The Washington bee., 1910-09-03
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Mrs. G. B. Maxheld.)

visit England Scotland, Denmark,
Germany Austria, ROumania, Bulga-
ria, the Turkish Empire and Italy. 1t
will be his purpose while visiting these
points to gain information regarding
agricultural and labor conditions.
Five millions of the new ten cent
postal saving stamps have been COM
pleted by the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing
Howard University Is regarded as
the foremost colored university in the
United States; their graduates num-
Der 5000; more than 1000 students
represent IS States. They have be
come dominant factors in the uplift
of the race
A new form of money order has
been adopted by which the postOfice
expects to save annually 100000. 1t
Is to be similar to a bank check.
BOley, Oklahoma, IS composed al
most entirely Of Negroes. They are
said to be progressive, and are dem
Onstrating the capacity of Negro self
government Prof ]. r. Reynolds
has installed an electric lighting plant,
which will light up the town, business
houses and a number of residences,
all done by cOlored Americans Are
we progressing?
By the death of Mrs Flora l. Dot
ger. who died in Orange. n. J., ST.
100000, which Is the bulk of her es-
tate, will go to Tuskegee Institute.
The German Hospital of Philadelphia,
will receive $4,000.
Official statistics show that the num-
Der of marriages which have been dis
solved has more than doubled in the
last twenty years. The figures for
1909 are the highest on record.
Herman de Lagercrantz, the SWed-
sh minister to the United States, has
been recalled. Mr.. De Lagercrantz
was appointed in January, 1907.
President Taft, at the home OF Mrs.
Robert S. Bradley, where a meeting
of the trustees of Hampton Institute
was in session, delivered an address
OH Negro education, and pleaded for
more liberal financial assistance for
schools like Hampton and Tuskegee,
and their offspring.
Prof. w. A Joiner, of Howard
University, has been elected superln-
tendent of the Normal and Industrial
Department of WilberforCe University,
at Wilberforce. Ohio. For six years
| Prof. Joiner has been superintendent
of methods and school management
at Howard University.
There is a project on foot to build
an imposing tower at Princeton Uni
versity to cost about 100000 as The
Nations memorial in perpetuatlOn Of
| the memory of Grover Cleveland"
Five hundred feet high and a mile
away, Aviator McCurdy sent the first
wireless message from his aeroplane,
and in McCurdyS own words, adds
another chapter in aerial achieve
ment."
Preparations are being made by the
| War Department to issue the new
| Springfield rifles to replace the krag-
, Jorgensens now in use by the Navy.
. The Association for the Advance
ment Of the COlored People, of which
DR.. w. E. B. Dubois has assumed
, duties as secretary, will issue a maga-
zine known as the Crisis to be IS
sued monthly, beginning with Septem-
Der.
Mr.. Andrew NJ. Moore, Of Savan-
nah, Ga, has the distinction of being
the only cOlOred clerk in a white bank
in the South This bank is the First
Southern National Bank of Savannah,
Ga.
Rev. DR.. ]. Milton Waldron deliver
ed d special sermon in honor OF the
IN. NJ. A., which held its twelfth an
nual session in this city last week.
The sermon was timely, as well as in
teresting.
| According to the statistical report
lust published by Lloyd's Register,
England, lost, broke up, or condemned
l866 vessels during the year of 1000.
| Official statistics show that the pop
lulatiOn of Germany now number o.
Iz5o.OoO, and at the present rate OF IN
crease it will be fully 65,oOo,ooO when
the next census is taken, on December
I, of this year.
A month of Saturday half holidays
remains for the Government en-
ployes of this city. Not until Satur-
day, October I, will the usual routine
of al1-day work begin
Madam Lucy NJ. Holmes, a blind
musical artist, Of Clay Center, Kansas,
lis developing iuto one of the greatest
musical prodiglcs of the cOlOred Amer
Iican race
Crippen and Clare Leneve have been
returned to England The woman de-
clared that she is innocent
Timothy L. Woodruff, the New
York Republican leader, IS in the
light to stay. Messrs. Barnes and
Merritt may lose their jobs.
Japan has seized Korea and now It
lis a Japanese territory. The spirit OF
revenge still remains with Korea.
President Taft has decided to speak.
He wants a reunited party. He hasn't
asked the colored American to help
{ him.
The colored people of Texas have
decided to appeal to the conscience of
the Nation
. A learned scientist in the Literary
Digest says that there is a limit to
T space as there is to the earth.
Howard University has lost two of
: its most able professors-Cook and
IJOiner.
}. Prof. Kelly Miller made a great
speech in New York few days ago.
, DR.. Booker T. Washington, who
r left the country last week, will create
sentiment for the colored American