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The Muskogee Cimeter. THE BOSTON STORE BLUE FLAG MILL & FACTORY SALE A grand success. Crowds have thronged our store since the opening, Saturday morning Thousands of dollars worth of goods have gone from our store into as many homes : : : : THIS GREAT SALE STILL CONTINUES Thursday, Friday and Saturday we propose to make the three best days of the week and have marked many lines lower than ever for these three days. If you have not visited this sale: come, If you have visited this sale; come again Every single article just as advertised Saturday morning. Dec. 16, from 9 to 9:30 o'clock we will sell 10 yards of Calico for 25C. ONLY 10 YARDS TO A CUSTOMER. 216 THE BOSTON STORE'S BLUE FLAG SALE MUSKOGEE, WEST OKMULGEE INDIAN TERRITORY Vol 7 T E RED BIRD, During the past week many prominent persons from the Southland have called at our office and made inquiries about Red Bird, the colored town located on the M. K. & O. R. R., about 20 miles from this city. Among the many was S. W. Crump of Pine Bluff, Ark., he had been to the town and investigated for himself and he reports that the location is an ideal one, and that the prospects for the future growth of the town is a bright one, that the land surrounding is feriile and productive, and it only needs the progressive farmer to make it indeed a paradise, that splendid coal has been discovered in the vicinity and that the people who own the lands are colored people and invite our people to come and locate with them and that the town offers splendid inducements from a business stand point Mr. Crump is one of Muskogee, I. T., Thursday, December 14, 1905. the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Arkansas. Congressman Murphy has introduced a bill appropriating $250,000 for a public building in Muskogee. We hope this bill will become a law at this session of Congress. The builping ss much needed. Our Post Office building is too small as is the U. S. Court house. We should have a Federal building in which all of the government could be transacted. This would be a saving to the govern ment and a credit to the city. Dr. Jossie C. Dickerson whose card appears elsewhere in this issue reports a growing practice. Besides having done some excellent work in the line of her specialty, diseases of women and children, she has been very successful in handling her other cases. She also gives vibratory treatments which is the latest method of treating any deep seated disease. Dr. Dickerson is a physician of considerable expience, having practised medicine in Cleveland, Ohio for the past six or seven years. JEWELRY! JEWELRY! 5000 different designs, all new, modern, absolutely reliable goods the kind that send our customers away satisfied. Going at less than manufacturesr' cost from now until January 1, 1906. Don't put off you visit. Come today while you can pick just what you want for XMAS at less than MANUFACTURERS' COST. When I say sale I mean anything in stock is yours for just a little monep. I have 700 gold rings for you to select from; and everything else in watches and jewelry line. I have established a great business by doing exactly what I say. Call and be convinced. R. A. GIVENS, 228 NORTH 2ND, ST., MUSKOGEE Holiday Rates Holiday Rates Cheap rates for those desirous of spending Christmas at the old home, for visiting friends. EXCEPTIONALLY LOW RATES. VIA MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEX. RY Tickets on sale at all stations, Dececember 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 1905, and Jan. 1, 1906, for return. ASK THE AGENT for the rates and about the train No 9 YY ALE MUSKOGEE, INDIAN TERRITORY JEWELRY! modern, absolutely reliable goods ers away satisfied. Going at less now until January 1, 1906. Don't while you can pick just what you MANUFACTURERS' COST. When rock is yours for just a little monu to select from; and everything I have established a great busi- ry. Call and be convinced. IVENS, ST., MUSKOGEE service. The excellent train service will make your Holiday Trip nominal in cost and comfortable and convenient if via M. K. & T. Ry. Plan your trip now. W. S. ST. GEORGE, General Pass. and Ticket Agent St. Louis, Mo. DR. JESSIE C. DICKERSON, Special attention to diseases of women and children. Suite 17, Jones Building OFFICE HOURS 9 to 10 a. m. PHONE 747 2 to 4 p. m. 7 to 9 p. m. --- Concerning Rewards "Every once in a while" said a travelling man at the Albany hotel this morning, "I hear or read of somebody who refused a reward for returning some article which had been lost, because the amount offered was small. The finder was usually insulted. That doesn't seem right to me. Why should anybody sneer at a reward? What right have we to expect any reward at all for our honesty? A few days ago, while walking down an Omaha street, I saw a man ahead of me drop a pocketbook. A messenger boy picked it up Just then the man missed it and the boy returned it to him without looking inside. The man gave the boy a quarter. The boy accepted it but was disgusted. " 'Is dat all I git for bein' honest?" he asked. 'Yer a pretty cheap guy.' " 'There's just $3 in the pocketbook.' said the man. " 'Well, you oughter gimme a dollar, anyway,' the boy replied. "Had I been that man I'd have been sorely tempted to add a kick to the quarter," concluded the traveling man, "and there are lots and lots of people just like that boy in the world."—Denver Post. Tennessee Praise Dayton, Tenn., Dec. 11th (Special) Among many prominent residents to praise Dodd's Kidney Pills is Mr. N. R. Roberts of this place. He tells of what they have done for him, and his words will go deep into the hearts of all who are suffering in the same way. He says: "I was a martyr to Kidney Trouble, but Dodd's Kidney Pills completely cured me. I shall always keep them on hand in case there should be any return of the old trouble, but I am thankful to say they did their work so well there has not been the slightest sign of my old complaint coming back. The pain in my back used to be terrible. If I got down I had a hard job to get straight again. But my back is like a new one now and I can stoop as much as I please. I don't believe there ever was any medicine half so good as Dodd's Kidney Pills." Would Need No Lawyers One of the lawyers who spoke at a recent meeting in London of the Royal Courts of Justice Temperance Solcety said that if England were to turn sober the legal profession would be ruined. Instantaneous Action. "I was almost distracted by a terrible itching which defied all treatment until I obtained a box of Hunt's Cure. The first application afforded instant and absolute relief. The one box effected a complete cure. "It is simply wonderful in its instantaneous action." Geo. Gilliland. Manitou, O. T. 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WORK BEGNS IN EARNEST. Several Hundred Bills and Resolutions Introduced in the Senate. Washington,--The Senate began business in earnest today. The session was only a little more thad two hours' duration, but in that time several hundred bills and resolutions were introduced and referred to committees. There were resolutions dealing with the question of national regulation of insurance companies, incorporation of interstate railroad companies and the contribution of funds to political parties by national banks. Senator Eoraker presented his railroad rate regulation bill, Gallinger his merchant marine subsidy bill, Lodge a bill providing for maximum and minimum tariff rate schedule in interest of reciprocity and Culberson a bill making it a penal offence to use the money of insurance companies in politics. Territory Cattle Sale. Pryor Creek, I. T...The big sale of territory cattle demonstrates that the Indian Territory is a profitable field for cattle raising. Aside from the abundance and good quality of grass and water in this locality it is in close proximity to the greatest cattle market in the world. Denied Allotment. Washington,----Justice Duel has rendered a decision affirming the judgement of the district supreme court in the case of Willis C. West, against Secretary Hitchcock. West, having married an Indian woman, claimed he thereby became "by adoption" a member of the Choctaw tribe to which the woman belonged and was entitled to an allotment of land in the Indian Territory. The secretary denied West's application for allotment on the ground that the alleged adoption plan had never received the approval of the interior department. West then sought by madamus proceedings to compel the secretary to recognize the adoption Taylor Denies Report Needs Revising. Oklahoma City O. T.-J. Z. Taylor, president of the National Ginners' Association, who was in this city today when shown a dispatch from Dallas, showing that he had ordered a delay in making the ginners' report, made the following statement, "That dispatch was wholly incorrect. I wired Mr. Blackwell a complete report last night aud it needed no revising. STRIKE THREATENED. Street Car Lines of South McAlester May Be Tied Up. South McAlester, I. T.,—Trouble is brewing among the employees of the street car company here, and there is a possibility of a strike. The employees organized a local union about two weeks ago, since which time three of the promotet members of the union have deen discharged, including W. A. Cox, the president. The union has formulated a proposed contract demanding a ten-hour day, 20c an hour and recognition of the union. A committee from the union is in conference with officials of the road. Vice-President Cummings of the International Street Car is here from New Orleans to participate in the negotiations. Will Drill For Oil at Hugo. Hugo, I. T.---The Hugo improvement and development company was incorporated here with a capital of $10,0000. AILING WOMEN. Keep the Kidneys Well and the Kidneys Will Keep You Well. Sick, suffering, languid women are learning the true cause of bad backs and how to cure them. Mrs. W. G. Davis of Groesbeck, Texas, says: "Backaches hurt me so I could hardly stand. Spells of dizziness and sick headaches were frequent and the action of the kidneys was irregular. and how to cure them. Mrs. W. G. Davis of Groesbeck, Texas, says: "Backaches hurt me so I could hardly stand. Spells of dizziness and sick headaches were frequent and the action of the kidneys was irregular. Soon after I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills I passed several gravel stones. I got well and the trouble has not returned. My back is good and strong and my general health better." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. AMERICAN GIRLS TOO RESTLESS Artists Pained at Their Unnecessary Gestures and Fidgeting It no longer is considered fascinating for women to go to the extreme of vivacity in behavior. Perhaps this is due to the criticism of an artist who recently visited these shores and who was much distressed at the way in which American women fidgeted and gesticulated. "As most of the athletic women of today have large hands," he said, "if they emphasize every utterance with a gesture the effect is bound to be unpleasant. The defects are made more conspicuous. Nervousness is often the cause of this restless motion of the hands. It is bound to bore the observer, even when the woman is pretty. Indeed, it would torture one who was compelled to look at it for a long time."—New York Press. Woman Oil Operator Mrs. Mae O. H. Russell, of Bloomington, Ill., is the only woman oil operator in Kentucky, and, perhaps, in the United States. Since the discovery of oil there have been but one o two women who ventured into the business on a large scale, and so far as is known this young woman of some 28 years old is today rated among the largest operators in the country. A BRAIN WORKER. Must Have the Kind of Food That Nourishes Brain. "I am a literary man whose nervous energy is a great part of my stock in trade, and ordinarily I have little patience with breakfast foods and the extravagant claims made of them. But I cannot withhold my acknowledgment of the debt that I owe to Grape-Nuts food. "I discovered long ago that the very bulkiness of the ordinary diet was not calculated to give one a clear head, the power of sustained, accurate thinking. I always felt heavy and sluggish in mind as well as body after eating the ordinary meal, which diverted the blood from the brain to the digestive apparatus. "I tried foods easy of digestion, but found them usually deficient in nutriment. I experimented with many breakfast foods and they, too, proved unsatisfactory, till I reached Grape-Nuts. And then the problem was solved. "Grape-Nuts agreed with me perfectly from the beginning, satisfying my hunger and supplying the nutriment that so many other prepared foods lack. "I had not been using it very long before I found that I was turning out an unusual quantity and quality of work. Continued use has demonstrated to my entire satisfaction that Grape-Nuts food contains all the elements needed by the brain and nervous system of the hard working public writer." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. California's Famous Sheriff Benjamin K. Thorne, a native of New York, nephew of United Senator T. C. Platt, aged 75, and classed as the most fearless sheriff in California, died recently. As sheriff of Calaveras county he was leader in the most famous man hunts in the state's history. No chance was too desperate for him to take and he took many desperate chances in his fifty years of service. AN AWFUL SKIN HUMOR. Covered Head, Neck and Shoulders Suffered Agony for Twenty-five Years Until Cured by Cuticura. "For twenty-five years I suffered agony from a terrible humor, completely covering my head, neck and shoulders, discharging matter of such offensiveness to sight and smell that I became an object of dread. I consulted the most able doctors far and near, to no avail. Then I got Cuticura, and in a surprisingly short time I was completely cured. For this I thank Cuticura, and advise all those suffering from skin humors to get it and end their misery at once. S. P. Keyes, 149 Congress Street, Boston, Mass." Largest Man in Paris Michael Beudin, the largest man in Paris, who was known as the "King of the Draymen," has died from the effects of being knocked down by a street car. He was six feet six and three-fourths inches tall and weighed 392 pounds. His strength was so great that he could lift easily and carry a barrel containing a pipe (126 gallons) of wine. No Others. It is in a class to itself. It has no rivals. It cures where others merely relieve. For aches, pains, stiff joints, cuts, burns, bites, etc., it is the quickest and surest remedy ever devised. We mean Hunt's Lightning Oll. Little drops of water, little grains of sand, increase the grocer's profits to beat the village band. THE OLD-MONK-CURE TRADE MARK. St. Jacobs Oil has traveled round the world, and everywhere human Aches and Pains have welcomed it and blest it for a cure. Price, 25c. and 50c. WE DON'T HAVE TO SPEAK FOR COUNCIL HILL BECAUSE COUNCIL HILL SPEAKS FOR ITSELF! COJNCIL HILL is a new town, but a few months old, located on the M.,O. & G. railroad, 25 miles from Muskogee. It is surrounded by a vast area of the best agricultural land in the Creek Nation. A brick railroad station with cement platforms, a two-story modern school house, 12-foot granitoid sidewalks with curbing through the business section are but a few of the substantial improvements. Never has there been such an opportunity for a business location or a profitable investment. For particulars address Union Townsite Company, union Townsite Company, Muskogee, Indian Territory. JUDGE LAWRENCE SUCCEEDS RAYMOND. Lawrence, Parker, Townsend and Clayton Were Appointed by the President. Washington,—The president yesterday appointed Judge W. R. Lawrence of the Northern district to succeed Raymond in the Western district and Hon. L. F. Parker Jr., was named to succeed Judge Lawrence. As if to add to the sting of the defeat of Judge Raymond, the president at the same time re-appointed Judge W. H H. Clayton of the Central district and Judge Hosea Townsend of the Southdistrict, and after the 17th inst., at which time Judge Raymond's term expires, Judge Townsend will become chief justice. The result is a clean cut victory for the opposition to Judge Raymond and a bitter defeat for him, as he was an active candidate for re-appointment and his friends have been busy for the past year been busy getting their indorsements for him. Judge Lawrence, who comes to the bench of this district, has made a popular and successful judge in the Northern district and will meet with a warm reception on his arrival from the bar. Judge Lawrence is a native of Indiana, but has lived in Illinois since his father settled there in 1849. He was admitted to the bar of Danville in 1873 and was successful in the practice of his profession. He was chairman of his county central committee and was secretary of the congressional committee in Speaker Cannon's district, and is a great favorite with the speaker. Parker is the son of L F. Parker general solicitor of the Frisco system, with headquarters at St. Louis. His rise has been remarkable. With only a common school education as a basis for his professional career, he started out as a stenographer for a construction company in Mexico and afterward spent several years as a stenographer in Oklahoma. Parker's appointment was backed by the entire Kansas and Misssuri delegation. Hon. Hosea Townsend of the South em district was first appointed from Colorado by President McKinley, with whom he served in Congress and was reappointed four years ago next January, this new commission being his third term as United States judge. Judge Clayton is also a third termer and was appointed in 1897 from Arkanand re-appointed four years ago on the 17th., inst. There has been no opposition to either of these two gentlemen, both of them being indorsed by the bar and the people of their respective districts. Seminole Council Has Meeting. Wewoka, I. T. The Seminole council which met here for the purpose of taking action against joint statehood, adjourned without undertaking any business. The council was called to meet by Chief John R. Brown, for the purpose of adopting a resolution protesting to Congress against admission to statehood with Oklahoma. When the council met it was discovered that both the chief and the second chief were absent and an adjournment was taken until such time as the chief might be present. A bridge to cost $3,845 will be built across the Salt Fork of Red river at Olustee, Greer county. Was "No Account Boy" Horace E. Burt, president of the Union Pacific railroad, has been visiting the home of his childhood, Raccoon, Ind. Forty years ago he was a barefoot urchin and was known as "boy no account," because he seemed to have an unconquerable aversion to hard work. At last he got a job at railroading, prospered and now comes back in a private car to visit friends whom he knew in the long ago. Rest and Sleep. Few escape those miseries of winter—a bad cold, a distressing cough. Many remedies are recommended, but the one quickest and best of all is Simmon's Cough Syrup. Soothing and healing to the lungs and bronchial passages, it stops the cough at once and gives you welcome rest and peaceful sleep. It rather takes the edge off the doctor's bill to be able to tell the neighbors how many nights you had to sit up with the sick child. 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 4/8-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. A Clerical Error Scene—A recruiting depot under the shadow of Table Mountain. Time—Sunday morning parade. Sergeant addressing the men in response to a request for a clerk for the Quartermaster's stores: "Any men here that are used to clerical work, two paces to the front. No response. Recruit in rank: "Well, I'm blowed! I thought we joined for fighting, and not to be blooming parsons!" Cures Blood, Skin Troubles, Cancer, Blood Poison. Greatest Blood Purifier Free. If your blood is impure, thin, diseased, hot or full of humors, if you have blood poison, cancer, carbuncles, eating sores, scrofula, eczema, itching, risings and lumps, scabby, pimply skin, bone pains, catarrh, rheumatism, or any blood or skin disease, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) according to directions. Soon all sores heal, aches and pains stop, the blood is made pure and rich, leaving the skin free from every eruption, and giving the rich glow of perfect health to the skin. At the same time, B. B. B. improves the digestion, cures dyspepsia, strengthens weak kidneys. Just the medicine for old people, as it gives them new, vigorous blood. Druggists, $1 per large bottle, with directions for home cure. Sample free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and special free medical advice also sent in sealed letter. B. B. B. is especially advised for chronic, deep-seated cases of impure blood and skin disease, and cures after all else fails. Life is a problem. If you stay at home all summer you envy those who went away; if you go away you envy those who staid at home. Ask Your Druggist for Allen's Foot-Ease. "I tried ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE recently and have just bought another supply. It has cured my corns, and the hot, burning and itching sensation in my feet which was almost unbearable, and I would not be without it now."—Mrs. W. J. Walker, Camden, N. J." Sold by all Druggists, 250. A sermon is the longest distance between two points—namely, the point at which it begins and at which it leaves off.—Punch. Sensible Housekeepers will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHIEDREN Promoies Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Triage of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Aix Senna Rockelle Salix Anise Seed Peppermint Di Carbonate Salix Worm Seed Clavified Sugar Wintergreen Flavor Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. 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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. WANTED FOR UNITED NATES 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. J., or Tulsa, I. T. $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., 607 Seventh St., Topeka, Kansas (continued from page 1) boomers were traversing the territory writing, speaking, scheming and setting political traps trying to deliver us in the hands of our enemies, they argued, they plead, they persuaded and produced every feeble reason that human soul could device trying to dray us down into the filthy slums of the solid column, they claim we ar too wealthy to unite with Oklahoma and that our undeveloped resources, our beautiful situations and boundaries the fertility of our soil and the rapidity of emigrants assured us a great future and entitled us to a large representation in the National Congress. The diabolical greed of southern democracy raised it's malignant head, opened wide it's infernal jaws and made ready to receive the future state of Sequoyah down it's tyranical throat but heaven frowned, earth groaned and the wise people of Indian Territory voted no, NO; NEVER, NEVER! It is strange that the Sequoyah boomers offered every inducement but protection. They spoke of large representation, wealth, financial advantages, and natural resources, but not one word about protection. Indeed, the leaders must to have been democrats. When Oklahoma extended a hand of welcome and cordially invited us to join her in her rapid march up the ragged hill of progress, then there was our chance, our privilege and our duty to adorn oid glory with another star decorated with liberty's dearest bouquet. To refuse was treason, to accept was patriotic. Not at any time since the puritans first looked upon America's shores, not since our Colonial days, not since our country was made an independent wretch by the Decaration of Independence, nor since we were made independent free people by the Emancipation. No, not in all the history of the world have a people proven themselves more worthy than did the people of Indian Territory by disregarding, ignoring and refusing to notice the Sequoyah boomers. During this great crisis, when a heavy cloud over-hung the views of each and all, when a dense fog mystified our pathway, when our duties were overshadowed with perplexities, when the real truth was sub- merged in obscurity, when every argument was confused with doubt, when everybody was guessing as to what was most conducive to the welfare of our future state, Twine saw the light, anchored his ship and for a while he sat quietly in wisdom's chair, weighed calmly every argument, simultaneously feeling the pulse of every political ambition that beat, and then he rendered an irrevocable decision; after which he appealed to the people, to the country, to the territory, to take a stand with him. He did not say with me you will get a large representation in Congress, a rich state by yourself, nor an unparalleled natural resources, but he appealed, he plead, he took his stand for the sake of a "square deal," and he knew from what source a "square deal" always comes when it comes at all. The people were depending on the press for their information; they were in the dark, wanting light, they were in doubt, wanting substantiation; they stood waiting and wishing for exactness. Some were writing for political prominence, some for popularity, some for a price, but Twine stood firm for the sake of humanity, for the sake of our liberties and future happiness. He constantly warned us of the danger of falling into the clutches of Arkansas and Texas, which fall would be detrimental, destructive, and outrageously miserable to every Negro in the territory. At last when the storm was over, when wisdom's sun had dispersed the fogs of doubt, when the clouds of argument had sunk into oblivion, when the star of reality sparkled in the element, when we became able to detect the wolves from the sheep, patriots from the demagogues, then Sequoyah died; but it has the nature of a turtle with it's head severed from it's body. It still wriggles, crawls, grumbles and complains, but many of it's defenders are seeking refuge under the prudent wings of Twine and his kind. Many of our Negro papers fought, criticised and denounced Twine's argument, but when the end came they had to droop their feathers, tuck their heads, bend their knees, raise their hats and recognize Twine as their superior and leader. They said every hard thing about him that language was flexible enough to utter, but [continued in next issue] 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. Sadler Hardware Co Has just received a New Stock of HARNESS and has a PRACTICAL HARNESS REPAIRER In their store. Bring your work and have it done both NEAT AND CHEAP. 218 WEST OKMULGEE AVENUE DURFEY HARDWARE COMPANY. 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. 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. THE CREEK : GROCERY On Okmulgee Avenue IS THE PLACE to buy your groceries. They can duplicate any price of their competitors and they also give you the very best goods. They carry everything in the grocery line. And can be found— In The Estes Building on Okmulgee Avenue Near the M. K. and T. R. R. AS LONG AS THEY LAST We will positively sell at cost. All of our Musical Instruments, Solid Gold Rings, Watches, and Jewelry. Don't Wait. Come now. BEN ESTES. Cor Main & Okmug ee. Pioneer Abstract Co. IOWA BUILDING This Company makes absolutely correct abstracts of title. Go there for correct information. Next to Bank of Muskogee, Muskogee, I. T. BIG EAST SIDE LUMBER YARD. GEO. D. HOPE LUMBER COMPANY DEALER IN Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Lime. Cement, Etc. EAST OKMULGEE AVE. --- Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor. MUSKOGEE. IND. TER. NEW STATE NEWS The commercial club of Comanche has signed a contract for another gin. This makes four gins for this hustling Indian Territory town. Dora Fitzgerald, colored, was found dead in a well in the east part of Ardmore last week. It is not known whether she accidentally fell into the well or whether she committed suicide. F. H. White, doing a general merchandise business at Duke, in Greer county, made a voluntary assignment in favor of his creditors. Mr. White states his assets are sufficient to cover all liabilities. Burglars entered the store of Jones & New at Dougherty last week and secured between six and seven hundred dollars in money. Two suspicious characters had been hanging around the place for a few days and they are believed to be the thieves. The Choctaw council has adjourned until January 29th. Just before adjournment a bill was passed providing for a commission of three to wind up the affairs of the nation. A babe, of less than two years, of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Taylor of Mangum was burned to death while the parents were away from home. Their four-year-old son got hold of a box of matches from which the clothes of the little one were ignited. The Muskogee Vitrified Brick company has decided to close down for three months because as the management says, "the home people will not support a home institution." The company has been employing fifty men and has, while in operation, a payroll of $900 a week. The laundrymen of Kansas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory will hold their annual meeting in Oklahoma City January 8th and 9th. --- An estimate of the population of Muskogee, as given by a man who has charge of the work of compiling a directory, is 22,000. The Rock Island has placed the town of Cherokee, Woods county, on its map, and has also given it a space in its time card. Heretofore this road has not recognized the town, but hereafter will give it as good service as most of its stations. Oklahoma City has an ordinance requiring each automobile to have a number displayed in a conspicuous place and a driver is not allowed to exceed a certain speed limit. The number of accidents that have occurred recently caused the council to take steps to prevent them in the future. An interurban line connecting Oklahoma City and Tecumseh is being talked of. Dennis Flynn, ex-delegate to congress from Oklahoma, is one of the most interested parties in considering the road. The postoffice at Lone Wolf, in Klowa county, together with a jewelry store, occupying the same building, was robbed by unknown parties. From the post office $20 cash, $50 in stamps and a big bunch of registered letters, the value of which is not known, were taken, and from the jewelry store a number of watches and razors were stolen. --- To Preserve Indian Music. Washington,—The neccessity for preserving Indian music, the establishment of an Indian reform school and the erection of a sanitarium for tubercular Indians are new features of the annual report of the commissioner of Indian affairs, Francis E. Leupp. The commissioner says that in pursuance of the general idea of saving instead of crushing what is generally characteristic in the Indian, steps have been taken by him for the preservation thru the schools of what is best in Indian music. "The children should be instructed in the music of their own race side by side with ours," he states. With this end in view he has made an experimental start by the appointment of a supervisor of native music. Commissioner Leupp believes that the best way to handle Indian pupils whom the teachers find unmanageable is to put them in a reform school for Indians only. He also believes that much good can be done in checking the spread of tuberculosis among Indians which exists to an alarming extent by the erection, somewhere in the Southwest, of an Indian sanitarium. This sanitarium, the commissioner suggests, should be in itself a school for children infected with the disease. This would obviate their being sent home to serve as centers of infection. The destruction of prehistoric ruins by relic hunters and others is particular referred to, and the commissioner quotes from a former letter of instructions to Indian agents warning them them that unless protective legislation shall be secured everything practicable must be done to prevent these depredations. $10.000 In Improvements. Duncan, I, T.—The citizens had a mass meeting this week and organized a ten thousand dollar club to make Duncan ten thousand people here inside of five years. Committees were appointed to get manufacturers here and they have made a good start—they have a brick plant on the string. a broom factory and one railroad and one more in view. We are on a direct line for the railroad that comes from Oklahoma City to Wichita Falls and will have one of the railroads inside of six months. Railroad Mortgage Filed. Lawton O. T.---At Chickasaw a $10,000,000 mortgage in pamplet form,covering thirty-four pages, was filed by the Oklahoma Central railway company given to the Western Trust and Savings bank, of Chicago. Of the total amount,$2,640,000 will be used to build a railroad from Chickasaw to Lehigh, $7,360,000 to buy rolling stock and terminal facilities. Good Places Open. Muskogee, I. T.-Since the appointment of Judge Lawrence to succeed Judge Raymond, considerable interest has been manifested over the clerkship. The chief clerk will be W. P. Harrison, whose appointment has already been scheduled and whose salary is fixed at $4,000,00 a year. The judge of the western district has many appointees besides a clerk of the court at a salary of $4,000 a year, and an assistant af $2,500, and half a dozen assistants at smaller salaries, half a dozen United States commissioners and a deputy clerk to each of the recording towns, and in addition to all these there are court criers, bailiffs and other attendants. It remains to be seen whether the new appointees will make a clean sweep of the Raymond appointees, or will retain many of the old men in office. CHARGES AGAINST FIRM WERE VOID. Firm of Mansfield, McMurray & Cornish Are Completely Exonerated. Washington;—A statement given out by the department of justice today recites that last Summer members of the law firm of Mansfield McMurray & Cornish Governor Johnson and ex-Governor Mosley, of the Chickasaw tribe of Indians, were incicted for conspiracy to embezzle funds of the tribe. An investigation was demaeded by the accused the statement says, this shows that they were entirely innocent. "A first examination," says the statement, "was made by Assistant Attorney General Russell, who was fully convinced of the innocence of all accused, it was examined into by the attorney general at the request of the president, and he also was fully convinced." At the time the gentlemen were indiced there were several sensational events connected with the affair, not in the least was the circular sent out from Washington two days before the indictments were returned, saying they had been indicted for being connected with the fraudulent Chickasaw school warrant deal. Since the indictments were returned Inspector Jenkins, of the Interior Department has made a thorough investigation of their buslhess transactions in both nations, during which he went over all the records, and his report, judging from the action taken. failed to show a shadow of guilt. Mansfield, McMurray & Cornish represent both the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations as national attorneys and and were last winter awarded a fee of $650,000 by the citizenship court for professional services, which sum they collected over the protest of high government officials. The citizenshipcourt records show that they saved the two million dollars from illegal claimants, and it was for this that the big fee was patd them, it being based on a percent equal to about 41-2 percent. The action of the department clears them of any suspicion of wrong doing. Temperance Crank Shoots Saloon Man. Shawnee, O. T.---F. M Grundy, a well known advocate of temperance, today shot ane killed Ed Tomilson at Keokuk Falls, as a result of an enmity which has existed for months. Grundy fled to a barn where he is now beseiged and successfully resists arrest. The sheriff and deputies from here have surrounded the barn, but Grundy is believed to be armed and the officers can not take him by force without endangering their lives. Tomilnson was a distiller and Grundy has been leading a crusade against the liquor traffic. Smallpox in the Indian Territory. Muskogee, I. T.---Smallpox has made its appearance in the Indian Territory a case having been reported from Taft, a small town eleven miles west of here. A case also came to the attention of the authorities in Muskogee a few days ago. The people of Taft appealed to the United States marshall to establish a quarantine in that town but the marshall informed them that there is no law in the Territory authorizing him to do this. He then referred the case to Dr. Rogers, a member of the Muskogee board of health. Dr. Rogers was unable to take any action. A Valuable Agent. 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To Remain In Office to Sign Deeds Washington,—The committee which Secretary Hitchcock named to report on the legislation desired by the Creek tribe of Indians informed the delegation yesterday that it would recommend a detention of the chiefs in office for the purpose of signing and delivering the remaining deeds to allottments. The other tribes have asked for similar legislation. It is also understood that the committee will recommend an act providing that the money obtained from the sale of surplus lands shall be used first to be distributed among the citizens. The Creeks are opposed to having the restrictions removed from the allotments of any of the full-bloods. D. M. Hodge, of Tulsa, who has been prominent in the councils of the Creeks for more than thirty years, says it would be almost equivalent to robbing the fullbloods of their patrimony to remove the restrictions from their allotmeets. Under existing iaws the allotments will not be alienable wholly for five years, and the homesteads for twenty-one years. During these periods none of these lands will be subject to taxation, and that has been one of the considerations which have induced many to urge a contrary course, for it has been felt that the taxation of these lands would be necessary for a state government, whether the state be made of one or both Territories. TULSA GIRL DIES IN KANSAS CITY. Strange Death of Indian Territory Kansas City,—The correct name of the woman who died at the Blossom house Saturday eveuing under suspicious circumstances was Mary B. Waful her age 30 years and her home at Lathrop, Mo. She was a teacher in a public school at Tulsa, since last fall, going there from Lathrop, where she taught school in that vicinity for a number of years. Dr. A. L. Porter, with offices in the Rialto building, had known her from childhood when they were playmates. On reading the news papers yesterday morning, of the death of "Pet" Waful, Dr. Porter immediately associated the story with Mary B. Waful, who had been nicknamed 'Pet.' He at once ephoned to Dr. M. W. Waful, a brother of of the dead woman and last night the brother arrived. Preparations for the removal of the body to Lathrop for burial were made. An autopsy of the body revealed a congested condition of the lungs, and a number of physicians present gave as their opinion that death was due directly to asphyxiation, from all appearances due to an indiscreet use of some powerful drug. Insane Woman Defies the Law. Girard, Kansas. Mrs Irene Berry, believed to be from Spokane, Wash., who, while a passenger from Washington to Tulsa, became insane and with a pistol drove the passengers from a car on the Frisco "Metoer," which was subsequently sidetracked here, is still in possession of the car. She refuses to surrender saying she will die in the car. University Student Kiiled. Norman, O. 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We are tired of hearing the busy bee and the bustling ant mentioned as shining examples of industry and perseverance. There is nothing that shows such aggressiveness and determination as a mosquito. LYDIA E. PINKHAM A BRIEF SKETCH OF HER LIFE How the Vegetable Compound Had Its Birth and How the "Panic of '73" Caused it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores. THE STORY READS LIKE A ROMANCE Yours for Health Lydia E. Pinkham This remarkable woman, whose malden name was Estes, was born in Lynn, Mass., February 9th, 1819, coming from a good old Quaker family. For many years she taught school, and during her career as a teacher she became known as a woman of an alert and investigating mind, an earnest seeker after knowledge, and above all, she was possessed with a wonderfully sympathetic nature. In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham, a builder and real estate operator, and their early married life was marked by prosperity and happiness. They had four children, three sons and a daughter. In those good old-fashioned days few drugs were used in medicines; people relied upon nature's remedies, roots and herbs, which are to-day recognized as more potent and efficacious in controlling diseases than any combination of drugs. Mrs. Pinkham from her youth took a deep interest in medicine, in botany—the study of roots and herbs, their characteristics, and power over disease; she believed that as nature so bountifully provides food for the body so she also provides medicine for the ills and weaknesses of the body, in the roots and herbs of the field, and as a wife, mother and sympathetic friend, she often made use of her knowledge of roots and herbs in preparing medicines for her family and friends. Knowing of so much suffering among her sex, after much study and research, Mrs. Pinkham believed that the diseases of women have a common cause, and she set to work to find a common remedy—not at that time as a source of profit, but simply that she might aid the suffering. How her efforts have been rewarded the women of the world know to-day. In 1873 the financial crisis struck Lynn. Its length and severity was too much for the large real estate interests of the Pinkham family, as this class of business suffered most from this fearful depression, so when the Centennial year dawned it found their property swept away. At this point the history of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound commences: The three sons and daughter, with their mother, combined forces to restore the family fortune. They resolved to give to the world the vegetable compound that Mrs. Pinkham Is afflicted with Thompson's Eye Water core eyes. use DEFIANCE STARCH—16 ounces to the package other starches only 12 ounces—same price and "DEFIANCE" IS SUPERIOR QUALITY. had so often made from roots and herbs for such of her women neighbors and friends who were sick and ailing. Its success in those cases had been wonderful—its fame had spread, and calls were coming from miles around for this efficacious vegetable compound. They had no money, and little credit. Their first laboratory was the kitchen, where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove, gradually filling a gross of bottles. Then came the question of selling it, for always before they had given it away free. They hired a job printer to run off some pamphlets setting forth the merits of the medicine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and these pamphlets were distributed by the Pinkham sons in Boston, New York and Brooklyn. The wonderful curative properties of the medicine were, to a great extent, self-advertising, for whoever used it recommended it to others, and the demand gradually increased. In 1877, by combined efforts, the family had saved enough money to commence newspaper advertising on a small scale, and from that time the growth and success of the enterprise was assured, until to-day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound have become household words everywhere, and thousands of pounds of roots and herbs are used annually in making this great remedy for woman's ills. Although Lydia E. Pinkham passed to her reward some years ago, the perpetuation of her great work was guarded by her foresight. During her long and eventful experience she was ever methodical in her work and was careful to preserve a record of every case that came to her attention. The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice—and there were thousands—received careful study, and the details, including symptoms, treatment and results, were recorded for future reference, and to-day these records, together with thousands made since, are available to sick women the world over, and represent a vast collaboration of information regarding the treatment of woman's ills which, for authenticity and accuracy, can hardly be equaled in any library in the world. Another act of foresight on the part of Lydia E. Pinkham was to see that some one of her family was trained to carry on her work, and with that end in view, for years before her death, had as her chief assistant her daughter-in-law, the present Mrs. Pinkham. Therefore, under the guidance and careful training of Lydia E. Pinkham, and a vast experience of her own, covering twenty-five years, the present Mrs. Pinkham is exceptionally well equipped to advise sick women, which she is always glad to do free of charge. The record of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made of simple herbs and roots, is a proud and peerless one. It is a record of constant conquest over the obstinate ills of women, greater than that of any other one medicine of its kind in the world, and will ever stand as a monument to that noble woman whose name its bears. W.N.U.—Oklahoma City—No 50, 1905 PISO'S CURE FOR GREETS WHERE ALL LOVE FAILS Best Cough byrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION THE @IMETER. PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK IN THE INTEREST OF THE NEGRO BY CIMETER PUB. CO ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT MUSKOGEE, I. T., AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER. The banquet that was to be given by the "Lords of Creation" was for some unknown reason called off wonder what meat these "Caesars" feed on. Help us to put the Cimeter in every home in the Indian Territory by giving us your subscription for the ensuing year; one dollar. If you want to keep posted on Indian Territory affairs especially, read the Cimeter Don't borrow from your neighbor, just send in one dollar for a year and it will come each week. Republicans who join in with democrats to accomplish the defeat of a republican, are not republicans, but democrats in disguise and when they want office should ask for a nomination from the democratic party. We would support a real outspoken democrat before we would this brand of republican. Dr. M. L. Flynn; the general agent for the Cimeter is having wonderful success in adding names to our list. The subscription list is forging ahead at such rapid strides we will soon reach the 2,000 mark. We intend to reach every part of the B. I. T. before March, 1906. Dennis Flyn is reported as saying the statehood bill will not pass, and Sid Clark the Democratic Moses of Oklahoma says ditto and Bill Cross, the former democratic candidate for Congress chines in acquessence, Wonder if Byrd McGuire has given all these fellows the dolts. The boys seem to be jealous of the wondeful success of the astute and brilliant congressman from Oklahoma. This paper is republican to the backbone and partisan to the core. We have no respect for the weak-kneed spindleshanked spineless individual who parades as a stalwart and is shaken by every passing breeze. We have a few of these fellows here who have deluded themselves into the belief that they are some kind of a republican, when in fact they are nothing but spinless misfits and parasites on the on the Republican party. We don't blame the democrats for kicking all the h-they can into the republican camp. It's their business to create all the dissention possible and when they can get a few measley republicans to make damphools of themselves, they sometimes claim a great victory; and it is a sort of a victory with the damphools. · The Muskogee bar (not each member) are "amusing cusses" they have now arrogated to themselves the authority to tell Judge Lawrence whom he shall shall select as court stenographer. Wonder if there is anything lef that these self appoint de custodians cannot appropriate? The Phoenix's editorial on Thursday, December 14th, is an arraignment of the Republican leaders and officials throughout the Indian Territory for appointing democrats to office. Not a single big official escaped. This being true, there is no disposition of the office holders to build up the party. Can the rank and file be blamed with the party's defeat? Is not our position correct that there should be a reorganization of the party and new men at the helm? We fellows in the trenches demand a reform in conditions. Will we get it? We think so. ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL. Under the agreement to keep politics to keep politics out of the school-board, the democrats have nominated R. P. DeGraffenried to succeed himself. Mr. DeGraffenried has made a splen did record as a member of the board and deserves re-election; while he is a democrat he has stood for a "square deal" for the colored children as has other members of the board. The republicans will name a candidate Thursday night, and the two men selected will be elected The republican member must come from the East side, and we presume the republicans on that side will select the man. STUDY LAW AT HOME Prepare for success at the bar, in business or pursue it by mail in the ORIGINAL SCHOOL Founded in 1800. Successful graduates everywhere. Approved by bar and Iw colleges. Regular College Law Course and Business Law Course. Liberal Tarnis. Special Offer Now. Catalogue Free. 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Probably the life she led as superintendent of a "woman's and children's hospital" in a great city tended to cultivate an antipathy toward the stronger sex. She saw so much misery and wretchedness of which she deemed that sex the cause, women with blighted lives and little nameless, fatherless babies. All the more astonishing was it, therefore, when Sister Ellice adopted a baby—Sister Ellice—who never paid any attention to babies in general save to see that they made their proper advent into the world and were properly cared for. It happened in this wise. There came to the hospital one day a forlorn looking young creature with the ugly word "forsaken" written all over her, from the pallor of her thin, pretty face to the faded stripes of her shawl and the rents of her shabby dress. She seemed to shrink away from the scrutiny of Sister Ellice's clear, gray eyes seen austerely through her gold-rimmed glasses and looked relieved when one of the younger nurses took her in charge for a bath and a change of clothing. Some days later the baby came, a tiny mite of a girl, but before any one realized what had happened the mother was dead. What was to be done with it? Sister Ellice agreed to take charge of it for a night or two until a decision could be made. The night or two expanded into a month or two and still the baby did not go, and finally it came to be an understood thing that the baby was not going at all. Of course it was quite unaccountable that the superintendent should have taken such a fancy to that stray bit of humanity, but it was a fact nevertheless. No mother could have been more devoted; she hovered over it, tended it constantly, whispered all manner of nothings into its pink ears and gave it the name of Blossom. Blossom was nearly a year old and was beginning to toddle about, to Tarso No mother could have been more devoted. great delight of Sister Ellice, who declared her to be the prettiest, sweetest and most forward child that ever lived, when a man came to the hospital and inquired for the superintendent. "I came to inquire about a woman you had here about a year ago, name of Harriet Watson; I heard she died." His voice grew husky. "They told me two or three days ago when I was here before and they said I must see you about the baby. You was out then." The face under the nurse's cap grew as pale as death. Had this man come for Blossom, her baby? Why hadn't they told her so that she could hide the baby where he could never find it. "Who are you—her brother?" her "Who are you—her brother?" her dry lips managed to fashion. "I'm her husband, ma'am." "Her husband! Why, we thought she was not married." The man fumbled nervously with his hat. "I know. They told me the other day she didn't say nothin' about bein' married, but we was just the same. I brought the certificate"—he drew it with a trembling hand from his vest pocket—"to show you." "And now I suppose you want your baby—after deserting your wife and leaving a stigma attached to her name you come to take away the only being I ever loved—" Sister Ellice with all her vaunted nerve and courage was very close to tears. "For Heaven's sake, don't talk like that, ma'am, but hear my story before you say such hard things of me. You see when Harriet and I was married we didn't have no great amount of money, but we managed to furnish up a little flat and was as happy as two birds in a nest until I lost my job, through there bein' a strike on the road—I was a switchman—and then things began to go wrong. I tramped the town over lookin' for work—any kind of work, I didn't care what, but I couldn't pick up enough to keep soul and body together. Piece by piece our furniture went for food and by an' by I couldn't stand it no longer and seein' an advertisement in the paper for men on a road out west an' transportation free, I went, tellin' Harriet I'd write her to come if I could make a livin'; if not I was comin' home. Harriet, little woman, God bless her," his voice faltered and he wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, "was very bright and cheerful and was goin' to take in washin' or work out as a servant until she heard from me. Well, my bad luck followed me—after a few months I was thrown out of work again. I wrote to Harriet, but didn't get no answer, so I guess she never got my letter. Then I got an odd job to do now and then earning barely enough to buy food and a place to sleep, and had about made up my mind to go home when I was taken with a bad case of rheumatism and was laid up in the hospital for months. I was near crazy with pain and sufferin' and not knowing whether Harriet was dead or alive when my luck changed an' I saw a piece in the paper advertisin' for one Thomas Watson, son of Joseph Watson, formerly of Pennsylvania. Well, it turned out that my uncle in Illinois had died and left me a very good farm. "As soon as I was well enough I took possession of it and then I came to hunt up Harriet. You don't know the shock, ma'am, when they told me she was dead. To think of how she must have struggled and then when I had my good fortune she couldn't share it with me." The man buried his face in his hands and the tears trickled through his fingers. Sister Ellice watched him with seeming indifference. She had grown hard and bitter. Was he not going to take her baby from her? The man seemed to feel her lack of sympathy for him. He recovered himself presently and said with hesitation: "Perhaps you don't blame me so much now—and—I don't want to put you to any inconvenience, but perhaps I might have a look at my baby—" "I will bring her down to you," Sister Ellice answered, with a coldness which belied the wild beating of her heart, and left the room. Blossom had just wakened out of a sleep and sat up in her crib in all the roiness of her dimpled baby beauty. The woman took her in her strong arms and sat down in a chair. She kissed the soft baby hands, the dear curly head, the fat white neck, even the tiny well-worn shoes. Then she rose calmly and austerely and took the child to its father. How proud and happy he looked and how tenderly he held the child! Even in Sister Ellice's eyes he took on a certain dignity and importance, despite her antagonism toward his sex in general and himself in particular. Presently Blossom looked up and reached her tiny hands to Sister Ellice. "Mamma," she said again. A dull red crept into the woman's face. "I taught her to say it," she said as if in explanation, "she had no other mother." "God will bless you, ma'am, for your goodness to a motherless baby," the father replied fervently. After Blossom went away with her father. Sister Ellice went about her A man and a woman "Who are you—her brother?" her dry lips managed to fashion. tasks as usual, but her soul was sick within her with longing for her baby. One day she received a letter—it was a strange sort of letter, badly spelled and poorly written and began abruptly, thus: "Maybe you will think me forward and even insultin', but God knows I don't mean to be. You was an angel to my baby and the poor little thing cries for you night and day and is white and thin. I'm a plain sort of man, but I have got a good comfortable home, and I could take care of you if you was willin' to be my wife. If you want to answer my letter, my address is "Thomas Watson. "Glendale, W. Va." Sister Ellice's movements were always unexpected. Perhaps it was the "white and thin" that did it, or perhaps the feeling that sometimes came over her, that at best she was a lonely woman. The under nurses were agog with excitement. "What do you think?" said one. "Sister Ellice is going to be married, and to a man she never saw but once in her life." The Martyrdom of Statesmanship. "I hear, Senator," said the inquisitive young lady, "that it cost you $20,-000 to be elected." "Yes, approximately that." "Well, that will leave you only $10,-000 for six years' work. Isn't that rather small for a man of your ability?" "For a man of my ability it is rather small, but I expect the sacrifice to be not wholly in vain. In fact, I have already been retained as attorney for three large corporations that would have been injured by the passage of bills which I intended to introduce. So you see there are honest ways in which a man may be compensated for the annoying expenditures which in this age of graft and chicanery the high-minded servant of the people must make in order to help to preserve the foundations of the republic." KNEW THEY WERE NOT GHOSTS. Words the Old Lady Overheard Settled That Matter. "During the trials of the James gang in Independence, Mo., in 1881," said the Missouri man, "an old woman testified for the state that she saw the prisoner, one of the notorious James brothers, the night before the robbery and heard him talking about this robbery to her husband. When counsel for the defense took the witness for cross-examination he began as follows: "Now, Mrs. Blank, tell us again how it happened that you saw the prisoner that night." "Well, he came to the house along airly in the evening, and asked me where was my old man. I said outdoors somewheres, and he went out to find him. After a while I reckoned I'd better go out and see if he found him. I heard voices in the cornpatch and went along and looked through the fence and saw 'em." "Mrs. Blank, I want to know if you believe in ghosts—in spooks?" "I don't know as it's any of your business whether I do or not." "You must answer the question." "Well, then—I do." "They've been seen around your house, haven't they?" "Yes, sir, they hev; I've seen 'em myself. "Ghosts have been seen walking about outside by you and members of your family, haven't they? "Yes, sir, they hev. "Well, Mrs. Blank, I want to know how can you swear it wasn't ghosts you saw in the cornfield that night. How do you know it wasn't ghosts? "Cause they war a-cussin'," said the old woman." Sell Water from Paris Fountains. One would not think that in such an up-to-date city as Paris it was still possible to buy water; that is to say, to go out and pay so much for a bucket of water. Yet so it is. In ten different streets in the city there are as many different fountains, where for a penny you can buy twenty-two gallons of water or fill your bucket for a centime, the tenth of a penny. There was a time when these fountains did a brisk business, for in 1860 the income from them was £28,000. In 1882 it had dwindled to £1,600, and to-day the water sellers dispose of about a bucket a month. The fact is that the guardians of the fountains have really nothing to do, and this nominal employment is given to ex-employes of the Paris water company, so that they may end their years, without fatigue, on a pension of £20 per annum and a modest lodging. London Globe. The Mist. A sombre grey enshrouding mist, Blots out the heather hill, Where late the golden sun had kissed The deep pink bells at will. And creeping down the grassy steep, It gains the stony shore; Where plow the billows of the deep, With sullen hostile roar. I watch this brooding presence, as It works its icy will, Still ever forging on ahead, With penetrating chill; Like every despair it casts about, A spreading humid blight, Embodied silence, shutting out, Earth's beauties from my sight. Come here, my friend, draw near and see! All brightness disappear, How close it looms, surrounding me, This dread curtain of tears. Mine eyes the mists of sorrow blind, Fierce rolls the angry main, Clasp firm my hand, and help me find, The sunlight once again. —Annie Oddlet. No More Baggy Trousers. It is a matter of wonderment to friends of one of the best-dressed young men of the city that his trousers never bag at the knees. "How is it?" one asked. "Do you keep a valet who presses your clothes every day?" The well-dressed man smiled. "No, I keep no valet," he said. "But I have all my trousers made with silk knee-caps." "Silk knee-caps? What are they?" "They are squares of silk covering the knees of the trousers inside. They take the strain off the cloth when you sit down. Hence no kneeling—your trousers always keep their shape." THE COLONEL'S WIFE BY COPYRIGHTED 1996 BY STREET & SMITH Held by the Enemy. The misty moonbeams, filtered through the latticed branches of the pines, fell upon the figure of a man in blue who followed a well-worn path leading to a mansion situated on debatable ground near Atlanta. Fierce and sanguinary battles had been fought all the way from Chattanooga, and the doom of the Gate City was sealed. Presently Atlanta and its envirous must fall into the hands of the victorious Sherman. Those were troublous times for the Confederacy, and many a heart grew cold with a vague fear while facing the approaching disaster. Close behind this advancing figure a second might have been seen—a tall, lean fellow who wore the chevrons of a sergeant, though it would be impossible to tell whether his dusty well-worn garments stamped him a member of the blue or gray. Emerging from the pines the house lay before the leader, bathed in the flood of lunar light. He came to a stand and gazed upon the scene as though certain emotions long since dead had been aroused to a new life. While he thus stood, the lanky sergeant joined him. "There it is, Shanks. I was a boy when last I looked on the old home, and it would hardly do to tell how many years ago that was. Great changes have taken place here in that time. No doubt some of my old neighbors would think it rough that Fletcher Ridgeway's son should be with the army of invasion, but they know little of my life, and could never guess the powerful motives that bring me here. Let's advance, sergeant. I believe the house is deserted. Indeed, I am surprised to see it standing, with so many bands of plundering jayhawkers and guerrillas running through the country." "Just as ye say, sir," replied the other, his manner affectionate rather than obsequious. "Remember my caution—guard your tongue. To you for the present I am only a fellow-soldier, plain John Emmett." The sergeant saluted in a formal way. "Sergeant, you're a Tennesseean, I believe?" "From near Knoxville, sir. My people lived in the mountains. Some of my kin wear the gray—others the blue." "How came you to go with the North? I've known you a year, and never asked that before." "The jayhawkers murdered my father before my eyes. They wore the butternut—that settled the matter with me. I've paid back the debt, I reckon," and the mountaineer ground his teeth at the recollection. They were now near the house, one of those rambling Southern structures so well adapted to the country, a picturesque building that would have delighted the eye of an artist. John seemed deeply interested. Memory awoke within him, and a strange thrill passed over his frame. "Yes, many happy days I spent here at the old home before that wretched affair made me an exile. See, there is the same well—how often have I slaked my thirst from its mossy bucket. And yonder ancient oak served me as a hiding-place from the little black imps who were my boy companions. The impulse to again test the cool water far below the well-remembered curb is irresistible. How do you feel about it, sergeant?" "Dry, sir, pesky dry. Shall I raise a bucket?" "If you will. Then we will try to CHAPTER I. enter the house. My night mission concerns the interior, and the old hearth of the great sitting room in particular. Please heaven they may be there." The windlass sent forth many a dreary creak, as if displeased at being compelled to again enter the field of labor; but the bucket of sparkling well-water, better than the nectar of the gods, was soon tilted upon the curb, and after an absence of many years John quenched his thirst at the same fountain that had served him in boyhood. This pleasant duty finished, he advanced to the building. Whatever recollections were rioting through his mind—and they must have been legion—he did not allow them to appear upon the surface. Evidently this same John was capable of controlling his feelings to a remarkable extent. Of course the door was fast—he expected that. A window would grant the desired ingress. There was something repugnant about this mode of entrance, but during the stormy war times men who were soldiers met with so many strange adventures that these feelings THE MEN IN THE RAIN Wissel had to be stifled to a greater or less extent. So John passed from one window to another, trying each in turn. Success did not come immediately, but he was not discouraged. A man's character crops out even in such small things of life, and John possessed pertinacity to a certainty. Finally he discovered a window that offered no resistance to his onslaught, and thus after the long lapse of years he once more entered the house that had been his boyhood's home. Like a man walking in his sleep, he passed from one room to another. The moonlight found an entrance through the many windows, though they were festooned with cobwebs after the manner of deserted mansions. It served to reveal various objects in the rooms, and John's mind went back through the vista of years as each familiar scene aroused memories of the past. At length he stood in the room that seemed to be his goal. Here was the wide-throated chimney, the generous hearth with its old-fashioned andirons. In front of a roaring fire how many times in the long ago had he sat with his boy companions, cracking nuts and chattering like a lot of magpies, or listening to grandfather's weird stories of early life in the South. John was an intensely practical --- "You are a Yankee?" he asked curtly. man, and quickly swept aside this halo of romance that threatened to overwhelm him. "Now to see whether the papers have lain there during these years, or been discovered. Come, my dear fellow, brace up and put the matter to a test." Just as he was bending down to remove one of the stones that formed the hearth, he heard the hoot of an owl from the outside. This was the signal arranged with the sergeant—it meant sudden danger. John wheeled and stepped to a window, but the dust was too thick on the glass to allow him a chance to see. The report of a gun sounded on the night air. This meant business beyond a per-adventure, for in war times the discharge of fire-arms is significant. Whatever his mission to this home of his boyhood, it must for the present be postponed. He again traversed the rooms, aiming for the open window. Shouts were heard from the outside, proclaiming the presence of the enemy in force. John's bravery had been tested ere now on many a hard-fought field, and it was with impatience at being interrupted rather than alarm that he scrambled through the small pantry window. No sooner had he dropped upon the ground than violent hands were laid on him. A muscular man, John set about persuading his assailants that they could not thus act with impunity. Though three to one, they might have met their match in this desperate soldier, but for the coming of rein- Wiseman forcements. Under the combined assault John was soon made a prisoner, and panting for breath awaited the next move of his enemies. To his surprise only two of them seemed to wear any uniform. The others were civilians or blacks, and evidently belonged to some plantation. He looked in vain for signs of the sergeant, and would have believed the other must have made his escape only for the haunting memory of the single shot. What would they do with him? John gave no sign of alarm, and yet under the peculiar circumstances he knew they might be disposed to treat him as a spy. Exasperated by the march of Sherman and the fate of Atlanta, which hung trembling in the balance, the Georgians were not in a mood for philosophy or mercy. Cruel war brings out the most intense passions of men. Under these circumstances, therefore, he kept his ears on the alert to catch what was said, when the man wearing a Confederate captain's uniform advanced and looked closely into his face. "You are a Yankee?" he asked, curtly. "I am," replied John, boldly, desir- ous of avoiding the charge of being called a spy. "Married or single?" was the next astonishing question. "A bachelor," returned the Federal, proudly. "Then I reckon you'll do. Men, bring him along, and if he tries to escape, a charge of buckshot must finish him. To Lyndhurst." As he marched along in their midst, the prisoner found himself wondering what astonishing adventure was about to overwhelm him. A Grim Alternative. Not a word was said as they tramped along the road. John's curiosity had been aroused, however, and he wondered whether his confession as to being a bachelor would have any bearing one way or another upon his possible fate as a spy. The growl of heavy guns could be heard in the distance, telling that Sherman's grip was hourly growing more tenacious, and the time close at hand when the Gate City must surrender to superior force. These sounds were unpleasant music in the ears of those whose sympathies rested with the distressed Southland, and it promised to be an unfortunate time for any Federal whom the fortune of war might throw into their grasp. Lyndhurst—the name was familiar to John, and he remembered that in the days of his youth the Grangers lived there. Perhaps officers were quartered there, for the squire had always been a most ardent patriot, and no doubt from his vast resources had contributed much to help on the cause of the Confederacy. Under such circumstances, therefore, it was possible that a drum-head court-martial might be held, and a speedy execution take place. John hardly liked the thought of dying upon the scene of boyhood's pleasures, but the stern lessons of campaign life make light of even such a ghastly possibility. So he trudged along in the midst of his silent captors. Now and then his thoughts turned in the direction of the sergeant, but on each occasion the remembrance of that shot caused him to shrug his shoulders and mentally decide that poor Shanks had already gone upon the road that awaited him. They passed through a gate and entered upon well-kept grounds. Lyndhurst was considered the finest estate near Atlanta. Its peculiar position had thus far saved the historic old mansion with its delightful grounds from the bombarding guns of the enemy, but once the city fell into the hands of the conquering Federals, Lyndhurst would feel the blighting influence, and, possibly, be left in ruins. Lights gleamed through the trees, showing that the mansion was far from being deserted. Straight up to the door they led the prisoner, and presently John found himself locked in a room. Voices in earnest conversation could be heard near by. Finally the door opened and some one entered. It was a man of about fifty whom John faced, a man with a most determined countenance. In spite of the passage of years he recognized the other as his father's neighbor and friend, Squire Granger. (To be Continued.) "Yes, lady," said the man at the back door, "I am one of the leaders in a great reform movement." "Ah! I am glad to hear you say so. What is the nature of the reform which you are endeavoring to bring about?" 'We want to put an end to de iniquitous practice dey have in saloons or limitin' de privileges of de free lunch to dem wot buys drinks.' A Difference. "Who is young Mrs. Oldboy in mourning for?" "I don't know but she is in black for her husband." Act Drawn By Buford Now Before Congress---Has Moody's Approval. Washington,—Delegate McGuire introduced a bill to provide a method of selecting jurymen in oklahoma. Oklahoma has a law for that purpose now but it seems to be so intricate as to make it practically impossible to satisy the requirments. The attorney general in his annual report, called the attention of congress to this matter and the blll which Mr McGuire introduced and which was drawn by Chief Justice Burford has the approval of the department of justice. Explained briefly, the bill creates a board of jury commissioners in every composed of the clerk of the district court, or his resident deputy in the county, and as the bill expresses it, "two discreet, honorable and reputable persons of opposite politics, having the qualificatiogs of jurors, as described by the laws of said Territory and not interested in any case civil or criminal, pending in the district court of the county for which he is appointed Carnegie Library For Muskogee. Muskogee, I, T.—Muskogee has received a library proposition from Andrew Carnagie and it will be accepted. Mr. Carnagie offers to give Muskogee all the money it wants for a library building, provided the city sets aside a permanent fund of 10 percent of the amount he gives to be paid annually for the support of the institution The conference committees have decided they will accept the proposition on a $15,000 basis. Toe city will set aside $1,5000 annually for the support of the library. Tulsa To Have New Union Station. Tulsa, I. T.—A Franchise was granted by the city council last night to the Manufacturers Belt Line company to operate a standard guage single track railroad over north First street, running east and west through the entire city, for belt transportation facilities. A union station will be erected in the center of the city and the belt line will be used jointly by the Santa Fe, the Midland Valley in the event it is not absorbed by he former, and the Kansas City, Tulsa and Southwestern. Daughtery Bank IS Robbed. Ada, I. T.—The latest addition to the calender of crimes in this part of the country, is a bank robbery at Daughtery, en'the santa Fe, about ten miles south of Sulphur. The bank at that place was wrecked and about $750 were stolen, so it is reported. The intelligence was first received at the United States marshal's office which was requested to send thither the bloodhounds at once. Trainer Smith left with the dogs on the Frisco to Mill Creek; thence he will travel overland to thesceene of the crime. Fattally Hurt on Railroad Crossing. Shawnee, O T.-W. H. Walker residing ten miles north of Shawnee, was fatally hurt by being struck by a Rock Island passenger hrain. He was crossing the road at Broadway, watching an engine on a switch track when the passenger train ran into him, demolishing the wogon and injuring him about the head and legs Ever the Same King Solomon walked a thousand times Forth of his garden-close; And saw there spring no goodlier thing. Be sure, than the same little rose. Under the sun was nothing new, Or now, I will suppose. But what new thing could you find to sing More rare than the same little rose? Nothing is new; save I, save you. And every new heart that grows. On the same Earth met, that nurtures yet Breath of the same little rose. —Josephine Preston Peabody, "The singing Leaves." HER TW HER TWIN SOUL BY D.C. CLYBOURNE (Copyright, 1905, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) "Oh, Peter, isn't it just grand?" cried the girl with sparkling eyes. "I reckon so, but I don't seem to understand what it's all about," replied the young man dismally. "You will some time, Peter, when your soul is sufficiently clarified," responded the girl, "and your spirit escapes the fetters of your carnal mind which now holds it. Some day some other soul will signal yours and you will know you have found your true affinity." "I've found it now," replied Peter doggedly. "It's you, Jennie, that is my affinity, and I know it, and I want to marry you, and you half promised a while back—" "Hush, hush, Peter," interrupted the girl. "That was all boy and girl talk and before I learned of the great spirit world and of the psychic communion of souls. I like you very well as a friend, but the fates have me in their hands and I know not whither they are taking me." "Well, I'm getting eighty a month now," rejoined Peter, "and after next month I will get a hundred. You ain't takin' no great chances on that." "Oh, Peter, Peter, you cannot understand," rejoined the girl. "Your mind runs only to material things. I am waiting to find my twin soul." "Where d'ye expect to find it?" asked Peter desperately. "Out yonder, in the great universal ether," replied the girl, closing her eyes and clutching wildly at the air. "Sometimes when conditions are favor- Zanco "Out yonder, in the great universal ether." able I seem almost able to recognize the presence of my soul-mate, but I have not progressed far enough to expect perfection as yet." "Well, all I know is that I love you more'n any old twin soul floatin' about in the air and I kin prove it if you can show me the soul," and Peter bit his brown mustache savagely. "Peter," said the girl severely. "If --- মূল্য you talk like that I must refuse to converse with you." Whereupon Peter of course succumbed and the result was that he went along with Jennie to a meeting of the Soul Culture Society to hear a lecture by a brown-skinned apostle from India or some other far away land of which Peter had but a vague idea. During the meeting many experiences were given by the elect, all of which befuddled poor Peter as much as they exalted the lady of his heart's desire. That is, all excepting the testimony of one ethereal damsel who related a most wonderful story of her pursuit after her affinity wherein she told of many trials and struggles, all in vain until she had hit upon the modern theory of advertising. Then it was that she accomplished her great purpose. By the insertion of a little adlet in a newspaper in which she set forth her longing she had achieved her great purpose, for verily the adlet brought forth an answer and the answer led to the union of her own soul with that of her twin and now she was about to be united in body as well as in spirit to her affinity. To which statement the assembled company responded with enthusiastic applause. Then it was that Peter sat up and began to take notice of things in general and the vernacular of the cult in particular. Peter Martin was not a very imaginative person, nor was he what might be called resourceful, but he had a grand capacity for following the path once it was blazed for him and he had a persistence which already had won for him praise and advancement in business. Now he seemed to see the way blazed clear and plain for him and he struck cut into the path with confidence and joy. In the next issue of The Universe—which he knew to be the paper taken at Matilda's home—there appeared the following advertisement: "PERSONAL—A young man with spiritual longings is groping for his soul's mate. He knows she is near and has responded to him in the spirit. If this should reach the eye of the possessor of the responsive soul let her use her utmost spiritual powers at fourteen minutes past 12 to-morrow (Tuesday) night, and if she feels the divine thrill answer in these columns, addressing Leonidas." Tuesday evening Peter called on Jennie, but found her so preoccupied and feverishly excited that he departed early. He did not complain, however, as usual, of her pet fad. On the contrary, he said, solemnly, upon leaving: "I don't know when I will see you again, Jennie, and I want to thank you for arousing my spiritual powers." "Are you going away?" she asked. "What do you mean?" "No, I am not going away," he replied. "But at last my true self has awakened. under your instruction, and I have had a wonderful experience." "Oh, I am so glad." she exclaimed ```markdown ``` "But why should that prevent your coming to see me." "I have had a communication with my soul's mate," he replied, "and I am impelled to follow it, where'er it leads." Jennie did not seem so enthusiastic as might have been expected, but wished him well in his quest. "I think I, too, have found my twin soul," she said. "I will know for sure to-night." She glanced involuntarily at the table, and Peter's eyes, following hers rested upon the Universe of the previous day, opened to the very page containing the advertisement before referred to. And Peter, I set it down in sadness and shame, departed chuckling audibly. Sure enough on the following day an answer to the advertisement appeared in the paper, signed Muriel, and admitting that her soul had felt the divine thrill at exactly 12:14 on the previous night. Then followed a campaign of correspondence through the advertising columns of The Universe, which sadly depleted the purses of two young persons and strained Peter's last resources in the matter of psychic phraseology. At last Muriel asked to meet her soul mate in the flesh, and an appointment was duly made in a secluded C. M. "Peter!" gasped Jennie aghast. nook in the park in the early hours of a certain evening, a proper code of signals being arranged. Then it was that Peter trembled in body and spirit and verily did his knees quake beneath him. At the appointed time two shadowy figures approached the nook from opposite directions. The girl wore a long cloak and a heavy veil. The man was enveloped in a great coat, the collar of which was turned up about his face. The signals were duly given and responded to, and at the appointed signal both, as agreed, simultaneously uncovered his face. "Peter!" gasped Jennie, aghast. "Jennie!" exclaimed Peter in tones of surprise. Then Peter, whose program had been most carefully thought out, clasped Jennie in his arms and shouted: "Why, it's all right, after all. I couldn't see how I could have a soul mate when I loved Jennie so dearly. Now, see, you are my soul mate, and it's all right." "Yes, but you are not Leonidas," expostulated Jennie. "Yes, I am, in the spirit world," replied Peter soberly. "And how did you know my name was Muriel?" asked Jennie. "I didn't until I saw you, just now," replied Peter unblushingly. And Jennie yielded, not altogether unwillingly. But an occasional suspicion would cross her mind and she never could understand why Peter lost his interest in soul culture so early in the honeymoon. Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor. Thursday December, 14, 1905. Convention of Pipe Smokers. At a convention of pipe smokers, held in Brussels the other day, the president, M. Kos, informed his hearers that it took him three hours and seven minutes to get through one pipe. A pipe, he said, would outlast three hours if filled in a particular way—loose at the bottom, firmly in the middle, and again loosely at the top. "Further," said he, "you must give up your whole mind to the process. Patience and determination make the true smoker." Chinese Silverware. One of the oddities of our nomenclature is that the combination of metals known as German silver contains no silver in its composition and is of Chinese and not of German origin. It was first introduced into Europe by the Germans, and for some time it was not generally known that they had simply borrowed it from the Chinese. Paris Picture Case. One of the courts in Paris is occupied with a case against a picture dealer who sold what he asserted was a genuine Raphael for $16,000. The buyer paid $2,000 down, then discovered that the dealer had bought the picture for twenty francs. He wants his $2,000 back. But three experts have pronounced the painting genuine. Source of Supreme Court Law. The Hon. Henry W. Paine, lecturer at the Boston University law school, was once in the law library, and as he glanced down the shelves he noticed several blocks of wood shaped like law books, which had been put in to fill out the shelves. "Ah," said Mr. Paine, "now I see where the supreme court gets its law." Grizzly Losing Aggressiveness. It is said in California that even the grizzly is changing his character; that he has lost his aggressiveness, and will seek cover on the approach of man, whereas formerly he would voluntarily give battle, and at times had been known to charge a company of men when her had not been even provoked to battle. Actors Copy Irving. Sir Henry Irving furnished the model for the typical actor of the comic papers. No actor was ever so much imitated by other actors and in their attempt to look like Irving there was developed such exaggeration of his manner and appearance that irresistibly called for caricature as a type. Strength of Cheerfulness. Carlyle says: "Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its power of endurance. Efforts to be permanently useful must be uniformly joyous—a spirit all sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright." Who could resist such a nature? Education and Humility. In the outdoor, as in the indoor world, one of the first things that can be said for education is that it teaches humility. There's nothing like an increasing acquaintance with the things that you can't do right off for reducing a swelled head.—C. B. Fry. Reading Through Salt. In San Domingo there is a remarkable salt mountain, a mass of crystalline salt almost four miles long, said to contain nearly 90,000,000 tons, and to be so clear that medium-sized print can be read with ease through a block foot thick. AND MADE HERSELF UNPLEASANT GENERALLY. Result, Red-Eyed and Red-Nosed Bride and Very Angry Husband— Moral in This Story for Those Who Have a Disagreeable Habit. The bride had been entertaining a caller in her little new home. After her visitor had gone she locked the door and wept. And red-eyed and red-nosed her husband found her. "Maude was here this afternoon," she announced, as they sat down to dinner. "Was she? And how did Maudie like our little home?" genially asked the bridegroom. "She said it was real nice," said the bride, faintly. "And acted like she thought it was a chickencoop, eh?" answered the bridegroom, showing a deep acquaintance with Maudie's little peculiarities. "Well, she didn't care for the parlor paper." "Didn't she." the bridegroom forbore to say more, but his tone spoke volumes. "She didn't like the Morris chair much, either. She thought it clashed with everything." "It don't clash with me," remarked the bridegroom, calmly. "How'd she like the kitchen?" "She said it was a little matchbox. I believe she remarked that it was fortunate we couldn't afford but a tiny little maid. She said we should be careful not to buy rugs that cried aloud to heaven." The man across the table made no answer, but mentally vowed to purchase rugs with a brass band effect. "She agreed with you about that picture in the parlor, dear," said the bride, in a mollifying tone. "She said it was too hideous for any place but the storeroom. You know, you said—" "It looks very well there," remarked the bridegroom, with decision, squinting across at the picture on the parlor wall. "I thought she might admire the back view," went on the bride, plainly, "but she thought it dreadfully sordid. She asked me to pull the curtain down. She said the dining room looked terribly bare, and the bath room gave her the horrors. She was surprised that we had such a tiny hall. She said really we were paying twice as much rent as the place was worth. She said she hoped we could stand the neighborhood. She said why under the heavens did we get green curtains? She said—" And here the bride wept. "I don't care to hear any more that she said," shouted the bridegroom. "This is our house, and thank the good Lord, Maude isn't going to live in it!" "I don't think Maude meant to be unkind," apologized the bride after a while, when her tears were dry. "It's just her way to pick out the flaws first." "Well, it's a deucedly disagreeable way," responded the man of the house, returning to the head of the table. 'And you can just tell Maude for me that we live here, and we pay the rent, and we're going to buy the things we like, and do exactly as we choose; and we shan't feel at all offended if she doesn't come around again until she learns better ways." And this is written that Maudie may take warning, and think up a lot of nice things to say about that little dovecote before she calls there again.—Philadelphia Bulletin. Rise of Newspaper Man. Lawrence H. Grahame, of New York City, who has just been appointed Commissioner of the Interior for Porto Rico, was formerly a newspaper man, and last year was the secretary of the government commission for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. WOES OF BLOCKADE RUNNER --- LITTLE MAN'S LONG SILENCE GRIZZLY BEAR A MONUMENT --- THE FATE OF SENNACHERIB THE FATE OF SENNACHERIB The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea. When the blue wave rolls night on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green. That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath flown. That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and forever grew still! And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide. But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf. And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone. The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wall; And the idols are broken in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword. Hath melted like snow in the glance of of the Lord. —Lord Byron. Here is a tale of adventurous blockade running during the Russo-Japanese war: In December of last year the steamer Carlisle, Capt. Jessen, 1,035 tons, belonging to Leith, Scotland, left Vladivostok with arms and ammunition worth over $4,500,000 on board, destined for Port Arthur. Before that port was reached, however, it had surrendered to the Japanese. Capt. Jessen altered his course while he had yet time and stood out to the open sea. All went well until the steamer was 300 miles to the eastward of Yokohama when the Carlisle lost all her propeller blades. The captain rigged up sails on the steamer's stumpy masts, and navigated his vessel 2,000 miles southward, ultimately dropping anchor in San Miguel bay, Caramines, in the Philippines, on Feb. 13. Japanese in the vicinity had heard of the vessel's arrival and disguised as fishermen set out in four sampans to attack and if possible sink the ship. A little man of 12 years, already a qualified practician in silence and obedience, whose father owns a large rubber plantation in Central America, and who not long ago secured options on two plantations adjoining his own, went to New Orleans to raise the money to purchase them. In a short time his wife secured an option on a third plantation, which he very much desired, but which he had not been able to get before leaving for New Orleans. With a wife's caution, she was afraid to trust the option to the mails, so she sewed it carefully in the lining of her small son's jacket, and sent him north by the next steamer. "Mind, you are not to talk to anybody!" was her parting injunction. The boy obeyed her so literally that half the passengers thought him dumb. Several persons took a kindly interest in him, and tried to make the voyage pleasanter for him; but he refused to make friends, and except for A stone carving of a grizzly bear in the attitude of defending her cubs has been carved by Andrew Chester Thompson of Seattle, and will be immediately shipped to Alaska to be placed over the grave of R. Shadesty, one of the most prominent Indians in the north when alive, says the Seattle Times. He died Dec. 17, 1903, leaving $600 to defray the cost of the monument. The big piece of stone carving, weighing 3,000 pounds, will be shipped from Seattle to Wrangel, and from that point will be carried about 150 miles overland to the home of the Bear family Indians. The Indians themselves will transport the grizzly on its overland journey according to their own primitive methods of transportation. Mr. Thompson has been carving im With the assistance of the customs officers on board the crew managed to beat off the repeated attack of the Japanese, but not before many shots had been exchanged. An American warship ultimately arrived on the scene and towed the Carlisle round to Manila, where she was interned by the American authorities. At Manila the Carlisle was provided with a new propeller, but watched by the American warships within the port and by a Japanese cruiser which kept continually appearing in the offing. The Carlisle one night disappeared from Manila at the time of the passing of Singapore by Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet. But again fortune frowned; the Carlisle could not find the Russian fleet, and after many days' fruitless search the captain had again to turn south. At the end of May the vessel steamed innocently into Saigon, where she is at the present moment with her valuable but dangerous cargo on board. brief thanks, no word could be got out of him. As soon as the boat docked he found his way to the office of the broker where he knew his father made his headquarters. His father turned pale at the sight of him, and tremblingly asked if anything had happened at home. "No, father." The father then asked, somewhat sternly, what had brought him there. The boy answered by shaking his head. "I can't tell till we are alone," he whispered. When his father took him into a private office, he shut the door and locked it. Taking off his coat he showed his dazed father where to rip it—and the option was in safe hands. Then he spoke with a sigh of relief. "Mother told me not to talk with anybody," he said, "and I haven't." Of course his father was proud of him, but one hopes that the faithful little chap had a good time after that.—New Orleans Picayune. ages for Alaska Indians for the last twenty-five years, but this is the largest monument he has shipped to Alaska carved from a single piece of marble. The stone carving provided for Shadesty is the first to be ordered in a defensive attitude. For the Black Bear tribe Mr. Thompson has carved several statues of bears, but they have all been on all fours. The Wolf tribe and others taking their name from wild animals have ordered carvings, but the work done for Shadesty is novel in its conception. It is customary among the Alaska Indians to leave money to pay for their own tombstone, and Shadesty saved for a lifetime to give himself a suitable piece for his grave. He was wealthy enough, though, to leave his kinsmen considerable money. 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. J. H. P. P. With the greatest of pleasure, the rarest of priviliges, and the most sublime duty that ever pleased my lofty ambition, I will call the attention of my many readers to the man who is now lionizing himself in the west. W. H. Twine, the daring writer who has the courage, the zeal, the manhood and the boldness to write and speak the truth regardless to whom it offends, whose crimes it exposes, whose popularity it discredits or what thief he drags to justice. There are some aristocrats who think their names so great, their fame so high, their popularity so extensive and their influence so broad that it is a crime for any one to mention their faults, their errors, their transgressions or their vanities. But none have sown so high, none have grown so wealthy, none have gained so much authority that this daring young writer has refused to condemn every wrong deed or act of injustice that have been perpretrated by the combined forces of wealth, might and authority. And on the other hand none have fallen so low, become so insigificant, oppressed so hard, or abused so roughly that he refused to defend them when they were standing upon the rock of truth and justice. Wherever you find justice there you find Twine. Unjust criticisms, accusations, denunciations are but spurs to him. As editor of the Cimeter his writings have made every just, upright, pure and honest man his friend and made every rascal, thief, national plunderer and every demogogue his enemy. But he never seeks to make enemies nor friends; he simply seeks the right, the just and the truth and whatever there is in these for him he contents himself. His write ups on the outrageous, brutish and inhuman treatment of the Negro in the south has brought the wails, the J. S. BROWNLOW, MANAGER. cries, the denunciations and the threats of all those guilty of these savageous crimes, but the more they fret and threat the harner he has thrown the stones. He never defends a Negro because he is a Negro, nor condemns a man because he is white; but he is a splendid type of the modern and improved man who knows men by their inward principles and not by the color of the skin. To him a man is a man, a thief is a thief, a robber is a robber, a villian is a villian. Eevery one who comes to him must expect to be weighed in the scales of justice, as he knows no other. Like nature, he never bows, like death, he serves all alike, like life, he crowns every one with fame who deserves the crowning. He knows the truth and is not afraid of it. As a writer he always boldly, daringly, courageously and bravely attacks the wrongs and insults inflicted upon the Negro, not because he is a member of the Negro race but because the Negro is generally ignored, oppressed, downtrodden and unjustly slandered in the south. This sagacious man is broad enough, deep enough, and wise enough to look beneath the skins of men into their souls, their hearts and their principles and know them as they are; not as they are colored. Every Negro in the west, every Negro in the east, north and south ought to be proud of W. H. Twine. As a member of our race and a defender of our cause, he has crowned us with glory and honor. Standing high above his critics, holding himself aloft from his accusers, a beautiful contrast to cowardice, with an unparalleled record of bravery he writes to each and all through the columns of the Cimeter and tells them what they are and what they ought to be. When others are seeking fame he is seeking truth, . when others are seeking popularity by sacrificing their honesty, he is sacrificing his popularity by maintaining his honesiy. While others are making friends by courting harmony, he, is making enemies condemning the wrong. So vile, so wicked, so unjust and so degrading are the executions of the laws in the southern states that the executors try to stop the press from giving the public the news. Some they bribe, some they bluff and some they influence; but the bribing, the bluffing and the influencing of W. H. Twine have been in vain. Committees and individuals have waited on him asking on what conditions would he cease to inform the public of their atrocious crimes, he manly, courageously and invariably replies, "On condition that you cease to perpetrate them." They have even attempted to stop the circulation of his papers through the mails, but this proved to be futile, as he is an experienced lawyer and knows how to stay within the bounds of the law. He feels and knows that he owes his services to his people, his country and his God. He knows his country and his race is best served, when served at all, by defending the right and opposing the wrong. He claims to be a member and friend of the Negro race, and if there is nothing else in creation's sphere that make a Negro proud of the lone privilege of calling this courageous and patriotic man our friend is enough to fill our bosom with joy and gratitude. He is a tiger in the throat of tyranny and a lamb in the bosom of peace when accompanied by justice. Politically, he was, is, and forever will be a republican as long as the party waves it,s banner in the perfumed atmosphere of freepom and calls for a square deal, but when it bows if ever it does bow to injustice, to disfranchisement, separate car laws or inferior public accommodations, then it is sure to lose the support, friendship and membership of W. H. Twine. When the Sequoyah statehood (continued on page 8) 307 W. Broadway WARNING ORDER. 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. 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