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The Muskogee Cimeter. Muskogee, I. T., Friday, February, 15, 1907. Abraham Lincoln. To the people of the Great West, the ideal man in politics and public life is the hero president of the Union during the trying times of our Civil War. Lincoln is the typical American. He worshipped at the shrine of liberty. His book was conscience. His creed was justice. His text was truth. His speech was honor. His prayer was for the public good. His music was the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and from his benediction the sweet incense of charity perfumes the century and the world. God was his ministering angel, and he a willing subject. In all the years of civilization his name will be a beacon to all lovers of liberty and government by the people. He believed in law, and license to do wrong was chief among his hates. He believed in liberty, and gave a life in proof of his belief. He believed in justice and strict constructionists were ever making accusation because he leaned too much to mercy's side. He believed in the rule of the common people, and dedicated his life to the success of heroes of honest toil. He believed in the patriots of the revolution and modeled his life upon the great and good of that eventful era. If precedent stood in the way of right, he pushed it from his thought, and signed a new bill of rights giving liberty to black as well as white. His heart was kind to his fellow man. Forgiveness was the motto of his daily life. Charity was the prayer which led the business duties of the day, and love as wide as earth gave tone to all his deeds. He played no game hurtful to moral life. He signed no law not sanctioned by honest thought. He made no speech which after years did not applaud and praise. He did no act which brought the blush of shame to face of friend or foe. He did what none had yet accomplished—fought a civil war of frightful magnitude and forced the vanquished by sheer love and charity to gather at his bier and tomb and there shed tears over the silent heart they had, helped to break. Like the great Moses of Israel, from the top of Fame's lofty mount he was permitted by the Almighty to view the promised land and Era of peace, but not permitted to enjoy the fruits of his great labor and wisdom. He left us to finish the journey alone, amid cheers for the return of peace, amid universal sorrow for the departure of his great Poverty to him was nature's gift. But in nobleness of soul he was born a millionaire. In his wooden cradle, rocked by love, he was poor indeed. In mightiness of soul he was the richest man to our country born. He had no hours of play. But duty gave the needed recreation to his heart. A playful jest gave mellow light to the darkened hours of his soul. And love of native land gave color to the desert places in his life. Cheated by death of his early love, the sorrows of his kind, tempered the action of his soul, and led his heart to love the afflicted of his race. Perfidy to him was an unknown tongue. Loyalty to man, to word, to flag, was part of his religion. Treachery held no corner of his heart. He was ever true. It took six thousand years to produce the man. God, of course, could have made a better, kindlier soul, but he never did. His life is the marvel of this marvelous century. Born in a cabin as lowly as the Savior of man; he saved a nation. Reared in obscurity, the light of his noble deeds shines in every corner of the world. Surrounded by bitter poverty, he passed on life's highway every faceted man of the century. Passing his youth among the ignorant and lowly, he achieved a distinction, the just pride of the Anglo Saxon race. Coming to manhood with few of the graces of education, he led easily the most gifted of his countrymen. As a river boatman, he touched elbows with the meekest of the Republic. As a merchant he earned the title of "Forest Abe." As a lawyer he ranked with the leaders of the Bar, noted for its dignity and learning. As a politician he leaves to posterity a rich legacy of consistency and fair dealing. As a legislator in Illinois he laid the foundation of an endless fame. As a member of Congress, honor and character gave prophesy of future loyalty and integrity. As a private citizen he was the political leader of his State. As president of the Republic his name is forever linked with that of the immortal Washington. To him, the law of the constitution of the Federal Union was spurreme; And the recognition of the saving power of Almighty God, made him the grand figure of the war and of American life. His first inaugural address is now a part of the world's choice literature and stands side by side with the Declaration of Independence. His speech at Gettysburg will live as lond as the oration of Demos- thenes on the crown. His second inaugural address should find place in the text books of our schools and colleges and read with Washington's farewell address to the American people. His emancipation proclamation, giving liberty to millions of slaves, will live as one of the choicest monuments of our country's greatness. His humanity will ever keep his name in the list of the world's heroes. Thomas Jefferson first wrote the declaration of liberty. Abraham Lincoln was the first to enforce it. Patrick Henry preached liberty. Abraham Lincoln practiced it. Samuel Adams was the tribune or part of the people. Abraham Lincoln was the tribune of all the people. Washington fought to establish the Declaration of Independence. Abraham Lincoln gave his life to sustain it. Paul Revere, one hundred and thirty-two years ago, rode through Middlesex County, Massachusetts, awakening the sleeping soldiers of the colonists to duty. Three-quarters of a century later Abraham Lincoln awakened from its lazy slumber the idle conscience of the Great Republic. Israel Putnam left his plow in the field to stand by the cause of right. Abraham Lincoln left his heart on the field of duty to save that for which Putnam fought. The Heroes of Lexington, your sires and mine, one hundred and thirty-two years ago, put life and heart and hope into the cause of liberty. Abraham Lincoln, of your state and mine, saved it from destruction. Lexington, Liberty and Lincoln is the golden chain forever uniting the destiny of our Republic with the eternity of the stars. He lived and died for his country. His words and his deeds are immortal. His speech is the literature of liberty in every clime of the world. His thought is the embodiment of the grandest of the Greek, the strongest of the Roman, the best of the Anglo-saxon race. His song is the refrain of the Grand Anthem heard at Bethlehem, "Peace on earth, Good will to men." His life's hope is fulfilled on the glorious day of Appomattox. His to'l is the culmination of three thousand years of strife to produce a country without a King and without a slave. His life is the heritage, not only of America but of all the world, and all the years to come. His speech at Gettysburg is the high water mark of American eloquence. Nothing said by any American from the time of the landing of the Pilgrim fathers through all the years of heroic contest and wonderful development, for a period of nearly two hundred and fifty years equals No 20 this oration on that battle field of the Civil War, and nothing said by any American, from that time to this honored day, surpasses it. The Gettysburg Address. "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "Now we are engaged in a great Civil War testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have conceived it far above our power to or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." His emancipation proclamation is a new charter of liberty. Marking a new epoch in history, and without question takes its place among the great deeds of human story. Study it. I. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of 100 days from the day first above mentioned, * * * * and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are, and hence (Coutinued on last page.) Women's troubles very often occur regularly at a certain time every month. Because this may have been so all your life, is no reason why it should continue. 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After being graduated at Cambridge in 1868, he entered the "civil service." He became secretary, governor and commander-in-chief of Ceylon, Singapore, Straits Settlemen, British Guinea, and other far away dependencies. In 1904 he was knighted for faithful service and sent to Jamaica. Here are some of the things he has done: Disappointed Kingston citizen when he was married two years ago by leaving band stands and crowded streets and ri only six persons to witness Went to a county fair a the committee begged in banquet. At an official function to the king. At annual charity ball to elite who came to see him Came in conflict with U to permit laborers to leave tain demands made by him Refused to permit the head was paid to the islam licenses. After considerab ernor then insisted that the ers for any damage or inju refused. LEADS CA and crowded streets and riding around the outskirts to the church. Allowed only six persons to witness the wedding. Went to a county fair and ate luncheon under a tree from a basket, while the committee begged in vain for him to attend the official reception and banquet. At an official function insisted on paying his bill after joining in a toast to the king. At annual charity ball two months after his arrival on island, disappointed elite who came to see him by sending an orderly to represent him. Came in conflict with United States officials last October when he refused to permit laborers to leave Jamaica to work on the Panama canal unless certain demands made by him were conceded. Refused to permit the recruiting of laborers unless five shillings per head was paid to the island government for laborers and $2,500 for agents' licenses. After considerable discussion the demand was granted. The governor then insisted that the United States guarantee to compensate the laborers for any damage or injury they might sustain. This demand was positively refused. LEADS CAUSE OF TEACHERS 1 Margaret Haley, school-teacher, who waged a five-year fight in the courts almost single-handed with 23 powerful corporations of Chicago and has wrung from them $600,000 yearly in taxes, has become the most influential politician in the second city of America. Five years ago the wages of Chicago school-teachers were reduced. The city had not money with which to pay them. Margaret Haley resolved that salaries should be raised. The city treasury was empty because certain great corporations were dodging taxes. These corporations had their own officers on the school board. They had their tools in the assessors' office. They had "influence" in city hall and courts. Margaret Haley had nothing but indomitable courage and the right. She fought the school- teachers themselves until the battle was won when the Labor. Backed by this p Dunne. He fired an entire consisting of Jane Addams And now she has won her s the city's income $600,000 Seven years ago Marg near the stock yards. For years previous to that she Joliet, where she was born politician. MAY DIC teachers themselves until she organized them into a labor union. Her next battle was won when the teachers' union became part of the Federation of Labor. Backed by this powerful voting force Margaret Haley won Mayor Dunne. He fired an entire school board for her and appointed a new one, consisting of Jane Addams and other reformers and friends of the "uplift." And now she has won her suits to place property on the tax list that will swell the city's income $600,000 annually. Seven years ago Margaret Haley was a grade teacher in a public school near the stock yards. For 16 annual terms she had taught there. For three years previous to that she had charge of a country school just outside of Joliet, where she was born. Her father was a contractor, a Democrat and a politician. MAY DIG PANAMA CANAL William J. Oliver, the railroad contractor who has been given the contract to dig the Panama canal as the result of his being the lowest bidder for the job, is a Hoosier by birth. He is a native of Mishawaka and spent the early years of his life there and at South Bend. He is a nephew of the Olivers, of the Oliver Chilled Plow company, of South Bend. Twenty years ago he removed to the south, making his headquarters at Langley, S. C. He started in as a small contractor, and his close application to business and aggressive policies soon brought him success, and he began work on a broader scale and soon became known as a railroad contractor. Four years ago he removed to Knoxville, Tenn., where he owns one of the largest general machine shops in the country. He secured several big contracts from the Southern 000,000. He has not confi specialty of concrete work crete buildings now on ha Lookout mountain tunnel roading in the south. Mr. Oliver was the fir canal work be let by priv approval, particularly from latter met Oliver by chan Mr. Oliver recently said: have had an ambition to be a look or a sea level co contracts from the Southern railway, and now has contracts aggregating $25,000,000. He has not confined himself to one class of work but has made a specialty of concrete work and has several contracts for construction of concrete buildings now on hand, including one in Louisville. He also has the Lookout mountain tunnel work now going on, one of the biggest feats in railroading in the south. Mr. Oliver was the first man of prominence to suggest that the Panama canal work be let by private contract, the suggestion at once meeting with approval, particularly from President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft. The latter met Oliver by chance on a train and become much interested in him. 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GO ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT MUSK- KOGEE, I. T., AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MAT TER 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 ``` COUNTY OFFICES Created by the Constitutional Convention. The following offices have been created by the convention: County judge. District court clerk. Couty auditor. Sheriff. Treasurer. Assessor. Coroner. County surveyor. Register of deeds. Superintendent of public instruction. Three county commissioners. The duties of the county auditor will be the same as county clerk. The office of register of deeds will be the same as county recorder. The salary of the sheriff will be about $3,000 per year. The superintendent of schools will receive about $2,00.—Cherokee Republican. The spring election is near at hand. The Republicans have no better timber for mayor than Ed Alley. He is honest, capable, true, and knows how to run a city government. "Leaf by leaf the roses fall. Drop by drop the spring runs dry, One by one beyond recall. Summer's beauties fade and die. So it is with the (in)famous con- con. One by one the delegates go home and get sick and fail to return. There are now about sixty or seventy patriots there trying to finish the unfinished business, all of which could have been done in 39 days. Dennis Flynn is reported to have said that the con-con, fellows should not be judged too harshly, as they were not familiar with God, hence they refused to put God Almighty in the constitution, but made it plain God, and as a great number of them came from the B. I. T., he thinks that if deputy United States marshal had been suggested they would have understood and there would have been no trouble. What man can the Republicans offer for mayor? We know not whom the Democrats will offer. The Lily Whites are trying to get an agreement to have a compromise ticket and, of course, this would suit the Douglas crowd, we presume, but if our party would get in trim for victory they must put out a ticket that can win in this spring election. This can be done if our leaders are wise and can get togeth- ```markdown ``` er, otherwise there is nothing but defeat to look for in a Republican city. Report says that Disney is a candidate for district judge. Well, if this is the best the Republicans do we are sorry for our party, because in a Republican district a Democratic nomination will be equivalent to an election. See. The candidates for county offices will have to "tote fair" in the city campaign or there will be "nothing doing" for them in August. You can thrace the many petit larcenies and burglaries to the loafers around the gambling hells running wide open in the town. When a negro is arrested charged with these crimes the whole race is blamed. This could be prevented by closing up these dens of infamy. It's up to the peace officers to do their duty. Some fellow is enjoining the concon. fellows from publishing the county map made. This is a step in the right direction, and by the time all of the different parties get in their injunction suits what remains may be a very decent constitution and can be ratified. The fellows are afraid of the Jim Crow car matter and side-step every time it comes up. Of course, we are standing with a 44-inch injunction gun ready for the casses if they go crazy and attempt to Jim Crow us. Since the white Republicans must hodl the offices, the negro contingent are determined that only decent white men shall hold the offices, and if the Republicans can't nominate a decent man and the Democrats do—well, we are Republicans, but the decent man shall win. Dana H. Kelsey, the United States Indian agent, is one of the squares men in the government service in this country, and he has the best wishes of the people, regardless of race, color, creed or political affiliations. The spring campaign is nearly on. It's time the fellows were getting in the game who desire to hold the offices. Announce now. In order to keep from paying rent on the Masonic Hall, Gordon Sharp et al. squeal "We are no paupers." Well, we can tell the gentlemen just what they are. While we have not accused them of being paupers, still we would just as soon a pauper would owe us as a millionaire who won't pay and plays dead beat The old, treacherous gang of political freebooters and dead-beats will have to take a new route to use a building without paying rent. None o f the owners are candidates for office and hence no free doings go. This paper has never changed its policy from the first issue down to circumstances. We have fought the battles of our people at every stage of the game and propose to keep it up. The Teiler says (among other things) what about a Sunday school superintendent who belongs to a whist club? Well, we don't know; have not investigated; but we will. We suppose the Teller means J. W. Sharp. Well, the Cimeter has a little story for next week and we generally call names. Just watch and see. We care not if he be pauper or millionaire. It has always been a riddle to us why the Democrats wanted to pass a law preventing the marriage of persons of different races. Its a well known fact that a negro man could not marry a white lady unless the lady was willing, and that a colored lady could not marry a white man unless the man was willing. What in the hotel bill is the matter with these Democrats? Have they no confidence in themselves? And are they afraid to trust themselves? We are opposed to this mixing races, but we are not afraid to trust ourselves. Next week we shall continue the article Reminiscent and shall give our annual write-up of things touching the colored schools and the teachers. We intend to be fair, but we intend to call a spade a spade. We have no enemies to punish or friends to reward, but we believe the interest of our children is paramount to that of any teacher or teachers. The burglaries, robberies and petty thievery being committed around town by negroes comes from that class of local and transient cusses who visit these gambling hells that this paper has been asking the peace officers to stop. The most notorious den that ever disgraced a community is still running wide open on South Second street, and is the hang-out for these thugs. If the white Republicans of Oklahoma had the nerve to stand against Jim Crow cars as do the white Republicans of Missouri, the Democrats would not desire to make it an issue, but unfortunately most of our white Republicans can be frightened into fits by any measly Democrat who yells social equality whenever the negro is mentioned. The Phoenix has changed again; that is, it is now changed to be a Republican paper, but as Douglass is editor, we cannot forget his famous resolutions against the negro. The most poison Democrat at large could say or do no more against us than Douglass, and our people need not expect anything good from Aunt Phoeny while under the editorship of Doug. You can't stop the gamblers on South Second street as long as they can brag that "they have got things fixed," and that the officials don't give a d for the so-called moral element of the negroes. It the W. C. T. U. only knew that young white boys can also visit these dens of infamy that are run wide open on one of the main business streets of the town htey might enter a protest and then we are certain that no officer would allow these crap shooters to make brags that they have things "fixed." In the war of the rebellion the battle cry of the colored soldiers was "Remember Fort Pillow," and in the future political battles in this new state our political battle cry will be "Remember the Douglas platform." The Daily Muskogee Republican is the successor of the Daily Searchlight, and its old Gordon. Still he has simply changed clothes, but is the same fellow, just as uncertain as ever. Everybody remembers Gordon and the Searchlight, who stood for Jim Crow cars, etc., and the fellow in the new clothes, the Daily Republican, stands in the same shoes and for the same things. HOW HASKELL "GOT HIS." During the early days of the constitutional convention Delegate C. N. Haskell, of Muskogee, the Democratic floor leader, remarked on the convention floor that the newspapers could not be depended upon to inform the people correctly of the convention proceedings. Colonel Ed G. Gray, editor of the Pawnee Times-Denocrat, visited the convention, then returned home and printed this in the next issuer of his paper: How big is C. N. Haskell, pa, That people call him great; Is he commissioner from on high To build the Sooner state? Do men bow down before his look Like serfs before a king? Is he a prince, or lordly duke, Or just a common thing? He says the press of this great land Is anything but true; I never heard that a lie or graft Would fly from him; did you? Was it while a member of the press He learned that truth was rare? Or is this Dem., from Seventy-six Just full of heated air? Does he seek to fn judgment sit Upon poor, frail mankind? Or is the judgment he most fears The one he left behind? They say he struts down the aisle Of the con-con in Guthrie town, And takes his seat amid the smiles Of those who fear his frown. Is C. N. H. so awful smart He scorns the press to win, Or has Muskogee simply found A political scooterkin Colonel Gray asks the readers to refer to Webster's Unabridged to ascertain the true meaning of the last word. Notice. 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. W. P. FIELDS 1 English Block. Muskogee, I. T. Discases of Women and Children a Specialty. 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—W. H. Twine. ```markdown ``` Will the controversy aroused by the president's discharge in dishonor of the three colored troops connected with the Brownsville disturbance have any political influence over the masses of the negro voters of the country? This is a question of some importance for the Republican party. It is assumed that nearly all the negroes who vote at all cast their ballots for Republican candidates. In many Northern and Middle Western states the negroes hold the balance of power in ordinary elections. In 1900 this was the number of male negroes of voting age in these Republican states: Connecticut 4,567 Delaware 8,374 Illinois 29,762 Ladiana 18,186 New Jersey 21,44 New York 31,425 Ohio 31,235 Pennsylvania 31,688 West Virginia 14,786 The swing of this mass of negro voters over to the Democratic side in these states, which have all been carried by the Republicans in recent times, might turn the scale in all of them. Even in the tidal wave year of 1904, when the Republicans had by far the most popular candidate they ever nominated for president, and when the Democrats had one of the weakest men who ever headed their ticket, the transfer of all these negro votes to the Democratic side would have given Parker the electoral vote of Delaware.—Leslie's Weekly. TRIBUTE TO BROWNSVILLE Poem by Sixth Cavalry Trooper and Circulated in the Army. (Brownsville, Tex., Cor. New York Sun. The shooting up of this place has had one effect which is pleasing to the people of the town. It has placed Brownsville upon the map. Brownsville has been well known to the army ever since the Mexican war. In the earlier days, and, in fact, until about three years ago, Fort Brown was one of the most desolate army posts in the United States. It was situated 160 miles from the nearest railroad which led to the outside world, and the surrounding country was a wilderness of cacti and sand. Conditions have been transformed by the building of a railroad to Brownsville from the north and the establishment of irrigation enterprises. It is now rapidly becoming a garden spot. Many years ago, though, a private belonging to the United States Sixth cavalry, while stationed at Fort Brown, wrote a poem entitled "Hell in Texas." This poem was printed on slips on the old army press at Fort Brown and attained a wide circulation among the soldiers on the Texas frontier. A copy of it was recently resurrected here. It reads as follows: Hell in Texas. The devil in hell, we're told was chained, And a thousand years he there remained; He never complained, nor did he groan, So in order to get it off of his hands, The Lord promised the devil to water the lands; For he had some water—or rather some dregs. A regular cathartic, and smelled like bad eggs. Hence the deal was closed and theeed was given. And the Lord went back to his home in heaven. And the devil then said: "I have all that is needed To make a good hell," and hence he succeeded. W. T. Escoe, Pres. W. H. Sims, Secretary. J. B. McCulloch, Vice Pres. J. E. Johnson, Treasurer-Cashier. PEOPLE'S BANK AND TRUST COMPANY We conduct a safe and conservative banking business in all lines of banking, make bond, act administrator of estate, buy and sell lands, rent and collect rentals, and maintain an "Easy Saving" department. We expect your co-operation and patronage. Muskogee, : : : : Ind. Ter. E. A. Estes For your Drugs, Shool B00ks and STATIONERY. 106 Main Street. Official Statement of the Condition of the Commercial Nation'l Bank, Muskogee. Indian Territory, RESOURCES Loans and Discounts $712,003 95 Overdrafts, cotton, 25,989 61 Bonds and Premiums, 206,080 49 Furniture and Fixtures 7,985 11 Cash and Exchange 189,093 48 LIABILITIES Capital $200,000 00 Surplus and Profit 21,572 39 Circulation 150,000 00 Deposits 759,530 25 $1,141,152 64 $1,141,152 64 The above statement correct D N FINK Cashier. Creek Grocery eo. Is the to get anything in the Groceries line. Number 304 South 2nd St. Phone 912. 128 TOWN LOTS WILL B ESOLD As an addition to Renriesville, I. T. Lots rang ing from $35. down to $10. Call on or write F. P. Brinson, Rentiesville, I. T. 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. MUSKOGEE TITLE & TRUST CO. GENERAL BANKING ABSTRACTS of TITLE, INSURANCE, SURETY BONDS and REAL ESTATE Farm Loans a Specialty Second and Broadway. MUSKOUSE, IND. TEB. Muskogee Cimeter. W. M. TWINE, Edison A Comparison of Wealth. The London Express is unhappy because of its discovery that the annual increase in the total wealth of the United States is something like ten times the increase in the wealth of Great Britain. From a British point of view this may be lamentable, but from no point of view can it be regarded as surprising. We have about twice the population of that country, and there is a noticeable difference in the matter of area. Our natural resources in every department of productive industry far exceed those of Great Britain. Her land values, while not absolutely fixed, may be held to have reached the limit of normal expansion, while in our case a variety of influences such as railway development, trolley line extension, irrigation, and an ever increasing demand for the products of the soil, bring idle land under profitable cultivation, and so give it value, and give a greater value to lands already occupied. The American workingman, with his higher wages, declares the New York Sun, can afford better housing than the English workingman, and another important factor in dwelling-house values appears in our vast population of the well-to-do. Japan's Fair Exhibit. When the war with Russia started, in 1904, Japan looked to the United States for sympathy, and received it. Japan had nearly the most extensive and interesting exhibit which was made by any foreign nation at the St. Louis world's fair of 1904, which was a very effective way of showing her regard for the United States. Her display at the fair was immeasurably larger and finer than that of Russia. By bringing the war with Russia to an end in 1905, President Roosevelt rendered a service of inestimable value to Japan, which the emperor, his peace commissioners at Portsmouth and the press of Tokio and the other Japanese centers have freely acknowledged. Japan has even more interest in maintaining friendly relations with us than we have with her, declares Charles M. Harvey in Leslie's Weekly. The trade between the two countries is growing and it is profitable to each. Her recent war imposed a debt burden which bears with crushing weight on the Japanese people. Japan's natural resources are small. She has an especial need for many years of unbroken peace. Happily, so far as we are concerned, that peace is likely to be maintained. Graphophones were used to help the stenographers during a recent government inquiry in Chicago when the investigators had received orders to forward to Washington a transcript of the testimony at the earliest possible moment. The stenographers took their notes in the ordinary way, and read them to a graphophone. As fast as a cylinder was full, the machine was turned over to a typewriter, who set it to repeating what the stenographer had spoken, and transcribed it on paper. Within 30 minutes after the last witness had ceased speaking the record of the hearing was about completed, ready to be sent to the national capital. A Nebraska pamphleteer states that coal gas in minute quantities in the house causes consumption. How pleased a man feels if he can "throw a new scare" into people. 13 WORKS IN THE GARDEN. Eighty-Seven Years Old, But Has a Sound Back. Robert Scollan, 87 years old, of 55 Garden St., Seneca Falls, N. 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"I'll have to take milk from somebody else!" one irate housewife snapped. "All right, madam," he said, softly. Something in his voice made her pause. "What made you late?" she demanded, still angry. A tear wavered on the milkman's eye and trickled slowly down his cheek. "When—when I left home," he began. He paused and gulped at something in his throat. "When I left," he said, "my baby—was dying. I knew someone—would be—angry—with me if I didn't—come so I—" He could say nothing more. The woman said, gently: "I'm sorry." Next day the milkman failed to appear. The second day he was around very early. "We buried her yesterday," was his explanation. No one chided him. They understood. His baby was dead. Immense Catch of Dogfish. What is declared to be a record landing of dogfish for any fishing port in England took place at Plymouth recently, when 110 tons of this fish was brought in. GUIDES CHILDREN. Experience and a Mother's Love Make Advice Valuable. 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Rose, a retired grocer, of 1226 Lexington Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind., "I met with a serious accident which injured the bone of my head over the right eye. I recovered from the accident to all appearances, but not many years after I began to have intense pains in the injured bone, which came on every year and would last from a few days to several weeks. "I consulted the doctors who told me that I was suffering from neuralgia. The sight of my right eye was affected, so that at times I could scarcely see out of it, while both eyes watered constantly. During these attacks I was often dizzy from the terrible pains. The pains came on every morning and passed away in the afternoon. I never suffered from the pain at night. "I tried without success to get relief until a friend told me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. When I had taken a few boxes I felt the pain growing less intense and in a much shorter time than I had hoped for I was entirely cured. I have recommended the pills to several persons, who have used them with good results. "My wife uses Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for nervous headaches and finds them the best medicine she has ever used as they give relief where all others fail." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold 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. An instructive booklet, entitled "Nervous Disorders," will be sent free on request to anyone interested. DEFIANCE STARCH—18 ounces to the package—other starches only 12 ounces—same price and "DEFIANCE" IS SUPERIOR QUALITY. THE DAIRY Direction for Their Construction Are Easily Made. F. G. Semple, a Canadian farmer, furnishes Farm and Fireside with his plan of making cow stanchion. He says he has used both chains and the old stationary stanchion, but has come to consider his plan superior to either of them. The figure at the right in M Plan of Making Cow Stanchion. the illustration shows the stanchion closed. The one on the left represents the stanchion as it appears when open. Working Diagram of Cow Stanchion. The two sides are made of hardwood four feet long, one and a quarter inches thick and two and a half inches wide. The end pieces are of hardwood, and are one foot long and three and a quarter inches square. They are mortised to receive the side pieces, as shown in the sketch at bottom of illustration. The sides are fixed to the ends with bolts, which being loose enough so it is movable. When the side falls, as shown on the figure on the right-hand side, the clevis raises and when the side comes back into position again the clevis falls as shown in the left-hand figure and holds it securely. Mr. Semple says this stanchion, including material, labor, etc., should cost from 60 to 75 cents each. DAIRY CLEANLINESS ESSENTIAL. Material and Conditions Cannot Be Kent Too Free from Germs. In handling milk for retail trade I found the aerator the best thing to cool the milk, and it would keep sweet the longest, and would have no bitter taste or flavor. I never use any soap in washing milk cans, but use salsoda. Soap leaves a bad smell in the cans, writes a Kansas correspondent of Farm and Home. After the cans are washed and scalded I let them stand right end up until cool, then turn bottom up to drain. If a warm can or pail is turned bottom up, the steam will stay in and dry in and the can will not be so sweet as if treated the other way. My cows are kept clean, the tie-up floor is swept three or four times a day, no cobwebs allowed in it; cribs kept clean, and barn floor swept at least once a day. Milk is a ready carrier of disease germs and so fertile a breeder of bacteria that one cannot be too careful in its care. I think the next generation will see far greater restrictions placed upon the care and handling of our cows, milk and cream than we have at the present time, and it will be better for both producer and consumer. CANADA'S GOOD TIMES. CANADA'S GOOD TIMES. The Immigration During 1906 Was 216,000. While it is well to heed every word of caution from the leaders in commerce and finance and to avoid all speculative ventures that lack a solid business foundation, it is clearly evident that there is no conspicuous weak spot in Canada's present era of prosperity. The Toronto Globe says: "The Dominion has in a commercial sense plenty of money, and our leading financial institutions are in a position to lend freely in the United States. The chief productive enterprises of Canada are not buoyed up by an era of dangerous speculation, but are following substantial business methods and finding safe and continuous markets for their goods. We are not bolstering up any industries by extensive export bonuses that must impoverish the people as a whole, and ultimately lead to collapse through the failure of the artificial aid. There is no extreme protection in Canada such as would create great fortunes for a few at the expense of the general public and lead to disruption and catastrophe. The prosperity of Canada has no artificial foundation being based on a healthy and substantial expansion of trade and industry, with a proportionate extension of productive settlement to new areas. It is true that we are borrowing extensively for railway construction, but every line will bring new territory within the limits of profitable occupation, and will create prosperous settlements to bear the burdens and repay the outlay. We are not exhausting mineral resources, for it is quite reasonable to assume that, although mineral wealth is never permanent, ours will during the measurable future develop a far greater productive capacity than at present. Our timber wealth can be made continuous by a judicious policy. And agriculture, the real foundation of our prosperity, is expanding with every new expenditure on railway construction. We are not in the flush of a railway mania that could bring its punishment through the useless duplication of lines. The gigantic railway enterprises that now stimulate every line of business in Canada will create a new Dominion, and thus render easy the heavy burdens of debt now freely assumed. Canada's era of prosperity has been unprecedented, but there is no sign of weakness and no cause for lack of confidence. While our growth is normal and healthy, we need have no alarm at its rapidity." This article might have gone on to relate the great growth that is taking place in Central Canada, where thousands of Americans have made their homes during the past few years. The past calendar year has given to Canada by importation an addition of 216,000 to its population. Of this the United States contributed 63,781. The agents of the Canadian government, whose advertisement appears elsewhere, say that this number will be largely increased during 1907. Used Him as Eraser. The late Dr. Henry Martyn Field some years ago related at a Williams alumni dinner a rather amusing incident of his freshman days at college. Being only 12 years old when he entered he had not reached the point where the natural friction between the big boy and the small boy ceases and he was at particular feud with one of his fellows, a stalwart country youth fresh from the farm. One day young Field went early to the classroom and put upon the big blockboard a very exasperating caricature of his enemy, with his name beneath. When the aggrieved party saw what had been done he said not a word, but catching up his youthful tormentor, he used him as an eraser and after rubbing out the offensive picture quietly took his seat. THREE EPOCHS IN A WOMAN'S LIFE D During its long record of more than thirty years its long list of actual cures, entitles Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to the respect and confidence of every fair minded person. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Makes Sick Womea Well. Of Interest to Women. Every woman naturally should be healthy and strong, but a great many women, unfortunately, are not, owing to the unnatural condition of the lives we lead. 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Out of her vast volume of experience in treating female ills Mrs. Pinkham probably has the very knowledge that will help your case. Her advice is free and helpful. more than thirty years its long list of Bunkham's Vegetable Compound to any fair minded person. Compound Makes Sick Women Well. Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln. (Continued from first page.) "forward shall be, free; and that the "Executive Government of the United States, including the military "and naval authorities thereof, will "recognize and maintain the freedom "of said persons. "And I hereby enjoin upon the "people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence unless in "necessary self defense; and I recommend to them, in all cases when "allowed, they labor faithfully for "reasonable wages, " And I further declare and make "known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into "the armed service of the United "States to garrison forts, positions, "stations, and other places, and to "man vessels of all sorts in said service. " And upon this act, sincerely believe to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon "military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and "the gracious favor of Alm'ghty "God. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The grandest inaugural address of all the past was delivered by Lincoln as he took the oath for the second time, near the close of the Civil War, at the front of the nation's capitol, to administer and preserve the law. The London Times, always hostile to that grand good man, pronounced it the most sublime paper of the century. Measure its perfect at splendid charity. Second Inaugural Address. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a resultless fundamental, and astounding. "Both read the same Bible, and "pray to the same God; and each in- vokes his aid against the other. "It may seem strange that any "men should dare to ask a just "God's assistance in wringing their "bread from the sweat of other men's "faces; but let us judge not, that "we be not judged. "The prayers of both could not be "answered—that of neither has been "answered fully. "The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offense! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense "come h." "If we shall suppose that Amer- tian slavery is one of those offenses, "which in the providence of God, "must needs come, but which, hav- ing continued through his appoin- ted time, he now wills to remove, "and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern "therein any departure from those "divine attributes which the believ- ers in a living God always ascribe "to him? Fendly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. "until all the wealth piled by the "bondman's two hundred and fifty "years of unrequited toll shall be "sunk, and until every drop of blood "drawn with the lash shall be paid "by another drawn with the sword, "as was said three thousand years "ago, so still it must be said, "The "judgments of the Lord are true "and righteous altogether. "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." The most perfect letter of sympathy and condolence to a broken hearted mother, was the coinage of his master mind and written to Mrs. Bixby of Boston, who had given five noble sons to preserve the integrity of the Union. Let it find a place in the sacred cells of your memory. I have been shown in the files of "the War Department, a statement "of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother "of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. ! "feel how weak and fruitless must "be any words of mine, which should "attempt to beguile you from the "grief of a loss so overwhelming. "But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that "may be found in the thanks of the "Republic, they died to save. I pray "that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and "lost, and the solemn pride that must "be yours to have laid so costly a "sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. "Yours very sincerely and respectfully. ABRAHAM LINCOLN." But his goodness and greatness were not always recognized. He was called a tyrant, and yet a more tender hearted man never held official place. He was charged with being incapable of performing the great duties of his high office, and yet he was the most sagacious of his advisers. He was called a clown and a buffoon, and yet he was the most serious and foresighted man of his day. He was called a cruel monster, and yet his sympathy and charity were as broad as the feelings of the human heart. It was claimed that he lacked the qualities of a statesman, and yet his fame has outstripped every man of his party. He was maligned, abused, criticised, vilified, ridiculed more than any man of his century. Yet he complained not. But Longfellow, in his immortal lines, has the story told. "Truth, crushed to earth, will rise again." "The eternal years of God are hers." Ten thousand years may come and go, but the fame and face of Abraham Lincoln will stand out in history then as clearly defined, and noble as it does to-day. 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