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The Muskogee Cimeter. FLYNN SCORED AT MARII FLYNN SCORED HASKELL AT MARIETTA MARIETTA, Okla., Sept. 3.—The joint debate here, during the past week, between Governor C. N. Haskell, representing the Haskell-Bryan Democracy, and Dennis T. Flynn, Republican nominee for United States senator, resulted in a severe drubbing being administered to Haskell by the father of the "free homes" bill. All along the line he presented Haskell's record in a manner that brought applause even from a crowd that was made up on the ratio of sixteen democrats to one republican. Asking Governor Haskell when he removed is trunk from Wall Street and sowing where Haskell was sleeping and hobnobbing at Denver at the time of the national convention, with the members of Tammany Hall the owners in New York City of the ice trust. Mr. Flynn also referred to the $60,000 suit brought against the governor by the Illinois Steel Company and showed how the governor's attorney W. A. Ledbetter was also attorney for the Standard Oil Company. He called attention to the fact that even though the territorial government had left the new state a debt of $1,300,000, yet there also had been left the state enough cash in the various funds to liquidate the entire sum. He also showed how the state in trying to float a bond issue of $1-460,000, could not sell one dollars worth of them, whereas territorial bonds were readily disposed of above par, showing that the new state was without credit in the money centers. Speaking of "letting the people rule," Mr. Flynn called the Governor's attention to the fact that it was only because they did rule that Bryan had been twice defeated for the presidency. "Here in our state, Governor," he said, "it is the general impression that the people elected Lee Cruce to the position you now hold yourself." This brought forth the loudest and most prolonged cheering of anything that had been said. Mr. Flynn then took up the subject of the Governor's part in the Oklahoma Central receivership and read letters from J. S. O'Keefe, manager of the United States Steel Company, and deducted the inference that there was collusion between the governor and this company. He said that the governor was taking the credit for the acts of the last legislature and he therefore thought that the governor should be willing to explain certain enactments of that body. He charged the governor with having ridden into power on the promise that the people should have the right of initiative and referendum on all legislation enacted. He proceeded to show how about 70 per cent of the bills obtained the "emergency" clause, which, according to the new state's constitution, precluded the people's voting on them; but that the remaining 30 per cent included, in their number, all of the labor laws passed by the legislature, so that if the people did not like them they could be repealed by a majority vote. Mr. Flynn asked why it was that the State administration had withdrawn the $5,000,000 of school funds Vol 9 belonging to the state, which were lying in Washington, bearing 3 per cent interest, and placed them in a Missouri bank? Mr. Flynn wanted to know if there were no banks in Oklahoma good enough to hold this money, which had been withdrawn, as the governor had said, to help alleviate the money stringency in this state. The speaker charged the administration with having 7,000 appointees scattered over the state. He showed that the general government during the years 1905 and 1906 had appropriated by $58,000 for all territorial expenses, except the salaries of the governor and the judges; that the new state had already appropriated $544,000 for running expenses to say nothing of the general appropriations, which ran up into the millions. The speaker showed where the anti-trust bill recently enacted by the state could be made to prevent the farmers combining to secure a certain price for cotton. Mr. Haskell was asked why he vetoed the child-labor bill. The governor was asked, in view of the position the Democratic party had taken on the subject of the popular election of U. S. senators if he would allow Gore's name and Flynn's name to be placed on the ballots, so that the people might make their choice. Mr. Flynn submitted copies of six Republican dailies of the state, showing that each bore the union label; he then produced a copy of Bryan's Commoner and offered to give $50 to charity if anybody would show him the union label therein. From Judge Cook's Home Warrenton, N. C., Aug. 26, 1908. Mr. W. H. Twine, Muskogee, Okla. Sir: I see by public press of your state that the Republicans have nominated Judge C. A. Cook, recently a citizen of this county and state, for the Legislature. Allow me to say in behalf of Judge Cook, that he is a clean, straight, high-toned gentleman in every particular. His word is to be taken by every one that knows him. There is not a Democrat in North Carolina but doesn't believe what I say about him in this respect. In fact Judge Cook belongs to the very highest type of the educated Southern gentleman who would not stoop to low, dirty political tricks, simply to get your vote. He is a man who says yes or no, and means what he says, no more and no less. Judge Cook hasn't an enemy anywhere, for every body here without regard to party or race love and respect him. He is the same after the election as before it, and will not turn or bow to crooked things to best his opponent. isfaction guaranteed. We all believe out here that he is one of the greatest and best lawyers living, and will stop praying. I believe, to resent an insult, in fact, no one bothers him who knows him any way. Hoping that your ticket will win, I am very respectfully. In The District Court For The Third Judicial District, Of Oklahoma, In Muskogee, County. Lon Hill. Sam Hill. The defendant, Sam Hill, is hereby notified that he has been sued by the plaintiff, Lou Hill, for an absolute divorce and he is hereby warned that he must make answer to the petition of said plaintiff on or before the 25th day of September, 1908, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment for an absolute divorce rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof hereunto set my hand and at the Seal of the said Distri Court this 10th day of August 1908. Deputy. M. W. Guy. Attorney for plaintiff. First published, Friday. August 14, 1908. FOR SALE. 60 acres of good land $20 p acre; 40 acres of good land $15 p acre; 20 acres of good land $15 p acre. 4 stand cotton gin for $4,500. V trade for farm lands or city prope in Muskogee. 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. GRAND OFFICERS ELECTED BY GRAND LODGE OF K. OF P. AT CHICKASHA. OKLA. Dr. A. A. Tyson of Wemoka, G. C. C.; O. A. E. Williams, of Guthrie, G. V. C.; Thomas Edwards, of Oklahoma City, G. M. of W.; C. L. Nethland of Tulsa, G. P.; S. W. Dillard of Ardmore, G. M. of Ex.; E. W. South of South McAlister, G. K. of R. and S.; E. Hudley of Vinita, G. M. A. A.; W. H. Harrison of Oklahoma City, G. Attorney; A. H. Hawkins of Vinita, G. Lect.; Dr. C. B. Powels of Bolley, G. Med. Ex.; G. W. Hardman of Chickasha, G. I. G.; W. S. Sneed of Okmulgee, G. O. G. Tony Watney. District Clerk By Ea. Coker. FOR SALE. 4 stand cotton gin for $3,500. Write to W. H. TWINE, Jr., Box G. Muskogee, Okla. For Sale. No 47 WANTED—To sell standard sewing machines on $3 per month payments. J. A. WALCOTT, General Agent, 1093 E. Broadway, Muskogee, Okla. The Democrats are sending Colored men into Indiana to campaign among the Negroes. The Republicans must meet them or the Colored vote won't be as solid as heretofore. The 3rd. District is Republican if we get out the vote. Judge Cook is alright, we agree with the gentleman from North Carolina, and he will be elected by a large majority. Mr. A. C. Spahn, is advertising solicitor for this paper. We ask the Merchants and professional men to give us a trial advertisement, Mr Spahn will call on you. The Colored business men on South 2nd, street, who wish to conduct a decent business [and we beleive they all do] should see to it that the vulgar language indulged in by the tinhorn transient sports is stopped. Call an officer and have them sent before his honor. The Republicans will begin the campaign here on September 15th. Dennis Flynn and others will speak. Business men who do not advertise are wanting in the main element to success. Read the advertisements in this paper and patronize those who advertise with us. They deserve your trade and we make the assertion that you can get better bargains there than elsewhere. Give them a trial. The merchant who does not advertise does not keep up to date and the chances are his goods are old and shop worn. Boots and shoes made and repaired. First class workmanship. Try me and you will be satisfied. Call at my shop on Emporia Street, next door to Browning's store. Got to D. Richard's Barber Shop at 224 S. 2nd street for first-class work. First-class workmen and sat- D. RICHARDSON, Prop. Queen City Installment House buys and sells new and second hand furniture, stoves and all household goods. Phone 1760. No. 121 South Main street. . Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Edition MUSKOGEE. Worrying. It is a fool who constantly worries. Along with worry goes pessimism, discouragement, downheartedness, lack of ambition. No man, however energetic, can worry much or long without losing his energy and becoming ill. Worry, after causing a man's mental collapse, will seriously affect his physical health, and the days of a man with mental and physical health gone may be recorded in small numbers. If you are worrying over conditions that cannot be altered, you are also wasting time; get busy and alter them. You think you need a change. You can get it without a trip to some distant country. Change your habits of occupation. Take up some form of light and pleasant reading in the evenings. Get interested in some fad that will give you a chance to get out of the rut and become enthusiastic about something besides making money or losing it. No man can think constantly about his business without coming to brood over it and worry, declares the New York Weekly. Your mind must have rest and recreation. It needs it just as much as your body does. A simple determination not to worry will not usually be sufficient. There must be a positive effort along some different line of thought. Besides deciding not to think of your cares, decide that you will think of something else, and find something else to think of. You surely have interests in life other than money-making, if you would cultivate them a little. Eight bishops were elected by the delegates to the recent general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in Baltimore, and plans were discussed for making the Methodist bishops more like the bishops of other churches. The Methodist bishops preside over meetings of annual conferences, ordain ministers and appoint them to their fields of labor, but they have no dioceses, and are itinerant. The sentiment in favor of establishing dioceses for the bishops is growing, but action on the change was postponed. The Protestant Episcopal bishops—there are more than a hundred of them in the United States—are elected in a convention of lay and clerical delegates of the diocese in which they serve. Each bishop is the head of the diocese, and has general control over the church within the territory, installs rectors and confirms all new communicants. The Roman Catholic bishops, who are appointed by the pope, usually from a list of eligible priests submitted by the diocese, hold all the church property in their name, and have a general oversight of all the ecclesiastical institutions. They have much more power than the bishops of any other church in America, although in the early days the Methodist bishops had things pretty much their own way. An Englishman traveling in this country says he can't understand the baseball stories in the newspapers, though he can follow the game fairly well at the park. Does he think he could grasp the niceties of French by smoking a French briar? The fact that the end of the world has been predicted for 1911 will not discourage the people who like to pick presidential possibilities, and they are not expected to forego the pleasure of selecting candidates for 1912. RAIL MEN THINKING MANY OF THEM ARE CONSIDERING PRESENT DAY CONDI- Some Interesting Figures Given by B. F. Yoakum in an Interview with a New York Times Reporter. "Railroad employes, according to B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Rock Island-Frisco lines, are losing every day through the present depression in trade $1,000,000, or $25,000,000 a month," says the New York Times. "One-quarter of them, or about 400,000 men, are out of employment and are living on their rapidly diminishing savings. "Construction of new lines has almost entirely ceased, and for every 1,000 miles of new track that are not built 6,000 men lose permanent employment and 24,000 people a good living. The railroads are purchasing supplies at the rate of $500,000,000, instead of $1,250,000,000 a year. "Mr. Yoakum has been speaking lately in Texas and St. Louis, and urged there that the most important element in the present industrial conditions was the enormous losses in wages and the stagnation caused by the stoppage of the development of the country. He has considered this phase of the present crisis deeply." A reporter of the New York Times sought him recently at his farm at Farmingdale, L. L., and asked him how he believed the railroad men of the country would vote this year. Mr. Yoakum declined to answer directly, but said he could at any rate say what is pressing itself day by day on the minds of the railroad men. He said: "Hard times are now costing railroad employees $25,000,000 a month or $1,000,000 for each working day. This decrease of the employees' payroll is approximately the same amount as the Government's daily deficit at Washington. The Government's deficit of $1,000,000 is shared by the entire population of 85,000,000 people while the other $1,000,000 daily loss is borne by the railroad employees. "This loss in wages indicates that the means of living for 400,000 railroad men has been cut off, and that not only themselves but the 1,500,000 persons comprising their dependent families are living out of their savings of better days. "I have been asked how the railroad men will vote in November. Frankly I do not know, but I believe I know of what they are thinking. They are thinking of next Winter's fuel, clothing bills, and keeping their children in school. They are wondering what will be done to remedy the present industrial conditions and stop the appalling loss from enforced idleness. "Railroad workers are thrifty and they help one another. Their savings and mutual bearing of the burdens of adversity have prevented much suffering up to this time, but they have greatly reduced their surplus bank accounts, and when winter comes the story will be different unless business conditions materially improve. "The more than a million and a half of former railroad workers have in mind that one-fourth of their number are out of jobs or on short pay. They are thinking of their lost jobs, not worrying over foreign policies or tariffs on imports, or how this Government shall deal with the Philippines, and such questions, which the Government authorities and Congress must deal with. "The railroad employees are more interested in what is going to be done to start up the work which will bring back to them regular and permanent employment. They are tired of seeing dead engines, idle cars, neglected tracks and rusty signs of disuse. I will not try to say what they think should be done, but I do know that they are listening for words of encouragement. "To think what it means in thousands of homes is not a pleasant topic, but we should look the situation squarely in the face, and each man should be pressed to share his responsibility in seeking a remedy. "The campaign orators of September and October must face the country full of men out of employment. The stump speakers will be seeking votes and the idle will be seeking work. "Of what else can the railroad men be thinking except of what caused the reduction in their income of $300,-000,000 a year? They are listening for those who have suggestions as to how to get on the payroll again and at old wages." "But there are other factors in the railroad situation?" it was suggested to Mr. Yoakum. "The railroad employe," he replied, "is the most important factor in the railroad situation from every point of view. The owners of the railroads, known as bond and stockholders, are less in number than the employes and have less at stake. One year ago there were, according to the InterState Commerce Commission's figures, 1,675,000 employees, and they received $1,075,000,000 as wages, and, according to Slason Thompson, statistician, there are only 1,000,000 of both bond and stockholders receiving less than half the amount paid as wages. "Out of every dollar earned by the railroads the employee gets 42 cents of it in wages, while the bond and stockholders combined only receive 21 cents out of each dollar, or one half as much as the employee. Therefore, numerically and financially, the employes have by far the greatest interest in the railway revenues, and are the ones who are now asking the most pertinent questions. They have more at stake than the owners, and are just as capable of deciding for themselves and taking care of their own interests. "The 42 cents for the employe and the 21 cents for the bond and stockholder only account for 63 cents of each dollar earned by the railroads, but it shows the combined interests of 2,675,000 employes, bond and stockholders in the railroads of the Nation. Of the remaining 37 cents of the dollar, 7 cents go for taxes and insurance, and the balance of 30 cents largely for material and supplies, in the manufacture of which labor is the largest item. "The loss to the entire country on account of inability of railroads to purchase supplies is as serious to the public as the forced reduction in the payrolls. Last year the total amount of the railroad purchases was one and a quarter billion dollars. At the present time they are only buying at the rate of one-half billion dollars per annum, which at this rate means a loss to the manufacturers and the general trade of the country of more than $750,000,000 a year, or two million dollars a day. If to this is added the approximate one million dollars a working day which the railroad employee is suffering of this heavy loss, it is apparent that the business of the country is losing at this rate approximately three million dollars a day on account of shrinkage directly connected with railroad operation. "Do you wonder why the Labor Commissioner of the State of New York is reporting that one-third of the union men are idle because there is no work, or that Jacob Schiff is appealing to the city officials of New York to open up municipal work for their relief? "There is another phase of railroad activity not included in the foregoing," Mr. Yoakum added. "It is one which is seldom mentioned in connection with figures dealing with employes, wages and material. I refer to construction of new railroads and more extensive improvement of existing ones to meet the growth of the Nation's traffic. I refer to the army of men usually employed in this work and the large amounts expended for supplies, tools, fuel and other mate- rial, the greater part of which has been cut off. "The railroad employees are well-informed and capable citizens. They give due credit for the good which has been accomplished through healthy reforms within the last few years. They are not unmindful that proper regulations to prevent abuses and to give fair treatment to the public are necessary. "There should be no difficulty in surmising the thoughts of the railroad man. He knows that one out of every four of his fellow-workmen is idle or working short hours. He fully realizes that something is wrong. He understands that the man who constructs 1,000 miles of railroad gives actual and permanent employment to 6,000 railroad men, and thereby furnishes the means of living for 24,000 souls constituting their families. "He is thinking and hoping for better times. The vital issue will be the man and the job, and the candidates of both parties will have to meet it in both National and State Campaigns, with due regard to public welfare, at the same time encouraging full restoration of confidence in the country's institutions that construction, reconstruction, manufacturing and general business may again assume their normal activities." GRIEVING FOR HIS OLD HOME. Possibility That Unfortunate Was Not Altogether Deserving. The old man was seated in the park, great tears coursing down his cheeks. He was such a pathetic picture that the sympathetic passer-by stopped and asked him if he were ill. "Yes, sir," said the sorrowing old fellow. "I have just had bad news from home. The house that has sheltered me for years is to be sold and torn down, and I haven't a penny to my name to stop it. Everybody in it will be turned out, and Heaven knows what will become of them." "Poor soul!" said the sympathetic passer-by, slipping a dollar into the old man's hand. "That isn't much money, but you are welcome to it." "Thank you, sir," said the old fellow, smiling through his tears. "Every little bit helps, and I am very much obliged to you." "Where is this old home of yours, my friend?" asked the philanthropist. "Up at Sing-Sing," replied the old man. "It's the jail, sir. I've lived there 25 years altogether." And the philanthropist passed on.—Harper's Weekly. Subtle Criticism. A certain young artist in New York, who is on terms of comparative intimacy with the janitor of the apartment-house wherein he maintains his studio, is in some doubt whether the said janitor is a cynic, or something of an art critic, or both. "One day, while doing a bit of repair work in the studio," says the painter, "Mike scrutinized a bit of my work with ominous solemnity. When I indicated a portrait of myself the blow fell. Said I: "The paint on this is badly cracked, which spoils the likeness." "With no more expression in his countenance than is to be seen in the face of a representation of Buddha, Mike replied: "'Not at all, sir.'" — Harper's Weekly. Strange Case. One of the New York hospitals has a patient—a young athlete—who has normal vision when lying at full length, but is blind as a bat when he sits up or stands on his feet. This has been his state for six months or so. The hurt to the eyes that brought it on was received in a game of basketball. The specialists who are trying to remedy the mischief done to his eyes at that time employ a new X-ray process. "This consists," explains a New York paper, "of periodic flashes of the rays—of great intensity—against the retina, instead of the older method of a steady application of the rays for a considerable period of time." Malaria Causes Loss of Appetite Malaria Causes Loss of Appetite The Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds up the system. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless, and the most effectual form. For adults and children. 50c. SOMETHING OF A NOVELTY. English Method of Preparing Artic chokes with Eggs. A novel English dish recently enjoyed by the writer is described in detail for lovers of novelties in the way of savories. The recipe is sufficient for a "tasty bite" for six persons. The ingredients are two pounds of artichokes, one scraped onion, three ounces of grated cheese, one teaspoonful of celery salt, one ounce of butter, salt, lemon juice, and six eggs. The artichokes are pared and cut into one-fourth-inch slices a quarter of an inch thick and then covered with water, to which a little lemon juice has been added, also the scraped onion and the teaspoonful of celery salt. When boiled till quite soft drain off the water, to which the butter and grated cheese are to be added, mixed with a little rice flour in the way one usually makes a soft sauce. Into this made sauce return the artichokes. Toast enough bread to cover the bottom of an enameled baking dish, butter the bread and lay it around the dish, pouring the sauce over it, and after it has soaked ten minutes warm it in the oven. Meanwhile separate the whites from the yokes of the six eggs, add a pinch of salt to the whites, and beat to a stiff froth; then cover the warm contents of the pan with it, drop the whole yolks at equal distances apart, and then bake the whole until the white froth is slightly browned. SAVORY DISH OF VEAL. Meat Is Appetizing Cooked in Form of Cannelons. Six tablespoonfuls of chopped lean, cool veal, two teaspoonfuls of chopped, cooked ham, six chopped preserved mushrooms, the yolks of two eggs, a small teacup of white sauce, three-quarters of a pound of puff pastry. Flour some round wooden sticks about four inches long; the handle of old wooden spoons would do. Roll the pastry out to the thickness of an eighth of an inch wide. Cut it into long strips about an inch wide. Twist these loosely round the sticks, letting the edges overlap each other in the twists. Bake them in a hot oven until they are a pale brown color. Allow the pastry to cool a little, then gently draw out the sticks. Mix the veal, ham and mushrooms, put them into a saucepan with the sauce and stir over the fire until the mixture is hot, add the yolks of the eggs and stir for a minute longer. Season carefully, then fill in the cannelons with the mixture. Leave them until cold, and serve them garnished with parsley or watercress. If a hot dish is preferred, heat the cannelons slowly in the oven. The remains of any kind of cold meat may be used in the place of veal. Raisins with Roasts. Spiced raisins go nicely with roast meats. Boil together for ten minutes two pounds of brown sugar, one pint of vinegar, one teaspoonful each of cloves and broken stick cinnamon (tied together in a bag). Skim, then pour over two pounds of large, seeded raisins, and set aside for 24 hours. Turn into a double boiler and cook very slowly until the raisins are plump and tender. Can in the usual way. In currant season spiced currants should be put up for this purpose, and the India preserves, of which every cook book has a recipe, should be made at the time when fruits are on hand to secure the right combinations of juice and flavor with the spices. Home-Made Chair Bottoms. Take strong, heavy wrapping paper, cut out just the form you desire, and with a firm paste stick six thicknesses of the paper together, making a thick pasteboard. Trim the edges smooth like the pattern you cut, and with round-headed tacks nail it to the frame. After it is well dried varnish and you have a neat, strong seat to the chair, with little or no expense. WHICH? Visitor—Can I see the editor, my lad? Office Boy—Are you a contributor or gentleman? CURED HER CHILDREN. Girls Suffered with Itching Eczema Baby Had a Tender Skin, Too Relied on Cuticura Remedies. "Some years ago my three little girls had a very bad form of eczema. Itching eruptions formed on the backs of their heads which were simply covered. I tried almost everything, but failed. Then my mother recommended the Cuticura Remedies. I washed my children's heads with Cuticura Soap and then applied the wonderful ointment, Cuticura. I did this four or five times and I can say that they have been entirely cured. I have another baby who is so plump that the folds of skin on his neck were broken and even bled. I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment and the next morning the trouble had disappeared. Mme. Napoleon Duceppe, 41 Duluth St., Montreal, Que., May 21, 1907." Sensitive Papa. "George, you must be more careful. Papa thinks you meant to wound his feelings." "Why, what did I say?" "You remember that when you ordered beer at the cafe last night you called it 'suds' in a very loud voice." "Well?" "You must have forgotten that papa got all his money making soap." Man and Beast Alike. Only those who have suffered the agony of eye afflictions can appreciate the blessing to humanity in Dr. Mitchell's famous Eye Salve. Introduced in this region as far back as 1849 it is found to-day in all well regulated homes hereabouts. Not alone the eyes of man but those of the dumb animals have enjoyed its comforts. Mitchell's Eye Salve. Sold everywhere. Price 25c An Observation. One of the most annoying things in life is to fall in a coal hole, or stumble over an uneven bit of pavement, and get badly enough hurt to make you ill all day, but not badly enough to be able to recover damages from the city. It An itching trouble is not necessarily a dangerous one, but certainly a most disagreeable affliction. No matter the name, if you itch—it cures you. Hunt's Cure is "It." Absolutely guaranteed to cure any form of itching known. First application relieves. Methodists at Seattle will build a large institutional church for the Japanese of that city, preferably installing as pastor Rev. S. Yoshioki, the preacher at the First Methodist church. 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. When a rich man is seriously ill he sees a lot of people standing around waiting for his old shoes. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED SEND FOR FREE ILLUS. TREATISE ON PRESTA DISEASES, WITH NAMES OF PROMINENT MEN CURED DRS. THORNTON & MINOR 1030 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. Where Others Failed "Each spring for five or six years I broke out with a kind of Eczema which nothing seemed to relieve permanently. Finally I tried a box of Hunt's Cure, which promptly cured me. Two years have passed but the trouble has not returned." MRS. KATE HOWARD, Little Rock, Ark. Too Much Afraid of Dirt. It is quite true that "cleanliness is next to godliness," but in this day of fads and scientific frills the question is whether we are not getting altogether too afraid of a little dirt. Dirt has been defined as matter in the wrong place, and hygiene is the science of keeping it in the right place. But we are inclined to think that we are all a little bit too much up in the air on the matter of cleanliness; a little too afraid of coming in contact with the clean-smelling, kindly earth, and are in danger of becoming nasty-nice.—Washington Herald. FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D., 1886. SEAL A. W. GLEASON. NOTARY PUBLIC. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. We Know That Fellow. 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RED CROSS BALL BLUE Should be in every home. Ask your grocer for it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. Being bad all the time is almost as monotonous as being good. Lewis' Single Binder costs more than other 5c cigars. Smokers know why. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Even the prude isn't averse to sitting in the lap of luxury. Feet Ache—Use Allen's Foot-Ease Over 20,000 testimonials. Refuse limitations. Send for free trial package. A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. A woman is known by the acquaintances she cuts. PILES NO MONEY TILL C DRS. THORNTON & MINOR Causes Loss of A TASTELESS CHILL TONIC, drive e taking. The formula is plainly pri tasteless, and the most effectual form. O This woman says that sick women should not fail to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as she did. Mrs. A. Gregory, of 2355 Lawrence St., Denver, Col., writes to Mrs. Pinkham: "I was practically an invalid for six years, on account of female troubles. I underwent an operation by the doctor's advice, but in a few months I was worse than before. A friend advised Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and it restored me to perfect health, such as I have not enjoyed in many years. Any woman suffering as I did with backache, bearing-down pains, and periodic pains, should not fail to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indigestion, dizziness or nervous prostration. Why don't you try it? Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. DID YOU KNOW THAT Schaap's Laxative Chill Cure was really a Chill Cure and Liver Regulator combined. It not alone kills all germs but at the same time expels them by acting on the Liver and Bowels. It does not contain any Quinine, Strychnine or Arsenic and is perfectly safe to take. THE DUTCH BOY PAINTER STANDS FOR PAINT QUALITY IT IS FOUND ONLY ON PURE WHITE LEAD MADE BY THE OLD DUTCH PROCESS. (afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water W. N. U., MUSKOGEE, NO. 36, 1908. 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. FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT. FOR VICE PRESIDENT JAMES S. SHERMAN. FOR CONGRESS C. E. CREAGER. WORTHLESS NEGROES There is no denying the fact that we have a lot of worthless Negroes in our community whose absence is better than their presence. It is this idle, loafing, worthless crew who are the cause of all the trouble we have had in various towns of the state. When these trouble breeders start a riot they flee upon the first train as they have nothing in the way of property and can leave on short notice and the industrious, decent, hardworking, respectable Negro who is a property owner must remain and suffer for whatever the outlaw Negro has done. This being the case it is the duty of the better element of the Negroes to assist in putting a stop to the law breaking element. The men who dress in finest raiment and who live from woman's shame should be arrested every day they remain in town. A few doses will make them hunt other pastures The crowd who collect in the streets and use vile, indecent, profane and vulgar language must be squelched. The respectable Negroes must take a hand in ridding our town of this set of thieves, thugs and immoral lepers or the time will surely come when we must suffer for their wrong doing. If our merchants, preachers, and professional men are not afraid of this gang and their followers and will complain against them we will have a change within five days time. We promise to do our part and shall begin at once to make complaint of every violation of law that is made by this worthless transient element. --- To the friends who visited our daughter while sick and followed the remains to the cemetery. We desire to tender our thanks to our friends for their kindness to us during the last iliness of our daughter, Mrs. Mary Carter, who departed this life on the 30th day of August, 1908 and who was buried at old Agency Cemetery on Sept. 2nd 1908. The many kind acts done us and our loved daughter will never be forgotten and will always be treasured in memory. Respectfully. Mr. and Mrs. Alexandria Scott. INDIVIDUALISM WINS. The Conquering Principle In Our Industrial Development. The Remedy For Capitalistic Corruption Is Not to Be Found In Municipal Ownership, but In the Making and Enforcement of Controlling Laws. Business and Politics When Partners Never Make For Progress and Integrity. The problem of municipal ownership and of government ownership is coming to the forefront as an issue of the greatest importance to the American people. A feeling of unrest pervades the community. It is the fashion of the day to criticise capital and capitalists. We are called a land of inequality. Our wealthy are designated princes of privilege. It is said that the masses are being despoiled to enrich an aristocracy and that the press is stifled and the government corrupt. Quasi-public corporations like gas companies, electric light companies, street railway and railroad corporations are particularly under the ban of radical public opinion. Their charges are declared to be excessive and their service poor, while many are supposed to be overcapitalized and by means of false bookkeeping to be making excessive enormous profits. Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. Unquestionably evils do exist and in many instances of an outrageous nature—evils that should be stopped and done away with forever. No sensible man will dispute this. So far so good. But when it is declared that municipal ownership and government ownership are the only remedies for these afflictions of the body politic I, for one, demand proof. The burden of the proof is on those who desire a change from present conditions to public ownership to prove that we should get better conditions and be served in a safer and more satisfactory manner or else show that the conduct of the business that the city or government wishes to acquire has been so antagonistic and fatal to the public interest that the only feasible remedy is public ownership. If this last position is taken, it should include proof that the regulation will not suffice. The public in most communities in the United States doesn't have to go into municipal ownership to remedy these evils. To confess inability to regulate them is to confess inability to choose proper men to represent you. The American people are not going to be enslaved by any combination of capital for any length of time. They have their remedy in the ballot. They may stand it for a time, legislatures and city councils may be bought, but sooner or later little by little laws are going to be placed upon the statute books that will prevent overcapitalization, that will prevent exorbitant prices being charged, that will curtail enormous profits and make them reasonable and that will compel our great public service corporations to follow a uniform system of accounting and bookkeeping that will throw the searchlight of publicity on the financial operations of these corporations. We have accomplished much in this direction in Massachusetts. We will accomplish more. To say that we will not is to say that we are incapable of self government. The industrial and commercial greatness of the United States far exceeds that ever known at any time by any other people in the entire history of the world. Liberty of action and the untrammeled liberty of the individual have made the modern world. Individuality is the one essential to which our civilization and our social progress are owing. When the individual was crushed nations lay prostrate or developed but slowly. When individuality was recognized, civilization grew to manhood. With individuality came originality and invention. Freedom of speech, of thought and action was the mainspring of originality. Thus far we have escaped the tyranny of too much government, and if it can be demonstrated, as it can be unquestionably, that all these great public enterprises were originated, developed and perfected under a state and social condition where the individual was recognized it must be proved that under a state of partial socialism equally good results can take place. The great public service corporations are the product of industrial evolution and are one of the highest exemplifications of what individual effort can do. They were started many years ago at a time when their success or failure was a matter of doubt. In every case they were started not by cities, states or governments, but by private individuals in their private capacity as individuals, as partners or corporations. They have been gradually developed from small beginnings until they have reached their present size. At first their products were luxuries. Now they are necessities. There is not to be found among the great inventions that have done so much to improve the lot of civilized man a single one that was due to government initiative. Governments never experiment. Individuals do. If they fail the government never adopts the experiment, but they succeed and are placed upon a paying basis then the government be it city or state, is willing to buy. During the long process of our industrial evolution men have been gradually developed who have become technical specialists and who are thoroughly acquainted with all the infinite detail connected with the enterprise. They have in many instances started in humble capacities and come to the top of the ladder by reason of sheer ability and experience. By ingenuity and skill they have managed departments with great economy or in some way introduced improvements that have tended to save money for or to broaden the scope of their company. Their reward has been promotion. Thus we find that in most of our public service corporations the trained men at the head of affairs and their immediate subordinates have given continuous thought to the growth of the business. When a city goes into municipal ownership, unless she, too, employs trained specialists and careful men with technical and financial ability the enterprise will lag behind. The men at the head of our great public service corporations are men of extraordinary ability. Their prototypes, however, would not manage these enterprises if the city owned them. Under municipal ownership the officials in these departments would be rewarded under the spoils system or would be promoted by seniority. The experience of all governments proves this. In either event you would not begin to have the capable men directing these concerns that you now have. Business enterprises requiring financial skill, special knowledge, technical training, hard study and severe application cannot be run by politicians who have none of these attributes, however much we like them personally as men. Owing to the continual change in politics, the coming in of one party after the other or of one faction after the other, a really good man at the head of a department just commences to have a clear understanding of his duties and to accomplish efficient work when out he goes. Such a state of affairs discourages men from doing their best when they know they will not be rewarded for their just efforts. The experience of the world has shown that men work hardest when they are working for their own pocketbooks, and in private concerns where economy and ingenuity will effect a saving men will work at their best, because such work will mean more money to them in the shape of dividends or a promotion of some sort as a reward for their ingenuity. Under municipal management there would be but little inducement for men to stay up nights scheming to save money for the city, for if the scheme were one that diminished the number of municipal employees its originator would speedily become unpopular, whether the scheme resulted in labor saving machinery or in more efficient management. It is often stated that municipal ownership is right in theory. This cannot be so unless we consider the earth Utopia and all men automatous. No theory is right unless right in practice. When practice and theory, so called, differ, practice must prevail. Rather Strong Language. The city of Cedar Falls owns its own water system. Those favorable to municipal ownership in this and other states have pointed to Cedar Falls in vindication of the socialistic theory of municipal ownership, and yet if a private corporation were giving the city the unwholesome water that we must endure every time the streams get a little above normal it would not be safe for a stockholder in such an enterprise to appear on the streets. With the high water tax that is exacted there surely can be no excuse for the roly condition of the water, because there ought to be funds enough available to construct a reservoir to make some provision that would obviate the present unwholesome, insanitary condition. The people of the city ought to insist upon an improvement. If there are no funds available, there ought to be no objection to an appropriation sufficiently large to make right the difficulty. Some of these times an epidemic of typhoid fever will result, and then it will be too late to make complaint. The time to take action is now. 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And we teach the French Tailoring System of Dressmaking—a system that learns you to Cut without refitting. Call and investigate our courses. Afro American Business College Address all communications to K. W. Hardy. Box 15.Muskogee. Ok. 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 Clearyview, Okla. FOR MUSKOGEE. DEPARTMENTS: 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. France and Holland are discussing a proposition to co-operate in the present difficulty with Venezuela. Fred Proctor, a life convict in the Kansas penitentiary from Oklahoma, dressed in a suit of clothes belonging to Frank Haskell, son of the warden, succeeded in making his escape the other day. The returning athletes from the London Olympian games were given a warm welcome in New York. One of the greatest parades ever seen in that city was a feature. Each athlete was presented with a gold medal. Henry Weber, a farm hand, has been arrested at Lakin, Kan., charged with attempting to wreck a train on the Santa Fe. The Kansas Red Cross society has issued an appeal to the people of the state for money contributions for the relief of the flood sufferers in South Carolina and Georgia. All but two of the bodies of the 19 persons drowned in the flood at Folsom, N. M., have been recovered. The property loss is estimated at $1,000,-000. But four of the 20 odd store buildings in the town are left. Dispatches from Teheran state that all the Persian provinces are in a state of anarchy and that the country is on the eve of a civic war. George G. Perry, United States marshal of Alaska, has been summarily removed for disobedience of orders. Robbers dynamited the vault of the Bank of Easton, Mo., the other night, but succeeded in getting only $150 of the postoffice funds for their trouble. The president has denied a published statement that he was to attend the trans-Mississippi congress at San Francisco on October 6. Bank Commissioner Royce of Kansas has reinstated the Central National bank of Kansas City, Mo., as a reserve institution for Kansas banks. The crop report just issued by Secretary Coburn of the Kansas state board of agriculture places the wheat yield for 1908 at 73,500,000 bushels, just 500,000 more than that of 1907. The corn crop he estimates will be about the same as last year. Several buildings in Augusta, Ga., have collapsed since the flood there, owing to undermining of the foundations. The British steamer Duncairn was recently lost off the coast of Japan during a typhoon with all but two of the 53 members of the crew. A shooting affray in which one man was almost instantly killed took place in the midst of a carnival crowd at Macon, Mo. The wounded man fell across a baby carriage and a girl's eyelashes were singed by the ball. The last appraised valuation of the estate left by Russell Sage, just made public, amounts to $64,155,800.91. A fire in the commercial district of New Orleans burned three blocks of business buildings, causing a loss of more than $1,000,000. A flood in the Cimmaron river washed away a number of houses at Folsom, N. M. Fifteen persons were drowned. Considerable damage was also done at Raton. Twenty-nine funerals of victims of the Haileyville, Ok., mine disaster occurred in one day recently. The town was draped in mourning and all business was suspended. The recent census of the canal zone gives the present population as 50,003, of which 6,863 are Americans. The International Harvester company has formed plans for the organization of an insurance association among their employees. By paying 2 per cent of their wages the employees will be insured against sickness, accident, death or old age. Farmers about Rushville, Mo., recently came to the rescue of the bank there, when the officials were unable to get at the cash in their vaults because burglars had damaged the doors. The farmers supplied the bank with enough ready cash to carry on business for one entire day. There was a light fall of snow in portions of Maryland the other day. The total value of all personal property in Kansas is placed at $621,960,643 by the state tax commission. Three persons were killed and ten injured in a head-on collision on the Frisco railroad at Hugo, Ok. The Japanese World's fair has been postponed from 1912 to 1917. Four officers of the Owensboro, Ky., Savings bank, which failed recently, have been indicted on charges of perjury and embezzlement. In the federal court at Kansas City Judge McPherson rejected the bids of the Kansas City Life and the Philadelphia Life Insurance companies for the assets of the Great Western Life Insurance company and accepted an offer of the reorganization committee of the Great Western to raise sufficient funds to float the company again. A French soldier was recently convicted by a court martial for attempting to blackmail President Roosevelt by writing letters, demanding money and threatening to scandalize the president's family. England's new patent act which gives the government power to revoke foreign patents unless the articles are manufactured in that country has gone into effect. Foreign countries are talking of retaliation. The floods in the south culminated in the breaking of a big dam near Augusta which let loose a great flood upon the city. The big bridge across the Savannah river was washed away and another dam collapsed, flooding the streets of the city to a depth of 6 to 12 feet. Three deaths by drowning were reported. By the explosion of a barrel of oil which started a fire in a coal mine at Haileyville, Ok., more than 30 miners lost their lives. Twenty-six dead bodies were recovered and it was thought possible that six to ten others might still be in the burning mine. All hope of finding any of the miners alive has been abandoned. The Southeastern Limited train on the Frisco railroad was ditched near Brandsville, Mo., killing the fireman and fatally injuring the engineer and mail clerk. Massachusetts has appropriated $100,000 to exterminate the flies in the state. The Conservation League of America has been formed under the auspices of the Rivers and Harbors congress, with President Roosevelt, William H. Taft and William J. Bryan as honorary officers. The body of Jack Pyle, a recluse who lived on a farm near Craig, Mo., and was believed to have a hoard of hidden gold, was found in his cabin by neighbors with a bullet hole in his head. Robbery was evidently the motive for the crime. The presidential election in Cuba has been set for November 14 next, and the inauguration of the newly-elected executive for January 28, 1909. The Prohibition national committee has decided to make phonographic records of the speeches of their candidates for use in the campaign. The last regiment of militia which went to Springfield, Ill., during the rioting there has been ordered home. Personal. Gen. A. P. Stewart, one of the last two surviving lieutenant generals of the Confederate army, is dead at his home in Biloxi, Miss. He was 87 years old. WHAT THE TRADE MARK MEANS TO THE BUYER Few people realize the importance of the words "Trade Mark" stamped on the goods they buy. If they did it would save them many a dollar spent for worthless goods and put a lot of unscrupulous manufacturers out of the business. When a manufacturer adopts a trade mark he assumes the entire responsibility for the merit of his product. He takes his business reputation in his hands—out in the limelight—"on the square" with the buyer of his goods, with the dealer, and with himself. The other manufacturer—the one who holds out "inducements," offering to brand all goods purchased with each local dealer's brand—sidesteps responsibility, and when these inferior goods "come back" it's the local dealer that must pay the penalty. A good example of the kind of protection afforded the public by a trade mark is that offered in connection with National Lead Company's advertising of pure White Lead as the best paint material. That the Dutch Boy Painter trade mark is an absolute guaranty of purity in White Lead is proved to the most skeptical by the offer National Lead Company make to send free to any address a blow-pipe and instructions how to test the white lead for themselves. The testing outfit is being sent out from the New York office of the company, Woodbridge Building. WHAT DID JOHNNY MEAN? Johnny's Pa—See here, young man. 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LIMITED TORONTO CAN 108 LIVE STOCK AND MISCELLANEOUS Electrotypes IN GREAT VARIETY FOR SALE AT THE LOWEST PRICES BY WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION Kansas City, Missouri Readers of this paper desiring to buy anything advertised in its columns should insist upon having what they ask for, refusing all substitutes or imitations. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleanses and beautifies the hair. Promotes a invariant growth. Never Fails to Restore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures scalp diseases & hair falling. $0c, and $1.00 at Druggists DEFIANCE Cold Water Starck makes laundry work a pleasure. 16 oz. pkg. 10c. What is Pe-ru-na. What is Pe-ru-na. Are we claiming too much for Peruna when we claim it to be an effective remedy for chronic catarrh? Have we abundant proof that Peruna is in reality such a catarrh remedy? Let us see what the United States Dispensatory says of the principal ingredients of Peruna. Take, for instance, the ingredient hydrastis canadensis, or golden seal. The United States Dispensatory says of this herbal remedy, that it is largely employed in the treatment of depraved mucous membranes lining various organs of the human body. Another ingredient of Peruna, corydalis formosa, is classed in the United States Dispensatory as a tonic. Cedron seeds is another ingredient of Peruna. The United States Dispensatory says of the action of cedron that it is used as a bitter tonic and in the treatment of dysentery, and in intermittent diseases as a substitute for quinine. Send to us for a free book of testimonials of what the people think of Peruna as a catarrh remedy. The best evidence is the testimony of those who have tried it. USED CHURCH AS SCHOOLROOM Proceedings That Somewhat Astonished the Sexton. The sexton of one church that keeps open doors all day long didn't know whether to regard the matter in the light of a desecration or a devotional exercise. He paid no attention when the three women, watched by a man who stood at the lower end of the aisle, walked the length of the church and back again. Even when they made the trip a second time he scarcely gave them a thought, but when the trio started around the church a third time and the man called out, "Step a little more briskly, please," he began to wonder, and presently made inquiry. "I hope you won't be offended," the man replied. "I am a physical culture instructor. I am teaching these young ladies to walk. I have already taught them to walk in the street, in the drawing room, in the theater and every place else they are likely to find themselves. I am now teaching them to walk in church. Very few women can walk there properly. Some lope, some swagger, some skip, others adopt a mincing gait. All these styles are very inappropriate for church. A dignified, subdued gait alone is suitable for devotional purposes. Church is the best place for pupils in walking to receive practical instruction, therefore I have brought them here." "Great fathers!" gasped the sexton. "What next?" But he said no more till the walking exercise was ended. Then he followed the class to the door. "I hope," he said, "you will practice the lesson learned to-day by coming here to church once in a while." OCULIST A MAN OF RESOURCE. Has a Blind Beggar Woman to Advertise His Business. Enterprise takes various forms, even in Warsaw. A young oculist, finding that patients were few and far between, hit upon an original means of advertising. He engaged a blind woman who sits and begs by the Church of the holy Cross to hold a light board whereon are written his name, address, professional qualifications and consultation hours. As the church is in the busiest thoroughfare of the town the notice attracts a good deal of attention. The beggar herself says she is quite satisfied with the results, as many people notice her who would otherwise pass by, and as the doctor has added his assurance that she is hopelessly blind benevolent old ladies throw coppers into her tin mug, sure that their money is not wasted on an impostor. It is not yet known whether the number of patients has increased. ROAD AND FARM IMPROVEMENT HAY STACKER. Derrick Which the Farmer Can Make for Himself. The derrick consists of two principal parts, a revolving boom pole or crane, which swings in a complete circle, and a frame work for supporting the crane. The crane part is made with an upright mast 25 feet long and ten inches in diameter at the base, with an iron band and iron pivot pin at the base; pivot pin should be $1 \frac{1}{4}$ by 12 inches or larger. This mast supports a boom pole 33 feet long, five inches in diameter at small, upper end. It should be bolted to top of mast, 11 feet from the butt. The top should be about 32 feet from A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Hay Stacker. A. Mast 20 feet long. B. Boom pole 32 feet long. C. C. Braces with cleats nailed on for convenience in climbing. D. D. Foundation poles 18 feet long. E. Lower bearing. the ground when in position. This boom pole should be supported by a pair of long poles for the top and a pair of shorter poles at the butt as braces. The butts of these braces should be bolted to the mast at about the center, as shown in diagram. A pulley should be hung at each end of the boom pole. The base of the supporting framework should be of two poles about eight inches in diameter and 18 feet long, the underside of each end rounded up, sled-runner style. These poles should be 15 or 16 feet apart. Near each end a cross piece about six inches in diameter should be bolted, also a heavy cross stick across the center 10 or 11 inches in diameter. The upright mast is pivoted to the center of this stick, forming the lower bearing. The upper bearing should be about 11 feet higher, made of a platform, four feet square, of plank two or three inches thick. This is supported by posts about five inches in diameter, the base of the posts bolted or too nailed to the sled runner, near each end of runner and about 14 feet apart. The tops of the posts support the upper platform of plank. The center of the platform is cut out to receive the revolving upright mast forming the upper bearing. It is better to protect the mast at this place by a thin steel plate about 6 to 12 inches or larger, also it is better to have two plates at bottom of mast with holes for the pivot pin in center of the plate. To give the supporting frame-work additional strength and stiffness, explains Hoard's Dairyman, it is usual to attach two long braces from the bottom of each of the four sides to the opposite upper corners. A rope of pure manila three-fourths or seven-eighths inch size is large enough. If harpoon or other borse forks are used three pulleys and 80 feet of rope are sufficient; 115 feet and four pulleys, if slings are used. MEASURE YOUR FIELDS. Simple Contrivance Which Will Make the Task Easy. I have used a simple contrivance for measuring my fields. It is much better than a surveyor's chain or tape line, because it can be used by one person. It is made of a small hub and spokes a little larger than lath, says a writer in Farm and Home. Make them of such size that one revolution measures exactly a rod. This is done by having each spoke $ 3 2 \frac{1}{2} $ inches long. The hub, b, is made of two circular pieces of board one inch thick and six inches in diameter bolted face to face together, and holding the spokes firmly in the grooves previously cut. There should be eight spaces between the points, as there are eight spokes, and at the end they should be $24 \%$ inches apart. The points of the spokes must not be sharp, or they will sink into soft ground, and the distance will not be accurate. Paint one spoke a different color from the rest, so it may be easily counted every time it comes around. Push the wheel Details of Measuring Wheel. ahead like a wheelbarrow. Measure your field lengthwise, then crosswise, multiply length in rods by breadth and divide result by 160, which will give the number of acres. The machine complete is shown at a. The axle, d, is made of one-half-inch round iron threaded with double nuts, to give the wheel fair play. Then the side bars, c, made one by two inches and three feet long, are put on and the outer nuts screwed tight. Part of a broomstick handle, 18 inches long, is inserted between the side bars. In laying out a garden I know by the following chart how much I plant. To measure one acre it will take 2087-10 feet each way; one-half acre will take $147\frac{1}{2}$ feet each way; one-third acre $120\frac{1}{2}$ feet, one-fourth acre $104\%$ feet and one-eighth acre $73\%$ feet. KNOWING THE SOIL. Success of Farming Depends on Know ing What Your Land Will Do. The first thing of importance that any farmer has to deal with is the knowledge of his soil. On this has hinged more success and more failure than on any other kind of knowledge connected with farming. Some soils may indeed be so rich that a man does not have to know anything about them to get good results from them, but most of our land is not of this character. Although farmers have tilled the soil since the time when the race began to develop agriculture, yet the soil is the least known thing on almost any farm. The very idea of studying the soil is one that has not yet taken deep root. Most men cannot tell what it is their soil lacks, and they go on year after year making the same blunders. In the past, the farmer was justified in not knowing the components of his soil, because science had not yet taken up the matter of soil composition. But now it is different, and it is possible for every man to become thoroughly acquainted with the soil on which he is trying to make a living. The Japanese plums do not do well in the northwest. HER GOOD FORTUNE After Years Spent in Vain Effort. Mrs. Mary E. H. Rouse, of Cambridge, N. Y., says: "Five years ago I had a bad fall and it affected my kidneys. Severe pains in my back and hips became constant, and sharp twinges followed any exertion. The kidney secretions were badly disordered. I lost flesh and grew too. Though constantly I despaired of being began using Doan's. Then relief came in a short time I was ed. I am now in ex- I had a bad fall and it affected my kidneys. Severe pains in my back and hips became constant, and sharp twinges followed any exertion. The kidney secretions were badly disordered. I lost flesh and grew too weak to work. Though constantly using medicine I despaired of being cured until I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. Then relief came quickly, and in a short time I was completely cured. I am now in excellent health." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ABSENT-MINDED. Old Gent—Here, you boy, what are you doing out here, fishing? Don't you know you ought to be at school? Small Boy—There now! I knew I'd forgotten something. A Unanimous Vote. A German-American who had recently arrived at the estate of riches attended his first banquet. The wine was particularly vile, and so several gentlemen who were seated near the German were quite satisfied to have him empty the bottles that had been set apart for their common use. Neither the quality nor the quantity of the wine in the least disturbed the Teuton, and, after draining the last glass, he looked around jovially and said: "Shentlemen, I haf now drunken all your wine and safed you the trouble of trinking vat you did not like. I tink you ought to vote me a public tank." They did—Lippincott's. A Hard Blow. "So Barnstormer's performance of Hamlet caused a great hit in the country circuit." "Yes, a stunning hit." "Between ourselves, what caused it?" "I don't think Barnstormer ever knew himself what struck him." REMAINS THE SAME. The flavour of Postum, when boiled according to directions, is always the same—mild, distinctive, and palatable. It contains no harmful substance like caffeine, the drug in coffee, and hence may be used with benefit at all times. "Believing that coffee was the cause of my torpid liver, sick headache and misery in many ways," writes an Ind. lady, "I quit and bought a package of Postum about a year ago. "My husband and I have been so well pleased that we have continued to drink Postum ever since. We like the taste of Postum better than coffee, as it has always the same pleasant flavour, while coffee changes its taste with about every new combination or blend. "Since using Postum I have had no more attacks of gall colic, the heaviness has left my chest, and the old, common, every-day headache is a thing unknown." "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. THE SEASON'S GOODS ARE NOW IN DEMAND THE SEASON'S GOODS ARE NOW IN DEMAND Lawn Mowers, Garden Hose, Refrigerators, Fishing Tackle, Croquet Sets, all of And don't forget we are the largest dealers in Muskogee in Fine Buggies, Harness and Wagons all kinds and styles. Hooker=Hendrix Hardware Co. SUCCESSORS TO HUBER HARDWARE CO 137 - PHONES - 78 Official Statement of the Condition of the nmercial Nation'l B Muskogee, Oklahoma Close of Business, Wednesday, July 15 Muskogee, Oklahoma At the Close of Business, Wednesday, July 15, 1908. RESOURCES Lums and Discount 1,036,690 Merdrafts 4,670 Bonds and Premiums 288,000 Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures 10,974 Fish and Exchange 278,130 $1,618,480 Loans and Discount 1,036,694.68 Overdrafts 4,677.50 Bonds and Premiums 288,000.00 Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures 10,975.08 Cash and Exchange 278,135.89 $1,618,483.15 LIABILITIES TEA AND COFFEE SERV Bailey - Herma KOGEE TEA & COFFEE MARKET SQUARE L. M. Bailey Herman Fist MUSKOGEE TEA & COFFEE CO. MARKET SQUARE Commercial Muskogee. At the Close of Business, W RESOU Loans and Discount Overdrafts Bonds and Premiums Real Estate, Furniture and Cash and Exchange LIABIL Capital Surplus and Profits Circulation Deposits The above Statement is Correct. G. W. BARNES, PRESIDENT. D. N. FINK, VICE PRESIDENT. OUR TEA AND COFFE TEA SET L. M. Bailey MUSKOGEE TEA Nation'l Bank. Oklahoma Wednesday, July 15, 1908. URCES 1,036,694.68 4,677.50 288,000.00 and Fixtures 10,975.08 278,135.89 $1,618,483.15 LITIES $ 200,000.00 45,024.93 200,000.00 1,173,458.22 $1,618,483.15 E. D. SWEENEY, CASHIER AND REE SERVICE is said by our customers to be excellent, because they were never served with any better Tea or Coffee since they began drink ingeither. 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. Herman Fist A & COFFEE CO. SQUARE STUDY LAW AT HOME GREATEST DEPARTMENT STORE IN CITY Dry Goods Dept. Notions and Millinery Dept. Gents Furnishing Dept. Grocery Dept. Market Dept. You get any thing you desire at this store at prices that defy competition. 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