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in the rOtunda or
the capitol at
Washington a
work which has
been neglected for
many years.
When Constan-
tine Brumidi, the
Italian artist, de-
signed the decora-
lions for the frieze
he chose Is histor-
ic incidents, begin
ming with the land
ing of Columbus
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-28
A Few SUGGESTIONS.

"The steamship people complain
that they have exhausted all the
names ending in fc.'"
Nonsense. There's the Gastric, the
Dyspeptic, and they might launch a
nice family vessel and call it Pare
goric."
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diagonal serge. The skirt is arranged
in deep plaits turning from the center
front.
The jacket is the regulation Nor
folk, and is lined with striped silk;
fancy enameled buttons are used for
fastening.
White straw hat trimmed with a
large bow of blue silk.
Materials required: 51a yards serge
and yards lining silk.
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joining, and, if desired, another such
bow knot may be tied about the front
of the ruche as well. This sort OF
ruche is to be had in practically all
colors, and is effective with all styles
of dress, from an elaborate reception
gown to an oversevere tailor costume.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-28
IN NOVELTY BoRDERED SILKS.
Material That Demands Much Care in
the Fashioninq.

It requires some ingenuity to fash
ion the novelty bordered silks into eff
fective gowns. The average dress
maker is apt to make failure of them
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NOTHING Proven.

did you ever have premonition
that something was going to happen?"
Often
"Aha!"
" But it never happened"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-28
An Old Bromide,

"Have you a cold?"
eff 1 admit it, will you say some
thing originate"
why"
"And not tell me that spring cold
is liable to hang on all summer?"
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No Doubt.

Heard about the latest?"
mo"
There going to build ship of con-
crete"
With verandas, bay windows and a
rathskeller, hey?"
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A Question.

yes; this grand opera prima donna
was commanded to sing by the en-
peror."
Did it have any effect on her?"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-28

Lydford, Devonshire, with an area
of 10000 acres, is said to be the larg-
est paris in England.
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Stronu Characters.

mo man is utterly Indifferent to
the public"
ooh, l don't know. Somebody has
to wear the first straw hat of the sea-
son.
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q. q. DIP, WASH AND DISTNFECTANT
The Best and Cheapest,
/ GALLON MAKES 100 GALLONS
1 GALLON MAKE
LKES 100 GALLONS.

Dip, wash or spray. l gal 75c 8 gal. 81 %:
5 gals SO. Write for 80 page booklet.
Ship US your Hides. Furs. Pelts, Wool, etc
n. w. Hide & Fur Co. Minneapolis. MINI.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-28

Hashish, which has similar effects
to opium, is prepared from the gum
derived from Indian hemp.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-28

More proof that Lydia e. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound saves
woman from surgical operations.
Mrs. S. A. Williams, of Gardiner,
Maine, writes:
ST was great sufferer from female
troubles, and Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound restored me to health
in three months, after my physician
declared that an operation was abso-
lutely necessary"
Mrs. Alvina Sperling, of 154 Cey-
bourne Ave-, Chicago, Ill, writes:
81 suffered from female troubles, a
tumor and much Inflammation. Two
of the best doctors in Chicago decided
that an operation was necessary to save
my life. Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound entirely cured me without
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-28

All real religion is fed by deep de-
sire for reality in religion.
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Look before you leap; you can't
jump from the fire back into the fry
ing-pan.
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STACK COVERS, AWNINGS, TENTS,
Flags etc. For information and prices. write
American Tent e. Awning Co.. Minneapolis
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II You Have Common Sore Eve.

if lines blur or run together you neeo
PETTlTS EYE SALVE, 25c All drug
glsts or Howard Bros, Buffalo, n. Y.
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ITS BEAUTY MARRIED
UNcOMPLETED FRlEZE IN DOME
OF THE CAPITOL.
Lawmakers Unable to Agree on Suit
able AlIegory' with Which to Fin
ish the Superb Decorations
of the Great Building,

It is understood that another effort
will be made to complete the frieze'
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MADE UP IN NORFOLK STYLE.
Pretty Costume for Young Lady OF
from II to 10 Years of Age.

Serge, fine tweed, or cloth is gener-
ally used for a costume Of this de-
scription. Our model is in a navy blue
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-28

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens the gums, reduces in
aammation allays pain cures wind collie 25c bottle
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THE BEST INCUBATOR OIL.
CREAM OF OIL gives a steady fame.
The Van Tilburg Co., Minneapolis.
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18
A WISE VIEW

II Mr.. Taft should get the nom
ination we are going to take our
place in line and vote for him, and
We believe that every colored voter,
to man, will do the same; and if
he does not he will be exercising
rather poor judgment, and may vet
live to rue the day. No colored man
can afford to vote for Democratic
president, or any other Democrat for
national honors. If he did ne will
be helping to abridge and destroy his
own civil and political Liberties and
perpetuate discrimination and Jim
Crowlsm all over these UnitedStates.
This talk about the colored voters
supporting a Democrat for president
in preference to Mr.. Taft is all mere
moonshine, for they will not.-Port-
land Advocate.
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18
NEGRO PROPERTY OWNERS
IN MARYLAND.
From the, Philadelphia Record.

From the, Philadelphia Record.
Under the property qualification
clause OF the new disfranchising
amendment passed by the Maryland
Legislature. and which will be sub
mtted to the voters at the next State
election. more Negroes will be en-
titled to the franchise than many of
the politicians supposed, They have
been surprised to learn that the Ne
groes own property in Maryland as
sessed at over $35oo,ooo, including
S6I7,662 in Baltimore city
The largest amount OF real estate
owned by the colored race is in Kent
county. while Talbot, Prince George,
Montgomery Somerset, St Mary,
Caroline. Baltimore, Frederick, Har-
ford. and Dorchester follow colsely
in order named The qualification
clause fixes the amount OF value OF
property owned by an individual at
FIVE hundred dollars.
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18
TO PAY FREEDMEN'S BANK
DEPOSITORS.

Depositors in the Freedmen'S Saw
ings and Trust Company will receive
their money, amounting to about one
miIlian dollars, if a bill passed by
the Senate recently is acted upon IA
vorably by the, House of Representa-
tives. On motion of Senator Nc
Laurin, of Mississippi, an amendment
was adopted striking out the provi-
sion that any money not claimed I'M
der this measure should be used for
the education of colored youth OF
the South, on the ground that such
a discrimination favoring "colored
youth" would be unconstitutional.
The Freedman's Savings and Trust
Company was chartered after the
Civil War to encourage thrift on the
part of the freedmen, many of whom
supposed it involved a guaranty OF
security by the Government. The
institution failed, and more than a
million dollars has never been pad
to depositors.
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18
MORE BEGGARS.

There is another skin game on
foot, and the people are warned
to watch it. There is no need Of
game. Citizens, look out!
Any Negro who will be led
astray by a man like Monroe Trot-
ter is fit subject Tor an asylum.
The colored Republicans of die
nation should not be misled BY col
ored Democrats and insane Negro
representatives.
Roosevelt is a living god. -
Sylvester Z. Corrothers, Decem-
Der, 1900.
Gentlemen of the Suffrage
League, | know President Roose-
welt, and anything the Negroes say
against him will amount to moth
ing" sylvester L. Corrothers, to
the Negro Suffrage League, De
cember, 1900.
Roosevelt is a second Moses.
Bishop Walters before theAfro-
American Council, 1903.
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18
AMERICANS OF
DOUBTFUL REPUTA-
TIONS.

This is the time when some news
papers give spact to the ebbulitions
of inconsequential, and even dis
reputable colored Americans who,
for pay, are using Senator For
aker as a cloak in order to secure
a pittance for attacks on the Presi-
dent and Secretary Taft If you
want to attack the President or
Mr.. Taft, do it in the open, but do
not hide behind the cloak of Sena-
tor Foraker, and by so doing do
him an injustice.
Policy players, crap shooters, col
ored men without any visible means
of support, men known to be liv-
ing off of women of doubtful rep
utations, men who for years have
done nothing but fake,are now get
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18
OLD SOLDIER REDUCED.


One of the reasons that Comrade
X. D. Goodman, post commander OF
Sumner Post, G. A. R., was reduced,
is as follows Owing to unfair treat
ment of the colored employees of the
Government Printing Office, Comrade
Goodman and a delegation OF the L.
Y. US called upon the Public Print
er and gave him a fair idea of the
situation. The Public Printer was
much impressed and promised to rec
tify, etc. But, the powers behind the
throne changed the program, and un-
der the heading of changing the pay
system, certain per diem employees
were placed under specified annual
salary; this applying principally to
watchmen and like positions.
Comrade Goodman, being a skill
ed mechanic, viz, an electrician,
should not have been affected by this
rule unless the salary, annual, should
conform to the amount he had been
receiving per diem; hence, to get at
him for the manly position assumed
as a race man and for the race, he
was reduced. Ut is generally the
case: take any manly colored man
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18
A DISASTER.
From the Odd Fellows Journal.


, The National Negro Conference.
held in this city this week, has been
from a racial point OF view a dis
aster In the first place, among the
few who attended there was much
discord For a time such a we'll
known race champion as James H.
HAYES was denied admission. He
left in disgust on an early train. Rev
Reverdy Ransom, the orator, who has
been likened to Wendell Phillips,
folded his tent like the Arab" and
as Silently stole away" The re-
doubtable w. Calvin Chase, of the
Washington Bee, held meeting of
faithfuls who followed him in the
basement of Zion Church, while the
Simon pure" were IN the room
above This meeting will do us much
harm for many reasons. 1t was ad-
vertised extensively, and yet no real
leaders of the people attended except
a few whose views are we'll known.
1t demonstrates to the white politi-
clans who are always belittling us
that, after all, there are no colored
leaders who have followers. If those
present had recorded themselves as
being against Secretary Taft for the
presidential nomination and appealed
to their colored brethren in the South
to elect delegates who are opposed to
him, their action would have been
ineligible But when they declared
that in the event of Taft's nomination
they would support the Democratic
party they took a position which they
knew they could not maintain, and
have thereby exposed their weakness.
Every preacher who attended that
conference will, if he supports the
party of Tillman and Hefin, be driv-
en- from the pulpit which he occupies
by an outraged membership. We do
not wish to be understood as advo-
eating Secretary Taft's nomination.
If we were in the Convention we
would vote for Knox of Pennsyl-
vania. No one can question the right
of the gentlemen who composed this
conference to oppose the nomination
of any candidate for the presidency
but when they make idle threats
which they know they cannot carry
out they subject the leaders of the
race to ridicule and contempt. The
white men who now believe that
these men can do as they say, will be
woefully disappointed and lose faith
in all Negro leadership. These men
know better and should stop their
foolishness.
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18

for all the other candidates COM
bined. With many of the Western
and Eastern States yet to elecr, and
which are morally certain to be car
ried by Taft, it may be set down as
an absolute certainty that Mr.. TAFT
will have fully six hundred votes
on the first ballot, and as il re-
quires but 49I to nominate i: will
be seen that Secretary Taft will be
nominated on the first ballot.
This is not speculation. 1t is
the cold facts, subsrantiated by the
list of delegates already selected
and pronounced for Taft.
Say what We will, and differ as
we may or will, it must be acknowl-
edged that candidate who can so
far lead all the others in the field,
and when that field is made up OF
as splendid a galaxy Of men as was
ever presented to the Republican
delegates to choose from,must have
a hold on the American people
If it is Taft, and all signs point
unquestionably to it, it behooves
the Negro voters to assist in his
elevation in order that we may
share in the success OF the party.
II we WITHHOLD our support, and
a Republican is elected with the
race arrayed against him, we can
not expect any consideration. And
we know, and everyone else knows
we have absolutely nothing TO ex-
pect of the Democrats, save lOath-
ing.
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18
DEMOCRATIC NEGROES.

DEMOCRATIC NEGROES.
The recent colored Democratic
conference that was held in Phila-
delphia, Pa, last week was no
doubt a great blunder. 1t IS un-
fortunate that Bishop Alexander
Walters, DR.. Morsell and others
should be led to the slaughter by
a set of political renegades. Now,
what did the conference amount to?
What influence did the conference
exert? How many votes will this
side show influence?
The conference elected a pigmy
for president, who reminds all in
telligent people OF Don QuiXote
charging a windmill All races
must have fools. Ancient kings
used to have testers, but those jes-
ters were men of education Mod
ern testers among the Nergoes are
fools. When intelligent Colored
men follow modern Nergo testers
The Bee cannot help from coming
to the conclusion that the follow
ers are as big fools as they.
The District delegate contest
does not appear to be causing the
Taft managers any sleep. The
fact of the matter is, they figure
Taft will have such a tremendous
lead that the two delegates from
the District will cut no ice. And
this leads us to soliloquize: Why
all this energizing on the part of
the men on the two local tickets?
If the Negroes of Washington
would pull together, and cut out all
chickering's, jealousies and antago-
nism, what mighty results would
be accomplished for the race here
The Bee is for harmony and pro
gress, and from this day it means
to redouble its efforts along that
line. Everybody boost.
A divided Negro race offers an
opportunity to the united white
race to scatter and dispel our best
efforts. Let's unite and be 'one
for all and all for each.
A great big harmony meeting
with erstwhile enemies fraterniz
ing as friends, what a grand spec
tacle this would be. Who'll take
the initiative for such a move
ment?
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18
A HUMAN BENEFACTOR.

From the City Times, Galveston.
Hon. w. Calvin Chase, Editor of
the Washington Bee, and a success
ful man of the race, as a newspaper
publisher for over twenty-five years,
and still in the harness, stated in
last weeks issue of The Bee: Erred
erick Douglass was a human bene-
factor He was always in the front
rank defending his people and de-
nouncing oppression. Let us forget
his faults; let us forget his imper-
fections, because when he espoused
the cause of freedom and denounced
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18
SUDDEN DEATH OF CHANCEL
LOR STARKS.
One Of the Races Most Useful Lead
crS Passes A7Udy at Charleston,
L/eet ITfpo;t,;o
West Virginia.

vest HWgiHId.
The news of the sudden death OF
Mr. Samuel w. Starks, at Charles
ton, w. Va, came as an inexpressi-
bic shock to his friends in this city,
where so many of his fellow crafts
men reside The sorrow is universal
and the tributes to his memory have
been spontaneous and sincere. Just
in the prime of a vigorous and use
full life. the universally beloved chief
tain of one of the races most pro-
gressive fraternities. serving with
distinction in the highest Office held
by colored man IN his State, and
principal owner of a journal of ma
tional influence, the death of Mr.
Starks comes as a distinct loss to
the people of the entire nation, re-
gardless of race, for his life of forty
brief years has been largely spent in
cementing the whites and blacks IN
closer bonds of political, civil and
industrial union To the Knights OF
Pythias and the Masons, to the peo-
pie OF West Virginia, to the news
paper fraternity and country at large,
as we'll as to his bereaved family
an immediate friends, we extend the
deepest sympathy in this hour of mu-
tual sorrow.- Others will doubtless
be called to the stations which Mr.
Starks has filled so worthily and so
well, but none will fill them so COM
pletely as did Samuel w. Starks. He
was a leader who led ever toward the
heights.
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18
ITEMS ON THE WING.

W. S. Simpson, Of London, Eng
land. has invented a cannon that will
throw a ball three hundred miles.
Editor John Mitchell, Jr.. of the
Richmond Planet, and president Of
the Mechanics Savings Bank, ac-
companied by DR.. ]. A. Lewis and
J. ]. Carter. cashier and treasurer
of the Richmond Beneficial and In
surance Company passed through the
city last Saturday, en- route to Har-
risburg, Pa All three of the gen
tlemen belong to Virginia's most pro-
gressive financial and business cir
cies.
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18

human slavery he had no faults. If
he had any the cause long after re-
allied that freedom would come to
the slaves. Let every colored Am
erican send a contribution to DR..
Washington. Citizens in this coun-
try whose worth and value will new
er be appreciated by the American
Negro until after he is dead"
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18
SECRETARY TAFT AND THE
FILIPINOS.
From the New York Age.

From the New York Age.
Every good American should be
proud OF the record which Secretary
Taft made as Governor of the Phil
ippine Islands, as every Filipino is,
because it is one of the cleanest of
any foreigner who ever governed an
alien people All of the records 90
to provet his to be the case. More
over, every honest Filipino will bear
witness to the truth of it. In the
Philippine Islands, when American
adventurers sought to despoil the
tillpinoS of their interests in the
commerce and in the material resour-
ces, mountain and valley, of their
country he placed himself between
them and made bold proclamation that
the Philippine Islands were for the
Filipinos, and that those who did not
like that policy of his could pack their
grips and fade Most of them did
not have the passage money, and
many of them, we are told, are serv-
ing long terms in Biabid prison for
trying to get the passage money by
ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain" They will serve their
terms and remember to the end OF
ther days that they ran up against
one American in a responsible posi-
tion in an alien land who refused to
allow the weak to be despoiled by the
strong because they had the right of
conquest on their side to do it.
The Afro-Americans in the Philip
pine Islands will also bear testimony
to the fact that, in a situation where
there was a masterful and insolent
Southern white sentiment, Governor
TAFT was consistently their friend, and
saw to it that they had their Just
rights, as far as he could do so, and
when they were able to reach him
with their grievances, and the South
ern bureaucrats in all the parts OF
the island gave them all of the trou-
BILE that they could.
In this country and as Secretary
of War, with oversight of Philippine
affairs, Secretary Taft has persistent
ly urged upon the Congress the en-
actment of such trade and maritime
laws as would enable the FilipinOs to
properly develop their internal re-
sources and to extend their coastwise
and foreign trade 1t is no fault of
his that this has not been done. His
attitude, however, shows his honest
and persistent interest in the Filipi
nos, as we'll as illustrates his judicial
and philosophical attitude of mind.
Based on his clean record of good
interest in the Filipino people, and
in the Afro-Americans residing in the
Philippines, IS it not reasonable to
conclude that, as President of the
United States, he would bring to the
Filipino problem in the Philippines,
and to the Afro-American problem in
the United States the same catholic
lty of interest and wise statesman
shin We think 50
The Washington bee., 1908-04-18
A BILLIANT SCHOLAR DEAD.
The Eldest Son of the Late John N.
LdHgston Dies Suddenly.

LaHgsfon Dies Suddenly.
The news of the death of Prof. Ar
thur D, Langston. which occurred in
ST Louis, Friday evening last, as
the result OF an acute attack Of
Bright's disease, came as a severe
shock to large circle of the friends
OF his family in this city. Professor
Langston was the oldest son of the
late Hon. John Mercer Langston, ,whe
was at one time acting president of
Howard University, formerly United
States Minister to Haiti, and later
member of Congress from Virginia.
Deceased graduated from Oberlin
Collegeabout thirty years ago, and
went directly to St. Louis, where he
entered the municipal service as a
teacher III the public schools. Being
endowed with fine intellectual quail
ties, and with serious purpose in
life, he brought to the discharge OF
his duties all the qualities required
to capture success from his surround
ings, and this he lid. He rose grad
ually to place OF commanding in
fluence and great usefulness not only
in the schools OF St. Louis, but also
in all the better relations of her mu-
nicipal activities, He died as the
principal of one of the largest schools
in that city.
He married Miss Ida Napier, sis
ter of Hon. James c. Napierof Nash
vile, and is survived by her and
their two sons, James Carroll and
John Mercer. Hs SONS, one of whom
is teacher in St. Louis, and the
other bank clerk in Nashville, are
graduates of Oberlin college, thus
making the third generation ofLang-
stons to hold diplomas as graduates
OF Oberlin College.
Professor Langston was in Wash
ington last summer during his vaca-
ton, and at reception rendered him
by Prof Kelly Miller, dean of the
college faculty at Howard University,
he looked the picture of health, and
everyone present on that occasion
will long remember how eloquently
he spoke of the opportunity for use
fulness in the teachers calling, and
with what hopeful optimism he pfc
tured the future. Hi5edemise brings
suddenly to its close a career rich
with promise of yet larger useful
ness in the service of his fellow men.