Tulsa Star

A FEARLESS EXPONENT OF RIGHT AND JUSTICE THE TULSA STAR OUR SUBSCRIPTION LIST MAKES A VALUABLE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING Official Organ of The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, And The Knights And Ladies of Harmony of The World, Oklahoma Jurisdiction S. S. and B.Y.P.U. Convention In Tulsa this week Vol. 3. No 41 President Kersh and Perkins Engaged in great Work. The tenth annual session of the State Baptist Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. Conventions, which convened in his city Wednesday for a six days' session, ending Sunday, is in progress at the First Baptist church of which Rev. J. F. Kersh, president of the S.S. convention, is pastor. As early as Tuesday morning delegates began to arrive and when the convention opened Wednesday morning, a fairly good representation was on hand. Leaders of the work are well pleased with the showing made and say it is one of the best meetings they have had. A musical and literary concert was rendered at the First Baptist church Tuesday night which was well worth while. Miss B. B. Johnson, the famous Oklahoma soprano, appeared in this concert at her best. Mrs. Wright of Eufaula also sang and received an encore. President Kirsh's annual address was delivered Wednesday night. This address, five hundred copies of which has been printed for sale, was doubtless a document representing careful thought and preparation, and has been pronounced a masterpiece. Under separate heads, the president covered nearly every phase of uplift work, both in and out of the church. Rev. Perkins of Muskogee, president of the State B. Y. P. U., also delivered a masterful address before the convention Wednesday night. Too much praise cannot be given Prof. H. B. P. Johnson, musical director of the State Baptist and the National Baptist convention for his good work in training the choruses for this occasion. Mr. Johnson left Wednesday morning for Chicago where he will begin training choruses for the National convention next month. Miss B. B. Johnson, his sister, who conducted the concert Tuesday night, will have charge of all the work here. The National Association of Negro Mechanics with Robert W. Fearing as president has been organized in New York city. The object of the association is to provide better working conditions for its members. National Medics Meet in Chicago. National Medics Meet in Chicago. Chicago, Ill., Aug. 25.—(Special to the Star.)—The National Medical Association convened in this city today for a two days' session, ending tomorrow, Aug. 26. Welcome addresses by Mayor Thompson, Gov. Dunne, Hon. Martin B. Madden and Hon. Oscar De Priest and others will be delivered tonight. Tomorrow night the doctors' meeting will close with the biggest ball of the season at the Eighth Street Armory. More than 5,000 people will be present. Taking for his text "Vengence is Mine, Sayest the Lord," Rev. Kersh, pastor of the First Baptist church in his sermon last Sunday, bitterly denounced the spirit of mob law and criticised severally any government which tolerated it. Saying in substance that Leo. M. Frank would never have been lynched in Georgia, the state or federal authorities done their duty in the past to suppress the heartless lynching of negroes in that and other states. It was a very able sermon and took well with the audience. While Rev. Kersh Johnson, pastor of the A. M. E. church, was firing broadsides into the flanks of the local bootleggers and dive keepers. It is said he named his men and then held them up to public scorn and criticism as leppers and debauchers of public decency. Rev. Johnson is known and loved by the better people of Tulsa for his fearless, open manner of fighting all manner of vice and corruption. NOTICE TO LIBRARY PATRONS. Patrons of the public library who have books belonging to the library will please return them at once. Books are not supposed to remain out longer than two weeks, but a number of the library patrons are disregarding this rule. We urge our patrons to lend us all the assistance possible in our efforts to maintain a public library. Our books are limited and we must keep them well in hand to accommodate the public. Kindly remember this and return the books. LIBRARIAN. Don't Forget Fair Week in Tulsa! ONE OF WARSAW'S PRINCIPAL STREETS Scene in the center of Warsaw, the capital of Russian Poland, which has been the object of the great Teuton drive in the eastern theater of the war and is now in the hands of the Germans. M. Rev. J. F. Kersh, D. D. President State Missionary Baptist Sunday School Convention B. Y. P. U. Elect Delegates. B. Y. P. U. Elect Delegates. As we go to press the State B Y P. U. Convention is almost to the close of the best sessions in its history. The following officers have been elected for the next ensuing year, Rev. J. W Perkins, president, Rev. A C. Reeves 1st. Vice; Rev. G. W Kirkland 2nd. Vice; Miss Ethel Tucker, Recording Secretary; Miss M. E. Walker Cor., Sect'y; Mr. F. D. Williams, Treasurer, Rev S H. Winston, Statistician; Mrs. S. H. Winston, State Organizer. The State Sunday School Convention which also holds its 9th. annual session here will call on its first SUCCESSOR TO THE MUSKOGEE STAR TULSA, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY AUGUST 27, 1915 session at 2:00 p. m. Both of these great Baptist gatherings are holding their sessions at the First Baptist Church where Rev. J. F. Kersh is pastor and president of the Convention. Negro State Fair at Muskogee Negro State Fair at Muskogee MUSKOGEE IN READINESS FOR BIG EVENT, SEPT 6th to 11th. The Negro Independent State Fair, which opens in Muskogee next month, has the promise of being a big success, which will probably equal the parade of the National Business League there last year. Farmers all over the state feel a keen interest in the exhibition and many of them will be on hand with exhibits. A very interesting feature of the fair will be the baby contest. There will also be many other interesting features full of thrills. Among them being a parade of old cowboys. Premiums will be given for farm and garden products. Lynching and Boot legging Scored by Pastors Lynching and Boot legging Scored by Pastors A rural educational mass meeting was recently held in Millen, Georgia. Some three hundred or more representatives from adjoining states and counties were present to participate in the discussion for better educational conditions. T. M. Campbell, Farm Demonstrator Agent, with headquarters at Tuskegee Institute, gave a stereoconical lecture on farming. McCarter Byrd of Lawrence, Kansas, proprietor of the Lawrence Rug and Fur Company, is doing a large and successful business in the tanning of furs.. Hides of many wild and domestic animals are shipped to his tannery from nearby and adjoining states to receive his skilled treatment. H. A. Scott, a colored man, is said to conduct a very successful cleaning and dyeing establishment in New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Scott employs from twenty to thirty persons, and his annual business is said to amount to more than $25,000. An excellent opportunity is said to be offered to a well-qualified colored dentist to locate in a thriving Southern city. Write the secretary of the National Negro Business league, at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, and enclose stamp for reply. The Associated Charties of Cincinnati, Ohio, have employed Miss Martha Fletcher, a young colored woman as special worker and investigator among the colored people. Since last report, Local Negro Business Leagues have been organized and chartered in the following cities; Thibodaux, Louisiana; Reidsville, North Carolina; Bradentown, Florida; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Montclair, New Jersey. Within the past six weeks, State Negro Business Leagues in three states have held their annual meetings. The meetings were well attended and have been followed by a wave of increasing interest in local league work. Texas, Louisiana, and Virginia are the states where these meetings have been held. WILL TRAVEL IN THE INTEREST OF THE TULSA STAR and WRITE INTERESTING STORIES OF THE RACES' PROGRESS HERE AND THERE. The Star is pleased to announce that J. B. Stradford, a prominent welty citizen of Tulsa has agreed to travel in the interest of this paper and of the race in Oklahoma. He will write weekly letters of the progress of the race, which will of course add much to the news columns of this paper. Those who remember Mr. Stradfords letters of his trip through the east know what a very interesting writer he is and will rejoice with us because of his connection with the Star. JOE H. HOGAN MAY RUN FOR CONGRESS Prominent Politician Being Mentioned as Possible Candidate for U. S. Congress, Strong Pressure Brought to Bear to Induce Him to Run. Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. 26.—According to a report circulated here today John R. Hogan for years one of the faculty of the C. A. and N. University at Langston may be candidate for United States Congressman from the fifth congressional district of Oklahoma at the next general election. Hogan has the reputation of being one of the most sagacious Negro politicians in Oklahoma and some of the strongest men in the state white and black are said to be backing him or will be if he can be induced to make the race. Those of his friends here who know him best are of the opinion that he would make the race if assured in advance of the proper support. A very prominent citizen and a fast friend of Hogan's said today that in all probability the latter would run if he entered the race at all on an independent ticket. The question naturally arises in the light of present information whether he could be elected with four other tickets in the field. The Democrats Republicans, Progressives and Socialists will all have tickets out but Hogan's friends believe there is a chance for him. At any rate they are determined to harness him up for the race. A prominent white man said today, that if Hogan announced he would command a strong following not only among his own people but quite a few white people in the district would vote for him "because" he said Hogan has never been known to be disloyal to a friend or untrue to any trust. A Star representative sought Hogan out today and questioned him concerning the possibility of his announcing for congress. At first he scoffed the idea thinking it a huge joke, but when assured that his friends were really bent on running him for this high office, he laughed hardly, but soon grew serious as he replied, very slowly and carefully in the following language, which was taken verbally. "No sir, no more politics for me. In 1888, my senior year at Langrange Texas high school, I was working for a rich merchant by the name of Mr. Carter for my Subscription $1.00 Per Year this week HOGAN RUN FOR CONGRESS board while attending school. In the city election, Mr. Carter was interested and the opposition was strong he got in his buggy, drove to the colored school, asked the teacher for me and I went with him to the polls and voted. Mr. Carter's side won. I was then 18 years old. From that day I have kept a close observation of the Negroes activity in politics and all that I have seen him get for his share was the devil and discredit, hatred from those he opposed and desertion from those he supported. I tell you I attribute blim! politics as the cause of most of the uncassiness and unrest of the American negro. But, of course, I know that this kind of political affiliation could not have been otherwise, because he was given the franchise. He lived alone in the world of feeling, having no knowledge of that of thought and reason. Physicologically speaking, the black man has existed through two conditions. During slavery he existed only in muscle, he saw only objectively. He saw not subjectively, the process possessed by which the human mind compares two judgments and reaches conclusions on an order of higher intelligence. During the first 30 years of his freedom he existed almost wholly in state of unreasonable emotional feeling. He is now amid his renaisance, the thinking and reasoning. This is the most important and slippery age of any people's history. A period when reason and science begin to control instead of feeling and superstition. You may rest assured that the next 30 years will determine the black man's place in the affairs of this nation for the next 300 years to come. I am now amid my declining years and I expect to spend my remaining days with the physcological proposition of my people and not politics. Yes, I understand you are a candidate for the presidency of Langston University, I said to Prof. Hogan. That's a lie, he said and whomever told that knows it's one and told it for one. Every individual in this state who dislikes me I have never had any ambition in that direction. It was rumored that Prof. Hogan was a candidate for the presidency of Langston University; when asked concerning this, the professor denied the allegation, and branded it as a lie of whole cloth. He said, "I am not a candidate for the presidency of Langston University and the man who told that lie knows that I am not. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS PAGE TWO J.C. Fraster of Farraville, Newton county, ranks as one ©’ the most pro gressive Negro teachers of enst Texas, and is in very high extesm by people Of both races of that section, says the Houston Post. He has already tntro- duced canning successfully into his school. Great interest has been man {feasted during the summer session In canning and quite a number have been studying canning | tion with the operation of selivo! training plants where the conning of vegetables for use in the mess hall next sexsion 1s BUI In progress. ‘The school cannery in proving to oe a benefit to the sur rounding neighborhoor as well as to the school, and both white and eck ored neighbors are bringing in vere tables to be canned in the Prairie View school cannery, Lulu B. Young road before the summer session an tn: teresting description of the work of the school of which she ts principal, and she 1s probably the youngest toacher In achool, and she has success: fully introduced industrial work {nto her school in Smith county, where her work has attracted favorable com: ment and mention from the county superintendent. A number of teachers have reported an inerease in salary, due to their having successfully intro- duced industrial work in their schools, An unusually large number of man teachers have been taking instruction fm the agricultural department as a moans of running a school garden, which they have already Introduced ‘or plan to Introduce into their school. ‘The classes in sewing have been ex- ceptionally well attended by the wom: an teachers, while quite a number of them have alxo enrolled in the cook ing classes, Mra, M. E, Hunter, for: merly of Alabama, but for a number of years a resident of Laporte, Tex. tn one of the most earnest students of industrial work in the institution. ‘This earnest woman, after the death of her husband, has proved to be a fuccessful farm manager and has in troduced industrial work also into rchoots which she has taught in the vielnity of her home. She has proved to be exceptionally successful in the work of raising and canning frults and vegetables and 18 a cook and housekeeper of unusual ability. Recently the Fourth Estate an: nounced that the plant of the old Philadelphia Times had been taken over by colored men, who proposed to publivh from ft five weeklies for Boston, New York, Phiadelphia, Balt more and Washington. It has now boon definitely decided that these pa: pers will appear on or about Septem: dor 3, each a Tcolumn a2page pub- Meation, and that during October weeklies will be given to 30 other eition within a 12-hour radius of Phila: delphia. In outlining the company’s plans to the Fourth Estate, W. W. Rourk, the managing director, sald: “Our publications will be absolute ty free’ and independent. ‘They are not to be the organ of any class oF party, but will oppose vigorously and fearloss!y any and every destructive force in American life, “We mean to be broad, unbiased, clean In polities, modern, enterpris ing and accurate tn our Amertean and foreign newe service, and shall set and maintain @ high standard in race Journalism “Tho one great need of the Negro fn my opinion, is a live, sensitive or kan of public opinion in each com munity to speak intelligently and with authority to and for the race ‘The Prairie View summer school, which {8 comprised of 470 attendants, ‘& majority of whom are teachers al ready engaged in colored schools ot the cities and counties of the state and who are here for further Improve: ment as & means of Atting themselves for greater usefulness in the Negro communities, is drawing to a close, Mra, Bi. 'T. Foster of Limestone county is supervisor of the colored schools of the county under the Jeanes’ fund, ard devotes her time to the Introdue- tion and fmprovement of the indus: trial work in various colored schools of the county. Through her influence a considerable tract of land will be devoted next year to school gardening and farming in connection with one of thelr larger rural schools. Mra, Fos ter {8 a graduate of Prairie View. school and is a teacher of a number ‘of years of successful experience, Mra Kay of Harrisburg, Harris county, 1s regarded ax one of tho best female teachers among the Negroes of the state, Her successful work led the Yoard of directors to make an addi {Hou costing $5.000 to her school at Harrisburg, which 4 fitted with mod: From Tuskegee we learn that the colored people of Virginia pay taxes fon real and personal property to the amount of $34,743,656, At the close of the war they were practically peunt- ‘ieee, Because from 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 tons of potatoes rot every year in Ger: many, the government {s fostering the erection of drying plants Husbands and wives who get along do it without “trying.” It Is our purpose to supply just that need It ts particularly opportune that our plans ehould mature Just at this time. The end of the war in Eu rope will cull for @ readjustment in the relations of all the races of the world. This readjustment will be as nvcessary in America an else where, and will peculiarly affect the black race here It may be that none now living yill ever see the tide of tmmigration that once flowed into this country rewch again the high-water mark °¢ 000,000 a year. ‘The men withdrawn from our industrial fleld will not re turn to it; they are being maimed and slaughtered by the millions, Those who do survive will be required during the next 50 years in rebuilding Burope, “Today our industries are hopeless ly crippled by lack of laborers. With out them there can be no expansion. What then? The black man? Why not? There are 10,100,000 of him in the United States. Heretofore he has been Ignored, rejected, Wherever he turned seeking an honest livelihood the doors of opportunity have been slammed in his face, and today eco: omic conditions are subjecting hin to @ pressure more severe than any he has heretofore experienced. Un. Jess that condition charges, the Negra in America {s doomed to pauperist and crime. Through the co-operation of broad-minded, clearthinking men and women of both races, we hope te relieve the pressure by altering the condition, “In taking over the piant of the Philadelphia avening Times, we have succeeded In translating Into terms of actuality the dream of thousands of colored people who long ag¢ recognized the need of modern news papers owned by members of thi race, yet realized the {mpossibiitt) of producing them without a strictl modern plant backed by suffleten funda. “We have the money, and tn ow plant we have every labor-saving, cost cutting device known to the modert newspaper world, which includes tw condensed quadruple Hoe presses wit! @ combined capacity of 96,000 com plete newspapers per hour.” A broad plan for co-operation among four churches of Methodism having & Negro membership of 1,600,000, was made public tn a deliverance to Meth odists of the world. The plan, if car ried out by the Methodist general con ferences, was expected to pave the way for final organic union of Negro Methodists in America into one church It was agreed to by the com: missioners of the Methodist Episcopal (white), African Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal Zton and Colored Methodist Episcopal churches at a meeting held at Cincinnati, Three white bishops—Thirkteld of New Or Jeans; Henderson of Chattanooga, and Neely of Philadelphia participated to the deliberations of the body. Nine bishops from the three other churches also were commissioners, The ar rangements urge the adoption of a common ritual hymnal, ritual and catechism; the same standard tn course of study for the ministry standardizing of schools and colleges; holding of inter-Methodist preachers inatitutes; Christian workers’ assem: bites; united action on evangelism education, home and forelgn missions ‘and a division of mission territory tc ‘stop waste ‘ern Improvements for teaching domes- tle setence and manual training, M.A ‘Traylor of Kerens, Navarro county, has the best school garden of any of the colored teachers of the county and his garden {s enrolled in the Dal lag school garden contest, and he 1s confident of taking one of the prizes The inspectors of the contest have Already visited his school several times and have spoken very favorably of it—Houston (Texas) Post, Efforts to organize 500 colored boys ot Washington tn Boy Scout compa: nies to participate in the annual en campment here next fall of the Grand Army of the Republic are being made by the colored eltizens’ committee in charge of arrangements for the event An excursion to Riverview Park will be given the colored newsboys of the city with @ view to starting the cam. paign for the organtzation of the com: panies, The steamer Charles H. Wer ner will take the boys to the resort Ferdinand D. Lee of 923 KR street ‘northwest, {8 chairman of the colored ‘eftizens’ committee—Washington Post Mist Pauline Marriott of Salt Lake City, Utah, by writing 87 words a min- ute in the recent state and intermoun: ‘tain school championships, set a new ‘world’s record in those classes, Society women of Coudersport, Pa, becoming disgusted at the laxity of the city authoritles, cleaned the streets of the city recently. The government of Columbia will es. tablish a national institute of agricul ture and an experimental farm, THE TULSA STAR STARVATION I CE LESSON | men @y ©. BE. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course of the Moody Bitte Institute) 3 LESSON FOR AUGUST 29 GOD'S CARE OF ELIJAH. LESSON TEXT-I Kings 11:16 GOLDEN TEXT—Casting all your anz- ety upon lim, because ho caretit fur you, Ce ee y We now skip thirty to forty years | to cousider the first of those great prophets whose lives are recorded at engi, Samuel and David fought ani- mals, armies and giants, but these men | fought engagements in the moral and | spiritual realm of equal and greater | importance, Emphasize Elijah as a teal live flesh-and-blood hero, His work was with the northern kingdom | and he probably first met Ahab at Sa maria, his capital in 912 B.C. (2) The Moabite stone (A. D, 1868) 1s @ re-| markable confirmation of the Bible story of this period, 1. The Challenge, v. 1. ‘Tho lesson ls @ great illustration of faith, Sin. had again made vast inroads upon the people (ch, 16:30-88) and this “man of the hour,” whase name means “Jeho fah My Strength,” (1) saw the condl: Hons; (2) responded to the need, and (3) had faith in his cause because it was that of Jehovah, ‘The source of his faith was the word of the Lord God (Deut. 11:18; 82:20). He that “liveth” and before whom the prophet stood in daily, hourly communication. Elijah was a man with a mission (Matt. 28:19) who trusted in God and tonsidered It safe to obey, His power, “according to my word,” was in ratic according to his life of faith (Rom 10:17). Ho was also a man of prayet James 6:17) and showed his faith by bis works (James 2:17, 20, 26). MI, The Command, vv. 2-7. Elijah’s (faith was not audacious, He took eack step as commanded by God (v. 2) There is a time for seeming retreat 4s well as for the spectacular charge Klijah's first place of testing was ““Cherith,” a gorge to the east of the “river Jordan. ‘This command was con- trary to human reason. “Would it not soon be involved in his prophesied drought?" Again, ravens frequently feed upon carrion, and he knew all the regula | Hons regarding cleanness, ‘Thus to be secluded would prevent his observing | tho effect of the drought upon both king and people. Still the command it explicit, It was “there” (v. 4), and thero only, that Jehovah was to save, ‘The miraclo of saving was to be wrought under the most adverse cir eumstances and by the most unlikely means, "So he went." Having faced the peril, God hid him to preserve bim, and at the proper time God also re vealed him (ch. 18:12). It was a daily testing for Elijah at Chorith, thus te be fed and to see the water evaporat ing, but {t was « time of communtoz land after the brook was dry there | came a new command (vv. 8, 9). | Ill. The Continued Deliverance, w. 816. Zarephath was (Luke 4:26) in | the dominions of Jezebel's father, on | the coast of the Mediterranean sea be [tween ‘Tyre and Sidon, a dangerous |fourney for Elijah through Ahab’s Kingdom (ch, 18:10). ‘The word Zare | phath means “smelting furnace,” and {t too was suffering from this samo | famine. Commanded to hide in Cherith | Elljah is told to “dwell” in Zarephath ‘and that a widow was to be the agent | to supply his need. Again Elijah’s pride had to be overcome for there | were abundant reasons for disliking such a journey, such an abiding place and such a dependence upon a poor widow, Elijah, however, “arose and went,” @ continuance of bis life of obedience, Ho first asked for water and as she went he added his request for food. It was a particular widow to whom he was sent (Luke 4:25-27) and through her God was ready to work a miracle of salvation on his bebait, ‘Though about to preparo what she thought was to be her own and her son's last meal (y, 12), yet she at once proceeds to obey the command of the nian of God as it was conditioned upos the word of Jehovah (v, 14), God, through his prophets, has commanded us, given Us assurance and promised to sustain (Phil, 4:19), yet we hesi- | tate, “She went and did” the seem ing impossible, but according to the werd of command, and those of “her | house did eat many days,” Obedience | saved her own, her #on's and the | prophet’s lives, There is sound philoso- |phy in Prov. 11:24 which found its |jcomplete fulfillment tn Jesus who || “came not to be ministered unto but | to minister.” Read carefully Prov. {8:70 and I Cor, 96-11, As with the } Israelites in the wilderness the supply | was only from day to day (¥, 16) noth. | Ing ahead, no accumulation, yet a per || petual supply because based on “the word of the Lord” (y. 16), God worked this miracle: (1) to up: ,|hold and to preserve his chosen mes: '|songer for his great work in Israel; (2) to show his loving kindness and | sustaining grace to the poor; (3) to strengthen the faith of his prophet Against his spectacular conflict on Mt Carmel; (4) to the end that he might ,|show Inracl and all others down | through the ages a great object lesson of his sustaining grace and providence ‘The widow's "two mites” aro filling church treasuries today, and Mary's box of ointment has filled all Christen STARVATION IN MEXICO CITY 25 DEATHS DAILY CAUSED BY LACK OF FOOD. Prices Are Soaring—Food Staples Ad vance From 900 to 2,400 Per Cent In Last Year. Mexico City.—Deaths by starvation continue in this city and conservativ’ estimates place them at twenty-five a day. A visit to the various hospitals by © representative of the American Red Cross discloved that for the first three days of August twenty deaths from starvation were recorded. This num- ber did not include the many who died in the streets from lack of food. During the month of Juty 1,856 deaths were registered 11 Mexico City, According to Charles J. O'Connor of the American Red Cross, 8 per cent of the deaths were due to starvation As many deaths from starvation are not properly authenticated, It Is be Heved that an average of twenty-five daily from this cause fs « conservative figure. The military avtnorities learned of investigations made by Red Cross workers and ordered that hospital or cemetery officials shall not make pub- lic any statistics in the fnture. Efforts of the authorities here to re lieve distress have been of little or no effect. School teachers, government employes and even employes of the beneficencia publica, which corres: ponds somewhat to the central chart tles organizations of American cities were among those who have made ap. Plication to the Red Cross for assist ance, Such supplies as wore brought in by General Gonzales when Carranza forces reoccupied the capital on Au gust 2 are nearly exhausted. The sit- uation Is such that only large sup: plies of provisions from outside the capital can remedy conditions, /__A somparivon of prices during July, 1914, nnd July this year shows the fol lowing increases Corn 2,400 per cent: beans 2,200; rice 1,400; sugar $40 and flour 900. The increase In price of corn, the only ab solutely essential staple of the Mex lean people, has rendered its procure- ment by the poor finpossible. BULGARIANS AND TURKS AGREE On Terms of Neutrality For the Former. Retlin.—The Overseas News Agency gave out the following “Official reports from Soffa and Con stantinople state that Turkey and Bul garia have signed a new treaty. Tur key granting Bulgaria her desired rail road connection with the sea and Rul k:ria agreeing to observe a benevolent neutrality | “This demonstrates the definite fait ure of the efforts of the entente powers to revive the alliance of the Balkan ‘states and induce them to Join in the war against Turkey.” Oficial reports late in July stated that @ convention had heen signed on July 22 by which Turkey ceded to Bul garia the Turkish portion of the Dedeaghatch railroad, The reports stated that the treaty left Bulgaria un pledged concerning her attitude in the war, TO LOAN MONEY ON COTTON CROP McAdoo Offsets Depression Caused By Contraband Order. Washington—Treasury offictals have made public an announcement by Sec- retary McAdoo that in view of the ac- tion of the allies in putting cotton on the contraband list, he would, if it became necssary, deposit $20,000,000 or more In gold in the federal reserve banks at Atlanta, Dallas and Rich- mond, for the purpose of enabling the reserve banks to rediscount loans on cotton secured by warehouse receipts made by national banks and state banks belonging to the federal reserve system, ‘The gold would be deposited tempor: arily, at least, without interest charge. It was explained that If it appeared that the object could be accomplished with greater efficiency thereby, the de posits would he made directly with na Honal banks agreeing to lend the money on cotton at a rate not to ex ceed 6 per cent GERMAN BANKRUPTCY REPORTED Secretary Helfferich Finds His Purse Growing Thin, Amsterdam.—At a secret conference of cabinet ministers, political leaders and influential writers, called by the German {imperial chaneetlor before the reassembling of the relchstag to dis. cuss the political sitnation, according ‘to Telagraff, Karl Helfferich, secretary of the treasury, explained that the new German war loan would completely ex- Chaust the empire's financial resources ‘and an increase in exchequer bonds ‘would cause bankruptcy, Therefore, Dr. Helfferich argued, it was needful to prepare for an honorable peace. Chancellor Yon Rethmann-Hollweg, according to the same report declared that the difficulties of the empire were Increasing and advised his hearers to use their influence to soften down bellicose inclinations tn the roichstag and the country, and carefully to pro- pare peace proposals which would be acceptable to the four members of the entente. Dr. Rarnhard Dernburg's report of the failure of his mission In the United States and other neutral countries, the Telegraft says, made a strong linprer sion on the conference, Home Undertaking Co. No. 2 Open Day and Night Remember us in your sorrow. H. W. RAGDALES, Mer PHONE 4280 114 N. Gleenwood Tulsa, Oklahoma pens nnbennnnrin acon apc ADRVLILADAAAD ES Oklahoma Trunk & Case Factory TULSA, OKLAHOMA fm Our New Location Trunks, Traveling Bags, Suit Cases, and all Leather Goods Sample Trunks and Cases a Specialty We Make to Order, Exchange and Repair RETAIL STOR. PHONE 1788 ee Corner Main and Archer WELDY BROS. 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The farmer who is going to improve his stock this fall will find no better opportunity offered, to not only choose from all breeds, but to select from dozens of each breed. Oklahoma needs more livestock. There is evidence of this on all sides. Every farmer in the state should attend the Oklahoma State Fair if for no other reason than to inspect the thousands of dollars' worth of hogs, sheep, cattle and horses to be displayed there. However, there will be hundreds of other exhibits and features during the eight days and nights of the Fair and entertainment as never before. Secretary I. S. Mahan has announced that the closing dates for entries as given below, will be rigidly adhered to as every exhibit must be in place before 8 A. M., on Saturday, September Class "H"—Minerals, Thursday Sept. 16, 6 P. M. Class "T"—Fine Arts, Wednesday Sept. 22, noon. Class "J"—Education, Wednesday Sept. 15, noon. Class "K"—Culinary, Thursday Sept. 23, 4 P. M. Class "L"—Textile, Tuesday, Sept 21, 4 P. M. Class "M"—Better Babies Contest Saturday, Sept. 4, 6 P. M. Class "N"—Machinery, Friday, Sept 24, 6 P. M. When determining the right side of serge or any other goods in which there are diagonal lines in the weave these lines should run from the upper right-hand corner to the lower left hand corner on the right side. "My husband's ideas and mine are so different," sighed the young woman. "Well," replied her mother thoughtfully, "the ideas of men and women are bound to differ. A woman can not see the sanse in a box of cigars that nobody can wear, and a man has no respect for a new ht that you can't smoke." "These South Sea islanders are a queer lot. They have many things which are taboo, mustn't be touched." "I see nothing strange about that. It is the same principle on which we carefully plant a lot of grass for people to keep off of."—Louisville Courier-Journal. "We are now," said the passenger in the dripping oblsks, "about to round Cape Horn. Dont you want to come out and see it?" "I should say not, answered the passenger with the novel. "You made me go and look at Sandy Hook, and it wasnt a hook at al. You can't fool me a second time.' New York Sun. Swallows, after a day spent in skimming the air and catching insects, will seek a roosting place at night. The chimney swift soars about until after sunset and then suddenly darts into some chimney. These birds have very sharp-pointed claws and cling on the sides of the soty fues. Backward-loking when carried to an extreme becomes a vice, as does anything else in excess. But everyone should be a backward looker in moderation, as the past may teach us something, for it is experience; the future can teach us nothing, for it is hope.—Baltimore Sun. Grape-Nuts FOOD made of whole wheat and barley, con- these priceless nerve- and brain-buil- elements in highest degree. Grape-Nuts food is easy to digest— as a part of the menu of modern busi- in building up the system for strenuou "There's a Reason" Sold by Gro Experiments with forcing vegetable growth by electric lights have shown that flaming acr lamps produce the best results, as they give off carbonic acid gas, a natural plant food. Avoid extremes in living. Be generous (as generous as you can), getting as much pleasure as possible out of life, and take care that proper provision is in some way made for the future. --- 25. when the gates swing open. The Right Side of Serge. Inevitable Difference. Much the Same Principle Not To Be Foled Twice. Find Boosts In Chimney. Backward-Looking. Forcing Vegetable Growth. Good Rule of Life GINGERBREAD OF OLD DAYS Was a Luxury That Filled an "Aching Void" in the Down East Boy. What memories this reference to the five-cent ginger cake of commerce will arouse in the minds of men approaching or past middle age who passed their boyhood in the country! At all public gatherings where concessions were given for the serving of refreshments it was the chief feature in the order of the day down to a period of much later than half a century ago. And then it seems to have disappeared, suddenly and mysteriously, after the manner of the disappearance of the bootjack and the passenger pigeon, and like them probably never to return. Who among us whose hair has grown thin atop or disappeared altogether cannot recall the bill of fare of the refreshment venders in those earlier and simpler days at fairs, town meetings and Fourth of July celebrations! The assortment was not elaborate, but it was filling and satisfying, and one got a good deal for his money, says the Biddeford (Me.) Daily Journal. Most conspicuously displayed were those ginger cakes, everywhere locally known as "baker's gingerbread," to distinguish it from homemade gingerbread, which lacked the delicate color, the spicy fragrance, the workmanlike finish and pleasing regularity of the imported article. Then there were coffee served in big mugs; crackers and cheese, baked beans and brown bread, not infrequently homemade doughnuts, and always raw oysters. The gingerbread and the oysters were the things that took with the crowd; for only on such occasions were these viands readily attainable. What country boy has not watched some older person order a saucer of raw oysters, cover them with vinegar and cayenne pepper and then absorb them as to the manner born, without admiring the grace and nonchalance with which the trick was done and wishing for the time to come when he might venture to give such an exhibition? His consolation lay in a "sheet" of that famous baker's gingerbread, and if he was particularly well fixed financially, a piece of cheese to go with it. Those were, indeed, happy days, when a piece of gingerbread and a hunk of cheese at a total expense of six cents, would fill an aching void which in these degenerate days is hardly satisfied with a six-course dinner. It may be assumed that the men who made that famous gingerbread are not all dead. Here and there throughout the country there must be several survivors who retired for well earned rest after long service in the best interests of hungry humanity. This being the case, it is barely possible that the recipe for those ginger cakes is not irrevievably lost. "Good gracious!" cried Peter Rabbit, "what is the cause of that uproar going on up in the air? There! That was the S. O. S. call! Somebody must be in trouble, and—" "Oh, that is old Doc Stork," replied Sammy Jay. "He is carrying twins to the wildcat's house, and the dear little strangers do not wish to go."—Kansas City Star. On the whole, it is better for the small boy to soil his fingers with mamma's jam than to have them blown off by the cannon cracker. If a young man has money to burn it is easy to induce some girl to strike a match. The best throw one can make with dice is to throw them away. aches Food for the Business Trenches It takes the highest type of nerve and endurance to stand the strain at the battle front of modern business. Many fail. And often the cause is primarily a physical one—improper food—malnutrition. It is a fact that much of the ordinary food is lacking in certain elements—the mineral salts—which are essential to right building of muscle, brain and nerve tissue. 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Henry, and I play boyish tricks with Aldrich and Penrod; I fence with Montagne, and the great spirits of "The Spectator." It has been discovered that our system of education makes children wiser than their parents. But the children are no wiser than their parents were at their age. It was a Kansas woman, of course, who traded the family refrigerator for a pair of roller skates. A Kansas man would have dickered for a different kind of skate. If there is anything more misleading than the average guaranty, we would gladly give up a nickel to see a moving picture of it. Another Little Bedtime Story. PAGE THREE MOTHER OF SCHOOL GIRL Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Restored Her Daughter's Health. Plover, Iowa.—"From a small child my 13 year old daughter had female weakness. I spoke to three doctors about it and they did not help her any. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had been of great benefit to me, so I decided to have her give it a trial. 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It is said that girls working in the English cartridge factories are so fired with patriotism that some of them work thirty hours in a stretch without any rest. Miss Elizabeth Lister has been appointed a stationmaster in South Wales, the first woman to act in that capacity. In the north of England and in Scotland and Wales the men workers are being supplanted in the fields by women, who can be seen following the barrow or digging and hoeing. Small Comfort: Small Comfort. Asker—He calls me a donkey! Should I challenge him? Tellit—You might—to prove it! Sympathetic Turn. "The first time Cholly took his auto out it turned turtle." "No wonder; he's such a lobster." The United States produces more talc and soapstone than all of the rest of the world combined. The chap who suspects his neighbor is not above suspicion. It doesn't look as if the fool killer will ever be able to take a vacation. THE TULSA STAR Printing and Publishing CO. Published Every Saturday General as second class matter oklahoma, under the Act of March 5 J. J. SMITHERMAN, INS. O. B. SMITHERMAN, H. SMITHERMAN, Robert Smitherman, BUBSCHE On Mar . . . Six Month . . . Three Month . . Published Every Saturday in 561 North Greenwood Street. General as second class matter. April 11, 1913, at the Post Office at Tulsa Oklahoma, under the Act of March 3, 1870. A. J. SMITHERMAN, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER MRS. O. B. SMITHFFMAN SOCIELLY EDITOR J. H. SMITHERMAN BUSINESS MANAGER The price of this paper is $4 your subscription and help us. AS EXPECTED the finding unching was, the crime was com- municates in a State of Anarchy. UNCLE SAM has made lots Germany, through dire necessity, britain to kill and starve out the say to England's embargo on it the farmers of this country. IF TULSA HAD a few more w win, our possibilities would be al- builder—a booster from the word be appreciated for his true worth. of this paper is $1.00 per year. If you option and help us to continue our work for CTED the finding of the investigating jur the crime was committed by "parties unknow State of Anarchy. AM has made lots of noise about our neut high dire necessity, retaliated against the att and starve out the Germans. Now let's see w land's embargo on raw cotton, which will so n this country. HAD a few more whole-hearted colored men ilities would be almost unlimited. Goodwin ter from the word "go". He is a credit to T for his true worth. 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. AS EXPECTED the finding of the investigating jury in the Frank Lynching was, the crime was committed by "parties unknown" and Georgia continues in a State of Anarchy. UNCLE SAM has made lots of noise about our neutral rights when Germany, through dire necessity, retaliated against the attempts of Great Britain to kill and starve out the Germans. Now let's see what Uncle Sam will say to England's embargo on raw cotton, which will so materially affect the farmers of this country. IF TULSA HAD a few more whole-hearted colored men like J. H. Goodwin, our possibilities would be almost unlimited. Goodwin is a real home-builder—a booster from the word "go". He is a credit to Tulsa and should be appreciated for his true worth. ROOSEVELT AND RACE SUICIDE. TIEODORE ROOSEVELT advises a mother of seven children to keep on bearing them, even though her husband has lost his position and her home is threatened with foreclosure. "Hard luck does not lessen our duty to society" reasons the colonel. But how about society's duty to this women and her husband? Society maintains conditions which make it inevitable that some willing workers are debarred from opportunities to support their families. Has society, under such circumstances, a right to insist on performance of a duty to itself? There will cease to be trouble with performance by individuals of their duty to society as soon as society does its duty to individuals. TIEODORE ROOSEVELT acts on bearing them, even though her husband threatened with foreclosure. "He lately" reasons the colonel. But how her husband? Society maintains some willing workers are debarred. Has society, under such circumstances of a duty to itself? There were individuals of their duty to soe individuals. THEODORE ROOSEVELT advises a mother of seven children to keep on bearing them, even though her husband has lost his position and her home is threatened with foreclosure. "Hard luck does not lessen our duty to society" reasons the colonel. But how about society's duty to this women and her husband? Society maintains conditions which make it inevitable that some willing workers are debarred from opportunities to support their families. Has society, under such circumstances, a right to insist on performance of a duty to itself? There will cease to be trouble with performance by individuals of their duty to society as soon as society does its duty to individuals. THE STATE CAPITAL AND THE NEGRO. ACCORDING TO AUTHENTIC REPORTS the white workmen on the State Capitol, now being constructed at Oklahoma City at the expense of all the taxpayers of Oklahoma, struck a few days ago because negroes were employed as common laborers. The negroes were permeptorily dismissed and the white workmen returned to their work with the assurance that no negroes would be employed hereafter. ACCORDING TO AUTHENTIC Capitol, now being constructed all the taxpayers of Oklahoma, strung employed as common laborers. And the white workmen returned the negroes would be employed here. This is a slap in the face to Oklahoma are heavy taxpayers and the money they are paying to buy to the value of more than 25 million. This does not include the valuableoma and for which they pay heal laborers were dismissed from work, manly white men objected to ww. This is the limit for injustice. IT ALL DEPENDS FRANK HARDING, editor of Frank lynching last week, which a diotic phrazeology: "The action of the mob is deemment of many prominent public out to its members. The work of lynchro that ever occurred." For this degenerate low-bredors. It is this spirit which has feared for all these years, and when it co the columns of which should be used, it is all the more alarming. compose mobs to lynch poor, defense. A few years ago at Weelctind, murdered a poor defenseless because the husband shot a white as the lynching of Frank in Georgetown. We disapprove the lynching more than this we sincerely regain cannot boast of a real true MAN. occasion should ever arise that themselves of all undesirable cities not overlook editor Harding. For man, Harding is particularly "it" Let Us Save ING TO AUTHENTIC REPORTS the white man being constructed at Oklahoma City at the hands of Oklahoma, struck a few days ago because common laborers. The negroes were peremptory workmen returned to their work with the as he employed hereafter. Alap in the face to every negro in the state, heavy tax payers and are by rights entitled to are paying to build the State Capitol. Negroes of this state paid taxes on farm land more than 25 millions of dollars—to be exact, include the valuable city property owned by a which they pay heavy taxes and in spite of it dismissed from work on the State Capitol became men objected to working with them. limit for injustice. AT ALL DEPENDS ON WHOSE OX IS GORG HARDING, editor of the Perkin Journal, thuring last week, which wound up in the following biology: man of the mob is denounced all over the country, prominent public men is that punishment of members. The work of this mob is worse than that ever occurred." Hegenerate low-bred cuss the lynching of negro spirit which has fed the mob-crazed murderers, and when it comes from the editor of a book which should be used to uplift humanity, in more alarming. Harding is the type of man to lynch poor, defenseless negroes and gloomy years ago at Welectka, a cowardly mob, composed a poor defenseless colored woman and her husband shot a white man. This, however, waging of Frank in Georgia, in the opinion of Harding the lynching of Frank, as all good citizens we sincerely regret that the citizens of P.O. of a real true MAN in the person of their edd and arise that the good citizens of that to all undesirable citizens, we trust for their own editor Harding. For all that's low, debased is particularly "it". Us Save You M This is a slap in the face to every negro in the state. The negroes of Oklahoma are heavy taxpayers and are by rights entitled to get some of the money they are paying to build the State Capitol. In 1910 the negroes of this state paid taxes on farm lands, buildings, etc., to the value of more than 25 millions of dollars—to be exact $25,365,640.00. This does not include the valuable city property owned by negroes in Oklahoma and for which they pay heavy taxes and in spite of this a few negro laborers were dismissed from work on the State Capitol because a few selfish, unmanly white men objected to working with them. This is the limit for injustice. IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHOSE OX IS GORED. FRANK HARDING, editor of the Perkin Journal, threw a fit on the Frank lynching last week, which wound up in the following narrow-minded, idiotic phrazeology: "The action of the mob is denounced all over the country, and the sentiment of many prominent public men is that punishment should be meted out to its members. The work of this mob is worse than the most horrible negro lynching that ever occurred." For this degenerate low-bred cuss the lynching of negroes has no horrors. It is this spirit which has fed the mob-crazed murderers of this country for all these years, and when it comes from the editor of a community paper, the columns of which should be used to uplift humanity, instead of debasing it, it is all the more alarming. Harding is the type of man it requires to compose mobs to lynch poor, defenseless negroes and gloat over the occurrence. A few years ago at Weeoutka, a cowardly mob, composed of Harding's kind, murdered a poor defenseless colored woman and her 14-year-old son, because the husband shot a white man. This, however, was not as horrible as the lynching of Frank in Georgia, in the opinion of Harding. We disapprove the lynching of Frank, as all good citizens should, but more than this we sincerely regret that the citizens of Perkin, Oklahoma, cannot boast of a real true MAN in the person of their editor. And if the occasion should ever arise that the good citizens of that town decide to rid themselves of all undesirable citizens, we trust for their own good, they will not overlook editor Harding. For all that's low, debased and cowardly in man, Harding is particularly "it". l.et Us Save You Money! l.et Us Save You Money! A man is standing in front of a mirror, looking at himself with a surprised expression. Another man is standing next to him, holding a coat and looking at him with a concerned expression. We mean that we w only send your old s furs, etc., to us, who Plant. We guarantee in the house, why do pared to do the work. Suits made to your m to select from. Our all parts of the city. 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Ladies' work and alterations a specialty. Let us do your cleaning. Suits made to your measure. Come in and see our line or stylish made-to-measure clothing. We have every fabric every color, every weave, every pattern and make every style at prices to suit your pocket book. patterns to select from. PAGE FOUR 11.11.1913, at the Post Office at Tulsa EDITOR AND PUBLISHER SOCIETLY EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER Traveling Representative RATES $1.00 .60 .85 SURE RESULTS FOR HOME AND FOREIGN ADVERTISERS per year. If you like it send us continue our work for the race. in investigating jury in the Frank way "parties unknown" and Georgia case about our neutral rights when tied against the attempts of Great s. Now let's see what Uncle Sam con, which will so materially affect hearted colored men like J. H. Good- limited. Goodwin is a real home- life is a credit to Tulsa and should a mother of seven children to keep a mother has lost his position and her home kick does not lessen our duty to so- society's duty to the women and sons which make it inevitable that opportunities to support their fam- aces, a right to insist on perform- se to be trouble with performance soon as society does its duty to PORTS the white workmen on the Oklahoma City at the expense of few days ago because negroes were negroes were peremptorily dismissed or work with the assurance that no negro in the state. The negroes of by rights entitled to get some of State Capitol. taxes on farm lands, buildings, etc., dollars—to be exact $25,365,640.00 property owned by negroes in Oklahoma and in spite of this a few negro State Capitol because a few selfish with them. HOSE OX IS GORED. Perkin Journal, threw a fit on the cup in the following narrow-minded all over the country, and the sentient that punishment should be meter mob is worse than the most horrible the lynching of negroes has no horrible crazed murderers of this country from the editor of a community paper uplift humanity, instead of debasin is the type of man it requires to the negroes and gloat over the occu-wardly mob, composed of Harding's woman and her 14-year-old son. This, however, was not as horrible the opinion of Harding. ink, as all good citizens should, but the citizens of Perkin, Oklahoma person of their editor. And if the citizens of that town decide to rise trust for their own good, they will's low, debased and cowardly in You Money! are you money if you will silsks, satins, kid gloves, a Sanitary Dry Cleaning dry garment that comes it? Because we are pre- hats made New. are 500 samples for you we will call and deliver to ch Cleaners ND DYERS Works, 8 N. Cincinnati Traveling Representative Okmulgee News Mosdames B A. Nance, W. H. Fort and Mrs. A Nance, Returned Saturday from Tulsa, where they attended the Grand Lodge, A pleas ant time is reported Rev S S. Jones is having dirt hauled for the building of a new Baptist Church on Cen ral Aze. Mrs I. W Cunningham and Miss Daisy Anderson attended the Baptist Sunday-school Convention in Clearview last week. Miss Beauleh Roberts spent the week here with Mrs. Carpenter of this city. Rev T. W. Kidd passed through the city Tuesday enroute to Holdenville to attend the A. M. E. Sunday School Convention. Dr. Young of Boley was a visit or in our city Monday. There is a bazaar at the grounds of the Missionary Baptist Church this week for the benefit of the new building. Prof. Carter was in the city this week in the interest of the of the Toneka Industrial Institute. The Union revival closed last Sunday night after a successul meeting. Mrs. Aramintha Nance is substituting for Mrs. Ada Key this week in district, 20. Nowata Items Mrs. Mayfield is rep rted much im proved Miss Treva Everett returned to Tulsa Sunday Mrs. Jenny Turk of Wichita is here visiting her mother in law Mrs. Rach el Tusk Askins and Turk are putting their horses in training for the Negro Fair at Coffeyville. These gentlemen say they are the best west of the Miss. Mrs. Harvey Knaves left for Bartlesville to visit home folks Robt. L. Forsune, attorney at law of Wilburton is in the city on business. T C. Sanders left for Bartlesville and other points for the week. Big Delegation attended the Baptist Association at Hayden Sunday. Rev. Harrralson returned this morning from a 3 weeks visit from points outside the State. Sapulpa Letter I am a reader of your paper and have been for 3 years, and only in case of this kind do the sympathy for my race ever arouse me to the known duties to have my thoughts put before the public. I pray God that the time will come when our leading colored women can stand up and maintain the mark of justice to be applied to every one of the femenine sect in whatever case it becomes necessary. The time is now ripe when the Negro man has no jurisdiction as to the protection of themselves nor their families. This is caused by a lack of ambition to do things for themselves. That weak desire to be on the white man's side causes us to undergo many hardships, if we would only apply the strength and will to our working nerves to go the rescue of our brother and sister and share in their troubles, if the price is blood life or money. Of all the various lynchings that have occurred how many thoughts of comfort have cheered the grief stricken relatives in either case by one of the race going to their assistance. I want to say to the sisterhood at large that we the women of this district have oiled our lamps have girdled tight our swords, loaded our guns with a sufficient supply of surplus ammunition to stand by our sisters till time knows us no more. We know wonder if there is a brother or a sister of this hard press Ethiopian race that will go with us through the chilly wavs of Jordan through the sad and painful hour of death. We only want you to organize your clubs and prepare your selves to take up the duty of battle that is falling upon our shoulders to do 1 RE TUL S A STAR unless an ending will be without redemption. We want to resolve the idea by solving the problem that God means for us to do something for the protection of ourselves and not wait for him to do so many things that he assigns to us to do. Much more could be said but I want to hear from my neighbor sister as a whole. RUBY McAlester News The A. M. E. District Conference was in Session here last week, quite a few delegates and visitors. Rev. Rice of Coffeyville, Kansas, filled the pulpit at Ward's Chapel Sunday at 11 A.M. The Sunday-school Convention of A M. E. Church, was largely attended, at Alderson last week. Mrs J. M. Price, was a Delegate from the Missionary Society. Mrs. Katie Alexander, President of the W. H & F. M. attended the Convention. Mr. Hurbert Leslie, has been elected as lay Delegate to the General Conference in 1916. Miss Ethel Austin and Mr. P. Crutchheld have returned from Algerson, where they represented our Sunday-school in Convention. They report a pleasant as well as profitable session. Dr. E W. South was called to Topeka, to the bed side of his father, who is very ill. Mrs. Emma Worthan, of Atoka, spent several days in the city, Guest of Mrs. Thompson Miss Ione Allison is home after an absence of several months, Glad to have you home again Miss A. Mr George Stephens, one of the oldest citizens of this State, and father of Mrs. F. A. Mooris, died in Kansas City, Mo., the 16th His remains will be shipped here for interment. He leaves a wife, several children a host of relatives and friends. The bereaved have the sympathy of the entire community, Mr. Stephens was well known here as a very successful business man. Mrs. Birdie Lynch of Tulsa, and Mrs. M. E. Kidd of Muskogee were pleasant visitors this week. Dr. Young of Bol y, was attending the M. E. District Conference last week. Mrs. M. L. Brookins is visiting the District Conference at Holdenville. The Phyllis Wealthy Club rendered a Program at Well & Whitecre Park, Monday evening. Mrs J D, Davis is recuperating at Claremore. Mrs. Bannon and daughter, Mrs. Sybie B. Chapman were pleasant visitors. Mrs Stewart of Sapulpa, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Jores. The Club ladies will give a guessing contest at Park. Monday night the 23rd. The State Federation of Negro Women Club, will convene in Boley on the 26th, and through the state, Clubs are getting ready for said meeting. SICK LIST. Mrs Estes, Smith, Ivy, Morgan and Buster Roebuck. A Match game of Base Ball on the 6th, between the ladies of A. M. E and Mt. Triumph watch us. Nurses and Doctors will be on hand. Mrs. Chlora Woods was called to Muskogee, to the bed side of her sister: --- Business = Professional Directory ECONOMY DRUG CO. Fresh Drugs, Toilet Articles and PERFUMES 108 N Greenwood Tel 922 DR. J. J. McKEEVER HIGH CLASS DENTAL WORK TEL 2157 All Work Guaranteed DR. J. M. KEY Physician and Surgeon Venerial Diseases of Men and Women A Specialty Office Williams Bldg Phone 2157 A. F. BRYANT PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office phone 922----Res phone 585 I. H. SPEARS ATTORNEY AT-LAW Tel 2157----Office: Williams Bldg G W HUTCHINS Attorney at Law Office 206 N Frankfort Phone 4859-J. N. E. PYRTLE Up-to-Date Sanitary Cleaning Methods Ladies work and Alterations a Specialty. Hata Cleaned and Blocked—Visit us Telephone 815 MOST PERFECT OF PLANTS Working of the Human Body Makes Any Invention of Man Seem Like Plaything. The most complicated manufacturing plant that ever existed is the human body as controlled under the scientific management of the brain and nervous system. No factory ever boasted a more efficient producer plant for converting fuel into energy. No plant ever had so well-designed a pumping system, nor one so perfect for the disposal of waste and sewage. Talk of up-to-date heating and ventilating or interdepartment telephone! The best that our modern science can put into our shops is crude indeed as compared with that furnished by the Great Designer. Suppose that you went to a pump manufacturer with the following specification: Wanted, a pump with capacity of one-quarter gallon a minute, to handle warm salty fluid, to work for seventy years night and day without a shutdown, at the rate of seventy strokes per minute. Must be guaranteed to operate for the full period of time without repairs or adjustments, to require no attention; must have automatic control and contain its own motive power, and must have a duty per million foot-pounds superior to the best triple-expansion high-duty unit ever made. Do you think the manufacturer would bid for the job? If he were a timid man he would probably agree with you and tell you to come around next week, meanwhile edging you toward the door before your insanity took a violent form. Or if he were not afraid of lunatics he would say: "You poor bug, such a pump as you speak of never existed nor ever will except in the brain of a perpetual-motion freak such as I see before me!" Which shows how much he knows about it, for both you and he carry just such a pump around with you, and each of you thinks too much of your possession to sell it for any money.—John H. Van Deventer, in the Engineering Magazine. KING CREDITED WITH VIOLIN Monarch Who Ruled in Ceylon Believed to Have Invented Famous Musical Instrument. Ravana, king of Ceylon, is believed to have invented the violin, 5000 B. C. The instrument was called the ravanastron. A similar instrument was introduced into Great Britain by the Anglo-Saxons under the name of fythel, from which the modern word "fiddle" is derived. The violin in its present form was first made in the fifteenth or sixteenth century. The earliest violin maker was Gaspard di Salo of Lombardy, Italy. It is thought that the Italian school of violin making was founded by him at Brescia. Violins were the principal bowed instruments from the end of the fifteenth to the end of the seventeenth centuries, but they were gradually replaced by violins of Brescian make. The school of Cremona so perfected the art of violin making that the Cremona violin became the most famous of all musical instruments. Modern makers have never been able to improve on the Cremona violins. Andrea Amati founded the Cremona school. The greatest of all violin makers was Antonio Stradivari. His best work was done from 1700 to 1720. This is known as his "golden period." --- H. J. 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Why do we forget certain things and remember others? This question, together with many others of a like nature, seems as yet to be unanswered. William James, in the course of a paper on the subject, says something which we have tried in vain to recall will afterward, when we have given over the attempt, "saunter into the mind" as innocently as if it had never been summoned. Then, too, curiously enough, bygone experiences will revive after years of oblivion, often as the result of some cerebral disease or accident. Such a case was that of the young woman in Germany who could neither read nor write, but who was held to be possessed of a devil, since, in a fever, she was heard raving in Latin Greek and in an obscure rabbinical dialect of Hebrew. Pages and pages of her talk were written down, and they were found to consist of sentences intelligible in themselves, but not having the slightest connection with one another. Finally the mystery was cleared up by a physician, who traced the girl's history to the age of nine. Then, he learned, she had been taken to the house of an old pastor, a great Hebrew scholar. She remained in this house until the pastor's death. It had been for years the old scholar's custom to walk up and down a passage near the kitchen and read to himself in a loud voice. His books were examined, and among them many of the passages taken down at the girl's bedside were identified. The theory of demoniacal possession was, of course, then abandoned. OLD GREEK HAD RIGHT IDEA Xenophon's conception of the Dignity and Value of Agriculture Is Beyond Criticism. Xenophon's work on agriculture lacks the divine affatus of the Georgics and the patient, comprehensive research of Varro's "De Re Rustica." its more modest scope is shown by the name he gave it: "Oeconomics," or, as Etienne de La Boetic rendered it, "La Mesnagerie"—a capital word, that has gone down in life! Xenophon traced the rule of the farm on rather general lines; he started from the principle that, in the main, agriculture is made up of common sense and diligence. To critics who blame him as unscientific let it be said that in southern farming, at least, these two qualities will carry the cultivator further than the most beautiful steam plow. The standpoint from which he viewed the agriculturist was not without elevation, though it did not strike him, as it struck Virgil, that the husbandman was a sort of high priest. But neither did he regard him as the mere servant of private and selfish ends. The landed proprietor was the pillar of society and agriculture the life-blood of the state; the fields grew more than corn—they grew men. This was his point of view.—New York Telegram. Ordinary Man So Constituted That It Is Great Delight for Him to Say "I Told You So." How wise men are after the event! It matters not how sagely a project is planned, or how vigorously its execution is pushed, if it turn out fill; nor how ill considered and quixotic it be, if it turn out well. Failure blinds us to the merits of any enterprise, and success to its folly. It is useless for the unsuccessful man to show that it was through no fault of his own, but from unexpected causes which no human sagacity could have foreseen or provided for, that he failed—in short, that he deserved success. The result shows that "there was a screw loose somewhere," either in the plan or execution, and his explanations fall on deaf ears. What aggravates our impatience with the plausible blockhead who falls is that we could have told him at the start how visionary his enterprise was, or how, by different management, he might have succeeded. Had not Alexander the Great been interrupted for three days in his march on Persia by a sickness caused by a cold bath in the River Cydinus, he would have encountered with his small force the overwhelming army of the enemy on the plains instead of the narrow mountain passes of Cilicia, and would therefore in all probability have been defeated instead of winning the great victory that founded the third monarchy in the world. How, in the former event, would the double-chinned wisecraes of Macedon have shaken the heads at the fool-hardiness of the young king's expedition! And how sagely would all subsequent historians have declared that the catastrophe was what every sane man must have expected! LEFT MAIL IN HOLLOW STUMP "Post Office" Used by Pioneer Easily the Oldest Building Used for That Purpose in America. The pioneers of the Northwest often made use of huge trees hollowed out by fire or decay. Some of these "tree houses" they occupied as temporary residences. Others they used as shutters for stock or as primitive barns. Only one, however, ever had the distinction of being a United States post office. That stump is in Challam county in the state of Washington. In early days the settlers were widely scattered, and it was a long journey over rough trails to the post office. Carriers could do no more than leave mail at some central point. The big cedar stump, 12 feet in diameter and reduced to a shell by fire, was a base from which a number of trails radiated. By common consent it became the post office for a wide region. The settlers put on a roof of cedar shakes and nailed boxes round its interior which they marked with their names. There was a large box for the out going mail. There were no looks but the mails were never tampered with. This primitive post office was used for more than a year. It has been carefully preserved and is annually visited by hundreds of interested sightseers. The stump is believed to be over 2,000 years old, which clearly establishes its right to the distinction of being the oldest post office building in America—Youth's Companion. Submarines Dive Slowly Many people have the idea that as soon as a submarine sees an enemy, the officer in command gives a sharp order, and almost before it has left his lips the submarine is diving beneath the waves. As a matter of fact the very latest submarines of the "F" class take a clear five minutes before they can become submerged. Many of the older submarines took ten minutes to a quarter of an hour to sink. The reason why a submarine cannot dive quickly, like a fish, is that the water which must be let into her tanks to make her heavy enough to sink must be let in comparatively slowly. If it were let in with a rush the chances are the vessel would not go down on an even keel, but would heel over and be in great danger of disaster. If water, too, were let in too quickly there is a danger of letting in too much and in that case the submarine would sink like a stone to the bottom of the sea. The water that is let in the ballast tanks is just sufficient to "balance" the vessel in the sea, without rising or sink ing. Preventing Train Wrecks. When a troop or provision train is traveling through an enemy's country every precaution is taken to guard against its being blown up or destroyed in some way. Occasionally another train is sent ahead to clear the way for the one following, but more often two trucks, heavily loaded with worthless, materials, are placed in front of the engine and act as a sort of "dummy head." Should explosive or mine be placed on the line these trucks come into contact with it before the engine and bear the brunt of the damage. They are, of course, blown to pieces, but they are worth little, and the engine remains intact. Weather Predictions Bill—I see the weather bureau is reporting the weather conditions at 51 pots in Arizona and furnishing forecasts to its subscribers. Jill—So I believe. The forecasts are all different, but the weather is all the same. SPREADING GOSPEL OF CHEER Life Would Be More Pleasant for All of Us If These Suggestions Were Lived Up To. The following paragraphs may be found over the writing desk in one of the transcontinental trains. There is meat for thought in all of them. They preach the gospel of cheerfulness: Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better than medicine. A well told story is as welcome as a ray of sunshine in a slick room. Learn to keep your troubles to yourself. The world is not interested in them. Learn to stop croaking. If you cannot see any good in the world, learn to keep the bad to yourself. Learn to hide your paints and your aches under pleasant smiles. No one cares to know whether you have earache, headache or rheumatism. Don't cry. Tears do well enough in novels, but they are out of place in real life. Learn to meet your friends with a smile. A good humored man or woman is always welcome, but the dyspeptic and hypochondriac is not wanted anywhere, and is a nuisance as well. Don't bother others when they wish to work. Because you are a loafer you should not force others to become so. Perform your manicuring in your own boudoir, not in the street car, where there is no escape for others. If you must pick your teeth, do not do so in public. Above all, lose no chance of giving pleasure. You will pass through this world but once. Any good thing there fore, that you can do or any kindness that you can show any human being you had better do it now. Don't defer or neglect it, for you will not pass this way again. BLOODHOUND NOT A FIGHTER Dog's Size and Ferocious Appearance Responsible for Idea That Has Become Widespread. Contrary to the general belief, the bloodhound is not apt to worry or harm its quarry. The object is to locate the man hunted, or, when game is sought, to force the bear or wild boar to cover, where the more active fighting terriers will do the worrying and aid the gunners in making a kill. The modern police dog will seize and hold a suspect until his human aids come up, but the bloodhound is more passive and is content to bay aloud the fact that the fugitive has been corralled. The size, muscular appearance and strong features of the bloodhound are ocular evidence to the prejudiced that the dog is a savage customer. The common use of bloodhounds in "Uncle Torus Cabin" performances has helped to spread the idea that the breed is terrolics. There is a story of a stage dog of this breed that before going with an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" troupe was a police dog. The bloodhound liked policemen so much that he always wanted to run up and make friends whenever he saw one. The bloodhound used to break away from the street parades to run into the country police stations. When the policemen saw him coming they always tried to climb out of the back windows at the same time, and often hurt each other in trying to escape. Public Health Work Although local public health organization in America is over two hundred years old, it is still the weakest part of our defense against disease, according to Dr. J. W. Kerr of Washington, D. C., assistant surgeon general of the United States public health service. In many rural districts no attempt is made at health supervision, while in other places the compensation is so small as to make satisfactory public health work impossible. These conditions, Doctor Kerr says, are largely due to lack of recognition by the public of the value of full-time health officers to the community. Recent advances in Maryland, New York and Massachusetts providing for sanitary districts and reasonably paid health officers encourage the hopes of better things in the future. In Doctor Kerr's opinion physicians should not only advocate public health work, but should engage in it to a greater degree than heretofore. American False Limb Boom. American artificial limbs have an excellent reputation in Europe. Doctor Elsenberg recently presented before the Imperial Society of Austrian Doctors a man who had lost legs and arms in an electrical explosion in the United States. He had been provided with American artificial limbs, and on returning to Austria, due to his great energy, is able to do all kinds of work. The man is now being sent to the various Austrian hospitals in order to show the soldiers who have lost limbs what they can do with the use of artificial ones. Conserving the Population. "Only two passenger trains a day stop at Pikesville now?" "Yes," answered the saturnine otitien. "The last time I was here four or five trains a day stopped." "That's true. I think the railroad company made the change out of sympathy for Pikesville." "I don't understand." "They probably realized that the more trains that stopped here, the greater would be the temptation for everybody to leave." THE TULS ASTAR SAVED MASTER FROM DEATH Small Dog Is Petted as a Hero In the Paris Hospitals, as Reward for Faithfulness. In one of the Paris hospitals lives a dog, a brown-and-white setter, named Fend l'Air (cleave the air), who is a real hero of the war. His master, a sergeant of zouaves, is a patient in the hospital, and he owes his frail hold on life to the devotion and intelligence of Fend l'Air. When the regiment left Algeria for France the dog was left behind, but the faithful little creature leaped into the water and swam along behind the ship until the captain, taking pity on him, had him taken on board. From that time he has never left his master. During the fighting at Rochincount, near Arras, an exploding bomb buried the sergeant and seven other men with earth. They were badly injured, and so deeply covered that no man had the strength to fight his way out. But, luckily, Fend I'Air escaped the bomb. He at once began to scratch, and he scratched and scratched until he had reached his master and dragged him out to safety. The seven other men died. The wounded sergeant and his dog were sent from one relief station to another until they found permanent care in this Paris hospital. Good nursing has saved the man, but too much attention almost killed the dog; for the nurses and orderlies fed him so lavishly that promiscuous feeding had to be forbidden. Now Fend l'Air lives in the hospital kitchen, where he has assumed the duty of guard, and growls savagely at anyone who enters the kitchen—unless they belong there. Every day a nurse takes him to the wards to visit his master, and Fend l'Air puts his nose on the sergeant's shoulder and stands contented as long as he is permitted to remain. The great affection that exists between the sergeant and his dog is very charming—Youth's Companion. HIGH EXPLOSIVES IN WARFARE Fearfully Destructive Shells Employed to Clear the Way for the Advance of the Infantry. The shell question for our army in France concerns the supply not of shrapnel but of shell containing high explosive, says a writer in London Tit Bits. These high-volatile shells are strong steel cases with a fuse, usually placed in the base. The charge employed may be either lyddite—which is a preparation of pieric acid—or trinitrotoluol. The metal in the shell is fairly thick. The explosion is very violent, and has a thoroughly destructive effect upon anything near the point where the shell explodes—concrete, walls, entanglements, steel shields for the trenches or for guns. The French and Germans use these shells to prepare the way for assaults on hostile trenches, demolishing with them all obstacles. Shrapnel are quite different projectiles, and are serviceable against infantry in the open or lightly entrenched. They are thin steel cases containing a very small charge of low or moderate power explosive, which opens the cases and liberates a large number of bullets in them. These cover an oval area as they scatter and kill unprotected men. Shrapnel are useless against fortified positions, strongly built houses, or deep and well-planned intrenchments. The idea of digging oneself in is comparatively modern, dating from the time when the speed of rifle bullets became so great as to make it possible to kill a soldier a mile or more away. The soldier has had to take cover in consequence for no shield has been discovered which stops a rifle bullet half so effectively as a few feet of soft earth. Such intrenching is only just over a hundred years old, in fact. The great Napoleon for years fought many of his campaigns without the use of the spade, and it was not till the campaign of Jena in 1806 that he "duh himself in!" A few years later the great French commander admitted that trenches were "useful, never harmful, when properly understood." Education in Demand The British army schoolmaster is a vanishing quantity, because the modern soldier, no matter what his social rank, is able at least to read and write. And the change is rapidly proceeding. The first question nowadays to all applicants for employment is—what education? This demand will tend to increase. Your slipshod artisan is moribund, and the high-trained specialist will take his place. "When Professor Scrapeso plays the violin his very soul seems on fire," exclaimed Mrs. Prebson after the concert. "Umph!" replied Mr. Prebson, whose favorite amusement is baseball. "I don't know about his soul, but when he was finishing up that last piece I expected at any moment to see his fiddle strings smoking." Bacon—The quantity of cattle in this country has decreased in recent years, while the poultry flock has grown larger. Egbert—Which would seem to prove that the poor-shot gamer is more dangerous than the auto-enable driver. Modern Intensification A Strenuous Finale. Out to Kill. Health Baths Brooker T. Washington says the race should strive to keep in better health. The Pratt Bath House is doing its share to restore health to the race, give them a trial. Read what they say: Dear Friend: We beg to announce to you the fact that we have opened a Radium Water Bath House at 400 So. Missouri Ave., Clarence Okla., for the purpose of giving; Radium Water Baths and the Treatment to Colored people. Radium Water is the most powerful water used for bathing purposes. It is an excellent cure for Eczema or any infection of the skin. As a healing power it has no equil. It is used exclusively by MR. AND MRS. E. M. PRATT at the PRATT BATH HOUSE FOR COLORED PEOPLE AT THE ABOVVE ADDRESS. M. and Mrs. Pratt have finished a course in Swedish Massage, which is the best treatment known for Rheumatism, Poor Circulation, Stomach Trouble and Kidney Trouble. They have agreed to share a part of their time and experience for their people who are suffering from the above named complaints. The treatment consists of Electric and Steam Vapor Sweat, Radium Tub Bath, Swedish Body Massage and Electric Vibrator. SPECIAL PRICES WILL BE GIVEN FOR A COURSE OF RADIUM WATER BATHS. RADIUM WATER shipped in any quantities from one gallon to thirty gallons. Write for terms, etc. Respectfully soliciting your patronage, we are. Yours very truly, THE PRATT BATH HOUSE FOR COLORED PEOPLE. Notice! Notice! Correspondents will please get their news matter to us not later than Wednesday of each week. To do this it will be necessary to mail it at your postoffice every Tuesday evening. Hereafter all news matter arriving later than Wednesday will be cancelled or held over for the following issue. We trust our correspondents will adhere to this rule, as it will not be violated at this office. "That chauffeur was a great $1500 pension." "Of course. And I advise you to do the same. It's the only way to get highe go personally." $50.00 PER MONTH, MADE DURING the high Brown Negro Dell, fast seller. Send 11.90 for sample outfit, instructions and solicitor's certif- iation as the chairperson of time or for printering personal, the first one in your community get this position. Every family wants a Negro Dell. Buy one and maintain it in your community. Send 8 cents for reply to inquiry and catalog. NATIONAL NEGRO DOLL COMPANY. 519 Second Ave., N. Nashville, Tenn. HEET CLEANING LONG Sparklin's Autobiography Tells How He Promoted the First Contract Job in Philadelphia. Recently at one of the luncheons of the City Club of Philadelphia there was read an extract from the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin which was relied to describe the first instance of street cleaning by contract in Philadelphia. The incident is interesting also, however, as illustrating citizen cooperation in its original simplicity. "One day," Franklin wrote, "I found a poor industrial man, who was willing to undertake keeping the pavement clean by sweeping it twice a week, carrying off the dirt from before all the neighbors' doors, for the sum of six pence per month, to be paid by each house. I then wrote and printed a paper setting forth the advantages to the neighborhood that might be obtained by this small expense. . . . I sent one of these papers to each house, and in a day or two went around to see who would subcribe an agreement to pay these six pences; it was unquestionably signed, and for a time well executed. This raised a general desire to save all the streets paved, and made the people more willing to subscribe to a treat that purpose."—The Survey CAMB QUIT TAKING SNUFF Threw Box Away on Hampstead Health, but Was Searching for It Next Morning. Hamstead Heath may yet contain a precious relic of Charles Lamb. "On summer's evening," writes Hone, "I was walking on Hampstead Heath with Charles Lamb, and we had talked ourselves into a philosophic contempt of our slavery to the habit of snuff taking, and with the firm resolution of never again taking a single pinch we drew our snuffboxes away from the still on which we stood, far among the furze and brambles below, and went home in triumph; I began to be very miserable, was wretched all night; in the morning I was walking on the same hill; I saw Charles Lamb below, searching among the bushes; he looked up laughing, and saying, "What you are come to look for your snuff box too!" "Oh, no," said I taking a pouch out of a paper in my waistcoat pocket. I went for a halfpenny worth to the first shop that was open."—London brocade. Tailoring, Cleaning, Pressing Dyeing And Repairing. Second Hand Goods Bought, Sold and Exchanged. Work Called For and Delivered. Hats Cleaned and Blocked. WM. WALKER, PROP. PARTEE BUILDING 518 EAST ARCHER Tulsa. (tf) Okla. Midway Park Attaction Free To Churches, Sunday Schools and Special Parties To Enjoy a Day of Pleasure And Amusements. Monday Nights Dancing Thursday Nights Masquerades. With Prizes to Contestants, Soft Drinks and Refreshments of all kinds, Sold in the Pavilion. The Negro Independent State Fair. GREAT INDUSTRIAL and MECHANICAL PARADE on LABOR DAY, SEPT. 6th, 1915. 25,000 in Line. Hundreds of Beautifully Decorated Vehicles, Floats and Automobiles. Eery Automobile Owner in Oklahoma Invited to Participate. Prizes for Best Decoration. Remarkable Display of Agricultural and Industrial Products. Wonderful Exhibit of Ladies' and Girl's Fine Art Work OKLAHOMA BABY SHOW, Mrs. Fronnie Lillian Turner, 310 1-2 S. Second St., Muskogee, Okla., Superintendent QUEEN'S CONTEST—Open to all Oklahoma girls, $50 prize to highest number of votes. H. A. Clark, 616 S. Third St., Muskogee, Okla., Superintendent. Big Carnival Attractions and Excite- Large Delegations Coming from Kansas, Arkansas and Texas. Moving Picture of the Industrial Parade, Sept. 6th, 1915. Get in line and have your Picture shown all Over America. FOUR BIG BANDS AND THE FAMOUS 4-STAR QUARTETTE. Stand Privileges for Refreshments, Doll and Ball Racks, etc For Sale at 308 South Second St., Muskogee, Okla. Get in on the ground floor, chances are passing every day. TRAP SHOOTING TOURNAMENT. Ten Thousand Admissions for the First Day of the Greatest Negro Fair in America. H. A. CLARK, Assistant Secretary, 308 South Second St., Muskogee, Okla. M. J. Lathon, Proprietor. READ THE TUSA Star OPEN AT ALL TIMES To Churches, Sunday School Parties To Enjoy a Day of And Amusements. Social Nights of Attract The management Offers Sunday Nights Dancing Thursday Nights Masquerade to Contestants, Soft Drinks and Refresh kinds, Sold in the Pavillion. and Commodious Pavillion, will acco Coolest Place in the city for Neg rong Drinks Sold or allowed on the Gr Barney Clever, Manager. Negro Independent State Fair. October 6th to 11th, Muskogee, Okla. INDUSTRIAL and MECHANICAL ON LABOR DAY, SEPT. 6th, 1915. June. Hundreds of Beautifully Decor vehicles, Floats and Automobiles. Mobile Owner in Oklahoma Invited ate. Prizes for Best Decoration. the Display of Agricultural and Products. Exhibit of Ladies' and Girl's Fine MA BABY SHOW, Mrs. Fronnie Li . Second St., Muskogee, Okla., Super CONTEST—Open to all Oklahoma rhest number of votes. H. A. Cl Muskogee, Okla., Superintendent. Arrival Attractions and ing Ropping Contest. negations Coming from Kansas, An Texas. ture of the Industrial Parade, Sept line and have your Picture show Over America. BIG BANDS AND THE FAMOUS PAGE FIVE PAGE SIX ARABIC SUNK BY A SUBMARINE VON TIRPITZ SCORES AGAIN IN WAR ON NON-COM- BATANTS. 39 LIVES LOST: 2 AMERICANS Vessel Attacked Without Warning While On Westbound Trip and Carrying No Contraband Or Soldiers. London—The big White Star Line steamer Arabic, formerly a favorite ship of the Liverpool-Boston service, but which on her present trip was on the way to New York, was torpeded and sunk by a German submarine, southeast of Fastnet and fifty miles west of the Lusitania's grave. The steamer, according to a statement of the White Star line, was attacked without warning and went down in ten minutes. Of the 423 persons on board—181 passengers and 242 members of the crew—39 are missing and are believed to have been drowned. Most of those who have not been accounted for belong to the crew. Only six of the passengers are reported missing. The revised list showed that Mrs. Louise Brupiere and Edmund Woods, among American passengers, were drowned. There had been 26 Americans on board. The survivors left the steamer in the ship's boats and were picked up later by passing vessels and taken to Queenstown. Details of the sinking of the Arabic are lacking, but that the loss of life was not greater doubtless was due to the fact that the weather was fine and that steamers plying the German submarine war zone now keep their boats swung out and otherwise prepared for emergencies. The torpedo that sunk the Arabic struck her on the starboard side 100 feet from her stern. The vessel had left Liverpool and taken a southerly course well off the Irish coast, doubtless with a view of avoiding the submarines which frequent the waters nearer the shore. When some fifty miles west of where the Lusitania was sunk in May the German underwater boat rose to the surface and launched a torpedo. The marksmanship of the Germans, as in the case of the Lusitania, was deadly accurate and like the Lusitania the big liner quickly settled down and shortly disappeared from view. Some of the survivors say that they had just witnessed the torpedoing of a British steamer, presumably the Dunsley and that this had caused great alarm on board the Arabic. In their fright the passengers had rushed for life preservers and had barely adjusted them when the German submarine turned its torpedo against the vessel's side. Life boats and a number of rafts were quickly got over the side of the steamer and into these a large number of the passengers and crew scrambled. One of the passengers on board was Kenneth Douglas, well known English actor. Mr. Douglas was on the Lusitania when she was sent to the bottom. According to survivors the ship was torpeded without warning and sank in eleven minutes. Excellent discipline prevailed, twenty-one boats were lowered and apparently all except those that were empty were picked up by rescue vessels. ACT IS DELIBERATELY UNFRIENDLY According to Specifications Laid Down In Lansing's Note. Washington—News of the torpedoing of the British steamer Arabic of the White Star line with Americans on board came as a shock to officials of the United States government who had hoped since the dispatch of the last American note there would be no further aggravation of an already tense situation between the United States and Germany. Official information was meager and it was only through press dispatches that it was heard here that the vessel was torpeded without warning. While it was recognized that a final canvass of the survivors might reveal that no American lives were lost, the torpeded without warning of a vessel carrying Americans has in itself been pronounced by the United States government as a violation of its rights which, if repeated, would be regarded as "deliberately unfriendly." In the last note to Germany which it was generally accepted was the final word on the principles of the question from the United States, Secretary Lansing used the following language: "Friendship itself prompts it (the United States government) to say to the imperial government that repetition by the commanders of German naval vessels of acts in contravention of those rights must be regarded by the government of the United States when they affect American citizens as deliberately unfriendly." O GALVESTON DEATH TOLL 257 WITH OVER 50 NAMES STILL ON ROLL OF MISSING. Property Loss At Galveston Alone Will Reach Six Galveston.—A total of 257 known dead among residents of southwest Texas coast points and crews of wrecked craft of all kinds; sixty-five persons missing, many of whom are believed to have perished and damage to crops, buildings, ranroads, shipping, livestock and other property aggregating close to $50,000,000, was the toll taken by the hurricane which swept this section last week. These figures were reached from a careful compilation of what are considered the most authentic reports of the loss of life and property received since the cessation of the storm. Of the known dead, 194 were residents of the ruff coast section and sixty-two were drowned when the vessels they were aboard sunk. Forty-three of the missing were members of members of boat crews. Those who perished in Galveston island, including eight in the city proper, numbered fifty-three and ten were still reported missing from the island. Galveston's share of the property loss was placed at approximately $6,000,000. Reports received here from all over the affected section were that all the cities and towns gradually are recovering from the disastrous storm and that conditions are approaching normal throughout the ruff coast. Predictions that direct railroad service into Galveston from the mainland will be resumed within one month were made by officials of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe railroad. They stated that 1,700 feet of the $2,000,000 causeway had been washed away on the Galveston side and 3,739 feet destroyed near the mainland. Several hundred men were at work on the mainland Saturday clearing the right of way of debris, repairing the line and making preparations to begin building a single track trestle across the bay from Virginia Point to this city. Residents of Galveston appear optimistic that they soon will have a complete water supply and then they can enjoy the conveniences of electricity, gas, street car and railroad service. Sunday was observed at all churches and no business was transacted by merchants, but work of clearing up was carried forward without a halt. Engineers reported that divers discovered ninety-six feet of the submerged water main across the bay to be missing in one section, probably the result of a barge having been blown across it during the storm. So far there has been no suffering for water in the city, but the inconvenience is great. The gulf is calm again, and the beach was dotted with bathers Sunday afternoon. The list of dead in this vicinity was brought up to 257 by the finding of another body on Galveston island. Unconfirmed reports were also received that thirty-eight bottles had been recovered on Boliver peninsula, and that four were missing there. The total number of missing stands at sixty-nine. St. Louis Has High Water. St. Louis. — The Meramec river, lived on either side with thousands of pleasure resorts, club houses and summer cottages, went several miles out of its banks, swept away most of these buildings and increasing to twenty, it is reported, the number of lives lost in St. Paul county as a result of the flood which followed the recent rainstorm here. Hundreds of persons had been marooned in club houses and cottages along the river by the first rise several days ago following a forty-hour rainfall and hundreds of others had gone to the river hoping it would recede and permit them to rescue relatives, friends and water soaked possessions. Approximately 9,000 feet of track on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad near Moselle, Mo., was washed out by the Meramec. Four Drowned In Arkansas Little Rock—A dispatch from Newark Ark., says that a farmer, his wife and three children were drowned in the flood waters of White rives, that has inundated 100 square miles of the Oil Trough bottoms in Independence county midway between Batesville and Newport. Troops Chasing Carranza Soldiers San Antonio.—United States cavalry officers in automobiles, infantrymen afoot and cavalrymen are chasing through southwest Hidalgo county after ten Carranza soldiers who deserted their post near Reynaosa, Mexico, and crossed into Texas near Hidalgo with the object, it is believed of poining followers of the "plan of San Diego" in the neighborhood of Fulturrias, Brooks county. Cotton Is Contraband London.—Cotton has been declared absolute contraband by Great Britain, according to a statement issued by the foreign office. The statement declares that the government proposes to initiate measures to relieve depression which might temporarily disturb the cotton market because of the contraband order. It was learned upon inquiry at the foreign office that the French government will issue a similar order. THE TULSA STAR GERMANSWHIPPED IN GULF OF RIGA TEUTONIC NAVY LOSES 11 SHIPS IN CONTEST WITH RUS- SIAN FLEET. ITALY DECLARES ON TURKEY Following Refusal of Porte To Permit Departure of Italian Citizens —Ealkan States Expected To Decide Soon. London.—A dispatch to the Central News from Petrograd says: "The president of the duma has announced that the Germans lost the battle cruiser Moltke, three cruisers and seven torpedo boats in the Riga battle. "The German fleet has withdrawn from Riga bey. "The Germans tried to make a descent near Pernpvin (Pernigel) on the east shore of the Gulf of Riga, some thirty-five miles north of Riga. Four barges crammed with soldiers took part in the descent. They were repulsed by the Russian troops without the co-operation of artillery, the Germans being exterminated and the barges captured." The Russian vessels which were sunk in the battle were the gunboats Sivutch and Koreets and a torpedo boat. The Moltke was a vessel of 23,000 tons, 590 feet long, and carried in ordinary times a complement of 1,075 men. She was a sister ship of the famous Goeben which became a part of the Turkish navy after the commencement of the war and was re-crested Sultan Sotm. The Moltke was in the battle with the British fleet in the North Sea last January when the German armored cruiser Bluecher was sunk. In 1912 the Moltke was in the German squadron which visited the United States to return the visit of the United States battleship squadron at Kiel during the trip around the world. The cost of the Moltke was about $12,000,000. ITALY DECLARES WAR ON TURKEY And Balkan States Are Now Expected To Decide. Rome.—Marquis Di Garrioni, Italian ambassador to Turkey handed to the porte a note declaring Italy considered herself in a state of war with Turkey and demanded his passports. The reasons given in the note for Italy's declaration of war were the support given by Turkey to the revolt in Libya and the prevention of the departure of Italian residents from Syria. Although Italy declared war on Austria on May 14 and hostilities between the two countries began immediately, there has never been any declaration of war between Italy and Germany, the ally of Austria, while until now Italy and Turkey the ally of the central powers nominally have been at peace. Friction between Turkey and Italy, however, has been in evidence since shortly after the latter's entry into the war. Early in June there were reports that Italian consuls were gradually leaving Turkey and that American officials were taking over the task of looking out for Italian interests. Later charges were made that the Ottoman government was preventing these consuls from leaving and that similar coercion was being exerted over Italian civilians who wished to quit Turkish soil. Balkans May Decide Soon. London.—Italy's declaration of war against Turkey is expected to have an almost immediate affect on the Balkan states, which still are debating which side they will take in the conflict. The relations between Italy and Roumania for years have been very intimate and the opinion is expressed here that it is probable, especially in view of the threatening attitude of the Germanic powers toward Roumania benicic powers toward Roumania because of her refusal to allow ammunition to pass through her territory, that now Italy has broken relations with Turkey. Roumania will join the quadruple entente. Bulgaria is still waiting for the reply of Serbia to the suggestions of the entent minister that Serbia cede Macedonia to Bulgaria while Greece is likely to declare her future policy when the chamber meets this week. The opinion is expressed in diplomatic circles that it is significant that M. Venizelos, who has always been friendly to the entente, has decided to take charge, in addition to the Greecian premiership, of the office of minister of foreign affairs. LAST OF BRIGHAM'S WIVES DEAD Morman Leader's Relict Survived 18 Others. Salt Lake City.—Elizea Burgess Young, last survivor of Brigham Youngs wives is dead. She was a native of England, and was 88 years old. Her death closes the estate of the noted Mormon leader who died in 1877. His will provided a life annuity for each of the nineteen wives who survived him. The state amounted to about a million dollars. --- GOLD'S SIREN LURE FOR MEN Hardship and Death Dared by Thousands That They May Gain Riches Quickly. It was in 1898 that the rush of gold seekers to the Klondike reached its flood. The ninety-eighters probably never will know the fame of the forty-niners, but they have a place in the long history of the gold hunters, the men of all nations, ancient, medieval and modern. The book has a hundred chapters telling of failure and of death to every one lightened with the story of success. H. M. Cadeli recently visited the Klondike and there made a study of present conditions. He describes them and adds an interesting account of the early day rush to the Northwest territory. The Smithsonian institution has put Mr. Cadell's report into print. It is an interesting document. Some of the happenings in the Klondike were duplicates of like happenings in California and Australia during the first years of the surface washing in those fields. These duplications show that human nature is unchanging. Men went to the Klondike daring hardship and death that they might get rich quick. Some of the gold seekers were quickly successful. A large percentage of the successful ones almost literally threw their money away. Easy come, easy go. This sort of thing has marked gold mining in all ages. The Klondike is not what it was, but human nature stays the same. The discovery of gold at the North pole would start a northern migration that would take no account of the insuperable obstacles of distance and cold. The lure is irresistible—Chicago Post. The exportation of orchids from the Philippine islands is increasing. In March, 1914, 10,000 plants were consigned to a San Francisco firm and arrived in excellent condition. During May 5,000 plants were shipped to the same firm. The consignments included four varieties—Solerians, Amablies, Studianas and Sanderians. Judge—You admit, then, that you stole the loaf of bread? Woman Prisoner—Yes, your honor. Judge—What have you to say for yourself? Woman—Nothing, your hoorr. If it was lace or jewelry, I might plead kleptomania, but we can't try that when it's bread. "In what state does it cost the most to live" "In the state of matrimony."—Boston. Victims for cabinet changes in Europe are coming to favor the New York idea of a "stationary post."—Boston Advertiser. "I see where they have a little Thimble theater in New York. What kind of plays have they?" "Oh, I dare say, they are sew, sew." Getting into debt is like dropping from a balloon. Getting out is like climbing a greased pole. Post Toasties Bully Good—Breakfast, Lunch or Supper Ready to eat direct from package with cream and sugar—sometimes add fruit. A genuine treat that meets favor with guests and home folks. Sold by Grocers Everywhere! Post Toasties Orchids. Nothing to Be Said. Correct. Stationary Post. Its Kind. CALOMEL MAKES YOU SICK, UGH! IT'S MERCURY AND SALIVATES Straighten Up! Don't Lose a Day's Work! Clean Your Sluggish Liver and Bowels With "Dodson's Liver Tone." Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. Take a dose of the vile, dangerous drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose a day's work. Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel, when it comes into contact with sour bile crashes into it, breaking it up. This is when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. If you feel sluggish and "all knocked out," if your liver is torpid and bowels constipated or you have headache, dizziness, coated tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour, just try a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone. Here's my guarantee—Go to any drug store or dealer and get a 50-cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone. Take a spoonful tonight and if it doesn't straighten you right up and make you feel fine and vigorous by morning; want you to go back to the store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the sale of calomel because it is real liver medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore it cannot sall vate or make you sick. I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system and making you feel miserable. I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling fine for months. Give it to your children. It is harmless; doesn't gripe and they like its pleasant taste. The Invitation. Just line: How're you, George? "Same, Say, Mabel, let's go through the park this afternoon. What say?" "Well—ah ahm ahem —I—I—ah—I'm kind of—well, I'm kind of tired, George." "Then you won't go?" "I'm so sorry, but, George, you understand just how it is, don't you, George, dear?" "Yes, I guess so. I suppose I'll have to ride with someone else, then." "Ride?" "Yes; my new eight-cylinder roadster came this morning." "Oh, George! Did it really? Isn't that just splendid? Say—ah—George. I guess I'm not as tired as I thought I was." "Well, I wouldn't take any chances if I were you, Mabel. It doesn't pay. I'll take someone else." "But really, dear, I'm not tired a bit, Honestly." "It's sweet of you to say that, but I don't want to take advantage of your kindness. Good-by, Mabel." Mabel slammed the receiver viciously on the hook. "Darn it!" she muttered. "Why didn't he say so in the first place?"—Michigan Gargoyle. One Led to Another. "I tried to get you over the telephone half a dozen times yesterday morning, but the line was busy every time." "Yes. My wife called up a neighbor to ask her a question, and before they got through each had asked the other not less than one hundred questions." One Left. "The fag system is obsolete in schools now, isn't it." "Yes, except the brain fag." Speech and Silence. Speak fitly, or be silent wisely.—George Herbert. When you meet a self-made man he always wants to tell you all about the job. straighten you right up and make you feel fine and vigorous by morning I want you to go back to the store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the sale of calomel because it is real liver medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore it cannot salivate or make you sick. I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system and making you feel miserable. I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling fine for months. Give it to your children. It is harmless; doesn't grieve and they like its pleasant taste. WILL AEROPLANES STOP WAR Orville Wright Is Moved to Say He Likes to Think So, Anyhow. Did you ever stop to think that there is a very definite reason why the present war in Europe has dragged along for a year with neither side gaining much advantage over the other? The reason, as I figure it out, is aeroplanes, Orville Wright writes in Collier's. In consequence of the scouting work done by the flying machines, each side knows exactly what the opposition forces are doing. There is little chance for one army to take another by surprise. Napoleon won wars by massing his troops at unexpected places. The aeroplane has made that impossible. It has equalized information. Each side has such complete knowledge of the other's movements that both sides are obliged to crawl into trenches and fight by means of slow, tedious routine rather than by quick, spectacular dashes. My impression is that before the present war started the army experts expected it to be a matter of a few weeks or, at most, a few months. Today it looks as if it might run into years before one side can dictate terms. Now, a nation that may be willing to undertake a war lasting a few months may well hesitate about engaging in one that will occupy years. The daily cost of a great war is of course stupendous. When this cost runs on for years the total is likely to be so great that the side which wins nevertheless loses. War will become prohibitively expensive. And the scouting work in flying machines will be the predominating factor, as it seems to me, in bringing this about, I like to think so, anyhow. "They have the measles there, and all the prisoners have broken out." Some horses are better mud runners than others. It is so with human beings. J C Now that industry has become fashionable and everyone is knitting or crocheting or doing some sort of needlework, the evidences of the "keep-busy" fad blossom out in all directions. The family, from baby to grandma, revels in pretty things in the way of dress accessories, and the house is decked out with fine specimens of needlecraft. Among the most successful of all the articles knitted or crocheted, baby bonnets, hats for little girls, and boudoir caps and hats for grown-ups testify to the adaptability of this kind of work to headwear. Baby bonnets, either knitted or crocheted of silk, have long been among the coveted luxuries that each mother manages somehow to secure. They are very durable and very beautiful. Crocheted headwear is somewhat expensive, and one must either have the time and knowledge of the work required, to make it, or be prepared to pay the price which elegant, handmade things will bring. The small knitted hat of silk shown in the picture is moderately priced at four or five dollars. It is knitted of heavy silk thread in cream color, and consists of a cap which covers the crown of the head and a frill of lace, knitted of the same silk as the cap. It is finished with a tassel made of the silk. Between-Se Treated for those whose needs demand hats for the period between two seasons are hats made for the warm, bright days of early autumn, with an eye to the frost that may overtake them in the midst of their usefulness. Here are three of them, in fashionable black and white. They will solve the problem of the woman who feels that it is too late for the purchase of a summer hat and altogether too early to wear one belonging to wintertime. She will find these just suited to bridging over the interval between two seasons. Very popular with the younger people, small turbans are made in combinations of black velvet with white silk or satin and trimmed with fanciful feathers or wings. The pretty example shown in the picture has a coronet of velvet and a crown of satin. White wings, in the smart pose, on the crown, are the only trimming used and all that is needed. One of the new wide and drooping brimmed shapes may be made of silk or velvet or of the two combined. It reflects the fad for needlework in its decoration. Parallel rows of long Fasciinating boudoir caps are made by crocheting heavy silk thread in an open design. They are shaped like the caps made for infants, and finished with crocheted shell or scallops about the edge. Ribbon is run in them about the face and across the back. It fits the cap to the head and decorates it at the same time. Crocheted hats are made of silk fiber, chenille, or wool, and are very smart for motor wear, for traveling, and for the street. Fine wire is used in shaping them, and they are made by professional workwomen who understand how to conceal the wire in the crocheted stitches. About Girdles. Girdles which used to encircle miliyad's dainty waist are not to be found in that region this season. They have moved upward, most of them, to give the new high-waisted effect. From this high position they are apt to wander in and out of draperies, often creeping under the full skirt to tie in a part at the front or back of the hem. One pretty girdle had three long loops falling directly under each other, and in the end of each loop was caught a full-blown pink rose. Another girdle of sulphur yellow was so completely hidden by the chiffon overwaist that you could only guess at its presence on the dress. asons Hats stitches made of heavy white silk adorn the crown, and a single row finishes the brim-edge. A band of velvet ribbon confines the crown, and a butterfly of white crystal beads suggests a bit of frost painting. This is a beautiful and unusual development of the picture hat. Suited to the matron as well as to the younger woman, the sailor hat of white corduroy and satin, faced with black velvet, is of the sort that may be worn anywhere. The upper brim and top crown are of corduroy, and the side crown is covered with satin laid in folds. Odd, new ornaments of beads and curving ribs of feathers, or "feelers," as they are called, are applied to the crown. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Baby's Everyday Dresses. Baby's Everyday Dresses. To make everyday dresses for baby, purchase white washable crepe. Make the little garments plain, with a sleeve that goes to the neck. Few seams are required and but one but tonhole. Time and labor are saved in laundering, too, as no ironing is needed. THE TULSA STAR DESERT AUTO IS NO CAMEL These Men Forget to Provide Water for Their Desert Ride and One Dies. Failure to thing about evaporation in an automobile radiator brought leath to one man and frightful torures to two others, who arrived in Los Angeles from the desert and told of their sufferings. The trio—James S. Roche and John H. Welsh, attorney, and James G. Clarke, a real estate dealer—left here Sunday in an automobile for El Centro, in the Imperial valley. Monday morning the car stopped in the sand. The radiator was empty and they had no water. Roche and Welsh started after a mirage which they believed was the Salton sea. Clarke waited a day, and then, believing them dead, made his way to Mineral Springs, where he was resuscitated after falling himself in a faint and organized a rescue party. They found Roche unconscious and Welsh dead. Roche said they drank lubricating oil — Philadelphia Record. Magic Washing Stick This is something new to housewives—something they have wanted all their lives, but never could get before. It makes it possible to clean clothes more efficiently than one-half the time it took by old methods, and it eliminates all rubbing and musculature. The washing machine is needed. Nothing but this is necessary, which is absolutely harmic to the finest fabrics—white, colored or wooden. 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You are a brand of the world. The Sunday School Convention is made local Sunday schools throughout the state. In the gospel and to train the children; in the way they will not depart from it. Since our meeting at Muskegee many progress. But our cause is a righteous one, bein we have been able to keep our heads above the life in the Sunday school work today than the Pastors and Superintendents are in hearty need been before. The gospel light is now being forth. It is going into the hedges and highways, rich and the poor. All nations are now having Sunday school is teaching them how to appreciate. When you look at the constituents that represented by the young men and young women the very bottom of our hearts, "God bless the children of Israel. The prophets kept it up in the synagogue during his mission here, practice in the early life of the church. And out the Sunday school to which he may go to. This band of young people who compose the church of tomorrow. And more, they must the youth of the unborn generation. To teach God must be their mission. To perform proper disciplined in the service. Our footsteps in the for those who are to follow us should be set a with pleasure and consideration that I come before message from the King as president of the young school work. You are a branch of one of the great School Convention is made up of messengers and is throughout the state. It is their duty to train the children, in the way they should go from it. Setting at Muskogee many have been the beset cause is a righteous one, and with the uniting to keep our heeds above the waves of sin and school work today than there has ever been, students are in hearty accord with the work, men is now beaming forth upon every hill top hedges and highways, bringing in the halt. All nations are now having the gospel teach them how to appreciate its worth to the look at the constituents that make up this great be young men and young women of our church, we heart's, "God bless the Sunday school! School is no new institution. Moses taught it. The prophets kept it up in their day. Christ during his mission here. The apostles were a life of the church. And the modern Christian tool to which he may go to learn of Him and to young people who compose the Sunday school row. And more, they must fill our pulpits and born generation. To teach them in the knowledge. To perform properly these functions a service. Our footsteps in the sands of time that follow us should be set aright. The Sunday School Convention is made up of messengers and pastors from the local Sunday schools throughout the state. It is their duty to teach the true sense of the gospel and to train the children, in the way they should go that when they are old they must depart from it. they will not depart from us. Since our meeting at Muskogee many have been the besetments to hinder our progress. But our cause is a righteous one, and with the untiring efforts of the servants we have been able to keep our heads above the waves of sin and satan. There is more life in the Sunday school work today than there has ever been in the state before. Pastors and Superintendents are in hearty accord with the work, more so than they have been before. The gospel light is now beaming forth upon every hill top and in every valley. It is going into the hedges and highways, bringing in the halt, the name and blind; the rich and the poor. All nations are now having the gospel reached to them, and the Sunday school is teaching them how to appreciate its virtue to the souls and bodies of men. When you look at the constituents that make up this great body which is so nobly represented by the young men and young women of our church, we must exclaim from one very bottom of our hearts, "God bless the Sunday school! The Sunday school is no new institution. Moses taught Sunday school to the children of Israel. The prophets kept it up in their day. Christ taught every Sabbath in the synagogue during his mission here. The apostles were in harmony with the practice in the early life of the church. And the modern Christian is not satisfied without the Sunday school to which he may go to learn of Him and to renew his strength. This band of young people who compose the Sunday school of today will make up the church of tomorrow. And more, they must fill our pupils and make instructors for the youth of the unborn generation. To teach them in the knowledge and wisdom of God must be their mission. To perform properly these functions they must be properly disciplined in the service. Our footsteps in the sands of time that must mark the way for those who are to follow us should be set aright. THE MINISTER OF TODAY. With my own meager training one woe speak of the present standard of the ministry of we live. But think as you will it is true. The cope with the forces which it is called upon best trained soldiers, commanded by the best superb. There is no skill known to the art of ed. Think you that we can hope to keep our paring to meet them with superior strength? against us, and that to overcome that alone we No young man should think for a mon very best preparation possible. Every man can be best touched through Christ, then, the minister must be not only a understanding, but he must be able to extra hearers which when applied to the spirit will must submit. This is what the Sayour mus hedges and highways asd COMPEL them to c In meager training one would think me border- standard of the ministry as being far too low as you will it is true. The ministry of today- which it is called upon to oppose. The dev- ers, commanded by the best officers possible, so skill known to the art of warfare with which it we can hope to keep our ground against su- cien with superior strength? Are we asleep to the to overcome that alone would be no little task man should think for a moment of entering the con- possible. can be best touched through parables of his own minister must be not only able to expound to the must be able to extract his examples fro- applied to the spirit will go with such force to is what the Saviour must have meant when- asd COMPEL them to come." With my own meager training one would think me bordering on fanaticism to speak of the present standard of the ministry as being far too low for the times in which we live. But think as you will it is true. The ministry of today is far too ignorant to cope with the forces which it is called upon to oppose. The devil has an army of the best trained soldiers, commanded by the best officers possible. Their generalship is superb. There is no skill known to the art of warfare with which they are not acquainted. Think you that we can hope to keep our ground against such forces without preparing to meet them with superior strength? Are we asleep to the fact that the tide is against us, and that to overcome that alone would be no little task? No young man should think for a moment of entering the ministry without the very best preparation possible. Every man can be best touched through parables of his own life or vocation. Like Christ, then, the minister must be not only able to expound the gospel with force and understanding, but he must be able to extract his examples from the lives of all his hearers which when applied to the spirit will go with such force to the individual that he must submit. This is what the Saviour must have meant when he said, "Go into the hedges and highways and COMPEL them to come." THE PRESENT DAY CHURCH It seems to me that the church of toda members. We seem to think that we are in God. We are more lax about obedience to the officers of the civil law. It is the duty of the is obeyed or that those who persist in viola Head expects less of His officers? The sayin the members of the church are doing anything We shall have to give account of our stewar Master's business here on earth are no less associated with us keep within the bounds. Aside from keeping right ourselves, brother. We are our brother's keeper in the christians we are passive sinners. It will not I must be able to say. "That as far as in me I actively drive against sit wherever it com done this can we truly say that we have don the church of today is a silent party to me to think that we are individuals and not a lax about obedience to the laws of our King by law. It is the duty of the officers of the law to those who persist in violating it are punished of His officers? The saying, "I haven't anything the church are doing anything they want to do we account of our stewardship here and we live on earth are no less obligated to see to keep within the bounds, keeping right ourselves, we are in a measur our brother's keeper in the full sense of the term massive sinners. It will not suffice to say, "that say, "That as far as in me lies the power, I keep against sb wherever it comes within my pervise truly say that we have done our best. It seems to me that the church of today is a silent party to too many sins of its members. We seem to think that we are individuals and not a body in the service of God. We are more lax about obedience to the laws of our King by His subjects than the officers of the civil law. It is the duty of the officers of the law to see to it that the law is obeyed or that those who persist in violating it are punished. Think you that our Head expects less of His officers? The saying, "I haven't anything to do with it" when the members of the church are doing anything they want to do will never do to report. We shall have to give account of our stewardship here and we who have charge of the Master's business here on earth are no less obligated to see to it than those who are associated with us keep within the bounds. Aside from keeping right ourselves, we are in a measure responsible for our brother. We are our brother's keeper in the full sense of the term. If we are not active christians we are passive sinners. It will not suffice to say, "that I do no wrong myself." I must be able to say, "That as far as in me lies the power, I keep my brother from sin. I actively drive against sin wherever it comes within my perview. Only when we have done this can we truly say that we have done our best. NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION The National Baptist Convention met session was to me the greatest in the history questions were there handled and settled. I head of the Convention over the protest of all of the Oklahoma delegation with one exce which we believe to have been for the best were instrumental, also, in helping to save to be a disgrace. The work, we believe, und placed on higher ground. We are going to be to the best interest of the great cause of Al Baptist Convention met last year in "City of the greatest in the history of the Convention. we handled and settled. Dr. Morris was triumphion over the protest of his enemies. We are a delegation with one exception was with the p to have been for the best interest of the work also, in helping to save the denomination fro the work, we believe, under the leadership of ground. We are going to Chicago to continue to rest of the great cause of the denomination. The National Baptist Convention met last year in "City of Brotherly Love." The session was to me the greatest in the history of the Convention. Many great and grave questions were there handled and settled. Dr. Morris was triumphantly returned to the head of the Convention over the protest of his enemies. We are delighted to note that all of the Oklahoma delegation with one exception was with the majority in the election, which we believe to have been for the best interest of the work. We believe that we were instrumental, also, in helping to save the denomination from what we consider to be a disgrace. The work, we believe, under the leadership of Dr. Morris has been placed on higher ground. We are going to Chicago to continue to do what we believe to be to the best interest of the great cause of the denomination. THE STATE EDUCATIONAL WORK It is indeed to be regretted that our united basis. We have been trying for years seems that the further we go the farther we appearance to call the masses to its support great moment cannot be done with anything Baptist hosts of this great state of ours. Just say here, or to give our opinion, other than answers to this question as there are would out number. We pray that the Lord of Host muster the great resources among the Baptist convert them into a great institution of lea have gone astray or into other channels for a nation as will be a credit to the denomination and continued failure in any line of the wo leadership. The children of Israel will stray hear the man of God, or rather the man who I have be regreted that our educational work of have been trying for years to get the work in rather we go the farther we are from anything and the masses to its support. It is needless to not be done with anything less than the conun- his great state of ours. Just what the trouble is we our opinion, other than to say that there we question as there are would-be leaders in the stu- spray that the Lord of Hosts will soon give us resources among the Baptists of this state that is a great institution of learning before too ma- nor into other channels for their religious inform- credit to the denomination and a glory to God. lure in any line of the work of God cannot be children of Israel will stray, but in the end befo- God, or rather the man whom God has sent to lea It is indeed to be regretted that our educational work of the state is not on a united basis. We have been trying for years to get the work in running condition, but it seems that the further we go the farther we are from anything that will be of sufficient appearance to call the masses to its support. It is needless to say that a work of so great moment cannot be done with anything less than the common support of the great Baptist hosts of this great state of ours. Just what the trouble is, I shall not attempt to say here, or to give our opinion, other than to say that there will be as many different answers to this question as there are would be leaders in the state; and these are without number. We pray that the Lord of Hosts will soon give us a leader that is able to muster the great resources among the Baptists of this state that are going to waste and convert them into a great institution of learning before too many of our young people have gone astray or into other channels for their religious information. Such an institution as will be a credit to the denomination and a glory to God. Say what we will, but and continued failure in any line of the work of God cannot be said to be under divine leadership. The children of Israel will stray, but in the end before it is too late they will hear the man of God, or rather the man whom God has sent to lead them. PROFESSIONAL MEN AND WOMEN Our professional people should take school work. This does not mean to even if not do their duty toward these religions in interested in the moral and religious welfare I know that the standard of business be up to their liking. I know that it is off gusting; but they should feel that it is the rather than tire of it. Their patience should demand. Having the greater training they self, and therefore better able to adjust the themselves unable to convert to their liking in this particular ere long their influence we on the other hand, if they hold themselves refusing to attend the business meetings that it is due to their lack of spiritual inclination ways that might be helpful to the weaker c personal people should take more interest in what this does not mean to even infer that these persons toward these religious institutions, but as a moral and religious welfare of others. But the standard of business and that of service, being, I know that it is often of such nature that they should feel that it is their duty to assist to of it. Their patience should be as long and the greater training they should have, also, be better able to adjust themselves to the condition to convert to their liking. If they would show that long their influence would go felt in no little, if they hold themselves away from the child, the business meetings the masses of the less lack of spiritual inclination and thus disregard be helpful to the weaker ones. Our professional people should take more interest in the church and Sunday school work. This does not mean to even infer that these persons in many instances do not do their duty toward these religious institutions, but as a whole they are too little interested in the moral and religious welfare of others. I know that the standard of business and that of service, for that matter, may not be up to their liking. I know that it is often of such nature that it is little below disgusting; but they should feel that it is their duty to assist to remedy this condition rather than tire of it. Their patience should be as long and forbearing as conditions demand. Having the greater training they should have, also, the greater power over self, and therefore better able to adjust themselves to the conditions that they may find themselves unable to convert to their liking. If they would show themselves servicable in this particular ere long their influence would be felt in no little degree for good. But on the other hand, if they hold themselves away from the church and Sunday school, refusing to attend the business meetings the masses of the less informed conclude that it is due to their lack of spiritual inclination and thus disregard them in many other ways that might be helpful to the weaker ones. THE NEGRO PRESS upress of this country has built quite a sentiment by the evil doings of the race. They have fed seemingly will retain nothing more. Upress on the other hand, though weak their cus doing the best they can to care for our cusic. Let us give them our hearty support both not expect too much of them. Remember if the write press that it is because they are not prepare us to be this just criticism, however, some of petty faults of their own people. Enough of our help. Let this be the last thing we put them such support as to enable them to send, for it is the other fellow that must hear our cusone can give it the deserved consideration. The white press of this country has built quite a sentiment against us by giving to the world only the evil doings of the race. They have fed the already deepseated prejudice until it seemingly will retain nothing more. The Negro press on the other hand, though weak their cry from want of support, have done and are doing the best they can to care for our cause before the tribunal of the reading public. Let us give them our hearty support both morally and financially. And too, let us not expect too much of them. Remember if they do not give us as good service as the white press that it is because they are not prepared to do so, nor can they get prepared unless you give them your support in their weakness. There seems to be this just criticism, however, some of them are too ready to rush to press with petty faults of their own people. Enough of that will be done by the other press without our help. Let this be the last thing we put into our press. Let us give them such support as to enable them to send the news across the line even without pay, for it is the other fellow that must bear our case from the viewpoint of the Negro, who alone can give it the deserved consideration. THE EUROPEAN WAR and a strange contrast to know that that portion of and Christianity for the past thousand years or more well as the most barbarous war that the w he heathens are being told by the missionaries ed about the war as a civilized conflict? varied are the theories as to the cause of th to be as reasonable as any yet advanced is, th become so sinful and corrupt within that th and an equalizer for the citizenship of the world. God presides over the destinies of nations as w end there is nothing upon which to base any s without attempting to pick the winner, there It is indeed a strange contrast to know that that portion of the world that has led in civilization and Christianity for the past thousand years or more is now leading in the most gigantic as well as the most barbarous war that the world has ever known. I wonder what the heathens are being told by the missionaries from these belligerent nations when asked about the war as a civilized conflict? Many and varied are the theories as to the cause of this conflict. But the one that seems to me to be as reasonable as any yet advanced is, that it is a scourge of God. The nations have become so sinful and corrupt within that this carnage is come as a chastisement and an equalizer for the citizenship of the world. For there is no doubt that the hand of God presides over the destinies of nations as well as that of individuals. As to the end there is nothing upon which to base any sensible guess, but be you assured that, without attempting to pick the winner, there can be no end until the PAGE EIGHT THE TULSA STAR nations, yes, the world has accepted the indisputable fact of the "Brotherhood of man." THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY. From a national point of view the county with many grave problems. Internally speak Prohibition, Woman Suffrage and Labor Trouble off the two former. With such men as Bryan it will only be a matter of time when the nation prophesy to say that, the next ten years will sally recognized the country over. As for the labor question, there is no labor gets better consideration at the hands of us. In our foreign relation we have been administration fell heir to the Mexican situation the policy pro or con, seems to have grown seems to be child's play so far as coming to a realization the thing that seems to me to be be Haittien Affair. A few days ago there arose a result in the assassination of the president patched a cruiser to the island and proceeded in the face of the fact that the very same thing more than two years ago, and nothing has been due to the fact that the inhabitants are Negro interference? Whatever the cause there is certainly affairs of the island than with those of Mexiouus Toussaint L'Ouverture left on the island in same kind of reception accorded the English mission. We have left the Mission topic for the needs to be the last thought that it may linger "Go into all the world and preach the Savior to His disciples. This is, there When we look about us at the criminals go and realize that their souls are being dragged with pitty and sense of duty left undone. If Jerusalem, surely we should be made to say we and shall our cheeks be dry?" It is the duty of the church and Sunday forth, pushing forward the mission cause. Goes and bring back the fallen. Bring the war and restore them to good society. Make them said, that it was not the righteous that he can if our Lord could lay aside His glory and come much more should we, His servants be thus. The Lord is calling us. Blow ye the mountain. ORPHAN The Baptist of this state, have attempted one of the wisest steps ever attempted by the many motherless and fatherless children it is enough to move the heart of any human our services there are appeals for some orphan. In Oklahoma City, on Peach Street, by Baptist church, we have begun to buy and hundred feet front, and one hundred forty for containing four or five spacious rooms. This for this institution to help pay the debt of the project slightly but show, that we are interested. RECOMMENDED I have but few recommendations to make what might I bring to you for the betterment. I think if we could get the teachers more interested in the work, as well as the conventions in any state. To get this intere Recommend that a teachers and super convention, and that they be given so much to hold their session and collect monies, superintendents. And discuss the better way they will report and turn over to the convention during its present session. I recommend: That the state be divided into four districts, one for each separate district, we institute during each quarter, and collect one of his district, and report with the amount over to the state Sunday School Executive tative shall have his expense of what ever it may raise during the sessions of his institutes paid in to his meeting from any Sunday. I recommend: That we appoint a committee to draw President of the National Baptist Convention property of the Baptist at Nashville, Tenn. as President of the National Baptist Convention. I recommend that a committee be app the location of the reformitory for Negro bi tary at McAlester. a national point of view the country has been vexed for many years now, grave problems. Internally speaking the right of way seems to be given to Woman Suffrage and Labor Troubles. There seems to be no way of headling a matter of time when the nation will accept it. It would seem to be a sage say that, the next ten years will see Prohibition and Woman Suffrage genetically over the labor question, there is no way to stop the MacNamara scandals under foreign relation we have been kept busy for some time. The present form fell heir to the Mexican situation, which without attempting to discuss or con, seems to have grown constantly worse. Our European policy child's play so far as coming to any satisfactory agreement is concerned, that seems to me to be beyond all parallel for inconsistency is the air. A few days ago there arose some internal trouble on the island while the assassination of the president of Haiti. The United States at once ousted the island and proceeded to land marines to quell the trouble. To the fact that the very same thing happened in Mexico on our very border two years ago, and nothing has been done about it but talk. Is this different fact that the inhabitants are Negroes or because it is too small to resist it? Over the cause there is certainly no better reason for interfering with the island than with those of Mexico. There must be no blood of the illusion that L'Ouverture left on the island or the Americans would be treated with a reception accorded the English and the French more than a century ago. MISSIONS. Have left the Mission topic for the last because it is the most important at the last thought that it may linger with us when the others are gone. To all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" is the last word to His disciples. This is, therefore the greatest purpose of the church, to look about us at the criminals going to jail, the penitentia and the gallant that their souls are being dragged down to perdition, our hearts should be sane and sense of duty left undone. If our Lord was made to weep at the sin, surely we should be made to say with Dr. Watt, "Did Christ o'er sinners wee our cheeks be dry?" The duty of the church and Sunday school, individually and collectively to bring forward the mission cause. Go into the slums of your respective community back the fallen. Bring the wandering boy and girl into the Sunday school them to good society. Make them to feel welcome in our midst. The Savior was not the righteous that he came to call, but sinners to repentence. The could lay aside His glory and come to this sinful earth to seek the lost, he should we, His servants be thus diligent. Lord is calling us. Blow ye the trumpet, blow. Sound the alarm in his halls. ORPHAN HOME. Baptist of this state, have attempted to build and foster an Orphanage. The wisest steps ever attempted by the Baptist. When we look around, and motherless and fatherless children of our race, with no one to care for them to move the heart of any human, much less a Christian. So many times there are appeals for some orphan child. Oklahoma City, on Peach Street, by the assistance of Dr. McKinney of the warch, we have begun to buy and pay for a very desirable plot of ground set front, and one hundred forty feet back. There is one building on this four or five spacious rooms. This convention should raise a special collection to help pay the debt of the purchase price. Let's not treat this city but show, that we are interested in our illfated ones of our race. From a national point of view the country has been vexed for many years now, with many grave problems. Internally speaking the right of way seems to be given to Prohibition, Woman Suffrage and Labor Troubles. There seems to be no way of heading off the two former. With such men as Bryan and Roosevelt endorsing any national issue it will only be a matter of time when the nation will accept it. It would seem to be a safe prophesy to say that, the next ten years will see Prohibition and Woman Suffrage generally recognized the country over. As for the labor question, there is no way to stop the MacNamara scandals until labor gets better consideration at the hands of "King Capital." In our foreign relation we have been kept busy for some time. The present administration fell heir to the Mexican situation, which without attempting to discuss the policy pro or con, seems to have grown constantly worse. Our European policy seems to be child's play so far as coming to any satisfactory agreement is concerned. The thing that seems to me to be beyond all parallel for inconsistency is the Haitien Affair. A few days ago there arose some internal trouble on the island-which resulted in the assassination of the president of Haiti. The United States at once dispatched a cruiser to the island and proceeded to land marines to quell the trouble. This in the face of the fact that the very same thing happened in Mexico on our very borders more than two years ago, and nothing has been done about it but talk. Is this difference due to the fact that the inhabitants are Negroes or because it is too small to resist the interference? Whatever the cause there is certainly no better reason for interfering with the affairs of the island than with those of Mexico. There must be no blood of the illustrious Toussaint L'Ouverture left on the island or the Americans would be treated with the same kind of reception accorded the English and the French more than a century ago. We have left the Mission topic for the last because it is the most important and needs to be the last thought that it may linger with us when the others are gone. "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" is the last word of the Savior to His disciples. This is, therefore the greatest purpose of the church. When we look about us at the criminals going to jail, the penitentia and the gallows and realize that their souls are being dragged down to perdition, our hearts should burn with pity and sense of duty left undone. If our Lord was made to weep at the sins of Jerusalem, surely we should be made to say with Dr. Watt, "Did Christ o'er sinners weep, and shall our cheeks be dry?" It is the duty of the church and Sunday school, individually and collectively to go forth, pushing forward the mission cause. Go into the slums of your respective communities and bring back the fallen. Bring the wandering boy and girl into the Sunday school and restore them to good society. Make them to feel welcome in our midst. The Savior said, that it was not the righteous that he came to call, but sinners to repentence. Then if our Lord could lay aside His glory and come to this sinful earth to seek the lost, how much more should we, His servants be thus diligent. The Lord is calling us. Blow ye the trumpet, blow. Sound the alarm in his holy mountain. ORPHAN HOME. The Baptist of this state, have attempted to build and foster an Orphanage. This is one of the wisest steps ever attempted by the Baptist. When we look around, and see the many motherless and fatherless children of our race, with no one to care for them, it is enough to move the heart of any human, much less a christian. So many times in our services there are appeals for some orphan child. In Oklahoma City, on Peach Streat, by the assistance of Dr. McKinney of the white Baptist church, we have begun to buy and pay for a very desirable plot of ground one hundred feet front, and one hundred forty feet back. There is one building on this lot containing four or five spacious rooms. This convention should raise a special collection for this institution to help pay the debt of the purchase price. Let's not treat this project slightly but show, that we are interested in our illfated ones of our race. RECOMMENDATIONS we but few recommendations to make to you. I have been thinking in my mind I bring to you for the betterment of the school and the convention. Think if we could get the teachers and superintendents of the Sunday school invested in the work, as well as the pastors, we would have one of the greatest in any state. To get this interest started, I therefore: commend that a teachers and superintendents conference be organized in order that they be given so much time during the sitting of each annual meeting their session and collect monies sent up to this convention from teachers' students. And discuss the better ways of conducting Sunday school. And report and turn over to the convention all monies collected by them to attend its present session. commend: at the state be divided into four districts and that there be four representatives one for each separate district, whose duty it shall be to hold at least one meeting each quarter, and collect one dollar from each school within the board, and report with the amount of money collected each quarter, by turn state Sunday School Executive Board each quarter. And that this represent have his expense of what ever it may be out of the public collections that during the sessions of his institute, but shall take no part of the quart in to his meeting from any Sunday school. commend: at we appoint a committee to draft resolutions commending Dr. E. C. Moore of the National Baptist Convention for the course he has taken to save the Baptist at Nashville, Tenn. And pledging our support to him in Charge of the National Baptist Convention. commend that a committee be appointed to draw resolutions protesting against the reformitory for Negro boys and girls just out side the state penal McAlester. I have but few recommendations to make to you. I have been thinking in my mind what might I bring to you for the betterment of the school and the convention. I think if we could get the teachers and superintendents of the Sunday school more interested in the work, as well as the pastors, we would have one of the greatest conventions in any state. To get this interest started, I therefore: Recommend that a teachers and superintendents conference be organized in this convention, and that they be given so much time during the sitting of each annual meeting to hold their session and collect monies sent up to this convention from teachers and superintendents. And discuss the better ways of conducting Sunday school. And that they will report and turn over to the convention all monies collected by them to the convention during its present session. I recommend: That the state be divided into four districts and that there be four representatives appointed, one for each separate district, whose duty it shall be to hold at least one institute during each quarter, and collect one dollar from each school within the bounds of his district, and report with the amount of money collected each quarter, by turning over to the state Sunday School Executive Board each quarter. And that this representative shall have his expense of what ever it may be out of the public collections that he may raise during the sessions of his institute, but shall take no part of the quarterly dues paid in to his meeting from any Sunday school. I recommend: That we appoint a committee to draft resolutions commending Dr. E. C. Morris, President of the National Baptist Convention for the course he has taken to save the property of the Baptist at Nashville, Teen. And pledging our support to him in Chicago as President of the National Baptist Convention. I recommend that a committee be appointed to draw resolutions protesting against the location of the reformitory for Negro boys and girls just out side the state penitentiary. --- Washington and Gist Grocery Company. Successor to Goodwin & Grant We carry a full line of Staple and Fancy Groceries, also Smoked and Fresh Meats, infact everything in the Grocery and Meat line. We solicite your patronage. We carry a full line of S Smoked and Fresh Meats, infac Meat line. We s All Orders prou Phone 1680. 12 Stock Redu The same Dedendable Luggage Stock You are s The Oklahoma COR. MAIN & Our Cut prices We carry a full line of Staple and Fancy Groceries, also ked and Fresh Meats, infact everything in the Grocery and Meat line. We solicite your patronage. All Orders promptly Delivered. One 1680. 121 N. Greenwood Ave. Stock Reduceing Sale same Dedendable Luggage. Came in and look over our Stock You are sure to find a Bargain. The Oklahoma Trunk Factory COR. MAIN & ARCHER STS. Our Cut prices cannot be Beat. Phone 1680. 121 N. Greenwood Ave. Stock Reduceing Sale The same Dedendable Luggage. Ceme in and look over our Stock You are sure to find a Bargain. The Oklahoma Trunk Factory COR. MAIN & ARCHER STS. Our Cut prices cannot be Beat. NOTICE Tulsa, Oklahoma, Aug. 26, 1993 Sealed proposals will be received by the Board of County Commissioners of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, on September 25th, 1915, until 10 o'clock a. m. in the County Court House at Tulsa, Oklahoma, for furnishing material and constructing a two-romed, brick, separate School building at Sand Springs, Oklahoma in the southeast corner of the southwest quarter (SW 1-4) of the southwest quarter (SW 1-4) of section eleven (11), township nineteen (19) north, Range eleven (11) east. Every bid must be accompanied with Certified Check for amount equal to five per cent (5 per cent) of the proposed contract price, and shall contain an agreement to furnish a good and sufficient bond for the proposed contract price. Checks of unsuccessful bidders will be returned as soon as contract and bond are executed by the successful bidder. The Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. Plans and specifications are on file in the office of the County Superintendent and in the office of George Winkler, Architect 414 Palace Building, Tulsa, Oklahoma --- --- Faithfully submitted, J. F. KERSH, President By direction of the Board of County Commissioners of Tulsa County, Oklahoma. LEWIS CLINE, County Clerk. Lawyer G. W. Hutchins of this city left Tuesday for St. Louis where he will spend a few days visiting friends and relatives. Mrs. Hutchins who has been away on a tour for several weeks will join her husband there. Lawyer Hutchins a few days ago sued the Sand Springs Railway Co. for $15,000 running down and cutting off a colored mans' leg her about 3 mo. ago The case was filed in the Superior Court Monday Miss Beatrice B. Johnson, the noted Soprano of Muskogee joinod her brother here Tuesday to take up his work conducting the chorus for the Sunday School Convention. MISSIONS. Prof. Johnson left Wednesday morning for Chicago where he will begin training a chorus for the Baptist Convention which meets next month A Mock Con=ference At Vernon A. M. E Church Sept. 9-10-11- 1915 First Night The Rt Rev. E. M. Vaden Bishop of the Mock Conference will conduct the devotional services assisted by the 11 presiding elders. BUSINESS. Election of Mock conference Sectly Election of finance committee. Election of Mock conference Treat- Election of Judiciary Committee. Election of Mock conference Marshall His Reverence, E. W. Vaden's annual address, "The object of this Mock Conference" Report of the Secretary of the Sunday School Union, Mrs. M. M. Bridgewater, secretary of Education. Hon. I. C. Spears and Mrs. A. J. Smitherman sec'y of Missions. Report of all Presiding Elders. Second Night Devotional exercises by ..... Reading and appoying of minutes Remarks by the Bishop Vaden. Report of the Financial Secretary H. A. Guess Report of the Allen Endeavor League Mrs. Essey M. Loupe Sec'y Report of the Musical department MRS. ELLS PYTTE SECRETARY Report of the 11 Pastors Judiciary Committees Report Reading of the Appointments Adjournment sine die. Rev. Jas. A. Johns n, Secretary of the Bureau of Information. Weight of One's Head Do you know how much your head weighs? It is not the size, but the contents that counts. Do you know that it is possible to weigh the head without cutting it off? Do you think it is possible to weigh one of your hands while it is still attached to your body? You probably never thought of it or else considered it impossible if you did. But any physician can do it, if he follows the method described today by Dr. C. D. Spivak of Denver. In a paper at San Francisco, Doctor Spivak described the apparatus which he has contrived by which it is possible to weigh different parts of the living human body. By means of a pair of scales with sliding weights made like a seesaw and by the aid of complicated mathematical formulae, the separate weight of any part of the body can be determined. Fusible Tin Boiler Plugs The investigation of fusible tin binder plugs has been completed at the bureau of standards and presented for publication. It is believed that there can now be no excuse for boiler explosions from imperfect plugs if the bureau findings are followed, namely, to use tin to 99.9 per cent purity and free from zinc, a requirement easily met, but which has not been the actual practice in many cases. Motor Ships in Sweden. A Danish shipbuilding yard at Copenhagen has just launched the seventh and last motor ship for the Rederiaktiebolaget Nordstjern of Stockholm. This ship is similar to the others built and has 6,600 tons dead weight. As this boat will run to the west coast of the United States through the Panama canal, it has been named San Francisco. Value of Forethought "I dare say there is such a thing as fortifying oneself in advance for disappointment." "It can be done. When Jagsby goes dishing the first thing he does after dropping his line in the water is to take a long pull at his flask. After that he doesn't care whether the fish bite or not." Cottage Cheese. A young lady student of the Colorado Agricultural college says: "My home is on a small farm two miles from town. I have found a practical way of increasing my none too plentiful income. We keep several cows and so have large quantities of sour milk which we formerly fed to the pigs. Now with very little effort and time I make this sour milk up into cottage cheese and sell it in town. It is made in pound cakes which sell at ten cents a brick. Customers were hard to obtain at first, but as soon as people learned about my cheese, I had all the customers I could supply. I make the cheese twice a week and deliver it the day it is made. In this way the cheese is fresh when it gets to the customer."