Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Cimeter. Volum: 6. SLUGGED AND ROBBED. M. A. Fisher, A Holaenville Negro, The Victim. M. A. Fisher, a Holdenville nego who was drinking heavily, was taken a mile east of town, on the Midland Valley tracks, yesterday afternoon, knocked senseless and robbed. He thinks he was started from town between two burly negroes, about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, though he did not "find himself" until about 6 o'clock last evening. He walked to town and told his story to Night Mounted Poniceman Rupert. There was ample evidence that he had been badly used, and £5 which he says he should have had in his pocket was missing. The police are working on the case, but there is little prospect of finding the men who maltreated Fisher. During the last summer the brilliant editor of the Phoenix came to us and in his excitable way said that a race riot was near at hand and that unless we took a firm stand against it we would be the first man killed and that Sango and others would follow. We told him then that while we were not anxious to quit the walks of life that we were not uneasy about being assassinated but if the d—n snakes that had given him the information desired to start in on the annihilation business we would do our best to take care of our end of the affair. There was on danger then or now of a race riot because the decent white people and decent negroes of the country won't permit it and C. Bashful Douglas knew it as well as anyone. It seems to us that on account of our insignificant position in life this brave arrogant disciple of the proud Anglo-Saxon race had picked us out as his subject to frighten and put on the run. As a matter of fact we would have vamoosed but could not think of a suitable hiding place hence we remained and waited anxiously for the calamity "which never came." The Searchlight men are friends of Douglas in one breath and are with the other fellows in the next. They charge Judge Raymond with being against the negro and instructing the jury commissioners not to select negroes and take it back in the next breath. They are firm in nothing and insinuate in everything. As a matter of fact there is not a word of truth in any of their charges or insinuations. They are simply playing for a mess of pottage from the hands of any cuss foolish enough to imagine that the gang amounts to a d—n by a d—n and a half. The two column article in the Daily Searchlight labeled "Whitewash," is the most disgraceful lot of slush that was ever written, but coming from the parties responsible for the libel it simply means nothing and decent men will not take it seriously. The article shows that the writers are living in the past and that they are still fighting for the appointment of Estes as P. M. That is now a closed incident. Frank Reed in open meeting withdrew from the contest and no one on earth, in heaven or in hell knew in whose favor the astute politician got out of the race for. GRAND PRIZE SUBSCRIPTION AND ADVERTISEMENT CONTEST. A House and Lot Will Be Given How can ever Frank Reed bo't and still remain in the limits of the Republican party as stated in Sims' paper? The Gold Bond Searchlight will have to explain the enigma to the people. If Frank proposes to organize an Independent Club, how can it be in party lines? This is worse than the Lincoln Club and God knows they are bad enough. But this last thing in our opinion is Democratic pure and simple. The Lincoln Club is a shining angel when compared with the illegitimate orphan whose parents are the gold bond paper and the astute politician who exists in the extreme west part of the bloody fourth. The Searchlight has become a daily, with F. J. Gordon and H. A. Clark as editors. The first issue dated Jan. 24, raises b-l with some people in particular and everybody in general. Both of the editors are educated gentlemen and able writers and it is possible and probable that they will make the venture a success financially and otherwise. While we differ from them in policy, etc., still we wish the boys a pleasant voyage on the journalistic sea. The Pioneer has seen fit to jump the Cimeter for some ruling made by some chairman of some club. The Pioneer is living in the past. The chairman of a few nights ago was simply doing his duty as he saw it and if his limited ability prevented him from ruling according to the reasoning of the splendid attainments of the crudite editor of the Pioneer that is the chairman's misfortune and he is entitled to the sympathy of the club for his limited learning. There is a distinction and a difference between the editor of the Cimeter and the chairman of that club. They are two distinct personages. Do you see Mr. Pioneer? Quit the dim past and live in the present. 20th CENTURY BATH COMPANY School of Is in advance of and far more sweeping than schools of Osteopathy, including in its course of study Osteo-Manipulations coupled with Dr. Corbin's famous Turko-Russian bath, the use of which is thoroughly and practically taught. All instructions given in operating room on patients suffering from some of the many chronic diseases. For further information address, C. M. CORBIN, D. O.: 109½ North Main. Mr. Wiley Jones, the owner of the Jones block, is doing some hustling for his building since the people have found that it is a comfortable place many are taking quarters in it. GRAND PRIZE SUBSCRIPTION AND ADVERTISEMENT CONTEST. A House and Lot Will Be Given to The Winner. For the purpose of increasing our subscription and advertising business, the Cimeter has concluded to offer a house and lot, free from all incumbrances, and located in the city of Muskogee, I. T., to the person who shall receive the largest number of votes in the contest. The understanding is that for every five cents paid in cash at the Cimeter office, for either subscription or advertising purposes, the person paying said five cents shall have the privilege of casting one vote for any candidate he or she may prefer. It is therefore possible for any person paying to us at the Cimeter office one dollar for a year's subscription or for an advertisement, to cast twenty votes for any of the candidates. No employee or member of the Cimeter force shall be eligible to enter the contest. The contest begins with this issue of the Cimeter and will terminate at 6 o'clock p. m., July 1, 1905. Rules. The house and lot located in the city of Muskogee will be given absolutely free, with guaranty title, on July 4, 1905, to the candidate, lady or gentleman, who shall secure the greatest number of votes from advertisers and subscribers to the Muskogee Weekly Cimeter. On vote for each five cents paid on subscription, or two votes for each five cents paid for advertisement to the Cimeter. You can vote for any person whether the name appears in the contest list or not. Cash payments for subscriptions or advertisements must accompany the votes. No employee of the Cimeter can enter the contest. No votes shall be received after the hour of closing this contest, on July 1, 1905, at 6 o'clock, p. m. Address mail to Editor Cimeter Contest, Box G, Muskogee, I. T. Cut out this coupon and enclose it with the amount of money you wish to pay on subscription or for advertisement, and either send by mail, or bring in person to the Cimeter office, 211 South Second street, Muskogee, I. T. Cimeter: Subscription Coupon. Find enclosed $.....and cents, which you will please credit to the subscription or advertisement of (Address) M..... (City or town)..... (State or Terr.)..... and place.....votes to the following named candidate in the Cimeter House and Lot Contest: Note. Compute one vote for five cents in case of subscription and two votes for five cents in case of advertisement. Number 16 Fate's Answer. OFFICIAL GUIDE TELLS YOU ALL Money refunded if not as represented. Order it Today Prepay on mail- ed free. AT LAST You Can Buy Indian Territory Lands But There is only one reliable and approved guide on Indian Territory, and that is J. B. Dunn's Indian Territory. It is just out. Contains 20 pages, has many thin half tones, large maps of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Only work ever published on Indian Territory without a line of advertisement it. Every good citizen needs it. It is worth many to every one interested in Indian Territory. Order to lay or you may be too late. Sent post paid $1. U. S. and Canada; foreign countries $1.30. COMMONWEALTH PUB. CO. Oklahoma City. MUSKOGEE UNION RAILWAY. Ft. Smith and Wagoner and the Kansas and Cherokee Oil Fields, via Coretta and Missouri Pacific Ry. Lv. Muskogee— 9:31 a. m. and 8:05 p. m. Ar. Ft. Smith— 12:55 p. m. and 11:45 p. m. Lv. Ft. Smith— 4:00 a. m. and 3:15 p. m. Ar. Muskogee— 7:31 a. m. and 7:35 p. m. Lv. Muskogee— 6:25 a. m. and 6:20 p. m. Ar. Wagoner— 7:10 a. m. and 8:10 p. m. Lv. Wagoner— 9:55 a. m. and 9:17 p. m. Lv. Muskogee— 10:46 a. m. and 2:17 p. m. For time of train beyond Wagoner see Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain time tables. A. R. PATINGHAUS Traffic Manager. A. 3 MCREA, Lawyer, 201-2 Okmulgee Avenue HAD AUTOS BACK IN '33 Old Prints Vouch for Antiquity of the Devil Wagon From the New York Tribune. The horseless carriage owner who regards the modern "auto" as belonging solely to the present age need only look into the window of an old print shop in Fourth avenue to wake up and revise his reckoning. One illuminated print exhibits in all its amplitude and gorgeousness of decoration a three-wheeled motor car that looks like an electric victoria, crowded to the limit, inside and out. It is defined as "Dr. Church's London and Birmingham Moton Car," and was built in Birmingham in 1833. Another print presents in complete and instructive detail "Mr. Hancock's London and Paddington Motor Car Enterprise," a four-wheeled affair, also built in 1833. Though three score years and ten have come and gone since then, the same sign of strenuous life in the motor car's environments are reflected by old time artist as now reflect the autocratic and terrifying carter of the modern 40-horse-power juggernaut, at the approach of which everything endowed with life or invested with mobility runs for cover in quest of safety. Two Quacks With one Auto Some men hawt no respect for grim death. There was Motor, for instance. The doctor was on his way home with a live duck when Motor's big touring car struck him. Both the doctor and the duck were killed. Motor gazed reflectively at the remains for a few moments and then remarked: "Well, neither of them will ever quack again." HIS EXPERIENCE TEACHES THEM That Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure Bright's Disease. Remarkable case of George J. Barber—Quick recovery after years of suffering. Estherville, Iowa, Jan. 23d.—(Special)—The experience of Mr. George J. Barber, a well known citizen of this place, justifies his friends in making the announcement to the world "Bright's Disease can be cured." Mr. Barber had kidney trouble and it developed into Bright's Disease. He treated it with Dodd's Kidney Pills and to-day he is a well man. In an interview he says: "I can't say too much for Dodd's Kidney Pills. I had Kidney Disease for fifteen years and though I doctored for it with the best doctors here and in Chicago, it developed into Bright's Disease. Then I started to use Dodd's Kidney Pills and two boxes cured me completely. I think Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best in the world." A remedy that will cure Bright's Disease will cure any other form of Kidney Disease. Dodd's Kidney Pills never fail to cure Bright's Disease. Backward. O. Backward A young man, recently married, sat one evening in the twilight, soliloquizing, and these are his words: "Backward, turn backward, oh, time in thy flight, feed me on gruel again just for tonight. I am so weary of sole-leather steak, petrified doughnuts and vulcanized cake; and butter, as strong as Goliath of Gath; wearying of paying for that I can't -cat; chewing up rubber and calling it meat. Backward, turn backward, for weary I am; give me a whack at my grandmother's jam; let me drink milk that has never been skimmed, let me eat butter whose hair has been trimmed; let me eat once more an old-fashioned pie, and then I'll be willing Nothing but the fact that their income is affected by the laws of finance, economics and government has ever made men reason about these things. A horse appreciates kindness, but he wants it accompanied by horse sense. Plenty of hay is better than too many lumps of sugar. Muskogee Cimeter. Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor. MUSKOGEE. NEW STATE NEWS. Judge Henry Jennings has been appointed postmaster at Claremore. Nearly every drug store proprietor in Muskogee was indicted by the last grand jury for selling liquor. Anadarko has sold $10,000 in bonds in addition to the amount already expended for water works. An eastern company bought the bonds at a premium of $450. The Hobart Bar association has passed a resolution protesting to the supreme court against postponing Kiowa county's term of court to May 9. It is asked that a term of court be held next month. A Muskogee grand jury recommended that the district attorney stop the display of revolvers and cartridges in the windows of hardware establishments, as they are prohibited by United States statute. The Robinson Investment company of Tulsa has applied for incorporation. It has a capital stock of $75,000, fully paid up, which will be invested in a five-story hotel at Tulsa. Major R. Shipley, commandant at Fort Sill, has been notified that congress has appropriated $115,000 for improvements at the fort. Fort Sill is to be made one of the best inland posts in the United States. The Comanche county fair association was organized in Lawton last week. At the meeting a set of officers was elected and a date for the fair was fixed. September 4th was selected as the time for holding the fair. J. R. Banta, for a number of months secretary of the Eagles' lodge at Guthrie, has disappeared. The officers of the order says there is a shortage of $2,900 in the accounts of Banta. The missing secretary was only recently married, and his bride, too, has disappeared. In the preliminary hearing given Edward W. Lester, an ex-Confederate soldier, at Ardmore, the defendant was refused bail, and remanded to jail to await the action of the grand jury. Lester is charged with the murder of David L. Frazier. The plant of the Weleetka Cotton Dil company is nearing completion, and will be ready for operation February 1. It is one of the largest in the two territories and has a large quantity of seed on hand, shipped from Indian Territory and Oklahoma points. A compress will be added in time for next season. The first car load of insane persons ever taken out of Indian Territory were started last week to St. Vincent's hospital in St. Louis. The patients were in charge of D. H. Kelsey, chief clerk to the Indian inspector. A contract has been made with the authorities of St. Vincent's hospital to care for the insane white persons of Indian Territory. Three franchises to pipe natural gas into Muskogee were granted by the city council. The grantees are the Success Oil and Gas company, the Great Chief Oil and Gas company and Ira L. Reeves. It is proposed to pipe gas into the city from Tulsa, and possibly from Oklahoma, and each company is given the use of the streets for such purposes. THERE'S NO USE ARGUING Defiance Starch is the very best Starch made. It's a fact. Happiness will treatly to it. Try it once yourself. We guarantee satisfaction or money back. You can't lose. Defiance Starch is absolutely free from chemicals. It makes the clothes look beautiful and will not rot them. Get it of your grocer. 10 ounces for 10 cents—one-third more than you get of any other brand. THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO., OMAHA, NEB. "I should think the fire-fly would get tired lighting his lamp every minute," said little Harry. "But he doesn't—he's very patient and persistent," replied Harry's mother. "That may be, mamma," said little Harry, "But where does he carry all his matches?" Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrch, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Care. Send for circulars, free. Sold by Druggists, 75c Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Women don't reason about these things in general, because their whole relation to the laws that govern civilization is indirect. Sensible Housekeeper will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. Put men and women under the same economic conditions and they reason in the same way. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bear the Signature of Charles H. Hutchins. Bear the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. To start a laugh is the ambition of some men. The how or there where, the way or the effect, is never considered. No woman in domestic life gets what she earns. If her husband or father is a moneymaker, she has money whether she does anything for it or not. If he can't make money, she may work like a slave for board and clothes. The man who makes others laugh at someone else's expense is always causing suffering. TRADE MARK. THERE IS NOTHING more painful than Rheumatism and Neuralgia. but there is nothing surer to cure than St.Jacobs Oil The old monk cure. It is penetrating, prompt and unfailing. Price 25c. and 50c. MEXICAN Mustang Liniment is a positive cure for Piles. ALWAYS CALL FOR A CIGAR BY ITS NAME "CREMO" DAIRY NOTES Selection Versus Feeding. A bulletin of the Connecticut Experiment Station says: "During the five years covered by these records, the variety and amounts of food and the care of the herd have been much the same. The increase in the net profits from $1.23 loss in 1899 to $21.64 profit in 1903 must be attributed to the selection of animals better suited to dairy purposes. The average cost of animals added to the herd since 1899 is $42.50. What change in the system of feeding or caring for the herd would have resulted in as large an increase in net profit? There is no reason why the results secured from this herd cannot be secured by the average farmer." We think the above is well worth being considered by our readers. There are many herds of dairy cows that are in the same condition as was the station herd referred to before improvement in the quality of cows began. It lost money for the owner and that is true of many a herd of cows on our farms. There is this difference, that at the station it was known just how much money the cows were losing. A good many people say that the breed is in the feed, but when a system of feeding is about perfect the work of selection must begin. The selecting of good cows for the dairy herds would soon bring up the prices of good cows and bring down the prices of poor cows. This would result in sending to market the poor cows and keeping the good ones on the farms. As it is now the farmer and the butcher discriminate but little between the good cow and the poor cow. Good cows go to the butcher indiscriminately, and good cows and poor cows are kept on the farm indiscriminately. Feeding is a science worthy of being studied, but it can never take the place of selection and breeding. The breeder has a large part to play yet in the improving of our dairy herds, and the selector also has a large role to play. If an experiment station can make the improvement in its herd it did in four years, certainly every farmer can afford to take up the matter of selection at once. The price paid per cow as noted was a little over $42, but it must be remembered that the cows displaced brought something. Washing Milk Utensils. Milk utensils should be washed first in tepid water, and a good stiff brush should be kept handy for the purpose of scrubbing at this stage of the cleansing operations. Soda dissolved in warm water greatly helps matters at this time, especially if the milk utensils have stood dirty for some time. In bottling plants where the bottles come back with milk stuck to them that has been there for a day or so the bottles are soaked in water for several hours, soda having been first dissolved in the water. In the brightening of such vessels, salt is one of the best things to be used for scouring. In the cleansing of milk vessels, cloths should be avoided, and they should certainly never be used to wipe the vessels dry with. They are likely to contain too many germs to make their use safe. These germs will be for the most part of lactic acid ferments, those naturally found in milk and harmless, but they will start the new milk to souring, which of course is to be avoided in most cases. No Worry About Feed. There is one good thing about the dairy business—if money has to be spent for additional feed it is never a long investment. Returns are obtained at the end of the month. Any feed dealer will carry a farmer's account for a month and when the milk or cream check comes he can pay his feed bill. No farmer can, therefore, consistently argue that he has not the necessary money to feed heavily on grain or even silage. To hold up another to ridicule is not witty, but vulgar. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. What poor, defenseless creatures women would be if they couldn't cry. "Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy cured my wife of a terrible disease. With pleasure I testify to its marvelous efficacy." J. Sweet, Albany, N. Y. No man is above criticism; not even the critic. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for the same money. A pretty woman without sense is like a flower without perfume. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Inciting, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Your drug fat will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure you in 6 to 14 days. 50c. Marrying for wealth is a good deal like seeking honey in a hornet's nest. The Best Results in Starching can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz more for same money—no cooking required. For mine enemies, tell them the truth. For me, a lie, if it be pleasing to my vanity. Try One Package. If "Defiance Starch" does not please you, return it to your dealer. If it does you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron. An Exception "Remember, always," exhorted the preacher, "that whatever you sow that also shall you reap." "Not always," replied Subbubs; "not if your neighbors keep chickens." Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—WM. O. ENDSLEY, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. When a wag has to depend upon others' peculiarities for his subject matter, it is time for him to close the "wit shop" and hand out the sign "to let."—London Answers. Smokers find Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 5c cigar better quality than most 10c brands. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. A man is happy if he feels young, a woman if she looks young. Interesting News. It will interest all readers of this paper to hear that at last a genuine cure for Constipation, Indigestion, Liver Complaint, Headache and Billiousness has been found in Dr. Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin. It is a pleasant, tonic purifying syrup, with a mild action and no bad after-effects. Sold by all druggists at 50c and $1.00. Money back if it fails. What He Couldn't Do Wig—"Jones says he can read a woman like a book." Wag—"Yes; but he can't make her shut up like a book." Many Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, cure Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Toething Disorders, Break up Colds and Destroy Worms, Atail Druggists' 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Chinsted, Lo Roy, N. Y. All the great work in the world is simply doing the best that is in us. They sure do knock colds out—Cheatham's Laxative Tablets, guaranteed. The pessimist believes that he laughs best who laughs least. Rest and Sleep. Few escape those miseries of winter—a bad cold, a distressing cough. Many remedies are recommended, but the one quickest and best of all is Simmon's Cough Syrup. Soothing and healing to the lungs and bronchial passages, it stops the cough at once and gives you welcome rest and peaceful sleep. The devil never worries over the man who saves all his smiles for the stranger.—Ram's Horn. --- THE DISCOVERER Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the Great Woman's Remedy for Woman's Ills. Yours for Health Lydia E. Pinkham No other female medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles or such hosts of grateful friends as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It will entirely cure the worst forms of Female Complaints, all Ovarian Troubles, Inflammation and Ulceration. Falling and Displacement of the Womb, and consequent Spinal Weakness, and is peculiarly adapted to the Change of Life. It has cured more cases of Backache and Leucorrhoea than any other remedy the world has ever known. It is almost infallible in such cases. It dissolves and expels tumors from the Uterus in an early stage of development. Irregular, Suppressed or Painful Menstruation, Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloating, Flooding, Nervous Prostration, Headache, General Debility quickly yield to it. Womb troubles, causing pain, weight and backache, instantly relieved and permanently cured by its use. Under all circumstances it invigorates the female system, and is as harmless as water. It quickly removes that Bearing-down Feeling, extreme lassitude, "don't care" and "want-to-be-left-alone" feeling, excitability, irritability, nervousness, Dizziness, Faintness, sleeplessness, flatulency, melancholy or the "blues" and headache. These are sure indications of Female Weakness, or some derangement of the Uterus, which this medicine always cures. Kidney Complaint and Backache, of either sex, the Vegetable Compound always cures. Those women who refuse to accept anything else are rewarded a hundred thousand times, for they get what they want—a cure. Sold by Druggists everywhere. Refuse all substitutes. HAWKES CRYSTALIZED LENSES TRADE MARK HAWKES CRYSTALIZED LENSES TRADE MARK ESTABLISHED 1870. A. K. HAWKES, Optician Headquarters for U. S., Atlanta, Georgia Oldest and largest optical house in the South. Travels 14 men. Growth of the Hawkes' business phenomenal. Demand for Hawkes' glasses marvelously increasing. Over 10,000 merchants now handling them exclusively. Most profitable line for dealers. Sold to only one dealer in a town. CAUTION: The genuine Hawkes' glasses (spelled only H-wa-k-ea) are never peddled, and cannot be procured except through my regular dealer. Notice: A suitable reward will be paid for reliable, definite information concerning impostors using my name. Porto Rico Coffee and we will send you postpaid a fine pair of scissors absolutely free. We make this and other offers to get you to try our famous Cheek & Neal brand Porto Rico Coffee—the best and richest popular priced package coffee on the market—the finest coffee for the least money. Moderate in price, but excellent in quality. A Nice Pair of Scissors For Your Name and Address And 15 signatures from packages of 65 PREMIUMS GIVEN ABSOLUTELY FREE to all users of Cheek & Neal Porto Rioo Coffee—from hand- some Dinner Sets to Sewing Machines. Coffee put up in sealed l-b. packages, air and moisture proof—like out- sold by dealers everywhere. Buy a package to-day. PORTO RICO ROAST COFFEE THE PADGE OF SERVICE Py FRALK UW, SWEET Copyright, 1994, by Frank s'. Sweet May Allyn seoped frou the eleva for with a biter coe ia hes band. She walked through toe rotunda, looking to right aid Jef anmoug the massive pillars and deoooing palms. ‘There were few persous in sight. Most. of the gneste were acer ou tie beaeh, for © was the bata bow. May went nearly across the rocunda before she found the ooject of Lev search a wou au ina retired corner reading a novel. “Here you are, mamma,” she ex claimed rebuking.y. “and reading Chat novel, as Linight bave expected, Don't you know the characters ou tt would siay exactly where you tease thea if you should close the book for a few hours, and this glorious weatuer out wide Is something of (he present. Bat wee here.” holdiug up the lace for ine spection, “de you think this will doy" “For whats” * “OL, you know, tama! Min to be Hetty the maid ti the play we're get: ting up amd ane to base the white Dadye of servitude ou uy heat and wear a white api aud earry a dvoom or something, Pve tot it ail ovee before, only your Lead’s in that book Dio please siut ii." ‘The older wonutn obeved, with a sigh, wid took the bit ef Leecy Lice beiween her fingers, “No, It won't do oat ath May. she suid tustetily, a wipele Os tuinsesaent breaking the dregny quies of ber fice Sheowon'datt he approoriate” eButo why ft owidh anal of atiap pointment, SH tose pcety.” "Yes. and costly Child chil dont you know tat bit of lies fs wortaa minh gs Betty (oe ed eon ear it five years. You ainsi have somectia; cheap to be fa efairaetes “Pdon't betieve Eo base anything.” "No, boast pose mot Your wilh tnave fo try atone of the stoves You wil need" Mes. Vilyats guce went in quiringly ahdet tle rotunda nmi) found one of the hotel minis dashing : pinut, She waited until she caught th xirts eye, then raised a tices, SP beg your pardon. tay dears? she sald ons the gish approvebed. chat any thatichter bere de ote le im ule clue | | My Hg | Se9 Res \ : tex} \ 2) Pek. iT. smc Sete 8 2 aye \. \ pete) 2} ZR ME NA oY ' =I 1 p22, (Pes \ Vy IG Bee \\ |? “MLLER. AGLYS, BEST? Possaraie! Cnn FH. COUNT BARTOKOUBTY. benefit: and will have to wear a cos: tuine something bhe yours: Would you mind my looking at your pretty lace cup a nioment?” The girl removed ii, with a pleased look. ° AFRAIO OF THE HOODOO, Superstitious Negroes Fied Until Was Removed. Deputy Constable frank Fenn of Houston, Tox., went the other after- noon to e~ acute a writ of forcible ejec- tion agai:st a negro woman. He took with him two negroes who vere to carry a-vay the furniture. Fenn was abce:t a few min tes and when he returzed his negra s were not to be seen. He got a glimpse of them about two blocks away moving at a very swift gait. Thinkir; thet perhaps the men had stolen something, he took after them. When stonped the negroes said that they wot! not work in that house, that it v-3 hoodooed. Being urged they told him they would return if he would go into a certain corner of the house and remove the hoodoo, which ho wouid find tied up in a bag hang: ing from the ceiling. The officer found the bag. It con- tained benes tied up with kinky wool and hairyins. The woman said she could cast a epell over her enemies with it, because the bones were those of a black cat, while the wool was that shaved from the head of a nogro born on Friday, the thirteenth day of the month. - The negroes would not return to work until the officer had taken the bag of bones about a bieck away from the house, and even then they had misgivings as to whether or not it would be safe to touch anything {n the house. Old Maids at the Bargain Counter. Salesgir's in department stores €x- perience much amusement in putting splusters throuch the “third degree” when the old girls er‘eaver to dodge the issue cf whether tie name {s Mrs. or plain Miss. Of course, long ex+ perience with customers serves fo In- form saleswomen how to differentiate between married members of the sex and dyed-in-the-wool old maids, and consequently when the time arrivea to book a spinster’s address the load- ed compleaton of the questions affords delight to the girls behind the coun- ter. When milady irstruots the goods to be sent to “A.” Smith, ete. the sell- er makes it a point to inquire if it is Mrs. or Miss the buyer said. The spinster affects to misunderstand and repea‘s “A. Smith.” The saleswoman fg unrelenting and not until the old girl snaps out a reluctant “Miss” after three ot tour repetitions of the inquiry does tie comedy end. Then as the spinster departs the girls laugh.—New York Prece - THREE TYHES OF RUSSIANS. They Are the Great, the Little and the White. ‘here are three grand divisions of the natlonality—the great Russians, the Iittle Russlans and the white Rus fians centor at Moscow, the little Rus: slans. Tho great Russians center at Novcow. the lite Russians at Ief, The Liood of the white Russians fs pure, but thetr civilization s lets advanced than that of the other two. The great Russians, "nany times the most numerons, are the vig orous and pushirg element of tho Russian pation, Though the least Sila vic, it has been the great colonizer of the Slav! race. Its whole history has been of one long siruggie against | Asia, The grest Russian’s stature te oftener high than low; his skin fe | white his eyes often blue, his hair mostly blonde. The little Russian fe handsomer, taller, livelier, more alert | in mind, but more changeable, medi tative, indolent. He has more inde pendence, more individuality and fs /_ more dreamy and poetical, | The white Russ'an is so called be cause he is fond of wearing white clothes, yet he is not as clean as the | other two divisions of his country men. In old tires he was also calle “white” bucause of his freedom fron taxation. A Plausible Excuse. Russell Sage was talking the other day about a dishonest but plausible broker. “I have caught this man,” he sald, “fn a dozen shady transactions. He has always, though, been ready to ex euse himself.” Mr. Sage siniled. Then he resumed? “He reminds me of a chap who broke a plate glass window one day. As soon as be had broken the window he hurried off as fast as he could go, But the shopkeeper had seen him. The shopkeeper came after him and grab bed him by the collar. “‘Aha, you broke my window, didn’t you, eh? he said. “*Yes, and didn't you see me rom ning home for the movey to puy for tt? said the other.” English Fiohting Beetles. There are beetlos In Engl.ad (of the family known to sctentists as Tel ephoridae) that are popularly called soldiers and sailors, the red species being called by the former rame and the blue species by the latter. These beetles are among the most qu-rrek some of insects and fight to the death on the least provocation. Tt hae long been the custom amor English boys to catch and set them fighting with each other. They are as ready for battle ax gamecocks and the vic tor will both kill and eat his antag on{st.—St. Nicholas. Lived Up To His Creed. A priest at Helyoda, Hungary, re cently inherited £5,000 from * rela tive in Russia. When he received the money he parceled it out among the 255 villecers, and kept £59 for him self. The Wilda aide. hear tn my heart, I hear fn {ts eminous pulses, ll day the commotion of sinewy, mane- t) cing horses; U nic... trom thelr cells, the tmporte- nave tramping and neighing. et cowards and Jegearcs fall back; but alert to ‘he saddle, traight. fcim and abreast, vault our wea ic*-worn galloping legion, Vith stirrur-cup each to the one gracious woman that loves him, he road {ts throveh dolor and dread, over erngs and morasses: here are shapes by the way, there are things that appali or entice us; vhat odds? We are knights. and’ our souls are bent on the riding! ‘hought’s self is a vanishing wing, and Joy Is a cobweb, and friends ip a flower aa the dust, and glory a sunboum; Jot here is our prize, nor, elas! after these our pursuing. \ atpping of plumes, a tear, a shako ot the bridle, \ passing so'ute to this world, and her pitiful vee: y! Ve hurry wita neyo a word tn the track of our father's, C hear tn my heart, T hear fn Sts omin- ous pulses All day the commotion of sinewy, mane- tor#'ng horses, All night. from their cells, the import: unate tramping and neighing. We spur to a land of no name, outracing the storm wind: We leap to the Inflnite dark, Uke the sparks from the anvil, fhow leadest, O Goat Alla well with thy troopers that follow! —Loulse Guiney. The City of Kano. General Sir Frederick Lugard says wt Kano, recently conquered by the British; “K>no alone among the cities of Africa which T have seen, with the exception of K2tsena, ts worthy of the name of city, for Its houses are of sold mud. with flat roofs, imper- vions to fire sid lasting through the centuries, instead of the b2ehive shaped huts of the populous to'vns of the south. Trees of Moorish archi tecture are visible everywhere. | took up my querters in the small hall of audience in the mud palace of the Sul- tan of Kir», a room twenty-five feet square, eighteen feet high, decorated with cucint shapes and designs tn black, wiit>, pale green and yellow— the latter for.1ed of mieactous sand, which glistens like gold. The dome shaped roof is supported by twenty arches, all of mud, but admirably fashioned.” Virginian’s Useful Life. Dr. Moncure D, Conway, who re cently celebrated his sevanty-second Dirthday, is a descendant of the Wash- ington family aud was born in Vit ginija. He marrisd Miss Morgarct Daniel, granddaughter of Thomas Stone, a siguer of the declaration of independence. Dr. Conway was a Unk tarian minister at Washington,whence he was compelled to go on account of bis serinons against slavery in 1857. Going on a visit to England in 1863, he heca ve minister of South Place chapel ia 1864 where he stayed for about twenty er and whither he returned for another five years ip 1892. Dose Should Cure Anything. Congressman Lacey of Iowa has made a groat med:cal discovery and& he loses no time in presenting it to the world. “t's a cure for pneumo- aia,” says Mr. Lacey, “and it’s a sure thing. Take six drops of asafetida, mix it into 9 drink of whisky and take it before going to bed. To be sure, you'll smell rather emphatically, but no pneumonia germ that ever came down the track can stand the fumes. They vacste In a hurry, and, veally, i can't help adrairing t!elr fudgement.” Western Pioneer Dead. William F. Svron, a pioneer of Ore gon and Washington, Is dead at his home in Garficli, Wash., aged 81 years. Mr. Syron and his young wife left Jowa in 1852 with a party and erosse’) the plains with ox teams. When the Syrons arrived tn Oregon thev hed one ox, the usual prairia schooner outfit and 25 cents cash. Io 1877 they moved from Oregon to Washington. Japanese Empress Progressive. The empress of Japan cansed the Grst Japanese «girls to be sent to America ip 1871 to acquire western learning. She snzgested the founding of the naticna! normal sehooi and pat ronized the esinhiishment of the Jap anese Red Croxs society. Germany's Best Customers. Germany exportet last year over $80,000,000 worth of books and works ef art. Engiunt and the Wnite’ Btates were her best castomers “Get a Move On.™ “Get » move on.” my son, “Soe # mowe on” Don't dawdie along on the track, For pyiuutes make hours, atnt once theg are vone No power cay simmon them Beek ‘Take rie by tie forelock, not fete tock. And suoed down the race oqurse dices Who giins a good start auae Ladies Stands chances to win aa the strife. “Get a move ou.’ my son, “get a mow on,” Who dive fis tire [sa dunce. Why, even this panet we live on Is mak ng veo motions at once; And teeth wih her ABA unconnted, Gees whing around night and day hen, man through nis short span ake Patter dias no time lo idle away. ~ {rene Pomeroy Shlelde, Hefty Missourl Youth. Twelve years old and weigring 2i6 pourds, Barly Payne of Fulton, Mo, claims 0 be the heftiest young ge ilar man of tis ace in all the state. Ti years ago he weighed 140 and tweira months later be gained forty-five pounds. lis height ts now 5 fee: @ fnchos, Some of his measurements will eonvey some idea of his size: Chert. normal, 45 inches; chest. ex panved, 47 inches; watst, 42 inches; right calf, 18 tnches; left ewif [7 Inches, Early sleeps well and has oa excellent appetite, Exercise soon fotigues hire. Exchange. | An English View. he St. James’ Gazette Informs perdters that a New York soap vo facturer ‘s advertising a new -oog ralled “arsifal, Because it is ag | Pure.” oom toersieionsanpminnne | The ert of Nving rightly f o%@ parte: ) cevst be learned a” - wed oth ocoo7sint casa. Go » CONSTANT ACHING. Back aches all the time. Spoils your appetite, wearies the body, worries the mind. Kidneys cause it all Ames, While You Eat and Doan's Kidney Pills relieve and cure it. H. B. McCarver, of 201 Cherry St., Portland, Ore., inspector of freight for the Trans-Continental Co., says: "I used Doan's Kidney Pills for back ache and other symptoms of kidney trouble which had annoyed me for months. I think a cold was respon sible for the whole trouble. It seemed to settle in my kidneys. Doan's Kidney Pills rooted it out. It is several months since I used them, and up to date there has been no recurrence of the trouble." Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents per box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A dog in the town of Cologne Absent-mindedly snapped at a bogne, But the misguided brute Had just grabbed his own foot; So the bone that he snapped was his —Philadelphia Press. Don't Scratch. Some people dislike to call it the Itch, but candor compels me to admit I had it, and had it badly. Your Hunt's Cure, however, cured me after many other remedies totally failed. One box completed the cure—the first application afforded wonderful relief. My advise to those who have to scratch is: "Use Hunt's Cure." Two Solutions "The south seems divided as to the negro problem." "Yes, the whites want to solve it by subtraction, and the blacks by multiplication."—Life. A Rare Good Thing. "Am using ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE, and can truly say I would not have been without it so long, had I known the relief it would give my aching feet. I think it a rare good thing for anyone having sore or tired feet.—Mrs. Matilda Holtwert, Providence, R. L." Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Ask to-day. If horses were legislators there would be a law enacted prohibiting the use of all whips that were not boomerangs. This is a remarkable offer the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., makes. Salzer Seeds have a national reputation as the earliest, finest, choicest the earth produces. They will send you their big plant and seed catalog, together with enough seed to grow 1,000 fine, solid Cabbages, 2,000 rich, juicy Turnips. 2.000 blanching, nutty Celery, 2,000 rich, buttery Lettuce. 1.000 splendid Onions. 1,000 rare, luscious Radishes, 1,000 rare, inquisitive Rachines, 1,000 gloriously brilliant Flowers. This great offer is made in order to induce you to try their warranted seeds—for when you once plant them you will grow no others, and ALL FOR BUT 16C POSTAGE. providing you will return this notice, and if you will send them 26c in postage, they will add to the above a big package of the earliest Sweet Corn on earth-Salzer's Fourth of July—fully 10 days earlier than Cory, Peep o' Day, etc., etc. [W. N. U.] Some of our most advanced thinkers claim that, from an equine point of view, the best human societies are trolleyear and automobiles. When You Buy Starch "What has become of the old-fashioned man who used to get 'tight'?" asks the Lamar Sparks. He is keeping up with the march of progress and now gets jagged.—Denver Post. DOLLS IN BABYLON'S RUINS. Children of Ancient Greece, Too, Were Amused With the Playthings. The first dolls of which there is any knowledge were found among the treasures unearthed from the ruins of Babylon. They are small figures in terra cotta and ivory, beautifully carved and must have been fascinating playthings for the little Assyrian children. The little girls of Syria had mechanical dolls. The arms and legs were moved by pulling strings much after the fashion of jumping jacks. The dolls the classic Greek children played with were made of wax and clay decorated with bright colors. One kind had movable limbs and its clothes were made to take off and put on. Every doll had a bed of its own. These dolls represented gods and heroes, but whatever they were made to represent, they were dressed with loving care by the little Greeks. As these children married when they were very young they played with their dolls until just before the wedding day. Then they made a sacrifice of all their toys, dolls and clothes included. They dedicated them as a pious offering to some deity. If the little girl died before she was grown up her dolls were buried with her. Thus it happens that the kind and fashion of dolls which comforted these ancient children is known. All the specimens which are kept with so great care behind glass doors in various museums were taken from some tiny tomb. NO LEFT-HANDED CUPS. Head Walter's Smooth Falsehood Explained Situation. It is understood that a lawyer almost shattered the icy composure of a head waiter in town once upon a time. He went to supper after the theater with a party of friends and he ordered coffee. "Please bring it in a cup with the handle on the left side," he said confidentially to the waiter. "I'm left handed and I can't use any other kind of a cup." "Yes, sir," stammered the waiter. "I will, sir." He was seen to hasten away and confer with the head waiter. The head waiter bore down on the party. "What sort of a cup was that you wanted, sir." he asked. "Cup with the handle on the left side. I'm left-handed," said the lawyer. The head waiter disappeared, to return a little later obviously perturbed. "The cup you—" he began. "What?" said the lawyer. "Do you mean to tell me that in a first-class cafe you haven't such a thing as a cup with the handle on the left side? Absurd! Why, I couldn't possibly use any other kind. You must have plenty of the them." "Well," said the head waiter, "we usually has, but I regrets to say, sir, that the last we had was broke this morning."—Washington Post. "From the Mouths of Babes." Miss Goodly had been laboring with her Sunday school class of infants to impress upon them that the chief creatures of God "are men and angels," when the young curate entered. After being told the subject of the day's lesson he started to catechise the children. "Well, children, who are the chief creatures of God?" he asked. "Men and angels," came the response in chorus. "Now, let us illustrate. Am I one of the chief creatures of God?" "Yes," assented the little ones. "Why?" "Because you are a man." "But Miss Goodly isn't a man. Can she be included among God's chief creatures?" The class was stumped, but presently a timid voice responded: "Please sir, she's an angel," and in answer to the curate's query as to the class' opinion generally the response again came in chorus, "She's an angel!"—Brooklyn Eagle. CAUGHT BY THE GRIP RELEASED BY PE-RU-NA. "The World of Medicine Recognizes Grip as Epidemic Catarrh."— Medical Talk. La Grippo is Epidemic Catarrh. IT spares no class or nationality. The cultured and the ignorant, the aristocrat and the pauper, the masses and the classes are alike subject to la grippe. None are exempt—all are liable. Grip is well named. The original French term, la grippe, has been shortened by the busy American to read "grip." Without intending to do so, a new word has been coined that exactly describes the case. As if some hideous giant with awful grip had clutched us in its fatal clasp. Men, women, children, whole towns and cities are caught in the baneful grip of a terrible monster. Have you the grip? Or, rather, has the grip got you? If so, read the following letters. These testimonials speak for themselves as to the efficacy of Peruna in cases of la gripppe or its after-effects: - A Southern Judge Cured. Judge Horatio J. Goss, Hartwell, Ga., writes: "Some five or six years ago I had a very severe spell of grip which left me with systemic catarrh. "A friend advised me to try your PILES Salzer's National Oats Greatest oat of the century. Yielded in Ohio 187, in Mich. 261, in Mo. 255, and in N. Dakota 310 bus. per acre. You can beat that record in 1905. For 10c and this notice we mail you free lots of farm seed samples and our big catalog, tell- ing all about this oat wonder and thousands of other seeds. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. La Crosse, Wis. WNU W. N. U.-Oklahoma City-No.4, 1905 BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. Peruna, which I did and was immediately benefited and cured. The third bottle completed the cure."—H. J. Goss Cured in a Fow Weeks. Miss Jean Cowgill, Griswold Opera House, Troy, N. Y., is the leading lady with the Aubrey Stock Co. She writes the following: "During the past winter of 1901, I suffered for several weeks from a severe attack of grip, which left a serious catarrhal condition of the throat and head. "Some one suggested Peruna. As a last resort, after wasting much time and money on physicians, I tried the remedy faithfully, and in a few weeks was as well as ever."-Jean Cowgill. Saved by Po-ru-na. Hon. James R. Guill is one of the oldest and most esteemed men of Omaha, Neb. He has done much to make it what it is, serving on public boards a number of times. He endorses Peruna in the following words: "I am 68 years old, am hale and hearty and Peruna has helped me attain it. Two years ago I had la grippe—my life was dispaired of. Peruna saved me."—J. R. Guill. FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Western Canada Carry the banner for yields of wheat and other grains for 1904. 100,000 FARMERS receive $55,000,000 as a result of their Wheat Crop alone. The returns from Oats, Barley and other grains, as well as cattle and horses, add considerably to this. Secure a Free Homestead at once, or purchase from some reliable dealer while lands are selling at present low prices. Apply for information to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to authorized Canadian Government Agent—J. S. Crawford, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Please say where you saw this advertisement. PISO'S CURE FOR GURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION A GREAT SUFFERER LAY HELPLESS AND SPEECHLESS FOR HOURS AT A TIME. Sinking Spells, Headaches, Rheumatism, All Caused by Poor Blood—Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. When Mrs. Williams was asked for some details of the fearful illness from which she had so long suffered, she spoke as follows: "Ever since I had nervous prostration, about thirteen years ago, I have had periodical spells of complete exhaustion. Any excitement or unusual activity would throw me into a state of lifelessness. At the beginning my strength would come back in a moderate time, but the period of weakness kept lengthening until at last I would lie helpless as many as three hours at a stretch." "You were under medical treatment, of course?" "Yes, when I became so bad that I had to give up my housework, in May of 1903, I was being treated for kidney trouble, and later the doctor thought my difficulties came from change of life. I was not only weak, but I had dizzy feelings, palpitation of the heart, misery after eating, hot flashes, nervous headaches, rheumatic pains in the back and hips. The doctor did me so little good that I gave up his treatment, and really feared that my case was incurable." "What saved you from your state of hopelessness?" "In July of 1903 I had a very bad spell, and my husband came in one day with a littl book which told of remarkable cures effected by a remedy for the blood and the nerves, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. He bought a box for me, and that was the beginning of my return to health. My appetite grew keen, my food no longer distressed me, my nerves were quieted, and my strength began to revive." "How long did you take this remedy?" "For two months only. At the end of that time I had regained my health and cheerfulness, and my friends say that I am looking better than I have done for the past fifteen years." Mrs. Lizzie Williams is now living at No. 416 Cedar street, Quincy, Illinois. The pills which she praises so highly, cure all diseases that come from impoverished blood. If your system is all run down, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the very best remedy to take. Any drug-gist can supply them. Genius has an infinite capacity for pain. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Starch, it will keep them white—16 oz. for 10 cents. Honesty is a virtue, and virtue is its own reward. To laugh at another, or to cause another to be laughed at, is common. The most ancient equine joke is "chestnut horse" said backward. The value of a horse, like the popularity of a politician, is measured by his pull. WANTED.—For the U. S. Army, able-bodied unmarried men, between ages of 21 and 85; citizens of United States, of good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read and write English. For information apply to Recruiting Officer, Postoffice building, Oklahoma City, Okla., or Tulsa, Ind. Ter., Enid. Shawnee or Guthrie, Okla. Business University FINEST BUILDING. BEST EQUIPMENT. $60 Pays Total Expenses for Six Months' Courses in Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Penmanship and if you are willing to work to pay board. Positions secured. Free use of textbooks. Railroad fans paid Write today for full particulars. Address Tuos, M. MILAN Prest. Oklahoma City, O. T. SOME FACTS ABOUT AMERICA. Brazil First So Named—Result of Quest for India. "Uneducate' Americans," says a correspondent of the London Times, "pronounce the name of their country Amarica, calling themselves Americans. In so doing they not only yield to a natural craving for a finer euphony, but, quite accidentally, I presume, are more correct, etymologically, than educated Americans—Amerigo being the Italian form of the Gothic Amalaric, contracted to Amaric. This personal name means 'strenuous in labor, resolute in action,' an appropriate motto to add to the Washington armorial in the national device of 'America.' "Brazil was the original America. Down to the first quarter of the sixteenth century our North America was still mapped as an extension of India, Tibet, China and Japan, and our Brazil as an island, separated by the islands discovered by Columbus from 'the new world of Greater India,' and named 'America provincia,' and again America vel Brasilia.' "Not before the middle of the sixteenth century was the term 'America' extended to North America, with the addition 'vel Nova India.' In brief, the Americas were both mere windfalls in the heroic secular quest after 'spiced' India. This is the redoubled debt the Anglo-Saxon race owes India." Now Dorothy Studies in School. "I think I shall take Muriel out of school and teach her myself this winter," said Young Mother No. 1. "There must be something defective about the public school system, for she doesn't know how to read yet." Young Mother No. 2 smiled reminiscently. "I tried that with Dorothy last year," she said. "With what success?" "Well, we got on very well until we came to double letters. There the child balked, for she couldn't seem to learn to spell the word without repeating the letter twice. 'You mustn't say b-e-l-l, bell, Dorothy,' I insisted. 'Spell the word b-e-double 1.' "Finally I succeeded in drilling the doubling process into her head only too thoroughly, as I found one day when I wanted to show her father how she had progressed under my tuition. I pointed to a lesson which began, 'Up, up, Mary, the sun is high,' and told her to read it. She looked at it for a moment with a puzzled frown, then she began confidently: "‘Double up, Mary, the sun is high!’ "At her father's suggestion she returned to school next day." An Office Idyl. An Office Idyl. Sing a song of shorthand, A notebook full of "pl"; Four and twenty letters To be written by and by. When the Girl is ready, And the keys begin to sing, What a pretty pile of work She to the Man will bring. The Man is in his sanctum, Trying to make money; Talking to a customer In tones as sweet as honey. The Boy? Ah, he's a pirate, Out on the stormy sea, The Girl is busy with her work, As happy as can be. Alas for life's swift changes! The Man no sale could make, His heart is very heavy And his looks would make you quake The Boy has hid the story On which he fondly dotes, The Girl is on the verge of tears— She cannot read her notes. —C. O. L. in Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Measuring Space. James Whitcomb Riley, who occasionally visits country schools in the Hoosier state, once gave a brief address on the subject of the stars. At the conclusion of his interesting talk he said: "Can any of you boys tell me what space is?" The bright faced young son of a country editor promptly raised his hand. "Well, my lad," said the poet, "what do you think space is?" "Twenty-five cents an agate line for display matter, sir," he piped out.—Saturday Evening Post. M. H. Alexander Hilton. Alexander Hilton, formerly general passenger agent of the Frisco system, and prior to that, assistant general passenger agent of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis railway (now absorbed by the Frisco), has been advanced to the position of passenger traffic manager for both the Frisco and the Eastern Illinois systems, with headquarters in St. Louis. Mr. Hilton, besides being a broad, intellectual The Duke of Norfolk, one of the richest men in Great Britain, has a daily income of somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000, but until a short time ago he had never taken a ride in a motor car. At the conclusion of the run, which was taken with a friend, he expressed much pleasure at the experience and asked what the cost of the car was. On being told that it was $5,000 he said thoughtfully: "Ah, I shall wait until they become cheaper before buying one." People who persist in giving advice must expect to take a lot of blame. When the war broke out the libraries on the Japanese ships were cleared of all fiction and illustrated papers, only technical treatise being allowed to remain. This is in significant contrast to the Russian ships at Port Arthur, which was provided with ping-pong tables. 15 YEARS OF TORTURE. itching and Painful Sores Covered Head and Body-Cured in Week By Cuticura. For fifteen years my scalp and forehead was one mass of scabs, and my body was covered with sores. Words cannot express how I suffered from the itching and pain. I had given up hope when a friend told me to get Cuticura. After bathing with Cuticura Soap and applying Curticura Ointment for three days, my head was as clear as ever, and to my surprise and joy, one cake of soap and one box of ointment made a complete cure in one week. (signed) H. B. Franklin, 717 Washington St., Allegheny, Pa." This attitude of setting women aside as a world by themselves, to be discussed from a different standpoint and governed by different laws is nonsense Freedom, dependence on one's self economic independence, training, mental development, make just the same difference in women that they do in men.—Minnie J. Reynolds in New York Times. Richest Nobleman and well-endowed gentleman, is also widely known as a successful and master railroader, respected in business for sagacity and fairness. As a passenger traffic man he has been widely known and justly popular. During the late world's fair he made a most enviable record, and is now president of the St. Louis association of general passenger agents. Mr. Hilton succeeds Bryan Snyder. The deepest mine shaft has been sunk to a little more than a mile in Cape Colony and the deepest bore hole has reached the same depth in Silesia. It is said that there should be no insurmountable difficulties in carrying a shaft down twelve miles. An approximate estimate has shown that to reach a depth of two miles the cost would be $2,500,000. Ten years would be required and a rock temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit would be found; while to penetrate twelve miles would cost $25,000,000 and would take eighty-five years, the rock temperature expected being 272 degrees Fahrenheit. Cooks are often accused of want of method, but the Aunt Dinah in Howard Paul's new egg story is not open to any such reproach. Invariably when she put the eggs in the saucepan she began singing "Rock of Ages" and sang through two verses. "Aunt Dinah," asked Mr. Paul, "are there not three verses in that hymn?" "Dar is, massa, but I sings only two when I wants 'em soft and three when I wants 'em hard." Much oil has been discovered in Texas within the past few years, but none to equal Hunt's Lightning Oil. Others gush for a little while and then go away. It goes on and on forever, curing aches, pains, burns, bruises, cuts and wounds. In fact, a sore spot Hunt's Lightning Oil will not make happy can't be found. Excepting for sex, men and women are as alike as two peas. They are human beings before they are men and women. They are actuated alike by the same great law of self-preservation, alike accessible or inaccessible to the great influences of altruism. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug- gists round the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 256. Wit is a joy forever, so long as it does not base its success upon the misfortunes, the peculiarities, the weaknesses of men. The Deepest Mine Strike Oil. For Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, A. G. W. Sango. There will be a test vote on the statehood bill next Friday and it is the earnest desire of every citizen of the Indian Territory that we get out of the present condition of Territoryhood and come into statehood in the year of 1906. Congressman Murphy of Missouri seems to be playing in good luck all around. His lucky star is in the ascendancy and at the present rate Col. Douglas will be left far in the rear in his strenuous fight against the "Mysterious Stranger." The Cineter still lives and in spite of the ungrateful misfits who have conspired to arrange for our death will continue at the old stand for the ensuing year, and if the old man does not "fall by the wayside" will continue for the future. Frank Reed's great independent aggregation convened on Wednesday night and there were present by actual count seven cusses including Dr. Sims, who delivered an impromptu harangue against the Republican party; at this point an old soldier who was present died leaving six patriots to organize the meeting. We are in favor of doing even, and exact justice to all men regardless of race color, or party affiliation, but we can't see how a Republican paper like the Phoenix can say such things about Mayor Rutherford as it does and then oppose him for anything he might desire in a political way. Is it possible that the Phoenix is about to jump the fence and get on the other side of the political fence? If some of the cusses from the Indian Territory who are now at Washington trying to play the statesman act would come home it would be better for all the folks at home who desire something done for the Indian Territory and for our town. Muskogee has received more stabs from pretended friends than any other town in the Territory and these thrusts come from designing politicians, time servers and political montebanks who would trade their very souls for a "mess of pottage." The appointment of Dr. Leon Hill of Boonville, Mo., as a member of the pension board of examiners for Cooper county, located at Boonville, Mo., seems to have brought the color question again to the front, in that section of Missouri. Mr. Akins upon whose recommendation Dr. Hill was appointed, if reports are true, has withdrawn his recommendation. Mr. Akins as the member of the Republican committee from Missouri, could not have bee nsincere when he said he did not know the color of Dr. Hill, and if he did not know his color, he did not show his manhood, or try to follow the example of the President when he withdrew his recommendation, when he did find out that Dr. Hill is a colored man. It looks like the Statchood bill in so far as the Indian Territory and Oklahoma is concerned is a sure winner and that the new state of Oklahoma is a certainty. The fellows who believe that bolters who come back will receive the preference over those who have always been loyal are now organizing independent political clubs. Clark, Gordon, Sims, the Gold Bond Bank et al have taken part with C. Bashful Douglas in the charges filed against Judge Raymond. These fellows are to the negroes what Douglas is to the whites. Frank Reed is chairman of the political bastard club just organized and Clark is secretary. This is a pair easy to beat. Frank is to make the noise and Clark to record same. It is a great scheme of the two plotters for the spring campaign. There are several candidates for mayor and city recorder on the Republican side and we presume the Democrats will also have several and then the independents can ply their trade to perfection. The hungry horde are scenting the battle afar. Gordon and his followers who claim the negroes have revolted against the Muskogee Republican Club are in the hands of C. J. Jones and Dr. Sims, doubtless, who are evidently behind the new daily. The only revolt we have heard of is that of Frank Reed, Sims and Jones. Gordon of course is a dodger and Clark just got here yesterday. The Santa Fe R. R. gets entrance into Muskogee over the Midland Valley. This is another great R. R. system for Muskogee and means much for our town. With four great trunk lines and others trying to break in, the future as a railroad center looks bright. The Gold Bond Bank paper comes out with an article with the headline of "Negro Leaders Revolt," and names Frank Reed only as a revolt. We always thought Frank was a leader, but never knew that he had the attribute of being leaders (plural) but since Dr. Sims' paper says it's true we guess they are right. Niblack, a member of the Oklahoma legislature has introduced a bill to eliminate negroes as office holders. Of course Nib is a Democrat and yet there are negroes who will assist these devils into office and make excuses for them. We have some of this kind of political misfits in Muskogee who are now planning organizations to help our old enemy Democracy by fooling the ignorant negro. Any kind of a Republican is better than Niblack and his black henchmen who organize independent clubs. MUSKOGEE TITLE & TRUST CO. ABSTRACTS of TITLE, INSURANCE, SURETY BONDS and REAL ESTATE Farm Loans a Specialty Second and Broadway. MUSKOGEE, IND. TER. Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Etc. Just opened in front of U. S. Court House, and has just receive my fall line of Jewelry which is strictly first-class and up-to-date in every respect. I carry nothing but the best goods and of the latest design. My prices are reasonable. Call and see the latest whether you want to buy or not. F. E. FISHER DENTAL PARLORS Rooms 5 7 and 9 CAROLINA BLOCK, OKMULGEE AVENUE. Specialist in Crown, Bridge and Plate Work of All Kind. From the best Dental College, Louisville, Kentucky. I am permanently located and will make special prices on all Dental Work and Operations for two weeks only. Free painless extraction from 9 to 10 a.m., every Wednesday Free consultation and estimates on all Dental operations. Loans and Discounts $712,003.95 Capital $200,000.00 Overdrafts (Cotton) 25,989.61 Surplus and Profit 31,572.39 Bonds and Premiums 206,080.49 Circulation 150,000.00 Furniture and Fixtures 7,985.11 Deposits 759,580.25 Cash and Exchange 189,093.48 SMITH-TORRANS CO. EVERYTHING FOR THE HOUSE ```markdown ``` North Second St. WATCH-MAKER JEWELER. Clocks, Etc. house, and has just restrictly first-class and nothing but the best prices are reasonable. want to buy or not. Muskogee. Ind. Ter OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE THE MUSEUM OF THE WESTERN UNIVERSITY Library Hall, Agricultural and Mechanical College, Stillwater. There is in each state and territory one educational institution supported in part by the federal government, and in part by the local governments. The leading object of each of these institutions is "to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life." In Oklahoma this institution is at Stillwater, and the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical college has from the first closely adhered to the purposes for which it was established. It gives thorough instruction in agriculture, in engineering and in the sciences related thereto, and its courses are arranged so that all who wish instruction along these lines may get much or little of it, depending upon the character of the work for which they Library Hall, Agricultural and wish to prepare. The following courses of study are open to students from Oklahoma and Indian Territories: One week's course in stock judging and seed selection for farmers and breeders, February 6 to February 13, 1905. Eight weeks' course in general agriculture and eight weeks' course in dairying, now in progress, closing February 24, 1905. The purpose of these courses is to get young farmers started on the way toward scientific farming and to acquaint them with a few of the many applications of science to the daily life of the farm. Two years' course in agriculture and domestic economy for the boys and girls who wish a training which fits them for a life on the farm. This course begins about the middle of October each year and continues until the middle of March. Students over fourteen years of age are admitted without examination, but must show by the character of the work which they do that they are in earnest and that they are doing the best they can. Approximately one-half of the time is spent on common school studies and the other half in the study of agriculture by the boys and domestic economy by the girls. Among the subjects taught in this course are live stock and stock judging, animal diseases, entomology, horticulture, floriculture, gardening, dairying, poultry, stock feeding, agriculture, chemistry and soils and crops. The girls take such of the above subjects as are suited to them, and in addition are given instruction and practical work in sewing and cooking. The above courses are for those who either have not completed the first eight grades of the common schools or because of their age, want to get ready for practical work. Graduates of the common schools are admitted to the more advanced work of the college without examination. Five years are required for the completion of one of the regular college courses, of which there are three—agriculture, mechanical and electrical engineering and general science. The purpose of these courses is to give a thorough liberal and practical education of the best sort. Graduates of the agricultural course are prepared to teach agriculture, to manage large farms or to do other work where a combination of practical and scientific knowledge is required. Graduates of the engineering course readily find employment with manufacturers of electric machinery, as superintendents of electric light plants, in railway manufacturing plants and wherever a high grade of d Mechanical College, Stillwater. technical training, coupled with ability to do things, is required. The general science course prepares for teaching the sciences related to agriculture and engineering, opportunities being provided for the training of chemists, botanists, entomologists and zoologists who find good employment with the United States department of agriculture and elsewhere. The agricultural experiment station is a department of the college, and is engaged in making investigations and conducting experiments of great value to the farmers of Oklahoma. Frequent publications, reporting the results of these experiments, are issued by the station and sent free to all who request them. The mailing list of the station now contains more than twenty thousand names, and is growing rapidly. Because of the work of the station and the varied courses of instruction afforded by the college, there is a growing interest in agriculture in the territories. The following from a recent issue of the Oklahoma State Capital shows the relation which this college bears toward this new movement: The remarkable apparent interest of teachers and educators in instruction in agriculture in the common schools brings to mind the fact that such instruction can be had only from teachers who themselves know something of the subject. And this situation is more than satisfactory although there seems to have been an oversight in the recent discussion as to the existing facilities in Oklahoma for training teachers to do this work acceptibly and with profit to their pupils. The Oklahoma agricultural and mechanical college is in a class with the best industrial colleges of the older states. It is one of the few agricul- tural colleges that teach agriculture. It has gradually acquired equipment and trained men until it is now one of the best. But that does not mean that it is good enough. The legislature of Oklahoma owes something to the agricultural interests. And it is up to the legislature to take care of them. The first of these interests is the agricultural college. And abreast of that is the board of agriculture and the farmers' institute systems of the territory. There should be no niggardly policy with regard to these institutions. And the people of Oklahoma will endorse what may seem to be a bit of extravagance in bolstering up the dominant industry of Oklahoma and encouraging the youth of the territory to follow the most profitable and logical line of business that is open to them. But the existing situation points with accuracy to the necessity of the teachers learning something about agriculture and then teaching the pupils in the common schools what they can. None except those who have been trying to do it can have an adequate notion of the amount of equipment, both in the way of material things and specially trained men, which is required to give effective instruction, in agriculture to those who are preparing to teach the subject. After all these years, the A. and M. college has just about got shaped up so that it can do fairly satisfactory work along this line. And to do thoroughly satisfactory work with many students will require many times the equipment which it now has. The agricultural subjects taught in the school of agriculture, supplemented by the spring term's work for teachers which follows it each year, furnish an effective course for the preparation of teachers who wish to fit themselves for teaching the little agriculture that it has been found practicable to put into the public schools elsewhere. There are several good books arranged to be used as readers in the public schools and at the same time to provide systematic instruction in the elementary agriculture. But the teacher to do the work well must know more about the subject than is laid down in the book and be able from this margin of knowledge to develop the subjects taken up in the reader and bring out their full educational value. The system of county high schools THE HOTEL THE HOTEL which we have in Oklahoma furnishes an opportunity for providing the excellent features which are embodied in the county schools of agriculture which are so successful in Wisconsin. A course in agriculture in these high schools in the charge of men who struction there is so good useful as to have shown results in the work and students who have gone farm. And the neighbors have seen and beed. have been thoroughly trained in some agricultural college would give the young people of each county an opportunity to get this sort of instruction close to their homes and would furnish suitable teachers for the rural schools. A course of this character in the county high schools, supplemented by further study in the A. and M. college, will develop teachers who are interested in agriculture and trained to teach it acceptibly. Nothing short of this sort of training for rural school teachers should be permitted if instruction in agriculture is to be anything more than a name. Something of the same plan might easily be followed with preparation of teachers for work along mechanical lines. The engineering department of the A. and M. college is as naturally the place for the training of teachers of this work in the public schools and the county high schools could secure the services of engineering graduates as instructors in their industrial departments. As with agriculture, it requires extended equipment to train engineers for teachers or for practical work. The A. and M. college has considerable equipment and its engineering graduates are filling responsible positions. An extension of this equipment to meet increased demands for instruction along these lines would be more economical and result in more effective instruction than partially duplicating the required facilities elsewhere. Arrangements are being made for a special excursion from Guthrie to Stillwater on Friday, February 17, 1905, at the close of the annual meeting of the board of agriculture and of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's association. It is a duty that every farmer owes to himself to get in touch with the agricultural college and experiment station and to avail himself of the services which these institutions may render him. Visitors are always welcome and are given every opportunity to find out what is being done in the interest of improved agriculture in Oklahoma and Indian Territories. In a recent editorial the Capital says: "Interest in agricultural education directs attention to the work that has been done along this line and to its good results. If the benefits of agricultural education had not become patent to the teachers and patrons of the schools there would have been no attention for the study of farming. "In this connection the good work of the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College is an item worthy of consideration. It has been shown at Stillwater that farming can be taught out of books and in the fields. The in- THE HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM struction there is so general and so useful as to have shown tangible results in the work and success of the students who have gone back to the farm. And the neighbors of these students have seen and become interested. IS LOSING GROUND HAMILTON STATEHOOD BILL IS A DEAD ISSUE ONLY HOPE IS THE FORAKER COMPROMISE Congressmen Seem Willing for Oklahoma and Indian Territory, but are Against Arizona and New Mexico—Beveridge has a Big Job Ahead A Washington dispatch, discussing statehood, says that on his return from Indiana Senator Beveridge will discover that the opposition has kicked to pieces the Hamilton statehood bill. Opponents of the measure have the names of sixteen republican senators who are unalterably opposed to the passage of the statehood bill in its present form. Every democratic senator is opposed to uniting Arizona and New Mexico. The 33 democrats and the 16 republicans will give the opponents of the bill a majority of eight, even if all the remaining senators stood loyally by the committee. Delegates from the territories and all supporters of the Hamilton bill recognize that the drift has been strongly against them for several days. It is now reported that Senator Spooner, who had been counted a champion of the Hamilton bill, could not be depended upon to assist in forcing the fighting for the measure. One or two New England senators have indicated a total indifference to the fate of the measure. The only hope for statehood is the acceptance of the Foraker compromise permitting Arizona to vote separately on the acceptance of the constitution. There is an abundance of votes to pass the bill in the senate if the amendment is accepted by the committee. It would mean nothing more nor less than statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory, which could be secured by a separation of the Hamilton bill and a passage of the McGuire bill. Democrats who all along have opposed the union of Oklahoma and Indian Territory are now willing to accept joint statehood for these territories. A few democratic senators would vote against joint statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory, but opposition would be numerically small and half-hearted. Senator DuBois, speaking for the democrats said: "There isn't the slightest prospect for the passage of the Hamilton bill in its present form. A big majority in the senate is against it. The democrats will consent to the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state. The bill could pass admitting Oklahoma alone or admitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state or New Mexico as one state." "Would the Foraker amendment be satisfactory to the democrats" "I am not authorized to say, but I think it would." If the Hamilton bill is amended in the senate by permitting Arizona to vote separately, it will meet with active opposition in the house. Hamilton, the author of the bill, is thoroughly disgusted at the manner in which the senate is treating his pet measure. Senators are using it to stop gaps and kicking it about in a most unfeeling manner. Speaker Cannon has never favored statehood and would not be grieved if the measure fell through. A civil service examination for clerks, engineers, surgeons, draughtsmen and chainmen for Panama canal work was held at Oklahoma City last week. There were eighteen applicants from the two territories. STOCK BREEDERS' SESSION Ninth Annual Meeting of the Improved Stock Breeders' Association OKLAHOMA CITY: In this city last week the ninth annual session of the Oklahoma Improved Breeders' association was held. This was by far the most successful meeting ever held by the organization. Not only was the printed program carried out, but breeders of note from other states were present and took part in the meetings. Many excellent papers were read, which will prove helpful to the breeders in their work. The next meeting will be held at Stillwater at a time to be fixed by the executive committee. The officers for the ensuing year are: E. E. Bracht, Oklahoma City, president; J. A. Alderson, Pond Creek, secretary and treasurer; Frank D. Northrup, Oklahoma City, assistant secretary; W. S. Combs, Yukon, E. E. Alkire, Lexington, F. E. Smith, Norman, F. E. Burtis, Stillwater and Ewers White, Shawnee, were elected vice presidents. Frank D. Northrup, F. E. Smith and L. Barth were appointed a committee on resolutions, and the following are some of the resolutions introduced: Resolved, That we felicitate this association on its rapid and healthful advancement in the great cause for which it was organized, during the past year, and express the hope that every member will make it a part of his business to see to it that this enthusiasm does not lag. That we are in favor of the passage of the statehood bill now pending in the United States senate, and suggest that this association immediately send a telegram to that body urging its passage at this session. The continued use of inferior breeding stock, and especially of the scrub sire, is admittedly detrimental to the best interests of the live stock industry and stands in the way of the general and effectual improvement of the same, and. Whereas, The breeding of improved live stock is a benefit to the community at large, and Whereas, In the assessment of live stock for the purpose of taxation, pure blooded stock is assessed at much higher rates of valuation than are scrubs and inferior grades of stock, therefore, be it Resolved, That we recommend a law be enacted whereby taxes upon breeding animals of pure blood and approved standard shall be remitted for a definite term of ten years, and, be it further Resolved That we favor the enactment of a law whereby the inefficient service of al scrubs sires, or sires of unapproved standard as individuals, be limited to the flocks, herds or stables of their respective owners. That we respectfully urge the legislature to amend the present quaratnine law by extending the territorial line around the entire territory and also recommend that provisions be made for the employment of sufficient force of inspectors to properly care for the demands of the entire territory. That we commend the enterprise of two of our membersMr.E.Bracht of Oklahoma City and Mr.H.R. Hodges of Glencoe—who exhibited their stock at the great World's fair, winning great honors for themselves and for the territory at large. To Develop Ii and Coal STERRETT: Knowing that this town is situated in the oil and coal region, a mass meeting was held, which resulted in the preliminary work of organizing a company to bore for oil and coal. The prospect is very encouraging for both oil and coal. The necessary committees have been appointed to finish the work of organizing the company. The longer a woman's tongue the shorter her wings. THE LEGISLATURE A BRIEF REVIEW OF WORK OF OKLAHOMA LAWMAKERS Monday, January 16 House reconvened, following a recess since Friday. Representative Gandy introduced numerous petitions from Beaver county, signed by nearly 2,000 residents, praying that the herd law be extended over that county. A memorial to congress asking for the opening of the pasture in Comanche county was unanimously adopted. A resolution was introduced and passed unanimously thanking the Oklahoma commission for the display at the St. Louis fair. A bill was introduced making all of Oklahoma above the quarantine line. A number of other bills were introduced, which were: Giving twelve months to redeem farm property sold under a mortgage; incorporating the town of Gotebo; giving city landlords prior liens on all property for rent; a compulsory educational bill, a game law, providing for licensing all hunters—resident hunters $1.25 per day, others $10; fixing the limit of quail killing at twenty-five per day. In the council a memorial was passed and fourteen bills were introduced and given a second reading. The memorial was introduced by Mr. Menefee, providing for the opening of the southwestern Indian reservations. Among the bills introduced were: An act relating to bribery; to protect stock riasers and establish a quarantine line; to regulate drilling operations; to designate a depository; for payment of cetrain fees to firemen by insurance companies; providing for a railroad commission and defining its duties; for payment of fees to witnesses in certain criminal cases; two separate bills on education. Tuesday, January 17. Both houses adjourned after the morning session today in order to give the several committees an opportunity to act on the bills introduced. In all eighty-four bills have already been introduced in the legislature. In the house the bill extending the herd law over Beaver county was reported favorably and ordered printed and placed it on the calendar. A resolution was presented regulating the compensalon of the house clerical force, and after some discussion was adopted. The committee on printing reported that 25,000 copies of the governor's message had been ordered printed for distribution. A bill regulating procedures in probate courts was introduced and passed to second reading. In the senate there were ten new bills introduced. House memorial No.2 relating to the opening of the pasture reserve was concurred in. A bill empowering county commissioners to hire expert accountants to investigate and audit records of officials was introduced. Among other measures introduced were a compulsory educational bill; banking, primary election bills, measures regulating the slaughter of animals for food, providing punishment for false swearing and the killing and transporting of game. The bills introduced were read a second time and referred to committees. Wednesday, January 18 Considerable time was taken up today in the discussion of the herd law for Beaver county. The house went into a committee of the whole for the consideration of the bill. Representative Ballinger opposed the bill on the ground that if such a measure were enacted the cattlemen, who pay two-thirds of the taxes, would leave. He said Beaver county was only fit for a cattle country; that he had lived there long enough to know the existing conditions. Gandy defended the bill, and insisted that the same right be extended Beaver county in respect as was granted the rest of Oklahoma. At the adjournment for noon the bill was still under discussion, and was taken up later. The name of R. J. Calkins, a house clerk, was ordered stricken from the pay roll and the name of Miss Dora Reynolds was substituted. Senate resolution No.1, providing that no employee may draw pay except for the days actually worked was concurred in. The resolution asking for the reinsertion of the school lessee clause in the Hamilton bill was carried. The senate had a brief session this morning. A number of new bills were introduced, and the following resolution by Sharrock of Woods was adopted by a straight party vote, the republicans voting for and the democrats against: That President Winkler of the senate and Speaker Norton of the house form a committee of two to let the contract for all printing the assembly may need above the federal appropriation of $2,500. Thursday, January 19 In the house nine new bills were introduced. The senate concurrent resolution relating to printing contracts, by which the president of the senate and speaker of the house are allowed to award the printing above the federal appropriation of $2,500, was taken up. Mr. Lydich spoke against its adoption. Mr. Gandy spoke in favor of the resolution. A substitute resolution was offered which was, on motion, tabled. An attempt to take up the original resolution resulted in the chair making a decision that, according to the rules, the resolution was also tabled. An effort was made to reconsider the motion, but the chair ruled it out of order, and the matter was caried over. The Gayman bill for protection of secret societies was taken up and, after a few minor changes, was passed unanimously. Speaker Norton signed Gandy's statehood memorial to congress, asking the senate to pass the Hamilton bill, and house joint memorial No. 2 by Gayman, asking congress to reinstate the school land lessees' preference clause in the Hamilton statehood bill. At the afternoon session the action of the house at its morning session was taken up and the Sharrock resolution passed by a strict party vote. At the morning session of the council four new bills were introduced. The regular order of business was taken up and after a short session the council adjourned until 3 p. m. The bills introduced on the previous day were given their second reading and passed to the committees. The judiciary committee reported favorably on the Threadgill bribery bill. A communication from the Good Roads association was read and referred to the committee on roads and highways. A resolution by Niblack providing that the minority members be allowed the services of a clerk, already on the pay roll, when such clerk can be spared by the majority, was replaced by a substitute offered by Winkler, to the effect that all members of the council have the services of the clerks and stenographers. This was more than the minority had bid for, and Mr. Niblack thanked the majority for the courtesy. Friday, January 20 All members of the legislature and many territorial officers, including Governor Ferguson, went to Kingfisher to attend the jubilee celebration of the Congregational college. This institution has recently succeeded in raising an endowment of $75,000. Senator Joel R. Scott of Perry will try to pass his quarantine bill whether or not. His measure provides for a quarantine line to be placed around the entire territory of Oklahoma, including the Osage nation. REVOLT IN RUSSIA War wilh Japanese is Overshadowed by Revolution in St. Petersburg A THOUSAND ARE KILLED AND WOUNDED l'roops Fire Upon Strikers, Under the —eadership of Priest Goupon, as they Attempt to Reach the Palace of the Czar Upon a Peaceful Mission---Strikers are Arming and the End is Not Yet-—General Revolution Predicted The St. Petersburg strike has as- sumed much more serious proportions than was at any time anticipated. It has been predicted from the start that trouble would follow, but it was not expected that Russian guards would be called in to shoot down the work- ingmen, with their wives and children, with as little regard for their lives as a hunter taking a “pot shot” at a bunch of quail. The strikers, under the leadership of Priest Goupon, were attempting to make an apepal to the emperor for relief, but were met by militiamen, who held them back with loaded muskets. The men plead of the soldiers to be allowed a hearing dy the czar, and would not disperse when ordered. The mob formed at tho palace square, where it is esti- mated, 100,000 people had assembled. “We have come to present our hom- age and grievances to the emperor.” “Let the emperor come out and hear us; we do not wish to do harm.” “Long life to Nicholas II. If he only listens to our grievances we are sure he will be just and merciful.” ‘We cannot longer endure our sufferings. Better die at once and end all.” Such were the cries repeatdely heard from many strikers, The military authorities had a firm grip on every artery in the city. At daybreak guards, regiments, cavalry and infantry held every bridge across the frozen Neva, the network of canals which interlaces the city and the gates leading from the industrial sec- tion, while in the palace square, at the storm center were massed dragoon regiments, infantry and cossacks of the guards. Barred from the bridges and gates, men, women and children crossed the frozen river and canals on the ice by twos and threes, hurrying to the palace square, where they were sure the emperor would be present to near them. But the street approaches to the square were cleared by volleys and Cossack charges. Men and women, infuriated to frenzy by the loss of loved ones, cursed the soldiers while they retreated. Men harangued the crowds, telling them the emperor had foiled them and they had come to cat. Men began to build barricades in the Nevsky Prespects and at other points, using any material that came to. hand, and even chopping down telegraph poles, Fighting meantime continued at va. rious places, soldiers volleying and charging the mob. , In the evening the crowds, exhaust ed, began to disperse, leaving the mii tary in possession, As they retreatc¢ up the Navsky Prospect, the work men put out all the lights, The little chapel at the Narva ga‘c was wrecked. Comment on the action of the troops and authorities is very bitter, and sar- castic remarks are made that officers are more brave against the defense: less public than against the Japanese, and that “ammunition may be scarce in the far east, but is too plentiful here.” The minister of the interlor present- ed to his majesty the invitation of the workmen to appear at the winter palace and receive their petition, but the ezar’s advisers had already taken a decision to show a firm and resolute front, and the emperor's answer to the 100,000 workmen trying to make their way to the palace square was a solid array of troops who met them with rifle, bayonet and saber. The The priest, Goupon, the leader and idol of the men, in his golden vest- ments, holding aloof the cross and marching at the head of thousands of workmen through the Narva gate, miraculously escapeq a volley which laid low half a hundred persons. The total number of wounded here, at the Moscow gate, at various bridges and islands and at the winter palace vary. |The best estimate is 500, although Shere: are exaggerated figures placing the number as high as 5,000. | Many men were accompanied by their wives and children, and in the confusion, which left no time for dis- crimination, the latter fared the fate of the men. The troops with the ex- ception of a single regiment, which is reported to have laid down arms, re- seated loyal and obeyed orders, But the blood which crimsoned the snow has fired the brains and passions of the strikers and turned women as | well as men into wild beasts, and the ery of the infuriated populace is for | vengeance. If Father Goupon, the master mind of the movement, aimed at open revo- jlution, he managed the affair like a genius to break the faith of the people jin “the little father,” who they were convinced, and whom Father Goupon had taught them to believe, would right their wrongs and redress their | grievances, Gorsky, the Russian novelist, ex: presses the opinion that this revolt will break the faith of the people ‘n the emperor. He said to a represent ative of the Associated Press: “This has inaugurated revolution in Russia. The emperor's prestige will be irrevocably shattered by the shed. ding of innocent blood. He has alien. ated himself forever from his people Goupon taught the people to believe that an appeal direct to “the little father’ would be heeded. They have been deceived. Goupon is now con vinced that peaceful means have ‘failed and that the only remedy is ree, The first blood has been shed "ut more will follow. It is now the eople against the oppressor, and the attle will be fought to the bitter end.’ Intense indignaticn is bound to be ‘roused all over Russia. The work nen ond revolutionists expect news ‘rom Moscow and other big centers where the troops are not of the samé class as the guards regiment of St Petersburg. A member of the emperor's house bold is quoted as saying that this will end the war with Japan and that Russia will have a constitution o1 Emperor Nicholas will lose his head ST. PETERSBURG: The agitation of striking workmen has reached sll stage of revolution. Sunday afternoon conflicts between the troops and mobs were of frequent occurence and excite ment is now at fever heat. Three hundred of the demonstrators were killed or wounded in the conflicts; this number included many women and children. During the afternoon the strikers built barricades and pre pared to defend themselves. When orders were given to fire on the strik- ers one detachment of infantry laid down their arms and absolutely re- fused to obey the orders, The city is in a turmoil and revolution is fmmi- nent. The horrors of widespread revo- lution is startling to the authorities and the revolt of troopers is paralyz- ing the public service. Thousands of grim visaged peasants and laboring men are building strong barricades determined to challenge the military Saeed to mortal combat and cries of “liberty or death’ are heard upon every hand. The first conflict was flerce and sanguinary and with amaz- ing unanimity the people rallied to the sidhdard of the revolutionists, and when the crash came the multl- tudes of men, women and children congregated on the palace square, real- izing the terrible calamity of failure, seemed endowed with almost super- human power, and led by the intrepid Father Goupon, who had inspired the great mass meeting, stood like a wall ‘of adamant against the assaults of troops who were ordered to disperse them. When the infantry refused to fire upon the populace there was con- sternation among the hirh officials lot the empire and hurried consilta- |tions were immediately held. Officials of the government are \doing all in their power to re-assure ithe people, and declare the trouble is of but little consequence and that the police have the rioters under control and that complete order will be re- stored. All newspaper offices have been closed and the news scent out is to some extent censored. The government has taken posses sion of all telegraph lines leading 10 the provinces, probably for the pur: pose of preventing the news from this city causing trouble in other places. Rumors of outbreaks in other see- tions of the empire are in circulation, but the government officials declare them to be false. Army officers are appealing to the men to be patriotic as long as a foreign war is in progress. The city is in great turmoil and has every appearance of a military camp. The central figure among the strik- ers is the priest Goupon. He is con- stantly on the move from one group to another, urging the strikers to stand firm but to do no rash thing. He un- hesitatingly tells the people that war is inevitable, but that nothing must be wasted. He urges closer: organi. zation and tells the people every: where that it is a fight or slavery. He is loudly cheered at every point and he makes a striking picture in his scarlet robes among the sober. hued dress of the laboring people. ‘he refusal of the troops to fire on the rioters has caused consterna. tion in official circles, -and it is feared that there is a widespread conspiracy among the troops to join the strikers in a rebellion against the government. That the officials are greatly agitated is evident to all, On the Kaminostov island all the lights were extinguished. Broken windows and embedded bul. jets are found at long distances from the scene of the firing. ie atthe Cinta sels Beene On tia MARKET REPORTS THE COTTON SITUATION Russia's Strike Troubles are Having Effect on the Market basa igi § <ul > cathe Ps aston Internal troubles in Russia have cast their shadows over the cotton market in this country and resulted im a downfall in prices. The numerous strikes were the primary cause. and’ in- Stigator of the first decline, - after which stop orders to the wite houses and reports that spots were moving freer completed the route." Foliowing the first decline of a few points the markets became steadier and ruled so for a short period of time, but with every point dropped came more stop orders, and wire houses being forced to sell by their customers, the decline was made easier and more rapid. Those not implicated in past market transactions have no more than 2” passing interest in the market ex cept as .the declines threaten the business interests of their localfties. Others watch the fluctuations more closely, but, under the market con ditfons, are unable to influence thy course of prices to their own ends and profit. COTTON 0 Galveston Spots Low ordinary, 3 14-16; ordinary, 45-16; food ordinary, 6 9-16; low mld- dling, 6 7-16; middling, 7 1-16; good middling, 7 7-16; middling fair, 7 13-16, Now Orleans Spots § 8-16: low middl'ne, 6 4-16; mildin~, 6 12-16; goct middiles, 7 1-175. mit diin fair, 7 9-17. Live stock , Kanses City Pe CATTLE — Choles snart. ent dressed beef steers, $1.8575,75; fr to good. $3594.75; restern fed steers, $3.50@4.75; southern © ews, $2.25@.3.25; native vows, $1.7504.15; native heifers, $3.00@4.59; bulls, $2.50 @4.00; calves, $3.09@6,50. HOGS—Top, $4.80; bulk of sales, $4.55@4.75; heavy, $4.75 @4.£0; pack ers, $4.00@4,75; pigs and Ught, $4.00 @ 4.70. Shoop SHEEP—Native !ambs, 86.0°007.59; native wethers, $5.25 25.75: native fed ewes, $4,255.75; western Inmbs, 86.00@7.50; western yearlings, $5 50@ 6.00; western sheep, ‘$4.7525:78; stockers and feeders, $3.0075.00. Chicago CATTLE—Good to prime steers, $5.7076.25: poor to medium, $2.75@ 5.00;stockers and feeders, $2.2544.25; cows, $1.2574.40; heifers, $2.00@5.10; cenners, $1.25@2.45; bulls, $2.10@4.00; calves, $3.907.00, HOGS —-Reeeipts, 15,000 head; mar- ket strong and firm, Mixed and butchers, $4.45@4.65; good to cholea heavy, $4.621%4@4.70; rough heavy, $4.45@4.55: Heht. $4.40@447%; bulk of sales, $4,594.60. SHEEP—Reecipts, 2,000 head; sheep steady; lambs, firm. Good to choiea wethers, $5,095.50; fair to choice mixed. $4.0004.90; western seen, $4:2595.50; native lambs. $5.75 @7.75; western lambs, $5.75@7.65. CASH GRAIN WHEAT—Ne, 2 red, $1.75%; No, 3, S$1.19@1.95: No. 2 hard, °$1,13@1.16; No, 3 hard, $1.0571.15; No, 1 soft, new, $1.18%; No, ? soft. new, $1.13@ 1.1444; No. 3 soft, $1.05@1.14, wrtred always hurts the hater mo:t of all. r In oredr to join the groat silent ma- jority a man must either dio or get married. My Colorado Bedroom. My Colorado bedroom has no limit to its wall. Its roof is in the heavens, and the heavy dews that fall Sprinkle floor and lawn and carpet, paint the colors in the rose That blooms around my bedroom and blossoms in the snows. My Colorado bedroom is as broad as it is long. It was built by the Creator with foundations deep and strong: God Almighty laid the corners, spread the carpet on the floor That changes as the seasons change with everything outdoor. My Colorado bedroom has no lock upon its door. No contains on its windows and no chains upon its floor; The smoke goes through the ceiling and as I rest from care I'll never find a sweeter place when I get "over there." My Colorado bedroom is out in the open air, There's no mortgage on its freehold and no landlord anywhere; The snow blows through the attic, but the sun shines in the door. Sifted down through angels' fingers and spread out upon the floor. My Colorado bedroom is very dear to me. With the silent stars above it shining like an astral sea. And when this life is over and the pearly gates I see. May I rest within its bosom; it is heaven enough for me. —Denver Post. THE MILK IN THE COCOANUT BY KENNETT HARRIS (Copyright, 1905, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) On one social occasion Trooper William J. Jones made a public declaration that he could whip to a rich, creamy froth any gentleman there present, and that any lady within sound of his voice was his, to have and to hold, whensoever he chose to exercise his sovereign will. The gentlemen present numbered perhaps twenty-five or thirty, and it was not their usual habit to disregard any challenge of this character, but Trooper William Jones, six feet three inches in his government socks, bulthroated, bullet-headed and with muscles of might, jumping up and down on the fiddler's platform, his eyes blazing in alcoholic frenzy, his knotty fists waving and lunging, was so grizzly and menacing an object that they let the boast pass in lofty silence. As for the ladies—well, perhaps the less said about them the better. The incident, however, illustrates the fact that Trooper William J. Jones was addicted to drink; further that when he had indulged in this form of vice he became aggressively pugnacious and particularly amorous. It goes without saying that he was the cock of his company, and Company D had some pretty husky men in its ranks too. 19 Jumping Up and Down. One midsummer afternoon Trooper Jones decided that he was superior to military discipline. He was assisted to this conclusion by a little yellow-faced man in indecently tattered canvas trousers who came into camp with a certificate of good character from the Cuban general and a gunnysack full of green cocoanuts. He presented the captain and lieutenants of Com- pany D with a cocoanut apiece and they found the milk so mild and refreshing that they had no hesitation in permitting the little yellow-faced man to peddle the fruit around the camp. Trooper William J. Jones purchased a cocoanut and he found the milk so stimulating that he declared his intention of getting more of it, and rose with the evident purpose of looking for the yellow-faced man. "Sit down, you damned fool," said his bunkie, "you're drunk enough now. He's five miles off by this time." "You lie," retorted Trooper Jones. "The measly cocoanut didn't hold more than a pint an' you drunk a third o' that, you grinnin', ganglin', spider-legged tank. Tell me I'm drunk on a half pint of new rum and I'll make you swaller the heel o' my boot. I'm goin' to git some more if I foller Mister Dago Amigo to hell or Santiago." Their shelter tent was within three lurches and a stagger of the manigua, at least those evolutions took Trooper William J. Jones into it and a moment later the mottled and scarlet land crabs were scuttling before his uncertain feet as he steered for the Sevilla trail. Now it so happened that Dolores Teresa Noyaro y Vados had in this unlucky hour decided to visit her sister, Maria, at her little red-tiled house on the outskirts of Sevilla. She had no idea that there was any risk attending the proceeding, for she was a good patriot, and was not the presence of the generous and brave Americanos a sufficient guarantee that no Spanish guerillas were in the neighborhood? So she mounted her little donkey and set off. Right by the spreading mango at the gate of the Bendizo plantation, at which point she entered the trail, she was delighted to see Trooper Jones. That is, she was delighted at first. She was a little bit of a flirt, was Dolores, black, but comely, and the blackness didn't count in the province of Santiago. When she first recognized the khaki uniform and noted the splendidly proportioned, almost gigantic form it clothed and caught the bold, admiring look of Trooper Jones' dark eyes, she showed her white teeth in an inviting smile. But when she saw how he lurched in his gait and the stumbling haste with which he approached her, the smile faded away and she smote the little donkey vigorously. "Hold on, Senorita Peacherino!" cried Trooper Jones, grasping the donkey's bridle as it began deliberately to get under way, "Wait for me, honey gal. Don't be scared," he continued, encircling her generous waist with his arm, "I'm heap plenty amigo an' you're just my size—sabe? Here! Wha's matter? I ain't goin' to hurt you—jest want to love you. Quit your foolishin' an' let me pet you." She screamed, and buffeting his bullet head with both hands, strove in vain to escape. Trooper William J. Jones laughed and relinquishing his hold on the donkey's bridle, lifted her easily out of the saddle and carried her, struggling and kicking, to the roadside and there set her down. Almost at the same instant he received a stinging blow on the cheek from the flat of a machete and turning with an oath, saw before him an undersized mulatto in the dirty white drill uniform of an insurgent lieutenant, who was dancing up and down, shouting defiance and brandishing his weapon. Dolores instantly availed herself of the diversion. With a bound she was on the little donkey's back and "Pepita of my Soul," so adjured, forgot for once the perverse obstinacy of her nature and trotted briskly down the trail. As for Trooper Jones he likewise wasted no time. The oath he uttered in his surprise changed to an inarticulate howl and the next moment the little mulatto lieutenant was caught up in his arms and hurled like a stone from a catapult into the thorny aloes that bristled at the side of the trail. It was only their stiff resilience that saved Teniente Jose's neck. Then Treoper Jones, who was emphatically a man of one idea, looked for Dolores and seeing that she was rapidly attaining the vanishing point, gave chase. He was a good runner and Pepita would have had little chance against him even with her start, had it not been for the root of a cedrilla that, stretching across the trail, engaged his foot and sent him sprawling with a force that knocked the breath out of his body. He was struggling to his feet when a sharp, violent pain shot through his thigh and a stream of high-pitched, excited Spanish assailed his ear. It was the little insurgent lieutenant again, and this time he had scored, as the blood trickling down the trooper's brown gaiters testified. Trooper Jones made another rush, but this time the little mulatto was wary: he sprang A the trooper caught him in the pit of the stomach. aside and as his bulky antagonist passed, his machete flashed in the sunlight and bit into the trooper's shoulder, who whirled about and then stood still. Trooper Jones felt suddenly sobered and alert. He looked at his man. The mulatto's eyes were blazing with fury and his lips were writhed above his teeth in a devilish grin; but he too was alert, for all his rage. "No more rushes," thought Trooper Jones, "God! If I only had a gun!" He glanced rapidly around for a stick or a stone. There was none in sight. Then he advanced cautiously upon his grinning foe, who retreated three paces and then suddenly lunged. Trooper Jones leaped back, but not so quickly as to avoid a sharp prick in the side, and at that he stopped again with a sudden realization of his helplessness. "Here," he said, "I've got enough of this. Amigo—sabe? I'll call it quits. You vamos—vamos—sabe? You're all right, John—oh, damn you! then get me if you can." For the mulatto made no reply, but with the point of his machete advanced, began to circle around the American, his body crouched and his whole expression one of absolute relentlessness. Then, for the first time in his life, fear crept into the heart of Trooper William J. Jones and he lifted up his voice for help in a long, shrill ulation. The little man whirled his machete again, but Jones avoided the blow and rushed. Again his foe retreated and began his wary circling. Something in his crouching attitude recalled to Trooper Jones a knife duel between two Mexicans that he had witnessed in Juarez four years before. It gave him an inspiration. He suddenly stripped himself of his blouse and wrapped it about his left forearm, just in time to prove its efficacy by parrying a savage cut at his head. Gaining confidence he rushed again, but the mulatto was too quick for him and slashed him twice down the face. Then with a shout the little man cut at the unprotected wrist. But that blow was his last, for the *oooper caught him in the pit of the stomach and as he staggered back sick with pain Jones got him. They found him lying in the trail, the insurgent lieutenant almost dead. Trooper Jones, bleeding from half a score of ugly wounds, was as near dead as a man may be and yet be brought back to life. They patched him up somehow, but he is not good to look at, and he will utter ferocious boasts in the dance halls of El Paso never more. NEVER WRITE AT NIGHT. Girl Philosopher Gives Good Advice to Her Chum. From 8 to 10 p. m. the tall girl wrote letters. The next morning immediately after breakfast she announced that her time up to 12 o'clock would be devoted to correspondence. "Surely you are not going to write more letters," said the top-floor girl. "You wrote a dozen last night." "I know I did," was the reply, "but I am not going to send them. I never mail a letter that I write at night. It isn't safe. I say too many idiotic things. I only write them as a kind of safety valve. There are certain things that I must say to relieve my mind. After I get those surging thoughts put down on paper I feel better, but you couldn't bire me to mail the letters. "I used to, but that was before they got me into so much trouble. We let our emotions run away with us when writing at night. We get entirely too confidential. Under the witchery of a shaded gas jet we tell things that wild horses couldn't drag from us by the light of day. Hopes, aspirations and the history of deeds accomplished are described in tropical language. Next morning we realize what geese we have made of ourselves, but if the letters have been mailed it is too late to do anything, and we just have to sit down and wait for the avalanche to strike us. It has struck me so many times that it has endowed me with a little caution. "I still write letters at night, but only as a relief to my surcharged heart. This morning I shall write to the same persons I wrote to last night, but the letters will not be even first cousins to those emotional lucubrications. These will be safe and sane and warranted innocuous enough to be read aloud in the best-regulated family without producing a ripple. I can't say the same for the ones I tore up before going to bed." The top-floor girl looked uneasy. "I wrote a letter myself last night," she said. "Better read it," the tall girl advised. "You'll be pretty sure not to send it if you do." The top-floor girl opened the envelope and perused her letter slowly. "I think," she said, "that I will go upstairs and write another." Those Kindly Persons. It happened in a railway station. The baby cried and cried and cried. "Perhaps he desires his bottle," suggested a fatherly looking old party. "He has not been raised on the bottle," cuttingly replied the handsome young woman who held the infant. The baby's shrieks grew terriac. He made unmistakable signs that he wanted his dinner. "Beg pardon, ma'am," said the elderly party, "but may I suggest that you—cr—permit the child to—er—take nourishment?" "This baby belongs to my sister," replied the young lady, blushing furiously, "and she won't be here for half an hour. I'm holding it for her." Politeness in the East. In the battle of Fenghuangcheng the Japanese took among their captures two enormous Chinese vases of thirteenth century workmanship. On learning that they were a present to Gen. Kouropatkin Gen. Kuroki promptly dispatched them to the Russian outposts with a polite note ending: "May the flowers of friendship blossom high in these vases." In Kouropatkin's reply he referred to the Japanese as "a people of generous friends whom I visited in peace, of magnanimous foes in war, at whose hands even defeat is no disgrace." ON errr Local and Personal. Hl. Browning of Guthrie, O. T., is now in the city prospecting. Miss C. E. Townsend ot Escoe Heights is spending the week in the city, Two negro boys were arrested Wednesday for stealing an overcoat. They were sent to U.S. jail. The Washington brothers of Okla- homa City, O. T. are in the: city looking ont a location for business The jury in the Plea Cherry mur der case brought in a verdict of man slaughter This was the ease of the Nillingg of a man by his wife at Boyne tou last summer. Mr. S. T. Washington of Oklahoma City, Okla, has been spending sone days here shaking hands with old and making new friends. Mr. Riggers of Texas is among re cent arrivals, Tle expeets his family soon aud will engage in truck farm- ing near Muskogee. S. VL Miller of Pittsburg, Kansas, has been spending some time here on a visit to friends. L. ‘T. Brown of Tablequah passed throngh Saturday en route to Kan- sas City. Mo, and returned Tuesday reporting a pleasant trip. Miss Gertrude Johnson, who has heen very sick since the holidays, is now on a fair way to recovery. Mr. J. M. Lewis of Greenville, Miss. arrived on the ogth inst and expects to cast his lot in the Creek nation, Mr, AJL. Washington arrived from Guerdon, Ark. on the a5th inst and expects to put in some time in car- pentry in Muskogee WH. Twine spent Tuesday in Eu- faula looking after matters in’ the court over which Judge Sulzbacher was judge. Elliott Bros. make d specialty in hats and high grade shoes etc. We won't duplicate the other thing that the Daily Searchlight mentioned for fear Of being lynched. Mr. Jeff Brown of Wewoka was in the city several days this week at- tending court and of course | sub. seribed for the Cimeter Mr, Henry Hutton of Boynton: is in the city attending court. Mr. Hut ton is ene of our most prosperous farmers. He has over 1,000 acres of splendid land in his possession and in cultivation . 1. T. Brown, the popular atorney of Tahlequah, passed through the city Tuesday enroute home and paid the Cimeter a call and as a matter of course left a yearly subscription, The National Burial Association has established an agency here with the Creek Undertaking Co. The fol- lowing solicitors are now canvassing the city: Mrs. White and Chilton of South McAlester and Miss Hattie one Kansas City, Kansas. | OE. BK. McDaniel, the contractor, topped over a few days in Muskogee this week, | Fortnightly Culture Chub will meet at Sango Daptist college Friday night | February 3rd. Programme. Chorus by College. Invocation by Chaplain, Rell call; quotations from Shakes peare. Solo, Mr. E. W. Brown, Address, Mr. W. A’ Rentie. Solo, Mr. Lee. Recitation, Miss Henrietta Brows. Solo, AL G. W Sango. Select Readiug, Mr. b. C. Clark. Music, Celtege Club, Lodge Notes. Trimmph Ledge, No. go, A. F. and A. M., met oat its regular communi- cation and expelled the following members: Butcher Scott, Jim Samuel, William Perryman, John Card, Burton Hawk- jas, Anderson Melntosh, Warrior Bruner, Sank Bruner, J. W. Everett J. R. McClain, Sumptus Span, George Barnes, Richman Curtis, J. Ho Wells, Veter Hawkins, Joe Hawkins, Louis Jones, Sam Barnett. Now, boys. look out J. M. RENTIFE, W. M. EK. D. HARRISON, Sce’y. The acting commissioner of pen sions shovld be called to account by the administration for asking Dr. Hill to resign, and the resignations of Drs. Clanahan and Smiley shovld be im- mediately accepted by the pension burean. And Dr. HEM shonld not re sign. as the question of color is nat sufficient reason for him doing: so The excase put forward hy the pension burean officials, that there has been numerous petitions from old soldiers in the vicinity who are obliged to go to Boonville to take the physical examination, — protesting against being obiteed to strip for ex- faminations before a colored: surgeot is one which is weak, foolish, and a makehsiit behind which these ofic- fials have attempted to hide. In the Nate’ war did these same soldiers re. fuse to eat, drink, sleep and die with colored soldiers, they wore each others clothes and in the presence of those tragic times lived as brothers. “And now after more than forty years these same men refuse (o be exam. ned by a Doctor because his skin is dark. Ml of these men who refuse ‘to be examined should be denied a }pension for in th clarger sense they hare false te the constitution and the principles for which his compatriots fought and died. | Dr. Hill should not resign, he Ishould keep the place until removed ~ Poor old Missouri, she came inte ‘the Republican fold in the last elec ition but She has not sbeeh able. ty lirce herself of the narrowness which jhas always existed among a large part of her population, \ READER. Revs, Street, Simons, Hill and Gratton were welcome visitors to oar office today. The 2oth Century Correspond- ing SCHOGL of STENOGRAPRY., A Sehe ol of Modern Meth ds. 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