Muskogee Cimeter
Friday, May 3, 1907
Muskogee, Oklahoma
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The Muskogee Cimeter.
Muskogee, I. T.,
Resolved that we unqualified ly condemn the present constitution, and urge Negro citizens throughout Oklahoma and Ind. Territory to oppose the same and to use every honest endeav to secure and bring about its defeat. Resolved further, that we or ganize solidly from township to state and prepare ourselves to
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Resolutions Adodted By The Negro Protective League.
Whereas the Negro Protective League, now in conference assembled for the purpose of defending their manhood rights under the constitution of the United States, and that of the prospective state of Oklahoma, and:
Whereas, the constitutional convention of said prospective state, now in session at Guthrie, O. T., has been throughout its deliberation, wholly against the public rights of said Negroes, having shown in its deliberations a narrow and unprecedented determination to so hamper the rights of the whole people as to excite the timidity of capital and to discourage the investments thereof; to prostrate agricultural and commercial business, and:
whereas the Negro people of said prospective state are legally in actual ownership of more than three million acres of land, they are determined in all honorable ways, legal and other wise, to protect their Constitutional rights without wavering, to the end that the constitution and laws governing the new state shall be turned down at the ballot box.
Whereas, it does not provide a government, republican in form and is in conflict with the Enabling Act, and is contrary to the spirit of Ameaican institutions and the fundamehtal government of the United States, therefore be it
go into the coming campaign as American citizens, and that the President and the Executive committee are herby authorized to draft necessary rules and laws.
Mr. Phillip Lewis of Inola, Indian Territory, one of the most able and prominent Creek citizens was in our sanctum the other day and he stated that in his community, and in fact, his whole people were a unit against the Haskell constitution and that they will not vote for a single officer who runs under the disfranchising pretense for a constitution.
If there ever was a time when the Negroes should get together, it is now. We have one common cause that means everything to us and we can afford to drop our little local differences and join hands in this great battle which is now on.
We have been reliably informed that Mr. Tony E. Proctor, a Creek Indian who has held many positions of honor and trust under the Creek government and who is now Postmaster at Trenton, Indian Territory, is unalterably opposed to the Haskell constitution and will vote against it as will all of his people. Mr. Proctor has been Town King of one Wewo kofkee town and a member of the Wagoner Towship Committee.
He is a power among his people, which means a hundred votes against the infernal thing called a constitution.
The Negoes of Muskogee know nothing about Doug's circular letters nor do they care anything about them. They do know that he published the resolutions that report says is the major part of the much cussed letter.
We would not give three whoops in h-1 for the renegade Republican who says I,m for
the constitution as it is and will amend it afterwards. We know that the cuss is in favor of disfranchising our people and restoring the ballot afterwards, which is as impossible as suing the Devil, trying the case in hell and hoping for a verdict against the Devil. Such pretended Republicans are fit subjects for the place that has a surplus of brimstone.
Lew Betts, the Democratic labor man, wishes to make Negro the issue in this campaign and swears by the eternal gods that he will run for office on that issue. Lew is for Haskell and the Negroes will bury him so deep that neither the blasts from Gabriel's horn nor the quiet still call of his boss' voice will be sufficient to awaken him.
Doug is having bad dreams and chronic indigestion over the imaginary Black Hand. We don't wonder at Doug's seeing ghosts when we remember the resolutions for which he stands pater, which appear in this issue and which appeared last fall and many times since.
Official Statement of
Commercial
Muskogee, Inc.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $712,003 95
Overdrafts, cotton, 25,989 61
Bonds and Preuujums. 206,080 49
Furniture and Fixtures 7,985 11
Cash and Exchange 189,093 48
$1,141,152 64
The above statement correct
Creek Creek
Is the to get anything
Number 304 South 2nd
Creek Grocery eo.
Martin's Meat Market
A First Class Market in the chance. He will Satisfy You the market at Living Prices. PHONE 1204. : :
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. PHONE 1204. : : : FELIX MARTIN, Prop.
The majority of the Creek Indians are against the Haskell constitution and will work and vote against it. The same is true of the other Nations.
RIGHT.
In the last issue of the PLAIN- DEALER the Masons of Kansas are taken to task for not showing the proper respect to the memory of Col, Beck.
The Praindeler is right for even away down here in the Indian Territory where Col. Beck was widely known, the members of Trinity Lodge, when they heard the sad news of Col. Beck's death, got up a hurry up call and about twenty of the lodge members under the leadership of Barnett, W. M. and J. T. Trimble as marshalls took charge of the remains at the Home Undertaking Company and conveyed to the waiting train at the M. K. & T. depot. Even great Kansas can learn some things from her younger sister, Oklahoma.
Of the Condition of the
Nation'l Bank,
Indian Territory,
LIABILITIES
Capital $200,000 00
Surplus and Profit 21,572 38
Circulation 150,000 00
Deposits 759,530 25
$1,141,152 6
D N FINK Cashier,
Gooery eo.
ing in the Groceries line
1 St. Phone 912
the down town district. Give him The Finest and Best Meats or Call at 308 South 2nd St. FELIX MARTIN, Prop
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Muskogee Cimeter.
w. f. ‘ewine, Editor,
MUSKOGEE, ae Loy IND. TER.
TS WEIS OF Man Ge Hires.
If the discovery of independent evo-
lutions of human music all tending in
the same direction indicates the exist
ence of an ideal standard toward
which progress leads, how much
stronger is the evidence afforded by
the fact that bird music is developing
along the same lines? It seems a far
cry from a Beethoven symphony or a
Wagnerian opera to the simple lay of
4 sparrow, but as we trace the course
of the mighty river of music back to-
ward its source, the stream becomes
narrower and narrower, until it is con-
tracted to a point whera it is no
broader than the little rill of bird
music, says Henry Oldys in Harper's
Magazine, Nor does the decrease
stop there; for, remarkable as it may
seem, there was a time when the
musie from which ours has been
evolved was inferior to some of that
which floats to our eurs from the
woods of spring. This is not to say
merely that the songs of certain of
the birds involve more intervals and
greater variety, but that they are of a
higher order judged by our own mod-
ern standards.
The Automobile and Better Roads.
Automobiling has given the good
roads movement a great impetus. It
has brought into it men from the
cities who were never far from a
paved street until they began to travel
around in their autos. They are now
the backbone of the movement. The
farmers have learned a lot on the sub-
ject and they are joining hands with
the men who once had their most cor-
dial enmity. They are not only with
them on the road question, but they
are even recognizing the fact that the
automolile is a very useful vehicle.
With good roads connecting the mar-
kets and the farms there is no reason
why automobile transportation for the
produce of the land may not soon fol-
low, says Pittsburg Leader, Auto-
trucks are in use in all large cities
for heavy hauling and if farmers have
roads with bottoms to them they will
soon begin to take advantage of that
very efficient means of transportation,
A short time ago there was organ
ized in Nebraska a society composed
of women who pledged themselves not
to marry men who were without whis:
kers. Now another society composed
of Nebraska girls has adopted resolu
tions in which the members pledge
themselves not to receive Sunday even:
ing visils from men who are unshaved.
It looks as if the men of Nebraska
were going to be caught either coming
or going.
A woman in a tyrewriting contest
‘n Paris recently won a victory over
more than 150 competitors by writ:
ing 16,500 words in four hours, A
man wrote 17,000 words, but he made
so many mistakes that he was ruled
out. An American woman has sur
passed the Frenchwoman's — record,
for in the ordinary course of business
she once wrote 10,500 words in two
and a half hours, and made three
copies as she went along.
' Boston experts are to cure tubercu:
losis by vaccination. Soon science may
get so far along that a man will have
a scar on bis arm for every possible
disease to which flesh is either heir
or second cousin.
“The world is just as you take It,”
says the Atlanta Constitution, Mr.
Rockefeller, who took a liberal slice
of it some time ago, says it is good.
Bo let everybody be happy, ~
ee BIG QUESTIONS
THE wena OBLIGATION” AND
SHOULD BE CONSIDERED
An Honest dah at These Will
Keep the Trade with the
Home Merchant Every
Time.
Maio—with the mai order cataiogue
and its temptations, there are two,
and only two, points to be taken into
consideration.
One of these is moral obligation,
and the chances are that that will be
dismissed as sentimental nonsense.
The other is—Will it pay? and to
that the thrifty person will be in-
clined to interpret an answer from the
prices quoted in black-faced figures in
the catalogue,
Neither of these questions should
be lightly dismissed. Moral obliga-
tion is not sentimental nonsense, and
black-taced figures sometimes lie.
The duty a man owes to his own
community and his obligation to trade
at home are so often reiterated in the
country press that, possibly like some
of the preaching, it has a tendency
to harden the hearts of the sinners,
Nevertheless, the principle is true as
gospel.
What has your neighboring town
given you, Mr. Farmer? A market for
your produce, What has made 25 to
50 per cent. of the present value of
“your farm? The accessibility of a
market. You know what your grand-
father did on that same farm? Drove
his hogs and hauled his grain 30, 50,
maybe 75 miles to the nearest market
town, and received prices for them
that would make you howl about the
trusts. And he hauled back the fam-
ily supplies for which he paid what
you would consider monopolistic
prices. Do you happen to know what
the old farm was worth then? Well,
it lacked a good deal of being $75 or
$100 an acre,
Yes, the home town, with its handy
market, has advanced the value of
your property and made you worth
several thousand dollars more than
your grandfather was worth. The
home town affords schooling for your
children, and perhaps social and
church privileges which your family
would not otherwise enjoy. The rural
mail routes and telephone systems,
radiating from the home town, as
spokes from a hub, bring to your
home the greatest conveniences of
modern times.
What would your farm be worth
and how many of these advantages
would you be enjoying now, if the
eity from which that mail order cata
logue came were your nearest market,
your most accessible trading point,
your only post office and social center,
the only place to which you could look
to connect you with the outside
world?
Have you ever noticed that the first
thing the settlers of a newly-opened
reservation do is to send for a wagon
load of mail order catalogues? Well, |
haven't. ‘They lay out a town site
every six or eight miles, start two or
three general stores, build a school
house, a church, a blacksmith shop, a
grain elevator, petition the depart-
ment for a post office, and start a
newspaper. They know, from former
expérience that, with these things
close by, life will be endurable, what-
ever hardships may come, They know,
also, that without them they must live
live’ of isolation and endure an exist-
ence that is contrary to all natural
human instincts,
On the other hand, it goes without
saying, that the average country town
cannot exist without the support of
its tributary territory, Then, if that
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The fire of publicity is the medium the mail-order houses are using to
destroy this commugity. It is up to you, Mr. Merchant, to fight the devil
with fire. By the aid of the local press you can.hold him over the scorching
flames, and put a stop to his devastating competition so far as this com-
munity is concerned. Will you not assist in the good fight?
town affords the advantages for the
rural citizen that have been enumerat-
ed, there exists what we may call an
interdependence and a moral obliga-
tion between the two. Are you, Mr.
Thrifty Farmer, living up to that ob-
ligation when you do your trading
with the mail order house?
To this line of argument the farmer
may answer that his greatest obliga-
tion, his first duty, is to his immediate
household, and that among the duties
to his family and to the heirs of his
estate is that of practicing judicious
economy—buying where he can buy
the cheapest and to the best advan-
tage. And this brings us to the sec-
ond point in the argument—the para-
mount question in this commercial
age—"Will it pay?”
By most people an affirmative an-
swer to that question is accepted as
the call of duty. As a matter of fact,
“Will it pay?” is a good test to apply
to any project or proposition. There
are commercial, as well as_ political,
demagogues, and the man who is ap-
pealed to on the score of patriotism
or profit, duty or dollars, can scarcely
do better than to sit down by himself
and submit that question—“Will it
pay?"—to his own best judgment.
Provided always, that he goes to the
very bottom of it.
What are the relative advantages of
buying at the local store and ordering
from a catalogue house? Advantages,
understand, that figure in the ques-
tion, “Will it pay?” Don't get away
from that question. It certainly is
very comfortable to sit down by your
own fireside and select a dress pattern
or a sulky plow from a printed des-
cription and a picture of the article;
much more comfortable, in fact, than
hitching up and driving to town on a
raw day,
A consideration more important,
perhaps, is that the printed price in
the catalogue seems, in some cases at
least, to be lower than the price
quoted at the local store. Isn't that
conclusive? Let's see. The catalogue
describes the goods and quotes a
price; maybe it gives a picture of the
article also, but you don’t see the
goods. The local merchant shows you
the goods; you may examine them
critically; he may allow you to test
them or to call in an expert to advise
you. Is it fair to conclude that the
catalogue article is the cheaper just
because the price is lower?
An element that must enter into the
comparison of goods and prices is,
that in any attempt to fool the cus-
tomer, the local merchant is decided-
ly at a disadvantage. He must show
the goods, not merely describe them.
His business depends wholly upon the
limited trading area of his town and
his ability to inspire confidence within
that circle. He cannot afford to make
a practice of misrepresenting his
goods.
The mail order house is not so tied
down to the maxim that “Honesty is
the best policy.” It has no neighbors,
no fellow citizens, no mutual interests
with its patrons, Its trade area is
wide and always shifting. Naturally
these conditions do not demand extra-
ordinary vigilance in supplying hon-
est-made goods. And where Vigilance
is not a needed employe in the busi-
ness he is generally taken off the pay
roll, which makes a saving in expense,
as well as in the cost of the goods. It
lower prices are quoted by the cata-
logue house, may not this account for
it?
“Will it pay?” Is it a matter of
economy to buy inferior and damaged
goods when the same money, or even
a little more, will pay for goods of the
best quality? Which course does a
man’s first duty to his own household
dictate?
But to get at the bottom of that
question, we must consider the far-
reaching general effect of mail order
trading. If single catalogue houses
are to be capitalized at $40,000,000,
they must be reckoned with along
with Standard Oil, the beef trust and
railroad mergers. If they are allowed
to suck the blod from our country
towns, your grandchildren will find
conditions much the same as those of
your grandfather's time. Their mar-
kets will be 30, 50 or 75 miles away.
The towns and villages will be de-
serted, and the “hubs” will be too dis-
tant to send the radiating spokes of
rural mail, telephone lines and other
modern conveniences far into the
country.
CHARLES BRADSHAW
Burden We Would All Assume.
Rich may be a burden, but few of
us are willing to kick at a burden of
that kind.
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The United States cereal crop of 1906 aggregated 5,000,000,000 bushels, valued at $2,000,000,000.
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There is more Catartr in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven Catartr to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Have Catartr Cure, manufactured by F.J. Cheney Co. To Market. It is manufactured for the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
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A fast young man is seldom able to keep up with his running expenses.
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A pretty girl is as fond of drawing attention as a political officeholder is of drawing a salary.
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Usually a woman of uncertain age remains at a certain age for a long time.
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THE CANADIAN WEST IS THE BEST WEST
THE CANADIAN WEST IS THE BEST WEST
The testimony of thousands during the past year is that the Canadian West is the best West. Year by year the agriculture returns have increased in value, and still the Canadian Government offers 160 acres FREE to every bona fide settler.
FARMS IN
WESTERN
CANADA
Some of the Advantages
The phenomenal increase in railway mileage—main lines and branches—has put almost every portion of the country within easy reach of churches, schools, markets, cheap fuel and every modern convenience. The NINETY MILLION BUSHEL WHEAT CROP of this year means $900,000,000 to the farmers of Western Canada, apart from the results of other grazing and cattle.
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For Governor of the Stateof Ok-
Jahoma, :
Hon, John D. Benedict, of Muskogee,
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CEREREEEEEE HEE EEE
Vote ’er down, is the slogan
of the boys in the trenches and
the majority of the Republicans
is for it.
Henry Robbins of South Me
Alester, says that the Republi-
can party of Indian Territory
will vote for the con. This is
absolutely wrong, but it shows
why the attorney Guess and the
barber Washington were for the
con at the Negro convention.
Robbins and the last named
cusses are in the same boat, but
they can’t fool the common or-
dinary fellows,
At this writing it looks as
if there will be a Republican
state convention, at which it
will be decided whether or not
the Republicans should put out
a state ticket. The rank and
file of the Republican party are
against a ticket, and will not
vote for a single person for any
office,
The 50,000 Negvo voters of the
hew stace will refuse to vote for
any officer and will vote against
the con, * Tf this be treason
then miuke the most of if? Me
battle ison and will be a fight
to the finish,
POLITICAL = PLAT-
FORM OF C. B.
DOUGLASS
Editor of the Muskogee Phoenix, an al-
leged Republican paper.
CLIPPPED FROM PHOENIX
OF SEPTEMBER, 25, 1906,
The Resolutions Were Written by C. B.
Douglass.
We, the members of the Re
publican Press Association of
the Third Congressional distyict
declare as follows:
Whereas there is an apparent
misunderstanding existing
among the voters of the distriet
as to the position of the party
on the so-called race question,
an :
TA bcs ue Repriblican pht-
ty has DISCHARGED its ‘OB:
LIGATIONS'to the NEGRO, itv
that it gives him full civil rights,
equal, with every other citizen
and _ still stands for that poliey.
Therefore, be it resolved by
this assocjation that the Repub-
lican party of the Thivd Gon-
gressional district is OPPOSED
to NEGRO, DOMINATION in
any sense,
That it stands for separate
schools, SEPARATE, COACH
ES, and SEPARATE WATT-
ING ROOMS for NEGROES
which shall have equal facilities
jand comforts of those furnished
lother races.
| That itis opposed and WILL
)USE KVERY MEANS at its
[command to PREVENT the
jHomination ot Negroes on any
lelective ticket, seeking the suf-
| frage of othes races.
| On this declaration of princi-
|ples all classes and all ational
ities of citizenship are earnestly
| invited toallign thomselves with
[the party of progress and pros:
| pevity. ;
| C. B. Douglass,
Muskogee Phoenix.
| Now Doug is a member of the
Hamilton Club and we presume
that his brother members ave in
aerigaitby with him and_ his
fideas. If such is the case, car
any self respecting Colored mar
jor any white man who believes
(in a ‘square deal? support: this
| silk stocking club and its princi
| ples?
We regret very much tha!
ei Good Men have linkec
{themselves , to — this corpse
| because as a political factor it i
not worth a tinker’s d—n by :
d——n and half,
The recent) vietory for ow
_| party in Muskogee was won by
the common ordinary fellow:
| awhen all of the big ducks it
c jeach faction, said it could not b
done. The boys in the trenches
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If our party believes Doug
and his traitors were right in
their, vegolutions then , We, bow
our heads in grief and shame
but we dont give up the fight,
“We will, stay. inthe church
and whip the devil out.”
Kither we are right and Doug
is wrong or Doug is right and
we are wrong. , If weare wrong
we will take a back seat and
beg tobe forgiven, and if Doug
is wrong he should follow a sim:
ilar course. Aud we’ will for-
give him and his fellow traitors
but d——n them, we canaever
forget them, This may not be
according to christian ethics but
it is human nature all the same,
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The New State Anti-Lynch-
Law Bureau offers and will pay
the sum of $500,to any person,
or persons, for the apprehen
sion and conviction of the leader
or leaders of the mob that mur-
dered James Williams at Du
rant, Indian Ter,
W. H. Twine, President,
Muskogee, I. 'T.
ik. 1. Saddler, Secretary,
Guthrie, O. Ty.
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Muskogee, I, T.
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 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.
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Muskogee, I. T.
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IN WESTERN CANADA,
Delicate In the Old Home; Better
Health in the New.
Churehbridge, Sask.,
December Ist, 1906.
To the Editor.
Dear Sir,
I came to this country from the
Btate of Wisconsin three years ago,
and must say that I am greatly pleased
with the outlook in this western coun-
try. For my own part I am entirely
satisfied with the progress I have
made since coming here. I have raised
excellent crops of grain of all varie-
ties. Last season my wheat averaged
23 bushels of wheat to the acre, oats
60 and barley 40.
We had a splendid garden this year,
ripening successfully tomatoes, musk-
melons, water melons, sweet corn and
kindred sorts.
The country is well adapted to
wheat growing and mixed farming, and
to my mind it is the best country un-
der the sun for a man with a family
and small means, as it is possible for
@ man to commence farming opera-
tions with much less capital than is
required in the older settled countries.
The climate is all that could be de-
sired, being very healthy and invigor-
ating.
My wife came out about six months
ago, and although inclined to be deli-
cate in the old home, she has enjoyed
the best of health since coming here.
In short, I am more than satisfied
with the land of my adoption, and I
am also satisfied with the laws of the
country.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) JOHN LANGDON.
Write to any Canadian Government
Agent for literature and full particu-
lars.
Puritans No Longer in Control.
The changed character of Boston's
population could not be more typically
illustrated than in the reading of the
names of the committees of the Bos-
ton common council. As the Patriots’
day committee, for example, President
Barrett selects Councilmen Rach-
kowsky, Santosuosso and Purcell.—
Boston Traveler.
BABY IN TERRIBLE STATE.
Awful Humor Eating Away Face—
Body a Mass of Sores—Cuticura
Cures in Two Weeks.
“My little daughter broke out all
over her body with a humor, and we
used everything recommended, but
without results. I called in three doc-
tors, but she continued to grow worse.
Her body was a mass of sores, and her
little face was being eaten away. Her
ears looked as if they would drop off.
Neighbors advised me to get Cuticura
Soap and Ointment, and before I had
used half of the cake of Soap and box
of Ointment the sores had all healed,
and my little one's face and body were
as clear as a new-born babe's. I would
not be without it again if it cost five
dollars, instead of seventy-five cents.
Mrs. George J. Steese, 701 Coburn St.,
Akron, O., Aug. 30, 1905.”
Nature makes occupation a neces-
sity to us; society makes ita duty;
habit may mako it a pleasure.—Ca-
pelle.
‘What
Mac
Said
Youthful Head of State,
The Hon. Richard McBride, premier
of British Columbia, whose govern-
ment has emerged successfully from
a general election, is the youngest
prime minister in King Edward's do-
minions. He is only 36, and he
achieved the premiership four years
ago, after having held a subordinate
office as minister of mines.
The extraordinary popularity of fine
white goods this summer makes the
choice of Starch a matter of great {m-
portance. Defiance Starch, being free
from all injurious chemicals, is the
only one which is safe to use on fine
fabrics. Its great strength as a stiff-
ener makes half the usual quantity of
Starch necessary, with the result of
perfect finish, equal to that when the
goods were new.
The reward for a good deed done is
in having done it.—Emerson.
The archdiocese of Cologne, Ger-
many, is the largest in the world,
with a Catholic population of more
than 2,000,000.
For more reasons than one, Garfield Tea
is the best choice when a laxative is
needed: it is Pure, Pleasant to take, Mild
and Potent, Guaranteed under the Food
and Drugs Law.
He who is always hearing and an-
Swering the call of life to be thought-
ful, and brave and self-sacrificing—he
alone can safely hear the other cry of
life, tempting him to be happy and
enjoy.—Phillips Brooks.
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Work of Cupid in Germany.
The number of marriages in the
German empire in 1905 was 485,906.
Would Grow Tobacco In Ireland.
An effort {s being bade under direc-
tion of William Redmond to repeal
the law which prohibits the growing
of tobacco in Ireland. It is held that
soi) and climatic conditions in Ireland
ate favorable to the production of &
good quality of tobacco, and that its
cultivation cam be made profitable.
No Need of Scratching.
Other afflictions may be more pain-
ful, but none more annoying than many
forms of itching trouble. The quickest
and most reliable remedy for itching
diseases of any character is Hunt's
Cure. One application relieves—one’
box guaranteed to cure.
Good words do more than hard
speeches; as the sunbeam without any
noise will make the traveler cast off
his cloak, which all the blustering
wind could not do, but only make him
bind it closer to him.—Leighton. _
Pe-ru-na Relieves Spring Catarrh.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
MISS DORA HAYDEN.
"Without hesitation I write to thank you for the great relief I have found in your valuable medicine, Peruna, and will call the attention of all my friends suffering with catarrh to that fact. Besides I cheerfully recommend it to all suffering with catarrh in any form."—Miss Dora Hayden, 819 6th St., S. W., Washington, D. C.
A Case of Spring Catarrh.
Mrs. N. P. Lawler, 423½ N.Broadway, Pittsburg, Kas., writes: "Last spring I caught a severe cold, which developed into a serious case of catarrh. I felt weak and sick, and could neither eat nor sleep well.
"A member of our club who had been cured of catarrh through the use of Peruna advised me to try it, and I did so at once. I expected help, but nothing like the wonderful change for the better I observed almost as soon as I started taking it. In three days I felt much better, and within two weeks I was in fine health. Peruna is a wonderful medicine."
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English Ribbon Trade Flourishing. The English ribbon trade is said to be now in a more flourishing condition than it has been in many years, ewing to the huge demands the dressmakers and milliners are making upon the output of the manufacturers.
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. Drew Copious Floods of Tears. A physician in Portland, Ore., estimated that 2,048 teaspoonfuls of tears, or two gallons in all, were shed in one night by the audience that heard Savage's "Madam Butterfly" in that city recently.
LIVE STOCK
A SWINE STORY.
One Farmer's Hogs That Made a Great Profit.
The Irish cottager who says that the pig "pays the rint" tells a no more patent truth than is contained in the statements made by Theo. Louis, John Cownie, and other great hog growers, that hog growing is one of the most surely profitable of all
The Shelter That Housed 36 Hogs.
branches of farming. Many people seem to think, however, that hogs pay well only in the "corn belt." This I know to be a mistake, writes a correspondent of Farming. My farm is not in the corn belt: on the contrary it is in one of the old states, and we never make any great surplus of corn. Nevertheless, I can make hogs pay well even when prices are down to four or five cents. When up to six cents, profits are a 100 per cent. or more.
Corn is great feed for hogs; for fattening there is nothing better, but it is not wise to depend on corn, except where it makes big yields every year. I cannot do this and here is my method of making cheap pork, and getting good profits: I have three fields well fenced, adjoining each other. They have from eight to ten acres in each, and in each there is a good supply of running water. My hogs, in the latitude of Washington city, spend ten months of the year in these fields. At this writing there is in No. 1 a crop of late cowpeas on half and clover and orchard grass on the rest; in No. 2 there were oats and Canada field peas which have been eaten off; in No. 3 there are only early cowpeas. The hogs ran in No. 1 in spring and early summer, then in No. 2 till they ate the oats and peas, and now they are in No. 3 and will remain till the peas are gone. Then they will spend a large part of the winter in No. 1 on the late cowpeas. There is no kind of forage better adapted to making pork than these.
Last fall I bought among a lot of hogs some half-bred Jersey and "razor-back" sows that had together 36 pigs. I fed the pigs two tons of tankage at a cost of $76, and $20 worth of corn, and let them run in good weather in a potato field that had been dug. They rooted up and ate all the potatoes that had been left. As soon as the clover and grass got up enough in the spring in pasture No. 1, I turned in the pigs. They stayed there till they were six months old and weighed 200 pounds each and the market price was $6.10. This made them average a little more than $12 a head. The money cost of these pigs when sold had been only $4.75 each, showing a gain of $7.90 a head.
The Garden.
Plant garden seeds as early in the spring as possible, so they will sprout and begin to develop plants before the sun gets too hot for them, in which case they will never collect enough moisture to sprout.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
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Mrs. C. E. Fink, of Carnegie, Pa., writes:—Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—"I wish every suffering woman would take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and write to you for advice. It has done me a world of good and what it has accomplished for me I know it will do for others."
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Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation to Women
Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to write Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. Out of her vast volume of experience she probably has the very knowledge that will help your case.
"THE MARRYING SQUIRE."
Justice Geo. E. Law, of Brazil, Ind., Has Married 1400 Couples.
Justice Geo. E. Law, of Brazil, Ind., has fairly earned the title "The Marrying Squire," by which he is known far and wide, having already married some 1400 couples. Ten years ago he was Deputy County Treasurer. "At that time," said Justice Law, "I was suffering from an annoying kidney trouble. My back ached, my rest
lar and wide, having already married some 1400 couples. Ten years ago he was Deputy County Treasurer. "At that time," said Justice Law, "I was suffering from an annoying kidney trouble. My back ached, my rest was broken at night, and the passages of the kidney secretions were too frequent and contained sediment. Three boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills cured me in 1897, and for the past nine years I have been free from kidney complaint and backache."
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THE DIFFERENCE IN TASTE.
Dogs Prized as Edible in China Are Here Fashion's Pets.
"He is the real thing in the way of a chow," said she. "Father bought him for me in Shanghai. Did you know they ate them there?"
"I had heard that the Chinese ate dogs, but I thought it was a fake, like the story of their eating rats."
"No; it is the truth. They do eat dogs, but only the chow variety. 'Chow,' you know, means 'edible.' Yes, they eat chows. In every butcher shop you see chows' carcasses hung up, the same as we hang up the carcasses of pigs. The flesh is white."
"White?"
"Yes; like veal. The Chinese raise chows for food and feed them only soft, washy stuff, mashed vegetables and bread and milk. No meat whatever. Hence the white flesh.
"Notice Wu's black tongue. Well, chow tongue is a Chinese delicacy. They make soup of it. But it is very expensive, like our turtle soup, and it is only eaten by the rich.
"Isn't it strange that a dog so fashionable with us should be only an article of food in China?"
As daylight can be seen through very small holes, so little things will illustrate a person's character. Indeed, character consists in little acts well and honorably performed, daily life being the quarry from which we build it up, and round-hew the habits which form it.—Ruskin.
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Rheumatism is a painful inflammation of the muscles or of the coverings of the joints and is sometimes accompanied by swelling. The pain is sharp and shooting and does not confine itself to any one part of the body, but after settling in one joint or muscle for a time, leaves it and passes on to another. The most dangerous tendency of the disease is to attack the heart. External applications may give relief from pain for a time but the disease cannot be cured until the blood is purified. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the best medicine for this purpose as their action is directly on the blood, making it rich, red and healthy. When the blood is pure there can be no rheumatism.
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"About two years ago I began to feel rheumatism in my joints, which became so lame I could hardly walk. My joints were swollen and pained me terribly.
"Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were recommended to me by a friend, after I had failed to get well from the doctor's treatment. When I began taking the pills, the rheumatism was at its worst. I had taken only a few boxes, when the headaches stopped and not long afterward I felt the pain in my joints becoming less and less, until there was none at all. The stiffness was gone and I have never had any return of the rheumatism."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have cured such diseases as nervous and general debility, indigestion, nervous headache, neuralgia and even partial paralysis and locomotor ataxia. As a tonic for the blood and nerves they are unequalled.
A pamphlet on "Diseases of the Blood" and a copy of our diet book will be sent free on request to anyone interested. 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 Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
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HEALTH OF WOMEN
HEALTH OF WOMEN
In this nineteenth century to keep up with the march of progress every power of woman is strained to its utmost, and the tax upon her physical system is far greater than ever. In the good old-fashioned days of our grandmothers few drugs were used in medicines. They relied upon roots and herbs to cure weaknesses and disease, and their knowledge of roots and herbs was far greater than that of women today. It was in this study of roots and herbs that Lydia E. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass, discovered and gave to the women of the world a remedy more potent and efficacious than any combination of drugs.
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r, This Pretty Addition, which joins Muskogee on the Northwest. is selling rapidly and if you 7.
> want one of the CHOICE LOTS, you better hurry! iS
x The Shiloh Baptist Church has been removed from the Lreland Rentie place onto Lincoln Park and ¢
‘ will be weather boarded and painted white, thus giving the people in that vicinity a nice place to hold .
c Ineebings.
. We have sold 140 lots in this addition during the last two weeks and it will not take you long to ‘
e& to fizave how long 400 lots will last at this rate. :
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We are selling these lots from :
e $25 TO $50 EACH AND YOU CAN |
MPTP HEE SES PAY $10 DOWN AND THE BALANCE Cormeoces oesee em
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That will suit You. No’ interest on
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y Furthermore, “We Will Build a House for you, the way you want it and you con pay for it in the
3 same way :
‘ Why Pay Rent When You @an Buy a Home Phis Way?
If you want a nice place to live, where you have no City Taxes, and where ycu can have all (
‘ kinds of live stock andlivean INDEPENDENT LIFE, Lincoln Park is the place for Y OU.
7 Lincoln Park is situated on the Dave Fulsom Allotment and is platted with the STRETS and |
4 ALLEYS laid off with each block staked and marked,
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DRIVE OUT AND SEE MUSKOGEE’S PRETTIEST ADDITION
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Lincoln Park Company
B. F. WOOD, President, CARL B. WOOD, Secretary, Room 211 Mlinois Bldg, (Over Graham Sykes & Co.'s store.)