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MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS HISTORICAL tive Page VOL. 3 Single Copies 5 Cents SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS MEETS WIDESCOPE OF THE PROGRAM Eighth Annual Meeting Held In Queen City of Oklahoma Attended by Thousands—Baptist Ministers' Conference Acts as Reception Committee—Exhibits Center of Attraction. Muskogee, Okla.—White duck caps, congress pennants, with those of organized Sunday school classes, badges, buttons and flying banners, marked the auspicious opening of the eighth annual session of the Sunday school congress of the national Baptist convention which was called to order in this city at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, June 4. The enthusiastic Sunday school workers, the hospitable and big hearted citizenship of Muskogee, with the teeming thousands that are joining in the Sunday school forward movement, made the eighth annual session more farreaching in its influence for good upon the Sunday school world than any of its predecessors. The delegates who could take advantage of the special rates for the occasion granted by the railroad companies came from every section of the United States. There were large delegations from Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, Missouri, the west and the middle western states. There were special parties, special coaches and in several instances special Sunday school congress trains. Official Congress Special Train. Notable among those to arrive in Muskogee was the train bearing the officials of the Sunday school congress, with the Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, Florida and Mississippi delegates. It was known as the official Sunday school congress train, and was composed of standard sleepers and day coaches with all of their conveniences. The cars were decorated with long streamers bearing the words, "Sunday School Congress, Muskogee, June 4-9." When the train pulled into the station it was met by the most magnificent reception committee in the history of the new west. This committee, under the auspices of the Baptist ministers' conference, consisting of all of the leading pastors of the city, demonstrated the genuine big heartedness of the people of the west by their cordial reception. Arrayed in congress caps, a chorus consisting of 252 voices, with superb music, sang "Hall, the Baptist Congress," as the train pulled in. Chairman Clark Opens Convention. The officials were greeted with cheers as they alighted from the train, the Metoka and Galeda yell was given by the organized classes, and then a line of march was formed, which led from the railroad station to the magnificent auditorium, where the first session was called to order. The march songs were "Onward, Metokas and Galedas," and "Christian Soldiers Marching." At the auditorium all preliminaries were dispensed with when Rev. C. H. Clark, D. D., chairman of the Sunday school congress, said, "It becomes my very pleasant duty to announce that the eighth annual session of the Sunday school congress of the national Baptist convention has been called to order." After invocation and considerable music from the chorus the topics for discussion were opened. The first subject under discussion was "Interdenominational Sunday School Organizations, National and International—Their Theoretical and Practical Value." Many Interesting Topics Discussed. There were a half dozen well prepared papers that were read before the body covering in detail the most important phase of Sunday school work. "Why Should the Pastor and Church Urge the Organization of Teacher Training Classes?" A more thorough exaltation of the subject could not have been had than was given this one, which seemed to strike a new chord in Sunday school history making. The program for night sessions showed elaborate work on the part of the committee. Demonstrations of the use of various Sunday school periodicals and requisites, with illustrated lectures from celebrated Sunday school experts noted workers, authors and publishers, were given in the department of exhibits each day just before the opening of the general session, after the close of each general session and after various departmental meetings. Every delegate, visitor or Sunday school congress attendant was most cordially invited to attend these demonstrations and lectures, thus becoming more familiar with the needs, as well as use, of all of the improved Sunday school helps now being put before the Sunday school world. Muskogee Gives Official Welcome. The official welcome to the congress, delegates and visitors by the citizens of Muskogee was hospitable to a degree which surpassed anything of the kind on a similar occasion seen in this section of the new southwest in the memory of its oldest inhabitants. The welcoming address on behalf of the city was delivered by his honor the mayor of Muskogee. It was broad and liberal and left no doubt in the minds of the great throng which heard it as to the sincerity of its author. There were addresses of welcome and cordial greetings from the Baptist Ministerial union, missionary Baptist state convention, state Sunday school convention, Metoka and Galeda classes, woman's state convention, state Baptist young people's convention, the Business league, the legal fraternity, the Industrial association, public schools, the various religious bodies and the Professional Men's league of Muskogee. The congress was in session from Wednesday, June 4, to Monday, June 9. The unfinished business of the convention was referred to the executive committee for consideration Tuesday, the 10th. In order to give the delegates and visitors a chance to visit the many points of interest in and near the city before train time in the evening. Secretary Boyd has already received invitations from New York, Atlantic City, St. Louis and Memphis. Tenn. for the next annual meeting of the congress. General Officers and Head Workers. The general officers of the Sunday school congress are Dr. R. H. Boyd director; Rev. C. H. Clark, D. D. chairman; Dr. J. P. Robinson, vice chairman; W. S. Ellington, arbiter and blackboard critic; Henry Allen Boyd secretary; R. B. Hudson, recording secretary; J. M. Ensterling, assistant recording secretary; Miss Eleanor A. Battle, secretary to Henry Allen Boyd; Miss Nellie E. King, enrollment secretary, and Dr. N. H. Plus, superintendent of teacher training. Workers in the missionary department are Dr. William Beckham, field secretary; Dr. E. M. Griggs, district missionary, and E. W. Lancaster, general missionary. The Metoka class department is headed by C. W. Boyd, supervisor of schools, Charleston, W. Va.; J. B. Ridley of Nashville, Tenn. assistant superintendent with Dr. W. H. Crawford and the Rev. A. T. Ayers as associates. The Galeda department for girls and young women has for its leader Miss Cora B. Annis of Cleveland, O., assisted by Mrs. N H Plus and Mrs. L. U. Chambers. Other departments of the organization are denominational newspaper department superintendents, exhibits Bible conference, supply, advance teachers, intermediate and primary, and the publicity department which is in charge of Charles Stewart of the Associated Press, and N Barnett Dodson, editor of the Afro-American page of the American Press Association Ram Grows Oat Crop. Gallon, O.—In addition to a fine coat of wool, a ram owned by David Lynch, a farmer, has a covering of flourishing oats. The ram wallowed around in a straw stack and got oats in his wool. Then it was rained on. Next the sun shone brightly. This continued several days, with the result that the oats sprouted Lynch calculates that in case of drought he can save this crop of oats since if the rain won't come to the crop he can move the crop to the rain SMOKE THE RELIABLE SO SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR WASP STING MAKES POOR CRIPPLE WALK Feels "Hot Needle" Pierce His Ankle and Runs. St. Louis—Charles Wightman, deputy county clerk at Clayton, told he he had just been able to walk without crutches for the first time in thirty-eight of the forty-two years of his life. He fell when he was four years old and injured both legs permanently. He said that a neighbor had told him a snake story just before he went to bed. It was a tale of a black snake ever so many feet long and an incredible number of inches thick, which the neighbor had said he had killed. Charles woke up in the morning with the story still in mind. He thought how comfortable it was to live in a country where one could sleep in peace instead of in one of those countries where, he had heard, snakes sometimes creep in and share one's bed. Reveling in the thought, he thrust his right leg deeper under the covers. Then something that stung like a hot needle pierced his ankle. "I sprang out of bed and ran and stumbled twelve feet across the room," he said. "It was the first time I had taken so many steps unassisted since I was a baby." "And was it really a snake?" he was asked. "No. It was a wasp." And he showed the ankle where the sting had swollen it. PRAISES GRAPE JUICE HOST. Daniels Holds Bryan Up as Pattern Approves Roosevelt's Suit. Washington. - Praise of Secretary Bryan for "the courage of his convictions" in refusing to serve wine at a dinner he gave recently to the diplomatic corps was given by Secretary Daniels in addressing a Sunday school rally for prohibition in the District of Columbia. He advised all young men to follow Secretary Bryan's course and to seek safety in total abstinence. Secretary Daniels also praised Theo- fore Roosevelt for prosecuting for libel an editor accused of circulating stories relative to drinking on the part of the former president. CRAZY WOODPECKERS, THESE. Failing to Find Acorns, They Gather Pebbles For Food. San Francisco.—The woodpeckers of Sonoma county are suffering from a mild sort of insanity, according to an erudite document issued by the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California. The document says: "The reason why California woodpeckers in the vicinity of Sonoma mountain should have stored pebbles instead of the customary acorns is a mystery. "We know that instinct works as automatically as an alarm clock. In the failure of an acorn crop it would seem possible that the woodpecker might instinctively have stored some other available kind of food, but to have chosen stones instead of some sort of food carries the analogy too far. "It seems as though any bird with the intelligence of the California woodpecker which would make the same mistake ought to be classed as insane." PASTORS ADOPT EUGENICS. Won't Perform Marriages For the Physically Unfit. Lynn, Mass. "The Protestant clergymen here (Methodist, Episcopal, Congregationalists and Baptists) have resolved individually to take a stand for the physical fitness of applicants for marriage, and they are to meet to concentrate their energies in behalf of the protection of society. The Rev. C. Thurston Chase of the Central Congregational church, the pioneer in the movement, said: "I have performed my last marriage ceremony in which it will not be necessary for the couple to furnish certificates vouching for their physical fitness. "I maintain that a minister should refuse to perform the marriage ceremony when he thinks it should not be performed." WANTED. Reliable, live, honest, hustling agents for the Twin City Star. You can make a good living with this work as a side line. Agents wanted in Milwaukee, Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Portland, Ore., Seattle, Denver, Des Moines and Sioux City. Write for terms to The Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Minn. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. WOULD AVOID ALL LABOR DISPUTES TO UPLIFT CONDITIONS. "Capital and Labor Are Partners, and Each Should Have Voice In Determining the Terms," He Says—Doesn't Favor Strikes. Washington.—William Bauchop Wilson, secretary of labor, is a strong, sturdy man, with blond hair, fair face, fighting gray blue eyes and a Scotch accent. He was born at Blantyre, Scotland. April 2, 1962, and came to this country nine years later. Settling with his parents in Tloga county, at Arnot, Pa., he became a mine worker at the age of ten. The following year, just after he had passed his eleventh year, he was made a half member of the Mine Workers' union. He obtained his early education from a small village school and in rough and tumble debates in union meetings. He was elected to the Sixthtle, Sixty-first and Sixty-second congresses. March 4 he was appointed secretary of the new department of labor. This, briefly, is the story of the man who is the first to hold a particular cabinet office. "What this department hopes to do primarily," said Secretary Wilson, "is to try to bring about such conditions that 'uplift' work in industrial centers will not be needed. We are proceeding on the assumption that capital and labor are partners, capital furnishing the material ready for use and labor the vitalizing force. Capital and labor should each have a voice in determining the terms of the partnership." Secretary Wilson thinks that a strike is like a war between nations—to be resorted to when all other efforts have failed. "I would not favor a strike if anything else was left for me to do," he 1913, by American Press Association. SECRETARY WILLIAM B. WILSON. said. "In strikes, as in war, there are destruction and ruin, but there are times when they cannot be avoided. "I look upon the department of labor as a means of helping to bring nearer year by year the goal of social justice. Every man is entitled to the full social equivalent of what he produces. The problem is to arrive at that condition. Capital and labor are partners. "Capital without labor is ineffective; labor without capital is idle. Capital is animate; labor gives it life. The one can produce nothing without the employment of the other. To be effective capital and labor must serve each other. Their interests diverge when they come to divide what they have produced. These two elements should sit down together and work out a plan by which the division of profits will be fair, with due regard for the rights of each." It has been feared by advocates of the "open shop" that Secretary Wilson would lean a little closer to organized labor than he should do in this country of all sorts of labor. But he denies that he is to be a union labor officer of the government. He believes that laboring people should organize and that a union labor man, as a rule, is more fit than the nonunion worker. "With the growing industries," said Mr. Wilson. "there is no longer that personal relation between employer and employed that formerly existed. The employer is compelled to deal with larger numbers. The employee as an individual cannot make as satis- factory a contract with the employer as he can when he unites with his fellow workers and fellow men. That is what makes a labor movement necessary. "The department of labor was instituted to obtain by the rule of reason—that is, by striking a basis where the employer can compete with rivals and also pay satisfactory wages—a fair and amicable adjustment of all trade disputes. This would be a rule of reason based upon facts. "The purposes for which the department of labor was established will have been accomplished if we can bring capital and labor together upon a just basis." MANNING MAKES KNOWN HIS MISSION IN NORTH. Former Alabama Lawmaker Tires of Unchecked Political Injustice. Camden, N. J.—Much interest is being taken here in the work of the Hon. Joseph C. Manning, former member of the Alabama legislature. Having served as postmaster in one of the important towns in his state and having had several years of experience as an editor and lecturer. Mr. Manning has a mass of first hand information concerning conditions in the south as they relate to the well being of Afro-Americans. In political affairs Mr. Manning is an adept. He has given many years of hard work in an effort to break down the discrimination which exists against the colored citizens of the south with respect to the ballot. His efforts have been sincere, and he has accomplished much good. He has familiarized himself with every phase of the political, social and educational work of his section and is regarded as an authority upon the south and its treatment of Afro-Americans in respect to their civil and political rights. He gives the south due credit when it is in the right and condemns it when it is in the wrong. Mr. Manning says that his purpose in the north is to acquaint the northern people with the facts as to the present political conditions in the south. It is his intention to engage in a thorough discussion of the suffrage question as it affects the whole people. In 1894 Mr. Manning was at the head of a movement which resulted in some forty Democratic congressmen losing their seats in the national house of representatives in 1896. The unseating of those forty congressmen caused a situation to arise which had to be met in the open. The recently devised disfranchisement laws resorted to by the Democrats were not enacted to get rid of the colored voter, but to aid the cause of minority government in the south through the elimination of sufficient white as well as colored voters to cause the opposition to become a minority party. Mr. Manning said that of 200,000 blacks of voting age in Alabama but 8,000 of that number were permitted to register and vote. "The effect of this system on elections in twelve southern states may be perceived when we realize that the entire delegation in congress from the south was elected on 900,000 votes." Mr. Manning said, "whereas there are 6,000,000 males of voting age in these states and 4,000,000 of them whites." New Book by Dr. Algernon B. Jackson One of the latest tracts on medical treatment is an interesting and instructive pamphlet recently written and published by Dr. Algernon B. Jackson, surgeon in chief of Mercy hospital, Philadelphia. The little book is being given general circulation by leading physiologists. Dr. Jackson is well known for his scholarly attainments and general interest in movements for the good of the public along all lines. CORNELL BOYS IN KITCHEN. Nine Now Going Through the Domestic Science Course. Ithaca, N. Y.—Male students have entered the domestic science course this year for the first time in the Cornell State College of Agriculture. Miss Brownell, the instructor, is authority for the statement that nine have registered and spend the usual hours in the "kitchen," kneading dough and doing other work with the women. They are becoming most proficient, according to Miss Brownell. Among the men cooks are Watson of the varsity baseball team and C. L. Whitney of Rochester, a member of the glee club. Woman to Manage Her Own Mine. Deadwood, S. D.—Backed by capital enough to develop on a good sized scale, Miss Elizabeth Marks of Rapid City has purchased the controlling interest in the Black Tom gold mine, known as the best producer in the Slate Creek district, and is preparing to do extensive work this summer. She will assume the active management of the property. UNEXPLORED REGION MAY BE A BONANZA Indications That Upper Hayes River Is Rich In Gold. Edmonton, Alberta. — George Gardiner of Ottawa is in Edmonton outfitting for a trek over the trail of romance to the Upper Hayes river district to prospect a gold claim located by a man he believes to have been his uncle on the bank of the Peace river in 1808, during the rush to the Yukon, when this city was made the starting point of the overland trail to the Klondike. The story told here by Gardiner is that during the Klondike rush three prospectors went into the Hayes river country, which, except for a small part along the river near Vermilion, is unexplored. One of the party was found on the river bank a year afterward. The man was emaciated and lived only a few hours, but in his last few minutes of life told of a fight with Indians, who killed his two companions. He had in his possession samples of the richest gold. It could have been procured in no other place, so it may be that unexplored territory is rich in the yellow metal. Though the hinterland has been explored to points within the arctic circle, the Upper Hayes river country still remains a vast unknown stretch. Remarking upon the fact, an old timer in the north country said he had never known of a white man getting far into that part of the country. From Edmonton to Peace river crossing by way of Athabasca is 400 miles, and outside of about a fifty mile stretch beyond Peace river crossing and the Upper Hayes still lies a great unexplored land of rolling and, so far as is known, open country. It is inhabited by the Dog Ribs tribe of Indians. The territory runs clear through to the mountains on the British Columbia side, and it is supposed that a large number of "bad Indians" have settled in there. PHILLIPS ACTS AS MONITOR AT MEDICAL EXAMINATION Young Physician Recognized For Ability by Tennessee State Board. By appointment of the Tennessee state board of medical examiners Dr. Joseph Tappan Phillips, a young Afro-American, acted as monitor over the Afro-American applicants at the recent examination held by the board at Nashville, Tenn. This is the first time such a distinction has come to a colored physician. The decorum maintained was highly commented upon by Dr. W. A. Walbert, vice president, and Dr. C. A. A. Abernathy, secretary of the board of examiners. Dr. Phillips is a Fisk university graduate and during his junior year passed the Tennessee medical examination with a high average, which brought him into merited prominence. He graduated a short time ago from the Meharry Medical college and has served successfully as an interne in the G. W. Hubbard Memorial hospital at Nashville. Dr. Phillips is a younger son of Bishop Charles Henry Phillips of Nashville, who is also a physician. Piney Woods Country Life School. The success of the Piney Woods Country Life school, near Braxton, Miss., under the leadership of Professor Lawrence C. Jones, for the past three years has been great in many ways. One reason is because it was started right in the woods, away from anything which would detract attention from the main object of the workers. Another reason is that out of this wilderness Mr. Braxton and his assistants have carved a community of thrift and intelligence. Immediately surrounding the school is one of the finest tracts of farm land to be found anywhere in the south. The school is well attended, and the students are bright, intelligent and industrious. HORSE LEADS TO CROOKS' DEN Pollice Follow Unguided Animal to Resort of Thieves. Spokane, Wash.—After a horse had led detectives to a house occupied by two men already under bond because of larceny charges warrants were issued charging the two men with attempts to rob. The horse had been left behind in a lumber yard when Detective Benway shot at the men and in return was shot through the left leg. The horse, attached to the wagon, was turned loose and, followed by the two detectives, went to a house in the suburbs that the police alleged was occupied by the men named in the warrants. DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST. PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL tive Page SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS MEETS WIDESCOPEOFTHEPROGRAM Eighth Annual Meeting Held In Queen City of Oklahoma Attended by Thousands—Baptist Ministers' Conference Acts as Reception Committee—Exhibits Center of Attraction. Muskogee, Okla.—White duck caps, congress pennants, with those of organized Sunday school classes, badges, buttons and flying banners, marked the auspicious opening of the eighth annual session of the Sunday school congress of the national Baptist convention which was called to order in this city at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, June 4. The enthusiastic Sunday school workers, the hospitable and big hearted citizenship of Muskogee, with the teeming thousands that are joining in the Sunday school forward movement, made the eighth annual session more farreaching in its influence for good upon the Sunday school world than any of its predecessors. The delegates who could take advantage of the special rates for the occasion granted by the railroad companies came from every section of the United States. There were large delegations from Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, Missouri, the west and the middle western states. There were special parties, special coaches and in several instances special Sunday school congress trains. Official Congress Special Train. Notable among those to arrive in Muskogee was the train bearing the officials of the Sunday school congress, with the Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, Florida 1 HENRY ALLEN BOYD. and Mississippi delegates. It was known as the official Sunday school congress train, and was composed of standard sleepers and day coaches with all of their conveniences. The cars were decorated with long streamers bearing the words, "Sunday School Congress, Muskogee, June 4-0." When the train pulled into the station it was met by the most magnificent reception committee in the history of the new west. This committee, under the auspices of the Baptist ministers' conference, consisting of all of the leading pastors of the city, demonstrated the genuine big heartedness of the people of the west by their cordial reception. Arrayed in congress caps, a chorus consisting of 252 voices, with superb music, sang "Hall, the Baptist Congress," as the train pulled in. Chairman Clark Opens Convention. The officials were greeted with cheers as they alighted from the train, the Metoka and Galeda yell was given by the organized classes, and then a line of march was formed, which led from the railroad station to the magnificent auditorium, where the first session was called to order. The march songs were "Onward, Metakas and Galedas," and "Christian Soldiers Marching." At the auditorium all preliminaries were dispensed with when Rev. C. H. Clark, D. D., chairman of the Sunday school congress, said, "It becomes my very pleasant duty to announce that the eighth annual session of the Sunday school congress of the national Baptist convention has been called to order." After invocation and considerable music from the chorus the topics for discussion were opened. The first subject under discussion was "Interdenominational Sunday School Organizations, National and International—Their Theoretical and Practical Value." Many Interesting Topics Discussed. There were a half dozen well prepared papers that were read before the body covering in detail the most important phase of Sunday school work. "Why Should the Pastor and Church Urge the Organization of Teacher Training Classes?" A more thorough exaltation of the subject could not have been had than was given this one, which seemed to strike a new chord in Sunday school history making. The program for night sessions showed elaborate work on the part of the committee. Demonstrations of the use of various Sunday school periodicals and requisites, with illustrated lectures from celebrated Sunday school experts, noted workers, authors and publishers, were given in the department of exhibits each day just before the opening of the general session, after the close of each general session and after various departmental meetings. Every delegate, visitor or Sunday school congress attendant was most cordially invited to attend these demonstrations and lectures, thus becoming more familiar with the needs, as well as use, of all of the improved Sunday school helps now being put before the Sunday school world. Muskogee Gives Official Welcome. The official welcome to the congress, delegates and visitors by the citizens of Muskogee was hospitable to a degree which surpassed anything of the kind on a similar occasion seen in this section of the new southwest in the memory of its oldest inhabitants. The welcoming address on behalf of the city was delivered by his honor the mayor of Muskogee. It was broad and liberal and left no doubt in the minds of the great throng which heard it as to the sincerity of its author. There were addresses of welcome and cordial greetings from the Baptist Ministerial union, missionary Baptist state convention, state Sunday school convention, Metoka and Galeda classes woman's state convention, state Baptist young people's convention, the Business league, the legal fraternity, the Industrial association, public schools, the various religious bodies and the Professional Men's league of Muskogee. The congress was in session from Wednesday, June 4. to Monday, June 9. The unfinished business of the convention was referred to the executive committee for consideration Tuesday, the 10th. in order to give the delegates and visitors a chance to visit the many points of interest in and near the city before train time in the evening. Secretary Boyd has already received invitations from New York. Atlantic City, St. Louis and Memphis. Tenn. for the next annual meeting of the congress. General Officers and Head Workers. The general officers of the Sunday school congress are Dr. R. H. Boyd director; Rev. C. H. Clark, D. D. chairman; Dr. J. P. Robinson, vice chairman; W. S. Ellington, arbiter and blackboard critic; Henry Allen Boyd secretary; R. B. Hudson, recording secretary; J. M. Esterling, assistant recording secretary; Miss Eleanor A. Battle, secretary to Henry Allen Boyd; Miss Nellie E. King, enrollment secretary, and Dr. N. H. Plus, superintendent of teacher training. Workers in the missionary department are Dr. William Beckham, field secretary; Dr. E. M. Griggs, district missionary, and E. W. Lancaster, general missionary. The Metoka class department is headed by C. W. Boyd, supervisor of schools, Charleston, W. Va.; J. B. Ridley of Nashville, Tenn., assistant superintendent with Dr. W. H. Crawford and the Rev. A. T. Ayers as associates. The Galeda department for girls and young women has for its leader Miss Cora B. Annis of Cleveland, O., assisted by Mrs. N H Plus and Mrs. L. U. Chambers. Other departments of the organization are denominational newspaper department superintendents, exhibits Bible conference, supply, advance teachers, intermediate and primary, and the publicity department which is in charge of Charles Stewart of the Associated Press, and N. Barnett Dodson, editor of the Afro-American page of the American Press Association Ram Grows Oat Crop Gallon, O.—In addition to a fine coat of wool, a ram owned by David Lynch, a farmer, has a covering of flourishing oats. The ram wallowed around in a straw stack and got oats in his wool. Then it was rained on. Next the sun shone brightly. This continued several days, with the result that the oats sprouted. Lynch calculates that in case of drought he can save this crop of oats since if the rain won't come to the crop he can move the crop to the rain. SMOKE THE RELIABLE So SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., JUNE 13, 1913. St. Louis—Charles Wightman, deputy county clerk at Clayton, told how he had just been able to walk without crutches for the first time in thirty-eight of the forty-two years of his life. He fell when he was four years old and injured both legs permanently. He said that a neighbor had told him a snake story just before he went to bed. It was a tale of a black snake ever so many feet long and an incredible number of inches thick, which the neighbor had said he had killed. Charles woke up in the morning with the story still in mind. He thought how comfortable it was to live in a country where one could sleep in peace instead of in one of those countries where, he had heard, snakes sometimes creep in and share one's bed. Reveling in the thought, he thrust his right leg deeper under the covers. Then something that stung like a hot needle pierced his ankle. "I sprang out of bed and ran and stumbled twelve feet across the room," he said. "It was the first time I had taken so many steps unassisted since I was a baby." "And was it really a snake?" he was asked. "No. It was a wasp." And he showed the ankle where the sting had swollen it. PRAISES GRAPE JUICE HOST. Daniels Holds Bryan Up as Pattern Approves Roosevelt's Suit. Washington. - Praise of Secretary Bryan for "the courage of his convictions" in refusing to serve wine at a dinner he gave recently to the diplomatic corps was given by Secretary Daniels in addressing a Sunday school rally for prohibition in the District of Columbia. He advised all young men to follow Secretary Bryan's course and to seek safety in total abstinence. Secretary Daniels also praised Theoreore Roosevelt for prosecuting for libel an editor accused of circulating stories relative to drinking on the part of the former president. CRAZY WOODPECKERS, THESE. Failing to Find Acorns, They Gather Pebbles For Food. San Francisco.—The woodpeckers of Sonoma county are suffering from a mild sort of insanity, according to an erudite document issued by the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California. The document says: "The reason why California woodpeckers in the vicinity of Sonoma mountain should have stored pebbles instead of the customary acorns is a mystery. "We know that instinct works as automatically as an alarm clock. In the failure of an acorn crop it would seem possible that the woodpecker might instinctively have stored some other available kind of food, but to have chosen stones instead of some sort of food carries the analogy too far "It seems as though any bird with the intelligence of the California woodpecker which would make the same mistake ought to be classed as insane." PASTORS ADOPT EUGENICS. Won't Perform Marriages For the Physically Unfit. Lynn. Mass. The Protestant clergymen here (Methodist, Episcopal, Congregationalists and Baptists) have resolved individually to take a stand for the physical fitness of applicants for marriage, and they are to meet to concentrate their energies in behalf of the protection of society. The Rev. C. Thurston Chase of the Central Congregational church, the pioneer in the movement, said: "I have performed my last marriage ceremony in which it will not be necessary for the couple to furnish certificates vouching for their physical fitness. "I maintain that a minister should refuse to perform the marriage ceremony when he thinks it should not be performed." WANTED. Reliable, live, honest, hustling agents for the Twin City Star. You can make a good living with this work as a side line. Agents wanted in Milwaukee, Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Portland, Ore., Seattle, Denver, Des Moines and Sloux City. Write for terms to The Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Minn. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. WOULD AVOID ALL LABOR DISPUTES "Capital and Labor Are Partners, and Each Should Have Voice In Determining the Terms," He Says—Doesn't Favor Strikes. Washington.—William Bauchop Wilson, secretary of labor, is a strong, sturdy man, with blond hair, fair face, fighting gray blue eyes and a Scotch accent. He was born at Blantyre, Scotland. April 2, 1902, and came to this country nine years later. Settling with his parents in Tloga county, at Arnot, Pa., he became a mine worker at the age of ten. The following year, just after he had passed his eleventh year, he was made a half member of the Mine Workers' union. He obtained his early education from a small village school and in rough and tumble debates in union meetings. He was elected to the Sixteenth, Sixty-first and Sixty-second congresses. March 4 he was appointed secretary of the new department of labor. This, briefly, is the story of the man who is the first to hold a particular cabinet office. "What this department hopes to do primarily," said Secretary Wilson, "is to try to bring about such conditions that 'uplift' work in industrial centers will not be needed. We are proceeding on the assumption that capital and labor are partners, capital furnishing the material ready for use and labor the vitalizing force. Capital and labor should each have a voice in determining the terms of the partnership." Secretary Wilson thinks that a strike is like a war between nations—to be resorted to when all other efforts have failed. "I would not favor a strike if anything else was left for me to do," he PETER H. 162, by American Press Association. SECRETARY WILLIAM B. WILSON. said. "In strikes, as in war, there are destruction and ruin, but there are times when they cannot be avoided. "I look upon the department of labor as a means of helping to bring nearer year by year the goal of social justice. Every man is entitled to the full social equivalent of what he produces. The problem is to arrive at that condition. Capital and labor are partners. "Capital without labor is ineffective; labor without capital is idle. Capital is animate; labor gives it life. The one can produce nothing without the employment of the other. To be effective capital and labor must serve each other. Their interests diverge when they come to divide what they have produced. These two elements should sit down together and work out a plan by which the division of profits will be fair, with due regard for the rights of each." It has been feared by advocates of the "open shop" that Secretary Wilson would lean a little closer to organized labor than he should do in this country of all sorts of labor. But he denies that he is to be a union labor officer of the government. He believes that laboring people should organize and that a union labor man, as a rule, is more fit than the nonunion worker. "With the growing industries," said Mr. Wilson. "there is no longer that personal relation between employer and employed that formerly existed. The employer is compelled to deal with larger numbers. The employee as an individual cannot make as satis- factory a contract with-the employer as he can when he unites with his fellow workers and fellow men. That is what makes a labor movement necessary. "The department of labor was instituted to obtain by the rule of reason—that is, by striking a basis where the employer can compete with rivals and also pay satisfactory wages—a fair and amicable adjustment of all trade disputes. This would be a rule of reason based upon facts. "The purposes for which the department of labor was established will have been accomplished if we can bring capital and labor together upon a just basis." MANNING MAKES KNOWN HIS MISSION IN NORTH. Former Alabama Lawmaker Tires of Unchecked Political Injustice. Camden, N. J.—Much interest is being taken here in the work of the Hon. Joseph C. Manning, former member of the Alabama legislature. Having served as postmaster in one of the important towns in his state and having had several years of experience as an editor and lecturer, Mr. Manning has a mass of first hand information concerning conditions in the south as they relate to the well being of Afro-Americana. In political affairs Mr. Manning is an adopt. He has given many years of hard work in an effort to break down the discrimination which exists against the colored citizens of the south with respect to the ballot. His efforts have been sincere, and he has accomplished much good. He has familiarized himself with every phase of the political, social and educational work of his section and is regarded as an authority upon the south and its treatment of Afro-Americans in respect to their civil and political rights. He gives the south due credit when it is in the right and condemn it when it is in the wrong. Mr. Manning says that his purpose in the north is to acquaint the northern people with the facts as to the present political conditions in the south. It is his intention to engage in a thorough discussion of the suffrage question as it affects the whole people. In 1894 Mr. Manning was at the head of a movement which resulted in some forty Democratic congressmen losing their seats in the national house of representatives in 1896. The unseating of those forty congressmen caused a situation to arise which had to be met in the open. The recently devised disfranchisement laws resorted to by the Democrats were not enacted to get rid of the colored voter, but to aid the cause of minority government in the south through the elimination of sufficient white as well as colored voters to cause the opposition to become a minority party. Mr. Manning said that of 200,000 blacks of voting age in Alabama but 8,000 of that number were permitted to register and vote. "The effect of this system on elections in twelve southern states may be perceived when we realize that the entire delegation in congress from the south was elected on 900,000 votes." Mr. Manning said, "whereas there are 6,000,000 males of voting age in these states and 4,000,000 of them whites." New Book by Dr. Algernon B. Jackson One of the latest tracts on medical treatment is an interesting and instructive pamphlet recently written and published by Dr. Algernon B. Jackson, surgeon in chief of Mercy hospital, Philadelphia. The little book is being given general circulation by leading physicians. Dr. Jackson is well known for his scholarly attainments and general interest in movements for the good of the public along all lines. CORNELL BOYS IN KITCHEN. Nine Now Going Through the Domestic Science Course. Ithaca, N. Y.—Male students have entered the domestic science course this year for the first time in the Cornell State College of Agriculture. Miss Brownell, the instructor, is authority for the statement that nine have registered and spend the usual hours in the "kitchen," kneading dough and doing other work with the women. They are becoming most proficient, according to Miss Brownell. Among the men cooks are Watson of the varsity baseball team and C. L. Whitney of Rochester, a member of the glee club. Woman to Manage Her Own Mine, Deadwood, S. D.—Backed by capital enough to develop on a good sized scale, Miss Elizabeth Marks of Rapid City has purchased the controlling interest in the Black Tom gold mine, known as the best producer in the Slate Creek district, and is preparing to do extensive work this summer. She will assume the active management of the property. Edmonton, Alberta. - George Gardiner of Ottawa is in Edmonton outfitting for a trek over the trail of romance to the Upper Hayes river district to prospect a gold claim located by a man he believes to have been his uncle on the bank of the Peace river in 1888, during the rush to the Yukon, when this city was made the starting point of the overland trail to the Klondike. The story told here by Gardiner is that during the Klondike rush three prospectors went into the Hayes river country, which, except for a small part along the river near Vermilion, is unexplored. One of the party was found on the river bank a year afterward. The man was emaciated and lived only a few hours, but in his last few minutes of life told of a fight with Indians, who killed his two companions. He had in his possession samples of the richest gold. It could have been procured in no other place, so it may be that unexplored territory is rich in the yellow metal. Though the hinterland has been explored to points within the arctic circle, the Upper Hayes river country still remains a vast unknown stretch. Remarking upon the fact, an old timer in the north country said he had never known of a white man getting far into that part of the country. From Edmonton to Peace river crossing by way of Athabasca is 400 miles, and outside of about a fifty mile stretch beyond Peace river crossing and the Upper Hayes still lies a great unexplored land of rolling and, so far as is known, open country. It is inhabited by the Dog Ribs tribe of Indians. The territory runs clear through to the mountains on the British Columbia side, and it is supposed that a large number of "bad Indians" have settled in there. PHILLIPS ACTS AS MONITOR AT MEDICAL EXAMINATION Young Physician Recognized For Ability by Tennessee State Board. By appointment of the Tennessee state board of medical examiners Dr. Joseph Tappan Phillips, a young Afro-American, acted as monitor over the Afro-American applicants at the recent examination held by the board at Nashville, Tenn. This is the first time such a distinction has come to a colored physician. The decorum maintained was highly commented upon by Dr. W. A. Walbert, vice president, and Dr. C. A. A. Abernathy, secretary of the board of examiners. Dr. Phillips is a Fisk university graduate and during his junior year passed the Tennessee medical examination with a high average, which brought him into merited prominence. He graduated a short time ago from the Meharry Medical college and has served successfully as an interne in the G. W. Hubbard Memorial hospital at Nashville. Dr. Phillips is a younger son of Bishop Charles Henry Phillips of Nashville, who is also a physician. Piney Woods Country Life School. The success of the Piney Woods Country Life school, near Braxton, Miss., under the leadership of Professor Lawrence C. Jones, for the past three years has been great in many ways. One reason is because it was started right in the woods, away from anything which would detract attention from the main object of the workers. Another reason is that out of this wilderness Mr. Braxton and his assistants have carved a community of thrift and intelligence. Immediately surrounding the school is one of the finest tracts of farm land to be found anywhere in the south. The school is well attended, and the students are bright, intelligent and industrious. HORSE LEADS TO CROOKS' DEN Pollice Follow Unguided Animal to Resort of Thieves. Spokane, Wash.—After a horse had led detectives to a house occupied by two men already under bond because of larceny charges warrants were issued charging the two men with attempts to rob. The horse had been left behind in a lumber yard when Detective Benway shot at the men and in return was shot through the left leg. The horse, attached to the wagon, was turned loose and, followed by the two detectives, went to a house in the suburbs that the police alleged was occupied by the men named in the warrants. But God commendeth His Love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.—Romans 5:8. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.—Romans 6:23.—Selected by E. W. Gilles. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH. Grand Rally Day next Sabbath at Bethesda Baptist church. At 11 A. M., Rev. T. J. Carter will preach the rallying sermon. At 3 P. M., there will be a Union Service—St. Peter's, St. James, and Zion churches with their choirs. Rev. E. R. Edwards will deliver the Union Sermon. At 8 P. M., there will be a literary and musical program. All organizations and general public are invited.—By Rev. T. J. Carter. MASONIC SERMON. The Annual Sermon of Anchor Hillyard Lodge, F. and A. M., will be held at St. Peter's A. M. E. Church on June 22. Mr. Andrew F. Hillyer of Washington, D. C., was elected a trustee of Howard University at a meeting of the Trustees Board held on June 4th. DEATH OF MR. BOATLEY. The funeral services of Larnell W. Boatley, 617 Jewett Pl., were held last Monday afternoon at Zion Baptist Church. Rev. Withers officiated assisted by Rev. T. J. Carter. The deceased was born in Springfield, O., aged 23 years. He died June 6th at Hopewell Hospital with tuberculosis. His wife and mother survive him. Funeral director D. W. Raynor arranged the burial. Interment at Crystal Lake Cemetery. NEGRO HELD FOR MURDER. William Billingsley, 255 7th Ave. No was held for the grand jury charged with the murder of Albert Zeithen (white). It is claimed that a white woman was the cause of the murder—but this is a rumor spread about to prejudice the jurors. Evidence has been found to prove that he shot Zeithen in self defense, when attacked with a butcher knife. THE MEN'S EPISCOPAL CLUB will give their Anual Picnic AT ANTLER'S PARK-JULY 10. FEDERATION CLUB NOTES. By Mrs. Carrie A. Ford, Editor. A Program of Select Music and Reading will be given Sunday evening at St. James Church under the auspices of the City Federation. Mrs. Hester Keeeyes has arranged the program. All are cordially invited. The City Federation will meet with Mrs. Ada Inglehardt, 507 N. Bryant Ave., on June 20. This being the last meeting of the year all are requested to be present on account of important business. ADVERTISE IN THE STAR and get good results. IF YOU DON'T ADVERTISE You get bad Results. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. Those organizations, failing to value this publication as the best advertising medium in the Twin Cities, bear witness that the foregoing statement is true. FORUMS NEW OFFICERS. Atty. Wm. R. Morris, Pres.; Mrs. M. O. Cannon, Vice Pres.; Miss Idah Grey, Sec'y.; Mr. Geo. Geo. Hall, Treas.; Mr. Wm. Smith, Critic; Mr. Chas. W. Brown, Journalist; Rev. T. W. Lewis, Mr. A. J. Kelso, Chaplains; Miss Mildred Shull, Organist; Mr. Jas. Combs, Chorister. Inauguration will take place first Sunday in July. CALL TO CONVENTION: The Ninth Annual Convention, of the Afro-American Women State Federation of Minnesota, will hold its sessions with City Federation of Duluth, Minn. Mrs. Laura Colby, Pres. June 26th and 27th, at St. Mark's A. M. E. Church. Clubs are requested to elect their delegates and send names to Mrs. Ada Mathews, Cec'y., Duluth, address, 720 5 Ave. E. Any club desiring to join the Federation, is invited to send Representative. Further information may be obtained by applying to President or Sec'y. of the State, Mrs. Ida Sellars Pres., Mrs. Nellie Hicks, Sec'y., 463 Thomas St. St. Paul. Today is Friday—the 13th. THE K. P. PNCNIC. The Knights of Pythias Picnic will be held on Aug. 1, at Carver, Minn. THE FORUM MEETS SUNDAY. PASTOR'S 18TH ANNIVERSARY SERVICES HELD AT ZION BAP- TIST CHURCH IN HONOR OF DEM. M. W. WITHERS, SUN The morning session was opened by special music of Sunday School Choir, arranged by Mr. D. W. Raynor. Rev. A. Battle read the scripture. Rev. G. W. Lee, of Topeka, Kansas, offered prayer after which the Pastor Wilbers preached his anniversary sermon from the text found 28th Chap. of Acts: "He thanked God and took courage." This lesson portrayed to us in all its eloquence of beauty the attributes, perseverance, courage, charity and benevolence. The large and appreciative audience enthusiastically congratulated the pastor on his excellent sermon, which far surpassed any he had preached. At the close of the sermon the pastor gave statistics of his work accomplished during his 13 years: Received into the church, 220 communicants. Of this number, 75 by baptism; raised $7,132.68 for church work; performed 38 marriages; conducted 60 funeral services, and have administered to many poor and needy and discouraged as opportunity afforded it. Remarks and papers were read by the following: Mrs. R. Cisney, "The Pastor as Seen by the Literary Society;" Mrs. B. J. Wilkerson, "The Pastor's Relation to the Sunday School;" Mrs. Jennie Rucker, "The Pastor and Our B. Y. P. U. Society." Mr. D. W. Raynor, "Pastor and the Choir." Also remarks by Deacon John Carey, Rev. A. Battles, Mrs. L. St. Claire, and Rev. G. W. Lee, of Topeka, Kansas. Speaking for the citizens at large, Attorney William R. Morris, paid a glowing tribute to Rev. Withers for the work accomplished during these years, as he was present at the reception held for Rev. Withers on his arrival to our city, June, 1900. The afternoon 3 P. M. The Minneapolis Sunday Forum held a special session. The speakers of this occasion were Mrs. I. E. Gibbs, Rev. T. J. Carter, Mrs. M. O. Cannon, Mr. William Smith, Mr. Chas, Brown, and Miss Eva Walker. Monday night exhibited a splendid reception and program. Those participating, Miss Grace Matthews, piano selection; Miss St. Louis gave a reading; Misses Bessie Welch and Isabelle Singleton and little Elnora True rendered solos. Dialogue, "The Polish Boy" by Mrs. Davis, English and others. Address by Atty. Morris. Mrs. William Smith rendered a solo.—Communicated. The Annual Sermon of the U. B. F. and S. M. T. was preached last Sunday at St. Peter's A. M. E. Chuch by Rev. Lewis. The attendance was good, and the order made a splendid showing. Mr. D. E. Buckner was given a pleasant surprise last week on his 51st birthday, at his residence, 701 No. 5th St. Mrs. Matie Smith and several friends planned the affair. Among the guests were Mrs. Nellie Robinson, Miss Minnie Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Darrer, Messrs. Art. Eliott, Geo. Mason and Robt. Drake. The All Joy orchestra rendered selections. Mrs. Dorrer presided at the piano. A large cake decorated with 51 flags and candles was placed on the table where delightful refreshments were served. After a shower of birthday gifts, the crowd departed, having spent a pleasant evening. Mr. Buckner was one of the wounded heroes at San Juan Hill, and he deserves this appreciation from his friends. Mrs. Wm. Errick, 712 4th St. No, gave birth to a baby girl, attended by Dr. Brown. Mr. G. C. Mason, 717 3rd St. So., is sick with rheumatism. RENNIX-WILKERSON. The marriage of Mrs. Mattie Wilkerson of Topeka, Kan., and Mr. John L. Rennix at this city took place Sunday afternoon, June 8th, at the residence of Mrs. Wm. Briscoe, 2103 Elliott Ave. (nee Miss Blanche Rennix, sister of the groom). Rev. T. W. Lewis, pastor of St. Peter's A. M. E. Church read the service before the members of the groom's family, and a small group of intimate friends. Following the ceremony dainty refreshments were served. MASONS ELECT OFFICERS. The Annual Election of officers was held by Anchor Hilyard Lodge on June 3rd as follows. Geo. Johnson, W. M.; E. B. James, S. W.; John Sellars, J. W.; J. Heathcath, Treas., Dr. R. S. Brown, Sec'y.; Jas. M. Graham, Senior Deacon; Frank Terry, Junior Deacon; Van Art. Spence, Tyler. Installation will be held June 17th, at Masonic Hall. COLLINS AUTO-LIVERY. SCOLLING AUTO-LIVENY. Look who's here. Autos for hire for any occasion at reasonable prices. Competent and reliable drivers. Jacob R. Collins, Prop. Phones N. W. South 1122. Garage Center 3893. Subscribe for the Star. TWIN CITY STAR REV. BOICE U. TAYLOR HONORED. Visits Twin Cities on Bridal Trip. Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Strong, Rev. and Mrs. J. S. Strong( entertained a small party of friends at their beautiful residence, 670 West Central Ave. June 5th, in honor of their old friend Rev. Brice U. Taylor, and his lovely bride. A beautiful 5 o'clock dinner was served in honor of the bride, and groom, and a delightful time was had, in music and converse. Those especially invited as the guests of honor were: Mrs. Bettie Jones and Miss E. A. Leonard and Atty. R. O. Lee. Rev. and Mrs. Taylor are spending their honeymoon in this city. They will be at home to their friends in Des Moines, Iowa, after a stay of two weeks in our city. THE CRISIS BENEFIT. A Festival of Race Music There was a fair representation of the most exclusive social set at Bowlby Hall on June 6th, to witness the evening's enjoyment planned for them by Mrs. Lillian Turner of St. Paul for the benefit of the Crisis Fund. They will assist several race women in other citis to raise $1,000. The program with one exception was a recital of music by the Negro composers. The late S. Coleridge was well honored, also were Prof. Will Marlon Cook, Alfred Anderson and Mr. Harry T. Burleigh, Sololist at St. George's Church, New York City and pupil of the famous Anton Dvorak, Mr. Burleigh sang "Calvary" at the funeral of late J. P. Morgan. The following program was especially well adapted and each contributor proved an artist. Mrs. Turner made the opening remarks—introducing Hon. W. T. Francis, Master of Ceremonies, who spoke of the good work of the Crisis, and the benefits of the Society making an earnest appeal for their subscription to this creditable publication. Overture. McCullough's orchestra. Piano Solo. The Appeal Grand March—Miss Adina Adams composed by Prof. W. A. Weir of St. Paul, Solos by Chas. H. Miller "Wid de Moon, Moon, Moon." by Will. M. Cooke, encore "You'll Git Dar in de morning" by H. T. Burleigh. Mrs. B. C. Archer, accompanist. Soprano Solo, Mrs. E. O. James, "On Aaway, Awake, Beloved," Coleridge. Taylor, Encore "The Rosary" Mrs. R. B. Chapman, accompanist Tenor Solo, Mr. Claude Jackson. "The Violet Banks" S. Coleridge, Encore "Jean" by H. T. Burleigh, accompanied by Mrs. S. Ed. Hall. Soprano Solo, Mrs. Hattle Loomis-Oliver. "Just Because" (Burleigh) encore "Since Then" Alfred Anderson, Mrs. B. C. Archer accompanist. Each number received prolonged applause. After the recital began the dance, which many enjoyed tote strains of McCullough's orchestra. The ladies were fashionably gowned and many well groomed men appeared in evening dress. The program was appropriate and highly commendable, and the affair as one of the exclusive social functions was a brilliant success. CONVICTED UNDER MANN ACT. White Man and Negro Woman. Geo. Savage, a white real estate dealer, and Alice Jackson, a Negro woman, and keeper of a house of prostitution at 148 E 9th St. were convicted on Wednesday in the U. S. Circuit Court for violation of the Mann Act in transporting Frankie Allen, a Negro woman from Chicago to St. Paul for immoral purposes. It was proven that Savage was associated with the Jackson woman. The charge of Judge Willard was a clear cut line of the intent of the law and the evidence offered. He retterated that this was a typical case for the enforcement of the Mann Act. Few more convictions and this traffic will be stopped among Negro women, who feel that they were on account of color immune from this law. Sentences will be given on June 14th. UTLEY'S NEW LOCATION. Mr. W. J. Utley has moved his barber shop to 30 E. 4th St., opposite Court House, where he has secured a desirable location. He is fitting up the place for the best barber shop and billiard parlor in the Twin Cities. THE ST. LOUIS KITCHEN. You can get a good meal, clean service, and courteous attention at the St. Louis Kitchen, 138 E. Third St., St. Paul. Mrs. Hinson is universally known for her good cooking. The Hotel Jones is now located at 1109 2nd St. So, where better apartments have been secured. (Adv.) When you have a social, or any gathering worthy of mention, select some member as press agent, and get the names, especially the initials of persons present, and forward it to your newspaper. Do not wait to depend on your time or memory. It is necessary that we get the full names of those present Send notes by Wednesday. Anent the entertainment arranged for the benefit of The Crisis in this city, at which "some clever dancing" and other claimed fetching stunts were advertised. The Bee would like to inquire why this late comer into the journalistic field should have public benefits given for it while Negro newspapers which have been braving the storm and fighting the race's battles for years are forgot by philanthropic entertainment promoters. What is there about the selfish, self-opinionated DuBois—the just arrived editor who has not a dollar of his own money invested, to invite homage while the sturdy editors who have been issuing their publications (established with their own money), every week for a quarter of a century or more are ignored by the DuBois hero-worshipers and seekers after elat? Is it because it is believed DuBois the intolerable egotist is a radical? If so, why overlook Harry C. Smith, as radical a welder of the pen as ever wrote an editorial paragraph. And Mr. Smith has conducted his Cleveland Gazette for thirty years unfinchingly in the interest of his race without begging for a benefit dance. Is it because they admire DuBois the supported dreamer just because he is insanely opposed to the Wizard of Tuskegee? If so, why overlook Monroe Trotter's Guardian, which is rabidly antagonistic to Booker T., fifty-two weeks in every year. Then is The Richmond Planet, which has never been charged with holding a brief for the builder of Tuskegee—it has been thriving while constantly fighting for the race for more than a quarter of a century without having public benefits given for it. And there are more than a hundred other Negro newspapers, including The Bee, with thirty-three years of well doing, issued weekly, valiantly, courageously, uncompromisingly fighting the race's battles. They have asked for no public benefits, as much as they deserve them. Now why should The Crisis, a monthly magazine filled, for the most part, with matter previously appearing in the Negro weeklies, be singled out to have benefits given to support it. Is The Crisis more deserving or more potent than an hundred long established Negro newspapers we could name? Is there something about the intolerable conceited egotist to attract hysterical old maids, fidgety suffragettes, irresponsible misses and a few imbecile high-brows who pass for men? These public benefits being arranged for The Crisis may suggest to the experienced that The Crisis has about reached its limits—(The Washington Bee, June 7, 1913.) There is no reason why a L'agazine as the Crisis with 30,000 circulation should not be a good paying investment if properly managed. We recognize the ability of DuBois and his value to his race as the Editor of the Crisis, which is the "battleship" of the Society for the Advancement of Colored People, yet his friends have always paraded him as an object of charity, which is certainly unfair and embarrassing to him. But the "Bee" is right about these entertainments for the promotion and perpetuation of personal prominence. They are arranged by factional representatives, who use the community in which they live as a means to an end. Minnesota has enough to do at home, and there is nothing done by others than her citizens. There was no mention in the Crisis of the work done against class legislation in this state, yet some promoters have attempted to entertain the smart set, (ignoring many of our representative women who were not named as patrons) by raising funds to assist a far-away society. The Twin City Star holds that Negroes should organize and keep intact Local Legal Aid Societies, planned like the Negro Business Leagues. This is their first duty, and if there is a request made for a special purpose they could contribute to the Society for the Advancement of Colored People. Negro newspapers need no other benefits than the white newspapers, no poverty parties, or financial revivals, at the expense of the community. We know that the lady in charge of the recent recital means well, and we give her credit for her well intended efforts, but it is deplorable that her experience is limited, and we feel that having profited by this example, we may have some benefits given to shingle church steeples, etc., where Negroes may worship God in edifices erected to His honor and not to their disgrace. We are informed that Atty. B. S. Smith arranged the Minneapolis end of the Crisis fund affair. If so it was something attempted—nothing done. The question arises who is—Well, what's the use. We beg that those who are indebted to us, send us their subscription by P. O. Order. Everything for Women's Wear—Popular Prices Root & Hageman women's Garment Store formerly "Pharrels" The Very Latest Ideas in all that pertains to Women's Wear. 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Aside from the general discussion of the topics, good programs are rendered. The Baptist Young Peoples' Union of Pilgrim Baptist Church meets each Sunday at 6:45 P. M. The meetings are very interesting. All are invited. "Wherever any race or group of people learn to do a common thing in an uncommon way, by putting brain, skill and conscience into labor, that race or group of people is likely to solve all the problems that surround them."—Dr. Washington. THE TRUTH WELL TOLD. Don't be afraid to speak ill of the dead. No man that has lived should be saved from deserved criticism by the commonplace fact of ceasing to be alive. "I should wish," said the Cardinal de Bernis, "that every regard of politeness be preserved for the living, but that it might be permitted to speak freely one's mind of the dead." Filled as our lives are with daily shams, there is no more absurd and abominable sham about us than the mask of sorrow that we wear to the funeral of a rogue. As a matter of fact, the dead, being safe from physical punishment, should be the more open to such reprobation as their acts may have courted. In a true sense, "the evil that men do lives after them." To condone the faults of the dead is to corrupt the morality of the living.—Reginald W. Kauffman, in The Cosmopolitan. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. 208 Hennepin Avenue B. Y. P. U. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. BE UP-TO-DATE BROTHERS Years ago, New York butter and Ohio, Wisconsin and Missouri Beer, were known to be the best, and swell folks always had them on their table. No one wants New York butter now, because Minnesota is the best, but some people stick to the old idea on beer. CAN YOU HELP THIS AFFLICTED BOY TO FIND HIS MOTHER? Chicago, Ill., June 3, '13. Mr. Editor, Dear Sir^c—Will you please put this ad in your valuable paper: I ask you to find my mother. I am a small boy 15 years old, my mother left me last year Nov. 30, 1912, to go to my Stepfather. She left him and married again and has not sent me anything since that time. I cannot hear from her, have wrote her about half dozen times. I am subject to fits, have not any one to help me. My Stepfather is paying my board $18.00 per mo. to keep in school until I finish. Says he cannot do any more for me after school is out, on the account of my health I am not able to help myself. Please find her. Please oblige. Her name is Ella Hayes now, but her real name is Ella Edwards, did live in your town at No. 515 12 Ave. So. Married by Rev. Malone, on the same St. My address is Earl Edwards, No. 5214 State St., Chicago, Ill. Clo. Mr. Hooper. Mrs. Ella Hayes has informed us that the above article was sent us by Mr. Edwards, as she has letters in her possession from her son and also Mrs. Harper—proving that the above statement was false. The postal authorities will be asked to investigate this matter. COPY MUST REACH US BY WEDNESDAY. Let us have more harmony among our social workers and in our organizations in general. It is disrespect and gross insubordination to ignore our officers and fellow-workers. We should not feel that others have no rights that we respect. Harmony is essential to unity. Let us try to do something to please others and to disagree from principle and not personal motives. In the words of the immortal Lincoln, "Though much provoked, let us do nothing in malice or ill temper." Many non-subscribers often request "a big write up," when public exercises are given by their organization, yet they never patronize this publication, and have caused others to fall in attempts to satisfy them. Greek Catholics in Philadelphia have started a Mission for Negroes in charge of a Negro Priest. Defective tive Page SYLVESTER W. OLIVER Working Men's Social Club OLIVER BROS., Managers PHONE: Nicollet 0566 244 Third Ave. So. Minneapolis, Minn. PAEGEL 802 NICOLLET AVE. WILL MAKE YOUR WATCH KEEP TIME. 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LISBON TRANSFER AND FUEL ALL KINDS OF HAULING MOVING VANS. . . . EXPRESSING 1315 4th St. 8o., Minneapolis. POPULAR PRICED SHOE REPAIR 'NO WE FIX 'EM WHILE YOU WAIT Men's Sewed Sales. . . . 75s Ladies. ** ** 68s Men's Nailed ** ** 59 and 60s Rubber Heels. ** 40s Lad's and Boys' nalled sales. ** 40s SEVEN CORNERS SHOE REPAIR SHOP BOARDING AND ROOMING HOUSE Clean, Comfortable and Reasonable Rooms. Excellent Table Board. 2010 CEDAR AVE., MINNEAPOLIS. On Car Line. JAS. WILLIAMS, PROP. NEW UPRISING IN CHINESE REPUBLIC Accuse President of Aspiring to Be Dictator. REVOLUTION IS FEARED. Yuan Shih Kai Aware of Possible Outcome and Moves Troops to Strategic Points—Mandates Issued With-Menace Couched In Classical Tones. Peking.—President Yuan Shih Kai has been driven almost into a corner by a concatenation of circumstances which has given to his opponents what they declare to be justification for all their suspicions that he would at some period or other endeavor to dominate in the councils of the nation if not to become dictator or emperor. The murder of Sung Chiao Jen at Shanghai and the signing of the quintuple loan without the authorization of parliament have been seized upon to revile the president and declare him unfit to occupy the high post which many believe he alone can properly fill. To such a white heat has public opinion got that another revolution is free- ly talked of, and every effort possible has been made to prevent the quintuple loan from being consummated. In Shanghai the severest censure is being passed upon the president and the cabinet, and so reckless is the language being used that the municipal authorities in that port recently were compelled to take notice of it and issue an order threatening to arrest and try any editor, publisher, reporter or printer guilty of unrestrained expression of opinion. Yuan Shih Kal regarded the outburst with apparent indifference for some time, but of late he has been moving troops to strategic points and in other ways has indicated that he is alive to the probabilities if he does not show his hand and indicate his intentions. The opposition is coming almost solely from the Kuo Mintang, and, while it seems that they have considerable cause for complaint that republican principles are not being carried out as they should be, they have in a sense spied their case by the unrestrained abullitions of their publicists in Shanghai. Proceeding upon constitutional lines, the Kuo Mintang may have compelled a hearing of their claims, but the attitude adopted by the newspaper they publish in English in Shanghai has alienated most foreign sympathy and has rendered it difficult for the leaders to carry on the campaign they inaugurated. This newspaper has proved fatal to the party. Other newspapers published in Chinese have followed suit, and the result has been the stirring of the people to such an extent that a second revolution is believed to be on the taps. At all events the president is preparing for one, and, in addition to moving troops, he has issued mandates which are intended to indicate what his intentions are. On May 2 he issued two. In the first he describes how the country has just passed through revolution, how "many mere followers of the righteous cause" took advantage of the name of revolution "to extort and injure law abiding people" and how "the constitutional spirit of the country has not yet soundly recovered." He recalls how he has pardoned offenders who have been guilty of conspiracy, hoping they would repent of their guilty conduct, and describes the situation as "dangerous to the highest degree, the financial strength of the nation being dried up and the people having practically very little to make their lives worth living." In the second mandate morality is described as the foundation of republican government and law the limit, and from that the president goes on to refer to the murder of Sung Chiaojen and the signing of the loan. The former he states offers no excuse to suspect the premier, and as for the latter, it was competent for the governor to sign the loan agreement, the late national council having passed it. TWIN CITY STAR DULUTH NEWS. Mrs. William B. Richardson, and her three sons left Sunday evening over the Omaha Ry., for her home at Adrian, Michigan, where she expects to visit with her father and mother for the next three months. IMMIGRATE BILL INTI At the annual election of Doric Lodge No. 3, F. & A. M., last Monday night, the following officers were selected to serve-for the ensuing year: W. M., George B. Kelley; S.W., R. F. Pendleton; J. W., George W. Newton; Sec'y, Harvey L. Pittman; Treas, Foster Byrd. The following officers were appointed by the new W. M.: Senior Deacon, George H. Adams; Junior Deacon, Edward G. Richey; Senior Steward, Joshua N. Richey; Junior Steward, William A. Porter; Tyler, Samuel McNeal; Chaplain, A. S. Mason. All the officers will be installed on June 16th after which refreshments will be served by a committee headed by William Dawson. News was received in Duluth last week of the death of Mrs. Nannie Ridgely, at Fairbanks, Alaska, Mrs. Ridgely was well known in Duluth and her death came as a shock to many of her old acquaintances. The work on the St. Mark's A. M. E. Church is progressing nicely under the direction of Contractor George W. Newton. Thomas Jefferson has applied to the City Commission for a license to conduct a saloon in the building now occupied by Chester O'Neil as a pool and billiard parlor, at this writing it looks as if the permit will be granted. Jefferson is pretty well known as a saloon man in St. Paul and Minneapolis and has been engaged in the club business about all the time he has been in Duluth. The colored people in general welcome the advent of a saloon if it is properly conducted, but anything bordering on the dive will last quick with the power now in the hands of the people. Charles Broady made one of his flying trips to Duluth last Sunday leaving Tuesday. The Federated Clubs of Duluth, under the direction of the President, Mrs. Charles Colby, are making very elaborate arrangements for the entertainment of State officers in June. A joint outing of the Masons and Odd Fellows and their families is being planned for July 4th and it is quite probable a base ball game between members of the Lodge will be pulled off along with other Athletic Stunts. Doric Lodge Masons will hold a Memorial Service Sunday, June 22, 1913. An invitation has been extended to all sojourning Masons to be present. We have a few subscribers left in Duluth since we cut off dead-heads. GRAND LODGE, F. and A. M. The Chairman of the General Com- the following Sub-Committee on entertainment during the Annual Session of the Grand Lodge which will be held in Duluth in August:—George B. Kelley, Chairm., W. A. Porter and Geo. H. Adams, which means there will be some entertainment—wait and see. It is the desire of Doric Lodge to bring as many people to Duluth this year as possible. The motto of the entertainment committee will be "Get acquainted with the fellow next to you, you may like him." In addition to the entertainment of the Grand Lodge the entertainment committee is planning to co-operate with other organizations with a view of furnishing entertainment for others who may enjoy a visit to Duluth at this particular time. If you plan to visit Duluth, write any member of this committee and they will furnish you any information you may desire. The rates will be a fare and a half. Grand Lodge Officera C. H. Robinson, Minneapolis, M. W. G. M. W. F. T. Chandler, St. Paul, D. G. M F. E. Abby, Minneapolis, G. S. W. M. W. Judy, Minneapolis, G. J. W. Jos. Adams, St. Paul, G. Treas. M. A. Bolling, St. Paul, G. Secy. H. J. Shelton, Duluth, G. L. H. G. Johnson, St. Paul, G. S. D. L. J. Allen, Minneapolis, G. J. D. G. J. Charleston, St. Paul, G. P. A. B. Meyers, St. Paul, G. S. S. Chas. Turner, Minneapolis, G. J. S. B. F. Pendleton, Duluth, G. R. W. T. Joyce, St. Paul, G. T. T. H. Lyles, St. Paul, G. C. Fred Gamble, Minneapolis, G. S. B. UNCLE SAM IS OUR AGENT. We do not annoy our subscribers by sending collectors or bills. Our people don't like Negro collectors, and we find it very hard to send bills each month. When you want to pay any bill it is easy to get a Post Office Order, and send it. Your receipt is from Uncle Sam. He is our best collector. OPEN OTHER GATES WIDER. Senator Dillingham Proposes to Restrict Every Nationality According to Number Now In This Country—No Action on Bill This Session. Washington.—Senator Dillingham of Vermont has introduced a bill by which he hopes to reduce immigration from southern and eastern Europe and Asia in a more effective way than was provided in the Dillingham-Burnett bill, which President Taft vetoed in the closing days of the last session. Mr. Dillingham, who was chairman of the committee on immigration last session and is now its ranking Republican member, has abandoned the literacy test to which Mr. Taft objected and substituted a provision that immigration from a country in one year should be limited to 10 per cent of the number of natives of that country already domiciled in the United States. This provision would apply to all the world except the western hemisphere. The census returns show that countries of northern Europe, whose citizens are considered particularly desirable as immigrants, have already such heavy representation in the United States that the 10 per cent limit would largely increase the yearly inflow from most of those countries. On the other hand, Mr. Dillingham quotes figures to show that the bill would reduce the immigration of Austro-Hungarians by almost one-third, Greeks one-half, Italians one-third, Portuguese one-seventh, European Turks one-half and Aslatic Turks three-eighths. While Mr. Dillingham admits that his bill is drafted for the express pur- PETER H. BURTON Copyright by American Press Association. SENATOR DILLINGHAM. pose of reducing undesirable immigration, he has sought to provide for the liberal operation of its provisions. Transient visitors are not counted in fixing the limit, nor are those aliens who return to this country after visiting their homes, nor aliens coming even for the first time if their near relatives are already in America. The professional and business classes are altogether exempt from the provisions of the bill, and the secretary of labor is authorized to admit aliens in excess of the 10 per cent limit for humanitarian reasons. "The average annual immigration from Austria-Hungary during the last ten years," said Mr. Dillingham, "has been approximately 220,000, but under the bill immigration from that country would be limited to 167,000 annually, at least until the census of 1920 afforded a new basis for computation. Immigration from Italy has averaged 207,000 annually, but future immigration from that country would be limited to about 134,500, while Greece would be limited to 10,000 as compared with an average of about 20,000 in recent years. Apparently immigration from Turkey would be cut down about one-half. Of all the principal sources of southern and eastern European immigration Russia alone would seem to be little affected, as under the proposed law 173,500 immigrants could be admitted from that country annually as compared with an average annual immigration of 172,500 during the past ten years. "On the other hand, Germany has furnished an average of 35,000 immigrants in recent years and under the proposed law could send 250,000. The United Kingdom could send about 268,000, but has an average of 96,000 in the last ten years. In the cases of France, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries the margin is not so large, but it is not believed that the law would in any way affect immigration from such countries." It is not expected that Mr. Dillingham's bill will receive consideration at the present session, but he hopes for nonpartisan support for it next winter. In the meantime he, with other senators who favor it, will work quietly in the interests of the measure. ACCUSED OF 25 MURDERS. Missouri Life Prisoner Said to Have Used an Ax. Leavenworth, Kan.--Twenty-five murders committed with an ax within the last three years in Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Iowa and Illinois are ascribed to Henry Lee Moore, now serving a life term in the Missouri penitentiary, according to a theory formed by M. W. McClaughry, special agent of the department of justice, after an exhaustive study of the so called ax murders. Mr. McClaughry is a son of Warden McClaughry of the federal penitentiary here and has charge of the bureau of criminal identification at the penitentiary. Moore went to the penitentiary at Jefferson City after being found guilty of the murder of his mother and grandmother, Mrs. Mary Wilson and Mrs. George Moore, at Columbus, Mo., in December last year. Moore, on trial, said he had made a study of famous murders, including the Crippen case in England. AN UNUSUAL MORTGAGE Farmer Puts Up Chickens, Hogs and Revolver as Security. Washington, Ga.—There was placed on record in the office of the clerk of Wilkes county what is considered the most unusual mortgage ever recorded in this or any other county. The security named in the recorded instrument consists of the following valuable property—to wit: "Nine chicken hens, two sow hogs and a 32 caliber pistol." The amount of the debt thus secured is $23, and it is provided that if the obligation is not met at maturity the property mentioned therein shall be sold at public outcry. All home-stend exemption rights are waived by the maker of the mortgage. The question is being asked, "Does this mortgage emphasize the increasing value of the 'hog and hominy' propaganda, or is it but another indication of the extreme stringency in the land about which so much has been said and written—which?" TABLOID BOOZE IS SERVED IN MAINE One May Carry Whisky or Beer In Vest Pocket. Bangor, Me.-A Maline sheriff might find a barrel of beer or even a jug of whisky, but he can't find a beer lozenge or a cocktail tablet, and over that gland fact the thirsty of this state are rejoicing now. For the tabloid booze drummer has come to Maine and is doing a rushing business in condensed drinks of all kinds, from plain whisky to cocktails and from beer to gin fizzes. The drummer carries a considerable stock of the tablets with him for immediate demands and arranges for further and unlimited supplies by mail. Many bars in Bangor, Lewiston and Portland are selling tabloid drinks, while a great many men who just must have their whisky or beer when they want it have obtained their own supplies and make their liquor at home while they wait, and the wait is not long. Nobody here knows anything about the constituent elements of the tablets, but nobody cares so long as they produce something that looks and tastes like liquor. The tablets come in little paper boxes or glass bottles of a dozen each, and the price varies. A small phal of one kind of tablets, costing 13 cents, dissolved in a gallon of water, with other ingredients costing 50 cents, makes a gallon of what passes for whisky—total cost, 63 cents. It is not whisky that would appeal to a connoisseur, for it burns and bites all the way down, but is as near to whisky as a good many people are able to get in some parts of Maine, and it "goes." WHISTLING CAT HAS HARELIP. Animal Never Has Mewed, but Is Musical Prodigy. Springfield, Mass.—Stanislaus Czynszky of Prospect avenue, West Springfield, is the owner of a cat with a harelle, which whistles with the facility of a schoolboy, but cannot mew or, at least, never has mewed. Czynszky is inclined to believe that no animal in its normal state of mind would whistle, but is loath to do away with the cat, which, he says, attracts more attention than any other member of the family and is regarded as a musical prodigy. Neighbors have suggested that the cat would prove a treasure to a maker of catgut violin strings. Hen Lava Tiniest of Eggs Vancouver, Wash.-An egg weighing but fifteen grains, laid by a real live hen, is the property of Mrs. Harvey Alexander of this city. The egg, about half the size of a hazelnut, is but 1-384 part of a pound. Mrs. Alexander found an egg with a soft shell, which crushed in when she picked it up, and inside was the small egg, perfect in shape and with a hard shell. 11th Born to 11th of 11th: Lawrenceburg, Ind. - An eleventh daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Siles W. Jackson of Miller township. Mrs Jackson is the eleventh daughter of an eleventh daughter of a family in which there were no boys. The new arrival weighed nearly ten pounds and is thriving. ADVERTISEMENTS. CHURCHES. ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL SCURCH 5th Ave. So. and 27th St. Minn. Rev A. H. Lealtad, Rector. Service at S o'clock P .M. All are invited. Come. ST. PETERS A. M. E. CHURCH, 315 St. between 10:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. every Sunday 10:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Sunday school at 12:30. Rev. F. M. Lewis, Pastor. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, 315 Eighth Ave. So. Sunday services at 11 a. m. 5 p. m. Sunday School at 1 p. m. Rev. E. R. Edwards, Pastor. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH, 1190 Eighth Street So. Preaching every Sunday morning and evening. Rev. T. J. Carter, Pastor, 602 10th Ave. S. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, 6th Avenue N. and 4th St. Services morning and evening each Sunday. Rev. M. W. Winner, Pastor. The People's Christian Mission, REV. G. W. MITCHELL, PASTOR St. James A. M. E. Church, Rev. n. P. Jones, Pastor, Cor. Jay and Fuller Sts. All are welcome. It is a rule at the St. James A. M. E. Church that persons attending funerals will not be permitted to view the remains in the Church. All persons will call at the undertakers or the residence to take the last look at the departed. ZION PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Services 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Rev. G. W. Camp, Pastor. All are welcome. Ames Lodge of Elks meet at Union Temple Hall, 28 Washington Ave. So., every 2nd and 4th Thursday evening. ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR. Deputy, Installs and organizes Chapters of The O. E. Star. Please to consult any one interested. Residence Mrs. Anna B. Harris, Grand District 285 Rondo St., St. Paul, Minn. DR. W. H. WRIGHT. DENTIST. 111 South 6th St Minneapolis. N. W. Nic. 1634. T. S. Center 719. WILLIAM H. H. FRANKLIN. Attorney and Counselor at Law. 1020 Metropolitan Life Bldg. Notary Public. Minneapolis, Minn. Office, Nic. 1963 Res. Colfax 1638. DR. J. H. REDD, Physician and Surgeon. 111 SO. 6TH ST. Minneapolis, Minn. WM. T. FRANCIS Attorney and Counselor at Law, 89-90 Union Block, St. Paul. N. W. Cedar 5552 4th & Cedar Sts. R. O. LEE ATTORNEY AT LAW. Practice in all Courts. 25 Union Block, St. Paul, Minn. J- LOUIS ERVIN Attorney and Counsellor at Law 303 Court Block, St. Paul, Minn. McDew Rents Houses. McDew Rents Flats. McDew Sells Houses. McDew Sells Lots. B. MAXEY McDEW 612 SYKE8 BLOCK. NIC. 621, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. FOR MEN ONLY. THE HOTEL PAUL, 112 WASHINGTON AVE. NO. E. S. Paul, Prop. STAR PANTORIUM E. H. PAUL, Prop. Dry Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing SHOE SHINING PARLOR 110 Wash. Ave. N. MINNEAPOLIS Goods Called for and Delivered Promptly Porters and Waiters Club Incorporated GLOVER SHULL, President Waiters for Parties Furnished Also Porters 311 Hennepin Ave. Mpla. Golden Rule Tailors S. BLUMMER, PROP. 1311 WASHINGTON AVENUE SO. SUITS OR OVERCOATS MADE TO ORDER. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO CLEANING, PRESSING, REPAIRING. CLOTHES CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED. : : : : READ THE STAR. tt I ee ee es ee TWIN CITY STAR = NEGRO PROGRESSIVE. fol. 3 Friday, June 13, 1913 No. 41 Batered in the Post oitice at Min- ‘Beapolis, June 23, as second class mat ter. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, | MEMBER | NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION 1419 Washington Ave. 80, Minne apolls, Minn. Phone: N. W. Nic. 2824 Geo. B. Kelley Duluth, Mine. “Head of the Lakes” Representative. eran Subscription by Mall, Postpald.. 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Se es ‘A DEPLORABLE CONDITION. Conditions are gradually becoming very unfavorable to Negroes in this Jocality, especially to our women, since the recent wave of prejudice passed over this country, and ft fs a common occurrence that Negro wom- en are accused and arrested upon the pretext that they are all prostitutes or thieves, and they are often in- timidated by the subordinates of the police department, whenever they get ‘a chance to abuse a Negro woman. In view of these facts and the bad record of many of the !mmoral class of our race, it 1s very dangerous for a respectable Negro woman to be out late without an escort. Negro pa- trons of » dance recently given by the Progressive Club were ordered of the street by a policeman, who abused them. The Club may take action, but we doubt it, Yet {t stands for the civic and social advancement of the Negro. We are fortunate that the Judictary and higher police author. ities will not tolerate any discrimina tion, and it fs the duty of every citizen to demand that some action be taken, whenever such instances occur. What. ever may be the character or guilt of ‘a citizen, he 1s entitled to civil and humane treatment by the authorities ‘There must be some concerted effort to protect Negro women. They are insulted at every turn by white men, who are always ready to counter charge that they were solicited by them for immoral purposes. We have Negro officers on the detective force but they have to do the duty assigned them, which {s the investigation o! some of the Negro cases, and none of the white ones. There is a gen eral prejudice brought about by some police, who claim that every crime a Negro commits is about 2 white woman, and instead of being guardians of the peace they are be coming the equals of the Negrohat ing lawbreakers of the South. Let ‘every Negro assert his manhood, re gardiess of his standing in the com munity, we are all human beings of one race. The strong must protec the weak, and, by a fair resentment of any denial of his rights; a proper statement of conditions to the higher authorities, he will make things bet ter for himself and for future genera tions, but if he does not the time wil soon come when he might as well live in Mississippi as in Minnesota. NEITHER RACE DISGRACED. The white people do not consider that the conviction of Geo. Savage (a white real estate dealer, for-viola- tion of the Mann Act, transporting a Negro woman for immoral purposes) ‘was a disgrace to their race. And we #r¢ proud to say that the conviction of Alice Jackson (a Negro woman) his associate is Not a stain on the morals of our Negro women. Both “represent the lowest of their respec- ‘tive races, they, as individuals must ‘guffer, and as Judge Willard charged, “A typical case for the enforcement of Act. Geo. T. Simpson, former Atty. . of Minnesota, says, “that the de 7 with the Dred Scott, or and trust decisions. SOCIAL SCIENCE AT FISK. “Announcement of New Features of Study Creates Great Interest. Nashville, ‘Tenn.—Announcement bas ‘been made of the social aclence course to be offered next year at Fisk unt ‘versity, in this city, and of the plan of the university to cooperate with ‘the Woman's council of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Meth odist Training school here in develop ing a social settlement in one of the neighborhoods of this city among. Afro Americans. Dr, George H. Haynes, professor of social sclence at Fisk, gays that this arrangement of co-operation will give a new impetus and a great outlet tor the intense interest of the students in the conditions among the people of the jetty and will offer them an opporta nity to get acquainted with the people ‘and to learn by practice what college education can do to help the masves Ho says it will also be a great belp tn articulating the university with the Dulsating practical life of the people and enable it to better train its sta dents for leadership and service. The department offers an introdue- tory course in economics in the junior year for three hours per week and an ‘advanced course in economics in the ‘senior year, two hours per week. In sociology three hours per week will be given to class work and four hours per week to fleld investigation and practical work. One of the most intéresting features of the department for next year con- sists of a course in Negro history for the Juniors and a course on the Ne gto problem for the seniors. ‘The his tory course traces the growth of Amer. fean democracy in its relation to slay. ery and the Negro American, It aims to give the student a historical back- ground for bis thinking about present day conditions. ‘The course on the Negro problem ts offered to members of the senior class and 1s a careful study of present con Gitions in both the country and the clty. In this course use is made of all available material on the subject, and tn addition to the general class work each student is given some particular topic relating to the economic, edu- cational, social or religious conditions among ‘Negroes for special investiga tlon and report. The course alms to teach the student how to study condi- tlons among Negroes In an accurate way and with a broad humanitarian eek ar wine SCATTER ASHES OF POET. Destined For Flames, Wind Claims Re- mains of Joaquin Miller. Oakland, Cal.—The ashes of Joaquin Miller, “the poet of the Sierras,” were scattered among the flames of a fu neral pyre built by the poet’s ows hands. ‘The ceremony was held at the Miller bome, the Heights, in the ple turesque bills near Oakland. ‘The Bo- hemian club of San Francisco bad charge of the rites, which were wit: nessed by more thin 500 persons, in- cluding the port's widow and daugh- ter, Juanita, and many old time friends. ‘The services, short and impressive, were in accordance with Miller's dying wishes. At their conclusion Colonel John P. Irish of Oakland mounted the steps of the pyre. “This,” said Colonel Irish, “is not ar occasion for mourning, but for rejote ing.. We are here not to mourn the death of Joaquin Miller, but to rejoice that through his genlus he still Ives.” Colonel Irish then applied a torch tc the of! soaked fagots on the pyre. As the flames shot up be took the copper urn containing the poet's ashes and gave them to the fire. Instantly @ Jealous wind whipped the ashes from the dames and bore them away. SPOOK PROPHECY FAILS. Millionaire Dies Fourteen Years Before “Ghost Advice” Date. Denver.—Alonzo Thompson, elghty- one years old, millionaire, spiritualist ‘and war time auditor of Missouri, who believed ghostly advices that he could not die before he was ninety-five years old, is dead. For slx weeks Mr. Thomp- son's belief in bis tmagined span of Me supported him in resisting pneu- monia and an incidental operation for removal of a rib. A year ago his dec- laration that his “guides” told him bis wife and son were conspiring to get hs fortune led to Mrs. Thompson's divorce decree. ‘The millionaire, although three times married, was planning to follow’ his “guides” into a fourth matrimonial venture, CANNOT SLEEP ON BED. Convict For Real Bed, ‘Topeka, Kan.—Morgan Wright, sent to prison in 1893 from Cowley countty for complicity in the murder of a con- stable and released on parole by Gov. ernor Hodges, found that a free bed ‘was 80 soft he was unable to sleep his first night out of prison. Wright came to Topeka to thank the governor. ‘He is on his way to see his father tn Shawnee, Okla. and then will go to California to begin life anew. “I didn’t sleep well last night,” said ‘Wright to the governor. “It was the first real bed I have slept in for nearly twenty years. “When 1 left the prison yesterday I @idn’t know which way to turn or what to do. It was all so new and strange to me. Every one seemed so busy and tm such a hurry that I can’t quite un derstand it. Even the school chil Gren rushed along the street. Byt I think tf the world is such a busy place that there must be some place for me, and I am going to try to find it.” TWIN CITY STAR ATTORNEY FRANCIS’ OPINION ON MNNESOTA RATE CASE™ DECISION. He Says “That it Will Affect Negré’e Civil Rights.” The Star interviewed Lawyer Fran cls, of St. Paul, last Wednesday upon the probable effect of the decision of the U. 8. Supreme Court in the’ Min. nesota Rate Case; and Mr. Franels sald: | “As there has been no opportunity to read the decision it is necessary to depend wholly upon newspaper reports of it, and, if they are correct, then | view with alarm the Doctrine of States Rights laid down in that de cision. The decision being against the railroads meets what is known a: } Ww / popular favor, or public sentiment, but public sentiment, like a baby, sometimes cries for that which 4s against {ts best interests. Railroad corporations because of the very na. ture of their business, and the: fact that they traverse so many different States, ought to have but one con. trolling power with authority to fix rates. Plainly the cost of operation differs in every state. It is higher in Montana than it is in Minnesota, high er in Washington than Dakota, but the people in Montana and Washing- ton, through their legislatures, can and will fix rates that will be no high- er than the rates fixed by the legis latures of Minnesota and Dakota, thu: interfering with the progress and prosperity of the country. Federal control of railroads is the correct s0- lution of the railroad problem, and if this decision had been in favor of the railroads, consumation of that theory would have been hastened.” “But the railroad companies, like the Negro, are passing through a pert. od of persecution in response to a popular desire to hamper their prog- Tess. Just as it ts popular now to cry out against all Negroes for the sins and misconduct of the few, so it has become popular to condemn all railroads.” Seeing that Mr, Francis was about to launch into a lengthy discussion on the rights of the people and the rail- roads, the Star asked the question “Do you think that this decision, if it up- holds States Rights, will affect the Negro in any way?” “Decidedly I do”, he replied, and sald further. “If the States have the right to fix rates independent of the inter-state rates, it must follow that the railroads cannot make an inter. state rate that would be in excess of the state rate, If that is true then States may pass laws fixing certain MUmitations upon accommodations to be furnished certain’ people within the State, and the railroad companies would have no right to make rules or regulations which would conflict with the laws of the states, and if they couldn't, who would?” “It has long been the hope of many prominent Negro lawyers that the Doctrine of States Rights, particularly so fat as interstate commerce is con: cerned, would not be sustained when the question was put squarely before the U. 8. Supreme Court, but from the newspaper reports of the decision it appears that we can no longer hope for help in our fight against Jim-Crow laws through that source. If we are not able to destroy the effect of Jim Crow laws upon the interstate com merce theory, then we are indeed in a helpless condition, and the case of Dr. J. W. Thompson vs. The Pullman Co, et al., recently argued in the U. 8. Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Paul, must fall.” Attorney Francis was for many years" Chiet Clerk of the Legal De partment of the Northern Pacific Ry, and an account of his broad knowl edge of the history of the Rate Case we hold his opinion as valuable in formation to our readers. ‘Equal and exact justice to all citis us of whatever nationality, racg color, or persuasion. A free ballot and a fair count. Grover Cleveland ‘The Men's Bplecopal Club will giv @ picnic at Antler’s Park on July 16 Details to follow later. 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