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The Muskogee Cimeter. Muskogee. WOULD DISFRANCHISE NEGRO VOTERS Manager of Bryan's Speakers' Bureau Would Disfranchise Negro Voters and Restrict Educational Privileges In a signed letter to the Kansas City Post, John H. Atwood Democratic National Committee for Kansas, and Chairman of the Speakers' Bureau of the National Democratic Committee in charge of W. J. Bryan's campaign, advocated the disfranchisement of the Negro voters of Kansas and proposed also to bar Negro children from receiving an education. Mr. Atwood's letter was printed in the Kansas City Post, the Democratic organ for Kansas, under date of May 6, 1908, a couple of months in advance of Mr. Bryan's nomination, and before it had been decided to play the hypocrite to capture the Negro vote for the Democratic party. Mr. Atwood does not propose in set terms to disfrancise the entire Negro vote of Kansas; he names only the vicious and ignorant, but the entire record of Democracy and its leaders show conclusively that it is the disfrancisement of the whole race that be is after, and if Mr. Bryan and his party should come into control of the government for any considerable period the inevitable result would be the disfranchisement of the colored voters of the country. The letter of National Com mitteeman Atwood reads as follows: "To the Kansas City Post-By one of those strange ironies of fate which sometimes overtake the benefactors of individuals, peoples or races, the State of Kansas, which has done more, perhaps, for the Negro than any other state in the union, is now suffering a grievous political wrong from the hands of the freedmen and his descendants. Vol 9 William A. Harris would now be governor of Kansas had it not been for the ignorant Negro vote, and there have been times in the past when the Democratic party could have elected its state ticket had it not been for the ignorant black vote of Kansas City (Kan.), Leavenworth, Atchison, Lawrence and Topeka. "There was a time when the Negro vote was not a consider able factor in Kansas politics, but that time has passed. The influx of Negroes from the South, the rapid multiplication of those native of Kansas soil, and the encreasing existence of the Negro upon social equality, make the Kansas Negro not only a political factor, but a social and political menace. "If the last general election be a criterion, the Negro now holds the balance of political power in Kansas as he does in Missouri. This in itself is bad enough, but in Kansas we have suffered for long years the outrage of mixed schools, fastened upon us by the Republican politicians. "Mixed schools lead the Negroes to aspire to a mixed society, and this close contact of the races is productive of troubles from which Kansas would be free if the Negro had less political power and were not admitted to the same schools with the whites. "Kansas has long been weary of the Negro politician, and it is more than weary of the mixed school. Patience has its limits, and I believe that the time has come when the people of Kansas will join with the people of Missouri in restricting Negro suffrage. "I do not advocate the disfranchisement of the Negro on the ground of his color. That idea is abhorrent to the principles of our free government and its execution would be in conflict with the constitution. "But our constitution will permit the disfranchisement of the ignorant, depraved, lazy, vicious and debauched Negro, and this disfranchisement should be accomplished to the end that our free institution may not suffer." May 6, 1908. "J. H. Atwood." Suppressing New Banks Still determined that no certificates permitting them to do business, shall be issued to the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Prague, and the Farmers' Union Bank of Hinton, both of them organized by members of the Farmers' Union, Governor C. N. Haskell has ordered his state bank commissioner H. H. Smock, to take an appeal from Judge A. H. Huston, of the Logan county district court, to his state supreme court, the same tribunal that gave him authority to stop Attorney General West's Standard Oil prosecutions. Judge Huston held that neither Haskell's state bank board nor his state bank commissioner could refuse permission to do business to new banks desiring to organize, simply because they might believe the towns already had enough banks and because the organizers had never before been bankers. Lieutenant-Governor Bellamy controls the banking interests at Hinton, however, and Joe Sendlin, the governor's private secretary, has friends who control them at Prague, and neither Bellamy nor Sandlin want opposition. Therefore, new banks are barred. Clubbing Prohibitionists Eugene W. Chaffin, prohibitionist candidate for president, will get no votes in Oklahoma this fall, thanks to Governor Haskell's state election board. A place on the ballot has been denied the prohibition party's electors, notwithstanding the fact that mandamus proceeding was brought against the state election board to compel it to place the prohibition candidates' name on the ballot. The election board got out of it by alleging that the names were filed too late. The democratic party in Oklahoma claim in fact to be the ultra-prohibition party and the attempt is being made to force every prohibitionist to support the democratic state and electoral ticket. In so doing the prohibitionists must not only swallow the state saloon system, but by supporting Bryan they must swallow Tom Taggart's man Kern, for vice-president. Carl Magee, of Tulsa, has written a letter to Governor Haskell, announcing that he has left the republican party and joined Haskell's party, which pioneer democrats in Oklahoma long since learned is not the democratic party for which they may have waged many a battle. The main point of interest in Magee's "conversion" is the fact that he says he had been considering it for the last two years. This is a shameful admission when it is known that Magee did his utmost to be made the republican congressional nominee in the third district this year, and after failing, was a candidate at Oklahoma City last August for chairman of the republican state committee, and withdrew only after "Cash" Cade refused to support him. 5,1908. No 50 LYNCHERS WILL MAKE THINGS RIGHT. Dr. M. A. Majors sizes up the situation correctly when he says: "It is said Bryan addressed upwards of a hundred thousand people on Labor Day, an die waxed so eloquent that his contempt for the Negro and his respect for Vardaman and Tillman forbade that he should casually mention the barbaric incident at Springfield, complaining much about things of less importance than the taking of human life by wholesale, and yet this same Democrat, for whom a few fool Negroes are getting hoarse hollering, had such silent respect for the tyranny and oppressiogn and the shedding of blood in the taking of Negro lite that it did not occur to him that it was his chance to tickle the blac kfools that are having the jumping jimmies in their crazy scramble at the Democratic back gate. Walters is sick, Dubois is sorry he said it, Trotter is twisted, and Waldron must be somewhere down on his knees asking God to forgive his madness. There are times in the lexicon of fate when you don't have to say anything to the fool—he just quietly tries to slip back into his old "faith place" without letting you know anything about it. The fellow that gets a good beating in somebod else's yard follows this kind of philosophy and slips home and hides himself under the bed. They are so smart that they forget that while Roosevelt disfranchised one hundred soldiers, that the Democratic party disfranchised over ten ten million Negroes. They forget that Roosevelt has shown a willingness to repent of his mistake, but a solid Democratic senate and house is opposed to any leniency whatever being shown the Negro. Let them alone—the lynchers will bring them home alive, maybe!"—Texas Freeman. HELL IS NOW LOCATED, DOUG. RUSSELL BEING LOCATOR. RUSSELL BEING LOCATOR. It is reported that Douglas Russell of the Langston Age, is supporting the Democrats. Last year Doug was manager of the colored department of the Republican organization, and this year holsd the same place with the enemy. Doug is a versatile cuss. Its also reported that Chairman Joe Norris of the State Republican Committee, had a set to with Doug and informed Doug that he might take a quick trip to the regions of Pluto—and Doug immediately joined the Democratic outfit. NEGRO NOT AN ISSUE. The Negro is not an issue in the coming contest between the Republicans and Democrats of Seminole county. "Any man of paper who tries to hide our glorious Democratic platform of principles with such is not a true Democrat," says our champion and leader, Gov. C. N. Haskell. Local conditions demand discretion on the part of our local Democratic managers. The Seminole Negro, especially those belonging to the Snake band, are instructed to refrain from voting by their chief. A bitter onslaught on them by our speakers and press will cause their appearance at the polls to our detriment. Brother Democrats—Wewoka Democrat of Sept. 23, 1908. The above shows that in localities where the Negro vote is large the Democrats, in order to keep the vote from being cast, are relying upon Snake and his influence to keep the Negro from voting, hence they will not abuse the Negro, but in other counties they frighten the white people into voting the Democratic ticket by yelling: "Negro domination." They can't fool all the people all the time. MUSKOGEE, OKLA. From the days of Herodotus and Marco Polo, travel has been recognized as an educative and civilizing experience. A year on the continent of Europe is considered the best possible "finishing" course for English and American youth whose parents can afford it; but it is not so commonly perceived that a great and valuable advance is steadily going on in this country by virtue of the interchange of visitors between north and south and east and west. It is a commonplace that the United States presents great diversity of climate, and that it has been peopled from many different nations, of widely varying habits of life and thought. Such a diversity of elements united in one national entity would be a great source of weakness were it not for the constant travel for which Americans are noted. Much of this is due to the annual conventions of national organizations. The Christian Endeavor society, the National Educational association, the Grand Army, and many other bodies meet once a year, each time in a new place; and special railroad rates induce large numbers to visit cities which they might otherwise never see. The local pride of those who act as hosts insures a full appreciation of whatever is of interest in the surroundings; and the interchange of hospitality draws people from the different sections more closely together, and gives them an opportunity to broaden their outlook and get new points of view. In a smaller way, hundreds of trade associations and fraternal orders are doing the same thing for their members. The influence of it is probably greater than any one can see, declares the Youth's Companion. It has demonstrated the fact that hospitality is not the exclusive possession of any one section; that communities which differ widely in their views on many matters may each have good reason for the faith that is in them; and in the end it will greatly help to form and foster a feeling of national solidarity. Even the gain in mere geographical knowledge is something. "I have seen wonderful crops of corn and wheat in my country," said a recent western visitor to the New England coast, "but this is the first time I have ever seen rocks growing out of the water." This is a skeptical age, notwithstanding the fact that there are many "easy marks" who can be readily "worked" by appeals to their credulity. A Hindoo hypnotist out in Ohio had a lively experience owing to the prevalent doubt as to the genuineness of his exploits. He professed to hypnotize a young girl and bury her in a grave in which she was left for nine days. But certain unbelievers alleged that a tunnel led to the grave, that the coffin had a false bottom and that the girl's pretended hypnotic sleep without food was a "fake." So wrought up were some of the crowd, says the Troy (N. Y.) Times, that there were threats of "gun play" and general commotion. The excitement calmed down, but while it lasted there was every prospect of a row. The man from Ohio nowadays much resembles his fellow-American from Missouri. He wants to be shown. In addition to the joy of aviating there is always the fascinating uncertainty as to the details of the subsequent connection with terra firma. THE ASCENT OF MAN. He stood upon the earth, and turned To gaze on sky and land and sea, While in his ear the whisper burned. "Behold, these all belong to thee!" O wondrous call to conquests new! O thrill of blood! O joy of soul! O peaks with ever-widering view! O race, with still receding goal! He heard; he followed, evermore Stumbling and falling, wandering far; Yet still advancing, while before His footsteps shone the guiding star. Until he stood with regal brow— No more, as on the primal sod, A creature yet ungrown, but now Lord of two worlds and child of God. —Rossiter W. Raymond. THE FACE IN THE MIR By RICHARD B. SHELTON THE FACE IN THE MIRROR By RICHARD B. SHELTON (Copyright, by Shortstory Pub. Co.) It was Caverley's intention to select a present for her birthday—no ordinary, conventional little gift, but something which would show her that the selection had required time and search, something you couldn't see lying in shop windows or advertised in the back of magazines, something to bring the color to her cheeks and the sparkle to her eyes and cause her to exclaim, "You've rummaged all over town for it, haven't you, you dear old boy?" To this end he spent many afternoons in queer places—pawnbrokers' shops, curio stores and musty basements, where odd volumes or first editions might be brought to light. He had well-nigh given up further search and decided to go back to a little shop uptown and purchase an hour glass of quaintly carved ivory—he hadn't the faintest idea to what use she could put it—when a lucky chance changed his plans. He was passing an auction room, where a red flag flaunted over the sidewalk and a shabby man with leathern lungs bawled forth an announcement that the entire stock of treasures inside would be sacrificed at auction at 2.30, and in the same breath he invited the passerby to step in and inspect it. More from idle curiosity than anything else, Caverley went within. There was the usual array of vases and chinaware, statuettes and rather glaring lamps. He wandered about, while a little man with a high pitched voice trotted beside him, telling wonderful tales about every article before which Caverley made a momentary pause. "Delft, sir, genuine Delft," the little man was saying as he held up some hideous blue plates, when Caverley interrupted him with an exclamation of surprise. His eye had fallen on a silver hand mirror, and he picked it up and examined it carefully. "The very thing," he said to himself; then turning to his self-appointed guide, "How much?" Everything was to be sold at auction, the man explained—still, if the gentleman desired it very much and found it inconvenient to come in the afternoon— "I do," said Caverley, shortly. "How much?" How much did he think it worth to him? Caverley named a price and the other made haste to take him up. A few moments later, with his purchase in his pocket, he was hurrying up the street. It was a queer little mirror. The back was of oxidized silver, quaintly embossed—an impossible Cupid reaching out for a laurel wreath which completely surrounded him. It was the very thing for a present to her. For some time he sat turning the --- THE MIRROR B. SHELTON mirror about in his hands, making jocular comments now and then to the enwreathed Cupid. Then suddenly he sat bolt upright with a strange expression on his face. He had glanced into the mirror and the reflection he beheld there was not that of his own features. He could scarcely believe his sight. He looked again. The face he beheld was one from which he shrank; a strong, firm face it might have been at some time, but now it was disfigured by hideous scars. He laid the mirror on a nearby table and sprang from his chair. He knew it was weakness, but for the life of him he could not help walking over to the glass on his shaving table and glancing into it. It was his own face that met his gaze, and he was heartily ashamed of the sigh of relief he gave as he saw it. He returned to his chair and picked up the mirror. Again he glanced into it. This time it was his own square, clean-shaven face which looked back at him. "Well, I am a skittish fool," said he, and turned the mirror over. The Cupid favored him with the smile which was its perpetual attribute, and at that Caverley laughed easily and put the mirror in a drawer. "You're not quite so much the article I wanted as I took you to be," he observed. But some sort of morbid fascination about the mirror caused him to take it often from the drawer. He came to look upon it with loathing, and each time that uncouth face peered back at him he felt creepy sensations of alternate warmth and chill, yet so strong was the spell it cast over his better senses that he was unable to keep his mind from it. When her birthday came, Caverley took her the hour-giass and made no mention of the mirror. Indeed, he spoke of it to no one, for he felt an intense disgust at his own actions regarding it. Yet every night he brought it out and turned it about until the face he had come to hate stared back at him. Then with a curse he would throw it into the drawer and pace the room until he was tired out. In time he discovered that the mirror must be held in a certain position for the face to appear. Otherwise it gave normal reflections. His discovery gave him a certain courage. It took away some of the weirdness of the thing, and suggested the prosale course of inquiring into the origin of the curio. He sought the manager of the auction room, who, with a smile and bow, professed entire ignorance of the source whence the mirror had come. Caverley, taking out a $20-dollar note, clipped it in two with his pocket scissors, and handed one half to the auctioneer. --- "This half is now useless to me," he said, "but it will be worth $20 to you when you discover who sold you the mirror." Some weeks passed and Caverley studied the mirror in a practical way. He noted that it was of unusual thickness, and this aroused his suspicions. "I'll take it to pieces," said he, and this he proceeded to do. It took considerable time and patience to work the back loose without damaging the glass, but, by dint of perseverance, he managed it. Back of the glass, he found a shallow metal pan. He attacked this, and in a few moments had separated it from the mirror proper. The pan removed, the whole matter was plain. Set slantwise beneath the beveling on the right-hand side was an ambrotype of the face he knew so well. The picture extended perhaps a third of the distance across the mirror, and was covered with a thick plate of glass, so that looking squarely into the mirror, reflection was normal, but by sloping it to the right until the ambrotype was horizontal, the face with the scars appeared. Caverley took the ambrotype to the light and stood looking at it for some time. "Whoever you are," said he, "you're not an attractive chap, but I'd double that twenty to find out about you." The matter was rapidly slipping from his mind when one day the manager of the auction-room called on him and brought with him an elderly gentleman whom Caverley judged rightly to be a lawyer. "That mirror," the elderly gentleman said, when the matter on which they had called was broached, "was the property of a client of mine, a Miss Damon. It was sold, after her death, with a lot of other personal property not disposed of in her will. There's a queer story about it, but I don't know that I can tell it correctly, for it was told to me in fragments whenever my client cared to mention the subject, which, I assure you, srry was seldom indeed. As well as I can piece these bits together it was something like this: "Many years ago her family lived in the south and there she met a young physician, who became greatly attached to her. It seems an epidemic of smallpox broke out, and the doctor risked his professional reputation in getting the Damons away and through the lines of the 'shot-gun quarantine' which had been established. He remained there and eventually came down with the disease, which left him with horrible scars. Upon his recovery, he wrote Miss Damon telling her of this and she replied in a letter filled with expressions of deepest sympathy; scars of the skin, she wrote, could not mar the soul, and bade him come to her, but, somehow, the letter miscarried and he never received it. He waited for the answer through several trying months and then wrote her saying he should go abroad to bury himself somewhere in Europe. She was right, he said, to consider him as one dead. He sent the mirror at the same time. There wasn't much to tell, and I fear I have hardly done it justice," the lawyer concluded. Caverley, with great patience, put the mirror together again, and that evening he took it to the lady for whom he had bought it, and told her the story. And she, being a sympathetic little woman, wept. Glad to Get Back to His Cage. A lion broke loose at an electrical exhibition at Marseilles and made his way on the stage of the theater, where a ballet was being rehearsed. 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It makes fine blood, fine appetite, great strength and grand ambition, Neither, “See here, I'm tired of complaining about those noises, Shall | appeal to the police or leave it to Heaven?” “Don't say anything to the police,” replied the janitor, soothingly, “Leave | it to me.” nn ee ........_._._._...leeeeeeeeeeee THE @CimePER, WH. TWINE . « «Editor, Vublished Every Week in the Interest of the Negro by Cimeter Publishing Co. Entered at the Post Office at’ Muskogee, Okla., a Second Class Mail Matter, NATIONAL TICKET FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT. FOR VICE PRESIDENT JAMES S. SHERMAN, FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR DENNIS T. FLYNN, Okla, City FOR CONGRESS * Third Oklahoma District C.K. CREAGER, Muskogee. FOR STATE SENATOR Twenty-seventh District HARRY BEELER, Checotah FOR REPRESENTATIVES Muskogee County JAMES KNOX, Boynton ID. MERRICK, Muskogee. FOR FLOTORIAL REPRESENTATIVE Muskogee and Hoskell Counties wate hte ok | PAINE ABecats woe The political meeting at Taft on Wednesday was a success, Mr. Creager, candidate for congress, and Capt. tra LL. Reeves delivered —ad- dresses, The voters at Taft: promise a big majority for the ticket. Larry O'Hare, conductor on the Midland Valley railroad, who | was charged with assault upon C. 1 Moses, has the reputation of mis treating colored people on the train and the Moses affair is not the first. In revenge they swore out complaint against Moses for carrying a pistol. M. G, Bailey, who has been selected to fill the justice of the peace office made vacant by the death of Judge Burks, is a good lawyer and will make a splendid officer, The only bad thing about Barley is his poli- tes, A big Republican rally at Okmul- gee Saturday night. Every Repub- ean who can should go over on the special that leaves here at 5 «clock, It is easy to tell when the Demo- crats are seared. They begin to yell Negro domination, Creager has them scared badly and the even- ing Demecerat has commenced to bow! There is danger of Negro domination when Creager is elected. This howl will scare nobody as the old thing has grown threadbare and even the lily white Republi- can refuses to be frightened, We have them on the run and we must keep them going, “Old Sol Dusky,” the soealled city detective, plain clothes man, sleuth, ete, has been dispensed with, We are certain this is a good thing for all concerned, In our opinion Sol is at the foot of the class as a de tective. He could detect boys play: ing pool as gamblers, but could not discover any of the big criminals, Now give us a real detective—not of the Sol class—and the city will re: ceive some benefit for the money paid out. | We don't want to seem dicto- torial, but a still hunt or gum shoe campaign will not bring out the Re- publican vote in this county and dis- trict. The Democrats are making an aggressive campaign and in order to have large majorities in Repub- lican counties we must get busy and work up enthusiasm among the fel- lows in the trenches, last year there was a large stay at home vote for want of a humming campaign. We must have that vote this year. Under the recent decision of the supreme court the old city officers, Mayor Martin and Marshal Kinsey, and the others took their places on Monday. Mayor Bennett and Marshal Ledbetter retiring. Everything went of quietly. Each set complimenting the other and giving their — best wishes for good government. The present officers will hold until next spring when their successors will be elected. It is now said that the successor to Judge Burks must be elected next November. What Republican will offer himself? It will take @ good one to pull through. Anyone tainted with lily-whiteism or selling out, can't smell the place. The boys in the trenches prefer Democrat straight, to take that kind of an article and while they won't vote for the Democrat they can let it go by default We must give our candidate in the Third District the largest majority of any of the districts. It can be done by getting out the full vote. It is the duty of every Republican to see that the vote is cast. Elect Creager and you have a man in harmony with the adminis- tration which means when you want things done it will be done. Creager does things! On Wednesday night the Taft- Sherman Club was organized at the Masonic Hall with 200 members. A. S. MecKea was elected president; W. A. Rentie, vice president; H. N. Jobnson, secretary; L- T. Tirmble, assistant secretary; 1. F. Fue, treasurer, a We have just learned of the brutal assault upon Rev, Pinkard by a bully at Tallahassee. Rev, Pinkard is one of the preachers in this coun- ‘wy who has always had a clean ree ord and no one who knows him would for one moment believe him guilty of wrong doing. Rev. Pink ard’s record is clear as an honest Christian gentleman, They say Charley Kinsey — will clean up South Second street. Let the good work go on. The bums, thieves, thugs and women who are a disgrace to civilization should be made to hunt other fields to ply their trade. The decent colored and white people will profit by their ab- sence, There will be less petty thieving and burglaries when these birds of passage are gone, Tddy is after Charlie Haskell and Ted has a way of landing with his big stick, The governor is now up against the rea Ithing and will know it before another moon, Can't you see the fine Italian hand of the master statesman in some of the political dope coming from Chi- cage? Muskogee is getting some ad- vertisement in the political world from the fact of the organizing the citizen’s alliance here sometime ago, and now the organizers say its a lie, we didn't doe it, But like Banguo's ghost it will not down. Things are quiet at present, Court adjourned this morning after a very hard fight on a murder éase, Bradley, the defendant, who shot and killed Tom Martin last year, was ac- quitted thls morning by the jury, The killing was done on the street, Rey, Jas, Simpkin, of the A. M. E. chureh at this place, has a_big camp meeting going on this week, The C. M. BE. chureh has in course of eree- tion a very fine church edifice at this place. When it is completed it will be a credit to the people, Rev, NEW STATE LOAN OF FICE Dealer in Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Tools, Musical In struments, Clothing and Gents Furnishings. Open evenings Until 10, Saturday Night Until 12 O’clock GOOD BARGAINS IN UN-REDEEMED PLEDGES J. F, JOHNSON, Proprietor. 117 NORTH THIRD ST. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. —_— Muskogee Paint and Glass Company | WALL PAPER, PAINTS and GLASS | PHONE 360 318 WEST OKMULGEE ST. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA, Brown, the pastor, deserves much credit. Prot A, Ragland is here represent: ing Taft, Okla., pushing his business. If you ever come to Minden and need a phaeton Sam Lewis will be at the depot with his rig to carry you to any part of the city. For a good shave, call at Mr. John Rector's berber shop, west of the depot. If you want your suit cleaned and ‘pressed go to G. P. Tatum, west of ‘the depot. These men read the Muskogee Scimitar. AGENT. _ Minden, La. Rooming house, Restaurant, and Pool hall, This is the best money making proposition in the state. Reason for wanting to sell tailure in health, A snap for some one as itis the only colored) Rooming House and Restaurant in the city. For further information, ad- dress, S. L. James, Box 368, Sapulpa, Okla. ATTENTION To Royal Arch Masons, Oklahoma Jusisdiction, Greetings: A Special mecting of the grand chapter of royal arch ma sons has been called to meet in the city of Muskogee October 5, 1908 at 10am. All chapters are requested to be present ei ther by delegate or proxy. You are required to send at once to the grand) secretary 25 cents grand tax foreach companion, This being a meeting of consid erable importance — all roval arch masons should be inate tendance, Take Cue netice and prs n yourselves accordingly. | LL, A. Bell, G. H. P. Address, | N. J, C. Johnson, G.S., | Tulsa or Guthrie, Okla H. T. WALKER, Attorney and Counsellor at Law Room 19, Brown Bldg. Phone 1169. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. FOR SALE. 60 acres of good land $20 per acre; 40 acres of good land $15 per acre; 20 acres 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., Box G, Muskogee, Okla. WANTED—To sell standard sew- ing machines on $3 per month pay- ments. J. A. WALCOTT, General Agent, 1093 E, Broadway, Muskogee, Okla. DR. E. D. MORRISON, ——Specialist—— Women and Children, and Ven- erial Diseases, Chemic and Micro: scopic Examinations. Phone 1773. 310 S. 2nd St. Muskogee, Okla. Go to GUS’ PLACE, 220% S. 2nd St. for a good square meal. Short or- ders that tickles the palate. Best place in the city for a good meal. Call on him, H. T. WALKER. Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Brown building. S 2nd Street. Room 20. Call on A. T. Clark when in need of Coal, Feed and Groceries. Corner 4th and Elgin Ave, Phone 901) Cash For 100 Homesteads. “NOTICE!” I will pay you more cash for your Lands than anybody else will. Bring your deeds and get your money, all at once, _ The money is here in the bank, you get all your money when you sign deed, | have more than 50 houses and lots with good water, for sale on 10 years time, My office -is No. 1 English Block, Muskogee, Ok. | WM. P. FIELDS. ee ‘Ee de Tewaley Manle Mnetcal In But Cured After Doctors Said There Was No Hope. Sylvanus O. Verrill, Milford, Me., says: "Five years ago a bad injury paralyzed me and affected my kidneys. My back hurt me terribly, and the urine was badly discolored. Doctors said my right kidney was practically dead. They said I could never walk again. I read J. B. H. of Doan's Kidney Pills and began using them. One box made me stronger and freer from pain. I kept on using them and in three months was able to get out on crutches, and the kidneys were acting better. I improved rapidly, discarded the crutches and to the wonder of my friends was soon completely cured." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. "What's the matter over there?" "The sword swallower is being choked by a fishbone." DEEP CRACKS FROM ECZEMA Could Lay Slate-Pencil in One—Hands in Dreadful State—Permanent Cure in Cuticura. "I had eczema on my hands for about seven years and during that time I had used several so-called remedies, together with physicians' and druggists' prescriptions. The disease was so bad on my hands that I could lay a slate-pencil in one of the cracks and a rule placed across the hand would not touch the pencil. I kept using remedy after remedy, and while some gave partial relief, none relieved as much as did the first box of Cuticura Ointment. I made a purchase of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and my hands were perfectly cured after two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and one cake of Cuticura Soap were used. W. H. Dean, Newark, Del., Mar. 28, 1907." Close Quarters. The following extract from a letter of thanks is cherished by its recipient: "The beautiful clock you sent us came in perfect condition, and is now in the parlor on top of the bookshelves, where we hope to see you soon, and your husband, also, if he can make it convenient." General Demand of the Well-Informed of the World has always been for a simple, pleasant and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use because its component parts are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. In supplying that demand with its excellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies on the merits of the laxative for its remarkable success. That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given the preference by the Well-Informed. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine-manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle. 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. Chicago recently had the first rain since August 12. The Mercantile Securities company, a Chicago concern, which has had 20 months of life and has sold $1,250,000 worth of preferred stock to persons in all parts of the country, has gone into a receiver's hands. There was only $319.92 in cash on hand when the receiver took charge. The Turner hotel, the largest in Muskogee, Ok., has been sold to the city for $1,507 in unpaid taxes. Caonton's store at Armour, S. D., was robbed by cracksmen who got a total of $35,300 for their pains. A reward of $1,000 is offered for the capture of the thieves. Because of a strike of quarrymen at Hannibal, Mo., the Atlas Portland Cement company have been compelled to close their plant, throwing 2,500 men out of employment. The cholera epidemic in St. Petersburg continues to spread and is increasing at an alarming rate. Four hundred new cases were reported in one day recently with 141 deaths. Federal troops are guarding the sources of Manila's water supply to prevent the spread of the cholera. At Horton, Kan., J. L. Robinson, chief train dispatcher of the Missouri Pacific railroad at Atchison, Kan., was killed by the capsizing of his automobile during a race. The central telephone building and the postoffice of Paris were recently destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $5,000,000. Twenty thousand lines were put out of commission. The drought in New England has reached such serious proportions that people, cattle and crops are suffering. The Kansas City Southern Railway company has applied to the federal court in St. Louis for an injunction restraining the Arkansas commission from inforcing the two-cent fare law. A special session of the Indiana general assembly has convened at Indianapolis under the call of Gov. Hanley. The prevailing drought is held responsible for a diphtheria epidemic at Greensburg, Pa. The disease is attributed to the fact that the sewers have not been washed by rains. "The Shelter," an historic residence near St. Louis, dating from 1816, was recently destroyed by fire. Thomas H. Benton was a frequent guest at the place during the early days. Fire in Swift & Co.'s packing plant in South St. Joseph, Mo., caused a loss of $50,000. Forty men were overcome by the heat and smoke while fighting the fire which threatened the destruction of the entire plant. The Atlantic battleship fleet under command of Rear Admiral Sperry has left Albany, Australia, for Manila. By the carelessness of a nurse at San Diego, Cal., three patients in a hospital were killed by drinking water in which atropine had been placed. A number of others were made deathly ill. Maine is now suffering from disastrous forest fires. Fourteen different towns are threatened. The United States weather bureau is experimenting in kite flying from the summit of Pike's peak in Colorado. The first flight of the Baldwin dirigible balloon at St. Joseph was made with a stiff breeze blowing but was entirely successful. Des Moines, Ia., has put an order into effect abolishing segregated vice and claims to be the only city of its size that has no tenderloin district. During a two-man flight of the Wright aeroplane at Fort Myer, a propeller blade broke causing the machine to turn over while 75 feet above the ground Orville Wright and Lieut. Selfridge were hurled to the ground and buried under the debris of the airship. The army officer died from his injuries and Mr. Wright suffered a fracture of his thigh and several ribs. In a saloon fight near Columbus, Kan., Charles Williams struck John Zeraski with a piece of scantling from which a nail projected. The nail penetrated Zeraski's brain, causing almost instant death. The passengers and crew of the British ship Aeon, which left San Francisco for Apia, Samoa islands, in July, are safe on Christmas island. The vessel was wrecked there, but all the ship's company are safe. The coroner's jury investigating the Windsor, Mo., powder explosion, by which 12 persons lost their lives, has returned a verdict that the accident was caused by Conductor Herschberger dropping a match into some loose powder to frighten negroes. John Coons, Jr., a student at the Kansas State Agricultural college at Manhattan, was shot and killed by M. A. Creviston, a local fisherman. Coons, while passing Creviston's house with some companions, had rapped on the building. For fear of violence by the students the murderer was taken out of town by the authorities. Harry Parker, a grain inspector of Iola, Kan., lured Mrs. Harry Pearson to a lonely spot in Oklahoma City, shot and fatally wounded her because she refused to elope with him to Mexico. Powder in a magazine at McAlester, Ok., was ignited by lightning, the resulting explosion killing one man and seriously injuring a number of other persons. Several houses of the miners were completely demolished. While walking in his sleep at a hotel in Des Moines, Ia., Frank Shea of Clifton, Kan., plunged from the window of his room on the third floor and was badly injured. An explosion of a car load of giant powder at Windsor, Henry county, Mo., totally wrecked the M., K. & T. depot, killing four persons and injuring 20 others, several of whom will die. Every person about the building was either killed or injured, and all the horses attached to delivery wagons surrounding the platform were killed. Charles E. Hughes was renominated for governor of New York by the Republican state convention at Saratoga on the first ballot. He received 827 out of a possible 1,009 votes cast. The nomination was later made unanimous. Federal Judge Pritchara's action in appointing receivers for the South Carolina dispensaries was upheld by the United States court of appeals in an exhaustive opinion handed down at Richmond, Va. Personal. Second Assistant Postmaster General James T. McCleary of Minnesota has resigned to accept the nomination of representative in congress from his old district. Mrs. Rebecca Wheaton, wife of Maj. Wheaton, U. S. A., retired, is dead in Detroit, Mich. Lemuel G. Trott, widely known as an authority on trotting, is dead in Boston. Gov. Charles A. Miller, president of the United States Army Aid association, is dead at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y. Dr. Frank H. Snow, former chancellor of Kansas university and one of the foremost entomologists of the world, died recently at Bellfield, Wis., after an illness of several months, aged 68 years. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, now lieutenant governor, was nominated for governor by the New York Democratic convention at Rochester. He was the only Democrat elected at the last election. He has no force with men who has no faith in them. ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED? Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents Turn thyself to the true riches, and learn to be content with little. Seneca. Actual Facts. For upwards of fifteen years Hunt's Cure has been sol under a strict guarantee to cure any form of itching skin troubles known. No matter the name—less than one per cent. of the purchasers have requested their money back. Why? It simply does the work. She Lost Out. "I'd rather waltz than eat," confided the summer girl. 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