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was conferred on Mr.. McNief at the meet
ing Of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows In Philadelphia, Pa, In 1905, and
the same honor was recently given Mrs.
McNiel in this Jurisdiction.
New York city Masons, cong housed in an
old-fashioned building at 23d street and 9Th
avenue, are to have q new eighteen story
home, which is to cost $500 600. Technically,
1t is to be an annex to the rear Of the pres
ent structure, but 1t will be the real Ma
sonic hall of Manhattan.
Plans for the edifice have been filed in
the building department through Harry P.
Knowles, architect for the Masonic fra
ternity of this state. The promise of the
builders is that it will be ready for occu-
pancy not later than January, 1863.
The grand commander of Templars has
arranged for an outdoor inspection of all
the Communicates in this jurisdiction, to
take place early in October. The date and
place have not yet been exactly determined.
This inspection will be in the stead of field
day exercises which were until recently
held annually. The attention of all sir
knights will be directed to the inspection in
an official circular soon to be issued by the
grand commander.
Secretary Arvine w. Johnston of the
Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter of Masons
has just returned from his summer outing.
He took it In the form of visit to New
York and Boston, with a return sea voya ge
from the latter city to the jamestown expo
sition, and thence up the Potomac and home
again" On the way to Boston he ex-
changed fraternal greetings with leading
officers of the grand bodies corresponding
to those of which he is recording officer
here-Crand Lodge, Chapter and Command
cry. But on the sea voyage from Boston,
at the expos ton and the rest of the way
home he gave himself over to recreation
pure and simple. He spent several days at
the exposition. and concerning al, as about
everything ese on the trip, his comment is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-21
Keep Molineux PictureP

ALBANY, September 2l.-The attorney
generals office, has decided that the law
passed by the last Legislature permitting
the removal from the rogues' galleries OF
pictures of persons not convicted even
tually is not retroactive in its operation.
The law took effect September l, and
this ruling means that only pictures taken
since then under such circumstances can
be removed. The law was passed TO meet
such cases as that Of MolineuX. The ruling
was called for because of a request on the
rhier Of police of Rochester 10 remove
picture from The local rogues gallery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-21
Several Killed in Trolley Wreck.

TOLEDO, Ohio, September 21-Limited
car 146 of the Lake Shore line jumped the
track Thursday at the ransforming sta
ton on the Woodville road four miles
east of the city, killing two persons and
inburing several others.
Frank c. Barnes. the conductor, met in
slant death and the motorman Sam
Jones, was badly injured. Amos Mierga
a barber. whose home is in Fremont was
also killed He leaves a wife and children
and was thfrty-seven years of age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-21

Mel is deeply interested in the work of the
Rebekah lodges, and it a matter of
pride to him that as grand master he in
stituted one of the five lodges of that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-21
A Remarkable Undertaking.


day he began the construction of the canal
and the manner in which he overcame what
seemed to be insurmountable obstacles en-
titles him to a place in the Hall of Fame.
Measured by the standard of that time, 1t
was an undertaking as great as that of the
Panama canal It present. Northern Michi-
gan was a wilderness. The raw materials,
the stone and the timber were at hand,
but everything else had to be brought by
boat from the ports of Lake Erie. He had
as much difficulty in getting laborers to go
into that wilderness as he would have to-
day In taking gangs of men into the In
terror of Africa. During the winter the
cold was intense; the thermometer fire.
quently registered thirty-fve and forty de-
grees below zero and hospital stewards
were stationed among the laborers with
orders to rub with snow any face or hand
that showed indications OF being frost
bitten, so that the owner would not be
compelled to leave his work An epidemic
of cholera broke out in 1871 and nearly
half the men died of that dreadful pest-
lenCe. Shortly after the survivors struck
for higher wages, but Harvey starved them
into submission. He put guard over the
provisions and the cook houses and would
serve no food until they went back to their
work.
-. The canal was finished April 10, 1855,
twenty-five and half months from the
day that Harvey broke ground. 1t was
800 feet long, "a feet wide at the bottom
and 100 feet wide at the surface of tle
water and IL feet deep. There We're two
locks, each 20 feet wide and liz feet deep,
with a lift Of'9 feet each. The actual cost
was 5000 SOP 46. The first vessel to pass up
into Lake Superior was the steamer Illinois
and the steamer Baltimore was the first to
pass down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-21

at the 500, and he wrote his firm enthusi-
a. tic descriptions of the immense mineral
wealth, the timber, the fisheries and other
resources of the neighborhood country,
which depended upon a canal for their de-
velopment. He urged them to take hold of
the scheme, and although they had no other
information to guide them they adopted his
suggestion and authorized him to act in
their name. He at once sought the late
James F. Joy and other prominent and pro-
gressive men IN Detroit secured their CO.
operation, sent east for engineers, obtained
options upon stone quarries and, when the
Legislature of Michigan had authorized ac-
ton, was prepared to submit bid for the
construction of the canal, which was ac-
Cepted April 10, 1853. The Fairbanks
brothers were the principals and associated
with them were j. w. Brooks, Erastus
Corning, August Belmont, II. Dwight jr.
and Thomas Dwyer, and their sureties were
Franklin Moore, George F. Potter, John
Owen, James +. JOY and Henry, p. Bald
win of Detroit.
As soon as the contract was signed Har-
vey secured authority to select the lands
TO he donated In aid of the canal and, act
ing upon knowledge gained by his explora-
tons of the previous summer, he located
them upon the northern peninsula, includ-
ing the copper belt north of Houghton, from
which not less than $500, 100000 worth of
copper has since been taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-21
A Far-sighted Young Man.

While this legislation was being discussed
Charles T. Harvey, scarcely twenty-one
years II age. an cmploye Of the Fairbanks
s,al.s Company a, St Johnsbury. Vt, was
rccuporatiag from an attack OF typhoid
fever among friends al the Baptist mission
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
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a call to arms, as in the recent Zulu re- bellion, will send them hurryfng In hot haste homeward to enroll in their regi- ments. It is difficult to identify in their smiling faces the descendants of the fierce warriors who made the Zulu name nightmare throughout South Africa for nearly a century. They hire their rick shaws from the owners, paying at the rate of about three shillings, or 75 cents, day. and receiving all their earnings. The 'rickshaw is in general request in Johan- nesburg, being cheap, comfortable and Just adaptable to two persons sitting rather closely together. Hence 1t plays leading part in bringing about firtations, and is reouisitioned fin dozens on moonlit nights in winter, when the band Is scheduled to play at the Wanderers Club grounds, ana the stifing heat and dust storms arc null lifed by brisk capter through the empty streets. The Zulu 'rickshaw boy would consider himself dishonored In the eyes of his brethren If he did not attire him self in garments of an esthetic value. The specimen shown In the illustration appears to have combined the horns of the Evil One with the wings of the seraphim. It is probable, however. that this combina- ton possesses some weird, secret symbol ism of its own, known only to the wearer. As he files swiftly along the road toward his destination. uttering an occasional whoop of salutation to passing comrade' or a shout of warning to pedestrians, his chocolate skin glistens with precipitation and the copperbanglets round his knees and ankles glitter in the moonlight. He does not stop-usually he has de- posted his fare. tilted down the vehicle and assisted the lady to alight; then. mop ping his brow, he holds out his right hand for his legal fare and his left-instinctNe hackman that he is--for his extra "bo- sela."
 The Zulu is one of the mainstays of the house wife in South Africa. The maid of l the pp-eountry Boer woman is usually .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

"spring cleaning" Every morning the square is filled with great ponderous ox- wagons, something like the old prairie schooner of the type which has been used in South Africa for the past cen tury, and has protected many a little settlement from massacre. When, dur ing one of the continuous native rlsings, q hostile army of tribesmen menaces n town, the inhabitants at once go into "laager," forming an encampment behlnd A bulwark of wagons fastened together the duesselboom, or>central pole of each' against which the oxen are fastened m pairs. being locked Into the hind wheels of the wagon adjacent, and the spaces between the wheels being piled high with sacks of maize Seldom or never has such n barricade been overwhelmed. IL was in such wise that, early In the last centurv. the Boers overcame the hordes of the treacherous Dlngaan, the Zulu king. the men firing from behind these defenses with their elephant guns, while the women, In the inside of the square, loaded and passed up the rifles. These
 wagons are more like caravans. The produce Is stacked upon the front DOT tiOn, behind WHICH theIe ID ''s'o room, covered with white, waterproor canvas, stretched upon hoops, beneath which is the kartel or family bedstead' a wooden frame interlaced with strlps of hippopotamus hide, on which the en- tire family sleep In their clothes. lhese wagons are drawn by spans or rom twelve to sixteen oxen, driven by na- tive or half-caste, usually Basuto' armed with thirty-foot whip Of hippo potamus hide, with which he can flick fly off the ear of any of the animals at will. Each OK recognizes Its name, and "Engelsmann" (always the nomencia- ture given to the thinnest, poorest and largest of the beasts), and "Afrikander' (the name of the stout, strong, willing ox) pull with redoubled energy when their usmes are shouted to the accom-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

the depravltes of the city there, the moral, truthful, honest, sober. industrious native hns given way to the lying. drunk en Hooligan, the byproduct of every city and a permanent menace to the com munlty
 The Illicit liquor trade Is chiefly re- sponsible for the demorallzaton of the native. Imagine forty thousand boys" young men, unmarried, recruited from perhaps fifty tribes, some of which have traditions of hereditary warfare, grouped together under the most insanltary con- dltlons In compounds. driven by the lash to hard and dangerous underground labor in the gold mines, where, every day. dis. astrous accidents occur through the crim. inal negligence of the mlne-owners. Given the possibility of obtaining intoxicants. the evil which follows Is self-evident. These men have never tasted anything stronger than the fermented "juala," or native beer, which they drink at festi- vals After q few months they are ha- bitual drunkards, and each man becomes n plague-center, returning 10 dcmornlize his entire village.
 From Saturday afternoon till Tuesday morning work Is practically at q stand. still upon the Rand. IL Is n common pro. ceeding for the Zulus of the city to send formal challenge 10 the Bnsutos, or l for the natives of. say. the Robson mine. | to challenge those of the Dricfoutrin ic combat on the succeeding Sunday All | Saturday night the rival warriors soak | themselves with rum, until the vile pa tato alcohol has reduced them to sl.t, bordering on insanity. In the morning. half dazed and infurlated. they take theil knobkerrles species of shlllcngh nihl nssegais, and sally ont 10 the battle. fiie opposing party Is equally intoxicated. and furious combat enSues. several deaths and scores of casualties constant ly occurring. The white oyergecrs know ing that in the condition of ther enl ployees their own lives would be prhe. tically valueless should they interfere. re- main spectators of the fight until both sides are exhausted then np come the | police and separate the combatunts.
 Two typical scenes are shown in the 1 illustrations. The first represents n eon pie of unsophistiehted natives on the high road for Johannesburg, bound foi the mines. Their demoralization has just begun, when they exchanged their loif cloths and bangles for the discarded clothing of some white man. The clothes which they are wearing seem to have been picked up in refuse heap, and II will be seen that they have not yel adapted themselves 10 wearing shoes. IT the companion picture is to be seen I group returning home by mule wagon. The unsophsticated native has turned into drunken ruffian. Observe the clothing, the straw hats, the shoes which every man is wearing, the miscellaneous impedimenta upon the wagon, which vii include rum bottles, fashy jeweiry, and chenp Swiss concertinas. Johannesburg has taken these young men; they have slayed for her, digging gold from the earth to enrich greedy masters. who pleading the dignity of labor" taxed them into slavery; they have sold theiI honor and native piety for wages and civilization; some day there will arrive q tremendous reckoning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

Fighting the bubonic plague in Europe fla one of the most costly health precau- lions on a large scale that is carried on anywhere in the world. Hundreds of men are permanently on the payrolls of va rious European governments whose sole duty is to understand just what to do to ward of the plague germs. Fortunately Nature so constructed the joining line of Europe and Asia that the vast plains and lofty snow covered mountains of the Cau- casus effectively bar out plague germs by a land route. Thus 1t is through the various sea-ports that the only fighting oppor- tunity lies for the bubonic plague to get into Europe.
 This fight is done under international supervision and a board of famous physi- clans see that the proper quarantine Is carried out For instance in Bombay the death list from bubonic plague Is appall- ing. And In Q dozen Asiatic port cities the plague is always active and 1t is only when the dead lie in the streets by the hundreds that the newspapers get special stories about its ravages among the na- tives Now and then an isolated case Of plague is reported in Europe. But usually such cases as do work their way through the rigid quarantine are not published broadcast in the public prints.
 European health authorities, then, are always on the qui viye. There is always a terrible scourge to be dreaded and the quarantine against Asiatic ports is per petual and unyielding one. Even before vessel is allowed to leave for Europe from an Asiatlc port the health authorities take 6 hand. The passengers and crew must undergo a rigid medical inspection and the effects of all natives whether Of the passengers or the crews are thorough ly disinfected. Just what this costs In time, labor and money would be difncuit to estimate. But the work Is done and done faithfully and no amount of orfbes can get ship put of these perts until the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
Keeping Bubonic Plague Tn Europe

doctors have made round up and can honestly issue a clean bill of health.
 Even this does not end the work of the international health department. While the ship is allowed to sail. still term of ten days is needed to make sure that no case is developing on board ship. After this time for incubation of the bubonic plague is past the physicians will Issue the bill of health. Until then every pas senger is looked after and must be exam ined each day. With the incubation period past the clean bill is given to the cap tain. When the vessels arrive at the Suez canal. the whole thing Is done over again by the physicians at the mouth of the canal
 After going through the canal the ship reaches Port Said and here the conditions in Egypt must be taken up, for an out break at this point may seriously delay the vessel With good luck the ship nt last gets into the Mediterranean and with her papers in satisfactory shape finally reaches her port in Europe. Here a corps of doctors look the passengers over and if all appear healthy they can depart bui must report at the end of ten days. Thcn if single individual has the plague they are all rounded up and held as suspects until another ten days Is past.
 But not only the human beings aii watched. For science has proved that ti'. rats aboard vessels may carry the piagil with deadly certainty. Where the plag,a is strongly suspected the entire hold of ii' enormous steamer is boarded up and sui phurc dioxide Is pumped In and millions os rats are suffocated yearly.
 Thus 1t is seen that the supervision is most thorough and while 1t is very expen- siye 1t is well worth the money as even a slight outbreak in Europe costs millions of. dollars. The main points where the army of prevention of plague distribution Is located are Bombay, Suez. Port Said. MarSsilies, Gibraltar and all the im- portsnA, Npgth Europe poreA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
paniment of the pistol shots of this formidable implement
 The farmer, arriving at Johannesburg about midnight. after a long days trek,


 The farmer, arriving at Johannesburg about midnight, after long days trek' "outspans" In the great market square, and goes to sleep inside his wagon, while the native boys" having fed and wat cred the animals, kindle fire In the square, round which they crouch In their blankets until the morning, chanting and twanging upon their one-stringed tyres, or playing some cheap Swiss accordion. At break of day coffee is made, and breakfast prepared-the latter a hap hazard mixture of hare, steimbok, and partridge, or whatever else may have fallen to the farmers rife during his Journey, stewed in the ubiquitous pot and eaten with coarse porridge mnde -from ground maize. Soon the square will be filled with a chattering crowd;- farmers with vegetables and sacks Of produce, anxious to dispose of them and to return auctioneers holding forth with the ingenious batter of their tribe the world oyer, trying to dispose Of second hand furniture or worn-out "horses, which they vainly guarantee to be salt ed"-that Is, immune against horse SICK ness. There are Syrian women, with shawls across their faces. offering laces to the inspection of the yolubie yrouws who have accompanied their husbands upon their Journey, to take charge or the receipts, In fear that Hans, or Jan, or Paulus may happen to fall In with jolly companions; and, passing deftiy among these, are the native attendants, leading horses to water, or herding oxen.
 One of the most picturesque sights In Johannesburg is the Zulu 'rickshaw boy one of whom is shown in the accompany ing illustration. These "boys'-grown men, In faet-have tramped hundreds of miles northward from their kraals on the southeast coast of the continent to seek work in the City of Gold. Yet, 50 firmly bound are they to their tribal chiefs that
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1907-11-15
YIN Der Sridnnoie crfrnnft.

Gin Qrootlpner SoipitaIarjt lit Der
Rutient. - 8ruutbcit 0urd) ltlger
WiiNen0 GctodNlP3 SIeiih perltr-
iudt.
Nem Oort, fl. Hou. &m
"@el!cuucsSolpitoI" iieat Der BORT IN
Der rrittcn Srailen NbthCillng tbG.
ti1e Nr5t Or. !. ., Nerrit an Der &c.
lilrdtctcn misunderstanding oar
nlcocr. Tor od)t Snacn 3ciaten lid
bel bcm Futicnten Ole critcn Spmp.
tome Der aeiiird)tetru &rantbeit, mel
DIE 0urin bcItChCrL buB idtperc
Stnlcr5cn IN Der RiIteu llllo Cen
oengegeno bcn bon ser arantbcii
Nelngeillhten peini1en. Soiort nurr
Den natilrlid) Die meitHebenoiten
MoBreeeln @NctroiicL nm Sen Yulien
ten ST retter. un0 BON ieiren Mil
ltentcn SenrrS mo 3ebnoer lpurAc
cine Operation uolljo9en, melde 10
allldllt 9%elltn0cn lit, onB 5lr ,}eit
nldt fir oos Scbcn beS 81. Serrit
gefiirdtet miro. IiC Spcrotion be
ltdnb BARN, OaB III Der Sduulterge.
aeno Ginldnitte genlud)t Wurocn nm
BORT cine Nniommlllng Der Yaraiitcn,
mclfe ais Die MrantbeitSerre9cr be.
fannt Iillo, 81 pcrbinbrrn. 2ie arant
belt 5clgtc lid) bel 0r. Nerrif llad)
Dem WcuulB cinc@ @criht3 Shmcinc.
lIeild, raa CT I'M Noipitul acreit)t be.
fam, Us milB allgCnomnucu iperoeil.
Dab oaS Tlciid, nid)t Nenii9eno ourd).
Atfodt Heipc'cii lit, 10 boB Die BARN
~beflnolid, gciucicneu Sritinen, Ole
crit bel hohcn Scmprrnturcn petnid,
tet lucr0en. nit Der Speiic Iebeno
Gil1nna in oen aorpcr ocS Speiien.
Cen fulocn.
Srld)lnolc lpeldr non Sbicren lll,r
Den Tud)S mo oo3 Stnucin crorcii:.
II. Curd) @cnuB nom Sdnpcineilciid)
an Mcnlhcn ilbcrtruaen iucrocu
fam, miro onrh Fornlitrn perilr.
lod,t, mcld)c nud> pollltGnoioer Ont
lpldellln9 ooa NllSichcu cillcs fooen.
Iormigcn @urmcS hobcn. Gicic 30
rolltcn orin9cn. mcnu lie in Den a0r.
per zines Wcnld)en gclun1t limo, IN
Mprlaotn ourd) Die @0noc Der Gin
Aelpeloe IN oic Wllafcln, 100 lie it'd
berfopleln mo ourd) 3critornng be5
MilSfelgcipcbeS III 5obIloien SGnen
tobtlid) rpirtcn.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1907-11-15
3luei WGnner III 5oSc ~DcrbrIbt.

Sincinnati, If. Iopember.
Nn Der Gonlerpeniabrif Der :. @eQer
50. al ser Sprin9 @rope apenlc,
rlbe alabnno. Strobe, barit beutc cir
GROCER. 800 @allonen entboltenocr
Aupierfciiel mo Sreo. Salter, ionic
SoIm Yldrnanm, 5mci Iuseitelltc.
mlroen 5lt 1ooc perbriiht. Die Gr.
plOiion ereignete iit geraoc nad)oem
bic $50 9lrbeiter oes @eid)GitS i6r
Sageluerf begonncn batten, nno elm
Eanif brad, inter oenlclben ans.
@lildlider @eiie fam es su feincn
mciteren llni1len unter ibnen.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1907-11-15
Scinabc 80 Wcilen pro Stmnoe.
/" Hecoro", 6abrteu olti elmer iieben
MeiIen lonHen Stredc nit ncl.c.,
Sotomotiucn ser ,Ecnnipluouiu
0abn."

%aDll.
Nem Dorf. fl. Nopcmber. -
0lib'hnelle Observation-Disclosures uuroen
0ellern mo Cienitag bel Erobeiobr.
ten nit nellen S%ofomotipen Der, Eenn.
lDloonia 9ahn" nllf elmer Siebenlnci.
len-Strete bel Glapton, H..S., e..
jlelt. Wan mad)te Erobeiabrten nit
Enmpi- nlo eleftriifen 2ofonlotiueE
INTO lpdbreno eS Die 95Sonnen idnuerc
elettrilhe 2otorlotipe alli SO Meilen
Die Stlunoe brad)te, regiltrirte bel oet
FrobcIabrt Der groBen lampilotono-
iIpe Der eleftriife 3ciger Ole label
bofte 6abrgeid)uinoigfeit bon S9.I
Meilen Die Stunoe.
PIN GienItQg mllroen Erobeiobricn
nit elmer unoeren eleftriifen 2ofo.
motlpe BON %9rOBerem @epidt ais Der
9eltern perlpenoeten 9enad)t. uno man
cr5ieltc nit ibr cine 6obrgeihpiloia.
felt BON 50 Meilen sic Stltnoe.
Gle SodyucritGnoigen, melhe oie
Frobefobrten leiten iino ser 9lniid)t,
Oab nit Der eleftriihen 2otomotiuc,
meld)e Gienitag probirt lpllroc. cine
Sdneligfeit bon 100 Meilcn Ole
Stnnoc er5iclt meroen fam. Gica
milroc sic Hecoroiabrtcn nit oell
Motorpog9onS, Die in I%eutitlano
pom lid rcocn gcnaht, iibertrciier.
Die Stretc, nlli meld)er Die Erobc.
1abrten genlnd)t lDurocll, lit nit Dor.
rld)tlrtgen allsgcitattet, peld)e nidjt
MIR Die Sfnelli9feit, ionbern and,
Den 9ruf ser Bidder a,,f Die Sdicneh
rcailtriren.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1907-11-15
GermiidJte telearapbiid)c

Cine Seuersbrnnit
id)IItstbeile bon Earions,
bat einen Shaoen bon $500
lIriaft, popon $4,000 auf i
ma &reB & 60, mo je $500
Die Cooper 2un,ber 60" III
vIobgc 9rid & 2umber Co.
am meiiten seihdoigt ml,rben,
fdtlen. Gas jeiier entitano our;
niae anabeh, mclfe in elmer g
nc raud)ten.