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1. CODY HOSPITAL CORPS, MACON, GA.  

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2. E. D. WILLIAMS' "MOVIE" AT LAS CRUCES, N. MEX. 

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3. NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE ALPHA PHI ALPHA, RICHMOND, VA. 

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4. THE CHAMPION ARMY BASEBALL TEAM, HAWAII. 

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5. A MACHINE GUN DETAIL, WITH PERSHING 

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The Looking Glass

LITERATURE
FROM Solomon T. Plaatje's "Sechuana Proverbs:"
"Can the moon laugh at the sun and say, 'You are white'?"
"O! the trumpets we used to blow."
"We old folk are the real modern people."
"Children converse with God."
"When a clever doctor fails, try one less clever."
"There is no country without its fools."
"Alone I am not strong, but beside a rock I am."

We have received the following collections of poems: "Daddy's Love," by I.W. Underhill, a blind writer of Philadelphia; "Lowly Songs," by C.H.D. Este, of Montreal, Canada; "A White Song and a Black One," by Joseph F. Cotter, of Louisville, Ky,; "Mammy's Cracklin' bread and Other Poems,' by Theodore H. Shackelford, Philadelphia, Pa. 

The New England Baptist Convention continues to issue its excellent annual report on the state of the country. The monthly "Colored Teacher," published at Wilberforce and edited 
by F.A. McGinnis, has much good matter. Dr. S. Brady, of Tuskegee Institute, has issued a pamphlet on "Household Chemistry for Negro Girls." The "Handbook of the A.M.E. Church," compiled by R.C. Ransom and J.R. Hawkins, is an excellent publication and should be in every library. 

The "Life and Times of Booker T. Washington," by B.F. Riley, is the "diplomatic" history of Mr. Washington's life. Nothing of controversy is allowed to appear. Indeed, the account of the Roosevelt luncheon is quite too diplomatic for easy mental consumption:

Washington came at the time named, and while the conversation was in progress the President's luncheon was brought to hid office on a large waiter. Remarking that there was sufficient for both, Mr. Roosevelt offered to share with his caller. 

It is quite needless to say that this account is flatly untrue. Mr. Washington was formally invited to dinner at night and went in full dress.

The Outlook has a picture of Dr. H. B. Frissell of Hampton Institute, in Africa, with this explanation (the italics are ours): 
"While there one of the party noticed that a group of Zulu boys had, without saying anything, and without anything being said to them, without knowing who Dr. Frissell was nor understanding a word of English, but apparently just attracted by his personality as a dog sometimes is by that of a stranger who is fond of dogs, attached themselves to him and were accompanying him, and she took this snap-shot."

THE EXODUS

THE reality of the Negro exodus is now generally acknowledged. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says:

Two equally absurd charges have been circulated to account for the presence of so many Negroes out of their usual latitude. One is that they have been brought North "to fight organized labor" and the other is that the nefarious republicans imported them to carry the doubtful states; not a single, solitary case of the use of the Negroes for either purpose has been proven.

And the Rutland Vt., Herald tells us:

The Negro problem in the South has changed somewhat in the last fifty years. It is not so much now a question as to what shall be done with them as it is what shall be done without them. 

Meantime, the Charleston News and Courier is quite serene: 

The significance of the present movement is to be found not in the conditions in the North which are taking the Negroes there, but the conditions in the South which make the Negroes ready to go. The situation, as the News and Courier has pointed out repeatedly, is simply that as the boll weevil compels is the cutting of the cotton acreage, thousands of Negroes are bound to be thrown out of employment. They are here only because they were needed in the cultivation of cotton.

Colored people, themselves, have been speaking out very clearly in the South, both in the colored and white press. A colored college president writes in the Montgomery Advertiser:

The truth is, these Negroes who are leaving the South in large numbers and others who are thinking of going, do not want to go. They prefer to remain here. But they want something to eat and to wear. They want a brighter future held out to them; they want to be reasoned with by their landlords, and want things made plain to them in the adjustment of yearly accounts; they

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