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MINNESOTA DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST. PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL WOMEN IN GREAT UPLIFT WORK Phenominal Progress of the Organization Due to the Earnestness and Loyalty of its Members—Amount For Fiscal Year Is $26,968.09—Own Valuable Property in Washington. By N. BARNETT DODSON. The woman's convention, auxiliary to the national Baptist convention, recently closed its twelfth annual session, which was held in the Antioch Baptist church, Houston, Tex. Nearly every state organization in the country was represented either by delegates or by the payment of annual dues. The convention is the largest organization of Christian women in the world. Its growth has been phenomenal, and the Houston meeting gave evidence of the fact that marked improvement is being made by the great mass of women who are giving themselves to the religious and educational uplift of the race. Earnestness of purpose, wide vision and consecration of life characterize those who have the constructive work of the convention in hand. The program shows that the women are actually and actively engaged in social service work at home, missionary effort in foreign fields and in training the women and girls for Christian service. Their addresses were thoroughly prepared and delivered without manuscript. Earnestness of purpose and directness of thought characterized the action of every speaker. That the women have done remarkable work during the year was clearly shown in MISS NANNIE H. BURROUGHS. the very carefully prepared and encouraging report of Miss Nannie H Burroughs, the corresponding secretary. The most gratifying thing to be noted in connection with the work of the woman's auxiliary is that it has grown so rapidly. Twelve years ago at the first annual meeting the convention raised $15. This year it reported $26,98.09. The money is used in helping to support missionaries in foreign fields, to educate foreign students in American institutions and to operate the National Training School For Women and Girls at Washington, which institution is owned by the convention. The women bought this property and opened the school three years ago. From a valuation of $0,000 the property has increased, through buildings and other improvements made on the grounds, until the plant is now worth $28,000. Do not ask whether colored women can attempt and execute a great work on a large scale. The woman's convention, auxiliary to the national Baptist convention, answers the question. One of the special features of the Houston meeting was the needlework exhibition. Articles were donated by women from all parts of the country and were sold for the benefit of the work of the convention. Another special feature, indicative of the progressive spirit that characterizes the leaders, is the young women's movement which has for its object the enlistment of our girls in Christian work. Their program was in every way most creditable. The reports, through the annual letters, showed that the convention is in touch with 78,000 women, twenty-six state conventions, forty-seven district conventions and 8,000 local societies. There is always on hand an abundance of literature prepared by the corresponding secretary. The women who work in the local societies have reason to be grateful for the help they obtain in carrying on their local work. Three great preachers delivered three great sermons before the convention. Drs. W. H. Moses, P. James Bryant and that prince of preachers, C. T Walker. Another feature of the work of the convention was the early morning prayer meeting, led by state delegations and attended by a large number of consecrated workers who realize that prayer is the key to the situation in the work that they are attempting to do for the Master. The field secretary, Mrs. E. E. Whitfield, gave a report of the work she has accomplished since her promotion. This report showed that she had traveled thousands of miles and has brought into the convention new organizations and new workers. Tag day for the benefit of the laundry to be built at the National Training school was a success. Over $300 was raised through the efforts of fifteen or twenty women who "tagged the convention." The national Baptist convention, of which the auxiliary is a part, did not decide upon the next place of meeting. The executive force and the secretaries will select the next meeting place with a view of holding it in connection with the annual meeting, exercises and exhibits illustrating the achievements of the race. The woman's auxiliary has planned to make 1913 its banner year. The secretary has already announced that the women will celebrate in a most corditable way the fiftieth anniversary of emancipation. The convention voted to erect a memorial arch at the entrance to the National Training school at Washington as its fiftieth anniversary expression of appreciation to the great emancipator for giving to the race the opportunity to enjoy its freedom and to develop in a great country. The officers of the convention are: Mrs. S. Willey Layen, president; Mrs. S. C. J. Branty, vice president; Mrs. Virginia Broughton, recording secretary; Mrs. M. E. Goins, assistant recording secretary; Mrs. M. B. Broughton, recording secretary; Mrs. M. V. Parrish, treasurer; Mrs. E. A. Wilson, statistician. WORK OF MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT WINS PRAISE Educational Value of Unique Institution Evokes Favorable Comment. The music school settlement in New York which was started in 1911 has made wonderful progress. Although practically a new venture as such among Afro-Americans, it has outgrown its quarters in Sixty-second street and will soon move into a more suitable building in the Harlem section of the city. Over 2,000 lessons have been given to children and adults within the past nine months. The teachers are now busy with the formation of a large chorus which they expect to make one of the most attractive features of the settlement work during the coming winter. The educational appeal to our people through music has long been considered a pertinent feature of race progress. Some of the leading educators of the south, including the presidents of many of the larger industrial schools, give it as their opinion that the music school settlement is creating a common basis of friendship and helpful co-operation between white and colored people which will promote general interest and a better understanding of the best methods to be used in their educational work. Though the settlement school has for its main work its sociological purpose, there could be no stronger proof of its value as a path breaker, musically, than the fact that some of the best compositions performed at the first concert, given in May, 1911, were instantly accepted for publication and evoked from Schindler, who saw these compositions in manuscript, the most favorable comment. Room In the South For More Business. At the recent meeting of the National Negro Business league held in Chicago President Booker T. Washington in his annual address emphasized the fact that there is room in the south among Afro-Americans for 5,000 additional dry goods stores, 8,000 grocery stores, 3,500 drug stores, 2,000 shoe stores and 1,500 millinery stores. He also said that "in order that the Negroes in this country shall advance in economic directions the teacher, the minister, the business man and all others who are interested in race and national development must co-operate." READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. SMOKE THE RELIABLE 5c SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR 5c MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., OCTOBER 12, 1912. LAND OF PLENTY FOR THE FARMERS NELSON'S PLAN TO COLONIZE W. E. Gillespie Tells Interesting Story of His Recent Trip to the Island Province of Pinar del Río Pictures as Garden of Eden For the Thrills Agriculturist. Minneapolis, Minn.—W. E. Gillespie, one of the most successful farmers in this section, gives the following account of his recent trip to Cuba: After corresponding for about three months with Mr. R. M. R. Nelson at his home in Lista, Havana, I decided to visit his "land of June breezes" and so wrote him. Before his reply reached me Evanisto Estinoz began his fatal revolution. Being assured by Mr. Nelson that the trouble was confined to the eastern end of the island, 500 miles from Havana, I sailed from New York June 7 and was met by him at the custom house in Havana June 10. I bade him and other friends au revolat at the same place July 7 after twenty-eight days of strenuous going in cars, busses, wagons, horseback and afoot seeing the things "Cuba's best guide" has to show to the Afro-Americans who want to know about the plan to colonize 10,000 or more colored farmers in Cuba. The best farming lands of the section that I saw were in the province of Pinar del Río, which is said to contain the richest tobacco soil in the world. Mr. Nelson is offering land in this province at $10 per acre to colonists. As the language is Spanish, it is essential that the people settle in colonies, so that one interpreter can act for a large number of them until they acquire the language. I spent about three days at the farm of George Davis at San Cristobal. Mr Davis is from Bessemer, Ala. He has bought eighty acres of land, put down a fine well and is making great improvements. He is very enthusiastic concerning opportunities in Cuba for colored people from the southern states. There are great opportunities in raising hogs, watermelons, chickens, vegetables and fruit—in fact, all farm products. Pork was selling in Havana at 80 cents per pound, chickens at 80 cents to $1 apiece. Fresh eggs command almost any price: 3 to 5 cents apiece is common. Medium sized watermelons were $1.25 each in the Havana market, while oranges were selling at three for 20 cents. Vegetables and fruits can be raised at all seasons of the year, and, while they can be shipped to New York and other United States markets, I think there would be more money in catering to the local markets, thus saving freight, duty, etc. Cuba buys from abroad $10,000,000 worth of the things just cited. One thing I noticed was that a black man was just as good as a white man. There were colored motormen and conductors on the street cars and colored men in every other line of trade. It looked indeed like a land of opportunities for the black man. The nights were always cool. The thermometer while I was there averaged 85 degrees, and there was always a cool breeze. I can see no reason why Mr. Nelson should not induce 50,000 colored farmers from the south to move to Cuba. I understand that the trip from Key West, Fla., takes only five hours. Suffrage League's Annual Meeting. The New England Suffrage league held its ninth annual meeting in New Bedford, Mass., on Monday, Oct. 7. The sessions of the convention were well attended, and much important business was transacted. In political matters the organization declared for only such local and national candidates as are in favor of full constitutional rights for Afro-Americans as are accorded to members of all other races. William Monroe Trotter, editor of the Boston Guardian, is as bitterly opposed as ever to Roosevelt and declares that he will do all he can for the election of Woodrow Wilson. Next World's W. C. T. U. Convention. The next annual meeting of the world's convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance union will be held in Brooklyn in 1913. The organization has a large following among the colored women in the City of Churches, and they will take an active part in the proceedings of the convention when it meets. The national body is presided over by Mrs. Lillian M. Stevens. LIBERAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN VOTE Professor Greener Joins Democrats. Trend Toward Independence Grows. The attitude of the colored voters in the various sections of the country toward the Democratic party has undergone a remarkable change during the past decade. Time was when any alliance with any other political organization except the Republican party would be frowned upon by the masses of our people. But the race is advancing along all lines of activity and thought in the direction of equal justice and full constitutional rights for all Americans regardless of race. Public officials in the state and national government or those who are candidates for such position and are in favor of the just enforcement of the law as law and not according to color will receive reasonable support from Afro-Americans. In the present political campaign our people are to be found in the ranks of all parties. Independence in voting is the trend of the age among the body politic in America. Strict party lines are no longer followed. The man or party that favors the best interest of all the people alike occupies a conspicuous place in the affections of the people and especially with those who are making an effort to become secured in those rights guaranteed to citizens of the United States by the constitution. It will be news to the many friends of Professor Richard T. Greener, former United States consul to Bombay and later to Vladivostok, Russia, that he has renounced his allegiance to the Republican party. In a letter to a friend in New York from his home in Chicago, Oct. 1, Professor Greener says: "You will not be surprised when you receive this letter to know that I have thrown off my Republican allegiance for good and all, an act possibly too long delayed, and shall take my chances in the open advocacy of Wilson and Marshall throughout the country in this campaign wherever I shall be heard." Afro-Americans' Year of Jubilee. Sept. 22 was the fiftieth anniversary of the issuance of the emancipation proclamation by President Lincoln. Thus the year 1912 marks the beginning of the colored man's year of jubilee in America. The future of the race is bright and full of promise. We belong to a race which has come up through many hardships, but we have never yet lost faith in our ability to make progress commensurate with our opportunities. October Meeting of Concord Literary. The October meeting of the Concord Literary circle, held in the chapel of the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn on Thursday evening. Oct. 10, was largely attended. The Rev. Dr. William M. Moss was the speaker of the evening. His address abounded in helpful illustrations and timely advice to the young people. He urged them to be industrious, self reliant and to make good use of every opportunity to advance themselves along all lines of usefulness. The musical program consisted of vocal and instrumental selections of classical compositions. President Walter K Taylor presided. Captain Charles Young's Promotion. In promoting Captain Charles Young of the Ninth cavalry to the rank of major in the regular army the government bestows honor upon a worthy soldier who has proved his worth. As military attache at Monrovia, Liberia, to which post he has been assigned, Major Young will have further opportunity to put into practice his rare knowledge and skill of military affairs The Constitution and Citizenship. The next great war will be fought for the enfranchisement of the disfranchised colored citizens of the south who are still denied the right of suffrage, as guaranteed to all citizens of the United States by the national constitution. To lay claim to state rights in the matter of regulating the suffrage is simply begging the question. The constitution does not disfranchise a single citizen, native born or naturalized. Let us hope, however, that it will be a war of legal enactments which will cause to be enforced the constitutional rights of all citizens regardless of race or previous conditions of servitude. Importance of the Literary Society. While there are numerous organizations for mutual benefit in a financial way among our people throughout the country, we should not underrate the importance of the literary or debating society. There should be two or three such organizations in every large city where our people form any considerable number of the population. Nothing is more helpful to the young men and women as the opportunity to develop their intellectual knowledge through the agency of the literary society. SEVEN STATESTO HOLD BIG SHOW DATES NOVEMBER 12 TO 23 Governors and Business Men of Minnesota, the Dakotaas, Montana, Idaho Washington and Oregon Join in Bringing Displays from Seven States. To bring under one roof a complete display of the products of seven states and the territory of Alaska and show on its 40,000, square feet of exhibit space the best of everything which has been produced during the season of 1912 in 1,063,000 square miles of territory, is the big task which the government of these seven states and an organization of Western business men have attempted. The idea is to collect the best samples from seven state and some sixty or seventy county fairs and, bringing them together, hold a great fair of the AMERICAN Northwest. The governors named commissions early in the year and these men, representing all most every county in the seven states have been busy all summer collecting the prize winning grains, grasses fruits, vegetables and plants, as well as securing displays of the products of the lakes, rivers, forests and mines. Show Opens In November. It is this display, which will be placed in a new exposition building in Minneapolis, after the season's bumper crop has been harvested. The bustress men of Minneapolis have erected this building at a cost of $75,000 and invited the governors of the seven states to make it the home of their Northwestern Products Exposition. It will be installed the first week of November and open to the public from Nov. 12 to 23. The great transportation companies interested in the development of the AMERICAN Northwest are assisting in the work of collecting and installing this exposition and have just anounced that special railroad rates will be granted. Each state will have a special day at the Northwestern Products Exposition and on these days the governors of the states and some prominent men will speak in the lecture halls of the exposition about their states. They will have thousands of feet of new motion picture films and stereoscopic views by the hundred to illustrate their addresses. But the exhibits themselves will constitute the best guide to the American Northwest which has ever been created. The exposition will be a miniature world's fair—it will be to the seven states what the world's fairs have been to the American continent. While the state exhibits will be almost uniform, in that they will all occupy about the same amount of space and have booths of a general size, various communities of these states have secured space in the exposition for individual exhibits. Besides the states there will be some seventy special booths and exhibits supplementing the state exhibits. A visit to the exposition is expected to give one almost as much knowledge as an extended trip through the seven states. The whole idea is to give the visitors information about the AMERICAN Northwest; to create a knowledge of the possibilities, opportunities and fascinations to be found in this great territory where now only 7,000,000 people live on 395,000,000 acres of land. Because this exposition is given by the states themselves, and is not in any way a private enterprise, the information it is expected to give will be authentic. The men connected with the exhibits have been appointed by the governors and represent the highest class of citizenship in the Northwest. It will be a show of the whole people of the area represented, just as a state fair is a show by the people of one state. Minnesota Most Important. The state of Minnesota will have the largest exhibit in the exposition and the Minnesota display will be more complete than the exhibits of the Gopher state at any state fair because the Northwestern Products Exposition is held late enough to enable those in charge of securing the display to show grains and fruits not ripe when the state fair is held. The Minnesota exhibit at this exposition will give a sane, orderly and representative showing of what the state is giving to the world. Telle Where to Get Homes. What is true of the Minnesota ex- hibit will be true of the others. They will tell visitors what the lands of the Northwest will do and the men in charge will inform people or give them literature showing how and where to secure a home in the American Northwest. Many amusement features will be introduced in keeping with the character of the exposition. The Minnesota First Regiment Band—the crack band of the state, will give four daily concerts and there will be other dignified amusements and features. It will be everything to show and nothing to sell. Best Exhibits at State Fair, With Carloads of New Displays, Secured for Minneapolis Land Show. Immigration Commissioner H. J. Maxfield of the Minnesota department has secured a large part of the county exhibits at the state fair to be used in land shows and similar expositions to show to the world what the state will produce. The "bumper" crop in Minnesota this year made it possible for the commissioner to secure some of the best samples ever displayed of Minnesota products. These are to be placed in the Northwestern Products Exposition, to be held in Minneapolis Nov. 12 to 23, along side of similar displays from North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. All these states have "bumper" crops this season also and all have immigration commissioners or committees appointed by their governors to gather samples of their products. As soon as the fairs closed the commissioners got busy and as a result the best things from seven state and sixty county fairs will be assembled in the new Minneapolis coliseum for comparison. Besides the seven official state exhibits the following sectional and community exhibits will be placed in the exposition: Swift county, Minn.; Missouri slope, N. D.; Renville county, N. D.; lake region, N. D.; Dawson county, Mont.; Methow valley, Wash.; Judith basin, Mont.; Gallatin valley, Mont.; Lewis and Clark county, Mont.; Great Falls district, Mont.; Kalspell and Flathead country; Western Montana and Bitter Root valley; Bonner and Latha counties, Ida.; Valley and Hill counties, Mont.; Walla Walla country, Wash.; valleys of the Vakima, Wash.; Wenatchee district, Wash.; Central Oregon; Teton county, Mont. COMPETITION IN SKILL Progress In Scientific Knowledge Not Confined to Particular Race Those few scientific men in Great Britain, Germany, France, the United States and Brazil who have striven to understand the anthropology of the Negro and to compare it with that of the white man are rather inclined than otherwise to argue now that the Negro has contributed in the past and, still more, may contribute in the future a very important quota to the whole sum of humanity. This element of soundness and stability in physical development and certain mental qualities the perfected man of, say, twenty-two or twenty-three centuries after Christ cannot afford to do without. Such advisers would attempt to hold us back from furious raging against racial intermixture and, above all, from any policy of oppression or extirpation to which from time to time the white man is prone when he thinks that the Negro is advancing too rapidly. It is not remarkable that with the doubtful exception of the Mongolian (as represented by the very mixed population of Japan, an empire which contains much "white" blood of ancient stock over an Asiatic Negroid strain) the Negro is the only non-Caucasian race which has so far furnished rivals to the white man in science, the arts, literature and mathematics. So far, excepting a few Dravidians, Amerindians and Japanese, all of these half brothers of the white man, the other peoples of Asia, Africa, Oceania and aboriginal America have kept themselves to themselves and have never ventured to compete with the white man in his own sphere. But a Negro has now been to the north pole, and there are famous Negro painters, musicians, novelists, botanists, legists, philologists, philosophers, mathematicians, engineers and general officers whose work is done in the white world and in emulation with the first talent of Europe and America. On the French Riviera Negro chauffeurs are much in evidence because of their skilful and careful driving. MINNEAPOLIS We BEG that those who send notes will Write Facts Plainly—on Ong Side of the Paper—Leave a Space between each Item, and Use Common Sense. This is very Important. The People's Christian Mission, The People's Christian Missionary, Rev. G. W. Mitchell has moved to 1204 Washington Ave. So., where they have secured large quarters. Rev. Mitchell is meeting with great success and his meetings are largely attended by all classes, who are being benefited by the services. Subscribe for the Star. Services every evening at 7:30 p. m. Special services all day Sunday. Preaching at 11 oclock a. m. Sunday School 1:30 p. m. Praise Meeting 3 All are welcome. Rev. G. W. Mitchell, Pastor. THE MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY FORUM MEETING Bethesda Baptist Church. THE ST. LOUIS KITCHEN. You can get a good meal, clean service, and courteous attention at the St. Louis Kitchen, 138 E. Third St., St. Paul. Mrs. Hinson is universally known for her good cooking. Call N. W. So. 6760 and have your stove put in good order and set up. Adv. Rev. J. C. Stewart and wife, 2915 Columbus Ave., are convalescent. AUDITORIUM BALL: Pride of the West Co. No. 1, Unifom Rank, Knights of Pythias will give a Grand Ball at the Auditorium Annex on Oct. 16th. McCullough's Orchestra will furnish the music. A SPECIAL SUPPER. A fine chicken pie and fried chicken supper will be served by the Ladies of Fidelity Court of Calantha the 345, at the residence of sister J. B. Glover, 1805 5th Ave. So., next Tuesday evening, October 15, 1912. Supper served from 6 to 11 P. M. Supper 25 cents. VOCATIONAL LECTURE SERIES. Tickets are on sale for a Series of Vocational Lectures under the auspices of the Minneapolis Sunday Forum. First Lecture Oct. 4th at St. Peters, and alternating between Bethesda and St. Peter's Churches. PROF. HOWARD CHANGES LOCATION Prof. W. H. Howard has moved his Studio from the Century Bldg. to 111 S. 6th St., near the office of Dr. Redd. Prof. Howard is one of the successful Music Masters of his city, having conducted a studio during past 18 years and has tutored among the best families. He is a Negro, who has made good in chosen profession. DUPLEX FOR RENT. 109 E. 25th St. Modern except heat; 2 WEEKS RENT FREE. $20 per month. McDew, 610 Sykes Blk. Phone Nic. 621. Mrs. D. E. Beasley and Mrs. Bird of St. Paul and Mrs. Black of Wheeling, W. Va., were dinner guests last Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Battles at their residence, 2911 11th Ave. So. Mdme. Walter K. Bowie, the accomplished pianist, is giving lessons at her residence, 2924 Pleasant Ave., and has enrolled quite a number of pupils. Mr. and Mrs. James Hodges have moved to 406 24th St. So. Mr. W. H. Walker, headwaiter at the Andrews Hotel has been on vacation during past week. Mr. E. B. James filled his position during his absence. Mrs. Geo. W. Ricks, 249 8th Ave No. has been ill, but is improving under the care of Dr. Redd. Memorial services were held last Sunday at St. Peter's Church in honor of Atty. McGhee. Atty. B. S. Smith, presided. Addresses by Atty. Albert H. Hall, Atty. W. T. Francis, Atty. W. R. Morris. The attendance was very small, on account of the program being hastily arranged. Subscribe to the Star. Mrs. Jacob De Leo, of Western Ave. one of the old residents, died last Sunday and was buried Wednesday from Zion Baptist Church. Rev Withers conducted the services. She had been suffering many years from a tumor. The Minneapolis Sunday Forum is fast losing reputation. It is now a Twin City affair. That's why. Mr. David R. Francis, employed in the Postal dept., has moved with his family to 2828 5th Ave. So. from Pillsbury Ave. Mr. John A. Dickerson, proprietor of Dickerson's Cafe has returned fr the winter after a season on the road with the Dickerson Carnival Co. He is enjoying the best of health. COPY MUST REACH US BY WEDNESDAY. FORMER CONDUCTOR COMMITS SUICIDE. Mr. Will H. Bell, formerly a Dining Car Conductor on the Duluth and South Shore Ry., committed suicide last Saturday in Sault Ste. Marie. He had been employed for several years with above company but was recently dismissed. He was well known in the Twin Cities and a native of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Bell was well liked by railroad employees and officials. WILL SUPPORT JUDGE G. R. SMITH. Hon. Geo. R. Smith, candidate for Congress met a committee of seven Negro voters in the office of Atty. W. R. Morris last Wednesday night. He asked their support in the congressional fight, and spoke on National issues. Those present were P. H. Southall, Will Critic, P. F. Hale, W. H. Rogers, Dr. Brown, R. M. Toombs, and Atty. Morris organized into a committee in behalf of Judge Smith Chas. S. Smith and Atty. Solem were present. GUESTS AT HOTEL JONES. Mrs. Mattie Halvorson, Mr. Louis Baumeyer, Chicago, Mrs. Myrtle Johnson, Milwaukee, Miss Alice Jones, New York, Miss Belle Lewis of Chicago will stop over at the Hotel Jones Saturday and Sunday enroute San Francisco. "The Kemps" are expected in the city in a few weeks. A KNOCK IS A BOOST. A motion to bar "professional men" was made in one of the recently organized "Select men's clubs," and the motion prevailed. What's wrong? It's a boost for the professionals and the club is under the hammer. Roy Austin broke his legs while playing at the Commercial Club last week. Messrs. Thomas and Allen Turner were called to Kansas City to attend the funeral of their father. Mrs. E. I. Gamble of Omaha, mother of Mr. Fred. Gamble is exected to arrive in the city next week to visit her sons and daughter, Mrs. Alberta Gamble. Mr. Thos. R. Morgan at St. Paul is working at the Commercial Club. HALLOWEEN PROMENADE Order of Eastern Star The Pride of the West Chapter No. 30, Order of Eastern Star will give a Halloween Promenade at Masonic Hall, 24th St. and 5th Ave. So. on Oct. 31st. The Lecture of Thos. Van Lear, Socialist Candidate for Mayor last Sunday was attended by several representative Negroes—who have been favorably impressed with his clear outline of the National situation, and the alms and objects of the Socialist Party. Mr. Van Lear is a convincing talker, his logical analysis of economic conditions and his reforms for human betterment met the approval of his hearers. Every one present expressed themselves as greatly benefited by his lecture, and desirous of hearing him again. Peoples, the contractor, in the Boston Block wants skilled Negro mechanics.—Carpenters, Bricklayers and Plasterers. HOTEL JONES. 204 11th Ave. So. CHANGES AT FORAKER'S CAFE. New Service Installed, Many Necessary Changes Made by New The Foraker Cafe. 308 So. 4th St., has been bought by Mrs. J. M. Mask from Mr. M. G. Rutledge. She will continue to serve its patrons, giving them better service. Mrs. Mask has made many changes and also several improvements. There will be a Regular Lunch 20c. from 11:30 till 5:30 P. M. The Cafe will be open from 6 A. M. till midnight. There will be a Special Sunday Dinner from 11:30 A. M. till 5:30 P. M., also a full line of Choice Cigars and 'bacco. She invites the patronage of all, who wish to enjoy a good meal and clean and up-to-date service. Since taking over the Foraker Cafe Mrs. Mask is much impressed with the patronage, which she will greatly increase after she has perfected her future plans.—adv. HEGNA on Cedar Ave carries a full line of Dry Goods, House Furnishings, Millinery, etc. He solicits the patronage of our readers, and his store is one of the best in the South Side District. The items from the classes, make the news of the masses. Read the Twin City Star. PAID UP SUBSCRIBERS are our best "Boosters" Are you one? Smoke the Rellable 5c SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR 5c TWIN CITY STAR Persons who send notes will please give names or initials to persons mentioned. This is necessary for their insertion. ATTY. FRANCIS OPENS LAW-OFFICE. Will Begin General Practice in the Offices of Late Fred. L. McGhee in Union Block. St. Paul. In Union Block, St. Paul. Atty. William T. Francis will open Law offices formerly used by Atty. Fred. L. McGhee in the Union Block, St. Paul, about the last of October. Mr. Francis has been Asst. Counsel and Chief Clerk in the offices of the Northern Pacific Railway for several years, and has also been admitted to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court. Atty. Francis is resigning from an honorable and lucrative position to enter general practice, but he is well qualified to further his ambitions. His offices at No. 88 Union Block are being renovated and will be ready for occupancy about Nov. 1, next. Dr. W. T. Watkins, the dentist, though a young man, has had quite an extensive practice. He practiced seven years in Montgomery, Ala., and had a branch office at the same time at Tuskegee Institute before coming to St. Paul. His dental parlors are in the Newton Building, corner 5th and Minnesota, Suite 301-302, where he has the latest and finest electrical appliances used in up-to-date dentistry. Dr. Watkins is receiving the patronage of our people, and his work is giving general satisfaction. TWENTY FIFTH ANNIVERSARY. Invitations are issued for the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Franklin at their residence, 548 Wabasha St., St. Paul, from 8 to 11 o'clock. Atty. R. O. Lee, well known in the Twin Cities is in Winnipeg. He has spent greater part of summer in Western Canada. Mrs. L. S. Ford, formerly of 895 Rice St. has moved to 499 Marion St. Atty. J. P. Anderson is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Nathan Branch of Evanston, Ill., who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Geo. Brown also her grand daughter, Mrs. Samuel Dorsey, 454 Rondo St., left for her home on Sunday evening. Mr. Leslie Roach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Roach is very ill at their residence, 920 Park Ave. Mrs. Julia Hinson is much improved after an attack of rheumatism. Mr. Gus. Banks of Winnipeg is at Daddy Reids. His many friends are glad to see him hime again. Miss Gene Revelle has moved to 204 Acker St., from Minneapolis, where she has resided several years. Miss Elizabeth Johnson of Duluth, guest of Miss Francis Elliot of University Ave., left Oct. 3, for Washington, D. C. Mrs. A. H. Schooley, now at Deerwood, Minn., will return to the city shortly. Rev. H. P. Jones of St. James A. M. E. Church was given a recetion last Monday night in the Church Parlors by the Ladies of the Church. Mrs. Morris Hickman is visiting her sister, Mrs. Arthur Hedge of Soo, Mich. Mrs. Todd is very ill at her home on Broadway. Cororal William Peoples of Co. "A", 24th Infy. U. S. A., which is now stationed at Camp McGrath, Batangas, Philippine Islands, writes a renewal of his subscriptions to the Twin City Star with P. O. Order enclosed. He was formerly a resident of St. Paul and says "that he gets the Star regularly and enjoys reading it. We thankfully accept both cash and compliments, and return the latter. Rev. A. H. Lealtad has moved to 395 Thomas St. "DADDY" REID'S NEW PLACE. Mr. Phil. E. Reid has added to The Gopher Bar. 40 East 3rd St. a new feature, the palatial Palm Garden. Its appointments are modern and it is known as the Jolly Fellows Rathskeller. Miss Cora E. Anderson. 365 Aurora Ave., is an authorized agent and correspondent for the "Twin City Star." Miss Anderson has been during past year a regular contributor to our personal news columns. She is also doing well as one of the Twin City Agents for the Spirella Corset, worn by many well gowned ladies. DO IT NOW. We beg that those who are indebted to us, send us their subscription by P. O. Order. Send to the Star your News. THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY'S CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR. The nomination of P. V. Collins for Governor if Minnesota by the Progressive Party was as much a surprise to himself as to anybody. He had not sought nor wanted any office. He knew nothing whatever of the move to make him the nominee until the nomination was made. "I have an office of greater responsibility and greater opportunity to help mankind than any political office," said Mr. Collins, "and that is the position of editor of my paper." But the demand that he head the Progressive ticket in Minnesota came with such unanimity, in the Committee of Fifty, that, as the chairman said, next day, "Mr. Collins' nomination actually seems like an inspiration." I stand for and national platforms a developed I stand for the state and national Progressive platforms and for a developed Minnesota. P. W. Bocke P. V. Collins is the editor of The Northwestern Agriculturist of Minneapolis, the man who undoubtedly is better known amongst the farmers of Minnesota and the entire Northwest than any other. It was he who was selected by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to make the speech on behalf of the farmers of America, seconding Roosevelt's presidential nomination in the National Progressive Convention last August. It was through a letter from P. V. Collins, early in February, 1911, that Colonel Roosevelt's attention was first called to the inequality and injustice to farmers contained in the Taft Reciprocity Pact, and this is shown by Colonel Roosevelt's personal letter to him dated February 27, 1911, and Riisevelt's first public declaration on Reciprocity was through a letter to Mr. Collins expressing the same views, February 29, 1912. In the meanwhile, P. V. Collins, had been active and influential in crystallizing the sentiment against the pact. Seventy members of the Legislature called a mass meeting in St. Paul, April, 1911, to hear an able address by Mr. Collins exosing the Taft Pact, and at that meeting a delegation of farmers was appointed to go to Congress and fight the pact, and Mr. Collins was made the official spokesman of that delegation. In advance of the State Fair, 1911, he announced a meeting of farmers to organize and he called to order at the Fair an assmblage of over ten thousand farmers to organize The Farmers' League of Minnesota to defend farmers' interests in legislation, and he was made state secretary of the league. Mr. Collins' paper circulated two monster petitions of protest to Congress against the Canadian Reciprocity pact, each of which was signed by between 30,000 and 40,000 farmers. The first was a protest against Congress passing the law, and this enormous petition (as big as a bass drum) was carried to Washington by Mr. Collins when he headed the delegation of farmers. The other petition filled a barrel, and urged Congress to repeal the law before Canda accepted it. These petitions created a sensation in Congress for they contained far more signatures than all other petitions combined. In many other ways Mr. Collins has proved a powerful friend of agriculture, and during his last twenty years as editor of The Northwestern Agriculturist he has gained a national reputation. He has been president of the National Agricultural Press League andand of the National Editorial As- --- sociation and vice-president for America of the World's Press, Congress held in St. Louis in 1904. --- P. V. Collins was born at Camden, Preble County, Ohio, in 1860, the son of Samuel and Abigail J. Collins. He is therefore of American ancestry but with cosmopolitan experience. He married Miss Mary Graves Rhodes, in St. Peter, in 1889. Prior to coming to Minnesota, in 1886, Mr. Collins had been a news paper writer in the East and in 1885-1886 he had been engaged in Paris, France, as special correspondent of the New York Tribune and Boston Globe. He came directly from Paris to St. Peter, Minnesota, where he purchased the St. Peter Tribune from Governor A. R. McGill. Three years later he purchased Skordemann, a the state al Progressive and for a Minnesota. Swedish farm paper, and in 1890 he sold the Tribune and brought Skordemannen to Minneapolis. Although he could not even read Swedish, he showed his nerve in making a business success of the Swedish farm paper; of course he employed competent Swedish editors—one of whom afterwards became, and is now, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Hon. C. G. Schultz. Mr. Collins sold Skordemannen in 1893, and then bought The Northwestern Agriculturist, which at that time had only 9,000 circulation a month; it now exceeds 130,000 a week, or over half a million a month. Mr. Collins is a member of the Commercial Club and the Civic and Commerce Associations of Minneapolis, and a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church. This wide cosmopolitan experience both in agricultural and city matters, ensures in Mr. P. V. Collins a breadth of view and a grasp of affairs that is unusual. He has never before been a candidate for office. "Governor Eberhart boasts that his nomination is made by the primary vote of the people and my own, as his opponent, by a committee of a few men. He leaves the unfair inference that this was a self-appointed committee representing the authority of none but themselves. This is untrue and misleading. The committee held power that was delegated to it expressly by a convention representing Progressives of the whole state. It would be inconceivable, therefore, to constitute a more democratic re-resentation. "But aside from that, the action of the committee of fifty is simly initiative to be followed by a referendum to the voters by petition and no candidacy will be complete unless it be signed under oath by thousands of voters who did not participate in the Republican or Democratic primaries. There has been no Progressive primary election; this is the only way a Progressive could get upon a ticket at all under the new law. Governor Eberhart Criticised. Governor Eberhart Criticised. "Governor Eberhart is not frank nor sincere in saying that this nomination by a few members of the committee is merely an attempt to dictate to the people of the state and to nullify the will of the people as expressed at the primaries. That could be true only if it be assumed that the standpat Republicans are 'the people.' The Progressives could not possibly express their will at the Democratic or Republican primaries, but next November they certainly will (Continued on Page 3, column 5.) SYLVESTER W. OLIVER. Working Men's Social Club OLIVER BROS., Managers PRONE: Nicollet 9506 206 So. Second St. Minneapolis, Minn. PAEGEL WILL MAKE YOUR WATCH KEEP TIME. We do the best WATCH, CLOCK and JEWELRY REPAIRING in the city at lowest prices. SPECIAL AGENTS for the HAM- ILTON, ELGIN, WALTHAM and ROCKFORD RAILROAD WATCHES. HEGENER R. H. HEGENER 207 Micellet TWIN CITY RAZORS. Full hollow ground. $1.28 each. 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By January government business will be conducted from Delhi as the capital of India. Pneumatic tires are being made in France from paper chemically treated and compressed. The United States postal department employs 60,000 postmasters, who draw $28,000,000 yearly. Two new British battleships will be fitted with anti-rolling tanks, the first war craft so equipped. About one-tenth of the electric lamps made in the United States every year are used for advertising signs. Buffalo excludes temporarily from schools children from homes where infantile paralysis has been noted. Constituting a record, the population of New South Wales has increased by over 36,000 during the last six months. J. C. Wagner of Denver has combined raspberries and strawberries in a new fruit to be called rasp-strawberries. In twenty years there have been 4,000 inventions of tires, not including mechanical devices to take the place of tires. In the garden city near Dresden, established three years ago, the mortality is only 6 per 1,000, against 13.7 in Dresden. In the United Kingdom there are a million children between the ages of twelve and sixteen who are not being educated. There are vastly more natives in the south of China who are cutting their cues and adopting European clothes than in the north. Since the beginning of the century the wheat harvested in France has only once exceeded the absolute needs of the French people. Within fifteen years there have been built in Berlin twenty-four bridges over the river Spree and neighboring ponds and to connect new streets. A London theatrical agent who has over 17,000 artists on his books declares that never more than one-third of these are employed at the same time. Despite American, German and Belgian competition steelmakers of England got the contract for building for Buenos Aires the greatest elevated water reservoir of its kind in the world. Italian shipbuilders have constructed a floating drydock in which submarine boats can be subjected to external pressure tests without the necessity of sinking them into deep water. A system of personal identification based on the patterns of the veins on the back of the hand has been invented by an Italian scientist, who claims that in no two men are the veins exactly alike. After a careful study of meteorological records, Dr. Peppler of the University of Glessen has reached the conclusion that 1912 marked the beginning of a cycle of dry summers which will last thirty-five years. The shell of the largest quahaug ever found on Cape Cod weighs one pound twelve ounces. The shell is five inches long and is thought to be more than forty years old. It was picked up on the Harwich flats. There is invested in hotels and restaurants in Switzerland, which depend largely upon tourists for their support, about $175,000,000, and the aggregate number of persons employed in these establishments is over 100,000. The bootblack as a London institution is vanishing. Two or three decades ago bootbucks abounded in the business sections of the city, but now, excepting within two small sections, one cannot be found in a day's walk. A serving maid in one of the most aristocratic families of Vienna was dismissed because it was discovered that she was using her mistress' visiting cards, to which she had added her name and the explanation, "Cook to the above." The making of tons of lead pencils in Europe has depended on the imports of American cedar. A firm in one German city has made 300,000,000 lead pencils a year from the American cedar. It is said that over 600 tons of cedar are used daily. Norway has a fish canners' association, the aim of which is to keep up the quality and reputation of Norwegian sardines. It has endeavored to secure the enactment of laws prescribing the form of labels to be used and prohibiting the packing of winter catches. The queen of Holland has received a petition signed by 28,000 men asking that the suffrage be given to women. This monster petition is the work of the Netherlands Men's League For Woman Suffrage, though many of the signatures are said to be those of non-members. The superiority of American tanned leather is shown by the fact that shoes worn in Germany are made from caffees bought in that country and sent to Detroit. Mich., to be tanned and colored and then the finished leather exported to Germany, where it is cut up into shoes. THE CONGRESSIONAL RACE AMONG REPUBLICANS IN THE 4TH DISTRICT Atty. Hugh T. Halbert of St. Paul, has entered the Congressional race from the 4th Dist of Minn., after filing by petition as a Candidate of the National Progressive Party. Mr. Halbert has allowed his name to be placed on the ticket as the real Progressive to oppose Cong. F. C. Stevens, who has not declared himself as a Roosevelt follower, but is being supported by many Negroes as a Taft Republican. The Ellsworth resolution adopted at the State Progressive Convention, requires a candidate of the National Progressive Party in the field, and for this reason Mr. Halbert has entered the race, to promote the principles of that party, and its platform and to carry out the policies of Roosevelt. Had Mr. Stevens been a Roosevelt Progressive, Mr. Halbert would not have entered the field. Now, while it is a fact that nearly all of the Negroes of the 4th district are for Roosevelt, and the thirl party, they realize that it is necessary at this time that they elect progressive Congressmen to enact progressive legislation, or to decide presidential contests, if such were necessary. Mr. Stevens has been idolized by certain leaders, who have magnified his interest in them. But a few hero worshippers do not control the majority 202 of the voters, and we do not find it published in Mr. Stevens' circular along with his other legislative accomplishments any one reference to his special efforts for the Negro. Mr. Halbert when interviewed said that "he realized that Mr. Stevens was friendly towards the Negroes and that he felt that he could do as well for the race in general as Mr. Stevens had done." We must admit that many Negroes of the North are yet victims of ancient delusions and carpet-bagger customs. They are not only wedded but welded to their idols. We claim that the Negroes of St. Paul have only been successful in their postal positions etc., according to their aggressiveness. Why is it that the Hon. Fred D. Parker is only a laborer, with privilege to help the Paymaster? Why did Mr. Chas. H. Boker have such a strenuous fight after making many records in civil service examinations before he was finally appointed? Why do many postal employees pose as gum shoe politicians and shout for Stevens? Why does Mr. Fred. D. McCracken feel that every Negro must vote for his "boss" just to keep him in a job? Because Mr. Stevens is a friend to the Negro. What did Mr. Stevens do for the Pullman Porters under the Epmilayers' Liability Act? There was no account of his "doings" in the Washington Bee, or Congressional Record. We do not say that Cong. Stevens has not been a good Congressman. He is a power in Congress. He has been interested in Ft. Snelling, and the Negro troops will never be garrisoned there while he is in Congress. He is interested in Rivers and Harbors, Commission and Panama Canal. How many Negroes are employed by his appointment? We do not attempt to say that many good things he has done, or do we think that he has bought the well-thinking Independent voters of Ramsey County by doing what was his duty. No Negro who believes that the future of his race lies in the new party, will support Mr. Stevens. It is expected that all Taft followers will fall in line, and others may be purchased at market price, but, every Negro who wishes to see his race given their share of human rights, and such alterations in the states that will secure these rights; will follow the program of the Theodore Roosevelt, whose campaign in Minnesota was made by that fearless, honest, and aggressive leader, Hugh T. Halbert, whose greatest ambition is to go to Congress, and to promote the welfare of all the people, thereby giving to every race and individual the right to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. 1911 by American Press Association. COLONEL ROOSEVELT. THE RULE OF THE PEOPLE. The national Progressive party, committed to the principle of government by a self-controlled democracy expressing its will through representatives of the people pledges itself to secure such alterations in the fundamental law of the several states and of the United States as shall insure the representative character of the government. In particular this party declares for direct primaries for the nomination of state and national officers, for nation-wide preferential primaries for candidates for the presidency, for the direct election of United States senators by the people; and we urge on the states the policy of the short ballot with responsibility to the people and recall. This is the plank in the platform secured by the initiative, referendum condemning States' Rights, and the revival of the Civil Rights Bill, which the Republicans never passed. THE PROGRESIVE PARTY'S CANDIDATE For GOVERNOR. express themselves as did Colonel Roosevelt at the West Hotel this month, in condemning the theft of the will of the people at the Chicago Republican Convention, condemning any beneficiary of that theft and any one who today condones that thievery—and the speaker was facing squarely the very leader of Minnesota condoners when he used the stinging denunciation. "I trust that our governor will deem it expedient to reflect further upon the action of the Progressive committee as not being authorized by the Progressive party. It was not in Progressivism to have any central committee arbitrarily to unseat delegates duly elected by the voters, and at the dictation of two or three bosses to create puppet delegates; and every nomination made by the committee will be indorsed by thousands of electors before it goes upon the ticket. "It will be remembered, too, that not until the Progressive controllong the State Republican Convention last spring demanded a popular primary vote on the nomination for governor did 'His Excellency' make a move to call the legislature to establish a primary law. The primary is the child if the Progressive party, but under legal restrictions they were barred from entering it this year and their only available course is the one adopted. P. V. Collins, Progressive Party Nominee for Governor. The Twin City Star has the exclusive use in this city of the Afro-American news service of the American Press Assn., edited by Mr. N. B. Dodson of N. Y., which is a feature of our publication, much appreciated by our readers. Subscribe for the Star. GUARD YOUR ENTHUSIASM. The Negro voters are interested in the coming election, and they belong to all parties. It is hoped that they will not be so deeply interested that they will make personal attacks against those of their race who may oppose them. Treat each other as you do the white man. Let us give every one credit for his political views, and when the campaign is over, may there be no strained social relations on account of political differences. We can accomplish nothing under these conditions. EDUCATE, AGITATE AND EMANCIPATE. "Wherever any race or group of people learn to do a common thing in an uncommon way, by putting brain, skill and conscience into labor, that race or group of people is likely to solve all the problems that surround them."—Dr. Washington. ST. LOUIS KITCHEN. 138 E. 3rd St., St. Paul. We claim to be the best advertising medium of the Twin Cities, and when you're not advertised in the Twin City Star, you need not show—that's all. Because the people read the Star for the news, especially in Minneapolis. The day of the Town Crier is past. Be up-to-date, Advertise and Pay for it. A newspaper is the best medium. It reaches the homes and firesides of people who attend public entertainments. 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During the meeting of the National Negro Educational Congress held in St. Paul Last summer he made a host of friends and delivered several addresses, which gained him fame as an orator. A committee of citizens will meet in St. Paul to honor his memory. MRS. PERRY A. STARKWEATHER. The death of Mrs. Perry A. Starkweather was deplored by many women throughout the country. She was one of the Nation's great characters. Her work was in the interest of humanity. She acknowledged the equality of races, and was honored by the Negro Women of Minnesota, who knew her worth. She was waiting for a train to leave the city to make an address, when she died of heart trouble. The Afro-American Women's Club of Minnesota, Mrs. Nellie Francis, Pres., will hold services to her memory. FOR CHARITY OR GRAFT—WHICH? We have noticed that lists requesting funds to bury certain individuals who died without burial funds are being circulated in club houses and various places—one by the Women's Club of Minneapolis. There is no necessity of any solicitation to bury the pauper dead of this city. Funds are appropriated for such purpose by the County authorities. Moreover any one who does not keep up a small insurance, is not entitled to any other consideration. We make no exception. The ordinary man has enough friends to attend to his burial and the tramp needs none. Aside from this it is a question as to whether the money collected is used for this purpose. Last year the police had records of a series of house parties given to bury a relative, and after a long while interment was ordered. There has been many irregularities among charity workers, that have aroused the suspicions of the business men, and we are told of numerous instances where their charity had been misplaced. Let us remember that we should extend the hand of charity to those in need while they are alive—also that the person with the subscritch list is often a petty thief, who if he or she had nerve would be "hold up" characters. A real Charity Club is a necessity, and we thought that one existed in this city. IS THERE ONE? LOYAL TO ROOSEVELT. Major John R. Lynch (U. S. A. retired) is supporting Roosevelt, also Serg't John W. Hartper. U. S. A. retired and a Civil War Veteran has expressed his faith in Theodore Roosevelt. Both named gentlemen are true race men, and have clean army records. They know that Roosevelt acted wisely in the Brownsville matter. Few people believed that the Negro troops did not "shoot up" Brownsville, and why should any President, encourage lawlessness, through a compact of silence, as in this case. Negroes want "Equality before the Law" not Immunity from the Law. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. --- SAYS ROOSEVELT IS SWEEPING COUNTRY St. Paul, Oct. 7.—"The election of Roosevelt and Johnson is a practical certainty," said Vice Chairman Medill McCormick when taking a train back to Chicago after spending Friday in St. Paul and Minneapolis booking over the situation in this state. "I came up here under the impression that you needed extra help to carry the state for the Progressive ticket. My information was faulty, for the situation in Minnesota is as promising as in any state I have visited, and I have visited many of the states. "What is the outlook? Fine and assuring. You have been having a few differences of opinion on minor matters, and in that respect are no different from other states where Roosevelt sentiment is strong. These differences have been magnified by newspaper reports, and when you run them down they amount to very little and have no bearing on the success of the Progressive cause. "It is the history of new political movements that men differ on minor matters, but where they have something tangible to fight for, you find them standing together in the real fight. That is the situation in Minnesota, as I see it, and the same statement prevails throughout the nation. The Progressive party is not in shape to muzzle individual opinion, nor does it want to." Mr. McCormick said Roosevelt will carry Illinois by 100,000, the Progressives will sweep Indiana and carry Vermont, Connecticut and Utah, which, with the exception of Indiana, the Taft men are claiming. Mr. McCormick met with members of the campaign committee and the state situation was thoroughly discussed. It was agreed that the fight in Minnesota be made for the entire Progressive ticket. ***** P. V. Collins, Progressive candidate for governor, has received a telegram from Colonel Roosevelt endorsing the Minneapolis man's candidacy for governor. Colonel Roosevelt said: "I congratulate you on your nomination on the Progressive state ticket for governor. I feel that in the name of Progressive principles and in the Lame of decency and honesty in politics we have the right to appeal to all good citizens, to all upright and farseeing men and women to support the national and state Progressive tickets in this campaign." ***** Colonel Roosevelt's testimony before the senate committee investigating campaign contributions, in session at Washington, in the opinion of Minnesota Progressives is one of the biggest assets of the campaign. On the witness stand an entire day, Colonel Roosevelt was explicit and forceful in refutation of the Penrose-Archbold charges. He declared that Senator Penrose should be unseated by the senate because of his relations with the Standard Oil company, and demanded that the committee investigate Republican and Democratic campaign funds before election. "Our complaint," he said, "is not that we were called here, but that the men who made the charges were not called first." ***** It was announced from New York that Colonel Roosevelt will again visit Minnesota before election. He will speak at Duluth Oct. 10. *** Pettitions placing in nomination Progressive candidates for state offices were filed with the secretary of state Saturday, petitions for presidential electors being filed at the same time. The filing of these petitions completes all preliminary work of the campaign, and from now on the state committee will pay undivided attention to promoting the success of the entire ticket. ***** The official canvass of the primary vote, completed last week, concededly shows the strength of Progressive principles with Minnesota voters. Politicians have settled down to a calm analysis of the figures, and the conclusion is that Minnesota is Progressive and will remain so. The total Republican vote on governor was 164,667. Eberhart setting 62,408, the other 103,665 votes going to the progressive candidates, amounting to a nearly two-thirds protest within the party against standpatism. The Democrats made such a poor showing that talk of carrying the state for Wilson has abated. The total Democratic vote approximated 31,000. Something like 115,000 voters did not attend the primaries. ***** Progressives at state headquarters are enthusiastic over the result of a presidential poll of thirty-six states made by the New York Herald. Senator Dixon, chairman of the national committee, said when the figures were announced: "The well known hostility of the Herald to the election of Roosevelt will leave no suspicion that he was favored. If the poll means anything, it means the election of Roosevelt and Johnson." TWIN CITY STAR RECORD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Colored Americans having been permitted to be disf-anchised in the Southern States under Republican rule. The appointment of ex-Confederates and Southern Democrats upon the Supreme Court of the United States. The appointment of ex-Confederates and Southern Democrats in the Cabinet by President Taft. The declaration of President Taft that he would appoint no colored man to office who may be objectionable to the white people. Race discrimination permitted upon the railroads South, and the enactment of "Jim Crow" car laws. The removal of Southern colored office holders in the South from office and the appointment of Democrats and ex-Confederates in their stead. With such a record for the Republican party to go to the country on in 1912 to capture the colored vote will be bound to be effective. The colored voters throughout the country have opened their eyes, and between now and 1912 they will keep them open.—The Bee, Wash. D. C. THE SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN SCANDAL. The president is like the high-minded president of a public service corporation who wants his general manager or counsel to get results in council and legislature, but is unwilling to hear anything about the necessary means. We do not hear of any refusal of the president to permit Southern delegates to the Republican national convention to vote for him, but he is taking great pains to pass on the other side of all unpleasant details involved in arranging for this support of his candidacy. The Republican party in the South is a permanent scandal. It has no following, since its Negroes have been disfranchised and its whites ostracised, and only leaders enough to fill the federal and organization offices. Extracts from Minneapolis Tribune DOING REAL HARM. People who do us harm in the end are not the wrongdoers whom all execute. They are the men who do not do quite as much wrong, but who are applauded instead of being excrated. The career of Benedict Arnold has done us no harm as a nation because of the universal horror it inspired. The men who have done us harm are those who have advocated disunion, but have done it so that they have been enabled to keep their political position; who have advocated repudiation of debts or other financial dishonesty, but have kept their standing in the community; who preach the doctrines of anarchy, but refrain from action that will bring them within the pale of the law, for these men lead thousands astray by the fact that they go unpunished or even are rewarded for their misdeeds. -Theodore Roosevelt. RACE HAS HIGH IDEALS. Pres. Taft recently said that "the Colored Race has high ideals." That's just why they are supporting Roosevelt in whom they realize a champion of right, not an apologist like Pres. Taft, who has sustained the Dred Scott decision by refusing to appoint Negroes to offices wherever it was objectionable to white men, and who by the appointment of Southern Confederates to the Supreme Bench has denied the Negroes their Constitutional Rights. Roosevelt never closed the door of hope in the face of the Negro. Editor Montgomery, who poses as the publisher of the Milwaukee Advocate, issued at length intervals, is holding up the Committeemen of Taft, Wilson and Roosevelt—also incidentally any State and local candidates whom he may meet. Montgomery gets by on his nerve, and is a credit to that class of crooks known as confidence men. He is a race Negro and at heart a Taft supporter. Unjust Laws Tend to Breed Strife. The city council at Portsmouth, Va. is puzzling its brains in an attempt to form a segregation ordinance which will conform to the state law. The ordinance committee has finally referred the whole matter to Acting City Attorney R. Clifford Barclay and City Engineer Cassell. Such unjust laws only tend to breed strife between the white and colored people, which bene- fits neither. Reliable, live, honest, hustling agents for the Twin City Star. You can make a good living with this work as a side line. Agents wanted in Milwaukee, Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Portland, Ore., Seattle, Denver, Des Moines and Sioux City. Write for terms to The Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Minn. WANTED. THE CARVER HOTEL On All Car Lines 1308-10 WASHINGTON AVE. 80. 28 Newly Furnished Rooms. By Day, Week or Month. Special Rates to Theatrical People. Mrs. Alice (Mother) Carver, Prop. N. W. Phone Main 863 BARBER SHOP AND BATHS. TO Duluth Superior Three Good Week Day & Two Sunday Trains over "The Duluth Short Line": Northern Pacific Ry. LAKE SUPERIOR LIMITED Lv. Minneapolis .....2.00 p.m. Lv. St. Paul .....2.30 p.m. Ar. Duluth .....6.55 p.m. TWIN PORTS EXPRESS who night train has electric lighted sleeping cars. open for occupancy at both Minneapolis and St. Paul depots after 9 p.m. TICKETS 5th Avenue St. St. Paul. Phones 1266 19 Nicolas Hours Blk. Minneapolis N. W. 361g. T. S. 114 or at Station Have you seen the new Northern Pacific play- line train? Have per pack try them ```markdown ``` Come in, and have your teeth fixed and pay in Weekly or Monthly installments. We have Dr. H. Pierce, "the famous extractor" with us every Monday and Friday and by special appointment. Phone, Nic. 3112. RED CROSS DENTAL PARLORS M. W. JUDY, MGR. 412 NIC. AVE. L. S. DONALDSON COMPANY Invites Your Personal Inspection of their Great Department Store to take advantage of the many conveniences including POST OFFICE REST ROOMS TELEPHONE'S CHECKING ROOM BUREAU OF INFORMATION ETC. ETC. ETC. Get Ready for Winter! STOVES, REPAIRED AND SET UP. Water Fronts, Brick and Cast Linings, Nickel Replated Everything in Stove Repairs For Any Style Stove or Range. Eighteen years of actual practice enables me to give you expert work at the Lowest Prices. Call N. W. South 6760 J. A. JUDY, 2716 27½ STREET SO. PHONE: N. W. NIC. 2724 HOTEL JONES 204-11th Ave, So. Madame Emma Taylor Jones PROPRIETOR THE SPIRELLA CORSET. Cora E. Anderson, Corsetier. W. Dale 1345-365 Aurora Ave. St. Paul. THE DICKERSON CAFE CHINESE AND AMERICAN DISHES. J. A. DICKERSON, PROP. PHONE MAIN 9058. RATED FOR ITS attend the Dickerson Living Season. It includes Chinese items to the appearance items. Your gift to our pa- the quality of our her here than else- our culinary ar- t to give you excep- tal to critical and conveniences and NORTHWEST BET. A DINING ROOM CELEBRATED FOR ITS SERVICE. It is worth your while to plan to attend the Dickerson Cafe to enhance the joys of the Spring Season. A splendid assortment of delicacies includes Chinese and American dishes. The little things which add so much to the appearance specially planned for our visiting guests. Two years of satisfaction has been our gift to our patrons. This satisfaction rests upon the quality of our merchandise and our service. Quality considered, prices are lower here than elsewhere. Investigation will prove that our culinary arrangements are such as will enable us to give you exceptional service, that make a direct appeal to critical and discriminating diners, with all the conveniences and privileges of a modern Cafe. THE ONE PLACE IN THE NORTHWEST WHERE CATERING IS AN ART. MINNEAPOLIS Open from 6 a. m. to 12 p. m. MRS. J. M. MASK, PROP. TEL. NORTH WEST MAIN 537 "Senator Foraker's Political Life is an Open book" THE FORAKER CAFE ELECTRIC LIGHTED (ESTABLISHED 1908) BEST SERVICE 308 FOURTH STREET SO. Special Sunday Dinner 25c FROM 12 TO 5:30 P. M. Business Men's Lunch 20c FROM 11 TO 5:30 P. M. B. FINK MERCANTILE CO. Cor. Third and Robert St.. ST. PAUL SPECIAL SALE OF WINES AND LIQUORS $3.20—Four full quarts Old Style Bottled in Bond Montrose Whiskey—5 years old. $3.00—per gallon Pure California Brandy—Aged in Bond. $2.50—Four full quarts Old Hickory Grove Whiskey. $1.50—per gallon Old Port, Sherry, Tokay or Catawaba. $2.50—Four large bottles Virginia Dare Wine—Garrett & Co. $3.25—per gallon Pure Grain Alcohol, full strength. $3.00—per gallon Golden Gate Apricot Brandy. Money refunded if not satisfied. Send postal for price list. EXPRESS PRE-PAID to all points in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakotas and Montana. Out-of-town mall orders shipped the day received. FLORSHEIM SHOES represent perfection in fine shoemaking Get acquainted with COMFORT and become one of our SATISFIED CUSTOMERS. STANLEY SHOE COMPANY 422 NICOLLET AVENUE Pride of the West Co. No. 1 UNIFORM RANK K. of P. Wednesday - October 16, 1912 AUDITORIUM ANNEX McCULLOUGH'S ORCHESTRA Hochsteiner LAGER The Beer of Quality & Flavor "PURITY" brew is the Beer for the summer, In spring and winter And fall it's a hummer! Brewed and Bottled Exclusively by The Leading Bottle Beer Brewery PURITY BREWING COMPANY MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Defective THE TWIN CITY STAR NEGRO PROGRESSIVE. Vol. 3. Saturday, Oct.12, 1912 No.7 Entered in the Post office at Minneapolis, June 23, as second class mat er Published Every Saturday by CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 1419 Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn. Geo. B. Kelley Duluth, Minn "Head of the Lakes" Representative Subscription by Mail, Postpaid. ONE YEAR $2.00 JIX MONTHS 1.25 3 MONTHS $ .75 CANADIAN SUBSCRIPTION $2.50. Advertising rate per Inch 50c. Special rates furnished on application Subscribers are earnest requested to report to the office any irregularities in the delivery of their paper; also any change of address. Subscribers wishing the "Twin City Star" discontinued at the expiration of their subscriptions should notify us to that effect; otherwise we shall consider it their wish to have it continued. Order for discontinuance must be accompanied by payment of all arrears. All personal advertisements in the local columns must be paid for in advance. All public comment inserted only over the author's signature Foreign subscriptions solicited. Unsigned notices will not be inserted in these columns. All matter must reach us by Wednesday for insertion. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. The news of the death of Prof. John Jasper Smallwood, of Claremont, Va., was a shock to the people of the Twin Cities. During the meeting of the National Negro Educational Congress held in St. Paul Last summer he made a host of friends and delivered several addresses, which gained him fame as an orator. A committee of citizens will meet in St. Paul to honor his memory. MRS. PERRY A. STARKWEATHER MRS. PERRY A. STARKWEATHER The death of Mrs. Perry A. Stark weather was deplored by many wom en throughout the country. She was one of the Nation's great characters Her work was in the interest of human ity. She acknowledged the equality of races, and was honored by the Negro Women of Minnesota, who knew her worth. She was waiting for a train to leave the city to make an address when she died of heart trouble. The Afro-American Women's Club of Minnesota, Mrs. Nellie Francis, Pres., will hold services to her memory. FOR CHARITY OR GRAFT—WHICH? FOR CHARITY OR GRAFT—WHICH? We have noticed that lists requesting funds to bury certain individuals who died without burial funds are being circulated in club houses and various places—one by the Women's Club of Minneapolis. There is no necessity of any solicitation to bury the pauper dead of this city. Funds are appropriated for such purposes by the County authorities. Moreover any one who does not keep up a small insurance, is not entitled to any other consideration. We make no exception. The ordinary man has enough friends to attend to his burial and the tramp needs none. Aside from this it is a question as to whether the money collected is used for this purpose. Last year the police had records of a series of house parties given to bury a relative, and after a long while interment was ordered. There has been many irregularities among charity-workers, that have aroused the suspicions of the business men, and we are told of numerous instances where their charity had been misplaced. Let us remember that we should extend the hand of charity to those in need while they are alive—also that the person with the subscription list is often a petty thief, who if he or she had nerve would be "hold up" characters. A real Charity Club is a necessity, and we thought that one existed in this city. IS THERE ONE? Intentional Duplicate Exposure LOYAL TO ROOSEVELT. Major John R. Lynch (U. S. A. retired) is supporting Roosevelt, also Sergt' John W. Hartper. U. S. A. retired and a Civil War Veteran has expressed his faith in Theodore Roosevelt. Both named gentlemen are true race men, and have clean army records. They know that Roosevelt acted wisely in the Brownville matter. Few people believed that the Negro troops did not "shoot up" Brownville, and why should any President, encourage lawlessness, through a compact of silence, as in this case. Negroes want "Equality before the Law" not Immunity from the Law. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. St. Paul, Oct. 7.—"The election of Roosevelt and Johnson is a practical certainty," said Vice Chairman Medill McCormick when taking a train back to Chicago after spending Friday in St. Paul and Minneapolis looking over the situation in this state. "I came up here under the impression that you needed extra help to carry the state for the Progressive ticket. My information was faulty, for the situation in Minnesota is as promising as in any state I have visited, and I have visited many of the states. "What is the outlook? Fine and assuring. You have been having a few differences of opinion on minor matters, and in that respect are no different from other states where Roosevelt sentiment is strong. These differences have been magnified by newspaper reports, and when you run them down they amount to very little and have no bearing on the success of the Progressive cause. "It is the history of new political movements that men differ on minor matters, but where they have something tangible to fight for, you find them standing together in the real fight. That is the situation in Minnesota, as I see it, and the same statement prevails throughout the nation. The Progressive party is not in shape to muzzle individual opinion, nor does it want to." Mr. McCormick said Roosevelt will carry Illinois by 100,000, the Progressives will sweep Indiana and carry Vermont, Connecticut and Utah, which, with the exception of Indiana, the Taft men are claiming. Mr. McCormick met with members of the campaign committee and the state situation was thoroughly discussed. It was agreed that the fight in Minnesota be made for the entire Progressive ticket. ***** P. V. Collins, Progressive candidate for governor, has received a telegram from Colonel Roosevelt endorsing the Minneapolis man's candidacy for governor. Colonel Roosevelt said: "I congratulate you on your nomination on the Progressive state ticket for governor. I feel that in the name of Progressive principles and in the name of decency and honesty in politics we have the right to appeal to all good citizens, to all upright and farseeing men and women to support the national and state Progressive tickets in this campaign." ```markdown ``` Colonel Roosevelt's testimony before the senate committee investigating campaign contributions, in session at Washington, in the opinion of Minnesota Progressives is one of the biggest assets of the campaign. On the witness stand an entire day, Colonel Roosevelt was explicit and forceful in refutation of the Penrose-Archbold charges. He declared that Senator Penrose should be unseated by the senate because of his relations with the Standard Oil company, and demanded that the committee investigate Republican and Democratic campaign funds before election. "Our complaint," he said, "is not that we were called here, but that the men who made the charges were not called first." ***** It was announced from New York that Colonel Roosevelt will again visit Minnesota before election. He will speak at Duluth Oct. 10. ***** Petitions placing in nomination Progressive candidates for state offices were filed with the secretary of state Saturday, petitions for presidential electors being filed at the same time. The filing of these petitions completes all preliminary work of the campaign, and from now on the state committee will pay undivided attention to promoting the success of the entire ticket. ***** The official canvass of the primary vote, completed last week, concededly shows the strength of Progressive principles with Minnesota voters. Politicians have settled down to a calm analysis of the figures, and the conclusion is that Minnesota is Progressive and will remain so. The total Republican vote on governor was 164, 067, Eberhart getting 62,408, the other 103,665 votes going to the progressive candidates, amounting to a nearly two-thirds protest within the party against standpatiism. The Democrats made such a poor showing that talk of carrying the state-for Wilson has abated. The total Democratic vote approximated 31,000. Something like 115,000 voters did not attend the primaries. ***** Progressives at state headquarters are enthusiastic over the result of a presidential poll of thirty-six states made by the New York Herald. Senator Dixon, chairman of the national committee, said when the figures were announced: "The well known hostility of the Herald to the election of Roosevelt will leave no suspicion that he was favored. If the poll means anything, it means the election of Roosevelt and Johnson." TWIN CITY STAR RECORD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Colored Americans having been permitted to be disfranchised in the Southern States under Republican rule. The appointment of ex-Confederates and Southern Democrats upon the Supreme Court of the United States. The appointment of ex-Confederates and Southern Democrats in the Cabinet by President Taft. The declaration of President Taft that he would appoint no colored man to office who may be objectionable to the white people. Race discrimination permitted upon the railroads South, and the enactment of "Jim Crow" car laws. The removal of Southern colored office holders in the South from office and the appointment of Democrats and ex-Confederates in their stead. With such a record for the Republican party to go to the country on in 1912 to capture the colored vote will be bound to be effective. The colored voters throughout the country have opened their eyes, and between now and 1912 they will keep them open.—The Bee, Wash. D. C. THE SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN SCANDAL. The president is like the high-minded president of a public service corporation who wants his general manager or counsel to get results in council and legislature, but is unwilling to hear anything about the necessary means. We do not hear of any refusal of the president to permit Southern delegates to the Republican national convention to vote for him, but he is taking great pains to pass on the other side of all unpleasant details involved in arranging for this support of his candidacy. The Republican party in the South is a permanent scandal. It has no following, since its Negroes have been disfranchised and its whites ostracised, and only leaders enough to fill the federal and organization offices. Extracts from Minneapolis Tribune DOING REAL HARM. People who do us harm in the end are not the wrongdoers whom all execute. They are the men who do not do quite as much wrong, but who are applauded instead of being execrated. The career of Benedict Arnold has done us no harm as a nation because of the universal horror it inspired. The men who have done us harm are those who have advocated disunion, but have done it so that they have been enabled to keep their political position; who have advocated repudiation of debts or other financial dishonesty, but have kept their standing in the community; who preach the doctrines of anarchy, but refrain from action that will bring them within the pale of the law, for these men lead thousands astray by the fact that they go unpunished or even are rewarded for their misdeeds. -Theodore Roosevelt. RACE HAS HIGH IDEALS RACE HAS HIGH IDEALS. Pres. Taft recently said that "the Colored Race has high ideals." That's just why they are supporting Roosevelt in whom they realize a champion of right, not an apologist like Pres. Taft, who has sustained the Dred Scott decision by refusing to appoint Negroes to offices wherever it was objectionable to white men, and who by the appointment of Southern Confederates to the Supreme Bench has denied the Negroes their Constitutional Rights. Roosevelt never closed the door of hope in the face of the Negro. Editor Montgomery, who poses as the publisher of the Milwaukee Advocate, issued at lengthy intervals, is holding up the Committeemen of Taft, Wilson and Roosevelt—also incidentally any State and local candidates whom he may meet. Montgomery goes by on his nerve, and is a credit to that class of crooks known as confidence men. He is a race Negro and at heart a Taft supporter. Unjust Laws Tend to Breed Strife. The city council at Portsmouth, Va., is puzzling its brains in an attempt to form a segregation ordinance which will conform to the state law. The ordinance committee has finally referred the whole matter to Acting City Attorney R. Clifford Barclay and City Engineer Cassell. Such unjust laws only tend to breed strife between the white and colored people, which benefits neither. Rellable. live, honert, hustling agents for the Twin City Star. You can make a good living with this work as a side line. Agents wanted in Milwaukee, Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Portland, Ore., Seattle, Denver, Des Moines and Sloux City. Write for terms to The Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Minn. WANTED. THE CARVER HOTEL On All Car Lines 1308-10 WASHINGTON AVE. SO. 28 Newly Furnished Rooms. By Day, Week or Month. Special Rates to Theatrical People. Mrs. Alice (Mother) Carver, Prop. N. W. Phone Main 863 BARBER SHOP AND BATHS. TO Duluth Superior Three Good Week Day & Two Sunday Trains over "The Duluth Short Line": Northern Pacific Ry. LAKE SUPERIOR LIMITED Lv. Minnesota.....2:00 p.m. Lv. St. Paul.....2:30 p.m. Ar. Duluth.....6:85 p.m. TWIN PORES EXPRESS --the night train, has electric lighted sleeping cars, open for occupancy at both Minnesota and St. Paul doors after 9 p.m. TICKET 8 5th and Robert St. St. Paul. Phones 1266 19 Nicollet Hours Blk. Minnesota N. W. 3019, Hy. 114 at Station Have you seen the new Northern Pacific play- ing card? The cents per pack Try them DO IT NOW!!! DON'T WAIT!!! Come in, and have your teeth fixed and pay in Weekly or Monthly installments. We have Dr. H. Pierce, "the famous extractor" with us every Monday and Friday and by special appointment. Phone, Nic. 3112. RED CROSS DENTAL PARLORS M. W. JUDY, MGR. 412 NIC. AVE. L. S. DONALDSON COMPANY Invites Your Personal Inspection of their Great Department Store to take advantage of the many conveniences including POST OFFICE REST ROOMS TELEPHONE'S CHECKING ROOM BUREAU OF INFORMATION ETC. ETC. ETC. Get Ready for Winter STOVES REPAIRED AND SET UP. Water Fronts, Brick and Cast Linings. Nickel Replated Everything in Stove Repairs For Any Style Stove or Range. Eighteen years of actual practice enables me to give you expert work at the Lowest Prices. Call N. W. South 6760 J. A. JUDY, 2716 27½ STREET SO. PHONE: N. W. NIC. 2724 HOTEL JONES 204-11th Ave, So. Madame Emma Taylor Jones PROPRIETOR THE SPIRELLA CORSET. Cora E. Anderson, Corsetier. W. Dale 1345 — 365 Aurora Ave. St. Paul. THE DIGKERSON CAFE CHINESE AND AMERICAN DISHES. J. A. DICKERSON, PROP. PHONE MAIN 9058. A DINING ROOM CELEBRATED FOR SERVICE. It is worth your while to plan to attend the Dicke Cafe to enhance the joys of the Spring Season. A splendid assortment of delicacies includes Chinese and American dishes. The little things which add so much to the appeal specially planned for our visiting guests. Two years of satisfaction has been our gift to ourrons. This satisfaction rests upon the quality of merchandise and our service. Quality considered, prices are lower here than where. Investigation will prove that our culinary arrangements are such as will enable us to give you an essential service, that make a direct appeal to critical discriminating diners, with all the conveniences privileges of a modern Cafe. THE ONE PLACE IN THE NORTHWEST WHERE CATERING IS AN ART. A DINING ROOM CELEBRATED FOR SERVICE. It is worth your while to plan to attend the Dicke to enhance the joys of the Spring Season. I splendid assortment of delicacies includes Ch American dishes. The little things which add so much to the appear- ally planned for our visiting guests. Two years of satisfaction has been our gift to our e. This satisfaction rests upon the quality of handise and our service. Quality considered, prices are lower here than e. Investigation will prove that our culinary ments are such as will enable us to give you e. I service, that make a direct appeal to critical eliminating diners, with all the conveniences leges of a modern Cafe. THE ONE PLACE IN THE NORTHWEST WERE CATERING IS AN ART. A DINING ROOM CELEBRATED FOR ITS SERVICE. It is worth your while to plan to attend the Dickerson Cafe to enhance the joys of the Spring Season. A splendid assortment of delicacies includes Chinese and American dishes. The little things which add so much to the appearance specially planned for our visiting guests. Two years of satisfaction has been our gift to our patrons. This satisfaction rests upon the quality of our merchandise and our service. Quality considered, prices are lower here than elsewhere. Investigation will prove that our culinary arrangements are such as will enable us to give you exceptional service, that make a direct appeal to critical and discriminating diners, with all the conveniences and privileges of a modern Cafe. THE ONE PLACE IN THE NORTHWEST WHERE CATERING IS AN ART. 208 HENNEPIN AVE. Open from 6 a. m. to 12 p. m. MRS. J. M. MASK, PROP. TEL. NORTH WEST MAIN 537 "Senator Foraker's Political Life is an Open book" THE FORAKER CAFE ELECTRIC LIGHTED (ESTABLISHED 1908) BEST SERVICE 308 FOURTH STREET SO. Special Sunday Dinner 25c Business Men's Lunch 20c FROM 12 TO 5:30 P. M. FROM 11 TO 5:30 P. M. B. FINK MERCANTILE CO. Cor. Third and Robert St.. ST. PAUL SPECIAL SALE OF WINES AND LIQUORS $3.20—Four full quarts Old Style Bottled in Bond Montrose Whiskey—5 years old. $3.00—per gallon Pure California Brandy—Aged in Palo $2.50—Four full quarts Old Hickory Grove Whiskey. $1.50—per gallon Old Port, Sherry, Tokay or Catawaba. $2.50—Four large bottles Virginia Dare Wine—Garrett & Co. $3.25—per gallon Pure Grain Alcohol, full strength. $3.00—per gallon Golden Gate Apricot Brandy. Money refunded if not satisfied. Send postal for price list. EXPRESS PRE- PAID to all points in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakotas and Montana. Out-of-town mail orders shipped the day received. FLORSHEIM SHOES represent perfection in fine shoemaking Get acquainted with COMFORT and become one of our SATISFIED CUSTOMERS. STANLEY SHOE COMPANY 422 NICOLLET AVENUE Pride of the West Co. No. 1 UNIFORM RANK K. of P. Wednesday - October 16, 1912 AUDITORIUM ANNEX McCULLOUGH'S ORCHESTRA Hochsteiner LAGER The Beer of Quality & Flavor "PURITY" brew is the Beer for the summer, In spring and winter And fall it's a hummer! Brewed and Bottled Exclusively by The Leading Bottle Beer Brewery PURITY BREWING COMPANY MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. GATED FOR ITS attend the Dickerson ing Season. includes Chinese to the appearance ests. our gift to our pa- the quality of our er here than else- our culinary ar- to give you excep- tal to critical and conveniences and NORTHWEST ST. MINNEAPOLIS Defective Pa