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The Muskogee Cimeter. "Wanted Men" Brave hearted men who are valiant and strong, Who will stand for the right, rebuke the wrong. When comrades are near and ready to sway To the right or left or any way With no thought of conditions which time will bring If to day they are careless of important things. Men who will stand, if need be, alone With firmness and courage to down the wrong; Who can not be bought at any cost, Wealth amounts to naught when manhood is lost. Stand with a firmness that can be felt In the presence of which the wrong will melt, If the document for governing this state, is wrong, Fight it with a will that is just and strong. Duty left undone at this hour of need May cause the hearts of a generation to bleed. Help prove to the world a man is a man Whether he is white, red, yellow or tan. To prove to the world without a doubt That you are now ready to row far out And bring to the shore in colors gold The mysteries of Truth and then unfold This proverb that it may be read In our own land and then be spread. In the fatherhood of God we believe And the brotherhood of man, as we perceive. In this great and glorious land Man for man should take a stand; And with a zeal that is firm and strong Develop the right and condemn the wrong. It takes many experiences to shape a life, But don't be deceived too oft in the strife For all that glitters is truly not gold. Let past experiences help you to mold And cause you to grasp and cherish and hold And cause you to cast the right vote at the poll. L. E. Perdue. Was It Murder? On last Saturday night in a a gambling hall run by R. H. Morris on South Second street, a young man, Morris Sanders, received wounds from which he died twenty minutes later. It was asserted by some that the man was stabbed with a a dull knife and by others that he became frightened at the approach of officers and jumped through a window receiving glass cuts from which he died. In either case this sad event will show the burning shame and deep disgrace of allowing gambling hells to run wide open the very heart of our city where young men and boys can be led to ruin. Every father and mother should rise up in his and her might and destroy these dens of sfamy. Every minister and teacher should exert his influence against this devilish evil. If we would save our boys and girls these dens of vice and infamy must be wiped out. Oklahoma City, Aug. 28. The Haskell plaint about Congress enrolling Freedmen children in the Choctaw Nation born since the date of the Supplementary Agreement, comes with poor grace from its chief agitator, Gov. Green McCurtain. In his message to the general council of the Choctaw Nation in its regular October session 1904, Gov. McCurtain called attention to the fact that one of the party pledges of his recent campaign was to secure enrollment of all children born since the ratification of the supplementary treaty and he further stated that it was also promised that these children should share in the distribution of the tribe funds and that each freedman child BORN SINCE THE ABOVE DATE SHOULD RECEIVE AN ALLOTMENT OF FORTY ACRES OF AVERAGE LAND. The recommendation of Gov. McCurtain was enacted into a law which was proposed by Daniel Webster, passed the House October 15,1904,passed the Senate October 17,1904. The only significant thing is in a Democrat's paying any attention to his party pledges. Oklahoma City, Aug. 26. In 1901 session of the Oklahoma Legislature Senator Freeman E. Miller introduced the following bill to Jim Crow the Indian: "Be it inacted by the Legislature assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma Sec. 1—Every railroad doing business in the Territory is a common carrier of passengers for hire, shall provide separate coaches for the accommodation of white and Negro and Indian passengers and said separate coaches shall be equal in all respect in comfort and convenience. Sec. 2--The term Negro is used to mean any person of African decent of the one-eighth blood, that the term Indian shall be considered to mean any person of Indian decent within the one-eighth blood." Of course it ought to said in justice to Senator Miller that the voting possibility of the Indian had not occurred to him at the time he proposed this measure. Okla, City, Aug. 28. Down in Senator Gore's state Mississippi. the attitude of the white man to the dark Colored people is shown by a declaration of Governor Vardaman in a speech reported by the Associated Press, October 16 1906: "The laws now specifically recognize the difference between the white man and the Indian, the Chinaman. the Esquimo, or Malay. There is just as wide a gap between the white man and the Negro." Okla. City, Aug. 28—During the brief reign of Grover the great, there were several United States Marshalls appointed because of their ability. Robert Fortune of Wilburton holds three commissions as deputy marshall received from Democratic superiors, one from J. J. McAleseter and two from George J. Crump. Marshall Crump gave commissions to the following Negro deputies while he was Marshall under Cleveland, Grant Johnson, Bynum Colbert, Ike Rogers, Rufus Colbert, Lee No 48 Thompson, and Bass Reeves. Okla. City, Aug. 28.—C. D. Carter, Democratic candidate for Congress from the 4th district, is very much exercised over the Republican treatment of Chickasaw Freedmen. The Chickasaw Freedmen are not allowed to vote in Chickasaw elections and they get but forty acres of land in the tribe, which is paid for by the United States Government. Mr. Carter should read the recommendations of the first report of the Democratic Commissions, which is as follows: "They (the Chickasaws) now treat the whole class (Freedmen) as aliens, with no legal right to be among them or claim any protection under their laws. They are shut out of the schools of the tribe and from their courts and are granted no privilege of occupancy of any part of the land for a home. The number in that tribe is about four thousand while the Chickasaws number about thirty five hundred. The nation is bound by solemn treaty to place these Freedmen in the enjoyment of their rights as Chickasaw Indians and can not with honor ignore them." WARNING ORDER, EQUITY NO. 7695. In The United States Court For The Western District of the Indian Territory Sitting at Muskogee. E. D. Williams, plaintiff vs Mary Williams, defendant. Mary Williams, defendant. The defendant, Mary Williams is hereby notified to appear in this Court within thirty days and answer the complaint of the plaintiff herein. Witness the Honorable William R. Lawrence, Judge of said Court and the seal thereof at Muskegee. this 12th., day of August, A. D. 1907. R. P. Harrison, Clerk. By Carroll S. Bucher, Deputy. By Carroll S. Bucher, Deputy. Jonos and Merriwether, Attorneys for plaintiff. P. R. Price, Attorney for non-resident defentant. The Colored Prohibition Club is growing rapidly. They advance the idea that the worst element is the most prejudiced against our people. The action of the saloon men endorsing the constitution will doubtless drive lots of our people to the support of prohibition. FOR JELLIED CHICKEN SOUP, One of the Best of the Many Hot Weather Dishes. Clean and dress a large fowl. It should weigh from four to five pounds when cleaned. Sever each joint from the rest and cut the breast into four pieces. Crack a knuckle of veal from which most of the meat has been strip- ped. (Veal is especiatly useful in making jellied soups because it con- tains more gelatinous matter.) Put the pieces of fow! and the veal bone into a pot; add two teaspoonfuls of onion juice and three stalks of celery cut fato inch lengths, and cover with a gallon of cold water. Cover closely and set where it will not boil under an hour, yet will heat steadily. Cook slowly for four hours, or until the flesh of the fowl slips from the bones. The toughest meat may be made tender by slow and pro- longed cooking. The liquid should be reduced to two quarts. Set the pot away, covered tightly, until the contents are a cold jelly. Heat to a boil to loosen the jelly from the bones, and strain. Clear with a cracked egg shell and the white of an egg as with beef bouillon. THE HOT WEATHER LUNCHES, Cold Meats, Fruits and Vegetables Ap- propriate Now. The knowing housewife keeps her refrigerator full of fresh fruit, lettuce, cress and always a big bow! of mayon- naise. Where only a small remnant of yesterday's roast is left mayonnaise goes well with it; and with cold fish, or merely spread on bread with a erisp lettuce leaf for lurcheon, with a glass of iced tea or, better still, fresh milk. Jellied soups may be kept two days, all the cold vegetables, as salads with French dressing, buttered toast and perhaps a dish of berries or junket— Who could ask a more delicious and wholesome hot-weather luncheon? Heavy roasis, fried meats, the ever- lasting potato, cooked beans, are all too heat-producing for hot weather. Breakfast bacon, eggs in the many possible forms of serving, cream cheeges, stewed fruits, may replace those foods that are to be provided for cold weather. HOUSEHOLD HINTS, To cover the pan In which fish fs cooking will make the flesh soft. Never mix a French dressing untib ready to use. The vinegar and oil will separate. . To prevent pastry from burning set a pan of water in the oven while it is baking. ‘ Petroleum ointment stains are very obstinate and the best thing for them is to soak in kerosene. A sponging with a solution of one part ammonia to ten parts of water is said to brighten the colors in a faded carpet. A delightful new sweetmeat ts a chocolate-covered fig that can easily be prepared at home with sweetened chocolate. The best thing to clean windows with is vinegar, Rub it on with a soft cloth, dry with another and_ polish with a wash leather. If you are storing your household effects for an indefinite period, wrap all table and bed linen, or, in fact, any white material, in dark blue ‘paper to prevent It from turning yellow. Boston Baked Bean Saiad. Seald from four to six nice ripe to- matoes, Peel and put away to chill, Arrange lettuce leaves in a circle around a large salad dish, then make an inner border of sliced tomatoes sprinkled with salt and pepper. In the center place a mound of cold Boston baked beans. We use the Cali- fornia beans, as these are never mushy and hold their shape. Pour over the whole a plentiful supply of salad dressing. When eating add a few drops of vinegar if desired, Deathe from X-Rave. The death of Dr. Weigel, a surgeon of Rochester, from a disease due to the constant use of the X-rays makes the fourth who has lost his life from this cause, says the Chistian Advo- cate, ‘A The others were an assistant of Thomas Edison, a Boston physician and a woman of San Francisco named Fleischman. In the case of Dr. Wel- gel since 1904, when his right hand and all but the thumb and a finger of the left hand were removed, there had been four operations in trying to save his life. The first removed a part of the right shoulder; then a part of the muscles covering the right breast. Mystery completely envelops the cause of death, the disease being un- knoWn to medical science, though it is believed to involve some great prin- ciple of life. Dt. Weigel was Presi- dent of the Rochester Academy of Medicine and the American Ortho- paedic society. The Revised Psalm. The father's peroration was superb. “‘And departing, leave behind you,’" he concluded, “ ‘footprints on the sands of—'" But here the son rudely interrupt- ed. “Footprints?” he sneered. “Who wants to leave footprints?” “Then what would you leave, my boy?" the old man inquired. “Tracks,” said the youth, haughtily. “Tracks of my 90-horse power racer, to be sure. Am I a dog or a working- man that I should leave mere foot- prints?” rte Animal Intelligence in Massachusetts. John Talbot of Rock Knolls, Mass., enjoys the distinction of having a trained hen that will jump over his clasped hands, even if held quite high from the ground. Uncle John trained the hen himself. A cat is owned by a Byfield man that will eat raw green corn, and will even strip down the husks in the field in an effort to get the corn, New York's Growth, Builders in New York city tnvest $500,000 each day in land and new houses for apartment dwellers. School Children Plant Trees. Every year the school children of Sweden plant about 600,000 trees, BAD DREAMS Frequently Due to Coffee Drinking. One of the common symptoms of coffee poisoning is the bad dreams that spoil what should be restful sleep. A man who found the reason says: “Formerly I was a slave to coffee, I was like a morphine fiend, could not sleep at night, would roll and toss in my bed and when I did get to sleep was disturbed by dreams and hobgob- lins, would wake up with headaches and feel bad all day, so nervous I could not attend to business. My writ- ing looked like bird tracks, I had sour belchings from the stomach, indiges- tion, heartburn and palpitation of the heart, constipation, irregularity of the kidneys, ete. “Indeed, I began to feel I had all the troubles that human flesh could suffer, but when a friend advised me to leave off coffee I felt as if he had insulted me. I could not bear the idea, it had such a hold on me and I refused to believe it the cause. “But it turned out that no advice was ever given at a more needed time for I finally consented to try Postum and with the going of coffee and the com- ing of Postum all my troubles have gone and health has returned. I eat and sleep well now, nerves steadied down and I write a fair hand (as you can see), can attend to business again and rejoice that I am free from the monster coffee.” Ten days’ trial of Postum in place of coffee will bring sound, restful, re- freshing sleep. “There's a Reason.” Read “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. Some physicians call it “a little health classic,” WHAT THE WOMEN WORE. Of Course the Story Teller Didn't Really Mean Just That | A gentleman recently returned from that quiet little Maryland resort, Ocean City, has a tale to tell of con- ditions that are really sensational. And the worst of it was that he did not know they were sensational at all. He was out calling the other evening, and the conversation started with the shirtwaist man, who, the returned wanderer said, was to be found in great quantities at the summer resort. Then hé told about the habit every- body down there had contracted of going without hats. This is the way he told it to an interested company: “You see everybody down there going about just the same. The men never wear coats; they go about in just their sairts.and trousers, and the women are just like them.” VERY BAD FORM OF ECZEMA. Suffered Three Years—Physicians Did No Good—Perfectly Well After Using Cuticura Remedies. “T take great pleasure in informing you that | 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 Cuti- cura Soap, Ointment and Pills, three months ago, and to-day [ am perfectly well, the disease having left me en- tirely. I cannot recommend the Cuti- cura Remedies too highly to anyone suffering with the disease that I have had. Mrs. Florence E. Atwood, 18 Crilly Place, Chicago, Il!., October 2, 1905. Witness: L. S. Berger.” It isn't because they are looking for an excuse to applaud that the neigh- bors are induced to keep an eye on you. ee a _ Farmers— e to Southwest Texas Simmon 10 to 640 Acres and Two Town Lot: Without o Farmers— Attention! Go to Southwest Texas and Look at the Famous Simmons Ranch. 10 to 640 Acres and Two Town Lots for. $210. Without Interest. Read the Following: A T El Reno, Okla., April 11, 1907. . ©. F. Simmons, San Antonio, Texas: 4 me Siar Sir—I have just returned from a yisit to aan lands in Atascosa County. I left El Reno on the 2nd of this month, for the purpose of look- ing over Southwest Texas, and especially your land, with a view of locate ing in Texas, if suited. " i 1 spent two nights and a day on your ranch, and while there I was in the Musgrove, Brown, Turkey Creek, Muley cow and Frenchman pas- tures, and made as compiete an examination of the Brapetiy as I could within the limited time that I had to spare. I consider your land the best body of land that I have seen in Southwest Texas, and I have looked over ‘ considerable lands in Texas. 3 : 3 1 was agreeably surprised at the quality of the soil on this ranch. It was much better thant expected to see, and I consider it a most favor- able opportunity for a poor man to get a good home. The soil is what I would call dark and red chocolate loam, with occa- sionally a little sand, which I consider a benefit in some respects, rather than a hindrance. " I have been engaged in farming and ranching about all my life, and have had much experience in raising alfalfa in Kansas and Oklahoma, in my mind there is no question but that the black Jand on your ranch is especially adapted to the successful growing of alfalfa, which [ consider the most valuable farm crop that any farmer can raise. While in San Antonio, T saw fresh alfalfa hay on the wagon, and it was selling for $17.00 per ton, loose hay. With the long seasons you have in Texas, and proper Irrigation, you should get at least seven or eight cuttings of alfalfa a year off this land, and there ought to be a yield of at least a ton to the cutting, I-saw the large artesian well at the Headquarters ranch, and I must ay it is the finest artesian well 1 ever saw, and is fully up to your represen’ tions in every respect. . "7 If the land is underlaid with artesian water, as I am satisfied it is, I do not see why alfalfa and all other crops grown upon that land cannot be made a success. I consider that you are giving the people a great opportunity to secure obeap homes. s far as I have seen, I am perfectly free to say that you have repre- sented your property fairly, and that the description you give of it in your literature is not overdrawn. If you desire it, you have my permission to refer any persons inquiring about this land to me, and 1 will be very glad to answer any inquiries made of me with reference to it. ' T appreciate the lindness extended to me while on the ranch, With best wishes, I remain, Yours very truly, C. E. HULIT. Vrite for literature and views of the Ranch, and name of nearest agent DR. C. F. SIMMONS, 15 Alamo Plaza, _-. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS Tt is not what he has, nor even what he does, that directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is— Henri F. Amiel. # oP a ep " iy yy " Xe 2 AY Miners ft a iA ns an) “Be a hired yoy say Ee oe EAN ae ¢ hy i Eq) (Ex Q 4 On a Sy oe NY eee Paint : Secrets ® A paint manufactur- SS er always mi prefers to keep secret the fact that he has substituted something else for white lead in his paint, but when the substitution is discovered he defends the adulteration as an improvement, There is no mystery about good paint. Send for our handsome booklet. It will tell you why our Pure White Lead (look for the Dutch Boy Painter on the keg) makes the best paint, and will also give you a number of prac- tical painting hints. For sale by first class dealere NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY New York, | Boston, | Buffalg, youseen incinnat icago, St. iladelphia (Yohn T. Bi . Pepin Qeddata esa PCO Man's True Worth, Payable $10 per Month Willie's Deep Interest in Playmate's Health Explained. This story is well in keeping with the spirit of the age, says the New York Tribune. A Bronx man tells it about his little boy. The neighbor's young hopeful was very ill, and Willie and the other youngsters in the block had been asked not to make any noise in the streets. The neighbor's bell rang one-day and she opened it to find Willie standing bashfully on her front steps. "How is he to-day?" he inquired in a shy whisper. "He's better, thank you, dear, and what a thoughtful child you are to come and ask." Willie stood a moment on one foot and then burst forth again, "I'm orful sorry Jimmy's sick." The mother was profoundly touched. She could find no further words to say, but simply kissed him. Made still bolder by the caress, Willie began to back down the steps, repeating at intervals his sorrow for his playmate's illness. At the bottom step he halted and looked up. "If Jimmy should die," he asked, "kin I have his drum?" Horrible Example. "My dear," said Mrs. Strongmind, "I want you to accompany me to the town hall to-morrow evening." "What for?" queried the meek and lowly other half of the combine. "I am to lecture on the 'Dark Side of Married Life,'" explained Mrs. S., "and I want you to sit on the platform and pose as one of the illustrations." Of the Cabbage Patch. Cigar Maker—Here's a new cigar I've just been putting up and I haven't any name for it. Suppose you suggest one. Friend (after smoking it)—They're naming a good many after characters in fiction now. Why don't you call this "Mrs. Wiggs?" In Self-Defense. Gabriel—Say, what did you let that pestifercous party in for? St. Peter (wearily)—He used to be an insurance agent and I either had to let him in or be talked to death. It's a Good Time now to see what a good "staying" breakfast can be made without high-priced Meat TRY TRY A Little Fruit, A Dish of Grape-Nuts and Cream, A Soft-Bolled Egg, Some Nice, Crisp Toast, Cup of Postum Food Coffee. That's all, and all very easy of diges tion and full to the brim with nourishment and strength. REPEAT FOR LUNCHEON OR SUPPER, and have a meat and vegetable dinner either at noon or evening, as you prefer. We predict for you an increase in physical and mental power. Read the "little health classic," "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. VIRTUE IN HARMONY HOW COOPERATION OF THE PEOPLE OF A COMMUNITY WINS. STICKING TOGETHER COUNTS Illustration of Some of the Good Things in Clannishness as Found in Some Agricultural Districts. Often is heard protest against what is called clannishness among foreigners who become citizens of the United States. It is claimed that they carry old-country ideas with them to the new land, and refuse to mingle with other than their own nationality. In defense of these foreigners who are thus charged, it is but fair to say that many of them labor under the misapprehension that they are not looked upon by the older American citizens as companionable. Often their lack of a knowledge of the English language makes their own class desirable associates. It will be observed that in one or two generations condition changes and the children of these foreigners become thoroughly Americanized. It would be well if some of the traits of clannishness that are manifest in foreign colonies be generally practiced throughout the United States. In 1848 an effort was made to colonize land in Missouri with a progressive class of German citizens. The events immediately following this effort, the loss of one shipload of immigrants and the subsequent sufferings of the newcomers, is a matter of history. But undaunted hundreds of those who at that time sought homes in the new country, gained for themselves enviable places in the annals of American history, and they founded communities that may well be held up as models worthy to be copied. In Gasconade county, Missouri, a large colony of these people sought homes. There they tilled the soil and cultivated vineyards. They were of one tongue and of one religious belief, a highly moral, hard-working people, and their aim was to found homes for themselves and their progeny. To-day in Gasconade county there is more evidence of wealth, of culture and harmony among the people than can be found in any like area of the United States. From the founding of the colony it was recognized that if progress be made that the wealth produced by members should be retained. Mills were gradually, built for the conversion of the grain into flour, wine presses were found on almost every homestead, and towns were built. Among the first institutions established were schools and churches, and these to-day are prominent factors in the molding of the character of the people. It was one of the rules of the colony to assist one another. Each one while working for himself and his family, realized that it was to his advantage to patronize his neighbor. Thus when the towns were started and stores opened, it was made a rule that these stores be patronized and that the store-keeper be allowed a fair profit for the goods he sold. Tailor shops, boot and shoe makers, soap makers, and even the brewers of beer found their customers solely among the members of the colony. Although St. Louis was within a few hours' ride, the members of the colony considered that the dollars kept in the little town instead of being spent in St. Louis meant much for the advancement of the place. As years passed by members of the colony became prosperous. Families were reared and children married, additional homesteads were secured and there was a thorough cooperation among all towards making life agreeable and giving each member of the community a means of acquiring a competency. One of the early undertakings was the building of macadamized roads. These roads to-day are kept in the best of condition and have proved a matter of economy to the county. Schools and churches, which at first were roughly built, have been replaced with magnificent edifices which are sources of pride to the residents of the community. Some of the small business places of 40 or 50 years ago have grown to be of almost national importance. In fact all residents of the community are independent, and a few of them possessors of great wealth. How successful they have been is shown by the absence of paupers in the county. There are no public charges, neither is there any great expense as to maintaining a county jail. This community is but one of many in the Mississippi valley and throughout the west. Such communities have been built up solely by the simple adherence to cooperation among members and a following out of the home-trade principle. Members realized that every dollar earned in the community and sent to some other place robbed the community of so much wealth, and that this dollar ceased to be a factor in increasing the importance and progress of the place. In these communities are generally located flouring mills. The output of these mills finds local sale and the surplus is sent to the markets to bring in money from the outside. It appears that if the simple economical methods of many classes of citizens of foreign birth were to be practiced more generally by people residing in various agricultural communities of the United States, it would be wholesome and that these communities would make greater progress. The practice that has grown up of patronizing other than home institutions has elements of evil that are well worthy of careful study. In these years of progress the inclination to economize in small things and to save a penny by sending dollars to the large cities often results in heavy losses to the people. Yet there is an under-current at work, an awakening to the importance of the people of every community more closely cooperating for the advancement of the interests of all. COMMON SENSE ECONOMICS. Simple Principles for Application in Everyday Affairs. He who aims to be fair toward his neighbor will not deny him the opportunity to make an honest living. The day laborer should be as well rewarded, according to his work, as is the merchant or the banker. Merchants are shortsighted when they will order potatoes or other vegetables by the carload from another town when right in their neighborhood farmers have just as good potatoes to sell, and perhaps at a lower price. No use in paying the commission man a percentage in a case like this. From fruit-growing sections year after year reports come as to the rotting of the crops on account of the poor transportation facilities, or refusal of buyers in the large cities to pay prices sufficient to pay for gathering. Here is an opportunity for the manifestation of local enterprise. Why not start small drying and canning establishments to use up the surplus fruit? Such establishments could be profitably conducted, and operated with benefit to all the people of the community. There is little economy for the storekeepers to keep on their shelves goods that are likely to grow out of date, or deteriorate in value. Better sell all such goods at actual cost, and give the people of the neighborhood the benefit of lowest prices. MAN-A-LIN THE IDEAL LAXATIVE MADE FROM CORRECTIVES AND ADJUVANTS. 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It was stated at an inquest on a peasant in a Servian village that the man died from swallowing too many bullets, which he was accustomed to take, in common with all the peasants in that district whenever he felt ill. THE @C1meTER, PUBLIGHED EVERY WEEK IN THE INTER: EST OF THE NE@RO BY CIMETER Pus. CO ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT MUS- Sener 1T., AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MAT € WH. TWINE ~ - + + Editor. Cc. T. HUME, Advertising Manager. A big meeting of Colored vot ers is called for Winnewood, Indian Territory September 3. The attendance will be large and matters of importance con. idered. Colored nen have organized a state-wide prohibition club. They take the stand that. the saloon element should not be encouraged to come into the new state with all of its train of evils. There are many. arguments pro and con on the subject. Our columns are open to both sides, The campaign is dragging on slowly with both Repibli- cans and Democrats making feeble efforts to enthuse the dear people, * Vote against the constitution whatever you do and you must register belore you can vote, The time is nearly vp. A long pull, a strong pull in one direction—for one common object and the vietory is won, Over coutidence has lost many a battle and we hope Dur party will not contract the malady. Mr. B. F. Brown and) many other leading Colored men are taking a firm stand for st ite- wide prohibition. The influ. enbe of the men will bring out a surprisingly large vote among our people for prohibition, es- pecially if astrong campaign is made, Colored pupils are in need of high school, Are there “any provisions being made for one? Itis a pity that the Colored men are paying such little at- tention to registering before the the time, for registration ex- pires., + DEGISTER IF YOU WANT vO VOTE AGAINST THE VONSTITUTION, IF YOU DON'T REGISTER YOU CAN'T VOTE, The Indiahoma Club gave an an-outing Wednesday at Fal s City. The attendance — was quite large and atl report a pleasant outing. The friends of state-wide pro- hibition are thankful to the Cimeter management for space to assist in making sentiment for this cause. The county Executive Com- mittee earnestly solicits the aid of every citizen to belp establish state-wide prohibition in. the new state. The fact that we are between Texas on the south and Kansas on the north, two states that are puting out the liquor traffic, makes it more urgently necessary for our wood that we establish laws to pre- vent our state from becoming the dumping ground for the driven out whiskey elements of these states. We cannot hope to escape the dreadful vices which follw this element uniess we establish laws prohibiting the sale of whiskey. Oklahoma should be the ideal state of the nation. Prohibi- tion is, without doubt, one of ‘the laws which must be enacted ‘to make if such. | Let every one get on the side of temperance and good govern- ent and vote for state wide prohibition on September 17, BL F. Brown, Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug, 22.—C. N. Haskell is making much ado over the alleged fact that the Republicans, as a rule, are against the separation of the races in so far as schools are concerned, This is in line with his usual manner of distorting facts by telling’ only part, He is thoroughly famaliar with the facts concerning this question but apparently he does not deem it advisable to tell his audienc- the exact truth, The fact in relation to separ ute school question are these: | In 1895 a Republican legis lator in Oklahoma enacted a separate school law. In 1897, Oklahoma went Democratic; the Democratic legislature then enacted a new separate school law wich was taken before Judge J. R. Keaton, a promi- nent Democrat of Oklaboma, then on the bench who declared this brand of Democratic legis- lation to be unconstitutional. The year following Keaton was nominated by the Democrats for Congress but his decision against the separate school law resulted in’ his overwhelming defeat, In 1899 Jobn Embry, Repnb- lican of Chandler, Oklahoma, present United States District Attorney, introduced and caus- dd to be passed, by a Republican legislature, the separate school law which is now upon the statute books, and which be éause of the cowardice of C, -N, Haskell, corporation Bob Wil liams, Bill Murray and others of the con con, will be the oily law in exisistence on this sub ject after the constitution is adopted. . Political Platform of C. B. Douglas, Editor Muskogee Phoenix. Clipped from Phoenix of September 25, 1906. The Resolutions Were Writ- ten by C. B. Douglas, Himself and Presented to 11 Other Editors Who Voted FOR Them. We, the members of the republican Press Association of the Third Con- gressional District declare as follows: Whereas there is an apparent mis- understanding existing among the voters of the district as to the posi- tion 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 pol- iey. Therefore, be it resolved by this association that the republican party of the Third Congressional District is OPPOSED to NEGRO DOMINA- TION in any sense. That it stands for separate schools, SEPARATE COACHES and SEPA- RATE WAITING ROOMS for NE- GROES which shall have equal fa- cilities and comforts of those fur- nished other races. That it is opposed and WILL. 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LOUIS And Return; Daily to Sept. 30; rate $19.20 CHICAGO Ard Return: Daily to Sept. 30; rate 27.55 MILWAUKEE And Return; Daily to Sept. 30; rate 31.48, Final return limit, Oct. 31, 1907. fi i eae Jamestown Exposition Norfolk, Va., Round Trip; Season tickets: 50.80 0-day tickets: 43.35 15-day tickets: 34.55 via New York at slightly higher rates, | minted ‘DENVER, CGLORADO SPRINGS and | PUEBLO, COLORADO; On sale daily until Sept 30; 24.05 | Final limit Oct. 31; Stop over all points in Colorado. ; F. A. Stubbins, Agent Frisco lines, Muskogee, 1. T. Phone 302 a fen Licences Full line of HIGH CLASS ARTICLES and Latest Design at low prices. If our every-day | prices seem too high, you should visit our every Monday Special Sales. . R. A. Givens 228 North Secend Street, MUSKOGEK, INDIAN TER. | Opposite Court House. Assets “ Milwaukee Mechanies Fire Ins, Co... eee ee ce cee cee 8750, 179 Northwestern National Insurance Cow... cece ee cee ee ee ee ee 6 4,865,005,00 Michigan Commercial Insurance Co... ee cece cece ee eee ee BEF, 835.00 Columbia Insurance Co, cece cece eee cee eee ee eee 6 158,028,00 Cosmopolitan Fireof New York... ccc. cee eee ce eee eee eee eo 138, 880,00 Ohio German Insurance CO... ce cee cee ee eee ee 628,811 ,00 Merchants & Planters Insurance Co. ce eee e ee cee eee cesses Home Coy Lloyds Plate Glass Insurance Co... ee cece cee ee ee ee ee + 1,000,000,00 Fidelity & Deposit Co, of Maryland ...6. 666600 ce eee eee eee + 6) 188,560,099 Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co... . 6.6 cece ee ee ee 220,000,000,00 Pacific Mutual Accident Coy... cc. ceecce cee eee ewes eure «10,808,208,00 Official Statement of the Condition of the Olommereial ation’l Ban" —=. —> —e Muskogee. Indian Perritory, RESOURCES LIABILITIES Loans and Discounts $712,003 95 | Capital ¥200,000 00 Overdrafts, cotton, 25,989 61 | Surplus and Profit 21,572 39 Bonds and Prewiums, 206080 49 | Circulation 150,000 00 Furniture and Fixtures 7.985 11] Deposits __759,530 25 Cash and Exchange 189,093 48 ce eek $1,141,152 64 $1,141,152 64 The above statemev worreet DN FINK. Cashier, PAINLESS DENTIST SEP TRETH 6.0 cise reiesse cece GOD BEST GOLD CROWNS ... ........ $4.00 BRIDGE WORK ................066. 3,00 FILLINGS ............-.2.+4.. 50 cts up TEETH Extracted Without Pain....50cts EXAMINATION FREE. Phone 938 Dr. G, LL, KNEBERL 4th & Okmulgee. State Building, Rooms 1-2-3, Muskogee, I. T lDurfey Hardware DON’T FORGET THE l3ig Sale At DURFEY’S HARDWARE Speeial Sales Days Tuesday of each Week. Watch the , Windows LOAN BROKER Loaus on all Articles of Value, 105 South Main Street MUSKOGEE, IND. TER. 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Perhaps he sold it for clear Havana, Key West goods. Arnold Daly says that Bernard shaw is "intoxicated with words and delirious with ink." We thought that Arnold Daly was one of Shaw's exponents. It has been discovered that Noah Webster wrote the dictionary with almost no assistance, but undoubtedly he had helped his wife use many of the words. "Matrimony as a profession" is not a bad idea. And the divorce lawyers should be broken of the habit of persuading people that it is for amateurs only. A railroad president announces that his road is out of politics and done with lobbying. Well, really, when you come to think of it, there doesn't seem to be anything left to fight for. The Washington preacher who says that heaven is in the star Alcyone now comes forward and says that it is built up with brick houses. Hell is probably made up of three-room flats. Peter Cooper Hewett is going to take us from New York to London in 30 hours. When a boat of that sort runs into an iceberg the monster of the deep will know that something hit it. The Maryland farmer who discovered that his hired man was the head of a large business concern in Philadelphia was not necessarily surprised. Hired men have such a way of knowing how the universe should be run that the average man who comes in contact with them often wonders if they are not captains of industry out for a quiet vacation. In a railroad collision a congressman turned a double back somersault over two seats and escaped without serious injury. A little thing like a railroad smash-up is no embarrassment to many acrobats who are accustomed to adjusting themselves to the sudden and violent changes that are constantly occurring in congressional districts. Charles Dudley Warner advised every one to be born "in a little red farm house with a stone wall around it." We are not particularly tenacious about the stone wall, and we enter a decided exception to the color of the house, but we indorse the sentiment. The records show that farmers' sons are those most likely to succeed in business and professional life. Health, vigor, self-reliance, ambition and the habit of work give them their advantages in the race for success. The Law of Gravitation It was out in Pikeville, one o' them western towns near the foothills, that we run up against it good and hard. We were playing "Ten Nights in a Bar Room," and had been doing a ratling business for a spell. You see, most o' those people out there are ketched by a title, and "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" looked good to them. It seemed kind o' sociable-like, with plenty o' gamblin' and shootin' irons, and chaps droppin' in to pass the time o' day, and a hot stove with the boys sittin' around it and swappin' lies over their liquor. Finally somehow he was going to carts, and when employ union Tommy just smiles, kind o' g that he didn't have any horses or cater, any men, o You ought to them councilmen they thought They then they decide invented some n for removin' sn But when it got to be spread around the country that we were a strictly moral show—a kind o' dramatic argument for temperance and signin' the pledge—why it's surprising the way receipts fell off. So when we got to Pikeville we were drawing about as good as a chimbley filled full o' birds' nests. The ghost hadn't walked for so long that I guess he'd forgot how, and to make things real interestin' and important, why what does our manager do but one night skip with all the receipts. We were dead up against it, out about a million miles from home, more or less, and nothing doing to annex the long green. And to make matters still worse, we were snowed in. Yes, sir, it snowed like I never see it snow before. You wouldn't believe it, but for five days she never let up. Well, sir, there we were—the hull 12 of us, including the company, and me and Tommy Bagsby, who played the "heavy" and did the press agent stunts. We were stoppin' at the United States hotel, and for a time they treated us like white people, but it wasn't long after our manager skidooed before they sized us up for a bunch of crooks. You see, it makes a lot of difference in the show business how you succeed. Well, sir, there we were stranded on the foot hills, and not enough of the long green in the crowd to pay our hotel bill, to say nothing of transportation back to Times Square. We were up against it for fair—but say—do you know Tommy Bagsby? No? Well, he's It. Tommy's all the mustard when it comes to the ways and means committee. We had been snowed in nearly a week, living on tick, and pretty poor tick at that, when Tommy decided that something must be done to raise the dough. You see, the snow had come down so deep that you couldn't break through it with a keg o' dynamite. It was piled up a mile high in the gutters and out in the middle of the street where the storekeepers had thrown it when they shoveled off the sidewalks. And it got so bad that finally a horse couldn't pull a sleigh through it—he just sank down to his shoulders and stuck. Well, the town council gets a move on and advertises for bids immediate to remove the snow along Main street. And here's where Tommy butted in. It seems he had a hunch on what it would cost to get rid of that snow by the old-fashioned method of shoveling it in carts and houling it away with teams. Tommy figured it would come to about a thousand dollars, so what does he do but put in a bid for eight hundred. Well, sir, the council nearly threw a fit when they heard Tommy's bid. It seemed too good to be true, but Tommy just stood right up in meetin' and handed them out a beautiful spiel, and they agreed to let him have a whack at the snow cleaning proposition, provided they wasn't to pay until the snow was good and off. Finally somebody asks him where he was going to hire his horses and carts, and whether he was going to employ union men or scabs, and Tommy just smiles real confident, and says, kind o' gentle and reprovin', that he didn't have in mind to employ any horses or carts, and for that matter, any men, either. You ought to 'a' seen the eyes o' them councilmen bung out. At first they thought Tommy was dippy, but then they decided that maybe he had invented some new kind of a machine for removin' snow, so they kept mum and let him go ahead with the job. You see, it was this way. This town is situated, like I said, near the foot hills, and the streets are pretty steep. It starts way up at the foot of a ridge, and then comes down almost like a ladder, and slopes right through the business section of the town, which was the part the council wanted scraped off. What does Tommy do but put an advertisement in the local papers that run something like this: "BOYS AND GIRLS!-A CHANCE TO make Five Dollars! A snowball rolling contest will take place next Saturday morning at ten o'clock, from the ridge at the head of Main street. To the boy or girl who succeeds in rolling the largest snowball down to the foot of Main street will be given a prize of five dollars. Just think of it-FIVE DOLLARS! for a little fun! Every schoolboy and schoolgirl is entitled to a chance at this fine prize-Thomas Bagsby, Referee, United States Hotel. Well, say, can you beat it? Do you know what a big, healthy snowball, made out o' sticky snow, can do when it gets a good start down a steep incline? Well, you listen. There was about 4,000,000 kids at the top o' that hill when it come time to start the race, and there was Tommy, big as life, lookin' serious and solemn as ever, directing the proceedings. He had the little boys and the girls go first, because, as he told me afterwards, there might be some snow left after the first roll-off, and he thought the big boys could handle that best. It didn't take the kids long to catch on. They begun with a little ball—you know, the kind you throw at a person—and rolled them along until they got about as big as a barrel, and then, when they reached a good place at the edge of the ridge, they give them a shove, and down they go, sailing along serene and tidy, gathering up momentum and snow, and clearing that street fine and elegant by the noble law of gravitation. There was one thing, though, that Tommy forgot. He forgot to give the citizens of Pikeville due warning TORPEDO BOAT DE THE SHIP --- One of the vessels in the new Pacific fleet. as to just what kind of obsequies were going to take place, and the result was that when those snowballs, some o' them as big as a small barn, come tearin' down along Main street, why there was some pretty nimble side-stepping by people who happened to be doing chores around about that time. It just seemed like that street was alive with snowballs. They come pllin' and swishin' and roarin' down so fast you couldn't count 'em, and speedier than a Vanderbilt cup racer, and getting bigger and bigger every second, while the good citizens and citizenesses that happened to be hanging around begun to get a move on like the very old Nick was after them, hustling into doorways and behind telegraph poles, and wherever there was a chance to escape that snowball cyclone. And, sir, those balls kept on doing the street cleaning business better than a hundred Dagoes could 'a' done it until they strike the level just across the railroad tracks, and come to a halt right on the edge of the river. Say, it was a sight to see them snowballs piled up along that bank. You would 'a' thought they were a pile of white elephants huddled together. The only trouble was to decide who had won the prize, because each snowball looked bigger than the other, and, besides, nobody could tell which was which. But Tommy finally settled it all right. He picked out the littlest girl in all that crowd—you could 'a packed a hundred like her away in the snowball that Tommy swore she'd rolled—and give her the money, but everybody seemed satisfied, for they most sure had more than five dollars' worth of sport. Clean the streets up? Why, there aln't a street cleaning department in the country that could 'a' done the job any slicker. And, sir, you wouldn't believe it, maybe, but in some places those thunderin' big snowballs had even ripped up the cobble stones. It was a wonderful demonstration—that's the way Tommy put it—of the working of the laws of gravitation and capillary attraction, to say nothing of a mysterious Providence. We needed that eight hundred bad—there being evidences at the United States hotel that we had about exhausted our supply of welcome. There was about $600 left over, and Tommy, like the good boy he always is, divvied up among the crowd. Some of the fellows—you know you have to excuse them, they hadn't seen money for so long—were itching to get their hands on some more coin, seein' this come so easy; but Tommy said he had neglected to take out a patent on his method, and that the city fathers were just mean enough to offer their own prize for big snowballs in the future; and, besides, all the streets didn't run down hill. 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