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THE HORIZON

INDUSTRY
THE Standard Life Insurance Company at its recent annual meeting was reported to be operating in nine states with 171 agents who wrote $2,000,000 worth of insurance during 1916. The total income during the year was $152,305. The death rate was only 73 per cent of the expected and the lapses 33 per cent of the new business. The company proposes to erect a home office in Atlanta, Ga. 

[[symbol]] The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association submitted the following information taken from its annual report for 1916 to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of North Carolina:

Insurance in force ..........$8,259,664.00
Gross collections for 1916 ......  501,198.43
Ledger assets ................  207,652.26
Gross assets ................  243,411.75
Total admitted assets (non-ledger assets deducted).... 232,964.40
Liabilities (including $201,964.09 Legal Reserve-American Ex. 3 1/2%).......... 209,373.10
Surplus.................. 23,591.30

[[symbol]] The following reported facts somewhat show the Negro migration and its success: The Dean Steam Pump Company of Holyoke, Mass., is employing 75 Negroes and is said to want 300 more; the Negro population of Detroit has doubled within ten years; Philadelphia has 15,000 new Negro workers; the Carnegie Steel Company of Newark, N. J., is employing colored labor for the first time, theirty0firve are now at work and more are wanted; at Noank, Conn., Negro mechanics are being employed at Palmers' Ship Yard for the first time; the Stove Works at Dover, N. J., are beginning to employ colored men; Kaufmann's, the  largest department store in Pittsburgh, has replaced its delivery force with 251 colored men.

[[symbol]] J. A. Stevenson has been appointed assistant chemist at the Sanitol Laboratory Company at St. Louis. Yale and Towne, lock manufacturers, of Stamford, Conn., are employing a number of colored men.

[[symbol]] The first Federal Farm Loan Association for Negroes is about to be organized in Greensboro, N. C. 

[[symbol]] J. E. Wiley of New Albany, Ind., is again seeking to start cotton mills with colored help at that point. A shirt factory has been opened by two colored women, the Misses Dismukes and Stevens, at Nashville, Tenn.

[[symbol]] The Norfolk, Va., Journal and Guide has built a new building especially for its work.

SOCIAL PROGRESS
THE first Negroes, a tribe of blacks, seen in the new World was at Qugrequa, by Vasco Nunez in the year 1513. These blacks were supposed to have been shipwrecked upon the coast. Will Negro historians unravel the mystery? Did they cross the Equator into Brazil during the period of Hanno's travels?
[[symbol]] A late report fo the U. S. Census Bureau estimates that the total Negro population of the continental United States was 10,- 903,537 July 1,1916.
[[symbol]] A study of death rates in Virginian cities shows an increase for whites and a decrease for Negroes.
[[symbol]]Movements for Negor hospitals are on foot in West Virginia and Ittsburgh, Pa.
[[symbol]]The Colored Orphan Asylum at Riverdale, N.Y. has for the first time a colored head nurse, Miss Sara Henderson.
[[symbol]] The Baltimore Provident Hospital is to have a free dispensart connected with it.
[[symbol]] The Home Sanitarium conducted by Dr. Kennibrew at Jacksonville, III, has performed 817 operations with only seven deaths. It has recently been rebuilt and refurnished.
[[symbol]] The new Negro pavilion of Memorial Hospital, Richmond, Va., will cost $175,000 and the contract for construction has just been let. It will have seven stories and a basement and space for 40 patients in private rooms and 106 in wards. There will be a nurses' home to accommodate 108 nurses. 
[[symbol]] Fair Haven Infirmary of Morris Brown University has treated 210 patients during the last nine months and has performed 100 operations. 
[[symbol]] On Saturday, February 17, 400 nurses of the Department of Health of the city of New York made house to house investigations of the chief areas of colored population in order to take an illness census and gain information for improving health. 
[[symbol]] Tulsa, Okla., a new colored public library. 
[[symbol]] The two colored police officers of the colored town of Boley, Okla., were foremost in capturing two white bank robbers of that section. 
[[symbol]] The new sheriff of St. Louis has appointed two colored deputies, J. E. Mitchell and R. E. Harris. 
[[symbol]] Dolly Farrior, one of the wounded survivors of Carrizal, has been given a position as messenger in the War Department. 
[[symbol]] Mrs. Mollie Durham Randolph of Pittsburg, Pa., has been made a juvenile court officer. 
[[symbol]] Colored Odd Fellows of Providence, R. I., have just dedicated their new three-story lodge building which cost $20,000. 
[[symbol]] The Negro Welfare League of New Jersey, is undertaking to care for the new immigrants from the South. 
[[symbol]] The colored town of Taft, Okla., has a telephone exchange with colored girls, a colored station agent and a colored telegraph operator. 
[[symbol]] Major R. R Jackson, a colored member of the Illinois legislature, has been appointed to four of the most important committees of the House, including those on appropriations, congressional apportionment and military affairs. 
[[symbol]] The Masons of New York City are planning to erect a temple to cost $100,000. It will be built at 204-206 West 131st street. [[symbol]] At the Troup County, Ga., annual fair, colored people were for the first time allowed to compete for prizes with the whites. The result was that they carried off three first prizes and three second prizes. 
[[symbol]] The Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People has received a bequest of $1,000 from the will of Mrs. Sarah Gibb, a white woman. 
[[symbol]] Colored people of Kansas City, Mo., are protesting against the renewal of the license to a colored gambling house. 
[[symbol]] Pollard, of Brown University, has been put upon the Outing Magazine "Football Roll of Honor." The magazine says: "Among backs the waiter hands the award for first honors of those he has seen to Pollard of Brown. Even Oliphant of the Army has nothing on this colored boy." 
[[symbol]] There will be a Negro department to the Mississippi Centennial Exposition which will be celebrated at Gulfport, next December to commemorate the admission of that state to the Union. Perry W. Howard, of Jackson, is chairman of the colored commission. 
[[symbol]] The Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee has upheld Jennings' will. Jennings, a white man, left a valuable farm of 1,000 acres to Betty Hicks, a colored woman, by whom he had ten children. The will was drawn up by a white lawyer who refused to testify to his signature until paid $1,000 which he claimed was due him. After two weeks in jail, he changed his mind. 
[[symbol]] Governor Whitman has recommended $60,000 to be given to the colored regiment of New York State for equipment. 
[[symbol]] Private Rufus Williams, a colored trooper of the 24th U.S. Infantry, is the welterweight champion of the U.S. Army. 
[[symbol]] The Court of Appeals, of Maryland, has decided that the trust fund created by Carolina Donovan for transporting Negroes to Liberia, is no longer needed for that purpose and shall revert to Mrs. Donovan's relatives. The fund amounted to $63,362. Of this sum $4,768 has been expended for transporting emigrants and $15,000 for education in Liberia. 

MUSIC AND ART
FRITZ KREISLER, the distinguished violinist, played Coleridge-Taylor's "Viking Song" at the Apollo Club concert given in Boston on January 23. 
[[symbol]] "In the Wood of Finvara," by H.T Burleigh, was the novelty presented with "Deep River" at the song recital of Miss Mary Jordan, an American contralto, at Aeolian Hall, New York City, on February 8. 
[[symbol]] The Hampton Quartet was scheduled to sing at twenty meetings during the month of January in the State of Massachusetts. 
[[symbol]] Mr. J. Rosamond Johnson, Director of the Music School Settlement in New York City, gave a very successful recital under the auspices of the Young People's Club of Institutional Church, Chicago, Ill., late in January. 
[[symbol]] Mr. Theodore N. Taylor, a talented pianist of Chicago, Ill., was heard in a series of