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The Washington bee., 1910-07-30

ter-Point with Pride to Splendid
Record and Fitness-Most Powerful
Fraternal Order in America-Only
2r in 1000. 600 Can Reach Top.
Since its introduction into this coun-
trv, March 4, I843, the Grand United
Order OF Odd Fellows has steadily
grown in numbers, wealth and IN
fiuence until it has become by TAR the
largest fraternal organization IN
America. The absorbing topic OF con
versation among at least two millions
of people to-day is "WhO IS to be the
next Grand Master of this powerful
institution"
King David Lodge, No. 14I2, Grand
United Order Of Odd Fellows, OF Nor
folk, Va, on February 3, 1910, adopt
ed the following resolutions:
Resolved That this Lodge hereby
indorses and presents to the Order
of America, NJ. Y. P, J. c. Asbury
as suitable brother to be elected
to the exalted position of Grand Mas
ter of The Order at the B. NJ. &, to
be held in Baltimore, Md, next Sep
tember. Brother Asbury has been a
faithful member Of this Lodge for
more than IS years and performed
with punctuality and humility every
duty assigned him during that time,
filling all the stations in the Lodge
cheerfully and thoroughly. He has
been no respecter of persons, but
served the least as we'll as the great
est in a brotherly spirit. AS citi-
zen he leads an exemplary life, and
for four years held the most eXalt-
ed position ever occupied by a col
ored man in Virginia-COmmon-
wealth's Attorney for Norfolk Cour-
ty. This Lodge has a pardonable
pride in his efficient service as ed
itor and manager of the Odd Fellows
Journal for the past Is years.
Since that date Past Patrlarchy, No.
RI; P. G. NJ. Council, No. II; Broth
erly Love Lodge, No. 1903; Star OF
the East Lodge, No. 1920; Norfolk
Lodge, No 1858, and Huntersville
Lodge. No. 1906; District Grand Mas
ter TOhn w. Barnes and almost the
entire brotherhood in Virginia have
indorsed Mr.. Asbury for Grand Mas
ter and announced their intention to
support him at Baltimore next Sep
tcmber with the largest delegation
from that State that ever attended a
general meeting of the Order. OF
fers of support have been pouring in
upon Mr.. Asbury from many dele
gates from all sections Of the country
and his friends believe that he will
be the choice of the Fraternity for
the exalted position with which his
name has been connected.
Mr.. Asbury was elected editor OF
1907, and removed TO Philadelphia
from Norfolk, Va, the latter part
of that month. He has edited the Off
The Washington bee., 1910-07-30

II, they will see to it that you are re-
lieved of your cash, if you find it too
burdensOme to carry around beneath
a Washington summers sun.
The local lodges here, composed of
some of the best and most praise
worthy of men, have spared no pains
to make your coming a delightful an
ticipatiOn, and your stay a pleasant
realization. 1t is the wish of every
one that your deliberations be mark
ed by the teachings of brOtherly kind
ness which your Order so we'll ex-
emplifes, ana that your pleasures be
not marred by single unpleasant in
cident.
On behalf of the local lodges, and
the good, appreciative citizens of this
city, | welcome you into our midst
and invite you to remain as long as
you desire, and to return whenever
the spirit moves you. l might, appro-
priately, add that the Elks, this be-
nevolent and protective Order to
whom we extend a hearty welcome to-
/ dav. IS one bearing the gift of peace
ana goodwill
Nc honors of war to your Order be-
long;
Your plain stem of life never flow
cred into song;
But the fountains you've opened still
gush by the way,
And the world for your coming is
better to-day.
Welcome, welcome, a thrice wei
! come for you to this city.
The Washington bee., 1910-07-30
DR.. SHEPARD'S GREAT WORK.
DR., Dubois Speaks-The Great Edu-
Gator Speaks at Durham.

NoNOA DE'SohS at DGA AAe1AA1s
Durham, n. C., July 26.-W. T. B.
Dubois, Director of Sociological Re-
search looking into the progress of
the American negro, was the central
figure in the last weeks program o.
the National Religious Training
School and Chautauqua here DR. Du-
Bois gave three lectures, the first on
"The history of education" and the
other two on "The history of the ne
gro" His first lecture on THE his
tory of the negro" dealt with the rec
ord on negroes in Egypt and in cen
trail and northern Africa, which
brought his narrative to the beginning
of the African slave trade.
In his second address, DR.. Dubois
stated that the negroes of to-day
should consider it privilege to help
in the solution of the negro prob
lem as one of the worlds greatest
movements, and not as having to do
with something unpleasant He call
ed attention to the fact that the ma
jOrity of the people of the world were
colored, and that belief in humanity
must necessarily be a belief in the col
ored man. In the course of his re-
marks, DR.. Dubois said: Back of
slavery and the slave trade lay, of
course, several excuses. The first ex-
Cuse was that slavery gave an excuse
for the conversion of the heather.
But what was to be done, when the
converted slaves wanted to enter the
Christian church? The old English
law said that no Christian could be
held a slave. That took the excuse
for slavery away, but another was
soon found
"Just as soon as one evil goes on
unattended to, with the hope that it
will settle itself, another one will rise
up in its place. Problems like slavery,
that were 400 years in the making,
do not settle themselves. There came
the attempt to establish a feudal sys-
tenn with black and white serfs at the
bottom. The rise of the cotton in
dustry spoiled that and placed slavery
on an economic basis, and consequent
ly beyond the pale of criticism.
"Then came certain hindrances. The
history of the United States from the
Missouri compromise to the civil war
is the attempt of the slave States to
get more land for the cultivation OF
cotton and the extension of slavery.
They were up against a proposition OF
more land They ran against the
moral conscience of the Nation; slave
property became unsafe, because OF
the underground railway and this
moral sense, for slaves could rrn
away to the Northern States and Can
ada. Finally slavery was overthrOwn-
Reconstruction with its subsequent
criticism of the negro resulted. I fear
that too often, negroes themselves
yield to the criticism that is passed
upon the giving of the ballot TO them
directly after the civil war. 1t was
absolutely necessary. 1t was not given
to the ex-slaves because they thought
they could use it properly; not be
The Washington bee., 1910-07-30

welcome here in Washington.
Were it within my province, I would
welcome you to everything of honor
and amusement in this, our and your
city. But trife matter of race pred
judice, peculiar and indigenous to this
city, restricts that welcome to the
hospitality of broad-minded men and
brothers, and to that which is the
property of the government, you and
your forebears have helped to provide
and maintain, and that government
which some of you and some of your
forebears, four times in its history,
barred your breasts and offered your
lives to protect.
However, the colored people of this
city, the most hospitable, generous
and intelligent to be found anywhere
in civilization, will see to it that you
want for nothing. They will see TO
it that when you leave the city you
will be richer in experience, enjoy
ment and wisdom than when you
came. And if you insist on hospital
ity being extended to the utmost linn
The Washington bee., 1910-07-30
Tuskegee's New Dining Hall.

The above picture is of The dining
hall known as Tompkins Hall, re-
Gently erected at Tuskegee Institute
in memory of the late Charles E.
Tompkins, of Southport, Conn. 1t is
the largest and most imposing build
ing upon the Institute grounds. 1t
contains a dining-room for teachers,
with a seating capacity for $50 per-
sons; a dining hall for students, with
a seating capacity of 1000, and an as
sembly room large enough to seat
?, 500 persons. The kitchens and
bakery are also located in the build
ing, and provision has been made for
the installation at an early date of a
complete refrigerating plant. The
building is 225 feet long by I68 feet
wide. 1t occupies about half an acre
of ground. It's cost, in all particulars,
has not been far from $I75,ooo.
The Washington bee., 1910-07-30

Read The Bee.
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,ciai organ of the Order with. ability
and fairness. He has been in no quar-
rels with his editorial brethren and
has the goodwill and esteem of them
all His administration of the busi-
ness affairs of his Office has been a
success. He has paid his own salary
and all expenses of the printlng-plant
out of his earnings. The Order in
vested $4,000 in machinery, etc, and
to this has been added from the earn
ings of the printing-plant $500 in
type, metal, folding and linotype ma
chimes. And all this with the Lodges
and Households owing the department
$4,000 for subscriptions.
On coming to Philadelphia, Mr. As
bury at once became an active and
leading figure in religious, fraternal
and business life. He is chairman of
the Board of Trustees of the Union
Baptist Church, the church having the
largest membership of that denomina-
ton in Philadelphia; was for nine
years superintendent of the Sunday
school, and is Director of the Mercy
Hospital and School for Nurses He
is a director of the Star Savings Bank,
president of the Keystone Aid Society,
one of the leading sick, accident and
death benefit societies in America; the
president and organizer of the Eden
Cemetery Company, which owns and
conducts what is believed 10 be the
most beautiful and best-kept cemetery
for colored people in the United
States. Mr.. Asbury is active in many
other fraternal and benevolent organ
izations. He has is Philadelphia, as in
Virginia, interested himself in all
movements for the advancement of
the race His long and active career
in the Grand United Order of Odd
Fellows, his large experience in pub
The Washington bee., 1910-07-30

addresses Sunday, and Bishop Robert
Strange. of the Eastern Diocese OF
Carolina of the Episcopal Church, de-
livered strong address Monday
night.
DIR. NJ. w. Gilbert. of New York;
DIR. Iohn E. Ford, of Jacksonville,
Fla. and Archdeacon George w.
Avant. Newbern, n. C., continue their
instruction in religious work. The
commercial work, under Prof w. P.
Smith, of Lynchburg, Va, and the
musical work, under the direction Of
Prof. F. A. Clark, deserve special
mention.
The Washington bee., 1910-07-30
OPPOSED To McKINLY
ORGANIZING AGAINST Nc
KINLAY.
The President May Not Appoint Him.
Opposition Growing.

To the regret of the friends of
Whitfield McKinlay there is an
under6ght being made against him.
1t is reported that President Taft may
not appoint him, on account of the
growing opposition to him. President
Taft, it is said, has received a set
of charges. Just how much truth
vised. The Bee does know, however,
that at least 80 cOlored men have writ
ten letters against him. and charges
will be preferred to 1he President
against him. Just what weight they
will have on the President, develop
ments can only tell On the other
hand, the friends Of NcKinlay arJ
working to convince the President
that he is the right man to appoint.
The Washington bee., 1910-07-30

The National Religious Training
School, Durham, N. c., offers an un-
usually strong course for young men
who are preparing to enter the Chris
tian ministry There IS always an iu-
viting field for the trained minister.
Lectures by distinguished men will
be delivered throughout the entire
course. 1t will be thorough in every
particular 1t will seek to combine
the cardinal principles of religion and
work
One hundred young men are de-
sired to enter this particular depart
ment
The regular school term opens Oc-
tober II, 1910.
All applications for admission must
be made by September IS, 1910.
For further information address the
President. National Religious Training
School, Durham, n. c.
The Washington bee., 1910-07-30
Welcome Address Delivered by Ralph

partment, to the Improved, Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks
of the World, Tuesday, July 20.
Mr.. Chairman and Members of the
Eleventh Annual Convention of the
Improved, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks of the World: l have
been asked to welcome you Elks to
Washington. To my mind, this is an
honored, but superfluous task. Su-
pertluouS for the reason that of all fra
ternal, social or benevolent organiza-
tions your Order is the one that does
not need to be extended a welcome.
Elks are always welcome, because
they bring with them the sunshine of
good cheer, and radiate wherever they
enter the feeling of reciprocal joy.
And when they depart they leave be-
hind a deep sense Of gratitude, on
the part of all citizens, for their COM
ing. Your Order, whose mission in
life is to comfort the grief-stricken
with tangible evidences of real, sub
stantial comforts; your Order, whose
mission in life is to provide for and
protect your needy brothers and their
families, and to inoCulate each 9th
er, while in life, with the healthy virus
of good cheer and brotherly feeling,
will find a spontaneous and lasting
The Washington bee., 1910-07-30
Bio Meeting.

The big meeting next Monday night
at Galbraith Church will be one Of the
largest that has ever been held in this
city. Besides the address of DR. Cor
rothers, other eminent men VIII speak
The Washington bee., 1910-07-30
Get a House.

IF you want a well-erected house IN
Virginia at a rent purchase, look else
'Ehere in The Bee. Don't miss the op-
portunity. Purchase at once.
The Washington bee., 1910-07-30
GRAND MAS
TER ASBURY
VIRGINIA ODD FELLOWS

Support 7. c. Asbury for Grand Mas
ter-Point with Pride to Splendid
Record and Fitness-Most Powerful
Fraternal Order in America-Only
,,- IN D ooo mn Can Reach Top.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26
POISON IN FLOWERS.
Dainty and Beautiful Blossoms in
Which Turks Death.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
When the good frar in Romeo and
Juliet reflected upon the properties OF
the simple flower within whose infant
rfnd poison hath residence and medicine
power his observation embraced a good
ly category of well known flowers whose
poisons.
For instance. the laburnum, which has
been compared to a fountain of gold
aping into the sun-a most charming
Sights one of the most poisonous things
Imaginable. inasmuch as it is poison In
leaf and flower and seed. Even the grass
growing beneath it is poisonous by rea-
son of it's proximity TO the innocent
looking blossoms overhead, and it has
been found necessary to guard against
cattle eating this grass for fear Of fatal
results.
The bulbs of such dainty and beautiful
flowers as the narcissus. hyacinth, jon
quill and snowdrOp secrete the most
deadly poSOnS not to speak of the Oxalis.
the monkshood and the foxglove, all of
which furnish noXious liquors sufficient
to destroy life.
crocuses, the lovely lady's slipper, the
quaint old jack-in-the-pulpit and the
laughing little buttercup The latter.
| despite it's most innocent appearance,
is one of the worst of the poisonous flow
ers. Even the COW Is aware of that and
carefully avoids It. The cousins of the
buttercups, the peonies, the larkspurs and
| the rest, all contain toxic fluids.
Another source of deadly poison is the
oleander three, while the bark of the SUI
perb catalpa tree contains many deadly
doses
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who come in search of this information

who come in search of this information
the page from Michigan has this to say:
'"rhey ask me where the whispering
stones are, and after l show them and
they are standing on them they begin to
talk in a voice you could hear block
away Hear them! Why even when
there's a lot of racket going on everybody
the reception room and talk about how
| 'won-n-derfur it is.
At this point the other page came back
from seeking a congressman
"You know sometimes we have trouble
about the pronunciation of the congress
mans names. One lady asked me to take
her card to Mr.. Coudry. She pronounced
it "CoWdry," but l knew whom she meant
and went after him. 1t happened he was
out, and, forgetting how she mad pro-
nounced the name, 1 said. Mr.. Coudry is
not on the floor" / pronounced 1t as we
always do, as If it were 'Coodry.' Then
she got indignant.
g I didn't say "Coodry." l want~to see
Mr. "Cowdry'' and l said so plainly
enough Even when l explained she she
would not believe that they were the
same
Then the other page Clipped in.
Il came near getting fired the other
day too Il met a lady just outside the
House door She asked me to take a
card in, and as I had to deliver an answer
to another I told her / would If she
would return to the ladies' reception room.
WelN she didn't wait for anything more.
Called me all kinds of names. and finally
said that if I didn't watch out she would
have my job taken away and given to
Massachusetts boy. l might nave thought
il really was my fault if she hadn't had
the same kind of a quarrel with half a
dozen other of the boys around here.
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FRIEND OF GREAT WRITERS.
Memories of Campbell and Words.
worth, Scott and Carlyle.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
| In the clustered quiet of the Charter
house there is living today a delightful
iIittle old gentleman who is taking a keen
interest in the present endeavors To cele-
brate the memory of the great poets that
are gone. This is Mr.. Frances Espinasse.
one of the brethren of the famous hostel.
and in his younger days an author and
journalist of no mean repute Mr.. Espi-
| nasse, in his eighty-seventh year, can
| throw his memory back to days when he
talked with Wordsworth and dined with
Thomas Campbell and saw Sir Walter
Scott driving out from Abbotsford.
Moreover as the friend and helper of
Carlyle in his earlier working years, Mr..
Espinasse is probably the last survivor of
the real ntimateS of the famous Chelsea
circle.
AS for Mr.. Espinasse's earliest MEM
cries. it is hardly believable that one
should find today in the heart of London
almost first hand link with Burns. Such.
however, is MI Espinasse When he was
a boy in Edinburgh there was still living
there an old lady Of eighty-two. Mrs. Nc
Lehose once the famous "Clarinda to
whom Burns made such desperate love.
There was also a certain Mrs. Cumming
of Logic, genial old Scottish dame"
and friend of the family. This Mrs.
Cumming had been in her young days
who ..gaed DER the border and took
Burns heart with her
1T was when 1 was at school at Mel
rose continued Mr.. Espinasse. that
saw Scott. He was driving in carriage
"a silver-haired old gentleman-witn a
little boy riding pony at his side. The
little boy was Hugh Littlejohn, for whom
Tales of a Grandfather were written.
remember how / envied him.
Another of my boyhoods memories
at Edinburgh-was the poet Campbell
He was being feted in the town, and
friend of my fathers got permission for
me to be allowed in with the dessert He
was a dapper, jolly little fellow-none
too sober toward the end of the evening
and some of the Kirk ministers were
very shocked at his stories. friend OF
my fathers too. was Lord Jeffrey OF the
Edinburgh Review. l was presented TO
him. and invited TO breakfast at his
beautiful house at Craignook. l remem-
Der he had wonderfully brilliant, piercing
eyes.
But of those early years my most
treasured memory is a visit ] paid to
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Wordsworth at Rydal Mount | was
spending my holidays at Kendall. Ate.
a long post-chaise journey and a walk OF
ffteen OF sixteen miles, / arrived at the
cottage about dusk. and found both the
poet and his wife sitting half asleep in
the little parlor. They had been fore
warned of my coming by relative and
We're very kind to me. Wordsworth him
the garden.
He was nearly seventy, but a fire
figure of a man-taIl upright and stall
wart still. He had huge nose, and his
| lace was not nearly so refined "a | shouI d
have thought Altogether he gave one
the Impression of a farmer rather than
of poet"
1t was through his connection with the
british Museum Library that Mr.. Es-
plnasSe was able TO be of especial heIp
To Carlyle over the Cromwell letters but
his acquaintanceship with the Sage of
Chelsea began long before and continued
long after. Afterward Mr.. Espinasse be
came constant visitor at Cheyne Walk
Despite many faults and inconsisten-
cies, said Mr.. Espinasse, you could
never get away from Carlyle's greatness
and overwhelming energy of mind. | can
see him now in his old brown dressing
gown sitting on a footstool on the hearth
rug. blowing the smoke from his clay
pipe up the chimney-so to keep the
room sweet-aand delivering monologlie
on Cromwell or some other all-absorbinS
subject in that strong Scotch accent Of
his. Mrs. Carlyle would sit in silence
she had heard il all before. If he be-
came Very fierce she would say, Don
be angry with Mr.. Espinasse. He is not
to blame.
He had no amuSements. He was al
ways writing. talking or reading, with
pencil in hand. AS TO the troubles be-
tween the pair, they were at least as
happy they-or any one-could have
expected. OF course, Mrs. Carlyle want
ed and deserved to be something more
than merely 'Carlyle'S Wife She was a
brilliant conversationalist, but never had
a chance except when he was away. 1t
was perhaps a little significant that once
when / asked Mrs. Carlyle, who mad
pretty voice, to sing Aud Robin Gray
she delicately refused for an unspoken
reason"
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Congressional Pages Have
Troubles of Their Own

THE last days of Congress are always
busy ones, not only for the congress
men, but also for those whose du-
ties lie in and around the Capitol. Not
least among those who share the burden
of work are the two pages whose duty 1t
is to carry cards from the ladies' recep-
ton room to members Of the House of
Representatives. That forms their chief
duty, but the actual work which they are
called upon to do covers a much larger
field. including the role Of information
bureau, conffdante. sympatflizer, philoso-
pher and friend, besides the more uncon-
genial roles OF detective. guide and last
but by no means least official go-between
The stories that these two pages, one
from Michigan and the other from New
York. tell are many and varied, but eacn
shows clearly that while his position may
seem superticially one of ease and en-
trouble confined to the building in which
they work. When the subject of the
trials and tribulations of page was
preached one Of them replied. In one
sweeping sentence he generalizeds the
women whom he came in contact:
Every woman who comes here has
claim against the government. If there
are any who haven't they are so scarce
that they don't count. 1 see SO many peo-
pie coming here with claims that it makes
me wonder If some of my ancestors didn't
lose something. Even if it is nothing but
an old horse they come here about it.
All the horses that were ever killed were
thoroughbreds.
There are lots Of funny things happen
here, things that make me laugh for
days after. One lady came in a few days
ago and sat down without saying any
thing to either of us. I thought she was
waiting for friend. SO didn't bother
Finally. however. l went up to her and
asked If she wanted to send her card to
any one. She asked me timidly how she
did It. 1 tried to tell her without laugh
ing and held out my hand for her card
She paused a moment, and then inquired:
How much does it cost?' There may
have been nothing funny in that, but the
thought of our charging to take the cards
n just struck me-
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Right Before Hulda.
From the Newark News.

From The NeWHrk NEWS.
A Montclair family rented their home
furnished last winter and went to Flor
ida. Included among the housefurnlsb
ings was Hulda Swenson. faithful do
nestle servant.
When The FANNY returned last month
Hulda met them with terrible tale to
tell.
.tOh, Mrs Smith, you don't know the
awful thing those people did, che eX-
claimed 1.-The lady she got bad cough
and the doctor he tell her to soak her
feet. and she use you big soup kettle,
ma ann"