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The Muskogee Cimeter. Vol 9 RESTRICTIONS BILL IS PASSED Washington, May 27. (Special)—The president signed the bill removing the restrictions on Indian lands at 11 a.m. to day. The bill was signed in the presence of the senators and representatives from Oklahoma and will now become a law sixty days from today. The bill was fought desperately up to the very hour it was signed by a delegation of negro politicians and some Indians, but the president took the word of Senator Owen and Secretary Garfield that the bill was proper and right, and signed it very largely on their say so. As soon as the bill was signed the members from Oklahoma shook hands with the president and hurriedly left to send telegrams to their friends at home that the bill was really through. --- Sixty days from this day there will be thousands of acres of good land on the market. Our people, who are hemmed up in the old states, should take advantage of this last chance and buy a home in the most progressive young state in the Union. White people are coming here from the world over and why not the negro who lives next door come and get a home at a reasonable price. For over ten years we have been asking our people to come and locate in this splendid country. This is the last call, don't fail to heed it. Never again will our people have such an opportunity to buy a home. Beginning June 1st, 1908, a ten days Musical Bazaar will be given by the First Baptist Church of this city. A splendid program has been arranged and the very best talent of your city will be on hand to gratify the public, pure and clean in every particular. It will be ten days of christian merriment in which every father, mother and child can join. Go and enjoy what is pure and ennobling. Every man, woman and child should attend the Bazaar and thereby help a worthy cause. The First Baptist Church is a commodious structure and a Friday, Okla., credit to our progressive city and every patriotic citizen is in duty bound to help raise the debt made for the benefit of all. Rev. Jones and his flock deserve to succeed in their efforts and the good citizens Great Muskogee will come to their rescue. Woman's Home Companion for June Five hundred photographs of President Roosevelt, all assembled in one big double-page picture, 13 by $ 1 9 \frac {1}{2} $ inches in size, is an extraordinary feature of the June Woman's Home Companion. The five hundred photographs were taken in almost every state in the Union. at all periods of Roosevelt's public career. and show his wonderful versatility and energy. In the June Companion appear the first chapters of Harvey J. O'Higgins' great story. "A Grand Army Man," based on Belasco's famous play of the same name, in which David Warfield starred all last winter. Other fiction in this delightful summer magazine is by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Zona Gale, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Temple Bailey and Clinton Danger field. Kellogg Durland, who of late has spent much time in Russia, tells the dramatic and thrilling story of one of the bravest girls of the Russian Revolution. Margaret E. Sangster writes on the American woman as a social engineer. Dr. Edward Everett Hale devotes his monthly page to some working rules of life. Grace Margaret Gould, the fashion expert, gives many practical suggestions for summer dressing. Sam Lloyd's Own Puzzle Page is a mine of interest for the puzzle lover. The colored people of the state are a unit against Taft. There is a possibility of carrying the state for the Republicans if the negroes are heard and some other person than Taft nominated. The fellows who don't work are bound to steal. There are a lot of these gentry around town who don't do a days work in six month and its best for all concerned that they move on. There was a joker in the election bill and after all the negro THE SEASON'S GOODS ARE NOW IN DEMAND THE SEASON'S GOODS ARE NOW IN DEMAND Hooker=Hendrix Hardware Co. SUCCESSORS TO HUBER HARDWARE CO. 137 - PHONES - 78 is not disfranchised. As a matter of fact all democrats are not in favor of that kind of political outrage. NOTICE. All persons who desire to go on the Special Car to Chicago should report to the Cineter office at once and enroll. The round trip will be made in our Special Car. Cimeter. Eufaula has brought out contesting the recent County site election. They have employed Attorney Davidson to represent them and this means that the case will be tried in a lawyer like manner and every stone will be turned to secure justice for Eufaula and when this is done the county site will remain where it is. BOOTS and SHOES. I will make you a new pair of Boots and Shoes at prices that defy competition. Hand make shoes are the most comfortable. I can repair any boot or shoe to your entire satisfaction. First class work in every particular. Give me a trial and you will never go elsewhere to have your work done. Nuff Sed. at Hunter's Barbecue Stand 131 South 2nd Street. No 53 1908. FOR SALE. 60 acres of good land $20 per acre; 40 acres of good land $15 per acre; 20 acres of good land $15 psr acre. 4 stand cotton gin for $4500. Will trade for farm tands or city property in Muskogee. 4 stand cotton gin for $3500 Write to W. H. Twine, Jr., Box G. Muskogee, Okla. WHY PAY RENT? We sell you a house and lot for $10 to $200 cash. Balance like rent. We also sell lots on payments. Get our prices. F. T. Martin, & Co. 403 W. Oklamulgee Ave. WANTED- To sell standard sewing machines on $3,00 per month payments. J. A. Walcott, General Agent. 1093 E. Broadway. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. For Sale. For Sale. Lot 100 feet front, two houses on the lot one four room house and one two room house. Houses rent $18 per month. Good location high and level. Lot in block 235 Muskogee price $3,000. See or write W. H. Twine, Jr., Box G, Muskogee, Oklahoma. W. H. TWINE, Edited MUSKOGEE. A friend in need often turns out to be a useful "double." Did Methuselah live on sour milk, or buttermilk, or what? Wall street will never get over that taste for bumping the bumps. It is evident that Castro's physician is no longer prescribing rest and quiet. There are 1,567 walled cities in China where there is neither a foreign nor Chinese pastor. Helen Gould might be good enough to remember that the prince doesn't want to marry her. Sometimes Paris would prefer that London should bombard it with shells rather than tourists. The Hollow Earth Exploring club ought to be able to get information at almost any tile works. By this time the fools are wondering whether to take 'em off or wait until the rock the boat season opens. In view of family objections, could Prince Helie be persuaded to take the millions without insisting on the lady? California is producing the largest crop of lemons the state has ever had, but she isn't going to hand any to the saliors. There are times when China must be tempted to wish that Japan would get involved in trouble with some remote country. Judging by the peekaboo waists appearing in the fashion pictures, the politics of the summer will be extremely radical. Some people talk too much to express one thought on the principle of the man who digs up the whole yard for one angleworm. To be sure, the price of meat is going up, but the mackerel are coming, and the price of vegetables will be getting cheaper every day. A San Francisco rat having chewed off the signature of a last will and testament, the courts decline to follow suit and ratify the document. Cubans are restive under the order prohibiting cock and bull fighting. This is about the best authenticated cock-and-bull story in existence. Miss Helen Gould has been compelled to curtail her charities, but Mme. Anna does not propose to reduce the extravagances of make-believe royalty. A Paris museum is having difficulty in finding room for the diplodocus given it by Andrew Carnegie. The obvious thing to do is to store a syllable or two somewhere else. Those who think Japan can't go to war because of the lack of money forget that the American revolutionists put up a fight with a paper issue worth no more than a continental. The first pair of spectacles were made in 1285, and probably that is the date when man first started saying that he couldn't read a subscription paper because he'd left his glasses home. The kaiser, though he finds it impossible to make ends meet on $4,000,000 a year, probably wouldn't be interested in the current discussion whether a man can afford to get married and raise a family on $12 a week. An owl flew out of a burning chimney at Coverach, Cornwall, England, with its feathers on fire, and perched on a hayrick near at hand. The result was that the rick was completely destroyed, and several stacks of straw barely escaped. Don't Poison Baby. FORTY YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have PAREGORIC or laudanum to make it sleep. These drugs will produce sleep, and A FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAKING. Many are the children who have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric, laudanum and morphine, each of which is a narcotic product of opium. Druggists are prohibited from selling either of the narcotics named to children at all, or to anybody without labelling them "poison." The definition of "narcotic" is: "A medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep, but which in poisonous doses produces stupor, coma, convulsions and death." The taste and smell of medicines containing opium are disguised, and sold under the names of "Drops," "Cordials," "Soothing Syrups," etc. You should not permit any medicine to be given to your children without you or your physician know of what it is composed. CASTORIA DOES NOT CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher. 900 DROPS CASTORIA 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 neither Opium. Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alb. Sesuna + Rochelle Salts - Ause Seed + Peppermint - Dill Tarragon Soda + Worm Seed - Clothed Sugar - Windygoose Flavor. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Dlarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Sinile Signature of Charles H. Hutton NEW YORK. 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Glidden, of St. Paul, Minn., says: "My experience as a practitioner with your Castoria has been highly satisfactory, and I consider it an excellent remedy for the young." Dr. H. D. Benner, of Philadelphia, Pa., says: "I have used your Castoria as a purgative in the cases of children for years past with the most happy effect, and fully endorse it as a safe remedy." Dr. J. A. Boarman, of Kansas City, Mo., says: "Your Castoria is a splendid remedy for children, known the world over. I use it in my practice and have no hesitancy in recommending it for the complaints of infants and children." Dr. J. J. Mackey, of Brooklyn, N. Y., says: "I consider your Castoria an excellent preparation for children, being composed of reliable medicines and pleasant to the taste. A good remedy for all disturbances of the digestive organs." GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of Cha. H. Flitchers. The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. 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CHILD WAS APPARENTLY DEAD Ignorant Immigrants Thought Ship Would Sink If She Were Kept Aboard—Infant Believed in Comatose Condition. New York.—During the height of a gale that raged throughout the entire westward trip of the Statendam, which left Rotterdam for New York recently. Mrs. Bertha Byzlik, temporarily made THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD Throws Her Baby Overboard. insane by reason of the supposed death of her baby daughter, tossed the infant into the ocean at the demand of her fellow passengers. She is now held a prisoner at Ellis island until her mental state shall have been determined. Mrs. Byzlik, with her two children, Elsa, aged one year, and Bella, aged three years, came here to rejoin her husband, who had left her in Russia. Gales marked the passage of the Statendam continuously, and the baby, Elsa, became violently ill, apparently with convulsions. Dr. Kelley, the ship's surgeon, was not called to attend the case and knew nothing of the illness of the child until it had been reported that she had been thrown into the sea. The steerage passengers, supposing that the baby had died, became excited, their superstitious minds immediately associating such an incident with the continuous storm on the ocean. They followed up their conclusions to this effect with a demand on Mrs. Byzlik that she bury the baby in the sea. Crazed by grief and a fear similar to that which actuated her fellow passengers, the frantic mother yet sought to keep her child with her until she reached America and met her husband. This determination on her part only added to the excitement of the ignorant element in the steerage, who insisted that the baby was the cause of the storm, to allay which it was necessary that she be cast into the sea. As nearly as can be ascertained the baby became unconscious after an illness of only two hours, but there were those aboard the Statendam who were uncertain that the child was dead when consigned to the waters. The excited passengers ran hither and thither in their quarters, volubly explaining to one another and the mother that the child must be buried in the sea without delay. The commotion became so great that several of the officers went below to attempt to restore quiet. This was in a measure accomplished, but later an uproar arose and investigation showed that Mrs. Byzlik had rushed to the upper deck with the child in her arms and tossed her baby into the sea. No one outside the actors in the tragedy knows what happened down in the steerage of the Statendam after the mother was notified that she would have to get rid of her baby. But close to midnight, an officer on the main deck saw about 50 of the steerage passengers congregated around the rail aft. He saw some small object tossed out into the water and heard a shrill cry of agony. Then he saw the dark figures file back into the steerage. Several passengers who saw the child after midnight are of the belief that she was dead, yet this has not been satisfactorily shown to the officers of the vessel or to the authorities of the immigration bureau, and an investigation will be made to determine the mother's responsibility. Immediately following the action of the mother officers took the woman in charge and passed her over to the federal authorities at Ellis island, with a report on the case. At present she is said to be in a mental condition bordering on collapse. UNDERTAKERS DANCE ABOUT A CADAVER UNDERTAKERS DANCE ABOUT A CADAVER FUNERAL DIRECTORS WIND UP ANNUAL CONVENTION WITH GREWSOME ORGY. Sioux City, Ia.—Dancing a wild orgy around the prostrate form of a naked cadaver, a party of high-spirited undertakers brought the twenty-eighth annual convention of the Iowa Funeral Directors' association to a close in the early morning hours with scenes of wild-eyed revelry. A convivial spirit, noticing a corpse which had been used in the demonstrations, proposed that the "stiff" should take part in the festivities. In an instant various members of the crowd contributed portions of their raiment and soon the body was dressed. A man is being thrown over the table by a crowd of people. They Danced About the Cadaver. propped up on the platform, with a cigar jammed between his teeth, and the revelers made merry jests as they circled around. As the merriment became more furious they tore the clothing from the lifeless body, laid it out on an improvised bier, strewed the "remains" with flowers and then danced in gay abandon about the platform. Not the Sam Yeast—Did he ever run with the hounds? Crimsonbeak—Well, I've seen him running with a "growler" lots of times.—Yonkers Statesman. LANDLORD KNEW HIS CAPACITY. Would Need to Lay In Supplies for Student Guest. "Lawyer Hummel entertained us with his brilliant conversation on the Lusitania," said a tourist. "Hummel had one night in the smoking room an argument with a terribly scarred German about education. "There's nothing like our German students. You can't get away from that,' the German boasted, and his face, all slashed from corps duels, beamed with pride. "No, you're right,' said Hummel. 'I once visited a German student in Heidelberg. As we conversed on dueling in the students' sitting room a waiter knocked, entered and said politely: "''"The landlord of the Keg presents his compliments and wishes to know if you are thinking of stepping across this evening, sir?" "''"What does he want to know that for?" the student inquired. "''"Because, sir, if you don't," said the waiter, "it will scarcely be worth while to tap a fresh barrel to-day."'' Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed. Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toiedo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. He Was Practical. "Young man, you write a good deal of poetry to my daughter." "Yes, sir." "It takes a practical man to support a wife." "Well, it's this way. I have to write her an occasional letter, and I'm so busy at the office that I just copy the poetry to fill in." The explanation was satisfactory. —Exchange. The Entire Family. Grand Pop used it for Rheumatism. Dad for Cuts, Sprains and Bruises. Mammy for Burns, Scalds and Aches. Sis for Catarrh and Chilblains. I use it for everything, and it never disappoints any of us. It surely yanks any old pain out by the roots. Hunt's Lightning Oil is what I am telling you about. The Little Things. "You shouldn't," the doctor advised, "permit yourself to be worried by little things." "Good heavens," replied the patient, "I wouldn't if I could help it, but how is a man who has married a widow with six children going to get around it?" In a Pinch, Use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. A powder. 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His Satanic majesty has learned the art of getting something for nothing. --- Truth and Quality appeal to the Well-Informed in every walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable standing. Accordingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of known value, but one of many reasons why it is the best of personal and family laxatives is the fact that it cleanses, sweetens and relieves the internal organs on which it acts without any debilitating after effects and without having to increase the quantity from time to time. It acts pleasantly and naturally and truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all objectionable substances. To get its beneficial effects always purchase the genuine manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. EPILEPSY ITS If you suffer from Fits, Falling Sickness or Spasms, or have Children that do so, my New Discovery and Treatment will give them immediate relief, and all you are asked to do is to send for a Free Bottle of Dr. May's EPILEPTICIDE CURE Complies with Food and Drugs Act of Congress June 30th 1906. Complete directions, also testimonials of CURES, etc., FREE by mail, Express Prepaid. Give AGE and full address W. H. MAY, M. D., 548 Pearl Street, New York. Honorable Youth. "Here, you, sir!" cried Miss Roxley's angry papa, "how dare you show your face here again?" "Well," replied young Nervey, "I might have worn a mask, of course, but that would have been deceitful." Don't Delay. Save a possible serious spell of fever later on by cleansing your system now of its accumulation of impurities. Simmon's Sarsaparilla will do it. It makes fine blood, fine appetite, great strength and grand ambition. Belgium Buying Autos. Belgium is now importing yearly about $1,500,000 worth of automobiles, motorcycles and bicycles. These imports have quadrupled in four years. TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM. Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form, and the most effectual form. For grown people and children. 50c. It is not enough to have earned our livelihood, the earning itself should have been serviceable to mankind.—R. L. Stevenson. YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY. Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. The fact that ignorance is bliss may account for the happiness of newly married people. Smokers have to call for Lewis' Single Binder cigar to get it. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. The man who is after results isn't always particular as to the means. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES. BACKACHE EX 375 "GuaranCed" THE OIMETER. W H. TWINE . . . Editor 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. The republicans in the legislature were asleep when the Democrats got through the bill making it possible to disfranchise some of the negroes. The delegates to the National Republican Convention will leave in a few days. They will also attend the National Negro Convention that meets in Chicago on June 15th. All of the votes at Rentiesville except seven, were voted for Eufaula. That speaks well for the citizenship of the progressive town of Rentiesville. They are stand patters. Report says that the vote at Grayson was 39 for Checotah and 38 for Eufaula and that six shooters kept some away from the polls. It was indeed desperate if reports are true. Bill Murray's aggregation of law makers has quit, adjourned gone home, etc. "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." May a like crowd never convene again. All this writing we can not tell whether or not they passed the grandfather bill. P. L. Soper of Muskogee and Cash Cade of Shawnee leave on Friday for Chicago. These are the two National Committee men from Oklahoma whose term expires in June. When they get to Chicago they will find out if they are not now aware of the fact that Oklahoma is contested from h----to breakfast, and that like the ghost of Banquo the real Simon pure, all wool and a yard wide Republics will not down to lily whites. We are informed that the contest for county site was so close in McIntosh county that neither of the three towns have a majority and that there will be another election. Eufaula should have won in the first contest and if there is another election she is a sure winner. We were pained and surprised at the vote o' Grayson but they will do better next time. NOTICE. State of Oklahoma, Muskogee county; No. 1263 in county court. In matter of the Estate of Dave McNac deceased. Notice hereby given that Jeannetta McNac, the duly appointed and qualified administratrix of the estate of Dave McNae deceased has rendered and presented for settlement, and filed in said court her final account and report of her administration as such administratix and that Monday the 25th day of May A. D. 1908, being a regular term of said court to-wit: of the May term A. D. 1908. at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at the coonty court room in the city of Muskogee in said county of Muskogee has been duly ap pointed by the said court. for settlement of said account, at which time and place any person interested in said estate may appear and file his exceptions in writing to the account and contest the same. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 4th day of April, 1908. W. C. Jackson. County Judge. Walrond & Cramer, Attys. Muskogee, Okla. OKFUSKEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA 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 payments. 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, W. L. 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THEORY Public Utilities Operated by Cities Must Pay Their Way. They Don't Always Do This However Because Not Enough Is Charged Off to Depreciation and the Plants Don't Have to Pay Taxes—"Undertakings" Limited to Localities Where the Patronage Will Be Large. In theory public utilities operated by German cities must pay their own way. This theory is not, however, fully borne out in practice, because the allowance for depreciation is frequently inadequate, and the plants are not required to make good the taxes formerly paid by the companies they superseded. But the effort to put these services on a paying basis has resulted in limiting the various undertakings to districts where they are sure to pay. On the other hand, when these utilities are operated by companies the same restrictive results are noticed, because almost without exception the franchises are so weighted down with provisions for payments to the city and are at the same time of such short duration that the companies would not be warranted in extending the service beyond the districts in which they are sure to pay at once. Professor Hugo R. Meyer in recent articles in the Electrical Railway Review and the Journal of Political Economy describes the results of this restrictive policy on street railways and electric lighting, and the following facts are taken from his articles: The cities that went into the street railway business adopted a uniform fare of 2.5 cents, but with two exceptions abandoned this after short trials. The experience of two typical German cities will prove of interest as showing what high rates are charged when cities attempt to operate utilities on a paying basis. When the city of Cologne took over the street railways the fares charged were 2.5 cents for distances up to 1.5 miles and 3.75 cents for the maximum distance, 6.9 miles. After operating them awhile the city authorities raised the fare materially while extending slightly the minimum stage. The present charges are 2.5 cents for 1.9 miles. 3.75 cents for 3.75 miles, 5 cents for 5.63 miles and 6.25 cents for distances over 5.63 miles. The city of Dusseldorf, which acquired its street railways in 1900, attempted to operate them at the uniform fare of 2.5 cents, which had been charged by the street railway company, but soon found that it was losing money and limited the 2.5 cent fare to 2.44 miles, charging 3.75 cents for dis tances between that and 4.25 miles. After increasing the track mileage the city again raised the fare considerably, reducing the minimum stage. The prices now charged are 2.5 cents for 1.56 miles, 3.75 cents for 3.19 miles, 5 cents for 4 miles, 6.25 cents for 4.75 miles, 7.5 cents for 6.38 miles, 8.75 cents for 7.19 miles and 10 cents for 7.94 miles. It should be borne in mind that these prices are really very much higher than corresponding rates would be in this country, because wages in Germany are much lower than in the United States. The exorbitance of these charges is shown by the fact that in Minneapolis, a city of the same size as Dusseldorf, a passenger can ride thirteen miles for 5 cents, while in Buffalo, which has a population about equal to that of Cologne, the passenger gets fourteen miles for a nickel. The desire of the cities to make all possible profits out of franchises and to limit them to short terms has resulted in greatly delaying the development of public electric lighting, although the people were anxious to have the new lights installed. This is shown by the fact that in 1894-95 there were in operation in factories, stores, etc., more than 4.776 private electric light plants, although two years later there were only a little more than 300 central electric lighting stations in the whole of Germany. As the private or isolated plant, as it is called in this country, is far less economical than the central station, this restrictive action of the German cities has thrown a great burden of cost on its progressive citizens. The situation is the more remarkable because at the time of the introduction of electricity for lighting, and traction purposes Germany was far better equipped to perfect and develop these systems than was the United States, yet it has been completely outstripped by our own country, chiefly if not solely because here private enterprise has been given a comparatively free hand. In closing one of his articles Professor Meyer says: "The unwillingness of the cities to suffer financial losses on behalf of the congested city populations after those cities had denied those congested populations relief at the hands of profit seeking companies is in instructive contrast to the eloquence with which the advocates of purchase by the cities had denounced the dividend seeking companies." Purchased Current More Economical. An electric light plant was installed at Santa Clara, Cal., in 1896 at a cost of $15,000. The generating plant has been shut down, as, according to the president of the board of trustees, it was found to be more economical to purchase the current. PAINT Now is your time to buy WALL PAPER CHEAP All must go. Nothing reserved. 30 DAYS REDUCTION SALE, 30 DAYS Complete line of paints, Mixed Paint $1.40 per gal. The Bockenheuser Painting and Decorating Co. 133 SO. 3RD ST. 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It is the seductive argument held out by certain classes of houses that seek to do business through the malls, that the local dealers are charging too much for their goods, and that it is fair for the consumers to save their dealers' profits themselves, that causes many to gain experience that is costly. For many years past traveling agents have been numerous in agricultural sections soliciting orders for goods among the farmers. This class of agents is known as box-car men. They enter a neighborhood, and aim to sell sufficient goods so that a car load can be shipped to the nearest station and distributed. The ways of these agents are much like the "heathen Chinee"—"ways that are dark and tricks that are vain." But nevertheless, they reap rich rewards, or they would quit the business. It should be known to every intelligent person that all classes of goods have a real value. These values are based upon conditions. The law of supply and demand has not all to do with fixing prices. To concisely sum up the factors of cost of a manufactured article there are three principal elements, viz.: The cost of the raw material, the expense of manufacture and the expense of distribution. From the producer of the raw material to the consumer, all interested in the transactions are entitled to equitable compensation. The farmer, the grower of oats sells his oats to the mill operator. The oats is manufactured into oat meal, or breakfast food. The wholesale and retail dealers are employed to distribute it. The wholesale dealer is nothing more than a warehouseman, and his compensation is for storage, and for costs of handling, and the guaranteeing to the manufacturer the cost of the goods sold. He receives only a small margin of profit. It may be said that the retailer fills a place as to the consumer as does the wholesaler to the retailer. Now it is impractical for the manufacturer to maintain stores of his own in hundreds and thousands of towns. If he could find a more economical way of distribution than the wholesaler and the retailer he would do so. But if they are cut out a more costly system of distribution must be inaugurated. Now as to the traveling sell-direct-to-the-consumer agent. He does his business chiefly with the people who give little study to commercial matters. He represents himself as agent for a large wholesale house. He talks continually of how the consumer by buying from him can save the profits that the retailer would make. But the fact is that the expense is not eliminated. The average traveler who sells goods to the farmers receives a commission of from 25 to 40 per cent., or about 15 to 20 per cent. more than the retailer's average on such goods as he sells. But this is not all. These men are downright dishonest as a general rule. They are a development of the proverbial lightning rod agent. They practice the same principles, only shift the kind of goods sold. In fact the majority of them represent alleged houses that exist only in name. In one western city are located a number of men who are doing business under a half dozen different names. They even haven't a warehouse. When orders are sent to them by their agents, they go to some wholesale grocer and buy the goods. Not alone this, but after they purchase what they need they adulterate the same. They buy dried fruits in bulk, the cheapest kind, and repack them in boxes supposed to weigh 25 pounds each, but in reality only weighing from 20 to 22 pounds, cases included. The spices that are bought are adulterated with ground nut shells, starch, and other material that makes up weight. The coffees are of the very cheapest and the teas the same. It is seldom that the articles sent to the purchaser are the same as the samples shown. It must be remembered that the agent is under heavy expense, four to six dollars a day for team and hotel bills, and then he receives 25 per cent, commission on what he sells. To this must be added the profits for the house, which is about another 25 per cent. All this must be made and the buyer of the goods is the one who must make good. Lately in the western states the boxcar men have adopted dubious methods of getting trade. Knowing how anxious the farmers are to secure the highest prices for products, they have been traveling around through the country pretending to be buyers of produce. They contract with the farmer for butter, eggs, poultry, etc., promising about 25 to 30 per cent. above the market price. They claim they are shipping to Arizona, New Mexico, or somewhere else, where higher prices are received. Incidentally they say that their house runs a number of large stores, and also sells to the farmers, saving them the average profits of the dealer. This is sufficient. The farmer falls into the trap, gives a good large order for supplies, and a few weeks later he finds a cheap lot of goods awaiting him C. O. D. at the local depot. He waits in vain for the crates, the egg cases, etc., promised to be sent so he can pack his eggs. If he fails to take the goods the legal end of the company comes into play, and rather than have trouble, the gullible farmer pays dearly for his supplies. He remembers the deal. He is determined to not be again caught in a similar trap. A few months later another agent appears. He promises to sell a farm wagon, something else, perhaps, that the farmer needs, at a price so low that the farmer feels friendly. He relates how he was done up by the former agent. Then the traveler turns loose his vials of wrath. He accuses the concern represented by the first agent as a robbing outfit, and one that should be put out of business. 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A city official quoted in "The Business of Municipalities and Private Corporations Compared," gives $106.73 as a moderate estimate of the annual cost per area. He says: "The electrician's report shows that the city has been selling light for from 25 per cent to 50 per cent less than the cost of manufacture. Members of the electric light department admitted they could not run economically for less than $35,000 per year, but they wanted $45,000. Under our contract with the private company we light the same number of lamps and more hours per year for $15,654, a saving of $20,000 per year, figuring operating expenses only. Information from another source makes these figures $42,000 and $14,326 respectively. Statements from the light department show that if proper attention had been given to repairs of lamps at least $2,000 in coal would have been saved. Hardly a joint in our whole forty-five mile circuit is soldered or wrapped; they are simply twisted together. There is no estimate of the enormous loss of current over such loose joints, and yet it has been so for sixteen years." The following story shows how this plant was made to serve the private ends of the politicians: A mayor who was a candidate for re-election attended a dance given by a local lodge. Noticing how brilliantly the hall was lighted with electric lamps, the mayor said, "How much do you boys pay for these lights?" He was told $35 per month. "I will do it for $10," replied the mayor. CHANGE IN WILMINGTON. O. Municipal Lighting Plant Abandoned After Ten Disastrous Years. A responsible citizen of Wilmington sends the following information: "In the year 1892 the village of Wilmington built an electric light plant at the cost of some $40,000. The municipality from year to year made changes and additions and had accidents from bad management until in the year 1902 it decided to sell the plant, it having cost on an average over $10,000 per year to operate same, frequently being entirely without light for from one week to three months at a time. The service was very inferior, and current was furnished customers from 4 to 5 o'clock in the evening until midnight. The number of street lamps varied from 80 to 100. "The plant was sold, together with the franchise for light and water, for the sum of $12,000, the plant being worth as jank about $7,000, the other $5,000 being for the rights and privileges under the franchise. The company that bought it constructed a new plant and furnishes an all night service." At present the total cost to the village for the lighting of the streets (123 acres), city hall and other public buildings, together with fire protection from eighty-one hydrants and water for the public buildings, is less than the cost of operating the electric light plant for an average of ninety acres under the municipal regime, without any allowance for lost taxes and depreciation, the latter item alone amounting to $3,300 a year. Didn't Even Need Raking. During the discussion of the Meden bill for cheaper gas in the Michigan legislature Congressman Legare told the following story of a cook he had brought from home with him. She was a splendid servant, but she didn't know anything about gas to cook with, so he went to the kitchen with her to explain about the range. So that she could see how it operated he lit each of the many burners. While still explaining a message called him from the kitchen, and he left her, saying, "I guess you will find it will work all right now, Martha." He didn't see the cook again for four or five days; then upon entering the kitchen he said, "Well, Martha, how's that range doing?" To his utter consternation she replied: "'Deed, sir, that's the best stove I ever did see. That fire that you kindled for me four days ago is still a-burning, and it ain't even lowered once."—Progressive Age. Municipal Markets In Berlin. Municipal ownership, or municipal trading, as it is termed in England, has had several hard jolts of late. The most recent blow was reported last week from Berlin, Germany, the mayor of which city declares that owing to the lower prices at which the department stores are now selling foodstuffs the municipal market halls in Berlin are being operated at a loss. The question of leasing to private concerns these halls, of which there are fifteen in Berlin, is being seriously considered.—Dry Goods Economist. Never Operated by the City. An electric light plant was installed in Hudson, Wis., nineteen years ago, but, according to the mayor, has never been operated by the city, having been leased successively to various parties. The city also contracts for the pumping in the waterworks, which it owns. A Good Rule For Corporations. Show to the voters that you have the interest of your section at heart as much as they have; that you are investing large sums of money in order to serve them properly and let your service testify for itself.-H. M. Moore in Progressive Age. OKFUSKEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA A Strictly Colored Man's Town. 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 payments. 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, W. L. JACKSON, Townsite Manager and Owner Clearview, Okla. FOR SALE. 60 acres of good land $20 per acre; 40 acres of good land $15 per acre; 20 acres of good land $15 psr acre. 4 stand cotton gin for $4500. Will trade for farm tands or city property in Muskogee. 4 stand cotton gin for $3500 Write to W. H. Twine, Jr., Box G. Muskogee, Okla. --- Several Reasons, All of Them Good. Christiansburg, Va., installed its own electric plant in 1900 at a cost of $10,000. A year or so ago the generating plant was shut down and power purchased from a private company. Now the distributing plant has been sold, the experiment having proved very expensive, according to reports. The mayor writes as follows: "We had several reasons for disposing of our electric system. First, we owned only the lines in and within a radius of one mile of our corporate limits. The power is generated about fifteen miles from our town and is furnished by the Grayson Electric company. The J. L. Vaughan company has purchased our rights and the Grayson plant. We expect street car and other improvements under individual management that we could not under municipal. Chrisdansburg is bettered financially, and we are sure that we have made a good deal for our town." Documentary Evidence of Failure. The electric plant installed by the borough of McAdoo, Pa., in 1890 at a cost of $10,000 was leased in January last for twenty-five years. In the agreement the situation was set forth by the council as follows: "The borough is now owner of a certain municipal electric light plant in the said borough and in the operation thereof has encountered certain losses to such an extent that the cost of operation and maintenance, together with the interest on the bonded indebtedness incurred by reason of the erection of the said municipal plant, exceeds the income derived therefrom." The amount of revenue collected during 1907 is said to have been about $1,000 less than the operating expenses. Fewer Snags Under Private Manage ment. By vote of the city council the municipal gas plant of Nashville, Ark.. was closed down last January. Although the price of gas was $3 a thousand, the expenses were nearly double the receipts. The mayor writes: "The reason of such action by the council is that it could not make itself sustaining, but the council has since leased it for two years to the former general manager, who thinks he can make it pay under private management." The manager evidently knew that with a free hand he could steer clear of some of the snags that could not be avoided under city management. Brief, but to the Point. In 1893 the town of Needham, Mass., installed an electric distributing plant at a cost of $13,774, to which considerable additions have since been made. By vote of the town the plant has just been sold for $11,000, and a twenty year contract for street lighting was made with the company that for several years had been supplying the current. The town clerk sums up the reason for this action in one word, "economy." AGENTS WANTED—16x20 crayon portraits, 40 cents, frames 10 cents, and up, sheet pictures one cent each. You can make 400 per cent profit or $36 per week. 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