Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Cimeter. Vlo 8 TILLMAN AND DOUGLAS, Editor of Phoenix STAND ON SAME PLATFORM Tillman, a Democratic Senator, in His Speech at Hinton Theater, Muskogee, Oct. 19, 1906, Said He Endorsed DOUGLAS' PLATFORM Editor of Muskogee Phoenix ..Clipped from Phoenix of September 25, 1906. The resolutions were written by C. B. Douglas, himself. We, the members of the Republican Press Association of the Third Congressional District, declare as follows: Whereas, there is an apparent misunderstanding existing among the voters of the district as to the position of the party on the so-called race question, and Whereas, the Republican party has DISCHARGED its OBLIGATIONS to the NEGRO in that it gives him full civil rights, equal with every other citizen, and still stands for that policy. Thebefore, be it resolved by this association that the Republican party of the Third Congressional District is OPPOSED to NEGRO DOMINATION in any sense. That it stands for separate schools, SEPARATE COACHES and SEPARATE WAITING ROOMS for NEGROES which will have equal facilities and comforts to those furnished for other races. That it is opposed and WILL USE EVERY MEANS at its command to PREVENT the nomination of Negroes on any elective ticket, seeking the suffrage of the other races. On this declaration of principles all classes and all nationalities of citizenship are earnestly invited to allign themselves with the party of progress and prosperity. C. B. Douglas, Muskogee Phoenix. Frantz Plays Political Game ADDS FUEL TO JIM CROW FIRE But—Like Democrats—He Says the Omission Will Displease People. Special to the Oklahoman. Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 21.—Speaking at a meeting of local Republicans in the Brooks theatre here last night Governor Frank Frantz declared positively that President Roosevelt will reject the constitution if it contains a "Jim Crow" clause. The statement created quite a sensation, not only among Republicans who were present, but among delegates to the constitutional convention who attended the meeting. In referring to the separate coach question Governor Frantz said that it seemed to him that it had taken the Democrats an "awful long time" to discover the clause in the enabling act which prevents any discrimination between the races. He quoted the delegates in the convention, saying that they were Muskogee, I. T., Friday, March, 1, 1907. AS, ORM rator, in water, 196, I nix "d—d if the do and d—d if they don't;" that if they incorporate the clause the president will withhold his proclamation, and if they leave it out the people of Oklahoma will reject the constitution. "He told the truth, said Governor Frantz, "if they put the 'Jim Crow' clause in the constitution, the president will reject it, and if they leave it out, the people o fthe state will reject their work." a change of our present city officers? We should stop and consider this matter seriously, not as Republicans or Democrats, but as citizens of Muskogee, who have her present and future welfare at heart. We should look into this matter in an unbiased and unprejudiced manner. We should take the advice of those whom we know to have the welfare of our city at heart. We do not take the stand that the MISCEGENATION. The bill of Representative Simm of Tennessee was a document that would make a clown laugh. Will the gentleman kindly furnish the Bee the number of colored men and women in this state who have white fathers? The Bee is of the opinion outnumber the colored population in the District of Columbia. Will the gentleman who introduced that bill kindly explain why there are so many colored people in the South with white fathers? Doesn't he believe that it would be a great deal better if he would change the character of his bill and apply it first to Tennessee, his own state, and after he has cleaned up the refuse of his own state, then apply the cleaning machine to other sections of the South? It is utterly impossible for the colored people to keep intact the purity of their race when there are so many white scoundrels in this country that pursue colored women like wolves pursue anything in sight to satisfy their hunger. It is not the colored man or the colored woman who is pursuing and devouring the white race. It is the white man who won't let our women alone. The Bee sees it daily. Many of our colored women are not permitted to walk upon the public streets. They are being pursued and annoyed daily. Some time ago a certain white professional man advertised for a colored girl, and when she presented herself she was asked by the brute if she wouldn't be his friend; that "she was just the kind of a girl that he wanted." And when he attempted to put his arms around her she immediately resented the insult. This is only one instance of the many that occur. It is not the white women who need protection, but our innocent colored girls who are continually being pursued by white men. Will the gentleman from Tennessee allow the white man to take the "jackass out of his own eye before he attempts to take the speck out of his adversary's eye?" The bill legalizes prostitution and makes it a crime for two persons of the opposite races to enter into legitimate marriage. "What fools these mortals be."—Washington Bee. STOP! .LOOK! .LISTEN! The above words, while used in railway court parlance, and is especially significant to the people of Muskogee today. We are on the eve of a spring election. Shall we have a change of our present city officers? We should stop and consider this matter seriously, not as Republicans or Democrats, but as citizens of Muskogee, who have her present and future welfare at heart. We should look into this matter in an unbiased and unprejudiced manner. We should take the advice of those whom we know to have the welfare of our city at heart. We do not take the stand that the present city administration has been the only administration that Muskogee has ever had. We do not subscribe to all that has been done, but we hold that the present officers have worked hard and faithful for Muskogee, and have been to much personal loss and inconvenience in so doing. The mayor and city council of Muskogee are men of the business world. They are successful business men and have worked for the city as they do for themselves in private life. Unthinking public opinion has criticized them severely, but they have gone fearlessly on. We have thought them wrong, but now it's done. We stop and think and are willing to admit that the mayor and council ought to know best what course to pursue. They have realised our taxes very materially; they say they were compelled to do so and use logic in telling why. We believe the council used their best judgment in the matter and knew best. We should stand with them. Whether they did right or wrong, can we afford to take chances on the legality of the coming spring election? Can we afford to have any question as to this? Have you thought of the far-reaching effect to our city? If not, begin thinking now. At best there is a big question as to the election law of the Indian Territory tody. Lawyers are divided on the subject. The law is not clear. Can we afford to have any question as to the validity of the official acts of the city officials for the coming year? Will it not affect property interest? Will we not be continually afraid of injunction or some other court proceeding? To avoid this, would it not be best to return the city council and the others and let them hold until their successors are elected and qualified? This would be legal. Confidence instead of doubt would prevail and this means much. Think it over. REPUBLICAN. FULL TEXT OF SUF- FRAGE CLAUSE Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 8.—The suffrage constitutional proposition as finally adopted in committee of the whole reads as follows: "The qualified electors of the state shall be male citizens of the United States, male citizens of the state, and male persons of Indian descent, native of the United States, who are over the age of twenty-one years, who have resided in the state one year, in the county six months, in No 22 the election precinct thirty days next preceding the election at which he offers to vote. "Provided that no person adjudged guilty of a felony subject to such exceptions as the legislature may provide, after the adoption of this constitution, unless his citizenship is restored in the manner provided by law, nor any person while kept in a poor house or other asylum at the public expense, except Confederate and Federal ex-union soldiers, nor any person in a public prison, nor any lunatic or idiot, shall be entitled to vote at any election under the laws of this state. "Section 2..The legislature may make additional limitations on the right of suffrage and may add additional disabilities thereto, but in no event shall the legislature change the qualifications or disabilities herein mentioned. Section 3. No officer, soldier or marine of the regular army or navy of the United States shall be entitled to vote at any election in this state unless at the time of his enlistment in the army and navy he was a resident of the state, in which case he shall be entitled to vote at the place of his residence at the time of his enlistment. "Section 4. The secrecy of the ballot shall forever remain inviolate. "Section 5. The legislature shall enact suitable laws and penalties for the enforcement of the provisions herein relating to suffrage. The above shows that the Democratic outfit, led by Pole Cat Bill and Hask(hell) are strictly after the disfranchisement of the negro. They intend to do a part now and a part when they elect a legislature. The above is sufficient to line up every negro in the state and those in other states against the constitution. The negroes of the new state will send a delegation to Washington to protest against the thing whenit's finished if it shall contain the objectionable features. Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. DR. R. H WATERFORD. Estes Building, Rooms 3 and 4. Phone 461; residence phone 462. Muskogee, I. T. R. A. GIVENS Watchmaker and Jeweler I will please you when others fall. Leave your X-ray at home, and call at 228 N. 2nd St. You will find me with an up-to-date line of Jewelry and Holiday goods. Repairing a specialty. AGENTS WANTED We want energetic hustling agents for this paper and will pay iberly for good work. If you want to make money, write at once to—W. H. Twine. WHEN SERVING EGGS SOME NEW METHODS OF COOKING WORTH TRYING. Departures from Old Styles That Will Be Appreciated by the Family or Guests-Eggs a la Goldenrod. Eggs a la Suisse.—Four eggs, one half cup cream, one tablespoon butter, two tablespoons grated cheese, salt, pepper, cayenne. Heat a small omelet pan, put in butter and when melted add cream. Slip in the eggs one at a time, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and a few grains of cayenne. When whites are nearly firm sprinkle with cheese. Finish cooking and serve on buttered toast. Strain cream over the toast. Eggs a la Buckingham.—Make five slices milk toast and arrange on platter. Use recipe for scrambled eggs, having the eggs slightly underdone. Pour eggs over toast, sprinkle with four tablespoons grated mild cheese. Put in oven to melt cheese and finish cooking, eggs. Eggs a la Finnoise.—Have ready a shallow pan two-thirds full of boiling salted water, allowing one-half tablespoon salt to one quart of water. Put two or three buttered muffin pans in the water. Break each egg separately into a cup and carefully slip into a muffin ring. The water should cover the eggs. When there is a film over the top and the white is firm carefully remove with a buttered skimmer to circular pieces of buttered toast and cover with a tomato sauce, seasoned with salt and pepper and butter. Shirred Eggs.—Butter an egg shirrer. Cover bottom and sides with fine cracker crumbs. Break an egg into a cup and carefully slip into shirrer. Cover with seasoned buttered crumbs and bake in a moderate oven until white is firm and crumbs brown. The shirrers should be placed on a tin plate that they may be removed easily from the oven. Eggs in Tomatoes.—Cut a slice from stem end of tomato, scoop out the pulp, slip in an egg, sprinkle with salt and pepper, cover with buttered crumbs, and bake. Eggs a la Goldenrod.—Three hard boiled eggs, one tablespoon butter, one tablespoon flour, one cup milk, one-half teaspoon salt, one-eighth teaspoon pepper, five slices toast, parsley. Make a thin, white sauce with butter, flour, milk and seasonings. Separate yolks from whites of eggs. Chop whites finely and add them to the sauce. Cut four slices of toast in halves lengthwise, arrange on platter and pour over the sauce. Force the yolks through a potato ricer or strainer, sprinkling over the top. Garnish with parsley and remaining toast cut in points. Egg Farci.—Cut hard boiled eggs in halves crosswise. Remove yolks and put whites aside in pairs. Mash yolks and add equal amount of cold cooked chicken or veal finely chopped. Moisten with melted butter or mayonnaise. A Handy Remedy for Burns. I have often heard women say that they can never go near the kitchen stove without getting burned, and no doubt some of us, if not all of us, have suffered many big as well as little burns and scalds for the want of some simple remedy. Of course, we all know that bicarbonate of soda or common baking soda is one of the simplest remedies, but even that does not give immediate relief. Kerosene is the easiest remedy to procure, and is always handy in the kitchen, saving steps to the medicine chest when one is in a hurry, and experience has shown it as the most expedient. Cover the burn or scald with the kerosene and repeat until the burning sensation is gone. I have never known any tenderness or soreness to follow, or any trace of the burn to be left wherever kerosene had been used.—Pictorial Review. HARDSHIPS OF ARMY LIFE. Left Thousands of Veterans with Kidney Troubles. The experience of David W. Martin, a retired merchant of Bolivar, Mo., is just like thousands of others. Mr. Martin says: "I think I have had kidney disease ever since the war. During an engagement my horse fell on me, straining my back and injuring M. B. the kidneys. I have been told I had a floating kidney. I had intense pain in the back, headaches and dizzy spells and the action of the bladder was very irregular. About three years ago I tried Doan's Kidney Pills, and found such great relief that I continued, and inside a comparatively short time was entirely rid of kidney trouble." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. SOME POINTS ABOUT NEEDLES. The Evolved Product of Centuries of Invention. The point of a needle is a very important part of that useful little instrument, and there are many points about needles calculated to interest the general public. The daily consumption of needles all over the world is something like 3,000,000, while every year the women of the United States break, lose and use some 300,000,000 of those tiny tools. Few people while threading a needle have ever given a thought to the various processes through which the wire must pass before it comes out a needle. Yet the manufacture of needles includes some 21 different processes from cutting the wire and threading the double needles by the eyes to separating the two needles on the one length of wire, heading, hardening in oil, cleaning out the sides of the eye, point-setting, and final polishing. For wrapping purple paper is used, since it prevents rusting. There are many sorts of needles, for surgeons', cooks', glovemakers', weavers', sailmakers', broommakers', milliners' and dressmakers' use. The needle is the evolved product of centuries of invention. In its primitive form it was made of bone, ivory, or wood. Point by point its manufacture has improved, until this little but not insignificant instrument is now one of the highly-finished products of twentieth century machinery and skill.—Zion's Herald. A FRIEND'S TIP. 70-Year-Old Man Not too Old to Accept a Food Pointer. "For the last 20 years," writes a Maine man, "I've been troubled with Dyspepsia and liver complaint, and have tried about every known remedy without much in the way of results until I took up the food question. "A friend recommended Grape-Nuts food, after I had taken all sorts of medicines with only occasional, temporary relief. "This was about nine months ago, and I began the Grape-Nuts for breakfast with cream and a little sugar. Since then I have had the food for at least one meal a day, usually for breakfast. "Words fail to express the benefit I received from the use of Grape-Nuts. My stomach is almost entirely free from pain and my liver complaint is about cured, I have gained flesh, sleep well can eat nearly any kind of food except greasy, starchy things and am strong and healthy at the age of 70 years. "If I can be the means of helping any poor mortal who has been troubled with dyspepsia as I have been, I am willing to answer any letter enclosing stamp." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., are bringing out a new oats this year with heads 2 foot long! That's a wonder. Their catalog tells! Spetz—the greatest cereal hay food America ever saw! Catalog tells! FREE Our mammoth 148-page Seed and Tool Catalog is mailed free to all intending buyers, or send 6c in stamps and receive free samples of new Two Foot Long Oats and other cereals and big catalog free. John A. Salzer Seed Co., Box W, La Crosse, Wis. Col Silas W. Burt, who was recently elected president of the Civil Service Reform association, was naval officer under the first Grant administration. Don't Be Irritable. "An irritated skin makes an irritable person, and an irritable person gathers much trouble unto himself or herself, as the case may be. Moral: Use Hunt's Cure, one box of which is absolutely and unqualifiedly guaranteed to cure any form of skin trouble. Any kind of itching known is relieved at once and one box cures." Some men are not satisfied when they kill two birds with one stone unless they can get the stone back. "WHY tors and medicines without found, in Wine of Cardui, a ills, and can recommend it complaints." Cardui furnishes safe re periodical pains, irregular, menial flow, and all ailmen suffer. A perfect tonic for vegetable medicine for girls a to the complaints peculiar to over a million who used to s tors and medicines without obtaining relief, I at last found, in Wine of Cardui, a golden medicine for all my ills, and can recommend it above all others for female complaints." Cardui furnishes safe relief for backache, headache, periodical pains, irregular, painful or unhealthy catamenial flow, and all ailments from which sick women suffer. A perfect tonic for delicate women. 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LEWIS Peoria, Ill Hooper's Tetter Cure Is sold by all druggists on a positive guarantee to cure Tetter, Eczema, Itch of all kinds, Skin Eruptions, Ring Worm, Dew Poison, Chapped Face and Hands, Pimples, Dandruff and all Scalp Troubles, Corns, Bunions, Sore and Sweaty Feet, Etc. Sold everywhere, two sizes, 50c and $1.00 Bottles. Mail this ad. to us and we will send you a trial bottle free. HOOPER MEDICINE CO., Dallas, Texas. do I take Cardui"? writes Mrs. Jelemma Mullins of Odessa, W. Va. "Because, after suffering for several years with female trouble, and trying different doc- Is sold by all druggists on a positive guarantee to cure Tetter, Eczema, Itch of all kinds, Skin Eruptions, Ring Worm, Dew Poison, Chapped Face and Hands, Pimples, Dandruff and all Scalp Troubles, Corns, Bunions, Sore and Sweaty Feet, Etc. Sold everywhere, two sizes, 50c and $1.00 Bottles. Mail this ad. to us and we will send you a trial bottle free. GOOD PRESCRIPTION SIMPLE MIXTURE THAT IS SAID TO BREAK A COLD QUICKLY. Ingredients Can be Easily Purchased at Little Cost From Any Good Prescription Druggist and Mixed at Home. A noted authority on lung trouble advises that as soon as a cold is contracted the following simple treatment should be given. The ingredients can be purchased from any prescription druggist at small cost and easily prepared in your own home. It is said to be so effective that it will break up a cold in twenty-four hours and cure any cough that is curable. Take a half ounce Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure), two ounces of Glycerine, and eight ounces of good Whisky. Shake well and take in teaspoonful doses every four hours. Be sure that the Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) is in the original half-ounce vials, which are put up expressly for druggists to dispense. Each vial is securely sealed in a round wooden case, with engraved wrapper, with the name —Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure); guaranteed under the Food and Drug Act, June 30, 1906. Prepared only by Leach Chemical Co., Cincinnati, O.—plainly printed thereon. Only the adulterated oils are sold in bulk; these create nausea and never effect the desired results. Poetess Highly Honored. Mlle. Andre Corthis, whose poems in the volume entitled "Gemmes et Moires" have won high praise, has been chosen poet laureate of France for the year past. The honor is one conferred annually by a vote of eminent literary people on the most distinguished poet of the year. Mlle. Corthis is still a young woman. Booth Tarkington when at work rises at five o'clock in the morning, drinks a little cocoa and writes till nine. Nearly all his best passages have been written at sunrise. One of the times to get busy is when you are discouraged and think there is no use trying any more. AWFUL NEURALGIA Pain Turned This Woman's Hair White but She Was Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Do not seek relief from suffering simply, but free your system from the disease which is the cause of your suffering. That is the message which a former victim of neuralgia sends to those who are still in its grasp. Hot applications, powders that deaden the senses and others that reduce the heart action may cause temporary relief but the pain is sure to return with greater intensity. Mrs. Evelyn Creusere, who has a beautiful home at 811 Boulevard West, Detroit, Mich., suffered for years with neuralgia until she tried this tonic treatment. She says: "My trouble began about six years ago and I did not rest as I should have, but kept up about my many duties. After a time I became so weak I could not do any work at all. I had severe backaches and, such dreadful headaches in the back part and top of my head. My eyes were easily tired and at times I saw black spots before them. I consulted several doctors but without the slightest benefit. The pains were so intense that my hair turned white. "I lost continually in weight and strength and was almost in despair when a friend recommended Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I tried them according to directions and soon began to feel relief. At the end of three months I had gained ten pounds in weight and had no more trouble with my nerves. I have been in perfect health ever since and can heartily commend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists, or sent postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Muskogee Cimeter. W. M. TWINE, Edition. MUSKOGER. IND. TER. Society and Education. In order to express the significance of the recent Social Education Congress, which was held in Boston, the broadest possible definitions of "social" and "education" are necessary. Heretofore educational problems have been left largely to teachers and experts in pedagogy. This congress was not a teachers' meeting, but a conference of leaders in all departments of life. The variety of the subjects discussed and the many interests represented by the speakers showed that real education touches life at every point, says the Youth's Companion; that, as wise men have always felt, education is the development in all possible ways of the individual and of the unit in society. The business man explained what he demanded of the schools that are sending him young clerks and workmen. The man of public affairs showed what the schools should do for the boy and the girl who are to vote. From the laboring man, through a union leader, came the message of the experienced workman to those in charge of the maturing boy who is soon to choose a trade. Physicians and specialists in physical culture pleaded for the care of the body, for education which should teach respect for the finely organized instrument of thought and labor. From the churches preachers of many denominations spoke the word for spiritual culture in all education of the hands and the brain. Public librarians traced the relation of their institution to the schools. Banker, president of public service company, manufacturer, tradesman, professor, psychologist—all these in some way asserted the great truth that education is not merely the concern of specialists, it is everybody's business, for it is related to every part of every man's life. Once this is realized, our schools will be vitalized as never before. Enthusiastic automobilists are urging that a national highway be built between New York and Chicago. The proposed road is not intended for the amusement of rich pleasure-seekers, but for the farmers, who are to own traction wagons in the future and carry their crops from the farm to the best market. A party has traveled between the two cities by automobile, noting the best route to be followed, the location of gravel pits and the grades to be overcome. It has obtained facts enough to make its inquiries worthy of respect. Whether the national highway is ever built as such, says the Youth's Companion, there will be a continuous good road across the state of New York in a year or two, built by the state or by the various towns and cities; and there are excellent stretches of good road in the other states along the line. A peculiar fact in the life of Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, who has just been transferred from the naval portfolio to that of the attorney general in the president's cabinet, is that he has never visited Europe. A New York doctor cured a case of lockjaw by bleeding the patient. The case, says the Washington Star, has attracted widespread attention, because nowadays the doctors are not supposed to bleed a patient until after he is cured. ONLY HIS JUST DESERTS. Editor Had Good Reason for Publishing Name of Contributor. For six months or more the druggist's assistant had occupied his leisure moments by writing verses for the village paper, in the "poets' corner" of which publication they appeared anonymously every Thursday. On opening his copy of the Weekly Bugle one morning, and turning first, as was his regular habit, to that particular corner, he was surprised and gratified beyond measure to see his name in full appended to his latest poetical outbreak. He hastened to call at the office of the Bugle. "Mr. Stires," he said to the editor, "I want to thank you for signing my name to my poem in this week's paper. It encourages a fellow when he gets proper credit for his work." "Oh, that's all right, Johnson," responded the editor. "We thought it was about time to place the responsibility for that poetry where it belonged."—Youth's Companion. VERY BAD FORM OF ECZEMA. Suffered Three Years—Physicians Did No Good—Perfectly Well After Using Cucicura Remedies. "I take great pleasure in informing you that I was a sufferer of eczema in a very bad form for the past three years. I consulted and treated with a number of physicians in Chicago, but to no avail. I commenced using the Cuticura Remedies, consisting of Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills, three months ago, and to-day I am prefectly well, the disease having left me entirely. I cannot recommend the Cuticura Remedies too highly to any one suffering with the disease that I have had. Mrs. Florence E. Atwood, 18 Crilly Place, Chicago, Ill., October 2, 1905. Witness: L. S. Berger." California's Prune Crop. California's prune crop in 1906, was 185,000,000 pounds, against 62,500,000 pounds in 1905. This has only been exceeded once in 17 years. That was in 1902, when the crop was 197,000,000. Stimulate the Blood. Brandreth's Pills are the great blood purifier. They are a laxative and blood tonic, they act equally on the bowels, kidneys and skin, thus cleansing the system by the natural outlet of the body. They stimulate the blood so to enable nature to throw off all morbid humors and cure all troubles arising from an impure state of the blood. One or two taken every night will prove an invaluable remedy. Each pill contains one grain of solid extract of sarsaparilla, which, with other valuable vegetable products, make it a blood purifier unexcelled. Brandreth's Pills have been in use for over a century, and are for sale everywhere, plain or sugar-coated. A man who is content to do the same thing day after day may be a good husband and a kind father, but he is a poor news-maker. Rest and Sleep. Few escape those miseries of winter—a bad cold, a distressing cough. Many remedies are recommended, but the one quickest and best of all is Simmon's Cough Syrup. Soothing and healing to the lungs and bronchial passages, it stops the cough at once and gives you welcome rest and peaceful sleep. Many a woman has married a fool for love; but few mistakes would be made if fools never had money. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colds. See a bottle. There are 25 brigadier generals in the United States army. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. Some day there may be universal peace. If it comes it will be when one man has succeeded in gobbling everything and at the same time convinced everybody else that he is too strong to be fought. ite Lead natural gment Numerous compounds are being offered to take the place of white lead as a paint, but no real substitute for it has yet been found. Pure White Lead has a peculiar property of amalgamating with the wood upon which it is used—added to this it has an elasticity which permits the paint to follow the natural expansion and contraction of the wood. Pure White Lead (with its full natural tenacity and elasticity, unimpaired by adulterants), alone fulfills all the requirements of the ideal paint. Every keg which bears the Dutch Boy trade mark is positively guaranteed to be absolutely Pure White Lead made by the Old Dutch Process. NATIONAL LEAD CO. SEND FOR BOOK "A Talk on Paint." "gives valuable inform- ance on paint subject. Sent free upon request." All lead packed in 1907 bears this mark. NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY in whichever of the follow- ing cities is nearest you ; New York, Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia [John [T. Lewis & Bros. Co.]; Pittsburgh [National Lead & Oil Co.]] Canadian Government WESTERN CANADA Over 200,000 American farmers who have settled in Canada during the past few years testify to the fact that Canada is, beyond question, and in the world. of wheat from the harvest of 1906 means good money to the farmers of Western Canada when the world has to be fed. Cattle Raising, Dairying and Mixed Farming are also profitable callings. Coal, wood and water in abundance; churches and schools convenient; markets easy of access. Taxes low. For advice and information address the Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or any authorized Canadian Government Agent. J. S. CRAWFORD, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. WET WEATHER WORK IS HEALTHFUL AND PLEASANT IF YOU WEAR TOWER'S FISH BRAND WATERPROOF OILED CLOTHING BLACK OR YELLOW Perfect Protection Longest Service Low in Price Sold Everywhere 500 A TOWER CO. BOSTON TOWER SANDWICH UNION THE CIMETER, PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK IN THE INTEREST OF THE NEGRO BY CIMETER PUB. CO. ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT MUSKOGEE, I. T., AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER W H. TWINE . . . Editor. E D. NICKENS. Advertising Manager. For Governor of the State of Oklahoma, Hon. John D. Benedict, of Muskogee, I. T. ```markdown ``` Do you want to get your property insured in a safe and sure company? Then go at once to see I. B. Kirkland, room 204, Missouri building, or phone 754. The companies he represents are O. K. There is some talk of a citizens' ticket, etc., in the spring election. We don't think any real live Republican will take any stock in this political monstrosity. "A citizens' ticket." Let it be a straight up fight between the Republicans and Democrats. The Haskell business should be enough for Republicans in this city for all time to come. Stand pat and let us get together and face the enemy. Even a six shooter Republican is better than a Haskell Democrat. The Cimeter office has moved to the Masonic building. The gamblers in the Jones building became so noisy and the indecent loud and vulgar language was such that we could not remain there longer. These parasites and paragons of vulgarity and indecency seem to have the right of way at present to do as they please. It's a wonder to us how the decent occupants of the Jones building can stand the boisterous conduct of these black legs. Thirty-five people heard S. M. Rutherford, of Muskogee, Democratic candidate for the United States senate, deliver a speech at Vinita this week. By the time a senator is elected his audience will hive diminished to 23. - Tulsa World. Colonel Douglas, of the Phoenix, says that the members of the constitutional convention at Guthrie should be presented with leather medals, with the picture of a donkey thereon, which is the unkindest cut of all on some of his late chums. Alas, poor Hopkins. Thou art surely fallen into disrepute in the house of thy friends.—Fort Gibson Post. REPUBLICANS SHOULD HOLD THE OFFICES Why Is the Dawes Commission Filled With Democrats? Now that the city campaign is about to begin, many people are asking why are Republicans kept out of the Dawes commission by Tams Bixby and the places given to Democrats. Fully one-half of the places under the control of Mr. Bixby are given to Democrats, who give money to elect the Democratic ticket and are always active in defeating the Republicans. This is not right. If there was a Democrat at the head of the Dawes commission, there would not be a single man who is a Republican employed there. They would not even keep a Republican janitor or a spittoon cleaner who voted the Republican ticket. Why should Bixby fill up these good places with these Democrats? Only the other day Bixby gave William Wisdom, a bitter, uncompromising Democrat, a good position at $125 a month, simply because, as we see it, Fent Wisdom was then running the Phoenix and Bixby wanted Fent to keep out of the Phoenix the result of the Foulke report. This ought not to be. Mr. Magars, who used to be the Democratic mayor of Eufaula, was also given a place at $150 a month because Cliff Jackson, who hates all Republicans, wanted him to have a place. Tom Lahay is another Democrat getting $125 a month, and he is always busy making Democratic speeches and sitting up nights to hate the Republicans. There are many others. There are plenty of good Republicans who can fill these places and who would like to have them, but Bixby seems to want Democratic support more than Republican support. We don't know why he does this. He pretends to be a Republican and last summer was a delegate to the Republican convention and tried to disrupt the Republican party. The fellows who bolted the Republican party and voted for Haskell and run the Haskell campaign did all in their power to bring about the Haskell gerrymander of all the legislative and judicial districts. Is this right? Mr. Republican, do you endorse this thing. The boys in the trenches are against these things and the men who do them. How can you expect the Republicans to vote you in office if you trade the places to Democrats? 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 why 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. Muskogee, I. T. Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. DR. R. H. WATERFORD. Estes Building, Rooms 3 and 4 Phone 461; residence phone 462 Muskogee, I. T. R. A. GIVENS I will please you when others fail. Leave your X-ray at home, and call at 228 N. 2nd St. You will find me with an up-to-date line of Jewelry and Holiday goods. Repairing a specialty. AGENTS WANTED We want energetic hustling agents for this paper and will pay iberly for good work. If you want to make money, write at once to-W. H. Twine. Herewith I beg to enclose a booklet giving full description of information relative to The Hamilton Oil and Gas company which I believe worth the consideration of any business man on the face of the earth. The most business-like and conservative investigation of the company, as to the merits of property itself and the management, will recommend it to any ambitious investor. The eyes of the world are upon the Indian Territory, which today is pronounced by men of highest ability and knowledge to be the richest district to be found anywhere in the wide, wide world. No where is known a district on any continent where the goddess of wealth has danced with so much glee as in the Mid-Continent Oil Seld of the Indian Territory within the past few years; and the storehouses of wealth have hardly been scratched as yet. In giving you an opportunity to buy stock with this company, we are representing as sure and certain a winner as is possible to find in the mining world, and we most sincerely recommend that persons desiring to purchase shares had better have the local agent of this company wire the amount of their subscription as soon as they make up their minds to subscribe, for the few shares in market will all be taken in a few days, and as the stock is subject to advance without notice, the price may be $25.00 within the next thirty days. This is not a speculative enterprise. We own something. We have put our money into it. It is an established property that only needs to be more thoroughly developed to be the largest of its kind in the world among our race. We ask you to invest all you can in this stock at its present price $6.25 per share. It is certain to go to par, and beyond it. We are at the point where we must spread out, and it is for this reason we offer you this stock at $6.25 per share. Each one must decide this matter for himself. The question with you should be: Do you consider this a good investment? It is not a mine that may or may not contain the mineral you think it does. This land lies in the proven territory, around which are some of the largest wells in the Mid-Continent oil field, and every cent invested will go towards the further development of this tract of land. The investor unfamiliar with the inside workings of larger businesses often feel doubtful of stock that sells below par, but there is nothing unusual in that. All fortunes are made by getting in at the beginning, where money is needed and officers will give a bonus for ready cash. The history of all great railroads and other corporations, and especially that of the great standard Oil company and the great Carnegie Steel company, proves this assertion. If you are anxious to get anything you must make every inducement. We need this money to drill ten additional wells, and when we have sold enough stock to enable us to drill these wells, the sale of stock will stop or the stock will be ob- tained only at its true price. You having helped us to get to that high place will share in the good fortune. Bank interest is no attraction for the smart investor. He knows his money is worth more than 3 per cent. You can make your money worth more than that by putting it into the Hamilton Oil and Gas company. The Hamilton Oil and Gas company is a corporation under the laws of the United States in force in the Indian Territory, with a capitalization of $1,000,000. This company owns the south half of the S.W.1-4 of the N.E.1-4, and the N.W.1-4 of the N.W.1-4 of the N.E.1-4 of Section 31, Township 28 N., Range 13 East of the Indian base of meridian, and contains 30 acres. This land lies about four miles southwest of Copan, I. T., and about twelve miles north of Bartlesville, in the Indian Territory, and ten miles south of Caney, Kansas. Wehave two large oil producing wells in operation. One boiler, two engines, one boiler house, enough material on the ground to drill another well, 2,600 feet of casing, 2,600 feet of tubing, 1,300 feet of gas pipe, which we use in securing gas from our own wells without any cost whatever, and a good fifteen horse power Reid gas engine. In addition thereto we have a receiving tank with a capacity of 100 barrelsand two 250-barrel storage tanks. We are just eight miles from the famous gas wells that caught on fire sometime in February last, which is now producing sixty-three million cubic feet of gas a day, a regular volcano, the largest well in the world. The average depth of an oil well in this vicinity is 1,300 feet. We drill through from 20 to 100 feet of oil producing sand. It is not a rare occurrence for people to bring in a new well every few days producing from 200 to 1,000 barrels per day. As before stated, we have room for ten more wells, and we propose to build them as soon as we have sold enough stock to raise the money. We feel that, situated as we are, in the greatest oil field in the world, we have the same chance to strike these large wells as any one. It is not like the search for gold, for we have already two large producing wells, and our property is in a well proven territory. We feel thoroughly convinced that when well No. 3 is completed it will show a daily production of not less than 300 barrels per day. In the Dewey oil field, which lies just south of our land, there are a large number of wells with a daily production of 800 barrels. PDICE OF STOCK Any person desiring to invest as much as $1,000 in this stock, the par value of which is $25.00 per share, may do so on a 20 per cent basis, or $5.00 per share. Parties taking a less amount may have the same on a 25 per cent basis, or $6.25 per share. Every share of stock bought at the low price at which it sells today is sure to rise enormously in value and pay steady dividends at such astonishing rate of interest that even a small investment is likely to grow to a substantial fortune and make the investor independent of all business care. This is a safe investment, the project appealing to thrifty people with ability to see for themselves, andat once, how different it is from the majority of other risky stocks that are offered for a few cents per share, and are very dear at that. We urge any man or woman whose money is not earning what it should to come and see for themselves, what an unusual chance the Hamilton Oil and Gas company offers for safe investment and wealth-giving profits. You will not be able to buy the stock at the present price very long. HOW OPERATED. The operation of these wells is simple. The oil is pumped up by a fifteen horse power Reid engine into the storage tank, and then run into the receiving tanks. We have a pipe line running from the receiving tanks to the pipe line of the Standard Oil company. When the tanks have been filled we notify the agent of the Standard and he comes, unlocks the faucet, and the oil is run from our tanks to the Standard pipe line, which runs from our wells to Whiting, Indiana. The agent then gives us what is called a "run ticket," showing the amount of barrels run, the gravity of oil and tank numbers. The property is owned and controlled solely by negro capitalists, the only corporation of its kind in the United States. The officers are: President—W. H. Smith, of Muskogee, I. T. First Vice President and Field Manager—Louis T. Brown, of Muskogee, I. T. Second Vice President—A. B. Knight, of Pine Bluff, Ark. Secretary—H. Augustus Guess, of South McAlester, I. T. Treasurer-E. E. McDaniel, of South McAlester, I. T. Honorable J. T. C. Newsom, in "The Bee" of September 22nd, 1906, after having visited our wells and inspected our property, says: (Mr. J. C. T. Newsom, of Washington, D. C., in the Bee, September 22, 1906.) "This is an enterprise owned and operated exclusively by colored men. I found by a personal visit to the wells that they really exist--that they are strong, healthy and active, far beyond my expectation. These conditions, moreover are very desirable for investment, in that shares at present are low. Mr. W. H. Smith, a prosperous colored merchant of Wagoner, is president of the company. He carries $20,000 to $25,000 worth of stock of clothing, dry goods and shoes, the largest carried by any other merchant, white or colored, in Wagoner. He is worth in all, about $60,000. Among his neighbors and the bankers of Wagoner, as well as others who know him, I find his standing to be of the very best. They report him as honorable up-right, farsighted, and a man who has been eminently successful in his own business; hence he can be safely trusted with the affairs of others. "The wells of the Hamilton Oil and Gas company are not located in Wagoner, but about eight miles southwest of Wanu, I. T., which is reached by the "Katy" railroad, or three miles southwest of Copan, on the Santa Fe. "Leaving the "Katy" train at Wann, I. T., you take the hack for an eight mile jaunt over the hills, till you reach the bottom of the Caney. The road takes you in a circuitous route by the Rockefeller tank farm. This farm contains 400 large iron tanks, arranged at uniform distances in rows, covered, and contain 35,000 barrels of oil each. Around each tank is a dyke-like bank of earth. Through this bank of the circle thus formed is a draw pipe, so that if a tank were accidentally to catch on fire by lightning or otherwise, a cannon which is conveniently placed, is fired at the bottom of the burning tank, pierces it and unloads the oil into the pool formed by the dyke, whence it is drawn into the Standard pipes and saved by the company. "This particular tank farm is called the "baby farm," as the Standard has many others much larger. It has another not many miles away comprising 640 acres literally covered with tanks.. "Material is already on the ground for digging the third well, after which the price of stock will be advanced. "The company has 30 acres of land, enough territory for sinking ten wells in all. It is the plan to sink one well each month until the ten have been sunk. "What an immense opportunity, it seems to me, for colored men of small means, and for colored men of large means for that matter, to make money! There is no possible chance to lose out. It will be like putting your money into a national bank at 100 per cent interest. As you stand there watching a continuous stream of oil pour forth from the ground, it is like watching so much money pour out. "Such is the status of one of the most successful and gigantic enterprises yet undertaken by colored men." Mr. Newsom is the company's special representative for Washington, Baltimore and Richmond. The Hon. W. L. Taylor, president of the Grand Fountain of United Order of True Reformers, in a letter to our company says this: Richmond, Va., Nov. 28, 1906. "Hamilton Oil and Gas Co., Muskogee, Ind. Ter. : "Gentlemen:At the solicitation of the Hamilton Oil and Gas Co.I visited you properties in Indian Territory on October 15th and made a personal examination of your properties, as shown me, as well as the production of two wells which were then in operation, producing a very large quantity of oil per day. The thirty acres of ground, which you claim belong to the company, appears to me to lie in a very productive oil belt, and when you shall have put in operation the eight or ten additional wells, I most sincerely believe that the proposition will, indeed, be a great paying investment. "As you know, I have invested some of my money in a large block of your stock, and only regret that I have not more that I might in- crease my holdings. I believe that you have a real business proposition and, if properly managed, am of the opinion that the stockholders will point to the ir investments with a great degree of pride and consider their holdings with satisfaction. "Very truly yours. This is a money making proposition for all who make investment. People in the oil field are acquiring wealth every day. It is here for all to investigate and inspect. After a thorough investigation you will find that it is more than we claim for it. The oil has been tested by experts and has a high grade, parafine base, a fatty substance, and its intrinsic value is within ten cents a barrel of what the White Sand oil of Pennsylvania is worth, which has brought $2.60 a barrel. In any neighborhood where there are several persons who would purchase stock in this company if they were certain our company is all we claim for it, we will pay the transportation of any reliable person they may select to go and make a personal examination W. T. Escoe, Pres. J. B. McCulloch, Vice Pres. PEOPLE'S BANK AND General Banking, C We conduct a safe and co- lines of banking, make bond, a sell lands, rent and collect renta- ing" department. We expect yo Muskogee, : : E. A. For your Drugs, STATIC 106 Main Official Statement o Commercial Muskogee. Inc E. A. Estes Your Drugs, Shool Book STATIONERY. 06 Main Street Official Statement of the Condition of the Commercial Nation'l Bank Muskogee. Indian Territory RESOURCES Accounts $712,003 95 Button, 25,989 61 Cesiums, 206'080 49 Fixtures 7,985 11 Change 189,093 48 LIABILITIES Capital Surplus and Profit Circulation Deposits $1,141,152 64 statement correct D N FINK. Ca PEOPLE'S BANK AND TRUST COMPANY General Banking, Capital Stock, $50,000 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 anc patronage. Muskogee, : : : : Ind. Ter. E. A. Estes For your Drugs, Shool B00ks and STATIONERY. 106 Main Street. 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 $1,141,152 64 The above statement correct IOWA BUILDING This Company makes absolutely correct abstracts of title. Go there for correct information. Next to Bank of Muskogee, Muskogee to Bank of Muskogee, Muskogee of our wells and property. Do you know of any other company that will do the same? The offices of the company are at rooms 5 and 6, Jones building, Muskogee, I. T., and South McAlester, I. T., where a representative of the company can always be found and will gladly give you any information desired. A cordial invitation is given to one and all to call in and make inquiry about the company. For further information write either of the following gentlemen, as they have made a personal examination of our wells. Dr. C. M. Wade, Hot Springs, Ark. G. D. Dukes, Dermott, Ark. A. Ivey, Morrell, Ark. B. F. Jtnkins, Hot Springs, Ark. Dr. J. E. Perry, 704 E. 12th St. Kansas City, Mo. Hon. W. L. Taylor, Richmond, Va. Hon. J. T. C. Newsome, Washington, D. C. Prof. O. E. Trent, Ft. Smith, Ark. Respectfully. THE HAMILTON OIL AND GAS CO. W. H. Sims, Secretary. J. E. Johnson, Treasurer-Cashier. Capital Stock, $50,000 conservative banking business in all act administrator of estate, buy and sales, and maintain an "Easy Sav- your co-operation anc patronage. Ind. Ter. Estes s, Shool Books and ONERY. in Street. of the Condition of the Nation'l Bank, Indian Territory, LIABILITIES 95 Capital $200,000 00 61 Surplus and Profit 21,572 39 49 Circulation 150,000 00 11 Deposits 759,530 25 64 $1,141,152 64 D N FINK Cashier, gee, Muskogee, I. T. FARMER MAIL ORDER MAGNATE CATALOG It's a Shell Game—You Pay Your Money Without Knowing What You Are Going to Get. HOME MERCHANTS GOOD REASONS WHY THEY DESERVE YOUR SUPPORT. MEANS MUCH TO COMMUNITY He is at the Head of the Things That Are Good for the Town and Yourself. (Copyright, by Alfred C. Clark.) The above head is a subject that can well be treated as open for discussion and consideration at any and all times. It is also a subject that should interest all persons who have at heart the welfare of the community in which he lives and who wishes to see it grow and prosper. No person can afford to do what he knows will work an injury to the community in which he lives. In justice to himself he cannot refuse his support to the home industries that are striving for existence and the welfare of the town in which he goes to do his trading. In considering this question it should be borne in mind that the country people, like all other American citizens, are always on the lookout for a place to invest their money that will bring them the biggest returns for the least expenditure; in this they FARMER CATALOG It's a Shell Game—You Pay Your M Going are right and are justified in so doing, but, at the same time they should remember that they are dependent on the home merchant for the money that they send to foreign markets. If they should stop to think how these catalogue houses are operated, and look into, and know, the true condition of affairs, probably they would reconsider the stand they had taken toward them. In many cases the people are ignorant of the true surroundings and inside operations of these concerns and think they are doing right in sending them their money. They are led to believe that what they get from the catalogue house is the same article that the home merchant sells, only at a much lower price. The majority of the people do not know that they are buying the cheapest article that can be manufactured and that they are in reality paying more for an inferior grade of goods than those sold by the home merchant, which probably cost them a few cents more. Since the catalogue house has sprung into the commercial world and begun operations in the United States, all kinds of schemes have been tried and worked to get the money from the people that are always looking for bargains. No expense has been spared in their struggle for the almighty dollar of the country people, and they have been so far successful, at the great expense of the home town of the people that sent their money to these concerns. Magazines have been started for the sole benefit of the catalogue house, and these circulated among the country people at ten or 15 cents a year. They build up a circulation on this low price of hundreds of thousands; this circulation brings to them millions of dollars in advertising from the catalogue houses and this money expended for advertising is more than doubled from the sales of these concerns to the country people who are losers by the transaction. Catalogues are sent out telling the people that the house from which they came is the cheapest place in the country to buy, and it is, if the person receiving this catalogue wants a cheap article, not only in price, but also in make and material. The farmer receives this catalogue, looks it over, and after reading the well composed guarantee or assurance that the goods described in it are the very best that can be found anywhere, sends in an order. The house receives the order and immediately ships the articles wanted. The farmer drives many miles to get them and when the box is opened it is found to contain something much below his expectations, but this does not satisfy his mind on the fact that he has been duped and that he is not getting his full money value. In a second order he may be treated the same as the first one, but still he may think that he has saved money by buying it where he could get it cheap. MAIL ORDER MAGNATE Money Without Knowing What You Are to Get. At the same time the merchant at home has the goods on the shelf in his store waiting for them to be taken away so that he can replace them with newer goods, thereby keeping his stock fresh and up-to-date. If he has not the article wanted he can order it from the wholesaler or manufacturer and it will be sent to the purchaser in as good condition and short time as if it had been ordered from a catalogue house. The home merchant's business must be kept up and in order to do this it is absolutely necessary that the people at home patronize him and help him keep up with the times, or else he will soon be out of the struggle for existence among the country people. The home merchant should not be expected to pay the highest price for produce and farm products and then be turned down by the seller of these articles when he wants anything in the merchant's line. He should be the first one to be consulted when the farmer intends buying. He should be seen and arrangements made for the purchase of the article, if he does not carry it in stock. The home merchant advertises or should advertise, in the home paper. This keeps the home paper in the field and helps the community along. The people take the home paper because it gives all the local news that they cannot get any other way and thus the advertisements of the merchants are read by them. If the people do not patronize the home merchant he cannot afford to advertise, and without advertising a paper will soon prove a failure. Soon the home paper is sent to the wall for the want of support from the merchants; it may have a large circulation, but without the merchant's help it will soon be lost to sight. Then the merchant is next to get out of business for the want of support, and the town will decrease in population, and the people will wonder what the trouble is when the editor and the merchant leave town together. The home merchant contributes to the support of the church, he pays his taxes to keep the schools up, he contributes to the horse show, the fall festival, and the hundred and one things that he is supposed to help out and give his support to. He is at the head of the list for everything that is for the good of the community and he deserves the honest and hearty cooperation of all the people, all the time, that are interested in the welfare of the community in which they live. The merchant helps to elect the men that are to represent them in the city, county, state and national affairs, and he is ever on the go looking to the interests of the people. The people like to be entertained and they will come many miles to some amusement given by the merchants of the town where they are ever ready to go to sell their farm products. The merchant cannot give these entertainments unless he has the support of the people and it is not fair to expect this of the men that are striving for a livelihood, when the people send their money to a concern in some far away city that will neither contribute to any of these enterprises or take an interest in the surroundings thereof. Home trading makes home industries, brings more to the town and keeps them there, and it helps to build up the place. But the town will be at a stand-still so long as the people persist in this way of robbing the home merchants of the right to live and do business among them. If the people will keep their money at home there will be no need for complaint. The place will assume a lively air, it will take on a metropolitan look, and the people will say to their neighbor that business is good, and it will be, as long as the people continue to trade in the home markets. The least that a person can do toward the betterment of the community and his own interests, is to keep the money at home and see to it that it is put where it is most needed and wanted. This should be a vital question to all concerned in the welfare of his community and it should be an established rule that one should not seek for things in other parts that he can get at home. FENTON J. LAWLER. Retort Courteous. The world is full of women who can amuse the ordinary man. They can sing, dance or recite in a manner most pleasing, but the poor man often goes begging for a woman who can sew on buttons or mend his clothes; who can cook his food with economy and flavor to his taste.—San Augustine Vidette. Miss Myrtle Loggins, the charming editor of the Vidette, can make the average man out hunting for a wife imagine he is being entertained by an angel, whether he does his courting in the kitchen or in the parlor. Those east Texas girls have a wonderful knack for flavoring a man's life to suit his taste, whether he be rich or poor.—Houston Post. Clever French Imitation. The French manufacture a paper linen so cleverly that it is almost impossible, without examination, to detect the difference between it and damask; and even to the touch the articles made of papier linge are very much like linen, and are often used in its place. U. S. DISPENSATORY U. S. DISPENSATORY Describes the Principal Ingredients Contained in Pe-ru-na. Are we claiming too much for Peruna when we claim it to be an effective remedy for chronic catarrh? Have we abundant proof that Peruna is in reality such a catarrh remedy? Let us see what the United States Dispensatory says of the principal ingredients of Peruna. Take, for instance, the ingredient hydrastis canadensis, or golden seal. The United States Dispensatory says of this herbal remedy, that it is largely employed in the treatment of depraved mucous membranes, chronic rhinitis (nasal catarrh), atonic dyspepsia (catarrh of the shomach), chronic intestinal catarrh, catarrhal jaundice, (catarrh of the liver) and in diseased mucous membranes of the pelvic organs. It is also recommended for the treatment of various forms of diseases peculiar to women. Another ingredient of Peruna, corydalis formosa, is classed in the United States Dispensatory as a tonic. So also is cubebs classed as a stomachic and as a tonic for the mucous membranes. Cedron seeds is another ingredient of Peruna, an excellent drug that has been very largely overlooked by the medical profession for the past fifty years. The seeds are to be found in very few drug stores. The United States Dispensatory says of the action of cedron that it is used as a bitter tonic and in the treatment of dysentery, and in intermittent diseases as a substitute for quinine. Oil of copaiba, another ingredient of Peruna, is classed by the United States Dispensatory as a mild stimulant and diuretic. It acts on the stomach and intestinal tract. It acts as a stimulant on the genito-urinary membranes. Useful in chronic cystitis, chronic dysentery and diarrhea, and some chronic diseases of the liver and kidneys. Send to us for a free book of testimonials of what the people think of Peruna as a catarrh remedy. The best evidence is the testimony of those who have tried it. Clung to Old Fashions. Augustus Squire, for 65 years a member of the Cutlers' company, London, whose death, in his ninety-third year, is announced, always burnt candles in his house, for he would never have gas or electricity laid on. He never sent a telegram in his life, never used the telephone, and hardly ever rode in a train, traveling by bus, carriage, cab or boat. THIS IS WORTH SAVING. Valuable Advice and Recipe by Well Known Authority. The following simple home-made mixture is said to relieve any form of Rheumatism or bachache, also cleanse and strengthen the Kidneys and Bladder, overcoming all urinary disorders, if taken before the stage of Bright's disease: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Mix by shaking well in a bottle and take in teaspoonful doses after meals and at bedtime. A well-known authority states that these ingredients are mainly of vegetable extraction, and harmless to use, and can be obtained at small cost from any good prescription pharmacy. Those who think they have kidney trouble or suffer with lame back or weak bladder or Rheumatism, should give this prescription a trial, as no harm can possibly follow its use, and it is said to do wonders for some people. One of the most pitiable things in the world is a man whose chief enjoyment is in listening to stories that he can't tell to his children. . r c ji prensa 2. de Bice a EY | aes : oe eg 7 a + ECO Aiboy Reta) ah Ls y , cael ty hi ae x ‘ ve EDA. fi ae eo Hn: R OB. tin. q , a oo ei ee ha i And F hs ong ; j Ri eae aren. fo ihe Sons: Suede : Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use ‘LA CREOLE” HAIR RESTORER. Price, $1.00, retail. Dresses, Cloake, Ribbons, Suits, ete. gan_be made to look like new with PUT NAM FADELESS DYES. 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A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Accept no sub- stitute. Trial package, FREE. Ad- dress A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. St. Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R. A., was intended for the law, and his -parents sc disliked the idea of his studying art that he was obliged to rise early in the morning in order to paint. “It Knocks the Itch.” It may not cure all your ills, but it does cure one of the worst. It cures any form of itch known—no mat- ter what it’s called, where the sensa- tion is “itch,” it Knocks it. Eczema, ringworms, are cured by one box. It's guaranteed, and its name is Hunt's Cure. cod Se eae Cardinal Fond of Golf. Cardinal Merry del Val, the Pope’s secretary of state, is a keen golfer. Twice in each week he plays over a private course in the grounds of the Villa Doria-Pamphili. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local appiications, a8 thoy cannot reach the dir eased portion of the ear. There 1s only one way to cure deafness, and that ts by constitutional remedies, Deatuoss ts catved by an {nilumed condition of tuo mucous ining of the Eustachian Tube. Whea this tube fe inflawed you have a rumbling sound or im- Derfeet hearing, aud when {t ts entirely closed, Deaf- ness ta the result, and unless the tnflauimation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condl- ton, Dearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out Of ten are caused by Catarrh, which 1s notlring Dut an tndamed condition of the mucous surface. We will give One Hundred Doilars for any case of Desfness (caused by catarrhy that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free, F, J, CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Bold by Drugatats, 7c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation, French Vineyards, The vineyard area of France in 1906 was 4,195,500 acres yielding a wine production of 1,375,774,921 gallons, Production has steadily increased since 1900, when it was 1,779,267,568 gallon, oe A Household Necessity. I would almost as soon think of running my farm without implements as without Hunt's Lightning Oil. Of all the jiniments I have ever used, for both man and beast, it i. the quickest in action and richest in results. For burns and fresh cuts it is absolutely wonderful. I regard it as a house- hold necessity. Yours truly, 8. Harrison, Kosciusko, Miss. ( Products from Pine. In 1905 the pine distilling establish- ments in the United States numbered 15; the wood distilled amounted to 16,969 cords, valued at $42,805, and the output was as follows: 362,500 gallons, of tar, 434,780 gallons of oil, 238,180 gallons of turpentine and 300,106 bush- els of charcoal. AILING WOMEN How Many Perfectly Well Women Do You Know? a MO We Coe ‘6 LY ATED e \, eZ co ike. NN IX. aif ff BIS PT PP y SINS WS ~ \ MISS GRACE E.MILLER MRS.W. S. FORD “I am not feeling very well,” “I am so nervous it seems as though I should fly.” “My back aches as though it would break.” How often do you hear these signi- ficant expressions from women friends. More than likely you speak the same words yourself, and there is a cause. More than thirty years ago Lydia E. Pinkham of Lynn, Mass. discovered the source of nearly all the suffering endured by her sex. ‘‘Woman’'s Ills,” these two words are full of more misery to women than any other two words that can be found in the English language. Sudden fainting, depression of spirits, reluctance to go anywhere, backaches, headaches, nervousness, sleeplessness, bearing- down sensations, Sr and irregularities are the e of woman's existence, The same woman who discovered the cause of all this misery also discovered a remedy, Lydia B. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound made from native roots and herbs holds the record for a greater number of absolute cures of female ills than any other one remedy the world has ever lmown and it is the greatest blessing which ever came into the lives of suffering women, Don't try to endure, but eure the cause of all your suffering. Lydia BE. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles, The following letters prove this: SICK HEADACHE 4] Positively cured by these Little Pills, ‘They also relieve Dis- uress from Dyspepsia, In- ITTLE digestion and Too Hearty i Vv E R Eating, <A perfect rem- edy for Dizziness, Nausea, PILLS, |>rowsiness, Baa Taste fn the Mouth, Coated ‘Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER, They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable, SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE, RE CARTERS| Genuine Must Bear ICT Fac-Simile Signature PILLS. (ea ta0 REFUSE SUBSTITUTES, " Onr_ catalogue bg ZE> Brocivession ot seis Bag ion aac SF be cach varity a varneetnene In His Father's Footsteps. Allan Sankey, son of the famous sing- ing revivalist, is following his father’s footsteps as a composer, and some of his hymns are popular in New England revivai meetings, Knockers get big audiences, but no gate receipts, «y «684 YEARS SELLING DIRECT 5 Roe Qurvebicien and harness hav een soi dine from aur factory to user fo SRD eg TDD, Bilirdofacertury. We ship for examination and approvat aud quae _ \\MIN PRA ere antce safe delivery. You are out nothing if pot satisfied as to — ac K) styic, Guaiity and’ price. alee “aN We are the Largest Manatacturers in the World. (6am) No, 756, Bike Wagon with selling to the consumer exclusively. We make 900 styles of AX WS CRY Fite Wing Dash, Automos Vebicles, 0b styies of Harness. Send for large, free catalogue, SCZ) Cd tcetitubter Hye. Pree Elkhart’ Carriage & Harness Mig. Co, — Np,00, “raven tow? complete, $158.50. Elkhart, Indiana Pinte, with stn see @58 50. THe ALCOHOL and DRUG ADDICTIONS POSITIVELY CURED by a scientific course of medication, The ONLY PLACE in the new state of KEELEY Oklalioma where the GENUINE KEELEY REMEDIES are adminis- tered, Printed matter free, Address THE KEELEY INSTITUTE, CURE 2525 University Bivd., Oklahoma City. Phone, 249. Mrs. W.S,. Lora OF vos Lansdowne St., Baltimore, Md, writes: Dear Mrs, Pinkham; “For four year’s my life was a misery to me. [suifered from irregularities, ‘sup- pression, terrible Arageing sensations and extreme nervousness, I had given up all hope of ever being well again when Lydia E. Pinkhant’s Vegetable Compound — was recommended. It cured my weakness and made me well and strong.” Miss Grace E. Miller, of 1213 Michi- gan St., Buffalo, N. Y. writes: Dear Mrs, Pinkham ;— “T was ina very bad condition of health generally; ieetaiie, ehtes, tabkncbe ant suffered from a feminine weakness. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Co:npound, cured me after all other medicines had failed.” What Lydia BE. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound did for Mrs. Ford and Miss Miller it will do for other women in like condition, Every suffering woman in the United States is asked to accept the following invitation. It is free, will bring you health and may save your life. Mrs. Pinkham’s invitation to Women. * Women suffering from any form of pemeiny weakness are invited to prone ly communicate with Mrs. inkham, at Lynn, Mass, From the symptoms given, the trouble may be located and the quickest and surest way of recovery advised. Out of her vast volume of experience in treating female ills Mrs. Pinkham probably has the very knowledge that wiil palp your case. Her advice is free and always helpful, To convince any woman that Pax. tine Antixeptie will improve her health and do all we eluim for it. We will send her absolutely free ® large trial box of Paxtine with book of Instruc- tions and genuine testimonials, Send your name and address on @ postal card, cleanses and heals mucous me m- brane af fections, such as nasal catarrhi, pelvie catarrh ‘and inflammation caused by feml- nine ills; sore eyes, sore throat and mouth, by direct loval treatment — Its eure ativé power over these troubics Is extras ordinary and gives immediate relief. Thousahds of women #re using and rece ommending it every day. & cents at druggists ory mail. Remember, however, IT COSTS YOU NOTHING TO TRY IT, THE RK. PAXTON CO., Boston, Mass. W.N. U., MUSKOGEE, NO. 9, 1907. 4 AN KN } p Ree YA Res A yy end et __ 1 \ ee | \ \SUGGESTS For Baby's First Bath and Subsequent Baths. Because of its delicate, emollient, sanative, anti- septic properties derived from Cuticura, united with! the purest of saponaceous ingredients and most re= freshing of flower odours,’ Cuticura Soap is all that the fondest of fond mothers de- siresforcleansing, preserving and purifying the skin, scalp, hair and hands of infantsand children. Guaranteed abso- lutely pure and may be used from the hour of birth. Depots" London, 27 Charterhouse 8q.; Parts, & Bes UNGe rope. ea Post-trce, Cutistzn oaks READERS of this paper de- siring to buy any- ems ())/1)7 Advertised in | its columns should insist upon having | what they ask for, refusing all substi- tutes or imitations, Arkansas Military ‘Academy LITTLE ROCK, ARK. Write for Catalogue to-day. COL. R. C. HALL, Superintendent. Creek Grocery co. Is the to get anything in the Groceries line. Number 304 South 2nd St. Phone 912. Pioneer Abstract Co. Martin's Meat Mrket A First Class Market in the down town district. Give him a chance. He will Satisfy You The Finest and Best Meats on the market at Living Prices. Call at 308 South 2nd St. MUSKOGEE TITLE & TRUST CO. GENERAL BANKING ABSTRACTS of TITLE, INSURANCE, SURETY BONDS and REAL ESTATE Farm Loans a Specialty Second and Broadway. MUSKOGEE, IND. TEB. 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. LOST-a little girl. Age ten; when last seen she wore a dark outing dress having a blue stripe and a brown stripe; she wore a green rag upon her head; good hair, she had on no cape or jacket. In walking, her ankles rubbed together and is wingfooted. When she left she had on a pair of course spring bottom shoes. Name, Etta Smith. She left nome on Feb. 20th and was last seen in the north part of town. $10 reward for her return. Bring her to 212 Elgin Ave. and receive your reward. Creek Gre Is the to get anything Number 304 South 2nd Pioneer A A First Class Market in the chance. He will Satisfy You the market at Living Prices. MUSKOGEE TITL GENERAL PHONE 1204. STUDY LAW AT HOME THE ORIGINAL SCHOOL. Instruction by mail adapted to everyone. Recognized by courts and educators. Experienced and competent instructors. Takes spare time only. Three courses—Preparatory, Business, College. Prepares for practice. Will better your condition and prospects in business. Students and graduates everywhere. Full particulars and special offer FREE. THE SPRAGUE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF LAW, 844 MARYSTEEN DR. DETROIT, MISCU. 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. ```markdown ``` poery co. g in the Groceries line. St. Phone 912. abstract Co. e down town district. Give him The Finest and Best Meats on call at 308 South 2nd St. FELIX MARTIN, Prop. E & TRUST CO. BANKING Notice. Muskogee, J. T. THE CIMETER JOB PRINTING GO. 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