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42 THE CRISIS It is reported that under the new civil service order Negro post masters will be eligible to examination and appointment. Dr. Sumner Furnis, a leading colored physician of Indianapolis, has been nominated for the common council. Mayor Curley of Boston has appointed Lucius S. Hicks, a colored lawyer, assistant registrar of voters. His salary will be $1,400 a year. The colored people of Haddonfield, N. J., have nominated Mrs. Edward Washington, a former colored teacher, for the school board. PERSONAL. MR. W. S. Braithwaite spoke at the 20th Century Club, Boston, recently on new tendencies in poetry. The Hon. Charles W. Anderson of New York City recently had the misfortune to break his arm. Alfred Cottman for twenty years a policeman in Philadelphia is dead. Mary M. Wilson, a fifteen-year old colored maid employed in St. Louis, saved her white mistress from death at the hands of a drunken Irishman armed with a pistol. Mordecai Brown saved a white woman from drowning at the Pass-a-Grille hotel, Florida. Harry J. Taylor has been appointed to the police force at Everett, Mass. He has long stood high on the eligible list but was refused appointment on account of color. Philip H. Murray, editor of the St. Louis Advance, is dead at the age of seventy-four. William Duggar, a colored boy, lost his life by drowning at Virginia Beach, Va., in trying to save a white fellow seaman. William Dean Howells lunched recently at a colored public school in Savannah, Ga. Dr. Matthew O. Ricketts of St. Joseph, Mo., a graduate of the University of Nebraska and member of the state legislature from 1893 to 1895, died January 15th. William E. Bayless, former city editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, has been made business manager to succeed the late William M. Page. Mr. C. W. Cansler of the colored high school appeared before the Knoxville, Tennessee, Philosophical Society to give a mathematical demonstration. Musical America says of R. Nathaniel Dett's "Music in the Mine," described as "an unaccompanied folk-song scene":- "The whole thing is original, splendidly conceived, and it should make a very attractive number for efficient choral organizations." The piece is dedicated to the Australian pianist-composer, Percy Grainger, who is an admirer of Afro-American folk-song. The Boston Transcript of a recent date devotes two columns to the "Rise and Progress of Harry T. Burleigh," the distinguished Afro-American baritone-composer. Of Mr. Burleigh's new song, "In the Wood of Finvara," Musical America of March 17th says: "Mr. Burleigh writes today with a greater freedom, a tenser emotionalism, a broader suggestion and withal a subtler touch than in his song of last year. * * * 'in the Wood of Finvara' is a masterpiece. We are certain of that; and we know that it is not the exception with its composer. This song seems to be made up of a series of inspired moments, which, taken collectively, constitute a very important contribution to the literature of the contemporary art-song." Inquiry is made for Jesse Mansfield McKinney who left his home, Lewisville, Ark., at the age of twelve years some eighteen years ago. His mother, father and sister would like to know his whereabouts. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs of Washington, D. C. was one of the speakers at the Ruby anniversary banquet given at the Hotel Astor, New York City, recently. This celebration was under the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society to commemorate forty years of work. ATHLETICS. THE CRISIS is reminded that Robert W. Marshall, a colored student of the University of Minnesota was named as the All-America left-end in football by Walter Camp in 1905 and 1906. The athletic carnival of the Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn, N. Y., was given recently with Howard P. Drew as the star. The J. B. 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