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DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR St. Paul Historical Society. MRS. MARY CHURCH FERRELL. Received High Praise from Wellesley College for Her Strong Plea for Equal Opportunities for Colored Girls. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of this city, recently, on invitation, addressed the students of Wellesley College on the subject of opportunities for colored girls. In her address she pleaded for equal opportunities for the young women of her race, and recited the handicaps under which they labor, the hurtful lack of opportunity confronting them in every line of work. As showing how much her address was appreciated, and the interest it awakened among the young women of Wellesley College, Mrs. Terrell is in receipt of the following letter from Mary Eliza Clark, President of the Christian Association of Wellesley College. "Dear Mrs. Terrell: "I was sorry not to be able to see you during your recent visit to Wellesley, for then I should have told you in person what I want to tell you in letter. I want to speak for the girls of Wellesley. I think you probably know of the feeling of the faculty. I am anxious fod you to know how greatly the girls appreciate your coming such a distance to speak to us. The interest in your subject was shown by the fact that quite a number of girls who do not regularly attend the Christian Association meetings, came to your meeting Wednesday night. As to your presentation of the subject, its effect can be judged by the fact that your talk has been discussed very widely among the girls representing every type in college. I don't know when a speaker has aroused so much interest and changed so many ideas in so short a time. Some girls had no conception of the problems or the means used to solve them; others were prejudiced merely because of hearsay. One Southern girl was very reluctant to go to the meeting, but after it was ever she had not a word of criticab to offer. I want you to feel that your visit here was distinctly worth while, and that Wellesley people of broadcast minds and widest sympathies, feel a distinct debt of gratitude to you for the strong presentation of your subject. I hope you will not for a moment feel that this is empty praise. It is my opportunity to know many girls of different points of view, and it is only after hearing wide discussion that I say this to you. I trust that some time there will be another opportunity for you to visit Wellesley, and meanwhile feel that this visit was vastly worth while, and accept our hearty wishes for your wosh'—The Bee Wash, D. C. The New Odd Fellows hall will be under construction next month. Ground will be broken for the building on April 1st. There will be an additorium seating 400 persons, two large meeting rooms, reception rooms, dining room and kitchen. The basement will be fitted out for a gymnasium and bowling alley. It is expected that the entire building will be completed by Sept. 1st, next. It will be owned by Mars Lodge of Odd Fellows, the Parent Lodge west of the Mississippi River. WORK OF SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL Kansas Institution Training Young Lives For Service. HAS MANY UNIQUE FEATURES Purpose of Board of Education More Than Realized In Efficient Group of Instructors Headed by Professor J. M. Marquess—Wireless Telegraphy and Music Given Special Attention. Kansas City, Han—One of the best high schools in the country for the training of the boys and girls of the race is the Summer high school, located in this city. This splendid institution is attended by 247 boys and girls, who are preparing for usefulness in life. It has been the aim of the school board, headed by the superintendent, to secure the best trained men and women as instructors. At the head of the school is one of the leading educators of the country, Professor J. M. Marquess, a native of Helena, Ark., where he got his foundation at the Helena normal school, and from there to Fisk university, where he graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts in 1802; thence to Dartmouth college, where he pursued a higher course. From the schoolroom the young man was then fitted to start life. So right into the schoolroom he went again, not as a student, but as an instructor. There is always a place for a well prepared man or woman. Professor Marquess first work was at Shorter college, North Little Rock, the same year he completed his work at Dartmouth. Two years he worked at this school, rendering good service and making his mark as a teacher. A man must get a foothold somewhere, so Professor Marquess did not overlook the little things in life, but each opportunity was used to render service for his people. It was in 1906 that he heard the call from Kittrell college and packed up and moved there to continue work, remaining there but two years, when he was extended the call to the Sum- A WELCOME TO THE MUSEUM OF ART AND COLLECTIONS nor high school. Feeling that it was an opportunity to do some real work for his people, Professor Marquess accepted. Taking hold of the school in 1908, he found 178 pupils and eight teachers. "Advancement" was his motto, and soon there was an increase in pupils and teachers. The school now has 247 pupils and twelve teachers, with the prospect of an increase in the number in 1914 and another building. The Summer high school work has been steadily on the increase from every viewpoint until today it is well equipped, doing work like that of some of the colleges elsewhere. A graduate of this school is accepted by the University of Kansas without examination, also by other schools in Iowa and Nebraska, and it is now in line for such recognition by the University of Chicago. The domestic science department is second to none, and in connection with it is a lunch room seating 120. One of the best teachers in domestic science in the country has full charge, and the girls are rendering good service. Professor Marquess has reorganized the departments of English and physical sciences, bringing about better results, and the department of manual training has been enlarged. One of the features emphasized is the department of music, vocal and instrumental. It is an entertainment at any time to hear the children sing. There are some fine voices in the school. It is the only school in the country for the training of the race with a wireless station. and this is taught the young people, thereby preparing them for a new field. They are kept busy receiving and sending wireless messages. Teachers are trained in the normal trained department, and those who graduate are given the first choice of positions in the schools, starting them in on a salary of $600 a month and working up to the higher position. Thus for every graduate has been given a position, so Kansas is providing for its citizens, and the young men and women through the example of Professor J. M. Marquess and others are inspired to study and prepare for usefulness in life. EVIDENCES OF PROGRESS. All Classes. Benefit by Carnage Library at Biddle University. By GEORGE P. KING. Charlotte, N. C.—There is a keen interest manifested by the Afro-Americans in this city for good literature. This unusual mental activity is a conspicuous evidence of the trend of the race to become influenced by great Christian agencies that have molded other progressive races. There are hundreds of public libraries throughout the southland, but Afro-Americans are denied the use of them for such knowledge as they might wish to obtain through book fore. One can readily appreciate existing conditions that have impeded the Afro-American's material advancement in the realm of good literature. The class of books that will inspire our youth is not so easily presented in many sections of the country, and because of such there is a mental degeneration in too many instances, and a poor conception of ennobling ideals is also the result. Hence it is quite obvious to the average member of the race to understand the motives of any race in giving its members such excellent opportunities for mental culture. The Carnegie library at Biddle university, this city, is a regenerating influence that is really proving our people's claim, which is just to become an integral part of everything that is in direct touch with good influences. It is encouragingly true that the matured members of the race in Charlotte are exhibiting, a remarkable disposition, which is also an indication of hope long deferred, to accept every opportunity given them by this good institution of learning which has molded hundreds of young men for a life of useful service. The library is equipped to meet the peculiar exigencies of a reading public that lives upon pure literature and was dedicated at the last commencement season of the university. The pessimist that is himself fooling with the ghost of racial antipathy should visit the school and the library and see how the students and general public make use of the opportunity. Dr. H. L. McCormey, president of the university, and those assisting him in bringing Biddle up to its present standard of efficiency, for the work of developing a race along the right lines are now the cynosures of the better element of both races in all sections of the country for giving our people such an excellent chance for self help. HOW ONE COLLEGE HAS HELPED NEGROES. In a certain county in Mississippi, says a writer in the Southern Workman, a college for white boys has inspired and positively helped the Negroes of the county. "A spirit of sympathy and good will has shown itself in conduct. The college employs a number of Negroes to work on the college farm. Working as they must under the direction of a trained agriculturist, these men learn, through doing, many vital principles of effective farming. They eventually start up farms of their own and thus carry with them the experience gained under trained oversight. Their success in the community where they live becomes an object lesson to the neighbors around. Again, the college experiments in taxing the productive capacity under certain conditions of an acre of cotton or corn in full view of the peddlers to and from town. This experiment is watched with the keenest interest by those who are aware of what is being done, and this has proven to be a very effective kind of object lesson. The college further sends out men to hold farmers' institutes for Negroes in various parts of the county. Such questions as deep plowing, crop rotation, green measuring, diversity of crops, stockraising with reference to the breeding and care of stock, have been presented at different times. These institutes furnish experiences to the illiterate Negroes for the intelligent observation of work done on the college farm." AFRICAN ORIGIN OF EGYPTIANS Evidence That They Are of the HamNic Line. VIEWS OF DR. VON LUSCHAN Migration and Colonization Chief Among Many Causes Given For Amalgamation of Primitive Races. Anthropology of African and Pacific Islanders Pointed Out. Dr. JOHN E. BRICE (GRIT). A great many modern writers and not a few who wrote in an earlier period are disposed to discredit the African origin of the Egyptians, although their color, customs and other physical characteristics clearly indicate that if any race of people on earth came out of the lolls of Ham these did. Nothing seems to be more certain to those who have studied the question closely. Dr. Felix von Luschan, professor of anthropology in the University of Berlin, in an admirable paper before the first universal races congress, which met in London in 1911, approaches the subject with more cander and honesty than usually characterizes the writings or the utterances of white men who have investigated this subject. While we know or have been told that all the Egyptians are not white or brown as of any of the intermediate colors between white and black, we also know from those who have traveled in that country that the majority of its inhabitants are black and possess all the physical characteristics of the African. Cause of Distinct Color Variation. The color of the Egyptian results therefore, from the admixture of the blood of neighboring races with the African blood of those indigenous blacks. Professor von Luschan says; "While the first varieties of primitive man were certainly formed and fixed by long isolation, later variations and races were caused by migration and colonization, as might perhaps be shown by sketching the anthropology of Africa and the Pacific islands. Just as Madagascar was peopleled about 990 or 1000 A. D. by indonesian colonists coming from Sumatra, so untold ages ago the first inhabitants of Africa came from a place somewhere in southern Asia on the great line from Gibraltar to Australia. No skulls or skeletons of these earliest Africans are yet known, but we may hope to find them sooner or later, as we already now know. a good many sites of paleolithic implements in various parts of tropical and southern Africa. The anatomical qualities of these first Africans will certainly be found to differ from those of aboriginal Australians, but in tens of hundreds of thousands of years the paleolithic African evolved into a real Negro. He exists in two varieties—a tall variety like the modern Nigritian from the coast of upper Guinea and a small one like the bushmen and the pygmies, now known in so many places in central Africa. Third Race Makes Its Appearance. But I have already stated that we are as yet quite ignorant of the real home of these small races. To these two oldest elements in Africa was added ages afterward, but still in prehistoric times, a third one, the Hamitic. It is descended from the same ancient Gibraltar Australia line, but was in a higher stage of civilization. These Hamites had already a greatly refined language, with an admirable grammar closely related to that of the Semitic and Indo-Germanic languages. In Egypt they created more than 6,000 years ago the marvelous civilization we now admire as the mother of our own. Ancient Hamitic influences can be traced all through Africa. In Abyssinia, in Galia, Somali, and in Mascarane we find even now Hamitic languages or at least Hamitic grammar and Hamitic types. In central Africa, in the region of the great lakes, we have the Hima and Tash, generally as chiefs reigning over Bantu tribes, often with face and figure like those of the old pharaohs of Egypt. Physical Features of Hamill Type Hamill in South Africa nearly 1 percent of the actual Bantu population have high and narrow noses, thin lips and large orthognathic skulls of the Hamill type, and all the Hotentot languages and dialects have a pure Hamill grammar. Also the personal habits of many Africa tribes, their long horned cattle, spiritual basket work, etc., are Hamill, and all can thus trace Hamill influence from the Nile to the Cape of Good Hope. Still there are some Negroes and many, many warted people in this country who profess to believe with a sort of plying contempt that the African is an unredeemable barbarian. Rev. E. D. L. Thompson of Nierra Leone, West Africa, in his address before the Negro Society For Historical Research of Yonkers, N. E., on the subject "Race Consciousness Race Ideal," said, among other things: "As the preponderance of the inhabitants of Egypt today are of unmixed African blood, we may # think reasonably conclude that these people are of African origin. Otherwise how are we to account for their black faces, crisp hair and other typical Negro physical characteristics?" HOW TO RETAIN PHYSICAL ENERGY MOST IMPORTANT. Summer Solstice In Life Comes at Thirty, Says Dr. C. V. Roman. In an address to the Knights of Pythias of Tennessee not long ago Dr. C. V. Roman, the "sage" of Nashville, Tenn., said in part as follows: "Physical energy is the basis of worldly success, and the primary need of our people today is to conserve their physical force. Our educated people must live long enough to pay back with interest the price of their education. "The college bred man who dies at graduation or soon thereafter dies in debt to society. If he dies through in his own ignorance or carelessness he absconds without paying, his board bill. He thmwa away other people's money. "Our successful men must live until their successors are qualified if we are to hold our own and advance. The thirtieth birthday marks the summer solstice of the average man's career. He should have at least thirty active years from that date to make and reap his rewards. "A high birth rate is not a full compensation for a high death rate. The energies of the race are examined in merely trying to live, and no strength is left for improvement. How much land could a farmer till if he broke fresh horses every morning? "He could make no headway even if the horses were given him, and a race that loses its prepared men and women prematurely cannot find compensation for the loss in a high birth rate. The draught must be stopped. How? By teaching our people to utilize all available opportunities to improve their physical condition. One illustration will suffice. "Davidson county, Tenn., has built a modern tuberculosis hospital, equal accommodations for colored and white. Although there are more deaths among the colored than among the whites from tuberculosis, there are fewer colored patients at the hospital than whites. "The average colored person stricken with tuberculosis would rather remain a burden to his relatives and finally die than go to the hospital and get well. "To enlighten our people along these lines is a great opportunity. Let us hope that our fraternal leaders may see that 'the good of the order' consists in embracing promptly this opportunity." AFFAIRS IN METHODISM. General Conference Amendment For Election of Bishops by Boards Whether it is a wise procedure to emanate representation in large organizations where the membership is composed of different nationalities by races is a question which admits of many different answers. Certainly such a course ought not to be necessary in order to secure justice to all of its constitutions in religious bodies nor in our national, state or municipal government. Yet if fair treatment cannot be had without resorting to race representation in the various religious and secular movements then let us have it. The experience of those who have long been connected with public movements of the mixed multitude seems to bend in the direction of representation by men. This idea may have come about from the largeness of the individual interests to be fostered and the selection of the person best suited to represent such interests. For instance, at the last general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church the vote favoring an amendment to the constitution permitting the election of bishops for races was 520 out of a total of 565. This amendment is to be submitted by the bishops to the annual and lay electoral conferences at their sessions to be held just previous to the meeting of the next general conference. READ THE STAR. The items from the classes, make the news of the masses. Read the Twin City Star. SMOKE THE RELIABLE 5e SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR 5e No. 30. REGISTER AND MRS. J. C. NAPIER. BRIGHT SIDE OF NEGROES LIFE. Mappily Represented by Register and Mrs. Napier at Official Reception Teendered by the Secretary of the Treasury. Register of the Treasury and Mrs. J. C. Napier were prominent figures at the magnificent reception tendered a few days ago by the Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Franklin MacVeagh at their stately Sixteenth Street mansion in honor of the bureau chieftain of the Department. Mr. Napier was the only colored official of the department who accepted the cordial invitation of the Secretary. That the courtly Register and his charming wife fully sustained the dignity and social graciousness of our people at this notable function goes without the saying. Mrs. Napier was beautifully gowned and her charming personality unquestionably added radiance to the brilliant assemblage, which embraced the foremost social and official factors of the American Republic. The thoughtful element of our citizenry are grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Napier for their attendance at the MacVeigh reception—not because of any prestige the Napiers might gain through the quasi social recognition thus extended, but because of the opportunity given well-disposed members of the other race to see the Negro at his best—to make a concrete observation of the possibilities of a people whose bright side is too seldom in evidence in such exalted circles. In accepting the invitation of Secretary MacVeagh, Mr. Napier has set an example which under similar circumstances other colored bureau officials do well to follow. M. Columbus Cofored Man Thanked for Faithful Public Service. From the Ohio State Journal. Washington, March 6; Ralph W. Tyler, of Columbus, Auditor of the Treasury, for the Navy Department, one of the most important posts in the government service held by a colored man, has received a letter from former Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh praising highly his administration of a difficult and exacting office. Mr. MacVeagh said in part: "I have learned in my four years respect for your public service and for your personal character. You have been throughout an official who has had my confidence and esteem." (Wash. D. C., Bee.) Des Moines, March 25.—Following a quarrel, said to have resulted from jealousy, Henry Thurston, colored, shot and fatally wounded his wife and then killed himself here yesterday. DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR MINNEAPOLIS Minn Historical Society ST. PAUL HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOL. 3 Single Copies 5 Cents The domestic science department is second to none, and in connection with it is a lunch room seating 120. One of the best teachers in domestic science in the country has full charge, and the girls are rendering good service. Professor Marquess has reorganized the departments of English and physical sciences, bringing about better results, and the department of manual training has been enlarged. One of the features emphasized is the department of music, vocal and instrumental. It is an entertainment at any time to hear the children sing. There are some fine voices in the school. It is the only school in the country for the training of the race with a wireless station. МОЖДОМЫ MRS MARY CHURCH TERRELL Receives High Praise from Wellesley College for Her Strong Plea for Equal Opportunities for Colored Girls. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of this city, recently, on invitation, addressed the students of Wellesley College on the subject of opportunities for colored girls. In her address she pleaded for equal opportunities for the young women of her race, and escited the handicaps under which they labor, the hurtful lack of opportunity confronting them in every line of work. As showing how much her address was appreciated, and the interest it awakened among the young women of Wellesley College, Mrs. Terrell is in receipt of the following letter from Mary Eliza Clark, President of the Christian Association of Wellesley College. 'Dear Mrs. Terrell: "I was sorry not to be able to see you during your recent visit to Wellesley, for then I should have told you in person what I want to tell you in letter. I want to speak for the girls of Wellesley. I think you probably know of the feeling of the faculty. I am anxious fod you to know how greatly the girls appreciate your coming such a distance to speak to us. The interest in your subject was shown by the fact that quite a number of girls who do not regularly attend the Christian Association meetings, came to your meeting Wednesday night. As to your presentation of the subject, its effect can be judged by the fact that your talk has been discussed very widely among the girls representing every type in college. I don't know when a speaker has aroused so much interest and changed so many ideas in so short a time. Some girls had no conception of the problems or the means used to solve them; others were prejudiced merely because of hearsay. One Southern girl was very reluctant to go to the meeting, but after it was ever she had not a word of criticisb to offer. I want you to feel that your visit here was distinctly worth while, and that Wellesley people of broadcast minds and widest sympathies, feel a distinct debt of gratitude to you for the strong presentation of your subject. I hope you will not for a moment feel that this is empty praise. It is my opportunity to know many girls of different points of view, and it is only after hearing wide discussion that I say this to you. I trust that some time there will be another opportunity for you to visit Wellesley, and meanwhile feel that this visit was vastly worth while, and accept our hearty wishes for your work.'—The Bae, Wash, D. C. THE NEW ODD FELLOWS HALL Building Operations Will be Begun Next Week. Structure to Cost About $15,000. The New Odd Fellows hall will be under construction next month. Ground will be broken for the build- ings on April 1st. There will be an additiorium seating 400 persons, two large meeting rooms, reception rooms, dining room and kitchen. The basement will be fitted out for a gymnasium and bowling alley. It is expe- ted that the entire building will be completed by Sept. 1st, next. It will be owned by Mars Lodge of Odd Fellows, the Parent Lodge west of the Mississippi River. WORK OF SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL HAS MANY UNIQUE FEATURES Purpose of Board of Education More Than Realized In Efficient Group of Instructors Headed by Professor J. M. Marques—Wireless Telegraphy and Music Given Special Attention. Kansas City, Kan—One of the best high schools in the country for the training of the boys and girls of the race is the Summer high school, located in this city. This splendid institution is attended by 247 boys and girls, who are preparing for usefulness in life. It has been the aim of the school board, headed by the superintendent, to secure the best trained men and women as instructors. At the head of the school is one of the leading educators of the country, Professor J. M. Marquess, a native of Helena, Ark., where he got his foundation at the Helena normal school, and from there to Fisk university, where he graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts in 1902; thence to Dartmouth college, where he pursued a higher course. From the schoolroom the young man was then fitted to start life. So right into the schoolroom he went again, not as a student, but as an instructor. There is always a place for a well prepared man or woman. Professor Marques' first work was at Shorter college, North Little Rock, the same year he completed his work at Dartmouth. Two years he worked at this school, rendering good service and making his mark as a teacher. A man must get a foothold somewhere, so Professor Marques did not overlook the little things in life, but each opportunity was used to render service for his people. It was in 1906 that he heard the call from Kittrell college and packed up and moved there to continue work, remaining there but two years, when he was extended the call to the Sum- ПРОГРАММА ВЫПРАВЛЕНИЯ ПРОГРАММА ВЫПРАВЛЕНИЯ PROFESSOR J. M. MARQUES. ner high school. Feeling that it was an opportunity to do some real work for his people, Professor Marquess accepted. Taking hold of the school in 1908, he found 178 pupils and eight teachers. "Advancement" was his motto, and soon there was an increase in pupils and teachers. The school now has 247 pupils and twelve teachers, with the prospect of an increase in the number in 1914 and another building. The Summer high school work has been steadily on the increase from every viewpoint until today it is well equipped, doing work like that of some of the colleges elsewhere. A graduate of this school is accepted by the University of Kansas without examination, also by other schools in Iowa and Nebraska, and it is now in line for such recognition by the University of Chicago. and this is taught the young people, thereby preparing them for a new field. They are kept busy receiving and sending wireless messages. Teachers are trained in the normal trained department, and those who graduate are given the first choice of positions in the schools, starting them in on a salary of $60 a month and working up to the higher position. Thus for every graduate has been given a position, so Kansas is providing for its citizens, and the young men and women through the example of Professor J. M. Marquess and others are inspired to study and prepare for usefulness in life. EVIDENCES OF PROGRESS. All Classes. Benefit by Carnegie Library at Biddle University. By GEORGE F. KING. Charlotte, N. C.—There is a keen interest manifested by the Afro-Americans in this city for good literature. This unusual mental activity is a conspicuous evidence of the trend of the race have to become influenced by great Christian agencies that have molded other progressive races. There are hundreds of public libraries throughout the southland, but Afro-Americans are denied the use of them for such knowledge as they might wish to obtain through book lore. One can readily appreciate existing conditions that have impeded the Afro-American's material advancement in the realm of good literature. The class of books that will inspire our youth is not so easily prescribed in many sections of the country, and because of such there is a mental degeneration in too many instances, and a poor conception of ennobling ideals is also the result. Hence it is quite obvious to the average member of the race to understand the motives of any race in giving its members such excellent opportunities for mental culture. The Carnegie library at Biddle university, this city, is a regenerating influence that is really proving our people's claim, which is just to become an integral part of everything that is in direct touch with good influences. It is encouragingly true that the matured members of the race in Charlotte are exhibiting a remarkable disposition, which is also an indication of hope long deferred, to accept every opportunity given them by this good institution of learning which has molded hundreds of young men for a life of useful service. The library is equipped to meet the peculiar exigencies of a reading public that lives upon pure literature and was dedicated at the last commencement season of the university. The pessimist that is himself fooling with the ghost of racial antipathy should visit the school and the library and see how the students and general public make use of the opportunity. Dr. H. L. McCourney, president of the university, and those assisting him in bringing Biddle up to its present standard of efficiency for the work of developing a race along the right lines are now the cynosures of the better element of both races in all sections of the country for giving our people such an excellent chance for self help. HOW ONE COLLEGE HAS HELPED NEGROES. In a certain county in Mississippi, says a writer in the Southern Workman, a college for white boys has inspired and positively helped the Negroes of the county. "A spirit of sympathy and good will has shown itself in conduct. The college employs a number of Negroes to work on the college farm. Working as they must under the direction of a trained agriculturist, these men learn, through doing, many vital principles of effective farming. They eventually start up farms of their own and thus carry with them the experience gained under trained oversight. Their success in the community where they live becomes an object lesson to the neighbors around. Again, the college experiments in taxing the productive capacity under certain conditions of an amc of cotton or corn in full view of the pedtrians to and from town. This experiment is watched with the keenest interest by those who are aware of what is being done, and this has proven to be a very effective kind of object lesson. The college further sends out man to hold farmers' institutes for Negroes in various parts of the county. Such questions as deep plowing, crop rotation, green manuring, diversity of crops, stockraising with reference to the breeding and care of stock, have been presented at different times. These institutes furnish experiences to the illiterate Negroes for the intelligent observation of work done on the college farm." Migration and Colonization Chief Among Many Causes Given For Amalgamation of Primitive Races. Anthropology of African and Pacific Islanders Pointed Out. B. JOHN E. BRUCE (CRIT). A great many modern writers and not a few who wrote in an earlier period are disposed to discredit the African origin of the Egyptians, although their color, customs and other physical characteristics clearly indicate that if any race of people on earth came out of the looms of Ham these did. Nothing seems to be more certain to those who have studied the question closely. Dr. Felix von Luschan, professor of anthropology in the University of Berlin, in an admirable paper before the first universal races congress, which met in London in 1911, approaches the subject with more candoor and honesty than usually characterize the writings or the utterances of white men who have investigated this subject. While we know or have been told that all the Egyptians are not white or brown or of any of the intermediate colors between white and black, we also know from those who have traveled in that country that the majority of its inhabitants are black and possess all the physical characteristics of the African. Cause of Distinct Color Varieties. The color of the Egyptian results, therefore from the admixture of the blood of neighboring races with the African blood of these indigenous blacks. Professor von Luschan says: "While the first varieties of primitive man were certainly formed and fixed by long isolation, later variations and races were caused by migration and colonisation, as might perhaps best be shown by sketching the anthropology of Africa, and the Pacific islands. Just as Madagascar was peopled about 900 or 1000 A. D. by Inderesian colonists coming from Sumatra, so untold ages ago the first inhabitants of Africa came from a place somewhere in southern Asia on the great line from Gibraltar to Australia. No skulls or skeletons of these earliest Africans are as yet known, but we may hope to find them sooner or later, as we already now know a good many sites of paleolithic implements in various parts of tropical and southern Africa. The anatomical qualities of these first Africans will certainly be found to differ from those of aboriginal Australians, but in tens of hundreds of thousands of years the paleolithic African evolved into a real Negro. He exists in two varieties—a tall variety like the modern Nigritian from the coast of upper Guinea and a small one like the bushmen and the pygmies, now known in so many places in central Africa. Third Race Makes Its Appearance. But I have already stated that we are as yet quite ignorant of the real home of these small races. To these two oldest elements in Africa was added ages afterward, but still in prehistoric times, a third one, the Hamitic. It is descended from the same ancient Gibraltar-Australia line, but was in a higher stage of civilization. These Hamites had already a greatly refined language, with an admirable grammar closely related to that of the Semitic and Indo-Germanic languages. In Egypt they created more than 6,000 years ago the marvellous civilization we now admire as the mother of our own. Ancient Hamitic influences can be traced all through Africa. In Abyssinia, in Galia, Somali, and in Marazailand we find even now Hamitic languages or at least Hamitic grammar and Hamitic types. In central Africa, in the region of the great lakes, we have the Hima and Tawat, generally as chiefs reigning over Bantu tribes, often with face and figure like those of the old pharaohs of Egypt. Physical Features of Hamitic Type. Even in South Africa nearly 1 percent of the actual Bantu population have high and nartow noses, thin lips and large orthognathic skulls of the Hamitic type, and all the Hotentot languages and dialects have a pure Hamitic grammar. Also the pastoral habits of many Africa tribes, their long horned cattle, spiinal basket work, etc., are Hamitic, and all can thus trace Hamitic influence from the Mile to the Cape of Good Hope. Still there are some Negroes and Still there are some Negroes and many, many wise people in this country who profess to believe with a sort of pitying contempt that the African is an unredeemable barbarian. Rev. E. D. L. Thompson of Sierra Leone, West Africa, in his address before the Negro Society For Historical Research of Yonkern, N. E., on the subject "Race Consciousness Race Ideal," said, among other things; "As the preponderance of the inhabitants of Egypt today are of unmixed African blood, we may think reasonably conclude that these people are of African origin. Otherwise how are we to account for their black faces, crisp hair and other typical Negro physical characteristics?" HOW TO RETAIN PHYSICAL ENERGY MOST IMPORTANT. Summer Solitude In Life Comes at Thirty, Says Dr. C. V. Roman. In an address to the Knights of Pythias of Tennessee not long ago Dr. C. V. Roman, the "sage" of Nashville, Tenn., said in part as follows: "Physical energy is the basis of worldly success, and the primary need of our people today is to conserve their physical force. Our educated people must live long enough to pay back with interest the price of their education. "The college bred man who dies at graduation or soon thereafter dies in debt to society. If he dies through his own ignorance or carelessness he absconds without paying his board bill. He throws a way other people's money." "Our successful men must live until their successors are qualified if we are to hold our own and advance. The thirtieth birthday marks the summer solstice of the average man's career. He should have at least thirty active years from that date to make and reap his rewards. "A high birth rate is not a full compensation for a high death rate. The energies of the race are exhausted in merely trying to live, and no strength is left for improvement. How much land could a farmer till if he broke fresh horses every morning? "He could make no headway even if the horses were given him, and a race that loses its prepared men and women prematurely cannot find compensation for the loss in a high birth rate. The drain must be stopped. How? By teaching our people to utilize all available opportunities to improve their physical condition. One illustration will suffice. "Davidson county, Temm, has built a modern tuberculosis hospital, equal accommodations for colored and white. Although there are more deaths among the colored than among the whites from tuberculosis, there are fewer colored patients at the hospital than whites. "The average colored person stricken with tuberculosis would rather remain a burden to his relatives and finally die than go to the hospital and get well. "To enlighten our people along these lines is a great opportunity. Let us hope that our fraternal leaders may see that 'the good of the order' consists in embracing promptly this opportunity." AFFAIRS IN METHODISM. General Conference Amendment For Election of Bishops by Races. Whether it is a wise procedure to emerulate representation in large organizations where the membership is composed of different nationalities by races is a question which admits of many different answers. Certainly such a course ought not to be necessary in order to secure justice to all of its constituents in religious bodies nor in our national, state or municipal government. Yet if fair treatment cannot be had without resorting to race representation in the various religious and secular movements then let us have it. The experience of those who have long been connected with public movements of the mixed multitude seems to bend in the direction of representation by race. This idea may have come about from the largeness of the individual interests to be fostered and the selection of the person best suited to represent such interests. For instance, at the last general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church the vote favoring an amendment to the constitution permitting the election of bishops for races was 500 out of a total of 505. This amendment is to be submitted by the bishops to the annual and lay electoral conferences at their sessions to be held just previous to the meeting of the next general conference. READ THE STAR. The items from the classes, make the news of the masses. Read the Twin City Star. SMOKE THE RELIABLE So SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR So No. 30. THE FAMILY OF THE FAMILY OF THE BROSTER AND MRS. J. C. NAPIER. BRIGHT SIDE OF NEGROES LIFE. Happily Represented by Register and Mrs. Napier at Official Reception Teendered by the Secretary of the Treasury. Register of the Treasury and Mrs. J. C. Napier were prominent figures at the magnificent reception tendered a few days ago by the Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Franklin MacVeagh at their stately Sixteenth Street mansion in honor of the bureau chieftain of the Department. Mr. Napier was the only colored official of the department who accepted the cordial invitation of the Secretary. That the courtly Register and his charming wife fully sustained the dignity and social graciousness of our people at this notable function goes without the saying. Mrs. Napier was beautifully gowned and her charming personality unquestionably added radiance to the brilliant assemblage, which embraced the foremost social and official factors of the American Republic. The thoughtful element of our citizenry are grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Napier for their attendance at the MacVeigh reception—not because of any prestige the Napiers might gain through the quasi social recognition thus extended, but because of the opportunity given well-disposed members of the other race to see the Negro at his best—to make a concrete observation of the possibilities of a people whose bright side is too seldom in evidence in such exalted circles. In accepting the invitation of Secretary MacVeagh, Mr. Napier has set an example which under similar circumstances other colored bureau officials would do well to follow. BOR. RALPH W. TYLER. RALPH TYLER IS PRAISED. Columbus Colored Man Thanked for Faithful Public Service. From the Ohio State Journal. Washington, March 6, Ralph W. Tyler, of Columbus, Auditor of the Treasury, for the Navy eDepartment, one of the most important pests in the government service held by a colored man, has received a letter from former Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh praising highly his administration of a difficult and exacting office. MacVeagh said in part: "I have learned in my four years respect for your public service and for your personal character. You have been throughout an official who has had my confidence and esteem." (Wash. D. C., Bee.) Des Moines, March 25.—Following a quarrel, said to have resulted from jealousy, Henry Thurston, colored, shot and fatally wounded his wife and then killed himself here yesterday. We beg that the public will not send notes over the phone. We must have your copy to avoid mistakes. If your matter is not worth writing, it is not worth insertion. On account of the uncertainty of the delivery of second class matter, we have changed our date of publication to Friday, in order to reach our readers, and to benefit our advertisers. We must have all personal news reach us by Wednesday. Do not send notes over phone. SUNDAY FORUM. The Forum meets the first Sunday in the month at St. Peter's A. M. E. church and on the third Sunday at Bethesda Baptist church. ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Evening Service, 8 P. M. Surplice Choir. Miss Eunice Glass of St. Paul will sing an Easter Anthem, "Angels roll the Rock away." St. Thomas Sunday School will be re-opened on March 30. Mr. Gale Hillyer, Superintendent. All are welcome especially the children. The Annual Sermon of the Kinghts of Pyhias will be preached next Sunday. Easter Service were held in all our Churches last Sunday. Father Stephen L. Theobald will resume his Lectures at St. Charles Catholic Church at an early date. Father Cleary was tendered a testimonil and reception at the Auditorium on Tuesday evening, which was a grand success. A COMING SOCIAL EVENT. The Ladies Episcopal Club will give an April First Party at Masonic Hall. Watch for the Adv. Get your Spring Corset from Miss Anderson, The Spirella Coreetier, 365 Aurora Ave. St. Paul, and be stylish and comfortable. Dale 1345. READ THE STAR-ILS NEWS. Miss Lula A. Williams of Boston, Mass., is the guest of Mrs. Felix St. Louis, 1923 5th Ave. So., for an indefinite stay. Mrs. Chas. T. Pointer, formerly an old resident of Minneapolis, died in Chicago on March 14. This will be sad news to her host of friends. The Maundy Thursday Feast was celebrated by Pillar of Beauty Chapter with imposing ceremonies. Among those present were: Dr. O. D. Howard, Arthur H. D. Adams, Jose H. Sherwood, J. H. Charleston, W. L. Martin, J. H. Martin, Henry Johnson, Horace Carlyle, Geo. L. Hoge, E. B. James, Zack Johnson, Dr. M. W Judy, Chas. Brody, Dr. R. S. Brown Willis Colter, Frank Terry, R M Johnson, Chas. H. Robinson, F. E Abbey, Dan'1 Williams, Lincoln J Allen, Chas. Turner. W. R. Morris was Master of Ceremonies. LOOKOUT ROR THE DRAMA "A Clergyman's Courtship" given by Mrs. Cora Spencer and her company at Bethesda Baptist Church on April 10th. THE MINNEAPOLIS KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Wish to Announce Their FIFTH ANNUAL CONCERT and PYTHIAN MILITARY BALL to be given at the NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY, Kenwood Parkway, Monday Evening, April 14th, 1913. An array of carefully selected talent under the direction of Mr. Chas. H. Miller. Mdma. Emma Taylor Jones — who has been confined to her bed several weeks on account of a broken ankle, is able to walk with the aid of crutches. The Vag Law is being enforced by Detectives Hardin and Welborn. Boys are being kept out of Clubs and undesirable places. The Young Men's Progressive Club of Minneapolis, turns back the pages of History—and hauls out from its musty folds a New thought from an Old idea, from which an Entertainment of Class will be given on April 7th, full particulars later.—Adv. ON TO BALTIMORE. The Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias of Minnesota are arranging to carry a large delegation to the Baltimore Encampment in August. In view of the exceedingly low rates, they expect to give all who wish to visit Eastern Cities a grand opportunity to join them. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS. 1910 MR6. IONE E. GIBBS. Vice Pres. National Convention of Afro-American Women's Clubs, Will Speak at Sunday Mrs. Ione E. Gibbs, will speak at the Minneapolis Sunday Forum, Apr. 6th, on "Women as an Economic Factor in the Home." Mrs. Gibbs is a representative woman, an able speaker and a National factor in the work of Women's Clubs. All are invited to hear her, especially upon this interesting subject. A HARD TIME PARTY. The Young Men's Progressive Club of Minneapolis will give A Hard Time Party with all its Old Time characteristics, Monday evening, April 7th, 1913, at Kennedy's Hall, 322 Nicollet Ave. Now is your chance to side step "High Cost of Living", "Swatt" the old time worn expression, "I have nothing to wear." Just put on your old "Bib and Tucker," an old style dress—and come along—for men either mighty big or highly tight Britches—and real old time "Ankle Beaters" also the Vern Much abreviated See More Coat, that was the hobby of our Grand-sires—"High Top Boots" or "Congress Gaiters" if you happen to have them—You know—the kind the old man used to Cut the "Pigin Wing." Remember—anything but Frills of today. Music by McCullough's Orchestra Come and have some real Fun— LIGHT REFRESHMENTS. W. Harris, Pres. F. D. Gamble, Treas. C. Wade, Vice Pres. Admission 35c (Adv.) Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Maxey, formerly of Boston, Mass., who have recided in this city since August, left Monday evening for Detroit, Mich. Mr. Maxey made a host of friends among the Masons and Elks, being a member of both fraternities. He speaks in highest terms of Mr. Al Moss the headwaiter at the Rogers Hotel, where he was employed, and Mgr. Boody—also the many agreeable co-workers under them—who have his best wishes. Mr. ——Medley, 617 6th St. No., has been sick several weeks with heart trouble. Dr. Wright, a dentist, of Sioux Falls is in the city. Mrs. Hester Keyes is sick with a severe cold at her residence, 1311 Wash. Ave. So. Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Maxey, and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Brown were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sumner Smith on Sunday evening. Mr. Mack Brady celebrated his 77th birthday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Nellie McCullough, on last Easter. Mr. Howard Boswell, is sick at the residence of his brother, 1026 Central Ave. Mrs. C. V. Seymore, 3847 Snelling Ave., is sick. Mrs. Sadie Robinson, 220 12th Ave. So., has been ill nearly two months, is improving under Dr. Redd's care. Little Ophelia Canty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Canty, is suffering from a severe attack of bronchitis. Mr. J. Turner Wall, the real estate dealer who has been in New York will return to the city in a few daqs. ROOM REGISTER. If you want a desirable room consult the Star Register. Front Room, Nicely Furnished, all Modern conveniences, Rail Road Gentleman Preferred. On car line. Mrs. E. A. Mitchell, 1721 4th Ave. So. T. S. Center 6311 Nicely Furnished Room—Modern Conveniences, on Car Line. Tel. Hyland 214. 1012 6th Ave. No. A neatly Furnished Room to respectable parties, near car line, modern, reasonable. A. Monteen, 700 Lyndale No. Tel. Hyland 7. FLAT FOR RENT—Steam Heated, Modern conveniences, on car line. Apply 1311 Washington Ave. So. Subscribe for the Star. --- TWIN CITY STAR ST. PAUL ALLEN CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR OF ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH. Splendid meetings are being held each Sunday evening at 6:45 o'clock by the Allen Christian Endeavor League. Aside from the general discussion of the topics, good programs are rendered. WEST END BRANCH, Y. W. C. A. The beautiful Song Story "A Morning in the Orient" was rendered by a chorus of young women at the Vesper Service, Easter Sunday under the directorship of Mr. John Hickman. Muct credit is due both director and chorus for its excellent rendition. A social hour is observed after each service, the social committee assisted by the Camp Fire Girls serving light refreshments. The Phyllis Wheatley Camp Fire Girls took advantage of their Easter vacation and on Wednesday of last week hiked to Shadow Falls. At their Council Fire meeting candy making will be a feature. The Junior Sewing Class had an Easter Egg hunt, Rachel Vassar winning first prize and Ruth Brown, second. The class in chocheting also participated in one, Jessie Beard carrying off first prize and Louise Howard the booby prize. Mrs. Jeff Walker, who has spent several weeks as resident at the Branch, left for Cricago Wednesday evening. The Tuesday evening class in Bible Study, will use for their second course "Studies in the Teaching of Jesus and His Apostles." All are welcome! Mrs. Ethel Maxwell is sick. Miss Lucille Elliott of University Ave., is convalescent. Mr. C. H. Booker is much improved. Mrs. Whelding of Rondo St., is suffering with a broken rib. Mrs. John H. Dillingham has returned home after undergoing a serious operation. She is gradually improving. Mrs. M. G. Williams, now in Tampa, Fla., is quite gell, and appreciates the news in the Star about her many friends in St. Paul. Mrs. Williams is now Manager of the Williams Cigar Co. Mrs. Mary Hatcher is very sick with tonsillitis. Mr. W. F. T. Chandler is visiting her sister in law, Mdme. Burgette in Chicago, for a 3 weeks' stay. Mr. S. F. Pulliam, a Pullman porter, who shot Sam Berkeen in the head on the 11th of February was discharged from the custody of the court last week. Attorney Francis represented Pulliam. Miss Gladys Wright will appear at the Auditorium Entertainment of the Knights of Pythias. The Executive Board of the Women's Federated Clubs met Wednesday at the residence of Mrs. Dora Adams on Charles St. BIG BALL AND CONCERT. The Pride of the West Co., No. 1, Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias will give a Grand Concert and Ball at the National Guard Armory, on April 14th. The Concert will be under the direction of Mr. Chas. H. Miller of St. P.aul, assisted by Mdme Addie Crawford-Minor. Watch the Star for the Big adv. CREOLE HUMAN HAIR GOODS. Wigs, Transformations, Puffs, Switches, Banges, Curls. ALL KINDS OF HAIR GOODS. Quality—Style—Lowest Prices, I would be pleased to have your order. Call at 2111 5th Ave. So. Phone N. W. So. 5139. MRS. MARSHALL BEARD Sole Agent. THE SPIRELLA CORSET. Cora E. Anderson, Corsetler. W. Dale 1345—365 Aurora Ave. St. Paul. The Ladies Episcopal Club WILL GIVE AN APRIL PARTY MASONIC HALL COR. 24th ST. AND 5th AVE. SO. MINNEAPOLIS. Wednesday April 2, 1913 You and your Friends are cordially invited McCULLOUGH'S ORCHESTRA. ADMISSION 35c MRS. J. A. NEWCOMBE, PRES. MRS. R. S. BROWN, SECY. THE WORLD'S FIRST WOMEN'S HOLIDAY MRS. BIRDIE HIGH. Mrs. High is President of the Social and Literary Society of St. Paul, an active Church and Social worker, also a leading spirit in the Afro-American Women's Clubs. Mr. Albert Ray, of Soo, Michigan, better known as Sergeant Ray, is an attache of the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic railroad as a sleeping car conductor, running between Sault Ste Marie and Duluth, Minnesota. He is one of the few colored men who are real conductors on railroads with porters under them to do the porters' work.—The (Richmand, Va.) Reformer. Sergt. Ray is all right. We are glad to quote the above and to mention that Conductor Samuel Teal of the Soo Dining Car Dept., is another real Conductor, who is in charge of the best managed dining car in their service on the Winnipleg Line, with a crew who are deserving of all praise. Mr. Teal has successfully defied the competition of the many other white Conductors in their employ. He too, is a real conductor and a Negro of the best type of citizenship. Mr. Chas. Blackburn is also employed on the same road with Sergt. Ray as Conductor. Mr. Geo. L. Hoage, employed as reception room porter and assistant Governors' messenger at the State Capitol has at various times attempted to do many things against the Star and its Editor, because we do not always agree with him. We have given our word that we shall not attack Mr. Hoage's Masonic record, but will show to the general public that Mr. Hoage is not a fit subject forthe mental position which he holds. We realize that a Negro in his position could in some way benefit the people whom he is supposed to represent, but any Negro, who by stealth and trickery, attempts to pull off such little tricks as he has done during his few years as "the only representative of the Negroes at the Capitol" (?), should be made to know that he has reached the limit of human endurance. We realize that Mr. Hoage needs a position and he respect his family, therefore, we forewarn him to get ready. There are other lame ducks in the barnyard. The Star will in opportune time show Mr. Geo. L. Hoage, that his place can be filled by any deserving Negro of ordinary ability with a feather duster, mop and carpet sweeper. The Star saved his bacon once, but we regret it. Never again. SPECIAL FROM TAMPA, FLA. Mrs. Booker T. Washington, President of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs was the guest of the Phillis Wheatley Art Club of Tampa, March 14-17. She made several forcible lectures while there. She was accompanied by Mrs. Lillian A. Turner, of St. Paul, Minn., and Mrs. Harriett L. Dorroh of Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs. Mayme Geraldine Williams formerly of St. Paul, is President of the Club. Mrs. Turner is the wife of Dr. Val Do Turner, of St. Paul. A PRESSING INVITATION. Mr. Geo. L. Hoage of St. Paul, (employed at the Capitol) is invited to accept the use of two columns in this publication to tell the general public his opinion of the Star and its Editor. It would furnish interesting reading. Mr. Hoage ran a paper for one issue in St. Paul and then it ran him—but he is not running the Twin City Star. NEGROES RECEIVE PRISON SENTENCES. Will Carter of Wheeling, W. Va., and Edgar Smart of Topeka, Kas., were given indeterminate sentences to Stillwater Prison for robbery. Judge Jelly refused to extend clemency, as there were no extenuating circumstances. No reason why able bodied men should steal. On a plea of guilty other indictments were nolle prossed. Atty. 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The difference between "good enough" and the "Best" is the difference between ordinary service and ours. Our new Chinese chef it attracting a good deal of attention as well as favorable mention. THE NEWLY FURNISHED ROOMS THE NEW BERT HOTEL Gas and Electric Lighted Vacuum Cleaned THIRTY-FIVE NEWLY FED THE N ALBERT TELEPHONE 2176 N. W. NICOLLET 621-23 THIRD STREET S. and 727 WASHINGTON AVE. S. T. W. Galbreath, Prop. TREETES. and Gas Kitchen Service $1.75 ON AVE. S. for Man and Wife $2.50 Prop. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. per week GOLDEY GRAIN BELT BELTS Foreign Beer that Golden Grain Belt is the America. Be wise. SERVE YOUR G Reign Beer Experts Say Main Belt is the nearest like the Imported, of any In rise. YOUR GUESTS THE BEST In Military Ball —AND— Fifth Annual Concer NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY Evening, April 14th, 1913 Foreign Beer Experts Say that Golden Grain Belt is the nearest like the imported, of any In America. Be wise. 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Were they the ancestors of “those stolid and down- trodden Indians whom one sees tuday peddling their rude wrcs in the mar- ket place of Cuzco?” Mr. Bryce dis- cusses the question’ in his “South America.” He says: “The sudden fall of a whole race Is am event so rare in history that one seeks for explanations. It may be that not only the royal Inca family. but nearly the whole ruling class, was @estroyed in war, leaving only the peasants, who had already been serfs under their native sovereigns. But ‘one 1s disposed to believe that the tre- mendous catastrophe which befell them in the destruction at once of thelr dynasty, thelr empire and thelr religion by flerce conquerors, {ncom- parably superior in energy and know!- @dge, completely broke not only the spirit of the nation, but the self re spect of the individuals who compos. edit, “They were already a docile and submissive people, and now under a new tyranny, far barsber than that of rulers of thelr own blood, they sank into hopeless apathy and ceascd to re- member what thelr forefathers bad been. ‘The intensity of their devotion to thelr sovereign and their delty made them helpless when both were everthrown, leaving them nothing to turn to, nothing to strive for. “The conquistadores were wise in thelr hateful way when they put forth the resources of cruelty to outrage the feelings of the people and stamp ter ror in their hearts.” VALUE OF GRASSES. ‘They Are In 2 Measure the Most Use- ful Plants In the World. Probably the grasses are the most useful plants in the world. It may be that more than half the individual plants in the world are grasses. It is @ great family of more than 8,500 spe- cles, embracing species that are so tiny that they hardly reach an inch in height and giant bamboos of the trop- tes that sometimes grow to be 100 feet or more. Corn is a giant grass, and wheat, rye, oats, barley, rice and sugar cane are all grasses. Then there are millets, sorghum, Kaffir corn, broom corn—all grasses. ‘The number of species of grasses Is enormous, yet we have adopted into ‘our system of agriculture but a few ‘sorts, In part that is due to the ease or difficulty of seeding grasses. Tim- othy grass, for example, is so easily sown and the seed so easily gathered that tt is soonest set of any and has become the standard bay grass of northern climes. In some regions of Kentucky blue grass is the almost universal pasture grass because tt comes in of Itself. In other regions with different soll (poor and lacking in lime) redtop has posses. sion. Naturally the farmer follows the Ine of least resistance, yet it Is by no means certain that he has adopted into his agriculture all the best grasses that nature has provided. Some day we shall do more toward using now neg lected grasses. —Joseph B. Wing tn “Meadows and Pastures.” ‘The Glacial Epochs. Several times in recent years it has been observed that great explosive volcanic eruptions (Krakatoa. Pele, Katmaf) by charging the upper atmos- phere in the isothermal region with fine dust have markedly diminished the amount of solar radiation recelved at the earth’s surface. It scems evi- Gent, according to Professor W. J. Humphreys, that the effect of this process must be to reduce the temper- ature of the alr near the earth, since the dust scatters a great amount of the solar radiation, Thus # period of excessive volcante activity, if long con- tinued, would produce the thermal conditions of an ice age. The geolog- feal record is said to furnish evidence that such a perfod actually begas shortly before the last ice age and has continued with diminishing intensity to the present time. Chanaine Taatee In Perfumes. Perfumes were in common use in the ancient world, but it is curious te notice how views have changed as to the pleasantness or otherwise of vart ous odors. The smell of aloes 1s now considered disagreeable by the major ty of people, but in the old days aloes, both as solid extract and a8 wood, formed a staple perfume or aromatic Saffron, too, was the most popular per fume of the Romans and was much it favor in England until about the sixteenth century. But who would tolerate the smell of saffron about house or person nowadays?—Londos Chronicle. ‘The Old Time Foundry. An auctioneer at a late sale of am fiquities put up a helmet with the fol- lowing candid observation: “This, ladies and gentlemen, is a hel met of Romulus. the Roman founder, but whether he was a brass or fron founder 1 cannot tell.” — St Louis Globe-Democrat. Fault of the Auto, Hiram—The doctor says Esra is suf fering from nutointoxieation, Silas— Guess that’s It, b’gosh! The feller act ef jest Itke any one else until be got that automobtle.—Jndge. ‘Thestrical Note. “Hist!” whispered the villain. creep- Ing stealthily away. “I expected you would be.” rejoined the stage magager with curling lip. TWIN CITY STAR GuRIOUS maNX Laws, ~| | THE HUMAN Food and Qrink Alone Are Taxed and Debtors Are imprisoned. In some respects the Isle of Man is one of the most backward portions of the British empire. All the revenue is raised by taxes on food and drink. ‘There are no death duties, no proper. ty tax, no land tax, The working classes are unprotected as well as over- faxed. No factory laws exist, and no attempt has ever been made to lmit the hours of shop assistants, although Mansland 1s essentially a nation of shopkeepers. Then, although usury is forbidden by law, imprisonment for debt is still legal and is commonly re- ‘ported to. |. Yet Manx laws, although backward im some respects, are in other ways well advanced. Every woman, widow or spinster, in the Isle of Man, be she owner, occupter or lodger, enjoys the Parliamentary franchise. Every wid- ow enjoys half her husband’s person- ‘al estate and has a life intorest in his ‘real estate, and she cannot be deprived ‘of this by will. ‘The sale of cigarettes and intoxt- cants to children was forbidden tn ‘Man for years before such a probi- bition was enforced in England, Eng- Ushmen have legislated mildly against money lenders. The highest interest that can be charged in the island is 6 Der cent, and that has been the law for over 200 years.—Chicago News. LUXURIOUS KITCHENS. ‘They Used Silver Lined Saucepans In the Old Days In Rome. While the housewife today prides herself, and with reason, on the equip- ment and conveniences of her eatab- Ushment, she need not think that cen- turies ago other women in other lands were not equally well provided. In- deed, the kitchens of Roman women were much more luxuriously fitted out than are most kitchens of today. Now, in the days when the Roman empire was at its height, {f you went into the culinary department of an ele- gant establishment you would find saucepans lined with silver and pails of various description richly inlaid with arabesques in silver and shovels ‘that were handsomely and intricately carved. Egg frames, too, that would cook twenty eggs at once and pastry molds shaped like shells and an in- finite assortment of gridirons, frying Dans, cheese graters and tart dishes. "The tollet tables of the Roman wo- men were well supplied ‘n the same lavish fashion. Ivory combs, perfumes, cosmetics, hairpins, even an elaborate hatr net of gold, have been recently unearthed. Safety pins, too, which have for a long time been considered ‘a strictly modern invention, could be found on thelr tables. But they had no brushes nor any glass mirror, the kind they used being of silver or other ‘white metals.—Chicago Tribune. “Pall Mall.” ‘Byen the British, the London British, are not agreed upon the proper pronun- cfation of “Pall Mall.” The Pall Mall Gazette has published scores of letters on the subject, one from J. Henderson Couter, being In part as follows: “Tt really does not seem to matter much whether Pall Mall used to be ‘Paille Maile’ or ‘Paw! Mawl.’ Both are prob- ably incorrect etymologically. I had an old grandmother, one of the old school. Were she alive today she would be about 110. She always spoke of it as ‘Pell Mell’ But, then, she preserved most of the old fashioned pronuncis- tions, such as ‘laylock’ for Iilac, ‘obleege’ for oblige, ‘sassingers’ for sau- sages and ‘gould’ for gold. This may have been, and probably was, a sheer affectation on her part. Anyhow, she tested a new manservant by hearing how he could knock on a front door.” Bome Old Bellefs. The old beliefs persist in southern Burope, and a tragic comic instance reaches me from Venice. A cockatoo kept by a British resident as a pet had been accustomed to promenade about the roof garden when the fam. fly went up there. But one day re cently it extended its constitutional tc @ neighbor's roof and was promptly shot by him. He subsequently offered as a complete explanation the ples that he thought tt was an ow! and that there was a very young baby in bis household. Now, students of ancient Greek and Roman augury know that the perching of an ow! on the roo! foreboded death to one of the inmates while Ovid is among those who charge screech owls with sucking the blood of infants.—London Express. Various Kinds of Wisdom. Wisdom is of many kinds. Natural Jong fibered, we call genius; the col lege kind is a factory made article, known as learning; common sense is handmade and generally bomemade ‘and there fs an imitation known on the ‘street as “bluff,” in society as “pre tense” and in the Bible as “hypocriay.” —Life. “I believe that phrenologist is a@ take.” “why?" “He asked me In an absentminded way if I didn't want a shampoo, Tried to laugh it off immediately, but I have my suspicions.” Pittxburgh Post, Experience. T have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future bot by the past. Patrick Henry. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.—Marcus Aurelius, Old Hebltc. RBunertence. THE HUMAN SPINE. Sorence Says it te impertect Because ; Man Walks Upright, According to the osteopathist, you do ‘Rot have a perfectly formed spinal col- umn, for he {s firmly convinced that po person in the world has a back that ts perfect. His ideal is a spine of » particular curve, whose twenty-four bones are at equal distances apart, of the sae formation on both sides and equally distant from the sides of the body. ‘The child’s spine Is much nearer nor- mal and far straighter than the adult's, and the society woman who does no work is more likely to have a back whose curve comes nearer the ideal than the college athlete. The spines of strong men, such as the laborer or Dugilist, are most defective, for the Teason that constant pull and strain on the spinal column accentuate Its weaknesses. ‘The Igurrotes, strong as ‘they are, have weaker and more crook- ed spines than civilized men. The spines of lower animals are stronger and more normal than ours and consequently are uot so readily af- fected by disease. If man had de- cided to walk on all fours his spine might be just as good as his cat’s of dog’s. Spinal trouble started when our ancestors determined to walk up- right, and even after untold centuries it seems that the human spine bas not thoroughly adjusted itself to our meth- od of going about. Spencer wrote: “That all important organ, the verte- bral column. is as yet but incompletely adapted to the upright posture. Only while the vigor 1s conslderable can there be maintained without apprecia- ble effort those muscular’ contractions which produce the 8 like flexure and bring the lumbar portion into such a position that the line of direction falls ‘within {t."—New York Sun. AGGRESSIVE REPTILES. King Cobras and Mambas Are the Worst of the Snake Tribe. ‘The majority of snakes are uot, as most people suppose, aggressive in thelr habits; but, like the Britis viper, far more anxious to get out of the way of the human intruder than into it, But there are a few famous, or infa- mous, exceptions, and the mamba— one of the largest of the cobras and a native of Africa—is said to be the most dangerous reptile in the world. Tt will fy at anything and anybody; goes out of Its way to pick a quarrel with every passerby and has even been ‘known to come down from a tree where it was resting. apparently fast asleep, to try conclusions with a man armed with a gun. The only snake that at all approaches the mamba in ferocity 1s the great king cobra or bamadryad of the east, which is larger than the mamba and generally quite as ready to Interfere with any living crea- ture that comes within its ken. It has been known to chase a man on horse- back, and so fast can It travel that it ls said none but a swift footed animal has any chance of escape. ‘The polson of both these snakes {s 0 powerful that, as some one once stated {a an examination paper on reptiles, “even a scientist when bitten by elther of these ferocious creatures ceases to be interested in the matter after the space of a few minutes.” Among the Australian cobras, the pit vipers of America and the great west African vipers, there are certain species that prefer the offensive to the defensive method, and in most cases it is the ag- gressive varieties that carry the most potsonous fangs.—London Globe. Lead and the Teeth. ‘A tendency of the teeth and gums te absorb lead has been observed by Vik. tor Hinze, a German dentist, among the workers in an accumulator fac tory. The teeth all bad much tartar, and that scraped from the teeth of one man affected with auemia and other symptoms of polsoning was found by analysis to contain about one-half of 1 per cent of metallic lead. Extracting the seventeen teeth still retained by this man, the metallic lead in the crowns was shown to be 0.088 pel cent and 0.033 per cent in the roots— sufficient to give continuous lead intox ication. ‘The tartar was removed from the teeth of the other workers. and this was followed by marked improve ment in the condition of gums and gen- eral health. The Greater Attraction. 4 correspondent of the Boston Transcript says that “in looking over some memoranda made by John Whit Her of East Haverhill (father of the poet) I find tats item, made under date of Feb. 18, 1819: ‘First snowstorm of the year’ This 1s possibly the storm bis son commemorates in ‘Snowbound. The lad was then in bis twelfth year. The item immediately preceding the one I give above ts dated May 9, 1816, ‘an elephant came to town.’ As Pres dent Monrog ‘came to town’ that same day, it fs odd that his coming ts not tlso chronicled as equally memorable.” He Knew. “You say that a straight line ts not the shortest distance between two points?” exclaimed the grouch. “Why, you must be an idiot.” “No, I'm not,” replied the stranger. “Tm a taxi driver.”—Cincinnat! Bn- quirer. Sounds Plausible. “Pop, why does the moon get full?” “I don’t know. Don't bother me.” “Pop, I guess if the moon would only stick to the Milky way it wouldn't get fall, would it?”’—Lippincott's. Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart aud with a lame endeavor. —Isaac Barrow. NINTH CAVALRY MILITARY BAND tts Profceny Oue to Director Hammond's Careful Training, 40 QUESTION OF HIS ABILITY. First Colored Bandmaster Appointed to Position In United States Army Has Proved His Worth as an In- structor—Commanding Officere and Men Proud of Him. Fort Russell, Wyo.—The Ninth cav- airy military band, now stationed here, fs a first class organization which ‘owes its success to the careful train- ing of Wade H. Hammond, the frst eolored bandmaster appointed to tn- struct colored musicians in the United States army. Heretofore military bands, like colored troops, have been trained by white men. Mr. Hammond fs an experiment, and he appears to have put all doubts to rest as to his ability to “deliver the goods.” His success has been marvelous. The men under him have responded to his ‘methods of teaching in a way which has excited the admiration of the com- manding officers of the post. ‘Their skill and profictency as per formers have caused usstinted praise pee’) , man ee gaan ee aes : ey al fe eas ain to be showered upon Director Ham- mond for his painstaking and Intel- ligent instruction of the men commit- ted to him for training. So entirely satisfactory is Director Hammond's work, not alone to his immediate com- manding officer, but to the men who compose the Ninth cavalry band, that they bave decided to make up a large fund to enable him to spend his far- lough in Europe, where be will have an opportunity to study the methods of army bands and concert orches. tras of the old world. ‘This ts indeed a high compliment to the professional ability of this colored musical director. Hitherto this field has been monopolized almost entirely by white bandmasters, and they have not always been in thorough sympathy with the men under them. The success ef this band disproves the oft repeated statement that colored men will not be led by colored officers in the army and that they are better led by white men. Director Hammond’s men seem to have responded more readily to his methods of instruction than the white officers commanding the post had ex- pected, and the experiment of a col- ored bandmaster for a colored band has been shown to be such a howling success that other worthy and com- petent men ambitious to win honors and distinction in this branch of the military service of the United States will now have little difficulty in finding a market for their wares. Colored bandmasters have flourished tm Burope for years. Some of the best musicians in the world are black men. They are scattered all over Europe, South America, Brazil, Spain, the West Indies and France. Some of the best bands In the West Indies are led by black men, and the bands in Brazil, Porto Rico, ol Spain and Cuba are some of them not only led by black men, but cre largely composed of black men. ‘The frst colored band in America to make a concert tour of Europe and the continent was the celebrated Frank Johnson's band of Philadelphia, which some sixty or seventy years ago went to England and by special command Bafeaty in ath Ak prince, win ning great applause from tts distin guished auditors. It subsequently tour- ed continental Europe In concert, re turning to this country flushed with honors and considerable cash. ‘The Ninth cavairy band Is a comer; fndeed, It bas already arrived. ‘The tn- nate pride of Its members will impel them now that the {ve bas been broken to strive to attain to the highest degree of excellency under the leadership of Mr. Hammond, who tx #0 splendidly proving bix worth to bis race and breaking down the barriers of caste by his acknowledged ability as a first class {astructor, CHURCHES. ST. THOMAS FPISCOPAL SCURCH sth Ave. So. and 27th St. Minn. Rev A. H. Lealtad, Rector. Service at 8 o'clock P.M. All are Invited. Come, ST. PETERS A. M. &. CHURCH, 234 Bt. every Sunday 40:30am, and 8:00/p. ux funday 10: E Sunday whol “at 12:30, "Neve we Me Lewin’ Pastor: ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, 815 Titghth, Ave. So. "unday services at it & m., 8 p.m. Sunday School at 1 p. m. Rev. &.'R. Edwards, Pastor. SETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH, 1120 Eights Street Bo.” Preaching" eveey Sunday morning and eveving. sev. Satter Faster 210N_ BAPTIST CHURCH, etn Avenue Sivand thst. “Gervicesmoraigg ane Svening ‘eucn” sunaay. Neve BE We Witners, Pastor. The People’s Christian Mission, REV. G. W. MITCHELL, PASTOR. 1204 Washington Ave. 80. 8ST. PAUL. St. James A. M. E. Church, Kev. ni. P. Jones, Pastor, Cor. Jay and Fuller Sts. All are welcome. ZION PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Services 11 A. M. and 8 P. M, Rev. G. W. Camp, Pastor. All are wel- come. Lopaes. ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR. Deputy, installa and organizes Chap- tere of The 0. E. Star. Pleased to conault any one Interested. Residence Mrs. Anna 8. Harris, Grand District 285 Rendo St, St. Paul, Minn. Ames Lodge of Elks meet at Union Temple Hall, 28 Washington Ave. So., ee 2nd and 4th Thursday evening. N. W. Nic. 1534. T. 8. Center 719. WILLIAM H. H. FRANKLIN, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 1020 Metropolitan Life Bldg. Notary Public. Minneapolis, Minn. Office, Nic, 1963 Res. Colfax 1638. DR. J. H. REDD, Physician and Surgeon. 111 80, 6TH ST. Minneapolis, Minn. WM, T. FRANCIS Attorney and Counsellor at Law, 88:90 Union Block, St. Paul. NLM. Phone Nic. 4655 Special Aitenlon Given Cedies" Worn EM, PAUL, Prop. Dry Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing SHOE SHINING PARLOR 110 Wash, Ave. N. MINNEAPOLIS Goods Called for and Delivered Promply 1. 8. Phone 3073, NW, Mala 9592 The Porters and Waiters Club Incorporated GLOVER SHULL, President Waiters for Parties Furnished Also Porters 311 Hennepin Ave. Mpls. “THE BIG THREE” Ml é oH ry ¢ ea) ‘ . Bo he “es \ f Lj ' y " x y EDW. PIPKIN, P. H. SOUTHALL, ROBT. GLENN. Next Thursday Night 1311 WASHINGTON AVE. 80., MINNEAPOLIS, TRAINMEN’S POOL-ROOM AND TAILOR SHOP, Always Ready to serve the Trainmen, ‘Tel. Cedar 6718, WILL CRAYTON, MGR, 743 MISSISSIPPI ST., ST. PAUL. PIANO INSTRUCTION. Classes for Beginners. Mrs. R. ©. McCullough, 1813 5th Ave. So, teaches classes from 7 to 10:30 A. M,, and from 3 to 8:30 P, M. For information call South 4021. FIRST CLASS DRESSMAKING PLAIN AND FANCY SEWING, Mrs. R. A. Vanhook, 3612 ELLIOT AVE. 80. Minneapolis. Phone Colfax 3596, THE TWIN CITY STAR NEGRO PROGRESSIVE. Vol. 3 Friday, Mar. 28, 1913 No. 30 Entered in the Post office at Minneapolis, June 23, as second class matter. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION 1419 Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn. Subscription by Mail, Postpaid. ONE YEAR .....$2.00 SIX MONTHS .....1.38 S MONTHS .....$ .75 CANADIAN SUBSCRIPTION $2.50. Special rates furnished on application Subscribers are earnestly 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. We are not responsible for the views of our contributors, and all signed articles of any length are paid for by the writer. The word Negro should always be spelled with a Capital N.—It is worthy of this distinction, exchanges please remember. Our sympathies are extended to those who are afflicted in the recent calamities. Let us lend a helping hand to relieve all suffering humanity, remembering that "It is God's way. His will be done. Negroes have been numbered among the flood sufferers, and when the deeds of heroism shall be recorded it will appear that Negroes never shrank from duty. Since Hon. J. Silas Harris of Kansas City has announced his opinion of intermarriage between blacks and whites his appointment as Minister to Hades is assured—according to our exchanges. RACIAL INTERMIXTURE. A recent pronouncement on racial intermixture says: "There is as much an American type to-day as there is an English type or a French type. The population of the United States is no more mixed than any of the great European nations, with the possible exception of the Scandinavians—Norway and Sweden. "Every race that ever amounted to anything was always mixed and therefore always progressing. Any nation which shuts itself up and receives nothing from the outside world must perforce degenerate. "When many races meet the tendency is for the community as a whole to shed off the defects and retain the good qualities of its component parts. "If you were to take a hundred men of half a dozen different races, shave their heads and color them all dead black, it would be impossible even for an expert to pick them out correctly. In 75 per cent. of the cases you could not tell to what race they belonged." London Mall. RACIAL PURITY. There is no racial purity in America, and the white race is responsible for every source of maligamation, which is the problem of the prejudiced American. The colored man must move forward in 1913, conscious of the fact that he is the architect of his own fortune. He must look lists and disappointment in the face and remember that he is not less than a man. He must come to know that the high way which leads to lasting success is not strenued with thornyless roses and soft-scanted flowers. If others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas, we must not whine for flowery beds of ease. And that reminds us, lest we forget, that he who would be free himself must strike he blow. Man your own enterprise, support your own business. Buy the land if you expect to inherit or inherit the earth. These are the things which mark the man—Dallas Express. INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS. Some Facts Concerning New York Afro-American Wage Earners. High rents and low incomes as disturbing factors in normal life life among city Afro-Americans, the handicaps of race prejudice, lack of coop erative or corporate business, are some of the important questions which George Edmund Haynes discusses most ably in his study in economic program, "The Negro at Work in New York City," published in the Columbia university "Studies in History, Economics and Public Law." Dr. Haynes is the director of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, New York, and professor of social science in Fisk university, Nashville, Tenn. In his studies dealing with Afro-American wage earners in New York city he collected a valuable set of facts relating to the Afro-American population, the general condition of wage earners, among them occupations, wages and efficiency of breadwinners. Dr. Haynes in his search for the truth tried to link his enthusiasm of reform with reliability of knowledge. With clearness and rare skill Dr. Haynes shows that members of the race have moved into the cities for very much the same reason that white people during the past two or three decades have left the soil and gone into the commercial and industrial centers. Indeed, the Afro-American, hearing the call of higher wages, has left his home in the country to face most trying conditions in the city. On account of insatiable conditions which prevail in the city settlements the death rate of the city Negro has been unusually high. Then, too, city Afro-Americans, through no fault of their own, have been compelled, through economic pressure, to live in neighborhoods into which vice has been allowed to come without much municipal interference. The bad effects of this situation, especially among growing boys and girls, cannot be adequately measured. "A large number of Afro-Americans are employed in occupations of domestic and personal service," says Dr. Haynes. "This is partly the result of a prejudice on the part of many white women and employers, coupled with the inefficiency of Negro wage earners for competition in occupations requiring a higher order of training and skill." Dr. Haynes has made a real contribution to current literature dealing with the race problem. He has employed a sound method of securing a variety of facts on a limited topic. His conclusions are most same and succinct. WHY AFRO-AMERICANS ARE LEAVING THE SOUTHLAND Economic Conditions and Presence of Certain Peril Principal Causes. In an article recently published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger Mr. Henry W. Wilbur gives the following as some of the reasons why the colored people are leaving the rural districts of the south in such large numbers. Mr. Wilbur says: Whatever may be thought about some of the special pleading at the Lenten meeting in Holy Trinity church the other day the opinion expressed that the Negroes should remain in the south and mainly on the soil is sound. But the matter needs some explanation and will have to be more carefully studied than it has been before the point of real elucidation is reached. At the present time there is an exodus of Negroes from the rural districts along two lines of outlet-first, from the agricultural districts of Dixie to the southern cities, and, second, from corresponding sections to the already congested commercial centers in the north. The natural question is, Why should there be any exodus at all? It must be remembered, however, that the Negro emigrates in obedience to the same motives which took the Israelites out of Egypt and brought the Puritans and Quakers to America. That motive was and is a very living desire for an improved condition. It may be taken for granted that this exodus cannot be stopped by mere preachments. The Negro will not be kept on the soil unless the causes which lead to his leaving are removed. In the absence of proper economic inducements and in the presence of certain perils and persecutions the most energetic Negroes will leave many of the agricultural regions of the south on the first opportunity. The whole case is not covered when we talk about educating the Negro. The whites also need educating. In using this word we mean vastly more than the removal of illiteracy, but rather an education so practical and so human that the representatives of both races shall see things as they are and in their perspective. Howard the Victor in Basketball Games The championship basketball game played recently between Howard university and the Monticello Athletics of Pittsburgh at Manhattan casino, in New York, was an interesting contest. The Monticelloos started in by making a foul goal, but Howard came quickly to the front and held the lead throughout the game. The first half of the contest resulted in the score of 16 to 5 in Howard's favor. At the end of the hostilities the score was: Howard, 33; Monticello, 17. Reiton Henry, who saw the game, says that Howard's star player shot forth with celestial radiance and perched on a peg at the head of the championship fraternity. TWIN CITY STAR WALL STREET BANKS. As a Rule They Make Loans on a 20 Per Cent Margin. Most Wall street banks insist on having a twenty point margin behind each loan. That means that a man borrowing $100,000 must put up as security stocks or bonds of $120,000 market value. If the securities decline to a point where the $20,000 margin is reduced to $15,000 the borrower is called upon to put up additional securities. Most brokerage houses do not wait for such a summons, but send the necessary collateral to the bank as soon as they see that the price of their securities has declined. But the banks are guided always by the character and the financial standing of each borrower. Each bank has a list of favorite borrowers who can secure whatever money they need in times of stress or in times of calm. The loan clerks know who the favorites are and show them every courtesy. It means a good deal for a Stock Exchange house to get on the "favored list" of a Wall street bank. Some borrowers, in order to stand well with a bank, never complain when the bank raises the rate on their loans. They go on the theory that it is foolish to dispute a rate with a bank when the difference between 2 per cent and 2½ means only $1.39 a day on the interest charge for a $100,000 loan—New York Post. CONTINENTAL SCRIP. What a Two Dollar Bill of the Year 1774 Looked Like. One of the few pieces of continental script now in existence is owned by a former teacher at Shortridge high school. It was given to her at Christmas time in 1868 by a fellow teacher. The piece measures about 5% by 2% inches and is framed to show both sides. Within an intricate leaf and branch border design, on the front side, is printed: "This indented bill of $2 shall entitle the bearer thereof to receive bills of exchange, payable in London, or gold and silver, at the rate of 4s. 6d. sterling per dollar for the said bill, according to the directions of an act of assembly of Maryland. Dated in Annapolis, this 10th day of April amo Domini, 1774. William Eddis H. Lapham." In an upper corner of the reverse side is a picture, about an inch and a half square, representing the British crown, at each side of which is a tiny picture of a man. One of the men is represented as holding a spade, while from the hand of the other dangles a fish on a string. At each end on this side of the script are the words, "The death to counterfeit," and at the bottom are the names of the printers, A. C. and F. Green.—Indianapolis News. The so called craters, ring mountains and empty sea beds of the moon are not the only interesting phenomena which our satellite presents to the view. There are on many parts of the moon's surface long, narrow lines called "rills," evidently much below the general level of the ground, some of them comparable in breadth and depth to the great canyons of our western country. Certain astronomers have been disposed to regard these rills as cracks and rents in the crust of the moon, but others have adopted the suggestion, made long ago, that they are river channels. It may be remarked of these ancient lunar river channels, if such they really are, that their wider ends always terminate in pear shaped hollows like little craters, and this end is nearly always higher than the other, so that if the craters were once lakes their waters must have flowed out into the rivers instead of the waters of the rivers emptying into the lakes.—Harper's. The Education of a Gentleman. The Education of a Gentleman. Friday afternoon was "debate day" in a school. On that afternoon classes after 2 o'clock were let go, and the assembled school listened to shyly spoken pieces of poetry and addresses to gladiators. Then came the climax, the debate when world issues were settled for once and all. The speeches were after the pattern of this one, which one teacher recalls: "Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I rise to defend the affirmative of the question whether it is better to have wealth or education. Mr. Chairman, if you was to get a kiss letter from a lady and couldn't read it, wouldn't you just feel like going away and dying? I close now to give place to an abler speaker."—New York Post, "A prophet is not without honor save in his own country," said the man who complains, "Well," replied Farmer Corntossel, "that's one way o' sayin' it. You might also mention that it's easier fur a man to sell a gold brick in a town where they don't know him."—Washington Star. A tramp told a woman a hard luck story about losing his wife and family and home in an explosion. "But," the woman said, "that isn't the same story you told me last week." "I know, lady," said the tramp, "but you didn't believe last week's story." Worse Still. Willie—Does your pa ever send you to bed before 7 when you're naughty? Bobby—Worse that. When I've been bad he makes me get up before 7.—Boston Transcript. Be wise today. "Tis madness to do better."—Young. Moon Rivers. A. Proverb Sorutinized. Tried to Do Better Worse Still. HOTEL Take advantage of the many conveniences including POST OFFICE REST ROOMS TELEPHONES CHECKING ROOM BUREAU OF INFORMATION ETC. ETC. ETC. THE CARVER HOTEL On All Car Lines 1305-10 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. DO YOU WANT TO BE WELE DRESSED? THEN I AM YOUR TAILOR. SUITS $25.00 OVERCOATS $25.00 ```markdown ``` PHONE: N. W. NIC. 2724 HOTEL JONES 204-11th Ave, So. Madame Emma Taylor Jones PROPRIETOR Special Arrangements for PARTIES AND BANQUETS. DO IT NOW!!! DON'T WAIT!!! Come in, and have your teeth fixed and pay in Weekly or Monthly installments. We have Dr. H. 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