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The Muskogee Cimeter. Muskogee, I. T., Friday, January, 18, 1907. FORE DRY GOODS CO. BLUE FLAG MILL & FACTORY SALE FOLLOW THE BLUE FLAGS They lead to the Greatest Bargain Sale. Sunday, January 13, 1907. The meeting at the Central Baptist church was that of the old type of worship. Rev. R. W. Rose, our beloved pastor, made his annual report, which was listened to with rapt attention. He preached 247 sermons during the year of 1906, which was very effectual. Through his efficient work 75 members were added to the church, eight were buried with Christ in baptism and seven old members were reclaimed. Central has fallen in line as never before for the up-building of the Master's kingdom. We invite everybody to attend our services. You will find in them food for your soul. You can get your heads full during the six days, but if you will attend our service on the Sabbath you will get your soul filled. The spiritual life of the church was never better. Our pastor has proven himself to be an enemy of sin. When his report was finished the members, led by Sister Ida B. Ayres, expressed their love and devotion to the pastor. It was a grand meeting, indeed. Rev. McMullen was present and made a beautiful address, and also expressed his love towards our pastor. I am very glad to say that God has given us men and women who have shown themselves willing to make sacrifices necessary for the success of His cause. WE WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAY —Open Saturday Jan. 19th at 9 o'clock. Do be on hand Saturday morning and get a chance bargains first. SHOES, CLOTHING and FU SPECIAL. Look For The BLUE FLAGS==Fold BLUE FLAGS. Fore Dry Goods Company Muskogee, I. T. Spaulding Building, Main St. —Open Saturday Jan. 19th at 9 o'clock. DONT fail to be on hand Saturday morning and get a chance at the best bargains first. SHOES, CLOTHING and FURNISHINGS SPECIAL. Look For The BLUE FLAGS==Follow The BLUE FLAGS. Fore Dry Goods Company, Muskogee, I. T. Spaulding Building, Main St. Our Sunday School is doing well, with Bro. J. H. Mosley, leader; Sister A. L. Norwood, secretary, and J. W. Love as treasurer. The B. Y. P. U., with Bro. W. M. Gentry as president, seems to be striving hard to get young men and women to take a part in their work. We are doing what we can in looking after the work of the first state convention of the Negro Baptist, which will meet in our church this year. We will have leaders of other of the United States. Let us be ready for them, for they churches from a great many places expect great things of Muskogee, and she is great, and growing greater every day. We have had some little political trouble in our city, but no race war. And as long as we have men in the lead that will lead right, we will not have any race war. Because fighting and growling belongs to dogs. There is too much expected of us who have only been free for one generation. We must work together, because we can't do well without each other. Doing the Spanish war of the determination of the gunner upon our battleship. That was the girl behind the man behind the gun. Who steadied his aim and nerved his arm, and strengthened his heart to do. Whether this be true or not, we need men and women to help us be a great people and build great churches. If we should die before we finish, --- let us die at work. Our deacon board met and unanimously adopted the continuance of our pastor. Last, but not least, our women's work, with Sister Cotton and Sister Turtine as our laders. We feel that they are going to do a great work this year, and would like very much to have the other sisters and brothers to help them. INDIAHOMA CLUB. The Indiahoma club, a social organization with headquarters in the Estes building, was furnished with a set of new furniture Saturday. The executive board is considering a proposition to start a public library and reading room which will be opened to the public. No one who has the preservation of society at heart can confute the necessity of such a movement. The youthful spirit craves pleasure, and unless it is provided by the social equals, they will eventually drift towards their inferiors. Society is what we make it. It is up to us to make it pure, clean and elevating. Left alone, it will drift, and nowhere in the history of nature have we a record of an object drifting up stream. The object of the club is instructive pleasure—not extravagance. That the movement isa decided success has all ready been demonstrated in the fact that the public has shown its approval by offering to donate books and periodicals to the library, even before the officers have had time to ask them. No 18 GIVEN AWAY 10 YDS BUST CALICO Saturday Morning Come See About it. "Reading maketh a full man." And if the better class of people continue to give up their approval and encouragement, we will see to it that the fair maidens and handsome youths who adorn the social circle of Muskogee, spend their leisure moments reading inspiring and elevating literature. Respectfully, S. D. MOOKER, Secretary Indiana Club, Muskogee, I. T. Notice. Let me build you a house on small installments, thereby, saving your rent money, and living in your own house all the time. See Rev. J. M. Dade, Miner London, Susie London, Fannie Tucker and Nancy Lynch, as to the way I treat my customers. Will loan money for 5, 7 and 10 years on farm lands and city property, in any amount where it is well secured. Make short loans also. No. 1 English Block. W. P. FIELDS, Muskogee, I. T. Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. DR. R. H. WATERFORD, Estes Building, Rooms 3 and 4. Phone 461; residence phone 462, Muskogee, I. T. AGENTS WANTED We want energetic hustling agents for this paper and will pay liberly for good work. If you want to make money, write at once to—W. H. Twine. LEWIS' SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5¢CIGAR YOU PAY 10¢ FOR CIGARS NOT SO GOOD PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can dye any garment without ripping apart. Write for free booklet—How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. THE FIRST TWINGE THE FIRST TWINGE Of Rheumatism Calls for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills If You Would Be Easily Cured. Mr. Frank Little, a well known citizen of Portland, Ionia Co., Mich., was cured of a severe case of rheumatism by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. In speaking about it recently, he said: "My body was run down and in no condition to withstand disease and about five years ago I began to feel rheumatic pains in my arms and across my back. My arms and legs grew numb and the rheumatism seemed to settle in every joint so that I could hardly move, while my arms were useless at times. I was unable to sleep or rest well and my heart pained me so terribly I could hardly stand it. My stomach became sour and bloated after eating and this grew so bad that I had inflammation of the stomach. I was extremely nervous and could not bear the least noise or excitement. One whole side of my body became paralyzed. "As I said before, I had been suffering about five years and seemed to be able to get no relief from my doctors, when a friend here in Portland told me how Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had cured him of neuralgia in the face, even after the pain had drawn it to one side. I decided to try the pills and began to see some improvement soon after using them. This encouraged me to keep on until I was entirely cured. I have never had a return of the rheumatism or of the paralysis. The pills are for sale by all druggists or sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. BUILDERS MATERIAL We manufacture all kinds of mill work, sash, doors, mouldings and hardwood finish. Write us for prices. MUSKOGEE SASH & DOOR CO., Muskogee, Indian Territory. American Idealism. Since my first arrival in America I have held that the real spirit is idealistic and that the average individual American is controlled by idealistic impulses. Those who may contradict me can not have sounded the depths of the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson, or studied the life and read the speeches of Abraham Lincoln, and considered their far-reaching effect on the American people. In Lincoln's great character nothing can be more striking than the way in which he combined reality and the loftiest ideal, with a thoroughly practical capacity to achieve that ideal by practical methods. This faculty seemed to give him a far-sighted, almost superhuman vision, which enabled him to pierce the clouds obscuring the sight of the keenest statesmen and thinkers of his age—Baron Speck von Sternburg, in Forum. Always to Be Depended Upon. When a person gets up in the morning with a dull headache and a tired, stretchy feeling, it's an almost certain indication that the liver, or bowels, or both, are decidedly out of order. At such times Nature, the wisest and best of doctors, takes this means to give warning that she needs the help and gentle assistance which can best be obtained from that old family remedy, Brandreth's Pills, which has been in use for over a century. They are the same fine laxative tonic pill your grandparents used when doctors were few and far between, and when people had to have a remedy that could absolutely be depended upon. Brandreth's Pills can be depended upon, and are sold in every drug and medicine store, plain or sugar-coated. Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of the truth.—Plato. Trade-Mark for Ireland. Ireland now has a trade-mark with which her products are to be stamped. A penalty may be inflicted for its improper use. French President's "Double." M. Fallieres was, until recently, believed to be the only president of the French republic who had no double, but his counterpart has been found. The man who most resembles him physically is a respectable merchant of the Rue Saint Honore, who plays his part with decorum and dignity. He wears exactly the same kind of blue butterfly necktie with white dots as the president, the same kind of hat and exactly so oddly cut a beard. And on his promenades he is always accompanied by a frend who could easily be taken for the president's private secretary. Dignified and with measured steps, the enviable double walks through the Faubourg Saint Honore and feels overjoyed at being saluted on all sides. THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILROAD AND WESTERN CANADA. Will Open Up Immense Area of Free Homestead Lands. The railway facilities of Western Canada have been taxed to the utermost in recent years to transfer the surplus grain crop to the eastern markets and the seaboard. The large influx of settlers and the additional area put under crop have added largely to the grain product, and notwithstanding the increased railway facilities that have been placed at the disposal of the public, the question of transportation has proved to be a serious one. It will, therefore, be good news to everyone interested in Western Canada to know that an authoritative statement has been given out by C. M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, that that railway will do its share towards moving the crop of 1907 from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to tide water, and thus assist in removing a serious obstacle which has faced the settlers during recent years. Mr. Hays, who has just completed a trip from Portage la Prairie to Edmonton in a prairie schooner, a distance of 735 miles, which was covered in eighteen days, is enthusiastic about the country. This will be gratifying to settlers in the Canadian West, even if Mr. Hays declines to be bound to a time limit with the exactitude of a stop-watch. The Grand Trunk Pacific road will be in a position to take part in the transportation of the crop of 1907, and that will be satisfactory to the settlers in that country when the harvest is garnered. The wheat crop of 1906 in Western Canada was about 90,000,000 bushels, and, with the increased acreage which is confidently expected to be put under crop next year, it is safely calculated that fully 125,000,000 bushels will be harvested in 1907. The necessity for increased transportation facilities are, therefore, apparent, and the statement made by Mr. Hays will bring encouragement to the farmers of the Canadian West, new and old. The opening up of additional thousands of free homesteads is thus assured by the agent of the Canadian Government, whose address appears elsewhere. Invention Long Looked for. A Paris paper devoted to scientific subjects announces the discovery of a practical method of shielding watches and clocks from all magnetic influences. It is said to be the work of a watchmaker named Leroy. Henry Arthur Jones, the noted English playwright, was giving the students of Yale an address on the drama. "Your American vernacular is picturesque," he said, "and it should help your playwrights to build strong, racy plays. But neither varnacular nor anything else is of moment if perseverance is lacking. "No playwright can succeed who is like a man I know. "I said to this man, one New Year's day: "'Do you keep a diary. Philip?" "Yes,' he answered, 'I've kept one for the first two weeks in January for the last seven years.'" One box of Hunt's Cure is unfailingly, unqualifiedly and absolutely guaranteed to cure any form of SKIN DISEASE. It is particularly active in promptly relieving and permanently curing all forms of ITCIIING known. ECZEMA, TETTER, RINGWORM and all similar troubles are relieved by one application; cured by one box. Many a citizen who trades on margins wouldn't think of buying a gold brick. THE DISC Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Great Woman's Rem E DISCOVER E. Pinkham's Vegetable Con Woman's Remedy for Woma THE DISCOVERER Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the Great Woman's Remedy for Woman's Ills. LYDIA E. PINKHAM No other medicine for Woman's ills in the world has re spread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female hosts of grateful friends as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetal. For more than 30 years it has been curing all forms of F Inflammation and Ulceration, and consequent Spinal Weak. It has cured more cases of Backache and Local Weakness one remedy. It dissolves and expels tumors in an early stage. Irregularities and periodical pains, Weakness of the Stom Bloating, Nervous Prostration, Headache, General Debility, also deranged organs, causing pain, dragging sensation Under all circumstances it acts in harmony with the fem micine for Woman's ills in the world has reallified endorsement. Micine has such a record of cures of female friends as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetation in 30 years it has been curing all forms of Fetal Ulceration, and consequent Spinal Weakness cases of Backache and Local Weakness dissolves and expels tumors in an early stage and periodical pains, Weakness of the Stomach Prostration, Headache, General Debility, Organs, causing pain, dragging sensation instances it acts in harmony with the femal No other medicine for Woman's ills in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female illnesses or such hosts of grateful friends as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. For more than 30 years it has been curing all forms of Female Complaints, Inflammation and Ulceration, and consequent Spinal Weakness. It has cured more cases of Backache and Local Weaknesses than any other one remedy. It dissolves and expels tumors in an early stage of development. Irregularities and periodical pains, Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloating, Nervous Prostration, Headache, General Debility quickly yield to it; also deranged organs, causing pain, dragging sensations and backache. Under all circumstances it acts in harmony with the female system. It removes that wearing feeling, extreme lassitude, "don't care" and "want-to-be-left-alone" feeling, excitability, irritability, nervousness, dizziness, faintness, sleeplessness, flatulency, melancholy or the "blues". These are indications of Female Weakness or some derangement of the organs, which this medicine cures as well as Chronic Kidney Complaints and Backache, of either sex. Those women who refuse to accept anything else are rewarded a hundred thousand times, for they get what they want—a cure. Sold by Druggists everywhere. Refuse all substitutes. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKACHE This package discontinued the use of our medication without package. The public may rely on enclosed words of limitations. Sold only in boxes seperated. READERS of this paper desiring to buy anything advertised in its columns should insist upon having what they ask for, refusing all substitutes or imitations. PENSION JOHN W. MORRIS Washington, D. C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner U. S. Pension Bureau. W. N. U., MUSKOGEE, NO. 3, 1907. COVERER Vegetable Compound, the dy for Woman's Ills. in the world has received such wide of cures of female illnesses or such Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. During all forms of Female Complaints, sequent Spinal Weakness. and Local Weaknesses than any other occurs in an early stage of development. Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion, e, General Debility quickly yield to it; dragging sensations and backache. mony with the female system. LIEUTENANT BOWMAN, A — ll i BW ye a fe a , ss ; Za 6 , sy ‘i ee oe ee al ee ee Pe EE as a a gee te mee a as iy), Hee ae i j WON satis ee thes Sas =e cs 6 SSS —S a Nw eras SS id so a | PE-AU-WA CURED HIM. Cold Affected Head and Throat— Attack was Severe, Chas. W. Bowman, 1st Lieut. and ‘Adjt. 4th M. S. M. Cav. Vols., writes from Lanham, Md., as follows: “Though somewhat averse to pat- ent medicines, and still more averse to becoming a professional affidavit man, it seems only a plain duty in the present instance to add my ex- perience to the columns already writ- ten concerning the curative powers of Peruna. “«] have been particularly benefited by its use for colds in the head and throat. I have been able to fully cure myself of a most severe attack in forty-eight hours by its use according todirections. luse it as a preventive whenever threatened with an attack. “Members of my family also use it for like ailments. We are recom: mending it to our friends.” —Chas. W. Bowman. 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It is rather a strange contradiction that while education is highly valued in our country, teaching on the whole has less honor than it deserves, “It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had, yea, and that among very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.” We do not pay our teachers enough for our own good, since a liberal salary attracts talent not only in itself but because it is a symbol of success. Half a_ million Americans are now engaged in doing what they can with 20,000,000 younger minds. Surely no half million Amert- cans are employed in more important work, “Teach self-denial,” said Wal- ter Scott (and something might be said of other virtues) “and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for*the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.” Teach anything that is good, remarks Collier's, and you touch the depths. The ablest and truest men and women are required,— those who know life and are not pedants, not machines with notions o! suggestion no higher than the ferule and the copy-book. The teacher work: with living minds and hearts an¢ souls. On no man or woman rests & higher or more inspiring task. Endowed Theater for Masses. Is it to be believed that out of our rich, refined, play-loving population there are not to be found those with sufficient enthusiasm or self-sacrifice to raise whatever money is necessary to establish at least one ideal experi- mental theater, with a sixpenny gal- lery and a shilling pit, all places to be reserved, and with free perform- ances at least once a week, where the best works of the best dramatists of the world could be played by a com- pany whose primary object was not to serve as advertisements for the dressmaker, or be mere incidents in the scenic splendors of the carpen- ter's art? What is wanted is faith, and after faith organization, Even in this day of doubt and unbelief the churches can find faith enough to cre ate organizations which raise any amount of cash, says W. T. Stead in World To-Day. I am loath to believe that the theater-going public is such a godless, reckless, worthless set of selfish loons that it is impossible to raise out of their midst a fellowship of stalwart workers and liberal givers who will begin the democratic regen eration of the theater. According to some of the scientists, women are growing taller. If this would keep them from growing stout- er after they reached middle age it isn’t likely that many of them would worry much over their increasing length. In 1905 the natural gas produced and sold in the United States was worth $41,562,855, and the supply was growing larger, despite wasteful meth- ods. The fear of a shortage of fuel seems to have a small foundation, ‘What is the export duty on dogs? America has a large crop of a kind that it can very well share if the Prus- sians really prefer them to good beef. A German professor says “Ameri- cans are all John P, Smiths.” We also have quite a few Johann P. Schmitzes, Economy is the road to wealth. PUT- NAM FADELESS DYE is the road to economy, 0c per package. Man cannot be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.—Heraclitus, To recover quickly from bilious attacks, sick-headache, indigestion or colds, take Garfield Tea, the mild laxative. Guaran- teed under the Pure Food Law. Autocratic Revivalists. The earl and countess of Tanker ville have been holding crowded re- ligious meetings in Shropshire, Eng- Jand. Both are much interested in this kind of work. The countess was Miss Lenora Van Marter, an American girl, and the earl spent much of his youth in this country. He is an ener- getic member of the house of lords and, like his wife, a great lover of art. “We Have Many Similar.” The following is an extract from a letter received from Mr. H. H. Mey- ers, of Stutgart, Ark.: “You would greatly oblige me if you ‘vould intro- duce Hunt's Lightning Oil at Millidge- ville, Ill, as I have many friends and relatives there, in whom I am much concerned, and I understand the Oi is not kept there. I can recommend it as the best medicine I ever had in my house. It cured me of a bad case of the Bloody Flux in less than one- half hour, and it cured my grand- daughter of a bad case of Cholera Morbus in a very short time.” HEADS SHAPED TO ORDER. German Doctor Explains Causes of Various Formations. At a recent convention of German naturalists and doctors Dr. Walcher, of Stuttgart, in an instructive paper put forth a sensational theory to ex- plain the formation uf the shape of the head of infants. He maintained that the head of a child could be molded artificially. He found by ex- perience that when a medium-shaped head is placed in a soft cushion the child turns on its back, or rests on the back of its head, in order to free mouth, nose and face. In this manner the head rests smoothly, and a short head is developed. But if the medium- shaped head of a child is placed on a hard under-rest, like a hair mattress or rolled carpet, the child’s head turns aside, as it cannot stand any more on its head than an egg, for the muscle of the back is weakened. Therefore, with continued resting on the side a long head is developed. To prove his assertions the lecturer pre- sented @ child whose mother and sis- ter are short-headed. The child at its birth had a short head, now after 18 months it Is long skulled. If the child had been placed on its back, according to other experiences its head would have been short-shaped. Dr. Walcher did not deny that the shape of the head was inherited, but asserted that it could be greatly influenced by the way the child rested. COSTLY PRESSURE. Heart and Nerves Fail on Coffee. A resident of a great western state puts the case regarding stimulants with a comprehensive brevity that is admirable. He says: “I am 66 years old and have had con- siderable experience with stimulants. They are all alike—a mortgage on re- served energy at ruinous interest. As the whip stimulates but does not strengthen the horse, so do stimulants act upon the human system. Feeling this way, I gave up coffee and all other stimulants and began the use of Postum Food coffee some months ago. The beneficial results have been ap- parent from the first. The rheumatism that I used to suffer from has left me. I sleep sounder, my nerves are stead- Yer and my brain clearer. And I bear testimony also to the food value of Postum—something that is lacking in coffee.” Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich, There's a reason Read “The Road to Wellville,” the quaint little book in pkgs, A SIMPLE FORMULA PRESCRIPTION OF AN EMINENT SPECIALIST IS GIVEN. Necessary Ingredients Cost Little and Can Be Secured at Any Good Drug Store—Will Break a Cold Quickly. Mix half ounce of the Pure Virgin Oil of Pine with two ounces of glycer- ine and half a pint of good whisky; shake well and use in teaspoonful doses. A noted authority on diseases of the throat and lungs who estab- lished a camp for consumptives in the pine woods of Maine, declares that the above formula will heal the lungs and cure any cough that {s curable. It will break up a cold in twenty-four hours. The ingredients can be se- cured from any good prescription druggist at small cost. Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) is put up only in half-ounce vials for dispen- sing; each vial is securely sealed in a ‘round wooden case with engraved wrapper, showing the name—Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) prepared only by Leach Chemical Co., Cincinnati, O. —plainly printed thereon. There are many rank imitations of Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure), which are put out under various names, such as Concen- trated Oil of Pine, Pine Baisam, etc. Never accept these as a substitute for the Pure Virgin Oil of Pine, as they will invariably produce nausea and never effect the desired result. Virgin O11 of Pine (Pure) 1s also said to be a perfect neutralizing agent for urle acid. Novellst’s Early Earilings. A pocket series of Mr. Thomas Hardy's stories is to be published soon, and lately a complete edition of his books in 20 beautiful volumes was issued in America with suocess. When Mr. Hardy took the manuscript of “Under the Greenwood Tree” to the late Mr. Tinsley that enterprising pub- lsher offered the novelist the sum of $125 down for the book. Mr. Hardy accepted the sum, although he owned that he was “a bit disappointed,” add- ing that nevertheless he “meant to kp on.” Next came his book “A Pair of Blue Fyes,” for which Mr. Tinsley gave the novelist $500, saying: “There is no money in the book, but I can see that Hardy is going to get a grip some day.” UTTERLY WORN OUT. Vitality Sapped by Years of Suffering with Kidney Trouble. Capt. J. W. Hogun, ter of Indianola, now Tex., writes: i was afflicted for years with pains across the loins and m the hips and shoulders. I had _ headache also and neural- gia. My right eye, from pain, was of little use to me for years. eee Sewer, aie was afflicted for Pe h \ years with pains i ~ i across the loins > Oh 4 and m the hips Be VA \ My and shoulders. I lg EE bad headache 7) ’ _ also and neural- « ww Ye gia. My right eye, from pain, =~ was of little use to me for years. The constant flow of urine kept my system depleted, causing nervous chills and night sweats. After trying seven different climates and using all kinds of medicine I had the good for- tune to hear of Doan’s Kidney Pills. This remedy has cured me. I am as well to-day as I was twenty yeais ago, and my eyesight is perfect.” Sold by all dealers, 60 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ; Transformation In New Mexico. “Three seasons of rainfall have transformed New Mexico from an ex- panse of unproductive territory into a country of bountiful crops, running streams and happy, prosperous peo- ple,” is the report which E, W. Fox, register of the government land office at Clayton, N. M., brought to Washing» ton.—Washington Post. 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 W H. TWINE . . . Editor. E D. NICKENS, Advertising Manager. For Governor of the State of Oklahoma, Hon. John D. Benedict, of Muskogee, I. T. ```markdown ``` They say it cost the people of Oklahoma $12,000 to get God in the constitution.Now how much to get a county seat? We guess a cool million would not get the negro a "square deal." It's dollars to doughnuts that the delegates will cease their labors in a very short time after the pay stops. Watch. The Afro-Americans of Shreveport, La., appeal to the city authorities to prevent white men from consorting with negro women. The entire article, clipped from the Broad Ave of Chicago, will appear next week. It is a splendid expose of the white fellows who are eternally crying against social equality, and who are themselves the guilty scoundrels who are forcing it. All colored troops are exiled. Can they ever sing the old song of "Home, Sweet Home?" It they do then the first words will be "Though exiled from home," etc. We thank Hon. Chester I. Long, United States senator from Kansas, and Hon. Charles Dick, United States senator from Ohio, for Senate Document No. 107, which gives the report of the affray at Brownsville, Tex. The report shows conclusively that the black batallions of the republic are patriots and not traitors. All of the colored preachers in town but one took a strong position against gamblers, loafers, and vice in general in last Sunday morning's discourses. We feel that there is still hope when nearly all of our ministers are brave enough to stand up for right. The Cimeter has been vindicated in this stand. 15. IT A CASE OF On Monday night about 8 o'clock p. m. two light colored women of questionable character strolled leis- urely along Second street, going north from the Frisco depot. When they reached the Iowa building both stopped and looked around to see if any one was near. Seeing no one, they darted into the hallway and disappeared up the stairs. A reporter, being close around, also entered the hall and walked up the stairs. Nearly all of the office rooms were dark, showing apparently that the office men were out. There were only men in the offices that were lighted. The reporter wonders if the rooms those damsels entered were occupied by some of hte persons who are so much opposed to social equality in the day time and are raising such a howl for Jim Crow cars, etc. What a difference there is between "daylight and dark." The class of negro women who are guilty of this gross violation of the moral law are the very lowest, but it seems that their partners in crime come from the very highest class of Anglo-Saxons, and these are the first cusses to squeal about social equality. Oh, consistency, thou art a jewel. Now, to stop this kind of social equality, the white people should begin by making oxen out of one partner and the negro should remove the other to heaven or h——. The latter place is more suitable. IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL. A committee has presented a provision prohibiting the intermarriage of negroes and whites, and a proposition determining who are negroes. They ought also to prohibit whites from seducing negro girls and women, but the last proposition of determining who are negroes is a "Bird." There are so many white negroes and black white folks in this country that the convention will be entitled to a button if they decide who is which and which is what. If our constitution makers had given more time to drawing a constitution and less time to the negro question we might have a decent foundation for a state. As it now stands, they have put in nearly sixty days trying to decide how much white blood is necessary to make a white man, and have made a h of a mess for a constitution. JONES BETTER THAN HASKELL What a grand and glorious thing it would have been for the new state if the colored man who was the opponent of C. N. Haskell had been elected.—Eufaula Republican. Haskell Now Tells His Friends He Will Knock Fite Down in Race for Governor. The Voice of Labor, editer and run in the interest of Haskell and by one of Haskell's tools, announces that Haskell is a candidate for governor. No one on the inside is at all surprised. Haskell fooled the Democrats in getting Spaulding, Rutherford and others out of his way as a delegate to the constitutional convention, and promised the senatorship, the governorship and all the other places on the Democratic ticket if they would lay down and not stop the Hinton theater convention where he was to fool the Republicans. Now he throws down Fite, Spaulding and the whole gang. He also fooled the illly white Republicans by promising them the earth and more. He promised Bixby the senatorship, and gave Shoenfelt and Judge Thomas both the nomination for congress if they would be for him. They took the bait. Sopef, Archer, and Victor also got promises and promises. Haskell now laughs at the bunch and says, "You gillies, you ought to have known the game better. Go away, don't bother me." The lilly whites are sore and are calling him all kinds of bad names, and the Democrats are using cuss words. "When thieves fall out, honest men will get their dues." OUTSIDE EDITORS GIVE HASKELL'S RECORD. When Cal Brice, the Ohio Democrat, who bribed his way into the United States senate, was buying up legislators like cattle, C. N. Haskell was the man who conducted the affair, or had charge of the Brice campaign. Afterwards, Haskell was for two years Brice's manager on Wall street. When this political adventurer left Ohio there were debts against him aggregating about $40,000, and some of these claims are now in the hands of a South McAlester attorney. but not one cent of them can be collected. Such a man, with such a record, now has complete control of a convention to frame a constitution for one of the greatest states in the union. 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REAR) ON FIRST FLOOR 200 CASH WILL GET A DEED TO A LOT IN MUSKOGEE, I. T. Why There Are No Mail Order Catalogues in 1 One Home. FARMER WILLIAMS’ LESSON (n Time of Adversity He Got to Un- derstand Who Were His Real Friends—Prosperity in Stand- ing Together. (Copyright, 1008, by Alfred c. Clark.) “What y’ got chere, Sis?” inquired Farmer Williams, as he kicked off his felt boots and set them carefully be- hind the stove to dry. “That's what I thought it looked like, one of them there Chicago catylogs, though I hain’t . See| | eo ‘& I ype le 3 a 7 M x a ar ’ eh dom ) a | | ea, oy) 1) Lge? H | ae ai 8) ea, i ie: AF hy “Why Cert’nlee, Mr. Williams, Jest Let Us Know What You Want.” seen one clost fer quite a few years back. Me an’ your ma ust to buy mighty nigh everthing we used out of them catylogs when we first come to Kansas. Land sakes, I have to laugh now sometimes when I think of the way we would git ketched onct in awhile. They'’s some cheap things in them catylogs, an’ then agin they’s a lot 't ain't so cheap. Y’ never kip tell till they.come, an’ then it’s too late to send 'em back. But as I was a sayin’, we hain't bought nothin’ out of a catylog fer a right smart o’ years now, an’ the way it come about I had as well tell y’, cause I don't think y’ really remember much about it. “When we come to Kansas long in the first of the '80's we got along right well. We was able to pay cash fer what we got, and we got the money fer everything we sold. We was pay- in’ out on the place right along; crops was purty good an’ we was a feelin’ like the Lord was a smilin’ on our efforts, and the happy home we dreamed about when we first got mar- ried was in sight. But they come a change in Kansas long in the last half of the ‘80's, Times got hard and kep a_ gittin’ lighter. Four straight years it was so dry y’ had to soak the hogs afore they'd hold swill—though I will say they was some extry reason on ac- count of the swill bein’ so thin—wheat jest died in the ground fer want of rain, and the hot winds biled the ever- lastin’ sap out of the ,corn, They wasn't no pasture, no nothing. You can know we was a feelin’ purty blue about that time, but we was young and strong, and thought with the chickens an’ hogs we could git through anyway. “Then one day you got to complain- in’ and lookin’ so thin it worried us. Your ma is a middlin’ good doctor, take it all around, but nothing she eould think of done you any good. Well, you kep’ a gittin’ pindlier and pindlier, till you got so’st y’ wouldn't do nothin’ but set in a chair by the kitchen stove, wrapped in your ma’s old shawl, an’ you looked so pitiful that we made up our minds to have the doctor, even if it took th’ last chicken on the place. Well, he come, and after he'd looked at you awhile an’ felt your pulse, he shet his watch up with a snap, an’ says, quiet like: ‘Better fix up a warm place fer her in the front room, don’t have too much light nor any drafts to strike her,’ Then we knowed it wan't no small sickness we had to fight, an’ when we got you fixed up in bed I follered Doc. out on the porch an’ I says: ‘Well, Doc.,’ sez I, ‘what’s the matter with our little girl?” “I don’t want to skeer ye, Mr. Wil- liams,’ says he, ‘but I’m afraid she's in for a siege of typhoid fever.’ “Well, after he was gone I went out jn the kitchen an’ told your ma, but she says, brave as kin be: ‘Well, Ezra, if the Lord has seen fit to put that much more on our load we must bear up an’ fight it out doin’ our duty the best we kin, leavin’ the rest to him.’ An’ I thought so too. So we jest kep’ our hearts brave an’ done what seemed right t’ do. “The hardest thing was to figure out where t’ git the medicine, an’ fruit, an’ dainty things your sickness called for. We hadn't been tradin’ much with the stores in Huston, buyin’ mostly from the catylog folks y’ know, an’ so we didn’t have any credit there to speak of. But I went t’ Foster, th’ druggist, an’ I told him how things was. I didn’t have no money t’ pay fer th’ medicine an’ things, an’ the prospects fer the next year was as poor er poorer than th’ last. “Why cert’nlee, Mr. Williams,’ he sayg, ‘jest let us know what you want an’ we'll carry you along till times come better fer you. We're all in a tight pinch now, but if we hang t’geth- er things is all goin’ to come out right in the end. I have faith in th’ coun try, an’ in the people that live here. an’ nobody’s sick baby is a goin’ to suffer if I kin hely any.’ “Well, It was the same thing at Harlow's grocery, an’ th’ coal yard, everywhere in th’ town. ‘Cert’nlee, Mr. Williams, we'll see y’ through on this.” It made me feel mean an’ small some way, though I don’t know why. An’ often when they'd put in a few oranges or somethin’ like that, sayin’ in a "pologizin’ sort of way, ‘little somethin’ fer th’ sick baby, Williams,’ why somehow it made a hard lump come up in my throat, an’ I had a queer feelin’ in my eyes, kinder achy iike. y’ know. cll , ie i || le eal See AY WW V | iV" i | oN “Well, to be short about it, fer eight weeks you kep’ a gittin’ weaker an’ weaker, an’ we kep’ a feelin’ more 'n’ more hopeless. It was a sad Christ- mas in our home that year. Your ma was jest wore out with watchin‘ an’ tryin’ to do her work between times, an’ I was so nigh sick with trouble an’ discouragement 't I ust to go around by the barn an’ jest cry like a baby. But I never let on to your ma though, ner she t' me. We tried t’ encourage each other though we knowed in our hearts 't all our cheerful words was lies, an’ each one knowed the other knowed it too, “Well, jest th’ night before New Years Doc, called us outside your room, Oh, how my heart sunk then! ‘I don’t want to hold out any false hopes to you people,’ he says, ‘but I think with proper care from now on, your little girl is goin’ t’ git well.’ Elsie, it seemed jest like a ton of hay had been lifted off my chest right there. As fer your ma, why she jest busted down an’ cried as hard as she could. After Doc. was gone we went out to the kitchen an’ kneeled down right there an’ thanked God fer the most glorious New Year's gift he ever give t’ anybody in th’ world—the health of our baby girl. You know your pa ain’t no ranter er shouter; yer ma bein’ a Baptist has furnished most of th’ r'ligion fer our house, but jest then I seen how it was that they comes times in people’s lives when they've jest got to have somethin’ bigger an’ greater than anything hu- man t’ turn to with a great joy er a great sorrer. “Well, it was a long time yet before you was strong enough t’ play out doors, an’ it was a hard winter. I burned every post of the fence around the south eighty fer firewood afore It was over. But it seemed like we had so much t’ be thankful fer that we was strong t’ care fer any any of th’ smaller troubles that we come acrost. “It really hain’t so bad to look back at it now after th’ trouble is over, but them hard years in Kansas drove nearly all our neighbors t’ give up their land an’ move away, broke in hopes an’ pocketbook. Them of us as stayed is purty well fixed now, but we fit fer everything we got, an’ fi hard, too. An’, O, yes, about th’ caty: logs. Well after you was well an’ things begun t’ take a turn fer th’ better, one night ma brought out that Chicago book an’ laid it on the kitch. en ‘table an’ says: ‘Ezry, what do you want t’ do with this?’ An’ I sez: ‘Les burn it.’ An’ your ma sez: ‘Jest what 1 was thinkin’, too.’ An’ so we did burn it, an’ what's more, we ain't never had one in th’ house since, an we never send away fer anything we can git at any of the stores in Huston, ‘cause we want to deal with them as has an int’rest in the country we live in, an’ in us people that live clost by. “Why, you needn't of put yours in th’ stove, too, Elsie, I didn’t mean— yes, I don’t know but what it’s jest as well y’ done it after all.” Punishment. It was very quiet in my little room after she had gone. I could hear the dishes rattling downstairs, as Norah set the table with a bang of the plates and a thump of the knives. We were going to have honey for sup- per, and little cakes with frosted tops baked in scalloped patty pans, I wondered whether I should have any supper, or must lie there in the dark, while they talked about me at the supper table. I did not think that I could enjoy frosted cake baked in scalloped patty-pans if my little girl were alone upstairs in the dark, When I grew up and married, for 1 might as well marry now, I would never treat anyone so. Never! Never!! Never!!! “Oh, please, God, let me hurry and grow up,” I whispered to the dark- ness. “And, oh, please, God, let me have frosted cake for my supper!"— Florence Tisley Cox, in McClure'’s, Snakes Not Venom-Proof. The Frencu scientist, Dr. Calmette, an authority on the treatment of snake bites with anti-venomous serum, has discovered, contrary to his first opinion, that venomous snakes and other reptiles are not proof against serpent venom, A much larger quan- tity of the poison is, however, re- quired to kill them than to kill other animals, Foreigners Buy Welsh Mines. A French syndicate is negotiating for the purchase of five coal mines in Wales, says the Glasgow Herald, the purchase price being about $1,250,000. Inquiries are not uncommon by Frenchmen and Germans for the pur- chase of a single Welsh coal mine, and already there is a large amount of foreign capital invested there, Uneasy lies the head that wears a frown, ah The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great im- portance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiff- ener makes balf the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. Convict’s Peculiar Claim. A life convict in the Andamans had served some long period when an or- der recently came for his release. All the time he had been in the band, and had evidently so far forgotten that he was a prisoner that on his release he put in a claim for a pension on ac- count of his long and faithful service as a government servant.—Madras Mail. “Nails.” “Nails are a mighty good thing— particularly finger nails—but I don’t believe they were intended solely for scratching, though I used mine large- ly for that purpose for several years, 1 was sorely afflicted and had it to do. One application of Hunt's Cure, how- ever, relieved my itch and less than one box cured me entirely.” J. M. Warp, Index, Texas, Want Overshoes Made to Order. “One peculiar feature of the shoe trade this season is the demand for overshoes made to order,” said the manager of a shoe store. “Many women are wearing shoes with rather narrow, pointed toes and the broad rubbers now on the market are cer- tainly not a very good fit. What our customers want is an overshoe that doesn't look like a gunboat, hence the frequent orders for overshoes with graceful lines.”—N. Y. Sun. SCALY ERUPTION ON BODY. , Doctors and Remedies Fruitless—Suf- fered 10 Years— Completely Cured by Cuticura, “When I was about nine years old small sores appeared on each of my lower limbs. I scratched them with a brass pin and shortly afterwards both of those limbs became so sore that I could scarcely walk. When I had been suffering for about a month the sores began to heal, but small scaly eruptions appeared where the sores had been. From that time on- ward I was troubled by such severe itching that, until I became accus- tomed to it, I would scratch the sores until the blood began to flow. This would stop the itching for a few days, but scaly places would appear again and the itching would accom- pany them. After 1 suffered about ten years I made a renewed effort to effect a cure. The eruptions by this time had appeared on every part of my body except my face and hands. The best doctors in my native coun- ty advised me to use arsenic in small doses and a salve. I then used to bathe the sores in a mixture which gave almost intolerable pain. In ad- dition I used other remedies, such as iodine, sulphur, zinc salve, ——'s Salve, —— Ointment, and in fact I was continually giving some remedy a fair trial, never using less than one or two boxes or bottles, All this was fruitless, Finally my hair began to fall out and I was rapidly becoming bald. I used ——'s —-, but it did no good. 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