According to reports of experiments
conducted by Prof Reichert, of the
University of Pennsylvania, with hu
man blood, he has made some wonder
ful discoveries. The professor says
he has been able to learn from a drop
of blood whether it is the blood of a
white person or a black one, from a
male or a female, and, approximately,
the age of the subject from which the
specimen has been taken. If this is
a fact there area lot of people in this
country who would not care to have
their blood tested by the professor for
fear that the presence of Negro blood
would be detected. It would be a
good thing for conductors to use down
in jim crow car land so that they will
be able to positively determine wheth
er some passengers are white or
black. It has not been very long
since a dark-skinned Jewess, who was
compelled by the employes of a
Southern railroad to ride in a jim
crow car, recovered $15,000 damages
on account of that damphool law.
And we know of numerous cases
where light-skinned Afro-Americans
have not been allowed to ride in the
jim crow cars because they were pre
sumed to be "pure" Caucasians. We
don't believe that Prof. Reichert
could have definitely decided these
cases, either
Some rather significant facts were
brought out in the conducting of a
matrimonial bureau established by a
Catholic church of Kansas City, Mo.,
a year ago. In a report made by
Father W. J. Dalton, who conducted
the bureau, showed that 17,000 letters
h.id been received and 400 marria,c3
had been brought .n-out.
Letters came from all parts of the
world and nearly every state in the
Union. Nearly eighty-five per cent of
the letters were from women.
