Muskogee Cimeter

SECTION ONE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SPECIAL EDITION gee Cimeter. day, November 16 1905. No 6 The Muskogee Cimeter. Muskogee, I T., Thursday, November 16 1905. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON WILL BE HERE MONDAY and all the colored population ought to be here dressed in the Latest Styles. If you need any thing in the way of clothes for Ladies or Gents, or Hats, Furs, Cravenettes, Coats, Etc., you will find the Latest and Best, at the Lowest prices, and a guarrantee of a perfect fit, in all ready-to-wear garments at THE BOSTON STORE. 216 WEST OKMULGEE AVE. And while here from a distance remember there is no better place to leave your baggage than our store. You are welcome. : : : : : : The BOSTONSTORE ECCE Vol 7 INGRAM ON STATEHOOD. Though it is not ours to say nor ours to do, ours to vote for nor against, ours to admit nor ours to repect, ours to refuse nor ours to accept Indian Territory into the union as a separate state or joint state with Oklahoma, it is now on ours to petition and congress will give what it sees fit. Whether or not we are ready for statehood does not esem to be under consideration as it is natural for men to think they are ready, prepared, able and competent to govern themselves. In my judgment I do not think Indian Territory is ready for statehood but if statehood is inevitable I pray for single statehood. One evidence of Indian Territory's ability to govern itself was the constitution formed by the separate statehooders which offers no protection against the abusive public accommodation that results from the separate car laws, although this abominable crime is practiced in many southern states. The supreme judges say it is unconstitutional for the national government to interfere. Every shock the just public accommodation of the negro has had, every javalin that has been hurled at his protection, every intruder that walked upon his rights, every tyrant that dug a dungeon for his privileges, every villain that hedged his pathway and every viper that has raised his malignant head to send forth poison into the beautiful streams of joy, peace and tranquility that so sweetly nestle around the rights of public accommodation has had constitutional protection and if the people of Indian Territory cannot see these wrongs, these evils, these henious crimes existing before their eyes in their sister states they are unworthy of statehood. If there is any right under the sun that needs constitutional protection it is the right of equal public accommodation. Some may say that hese people do not predominate but if hey are strong enough to call conventions, adopt resolutions and have the audacity to frame a constitution and the impudence to ask people to adopt it, then they will forever terrorize and finally ruin our future state. But if statehood must come though our prayers, our begging and our petitions may be of no avail, but if we will beg, pray and petition, let's beg wisely and logically, let us consider how our rights will best be protected and secured when statehood is given. If you will pardon me for plagurist and allow me to say I know of no way of judging the future only by the past. Viewing from a political stand point what political party has done the most, sacrificed the most, offered the most, suffered the most, trying to secure, protect and make safe the rights and privileges of every man who is fortunate enough to be born or live in America. The republican party has spent millions of dollars, lost thousands of lives, wasted oceans of sweat, rivers of tears and tons of blood trying to raise the flag of America's independence out of the mire of serfdom and slavery. Every civil or political right that has been given the negro in America was given by the republican party for the sake of our rights and privileges and in the name of freedom and in opposition to slavery. Let us think how best we can save our future state for the republican party. Some one may wish to ask if the republicans always protected the negro. I will answer by asking has any other party ever offered or given the negro any protection. Some one may say the republicans protect the negro for the sake of his (the negro) vote, but I have never been in the hearts nor souls. Neither am I a mind reader or fortune teller. I know not what motives move them but I know liberty is sweet from any source. Some one may say that there are some white republicans who oppose negro suffrage and some democrats who favor it. Yes, but think a minute. Suppose the illustrious Joe Cannon were to attempt to eliminate the negro from poli- [Image of a man with dark hair and a white shirt] BOOKEET WASHINGTON tics or preach the infamous doctrine of abolishing the 15th amendment, he would immediately and abruptly fall from the leading ranks of republicanism into the slums of insignificancy and despair. But in some democratic leaders we have a miserable and outrageous contrast, the robbing, the oppressing, the abusing, the slandering of the negro is the making of the prominent democrat. The size of the territories, the variety or fertility of the soil, the representation we will have in the national congress, the territorial debts, the internal improvements nor the relation the territories bear to one another, none of these things have only thought how best to outgeneral, outplan outwit, conquer and disappoint that fellow who has dug a dungeon for my liberties, prepared chains for my body, handcuffs for my hands, shackles for my feet, fetters for my soul and a cage for my generous spirit when conquered and overpowered. As I know of no way of sheltering myself from political abuses, only under the banner of republicanism, inasmuch as Oklahoma is republican, I pray for single statehood. The republicans of Oklahoma are thoroughly organized, pre- (continued on page 5 section 2.) The campaign undertaken by interested publications to undermine the faith of the people in proprietary medicines has drawn forth the following from a high medical authority: "It must never be forgotten that the interest of the manufacturer is to put out a remedy which is not only meritorious but safe. With a small army of enemies constantly on the alert, ready to seize upon and magnify every unfavorable circumstance, how few are the cases of accident or injury from the use of proprietary medicines! Complaints in regard to the use of such remedies are exceedingly rare and utterly insignificant, in comparison with the amount sold and the millions of people who avail themselves of these remedies." Students are much the same the world over. In Russia they throw bombs, and in this country they give their college yells. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Be pleasant at all times. A smile does more good in this world than all the preachings. Never judge by appearances. When you see a man standing in front of a swell restaurant picking his teeth it's a safe bet that he hasn't dined there.—Chicago News. Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is simple fidelity to what each day brings.—A. E. Dunning. STIFF AND SORE St.Jacobs Oil We buy, sell and exchange new and second-hand sales and bank fixtures. Write us for catalogue and prices. Sales sold on small monthly paym- ments Don't pay big prices for safes. Write us today. F. L. Conger Safe Co., Oklahoma City W.N.U.—Oklahoma City—No. 46, 1905 MANY MEN WEARING CORSETS Feminine Fad Has Made Its Way West to Chicago "A surprisingly large percentage of well dressed men, or maybe I should say perfectly dressed men, in Chicago and some of the eastern cities are wearing corsets," said E. Edward Blaine, a traveling man. "Their clothing dealers' and haberdashers are having a strong run on men's corsets, which are made especially for this class of trade. I suspect that the new Paletot and tight-fitting overcorts are responsible for the fad, if such it is. Men who wear clothes that fit them like the paper on the wall have long abandoned suspenders to support their trousers. The new corsets give them the shape, and their trousers are now made to fit over their hips like a woman's skirt. "The men's corsets are laced tightly to give the wearers shape and to keep them from stooping or becoming round-shouldered. This is a difficulty which is being encountered in fitting Paletot coats. Men are either stoop-shouldered or are what the cutters call 'hollow-backed.' Corsets assist in correcting these misshapes. I hardly think that corsets will be worn by men in the smaller cities for some time at least. Chicago dealers report that there has been a large demand for the corsets and that they sell all they can get in stock."—Milwaukee Free Press. Secret of Octave Thanet Miss Alice French chose her pen name of Octave Thanet in curious fashion. Octave was the name of one of her schoolmates, and was selected because it gives no hint as to whether the person who bears it is a man or a woman. Thanet was adopted from a passing railroad car that Miss French chanced to see, and is pronounced with the accent on the second syllable. Born and educated in New England, the writer has lived most of her mature life in the west and in the south, which has made her familiar with wideiy varying phases of American civilization. Her first magazine story was written and accepted in 1878. When a pretty girl meets a rival at a party her politeness comes as hard as pulling a tooth. Do the little things, and then if you have time dream of the great things. FROM TEXAS Some Coffee Facts From the Lone Star State. From a beautiful farm down in Texas, where gushing springs unite to form babbling brooks that wind their sparkling way through flowery meads, comes a note of gratitude for delivery from the coffee habit. "When my baby boy came to me five years ago, I began to drink Postum Food Coffee, having a feeling that it would be better for him and me than the old kind of drug-laden coffee. I was not disappointed in it, for it enabled me, a small delicate woman, to nurse a bouncing healthy baby 14 months. "I have since continued the use of Postum for I have grown fond of it, and have discovered to my joy that it has entirely relieved me of a billious habit which used to prostrate me two or three times a year, causing much discomfort to my family and suffering to myself. "My brother-in-law was cured of chronic constipation by leaving off the old kind of coffee and using Postum. He has become even more fond of it than he was of the old coffee. "In fact the entire family, from the latest arrival, (a 2-year old who always calls for his 'potie' first thing in the morning) up to the head of the house, think there is no drink so good or so wholesome as Postum." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Have Proved Their Worth. Important to Mothers. Charl H. Fletcher. from head to foot? Can't work today, but tomorrow you can, as the Old-Monk-Cure TRADE MARK. will soften and heal the muscles while you sleep. Price, 25c. and 50c. SLOANS LINIMENT CURES 50c. and $1.00. Swine Disease and Hog Cholera Send for Circular with Directions. Dr. EARL S. SLOAN, G15 Albany St., Boston, Mass. SALES AND BANK FIXTURES Human Brain at Mercy of Scientists Puzzle for Scientists to Worry Over No Weakness Seen in Junior Rockefeller Ghosts and Hallucinations Easily Made to Order While You Wait -Mere Matter of Drugs and Hard Blows. "Ghosts, hallucinations—pah!" said the psychologist. "I can make ghosts. You can make them. It is a mere matter of drugs and knocks on the head. "What is it that does our feeling, rejoicing, mourning, hoping, fearing, thinking, for us? It is a mass of fat, of phosphorized fat, two pounds in weight, called the brain. We study the brain continually. We get to know it better and better every day. And the time is now come when we can play tricks on it—when we can deluge it with ghosts, poultergorsts, djinns, hobgoblins, doppelgangers, phantoms. "With drugs administered in toxic or poisonous doses I can give the saneest man hallucinations. And I can pretty well regulate the hallucinations' character, for one drug is known to cause one sort of presentment, another another and so on. "Suppose I want the bishop of Esk to see the phantom of a beautiful girl. I give him, then, belladonna. Belladonna in toxic doses creates fair pictures of comely persons. The bishop of Esk, I assure you, would have an Articles Dropped in Calumet Mine Shaft Always Found Clinging to East Side-Investigation Going On. It is an interesting scientific fact, and one not generally known, that nothing that falls from the mouth of the deepest mining shaft in the world ever reaches the bottom. This has been demonstrated at the famous Red Jacket shaft of the Big Calumet. The article, no matter what shape or size it may be, is invariably found clinging to the east side of the shaft. One day a monkey wrench was dropped, but it did not get to the bottom. It was found lodged against the east side of the shaft several hundred feet down. This incident coming to the attention of the Michigan College of Mines, it was decided to make a careful test of the apparent phenomenon. It was decided best to use a small but heavy spherical body, and a marble, tied to a thread was suspended about twelve feet below the mouth of the shaft. When the marble was absolutely still, assuring that it would drop straight down, the thread was burned through by the flame of a candle. The marble fell, Pleasing Personality of the Son of the World's Richest Man No Sense of Self-Importance About Him. One glance at the countenance of John D. Rockefeller Jr., tells plainly enough that his life has been pitched upon a serious, almost solemn plane. He is a young man of medium height and size, with a rather large head, not exactly Byronic in contour, but of full size behind, and with a strong, round chin. The corners of his mouth, unlike the pictures of his father, turn upward, and there is a kindly expression about the curve of his upper lip, which is bare of mustache and well-shaped. His nose, which is just a little upturned, would, by the ordinary rule of reckoning, indicate no particular strength nor weakness of character. The first sign of austerity is about the eyes, which crouch beneath his broad brow and behind a pair of quizzing glasses or nose spectacles. agreeable half-hour under this drug's spell. "Suppose I wanted you to see a lovely dream city, with young men and maidens in white robes pacing the courtyards of marble palaces. I would give you opium and, seated in your office chair, you would see and remember pretty much what I wanted you to. Afterward you would say, if I had given you the opium secretly, 'Well, there is something in ghost stories, after all.' "If I had an enemy and wished to drive him to suicide I would give him hasheesh on the quiet. Hasheesh creates visions of horror. In hasheesh dreams great apes strangle fair blonde women. Ruffians murder helpless old clergymen. Wild beasts, leaping on caravans; carry off in their mouths babies and little children. Cannibals hold in the depths of primeval forests orgies indescribably obscene. "By whacking you on a certain part of the head I could make you smell phantom odors. A whack in another place would make you hear. phantom sounds. A whack in a third place would give you phantom sensations of cold. "Therefore, don't have a superstitious belief in ghosts or hallucinations," ended the psychologist, "for any scientist can make them to your order while you wait." but at a point 50 feet from the surface brought up against the east wall of the shaft. The same would be the case were a man to fall into the shaft. While it would mean sure death, the body, badly torn, would be found lodged in the timbering on the east side. Members of the faculty of the College of Mines are now engaged in experiments with a view of developing data as to the thickness of the earth's crust. It is not hoped to solve the perplexing problem of the distribution of the earth's matter, but it is hoped to add to the information collected concerning it. To this end the Red Jacket shaft presents advantages possessed by no other place in the universe. The deep shafts in other parts of the country and in foreign lands generally began at an altitude and end above or very little below the sea level, whereas at the Calumet mine the Red Jacket shaft starts in a comparatively low altitude and pierces the earth's crust deeper and further below the ocean level than any other in existence. It is hoped within a year to be able to give some intelligent information regarding the investigations.—Lake Linden correspondence St. Paul Dispatch. From a general view one comes to the incontestable conclusion that here is a man who thinks, and who thinks hard. There is more kindness in his expression than harshness, more altruism than selfishness, and when he begins to speak there is that earnestness of tone, high pitched and pleading, which dwells with a listener until it sounds more plaintive than argumentative. Even when young Mr. Rockefeller smiles there is a seriousness of expression almost to the border-line of pathos. The whole effect of the man's personal appearance upon one is appealing. There is nothing repellant about him, nothing dictatorial, nothing combative. But this does not mean that there is the first trace of meekness or the excessive degree of self-effacement more reprehensible than self-importance. Mr. Rockefeller might be called good-looking, and must be called a young man of pleasing address.—Remsen Crawford in Leslie's Weekly. Francis, I. T.—J. W. Mahair, a prominent merchant and member of the firm of Mahair & Bulter of Allen, I. T., was murdered at 1 o'clock this morning while asleep in his room in Allen. The authorities have arrested Mrs. J. F. Mahair, his second wife, and Lou Gilmore, a clerk in the store of Mahair & Butler, on the strength of the confession of Mrs. Mahair. She states that she and Gilmore laid the plans and committed the deed by shooting Mr. Mahair through the head with a 38-calibre Colts pistol. The town of Allen is nearly wild with excitement over the murder, and as soon as the confession was received, the parties were immediately driven to South McAlester, to be placed in the federal jail at that place. DRANK GASOLINE. Oklahoma City Tailor Missed His Better Half. Oklahoma City, Okla.—Frank Cerney, a tailor, who followed his wife to this city from Chicago some weeks ago, and tried to induce her to return and live with him, after failing in this, drank all the gasoline and benzine he could find in the shop where he was at work yesterday evening immediately became very He contemplated suicide, as he eft a note for his wife saying that he could not live without her. He recovered from the dose and is little worse for the experience this morning. FRIGHTENED THE NEGROES. Mangum, Okla.—Six negroes, who had been taken to the neighborhood of Blake by Greer county farmers and given employment as cotton pickers, were visited at night about two weeks ago by a party of white men opposed to the coming of negroes to Greer county, and so badly frightened that the six men fled. In the district court this week thirty-nine men and boys were indicted for inciting a riot. Ten were allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and were fined $10 and costs. An attempt will be made to inflict a more severe punishment upon the other defendants. Judge C. F. Irvin announced from the bench that the prosecution was not in defense of the negroes, but to uphold the laws of the territory. A FIGHT ON A ROUGH RIDER. Comrades in Oklahoma Say Edward Norris Dealt Unfairly With Them. Guthrie, Okla.—A number of Oklahomaans, who served in the Rough Rider regiment in Cuba, will attempt to defeat the appointment of Edward Norris, also a Rough Rider, as postmaster at Mulhall. Norris claims to have the assurance of President Roosevelt that he will be given the place. The complaint made against Norris is that he dealt unfairly with his Oklahoma comrades when they were aboard a transport at Key West on their way to Cuba. They allege that Norris had permission to go ashore, which was denied the others, and that he bought pies and cakes at six for twenty-five cents and sold them aboard at twenty-five cents each, even though he had messed among the Oklahoma volunteers without cost to himself all the way from Oklahoma to the coast. To Pay Osages December 4. Arkansas City, Kas.—The next annuity payment for the Osage Indians is announced for December 4. Captain Frantz, the agent, will require the parents or guardians of all Indian children of school age to show that those children are in some recognized school and kept in regular attendance unless excused for good reason before they will be paid. Each Indian on the reservation will receive $45. For daring and enterprise, for boldness in the face of danger, the hardy fishermen who wrest a livelihood from the perilous Arctic seas are not surpassed by any on the globe. At this moment hundreds of these men are battling with storm and ice, fog and treacherous currents in the frigid waters of Labrador, Greenland and Iceland. Setting out from home ports sometimes as early as April, by August they reach the northern limits of their fishing grounds and, perhaps, have already encountered extraordinary hardships and perils. The cargoes of codfish and halibut they bring back to stock the markets of the United States are often secured at great cost in suffering, and even life. Innumerable are the dangers of the fishing fields. Work must be done oftimes amid icebergs and drift packs; treacherous fogs descend, and many fishing vessels are cut down by some rushing liner and sent to the bottom with all hands. A greater percentage of these men are lost than in any other calling, not excepting that of arms. It has long been said that the history of the Gloucester fisheries is written in tears. Gloucester, Mass., is the recognized and time-honored home port of this fishing fleet. At times its harbor is crowded with staunch schooners that have known many a battle with the wind, wave and threatening ice. Were it not for the skill and daring of these hardy men, the fish markets of the United States would be lacking a large percentage of a staple that has become almost indispensable. As early as April the "captains courageous" of Gloucester start out. They make their way northward, fishing all along the Newfoundland coast, battling with floes and bergs, dodging passing steamers, watching for disaster amid fogs, but busily fishing all the while. Straight into the teeth of the ice that is coming southward they press, until they reach the halibut banks about the mouth of Hudson bay, or the fishing grounds along the shores of Greenland. One July morning an American schooner was setting out her fishing lines in Arctic waters when the white wall of an advancing ice floe was seen coming swiftly along on the bosom of the relentless Labrador current. It was a lone, terrifying barrier, bristling with jagged points and blocks of ice twenty feet high. In this massive grip the ship was caught, her rudder was smashed and her seams opened. Ice closed around her like some giant band of destiny and immense blocks crashed upon her deck. By setting all her canvas, at the risk of having her spars torn out, the vessel finally worked clear. For six days the weary crew toiled without ceasing at the pumps, until they made St. John's harbor. Very fortunate they felt in escaping so easily. Hundreds of vessels had been caught in similar ice packs and crushed to pieces. This instance is cited as illustrating a common danger of the fishing grounds. Hundreds of vessels have had similar experiences, while many unfortunates have never returned to tell the tale. It is a danger that swoops down with startling swiftness. One hour may see the ocean comparatively free of obstructions, and a number of vessels busy with their fishing lines; the next, all may be encircled by an ice of Fishermen in the North floe and some of them sent to a watery grave. Fishing is done from small boats, or dories, of which each sailing vessel carries eight or a dozen. Each dory is manned by two fishermen. It is from these little craft, frail enough at best, but helpless in the ice, that most of the fishermen are lost. Crowding on sail, the schooner may escape from the threatening mass, but the dories caught in it are in a desperate plight. The men may crawl upon the moving ice, but that does not always mean safety. Borne swiftly on the southbound current, they are often carried far beyond the reach of help. When their schooners finally sail back into Gloucester, flags are at half mast and more names are added to the list of the sea's victims, to be read at the next annual memorial services. Often far south of the fishing banks will be seen mute evidences of a tragedy upon some floating cake of ice. It may be a lot of seamen's gear, a few tin cans, perhaps, or even a dory, but no sign of life. The sight of a vessel coming into harbor with her ensign at half-mast is all too frequent at Gloucester. And many a fine craft sails jauntily away to the North, never to be heard from again. Overwhelmed by a floe or berg, perhaps, or run down in a fog by a liner, the vessel vanishes with all hands on board, leaving not a trace of the manner in which death overtook them. A number of vessels are lost by dragging their anchors in a sudden storm. One unmanageable craft will crash into another, and the two, locked in deadly embrace, may plunge upon a third, and all go to the bottom. Fishermen always keep their ears open for the sound of an approaching steamer. When the fog is so thick that one can scarcely see the end of the bowsprit, there is especial danger from these steam-driven giants, with their sharp iron bows that crush down the little wooden fishing vessels as though it were a floating house of cards. For steamers do not always follow the law and slow down during a fog. Many a fishing crew, sleeping soundly in their bunks, have been awakened by the crash of collision, only to find themselves borne downward beneath the icy waters before they can reach the deck. When disaster comes there is less chance of rescue in those Arctic regions than there would be further south. The fishing fleets are widely scattered, and few other vessels are in those seas, except an occasional patrolling warship or a clumsy whaler blown out of her course. Time after time dory fishermen, separated from their vessels by ice floes or during fogs, have managed to work their way to the bleak Labrador coast. It is then a toss-up whether they can drag themselves to some station of human beings or must perish along the shore. Lines of dread or sorrow are deeply graven upon the faces of the women of Gloucester. The girl who, in her early twenties, marries a fisherman takes more than an even chance of being a widow in her thirties. This terrible tax upon human life has resulted in the establishment of a memorial day. Upon a certain morning in midwinter children cast flowers upon the waters of the harbor—one flower for each victim of the sea during the preceding year. Then the fishermen and their families gather in the city hall for memorial services. The roll of the dead is called, prayers are said and there are addresses. Why do men follow such a hazardous calling? There are mouths ashore to be fed, and bread must be got from the sea. Naturally the fishermen get better wages than other sailors, having a share in the proceeds of the catch, as a general thing. Most of them are fairly prosperous, owning their own homes and possessing snug bank accounts. No Gloucester fisherman ever sails away to the Northern banks, however, with anything like assurance that he will see his home again. In the truest sense they are "men unafraid," and their very daring casts a halo of romance about the icy death traps of the Arctic seas.—Montreal Herald. BIG DAY! TULLL'HASEE Tullehasse Townsite Co. will have another auction sale on the above name date EveryBody is invited to come no better place in the Creek nation to buy a home. Terms for sale 1-3 cash, 60 days and 90 days. A, J. MASON, PRESIDENT. L. C. HARDRIDGE, SECRETARY. 218 WEST OKMULGEE AVENUE Builder's Hardware, Tools, Cuttlery, Paints and Glass. In fact we keep everything in the Hardware line. GO TO J. W. SIPPES, Dealer in COAL PRICE $4.50 PER TON. Special Rates on Larger Quantities NO.401 ELGIN AVENUE, PHONE199, MUSKOGEE, IT WE CAN RENT YOUR HOUSES 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. MUSKOGEE TITLE & TRUST CO. GENERAL BANKING ABSTRACTS of TITLE, INSURANCE, SURETY BONDS and REAL ESTATE Farm Loans a Specialty Second and Broadway. MUSKOGEE, IND. TER. THE INTERNATIONAL VERDICT AMERICA JAPAN GERMANY EGYPT MAJESTIC MAJESTIC GIVEN MAJ RANG IS GALLON ALL COPPER RESERVOIR THE GREAT MAJESTIC MAJESTIC RANGES SOLD IN ALL OF THE ABOVE COUNTRIES. MAJESTIC RANGES' SOLD IN ALL OF THE ABOVE COUNTRIES. When you want anything go these places:— For Hardware, go to Sadler Hardware Co. and to Durfey's Hardware Co., each of these firms will treat you right. For Coal, J. W. Sippes is the one to give you full weight. For Lumber, The Gloyd Lumber Co., The Geo. D. Hope Lumber Co., and the Muskogee Lumber Co. will give you prices that defy competition. To Keep Your Money Safe, The Commercial National Bank, The Canadian Valley Trust Co., and Muskogee Title and Trust will give you a square deal. For Abstracts, The Pioneer Abstract Co. and the Muskogee Title and Trust will fix the deal O. K. For Drugs, Ben Estes is "IT" For Trees, Flowers, Etc., The Muskogee nursury beats them all. The Creek Livery Barn is the only place for first class rigs and everything in the livery line. For Hair Wigs and things in that line, Mrs. O. Shafer is at the head of the list. E. W. McClure is the boss in Gents' Furnishing Goods. For Groceries, The Old Reliable Creek Crocery Co. and Geo. D. Wideman can't be beat. Trade with them they deserve trade. SPEAKS wELL OF MUSKOGEE My visit to Muskogee was delightful. I have never been so much impressed with the growth of a town as I am of Muskogee in the Indian Territory. Muskogee is the coming town of the Southwest. It seems that everybody is busy doing something, and the people are doing better, and have more business than any town I have visited in either of these twin territories. So when the two territories are admitted as the state of Oklahoma, Muskogee will be the metropolis of the new state. Everybody is progressive in the town and the best farming country I have ever seen. One thing which impresses me more is the remarkable progress of the colored people of the town and surrounding country or vicinity. They are doing business in every pursuit in life and seem to be able to manage the situation, and further, Muskogee is a 1875--30 YEARS--1905 1875--30 YEARS--1905 The Largest, Best and Cheapest Line of Ranges, Cook and Heating Stoves in the City. Call and let us show you. A Complete Line of Community Silver Warranted for 25 Years : : STUDEBAKER STUDEBAKER BROS MFG CO. business town, work of every kind is being prosecuted in Muskogee. So on the whole Muskogee, from its situation and its business men in the town must be the of the coming state of Oklahoma. It must make the best town of the Southwest it having the very best railroad facilities, an outlet to any part of our commercial country. Now my best wishes is the future success of Muskogee and its people. W. H. McCARVER. Send the blank below to our address and receive one of the best magazines on the market today. The Cimeter and Adams Magazine $1.00 per year. Please send me Adams Magazine for one year. Name ... Post Office ... Co unty ... State ... "If you have anything to trade or sell in the way of Real Estate, write to KIMBER REAL ESTATE AGENCY Co.. 810 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. --- It makes no difference what you pant to sell or where it is located, this company will send you buyers. Lots for Sale in Grayson, Ind. Ter. Lots 25 feet front by 140 feet deep for $25.00, half cash, balance in six months' time. 320 acres of land for lease, five years at $1.00 per acre per year. For bargains in lots, call or write RALPH PHILLIPS, Box G, Muskogee, Ind. Ter. CREEK CITIZENS. By Applying to Commission Can Learn Appraised Value of Allotments. An order was issued by the commissioner to the five civilized tribes Saturday to the effect that any allottee who makes a request by letter or personal application, will be furnished the appraised value of his or her allotment and the amount of land yet due the allottee. Where there is not enough land the allottee will receive his share in money. The Creek council at its last session passed a resolution asking that this be done. HAD FAMOUS POISON HAD FAMOUS POISON DREAD SECRET POSSESSED BY LAST OF THE BORGAS. Simple Mixture Carrying Certain Death and Impossible of Detection Came Down to Him from the Middle Ages—How It Might Be Well Used. Blaze de Bury, after reviewing the claims of the wife of a certain Italo-American to the title of the "last countess of Borgia," tells a most interesting story about the last male descendant of the famous poisoning family, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. "He was named Duke Riario-Sforza, and a well-known figure in the Paris grand opera. As our subscription seats adjoined, I met him there two or three nights a week, and gradually the duke began to honor me with his friendship. One evening he said: "'If it wasn't for music, my only passion, I would have dispensed with life long ago. Burdened as I am with the knowledge of my family's secrets, I know little comfort.' "Then he told me that he was in possession of the formula for making 'Cutarella,' the poison by which the Borgias rid themselves of their enemies and of persons whose fortunes or wives they coveted. 'The secret has descended from father to son through ten centuries and more. If I had a legitimate son I would have to impart it to him before I die, says the family tradition. To avoid that dreadful responsibility I never married.' The poison, he explained, was 'rather a simple mixture,' and it was hard to believe that no chemist ever found or rediscovered the formula. 'The poison,' he said, 'carries with it inevitable death, but no court of law and no expert physician is able to detect any symptoms of violence in the victim's body. Hence the Cutarella is the prince of poisons, just the poison for statesmen and kings to handle. "My formula provides either for sudden or for lingering death, according to the poisoner's wishes. I could make you drop dead in an instant by a handshake, or by a drop of liquid poured in your water or coffee, and I might sentence you to perish by inches, to burn up alive, etc." Blaze de Bury calls the duke a "theoretical philosopher of murder." He once said: "The truly great and just man, a man without egotism and without axes to grind, might become a great aid to justice by the possession of the Cutarella secret. The Borgias used the poison as a vehicle for their ambition and greed—it might be used to rid the world of a lot of secret criminals and vampires, laughing at the law. Justice, as we understand it, does not punish one-third of the crimes committed. Numerous perpetrators escape by technicalities, by bribery, by accident. Now, suppose that the possessor of the Cutarella secret hunts down such men and women and rid the world of them. Suppose he makes himself the instrument of vengeance for wronged women, for men driven to despair, for children robbed and betrayed by their guardians. Suppose he would take it upon himself to kill faithless kings and ministers that oppress the people. Suppose the Cutarella proprietor would go to Russia and do the work of the revolutionists there. What a grand prospect!" "Has your grace ever conceived that mission?" asked the author. "When I was young I sometimes considered its advisability," replied the duke. "But I was never a hero, never a great moralist. Besides, I felt that I had no particular knowledge of character. I might have executed more innocent people than guilty ones. And so I concluded to let the secret of the vengeance poison sleep. Since I came into possession of the formula it was never put in operation. And it never shall. I won't use it even on myself. If horror of life ever seizes me I shall die by a pistol shot." Soon after that the last male Borgis actually killed himself with a revolver Growth of Colleges In the future the competition between the older endowed universities and colleges, on the one hand, and the state universities on the other, is likely to become much keener than it is today. Herein is to be found a possible limitation of the student body at the older institutions which may continue in force for some years. That Harvard, Yale, Princeton and such splendid smaller institutions of learning as Williams, Amherst and Darmouth have reached their maximum of growth we do not, for a moment, believe—Hartford Times. A Press Bureau for the Vatican Pope Pius X contemplates founding an official press news office in the Cancelleria palace for supplying vatican news to correspondents. The idea was suggested to him by Cardinal Merry Del Val and is likely to save the holy father from much of the annoyance he is experiencing now through the circulation of unfounded rumors and the presentation of views inimical to vatican interests. ITCHING SCALP HUMOR. Lady Suffered Tortures Until Cured by Cuticura—Scratched Day and Night. "My scalp was covered with little pimples and I suffered tortures from the itching. I was scratching all day and night, and I could get no rest. I washed my head with hot water and Cuticura Soap and then applied the Cuticura Ointment as a dressing. One box of the Ointment and one cake of Cuticura Soap cured me. Now my head is entirely clear and my hair is growing splendidly. I have used Cuticura Soap ever since, and shall never be without it. (Signed) Ada C. Smith, 309 Grand St., Jersey City, N. J." Inherited Stupidity "I think there is more inherited stupidity at large than there was a hundred years ago," says Prof. Karl Pearson. "The obvious reason is that the stupid and foolish are now much better looked after than they were 100 years ago; they have a high rate of fertility, and their offspring are allowed to survive and marry in increasing numbers. So far as the stupidity which is curable by education is concerned, we are certainly better off than our forefathers, but in the matter of actual deficiencies and degenerates, whose mental defects are of physical origin quite the reverse is the case." It Will Cure. When racked with Rheumatic pain, so walking is an effort and running an impossibility, just try Hunt's Lightning Oil. The result will please and astonish you. Where there is a graft there is always a way. USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz. package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Inc. A naturalist, according to the Dunde Advertiser, has ben making observations on the toilets of ants of genus "alta," and has discovered each insect goes through a cleaning process as elaborate as that of a cat, not only performed by herself, but by another, who acts for the time as lady's maid. The assistant starts by washing the face of her companion, and from there goes over the whole body. The attitude of the cleansed is one of intense satisfaction, resembling that of a dog or cat when his head is being scratched. The pleasure the creature takes in being thus combed and sponged is really enjoyable to the observer. Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease Did you ever notice that continuous blowing makes one light-headed. Have you also noticed that light headed people are very apt to blow continually? KC BAKING POWDER is the wonderful raising powder of the Wave Circle. Thousands of women are bringing greater health and better food into their homes by using K C Baking Powder. Don't accept a substitute! Use the safe, wholesome and reliable K C Baking Powder. If you have never used it you don't know what you've missed. 25 ounces for 25 cents JAQUES MFG. CO. Chicago The artistic "Book of Presents" free upon request. THERE IS NO SLICKER LIKE TOWER'S FISH BRAND Forty years ago and after many years of use on the eastern coast. Tower's Waterproof Oiled Coats were introduced in the West and were called Slickers by the pioneers and cowboys. This graphic name has come into such general use that it is frequently though wrongfully applied to many substitutes. You want the genuine. Look for the Sign of the Fish, and the name Tower on the buttons. MADE IN MACK AND YELLOW AND SOLD BY REPRESENTATIVE TRADE THE WORLD OVER. A. J. TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO. Limited. TORONTO, CAN. SMOKERS FIND LEWIS' SINGLE BINDER 5? Cigar better Quality than most 10? Cigars Your jobber or direct from Factory, Peoria, Ill W. L. DOUGLAS $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES FOR MEN W. L. 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If I could show you the difference between the shoes made in my factory and those of other makes, you would understand why Douglas $3.50 shoes cost more to make, why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoes on the market to-day. CAUTION.—Insist upon having W.L.Douglas shoes. Take no substituita. None genuine without his name and price stamped on bottom. WANTED. A shoe dealer in every town where W.L. Douglas Shoes are not sold. Full line of samples sent free for inspection upon request. Fast Color Emulate needs; they will not wear bruises. Write for Illustrated Catalog of Fall Styles W. L. DOUGLAS, Rockton, MI $16 AN ACRE in Western Canada is the amount many farmers will realize from their wheat crop this year. FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE The land that this was grown on cost many of the farmers absolutely nothing, while those who wished to add to the 160 acres the Government grants, can buy land adjoining at from $6 to $10 an acre. Climate splendid, school convenient, railways close at hand, taxes low. Send for pamphlet "20th Century Canada" and full particulars regarding rate, etc., to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to the following authorized Canadian Government Agent—J. S. Crawford, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. (Mention this paper.) WANTED FOR UNITED STATES ARMY; able-bodied unmarried men, between ages of 21 and 35; citizens of United States, of good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read and write English. For information apply to Recruiting Officer, Post-Office Building Oklahoma, Guthrie. Shawnee, Enid, O. T., or Tulsa. I. T. DEFIANCE Cold Water Starch makes laundry work a pleasure. 16 oz. pkg. 100. W.N.U.—Oklahoma City—No. 46, 1905. Decision in Cotton Cotton will be moving rapidly from now on, and you will have to decide quickly what to do with each lot, according to the circumstances of the moment. Our services and our facilities are at your command, and you will make no mistake by shipping to us. Wm. D. Cleveland & Sons, Houston. . . . Texas NOT A TRACE LEFT Rheumatism Thoroughly Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. There is one remedy that will cure rheumatism in any of its forms and so thoroughly eradicate the disease from the system that the cure is permanent. This remedy is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and the proof of the statement is found in the experience of Mr. T. S. Wagar, of No. 72 Academy street, Watertown, N.Y. He says: "The pain was in my joints and my sufferings for over two years was beyond description. There was an intense pain in my shoulders that prevented me from sleeping and I would get up and walk the floor at night. When I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills the improvement was gradual, but by the time I had taken four boxes I was entirely cured and I have not had the slightest touch of rheumatism since that time." Mr. Wagar's wife is also enthusiastic in her endorsement of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. She says: "I have tried the pills myself for stomach trouble and have experienced great relief from their use. My daughter, Mrs. Atwood, of Gill street, Watertown, has used them for female weakness and was much benefited by them. I regard Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People as an extremely valuable family medicine." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have cured the worst cases of bloodlessness, indigestion, influenza, headaches, backaches, lumbago, sciatica, neuralgia, nervousness, spinal weakness, and the special ailments of girls and women whose blood supply becomes weak, scanty or irregular. The genuine Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are guaranteed to be free from opiates or any harmful drugs and cannot injure the most delicate system. At all drugists or from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y., postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box. six boxes for $2.50. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are the weakest, however, strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.—Bovoc. K C BAKING POWDER. The Best Example of What a Pure Baking Powder Should Be in Quality and Price. A popular and efficient baking powder requires two things—first, that the food made with it shall be absolutely wholesome; second, that it shall be sold at a reasonable price. In talking about the healthfulness of baking powder, it must be remembered that baking powder is not an article of diet any more than compressed yeast. One would be quite as objectionable for food as the other, except that of the two, the baking powder might be preferable. We do not eat either baking powder or yeast. What we do eat is the biscuit and bread raised with them. When placed upon the table no yeast remains in the bread and no baking powder in the biscuit. Both leavening agents have been destroyed in the aeration and the baking; otherwise, instead of light bread and biscuit we should have a mass of heavy, hard-baked dough. One well-known brand, K C Baking Powder, is sold under a $500,000 guarantee of its healthfulness and purity. There can be no doubt that a baking powder so guaranteed is absolutely wholesome and perfectly reliable. Even if it did remain in the food it could do nothing but good. With regard to price, a baking powder as efficient and wholesome as is possible to make can be sold, at a fair profit, for one cent an ounce. If it costs more the price is exhorbitant. Millions of pounds of K C Baking Powder, made by the Jaques Manufacturing Company of Chicago, have been sold at the above figure all over the country; and K C offers the best example at present on the market of what a good baking powder should be, both in respect of quality and reasonable price. A detestable fault is one we can trace to somebody we dislike. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. Charity sometimes begins at home and ends in the almshouse. Was Shot to Death While in Bed— Wife Confesses—Wanted Insurance Money. Sasakwa, Seminole Nation.—A deliberate and cold-blooded murder was committed at the little town of Allen, ten miles from this place, for the sole purpose of collecting a life insurance policy of $800. John Mahair was the victim of death while asleep in his bed at 2 o'clock in the morning. Through the arrest of his wife a full confession has been obtained implicating Lou Gilmore and C. L. Coltson as the actual perpetrators of the deed. It appears that Gilmore, Colston and Mrs. Mahair entered into a conspiracy to murder Mahair in order to collect a life insurance policy of $800. Mrs. Mahair was to receive half the money and the two men the other half. At 2 o'clock Saturday morning Gilmore and Colston went to Mahair's house and Gilmore went inside while his companion remained on watch in front of the house. While Mahair slept Gilmore emptied the contents of his revolver into his body. Mrs. Mahair was not sleeping with her husband but occupied an adjoining room. After the murder the woman buried the revolver in the smokehouse and placed a churn over the spot. When Deputy Marshal Edmonds heard of the crime he took up an investigation which resulted in the arrest of Mrs. Mahair and the implication of the two men. Gilmore and Colston were afterwards arrested by Deputy Marshal Edmonds who has done a shrewd piece of detective work. The three prisoners were taken to South McAlester for a hearing before United States Commissioner McMillan. President of New York Life Denies Company's Attorney is Not Wanted New York.—John A. McCall, president of the New York Life Insurance company, was called before the Armstrong committee of the insurance investigation today and peremptorily decided by a committee to demand the return from Europe to this country of Andrew Hamilton, the lawyer who has charge of the legislative matters of the New York Life. McCall further ordered to demand an accounting from Hamilton of moneys expended by him and of the balance which he owes the New York Life. McCall denied that it ws the policy of the company to have Hamilton remain abroad until after this investigation had been concluded and said that on the contrary he would very much like to have Hamilton return. McCall, replying to Mr. Hughes, counsel for the committee, said he had called the attention of the board of trustees of the company to his testimony before the committee relative to Hamilton and gave Hughes a copy of his statement which said that if Hamilton did not return to the New York Life the sum of $235,000 by by December 15, he would himself pay it to the company. McCall said Hamilton was either in Paris or Nauheim. STOPPED AT WRONG HOUSE. The Shooting of a Territory Man Who Was Mistaken for a South McAlester, [I. T.—James Marlie was shot and killed near the outskirts of Wilburton by John Fenney, when the former was tampering with a window in a house where Ferney boarded. In the night Ferney was aroused and told that someone was attempting to force a window. Ferney fired at the man, killing him. It developed later that it was Marlie and that he had started to visit a relative and had called at the wrong house. Ferney has disappeared. UP AND DOWN HIGH BUILDING Remarkable Feat of Steeplejack Astonished New Yorkers. The latest sensation in New York is the "Human Fly." Clinging like a fly to the surface of the famous Flatiron building in Broadway, John Garrick, a thirty-year-old steeplejack, walked up and down the tall building while thousands below stood trembling at the daring feat. The Flatiron building is 286 feet high. Garrick made a bet that he would crawl from the twentieth story window to the ground—270 feet away—without touching a windowsill. Down he went, one foot after the other, and one hand grasping the thin ledge below, before A man is climbing a wall. He is wearing a helmet and a jacket. The wall is decorated with ornamental designs. he released his grip on the upper one. Never for an instant did he falter or hesitate, but with calm, even movements, as though his inch of foothold was on the step of a staircase, the steeplejack came down to the street. Then Garrick swarmed up the vertical face of the Flatiron. Our sketch shows him negotiating the cornice of the roof. Another Centenarian. In Furstenhut, German Bohemia, lives Josepha Eder, who has just reached her 118th birthday. She has the distinction of being the oldest person in Europe to-day. She has all her faculties and can read without glasses. To support herself she acts as nurse in a well-to-do family in her vicinity. She walks several miles a day, and has the appearance of a woman sixty years older rather than one of the enormous age of one hundred and eighteen years. Mrs. Eder has always been poor and has had to work ever since she was a little girl. She has never been known to wear shoes, and even now she goes barefoot summer and winter. Sickness has never troubled her, and she has never had to call on a doctor. The little village of Furstenhut is very proud of the old lady, and many tourists go out of their way to pay a visit to this famous resident of German Bohemia. Panama's Navy. The navy of the little republic of Panama consists of one small steam yacht. There is no army. Wasps in Possession of Hall. Wasps have taken possession of the Odd Fellows' hall at Central Village, Conn. Thousands of the insects are clustered on the ceiling, and meetings in the hall are off for the present. A GIANT LAID LOW. Crippled and Made Ill by Awful Kidney Disorders. John Fernaays, fruit raiser, Webster, N. Y., says: "I used to lift railroad ties easily but wrenched my back and began to suffer with backache and kidney trouble. I neglected it until one day a twinge felled A. B. me like a log and made me crawl on hands and knees. I was so crippled for a time that I couldn't walk without sticks, had headaches and dizzy spells and the kidney secretions were muddy and full of brick-dust sediment. Doan's Kidney Pills made the pain disappear and corrected the urinary trouble. I have felt better ever since." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Use of "R. I." and "I. R." King Edward placed the letters "R. I." after his signature to the congratulatory telegram sent President Roosevelt, and Emperor William reversed the order, signing "I. R." Tihs is the usual style of each, and the difference indicates that in England "rex" is esteemed something greater than "imperator," while in Germany the "imperator" comes first. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in ¾-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 ozs." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. The greatest men whom I have known—men whose glance embrace the heavens and the earth—were very humble, and aware of the manner in which they had risen to such eminence.—Goethe. Do It Now. There is a time for all things. The time to take Simmons' Cough Syrup is when afflicted with sore throat, hoarseness, coughs or colds. It is guaranteed to cure. Be careful not to grieve over the wickedness of others; watch yourself "lest you grow a few sprigs of ungodliness." Hughes' Straggling Beard Charles E. Hughes, the New York insurance inquisitor, had a wonderfully stragling beard when he first came prominently into view in connection with the present investigation. On the advice of friends he has had his whiskers trimmed into reasonable shape, and now is much less of an attraction for the cartoonist, in addition to which his appearance is greatly improved. It sometimes nappens that when a man takes a rest he takes something he isn't justly entitled to. There is more Catarrch in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven Catarrch to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrch Cure, manufactured by F. J Cheney .Jo. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 to 20 mg daily and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulators and testimonial. Some men are born grafters, others achieve grafting, and many have graft thrust upon them. THE CHEMIST When your watch is broken or when you need a new one be sure you find R. A. GIVENS, the old reliable watchmaker and jeweler, in the above cut showing my work shop A. D., 1890; at that time I was just finishing the watch makers' course, and have been actively engaged in the highest art of the trade every since. This long experience has qualified me to do the very best work and give my customers the lowest prices in the jewelry line. Muskager, I. T. FOR RENT 500 acres of land in cultivation, known as the Peters land about four miles west of Muskogee. Good land. Price reasonable. See or write DR. R. H. WATERFORD. Muskogee, I. T. Cures Female Troubles, Diarrhoea, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Nervousness and Painful Menstruation. Call or write THE WILLIAMSON HAFFNER CO OUR CUTS TALK ENGRAVERS-PRINTERS DENVER STUDY LAW AT HOMES Prepare for success at the bar, in business or public life, by mail, in the ORIGINAL SCHOOL, founded in 1880. Successful college students every here. Successful bar and law colleges. Regular College Law Course and Business Law Course. Liberal Ternus. Special Offer Now. 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K. and T. R. R. Harding Memorial Cemetery. Best Improved Rural Property in the Indian Territory. Family lots in this beautiful cemetery, 20 by 20 feet, at Ten (10) Dollars each, for the next thirty days. Warrantee deeds See or write either the Creek or Home Undertaking Co. Gloyd Lumber Company 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. --- AN The Canadian Va Compa WE CAN RENT YOUR HOUSES F. QUALLS, Proprietor. THE CIMETER JO THE QUICK MAI Proprietor. E. D. NICKENS, B. CIMETER JOB PRINTING QUICK MAIL ORDER H F. QUALLS, Proprietor. E. D. NiCKENS, Business Mgr. THE CIMETER JOB PRINTING CO. 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The following inscription is on a tombstone in the English town of Brighton; "In memory of Phoebe Hassel; born 1712, died 1821, aged 108 years. She served for many years as a private soldier in many parts of Europe, and at the battle of Fontenoy, fighting bravely, she received a bayonet wound in the left arm." Ennui. A cold had kept the boy in the house—he was fretful and wan and weary. "What shall I bring you," his mother asked, "from the great big stores, my deary?" He looked at the scattered toys around—once held dear and vaunted. "Oh, bring me something," he, petulant, cried, "that I never knew I wanted."—Kate M. Cleary in The Sunday Magazine. Two Masters to Be Served. "Can a man serve two masters?" inquired a visting pastor of a deacon of Trinity church. "He has to, sometimes," confessed the deacon. "I think not," said the pastor. "You have never had boy twins at your house, have you?" Inquired the deacon, softly, and the pastor retired in discomfiture.—Boston Herald. What Sairey Said. Mrs. Gamp was not a philosopher, but her remark that "we live in a wale" embodies the concentrated essence of all philosophers. We can improve the conditions under which we live, but we cannot, take what thought we may, change our "wale" into a Garden of Eden.—The Practitioner. Why Japa Are Good Sailors. A Japanese marine officer has explained why Japan has such good sailors. Most of her coast vessels are small, but there are a great many of them, and almost any man taken from a fishing village has had enough experience to enable him to become an efficient sailor in a short time. English Book Club. The books of a club at Leicester, England, ostensibly established for "mental and moral improvements, mutual helpfulness and rational creation," showed, in court, that about 14 cents a week was spent by the club on literature and about $35 a week on drink. "Old Curiosity Shop." Dickens' "Old Curiosity Shop" is No. 13 of the street where it stands near Lincoln's Inn fields. It is now owned by a waste paper merchant who is enterprising enough to carry on besides his professed trade a business in selling Dickens souvenirs. "Hoodoo." "A white spot is a hoodoo," says one estimable authority and adds no word of explanation. Hoodoo seems to be a derivative from voodoo, what the negroes call a "cunjur," a thing which may work good, more commonly works harm. Carp Crowd Out Whitefish. Whitefish and salmon trout are almost extinct in Canadian waters. The few remaining are being destroyed by the German carp, which breed about fifteen times as fast as the whitefish. Value of Private Cars. A few years ago only men of great fortune possessed private cars. Nowadays there are so many of these palaces on wheels that their value is estimated at $72,000,000. "SQUARE ROOT" Story of College Nickname of New Secretary of State In college Elihu Root was a constant worker. He carried off the first prize in mathematics. On his record in scholarship he was appointed valedictorian of his class—and thereby hangs a tale. During his junior year occurred what was called the "German rebellion." Because of co-like of and dissatisfaction with the instructor in German, his class withdrew from college in a body—every man save Root. The class was out about two months, but during that time he went regularly to his recitations. The explanation vouchsafed is that, because of his father's official connection with the college as a member of the faculty, Root could not join in the secession it was an unfortunate situation, for which he may have been entirely blameless. At all events, he never lost the nickname which had been given him, the son of "Cube" Root, early in his college course. It was "Square" Root, and of this significant diminutive his fellow students considered him worthy despite his lack of popularity. After all, the only importance attaching to the secession is that, when tempted—and sorely tempted he must have been—he would not desert his work. This trait has followed him throughout his career, as will be shown, and in considerable degree has contributed to his success.—World's Work. Get at the Cause. Sacramento, Ky., Nov. 13th (Special)—A typical illustration of the way Dodd's Kidney Pills Cure Rheumatism is well told by Catherine Devine, who is very well known here. She says: "For over four years I was greatly troubled with Rheumatism. It used to take me worst in my legs and feet. At times I would be so bad I could not put my feet to the ground. As I am over seventy-three years of age I began to think I was too old to get cured and should have to bear my Rheumatism the best way I could. But I heard about Dodd's Kidney Pills and thought I would give them a trial. So I got a box and began taking them. Well, I must say Dodd's Kidney Pills did me a wonderful lot of good. They eased the pain from the first, and today I am in better health than I have been for many years." Occasionally the string on a man's finger only serves to remind him that he has forgotten to take it off. Remember that you are judged by your actions. "Do noble things, don't dream them all day long."—Exchange Cures Rheumatism and Catarrh—Medicine Sent Free. These two diseases are the result of an awful poisoned condition of the blood. If you have aching joints and back, shoulder blades, bone pains, crippled hands, legs or feet, swollen muscles, shifting, sharp, biting pains, and that tired, discouraged feeling of rheumatism, or the hawking, splitting, blurred eyesight, deafness, sick stomach, headache, nolses in the head, mucous throat, discharges, decaying teeth, bad breath, belching gas of catarrh, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.). It kills the poison in the blood which causes these, awful symptoms, giving a pure, healthy blood supply to the joints and mucous membranes, and makes a perfect cure of the worst rheumatism or foulest catarrh. Cures where all else fails. Blood Balm (B. B. B.) is composed of pure Botanic ingredients, good for weak kidneys. Improves the digestion, cures dyspepsia. A perfect tonic for old folks by giving them new, rich, pure blood. Thoroughly tested for thirty years. Druggists, $1 per large bottle, with complete directions for home cure. Sample free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and special free medical advice sent in sealed letter. "Excellencies" in France * Hitherto France has been republican enough to have no higher title for its officers than "Monsieur." Now the Moniteur Official announces that, henceforth the president and ministers of state are to be "Excellencies." EXTRADITION Tulsa Merchant Charged With Bigamy Refuses to Return To Missouri. Tulsa, I. T.—John C. Hess, proprietor of one of this city's largest retail stores, was arrested today by G. W. Teel and John Querry, United States marshals, on a charge of bigamy, on information furnished by Sheriff H. N. Graves of Macon county, Mo. The merchant was taken into custody by the officers late Sunday, and placed under guard. Later he was taken to Sapulpa, the court town of the district, where a fugitive writ will be issued. He refuses to return to Missouri without a requisition. Hess came to Tulsa a year and a half ago, from near Broken Arrow, I. T., and has been in business here in the interim. After he had left there the officers commenced to receive inquiries about him, but he was never located until Saturday. More specific information was sought from Macon, and the arrest then followed. The prisoner has a wife and two children in Tulisa, the children being 9 and 3 years of age. Who it is making the claim that he is a husband of more than one woman, other than Sheriff Graves, is not known in Tulisa. He disclaims any knowledge of who the party or parties could be, and says while he is not guilty he would rather not discuss the case. Enid Traveling Man Hurt in Railway Accident. Enid, Okla.—W. L. Peck of this city, a traveling salesman, had his collar bone broken and was otherwise injured this afternoon by a collision between two sections of freight train No. 73 on the Rock Island Road between Dover and Kingfisher. The train broke in two and the engineer stopped the front end, the rear end striking with great force, throwing Mr. Peck against the side of the caboose. Several other passengers were badly shaken up, but no seriously injured. Sam Armstrong, a brakeman, was thrown off the top of a freight car and hurt internally. BILLINGSLEY INDICTMENTS. Seven Quashed and Cases Submitted to Present Grand Jury. Guthrie, Okla.—The seven federal indictments against Charles E. Billingsley, president of the defunct Capitol National bank, charged with making false entries, were quashed today by Judge Hainer in accordance with the Phillips decision, and the cases resubmitted to the present grand jury. J. C. Robb, vice president of the bank, who was indicted with Billingsley, failed to appear when his case was called. His bond was declared forfeited and a bench warrant was issued for him. Robb is supposed to be in Wichita, Kas. FOR INCITING RACE WAR. Forty-four Greer .County Farmers Indicted by Grand Jury. Lawton, Okla.—Forty-four farmers of Greer county were indicted by the grand jury, charged with inciting a race war against the negro cotton pickers who have come from the south to take care of the immense cotton crop here. This riot occurred two weeks ago, when these farmers armed themselves to drive out the black cotton pickers and were stopped by the authorities. BURIED BESIDE MOTHER. Kansas Man Left This Request Before Shooting Himself. Oklahoma City, Okla.—After writing a note to his father and brother requesting that he be buried beside his mother, W. C. Peterson, 25 years old, twice shot himself this evening. One ball penetrated his heart and another his head. The note gave his home as Speerville, Kas. His father and brother live here. COUNCIL HILL, IND. TER. The most Prom- isng town in the Creek Natl in 25 miles from Muskogee and surrounded by the best agricultural land in the Territory. It has a brick R. K. station with cement platform, 12 ft. granitoid walks on business street, modern two-story school house and many other features which help to make a first-class modern town. Main Office Muskogee, I. T. Union Townsite Co. SAFE BUSINESS backed by men who have proven their ability to succeed in business and conducted on a sound, business basis according to the regular business customs applicable to that particular business is about all that any thinking man could wish. The RISING SUN FIRE INSURANCE CO. Exactly Fills the Persecution. We Write Insurance Against: Fire and lightning, on houses, household goods, office furniture, libraries, merchandise, live stock farm implements, grain, buggies, wagons, harness, saddles and musical instruments. INSURE Your dwelling, Farm property, store or stock of merchandise in the MERCHANTS & PLANTERS INSURANCE COMPANY Of Muskogee, Indian Territory. We want a good agent in every town in the Territory. The Muskogee Carnation Company CUT FLOWERS, ROSES, CARNATIONS, &c. FLORAL EMELEMS Muskogee, I. T. FARM LOANS. FARM LOANS. Low Rates, Easy Terms and No Delay. YOU GET YOUR MONFY WHEN YOU SIGN PAPERS. We loan our own money and make our loans payable right here at home No red tape. Williams, Coss @ Hogan, Offices in City National Bank. Muskogee, I. T. Fruit Trees. We Have Varieties That Do Best in this part of the Country. Acclimated and true to name smooth, healthy stocky, well branched and good roots. Packed in moss and shipped same day dug. Apple and Peach 8c to 15c. Pear and Plum 25c to 40c Cherry 35c to 50c. All kinds of berries and grapes. We have 10,000 two year, fieldgrown Roses, $4.00 a doz. Green house Roses from 2 in pots $1.50 a dozen. Thousands of imported bulbs and ornamentals. Fine shade trees 25c to 50c, evergreens 50c to $1.00. Buy direct from headquarters. Save agents commission. Prices will be satirfactory considering the stock. Write us today. A fine Premium with Every $10.00 Order. Muskogee Nursery Co., H. P. Showalter, Sec'y. MUSKOGEE, I. T. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Color more good, brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can dye any garment without ripping apart. Write for free booklet—How to Dye, Bleach and Max Colors. MONROE DRUG CO., Unionville, Missouri. Farmers, Dairymen, Poultry Raisers: Pure Alfalfa Meal Best Balance for Ratious Known $1.50 per 100 lb. f.o.b. Oklahoma City, OK 14. Make money by feeding TONIC STOCK SALT Works both ways: saves feel; increases values. $2.50 per 100 bs.; freight allowed. Ask your dealer or write direct. Inland Mfg. Co., Oklahoma City. DEFIANCE STARCH easiest to work with and stains nicest. PAXTINE TOILET ANTISEPTIC FOR WOMEN troubled with ills peculiar to their sex, used as a douche is marvelously successful. Thoroughly cleanses, kills disease germs, stops discharges, heals inflammation and local soreness, cures leucorrhoea and usal catarrh. Paxtine is in powder form to be dissolved in pure water, and is far more cleansing, healing, germicidal and economical than liquid antiseptics for all. TOILET AND WOMEN'S SPECIAL USES For sale at druggists, 50 cents a box. Trial Box and Book of Instructions Free. THE R. PAXTON COMPANY BOSTON, MASS. If afflicted with core eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water $10.00 Sweep Feed Grinder. $14.00 Galvanized Steel Wind Mill. We manufacture all sizes and styles. It will pay you to investigate. Write for catalog and price list. CURRIE WIND MILL CO., 627 Seventh St., Topeka, Kansas DEFIANCE STARCH for starching finest linens. W.N.U.—Oklahoma City—No. 46, 1905 PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Soil by druggists. CONSUMPTION SEEK TO DEVELOP THE YAUTIA New Vegetable of Enormous Importance to Porto Rico. Efforts are being made in Porto Rico to develop a new vegetable of economic and commercial importance. It is called the "yautia," and is nearly related to the taro—the plant that furnishes so valuable a food to the natives of Polynesia, and which, under the name of "elephant ear," is familiarly known as an ornament in our own gardens. Yautia was well known to the natives of the West Indies long before the landing of Columbus and was cultivated by the Caribs when the Spaniards first arrived. Its starchy, tuberous root, which is the part that is good to eat, looks somewhat like a sweet potato, and is six or eight inches long, with a diameter of a couple of inches. When cut into pieces and boiled it resembles a boiled white potato in appearance. The people of Porto Rico use the root as a substitute for the potato, usually boiled, though there are several other ways of preparing it for the table. It costs one and a half to two cents a pound—twice the price of taro root, which itself is used as a food throughout the West Indies. The plant has long, spear-shaped leaves, instead of the broad one resembling elephant ears, which distinguish the taro. There are about twenty-five varieties of the yautia. It takes a very long season to mature the plant, which would not produce a plant in the United States unless it might be in the south of Florida and along the gulf coast.—New York Herald. "Father" Bailou's Religion. At one time, many years ago, the Universalist Society of Methuen, Mass., was without a pastor, and the pulpit was supplied from Sunday to Sunday by different clergymen who were "put up" by one of the deacons. On a certain Sunday when "Father" Ballou was engaged to preach the deacon was called out of town, so he arranged with Mrs. Brown, a neighbor, and a straight-laced orthodox, to entertain Mr. Ballou. As the hostess and her eminent guest sat at the supper table there seemed to be a dearth of sociability. Finally Mrs. B., who always felt solicitous about "those deluded Universalists," broke the silence with: "Mr. Ballou, do you think you've got religion?" "None to boast of, madam," was the curt reply. It is needless to say that the learned divine's epigrammatic answer completely disarmed his interlocutor. A Kansas Sunset. It is the sunset hour, and floods of light Pour their full radiance o'er the western sky. Giving the clouds a glory new and bright, Of crimson robes and zones of Tyrian dye. It is the sunset hour, and nature gay Is hushed in slumber solemn and sublime. As the last moments of departing day Drop slowly, gently from the hand of time. Now fades the brightness, and the veil night Enshrouds the splendor of the rosy West; While all the stars upon their thrones of light Glitter like jewels in a monarch's crest. The brightness fades, and yet a lingering ray. With shining finger touches yonder heights And links with gold the passing day, And the still beauty of the coming night. —Carrie M. Baker in Colorado Springs Gazette. Campanile is Shaky. Another Italian campanile, only one degree lower in fame than that of Venice, is threatened. This is the great bell tower of the Cathedral of Lecce, one of the loftiest in Italy—about 250 feet. It is also of great antiquity. Its weakness is due to the daily ringing of its enormous bells. Spaniard Who Redeems Promise. Carlos Morales, president of Santo Domingo, is said to be unlike the ordinary promise-making Spanish-American, as dependence can be placed on his word. It is better to be forgotten utterly than to be remembered only through a lot of fool things you have done. DON'T FORGET A large 3 oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. A woman seldom makes a fool out of a man; she usually acts as nature's assistant. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. Often the girl with false bangs has the most to say about peroxidized tresses. Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullen is Nature's great remedy—Cures Coughs, Colds, Croup and Consumption, and all throat and lung troubles. At drug-gists, 25c., 50c. and $1.00 per bottle. Even the pessimist who lots both his legs in a railway accident had no kick coming. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F. BOYER. Trinity Springs. nd., Feb. 15, 1900. A New York man lived two years with a broken neck, but it wasn't broken by a rope. Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now. There are many kinds of reform, but we hope and pray we may never be so thoroughly changed as to give the impression that we never were young. Here Is Relief for Women. Mother Gray, a nurse in New York, discovered a pleasant herb remedy for women's ills, called AUSTRALIAN-LEAF. It is the only certain monthly regulator. Cures female weakness, Backache, Kidney and Urinary troubles. At all Druggists or by mail 50 cts. Sample mailed FREE. Address, The Mother Gray Co., LeRoy. N. Y. We are going to shudder once more. We have been again thinking of the young man who wears coats padded to twice his shoulder width and possibly condenses his waist in stays. No Use. You may have the moral right to do so, but it is not necessary. Hunt's Cure will instantly relieve and promptly cure that itching trouble in whatever form. It is made solely for that purpose. Of course, it's the proper thing for a man to have a backbone, but he should remember that it is jointed. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. Young man, you wil realize some day that the folks who talk so much about the joy of painting the town red are directly or indirectly concerned in the manufacture and sale of the pigment used in some decorative efforts. More Flexible and Lasting. won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. PUTNAM Color more good, brighter and faster colors than any any garment without ripping apart. Write for free boo Farmers, Dairymen, Poultry Daisers: Pure Alfalfa Meal Best Balance for Rations Known FROM GIRLHOOD TO WOMANHOOD Mothers Should Watch the Development of Their Daughters Interesting Experiences of Misses Borman and Mills. MATILDA BORMAN MYRTLE MILLS Miss Mills has written the two following letters to Mrs. Pinkham, which will be read with interest: Dear Mrs. Pinkham: — (First Letter.) "I am but fifteen years of age, am depressed, have dizzy spells, chills, headache and back- EY TILL CURED·SEND FOR FREE ILLINS·TREATISE ON BECTAL DISCASES, WITH NAMES OF PROMINENT MEN CURED N & MINOR·1031 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. (BRANCH OFFICE AT ST. LOUIS.) ANTI-GRIPINE Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Makes Sick Women Well. IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA. I won't sell Anti-Gripine to a dealer who won't Guarantee It. Call for your MONEY BACK IF IT DON'T CURE. F. W. Diemer, M. D., Manufacturer, Springfield, Mo. LESS DYES ers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You Can dye MONROE DRUG CO., Unionville, Missouri. Every mother possesses information which is of vital interest to her young daughter. Too often this is never imparted or is withheld until serious harm has resulted to the growing girl through her ignorance of nature's mysterious and wonderful laws and penalties. Girls' over-sensitiveness and modesty often puzzle their mothers and baffle physicians, as they so often withhold their confidence from their mothers and conceal the symptoms which ought to be told to their physician at this critical period. When a girl's thoughts become sluggish, with headache, dizziness or a disposition to sleep, pains in back or lower limbs, eyes dim, desire for solitude; when she is a mystery to herself and friends, her mother should come to her aid, and remember that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will at this time prepare the system for the coming change, and start the menstrual period in a young girl's life without pain or irregularities. Hundreds of letters from young girls and from mothers, expressing their gratitude for what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has accomplished for them, have been received by the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., at Lynn, Mass. PRICE. 25 Cts. TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANTI-GRIPINE HAS NO EQUAL FOR HEADACHE ache, and as I have heard that you can give helpful advice to girls in my condition, I am writing you."—Myrtle Mills, Oquawka, Ill. Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— (Second Letter.) "It is with the feeling of utmost gratitude that I write to you to tell you what your valuable medicine has done for me. When I wrote you in regard to my condition I had consulted several doctors, but they failed to understand my case and I did not receive any benefit from their treatment. I followed your advice, and took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and am now healthy and well, and all the distressing symptoms which I had at that time have disappeared."—Myrtle Mills, Oquawka, Ill. Miss Matilda Borman writes Mrs. Pinkham as follows: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— "Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound my months were irregular and painful, and I always had such dreadful headaches. "But since take $ \textcircled{g} $ the Compound my headaches have entirely left me, my months are regular, and I am getting strong and well. I am telling all my girl friends what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me."—Matilda Borman, Farmington, Iowa. If you know of any young girl who is sick and needs motherly advice, ask her to address Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., and tell her every detail of her symptoms, and to keep nothing back. She will receive advice absolutely free, from a source that has no rival in the experience of woman's ills, and it will, if followed, put her on the right road to a strong, healthy and happy womanhood. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound holds the record for the greatest number of cures of female ills of any medicine that the world has ever known. Why don't you try it? The gas franchise let by our city council means more light and cheaper fuel we hope. We are in need of both. Read our advertisements and give the advertiser your trade. They deserve it and will give you the best bargains that can be had. The little town of Rentlesville on the M. K. & T. R. R., is one of the most prosperous communities in the B. I. T., and is growing rapidly. The police are hot after the lewd women, hoboes and sneak thieves. They are making things so hot for this outfit that hey can't stay in town. This is well. Send $1.00 for a year's subscription to the Cimeter, he greatest and best weekly journal in the B. I. T. If you want to keep posted read the Cimeter. And Uncle Joe did pull the string as the Democrat intimated and the Western District will be blessed with another clean business like administration. The new state of Oklahoma will contain 200,000 negroes, and they will play a very important part in shaping the destinies of the new commonwealth. Let our people get together in time. "He laughs best who laughs last," Respectfully dedicated to the star chamber gang of political pirates who sougat to dictate and control federal patronage in the Indian Territory. The Frisco R. R. will give excursion rates, round trip, to Muskogee on the 20th, better known as Booker Washington day. There will be a crowd of visitors in town that day. Old man Gordon as usual fell on the wrong side again. See big leader in Searchlight of the 14th inst. And already the old man is dodging as he did in the now dead and buried Sequoyah movement. And the gentlemen who predicted done things began side stepping when they received the telegram that created such a frost among the inner circles of the arch conspirators and pretended makers of judges, etc. Dennis Flynn is getting in shape for a gigantic struggle to attain the leadership of the Republican hosts in the new state. Dennis is a resourceful statesman and knows the game like a past master. We are in receipt of the Delineator for December from the Butterick Pub. Co. Every lady should have this monthly and keep posted on latest fashions etc. If you cannot DURFEY HARDWARE COMPANY. obtain one at your store write the Butterick Pub. Co., New York City. Price 25 cents. INCORPORATED Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Tinware, and Celebrated Monarc Ranges. Every one Guaranteed, Builders' Tools, etc. All kinds of Tin Work and Plumbing, Refrigerators and Ice Coolers. The M, K. & T. will sell tickets for one and one-third fare for round trip to Muskogee on the day Booker Washington is here, to-wit: November 20th. Let all come who desire to hear the great American. The people regardless of secret societies will entertain Mr. Washington. His visit to this locality is for all the people. There will be no exclusive persons in the affair. PEOPLES MUTUAL AID ASSO@IATN OF LITTLE ROCK, ARK. Offers Better Sick, Accident and Death Benefit Policies than any company in the Territory. Reliable agents wanted. Good pay. Call on J H Ellis, Supt., Room 10 Jones Building. MUSKOGEE, I. T. Or write C. B. King, Gen'l Man., O. G. Miller, Gen'l Supt. J. H. McCohico, Ass t Sec y, 500. Center St., Little Rock, Ark. The school board of Muskogee have given us a "square deal" and now we will have a splendid 6-room school building in the Third ward for colored children that will be the equal in every particular to any school building in the town. Our school board is O. K. The report in the Searchlight touching the editor of his paper as having been selected to present our guest on the 20th was erroneous, as the committee have selected no one and the report was made by envious malicious devils for purposes best known to themselves. HERE AT HOME BUY FRUIT TREES EACH PEAR LUM APPLE GRAPE & BERRIES ORNAMENTALS, ROSES & SHRUBS OF Muskogee Nursery Co. H. P. SHOWALTER, Sons' y J. L. KINSEY, President. Phone 3 or 31 Our merchants should pay a better price for cotton if they desire trade to come to our town. We are losing thousands of dollars in trade by the unwise course that is driving the farmer to sell and trade at the small towns. Why buy Your From a company you do not know. Keep your money at home buy buying from the The Cimeter reaches every part of the B. I. T., and our readers are keeping close watch on the indicator. The fellow who plays into the hands of the enemy will find out that the people in the most remote part of the Teritory have the gentleman marked. Muskogee Lumber Company They live here and will treat you right. Yard located west of Jones' Building, near Masonic Hall. Pioneer Abstract Co IOWA BUILDING The citizenship grafter has played his last card. The supply of foois did not give out but the time limitation did, and now the fellows who desire to part with their money in order to get on rolls where they never belonged can hunt some other kind of grafter to take their money. This Company makes absolutely correct abstracts of title. Go there for correct information. The town of Grayson offers inducements for the new comer that in the long run will prove to be a Godsend to the emigrant from Arkansas. It is a town of about 1,000 inhabitants, and schools and churches in proportion. It is within two miles of a railroad station, and the land is productive and coal and other minerals are found in abundance. Lots can be bought at reasonable prices. There a few loafers in Muskogee who are continually parading themselves as leaders and who are so indolent that half the time they can't pay a board bill, and even now one of these cusses is in debt to an aged citizen in the amount of $1.00 that he borrowed to save himself from starvation and yet won't pay the loan, and wants to know who the decent citizens represent and remarks they don't represent me. Well, we should say not. It would take one of his kind to do that. 1 SECTION TWO BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SPECIAL EDITION The Muskogee Cimeter. Muskogee, I T., Thursday, November 16 1905. Vol 7 Washington, D. C., Nov. 15. Speaker Cannon, who is supporting Judge C. W. Raymond of the Indian Territory for reappointment said today after an interview with the president, that the decision relative to Raymond's candidacy had not been reached. The President stated that as Raymond's term would not expire for a month there was no necessity for immediate action by the president. It is known that Mr. Cannon expects the reappointment of Judge Raymond and asked his appointment. Later (3:30 p. m.)—It can be definitely announced that Judge Raymond will be reappointed. The official announcement will be made within a day.—Democrat. OUR ADVERTISERS. When you want anything go these places:— For Hardware, go to Sadler Hardware Co. and to Durfey's Hardware Co., each of these firms will treat you right. For Coal, J. W. Sippes is the one to give you full weight. For Lumber, The Gloyd Lumber Co., The Geo. D. Hope Lumber Co., and the Muskogee Lumber Co. will give you prices that defy competition. To Keep Your Money Safe, The Commercial National Bank, The Canadian Valley Trust Co., and Muskogee Title and Trust will give you a square deal. For Abstracts, The Pioneer Abstract Co. and the Muskogee Title and Trust will fix the deal O. K. For Hair Wigs and things in that line, Mrs. O. Shafer is at the head of the list. E. W. McClure is the boss in Gents' Furnishing Goods. For Groceries, The Old Reliable Creek Crocery Co. and Geo. D. Wideman can't be beat. Trade with them they deserve trade. Lots for Sale in Grayson, Ind. Ter. Lots 25 feet front by 140 feet deep for $25.00, half cash, balance in six month time. 320 acres of land for lease, five years at $1.00 per acre per year. For bargains in lots, call or write The Creek Livery Barn is the only place for first class rigs and everything in the livery line. The Hamilton Club of Chicago entertained Hon. Booker T. Washington a few years ago, and among the prominent men present were: J. B. Foraker, now senator from Ohio; J. W. Nsble of Mo., formerly Secretary of Interior. Chas. W. Raymond of Ill., now Judge Western District, Indian Ter., Asa Bushnell, Ex-Governor of Ohio; A. J. Beveridge of Indiana now U. S. Senator, and many others now permanently before the public. J. C. JOHNSON, of Wewoka, FOR RENT 500 acres of land in cultivation, known as the Peters land about four miles west of Muskogee. Good land. Price reasonable. See or write DR. R. H. WATERFORD. Muskogee, I. T. Cures Female Troubles, Diarrohea, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Nervousness and Painful Menstruation. Call or write MRS. A. G. STEELE, P. O. Box 75. Checotah, I. T. "If you have anything to trade or sell in the way of Real Estate, write to KIMBER REAL ESTATE AGENCY Co.. 810 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. It makes no difference what you want to sell or where it is located, this company will send you buyers. STUDY LAW AT HOME Prepare for success in the best in business or public life, held in the ORIGINAL SCHOOL. Founded in 1880. Successful graduates everywhere. Approved by bar and law colleges. Regular College Law Course and Business Law Graduate Course. Torque. Special Offer Allowed. Gotaleogue Proe. Sprague Correspondence School of Law. 733 Majestic St., Boulder, Mt. No 6 SHEE RECORD BROKE AT ham-Sykes & Co G NDERPRICING SALE! Graham-Sykes & Co BIG UNDERPRICING SALE! BUYNOW needs. You Need at prices oth The Goods You Need at prices others Will Make Later. Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor. MUSKOGEE Thursday November 16, 1905. CHIMNEY EMPTIES FOUR FLUES Takes Smoke from Open Fireplace, Cook Stove and Heaters. In a house with four rooms the inner corners of which adjoin closely, how can a chimney be built so that it will serve an open fireplace in one room and also take the smoke from cook stove in next room? Also could it be fixed to take the smoke from heaters in third and fourth rooms? What quantity of materials will be required? To build fireplace and chimney, set the accompanying plans. The fire place flue is drawn over into the kitchen stove flue, and the one flue it for the two heaters. Have the flues 8x8 inches square. The fireplace can be built any size required. For a common grate the size is 2 feet 2 inches wide by 2 feet 10 inches high by 1 foot deep. The distance across front of fireplace for the above-sized grate A. Fireplace. B. B. Flues Sx8. B. Fireplace. Soot doors. is five feet. As no basement or cellar is mentioned, the ash or soot doors are placed in flues above hearth, so as to allow cleaning out the flues when necessary. A good plan when topping out chimney is to mold a concrete cap on it. This can be done by placing mold on top of chimney and filling in with cement concrete, and is much easier than molding on the ground and then putting it on. This cap will prevent the water and frost from loosening the bricks in top of chimney. For a chimney the size mentioned it will take about two thousand bricks. Well Under House. Would it be objectionable to have a well under a house, with a pump leading up to the kitchen, if the well is properly ventilated from the outside? The danger of contamination of well water lies not so much in lack of ventilation as it does in the soakage of surface matter taken into solution by the rains and carried down into the ground and thus into the well. Most wells are near the house, however, and except in special conditions in which the ground structure is favorable to drainage into the well, contamination does not usually result. In the circumstances here mentioned, namely, of the well standing immediately below the house, there is no more danger in respect to ground soakage than if the well were near the house and not under it. At the same time, ventilation of the well would help to keep the water fresh, and therefore it is advisable to provide for ventilation. Foundation Walls of Barn. I have a barn 36x46 feet and I should like to know if I raised it up and put in, say, three feet of stonework and five feet of frame work for a cow stable, could it be made equally as strong to resist wind storms as an entire stone foundation. FANCIES OF FASHION FANCIES OF FASHION MODES AND FABRICS THAT HAVE PASSING FAVOR. Princess Robe in Blue Chiffon Broadcloth—Coat Costume of White Cloth Combination of Feathers and Fur an Idea of the Season. Winter Windows Abloom. Among the most easily grown and satisfactory house plants for winter are winter-blooming bulbs. They are especially suitable for city flats, where a window garden thrives with most difficulty. Hyacinths are the best, because they demand only a very simple culture. A four-inch pot serves for one large bulb, a five-inch pot for two and a six-inch pot for three. Roman hyacinths are extremely popular, low in price and easily brought to flower on Christmas, if potted in October. A succession, planted from that time on, produces a succession of flowers throughout the winter. Three or four bulbs may be planted in a six-inch pot, or a dozen or more in a bulb pan or basket. Any good garden soil, mixed with one-fourth of coarse sand, will grow any sort of hyacinths. Use no manure, as it rots the bulb. Put an inch of broken charcoal, pottery or pebbles in the bottom of the pot for drainage. The Long. Fitted Coats. While long, fitted coats suit fine figures better, their skirt portions make them cumbersome to wear, especially when walking, and the additional weight and warmth are by no means always desirable. The warmth of the long coat in cold weather may be offset when the Eton model is selected by wearing an extra or heavier peticoat. Many of the new Etons for even cold weather have sleeves of little more than elbow length, but these will not be worn for walking when the snow flies, unless heavy furs, including a large muff, are worn and carried to protect the lower arms. The tailored half-length, three-quarter-fitting coats, with skirts to match, made in the severest possible fashion with plain coat sleeves, are in evidence on fashionable women for traveling and shopping, and numbers of them are still seen in the smart restaurants at the luncheon hour. 1 Coat costume of white cloth. The coat shows much openwork embroidery through which the green silk lining shows. In Blue Broadcloth. Richness and gorgeousness to a degree that would be barbaric were the results not so harmonious in color and so beautiful in line are characteristic of a great number of the new trimmings and gold, silver and other metallic effects enter into many, but em- broidery is the feature that runs riot everywhere. But no matter what other trimmings are used they are fairly sure to be re-enforced by touches of velvet. A stunning suit of blue broadcloth has a wide circular skirt with tiny tucks over the hips and two deep tucks around the bottom. The bodice closes under the arm and has a bib front of gold-embroidered white silk, outlined by a narrow band of blue velvet. The elbow sleeves are one large puff with three tucks over top and finished with a turned cuff of velvet and a frill of cream lace. The buttons on designed piece in front are cut steel. THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Princess robe of Alice blue chiffon broadcloth with cape top of panne velvet. Folds of velvet piped at the top with darker blue soutache braid trim the tunics. Old silver cabuchons appear on the top. Blue beaver hat, lighter blue bird of paradise plume. Feathers and Fur. Burnt orange silk beaver hats trimmed in dark brown velvet and dark brown plumes have been sent by a famous French milliner and are exceedingly chic. The dark brown must be of the rich, deep, yet colorful tone that harmonizes so well with the orange shades and only little of the bright color is left in view after the brim is bound in brown velvet; brown velvet is folded high around the crown and a brown plume is on the side, falling both over and under the upturned brim. In Cloth and Velvet. A gown of cloth and velvet in a warm shade of brown had a princesse skirt fitted smoothly over the waist and hips and falling in wide folds about the feet. The upper part of the skirt was of cloth and the lower half of velvet, cut in fancy scollops at the top. The short jacket was of velvet trimmed with cloth. Cloth bands edged the jacket and collar; revers and cuffs were cloth. All of these were edged with a fancy silver braid. English Crumpets. One quart of warm milk, 1 yeast cake, 1 teaspoon salt, flour enough to make a stiff batter. When light, add $ \frac{1}{2} $ cup of melted butter, 1 teaspoon soda mixed in a very little more flour. Let it stand 20 minutes until light. Grease some muffin rings, place them on a hot griddle and fill them half full of the batter. When done on one side turn and bake the other side. Butter them while hot, pile on one another and serve immediately. Maple Cream Frosting. Half a cup of granulated sugar, $ \frac{1}{2} $ cup of grated maple sugar, 1 tablespoon of butter, 3 tablespoons of milk. Let the mixture come to a boil, remove from fire, stir until slightly thickened and spread at once on cake. SHOWING THE WORLD'S PROGRESS People may be willing to drink impure water, but they are not willing to offer it to their locomotives. Purified water results in sure economy and excellent business returns from the viewpoint of the locomotive operations, and also relieves the shops and roundhouses of a vast amount of work, which increases with the weight of locomotives and the increased demand upon them. Although the first cost is large, returns are so prompt and so liberal that to do without water purification is pronounced folly. A Heating Contrivance. Naturally the average man doesn't know much about the duties of the kitchen, which accounts for the fact that the majority of useful kitchen articles invented are the ideas of women. A Nebraska woman has added another one to the list in the heating contrivance shown here, which is adapted to be placed upon a stove for heating irons or for other purposes where a heat-retaining device could be used. It consists of two similar semicylindrical sections hinged in the center, the tops being provided with openings or perforations, and the lower edge being formed with a supporting rim or flange. From this construction it will be observed that the device when closed and placed upon Heats the Irons Quickly. the stove forms a heat-retaining means particularly useful in heating irons. A kettle or other cooking utensil can also be placed upon the top, the irons and the kettle being heated at the same time. To permit the ready opening or closing of either of the sections cleats are attached to each section and operated by means of an implement similar to a poker. In this way there is no danger of burning the hands. It will be evident that such a device would retain a vast amount of heat. Volcanoes and Earthquakes. A remarkable example of the close connection of volcanoes and earthquakes was observed by the early Spanish settlers in San Salvador. When the water in the crater lake of Ilopango rose above a certain level earthquake shocks always followed. So they cut a channel to allow of the escape of the water and prevent its rising in the crater. And for a hundred years there was no earthquake shook the country. At the same time the lake was blown out by a volcanic eruption. Hills to Stop Trains. One of the elevated roads in Chicago is rebuilding its track and will raise the rails at stations to make a "hump" three feet high. This will not only assist in bringing the train to a stop, but the down-grade assists in starting again.—Popular Mechanics. A FEW MERRY JESTS A FEW MERRY JESTS SOMETHING TO REMEMBER AND OVER. Jury's Disagreement That Affected Defendant and His Lawyer—Speculation as to Efforts of the Parrot Mrs. De Fashion's Troubles. Told by the Explorer. The explorer was entertaining his friends with yarns of the Arctic regions. "And once," he related, "I was cornered by a polar bear, and didn't have a bullet to protect myself. Tears came into my eyes as I thought of home." "What then?" asked his breathless friends. "Why, the tears froze as hard as a rock, and, ramming them in my gun, I fired and killed the bear."—Stray Stories. Lingered Over His Lunch. "I beg your pardon, waiter," said the tourist in the railway restaurant. "Did you say that I had twenty minutes to wait or that it was twenty minutes to eight?" "I said nayther," answered the Hibernian attendant. "I said yez had twinty minutes to ate, an that's all yez had. Yer thrain's gone now!" His Modest Fear. "Do you believe in reincarnation?" asked the woman who is interested in the occult. "Yes," answered the young man who never contradicts. "Then you understand theosophy?" "No. If I understood it I am afraid I might not believe in it." No Wonder. "Wasn't trying to commit suicide? Why, she jumped off the pier into thirty feet of water and sank like a stone!" "I know, but she just explained to the man who rescued her that she had learned to swim at a correspondence school." Hurt Him Awfully. Speeder—"Weren't you dreadfully put out when you spilled your plate of soup on Miss Fassion's dinner gown?" Feeder—"I should say I was. It isn't good form to ask for a second plate of soup, you know. Between Those Girls. Miss Ascum—"When Mr. Richly saw my photograph he said it was very pretty, didn't he? Come, now, honest?" Miss Chellus—"No; quite the reverse. He said it was a good likeness." Disagreement. T Sl—Yes, th' jury that tried Bill disagreed. Hi—I thought they convicted him. Sl—Yes, but they disagreed awfully with Bill and his lawyer. Grumbell—"Most women have but one idea and that's dress." Jenks—"Huh! My wife has about a dozen ideas all on that subject." An Expert. "Where is the nearest barber shop?" asked the hardware drummer. "Ain't no barber in this town," replied the landlord of the village inn, 'but if you want a hair cut I reckon the editor of the Weekly Clipper can accommodate you.' "Get out!" exclaimed the h. d. "What does an editor know about hair cutting?" "That's all right," rejoined the landlord. "That fellow's the handiest chap for miles around with the shears." -A Polite Freshman. When young Meagles took the train for Harvard his father said: "As soon as you find out let me know if you have passed your entrance examinations." Two days later, in the midst of making a heavy deal, he received the following telegram: "Yes. J. Meagles, Jr." Somewhat preoccupied and puzzled he telegraphed back, "Yes, what?" The well-trained son wired back, "Yes, sir."—A. R. Holcombe in Judge. Maybe. "Every time my parrot looks at me he tries to say something that sounds like 'Dear.' Isn't that cute of it? "I dunno. Maybe it's trying to swear."—Chicago Tribune. His Complaint. "I s'pose," growled the old farmer, "them air autymobeels iz entitled t' half th' road, ain't they?" "Of course they are, Uncle Hiram," replied the village squire. "Yaas, I s'pose so," continued the old man, "but I don't 'low ez theyve got enny right t' take their half out uv th' middle, by grass!" A Proposal. Miss Pechis—"Mr. Dumley took me for a Vassar graduate the first time he met me." Mr. Yerner—"That's strange. That isn't at all what I was inclined to take you for." Miss Pechis—"No? What then?" Mr. Yerner—"For better, for worse." A Mistake Corrected. "There is a heap of moonshine in politics," said the man who speaks figuratively. "Mister," answered the man from the mountains, "you're wrong. There may be some dispensary in it, but we're doing all we can to keep moonshine out of public life." Indignation. "These insurance manipulators have robbed us of millions," said the man who gets excited. "That's nothing," answered the baseball enthusiast. "Look at what the umpires have done to us in those baseball game3"—Washington Star. A New One Needed. Mr. Nagget—"A man is as old as he feels, they say, and I assure you your extravagant ideas make me feel—" Mrs. Nagget—"And a woman is as old as she looks. But, thank goodness, I can never be as old as this bonnet of mine looks." A Quid Pro Quo. "If I give you some money," said Mr. Goodley, "will you promise not to spend it in the nearest saloon?" "Sure!" replied Thirsty Tim. "If yer gimme enough ter make de delay an' de exter walk wort' while."—Philadelphia Press. DAMSELS IN PROTEST DAMSELS IN PROTEST CHORUS MAIDENS REVOLT AT LONG SKIRT IDEA. Representatives of the Profession Indignant Over Proposition That Lovefulness on the Stage Shall Be Hidden from Admiring Gaze of the Front Rows. What's to become of the beauteous chorus maidens? No wonder the girls are indignant. "Just when Anthony Coinstock is taking a few days' rest, Marie Cahill has to get busy and out Comstock Comstock in doing the 'I am for purity' business. This is what all the commotion along the Great White Way is about and there isn't a coryphee who isn't just as mad as she can be. Marie Cahill and her husband, Daniel V. Arthur, have decreed that henceforth tights, short skirts and low necked gowns are to be tabooed. "And to think all of the trouble was stirred up by 'one of us.' That is the most unkind cut of all." "Huh, I'd like to know what would become of the first two rows in the orchestra," said Daisy Deane, of the De Wolf Hopper company. "Why, there wouldn't be a thing doing. I wonder what Marie Cahill thinks we're on the stage for, anyway. She can swathe her chorus in long skirts and choker collars, but I'll bet the box office will call a halt on that kind of reform all right, all right." Judging from which conservative remarks the chorus lady who represents her class doesn't care for the anti-exposure dress reform system. "What's the use of a chorus girl having a shape," angrily demanded a lady with a beautiful gold pompadour, who was making for West Forty-second street, "if you have to hide it? There wouldn't be any cast left for us show girls if any old figure could get in and cover up her scragginess by wearing these new purity gowns. I've naa traveled on my shape so far and I'll not stand for any of this business." A careful census of the chorus girl district has brought forth the following interesting statistics on the subject: Miss Flossie Montgomery—Me in high neck and long skirts. Say, what do you take me for? I ain't joinin' no old lady's home Sunday afternoon promenade club. Miss Trixie St. Clair—What! Give up tights and short skirts! Why, what's the chorus coming to? I'm disgusted. Miss Vivian Vance—Say, why don't they provide the chorus with mackintoshes and galoshes? Then nobody would be shocked. Maybe they might provide the merry, merry villagers with nice Mother Hubbards. What? "I suppose they'll try to make us wear bloomers and sweaters with our dancing skirts," suggested an indignant dancer. "The stage ain't what it used to be. Everything's going to the dogs. Here, when a woman's got a shape she can't show it. What's wrong with the tights and short skirts I'd like to know unless you're scraggy?" Out of the fifty merry-merry who volunteered opinions on the subject only one was for long skirts. "She's knock kneed, no wonder," commented a plump sister.—New York World. CAT DISTURBED THE ORGANIST. Imprisoned Animal the Source of Discordant Sounds. A Dorsetshire organist was discoursing a lovely voluntary the other day on the king of instruments in a Wesleyan chapel, when discordant sounds struck upon his attuned ears which set his teeth on edge and made his hair stand on end like quills upon A the frightful porcupine. What were they? Whence did they come? Had the instrument gone stark mad—or had he? With great caution and all the courage he could muster, he left the keyboard, and stealthily crept around like a man in search of a burglar, determined to face the music or perish. Soon the mystery was solved, for on opening a portion of the instrument out jumped a big and envious cat, which sprang over the pews and beat a hasty and undignified retreat through a window. Then the official and authorized organist resumed and finished his overture.—Liverpool (Eng.) Mercury. PET LAID AWAY IN MAUSOLEUM. Sharks of the Pacific Deprived of a Toothsome Morsel. Juno, Mrs. George B. de Forest's pet poodle, who dropped into a dog heaven via the chloroform route recently, will not have to officiate as the central figure in a shark table d'hote, as has been the fate of many pets who have died in Newport, says a San Francisco dispatch. The poodle, in a fancy box and surrounded by a thick wall of cement, lies in state under the front porch of the De Forest villa, and her shade eventually will glory in the possession of a real headstone, of real marble, before long. When Juno became so old that life was a misery, Mrs. de Forest, with many tears, invested 25 cents in chloroform and placed the drug and Juno under the same washtub. June emerged in such a condition that a funeral was an immediate necessity. The health officers suggested that the sharks out in the bay were in need of a poodle, but Mrs. de Forest vetoed the proposition, and Juno was buried in royal style. Killed by an Ear of Barley. M. Guillon, a farmer, and the mayor of Plessis-Gatebled, in the department of the Aube, France, was coming home from the harvest field leading a wagon and holding an ear of barley between his teeth. One of the horses shied suddenly and struck M. Guillon in the face, causing him to swallow the ear of barley, the spikes of which caused his death.—Sketch. THE FAIR The Busiest Store in Muskogee WHY IS THIS SO? PEOPLE do not buy goods on sentiment, now a days—There is a good reason for this: Right prices on each of the thousands of articles handled in this great modern store—One Price and the Lowest to Everybody—This now is the beginning of the second act in the play—that is we are in the market at St. Louis where $10,000.00 worth of the latest styles in Winter Goods and Holiday Goods are placed on sale this week to close out at prices less than cost of manufacture. Our buyer is on the spot buying and shipping us the greatest and cheapest stock of goods ever shown in Muskogee. The cheaper we buy the more you save when you trade at our store. No ones sale prices ever excelled ours and now look out for prices excelling in lowness any we have ever been able to make you—compare with the present value of merchandise—You can save enough money buying your winter goods here to pay for hendsome holiday presents you wish to loved ones. Save your money and make the dear children happy when Santa should come—We can help you do it and don't forget it—Our new cheap goods will be coming by the last of this week. Tell Mr. Booker T. Washington the FAIR STORE is your friend. LESTER PIANOS Just arrived at the BOLLINGER MUSIC HOUSE, it will will pay you to see them before buying. We have a fine variety of other makes. Terms to suit the customer. Remember the place:— BOLINGER MUSIC HOUSE. 4 J. S. BROWNLOW, MANAGER. the community. There is no such case on record here and the cuss knows it. He is robbing women and children of their hard earnings tha he may enjoy a life of idleness, laziness and licentiousness. In the United States Court for Western District Indian Territory at Muskogee. Earnest Battle. plaintifflff, vs. Lucile Battle, Defendant, No. 6267, Equity. Divorce. The defendant Lucile Battle is hereby warned to appear in this court within thirty days and answer the complaint of the plaintiff Earnest Battle. Witnes the Honorable Charles W. Raymond, Judge of said Court and seal thereof at Muskogee, Indian Territory, this the 13th day of November. 1905. R. P. Harrison, clerk. By Chas. F. Runyan A. S. McRea, Att'y for plaintiff A. E. Patterson, Att'y for non resident defendant. (1st publication Nov. 16.) The Creek Livery Barn is the only place for first class rigs and everything in the livery line. W. H. TWINE - - - Editor. R. WOOD, - - - Ass't Editor. J. T. TRIMBLE - - Gen'l Solicitor E D. NICKFNS, Advertising Manager. Raymond is a sure winner regardless of the uncalled for and undeserved attacks of the Muskogee bar and the grandstand plays made by some of the would-be Republican leaders. His record for work done and for honesty and purity and integrity are the winning cards. The Muskogee lawyers who make judges have endorsed Judge Clayton. Of course Clayton did not need it as it did him no good. We guess it won't do any harm. It makes the Muskogee bar feel like they have done something when they enfile charges against somebody sometimes for something. A Democrat who belongs to the outfit that is fighting Judge Raymond was heard to remark that the "d—d negro had as much show in Raymond's court as anyone else," and that was why he was against the reappointment. (We must confess the Democrat expresed his honest opinion, but all the same it was as bitter as h—l.) The machine builders in Oklahoma are having a good time. They say its Flynn against McGuire and each have a machine and are looko gvenitirhs timber do ... ETAOI ing over this way for additional timber. In the meantime the B. I. T. has plans of its own and is quietly looking on at the fight out west. Its not our time just yet to get in the game. And President Roosevelt has come out straight for single statehood and against the Sequoyah movement. What will become of the county seats and the embryo congressmen? The poor pleluded cusses can now perambulate to the rear and recline gracefully. "Go way back and sit down." Judge Raymond worst enemies refuse to charge him with being dishonest; they simply claim he is not sociable and won't mix up with the herd but holds aloof and associates chiefly with himself. We don't think that much of a crime as we know lots of these Democrats who send in charges are doing the same thing, selecting heir own company. The appointment of Rev. T. S. Johnson as presiding elder by the A. M. E. church at the conference recently was one that shows progress in church affairs, as the reverend gentleman is one of the most able ministers in the country. We only regret that the district was not Great Muskogee. There is a negro preacher making the rounds of the Indian Territory saying that he is collecting cash to prosecute some white man who charged that negro women were not virtuous. Now, this cuss is simply playing a game of bunco on the people and he should be drumed out of WARNING ORDER. R. P. Harrison, clerk. GO TO J. W. SIPPES Dealer in COAL Special Rates on Larger Quantities NO.401 ELGIN AVENUE, PHONE 199, MUSKOGEE, IT BIG EAST SIDE LUMBER YARD. GEO. D. HOPE LUMBER @OMPANY DEALER IN Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Lime. Cement, Etc. EAST OKMULGEE AVE. A 4 307 W. Broadway O SHAFER. Dealer in Fine Hair Wigs, Switches, Pin Frizzles, Half Wigs. We can match any hair. We do our own work and can please you. Miss Sadie Seables make a specialty in hair Dressing and Massage. @all or address us at 228 1-2 NORTH SE@OND ST., pared, fortified and trained in political tactics and opens wide her lovely arms, holsted high her beautiful banner of freedom, reaches far her strong and powerful hand of life long experience freely, gladly and cheerfully welcomes us behind her back to be shielded from abuse and injustice. I cannot see why a rational minded negro can refuse or reject such a liberal offer. Some one may say, why not white man. Too well the white man is protected under a democratic administration. A negro is not and another may say well there are many financial advantages we will have if we are given a separate state. Say reader, you insult me, you annoy me, you harrass me, you vex me, you invoke my wrath, you cause me to overshoot myself, you have bought and paid dearly for my contempt, you have purchased my eternal hatred when you ask me to sacrifice my liberty, civil, political rights for a financial advantages. Some sappy-headed race leader will say the negro should divide politically. I do not call such men race leaders. They are really race destroyers. The ballot box is the only shield, shelter and protection an American citizen has. It is the only sword, dagger or weapon constitutionally given us to make war upon injustice, it is an adopted plan by whihe every liberty loving man can assist in correcting the errors, opposing the wrongs, dehroning the unjust, eradicating the evils and protecting ourselves from diabolical and atrocious laws and to teach the negro that he should allow some other man to exercise his sublime constitutional right of his and that he (the negre) has no business or right to concern. Politics is to teach him that he is an inferior man. Well, you say, he is ignorant. What are you going to do with the ignorant white man. Well, you say, he is poor. What are you going to do with the poor white man. Well, you may say he has not been free long enough. What are you going to do with that wretched demon that enslaved him. Remember what Plato said, "he who commits injustice becomes more wretched than he who endures it." To teach the negro to stay out of politics is to teach him that the man who tries to enslave, oppress, abuse and trample upon him is more worthy of making laws for him (the negro) than the negro is of making laws for himself. Such an infamous dictine, such an insult tohte negro race, such a slander upon the hand made of God, such an attack upon Christianity, is enough to cause God to repent of having ever made man. And to teach him to divide politically is to teach him to ally himself with the democratic party, as the socialist, populist and other minor parties are made up of democrats who have been defeated in primaries or they are democratic cliques and schemes to weaken the republican party. I abhor, scorn, despise and have contempt for the negro who will ally himself or give aid to the democratic party. I had rather be a poison serpent wriggling along the road, biting, sranling and striking at every passerby, considering every living creature my enemy, "Ve F. QuALLS. Proprietor. never wishing, caring for nor wanting a friend, coiling around some saplnig, using mother Earth for my bed, a stone for my pollow, a dog fennel for my shelter. I had rather ten thousand times rather live such a careless and insignificant life than to ally myself with a political party to who seek to rob me and my posterily of the sacred and sublime right of suffrage. Perhaps you think one to pass separate car laws or I am saying too much, but I had rather be anything under the sun than a deceitful hypocrite trying to make friends with an enemy by cutting my own throat and enslaving my children. Say reader, every time you see of know of a negro running from oppressive laws is he not going from a democratic state to a republican state. Every democratic primary convention adopts resolutions endorsing the administrations that make these oppressive laws. There are democrats serving terms in our national congress now that made themselves prominent democratic leaders by adopting some plan to rob the negro of his rights. Say reader, have you ever known a legislative body except a democratic election restrictions that does not effect all alike. If so, tell me of it and I will be silent. Some one may say that the law requires equal accommodations in separate cars, but equal accommodations are not given and were not intended. You may say the state is not responsible for the railroad not giving equal accommodations but the state is responsible and I might sue, petition, beg, cry and suplicate until my life shall have been exhausted or until I have shed enough tears to irrigate the western highlands, there would be no officer sent to my rescue nor any decision protecting me from slanderous, outrageous and brutish accommodations given me by the railroads where separate cars are required and then for me to ally myself, give my vote, voice, aid, support or endorsement to a political institution that makes and executes such abominable laws would be wholesale treason. I have never allowed myself to consider anything concerning statehood, only how best THE CIMETER JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT Still holds the banner for first-class, artistic work,--This is the verdict of the people, not ours. We first acquired the ability to do the work and then secured the right material to please them : : Hoping to continue in the service of the generous public who have shown appreciation for our having filled a long felt want, We are the Cimeter Job Printing Dept. the chaining of the door of tyranny, the granting of equal rights, the protection of the ballot, the freedom of speech, the maintenance of equal public accommodation, the blessing of every home, church and society, every heart or human soul with peace, joy and tranquility; can be had. And to accomplish this end I must oppose, reject voe against, make war upon every probably advantage offered those who practice and tolerate injustice. The idea is afloat that separate statehood will give us a larger representation in congress but of wha character or political affiliation will the representative be. Will he be a tyrant, a villain, a demagogue, a human fiend or will he be a pure hearted man, willing to give to each and all equal political rights and public accommodations. I had rather not be represented than represented by a national plunderer. I would like to know of what political affiliation my representative will be for we know that when the atrocious institution of slavery had made every christian in the union a thief, a burglar, a pretender, a hypocrite, an intruder upon the rights of men and when serfdom had caused the whole nation to pledge, to sacrifice its honor and integrity for the sake of peace and the protection of slavery, when the greedy slave holders became dissatisfied with the amount of human labor he could steal himself, called upon the whole nation to help him steal and made it a crime for any man to refuse, even preachers, deacons, elders and bishops were forced to help rob infant children, helpless women and age worn men, and a desire to eliminate these evils gave birth to the republican party and a desire to perpetuate them gave birth to the democratis party and each child has grown in the likeness of his mother and every jar, every shock, every defeat and every insult the republican party receives. and Oklahoma begs us to come and let privileges are likewise affected and her help us to save our future state from the solid south column are we going to allow such a liberal offer to be laid upon the altar of negli- gence, slayed by the hands of prejudice, while we set slumbering in the chair of indolence. I say no, never! We must unite hand and hand; might to might; power to power; shoulder to shoulder to shoulder and save our future state. F. E. INGRAM. Tullahassee, Ind. Ter. Thanksgiving Rates between all points in Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory and Oklahoma to Arkansas and Texas Nov. 29th and 30th. For ticketi good until December 4th. 1905. ASK THE AGENT For Rate and Particulars. The M. K. & T. TEETH RESPONSIBLE AND RELIABLE DR G. L. KNEBEL Positively Painless Dentistry Bridge Work Specialist Gold Crown Specialist Teeth Extracted Without Pain Plates of All Kind Bridge Work $4.00 Gold Crowns 4.00 Plates 6.00 Painless Extracting .50 Diseased gums treated. DR. G. L. KNEBEL, N. E .Cor. 3rd and Broadway Opp. Post Office. For Drugs, Ben Estes is "IT" For Trees, Flowers, Etc., The Muskogee nursury beats them all.