Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Cimeter. Vol 6. PETIT JURY OFFER RESOLUTIONS To the Federal Court after completing their work for the term. ENDORSE RAYMOND As a most satisfactory Judge for honesty and square deal. This morning the petit jury finished its work on the criminal term and when it had done so asked to present a resolution before the court. The request was granted and the following resolution was read: Petit Jury Resolution. "We, the petit jurors of the Federal court at Muskogee, I. T., for the January term, 1905, desire to go on record endorsing the administration of Judge C. W. Raymond. "No man could be more fair and impartial to litigants; more impartial in all instruction given to the jury, or more courteous to both witnesses and jurors. There is hardly a case tried in which Judge Raymond has not instructed us to be fair and give a square deal to all parties. "We endorse his administration as an able and strictly honest one; and endorse him as preeminently the judge of a square deal. "Wm. Brown, Haskell; A. D. Jones, Mounds; E. R. Durfey, Muskogee; Sherman Brown, Okmulgee; J. E. Nelson, Wewoka; Thomas F. Young, Rex; S. P. Montgomery, Muskogee; D. H. Zink, Muskogee; E. W. Rizer, Muskogee; John Doyle, Muskogee; Robert Z. Todd, Muskogee; A. M. Lusk, Muskogee; John T. Dyer, Muskogee; W. E. Greene, Muskogee; Chas. Dyer, Muskogee; W. Wiswell, Muskogee; W. B. Robe, Muskogee; Ceo. D. Harvison, Okemah; W. E. Moore, Boynton; Henry Bombeck, Muskogee; John Kelley, Muskogee; Grant Spradling, Muskogee; Frank Osborn, Muskogee; J. O. Warriner, Muskogee; J. S. Marshal, Muskogee; Joe Z. Todd, Muskogee; Chas. A. Holloway, Checotah; B. H. Klase, Muskogee; C. E. Chunning, Muskogee; H. C. Pearson, Ft. Gibson; W. W. Means, Wewoka." After reading the above resolution the following remarks were made by Rev. Zink, professor at Bacone University, upon presentation to Judge Raymond: "I should like to add a word to this point. "First: I desire to say that having been a teacher before the public for many years, and having desired at all times to consider things as they are, and hope for their perfection, I bear witness here as a juror in this instance. "Second: I desire to say as a juror, while sitting here, judging the witnesses or testimony for and against the criminal, I have not left unnoticed the conduct of our Honorable Muskogee, I. T., Thursday, Feb. 2, 1905. Court, and while I am not ready to make a charge, though he has said at different times he was ready to receive one, I do not feel that it is out of the way that the living should receive commendation when it is due. I want to say that I have been before Methodist conferences; I have been before Presbyterian Synods in their deliberations; I have attended courts where lawyers were fencing over certain cases in dispute; I have witnessed the decisions rendered in courts of justice in the States of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Texas, and now I stand here, and I want to say that in all my experience I have never seen anyone placed in authority who has been more considerate, more honest, more decisive, more correct in all of his judgments and decisions than our Honorable Judge incumbent. "I thank you." Raymond's Response. To this Judge Raymond made the following reply: 'Gentlemen, I thank you for your splendid endorsement. You come from every part of the Western District, representing all parties and interests, and have been present during the trial of the criminal cases for the past three weeks. You have seen something of the manner in which public business is transacted here, and your judgment is of much more value than that of the man who has never been in court, or who has stood in fear that justice might be administered to him. "For three and one half years I have been trying cases here nearly every day of the year and much of my labor has continued into the night. I have always tried with my whole might to do my duty, and without being in fear of any man or granting special favors to any man, 'I have endeavored to administer the law. I think no impartial, honest, sober, sensible citizen will contradict this statement. It has always been my desire to give a square deal in every trial—as well to the government as to the parties to the litigation. You have been long enough in court to know that some parties do not want a square deal, but rather entertain a fear of it. "You will remember the old saying: "'No wretch e'er felt the halter draw. With a good opinion of the law.' "I notice some complaint has been made by a man by the name of Douglas. Well, to be criticised by a man with such a record does not even annoy me. "This man has been three times tried for murder in the Indian Territory. "Was summarily discharged from the government service in the Indian Agent's office for peculiar conduct by the Secretary of the Interior, and since that time has continually criticised nearly every public official in the government service. "He has been a candidate for nearly every position in the gift of the people, and has generally been unsuccessful. Defeated for World's Fair Commissioner. Defeated for delegate from Indian Territory to Washington. Defeated for delegate to National Convention. Defeated in his desire to have the editorial association of Indian Territory and Oklahoma endorse his plan to have the laws of Oklahoma extended over and put in force in the Indian Territory; he has become a chronic complainer, and is now almost without a friend or a follower in the Indian Territory. "Some time ago this same man came to me and after informing me that his newspaper was under mortgage, asked me to assist in forming a corporation to take over his newspaper, advance the money necessary to pay off indebtedness, and take stock enough in the newspaper corporation to compensate me for the advancement. This I declined, and this is the only proposition I have ever had made to become associated in the newspaper business or with newspaper men. Shortly after this Mr. Douglas came to me and insisted that as Judge of the United States Court for the Western District, I name his newspaper as the official paper of this district, and compel all legal advertisements to be inserted therein. In support of this request he stated that Judge Townsend of the Southern district had made a similar order, and as the editor of the Republican paper at Muskogee, demanded a like one I told Mr. Douglas I knew no law which would justify me in making such an order and I must decline. That I had never heard of such an order being made by Judge Townsend; that in my opinion such an order would be void and would be very unfair to the editors of other papers Republican and Democratic throughout the district; that all must be treated squarely and alike; that I had no personal interest in any of them, but that I was friendly to each; that attorneys had the legal right to name the paper in which their legal advertisements were published and I must decline to make the order. This irritated the gentleman and his criticism is the result. It is simply a case of blackmail where the goods demanded were refused, followed by an assault. "Gentlemen, such men must not be taken as a type of the vigorous manhood trying to develop this grand new state. "They are but freaks and only represent themselves and their peculiar vanities. "If the order which is to the effect that no witness while drunk will be permitted to testify in this court; that no juror while drunk shall sit in judgment upon the important rights of the citizen, and no drunken lawyer while drunk shall misrepresent any client in the federal court of the Western district, is tyranny and discourteous, I think the criticism is a fair one. No.17 "Gentlemen, you have seen enough to know such a rule is but fair dealing to litigants, whose rights ought not to be sacrificed by drunken attorneys, and ought to be enforced in every court in the land. "The same class of men who criticise an orderly court here were very vicious in their attacks upon Judge Parker of the Western district of Arkansas, who did so much to preserve order in the Indian Territory. "I have appointed to official place only the best men I could find. Each one will bear me out in the statement that the only orders they have ever received from me have been to enforce the law without fear or favor, be just, be square, and transact more public business and in a better manner than has ever been before at his station. Some have been newspaper men. They have been appointed upon their merit alone; and frankly, gentlemen, I have always thought that the newspaper fraternity was a very honorable one, and never before knew it to be an offense or impropriety to name a newspaper man for official place until I read these criticisms. "I still cling to my former good opinion of the newspaper boys with an exception or two. "The records of the Attorney General will show more business transacted in this court last year and at less cost to the government than in any other court of the Indian Territory. "In this the Western district last year there were, not counting dismissals of causes, 1270 trials in law and criminal cases at an expense to the government of $147,000, as against 1025 trials, not counting dismissals of causes, in the Southern district, at an expense to the government of $190,000, and 1034 trials, not counting dismissals, in the Central district, at an expense to the government of $211,000. "That record means something. It shows some one must have been at work. Much of the credit belongs to the splendid grand and petit jurors of the district, who were willing to return an honest day's work to the government for an honest day's pay, the same as one expects to render in working for a corporation or a private citizen. "No better jurors can be found in any state of the Union than have been sitting in these courts for the last three years. "Since I have been judge of the Western district many of the most important legal questions in this Territory have required my earnest attention and decision. In not one of these important cases has my decision been reversed by the Court of Appeals. "Without courting the applause or disfavor of any, I have only asked myself—what is the law—and having made as good an investigation of the facts and law as was possible, I have Continued on page Twelve. 1 Wine Soldier No Away Soldier Away Soldier No Away Soldier No ```markdown ``` known at the service the incorporation and brings us our team to investigate issues in any region. The game at Tampa Bay was an innovative team. I was compelled to give my knowledge and expertise and the team. Please make presentations, discussions and brief presentations in any good or current thing at the show. The first line of Sarah's history will incorporate any new knowledge from I contribute the information. 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I had tried many remedies, but was growing worse, when I started with Cotlurea. The first application gave me instant relief, and when I had used two cakes of Cotlurea soap and three boxes of Cotlurea Ointment, I was completely cured (signed) Miss Nellie Vander Winkle, Lakeside, N.Y." No man is as big as his dreams or as little as his needs. IMMENSE TOBACCO PURCHASE. Forty-Eight Thousand Dollars Paid for a Fancy Lot of Tobacco. The biggest purchase of high grade tobacco ever made in the West by a cigar manufacturer was made last Wednesday by Frank P. Lewis, Peoria, Ill., for his celebrated Single Andor cigar. A written guarantee was given that the entire amount was to be fancy selected tobacco. This, no doubt, makes the Lewis factory the largest holder in the United States of tobacco of so high a grading. Herald Transcript, Peoria. Much do I admire the inconsistency of those avowed lovers of horse flesh who strenuously protest when they find portions of us in cans that are labeled "heef." Murdoch University Cambridge. W. R. WILSON, M.D. MEDICAL CLINIC 2200, MIDDLE AND THE ```markdown ``` The prosecution at Thiruvalluram that laws require a warning officer offence. Swaran formally surrenders are being largely to give up wrong without a trial total year. An investigation remains the case that the current show gave the ground for murder of swaran. Without ground and investigation that will spare the saray total year. The benefit of enforcing of Orrambucca Only law officers to issue a call for an enforcement to make notice for two more wrong buildings, to ensure that such Petitions are being requested for the Immigration of Goyaume, in Missouri company. Amanda J. Bryan of Goyaume is then to $20,000 insurgent for by the bombing Judge John Tice, who died re- cently in Illinois. During elections are hard of work in an effort to ensure a continuing fac- tory. The Goyaume Oil and Gas con- pany has been insurgent and will prepare for oil and gas in the vicinity of Goyaume. The towns of Russell, passed in honor of Cunningham Russell, the big most flaming, so to have a public dedication of the new second building on February day 3. The awarding engineer of the Vir- ginal Bridge company which concurred the contract for the construction of widening of the bridge to be built out of the last main town in Cunningham county, has arrived at Lanton and is preparing to begin work. The city council of Mill Creek has granted a twenty-year franchise to the Sulphur Telephone company to construct and maintain an exchange at that place. The installation is to be made within ninety days from the time the franchise was granted. The organization of the City National bank at Wagmer has been approved by the comptroller of the currency. This gives the town three national banks. The Farmers' Trading company of Houlton Arrow has been incorporated for $25,000. Fire last week broke out in the Sango Baptist college at Muskogee, but was extinguished before much damage was done. Eighteen miles of roadbed between Tulsa and Midatook on the Midland Valley road has been completed. This road will be completed to the Kansas line and trains running by March 1. The Frisco has made a rate on glass sand to the Tulsa field to compete with the rates made by eastern roads to the Indian Territory fields. A meeting of the Shorthorn breeders' association has been called to meet in Stillwater February 10th. The fifteen-months-old child of J. C. Boss of Oktaha was fatally burned at the family home. The child had been left in front of an open fire place by its mother, who had gone from the room for a few moments. She returned to find the child enveloped in flames, being burned so badly that it died within a few hours. WARNING A SHARPED SCREEN from the Minneapolis warehouse. 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Teents are made every 100 yards or so, for the veins or ore debris from a straight line and within a very short distance from a worthless hole may be a rich pocket of valuable metal." Dealers may that as soon as a customer tries Deistance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. How to Escape Lightning Excellent authorities agree that in a thunderstorm the middle of a room is much the safest place in a house. A carpet floor or one covered by a heavy thick rug is better to stand on than bare wood. It is well to keep away from chiteneys and out of cellars. In the open air tall trees are dangerous. A person sheltering under a low tree or shrub thirty or forty feet I am a large and lofty tree is quite safe. If lightning strikes in the immediate vicinity it will hit the high tree as a rule, with few exceptions. Water is a very good conductor, and it is well to avoid the banks of streams in a violent thunderstorm. It Quenches the Fire. "Your Hunt's Cure is beyond doubt the most remarkable remedy for skin diseases ever formulated. For eight years I suffered almost constantly from an itching trouble the doctor called Kezema—my skin was on fire, but less than one box of Hunt's Cure quenched that fire. Many of my friends have since used it on my recommendation, and it never fails. Where there's an itch rub it on. It does the work—that's all." Mrs. Helen Whitmore. Not until we know all that God knows can we estimate to the full the power and the sacredness of some one life which may seem the humblest in the world.—John Ruskin. Don't you know that Defiance Starch besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in package and sells at same price as 12-ounce packages of other kinds? The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts without receiving their tincture.—Sterne. If you would be a leader you must have a way of laughing at ridicule and rocks. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. The average woman thinks she is braver than her husband because she is the first to hear a noise in the night. The treatment that some horses must submit to is worse than horse-raised on an enjoyment. MR. HAYDEN'S VIEWS GIVEN HIS OPINION OF THE BEST TREATMENT FOR PARELTHIS Sirlinen First Dr. Williamer Patrik Vilma Resigned the Law of the London Wives All Other Recommendations. The premontory symptoms of palsy are: trembling of the hands; entilion of power at arms or legs; frequentity affecting one whole side of the body; stinging; painful or entire inability to meet the fingers; distortion of the features; sometimes an uncontrollable quivering of the chest; severe pain; difficulty in speech. Frequently the first warning is a vigue leaking of ipsilache, vertigo and suspicious weakness. In a recent interview Mr. W. I. L. Hayden said: 'I truly think that Dr. Williamse' Pink Pills are a great medicine for they cared me when physicians and other remedies had failed to give me the slightest relief. Too close attention to business brought on an attack of nervousness which family developed into paralysis. There were times when it was impossible for me to move my hands or to get up from a chair. At other times I had partial control of my limbs, but I was afraid to go far from the house for fear I might suddenly become helpless and have to be carried home. "While I was in this miserable condition, I was stricken with malaria fever and confined to bed for four months. I had the best physicians, but while they relieved my fever, their treatment did not entirely drive the malaria from my system, and they did not help my paralysis in the least. "I was well high despairing when a friend persuaded me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. When I had finished one box I could see results that encouraged me. My condition kept steadily improving, and when I had taken seven boxes I was cured of paralysis and the malaria was completely driven out of my system. For two years now I have enjoyed the best of health and have attended to business without any interruption." Mr. Hayden's home is at No. 252 West 39th street, New York. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have cared many similar cases of paralysis, also locomotor ataxia. They are sold by all druggists. A treatment so simple, inexpensive and successful should be tried by every sufferer from partial paralysis in any of its stages. "Do carriage horses and their attendants waiting on zero-Sunday mornings in front of church buildings advertise Christianity" and "Would a horse trade his tail for a pedigree?" are the most foolish questions I have ever heard.—C. T. Evans in Chicago Record-Herald Sunday Magazine. 80 Bu. Macaroni Wheat Per Acre introduced by the U. S. Dept. of Agr. It is a tremendous cropper, yielding in good land in Wis., Ill., Ia., Mich., Ind., O., Pa., N. Y., 80 bu. per acre, and on dry, and lands, such as are found in Mont., Idaho, the Dakotas, Colo., etc.; it will yield from 40 to 60 bu. This Wheat and Speltz and Hanna Harley and Bromus Inermis and Billion Dollar Grass, makes it possible to grow and fatten hogs, sheep and cattle wherever soil is found. to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and they will send you free a sample of this Wheat and other farm seeds, together with their great catalog, alone worth $100.00 to any wide-awake farmer. [W. N. U.] It is usually found when a man shaves off his moustache that his wife has always protested against his doing it. More women weep over onions than over love affairs. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Star h makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. than for any other, and that is the fact that they do not regard the inventors of the check rein, the spur, blinkers and the curb-bit as "Beacon nights of History." FARM MISCELLANY Cover the Broken Window. When a window is broken in the poultry house it should be covered without a day's delay. By no means should the aperture be left over night. It is but the work of a few minutes to tack over the hole a thick piece of muslin or other white cloth. This will keep out the wind and let in some light. If muslin is not handy, paper can be used, and if the broken window forms so large a part of the whole through which light comes, the paper may be oiled and the light thus given access. This is, of course, only a makeshift till some one can get the glass needed. The writer knows of a case where the roop started in a flock because a broken window was left unattended to for a few days in March. Two of the fowls on the roost nearest the broken window contracted the dreaded disease and gave it to others in the flock, with resultant great loss to the owner. We have heard of poultrymen that preferred to have muslin window panes in the place of glass, as they claimed that the muslin window let in enough light for all purposes, but kept out the glare of the sun, and also that in summer time it let in the air both night and day. Where the winters are mild this may be used to some extent, but we doubt if it is a safe way to get ventilation in the northern winter. Planting the New Tree. A great many trees are lost because of the poor manner in which they are set. Instead of digging up the ground deeply and for a considerable width a mere hole is dug sometimes not more than two feet in diameter. The soil is perhaps clayey, and this hole serves as sort of catch basin, holding water after every rain. The roots of the trees are soon "mudded in," and air is shut off from them. The result is that the tree merely holds its own, but does not grow. In a year or two, perhaps, the tree is dead and a new one has been planted in its place, to likewise die. Water is a very important factor in the growth of trees, but too much water makes growth impossible. This is not the only result with the struggling tree. The development of the root system is made impossible, and when a gale comes along the tree is blown over, simply because its roots do not have a good hold of the earth. Had the ground been loosened up in all directions the water would not have collected in the immediate vicinity of the tree and the roots would have shot out in all directions, developing a multitude of rootlets to lay firm hold of the earth and hold the tree up against any blast. Doubtful Pedigreed Plants. We hear a great deal at the present time about pedigreed seed corn and pedigreed plants. On investigation it will be found that the so-called pedigrees are entirely lacking and what the people mean is corn that has been selected for a number of years. The term pedigreed is a misnomer unless it comes as a result of developing new varieties from the seed, by crossing with some other variety. The term should be dropped where incorrectly applied. Selecting plants is one thing and breeding plants is another. It may be that when one variety of corn is planted the resulting produce is really a new variety, but we are not in the habit of so regarding it. We plant Leaming corn and get from it what we call Leaming, unless it has been planted so near another variety that cross pollenization results. We have seen great improvement in the corn plant as a result of selection, but as yet little or no pedigreed work has been done. COL. 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The strongest kind of testimonials are received from officers of high rank concerning the virtues of Peruna for all catarrhal ailments. Only a small per cent. of these can be used for publication for want of space. Mr. Harrison L. Deam, Burnside Post No. 8, Department of the Potomac, Colonel encampment No. 69, Union Veterans Legion, Colonel Green Clay Smith Regiment No. 17, U. V. U., Department of the Potomac, Military Order Loyal Legion, Department of Columbia, Major 34th Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry, writes: "There is no longer any question as to the curative qualities of Peruna in all catarrhal troubles. Its successful use by many of my friends entitles it to confidence and endorsement." GIESECKE'S KEY BRAND SHOES TRADE MARK ST LOUIS ALL WAYS BEST Did you ever try them? If not, do so at once, and be convinced. Tweeked J' Orench Hays Shore Co - St. Louis. WANTED.—For the U. S. 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And yet both of these classes are more or less subject to catarrh and catarrhal diseases. ALL CLASSES ARE SUBJECT TO CATARRH. The soldier as well as the civilian finds it frequently necessary to use Peruna on account of coughs and colds. No one is exempt. The strong and healthy are less liable than the weak and ill, but none entirely escape. To admire a virtue without seeking to emulate it is to enervate the soul. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.—Shirley. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure you in 6 to 14 days. 50c. If woman could have her way she would never quarrel. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. K. 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Get a free homestead or purchase a farm in Western Canada, and become one of those who will help produce it. 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. ```markdown ``` A striking contrast between Defiance Starch and any other brand will be found by comparison. Defiance Starch stiffens, whitens, beautifies without rotting. It gives clothes back their newness. It is absolutely pure. It will not injure the most delicate fabrics. For fine things and all things use the best there is. Defiance Starch 10 cents for 16 ounces. Other brands 10 cents for 12 ounces. THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO., Omaha, Neb. THE @I METER. PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK IN THE INTEREST OF THE NEGRO BY CIMETER PUB. CO. ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT MUSKOGEE, I. T., AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER. W. H. TWINE . . . Editor. J. T. TRIMBLE . . Gen'l Solicitor E. T. HEARNE . . . City Reporter The Republicans in Missouri have not elected a senator as yet. This does not speak well for the Missouri article. The Russians and the Japs are still scrapping and there seems to be no probability of an ending of the war at present. Our city council seems to be loaded and if you desire to see a splendid performance just visit the menagerie any old meeting. The performance is rich and racy. Wlidcat is still on the map and some of the property owners out there will not trade for lots in the proposed New Town. Better let well enough alone. The titles are good in Wildcat. Is the hint sufficient? Several gentlemen who, it is claimed, attended the famous independent club meeting were not there and knew nothing of the gathering. The boys had to have a crowd, even if they had to call up the dead to make up for absentees. The Cimeter did not fail to come out as predicted by the gold (brick) bond gang. We will make our weekly visits as heretofore, the gold brick outfit and their cohorts to the contrary notwithstanding. The distinguished quill pusher on the Searchlight alias Gold Bond paper, are unable to agree as to who shall be "it." Gordon says "I" Clark says "We" and the other cuss says "Us". Now which or who is "IT?" The new postmistress is getting things in splendid shape. There are no complaints about mal being placed in the wrong box or given to the wrong persons and in fact the service is being improved in every particular. The city council gave a performance, not published in the daily papers on Monday night. Our old friend Marks and the Mayor were the stars, so we are informed. It is said that Marks took care of himself in good shape. The rot given out by Gordon, Clark and Sims is enough to dam them through time and eternity. Sims is sore because of his misfortune, etc., Gordon on account of loosing out as President of the Baptist College and Clark on everything in general and nothing in particular. OUR DELEGATE. S. T. Wiggins the brilliant attorney of Ardmore and an able representative of our race is in Washington doing a great work for our people in this Territory and every negro in the B. I. T. should show his appreciation for these services in a substantial way. Mr. Wiggins is at the national capital hard at work while the would-be pretended representative is lurking in his tent. The road was not barred. Let us rally to the standard of the man who is doing something. --- The Business Mens League will try to get along without the sympathy and assistance of Hell Adam Clark, Folly Jumpingjack Gordon and Washmaster Hotfoot Sims. The league loves some of its friends for the enemies they have made. The Gold bond paper says that the Cimeter is backed by a "sand bank" etc. Well we don't owe any bills and there are no unsatisfied judgments against this outfit or the editor and no one contemplating suit for work performed. Spahn., the fellow who fit, bled and died in Cuba for the flag, is a lieutenant in the Frank Reed brigade, who play the same act in the city campaign even it is played as some of the fellows in war played it, "under the commissary wagon." The gold bond paper n a two column article says that Frank Reed and his cohorts met on Monday night (there were 10 cohorts) and adopted resolutions and ordered them printed in the papers of the city. Up to this date only one paper, the gold bond, etc., has published the noted resolves. President Roosevelt will stop over in Muskogee on his southern trip. We don't know whether Col. Douglas or Judge Thomas persuaded the President to stop over and it does not matter, as any Muskogeeite would have impressed the President with the importance of a stopover here. The Republicans are in good shape to win from top to bottom. It can be done if the leaders will get together and there won't be any need to buy any votes. Men who want pay to vote the Republican ticket should be permitted to go elsewhere. Time proves all things. It proves some men to be honest, upright, true and loyal friends and others to be d—n snakes. "TO WASHINGTON." The Cimeter outfit and their freinds propose to make a visit to Washington on March 4th. Arrangements are being made for a cheap rate to and from the national capital. Those who desire to go with us should communicate with us on or before the 15th of this month. We want 25 men on our special car. The men who pay taxes are the fellows who are behind the Cimeter. If that's the sand bank our esteemed contemporary of gold bond fame refers to then they are correct. There was sufficient backing behind the Cimeter to get a printing press here in time to prevent the gold bond gang from squelching the paper. Pretty good for a sand bank, eh? As the spring campaign gets nearer the ambitious statesmen get more and more anxious to bleed the dear candidates. There will be a dozen or more different independent cluos organized if the pickings are good. We think now is the time to begin the agitation for another school house for the colored youth of the town. There are fifty small children in the south part of town who are unable to attend school on account of the long distance to walk and the extreme cold weather. This is a sad condition of affairs and should be remedied. Let us join hands and ask the board for relief. Dr. A. J. Austin of Boynton, was here this week on business. GLOYD LUMBER COMPANY. The Plotters and Their Dupes. The real fellows behind the organization known as the independent negro club have never attended the meetings these fellows are using the negro independents as tools and tails to the Democratic kite of the spring election. Some of the tools are not aware of the fact that they are being used for that purpose. It is well known that Affidavit Taylor and Cunning Jack Jones are the real brains of the movement with Funny Jaybird Gordon, Weary Hyena Sims, Hoodoo Alligator Clark and Fishing Whangdoodle Reed as dupes to put their plans into execution. These plotters assisted by the noted valorous warrior, Almangy Curr Spahn, are prepared to make a charge on the Democratic commissary wagon in the spring and annihilate the same. Humpback Street and a little nat with Aunt Jenny Wallace, bring up the rear. This outfit have decreed that the Cimeter shall die and that they will elect the opposition to the straight Republicans in the spring election. Wait and see. 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. Taking The Stump. To tell about our Lumber. It is put forward to win the approval of the lumber users of this section and when its good points are appreciated it will certainly do so. We see no satisfaction or profit in handling low grade stock. Neither will consumers when they learn that the finest lumber does not piece by the foot but by the inches. WE CAN RENT YOUR HOUSES 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 employe 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 Son 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. Dave Richardson's BARBERSHOP. OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Dave Richardson. - Pron. A Lumberman Standing on a Tree Stump with a Saw and a Stack of Wooden Boards. The Canadian Valley Trust Company Has a number of applicants who desire to rent houses. Owners of three, four, five and six room houses can secure desirable tenants by listing their property with us. REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT Canadian Valley Trust Co. LOCAL MENTION. Miss Roberta Watson left Sunday for a few days' visit to friends and relatives at Tahlequah. Bud Lowery of Tahlequah spent Sunday here, meeting his many friends. R. E. Stewart and Jno. Burnette of Guthrie, O. T., spent several days in our city. Mr. Hill, Mr. James and Mr. Fisher of Beggs, I. T., were in the city on business this week. Whn you want a diamond and a good one, see R. A. Givens o North Second street. The boys of Bethel Lodge, No. 91, had some fun Friday night with a few new members. The boys are doing some good work. No state in the Union offers as splendid an opportunity for farmers to get homes as the Indian Territory, and now is the time for our people to take advantage of these splendid opportunities. Money to loan Creek Freedmen on their land. Cash on hand. No delay. H. F. SHOWALTER. Mrs. Curry of South McAlester has been spending some time here visiting Mrs. T. J. Elliott. Of course the president of the Creek bank was all smiles. If the statehood bill passes the Cimeter will enlarge its plant and have the most complete outfit in the Southwest. Mr. James Little of Osage, I. T., was visiting Miss Fanny Johnson of North 4th street last Sunday. Mr. James Summers of Waco, Tex., is here on a visit to our efficient drayman, James Smith. The U. S. civil service examination held here in November has reported the following result: Homer Mead, Jas. H. Simms and B. F. Brown, Jr., all colored, passed satisfactory examinations and are now on the eligible list of railway mail agents. Mr. Jas. Noton, our popular shoe-maker, has returned from a visit to his family in Natchez, Miss. We welcome him to our midst again and will say that our latch string is always on the outside for such as he. Mr. Steve Grayson of Okmulgee was a pleasant caller at this office Wednesday. J. R. Stewart has opened a first class tailor shop at 324 North 2nd street and requests that all persons needing first class work give him a trial order. All work is guaranteed. The dyeing, repairing and cleaning department is up to date in every particular. Phone No. 554. Shop upstairs over Morris' Cafe. Mr. A. T. Clark of Tishomingo has located in the Great Muskogee, and has opened up a neat barber shop in the basement of the Alaska Building. Mr. Albert Hamilton and Mr. Frank White, of Denison, Texas, will work for him. Beebe Chapel, C. M. E. Church, 520 South Division Boulevard. Preaching every Sunday, 11 a. m. and 7:3 op. m. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m. League—Literary department, every Thursday, 7:30 p. m. Spiritual department every Sunday, 3:00 p. m. Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. Class meeting, every Sunday, 4:00 p. m. You are invited. REV. W. F. SIMONS, Pastor. J. B. BODDIE, Secretary. L. F. EUE, Treasurer. WANTED—Two or three tracts of good land for northern farmers at once. 80 acres to 240 acres each. Let me hear from you. H. P. SHOWALTER, Rooms 304 and 305, Iowa Building BIG REAL ESTATE DBAL. A. C. Trumbo Buys Court Street Property at a Handsome Figure. This morning A. C. Trumbo, of the Bank of Muskogee, closed a deal for 142 feet of property fronting on Court street between Main and Second streets. The property is fifty feet deep. This property was bought two years ago this month by parties from Oklahoma who paid $3,500 for it. Mr. Trumbo paid $9,500 for it, making a neat profit of $6,000 in two years for the original investors. Mr. Trumbo is confident that his profit will be as large as that of the Oklahoma parties, and doubtless it will.—Times. Last week a colored man was summoned on a jury in a Kansas City court. When the usual question was asked whether any juror knew of any reason why he could not render an impartial verdict, one said that he didn't think he could serve on the jury with a negro and render an impartial verdict. On this excuse the negro was discharged. Twenty years ago Judge Arnold Krekel was holding a session of the United States district court in Jefferson City, and a juryman objected to the presence of a negro member of the jury and the judge excused the white juror from service not only for the time being but as long as Judge Krekel should preside in that court. It is not recorded that the people of Jefferson City, the seat of Democratic government in Missouri, felt that they had been degraded because a black man of good character was included in a panel of jurors.—Chieftain. The Afro-American Real Estate Co. is doing business at the old stand. Write H. R. Pierson, Business Manager for information. Office 211 So. 2nd St., Muskogee. Read our advertisements and patronize those who advertise with us. They deserve your trade and will sell you the best of goods. Go to CREEK LIVERY BARN, Now located at new quarters No. 512 South 3rd Street Phone 70 Opposite Gill Sanders Wholesale House. MUSKOGEE TITLE & TRUST CO. ABSTRACTS of TITLE, INSURANCE, SURETY BONDS and REAL ESTATE Farm Loans a Specialty Second and Broadway. MUSKOGEE, IND. TER. R. A. GIVENS. WATCH MAKER AND JEWELER. DEALER IN Diamonds, W We carry a fine line of And up-to-date in every Best goods and of Reasonable. Call and Buy or not. North Second KIRS Hand Made All Kinds of GENTS FUR OF ALL DES Shirts, Hats, U W. E. M Knox Agency, English Muskogee, Smith- EV FOR SATISFACTION bonds, Watches, Clocks, and carry a fine line of jewelry which is strictly first-class up-to-date in every respect. I carry nothing but the goods and of the latest design. My prices are unenable. Call and see the latest whether you want or not. 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One collector, it is said, scents a rubber blanket with some odor that is objectionable to bees, and then gathers the stings that remain sticking in it after an attack by the angry insects. Exactly how much of value there is in all this it is difficult to say, but it is interesting to psychologists, if to no one else. Apropos of this "discovery" the "Homeopaths" have used bee-stings, or Apis millifica, for rheumatism—when indicated—for the past half century. SPREADING THE NEWS BROADCAST. That Dodd's Kidney Pills cured his Diabetes. After long suffering Mr. G. Cleghorn found a permanent relief in the Great American Kidney Remedy. Port Huron, Mich., Jan. 30th. (Special)—Tortured with Diabetes and Bladder Disease from which he could apparently get no relief, Mr. G. Cleghorn, a bricklayer, living at 119 Buttler St., this city, has found a complete and permanent cure in Dodd's Kidney Pills and in his gratitude he is spreading the news broadcast. "Dodd's Kidney Pills made a man of me." 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If taken at the least sign of bowel, liver or stomach trouble, it will prevent all kinds of sickness, keep your circulation clear, and your skin and complexion as fresh and pure as in childhood. Sold by all druggists at 50c and $1.00. Money back if it fails. I, for one, have lost all hope of ever becoming a philosopher deep enough to explain why drivers who pull the wrong rein whip us for obeying them. Novel Entertainment the Scheme of a Clever Woman. Here is a novel entertainment that was strictly original with the hostess: Dainty score cards all decorated by an exquisitely done woman's head were passed to the guests, upon which the following lines were written (the key is given below each one), the hostess explaining that the first letter of each word was the initial letter in some well-known woman's name. 1-Has Helped Justice. 1—Has Helped Justice. (Helen Hunt Jackson.) 2—Kindergarten's Dearest Winter. (Kate Douglas Wiggins.) 3—Mystic Characterizer. (Marie Corelli.) 4—Even Betters Browning. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) 5—Reproduces Beasts. (Rosa Bonheur.) 6—Ever Spiritually Pondering. (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.) 7—Little Men's Advocate. (Louise M. Alcott.) 8—Has Blessed Slaves. (Harriet Beecher Stowe.) 9—Faithful Enthusiastic Worker. (Francis E. Willard.) 10—Lessens Every Pain. (Lydia E. Pinkham.) 11—Courageous Benefactor. (Clara Barton.) 12—Energetically Champions Suffrage. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton.) 13—Famed for Courtesy. (Frances Folsom Cleveland.) 14—Always Parting. (Adelina Patti.) 15—Modest Actress. (Mary Anderson.) 16—Loquaciously Belligerent. (Lillian Bell.) 17—Charming Nightingale. (Christine Neilson.) 18—Cheerfully Destroyed Many. (Catharine D' Medici.) Arboreal Aristocracy. The evergreens are the aristocracy of the tree world, writes Anna Botsford Comstock in the Chautauquan. They represent the oldest families; for their ancient relatives appeared as early as the Silurian age; the evergreens were probably at their height in number of species and magnificence of development during the Triassic period. The pines were contemporaries of all those plants which were put to bed in the Devonian age, and which forms our coal beds of today. The evergreens are a dignified remnant of an older tree tree, which is being pushed to the by the upstarts, the oaks and maples and other deciduous trees. They still cling to the sandy shores where there is little to protect other trees and to the mountains and northern regions where other trees have not the strength to endure. Perhaps it is because they belong essentially to another geologic age when the climate was far different from our climate of to-day, that they do not shed their leaves in winter like the adaptable deciduous trees. Would Be the Villain. When the weather's cold and nasty and my bones begin to ache, When my offspring write for "dough" in accents blue, Which I have to hustle to them, though I know it's all a fake— When I can't collect a single cent that's due— When the cook is on the rampage and declines to fix a meal— When the boss jumps on me forty times a day— Tis then, I must admit it, those are the times I feel That I'd like to be the villain in the play. I'd like to be the villain and I'd like to cuss and shoot, And I'd like at every turn to set a snare And lay a line of trouble out for every blamed galoot That has ever crossed my pathway anywhere. When I find misfortune's bound to keep me ground beneath her heel— When my ma-in-law has come a month to stay— Tis then, I must admit it, those are the times I feel That I'd like to be the villain in the play. Gibraltar Docks. The new docks in Gibraltar are large enough to hold the biggest vessel in the British navy. It is kind of interesting figuring out if a girl is as thin as she looks. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug-gists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. No man ever had any real trouble till he began to build a house. It's peculiar how those Cheatham's Laxative Tablets cure a cold in a day—but they do it. Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.—C. E. Stowe. Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. A boy is old enough to be welcome in the neighbor girl's parlor long before his sister thinks he is old enough to sit in the parlor at home. Don't It Jar You To have a cough that you can't leave off—even when you go to bed? Put it away for good by using Simmons' Cough Syrup. It heals inflammation of the throat and lungs—gives you rest and peaceful sleep. An old bachelor says there are no marriages in heaven, because it is heaven. Among those who have received the highest award—the Grand Prize—at St. Louis World's Fair, was the A. J. Tower Co., the makers of the FISH BRAND SLICKERS. Many of our readers who went to the Fair, will recall their fine exhibit in which waterproof garments were shown adapted to so many uses that almost every department of the world's work was suggested. The Grand Prize was a deserved tribute to one of the oldest manufacturing concerns in the country. Generally when a man brags of his coat of arms some one else earned for him the one on his back. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. 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Put up in tightly sealed 1-lb. packages—air and moisture proof—like above cut. Sold by dealers everywhere. Don't delay—buy a package of Cheek & Neal Porto Rico Coffee to-day and start saving for a fine pair of scissors. At your grocers. Cheek & Neal Coffee Co. Nashville, Tenn. W. N. U.—Oklahoma City—No. 5, 1905 PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION My Own Four Walls. The storm and night is on the waste, Wild through the wind the herdsman calls, As fast on willing nag I haste Home to my own four walls. Black, tossing clouds, with scarce a glimmer, Envelop earth like sevenfold palls; But wifekin watches, coffee-pot doth simmer, Home in my own four walls. A home and wife, I, too, have got, A hearth to blaze, what'er befails; What needs a man that I have not Within my own four walls? King George has palaces of pride, And armed grooms must ward those halls; With one stout bolt I safe abide Within my own four walls. Not all his men may sever this; It yields to friends' and monarchs' calls; My whinstone house my castle is,— I have my own four walls. When fools or knaves do make a rout With gigmen, dinners, bails, cabals, I turn my back and shut them out,— I have my own four walls. The moorland house, though rude it be, May stand the brunt when prouder falls; Twil screen my wife, my books, and me, All in my own four walls. A TRAGEDY AVERTED By CORDIA GREER PETRIE (Copyright, 1905, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) The path which penetrated the mountain fastness was steep and perilous and flanked by a dense undergrowth. Far below—like an exquisite picture in miniature—lay the valley, through which the river wound its sinuous way like a silver thread on a bed of emerald. A little woman in a smart white linen gown pressed her way onward and upward—pausing ever and anon to gaze with manifest interest upon the marvelous scenery. At the summit of the mountain was a hut—a typical mountain home, rudely constructed of poles of miscellaneous sizes and lengths, with a badly warped roof and a dilapidated stick and mud chimney. At the approach of the woman, two lank, hungry looking hounds bounded out and resented her encroachment with a series of formidable barks. Terrified, the woman struck at them with her chiffon parasol, which served to infuriate the beasts the more. At this moment Wilson "Yer ain't used to climbing." there appeared in the cabin doorway a large, masculine woman, unkempt, ragged and barefooted. Removing the pipe from her mouth, she yelled: "Be gone, Kinley! You, Yerks! Git under the house yer onery curs! A body can't sot foot on the place 'thout you-uns air plum ready to take 'em!" The dogs slunk away and the visitor came nearer. "Yer ain't used to climbing," she queried as she noted the weary, tired expression of the woman before her. She was such a frail, tender little thing, this visitor, almost doll-like in her refined loveliness, and beside the coarse featured woman of the mountain she seemed a bit of fine Dresden. A spot of vivid crimson burned her cheeks and her eyes shone with the bright, glassy sparkle characteristic of the consumptive. "I have been very ill for six weeks, and during all that time I watched your little house from my window at the hotel and in lieu of other diversion I found myself weaving all sorts of dream pictures about it. Somehow, I formed an attachment for the place, and resolved that so soon as my strength permitted I'd pay it my respects. My husband is most solicitous and guards me as carefully as a mother does her child. Business called him to town to-day and—well, you know the old adage, 'when the cat's away.' I am afraid, however, I shall pay dearly for my outing as I'm tired to exhaustion." The moutaineer rose hastily. "Let me fix you a dram," she said, politely. "I've got a full pint that hain't never been teched, and it's fine, too! Nothin' is more peartenin' than a little licker!" Her guest smilingly declined the generous offer, and the hostess went on: "Yer orter take it regular—yer so puny looking and yaller! Ef yer'd stay out here in the mountings and take off them tight fixings, yer'd soon git stout like me." "O, do you think so?" the visitor interposed. "My husband thoroughly dislikes the country—the mountains being his pet aversion—but he'd gladly sacrifice business, society, everything to have my health restored. The thought of having to leave John, of the probability of another being enshrined in his heart is unspeakably maddening! I can't bear it!" She covered her face with her small, jeweled hands and wept softly. The mountain woman went over and laid a rough hand on the golden hair. "Thar now," she said, gently. "Don't take on so, bekase that won't he'p it none. 'Ef wishes wuz hay stacks we'd all have plenty of feed fur our nags this winter.' Fur that matter, you may outlive all of us yit. 'Tain't the puniest that dies fust—that's a sot fact!" The mountaineer resumed her seat by the fireplace and relighted her pipe in silence. "Honey," she said, after puffing at the pipe till it was "drawing" satisfactorily, "yer don't know what trouble is. Death is bad, I'll allow, but that's things a sight wuss"! Her guest looked up inquiringly. "Is it possible that trouble penetrates even here?" she asked. "Lord, child! I hain't never knowd nothing else!' was the answer. "You-uns who live in cities and dress in yer silks and satins hain't no idy how us mounting folks has to shift to keep soul and body together. It's work, work, from sun up to sun down, from 'arly morning tell late at night, and then we never have nothing but air injinerally in debt. We wimmen not only does the cooking, washing, orning, and raise regular herds of children, but we're expected to gether brash fur fire wood, cut sprouts, and work in the fields between times. No wonder we git old afore our times and go all hunkered over and don't look like nothing when we do try to fix up—which ain't often, the Lord knows! I never got no schooling, fur I wuz sent to the fields afore I wuz hardly big enough to tote a hoe, and thar I stayed till I wuz fourteen, when I run off and married. It 'uz like jumping from the frying pan into the fire, fur my man wuz puny and afore I wuz eighteen he giv plum down and I had to make the living fur him and our little gal." She sat for some moments in deep abstraction. "It wuz hard, but somehow I managed to keep our heads above water, and when Losy growed up, everybody 'lowed' she wuz the purtiest gal in Knox county. Eyes as blue as beads, skin as white and saft as a baby's, and hair as yaller as them merrygolds out yander. I needed her at home to help me, and only sent her to two schools, but it wuz a sight to the world how the child larnt! I kin see her now, settin' by her pap's bed readin' the scriptur to him—all erbout Norer and the ark and Joner swallerin' the whale!" Again she paused. Her eyes had become tender as a child's. "When she had turned into her fourteenth year," she finally resumed, "thar come along one day a stranger. He looked like them men down thar at the hotel in his dressing, wuz good looking, well mannered and had a voice like a woman's. And how he did dress! His pockets jest bulged with money. He wuz a artist, and nothing would do but he must paint Losy's pictur. He lowed ef he could paint a face like horn his reppytation would be made. My old man wuz bed rid with drapsy of the heart; the last payment on the place wuz nearly due; I needed the money, and so I tuck him to board. When I giv in fur Losy to set fer the pictur he laid Wing Rooted to the spot. a bran, new fifty dollar bill in my hand. I felt like drappin' on my knees and thanking him. God! Ef I could have seed his black heart, I'd a sunk a knife through and through it afore placing my little gal in sich danger!" Again she paused and the visitor broke in: "Pray go on with the story. I'm particularly interested in artists, for my husband belongs in that category—ah! such an one as he is! Two continents delight to do him honor!" The mountaineer appeared not to hear, but continued her narrative as if talking to herself: "The night after him and Losy run away my man died—calling for our little gal with his last breath—and then I wuz left in the old home alone." "And Losy—your daughter—what became of her?" "Mighty nigh a year passed and no word come, though something 'peared to tell me she'd come back. On a Christmas Eve, I wuz settin' afore the fireplace, thinking of the happy days that wuz gone from me forever. All at onct I sensed that some one wuz at the winder looking in at me. I turned and seed her, my little gal, but O, so pore, so pitiful and sorrowful! With a cry of joy I flew to the door, thrown it open, and ketched her to my breast jest as her little body fell fainting in her mammie's arms! Pore little gal! Pore little Losy! She went away a child, and come back a broken-hearted woman! I brung her in and somehow got her to bed, and soon's I could leave her I called to Bob Strunk to go fetch a doctor quick. . . . We worked with her all night, but 'twarn't no use! I'd found her jest to lose her agin! Jest as the sun come up over Indian mountain she breathed her last—died in my arms—thank God fur that! No word passed her lips but thar wuz a look on her face that makes me know my little gal is at rest." Tears coursed unrestrainedly down the furrowed cheeks, but no sound escaped the firm, set lips. The little woman in white glided forward and threw her arms impulsively around the elder woman's neck. "Poor dear!" said she in a voice full of sympathy. "How you have suffer- ed. You were quite right. I have not as yet learned the meaning of the word 'sorrow.'" There were tears in her eyes as she stood stroking the woman's coarse hair. "I buried her by her pap under the big chestnut tree on the hill. The old place never 'peared the same after that. Somehow I couldn't content myself no more, fur everything put me in mind of her so, the flowers she'd planted, her books and the old tree whar she used to swing. I felt like I'd shorely go deranged lessen I went way off summers, so I sold the place and cut out. . . . They air sleeping side by side way over on yan side of that range of mountings—full fifty mile from here. It's been ten year ago, and all that time I've watched and waited! I brung jest two things away from the old home—my old man's shotgun and the partly finished pictur of Losy. The pictur is mine, it's all I've got left of my little gal, but the load in that 'ar gun is fur him—the devil that wrecked my home—and as shore as God sets on the throne, I'll send him to Kingdom come ef he ever crosses my path! The blood of my man and Losy cries out fur vengeance." The visitor shuddered as her eyes inadvertently sought the rack in which the gun rested. "And the picture," she said with a rising inflection. The mountain woman walked to the wall opposite and drew back a flowered calico curtain. A cry of admiration came from the visitor's lips as she went over and critically inspected the half finished canvas. Truly the woman had spoken the truth, the face depicted was beautiful as an angel's, incomparably lovely—a veritable Madonna—a face to dream about. "Wrought by a master's hand," the visitor mused as she continued to feast on its loveliness. A shadow fell across the threshold, but the woman standing before the unfinished canvas failed to note it. Not so the rough woman of the mountain. She caught her breath hard and fast as she looked up and beheld the intruder—a tall, handsome man of distinguished appearance. There was a smile on his lips, but it faded quickly away when his eyes met those of the mountaineer. His color fled and his face became suddenly aged and worn. The woman of the hut stood for a second transfixed. Her eyes changed from an expression of surprise to a metallic, dangerous glitter. Her face now hard and steely broke into almost a smile as she turned and reached for the gun above her head. The man's knees smote together, he stood rooted to the spot. He heard the clicking of the weapon as the intrepid woman before him cocked it—and then— The woman before the canvas turned suddenly, and seeing him, came forward with a smile upon her face and her little hands outstretched. "O, John!" she said, merrily, "I thought you were gone for the day, and ran away. It has been such fun so please don't scold, for I feel better, really." Turning to her hostess she explained: "I want you to meet my husband." "I want you to meet my husband." The rugged woman of the mountains stood irresolute. Her fingers eagerly sought the trigger, but the pale face of the wife deterred her. There was a moment of indecision, of wavering, and then she resolutely turned and placed the gun back in the rack. The man in the doorway fainted. Alarmed at His "Load." Walter Camp, the Yale football coach, tells the story of a young Yale student who came to New York to witness a football game, and who celebrated the victory of his team by visits to many cafes. He accompanied some friends to a theater in the evening, where the performance was in pantomime. At the conclusion of the performance he exclaimed: "I'm drunker than I thought I was. I haven't been able to understand a single word of the whole play."—New York Times. Continued From First Page. tried to render an honest decision, and it is no little satisfaction to discover that even the most vicious in criticism have not assailed the honesty in purpose to arrive at right conclusions. "I recognize the fact that many of the corporations organized to deal in Indian lands and leases have become very hostile because of my decisions in regard to the validity of many of these leases. Leases were in many instances taken for 99 years from the Indian when the law provided the lease should not be taken for a longer period than five years. "Many grazing leases were taken from the Indian citizen for 5 years when the limit fixed by the act of Congress was but one year. "In many instances lands were purchased and deeds taken from the Indian for his allotment while the statute of the United States providing that no Indian should have the right to sell his land was still in force. "Parents of Indian children made long time leases to these corporations for the farm lands of their minor children at from 10 cents to 25 cents per acre without the direction of the court, and without having been appointed guardian by the court, as the law required. In many instances the proceeds of these rich lands were squandered and the minor child left without the means to acquire an education to fit him for the responsible duties of American citizenship. "Some of these corporations were holding from 100,000 to 200,000 acres of these rich lands in these various ways, for a grossly inadequate consideration. "I was compelled under the law and my oath to declare these contracts to be void. "The United States Court of Appeals has affirmed those decisions. "The persons hoding shares in these corporations have no one to blame for their reckless contracts than themselves, yet it is but human nature to abuse the judge whose decision, even if the law, defeated their purposes. And I accept the situation just as it is with all the abuse of the members of these corporations and the persons they control. I did my duty, and as I told you when you were empanelel as jurors, 'if you do your duty you must not expect to escape the criticism of those who are opposed in person or sympathy to standing four square with the laws proper enforcement "Your work as jurors has been eminently satisfactory during your service. No better jury has ever sat in a court in the Indian Territory, and you are entitled to the thanks of all good men, but your best reward is the consciousness of having done your full duty, without seeking praise or fearing hostile criticism." From my good and wise friend, Professor Kelly Miller of Howard University, I received in this morning's mail the editorial, Education and Crime, clipped from the Post of January 17; and with this clipping came the pithy message, "I commiserate with you." Your editorial comments upon two articles of mine which have recently appeared in the Southern Workman, "Some Effects of the Negro's Poverty" in the November issue, and "A Plea for Negro Trade Schools in Cities" in the December issue. For my enquiry I selected two cities "each of which . . . may be considered socially northern; in each of which data have been collected with care and on the whole not distorted by prejudice,—I mean Philadelphia and St. Louis. In 1896, under the auspices of Pennsylvania, Professor W. E. B. DuBois began his studies of the Philadelphia negro and in 1899 published his book. In 1903 Miss Lillian Brandt published in the journal of the American Statistical Association a less detailed study, The Negroes of St. Louis. The disinterestedness of scientific investigation characterizes both these studies." The statistics displaying the poverty, the criminality, and the mortality of the Negro populations of these cities, I drew directly from these authoritaitve sources; and in many cases I accepted the investigator's interpretative comment, verbatim, or almost verbatim. By means of these statistics I attempted to demonstrate that the "poverty of the Negro is the fundamental cause of his excessive criminality and of his alarming death rate." "Lack of industrial training and lack of industrial opportunity," I continued, "seem incontestably the peculiar and fundamental causes to account for the Negro's excess of poverty." And so I went on to make a plea for the trade schools in cities containing large Negro populations in poverty schools like the Baron de Hirsch Trade School in New York City—to supplement the good work of the public schools by providing training directly for economic independence. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, the public schools have tended to lower the death rates and to arrest the criminality of the Negro populations of Philadelphia and St. Louis; the schools have spread hygienic knowledge, wholesome habits, and incentives to moral conduct. The causal relation between the teaching of the schools and the restraint of criminality is illustrated by the fact (cited in my first article) that "the illiterate fifth of the Negro population probably furnished one-third of Philadelphia's worst criminals." "But, that mere intellectual ignorance does not satisfactorily explain the phenomenon of crime is pretty evident. Thus, since the year ending April 12, 1880, the foreign born (white) population of St. Louis has committed increasingly fewer crimes, in proportion to its numbers than the native born whites of native parents though the proportion of illiterates among the foreign born is more than nine times greater than among the native born whites. In short, intelligence (at least such as statistics can measure) tends to lessen criminally but the tendency may be counteracted by other powerful forces." There is not one word in either of my articles that can reasonably be construed into an adverse criticism upon the public schools. Moreover, I have not discovered in the statistics any reason whatever to assume that the public schools dol not exert the precise kind and degree of tendency upon the black population as upon the white. 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