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The Muskogee Cimeter. Muskogee, I. T., Vol 8 BILL DIRECTED AT NEGROES DRASTIC LAW PROPOSED Says Law Is to Prevent Blacks From Putting Hands On White Women Little Rock, Ark., March, 21 1907 Senator McKnight introduced in the senate today bill 346 which would make it unlawful for Negroes to wait upon or serve white persons as porters on trains, as barbers, and equally unlawful for white servants to wait upon Negroes.—Ex. Now Arkansas comes to the front with something new under the sun. What do you think of this? He claims that his object is to prevent Negro porters from helping white women on and off the trains and serving them in hotels. He goes further and makes it unlawful for a white person to wait on a Negro. Now it appears to us that we are getting things considerably mixed up in Arkansas. Now if it be unlawful to employ Negro porters and white porters be employed in their stead, and it be unlawful for them to wait upon a Negro, who will wait upon Negro women and children. No one. In Arkansas we have to ride in a little dirty jim crow and then pay the same fare that the whites pay who have the privilege of all the train. It appears to us that they should be satisfied with this oppression; but they seek to go further. They want to employ white porters so they can have a fair sweep at the Negro women. If he had gone further with the law and made it unlawful for a white man to be found in a Nogro woman's house after dark we could have seen some good to be accomplished by the law. The white man is the law maker and the law executing powers in America and because of this advantage over the Negro he continually tries to enact some law to oppress the Negro and show to the outside world his prejudice against him. The Negro is being imposed upon down south beyond endurance and the time will come when the good white people North and South will join hands with the Negro and see that he is treated like a man. No goverment can do well while it oppresses a part of its citizens to better the other part. No state can come to the front ih the essentials which go to make its people happy and prosperous while it allows one class of its citizens to legislate against another class be it white or black. The Negro of this country wants to do right and will do right if let alone. The Negroes of this country believe in a square deal for every body regardless of race or color. Why don't the southern white man treat the Negro thus. If he did all would be well.—Oklahoma Safe Guard. Now let them pass a bill to prevent white men from putting hands on colored women; but the devils wont do that because it would hit each member of the legislature. CALL. There will be a convention at Jones Hall Monday night April 15, for the purpose of electing delegates to attend the convention to be held in Oklahoma City April 22, 1907. All persons interested should attend. W. H. Twine. We are now advised that the Republican text book committee has been called to meet by Chairman Hammond. This is good news we don't know who constitutes the committee or what it is for but the very fact of its existence shows that Mr. Hammond has an occasional wakeful and lucid inter- Friday, April, 12, 1907. val.—Pheenix 4-10-1907. Does Douglass mean that Jake is asleep and crazy all the time except an oecasional and lucid interval? There must be some sour grapes around the sanctum of the Peoenix.—Ed. Some of the prominent state Repuublicans are asking how it happen that the party won such a victory in the recent election. There is no mystery about it at all. Compact organization, intelligent direction and a olean ticket accomplished the sesult. Is it hoping too much to expect the State committee to apply the same methods to the state campaign?—Phoenix 4-10, 1907. Sure. A compact organization, intelligent directfon and a clean ticket. The big cusses who directed former campaigns were sleeping in their tents while the common ordinary fellows and the boys in the trenches did the biz. Ed. Notice. In the United States Court for the Western District of Indian Territory, Muskogee, No. 7408. In Re Incorporation of the town cf Taft, Indian Territory. Notice is hereby given that on the 8th, day of May 1907, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, the undersigned agent in the above entitled cause, will call up for hearing in the United States Court for the Western District of Indian Territory, at Muskogee, the petition filed herein, asking that the town of Taft, Indian Territory be incorporated as a town under the laws now in force in the Indian Territory and setting forth in substance that the said town of Taft is located in the Western District of the Indian Territory, on the Midland Valley railroad; that there are nearly 400 persons residing permanently within the limits of No 28 the said town and that it will be to the best interests of the said residents to allow said petition incorporating the town of Taft. A. Cole, Agent of petitioners. Patterson & Lilley, Attorneys for petitioners. Now is the time to build that Convention Hall and make Muskogee the convention city of the New state. The Phoenix man is trying who will run for senator from this place. Douglars wants one to pull down. Now which one does he favor, Rutherford his old time friend, or Owen who owns $2,500 stock in the Phoenix. When a white man offered $25 a month for the privelege of being sanitary officer, and a negro offered $10, and a tie vote resulted in the council (Coleman and Hurley voting for the negro,) Mayor Chaney cast his vote for the negro. We admire his consistency. He is under obligation to the colored brethren and he is hastening to pay them. The people had their choice in the platforms of the two parties, and they elected a Republican mayor. They would have no legititmate right to kick if they got a negro policeman or two.—South McAlestor Capital, 4-10, 1907. Just think here is a Democrat who wauts to take even the job of liftum dungi from the Negro and offers $25 to the Negro's 10 plunks to get it. A policeman or or two in that old town would lend at least a little color to the occasion and incidentally improve the police force. But then the Democrat has always been against the Negro and would rather have a white man take a degraded place to keep the Negro out. 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. LEWIS' SINGLE BINDER 5CIGAR HAS A RICH TASTE You naturally would prefer to treat yourself at home, for any form of female trouble, wouldn't you? Well, it can be done. No reason why you should not be able to relieve or cure your suffering, as thousands of other women have done, by proper use of the Cardui Home Treatment. Begin by taking Joe Moorhead, of Archibald, I. T., writes: "My wife had suffered for years from female trouble. On your advice, I gave her the Cardui Home Treatment, and now she hardly suffers at all." Sold by druggists. 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Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after an operation has been decided upon as the only cure. The strongest and most grateful MISS ROSE MOORE MERCHANT SIC 'IM MAIL ORDER MAGNATE CHITRON Intelligent advertising means "slicing the bulldog power and tenacity of the local press on the competition offered the home merchant by the catalogue houses. Intelligent advertising means the employment of mail-order methods in combating the mail-order evil. ROAD TO SUCCESS PUBLICITY IS THE MAIL-ORDER MAN'S GREAT WEAPON. MERCHANTS MUST ADVERTISE "Fight Fire with Fire" and the Dollars Now Going Cityward Will Stay in the Home Community. The merchant who would wage successful warfare against mail-order competition should study mail-order methods. The same tactics that takes the dollar out of the community will keep it at home. And what are mail-order methods? The keynote of it all may be found in the one word—publicity. The mail-order house advertises. It does not advertise better goods at less money than the home merchant gives, but it advertises persistently. It puts its proposition before the public constantly. It recognizes no dull season in its campaign for publicity. It never lets up. At a gathering in Iowa some time ago a mail-order man explained some of the system followed in the campaign of publicity. According to this explanation the mail-order house seeks the line of least resistance in its MERCHA MAIL ORDER MAGNATE Intelligent advertising means "s nacity of the local press on the compe the catalogue houses. Intelligent ad mail-order methods in combating th search for business. Whenever they can find a town in which the merchants are not active advertisers they flood that community with their literature. When they find a town in which the furniture dealer, for example, is afraid to use printer's ink they pay particular attention to the subject of furniture. They are searching for the weakest link in the chain of home defenses. Something of this is explained by the conditions the writer saw in a mill town in northern Wisconsin. The local paper carried practically no local advertising when the size of the town was considered, and the stores of the town were but small affairs. In talking to one of the merchants he complained that more than $25,000 was sent from that community to the Chicago mall-order houses each month. "That is easily twice the amount that is spent in all the stores in this town put together each month," he explained. "Merchandizing don't pay in such a place as this." A few hours later the writer was talking with the publisher of the local paper, and the conversation turned to local advertising, or rather the lack of it. "I was very much tempted to accept a proposition which I received from one of the Chicago mail-order houses a few days ago," said the publisher. "I still have the proposition here on my desk. They offer me a cash contract at my regular display rates for 1,500 inches, to be used during the year, and in addition to the cash advertising they offer me a small commission on all the new business secured in this county during the life of the contract. They say their business in this county during the last 12 months was approximately $8,000 per month, and I would secure a small percentage on all business done over this amount during the next 12 months." "Have you shown that proposition to the merchants of this town?" I asked. "I have, and it didn't move them," he replied. "They simply say it don't pay to advertise. I would jump at the offer if it were not for the fact ANT. SIC 'IM THE PRESS CATHOLIC 'sicing the bulldog power and te- petition offered the home merchant by advertising means the employment of the mail-order evil. that I cannot bring myself to the point of doing that which I know will help to kill this community." There was an illustration of mail-order methods. The wide-awake mail-order man proposed to reap a golden harvest from the field the very-much-asleep local merchant would not cultivate. Does it pay to advertise? The more than $200,000,000 that finds its way to the Chicago mail-order houses each year is garnered by a campaign of advertising. You, Mr. Local Merchant, claim, and rightly, that you can sell the same goods for the same or less money, than the mail-order houses offer, but at the same time you complain because the mail-order man gets the business. Why do they get it? Because they advertise. They not only advertise, but they advertise in your field, and they advertise in your field because you do not. They select towns, or special lines where they do not have to meet the competition that is offered by local advertising, and they make advertising pay. We want the people to trade at home; we want them to build up the home community; we want to see the dollars kept in circulation here that one and all of the local people may prosper. We do not want to see the fortunes of the city mail-order man built at the expense of the local community, but we know absolutely the value of publicity, and we know the mail-order houses will capture the dollars if the local merchants will not fight fire with fire; will not show the public what they can buy and at what price. Let us go back to this northern Wisconsin town and see what opportunities the merchants there were sacrificing. It was a mill town, and in no way an agricultural community. There were not 20 farms within a radius of as many miles. The industry was lumber, and the money to run the mills came from the city. The nearly 1,000 employes were paid in city money, and with a little effort on the part of the merchants in that town this money might have been kept in the town. It might have been made to build a permanent prosperity. But no, the merchants left a wide field for the mail-order houses which they improved, and the money that might have built a town that would have stood after the lumber interests are gone and the mills are closed has been allowed to return to the city from which it came, and now every lofty pine that falls but drives another nail in the coffin of the town, and all because the merchants did not believe it would pay to advertise. WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. Child Turning Purple. Mary Eighotz, three years old, of New York, is turning purple. The doctor says she is suffering with a disease known as purpura hemorrhagica. The child's mother first noticed the changing color three weeks ago. While bathing the girl she detected small purple spots on various parts of the body. Alarmed, she applied home remedies, but the spots continued to spread. The child's body presents the appearance of being tattooed. Almost the entire body is covered, with the exception of the face, which thus far has not been affected. While most of the time the blotches are of a mellow purple, they occasionally change to a deep plum color or a dull red. Some blotches are as large as a penny, others are no larger than a pinhead. The disease is probably caused by a rheumatic germ. "Will" Yourself to Sleep. Fortunate is the woman who has successfully cultivated the habit of sleeping at will. It is said that Miss Julia Marlowe can rest between scenes of the most exacting plays by her ability to drop asleep when she pleases. These little periods of unconsciousness are great restorers, and there need be no special preparation for them. We associate sleep with darkness and bed, but daylight, soft couches and easy chairs are just as good for sleeping purposes—only the power of will-concentration is lacking, and that is so general as to be a serious drawback to good work in all directions. We see women of splendid health and poise, of strong mentality, and we marvel at their "gifts" when the whole secret of their power lies in concentration. "Beauty Doctors'" Harvests. Compounders of beauty lotions, bleaches, pastes and powders have thriven from time immemorial, though never as in the present, when fortunes are being steadily amassed by the gentry who cater to the inborn yearning of womankind to improve upon nature's gift.—Family Doctor. Carpets from Paper. The proprietors of an Austrian carpet factory at Maffersdorf are stated to have acquired German patents which embody a method of manufacturing carpets or floor coverings from paper. The new material can be made in all colors, is washable and will probably prove itself a rival to linoleum. Painting for Profit No one will question the superior appearance of well-painted property. The question that the property-owner asks is: "Is the appearance worth the cost?" Poor paint is for temporary appearance only. 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We have a united party, and that means we can beat the Democrats any old time. There will be a great gathering of the Colored people of the new state at Oklahoma City on the 22nd, at which time the position of the Negro touching the jim crow constitution will be defined. To the victors belong the spoils, is what we believe It is a great reflection upon the party to say by appointments that we have not the Republicans capable of filling all the offices. Every appointive office should be held by a Republican. That is the only way to build up the party in this locality. The Democrats always fill the offices with Democrats when they are in power and the Republicans should act with the same loyalty toward their party. The Phoenix and Douglass favor the adoption of the constitution and amending it after wards. This reminds us of the boast of the fellow who said he would go to hell and change the climate by amending the constitution. We stand the same chance of amending the outfit that the Republicans in Arkansas and Texas stand to amend the constitutions of those twin hells. Our only hope is to vote the devilish thing down. 50.000 Colored voters will register against the jim crow disfranchising constitution and there are a number of Indians who will do the same. There are a number of whites who be lieve in jnstice and right who will vote against the outfit called a constitution. The Negroes of the doubtful states of the Union will give all the aid and assistance they can to the Negroes of the new state in defeating the jim crow constitution. 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. Do you catch the idea? E. A. Estes For your Drugs, Shool B00ks and STATIONERY. 106 Main Street. The fire department is out of politics but some of the memwere guilty of offensive partisanship during the last city campaign. They had the right to vote the Democssatic ticket if they are Democrats but they have no right to quit their work work and get in the game and villify the party that gives them the chance to earn their daily bread. Keep the fire department out of politics by keeping its members out. If the present force cant do that then there are others. This Company makes absolutely correct abstracts of title. Go there for correct information. Next to Bank of Muskogee, Muskogee, I. T. We are trying to get the facts concerning the mobbing of the Negro at Durant. As soon as we do we will give the public the edtire story of the murderers who were too cowardly to give a poor defenceless prisoner a chance for his life, No one but a cowardly cnr would shoot a man down who was in chains. A brave man fights in the open and on the square but the cowards in Durant who recently came from the twin hells, Arkansas and Texas could not do other than follow their old customs. : Kirshbaum : GENTS EURNISHING GOODS CF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. Shirts, Hats, Underwear, Suit Cases $500 REWARD The New State Anti-Lynch Law Bureau offers and will pay the sum of $500 to any person, or persons, for the apprehension and conviction of the leader or leaders of the mob that murdered James Williams at Durant, Indian Ter. Creek Grocery eo. W. H. Twine, President, Muskogee, I. T. Is the to get anything in the Groceries line. Number 304 South 2nd St. Phone 912. E. I. Saddler, Secretary, Guthrie, O. Ty. Address all communidations to E. I. Saddler, Guthrie, Okla. Ter. General office. STUDY LAW AT HOME Prepare for success at the bar, in business or public life, by mail, in the ORIGINAL SCHOOL. Founded in 1800. Successful. Approved by bar and law colleges. Public College Law Course and Business Law Course. 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FREE A $75 Lot will be given free FREE To the first man who sees us and arranges to at once build a STORE on the lot ond put in a stock of groceries. COME AND SEE US AT ONCE. If You Can't Come To See Us Write Us and We Will Look After A Lot For You. We Want Out of Town Agents In Other Places Outside of Muskogee. The Lincoln Park Company. ROOM 212 Illinois Building, over Graham and Sykes. Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, EDITOR Energy and Enjoyment. A marked feature of man's progress is indicated by our broadening view of the value of healthful enjoyment. And it is, indeed, recreation to relax and give ourselves up to simple amusements that bring to the active brain and tired body fresh energy. Men count it as much a duty to give simple entertainment to their families as they do to provide them with necessary food and clothing, and year by year we are coming nearer to this idea of the value of relaxation. With a wise and proper education in thought, this matter of entertainment becomes more and more simple, and gives a greater degree of satisfaction. In the crowds upon our streets and in the busy centers of all material activity, one may read in the faces of the people the story of ambition and alertness. And, as during the closing years of a good man's life, when his work has been successful and he can look back with pride to days of busy effort, he allows himself a restful ease—so we, with all our rush and hurry that have won us success, will begin to take to ourselves the quiet and restful enjoyment of perfected life. An Example of Unselfishness. A noteworthy example of high-mindedness and unselfishness was recently set by a southern woman bearing an honored name. A resolution was introduced in the state senate of North Carolina providing a pension of $100 per month for the by-no-means-rich widow of the famous General "Stonewall" Jackson. Of its passage there would have been little doubt, says Leslie's Weekly, had Mrs. Jackson herself not interposed. But she promptly wrote a letter to the senate, saying that the present state laws limit all pensions to persons who have not $500 of personal property, and as she possessed more than that she requested that the bill be withdrawn and the money it was proposed to give her be appropriated for the relief of destitute widows of confederate veterans. Mrs. Jackson's plea was heeded, and now she is held in even higher general esteem than ever before. There are some oddities in Chili connected with the sphere of woman that deserve mention, says National Magazine. One is that women act as conductors on the street cars. Everywhere the passenger meets the woman conductor armed with her bag and, as Mark Twain had it, "the blue trip slip for a five-cent fare," collecting the coins fully as well as her masculine competitor and much more politely. In the shoe stores all the "salesmen" are girls and women, and in the telegraph offices in city and country young women are invariably found as operators. And they do their work well, too. But to offset this, in a Chilean hotel or boarding house, and in many residences, men do the work of the chambermaid. American ladies are always shocked to find that a man servant "takes care" of the sleeping rooms in the hotels of Chili. Out in Iowa there is a man with 27 children and 42 grandchildren who has just married a woman of 22. What his children and grandchildren has done to him is not stated. They say that that spot on the sun is only 3,540,000,000 miles square. No wonder so few of us can see it! DARK PLOT UNEARTHED HEARST - HARRIMAN - ROCKEFEL LER COMBINE IS ALLEGED Roosevelt Hears of Scheme to Expend Five Million Dollars to Destroy His Influence in Congress and Future Nation WASHINGTON: It is said on authority at the White House that there is ample evidence at hand for the claim the president holds that there is a movement to defeat his policies in the next congress and in the next national convention. It is declared that the "Hearst-Harriman-Rockefeller combination" has already a fund of $5,000,000 with which to carry on its campaign in opposition to the president. It was further authoritatively said: "They are gathering up the loose ends but the movement will flatten out. It is apparent in Ohio and Pennsylvania; in fact, it extends across the entire continent. The scheme was thoroughly divulged at a recent dinner and reached the White House through a friend of the president. The scheme of the people behind the movement is to buy newspapers, public men and others who may assist the opponents of the president in their work." URGED TO MAKE PROOF U. S. Commissioners' Terms Will Expire With Coming of Statehood GUTHRIE: For the reason that all United States commissioners' and United States court commissioners' terms of office expire with statehood, the homesteaders throughout western Oklahoma, in particular, are being urged to make final proofs on their land as rapidly as possible, else otherwise it will then be necessary for the homesteaders to visit either the United States land office or the county seat wherein the land is located, in order to make final proof. As it is, however, a United States commissioner is located in practically every town in western Oklahoma and they are authorized to receive final proofs. In rescinding his former order which called for a special inspector in cases of final proof President Roosevelt has now made it possible for any homesteader, who contemplates proving up, to do so without waiting for the arrival from Washington of a special inspector. This does not, however relieve the order as first made, demanding that the residence be twelve months instead of six before final proof can be made. An interesting decision has been made by the government land office at Lawton, in the case of Herbert Manzale, of Oklahoma City. Although not yet twenty years old, Manzale has been married two years, and made the claim therefor, that although not of age, yet he was the head of a family and therefore could legally homestead a claim. He was allowed to file. In another instance of similar nature Mrs. Mary M. Ashurst of Chattanooga was allowed to file on a claim as the head of a family. She showed that she had been doing the manual work of the family family for several years. BURNED TO DEATH Five Year Old Child Burned in Its Mother's Absence VINITA: Little Lila Wicked, aged five years, was so painfully burned here that she died in six hours. Her mother, Nancy Wicked, was away from home at the time. The supposition is that the child's clothes caught fire from the stove. Refuges on Mont Blanc. Losing one's self on Mont Blanc will soon be counted among the vanished industries. In recent years a number of fine refuges have been built in various parts of the mountain by the Alpine clubs of England, France and other countries and by private individuals. These have made it almost impossible for a man having a bump of locality of average size to be lost, in spite of heavy mists and blinding snowstorms caused by sudden changes of temperature. SLEEP BROKEN BY ITCHING. Eczema Covered Whole Body for a Year—No Relief Until Cuticura Remedies Prove a Success. "For a year I have had what they call eczema. I had an itching all over my body, and when I would retire for the night it would keep me awake half the night, and the more I would scratch, the more it would itch. I tried all kinds of remedies, but could get no relief. "I used one cake of Cuticura Soap, one box of Cuticura, and two vials of Cuticura Resolvent Pills, which cost me a dollar and twenty-five cents in all, and am very glad I tried them, for I was completely cured. Walter W. Paglusch, 207 N. Robey St., Chicago, Ill., Oct. 8 and 16, 1906." WOMEN IN NEW FIELDS. British Smart Society Takes to "Hopping"—Woman Veterinary. Work in the hop fields is the latest "rest cure" fad for London's smart set, and the luxurious society "hoppers" claim that a week's hopping is far better and more pleasant than a rest at any well-known health resort. The tents of these well-to-do pickers are expensively furnished, and easy chairs, soft beds and up-to-date camping outfits are among their hopping appliances. In Berlin there is a woman veterinary surgeon who is an official inspector of animals. She rides through the streets on the lookout for animals suffering from any disablement, and before reporting a horse as unfit for work, she examines its injuries and whenever possible applies remedies to alleviate its pain. She carries a leather case filled with bandages and other surgical appliances. King Edward a Pigeon-Fancier. It may not be generally known that King Edward is fond of pigeon-racing, and has participated actively in it. His majesty has a big loft full of pigeons at Sandringham, where they are regularly and specially trained for long-distance races. Some years ago one of his birds won the biggest race of the year, the "Pigeon Derby," in a magnificent flight home from Lerwick. FIND OUT The Kind of Food That Will Keep You Well. The true way is to find out what is best to eat and drink, and then cultivate a taste for those things instead of poisoning ourselves with improper, indigestible food, etc. A conservative Mass. woman writes: "I have used Grape Nuts 5 years for the young and for the aged; in sickness and in health; at first following directions carefully, later in a variety of ways as my taste and judgment suggested. "But its most special, personal benefit has been a substitute for meat, and served dry with cream when rheumatic troubles made it important for me to give up the 'coffee habit.' "Served in this way with the addition of a cup of hot water and a little fruit it has been used at my morning meal for six months, during which time my health has much improved, nerves have grown steadier, and a gradual decrease in my comfort." Name given by Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." CARE OF THE SICK ROOM. Above All Things the Walls Should Be Kept Dry. When the bedroom becomes a sick room there is an added reason why extreme precautions should be used to keep the room in a thoroughly sanitary condition. Above all things, the bedroom should never be damp. It should be nice and dry, always warm and comfortable in winter, cool and airy in summer, and bright and sunny some parts of the day. If there is any suspicion of dampness in a bedroom it is probably due, if there is wallpaper on the wall, to the absorption of water by the paper which frequently acts as a blotting paper and holds quantities of water in it. The use of wallpaper on walls is to be deplored; it means disease, ill health and unhappiness. It is frequently the cause of lung trouble, not only because of its dampness but also because of its power to retain infection of many kinds. The desired method of treating a bedroom wall is to tint it for the alabastined wall is a perfect wall. It never flakes off, chips or peels. It absorbs moisture and expels it, it opens the pores of the plaster and makes a room livable and breathable. The floor in the bedroom should have light, cleanable, dainty rugs that can be easily shaken and a floor that is thoroughly oiled or varnished, that will not absorb moisture. The cracks in the floor should be thoroughly filled and covered. Woodwork in the bedroom should be attended to carefully, window sills should be thoroughly varnished or waxed, and the window casings kept in perfect order. The doors should be wiped off frequently as also should be all the standing woodwork in the bedroom, as the presence of dust on woodwork is a menace to health as well as an evidence of poor housekeeping. Every truth that comes home to us is a moral call, bidding us rise to a new position.—Goethe. The Timely Time. Last spring our entire family took a few weeks' course of Simmon's Sarsaparilla and its effects were extremely gratifying. We enjoyed better health all summer than usual, which we attribute to its timely use. Very gratefully yours, SAMUEL HINTON, De Kalb, Miss. There are numerous toll gates on the road to success. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKACHE DISCONTINUED THE USE OF OUR PREVENTION BAGAGE. The public may rely on our service of imitations. Sold only in boxes. 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 J TOWER CO. BOSTON, U.S.A. TOWER LANDMARK LTD. TOWER CO. Writer Sees Much Harm In Multiplicity of Books. It seems to me that with the multiplication of books we are losing all sense of literature. Leisure and three books, a Bible, a Shakespeare, a Walt Whitman, might make a man truly wise if the seeds of wisdom were in him. I do not know even a wise man whose instinct for wisdom would not be deadened by the frequentation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Books should be taken in doses no bigger than music or pictures; they are even harder to digest. There is more drunkenness in a book than in all the vineyards of France. A book may remake a man's soul. Books should be treated with reverence or cast out as dirt. They are in danger of passing out of the service of the temple into the "parcel delivery" of the grocer. Nothing is gained by reading a book unless you give to that book more than it brings to you. All these people who read with their eyes only are fatally wasting their time. A book read superficially makes the reader more superficial, and to read for "information" is to gnaw at the bones of meat.—Arthur Symonds in London Saturday Review. SARSAPARILLA TIME. Make Your Own Sarsaparilla or Spring Blood Medicine. Mix one-half ounce Fluid Extract Dandelion, one ounce Compound Kargon, three ounces Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla. Shake well in a bottle and take one teaspoonful after meals and again at bedtime. Any good drug-gist can supply these ingredients. This is said to be a splendid Spring Blood Tonic and system renovator because of its gentle action in restoring the Kidneys to normal activity, forcing them to filter from the blood all impure matter and acids, destroying micro-organisms which produce ill health and sour blood. Everyone should take something to cleanse the blood at this time of year, and the above simple prescription is the most highly indorsed of the hundreds of home remedies generally used. Mix this yourself, then you will know what you are taking. Bid for Immigration. New South Wales offers $30 a head toward the passage money of approved agriculturists and domestic servants to that colony, and $20 a head for other desirable immigrants. Never Fails. There is one remedy, and only one I have ever found, to cure without fail such troubles in my family as Eczema, Ringworm, and all others of an itching character. That remedy is Hunt's Cure. We always use it and it never fails. W. M. CHRISTIAN, Rutherford, Tenn. Arizona's Copper Production. In 1906 Arizona had the largest increase in production of copper of all the copper states. The output was 284,228,252 pounds, against 239,848,000 pounds in 1905. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles H. Flitchiv. Bear the Signature of Char Hitchin. In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought You must make it quite clear to your own mind which you are most bent upon, popularity or usefulness—else you may happen to miss both.—Sterne. Garfield Tea, the Mild Laxative, is a pure, practical household remedy; good for young and old. To be taken for constipation, indigestion, sick-headache, colds and diseases arising from impure blood. It clears the complexion. He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and a happy mind.—Secker. Alabastine THE ONLY Sanitary Durable WALL COATING ALABASTINE comes in dry powder form, ready for use by mixing with clean pure cold water. Safeguards health and makes homes beautiful and livable. Easy to mix. You can apply it yourself with an ordinary flat wall brush. Insist on goods in packages labeled "ALABASTINE" and that your workmen bring Alabastine in unopen packages and use on job. If your dealer does not have Alabastine we will supply you. Write for free color suggestions and send us 10 cents for book "Dainty Wall Decorations." ALABASTINE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. New York City. W. L. Douglas shoes are recognized by expert judges of footwear to be the best in style, fit and wear produced in this country. Each part of the shoe and every detail of the making is looked after and watched over by skilled shoemakers, without regard to time or cost. If I could take you into my large factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you how carefully W. L. Douglas shoes are made, you would then understand why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of greater value than any other makes. W. L. Douglas name and price is stamped on the bottom, which protects the wearer against high prices and interior shoes. Take No Substitute. Sold by the best shoe dealers everywhere. Fast Color Eyelids used exclusively. Catalog mailed free. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. HONEST MEDICINE TRY DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS FOR STOMACH TROUBLE. Convincing Evidence Supported by a Guarantee That Must Convince The Most Skeptical. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a doctor's prescription, used by an eminent practitioner, and for nearly a generation known as a reliable household remedy throughout the United States. Needless to say, no advertised medicine could retain popular favor for so long a period without having great merit and it is the invaluable curative properties of the pills that have made them a standard remedy in every civilized country in the world. Added to this is the absolute guarantee that the pills contain no harmful drug, opiate, narcotic or stimulant. A recent evidence of their efficacy is found in the statement of Mrs. N. B. Whitley, of Boxley, Ark., who says: "I had suffered for a good many years from stomach trouble. For a long time I was subject to bad spells of faintness and lack of breath accompanied by an indescribable feeling that seemed to start in my stomach. Whenever I was a little run-down or over-tired, these spells would come on. They occurred frequently but did not last very long. "I was confined to my bed for ten weeks one time and the doctor pronounced my trouble chronic inflammation of the stomach and bowels. Since that time I have been subject to the fainting spells and at other times to fluttering of the heart and a feeling as though I was smothering. My general health was very bad and I was weak and trembling. "I had seen Dr. Williams' Pink Pills mentioned in the newspapers and decided to try them. When I began taking the pills I was so run-down in strength that I could hardly do any housework. Now I could walk ten miles if necessary. Both my husband and myself think Dr. Williams' Pink Pills the best medicine made and we always recommend the pills to our friends." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills actually make new blood and give strength and tone to every part of the body. They have cured serious disorders of the blood and nerves, such as rheumatism, sciatica, anaemia, nervousness, headaches, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus' dance and many forms of weakness in either sex. They are sold by all drugists or will be sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N, Y. SECURITY GALL SALVE POSITIVELY HEALS SORE SHOULDERS SORE NECKS OR BACKS ON HORSES AND MULES IT HEALS THEM ANYWAY IN HARNESS, UNDER SADDLE OR IDLE IF NOT SOLD IN YOUR TOWN WE WILL SEND YOU FREE SAMPLE, if you send us the name of your dealer. Put up in 25c, 50c and $1.00 Cans MONEY BACK IF IT FAILS SECURITY REMEDY CO. MINNEAPOLIS MINN. FOR BARB WIRE B ALL CUTS IF SECURITY ANTISEPTIC HEALER READERS of this paper desiring to buy anything advertised in its columns should insist upon having what they ask for, refusing all substitutes or imitations. LIVE STOCK AND ELEGTROTYPES In great variety for sale at the lowest prices by A. N. KEILLOGG NEWSPAPER CO., TSW. Adama St., Chicago Arkansas Military Academy LITTLE ROCK, ARK. Write for Catalogue to-day. COL. R. C. HALL., Superintendent. 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Rashes Itchings And Irritations Of THE SKIN Speedily Cured by Warm Baths With Cuticura SOAP And Gentle Anointings Of CUTICURA The Great Skin Cure, when all other remedies and even physicians fail. Guaranteed absolutely pure, sweet, and wholesome, and may be used from the hour of birth. Sold throughout the world. Depots in all Cities. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props., Boston. Book on Torturing, Disgusting Humours. NEW WHEAT LANDS IN THE CANADIAN WEST 5,000 additional miles of railway this year have opened up a largely increased territory to the progressive farmers of Western Canada and the Government of the Dominion continues to give ONE HUNDRED AND to every settler. FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA THE COUNTRY HAS NO SUPERIOR Coal, wood and water in abundance; churches and schools convenient; markets easy of access; taxes low; climate the best in the northern temperate zone. Law and order prevails everywhere. 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. Your Picture on a Sofa PILLOW COVER Made on Silk, any Color. Will not Fade or Wash out. Size 18 x 18. Made from any Good Photograph or Ko data picture. Photos are turned undimagged. Order NOW. PRICE $1. Mail the Photograph Today to BOWEN ART CO. 208 Elm Street, Dallas, Texas SPECIAL PRICES ON ENLARGED PORTRAITS. SAM JONES LIFE AND SAYINGS By His Wife. Agents coining money. Book $2.50. Circulars free. A. H. Jenkins & Scott ATLANTA, GA. W. N. U., MUSKOGEE, NO. 15, 1907.