Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Cimeter. Vol 8 LIE PASSED BY DELEGATES Haskell and Baker, Followed by Paper Weights and Ink Stands. Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 16.—The lie was passed between Delegates Baker and Haskell and a personal encounter between the two members enlivened the proceedings of the constitutional convention this morning. In a debate over the adoption of the railroad committee's report Baker accused Mr. Haskell of being a railroad representative. "You are a contemptible liar, shouted Haskell. "You are a liar, too," retorted Baker. At this point Haskell picked up a heavy paper weight and hurled it at Baker, who dodged and replied with an ink stand. Instantly there was an uproar on the floor and in the galleries and it was necessary for the sergeant at arms and assistants to interfere and restore order.—Times-Democrat. It looks like Baker was trying to fix Haskell (with ink) so he would have to ride in a Jim Crow car. If the ink was good he could not pass the third degree. See! SENT THE ATTORNEY TO JAIL. Judge Resents Resort to Physical Violence in His Court. Tulsa, I. T., Feb. 18.—H. B. Talley, a lawyer and prominent Republican politician, was sentenced today by Judge Lawrence to twenty days in jail and fined $100 for contempt of court. Talley threw a chair at L. M. Poe, an opposing attorney. Talley charged that there was a conspiracy between two banks and other prominent citizens in trying to defraud the Creek nation. L. M. Poe called him a liar. At this Talley threw the chir. Officers will take Talley to the Muskogee jail this afternoon. DIG! Haskell, the rough, gives an exhibition on the floor of the constitutional convention of some of the qualities the Democrats and Lily white Republicans of Muskogee admire by calling Delegate Baker of Wewoka a "dirty, contemptible, st'nking liar." Mr. Lilly White, ain't you proud of your professed statesman? Aint you glad you went in to the Democratic convention at the Hinton theatre and nominated Haskell and Hopkins? Don't you feel proud of the fact that you cut the throat of the Republican party for such a specimen of humanity? Every measly, dough faced Republican who voted for such a ticket ought to cut out Haskell's elegant remarks and paste them in his hat and go home and tell his wife how proud he is to be an associate of such characters. You said you wanted some one to represent Muskogee and the balance of the state are now asking if this man is a specimen of our people. Just think of your Hinton house man throwing an ink bottle at the head of a brother delegate with force enough to kill him being a good representative of our people. Aint you ashamed you sold out your party? If you aint, you ought to be. If some poor colored man had been guilty of such a thing you would have joined a mob--yes, a Tillman mob—and lynched him, and yet you say you are proud of such a man. Well, you can be if you want to, but God pity your idea of what a decent, reputable man should be. RESOLUTION FOR THE BEALL CASE RECORD3 Washington, Feb. 19. The senate adopted a resolution today asking for the papers in the case of William O. Beall, ex-secretary of the Dawes Commission. It was offered by Senator Patterson of Colorado. William D. Foulke, who heard the Beall case last fall, submitted his report to the interior department in December. Beall recently resigned his government service to engage in the newspaper business in Muskogee. The Phoenix must have been trying to shield its master when it said Foulk's report was turned down—kicked out—and him sent home with his back-side kicked. You can't always rely on the Phoenix, you know. St. Louis Negro's Advice to His Race. St. Louis Negro's Advice to His Race. St. Louis, Mo., January 5: Knowing the trials and tribulations of my ple, the negroes, which have caused them to labor under so many disadvantages continuously ever since their advent into this country, I feel it my duty to say something by way of advice which I think will be very helpful to them in the future, and at the same time be of some value to the public. In order to show to the world who the negroes are, it is best to apply the rules of the painter, and that is to paint them first; white, then red, and so on, until all of the different colors have been applied, then some of them would have a most beautiful color. I am sure, while others would be black, and some would be less so. What I mean by that is simply this: Let the world know what the good, true and law-abiding negroes are doing, and what the worthless and lawless ones are doing, also. In order to do this successfully, it will be necessary to give some statistics which will show what the better class has done in the last forty years, which demonstrates the fact that some of the negroes of today are as far ahead and above the negroes of fifty years ago as the east is from the west or silk above cotton. The following will show how a few of them stand in the commercial world, as well as the business and financial world: There are 9,204,531 negroes in the United States. These negroes own 75,000 farms in the south. There are 21,000 negro carpenters, 20,000 barbers, 18,000 doctors, 16,000 preachers, 15,000 brick masons, 12,000 dressmakers, 10,000 engineers and firemen, 5,000 shoemakers, 4,000 musicians, 2,000 actors and showmen, 1,000 lawyers. They own 31 banks, 21 in the south and 10 in the north. They own stock in railroads, and have one society that is capitalized at $1,500,000. There are ten towns, north and south, that are owned and governed by negroes. They have $10,000,000 worth of church and school property, are paying taxes on $200,000,000 worth of property and are buying homes rapidly. They own 250 drug stores and about 1,800 grocery and other stores, and various other business, and there is a move on foot by a certain society to start a large mercantile business in St. Louis in the spring. Hence it can be clearly seen from the statistics given that some of the negroes are keeping pace with the times, making men and women of themselves, the equal of any other race. Such as these only ask justice and fair play from the whites—they do not ask social equality, but social and political justice, which is guaranteed by the United States constitution. Now there is a worthless class of negroes (of course none the less than some of the whites) who live in the dives and slums of the cities, north and south, east and west, and are a menace to the negro race. They have learned to make their living bystailing, robbing, gambling, etc. These things I am sure hurt the race. This class of negroes have not got anything. They had rather be in jail (some of them) than to be out. They care not a thrip for their race, nor for honesty or decency. In many instances the whites charge the good negro up for what the bad one does, and sometimes innocent blood is shed when mob law reigns. There is another class of negroes that work hard day after day and year after year and are very honest, etc., but they don't seem to get along well. The fact is this, they spend their money just as fast as they get it for clothes, in theaters, winerooms and various other ways. They know not the value of a dollar. They live in rented houses and if they were to get sick they would not be able to pay a month's rent in advance. But taking this class as a whole they are far better than the last class I spoke of. I have shown the negro or negroes just as they are and have painted them in their right color, leaving the public the privilege to judge for themselves whether I have made any misstatements or not—taking into consideration the fact the negroes are human and are subject to temptations, sin and degradation just the same as any other race, when he or No 21 they violate the law give them a fair trial before a court of justice, and if they are found guilty punish them just the same as you would any other criminal. But whether they are criminal. But whenever they are taken up and lynched just because they are black it shows very clearly that those who take part have no regard for law, decency or anything else. Now, I want to say a few things to my people all over this country, which, if followed daily, will serve to lessen our troubles, possibly, in the future. Obey the law, live upright, be honest, stand up for good character, let the whitere people and their affairs alone. If any of you have been in the habit of stealing, lying, gambling, robbing, murdering, or committing any crime, for God's sake, stop it, and live as honorable citizens, and go to work and make men and women of yourselves. Don't harbor criminals around you; be they relatives or anybody else. Always give a lending hand to the officers of the law in running down criminals and evildoers, and at any and all times show yourselves worthy of the confidence and respect of the white people. Always protect a lady, be she white or colored. Live on peaceable terms with everybody. Keep out of trouble. Don't go around with chips on your shoulders looking for someone to knock them off, so you can have a fight. Remember the saying, "Wise men for peace and fools for war." Get out of the dives and dens and go to work, because there is plenty of work for everybody. If there were more people at work there would be less criminals. I would advise the preachers to preach these things to their congregations from time to time; if so, the chances are that there would be less crime committed, and better feeling created among the races all over the country. A. W. WASHINGTON. WARNING ORDER. In the United States Court for the Western District of the Indian Territory, at Muskogee. Equity No. 7294. Mamie Downard, Plaintiff, vs. Frank Downard, Defendant. The defendant, Frank Downard, is hereby warned to appear in this court within thirty days and answer the complaint of the plaintiff in the above entitled action, Mamie, Downard. Witness, the Honorable William R. Lawrence, judge of said court and the seal thereof, at Muskogee, Indian Territory, this 14th day of February, A. D. 1907. R. P. HARRISON, Clerk. By D. F. Dickey, Deputy. Patton & Lilly, Attorneys for Plain-Brown & Stewart, Attorneys for Non-resident Defendant. One of the Important Duties of Physicians and the Well-Informed of the World is to learn as to the relative standing and reliability of the leading manufacturers of medicinal agents, as the most eminent physicians are the most careful as to the uniform quality and perfect purity of remedies prescribed by them, and it is well known to physicians and the Well-Informed generally that the California Fig Syrup Co., by reason of its correct methods and perfect equipment and the ethical character of its product has attained to the high standing in scientific and commercial circles which is accorded to successful and reliable houses only, and, therefore, that the name of the Company has become a guarantee of the excellence of its remedy. appeal to the Well-Informed in every walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable standing, therefore we wish to call the attention of all who would enjoy good health, with its blessings, to the fact that it involves the question of right living with all the term implies. With proper knowledge of what is best each hour of recreation, of enjoyment, of contemplation and of effort may be made to contribute to that end and the use of medicines dispensed with generally to great advantage, but as in many instances a simple, wholesome remedy may be invaluable if taken at the proper time, the California Fig Syrup Co. feels that it is alike important to present truthfully the subject and to supply the one perfect laxative remedy which has won the appoval of physicians and the world-wide acceptance of the Well-Informed because of the excellence of the combination, known to all, and the original method of manufacture, which is known to the California Fig Syrup Co. only. This valuable remedy has been long and favorably known under the name of—Syrup of Figs—and has attained to world-wide acceptance as the most excellent of family laxatives, and as its pure laxative principles, obtained from Senna, are well known to physicians and the Well-Informed of the world to be the best of natural laxatives, we have adopted the more elaborate name of—Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna—as more fully descriptive of the remedy, but doubtless it will always be called for by the shorter name of Syrup of Figs—and to get its beneficial effects always note, when purchasing, the full name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—plainly printed on the front of every package, whether you simply call for—Syrup of Figs—or by the full name—Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna—as—Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna—is the one laxative remedy manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. and the same heretofore known by the name—Syrup of Figs—which has given satisfaction to millions. The genuine is for sale by all leading druggists throughout the United States in original packages of one size only, the regular price of which is fifty cents per bottle. Every bottle is sold under the general guarantee of the Company, filed with the Secretary of Agriculture, at Washington, D. C., that the remedy is not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the Food and Drugs Act, June 30th, 1906. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. Attorney General Decides Title to Valuable Territory Oil Lands Variable Territory Oil Lands. Muskogee, I. T.-The allotment contest case of Kerr vs. Schnell, a Cherokee case over the possession of valuable oil lands near Bartlesville, has been decided by the attorney general of the United States in favor of the contestee. The decision is an important one, involving the question as to whether actual possession or assertion of right to public domain gives a better claim. The case has been before the department for four years, the department reversing itself in its decision and the attention of the president of the United States having once been called to the contest. The commission first rendered a decision in favor of the contestee. An appeal was taken to the commissioner of Indian affairs, who reversed the ruling of the commission. An appeal was then taken to the department, and on June 9,1906, it affirmed the decision of the commissioner of Indian affairs. A motion to review the decision of June 9 was then asked for, and the case was referred to GFronk Campbell, first assistant attorney general. Attorney General Campbell rendered a decision rescinding the action of the department in upholding the commissioner of Indian affairs. CLING TO TRIBE IDENTITY Euche Indians Speak Only the Tribal Language. Muskogee, I. T.—The Euche Indians, 500 in number, who live in a remote part of the Creek nation, cling to their own language and marry principally among their own tribe, after being conquered and absorbed by the Creek Indians over 200 years ago. In some cases a Euche may marry a Creek, and the children will speak to the father in the Euche language and to the mother in Creek. Noah Gregory, a well known Euche Indian, in recalling some of these circumstances says he can remember when his father used to punish him for talking Creek at home. The Creeks conquered the Euches in Alabama so many years ago that the story is only tradition, the latter being given the full rights and privileges of the Creek citizens. Most of the tribe are full bloods, owing to the fact that they marry principally among themselves. The district in which they live is in the mountainous region of the Creek nation, which lies between Weelocha and a point southwest of Bristow. FOUND JAR, MONEY WAS GONE Treasure Hunter Forestalls Owner of Buried Coin. Muskogee, I. T.—A large stone jar, containing several thousand dollars, buried during the civil war, was discovered near Taft several days ago, but the man who discovered the money cannot be found. It being known that a man named Brown had buried a large sum of money in that vicinity during the war, R. D. Hamilton, a relative, came to Taft to search for the treasure. Hamilton commenced to dig for rthe hidden money, and as soon as his mission to that part of the country was learned many in the neighborhood took up the search. After spending several days in continual search for the money Hamilton found a part of a jar, but the money which it had contained was gone. The jar had been securely locked, the key being held by Hamilton. On the Wrong Allotment. Muskogee, I. T.—Kittle Harjo, a Creek Indian woman, after living twenty-seven years on what she supposed to be an allotment to which she was entitled, has discovered that the land which she has improved is not hers, and that her share of land in the Indian nation is barren prairie. Territory Town Is no More. Okmulgee, 1. T.—A survey is being made for a new townsite for Okfuskee, two miles east of the present townsite. The town is being moved to its new location. Photographs Sent by Wire. Prof. Korn, of the Munich university, has greatly improved his apparatus for transmitting photographs over telegraph wires. He has succeeded in sending photographs and sketches six or seven inches square in this manner from Munich to Nuremberg, a distance of 100 miles, in from 10 to 15 minutes. HOME-MADE CATARRH CURE. Sufferers Should Make This Up and Try It Anyway. Any one can mix right at home the best remedy of its kind known. The name "Cyclone" is given to the following prescription, it is supposed, because of its promptness in driving from the blood and system every vestige of catarrhal poison, relieving this foul and dread disease, no matter where located. To prepare the mixture: Get from any good pharmacy one half-ounce Fluid Extract Dandelion, one ounce Compound Kargon and three ounces Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla. Shake well and use in teaspoonful doses after each meal and at bedtime. This is a harmless, inexpensive mixture, which has a peculiar action upon the eliminative tissues of the Kidneys, assisting them to filter and strain from the blood and system all catarrhal poisons, which, if not eradicated, are absorbed by the mucous membrane, and an open sore or catarrh is the result. Prepare some and try it, as it is the prescription of an eminent catarrh specialist of national reputation. A young man always sneers at the love affairs of a widower. One of the In the W is to learn as to the ers of medicinal agents, the uniform quality and known to physicians and Co., by reason of its cor- its product has attained th is accorded to successful Company has become a g appeal to the Well-Infor cess and creditable stand enjoy good health, with living with all the term of recreation, of enjoyme to that end and the use o as in many instances a proper time, the Califor truthfully the subject and the appoval of physicians of the excellence of the co ture, which is known to th This valuable rem Syrup of Figs—and has family laxatives, and as known to physicians and laxatives, we have adopt Senna—as more fully o called for by the shorter n note, when purchasing, plainly printed on the fro Figs—or by the full name Elixir of Senna—is the o Co. and the same hereto satisfaction to millions. the United States in orig is fifty cents per bottle. Every bottle is sol Secretary of Agriculture, misbranded within the m CALIFO Louisville, Ky. How's This? 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Important Duties of P Well-Informed of the W relative standing and reliability of the its, as the most eminent physicians are and perfect purity of remedies prescribed and the Well-Informed generally that th correct methods and perfect equipment and to the high standing in scientific and and reliable houses only, and, therefore guarantee of the excellence of its remedy TRUTH AND QUALITY formed in every walk of life and are essential, therefore we wish to call the attention of its blessings, to the fact that it involves an implies. With proper knowledge of the moment, of contemplation and of effort mankind of medicines dispensed with generally is so simple, wholesome remedy may be in California Fig Syrup Co. feels that it is allied and to supply the one perfect laxative and the world-wide acceptance of the combination, known to all, and the origin of the California Fig Syrup Co. only. Remedy has been long and favorably known as attained to world-wide acceptance and its pure laxative principles, obtained and the Well-Informed of the world to noted the more elaborate name of—Syrup descriptive of the remedy, but double name of Syrup of Figs—and to get its full name of the Company—California front of every package, whether you simme—Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna—one laxative remedy manufactured by the fore known by the name—Syrup of Figs. The genuine is for sale by all leading original packages of one size only, the sold under the general guarantee of the law, at Washington, D. C., that the remedy meaning of the Food and Drugs Act, San Francisco, Cal. U S. A. London, England. FARMS THAT GROW "NO. I HARD" WHEAT FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE New Wheat Growing Territory HAS BEEN MADE ACCESSIBLE TO MARKETS BY THE RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION that has been pushed forward so vigorously by the three great railway companies. 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It is essential to permanent succumption of all who would solve the question of right of what is best each hour may be made to contribute to great advantage, but invaluable if taken at the alike important to present the remedy which has won the Well-Informed because original method of manufacturere known under the name of—as the most excellent of aid from Senna, are well to be the best of natural cup of Figs and Elixir of rubtless it will always be as beneficial effects always California Fig Syrup Co.—simply call for—Syrup of—as—Syrup of Figs and the California Fig Syrup of Figs—which has given druggists throughout the regular price of which The Company, filed with the remedy is not adulterated or June 30th, 1906. Syrup Co. New York, N. Y. Pacify your liver, if it is on strike, for you can't get any of your organs to do its work. 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The revelations regarding fraudulent paint materials which have been made by the Agricultural Experiment Station of Fargo, N. D., and published by Prof. E. F. Ladd, state commissioner, have occasioned almost as much of a sensation as the exposure of adulteration in food products did when the latter first began to appear. It has been shown that kegs marked "Pure White Lead" often contain other substances such as chalk, barytes, silica, etc., and that oil supposed to be linseed often contains petroleum adulterants, to say nothing of water in large proportions. Sometimes, so-called "White Leads" contain not an iota of genuine White Lead. The farmer is a large user of paint. No one is more interested than he is, that the label should enable him to get what he supposes he is paying for. There should be a law in every state requiring that all paint packages be labeled exactly according to their contents. That would enable every paintbuyer to buy intelligently. Tolme and Toide. 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Garfield Tea insures a normal action of the liver, overcomes constipation, and keeps the blood pure. Drink before retiring. What we are stretches past what we do, beyond what we possess.—Drummond. That is LAKATIVE BROMO QUININE. Similarly named remedies sometimes deceive. The first and original Gold Tablet is a WHITE PACKAGE with black and red lettering, and bears the signature of E. W. GROVE. 250. Jacques Lebaudy, the self-styled emperor of Sahara, is said to be quietly making a tour of the United States. He was in Boston some time ago. Defiance Starch—Never sticks to the iron—no blotches—no blisters, makes ironing easy and does not injure the goods. Transvaal's Gold Yield. In the Transvaal the average yield of gold is half an ounce to the ton. The expenses are, roughly, $6.25 a ton of ore. In a Pinch, Use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. A powder. It cures painful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by all Druggists, 26c. Accept no substitute. Trial package, FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. It isn't always the people who jolly you most that are your best friends. LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND Is acknowledged to be the most successful remedy in the country for those painful ailments peculiar to women. For more than 30 years it has been curing Female Complaints, such as Inflammation, and Ulceration, Falling and Displacements, and consequent Spinal Weakness, Backache, and is peculiarly adapted to the Change of Life. Records show that it has cured more cases of Female Ills than any MUSCULAR AILMENTS The Old-Monk-Cure will straighten out a contracted muscle in a jiffy. ST. JACOBS OIL Don't play possum with pain, but 'tends strictly to business. Price 25c and 50c SEED THAT'S PURE All our seed is tested and warranted to be reliable. Write for new Catalogue FREE. J. J. N. GREGORY & SON, MARBLENEAR, MASS. DEFIANCE STARCH—In ounces in the package—other starches only 12 ounces—same price and "DEFIANCE" IS SUPERIOR QUALITY. If afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water W. N. U., MUSKOGEE, NO. 8, 1907. LYNDA E. FINKHAM LYDIA E. PINKHAM THE CIMETER, PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK IN THE INTEREST OF THE NEWOR BY CIMETER PUB. OD 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 ``` Let us have peace. The Republican party , locally, must let bygones be bygones if they expect to win in the city campaign. This is a Republican paper 365 days in the year, but we have more white Democrats who read the paper and pay for it than white Republicans. Strange is it not? Brother Gordon says that Haskell will lead the fight against "Jim Crow." Poor, old man, he is still living in the past and thinks Hasswell, the non-partisan Democrat, whatnot, is looking after our interest, but, then, Gordon always was "an amoosing cuss." The line up of the Democracy for U. L. Jackson for mayor seems to be unanimous, and as he is a strong man, the Republicans must get in the game with an equally strong man. We have plenty of them if they will only come out. When Judge Lawrence fined Lawyer Talley $100, etc., he gave notice to all lawyers and every one else that the rules of the court must be respected and all must take notice. When the Con. builders at Guthrie learned that Uncle Joe was against another appropriation for them to squander they resurrected the Jim Crow bill and swore by the eternal Gods that it should pass in spite of h---- and high water. The pretended colored Republican meeting at Wagoner proved to be a flasco. It is said that some one of the Muskogee Republican outfit were at Wagoner last night to make a speech, but the blamed thing had adjourned. Who was it? The gamblers are in great glee. They say they have run the Cimeter out of the Jones building. They say they will now have things to themselves and that no grand jury can find out anything. We don't know what they mean, but time will tell, and still we can be found at 211 South Second street. A FRIEND. J. Ralph Burton, ez-Senator from Kansas, is confined inthe United States jail at Ironton, Mo. Burton is one of the best friends the negro ever had. He is not one millionth as guilty as Bailey of Texas, who was recently re-elected senator from that state. Burton is not dead by a good deal, and the country will hear from him in the future. The world admires that noble, little woman, his wife, who has stood loyal to him in his dark days. The negroes of Kansas and of the union will not forget his kindness to our people when friend and foe stood willing to do him honor. Burton is the one United States and skin him head and heels, and Burton had the patriotism, manhood and love of a square deal to stand up for the American who wore a black skin when other fellows who claim the same thing were dodging and hiding behind the brush. Burton belongs in the Abraham Lincoln, U. S. Grant, William McKinley and J. B. Foraker class of American patriots. If the time ever comes that our people can show their gratitude to him it will be done gladly and willingly. If you want to realize cash for your city property or farm land take it to Fred W. Davis, in the German building. You will find him square in all transactions. Is it the best thing for the Republicans of Logan county for the negroes of Guthrie to insist on going on the ticket in the coming election. It is a good thing to hold an office and draw a little salary, but the salary goes to only one man. Is there nothing of more vital importance to the race than the mere fact of holding a little minor office and getting appointed to a humble little are greater things to ask for that will go further toward benefitting the whole race now living and for our children yet unborn than the mere fact of holding offices. Politics, like any other business proposition, must be studied carefully. The problem must be solved by the wiser and most conservative heads, and when the conclusion is reached, then all of us fall in line to do the thing that will bring the greatest good to the greatest number of people. Now let us put our heads together and see if it is wise to ask for a place on the ticket at this time, and if we can see a better thing to do let us do it, doubting nothing. Let the selfish ambition of anyone be sacrificed for the good of the many.—Guthrie (Okla.) Safe Guard. Brother, the same thing could be said of a great many other localities in the new state and be absolutely true. When the Con. is made the press must get together again and map out a line of action for our people.—Ed. RATIFY IT. "Defeat the constitution" is the cry that is going up from all over the two territories, and it is growing in volume with each day as the proceedings of the convention are given to the public. There is little doubt that at the present time the sentiment is overwhelmingly in opposition and it is time the real friends of statehood made some effort to stem the tide. The constitution should not be defeated, regardless of its provisions, for the reason that such a result would be playing into the hands of those who desire the defeat of statehood, and they are numerous and powerful. The thing to do is to ratify the constitution, elect a legislature consisting of men who will have the interest of the state at heart and then with statehood and local self government secure from the clutches of those who would botray the political liberties of a million and a half of people, let the legislature call another constitutional convention to write such a constitution as will be satisfactory and one that can be conscientiously supported at the polls without the affirmative vote being forced by a threatened loss of citizenship. The people of the two territories can not afford to vote down the document now being patched up at Guthrie. To do so would be to lend themselves to carrying out the designs of their enemies and result in a territorial form of government for an indefinite term of years and a continuation of the present intolerable be broken and once they are off the conditions. Vote for the ratification of the constitution, objectionable though it may be, for only by its adoption can the political shackles be broke and once they are off the citizens of the great state can rise in their might and majesty and unfettered and free from threats, write such a constitution as will be a model for all the commonwealths of the union.—Phoenix, Feb. 19, 1907. Old Doug. shows he still stands where he has always stood, against the negro. He says the con. should not be defeated, regardless of its provisions. The negroes think differently, and by the eternal Gods 50,000 votes will show where we stand. The Muskogee Republican throws some bouquets at Haskell. Why? Is there another non-partisan deal on? Is the wily Democrat about to fool the negroes again with his pretense of being against the "Jim Crow." He can't fool the white Republicans any more, as there is not one that would again go into a Hinton theatre deal. They all see it was a grevious error, "and grievously have (Ceasar) the white Republicans answered it. GLORY TO TILLMAN. Tillman is the hero of the New South, the enfant terrible of the senate, a compound of gore, wind, papier mache and cotton batting He is the champion of race homicide, the idol of the Carolina wove hats, the windiest warrior of the cotton belt, the apostle of assault and battery, and the greatest of gasoline patriots. He travels with provaliance and ten-sheet posters, laden with violence and vituperation, a reservoir of adjectives, a fountain of fierce vulgarity, a distributor of dispensary jags, a negrophobe cannon cracker, exploding for the delight of Southern ferocity and Northern fatuity. South Carolina has had slavery, secession, devastation, reconstruction, and carpet bags and now as the capstone of her miseries, she has Tillman. Every time Ben bellows "Fee fo fum, I smell the blood of a negro man," the South trembles as in the throes of an earthquake, but it is only Clay Calhoun, and the Southern great turning in their tombs. Tillman is the advance agent of that great reform which has stood the South upon its head, kicked culture and education out of politics, installed the corner grocery and cotton field in office, put a premium on brass and a ban on brains, made law a laughing stock and lynching a cult, and transformed the blackguard into a warhorse and the black man into a night mare. Dixie is derided since decency is dead; charlvari; has dethroned chivalry;; Madison, Jefferson, Clay and Calhoun are has-beens; Tillman is the evangel of the sunny sanguinary South; and Vardaman, Davis and the Georgian Hoke are the light and leading of the land. Gloria in excelsis Tillman—Joseph Smith in Life. If it was not for our religious inclination we would say, d—— Till- ROASTS FOR HASKELL As usual Haskell gets his share of the editorial comment in Indian Territoiry weeklies. The Afton Climax says "It took 'railroad' Haskell two pages of his last week's New State Tribune to explain what a great man Haskell is. The only paper in the state which sings praises to Boss Haskell is his own." The Wagoner Record comments as follows regarding Haskell's endorsement by the Young Men's Democratic club of Muskogee: "Haskell made a solemn promise to the Republicans of the Seventy-fifth district that he would not be a partisan delegate if they would send him to the convention. Has he kept his promise? No, he has been as much a partisan in the convention as if he were sent there by Democrats. Perhaps his is the brand of honesty that the Young Men's Democratic club of Muskogee had reference to in their resolutions denouncing Haskell's critics a few days ago and declaring hi mto be an honest man."—Kansas City Journal. Haskell's promise to the city whites reminds us of the incident when the devil took Christ upon the mount and promised him the world, etc., when the devil did not own a foot of land. The negro gamblers on South Second street are in great glee. They are bragging that they run over Bud Ledbetter, the deputy United States marshal who surprised them a few nights ago, and that every man escaped. They say they have things fixed. We don't know what they mean, but we do know that who make this dive their headquarters ought to be run out of town. The future will show we are right in this contention. At this date we can't tell why it is the white gamblers are raided and someone always caught and no one caught in the black hells. A certain Democrat said a few days ago that we can fool the white Republicans in the city campaign as we did last fall. We don't believe it can be done, as they certainly can see now that the Republicans throughout the state condemn them or the blamed foolishness in electing Haskell. Some addlepated Republican says that De Graffenreid can be easily beaten for judge. This is a mistake. It will take the strongest and cleanest Republican in the district to defeat him. Now, who is he? Trot him out. BR. E. BROWN GETS $2,500 JOB. Mayor “John F. Fitzgerald of Boston Democrat, Appoints Colored Law- yer us Assistant Heath Commis- sloner—Best Salaritd Position Cofored Man Has Ever Been Ap- pointed to in Massachusetts. The appointment of Edward Ev- erett Brown, a well kaown colored lawyer,’ to the position of assistant health commissioner, with a salary of $2,500 a year, was yesterday ap proved by Mayor Fitzgerald. The mayor states that this is the first appointment of a colored man to a position of large vesposibilities ever made by a city administration in Boston. Mr. Brown was born in Dover, N. H., where he attended the Dover high school. He studied law with Hon. John H. White. After remov- ing to Boston he studied law in the office of Governor Gaston and at Bostn University Law school. He hos been practicing at the bar for 23 years. He is a member of the firm of Woif & Brown, formerly Walker, Wolff & Brown. Mr.-B.own has been a Democrat in locai and state politics for several years. Last fall he ran far ahead ot his ‘colleagues as a candidate for the legislature on the Democratic tleket in a Republican ward. He restdes at 16 Fountain street. He is & member of the Bachbens club. Boston Guardian, Brown is very light colored, but if he lived Gown here Haskell and the gaus would wapt to provide a Jim Crow for him, but this shows a Democeat in Boston is miles ahead of a Lily White Republican down here, —Ed, Pliny Soper IL In a St. Louis Hos- pital. Pliny L. Soper js in a hospital at S:, Louls, Mo,, according. to infor- mation divulged in this city by his purines, Aliorne; Muckleberry, who is here from Muskogee, The nation- #1 commit'eeman has beon there for te past several days, and the se- tionsnesé of his {iiness i: not known. Tulse, World, What's the use, Pliny, in going to ft. Louis or giving it out that you were off ‘cor Europe? There fs a Keeley cure much nearey home ove” oo OWabon. City. Haskell Out for Governor, The boom of C. Nondeseript Ink Rottlo Haskell for governor has been lounched and now all you good si- monpures fall in and help nominn!> the man who set oon down here with 19 townships for # county, 16 of which are no’ taxable. Great man that, Has ployed hts pert well, Why even today he sets fy ihe convention of scheming as fo the how of skinning Okmulzes conn- tv and robbing her of her birthright without so much as giving her 6 mess of pottage. Go on Haskell. Not even the Dem. ocrats here want you. You could not even stir up a corporal’s guard here for your support. Okmulgee dmo- erats are decent democrats, if you please, The Joe Folk kind,-Okmul- ve» Chieftain, A United States recruiting officer has opened an office at Oklahoma City, O. T., to examine young men who desire to enter the navy. Te office is in the old Postoffice build- ing, room 21, 11-18 North Robin- son street, Oklahoma City, 0. T. We hope that many of our young syiendid opportunity to enter the United States navy and make a re- cord for their race and their coun- try. The record made by “our boys” in the army is a glorious une, and our boys in the navy have never shirked, and the new recruits wil keep up the old record made by our soldier boys “In the bloodiest fight or war this country ever had.” Our boys, God bless them, will keep the record clean, They will place their lives upon our country's alter for our country's good. Our flag, the glorious old star spangled banner, on land and on sea will ever have the loyal, loving support of the black battallions of the republic. The day has never been and never will come when the colored soldiers and sailors will prove false or traitors to our ‘flag. We still believe “To live under ‘the wings of the American eagle ‘and under the shining folds o fthe ‘Star spangled banner is to live in peace.” W. A. CHASE FILES FORMAL CHARGES Nowata, I. T., Feb. 20.—W. A. Chase, of this place, has filed for- mal charges against Clark J. Tis. del, master in chancery for the Western district, with the depart- ment of justice. The charges in full are given be- low: “Nowata, Indian Territory. . “To the United States Department of Justice, Washington, D. C.: “I desire to file charges ayainst Clark J. Tisdel, the master in chan- cery of the Western district of the Indian Territory, who is the master and acts by and under the authority of the Honorable William R. Law- rence, judge of the Western disirict of the Indian Territory, “ZT desire to state tha: Clark J. ‘Tisdel has been guilty of acts unbe- ‘coming an officer of the United States court in this: That he recom- “mended the approval of the lease on the lands of Earnest Clayton to the Indiahoma Of] company without having advertised the same, as 1s required by the rules of the court in ‘the Western district of the Indian Territory, a corporation, organized junder the laws of the Indian Terri- tory, and he also appeared as attor- | ney of record for the Indiahoma O:| |company and filed and presented fo: prove the lease that he has rec: }ommended as master in chancery. | “And it further appears that he. |the said Clark J, Tisdel, is one o} |the incorporators and a stockholdet jin the Kansas-Oklahoma Oil anc | Gas company, of Muskogee, Indian | Territory, and that Gordon J, Mur. ray, a law clerk of Clark J. Tisdel {is also a stockholder and one of the | incorporators, which company was incorporated on December 10, 1906 jand the articles of incorporation fil jed with the clerk of the court of ap Poake on December 10, 1906, anc ‘that Clark J. Tisdel, Gordon J, Mur ry and Frank G. Martin are the in corporators thereof, as will appea by reference to the certified copy 0 the articles of incorporation attach ed hereto and made a part hereof “That on December 15, 1906, thi | said Clark J, Tisde) offered for leas jan oil and gas mining lease upo. |the lands of Luther Tucker, whic! jland is described as the west hal .| (1-2) of the southwest quarter (1-4 of section thirty-three (33), town Smee vegeiee BS 84970 EVEN, ESS twelve (12) east, and containing eighty (80) acres; that the same brought a bonus of five ‘thousind six, hundted ($0,600) ‘dollars, rmaAtk- ing seventy ($70) dollars pér acre and was sold by the master in chan- cery, Clark J. Tisdel, to the Kansas- Cklahoma Oil and Gas company, of which company Clark J. Tisdel was one of the incorporators;; that this evidence will be found as a matter of record in the office of the clerk of the United States court for the Western district for the Indian Ter- ritory, at Muskogee, in case No. 1792 in probate, entitled In the mat- ter of the guardianship of Luther Tucker, a minor, Joseph Jackson, Suardian; that said lease was re- ported and recommended by the master in chancery and approved by the Monorable William R. Lawrence judge of said Western district, “It further appears of record that on December 18, 1906, that Clark J Tisdel, as master in chancery, of fered for lease the lands of Ethe May Churchill, a minor; that sai¢ lands are described as the sonuth. west quarter (1-4) of section thirty two (32), township eighteen (18) ‘north, range twelve (12) east, and containing one hundred wnd sixty (160) acres. | That there were only four (4) bidders present at the said sale anc the land was sold to one of said bid ‘ders, And then afterwards, wit! ‘the knowledge of the master it chancery, was divided into four (4/ equal parts and each of said bidder taking one-fourth (1-4) of sax Jand:; and one-fourth (1-4) of th same being awarded of course to the Kansas-Ok!oboma Oil and Gas com “pany, which said company is a cor poration organized by the master 1 chancery and his law clerk; that thi; land brought a bonus, according t the report ‘of che commisison, of ont} fourteen ($14) dollars per acre when the other land sold by th | sanie master in chancery adjoinin; ‘this particular tract of land onl three days prior, brought seventy '($70) dollars per acre; that one fourth (1-4) of said land was sol , to Polecat Oil company, which cor Poration was not in existence an | Was not created and not incorporate: ‘until the 19th day of December | 1906; that a certified copy of th jreport of the master in chancery © j reporting and recommending the ap proval of said leases as above state ‘is hereto attached and made a par | hereot, and also a certified copy o the confirmatory order made and en |tered of record by the presidin. judge of the Western district of th ‘Indian Territory. | “In addition to that, Clark J Tisdel, together with his law clerk ;Gordon J. Murry, and his stenog |vapher, are the incorporators of th ‘Murry Oj] and Gas company and th Phoenix Oil and Gas company,whic ‘companies are incorporated for th purpose of procuring oil and g% mining leases and developing th same, and for dealing in ofl and g¢ A aia Vas ee Te Pe ae a ee ey Indian Territory, as petitioner is in- formed and verily believes, “4 .“W. A. CHASE.” “*) Negroes May Win. Washington, Feb, 21.—-Another' ef- fort is being made to transfer the freedmen to the Chickasaw-Choctaw rolls, at an expense of $20,000,000 to those two tribes. Webster Bal- linger presented the matter to con- gress recently and was turned down. Now it comes up in another form. J, Milton Turner, of St. Louis, 8, T. Wiggins, of Ardmore, I. T., and sev- eral other negroes from the south and east, have taken the question up direct with President Roosevelt. They presented the matter to the presi- dent yesterday and he ordered In- dian Commissioner Leupp to report immediately. Leupp is opposed to the proposition and so notified the delegation and the president, but has agreed to submit the matter to the attorney general and abide by his decision,—Ex. _ Hon. 8. T. Wiggins has been work- ing for years to secure justice for the people he represents and has ‘been ably assisted by Hon, J. Milton ‘Turner. We certainly wish them success in their efforts. “Jim Crow” is dead as hades. The |Con. Con. did not have the nerve to jkeep their pledge. One delegate by }name of McClain said that he made {the appeal to his people to “Jim |Crow” the negro as a campaign ar- |gument, that he would have sald | “hell was an ice house’ if it had | been necessary for his election. This | roves the Dem. won by making the |negro an issuo and-our lily whites ig into the trap. | Notice, iq | Notice, Let me build you a house on small installments, thereby, saving your vent 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 te the wey I treat my customers. Will loan money for 5, 7 and 10 years on farm lands and city prop- erty, in any amount where it Is well secured, Make short loans also, No. W. P. FIELDS, 1 English Block, Muskogee, I, T. Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. DR. R. H WATERFORD, Mstes Building, Rooms 3 and 4. Phone 461; residence phone 462, Muskogee, I. T. n. A. GIVENS: Watchmaker and Jewéler I will please you when others fail, Jeuve your X-ray at home, and call at 228 N, 2nd St. You will find me with an, up-to-date line of Jew- elry and Holiday goods. Repairing a Specialty. 2| AGENTS WANTED 1, We want energetic hustling s}agents for this paper and wil -| pay liberly for good work. If 1! you want to make money, write . ‘at once to--W. HH. Twine. OE Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGER, . . IND. TER Congo Reform. Prospects are encouraging for a reform of the outrageous abuses in the administration of affairs in the Congo Independent State. The natives in that vast equatorial region have been treated with an incredible inhumanity. They have been forced to labor for the companies that deal in rubber; cannibals have been employed as guards over the rubber gatherers; little children have been bound out to labor for long terms of years; the administration of justice has been so bad that the name of the place where the chief courts sit is regarded as a ward of ill omen. Men, women and children have been mutilated and beaten and otherwise maltreated. The Congo Independent State is controlled at present by the king of the Belgians. In 1889 the king made a will bequeathing to Belgium his rights in the country and in 1890 Belgium made an agreement by which it secured power to annex the territory after ten years. Reform, explains Youth's Companion, is likely to come through the assumption by the Belgian parliament of its powers under this agreement. The chamber of representatives voted last month to annex the territory, and the senate may have approved the plan before this paper is in the hands of its readers. When this is done, irresponsible personal government will cease. The king, who has been an autocrat in the Congo, will have no more power there than he has in Belgium. Responsibility for the government will rest with parliament, and the public sentiment of the world which has forced the parliament to take up the matter, will compel it to treat the 30,000,000 blacks as human beings. Can They Be Foretold? The Jamaica calamity has revived the discussion as to whether earthquakes can be foretold, and scientists do not seem to be able to reach any conclusive opinion on the subject. Some of them are certain that there are phenomena which indicate such disturbances but others have their doubts. There have been some curious prophecies, a London meteorologist having on Saturday predicted that there would soon be two earthquake shocks in America, and doubtless he will claim the Jamaica catastrophe and the tremor said to have been felt in Pennsylvania as a fulfillment. But it will be observed that he furnishes no formula in the case, and no one knows on what his calculation was based. It may have been, and in the minds of many who want proof and not mere assertion was, nothing but guesswork, much after the generalizations of "weather prophets" who fool the credulous by pretensions to knowledge which when analyzed prove to be the shallowest of charlatanry. At all events, says the Troy Times, the world at large is not yet satisfied that any reliable method of foretelling earthquakes has been found. Authoritative warnings of such events might be the means of saving many lives, even if damage to property could not be averted. Even if Gen. Kuropatkin has written a book on the lessons of the war, Japan doesn't expect to learn much from it. A man has actually been killed in a French duel. Nothing surprising, after all. Sometimes even a slapstick is fatal. JEWS GOING TO NEW STATE. Muskogee, I. T.—Preparations are being made for establishing a number of Jewish colonies in Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Samuel Waldron, of the Jewish immigration bureau at Galveston, has been in the city for the past few days conferring with local Jews. Waldron is making inquiries as to securing land for Russian Jews. The agent of the immigration bureau says that the men who will be brought to the new state are not of the apuper class, the majority of them being but skilled mechanics and professional men. There will be many farmers and a few laborers. CUTS SHORT SCHOOL YEAR. Scarcity of Available Funds in Indian Territory. Muskogee, I. T.—The fund available for the maintenance of government schools in Indian Territory is not sufficient at the present time to maintain schools in every neighborhood in the territory throughout the entire school year. It is stated by officials of the school department that to do this would require a fund of $1,000,000, and at the present time there is available from all sources, tribal and government, about $500,000. Those which were established September 1 for a term of six months will, according to the agreement, close March 1. Many will continue in session until May. Made a Matter of Record at Agency. Considerable local interest attaches to the clause in the Indian appropriation bill relative to filing for recording oil and gas leases. This clause provides that all such leases shall be made a matter of record with Agent Kelsey and reads thus: "The filing heretofore or hereafter of any lease in the office of the United States Indian agent, Union Agency, Muskogee, Indian Territory, shall be deemed to impart constructive notice." This filing will make the agency an office of record so far as leases are concerned. The rules of the department require that all leases shall be filed with the United States Indian agent within thirty days from th date of signing same. The filing of the leases has not prevented the Indian from entering into other leases in some cases. A single tract of land has been leased as many as six different times to as many different individuals or corporations. In other cases while the proposed lease was pending the allottee has leased again, creating much confusion and litigation. The filing of a lease in the agent's office now meeans that particular lase will stand against leases of subsequent date. This legislation will meet with the approval of the oil men of the territory and prevent fraud and corruption and bad practice on the part of the white man and the Indian as well. It will also, to a large, extent, eliminate costly litigation, for one who takes a lease on a tract of land heretofore leased does so at his peril and other leases filed will be subject to the one that has been recorded. NO LABELS ON STOCK FOOD. Secretary of Oklahoma Board of Agriculture to Prosecute Dealers. Oklahoma City, O. T.—Secretary McNabb, of the territorial board of agriculture, is in the city tonight and placed in the hands of county Attorney Hayes the names of twenty retail merchants and druggists in this city, and information that they were violating the territorial law requiring the labeling of poultry and stock foods they were selling. There are a number of cotton seed meal manufacturers in the territory that have failed to supply their customers with these labels. Secretary McNabb stated that this law was being violated in many cities in the territory and that prosecutions would begin immediately. Tramp—Thankee kindly, mum; I'd no hope of gettin' sich a fine supper today, mum. May heaven bless ye! Housekeeper—As you've had a good supper, I think you might chop some wood. "Yes, mum; but you know the old adage: 'After dinner rest awhile; after supper walk a mile.' I'll walk the mile first, mum."—N. Y. Weekly. "The Armless Man" Said, "It wasn't money he wanted, but somebody to scratch his back." There are many with strong arms and willing hands that have that same yearning. Hunt's Cure will make back scratching, or any other old scratching totally unnecessary. It knocks out any itching sensation that ever happened, and its does it right now. One application relieves. ONE WAY OUT OF DIFFICULTY. Match Twine with Twine, Was the Fend Mother's Idea. A little woman entered a drug store and asked the proprietor if he had "another picture." "What kind of a picture do you mean?" the druggist asked. "One like this," said the woman, holding up an attractive advertising print. "I may have one or two of them left," the proprietor said, "but I haven't many of them." The woman said she only wanted one, and her tone indicated that she was anxious for that one. She explained that the one she had with her had been given to one of her children. Another child, she stated, was sick, and was crying for a picture such as his brother had. "That's a bad way to bring up your children," ventured a woman customer in the store. "Do you try to give a child everything he cries for just because his brother is more fortunate?" "But," said the mother of the children, "you don't know. The children are twins and what one has the other wants." "Suppose," objected the moralist, "when your children get older, they fall in love with the same girl, what will they do?" But the mother was ready. She promptly replied: "Find twins and fall in love with them." DREADED TO EAT. A Quaker Couple's Experience. How many persons dread to eat their meals, although actually hungry nearly all the time! Nature never intended this should be so, for we are given a thing called appetite that should guide us as to what the system needs at any time and can digest. But we get in a hurry, swallow our food very much as we shovel coal into the furnace, and our sense of appetite becomes unnatural and perverted. Then we eat the wrong kind of food or eat too much, and there you are—indigestion and its accompanying miseries. A Phila, lady said, the other day: "My husband and I have been sick and nervous for 15 or 20 years from drinking coffee—feverish, indigestion, totally unfit, a good part of the time, for work or pleasure. We actually dreaded to eat our meals. "We tried doctors and patent medicines that counted up into hundreds of dollars, with little if any benefit. "Accidentily, a small package of Postum came into my hands. I made some according to directions, with surprising results. We both liked it and have not used any coffee since. "The dull feeling after meals has left us and we feel better every way. We are so well satisfied with Postum that we recommend it to our friends who have been made sick and nervous and miserable by coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." PINE TREE BREAD. KAMSCHATKANS USE THE INNER BARK OF PINE TREES. Macerate It In Water and Bake Good, Wholesome Bread—The Pine Keeps the Blood Pure and The Body Healthy. In Kamschatka the people live in earth-covered pits. Mr. Kennan compares the sound of their language to that of water running out of a narrowmouth jug. Their bread is made from the inner bark of the Pine Tree, macerated in water and baked without flour. They are a hardy race, the Pine keeping the blood pure and the various organs of the body in a healthy condition. Consumption is unknown among them. A noted specialist in throat and lung trouble, who established a camp for consumptives in the Pine Woods of Maine, and whose remarkable cures there have attracted great attention from the medical world, says that one-half ounce of the Pure Virgin Oil of Pine, mixed with two ounces of Glycerine and one-half pint of good Whisky and used in teaspoonful doses, will heal and strengthen the lungs, break up a cold in twenty-four hours, and cure any cough that is curable. The ingredients can be secured from any prescription druggist at small cost. Inquiry at the prescription department of a leading local druggist elicited the information that the Pure Virgin Oil of Pine is put up only in half-ounce vials for dispensing. Each vial is securely sealed in a round wooden case, with engraved wrapper, showing the name—Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) guaranteed under the Food and Drug act, June 30, 1906. Prepared only by the Leach Chemical Co., Cincinnati, O. plainly printed thereon. There are many rank imitations of Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure), which are being put out under various names, such as Concentrated Oil of Pine, Pine Balsam, 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 results. Natural Washing Preparation. Near Ashcroft, in British Columbia, are a number of small lakes, whose shores and bottoms are covered with a crust containing borax and soda in such quantities and proportions that when cut it serves as a washing compound. The crust is cut into blocks and handled in the same manner as ice, and it is estimated that one of the lakes contains 20,000 tons of this material. BABY TORTURED BY ITCHING. Rash Covered Face and Feet—Would Cry Until Tired Out—Speedy Cure by Cuticura. "My baby was about nine months old when she had rash on her face and feet. Her feet seemed to irritate her most, especially nights. They would cause her to be broken in her rest, and sometimes she would cry until she was tired out. I had always used Cuticura Soap myself, and had heard of so many cures by the Cuticura Remedies that I thought I would give them a trial. The improvement was noticeable in a few hours, and before I had used one box of the Cuticura Ointment her feet were well and have never troubled her since. I also used it to remove what is known as "cradle cap" from her head, and it worked like a charm, as it cleansed and healed the scalp at the same time. Now I keep Cuticura Ointment on hand in case of any little rash or insect bites, as it takes out the inflammation at once. Perhaps this may be the means of helping other suffering babies. Mrs. Hattie Currier, Thomaston, Me., June 9, 1906." 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It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve Headache and Sciatica, We recommend it as the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains in the ehest and stomach and all Rheumatic, Neuralgic and Gouty complaints, A tried will prove what we claim for It, and it will be found to be invaluable in the household and for children, Once used no family will be without t. Many people say “itis the best of all your preparations." Accept no preparation of vaseline unless the same carries our label, as otherwise It {s not genuine. SEND YOUR ADDRESS AND WE WILL MAIL OUR VASE- LINE PAMPHLET WHICH WILL INTEREST YOU, CHESEBROUGH MBG. CO. 17 STATE STREET, NEW YORK CITY Vice President Fairbanks nearly always walks from his residence to the capitol and back, and often after dusk goes for long strolls through the northwest section of Washington. ps0 ugly, grizzly, gray halre. Use ‘’L rr ee "Good Influence of Women." By L. Elizabeth Perdue. Nature has endowed every individual with a degree of personality. Fortune has provided environments of such a nature that material aid can be obtained in cultivating this personality to the extent that each individual may be a source of helpfulness. One's personality is determined by the influence exerted upon mankind. Some soul is being saved or lost each day, because of the life of some one else. It is no uncommon expression to hear one say, "A woman it at the root of all evil." This statement might be proven true, should we stop to consider woman from the beginning, but it is our idea to consider the woman of the day and what will be accomplished by her good influence. Let us start in the home where the foundation for womanhood and manhood is to be laid. One writer has said, "A child's training should begin twenty years before the child is born." If this has not been done, then it is the more important that the training begin immediately afterward. Mothers exert a wonderful influence over their children and we believe that not only mankind but God is holding so many mothers responsible today for wayward boys and girls. If the neglect stopped with the neglected, matters would not be so grave, but this neglected girl grows to womanhood and all along the line fro mchildhood towomanhood she has exerted her influence and so on until unknown numbers of souls are wrecked, because one mother exerted the wrong influence or neglected her duty. It is the most responsible position of earth to be a mother, and we appeal to the mothers, for the sake of your children, for the sake of the race and for the sake of heaven; try to realize the force of your work and toil earnestly. A wife's influence over her husband is great. She is able to strengthen or wreck him; in fact a woman's influence is far reaching. When Pilot's wife warned him to take no part in the crucifixion of our Blessed Saviour, it had its bearing. After Ferdinand refused to aid Columbus in his search for the New World, much praise was given his wife, Queen Isabella, for the decision she made in Columbus' favor, which has resulted in untold good. We are held responsible for the influence we exert. If it doesn't bless it is bound to hurt. It will be the making or breaking of a chain That will lead to happiness or miserable pain. We are held responsible day by day For what we do and what we say. We are being watched from day until dawn. Then from dawn again to early morn. We are being judged by friend and ie. And being watched from tip to toe. Every took its meaning conveys. And for every sin, the sinner must pay. We are not always conscious of the good we do. Or the harm, for that, but if we are true To ourselves, to God and all man The influence we exert will be most sublime. Frederick Douglass, born under a system that denied motherhood, fatherhood and birthhood, knew not the day or the year of his birth; but by a method of approximations arrived at the conclusion that he was born in the year 1817. In one of his moments of unfailing good humor he said: "I am my race's Valentine, and therefore, I select St. Valentine's day as my birthday." From these circumstances February 14 is becoming more and more to be observed as "Douglass Day" in the country over wherever colored men cherish the brave, the noble and the true. Frederick Douglass was a great man in the best sense of the expression. He was great in his courage, in his grasp of truth and in his sexpression of truth. Notice how up-to-date he is on all questions which now confront us. On the ballot: "From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedmen until he could cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen. I insisted that there was no safety for him or for anybody else in America outside the American government; that to guard, protect and maintain his liberty the freedman should have the ballot; that the liberties of the American people were dependent upon the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box; that without these no class of people could live and flourish in this country." When elected a delegate to the convention being asked by a committee of white men to keep out of the convention for fear of raising the question of "social equality," he said: "Gentlemen, with all respect, you might as well ask me to put a loaded pistol to my head and blow my brains out as to ask me to keep out of this convention, to which I have been duly elected." As to the immigration of the negro to the North, he said: "White it may be the highest wisdom for the freedmen to stay where they are, no encouragement should be given to any measure of coercion to people are bound, if they are or can be bound to anything, to keep the North gate of the South open to black and white and to all people." Again he said: "The spirit of caste is dangerous and malignant everywhere." His solution of the nation's problem, miscalled the negro problem: "Let the white people of the North and the South conquer their prejudices. Let the great Northern press and pulpit proclaim the gospel of justice and truth against war now being made upon the negro. Let the American people cultivate kindness and humanity. Let them give up the idea that they can be free while making the negro a slave." In olden times when it was asked "How can we abolish slavery?" the answer was, "Quit stealing." The same is the solution of the race problem today. The whole thing can be done by simply no longer violating the amendments of the constitution of the United States, and no longer evading the claims of justice." It was Frederick Douglass who pointed out long ago that the education qualifications for voting would mean disfranchisement for colored Americans. He was the one to prophesy that the white South would trump up the charge of rape to injure the colored people with the white North. He was, too, par excellence a champion and defender of his own race against censure and attacks. It was a part of his nature. He was too hide-bound to the Republican party in politics for the good of his race., but the best of us must have some faults. God give us more Douglasses.—Boston Guardian. W. T. Escoe, Pres. J. B. McCulloch, Vice Pres. PEOPLE'S BANK AND General Banking, O. We conduct a safe and cor- lines of banking, make bond, a sell lands, rent and collect renta- ing" department. We expect yo Muskogee, : : E. A. 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