Muskogee Cimeter
Friday, April 24, 1908
Muskogee, Oklahoma
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The Muskogee Cimeter.
Muskogee,
THE NEW STATE At Western Uni- versity.
Western University of Quindaro, Kansas, the great Negro fountain of modern learning and useful knowledge, located two miles from Kansas City, under the agressive and safe leadership of Bishop Abram Grant, president of board of trustees, and Dr. W. T. Vernon register of of the United States treasury, who still remains the president of this institution, is spreading abroad in this western section of the nation a healthy, benificent influence along moral, educational, business, musical and industrial lines which is bringing it into prominence before the great educators of the American people.
The new state of Oklahoma is playing a most splendid part in the development of this centrally located Negro school of literary and industrial, musical and business training and stands along with Kansas, Missouri and Colorado in the number of students that it sends there to receive instruction from the lips of the eminent men and women of the race who visit here each year as the guests of the distinguished Bishop Grant. Other advantages are thorough teachers from the best white and colored colleges, magnificent buildings, fine equipments, a healthy moral tone, fine drainage, beautiful surroundings and reasonable expense. For the benefit and information of hosts of Oklahomaans who are now more than ever before deeply interested in the uplift of Oklahoma Negro boys and girls we have gathered the following official data:
From Muskogee: Mlss Rosetta Chiles is taking literary work and piano instruction. She has been elected assistant secretary of one of our five lit-
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Students at Western University, Kansas.
erary societies, the Douglass Lyceum; Miss Anna Mae Rentie is taking normal work, dressmaking and millinery, and elocution. Miss Rentie is especially fine in rendering Dunbar's selections. Stella Roberts is taking normal work, millinery, shorthand and typewriting, and elocution. Walter Thompson is taking normal work and printing. He plays center on the second football team. Benjamin McIniosh is taking literary work, and carpentry. Benjamin Sango is taking literary work, carpentry and architecture. Mr. Sango is secretary of the Douglass Lyceum. Wm. Fulsom is taking literary work and tailoring. Last year Miss Hattie Bradley took normal work, shorthand and typewriting, and piano instruction. Stephen Douglas took normal work, shorthand and tpyewriting and elocution. Mr. Douglas displayed considerable ability as aggressive debater in the literary societies, and was president of the Dunbar Lyceum for one term. Miss Belle Douglas took literary work, millinery dressmaking and piano instruction. Joseph Gill took literary work, theology and piano instruction.
From Haskell: Rayford Simmons is taking a full business course. He also plays in the University Concert Band. Miss
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Dovie Matthews is taking normal work, also vocal work in the University Choral Society. Dora Tucker is taking normal work, dressmaking and millinery. Leanna Grayson is taking normal work and piano instruction. Walter Tucker is taking normal work, shorthand and typewriting. From Boley: Beulah Chiles is taking literary work, dressmaking, millinery and piano instruction. Charles Chiles is taking literary work, carpentry and architecture. He plays fullback on the 2nd football team, also plays 2nd cornet in the 2nd band and orchestra.
From Red Bird: Nettie E. Jackson is taking normal work, dressmaking, millinery and piano instruction. Lena E. Jackson is taking normal work, millinery and dressmaking. From Okmulgee: John Anthony Foster is taking normal work, shorthand, typewriting and piano instruction. He plays 1st cornet in the 2nd band and orchestra, also sings basso profundo in the Boys Glee Club. From Vinita: Miss Elma Knox is taking literary work, scientific cooking and dressmaking. From Claremore: Robert Smith is taking literary work, and tailoring.
From Idabell: Miss Lillie Lawson is taking literary work and piano instruction. She has the Oklahoma spirit of grit and go and is prominent in literary society work.
From Tulsa: Miss Ethel
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Barksdale is taking literary work and piano instruction.
From Boynton: Last year.
Miss Lula Tucker took normal work, dressmaking, millinery and scientific cooking. Simon Brown took literary work, printing and scientific cooking.
From Lee: Last year. Charles
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Speaker Murray introduced a bill in the Oklahoma legislature carrying $2,500 to assist Halochee Institute, an Oklahoma branch of Booker Washington's school at Tuskegee, Alabama. $1500 is for equipment and $1000 for teachers' salaries. Prof. Glenn is to be congratulated for his successful efforts in behalf of the school. Dr. Washington is expected to visit Halochee in the near future.
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Strive to Be Cheerful.
Most persons are of the opinion that if a man is not favored by nature with a cheerful spirit, he cannot pretend to be cheerful. Yet this is not really the case, and there is many a man who is at present a weary burden to his relatives, miserable through the carking care of some bodily alliment, perhaps, or some worldly misfortune, who, if he had grown up into the idea that to be cheerful under all circumstances was one of the first duties of life, might still see a pleasant enough world around him. The discontented worries of a morose and grumbling person may very likely shorten his days and the general justice of nature's arrangement provides that his early departure should entail no long regrets, says New York Weekly. On the other hand, the man who can laugh keeps his health, and his friends are glad to keep him. To a person perfectly healthy laughter comes often. Too commonly, though, as childhood is left behind, the habit fails, and a half-smile is the best that visits the thought-lined mouth of a modern man or woman. People become more and more burdened with the accumulations of knowledge and with the weighing responsibilities of life, but they should still spare time to laugh.
When One Spends Money.
One would think that money would be saved in prosperous times when there is plenty of it about. But no, that is not the time when it is saved. It is then that it is spent, says Appleton's. Everybody spends it—governments, railroads, corporations, capitalists, housekeepers, house builders, collectors. People expand their wants in such times, and satisfy some of them, and then is when it is most of all impossible to live on anything a year. But after all the money has been spent a few times over and has begun to be scarce, and borrowing has come to be a serious matter, and folks have much less to spend and no expectations; then everybody groans and begins to save, not only trying desperately to squeeze back inside of the bounds of income, but to pay back what was spent in expectation of a time when saving would have become convenient. To most of us that time never comes. And yet there are things for which we spend more than we can afford, that really do justify our expenditures, so that after the money has been spent and we are pinched for the lack of it, we would still rather have what it bought than have the money back.
Zurich is struggling with the church bell problem. During the last decade a number of new Catholic churches have been built, and every morning at 4, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6 and 7 unbelievers as well as believers are aroused from their slumbers by the din from no fewer than 17 belfries, scattered so that no part of the city remains quiet. In response to appeals from hospitals and from many persons who are obliged to work at night, and sleep—of they can—in the morning, the Stadtrat has proposed an ordinance forbidding any sort of bell ringing between 8 p. m. and 6 a. m. and forbidding it also in the daytime as an accompaniment to weddings and funerals, in the old village style. Against this proposed reform the clerical organs have protested violently, and a regular Kulturkampf is threatened.
An Indiana man has received six proposals this year. He is a banker.
MAKING A WINNING
SELF-CONFIDENCE IMPORTANT FACTOR TO SUCCESS.
DANGER IN DIFFIDENCE
One Cannot Ignore Responsibility and Gain Prominence in Any Vocation Chosen—Talent and Energy Essential.
In the struggle to succeed many fall by the wayside. The goal of success is not for the one who cares not to assume responsibility. Neither is it to be attained by him who is ill equipped and recklessly plunges into duties that he cannot perform.
Diffidence in self is a barrier to many. A lack of confidence has been the stumbling stone that has caused brilliancy often to conceal its luster in obscurity. How many do we find filling subordinate positions in the great commercial world who have all the knowledge essential for a higher place, and perhaps are playing second fiddle to one who is inferior as to training, but whose aggressiveness and self confidence have been factors in forcing barriers aside, and allowed him to step into positions of honor and affluence?
He who would forge to the front must first know that he is mentally equipped for the position he seeks. It is not years that ripen experience. It is not age that counts in the struggle. It is brains well cultivated, and energy. It is confidence, and the power to control. Few would achieve greatness if they shirked responsibility. The young man starting out in the world should learn that if there is an opportunity offered him to advance he should grasp it. He should not be timid. Often older heads are passed over. He must not think that youthfulness is a bar to the performance of duty or to assuming positions that riper years may perhaps have been associated with. Others may smile and deride, but remember it is ability that counts, and tenacity and perseverance that wins. Authority makes easy the work.
Among those of the present who have achieved mightily and who occupy prominent places in the commercial world, and in the arts, are young men of talent and energy. The inclination of these later days is to seek the young and the energetic to fill places of responsibility. No longer is age considered the chief requirement for high places. At the heads of the corporations will be found men of no advanced years.
Accompanying other essentials should be stability of character. Too often it is found that of the ones who go to the front, while all qualities necessary for the work are in evidence, weakness of character, the inclination to soar socially and to seek recreation in ways that are vain and unworthy, causes a downfall. Our penitentiaries are filled with penitents, with men whose careers were full of promise and brightness, and who had responsibility placed upon them, but had been unfaithful to their trusts. Then it is not all in ability, in self-confidence and energy to accomplish, but it is honesty and integrity and a keen sense of right, and right doing, that assures greatest success. Without these qualities no one can expect to attain greatness. Even some of the greatest men, the ones who have been honored by positions high in governmental affairs, have had their weaknesses displayed before the world after years of prominence, and are passing declining years robbed of the honor that a higher sense of morality and justice assures.
Don't shirk responsibility; don't ignore the attainment of the knowledge essential to success, and do not forget that there is always more satisfaction in knowing that we have abided by honor and all its precepts than that we gain great fame in wealth.
D. M. CARR.
OUR COUNTRY PRESS.
It Is Making Progress and Is Important to Wide-Awake Advertiser.
Close estimates show that advertising in country papers has increased fully 20 per cent. the past five years. This shows that the merchants are realizing how important it is to advertise, and also shows that there is merit in the right kind of use of printers' ink, or there would be a decrease instead of a continual increase. There can be no doubt that the inroads of the mail order houses into trade in different parts of the country have aroused merchants to the necessity of more extensive advertising.
One of the things that has no doubt stimulated advertising is the practice of many manufacturers supplying dealers with electrotypes and ready prepared advertising. There can be no doubt the trade papers have been important mediums in the matter of influencing merchants to do more and better advertising. It matters not how the change has been wrought, but it is a fact that advertising patronage of the country newspaper publishers has been increased about 20 per cent. in five years. This means that the merchants are getting their eyes open, and are on the right path for the protection of their interests.
Now is the time to start at work on spring and summer advertising. There will be a heavy trade the coming seasons. The people have abundance of ready cash and they are anxious to spend some of it for things that they want. The live merchant is going to get his share of it.
He is going to get just a little more if he sets out right and does a little judicious advertising. When we say little we mean that he must use liberal space and fill it with the right kind of ideas, of attention attractors. Start in early. Take time in studying out just what you want. You should have ideas that are worth trying out, some opinions in regard to goods that you carry and want to shove. When you have carefully weighed the matter, take your printer into your confidence and tell him that he must do his best to get the ideas in the right kind of shape. Too often good advertisements fall flat because the printer has no knowledge or lacks the means of setting up an attractive advertisement. It will pay the liberal advertiser to adopt the methods the great concerns in the cities follow. Have a certain style of type to use exclusively in your advertising. If the printer is too poor to get it for you, it might be a good investment for you to secure it yourself and for your sole use. It will be different from the others, and the people will notice it. It will be a kind of advertising trade mark for you.
Our Common Protector.
Did you ever think that the government is a great obliterator of prize schemes, premium games, adulterated foods, etc.? It surely is, and the time is not far off when it will take a hand in the methods of selling goods, and let it be hoped cut out such schemes as coupons and the premiums in general. Fraud one way is just as bad as fraud some other way. The lottery principle involves the plan of making a great majority contribute toward the payment of sums to a mighty small minority. The average premium scheme works with more certainty. It means that all the users of goods with which premiums are given must contribute towards paying for prizes which only about 30 or 40 per cent. of the users of the goods receive. There are two ways of heading off the premium deal: One is to educate the merchants and the consumers to the truth that the premium racket is a plan that works against their interests, and the other is to have the government prohibit the plan. The former is a hard proposition to handle, and perhaps the latter is equally so, but it is more certain and would be more effective.
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Published Every Week in the Interest of the Negro by Cimeter Publishing Co. Entered at the Post Office at Muskogee. Okla., as Second Class Mail Matter.
Sengtor Borah who was recently charged with land frauds in his state made a speech in the United States senate in which he compared the Negro soldiers with Harry Orchard. The Negro soldiers were charged with shooting up Brownsville with no evidence to support the charge while United States senator Borah was charged with fraudulently dealing in government lands with plenty of evidence against him. Borah of course could not be convicted without a trial and having the benefit of "a reasonable doubt" he escaped punishment—he is white. The soldiers were convicted without trial for what they did not know—they are black.
CALL FOR REPUBLICAN CONVENTION L. W. Baker, Charman.
April 6, 1908.—To the republican voters of the fourth Congressional District of Okla., composed of the counties of Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal; Haskell, Hughes, Johnson, Latimer, LeFlore. Love, McCurtain, Murray, McIntosh, Marshall, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Pontotoc, Plttsburg, Pushamataha.
In compliance to a call issued by state chairman, Hon. A. S. McRea of Muskogee, and by virtue of the power invested in me as chairman of this congressional district, I do hereby call a mass convention to convene in the town of Coalgate, Oklahoma, May 6, 1908, for the purpose of electing two delegates and two alternates to attend the convention which convenes in the city of Chicago June 16, 1908, also one presidential elector.
This action is taken in view of the fact that the colored republican was discriminated against in the congressional convention held in this city January 21, 1908. The said meeting was predominated over by lily whitism which is contrary to the fundamental prin-
cipals of republicanism.—Ex.
The above clipping shows the temper of republibans of the fourth Congressional district, this spirit is found all over the state. Lilywhitism is damning the party in Oklahoma.
"JIM hROW" WHITE FELLOW CREATES A ROW.
On Sunday night a white "feller" who is doubtless much in favor of jim crow cars became enamored of a colored damsel to such an extent that he threw laws, customs, prejudices and precautions to the winds in his mad desire to locate her place of abode. He succeeded. That is, he found her lodging place by stealthily following her and no soooner there than he began making passionate avowal of undying affection. But ere he had persuaded the colored damsel of the uselessness of their lives when lived apart, the girl's lover (colored) appeared and proceeded to show his hatred of race mixing in general and to this case in particular. So strenuons did this young lover show his objection to the violation of law that the head of the aforsaid white "feller" running counter to his objections, became badly damaged and was sent to the shop for repairs. The next morning the colored man paid his Honer for something, we know not what.
Why don't these white apostles of jim crow let the colored girls alone and then there will be no cause for the Evening Democrat to howl about srcial commingling. It seems to us that the judge should have given this white "feller" who sought to violate Bill Murray's emergency jim crow law a good stiff fine and discharged this colored lover with words of praise and commendation for his manly stand for law and order. The incident of being compelled to use force to put the law into effect might have been overlooked.
Reporter.
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ASTRICTLY COLORED MAN'S TOWN.
500-LOTS FOR SALE-500
This town is situated 25 miles east from Boley, the largest and best Negro town in the world. and is on the Ft. Smith and Western railroad.
Plenty farmers made from one to two bales of cotton to the acre in the past year. Good water, plenty hay, and good amount of forest. Any thrifty man can come and make a good honest living free from the many set backs found in the southern country. We need settlers and that bad.
These lots cost you from $35 to $200 each; 25x140, sold one fourth down and balance on easy monthly yayments. Good titles to any and all lots.
We have 400 residents, a postoffice, several stores, all run by colored men. Come now while there are many inducements to good farmers. Plenty land to sell, lease or rent. Call or write.
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told us that she had scabies (the itch),
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Cuticura Ointment. In five weeks this
young woman was able to look for a
position, and sheds now strong and well.
Laura Jane Bates, 85 Fifth Ave., New
York, N. Y., Mar. 11, 1907.”
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The Most Important Items Gatherec
From Each Day's Session of
a: Senate and House.
Holland Monopoly Broken,
Wavhington, D. C.—The long ex-
isting controversy as to whether the
United States navy should have sub-
marine torpedo boats of the Holland
type, as recommended by the commit-
tee on naval affairs was settled in the
house of representatives Thursday
when, after a lengthy and lively de-
bate, the proviso limiting the secretary
of the navy to purchase only boats of
the Holland type, was stricken out.
The effect of this action was to give
the secretary a free hand in the selec-
tion of submarine boats.
A Currency Commission Bill.
Washington, D. C.—Chairman Fow-
ler of the house committee on bank-
ing and currency Thursday intro-
duced a bill providing for the appoint-
ment of a commission of 43 members
to prepare a bill “for a scientific finan-
cial and currency system.” The mem-
bership is to consist of 11 senators,
11 members of the house and 21 citi-
zens to be designated by the president.
The commission is required to make
a report to congress by January 1,
next.
A Lincoln Shrine.
Washington, D. C.—A hearing was
given Thursday by the house library
committee on the bill introduced by
Mr. Madden (Tlls.) authorizing the ex-
penditure of $100,000 toward the build-
ing on the farm in Kentucky where
Abraham Lincoln was born of “A Na-
tional patriotic shrine, which shall
consist of a memorial hall costing
not more than $250,000, of which $150,-
000 shall be supplied by the Lincoln
Farm association of New York.”
Washington, D. C.—Senator Robert
L. Owen (Okla.) had interviews Wed-
nesday with the secretary of the in-
terior and with President Roosevelt.
As a result they agreed to favor the
removal of the restrictions on all In-
dian land except a 40-acre full-blood
homestead, and also not to ask for
the passage of the so-called jurisdic-
tion bill giving any new jurisdiction to
the federal court in Oklahoma,
All Anxious to Adjourn,
Washington, D. C.—That the pres-
ent session of congress will adjourn
on or about Saturday, May 9, was the
prediction Sunday night of Represen-
tatives James EK, Watson of Indiana,
Republican “whip” of the house, Mr.
Watson bases this prediction upon in-
formation he has gathered as the re-
sult of a confidential survey of the
situation in the two houses of con-
gress.
Only Two Battleships.
Washington, D. C.—By a vote om
199 to 83 the house of representatives
Wednesday decided against the presk
dent's program for four battleships
and adhered to the recommendation
of its committee on naval affairs for
two vessels of that type. This result
was reached after a debate which last
ed for four hours, and was received
with applause
A Bison Range.
Washington, D, C.—A_ Dill was
passed by the senate Wednesday to
establish a permanent national bison
range of 12,000 acres on the Flathead
Indian reservation, Montana, the range
to be inclosed and become the home
of the largest herd of bison in
existence,
| Senate Passes Two Bills.
| Washington, D. C.—The senate Wed-
-nesday passed bills providing for a
site for a public building at Poplar
Bluff, Mo., to cost $10,000 and creat-
ing @ forest reservation at Cass Lake,
Minnesota.
The Plain Plucker
If @ burn or a bruise afflicts you rub it
on, rub it on.
Then before you scarcely know it the
trouble will be gone,
For an aching joint or muscle do the
same.
It extracts all pains and pofsons,
plucks the stings and heals tho
lame.
Hunt's Lightning Ofl does it.
The Farmer's Retort.
“What do you call yeour red auto
mobile, mister?” drawled the old farm-
er at the drawbridge.
“The ‘Fool Killer)” bantered the
man In goggles. “I call it that because
it kills all the fools who happen to
cross in front of it.
The old farmer cleaned his pi!pe
with a straw and then replied, evenly:
“That so, mister? Wall, is there
any chance of it blowing up and Kill-
ing the fool inside?”
Out of the Mouths of Babes.
Little Arthur stood peering down
{nto the countenance of his baby sis
ter, whom the nurse was singing to
sleep.
“Say, nurse,” he finally whispered,
“{t's nearly unconscious, isn’t 1t?”
The nurse nodded in the affirmative,
and sang on.
“Then don’t sing any more, or you'll
win tt.” 2
Shorten the Agony.
“Say!” growled the man in the
chair, “hurry up and get through shay-
ing me.”
“Why,” replied the barber, “you
sald you had plenty of time.”
“I know, but that was before you
began to use that razor.”—Philadel-
phia Press.
The Poet's Error.
“Of course,” said the poet's friend,
“he has his faults, but he’s a true poet.
He gives his life to the service of the
muses—”
“Yes,” put in the critic, “but seems
to make the mistake of supposing that
Bacchus is one of the muses.”
COFFEE EYES,
It Acts Slowly But Frequently Pro-
duces Blindness.
The curious effect of slow daily pol-
soning and the gradual building in of
disease as a result, is shown in num-
bers of cases where the eyes are af-
fected by coffee,
A case in point will illustrate:
A lady in Oswego, Mont., experi-
enced a slow but sure disease settling
upon her eyes in the form of increas-
ing weakness and shooting pains
with wavy, dancing lines of light, so
vivid that nothing else could be seen
for minutes at a time.
She says:
“This gradual failure of sight
alarmed me and I naturally began a
very earnest quest for the cause.
About this time I was told that cof-
fee poisoning sometimes took that
form, and while I didn’t believe that
coffee was the cause of my trouble, I
concluded to quit it and see.
“I took up Postum Food Coffee in
spite of the jokes of Husband whose
experience with one cup at a neigh-
bor's was unsatisfactory, Well, I
made Postum strictly according to di-
rections, boiling it a little longer, be-
| cause of our high altitude. The result
was charming. I have now used Pos:
tum in place of coffee for about 3
months and my eyes are well, never
paining me or showing any weakness.
1 know to a certainty that the cause
of the trouble was coffee and the cure
was in quitting it and building up the
nervous system on Postum, for that
was absolutely the only change I made
in diet and I took no medicine,
“My nursing baby has been kept in
a perfectly healthy state since I have
used Postum.
“Mr, ———, a friend, discarded cof
fee and took on Postum to see if he
could be rid of his dyspepsia and fre
quent headaches, The change pro
duced a most remarkable improve
ment quickly,”
“There's a Reason.” Name given bj
Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich,
THE GALL OF THE SOIL.
DAYS OF FINANCIALY STRESS
MAKE FARM LANDS LOOK
RICH.
A staff contributor of a southern
newspaper has taken up the question.
of the return to the farm of many who,
had forsaken it for the glitter of the,
city, He says: “It is a well known
fact that the history of this Govern:
ment shows that those men who have
been most successful in life and who,
have left their impress upon its peo-
ple and its institutions as statesmen,
soldiers, financicrs—have as a rule
been those whose youth was spent on
the farm, and it is to such as these
that there comes with overmastering
power THE CALL OF THE SOIL.
More especially does it come with re-
doubled persuasiveness, greater pow-
er and sweeter pleading to the man of
affairs when the clouds of financial
unrest begin to darken the sky; when
the cry of panic causes people to lose
their wits and act like stampeded cat
tle; when with reason or without
reason there arises before him the
specter of ruin, grinning in his face
and waving its gaunt arms in threat
ening gesticulation,
The pitiable state into which some
men were brought by the recent finan-
cial flurry, which happily is now
passed, suggests these reflections.
Some were ruined and a very few be-
came insane because of their losses.
Two or three took their own lives,
It is when such times come that the
statesman, the great financier, and
the man of affairs becomes tired of
the struggle. He lays down his pen,
turns from his desk and listens to
the CALL OF THE SOIL,
There are hundreds of — cases
throughout the United States of those
who have money in the banks and are
looking for investment in iands. No
investment is better or safer. Take,
for instance, the lands in Western Can.
ada that can be bought at from $10 to
$15 per acre which yield a revenue
equal to and often greater than their
original cost. Those lands make @
certain investment. During the past
‘two months large investments in
these lands have been made, some in-
tending to use the lands for farming
purposes of their own, Others to re-
sell to farmer friends. The agents of
the Government of Canada located at
different points throughout the United
States have in their possession par-
ticulars of districts in which there are
free homestead grants of 160 acres
each accessible to railways, markets,
schools, churches, &c. These are val-
uable lands. These agents will be
pleased to give information to any de-
sirous of securing, and will tell all
about the railway rates, &c.
Might Be Sure of That.
Bobby is the son of a minister and
has had the experience of “moving”
four times in the space of his eight
years’ life. Some time ago an elder-
ly minister was visiting Bobby's father
and the course of the conversation
turned to Heaven and Bobby was
asked concerning the abode of the
blest. “Yes,” said the youngster, with
a sigh of deep weariness, “I know, It's
the last place we're going to move to.”
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, y
In Use For Over 30 Years,
The Kind You Have Always Bought,
; Very True.
| The Best Friend—I hear her old
husband shows her a dog-like devo-
tion,
The Casual Gossip—Yes, they say
he is always growling at her.
| YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY,
| Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blues
All grocers sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents,
| We prepare ourselves for sudden
deeds by the reiterated choice of good
or evil.—George Eliot.
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A RASH CONCLUSION.
“Then I am to understand that this
4s your final answer, Miss Stubbles?”
“My final answer?”
“Nothing can move you?”
“Nothing.”
“Then my life will be a lonely one
and my fate a harsh one, for my uncle
with whom I lived has just died and
left me—"
“That fact somewhat alters the
ease, Henry. 1 cannot be harsh to one
who has sustained such recent be-
reavement. If 1 could believe that
you are sincere—”
“Sincere! Oh, Miss Stubbles!”
“You have certainly made an im-
pression on my heart. Give me time
to think of it.”
“How long?”
“After all, why think of it? Henry,
Tam yours!”
“Oh, Genevieve!”
“Do not squeeze me so hard, Henry.
Your poor uncle! Was he long 111?"
“Three days.”
“It ig too bad! You say he left
you?”
“Yes, he has left me.”
“How much?”
“How much? I said he had left me.
He had nothing else to leave. I am
alone in the world now, homeless,
penniless, but with you by my side—
why, she's fainted!”
‘ay, 5
Weary Lancelot—At the age of 15 1
was left an orphan, guv’nor!
Crusty Old Gent—Well, and what
did you do with it?—Chips,
A Convert,
Socialist—Yes, mees, I dinks de
vorld need shange. Dings is not
righd, I hope you agree wiz me,
mees,
Miss Beauty—Indeed I do. I think
It’s perfectly abominable the way
wealth is distributed—all the nice
young men poor, and nobody rich ex-
cept gouty widowers and cranky old
‘pachelors.—N. Y. World,
Personal.
My hands are such peculiar things
I'm really glad L own ‘em;
They feed my face, they comb my hatr,
But what 1s sad, they're fastenod
where
IT cannot even loan ‘em. ,
My ears are great, large loppy things
That stick out sideways from my head,
And when it’s cold they get quite friz,
1 like ‘em, though the trouble 1s
They interfere when I'm in bed.
—Judge.
JUST THE DIFFERENCE.
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“He caught the grip from a sligh
draft.”
“Pshaw, I lost my grip from a sigh
draft.”
Wise Old Horse.
He took her sleighing one cold night
And down the snowy way
He asked her if she'd share his lot
And the maiden answered not—
But the old sleigh horse said “Netgh!”
—Chicago Daily News,
The Qualifications Demanded,
- “The man who marries my daugh-
ter will have to own property in his
own right,” exclaimed the pompous
banker,
“Ah, I see,” replied the youth.
“Otherwise he couldn't very well cast
his lot with hers,”
As he had his hat in his hand and
the front door was open, he escaped
personal violence, -- Detroit Free
Press,
Struck the Wrong Man,
Emaciated Beggar—Mister, would
you please give a poor fellar a quar.
ter to keep him from dyin’?
Stranger—You've struck the wrong
man this time. I’m an undertaker.—
Judge,
Time Had Effected No Wonder.
Scrappeigh—I was a confounded fool
when | got married!
Mrs. Scrappeigh—Well, John, mar-
ried life hasn't ehanged you at all
Cauliflower, $900 an Acre
.
This is What is Being Done on South
Texas Land.
Or. Chas. F. Simmons Has Cut Up His Ranch of 95,000 Acres and le
Selling Truck and Fruit Farms of From 10 Acres to 640 Acres
(Including Two Town Lots) For $210. Payable i
$10 a Month Without Interest. :
The Hon, Joseph Daily, of Chillicothe, Ill., who owns thousands of acrea
in the Illinois Corn Belt, ‘says:
“I am one of the heaviest taxpayers on farm lands in Mason and Tazes
well Counties, Illinois, and I have been familiar with the conditions around
San Antonia for 12 years. Any thrifty farmer can get rich, and make more
money off of this oheap land, acre for acre, than any land in the State of
Illinois, that sells from $150 to $225 per acre."
Investigate thie before the land ie all sold, For full particulars and beautiful
viewe of the ranch, write
DR. CHAS. F. SIMMONS,
215 Alamo Plaza, —. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS,
THE LIVING ROOM.
It Should at All Times Be a “Livable”
Room,
What to do with the living room {s
a problem that confronts every house-
keeper. The living room should be
in fact as well as in name a living
rooni—a livable room, It is the room
in which the most of our time at
home is spent, the hours we have for
leisure, the time we have for play,
the place where we entertain our
friends and it is absolutely essential
that the walls and furnishings of the
living room should be harmonious in
color, suitable in texture, and durable
in material.
The rich, soft, solid colored walls
are the ideal walls for the living
rooms. They make a better back
ground for pictures, throw the furnl-
ture out {n better relief, are less dis-
cordant with rugs and carpeting, and
indicate a higher degree of taste and
culture than do the colored mon-
strosities which we paste on when we
apply wall paper.
Who ever saw roses climbing up a
plastered wall growing out of a hard-
wood floor? Yet, that is what we
suggest to the imagination when we
paste paper covered with roses on
our walls, They are neither artistic
nor true, Roses are all very beautt-
ful, but they were never made to
climb up interfor walls and they do
not grow from hardwood flooring.
The set figures of wall paper are also
tiresome and equally disagreeable and
repellant.
_ The alabastined wall is the only
correct form of a tinted or solid col-
ored wall. Fortunately it is the only
clean way, and more fortunately it is
the only permanent way; the only
way that does not involve the end-
less labor in the future.
| In lighting the walls some thought
“must be given the’color. Light colors
‘reflect 85% of the light thrown upon
‘them. Dark colors reflect but 15%.
‘Lighting bills can be saved by choos-
ing a color which will reflect the
largest degree of light. In north
-rooms use warm colors or colors
which reflect light. In south and
| west rooms sometimes the light can
be modified by the use of darker
colors. Dark greens absorb the light;
light yellows reflect it; browns mod
lity it, and so on, through the scale
of colors. The color scheme of a
| rcom not only fs dependent upon the
| color of the carpetings but it 1s also
| dependent upon the light of the room,
Explicit.
“This !s an age of steel,” said the
after-dinner speaker.
“Permit me to suggest,” Interrupt:
ed the chairman, courteously, “that
for the benefit of the reporters pres-
ent you spell that last word.”
Genius {s but the habit of seeing
more deeply and clearly than most the
common things of earth—De La
Ramee,
THE COME AND SEE SIGN
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This sign is permanently attached
to the front of the main building of
the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
Company, Lynn, Mass.
What Does This Sign Mean ?
It means that public ere of
the Laboratory and methods of doing
business is honestly desiree. It means
that there is nothing about the bus-
iness which is not “open and above-
board.”
It means that a permanent invita.
tion is extended to anyone to come
‘and verify any and all statements
| made in the advertisements of Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound,
| Is it a purely vegetable compound
made from roots and herbs — withs
| out drugs ?
Come and See,
| Do the women of America continu.
ally use as much of it as we are told ?
Come and See.
_ Was there ever such a person as
Lydia E. Pinkham, and is there any
Mrs. Pinkham now to whom sic!
woman are asked to write?
Come and See.
Ts the vast private correspondence
with sick women conducted by
women only, and are the letters kept
strictly confidential ?
Come and See.
Have they really got letters from
over one million, one hundred
thousand women correspondents ?
Come and See,
Have they proof that Lydia EK,
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has
cured thousands of these women ?
Come and See.
This advertisement is only for
| doubters. The great army of women
who know from their own personal
experience that no medicine in the
world equals Lydia E, Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound for female ills
| will still go on using and Doing ewe
| efited by it; but the poor doubting,
| suffering woman must, for her own
| Sake,be taught confidence, forshealso
| might just as well regain her health,
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THE NEW STATE At Western University.
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Walker took normal work and tailoring. Mr. Walker has splendid oratorical powers and made a brilliant record along literary society work. Fred Saulsberry took literary work, carpentry, architecture, and scientific cooking. Mr. Saulsberry was a power in orations and debates. Miss Edith Brown took shorthand and typewriting and millinery. Frank Brown took normal work, carpentry, architecture and elocution. He was another fierce debater and won in many hard fought thought struggles. The Okla homa orators have set up a high mark with their unlimited zeal and energy and stand among our best thinkers. Hardy Smith took literary work for a short time.
From Fallis: Eugene F. Perry is taking literary work, tailoring and piano instruction.
From South McAlester: Miss Mable Harding heads the list of Oklahoma's fine productions. Two years ago she attended here and took normal work, millinery, piano instruction, and harmony. Her original composition, "Farewell Alma Mater," at the Inter state Literary Association of the West, held at St. Joseph, Missouri, Christmas week 1906, and has been published by a Boston Music house and sold broadcast over the West and played in thousands of colored and white homes from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It has been on exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition and helped Western University to win a medal at this exposition.
From Ardmore: Miss Edna Ezell took normal studies, shorthand and typewriting, and piano instruction. Miss Ezell was one of the aggressive leaders among the students and set an excellent example for all other students to follow.
From Oktaha: Miss Millie Lewis took literary work, dressmaking and millinery.
From Woodward: Miss Pansy Jackson took literary work,
scientific cooking, dressmaking, and piano instruction. From Meridian: Thomas Carter took normal work and tailoring.
Compared with students coming from many other states in the West, the students from Oklahoma are the best fixed financial, notwithstanding this they have no affected airs or empty dudish mannerisms about them. They are high thinkers and plain simple livers. The young men and women from the new state are an earnest set of young people who love their race, and are anxious to do their share toward bettering the whole race by bettering themselves, and going back home to become useful and helpful wherever they may be located in the future. Wherever they take hold of they hit it hard and stick to it until acamplished. In class room, industrial shop, athletics, band, orchestra, choral society, literary debate or business transaction their distinct commendable personality soon convinces the other students that an Oklahoma man is on the ground to stay and and win out if possible. The Negroes of Oklahoma ought not to be discouraged at the tendency of the future educational outlook in their section, but should be encouraged, and feel a high degree of pride and personal honor at the most splendid recards of the students from "The new state at Western University."
In memory of sister Carrie Turner of the Sunday school of Spencer Chapel Methodist church of Muskogee, Okla. Whereas it has pleased the Supreme Ruler to remove from our midst, and to call to loftier purposes, to a more exalted sphere the soul of our pupil and classmate sister Carrie Turner,
Resolved: That by her death the Sunday school of Spencer Chapel has lost a faithful pupil and we the teachers and pupils have been bereft of courteous, genial and intelligent worker and associate.
Resolved: That the community at large has lost a kind, pious and loving member.
Resolved: That her social circle has lost a girl who thoroughly appreciated home life. for she had around her those who were congenial and able to appreciate her ideals of a true christian life. Resolved: That to her strick
en mother and father, sister and brothers, we extend our sympathy in this their sad bereavement, and also to the society in which she was an officer and a faithful member. Resolved: That a copy of this be sent to for publication; one to the Republican, one to the Cimeter and one to the South-Western.
Mrs. B. W. Long.
J. A. Cullon, Supt.
Mrs. W. A. Allen.
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