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as a protection against the pirates; of
the massive timbers, 10x10 inches and
40 feet in length. used in the construc-
ton of the mission, timbers that were
brought 100 miles across the deserts
and over the mountains on the backs
of Indians: of the tunnel extending un-
der the mission building down the hill
and out under the meadow to con-
cealed spring; of it's adobe walls five
feet in thickness and 40 high; of its
old mission bells; of the dear old padre
who showed us all. over the place, and
had such fearful time trying to pro-
nounce the word shrine-"shine'' was
the nearest he could get to save his
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Jill NJ. Cressy. And 1 would be Blanche
Dayne's husband" And we would be
playing The Jyoming Jhoop." No
wonder the Spaniards got licked; If an
officer sent out a written order the SOL
diers wouldn't know whether to
Jump" hump" or "wump."
We certainly caught fish at Coronado;
73 barracuda and bonita in one day
isn't so bad for two people.
Leaving, reluctantly we started on
the most fascinating part of our entire
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-17
By Will NJ. Cressy.


MA The linotype man can set
that up IN type just as big or
Just as black as he wants to
We have suspected as much for sew
eral years, but as the orpheum circuit
has confined our field Of endeavors to
San Francisco and Los Angeles, VIC
have never had chance to prove
X ourselves. When Mr.. MeyerfeId
came to US and wanted to engage us
tor the next three years for his houses
We accepted on condition that he allow
US TO take our summer vacation out
mere on the coast Then we shipped
our big touring car out from New
Hampshire and were ready to find out
just what kind OF a country California
really is.
We certainly did see it. from Tia
Juana, Mexico, TO Lake Tahoe; from the
desert TO the sea; from 80 feet below
the level OF the sea to 400 feet above.
We have been where the thermometer
was l25 degrees above zero, and we
have been in the eternal SHOWS of the
mountains
OF course, in little "one act" story
Ike this, 1 can not go into particu-
lars very much; can only hit the
high places" And from our collection
OF over $50 photographs which we took
Take map and follow out our route
and YOU viii get some idea of the won
derful variety OF country we saw on
our 5000 mile trip.
Starting from Los Angeles we made
our way south through Pasadena and
Pomona TO Riverside. A day and
night were spent there at the quaint
inn with its treasure Of old mission
furnishings and architecture; thence
we went up what Is considered the best
specimen OF mountain road building
IN the world to the top of Rubidoux
mountains; 80 miles through its wide
shaded streets bordered with orange
groves dotted here and there with hun
dreds of charming homes embowered
amid palms and roses.
And the next day on back into the
Interior through Elsinor, with its
beautiful little lake: through Temecula,
where we bade goodby to the railroad,
and 40 miles still farther back across
the desert. 30 miles with the thermom-
eter standing that day at 125 degrees:
where the metal on the car got so hot
that we could not touch it; where not
only the water in the radiator boiled,
but the oil in the transmission case
boiled until It oozed out around the
shaft in a brown froth.
At the end Of the desert came the
foothills; then the cool, green meadows,
the running brooks, and the green
trees; and across these we found the
spot we had come all these miles to
see. Warmers hot springs. We came
TO stay q day; we STAYED a week II
we had had the time we would have
stayed a month. For one who loves
nature I can conceive no spot on earth
nearer to the real. true, unadorned,
primitive world than this place Nes-
tling at the foot of the mountains,
through which wind countless trails
and paths leading to all sorts of charm
Ing hooks and corners; looking out for
miles across green mea doWs, dotted
here and there with little emerald
lakes; with clear skies and a warm sun
above you, and a cooling breeze al
ways blowing down from the noun
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At San Jose (another crazy "J";
this one is an "H) we babe goodby
to Ell Camino Real. and struck OF to
the northward through Stockton and
Sacramento and got benighted at Fol-
som. (Of course we were lucky TO be
"benighted' but one night there; lots
Of folks get "benighted" there for
years; but they didn't know US. so we
got out with only one night. One was
enough. We had a four bit room too;
could have got one for two bits. but
we were on our vacation and didn't
care what we spent; we ate at The
Commercial Table too)
The national forum., 1910-07-09
BILLS oE TAET ON cALENDAR FOR NEXT SESSION

Washington, D. C.--The fragments
of the Taft legislative program which
failed Of Congressional enactment at
the session just ended have been
packed in moth balls for preservation
until next winter. The calendar as
already framed UP includes these
measures;
To create the Appalachian and
White Mountain forest reserve,
To build up the merchant marine
BY system Of ship subsidies.
10 regulate the granting of injunc-
tious.
To permit the Federal incorpora-
ton of railroads and other common
carriers.
To regulate the issue of stocks and
bonds Of transportation companies.
The enactment of additional con-
servation measures. eight bills re-
naming without action
To establish bureau of public
health.
To encourage the study of agricul-
ture and the mechanical arts, for
The national forum., 1910-07-09
THE RIOT ON THE AVENUE.

| saw most all of the rioting on the
Avenue last Monday night, and had eX-
pected to write up that happening, but
after looking over my notes | find that
it will take about four pages to do
Justice to the subject, and 1 fear that
would be tiresome in weekly, such AS
ours. That reminds me, in conversation
with Greek friend of mine, he men
toned that there are two Greek daily
papers published in New York and that
there are about three hundred thousand
Greeks in the United States. Do we need
Negro daily as badly as the Greeks need
Greek daily? You ask, of course, why
don't we make the Forum daily? Be
cause, good friends, subscriptions, adver-
tisements and money for the same, are
as hard to get as the good back teeth of
a hungry grown, grizzly bear.
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HOW LAWMAKERS SPENT MONEY.
ais ~. 298l853 $9lelOlA9 $024D058 s27 7896OOG

Washington, u. C.-Democratic
contention Congress at the session
just closed again passed the billion
Isdoliar hi8h-water Inerl -.- X,
Republican contention: Actual
probable fixed charge against re ZEN
ues during the fiscal year 1911, $685.
120,761.
Both parties agree: Appropria-
tions for expenses of the Government
made during the past session aggre-
gate $1,027, ,133,446.
These contentious epitomize the an
nual review of national aDpropria-
tions and expenditures, made public
by Chairman Tawney, of the Appro-
priations Committee of the House,
and Representative Livingston, of
Georgia, ranking Democratic member
of that committee. Tawney's fixed
charge statement is based on deduct
ing from the aggregate the authoriza-
tions which carry no appropriations;
Panama Canal cost, which bond sales
will pay for; the 100000 for rec
lamation projects, which an issue of
Indebtedness certificates will cover,
and deficiency appropriations and
miscellaneous acts FOR payment OF
claims and other special matters ex-
pendable the present fiscal year in
stead of the next.
Tawney asserted that a summary of
the constructive legislation of the first
regular session of the Sixty-frst Con-
gress constitutes record of accom-
plishment surprising in Importance
any previous session in the history of
Congress. Livingston denounced
what he called large increase on ac-
count of public expenditures, an in
crease of the public debt, half bill
ion dollars, spent for militarism, and
the treasury drained for Army and
Navy"
Tawney said there was a substan-
tial reduction in the current military
expenses, while Livingston asserted
that under the reclamation issue and
naval appropriations I'VE have pol
icy that stands for interest bearing
bonds issued against the humble
homes of the settlers and the lavish
handing out of millions upon tens of
millions Of dollars, raised by onerous
taxation to satisfy the greed of ship
builders and armor plate contractors,
The national forum., 1910-07-09
The Smelling Bee.

While not implying that the In
dianians are bad spoilers, the state
superintendent of public instruction
believes their spelling can be consid-
erably improved, and with that OBJ
iect in view he has ordered the res
toration of the oldfashioned spelling
bee in all public schools in the state.
He holds, and many will agree with
him, that the best practice in spell
ing was that obtained by the old
method of competitive matches un.
der which pupils once a week or
oftener chose sides and engaged in
an open battle of spelling down."
Tens of thousands of grown ups"
who cherish tender memories Of
such contests in their youthful days
will unite in the hope that the In
diana venture may be completely
successful. incidentally the public
may reasonably expect an improve
ment in Indiana spelling.
The national forum., 1910-07-09

years has supplied the fuel for that
Church will give their trolley ride to
Laurel, Md, Thursday, August 4th. The
club has great success with these trolley
rides, having given them for six years,
four to Laurel, Md, and two to Tenley-
town.
MIR. +. ID. Nicol, of Sunderland, Eng
land, who is visiting America and Can
ada for business and pleasure, was in
Washington last Sunday and attended
services at Ebenezer NJ L. Church and
heard Rev. s. H. Browne, the pastor, de-
liver most excellent sermon to the
ladies of the II. II. of Ruth. Mr., Browne
then invited Mr.. Nicol to speak to the
congregation, which he did in eloquent
and appropriate manner, Mr.. Nicol said
that this was the first time he had had
the pleasure of addressing an audience,
of colored people and he was much
pleased by the attention and apprecia-
tion his remarks received, and would go
home with many pleasant memories of
this church and the people therein.
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which an appropriation of $4,000, 1000
is proposed.
A civil government for Alaska.
Modification Of the Sherman Anti :
Trust act
Codification of the postal laws ald
reorganization of the postal system
A plan for the retirement of civil
service employees.
To expedite litigation in Federal
courts.
Beyond these there are many minor
matters to come up for action, Among
them are the Rockefeller Foundation
charter and a measure for the regu-
lation OF cold storage. Two impor-
tant investigating committees will
make their reports and possibly a
third one. It is certain the Ballin-
ger-Pinchot committee will report its
findings to Congress and the commit
tee which is to MAKE the inquiry into
the election Of Senator Lorimer will
do likewise. 1t remains to be seen
whether the Gore bribery charge will
develop into a national scandal.
The national forum., 1910-07-09
Car Fares In Three Months.

According to reports submitted to
the Public Service Commission by
the transportation lines Of the city
of New York, residents of the five
boroughs paid $19,2l5,SS1.67 in car
fare during the last three months
of 1903, as against total of ST.
467,17721 during the corresponding
months of 1908. The Interborough
Rapid Transit Company headed the
list with a total operating income on
both subway and elevated $6,97S,51O.-
rs.
The four elevated lines in Manhat-
tan and the Bronx led the single
subway line by only $156,00O during
the three months, The Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company had total
income Of $5135,9O7 during the three
months, and the Metropolitan Com
pany S3,SO2,694 All companies show
ed substantial increases in the mum,
ber of fares collected.
The national forum., 1910-07-09

ture of the human Deing Of the fu-
ture--a creature with helpless paws
instead of hands. That, it is ssid, is
what we are coming to in this age
of machinery, exclaims the New York
Tribune. The things our forefathers
wrought out with their clever fingers
are made in factories now by ma
chimes, and as nature revenges her
self when a member isn't used by
rendering it useless in course of time,
the fate of the human hand appears
fixed. So good an authority as Sir
Frederick Treves, the English ply
sician, declares that people are for
getting how to use their hands, also
that hands are becoming not only
less dextrous but much less beauti.
full than in olden times.
The national forum., 1910-07-09
AMERICA FROM ANOTHER VIEW
POINT.

Another English traveller saw us thus;
"In all my widest dreams for the race,
L had never forseen such wealth, such
freedom, such equality. America is the
land of the common people, as England
is the land of the classes. Better than
the boundless wealth of America, better
than any material benefit she can give is
this sence of manhood and equality that
is all pervading as the air."
Friend, do you realize this, or do you
doubt and falter? 1t is true for you and
for all of our people who will strive for
the fullness of life.
This is how Joseph Burtt, of London,
secs Us, and speaking further says:
"America is producing new type of
woman, who has the learning of the blue
stocking, but who has lost nothing of
her tenderness, and combined with a wide
intellectual outlook and true womanli.
ness, she has the passion for righteous
ness"
Many, very many of these noble women
are our mothers, sisters, friends and
neghbors, and we must not fall behind
the ideals they express in their life and
the aspirations they daily strive to at
tain,
The national forum., 1910-07-09
Our Pensioners.

Colonel w. P. Brownlow, secretary
of the National Soldiers Home, said
at a dinner in Brownsville, Tenn:
"They are great wags, the old
soldiers in our Johnson City home.
1 heard one of them describe the
other day a very fierce and famous
action. Two hundred men had been
pitted against 800, and after the
fighting only sixty brave fellows
thirty on each side-remained alive.
"The old soldier paused solemnly.
"'Of that sixty, boys he said,
there only survive to-day
Overcome, he blew his nose vio-
1ently.
"'There only survive to-day, by
actual statistics, Az. "--LouiCville
Times.
The national forum., 1910-07-09
CoMMENpEn ron HERoIsll.EI

Rear Admiral Nicholson, Acting Sec
retary' of the Navy, through the recon-
mendation of Capt. Alfred Reynolds, has
issued AN order in commendation of
Alexander Bias, of Annapolis, and T. L.
Walker, of Philadelphia, two young col
ored men, stationed on the Receiving Ship
Franklin, at the Norfolk Navy Yard for
the courage and alertness shown by them
in rescuing from drowning, j. c. Lowery,
a mess.mate, who became exhausted while
swimming and sank twice, His cries at
tracted attention of other swimmers, but
before any OF them took action Walker
and Bias plunged from the deck, clothes
and all, and as he sank the third time,
Walker dove under him and brought
him up and Bias carried him to nearby
rowboat.
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and to maintain a national policy OF
pomp and splendor."
Tawney urged abiogation Of the
rule, instituted by La Democratic
House, giving to eight different COM
mittees the power of preparing the
money bills for each Congress and the
adoption of new rule constituting
one committee, large enough to be
representative Of every section, to
have initial control over all appro-
priation bills,
lie supported this by showing that
the Appropriations Committee in the
bills in its jurisdiction cut $16,933,-
925 under the estimates, while the
bill from the seven other committees
exceeded the estimates by $27,931,-
402.
Tawney figured that the total def
ciencies appropriated for at the last
session are less by $7,5S7,654 than
those of the previous session and
$11.S25, 7S9 less than the average an
nual deficiencies since the Spanish
War. Livingston, comparing the four
years of Roosevelt's term with the
last four years of Cleveland's Admin
istration, said there was nearly $4,-
600, 100000 for four years of Repub-
licanism, as compared with less than
half that sum for the same period by
Democratic President"
Tawney contended that a reduction
OF S2S,529,S21 from the last session
Of the SiXtieth Congress had been
achieved. He said that the Admins
tration had rendered Congress mate
rial aid in reducing expenses, and
that wholesome balance between
revenues and expenditures had been
restored, and that prospects indicated
that the Government receipts for the
fiscal year 1911 would exceed the au-
thorized appropriations by $11,937,-
S12.
The Democratic view was that
"again the high-water mark of bill
ion dollars of expenditures is passed."
that including the authorized recla-
nation issue, river and harbor obli-
cations, public buildings authorized,
lighthouses, etc, the total direct and
indirect appropriations for the last
session reached S1,096, 952, ,051, in
creasing the previous regular sessions
appropriations by $15,207,909.
The national forum., 1910-07-09
Was She Logical?

The tall, dark girl who is the
boss's assistant and who looks as if
nectar from a golden goblet were
her accustomed beverage went to the
Office water cooler to quench her
thirst There she found the little
stenographer, sleek OF hair. trim of
waist and plump Of shoulder.
Il think" remarked the bosss as,
sistant. by way of being pleasant,
while she carefully rnsed the drink.
ing utensil, that the Office might
afford a new and unchipped glass for
us, don't you? hate to use this;
it never seems clean"
q don't see" responded the ste
nographer wonderingly, why you
think it isn't clean. Everybody
drinks out of itH-Tip in the New
York Press,
The national forum., 1910-07-09

AMERICANS AND THEIR MANNERS,
An English novelist, writing under the
name of Rita" who had gained high
degree of fame before the day of the best
Sellers" visited New York and Washing
ton short time ago and brought with
her from dear, old London strictly Eng
lish point of view. She could find no one
who was truly American with American
ancestry, racial instincts and habits"
none, but conglomerates and hybrids in
manners and ideals, as well as birth
She found us with base, low points of
view, given to worship of gauds and tin
sci, with garish display worshiped as a
fetish and advertising the be all and end
all of life, to which Nature, art morals
and health are ruthlessly sacrificed. And
mannersl Manners is unthought of, IN
dreamed of--there is no such thing in
America.
can recall ever in my small day when
good manners were considered u very i'm
portant thing. That time is fading fast
away, and if there is a place in this
world where people have worse manners,
I.hope never to see it.
The national forum., 1910-07-09
FIVE KILLED, II HURT IN FIRE.
Explosion If Gas Tank Blots Roof
from Building.

Minneapolis, MINI. Five men were
killed ard eleven injured, two of them
fatally, by an explosion which first
wrecked and then set fire to the sa-
loon Of Edward Bushay, five miles
north of Minneapolis in the Anoka
road. The identified dead are Eugene
Hamlin, Edward Hammish and Chas.
Siggelkow, all residents of Minneapo-
lis. Two bodies remain unidentified.
The national forum., 1910-07-09
Vote For Your FaVOrite Elk

The most popular Elk chosen by the votes Of their friends
and admirers will receive Diamond Elk Charm 1t is beauty.
The Charm will be displayed in the window Of Mr. Calsher
the Jev,eler, 9l7 Penna. Ave, N. W. Go and see it
Cut out this coupon fill it and mail it Vote early
and often Extra copies of the Forum for sale 500 St N
W., Room 2O3, or you order from your stand.
The presentation will be made during the Elk Convention,
July 26 N 28 29 Ten thousand Eks will be in this city at
tending this Convention.
Address National Forum, 900 r ST.. NJ w.
The national forum., 1910-07-09
THE RACE ISSUE.

1t is unfortunately true that the public
pre- yhese United States seem to go
far and fast to drag in the race question
and color difference and in this particular
instance their persistence has shown a
wicked wit and gift that peryaded all
points of view. Now they are back
pedaling, so to speak, How's this;
"Seli-rcsp9cting colored citizens will
dc" 'ss &c ~oi2c tho ,nwisdom Of re
gardinc the victory Of johnson MT Reno
as comforting any honor upon their race,
They must realize that it is discredit
rather than matter of congratulation
that one of their number has proved
himself the greater brute in the profess
sional prize ring Their people are on
The national forum., 1910-07-09
TELEPHONE TRUST FINED.
Mississippi Company Convicted of Try
inc to Shut on Competition.

Water Valley, Miss. The Cumber-
land Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany was found guilty OF violating the
state antitrust law by Judge l, T.
Blount in the Chancery Court, and a
fine OF S115,000 was imposed
The company was charged with en-
tering into q contract with the Oxford
Telephone Companyin Marshall Coun-
ty to shut off competition.
The national forum., 1910-07-09
savages and Talking Machines,

Bishop Stinger, whose field is fal
up in the ice fields of the Yukon, has
many Indians in his diocese, and
while entertaining them with lec-
ture had talking machine as a part
of the lecture equipment. This inter-
ested the aborigines nightly, and one
chief, after listening to it in silence
for awhile, marched up, placed his
hand on the horn and in cultural
notes said: ugh! Canned mani
Boston Record.
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VANI -T-Y FAIR
CONDUCTED BY JOHN II. WILLS.
ba@@a@SsS@

the upward plane of civilization, seeking
and attaining in commendabe measure
the advantages of education and indus
trial training, 1t should be humiliatinq
to them that the discredited profession
of pugilism today finds its most highly
developed exponent in one of their mum.
ber." Evening Star.
Two noble eXponents of the fstic art
met 'in the fifties" for u great battle
and We're unconscious exempars of the
old law of the right of might. One was
an American, the other an Englishman.
Now look at this:
Colored clergymen in Washington yes.
terday afternoon were praying long and
earnestly that the Almighty would give
strength to the arm and weight to the
fist of MIR. John Arthur johnson, then
engaged in fighting the battle of freedom,
progress and uplift in behalf of his race.
In the great Heenan-Sayers fight of fifty
years ago two great Christian nations
recognized that their prestige was at
stake, but we believe there never was a
fight till yesterdays which was prayed
over as an agency for the elevation of a
race-Philadelphia Record.
This fight happened about the time of
"Forty-five, Fifty or Fight" when the
Jingoes, of England, and the braggarts,
OF "the greatest nation in all creation"
We're talking war. Now as to the
preacher who prayed he is the creature of
a degenerate day, for none who pause to
think would select Jack johnson as an
embodiment of the spirit of the "meek
and lowly Jesus"
There are all sides to everything and a
bright side to this fight question as the
following shows:
Gadaooks! 1t makes me sick to think
OF all the wealth | might have won;
] might have banknotes by the peek
And gold and silver by the ton
Today if had had the nerve
To bark to johnson "dope" alone.
| might have owned this blooming town
Had but known Had | but knownl
If | were only half as wise
As some of these L ,told-you-so's,
I'd buy this day handsome yacht,
Also two dozen suits of clothes;
I'd take u trip to Europe too,
And forty friends I'd take along
But ah, alas, | cannot sing
That tuneful old I.told-you song
j. b. N. in Washington Herald,
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JACK JOHNSON.

Now that it is all over we can calm
down and forget it. To me it has been
a settled fact for six years that johnson
was Tie superior man. and when in this
column, June llth, logically presented
the treason for the faith that was in me, r
why sI0hnson was superior, X was greeted
with derision, ! got the "hoarse hoot"
from men who do not believe colored
man can do anything good or great be
cause he is not of the same race as they
are themselves. Let me live in the hope
that this class of colored men can learn
things.