Twin City Star

Friday, November 25, 1910

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST. PAUL Defective Page VOL I. Single Copies 5 Cents. HIGH POST FOR NOTED LAWYER MAN OF RARE LEGAL ABILITY. Named For Position of Assistant United States Attorney General by Taft—Has Served With Distinction In Other Places of Great Responsibility In the Federal Government. By R. W. THOMPSON. William Henry Lewis, a leading attorney of Boston, is to be named by President Taft as assistant attorney general of the United States. He will thus confer upon Mr. Lewis the highest official position ever conferred upon a colored man by the federal government. The assistant attorney general assists in the argument of cases before the supreme court and in the preparation of legal opinions. HON. WILLIAM H. LEWIS. Many of the most important and intricate assignments fall to the hands of the assistants, and in the course of their work they are frequently brought into contact with senators, members of congress and barristers of prominence who have business with the department of justice. It will thus be seen that the proposed appointment is one of the utmost responsibility and far out of the ordinary run of positions usually accorded to our race. It is expected that the name of Mr. Lewis will be sent to the senate shortly after the opening of the congressional session in December. The president is being warmly congratulated upon all sides by the colored press and public for his generosity in giving the race such honorable recognition, and there is no doubt that his hold upon the respect and confidence of the rank and file of the colored people of the country has been greatly strengthened. The competency of Mr. Lewis is conceded by the most eminent lights at the American bar. Polished in manner, eloquent of voice and chaste in language, he has few peers as a pleader, and in the preparation of cases his is a master hand. He possesses character and force of the most positive order, with magnetic police and dignity, yet is modest and unassuming in his daily intercourse. Mr. Lewis combines the elements that make for efficiency of the lasting kind and in the wider field promised him will add new laurels to his brow. It is expected that his nomination will be speedily confirmed by the senate. Mr. Lewis is at present superintendent of the naturalization bureau in Boston, having been promoted from the post of second assistant United States district attorney upon the resignation of John Casey, Esq. In both offices he made an enviable record. He was appointed assistant district attorney by ex-President Roosevelt in 1903, and some of the most difficult cases known to the department have been ably disposed of by him. In one significant instance he received the thanks of Chief J. E. Wilkie of the United States secret service for superior skill in conducting a case especial importance in which this inch of the government was deeply erested. Mr. Lewis is a native of Berkeley, Va., where he was born in 1868. His father was a minister of prominence, but not of large salary, and young Lewis was compelled to look out for himself in the matter of securing an education such as he desired. He worked his way as a waiter to earn his college expenses after finishing the common school branches in and about Portsmouth, Va. MINNEAPOLIS CHURCH NOTES. THANKSGIVING SERVICES. All of our churches had services on Thanksgiving Day. Concerts, Dinners etc., were going on everywhere. They all reported a good attendance. Rev. Withers will occupy his pulpit at both services. Attendance has been good, and the "good work of Zion is progressing. Rev. F. W. Lewis of St. Peter's is taking active interest in the Church work and there is more than heretofore "a spirit of enthusiasm" in the church workers. He will present at an early date his Church Bulletin. All MEMORIAL. Ames Lodge of Elks will hold Memorial Services at St. Peter's A. M. E. Church, 22nd St., between 9th and 10th Aves., on Dec. 4th. Opening Exercises, Prayer ..... Hymn ..... Choir Sermon ..... Rev. Lewis Song ..... Madame De Leo Eulogy ..... P. H. Southall, P. E. R. Hymn ..... Choir Eulogy ..... Dr. R. S. Brown Hymn ..... Choir Poems ..... Wm. R. Morris, E. R. Preditet THE FORUM. The Minneapolis Sunday Forum held its regular meeting at St. Peter's on Sunday last. Dr. Redd presiding, the evening was very enjoyably spent by all present. Selection from Dunbar, by Miss Eva Walker, Solo by Mrs. Abbey and the discussion of a paper by Ione Gibbs, subject: Shall We as a People, be called "Colored,"—"Afro-Americans" or "Negroes." After much discussion by Messrs Will Smith, John Allison, J. A. Graves, C. S. Smith, "Bob." Marshall, and others, Mrs. Gibbs closed the discussion with a very able talk, and showed why we are and should be called Afro-American. The Smith's and Mr. Graves still hold that we are American Negroes. One of our local restaurants did not have "The Season's Bird" on the Bill, because—? And they advertised the biggest spread in town. Mrs. Daisy Walker Booker addressed the members of St. James Church on Thanksgiving night. Miss Beulah Corneal is able to be up, but still unable to go out. SOCIAL EVENT. A dainty little social success in the way of a whist party was enjoyed by 24 guests at the home of Mrs. Chas. Butler on 5th Ave. on Thursday ever. Nov. 17. During intermission punch was served and the merry guests tripped the fantastic toe to strains of sweet music and resumed their happy past time; while lunch was being spread on the individual tables and tally cards counted. Mr. T. H. Edwards recieved first prize, a picture, landscape scene. 2nd Mr. Eddie Boyd, a motto calendar. The booby a Negro baby to Mrs. J. B. Elliott. The guests departed at a late hour, had decided the affair a complete success in every way. Judge Johnson's dance on Tuesday night was well attended. Don't forget that the Judge holds "Court" every 1st and 3rd Tuesday. Mr. Thomas Jefferson, aged 74, died on Tuesday in our city. He is survived by 10 children. Mr. Jefferson was a barber and employed by Mr. Robert McKee at 237 10th Ave. So He was known as one of the old school gentlemen. Owing to sickness, Mr. Geo. B. Kelley of Duluth has been unable to continue his correspondence, and we hope to soon learn of his good health, and to receive "Kelly's Letter." His ancestors were North Carolinians, and he comes from the best stock of that state. His sister is the wife of Dr. J. J. France, a leading physician of Portsmouth, Va. Mr. Lewis graduated from Amherst college in 1892 and from the law department of Harvard in 1895. He won enviable fame as a football player at Amherst, and this reputation followed him to Harvard. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., NOVEMBER 25, 1910. NEGRO KNIFER IS CONVICTED. Jury Finds John Jones Guilty of Man slaughter. After being out for an hour and a half, the jury in the case of John Jones, a negro, on trial for the killing of Roy Jeffries, also a negro, 55 Holden street, on the night of Sept. 18 in a pool room at 725 Washington avenue south, returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the first degree. The crime was committed during a quarrel. Jeffries, his brother and another man entered the pool room and were using profane language, not noticing the presence of a woman who had accompanied Jones into the place. Jones took umbrage at the remarks and a fight resulted, during which Jones stabbed his adversary in the groin. Jeffries died shortly afterward at the City hospital from loss of blood. The punishment for manslaughter in the first degree is from five to 20 years in the state penitentiary. Sentence will be pronounced by Judge Holt, before whom the case was tried, within a day or two. Taking into consideration the desperate character of the defendant, the weapon used, the fact that nearly all the witnesses testified that he had his weapon ready for use and threatened to use it, before the affray; the fact of his subsequent flight, and resistance to the officers, and their testimony against him, Jones has the right to be thankful for the able and earnest efforts put forth by his counsel to save his neck, as he was indicted for murder in the first degree, and the Court charged for murder in the first and second degrees, and for manslaughter in both degrees, and acquittal. Attorney's Geo. H. Jackson and Wm. H. H. Franklin appeared for Jones. NEGROES GIVEN. SANATORIUM. NEGROES GIVEN SANATORIUM. Colorado Springs, Col., Nov. 22.—James K. Polk Taylor, a former slave, 71 years old, and his wife, it was announced today, have given 480 acres of land at Calban, forty miles east of Colorado Springs, to the Charles Summer Tuberculosis association as a site for a national tuberculosis sanatarium for colored persons. EVERYBODY READS EVERYBODY READS EVERYBODY'S ADVERTISMENTS in EVERYBODY'S PAPER. Special Rates For Amusements Mrs. Williams, the mother of Dr. Wallace Williams, 403 13th Ave. So., is very sick at the City Hospital. Her recovery seems doubtful. Mr. Henry Vinegar, the barber and real estate dealer, is confined to his home with rheumatism. His brother Elmer is managing his business during his illness. Mr. Ben Hall of the Soo Ry., has been on the sick list, but has returned to work. Mr. J. V. McMoore is in town again. He has been on a line from Chicago to Duluth "over the Soo." Just came in to spend Thanksgiving. Mr. Jordan Foster is one of the popular "Milwaukee boys." He resides at 2006 Cedar Ave. Mrs. Foster celebrated Thanksgiving Day with the "Conventional Big Dinner." Mrs. Mary Jane Brooks, the mother of Mrs. Henry Keyes, who was accidentally burned by having her clothing ignited from a stove, has entirely recovered. Mrs. Brooks is 85 years old and is blind. Mrs. Laura Sheppard left for Pittsburg, Pa., (via Chicago), where she will visit her parents. She expects to go from there to Washington, D. C. Mr. Thos. Gilbreath opened his new lodging house, 1304 Washington Ave. So., to the public on last Friday eve. The "house warming" was well attended and a collation was served to all callers. Mr. Gilbreath has formerly conducted his place at 122 Hennepin Ave., and has opened this "annex" which will furnish comfortable lodgings to ladies and gentlemen, see adv. MISS SHULL'S BIRTHDAY PARTY. Mr. and Mrs. Glover Shull of 3016 Garfield Ave., gave a birthday party to their daughter Edna aged 12, at their residence. Mesdens L. B. Martin and W. C. Jeffries assisted Mrs. Shull to make things pleasant for the young people. Those present were Misses Ada Lewis, Dorothy and Helen Waters, Helen Brady, Marlon Jeffries, Corinne Parker, Marvel Jackson, and Mildred Shull. Miss Edna's friends all wished her many more such pleasant birthdays. Mrs. Jas. H. Gullbert has returned for Duluth to speak before the "Ladies Book Club." Mrs. Jas. H. Gunldert has returned home from Gibbons, Minn., where she went to bury her sister, Miss Esther Almquist, who died recently. JUDGE UPHOLDS SUPREME LAW THE TWO STATES IN QUESTION Scheme to Disfranchise the Colored Citizens of Annapolis, Md., Given Black Eye by Justice Thomas J. Morris, Who Bases His Decision on the Fifteenth Amendment. The United States circuit courts for Maryland and Oklahoma have each recently passed upon disfranchisement laws aimed at the Negro. The court in Maryland dealt a stunning blow to the scheme to disfranchise the colored voters of the state, particularly so in Annapolis, where registration was refused colored men under the "grand father" clause in the election laws for Annapolis. The court also rendered an elaborate opinion in which the Negro's right to vote under the fifteenth amendment was upheld. The Oklahoma case was the result of the recently adopted constitutional amendment which disfranchises 14,000 voters in that state. The case in Maryland was brought by three colored men, William H. Howard, J. B. Anderson and Alexander G. Brown, damned for big deeded registration. The defendant's counsel brought a demurrier to the suit, which was overruled by Judge Thomas J. Morris in a decision which squares faces the question of race disfranchise. Judge Morris in his decision said: "It is supposeable that a property qualification might, in fact, result in some localities from an educational test, and it could not be said, although that was the result intended, that it was a discrimination on account of race or color, but would be referable to a different test. By looking at the constitution and laws of Maryland prior to Jan. 1, 1860, how it can be said with show of reason that any but the white man could vote then, and how can the court colce its eyes to the obvious fact that it is for that reason solely that the test is inserted in the Maryland acts? "The fifteenth amendment provides "expressly that all citizens of the United States otherwise qualified should be entitled and allowed to vote at all elections in any state, territory, county, city, without distinction of race or color, any constitution, law, custom, state of origin, any state to the contrary notwithstanding." The Oklahoma case was an application for a writ of injunction of Daniel Simons of Guthrie restraining an election official from denying him the right to vote. In deciding against Mr. Simons the court said: "It is ordered that the application for an interlocutor injunction be and the same is hereby denied, not on the ground that section 4 of article 3 of the constitution of Oklahoma at the election in August, 1910, is not in violation of the constitution of the United States, but on the sole ground that, although the complainant may have a remedy at law in this court for the deprivation of his vote, this court has no jurisdiction in equity to grant him the relief he seeks from the threatened deprivation of that right under the decision of the United States supreme court in Giles versus Harson, 189 U. S., 475." The decision by the Maryland judge will be taken to the highest court in the land, and, as judge Morris has been seldom reversed, the whole question assumes a phase of disfranchisement with the wishes of the bourbon south. The Oklahoma decision is along the line of the usual evasive way the United States courts have had in deciding similar actions. **Beight Outlook For Virginia Seminary.** Virginia seminary and college, Lynchburg, Va., starts off with a large enrollment of students and a well balanced faculty this term. We are glad to know that this deserving race institution of learning is keeping pace with the demands of the times. President Driggs is the right man in the right place. When all the new improvements at the school are completed it will be one of the best institutions of learning for our people in the south. The Country's Duty to Afro-Americans "Instead of asserting that it was a mistake to give the Afro-American the rights of citizenship we should devote all our thoughts and energies to raising him to the point to qualify him to exercise his precious right," says United States Senator Shelby M. Culom. "We should educate him and do everything in our power to make a good citizen of him. He needs encouragement, and we owe it to ourselves to do all in our power to elevate him." ST. PAUL St. Paul subscribers are urged to pay their subscriptions at this time, to our St. Paul representative. Don't forget the Elk's Memorial. Mr. Arthur Campbell formerly of this City died at his home in Mindota, Ill., on Nov. 19th. Mrs. Ellen Joyce has applied for a divorce from her husband, William T. Joyce on account of inhuman treatment. Mr. Evans Tyree and Charles Alexander were visitors in St. Paul last week. Both are members of a jubilee concert company. Lawyer Francis accompanied Mrs. Francis to Chicago on her eastern trip. Mr. Francis spent Thanksgiving day in Chicago and returned to St. Paul yesterday. ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR. Mrs. Anna B. Harris, Grand District Deputy, installs and organizes Chapters of The O. E. Star. Please to consult any one interested. Residence 285 Rondo St., St. Paul, Minn. Mr. Clarence L. Smith and Miss Elizabeth V. Johnson were united in marriage in Chicago this week. Mrs. Oliver Allen, Miss Adina Adams, and Mr. F. D. McCracken were in attendance at the wedding. The happy couple returned to the City and were tendered an elaborate reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. Allen, on Thanksgiving night. Mrs. Lillian Turner has returned to the City, much benefited in health. Miss Mabel Johnson and Mr. Harry Brown were united in marriage, on last Monday night at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mayo on Rondo street. The happy couple received quite a number of valuable and useful presents. On last Sunday afternoon The West End Branch Y. W. C. A., and Men's Sunday Club held a union meeting at four p. m., at St. James A. M. E. Church. Mrs. Mattie Hall, who has been teaching at Taft, Okla., told some very interesting things about her school, and Mrs. Walker-Booker delivered an address to the women. The sum of $12 was raised for the Y. W. C. A. work. Mrs. Dovie Adams-Campbell was a headliner at The Crystal Theatre during the past week. Mrs. W. T. Francis and Mrs. Booker T. Washington will be the guests at a house party given by Mrs. Phillip A. Payton of New York City, for the next two weeks. Mrs. Washington, Mrs. Payton and Mrs. Francis will then visit Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington together, after which Mrs. Payton and Mrs. Francis will accompany Mrs. Washington to Tuskegee for a short visit. Mrs. Julia Hinson has been on the sick list. Mr. George Davis, prominent in "The Sanctified Church," is writing a book on his religion. This sect has quite a following in St. Paul. Some members of which were at one time prominent Baptist and Methodist workers. Mr. Joseph Davis and Mr. I. Brewin have both reached what they call a sanctified state and are termed "Men of God," and although in the world they say they are not of the world and therefore cannot sin, even as the Saviour did not sin. In Mr. Davis' book he promises it will be "an opening wedge" which will revolutionize the religion now existing? The Charity Ball given by the ladies of the United Charities on Nov. 21st was well attended. Miss Ruth McGhee acted as Cinderella and Mr. C. Jones was the lucky one to gain possession of the thy slipper. St. Paul Society will again trip the fantastic toe for sweet charity's sake on Nov. 29th. The Old Folks Home and Orphanage will give their annual charity ball at Hiawata Hall on that date. Mayor Keller will deliver an address. Wear FLORSHEIM SHOEE' 8 stores Minneapolis St. Paul Duluth Join the Cosmopolitan Mutu J Casualty Co. The best and most progressive organization in the Twin Cities. Pays for sickness, accident, and death. Railroad men will find it convenient to visit the Porters' and Walters' Hotel, 319 Wabasha St., St. Paul. Its appointments are first class and the management has proven that they are "up to date." Pool and Billiard Room, Reading Room.—Café in Connection. ST. PAUL LOCAL NOTES. Mr. Charles Saunders has written an article which appeared in the Nov. 19th issue of The Hotel World. Mr. Saunders is writing a book in which he hopes to retain the confidence of the American people in the Negro waiters. Messrs. Claude Jackson and Adrian Cotton have bought out the photograph gallery of Geo. Tise on East Sixth street. They have already landed the contract to do all the photographing for the police department of this City. Mrs. Bessie Roberts will soon visit her relatives in Texas. Mr. Charles Martin, formerly of this City is now situated in Goldsboro, Fla., where he is engaged in music teaching, and has acquired the title of professor. Send your news in by Wednesday noon of each week. Those who have not paid their subscription to The Star, will please do so at once. Mr. Calvin Butler, of the Winnipeg Line is very ill at 521 Rondo St. He has had several attacks of heart trouble affixed to his present illness. "Cal." is a popular favorite of the travelling public and employees and one of the "good fellows." His many friends wish his ultimate recovery. Dr. J. R. White was arrested last week on a charge of statutory vagrancy and his case was continued to Wednesday of this week. Dr. White has been giving "advice" and Naturopath treatment. He is the "Father" of the new order, the Alpha and Omega's, and a prominent U. B. F., also Exalted Ruler of Gopher Lodge of Elks. THE GOPHER GRILL. The Gopher Grill of St. Paul, served their patrons to a Thanksgiving Dinner which was unsurpassed at any place in the Twin Cities. The Bill of Fare consisted of many of the seasons' choicest delicacies, and were prepared and served in the plain old style. Manager Gibbs headed his bill with Barbecued Suckling Pig, with apple sauce, Roast Duck with jelly, Roast Chicken, Philadelphia Squab on Toast, Roast Goose, home style, Roast Turkey, cranberry sauce, Stewed Rabbit, Chitlin's and cold Slaw, Corn Bread, Sweet Potato Ple, and Steamed Pudding. The Gopher Grill has been recently refitted with all modern equipment. They are never closed. Call at the Gopher at any hour and get the foods that "Mother used to cook" as she cooked them. Orders sent out at any time, to any place and to anybody. Mrs. Nora Young. Prop. Mr. Wm. Gibbs. Mgr. NOBLES OF THE MYSTIC SHRINE Fezzan is again making ready to give her Third Grand Ball which is to be the best of the season. It will be held at Hlawatha Temple on Dec. 29th. The Nobles will attempt to surpass their former successes. And many prominent visitors from various parts of the state will attend. Boost for Fezzan, and her Nobles! The Ethical Literary and Decaying Society meets every Sunday afternoon at St. Phillips Guild Hall. All are welcome. OUR ST. PAUL REPRESENTATIVE. Miss Maymie G. Williams, will represent the Twin City Star in St. Paul. Her office is 27 Union Block, where she will receive subscriptions, ads and notices. All persons who wish any information may consult her. She is our authorized agent. "We deliver the goods" Bring your job printing to THE TWIN CITY STAR, 223-225 Cedar Ave., at Seven Corners. Lowest Rates—Up-to-date workmanship. TUSKEGEE NEGRO CONFERENCE. The next Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference will be held January 18th and 19th, 1911, and a special effort will be made, to make the visit of delegates to the Conference, both pleasant and profitable. MAJOR TAYLOR WILL COMPETE. In Match Race at Buffalo. Major Taylor, the crack colored sprint cyclist, many of whose records stands today will return to the cycling game this season. He has signed to compete in a four cornered match race at Buffalo, which will be a curtain raiser for the six-day-grind to be held in January. He has passed up the six-day contests and will meet Kramer, Clarke and another rider yet to be selected for the sprint contest. Subscribe to the Star. No.24. FIRST UNIVERSAL RACE CONGRESS Important Event to Occur In London In July, 1911. A GREAT OPEN PARLIAMENT. By N. BARNETT DODSON. Perhaps the greatest event of the twenthe century, so far as the colored races are concerned, will be the first universal race congress, which will meet at the University of London, London, England, July 26, 29, 1911. The president of the congress is the Right Hon. Lord Weardale, the chairman of the general committee is Professor Felix Adler of New York and the general secretary Gustav Spiller of London, who has been visiting the United States. As Mr. Spiller said, "The object of the congress is to discuss in the light of modern knowledge and the modern conscience the general relations subsisting between the peoples of the west and those of the east, between so called white and so called colored peoples, with a view to encouraging between them a fuller understanding, the most friendly feelings and a heartier cooperation." Judging from the reactionary tone in America one would expect that such a congress would receive scant welcome in the world, but this is not so. The congress has received hearty support from hundreds of influential men. Among those who are backing the project are many members of the permanent court of arbitration, a majority of the delegates to the second Hague conference, twelve British governors, eight PROFESSOR W. E. B. DUBOIS. British premiers, more than forty colonial bishops, some 130 professors of international law, many well known anthropologists and sociologists and a majority of the council of the inter-parliamentary union. In this congress each race will be asked to speak for itself and to speak frankly, and the speeches will be issued in a bound volume before the congress convenes. The first speaker will be an East Indian, the next two will be German and French scientists and the fourth the general secretary, Mr. Spiller, who will speak on the problem of race equality. The next session will be taken up in discussions of the general conditions of progress, and there will be heard such scientists as Sergi and Denker on conditions of racial progress. These sessions will be continued Thursday morning with papers from China, Japan, Turkey, Persia, India, Egypt and Haiti. Then there will come a series of papers on the peaceful contact between civilizations and on problems of interracial economics. The American Negro, however, will be mostly interested in the sessions of Friday, when the vital question of the modern conscience in relation to racial questions will come up. Israel Zangwill will speak for the Jews, Sir Charles Dilke will speak for forced labor, Dr. Blyden will speak on West Africa, Dr. E. B. on the Negro in the American Indian, Dr. Eastman on the American Indian and Mr. Jabavo on the South African native. Two secretaries for America have been appointed—the Rev. Frederick J. Lynch and Dr. W. E. B. DuBois. Dr. Dulbos is specially concerned with around interest among colored people. He plans to organize a select committee of leading colored people, who are going to be asked to attend the congress in person. Of course all others who wish may attend, but it is particularly desired that the attendance shall be representative. Interesting articles on the race's congress have appeared in the Review of Reviews, New York Independent and the New York Evening Post. The Ethical World says: "For every day a man who is a citizen simply minked into the white, black and yellow families. All history tells the tale of their wars and feaulouses, and later history also tells the tale of a dawning sense of oneness. --- DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Defective Page VOL I. Single Copies 5 Cents. HIGH POST FOR NOTED LAWYER Named For Position of Assistant United States Attorney General by Taft—Has Served With Distinction In Other Places of Great Responsibility In the Federal Government. By R. W. THOMPSON. William Henry Lewis, a leading attorney of Boston, is to be named by President Taft as assistant attorney general of the United States. He will thus confer upon Mr. Lewis the highest official position ever conferred upon a colored man by the federal government. The assistant attorney general assists in the argument of cases before the supreme court and in the preparation of legal opinions. J. HON. WILLIAM H. LEWIS. Many of the most important and intricate assignments fall to the hands of the assistants, and in the course of their work they are frequently brought into contact with senators, members of congress and barristers of prominence who have business with the department of justice. It will thus be seen that the proposed appointment is one of the utmost responsibility and far out of the ordinary run of positions usually accorded to our race. It is expected that the name of Mr. Lewis will be sent to the senate shortly after the opening of the congressional session in December. The president being very congratulated upon all sides by the colored press and public for his generosity in giving the race such honorable recognition, and there is no doubt that his hold upon the respect and confidence of the rank and file of the colored people of the country has been greatly strengthened. The competency of Mr. Lewis is conceded by the most eminent lights at the American bar. Polished in manner, eloquent of voice and chaste in language, he has few peers as a pleader, and in the preparation of cases his is a master hand. He possesses character and force of the most positive order, with magnetic poise and dignity, yet is modest and unassuming in his daily intercourse. Mr. Lewis combines the elements that make for efficiency of the lasting kind and in the wider field promised him will add new laurels to his brow. It is expected that his nomination will be speedily confirmed by the senate. Mr. Lewis is at present superintendent of the naturalization bureau in Boston, having been promoted from the post of second assistant United States district attorney upon the resignation of John Casey, Esq. In both offices he made an enviable record. He was appointed assistant district attorney by ex-President Roosevelt in 1903, and some of the most difficult cases known to the department have been able disposed of by him. In one significant instance he received the thanks of Chief J. E. Wilkie of the United States secret service for superior skill in conducting a case especial importance in which this inch of the government was deeply crested. Mr. Lewis is a native of Berkeley, Va., where he was born in 1908. His father was a minister of prominence, but not of large salary, and young Lewis was compelled to look out for himself in the matter of securing an education such as he desired. He worked his way as a waiter to earn his college expenses after finishing the common school branches in and about Portsmouth, Va. MINNEAPOLIS CHURCH NOTES. THANKSGIVING SERVICES. All of our churches had services on Thanksgiving Day. Concerts, Dinners etc., were going on everywhere. They all reported a good attendance. Rev. Withers will occupy his pulpit at both services. Attendance has been good, and the "good work of Zion is progressing. Rev. F. W. Lewis of St. Peter's is taking active interest in the Church work and there is more than heretofore "a spirit of enthusiasm" in the church workers. He will present at an early date his Church Bulletin. All MEMORIAL. Ames Lodge of Elks will hold Memorial Services at St. Peter's A. M. E. Church, 22nd St., between 9th and 10th Aves., on Dec. 4th. Programme. Opening Exercises, Prayer..... Hymn ..... Choir Sermon ..... Rev. Lewis Song ..... Madame De Leo Eulogy ..... P. H. Southall, P. E. R. Hymn ..... Choir Eulogy ..... Dr. R. S. Brown Hymn ..... Choir Poems ..... Wm. R. Morris, E. R. THE FORUM. The Minneapolis Sunday Forum held its regular meeting at St. Peter's on Sunday last. Dr. Redd presiding. The evening was very enjoyably spent by all present. Selection from Dunbar, by Miss Eva Walker, Solo by Mrs. Abbey and the discussion of a paper by Ione Gibbs, subject: Shall We as a People, be called "Colored,"—"Afro-Americans" or "Negroes." After much discussion by Messrs Will Smith, John Allison, J. A. Graves, C. S. Smith, "Bob." Marshall, and others. Mrs. Gibbs closed the discussion with a very able talk, and showed why we are and should be called Afro-American. The Smith's and Mr. Graves still hold that we are American Negroes. One of our local restaurants did not have "The Season's Bird" on the Bill because—? And they advertised the biggest spread in town. Mrs. Daisy Walker Booker addressed the members of St. James Church on Thanksgiving night. Miss Beulah Corneal is able to be up, but still unable to go out. SOCIAL EVENT. A dainty little social success in the way of a whist party was enjoyed by 24 guests at the home of Mrs. Chas. Butler on 5th Ave. So., Thursday eve, Nov. 17. During intermission punch was served and the merry guests tripped the fantastic toe to strains of sweet music and resumed their happy past time; while lunch was being spread on the individual tables and tally cards counted. Mr. T. H. Edwards recieved first prize, a picture, landscape scene. 2nd Mr. Eddie Boyd, a motto calendar. The booby a Negro baby to Mrs. J. B. Elliott. The guests departed at a late hour, having decided the affair a complete success in every way. Judge Johnson's dance on Tuesday night was well attended. Don't forget that the Judge holds "Court" every 1st and 3rd Tuesday. Mr. Thomas Jefferson, aged 74, died on Tuesday in our city. He is survived by 10 children. Mr. Jefferson was a barber and employed by Mr. Robert McKee at 237 10th Ave. So he was known as one of the old school gentlemen. Owing to sickness, Mr. Geo. B. Kelley of Duluth has been unable to continue his correspondence, and we hope to soon learn of his good health, and to receive "Kelly's Letter." His ancestors were North Carolian plains, and he comes from the best stock of that state. His sister is the wife of Dr. J. J. France, a leading physician of Portsmouth, Va. Mr. Lewis graduated from Amherst college in 1892 and from the law department of Harvard in 1895. He won enviable fame as a football player at Amherst, and this reputation followed him to Harvard. NEGRO KNIFER IS CONVICTED. Jury Finds John Jones Guilty of Man slaughter. After being out for an hour and a half, the jury in the case of John Jones, a negro, on trial for the killing of Roy Jeffries, also a negro, 56 Holden street, on the night of Sept. 18 in a pool room at 725 Washington avenue south, returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the first degree. The crime was committed during a quarrel. Jeffries, his brother and another man entered the pool room and were using profane language, not noticing the presence of a woman who had accompanied Jones into the place. Jones took umbrage at the remarks and a fight resulted, during which Jones stabbed his adversary in the groin. Jeffries died shortly afterward at the City hospital from loss of blood. The punishment for manslaughter in the first degree is from five to 20 years in the state penitentiary. Sentence will be pronounced by Judge Holt, before whom the case was tried, within a day or two. Taking into consideration the desperate character of the defendant, the weapon used, the fact that nearly all the witnesses testified that he had his weapon ready for use and threatened to use it, before the affray; the fact of his subsequent flight, and resistance to the officers, and their testimony against him, Jones has the right to be thankful for the able and earnest efforts put forth by his counsel to save his neck, as he was indicted for murder in the first degree, and the Court charged for murder in the first and second degrees, and for manslaughter in both degrees, and acquittal. Attorney's Geo. H. Jackson and Wm. H. H. Franklin appeared for Jones. NEGROES GIVEN SANATORIUM. Colorado Springs, Col., Nov. 22.—James K. Polk Taylor, a former slave, 71 years old, and his wife, it was announced today, have given 480 acres of land at Calban, forty miles east of Colorado Springs, to the Charles Summer Tuberculosis association as a site for a national tuberculosis sanatorium for colored persons. EVERYBODY READS EVERYBODY'S ADVERTISEMENTS in EVERYBODY'S PAPER. Special Rates For Amusements -Mrs. Williams, the mother of Dr. Wallace Williams, 403 13th Ave. So., is very sick at the City Hospital. Her recovery seems doubtful. Mr. Henry Vinegar, the barber and real estate dealer, is confined to his home with rheumatism. His brother Elmer is managing his business during his illness. Mr. Ben Hall of the Soo Ry., has been on the sick list, but has returned to work. Mr. J. V. McMoore is in town again. He has been on a line from Chicago to Duluth "over the Soo." Just came in to spend Thanksgiving. Mr. Jordan Foster is one of the popular "Milwaukee boys." He resides at 2006 Cedar Ave. Mrs. Foster celebrated Thanksgiving Day with the "Conventional Big Dinner." Mrs. Mary Jane Brooks, the mother of Mrs. Henry Keyes, who was accidentally burned by having her clothing ignited from a stove, has entirely recovered. Mrs. Brooks is 85 years old and is blind. Mrs. Laura Sheppard left for Pittsburg, Pa., (via Chicago), where she will visit her parents. She expects to go from there to Washington, D. C. Mr. Thos. Gilbreath opened his new lodging house, 1304 Washington Ave. So, to the public on last Friday eve. The "house warming" was well attended and a colation was served to all callers. Mr. Gilbreath has formerly conducted his place at 122 Hennepin Ave., and has opened this "annex" which will furnish comfortable lodgings to ladies and gentlemen, see adv. MISS SHULL'S BIRTHDAY PARTY. Mr. and Mrs. Glover Shull of 2016 Garfield Ave., gave a birthday party to their daughter Edna aged 12, at their residence. Mesdames L. B. Martin and W. C. Jeffries assisted Mrs. Shull to make things pleasant for the young people. Those present were Misses Ada Lewis, Dorothy and Helen Waters, Helen Brady, Marion Jeffries, Corinne Parker, Marvel Jackson, and Mildred Shull. Miss Edna's friends all wished her many more such pleasant birthdays. Mrs. Jas. H. Gullbert has returned for Duluth to speak before the "Ladies Book Club." Mrs. Jas. H. Gunldert has returned home from Gibbons, Minn., where she went to bury her sister, Miss Esther Almquist, who died recently. Scheme to Disfranchise the Colored Citizens of Apollis, Md., Given Black Eye by Justice Thomas J. Morris, Who Bases His Decision on the Fifteenth Amendment. The United States circuit courts for Maryland and Oklahoma have each recently passed upon disfranchisement laws aimed at the Negro. The court in Maryland dealt a stunning blow to the scheme to disfranchise the colored voters of the state, particularly so in Annapolis, where registration was refused fathered men under the "grandfather" clause in the election laws for Annapolis. The court also rendered an elaborate opinion in which the Negro's right to vote under the fifteenth amendment was upheld. The Oklahoma case was the result of the recently adopted constitutional amendment which disfranchises 14,000 voters in that state. The case in Maryland was brought by three colored men, William H. Howard, J. B. Anderson and George Brown, claiming damages for being denied registration. The defendant's counsel brought a demurrier to the suit, which was overruled by Judge Thomas J. Morris in a decision which squares the question of race disfranchisement. Judge Morris in his decision said: "It is supposable that a property qualification might, in fact, result in some localities in all Negroes being excluded, and the same might be the result in some localities from an educational test, and it could not be said, although that the result is indeed, that was a discrimination on the basis of race or color, but would be referable to a different test. By looking at the constitution and laws of Maryland prior to Jan. 1, 1898, how it can be said with any show of reason that any but the white man could vote then, and how can the court colse its eyes to the obvious fact that it is for that reason solely that the test is inserted in the Maryland acts? "The fifteenth amendment provides expressly that all citizens of the United States otherwise qualified should be entitled and allowed to vote at all elections in any state, territory, county, city, without distinction of race or color, any constitution, law, custom, usage or regulations of any state to the contrary notwithstanding. The Oklahoma case was an application of Daniel Simons of Guthie restraining an election official from denying him the right to vote. In deciding against Mr. Simons the court said: "It is ordered that the application for an interlocutor injunction be and the same is hereby denied, not on the ground that section 4 of article 3 of the constitution of Oklahoma at the election in August, 1910, is not in violation of the constitution of the United States, but on the sole ground that, although the complainant may have a remedy at law in this court for the deprivation of his vote, this court has no jurisdiction in equity to grant him the relief he seeks from the threatened deprivation of that right under the decision of the United States supreme court in Giles versus Harris, 188 U. 8., 475." The decision by the Maryland judge will be taken to the highest court in the land, and, as Judge Morris has been seldom reversed, the whole question of Negro disfranchisement may assume a phase at variance with the wishes of the bourbon south. The Oklahoma decision is along the line of the usual evasive way the United States courts have had in deciding similar actions. Bright Outlook For Virginia Seminary. Virginia seminary and college Lynchburg, Va., starts off with a large enrollment of students and a well-balanced faculty this term. We are glad to know that this deserving race institute of learning is keeping pace with the demands of the times. President Driggs is the right man in the right place. When all the new im- provements at the school are com- pleted it will be one of the best institu- tions of learning for our people in the south. The Country's Duty to Afro-Americans "Instead of asserting that it was a mistake to give the Afro-American the rights of citizenship we should devote all our thoughts and energies to raising him to the point to qualify him to exercise his precious right," says United States Senator Shelby M. Culion. "We should educate him and do everything in our power to make a good citizen of him. He needs encouragement, and we owe it to ourselves to do all in our power to elevate him." ST. PAUL St. Paul subscribers are urged to pay their subscriptions at this time to our St. Paul representative. Don't forget the Eik's Memorial. Mr. Arthur Campbell formerly of this City died at his home in Mindotaill, on Nov. 19th. Mrs. Ellen Joyce has applied for a divorce from her husband, William T. Joyce on account of inhuman treatment. Mr. Evans Tyree and Charles Alexander were visitors in St. Paul last week. Both are members of a jubilee concert company. Lawyer Francis accompanied Mrs. Francis to Chicago on her eastern trip. Mr. Francis spent Thanksgiving day in Chicago and returned to St. Paul yesterday. ORDER OF THE EASTER STAR. Mrs. Anna B. Harris, Grand District Deputy, installs and organizes Chapters of The O. E. Star. Please to consult any one interested. Residence 285 Rondo St., St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. Clarence L. Smith and Miss Elizabeth V. Johnson were united in marriage in Chicago this week. Mrs. Oliver Allen, Miss Adina Adams, and Mr. F. D. McCracken were in attendance at the wedding. The happy couple returned to the City and were tendered an elaborate reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. Allen, on Thanksgiving night. Mrs. Lillian Turner has returned to the City, much benefited in health. Miss Mabel Johnson and Mr. Harry Brown were united in marriage, on last Monday night at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mayo on Rondo street. The happy couple received quite a number of valuable and useful presents. On last Sunday afternoon The West End Branch Y. W. C. A., and Men's Sunday Club held a union meeting at four p. m., at St. James A. M. E. Church. Mrs. Mattie Hall, who has been teaching at Taft, Okla., told some very interesting things about her school, and Mrs. Walker-Booker delivered an address to the women. The sum of $12 was raised for the Y. W. C. A. work. Mrs. Dovie Adams-Campbell was a headliner at The Crystal Theatre during the past week. Mrs. W. T. Francis and Mrs. Booker T. Washington will be the guests at a house party given by Mrs. Phillip A. Payton of New York City, for the next two weeks. Mrs. Washington, Mrs. Payton and Mrs. Francis will then visit Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington together, after which Mrs. Payton and Mrs. Francis will accompany Mrs. Washington to Tuskegee for a short visit. Mrs. Julia Hinson has been on the sick list. Mr. George Davis, prominent in "The Sanctified Church," is writing a book on his religion. This sect has quite a following in St. Paul. Some members of which were at one time prominent Baptist and Methodist workers. Mr. Joseph Davis and Mr. I. Brewin have both reached what they call a sanctified state and are termed "Men of God," and although in the world they say they are not of the world and therefore cannot sin, even as the Saviour did not sln. In Mr. Davis' book he promises it will be "an opening wedge" which will revolutionize the religion now existing? The Charity Ball given by the ladies of the United Charities on Nov. 21st was well attended. Miss Ruth McGhee acted as Cinderella and Mr. C. Jones was the lucky one to gain possession of the tiny slipper. St. Paul Society will again trip the fantastic toe for sweet charity's sake on Nov. 29th. The Old Folks Home and Orphanage will give their annual charity ball at Hiawatha Hall on that date. Mayor Keller will deliver an address. Wear FLORSHEIM SHOE£ 8 stores Minneapolis St. Paul Duluth Join the Cosmopolitan Mutual Casualty Co. The best and most progressive organization in the Twin Cities. Pays for sickness, accident, and death. Railroad men will find it convenient to visit the Porters' and Walters' Hotel, 319 Wabasha St., St. Paul. Its appointments are first class and the management has proven that they are "up to date." Pool and Billard Room, Reading Room. -Café in Connection. Carl D. Pickett and Sylvester Oliver Managers. ST. PAUL LOCAL NOTES Mr. Charles Saunders has written an article which appeared in the Nov. 19th issue of The Hotel World. Mr. Saunders is writing a book in which he hopes to retain the confidence of the American people in the Negro waiters. Messrs. Claude Jackson and Adrian Cotton have bought out the photograph gallery of Geo. Tise on East Sixth street. They have already landed the contract to do all the photographing for the police department of this City. Mrs. Bessie Roberts will soon visit her relatives in Texas. Mr. Charles Martin, formerly of this City is now situated in Goldsboro, Fla., where he is engaged in music teaching, and has acquired the title of professor. Send your news in by Wednesday noon of each week. Those who have not paid their subscription to The Star, will please do so at once. Mr. Calvin Butler, of the Winnipeg Line is very ill at 521 Rondo St. He has had several attacks of heart trouble affixed to his present illness. "Cal." is a popular favorite of the travelling public and employees and one of the "good fellows." His many friends wish his ultimate recovery. Dr. J. R. White was arrested last week on a charge of statutory vagrancy and his case was continued to Wednesday of this week. Dr. White has been giving "advice" and Naturopath treatment. He is the "Father" of the new order, the Alpha and Omega's, and a prominent U. B. F., also Exalted Ruler of Gopher Lodge of Elks. THE GOPHER GRILL. The Gopher Grill of St. Paul, served their patrons to a Thanksgiving Dinner which was unsurpassed at any place in the Twin Cities. The Bill of Fare consisted of many of the seasons' choicest delicacies, and were prepared and served in the plain old style. Manager Gibbs headed his bill with Barbecued Suckling Pig, with apple sauce, Roast Duck with jelly, Roast Chicken, Philadelphia Squab on Toast, Roast Goose, home style, Roast Turkey, cranberry sauce, Stewed Rabbit, Chitin's and cold Slaw, Corn Bread, Sweet Potato Ple, and Steamed Pudding. The Gopher Grill has been recently refitted with all modern equipment. They are never closed. Call at the Gopher at any hour and get the foods that "Mother used to cook" as she cooked them. Orders sent out at any time, to any place and to anybody. NOBLES OF THE MYSTIC SHRINE. Fezzan is again making ready to give her Third Grand Ball which is to be the best of the season. It will be held at Hiawatha Temple on Dec. 29th. The Nobles will attempt to surpass their former successes. And many prominent visitors from various parts of the state will attend. Boost for Fezzan, and her Nobles! The Ethical Literary and Decating Society meets every Sunday afternoon at St. Phillips Guild Hall. All are welcome. OUR ST. PAUL REPRESENTATIVE. Miss Maymie G. Williams, will represent the Twin City Star in St. Paul. Her office is 27 Union Block, where she will receive subscriptions, ads and notices. All persons who wish any information may consult her. She is our authorized agent. "We deliver the goods" Bring your job printing to THE TWIN CITY STAR, 223-225 Cedar Ave., at Seven Corners. Lowest Rates-Up-to date workmanship. TUSKEGEE NEGRO CONFERENCE The next Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference will be held January 18th and 19th, 1911, and a special effort will be made, to make the visit of delegates to the Conference, both pleas ant and profitable. MAJOR TAYLOR WILL COMPETE In Match Race at Buffalo In Match Race at Buffalo. Major Taylor, the crack colored sprint cyclist, many of whose records stands today will return to the cycling game this season. He has signed to compete in a four cornered match race at Buffalo, which will be a curtain raiser for the six-day-grind to be held there in January. He has passed up the six-day contests and will meet Kramer, Clarke and another rider yet to be selected for the sprint contest. Subscribe to the Star. No.24. FIRST UNIVERSAL RACE CONGRESS Important Event to Occur In London In July, 1911. A GREAT OPEN PARLIAMENT. By N. BARNETT DODSON By N. BARNETT DODSON. Perhaps the greatest event of the twentieth century, so far as the colored races are concerned, will be the first universal race congress, which will meet at the University of London, London, England, July 26-29, 1911. The president of the congress is the Right Hon. Lord Weardale, the chairman of the general committee is Professor Felix Adler of New York and the general secretary Gustav Spiller of London, who has been visiting the United States. As Mr. Spiller said, "The object of the congress is to discuss in the light of modern knowledge and the modern conscience the general relations subsisting between the peoples of the west and those of the east, between so called white and so called colored peoples, with a view to encouraging between them a fuller understanding, the most friendly feelings and a heartier cooperation." Judging from the reactionary tone in America, one would expect that such a congress would receive scant welcome in the world, but this is not so. The congress has received hearty support from hundreds of influential men. Among those who are backing the pro-immigration movement, the court of arbitration, a majority of the delegates to the second Hague conference, twelve British governors, eight M. PROFESSOR W. E. B. DUOIS. British premiers, more than forty colonial bishops, some 130 professors of international law, many well known anthropologists and sociologists and a majority of the council of the inter-parliamentary union. In this congress each race will be asked to speak for itself and to speak frankly, and the speeches will be issued in a bound volume before the congress convenes. The first speaker will be an East Indian, the next two will be German and French scientists and the fourth the general secretary, Mr. Spiller, who will speak on the problem of race equality. The next session will be taken up in discussions of the general conditions of progress, and there will be heard such scientists as Sergi and Deniker on conditions of racial progress. These sessions will be continued Thursday morning with papers from China, Japan, Turkey, Persia, India, Egypt and Haiti. Then there will come a series of papers on the peaceful contact between civilizations and on problems of interracial economics. The American Negro, however, will be mostly interested in the sessions of Friday, when the vital question of the modern conscience in relation to racial questions will come up. Israel Charles Dike will speak for the Jewish Charles Dike will speak for forced labor. Dr. Bryden will speak on West Africa, Dr. DuBois on the Negro in America, Dr. Eastman on the American Indian and Mr. Jabavo on the South African native. Two secretaries for America have been appointed—the Rev. Frederick J. Lynch and Dr. W. E. B. DuBois. Dr. DuBois is specially concerned with arousing interest among colored people. He plans to organize a select committee of leading colored people, who are going to be asked to attend the congress in person. Of course all others who wish may attend, but it is particularly desired that the attendance shall be represented. Interesting articles in the race's congress in the Review of Reviews, New York Independent and the New York Evening Post. The Ethical World says: "For every day purposes we may conveniently divide mankind into the white, black and yellow families. All history tells the sad tale of their wars and jealousies, and later history also tells the tale of a dawning sense of oneness. --- NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History —Information Gathered From All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. PERSONAL. Governor-Elect Eugene N. Foss of Massachusetts issued a statement in which he demands that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge withdraw from the field for re-election. In the event of a refusal Mr. Foss said he would go into every section of the commonwealth in a campaign to defeat the senator. Lord Hardings, the new vicector of India, received the seals of office from Lord Minto at Calcutta. Count Leo Tollostil died at Astapova. Doctor Makovetsky and other attending physicians and Countess Tolstoi died at his side when the end, which was peaceful, came. Efforts of the church to gather the famous reformer into its folds effected nothing, as neither side yielded. Premier Briand, while attending the ceremonies in the Tulleries in Paris, in connection with the dedication of a monument erected to the memory of Jules Ferry, the French statesman, was assaulted by a Royalist, who struck him twice in the face with his fists. The premier was not seriously hurt. Harry M. Hoyt, counsellor of the state department, died at Washington of peritonitis after an illness of only four days. Mrs. James Mulholland of Point Pleasant, W. Va., confessed to the murder of her husband and cleared her father and mother, who had been under arrest, of the charge. Prof. William Morris Davis, the geologist of the university, was elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. State Curator Silas R. Morse of Atlantic City, N. J., has received a wallet containing $43 which he lost in Chicago at the world's fair. The conscience-streken Chicagou concealed his identity by sending the wallet by Rev. James J. Doherty of Chicago. Mrs. Marlon B. Baxter, widely known as a W. C. T. U. and woman suffrage lecturer and worker, died at her home in Seattle. GENERAL NEWS. Following a poker game in which Oda Hubbell won all the money—$200—Hubbell and his wife and two small children were slain in their home near Marysville, Mo., and their bodies burned. Hez Rasco, who was captured in a corn field near by, is held on suspicion. The Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress met in San Antonio, Tex., to discuss conservation, trade with Latin America and the orient and other important toples. Postmaster General Hitchcock took personal charge of raids in New York city on two concerns charged with using the mails to defraud the printers and to rob 100,000 by selling stock on the promise of enormous dividends. The offices raided were those of Burr Brothers, Inc., and the Continental Wireless Telegraph and Telephone company. The principal officers of the two concerns were arrested and held in $20,000 ball. The shippers had their innings in the contest before the interstate commerce commission at Washington over the suspended proposed increases in freight rates on the eastern lines. Their contention is that the advances are not justified, and that the real solution of the problem lies in the introduction of scientific principles in management. The Russian emperor has written the following note on the margin of the report which M. Stolypin sent to his majesty of Tolstoi: "I deplore the death of the great writer who embodied the golden age of his talent in his creations of types of the fatherland, constituting one of the most glorious of Russian life. M. Stolypin in God a merciful judge." A dentist of Mason City, Ia, has received a request from a man in a town near that there he lend him a set of teeth over Thanksgiving, to be returned promptly afterward. A total of 14 dead and 43 seriously injured was the price paid for football by its followers during the season just closing, despite the use of the new rules, which were brought into being in an effort to reform the game and make it less perilous to the players. A special grand jury at Wheeling, W. Va., indicted Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenk on five counts for the attempted murder of her millionaire husband, John O. Schenk. Four of the indictments charge the actual act of administering poison and the other charges an attempt. Sailors attached to the second division of the United States battleship fleet, now in the harbor at Cherbourg, France, and gendarmes clashed in the streets. Rioting continued for some time. Many of the gendarmes and sailors were injured, none so seriously. Benjamin Smith, a farmer aged twenty-two years, is in the Muncie Ind., jail, charged with the murder of his father and according to the police he has confessed the crime. It is alleged he quarreled with his father over the payment of his board. Revolt seems to be spreading rapidly throughout Mexico. Despite the rigid censorship now in effect, the government having confiscated most of the telegraph and telephone lines, stories of inrising in many districts managed to slip in. Fierce fighting occurred at Durango, Torreon, Parral and Gomez Palacio, the latter town falling into the hands of the rebels. Socialism was characterized as a "philosophy of the beer mug" in a sermon preached by Archbishop Glenon of St Louis. A large number of delegates to the American Federation of Labor convention, including several Socialists, attended the services. An attempt to obtain federal regulation of cold storage foods in interstate commerce will be made in the summer. Senator Heyburn will report to the senate on a bill of this kind. Continued difficulty in inducing merchants to pay prices on cotton goods in keeping with the high cost of production is giving rise to talk in the east of further curtailment of the output to meet the restricted demand. Friends of United States Senator Thomas H. Carter, who was defeated for re-election in Montana, said that the senator had been tendered an appointment as a member of the Supreme court of the United States. Official figures on the initiative and referendum measures submitted to the voters of Oregon show that of the thirty-two submitted nine were carried and twenty-three defeated. The highest vote was on the initiative prohibition law. The Isthmian Canal Commission's annual report shows that the canal is rare and scarlet completion and that the health and labor conditions in the zone are excellent. Mistaking a package of headache tablets for candy, the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Taylor ate 14 at Zanesville, O. The child died in convulsions. It is rumored at Eagle Pass, Texas, that 400 persons were killed at Zacatecas, Mexico, in a pitched battle between the government and revolutionary forces. Railroad men who brought information declared that the revolutionists, following a plan adopted at Pueblo, began a fight. All cases against Gov. C. N. Haskell of Oklahoma have been no乳尔 pressed. This action ends the legal fight against Haskell and others in connection with the Muskogee lot charges, which has been waged in the fecal court for several years. Lewis Barton of Darke county, Ohio, was killed by his son Charles, aged twenty-four, while shootings. The young man fired at a rat and the bullet struck his father. Unable to move because of injuries sustained in a boiler explosion Thomas Kelly, a watchman, was compelled to remain seated in a chair ten feet from the fire, five years later, Mrs. Alice Kelly, forty-five years later, burned to death. Their six-year-old boy accidentally dropped a lighted candle, which ignited his mother's garments. Although supposed to be well to do, James Mosher, a politician of Port Washington, N. Y., who died after eating a peck of clams and drinking six glasses of whisky while celebrating the Democratic victory in Maine, left only $50. By a vote of 693 to 9, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in New York, adopted an amendment which will make it impossible for any adherent of Mrs. Augusta A. Stetson, the deposed first reader, to become an officer of the church. The sentence of John Hart, a Detroit business man, to ten days in the correctional prison and to pay fines aggrieving the $200 for violation of the oleandermurder was affirmed in the United States district court at Cincinnati. One hundred and sixteen of the 1,000 militant suffragettes who marched on the British parliament building were arrested after a lively fight with the police. Led by Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the women made a deterined but unsuccessful attempt to force the police cordon about the house of commons and, reaching Premier Asquith, to insist upon the introduction of a woman's suffrage bill. Judge Kenesaw M. Landis will not try the beef trust cases. He announced to attorneys appearing before him in the United States district court who sought a change of venue in the case against Chicago meat packers, that he would be unable to hear the case in any event, and irrespective of argument for or against such a course. After a revolt at Pueblo, Mexico, in which forty were killed and three wounded, troops fought their way into the houses in which the women leaders of the rioters were intrenched and forced them to surrender. Three of the rebels were slain, one of whom killed the chief of police. Premier Asquith presented his program in the British house of commons. It is now settled that in the event of the rejection of the veto bill by the lords the government will pass the essential features of the budget, remove the pauper disqualification for old age pensions and dissolve parliament on November 28. With one wing tip of his machine crumpled like a piece of paper Ralph Johnstone, the brilliant young aviator, holder of the world's altitude record, dropped like a plummet from a height of 500 feet into the enclosure at Overland pary aviation field, Denver, Col. and was instantly killed. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. The result of a strike vote taken by boilermakers in the Cleveland shops of the New York Central lines was announced, 95 per cent. of the men voting in favor of a strike. The immediate cause of the trouble is the employment of six nonunion men. The woolen duty frauds against which the federal authorities began a campaign are declared by the government attorney to involve the greatest stinkweed ennerthed since Collector Loeb, Jr., began his house cleaning at the factory. The government said that the losses in duties claimed by the government will amount to upward of $10,000,000. The first visit to Cuban soil of a president of the United States was made by President Taft, who arrived at Guantanamo from Colon and after inspecting the United States naval station departed for Hampton Roads. OWES HER LIFE TO Chicago, Ill.—I was troubled with falling and inflammation, and the doctors said I could not null my illness I had an opinion I knew I could not stand the strain of one, so I wrote to you about my head about my heart and you told me what to do. After taking Lydia E. Hinkle's vegetable Compound. Blood Pupilum and I am to-day well woman." Mrs. WILLIAM AHRNRS, 988 W. 21st St., Chicago, Ill. Lyda E. 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Relieves tired, congested, inflamed and sore eyes, quickly stops eye aches. All drugstores or Hearst Brothers, N. Y. Penitent. Irate Father—Wretch! I saw you stealing kisses from my daughter. Young Man-1 admit it, but I am quite willing to give them back to her. Made Him Bidiculous Joseph Leiter, in an interview on his yacht Chantecler, said, with a smile: "Please quote me accurately. In an interview, you know, the slightest inaccuracy can make a man ridiculous. It is like the Frenchman, who thought he had a very fair knowledge of English, nevertheless, said to a father: "Aha! Your son, he resemble you. A chip off the old blockhead, hein?"—Exchange. At the One Horse. Jere L. Sullivan, the head of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' International Alliance, said in Cincinnati, apropos of Labor day: "Our American hotels are better than they used to be, and for this betterment my organization deserves no little credit. "We have today no such hotels as the One Horse of Tin Can, where, if you asked for a bath, they used to give you a shovel and tell you to go down to the hollow and dam the creek. "An English earl once visited the One Horse hotel. The landlord without ceremony led him outside, pointed to a window on the fifth floor, and said: "Thar's yer room." All In Good Time Seven-year-old William had become the proud owner of a pet pig, and insisted upon having all the care of it himself. After a few weeks, as the pig did not seem to thrive, his father said to him: "William, I'm afraid you are not feeding your pig enough. It does not seem to be fattening at all." "I don't want him to fatten yet," William replied, knowingly. "I'm waiting until he gets to be as long as I want him, then I'll begin to widen him out."-Tt-Bits. Got Out of the Habit. "I see you have got a young man stenographer?" "Yes." "Don't you think a pretty girl stenographer adds a great deal to the attractiveness of an office?" "I suppose she does, but I can't dictate to a woman somehow. I's pose it's because I have been married so long." HEALTH AND INCOME Good sturdy health helps one a lot to make money. With the loss of health one's income is liable to shrink, if not entirely dwindle away. When a young lady has to make her own living, good health is her best asset. "I am alone in the world," writes a Chicago girl, "dependent on my own efforts for my living. I am a clerk, and about two years ago through close application to work and a boarding-house diet, I became a nervous invalid, and got bad off it was almost impossible for me to stay in the office a half day at a time. "A friend suggested to me the idea of trying Grape-Nuts food which I did, making it a large part of at least two meals a day. "Today, I am free from brain-tire, dyspepsia, and all the lills of an overworked and improperly nourished brain and body. To Grape-Nuts I owe the recovery of my health, and the ability to retain my position and income. Read "The Road to Welville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." There are appearances above leave time. They are genuine, true, and full of human COUNT TOLSTOI TWIN CITY STAR. COUNT COUNT TOLSTOI IS BURIED WISH OF WRITER THAT GRAVE BE UNDER "POVERTY OAK" IS CARRIED OUT; NEAR THE TOMB OF TOY HORSE In Childhood He Interred Plaything There.—Thousands Go In Special Trains to Attend the Funeral. Tula, Nov. 23.—For twenty-four hours special trains arrived at Zaeeca, the railway station near Yasnaya Poliana estate, bearing delegation to the funeral of Count Leo Tolstel. Students from Moscow occupied twenty-three coaches. Following Tolstel's written request his grave has been made under "poverty oak," in the spot "where in childhood we buried a green rocking horse." This reference was to an episode in the early life of Tolstel and his brothers, who, with childish rites conceived, of the earth a hobby book, the belief that when it was disinterred a reign of happiness would be inaugurated. The novelist often referred to the disposition of his body, and in directions left specified explicitly that the ceremony incident thereto should be "of the simplest without the rites of the orthodox church." Casket Borne by Sons. The special train bringing the body from Astapova was met by throngs of mourning peasants, who, since daylight, had been wending their way thither from the surrounding country side. According to the Russian custom Tolstoi's sons were the bearers, and carried the casket on their shoulders over the two miles separating the station from the novelist's home. The way was lined with mourners. Peasants marched at the head of the procession carrying white banners inscribed: "Leo Nikolakivitch the memory of your goodness will never fade from the minds of us or phased peasants." Books and Buddha in Room. Following the peasants were two student choirs chanting memorial hymns and four carriages filled with wreaths. Then came the sons trudging slowly under the weight of the casket. The countess and others of the family followed the bier aloof. Arrived at the house, the cortege halted and the casket was borne with in and placed upon a catafale erected in the author's favorite book of its furniture and was harren, except for the cherished bookcase, a portrait of Tolstoi's brother and a bust of Budda. ALLEGED NIGHT RIDERS FREED Judge Dismisses Cases Because of Lack of Evidence. Paducha, Ky. Nov. 23—Lack of evidence against them caused Judge Walt Erans to dismiss 125 alleged night riders who were defendants in damage suits aggregating $200,000. Former county Judge C. W. Rucker, who was whipped and driven out of Eddyville by alleged night riders and who sued for $20,000, recovered $7,000 from D. A. Amos. An East Indian Verdict. In a case in one of our Indian courts a jury had before it evidence that could not be in any way shaken. When the concluding stage had been reached the following interchange of conversation took place between the judge and his colleagues in the administration of justice: "Gentlemen, are you ready to give your verdict?" "Yes." "What is your verdict?" "Our answer is, air, that you can do RETAIL FIGURES IN CHICAGO DROP TWO CENTS. The Festive Turkey Gobbler is Six Cents on Thanksgiving Chicago, Nov. 23.—The Chicago consumer for the first time feels the benefit of the recent much heralded reduction in the price of meat. Various retailers have marked down their prices on beef, mutton, and pork from $1/2 cent to 2 cents a pound, following the announcement of the packers that a similar cut had been made in wholesale prices. Some markets declined to meet the cut, declaring they had not yet been given any reduction in the wholesale prices, but prominent retailers predicted at from 18 to 21 cents were raised a few days. While meat prices came down turkey prices went up. Turkies quoted at from 18 to 21 cents Monday were to 24 cents. Meat upon which the price was reduced sold as follows: pork spare ribs, 12 to 15 cents; pork loins, 12½ to 14 cents; pork tenderloins, 20 to 25 cents; dressed beef, No. 1 cut, 15 to 17 cents; beef ribs, No. 1 cut, 12 to 14 cents; beef ribs, No. 2 cut, 10 to 11½ cents; mutton legs, 10 cents. Low Prices Are Varied. Prices in different sections of the city varied, but the prices were generally lower. Where pork tenderloins had been selling for 22 cents, they sold for 20 cents, and where they had been selling for 37 cents they sold for 35 cents. Following the announcement that the price of meat was going down and protest because there was danger the county contracts would be let at high prices the county board announced the meat situation would be investigated before the contracts were let. Bids which had been submitted to the board were found in many instances to be higher than last year on the same articles, although the wholesale prices were supposed to have been reduced. When this was pointed out the board rejected the bids and postponed the letting of the contracts. Torpedo Boats Are Ordered: Washington, Nov. 23.—Contracts for six torpedo boats were awarded at the navy department. Two of them went to the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me; one to the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock company, Newport News, Va; one to the New York Shipbuilding company, Camden, N. J.; one to the Fall River Shipbuilding company, Quincy, Mass., and one to the Cramps Shipbuilding company, Philadelphia. They will be required to develop a speed of 30 knots an hour. The boats will cost $654,500 each. Packers' Trial Set for Dec. 20. Chicago, Nov. 23.—Unless unforeseen complications arise the indicted members of the so-called beef trust will be placed on trial Dec. 20. Democrats to Rule House Washington, Nov. 23.—The Democratic representation in the next house will be 227 against 163 Republicans and one Soallat, according to the latest poll. These figures give the Democrats a majority of 63 and a plurality of 64. $250,000 Fire at Winnipeg Winnipipe, Nov. 23—Spontaneous combustion among chemicals stored on the third floor of the Martin, Bole & Winn company's block caused a loss of from $200,000 to $250,000. as you like with the men they have confessed, but we acquit all the rest. "But is it possible that you have weighed the evidence? "Fidelity like this can always be fabricated." "Do you find that as regards these prisoners it has been fabricated? "Evidence can be fabricated." 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Somebody took the rope off the bell in the fire engine house to use for a clothesline, and now, when there is a fire, the constable has to climb up into the tower and ring the bell with a hammer. Somebody took the hammer the other day, and, when Hank Purdy's cornbirch ketched fire, the constable had to hurry down to Hilliker's store for to berry a hammer. Hilliker lent his hammer to Denenfrew, who lies four miles out in the town, and by the time the constable had got there and hunted around in the barn for the hammer and got back to the engine house, the angry elements had done their worst and Hank's cornbirch was a mass of smoldering ruins. - Judge's Library. Not a Solitary Exception. Professor—Astrology teaches that girl born in January will be prudent, good-tempered and fond of dress; April, inconstant and fond of—Hostess—In what months are girl born who are not fond of dress? Professor—In none, madam. At the County Fair. 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The wit of Bishop Seth Ward amuses Nathaniel Dry. Bishop Ward, in company with two senators, came forth from a Nashville reception the other day and entered a motor car. "Ah, bishop," said one of his companions, "you are not like your master. He was content to ride an asn.," and so should Ward. There was no such animal to be got nowadays. They make them all senators." He Couldn't See. Little Jack's father was the teacher of the Sunday school class of which Jack was a new member. He had been told that as this was his first Sunday he would not be asked any questions but he must pay close attention just the same. So, on the way home his father asked him who it was who killed Gollath. "I don't know, I was sitting on the back seat and couldn't see," was the ready answer—From Norman E. Mack's National Monthly. The Winning Candidate The Winning Candidate. Two candidates for the same office came from the same town one day. The one called at a house where a little girl came to the door. Said he: "Sissie, will you please bring me a glass of water?" Having brought the water, he gave her some candy and asked: "Did the man ahead of me give you candy?" "Yes, sir." Then he gave her a nickel and said: "Did he give you money?" "Yes, sir, pickling her up, he kissed her and said: "Did he kiss you?" "Yes, sir, and he kissed mamma, too!" "Don't Argufy" A single dish of Post Toasties with sugar and cream tells the whole story— "The Memory Lingers" Festum Cereal Company, Ltd. Battle Creek, Mich. LIGHT PLAYERS IN DEMAND Gridiron Stars Need Not Possess Great Weight, as Agility and Speed Figure in Contests. Light, feet-footed backs are in demand this year for all the college football teams. Under the new rules the light player has at last come into his own. This does not mean that the back field can be composed of men in the lightweight class. But the day of the ponderous, heavy backs seems to be a thing of the past. A player weighing from 150 to 180 pounds has the call for the positions this year. The abolishment of the sturdy, catapult type of back is due to the change in the rules dealing with the old style of line plunging play. No longer is it legal for the human battering-ram to hurl three or more men as interference at an opposing line. Mass play has been effectually abolished. And so the character of the game has undergone a great change from the days of the flying wedge. That the big college teams realize the futility of playing heavy men in the back field is shown by the number of shifts made this year. The heavy men had their try-outs early in the season and they failed to make as much headway as the lighter players. In some cases the experiment proved rather costly. Harvard was one of the first to realize the value of light men in the back field. Evidence of this was the blunt, not the slim, and the back of last year was shifted to a place in the line. Minot's plunges through opposing lines last season netted the Crimson many big gains, but with the restrictions on this style of play this season the coaches decided he would be more valuable on the line. Later in the year Princeton made a similar shift. Captain Eddie Hart, reckoned in the country, was taken out of the back field after the Lafayette game and placed in the line. In the game with Carlisle Hart more than won his spurs as an aggressive line man. He opened up some big gaps for the backs to tear through. Coach Ted Coy of Yale was another football director to startle the ex perts when he placed Howe in at full back. Last season Howe was the choice for quarter back and it was expected he would play that position this year. He is heavy enough under the new rules, but he does not measure up in weight by many pounds to some of the old-time full backs. Perhaps the forward pass had had much to do with giving the light men their opportunity. Surely that, coupled with the necessity of end runs, has worked a big change in the complexion of the attack. To be successful the forward pass must be hurled and received by a player quick on his feet, one able to get started with the ball at top speed. While lacking in concentration of attack and a bit weak on the defense, Princeton has one of the fastest back fields in the country. Sparks, Pendleton and Ballou make up a combination hard to beat. Pendleton is counted one of the best runners in a broken field of recent years, and Sparks shows plenty of dash in his attempts to skirt the ends. Ballou is fast on his feet and at the same time an able punter. Against Houser of Carlisle he made an excellent showing, outkicking the Indian by many yards. Nor are the Tigers without their usual drop kicker. Pendleton has acquitted himself well in the early games and seems capable of dropping the ball over the cross bar from any point almost within the 40-yard line. The list of star Princeton kickers is a long one. Somehow Nassau secures a good goal kicker almost every year. While Harvard has been rolling up big scores on its opponents Yale and Princeton have not been doing so well. Yale was scored on by Syracuse, beaten by the Army and held to a no score tie by Vanderbilt. Princeton started off well enough by scoring 18 points on Stevens, but only managed to score 12 on New York university. Villa Nova was easy for the Orange and Black, but the Tigers barely won by a score of 3 to 0 over Lafayette. They defeated the Indians, 6 to 0. DEATH NOT DUE TO FOOTBALL Autopsy Reveals Real Cause of Freshman's Demise at Cornell—Died of Heart Disease. That Lauren B. Paine of Duluth, the freshman who died at Cornell infirmary the other night, did not die from injuries sustained in football practice was made known after an autopsy upon the body by Dr. Charles A. Bentz, the Buffalo pathologist. The findings confirmed the opinion of the football coaches and others connected with the game and removes all doubts as to the playing of the balance of the scheduled year. The findings are contained in the following telegram sent by President J. G. Schurman to Franklin Paine, the boy's father: "Dr. Bentz of Buffalo made a postmortem examination and has just submitted to me the following signed report: 'From the findings it is my opinion that the patient died of unavoidable acute dilatation of the heart, associated with arterial disease and a gastro entero colitis. There was no evidence of anything due to football injury. The gastro entero colitis was the most important cause of the dilatation.' I should add that Dr. Bentz is a member of the department of pathology of the University of Buffalo and has made thousands of autopsies." A Bishop's Opinion of Football. In a recent sermon on football Bishop Candler of the Southern Methodist church said: The bottom truth in the matter is that the element of brutality at which so many new rules have been aimed is one of its chief attractions, and an effort at the elimination of this element would mean elimination of the game. There are some things which cannot be reformed without the death of them because the heart of their life is the evil. This is the case of football. It is inherently and incurably bad. TWIN CITY STAR. DOES YOUR BACK ACHE? Backache is usually kidneyache. There is only one way to remove the pain, you must reach the cause—the kidneys. No better kidney remedy exists than Doan's. Picture Terry exists than Doan's Kidney Pills. They permanently cure all kidney lilis. PIN A STORY Mrs. M. C. Morris, 546 Pacific Ave., Alameda, Cal., says: "For twelve years I suffered from kidney trouble. My back ached so intensely I did not receive one good night's rest. 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Kidding Worse Than Cutting Riding Worse Than Cutting. Talk about making good with your friend, a New Orleans man, and everybody he knew that he was going to Philadelphia for the dual purpose of seeing the world's baseball series and having a slight surgical operation performed. Reaching this city, he consulted a specialist, and was told that an operation was not necessary. "But, doctor," the New Orleans party urgently interposed, "it must be done." "Why must it?" wonderingly queried the surgeon. Because, was the startling rejoinder of the astronaut that "tall all of you at home at that time, I was going to have an operation performed, and if I don't make good they will kill the life out of me."—Philadelphia Telegraph. 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Those which have striven to perfect a defense, without paying extraordinary attention to the offense ammended by the new rules, are making only a poor showing and the coaches are beginning to realise that an eleven without a great number of plays and men back of the line will work their best in no shape to claim titles. In the words of ar old football player, "A strong defensive team may tie a great many games, but it takes an eleven with a strong offense to win." Michigan is one of the most prominent schools in which too much attention has been paid to the defense to the neglect of the offense. Coach Yost has been working all year with three games in view, says a writer in the Chicago Daily News. His schedule has been particularly hard—Notre Dame, Pennsylvania and Minnesota, the three strongest teams on the list, following each other on successive Saturdays. His early games have been practice affairs and against schools which in previous years had always been beaten by his eleven by overwhelming scores. In coaching his team Yost has been particular to build up a defense capable of taking care of his three strongest opponents while letting his offense go until just before his big games. In this way he has prevented his opponents from gaining much ground against his team, as is shown in the games in which the Wolverine eleven has participated. The Ann Arbor goal line has never been in danger of a touchdown and no team thus far has been in danger of a touchdown in Michigan. The sum total of the gains in the three games played so far this season would be considerably less than 70 yards. In spite of this, Michigan has won only one of its three games, defeating the Michigan Aggies by the narrow margin of 6 to 3, while both Case and Ohio State have secured 2-3 to 3 tie scores. While this shows the opposing teams could not gain against Michigan and were unable to score by running the ball, it is equal proof that the Wolverine offense was even weaker than that of its opponents, for the Michigan backs were not obliged to work against so strong a defense and yet were unable to score. Yost, according to critics, has taken a slow way to develop his team, but that lately great improvement may be seen. He will be forced to teach his men a number of offensive plays to cope with the Syracuse eleven Saturday and there is no doubt expressed that he will have a greatly improved offensive eleven on the field when he takes on the easterners. Minnesota is an example of a team that has taken up the work of strengthening the offense to the neglect of the defense. From the start of the season Coach Williams men began to reel off intricate plays based upon the new rules and the men were taught something new each week. The Gophers have rolled up overwhelming scores against their opponents and it is on these scores that the followers of the conference eleven base their hopes of a victory for Minnesota over the Gophers in 19. Playing teams not in its class, the Gophers' defense was found strong enough to prevent any score being made against it, although considerably more ground has been gained against the conference eleven than against Michigan, in spite of the difference in the scores. In developing a strong offense the line is the first consideration for the coaches. In spite of the talk at the start of the season about fast backs and trick plays it has been found by nearly all instructors that the strength of a team lies in the strength of its forwards. Thus the linemen have come in for more than their share of coaching on the offensive side of the game and more stress is being laid upon this as the season progresses. It has been proved that the greatest back field in the world cannot score when the forward line is weak. The University of Chicago team has a back field second to few in the West and yet on account of the weakness of the Maroons' forwards the Midwayttes have been beaten by teams they were better than theirs which were better than theirs and they were lucky to get away with the Northwestern game, although the Purple backs were weaker. Chicago is not an isolated instance of this. The same state of affairs is to be found throughout the country. Much of the ground-gaining ability of teams this year depends on trick plays and on the forward pass. In both instances a strong line is needed in order to give the back-field men time to work out the intricate formations. The forwards must hold the defensive team back long enough for the men carrying the ball to complete their plays and this must be for a considerably longer time than was the case under the old rules. Trick plays, although they seem fast and snappy to the spectators, take a much longer time to execute than simple ones, and the forwards must be taught and must have the ability to hold just so much longer. Stolen Bases Are Fatal. It was a stolen base by Dougherty in 1906 that upset the Cubs, proving Kling be outguessed. It was a stolen base by Collins that sent the Cub machine into the air and crumple the Cub defense in the second game. Boy Killed In Football. Lee Simpson, aged 18 years, of Trappe, is dead at his home at Easton, Md. from the effects of an injury received while playing football at the Trappe high school. He was struck on the temple by the knee of one of the players. Hard on Middle Ages. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, says football is worthy of the Middle Ages. In it, this bearing down rather hard on the Middle Ages?—Chicago Record-Herald. 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We should vote and vote only for cow gressmen and other candidates for of fice who pledge themselves te advo cate the folowing measures: 1, The restoration of the dis charged Brownsville soldiers. 2 National legislation against lynching and mob law. 3 The passage of a national antl Jim Crow law. 4. National afd to education, with the same opportunities to all children 6 The enforcement of the const} tution so as to stop disfrancbisement und peonage, ‘Why We are Thankful, Thanksgiving Day is set apart for services of Thanks to the Divine Creator for his blessings to humanity. As a race the Negro should be especl ally thankful. His condition has never before been better, his oppor- tunities greater, or his prospects brighter. As individuals, we are en: tering the various avenues of life a fair competitor and a worthy foeman, fighting inch by inch for business con: ‘alderation, and commercial equality, Providence has protected us and in- dustry and intellect will advance us. “Give Thanks unto the Lord, for he Is good, For his mercy endureth forever. Wipe your shoes? when you come from St. Paul. Minneapolis is now a Spotless Town. MARDLY MISSED. Ten generals were lost when a Hatien gunboat sunk. Generals are so thick in Haiti the absent ones will scarcely be missed—Duluth Herald. Many generals and few gunboats have resisted the attacks of such Na- tions as France and Germany--and there are no records where foreign invasion upon their territory has proved successful. Toulssant L/Overture, and his pa- trlotle followers, blasted the one ambt- tion of Naboleon, after he had sacrl- ficed the “flower of the French army” to subdue them. His only revenge was the Imprisonment of the greatest general of the world. ‘Today Haytl represents the “Little Black Republic,” and the posterity of Toulssant. They are all generals. Not the goldlaced, tin-soldiered Sous of the Sons of the Revolution—but each and every one a decendent of the Last Legion of L’Overture, who resisted oppression and founded a Re- public which stood for centuries. Negroes should mourn the loss of the crew of the Haytian gunboat, as well as the crew of the Maine. We were represented in both, and we respect their memory. SEGREGATION OF VICE. The authorities are in a dilemma over the conditions caused by the evacuation of the Red Light district, last April, and are about to choose the lesser of the two necessary evils. ‘The “birds of passage” have flown to the various parts of the city and bave been found nestling comfortably te our respectable suburbs, Heretofore there was a district which was known to be Inhabited by this class. But radical reformers and mission workers fnaugurated a crusade and scattered this vice to all parts among all people. Now that, they bave realised. that ““ogregation of vice is, necessary’, and jthat It Is better to let “birds of Heather flock together, for the good of ‘the community. ‘They have come tc | the conclusion that vice can be sup Dressed but not eliminated. House rules and tariff beat the Re- publicans—and Cannon ted them to defeat. But he says “he will tell how ‘it happened, when he finds out the itacte.” Teddy won't talk. ‘The ‘New Negro Political Movement Js our Declaration of Independence. ‘atlantle City our Cradle of Liberty and Aug. 6th, 1910 our Independence Dey. b Bubseribe to the Star. Garvin's Purity ‘Squad is no more. ‘Tho! last “refort” has been raided. But he 2 ‘erying for “more re- ‘sorts to "" but has “ducked the biow,” and {§ making a get-away. He could find evidence at any time against a place where our people were—(or make it) and they realize that he is the excess baggage of the Police dept. If he was looking for this “evidence” which was recently found and could not find {t—he should be made to look for another job. What right has he to ask for a trans fer! Progressive Republicans In Ala- bama. Booker T. Washingtons leading doc trine bas been that the Southern Negro should cultivate industry more and politics less. Is this the doctrine which progressive republicans of Alabama objected? THE FUTURE OF THE RACE IS DE- PENDENT UPON THE RESTRIC. TIONS AND THE HOME TRAIN. ING OF THE UNIT OF THE RACE. ING OF THE UNIT OF THE RACE. From the Reformer, Richmond, Va. ‘There is a crying need in the city of Richmond, Va,, for some method or means to put an end to youthful tm morality—youthful _obstreperousness. Boys at the age of twelve are men. Girls at the age of twelve are women, and grown up old men and women recognize these midgets as men and women. We were walking along the street the other day and saw a little girl coming up the street. The gir! was of robust physique and in short ‘skirts. She was, to appearance, a well-raised child and we considered her as such, Cotncidentally, she turned Into the same street in which we turned. Before us, going in the opposite direction, were two young ‘men apparently of good raising, well dressed and comely lads they were. But their conduct belied thelr looks. ‘This fact, thelr language to the child woman attested. ‘The conduct of the trlo was such as would pain the heart of any student of conditions as relate to our race. Now possibly, all three of these children—for children they would have, in other days than these, been considered—may have been saved to the race if some means of restraint had been brought to bear to have impressed them of the folly of their way and the ultimate end of thelr cultivated methods. Now, this is but one Illustration of what really exists in this and other cities. It is a shame that should be publicly condemned by all decent peo- ‘ple, that grown-up men hang around and “chin” little girls who, of a right should at the time be kneeling by the knees of their mothers saying thelr, “Now 1 lay me down to sleep.” But the men are not alone to be condemn- ed. For the women, too, line up with the boys yet in their “teens” and al: low them privileges that even men should not be allowed. They make of these boys men aforetime, and thus issue them Into avenues which bring senility of youth and consequently, sterility of age—a fine process of mur dering both the present and future generation of placing upon the latter the brand of Imbecility and worthless ness. Under these conditions the race cannot develope into men and women strong of character and of mind, no! powerful of body. This should be : matter of grave concern to every Ne gro-who has the future of the race a heart. Parents should place the “lid down tighter upon their children ‘They should restrict thelr outgoing and thelr tncomings. They shoul regulate the conduct of the youth wit ie cham reruns Tey shou be careful of the company thelr chi dren keep. This should be the poin through whiéh a social division shoul be drawn. Privilege should be base upon worth fn morals and not upoi color or creed. For that peopte wi most effectually Inherit the earth wh¢ in protection of the virtue of thel women and of their boys and girl build the strongest fences. Therefor put the boot to the idler, the “dude, the worthiess plotter against th hearth and home around which and i which the jewels of the family clrcl —the comely girls and the man| boys, who are the future of the rac and the perpetuators of our hope o the yet to be—The Reformer. ‘Men and women of originality are most needed in the world today. It Is not enough for you and me to know how things were done a hundred years ago. We must be alert to devise or discover new methods by which these same things may be accom: plished today more quickly and easily, wiah less expense. This applies to our own rehabilitation when we tumble nut of our wonted spheres. ‘The best advertisement | 29 one that gets the most business, of course. When you strive for success you must ‘advertise Wélt; for success comes to you only in proportion to your sarvice to others. Your habits of thought, word, and deed are your advertise ments. Seo that they are truly rep- resentative of what you have to give and the results will be all you could desite.—The Ref lector, Jefferson. | ville, Ind. Presidential Appointments. We are glad to know that Pres. Taft has at last decided to give our race such high-class representation. We have no criticism of the appointees knowing that these representatives sive credit to our race, and while it is gratifying to know that we are “fed on soft corn” the Negro will not prove ungratefal, But will never again “lick the hand that smites him.” Influence of 6. W. Franklin as Business Man and Leader, Qtiry of the Ashievemants ot a. Sel Made Man Who Believes In the Time Honored Principles of Honesty, Per- teveranee and ffeloney--Haw’ High Commarcal Rating. he entenantal easier 000. W. Frantitn, wie ls lo many reaporta the seat woccesifal of Gor Deatnaon “ig ta Chatianoogs, ‘Tens, shenid wall cncve an a distinct 1oelipaion ad scacguaect © the Coma Of yoens cam aod worsen of the face bn exba ing upon thelr life's work. is, Fraaklo'e career i bl Sasi dais thet of the self made man. te bs been in business for about twenty air years, Ofteen ef which beve beea cpeat in Chattanooga, In the Whole crate of Tannousba toovs ie not 6 an Ths bala Migber Gommaretl tatay ie ty KS * 4 i) . 4 Le {fa ay is |r who enjoys the confidence of the financial men and institutions of the community more than he. His immediate activities are centered fm the large undertaking establishment which he ‘conducts in Chattanooga But besides this establishment he has large real estate interests, owning more than Afteen houses and lots and having recently disposed of a lot the heart of the city for $14,000. Besides this valuable realty In Chat tancoga, Mr. Franklin owns two very profitable firms, one of which he con: ‘ducts himself and the other being rented out ‘o white tenants on a prof ‘table basis. Mr, Franklin has a large force of ‘emplosees, and his payroll foots up about $300 per month, besides other ‘expenses which In the aggregate make “a total of about $1,000 monthly. “During Dr. Booker T. Washington's trip through the state of ‘Tennessee In 1000 the Inspection of Mr. Franklin's ‘establishment and the comment pon the remarkable ingenuity displayed by him in the manufacture and de |slgn of funeral cars of every de scription will perhaps be remembered by ‘the Individual members of that party as one of the most notable fea tures connected with the whole trip. Tils worth as a business man bas en eared bim to the people of the com munity. He hax been called to places of honor and trust tine and again. ‘That “worth is the measure of worth” Is one of the pet theories in bis business and houseliold. “Everybody works—and father.” tx his facetious paraphrase of the latter day slang, ané In hin establishment and housebol this trite saying is carried out. Ates Franklin tx a valuable assistant to ble Io all bis Interests, and his son. Ben Jamin H. Franklin, Is also a licensed J embalmer. rendering ecient serves. Tt In well to call attention to the faci that Mr. Franklin's unparalleled sue cess ix the result of close applteation to business nnd of hard work and tha other Individuais ean succeed by thi | sume methods. He has not allowed his success t turn him away from a proper consid eration of the value of consclention: ‘effort in cburch and educational activ itles, as is often the case with som successful men. Tle Is one of the mos {nfuentlal men in the Wiley Avenu: Methodist Episcopal church, of whic! the Rev. J. W. Tate was the recen pastor. His counsel Is sought and re spected in everything that pertains t Negro life in the community. For usefulness to his people in a sub stantial way and for n concrete exam ple of the efficiency of the time bon fored principles of bonesty. persever ance and efficiency Mr. Franklin bo but few equals in our racial life, Eberhart’s Plurality. St. Paul, Nov. 24—The state can- vassing board has completed its work, Governor Eberbart's plurality was found to be 60,408. The governor's total vote ts 164,185 and James Gray's vote 103,779. The vote for the minor parties was considerably larger than two years ago. J. F. Helberg, Prohibl: tlon, got 8,960, while the party candi: date in 1908 got 7,024. George E. Bar rett, Public Ownership, got 11,178, against 6,616 for the party in 1908, . W. Brandborg, Socialist-L.abor cam didate, got 6,510. 8. G. Iverson, state auditor, recetved the largest plurality, 94.438, ‘The Nature of Disfranchisements. Disfranchisements are racial, net partisan, says the Indianapolis (In@) Freeman. If partiaen in the best sense they would not stand any more show at Washington than a jaybird. They ‘would be shot to pleces. Gentlemen, they are raclal—wbite men verses black men. : TWIN CITY STAR “/ SHOULD REVISE ONE F| SCHEDULE AT LEAST 3 Congressman “Martin ~ Altering the Tariff, ‘Washington, Nov. 24.—Representa tive Martin of Dakota, one of the house Rej who has some thing to be thankfyl for this year, has arrived in Washiagton. Mr. Martin ‘came to Washington early in order that he might spend Thanksglving day with bis family, who have beet here several weeks. ‘The South Dakota member 1s look: ing forward to © lively short session of congress. “We)ought to revise at Teast one schedule of the tariff this winter,” sald Mr, Martin. “Just what schedule would depend altogether ‘upon the tariff board. if the board ts ready to report. on any particular schedule we should take up such schedvle with a view of action with: out delay.” ‘Mr. Martin does not believe that the tariff board will be legislated out of existence at the coming session. “It is true,” he sald. “that the Democrats are in a position to put the board out of commission. If they should fil Duster against the appropriation for the board the board would have to close up shutters. I believe, however that the Democrats will not make suct fa blunder. Republicans should make an effort to amplify the powers of the board.” fest Bealls thew Trist: San Francisco, Nov. 24—The dis trict court of appeals of the First dis trict sustained the conviction of Abraham Ruef, former political bos: of this ‘city, charged with having bribed supervisors, and denied him » new trial, Ruef had been sentenced to fourteen years" imprisonment anc ‘was at liberty on bail. Minnesota Boy Drowned. Carver, Minn., Nov. 24—Walter, six year-old son of J. J. Farrell, forme president of the National Buttermak ers’ association, broke through the ice in the Minnesota ‘river and was drowned. Doctors tried for two hours to resuscitate him, but failed, The Main Cause of Republican Defeat. ‘The Texas Freeman says: “The na tional administration's. tendency” to ‘ward ily whitelom aa well na its at Uitude of the tart Is largely respons ble for the political upheaval of the present. ‘Then, top, the colored. et ens i the orth and. east, wher thelr votes count and stand for some thing, remembered Roosevelt and Brownsville and the perfidy meted out to the ruce on that oceasion.” POWER OF THE BALLOT. Heavy Vato of Afro-Americans Cause "st Republican Defeat Heretofore the Negro has been blam- ea for ail the troubles that have come {o te Tepunilcans, and. that without Chusey ye the Baiimore.Afro-Amer tenn Lodger. This the some of 1 troubies my well be laid at Bis door. He got tired of living off promises and in a number of states decided to het the other fellow, and did. Tn New York state the Negeo. was a f8ct0F fn the election of Dix for_ governor; i Ohio and Miggour! the Negro tok an nective part in the defeat of the 0.1. and says he will do It agai. MANHOOD RIGHTS UPHELD, Nation Revelts at Idea of Distranchise eee ee gees te iteaeaion: Tn view of the fight which ts being waged by the Democrats of Mary land to distranchise the colored voters of the state, the following editorial from a recent issue of the Portland (Ore.) Oregonian ix most timely as well as encouraging: “The Oregonian has been favored with a Uttle leaflet oF tract whose pur ose 1s to argue for the disfranchise- ment of the Negroes by a constitu- tional amendment. No such amend- ment can ever be passed. “The national sense of Justice revolts at the Idea, to begin with, and it is safe to believe that the country is not yet prepared to sacrifice everything that was won by the blood and ex- Pense of the civil war. Still, the little tract ts interesting om many accounts, cbledly perbaps for its frank barbarism and candid Ignorance.” ASSEMBLYMAN H. W. BASS. Elected by Large Vote From Sixth Dis- ‘trict In Philadelphia. Afro-Americans {n Pennsylvania, and especially the voters in the Sixth dis- trict of the Seventh ward in Philadel- hia, are to be congratalated upon the ‘Unusually large vote which they polled at the recent election, From the Sixth distr in Philadel phia Harry W. Biss was elected to the ‘assembly by a large vote, due in the main to the fact that Afro-Americans were particularly careful in seeing to It that every man of the race of legal age 7 "her" ete Wwe own, caguble and energetic. Tle is a native of Chester, Pa., and Is noted for his sincerity and devotion to such measures as will tend to advance the interest of the race ‘We bespeak for Mr. Bass a successful career in the rightful performance of duty in his new field, eS Se Prof. Judge Johnson The pleasure: maker. 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