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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- Vol 9 Students at Western Unive THE MUSEUM OF THE WORLD 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 Oklahoma and is pociety w From Friday, Okla., April, 24. University, Kansas. 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 No 29 1908. 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 (Contiued on last page) LET US MAKE YOU PROSPEROUS. The special offer made some days ago on our complete commercial course has now been withdrawn. Many requests are being received for its renewal and we regret that we cannot now duplicate same. We are anxious, however, to demonstrate to 1,000 pupils during 1908 that the Touch Method of typewriting is the most rapid, most easily written and most easily learned system of typewriting in the world; that it does not injure the eyes and makes typewriting a pleasure instead of a task. Students of our system pronounce it a "Marvel of Simplicity." Let us teach you this beautiful and useful art. Distance or previous training makes no differences. We make a specialty of this subject by correspondence and invariably guarantee success. If you don't succeed, we will pay back all you my have paid us. Write immediately for special rates and get in line for advancement. NICHOLSONS BUISNESS COLLEGE, W. D. Nicholson, Mgr. Esco Building Muskogee, Okla. 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. For Rent. 3 Rooms,1 Pantry,2 Closets rent chep. Enquire at BOCKENHEUSER PAINT STORE 133 South 3rd St. Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Edited MUSKOGEE. OKLA 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. 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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. FOR SALE. CLEARVIEW OKFUSKEE COUNTY OKLAHOMA. 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. Townsite Manager and Owner. Clearview, Okla. St. Luke's Pharmacy A. E. Johnson, Proprietor. Corner Court and Second St. Opposite Federal Court House. 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Assets Milwaukee Mechanics Fire Insurance Co. 2,759,179.00 Norrhwestern National Insurance Co. 4,365,095.00 Michigan Commercial Insurance Co. 843,835.00 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 Meryland 6,188,569.00 Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. 220,000,000.00 Pacific Mutual Accident Co. 10,803,293.00 --- SHOCK. George—Something is preying on my mind. Mrs. Sharp—Ah, "something" merely wanted a light lunch, I presume. CURE AT CITY MISSION. Awful Case of Scabies—Body a Mass of Sores from Scratching—Her Tortures Yield to Cuticura. "A young woman came to our city mission in a most awful condition physically. Our doctor examined her and told us that she had scabies (the itch), incipient paresis, rheumatism, etc., brought on from exposure. 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C.—Chairman Fowler of the house committee on banking and currency Thursday introduced a bill providing for the appointment of a commission of 43 members to prepare a bill "for a scientific financial and currency system." The membership is to consist of 11 senators, 11 members of the house and 21 citizens 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 (Ills.) authorizing the expenditure of $100,000 toward the building on the farm in Kentucky where Abraham Lincoln was born of "A National 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." To Leave the Indian Only 40 Acres. Washington, D. C.—Senator Robert L. Owen (Okla.) had interviews Wednesday with the secretary of the interior and with President Roosevelt. As a result they agreed to favor the removal of the restrictions on all Indian land except a 40-acre full-blood homestead, and also not to ask for the passage of the so-called jurisdiction bill giving any new jurisdiction to the federal court in Oklahoma. All Anxious to Adjourn. Washington, D. C.—That the present session of congress will adjourn on or about Saturday, May 9, was the prediction Sunday night of Representatives James E. Watson of Indiana, Republican "whip" of the house. Mr. Watson bases this prediction upon information he has gathered as the result of a confidential survey of the situation in the two houses of congress. Only Two Battleships. Washington, D. C.—By a vote of 199 to 83 the house of representatives Wednesday decided against the president'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 lasted for four hours, and was received with applause. A Bison Range. Washington, D. C.—A bill 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 Wednesday passed bills providing for a site for a public building at Poplar Bluff, Mo., to cost $10,000 and creating a forest reservation at Cass Lake, Minnesota. If a 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 poisons, plucks the stings and heals the lame. Hunt's Lightning Oil does it. The Farmer's Retort. "What do you call yeour red automobile, mister?" drawled the old farmer 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 pipe with a straw and then replied, evenly: "That so, mister? Wall, is there any chance of it blowing up and killing the fool inside?" Out of the Mouths of Babes. Little Arthur stood peering down into the countenance of his baby sister, whom the nurse was singing to sleep. "Say, nurse," he finally whispered, "it's nearly unconscious, isn't it?" The nurse nodded in the affirmative, and sang on. "Then don't sing any more, or you'll kill it." Shorten the Agony. "Say!" growled the man in the chair, "hurry up and get through shaving me." "Why," replied the barber, "you said you had plenty of time." "I know, but that was before you began to use that razor."—Philadelphia 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 Produces Blindness. The curious effect of slow daily poisoning and the gradual building in of disease as a result, is shown in numbers of cases where the eyes are affected by coffee. A case in point will illustrate: A lady in Oswego, Mont., experienced a slow but sure disease settling upon her eyes in the form of increasing 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 coffee 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 neighbor's was unsatisfactory. Well, I made Postum strictly according to directions, boiling it a little longer, because of our high altitude. The result was charming. I have now used Postum in place of coffee for about 3 months and my eyes are well, never paining me or showing any weakness. I 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 coffee and took on Postum to see if he could be rid of his dyspepsia and frequent headaches. The change produced a most remarkable improvement quickly." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. THE CALL OF THE SOIL. 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 Government shows that those men who have been most successful in life and who have left their impress upon its people and its institutions as statesmen, soldiers, financiers—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 redoubled persuasiveness, greater power 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 stamped cattle; when with reason or without reason there arises before him the specter of ruin, grinning in his face and waving its gaunt arms in threatening gesticulation. The pitiable state into which some men were brought by the recent financial flurry, which happily is now passed, suggests these reflections. Some were ruined and a very few became 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 lands. No investment is better or safer. Take, for instance, the lands in Western Canada 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 a certain investment. During the past two months large investments in these lands have been made, some intending to use the lands for farming purposes of their own. Others to resell to farmer friends. The agents of the Government of Canada located at different points throughout the United States have in their possession particulars of districts in which there are free homestead grants of 160 acres each accessible to railways, markets, schools, churches, &c. These are valuable lands. These agents will be pleased to give information to any desirous 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 elderly 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 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 devotion. The Casual Gossip—Yes, they say he is always growling at her. YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY. Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue. 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. WITH THE FUNNY FELLOWS BAMS GREEN A RASH CONCLUSION. "Then I am to understand that this is 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 case, Henry. I cannot be harsh to one who has sustained such recent bereavement. If I could believe that you are sincere—" "Sincere! Oh, Miss Stubbles!" "You have certainly made an impression on my heart. Give me time to think of it." "How long?" "After all, why think of it? Henry, I am yours!" "Oh, Genevieve!" "Do not squeeze me so hard, Henry. Your poor uncle! Was he long ill?" "Three days." "Three days." "It is 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!" HIS ONLY ASSET. 1111 Weary Lancelot—At the age of 15 I 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 devorld need change. Dings is not rightd. 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 except gouty widowers and cranky old bachelors.—N. Y. World. Personal. My hands are such peculiar things I'm really glad I own 'em; They feed my face, they comb my hair, But what is sad, they're fastened where I 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. I like 'em, though the trouble is They interfere when I'm in bed. —Judge. JUST THE DIFFERENCE. Voxes "He caught the grip from a slight draft." "Pshaw, I lost my grip from a slight 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 "Neigh!" —Chicago Daily News. The Qualifications Demanded. "The man who marries my daughter 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. Emaciated Beggar—Mister, would you please give a poor fellar a quarter 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 I got married! Mrs. Scrappeigh—Well, John, married life hasn't changed you at all. --- Cauliflower, $900 an Acre This Is What is Being Done on South Texas Land. Dr. Chas. F. Simmons Has Cut Up His Ranch of 95,000 Acres and is Selling Truck and Fruit Farms of From 10 Acres to 640 Acres (Including Two Town Lots) For $210. Payable $10 a Month Without Interest. The Hon. Joseph Daily, of Chillicothe, Ill., who owns thousands of acres in the Illinois Corn Belt, says: "I am one of the heaviest taxpayers on farm lands in Mason and Tazewell 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 cheap land, acre for acre, than any land in the State of Illinois, that sells from $150 to $225 per acre." Investigate this before the land is all sold. For full particulare and beautiful views of the ranch, write THE LIVING ROOM. It Should at All Times Be a "Livable" Room. What to do with the living room is a problem that confronts every housekeeper. The living room should be in fact as well as in name a living room—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 furniture out in better relief, are less discordant with rugs and carpeting, and indicate a higher degree of taste and culture than do the colored monstrosities which we paste on when we apply wall paper. Who ever saw roses climbing up a plastered wall growing out of a hardwood 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 beautiful, but they were never made to climb up interior 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 colored 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 endless 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 choosing 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 modify it, and so on, through the scale of colors. The color scheme of a room not only is dependent upon the color of the carpetings but it is also dependent upon the light of the room. Explicit. "This is an age of steel," said the after-dinner speaker. "Permit me to suggest," interrupted the chairman, courteously, "that for the benefit of the reporters present you spell that last word." Genius is but the habit of seeing more deeply and clearly than most the common things of earth.—De La Ramee. THE COME AND SEE SIGN PUBLIC INSPECTION INVITED FROM 8 A.M. 4 P.M. SATURDAYS EXCEPTED LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. 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 inspection of the Laboratory and methods of doing business is honestly desired. It means that there is nothing about the business which is not "open and aboveboard." It means that a permanent invitation 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 — without drugs? Come and See. Do the women of America continually 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 sick woman are asked to write? Come and See. Is 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 E. 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 being benefited by it; but the poor doubting, suffering woman must, for her own sake,be taught confidence,for she also might just as well regain her health. LIVE STOCK AND ELECTROTYPES In great variety for sale at the lowest prices by WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION, Kansas City, Missouri DEFIANCE STARCH—16 ounces to the package —other starches only 12 ounces—same price and "DEFIANCE" IS SUPERIOR QUALITY. $900 an Acre Being Done on South Land. His Ranch of 95,000 Acres and is of From 10 Acres to 640 Acres (nots) For $210. Payable Without Interest. othe, Ill., who owns thousands of acres vers on farm lands in Mason and Taze- en familiar with the conditions around city farmer can get rich, and make more or acre, than any land in the State of er acre." Gold. For full particulars and beautiful ranch, write F. SIMMONS, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. THE NEW STATE At Western University. (Contiued from 1st. page) 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. 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