Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Gimeter. DENIES HIS RACE AND GETS INTO TROUBLE On Friday afternoon, sometime ago, a tale of infelicity told before Judge Parker in the County Court disclosed a romance as strange as fiction. It was on its face an ordinary case of a mother applying for an order against the husband for the support of her minor children, but there was also recited the life story of a young Negro who abandoned his race and its fair women, and passing for a Portugese, was mingling with the white race. And so thoroughly had he worked out his scheme of race seperation that he was one of the bitterest haters of his race, disdaining to ridd on street cars with them, and cursing them in the vilest language; and this, while his own father, mother and sister were living in the same city with him. About fourteen years ago Rose Hill was the belle of colored society circles in Chicago, and her home 23rd and Dearborn streets was the Mecca for all young beauxs of the South Side. Her father was old John Hill, for years proprietor of the barber shop in the basement of the old Saratoga Hotel, and one of the most popular colored men in Chicago. The young beax use to see the brother, Arnold L. Hill sitting around the house, but made no objection to his keeping in the background, little suspecting that Arnold had a reason of his own for holding aloof from his sister's company. Even at that early day he was planning to change his color by means of bold, daring, but simple declaration that he was sometning other than a colored man, and soon he disappeared from home. Rose married a dentist in St Paul; the father died, and later the mother. But Arnold E. Hill had disappeared never to return until by a chance encounter in a law court he was dragged from his fancied security and rehabilitated in his proper place. After deciding forever to quit his race Arnold changed his name to E. A. De La Cateau, and joined the Second Regiment of the Illinois National Guard. He made friends here and soon got a job. He attended the social functions given by this popular regiment, and at one them was introduced by the captain of his company to a splendid looking, handsome woman of the white race, His attentions were agreeable, though the lady had some sort of an indefinite suspicion that there was something of color about the ardent suitor. But glibly he allayed these suspicions, and deftly he removed the possibility that he was a Negro by cursing and reviling them wherever and whenever they met one; and finally they married. His father and mother were to be at the wedding, but did not come, and their absence was explained in some way and was taken satisfactory. And shen his father died, then his mother, and so there was no further family connection to be spoken of. And yet it lingered in the wife's mind that her husband was not a Portuguese, because he spoke without the foreign accent. Then came four children, and the happiness of De La Cateau was complete. Meanwhile he had become an artist, and had established a studio in the New Building at Harrison and Halssted streets, and was doing a good business. Then came another woman, handsome, dashing, and De La Cateau became infatuated with her. And so again the old story of a deserted wife and children was told. The wife went with her children to live with her mother at Drexdel avenue and 55th street. She applied to the County Court for support for her two children. and De La Cateau was ordered to pay ten dollars per week. This he did for awhile, but upon his wife refusing to let him see the children he applied to the Court for an order to see them. This brought him into the County Court in person, and face to face with Assistant County Attorney Louis B. Anderson, who in former years had been one of the visitors to his home. De La Cateau, upon seeing Anderson very properly fainted in Portuguese style. It was too late to avoid the issue, and under the skillful and merciless cross examination of the attorney and former friend, De La Cateau discovered himself to be Arnold E. Hill, and a Negro. There was a devilish persistency in Mr. Anderson's questions, as though he resented the evil of this man's perfidy. And so the perry castle that Hill had built tumbled upon his own head, and the life and happiness of his wife were ruined by the disclosure that under false representations she had married a Negro, and in the veins of her four handsome darlingas there flowed the blood of a Negro. And again the question arises, where shall the parish find friends? Where shall the outcast find a habitation?—The Chicago Conservator. Disease Laid to Mosquitoes. According to Dr. Graham, of Beirut, another disease is to be set down against the mosquito, namely, dengue fever, variously called African fever, breakbone fever, giraffe fever, dandy fever, etc. The disease is an acute eruptive fever, rarely fatal, but leaving various disagreeable sequels paralysis, insomnia, marked mental and physical prostration, etc. Dr. Graham found that he could regularly produce an attack of dengue in a non-immune by submitting the latter to the attack of mosquitoes which had fed on sufferers from the disease. A Visitor. I sometimes smoke a pipe with him When twilight shades begin; If I had done the opposite The Man I Might Have Been. He never with misfortune met; Men hail him with acclaim; He shows me all the gold he makes, The glory and the fame. But is he any happier When all is counted in? Just one man knows, and he won't tell— The Man I Might Have Been. —McLandburgh Wilson. Thinks People Read Too Much. In speaking of the danger from libraries, Dr. Canfield, librarian of Columbia university, says: "Many persons, even among those who give their attention only to good books, read too much. There is a vast amount of mental dyspepsia in the land, particularly among women, who constitute by far the larger part of the reading public. They should read less and think more. Education and the great increase in the number of public libraries are responsible for the present tendency toward an overindulgence in the reading habit." A black eye indicates that the owner looked for trouble and found it. GERONIMO IN OLD AGE. He Is No Longer Looked Upon as a Chief by the Apaches. Geronima was at Lawton last week. The health of the old chief is still good, although he is very aged. His home is ten miles from Lawton, yet he usually walks to and from the place to do his trading. He is quite often asked to give an exhibition of his skill as a marksman, with the bow. This he readily consents to do provided a nickel is made the target and it becomes his own in case he hits it. Geronimo denies the statement of Gen. Miles that the general captured him. The old warrior says that somewhere up on the mountains, when he was on the warpath, two white men came to him and told him that Gen. Miles wanted to see him. The men accompanied him to the camp of the general and he was made a prisoner. Geronimo says he thinks it was in Arizona, the territory of his birth. Anyway, he says it was up in the mountains. The tribal relations of the Apaches have been dissolved, and they no longer look upon Geronimo as their chief. They consider him a childish old man, who is too senile to advise them. Lawton Democrat. Number 37 Summer Excursion - Bulletin ST. LOUIS—Very low rates all season. COLORADO—Very low rates all summer. Through sleeper service. CHICAGO—Very low rate all summer. GREAT LAKE RESORTS—Very low rates all summer. ATLANTIC CITY—One fare plus $2.00 round trip. July 9-10. INDIANAPOLIS—One fare plus $2.25 round trip. June 26-27. ST. JOE—One fare plus 2.00 round trip. June 28-30. CINCINATI—One fare plus 2.25 round trip. July 15-17. WEST BADEN AND FRENCH LICK SPRINGS --One fare plus $2.00 round trip. July 25-29. LOUISVILLE--One rare plus $2.2 round trip. Rock Island System For full information call on your nearest ticket agent. J. S. McNALLY, D. P. A Oklahoma City. THE MACEO HOUSE The Maceo House No. 431 N. 3rd St. This large Lodging and Rooming house has 16 large airy ooms newly furnished. No pains or cost has been spared in fitting this house in the latest style. Your comfort my first consider ation. My rates are reasonable. J. M. SMITH, Prop. 20th Century Colored Photograph Gallery. Opposite U. S. Court House. Photoes of all kinds made in the latest styles. Cabinets plain per dozen, $2.00 “ platina “ 3.50 1-2 “ plain “ 1.50 1-2 “ platina “ 2.00 4-4 ‘ plain “ .75 1-4 “ platina “ 1.00 W. E. Murdock, Prop. Go to CREEK Livery Barn, Corner Fourth Street and Elgin Ave., for the finest turnouts in the city. Any kind, any shape, any time. WM. RAGSDLE & CO W. H. TWINE, Editor. MUSKOGEE, IND. TER. The negroes of Ardmore celebrated Emancipation day. A contract has been let to G. E. Zimmerman for a $20,000 Christian church building at Chickasha. Roy Huffman of Waurika was drowned while crossing Beaver creek during the recent high water. Sheriff Oates of Woods county has purchased two mammoth bloodhounds, which he will use in hunting down criminals. Twenty-three prisoners were sentenced at the recent term of the federal court at Durant. The county commissioners of Woods county have approved the plans for a $40,000 court house and will advertise for bids, the contract to be let at the end of thirty days. An ordinance has been introduced at a recent council meeting at El Reno providing for a street railway franchise By a practically unanimous vote the Indian territory bar association has decided to immediately unite with the bar association of Oklahoma, the details of the amalgamation to be arranged by the executive committee. A firm by the name of Houghton & Douglas are to erect a cotton gin in Guthrie to cost $9,000. It is claimed that this will be the largest gin in Oklahoma. Ardmore is to have a new park, situated near the Santa Fe depot. A company under the name of the Chickasaw Park association has been organized. The object of the newly formed concern is to promote base ball games and other entertainments. Attorney General Simon has rendered an opinion holding that the assessors of Oklahoma county are empowered to fix the assessment on the street right of way in Oklahoma City. It was a mooted question whether this body or the board of railway assessors had the authority. The new government fails in the Indian Territory will be completed about July 1st, and as a consequence something like fifty guards will lose their positions. Heretofore the prisoners have been confined in a stockade, upon which guards were mounted. Steel cages and iron bars will now supplant the eagle eyed guards. The Chickasaw medical examining board will meet in Ardmore July 4th and 5th. In order to practice in the Indian Territory physicians must be examined by the regular boards, which have exclusive authority to pass upon the qualifications of physicians. Bloodhounds, which have been on the trail of the assassin of Dominick Brackin, the coal miner who was shot while sitting near an open window near Krebs, have been unable to locate any scent on account of the recent rains and the effort will be given up. A train load of Oklahoma wheat of this year's crop, gathered principally from the wheat growing counties of Woods, Woodward, Kay, Garfield Grant and Logan, is being collected by the Denver, Enid & Gulf Railway company for exhibition at the St. Louis exposition and throughout the eastern states. --- OVER SIX HUNDRED PERISH Excursion Steamer Carrying a Load of Sunday School Children Burns UPPER DECK OF BOAT FALLS ON THRONG The Pleasure Boat, General Slocum, Takes Fire and Burns to Water Edge Near Brothers Island in Long Island Sound With Nearly 1,000 Women and Children Aboard---Many Helpless Children are Drowned in Effort to Escape NEW YORK: One of the most appalling distresses in the history of New York, tragic in its immensity, dramatic in its episodes, and deeply pathetic in the tender age of most of its victims, took place in the East river, at the entrance of Long Island Sound, within a short distance of the New York shore and within sight of thousands of persons, the majority of whom were powerless to minimize the extent of the catastrophe. By the burning to the water's edge of the steamer General Slocum, a three deck excursion boat, more than 600 pesons, the majority of whom were women and children, were burned to death or were drowned by jumping overboard or by being thrown into the whirlpools by the lurching of the vessel and the frantic rush of the panic stricken passengers. The boat was carrying a Sunday school excursion of the St. Marks Lutheran church on the annual picnic. NEW YORK: Six hundred persons, men, women and children, perished by the burning of the excursion steamer, General Slocum, near Hell Gate, in the East river. The Slocum, with the annual Sunday school excursion of St. Mark's Lutheran church of this city, on board was proceeding up the river to one of the many resorts of Long Island. When near One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street persons on the boat saw smoke and flames spring from the upper part of the crowded steamer. A panic ensued on the boat almost immediately. Crowds on the forward deck began to spring overboard or to rush to the after part of the boat. The screams of the terrified passengers could be heard on shore, and hundreds of small boats immediately put off to their rescue. Owing to rocks on either side of the channel at this point it was impossible to reach the vessel. The captain remained at his post at the wheel and headed the vessel straight up the river for North Brother island, where she was put aground in shallow water. Several hundred feet of open water still lay between the burning steamer and the shore, and many persons perished either in the water or on the burning vessel after she had been beached. It was estimated that the steamer carried more than 2,000 persons. She was the largest excursion steamer in these waters and could accommodate 4,000 passengers. The steamer whistle was blowing for assistance as she came up the river. Several hundred persons were seen to jump into the water just before she headed for the North Brothers island. Her position in the water made it impossible for those aboard to reach land except by swimming. An eye witness says he saw fifty or 100 persons, mostly women and children jumped overboard. Most of the throng were on the hurricane deck when that portion of it collapsed. Many must have lost their lives in the seething torrent of flame and water. The pastor of the church, the Rev. George C. Ephoss, was on board with all his family and it is reported that they were lost. The boat caught fire in Hell Gate and the flames had complete control before any move A frightful scene followed. It was impossible to run the boat ashore because of the Hell Gate rocks on either side. Nothing could be done in the way of launching, and as the flames advanced the passengers began to jump overboard. Hundreds were in the river. Many were rescued by the tugs and other vessels, but hundreds perished. Several hundred bodies were washed ashore or towed or carried in boats to Brothers Island. Almost every other woman taken away was calling for her child. The disaster was witnessed by thousands of persons on shore, and as rapidly as possible hundreds of small boats and launches set off to render assistance. With the boat burning from under his feet the catpain stuck to his post in the pilot house and the engineer remained at his post below until the boat was beached. Even the passengers who did not jump overboard were not safe, for they were some distance from the shore, and the boat was a veritable furnace. The greatest loss of life was caused by the collapsing of the heavy upper deck. It fell with a crash, crushing hundreds who had gathered on the lower deck. It was then the greatest panic ensued, amid the living stream of persons going over the railing into the water. Patients in the hospitals on the islands became almost insane from fright at the terrible scenes they were compelled to witness. A large part of the crowd on the steamer were little children, and there was little hope for them after they went overboard. The current was strong and the little ones were rushed to their deaths by the whirl pools in Hell Gate. At least fifty children perished in this manner. After the rail gave way and the passengers who had crowded against it were pushed into the river, mothers and children became separated and frantically sought each other, while in several cases fathers and mothers, gathering their children together, jumped with them into the water. Little children, holding each other by the hand, jumped together and were found afterwards clasped in each other's arms. It is alleged that men fought with women to escape, resulting in the trampling under foot of scores of children. The General Slocum had reached Sunny Meadows, at the extreme east of Randall's island, when the fire were discovered. By the time the steamer reached One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street the excursionists were driven to the rail, many of them with clothing on fire, and they began to jump overboard by twos and threes. When One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street was reached the hurricane deck collapsed. Many persons were thrown into the water, but hundreds were precipitated into the lower deck, which itself was a mass of women and children. Many of the bodies recovered were horribly burned. It will be hours before the fire in the hold of the vessel is out, and the bodies removed therefrom. A tug of the New York Central saved nearly a score through the heroism of an unknown man. This man stood on the paddle wheel box of the Slocum and passed women and children to the tug until he was driven back by flames. He then jumped into the tug himself. Neither policemen nor firemen, when this occurred waited to remove their coats, but jumped overboard and saved a great many who would otherwise have been drowned. Both firemen and wreckers say the greatest loss of life, extending into the hundreds, occurred in the hold. North Brother island, where the Slocum was beached, is occupied by municipal charity hospitals, and a considerable number of physicians and nurses were immediately summoned. Bodies Drifted Ashore For hours the bodies of the burned and the drowned drifted ashore on the island, and between One Hundred and Thirty-first street and One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street in Manhattan. Some came ashore still alive. Many of these died, but others will recover. The scene was pitiable in the extreme, as the living and dead were brought in. Rows of bodies were stretch along the beach. Hysterical women and frantic men went along looking at one after another, searching for children and friends. Women with disfigured faces, their clothing partially stripped from them, were carried to the improvised emergency hospital, crying for children who had been torn from them in the mad rush when the boat took fire. Meanwhile the Slocum burned to the water's edge. At 12:25 o'clock, two hours and twenty-five minutes after the fire was discovered, she sank. It is estimated that there were nearly 100 charred bodies on her decks. Just after the steamer sank the water near by was black with bodies. The tug Fidelity succeeded in picking up eighty-eight charred corpses in Hunt's cave, off Ricker's island and carried them into the sound. None of these bodies, it is thought, can ever be identified. It is alleged that no attempt was made to get out the fire apapratus at the first cry of fire, though Captain Van Shank says that he immediately rang the bells for getting out the apparatus. According to several statements, no attempt was made to lower boats or life rafts. North Brother Island, where the vessel was beached, contains a scarlet fever ward. The patients who witnessed the disaster were ordered indoors, and the doctors hastened to the rescue of those who had been washed ashore, but some scores of persons died while they were being attended to. According to a statement issued by Coroner O'Gorman, 483 bodies have been recovered from the destroyed vessel, burned to death or drowned and found on the shores to which they had been washed or picked up in the river to which they had jumped or fallen from the burning vessel. Tugs are arriving hourly with bodies from North Brother island. A BANKER SHOOTS HIMSELF J. A. Mays of Elk City Suicided While Under Arrest DALLAS, TEX.: J. A. Mays, president of the Elk City National bank of Elk City, Okla., shot himself in the brain in the Dallas county jail. Mays was arrested at Greenville, Tex., several days ago by United States officers, on a charge of having made away with large sums of money belonging to the bank. He was brought to Dallas and United States Commissioner Fink held him in $5,000 bonds, which he was unable to furnish. Deputy United States Marshal Warden had arranged to take Mays back to Elk City the night the banker killed himself. The officer and his prisoner were in the office of the jail, awaiting the arrival of the train that was to carry them to Oklahoma. Friends of Mays had left a valise with clothing in it at the jail for him. Mays asked to be permitted to get some linen from the grip. The valise was unlocked and he inserted his hand and forearm into it. Instead of taking out linen Mays quickly drew forth a revolver, and before anyone knew what was happening he fired a bullet into his head. Mays was forty years old and had a family at Elk City, and the body will probably be shipped to that place for burial. Mays was arrested at Fort Worth a few days ago at the instance of the American National bank of Oklahoma City on a charge of having defrauded that institution out of $3,500. He was taken there and gave bond to appear for trial. While he was in Dallas on his way to Oklahoma City to enter appearance he was arrested on a criminal charge, that of forgery and making false entries in the affairs of the bank of which he was president, and which had failed. In default of bond in the latter charge he was compelled to wait in Dallas for the arrival of an officer from Oklahoma. The latter arrest was made on a warrant secured by United States Attorney Speed of Guthrie. SHOT HIS BABY BROTHER Five-Year-Old Boy Finds a Loaded Revolver and Used it for a Plaything OKLAHOMA CITY: While Mr. and Mrs. Rudkin, near Britton, were absent from their home their five-year-old son went into the house, and while going through a dresser drawer found a loaded revolver. The boy took the weapon into the yard where his two-year-old brother, Ray, was playing. He pressed the barrel of weapon against the younger child's stomach. There was a loud report, and the next instant blood began to pour from a gaping wound. The injured child was brought here as quickly as possible and placed in the St. Anthony hospital. Drs. Ryan and Jolly performed a surgical operation and removed the bullet, but the child grew steadily worse until released from suffering by death. In speaking of the accident, Mr. Rudkin stated that he had forgotten the revolver was in the house, and did not know it was loaded. Revenues from Cattle Tax MUSKOGEE: The revenues from the enforcement of the cattle tax law in the Choctaw nation are pouring into the Indian agency in large quantities. It is impossible to realize how much the Choctaw nation will realize from this law during the two years before the tribal relations are dissolved, but it is safe to state that this will prove one of the largest sources of revenue that will go to the tribal fund. For a number of years the Chickasaw nation has collected a tax of twenty-five cents a head for all cattle introduced by non-citizens, but until recently the Choctaws have received no benefit whatever from the cattle owners. Now, however, a tax of twenty cents a head will be collected so long as the tribal laws exist. The surest way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Chas. H. Flatkin In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. 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TRIMBLE - - - Solicitor, Entered at the Post Office at Muskogee L.T. as second class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION; (In advance) One Year..... $1.00 Six Months..... 50 Three Months..... 2 We are sending a number of sample copies out this week and this is an invitation for you to subscribe and advertise with us. We give value received. Prof. Gracia of Texas, who has spent several weeks in the B.1. T., has returned to the Lone Star state. The Prof. was well pleased with the Territory and we expect him to return and reside here permanently. The extra judge for the Western district has taken the oath of office and will go to work sometime in the fail. With two judges at work the docket in this district will not be so crowded as has been the case in the past. Our mud-works are superb. You can get a little water out of a bucketful of the liquid that comes through. What we are pleased to term our water work system. It would be better if we had private ownership of mud-works. The city of Wagoner has one colored policeman and the town continues to prosper. What is the matter with Muskogee and her Republican council. Is it possible that the personality of the executive dominates the whole machine. The Summer Normal has closed and all the teachers are happy. Some have gone to the Fair at St. Louis while others will spend the heated term at some pleasant summer resort, they deserve a rest as the life of a teacher is a hard one at best. James Givens is a good man and it was a very humilating act for him to have been turned down as he was at Durant convention. Jim is too good a man to be a Democrat and should now take advantage of the conditions and get into a real live political party. Ed Robbins has sold 20 acres of land north of town to be used by the Bridge and Oil Refinery Co. as a site for their factory. The Buffalo Oil Co. also bought 29 acres in the same neighborhood. This will add to the tin bucket brigade of our growing city. The Indian Territory Contingent will be much in evidence in the Chicago convention and we'll bet our old socks that a Muskogee man will be one of the delegation to notify Roosevelt of his nomination. Muskoee is bound to be in the push. Watch for results. Prof. Gordon has resigned the place as President of the Baptist College and will enter another field of labor. Gordon built the school to its present standard doing all the work and receiving little or no pay. We understand that Leftwhich has been chosen as President and the subordinate places are yet to be filled. We wish the new crew a success and hope they are competent and worthy for the positions they so eagerly sought. NEGROES AND It is easy to see the meaning of that gathering of Negroes which is to take place in the same city and at the same time as the Democratic national convention. The assemblage of black men which is announced to meet in St. Louis on July 6 will be an annex of the Democratic party. Whether they realize it or not—and the chances or that they do realize it—the men at the head of this Negro movement for a national ticket of their own are working in the interest of the Democracy. An especially active canvas, according to one of their spokesmen, is to be made by the Negroes in New York, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and West Virginia. All those states are Republican except Missouri, and there is a chance that Missouri will be Republican in 1904. It is with the hope of diverting New York, Indiana, Illinois and West Virginia to the Democratic column and to keep Missouri on that side that the Democrats are urging the black men to form a party of their own and cut loose from the Republicans. The trick is easy to see through. Most of the men in control of the bolt from the bolt from the Republicans understand this part of the game well. They know that to the extent of their influence they are playing into the hands of the party which oppressed them in slavery days, which attempted to break up the Union in order to make slavery perpetual, which opposed the (Continued on local page) Turner Hardware Co. Carry a Full Line of BEST IMPLEMENTS, WAGONS, BUGGIES, HARNESS, SEED AND EVERYTHING IN HARDWARE . GOODS THE BEST -- PRICES THE LOWEST CALL AND SEE Us . . . MUSKOGEE, I. T. Muskogee. - - - Ind. Ter'v. The Territorial Bank & Trust Co. Oldest and Strongest Bank in the Indian Territory. interest Paid on Deposits. Abstracts Made. Fidelity Bonds Written. MUSKOGEE, INDIAN TERRITORY Patterson Mercantile Company. Auskogeo. Indian Territory. The above statement is correct. D. N. FINK, Cashier. Business intrusted to our care receive prompt attention. DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, GROCERIE HAND MADE CLOTHING SHIRTS. ALL KINDS OF HATS. WORKED HARD FOR SUCCESS. French Statesman Deserves Honors He Seems Sure Of. M. Doumer, France's "coming man," who may be the next premier, and who at the present moment is the leader in the race for the presidency of the republic, is a remarkable figure. The son of working people, who could afford to give him only an elementary education, and who brought him up to the trade of a working locksmith, it was not easy for him to fill up the vacant educational gaps. But he did it by dint of privation and hard work, part of the money he earned as a workman going to pay for his books and instruction. Thanks to pluck, he eventually succeeded, and thereupon abandoned his trade as a locksmith and became a journalist. He wrote for some time with great success for the Progres de St. Quentin, a local paper, and his talent as a journalist was his first steppingstone to fame. Paris followed and he became editor of the Voltaire, and shortly after entered political life. The American Eagle to the Rescue. The American Eagle to the Rescue. A. L. M. Gottseilk, the American consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador, tells a good story about the difficulties he has had to keep a monkey on the consulate premises because of the depredations of the boa constrictors. The big reptiles have a failing for monkeys, and these agile little pets must keep a constant lookout for them. If Jocko drops into a doze he is likely to "wake up dead." On the occasion with which the story deals a monkey's life was saved by the picture of the American eagle. The consulate sign all over the world is a fine reproduction of the king of birds, in full color, and with outspread wings. A new sign had just been received and was waiting on a chair inside the room. A big boa constrictor chased the house monkey across the yard and through the open window. Jocko was making a good race, but a losing one. He was in the corner quaking with fear, and very near to death's door, when his pursuer confronted the picture of the eagle in its menacing attitude. A snake fears eagles even more than it craves monkeys, and that particular reptile turned tail and went out of the window as quickly as if the devil was after it. That monkey was a smart monkey, and now, whenever it wants to take a nap, it goes to roost over the picture of the eagle.—Mexican Herald. TWO MINDS, ONE THOUGHT. All the Circumstances Seemed to Point to a Single Conclusion. They sat together on the sofa, watching the dying embers. They had been silent for some time. He moved uneasily. It was apparent that something was on his mind. He looked at herfurtively. She was a beautiful girl. He determined at last to make the plunge and turned his face resolutely toward hers. "Dear," he said, "I am going to ask you a question that I have never asked before. I hope it will not shock you. You will notice by a glance at the clock that it is nearly midnight. There is not a sound in the house, and it is evident that your father and mother have both gone to bed. There is no one else to disturb us. All is serene. The gas overhead is turned down to the right point, and these embers shed just the correct glow. A soft, sentimental feeling that I have not been able to overcome has begun to steal over me. I hope it has over you. Now, what I want to ask you is this: Considering all the circumstances I have mentioned, do you think it would be quite proper for me to kiss you?" The beautiful creature at his side turned impulsively and laid a delicate hand on his arm. "Do you want to know what I really think?" she said, earnestly. "Yes." "Then, considering everything, I don't think it would be proper for you not to kiss me."—Town Topics. granting of the suffrage to them after slavery was abolished and which has taken the suffrage away from them since. The failure of the Senate to confirm the nomination of Crum as collector of the port at Charles ton is the avowed reason for the threatened secession of the Negroes from the Republican party Do the bolters know who prevented confirmation? Their leaders do but their dupes may not. It was the Democrats' open opposition to Crum and their threats to filibuster against it and defeat adjournment which compelled the Republicans of the Senate to postpone action on the case until the session next winter. Confirmation is certain to take place then. One of the bolters says the Republican party has refused to do the black men "justice." This, of course, is all sham. What sort of justice do they get from the Tilmans and Vardamans, with whom they are going to ally themselves? Does the South Carolina and the Mississippi Negro extirpation plan suit the Negro bolter so well that they want their race to join the party which is responsible for it? Globe Democrat. The Negro Democrats are hunting money and we hope to have some one buy their influence which is not worth buying. Scotch Sabbath Observance. Sir Archibald Geikie's examples of the rigid Sabbatarianism of the Highlands are interesting. One is of a lady who rose early on Sunday, and carried her canary down into the cellar to keep the bird quiet. Another is of a young clergyman whose orthodoxy was suspected because he was seen standing at his window on the Lord's Day "dandling his bairn." A third story was told by the late Lord Playfair, who heard the nurse quieting his little boy one Sunday in this wise: "Whist, whist, my bonnie lamb; it's the Sawbath, or I wud whistle ye a sang, but I'll sing ye a paraphrase." Star of Immense Magnitude. The conception of the magnitude of the star Canopus, which is regard as the greatest body in the universe, is difficult indeed, even when Mr. Gore of the Royal Astronomical society furnishes the sun as a step by which the imagination may raise itself. One has some appreciation of the size of the earth with its circumference of 25,000 miles. The sun is more than a million times as large as the earth. The mass of Canopus has been weighed astronomically and found to be one million times greater than that of the sun. No Use For Anything Russian. The Japanese actor, Kawakami, once played at St. Petersburg and had made such a good impression that the czar gave him a gold watch. The other day in Tokio a pickpocket stole this watch, but when he found the czar's portrait engraved on it he returned it to the owner. "Even our pickpockets," a Japanese journalist comments, "have no use for anything that is Russian." 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A missionary in China writes: "Walking near Peking one day I heard a long-drawn whistling in the air. Looking up, I saw a flock of pigeons overhead. 'What!' I exclaimed, 'do Chinese pigeons whistle?' "There was a Chinaman passing, and I asked him about it. He took from his dress a set of small bamboos, joined with fine wires—as in the accompanying sketch—and handed them to me. It weighed only a few pennyweights. "'That is what makes the whistling,' said he. 'We tie these to the backs of carrier pigeons, looping the strings around the roots of the wings. When the pigeon is flying the wind rushes into the bamboos and makes them whistle. This scares away the hawks, so that the pigeon can bring its message safely. Sometimes there is only one bamboo whistle; but if there are more they are assorted so as to make a harsh sound when blown all at one time.' The little bamboo whistles must be made with care in order not to put too heavy a weight on the pigeons; but no American boy need be afraid to try to do what a Chinaman can do. Besides keeping off the robber hawks every owner of pigeons can have a sky-high orchestra. How Shellfish Talk. Many seamen will tell of curious clicking sounds heard on calm nights at sea, and the origin of the noise seems so altogether unaccountable that it has often created some alarm among superstitious fishermen. A distinguished naturalist made a careful study of the sounds on many occasions and found that it was not a sustained note, but made up of a multitude of tiny ones, each clear and distinct in itself, and ranging from a high treble to a bass. When the ear was applied to the gunwale of the boat the sound grew more intense, and in some places, as the boat moved on, it could not be heard at all. On other occasions the sounds resembled the tolling of bells, the booming of guns and the noise of an Aeolian harp. For a long time he was unable to trace the cause, but at length discovered that the sounds were made by the shellfish, hundreds of them opening their shells and closing them with sharp snaps. The noise, partly muffled by the water, sounded indescribably weird. He was finally led to the conclusion that, as the shellfish made the sounds, they probably had some meaning, and that the clicks might possibly be a warning of danger when the shallow water was disturbed by the boat. Tale of a Mirror. Dear girls and boys, did you ever think of the stories treasured in that large mirror of which you have to be so careful? Would you ever suspect from its shining appearance that the great glass has grown old by looking and reflecting? All kinds of pictures have been set within its frame; many of your own; some laughing and bright, others pouting and sad. The peculiar thing about a mirror is that it always gives you back exactly what you bring to it. There would be the boys and girls sliding down the baluster and father hurrying out to save the chandelier; there you would all be around the piano singing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," and there—oh! there is your birthday party! Oh, look at the children's gay clothes and see the pretty decorations! Can you see further back—there in the corner—where mother's great-grandmamma looked when she was little? And her cousin Jack in his pink satin clothes bowing before the pretty little lady. Their games were stately in those days. No romping for them. Little Nellie, dancing up to examine her new dresses, never guesses what sad picture might have been there before hers, and how her fresh beauty would brighten it. How the old mirror must feel like coming from the wall and taking a turn with that round-eyed little maid. It surely must love the little folks even better than the grown-up people, for they do not take it so many cares. A Spool Gun Easily Made. Here is a gun that can be made in a few minutes. Get two rubber bands and a good-sized spool from which the thread has been taken. Fasten one rubber upon the spool by binding it tightly with the other. The arrow is any thin stick that will slide easily through the spool. The best arrows are made of dowels which are three feet long and one-fourth inch thick. ARROW. The Gun and Arrow. These may be purchased at any hardware store at a cost of one cent each. Sharpen one end of the arrow and cut a niche in the other. To use, place the arrow in the spool, put the rubber in the niche and pull both rubber and arrow out as far as possible. If the spool is held in the left hand and the rubber is strong enough it will shoot the arrow fully fifty feet away. Bottle for a Rain Gauge. Any boy can make a rain gauge and measure the amount of a rainfall for himself. The simplest form of gauge consists of a funnel with a definite area, say, 12 inches, the neck of which fits in a bottle. The rain that falls into the funnel runs down into the bottle, of course, and the quantity is measured by means of a graduated glass. A The Home-Made Gauge. Any boy can measure the rainfall for himself. Having provided the funnel and the bottle—the metal cylinder outside is not essential—let him fit them as described, and then put them in a level, open place, away from trees and buildings, with the mouth of the funnel about a foot from the ground. The bottle should be fastened in position, to avoid being overturned by the wind, and should rest perfectly level. When the measure is to be taken the water should be poured into a graduated glass, and the number of cubic inches calculated, which will give the amount to the area of the top of the funnel. A Few More Conundrums. What bird is a peddler like? A hawk. Why is a tight boot like an oak tree? Because it produces a corn (acorn). How do you swallow a door? Bolt it. Why is a watchman like a mill horse? Because he goes his rounds. Why is a thump like a hat? Because it is felt. Where should a starving man be sent? To Hungary. Why is the sun like a man of fashion? Because it turns night into day. If a farmer raises 365 bushels of wheat in dry weather, what would he raise in wet weather? An umbrella. When is a door not a door? When it's an egress (a negress). When is a note not a note? When it's due (dew). When is wine an eatable? When it is a little tart. Why are e and i the happiest of vowels? Because they are in happiness while all the rest are in purgatory. Plant Was Suffocated. A New Hampshire man had a very choice fern which he kept in his store, and fearing that it would be hurt by frost during an excessive cold snap last winter he placed it in a tight showcase with a small lighted lamp in one corner of the case. When he came to the store in the morning he found his fern ruined, not by the frost, but by the burning out of all the oxygen in the air in the case. The plant had simply suffocated. Forbidding the Bane It is usually considered that the difficult problem in getting married is in finding some one to have you, but in Farmington, Me., it is different, according to the Kennebec Journal. There, if both are willin' and so signify to the town clerk, it does not settle the matter, as proved in two instances recently. In one case the selectmen of the town interfered; in the second instance, where the would-be bride had been a widow just fourteen days, a written notice was filed with the town clerk, worded as follows: "To Louis Voter, town clerk: We hereby file the following caution with you not to issue a certificate to — and —, for this reason, that Mrs. —'s husband has just passed away, and his mother feels very much grieved in having the marriage take place at present." Signed by six names. It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species. Strong Language. Fredericksburg, Ind., June 20.—Rev. Enoch P. Stevens of this place uses strong language in speaking of Dodd's Kidney Pills and he gives good reasons for what he says: "I can't praise Dodd's Kidney Pills too much," says Mr. Stevens. "They have done me so much good. I was troubled with my kidneys so much that I had to get up two or three times in the night and sometimes in the day when starting to the waterhouse the water would come from me before getting there. Two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me entirely. "I have recommended Dodd's Kidney Pills to many people and have never yet heard of a failure. Dodd's Kidney Pills are the things for kidney disease and rheumatism." Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure the kidneys. Good kidneys ensure pure blood. Pure blood means good health. 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Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. A Good Fruit Country BENNINGTON: William Medell, a farmer living near here, brough in some fine damson plums, some of them measuring six and a half inches in circumference and weighing two and a half ounces. Mr. Medill has several trees of this variety and says he intends to plant 100 more. This is certainly a fine fruit and vegetable country, as is clearly shown by the fine fruits that are being brought in. If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz package, 5 cents. A square man does not need to be all corners. The story is told of a meeting of creditors who were trying to settle the affairs of a merchant who had failed for a large amount. He insisted that his assets were absolutely nothing—that his wife owned the house in which he lived; that the family farm was the property of his daughter; that the store belonged to his son. "I have nothing," he said, "except my body, which you can divide among you." "Well, shentleman," spoke up a Jewish creditor, "if you do dot, I speaks right now for his gall."—Exchange. WORKED HARD FOR SUCCESS. French Statesman Deserves Honors He Seems Sure Of. M. Doumer, France's "coming man," who may be the next premier, and who at the present moment is the leader in the race for the presidency of the republic, is a remarkable figure. The son of working people, who could afford to give him only an elementary education, and who brought him up to the trade of a working locksmith, it was not easy for him to fill up the vacant educational gaps. But he did it by dint of privation and hard work, part of the money he earned as a workman going to pay for his books and instruction. Thanks to pluck, he eventually succeeded, and thereupon abandoned his trade as a locksmith and became a journalist. He wrote for some time with great success for the Progres de St. Quentin, a local paper, and his talent as a journalist was his first steppingstone to fame. Paris followed and he became editor of the Voltaire, and shortly after entered political life. The American Eagle to the Rescue. A. L. M. Gottschalk, the American consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador, tells a good story about the difficulties he has had to keep a monkey on the consulate premises because of the depredations of the boa constrictors. The big reptiles have a failing for monkeys, and these agile little pets must keep a constant lookout for them. If Jocko drops into a doze he is likely to "wake up dead." On the occasion with which the story deals a monkey's life was saved by the picture of the American eagle. The consulate sign all over the world is a fine reproduction of the king of birds, in full color, and with outspread wings. A new sign had just been received and was waiting on a chair inside the room. A big boa constrictor chased the house monkey across the yard and through the open window. Jocko was making a good race, but a losing one. He was in the corner quaking with fear, and very near to death's door, when his pursuer confronted the picture of the eagle in its menacing attitude. A snake fears eagles even more than it craves monkeys, and that particular reptile turned tail and went out of the window as quickly as if the devil was after it. That monkey was a smart monkey, and now, whenever it wants to take a nap, it goes to roost over the picture of the eagle.—Mexican Herald. TWO MINDS, ONE THOUGHT. All the Circumstances Seemed to Point to a Single Conclusion. They sat together on the sofa, watching the dying embers. They had been silent for some time. He moved uneasily. It was apparent that something was on his mind. He looked at herfurtively. She was a beautiful girl. He determined at last to make the plunge and turned his face resolutely toward hers. "Dear," he said, "I am going to ask you a question that I have never asked before. I hope it will not shock you. You will notice by a glance at the clock that it is nearly midnight. There is not a sound in the house, and it is evident, that your father and mother have both gone to bed. There is no one else to disturb us. All is serene. The gas overhead is turned down to the right point, and these embers shed just the correct glow. A soft, sentimental feeling that I have not been able to overcome has begun to steal over me. I hope it has over you. Now, what I want to ask you is this: Considering all the circumstances I have mentioned, do you think it would be quite proper for me to kiss you?" The beautiful creature at his side turned impulsively and laid a delicate hand on his arm. "Do you want to know what I really think?" she said, earnestly. "Yes." "Then, considering everything, I don't think it would be proper for you not to kiss me."—Town Topics. Fate's Answer. Is time to die, said Fate, "And in the earth which nourished thee to lie." And this was the last question and reply. The last 'mid earthly scenes; Yet who shall say That in some gentler clime— Unknown and here unknowable— More answers will not follow those of Fate, Mid all the glories of an endless day. Answers indeed, but not like those of time— Blunt, brief, and harsh of sound; But filled with love that hath no mete nor bound. —C. J. Augustin, Glenwood, Wis Hello! Who is That? Say. did you know that Gen. Pleasant kept a first-class place on the east side of Second street? Everything good to eat, cigars of the best brand, fancy candies, ice cream, flour, sugar, coffee and country vegetables. He sells cheap, give him a call. GEORGE PLEASANT. TAKE YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS TO Ben Estes' Drug Store and get exactly what the Doctor Ordered. Corner of Main Street and Okmulgee Ave. Get it Quick, Right and Cheap. We rever substitute. HEADQUARTERS FOR PURE Drugs and Medicines. Ben Estes, - Prop. FRISCO SYSTEM COMPLETELY AND COMFORTABLY SERVE WESTERN MISSOURI AND EASTERN KANSAS TO THE PRINCIPAL CITIES EAST, WEST, NORTH, SOUTH. PULLMAN SLEEPERS, RECLINING CHAIR CARS. TRAINS LIGHTED AND VENTILATED BY ELECTRICITY. The Direct Route to the "WORLD'S FAIR CITY" SAINT LOUIS For detailed information, call on nearest representative FRISCO SYSTEM, or address L. W. PRICE, Division Passenger Agent, JOPLIN, MO. --- Mortgagee's Sale. Mortgagee's Sale. (First Publication in Cimeter June 9, 1904.) Whereas, Minnie Duncan now deceased did by her certain mortgage deed with power of sale dated the 27th day of May, 1903, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the United States Court and ex officio Recorder in Volume H2, page 377 convey to the Territorial Bank and Trust Company of Muskogee, Indian Territory, the following described real estate situate in the City of Muskogee, Western District, Indian Territory, to-wit: Lot number five (5) and the South half of lot four (4) in block number sixty-eight (68) of said city according to official plat approved. And whereas, it was provided in said mortgage that in the event of her failure to pay the note therein described the said mortgagee or its assignee, agent or attorney in fact shall have power to sell the property therein described upon the conditions therein specified, And whereas, the note described in said mortgage deed is now past due and the whole of the principal and interest thereon remains unpaid Now, Therefore: By virtue of the condition in said mortgage fully set forth and the power vested I, Chas. W. Westerhide, Agent and Attorney in fact of the Territorial Bank and Trust Company of Muskogee, I. T., the legal owner and holder of said note will proceed to sell the real estate in said mortgage and above described at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash at the front door of the United States Court House in the city of Muskogee, Western District, Indian Territory, on the 9th day of July. 1904, between the hours of 9 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of that day for the purpose of satisfying said note and the cost of executing this trust. CHAS. W. WESTERHEIDE Agent and Attorney in fact. EVERYTHING FOR THE HOUSE The Best People to Trade With.--Try Them. North Main St., Muskogee Indian Territory CREEK GROCERY CO., DEALERS IN STAPLE AND FANCY AND HIGH PATENT FLOUR. The Leading Colored Grocery Company in the City. We also buy and pay the highest prices for Country Produce. Located on West 2nd St., South of the U. S. Post Office.