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The Muskogee Cimeter. Vol 9 TO THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS OF MUSKOGEE Register Now. A residence of one year in the state, six months in the county, and thirty days in the precinct, or ward, is required of all qualified electors before they are entitled to vote. Section One of Article Eight of the new election law of May 29th, 1908, provides: "There is hereby created and established a registration system in the various cities of the first class in the state of Oklahoma for the registration of electors, and no elector shall be allowed to vote in any election in such cities unless he has complied with the provisions hereof." The registration books in cities of the first class should be open from the first day of June preceding each bi-ennial primary election and continue open (Sundays excepted) until nine o'clock p. m., of the last Saturday night of the month of July. All electors, of cities of the first class, desiring to vote at the coming primary election and in the general election in November must register by nine o'clock p. m., Saturday, July 25th. The election inspector shall hold open the books of registration the last week in October preceding the general election for all voters who, for any cause, shall become legal voters in any precinct since and subsequent to said August election or who will be entitled to vote at said general election in November. The same rules and regulations apply as in former registration. An elector, presenting himself for registration, should announce his name to the inspector, place of residence, and answer the questions given in the certificate below. No more is required by the law. The election inspector may if he desires swear the person offering himself for registration to the facts stated in the certificate. There is a penalty for making a false certificate. Certificate as provided by Section 7, Article 8. Precinct No....of..... Ward....County. This is to certify that..... a person known to me, has this day presented himself for registration as an elector in this precinct; that before issuing this certificate I required such person to answer such questions as pronounced to him. He says that his name is as above written; that he resides in this precinct, at No..... Street; he says his postoffice is..... that the color of his hair is..... his eyes..... his complexion..... and politically he is a ..... ; that he refers to..... as owner of real estate with whom he says knows that he is entitled to vote in this precinct. Given under my hand on this.... day of ..... A. D., 19.... Inspector of Elections, Precinct No. Be sure that your certificate is Friday. Okla.. made out with an indelible pencil, as required by law. Be sure and keep your registration certificate. Any citizen shall have the right to inspect any duplicate certificate, or book of duplicate certificates, at any time, but the same cannot be taken out of the hands of the proper custodian. Any citizen may have the right to challenge any elector, or any citizen's right to register, provided such challenge shall go only to such person's qualification as an elector under the provisions of the constitution and it shall be the duty of the inspector of elections, when such challenge is made, to make such investigation as he deems essential, and pass upon the qualification of such elector to vote, and refuse to issue certificate if he is not a qualified elector. It is the duty of the election inspector to have at the precincts on election day the book of duplicate certificates of registration. Any mark upon the certificate of registration other than that placed there by the election inspector entitles the elector to be challenged, and his vote thrown out. Be careful with your certificates of registration as they are good for two years, or until the next bi-ennial election. One of the election officers will endorse upon your certificate of registration, when presented at the polls, "Voted," giving date. Any elector removing from one precinct to another should apply to the election inspector of the precinct where his certificate was issued, the last week prior to the time when he desires to vote, and upon sworn statement as to his removal from said precinct, said inspector shall endorse upon his certificate the precinct transferred to, giving the date of such endorsement. All republicans of Muskogee are urged to register before nine o'clock p. m., of Saturday, July 25th, 1908. It makes no difference how many times you have registered during the past six months. Do so at once. JUST REGULATION. The Public and the Investor Both Have Rights. The Problem of State Legislatures. What Is a Reasonable Return Upon Capital Invested?—Experimental Industries Should Offer Unusual Profits to the Enterprising Investor. By EVERETT W. BURDETT. The subject of public control of private investments in quasi public enterprises has had a somewhat natural and logical development in this country. Beginning at practically the zero point, it progressed slowly at first, but is now moving forward with giant strides. At the time of their inception these new enterprises were so welcome to the public that it did not seek to throw about them any obstructive or harassing conditions. Rather, it welcomed them with open arms and was only anxious for their establishment and development. This is strikingly shown by the provisions of the charters granted by the state of Massachusetts to three of the first railroads in this country, organized respectively in 1829 and 1830 that the rates of fare and freight, the construction of the roads, the form of cars "and all other matters and things July, 17. in relation to the use" of the roads should be wholly within the discretion of the directors. At the close of 1830 the total railroad mileage of the United States was only twenty-three, and the public was and for many years continued to be interested in the establishment and development and not in the regulation and control of railroads. And so it was with reference to the electric telegraph. The first line was built between Baltimore and Washington in 1844, and, if my memory is not at fault, congress voted the inventor a large sum in recognition of his contribution to the public welfare. So also when the street railway was introduced in 1852 and its successor, the electric railway, about 1886, and when the telephone and electric light both made their first appearance in commercial use in 1876 the communities which they were established to serve were clamorous for their introduction and were not much if at all concerned about their regulation. But in all these cases what was at first a wonder or a novelty soon became a commonplace adjunct to daily life. The public awakened to the fact that these utilities had not been established for purely eleemosynary purposes—that, in the expressive language of the day, their owners were "not in business for their health." The more modern doctrine, promulgated, I believe, from New York city, of "the public be damned" was a more or less natural outcome of later conditions. The result was that in each case and in a somewhat natural order the public took a hand in what turned out to be the dangerous game of public regulation and control. At first these efforts took the form of rate regulation in the case of railroads. These were frequently the product of resentment and prejudice and except for the intervention of the federal judiciary would have been disastrous. By throwing over transportation companies the protection of the constitution, guaranteeing all our citizens, including corporations, against spoiliation under the forms of law, ruinous consequences of ill advised legislation have frequently been avoided. The supreme court, while affirming the right and exclusive authority of state legislatures to regulate rates and fix maximum charges, has also subjected the reasonableness of legislative action in this respect to the test of judicial inquiry. It has insisted upon rates which are sufficiently alike to give a reasonable return upon a reasonable investment and at the same time be inherently fair and reasonable to the public. While insisting that ordinarily a corporation is entitled to some profit upon its enterprise, the court has not as yet undertaken to say what that profit shall be, except in one case (192 U. S. 201, 1903), that the rates of a water company may be lawfully reduced by legislative action to a point where the business will yield only 6 per cent upon the fair value of the investment. It seems natural and appropriate to suggest at this point that one of the most important functions of the newly created public service commissions of the state of New York may be to determine, in the first instance, what a reasonable return is upon capital invested in the public service corporations which are under their supervision and control, and it is at least reasonable to indulge the hope that they will not undertake to limit that return within the narrow margin which has been accepted by the court No 40 1908. as sufficient in the case of such a comparatively simple and well established enterprise as that of the supply of water. There is but little analogy between the cases. If the return on capital invested in what can be properly described as essentially experimental industries, such as street railway and electric enterprises, is to be confined to any such figure as 6 per cent it will, in my judgment, be a sorry day, not only for those who have their money at hazard in these enterprises, but for the public at large whose interest lies in their proper development and extension. As conservative a man as President Eliot of Harvard university has recently said: "In such enterprises there are often heavy risks. * * * Hence men will not undertake them for the ordinary return on safe investments. They must be induced to venture their capital and their capacity by a prospect of unusual returns." So far as I know public service corporations other than steam railroads have in but rare instances been made the subject of state regulation or control by special tribunals created for the purpose. They have ordinarily been left at the mercy of state legislatures or, worse yet, of the various municipal authorities where they operate. They have thus been forced more or less into state and local politics, a course justified, if at all, by the dictates of "the first law of nature"—that of self defense. But in 1894 the state of Massachusetts entered upon a more enlightened experiment in public regulation and control of quasi public enterprises, and since that time the capitalization, debt, rates, service and general conduct of the public service corporations of Massachusetts have been within the control and regulation of public bodies created for the purpose. The one primal defect in the laws of Massachusetts regulating and limiting the stock and bond issues of its public service corporations, an error which ought to be avoided in the administration of the law in New York, lies in the failure to discriminate between new enterprises or hazardous extensions of old enterprises on the one hand and well established industries on the other. Admitting that the securities of the latter can properly be limited to amounts sufficient only to cover the reasonable expense of ordinary additions to plant and the returns upon them to the going rates of interest or profit legitimate in established businesses of like character, the reasonableness of the rule disappears when applied to extensions of unusual character or into fields of doubtful profit, and particularly to cases of incursions by new enterprises into hitherto unexploitied fields. The pioneer who first dares to explore hitherto unexploited territory or the investor who is willing to increase the usefulness of his enterprise by extending it into channels of doubtful profit should not be treated in the matter of initial securities or the returns upon them with the same strictness as the conservative investor in an established business. To quote President Eliot again: "There is much to be said on behalf of the proposition that there shall be no water in the stock of public service corporations, yet if this principle had been applied to all street railway and lighting companies during the past thirty-five years the public would have waited long for facilities which they have greatly enjoyed and profited by." Muskogee Cimeter. OKLA. MUSKOGEE, OK The Tramp and the Railroad. We have the idea that our American railroads kill many passengers. Yet almost ten trespassers are killed to every passenger killed. We believe that the trainman takes his life in his hands; yet more than twice as many trespassers annually sustain fatal accidents, says Orlando F. Lewis in the Atlantic. When we read that in five years 23,974 trespassers were killed by railroads, and 25,236 trespassers injured, we wonder that there should be left living a single Jack the Hobo to wash his shirt. In these five years there were more trespassers killed than there are inhabitants in Bangor, Me., or Burlington, Vt. Were this army of the dead lying but three feet apart along the trackside in ghastly regularity, they would stretch out for nearly 14 miles. At a brisk walk, it would take four hours to reach the end of the line. And then, were all those reported injured in the last five years lying but three feet apart, we should be obliged to walk for more than four hours more, before we reached the end of this second line. The Baltimore & Ohio representative said that many railroads maintain private "tramp graveyards," in which are buried many of the unknown dead, without inquest and with expedition. Question: How many city graveyards could be annually filled with the unrecorded, unreported vagrant dead? One who was drawn as a juryman in Brooklyn asked to be excused from duty on the ground that "the present method of juggling the law" seemed to him to be a waste of the juror's time. The judge retorted, "You are not fit to be a citizen, much less qualified to serve as a juror." Most people will agree with the judge, because although the juror as a citizen has a right to his opinion on court methods and the administration of the law, he was wrong in offering that opinion as a reason for objecting to do citizen's duty. That a man believes the existing method of taxation to be wrong does not excuse him from paying his own taxes. A congressman may hold that a declaration of war is immoral and vote against it, says the Youths' Companion, but he cannot on that account regard himself as exempt from military service. A most noble and stimulating discussion of these problems will be found in a recent book by Prof. Josiah Royce, "The Philosophy of Loyalty," wherein a man's duty to his own beliefs is held to be subordinate to his duty to beliefs which are greater than the individual. According to Mr. William Barclay Parsons, civil engineer, the $15,000,000 sewerage system for Havana, work on which will begin in October, will be ideal, and when the American government withdraws from Cuba in January the island that was once a hotbed of yellow fever will be as sanitary as possible. How long will Cuba libre keep it so? The Carnegie hero commission has had 85 cases for medals before it since its last meeting. Thirty applications were granted and 55 rejected. This is discouraging. In a country of so many millions this is a mighty small hero percentage. An injunction has been issued in Brooklyn to restrain two goats from eating cherry trees. Yet some people want the injunction abolished. ITS BRYAN AND KERNS Denver, Col., July 10.—William Jennings Bryan was nominated for the third time to the office of president of the United States by the national convention at 3:40 this morning amid scenes of frenzied enthusiasm. The result came after an all night session, which was kept in a constant state of turmoil up to the culminating moment, when the Nebraska leader was proclaimed the choice of the convention as the democratic standard-bearer. How the Vote Stood. The nomination was made on the first and only ballot, the vote standing: Bryan $ 892 \frac{1}{2} $; Johnson 46; Gray $ 59 \frac{1}{2} $. The announcement of the vote was the signal for a wild demonstration, equalling in turbulence, if not in duration, the record-breaking display which on Wednesday afternoon greeted the first mention of Bryan's name in the convention. The scene within the amphitheatre at the moment in nomination was made was one of stirring animation. From pit to dome the vast building was packed with ten thousand people, thinned out in the remoter galleries by hours of waiting and intense discomforts of a hot night. It was a spectacle of grandoise proportions. BROWN, 1890 BY C. D. PIPE HON. WILLIAM J. BRYAN. Tier upon tier and gallery upon gallery of agitated forms, the women in white, the delegates massed below, many of them coatless, a myriad of fans fluttering to combat the stifling heat and the close atmosphere of this long pent-up exuberant multitude, ever ready to spring into feverish outbreaks of enthusiasm and everywhere a blaze of flags, bunting and patriotic devices and enveloping folds of Old Glory. Twice before the throng had been moved into mad ecstacy, first by a speech placing the name of Bryan in nomination, and again when that of Governor Johnson was proposed; but these manifestations paled before the culmination of the outburst of emotion. As the announcement of the Nebraskan's actual nomination was made the whole assemblage arose in a mass of enthusiasm with handkerchiefs, flags, newspapers, hats, coats, anything and everything which hands could lay upon to wave aloft or hurl in the air, while bedlam of sound poured out from these 10,000 throats in exultant yells, cat-calls and Comanche war-whoops with the added din of shrieking horns, the roar of megaphones, and the strains of the bank playing an exultant anthem. When for a moment order could be secured out of the tempestuous chaos of demonstration, state after state, which at first had recorded its vote for Johnson or Gray, fell into line with the over-masting column and the nomination was made unanimous and by acclamation. The taking of the vote had been followed with breathless interest as state after state showed Byran's strength. New York was reached and the announcement of Chief Murphy, "Seventy-eight votes for Bryan," brought out a wild outburst of enthusiastic applause, which for the time compelled a suspension of the roll call. Further delay was caused by the demand for a poll of the New York delegation. On this poll many of the New York delegates, inculding Parker, remained silent. The entire votes of the delegation were cast for Bryan for the "unit rule." Pennsylvania was simiarly called, after a short disagreement within the delegation, and the vote of Pennsylvania as finally cast, was divided. The convention adjourned at 3:50 this morning until 1 p. m., after having been in session continuously for more than eight hours. As the delegates and spectators left the hall the echoes of enthusiasm continued to reverberate throughout the building while the crowds outside took up the shouts and bore it along the dark, silent streets, awakening the city just as the pale rays of dawn were breaking in the east with the resounding chorus of "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan." Denver, Col.—William J. Bryan of Nebraska for president, John W. Kern of Indiana for vice-president and a platform adopted that is a new declaration of independence. That is the record made by the Democratic party in convention assembled at Denver today, and throughout the country millions of free men and women will say that the work done was done well, and that a new day has dawned for the people. While the nomination of the great commoner and the adoption of a platform breathing freedom and liberty has been foreshadowed for days, still those who were fortunate enough to be in the convention hall last night and this morning when the platform was agreed upon ond Bryan was nominated will have something to remember as long as they live. Masses Wanted Bryan. That the masses wanted as their leader the man who "has kept the faith" was admitted by all Wednesday when at the mention of his name by the blind senator from Oklahoma the delegates cheered madly for more than one hour. It was made stronger at midnight when his platform of equality and justice was adopted, was reiterated by ten thousand voices when his name was presented to the convention and was made a living reality when just as day was breaking in the east the 1,000 or more delegates from the different states and territories made his nomination unanimous. Bryan in Complete Control. The convention was a Bryan one from the very start, the delegates recognizing the fact that he was the man that the common people had confidence in, and that while there were numerous others who if elected would fill the office with credit, this was the time for a man of the people and W. J. Bryan was that man. In the declaration of principles the Democratic party simply reiterates its position that the people should rule, that the laborers greatest asset is his right to receive, a fair portion of what he produces, and that combined wealth when used to crush the poor or to destroy individuality is intolerable in this free country of ours. Greatest Convention Ever Held. The greatest convention in history after a four days session came to a close at a late hour Friday afternoon, and Democracy and the people as a whole are satisfied. WEDS FARMER'S DAUGHTER. U. S. Marshal John Abernathy Elopes With Miss Almira Prevalne. Oklahoma City, Ok.—United States Marshal John Abernathy and Miss Almira Pervaine, daughter of J. A. Pervaine of two miles from Guthrie went to Guthrie last Monday night, were married by State Superintendent of Schools E. D. Cameron, came here and spent the day and left for Lawton, where they will visit Al Jennings and wife. Mr. Abernathy's first wife, with whom he also eloped, died about a year ago. It was reported here that Mr. Pervaine was following his daughter and Mr. Abernathy, with the intention of causing trouble, but he has so far not shown up here. To Notify Bryan. pointed to notify Bryan includes the followin: Arkansas—Gustave Jones. Kansas—Charles M. Sawyer. Missouri—J. W. Farris. Oklahoma—D. M. Hailey, of Mc Alester. Pledges Support. St. Paul, Minn.—Governor Johnson will support Bryan for the presidency. Today he sent a congratulatory telegram in which he offered his support. Hears of His Success. Fairview, Neb.—The following statement was made by Bryan when at 3:40 a. m. he received the announcement of his nomination as the candidate of the Democratic part for president: "The presidency is the highest official position in the world, and no on occupying it can afford to have his views upon public questions biased by personal ambition. Recognizing his responsibility to God and his obligations to his countrymen, he should enter upon the discharge of his duties with a singleness of purpose. Believing that one can best do this when he is not planning for a second term, I announce now, as I have on former occasions, that if elected, I shall not be a candidate for re-election. "This nomination comes as purely from the people as it can be, and if elected, my obligations will be purely to the people. I appreciate the honor more because it came, not, from one person of a few persons, but from the rank and file, acting freely and without compulsion." Make Complaint. Guthrie, Oklahoma—Officers of the United Brothers of Friendship of Oklahoma, a fraternal organization, complain to the secretary of state claiming that another order known as the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten are also doing business in the state and infringing on their license. Oklahoma Needs Teachers. Guthrie, Ok.-That there are approximately 8,800 teachers in Oklahoma, and that at least 10,000 in all are needed, is the conclusion reached by State Superintendent E. D. Cameron. The rural school teachers, 7,500 strong, make up the biggest portion of the list. There are not less than 475,000 children of school age in the state. GUTTERS RUN WITH "BOOZE." Countraband Liquor Destroyed at Oklahoma State Dispensary. Guthrie, Ok.-Monday was "boozespilling" day at the state dispensary, when all liquors of different sorts which were not up to the standard requirements for use in the dispensary were emptied into the sewer. Altogether about 3,000 bottles of contraband goods were emptied out during the day. They included all of the various brands of "near beer" which have been popular on the east side of the state, a variety of chemical concoctions which had passed for wine and whisky, and some real whisky which did not come up to the dispensary standard. LEWIS' SINGLE BINDER 5¢ CIGAR HAS A RICH TASTE TASTY MEAT DISHES VARIOUS WAYS IN WHICH TO SERVE MUTTON. Sliced and Broiled, with Currant Jelly To Barbecue a RoastMutton HaricotUtilize the Cold Meat in Pasties. Broiled Sliced Mutton.—Cut from the best part of cold mutton as many thick slices as will be needed. Mix together two tablespoons of currant jelly, one tablespoon of vinegar, one tablespoonful of the stock gravy, one tablespoon of finely chopped onion, two cloves, and half a bay leaf. Simmer for five minutes. Set aside, and when cool dip each slice in it and lay on a platter, pouring over all any surplus liquid. Turn several times in the course of the morning. Just before lunch drain the sliced meat, dip in melted butter, and broil slightly. To Barbecue a Roast of Mutton.—Mix a level teaspoonful of dry mustard, a dash of cayenne, and a half teaspoonful of salt; work to a smooth paste with one-third of a cupful of vinegar, add to this one tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce, one tablespoonful of mushroom catsup, six tablespoons of tomato catsup. Prepare and place the joint—leg or loin—in the oven as usual. When thoroughly seared and beginning to color, take out and with a sharp knife make deep gashes all over the meat, pouring a little of the mixture into each cut. Return the meat to the oven, and in basting use any of the liquid which remains, together with the fat in the pan. Mutton Haricot.—Dice the meat. Heat as any cold mutton. Make a sauce with two tablespoonfuls each of dripping and flour browned together, and one pint of boiling water or thinned mutton gravy. Season well with salt and pepper. Add the sliced cold mutton, an equal quantity of parboiled potatoes quartered, and one fourth as much each of white turnips and carrots sliced and boiled until almost done. Cook this haricot slowly until the potatoes are done, and when dished sprinkle with chopped parsley. Mutton Pasties.—To utilize the remains of cold mutton roast, make what is known as English raised pastry. For this rub into one quart of flour a quarter of a pound of butter; heat a half cupful of milk and in this melt another quarter of a pound of shortening. Pour this into the shortened flour and knead all to a firm, smooth paste. Keep the mass in a dry double boiler over hot (not boiling) water at the side of the stove, for it will harden as it cools. Take out a large lump of the paste, and with the fist work it up to a cup shape, gradually drawing the thinned sides upward. Pinch it round the bottom until you have a round, flat bottomed mold about $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ inches deep. Fill this with cold diced meat, season well. Work out a cover and fit it on, welting the edges and pinching it around. In making a number of these raised pies it is best to work out all the crust at first, then fill and top them. Brush with a little beaten egg and bake for 45 minutes in a moderate oven. Put a funnel in the slit on top of each and fill without gravy before serving. Save Lemon Rind. Save all lemon rind, place in a pan, and cover with cold water, to which a small amount of sugar has been added. Bring to a boil, then let simmer for ten minutes. You will find this preparation an excellent lemon flavoring for all kinds of puddings, etc. Cure for Felon. Take one egg, one tablespoonful of strained honey, one tablespoonful of spirits of turpentine, flour enough to make a moist paste, and cover the finger with the paste. Renew when this gets dry. This gives speedy relief. One Bottle or Less. Malaria is easy to contract in some localities, and hard to get rid of that is, if the proper remedy is not used. Cheatham's Chill Tonic frees any one from it promptly and thoroughly. It is guaranteed to cure any kind of Chills. One bottle or less will do it. The Mean Thing. She (eyeing the refreshment booth) —Dearest, while we are waiting for the train, don't you think it would be a good idea to take something? He—Yes, darling; and since it is such a beautiful moonlight night, let's take a walk. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles Hitchcock In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility, but through greatness of mind.—Aristotle. SECOND ANNUAL State Fair of Oklahoma at Oklahoma City, October 1st to 10th, 1908. 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FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM H, TAFT. FOR VICE PRESIDENT JAMES S. SHERMAN, GAL ONE NICKENS seeeee The republican state committee has called a state convention to meet at Oklahoma City in August. The congressional candidates in the Third district are getting around over the district in whirlwind speed. The Muskogee man is making good. The republicans will nominate a city ticket at the August primary. ‘Vhere (only a short time to register and every legal voter should atten« fo this at once or there will be no vote coming in) August. Register today, don't put it off. You cannot vote for president or congress man unless you register, It is im- portant that every voter register now. Do it now. Don't wait The democratic slogan at Denver that created the greatest enthusiasm was “What the hell do we care.” When the enthusiasm would wane some cuss would yell: “What the hell do we care” and the convention would go wild. Such is the democrat. The dispensary is doing a big busi- ness if we are to judge from the common drinks seen each day, and as next week is celebration week we expeet the “spencery” to go dry, A pint including the preseription costs $1.80, Cheap, eh? The democrats are carrying Ohio this year so they are reporting, but the old Buckeye state will hardly join the Bryan crowd this year. While there is considerable dissatisfaction ever there, still not enough to lose the state, Every voter who fails to register shows that he is not interested in sxood government, Every man who is entitled to vote should register now. Vo matter who you vote for on elec- tion day. Those who do not desire to de- clare for the republican or democrat- ie party can register as independent ond vote for whom they please, but register you must if you vote at all. Next week will be a great week for Muskogee, Visitors will be here from everywhere and many will lo- ate and buv homes either eity or farm property, Let's make — things pleasant for the visitors UP TO HUNTER. The Times, on behalf of itself, the Phoenix, the World, the McAlester News and the Bartlesville Enterprise, would like to ask the fair-minded re- publicans of the state, if the forego- ing newspapers were wrong in erit- ‘eising the republican organization in the criminal negligence in failing to advise the republicans of the state of the primary law, Less than two weeks’ time remains for registration, If the republicans fail to register, be- fore the 25th of this month, they will be deprived of their right to vote for president, state or other officers, How many republicans of the state know this to be a fact, and how many of them have been advised of the law by the state committee? The Times and the other republican papers are not fighting personally the state com- mittee, they are merely calling the attention of the republicans of the state to what they could expect with an active committee, and what they are getting from an inactive commit: tee. The apathy of the committee is absolutely — unpardonable.—Oklahoma City Times. memaremtens (omepteetaeniin ANNOUNCEMENT. ‘To the Republicans of the Third Dis: | triet: 1 hereby offer myself as a candi date for the republican congression- ‘al nomination for the Third District, ‘to be made by primary election, Aug- ust 4. If nominated, T pledge an ac: ‘tive, energetic, clean campaign, and ‘if elected, faithful and energetic ser- vice. Any support will be fully ap- preciated. | ©. B. CREAGER, Muskogee, Ok. | WANTED—To sell standard sew- ‘ing machines on $8 per month pay: ments J. A. WALCOTT, General ‘Agent, 1093 E. Broadway, Muskogee, “Okla. / FOR SALE. 60 acres of good land $20 per acre; 40 acres of good land $15 per acre; 20 aeres of good land $15 per acre. 4 stand cotton gin for $4,500, Will trade for farm lands or city property in Muskogee. 4 stand cotton gin for $3,500. Write to W. H. TWINE, Jr., Rox G, Muskogee, Okla. H. T. WALKER, Attorney and Counsellor at iaw Room 19, Brown Bldg. Phone 1169. MUSKOGER, OKLAHOMA OKFUSKEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA A Strictly Colored Man's Town. 500—LOTS FOR SALE—5@0 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, plen- ty 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 south ern 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 postof- fice, several stores, all run by col- cored men, Come now while there are many inducements to good farm- ers. Plenty land to sell, lease or rent. Call or write, W. 1. JACKSON, _ Townsite Manager and Owner Clearview, Okla. T. MILLER, LOAN BROKER Loans on all Articles of Value. 105 South Main Street MUSKOGERE, IND, ‘TER, 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 WW, Oklamulgee Ave. CREEK UNDERTAKERS BILLINGS AND CULLUM @Caskets and Funeral Regalai Always on Hand IN OFFICE DAY & NIGHT. 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Editor Brotherhood: Dear Sir:—I am indeed happy in informing you that in the case of Reid vs. Pullman Company, I made a motion for judgment against the Pullman Company on the pleadings that is, that admitting all they set up in their answer, and all they claim, that still there was no defense that ‘they were not protected in refusing to allow the plaintiff accommodation in a Pullman car because the law of the state of ‘Fennessee prohibited railroad companies and common car- ee from carrying Colored and white persons in the same coach. Further, that it was no defense ‘that the common law rule has been -abofished by the statute of Tennes- see, which rule gives a_ proprietor the right to separate his guest, pro- vided he furnished other and equal | accommodations. | That on the Jaw and authority, the Pullman Company had no right to es- ‘tablish a rule separating white and | Colored passengers, and this whether the plaintiff was an interstate passen- ger or was an intrastate passenger. | When the motion was called for hearing, counsel representing the Pull- ‘man Company arose and stated to the court that they consent that the mo- tion be granted, for the reason that they were satisfied that I was right on the Taw. Thus you will see the matter is disposed of, and we win a complete victory. There is but one question remaining, that is, will the people of our race take advantage of this and follow it up often enough to compel the company to yield the point and maintain the law, which they thus confess, everywhere in this broad Jand and common country of ours? I,do not know whether you pub- lished my former letter or not. If you have not, [ wish you would be kind enough to formulate such men- tion in your paper as you feel that |you can, so as to give publicity tof [the fact of what the outcome of the jcase has been. We want that peo- | neople should know what their rights jare, and [ beg to say that if you do | fa to make mention of the fact that this case was handled by the Niagara | Movement, which I sincerely hope you will, we shall be satisfied with | simpty giving the information con- oe the case, FREDERICK L. McGHEE, The Old Reliable Doctor—Oldest in age and longest located. A regular Graduate in Medicine. 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Official Statement of the Condition of the Commercial Muskogee, India At the Close of Business, T RESOU Loans and Discount Overdrafts Bonds and Premiums Real Estate, Furniture and Cash and Exchange LIABIL Capital Surplus and Profits Circulation Deposits Commercial Nation'l Bank Muskogee, Indian Territory Close of Business, Thursday August 22 RESOURCES Loans and Discount 1,098,363 Merdrafts 5,146 Bonds and Premiums 262,000 Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures 10,975 Fish and Exchange 310,713 $1,687,199 LIABILITIES Capital $ 200,000 Corplus and Profits 52,946 Circulation 200,000 Deposits 1,234,252 $1,787,199 Muskogee, Indian Territory. At the Close of Business, Thursday August 22, 1907. Loans and Discount 1,098,363.96 Overdrafts 5,146.62 Bonds and Premiums 262,000.00 Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures 10,975.08 Cash and Exchange 310,713.79 Capital $ 200,000.00 Surplus and Profits 52,946.54 Circulation 200,000.00 Deposits 1,234,252.91 $1,787,199.45 The above Statement is Correct. D. N. 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Nation'l Bank, Bian Territory, Thursday, August 22, 1907. URCES 1,098,363.96 5,146.62 262,000.00 and Fixtures 10,975.08 310,713.79 $1,687,199.45 LITIES $ 200,000.00 52,946.54 200,000.00 1,234,252.91 $1,787,199.45 E. D. SWEENEY, CASHIER ostraet Co. BUILDING es absolutely correct THE SEASON'S GOODS AER NOW IN DEMAND THE SEASON'S GOODS AER NOW IN DEMAND Lawn Mowers, Garden Hose, Refrigerators, Fishing Tackle, Croquet Sets, all of which we have And don't forget we are the largest dealers in Muskogee in Fine Buggies, Harness and Wagons all kinds and styles. SUCCESSORS TO HUBER HARDWARE CO. 137 - PHONES - 78 OUR TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE ARTISTIC AD COMPANY Illustrated Advertising, 320 Broadway, New York. L. M. Bailey Herman Fist MUSKOGEE TEA & COFFEE CO. MARKET SQUARE T ARTISTIC AD COMPANY Illustrated L. M. Bailey MUSKOGEE TE MARKET FOR SALE. 3-room house and 50 ft. lot close in, $650.00. Two-room house and lot for $450.00. Lot in Factory Addition, $75.00. Lot in Lincoln Park, $50.00. Write W. H. TURNE, Box G, Muskogee, Okla. 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. Catalogue and samples free. FRANK W. WILLIAMS COMPANY. 1208 W. Taylor St. Chicago, Ill. WANTED INFORMATION KEGARDING for sale. Not particular about location. Wish to hear from owner only who will sell direct to buyer. Give price, description and state when possession can be had. Address. L. DARBYSHIRE, Box 9999 Rochester, N. Y. is said by our customers to be excellent, because they were never served with any better Tea or Coffee since they began drinking either. There is a delicacy of aroma, and a peculiarly attractive flavor to our Teas and Coffees which soon makes them popular favorites in the most particular households. All we ask is that you test our claim by a trial order. We know that you will afterwards admit the justice of our claim. Advertising, 320 Broadway, New York. 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Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year; four months, $1. Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 625 F St., Washington, D. C. NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered From all Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. Miscellaneous. The presidential election in Panama passed off without a disturbance of any kind on the isthmus. Senor Obaldia, former minister to the United States, was chosen to succeed President Amador. Four prominent summer residents of Marion, Mass., met death recently through an explosion on board a 45-foot launch near that place. By the explosion of the boiler on a freight locomotive on the Hocking Vafley railroad near Columbus, O., the engineer and fireman were killed. The thermometer in the Art museum at Boston recently registered 108 degrees. Will Wilson, a negro employee of a carnival company, killed a white woman, a member of the company, at Carl Junction, Mo., after entering her sleeping apartment. He was placed in the Carthage jail to prevent lynching. Four persons were injured in a panic in Philadelphia when lightning struck a trolley car. All the injured were women. The government bureau of forestry is to establish field headquarters in the west about October 1. next. Dr. G. J. Counterman, a physician of New Albany, Kan., has been arrested charged with counterfeiting. A complete counterfeiting outfit was captured by the officers in searching his premises. The will of the late ex-President Grover Cleveland has been probated in New Jersey. The value of the estate is not mentioned. Each of the four children is given $10,000 and the balance goes to the widow who is made executrix. Passengers and crew of a Great Northern train put to flight a lone highwayman who attempted to hold them up near Naples, Idaho. The turbine steamer Lusitania clipped 32 minutes from the record between Queenstown and New York on her last western trip, the time for the passage being four days, 19 hours and 36 minutes. The rebels who are fighting against President Davilla of Honduras have captured the town of Choluteca and are threatening Santa Barbara. The diplomatic relations between Venezuela that have existed for more than 50 years have been completely severed by the withdrawal of the Venezuelan minister from Washington. A complete understanding has been reached between Mexico and the United States in regard to the violations of the neutrality laws along the Mexican borders. Another heir to the Rockefeller millions has appeared in the person of a second son to John D., Jr. President Roosevelt has contracted with Charles Scribner's Sons to publish his book of observations in Africa It is said the president gets the biggest royalty ever given a writer. The government crop report for July shows the condition of corn to have been 82.8 per cent. The railroads estimate that the total wheat yield in western Canada this year will be 125,000,000 bushels. Two men were killed and two others injured by the derailment of a Frisco freight train ner Richland, Mo. A movement has been started in Chicago to provide a suitable memorial for Grover Cleveland in recognition of his services to the nation and to Chicago. Cincinnati has been chosen as the headquarters of the national Republican committee during the campaign. A deal was recently closed at Kansas City in which 25,000 acres of Texas land was traded for 600 barrels of whisky. Mrs. Mollie Stewart was convicted at Ottawa, Kan., of the murder of Mrs. Schneck. Frank Schneck, husband of the victim, was convicted of the same crime sometime since. By proclamation of the governor each citizen of Oklahoma is asked to celebrate the removal of the restrictions on the sale of Indian lands on July 27 by writing a letter ta some friend in other states booming the resources of Oklahoma. Adjutant General Canton of Oklahoma, who recently visited the camp of the Snake Indians near Henryetta, says that all reports of an uprising are false. Two children are dead and the mother of one of them is expected to die of shock as the result of attempting to start a fire with kerosene on the farm of N. J. Stephens, near Nevada, Mo. Five men were killed and three others injured in a headon collision near Medicine Hat, Saskatchewan. The Democratic national convention concluded its labors by the nomination of John W. Kern of Indiana for vice president. No ballot was necessary, all the other candidates withdrawing, and the nomination was made by acclamation amid the cheers of delegates and spectators. Mr. Kern lives in Indianapolis and has been prominent in Indiana politics for many years. The retiring Democratic national committee held its final meeting in Denver and unanimously adopted a resolution of thanks to its officers. A movement has been started at Atlanta, Ga., for the erection of a monument to the late Joel Chandler Harris. It is proposed to call for subscriptions from all parts of the country. The new bridge under construction over the river Rhine at Cologne collapsed and many of the workmen engaged in the structure lost their lives. The Interstate Commerce commission has ordered a reduction in rates on all freight originating in the cast the Missouri and Mississippi river points. The case was brought by Kansas City whole sale merchants, and was argued last spring. For the third time William Jennings Bryan has been nominated by the Democratic party as their candidate for president of the United States. The nomination was made at the end of an all-night session devoted to oratory and the reading of the platform. Only one ballot was necessary and it resulted in Mr. Bryan getting 892 $ \frac{1}{2} $ votes; Johnson, 46, and Gray, 59 $ \frac{1}{2} $ The 78 votes of New York were cast for the Nebraska candidate. During the recent hot spell in New York 53 persons died and over 300 were prostrated by the excessive heat. At the second day's session of the Democratic national convention a record-breaking demonstration took place when Senator Gore of Oklahoma mentioned the name of William J. Bryan in a speech from the rostrum. The tribute to the Nebraska leader lasted one hour and 26 minutes, or 39 minutes in excess of the Roosevelt demonstration at Chicago. At the night session the only business transacted was the adoption of the report of the credentials committee which unseated the Guffey delegates from Pennsylvania. The vote, which was the first test of strength between the Bryan and anti-Bryan delegates, was 615 to 387. The Snake tribe of Creek Indians are becoming more threatening and under the leadership of Crazy Snake are openly defying both the federal and state authorities in Oklahoma. Farmers are frightened and 500 of them have sought refuge in Henryetta. Gov. Magoon has issued a decree raising the duty on all cattle imported into Cuba. The government established by the revolutionists in Paraguay has been officially recognized by Brazil. Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world a palace or a prison.—Lubbock. Try Murine Eye Remedy For Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes. Murine Doesn't Smart—Soothes Eye Pain. All Druggists Sell Murine at 50cts. The 48 Page Book in each Pkg. is worth Dollars in every home. Ask your Druggist. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago. Opposites Cause and Effect. "They say that there is more crime committed in hot weather." "Yes; heat seems to conduce to wickedness." "Now that's strange, that a close atmosphere should cause loose principles." Looking for Work. "Why don't you go to work instead of begging and boozing?" "I will, boss, as soon as there's an openin' in my trade. An' I ain't got long to wait now, nuther." "What is your trade?" "I'm a trackwalker for aeroplane lines." Realistic. The conversation turned on the effect produced on the emotions by pictorial art, when one gentleman remarked: "I remember one picture that brought tears to my eyes." "A pathetic subject, I presume?" "No, sir; it was a fruit painting. I was sitting close under it when it dropped on my head." Nothing to Be Thankful For. Elizabeth's mother did not teach her little daughter much that she should have learned about religion; nor did the father. The other day a guest said to the little girl: "Elizabeth, does your father say grace at the table?" "What grace?" returned the girl innocently. "Why, thanks for what you have to eat." "Oh," replied Elizabeth, now enlightened. "We don't have to thank any one for what we have—we always pay cash." DIFFERENT NOW Athlete Finds Better Training Food. It was formerly the belief that to become strong, athletes must eat plenty of meat. This is all out of date now, and many trainers feed athletes on the well-known food, Grape-Nuts, made of wheat and barley, and cut the meat down to a small portion once a day. "Three years ago," writes a Mich. man, "having become interested in athletics, I found I would have to stop eating pastry and some other kinds of food. "I got some Grape-Nuts, and was soon eating the food at every meal, for I found that when I went on the track, I felt more lively and active. "Later, I began also to drink Postum in place of coffee, and the way I gained muscle and strength on this diet was certainly great. On the day of a field meet in June I weighed 124 lbs. On the opening of the football season in Sept., I weighed 140. I attribute my fine condition and good work to the discontinuation of improper food and coffee, and the using of Grape-Nuts and Postum, my principal diet during training season being Grape-Nuts. "Before I used Grape-Nuts I never felt right in the morning—always kind of 'out of sorts' with my stomach. But now when I rise I feel good, and after a breakfast largely of Grape-Nuts with cream, and a cup of Postum, I feel like a new man." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. Have You Chills? 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IS RUINING COUNTRY TOWNS Systems That Sap the Vitality of Agricultural Districts and Concentrate Wealth in the Larger To accomplish anything of a public nature there must be organization. Every village should have an association devoted to the policy of home protection and village betterment—an association for the molding of a public sentiment that will carry into practice the theory that "Business, like charity, begins at home." It is a recognized fact that the retail business of the country villages and the large towns, for that matter, is being destroyed. Year by year the once prosperous merchants are being forced to the wall—driven out by the mail order business. And this is taking place in face of the fact that the population and purchasing power of the country districts is ever on the increase. The mail order houses are drawing the cash retail trade from its natural channels to the cities. The growth of this octopus has been phenomenal. From a jelly-like idea—without form—an experiment 15 years ago, it has grown to proportions that threaten the extermination of the retail country merchant. An idea of the way the money of the people is being drawn into this mail order trade can be had from the reports of some of these houses. A certain mail order house which began with a few thousand dollars 15 years ago now does a monthly business of $5,000,000, with a yearly net profit of more than $3,000,000. This is the record of but one institution. There are dozens of them in various cities of the United States. They are springing up like mushrooms every night. All that is necessary to start a mail order business is a place to receive mail and money enough to get out the first batch of printing and for the first advertising campaign. Like the patent medicine business, the mail order business depends on the gullibility of the general public. Thousands of people every week send their hard-earned cash to some mail order house in payment for goods that could have been bought cheaper at their home store. Why do they do it? It is owing partially to the desire of the average person to be humbugged and partially to the effect of persistent advertising. The mail order house sends out its attractive literature to every family in the country. In this literature, composed of well-illustrated catalogues and cheap magazines known as mailorder papers, the goods are set out in the most attractive manner. It is tempting bait, and the fish bite. All of these millions of dollars come out of the legitimate trade of the country merchant, the man who has invested his capital, built himself a home, and been active in building up the town with the expectation that he would be allowed to do a legitimate business in a legitimate way. He is entitled to the trade of his town and the country adjacent. He pays his taxes and contributes to the support of the community. That community owes him a reciprocal duty—the duty to give him the preference of trade, everything else being equal. Fastidious. "I believe in reason in all things," said the milliner, shifting a gone-crazy hat from a stand to the show window, "but when a woman is so afraid she won't be genteel that she comes in here and asks to be shown Limbhorn hats, instead of Leghorn, it makes me weary." SIX-FOR-FIVE SALE. One Plan That Benefits the Buyer and Increases the Merchant's Trade. "I want to outline a successful sale plan that we have used and which is about the best one we have ever tried. It is not original with me. I think it was worked out and first used by a store in some town in Wisconsin. We obtained the plan through a shoe salesman. Should the originator of the idea read this article I wish to offer him my apologies for reproducing his plan," writes an Iowa merchant. "It is called a 'Six-for-Five Sale.' The idea of the sale is to give six articles, or gards, for the price of five. The statement made in our bills, is: 'No matter what you buy, dress goods, shoes, furnishing goods, notions, calicoes, ginghams, outing flannels, hats, gloves, ribbons, handkerchiefs, hose, dishes, canned fruits, canned vegetables, glassware, or any other goods that we carry in stock (with the exception of goods on which we are already making a special low price, and the list of specials advertised elsewhere in this ad.) you only pay for five, but you get six.' "In order to make the sale still more effective we selected a few well-known articles which we marked very low, and then excluded them from the regular 'six-for-five' list. Of course, if it is desired to move such lines as cloaks and clothing, of which you could hardly expect to sell five to one family, they can be excepted from the 'six-for-five' list and a price be made on them. "When we sold five pairs of shoes, or of any other line, we would take the average price of the five and allow this amount on the sixth pair. "This sale has many strong points. In the first place, it is based on the principle that nothing will have quite the influence in getting people to leave their money with you as that of giving them something for nothing. It is the extra yard or pound or article that talks. In addition to all these points, it is a plan that can be used equally well for almost any occasion, and at any time of the year, and one which will not, I think, grow old, if it be made a regular annual event. "That this is a successful sale plan was shown by the fact that when we were running it our competitor put on a sale and got out bills in which he called attention to the fact that the prices he was making were lower than our 'six-for-five' prices, and still we got the crowds. It was but natural, however, that we should, because people are always attracted by something free." Use Fire to Combat Fire. The average retailer does not employ enough printers' ink, and employ it in the proper direction, in dealing with the trade for his community. The enemies of the retailer, the mail-order houses, are products of printers' ink and know full well the value of it. They are not anxious that the retail dealers of the country wake up. They are satisfied to allow conditions to go on and allow them, the mail-order house, to get the benefit of the trade which is coming to them through their aggressive advertising campaigns. If a merchant would follow out their schemes of publicity upon a small scale in his immediate territory, would get out some advertising matter in the form of circulars with prices and descriptive matter, it would win. The way to fight fire is with fire, and the retailer has had the shortcomings of his anti-mail-order house campaigns thrown back upon him with little or no satisfactory results. Campaigns he has set up in opposition have in a measure taken the edge off the catalogue houses' campaigns, but why not get right into the game and fight them with the same ammunition that they are using to exterminate the retail trade of the country? Use local papers liberally and get out circulars, letters and price lists, well printed and illustrated. THE DAIRY It Will Help Greatly in the Handling of Stock. In large dairy stables it is always advisable to have small gates or doors hung in alley ways to prevent the stock from going where they are not wanted when being stabled. If such gates are closed at the proper time considerable disturbance can be averted. I have seen various kinds of gates used, but the one pictured is by far the best. Instead of swinging upward and being hooked to the ceiling or a joist overhead as some do, it slides back and forth upon a length of gas pipe serving as a track, by means of iron straps attached to the long pieces that compose the outer ends of the gate. The gas pipe should be at least two inches through and in length twice the A Gate for Cow Stable. width of the gate. The gate should be made to fit the place where needed, and can be constructed of any strong, light lumber. If the feed room is in easy reach of the stable, says Farm and Home, the alley leading to it should by all means be protected by one of these gates. In case of a cow getting loose in the night, as cows frequently will, it might be the means of saving her life from eating too much grain. DAIRY DOINGS. Do not try to milk a cow by squeezing her horns. Always do your milking at the udder end. A good feed for young calves is ten pounds blood meal, five pounds bone meal and 20 pounds each of oil meal, oatmeal and cornmeal. To make a dairy herd profitable the feed is only half. The method and regularity of care with the comfort of the animals is of equal if not of greater importance. When butter does not come the difficulty is usually due to one of two things. Either the cream is not sour enough, or its temperature is too low. If you have a good churn you can usually make butter in half an hour if these two points are right. Two pounds of milk can be produced by the aid of silage as a dairy feed, where on any other system which does not include fresh pasture one pound would be the limit. Care must be used in feeding silage, but the difficulty is not so much with the silage as with sour and spoiled remnants left in feeding utensils. The best ration for a dry cow is corn silage and alfalfa, and when she becomes fresh continue to feed these with six or eight pounds of grain daily. Feed the Cows. Feed the cow all the hay or other roughness she will eat, even if she is running on good pasture. Her appetite tells her better what she needs than you can tell. Keep the manger full and allow her to eat as much or it as she desires. PROOF FOR TWO CENTS. If You Suffer with Your Kidneys and Back, Write to This Man. G. W. Winney, Medina, N. Y., invites kidney sufferers to write to him. To all who enclose postage he will reply, telling how Doan's Kidney Pills cured him after he had doctored and had been in two different hospitals for eighteen months, suffering intense pain in the back, lameness, twinges when stooping or BENNETT lifting, languor, dizzy spells and rheumatism. "Before I used Doan's Kidney Pills," says Mr. Winney, "I weighed 143. After taking 10 or 12 boxes I weighed 162 and was completely cured." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. CAN'T BLAME TOMMY MUCH. "Tommy, were you fighting with that Carter boy?" "Yes, maw." "Didn't I tell you not to quarrel with anyone?" "Yes, maw; but I thought all bets were off since you quit speaking to the Carter boy's maw." TWO CURES OF ECZEMA Baby Had Severe Attack—Grandfather Suffered Torments with It— Owe Recovery to Cuticura. "In 1884 my grandson, a babe, had an attack of eczema, and after trying the doctors to the extent of heavy bills and an increase of the disease and suffering, I recommended Cuticura and in a few weeks the child was well. He is to-day a strong man and absolutely free from the disease. A few years ago I contracted eczema, and became an intense sufferer. A whole winter passed without once having on shoes, nearly from the knees to the toes being covered with virulent sores. I tried many doctors to no purpose. Then I procured the Cuticura Remedies and found immediate improvement and final cure. M.W.LaRue, 845 Seventh St, Louisville, Ky., Apr. 23 and May 14, '07." A Curious Fact. "Water swells wood." "It must. I've often noticed that a novelist will wreck a skiff and then float enough timber onto the desert isle to build a town." The Entire Family. Grand Pop used it for Rheumatism. Dad for Cuts, Sprains and Bruises, Mamy 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. It's all right for a man to be a dreamer of dreams providing he wakes up occasionally and gets busy. ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED? Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.—Socrates. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gurus, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. One way to buy experience is to speculate in futures. Use Allen's Foot-Ease Curest tired, aching, sweating feet. 25c. Trial package free. A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. The romance of a spinster is apt to be one sided. THE CHICAGO WATERWORKS The Report of the Civil Service Commission of Chicago to the Commissioner of Public Works April 17, 1908. Investigation of certain charges preferred by your department against employees in the water bureau and a subsequent inquiry into conditions in that service show that neglect of duty, lack of discipline, insubordination and corruption have demoralized that service as far back as there is a record of the office. From evidence before it the commission is convinced that the fundamental cause lies in lack of organization and discipline and in the absence of common business methods. The commission is of the opinion that these evils cannot be corrected wholly by spasmodic investigation or by occasional discharge of employees. Evidence placed before the commission by Deputy Commissioner Redieske of the department of public works and Superintendent McCourt of the water bureau, whose efforts brought about this inquiry, shows utter disregard of the rights of public property on the part of those charged with its custody and use. It proved complete absence of a sense of responsibility on the part of employees. Officials of the bureau testified that no adequate check is kept upon the city property and supplies. It was shown that officials holding responsible positions were mere figure-heads without authority. Testimony was heard showing that, following the removal on charges by this commission of a former superintendent of the office, it developed that there were 900 unrealed meters in the city. At the same time it was found that fifteen wards of the city had not been reassessed during the last five years. Subsequent assessment of three of these wards added $20,000 annually to the revenues of the water office. Testimony heard under oath in regard to the working force of the meter mechanical division disclosed that under these conditions the most the city obtained for a day's pay was 50 per cent of a day's work. Efficiency sheets for the period covered by this estimate of the value of a day's work unwarrantedly credited all employees with high efficiency. The head of that division testified he was not permitted during his incumbency of seven years to maintain discipline. While the commission has no direct evidence of criminal acts warranting prosecution, there is no doubt the city, through neglect, petty stealing, tampering with meters and lack of efficiency, for many years has suffered great loss. Lax methods made easy the theft of water. A discrepancy between the revenue possibilities of the water bureau and the actual income is such as to shock the business sense of any citizen. In a general way the inquiry of the commission covered all branches of the water service. Conditions under which the entire bureau has been operated are such that they protect neither the city, the property owner nor the employee. Responsibility is so spread that, so far as the inquiry has progressed, the commission is unable to fix responsibility for more serious complaints. Inquiry along these lines might be prolonged indefinitely, with the sole result of an accumulation of evidence of, incompetency and lax methods. It is therefore the conclusion of the commission that there is nothing further to be accomplished by a proceeding of this character. To correct abuses efforts must be directed to systematic constructive work. With that end in view the commission recommends a complete reorganization of the bureau. To effect this expert assistance should be given the office to enable it to work out a business system and establish discipline. The commission, in co-operation with your department, will continue the inquiry. To make it more effective it desires to place an expert accountant in the office to audit certain accounts and to make such further investigation as it may direct. In this step it has two objects in view—the possibility of fixing responsibility for frauds and, what it believes to be of greater importance, to point out the inadequacy of the methods of accounting. During this inquiry the commission will deal summarily with specific instances of neglect of duty, incompetency or fraud. In addressing this communication to you the commission realizes that its course is unusual. It believes, however, that the city's greatest loss in revenue and labor in the water office is fundamental and can only be corrected by constructive work. Of the twenty-eight cases in which charges have been heard by the commission a number of discharges have been ordered. Findings will be forwarded to you. In the cases of laborers in which testimony was heard a transcript of the evidence is herewith transmitted for your action. Defeated by Women's Votes. Women's votes were responsible for the defeat of the proposal to establish a municipal waterworks system at Seneca Falls, N. Y. An unprecedented number of women voted, and they were almost unanimously against the scheme. The vote was 293 to 281 against the proposition. A Municipal Rip Van Winkle Warsaw, with a population of 800. 000, has just substituted electric for horse cars. The city has owned the system for nearly twenty years. The new system will be operated by a company under lease from the city. Municipal ownership is the finest thing in theory and the worst in practice of anything we have in this great country. Lawrence (Kan.) Gazette. AN EXPERT OPINION. Corporate and Government Management Clearly Contrasted. A Public Accountant Estimate of the Men Who Handle Our Great Business Enterprises—Intelligence, Economy, Honesty, at a Premium—Such Qualities Often Lacking In the Administration of Government Bureaus. The position of the public accountant in respect to corporations and their management is always an independent one. Unlike the attorney, he is not expected to make out a case. The character of the service he renders is impersonal. All he can do is to tell what the facts are, and they exist for his examination in forms so tangible and so subject to other scrutiny than his own that even if he were willing to prostitute his calling he would never dare to do so. It is equally true that the knowledge he obtains of the affairs of corporations is necessarily intimate, accurate and substantially complete. We are told that the corporation managers are dishonest, that they "exploit" the people and their utilities, that they put their own enrichment above their duty to the stockholding interest or to the patronizing public and that before there can be a return of the splendid prosperity we were enjoying the corporation must be regulated and the government must step in with a sharp eye and a big stick. My experience in the conduct of independent and impartial examinations of books of account and affairs has covered many years and has been concerned with the federal government, state governments and city governments. It has covered the field also of railway, street railway, light, power and other public service corpora tions. It has dealt with industry corporations, the so called trusts. It has taken me into banks, trust companies and insurance companies, into educational and charitable institutions. I think I may say it has taken me pretty generally over the whole field of public and private business, and if I am to judge by what my eyes have seen it is the unassailable truth that almost any one of the men who stand at the head of our great business institutions is far more competent to run the government and would run it more economically, more wisely and more honestly than any of those who are in the business of running governments. I know as a matter of fact that the management of our great properties is generally intelligent and economical and that the management of our government bureaus is generally loose, irregular and frequently dishonest, and when I read the articles with which so many of our newspapers and magazines are filled nowadays reflecting on the men whose genius is developing the country's resources and when I hear the proposals of politicians from the most eminent to the least for the passage of laws to hamper and restrict the energies of these men on the theory that their integrity is open to suspicion my mind inevitably brings up the contrast that I always observe between a corporation's way of doing things and a government's as disclosed by their respective records and books of account. For the purpose of this comparison incompetency and dishonesty need not be separated. Putting them together, it is my deliberate estimate that, judged by the highest standards prevailing in the best conducted corporations, there is less than 10 per cent of both among men in the management of corporations generally and at least 90 per cent of both among public officeholders, and I base this estimate upon my experience as a public accountant. The men intrusted with the management of the corporations are better fitted to administer the affairs of such corporations and to exercise judgment in matters concerning both the investor and the public, which takes their product or utilizes their franchises, than are those men who hold public office qualified to fill even their own positions, much less to undertake administrative control over corporations. The facts that prove this do not deal with the mere matter of honesty and efficiency. The organization of a public bureau is much less compact, much less harmonious in its operation, than the organization of a great railway or a great industrial corporation. The men at the head of such business organizations in practically every case are experts, working diligently in harmony and ready to work to the limit of their endurance, with full and direct control of their subordinates. On the other hand, nothing can be more notorious—the results are obvious to every public accountant who investigates than the fact that in nine cases out of ten the head of a public department spends most of his time promoting his political interests, and the employees generally, protected by the civil service regulations, are looking to see how little rather than how much work they can get into their appointed short hours. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an information is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms: $1 a year; four months, $L. Sold by all new dealers. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 6 F St., Washington, D.C. FOR SALE. 3-room house and 50 ft. lot close in, $650.00. Two-room house and lot for $450.00. Lot in Factory Addition, $75.00. Lot in Lincoln Park, $50.00. Write W. H. TURNE, Box G, Muskogee, Okla. 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. Catalogue and sam- ples free. FRANK W. WILLIAMS COMPANY. 1208 W. Taylor St. Chicago, Ill. OKFUSKEE COUNTY. OKLAHOMA A Strictly 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 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 Clearyiew. Okla. T. MILLER, LOAN BROKER Loans on all Articles of Value. 105 South Main Street MUSKOGEE. IND. TER. 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. 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. ```markdown ```