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DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL ective Page VOL. 4 Single Copies 5 Cents CONTRACTOR PEOPLES GOOD RECORD Pioneer Business Man Makes Good Among All Classes 872.00; for nishing, de- plastering, sodding, $2 370.00; for ing plants, tin work, $1 9,57 ing and n makes a to of $73,082.0 city of Min 872.00; for paperhanging, inside varnishing, decorating, etc., $1,280.00; for plastering, $3,342.00; for grading, and sodding, $233.00; for plumbing, $6,370.00; for steam and hot water heating plants, installed, $2,342.00; for tin work, $753.00; for repairing in general, $19,570.00; for general contracting and new work, $33,472.00, this makes a total amount for all contracts of $73,082.00 up to the present time in city of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The Real Estate Department, which consists of selling of houses and lots, renting, loans, etc., amounts to $8,742.00, which he has secured the regular Board rate of commission out of. In all the above mentioned contracts over half of this work has been done for Colored people, which goes on show that if the Contractor, F. Peoples, gives as much satisfaction in the next two years as he has done in the past, you won't find very many of our race that will be dodging him when they have work to do as much as they have been in the past. We are well aware of the fact that it is not because we don't want the Colored man to do our work for us, but it is the loss of faith that we have in our own color by feeling that they are competent and honest enough to do the work and give satisfaction. F. Peoples does not blame anyone of his race or of the white race for not coming direct to him at the beginning because the average Colored Mechanic in Minneapolis and other Northern States don't wait to learn the trade; they just simply start right out to experiment at other people's expense. F. Peoples, Contractor and Builder, has given every Colored man who claims to be a mechanic, and has applied to him for work, but he has not found one who is really a mechanic in any line of work. That is the reason why he has used all white mechanics. But he is going to try from now on, through the assistance of Dr. Booker T. Washington and other leading Colored men in the Southern States, to secure some real mechanics of our own race to come to Minneapolis so he can have our own color on the jobs instead of all white men. F. Peoples has done a good business with the white people whose names are included in the above named list: but outside of these, he has figured over One Hundred and Fifty-Three Thousand Dollars worth of work, but owing to the prejudice, he received no consideration from them whatever, although his figures were the lowest, but they gave the white contractor the chance to take the job at his figure, which they were glad to do. But at that, he has gotten more work from the white man than he expected because the prejudice heretofore has been so strong both among our own race and the white race that it takes all the nerve that a man has to even start in business in the northern states. The following is a committee who have investigated the work of F. Peoples and his standing as a responsible man whom they consider worthy of being a leader in that line of business and responsible in every way: Rev. E. G. Jackson, Rev. M. W. Witers, Rev. T. W. Lewis, Rev. E. R. Edwards, Messrs. W. M. Smith, W. C. Jeffrey, J. Q. Adams, Charles Summer Smith, Rev. Father A. H. Lealtad and Atty. W. T. Francis. Other responsible men to whom you can go for reference for the responsibility of F. Peoples are as follows: Rev. H. P. Jones, Rev. T. J. Carter, Rev. G. W. Camp, Atty. Wm. R. Morris, Dr. R. S. Brown, Rev. A. G. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., wholesale glass and paints, St. Paul Cement Block Co., Dana Ware House Cement Co., St. Paul, the P. G. Speakes, Cement and Hard Wall Plaster Co., the Belt Line Brick Co., the Minneapolis Sash and Door Co., Simonson Bros. Sash & Door Co., the Smith Sash and Door Co., Carr-Collier Sash and Door Co., the Builders Sideboard Co., the Minneapolis Steel Works Co., Gus Arneson, Sheet Iron and Tin Co., F. Hirshfield & Son, wholesale paper Co., and the Welskopf Paper, Paint and Oil Co. The material men mentioned above are the companies F. Peoples has had dealings with, paying them all bills. He stands today not owing them a dollar for anything, which makes his credit better than the average white man who is in the Contracting Business. The following statement of contracts of the different kinds of work that have been secured and completed by F. Peoples during the past two years in Minneapolis and St. Paul: all bills. H them a demo makes his age white n business F. Peoples says "that there is one thing we should educate ourselves up (£ 900 is asked 0 paranuncu) ```markdown ``` BELIEVES IN EFFICIENCY. His record of work done since locating in Minneapolis shows his remarkable ability. He has by honest dealing gained the confidence of his supporters. F. Peoples, Contractor and Builder, and Real Estate Dealer, came to Minneapolis Sept. 14th, 1911. After being here but a few days he started in business at No. 236 Boston Block, Minneapolis, Minn., which is his present loca- M. B. tion. He started in by building on the small monthly payment plan, and has figured on contracts ranging from One Dollar to Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars, and he has landed every job from the Colored people who have had either plans or specifications and gave him a chance to figure. All other work that has been done by Colored people since F. Peoples' arrival in the city, consisting of Carpenter Work, Excavating, Electric Wiring, Steam or Hot water Heating Plants, Painting, etc., that he did not get, is because he did not get the chance to figure on them. But all the Colored People named in the list below, he will venture to say, will tell anyone that they have saved all the way from three to five per cent on the dollar for all the work that has been done for them by F. Peoples, Contractor and Builder. The fact is, F. Peoples can buy anything in the line of material that it takes to build a house, all complete, at the wholesale prices, which enables him to get enough discount off the material to pay him well for doing the job, without any other profit. The total contracts for excavating is $975.00; for building foundations, $2,863.00; for outside painting, $2- (Continued to page 2, col. 3.) SIMPLE JUSTICE FOR OUR RACE Chicago Jurist Pleads For It In Stirring Address. RACE HAS PROVED ITS WORTH Judge Marous A. Kavanaugh In Discussing the Negro Problem Suggests Three Methods For Its Solution, Which He Believes is Not Impossible to Accomplish. Chicago.—The speech of Judge Marcus A. Kavanaugh of the superior court in this city not long ago, in which he gave his views concerning the so called race problem, has attracted wide comment. It has been suggested by some of our people that the speech be printed in pamphlet form and distributed broadcast. That would be a wise thing to do, but for the benefit of the readers of this paper especially and the race generally the full text of Judge Kavanaugh's speech is here given. It was delivered before the Irish Fellowship club and is as follows: "Among the many grave problems pressing upon this people there is, it seems to me, one neglected question of crying importance: How much have we freed the Negro? The other day a semiprofessional concern advertised for a Negro girl cashier. There were sixty-four applications for that one position. The majority of the girls who applied had high school educations, because the Negro will make the most pittable sacrifices to give his children learning. These were neatly dressed, modest appearing and intelligent. The one who succeeded had made fifty-two other fruitful efforts to get a position. I do not like to let my mind follow the sixty-three unsuccessful young girls in the weary, heartbreaking search they are still pursuing, and yet it will be demanded of these young women that behind their dark, humiliated cheeks they keep white souls burning. To their infinite credit most of them will. This instance illustrates the attitude of the American public toward the Negro. Let a black man get work of equal rank among white brick masons, electricians, clerks, bookkeepers, and what happens? Every white employee will quit the job as though the place had been covered by a pestilence. There is not a great store in Chicago that dare put a Negro clerk behind its counters, no matter how competent he may be. There is not a street railway that dares to put a Negro to work on one of its cars. The everyday story of a Negro hunting a house in which to live is filled with burning humiliation and injustice. And yet the Negro of pure African blood is rare; many of them are almost white—oppressed with white men's brains, cursed with white men's hearts, hopelessly consumed with white men's ideals and aspirations. "I ask you this afternoon to put yourselves and your families in the place of an honest, respectable Negro, with his own wife and little children. To do that you will have to crush out all the strongest yearnings and highest longings of your hearts. Then see what a dismal place you have made of it. Think for a minute that your little children, no matter how wise they may become or how good they shall remain, must never hope for public esteem or general honor. What incentive remains behind your darkened lives? "When we complain of the Negro we should remember that one cannot measure the capabilities of a race by its lowest members, but by the attainments of its very highest. We have pushed the Negro out into freedom. Free to do what? To become a porter in a saloon or a waiter in a dining car. Which was better, the drugged contentment of the slave or the hopeless, endless humiliation and burning subjection of the freedman? If the Negro may not use his education it is a cruelty to educate him. If he may not use his freedom it was a crime to set him free. "Still he has progressed wonderfully. The general social and intellectual condition of the American Negro in the north today is vastly superior to that of the white inhabitant of any civilized country in the seventeenth century. Yet three generations ago he was a slave, a chattel, a thing. Notwithstanding this, it was essential to slavery that the slave should feel himself physically and mentally a slave. Generation after generation this idea was ground into his soul. Let the general community today unite in its estimate as to any of us, and imperceptibly we will sink or rise to the limits of that estimate. If we brutalize a man we have no right to complain when he acts like a brute. To begin making a man respectable we must commence respecting him. To keep him honorable it is often necessary to honor him. "Do you realise that in spite of this handicap there are Negro homes in Chicago, and not a few of them, the equals in actual refinement to almost any white man's? Have you considered that there are working in this republic black men, and not a few, in the various professions that are the equals intellectually and in many cases the superiors of their competitors? One of the best lawyers in Chicago is a Negro, and a rich man besides. The polite learning of the ages is familiar to him. He loves the best pictures and knows the finest music, but he may not take one meal in any decent restaurant. Suppose that man were to come in here today and sit at the table with us. Do you care to analyze your feelings toward him? And yet the bishop on his silken chair, the splendid old pope on his ancient throne is not nearer to God's great care and affections than this world oiled Negro. So embittered has this man grown against his country and even against his own race that there is no light left in the world for him. All this through no fault of his own, mind you, not because of anything he has done to us, but because of what God did to him. The only right way for you to judge a man is for you to put yourself in his place. Put yourself in that man's place. The problem is not dying out. Every year it increases in intensity. "In 1790 there were less than 800,000 Negroes in this country; in 1860 more than 4,000,000; today every tenth person in this republic is a Negro, and his ratio of increase during the last decade was 11 per cent. They will tell you in the south they have settled the Negro problem. They have not yet begun to realize its awful importance to them. Terrorism never yet settled anything permanently. Only cold, hard justice can do that. The Negro's intelligence is growing in the south and hastening there to an awful moment when the two races shall stand pumbling each other in open conflict—the one contemptuous, confident of being in the right and determined; the other race determined, desperate and revengeful. But that moment must never arrive. "It is aburd to blame the south for slavery. Slavery came to this country when it was recognized everywhere as proper and was salutary to both slave and master. It grew imperceptibly into an institution. Through an accident it became a necessity to the welfare of the cotton raiser. Before that the sentiment of the south was against it. In 1861, with one blow, the property and prosperity of the southern states were crushed. Put yourself in the southerner's place. His attitude today would be your attitude under circumstances. It is our attitude in the north, only differing in degree, not in kind. But the time has come for big, brave men and women, north and south, to do something. I hold no brief for the Negro. I recognize his many faults. The traits inbred and inbred again through generations cannot be gotten out of the blood in a day. All I ask for him is justice—simple justice. Nobody is seeking for freedom of social intercourse with the Negro. But I believe that unreasoning prejudice should not prevent any woman or man in this country from filling any position he is able to fill—that every citizen may have freedom to freely use every gift with which God has endowed him. There is only one cure for this evil and that is the fine, eternal, heaven sent panacies for every social ill—pure, even handed justice. The solution of the problem is not impossible. Some one has said that, looking history through, evil is only good in the making. As Emerson says. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.' "The south had the question settled once, and the north unsettled it. I think the highest minded, finest matured people in the world today live in this country below the Mason and Dixon line. I sometimes think that the oak of American manhood and the rose of American womanhood grow best there. Their point of view is at present almost the irresistible attitude of their history and situation. Still, it is terribly unjust and therefore temporary. "I propose three things: First, that we try to rid ourselves of unjust prejudices against the Negro; that heavy task accomplished, second, that we strive to influence our fellow citizens in the same direction, and, third, that we shall endeavor to obtain a national commission, composed mostly of white men, north and south, to take evidence and devise remedies for this impossible situation." So SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR So SMOKE THE RELIABLE GREAT LEADER AND ORGANIZER ZEALOUS WORKER FOR ZION Friends of the General Financial Secretary of the A. M. E. Zion Denomination Expect to See Him Advanced to Higher Official Rank—Member of Important Secret Fraternities. Birmingham, Ala. — The Rev. John Simpson Jackson of this city, the general financial secretary for the A. M. E. Zion church, is a native of Forland, Green county, Ala. He is forty- 大 eight years of age and has been actively engaged in many important movements for racial advancement for a number of years. He received his early education in the primary schools of his home town, after which he entered Lincoln Normal university at Marion, Ala., from which he graduated in 1884. After returning home he taught school for ten consecutive years. Very early in life the quality of leadership was discovered in him. Therefore his career in the educational and political life of his state stands out conspicuously. He was at one time a member of the Republican executive board of his state. He was nominated twice by the Green county convention for representative to the state legislature. He was elected delegate to the Republican national convention held in Minneapolis, Minn., when Benjamin Harrison was nominated for president of the United States. But his career in the religious world has made him a prominent figure of his race. Converted in early youth, he joined Birdine A. M. E. Zion church and became an active and influential member, holding from time to time every office in the church to which a layman is eligible. Since being licensed to preach his rise in the church has been rapid, and he has filled the positions of pastor in Alabama, presiding elder in Mississippi, member of four general conferences and general financial secretary of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion denomination, which office he still holds. Unprecedented in Methodism at the general conference in 1912, held in Charlotte, N. C., was the manner in which Dr. Jackson held that august body three days in deadlock without losing a vote. As a preacher Mr. Jackson is able and impressive, a noted church builder and financier with but few peers. In 1908, as treasurer of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of the state of Alabama and financial secretary of the A. M. E. Zion church, he was under bond for $40,000, making him perhaps one of the most heavily bonded colored men in the country. He is also a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the United Brothers of Friendship. Dr. Jackson has been married twice, first to Miss Louise Pearson, a member of one of the wealthiest families in the western part of Alabama. Six children were born to them, three of whom, Gertrude, Geneva and Robert, are now living. After the death of his first wife Dr. Jackson married Miss Pauline A. Huggar, a prominent schoolteacher, club and church worker of Mobile, Ala., Feb. 5, 1908. His real estate ownings are valuable in Alabama, New Jersey and Maryland. He owns a beautiful and spa- clous residence in Philadelphia, where he resided from May, 1908, to October, 1912. Since that time, through his efforts, the financial department of the denomination has been removed to Birmingham, Ala. Dr. Jackson is a director and one of the largest share owners of the Alabama Penny Savings bank. Birmingham, which is the largest bank in the United States operated solely by Afro-Americans. As a leader and organizer his influence for good has been felt in every position with which the denomination has honored him. His friends expect to see him rise still higher in official rank in the church to which he has given the best efforts of his life. LIBERIA THANKS DR. LYON FOR DONOVAN TRUST FUND. West African Republic Pleased With Work of Its Representative. Rev. Dr. Ernest Lyon of Baltimore, the Liberian consul general to the United States, has received a number of letters from prominent Liberians commending his efforts in getting the accumulated interest of the Donovan trust fund for the development of Liberian schools. republic. The latter wrote as follows: "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch, dated Oct. 9, conveying the most pleasing and gratifying announcement of the successful competition of the transaction relative to the Donovan, trust fund and the turning over to your custody the amount of $65,511.11, being the sum realized from said fund and held by the American Colonization society. "In this you have again been a most useful and effective instrument in bringing about the realisation and beneficial results to the future prosperity and development of the republic. May your life, therefore, be spared to be of continued usefulness to our republic and the Negro race, of which you are so worthy a representative. "I am taking up with the educational authorities the idea of your being appointed their financial agent in the United States to receive the annual income from the society and to investigate other funds which may be in the possession of other colonization societies in New York and Boston for educational work in Liberia. "Your action in expressing to the American Colonization society the grateful appreciation of the president and people of Liberia for the large amount of funds turned over to their official representative to the United States for the educational development of the republic was quite thoughtful." Young Lawyers Pass Bar Examination Howard Gilliard and Samuel Huffman were the successful Afro-Americans of a class of sixty-four, young lawyers who passed their examination and who were recently sworn in by a supreme court justice as practicing attorneys in Columbus, O. Messrs. Gilliard and Huffman each made high averages. CHRISTMAS CONCERT AT THE HAMPTON INSTITUTE Singing Classes at Famous School Hold Big Musical Festival. The Christmas concert given by the singing classes at the Hampton (Va.) institute was brilliant, interesting and instructive. Like the other departments of the school, the music section is showing greater ambition from year to year. It would not be at all surprising if there were developed at Hampton in the future a great conservatory of music. The subjects and those who took part in the Christmas program were the following: "Calm on the List'ning Ear of Night," by day school; (a) "Peace on Earth" and (b) "There Dwelt in Old Judeus," by night school; (c) "Nascent in Night," by night school boys; "Creole Eyes," by Miss Lilian Paterson and Miss Leta Myers; "Haste Thee, Nymph," by the junior middle girls; "My Heart at Thy Dear Video," from "Samson and Dellah," by Miss Carla Murle and choir; "While Shepherds Watched," adapted from the baroque, by Miss Carla Murle; "Child Divine," by the junior day school girls; "Chorus of Shepherds," from "Star of Light," by the junior middle night school boys; "Glory to God," from "Star of Light," by the senior class and day school, with harp accompaniment by Mr. Massey; "Softly Now the Shades of Evening," by the boy's quartet; "Chorus of Night," by the school original composition for baritone horn by Mr. J. A. Watkins; "Christmas," by the choir. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ctive Page VOL. 4 Single Copies 5 Cents CONTRACTOR PEOPLES GOOD RECORD Pioneer Business Man Makes Good Among All Classes 872.00; for nishing, de- plastering, sodding, $1 370.00; for ing plants, tin work, $1 eral, $19,57 ing and n makes a to- of $73,082.0 city of Min 872.00; for paperhanging, inside varnishing, decorating, etc., $1,280.00; for plastering, $3,342.00; for grading, and sodding, $233.00; for plumbing, $6,370.00; for steam and hot water heating plants, installed, $2,342.00; for tin work, $753.00; for reparing in general, $19,570.00; for general contracting and new work, $33,472.00, this makes a total amount for all contracts of $73,082.00 up to the present time in city of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The Real Estate Department, which consists of selling of houses and lots, renting loans, etc., amounts to $8,742.00, which he has secured the regular Board rate of commission out of. In all the above mentioned contracts over half of this work has been done for Colored people, which goes on show that if the Contractor, F. Peoples, gives as much satisfaction in the next two years as he has done in the past, you won't find very many of our race that will be dodging him when they have work to do as much as they have been in the past. We are well aware of the fact that it is not because we don't want the Colored man to do our work for us, but it is the loss of faith that we have in our own color by feeling that they are competent and honest enough to do the work and give satisfaction. F. Peoples does not blame anyone of his race or of the white race for not coming direct to him at the beginning because the average Colored Mechanic in Minneapolis and other Northern States don't wait to learn the trade; they just simply start right out to experiment at other people's expense. F. Peoples, Contractor and Builder, has given every Colored man who claims to be a mechanic, and has applied to him for work, a chance to prove himself a workman, but he has not found one who is really a mechanic in any line of work. That is the reason why he has used all white mechanics. But he is going to try from now on, through the assistance of Dr. Booker T. Washington and other leading Colored men in the Southern States, to secure some real mechanics of our own race to come to Minneapolis so he can have our own color on the jobs instead of all white men. F. Peoples has done a good business with the white people whose names are included in the above named list: but outside of these, he has figured over One Hundred and Fifty-Three Thousand Dollars worth of work, but owing to the prejudice, he received no consideration from them whatever, although his figures were the lowest, but they gave the white contractor the chance to take the job at his figure, which they were glad to do. But at that, he has gotten more work from the white man than he expected because the prejudice heretofore has been so strong both among our own race and the white race that it takes all the nerve that a man has to even start in business in the northern states. The following is a committee who have investigated the work of F. Peoples and his standing as a responsible man whom they consider worthy of being a leader in that line of business and responsible in every way: Rev. E. G. Jackson, Rev. M. W. Withews, Rev. T. W. Lewis, Rev. E. R. Edwards, Messrs. W. M. Smith, W. C. Jeffrey, J. Q. Adams, Charles Sumner Smith, Rev. Father A. H. Lealtad and Atty. W. T. Francis. Other responsible men to whom you can go for reference for the responsibility of F. Peoples are as follows: Rev. H. P. Jones, Rev. T. J. Carter, Rev. G. W. Camp, Atty. Wm. R. Morris, Dr. R. S. Brown, Rev. A. Gould, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., wholesale glass and paints, St. Paul Cement Block Co., Dana Ware House Cement Co., St. Paul, the P. G. Speakes, Cement and Hard Wall Plaster Co., the Belt Line Brick Co., the Minneapolis Sash and Door Co., Simonson Bros., Sash & Door Co., the Smith Sash and Door Co., Carr-Collier Sash and Door Co., the Builders Sideboard Co., the Minneapolis Steel Works Co., Gus Arneson, Sheet Iron and Tin Co., F. Hirshfield & Son, wholesale paper Co., and the Welskopf Paper, Paint and Oil Co. The material men mentioned above are the companies F. Peoples has had dealings with, paying them all bills. He stands today not owing them a dollar for anything, which makes his credit better than the average white man who is in the Contracting Business. F. Peoples says "that there is one thing we should educate ourselves up --- BELIEVES IN EFFICIENCY. His record of work done since locating in Minneapolis shows his remarkable ability. He has by honest dealing gained the confidence of his supporters. F. Peoples, Contractor and Bullders, and Real Estate Dealer, came to Minneapolis Sept. 14th, 1911. After being here but a few days he started in business at No. 236 Boston Block, Minneapolis, Minn., which is his present loca- A. E. tion. He started in by building on the small monthly payment plan, and has figured on contracts ranging from One Dollar to Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars, and he has landed every job from the Colored people who have had either plans or specifications and gave him a chance to figure. All other work that has been done by Colored people since F. Peoples' arrival in the city, consisting of Carpenter Work, Excavating, Electric Wiring, Steam or Hot water Heating Plants, Painting, etc., that he did not get, is because he did not get the chance to figure on them. But all the Colored People named in the list below, he will venture to say, will tell anyone that they have saved all the way from three to five per cent on the dollar for all the work that has been done for them by F. Peoples, Contractor and Builder. The fact is, F. Peoples can buy anything in the line of material that it takes to build a house, all complete, at the wholesale prices, which enables him to get enough discount off the material to pay him well for doing the job, without any other profit. The following statement of contracts of the different kinds of work that have been secured and completed by F. Peoples during the past two years in Minneapolis and St. Paul: The total contracts for excavating is $975.00; for building foundations, $2,863.00; for outside painting, $2- (Continued to page 2, col. 3.) SIMPLE JUSTICE FOR OUR RACE Chicago Jurist Pleads For It In Stirring Address. RACE HAS PROVED ITS WORTH Judge Marous A. Kavanaugh In Discussing the Negro Problem Suggests Three Methods For Its Solution, Which He Believes is Not Impossible to Accomplish. Chicago.—The speech of Judge Marcus A. Kavanaugh of the superior court in this city not long ago, in which he gave his views concerning the so called race problem, has attracted wide comment. It has been suggested by some of our people that the speech be printed in pamphlet form and distributed broadcast. That would be a wise thing to do, but for the benefit of the readers of this paper especially and the race generally the full text of Judge Kavanaugh's speech is here given. It was delivered before the Irish Fellowship club and is as follows: A fellowship club and is as follows: "Among the many grave problems pressing upon this people there is, it seems to me, one neglected question of crying importance: How much have we freed the Negro? The other day a semiprofessional concern advertised for a Negro girl cashier. There were sixty-four applications for that one position. The majority of the girls who applied had high school educations, because the Negro will make the most pittable sacrifices to give his children learning. These were neatly dressed, modest appearing and intelligent. The one who succeeded had made fifty-two other fruitless efforts to get a position. I do not like to let my mind follow the sixty-three unsuccessful young girls in the weary, heartbreaking search they are still pursuing, and yet it will be demanded of these young women behind their dark, humiliated cheeks they keep white souls burning. To their infinite credit most of them will. This instance illustrates the attitude of the American public toward the Negro. Let a black man get work of equal rank among white brick masons, electricians, clerks, bookkeepers, and what happens? Every white employee will quit the job as though the place had been covered by a pestilence. There is not a great store in Chicago that dare put a Negro clerk behind its counters, no matter how competent he may be. There is not a street railway that dares to put a Negro to work on one of its cars. The everyday story of a Negro hunting a house in which to live is filled with burning humiliation and injustice. And yet the Negro of pure African blood is rare; many of them are almost white—oppressed with white men's brains, cursed with white men's hearts, hopelessly consumed with white men's ideals and aspirations. "I ask you this afternoon to put yourselves and your families in the place of an honest, respectable Negro, with his own wife and little children. To do that you will have to crush out all the strongest yearnings and highest longings of your hearts. Then see what a dismal place you have made of it. Think for a minute that your little children, no matter how wise they may become or how good they shall remain, must never hope for public esteem or general honor. What incentive remains behind your darkened lives? "When we complain of the Negro we should remember that one cannot measure the capabilities of a race by its lowest members, but by the attainments of its very highest. We have pushed the Negro out into freedom. Free to do what? To become a porter in a saloon or a waiter in a dining car. Which was better, the drugged contentment of the slave or the hopeless, endless humiliation and burning subjection of the freedman? If the Negro may not use his education it is a cruelty to educate him. If he may not use his freedom it was a crime to set him free. "Still he has progressed wonderfully. The general social and intellectual condition of the American Negro in the north today is vastly superior to that of the white inhabitant of any civilized country in the seventeenth century. Yet three generations ago he was a slave, a chattel, a thing. Notwithstanding this, it was essential to slavery that the slave should feel himself physically and mentally a slave. Generation after generation this idea was ground into his soul. Let the general community today unite in its estimate as to any of us, and imperceptibly we will sink or rise to the limits of that estimate. If we brutalize a man we have no right to complain when he acts like a brute. To begin making a man respectable we must commence respecting him. To keep him honorable it is often necessary to honor him. "Do you realize that in spite of this handicap there are Negro homes in Chicago, and not a few of them, the equals in actual refinement to almost any white man's? Have you considered that there are working in this republic black men, and not a few, in the various professions that are the equals intellectually and in many cases the superiors of their competitors? One of the best lawyers in Chicago is a Negro, and a rich man besides. The polite learning of the ages is familiar to him. He loves the best pictures and knows the finest music, but he may not take one meal in any decent restaurant. Suppose that man were to come in here today and sit at the table with us. Do you care to analyze your feelings toward him? And yet the bishop on his silken chair, the splendid old pope on his ancient throne is not nearer to God's great care and affections than this world exiled Negro. So embittered has this man grown against his country and even against his own race that there is no light left in the world for him. All this through no fault of his own, mind you, not because of anything he has done to us, but because of what God did to him. The only right way for you to judge a man is for you to put yourself in his place. Put yourself in that man's place. The problem is not dying out. Every year it increases in intensity. "In 1790 there were less than 800,000 Negroes in this country; in 1860 more than 4,000,000; today every tenth person in this republic is a Negro, and his ratio of increase during the last decade was 11 per cent. They will tell you in the south they have settled the Negro problem. They have not yet begun to realize its awful importance to them. Terrorism never yet settled anything permanently. Only cold, hard justice can do that. The Negro's intelligence is growing in the south and hastening there to an awful moment when the two races shall stand fronting each other in open conflict—the one contemptuous, condescident of being in the right and determined; the other race determined, desperate and revengeful. But that moment must never arrive. "It is aburd to blame the south for slavery. Slavery came to this country when it was recognized everywhere as proper and was salutary to both slave and master. It grew imperceptibly into an institution. Through an accident it became a necessity to the welfare of the cotton raiser. Before that the sentiment of the south was against it. In 1861, with one blow, the property and prosperity of the southern states were crushed. Put yourself in the southerner's place. His attitude today would be your attitude under like circumstances. It is our attitude in the north, only differing in degree, not in kind. But the time has come for big, brave men and women, north and south, to do something. I hold no brief for the Negro. I recognize his many faults. The traits inbred and inbred again through generations cannot be gotten out of the blood in a day. All I ask for him is justice—simple justice. Nobody is seeking for freedom of social intercourse with the Negro. But I believe that unreasoning prejudice should not prevent any woman or man in this country from filling any position he is able to fill—that every citizen may have freedom to freely use every gift with which God has endowed him. There is only one cure for this evil and that is the fine, eternal, heaven sent panacas for every social ill—pure, even handed justice. The solution of the problem is not impossible. Some one has said that, looking history through, evil is only good in the making. As Emerson says, "Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams." "The south had the question settled once, and the north unsettled it. I think the highest minded, finest matured people in the world today live in this country below the Mason and Dixon line. I sometimes think that the oak of American manhood and the rose of American womanhood grow best there. Their point of view is at present almost the irresistible attitude of their history and situation. Still, it is terribly unjust and therefore temporary. "I propose three things: First, that we try to rid ourselves of unjust prejudices against the Negro; that heavy task accomplished, second, that we strive to influence our fellow citizens in the same direction, and, third, that we shall endeavor to obtain a national commission, composed mostly of white men, north and south, to take evidence and devise remedies for this impossible situation." So SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR So SMOKE THE RELIABLE GREAT LEADER AND ORGANIZER Useful Life of Rev. Dr. John Simpson Jackson. ZEALOUS WORKER FOR ZION Friends of the General Financial Secretary of the A. M. E. Zion Denomination Expect to See Him Advanced to Higher Official Rank—Member of Important Secret Fraternities. Birmingham, Ala. — The Rev. John Simpson Jackson of this city, the general financial secretary for the A. M. E. Zion church, is a native of Forkland, Green county, Ala. He is forty- PRIEST JOHN SIMPON JACKSON. eight years of age and has been actively engaged in many important movements for racial advancement for a number of years. He received his early education in the primary schools of his home town, after which he entered Lincoln Normal university at Marlton, Ala., from which he graduated in 1884. After returning home he taught school for ten consecutive years. Very early in life the quality of leadership was discovered in him. Therefore his career in the educational and political life of his state stands out conspicuously. He was at one time a member of the Republican executive board of his state. He was nominated twice by the Green county convention for representative to the state legislature. He was elected delegate to the Republican national convention held in Minneapolis, Minn., when Benjamin Harrison was nominated for president of the United States. But his career in the religious world has made him a prominent figure of his race. Converted in early youth, he joined Birdine A. M. E. Zion church and became an active and influential member, holding from time to time every office in the church to which a layman is eligible. Since being licensed to preach his rise in the church has been rapid, and he has filled the positions of pastor in Alabama, presiding elder in Mississippi, member of four general conferences and general financial secretary of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion denomination, which office he still holds. Unprecedented in Methodism at the general conference in 1912, held in Charlotte, N. C., was the manner in which Dr. Jackson held that august body three days in deadlock without losing a vote. As a preacher Mr. Jackson is able and impressive, a noted church builder and financer with but few peers. In 1908, as treasurer of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of the state of Alabama and financial secretary of the A. M. E. Zion church, he was under bond for $40,000, making him perhaps one of the most heavily bonded colored men in the country. He is also a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the United Brothers of Friendship. Dr. Jackson has been married twice, first to Miss Louise Pearson, a member of the wealthiest families in the western part of Alabama. Six children were born to them, three of whom, Gertrude, Geneva and Robert, are now living. After the death of his first wife Dr. Jackson married Miss Pauline A. Huggar, a prominent schoolteacher, club and church worker of Mobile, Ala. Feb. 5, 1908. His real estate ownings are valuable in Alabama. New Jersey and Maryland. He owns a beautiful and spa- cious residence in Philadelphia, where he resided from May, 1908, to October, 1912. Since that time, through his efforts, the financial department of the denomination has been removed to Birmingham, Ala. Dr. Jackson is a director and one of the largest share owners of the Alabama Penny Savings bank, Birmingham, which is the largest bank in the United States operated solely by Afro-Americans. As a leader and organizer his influence for good has been felt in every position with which the denomination has honored him. His friends expect to see him rise still higher in official rank in the church to which he has given the best efforts of his life. LIBERIA THANKS DR. LYON FOR DONOVAN TRUST FUND. West African Republic Pleased With Work of Its Representative. Rev. Dr. Ernest Lyon of Baltimore, the Liberian consul general to the United States, has received a number of letters from prominent Liberians commending his efforts in getting the accumulated interest of the Donovan trust fund for the development of Liberian schools. Among those who wrote him are Dr. J. H. Reed, president of the College of West Africa, and Hon. C. D. B. King, attorney general of the Liberian republic. The latter wrote as follows: "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch, dated Oct. 9, conveying the most pleasing and gratifying announcement of the successful competition of the transaction relative to the Donovan trust fund and the turning over to your custody the amount of $65,511.11, being the sum realized from said fund and held by the American Colonization society. "In this you have again been a most useful and effective instrument in bringing about the realization and beneficial results to the future prosperity and development of the republic. May your life, therefore, be spared to be of continued usefulness to our republic and the Negro race, of which you are so worthy a representative. "I am taking up with the educational authorities the idea of your being appointed their financial agent in the United States to receive the annual income from the society and to investigate other funds which may be in the possession of other colonization societies in New York and Boston for educational work in Liberia. "Your action in expressing to the American Colonization society the grateful appreciation of the president and people of Liberia for the large amount of funds turned over to their official representative to the United States for the educational development of the republic was quite thoughtful." Young Lawyers Pass Bar Examination Howard Gillard and Samuel Huffman were the successful Afro-Americans of a class of sixty-four young lawyers who passed their examination and who were recently sworn in by a supreme court justice as practicing attorneys in Columbus, O. Messrs. Gillard and Huffman each made high averages. CHRISTMAS CONCERT AT THE HAMPTON INSTITUTE. Singing Classes at Famous School Hold Big Musical Festival. The Christmas concert given by the singing classes at the Hampton (V.A.) institute was brilliant, interesting and instructive. Like the other departments of the school, the music section is showing greater ambition from year to year. It would not be at all surprising if there were developed at Hampton in the future a great conservatory of music. The subjects and those who took part in the Christmas program were the following: "Calm on the List'ning Ear of Night," by day school; (a) "Peace Ear of Earth" and (b) "There Dwelt in Old Judae," by night school girls; "Nazareth," by the night school girls; "Creole Eyes," by Miss Lilian Paterson and Miss Lila Meyer; "Haste Thee, Nymph," by the junior middle girls; "My Heart at Thy Dear Voice," from "Samson and Dellah," by Miss Carolyn Murie and choir; "White Shepherds Watched," adapted from the baroque, "Child Divine," by the junior day school girls; "Chorus of Shepherds," from "Star of Light," by the junior middle night school boys; "Glory to God," from "Star of Light," by the senior class and day school, in last accompaniment by Mr. Manger; "Softly Now the Shades of Evening," by the boys' quartet; "Beautiful Bells" (round), by the day school; original composition for baritone horn, by Mr. J. A. Watkins; "Christmas," by the choir. READ THE STAR—ITS NEWS. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION MINNEAPOLIS In this great city of ours, we need more consecrated men and women to throw out 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. Se. Funeral and Wedding notices are to be paid for in advance. Rev. E. W. Gilles conducts Bible and missionary training classes as follows: (With Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, 526 7 Avenue North, Tuesday evenings, with Mr. and Mrs. St. Clare, 411 11 Avenue, North, Friday evenings. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH 11 A. M. A New Year's Friendly Interogation. 12:30. Sunday School. 6:30 P. M. B. Y. P. U. 8. P. M. A Good Resolution. Come and Enjoy New Year's Services with us. The pastor has been busy preaching funerals, which tells us that the Death Angel is in our city. Are you ready, if he should come to your home? The public is always welcome to Bethesda Church. Rev. T. J. Carter, Pastor. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Howard served a Colation Saturday evening, Dec. 27, at 8 p. m., after which cards and dancing were indulged till 11:30, and an enjoyable evening was spent. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Nimrod Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Burke, Mr. and Mrs. W. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Nator Smith, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. H. Jackson, Mrs. M. Kemp, Mrs. M. Hall, Mrs. Maxie Stewart, Messrs J. Clayborn, O. Clark, J. West and Harry Jones. HOME COOKING CAFE. MRS. A. G. CHARLESTON. Mrs. A. G. Charleston has opened a Home Cooking Café at 1302 So. Third St., Minneapolis, where she serves home-cooked meals at reasonable prices. She invites your patronage. Mr. and Mrs. F. Peoples entertained at Christmas dinner, Thursday. Covers were laid for six. Mrs. J. Baylum has moved to 3517 4th Ave. S. Mrs. Mattle Benner and Miss Jessie Adams of St. Paul were guests of their sister Mrs. Wm. Hyde at Xmas dinner. Mrs. R. B. Moulden and Mrs. M. Rutledge were guests also. Mrs. Robert A. Anderson, of 718 Bryant Ave. North, was removed from her home to Dr. A. W. Abbott's private sanitarium for a surgical operation which will be performed Monday morning at 9:30. Mr. and Mrs. John Garrett, 1003 6th Ave. No., entertained a few friends on Christmas Day, among them Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bodene, and Mr. H. L. Davis. The affair was a family dinner. MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY FORUM The Forum meets Sunday, January 4, 1914, at St. Peters Church at 3:30 p. m. An excellent program is promised. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Charleston of St. Paul, have moved into their new home, 474 St. Anthony Ave., which they recently purchased. Mr. David Heunebrew of St. Paul has rented his house, 924 La Fond St., which was recently completed by F. Peoples, the contractor, who completely satisfied him. Does your subscription expire this month? Please inform us as to renewal. Any person who has paid for this paper, without receiving it, will be given a year's subscription on proof of their statement. Dr. Judy, the dentist, has resigned his position with the eNew 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. Cofax 1846. Messra. 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 Trin City Star, or order it discontinued. --- ELKS ELECT OFFICERS. Ames Lodge No. 106, I. B. P. O. E. W. held their election of officers on Tuesday, Dec. 23rd, and the following officers were elected to guide the afairs of this popular Lodge of the Twin Cities, for the ensuing year: George W. Holbert, Exalted Ruler; Thomas Galbraith, Esteemed Leading Knight; Silas West, Esteemed Loyal Knight; P. H. Southall, Est. Lecturing Knight, Ross Hamilton, Tyler; Wm. R. Morris, as Fin. Sec., and Wm. Stirman as Treas. were holdovers, their terms not expiring until June. M. B. GEO. W. HOLBERT. We take this opportunity of calling the public's attention to the high calibre of this Lodge and their intention to still further advance, both their own and their race's interests. They have many plans which will include pleasure to the public and profit to them-selves, which, from time to time will be unfolded through the columns of the Star. Although they already number among their ranks most of the representative and progressive men of the race, extra efforts will be put forth during the coming year to increase, not only their membership, but to improve the calibre and moral character of the Lodge. Ames is no longer an experiment, but one of the fixtures of the fraternal life of Minneapolis and with its present high standard of officers, there is no reason why she should not have one of the most successful years of her history, under the guidance of the present officers, with the united support of the members. STARKS-SPENCER. Mr. H. H. Starks of Duluth, Minn., and Miss Macy Spencer of Memphis, Tenn., arrived in the city Sunday and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Raynor. On Monday, Dec. 29, they were married at the home of his mother, Mrs. Lulu St. Claire, 411 11th Ave. No., by Rev. E. R. Edwards. After the ceremony an enjoyable dinner was served. Mr. Starks left for Duluth on the 11 P. M. train, on account of his business, leaving his bride at the home of his mother. He will return shortly as they expect to make their home in the Twin Cities. Our exposure of vice conditions in this city has been costly to this publication, but beneficial to the community. We have lost friends, because of our agitation, many who are considered the best Negroes in the city. Every pressure has been brought to bear against the continuance of the Twin City Star, which is now considered a dangerous publication. Even some of the clergy are fighting the Editor, who will in due season retaliate with some sensational truths. Mr. Boyd Francisco won the pool contest at the Citizen's Club on Tuesday night. He was presented with a jointed cue by Manager Chas. Brody. Mr. Walter Donahue of The Cross Trio, musicians, was second. The games were very interesting. Mr. John washington, 1500 Penn Ave. No. returned last week from Henderson, Ky., where he spent a pleasant visit. The "Weaver Bros." Entertainers were the feature at the Twin City Stag Club last Sunday night as guests of the Young Men's Progressive Club. 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. When the Clubs were ordered to close at 2 a. m. it was known that many men earning over $12 per week had no homes, several hard working men had lived in these dives. 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. (Tinued from page 1.) CONTRACTOR'S GREAT RECORD. NATIONAL Department Work to, and that is to either get a specification, or get some friend to make out a specification or come to his office and he will make out one for you free of charge; as it is impossible for any two men to figure alike without a guide. All the white people have their specifications so there will be no mistake in having all to figure alike, and whenever you want No. 1 material, there will be no chance for a contractor to put in No. 3 or No. 4 material as has been done so much. We should not at any time accept verbal figures because there is nothing to hold a man to unless it is in writing, then it is up to you to either accept it or turn it down until you have signed it yourself. There have been many times that F. Peoples has figured on work in both Minneapolis and St. Paul and was the lowest figure, where the other contractors tried to bluff the client to make them pay for the trouble of figuring on the work. F. Peoples would like to make this very plain: that no contractor, no matter who he is or how much money he has, has no chance to collect money for figuring on jobs, as he has no right until you have signed up with him. I. F. Peoples, want to take this opportunity to thank all of the Colored People for all the business I have transacted for them because they have given me more business in such a short time than I could ever have expected of them. If I only do half of the business in the next two years that I have done in the past, I will be perfectly satisfied because I can readily see that you mean for me to stay here." F. Peoples has an office clerk who is doing public stenography in connection with her regular work. If at any time you have letters of any kind to write, or legal papers to draw up, you will find her competent to handle anything in the stenographic line. She has a very large trade from white as well as colored as she does the very best work at the most reasonable price. BROWNING IS OPTIMISTIC. New Jersey Congressman Defends Ability of Colored Federal Employees. New Jersey Congressman Defends Ability of Colored Federal Employees. Washington.-This city is stirred an never before on account of the great agitation which is going on in reference to the segregation of white and colored civil service employees in the various departments of the government service. The protest presented to the president not long ago and the investigation made by a representative of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People have gone far toward awakening a sense of justice in the minds of those responsible for the existence of segregation among the clerks and other federal employees. In an address recently delivered in this city by Representative W. J. Browning of New Jersey he said: "Civil liberty, whether enjoyed in whole or in part, has demonstrated the ability of colored citizens to advance in the scale of human progress against great odds. Much, it is true, that citizenship is supposed to confer is denied, but in many states the franchise is freely exercised, and this, it should be remembered, in states where this privilege is not likely to be withdrawn by circumvention of the constitution or other device and where numerical strength weighs heavily in the political equation. This strength has usually been on the side of good government. "We know that the full measure of representation is not accorded, but recognition of this principle is found in the filling of offices and positions of honor and trust in every branch of the government service and in the army and navy. They are here in the departments, and they would not be here if they lacked ability and efficiency. They are here because the equal opportunity was given them to enter through the door of a civil service examination. They are not here because they belong to a certain race or class, but in spite of that fact. They are participating in government, doing the government work, are a part of the machinery. "The flag, the only flag they have ever known, floats over every government building in which they work—the common flag of every American citizen, signifying unity as one in all things pertaining to the common welfare. Here the standard is efficiency; here all are civil servants; here class, social, religious and political distinctions have no rightful place. Each and all are American citizens, nothing more and nothing less than American citizens. "I venture to assert that there are few men today anywhere in this country who would be willing to return to the system which the abolitionists strove to stamp out and which was stamped out. There may be, and doubtless are, men who, while feeling that way about the institution of slavery, nevertheless are hostile to the colored man. This feeling is engendered by race prejudice and is manifested in ways only too well known to the public." SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. NATIONAL W. C. T. U. AN OPEN LETTER. The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union has launched a campaign for National Constitutional Prohibition in 1920. We believe in ourselves; but infinitely more in the God who said: "Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not your but God's." We realize that it would be disastrous to the race, if in the final triumph of virtue over vice, the church over the liquor traffic; our women were found poorly represented in the great organization of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which knows no woman by her creed or color. To forestall such a calamity, we are calling for volunteers all over the Nation. January 1, 1914, has been set apart as out fast day, on which day all who are interested in the wellbeing of the race are called upon to unite with us that there might be a great awakening of our women to this the opportune time to fall into line and help save our race from this vile form of slavery which the white man's civilization has forced upon us. At our National Convention in Asbury Park, N. J., in November, Ohio's colored women led the nation in making a great gain of membership; New York came next. The whole nation must rally. The liquor traffic knows no race, section, nor condition in its work if evil. WE MUST BE ON DUTY when the last blow for liberty of home, race and nation is struck. Texas will rally for 1,000 paid members. Tennessee and Arkansas 500 each. Mrs. George E. Haynes, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., has been chosen as our Secretary of Advisory Committees of College Work. Miss Mary A. Lynch, Livingston College, Salsbury, N. C., is Chairman of Committee on Press Work. I cheerfully introduce these capable earnest women who will help lead our ranks to victory over the greatest enemy we have known since emancipation. We believe in the press as one of the greatest means of helping to establish truth and justice. We therefore humbly ask that you will give space in your valuable columns of the next issue for this letter. We further beg that you will let appear in a later issue if not along with this letter, the enclosed copy of excerpts from Dr. Booker T. Washington; Prof. Kelly Miller, Howard University, Washington, D. C.; Dr. C. V. Roman, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. Sutton E. Griggs, Memphis, Tenn.; Bishop C. R. Harris, Salisbury, N. C.; Dr. R. E. Jones, New Orleans; Dr. J. H. N. Waring, Washington, D. C. This letter goes to not less than 200 newspapers and we call upon all to help praying with us on January 1 for this special blessing that 1914 may be a year of jubilee for the womanhood of the race in achievement for "God and Home and Native Land." Texarkana, Tex., National Supt. AMANDA SMITH, Sebring, Fla. ELLA SHEPPARD MOORE, Nashville, Tenn., Associates. By Dr. Booker T. Washington, in the "Worlds 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." 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 FORUM MEETING. The Forum meets the first Sunday in each month at St. Peter's A. M. E. Church, and on the third Sunday each month at Bethesda Baptist Church. FORUM MEETING. To the Race Loving Women and Men of the United States. 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 the 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 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. ADVERTISE IN THE STAR and get good results. READ OUR ADVERTISEMENTS. 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On receiving and filling the petition of Carolina Fellman, Guardian or above, he received the real estate her granted to sell the real estate therein described belonging to said Ward, and it appearing before said the Court, it could be for the bene of said Ward, to sell said real estate: It is therefore Ordered, that all persons in the county of Carolina appear before said Probate Court, at a special term thereof to be held on Monday, the 19th day of January, 1914, at the County House, in said County, then and there to show cause (if any there be) why the petition of Carolina Fellman, Guardian or above, be interested, by publishing this order once in each week for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing, in the Twin Cities, printed and published in said County. Dated at Minneapolis, this 15th day of December, 1913. By the Court: JOHN A DAHL, Judge of the State Court. Dec. 26, 1913. - Advertisement. TO BOYCOTT STORES THAT SELL "NIGGER" BROWN. New York, December 18.—Many of the colored residents here, especially women, are incensed over department sores advertising a new shade of goods called "nigger brown." They regard this as an insult to the race, even though the color may be as alluring as is the color of a "tantalizing brown." Protests have been made to the officials of some of the stores and a boycott has been threatened. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. --- HAPPY NEW YEAR On the Track of the New Year NEW YEAR'S was a long time in settling upon Jan. 1 as the proper time for its celebration. Even now, in Greece and Russia, where the Julian calendar is in force, New Year's does not arrive until twelve days after the year is well on its way in the rest of the civilized world. The ancient Egyptians and Persians began the new year at the autumnal equinox, Sept. 22, and the Greeks of Solon's time at the winter solstice, Dec. 21, but in the time of Pericles the date was changed to the summer solstice, June 21. The Romans began the year from the winter solstice until Caesar changed it to Jan. 1. With the Jews the new year began in September in civil affairs, but in their ecclesiastical reckoning the beginning of the year dates from the vernal equinox, March 22. And, as this is astronomically the beginning of spring, the date is a logical one, and that of the 25th of March (25 being a more fully rounded number) was accepted generally by Christian nations in medieval times as New Year's. In England Dec. 25 was New Year's until the time of William the Conqueror. His coronation happened to fall on Jan. 1, and accordingly the year was ordered to commence on that day. But the English gradually fell into union with the rest of Christendom and began the year on March 25. When in 1582 the Gregorian calendar was promulgated and definitely located New Year's on Jan. 1 most Catholic countries adopted it at once, but England did not acquiesce until 1752. In ancient Rome New Year's day was given up to feasting and frolicking. Sacrificial fires burned continually on the altars of the twelve gods. All litigation and strife were suspended. @Ausch ALL. NATIONS DRINK A NEW YEAR'S HEALTH. reconcilations took place. New Year's calls were made and New Year's gifts bestowed. There also originated the New Year's resolution, for every Roman resolved on New Year's day to so regulate his conduct that every word and act should be a happy augury for all the days of the ensuing year. On account of the orgies which marked the New Year's arrival not only among the Romans, but among the Teutonic races, the early Christians looked with scant favor upon the whole season. By the fifth century, however, Dec. 25 became the fixed festival of the Nativity, whereupon Jan. 1 assumed a special sacred character as the octave of Christmas day. The giving of gifts on New Year's day has been superseded largely in Anglo-Saxon countries by the giving of Christmas gifts, but the custom still is retained in France. This custom was one of the most ancient and universally observed of New Year's day. The drudgs distributed branches of the sacred mistletoe. The Roman emperors exacted gifts, and so did the English rulers down to the time of Cromwell. The world over on New Year's it is a custom to drink to the health of one's friends. The custom of making New Year resolutions and "turning over a new leaf" is universal and like political platforms, as is much honored in the breach as in the observance. But the temptation which surrounds frail human beings in this wicked world are many and insidious. TWIN CITY STAR APP N YE YEAR Dicky's New Year How He Came to Attend the Grown Folks' Party. DICKY sprawled ungracefully on the floor, and at times he bestowed a sly and naughty kick upon the unresisting legs of a chair that stood near him. His first impulse was to feel sorry for doing this, his second to look around and see if any one had noticed this little outburst of temper. It may be that the Christmas festivities of a few days before had been too much for him; but, whatever it was, Dicky was certainly cross and inclined to weep easily. However, neither his mother nor his Aunt Gertrude noticed how he kicked the chair nor the way he scowled upon the world in general from under his tawny curls. They were absorbed in their preparations for entertaining the guests of that evening, and for once Dicky was forgotten. "If I was going to have a party and invite all the people in the world I'd invite my own little boy, Dicky, too. I wouldn't leave him out," quoth Dicky out of the silence. "What's that?" asked his mother carelessly, absorbed in her own thoughts. "No, no, Dicky; this is a party for mother's and father's friends. You wouldn't enjoy it." "Oh, but I do want to come," persisted Dicky. "I've heard you all talking about it, and I want to see the new year come in the window." "What is the child talking about?" asked his aunt. "The new year. It's coming in the window, and I heard mother tell how you were all going to open it to welcome it in." replied Dicky, somewhat impatient at his aunt for not understanding so obvious a meaning. "Nothing will come in at the window, dear." said his mother gently. "It's just a pretty custom. There will not be anything for you to see. and you will be much happier upstairs in your nice warm bed." Dicky wept a little at the time, and when the hour came for bed under the stern eye of his father he rebelliously consented to be tucked in by his nurse, although not without further remonstrances. Finding them of no avail, he sobbed his woes into his pillow, while his father and mother went below to receive their guests. By making a brave resistance to the drowsiness that was stealing upon him Dicky managed to keep awake until the party had assembled in the parlor below. Then he crept out of bed and hung over the banisters, eagerly trying to catch sight of the brilliant people in the gathering. A man passed along the hall Dicky thought it might be his father and scampered back to bed again as fast as his little bare feet would carry him. And then without more ado he soon fell asleep. "the world forgetting, by the world forget." Downstairs the hours passed merrily, and the old year drew to a happy close. First there were only fifteen minutes of it left; then there were only ten. Finally the old year had but five short periods, counting sixty seconds each. to live. The men and women gathered together showed nothing of the solemnity that underlies the meriment of all such gatherings. Four minutes, three minutes, two minutes-ah! They turned from the windows in surprise to see Dicky standing in the doorway. He was not dressed for the party, and his little nightgown afforded scant protection against the drafts of the lower room. He was not expected at the party, either, and the expression on his father's face suggested that he was not even welcome there. These considerations might have disturbed an adult guest, but they mattered little to Dicky. He did not look or speak to any one. Ordinarily his father's sternness would have sent him with a headlong rush to the protection of his mother's arms. Turning neither to the right nor to the left, he went to the window, and, although his eyes were closed, his little hands unlocked the catch that fastened it and opened the great casements without a mistake or hesitation. His mother, choking back a cry, took a furred wrap and went to cover him. His father looked, half in fright, at his brother, who was standing near. "Be careful not to wake him suddenly," said Dr. Tom. "He's walking in his sleep!" He raised the child gently in his arms and held him in the full blaze of the great chandelier, but Dicky's closed eyelids never quivered as the light struck against them. When he opened his eyes he was amazed to find himself at the party after all, surrounded by men and women, who all said cheerfully, "A happy New Year to you, Dicky, dear!" He was too drowsy to frightened, but as his father carried him back to bed the child heard the great bells of the city calling out to him: "A happy New Year, Dicky, dear, and many of them!" --- --- The Old Year And the New WATCHED the old year fade, And with its dying light The gloom, at first a shade, Turned into darkest night. And I saw its gone The old year is no more. And memories now alone Linger along the shore." I watched the old year die, And with its fading day There came the thought that by its death a brighter way Opes up, and, all things bright, Welcomes the day. From specters as night. They'll live, but in the past. 1914 © 1914 THE OLD YEAR'S FLIGHT. I watched the old year's flight And then said, with a smile, "Ah, now the new year bright Will bide with us awhile!" But ere my hopeful dreams Have realised one day In dead and passed; it seems It starts but to decay. Thus all along the way Gravestones must mark the milies, An epitaph each day, And one of our many smiles. So we begin the new ("Tis old ere we've begun") To find it's aging, too, With the first setting sun. But 'twill not always be. There'll come a living day, And all things new, and we Shall live in endless May. No gravestones then will mark The tombs where dead hopes lie, No plough or grave the day Creep o'er our unpleasant sky. -James Daniel Cleaton. THE dawn is gray and chilly with the frost. Pass into shadow, silent, one by one. While from the night wherein we wander, lost. The new year rises with the rising sun Of seasons in their order, joy and pain- The old emotions playing upon strings That wax a little older, drawing near The final end of all remembered things Earth ages, and the very mountains nod With years, and we who crawu mourn their breast Pass to the sands' benign behest Hate the greed fails, lust crum- ble into clay. A New Year Proposal. "What resolutions have I vowed to keep the coming year? Come, sit beside me, maiden fair, and straightway you shall hear. I pledged myself to choose one girl from each gain throng so gay And love her with an honest love forever and for aye. "I'll work for her with brain and brawn, with all my might and main. Until you've won her everything that honestly can gain itself is done. I'll fill her life with all that's good till life itself is done. And while we train our minds and hearts we'll not neglect the fun "Now, tell me, won't you, maiden fair, what you have vowed to do? For I've laid bare my innest soul to no one but to you" "I've made no pledges," she replied in so demure a tone. "But if you don't object I'll try to help you. Keep me down." Dunbar Dunbar Vincent ENERGY OF W. H. STEWARD Work of a Pioneer Editor and Champion of His Race. Louisville, Ky.-Among the men who have worked their way up from obscurity to prominence by giving their time and talents to movements for the advancement of the race is William H. Steward of this city. Mr. Steward is the editor of the American Baptist, one of the oldest publications issued by our people in the United States. He is one of the best known men in Kentucky and wields a potent influence for good. Editor Steward belongs to what many are pleased to call the "old guard" in Afro-American journalism. Other men of this group who have been on the editorial firing line, like himself, for over a quarter of a century and some as long as thirty-one years are T. Thomas Fortune, who edited the New York Age for about twenty-seven years; Chris J. Perry, editor and owner of the Philadelphia Tribune; John H. Murphy, editor and proprietor of the Baltimore Afro-American Ledger and president of the National Negro Press association, and the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of the Cleveland (O.) Gazette. For thirty-five years Mr. Steward has been the active and capable general secretary of the General Baptist association of Kentucky, a position of much responsibility, which he still [Name] WILLIAM H. STEWARD. holds with great credit and satisfaction to those whom he serves. He is also the chairman of the trustee board of the state university in this city, of which William T. Auriger is president. He was the choice of hundreds of pastors and laymen a few years ago as their representative to England in the interest of religious work. On his return from abroad he delivered a series of lectures in which he gave interesting accounts of his trip. So popular were his lectures that he made a tour of the state, speaking in the larger cities and towns. It was while holding the position of secretary of the Afro-American council that Mr. Steward attracted state wide attention in the fight of the council against the jimcrow car bill, which came before the state legislature at that time. His life has been a useful one, and his efforts for the good of the race have been felt in many directions for racial betterment. AN ILLUSTRATED CALENDAR. National Benefit Association Issues Handouts and Expensive Date Book. The 1914 calendar of the National Benefit association in Washington is a thing of beauty. The illustrations are varied and timely, representing by photographs the progress of the race in business, education, medicine, law, religion and patriotism. The author of the composition says in describing the illustrated work: "The figure on the calendar which typifies that of advance in education is Professor Kelly Miller, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Howard university. Dr. Walter H. Brooks, who represents religion, has had a most successful pastorate at the great Nineteenth Street Baptist church for thirty-one years. In the law scene is Judge Robert H. Terrell, of the municipal court; Counsel James H. Hayes, a leader in the Progressive party movement; Hon. James A. Cobb, assistant district attorney, and Mr. Lawson, a court reporter. Surgery is represented by an actual operation being performed at Freedmen's hospital by Dr. W. A. Warfield, surgeon in chief; Dr. S. L. Carson, assistant and an interne. The soldier personifying the Negro of the army is, like ourselves, concerned in holding the flag of "Progress Upward." The picture denoting business is taken from the bookkeeping department of the association." New Book by Professor J. W. Cromwell. "The Negro In American History" is the title of a book written by Professor John W. Cromwell, principal of the Alexander Cromwell school and secretary of the American Negro academy in Washington. The purpose of the book, which will soon make its appearance, is to furnish the teacher with supplementary material to encourage the youth of the race to take greater interest in the affairs of government and especially the various movements for racial advancement. After giving a broad survey of the history of America, from its discovery and settlement through emancipation, the civil war and citizenship, the work includes detailed biographical sketches of eighteen colored men and women eminent in widely different fields of endeavor. DO YOU WANT TO BE WELL DRESSED? THEN I AM YOUR TAILOR. SUITS $25.00 OVERCOATS $25.00 Cleaning Pressing Cleaning Pressing Repairing CLIFFORD A. SMITH. 109 E. 8th ST., ST. PAUL, MINN. 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Unsigned notices wilt not be In ‘serted In these columns. ‘We are net responsible fer the Views ef our contributors, 4 BETTER PoLITiCe Gomething can be done by goed laws, more can be done by Renest administration of the laws, but most of all can be done ty frowning resolutely on the Preachers of vague discontent. Ia our political and social lite alike, tn order permanently to succeed, we must base our con- duct on the Decalogue and the Golden Rule Quack remedies of the universal cure-all type are generally as noxious to the body politic as to the body corporal. ‘We must do our duty by the state, We must frown down Gishonesty and corruption and war for bovesty and righteous- pess.—Theodore Roosevelt. A HAPPY NEW YEAR! MAKING FIGHT FOR JUSTICE. Recent Events Show Growing Resent- ment Against Race Segregation. ‘No man ever gave utterance to words fraught with more truth than those of Lincoln when he asserted “this repub- Me can not long endure half slave and half free.” And because of the belief in such a sentiment the colored people are making dignified protests through. ext the country against discrimination ‘em dctount of race and color. ‘The late Stewart L. Woodford said om one occasion while speaking at a Wterary society of Afro-Americans in Brooklyn in which he volced the sen- timents of his white fellow citizens, “We never freed the slaves until we had to, and we will never accord to them as free men all the rights and privileges which belong to them until we have to.” Crispus Attucks, credited as being the first to shed his blood in the Amer- fean Revolution, said to bis comrades when he saw the British troops ad- vaneing on Boston. “Strike at the root. for there Is the nest.” Mrs. A. W. Hunton at the Beecher centennial cele Beation in Brooklyn, Oct. 21, in the course of an able address on Beecher’s attitude toward freedom for the col- red race said that the colored people should fight color prejudice to death. ‘The open letter to President Wilson recently sent from the Constitutior Yeague, the Boston and Baltimore pro- test mass meetings are all indications of the growing spirit of resentment among colored Americans against in Justice tn all of its hideous forms. Always ts i faith t= someone or something that inspires us to lift our ‘werk above the commonplace. Re aR | Ss ANT eo beh cele Sie eka em Vighel Aba 2: aes, ce 4 rei ie ee i ake %& BB pty ‘ws N he) SS o\ Wi” ea es i Bs —_\ ~*~ : : ar) q * rh § rt Se pare) ee pd fe 4 MRS. CLARA B. HARDY. The writer of this story is Mrs. C. B. Hardy of 618 St. Anthony Ave., St. Paul, Minn., wife of Mr. W. R. Hardy, an employee on the C. P. Ry. Mrs. Hardy was born in Oberlin, O., and is a graduate of Oberlin College. She is a sister of Mrs. Wm. H. Talbert of Buffalo, N. Y., one of the leading women of the Federated Women's ‘Clubs. cr A SOUTHERN MAN'S SACRIFICE or; The Fate of a Mulatto Girl. “Pardon me! If you care to talk about the races—all right; but any other subject is entirely offensive to me.” ‘The speaker, a tall, beautiful girl with flashing eyes and burning cheeks, looked her tormentor squarely in the tace. He returned the look without a blush, “Well, I truly have made a mistake. I thought it would be all right to chat with a pretty girl Itke you—with emphasis on the “you"—but I suppose wonders will never cease.” It was a perfect day, the last race was finished amid the usual excite- ment; the last jockey had stepped off the scales, and the band was playing “Home Sweet Home.” Some men were scrambling to cash in their win- nings, while others made a rush for the motors or street cars. It was the winding up of the races, and still some seemed loath to leave the old scenes. Harry Leigh was a winner and as he sat in the box, and Deckoned to the colored waiter to bring him a mint julep—he had al- ready partaken of them so frequently, that the waiters all knew what he de- ‘sired by signal—he carefully rolled his cigarette, and sat in deep study. To think she would presume to put on airs with me—he, a gentleman of means and family, who had never known what it was to have a wish unfulfilled, when the very servants trembled at his voice. Yes, he was the spoiled son of a wealthy family who were fortunate in growing tobac- co. His mother, a proud southern beauty, spent her days in idleness. To be sure, she was always ready to secure the best tutors and instructors at the highest salaries, but as far as bother- ing her brains about the child's ad- vancement, was another subject. ‘The father, a shrewd Yankee, had lived only to make the fartune that was to return to the lowly and de- spised race, who had worked for wages that would make a just person blush with shame; but Mr. Leigh Teasoned and stilled his conscience thus: “They have a cabin, plenty of bacon and corn meal, two weeks to celebrate for Christmas until after the ‘New Year, and as long as no northern Negro puts any nonsense into their heads, they are happy and contented.” He had lived long enough to make the fortune he had planned and now would bufld a mansion that would be the envy of the natives, and spend the Test of life in ease and luxury. The old proverb, “Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee,” proved only too true, and returning home one bleak ofternoon with a chill, he was stricken with pneumonia, which proved fatal. Now only the widow and son were left, with the great fortune to squander between them. Harry sipped his mint julep and silently watched the grand stand empty of the crowd that had only a short while before been all noise and excitement. He was awakened from his reverie by the swish of skirts that passed his box; as he turned his head, he was aware of the presence of the beautiful: girl he had so recently of- fended. It she saw him, she never by look nor action made it known. Harry smiled to himself and made a vow he would not be outdone in his attempt to win her friendship; so when the waiter advanced with his check, he gave him @ generous tip, and as he was turning away, called him—"Say, George, who is the pretty girl that stood near the ladies’ waiting room?” “That, Sah, is Miss Marie Clark, Sah,” Foxy George, still fingering the gen- ‘ei: TWIN CITY STAR there was more to follow, hesitated be fofe giving any further information. “yes sah” (seeing no tip in aight) “she is what we ‘cullud’ folks eall nigh stepper, good blood, only uit fortunate in being classed with our race; but, Sah,” he added as a part- ing shot, “a finer, purer woman < stepped in shoe leather. If you new the insults and temptations she has to withstand—no offense to you, Mr. Leigh—from white brutes, it would make your blood boil. And why? She is a colored girl and strives to earn an honest living.” “Very well, George, you may go.” And Harry turned his pack, meaning the conversation was at an end. “Well, I gave him a sure ‘nuff hot shot,” chuckled George, as he care fully put the large bill in his’ vest pocket and went on his way, gather- ing up glasses. “Mother, dear, here I am at last” Mrs. Clark turned in her chair to re- celve the evening kiss, and to look into the beautiful eyes and face that always made sunshine, even on a dark day. “Why, darling, you look pale and tired; I'm so glad the races are over, and now you will be able to rest, and dear, I have . good news, no more races or hard work. Your uncle has concluded to let me have my rightfu share of the property, and now you will be able to finish your education.” “Oh! Mother, will I truly be able to continue my drawing and painting? My teacher said I could easily become a great artist by careful study and wanted to see some of my work that Thad at home; but I knew he would discover my nationality, if he came here, so I talked him out of the visit.” ‘Mrs. Clark looked sadly at her beau- tiful daughter as she made the last remark, knowing it meant expulsion from the art school if it were dis covered that Marie had Negro blood in her veins. Mrs. Clark was an octaroon with beautiful features and possessed all of the ladylike qualities to be found in any person of good blood. She had married a man equally of as good family, as fair as a Cau casian, educated and intelligent, -whc had chosen law as a profession. All seemed so well and prosperous and as they were quiet, unassuming. peo ple, they lived within their means, and were able to buy the lovely little cot tage in which they lived and maintain a general servant. Little Marie was their heart and only child, and thete plans had been to give her every ad- vantage in education, so when she was grown, she might look back with no regrets. All went well until her fourteenth year, when her father was suddenly called home to his last rest- ing place, and the widow was left to carry out his plans. After the first shock of grief, they settled down to the old way of living, Marie, continu- ing to remain in school. Mrs. Clark, thinking all was well in her financial attairs, contented herself with her household duties, and with the help of faithful black Mandy, lived economical ly. She had her dreams of the future, thinking how she and Marie would ge tar away and not have to bother about the hated ‘color line.” One day, the uncle, of whom we have made mention, came with some gentlemen to the little home. He had her sign some papers, the nature of which she was not fully aware until, when a few years after, Marie went to the bank to draw the usual allowance, she was informed that is was nearly all gone. ‘When Mrs. Clark found out the par- ticulars, she soon understood that she had been cheated out of the greater part of her little fortune. It was then, Marie determined to help in every way to lighten the burden; her mother also became ill and was an invalid for near: ly a year. Faithful Mandy was the help in the time of need and many times the tears would course down her cheeks as she prepared the daily meals, to see how sad her mistress and Marie would be; and often when she pounded the beaten biscuit, she wished it were the uncle that could feel the weight of her pestle in place of the dough. Mrs. Clark rang for tea, and as it was so pleasant, re quested Mandy to spread the table on the porch, and there, in the evening sunlight, with the sweet perfume of the honeysuckle, mother and daugh- ter enjoyed their evening repast. Mandy had added several extra good Chings, an she wie reteleiue over tam spare room which was always in readi- ness, and when they reached the house the bed wad turned down and they carefully laid him upon it. The doctor was summoned and after an examina- tion, found a fracture of the leg, also one arm was broken, He splintered and dressed his wounds, and after the vlood had been washed from his tace, he was surprised to find it was Mr. Harry Leigh. He gave orders to have him undressed and made as comfor- table as possible and sent a messenger to his mother. Marle entered the room when all was quiet and when she turned to look at the man, was sur- prised to recognize the face, as that of the same person who had annoyed her so, that very afternoon. She turned away and was about to leave the room when a slight moan caused her to retrace her steps. “Where am I,” he asked in a be- wildered way. She told him to keep quiet and not talk, as he had met with an aceldent and would probably be in bed for a while. As the opiate the doctor had given him was now be- sinning to take effect, he soon fell asleep. Mrs. Lelgh arrived shortly after, and was greatly excited. She requested to have him removed * at once, but the doctor would not consent, so she concluded to make the best of the, clreumstances, and seeing that everything was as comfortable and cory as one could desire, she drew a breath of relief and was thankful that matters were not any worse. Mandy in spotless apron and bandan- na had taken Ker place by the sufferer. Mrs, Clark assured Mrs, Leigh that she could not find a better nurse in all the country. The first week was try. {ing to the patient and he was in too much pain to notice his surroundings ‘As he was of a good robust constitu tion, he soon began to get strong, and was able to be removed to his home. He was grateful to Mrs. Clark for her hospitality and was anxious to make a handsome settlement for his stay in her home, but Mrs. Clark would not ae- cept anything, and told him she had not done anything worth mentioning under the circumstances. Some weeks later, Harry was in his Ubrary trying to content himself by reading; he finally threw his book on the table in disgust. “It's no use. 1 cannot see any difference. I'm actually in love with a colored girl. I suppose mother would have me drawn and quartered if she suspected such a thing; but as I am of age and my own master, I will not consult her. She Was" always allowed me my own way since I can remember, and now as it is an affair of my heart, I defy anyone to choose my companion, for after all fare we not all relatives under the skin?” ‘Thus reasoning he rang, the bell and gave orders for his car to be brought to the house, and he was soon on his way to Mrs, Clarks. Mandy answered the door-bell and was very glad to see her former pa. tlent. He was seated in the living room and as Mrs. Clark expected him to simply make a short call—he was so grateful for her treatment concern: ing him, she shook hands and asked him a few stmbple questions. Harry seemed perfectly at home, and finally asked for Marle. Mrs Clark became very distant and replied that she was out. ‘Then Harry made the object of his visit very plain. He told her of his feeling for Marle, how she had spurned him at the races, and how ft had made him determined to win her at all haszards; how as a southern gentleman, he felt he could possess her for the mere asking, but she had taught him a lesson, that was hard for a white man to believe, that all nationalities were alike. Mrs. Clark seemed turned to stone and told him he was beside himself and furthermore his mother would never consent under the existing cir- cumstances. But he told her he had reasoned the whole matter out and had Intended to change his residence and g0 abroad and live with the only one woman he felt he'sincerely needed and desired. Well, it was only for Marle to decide. When Marie returned, ‘her mother called her and the matter was fully explained. 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Ninth Street in Little Rock, Ark, {s a great Negro business street, near ly every kind of business conducted by colored men and women can be found on Ninth Street in the vicin- ity of the new Mosaic Temple. Every store room in this temple is now oc eupled with colored business enter. prise. ‘The deposits of the Solvent Savings Bank, @ colored bank in Memphis, Tenn., have reached and passed the $140,000 mark. It is regarded as one of the safest banks in Memphis, Defective Page