The Washington bee., 1909-08-07

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white philanthropist. left $1,000 in
her will to her colored maid, Miss
Sophia Queen. OF Boston, now an
evangelist. Miss Queen says it is a
gift from God.
According to the decision render
&C by Judge Grammar, it is the priv
ilege of any white man to strike
Negro. This is an insult to the
100000 of colored citizens OF this
country Now we look to the leaders
of our race for advice. Where are
they, and what advice will they give?
The Tenth Cavalary was given a
tremendous welcome in New York.
Even Wall street suspended her
business to welcome the black
heroes.
Rev. ]. G. Butler, the venerable
pastor and founder of the Luther
Place Memorial Church, died in this
city August I, last. DR.. Butler be-
longed to the old class of this city.
He has been a pastor here for sixty
years. He was a strong Union man
and a great friend of the colored
race. For nearly thirty years he
was professor of homiletics and
church history at Howard Univer-
sity. The death of DR.. Butler has
deprived the colored race of
staunCh friend whose place can not
be filled.
1t is said that boys in their teens
should be taught by men teachers and
rot surfeited with femininity.
The post office at Niles, Ohio. was
entered by robbers and $I34.oo in
cash was taken and 10000 in
stamps. The robbers gained entrance
by use of skeleton keys.
During the months of June and
July, night school has been in session
sion at Tuskegee Institute for the
benefit of 500 students who remain
ed at the school during the summer.
The attendance to the night school
was voluntary, yet the enrolment
was 49I.
The largest pipe organ in the
world was erected by a Los Angeles,
California firm at a cost of $4,000,
and has been purchased by John
Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, who will have it placed in
his big department store It is said
the organ is so large that a pony
can be ridden through its largest
pipes, and it will require ten freight
cars to remove it to Philadelphia.
Mrs. T. z. Peterson, of Texar-
kama, Texas, has been promoted to
the position of National Superinten-
dent for work among the colored
people of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. This position
was formerly held by Mrs. Lucy T.
Thurman.
]. c. Manning, Editor of the
Southern American, Alexander City,
Alabama, declares there are $4,000
white children growing up in Ala
bama without receiving the least bit
OF education, and that the would-be-
are too busy trying to-
keep the Negro down to attend to-
their education
The Board of Education of New
York, does not intend that the color
line shall be shown there. Mr.. Viii
liam L. Buckley, colored, has been
placed as principal of one of the
schools, although over one half Of
the teachers protested against work
ing under a Negro principal.
1t is said a petition requesting the
of Negro mail clerks
was posted in the Union Station,
mail clerks Office, where several of
the clerks whose homes are in the
South, could sign. 1t bore several
names and each day more were add
E d. The petition, it is said, request
ed that Negro clerks be used only
on certain trains apart from white
clerks. However, it was not sane
toned by the Railway Postal Clerks
Association, which admits Negro
clerks to membership.
The latest invention is the window