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MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL Defective Page Nation Wide Campaign Against Segregation and Other Indignities Intended to Humiliate Afro-Americans. Recent Appearance of New Publication Creates Great Interest. Philadelphia.—So much interest has been aroused by the publication of "The Conflict and Commingling of the Haces" that a word about the career of the author, Dr. Caesar A. A. P. Taylor, is justly begging. He is a man with Indian blood in his veins. He is doing heroic work for justice and fair play for Afro-Americans. He is again like an old warrior in the harness and will be heard from all along the firing line of the efforts which are being put forth throughout the country to defeat the alms of segregation and race prejudice. Thoughts of over half a century, contemporary with Douglass, Bruce, Langston, J. C. Price, Tim Fortune, Calvin Chase, T. McCants Stewart, Henderson of the Torchlight, Clifford of West Virginia, Arneaux of the New York Enterprise, Cooper and Knox of the Freeman, the elder Trotter, D. Augustus Straker and the host of other stalwart champions of human rights and individual liberty, rise like ghosts in the memory when one reads "The Conflict and Commingling of the Haces." More than twenty years ago Dr. Taylor was a traveler, writer and lecturer prominently before the public. He wrote and published "The Negro Race. Retrospective and Prospective; DR. CAESAR A. A. P. TAYLOR. or. The Negro Past, Present and Future." He was a contributor to leading publications by white and colored people, daily, weekly and monthly. His writings will be found a quarter of a century back in the flies of the A. M. E. Church Review, Philadelphia; the Globe, Freeman and Enterprise; New York; the Freeman of Indianapolis, Ind.; New York Tribune and other publications throughout the country. He published the Forum in Texas and Florida. He was a Florida tourist commissioner to the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, in 1892-3, and commissioner for the state of Florida at large to the Tennessee centennial in 1897 by appointment of Governor William D. Bloxham. All this and more, but for many years Dr. Taylor has not been heard in active public life, and now he comes back again with his old time fighting vigor, as is seen in some of his latest efforts, notably in "The Conflict and Commending of the Races," copies of which he has sent to and received acknowledgments from diplomats and representatives in Washington and to distinguished public personages, men and women of the white race throughout this country and abroad. To each of such persons to whom the book was sent it was accompanied by the following letter: In the interest of millions of tortured living men, women and children, the survivors of hundreds of thousands whose martyrred blood cries aloud from the ground like Rachel mourning and refusing to be comforted because of her death, to a copy of my book, "The Conflict and Commingling on the Races," Lynchings, burning of human beings alive, denials of justice and legislative writers are not the products of a Christian land. When a country's own citizens are not free to exercise their preagreative or men of color, then because of their or color, then that country's institutions, along with its churches, are a farce and a fraud upon civilization. It will be such a country to arrogate the virtue of calling upon other governments to set their houses in order. Such is mendacious, arrogant, impudent in madding. To change the way of men should be the work of men and women with honest purposes. To this end I ask that you read the indictment I make in these pages. In his library at 1709 Lombard street, Philadelphia. Dr. Taylor has a most interesting collection of curios and old manuscripts bearing on the struggles of the race through the reconstruction periled, with accounts of the part taken by leading white and colored men in the fight for full citizenship for the colored people. He is a keen observer of men and things. With an indefatigable study of everything readable, he has possessed himself with a vast fund of information. He has been a traveler, lecturer, preacher, lawyer, promoter, editor, physician, rancher, newspaper correspondent and politician. He has worked on the farm, in the sawmill, steamboated and followed whatever occupation the exigencies imposed either in following his inclination or to survive the vicissitudes as he has made his way upward or been knocked and bummed in life. Discussing the Indian as distinguished from the Negro, he says: "Blood will tell" is an expression often quoted, and nothing demonstrates it stronger than the achievements of one individual or race as compared with the achievements of another individual or race; hence tell me of the hero's fight in horror's blackest night, for they alone are great who great deeds have done, who triumph against fate, who from depths to heights have come." "I am proud that I am who and what I am, but I hate and despise my opposing environment, the conditions which hamper and hem me in. So by the eternals, I have sworn, I have determined to break through." "I will be a man among men, either living or dead. I will not be satisfied with any condition less than that which is due to a man and a gentleman." "Thus my soul, heart and brain—yea, all my combined powers—even as a giant hand I lay it hard upon the world around me, compelling where coaxing does not avail the consideration accorded any other man." "Blood will tell. It is in me. I have done, am doing and will do until I die." "The world will know that in me a man lived. I will, even if there be one-sixteenth of Negro blood in me. I will be a man, for blood will tell, and I have seen that Negro blood is telling." The Negro as an economic factor in the American scheme of government as viewed in "The Conflict and Commingling of the Races" is jucy argument for the honest student in economics not less than for the real statesman and patriot. Beginning on page 66, the gifted writer says, "Surely competition begets rivalry anywhere among all peoples, but rash indeed are those, and insanely so, who do not realize that in this country the Negroes are industrial factors and have got to be considered in any economic scheme embracing capital and labor if this nation is to continue a free and prosperous republic." NUTLEY HALL DEDICATED. New Dormitory at Virginia Union University Formally Opened. Nutley hall, the new dormitory building at the Virginia Union university in Richmond. Va., was dedicated Thursday morning, Nov. 27. The exercises began at 10 o'clock with orchestra music, followed by invocation, Scripture reading, prayer and hymn. President George Rice Hovey read the financial statement of the institution and delivered the keys of the new building to the Rev. Dr. A. Binga, Jr., vice president of the board of tristees. The chief speaker for the occasion was the Rev. Dr. L. C. Barnes, field secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission society. Other speakers on the program were William Hodges Mann, governor of Virginia; George Alnsle, mayor of Richmond; President F. W. Bontwright, Richmond college; Professor W. T. B. Williams, agent of Slater and Jennes educational funds; Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph.D., pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church; Samuel Cohen of Richmond, and Dr. Douglas Freeman of the state board of health. Cheering Words From Mayor Ainalle. In his welcome address to the Nego organization society at its first annual meeting recently held in Richmond, Va., Mayor George Ainalle declared his hearty interest in the standard of citizenship of every member of the community. He said he believed in the society and its motto of "Better Schools, Better Health, Better Homes and Better Farms." SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. Success of School Fostered by the A. M. E. Zion Church Reflects Credit Upon President W. H. Goler's Administration—High Standard of Work by Students in Normal Department. BY GEORGE F. KING. Salisbury, N. C.—Every year Livingstone college, this city, the most prominent educational institution of the A. M. E. Zion denomination and one of the foremost colleges for the training of Afro-Americans, is constantly adding new features. Thus it is affording its hundreds of students from all sections of the country an excellent chance for mental, moral, spiritual and physical development. Dr. W. H. Goler, its progressive and affable president, has a faculty for procuring for his teaching corps men and women of exceptional ability—the class that distinguishes itself by mak- PROFESSOR W. H. HARNUM. ing the welfare of the resident body one of its principal objective points: hence the best work is accomplished, which each student can do. Being a man of rare administrative ability and a master of finance. Dr. Goler saw the steady ascendancy of the race in the commercial world and appreciated the increasing demands for thoroughly trained young men and women to maintain the splendid progress of Afro-American enterprises. He recognized the peculiar fitness of one of his professors who had proved himself capable of making a business department of the college a signal success. Present indications of the work of this new department inaugurated this college year fully sustain the action of the president in causing its inception. Dr. Goler was elected president of the college because of his qualifications for the position. Professor W. H. Hannum began his work at this institution during the school year in 1901. He has filled the position of treasurer of the college since 1902. He is a native of Maryville, Tenn., and a graduate of Maryville college, formerly a mixed institution, now attended entirely by white students, which is due to an act of the Tennessee legislature. Professor Hannum was the only colored man in his class, and when he graduated at the age of twenty he was the third Afro-American to graduate from this institution. Nine colored men have graduated from this institution, and they have all distinguished themselves in their chosen activities. For several years Professor Hannum has been principal of the normal department of Livingstone college. He is fond of music and athletics and has brought up the latter feature to its present high standard. He is well known in this section of the state as the director of the college orchestra, which he conducted with such fine success until it was disbanded, the members having completed their studies at the school. During the time the orchestra was conducted here it furnished music for the opera house, playing for an exclusive class of white people. Professor Hannum is especially fitted for his work at Livingstone on account of his having completed the teacher's course at the Bliss Alger Business college in Saghaw, Mich. His home is a Mecca for music lovers. He is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities. SMOKE THE RELIABLE So SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR LIVELY INTEREST SHOWN IN FARMERS' CONFERENCE Recent Meeting Held at Hampton Was Largely Attended. Hampton, Va.—The colored people in Virginia are successfully working out their economic salvation and are winning the co-operation of the best white people in their struggles for better farms, better schools, better health, better homes and better morals. They are learning that alfalfa fields represent mines of wealth. Bright and well equipped schoolrooms in the country districts attract and hold orderly pupils and earnest teachers. These vital facts of life on the farm, in the school and in the home were vividly present at the farmers' conference, its seventh annual session recently held at the Hampton institute. Hundreds upon hundreds of people passed through the Hampton institute gymnasium during the two days of the farmers' conference and examined the interesting farm, school and home exhibits, which had been sent from all quarters of Virginia, and, indeed, from some of the neighboring states. President Eggleston of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. declared that the exhibits certainly had reached bed rock and represented more reality and less frills than ever before. He was especially struck with the marked improvement in the quality of the work which school boys and girls, farm demonstration agents and their co-operators, homemakers, supervising industrial teachers and rural school workers and submitted for public exhibition. The conference program included an illustrated talk on "Irish Country Life," by Charles K. Graham, director of the Hampton institute agricultural department; women's meetings for the discussion of laundry problems and the safeguarding of girls, competitions in mule and cattle judging, an exciting plowing match; Negro rural school work, by Dr. J. H. Dillard. A visit to the Hampton institute trade school, a battalion parade, farmers' experience testing and discussion of corn cultivation by farming experts were among the many interesting features. Addresses were delivered by Governor Mann of Virginia, President Eggleston of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, principal of Hampton institute: A. B. Graham, Ohio State university; John B. Pierce, Wellsville, Va.; Thomas C. Walker, Gloucester, Va., and others. UPLIFT WORK IN VIRGINIA. Editors Were Ignored by Organization Society, Says Norfolk Paper. Under the caption "Ignored the Press" the Norfolk (Va.) Journal and Guide in a recent editorial said: "The Negro organization society is in session in Richmond. Summed up briefly, the object of the society is to create for the race better schools, better health, better homes, better farms. We have before us a program' the session, in which is represented every sort of Negro organization and every agency for the improvement of Negro life with the exception of the Negro press. "The church, the school, the secret society, the farmer, the physician, the lawyer, the merchant and even the humble woman missionary are represented, but there is no one to speak for what the press is doing for race upift. "There are twelve Negro newspapers in Virginia, each of which wields considerable influence for good, and if it were not for these twelve Negro newspapers very little would be known of the Negro Organization society or of those who compose it. "Advance notices of the meeting were sent out to most of these papers, and they were generously published. Detailed reports of the sessions will be sent to the papers also, and these will be published as far as space will permit. The Negro press is one of the most unselfish agencies at work for the uplift of the Negro, one of the most powerful and yet the least appreciated. "The orators on the program of this meeting will speak their messages to the hundreds under the sound of their voices; the Negro press will take up the message and herald to thousands and hundreds of thousands of readers. This is the unselfish mission of the Negro press. "Just why the press was ignored in this important meeting we do not know. It was perhaps just one of those blunders that are so often committed by some of the 'big Negroes' in charge of the affair who would not be known outside of their home towns if it were not for the free advertising given them by the Negro press." SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION BANKS THE VICTOR IN DAMAGE SUIT Decision of Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County, Pa., Uphold by Superior Tribunal of the State. Pittsburgh Railroad and Allied Lines Loss Case on Appeal. By Rev. P. A. SCOTT. Pittsburgh.—William J. Banks, residing at 89 Fullerton street, Pittsburgh, a former Pullman car porter, was recently given a verdict against the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railway by the superior court of Pennsylvania, which means a great victory not only for Mr. Banks, but for Pullman porters and other coloured employees of the great Pennsylvania company. A little more than four years ago, while Mr. Banks was in the employ of the above named company as a porter, he was seriously injured in a railroad wreck, from which he has not yet fully recovered. Believing that he was justly due some indemnity for the suffering and the loss of time and money and failing to see a disposition on the part of the railroad company to make satisfactory restitution, he brought suit for damages. His attorneys were Wishart & Dickey, a prominent law firm of this city. The case was tried in the common pleas court of Allegheny county and, finding that the wreck in which Mr. Banks was injured was due to carelessness on the part of the employees of the railroad, the court gave Mr. Banks WILLIAM J. BANKS. a verdict of $1,250. The railroad company appealed the case to the superior court of Pennsylvania. After carefully examining into the merits of the case, the superior court handed down a decision confirming the verdict of the lower court granting the said Mr. Banks the sum of $1,250, with interest from the time of the lower court's decision. It was brought out in this trial that when entering the employ of the Pullman company each employee is required to sign a release of all claims for damages which may subsequently accrue for injuries sustained, whether or not such injuries were caused by negligence of the Pullman company or of the railroad company hauling its cars. By its terms this contract is made to inure to the benefit of the carrying railroad. The real question in this case was whether or not such contracts are valid. The superior court held that neither the Pullman company nor the railroad company can relieve itself from liability for negligence by such a contract. It is the policy of the law of the state of Pennsylvania that a common carrier cannot by contract relieve itself from liability for its own negligence. In having the courage to press this matter and test the laws of Pennsylvania Mr. Banks has found a way that will force this and other great corporations to have a more just regard for the life and safety of their employees and has also placed many bundreds of his hard working fellow laborers under lasting obligations to him for this victory that means so much in their behalf. The Twin City Star has the exclusive use in this city of the Afro-American news service of the American Press Assn., edited by Mr. N. B. Dodson of N. Y., which is a feature of our publication, much appreciated by our readers. PROMOTERS OF GOOD WILL Managers of Mississippi State Fair Show Afro-Americans Fine Courtesy. At the very moment when the segregation order at Washington has aroused such strong feeling and much indignant protest, friends of the Negro will surely welcome any sign of hopefulness for the race, especially when that sign is manifested in the state of Jefferson Davis and Vardaman, the only state in the Union which now contains a population more than 50 per cent Negro — consequently, where the race problem might seem to be most acute. The managers of the Mississippi state fair, recently held in Jackson, the capital, some months ago, determined to give Negro exhibitors a larger opportunity than has been theirs in years past. They permitted the erection of a Negro building by Negro contractors, encouraged exhibits not only from Negro schools but also individual exhibitors, and also designated the last two of the ten days of the fair as Negro days, with provision for a Negro parade and mass meeting addressed by speakers of both races, athletic contests and a declamation contest, all of which were successful. The results have been altogether happy. The Negro building was filled to overflowing with exhibits altogether creditable, largely from Negro schools, but also from individual exhibitors. The Negro parade, said to have been a mile long and to have included about 5,000 Negroes, with double that number looking on, was a surprise, not to say an astonishment, in the eyes of both Negroes and white people. It included floats, illustrative of phases of Negro progress since emancipation; sections of Negro school children and thousands of plain citizens; was orderly, impressive and by its general good management provved the organizing capacity of Negro leadership. Concerning it the Jackson Daily News commented: "Negro day at the state fair has simply knocked the spots out of any feature that the white patrons of the big institution have pulled off this year- or almost any year, for that matter. The parade, shortly before the noon hour, was hardly short of a sensation. To say that it created astonishment among the white folks is expressing it very mildly. Honestly, you've got to hand it to the colored folks. "They have set an example of civic pride, enthusiasm in behalf of the state fair and pride for their native state that white folks could well emulate." An immense audience of both white and colored people gathered for the noonday mass meeting and listened to addresses from prominent citizens of both races that were able and full of good feeling. MEMORIAL MEETING FOR LATE DR. JOHN R. FRANCIS. Noted Statesmen and Educators Praise Worth of Able Physician. Major R. R Moton, commandant of cadets at Humpton institute, was one of the speakers at a memorial meeting held in Washington Monday evening, Nov. 24, for the late Dr. John R. Francis, who was one of the most prominent colored physicians of Washington. Other prominent men on the program at the same memorial meeting were the Hon. William Jennings Bryan, secretary of state; Dr. William M. Davidson, superintendent of Washington schools; Professor George W. Cook of Howard university, Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones of the United States bureau of education and William L. Washington, head worker at the Colored Social settlement. The meeting was held in the Metropolitan A. E. church under the auspices of Colored Social settlement, which has exerted a splendid influence for the improvement of living conditions among the masses of colored people in Washington. Archie Lewis Dies in Washington. The recent death of Mr. Archie Lewis in Washington removes from the community one of its old landmarks among both the white and colored people. He served as chief of the robing room of the United States supreme court. The deceased was a native of Virginia and had served in the above named position since 1849. He was eighty-two years of age. When Mr. Lewis began his duties in the robing room Judge Taney of the Dred Scott decision fame was the presiding justice. New Pythian Temple in Evansville, Ind. Indiana Knights of Pythias are receiving congratulations on the near completion of the Pythian temple in Evansville. The building complete cost $20,000. It will be ready for occupancy about Dec. 29, according to the present calculations of the contractors. In this great city of ours, we need more consecrated men and women to throw off the life line to rescue the perishing souls. Rev. T. J. Carter, Pastor Bethesda Baptist Church. The People's Christian Mission, REV. G. W. MITCHELL, PASTOR. 1204 Washington Ave. 8e. Funeral and Wedding notices are to be paid for in advance. REV. CARTER HAS RETURNED. Rev. T. J. Carter, after an absence of six weeks in Ohio, returned this week and will be glad to see the members and friends at Bethesda Baptist Church, next Sunday. Mrs. Carter is convalescent after a severe illness in FORUM MEETING. The Forum meets the first Sunday in each month at St. Peter's A. M. B. Church, and on the third Sunday each month at Bethesda Baptist Church. ELK'S MEMORIAL SERVICES. JOINT LODGE OF SORROW by Ames 106 and Gopher 105. The Joint Memorial Services of Ames Lodge No. 106 and Gopher Lodge No. 105. I. B. P. O. E. W. will be held at Bethesda Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Sunday evening, Dec. 7, 1813, at 8 o'clock. Rev. T. J. Carter will deliver the general eulogy; Wm. H. Johnson and R. M. Johnson of Gopher Lodge and P. H. Southall and Wm. R. Morris of Ames Lodge will make short addresses. The public is invited.—Wm. R. Morris, Sec'y of Ames Lodge 106. (Advertisement.) Dr. Judy, the dentist, has resigned his position with th e New York Painless Dentists, and will confine his work to his office at 3533 4th Ave. So., where he will receive his patients at all hours. Phone N. W. Colfax 1846. Mr. J. H. Lane has opened a Panatorium in connection with Jones & Bell's Barber Shop. Mr. Lane solicits the patronage of all desiring good tailoring and cleaning. SUNDAY, DEC. 7th, 3:30 P. M. PROMPT. PROGRAMME. Mrs. O'Dell Graham ..... Paper Miss Alice Mason ..... Piano Solo Mr. Madison Jackson ..... Address Miss Bessie Mason ..... Vocal Solo Mrs. Valdo Turner ..... Paper Miss Adah Lewis ..... Piano Slo Sofia (Flower Quartet) REV. WITHER'S SPECIAL SERMON. Rev. M. W. Withers, Pastor of Zion Baptist Church, 4th St. and 6th Ave. No., will preach his farewell sermon on Sunday night, Dec. 7th, at 8 P. M. All are welcome. Rev. Withers will leave for an indefinite stay in the west. Mrs. Withers will accompany him. SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER. 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. ST. LOUIS KITCHEN, 138 E. 3rd St., St. Paul, Minn.—Advertisement. When you have a social, or any gathering worthy of mention, select some member as press agent, and go 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 HOUSE FOR SALE. 6 room, modern house good as new, located at 2815 18th Ave. So. Lot 38x 142 to alley. Snap for $2,400. Terms if desired. Messrs. Benj. Jones and Clarence Bell are making good in their recent business venture. They have the Barber Shop and Pool Room, formerly conducted by Mr. H. D. Parker at 244 Third Ave. So., and are doing their best to give satisfaction to their customers. You must send your subscriptions if you want the Twin City Star, or order it discontinued. Send your notes, if you want space. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION COPY OF RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED TO MAYOR NYE BY THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE NEGRO MORALS COMMISSION ON NOV. 24, 1913. To the Honorable Wallace G. Nye, Mayor of the City of Minneapolis. Your Honor: We, the Negro Morals Commission, of the city of Minneapolis, after due and thorough investigation of the moral conditions of our people in this city, herewith respectfully present to Your Honor, by a Special Committee delegated therefor, the following unanimous resolutions, with the full confidence and belief that Your Honor will, in accordance with your numerous public and private statements, give due consideration hereof and enforce adequate, bona fide action thereon. Your petitioners, and each of them, have and hope to always have, the highest regard for and confidence in Your Honor's integrity and veracity, both as a man, and as an official worthy of the highest elective office in the gift of the people of this city; but, your petitioners know that Your Honor has been grossly misled and grievously imposed upon by your subordinates and others interested and concerned in the maintenance of present vice conditions; by others, actuated by pecuniary and political gain and preferment. But, your petitioners herewith respectfully elect to manifest their sincere confidence in Your Honor, and in the ultimate triumph of civic and moral righteousness over vice and petty politics by the presentation of these resolutions, passed after the most thorough investigation, such as Your Honor, personally, is precluded from making; the reason whereof is patent. Those whom Your Honor must naturally delegate for such investigations are incompetent by reasons political, pecuniary or moral. We, THE NEGRO MORALS COMMISSION, of the city of Minneapolis, in convention assembled, herewith unanimously adopt the following resolutions for presentation to the Honorable Wallace G. Nye, Mayor of this city; Resolved, that we, the citizens of Minneapolis, unanimously and unqualifiedly condemn the double standard of morals for white people and Negroes, tolerated, abetted and encouraged by the police department, the vicious and immoral Negroes of this community, and by those politicians seeking political prestige, (?) and preferment. Resolved, that we believe in and will seek to secure, the same high standard of morality as that obtaining and to be obtained by and among the best class of white people; and further, that we will demand the same police protection, for our sons and daughters, our wives and fellow citizens; as is, and has been and will be afforded our more favored white fellow-citizens. Resolved, that we know that with the withdrawal of the police protection accorded the Negroes' haunts of vice and crime, and the tacit and apparent approval given thereto by those high in official, and supposedly, in social life, crime and immorality will diminish and decrease to a very remarkable degree in this community. Resolved, that we stigmatize the supporters, alders and abettors of these gambling houses and brothels, herein specified, as social vampires; as enemies to organized government, to social progress and moral up-lift and betterment. Resolved, that we repudiate the prevalent opinions that vices, such as gambling and sexual immorality are peculiarly indispensable and necessarily incidental to the Negroes' existence or happiness, and that the best Negro citizenry participate in or condone such vice, either expressly or tactly. Resolved, that we hereby and herein request that the said Mayor of this city forthwith order, and in good faith enforce the complete elimination, in despite of protests to the contrary, (official or otherwise) of the following gambling and immoral places (so-called "clubs"), the same being vicious, demoralizing and vitally detrimental to the entire community; especially the Negro portion thereof, viz.; Clarence King's Maceo Club, No. 725 Wash. Ave. So; J. E. Stewart's Twin City Stag Club, No. 421 4th Ave. So; Glover Shull's Wafter and Porter's Club, No. 311 Hennepin Ave.; Oliver's Workingmen's Social Club, No. 244 3rd Ave. So.; Carver's Porter's and Walter's South-side Club, No. 1308 Wash. Ave. So.; "clubs" which are known to exist where gambling is in full blast; where liquor is sold indiscriminately, day and night, week days and Sundays; where no restricted membership is required to enter, and, with the exception of the third above named, where girls and boys and women are admitted. Resolved, that we herewith respectfully request the Honorable Wallace G. Nye, Mayor of this city, to act in this matter without any fear or favor; in strict accordance with his oath of office, his duty to God, and in the light of his conception of his duty to posterity. Respectfully submitted, THE NEGRO MORALS COMMISSION, of Minneapolis, By the Special Committee, J. C. Trevan, Chm., Chas. Sumner Smtih, Sec'y., James Eddings, Jno. S. Wright, Solomon Saunders, Rev. M. W. Withers, R. C. Marshall, Sergt. J. W. Harper, J. H. Fredericks, P. F. Hale, E. A. Witchell, S. C. Phillips, Walter Blackburn, Jas. H. Lane. Now Rev. W. H. Jernagin 412 Q Streets, N. W. Washington, D. My Dear Doctor Jernagin Noticing an "App Loving Women and States" in the colu City Star, and subs one of those to wh made, I am pleased check for $5.00 as the fund sought to be Aside from my int of the Race, as well the Bar, in the "Oklahoma Jim-crow personal interest in the fact that I had North, City. My dear sir:—I have given consideration to the petition presented by yourself and others, representing the Negro Morals Commission, which petition requested me to close the public five Negro clubs, now existing in this city and which, with one exception, have been in existence for some five to fifteen years: "After consideration, I am forced to the conclusion that the Negroes of Minneapolis have as good right to organize and maintain social clubs as have our people of the white race, and am in fact of the opinion, that there is really a stronger reason for clubs of colored citizens than of white citizens, for the reason that the former are barred from most lodging houses and eating places. The Negro clubs are, like other clubs of the city, incorporated under state law, and as I understand it, have a right to exist, so long as they are conducted in an orderly manner and do not become places where laws and ordinances are violated with impunity. A report made to me, through the Superintendent of Police, by Officers J. D. Hardin and Charles Welborn, colored men of the Police Force, whose characters was vouched for by many of our Negro citizens before their appointment and who are still highly spoken of by such citizens, shows that these clubs are conducted in the main in the same manner that other clubs of the city are conducted. In concluding that these clubs may continue, while operated along proper lines, I have given special direction to the Superintendent of Police to see that they observe the closing hour of one o'clock a. m.; that gambling be not permitted; that women be kept from all portions of the club rooms, except such rooms as are set apart for restaurant purposes; that minors be not permitted in the club rooms and that they keep in all respects within the law." Advertisements. The above regulations (?) were issued to the Club owners last Saturday. According to the reports received at a meeting of the Special Committee, no attention has been paid to these orders by club owners. Conditions remain practically the same. It being evident that Detectives Hardin and Welborn had not done their duty, also it was the consensus of opinion of the committee that Mayor Nye did not intend to give any material consideration to the petition, but did place the responsibility of all neglect of duty and protection given to club owners by the police department, on the Negro detectives, hence they must suffer. The committee will prefer charges against them. If these detectives are powerless to act when law is violated, they are useless to the community. They must show, why they allowed these things to go on under their eyes without doing their duty as officers of the law and guardians of the peace. REV. W. R. DONOVAN. Rev, W. R. Donovan is an honorary member of the Negro Morals Committee. He resigned from active duty, because he would not be able to attend the meetings, desiring that his place be filled by an active co-worker. Rev. Donovan says that "I am proud to be identified with the Negro Morals Committee, because they are doing a great work here, similar to the work I am connected with in Montreal. As for my "resigning because of criticism," I desire to say that I fear no man or his opinions, but simply respect others and demand the same in return. I heartily co-operate morally and financially with the Committee, and will use my best efforts to help them to success." Our enemies advertise us. Our friends support us. Everybody helps us. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. Noticing an "Appeal to the Race Loving Women and Men of the United States" in the columns of the Twin City Star, and subscribing myself as one of those to whom the Appeal is made, I am pleased to enclose to my check for $5.00 as a contribution to the fund sought to be raised. Aside from my interest as a member of the Race, as well as a member of the Bar, in the outcome of the "Oklahoma Jim-crow Cace", I have a personal interest in it growing out of the fact that I had the pleasure of watching its presentation before the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, at St. Paul, and the honor of hearing Lawyers Harrison, Barbour and other Counsel in their faultless argument of the question involved. It is my opinion that the decision of the United States Supreme Court must result in our favor in this case, and it would be well for every Negro to contribute to the fund necessary to make its proper presentation possible. The blotting out of this hellish race proscription is a consumption devoutly to be wished. Invitations are issued by Mu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity for their entertainment on Dec. 12, at Masonic Hall, which will be the social event of next week in our city. Any person who has paid for this paper, without receiving it, will be given a year's subscription on proof of their statement. Mrs. Vesta Glanton of Chicago, Ill., who was visiting her daughter, Mrs. M. W. Withers returned home on Nov. 29, after a very pleasant stay. Rev. D. E. Beasley filled the pulpit at Bethesda last Sunday. Rev. Beasley was one of its former pastors, and his former members and friends are always glad to hear him. Queen Esther Temple, S. M. T. presented The Attucks Home with food and money on Thanksgiving Day. Mrs. Ernest B. James is in Milwaukee in attendance upon her mother who has been very ill. Rev. R. E. Wilson, former pastor of St. Peter's A. M. E. Church, now of St. John's A. M. E. Church, Chicago, preached a very interesting and inspiring sermon to a large congregation last Sunday evening. Mr. Byron Holder, left this week to join his wife at Fernle, B. C. Mrs. Zack Johnson is in Indianapolis visiting her brother, who is very ill. THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY. of the Household of Ruth No. 553 and St. Paul Patrifarchy No. 114 G. U. O. of O. F., will be held on Tuesday evening, Dec. 9, 8:30 prompt, at Hiawatha Temple, St. Paul. There will be a prize awarded to the lady, selling most tickets. The contestants represent each city. Miss Francis Mask for Minneapolis and Miss Pinkie Walker at St. Paul. Let your home town girl be the winner! McCullough's Orchestra will play the latest dance music. Tickets 50c. —Advertisement. Miss Missouri Moker, Prescott, Ariz., the accomplished pianist, and Mrs. Bettie Jones, talented dialect reader of St. Paul, will appear at the Household of Ruth's Anniversary. The management of the Silver Anniversary of the Household of Ruth request patrons to appear in evening dress. This is expected to be a swell affair. Industrial School Needs More Room. The Rappahannock Industrial academy at Ozeenia, Va., is making good progress under the leadership of Principal W. Edward Robinson. 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MEXICAN WOMEN SHARE HORRORS PROVIDE FOOD FOR TROOPS Their Patience and Endurance Win High Praise—Take Lives In Their Hands as Spies—Seldom Has World Seen Such an Example of Love and Devotion as They Display. Eagle Pass, Tex. The horrors of the civil strife in Mexico are shared herolically by the women—the wives and daughters of the poor ragged soldiers of both forces. Their enforced part in the warfare has been going on for the last three years. They are the foragers and in that capacity are the advance guard of the army and do all the menial work in campmaking. While they seldom take part in the actual fighting, their hardships are far greater than those of the men. The patience and devotion of the women of the poorer class of the Mexicans are astonishing. Even the provisional government of Mexico gave semi-official recognition to women and children as being important adjuncts of the regular fighting forces. The first definite knowledge that the noncombatants in Piedras Negras, situated just across the Río Grande, had that the federals were about to take possession of the town recently was when a train arrived from the south, pulling several freight cars filled with women and children. They had been sent on ahead to forage for food and have dinner ready for the hungry horde of soldiers who arrived an hour or two later. The women dumped their bundles of dirty clothing, cooking utensils and other portable property from the cars, and in a few minutes an open square near the railroad had been picked out for a camp site for the soldiers. Bare-legged, half clad children, boys and girls, ranging in age from four to twelve years, rustled around, and in a short time they had the campfires, going. In the meantime the women were foraging through the town for food. Here and there a stray pig would be found wandering along the street. The women would give chase, and his fate would soon be settled. If a cow fell into their hands, so much the better. Each woman works for her own particular mess, if it may so be called. It usually consists of her husband and perhaps another relative or two. There is much rivalry between the women in preparing meals for their respective patrons. When the repast was over the men and the children lay flat upon the ground and enjoyed a delightful siesta, while the women busied themselves with other duties. The uncomplaining women are often forced to perform services of the most dangerous and painful character. They have marched hundreds of miles through the cactus covered desert, carrying their smaller children and pots and pans upon their backs, while their older offspring trotted by their sides. When the son of one of these women reaches the age of twelve he is given a gun and becomes a soldier. Seldom has the world seen such an example of devotion to men as is shown by these women. To be sure, these poor creatures are densely ignorant and have little knowledge of even the ordinary comforts of life, but their hearts are filled with deep love for the nomadic home and fireside, despite its humble surroundings. In the freight cars that are used to transport the federal as well as the Constitutionallist troops from place to place over the country the women and children are crowded together like so many sheep and cattle. Often they are made to ride in flat cars which are uncovered. In these unsheltered cars the rain pours down upon them. The women frequently are sent out on scout duty and to discover the plans of the enemy. Only occasionally does a performance of this kind come to public notice. A notable instance occurred just before the recent fall of Torreon. General Trucy Albert of the federals was anxious to learn the strength of the Constitutionallists. He needed all of his own officers and personal staff, and he did not care to intrust the important mission of learning the actual strength of the Constitutionallists to any man in the ranks of his troops. He mentioned his need to Senorita Lomesa Bordaz, an ardent supporter of the government cause and daughter of a former banker of Torreon. She volunteered to make a trip through the Constitutionalist lines and visit their different camps. Disgusted as an old woman of the peon class, Miss Bordaz set out on the back of a burro and for ten days traveled from place to place in the valley, visiting many rebel camps. At night she slept upon the ground. Upon her return to Torreon she made a complete report to General Abert, which showed that more than 6,000 Constitutionalists were within striking distance of the town. For the small force of federals to have remained in Torreon would have meant their utter destruction. The town was therefore evacuated by them. 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Educate of the Boston Conserva- lar for the first time before a St. Janes, St. Paul's favorite Dialect Miss Missouri Moker, of Kansas s, a contralto, will also assist begins promptly at 8:30 P. M. October 9th 1913 A TEMPLE RT STS., ST. PAUL. CULLOUGH'S ORCHESTRA ASSISTED BY ST. PAUL PATRIARCHY NO. 114. A Musical and Literary Program—Latest Dances. Mrs. Sadie St. Louis, a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Dramatic Art will appear for the first time before a St. Paul audience. Mrs. Bettie Jones, St. Paul's favorite Dialect Reader will ositively appear. Miss Missouri Moker, of Kansas City and Mrs. Rosella Thomas, a contralto, will also assist on the program. Entertainment begins promptly at 8:30 P. M. University Commission to Hold Important Meeting in Richmond, Va. The third meeting of the university commission on southern race questions will be held in Richmond, Va., on Dec. 19. The commission, which owes its inception to Dr. James H. Dillard, president of the Jeanes fund and former dean of Tulane university, embodies one main idea—that the time has come for southern white people to study carefully and to speak out boldly on the questions affecting the Negro in his relation to the life of the southern people. It is a nonsalaried body and is composed of one representative from each of eleven southern state universities. Its aim is twofold—first, to discover all the facts possible to learn about the status of the Negro in the south, and, second, to bring these facts to the attention of the white people of the south as effectively as possible. More than any other one thing, the commission hopes to make southern white men of weight speak out frankly. Professor W. O. Scroggs of the Louisiana State University says of the movement: "The four great needs in dealing with our southern race problems are education, co-operation, publicity and patience. As to education. I believe it is highly desirable that a course of instruction in the race question should be given in every institution for higher education in the south. In such a course it should be the object to place before the students the best thought of representative American citizens on this subject and to assist them in adopting a rational viewpoint on all matters concerning interracial relations. "This would undoubtedly have a good effect, but even then much more will remain to be done. The real problem, I believe, is not so much to reach the university student as it is to reach the man who lives on Jones' creek at the head of the hollow. He is not influenced by the printed page, but by the spoken word, and the only spoken word he ever hears on this subject is from one of his own group or from the lips of the demagogue." 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It is also pathetic in its appeal to God for the salvation of mankind. The author has received many congratulations from literary folk on the merits of his poem. Siloam Presbyterian Church Notes. The Silom Presbyterian church in Brooklyn, pastored by the Rev. William A. Alexander for the past fourteen years, is free of debt. Exercises in reference to the event were held in the church during Thanksgiving week, and on Sunday. Nov. 30. overflow meetings were held and the mortgage burned. The amount recently paid freeing the property of all indebtedness was $17,000. Representatives from the Brooklyn presbytery were present at the relaying of the cornerstone previous to the final exercises, at which the mortgage was burned. Dr. Alexander is highly esteemed by his brother ministers of the denomination and was once the moderator of the Brooklyn presbytery. RACE PROGRESS IN KENTUCKY Broad Achievements of Mrs. Daisy M. Saffell. LEADER IN GOOD MOVEMENTS Plenty of Business In Old Blue Grass State—Admirable Career of a Former Public School Teacher, Whose Activities Are Included In a Wide Scope of Racial Interests. Shelbyville, Ky.—That the race is making progress is shown by the successful men and women in various parts of the country who are making headway in the trades, business and professions. Their success is proving to be an inspiration to the boys and girls who are to be the future men and women. Mrs. Daisy M. Saffell of this city is an example of what industry, honesty, ability and push will do for one possessing these qualities can do for herself. She was born in Louisville, Ky., and educated in the public schools of that city, completing the high school course, then going to Fisk university, where she took on the finishing touches. M. B. MRS. DAISY M. SAFFELL. She studied music in addition to her literary work, studying at St. Joseph Catholic academy and Fisk university. After finishing her studies Mrs. Saffell turned her attention to teaching. She spent fifteen years teaching at Frank fort, thence to Lawrenceburg, Ky., where she was principal. Later Mrs. Saffell decided to enter the business world; hence there was some more training necessary in order to make a success. She resigned school teaching and entered Clark's College of Embalming in Cincinnati, O., graduating with honors. She is the only woman in Kentucky who is a licensed embalmer, and in this she stands at the head of the class. She is deeply interested in the progress of her race and is found in everything that means racial uplift and progress. She is editor of the Kentucky Club Woman, the official organ of the Kentucky State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. She is secretary of the Colored Funeral Directors' Association of Kentucky and treasurer of the National Association of Colored Funeral Directors. At a meeting held in connection with the National Negro Business league in Chicago in 1912 Mrs. Saffell attracted much attention by the report made to the business league in her address delivered before that body. She is a typical Kentuckian. In secret society work she is secretary of the District Household of Ruth of Kentucky, which has won for her many friends among the women. She was active at the session of the biennial movable committee held in September, 1912. in Atlanta, Ga., where she delivered an address. "I believe that there is a place for every girl of my race," says Mrs. Saffell. "The only thing is for her to make up her mind to find it. She must not sit idle, but be up and doing. She must make each day count for something. "There is plenty of room outside of school teaching, and our girls must find it in the business arena. Some have made success as lawyers, doctors, stenographers, clerks and along other lines, and I am proud of them." Mrs. Saffell was married in 1897 to Mr. G. W. Saffell, who is the principal of the Shelbyville high school. LOST HORSE TURNS WILD. Animal Astray In the Woods For Monte Shy as a Deer. Ishpeming, Mich.—Clarence Dawson and Bert Walker. Ishpeming men, have recovered a horse that had broken away from them in the wilderness twenty miles from the city early last spring, when they were on a fishing trip. A homesteader saw the horse a few days ago and notified the owners. The horse was as wild as a deer and was corraled with difficulty. The men had never expected to see the animal again. They believed it had been devoured by wolves or had stray- ed many miles from the district. ADVERTISE IN THE STAR and get good results. READ OUR ADVERTISEMENTS. Best Service Moderate Prices HALL'S BUFFET-LUNCH 251 Hennepin Ave. Watkins Hall, Prop. N. W. Nic. 1534. T. S. Center 719. WILLIAM H. H. FRANKLIN. Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 1020 Metropolitan Life Bldg. Notary Public. Minneapolis, Minn. 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And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. —John Dryden. In our old school reader was a poem entitled "Somebody's Mother." It told of an old woman helped across the busy, slippery street by a bright laddle who returned to the merry group of his fellows to say: "She's somebody's mother, boys, you know. For all she is aged and poor and slow." I wish a rhyme could be given us on "Somebody's Sister," to stir the noblest imaginations our our youths, and elevate their demeanor toward every young woman they meet. Somebody's sister is walking by the street corner where you and your chums are congregating tonight. You are feeling merry, with a bit of loose change in your pocket and the day's work over. A group of young fellows will recklessly make remarks about a passing woman in the evening, which one young man, alone wouldn't think of expressing next morning. Set the bound of decency against your buoyancy. The next young woman to happen along may be your sister or your sweetheart. If your chum, not knowing, should offer her an insult, there would be trouble, wouldn't there? By Dr. Booker T. Washington, in the "World Work Magazine, New York City, November, 1913- "I am trying to get the white people to realize that since no color line is drawn in the punishment of crime, no color line should be drawn in the preparation for life, in the kind of education, in other words, that makes for useful, clean living. I am trying to get the white people to see that in hundreds of counties in the South it is costing more to punish colored people for crime than it would cost to educate them. I am trying to get all to see that ignorance, poverty, and weakness invite and encourage the stronger race to act unjustly toward the weak, and that so long as this condition remains, the young white men of the South will have a fearful handicap in the battle of life." SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. --- NOTES ON NEGRO PROGRESS. As Furnished by the National Negro Business League. Emmet J. Scott, Secy, Tuskegee, Ala. Tim E. Owaley, proprietor of the Crown Garden Theatre at Indianapolis, is doing a business which justifies a weekly pay roll of $400 for help and talent. Buckner and Brent, colored men, conduct what is acknowledged to be one of the very best grocery stores in Hopkinsville, Ky., and have a large white patronage. L. S. Williams, one of St. Louis' successful colored undertakers, has recently branched out in the monument business and in addition to furnishing funeral service can now supply patrons with grave stones from the simple kind to the costly marble or granite monument, all made in his establishment. One of the largest and most successful printing establishments conducted by a colored man is the one owned and conducted by C. K. Robinson at St. Louis, Mo. The Home Protective Association, an insurance company with headquarters in Hannibal, Mo., organized and operated by colored men, is doing an excellent business throughout the entire state of Missouri. "The Silver Grill" is the name of a large and finely equipped cafe recently established in St. Louis for high-grade colored patronage. The fact that its business is excellent shows that colored people appreciate high-class service when given by a colored man. Madam Walker of Indianapolis, the hair culturist, recently sailed for Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti to introduce her hair preparation. Madam Walker will spend the winter in these countries. Mitchell Fountain Ink Eraser Company is a new concern launched by G. W. Mitchell, a Negro of Chicago. Mr. Mitchell has invented a new fluid which quickly erases ink, and which is used in a fountain similar to the ordinary fountain pen. Heretofore ink erasing preparations consisted of two fluids which had to be applied separately. The Mitchell invention revolutionizes erasing fluids. He has capitalized his company at $50,000. One big white firm offered him $25,000 for his patent but he declined it. The Acme Steam Laundry, a colored enterprise at St. Louis, employs forty men and women, all colored. The plant is equipped with all the latest laundry machinery, and is doing a fine business. In addition to its colored patronage it enjoys a large white patronage. W. C. Gordon, the pioneer undertaker at St. Louis, did a $54,000 business last year, that is, his receipts amounted to that much. His real estate operations also netted him handsomely. Mr. Gordon is rated the most successful and wealthiest Negro in St. Louis. Starting some seventeen years ago with a capital of not more than $300, by attention to his business and honest dealing, he has now reached a point where the earnings from his business and investments amount to $20,000 per annum. The five three-story U. B. F. building at Hannibal, Mo., has reduced its indebtedness down to $1,600. The lower floor is occupied by a well stocked grocery and an up-to-date pharmacy, both colored enterprises. Elias Ryan, a colored tile contractor of Lexington, Ky., does the largest volume of business in his line in that city, getting practically all the large contracts both for laying tile and setting cabinet mantels. The National Jacket Company, which manufactures white duck jackets, trousers, butchers' frocks and waitresses' aprons, is a Negro enterprise that is doing a splendid business, employing a number of young colored men and women. The company is located at Indianapolis and Martin Brothers are the proprietors. Poro College, of St. Louis, a school for teaching hair culture and manufacturing hair preparations, occupies a magnificent large stone building in one of the most desirable parts of the city. An expert going over the books found the receipts from the sale of hair preparations and agents' fees total from $100 to $150 per day. Mrs. A. M. Pope-Turnbo, a colored woman, is the proprietor. The Lexington News, a Negro weekly at Lexington, Ky., has one of the best and largest mechanically equipped printing shops in the country, among the race. George Washington, a colored man of Lexington, Ky., conducts the largest clothes pressing and cleaning establishment in that city of 35,000 population. The drivers of his delivery wagons are all uniformed. He also conducts a successful haberdashery. Recently he opened another estab- TWIN CITY STAR lishment directly across the street from his main store, which he conducts under another name, to cater to a cheaper class of patrons. His two places give him a monopoly of the business. Shelton & Willis, successful Negro undertakers at Indianapolis, Ind., recently purchased the large stone church adjoining the Colored Y. M. C. A. there, which they proposed to remodel and make one of the finest, and most modern undertaking establishments, white or colored, in Indiana polls. The $20,000 Colored Pythian Temple at Evansville, Ind., will be ready for occupancy in December. The first, or ground, floor will have a motion picture theatre and store rooms, the second floor will have office rooms and an auditorium, while the third floor will be fitted up with lodge rooms. One of the most successful real estate dealers in Indianapolis is J. Walter Hodge. Mr. Hodge office is right down to date, and the volume of business annually transacted by him runs up into the hundred thousands. Logan H. Stewart, one of the most successful Negro real estate dealers and builders in Indiana, has recently established a factory for the manufacture of cement building blocks at Evansville, Ind., and is operating it most successfully with an entire crew of Negro employees. The Constitutional League of Oklahoma with Lawyer William Harrison. of Oklahoma City as its leading attorney is contesting with vigor the "Jim Crow" laws of Oklahoma. He will, the last of November or the first of December, bring before the United States Supreme Court the case of McCabe et al vs. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway So., et al. We are informed that jurist say that the Oklahoma case is the best prepared of its kind of any case yet put before the United States Supreme Court, and that it will now have to meet the issue squarely. There is one feature of this case that will be settled which will effect all of the Negroes in the United States and that is the Inter-State passenger law. If he succeeds it will put an end to all Jim Crowism, so far as Inter-State passengers are concerned. They will not even be subject to the Intr-State laws of the South. Hence we hereby appeal to every liberty loving woman, man and friend of the Negroe race in this country to make a contribution to the expense of fighting this cas. We think it is high time, if Negroes want liberty, they should be willing to pay something towards it. A few race loving men and women in th Oklahoma League, led by the Rev. W. H. Jernagin, D. D., who is now pastor of the Mount Carmel Baptist church, Washington, D. C., have made great sacrifice to bring the case through lower courts to its present stage and Mr. Harrison has practically given his service for nothing; but must be rewarded. We are informed that two able constitutional lawyers of Boston and New York will assist in this case. Therefore let everyone who is interested send at least $1. All contributions to be sent to Rev. W. H. Jernagin, D. D., 420 Q street, N. W., Washington, D. C., who will receipt you for the same. He is a reputable, straightforward, Christian gentleman, and will make an honest report of all money sent him. If persons making contributions do not object, their names will be published in the leading papers of their state. Yours for justice, S. W. Layton, Philadelphia, Pa., President Woman's Convention Auxiliary National Baptist Convention. Nannie H. Burroughs, Washington, D. C., Secretary Woman's Convention Auxiliary National Baptist Convention. P. S.—Editors of the race who are interested will please copy. 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 Mil- waukee, Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Portland, Ore., Seattle, Denver, Des Moines and Sioux City. Write for terms to The Twin City Star, Minne- canalia, Minn. Many who complain that they do not get the Star have been cut off and they will get it on the renewal of their subscription by check or P. O. order. AN APPEAL The man who wants the earth gets a lot of mud thrown at him. If you don't make friends you can't expect your friends to make you. After paying the summer hotel bills dad starts in to accumulate for Christmas. Pity the poor man who attempts to keep track of the new aeroplane records. One virtue of the vaudeville stage is that it never lets a good joke be forgotten. What has become of the old fashioned beef carcass that had cheaper cuts in it? Each time Japan launches a new battleship some other nation gets either a protest or an ultimatum. Dollar a pound steals will prove more devastating than the automobile to the long suffering horse. The first Panama canal honors pass to a tug hauling mud, utility, as ever, having the precedence over romance. No self respecting man is going to be dominated by women, says Lord Northcliffe. Well, lots of self respecting men are. By the way, is Secretary McAdoo going to put out any money to help the ultimate consumer move his winter coal into the bin? Three hundred and seventy-seven million animals inspected at slaughter houses in the last ten years! We are not vegetarians yet. Exports to Mexico this year increased $11,500,000 over 1912. Who would have suspected we turned out so many rifles and cartridges? "Spirit," says Emerson, "primarily means wind." Wonder if the old gentleman had any special reference to "spirited addresses?" The first umbrella made its appearance in 1777. But probably the first good place to hide it did not appear until some time later. If the insanity of a few murderers could be discovered before instead of after the fact it might give society a little more confidence. Probably the acme of uselessness is expressed by the harbor of Pompeii, which was discovered the other day. It is 3.750 feet inland. A Baltimore scientist has returned to America with 80,000,000 malignant germs which he will study. If you don't believe it count 'em. With the new law staring them in the face, it seems probable that some people may undergo a considerable bookkeeping decrease of income. A financier is a man who can buy his wife a nine dollar ball bearing washing machine and make her forget that what she wanted was an automobile. Jane Addams says the fewer clothes with modesty the better. It seems reasonable, but logic stops when it finds that the less the quantity the more the cost. If as much money was spent annually on good roads as on moving pictures half as many farmers' horses could do twice the work in half the time. More cabbages to relieve the sauerkraut famine should be available-ere long, as there is soon to be a law compelling the adequate labeling of all cigars. It is now proposed to install "movies" on the farm to keep the son and daughter from going away. A mechanical milker and a suction cleaner might be more efficacious. A careful consideration of the new tariff law shows that the tax on chewing gum has been increased, which goes to show that girls cannot expect fair treatment until they get the ballot. George Bernard Shaw makes the announcement that Christianity has been a failure. There are indications, however, that a large number of good people are disposed to give it another trial. A dispatch from Paris says that women have stopped drinking tea because it makes their teeth long. It is recommended, however, by Mrs. Pankhurst, because it makes the tongue sharp. Admiral Dewey's statement that our navy is in admirable shape will have great weight with European countries, especially Spain. The Spaniards put entire faith in Dewey's judgment of navies. The latest English war craft is called a "destroyer of destroyers." Presently there will be a "destroyer of destroyers of destroyers." Why not designate them by mathematical powers, thus: Destroyer", Destroyer" and so on? The message of a suicide has it that his illusions were destroyed by George Bernard Shaw. But Shaw's illusions are proof, recalling Wilde's observation that Shaw hasn't an enemy in the world. But that none of his friends likes him. --- Years age, 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. Foreign Beer Experts S that Golden Grain Belt is the nearest like the imp America. Be wise. 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