The Washington bee., 1910-04-23
PARAGRAPH Mis-
By Miss G. B. Maxfield

spindleS. 1t has been seen that the
Negroes receive about 100000 for
their cotton, when if it was manu-
factured they would get 5000, 900.
Watch the Virginians.
Astronomers at the United States
Naval Observatory will begin max
ing a series of photographs of the
HALEY comet.
U. B. Patterson, one of the Dis
trict school teachers, will visit
number of Eastern cities to study in
corrigible and typical school children.
Mr.. Harry o. Hine has requested
the Commissioners to set aside a sum
to dafray his expenses.
The York Tobacco Company EN-
ploys eighty colored women, and so
satisfactory is their work until over a
hundred will now be employed. This
opens up new avenues of labor for
colored women in the& North, where
there have been so few opportuni-
ties of this kind.
AS the result of several meetings
ali the leading and most prominent
colored citizens of North Carolina
have taken steps to establish Re
form School for colored youths for
said State. The movement has the
endorsement of officials of the State
ard is being encouraged by them.
To show that he had no hard feel
ing toward James J. Jeffries, Jack
Johnson sent a telegram wishing JEFF
fries many happy returns of the day,
the occasion being his thirty-ffth
birthday anniversary.
Washington is promised within the
next few years a magnificent build
ing, costing $4,000, 900, to be erected
in commemoration of the first Presi-
dent
According to one of our exchang
es, in the State of South Carolina
it is estimated that the Negroes out
number the whites three to two, yet
according to the criminal statistics the
larger number of murders and helm
Gus crimes of that State are com
mitted by the whites.
An American pearl, weighing I67
grains, has arrived in New York from
White River, Ark 1t is said to BE-
the largest fresh-water pearl ever
seen in this country. 1t is valued at
SEQ, 900 by Maiden Lane appraisers.
King Frederick of Denmark declar-
ed that the United States is the mod
el of all nations. Wonder does his
Highness ever read any American
papersS in which lynchings, etc, are
published.
Only eight girls of graduating
class of 226 members at Wellesley
College intend to become wives. The
others intend to follow different pro-
fessions.
DR.. D. w. Porter, of Sherman,
Texas; w. F. Smith, of Dallas, and
Z. Lawrence, of Galveston, compose
a syndicate that has purchased 43o,-
600 acres of land in the State of Ia
basco, Mexico, for the purpose of
colonizing it with Texas and Louisi-
ana Negroes.
George W.. Scott, colored, won the
second prize in the recent oratorical
contest at the Columbia College, n.
Y, and Dixon Fox, a Southerner,
won the first prize.
1t is said that Col. H. A. Rucker
has not been removed from office as
Collector at Atlanta, Ga, as was
stated, but it is the intention of the
Administration to remove him.
Hampton Normal Institute is nam
ed as one of the residuary legatees IN
the will of the late Miss Martha
Hunt, and Tuskegee Institute is be-
queathed $4,000.
Only one Negro is Cleveland, o.,
has remained in the services of the
street railway service. There has
been a wholesale dismissal of color
ed conductors and motOrmen.
As a result of the meeting held at
the residence of Mrs. Wadsworth,
in the interest of the Co1ored Social
Settlement, $1,000 has been received
from Mrs. John Hay.