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CRUSHING ANSWER TO ..THE CLANSMAN" Thomas Dixon's drama "The Clansman" was just being advertised to play here on the 15th inst. to show the white people how wild a Negro man goes over the charms of the white woman and how the Klu Klux clans organized to protect the white woman from the lusts of the beastly Negro, when Charles Emile Letten, a white man, a man whose probity was always pointed to as worthy of emulation, a man whose exemplary conduct as a gentleman, as a husband and as a father formed the basis for the claim of the white man's superiority in the matter of domestic and civic virtues, family ties and honor, a man who was so universally recognized as the paragon of all honor and all integrity as to have made it a matter of unpardonable presumption and stupidity for the great State of Louisiana ever to dare to require him to give security for the safety of three quarters of a million of dollars, of the State's money which would have to be handled annually by him as chief clerk in the First District Tax Collector's office in this city, turned out to be, according to the findings of the grand jury, a deliberate adulterer, a devoted admirer to the extent of stealing and giving $500 per week to a Negro mistress for 192 weeks and a grand embezzler of the State's fund in the stupendous sum of over one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars! Just think of it for a moment! A high-toned white gentleman, 58 years of age, with wife and children to support giving a "nigger wench," as inspector of Police Whittaker called her, five hundred dollars a week, every, week for four long years and stealing the money to do so! Antoine Dubuclet, a Negro man, now dead, was state Treasurer in the much denounc- ed reconstruction days in this State and not a penny of the millions he handled ever went wrong or to any white mistress for her smiles. What crushing answer is this Charles Emile Letten's stolen five hundred dollars a week given to a Negress every week for four years to Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s drama, "The Clansman"? And Letten's explanation of his conduct is that he always found Virginia Reed beautiful and charming though other people say the woman has big mouth, big nose, clumsy hands, big feet and kinky hair. Whether this latter description fits Virginia Reed or not does not matter. If it does, it shows that this paragon of honor, C. E. Letten, a white, was crazy about her, would steal for her and was willing to go to jail for her. There is very little sympathy for Virginia Reed among the Negro people. She does not deserve any. She ought to have known better than to have permitted this white man's attention. The deal she is getting is invariably the deal every Negro woman who permits a white man to play with her honor gets when trouble comes out of the intimacy between them. She has been dragged to jail and locked up on charges of perjury and receiving stolen money, knowing the money to have been stolen. The amount of bond she must furnish to get out of jail is $52,000. All her property personal add real, has been sequestered. Yet Letten in his confession declares that she did not know he was stealing the money he was giving her, as he always represented himself to her as a rich man who success- No 5 fully speculated in the cotton business.—New Orleans Times (Dem.) Negroes Win Fight. NEW JERSEY GRANTS THEM CHARTER FOR LODGE OF ELKS. Trenton, N. J., Oct. 9.—New Jersey Negroes have won in their fight for the right to establish an order of Elks, the attorney general having decided that Sunlight Lodge, No. 114, Improved and Protective Order of Elks, is no infringment of the name of the order composed of white men. The new lodge has accordingly been incorporated with the secretary of state. The white Elks have been making a strenuous fight against the formation of Negro lodges of the order. Dunbar School of this city receives first honors at the Oklahoma City Educational State Fair. We are proud of the record made by Dunbar. Prof. Reynolds and his core of efficient teachers should receive the hearty cooperation and support of all the patrons. "BOO-HOO" Shouts a Spanked Baby. Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Edited. MUSKOGEE, IND. TER. Ignorance and sudden wealth in society is a pathetic sight to the judicious. The middle-grade citizen is the best for the continuance and prosperity of a republic. "Is marriage declining?" asks a western contemporary. Why, no. marriage is accepting. Having lost his queue, the emperor of Korea will probably remain unnoticed in the wings of life. A whistling piano has been invented. The ancient enmity of sound and sense becomes the more implacable. Leather has gone up, so shoes will be higher. Shall we be obliged to wear low shoes in winter to get even? There are only 81,722 persons in jail in the United States, but that takes no account of the persons who ought to be. When a woman seeking a divorce says that her husband is a wolf it is odds to nothing that he would not affirm that she is a lamb. A cat can look at a king, but it appears that a king cannot look at a Kentucky girl without causing her men folks to make a fuss. That South Bend man who waited 36 years to marry will not have much leisure to repent in should he ever want to after his impetuous haste. People who write books advocating erratic theories concerning marriage cause less embarrassment than those who attempt to put them into practice. Would the New York woman who lost $357,900 without knowing she was speculating have discovered anything about it had she won a like amount? The old-fashioned nightcap is coming into style again, according to the Woman's Home Companion. It has never gone out of style, at least among the men. Some children are in great luck. The schoolboy who broke his collarbone in the opening football game of the season can now devote his school year to study. The Yankee skipper reports seeing 150,000 whales in a single school. He should apply for a job as expert accountant, and failing in this, establish a nature-faking trust. A dispatch from Taunton, Mass., says two mill girls saved $15,000 from their earnings in 45 years. Wonder what they would fix as the age limit for old maids in that town? There may be such things as affinity and artistic temperament, but healthy common people regard such terms as part of the vocabulary of the language known as tommyrot. In New York a Turk has been empowered legally to call himself Joe White. His name meant white and he merely translated it. The original is spelled "Ak Klojogian." And still a few persons inveigh against Esperanto. Tidings from our agricultural fairs are that the vegetables and fruits are the best in a number of years, notwithstanding the backwardness of the season and the drought. As for the pumpkins, they are all of prize proportions, as usual. GIVING HIM A CHANCE. Surely Time for Hubby to Do a Lively Sidestep. Mrs. Wilson's husband was often obliged to go to New York on business, and frequently did not reach his home until the arrival of the midnight train. Mrs. Wilson had been in the habit of sleeping peacefully at these times without fear, but a number of burglaries in the neighborhood during one of her husband's trips to New York had disturbed her calm. On the night of his return Mr. Wilson was stealing carefully up the front stairs, as was his wont on such occasions, so that his wife would not be wakened, when he heard her voice, high and strained: "I don't know whether you are my husband or a burglar," came the excited tones, "but I am going to be on the safe side and shoot, so if you are Henry you'd better get out of the way."—Youth's Companion. There is a place and means for every man alive.—Shakespeare. A Doctor of Divinity, now Editor of a well-known Religious paper, has written regarding the controversy between Collier's Weekly and the Religious Press of the Country and others, including ourselves. Also regarding suits for libel brought by Collier's against us for commenting upon its methods. These are his sentiments, with some very emphatic words left out. "The religious Press owes you a debt of gratitude for your courage in showing up Collier's Weekly as the "Yell-Oh Man." Would you care to use the inclosed article on the "Boo Hoo Baby" as the "Yell-Oh Man's successor?" "A contemporary remarks that Collier's has finally run against a solid hickory "Post" and been damaged in its own estimation to the tune of $750,000.00." "Here is a publication which has, in utmost disregard of the facts, spread broadcast damaging statements about the Religious Press and others and has suffered those false statements to go uncontradicted until, not satisfied after finding the Religious Press too quiet, and peaceful, to resent the insults, it makes the mistake of wandering into fresh field and butts its rattled head against this Post and all the World laughs. Even Christians smile, as the Post suddenly turns and gives it back a dose of its own medicine." "It is a mistake to say all the World laughs. No cheery laugh comes from Collier's, but it cries and boo hooes like a spanked baby and wants $750,000.00 to soothe its tender, lacerated feelings." "Thank Heaven it has at last struck a man with "back bone" enough to call a spade a "spade" and who believes in telling the whole truth without fear or favor." Perhaps Collier's with its "utmost disregard for the facts," may say no such letter exists. Nevertheless it is on file in our office and is only one of a mass of letters and other data, newspaper comments, etc., denouncing the "yellow" methods of Collier's. This volume is so large that a man could not well go thru it under half a day's steady work. The letters come from various parts of America. Usually a private controversy is not interesting to the public, but this is a public controversy. Collier's has been using the "yellow" methods to attract attention to itself, but, jumping in the air, cracking heels together and yelling "Look at me" wouldn't suffice, so it started out on a "Holier Than Thou" attack on the Religious Press and on medicine. We leave it to the public now, as we did when we first resented Collier's attacks, to say whether, in a craving for sensation and circulation, its attacks do not amount to a systematic mercenary bounding. We likewise leave it to the public to say whether Collier's, by its own policy and meth- Didn't Need Cyclor-dias. The canvasser for a cyclopedia came to the home of a colonel, whose record he had carefully studied before his visit. The colonel was especially proud of some of his sons, so the canvasser began with: "Those are very fine boys of yours, colonel." "They are," replied the colonel. "I reckon you are ready to buy anything those boys want?" "I am so," said the father of the fine boys. "Well, then, let me sell you this cyclopedia. There's nothing will do your sons so much good." But the colonel looked at him agast. "Why, them lads of mine don't need any cyclopedia. They ride mules!" Peculiar Ice Cave. A summer attraction in Colebrook, N. H., is the "ice cave" in Dixville notch. This cave is formed by a fissure in the ledge of the mountain that fills with snow in winter, and is protected from the sun's rays at all seasons. ods, has not made itself more ridiculous than any comment of ours could make it. Does Collier's expect to regain any self-inflicted loss of prestige by demonstrating thru suits for damages, that it can be more artful in evading liability for libels than the humble but resentful victims of its defamation, or does it hope for starting a campaign of libel suits to silence the popular indignation, reproach and resentment which it has aroused. Collier's can not dodge this public controversy by private law suits. It can not postpone the public judgment against it. That great jury, the Public, will hardly blame us for not waiting until we get a petit jury in a court room, before denouncing this prodigal detractor of institutions founded and fostered either by individuals or by the public, itself. No announcements during our entire business career were ever made claiming "medicinal effects" for either Postum or Grape-Nuts. Medicinal effects are results obtained from the use of medicines. Thousands of visitors go thru our entire works each month and see for themselves that Grape-Nuts contains absolutely nothing but wheat, barley and a little salt; Postum absolutely nothing but wheat and about ten percent of New Orleans Molasses. The art of preparing these simple elements in a scientific manner to obtain the best food value and flavor, required some work and experience to acquire. Now, when any publication goes far enough out of its way to attack us because our advertising is "medical," it simply offers a remarkable exhibition of ignorance or worse. We do claim physiological or bodily results of favorable character following the adoption of our suggestions regarding the discontinuance of coffee and foods which may not be keeping the individual in good health. We have no advice to offer the perfectly healthful person. His or her health is evidence in itself that the beverages and foods used exactly fit that person. Therefore, why change? But to the man or woman who is ailing, we have something to say as a result of an unusually wide experience in food and the result of proper feeding. In the palpably ignorant attack on us in Collier's, appeared this statement,—"One widely circulated paragraph labors to induce the impression that Grape-Nuts will obviate the necessity of an operation in appendicitis. This is lying and potentially deadly lying." In reply to this exhibition of—well let the reader name it, the Postum Co., says: Let it be understood that appendicitis results from long continued disturbance in the intestines, caused primarily by undigested starchy food. Mr. Malaprop Just Home from Rome. A regular Mr. Malaprop recently came home from his first visit to Europe. He grew enthusiastic about Rome. "It was fine," he declared, "to go into them churches over there and see the old tombs—cigarrophagusses, they call 'em. And then the Sixteen chapel is great, and as for the Vaccination, where the pope lives, well!" But his stock of compliments give out when he got to the subject of beggars. "I always refused them pennies," he said, "because, you see, I didn't want to set a bad prestige!" Problems Concerning Wealth. It's easy to understand why so few of us have money. Those who know how to make it don't know how to keep it, and those who can keep it can't get it, and that's the only reason why they can't keep it. Which goes the faster after being broken—a thoroughbred colt or a $10 bill? such as white bread, potatoes, rice, partly cooked cereals and such. Starchy food is not digested in the upper stomach but passes on into the duodenum, or lower stomach and intestines, where, in a healthy individual, the transformation of the starch into a form of sugar is completed and then the food absorbed by the blood. But if the powers of digestion are weakened, a part of the starchy food will lie in the warmth and moisture of the body and decay, generating gases and irritating the mucous surfaces until under such conditions the whole lower part of the alimentary canal, including the colon and the appendix, becomes involved. Disease sets up and at times takes the form known as appendicitis. When the symptoms of the trouble make their appearance, would it not be good, practical, common sense, to discontinue the starchy food which is causing the trouble and take a food in which the starch has been transformed into a form of sugar in the process of manufacture? This is identically the same form of sugar found in the human body after starch has been perfectly digested. Now, human food is made up very largely of starch and is required by the body for energy and warmth. Naturally, therefore, its use should be continued, if possible, and for the reasons given above it is made possible in the manufacture of Grane-Nuts. In connection with this change of food to bring relief from physical disturbances, we have suggested washing out the intestines to get rid of the immediate cause of the disturbance. Naturally, there are cases where the disease has lain dormant and the abuse continued too long, until apparently only the knife will avail. But it is a well-established fact among the best physicians who are acquainted with the details above recited, that preventative measures are far and away the best. Are we to be condemned for suggesting a way to prevent disease by following natural methods and for perfecting a food that contains no "medicine" and produces no "medicinal effects" but which has guided literally thousands of persons from sickness to health? We have received during the years past upwards of 25,000 letters from people who have been either helped or made entirely well by following our suggestions, and they are simple. If coffee disagrees and causes any of the ailments common to some coffee users quit it and take on Postum If white bread, potatoes, rice and other starch foods make trouble, quit and use Grape-Nuts food which is largely predigested and will digest, nourish and strengthen, when other forms of food do not. It's just plain old common sense. "There's a Reason for Postum and Grape-Nuts. 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PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK IN THE INTEREST OF THE NEGRO BY CIMETER PUB. CO ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT MUSKOGEE, I T., AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER Political Platform of C. B. Douglas, Editor Muskogee Phoenix. Clipped from Phoenix of September 25, 1906. The Resolutions Were Written 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 Congressional District declare as follows: Whereas there is an apparent misunderstanding existing among the voters of the district as to the position of the party on the so-called race question, and, Whereas, the republican party has DISCHARGED its OBLIGATIONS to the NEGRO in that it gives him full civil rights, equal with every other citizen and still stands for that policy. Therefore, be it resolved by this association that the republican party of the Third Congressional District is OPPOSED to NEGRO DOMINATION in any sense. That it stands for separate schools, SEPARATE COACHES and SEPARATE WAITING ROOMS for NEGROES which shall have equal facilities and comforts of those furnished other races. That it is opposed and WILL USE EVERY MEANS at its command to PREVENT the nomination of negroes on any elective ticket, seeking the suffrage of the other races. On this declaration of principle all classes and all nationalities of citizenship are earnestly invited to allign themselves with the party of progress and prosperity. C. B. DOUGLAS, Muskogee Phoenix S. S. COBB, Wagoner, THOS. A. LATTA, Bartlesville, MATT TELIN, Afton, W. E. Dixon, Dewey, B. W. Barnes, Haskell, W. O. Kennedy, Muskogee, A. S. STERLING, Holdenville, CLARK SMITH, Claremore, W. F. HEAD, Webbers Falls, R. B. HUFFMAN, Checotah. The delegation to Washington is under many obligations to the friends of the race—race men and women who are loyal to the cause of good government, and who as an expression of their loyalty, have given of their means to establish the fact that the Negro will fight for his rights. As yet, there is no laugh due the knockers and after it is all over there still will be none coming. We have refrained from paying our respects to them until after the President does his work and no matter which way he decides, we shall then attend to them. Judge Lawrence's decision on Wednesday has somewhat complicated things. Everything happens for the best and in the long run it will be shown that he who laughs last laughs best. The whole thing may be settled at Washington next week. Morris Shepard, the Negro who murdered his wife, was captured near Weleetka Tuesday. The credit for capture is due to the fine detective work of Grant Huddleston of the city police force who traced the murderer from a label found on the bottle of acid which was broken by Shepard after the killing. It now appears that the news papers were too has ty in their condemnation of Clark J. Tisdel the ex master in chancery, as it has been learned that Mr. Tisdel has plenty of money with which to square his accounts. We have learned that there is $57,000 in one bank in this city that Mr. Tisdel can check out. This fact makes things look brighter. The Creek Theatre recently opened in Jones building gives a splendid show for the money charged. The manager deserves the patronage of the people as he is giving a clean healthy show. Take your boys and girls to see the moving pictures. THERE IS A LARGE NUMBER OF COLORED CHILDREN WHO ARE NOT IN SCHOOL. THIS IS ALL WRONG AND PARENTS SHOULD SEE TO IT THAT THESE CHILDREN ARE SENT TO SCHOOL AND AT ONCE. ```markdown ``` All is not lost. While there is life there is hope. Anything worth having is worth fighting for to the bitter end. The enemies of fair play who are members of the race are very much chagrined over the fact that in spite of their knocks the mass meeting delegation succeeded in going to Washington. FOR SALE. 75 acres of growing corn on the Geo. Mayfield farm about 2 miles south of Summitt that will average 20 bushels per acre. Inquire at the Cimeter office or Mrs. Susan Richardson at Summitt, I. T., on the above farm. EXCURSIONS FRISCO ST. LOUIS And Return; daily to Sept. 30; rate $19.20 CHICAGO And Return; daily to Sept. 30; rate 27.55 MILWAUKEE And Return; Daily to Sept. 30; rate 31.45 Final return limit, Oct. 31, 1907. Jamestown Exposition Norfolk, Va., Round Trip; Season tickets: 50.80 60-day tickets: 43.35 15-day tickets: 34.55 via New York at slightly higher rates, ENVER, CGLORADO SPRINGS and PUEBLO, COLORAO; 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, I. T. Phone 302 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 Second Street. MUSKOGEE, INDIAN TER. Opposite Court House. T. MILLER, LOAN BROKER Loans on all Articles of Value. 105 South Main Street MUSKOGEE, IND. TER. If You Want to Eat Food that you can eat and digest, come to 226 South 2nd St. where W. W. Turner will accommodate yon with the latest delicacies of the season at prices to suit. Before you sell or lease your land see the OHIO REALTY CO. Room 7 Turner Building. Holbert & Freeman CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS ESTIMATES AND ARCHITECTURAL PLANS FURNISHED Phone 320 or Call 612 South 3rd St. What beauty is more desirable than an exquisite complexion and elegant jewels? An opportunity for every woman to obtain both, for a limited time only. 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It is a genuine orse cut diamond ring of sparkling brilliancy absoluteyl guaranteed, very dainty, shaped like a Belcher with Tiffiny setting of 12 kt. gold shell, at you local jeweler it would cost considerable more than $2.00. We mail you this beautiful complexion receipt free when your order is received for ring and $2.00 in money order, stamps or bills. Get your order in before our supply is exhausted. This offer is made for a limited time only as a means of advertising and introducing our goods. Send today before this opportunity is forgotten. T. C. MOSELEY, 32 East 23rd Street, New York City. FREE To women for collecting names and selling our novelties, we give big premiums. Send your name today for our new plan of big profits with little work. Write today. Address C. T. MOSELEY Premium department, 32 E. 23rd Street, New York City. FRISCO Low Rates West and Northwest On Sale Daily. California — San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose, $25. Oregon — Portland and various others, $29.30. Washington—Tacoma, Seattle, Everett, $29.30. F. A. STILLMAN, Trs. & Pas. Agt. For Sale-One 5 chair barber shop and house at 224 South Second St. Good stand; good business. Reason for selling is bad health. Inquire at 224 South Second. WHY PAY RENT? We sell you a house and lot for $10 to $200 cash. Balance like rent. We also sell lots on payments. Get our prices. MARTIN & QUARLES, Phone 1230. 3121/2 West Okmulgee Street Notice. Let us pay off your mortgage and save your place. I have several neat new houses and lots to sell on installments—Easy terms. Every man and woman who trades with me able to buy a home, I loan money at 8 per cent interest. W.M. P. FIELDS. NO. I ENGLISH BLOCK. Every business man, both Colored and white should patronize the Afro Amercan Bakery. It is the best in town. THE CIMETER J THE QUICK M We do business by fair competition and conservative methods :: :: :: Reasonable rates made consistent with first-class printing :: :: :: Try us once and you will always send us your work :: :: :: South Second St., Muskogee, I 3 South Second St., Muskogee, Ind. Ter. Nickens & Nickens, Prps. E. A. Estes For your Drugs, Shool B00 STATIONERY. E. A. Estes For your Drugs, Shool BOOKs and STATIONERY. SHERMAN BUILDING : Kirshbaum : GENTS FURNISHING GOODS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. Shirts, Hats, Underwear, Suit Cases W. E. McCLURE Knox Agency, English Block. Dr. G. L. KNEBEL 4th & Okmulgee. State Building, Rooms 1-2-3. Muskogee, I. T Milwaukee Mechanics Fire Ins. Co. $ 2,759,179 Northwestern National Insurance Co. 4,365,095.00 Michigan Commercial Insurance Co. 844,835.00 Columbia Insurance Co. 756,028.00 Cosmopolitan Fire of New York 733,830.00 Ohio German Insurance Co. 628,311.00 Merchants & Planters Insurance Co. Home Co. Lloyds Plate Glass Insurance Co 1,000,000.00 Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland 6,188,569.99 Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. 220,000,000.00 Pacific Mutual Accident Co. 10,803,293.00 Durfey Hardware DON'T FORGET THE Big Sale At DURFEY'S HARDWARE Special Sales Days Tuesday of each Week. Watch the Windows CREEK UNDERTAKERS BILLINGS AND CULLUM @askets and Funeral Regalia Always on Hand IN OFFICE DAY & NIGHT. PHONES 986 & 481 If you can't get us on one phone, try the oiher. 200 S. 2nd. St. Muskogee, I. T. This Company makes absolutely correct abstracts of title. Go there for correct information. Next to Bank of Muskogee, Muskogee, I. T. Home Undertaking Company. Ragsdale, Davis and Davidson. Geo. W. Davis, Manager and Funeral Director. PHONE 746. 319 North 2nd St., Muskogee, I. T. Solicits your trade we are in the front rank in our line and only ask that you give us a trial and we know you will always be our customer. Call and see us. STUDY LAW AT HOME Prepare for success at the bar, in business or public life, by mail, in the ORIGINAL BOHOLL Founded in 1808. Successful College Law Course. Approved by bar and law colleges. College Law Course and Business Law Course. Liberal Terms Special offer New. Catalogue Free. Sprague Correspondence School of Law, 732 Majestic Blvd., Detroit, Mich. Or proved a weakling in His sight; You know— Time never waits; what you give it takes And from your conduct your record makes And passes on. L. E. Perdue. RHEUMATISM RECIPE PREPARE SIMPLE HOME-MADE MIXTURE YOURSELF. Buy the Ingredients from Any Drug gist in Your Town and Shake Them in a Bottle to Mix This. Mix This. A well-known authority on Rheumatism gives the readers of a large New York daily paper the following valuable, yet simple and harmless prescription, which any one can easily prepare at home: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Mix by shaking well in a bottle, and take a teaspoonful after each meal and at bedtime. He states that the ingredients can be obtained from any good prescription pharmacy at small cost, and, being a vegetable extraction, are harmless to take. This pleasant mixture, if taken regularly for a few days, is said to overcome almost any case of Rheumatism. The pain and swelling, if any, diminishes with each dose, until permanent results are obtained, and without injuring the stomach. While there are many so-called Rheumatism remedies, patent medicines, etc., some of which do give relief, few really give permanent results, and the above will, no doubt, be greatly appreciated by many sufferers here at this time. Inquiry at the drug stores of even the small towns elicits the information that these drugs are harmless and can be bought separately, or the druggists will mix the prescription if asked to. Bible Names for Colts. A hostler from the Blue Grass has just found employment in one of the stables of a New York man. His darky dialect is so quaint and his stories of "Ole Kaintuck" so unique no member of the household misses an opportunity to speak to him and have him say a word. His employer said to him a few days ago: "I suppose your master down south had a good many horses?" "Dat we did, sah, dat we did! And my ole master had 'em all name Bible names. Faith, Hope and Charity, Bustle, Stays and Crinoline, was all one Spring's colts!" BABY WASTED TO SKELETON. In Tormentes with Terrible Sores on Face and Body—Tore at Flesh —Cured by Cuticura. "My little son, when about a year and a half old began to have sores come out on his face. They began to come on his arms, then on other parts of his body, and then one came on his chest, worse than the others. At the end of about a year and a half of suffering he grew so bad I had to tie his hands in cloths at night to keep him from scratching the sores and tearing the flesh. He got to be a mere skeleton and was hardly able to walk. I sent to the drug store and got a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment, and at the end of about two months the sores were all well. He has never had any sores of any kind since, and only for the Cuticura Remedies my precious child would have died from these terrible sores. I used only one cake of Soap and about three boxes of Ointment. Mrs. Egbert Sheldon, R. F. D. No. 1, Woodville, Conn., April 22, 1905." Italians Go to South America. Italians to the number of 130,000 emigrated last year to South American ports, as against 287,000 who came to the United States. A woman has lost her chief attraction for a man when he ceases to wonder what she will do next. POULTRY AND BEES HOMEMADE TRAP NEST. Trap Nest which Works as Well as More Elaborate Ones. Seven years ago I devised a trap nest which is simple and works well. I can find no fault with it that does not apply to any other kind, writes a correspondent of Farm and Home. The constant attention they require is more than I care to give, so I do not use them now. They are simple of construction and anybody with eyes and hands can make them. The first thing is a box 13 or 14 inches wide and deep and two feet long. Nail a three or four inch board across center on bottom to retain nesting material. Cut an opening in one end eight inches square and make the door 7x8 inches. Nail some small The Details of Trap Nest. hinges on inside to hang the door. Get some small spring wire and turn some springs, a, on a half inch spindle, $2 \frac{1}{2}$ or three inches long. Fasten one end to the door, the other to side, so that when the door is pushed in the spring will be strong enough to pull it back shut. Fasten with two short nails or screws a piece of rat spring, b, like those used in corsets at the opposite side of door on the floor of nest box. Raise this spring and have it just long enough to prop the door two-thirds open. Have a little notch cut in door to hold it up. When the hen pushes her way into the nest the door will relieve this spring and when the hen steps into nest compartment the door closes. Put on a check so the door will not swing out. Hinge a cover on top of other end of box to gather the eggs and take the hen out. Don't make these boxes tight but leave plenty of change of air. Look at them every hour when the hens are busy. POULTRY PICKINGS. Birds cannot tell their feelings, hence we must judge and prescribe from symptoms alone. The causes of malignant colds are filth, dampness, drafts, neglect and improper food. Ducks seldom become broody; geese are apt to become broody after laying the first litter. Eggs from yearling ducks hatch well, but geese must be about three years old to show strong fertility. When a fowl sneezes, waters slightly at eyes and nostrils and dumps it has a common cold, not regarded as a germ disease. The pullets hatched in March will make good layers for the late fall, and then they can be handled so they will lay all winter. Be sure conditions are favorable, then apply the hatchet to the hen that persists in striking every time the price of eggs advances. Don't depend on any secret system of breeding layers. If you don't know your flock well enough to select the layers to breed from your case is hopeless. Raising Geese. Geese cannot be profitably hatched and reared artificially, while incubators and brooders have revolutionized the duck business. a diseased condition of the feminine organs or kidneys, and that aches and pains will continue until the cause is removed. Lydia E. 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PILES·NO MONEY TILL CURED·SEND FOR FREE ILLUS. TREATISE OR RECTAL DISEASES, WITH NAMES OF PROMINENT MEN CURED DRS. THORNTON & MINOR·1030 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. "Boo Hoo" Shouts the Spanked Baby The "Colic" of "Collier's" treated by a Doctor of Divinity. Look for the "Boo Hoo" article in this paper. "There's a Reason" BACKACHE AND DESPONDENCY Are both symptoms of organic derangement, and nature's warning to women of a trouble which will sooner or later declare itself. How often do we hear women say, "It seems as though my back would break." Yet they continue to drag along and suffer with aches in the small of the back, pain low down in the side, dragging sensations, nervousness and no ambition. They do not realize that the back is the main-spring of woman's organism and quickly indicates by aching a diseased condition of the feminine and pains will continue until the c Lydia E. Pinkham's W made from native roots and herbs successful remedy in such cases. No of cures of feminine ills. Miss Lena Nagel, of 117 Morgan completely worn out and on the verge ached all the time. I had dreadful of crying and extreme nervousness, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Co Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Co such as Backache. Falling and Displ Dissolves and expels Tumors at an tones the Stomach. Cures Headach the whole feminine system. Mrs. Pinkham's Standin Women suffering from any form o write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. H PILES·NO MONEY TILL C DRS. THORNTON & MINOR·103 What's in a Name? "Old Amy, you know, who is famous for being arrested, has been sent to jail again. But as she weighs nearly 300 pounds and is a good fighter, it took nearly all the reserve force to get her in the wagon." "Then the magistrate who sent her to jail ought to be arrested, too." "Why so?" "Didn't he commit big Amy?"—Baltimore American. Reason This Out. An English quarryman was charged with assaulting one of his mates, and when the case was carried into court, an eyewitness of the occurrence gave some curious evidence. "He tuk a pick an' he tuk a pick," the witness began, "an' he hit him wid his pick, an' he hit him wid his pick; an' if he'd hit him wid his as hard as he hit him wid his, he'd have near killed him, and not him him." "Did you ever hear anybody improvise?" he asked. "No," said she, and he sat down to the piano and improvised for about an hour and a half. At the end of that time he turned around, his face full of expression, and said to her: "What do you think of it?" "Lovely!" she exclaimed. "Beautiful! I never heard anything like it!" But this is what she said to the hallboy when he was gone: "If that long, lank lunatic who improvises asks for me again, you tell him I am out." "Boo Shouts the A MISS LENA NAGEL organs or kidneys, and that aches cause is removed. Vegetable Compound has been for many years the most so other medicine has such a record St., Buffalo, N. Y., writes:—"I was age of nervous prostration. My back periods of pain, was subject to fits and was always weak and tired. Compound completely cured me." Compound cures Female Complaints, placements, and all Organic Diseases. In early stage. It strengthens and ne and Indigestion and invigorates Invitation to Women of female weakness are invited to for advice is free. CURED. SEND FOR FREE ILLUS. TREATISE ON BECTAL DISEASES, WITH NAMES OF PROMINENT MEN CURED OAK ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. Willing Hands. There is a good story going the rounds in Pittsburg of a young man, formerly a stock-broker, who dropped many thousands in speculation during the early spring. One night, shortly after going to bed, the Pittsburger was awakened by strange signs. At his first motion to jump up he was greeted by a hoarse voice. "If you stir, you're a dead man!" it said. "I'm looking for money." "In that case," pleasantly answered the erstwhile speculator, "kindly allow me to arise and strike a light. I shall deem it a favor to be permitted to assist in the search."—Harper's Weekly. For more than an hour a witness for the defense had dodged questions. His faulty memory was particularly exasperating for the counsel for the plaintiff, who was seeking to recall to the witness' recollection an event of four of five years previous. Eventually the man remembered "something about it." "Ah," continued the lawyer for the plaintiff, "what dd you think of it at the time?" "Really," said the witness, speaking before the lawyer for the defense had time to interpose objection, "it was so long ago I can't recall exactly what I thought of it." "Well," shouted the cross-examiner, excitedly, "if you can't recall, tell us what you think now you thought then." Hoo" Feminine curiosity originated with Mother Eve when she took the first bite of that apple. 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The corn plant is infected with smut above the ground by means of spores or sporidia, which are brought in contact with the young growing parts of the plant by the aid of the wind, rain and dew. These sporidia are developed upon decaying organic matter in the soil of the field, growing somewhat after the manner of the yeast fungus. The infection with smut may take place quite early in the season: forming a mass of spores which appear as the smut balls on the cornstalks and leaves. These quickly dry and the spores, blowing about, produce new infections, causing a second growth and fruiture of the fungus. It appears that bruises on the stalks, such as occur by detasseling, favor the infection with smut. You will thus see that it is useless to treat the seed. There is practically no remedy for this disease other than to pick the smut balls and burn them, and this will not prevent the occurrence of smut in any field, since the spores may be carried by the wind from surrounding fields. However, it may be possible to reduce the attacks of smut to some extent by picking and burning the smut balls, since if little smut is present in the soil where the corn is planted the opportunity for infection is lessened. It is stated, also, that manure favors the development of smut, since it offers an abundance of favorable material upon which the smut may grow and develop the sporidia which cause the first infection of the corn plants. GRAIN OR CORN SACKER. Serviceable Affair Made Out of Odds and Ends of Material. The hopper shown in the illustration was made with pieces of tin from an old self-binder, riveted together for the sides and front, and nailed to the A Device for Holding Grain Sack. back which is of wood. Around the bottom I used board strips three inches wide to make a box 6x8 inches square. Small hooks with screw ends were fastened in the corners on which to hang the sack. A piece of three-inch stuff three feet long was bolted to the back of the hopper with several inch holes in the top. The hopper was then hung upon a spike driven into a post beside the bin. With this contrivance, writes a correspondent in Prairie Farmer, I can fill sacks as fast as one man can tie them. A mare of any type bred to a horse of an entirely different type may produce a good colt, but the chances are against it. Get Rich in South Texas Truck and Fruit Farms of From 10 Acres to 640 Acres and Two Town Lots, for $210. Payable $10 per Month Without Interest. Read What a Disinterested Expert Says of Dr. Chas. F. Simmons 95,000 Acre Ranch Now on the Market. Dear Sir—Yours at hand. I would like to have called at the office when I came back, but it was Sunday and I took the train for home. I was on your 95,000-acre ranch three days. I found it much better than I expected. I am satisfied in my own mind that with proper wind breaks, as we have in this country, oranges, lemons, apricots, figs, olives and almonds can be successfully grown there. I am sure that south of San Antonio is the natural home of the English walnut. The soil on your land is much better for fruit raising than it is in this country, because you have a good red clay subsoil, while in Southern California we have gravel and rock that does not hold moisture. We have to irrigate here at least ten times a year and continually work the orchards, but I don't think this would be necessary on your land in South Texas, at least not so much of it, because the red clay will hold moisture and will give the fruit a better flavor. Orange orchards in this country are worth from $500 to $1,000, and walnuts from $200 to $500 per acre. I think south of San Antonio to the Gulf is a better country than from Los Angeles, Cal., to San Diego, Cal., because the soil is better, there is more water, and the climate is just as good so far as I could see and hear by talking to old settlers, and the land is so cheap that every workingman should have a home. I am sure that in the near future South Texas will be a prosperous fruit growing country and will be as valuable as Southern California, and the man who will lose money in South Texas is the man that does not get in on this cheap land of yours before it is all gone. A man that has lived in Southern California as long as I have can see the future of South Texas. Respectfully A. J. WILSON Never before has there been such an opportunity to secure a home in a delightful location for so little money and on such easy terms. For literature and name of nearest Agent, write TEN YEARS OF PAIN. Unable to Do Even Housework Because of Kidney Troubles. Mrs. Margaret Emmerich, of Clinton St., Napoleon, O., says: "For fifteen years I was a great sufferer from kidney troubles. My back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp, shooting pains. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared before me, and I had dizzy from kidney troubles. My back palmed me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp, shooting pains. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared before me, and I had dizzy spells. For ten years I could not do housework, and for two years did not get out of the house. The Kidney secretions were irregular, and doctors were not helping me. Doan's Kidney Pills brought me quick relief, and finally cured me. They saved my life." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Millburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A Young Composer. Rachel, aged 12, wrote an composition on wild flowers in which she praised the arbutus, the liverwort, the spring beauty, the blood root, and all of the other blossoms of dell and dale. But she wrote on both sides of her sheet of paper, and when she asked her father, who was an editor, to publish her article, he called her attention to that fact. "You've written on both sides of your paper," said he. "Well," was the reply, "and don't you print on both sides of yours?" 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. Hitchcock In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Never look upon your work as a refuge from thought, but express your thought in your work.—Phillips Brooks. Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c cigar made of rich, mellow tobacco. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.—Danish. Get Rich in Truck and Fruit Farms of Acres and Two Town able $10 per Month Read What a Disinterested Expert Says Acre Ranch Now Dr. C. F. Simmons, San Antonio, Texas: Dear Sir—Yours at hand. I would when I came back, but it was Sunday was on your 95,000-acre ranch three day expected. I am satisfied in my own min we have in this country, oranges, lemon can be successfully grown there. I am sure that south of San Antonio walnut. The soil on your land is much be this country, because you have a good ree formin we have gravel and rock that doe We have to irrigate here at least te the orchards, but I don't think this woul Texas, at least not so much of it, because will give the fruit a better flavor. "Makes It Go Away." We simply can't do without it. We are not going to try. When Bobby stubs his toe, it's "Ma, where's the Lightning Oil?" When Lizzie burns her hand or arm, it's "Where's the Lightning Oil?" When little Dick's been playing with a bumble bee, it's "Where's the Lightning Oil?" The echo of all our afflictions is "Where's the Lightning Oil?" It's the balm that makes the pain go way. Sincerely yours, P. Cassidy, Montevallo, Ala. 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