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DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL Defective Page VOL. 5 Single Copies 5 Cents School Children Vault Knitting Mill. The Ocala Knitting mill, an enterprise owned by colored men of Ocala, Fla., has been put into operation. The factory has a daily capacity of sixty dozen garments and will employ about twenty-five persons. Following the installing of the machinery all the school children of the city, both white and colored, were taken through the building and shown how garments are made. George Giles is president. Growth of Well Known Secret Order. The growth in numbers and influence for good of the Knights and Daughters of Taber, international order of Twelve in the far west, is attracting much interest in secret circles. A grand temple and tabernacle of the order will be set apart at Los Angeles on Tuesday evening, June 22, with a large membership. Florida Clubwomen Meet at Palatka. The Florida State Federation of Women's Clubs held its annual meeting at Palatka, Fla., from June 14 to 17, inclusive, with a large attendance. The reports of the various clubs connected with the central organization were encouraging. Mrs. Emma J. Collier of Orlando, Fla., president of the federation, presided. FOREIGNER VISITS DUNBAR LYCEUM J. P. Santamarina of Argentina Makes Learned Speech. Discusses the Race Question in America, Which He Says Has Always Been Misunderstood—Calls Negro People a Valiant Race—Thinks Our Progress is Wonderful. New York.—The Dunbary leyceum in this city, though young as a literary organization, is rendering the public excellent service. The meetings of the leyceum are interesting and conducted with a view of informing the public on topics of moment which concern our people in particular and the public generally. One of the ablest speakers to address the society recently was Senor J. P. Santamarina of the Argentine republic, who spoke on the race question in America. Senor Santamarina in part said: I do not know how to express my deep felt gratitude and appreciation for your reception to be with you here this evening is indeed a special pleasure, and I beg of you to understand that when I am in full sympathy with your race in America, I do not wish you to understand that I am here to advocate or provoke any hard feelings. I am here only to bring you a message from your brethren in South America. The academic gown represents, as you will know, the highest degree, the highest rank. It is, indeed, a robe of justice; therefore nothing but the truth should be spoken. I have come to you this evening with a word of consolation, a word from your worthy race in South America. I am not here to tell of the injustices done you in your gone by. I am here to lay before you the moment of your valiant race. Should we base our arguments on religious faith only we might as well say Amen and go home. But those who are willing to go beyond the limits of the inborn faith that we possess, those who trust in human science, are not the ones of the Negro race is not the curse of the earth, but the product of earthly evolution, the very same product as we white people are, of course, with some distinction of the anthropological features; and, again, basing our faith entirely on the diadiction of the creation, we have been told that we can conceive of shall be dust when we re-enter the avenues of organic evolution. As a child I often asked myself, Where do the Negroes come from? And it was only through long years of study that I was able to learn the logical origin of the dark skinned races. I learned, of course, that the Negroids had been born under certain and different environments from those of the white man. It is known to all that the various Negro races of Africa are born in inter and subtropical climates, where it was not given to the white man to fight the heat of the sun to the same advantage as the colored people. This is because the Negroes have been favored with such skin which with ease could withstand the ultra violet rays of the sun. The enormous and amazing race struggle in America has always been based upon a very gross misunderstanding, and I feel certain that as soon as the white child takes the necessary pains to study the human body, the tilt of the colored people all resentment and friction heretofore experienced to a great measure will gradually disappear in the western hemisphere to the mutual advantage of all concerned. If a white child is born blind and also a black child is thus born, the white child would not distinguish the color of the white child, haps the black child would be able to distinguish the color of the white child because the former has a rare acuteness of vision which the white child does not possess. If you have tonight were all color blind you would most likely take the speaker to be a Negro, simply because I am speaking in the center (Laughter and applause). But your sense of acute vision would soon make you realize the fact that I am white. Nature has also given the white man a most wonderful sense of hearing and also a most remarkable sense of cognition. In the latter case, many others the Negroes are in a sense superior to the average white man. According to the study of anthropology, or the science of mankind, as related to animal life, we find that there is a great variety of Negroes in Africa, India and other countries. In the latter case to a certain extent called inferior their physical and moral environments are entirely to blame. It has been my personal observation and it has also been established as a scientific fact that the Negro child has an age of about 12 years, age perhaps surpassing the white child, but, due to the anatomical environments of the aboriginal race, the physical development of the mentality has, in certain regions, been lacking, but not so in other regions, and in certain measure been allowed, even though with a restricted liberty of expansion, to develop, and they have developed an extraordinary mental capacity. If we should incarcerate or put in jail a white man from his childhood he would be freed from a certain period of years he would, no doubt, show signs of a depressed brain as a result of his oppression. If the former generation of the Negro race in America has shown any lack of mental power it has been due to a similar oppres- VIRGINIA C. WALKER BUSINESS WOMAN TO MAKE LENGTHY FAR WEST TOUR Activities of Mme. C. J. Walker Noted Along Many Useful Lines. Among the well known and successful business women scheduled to speak at the sessions of the New England Baptist missionary convention being held at the Mount Olivet Baptist church in New York from 15 to 21, is Mme. C. J. Walker of Indianapolis, Ind. While in New York she is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Lelia Walker Robinson, at 108 West One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street. Mme. Walker has done much to encourage and help the women of our race to establish and maintain business enterprises of their own. In this respect she is a pioneer. Her philanthropic and charitable work extends along many lines of uplift. Besides the large amounts which she contributes yearly to charitable objects her gifts in other directions within the past four years run up into thousands of dollars. She is naturally very modest, but we feel that the public should know something of what is being done by individual members of the race toward the support of our educational institutions and other enterprises conducted by our people. While her daughter, Mrs. Lelia Walker Robinson was in Indianapolis in May, Mme. Walker took her on a motoring tour which included Xenia, Wilberforce, Dayton and Springfield, O. In each of the above named towns this noted business woman and her daughter, who is in charge of her New York office, were the recipients of much social attention and many business engagements. Less than a year ago Mme. Walker bought the beautiful homestead and estate of the late Bishop William B. Derrick at Flushing, N. Y. After making suitable alterations in the residence and other parts of the estate for home comforts and business purposes she may make Flushing her permanent home. On her return to Indianapolis the latter part of this month Mme. Walker will prepare for a three months tour of the far west, starting early in July for San Francisco, where she will visit the great exposition. En route home she will visit Seattle, Manitoba, Yellowstone park, the Royal gorge and Denver, Colo. She will be accompanied on the tour by her assistant, Miss Alice P. Kelley. MINNEAPOLIS, MNN. JUNE 19, 1915. Religious Corporation Organized Thirty-seven Years Ago Continues Its Good Work For God and Humanity. Increase Noted Along All Lines. Brilliant Anniversary Exercises. New York.—The recent celebration of the thirty-seventh anniversary of the founding of the Mount Olivet Baptist church in this city, and the fourth anniversary of the Rev. William P. Hayes as its minister, was an occasion of much interest. A thrill of joy and good fellowship pervaded the membership of all the church organizations. The literary program and period of spiritual devotion centered in the church, Sunday school and Young People's union. The anniversary sermon of the church was preached by the Rev. Dr. Charles T. Walker of Augusta, Ga., and the anniversary sermon of the minister was delivered by the Rev. William A. Creditt, LL. D., of Philadelphia. The attendance at each service more than filled the seating capacity of the church auditorium. At the Sunday school's exercises Superintendent Wesley Norman presided and also read a brief history of the school in which he gave the names of many of the former superintendents. The address to the school was delivered by N. B. Dodson, president of the New England Baptist Sunday school convention. The speakers for the Young People's union were Charles C. Allison, Jr., and Mildred Stephens. The Mount Olivet Baptist church was organized in the meeting house at 165 West Twenty-sixth street, March 10, 1878, the Fifth Avenue Baptist REV. WILLIAM P. HAYES, D. D. church, of which the noted Dr. Thomas Armitage was then pastor, playing the leading part in its organization. The membership at the time of its organization consisted of twenty-one persons who had secured letters from churches in Virginia for the purpose of constituting the Mount Olivet Baptist church. On May 80, 1878, a council was called for the double purpose of recognizing the church and ordaining the Rev. D. W. Wisher to the Christian /ministry. He served the church twenty-one years. The Rev. Charles T. Walker, who preached the anniversary sermon, was the second minister to serve this church. His ministry covered a period of four years. The third minister was the Rev. Matthew W. Gilbert, who served for six years. He was succeeded by the present minister, the Rev. William P. Hayes, who took charge on May 5, 1911. Thus during a period of nearly forty years the church has had four capable ministers. As a preacher and leader in religious work Dr. Hayes looms up high in the forefront of the denomination. The financial and numerical record of the church from May, 1911, when Dr. Hayes began his ministry here. to May, 1915, is as follows: Money collected for all purposes during the four years ending with May, 1915, amounts to $42,779.50 without any income or any investment of any kind. The church is supported solely by voluntary contributions from its members and friends. In May, 1911, the record showed an enrollment of 911 members. The membership at the end of May, 1915, numbers 1,900. During the four years of Dr. Hayes' ministry at the Mount Olivet church he has officiated at 110 marriages, preach ed the funeral sermon over the remains of 195 persons, delivered 556 addresses and personally-visited 926 sick persons. The average attendance upon the services of the church is splendid notwithstanding the fact that our people are constantly moving from the downtown section of the city to Harlem. Peace has reigned in Mount Olivet during the four years of Dr. Hayes ministry. Realizing the harmful effects of factionalism, this minister has at all times counseled unity of thought and action, and the church has responded beautifully—not merely because it is good policy, but also because it has been found to be in perfect accord with the teachings of Scripture. The New England Baptist missionary convention holds its annual meeting at the Mount Olivet church from June 15 to 21, inclusive. THE HARRISON RECITALS. Prof. Richard B. Harrison, the noted tragedian and entertainer, appeared this week in the Twin Cities in repertoire. He showed his remarkable versatility and rare talent by his interpretation of Shakespearian plays and humorous selections. He spent Monday evening at St. Peter's A. M. E. Church, St. Paul, and completely captivated his hearers. His first appearance in Minneapolis was at St. Peter A. M. E. Church on Wednesday eve. He read from "Merchant of Venice," and "Julius Caesar" with fillings from Dunbar. He drew a large crowd. In spite of bad weather, there were many to hear him Thursday evening in "Macbeth." Mr. Harrison one of the best American tragedians in "Macbeth". He has made a thorough study of this character, and his brief explanations and dramatic interpretations, with such forceful rendition, are the means, by which he charms his listeners. By special request he appeared in "Damon and Pythias" on Friday evening—another large success. He will return again in the near future to have a week with Shakespeare and Dunbar in this city. He was a personal friend of the lamented Negro poet and without doubt presents his works in true Dunbar style. Mr. Harrison's recital was a social and literary treat, highly instructive and entertaining, and he is much impressed with the culture and refinement of his audiences. WOMEN'S STATE FEDERATION Call for Tenth Annual Convention at St. Paul, June 23rd and 24th. The Tenth Annual Convention of the Afro-American Women's State Federation will convene Wednesday and Thursday, June 23rd and 24th, in the assembly room at the Old State Capitol, St. Paul. Sessions will be held mornings, afternoons and evenings, to which the public is cordially invited. The annual board meeting will be held the evening prior to the convention. Mattie R. Hicks, State Pres. Hilda Kennedy, Secy. Alpine Choral and Dramatic Society. The most recent musical organization formed in Pittsburgh is known as the Alpine Choral and Dramatic society. It has over twenty-five members, nearly all students or graduates of the various high schools, colleges and conservatories of music in Pittsburgh. The society made its first public appearance at a musical given at the Bethel A. M. E. church on Thursday evening, June 17. Among its members are such well known persons of musical ability and education as Miss Jennie Patterson, Miss Helen Pryor, Miss Mary V. Turner, James Marshall. O. Wilbert Daniels and William Marshall. The musical was held under the auspices of the junior stewardesses of Bethel church. Ohio Knights of Pythias Are Active. Members of local lodges, Knights of Pythias, throughout the state of Ohio are making preparations for the meeting of the supreme lodge encampment to be held in Columbus in August. The uniform rank has already commenced drill practice, as the contest for the prize at the coming meeting will be the most exacting in every detail of any yet scheduled by the state grand lodge at an encampment. Hint to Talkers. Don't put too much "con" in "con- versation" lest your friend put in the "shun."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Smoke the Reliable SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR sc. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS MEETS THOUSANDS IN ATTENDANCE Tenth Annual Gathering of Influential National Body Has Many Notable Features—The A. F. Boy Cadets and National Baptist Band Receive Big Ovation In Street Parade. Birmingham, Ala.—Five thousand people witnessed the opening of the tenth annual session of the Sunday school congress, which was called to order in the Sixteenth Street Baptist church, this city, on Wednesday, June 9, by Rev. C. H. Clark, D. D., of Nashville, Tenn., chairman of the congress. The formal opening took place in the afternoon, while Birmingham's welcome and cordial reception were given at night in the presence of an audience that filled to overflowing the spacious edifice. Never in the history of the city has the religious fervor reached such a high degree as was evidenced beginning on June 9, when the first special trains began to arrive. In the language of some on the streets, "the pot boiled over" today when special after special pulled in, all of which were met by cheering crowds and enthusiastic workers bedecked in the Sunday school congress uniform, white congress cap with black visor, wearing badges and carrying pennants, representing some of the organized classes or worded "Sunday School Congress." The finishing touches for the demonstration came when the Sunday school congress special arrived at the Union station. The entire local committee, known as the central committee, which is composed of the Baptist ministers' conference of Jefferson county and Greater Birmingham, with the 300 singers, making up a mammoth chorus, two brass bands and a waiting public thronged the station to greet the arrival of the congress special. Magnificent in its appearance was the personnel making up the parade which marched from the station to the church. The National A. F. boy cadets attracted the most attention. Soldierly looking in their bearing, they went through the streets to the tune of "Hall the Baptist Congress," played by the National Baptist band of Nashville, which escorted the delegation. Great is the Sunday school congress and valiant are the workers of the plan for building front line Sunday schools was Birmingham's verdict as enunciated by the various welcomes extended in the formal opening at the church. Distinguished citizens and prominent churchmen participated in the local program which virtually turned the keys of the "Queen City" of the southland over for the five remaining days which were devoted, according to the congress secretary, Henry Allen Boyd, to a school of methods, with general sessions in the forenoon and departmental meetings in the afternoon. These departments are under the supervision of able conductors selected from various states in the Union. At the general sessions there were twelve topics discussed, but on some of these subjects fully 100 persons spoke. Not over ten minutes was given to any speaker to deliver his paper or speech, and not over three minutes were allowed for open discussion. The key to the congress, declare the officials, is the Bible conference, which opened every morning for one hour and a half for the careful study of the Bible by subjects and topics. Every delegate at the congress was requested to come to the conference with Bible in hand. Every Sunday school worker, old or young, big or little, man or woman, who came with a message was heard. This was the great desire of the Rev. H. R. Boyd, D. D., the director of this host that captured Birmingham. There was a Metoka and Galeda night, devoted entirely to the demonstration of the organized class effort in Sunday schools. Following this there was a boy cadet night. The taking of San Juan hill was graphically and picturesquely portrayed by the members of the A. F. boy cadets throughout the United States, representatives of which were here in the second annual encampment. Dunbar hotel was transformed into barracks. The tap of the drum and the sound of the bugle, with the steady marching feet of many boys, brought military discipline under religious influence and leadership. The literary entertainment given showed the talent that makes up the No.28 Sunday schools throughout the country. Glee clubs, quartets, singing associations, elocutionists, able divines and musicians of note from the United States at large appeared on the program. Sunday, June 13, put the religious idea in the forefront. Model and modern Sunday school sessions were conducted in seventy-two Baptist churches throughout Birmingham by workers sent to take charge of these schools from the congress. The mammoth street parade had nearly 5,000 in line. The parade formed at the Sixteenth Street Baptist church and marched through the busy section of Birmingham on the north side to the congested section on the south side, where the mass meeting was held at the Sixth Avenue Baptist church. The sessions closed Monday, June 14. MRS. MARY MOSELY WITHERS. Graduates from "The Johnson School of Music, Oratory and Dramatic Art. Mrs. Withers, wife of the Rev. M. W. Withers, and daughter of an upright Christian mother, Mrs. Vesta Glanton of Chicago graduated with a class of eleven from "The Johnson School of Music, Oratory and Dramatic Art," on Tuesday evening, June 15th. The Minneapolis Tribune, spoke of Mrs. Withers as having delighted her audience with a selection from Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Also of being the only colored in the class, and the only colored graduate in the history of the school in Oratory. She was programmed to give a scene from Shakespeare's,"As You Like It;" but by special request, read from Dunbar, which evoked an enthusiastic encore, from the entire audience. At the early age of seventeen, Mrs. Withers, then Miss Moseley, won the Elocutionist's degree, by her scholarly interpretation, vivid imagination and warmth of manner, at the A. & M. College, Huntsville, Ala., by Prof. W. H. Councill, President, and was made teacher of same. Later, on returning to her home, in Chicago, she pursued the Teacher's Course in Elocution, at the Columbia College of Expression, and received an excellent recommendation and certificate, therefrom. The President of this College, says she is one, who cannot be excelled as a teacher of expression. Dr. A. C. Albright, white, former Prof. of the Chair of Expression Harvard, University, says he has never seen Mrs. Withers excelled in the renditions of Longfellow. Prof. G. G. Daniel, D. D., South America's foremost colored educator of Languages, Mental and Moral Philosophy, speaks of Mrs. Withers as an adept in her art of religious, pathetic and patriotic readings, besides possessing the culture and refinement of a young leader of our race. Mrs Withers taught with Prof. Daniels at Payne University, Selma, Ala., 1911. She now holds a diploma from the Johnson School of Oratory, having completed a two year course, in one year. About the last of this month, or first of next, Mme. Maud Moore, of The Johanson School of Oratory, will present Mrs. Withers to the public, in a four act, dramatic tragic reading, "Judith of Bethulia,"—taken from the Bible. Mrs. Withers has planned for the near future, an extensive public career. Miss Edith Stone, aged 11, was the honor graduate of her class at Whitier School. She held the honor seat during entire term. Miss Stone will enter High School next year, taking a course in Domestic Science. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Noah C. Stone of Grand Ave. READ THE STAR-IT'S NEWS HERE WE ARE AGAIN! FUN FOR ALL WE ARE GIVING ONE OF OUR OLD-FASHIONED BARBECUES and LAWN PARTIES PLENTY OF MUSIC—SO GET IN LINE—IT HAS BEEN 25 YEARS SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN TO ONE OF THESE PARTIES BALL TEAMS, HORSESHOE PITCHING AND LOTS OF FISHING AND BOATING THE JOLLY RULER'S BIG OUTING PARTY at WINNETKA, MINN., SUNDAY, JUNE 20th Via THE LUCE LINE 2nd AVE. NORTH AND 7th STREET, MINNEAPOLIS. YOU CAN HAVE A JITNEY OR BUS IF YOU LIKE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS LEE WHEELER, JUNIUS DUNGEE, DAVID GARNER, Wm. E. McMULLEN. TRAINS EVERY HOUR. TICKETS WILL BE 20c EACH ADMISSION TO THE GROUNDS 25c. Send your notes to us by Wednesday A. M. Bring your printing to the Twin City Star Print, 305 So. 5th St. SUBSCRIBE NOW Leave your subscription at our office Third floor, 305 Fifth St. So. To Subscribe Is To Pay. Your special attention is called to the Announcement of The Standard Clothing Co., in this publication. Patronize those business houses, who request your patronage through your paper. What have you done to aid this publication? We are often called on to insert notices of those who "never subscribe to Negro papers." Are you guilty? Subscribe to your local weekly paper—The Twin City Star is the only legal Negro newspaper in Minneapolis and it has received the support of the general public. We need more subscribers—to make a better paper. Send your subscription now. We solicit short opinions on general topics. It is peculiar that our people have no public opinions, everything is strictly confidential. Remember, we said, "Short opinions." THE EPISCOPAL PICNIC. The Mens' Club of St. Phillips Episcopal Church will give their Annual Picnic at Spring Park on July 8th. Remember the date.—See Adv. We would appreciate what you owe us, or a part of it, Mr. Delinquent Subscriber. Mr. Roscoe Lewis was ordained as a deacon of Bethesda Baptist Church last Sunday by Rev. T. J. Carter. ICE CREAM SOCIAL The Ladies of the Parish Aid of St. Thomas Episcopal Church will give an Ice Cream Social on Wednesday Evening, June 30th, at the residence of Mrs. M. Gray, 2819 Chicago Ave. St. Peter's A. M. E. Monitor is a neat publication by Rev. Stovall, containing much church and local news. Mr. Chas. J. Brown of 2835 Chicago Ave., is improving from his recent illness. Mr. Brown is employed at White and McNaught's Jewellers, as stock and shipping clerk, where he contracted poison while handling silver. His many friends are glad to hear if his improvement. Mr. Rufus Skinner, recently graduated from the Minneapolis Law School was entertained at luncheon Monday afternoon by Mr. and Mrs. Al. Moss, 2837 2nd Ave. So. Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Price, 2814 10th Ave. So. entertained this week in his honor. Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Davis have moved to 716 Bryant Ave. No. Miss Joyce Dorsey left Wednesday for Kansas City to visit relatives. Mrs. Leona Giles, 2943 Pillsbury Ave., is one of the experienced ladies' tailors of our city, who has a large patronage. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Jones, of 4th St. No. have moved to 2900 Portland Ave. Mrs. Z. A. Pope is spending the summer at Wildwood. Master John Goodbar Jr., has returned to his father at La Crosse, after a visit with his aunts. Miss Melvina Chandler has accepted a position as stenographer and typist in the office of Atty. B. S. Smith. The reception in honor of the wedding of Mr. James Lane and Miss Helen Rice was held at her mother's residence on Wednesday eve. Mr. Lane was unable to be present, his train being delayed. The friends of the prospective bride enjoyed themselves and Miss Helen met the awkward situation without apparent embarrassment. She is one of the most refined and respected young ladies of whom every one speaks in highest praise. Mr. Lane will arrive later and the wedding will be solemnized. I Tell You Folks You are missing don't have in DYER PLAYER You are missing it badly if you don't have in your home a You have no idea the amount of pleasure it will give you, and as it can be played either by hand or by means of music rolls, your children's piano learning can be continued just the same. .. .. .. GO TO METROPOLITAN 41-43 SOUTH and get one to ments may GO TO THE METROPOLITAN MUSIC CO. 41-43 SOUTH SIXTH STREET and get one today. Easy payments may be arranged Masons Celebrate St. John's Day. The Annual Sermon of Anchor-Hilyard Lodge, A. F. and A. M. will be preached on June 20th, at St. Peter Church, by Rev. T. B. Stovall, pastor, at 3 o'clock P. M. Music by St. Peter Choir. "Woman—A Great Factor" will be the subject of the sermon by Rev. Stovall on June 20th at 7:45 P. M., at St. Peter A. M. E. Church. The occasion will be the "Stewardesses Evening." Mrs. M. W. Withers will recite at Zion Baptist Church on June 30. Come! and hear her. St. Peter's New Parsonage. Two buildings, 2205 and 2207 Elliot Ave. So., have been purchased by the trustees of St. Peter A. M. E. Church. Rev. Stovall resides at 2205 and 2207 will be rented. When You Change When you change your address, notify your postman, or drop a slip containing your name, new and old addresses, in the mail (without postage) and you will get your newspaper and other mail forwarded to you. WAITERS' CLUB BANQUET The Porters' and Waiters' Club was formally opened on Wednesday evening, under re-organization new management. In response to invitations received many members assembled at the club rooms, 311 Hennepin Ave., to celebrate the occasion. A spread, consisting of cold turkey, ham, potato salad, celery etc., was prepared and served in abundance by Mr. W. E. McMullen. A delicious punch was served. Music was furnished by a selected orchestra and Billy Black's Serenaders. Encouraging remarks were made by Hon. W. R. Morris and Hon. Wm T. Francis, and M. I. Welborn. The guest of the evening, Prof. Richard B. Harrison was introduced by Editor Smith. He rendered an appropriate selection. Judge Johnson acted as toastmaster. Pres. Glover Shull was highly complimented on his effort toward reorganization and thanked for his hospitality. His popularity has increased since he has decided to make the club a more desirable place for proper amusement and accomodation. He will re-furnish and decorate the club rooms and the Porters' and Waiters' Club will remain on Hennepin Ave. for men only, despite the efforts of conspirators of our race to have it moved. The Jolly Ruler's Outing was postponed to June 20th on account of in- clement weather. ARE AGAIN! FOR ALL IF OUR OLD-FASHIONED LAWN PARTIES T IN LINE.—IT HAS BEEN HAVE BEEN TO ONE PARTIES PITCHING AND LOTS OF BOATING BIG OUTING PARTY at SUNDAY, JUNE 20th it badly if you your home a BRO'S R PIANO TO THE N MUSIC CO. SIXTH STREET today. Easy pay- be arranged ST. PAUL NOTES. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. Cedar Street and Summit Avenue, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA. Rev. Benjamin N. Murrell, Pastor SUNDAY SERVICES 11:00 A. M. Preaching. 11:00 A. M. Preaching. 12:30 P. M. Sunday School. G. W. Willis, Supt. 6:45 P. M. B Y. P. U. Mrs. Frances M. Murrell, Pres. 8:00 P. M. Preaching. FRIDAY NIGHTS. 7:00 P. M. Junior Choir Rehearsals. 8:30 P. M. Senior Choir Rehearsals. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Johnson, 281 Rondo St., spent two months on a western trip, visiting the Exposition and coast cities. Miss Alberta Phillips, niece of Mr. Seymour Moore, Miss Grace Vassar, and Ruth Charleston, graduated from Central High School in St. Paul on June 16th. They attended a banquet after the exercises at the school. Chef Seymour Moore, of the Soo Line will attend the Columbus Encampment of the K. P.'s, and visit friends at intermediate points as usual. MISS MAUD WANZERS RECITAL Miss Maud Wanzer will appear in recital at Dyer's Recital Hall, 27 E. 5th St., St. Paul, on Monday Eve, June 21, at 8 P. M., assisted by Mrs. Harriet Loomis-Oliver. Admission 25c. Mrs. Julia Hinson of the St. Louis kitchen has moved to 266 St. Anthony Ave. St. Paul. "THANN" TRAVIS' NEW HOTEL. Popular Proprietor of St. Paul Cafe and Bar. Mr. "Thann" Travis is now the sole proprietor of the hotel and bar at 122 E. Third St., St. Paul, formerly "Curley's Place." He has thoroughly renovated the hotel and cafe. A special midnight lunch is served in the cafe up stairs, best music, good entertainer. Desirable rooms and a choice line of fine liquors and cigars always in stock. Rates for theatrical people, lodges, theatre parties etc. Two blocks from Union Station. "Thann" invites you to stop in to and from the Boat Excursions, and Depot. See Adv. in another column. OUR NEW LOCATION. The office of the Twin City Star is located at 305 So. 5th Street, Minneapolis, 3rd floor with the Nygren Printing Co., over Smith's Sash and Door office. We will be pleased to receive all matter for publication before Wednesday of each week. A Legal Query. Tired of the long winded oratory of the attorney for the defense, the judge interrupted him. "Mr. Sharke," he said, "may I ask you a question?" "Certainly, your honor. What is the question?" "Language," said the judge, "we are told, is given to conceal thought or words to that effect. Inasmuch as you don't seem to have any thought to conceal, I would like to know why you are talking?" Send Your Subscription TWIN CITY STAR THE SEASO PLEASE BE Men's Epic OF ST. PHILIPS CHURCH FOURTH PICNIC A SPRING THE SEASONS EVENT! THURSDAY, THURSDAY, JULY 8TH, 1915 Men's 100 Yard Dash Potato Race Fat Men's Race Ladies' 100 Yard Dash Sack Race Fat Women's Race Music by McCul Dancing from 3:00 Trains leave Union Depot, S 4:30 Trains leave Union Depot, Min 5:00 Returning trains at BUY YOUR TICKET Round trip tickets, Adults COMMITTEE O Clarence L. S John La Coste F. D. M Ira S. Ashe W. A. B N. B. The management reserves desirable persons to the pavilion. PRIEST REV. THOS. B. STOVALL. Rev. Thos. B. Stovall, the progressive pastor of St. Peter A. M. E. Church, Minneapolis, is rapidly building up a large congregation. His services arewell attended, and he is looking forward to the purchase of a parsonage and has made arrangements to renovate the church building. Rev. Stovall is a thorough race man, a fighter against segregation and discrimination, a believer in the cooperation of the races. "Get together" is his watchword, and with his efficient co-workers, he hopes to rally the many friends of St. Peter's Church to financially aid him in the execution of his well laid plans. NEW PALACE RESTAURANT. Mrs. L. V. Wellington, a former trained nurse, has opened the New Palace Restaurant at 138 E. Third St., St. Paul. First Class a la Carte Service for Ladies and Gentlemen. Boiled Dinners Daily. Sunday Dinner: Chicken and Dumplings 25c. Party Service solicited. Phone Jackson 510. —Advertisement. Atty. William T. Francis has moved to Suite 329 in the American National Bank Building, Cedar and Fifth Sts., St. Paul. The Elks have announced a contest. The most popular lady will get a trip to Chicago, all expenses paid. Several ladies have entered. Votes are a nickel apiece. ORDER OF EASTERN STAR The following officers were elected at the 8th Annual Session of Electa Grand Chapter. Order of Eastern Star on May 18th 21 at Masonic Hall, Minneapolis. G. W. M., Ruth B. Bright. G. W. P., John L. Brooks. G. A. M. Mrs. Mulligan. G. Treas. Maud Wilkinson. G. Sec'y. Mary F. Bland. G. A. P. John Sellars. G. Cond. Addie French. G. A. Cond. Ella Grant. READ THE STAR-IT'S NEWS --- LAKE MINNETONKA BASE BALL GAME SAINT PAUL vs. MINNEAPOLIS Prizes for Winners of All Events GOOD FISHING JULY 8TH, 1915 C PROGRAM Brough's Orchestra 10 P. M. to 8:30 P. M. St. Paul, at 8:45 A. M.; 1:25 and P. M. Cineapolis, at 9:25 A. M.; 2:00 and P. M. 4:57 and 9:30 P. M. ATS AT UNION DEPOTS 165 cents; Children 40 cents MF MANAGEMENT Smith, Chairman McCracken Allen French Benjamin Firston White the right to refuse admission of un- REV. MURRELL AT BETHESDA. Preaches an Eloquent and Logical Sermon. Rev. B. N. Murrell of Pilgrim Baptist Church, St. Paul, preached at Bethesda Baptist Church last Sunday afternoon. The occasion was the closing of the pastorate of Rev. T. J. Carter, pastor of Bethesda. Rev. Murrell in reference to Rev. Carter made a brief statement. He spoke of him as being "clean cut and refined, possessing a becoming degree of Christian modesty." He regretted very much to lose his companionship in the Twin Cities. Rev. Murrell also paid a high compliment to his own congregation, as being "appreciative of service and very susceptible to leadership." His subject was "A Declaration of Religious Experience." Psalms 66, 16 vs. Come and Hearl all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he has done for my soul. Rev. Murrell dwelt at length on the principles and evidences of true religion—the inward realizations and outward expressions of Divine Grace. His discourse was very instructive and he held the attention of his hearers. Revs. E. A. Edwards, M. W. Withers and T. B. Stovall occupied seats on the pulpit, and assisted in the service. The visit of Rev. Murrell was most welcome, and he promised to come to Minneapolis very often. He extended a broad invitation to everyone to attend his services. Rev. Murrell is the new pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church, St. Paul, formerly of Peoria, Ill. He is "making good" in his new field and sees a great future for the people of the Twin Cities along all lines of advance. CHOICE CITY AND SUBURBAN PROPERTY FOR SALE ON SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS. B. M. McDEW, 802 Sykes Block. N. W./ Nic. 621 Minneapolis THE FRANCE CAFE Regular Dinner will be served daily at The France Cafe, 300 Fifth Ave. So. Minneapolis. SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER. Mrs. J. M. Mask, Prop. PEOPLE'S NEW LOCATION. The F. Peoples Realty Company have moved their offices from 236 Boston Block to 325 Fifth Street South, across from the Court House, where they will be pleased to meet old customers and make new friends. FIRST CLASS DRESSMAKING. We do Strictly First Class Dressmaking and Ladies' Tailoring. Our Prices are Reasonable, Satisfaction Guaranteed. Apply 415 E. 27th St. Minneapolis. For information, Phone So. 7996.—Advertisement. REV. McDONALD LOSES SUIT AGAINST PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. Judge Kelly, on Motion of Lawyer W. T. Francis, Vacates the Verdict of the Jury and Orders Judgment in Favor of Pilgrim Baptist Church. STATE OF MINNESOTA, County, Ramsey, DISTRICT, COURT. Second Judicial District. EPHRAIM H. McDONALD, vs. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. After hearing counsel for the respective participant after inspecting the files and the minutes of the trial Judge made at the trial. ORDERED, that the motion of the defendant for an order vacating the verdict of the directing directing that judgment notwithstanding his award in favor of said defendant Pilgrim Baptist Church is granted and said judgment is ordered accordingly. WILLIAM LOUIS KELLY. District Judge. Dated at St. Paul, June 2 A. D. 1915. MEMORANDUM. The plaintiff petitioned the defendant congregation at salary of $100.00 per month, until May 15, 1914, on which date was dismissed by the congregation. His case that time in full, but, claiming that he entitled to three months' notice of his dismissal, he brings this action for three months' salary. He had a verdict for $132.25 and defendant moves for judgment. This action is predicated upon a "note" found in Hiscox' Manual, to the effect of the Baptist Church the relation of pastor and dissolved only by mutual consent, or three months' notice. Upon plaintiff's testimony, identify this book as appended to all Baptist Churches and that he had written it, and admitted in evidence. It being afterwards admitted that the defendant church was entirely independent, the peopletaking their own rules, and that the Manual had written them, the court promptly withdrew the book from the jury. Probably the jury was misled by it, however. The undertook to prove an established custom, in use by it prior to his being installed as pastor, which required such notices of ninety days. One respectable being gave testimony tending to sustain this six equally respectable members as witnesses denied that any such custom ever prevailed. Besides this the congregational years tend to show that no such custom has ever existed or had ever been acted upon. With these church records and with the almost unanimous testimony of the offessional negregation, against plaintiff's claims, a verdict in his favor cannot be sustained. Even if a custom of this sort, requiring three months' notice from the congregation to plaintiff to dispense with his witness, he distressed the had such notice when on January 11th, 1514, more than three months before his dismissal May 15th, 1514, the church officers in the name of the congregation and by his authority demanded his resignation. Nice evidence was necessary and by this demand plaintiff over three months' notice from the people The jury perhaps felt that a man of plaintiff's profession should have notice of congregations desire to change it's pastoral season and reason that employment of this character is sometimes difficult to readily obtain. The facts in this case which lead to plaintiff's dismissal were not before the jury but I suspect plaintiff be aware that the change made timely provision beforehand. In any event, I am satisfied that taking the most favourable step in plaintiff's case, he has no just and less against these people for three months' salary which he never earned and never to earn. For this reason, if none other plaintiff be saved more than three months' notice of the intention to dispense with his services before it acted. Filed June 3rd, 1915 KELLY, J. MATT JENNES, Clerk. By G. P. RITT, Deputy. Rev. McDonald and his lawyers have abandoned all efforts in the case and have church including the fees of its witnesses. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH 14th Ave. So. and 8th St. All are welcome. Rev. T. J. Carter, Pastor. Rev. T. J. Carter has moved to 2423 4th Ave. So. Peoples Christian Assembly. Rev. G. W. Mitchell, Pastor, 1204 Washington Ave. So. Comel and Serve the Lord. ST. PETER'S A. M. E. CHURCH. 22nd St. near 10th Ave. So. Rev. Thos. B. Stovall, Pastor. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, 318 8th Ave. So., Minneapolis. Rev. E. R. Edwards, Pastor. A WELCOME TO ALL. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. 7th Ave. North and Hoag St. Rev. M. W. Withers, Pastor, Res. 2406 17 Ave. S. Phone Drexel 600 Regular Services. Preaching: 11 A. M., 8 P. M. Sunday School 12:30 P. M. B. Y. P. U. Society 6:45 P. M. Prayer Meeting Wed. 8 P. M. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. SUNDAY SERVICES. Sunday, June 20th. 11 A. M. A Hard Problem. 8 P. M. The Life of Christ. Illustrated with Lantern and Slides. HAIR WEAVING. Hair weaving of every description neatly done by Mrs. McClure, 713 5th St. N. Leave orders also at 2813 Chicago Ave. Phone: So. 1424. —Advertisement. FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT. Furnished Rooms for young meg; ideal location, half block from car line and only twenty minutes walk to business section, 1917 5th Ave. So. A. W. Morris N. W. South 4849 For Rent—Nice large furnished room, all modern, on car line.—Mrs. Butler, 564 6th Ave. No. Phone Hyland 214. --- Defective Pag --- Defective Page ANNUAL SCHOOL FUND. Ohio Appropriates Big Sume For Wilberforce University. The Ohio legislature shows its approval of the great work that Wilberforce university is doing under the administration of President William S. Scarborough by its annual appropriations. The appropriation for this year is $138,900.08 and for 1916 $134,898.98, making a total for the two years of over $287,000. Aside from current expenses this money will be used to erect several new buildings, such as a gymnasium, recitation building, hospital and industrial shops. The college will erect next year a $20,000 science building in addition to making other improvements. The institution is making progress and is meeting in a substantial way the needs of its students. These liberal appropriations by the state will enable the university to greatly increase its plant in building and equipment. These new additions will put Wilberforce university far ahead and enable it to do greater work. The institution has long been looked upon as a strong center of education in the state, and its long and eventful career as an institution of learning of the higher sort will be more than well sustained in the future. It is a source of gratitude and pleasure upon the part of the president and the trustees to note the growth of the school and the deep interest in its welfare manifested by the students, graduates and its many friends in all sections of the country. COURAGE OF MAJOR MOTON. Energetic Hampton Institute Official Tale How to Better Conditions. Robert R. Moton, commandant of cadets at the Hampton (Va.) institute and president of the Negro Organization Society of Virginia, said recently before the Portsmouth (Va.) meeting of the Virginia conference of charities and corrections that a successful attempt has been made to federate all the organizations maintained among the colored people in Virginia for the purpose of social betterment. The motto of the Organization Society of Virginia is "Better Homes, Better Farms, Better Schools, Better Health." Though only three years old in active work, the society has succeeded in a remarkable way in bringing together churches, Sunday schools, secret societies—a name legion in Virginia—social and literary organizations, women's clubs, farmers' conferences and teachers' associations. Major Moton's Portsmouth speech was in part as follows: The cordial spirit in which these organizations have accepted the concerted movement for race progress has been a source of gratification to all who have been working with it. More significant, however, than the cordial attitude of the white people, the white people of Virginia, including the press, pulpit, educators and social workers generally have backed us up in what we have been trying to do. In the two cleanup movements which the Negro Organizing society has inaugurated throughout Virginia the white people in many towns and communities took the lead. The state, in turn, has done everything possible to make the cleanup campaigns successful. To the white people of Virginia there is an untold value in having clean surroundings for the Negro people—surroundings that are clean physically and morally. It is important that they be clean and healthy in order that the white people, by whose side they live and whom they serve, should be healthy. The evils of segregation have become apparent. Segregation usually means the attack on the rights of the African officials for Negro sections. Segregation stands for poor sanitation, poor lighting, poorly kept streets, streets neglected by street cleaners, dives of vice and crimes located in Negro residential sections with white people. While the Negroes are powerless to help themselves. The white people of Virginia who have in their hands the making and the executing of laws should see to it, for their own self interest if for no other reason, to help the healthy and, above all, clean morally. The best people of Virginia, for the sake of humanity, want the Negro to be clean and healthy. They want the Negro to be clean for citizenship in its most useful sense. The Negro Opioid Abuse program able to探访 people to build sanitary toilets in ten counties. During a single cleanup week it has inspired 170,000 Negroes to clean up their premises. It has helped in the erection of model schools in fourteen communities. Major Moton's words made such a strong appeal to Dr. J. T. Mastin, secretary of the state board of charities at Richmond, Va., that Dr. Mastin asked for a summary to be printed in the official proceedings of the Virginia Conference of Charities and Correction. Southern men and women are coming to appreciate the justice in the opposition to legal segregation. They are now ready and willing to hear race leaders, who, though frank in their criticism, are willing to be patient with those who find it difficult to realize that the Negro is making progress so fast that he is passing from the stage of mere dependence. Looked Suspicious. "That cat must think she's prettier than I am." "Why so, Vanessa?" "She's always after me to have my picture taken with her."—Pittsburgh Post. Explained. He—I wonder how they came to call a wife's personal allowance her pin money. She—I guess it's because her husband generally sticks her on it—Exchange. SCHOOL APPEALS FOR FUNDS. Emmanuel Brown's Great Work For His People at Richmond, Ala. In a recent letter to the New York Times commending the efforts of Emmanuel Brown, founder and principal of the Street School For Manual Training, at Richmond, Ala., Amelia S. Quinton makes the following statement and appeal. She says: When Austria declared war who thought the bolt would hit Alabama? Yet the war has forced the colored people there to sell their small cotton crops for less than cost. And now what shall they do? Learn a new agriculture, move to the already crowded cities or starve at home? At Richmond, Ala., in a large community of both white and colored people, a colored young man had seen the helplessness of his race in such emergencies; had recognized that only education, the teaching of truck farming, general agriculture and other industries were the "remedy indispensable." He opened a school with fifteen boys and girls in a small room having one door and one window. Soon a hundred eager pupils in a larger room were making good progress in the primary branches, busy learning domestic industries and in planting in January crops that could be harvested in March, to be followed by other crops in succession that would command sale and also feed the laborers. Later his sister joined the young man for his consecrated life work for their race and others also, with barest necessities provided, came to share the enterprise, till now 800 learners under six teachers are in the school. Meantime a few friends in Boston and elsewhere gave aid, whose gifts and the constant self sacrifices of the leader and his teachers achieved a comfortable school building, and this work, inaugurated ten years ago, is now, it is believed, assured. But the people among and for whom it is are poor, very poor, and, though full of courage and devotion under new ambitions and ideals, cannot provide the much more still needed for the full equipment of the work. The school has two horses, but needs a pair of mules, cows, a kit of carpenter and blacksmith tools, a toolhouse and shop, a wagon, a liberal supply of seeds and many other helps. The white citizens near testify to the decrease of crime, the greatly improved moral tone of the vicinity and the improvement of the meager, insanitary homes of the colored people. They also recognize the benefit to the white population in gaining for them honest and intelligent laborers. The appeal of this Street School For Manual Training at Richmond, Ala., under the leadership of its originator, Emmanuel Brown, should win help enough to make it a great success in its own county and to make it a shining model for the thousand other southern counties sorely needing just such a noble institution. WOMEN'S CLUBS TO MEET IN PHILADELPHIA JULY 7. Northeastern Federation Will Be Guest of Allen A. M. E. Church. The nineteenth annual convention of the Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs will be held for three days, beginning Wednesday, July 7. In Allen A. M. E. church, Philadelphia. Arrangements are being made to make this one of the largest gatherings of this organization, and topics of great importance will be discussed at the various sessions. The general officers of the federation are: President, Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, New Bedford, Mass.; general secretary, Mrs. Susie I. Amos, New Haven, Conn.; Assistant secretary, Miss Iola Yates, Boston; treasurer, Mrs. Mary J. Glassec, Providence, R. I.; organizer, Miss Reberta J. Dunbar, Providence, R. I.; chairman executive board, Miss Mary E. Jackson, Providence, R. I.; chaplain, Rev. Florence Randolph, Jersey City, N. J.; editor and treasurer of the Northeastern Journal, Miss Pearl E. Tatten, Ansonia, Conn. The vice presidents representing the various states are: Mrs. Minnie T. Wright, Boston; Mrs. C. Morris, Providence, R. I.; Mrs. Mary Jones Taylor, New Haven, Conn.; Mrs. Charlotte E Bell, New York; Mrs. Sarah Hill, Portland, Me.; Miss Lillian Greene, Jersey City, N. J., and Mrs. Mary J. Roberts, Philadelphia, and the honorary presidents are Mrs. Alice W. Seay, Brooklyn, and Mrs. Cicely S. Gunner, Hillburn, N. Y. Foreign Objects In the Lungs Sir William Milligan exhibited at a recent meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine a damson stone, a carpet tack and a coin, all of which had been inhaled into the lungs and been removed with forceps after several days of suffering on the part of the persons who had been foolish enough to put them into their mouths. Distinction of Terms Distinction of Terms. "I suppose you regard that picture you've painted as a masterpiece." "No," replied the practical artist. "I'd rather take a small cash price and call it a pot boiler." — Washington Star. "Hello!" Perhaps the only word that is the same in all languages is the "Hello" in response to the telephone call. Wherever there is a telephone line the word is in use and means just what it does in English.-London Standard. The Literal Jamaican Mind. During the early period of the work on the Panama canal many persons were injured by jumping on and off trains in motion on the Panama railroad. There were on the zone police force many West Indians who were trained and capable men, but incurably literal. An order was issued to the force to arrest any person found jumping on or off a train in motion, and the next day two West Indian policemen brought into a police station a white man who was struggling fiercely to break away from them. "What have you arrested him for?" asked the police sergeant who was on duty. "For jumping on and off the rear of a train, sah," one of the policeman replied. "The blamed fools!" cried the arrested man. "I'm the brakeman!" On one occasion a Jamaican boy who was a switch tender in Culebra cut was found asleep with his head resting on the rails of the switch. "Daf's all right, boss," said the boy when waked. "No train can get by here widout me known' it!"—Youth's Companion. Louis Spohr, the greatest of all German violinists and a man whose name is otherwise indelibly written on the pages of musical history, was born at Brunswick on April 5, 1784, just fifteen days after his great contemporary and rival, Nicolo Paganiini, first saw the light of the world. Two greater contrasts than these two men could not be imagined. Paganiini, the brilliant, dazzling, comet-like apparition, overawed the masses, for whose favor he made a high bid, while the German, the serious, dignified, deep artist, appealed to the comnoisseurs and cultured musicians. Spohr both by precept and example exerted a tremendous influence on violin playing and violin composition and, in fact, on composition in general. The greatest musicians of his day stood in awe of him, and even Richard Wagner, after Spohr had produced "The Flying Dutchman" at Cassel in 1843, where he was then conductor of the opera, in a letter written to the great violinist displayed a sense of gratitude of which in later years he seemed incapable. Spohr died at Cassel in 1869. The Duke of Sermoneta ranks among the greatest land owners in Italy. Fogilano, his estate near the Pontine marshes, extends to 80,000 acres, mainly under grass, for the duke owns vast herds of cattle. The most productive portion of the estate, however, is a lake several miles long and about a mile in breadth, which, from the time of the Roman empire downward, has supplied fish for the market in Rome. Whenever there is a flood caused by rain on the hills the lake overflows through a narrow channel into the sea. The sea fish find their way through into the lake, remain to fatten in the fresh water and then are captured on their return by an ingenuous labyrinth constructed of reeds into which they swim. They are of the best kind—chiefly gray mullet—London Mall. Norman French is still the official language of the Channel islands. It is rather a surprise when one begins to count the different languages spoken within the borders of the United Kingdom. How many people would guess that there are still at least five living tongues used among us? There is English in England, Welsh in Wales, Erse in Ireland, Gaelic in Scotland and French in the Channel isles, while Cornish in Cornwall and Manx in the isle of Man have scarcely yet faded entirely, and in Whitechapel even the post-office prints its notices in Yiddish.—London Mirror. In astronomical figures stars of the different magnitudes are shown with three, four, five and six points. On many of the ancient armorial bearings the star has six points and is called a "star," while that with five is called a "mullet." This figure of the star with five points was in use as far back as can be traced in history. It was called a pentacle, or pentogram, and came to have a mysterious symbolical meaning. His Wish. "It is a woman's fate to suffer in silence," she volunteered. "If they'd only let us suffer the same way," he rejoiled. Whereupon she remarked that he was a hateful, mean, stupid, contemptible, despicable, beneath contempt man. So there—Philadelphia Ledger. Imagination. "Robert," said the teacher to a small pupil, "can you tell me what imagination is?" "Yes," ma'am," replied the little fellow; "imagination is what makes a fellow think a bee's stinger is three feet long after he gets stung."—New York Globe. A Mean Critic. "How realistic your painting is! It fairly makes my mouth water." "A sunset makes your mouth water!" "Oh, it is a sunset, is it? I thought it was a fried egg!" Foolish Question. "Some one stole every blessed stocking off our line." "What are blessed stockings?" "Those which are not darned, of course."—Exchange. Life is not days and years. Life is love and labor.—Newnham. Spehr and the Violin A Great Italian Estate Polyglot Britain. The Five Pointed Star THE MUSEUM OF ART AND COLLECTIONS Cleaning Pressing Repairing CLIFFORD A. SMITH. 421 UNIVERSITY AVE., ST. PAUL N. W. PHONE DALE 3243. SMOKE THE BEST 5C CIGAR Sight Draft W. S CONRAD CO., Distributors NO. 140. E. 6th ST., ST. PAUL. NO. 1. WESTERN AVE., MINN. Peterson, The Druggist 1501 Washington Ave. So. TOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS. He Sollicits Your Patronage. SPECIAL SAMPLE SHOES. POPULAR PRICED SHOE RE- PAIRING. WE FIX 'EM WHILE YOU WAIT. Men's Sewed Soles ... 75c Ladies Sewed Soles ... 65c Men's Nailed Soles ... 50 and 60c Rubber Heels, ... 40c Ladies' and Boys' nailed soles ... 40c SEVEN CORNERS SHOE REPAIR SHOP 1424 Washington Avenue South. 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To the discontented even wealth is a vexation. From the Chinese. Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. -Shelley. I have learned in whatever state I am therewith to be content. -St. Paul. Useful Indeed. Useful Ideas. Teacher—What is the use of the Eustachian tube? Pupil—So you can hear yourself talk.—New York Times. STAR "ADS"—BRING RESULTS Pool and Billiards GIBSON AND YANC PROPRIETORS. A COMPLETE LINE OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. Jno. L. Gibson N. W. Tel. Main 3 THE FRANK CHOP-SUEY . . VC REGULAR DINNER AND THE PLACE Best Accommodation EXCELLENT COOKING 300 - 5th Ave. MRS. J. M. MASK, PROP. Best Bargains Furn BOUT 5th Street South THE FRANCE CAFE CHOP-SUEY -- VOCAL ENTERTAINER REGULAR DINNER AND A LA CARTE SERVICE THE PLACE TO DINE Best Accommodations for Private Parties EXCELLENT COOKING COURTEOUS ATTENTION 300 - 5th Ave. So., Minneapolis MRS. J. M. MASK, PROP. N. W. Phone Main 2560. Best Bargains in Summer Furniture BOUTELL'S WHY NOT BE FAIR WITH THE NEWSPAPER MAN? No one has an opportunity of learning the characteristics of individuals more than the publisher of a race paper, and no one has more varied and peculiar experiences. There are those who will pay the subscription as regularly and as promptly as it is due without delay or hesitation, just as they would any other debt. This is the desirable and welcome subscriber. There is another class who subscribe as willingly and will pay the subscription at that time, but it is almost impossible to collect it again, for it is almost impossible to find the individuals as they move from place to place so frequently. Then there is the responsible subscriber who feels that he is good for the subscription but never pays unless a personal demand is made upon him for it. This may ease his conscience, but it is almost difficult to collect his subscription when it is needed most, as it is to collect from the man who is not responsible. Then there is the subscriber who imagines that every one pays his subscriptions except himself and that the publisher is well to do and does not need the money. He keeps the money in his pocket until it is thawed out by first one process and then another. Some subscribers never intend to pay and by first one subterfuge or another avoid payment until the publisher in self-defense must stop the paper and collect the subscription by legal process when this is possible. Really the subscribers to race papers should feel a deeper interest in their success and adopt the habit of paying for them promptly, and in that way may lighten the burdens of the publisher and insure better and more regular publication of the paper—Kansas City Sun. MANY NEGRO DOLLS BEING SENT OUT. Nashville, Tenn.—An announcement was made by the National Negro Doll Company that their rush season, which it usually has during the Christmas, is just now on. This is occasioned, declares the manager of the company, on account of the delay in the importation of material from which these dolls are made. The ship was caught and held as a prize of war and was only recently released, hence, the material did not reach Nashville until Christmas day. But the people, says the manager, were so determined to have the size doll they wanted that they all replied "We will wait to get the big dolls." While hundreds of small dolls were sent out, the manager declares that it was surprising to note that the people wanted the dolls ranging in sizes from SEVENTEEN to THIRTY-SIX inches. The orders are being sent out rapidly. Many of the churches have sent in orders for dolls that they might conduct their bazaars. Dolls will be shipped throughout the year. declares the manager of the Doll Company, as we are ready to fill orders as they come. "THE CLANSMAN" REMOVED "THE CLANSMAN" REMOVED. Bemidji, Minn.—The Clansman, a novel by Thos. 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Fifty Cents When writing for the press, don't abbreviate your words. Spell each one out correctly and distinctly. If you don't it means that all of your manuscript will have to be rewritten if there is time. Write on one side of the paper only. Address all mail to Twin City Star 305 S. 5th St. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Put more Brains in your Business and Success is assured. Mayor Nye has issued an order against the crap games. Thanks! Your Honor. The Star said "Craps must go" and they are gone. The Afro American Federated Women's Clubs of Minnesota will meet this week. There is a split in the ranks, caused at the last annual convention. Every effort toward harmony; should be the spirit of the session; if so, there will be a re-united Federation, worthy of its name. Miss Maude Wanzer, one of our brightest musicians, graduated from the Macalester College Conservatory of Music on Tuesday, June 8, having completed a three years' course in two years. On May 11, Miss Wanzer, with two of her schoolmates, Miss Grace Waddell and Miss Dorothy Taggart, gave their graduating recital, Miss Wanzer presenting three numbers. She was born in Charleston, S. C. and is 19 years old. ACTIVE WORK AMONG WOMEN. How Mrs. M. C. Lawton Helps Them Forward In New York. There are scores of women who are yearning for that affiliation which brings about a betterment of conditions in the lives of their sex generally, but who, because of circumstances, are denied this much sought for opportunity. Club life among the women of "San Juan Hill." New York city, is practically unknown. Nevertheless, there seems to be an awakening, a realisation of conditions as they exist. Nothing is so hopeful concerning the progress of a people as the desire for uplift, which emanates from within, says Mrs. M. C. Lawton, organizer for the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs, after attending a recent meeting in New York, where a club was organized and named for the organizer. Mrs. Lawton finds that there is a strong desire among the women of the section of New York city, which she visited, for social contact. They need both encouragement and proper leadership in order to bring about better conditions in their home life and to use their time and talents in the right direction for community uplift. The M. C. Lawton Mothers' club is composed of members of the Derrick chapel in West Sixty-first street, New York, the Rev. J. C. Lawton, minister, and of others in the neighborhood. The officers of the new organization are: Mrs. Emma Alexander, president; Mrs. Lavinia Heedley, vice president; Miss Baseline Starks, secretary, and Mrs. R. J. Wilson, treasurer. Mrs. M. C. Lawton is the wife of the Rev. Dr. William R. Lawton of Brooklyn. Sentimental Compunctions. "Can't you learn to call me Jim?" "I'm afraid I can't." "Why not? That's what all my best friends call me." "Yes, I know. But it would be so unpleasant. We—we used to have a dog named Jim, and every time I hear his name I cry." — Cleveland Plain Dealer. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWSY. HAMPTON INSTITUTE ENDS SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL YEAR Large Class Receives Certificates—Dr. Frissell Sends Affectionate Letter. "Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ" (II Tim. ii, 3). This was the text from which Rev. Dr. H. B. Turner, chaplain of the Hampton (Va.) institute, preached the baccalaureate sermon to the recent graduating classes, taking as his theme the first part of the senior class motto, "Through struggle and thrift we proper." Dr. Turner used as an illustration the life of the Apostle Paul in his great missionary work. At the annual competitive drill the company commanded by Captain W. David Owl, a Cherokee Indian, of Roddy, S. C., won the prize - a silver loving cup presented by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas V. Winston, formerly of Fort Monroe, now of Madison, Wis. The judges were Captain Jacob M. Coward, Lieutenant Adelino Gibson and Lieutenant Sidney H. Guthleir of Fort Monroe. The decision was made on neatness, military bearing, company and battalion drill. The winning company made an average of 90 per cent. This company will have the honor of being the battalion color bearers for the next school term. The junior class was presented the silver cup trophy in the spring rowing races. This class held the cup in 1914, when they were known as the "work year boys." The first and second prizes in both the mile and the quarter mile running races were won respectively by William S. Parker, tailor, of Jacksonville, Fla., and John F. Dorsoy, agriculture, of Dragonville, Va. The annual spring concert under the supervision of R. Nathaniel Dett, director of vocal music, and Miss Bessle L. Drew, teacher of singing, and the annual band concert under the leadership of Professor William M. O. Tessman, bandmaster, were, as usual, most entertaining events. Fifty-six Negroes and six Indians received their certificates in trade, agriculture and business, being distributed in the three courses as follows: Forty-eight—forty-two Negroes and six Indians—in eleven different trades, thirteen Negroes in agriculture and one Negro in business. The class day exercises consisted of addresses, class histories and class songs. In the absence of Principal Frissell, the vice principal, Dr. George P. Phenix, presented the certificates. Dr. Phenix also made a short address and presented the academic diplomas to a class of sixty—fifty-five Negroes and five Indian boys and girls. Dr. Phenix read to the class the following letter, dated May 12, from Dr. Frissell: I regret very much that there is little prospect of my being with you at your graduation exercises to deliver to you your diplomas and speak to you some parting words to express your feelings of the hospital afternoon and tomorrow expect to undergo an operation which will make quiet necessary for some time. I am sure that you know how fervently I pray for your success and how strong a belief I have in you and in the service you are to render to you. I am sure that of you to do his or her duty. May God bless you and keep you and cause his face to shine upon you. Dr. Phenx in his address emphasized the importance which Hampton puts upon character, rating character above scholarship. He said that every hour at Hampton, every task in the agricultural department, and every exercise in the trade school, offered students the opportunity of building strong character. The academic class day program included a salutatory address by Harriet E. Marshall, Alken, S. C.; class history, Theron W. N. Williams, Salem, Va.; class will, Betty H. Jenkins, Warenton, N. C.; vigedictory, Melvin T. Wildy, Avalon, Va., and a class song written by W. Lloyd Walker, Hampton, Va. It is the custom each year for the graduating class to select some tree on the grounds as their memorial. The tree chosen this year was an elm, the tree that has played such an important part in the history of our country. At the tree exercises the address was delivered by W. David Owl, who closed his speech by saying: "Let us go forth with the spirit of Hampton dominating our characters and very beings and strive to grow more and more into the Christian manhood and womanhood that shall determine the success of our future lives as individuals and as a class." The First Victim. Chief Justice. Doherty used to relate an experience which befell him during a visit to a country house in Ireland. His friend, the host, sent a car to the railway station to bring him to the place. He had not gone far when the horse became restless and finally upset the car into a ditch. The judge asked the driver how long the animal had been in harness. "Half an hour, sur." "I mean how long since he was first put in harness?" "Shure, I've told you—half an hour, sur," answered the driver. "An' the massther said if he carried ye safe lie'd buy him."—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph TWIN CITY STAR VIEWS OF BISHOP FALLOWS. What the Noted Prolate Gaye About The Comedy Collisions Formula the Coming Chicago Exposition. Chicago—In connection with the large exposition to be held in this city at the Coliseum from Aug. 22 to Sept. 16, will be held the Abraham Lincoln jubilee celebration, at which hundreds of relics of the martyred president will be shown and tribute paid to the memory of the great humanitarian. The exposition will be unique, says Bishop Samuel Fallow, state commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, and president of the exposition. Nothing like it has ever before been done or even attempted. The exposition will mark fifty years of freedom for the colored race in America. Assurance that President Wilson will be present was made to Bishop Fallows in a message from Washington which stated that Mr. Wilson will attend if no unforeseen governmental complications arise to prevent. Governor Edward F. Dunne of Illinois is the president, ex-officio. State Senator John Dalley of Peoria is vice president. Among the honorary vice presidents are Miss Jane Addams, Governor Baldwin of Connecticut, Governor Bass of New Hampshire, Judge Theodore Brentano, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas H. Cannon, head of the Catholic Order of P. H. THOMAS WALLACE SWANN. Foresters, Chicago; former Governor Charles S. Deneen, Cardinal James Gibbons, Governor Whitman of New York and Mrs. Elsie Flagg Young. Twelve distinct departments have been created for the exposition, and in them will be shown exhibits from nearly every state in which the negro is a part of the population. These departments are religion, education, industry, social progress, music, sociology, military, liberal arts, professional, fraternal, athletics and miscellaneous. Nineteen state legislatures have either passed or have before them bills providing appropriations to establish state exhibits. Hundreds of letters approving the purpose of the exposition have been received, representing every race and religion, every profession and business and social activity in America. The exhibits of the progress of the colored man since his emancipation from slavery will be many and various. Each of the 400 colored schools and colleges in the United States will be represented. The best of 8,000 patents granted to colored men by the federal government will, by special arrangement, be brought to Chicago to show in the Coliseum. The government of Liberia, Africa, made up originally of freed slaves from America, will send an exhibit, and Professor Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago has been appointed their official representative by the Liberian government. The Roman Catholic exhibit will be a feature of the exposition, including, besides paintings and sculpture, many relics of the Negro in his relation to the church. There are more than 2,000,000 Negroes engaged in agricultural pursuits, and 78 per cent of them are in the southern states. More than 28 per cent of the total number of farmers in the south in 1910 were Negroes and 12 per cent of the total farm acreage was operated by them. The Negro has produced 6,000 books and periodicals, nearly 7,000 songs and musical compositions. The Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann is secretary of the commission, having charge of the celebration. Growth of the Mayesville (S. C.) School. The Mayesville Industrial school at Mayesville, S. C., was founded many years ago by Miss Emma Wilson. It is doing a most commendable work among the people of that section of the state. The school was started in an old abandoned cotton gin house without any furnishings. Ten children of the neighborhood formed the first group of students. It has grown from a very small school to one of the largest and best managed of its kind in South Carolina. Miss Wilson is still at the head of the work and tells a most thrilling story of her struggles to maintain the institution during the early years of its existence. Many good white people, north and south, contribute to its support. Some Features of the June Crisis. The June issue of the Crisis Magazine is called the Great Northwest number. It bristles with much interesting and instructive reading matter. The "Men of the Month" section is illustrated from photographs of persons who have won distinction in their line. Each month brings new friends to this militant race publication, "which has come to the kingdom for such a time as this." THE MORAL PHASE OF NEGRO LIFE. The moral phase of the Negro problem is the most serious part of the whole aggravating question. To improve the standard of the life of the masses is the only solution. As with other races, the standards in the homes are set up by the women who preside over them. Therefore to bring about a reform the womanhood of the race must be taught how to instruct their children in those virtues, that have made the most advanced races what they are. We are prone to think that the Negro is by nature religious and therefore moral. He is both; but he is not enough of either when it comes to living up to fundamental principles every day life. Because of his crude conception of what the Christian religion really is he too often practices one thing and preaches another. Often the foremost woman in the church is so far from a model for her less ambitious sisters that they look with contempt upon her and discredit religion. This misrepresentation of the genuine article takes many forms and sometimes the one woman is a combination of all. She allows beer drinking, card playing, and ragtime music in her home. She is loose in her conversation. Her language is often smutty. Her demeanor becomes a woman of the street. Her home is a hangout for "sliding elders" and loafing, hungry preachers. Her house is poorly kept. Her children are too young to be men and women and too old to be children. They are theregore the freshest things in the neighborhood. They run the church. They sit in the front heat, chew gum, talk and keep their "gang" giggling. To speak to them is to throw a match into a magazine of powder. These wise and talented youngsters of the leading sisters, get into the choir and start trouble for the choristers. They get religion and start trouble for the deacons. These children of too many of those who aspire to leadership in our local churches presume too much on the standing and influence of their mothers and give our churches all kinds of trouble. What we need is a new type of women in our homes as mothers, and a new type of women in our churches as leaders and examples for the young. The wig wearing, gum chewing, beer smelling, mouth running, street trotting, home neglecting, convention fever type of women are out of style, and from them may we soon be delivered. The struggle for today, is not altogether for today; it is for a vast future.—Abraham Lincoln. SIX REASONS WHY I SHOULD JOIN THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COL- ORED PEOPLE. 1. It teaches that race prejudice is the most evil thing in the world today and that "Jim Crow" cars, race segregation, anti-intermarriage laws and all other manifestations of it are unchristian and cruel efforts of the stronger to oppress the weaker. 2. It combats in the courts, state legislatures, the Halls of Congress, the government departments and everywhere the spirit of persecution against the Colored People which grows out of race prejudice. 3. It aims to bring about such a healthy public sentiment in this land that Colored People will be accorded all their social, civil and political rights and will receive exact justice in all the relations of life. 4. It believes in and teaches the doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and the equality of all races in our American civilization. 5. It aims to uphold the honor of our women by opposing the passage of anti-race inter-marriage laws. 6. 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One inch, one insertion, Fifty Cents Liberal discount given on 3, 6, 9, Months, or 1 year contracts. Want Ads ...... Twenty-five Cents Reading Notices, per line, Five Cents ‘Wedding Announcements, Fifty Cents Card of Thanks ........One Dollars Xa Memoriam .. ....-...One Dollar Business Announcements, One Dollar Death Notices ..........Fifty Cents When writing for the press, don’t abbreviate your words. Spell each fone out correctly and distinctly. If you don’t it means that all of your manuscript will have to be rewritten if there is time. Write on one side of the paper only. ‘Address all mail to Twin City Star 305 S, Sth St. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Put more Brains in your Business and Success is assured. Mayor Nye has issued an order against the crap games. Thanks! Your Honor. The Star said “Craps must go” and they are gone. The Afro American Federated Women's Clubs of Minnesota will meet this week. There is a split in the ranks, caused at the last annual convention, Every effort toward har- mony; should be the spirit of the ses- sion; if so, there will be a re-united Federation, worthy of its name. Graduates from Macalester College Conservatory of Music. = Miss Maude Wanzer, one of our brightest musicians, graduated from the Macalester College Conservatory of Music on Tuesday, June 8, having completed a three years’ course in two years. On May 11, Miss Wanzer, with two of her schoolmates, Miss Grace Wad- dell and Miss Dorothy Taggart, gave their graduating recital, Miss Wanzer presenting three numbers. She was born in Charleston, S. C. and is 19 years old. ACTIVE WORK AMONG WOMEN. Forward In New York. ‘There are scores of women who are yearning for that affiliation which brings about a betterment of cond!- tions in the lives of their sex general- ly, but who, because of circumstances, are denied this much sought for oppor- tunity. Club life among the women of “San Juan Hill," New York city, is practically unknown. Nevertheless, there seems to be an awakening, a re- alization of conditions as they exist. Nothing 1s so hopeful concerning the progress of a people as the desire for uplift, which emanates from within, says Mrs. M. C. Lawton, organizer for the Empire State Federation of Wom- en's Clubs, after attending a recent meeting in New York, where a club ‘was organised and named for the or- ganizer. ‘Mrs. Lawton finds that there is a strong desire among the women of the section of New York city, which she visited, for social contact. They need Doth encouragement and proper lead- ership in order to bring about better conditions in their home life and to use their time and talents tn the right Atrection for community uplift. The M. C. Lawton Mothers’ club is composed of members of the Detrick chapel in West Sixty-first street, New York, the Rev. J. C. Lawton, minister, and of others in the neighborhood. The officers of the new organixstion are: Mrs. Emma Alexander, president; Mrs. Lavinia Headley, vice president; Miss Essiline Starks, secretary, and Mrs. R. J. Wilson, treasurer. Mrs. M. C. Law- ton ts the wife of the Rev. Dr. Wil- Ham BR, Lawton of Brooklyn. Sentimental Compunctions. | “Can't you learn to call me Jim?” “T'm afraid | can't.” “Why not? That's what all my best friends eall me.” “Yes, | know. But it would be so unpleasant. We-we used to have a dog’ named Jim, and every time I hear bis name I cry."—Cleveland Plain ‘Dealer. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. READ THE STAR—IT’S NEWSY. HAMPTON INSTITUTE ENDS SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL YEAR Large Clase Receives Cortientes—Dr Frissel! Sende Affectionate Letter. “Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ” (II Tim. Mf, 8). ‘This was the text from which Rev. Dr. H. B, Turner, chaplain of the Hampton (Va.) institute, preached the baccalaureate sermon to the recent graduating classes, taking as his theme the first part of the senior class motto, “Through struggle and thrift we pros- per.” Dr. Turner used as an illustra. tion the life of the Apostle Paul in his great missionary work. At the annaal competitive drill the company commanded by Captain W. David Owl, a Cherokee Indian, of Rod- dey, 8. C., won the prize—a silver lov. ing cup presented by Lieutenant Colo- nel Thomas V. Winston, formerly of Fort Monroe, now of Madison, Wis. The judges were Captain Jacob M. Coward, Lieutenant Adelno Gibson and Lieutenant Sidney H. Guthrie of Fort Monroe. The decision was made on neatness, military bearing, company and battalion drill. The winning com- pany made an average of 00 per cent. ‘This company will have the honor of being the battalion color bearers for the next school term. The junior class was presented the silver cup trophy in the spring rowing races. ‘This class held the cup in 4914, when they were known as the “work year boys.” ‘The first aud second prizes in both the mile and the quarter mile running races were won respectively by William 8. Parker, tailor, of Jack- sonville, Fla., and John F. Dorsey, ag. riculture, of Dragonville, Va. The an- nual spring concert under the super- vision of BR, Nathaniel Dett, director of vocal music, and Miss Bessie L. Drew, teacher of singing, and the an: nual band concert under the leadership of Professor William M. O. Tessman, bandmaster, were, as usual, most en: tertaining events. Fifty-six Negroes and s1x Indians re ceived their certificates in trade, agrt culture and business, being distributed in the three courses as follows: Forty eight—forty-two Negroes: and. six In: dlans—in eleven different trades, thir teen Negroes in agriculture and one Negro in business. The clase day ex. ercises consisted of addresses, class hie tories and class songs. In the absence of Principal Frisell, the viee prinetpal Dr. George P. V’henix, presented the certificates. Dr. Phenix also made a short address und presented the acad. emie diplomas to a class of sixty—Afty. five Negroes and five Indian boys and girls, Dr. Phenix read to the class the following letter, dated May 12, from Dr. Frissell: I regret very much that there ie uttie prospect of my belng with you at your graduation exercises to deliver to you your diplomas and speak to you some parting words to express my affection nd good Wishes. I go to the hospital this afternoon and tomorrow expect to under- go an operation which will make quiet necessary for some time. I am sure that you know how fervently I pray for your ‘access and how strong a belief T have tn you and In the servico you are to render Your people. Hampton expecta every one of you to do his or her duty. May God Bless you and keop you and cause hie face to ahine upon you Dr. Phentx in his address emphasized the importance which Hampton puts upon character, rating character above seholarship. He said that every bout at Hampton, every task ia the agricul tural department, and every exercise in the trade. school, offered students the opportunity of building strong character. The academic class day pro gram included a salutatory address by Harriet H. Marshall, Aiken, 8. C.; class history, ‘Theron N. Williams, Salem Va.; class will, Betty H. Jenkina, War renton, N. C.; valedictory, Melvin T ‘Wildy, Avalon, Va., and a class song written by W. Lloyd Walker, Hamp ton, Va. It ts the custom each year for the graduating class to select some tree on the grounds as their memorial. The ‘tree chosen this year was an elm, the ‘tree that bas played such an impor tant part in the history of our country. At the tree exercises the address wat delivered by W. David Owl, who closed his speech by saying: “Let us go fortt with the spirit of Hampton domtnat ing our characters and very beings and strive to grow more and more into the Christian manhood and womanhoo: that shall determino the success of ou future lives as individuals and as ‘giann* The First Victim. Ohief Justice Doherty used to relate fan experionce which befell him during ‘a visit to a country house in Ireland. His friend, the host, sent a car to the railway station to bring him to the place. He had not gone far when the horse became restless and finally up- eat the car into « ditch. The judge asked the driver how long the animal hed been in harness. “Balt an hour, sur.” “I mean how long since he was first pat in harness?” “Shure, I've tould you—half an hour, sor,” answered the driver. “An’ the musther said if he carried ye safe He'd buy him."—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele- erapb Changed Views. “Time makes a big difference.” “What are you thinking of?” “My wife's father. I used to think him.a stubborn old fool. Now I re spect his Judgment.” “What's happened?” “Nothing; only he did bis durndest to prevent my eloping with his daugh- ter.”—Detroit Free Press, IT PAV® TO ADVERTIOE. TWIN CITY STAR VIEWS OF BISHOP FALLOWS. | THE MORAL PHA ‘What the Noted Prelate Gaye About the Coming Chicago Exposition, | hicego.—in. counection with” the large exposition to bo held in this etty at the Coliseum from Aug. 22 to Sept. 16, will be held tho Abraham Linooin Jubllee celebration, at which hundreds of relics of the martyred president will be shown and tribute paid to the memory of the great humanitarian, ‘Tho exposition will be unique, says Bishop Samucl Fallows, state com- mander of the Grand Army of the Re- public, and president of the exposition. Nothing like it has ever before: been one of even attempted. The exposition will mark fifty years of freedom for the colored race in America. ‘Assurance that President Wilson will be present was made to Bishop Fallows in a message from Washing- ton which stated that Mr. Wilson wil attend if no unforeseen governmental complications arise to prevent Gov- ernor Edward F. Dunne of Mtinots ts the president, ex-officio. State Senator Jobn Datley of Peoria is vice president. Among the honorary vice presidents are Miss Jane Addams, Governor Bald- win of Connecticut, Governor Base of New Hampshire, Judge Theodore Bren- tano, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas H. Cannon, head of the Catholic Orier of 9. Foresters, Chicago; former Governor Charles 8, Deneen, Cardinal James Gibbons, Governor Whitman of New York and Mrs. Ella Flagg Young. Twelve distinct departments have been created for the exposition, and in them will be shown exhibits from nearly every state in which the negro is a part of the population. These de- partments are religion, education, in- dustry, social progress, music, soclo- logy, military, Hberal arts, professional, fraternal, athletics and miscellaneous. Nineteen state legislatures have elther passod or have before them bills pro- viding appropriations to establish state exhibits. Hundreds of letters approving the purpose of the exposition have been Tecelved, representing every race and religion, every profession and business and social activity in America. "The exhibits of the progress of the colored man since his emancipation from slavery will be many and various. Each of ‘the 400 colored schools and ‘colleges in the United States will be represented. ‘The best of 8,000 patents ‘granted to colored men by the federal government will, by special ararnge. ‘ment, be brought to Chicago to show tn the Coltseum. "The government of Liberia, Africa, made up originally of freed slaves trom America, will send an exhibit, and Pro fessor Frederick Starr of the Univer ity of Chicago has been appointed thelr official representative by the ‘Liberian government. ‘The Roman Catholic exhibit will be a feature of | the exposition, including, besides paint ings and sculpture, many relics of the “Negro tn his relation to the church. | ‘There are more than 2,000,000 Negroes engaged tn agricultarul pur. suits, and 78 per cent of them are tn the southern states. More than 28 per cent of the total number of farmers in the south in 1910 were Negroes an¢ 12 per cent of the total farm acreage ‘was operated by them, ‘The Negro ha produced 6,000 books and perlodicals nearly 7,000 songs and musical com positions. The Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann fs secretary of the commission heving charge of the celebration. Grewth of the Mayssville (8.C.) School. ‘The Mayesville Industrial school at Mayesville, 8. C., was founded many years ago by Miss Emma Wilson. It is doing a most commendable work among the people of that section of the state. The school was started in an old abandoned cotton gin house with- oat any furnishings. ‘Ten children of the neighborhood formed the frst group of students. It has grown from ‘© very small school to one of the largest and best managed of its kind 1m South Carolina. Miss Wilson ts still at the head of the work and tells a most thrilling story of her struggles to maintain the institution during the early years of its existence. Many good white people. north and south. contribute to its support. Some Features of the June Crisis, ‘The June terue of the Crisis Maga- xine ts called the Great Northwest number. It bristles with much tnter esting and instructive reading matter, ‘The “Men of the Month” section is {l- Tustrated trom photographs of persons who bave won distinction in thelr line, Each month brings new friends to this militant race publication, “which has come to the kingdom for such a time es THE MORAL PHASE OF NEGRO LIFE. Home Training Most Important. Says Miss Nannie H. Burroughs. The moral phase of the Negro problem is the most serious part of the whole aggravating question. To improve the standard of the life of the masses is the only solution. As with other races, the standards in the homes are set up by the women who preside over them. Therefore to bring about a reform the woman- hood of the race must be taught how to instruct their children in those virtues, that have made the most advanced races what they are. We are prone to think that the Negro is by nature religious and therefore moral. He is both; but he is not enough of either when it comes to living up to fundamental principles every day life. Beeause of his crude conception of what the Christian re- ligion really is he too often practices one thing and preaches another. Often the foremost woman in the church is so far from a model for her less ambitious sisters that they look with contempt upon her and dis- credit religion. This misrepresenta- tion of the genuine article takes many forms and sometimes the one woman is a combination of all. She allows beer drinking, card playing, and rag time music in her home. She is loose in her conversation. Her language is often smutty. Her demeanor be- comes a woman of the street. Her home is a hangout for “sliding elders” and loafing, hungry preachers, Her house is poorly kept. Her children are too young to be men and wom- en and too old to be children. They are theregore the freshest things in the neighborhood. They run the church. They sit in the front heat, chew gum, tall and keep their “gang” gigeling. To speak to them is to throw a match into a magazine of powder. These wise and talented youngsters of the leading sisters, get into the choir and start trouble for the chor- isters. They get religion and start trouble for the deacons. These chil- dren of too many of those who aspire to leadership in our local churches presume too much on the standing and influence of their mothers and give our churches all kinds of trouble. What we need is a new type of women in our homes as mothers, and a new type of women in our chfrches as leaders and examples for the young. The wig wearing, gum — chewing, beer smelling, mouth running, street trotting, home neglecting, convention fever type of women are out of style, and from them may we soon be de- livered. —The Worker. ‘The struggle for today, {s not al- together for today; it {s for a vast future —Abraham Lincoin. SIX REASONS WHY I SHOULD JOIN THE NATIONAL ASSO. CIATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF COL- ORED PEOPLE. Ts tenches that race. prejudice is the most evil thing in the world to- day and that “Jim Crow” cars, race segregation, “ anti-intermarriage laws and ail other manifestations of it are unchristian and cruel ef- forts of the stronger to oppress the weaker, It combats in the courts, state legislatures, the Halls of Congress, the government departments and everywhere the spirit of persecu- tion against the Colored People which grows out of race prejudice. It aims to. bring about such a healthy public sentiment in_ this land that Colored People will be accorded all their social, civil and political rights and will receive exact justice in all the relations of life. It believes in and teaches the doc- trine of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and the equality of all races in our Amer- ican civilization. . It aims to uphold the honor o! our women by opposing the pas sage of anti-race inter-marriag laws. - It i composed of members of bot races and sexes on terms of com plete equality and as brothers an: sisters in this holy cause of free io “Feed a man correctly, give him foods that digest and are normally assimilated ‘and ordinarily he is ready to meet the difficulties and problems of life with a smile. He is optimistic, cheerful, but that same man if suffering from indigestion has such depressed spirits that he ts thrown into gloomy forebodings and the whole world seems awry. Our cooks, as well as our ministers, have something to do with rolling this world a little necrer “Weep, and you're called a baby, Laugh, and you're called a fool; ‘Yield, and you're called a coward, ‘Stand, and you're called a mule; Smile, and they'll call you ailly, Frown, and they'll call you gruff; ‘Put on a front like @ millionaire, And somebody'll call your bluft.”* Exchange. READ THE STAR—IT’S NEWS ae f ) . 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