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The Muskogee Cimeter. THE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Delegates to the State Grand Lodge and Temple of the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten of the Oklahoma Jurisdiction, Wagoner, Ind. Ter., August 26=30, 1907, with W. A. Gaines, National Grand Master and M. R. Perry, National Grand Sec'y in the Group. U. B. F. Situation. Up to date there is no final decision of the case that was pending the U. S. courts of the Western district of the Indian Territory. The National Grand Master of the U. B. F., W. A. Gaines recognizes P. Delancy as Grand Master of this jurisdiction. The rebels of which ex-Prof. H. N. Johnson is one, have not and cannot get any recognition from the National Crand Lodge of which W. A. Gaines is Grand Master. The rebels had the National Grand Master put under arrest last August when he visited the Territory but he was promptly released by the courts. After wards he installed P. Delancy as grand master of this jurisdiction. Delancy was elected grand master by the local lodges that held session at Wagoner, Indian Territory on August 26, 1907. The quarterly pass word of the order comes from the National Grand Master and none of the rebels, not even parson Franklin nor Prof. Johnsing can get this pass word. Lodges that are not in rebellion against the National head are in possession of the quarterly pass-word. The men who revolted and who through trickery, chi anery and questionable methods are trying to fool the people, can never obtain recognition from W. A. Gaines our National Grand Master. Let all U. B. F. Lodges and temples who are local to W. A. Gaines as grand master, stand where they have always stood. "Truth crushed to earth will rise again; the eternal years of God are hers." It is a fight of right against wrong and right must triumph. We must stay in the church and drive the devils out. A Brother. Always Fighting For the Flag. In a fight at Manilla over the right of the Japanese flag to float over Old Glory the cable d spatches say the Jap was sent to the hospital and the American Negro to jail. With this information at hand it is not a difficult matter to guess who got the best of the skirmish. Phoenix, Nov. 12, 1907. Yes the Negro got the best of the fight. He is always fighting for the FLAG and getting the best of it. He fought in Cuba and got the best of it. He fought in the Phillipines and got the best of it. It is only at home where he gets the worst of it. Where is the God of Justice and Fairplay? Is he dead? Wo shall watch the Democrats and see what they do for Frank Reed, the only all wool, Simon pure black Democrat who went up against every body for Democracy on last election. While we don't agree with Frank yet we admire his pluck in standing up for what he said he believed when all of us were against him. What will the demmies do for their black disciple? Wait and see. County officers are servants of all the people and not of a political party. It is their duty duty to deal justly with all citizens regardless of party affiliations. This we believe they will do. Let us help them in the discharge of their duty. The Only Negro Commercial Demonstrator In the Uuited States. N. P. Dudley of Philadelphia, Pa., the only Negro Commercial Demonstrator in the United States, representing the University of Heidleberg, Germany, will call on his people here with special information to mothers in rearing, caring for children etc. Should he call at your residence kindly give give him your attention. Mr. Dudley was requested to give Muskosee a call by Mrs. Escoe at Lawrence, Kansas. Watch and wait. Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor MUSKOGEE A Responsible Citizen. The story was told in the Youth's Companion some time ago of a member of a "school city" in Chicago who defeated his teacher in debate on the question of war, which, the boy maintained, is forbidden by the ten commandments and is always wrong. Now comes from Philadelphia the story of a girl who was also admitted to citizenship in such an organization, and who upset promptly all the expectations of the schoolmistress. Every teacher who had ever struggled over her admitted that Marie Parola was a torment and a plague. There were 500 other girls in the same building with her, but Marie held all records as truant, slattern and mischief-maker. This is the way she appeared to her teachers, but she must have had good qualities which were apparent to her fellow pupils, although not to the teachers. With the girls of her class Marie was almost universally a favorite. After a time a "school city" was organized among the pupils, and to the disgust of the teacher, Marie was elected almost unanimously as delegate to the common council from her room. "What shall I do?" her teacher asked of the other "schoolma'ams." "Wait and see," they counseled. "Perhaps she will be afraid to come any more." But the next morning Marie was on hand bright and early, attired as for a ball. When the teacher arrived Marie greeted her graciously. Soon there entered a pupil as tousled and dirty as Marie had usually been. The new "councilman" led her aside and laid down the law to her. "We are citizens now," she said. "You don't want to do this way any more." Another girl who came late was also taken in hand and disciplined by the "councilman." Two years later the teacher who had been so angry when Marie was elected to the council admitted that there had never been in the school another influence so sweet, so great and so clean as Marie's. It is often so in life outside the schoolroom. Responsibility sobers and exalts and brings out qualities the possession of which had not been suspected. Walking. Country life has taught us much, but it has not yet made walkers of us. Physicians testify that no exercise is so generally beneficial as walking. Every naturalist, or nature lover, will tell you that no other means is so good for knowing the country; every walker proclaims that no other pursuit gives so much pleasure. Still, writes Ella M. Bault in the Independent, no one walks. Men walk no more than women. We are so prone to imitate our English cousins, why does their love of walking not arouse us to emulation? Conscience, fashion or inclination impel us to ride, drive, row, swim, fish, hunt, golf, play tennis; we even chop trees and saw wood for exercise if we are strenuous and incline to the simple life, to say nothing of making gardens; we own and drive airships, automobiles and motor cars of all descriptions, but we do not, will not, and, in fact, cannot walk. The cocoanut tree is so elastic as to withstand the fiercest storms, even on the sea coast, only one of the many valuable qualities of the wood. Possibly the reason the artist's wife was glad to leave him-to his affinity was that she knew him so well. TO PRETENDERS. A Wholesome Word for Guidance. Just a word to you, "Collier's" and other glaring examples of Modern Yellow Journalism and Cigarettes. Environment gives you a view-point from which it is difficult to understand that some people even nowadays act from motives of old fashioned honesty. There are honest makers of foods and healthful beverages and there are honest people who use them. Perhaps you are trained to believe there is no honesty in this world. There is, although you may not be of a kind to understand it. Some of you have been trained in a sorry class of pretenders, but your training does not taint the old fashioned person trained without knowledge of pretense and deceit. These letters came to us absolutely without solicitation. We have a great many thousand from people who have been helped or entirely healed by following the suggestions to quit the food or drink which may be causing the physical complaints and change to Postum Coffee or Grape-Nuts food. You are not intelligent enough to know the technical reasons why the change makes a change in the cells of the body. Your knowledge, or lack of knowledge, makes not the slightest difference in the facts. You can print from old and worn plates all the cheap books your presses will produce and sell them as best you can, but such acts and your "learned" editorials are but commercial, and seek only "dollars" and much by pretence. When you branch out into food values you become only ridiculous. Stick to what you know. The field may be small but it is safe. This first letter is from the President of the "Christian Nation", a worthy Christian paper of New York. New York, Oct. 2, 1907. Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. Dear Sirs: I am, this morning, in receipt of the enclosed mighty good letter from one of my subscribers, which I forward to you, and which I am sure you will be glad to use. I am personally acquainted with this lady, and know that she has no object in writing, other than to do good. Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1907. Dear Mr. Pritchard: Noticing Postum Food Coffee advertised each week in your reliable paper, I concluded to try it, and feeling it a duty towards those who may have suffered as I have from indigestion, desire to state what wonderful benefit I have received from Postum although using only a short time, and not do. I alone realize and appreciate its good effects, but friends remark, "How much I have improved and how well I look", and I tell the facts about Postum every time, for since using it I have not had one attack of indigestion. It is invigorating, healthful; does not affect the nerves as ordinary coffee, and if properly made, a most delicious drink. Although I have not had much faith in general advertising, yet, finding Postum has done so much better for me than I expected I am more inclined to "Prove all things, hold fast that which is good." I am so thankful for good health that I want it known what a blessing Postum has been to me. You may use these few lines as an ad. if you so desire and my name also. Very truly yours, Anna S. Reeves. 275 McDonough St., Brooklyn. Coffee hurt her, she quit and used Postum. She didn't attempt to analyze but she enjoyed the results. Underneath it all "There's a Reason." POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Char. H. Hutchert. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. 9.00 DROPS ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion. Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains nectar. Opium. Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. S.W. WELLPITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alx. Sanna + Rochelle Salts - Anise Seed + Peppermint - Di Carbamide Soda + Warm Seed - Cinnamon Sugar - Wintergreen Flavor. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and Loss of SLEEP. Fac Sinile Signature of Char. H. Hutchert. NEW YORK. A 16-months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS Guaranteed under the Food and Wrapper. Exact Copy of Wrapper. Pure Wholesome Those who believe in quality use KC BAKING POWDER 25 Ounces for 25 Cents Made from pure, carefully tested materials. Get a can on trial. You never saw such cakes and biscuit. They'll open your eyes. PILES: NO MONEY TILL CURED. SEND FOR FREE ILLUS. TREATISE OR RECTAL DISEASES. WITH NAMES OF PROMINENT MEN CURED DRS. THORNTON & MINOR • 1030 OAK S • KANSAS CITY, MO. HEART THROBS The Old Scrap Book The Chapple Publishing Company 114 Boston CHAPPLE 935 Dorchester Avenue, "HEART THROBS" A warm-hearted, wholesome book containing the favorite selections of 50,000 people, including President Roosevelt, Admiral Dewey and the late John Hay. Every teacher should have a copy for the school-room; every preacher for the pulpit; every "good old soul" for the memories it brings; every boy or girl for the nobleness and optimism it teaches; a universal book with a range of emotion greater than Shakespeare; in comfort second only to the Bible. Go where you buy your books and tell the man to order your Heart Throbs for book containing the including President state John Hay. copy for the school- ery "good old soul" or girl for the noble- versal book with a espeare; in comfort and tell the man to A warm-hearted, wholesome book containing the favorite selections of 50,000 people, including President Roosevelt, Admiral Dewey and the late John Hay. Every teacher should have a copy for the school-room; every preacher for the pulpit; every "good old soul" for the memories it brings; every boy or girl for the nobleness and optimism it teaches; a universal book with a range of emotion greater than Shakespeare; in comfort second only to the Bible. Go where you buy your books and tell the man to order your Heart Throbs for X-MAS GIFTS or tear this ad out and mail with $1.50 direct to PUBLISHING COMPANY BOSTON, MASS. LIVE STOCK FOR A HORSE HARD TO CATCH. Fasten Short Bit of Chain to His Fore Leg Above Knee. For a horse that is hard to catch, take a chain about one and one-half feet long, and fasten it with a strap to his front leg, just above the knee. Breaking a Hard Runner. The chain will hang down and will not bother the horse while he walks, but if he runs, it strikes his other leg, and he will be forced to stop. They don't run far before they stop and let you catch them. SPECIALIZING IN STOCK. Farmers Should Follow Lines in Which They Will Have Best Success. This is fast becoming an age of specializing. The farm of a few years ago was supposed to produce about all that was consumed. A great many things were made then, too, that are bought now. The change has been coming on gradually, but now the disposition is general to let the man who is better fitted for doing or producing one thing follow his line, while we may follow another line, and the exchange is made through the regular channels of trade. The stockmen are taking up specializing to a wonderful extent. A very few years ago the stockman had a few of all classes of stock, and each class represented some of all ages. To-day, we find more and more of the special herds. The cattleman sticks to a certain line, and if he raises for the market he likes to have the bunch all of an age and size. It is the same with every other line of livestock. After all that has been said of having a few of all kinds, then you will be sure of having some of the right kind, for stock does better to run all of an age and size, and is easier cared for. Hogs in Confinement. Where hogs are kept in confinement it is noticed that they crave foods like charcoal, ashes, rotten wood, etc. It would seem as though such foods were of little value, for when analyzed they show but slight quantities of nutrition. Yet these foods are found to be excellent correctives for the hog's system, especially where large quantities of corn are fed. Get Pure Bred Sire. The essential points involved in profitable pork production consist of quality in the breeding stock. The pure bred sire is the farmer's best friend, although some do not realize this fact and think that a common bred sire will do as well. The pure bred sire is prepotent and will impress uniformity upon his offspring. Don't fail to give your hogs plenty of ashes and salt. If you have an old ash bank about the place, throw it into the pen and salt it good. The hogs will dispose of it to their advantage. HERE'S A NEW DEFINITION. And Many There Are Will Say Senator Platt Was Right. A rather cynical joke has been recently credited to Senator Platt. The senator, on his last visit to the Manhattan Beach hotel, allowed a pretty little girl, a western millionaire's daughter, to be presented to him. The little girl, in the course of one of her many chats with the aged statesman, said: "Tell me, won't you, senator, what political economy is?" "Political economy, my dear child," Senator Platt is said to have replied, "is the art of never buying more votes than you actually need." BABY'S ECZEMA GREW WORSE. Hospitals and Doctors Could Not Relieve Him-But Cuticura Remedies a Speedy, Permanent Cure. "Eczema appeared when cur baby was three months old. We applied to several doctors and hospitals, each of which gave us something different every time, but nothing brought relief. At last, one of our friends recommended to us Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. A few days afterwards improvement could be noted. Since then we have used nothing but Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, and now the baby is six months old and is quite cured. All that we used was one cake of Cuticura Soap and two boxes Cuticura Ointment, costing in all $1.25. C. F. Kara, 343 East 65th Street, New York, March 30, 1906." Martins' Revenge. A correspondent tells the story of two house martins' nests built against an attic window of a farm, to which the birds came for several successive years. Last spring, however, before they arrived, a sparrow took up her abode in one of the nests. Shortly after the martins returned as usual, and one day the farm people noticed that the hole of the nest which the sparrow occupied had been blocked up. Next morning a boy climbed up to ascertain the meaning of this, and not finding any outlet broke away part of the nest, to find the poor little sparrow dead on her eggs. The house martins had walled her up for daring to take possession of their house.—Country Life. Mary Knew. Little Mary's father had been teaching her to walk properly. "Walk slowly and turn out your toes," he admonished her. While she was undergoing this teaching, she attended Sunday school one day. The golden text was, "Teach me to walk honestly." After reciting it several times, the teacher asked: "Who knows what that means?" "I do," replied little Mary. "Walk slowly and turn out your toes." Against Cooperative Shops. Strong feeling is raging in German and Austrian trade circles against cooperative shops, which are practically ruining the internal trade of these countries. PLEASANT SUMMER. Right Food the Cause. A Wis. woman says: "I was run down and weak, troubled with nervousness and headache for the last six years. The least excitement would make me nervous and cause severe headache. "This summer I have been eating Grape-Nuts regularly and feel better than for the six past years. "I am not troubled with headache and nervousness, and weigh more than I ever have before in my life. I gained 5 lbs. in one week." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." ulates, strengthens and restores women's health and is invaluable in preparing women for child-birth and during the period of Change of Life. Third, the great volume of unsolicited and grateful testimonials on file at the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn, Mass.. many of which are from time to time being published by special permission, give absolute evidence of the value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Mrs. Pinkham's advice. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound For more than 30 years has been curing Female Complaints, such as Dragging Sensations, Weak Back, Falling and Displacements, Inflammation and Ulceration, and Organic Diseases, and it dissolves and expels Tumors at an early stage. Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation to Women Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. for advice. She is the Mrs. Pinkham who has been advising sick women free of charge for more than twenty years, and before that she assisted her mother-in-law, Lydia E. Pinkham in advising. Thus she is especially well qualified to guide sick women back to health. Write today, don't wait until too late. TIED TO A CHAIR. Unable to Move About On Account of Kidney Troubles. Mrs. Anna Beebe, River and Monroe Sts., Anoka, Minn., says: "I had to sit in a chair day after day unable to move about on account of rheumatic pains in my back, hips and legs. I was short of breath and my heart would flutter after the least exertion. I had dizzy spells and bearing sit in a chair day after day unable to move about on account of rheumatic pains in my back, hips and legs. I was short of breath and my heart would flutter after the least exertion. I had dizzy spells and bearing down pains and the kidney secretions were much disordered. I thought I would not live long, but since using Doan's Kidney Pills I am a different woman, can do my own work and have no fear of those troubles returning." Sold by all druggists. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Prizes for Inventions. With a view to encouraging officials and workmen on the Imperial German railways, the government have established a fund from which awards are made to men who invent any appliance which may be useful in railway practice; $3,750 was paid to employees last year from the fund. Don't Be Irritable. "An irritated skin makes an irritable person, and an irritable person gathers much trouble unto himself or herself as the case may be. Moral: Use Hunt's Cure, one box of which is absolutely and unqualifiedly guaranteed to cure any form of skin trouble. Any kind of itching known is relieved at once and one box cures." Do not only take occasions of doing good when they are thrust upon thee, but study to do all the good thou canst. Zeal of good works will make thee plot and contrive for them, consult and ask advice for them.—R. Baxter. Rest and Sleep. Few escape those miseries of winter—a bad cold, a distressing cough. Many remedies are recommended, but the one quickest and best of all is Simon's Cough Syrup. Soothing and healing to the lungs and bronchial passages, it stops the cough at once and gives you welcome rest and peaceful sleep. One's neighbors can see an eclipse of the honeymoon without the aid of a telescope. STOP WOMAN AND CONSIDER First, that almost every operation in our hospitals, performed upon women, becomes necessary because of neglect of such symptoms as Backache, Irregularities, Displacements, Pain in the Side, Dragging Sensations, Dizziness and Sleeplessness. Second, that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from native roots and herbs, has cured more cases of female ills than any other one medicine known. It reg- A Household Necessity. I would almost as soon think of running my farm without implements as without Hunts Lightning Oil. Of all the liniments I have ever used, for both man and beast, it is the quickest in action and richest in results. For burns and fresh cuts it is absolutely wonderful. I regard it as a household necessity. Yours truly. S. HARRISON, Kosclusko, Miss. Want to Know. Not long ago a Boston municipal official, who is a stickler for the use of good English, had occasion to consult a physician new to the community. After the examination, the doctor said: "All you need, sir, is a tonic in the shape of fresh air." "Would you mind telling me," said the purist sarcastically, "what is the shape of fresh air?" DO YOU GET UP WITH A LAME BACK? Almost everybody who reads the newspapers is sure to know of the wonderful cures made by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy. 1 It is the great medical triumph of the nineteenth century; discovered after years of scientific research by Dr. Kilmer, the eminent kidney and bladder specialist, and is wonderfully successful in promptly curing lame back, uric acid, catarrh of the bladder and Bright's Disease, which is the worst form of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not recommended for everything but if you have kidney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found just the remedy you need. It has been tested in so many ways, in hospital work and in private practice, and has proved so successful in every case that a special arrangement has been made by which all readers of this paper, who have not already tried it, may have a sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling more about Swamp-Root, and how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper and send your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. The regular fifty-cent and one-dollar size bottles are Home of Swamp-Root. address to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. The regular fifty-cent and one-dollar size bottles are sold by all good druggists. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle. ion oon use as ce- ing ess- n's om red W H. TWINE . . . . Editor. C. T. HUME. Advertising Manager. Published Every Week in the Interest of the Negro by Cimeter Publishing Co. Entered at the Post Office at Muskogee, I. T., as Second Class Mail Matter. After it is all over and the highest tribunal in the country has decided that the constitution is in accordance with the enabling act, then it is the duty of a I good citizens to low in sub mission to the order of those in authority land "eat their crow and say it is is good." The decision means that the NEGRO MUST, IN THIS NEW STATE, MAKE A STAND THAT HAS NEVER BEFORE BEEN OUR PRIVILEGE TO MAKE and that is we come in at the very beginning of statehood and we must face conditions as they are and not as they ought to be. We have 250,000 people in this new state and own not less than 400,000 acres of land of a value of not less than $100,00000 and the question is:shall we give away our ownings and go elsewhere and start anew? or shall we play the part of MEN and make a stand—a fight for our rights as citizens of this GREAT REPUBLIC? This state is cosmopolitan in its make up; we have people here from every country, race and clime and the Negro, the native American who has always been loyal to the FLAG, is here striving to make for himself and family a home where he can reside in peace. After making many changes and travelling thousands of miles to find a place where he could BREATHE THE AIR OF LIBERTY and build a home where his children could live and learn to fight the battle of life in a free country, he selected the Indian Territory, now a part of Oklahoma as that place. We have come here from all states in the Sunny Southland and elsewhere; we have invested our little mites in this great commonwealth and it does not matter to us who holds the offices, all we ask and insist upon is a "SQUARE DEAL UNDER THE LAW." UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WE GIVE UP OUR HOMES, OUR PROP- ERTY INTEREST AND AGAIN BECOME WANDERERS SEARCHING FOR A PLACE WHERE THE LAW AND THE PEOPLE WILL ACCORD TO ALL CITIZENS THEIR RIGHTS, NO MATTER OF WHAT RACE, OR COLOR OR CREED. We have found a place to our liking and will remain here in spite of all opposition. It is the last and only place upon American soil for the American Negro to Carve out a home for himself and his posterity. If there is any opposition to our position, then we must not play the Coward but must stand up like Men and face our opponents. It is no time to run and only cowards are guilty of such. There is yet hope for better things. God hates a coward. He who would be free must strike for himself. Let us face conditions like men and use any and all things at our command for our PROTECTION and for the PROTECTION of our CHILDREN and our HOMES. Our advice is that every man stand his for rights, fight for his rights, and if necessary die for his rights. Let not one who bel eves in right and justice and who is a man, quit at this time. Let us stay on the ground, we are rightfully here—we are bearing our part of the burden. Let us continue to do so, and if there is opposition, let us fight that opposition till hell freezes and then continue the battle on the ice. To do less would be cowardly and one who does less is not worth his room in hell. Over at Guthrie, it is said there will be no discrimination but Negroes must eat last. Well the Negroes should stay away from the blamed barbecue and have nothing to do with the inauguration. Watch the Negro who does have anything to do with it. NEGROES SHOULD NOT PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THE TURNING OVER OF RECORDS TO THE COUNTY OFFICERS. WE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. IT IS NOT OUR FIGHT. ATTEND TO YOUR OWN BUSINESS ON SATURDAY AND LET OTHER PEOPLE ATTEND TO THEIRS. EXCURSIONS FRISCO Norfoik, Va., Jamestown Exposition Ticketson sale daily. Season tickets: 51.95 60-day tickets: 43.35 15-day tickets: 34.55 WINTER TRIPS Florida and Southern Texas ROUND TRIP RATES. To Galveston Tex. $21.80 To San Antonio, Tex. 20.75 To Jacksonville, Fla. 42.15 New Orleans, La. 26.20 To Tampa, Fla. 54.75 To Havana, Cuba 72.20 Rates to Other Points May be had on Application. Tickets on sale after Nov. 14th. Final limit June 1st, 1908. Call or Phone 302. F. A. Stubbins, Freight-Pass. Agent H. H. Carter, Ticket Agent T. MILLER LOAN BROKER Loaus on all Articles of Value. 105 South Main Street MUSKOGEE, IND. TER. Every business man, both Colored and white should pat ronize the Afro-American Ba kery. It is the best in town. The Afro-American BAKING CO. 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. CURE CANCER My mild Combination Treatment is used by the patient at home. Years of success. Hundreds of testimonials. 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MARTIN & QUARLES, Phone 1230. 312½ West Okmulgee Street STUDY LAW AT HOME Prepare for success at the bar, in business or public life, by mail, in the ORIGINAL SCHOOL, Founded in 1850. Successful graduates everywhere. Approved by bar and law colleges. Regular College Law Course and Business Law Course. Liberal Terms Special Offer New. Catalogue Free. Sprague Correspondence School of Law, 733 Majestie Bldg, Detroit, Mich FRISCO SYSTEM COMPLETELY AND COMFORTABLY SERVE WESTERN MISSOURI AND EASTERN KANSAS TO THE PRINCIPAL CITIES EAST, WEST, NORTH, SOUTH. PULLMAN SLEEPERS, RECLINING CHAIR CARS. TRAINS LIGHTED AND VENTILATED BY ELECTRICITY. The Direct Route to the "WORLD'S FAIR CITY" SAINT LOUIS For detailed information, call on nearest representative FRISCO SYSTEM, or address L. W. PRICE, Division Passenger Agent. JOPLIN, MO. McCall PATTERN'S 10 15 MONE HIGHER McCall'S MAGAZINE 50 YEAR INCLUDING A FREE PATTERN There are more McCall Patterns sold in the United States than of any other make of patterns. This is an account of their style, accuracy and simplicity. McCall's Magazine (The Queen of Fashion) has more subscribers than any other Ladies' Magazine. One year's subscription (12 numbers) costs 50 cents. Latest number, 5 cents. Every subscriber gets a McCall Pattern Free. Subscribe today. Lady Agents Wanted. Handsome premiums or liberal cash commission. Pattern Catalogue (of 600 de, signs) and Premium Catalogue (showing 400 premiums) costs free. Address THE McCALL CO., New York I have recently purchased a LANDIS wax thread, lockstitch, harness machine. This machine uses hard wax and does work far superior to hand work, pulls the stitches in tighter and makes more stitches to the inch than hand work. It is absolutely guaranteed that harness sewed on this machine will wear longer than the best hand work. I will continue to use the best number one oak tanned leather, but will reduce the price of harness because the machine will do the work of ten men and therefore greatly reduce the cost of making harness. A farmer who cradles his wheat cannot afford to sell his grain as cheap as the farmer who uses a self binder. This is a machinery age and the same rule applies to the harness business. Of course there is a vast difference between "factory" made harness and harness made on a Landis machine in my shop because the factory uses poor material, as well as cheap labor, whereas I use the best of leather and thread, and construct the work myself. Mail orders promptly filled. Send for prices. Address all letters to S. L. Dudley, 209 East Broadway Phone 210. THE CIMETER JOB PRINTING CO. THE QUICK MAIL ORDER HOUSE Phone 210. 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 :: :: :: :: 3 South Second St., Muskogee, Ind. Ter. Nickens & Nickens, Prps. P. T. ROBERT, SEC'Y The American Sick and Accident Insurance Co. of Oklahoma SOLICITS YOUR PATRONAGE OFFICE ROOMS 485 BOSTIC BUILDING G. 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. MUSKOGEE : : : : : : : I. T. HETTICK BROS., GROCERS High Class Goods at Lowest Prices Country Produce, Fresh Vegetables Everything You Eat Prompt delivery Your Patronage Solicited 27 West Okmulgee Phone 891 Insurance Money to Loan H. P. SHOWALTER GEN RAL INSURANCE Milwaukee Mechanics Fire Ins. 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Color more goous brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can dye any garment without ripping apart. Write for free booklet—How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONROE DRUG CO., Quinox, Illinois TEMPERANCE The Money Which Great Britain Spends for Liquor. There are not quite 41,000,000 persons in the United Kingdom, but they annually spend for spirituous liquors a sum equal to one and a half times the national revenue, or to all the rents of all the homes and farms in the country. The public house, the English name for the saloon, with its barmaid, is as much a national institution as the houses of parliament. There is one public house to every 300 inhabitants in England and Wales; in Scotland, one to every 566 persons, in Ireland, one to every 271. Whereas in the days of our forefathers, the worst drinking was among the nobility and gentry, to-day, says the writer in the Craftsman, the poor and working classes are by far the most intolerate. The fact that drinking is habitual among the women of this grade as well as the men is the most serious feature, for when women do go to the dogs the very uttermost depths of degradation are usually reached before the end comes. At meal time, throughout the United Kingdom, a procession of women with pitchers, buckets or cans may be seen going to some one of the many public houses, never more than a stone's throw from their homes, and often not so far. As a rule, the omnibus, the favorite British mode of local transportation, has stopping places in front of public houses. From an outside seat on the bus top, especially in London and other cities, a full view may be had of the interior of the public house, crowded always, and on Saturday night jammed to the point of suffocation. Old women, young women, girls are there; mothers with infants in arms, and not uncommonly with other children tugging at their skirts—little ones whose fretful cries are stilled by sips from mother's glass of gin. Working men drink just as much as the working women. A manufacturer, an employer of hundreds of men, was asked if English manufacturers ever made any restrictions about drinking when taking on new men. His reply was: "No, for it would be impossible to carry on business if such conditions were imposed." He was almost incredulous when told of the strict regulations in regard to drinking that obtained in some of America's largest business establishments. Rebukes Drinking of Toasts. Rev. Dr. Paget, the bishop of Oxford, has just made a great sensation in England by his stinging rebuke of the habit of drinking toasts at banquets with wine, and calls upon the clergy and laity to cure the bad habit. He suggests that toasts of church and king, of bishop and clergy, of theological school or missionary college, or any such institution, jar on him when used in connection with drinking at all. The bishop's views and fearless expression of them have pleased the temperance people of Great Britain very much, and should receive the indorsement of the good people of every land and clime. The bishop is right in his belief that water is a good enough element with which to drink a toast to any man or cause. To Establish Coffee Houses. The ministers of St. Louis have launched a movement for establishing a number of coffee houses in St. Louis, to take the place of the saloons. Wholesome food, an agreeable atmosphere, and interesting and instructive methods of passing the time will be provided. Saying "Hello" to Heart Throbs. 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I saw the cattle drink it, and they seem to be thriving on it. I put a match to the gas well and it began to burn at once. I am of the opinion that oil is to be found on this land. Just off of it there is an oil well from which I procured a bottle of oil which I carried home with me. I talked with Mr. Brown, the gentleman now employed in putting down an artesian well on your land for you, and he told me that he had been drilling wells in that vicinity for the last six years, and that good water can be obtained at any place on the ranch from forty to two hundred feet, and that flowing wells can be obtained anywhere on the ranch at depths ranging from three hundred feet up. The land is all as good as represented by you, and lots of it much better. The Votaw pasture is the best all purpose land I ever saw. I shall recommend all of my friends who want comfortable homes in the best climate in the world to purchase from you. 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