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ment by addressing first one side of the
house and then the other, until finally he
said he did not know how to speak to a
divided house, and that he did not like to
address an audience seated as they were
seated. As the 5000 or more who listened
were all standing tip-toe there was per-
feet agreement between the speaker and the
audience.
Commissioner Macfarland was then pre-
scented, and In a few felicitous remarks
congratulated the committee that had al
ready accomplished the results apparent
In the great hail. and further congratulated
the people of Washington on the speedy
prospect of having a Masonic Temple.
Having. he said. gone so far without the
aid of a mega phone he would only add his
wish that now might ''mirth and pleasure
abound"
The speechmaking was closed by Chair
man Noyes, who said that he had just been
informed that while the attention or the
audience was directed to the platform the
booths were losing thousand dollars a
minute.
Grand March Formed.
The grand march then formed, the
tall form of Vice President Fairbanks tow
ering above the talIest man in the line. The
march was headed by Columbia Command
cry the guests of honor, officers of the
board of control, committee chairmen and
| the grand officers of the Masonic fraternity,
all with their ladies' participating as fol-
| lows:
Grand Master Walter A. Brown and Mrs.
Brown. Sovereign Grand Commander of the
| Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction. James
| D. Richardson. Most Eminent Grand Cap
| tain General of Knights Templar of the
| United States Frank H. Thomas and Mrs.
| Thomas, Deputy Grand Master and Deputy
of the Supreme Council Scottish Rite Fran
| els ]. Woodman and Mrs. Woodman, Right
Eminent Grand Commander of Knights
Templar William F. Hunt and Mrs. Hunt,
| Grand High Priest of Royal Arch Masons
Charles Becker and Mrs Becker. Deputy
Right Eminent Grand Commander OF
knights Templar Thomas p. Morgan. Dep
uty Grand High Priest OF Royal Arch Ma
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Will of Mrs. F. o. johnson

Mrs Francis Oliver Johnson. by the terms
of her WILL dated January %. 1906. and fled
for probate. devises premises 121I Connect
cut avenue to her husband. Loren B. T.
Johnson. for the remainder of his natural
life. and $4,000 to her daughter. Aurelia N.
Johnson The sum Of $1,000 is bequeathed
to Margaret T. Johnson, and the residue of
the estate Is left IN trust to the husband
and child of the testatrix. The estate Is
valued at about 3175,00O.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-22
Naval Orders.

Capt s. M. Ackiey has been detached
from duty in the bureau OF navifiation, Navy
Department. and ordered to attend the con-
ference of officers at the Naval War Col
lege. Newport.
Capt. A G. Berry. from duty at the
works Of the Bethlehem Steel Company.
South Bethlehem. Pa, to the works OF
Cramp & Sons. Philadelphia in connection
with the inspection OF the battleshlp Ten
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OPENING
MOST AUSP|C|OUS

Continued From Third Page.)
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Wary in Calm Weather

IN calm days the reverse is true, and the bass
~ naturally wary, scuds for cover in the thick weed
patches as he sees moving shadow or notes
the splash of oars the otherwise smooth surface
of the water He does this not because it is boat
that dlsturbs him, but because anything that moves
across the prevailing calm scheme of water and
weeds alarms hint is something that does not
fit at the time, therefore from the ishs point of
view it is to be avoided. At the time the splash
of the bait it hits the water does not alarm him
on calm day. because fish and frogs jump and
splash the water all kinds of DAYS and he is
used to such commotion.
To sum up bass fishing is not hard nor difficult
to learn If remembers the general points of the
gane-the rest is a matter of experience. You
should first examine the waters you intend to fish,
to determine whether you should use minnows
frogs flies or an artificial bait such the wooden
mlnnow. If you in doubt, it is usually safe to
begin by trying frogs, as they the really great
staff of life in bassdom. Remember that whatever
bait you it must be fresh, and at least appear
alive for the bass kills his food and never feeds
dead food.
Next, the character of the shore and bottom
should determine just where to fish, for different
depths and different call for different methods
of handling the cast, just different bats do. A
poor boat is nuisance to the bass fisherman, be-
cause it cannot be handled quickly and quietly;
thus at-bottOmed boat should be used as the best
if weather conditions permit it.
An inexperienced oarsman spoil the fishing by
awkward handling, which frightens the fish, puts
you too close or too far away, which in turn makes
your boat silently and keeps you about the
distance from the fishing all the time, which makes
casting steady and methodcal.
When the fish is hooked keep stiff line and play
him carefully, but steadily, until he IS alongside
and into the landing net; for bass lost by
overconfdence in your own ability to "snake" them
in the side after they apparently done
fighting than otherwise because they nearly always
land them without net-and thus you lose him
at the last moment.
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Where Minnows Are the Bait

OTHER lakes minnow lakes" where the bass
~ feed almost entirely on minnows. This class of
bass waters usually of large size, having
flowing in and out of them through which other fish
travel and thus furnish food for the bass which stay
in the lake all the time. In this the mnnow
is the proper bait, though there may be shallow
frog-haunted bays in this same lake where the bass
get abundance of frogs and there the frog is
the proper lure again
There are other lakes, usually small, deep Ones
with rocky or sandy shores without much vegetation
where the caddis fly breeds in abundance Such
lake is almost invariably fly lake., because the
bass are living almost exclusively on winged in
sects and the grubs that live in the water before
they hatch and become winged insects.
If you want the best sport in the bass fishing
catalogue, find good fly lake" and cast your
flies on it morning and evening; then you will
experience all the thrills that the angler is heir to-
for bass fishing with the artificial fly has few equals
anywhere.
The bass has prominent characteristic that
no fisherman has ever been able to account for to
his satisfaction. This is the habit of striking
at almost anything that is moving and appears to
be alive, regardless OF what the natural food may be
in that particular water.
This habit makes it possible to catch bass with a
spoon, artificial wooden minnow, "bucktai"
a piece of white pork, in fact almost any of the
hundred and one artificial bats that are made for
bass fishing and which really resemble nothing under
the
Now, as to the method of procedure, if you ex-
pect to be a successful bass fisherman
Your outfit should consist of short, stiff casting
rod which you can buy at any sporting goods store
at all the way from dollar to high as you
want to go. Next you must have line and free
running, multiplying reel that you can cast from
boat by reellng your bait up to the tip of your
pole; then, by sharp side overhead cast, you
fling your bait away out among the weeds, then
double-gut leader and 'weedess" hook which
all sporting goods houses carry in endless variety.
These hooks are protected with thin spring wire
guards that make it impossible to catch the hook
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By Ell COM A N C O

doors. Naturally the first question -
that comes up is where to 60 Fortu-
nately this is not hard to answer in the
United States, owing to the fact that one OF the
greatest of fresh-water game fishes is found
to-day in practically every state in the Union
terms salnoides), and the world does not produce
a game fighter for the rod fisherman;
This fish travels under more names than
burglar, being called bass Oswego bass, black
bass, green bass, moss bass, lake bass big
mouth bass, and in the South, from the Caro-
inas to Texas, he is even misnamed trout Its
natural habitat is east of the Mississippi River,
from the Gulf of Mexico nearly to Hudson Bay,
and from the river to the east coast. The
United States Fish Commission, aided by the
different State commissions and by individuals,
has been transplantng him for years, SO that
to-day this warrior can be caught any part
of the country during open season.
The bass is prolific breeder and voracious
feeder, and in these two points is his salvation
and his usefulness to the fishermen, because
he multiplies fast enough to keep up the sup
ply and is always hungry, consequently
ready bitter. His habits in detail are about
follows, in so far the anglers interest centers.
He loves clear, quiet water with little or cur
rent, and requires plenty of vegetation in the
to furnish feeding grounds and hiding places. He
lives equally well in the lakes and sluggish rivers,
provided the water is not too muddy The clearer
the water the better he thrves and he lives better
in temperate water than in that which is very cold.
ANY water that is comfortable to battle in out
doors is about the right summer temperature for
bass at their best
Their natural food consists of minnows, crawfish
frogs insect Larvae and the insects themselves there
fore these creatures furnish the proper live bats
One strange trait of bass character is the fact
that all of the bass in given body of water usually
feed for the most part on the same thing, thus
lake will be frog lake" meaning, in hsherman's
parance that in that particular lake the bass feed
almost exclusively on frogs-such lake is usually
a shallow one without inlet or outlet, and with
way around the margin. In such water the proper
bait is frog about four inches long.
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as soon as YOU able to handle it, catch all
the bass you can carry in any state in the Union,
if YOU know the fish and it's habits well enough.
Early morning and late afternoon and evening is
usually the best time to fish for bass regardless of
where YOU NAV be. Contrary to the old idea, hot
DAYS are better than cool cloudy ones because the
fish bite we'll hot days and easier to locate
as they LAY up on hot days anywhere that there
is cool shadow their feeding grounds This
being a fact YOU can easily tell where to cast as
your boat gdes slowly along, because you
spot the thick bunch of weeds that grows just
where the fish ought to feed if he follows his natural
bent-and he does always.
Perhaps there is an old log floating half sub
merged near some weed patch growing in the water
edge Under that log you will find your fish waiting
and if the end of the log nearest shore is in from
to four five feet of water the bass will be
the shady side of that log within two feet of the shore
end of it.
If you want to find this out for yourself just cast
your bait it will hit that particular spot hot,
bright afternoon-you will know all about it in ten
seconds less for the bass will make your reel
he takes your bait and away for
deep water like submarine torpedo.
Under Cover of Rock or Weed
DERHAPS the cover is rock thick weed patch
= bunch of floating lily leaves, pile of sunken
brush treetops in short it can be anything that is
in from one four feet of water and furnishes shade
and place to hide, for the bass loves lie in such
places, balancing himself his fins motion1ess and
waiting for some luckless frog, minnow, or other
live thing that is good to eat to along; then he
ashes after it at speed great that only the
perienced eye can follow him.
Sometimes it happens that the fish will not take
any bait unless it is cast within foot of his nose;
but he will take it like flash then At other times
the same bass will come twenty feet to get it. Again.
he will strike the instant the bait hits the water,
or even jump and take it second or so before it
strikes, or he may pay no attention to the splash
that the bait makes when it strikes the water, and
then follow along behind the bait for much as
fifty feet while you reeling in, only to strike
it suddenly and away.
If the strike occurs in shallow water, you should
strike back at with quick, hard pull that
the hook through flesh and bone, but do not jerk,
because that will usually pull the bait away without
hooking the fish.
If the fish strikes in deep water, you should let
him with the bait for fifteen twenty feet be-
in the time you strike after your fish bites found
in the fact that bass in deep water usually takes
his time to swallow the bait in fact usually carries
in shallow water he is hunting and hungry therefore
he grabs frog, minnow, other food and swallows
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point in the weeds, and still do
not interfere in the least with the
bass hooking himself when he
strikes. Your line should be one
hundred and fifty to two hundred
feet of enameled silk casting line"
With such an outfit YOU can,
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- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
~ it at once. You should make point of
~ timing your actions to suit his, if you
would be successful.
Generally speaking, the bass is a
- shallow water feeder, cruising along
800 shore in from six inches to six feet of
water looking for frogs, minnows,
crawhsh, insects or anything else that
is alive and looks good to eat.
If the vegetation is thick enough, he will
come so near the edge of the water that his
back will be partly above the surface some of
the time, but if the water is clear of vegeta-
ton he rarely ventures into less than eighteen
inches of water while feeding You should
cast your bait to fit these habits.
When you hook your fish, you should al
ways keep tight line on him, regardless of
where he goes or what he does, for his mouth
is big and composed of lot of bony plates
held together with nothing but thin skin,
which tears into great holes under the pull
of the hook as the fish struggles to get
/ away.
Some bass fishermen say, Drop your tip
when bass leaps" but personally never
lower my rod to much less than an angle of
forty-fve degrees, because this gives YOU con-
siderable bend in the rod, which can be de-
pended on to take up good bit of slack if the
ilsh suddenly, rushes toward you, and it also
keeps steady strain the catch SO that it
helps to wear him out the sooner.
Generally speaking, you should fish from a
boat standing in the stern to do your casting,
while some one else rows for you parallel with
the shore and just far enough away all the
lime SO you can cast in easily, thus covering all
he water where the fish are likely to be.
1t IS better for the oarsman to back the boat
along, that is push it backward, than to row in
he ordinary way, because this puts the fisher
nan ahead of the boat" SO that he fishes all
he time in water that has not been disturbed,
whereas he is always just boat length behind
lis fishing if he stands in the stern and the boat
S rowed forward.
A gentle wind, enough to make small waves on the
water, is a better weather condition than dead
h9t hat hroly nv
waves makes it easier to approach your fish without
alarming them, because all the shadows are moving
everywhere around the fish and he pays attention
o them The waves usually splash against the weeds
more or less and the fish pays attention either
he boat, its moving shadow, the splash of the
,arS.
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VACATION time and going
\ fishing are usually closely
II associated in the mind of
I the average American citi
zen who likes the out-of-
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it at once. You should make point of
timing your actions to suit his, if you
would be successful
Generally speaking, the bass is a
shallow water feeder, cruising along
shore in from six inches to six feet of
water, looking for frogs, minnows,
crawflSh inSecIS or ANYTHING e1Se that
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-08-18
Negro Girl will soon be Null
timillionaire.

Little Isabella Lewis, a full
blooded Negro girl of Tulsa, Ind
Territory, falls heir to vast for
tune she has not quit wearing
knee dresses, and cannot hav
charge of her money as it falls
due, but the same is guided BY
the eagle eye of of the U. S
Government. She has land,
allotted to her, on which has
been discovered, oil-the wells
are in operation her land is lea
sed for one-eight of the revenue
which amounts to cher
share) $3.50. per day, or 1897 900.
per year-this is a vast amount
credited to her at Secretary of
Interiors office. At per cent
this will bring $11,850 per an
mum this is no dream-you will
will see an account in st. Louis
Democrat Aug. 5, 1906.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-08-18
TIE rs % slated Press Too Prejudice
and Too Mean.

It's now evid mt that the AS
s)cld5ed PreSs'S agents are mean
prejudice aud even unreliable
They ampIlfy andmanufacture so
many untru things about the Neg
TO until We are forced, for con.
sclence,s SAKE, to tell part of
The world of their scullioness.
Last Saturday Aug. II, d little
lnfortuna, affair Occurred at
quiet Decatur, which we ignore
as mucn SO DIS any body, and the
duly papers "crled race war
Negroes creating bad feeling etc,
th4 rep )rt stated that d colOred
watch M. WAS Knocked down
by du unknoWu mdn-yeS a cow
ard he was, be he white or color
ed. Lhe report further stated that
Decatur had 500 or 600 colored
p ople-Decatur has near three
tunes that number-mostly good
law ABIDING people. We con-
drmn the gang of Negroes or
Whites, in Decatur or Spring
field, who loaf, and stand on the
hlgh, way to insult people, but
We are not so mean as The report
ers TO the dailIes, as to blame all
for the sin of a few,
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-08-18
Advice To Husbands.

1t is not necessary to go broke
trying to dress your wife fine or
finer than her associates. The
right kind of wife will not allow
you to do so, but the number who
are not right, we are prone TO
believe, is like unto Johns mum
ber-
You had better teach your wife
to live a modest life chaste, hold
Sacred and dear, her home, her
children and herself You who
treat them as such shold expect
and demand such of them, and
yon who do not treat them as
such. need not expect much of
them.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-08-18
Bank Robbery vs.. Chicken Robbery.

There used to be a great howl
about Negroes stealing chickens
and water melons and other small
parcels, but the latest "fad" now
is bank robbery alias, bank fail
ure and the subsequent suicide
of the Teller or President. An
other bank failure last week do
Chicago, the President fled to
parts unknown and the teller, !,
young man only 80 years old
killed himself. The people wi
soon be afraid to trust even the
bank. This is simply a combi'-
ed effort of systematic robbery.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-08-18
Dragging Down The Whole People.

What we want to see is the
day when our people will put a
premium on moral and intellect.
ual worth We want to see the
time when Negro men and wo-
men will not contenance their
leaders who's moral degenerates,
solutions and rapists. Our race
to-day, shows its inferiorty by
not Furnishing the immoral man
nor abscoundiug him. White
People show their high tone and
moral superiority by, when their
leaders are caught in unbecOm-
ing places and are "bad' char
acters, deporting the guilty
scoundrel.
But our people. regardless of
how Infamous the crime. will
receive on equality and grin in
their faces. Our women are
much to blame for low-down men
who occupy lofty positions, the
writer is abiding to no particular
individu al, but over the entire
country, our clergy and our pro-
fessional men have their down
falls nine times out of ten, by
their polygamy and by their adul-
+ery-its shame, and we de-
nounce all such as only fit SUBJ
ject for the penitentiary and the
gallows. b. A.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-08-18

The lazy. idle Negro is too ex-
penslve: the honest, Industrious
members of the race should rid
themselves of him as often as
the opportunity presents itself.
HAPPY is the man who can en-
dure the highest aud the lowest
fortune. He who has endured
such vlcissltudes with equauimity
has deprived misfortune of the
power. aud given permanance to
his peace and trandulity.-Nat-
ional Baptist Union.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-08-18

Though they declared, we find
no fault in this man RANSOM the
general public still holds him,
guilty as charged in the indict.
ment Bishop Turner, with all
of his unlimited vocabulary turn,
ed aloose to the contrary not
with standing, we hope Ransom
was not and is not guilty, but
the g neral reputation of the
mans truth and Veracity is not
true.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-08-18
Il would

would
rather be instrumental in secur
lug Che repeal of the 18th Amend
ment than TO wave the Sceptre
OF KING Edward of England'-
famed K. Vardman, Governor of
Ml>sIss ,ppI. Poor old idiot, he
Will never be able to save his
soul nor to rule his family nor to
app ID thai helish law within
himself.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-08-18

When you want copy of the
Forum, The Freeman or the Ne
gro magazines, drop in at The
keystone. 12I SO. 4th st.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-08-18

WANTED, Agents for Peerless
Ideal P )rtrait Co. in all towns
b 9 commisiso l. big money made
Wri e or Call on Peerless0 Ideal
portrait Co Room As Myers
Building, Springfield Ill.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-16

active futures in wheat sold under
20 cents a bushel It did not remain
under that price more than a moment.
however. supporting orders were dis
closed to buy any quantity at 10
or anything under that figure.
Foreign markets this morning
We're reported three-eighths lower in
sympathy with our decline of yester
day. Houses with northwestern
connections were liberal buyers of
both December and May Export de-
mand improving. 100000 bushels be-
ing worked for export The market
closed at about Yesterdays prices
with sentiment slightly in favor Of
higher prices.
CORN.-This market followed in
the trend of wheat in a measure.
Opening of one-half cent on the gen
eral favorable weather conditions
throughout the corn belt rallying
little later when the wheat market
showed an inclination to rally There
VISA considerable September on tap
whenever the shorts wished to cover.
The market closed dull and without
feature.
OATS Lower trade entirely pro-
fessional in character A few scat
tered offerings from commission
/ houses which were eagerly absorbed
! by shorts. Cash demand for oats re
ported extremely quiet.
PROVISIONS very dull mar
row and uninteresting market. The
scalpers, professionals and few OF
the smaller packers about the only
ones trading and their operations
only for small profits