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DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Defective Page VOL. 5 Single Copies 5 Cents from Ohio to the national legislation by Ohio Legislature. The Platt-Ellis bill offered in the last session of the Ohio legislature, containing, among other provisions, that applicants for license to practice medicine or its allied branches shall state their color, race and complexion and furnish their pictures, was objected to by the Hom. Harry C. Smith, editor and owner of the Cleveland (O.) Gazette and a former member of the state legislature. Mr. Smith in a letter to Governor Willis recently called the chief executive's attention to the proposed legislation and received from the governor the following reply: State of Ohio, Executive Department. Columbus, Aug. 8, 1915. Hom. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette. Cleveland, O.: Dear Mr. Smith—I thank you for your assistance with our clipping. I am glad to note that you published Mr. Boyle's statement in full. This, it appears to me, is a complete answer to the misrepresentations that were made relative to the action of the tax commission. I thank you for your assistance with the matter right with your good people. I notice the reference you make to the forms which have been provided by the state medical board under the "Flatt-Ellis" bill. I took this matter up at the state medical board. After quite a full discussion the doctor agreed to eliminate the objectionable provision. The new blanks will say nothing about race or complexion. Neither will photographs be required. I trust that you will comply with your approval. Very truly young. Evil Influences at Work in the South. An Atlanta (Ga.) dispatch says there has sprung up recently in the rural sections of several southern states an expression of racial feeling which it allowed to take its course would. It is believed, do more to prevent the advancement of the Negro and the solution of the problem of the whites and the blacks living in harmony and proper social and economic relation than any influence which has put in its appearance in the last decade. Among Those Present. "Did Blinks exhibit at the horse show?" "Well, he made an ass of himself."—Philadelphia Ledger. PROGRESS AMONG NEWSPAPER MEN Work of National Negro Press Association Noted. SUGCEEDING IN NEW FIELDS Henry Allen Boyd In Address at Boston Paints Glowing Picture of the Efforts and Achievements of the Association in Various Directions. Many New Features Projected. Boston - The address of Henry Allen Boyd, corresponding secretary of the National Negro Press association, before the recent meeting of the National Negro Business league recently held here, was a fine feature of the convention. Mr. Boyd covered the activities of the association and its achievements since its inception at Louisville, Ky., in August, 1800, very thoroughly. Among the advance steps taken by the association as outlined in Secretary Boyd's address are the following: EDMET ALLEN BOTD. The compilation of a newspaper and bank directory, the innervation of a reciprocity news service, the traveling membership card, the standardization of newspaper advertising, the inner circle telegraphic news service, the telegraphic collect card system, the metal membership badge to introduce the members and correspondents to county and state officials, the recognition of news gathering associations home and abroad, a telegraphic code system for the membership of the craft, a systematic plate news service system and a recognized school of journalism for newspaper correspondents. Mr. Boyd said these steps had been taken with great precaution and entitled considerable labor on the part of the officers of the association; that the first undertaking, that of preparing a newspaper directory, meant more work possibly than any other feature. There are more than 400 newspapers and magazines published by our people in the United States. Not so many of the publishers are acquainted with one another, however. But after the compilation of this directory the newspapers began to become better acquainted with one another, and each year since then the membership of the association has greatly increased. The reciprocal news service was started after careful consideration, discussion and correspondence. It was found that the daily papers, associated presses, dispatches, etc., were not giving the Negro citizens a square deal and that the more essential things for the benefit of the race in general were not included in these dispatches, but that the Negro was being greatly misrepresented. The wrongs committed and errors made were in many instances magnified, while their virtues, adventures, investments and prospects were being greatly minimized, if told at all. Therefore it would be easy, as the papers were giving important news and facts for their own local papers, to reciprocate by giving such news to other papers; hence the things that were known locally might be sent broadcast for the upbuilding of the entire race. It was also found that the standardization of advertising matter was more needed among us than any other industry known to our people. The man- ufacturers and the agents are anxious to have our trade, but they pay large compensation to the daily papers and have not heretofore recognized the Negro journals. The object, therefore, to be obtained in this is to work together to have the merchant understand that if he wants our trade he should advertise in Negro journals. If this can be fully set forth the white business concerns can be made to understand that in order to reach Negro patrons they must do it through Negro newspapers. Then and not until then will the Negro newspapers receive a proper and just recompense of reward for their labor. Speaking on the question of the inner circle telegraphic news service, Mr. Boyd said that from years of experience and constant traveling he found that the Negro newspapers would have a far better and larger circulation if the readers could depend on these papers for the doings at a distance at short notice; that invariably Negro papers under the present system have no particular systematic rule of giving and forwarding this news. The telegraph company when approached on this subject expressed its willingness to give the Negro papers the same service if our papers become patrons. Since we have taken this step thousands of messages have been flashed over the wires to our members. With the use of the telegraphic collect card and the membership card the correspondent may present his two cards at any office and have the newspaper pay for the message at its home office. It can be seen that through this system the Negro newspapers may have their correspondents on the road gathering news, and that news can be sent to hundreds of newspapers without any cost to himself and each newspaper pay for the message at its own home office. If this can be thoroughly understood the Negro newspapers of this country will have taken a long needed step. As to the use of the membership metal badge, Mr. Boyd said that this step was not and is not understood by the newspaper fraternity and correspondents themselves. The object of this metal badge and its use are one of the greatest steps that have yet been undertaken for the real benefit of our people who might be so unfortunate as to fall into the clutches of the law. By the use of this metal badge being understood and recognized by state, county and city officials a member of the press association would be admitted to most any place where anything of importance happens and could thus give to the race the facts instead of depending solely upon the stories as given in the daily papers, which are quite often misleading. DEFENDER OF HIS PEOPLE. Hon. Harry C. Smith Prevents Inimical Legislation by Ohio Legislature. FRANK B. WILLIS. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. HOME FOR CONVALESCENTS. Urban League Opens Valley Rest, at North White Plains, N. V. North White Plains, N. Y. New York.—The National League on Urban Conditions Among Colored People is conducting a convalescent home for colored patients. This institution is located at North White Plains, N. Y. The name of the institution is Valley Rest, because of its beautiful location along the lines of the Harlem division of the New York Central railroad, where, located in a valley, it commands a beautiful view of the hills beyond. For the time being only women will be accommodated, and care will be taken to receive no cases of persons afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis, communicable diseases, serious cardiac and renal affections, pronounced nervous and mental disorders and conditions offensive to others. Its main purpose is to provide complete rest for a period or two weeks or more, if necessary, to those persons who, following a period of illness, are wholly or partly unable to work but MRS. MARTHA HARRIS—VALLEY BEST. who after a reasonable period of convalescence will regain sufficient strength to resume their employment. The capacity of the house at first will be twelve, but will be increased if found necessary. Applications for admission should be made at the office of the National Urban league, 2303 Seventh avenue, to E. K. Jones, associate director. The superintendent of the home is Mrs. Martha Harris, a graduate of the Lincoln hospital, this city. The examining physicians are Drs. A. S. Reed and E. P. Roberts. Those now being accommodated at the home are very loud in their praise of the institution. The equipment, which is new, has been installed at a cost of nearly $1,000 and is beautiful in its simplicity and comfort. The following letter was sent to Mr. E. K. Jones, associate director of the league, by the first four women to be admitted to the home. It says: "My Dear Mr. Jones—Words cannot express our gratitude to you. Everything is so comfortable and homelike that we are afraid you will have great trouble in sending us home again. Mrs. Harris, superintendent, is the best friend we have ever met. She is like a dear, loving mother to us all. About our meals—well, we think we will be silent for fear you may take ill and desire to come up here to convalescue. Thank you for your interest in our welfare." Ohio Pythians to Honor W. L. Anderson. The following named lodges of the Knights of Pythias of Ohio have contributed to what is known as a surprise fund with which the lodges will present to Grand Chancellor W. L. Anderson a gold watch, chain and charm when the fund is completed: Logan, Pride of the West, Prosperity, Odessa, Pickaway, Border City, Ohio River, Guiding Star, Polar Star, Damon, Diamond, Garnet, Harmony, Gallipolis, Mali Valley, Mystery, Hill City, Minton, Stith, R. B. Bance, Carnation, R. V. Thomas and A. Moore, W. H. Ford and P. A. Stamps. Activity of the Woman Suffrage Party. Among the capable and ambitious colored women in New York who believe in votes for women is Miss Lydia Newman, who has been placed in charge of a branch headquarters recently opened at 207 West Sixty-third street, New York, by the Woman Suffrage party. Miss Newman will make a thorough canvass among the voters of that section of the city in behalf of votes for women. THE EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE. National Situation Demands Closer Union of Colored American Citizens. Boston.—The year 1915 is a momentous year for the colored American. It is the midcentury year since the armies of the Confederacy and slavery surrendered to the armies of the Union and of freedom. It is the semicentennial anniversary year of the enactment of the thirteenth amendment, which made emancipation nation wide and legal. This year the movements against the fruits of that war have come in the form of criminal legislation and photo plays which create ill feeling against our race and also jimcrow laws never before enacted against a thrifty and law abiding class of American citizens. Never before his color disfranchement been practiced in northern states as is true of the happenings recorded since Jan. 1, 1915. For the first time also the colored nation of the western hemisphere loses its full independence through our United States. Haiti is being almost anothered up under the guise of a protectorate. The world's most extensive and terrible war is waging over Europe, with African and Indian soldiers taking gallant part. Meanwhile for the first time in fifty years this country feels that war with outsiders is likely enough to need more soldiers, thereby giving colored citizens the first opportunity to press for concession of civil rights. Despite this situation, there has this year been no national gathering of colored Americans to deliberate and speak upon these matters. Is there any other civilized racial element of equal size which would not be nationally organized for self defense? Is it creditable to us as a race not to assemble in national convention right away to consider and speak the sentiments of our own element as American citizens? Surely the crisis demands such a national gathering. The only organization the race has of its own along this line is the National Independence Equal Rights league. This body is now free from partisan politics and is aggressive. On its policies all can come in with full standing. Its annual meeting will be held the last week of September. Will the colored American make it a truly national equal rights race assembly on equality of citizenship? They should do so. The invitation is here extended freely to individuals and to secular and religious organizations to unite with the league in the coming meeting. Correspondence is solicited at once from liaisy and clergy all over the country by the president, Rev. Byron Gunner of Hillburn, N. Y., and the secretary, William Monroe Trotter, 49 Cornhill, Boston. FIRST BISHOP OF OUR RACE. How Francoisco Jovier de Luna Vic- toria Responde a El Eninante toria Rose to the Episcopate. The first bishop of Negro blood on the American continent to wear the miter was Right Rev. Francisco Jovier de Luna Victoria, who was the son of a freed slave who pursued the vocation of a charcoal burner, near Boca de la Rio Grande, and peddled it on his back in the streets of Panama, as one there may see many Negroes still doing. This old man lived for no other purpose than to rear and educate his son and offer him for the sacred ministry, and he saw his purpose accomplished. Luna Victoria was not only a man of virtue and learning, but a successful man of affairs as well. When the see of Panama became vacant by the promotion of Bishop Juan de Casterida to the see of Cuzco, Peru, it having been offered to and refused by several members of religious orders, the miter fell upon the head of the priest Francisco Jovier de Luna Victoria, a native of the country, who had ascended in the degrees of the ecclesiastical hierarchy by his merits and virtues. He was well received and accepted by the people of Panama in those days, when it was known as a "proud and wealthy city." He took possession of the diocese on the 15th of August, 1751. The new prelate, it is recorded, furnished at his own expense the cathedral and enriched it with jewelry and precious vestments, placed the bells on the towers and was transferred to the see of Trujillo, Peru, in 1750. He continued to furnish the money until the building was completed on the 3d of December, 1760. He was the first man of Negro blood on the American continent to wear the miter and the flowing robes of a bishop of the Roman Catholic church. Not His Funeral. Wife (studying vocalism) - I wish, dear, you'd have double windows put on. I'm afraid my practicing will dis- turb the neighbors. Hub-Well, if it does it's up to them to put on double windows. -Boston Transcript GEORGIA LEADER OF FINE ABILITY ENTERED MINISTRY EARLY. Son of Pioneer Religious Worker in Empire State of the South Makes Wonderful Progress as Educator and Methodist Clergyman—Member of Several Noted Fraternal Societies. Plains, Ga.—Georgia has given to the race many strong and able men in state and church. They have been heard from in all sections of the country. In the rank of young men is to be found one of the brightest pulpit orators, ministers and general leaders in the person of the Rev. William D. Johnson, who was born at Glasgow, Thomas county, Ga., Nov. 15, 1869. He is the son of a minister, one of the pioneers of the A. M. E. church work in Georgia, the Rev. Andrew J. Johnson. Young Johnson was placed in school at an early age and pursued his course of study for several terms in the schools of his native county. His father died when he was fourteen years of age, leaving to young Johnson the care of a mother and four younger children. William D. Johnson taught in the public schools of Georgia for quite a number of years. He was licensed as an exhorter in April, 1887, by the Rev. W. H. Powell at Waycross, Ga., licensed as a preacher in W. D. JOHNSON, D. D. October, 1887, by the Rev. J. B. Lofton at McDew, Ga., and recommended for admission into the Georgia annual conference in December, 1889, by the Rev. W. O. P. Sherman. He was ordained a deacon by Bishop W. J. Gaines in 1891 and as an elder by Bishop Abraham Grant in 1883. The Rev. Mr. Johnson has served the following charges during his eventful career as a minister: Westonia mission, 1889; district superintendent Thomasville district, 1890; Dawson mission, 1891-2; Cuthbert circuit, 1898; Blakely station, 1894-5; Arlington circuit, 1896-7; Albany station, 1898-9; presiding elder Bainbridge district, 1900-1-2; Americus station, 1904-5; presiding elder Thomasville district, 1906-7; presiding elder Columbus district, 1908; St. James' station, Columbus, Ga., 1909-10-11; presiding elder Cuthbert district, 1912-18-14-15. He was elected as delegate to the general conferences of 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912; delegate to the ecumenical conference of 1911; served on the church extension board 1904-8; on the missionary board 1912-16. He was assistant secretary of the general conference of 1900-4; chief secretary general conference of 1906-12; secretary of the Georgian conference, 1904-5-6; secretary of southwest Georgia conference, 1988-1915. Dr. Johnson was secretary of the trustee board of the Morris Brown university 1904 to 1915. He had the degree of D. D. conferred upon him by Morris Brown college. He is a prominent and active member of the following fraternal organizations of Georgia: A. F. and A. M., G. N. O. of O. F., K. of P. S. C. of B. American Woodmen, S. O. A., Q. P. N., I. O. O. C., H. H. of R. and Eastern Star. He is the founder and president of the board of trustees of the Johnson Home Industrial college, a school for the education of colored youth. He is very prominent as a public speaker and eagerly sought after on an annual No. 39 sary occasions. The Rev. Dr. Johnson enjoys the reputation of being one of the best secretaries the race has produced. He is being prominently mentioned as a candidate for episcopal honors at the next general conference of the A. M. E church in 1916. The delegates of West Africa will ask him to consent to succeed Bishop Heard. Dr. Johnson is well known throughout the state and by his fidelity and manly bearing has won a host of friends. He is well qualified for higher episcopal honors. He has, in the common parlance, delivered the gobbs, as may be seen from his record as outlined above. His interest in the various secret and benevolent organizations is of the most substantial sort. LOVEJOY'S PRINTING PRESS. Chicago Vaulters Attracted by Historic Ballo of Fame Abolitionist Chicago.-The Lincoln jubilee and half century celebration, designed to show the progress of the colored race in America during the past fifty years, was formally opened in this city on Monday, Aug. 24. This is perhaps the last and doubtless the greatest of any similar exposition held in commemoration of the first half hundred years since the civil war. One of the very first objects to attract the attention of the visitors on the opening day was a hand printing press such as was used fifty years ago. This little relic was surrounded by a cluster of automobiles of the 1915 model, which formed a striking contrast in mechanical construction. The printing press was the historic one on which Owen P. Lovejoy printed his abolition newspaper at Alton, Ill., his reward being death at the hands of a mob. The press was thrown into a river. The motorcars on exhibition are for the inspection of well to do colored farmers and business men of the present generation. In the center of the Coliseum, where the exposition is being held, is a life size statue of Abraham Lincoln, which rests in a miniature temple. "Let us keep step to the music of the republic," an injunction written by Lincoln, is the keynote of the exposition, which is made up of exhibits which are claimed by Bishop Fallows and his fellow Illinois commissioners to be the most striking collection of the achievements of the race which has ever been assembled at any one time or place. The exposition is being largely attended each day and night. It will not close until Thursday, Sept. 18, which will be designated as Illinois day. The celebration is so full of interest to white and colored people that it has already developed that it will be barely possible for the great crowds to see and examine with profit the multitude of exhibits and charts of figures and facts before the exposition closes. Sept. 2 is designated as Roman Catholic Order of Foresters' day, Sept. 8 Presbyterian and True Reformers' day and Sept 4 Kentucky day. The officers of the Illinois commission in charge of the exposition are: President ex officio, Hon. Edward F. Dunne, governor of Illinois. President, Right Rev. Samuel Fallows, D. D., LL. D. Treasurer, Major George W. Ford. Rev. A. J. Carey, Ph. D., D. D.; Hon. John Dalley, Hon. W. D. Wulf Piercy, Hon. R. R. Jackson, Hon. Medill McCormick. Secretary, Thomas Wallace Swann. General finance committee, W. C. Niblk, chairman. Local finance committee, Leon Hornstein, chairman. W. R. Dawes, general treasurer. James Hale Porter, chief field agent. Oriental punctillo is seen in the Japan-China deal where the mikado "approved" the demands on China after his ultimatum had forced China to accept them without modification. It is proposed to organize another "peace league." If the numerous leagues now working would organize and get into a pull altogether league peace might get on some. The department of agriculture is experimenting to turn grape juice into sipru. Isn't this a case for paternalism to let well enough alone? When each of several warring nations calls upon the Almighty to aid its cause because of the righteousness of that cause the ironist smiles. War is revolution also. Who could have predicted that American skilled workmen would be tempted to emigrate to Europe? The society fad of buckling down to yeoman's work will, of course, set the tango dancers and golfers to building our railroads. Send your notes to us by Wednesday A. M. Send your subscription now. Bring your printing to the Twin City Star Print, 305 So. 5th St. Patronize those business houses, who request your patronage through your paper. Mrs. Mary K. Gray of Chicago Ave., entertained at cards from 2 to 5 on Labor Day in honor of her daughter, Miss Edna Gray, now of Washington, D. C. Progressive whist was played at eight tables. Appropriate prizes were given. Mrs. Mary E. Pope of 216 W. 31 St. entertained in honor of Miss Edna Gray on Friday evening. Rev. Stovall's Prize Offer. Rev. T. B. Stovall of St. Peter A. M. E. Church has offered two prizes for the best essay on "The Present Condition of the County". He is trying to interest the young people. Essays are to be read on Sunday, Sept. 19. 1st prize $3.00, 2nd prize $2.00. Contest open to all. The concert given by the children of Zion Baptist Church on Monday evening was in every way a success. TABLE BOARD Best Home Cooked Food for Weekly Boarders. Reasonable Price. Call Mrs. Darby, 102 Bryant Ave. No Phone Main 3191. Miss Jonsie Wright is improving at the Asbury Hospital. There are many reports as to how she sustained her injuries. She has the sympathy of many, who know her. She is the daughter of Mr. John S. Wright, clerk at the post office. Many claim that she suffered brutal treatment at his hands, if such is true, he should suffer, if not, he should bring such rumors to an end. Mrs Mrs. O. D. Phelps gave a luncheon Monday afternoon for Mrs. E. A. Jackson. Mr. Geo. B. Kelley of Duluth was a guest of the Editor of the Star last week. He attended the Auto races with "Thann Travis' party from St. Paul and spoke Sunday at the Forum, also visited the State Fair. Mr. Kelley is connected with Jane Listman's Shop, and is an authority on decorative art. Mrs. Ada Engelhardt, 525 No. Bryant Ave., entertained a large host of friends at her residence in honor of Mrs. E. A. Jackson of Chicago. The decorations were Autumn leaves and flowers. Delicious refreshments were served. About 100 persons were present. Miss Thelma Crawford has returned from a three month's visit with her aunt in Wheeling, W. Va., having spent a pleasant vacation. Whether Minneapolis goes wet or dry—is of no concern to the Editor of this publication. Mrs. John Sellars has been appointed chairman of the Program Committee of the Minneapolis Sunday Forum. Mrs. Lottie Sensabaugh, who has rendered excellent service in this position, declined to serve at this term. The deportment of the young people at the Forum is becoming intolerable. Parents are responsible for their children in public places as well as at home. Remember! Miss Joyce Dorsey has accepted a position as music teacher at San Antonio, Tex. Mr. P. H. Southall has moved to 1622 8th St. So. Madam Bergen entertained the Lee Sewing Circle at St. Peter's Church on Sept. 8th. Mr. A. Lawrence gave an Autoparty to the Lake of the Isles. Mrs. E. A. Jackson of Chicago was the honored guest. Miss Anna Colby of Duluth spent the week end with Mrs. John Monroe of Snelling Ave. Mrs. A. Massey of Riverside Ave., is seriously ill. Mrs. Frank Peoples is on her return from a trip to the Coast. Mr. and Mrs. Justin M. Brown have moved to 2526 So. 8th St. There are persons who do things worth mentioning and never give newspapers any copy. How can we get news, if it is not sent to us? SUBSCRIBE NOW. To Subscribe Is To Pay. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION Grand Jury Returns "No Bill" Against Negro Physician, Accused af Performing Criminal Operation on a White Woman. The Grand Jury of Hennepin County returned a "no bill" against Dr. J. H. Redd, on Wednesday. He was accused of performing a criminal operation on Eleanor Titus, who died in the City Hospital. The post mortem examination proved that no operation had been performed. Dr. Redd had been arrested and was released on $1,000 bail furnished by Doctors Wilcox and Hynes, leading white surgeons. He admitted, when brought before the girl, his connection with her case, having committed her to the Hospital. After her death he was re-arrested charged with manslaughter, his bail increased to $5,000, which was produced. Prof. Wm. H. Howard and Mr. Solomon Saunders went on his bond. There was a general feeling of rejoicing after the verdict of the grand jury exonorating Dr. Redd of manslaughter became known. Many expressions of sympathy and beliefs of his innocence were heard when the unfortunate girl died. It was a test of Dr. Redd's popularity among his people, as well as his high professional standing which he has won by study and deportment. During the last three years he has been the assistant clinician at the University of Minnesota Dispensary, giving much of his time gratis to the State, for the advancement of medical science and to suffering humanity. His conduct has been such that he received the sympathy of all fair-minded citizens. He was a victim of circumstances which may happen to any member of his profession, and keenly felt the effect of the charge and the humiliation of his arrest. Dr. Redd has a loving family and a beautiful home. His wife is the daughter of Prof. Chas H. Moore, National Organizer of the Negro Business League. They have a charming little daughter. He has a good practice among both races and deserved the support of his people. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. H. Lyles entertained a few friends at their beautiful residence, 678 St. Anthony Ave. on Tuesday evening in honor of Mrs. Mary B. Talbert of Buffalo, N. Y., and her daughter, Miss Sarah May Talbert. Mrs. Lyles was assisted by Mrs. A. H. Lealtad and her daughter, Miss Catherine, Mrs. W. R. Hardy, Mrs. Wm. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Parker, Atty. Gale Hilyer and Dr. J. L. Titus. Choice refreshments were served and an enjoyable evening was spent. Mrs. Lyles entertained Rev. H. P. Jones at 6 o'clock dinner on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Robert Young, 2318 10th Ave. So., will serve breakfast Sunday morning to a select party. Miss Edna Gray will be the honored guest. Mrs. Jas. Darby, 102 No. Bryant Ave., will serve home cooked food beginning this week. A chance to secure family service at reasonable rates. JUDGE JOHNSQN'S GRAND OPENING. SEPT. 14. Judge Johnson will present the Latest Chicago Dances at his Grand Fall Opening at Union Temple Hall, 28 Washington Ave. So., on Sept. 14. Annual Conference The Annual Conference of the Fourth Episcopal District of the A. M. E. Church will convene at Milwaukee, Wis., on Sept. 22. Rev. T. B. Stovall of St. Peter A. M. E. Church and Rev. E. R. Edwards of St. James A. M. E. Church will attend. Agent for Negro Dolls. Mrs. I. S. Bogie, 616 Tyler St., has accepted the agency for the Negro Dolls, and is soliciting orders. She will be assisted by Miss Lady Walker. Mrs. Bogie represents the National Negro Doll Co. of Nashville, Tenn. Place your order now. Rev. H. P. Jones, Pastor of St. James A. M. E. Church, St. Paul, will preach his last sermon in Minneapolis at St. James A. M. E. Church, 315 Eighth Ave. S., Minneapolis, Sunday Sept. 12th, at 3:00 P. M. All are cordially invited to attend this service. Rev. E. R. Edwards, Pastor. It is reported that Mr. Edw. Stewart has sold the Twin City Stag Club and the new management will take charge this month. LOTS FOR SALE ON EASY TERMS. I have a few lots on Chicago Ave., Columbus, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 10th, 11th, 12th and Elliott Aves. South between 40-46th Sts. South. Prices from 350 to 500 dollars each, that I will sell from 10 to 25 dollars down and 5 and 10 dollars per month. F. People, 325 5th St. South.-Advertisement TWIN CITY STAR You Are Invited to JUDGE JOHNSON'S GRAND OPENING UNION TEMPLE HALL at 28 Washington Ave. So. HE WENT TH And Felt Like a G and Shut Joseph attended so larger cities of the c day, having vexed h misconduct, he was to wait until she he him. One of his de tors came along and First Dance of the Season McCULLOUGH'S ORCHESTRA J. B. Coleman is the owner and proprietor of a successful steam laundry in Columbia, Missouri. He is said to employ fifteen persons regularly. Anderson & Company, Bankers, of Jacksonville, Florida, recently conducted a "Tag?Day" to increase the number of deposits at their bank. The plan was a success and nearly one thousand new accounts were opened. Mr. Charles H. Anderson, the Cashier, is also Treasurer of the National Negro Business League. James R. Lowe who is engaged in the general hauling business at Pasadena, California, was recently given a contract by the city for removing all the rubbish from the streets. Plans are said to be perfected for the building of a $100,000 hotel in Indianapolis to be owned and operated by Negroes. Isaac Fisher, the noted Tuskegee writer and essayist, has recently written a maving picture drama entitled, "When True Love Wins." The production will be made by Negro actors. The Hamilton-Brown Shoe factory at Columbia, Mo., is said to employ a number of Negroes in responsible, well-paying positions. J. Turner Wall, Esq., who is well known here, where he conducted a real estate office, attended the Business League Meeting in Boston. He is now manager of the Coast Service System at Asbury Park, and is making as usual a success. Mrs. Wm. Helm had the only Minnesota Exhibit at the Chicago Exposition. NEGRO TAKES PROMINENT PART IN SPEEDWAY RACE. Mr. Geo. W. James, head tire man at the Goodrich Rubber Co., in this city had charge of the repair pits at the Motor Speedway Track last Saturday. He had charge of over 200 Goodrich Silvertown Cord Tires which he applied at the store the week preceding the big event. Mr. James also had a crew of 6 men under his supervision at the track. He is a recognized tire expert and a valuable employee of the Goodrich Co., whose tires were used by every car in the race. Messrs. Ike and Fuller Thompson will go hunting next week. Messrs. Geo. Bennett and Alex. Rogers are back in the city after a successful season at West Baden, Ind., and Mackinac Island, Mich. Mr. W. J. Shelbach, formerly of Minneapolis is the proprietor of one of the leading hotels of Saskatoon, Sask. Mr. Shalback will visit old friends in the Twin Cities this fall. Mr. Bruce Kinley of Omaha is here visiting the Minn. State Fair. Mr. Wm. Fort is employed by The Rio Grand R. R. Co., and has a choice run from Salt Lake to Denver. Mr. Leon Vance was tendered a reception by his friends. Mr. Vance will remain in the city indefinitely. Dr. J. A. Napier, nephew of J. C. Napier, Ex. Register of Treasury, returning from the Pan American Exposition stopped over in Minneapolis to visit his classmates. Mr. J. A. Fannon and Mr. E. McIntosh. Dr. Napier completed his education abroad and has the reputation of possessing the finest and most elaborate dental parlors in Nashville. Mr. Geo. W. Holbert was elected Grand Loyal Knight at the Elks' Convention. The funeral of Mr. R. L. Britton was held Sept. 3, at Lawrence's Undertaking Rooms. THE HOUSING PROBLEM "Where can I get an apartment? is a serious question among us today. There are many restrictions against Negroes as tenants in desirable places and many places undesirable for respectable Negro tenants. There are many strangers coming to our city, and they are unable to get decent locations. Something must be done. They can buy property anywhere and live therein, but most of them are poor pioneers, and they cannot pay the price. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ADVERTISE HERE, IT PAYS. --- And Felt Like a Game of Battledore and Shuttlecock. Joseph attended school in one of the larger cities of the central states. One day, having vexed his room teacher by misconduct, he was sent into the hall to wait until she had time to correct him. One of his departmental instructors came along, and seeing him in the hall, said: "Joseph, you mustn't be loitering in the halls. Go to your room and report to your teacher." Joseph raised his hand to explain, but she said, "Put your hand down and go into your room at once." Joseph had just slipped into his seat when his room teacher saw him. "Joseph, I sent you into the hall to remain until I came. What are you doing in here?" Joseph raised his hand to explain. "Put your hand down and go into the hall at once." Joseph returned to the hall, but again met his departmental instructor. "Joseph, I thought I sent you to your room!" she exclaimed. "Either go into your room or down into the yard." The room teacher, going into the hall a few minutes later, could not find Joseph. Thinking he had gone to the yard, she followed him. "I told you to remain in the hall until I came!" she angrily exclaimed. "You may go and report to the principal." Joseph again raised his hand to explain. "Put your hand down and go to the principal at once." The principal was quite busy and did not wish to be bothered, so when Joseph opened the door she said: "Well, Joseph, have you been a bad boy again? Go to your room and behave yourself." Again Joseph raised his hand to explain. "Put your hand down," she said, "and go to your room at once and behave, as I told you." Joseph, who was in tears by this time, did not go to his room, but went instead to that of the primary teacher, who was quite a friend of his. "Why, Joseph, what is the matter?" asked his friend. Dashing the tears from his eyes, he said, "I'm disgusted—being made a fool of by them teachers!"—Youth's Companion. The Human Mind. The body ceases to grow in a few years, but the mind, if we will permit it, may grow as long as life lasts.—Sir John Lubbock. A rector in South London was visiting one of his poorer parishioners, an old woman afflicted with deafness. She expressed her great regret at not being able to hear his sermons. Desiring to be sympathetic, and to say something consoling, he replied, with unnecessary self depreciation, "You don't miss much." "So they tell me," was the disconcerting reply. The Joy of Giving. Malviny, who was coal black and weighed upward of 200 pounds, for long had coveted a white evening gown belonging to her employer, a clubwoman in a southern town. In spite of the fact that the mistress was scarcely half the bulk of the mald, the mald nevertheless dreamed of the day when that wondrous frock would come into her possession. At what she regarded as the proper moment she approached the lady on the subject. "Miss Nita," she said, "I suttinly does wish't you'd gimme dat white dress wnd de gold spangles on hit, now D. A. WILSON dat you done wore hit out and quit wearn' hit." "Why, Malvina," said the owner, "you couldn't get inside of that gown! You're too large!" "Jes' try me—dat's all I asts—jes' try me," said Malvina. "I knn git inside of hit. Yessum; I knows I'm fleshy, but I gives."—Saturday Evening Post. Then Time to Stir. A Swedish guide is the author of the following original, if not universally practical, rule for making coffee, says Forest and Stream: "Der ban only von way to cook coffee. Take von trip into voods up on Flambeau river; tuld fire vid pitch pine knots; put von quart water and two handful coffee in coffee pot and sit on cover so she cann't boll over. Ven cover get too hot for pants coffee she done." Disconcerting. AN OUTING SUIT. Practical and Smart This Costume For Cool Days. I IDERAL FOR TRAMPING. Shepherd's plaid, black or blue and white, features this jaunty suit. The circular skirt is finished around the bottom with a straight strip, which keeps its shape well. Please notice the good looking belt—one style front and a novelty at the back. Cloth top boots and a sailor hat go well with this design. SEWING AS AN ART. The Pendulum Swings Back, and Girls Are Taught to Sew. Every woman should know how to sew. There is a mistaken notion in masculine minds that every woman does know how to sew. But this is by no means a general ruling. There are quite a number of the fair sex who have no skill whatever with needle and thread and are quite unable to mend, much less to make, their own attire. When the first movements were made toward the higher education of women, the movements which originated the important women's colleges and educational centers of today, the effort to improve feminine education and raise it above the mediocre instruction of early days went to the other extreme, and Greek and Latin and mathematics completely usurped the place of the domestic arts. Dressmaking and housecraft in all its branches had no place in the curriculum of the modern college girl, and the young lady who came back from her finishing school might be very learned in literature and the sciences, but was very little use when it came to sewing and dusting and the many duties of ordinary home life. Now the pendulum is swinging back again, and one is glad to see that even the most advanced of girls' schools include housewifery and other useful accomplishments in their list of subjects. It is perfectly easy to be studious and thoroughly well educated, to have a good working knowledge of the arts and sciences, to know languages and history, and yet be able to handle a needle and cook a dinner. So many quite young girls are inclined to think this is impossible. They feel that floury hands and an intimate acquaintance with a dustpan and brush are things to be avoided. A time comes now and again in the life of nearly every woman which demands the performance of these simple duties, and the girl who is totally unprepared for such emergencies may find herself in a sorry plight indeed. There is infinite wisdom in teaching girls in their teens to make their own clothes, to cook and to clean and make up a room, and there are fortunately many mothers who instruct their daughters themselves in these matters. A girl will not be wearied with needlework if her handiwork produces a new and dainty gown for her own adornment, and cutting out, tacking and pitching are double in interest when the completed garment will be something to be proud of. Clothes Tree For the Children Clothes Tree For the Children. Much work and confusion may be avoided when the children undress at night if each one is made the proud possessor of a small hat tree or clothes tree, or costumer, as it is called. These come in white enamel, mahogany or any other finish of wood, stand four and one-half feet high and have eight branches, a branch for each article of wearing apparel. Clothes will be well aired, the room kept in neatness and order and everything ready in place in the morning. The children love them, and it is a good way to teach them orderliness and hygiene. They are inexpensive. Surprise them some morning with one Peoples Christian Assembly. Rev. G. W. Mitchell, Pastor, 1204 Washington Ave. Se. Comel and Serve the Lord. ST. PETER'S A. M. E. CHURCH. 22nd St. near 10th Ave. So. Rev. Thos. E. Stovall, Pastor. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, 318 8th Ave. So., Minneapolis. Rev. E. R. Edwards, Pastor. 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 his services. 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. MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY FORUM. During summer months, meetings will be held on 1st Sunday in August at Bethesda Church; 1st Sunday in September at St. Peter A. M. E. Church. Sunday Forum Officers. President, R. Skinner; Vice Pres., Miss Eva Walker; Secretary, Webster Stovall; Ass't Sec'y, Miss Lady Walker; Treaan, 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. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. Cedar Street and Summit Avenue, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA. Rev. Benjamin N. Murrell, Pastor. SUNDAY SERVICES 11:00 A. M. Preaching. 12:50 P. M. The Bible 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. CHOICE CITY AND SUBURBAN PROPERTY FOR SALE ON SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS. B. M. McDEW, 802 Sykes Block. N. W. Nic. 621 Minneapolis DAN'S RESTAURANT 306 So. 3rd St., Minneapolis HOME COOKING My Specialty N. W. Main 2767 Daniel Williams, Prop. Two Furnished Rooms. Suitable for Light housekeeping. Good loca- tion, modern conveniences. Apply Mrs. Phelps, 119 Western Ave. Those who are indebted to us will please forward a part of their sub- scriptions. "Times are hard" is the cry—but we expect you to pay for this newspaper, as you do for others. They do not send you the daily white, papers, unless you pay. 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? Atty. William T. Francis has moved to Suite 329 in the American National Bank Building, Cedar and Fifth Sts., St. Paul. 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." 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. When your name appears as being one of these "worthy of mention," try and have it appear on our books as a paid-up subscriber. Defective Defective Page Fashion Notes For The Autumn Buttons are to be largely used as dress trimmings, present indications predict. Smocks are now made of jersey cloth and are delightfully soft and supple in spite of their fullness. Plain felt hats, untrimmed, are worn for sports. They are made in bright yellow, green, blue and pink and also in white. Contrasting linings in coats for day and evening wear are usual. Often figures are used for the linings, and some smart coats are lined with two colored checked silk. Sleeves on some of the new evening frocks are no more than little ruffles, sometimes of tulle edged with beads and sometimes held out with a flexible wire at the lower edge. Buttons seem an odd hat trimming, yet three big white pearl buttons are fastened on the twilled ribbon band that encircles the crown of a broad brimmed black velvet hat. A hem of tulle is used on some evening frocks of taffeta for young girls. The skirts are exceedingly short and full, and the tulle hem extends about two inches below the taffeta. Big Quaker collars are made in many materials. First of organdie or other plain sheer white fabric, they are now made of white or colored mull and even of lace or all over embroidery. Beads are embroidered in a design that incrusts the ends of some of the new black silk and satin hand bags. They are mounted in silver and have strap handles of ribbon or stitched silk. Prediction is made that for autumn wear volle and etamine in heavy, coarse weave are to be featured. These are both desirable fabrics, for they have an element of durability that makes them economical. Silk jersey suits are worn for sports. There are a sweater jacket and skirt, usually a sash or scarf to match, and often a jaunty little cap, made with a point on each side, one ending in a tasel, the other fastened down with a silk covered button. Lacings appear in some of the new frocks and blouses. Sleeves are sometimes laced from the elbow to the wrist, sometimes from the shoulder to the elbow. Lacings appear down the front of blouses and at the collar. The lacings are contrasting color usually. Fur trimmed sweater coats, too, are gaining in fashion. Made in pink and blue and pale yellow and white silk, with hems and collars and cuffs of white fox, they are admirable for wear with afternoon and even evening frocks at the seashore and in the mountains. Have a Hobby. The woman who is not interested in things in general or something in particular is an uninteresting companion. No matter how beautiful she may be, her charm will be minimized or of short duration. The victim of ennui or indifference victimizes everybody about her. Her friends may look upon her and admire her beauty, but she is decidedly uninteresting, and even a little bit of her society is generally an overdose. To be blase is not to be interesting. If you are weary of everything in life you need the attention of a physician: there is something wrong with you, mentally and physically. Something new and interesting in this world is cropping out every minute. The most interesting people are those who see things and get all possible pleasure out of them. An exhibition of indifference to things about you is not an evidence of intelligence. Intelligent people are the ones whose eyes are open. That is the way they become intelligent. Such people are the most interesting. Sometimes they are so interesting that even if they happen to lack beauty that fact is forgotten in admiration for their intellect. Some one has said that everybody should ride a hobby. Proper Care of the Eyes. No one can afford to take chances with the eyes nor to give less than the best care to them. Their toilet should be separate from that of the face, for neither flesh brush nor harsh cloth should come in contact with them, much less should skin tonics, washes or creams be allowed to enter them. They should be kept clean with clear water and once a week bathed, by means of an eyecup, with tepid water with a little boric acid in it—a tea-mentful to a large glass. If the eyes are weak and bleary baths in a solution of four ounces of soft water and one ounce of witch hazel. If they feel as if they have sticks in them then again the boric acid wash is needed every night with regularity until the trouble is oblived. Black specks floating between the eyes, contrary to general supposition, are harmless. They are in reality present all the time, only becoming more noticeable when the eyes are tired or under any condition which alters the density of the 'firescous humor in which they float. Scrap Book Paid In Her Own Coin. A local cafeteria was the scene of an artistic bit of reproof the other day. In a cafeteria the luncheon seeker wanders from table to table with a tray, collecting the parts of a meal, then receives a check for the amount of food on his tray and pays the check on the way out after he has finished. A young man of prepossessing appearance and with the earmarks of "knowing his way around" approached the cashier with his check and laid a wanders from table to table with a tray, collecting the parts of a meal, then receives a check for the amount of food on his tray and pays the check on the way out after he has finished. A young man of prepossessing appearance and with the earmarks of "knowing his way around" approached the cashier with his check and laid a fifty cent piece on the counter. The girl, who is GLANCED AT THE GIRL. fifty cent piece on the counter. The girl, who is somewhat austere, snatched up the piece, looked at it skeptically, then bounced it on the counter. It rang true. She took out change, including a penny, and pushed it toward the customer. All during the occurrence the sting was not so much in what she did as in the way she did it. The young man had not said a word or moved a muscle of his face all the time. Preserving the same serenity and silence, he picked up his change, glanced at the girl, regarded the penny a moment, bounced it on the counter, listened, picked it up and walked out, his face as expressionless as ever. Patrons who had watched laughed quietly, and the girl's face flushed.—Newark Star. Do It Now. Lose this day loitering, 'twil be the same story story Tomorrow and the next more dilatory; Then indecision brings its own delays. And days are lost lamenting those lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very min- ute— What you can do, or dream you can, be- courage has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated— Begin it and the work will be completed. Hla Clew. The London police sergeant raised his eyes from the blotter as two policemen propelled the resisting victim before him. "A German spy, sir!" gasped the first bobby. "I am an American and can prove it," denied the victim. "That's what he says, but here's the evidence," interrupted the second bobby, triumphantly producing a bulky hotel register from beneath his arm and pointing to an entry. "V. Gates," written in a flowing hand, was the record that met the astonished sergeant's gaze. "Everybody's." The Cat He Taokled. An Irishman fresh from the "could sod" secured a job with a lumbering crew in the Minnesota woods. While sound asleep in his bunk one night a lynx slipped in at the open window, esploded Paddy's brindle whiskers and promptly pounced on its supposed enemy. A terrific contest ensued, during which Paddy's clothing was reduced to ribbons, but ending happily when the brawny son of Erin secured a half Nelson on the beast and heaved it bodily through the window. He was instantly surrounded by a score of excited and admiring woodsmen. After examining himself critically Paddy straightened up slowly and remarked with distinct emphasis: "Bedad, if I knew th' mon that owned that cat I'd be after rammin' me fisht down th' throat av 'im—I wud th!" Busy Program. The women of a certain town recently organized a musical appreciation club, and for awhile everything was lovely, "Louise," asked the husband of one of the members after her return from one of the meetings, "what was the topic under discussion by the club this afternoon?" At first Louise couldn't remember, but finally she exclaimed "Now I recollect! We discussed that brazen looking husy that's just moved in across the street and Debussy." -Argonaut. Fat Margaret It was a history lesson, and the teacher felt convinced he had told his boys all the important features and characters connected with the Wars of the Roses. "Now; boys, what do you know of Margaret of Anjout?" was his first question. A slight pause and then quite a good show of hands. "Well, Jones?"—this to a youngster who was frantically waving his arm about like a flag signaler working overtime. "She was v-v-very f-f-fat, sir," stammered Jones. "Fat! How do you make that out?" queried the teacher, who had made no mention at all of the lady's physical charms and was somewhat in doubt himself as to her exact dimensions. Opening his textbook, Jones triumphantly pointed to the following passage: "One of Richard's stoutest opponents was Margaret of Anjou." TWIN CITY STAR ESCAPED THE TRAP. A Witty American Girl Turned the Laugh Upon the Prince. Remembrance of a most trivial incident of conversation at the dinner table lingers in mind, a few words "as light as air" that have power to make that merry monarch Edward VII, now dead, live again in thought, recalling vividly his laughing eyes and voice. It was much the fashion in those days for women and girls to put a small black line under the eyelashes, deepening their shadow. His majesty had, it seems, a little joke which had amused him immensely to practice on the fair owners of particularly bright eyes, sometimes confusing them into confession. I had never heard of this joke and was startled when he abruptly turned to me—I was seated on his left—and asked as if shocked: "My dear young lady, what do you do to your eyes?" Taken aback—black lashes inherited from my mother made me only "dark" under my eyes—I answered: "Nothing, sir. Nothing at all." The whole table paused. "What? Don't you dot your i's?" he asked triumphantly. "N-n-o," I replied, saving myself in the nick of time. "I always use capitals." The laugh was on my side. Everybody applauded. "Bravo!" said the prince, shaking with laughter. "You escaped my trap."—Princess Lazovarch-Hrebelianovich (nee Eleanor Calhoun) in the Century Magazine. Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? Thorean. Bill Nye and the Phrenologist. A phrenologist once told Bill Nye that he would shine as a revivalist and said that he ought to marry a tall blond with a nervous, sanguinary temperament. "All right, gentle scientist," said Bill Nye, "I will marry the tall blond with the bank account and billious temperament when you give me a chart showing me how to dispose of a brown eyed brunette with thoughtful cast of countenance who married me in an unguarded moment two years ago." According to Harry Sparrow, business manager of the New York team in the American league, he was in south sea island waters once on a E. Morado pleasure trip. His ship touched at a port with an unpronounceable name. Accompanied by his harem, his suit and most of his subjects, the reigning ruler, a fat half caste, came down to welcome the visitors. The subjects jumped off the little dock and swam about the steamer, while his majesty was received aboard in due state. Strange to say, the official interpreter and general factotum of the imperial outfit was a little cockney. The tourists began pitching copper coins over the sides in order to see the common herd dive for them. Presently a wealthy San Francisco man decided to do something really generous. He hauled a ten dollar gold piece out of his pocket and poised to fling it out across the surface of the water. Instantly the cockney had him by the arm. "Ow, sir, don't do that. Sir, if you please, sir!" he implored. "You'll be 'avin' is royal 'ignness in the water next, sir'"—Saturday Evening Post. A Letter Surprise. The president of a corporation, says Case and Comment, dictated to a trial stenographer a letter to one of the stockholders who had refused either to pay for his stock or to return it and made use of the following language: "Should you take the action indicated in your letter of the 26th inst. this corporation will take such action as will be meet and proper in the premises." Imagine his surprise when a letter reading as follows was placed before him for his signature: "Should you take the action indicated in your letter of the 26th inst. this corporation will take action that will make you wish you had left the meat and chopper on the premises." Effort. Royal Balt WHEN IN THE TWIN CITIES Be Sure and Visit WOODSEY JEM'ESON'S COSMOPOLITAN CAFE AND GRILL 40 E. THIRD ST., ST. PAUL Railroad Men's Headquarters Night and Day Phone Cedar 9128 SMOKE THE BEST 5C CIGAR Sight Draft W. S CONRAD CO., Distributors NO. 140. E. 6th ST., ST. PAUL. NO. 1. WESTERN AVE., MINN. 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The Diagne Bill Gives Military Privileges to All Alike. Paris.—The chamber of deputies in this city has three colored deputies representing the colonies from which they are sent by the suffrage of their fellow citizens. A dispatch from Paris recently says that the race and color question that was raised in the French chamber of deputies by the bill of the Negro deputy, M. Diagne, representing Senegal, providing for the extension of general compulsory military service in France to colonial municipalities whose inhabitants enjoy French citizenship, was presented in numerous new lights and complications at the session of the chamber. The question of how to apportion a pension in cases of polygamist Senegalese leaving several widows proved a poser for the deputies. The minister of war and the military committee of the chamber approved the general provisions of the Diagne bill, which provide for the incorporation with the regular French forces of the Senegalese subject to compulsory service. The action of the committee was immediately attacked by Deputy Labrou, who pictured the difficulties arising from the presence in the French army of soldiers unable to speak French and of different religion and social customs. Deputy Labrouse also raised the question of confusion in the payment of pensions to the widows of polygamous Senegalese. He proposed an amendment providing for the incorporation of such troops in native regiments entitled to pensions and the other rights of French citizens. The speaker was frequently interrupted by protests from the Negro Deputies Diagne, Lagrosilliere of Martinique and Candace and Bolsneuf of Guadeloupe, Lagrosilliere crying amid frantic applause, "Our fellow citizens ask only to be allowed to serve the mother country, for which they already have poured out their blood." Paul Deeschanel, president of the chamber, was forced to quell the tumult by declaring that the entire chamber felt "the same respect and the same love for all, whatever their race or religion, who are fighting under the folds of the tricolored flag." Deputy Labrouse insisted on the special regiments for Senegalese who do not speak French. Deputy Boisneuf interrupted, crying, "I then demand a special regiment for Frenchmen unable to read and write." Deputy Diagne then obtained the floor and made an eloquent appeal on behalf of the blacks, reviewing the part they had played in conquering the French colonial empire. "For eleven months the Senegalese have demanded to be allowed to serve France," he said; "if they haven't been permitted to do so it is the fault of the minister of war." Deputy Diagne said that the widows of soldiers ought to receive pensions even when there were several, but he added: "Native soldiers are not as rich as the average French soldier, who is also poor and therefore has only one wife. Polygamy is a luxury of wealth." Alexandre Millerand, minister of war, said the Diagne bill seemed to meet the wishes of a majority of the colonials and urged its passage. The bill was passed without change. it badly if you your home a BROS' PIANO TO THE MUSIC CO. SIXTH STREET day. Easy pay- be arranged MAGEMAN BULLET AVENUE manable Apparel at r Prices SES, WAISTS, SKIRTS, SES, HOSIERY and WEAR How the National League Helps Boys. During the past four years the National League on Urban Conditions among our people has provided summer camp accommodations for 582 boys. The lads attend in groups of about twenty-five for two weeks at a time. The average cost per day for each boy is 48 cents. The headquarters of the league are at 2306 Seventh avenue, New York. Mr. Eugene Knickle Jones is the associate director of the national organization, which has branches in several southern cities. The northern summer camp is located at Verona Lake, not far from Montclair, N. J. 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. M. 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. Lleutenant 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. Entered in the Post Office at Minneapolis an second class matter. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION MINNESOTA EDITORIAL ASSN. Subscription by Mall, Postpaid. ONE YEAR ..... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ..... 1.00 THREE MONTHS ..... .65 Hamlet B. Rowe, Asst. Manager. 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Some of this is so good as to discourage anateur effort, while much of it wearies and disguits 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 four 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 guarreling 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 tomboolery were given to swimming lessons the fool who rocks the beat 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. In not a few cases the only rule for "unfriendly" is to walk. After all the ultimatum crop is still unharvested. CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTH. Recent Outbreaks of Lawlessness Dilegacy to Nation, Says Boston Traveler. Under the caption "Georgia Lynch Law and the South" the Boston Traveler in an editorial in its issue of Wednesday, Aug. 18, says: "Georgia's latest outbreak of savagery and blood lusting, the lynching of Leo Frank, making at least nine lynchings that have taken place in that state so far this year, is quite enough to challenge the nation's attention and make it ask. 'Are the people of Georgia fit to be trusted with the task of governing themselves? 'But, while the lynching spirit seems to be rampant and constant in Georgia, most of the southern states are tarred with the same stick that morally debauches 'the Empire State of the South.' The universal loyalty and faithfulness with which the Negroes protected the women of the Confederacy during the years of the civil war were forgotten when Abraham Lincoln set them free and left them at the mercy of their late masters, who were embittered because of the defeat they had suffered at the hands of the north. "No excuse for inflicting punishment was overlooked. Everything was done to show that the Negro released from bondage was a menace to society and that the north had made a great mistake. One particular and terrible crime was seized upon as a justification for inflicting sudden punishment upon its perpetrator. That was worked to the limit and still is. But it failed to offer enough holidays for the blood lusten, and so it has come to pass that Negroes are lynched for the most trivial of alleged offenses, many of which they never commit. "Most of the thirty-five lynchings reported this year have been due to alleged thefts of cotton or hogs or hens. Furthermore, as the lynching habit grows it takes less account of the color of the victims than it used to. Of the thirty-five lynchings reported this year eleven have been white men. Where is this blood lust to stop? Should lynchings longer be considered the 'business' of the states indulging in them? The standing of the nation is lowered before the eyes of the world because of them. "Is it not time for the whole nation to note the dangerous and humiliating trend of things and to say to Georgia and other bloodthirsty states, 'You must adopt the ways of civilized lands?' And is it not time, if this demand passes unheeded, to enforce it by federal power?" SAMUEL WILLIAMS' VIEWS. Questions Wisdom of Georgia's Proposed Color Line Law For Teachers. There is much logic in the article of Mr. Samuel Williams of Windsor, Vt., with reference to the attitude of the Georgia legislature toward white teachers in schools for colored people. Mr. Williams says: I learned through the newspapers recently that a measure had been passed by one branch of the legislature of the state of Georgia barring white teachers from colored schools. For the honor of that state, the nation and the constitution it is to be hoped it will fail to become a law, as it certainly could not be classed as constructive legislation such as the age and the times demand. After the civil war, when things became somewhat settled, many white ladies in the south, being reduced in circumstances, entered schools that had been established for colored children as teachers. Some had been large slave owners, and their object was not purely mercenary. They desired to repair in part the damage done by the cruel system of which they had formed a part. They began their labor, it is true, with no very high opinion of the mental capacity of the Negro, but soon learned to love their work, and in many instances showed tender solicitude for those under their care, visited them in sickness and personally sought the tardy and delinquent. During my later school years it was my good fortune to have as teachers three ladies of the class to which I refer, and when I was about to leave school it was one of these who grasped my hand and bade me godsped. While I remember with deepest gratitude the great benefits I had received in my earlier years from that noble band of men and women of the north who came down to the south, braving abuse from the rabble and ostracism from the thoughtless people of that section, I am glad to offer my humble testimony to the seal and devotion of those southern white women. Their mantle may have fallen on others who today even in the state of Georgia may be laboring side by side with the good men and women from the north who are successfully striving to prepare the Negro more fully to discharge the high responsibilities of American citizenship. Soon this nation may be called upon as the champion of liberty to make good our claim by representing to the world a bold and undivided front, but how shall we do so while 10,000,000 of loyal citizens are ruthlessly and continually discriminated against? What we need at this time as never before are such measures as tend to harmonize the various elements that enter into the development of that liberty of which Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg. At His Best. Blobbs — The Doctor told Guzzler drinking was the very worst thing he could do. Slobbs — I guess that doctor didn't know Guzzler or he would have realised that drinking is the best thing he does — Philadelphia Record. The Effect of Homesickness on Children. Children often suffer from home-knownness when away from home, and if the conditions continue after a reasonable length of time they should be humored—not that a child should be encouraged in remaining tied to its mother's apron strings all its life, but the first visits away from the maternal roof should be very carefully arranged, so as not to have a disastrous effect upon the happiness of future visits and subsequent mortification and unhappiness, which sometimes last all one's life. Children are lonely little creatures, and as their lives are usually very regular any departure from the daily routine is very upsetting. It is as well for a child to be so used to going to sleep by himself from the first and to learn to help himself as soon as possible. But, no matter how carefully guarded a child is, there may come a time when he will hear some silly talk from the maids or from other children about burglaries or ghosts or other nocturnal frights, which will upset in an instant all the sensible mother training, with subsequent difficulty in getting to sleep and need for mother's constant presence. There is no use in scolding a child for such fears, for often grown persons have them, although you will find that most adult sufferers have had them from childhood. Happy now is the mother who has made her children open with her. She alone can overcome these bedtime fancies by judicious comforting, sensible thrashing out of the subject and diversion in the way of introduction of other stories at bedtime. But if a nervous child must for some reason be sent away or intrusted to another's care at night let the bedtime companion be carefully chosen. Children are much afraid of ridicule and store up many hopes and fears in their own little hearts to be worried over at bedtime. When mother is not there to comfort the homesickness may be very severe at that time, and somebody who knows how to cope with the situation can do much to overcome it. It is an excellent plan always to give a baby its water from a teaspoon rather than from a bottle, because in this way even a tiny baby will learn to drink from a spoon—an invaluable knowledge when it is necessary to give medicine. When a child is sick the kidneys are only too prone to be affected, and it is essential to provide plenty of water, especially in cases like scarlet fever, where kidney complications are more usual than not. A child with a tendency to constipation or any stomach trouble should be encouraged to drink plenty of water. If it rebels against a full glass give half or even a quarter of a glass at a time, and make a game of it. It is just as important to provide good drinking water as good food, and for the first few days at a new place one should make the children drink rather sparingly until the properties of the water have become familiar. A Word to the Sunburned. Sunburn is often extremely painful. In many cases where a girl has been out in the sun practically all day the skin blisters and causes very real suffering. It is a wise girl who knows how to care for her own sunburn, for she will save herself a good bit of pain by doctoring it at once. When you return to the house after a day in the open and find your arms, neck and face all rose colored from the sun don't stop to question why, but start in treating it at once. The burn never hurts the first day, and sometimes it does not the second day, but you will certainly get it the third unless you are very careful. Don't wait until the skin begins to itch and smart before you put on a cream, but at the first sign of rose color, where white usually is start your doctoring. Cocoa butter is excellent to take the sting out of anunhurn, and witch hazel cream is another fine emollient. Rub either one in well at the first appearance of the burn and then again the next day, and you will not be bothered much by the pain and itch. If you are well burned and do not attend to the skin at once you will find that the smart, and sting once begun are almost impossible to stop. After the flesh has begun to prickle and itch you will probably pile on creams, but nothing does very much good until the burn has worn itself out. The two remedies mentioned may help to relieve pain, but they will not stop it unless applied the first day. To Make the Hair Curl One of the best and simplest lotions for making the hair curl is made of quince seeds. When it dries it leaves a fine powder on the hair like dandruff, but this may be easily brushed off. To make this fluid take a tablespoonful of quince seeds, brushed, to a pint of soft water, which is boiled gently until the amount is reduced to three gills. It is then strained, and when cold two tablespoonfuls of cologne and alcohol are added. Moisten the hair with the fluid before putting up in kid curlers. Another formula which has given satisfaction consists of borax, one ounce; gum arabic, one dram; hot water, one pint; spirits of camphor, two tablespoonfuls. When the first three are dissolved add the camphor, and when the mixture is cold bottle for use. Home Training Most Important. Says Miles 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 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—Abrham Lincoln. SIX GOOD REASONS Why You Should Join The National Association for the Advancement of Colored 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. It is composed of members of both races and sexes on terms of complete equality and as brothers and sisters in this holy cause of freedom. The Association needs money and new members. It costs just one dollar to join. If you believe in fair play, in fighting for your rights, if you believe in organization and cooperation, join this Association and do your bit toward advancing the race and therby helping to make human brotherhood a reality and not a fiction NEW TABLES. 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