Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-01
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system and all other systems in the uni
verse: to enter into contracts with states,
nations, planets and stars for the prose-
cution of great excavations, such as
canals. etc, and to perform any business
performed by any other corporation on this
Should Attorney General Bonaparte con-
clude to grant articles of Incorporation to
the company, which he has no legal or
other right to do, and the company gets to
doing business smoothly, some Of the
things that will happen will be these
There Will be neither winter nor summer
but mild. nice weather at all times; nobody
VIII die from disease and no deaths will
follow except from meat axes or shot
guns: there will be no yellow fever or
malaria, as all the mosquitoes and flies
can be easily DESTROYED; gold and silver
VIII be manufactured and not taken from
the earth; there will be daily communica-
tons between this country and Mars; peo-
pie who do not like our soil can go to
Mars and start up business; the meat trust
will be knocked out of business, as it will
not be necessary 10 grow swine and cattle;
the south will cease to grow cotton. as
clothes can also be made by the secret
process; undiscovered metals will now be
discovered, and $4,000 people on the Pan
anna canal will lose their jobs, the canal
VIII be built by the latest process. Any
thing else that can't be done at present
will be supplied by the company, and any
thing that can be done will be pulled off in
a new way.
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The recent appearance in Washington Of
a husky individual who engaged in the
scheme of manufacturing to order on short
notice, Free MasOns Odd Fellows and MEM
bers of several other secret organizations
for a consideration, recalled to the mind of
a veteran newspaper man the experiences
of a ''get-riclI-quick' fellow of African de-
scent who came here several years ago on
money making bent. He claimed to be the
highest functionary of q mythical organiza-
ton which had a high-sounding name,
something like The Ancient and Honorable
Order of the Amalgamated Sons of Ham
and Daughters of Raphael" His work was
among the poorer element of colored people
in the District. and he worked them
early and often.
Dis hyah ORDER he was wont to ex-
plain. ''circulates round de worl. 1t am
composed OBJ kings an queens, and dere
subjects. You kin go anywhar an git work
or money"
He also explained that upon the death of
a son of Ham a daughter of Raphael
! their heirs would receive a large sum of
| money. while weekly stipend was allowed
| members when they were ill.,
This slick fellow had the front of his
coat decorated with a great variety of
brass medals. which he claimed had been
presented to him by de crowned beds OBJ
Eurip." One of the bogus medals he said
ndu been pinned on MS coat by ue ne u
man oh Chiny.' who was high officer of
the order. while 2oO0OOOO of his subjects
paid toll to its Golfers.
The fellow Initiated his victims in their
own homes. claiming that he had dispen
sation from the highest officer to to do. He
was assisted by a colored woman whom he
termed saint Lizzie and was raking in
the shekels of the poor and ignorant dupes
when Capt. John c. Daley, then the fight
ing sergeant" of South Washington, or
fourth police precinct got busy, and the
fellow, hearing he was wanted by the ser
geant. fled across the Long bridge and has
never been heard from since.
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ut Is very seldom" remarked an official
of the Navy Department, that the Secre-
tary Of the Navy receives call from
man-of-wars man. but Secretary Metcalf
had that experience one day last week. 1t
was during business hours at the depart
| ment. A young bluejacket very much ex-
cited and apparently in trouble appeared IN
the SecretaryS ante-room and asked Pri-
vate Secretary Clark If he couldn't have a
private interview with the Secretary
important business. Secretary Metcalf hap
pened to be dsengaged at the time and he
said he would see the man. The sailor went
into the Secretarys private office and told
a yarn of trouble. 1t seems that he Is at
tached to Farragut's old flagship Hartford,
now used by the ridshipmen at Annapolis
as practice Ship and that he had walked
from Annapolis to Washington, distance
Of about forty miles. III order to lay his
grievance before the head Of the naval
establishment. According to his story the
bluejacket was sick and couldn't get proper
food on his ship. He said that the doctors
had put him light diet but that he
was given nothing but the regulation food,
which was too coarse for his delicate dIges-
ton. and made him sick. The man was in
pretty bad shape. but whether 1t was due
to improper foor or simply the result of his
long tramp from Annapolis 1t was hard to
tell. Anyhow his tale excited Secretary
Metcalf's sympathy and at his suggestion
the man was sent to the local naval hos
pital for treatment and observation. in ad-
ditiOn to which the Secretary said he would
Investigate his complaint of improper treat
ment on the Hartford. The case is unusual
in that the sailor man was able to present
his to the head Of the navy in per-
son."