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The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-09-19
Jumbo" Defends His Master

little pusslanmous cuss posing editor of little raterna
Mukogee well known in various towns in the United
where he has lived till the people found him out Jumbo
taken upon himself the task of defending T. j. Elliott against
published the editorial columns of this paper under
the head of Little Big Men Among Negro Leaders about three
weeks We do not honor this little insignificant bigo
with the dignity of reply but would like to know what the
real nducemnt consideration prompting such attempa
foolish attempo the lie editorial in the
fact that responsible influential citizens Muskogee subscribers
the STAR subscribed to the truth fairness it.
There three Coored papers Muskoge Two White
daes Mr. Elliott and his Leaguemen paid to the papers of
Mukogee approximately $4,000 advertising the coming
the National League Each of the daily half
time We do how much the Coored papers
but will $500 bank to be turned the
publisher Of either of the Coored Muskogee who will
affidavit to the effect that he received much
for advertising the Business League 1t not Mr. Eots policy
Negro for advertising At least 9S per
his trade from Coored people but 99
he spends for advertising to the White papers The
Star exchanges with the Daily Phoenix and Times Democrat
Msogee and also receive the Coored of Mukogee
exchange and recall that the only advertising
Eo business we've in these White papers,
Negro editor Muskogee anywhere
says he has received fair portion of Eos advertising
entitled to honorary membership in the Annias Club Every
intelligent citizen in Muskogee knows this true Now
keeping with the principles advocated by the National
issue with this than fool bigger enemy
the race than Elliott with his narrow policies.
THAT THE PUBLIC MAY KNOW just how the money
Waterford of Muskogee to entertain
Negro Business League last month really
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-09-19
Harlow Broker
age Co. Starts
Fall Sale

The Harlow Brokerage Company has
put on another one of their remark
able Fall and Winter sales, which in
the past have charactiZed this store
and won fer 1t a reputation for giving
bargain counter sales not found any
where else in town. Heretofore, this
store has bought enormous stocks
from bankrupt concerns which handled
foreign made goods and have thus been
able to put the very highest quality or
material in reach of the working man
and woman who could not afford to
pay the high prices for the same goods
at other places. However. the war In
Europe has checked the importation
of foreign made goods, but Mr.. Har-
low Is an astute farseeing business
man and he has not overlooked any
opportunity to supply the demands of
his trade. His latest efforts to please
his patrons was the purchase OF $75,-
900 worth of American made goods at
a price which will allow him to give
to his customers the same all round
bargains they have been accusomeu
to getting in the past. Mr.. Harlow
has enlarged his store twice durlrS
this last year and now he has htted
up in exquisit style all OF the ground
floor of the same store room and Is
ready for the grand rush which Is sure
to come during this and future sales.
Miss Reed, Mistress Of the Millinery
department anticipates the greatest
hat sale for the fall and winter trade
ever before heard Of in Tulsa and she'
with her force of experienced assist
ants. is ready for the business. Don't
forget Harlow Brokerage Co., 2O3 B.
Main.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-09-19
Haskell Colored
F olks to Celebrate
SEPTEMBER 1928 EMANCIPTiON
CELEBRATION.

There will be a grand celebration to
celebrate the issuing of the proclama-
tion that Emancipated the slaves.
Representatives from the following
towns have named Steve Lowary Park
y mile East of Haskell as the place of
celebration: Haskell, Red Bird, Taft,
Boynton, Yahala, Muskogee, Clarks-
vile, Coweta, and Tulsa. This cele-
bration will bring together more peo-
pie than ever assembled here before.
1t Is evidence of, or lack OF refinement
and ineXcusable to celebrate any other
date, but as long as no one don't bring
this matter to the attention OF the
public, we will always hold to the 18th
day of June, 4th of July and 4th or
August and the Sth Of August, Texas,
louisiana and Oklahoma Celebrate the
18th of June and Oklahoma celebrates
the 4th of August.
Galley Two.
Here Is what history says, President
Lincoln on the 18th day of June, 1862
submitted the draft of the emancipa-
tion proclamation to the Vice Presi-
dent Hamlin on July %, 1862 President
read his proclamation to his cabinet
and on the 22 day of September 1862
he issued the preliminary emancipation
proclamation that emancipated the
slaves. Among other things he said
that on the first day of June 1868 all
persons held as slaves within any
state or designated part of the state
the people whereof shall then be in
rebellion against the United States
shall be then thenceforward and for
ever free. Hence can't you see by
these words OF the proclamation itself
that there can be no other date except
this one which we can correctly and
, logically celebrate the emancipation
} day. Hence we take upon ourselves in
i, humble way to establish a uniformity
| of action. There is no better time to
4 show to the world the Advancement in
( education, agriculture, economy and In
various industries. So let us come and
Q have one grand and good old time.
I When all those little picnic and
S barbacues are over and done away
o with and forgotten, at time when al
$ the people can come together and en-
$ Joy themselves, we are inviting every
Q body to come, both Colored, Indians
> and Whites.
Amusements, one big merry -go-rount
a carnival, two trained Arkansas Blacl
" bears, Dancing.
a Hon. William Harrison Of Oklahom'
. City and Hon. Emmett Stewart OF Mus
q ROgee will speak.
/. The gatesville brass band will maxi
4 music for the meeting.
q Committee of arrangements, s. Brad
IS ly, Red Bird; Prof. r. X. Taylor, Taft
e ]. r. Robinet, Gatesville. VIM. Ezel
n Jake Simmon, T. H. Holm, Haskell.
Ie III. +. Tyles, Chairman
DR.. A. e. Beatty, Sec.
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HOGS VS.. COTTON.
Oklahoma City, Okla, Sept. 10, 1914.

Oklahoma City, Okla, Sept. 10, 1914.
A. ]. Smitherman,
Editor Tulsa Star.
Mr.. Editor:
Chas. n. Bancroft, of Bickford,
Blain County, Okla, the latter part of
November 1907 bought a brood SOW
for $500. and between that date and
December, 1913, sold over $5,OOO.OO
worth of hogs from her offspring. Not
withstanding the fact that he was
forced to buy most or the grain with
which to finish them, and was forced
during the early part of this period TO
sell some of the hogs at $5.25 per cwt,
his net profit was 100000. To use
his own words, he "gambled on corn
CROP" when he should have pinned
his faith to katir, milo, feterita ana
cowpeas, the sure feed crops OF Okla
homa, and his profit would have been
much greater"
At this time of year hundreds OF
breeders in Oklahoma are Offering ior
sale pure bred boars and brood sows
Are your farmer customers taxing al
vantage of this supply of pure bred
stock to increase their herds and IN
sure a supply of farm product thai
will never go begging for a market
as cotton is doing now?
We can furnish you the name OF al
Oklahoma breeder crosse to you wh'
has for sale what your farmers nee'
in the way of breeding stock. Urg'
vour customers to stick to the SURF
feed crops and increase their hV'
stock.
Every bunch of cattle fed in Okla
homa should be followed by Dunch o
hogs to conserve the waste.
The spinners of Europe can't us
your cotton. but the people of Ameri
ca and Europe sure need food. Let
supply them.
Yours very truly,
Oklahoma National Stock Yards &c
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-09-19
EMon1oMzns
- Oldest Brand - IN America
N America

The Williams Dreamland Theatre,
the new play house of the East End,
under the management of IL. ID. Lee,
an experienced show man, Is giving
the people in this part of the city the
best to TO be had in Entertainments,
both in pictures and in vaudeville and
the appreciation of our people is shown
each night in the numbers who pack
the house during each performance.
Some of the features this week have
Leen especially attractive and out OF
the ordinary, and the management Is
to be congratulated for their efforts to
give the East End such high class
amusement. Mr.. Lee says he intends
to give the people Of the East End the
best possible attractions at all times
IL the people show that they appreci
ate II.
This theatre is doubtless the finest
of its kind in the southwest. II Is q
credit to Tulsa and deserves the
wholehearted support of our people
In providing this up-to-date place oi
amusement for the East End Mr.. VII
liams has assumed great responsi
bility. Few men would have taken the
risk, and since Mr.. Williams has thus
manifested his race pride, the people
of the East End would be less thar
ingrates not to give him the support ht
so richly deserves.
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Hominy Notes
Hominy, Oklahoma, Sent. Is IA
Editor OF The Tulsa Star
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Dear Sir.
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir.
Please allow
space in yo, paper for us to say a
few words aboat our town
We gave a rally here this Sunday
and raised 81 80 for the purpose
of buying a lot and building a new
church Our church was organized
the first Sunday in August, 1914
We have only II members at this
time. The White people OF this sec
tion.are kindly disposed to the Col
ored people ReA d Noble Crane
very able minister of the gospel a
scholar and a Christian gent eman,
partor Of the White Baptist church
of Hominy, preached for us during
The following named pers ms gave
money Sunday: Rev c b. Bailey,
81. so; brother Joel Robertss2. 5C
brother Sidney Cooper 81 so Jalit
Marshal so Murry Davi 81, 10
Sister Mary Thomas 25.c Sister MAJ
lie Thomas SOC Sister Cherry Rod n
50 so Sister Jenet Marten 81 81
Sister Car lie Dayi $3.50 Sister Ma
haley.Nickle SOC Ma Henry KIM
25cts Mr. Dave Gamer 65cts. Nov
there several names of whites peopi
and some Colored hich gave bu
names bo not appear. Those name
will out after the Rally on the sec
ord Sunday in Get.
Rev c E Bailey, Pastor
Maylizzie Jones, Church Clerk
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Rev. p. d. Skinner, d. d, M, ID.
pastor of the Sardis First Baptist
church of Coffeyville, Kansas, was In
the city Saturday, Sunday and Mon
day. He preached Sunday morning
and night at the End Baptist church
and preached again Monday night at
the First Baptist church. He had
good audience both days.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-09-19

Isaach Fisher editor of the Negro Farmer published at
Tusegee Alabama has been awarded prize of $5OOOO offered
Everybodys Magazine for the best written letter Mr.
Fishers selected the winner from about 900 other
letters Another little plum for the
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-09-19

Colored soldiers playing important part the European
Just can't lose the Negro He's everywhere in everything
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-09-19

price this paper $O0 per year you like send
subscription and help continue work for the
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-09-19

Schools of Tulsa have opened with the
thusasm the White schools the city both teachers and
pupils
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-09-19

League started off with good Now keep
it up boys
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1914-12-17

there for the sailing of the next trans.
atlantic steamer. Oh, surely you cant
deny me this one wish of my fond Old
heart, my boy!"
With a gesture of unfeigned affec'
ton Alan dropped hand on Digbys
shoulder.
There's nothing on earth would
not do for you, he said: you've been
a father and mother to me ever since
| can remember, even if We were sepa-
rated, most of the time, by three thou
sand miles of salt water. But this
thing-I can't do. it, even for you. l
can't do it even for myself. Rose
Trine is here in New York, in the
hands and at the mercy of her father
and sister: and you may judge what
their mercy will be when you learn
all that she has done for me. / won't
go and l can't go until l find her and
take her with me. And that is final
Then" Digby struck in, grasplng
wildly at straw of hope, Il have your
word you'll go, providing 1 find and re-
store Rose to you?"
"You have my word to that, unques-
tionably. Bring Rose to me, and III
gladly shake the dust Of New York
from my shoes, and never return till
Trine is put away comfortably in his
grave"
1T shall be DONE" Digby promised.
"It must"
you believe that?"
"In twelve hours Rose shall be re-
stored to you"
"Will you make book en- it? I'll
bet you something happens-and hope
I lose into the bargain. If you believe
you can carry out your promise, wire
the White Star line to reserve the
best available suite on the Oceanic,
sailing tomorrow morning at ten
and make arrangements for mar
rage before the boat sails
"I'll go you," Digby agreed: "and If
1 fail, l forfeit the cost of the reser,
vation. But about this marriage"
He hesitated.
You'll have to have a license in
this state-and can't get one except
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what seemed an uncommonly stubborn
hi

what seemed an uncommonly stubborn
reluctance, and got his way.
He could not know that another
s!.ulked behind a barrier Of lime bar
rels and overheard all that passed and,
when Alan had ducked smartly into
the unfinished building, rose and stole
after him with footsteps as noiseless
as cats and face that had the saw
agery Of a tigers when it was tran
siently revealed In shaft OF moon
light.
At length Alan gained the gridiron
of girders on a plane with the lighted
window across the way, and creps
along one of these, gingerly on MS
hands and knees, until he came to its
end and might, If he cared to, look
down a hundred feet to the sidewalks.
That view, however, did not tempt;
he kept his eyes level; and was re-
warded with bare glimpse Of a pret-
tily-papered wall, framed in the lace OF
half-drawn curtains.
And Of sudden-whether through
fortuity, or instinct, or the psyche
logical attraction of his steadfast con-
centration-the tenant Of the room
came to the window and stood there
for little, looking pensively out, alto
gether unconscious Of the watcher In
his aerial coign.
Again horrible uncertainty hat
assed him. Was the woman Rose
or Judith? That she was one Of these
he could plainly see. But which? Dared
he assume his hopes fulfilled?
With difficulty he detached his
hungry vision from her, and drawing
from his pocket small notebook, tore
out blank page, placed this fiat on
: the girder, found a pencil, and with
the assistance of ray or two OF
moonlight scrawled message Of al
most stenographic brevity.
When he looked up from this task,
, she had vanished.
Sitting up, astride the girder, he
took his watch-a cheap affair he had
picked up when reclothi1g himself in
the garments Of civilized society, at
Providence, that morning-opened the
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1914-12-17
By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
lSs, es ~71s Ee,.un. runr "Tls Bros. sk Bog
Illustrated with Photographs from The Picture Foduean
oopyr,ch., 1914, BY Louis Joseph vonco

AOOAD SSSSSA s~
Upon this one he loosed the light
nings Of his wrath without ruth.
Rose suffered him in silence. His
most CALLING recrimination educed no
retort from this one.
In a lull in Trine's TRADE, Judith
chose to interject: Don't be so hard
on the silly fool: she's not responsible;
she's sick with love for that cookbook
ing simpleton!"
And you!" Rose turned on her
passionately-"what about you? If l
love Alan Law, at least l love him
openly. am not ashamed to own it
and l don't pursue him, as you do, pre-
tending mean to sacrifice him to
wicked family feud, and then spare
him every time I meet him, to lead
him to believe haven't the heart to
injure him-as you do, hoping so to
work upon his sympathies and earn
a kindly word and pat on the head
from his hand!"
Fercely she leyeled a denunciatory
arm at her sister, "There!" she cried
to her father-"if you need to know
there stands the daughter who has
betrayed your faith-as have not,
who have never even pretended to
approve your villainy!"
81 think" Trine announced in
voice Of ice-"I have learned now
what needed to know
His fingers sought the row OF but
tons; and when a servant responded,
he inquired:
"Mr. Marrophat has returned?"
"He is in the waiting room, sir"
Conduct Miss Judith to him and
tell him hold him personally respon-
sible for her safe-keeping. He will
understand"
And for q long time thereafter the
father, alone with the daughter who
had been estranged from him since
birth by every instinct Of her nature,
essayed In vain to break down her
mutinous silence.
At last Trine summoned two Of his
creatures and had her led weeping
from the rooms to be held prisoner in
| her bedchamber on the topmost floor
Of the house.
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factor IN the duel In the end, they
served together with that steady, re-
sistless downward and outward drag,
to break the grip of the mans locked
legs.
Abruptly ne pitched forward on his
face along the girder, kicking wildly,
grasping at the air. The stiletto fell
from an instinctiyely relaxed grasp,
and disappeared. And before Alan
could release his hold, or ease the
strain upon the right arm Of the as
sassin, this last had slipped bodily
from the girder and hung helpless in
space, dangling at the end Of Alan's
arm-with no more than the grip Of
FIVE fingers between him and death.
The shock Of that unpresaged turn
brought Alan forward and fat on his
stomach. And the strain on his left
arm was terrific. He doubted If he
could maintain it for another minute.
Nor was there any reason why he
should retain it. The end he had de-
signed for his victim was merely MS
just desert.
And yet Alan could not let him go.
Thus the battle began anew-but
now it was battle with man half
crazed and struggling so madly that
he well-nigh frustrated the efforts OF
his rescuer-
In the upshot the assassin lay like a
limp rag across the girder,- head and
arms dangling on one side, legs and
feet on the other, spent with his ter:
rife e1ertions and physically sick with
terror.
And in this state Alan left him: he
| had done enough; let the man shift
FOR himself from this time on.
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CHAPTER XIV.
The Time o. Night.


Not ill-pleased to be left to his own
devices (whose proposed character
Digby would never have approved had
he so much as suspected them) Alan
none the less deferred action until
after midnight.
And espionage was all he feared
save and except always, Of course, fail
ure to find his Rose.
It was about one in the morning
when he arrived inconspicuously (but
not so much so as to seem deserving
Of police surveillance) in the neigh
borhood of the Riverside drive home Of
his mortal enemy, a grim white house
that lowered, stark and tall, upon a
corner.
His preliminary reconnaissance pro-
vided little more than comfortless eX-
ercise. Huge, still, its wall bathed in
the milk and ink Of moonlight and
shadow, all its windows dark but
one-and that one, in the topmost tier
showed only feeble glimmer, so slight
that Alan almost overlooked it.
But once discovered, it focused upon
itself his thoughts with power little
less than hypnotic.
He believed with small doubt that
Rose was a prisoner within those
walls; that Judith must have con-
veyed her there with all speed.
And, this being the presumptive case,
that small, high window of the light
might we'll be hers.
Directly across the street from the
Trine residence, on the opposite cor
ner, a colossal apartment structure
stood half-fnished, etonework to its
second story, gaunt iron skeleton rear
ing above.
To his infinite disgust, Alan found
the guardian very wide awake, very
much on the job: no chance here to
steal unseen into the building.
This in itself might have been
deemed a suspicious circumstance:
not for nothing does an honest night
watchman so deny the laws of nature
and the tenets of his craft. But Alan
merely praised the man while cursing
the very fact of his existence; and, &C.
costing, overcame with bank-notes
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Alan's Appearance at the Hotel Mono lith.

back Of the case, and closed it upon
the folded message.
Then drawing back his arm, he
breathed silent prayer to the god Of
all true lovers, and cast it from him
with all his might-with such force
that it almost unseated him at the end
of the swing. But nothing less would
have served to bridge that yawning
chasm.
And the watch flew straight and
true, squarely through the lighted win
dow and to the further wall.
At that very instant Of his exultation
over an obstacle overcome, he heard a
sound behind him of heavy breathing.
The assassin had come that close
upon his prey when Alan turned and
discovered his peril.
The same moonbeam which had
aided Alan in the composition Of his
message struck across the others face
and showed it like hideous Chinese
mask of deadly hatred, with it's eye
balls glaring and its lips drawn back
from tlse naked blade gripped between
it's teeth-a stiletto nothing short of a
foot in length.
With sharp, startled movement,
Alan swung himself bodily about, so
that, seated again astride the girder,
he faced the assassin who sat up,
straddling the girder, his feet hooked
beneath it stiletto poised in his
right hand to strike.
But even now Alan was In little or
no better case than before If he faced
the thug. he faced him with no arms
other than his bare hands. He had not
even a pen-knife in his pockets.
With low cry Of desperation Alan
snatched off his hat, soft and shape
less felt affair, and flung it squarely in
the fellows face.
Before he could recover-before,
that is, it dropped away and cleared
his vision, Alan had bent forward and
grasped the wrist Of the hand that
held the knife.
He snatched simultaneously at the
other hand, but it eluded him.
Alan had this advantage, as long as
the knife might not strike-that his
right arm was free, while the assassin
had only his left. With this he elstrove
persistently to reach his -knife-hand
and possess himself the weapon.
AS persistently Alanfoiled his purpose
by dragging the k1ife-hand toward him
and swinging it far out to one side. At
the same time he struck repeatedly
with his clenched right fist at the 9TH
er's face. His blows did little dam.
age beyond diseoncerting the other;
but this proved5 a very considerab,a
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CHAPTER XXI.
The Ho,,sa Divided.

Alone in that strange place or 81
Ience and shadows-that den Of the
devils livery, crimson and black
chained to the invalid chair wherein,
day in, day out, for years on end ne
had suffered the Promethean torments
Of the life that would not die out OF
his wretched, wrecked carcass, though
without ceasing sharp-beaked envy
hatred, malice and all uncharitable-
ness pecked insatiably at his vitals:
Seneca Trine sat waiting, with the I'M
passivity Of craven figure waiting
on the imminent hour Of ultimate
avengement for the wrong that had
made him what he was.
Another hour! In sixty
minutes more they will be here, Judith
and Marrophat and Rose-poor fool!
and him! In sixty minutes
more they will put him down before
me, bound and helpless, if not dead
A slight pause prefaced words that
were whimpered prayer: "God send
that he be not dead! Have fingered