The Washington bee., 1908-10-10
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS

ldhS TIC stump III the interest OF MI.
Taft, is being denied.
The New York Transcript says that
the violinist, Herr Julius FaIk, at his
first concert in the United States,
October IS, will use the finest Stra-
divarius violin now in existence. Herr
Falk paid $4,000 for the violin.
From present indications the coli
ored citizens OF South Carolina will
hold their State Fair in Columbia,
Nov. 9-I3.
The Bakers convention opened in
this city last Monday morning. COM
missioner H. B. F. Macfarland well
coined the members to our city.
Rev. John Reid Shannon, the sue
cessor of Rev. Bristol, recently elected
Bisop of the Me. connection, preach
ed his first sermon last Sunday morn
ing as pastor of the Metropolitan
Church.
The National Peace Congress will
meet in Greensboro, N. c., October
II to 10. There are to be legislative,
judicial, educational and commercial
sessions.
Mary Johnson is the name given
by woman at Ellis Island, n. Y. She
has been wearing a moustache and
dressing in male attire, and selling
books for a living for over ffteeu
years.
Very little is heard concerning the
Colored w. c. T. u, since its with
drawal from the white.
The 34th annual convention of the
w. c. T. u, was held in Douglass
Memorial church, on the 9TH and StR
instant.
Bishop J. w. Smith, who has been
travelling through many states, has
returned to the city. He has been
/ away IOI sever di weeks.
At a meeting of the Woman's In-
terdenominationa Missionary Union,
last Monday, it was decided to re-
quest Congress, through the Commits
sioners, to make a law against the
employment of girls or women in any
kind of liquor establishment in the
District of Columbia.
On last Saturday the u. S. Patent
office issued its nine hundred thou
sandth patent. It was for improved
travelling stairs.
Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Bryan were
guests of the Chicago Chamber of
Commerce last Wednesday night.
The Board of Education will ask
that Congress appropriate 81, 73o,34o
to cover the needs of the public
schools for the fiscal year beginning
July I, 1909.
The immigration officials at Ellis
Island allowed Mary Johnson to con-
tinue her journey in mems clothing
under her assumed name, Frank
Woodruff.
Rev. w. L. Taylor, of the True
Reformers organization, and lawyer
J. c. Robertson, both of Richmond,
Va, spoke last Tuesday night at True
Reformers Hall.
HON. GEORGE B. CORTELYOU.
The man to whom the American
people are indebted for the success.
full conduct of their financial policy, is
Hon. George Bird Cortelyou, secre-
tary of the Treasury. Mr.. Cortelyou
came to the relief of the American
people at a time when they needed
help, and at a time the country was
effected by the financial crisis.
There is no American today, more
loved, respected, and honored, than
the present secretary of the Treasury.
Mr.. Cortelyou demonstrated his abil-
ity in the campaign of 1904. That
was campaign that will go down il
history. It was in this campaign that
public men would confer with theic
National chairman, and suggest how
a campaign ought to be conducted
without friction. Mr.. Cortelyou had
the confidence of his chief, the same
as he has today. He has been sue~
cess in every department that he has
had under his supervision. He is the
first and only Cabinet officer to ap-
point a colored American his private
secretary.
The Rev. Robert Morris Kemp. rec
tor of St. Chrysostom Protestant
Episcopal Church of Chicago, has