The Washington bee., 1907-06-08
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS.
BY MISS BEATRIZ L. CHASE.

4LS the contract laDOr law uHCOnSt1-
tutional. This decision may produce an
undesirable effect on the South.
/ DR.. Lemuel A. Lewie. a recent grad
uate Of the Medical Department of How
ard University, will locate and practice
dentistry in Columbia, S. c.
While the intelligent Negroes" Of
| Washiugt snton are reaching out to save
The bad Negroes" of other parts, what
5 20 be done for the army of strug-
Cling souls in the District?
The Western Opinion states that the
! Brotherhood Welfare Association enter
tanned at dinner last week ninety hun
CRY tramps of Chicago. The dinner was
served in courses.
Mr.. Vernon is booked to lecture at
Bethel Church, Indianapolis. the 18th
instant
No one has a right tc find fault with
the appointment of Mr.. R. c. Bruce, in
our public schools He is a Wash
ingtonian by birth
Mrs. Anderson, the wife of Mr.. Chas.
J w Anderson, is reported to be improv-
ing from her very recent illness, and it
IS thought that she will be again in
possession of good health.
If a man is intelligent enough to have
suit of clothes fitted and made, he is
intelligent enough to know how to wear
1t. He will hardly wear the vest for
trousers. This may be applied to other
things
Instead of the editors of newspapers
who call themselves Negroes, discussing
measures and plans for the good of all
the people, they take one of their num-
Der for hobby and try to tear him
into fragments.
The funeral Of Mrs. Julia A Mat
thews, who was stricken with paralysis,
took place from Allen A. NJ E. Church,
Baltimore last week.
Rev J. E. Nichols, a graduate of
Howard University, is meeting with the
approval of his church in Chester, Fa.
Mrs. Lillian w. Derrick, who was
buried last week in Philadelphia, was
born in Virginia and was married to
Bishop Derrick in 1870
Can any say that the discrimination
against the Jews is on account of their
color? The Jews are fair-skinned
The Department of Commerce and
Labor decides that Japanese cannot be-
come citizens of the United States.
1t is stated that plans for the dedi-
cation of the Mckinley Monument in
West Lawn Cemetery will be completed
at the meeting of the trustees of the
Mckinley National Memorial Associa-
ton in Canton, Ohio, June I9.
F. w HOehn, who was arrested at
Wheeling, W. Va, charged with steal
ing $4,000 from a sister at indianapolis,
has been taken back to Indianapolis
The occupants of the rectory of St.
Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church at
Norfolk, Va, were drugged one night
last week by thieves and robbed of val
has ordered that dark ties and belts must
The Postoffice Department in this city
be worn by letter-carriers who desire
to wear shirt waists.
D. William J. Long, the nature writer,
who, it IS said, was attacked by President
Roosevelt in the June issue of Every
body's Magazine, has given out a reply
Ito Mr.. Roosevelt's criticism.
A fire which originated on the White
Star Line steamer Oceanic, New York,
did much damage.
The total receipts of the Government
for the month of May were $57,488,oI2
and the expenditures $48oI2,8 300, leav-
ing a surplus for the month of S.
57s,2I2.
The statue of Jefferson Davis was
unveiled last Monday at Richmond, Va.
Ten persons were injured in an ele-
vator at the plant of the Goodyear Tire
Company, at Akron, Ohio, this week.
The cable ropes which supported the ele-
vator broke, causing the elevator to drop
two stories.
Miss Exine Fuller. bookkeeper for a
mining company at Colorado Springs,
Colo, who was sent to jail last Satur-
day because she refused 10 tell the hid
ing place Of the firms books, has been
released. Her father found the books
and turned them over to the company.
At the request of Gen. Stephen D.
Lee all trains on the Atlanta and West
Point Railroat were stopped last Monday
afternoon for FIVE minutes in honor of
the unwilling of the Jefferson Davis
Monument
1t is stated at the Agricultural De-
partment that the hearings before the
Board of Food and Drug Inspection,
which are being held from time to time,
will be public, with a few exceptions.
Mayor Busse declined point-blank to
close the saloons of Chicago on Sum
days. He says the people want them
open.