Tulsa Star

A FEARLESS EXPONENT OF RIGHT AND JUSTICE THE TULSA STAR OUR SUBSCRIPTION LIST MAKES A VALUABLE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING Official an of The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, And The Knights And Ladies of Harmony of The World, Oklahoma Jurisdiction The Joy You Feel During Chrismas time Should be Məasured by the Joy you Bring to Others! Chief Burns Will Feed 100 Poor Kiddies Fifty White And Fifty Colored Children to Get Xmas Dinner The Joy You F Chief Bu Fifty White And Children to G Chief of Police F. N. Burns has undoubtedly won the title of Chief of Good Fellows, so far as Tulsa is concerned and there seems to be no one contesting his title. Sometime ago it was announced that Chief Burns would feed fifty poor white children of Tusla, a full size Xmas dinner and every body landed him for his Good Samaritan spirit. Now the Chief announces that he will also feed fifty colored children on Xmas day. That is he will pay for fifty Xmas dinners for the poor white children of Tulsa and the same number of Xmas dinners for the poor colored children of Tulsa. Now then let us all take off our hats to the Chief and follow his example as far as possible in spreading Xmas joy. This is certainly a Christian act on the part of Chief Burns and one which will stand out prominently as a deserving trait in his manly character. The hearts of the poor people of this city, white and black will go out in unspeakable gratitude to this great good man who, out of his big broad heart of human kindness, will spread joy in so many unhappy lives on Christmas day. The Chief requested the editor of the TULSA STAR to look after the colored children and see that at least fifty of them be given Xmas dinners at his expense. Any one knowing of poor children who would probably get no Xmas dinner otherwise will please call the Star office, phone 931 and give their names and address. Sick Man Sent Home to Ark. Dan Bruster, the young man who had been confined at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. Dearman on East Brady with tuberculosis was sent to his home at Eldorado, Arkansas last Tuesday on the contributions of friends and sympathizers. The following people contributed: Geo. Hufford ..... $2.50 Ben Green ..... 85 Snake Morris ..... 85 Fred Ragsdale ..... 50 Lawrence Freeman ..... 25 Joe Heainy ..... 25 John Dixon ..... $1.00 Albert Whitman ..... 60 Mrs. Anna Warren ..... 25 Mrs. Mary Hughes ..... 25 Mrs. Greer ..... 25 T. E. Hughes ..... 50 Mrs. Ida B. Huff ..... 25 E. L. Kimmons ..... 25 Lou Flippins ..... 25 Wallace McNeal ..... 25 Lawson Rowe ..... 50 Mr. and Mrs. C. Deaman ..... $5.90 It is said that about $30.00 in all was given for tse sick man. --- The Leading Race Paper in The State of Oklahoma TULSA, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26 1914. State Baptists Organize Foreign Mission Convention in Tulsa Eastern Star Installs Officers The Eastern Star held their annual installation in the new Gurley building Monday night and installed the following officers: Capt. T. D. Jackson, Patron; Mrs. McGregor, Matron; Mrs. Gurley, Associate Matron; Mrs. Hutchins, Sec. Mrs. Dearman, Treas; Mrs. Harmon, Conductress; Mrs. Cochran, Associate given for the sick man. Conductress; J. J. Byrd, Sentinel. O. W. Gurley officiated. Colored People Were Indignant Some of the Colored people of Tulsa are very much incensed because it is rumored that a house of prostitution where colored girls are kept for the exclusive use of white men is running in full blast over a colored pool hall on the corner of Archer and Cincinnati streets. Upon investigation it has developed that the inmates of this house are passing as French Creoles and claim no place in the colored race. This will probably quiet the nerves of a number of colored men who were bent on closing the house at any cost. A number of church dignitaries from all over the state met at the First Baptist church in this city Friday night and organized a State covenition of Foreign Missions. The meeting was well attended and much enthusiasm was manifested. The following officers were elected: Rev. H. S. Borders of Vinita, President; Rev. J. M. Manning of Oklahoma City, Vice-President; Rev. M. C. Lewis of Oklahoma City, Recording Secretary; Rev. B. J. F. Westbrook of Oklahoma City, Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer. The addresses of welcome were delivered by Lawyer Martin and Mrs. Irene Johnson, Mrs. Johnson is considered one of the best public speakers among the women of that church, if not the best. Her address of welcome in full follows: "Visitors and friends, to me has been assigned a very pleasant duty though unprepared, yet it affords me no small degree of pleasure to be called upon to extend to the delegates of this meeting, a cheerful greeting, as well as a hearty welcome to our city, our homes and to our church. The doors of the church stand ajar for your presence and your comfort. We hope your coming will be of great benefit to our city as well as ourselves and our church. I sincerely hope that this work of mission may mean much to the entire community, and that the good work done while here; and the helpful and wholesome instructions that we shall receive, may be as food to our minds. And further trust that The Hero of The Hour 2 Of the Tulsa Police Department, also Chief of Tulsa Good Fellows, who will give a Christmas Dinner to the poor Kiddies of this city something may be said that will reach the unsaved and be as good seed sown in good ground that it may bring forth much fruit. This mission work is a great work, there is so much to be done and such few willing to do. We must broaden out into this great field and do what the Master requires of us. We again welcome you and hope that when you shall take leave, you will ever be anxious to come to our progressive city. We boast of our city as being the leading city of the southwest. We are proud of Tulsa, and are striving to make it the best, and through our hospitality shall endeavor to make the visitors feel welcomed, and ever be willing and ready to come to Tulsa when ever the opportunity affords. Now to the many who desire to be with us, and are not, they are cheerfully remembered, and to all who lend your kind assistance, we herein extend to each of you our deepest gratitude. Now not numbering our failures we come to you tonight, with our difference harmonized and trusting that victory have been organized. Now we have had many discouragements to assail us. But with such kind efficient leader, who has so earnestly labored among us and pointing out the way we have pushed on, and we hope this meeting and work may be one of success and your trials few, and that the choicest blessings from Heaven may be showered upon you all. We again welcome you." Editor Gets Many Nice Compliments That the editor of the Tulsa Star has many friends and sympathizers in his fight against graft is amply proven by the many letters of compliments from all over the country. Many of them from Muskogee, Last Saturday we received the following telegram from the President of the National Negro Press Association who was at that time in Philadelphia: Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 19, 1914 Hon. A. J. Smitherman: Editor Tulsa Star, Tulsa, Okla. Brave, fine work, stand by your guns, New York draft following. Melvin J. Chisum. Statement Last week the STAR published a news story about the proposed elopment of a certain married woman of this city with a pool hall man. The story has caused no little comment and many have condemned the editor for publishing it. In view of the very strange circumstances in the case which have subsequently developed we deem it necessary to make a statement. The story was told to the editor by the husband of the woman in the presence of witnesses and we published it in absolute good faith, and her husband alone is responsible for the story, whether it is true or not. Some people have queer ideas about the mission of Continued on page eight Subscription $1.00 Per Year Christmas At Bardons Christmas At Bardons TULSA'S LEADING PAWN BROKER IS REAL PHILLANTHROPIST While the problem of selecting a suitable gift for some friend or loved one is foremost in your mind it would be well for you to consider two things, to-wit: The value of the gift and the service it will be to the pasty to receive it; and where your money will go fartherest in getting what you want. The depression of business which has swept over the country together with the high cost of living will make it very hard for some of us to remember our friends and loved ones as has probably been our custom during the Xmas holidays, but this is no cause for dispair to the people of Tulsa, because there is at least one place in this city where the highest values in Jewelry, diamonds, watches, musical instruments, and a thousand other kinds of appropriate Xmas gifts may be purchased for the lowest possible prices, and where the purchaser will be absolutely satisfied with the remarkable bargains offered. This place is none other than Dick Bardons, the leading Pawn Broker in the State, who has an unbroken and an unequaled record for giving value received and more. No one has ever purchased an article from Dick Bardon and returned it dissatisfied. This is a record of which Mr. Bardon is very proud. It has always been easy for Mr. Bardon to give perfect satisfaction to his many patrons because he will not purchase or take in anything less than the standard values and he always delights in selling the highest values in everything for less than it is possible to buy the same any other place. For a number of years Mr. Bardon has conducted a high class Loan office in this city and during this time has made many friends because of his fair and kind treatment of his patrons, who are found among the wealthiest people of the city as well as the middle and poorer classes. While he is of course realizing a fair profit from his business Mr. Bardon is not by any means selfish, nor is he strictly speaking, conducting the business for personal gain. He is more a public phillonthropist than he is a Pawn Broker inasmuch as he never overlooks an opportunity to help those who need help and who he believes to be worthy of it. Everybody knows Dick Bardon and no body dislikes him. What better recommendation could any man have than this? This accounts for his enormous success. Everybody knows they will get a square deal when they go to his place. For years it has been the custom of Mr. Bardon to help others to make others happy during the Xmas holidays by enabling them to buy personal articles for themselves or friends at remarkably low prices. This Xmas he has an assortment of high class jewelry, watches, diamonds, etc., which he offers at prices unheard of before, anywhere and invites all of his patrons to come in and allow his force of able salesmen to assist them in selecting what they want. Mr. Bardon, himself, assisted by his very kind and courteous wife will lend every assistance possible to see that each customer is satisfied before leaving the place. Now do not worry any longer about what you should send the dear ones for a Xmas present, or because your money is short. Go to Dick Bardons, Main near first Street and he will help you. GERMANS SHELL 3 ENGLISH CITIES Cruiser Squadron in Daring Raid, Kills Many and Spreads Terror. ESCAPE FROM BRITISH FLEET Following Bombardment, the Attacking Warships Got Away—Move Now Considered Forerunner to Big Naval Battle. ( Summary of Events. ) For the first time in more than a century England has been struck by a foreign foe. A squadron of swift German cruisers crept through the fog to the eastern coast and turned their guns against the Britons. When day broke, the raiders began the bombardment of three important towns—Hartlepool, at the mouth of the Tees, Whitby, thirty-five miles southward, and Scarborough, noted as a pleasure resort, fifteen miles beyond. Hartlepool suffered most. There two battle cruisers and an armored cruiser were engaged and at this place the greatest loss of life occurred. More Than 100 Killed. The British war office fixes the number of dead at Hartlepool as eight soldiers and ninety-seven civilians, and the wounded at fourteen soldiers and 116 civilians. At Scarborough, where a battle cruiser and an armored cruiser shelled the town, thirteen casualties are reported, while at Whitby two were killed and two wounded. Men, women and children of the civilian population were left dead or wounded—struck without warning while at breakfast or at work. In all, according to official estimates, the casualty list totals 264, of whom 134 are known to be dead. Three churches were damaged; the gas works and lumber yards at Hartlepool were set afire, and the Abbey of Whitby was struck. The Balmoral hotel at Scarborough received the full effects of a shell. A number of houses and shops were shattered and partly burned in each of the towns. Fog Aids Attacking Fleet. The hostile squadron escaped in the mist after an encounter with coast guard vessels patrolling the neighborhood, which were reinforced as soon as the presence of the Germans was signaled. Allies Push Offensive. The offensive movement of the French and British has become general and is being pushed with strong forces, particularly in Flanders, the Argonne, the Woevre and Alsace. While the French claim to have been successful at all points except at Steinbach, in Alsace, the German official report says the Allies' attacks have been unsuccessful at several places. On the whole, however, it would appear that the Allies, who now have a superiority in numbers as well as in artillery, have succeeded in making some progress and have withstood vigorous counter attacks delivered by the Germans. Germans Will Resist. The fact that the Allies are in possession of Hollebecke, in Flanders, and that heavy fighting was going on again shows that they have made an appreciable advance in the last two days, as last week they were being attacked by the invaders two miles to the west of SC Eloy, which is on the Ypres-Armentieres Road. It is evident that while the Germans are prepared to offer stubborn resistance to attempted advances in the regions mentioned in the official communications they expect the main attack of the Allies to be made in another direction or are themselves preparing for an offensive, for they have gathered considerable forces at Courtrai, from which point they could be quickly transferred either to Flanders or southward across the French frontier. Allies on Offensive. Both the German and French official reports continue evidence that the Allies' offensive movement is beginning to gather impetus and is meeting with stubborn resistance from the German troops, who have been left to hold the Western line while their comrades are battling with the Russians in the East. The French have been particularly active in the Woevre region, where they have been trying to cut off the German force which projects like an arrow head ts St. Mihai on the Meuse. Servians Retake Belgrade. The Servians, after a fierce battle, have reoccupied Belgrade, according to a Nish dispatch. The Austrians occupied Belgrade December 2, after having besieged it since July 29, bombarding from batteries near Simlin and from monitors on the Danube. A large portion of the city was said to have been destroyed by the fire of the Austrians. When war was declared the Servian government moved from Belgrade to Graguyevats and later went farther south to Nish, where it remains. Admits Loss of Belgrade. The abandonment of Belgrade by the Austrians is acknowledged in an official statement given out at the Austrian army headquarters. The statement says that the retirement of the right wing involved a change in the military situation which made it advisable to abandon Belgrade, which was evacuated without fighting. The most striking feature of the official news is the candid admission by the Austrian government of the defeat of the Austrian army in Servia and apparently of the abandonment of its third attempt to invade the territory of its small Slav neighbor. While attributing the failure of the enemy's superior force, as all government bulletins explain failures, the Austrian war office announces plainly an extended retirement and heavy losses. Germans Admit Retreat Retreat of the German forces which attempted to strike at Warsaw from the north was acknowledged in an official communication given out at the German army headquarters. The Austrians have succeeded in again crossing the Carpathians, and, according to their account, are driving the Russian left back toward the River San. This army, assisted by German reinforcements, has undertaken the rather difficult task of forcing the Russians to withdraw from in front of Cracow and also of relieving Pryzemysl. The Austrians apparently have met with at least partial success. Austrians Capture 31,000. An official communication issued at Vienna says the Austrian offensive in Western Galacia has compelled the enemy to retreat and his front in South Poland to waver. Austrian troops, advancing from the south, reached Jaslo and Rajbrot. In this advance and the last battle they took thirty-one thousand Russian prisoners. Driving Germans Back. The Russian forces which checked the German advance in Northern Poland are now in full pursuit of the army of General Francois, which continues to retreat toward the East Prussian frontier. An official statement issued at Petrogrand asserts the Germans are being driven back in the direction of Mlawa, which is only eight miles from the German frontier. A New Triple Alliance. By invitation of King Gustav of Sweden, King Haakon of Norway and King Frederick of Denmark will visit him at Malmo, Southern Sweden. The three kings will be accompanied by their ministers of foreign affairs and secretaries and will discuss affairs of common interest which have arisen as a result of the war and especially measures for helping the economical situation in Scandinavia. KING OF SAXONY The king of Saxony with his troops has joined the armies of his war lord, the emperor of Germany. TULSA. OKLA.. STAR INDEPENDENCE IS SUSTAINED ATTORNEY GENERAL DECLARES BANKING SYSTEM DISTINCT GOVERNMENT BODY. NATIONAL CHANGES COMPLETED Old Fee System Has Been Abolished and All Examiners Will Washington.—The federal reserve board is an independent government body not under any department, according to an opinion by Attorney General Gregory received by Secretary McAdoo. This opinion settles the question much discussed in official circles of whether the board in anyway is subordinate to the treasury department. The board will have such a status as the interstate commerce commission and will be regarded as a co-ordinate part of the government. The status of the board was raised because of the fact that while its members are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate their compensation is paid by the federal reserve bank. Mr. Gregory decided that the assessments made upon the banks for the board become federal money when paid and shall be audited by the government. Comptroller of the Currency Williams announced that changes have been completed in the system of national bank systems authorized in the federal reserve act. The old fee system, under which examiners in a few districts were very highly paid was abolished and all examiners put on salary. The country had been divided into twelve districts corresponding to the twelve federal reserve districts. There will be a chief examiner in each district with headquarters in the city where the federal bank is located, except in the Richmond district, where the examiners will be directly under the comptroller with headquarters in Washington. Huge Levy On Belgium A Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam says: "Under pressure from the German authorities, nine Belgian provinces sent representatives to Brussels who held a so-called land tag session. It is asserted that this diet deliberated concerning a war levy of $96,000,000 which must be paid to the German government in twelve monthly installments. "The representatives agreed to issue treasury bonds guaranteed by the nine provinces and a group of bankers, headed by the Belgian Societe Generale, undertook to advance the money. The German governor general promised that all requisitioned goods would be paid for in cash if the installments were regularly received." Alien Bill Offered Washington.—A bill drawn by former President Taft designed to enable the federal government to enforce treaty provisions for protection of aliens in the states has been introduced by Representative Bartholdt and referred to the house judiciary committee. Lawyers in the house who saw the measure did not understand that it could apply to such situations as have arisen in California and Arizona, but would cover such cases as have arisen in other states, where aliens have been injured and the machinery of the state government gave no relief. The bill would make such crimes punishable in the federal courts as well as in the state courts. Trainmen's Strike Averted St. Louis.—Agreements to abide by the decision of the federal board of mediation have been signed here by officials of the St. Louis, Southwestern, (Cotton Belt) railroad, and representatives of the conductors' and enginemen's unions, who recently voted to strike. Several months ago a strike of the Cotton Belt trainmen was prevented by court injunction granted upon the request of a group of union men, who said all the facts in the case had not been presented before the vote for a strike was taken. Dead Convict Pardoned Jackson, Miss.—Gov. Earl Brewer of Mississippi recently pardoned a convict who has been dead eighteen years, it has been learned here. The governor, in compliance with a lengthy petition that Jim Jackson, a negro, sentenced twenty-five years ago to a long term of imprisonment, he pardoned, granted the request. In an endeavor to serve the papers for Johnson's release, it was discovered that the negro died in 1896. WATERWAY BILL TO BE REDUCED RIVER AND HARBOR BILL RE- DUCED $25,000,000 FROM ARMY ESTIMATE. CONGRESS DROPS NEW PROJECTS Measure Carries $34,138,590 and Provides Only For Projects Now Under Process of Construction. Washington.—The annual river and harbor appropriation bill carrying $34,138,590 for waterway improvements throughout the country has been completed by the house river and harbor committee. Estimates of the army engineers were reduced by nearly $20,000,000 and the bill appropriates only for work on projects which have already been begun, making no provision for new undertakings. The Delaware receives the fullest, an appropriation of $1,500,000. As agreed to by the committee the measure carries no legislative proposal to alter the present method of making appropriation for waterway improvement. No action was taken on the various reform plans recently agitated, including the proposal of Senator Newlands which has at least the partial indorsement of the administration for establishment of a commission to control all river and harbor expenditures. GOVERNMENT NOT BEHIND BILL Washington—Assurances have been given the British government by the state department that the bill introduced by Senator Hitchcock to prohibit the export of munitions of war and arms and war supplies to belligerent countries was not fathered by the administration. Ambassador Spring-Rice inquired about proposed legislation and was told by Secretary Bryan that it was not introduced at the suggestion of the executive branch of the government. American Ambassador Page in London who cabled to ask about probable outcome of the attempt at such legislation also was advised that Senator Hitchcock did not represent the administration in presenting the measure. Secretary Bryan has declined to make any comment on the merits of the measure and no other official of the administration has discussed it. It was stated that the state department still has under consideration the representations made recently by the German ambassador, Count Bernstorff, accompanied by exhibits to the effect that American made dumdum or mushroom bullets were being shipped to the allied powers. RECORD ACREAGE SOWN TO WHEAT Federal Estimate Places Winter Crop Area at 41,263,000 Acres Washington.—Owing to the poor condition of wheat December 1, the department of agriculture's estimate based on condition figures of production next year is only 580,000,000 bushels, although the area sown this fall, 41,263,000 acres, is the greatest ever planted in the United States. Influenced by the prospective heavy demand for grain by the warring countries of Europe, American farmers have sown an acreage showing an increase of 4,435,000 acres over the area sown last fall and on which the record crop of 684,990,000 bushels of winter wheat was harvested this year. The area sown is 5,255,000 acres more than was harvested this year. The condition of winter wheat on December 1 was 88.3 percent, that is 2 percent below the ten year average condition on December 1. Last yar's condition, same date, was 97.2; 1912, 93.2 and 90.3 is the ten year average NEW RECORD ESTABLISHED GINNINGS TO DEC. 13 INDICATE MORE THAN SIXTEEN MILLION BALES FOR 1914. OKLAHOMA OUTDOES HERSELF Total Figures Based on Previous Reports Showing Approximately 92 Per Cent of Entire Production Ginned Prior to That Date. Washington.—Cotton ginning up to the period ending December 12 made a new record exceeding that established in 1911, the year of previous record cotton production, by more than 206,000 bales. This was indicated in the census bureau's report showing 13,977,189 bales had been ginned prior to December 13. In the last two years, approximately 92 per cent of the entire crop had been ginned prior to December 13. Calculating this year's crop on that basis, it would exceed 16,270,000 bales. The department of agriculture, in its preliminary estimate of the crop, placed it at 15,966,000 bales. Last year the department's preliminary estimate was 13,677,000 bales, while the final production was 14,156,000 500-pound bales. Oklahoma, to December 13, had ginned 1,068,898 bales, or more than produced there in any years heretofore, In Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Texas ginnings to December 13 were greater than last year's entire production there. Ginning during the period amounted to 900,982 bales—more than ginned in the same period in any year except 1911. Included in the ginnings were 42.796 round bales, compared with 91.686 last year, 75,772 in 1912, and 92.790 in 1911. Sea Island cotton included numbered 71,488 bales, compared with 69.520 bales last year, 60,445 bales in 1912, and 98,035 bales in 1911. Army Aviator Killed. Ocean Side, Cal. — Lieut. F. G. Gerstner, aviator in one of the U. S. army scouts that started on a flight from San Diego to Los Angeles, was drowned in the sea, ten miles north of this place. Capt. R. L. Muller, pilot of the wrecked machine, was rescued by Capt. L. W. Patterson, another army aviator, whose aeroplane had been wrecked ashore near where Lieutenant Gerstner met his death. Captain Patterson saw the wreckage of Muller's machine in the water and summoned aid. Muller was rescued, badly bruised by the fall and exhausted with his efforts to keep afloat. Gerstner's body was recovered. Lieut. Friederick Gerstner was the eighteenth aviator to give his life in the interest of government aviation. Fourteen army officers, two naval officers and two civilian instructors, make up the roll. Lieut. Garstner was only 23 years old. He was born in Michigan and was appointed to the military academy in 1909. On graduating in 1913 he was assigned to the Tenth cavalry, but recently he was assigned to the aviation school at San Diego, Cal. Four of the six machines that entered the flight were brought to earth near here. The other machine reached Los Angeles in safety. Stormy weather and bad air conditions were held responsible for the accidents. The aeroplanes were to have made the flight back from Los Angeles to report the number and disposition of troops maneuvering in the vicinity of San Diego. The contest was for a trophy. Greece Buys Tents. Toledo, Ohio.—Contracts for $500,000 worth of poles and the same amount in tents were let to local companies by C. Vassadarkis of New York, Greek consul general to the United States in behalf of a Greek company. "These supplies are not to be used for war," said Vassadarkis. "We are simply buying in this country supplies that we would have difficulty in securing in Europe." Olympia to Frisco. Charleston, S. C.-Orders were received here for the United States cruiser Olympia, the flagship at the battle of Manila, to be ready to sail February 15 for the Panama-Pacific exposition by way of the Panama canal. The Olympia has been here since 1912. Escapes Battles: Killed. Pittsburgh, Pa.—After emerging unscathed from a number of battles while serving under Russian colors, Joseph Kamunski deserted and came to America as a stowaway only to meet death after his arrival. Kamunski was employed at a coal chute and was killed when he fell and was buried under tons of coal. 6) (ae OLD YEAR and the AAs BY. sit 2 | Har ry ISN (eene em. Lies y s S | \ jag =" X e ay To all—good-by. My task is done, T've swung the circle of the sun. T've given all that Life bestows, I've dealt Fate's cards to friends, to foes, I've touched you each with joy and care, Drawn wrinkles here, smoothed wrinkles there, And if I've frosted temples gray, I've made warm lips to kiss away ‘The chill. ‘Tho’ Death, tho’ strife I've visited—I've granted Life. I'm Time. I've robbed your cradle dear, Yet | ask you—your dying Year, Havo | not filled it? Answer free, If I've robbed you have not. you cheated me? Have not you sought to kill me—Time? Have not you wasted me—God's gift sub- lime? Misspent me, mocked me, wished me on my way, Loathed and reviled mo—prayed another day, And when I granted it, mocked that one, too, Are we not quit at evens—I and you? \ ‘Tis Kismet—Fate. Old World, good-by, My cycle’s done—I faint—I die. a | | \\ iy YY 6 Up AGS cS me = SCN = A S 2 te FAS . fe / a NS { Oh, World! doar World—at last my dream is true, ‘Through all eternity I've longed for you, Impatient of the years | had to wait, Each nerve aquiver, lest | be too late. ‘And now I'm here—and all of you are mine For my brief reign. Yet, also, I am thine, For use—abuse— but treat me as you may Remember this—I'll give and take away. And but this moment born—but half awake, Tiltell you now what'll both give and take. T'll take a life from cut you here and there, Tl give—a lover true—a sweetheart fair, Halt ‘of your fondest hopes I'll steal away, V'll grant a grain of Wistlom day by day. And ti perchance, I should take Peter's all, With lavish hands I'll shower it on Paul, T'll smite some of you with an iron glove, ri inka some others with iny tenderest love, I'm ‘both your queen and slave, I now make way. This night is yours. Tomorrow you'll repay, Bring forth the Jesters. Fill the cup of cheer. You've waited me forever, World, I'm bere. Not Now, Tshall not swear off smoking now, Nor swear to mend my ways; T shall not swear off penning prose Or writing merry lays. For what's the use? You know right well ‘The strongest of us fall, Tim going t start New Year right Tf shall not swear at “ NEW YEAR PROPHETS HA be talking through the ear-flaps on his cap. Every year about January 1 old Superstition shows It- self like a hydra-headed monster tn a laundry basket. To be sure, we no longer take out Insurance against ghosts, and If wo saw a hobgoblin we'd want to know why the hotel bellhop had grown those whiskers, But there is one kind of su- perstition which we seem to be giving more encouragement all the time, and that fs the New Year prophecy. The true New Year prophet 1s a cheerful soul. If he ever has any good news concerning the future, he care- fully nibbles at the hard ground with a pickax and buries it. Bad news, calamity, disaster, catastrophe, misfor- tune, these are the staple groceries in which he prefers to deal. And he has such a clever way of making good, too. The New Year prophet wears crepe to work every morning while he is put- ting his forecast in order. He also wears a long, sad face and murmurs ever and aiion that the worst fs yet to come. He does this in order that the world may grow pale and weep and shudder. He just loves to show us a good time, The way the New Year prophet makes good on his predictions is to promise every kind of bad luck there {s, from famine to earthquake, and from plague to war. As this globe of ours has been enjoying a steady diet of these things since the year one, the New Year prophet rarely goes wrong, but Just waves his printed predictions upstile down and warbles, “I told you vo.” He is a sure-thing player, and rarely takes a chance that is not a six- ty-to-one shot, For instance, he is safe in forecast- ‘ing a typhoon In the Pacific ocean, which will destroy shipping, but he wouldn't dare to predict that James Jones will pay me that ten dollars he owes me before the first of next April. He finds It advisable to foresee a fam- ine in China—any old thing can hap- pen in China—-but under no cireum- stances would he venture the belief that I will surely keep all the good resolutions I made on the evening of December 30. If | thought the pay was steady and the hours not too long for indoor work, I belleve I should like to take up the work of making New Year propheetes, Por the beneflt of enter prising employers, looking for bright young men at this kind of work, 1 have made up a few sample prophecles for 1915. It makes no difference how I did ft, whether by crystal gazing or by selentific methods. However, I ac- complished it without the ald of a medical almanac or other weapons. For Instance, I predict that: In January the days will be a little longer, and Ice will be cheap. On Jan- gi i VJ Aim as Hs PA ATR tat de ‘a H a! i (eat. \eikory (CCA OS WAS We eK A ww rN Pee CA | BEAN RetHeT RATT fa a CTY Au Sort Vi Fl rit ri AHH ven Hi a A rw at ga) Rs Nae , re \ Murmurs Ever and Anon That the Worst Is Yet to Come. uary 21 the coal bin will be empty, and father -vill chop up @ parlor chair, The month of February will take only 29 days to pass a given point. The weather will be extremely unset tled, and when it 1s not stormy the air will be quite calm, In spite of the cold spell cherry trees will bloom around February 22 {n all candy store windows. March will come in like a lamb afraid of waking the baby, and will go out like a leonine monster who has just overheard someone say he Is get- ting fat. Rain checks will be issued in case this condition 1s reversed. There will be some warm weather, which will cause optimists to throw aside their overcoats and shed their ‘thick. prickly underwear. When the TULSA, OKLA. STAR $$$ $$$ ie spell gets back on the Job, fresh frozen optimist will be one of the del q LC feacies of the season. April will come in with @ sore foot, m having kicked an opera hat which com: pletely surrounded a brick, April will ac be a wet month, and early umbrella crops will by reported from many re pe gions. Fido will here begin to shed his fur. oe | Now there’s a prophecy which shows | what I can do. To confess up, there | When | was nothing dimcult about it. For any- |ono can be a New Year prophet. Yes, without any previous training, oF ex-| Quen perience in sending spirit messages | ~P collect, instead of paying the boy your: | elt. henner | It's safe to prophectze that in the | | year 1915, A. D., you are going to keep most of your good resolutions if you | ane “1 E : z 1 Ga ae | Z SZ | fe or | . in Janu ary 21 the Ss Y made them in an earnest, sincere, try- again spirit, instead of in the usual, automatic way, like giving a fence its annual whitewash. It's safe to fore cast that you'll keep out of debt, that you'll increase your bank account and that you'll get your gilt-edged license for health and happiness—it, instea? of growing dreamy-eyed and wonder ing what the New Year may bring forth, you step out on the right foot, with your eyes to the front, Decide that when old Dame Fortune meets you you'll be plugging along the straight and narrow path, and then she won't have room to side-step you, Be your own prophet and predict a year of hard work and square living for yourself, You should worry while the professional New Year prophet 1s dusting off his shelf-worn stock of plagues, famines, volcanic eruptions and crop failures in Helgoland. | e a ‘The 1918 Boy, “I will not put pins in my dear teach- er’s chair.” (Tacks will hurt just as much, anyway.) “1 will not quarrel and fight with my big brothers in 1915." (What have 1 got a little brother for?) “I will not play hookey from school to go fishing or éwimming.” (That 1s, in the winter time.) “1 will be a regular attendant at Sunday school.” (At Christmas time and just before the summer excursion, of course.) “I will not take mother’s currant Jelly from the pantry without per mission.” (Her raspberry jam 1s good enough for me.) “1 will be kind to dumb antmals, such ‘as tigers, lions and elephants.” (Stray cate and dogs, however, had better keep out of this neighborhood.) “I will not (Oh, gee, that’s enough. ‘They say the good die young, and [ want to live until I catch that red- headed boy on the next block who stuck his tongue out at me yester day!) einhinn Rind: It ts easy to miss God's plans by hurrying after them too fast. A business man, on his way from his suburban home to his office, was very desirous of seeing another man on an important matter; and he knew that that man was likely to be on a cer- tain ferry boat. Hurrying for the boat lest he miss his man, he was stopped on his way by the man him- self, who had been quietly waiting for him, His eagerness to catch that boat was carrying him past the very man he wanted to see. Our eagerness to work out God's plans doubtless often makes it dificult for him to keep us in touch with those plans. It is sometimes a duty to move swiftly; but even then let us be sensitively alert that our swiftness shall not cause us to miss the goal that God has set, The depth of one’s words is just the depth of one’s cbsrecter.—Percy Cc. Alnswort? First Class Meals Served at All Hours. Open Day and Night. J. L. LOCKARD, Prop. en ees WELDY BROS. STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES FRESH AND CURED MEATS AND LARD. Buy and Sell Cattle, Hogs, Veal and all Kinds of Live Stock, We Do Our Own Killing. 21 E, First St. Phone 1158 Tulsa, Okla. C. O. Winterbringer, Guy W. McCollogh. NURSE REGISTER Phone 329—86—911, 125 Second St. TULSA, OKLA. 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The Tulsa Star Printing G é tulsa Star Printing Go. Office 115 North Greenwood PHONE 931, TULSA, OKLA. {] Don’t exaggerate or misrepresentanarticle advertised in this page. Dr. J. J. McKeever DENTIST All Work Guaranteed To Give Satisfaction Phone 2157 Office, Williams Bldg AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS We are permitted to live in a marvelous age. So many wonderful things are happening each day that we scarcely have time to read about them and little opportunity to ponder their significance. We, in the Southland, read the morning paper's report of the progress of the European war—Awful! we exclaim, and then hurry to eagerly search for the latest developments in the cotton situation. We read, we have faith and so we are encouraged to hope for brighter days in spite of the fact that to the average of us there is little said, that we understand, to illumine the situation. One of the causes contributing to our present misfortune is a hopeless struggle to grasp the meaning of giant problems with our pygmy minds, while all around us lie the simple, essential, elemental conditions that make up life, which are easily understood and practical, and which, if given a little serious thinking, will transform this "vale of tears" into a land of joyous living. There are some people in Texas, though, who do appreciate small beginnings and small things, and who are really making things come to pass. We should be thankful that there are still a few farmers who are not cotton crazy. A few farmers who think of hogs, chickens and eggs to raise a few, who like to eat vegetables enough to raise a garden, who raise enough corn to have some meal ground for the old-fashioned antebellum golden egg-bread, who use the milk and butter from their own dairy cows, and whose wives are just old-fashioned enough to make lye-hominy, can surplus garden stuff and fruits and make quilts to keep them warm in the winter. This, class of farmers live at home and whether cotton sells or not they will continue to live, to eat and to enjoy some of the blessings of life. The above is suggested by a meeting I attended in Waco, and about which I want to tell the readers of the Houston Post. It was a meeting of Negro farmers, about five hundred of them, representing some ten thousand others who were at home in the North, South, East and West Texas. The 500 had been sent to Waco to work in the nineteenth annual convention of the Farmers' Improvement society of Texas. Here are some of the things they did. They sang songs of praise and prayed God for his blessing on their humble efforts with a fervor surpassing anything I had ever seen or heard in a church. They then discussed, made demonstrations and produced samples of stuff they raised or made illustrating selected subjects pertaining to the farmers' yearly work. They made intelligent written reports from their various county organizations on the work accomplished during the past year and made plans for another year's work. There was wtf and humor and song and laughter interspersed with huge chunks of hard common sense. They were soberminded men and women bent upon finding the way to the better life for themselves and their children. There was order—there was organization.—Wade C. Rollins, in the Houston Post. Prospecting for oil near Calgary has resulted in the discovery of a fine quality of oil at a depth of 2,700 feet in what is called the Dingman well. The oil is of such high grade that it can be used successfully in automobiles after having passed through the filter. An antiquarian society has recently obtained one of the most interesting collections in the country. It consists of the commercial tokens and mock coins issued by tradesmen during the Civil war when small change with the government stamp became a rarity. There are in the collection about one thousand varieties of tokens. A successful peach grower, S. J. T. Bush, in a recent talk at Rochester, N. Y., said that 200,000 bushels of peaches rotted on the trees in one New York county alone in 1912 for lack of cars to transport them to market. The newest battleship building for the United States will be 1,400 tons larger than Japan's largest, 3,400 tons larger than Germany's, 3,900 tons larger than Great Britain's, and 6,500 tons larger than anything France plans. It has been discovered that the leaf of the pineapple can be wought into a serviceable cloth. If these United States of America should become involved in war, what part do you think the Negro of the South would play? If he were asked to take up arms to help protect the peace and prosperity of the southland—and refuse? If he should stand and tell the people of the South. "No, sah; Ise not goin' ter no war; Ise got der rheumatism?" If the Negro would say, "We's don' tried to help you once, and you turned us off after we's don' won a battle at San Juan hill." If the loafing Negro and the other sons of rest would refuse to give their services as cooks and other required labor? "My dear readers, the above is an "if." If these United States of America should become involved in the present war, we, the colored people of the South, stand ready to give our services, property and lives for the peace and prosperity of the southland. Nor would we sneak from the battlefield and hang around the cook pot. We are ready to fall in line and advance in pursuit of the enemy. It is true, when the North and South were fighting, our fathers and mothers were left behind to care for the families and farms. And when "master" came back from the battlefield he found everything better than he left it; all the corn had been planted and all the land had been broken up. We want the good white people of the southland to ever remember that the blood of the old reliable, trustworthy "mammy" and "uncle" is still in the South. We realize that those who refuse to give us justice at times are the ones who have forgotten the good deeds of the old Negro "mammy" and "uncle." The same blood that traced the old "mammy" and "uncle" veins traces their sons' and daughters' veins.—C. J. Taylor, in the Houston Post. In the midst of the war situation, it is sincerely to be hoped that the general public will not forget the needs of such institutions as the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute, located in Alabama, in the heart of the South. Whatever conditions may arise, it is of the highest importance to continue without interruption to give that training which will insure the prosperity of the South and peaceful relationships between white people and black people. After deducting all sums likely to be received from stated sources, including a sum guaranteed by trustees and friends of the school, there remain to be raised this year by the principal of Tuskegee institute in the form of $50 scolarship, or otherwise, for current expenses, about $125,000. The amount referred to not only includes the direct expenses of the school for the work on the grounds, but the extension work, which influences and reaches a large part of the far South. Even the smallest amount will be gratefully received and promptly acknowledged. The work of the institute is now so thoroughly established, and its great value to the Negro people and to the nation so fully demonstrated, that the school should not be allowed to suffer in its need for current expenses. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. The unassailable supremacy of the "Smiths" in London can be estimated from the telephone directory. The honorable family of Jones, for example, occupies not quite four pages. The Robinsons, who have a place with the greatest, do not require two pages. But the Smiths begin on page 732 and end on page 770. The United States forest service has undertaken the reforestation of a large section in northern Idaho destroyed by forest fires in 1910 to determine whether the destruction of trees decreases the flow of streams. Irrigation projects now under way or contemplated by the Union of South Africa call for an expenditure of more than $5,000,000. A new Tennessee law makes provision for fire escapes on workshops and factories two stories and more in height. The bulk of the aluminum ore o the United States is produced in A kansas. POULTRY We 324 NONFREEZING WATER FOUNT Very Useful Invention for Winter Use in the Poultry Yard—Has an Opening at Side. A supply of fresh water is at all times essential for the health and comfort of the chickens, and in the winter time it is a difficult thing to provide, for the water will freeze tight in a few minutes after it is put out. It is claimed by some observers that water which is slightly heated will congeal more rapidly than cold water. ```markdown ``` Nonfreezing Fount. so that this suggestion does not offer any relief. A new invention to take care of the water in winter weather is shown in the accompanying cut. the subject of a recent patent grant. It has an opening at its side where the water is supplied to a trough located below the opening of the reservoir. Above it is a sloping side wall. The fountain has a removable cover, which also is packed with nonconducting material. The atmospheric pressure on the small quantity of water in the trough will retain the mass of liquid within the main reservoir so long as the liquid in the trough is sufficient to maintain the orifice or opening to the trough closed. MARKING THE EARLY LAYERS Band Placed on Leg of Pullet Beginning to Lay in October Helps in Selection of Breeders. The pullets that begin laying first are as a rule the best layers; it is from these pullets and hens that we should hatch our breeding birds. Colored leg bands are useful for marking birds with special points; a red band on the leg of each pullet that begins to lay in October will make the selection of breeders next spring easier. The Missouri state poultry experiment station this year had fifty pullets bred from good layers which began to lay when a little over four months old. In every case the pullets that began to lay first came from the highest laying hens. Of the thirteen pullets that began laying first, three were Buff Leghorns. two Barred Plymouth Rocks, four White Leghorns, one Ancona, one Campine, one Rhinelander, and one White Orpington. The Barred Rocks and the White Orpington weighed from three and a half to four pounds each; all the others from two and a half to three and a fourth pounds each. The eight-hour law doesn't fit the poultry business. The care of poultry is not measured by time. POULTRY Clean nests mean clean eggs. Clean, fresh eggs spell clean profits. All growing turkeys should have as much grain as they will eat twice a day. The American hen laid 20,000,000 eggs last year and had a good right to cackle. The hen, after laying an egg, needs a drink of water. See that it is always accessible. * * * * An egg contains quite a large percentage of water, hence water must be supplied in plenty. * * * * As fowls have no organs for mastication, their food must be prepared for digestion in the gizzard. * * * * The cry now is for winter eggs. The poultry keeper smart enough to get them is the one who is successful financially. * * * * Unslaked lime, coal ashes or dry dirt are good materials to scatter over the floor and under the roofs after a good cleaning up. We carry our own outfit and a full, complete stock of high class funeral goods. When you want a nice quick lunch for yourself or family think of BEN'S PLACE The quick lunch stand in rear of Sand Springs Depot OPEN ALL HOURS Claremore, Okla., The Health Resort WASHINGTON BATH HOUSE For the Colored People MRS. 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Goods Sold at Half Price Unredeemed Goods Sold for Charges For Confectionaries, Cold Drinks, Cigars, Tobacco and Hair Goods. SCALP TREATMENT a Speciaty. 516 East Archer Street, Next door to Dr. Jackson MRS. GEO. W. HUNT, Prop. Home Undertaking Co. No.2 Open Day and Night Remember us in your sorrow. H. W' RAGSDALE, Mgr PHONE 4280 114 N. Greenwood TULS. For Blacksmithing and Gas and Call The LO SHAKESPE ED 324 East Archer Street TULSA, OKLA horse Shoe- ing Fitting R SHOP ROP. Phone 5085 Published Every Saturday at 501 North Greenwood Street. Entered as second-class matter April 11, 1913, at the Post Office at Tulsa Oklahoma, under the Act of March 3, 1879. The price of this paper is $1.00 per year. If you like it send us your subscription and help us to continue our work for the race. THE PRETIDENT of the State Negro Business League, a prominent merchant at Muskogee evidently has declared a boycott on all Negro papers. Just recently, it is said, he pulled off a big advertising stunt using the white papers, it is said, to the exclusion of all race papers, notwithstanding there are three or four Colored papers there. Simply another case of Elliott showing his narrowness. That's all. THE EDITOR of The Star is not in need of any advice as to how we should run a newspaper. We have our own ideas about running a newspaper and we admit we rather like them, because they are our own, not borrowed, or stolen ideas, but original. We do not like hypocryciy and for that reason we are opposed to all hypocrites, even those who pose as our friends. We are afraid to do wrong, but when we believe we are right we fear nothing and nobody. We ask our ftriends[?] to withhold their criticism and pardon us for pursuing our ownieas in our own business, and do more for the good of the community by supporting the paper. Some of our friends(?) delight in bringing news about themselves or family to be published free, but supinely pass us by when they have a job to be printed, preferring to take it to the other fellows who do not employ even a colored janitor. Now, friends, start off right with the new year. Meals Served in Family Style Mme. Z. E. Holderness J B Hawkins Furniture Co Easy terms. Cash or credit Prepare Now For The Adversities of Think of yourself, your loved ones, what will happen to them. You cannot afford to be un-protected when these magnificent benefits can be had at such small cost, JOIN NOW We give the most protection for the least cost. Policies for every one. Call or write. CHAS. JOHNSON, Agt. for THE SOUTHERN SURETY CO. Specialist in clearing land titles. Phone No. 3566 216 E. ARCHER ST. TULSA, OKLA P SURE RESULTS FOR HOME AND FOREIGN ADVERTISERS paper is $1.00 per year. If you need help us to continue our work for the State Negro Business Society at Muskogee evidently has declares. Just recently, it is said, it is not using the white papers, it is using the white papers, notwithstanding there are there. Simply another case of that. That's all. Of The Star is not in need of an advertisement in a newspaper. We have our own paper and we admit we rather like it, not borrowed, or stolen ideas, because hypocrisy and for that reason, even those who pose as our friend to do wrong, but when we are going and nobody. We ask our criticism and pardon us for pursuits business, and do more for the good of the paper. Some of our news about themselves or family pinply pass us by when they have to take it to the other fellows we need janitor. Now, friends, start. When in SAPULPA Stop at Collage Rooming House Served in Family Street to Date Harry Z. E. Holder HAIR GROC Cures Tetter Eczema Dandruff A Trial will convince you. My pared Hair Oil will be sent on receipt of 50 cents. Bankfort Street TU over year. If you like it send us continue our work for the race. Negro Business League, a pr idently has declared a boycott, it is said, he pulled off white papers, it is said, to the thstanding there are three by another case of Elliott show not in need of any advice as We have our own ideas about it we rather like them, because or stolen ideas, but original. for that reason we are oppo- no pose as our friends. but when we believe we are We ask our friends[?] lon us for pursuing our own more for the good of the con- Some of our friends[?] do themselves or family to be put when they have a job to the other fellows who do not e- w, friends, start off right we LPA Stop at Blooming House Family Style Harry Johnson, Fri Holderness GROWER Tetter Eczema, a Dandruff. convince you. My specially pre- Hair Oil will be sent to any receipt of 50 cents a Box. TULSA, OKLA Furniture Co Cures Tetter Eczema, and Dandruff. A Trial will convince you. My spepially prepared Hair Oil will be sent to any on receipt of 50 cents a Box. NEW AND SECOND HAND y terms. Cash or cr B. Hawkins, P St. Cash or credit vkins, Prop. Tulsa, Okla. A Vagrant Christmas Gift ALBERT EDWARD CONVERSE (Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Co.) R. and Mrs. Jackson Smith understood each other perfectly on the Christmas present proposition. M This satisfactory state of affairs did not come about the first year of their wedded life, nor even the second. The third Christ-mas was almost at hand before Mr. Smith discovered accidentally, but to his intense joy, that Mrs. Smith relished his selection of furs, gloves, curtains, rugs, and so on, no more than did he her choice of smoking-jackets, cravats, mufflers, et cetera. That their friends could not be taken in on the combination was, however, a thorn in the flesh of each of them. "The worst has happened," said Mrs. Smith, interrupting Mr. Smith's perusal of the paper Christmas morning. "A messenger just brought a present from the Snivelys, and I forgot to put them on my list. It's a book and we've got to send them something." "Well, what are we going to do about the Snivelys?" growled Mr. Smith. "Jack," said she in a moment, "I've had an inspiration. Why couldn't we send the Snivelys the book that Cousin Lucy sent us? Neither of them will ever know it." "By George! We'll do it," said Mr. Smith, after considering the proposition. "Where is Cousin Lucy's book?" "It's on the desk," said Mrs. Smith. "Just put our cards in the book and wrap it up neatly. I'll call a messenger boy." Half an hour later Mr. Smith handed a package, addressed to Mr. Snively, to a messenger boy and saw him depart with it. He was luxuriously stretched out on a davenport when Mrs. Smith came into the room a few minutes later. "Jack," said Mrs. Smith, holding a book in her hand, "I thought you were going to wrap this book up." "Great Scott!" exclaimed Mr. Smith, jumping to his feet. "I did wrap up some book. The messenger has already been here and I gave it to him." "How long has the boy been gone?" demanded Mrs. Smith. "About ten minutes." "Get your things on. Be quick, and maybe you can reach the Snivelys' before the boy and get that dreadful book away from him! How could you have been so careless?" Mrs. Smith was almost frantic. Mrs. Smith was almost frantic. Down to the nearest street car tore Mr. Smith, fairly consumed with rage. He had arrived at the down town district when, with a thrill of joy, he spied the messenger boy. Without waiting for the car to stop, Mr. Smith jumped off and started on a run for the boy. At the same moment the messenger boy saw him, and, without knowing why he was being pursued, he obeyed his first impulse and ran too. In a moment a dozen had joined in the chase. Down the street came the poor messenger boy, frantically straining every muscle to get away from the mob pursuing him. Suddenly two men from a cross street ran in front of the boy. One threw his arms around the fugitive, holding his fast; the other man seized the package the boy was carrying. "Why, Snively! This package is addressed to you!" he exclaimed. "Why, so it!" said the man who had caught the boy. In a moment they were surrounded by a crowd. A policeman rushed up and took charge of the boy. "What do you know about this affair?" said the policeman respectfully, as he recognized Mr. Smith. But Mr. Smith was standing as one dazed. He had caught sight of Mr. Snively with the book under his arm. "Hello, Smith," said Mr. Snively. "I just now caught this boy, and found him carrying a package addressed to me, so took charge of it. Do you know anything about it?" "Why—why—er—yes," stammered Mr. Smith, trying to collect his wits. "You see, I sent the package." "Well, why were you chasing the boy?" asked the policeman, a little impatiently. The perspiration stood out on poor Mr. Smith's forehead. "I—I was afraid I hadn't given the boy the right address, and was trying to stop him to find out," he blurted in desperation. The policeman looked at Mr. Smith curiously. He was convinced that he was lying, though with what object he could not imagine. "The package has come to the right fellow anyway," said Snively, laughing. "I'm going right home, so I'll take it along with me." "Oh, I couldn't think of allowing you to do that, old man!" cried Mr. Smith. "Just give it back to the boy; A TEETGTALER A Salvation Army officer, brilliant in a red sweater, said: "The late General Booth had a host of temperance stories—some to make you weep, some to make you smile. Of the latter sort was a story about a little boy who entered a saloon, placed a pitcher on the bar and demanped a quart of beer. "I can't sell you a quart of beer," said the bartender. "You are too young. Tell your mother she will have to come for it herself." ,It ain't for mother," said the little boy. "It's for father—and he's a teetotaler and don't want mother to know."—Exchange. I'll hardupp I'll have to do work for over ear, mister. I can't got the price of a night's loot. Can yer do any thing to help me out? Hardupp (sure, nicely)—I'd like to, out I sprained my foot on a collector's restarted. NEWS AROUND THE CITY. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Byrd has returned home after a three months visit at Tabor, Okla. H. J. Caver, a tailor of this city was called to Little Rock, Ark., last Sunday night on account a dangerous illness of his brother Floyd Caver of that city. Miss Lottie Moss, principal of Roff Public School had quite a pleasant stay, with her cousin Mrs. A. C. Curd of 316 N. Greenwood St., while en route for her home, Springfield, Mo., for which she departed Monday night. Owing to the inclementy of the weather she was unable to see much of our progressive city but what she did see impressed her greatly and on departing assured us that she would return again soon without doubt. 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Write today The Tulsa Star, 115 N. Greenwood Tulsa, Okla E. WILSON this signature is on every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets the remedy that causes a cold. One day LITTLE 'RASTUS ON SANTA CLAUS WILBUR D. NESBIT Mah mummy say dat Sandy Claus come Ter good li boys, Ter good li boys, or big red drum. I guess I knows what Sandy Claus do— He sec'n ban' man! Las' yeah he clomb down ouah stovepipe W'enst I's ersleep. En fotch some oynges—bout half ripe— En th'ee toy sheep. En one dese jump' jacks—broken, dough— But den, my lan'! 'Bout dishyere Sandy Claus—I des know He sec'n han' man! I as' my mammy ef Sanzy Claus ain' Done know des how Ter men' dem toys, en' Aix dey paint, en she say: 'Now. Don't worry, chile, 'bout de white folks, 'cause Hit's de good Lawd's plan." So I guess dat mah Mistah Sandy Claus He sec'n han' man! REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE DAY Puritans of England Made Christmas Illegal and Declared It a Misdemeanor to 'Be Gay. English Puritans of the seventeenth century guarded against looking upon the rosy side of life. Because Christmas is really a survival of the Celts' Yule, and is not the actual anniversary of the birth of Christ, they refused to countenance Christmas festivities. Not only did they refuse to recognize the day, but they made laws to that effect. The parliament of 1644 passed an act ordering all law abiding citizens to observe December 25 as a solemn fast, to be spent in silent atonement for previous Christmas days that had passed in riotous living and merry-making. Naturally the community did not share in these hard and fast rules, and many a turkey was surreptitiously killed, and many a plum pudding quietly boiled. But woe betide the unfortunate offender against the act were he luckless enough to be discovered. 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The Christmas tree is supposed by great numbers of people to have orig inated in Germany, but from a re Mable source we learn that the Christ mas tree came in the first instance from Egypt, and its origin dates from a period much earlier than the Chris tian era. The palm tree ts known to put forth a branch every month, and a spray of this tree with 18 shoots on it was weed in Egypt at the time of the winter solstice as a sym bol of the completed year. SEASONABLE PRICES. Now doth the’ Christmas shopper With happiness elate, Buy something that was forty-nine, _ Marked up to ninety-eight | OVER 66 YEARS 9 EXPERIENCE |B Trave MaRKs Desians ie ashe St ee a qdaigrtacgriattt gu orinion freee hecher a lone tried Eoniaential. HANDBOOK on Patents Scientific Aimericat, MUNN & Co,set0rsne. Naw York G. W. Hutchins Attorney and counselor at law prac- ticing in all the courts of Oklahoma. Dealer in Real Estate, Oil and Gas Leases. : $ $ 3 t Office 206 North Frankfort Avenue Tulsa, Oklahoma WANTED “serene ‘Farm or Business ig fect fom owner gui whe ot EE Ea Sas . DARBYSHIRE, Bex 9990 © Rochester, M, T. Statement Continued from page one @ newspaper, and some of our best friends differ with us in this respect. But be that as it may, we want the gen- eral public to understand that we do not make the news, but when it is brought to our observation, as it was in this case, we will certainly publish it without fear or favor. , If you don’t want scandals to appear in the Star, don’t let the Star know it. Editor. ; Pastor Surprised The following persons met at the Parsonage of the First Baptist church jJast Thursday night and stormed the Pastor and his wife with many good things to eat, The 20th Century Club arranged and led ‘the affair Mra, L, Owens, President, headed the party, and merriness of heart, broke {a tis Pastor's home and the good things showered on the table, ‘The Pastor was absent, being at Sa- pulpa attending the State Board meet- ing. We came home about 11 o'clock that night, found the party, merrily entertaining the wife of the Pastor, We stood in amazement as we entered the door, eyes flashed on the table laden- ed with the precious gifts which they had brought, and on the party which seemed to be so happy. ‘The Pastor and wife take this meth- od of thanking the many friends for their remembrance of them, God biess you all. The following contributed: Mrs, J. A. Baldwin, Mrs, Young, Mrs.” A. M, White, Mrs, H. E. Fulbright, Rev. L. McGregor, Mrs. Fannie Morgan, Mrs. Louisia Welch, Mrs, Rachel Dru- mmond, Mrs. Callie McGregor, Mr, and Mrs. D. L. Whitiow, Mrs, Annie i Warren, Mrs, Mary Moss, 15 cents, Mrs, O, W, Gurley, Mrs, J. H. Roberts, Mrs. Hannah Williams, Mrs. EB. L, Cherry, Mrs, C, Dearman, Rey, C. Dearman, Magter Salamia Williams, Mrs. Daisy Johnson, Mrs, Hattie T. Owens, Mrs, Hattie L, Owens, Presi- dent Twentieth Century Club, ‘The articles contributed were as fol- lows: Corn, pork and beans, sugar, salt, tomatoes, coffee, jelly, baking powder, chow chow, matches, gold dust and many other things. The Pastor / and wife, were all smiles, and will jnever forget these good friends who re- membered them in shuch a needy time. | Thanks, come again. The home of M, W. was entered by » burglar last Saturday and stole thirty dollars and a valuable wateh Cernerea, ‘ “That ohauifeur was a grest Alsap pointment.” - » “I thought he would be.” “But you gave him a letter of recom ” mendation,.” “Of course. And | advise you to de ‘the same. It's the only way to get > © go peaceably.” at