was quickly under tow for the
lightship.
Shamrock III took a tow tug from the
Cruiser and was towed TO the starting
line The wind had been hauling slowly
during the morning and at $3.50 came in
intermittent puffs from the west. The
old barnacle. who usually makes his ap-
pearance on shore during the Cup races
and comments TO eager listeners about
the weather. predicted that by afternoon
the wind would be strong from the
northwest
Reliance was first TO reach the start
ing line. AS she passed Sandy Hook
lightship Captain Barr gave orders %
drop the tow and Mate Miller, who had
charge of the head sails on the defend
er ordered jib and staysails TO be brok-
en- out. Reliance stood on a short
board to the southeast. but she made
slow work OF IL. because OF the light
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-26

History of the Baptist Church." the
Rev. Ross Moore, of the First Baptist
Church.
AS result of the attitude of these
men, most of whom the principal had
never met, one negro takes up his
work today with a lighter heart and a
stronger determination to labor more
diligently for the better day which
must be ahead.
ISAAC FISHER, Principal.
Pine Bluff, Ark, April IT,
Prof Fisher has received a tele-
gram from the Hon. VIM. R. Hearst,
saying that his letter to the Sun would
be printed today in the New York
Journal and the Chicago American.
He received another telegram from
me New York Tribune saying that the
letter would be printed today in the
columns of that paper today
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-26
TRIBUTE TO THE SOUTH
Friendship Of Southern Whites for the
Southern Negroes

wards, as, l hope, the following facts,
in a measure, will prove:
The Branch Normal college, at this
place, is the only state institution for
negroes in Arkansas. But while the
state always provides for it's support,
there are no funds available for such
luxuries as public lectures. The prin-
cipal of the school, who is closing his
first years work in the state, has de-
livered course of lectures to the stu
dnts, which has seemed to challenge
the interest of the citizens of Pine
Bluff, as we'll as the members of the
school.
A few days ago, with hout any idea of
the reception which the request would
meet, and without making any attempt
to approach only those known to be
friendly to negro education. the prin-
cipal outlined lecture course cover
ing subjects which he wished discussed
before his students during the term
1904, and then went to the white
citizens Of Pine Bluff who stand at
the very head of their several pro-
fessions and asked them to serve, to-
gether with a few negro speakers, as
staff lecturers for the college during
the coming year, explaining as he did
so that the school could not pay for
the services rendered.
The principal was born and reared
in the south, and knows something of
the friendship of the southern white
man who is inclined to be friendly; but
he was not prepared for the hearty
and whole-souled spontaneity with
which these men agreed to serve the
cause of negro education in the way
indicated. The white men referred 20.
together with their subjects, are as fol
lows:
Crime and Criminal Law" Hon. S.
NJ. Taylor of the Arkansas bar
''The Press as Maker of Policies
Maj Chas. G. Newman, of the Pine
Bluff Commercial"
'Banks as Schools of Economy"
Hon. w. H. Langford, president Citi-
dent Citizens bank.
Causes of High Mortality Rate
Among Negroes" A. c.. Jordan. NJ. D
Some Modern Aspects of Judaism.
Rabbi Joseph Kornfeld. of Te1hple
Anshe Emeth.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-26
Thirty Locomotives Received
Here By the Cotton Belt

The Cotton Belt has received at Pine
Bluff thirty of an order for thirty-three
Of the latest and most complete loco.
motives now being made by the Rog-
ers locomotive works at Paterson. N.
J. Two arrived Thursday and two
more Friday. There are seven switch
engines. three passenger and twenty
freight locomotives. The passenger
engines are equipped with cylindrs
1Sx26. the switch engines are 1924
and freights 1926. The new, power
full load-pullers are beauties and have
a most imposing appearance. The Cot
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-26

o'clock and evening prayer and ser.
tor, w. I. Early choir master.
First Baptist church-The pastor,
Rev. Ross Moore, will preach at both
hours of service. Everybody very cor
daily invited to worship with the con-
gregation.
st. Joseph's Catholic church-First
mass and holy communion at a. m.
Second mass at 1920 a. m. Sunday
school at 2:30 p. m. Services at
night at 7:45 bv Father Fowler, pas
tor
German Lutheran church-Services
will be held at the German Lutheran
church today by Rev. Kellerman, the
pastor, as follows: German services
at 1880 a. M; English service at
7:30 p. m.
Riverside Methodist church-Rev.
F. N. Brewer. chaplain of the Arkan
sas state penitentiary will preach at
the Riverside Methodist church this
morning Sunday school at $50 a. M
Christian church-Sunday school at
$50 a m. Preaching at II a. m. Sub
ject: why We Keep the First Day
of the Seventh" Christian Endeavor
at 645 p. m. Preaching at
s p. IN. Subject: Jesus | Know and
Paul | Know. But Who Are You?"
Rev Frank Thompson. pastor.
First Methodist church-Sunday
school at $50 a. m. Preaching at
II a. m and 7:45 D. M by the pastor,
Rev. j. NJ Hawley. The choir will be
assisted by Miss Vicie Harrell. Odd
Fellows anniversary at p m,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-26

The New York Sun Of last Tuesday
prints letter from Prof. Isaac Fisher.
principal of the State Branch Normal
college, of Pine Bluff Prof. Fisher
writes of the friendship of the south
ern whites for the southern negroes,
and cites a local example which he
highly commends, and which in it's
head lines the Sun characterizes as a
Noble evidence of white sympathy
and support of the cause
represented by Fisher as
an educator Of his people.
Prof. Fisher is graduate of Booker
r. Washington's school at Tuskegee,
and in all that he has said and writ
ten in public way since assuming
the duties of the normal principalP
the duties of principal of the normal
college has been refutation OF the
northern and eastern idea that the
southern white man is opposed to the
moral and intellectual elevation of the
negro. In his lectures to the normal
college students he has endeavored al
ways to impress them that they can
not attain the highest spheres of cit
izenship except as they prepare them
selves morally and Intellectually for 1t.
| It is the only way in which the white
man can raise himself to position
of honor and responsibility in the COM
munity in which he resides and the
negro can not hope to do it otherwise.
Let more negroes of the south follow
the example Of Prof. Fisher, and let
the north and east leave the southern
whites and the negroes like Prof.
Fisher and others who might be NAM
ed, alone, and the race problem
will be much earlier settled to the sat
NSfaction of both races. Prof. Fishers
letter to the Sun is as follows:
To the Editor of the Sun-Sir: 1t
cannot be denied that the negro ques-
tlon has become very acute and there
Is feeling both in the north and
among many negroes in the south that
The white south has deliberately set it.
self against all that is highest and best
IN the life of the black man. I must
confess that at times the future seems
very dark, even to those of us who
are under high moral obligations to
maintain optimistic temperaments. But
our labors are not without their re-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-26

ton Belt is gradually equipping the
system with fine lot of rolling stock,
and in few years will have as fine a
roadbed as is possible to be made in
this country. The system is being per-
sonally and carefully handled by Mr..
E. A. Peck, division superintendent.
and his good generalship is having a
telling effect Mr. Peck is considered
by all who know him as fine a rail-
road manager as has ever been in this
section. He sees a proposition clear
ly and quickly and acts with a natural
decision in all matters.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-26
AT THE CHURCHES.

At the First Presbyterian church to-
ay the services will be conducted by
he pastor DR.. J. l.. Caldwell. at II a.
n. and As p. m. The subject of the
9erning sermon will be "The Chris
ian Fight" Sunday school at $50 a.
m. and Christian endeavor at 4:30 p.
II.
At the Second Presbyterian church
". S. c. Alexander will preach at II
N. and 1:45 p. m. Sunday school
3 p. m.
Sunday school at Trinity church at
o a. M. II. Riley superintendent.
Morning prayer and sermon at II
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-19
FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.

THE FLOOD SEASON in the Ohio
and Mississippi valleys Is at its
height It is practically impossible to
give an accurate estimate Of the
amount of property destroyed, the NUM-
Der of homes swept away, the list Of
The dead From the headwaters OF the
Ohio TO New Orleans and below the suf-
fering is general and It is because Of
the wide area covered by the floods that
estimates OF the damage can never
even approximate correctness.
All we know is that property valued
at hundreds of thousands of dollars has
been swallowed by the hungry waters:
that there is mourning in many a hum
bic river bottom home; that entire fam
lilies have been drowned and the labor
OF years has come TO naught The COM
placence. or rather the serenity, with
which the great majority of the Amer
lean people view these calamities is as
tonishlng
When the city of Galveston was de-
stroyed by a flood. a wave OF horror
swept over the nation. Relief trains
We're dispatched TO the stricken sur
vivors, boards Of trade and charitable
organizations promptly voted donations
Of money Of clothing and provisions.
Yet little or nothing is being done for
the food sufferers i'm the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi valleys. The number Of lives
lost is not so great as I'm the Galveston
disaster, but the property damage is
probably heavier.
The trouble is that there is nothing
new about the river floods. We have
grown accustomed to them from annual
repetition and we take only a languid
interest in that which should excite the
uveliest sympathy. Wonder is often
occasioned in the minds Of thoughtless
readers as TO why the people who live
in the hood-swept valleys do not pre-
pare for the great waters which come
with almost unfalIing regularity to
harass them.
The answer is that it would be just
as easy to dam the flow of molten lava
from an active volcano as TO hold back
the waters Of the Ohio and Mississippi
en- the flood season. True. it is done 10
a certain extent on the lower AIississip-
pi by means Of Ievees. or entertainments,
but the extent of these levees Is insig-
nificant by comparison with the amount
Of territory that needs protection.
Where there is a mile of levee there
are hundreds Of miles Of river front un-
protected.
The expense Of protecting all of the
territory would be so enormous as to
make it impossible The dwellers
thereon must continue to take chances.
to hope that the water viii not rise.
and to bear. with such philosophy as
they can muster the evils that come
with the aood. In the meanwhile they
are entitled not only 20 sympathy but
TO such material aid as their more for
tunate fellow citizens Of the republic
can give them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-19
WOOL RATE INCREASED.


I HE HERALD has been asked 10
call the attention Of wool growers
IN Utah, Idaho and Wyoming 20 a
proposed advance of 18E cents per
hundred in the rate on wool east. The
wool men argue that they have all
ready suffered less enough from the
winter storms without being penalized
further by the railroad companies. The
addition 90 the freight rates is charged
against the eastern lines. who have put
up the rate on their proportion of the
haul.
Whatever the cause, il is apparent
that the sheepmen of three states are
facing a serious situation. They have
made heavy losses through natural
causes, and if they have 90 stand a
raise I'm freights somebody is going to
be hurt. and hurt badly a blow TO
the sheep industry IS sure 10 strike
business generally; and Ia view OF the
facts, The Herald believes The wool
growers have a good case to present
to the railroads when they ask for a
retention Of the former rate.
IL the Utah and Idaho associations
act promptly and join forces with the
Wyoming men, VINO are already pre-
pairing their case. there ought 10 be a
good chance for the three organiza-
tions 10 make such a strong showing
that the railroads win reconsider the
tariff and retain the s. rate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-19
a "soNEYARD" FOR WORDS.

4 LONDON PERIODICAL, the Acad-
Il envy. proposes a blacklist Of words
and phrases that have been worn 20 a
fringe by constant usage. The idea is
not a bad one, but 1t would be extreme
ly difficult 20 draw the line anywhere.
There are words and phrases that
should have gone TO the pathological
honeyard ages ago, but they are stin
with ms and likely TO continue with us
as long as the poor.
The Academy declares that they
"rlng through the papers with the mad
denlng iteration of the latest popular
tune that the whistle Of the street boy
catches from the piano organ. which
gets IT from heaven knows where" But
the newspapers are not altogether re-
sponslble. We find our old friends I'm
the magazines. in short stories. Ia nov
els as well as in newspapers. The Lon
don publication suggests a few that
should 50 Immediately and The Herald
heartily concurs. but who is to make
them go. and how, and when and
where
Says the Academy. eve should
blacklist the 'well-earned rest and
the scene OF her former triumphs,' the
young lady Of progressing appear
ance' the ample justice that IS done
90 the viauds beneath which the TIA
biss literally groaued.' and the we'd
ding presents that are numerous and
costly but we admit their use in a
world where time is money and lines
are a penny, these habimal offenders
might aftert some years abstention
from ink be considered TO have purged
their onense."
We are sure the Academy has failed
entirely 20 even approximately cover
the ground. Should the luscious BIZ
valve" be longer permitted? Why
should not the rash act' be put en- the
index eXpursauons? In the same class
is old "frightful holocaust" There,
too. we lind dull sickening thud. ="
fearful connagration. " roaring FUR
mace. " flames leaping heavenWard. %