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MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL Defective Page VOL. 5 Single Copies 5 Cents It is earnestly hoped that he may have the co-operation of the officers and members of local leagues in the states to be visited by him. Leagues desiring visits from Professor Moore are asked to communicate at once with Dr. Booker T. Washington, president, or Emmett J. Scott, secretary of Tuskegee institute, Alabama. "GRANDFATHER" CLAUSE KILLED UPHOLDS WAR AMENDMENT. State Laws Basing Right of Persons to Vote on Right of Their Ancestors to Vote Before Enactment of Fifteenth Amendment Are Illegal, Says Chief Justice White. Washington—Chief Justice White in handing down an opinion for the United States supreme court on Monday, June 21, dealt a deathblow to the "grandfather clause," which is effective in a number of southern states in disfranchising the colored citizens. The court sustained in its opinion in the Oklahoma and Maryland cases the fifteenth amendment, prohibiting discrimination against colored people, and the Oklahoma and Maryland laws barring them from the polls because their ancestors could not vote prior to Jan. 1, 1860, were declared void by the decision. The Oklahoma law was modeled after the North Carolina and Mississippi laws which disfranchise many thousands of colored men who are entitled to the elective franchise. The opinion of Chief Justice White declares that state laws basing the right of persons to vote on the right of their ancestors to vote before the fifteenth amendment was passed are illegal, unconstitutional and inoperative. The court held that states may prescribe literacy and property qualification tests for voters, but they must not be used as a subterfuge, as in Oklahoma and Maryland, to prevent the Negro from voting. Frank J. Guinn and J. J. Beal, Oklahoma election officers, were convicted of preventing Negroes from voting in the 1910 congressional election and sentenced to imprisonment for a year and to pay a fine of $100. They appealed to the appellate court at St. Louis, which passed the case along to the supreme court of the United States without trying it. The constitution of Oklahoma, upon which that territory was admitted to the Union as a state, gave something very like manhood suffrage. But prior to the elections of 1910 an amendment was adopted severely restricting the franchise. The amendment reads in part as follows: "No person shall be registered as an elector of this state or be allowed to vote in any election herein unless he be able to read and write any section of the constitution of the state of Oklahoma; but no person who was on Jan. 1, 1866, or at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under any form of government, or who at that time resided in some foreign nation, and no linear descendant of such person, shall be denied the right to register and vote because of his inability to so read and write sections of such constitution." The government insisted that the "real question involved is the repugnancy of the standard which the amendment makes, based upon the conditions existing on Jan. 1, 1866, because on its face and inherently considering the substance of things that standard is a mere denial of the restrictions imposed by the prohibitions of the Fifteenth amendment and by necessary result recreates and perpetuates the very conditions which the amendment was intended to destroy." Chief Justice White says: "There seems no escape from the conclusion that to hold that there was even possibility for dispute on the subject would be but to declare that the Fifteenth amendment not only had not the self executing power which it has been recognized to have from the beginning, but that its provisions were wholly imperative because susceptible of being rendered inapplicable by mere forms of expression embodying no exercise of judgment and resting upon no discernible reason other than the purpose to disregard the prohibitions of the amendment by creating a standard of voting which on its face was in substance but a revitalization of the conditions which, when they prevailed in the past, had been destroyed by the self operative force of the amendment. "We are unable to discover how, unless the prohibition of the Fifteenth amendment were considered, the slightest reason was afforded for basing the classification upon a period of time prior to the Fifteenth amendment. Certainly it cannot be said that there was any peculiar necromancy in the time named which engendered attributes affecting the qualification to vote which would not exist at another and different period unless the Fifteenth amendment were in view." The court held that Oklahoma had not meant to provide a literacy test for its voters if the restriction as to those qualified to vote in 1866 was illegal, and hence struck down that test, although stating that, standing alone, such a test is constitutional. The reading test was stricken out along with the grandfather clause. Chief Justice White said the plain meaning of the Oklahoma constitution was that the reading test should not be used to disqualify lineal descendants of voters prior to 1866. As this would be accomplished in many cases by continuing the reading test without the offensive exemptions, the whole provision was killed. PROMOTER OF BUSINESS. Charles H. Moore Begins Work of Vigil- ing and Organizing Leagues. Ring and Organizing Leagues. On Wednesday, June 16, Professor Charles H. Moore, formerly organizer of the National Negro Business league, began an itinerary through Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, in the interest of the forthcoming meeting of the National Negro Business league, to be held in Boston, Aug. 18, 19 and 20, inclusive. It is Professor Moore's purpose to meet local Negro business leagues in all of the important cities in the states here mentioned and otherwise to devote himself to propaganda work in the interest of the league until the August meeting. WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY MAKES GREAT PROGRESS. Authorized as One of Ohio's Institutions For Training Teachers. The combined normal and industrial department of the Wilberforce (O.) university has been placed on the approved list of state normal schools. This announcement was made recently after an inspection by Mr. Williams from the office of the state superintendent of instruction. This result is one which the C. N. and I. department, under Superintendent William A. Joiner, has been working for a number of years. The course was formerly too short to place the school on the accredited list, but it was finally brought up to the required standard. Graduates of the normal department are now entitled to four years' provisional certificate without examination, and after twenty-four months of successful teaching they are entitled to a life certificate good in thirty-five states. Now that the state department of public instruction has given this department full recognition as one of the state's authorized institutions for training teachers, the legislature of Ohio has determined to properly equip the normal and industrial department for its work. The legislature, which recently adjourned its session, made liberal appropriations for this department of work at Wilberforce. There will be erected shops, a building, a gymnasium, water system, hospital and a recitation building. These additional buildings will make. Wilberforce one of the best equipped plants among the institutions for Negro youths. In the past five years the normal and vocational work at Wilberforce university has been greatly strengthened under an increased faculty, and the work will be kept up to the standard. This institution also has the distinction of being the only Negro institution with a military department under direct charge of the United States government. Lieutenant Benjamin O. Davis of the famous Tenth United States cavalry is military instructor. The normal and industrial department is under Superintendent William A. Joiner, formerly director of the teachers' training school of Howard university, Washington Professor Joiner is doing a splendid work at Wilberforce university. He is a man well qualified for the position which he holds. Might Go Further. "She paints her eyebrows." "Well, she has to draw the line some where."—Columbia Jester. TUSKEGEE PROUD OF BRIDGEFORTH WORK BENEFITS THE MASSES Blessed With Special Training For His Chosen Profession, Head of Important Department of Institution Says He is Only Humble Worker Holding Up Principal's Hands. Tuskegee, Ala.—One of the most important departments at Tuskegee institute and of which Dr. Booker T. Washington is proud is the department of agriculture, which, like the other departments, has an expert at the head, a man with experience, training and ability. These qualities are possessed by Professor George R. Bridgeford, whose early life was spent in Athens, in the northern part of the state and in Limestone county. He is yet a young man. His first graduation was from Trinity school in 1894, then at Talladega college, where he graduated in 1897, but he felt that he was not yet prepared for his chosen line, so he took a course at the Massachusetts Agricultural college, finishing in 1901. Having finished his training, the next thing was to work. He accepted a position with the late William H. Council at Normal, Ala., where he remained one year, after which he accepted a position with Dr. Booker T. Washington in the agricultural department. Of course he was not at the head, but one of the instructors and workers. This was thirteen years ago. He con- GEORGE R. BRIDGEFORTH. vinced Dr. Washington and those around the school that he understood the business. Merit wins in Tuskegee. So when there was a vacancy at the head of the department Dr. Washington decided that he had the right man there. So six years ago Mr. Bridgeforth was placed at the head and has been conducting the work of the department ever since. Like other heads of departments, he has tried to make improvements and has been indeed successful. In the department now are to be found eighteen instructors, with a complete outfit for teaching from 300 to 500 students both theoretical and practical agriculture. It should be of interest to know that there are 850 students studying agriculture. This young man has not alone been devoting his time to the students, but he has been of help to the farmers by conducting what is known as farmers' short courses and movable schools for Macon county as well as other counties in the state. He has contributed toward the improvement of the village around Tuskegee, and through his efforts two land companies have been organized—the Southern Small Land company and the Tuskegee Farm and Improvement company. He is president of the former and vice president of the latter. It is of interest to know that this department does $135,000 worth of business every year. With the new agricultural building and the veterinary hospital, recently donated, there is a new scanning factory, a cold storage, barns put in the agricultural campus, a 1,000 acre farm, a truck garden of forty acres, an orchard of 100 acres and live stock consisting of 600 hogs, 125 horses and mules and 150 cattle. READ THE STAR-ITS NEWS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION TO MEET IN CHICAGO, AUG. 24. Large Attendance Expected at Annual Meeting of National Body. The sixteenth annual meeting of the National Medical association will be held in Chicago from Aug. 24 to 26 inclusive. The local committee of arrangements, headed by Dr. U. G Dalley, is making extensive preparations for entertaining the members of the association. The usual number of papers, embracing every phase of medicine, surgery, dentistry and pharmacy, will be given a prominent place on the program, as in former years, but the outstanding feature of this convention will be the large number of clinics which will be held during the session. Chicago has unusual facilities for clinical demonstrations of all kinds, and the local committee has been alive to the opportunities that may be seized for the benefit of visiting doctors. The larger portion of the surgical clinics will be held at Cook County hospital, which has been recently completed. Others will be held at the St. Luke's hospital and Provident hospital. Arrangements have also been made for special clinics covering diseases of the eye, ear, nose, throat, children's diseases and women's diseases. Men who are located in the more remote sections of the country will witness here operations and demonstrations that they have seldom if ever been permitted to witness before, and the local committee and the officers of the association are particularly anxious that the rural general practitioner shall avail himself of the opportunity to be present at Chicago for these wonderful demonstrations of medical, surgical and dental research and progress. The headquarters of the local committee will be in the Y. M. C. A. building, and some of the sessions will be held there. There will, as usual, be public meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, and the session will close on Thursday evening, Aug. 26, with a banquet. Some of the more prominent men connected with the association will perform many difficult and rare operations, and the association as a whole will be invited to clinics conducted by Murphy, Schrader and Ochsner. These men stand at the forefront of surgical progress, and to be able to witness operations performed by them and to observe the technic that they have perfected will be of invaluable assistance to every one who visits these clinics. Special rates will prevail on all the roads entering Chicago. Many from all sections of the country have already indicated their intention of being present. Those who are unacquainted with the city and expect to be there should communicate with the chairman of the local committee, Dr. U. G. Dalley, 5 East Thirty-sixth place. Chicago. The Naked Truth. An old fable says that Truth and Falsehood went in bathing together. Falsehood came first out of the water and dressed herself in Truth's garments. Truth, unwilling to put on Falsehood's clothes, went naked. Howard Smith Performs Noble Deed. Howard Smith of Camden, N.J., at the risk of his own life, recently dived overboard and saved the life of a horse by releasing the animal from a wagon to which it was attached. Smith is employed by Charles I. Adkins, a contracting teamster of 434 Division street, Camden. He went to the Spruce street wharf with a dump cart, which was backed to the water's edge, and before he could block the wheel of the vehicle it went overboard, taking the horse with it. Losing no time, Smith dived overboard and finally released the traces, and horse and master arose to the surface. Smith managed to climb back on the wharf, while the horse floundered about on the surface of the water, and after some difficulty the animal was landed on the wharf. Thus again a member of our race in New Jersey performs a noble deed. Needs of the Wilberforce University. As an institution of higher learning for our people Wilberforce university, in Ohio, is living up to the ideals of its founders and supporters. The progress of the school under the leadership of Dr. William S. Scarborough the past few years has been wonderful. The institution is in need of an endowment of at least $300,000. This amount is not large in comparison to the amount of endowment held by some of the great institutions of learning in our country. No doubt the trustees, with the president, will bend their energies in this direction during the vacation period this year. BUSINESS MEN PLAN BIG MEET League Convention In Boston Assured of Success. In Every Line of Endeavor Negroes Have Made Splendid Progress in Fifteen Years of National Negro Business League's History—Many Bodies Will Assemble in August. The fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the National Negro Business league will be celebrated at Boston on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Aug. 18, 19 and 20, 1915. The Boston local Negro Business league, as well as the local Negro Business League of Cambridge, is hard at work perfecting arrangements for the reception and entertainment of the delegates who are planning to be present. Aside from the regular business sessions of the league, the social side of the convention will not be neglected. A guarantee fund has already been secured for the purpose of financing every feature of the entertainment and reception of the delegates. Historic Boston, with its many traditions intimately connected with the life and history of the Negro people, and particularly with the movement which led to their freedom and enfranchisement, is a mecca toward which our race should from time to time turn. It was in Boston that the first meeting of the league was held Aug. 23 and 24, 1900, and in holding the meeting there this year it will fittingly celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the league, afford an opportunity for "taking stock"—an inventory, as it were—of racial progress and development since the organization of the league, and, fortified by the accumulated knowledge and experiences of these years, the business men and women of the race may face the future with greater inspiration and a firmer grasp of the complex problems of modern business. In 1900, when the National Negro Business league was organized, there were about 20,000 Negro business enterprises; now there are 45,000. In 1900 there were two Negro banks; now there are 51. In 1900 Negroes were running 250 drug stores; now they have 695. In 1900 there were 450 undertaking businesses operated by Negroes; now there are about 1,000. In 1900 there were 149 Negro merchants engaged in wholesale business; now there are 240. In 1900, fifteen years ago, there were 10,000 Negro retail merchants; now there are 25,000. In the fifteen years since the National Negro Business league was organized farm property owned by Negroes has made a remarkable increase. From 1900 to 1910 the value of domestic animals owned by Negro farmers increased from $85,219,337 to $177,273,785, or 107 per cent; poultry from $3,788,792 to $5,113,756, or 36 per cent; implements and machinery from $18,586,225 to $36,861,418, or 98 per cent; land and buildings from $69,636,420 to $273,501,665, or 293 per cent. In ten years the total value of farm property owned by Negroes increased from $177,404,688 to $492,892,218, or 177 per cent. Arrangements are already being made for the comfort of delegates who intend to attend the meetings. A National Negro Business league special train, which will carry delegates from the far south to the Boston meeting, is already being planned for and, in addition, arrangements will also be made for the friends from the west, with Chicago as the center, to make the trip to Boston in a body. Further details with reference to these arrangements will be published shortly. The officers of the affiliated organizations of the National Negro Business league, including the National Negro Press association, the National Negro Bankers' association, the National Negro Funeral Directors' association, the National Negro Bar association and the National Association of Negro Insurance Men, are each individually planning their several programs so as to add interest and to make them constructively worth while. Further information as to detailed plans for the coming meeting, etc., may be secured from Booker T. Washington, president; J. C. Napler, chairman executive committee, or from Emmett J. Scott, secretary, Tuskegee institute, Alabama. No. 30 HOWARD'S HONOR GRADUATES RECEIVE THEIR DEGREES. Many Students Complete Course at University In Washington. Washington.—At the recent graduation exercises and commencement held at Howard university, in this city, students of the various departments were given degrees and awards by President Stephen M. Newman as follows: College of Arts and Sciences, A. B.—William Benjamin Banister, Frederick Douglass Crawford, John Gordon Dingle, Henry M. Hall, James Blake Hawkins, Charles Vergne Hendley, James William Jackson, Aurelius Pitts Lester, Madeline Sheppard and John Henry Wilson, Honorable mention, Henderson Hamilton Donald. A. B. cum laude—Robert McCants Andrews, Frank Norman Fitzpatrick, John Arthur Jordan, William Augustus Pollard, Virginia May Porter and Alfred Hilton Tavernier. B. S.—Toussaint L'Overture Alston, Annie Henrietta Catlett, Benjamin Wilbert Clayton, Robert Percy Crawford, Pierre Henri Davis, Alberta Davidee Desmukes, Robert James Hackett, Walter Sylvester Hanna, Ethel Catherine Harris, Joseph Plummer Harrison, Samuel Arthur Jones, Franklin Charles Maloney, Irving T. Nutt, Walter Sylvester Savoy, Ivorte Lorimer Scruggs, William Simon, Charles Wilson Thompson, William Ferdinand Vincent, Micajh Theodore Walker and Charles Mason Woodford. B. S. cum laude—Charles Leonard Johnson. Teachers' College (A. B. with teacher's diploma in education)—Charles Spencer Adams, Aramenta Henrietta Anderson, Ruth Catherine Brinkley, Earl Harrison Crampton, Joseph Alexander Franklin, Clayborne George, Margaret Edna Jackson, Jesse Jordon, Lucy Wilson Kidrick, Leonard Francis Morse, Bertha Madden Rose, Guy Stephen Ruffin, Sarah Edessa Toles and Joseph Nathaniel Woodward. Honorable Mention—Matthew Walker Clair, Mary Frances Gunner, Howard Hale Long, Meta Agusta Redden and Homezelle Scott Walker. These five persons receiving honorable mention made a grade of cum laude, but were prevented from receiving it because a part of their college work was taken elsewhere. A. B. With Teachers' Diploma In Education cum laude. — Ethel Lettia Cuff, Helen Eliza Catherine Lee, Ada Frank Sandors and Julia Inez Wyche. A. B. With Teachers' Diploma In Education Magna cum laude. — Gladys Christine Fearing and Gladys Eleanora Naoma Tolliver. B. S. With Teachers' Diploma In Education. — Bernardine Sedriks Brown, Charles Henry Chipman, William Henry Foster, Laura Jemina Harris and James Ross Howard. School of Manual Arts and Applied Sciences, B. S. in C. E. — Narciso Falu and William A. Huskerson. Conservatory of Music, Mus. B.-Cornella Derrick Lampton. School of Theology, B. D.-David Addison Blake, J. A. Brown, Joseph Simone Connell, George Vernable Fowler, Hafford Alonzo Holder, A. L. Jenkins, Hillard W. Long, A. T. Macdonald, Charles McLean Morgan and Ernest E. Swanston. Medical College, M. D.-Albert Allen Alleyne, Thomas Clifton Brown, John Jacob Clinton, Martin Luther Crawford, A. B.; Martin Luther Dottt, Charles Herbert Garvin, A. B.; Levi Alexander Gibson, A. B.; Robert Keith Gordon, Norman Watkins Harris, Alonzo Albert Holdbrooks, A. B.; Charles Robert-Humbert, Edwin Henry Lee. B. S.; Julll Caesar McKelvte, A. B.; John Howard McMorris, A. B.; Jay Garland McRae, B. S.; James Wesley Parker, A. B.; Ernest Augustus Robinson. A. B.; Isam Elijah Wilson, A. B.; William Ballas Yoakley, A. B., and Claudius Junus Young, A. B. Dental College, D. D. S.-James Emile Bush, Lucius Armond Butler, Alger Leon Campbell, Emmett Earl Campbell, Gilbert Alexander Cole, Arthur Fitzjohn Foster, George Benjamin Gittens, Cecil Francis Gloster, Theodore Elkanah Hanson, Richard Anderson Hightower, Raymond Hunt, Roy Edison McTaggart, Iverson Othello Mitchell, Welton Henry Moseley, B. S.; Edwin Alexander Nicholson, Willis James Pettis, Leon Asbury Reid and Leonard Levi Shelton. Pharmaceutical College, Phar. D.- Charles Augustus Butler, Lawrence Bernard Carey, Eugene Crummlen Compton, Jesse Brenham Dudley, Clarence Harry Henderson, Wilbert Bernard Lawson, George Ernest Lee, Charles Henry Lewis, James Hartford Martin, Wilma Leona Richardson, Andrew Alexander Robinson, Alexander Weaver, James Albert Togans. Smoke the Reliable SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR se. HERE WE ARE AGAIN! FUN FOR ALL WE ARE GIVING ONE OF OUR OLD-FASHIONED FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATIONS 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, JULY 4th Via THE LUCE LINE 2nd AVE. NORTH AND 7th STREET, MINNEAPOLIS. YOU CAN HAVE A JITNEY OR BUS IF YOU LIKE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS Wm. E. McMULLEN. LEE WHEELER, JUNIUS DUNGEE, DAVID GARNER, TRAINS EVERY HOUR. TICKETS WILL BE 20c EACH MINNEAPOLIS NEWS. 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. Send your notes to us by Wednesday A. M. Bring your printing to the Twin City Star Print, 305 So. 5th St. SUBSCRIBE NOW SUBSCRIBE NOW. Leave your subscription at our office Third floor, 305 Fifth St. So. To Subscribe Is To Pay. DON'T FORGT MY DON'T FORGET MY LAST BALL of the SEASON July 5th, Independence Festival Everybody Welcome! Everything is All Right UNION TEMPLE HALL 28 Washington Ave. So. 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. RECITAL POSTPONEMENT The Recital of Mrs. Mary Mosely Withers which was to be held on June 30 has been postponed to Wednesday evening, July 28, at Zion Baptist Church. 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. 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. REV. G. L. MORRILL Rev. G. L. Morrill conducts his Sunday services at the Jitney (formerly Bijou) Theatre. He invites all his former friends to worship with him every Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Rev. Morrill is always ready to render his best service to our people, and they are always welcome to attend their services. Sunday Forum Officers President, R. Skinner; Vice Pres., Miss Eva Walker; Secretary, Webster Stovall; Ass't Sec'y, Miss Lady Walker; Treas., Mrs. I. S. Bogie; Critic, P. F. Hale; Journalist, Louis Marshall; Organist, Mrs. L. Sensabaugh; Chaplains, Rev. T. B. Stovall, Rev. T. J. Carter; Sergt. at Arms, L. T. Jones. If Ireland were free, there would be great Thanksgivings by her people, but Negroes here seem to have little regard for the importance of the Supreme Court Decision, invalidating the infamous "Grandfather Clause," which abridges the right of suffrage of black men in many states. And today in the Southland they are giving thanks unto the Lord for His merciful kindness endureth forever. CLIMBING. St. Augustine, well hast thou said That of our vices we can frame A ladder if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight. But they while their companions slept Were tolling upward in the night. —Longfellow. HERE WE FUN FUN WE ARE GIVING ONE O FOURTH OF JUN PLENTY OF MUSIC—SO GREAT 25 YEARS SINCE YOU OF THESE BALL TEAMS, HORSESHOP FISHING AN THE JOLLY RULER'S WINNETKA MINN 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 ORIGINAL BAZAZAS MID-SUMMER CARNIVAL and Moving Pictures at Pilgrim Baptist Church Three Nights—July 13, 14 and 15 New Acts and New Features Each Night Admission Ten Cents 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. Afro-American Women's Federated Club Elect Officers. The following officers were elected at the annual convention held last week in St. Paul: Mrs. Mattie R. Hicks, president; Mrs. Mamie Donovan, 1st vice president; Mrs. Lillian Newson, 2nd vice president; Mrs. Hilda Kennedy, recording secretary; Mrs. Stella Green, asst. recording secretary; Mrs. Hester Keeys, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Dora Adams, treasurer; Mrs. Mary Hatcher, state organizer; Mrs. Birdie High, historian; Mrs. Nellie Francis, parlimentarian; Mrs. Martha Wilson, chaplain; Mrs. Alice Smith, editor; Mrs. Susie Evans, 1st asst. editor; Mrs. Minnie Burwell, 2nd asst. editor. The president made the following appointments of chairmen of the different departments: Literature—Mrs. Laura I. Colby. Arts and Crafts—Mrs. Bessie Miller. Mothers—Mrs. Nannie Bolden. Reciprocity—Mrs. Elizabeth Echols. Junior—Mrs. Jennie Wilkerson. Philanthropic—Mrs. Nora Covington. Ways and Means—Mrs. Cynthia Morgan. Juvenile Court—Mrs. Ethel Maxwell. Civic—Mrs. Emma Hood. Music—Mrs. E. E. Wells. Mrs. W. D. Carter, wife of Rev. Carter of Seattle, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wills, of Iglehart St. She is returning home from Washington D. C. where she is teaching at the National Training School for Girls. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS STAR "ADS"—BRING RESULTS ARE AGAIN! FOR ALL OF OUR OLD-FASHIONED ELEC CELEBRATIONS GET IN LINE.—IT HAS BEEN HAVE BEEN TO ONE PARTIES PITCHING AND LOTS OF g it badly if you your home a BRO'S R PIANO TO THE MUSIC CO. SIXTH STREET day. Easy pay- be arranged JEFFERSON'S LAST WORDS He Explained the influence of the Declaration of independence. NINE days before his death Thomas Jefferson was asked to write a sentiment for the forthcoming fifteenth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the day of jubilee on which, by a singular coincidence, he was destined to die. ```markdown ``` He wrote: 'The eyes of men are opened and opening to the rights of men. It has become clear that the masses of men are not born with saddles on their backs nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God." DON'T FORGET MY LAST BALL of the SEASON July 5th, Independence Festival Everybody Welcome! Everything is All Right UNION TEMPLE HALL 28 Washington Ave. So. Mr. Harvey Moss is the father of a girl born June 29. Mother and child are very well. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Simpson are the parents of a boy born June 29. Mr. Sidney Black went to the University Hospital on Tuesday. Mrs. Lewis Mason is convalescing. Mr. Wm. M. Thompson has purchased a modern home at 3629 4th Ave. So., where he will reside. Mr. McDew closed the deal. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lane have received more presents since the announcement of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs Pleasants presented them with a set of Haviland China cups and saucers, and Mrs. Fred B. Lathrop gave a check on First Nat'l Bank; Mr. and Mrs. Lane are residing at Fairmont, Minn. Messrs. Morris and Cassius Underwood returned last week from Delphas, O., where they attended the funeral of their brother John. THE SOUTHERN THEATRE 1422 Washington Ave. So. MOVING PICTURES—VAUDE-VILLE. Best Films—Thoroughly Fireproof. TWIN CITY STAR THE SEASON PLEASE BE Men's Epis OF ST. PHILIPS CHURCH, FOURTH PICNIC AN SPRING THE SEASON'S EVENT! THE SEASON'S 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 McCulloch Dancing from 3:00 Trains leave Union Depot, St 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. Be N. B. The management reserves desirable persons to the pavilion. GO TO CHURCH if you will There is a hell. No d BEGINS HERE AND I carried a story relating the suic years before he murdered his y be executed for it. He wrote: "d day the awful secret plunges me For ten years he had lived in he into the darkness and hanged he inexhaustible vocabulary, can pa that exists in many a human so churches, missions, slum settlem THE MOMENT A MAN ENTER TER. THE CHURCH is the GATE. YOU JOIN THE GO TO CHURCH BEST PEOPLE IN YOUR COM HAVE BEEN A BACKSLIDER GEN LATE TO MEND. YOU'LL FIND NEXT SUNDAY YOU'LL WANT TO ING SUNDAY. There are thousands who w from church on Christmas day o Sunday will miss GOING TO O that this appeal is particularly s GOING TO CHURCH on Chri wrong to do so on Sunday? WHEN THE GO TO CHURCH SWING A YEAR AGO THERE WAS CHURCHES WERE FILLED. DO MENT DIE OUT. IT IS ONE OF AGITATIONS THAT EVER WAS S Music by McCullough's Orchestra Dancing from 3:00 P. M. to 8:30 P. M. Trains leave Union Depot, St. Paul, at 8:45 A. M.; 1:25 and 4:30 P. M. Trains leave Union Depot, Minneapolis, at 9:25 A. M.; 2:00 and 5:00 P. M. Returning trains at 4:57 and 9:30 P. M. BUY YOUR TICKETS AT UNION DEPOTS Round trip tickets, Adults 65 cents; Children 40 cents COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT Clarence L. Smith, Chairman John La Coste F. D. McCracken Allen French Ira S. Ashe W. A. Benjamin Firston White N. B. The management reserves the right to refuse admission of un- desirable persons to the pavilion. GO TO CHURCH The Church Is the Gateway to Real Happiness G TO CHURCH if you wish to be saved. There is a hell. No doubt about the There is a hell. No doubt about that. Like heaven, it BEGINS HERE AND NOW. Recently the newspapers carried a story relating the suicide of a well known man. Ten years before he murdered his young wife and allowed another to be executed for it. He wrote: "I can endure it no longer. Each day the awful secret plunges me into the torment of the damned." For ten years he had lived in hell and then, like Judas, went out into the darkness and hanged himself. No writer, even with an inexhaustible vocabulary, can paint a literal fire equal to the one that exists in many a human soul. If there is no hell, why plan churches, missions, slum settlements? THE MOMENT A MAN ENTERS A CHURCH. HE FEELS BETTER. THE CHURCH IS THE GATEWAY TO HEAVEN. WHY DON'T YOU JOIN THE GO TO CHURCH THRONG? YOU'LL FIND THE BEST PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY IN CHURCH. IF YOU HAVE BEEN A BACKSLIDER GET BUSY NOW. IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND. YOU'LL FIND THAT IF YOU GO TO CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY YOU'LL WANT TO GO TO CHURCH THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY. There are thousands who would not dream of staying away from church on Christmas day or Easter, but who Sunday after Sunday will miss GOING TO CHURCH. It is to these people that this appeal is particularly addressed. If it is wrong to miss GOING TO CHURCH on Christmas and Easter, why is it not wrong to do so on Sunday? WHEN THE GO TO CHURCH MOVEMENT GOT INTO FULL SWING A YEAR AGO THERE WAS A SPLENDID RESPONSE. THE CHURCHES WERE FILLED. DON'T LET THIS SPLENDID MOVEMENT DIE OUT. IT IS ONE OF THE BEST—IF NOT THE BEST—AGITATIONS THAT EVER WAS STARTED. DO YOUR PART. GO TO CHURCH. Atty. William T. Francis has moved to Suite 329 in the American National Bank Building, Cedar and Fifth Sts., St. Paul. Mrs. A. E. Dorsey of Des Moines, Ia., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. John L. Gibson of 627 No. 5th St. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Williams, the newlyweds, are residing at 2433 14th Ave. So. Mrs. Maud Boon, who has been confined to her bed for several weeks at the residence of her mother, Mrs. D. E. Buckner, 611 Dupont Ave. No., is slowly improving. Her many friends wish her speedy recovery. Mrs. Geo. Lucas of Helena, Mont., is visiting friends in St. Paul. FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT. Furnished Rooms for young men; ideal location, half block from car line and only twenty minutes walk to business section, 1917 5th Ave. So. A. W. Morris J. W. South 4849 For Rent—Nice large furnished room, all modern, on car line.—Mrs. Butler, 564 6th Ave. No. Phone Hy-land 214. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. LAKE MINNETONKA TUESDAY, JULY 8TH ATHLETIC PROGRAM rd Dash e rd Dash Race BASE BALL GAME SAINT PAUL vs. MINNEAPOLIS Prizes for Winners of All Events GOOD FISHING Boy McCullough's O'Neill Dancing from 3:00 P. M. to 8:30 P. M. Live Union Depot, St. Paul, at 8:45 A. M. 4:30 P. M. Union Depot, Minneapolis, at 9:25 A. M. 5:00 P. M. Returning trains at 4:57 and 9:30 P. M. YOUR TICKETS AT UNION DEEP trip tickets, Adults 65 cents; Children COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT Clarence L. Smith, Chairman F. D. McCracken W. A. Benjamin Fire management reserves the right to refuse to the pavilion. CHURCH The Church is the way to Real Hearth. CHURCH if you wish to be saved. There is a hell. No doubt about that. Lives HERE AND NOW. Recently the family relating the suicide of a well known murdered his young wife and allowed for it. He wrote: "I can endure it no longer, secret plunges me into the torment of the he had lived in hell and then, like Judahness and hanged himself. No writer, no vocabulary, can paint a literal fire equiv. to many a human soul. If there is no hearsions, slum settlements? MENT A MAN ENTERS A CHURCH. HE CHURCH IS THE GATEWAY TO HEAVEN. HE GO TO CHURCH THRONG? YOU'LL BE IN YOUR COMMUNITY IN CHURCH. A BACKSLIDER GET BUSY NOW. IT IS END. YOU'LL FIND THAT IF YOU GO TO CHURCH YOU'LL WANT TO GO TO CHURCH THERE are thousands who would not dream of being on Christmas day or Easter, but who miss GOING TO CHURCH. It is to real is particularly addressed. If it is written CHURCH on Christmas and Easter, we also on Sunday? HE GO TO CHURCH MOVEMENT GOT THE AGO THERE WAS A SPLENDID RESULT. WERE FILLED. DON'T LET THIS SPLEND. BUT. IT IS ONE OF THE BEST—IF NOT THAT EVER WAS STARTED. PART. CHURCH. --- ULY 8TH, 1915 PROGRAM Bough's Orchestra P. M. to 8:30 P. M. Paul, at 8:45 A. M.; 1:25 and P. M. Melapolis, at 9:25 A. M.; 2:00 and P. M. 4:57 and 9:30 P. M. AT UNION DEPOTS 65 cents; Children 40 cents MANAGEMENT nith, Chairman Cracken Allen French Jaminin Firston White the right to refuse admission of un- The Church is the Gateway to Real Happiness th to be saved. Doubt about that. Like heaven, it now. Recently the newspapers side of a well known man. Ten wife and allowed another to can endure it no longer. Each to the torment of the damned." and then, like Judas, went out himself. No writer, even with an a literal fire equal to the one l. If there is no hell, why plan ments? ERS A CHURCH. HE FEELS BET- WAY TO HEAVEN. WHY DON'T THRONG? YOU'LL FIND THE UNITY IN CHURCH. IF YOU BUSY NOW. IT IS NEVER TOO THAT IF YOU GO TO CHURCH GO TO CHURCH THE FOLLOW- should not dream of staying away or Easter, but who Sunday after CHURCH. It is to these people addressed. If it is wrong to miss 圣诞 and Easter, why is it not MOVEMENT GOT INTO FULL AS SPLENDID RESPONSE. THE LET THIS SPLENDID MOVE- THE BEST—IF NOT THE BEST— STARTED. RECITAL POSTPONEMENT The Recital of Mrs. Mary Mosely Withers which was to be held on June 30 has been postponed to Wednesday evening, July 28, at Zion Baptist Church. Mrs. D. S. Taylor entertained a party of young ladies and Mr. H. Peticora at Lake Whalen on Sunday afternoon in honor of the 18th birthday of her daughter, Miss Honora Taylor. After a delicious lunch was served and the afternoon was spent on the lake. The Afro-American Federated Women's Clubs of Minnesota met in convention on June 23rd and 24th at the Old Capitol St. Paul. Gov. Hammond delivered an address of welcome. Several delegates and visitors were present and the outlook was very promising for a successful meeting. ORIGINAL BAZAZAS MID-SUMMER CARNIVAL and Moving Pictures at Pilgrim Baptist Church Three Nights—July 13, 14 and 15 New Acts and New Features Each Night Admission Ten Cents --- 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. 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. A WELCOME TO ALL. 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. WEDNESDAY NIGHTS. 8:00 P. M. Mid-Week Prayer Services FRIDAY NIGHTS. 7:00 P. M. Junior Choir Rehearsals. 8:30 P. M. Senior Choir Rehearsals. 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 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. DAN'S RESTAURANT 306 So. 3rd St., Minneapolis HOME COOKING My Specialty N. W. Main 2767 Daniel Williams, Prop. 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 the 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. THE DUNBAR SOCIAL CLUB. The Dunbar Social Club has established quarters at 325 Fifth St. S., across from the Court House, where the men of the city may gather for wholesome, social recreation in the way of Pool, Billiards, Athletics and Literary Entertainments. The Clubrooms are open every day from 9:00 A. M. to 12:00 P. M. Special pool and billiard contests are held every Wednesday night, at which time prizes are given to those excelling in the professional and amateur classes. All persons desiring such social diversions are cordially invited to become members. Payment of monthly dues of $1.00 will entitle one to full enjoyment of the club quarters. No charges for games played. The temporary officers of the Club are: Mr. Oscar Price, Pres., Mr. Veassus Pope, Vice-President, Mr. L. C. Valle, Secretary, and Mr. Clay Shearer, Treasurer. READ THE STAR-IT'S NEWSY. Defective Pag Defective Page THE JULY CHURCH Historic Building In Which Many Signers Worshiped. OLD Christ church, the historic and sacred edifice in Philadelphia where three-fourths of the signers of the Declaration of Independence worshiped, commemorates the nation's birthday every year with impressive patriotic and religious services. Representatives of the Lutheran, Presbyterian and Episcopalian churches, the religious bodies that were active in the life of Philadelphia when independence was declared, generally participate in the services. Last year the services took the form of a prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the blessing of civil and religious liberty. Addresses were made by Bishop Garland, representing the Episcopal church; the Rev. Dr. William H. Roberts of the Presbyterian general assembly and the Rev. Dr. Edwin Heyl Delk of the Lutheran church. The services were conducted by the Rev. Louis C. Washburn, rector of Old Christ church. The order of service was the one adopted in 1785 by the church to be used every year on the Fourth of July. The service was attended by representatives of President Wilson, Mayor Blankenburg, the Colonial Dames, the Sons of the Revolution and of the Pine Street Presbyterian church, whose pastor, Dr. Duffield, like Dr. White, rector of Old Christ church, was a chaplain of the First Continental congress. The clergy of the diocese in their vestments, with the other guests, met in the Neighborhood House and proceeded into the church while the historic THE CHURCH OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE bells of Old Christ church were ringing as they did in 1776. The entire church was filled with persons who worshiped in the same pews where knelt the churchmen and patriots of the Continental congress. Bishop Garland, at the conclusion of his address, read the following poem, written by him for the occasion: INDEPENDENCE DAY. Lord, in thy house this sacred day We kneel where patriots knelt to pray; They pledged anew their faith in thee, Then took up arms for liberty. Not in their strength, but in thy might, They trusted to defend the right, And thou didst guide them by thy hand And 'stabilised firm our fatherland. God of the patriots, be our guide; Protect this land for which they died; Give us our fathers' faith in thee To live for truth and liberty. One cupful of butter, two cupfuls of granulated sugar, one cupful of milk, three and one-half cupfuls of flour, three level teaspoonfuls of baking powder, whites of six eggs. Sift the flour and baking powder together three times. Add the milk and, last, the eggs; flavor to taste. Divide the batter into two equal portions. To one portion add a few drops of pink fruit coloring. Bake in four layers. Put together with a white iceing; ice in white and decorate with small red and blue candies made to form the dates 1776-1915. Strange, fantastic, beautiful and wonderful things are imprisoned by the fireworks experts in the dull pasteboard cases that cover their magical compounds, as the fisherman's flask of Arabian tradition held the mighty Arft. The fiery dragons, clouds of light, meteoric blazonry of stars, dazzling streamers and coronations of effulgence that fill the air are so many ministers of delight to millions on every Independence day, bringing weird and startling sensations with every fresh glimpse of swiftly fading beauty and glory. WOMEN'S PART IN INDEPENDENCE DAY WOMEN'S PART IN INDEPENDENCE DAY They Had Glorious Share In Winning American Liberty. IT has been said that in every woman's breast there lies the possibility of great heroism. What she can do when put to the test is amply illustrated by the events of history, not alone in our own country, but in all others. Anecdotes of women of the Revolution, showing what they did and what they suffered in so doing, happy in the thought that they were serving the country they loved, are positively thrilling. One wonders how many young women of today would offer themselves to carry a message from one army to another across a country fairly bristling with hostile troops when not a man could be found intrepid enough to take a letter from General Greene to General Sumter. Emily Geiger, a frail young girl, undertook the task and set out on horseback on a sidesaddle. She was intercepted on the second day of her journey by Lord Rawdon, who had her locked up until a Tory matron could be found to search her person. ```markdown ``` ONE OF COLUMBIA'S DAUGHTERS. By this unusual consideration Lord Rawdon lost his coveted information, for as soon as his back was turned she ate the letter, bit by bit! When eventually released she succeeded in reaching her destination, where she was able to give her message orally, if not in true military and documentary style. In consequence Sumter soon joined Greene's army. Emily later married a wealthy planter. The fascinations of women have seldom been used to better advantage than upon a certain afternoon shortly after the retreat from New York, when a troop of British soldiers were detained at the house of a Mrs. Murray, who gave them cake and wine and such sprightly talk that they remained two hours—just long enough to allow General Putnam, the last to leave the city, to make retreat across the dangerous highroad on which the Britishers were lottering. Think of the excitement of this little Quaker when she realized that by her subterfuge she had saved a part of the American army! There is no doubt that we owe our present wealth and ease to the courage and resourcefulness of the early American woman quite as much as to the efforts of the men. She was the mother of those great men whose intellects were the backbone of the American nation. It was her sacrifice and nobility that made it possible for them to be what they were. Their lives are her eternal panegyric; their works the undying proclamation of her power. FROM A JULY 4 SPEECH BY PRESIDENT WILSON. Every patriotic American is a man who is not niggardly and selfish in the things he needs that make for human liberty and the rights of man, but wants to share it with the whole world. And he is never so proud of the great flag as when it means for other people as well as himself the symbol of liberty and freedom. I would be ashamed of this flag if it ever did anything outside of America that we would not permit it to do inside of America. We stand for the mass of the men, women and children who make up the vitality of every nation. The world is becoming more complicated every day. Therefore no man ought to be foolish enough to think he understands it, and that is the reason why I am so glad to know there are some simple things in the world. One of those simple things is principle. Honesty is a perfectly simple thing.—Woodrow Wilson. TWIN CITY STAR In Angela's Garden THE facts that Angela's flower garden occupied less than four square feet of space and consisted of nothing more than some wooden boxes fastened to the fire escape at the library window made her none the less enthusiastic about it. Every morning at 7 she was on the fire escape in her pale blue bonnet attending to her posies, paying especial attention to the washing of the pansies' faces. On the morning of the Fourth of July Angela opened the window a little earlier than usual. The noises around had awakened her. As she was executing the last movement of A. A. VANDEY "ARE YOU HURT?" HE ASKED FEARFULLY. her now gracefully acquired exit from the window a firecracker fell from above and shot off in her garden. Angela started and covered her face. A young man descended quickly by means of the iron ladder. "Are you hurt?" he asked fearfully. Angela uncovered her face and looked up. "N-no, I think not. I was frightened," she said, looking at the remains of the offending firecracker. He heaved a sigh of relief. "It was awfully careless of me," he went on, standing on the bottom rung of the ladder. Angela's garden was hardly large enough for two. "I was just playing 'little boy' again and trying to imagine myself in the country instead of a city apartment. I hope you'll pardon me." There was so much self reproach in his tone that Angela felt that he was truly sorry. "Of course I'll pardon you," she said, with the merest suggestion of a laugh. "I won't shoot any more crackers today. A miss is as good as a mile and it might be a mile next time," he said, fingering the leaf of a nasturtium which had found its way up along the ralling. "But, indeed, I won't be out here long," began Angela, wondering why she was not angry because he remained on the ladder. "I"— "You may remain here all day," he interrupted. "I have done enough mischief for one Fourth." The girl stoooped over and began to twist a wilful vine into place. The young man could not help hoping that he might some day influence the rare human flower before him along the path he wished it to travel as easily and gently as she twisted the nasturtium about the iron bar. He turned and began to climb the ladder. "I am sorry I stepped out so inopportunely and marred your Independence day," said Angela, looking up at him. "Please don't stop your fireworks for me." "Marred my Independence day," he said to himself as he closed the window upstairs. "Well, I don't know about that, but she's marred my peace of mind. Jove, she is pretty!" So the young man in the apartment above Angela's garden found it necessary to rise earlier than was his habit after that Fourth of July morning for a little fresh air. And Angela? It may be that her flowers received less attention after the Fourth of July. But perhaps the exploding of that firecracker hindered their progress; smoke stunts the growth they say. It was raining one morning when Angela opened the window. Close to the ladder stood a pot of flowers which Angela had not planted, one which she had never seen. It was tall and green, and all over it hung little red hearts. She was glad it was raining and that she could not go out among her flowers, because she wanted time to think-time in which to be angry. But some- A. B. Cleaning Pressing Repairing CLIFFORD A. SMITH. 421 UNIVERSITY AVE., ST. PAUL N. W. PHONE DALE 3834. W. S CONRAD CO., Distributors NO. 140. E. 6th ST., ST. PAUL. NO. 1. WESTERN AVE., MINN. Peterson, The Druggist 1501 Washington Ave. So. 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Phone Nic. 1963 111 So. 6th St Minneapolis, Minn. ALL WORK GUARANTEED Work Called For and Delivered Phone Main 3474. THE BEST WORK IN THE CITY Supervised Personally by MRS. SUSIE JOHNSON, Prop. Formerly of St. Paul 604 No. 5th St., Minneapolis PRICES REASONABLE OVER 65 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS # COPYRIGHTS & CERTIFICATION Anyone sending a letter or email quickly ascertain our opinion whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly are not patentable on Patents unless the patent agent for securing Patents taken on Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly, Largest simulation of any scientific journal, Terms, $3 a year; four months, $L Sold by all new advertisers. MUNN & Co. 384 Broadway - New York Branch Office, F. F. St. Washington, D.C. N. W. Dale 1345 St. Paul, Minn. THE FRANCE CAFE Best Bargains in Summer Furniture 5th Street South and Marquette JOHN B. BROWN John L. Gibson, N. W. Tel. Main 31 THE FRANK CHOP-SUEY . . VO REGULAR DINNER AND THE PLAY Best Accommodation EXCELLENT COOKING 300 - 5th Ave. MRS. J. M. MASK, PROP. Best Bargains Furn BOUT 5th Street South 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 June 15 to 21, is Mme. C. J. Walker of Indianapolis, Ind. While in New York she is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Lella 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 MME. C. J. WALKER. 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. 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 Pest. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS --- JOHN H. HARRIS ANCE CAFE LOCAL ENTERTAINER AND A LA CARTE SERVICE SERVICE TO DINE Ins for Private Parties COURTEOUS ATTENTION So.. Minneapolis N. W. Phone Main 2506. is in Summer ture TELL'S n and Marquette A FOURTH OF JULY SENTIMENT. CONTEMPLATE the condition of that country of which you form an important part. Consider its government, uniting in one bond of common interest and general protection so many different states, giving to all their inhabitants the proud title of American citizens, protecting their commerce, securing their literature and their arts, facilitating their intercommunication, defending their frontiers and making their name respected in the remotest parts of the earth. Consider the extent of territory, its increasing and happy population, its advance in arts which render life agreeable and the sciences which elevate the mind. See education spreading the lights of religion, morality and general information into every cottage in this wide extent of our territories and states. Behold it as the asylum where the wretched and the oppressed find a refuge and support! Look on this picture of happiness and honor and say, "We, too, are citizens of America!"—Andrew Jackson. ```markdown ``` THE SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE DAY. THE spirit of the nation is at the highest. Its triumph over the inborn, inbred perils of the constitution has chased away all fears, justified all hopes, and with universal joy we greet this day. We have not proved unworthy of a great ancestry. We had the virtue to uphold what they so wisely, so firmly established. With these proud possessions of the past, with powers matured, with principles settled, with habits formed, the nation passes, as it were, from preparatory growth to responsible development of character and the steady performance of duty. What labors await it, what trials shall attend it, what triumphs for human nature, what glory for itself are prepared for this people in the coming century we may not assume to foretell. "One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever," and we reverently hope that these our constituted liberties shall be maintained to the unending line of our posterity and so long as the earth itself shall endure. In the great procession of nations, in the great march of humanity, we hold our place. Peace is our duty; peace is our policy. In its arts, its labors and its victories, then, we find scope for all our energies, rewards for all our ambitions, renown enough for all our love of fame.—William M. Evarts. China the Birthplace of Fireworks. The trick of protechyney, along with the formula for gunpowder, was brought to Europe from China and the far east about the thirteenth century. Ever since then specialists equipped with all the resources of chemistry have devoted themselves to this brilliant and fascinating scenic art until now the protechynet's skill amazes and enraptures the spectacle loving populace in every civilized country. 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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. The Chicago Daily News laments the decay of vagrant minstrelsy and the midnight serenade. The editor puts the blame on the passing of the barber shop cult before the march of the safety razor. The old time barber shop, the editor thinks, was a training school for budding minnesinger. Perhaps, however, machine music is chiefly responsible for the change. Some of this is so good as to discourage amateur effort, while much of it wearies and disgusts the auditor and thus reacts upon young musical genius. One phase of the present state of affairs can be accepted as proof of substantial and permanent bettering of business, and that is the demand in nearly every state for good agricultural lands at generally advancing prices. Farmers have the money to buy lands for themselves and their children and also have the confidence in agriculture. Real estate in manufacturing districts is being sold at considerably higher prices than it was possible to obtain the last three or your years. The practice of selling abroad at a low profit or no profit or even a substantial loss, at any price necessary to get the business away from somebody else, has been carried further by German manufacturers under the sanction and even assistance of their government than anywhere else, and it accounts in great part for the enormous expansion of the German foreign trade in the period preceding the war. Watermelons are reported unusually large in size this year. That's a boon to the boy who gets away with it on a dark night, but the most of us will find no more juiciness to the square inch. The quarreling Mexican generals promptly discovered that they could feed the starving people the moment the United States turned its humanity flashlight across the border. If but a fraction of the time which bathing crowds devote to tomfoolery were given to swimming lessons the fool who rocks the boat would soon lose his importance. Dr. Wiley would call us back to the simple life of grinding our flour at home. Does that mean revive the "mortar, pestle, pounder" of our grand-daddies? Public money devoted to vocational training would be well invested if vocational training in the neglected art of swimming were part of the curriculum. Washington reports that this country could raise 20,000,000 soldiers if it were forced to do so, and nobody hopes it will be. War as "made in Germany" calls for a bigger man than old Sherman to invent a fitting definition. There is a large and growing job at rewriting international law looking for the right man. RING in the FOURTH THE FOURTH OF JULY By GEORGE W. BETHUNE. Maine, from her farthest border, gives the first exulting shout, And from New Hampshire's granite heights the echoing peal rings on; The mountain farms of stanch Vermont prolong the thundering call, And the mountain banker Hill" a watchword for us all. Rhode Island shakes her sea wet locks, soalming with the free, And the giant breaks forth in joyous harmony; The giant joy of proud New York, loud as an earthquake's roar, Is heard from Hudson's crowded banks to Erie's crowded shore. Still on the blooming volley rolls, o'er plains and flower glades, To where the Mississippi's flood the turbid gulf invades; The menacing a mighty stream upon her mighter tide, Come down the swelling, long huzzas from all that valley wide. And wood crowned Allegheny's call, from all her summits high. Reverberates among the rocks that pierce the sunset sky. While on the shores and through the swales, round the vast infant seas. The stars and stripes midst freemer songs are flashing to the breeze. The woodsman from the mother takes his boy upon his knee And tells him how their fathers fought and bled for liberty. The lonely hunter sits him down the forest spring beside To him upon his country's worth and feel his country's pride. While many a foreign accent which our God can understand Is blessing him for home and bread in this free, fertile land. Yes, the unborn eastern coast we sink to happy rest. The day of independence rolls still onward to the west. Till dies on the Pacific shore the shout of fubile. That woke the morning with its voice along the Atlantic sea. O God, look down upon the land which thou hast loved so well And grant that in unbroken truth her children still may dwell. Nor while the grass grows on the hill and streams flow through the vale. May they forget their fathers' faith or in their covenant fall; Keep, God, the fairest, noblest land that lies beneath the sun—"Our country, our whole country, and our country ever one." UNDER the STARS and the STRIPES UNDER the STARS and the STRIPES By Madison Cawein Ever for justice, our heel upon wrong. We in the right of our vengeance thrice strong! Rally together! Come tramping along Under the stars and stripes. OUT of our strength and a nation's great need, Under the stars and stripes. Heroes again as of old we shall breed, Under the stars and stripes. Broad to the winds be our banner un- furled. Straight in wrong's face let defiance be hurled! God on our side, we will battle the world Under the stars and stripes. An Old "Safe and Sane" Law. Philadelphia had a law against fireworks fifty-five years before the Declaration of Independence was signed. 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. --- TWIN CITY STAR SIGNERS OF HIGH RANK. some of the Nations Patrons were Men of Wealth and Distinction. Among the men who pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor in support of the principles of the Declaration of Independence, risking all in breathing life into the nation, were persons of high rank and distinction. Some of them possessed fame which passed the boundaries of the colonies and was recognized in the mother country. Stephen Hopkins, whose tremulous signature is familiar to every person who has seen the Declaration, was chief justice of Rhode Island before the war, and he was the first abolitionist. He introduced a bill in the colonial legislature to prohibit the importation of slaves and carried out his ideas practically by giving freedom to all the slaves he owned. Besides all this, he was a great mathematician, and his name will go down in scientific history as the observer of the transit of Venus in June, 1761. He was one of the founders of the Public library at Providence, a member of the American Philosophical society and the founder and patron of the free schools of Providence. The trembling of his hand when he signed the Declaration was not due to fear—to which he was a stranger—but to paly. He was a sufferer from that malady for many years. Richard Stockton of New Jersey was probably the best known lawyer in America. As early as 1764 he had been John Hancock Saint Adams John Adams Post-Fear Paulae Wbridge Gerry Josh Bartlett Mr Mapple a Matthew Thomas Steve Hopkins William Ellery Roger Sherman SIGNATURES OF SOME OF THE SIGNERS. made a sergeant-at-law, in those times a position of high distinction in his profession. In 1708, when he visited England, he found that his fame had preceded him, and he was received everywhere with the greatest respect. At Edinburgh he was formally received by the lord provost, and the citizens by unanimous vote conferred the freedom of the city on him in recognition of his great learning. He was a friend of the king, who made him supreme court judge of New Jersey. Still he cast his lot in with the American patriots, saw his great estate seized and ruined and finally died from the effects of brutal treatment while he was a prisoner in the hands of the British. Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire, besides being one of the first members of congress to vote for the Declaration of Independence, was also the first American physician to discover the virtues of the now universally used drug, quinine. He was eminent for his surgical skill long before the war broke out. Philip Livingston of New York was a man of great wealth and distinguished ancestry, a direct descendant of a regent of Scotland, a king of the Hebrides and the Earl of Livingston, in Scotland. His father was the founder of Livingston Manor, on the Hudson. Philip himself was the most prominent merchant of New York city. He was the friend and correspondent of Edmund Burke, and Burke's friendship for America and defense of her cause were due to Livingston's lucid explanations. July 4 Song Nobly our flag fitters' or us today, Emblem of peace, pledge of liberty's Itsoes shall tremble and shrink in dismay If e'er insulted it be. Our stripes and stars, loved and honored by all. Shall forever where freedom may call. It still shall be the flag of the free, Emblem of sweet liberty. CHORUS. Here we will gather, its cause to defend; Let patriots rally and wise counsel lend. It still shall be the flag of the free, Emblem of sweet liberty. With it in beauty no flag can compare; All nations honour our banner so fair. If to insult it a traitor should dare, To accord to the earth let him be! Freedom and progress our watchword to-day. When duty calls us who dare disobey? Honor to thee, thou flag of the free. Emblem of sweet liberty. For a July 4 Luncheon. Make the luncheon color scheme that of the national colors—red, white and blue. A cunning centerpiece may be evolved by the use of tin soldiers. Make a fort by the use of a white pasteboard box of convenient size turned upside down and marked into oblongs to represent brick. Color the bricks by the use of a red lead penell or water colors. Place in the center a flagpole surmounted by a flag. Arrange the soldiers on top of and round-about the fort. The color scheme may be carried further by the use of white place cards the corners of which are decorated with tiny flags in water colors. An Old Time CHORUS THE MORAL PHASE OF NEGRO LIFE. Home Training Most Important Says Miss Namile 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 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 alms to uphold the honor of our women by opposing the passage of anti-race inter-marriage laws. 6. 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