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The Muskogee Cimeter. Muskogee. MATHEWS CAFE When in Haskell doh't forget to stop at the Mathews Cafe where you will get first class service and courteous treatment Mrs. Cora B. Loupe, Prop. NEGRO CANDY KITCHEN The only candy kitchen owned and operated by Negroes in the state of Oklahoma, is that operated by the Curin brothers of Wilberton. These young men, H. I. and W. S. Curin, are formally of Kingfisher, Okla., where they first engaged in the candy business. In connection with the candy department they run an ice cream parlor through the summer and notwithstand ing the remonstrance from many of the white people, these brothers have absolutely refused to jim crow their place. They conduct their business on the very good principle "first in first served" regardless of race or color and strange to say they have a large patronage among the white people. The younger brother, W. S. Curin, attended the Jamestown Exposition and was on exhibition in the Negro building. These candy experts put out all kinds of fancy candies of their own manufacture and the quality of their work and the impartial treatment they have accorded to their customers have won for them the respect as well as the trade of all the people of Wilburton. Compliment To Judge Cook Members of the Muskogee bar both Democrats and Republicans, are writing letters to the speaker and floor leaders of the second state legislature, requesting that Judge Cook, flotorial representative from Muskogee Vol 10 county, be placed upon the house judiciary committee. Judge Cook is one of the most brainy men in the state and the legislature will honor itself by placing Judge Cook on the judiciary committee. The Creager sausage story as told by the Congressman's father Thurskay Jan. 7, 1909, the Cimeter office was honored with a call from a distinguished visitor in the person of Hon. William O. Creager of Ohio, father of congressman elect, Chas. E Creager, of Muskogee. When asked about the "Creager sausage story" the old gentleman smiled and said: "Ed is a great boy and a good boy. Yes, the story is partly true. You see when Ed came by home on his way to the Capitol at Washington; he found me down with the rheumatism, but he insisted that I should return with him to this great state of yours." Here his gaze rested upon a picture of his boy tacked upon the wall and a gleam of satisfaction appeared in his eyes as he remarked: "I see you have Ed's picture here." "Well" he continued, "after having been assured that his son was our choice, "you will never regret having supported him." Of course he is only one congressman, but he will be one of them As I was saying, Ed insisted that I return with him to Muskogee. It was hog killing time when Ed was home and I told him I would drive out in the country and if I felt better after the drive, I would return with him. I left about 8 o'clock for the country and when I returned at 2 o'clock, I found Ed in his shirt sleeves busy rending lard. He had killed the hogs and rendered, so that I could come with him. Then my wife wrote to Lizzie, Ed's wife, and told her and she read the letter to some friends and finally the newspaper men got the news hence the Creager sausage story. The Congressman's father was a welcomed visitor at our office and we trust his stay in our city will be a most pleasant one. -Reporter. "THE SOCIAL EVIL." BY E. D MORRISON, M. D -Op Pru Viburnian. The social evil as an immoral abstraction does not concern the physician (as myself) except in his capacity as an individual and citizen. The social evil as conducive to disease, forms a territory peculiarly his own as a privileged guardian of the public welfare. At the present moment, however, there is a little need of the sign "No trespassing" to guard from approach the pathway across a field deserte alike by the lay and medical traveler as soon as it is determined how near the dread territory of personal embarassment and distaste it leads. For formality's sake, though no answer is necessary, I ask the question. Why is it that physicians and laymen alike avoid this topic, one of such vital interest, from the standpoint both of preventive and curative medicine? Why is it that, when its direct outcome is the dissolution of the home, almost certain disease for the individual, and by no means infrequent death, the social evil is refused the publicity that will insure the protection of the people, and is accorded only that infamous notoriety that will cause the newspaper to sell? I have said more than once, just as long as the American public shows itself willing to tolerate the consequences of the social evil, just so long will it reap the full harvest and by so doing scatter the seed for a still more afflicted, though far less numerous posterity. It marks a condition of affairs as old as Biblical history. Adultery was punished with death by the Law of Moses; also by that of Lycurgus, the Greek. The early Saxons burned the adultress and hung her companion on a gibbet erected over her ashes. Under Carnute, the ears and nose were cut from both offenders. Even New England, in earlier davs, made the social evil a capital offence for both parties. The present enlightened age periodically imprisons the female public prostitute and releases the active male dupe, when apprehended, on payment of a fine. In higher life, male and female with impunity assume and discard vows which pledge them to marital purity and loyalty on each and every one of the two to four occasions on which the marriage rite is celebrated—well might the modern Cynic exclaim: "Were God like Dark Azrael to laugh at Human woe, No Human mind could measure the humor Goj must know; Only today have we before us the sorry plight of hundreds of yesterday's respectable cvouples, the country over rendered awkwardly uncer- No 11 tain by a decree of the Supreme Court as to whether they are married to their former husbands and wives or to those with whom they have since annexed, having first dissolved their holy state of matrimony. Why is it, I now ask, that when measles and smallpox are guarded against by the isolation of the patient and even by placarding the door—not until convalescence has set in, but until recover is complete—why is that venereal disease, the most wide spread and a thousand times the most costly from the standpoint of social economics, is, with its breeding ground, the social evil, not only ignored, but willfully and studiously passed by as though its victims were the unfortunate among thieves, and you and I the priest and Levite shuffling to the other side? The sole difference rests in the raised hand and averted face and false modesty of the prude. For no other name can characterize the layman or physician who refuses to heed a single instance of innocent infection of a clean woman or child by a moral leper, a member of either sex who has contracted disease by that means which we so delicately and considerably term the social evil. We may even excuse the layman for shrugging the shoulders and saying, "Why do you always exaggerate this matter?" He has a passion which he is gratifying, ignorant of the danger to himself and posterity. This stock phrase hardly satisfies the conscience of the medical man with his knowledge that 800,000 young men reach maturity every year in this land of ours, of whom a large per cent—not less than 50 per cent—are or will be infected with some form of venereal disease prior to their thirtieth year. Last year Philadelphia and New York each distributed many thousands of tracts, warning the public against the danger of tuberculosis. Why? For fear others might contract the disease who need not, and in the hope and certainty that tuberculosis might thus in time become a memory instead of a condition. What, then, of those diseases in comparison with which the tuberculosis number as one to five, and in gravity do not compare, either in their results on us or on our children? If taken in time, tuberculosis can be cured and leave no heritage. Only in those who are at a given time physically degenerate or syphilitic is tuberculosis likely. At the worst, it only kills and requires little delay in the killing. Moreover, it is not dishonorable to write "Tuberculosis on the death certificate as the cause of fatality. Venereal disease may also be cured but often, perhaps in the majority of instances, it is not owing either to the patient's neglect or to the physician's shortcoming. You and I will know how little qualified are the general practitioner and the general surgeon, who see the vast majority of venereal infections and all their constitutional sequelae, to treat to best advantage and with best hope of cure the average sufferer with acute venereal disease. Neither their experience nor the facilities of their office enable them to do him justice. Even those who devote their time to the study of venereal infection freely admit that many cases are beyond their control. Were they not so candid, the internist need merely point to the all too frequent results of former excuses displayed on the case book. We forget, moreover, that venereal infections may Continudd on last page WRIGLEY'S Remember this Remember that WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT 423 IF you want a Heating Stove for coal or for wood exclusive write us for our free catalogue. We make a complete line of strictly high-grade Heaters, also Stoves and Ranges. We operate the largest stove plant in the West, making exclusively National Stoves and Ranges and built this business because we make all our stoves air tight, gas tight, soot proof and thorough fire keepers. 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"It would take time to assimilate the revelations that a visit to the great empire lying to the North of us unfolded at every turn."—Correspondence of a National Editor, who visited Western Canada in August, 1908. Lands may also be purchased from railway and land companies at low prices and on easy terms. For pamphlets, maps and information as to low railway rates, apply to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or the authorized Canadian Government Agent: 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. President Roosevelt has sent two supply ships with $300,000 worth of supplies to Italy and has offered the use of the battleship fleet. An attempt was made to assassinate Attorney General Caldwell, of Tennessee, at Union City the other night. He was followed from the depot and shot at twice by a man presumably a night rider or one of their sympathizers. As the result of eating poisoned candy sent her through the mail, Mrs. Marie Smith, a divorced woman of Denver and her two daughters were made dangerously ill. In a speech at Philadelphia, Francis J. Heney, the noted graft prosecutor of San Francisco, declared that E. H. Harriman, through his control of the Southern Pacific railroad, was responsible for the corruption there. As a result of a panic among patients of an improvised hospital in Messina, Italy, Queen Helene was knocked down and trampled upon. Her injuries were not serious. Two children of Thomas Burgess of Bakersfield, Mo., were burned to death when the family home was destroyed by fire. The mother had gone to neighbors, locking the children in the house. A violent earth shock lasting three seconds during which Stromboli volcano began eruption has occurred in Stromboli island. Houses on the island were badly damaged. Eighteen hundred young people of Cleveland, O., have pledged themselves to "live as Christ would have lived" for two weeks. All denominations are represented. The Atlantic battleship fleet arrived at Suez two days ahead of its schedule. An enthusiastic welcome was given the vessels. The official call for a national tariff convention to be held at Indianapolis, Ind., February 16, 17 and 18, has been sent out. During 1908 the colnage executed at the mints of the United States amounted to $145,499,188. Ambassador Griscom has chartered a vessel and will load it with supplies for the earthquake sufferers at Civita Vecchia in order to hurry the relief work. With 17 passengers aboard the Norwegian steamer, Texas, from Christiana, arrived at Savannah, Ga., with fire in her hold. The flames were quenched after a long fight. A volcano at sea and a field of boiling water off the coast of Georgia has been reported by British officers to the hydrographic office at Norfolk, Va. Gov. Hoch of Kansas has issued an appeal in the name of the state Red Cross Society, for relief funds for the Italian earthquake sufferers. The taking of testimony in the investigation of the Kansas state penitentiary at Lansing has been completed. The committee will report to Gov. Hoch before the expiration of his term of office. Over 6,000 persons exchanged New Year's greetings with President and Mrs. Roosevelt at the annual reception at the White House this year. Last year's record was broken by over 700. Between 20 and 30 oil men were held up and robbed of their valuables just outside of Tulsa, Ok., by two masked men. The robbers escaped on horseback. One of the two warrants issued in 1674 for the arrest of John Bunyan, was sold at auction in London for $22. Refugees from the earthquake are arriving at Naples by the shipload, and present a sickening sight. Most of them are in a deplorable mental condition through fright. Seven hundred dollars a month allmony has been allowed Mrs. Mary Bogardus Tower, an ex-telephone girl, in a final decree of separation from her husband, A. E. Tower, a wealthy iron master of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The cool work of a fireman at Erie, Pa., averted a panic when the Park theater was discovered on fire during a performance. Nobody was injured but the theater was badly damaged. Abraham Ruef, convicted of bribery at San Francisco, has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. The petition of Count Boni de Castelane that his three sons be taken from their mother, formerly Anna Gould, now Princess de Sagan, and placed in his mother's care, has been denied by the Paris court. The Democrats have organized a society to establish newspapers throughout Kansas to begin an educational campaign to teach the people the principles of Democracy. The action was taken at a conference of leading Democrats recently held in Topeka. The bubonic plague has made its re-appearance in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The Missouri insurance department has barred from the state the Walla Walla Fire Insurance company. The concern has gone into the hands of a receiver. Beach Hargis, charged with the murder of his father at Irvine, Ky., has been released in $25,000 bail. Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma, has issued a proclamation anouncing the defeat at the recent election of the two constitutional amendments, one changing the location of the state capitol, and the other adopting the Torrens land system. M. Clemenceau the French premier, was recently fired upon in Paris by a Corsican named Benedetti. The official was not hit. The would-be assassin was arrested and disarmed. Unable to endure the thought of spending their declining years without the presence of their 18-year-old daughter, Prof. J. P. Gordy, of New York university, and his wife committed suicide a few hours after the death of the girl. Wilbur Wright, the American aeronaut, beat all previous aeroplane records at Lemans, France, remaining in the air for two hours and nine minutes. Lillian Russell, the actress, is preparing to publish the love letters which she has recived during her long stage career. There will be two volumes of the missives. At the close of 1908 Kansas City had 294.22 miles of paved streets and boulevards. The United States supply ship Celtic, which was to have met the returning battleship fleet, has sailed from New York direct to Messina, Italy, where the supplies will be turned over to the earthquake sufferers. Samuel Cleveland, a boy six years old, died while on the operating table at Lawrence, Kan., while two physicians were preparing to perform an operation for appendicitis. The boy was given chloroform and died before the operation began. The immensity of the disaster in Southern Italy continues to grow as further details are received. It is now estimated that 110,000 persons lost their lives at Messina and Reggio alone. A score of other towns were devastated and thousands of victims in these places must be added to the death list. Five bandits held the citizens of Wellston, Ok., at bay while they dynamited the bank and escaped with $5,000. About 200 shots were exchanged but no one was hurt. Following the receipt of a threatening letter demanding money by Antonio Armenio, a prosperous Italian of Kansas City, a bomb was exploded under a window ledge of his home, damaging the building, but causing no injury to the occupants. 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Never Fails to Restore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures scalp diseases and a hair falling. $00, and $1.00 at Druggists. WRIGLEY'S THE FLAVOR TASTES SPEARMINT DIET AND HEALTH MILK FOR BABES--BUTTERMILK FOR ADULTS All authorities on diet say that milk is a perfect food. This is true in a sense; and in another it is altogether untrue and misleading. The natural food of the infant is mother's milk. But the appalling mortality of infants is due chiefly to the use of cow's milk, carrying the seeds of disease from the cow, the air and water, and planting them in a soil made favorable by improper feeding, lack of fresh air, bathing and exercise. Not even cereal starch kills more infants between the ages of one and six than does milk in the first two years. Cow's milk differs materially from the infant's natural food, containing twice as much proteid and only about half as much sugar, but the danger lies more in the contamination of the milk sold in the cities. Fortunately good work is being done in many piaces to remedy this evil. Milk is called the perfect food because it contains all the elements necessary for the growth of the infant, and in the proper proportion. But the physical constitution and development of the infant differ much from those of the adult, and the food should differ accordingly. The growth of the infant in the first six years is rapid, and a large proportion of lime is necessary to build the bony framework. Milk is in this respect an appropriate food for the infant and inappropriate for the adult. The lime of milk being little needed for maintaining the bony framework of the adult, is largely deposited in the arteries, contributing to the distinctive disease of old age—hardening of the arteries. The prime cause of hardening of the arteries, which is also a cause of "heart failure" and of certain forms of insanity, is auto-intoxication, or self-poisoning, resulting from the absorption of waste matter from the lower part of the alimentary canal, of which I shall have more to say in dealing with "Bread," in a subsequent article. Deficiency of iron in the blood of the adult is serious; the percentage of iron in cow's milk is small, corresponding to the nervous inactivity of the infant. In this particular milk is a very unsatisfactory adult diet, though it sustains life indefinitely. But the unsuitability of milk to the adult is more evident on comparing the infant with the adult anatomy and physiology: In the infant, for instance, the upper part of the alimentary canal is almost a straight tube, allowing the milk to pass quickly to the intestine, which is adapted to its digestion. The adult stomach is a deeply curved pouch, which in certain abnormal conditions retains the food for several hours longer than the proper time for digestion. The fermentation of milk alone is not always serious, but the fermentation of meat, cereals and fruits in the stomach, through the agency of milk, leads to serious results. The proportion of iron in the blood is very small, but very important. When it is found to be deficient, it is very difficult to supply it. Probably its best source is the brown part of wheat which is excluded from our fine patent white flours, of which we shall speak later. Grapes, the brown part of wheat, cabbage (raw) and lettuce readily supply iron. It has been found that persons living exclusively on milk lack "sand," a quality which the infant never needs to display, since it is absolutely dependent. In the infant the liver is relatively much larger and more active than in the adult. In a number of cases in which the results of an exclusive milk diet were found to be injurious, the liver was weak and inactive, as indicated by sallow skin, jaundiced eyes and internal indications. In such cases, as a rule, unfermented grape juice, pineapples, lemons and oranges are indicated. Sweet milk is always injurious in these cases in adults. In flesh-eating animals the stomach and liver are much larger in proportion than in the vegetable-eaters. An apparent exception is found in the ruminating animals, like the cow, which gathers a large quantity of food and stores it in the first of a series of stomachs for future chewing. The development of the food tube indicates the food adapted to the animal. Although the infant digestive organs are better adapted to milk than the adult's, they are not perfectly adapted to cow's milk. To feed a dog or a child of two years on "what we eat ourselves" indicates a sympathetic but thoughtless disposition. Sterilized or boiled milk is open to the same objection as roasted peanuts. Its vitality, its real life-giving qualities are largely destroyed. It is most unfortunate that our people are ignorant of the value of goat's milk, especially for infant feeding. The goat is the healthiest of all animals and the slowest to degenerate when domesticated. Rarely, if ever, is the goat known to contract tuberculosis or any other disease. The milk is superior in every way to cow's, and the poorest can own a "poor man's cow," which can be fed on the potato peelings, cabbage leaves or anything else that is clean. Hardly any other food is compatible with milk, except uncooked, whipped eggs, rice or toasted bread. Flesh meat, being a stomach food, is particularly inharmonious with milk. The Jewish instructions on diet prohibit eating meat and milk together, though this may be for an ethical reason. The writer has recently made several days' tests of an exclusive milk diet on himself and others, carefully recording results. A change from the ordinary mixed diet to any monodiet is beneficial, and milk is not an exception. But the benefits derived from the milk diet which have recently been much advertised should be credited to the monodiet, avoiding the injurious effects of mixing several incompatible foods at the same meal. Equally satisfactory results can be shown from many other monodiets—even the peanut, which is the most concentrated of all foods, containing an excess of albumen. Great gains have been recorded from exclusive diets of beans, oatmeal, wheat, etc., as well as milk, pursued for 60 days or more. Prof. Metchnikoff, head of the Pasteur institute, who has made most praiseworthy investigations into the causes of our early decay, has concluded that the failure of the average man to live his natural term of life, 100 years, is due to the development of pathogenic germs in the lower part of the food tube from improperly digested, superfluous food, and recommends the use of buttermilk as an antidote. The chief causes of the offending conditions in the colon, the large intestine, leading to a constant poisoning of the stream of life, are: Too much food, eaten hurriedly; too much starch and not enough fruit, and bad combinations of foods, good in themselves. Buttermilk is not a natural corrective of these abnormal conditions, although it no doubt serves as an antidote, nor is the "internal bath," good in a way. the true remedy; the cause should be removed. It has been said that "wine is the milk of age," and of unfermented wine this is true. The grape contains much sugar, acid and iron, which are deficient in milk. The most noted case of prolonged life in history, that of Cornaro, the Venetian nobleman in the sixteenth century, was due to a uniform diet, consisting chiefly of unfermented wine with an egg daily. The egg supplied the fat, sulphur and albumen deficient in the "light wine," or grape juice. Broken down at 40 by indulgence in eating and drinking, Cornaro lived to be more than 100 by simple living. You can make the best buttermilk any day in your own kitchen. And there is nothing better for digestive disorders, and especially for intestinal troubles, or as a substitute in infant feeding, in certain cases. You can get at the drug store tablets containing the lactic acid bacterium culture that will convert sweet milk into full cream buttermilk by simply dropping a tablet into a quart bottle of milk and maintaining the proper temperature, according to the instructions. Not only because this full cream buttermilk contains the fat in emulsified form is it better than the buttermilk you buy of the buttermilk man, but because the lactic acid bacterium prevents the development of injurious bacteria in the milk. This is important in the case of infants. Cholera infantum, some forms of diarrhoea and perhaps typhoid can be avoided in this way. Here is the most important practical application of the germ theory yet made, a boon for infant humanity, a recovery in some degree of the loss due to departing from nature in infant feeding as a result of departing from nature in other ways. It has long been known that buttermilk is a valuable food medicine even when soured by lightning. We can not always command the thunder, but science has discovered how to make buttermilk without a churn and without lightning, and without separating the butter. Butterless buttermilk is good, full-cream buttermilk is better in most cases. Cow's milk is digested by the infant with difficulty, often resulting in complete breakdown of the digestive and nervous system; but the adult digestive system is not so well adapted to the digestion of milk and hence flatulence and absolute revulsion often result from its continued use. But buttermilk causes no such difficulties, because it is in a sense largely predigested, the coarser curds of the casein in cow's milk being finely broken up. This removes the greatest objection to cow's milk as a diet for infants and as an ideal monodiet for adults in severe stomach and bowel troubles. A certain amount of fat is necessary to the best conditions for normal nutrition, and fat is about $2 \frac{1}{2}$ times more valuable as a heat and energy producer than other forms of carbon; and of the fats, butter is the most easily assimilated, except peanut and olive oil. But emulsified as the fat is in milk, it is much more easily assimilated than as butter. For this reason, and for others, the new way of making buttermilk gives a much more nutritious product and more digestible, especially for the infant. Cow's milk cannot be made identical with the infant's natural food, but it can be approximated to it. The chief difficulty to be overcome is to adapt the large curds that tend to remain in the stomach longer than they should, as the development of the calf's stomach requires that its food shall have a much heavier curd than that required by the infant, in which intestinal digestion is more important. The use of buttermilk tablets obviates this difficulty, besides overcoming other objections to the use of cow's milk. But the objection naturally arises that soured milk is not natural. The reply is that cow's milk is not natural. Certainly tests of buttermilk have proved it very satisfactory. Kidneys Badly Injured and Health Seriously Impaired. William White, R. R. man, 201 Constantine Street, Three Rivers, Mich., , R. R. man, 201 Com Three Rivers, Mich. says: "In a railroad collision my kidneys must have been hurt, as I passed bloody urine with pain for a long time after, was weak and thin and so I could not work. Two years after I went to the hospital and remained al- PETER H. most six months, but my case seemed hopeless. The urine passed involuntarily. Two months ago I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills and the improvement has been wonderful. Four boxes have done me more good than all the doctoring of seven years. I gained so much that my friends wonder at it." Sold by all dealers. 50c a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Electricity's Beginnings. The term "electricity" was derived from the Greek word meaning amber. Electricity itself is earliest described by Theophrastus (321 B. C.) and Pliny (70 A. D.), who mention the power of amber to attract straw and dry leaves. Dr. Gilbert of Colchester, physician to Queen Elizabeth (1540-1603) may be considered the founder of the science, as he appears to have been the first philosopher who carefully repeated the observations of the ancients and applied to them the principles of philosophical investigation. Thankful He, isn't Rich. One Adam Croaker is enjoying the limelight of the following paragraph: "I am thankful I am not a millionaire. I do not, however, claim any special credit. It seems to run in the family. I have traced the history of the Croaker family back to the jumping-on place and find there has not been a wealthy one in the whole bunch, and the records show that there has never been a duke or count who tried to break in."—Atlanta Constitution. Not That Brand of Breakfast Food. "Waiter," said the guest in a nonfashionable hotel, "have you table d'hote here?" The waiter considered. Then the fever against warning the "do-not-accept-of-a-substitute warning is issued, selzed upon him. "We haven't any of that, sir," he replied, "but I can bring you some corn-flakes." Good Work. "His brains earn him his living." "Rats! I've read his stuff in all the magazines, and there's no sense in any of it." "I know it, but think how smart he is to get it in all the magazines?" THEN AND NOW Complete Recovery from Coffee Illness. "About nine years ago my daughter, from coffee drinking, was on the verge of nervous prostration," writes a Louisville lady. "She was confined for the most part to her home. "When she attempted a trip down town she was often brought home in a cab and would be prostrated for days afterwards. "On the advice of her physician she gave up coffee and tea, drank Postum, and ate Grape-Nuts for breakfast. "She liked Postum from the very beginning and we soon saw improvement. To-day she is in perfect health, the mother of five children, all of whom are fond of Postum. "She has recovered, is a member of three charity organizations and a club, holding an office in each. We give Postum and Grape-Nuts the credit for her recovery." "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 @CimePTER, WoW. TWINE . « + «+ Editor. Published Every Week in the Interest of the Negro by Cimeter Publishing Co. Entered at the Post Office at Muskogee. Okla., a8 Second.Class Mail Matter. Zeke Moore. the freedman, who has been fighting for a quarter of a million in the oil fields has won out. |" Mr. Herbert House, seertary of Republica) State Committee, is a candidate for collector of Internal Revenue for the dis- trictof Oklahoma. Mr. House is a working — Republican and has made great sacrifice for the sake of the party. [tis due to such workers, ashe that the party made such great gains and when such party workers are rewarded it) means a good strong healthy support for the future and more victories. We like ‘to see all elements of the party recognized and there is no better time than in the be ginning which is now. We feel sure that organization is behind Mr. House and that he will win out. The law and order league are present in court each day and are assisting in the prosecution of law breakers, ©. We hope there efforts will be direeted against all regardless of color, The city election is just over the fence and the indications are that we will have a three cornered — fight, © Republican, Democrat and’ Citizens ticket. It will be a tively tilt with chances favoring the Republi cans if a cleat ticket is put-up. ‘Taxes must be paid) by the 15 if you: would save the penalty, Get busy now and payup, he many aspirants for affice are’ now head towards Wash ington and on Mar, 4th, they will be there in full force. Governor Uaskell has sent his message to the Legislature and our solons are now getting down to business. We hope our laws makers will make a better out than their predecessors and that capital will be invited to come to our state instead of being dviven away. Gov. Haskell understands the situation and we believe will do the right thing to encourage capital to in vest inour state. Aside from his unfortunate political lean ings, the Governor is a splendid fellow and in polities, he has the admirable trait of taking care of those who were loyal to him. In this particular our Republi can friends might take a few lessons, For instance if the Negroes had been loyal to the Democrats as they have been to the Republicans and there had been two Democrat jury com missioners then there would have been some Negro jurors selected, It leaked out in coun ty court that the two Republi can jury commissioners had failed to select one Negro jury man. Haskell never would have been as ungrateful to his helpers and yet we Republicans cuss the Democrats, Tt might be better to cuss the lilywhites and give the Democracy a rest. Better clean out the motes at home then we could better lan dle the Democrats beam, * Our schools are crowded, We need more- room atid more teachers, The Douglass Sciool should be enlarged and we should have a High Sk hool and now We suggest to the school board that we are for bonds and will vote them but we must have a High School for ou children. It is badly needed and fairness demands that when theother High Schools are built we should lave one a'so, The citizens of Reeves Addi tion to the city of Muskogee, have petitioned the City Coun cil for an opening of the streets, electric light and water connec: tions. They shoule | receive what they ask for and at once. They have to pay taxes and de serve to be treated fairly. Street connection to the city proper is badly needly and potice protec tion should be (given this addi+ tion the sameas other additions We hope the City Council will not continue to disregard the wishes of the deserving law abiding citizens who reside in the addition, They simply ask for justice and will be satisfied with nothing less, The daily papers’ are contin. ually howling against the Ne THE GIMETER JOB PRINTING CO. 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Reliable colored “woman to wash battles and pear potatoes, Cail Muskogee Tea & Coffee Co Convention Hall, South Second St, Far tae Sip Pome 5 60 “acres af good land $20 per acre; 40 acres of good Janda $1% per acre; 20 acres of geod land $15. per acre. 4 stand cotton gin for $4,500, Wi! trade for farm lands‘or city property in Muskogee, ’ 4 stand cotton gin for. $3,500, Write. to ‘ W. H. TWINK, .Jr., Rox..G, Muskogee, Okla. ese lee ees . IPFORMATIO! ABDING Farm or Business Particular bout location. is Be ony owner oul who ei direct, to buyer. Give price, can be hed, “Address, eu L, DARBYSHIRE, Box 9099 Rochester, N, ¥- My eatid Combination Preatment is used i, Patient at home. yoorg of success. Hundreds of eatimoniass, indorsed by iysicians, Ministers, Ete. 18 destroys cancerous growth, eliminates disease from Now may operations Foe: heveulsd~ gene) BSoR_PUchacvata atte? OR 0. 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Also have your stenographie work done, and ‘your books straightened up by the Biggers Business College. | College cpen day and night. WANTED General agent for this city, Lady or Gentleman—Even if you are now employed. You can earn $100.00 to $200.00 per month without giving up your present position—Write for full particular. W. L. TULL Loan and Investment Company Desk "L" Alamo Bank, Muskogee, Oklahoma. LODGE DIRECTORY. Muskogee Chapter, No. 5, Order Eastern Star; meetings, first and third Thursday of each month at 2:30 o'clock. IDA JONES, W. M. A. L. LOVE, Secy. Trinity Lodge, No. 84, A. F. and A. M.; meetings first and fourth Thursday night of each month. GARFIELD BARNETT, W. M. W. H. SWINE, Secy. FOR SALE--One lot 75x140, and a two-room house for $500.00. Write A. J. Smitherman. FOR SALE. I have 20 farms to sell on easy payments or swap for Muskogee property. I will build or sell you a house and lot with god water. Loan money at a low rate of interest to suit the man who gets it. Come to see me. WM. P. FIELDS, Muskogee, Okla. FOR SALE. 3-room house and 50 ft. lot close in, $650.00. Two-room house and lot for $450.00. Lot in Factory Addition, $75.00. Lot in Lincoln Park, $50.00. Write W. H. TURNE, Box G, Muskogee, Okla. AGENTS WANTED—16x20 crayon portraits, 40 cents, frames 10 cents, and up, sheet pictures one cent each. You can make 400 per cent profit or $36 per week. Catalogue and samples free. FRANK W. WILLIAMS COMPANY. 1208 W. Taylor St. Chicago, Ill. ST. LUKE'S PHARMACY. A. E. Johnson, Proprietor. Corner Court and Second Street Opposite Federal Court House Phone 172. A. R. NORRIS' SHOE SHOP. 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. 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. 1. BULBS BUCKBEE'S BULBS SUCCEED! SPECIAL OFFER: Made to build New Business. A trial will make you a permanent customer. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money refunded. 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EASY WORK-GOOD PAY Make big money in your own town. $12.00 to $120.00 a month easily earned. No experience or money a necessary. We help you with our capital and teach you the business. Begins line of samples free. PAINTS $250 SUITS $990.00 PAINTS made to measure in latest style. Built and workmanship guaranteed. One Buffalo grant wanted in every town. EXCLUSIVE buffalo. Write for agent's office. FREE. THE PROGRESS TALKING CO. 1100 Garrison Street, Chicago SANITARIUM. LOCATED AT 80TH AND WYANDOTTE. BEST INVALID'S HOME IN THE WEST. Organized with a full staff of physicians and surgeons for treatment of all Chronic Diseases. THIRTY ROOMS for accommodation of patients Difficult Surgical Operations Performed with Skill and Success when Surgery is necessary. DISEASES OF WOMEN Well equipped to treat diseases of women. Many who have suffered for years cured at home. Special book for women FREE PILES PERMANENT CURE POSITIVELY GUARANTEED Without knifes, ligature, raxetic. 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Prize Collection Neddah, 17 varieties; Lettuce, 15 kinds; Tomatoes, 11 the finest; Turnip, 7 splendid; Onion, 8 best varie- sions; 10 Spring-Sowering Bells—65 varieties in all. GUARANTEED TO PLEASE. Write to-day; Mention this Paper. SEND 10 CENTS to cover postage and packing and receive this valuable admission of fresh seed and plant seeds. Independent, Beautiful Seed and Plant Seed, take all about the Best variety of Seed, Plants, etc. M. W. Buckbee, 1708 BUCKBEE STREET BOOKDAY, MA. THE MAGIC IS TWO TIMES LARGER THAN PICTURE. IT IS 9 IN LONG. STEEL HEATING BAR THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR-STRAIGHTENER ALUMINUM COND MAILED ANYWHERE IN U.S. POSTAGE PAID. SEND MONEY BY POST OFFICE MONEY ORDER. Address all letters to Magic Shampoo Drier Co., Minneapolis, Minn. ALL HEAT CONFINED TO BAR. Wall Paper-5000 Rolls Look at this price 5-6-6-7-7 per Roll Remnants at your own price. Must be sold in 30 DAYS to make room for our new stock Bockenheuser Painting & Decorating Co. 133 south 3rd st. Nicolds Block. Look for the big Sign Wal Paper. W. H. SMITH, SON & CO. LEADING MERCHANTS 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. All goods up-to-date. Call On Us In The Carter Building South 2nd St. Phone 1334 Official statement of the condition of the Commercial National Bank, Muskogee, Okla. at the close of business Friday, November 27, 1908: Resources. Loans and discounts.....$1,007,141.47 Overdrafts ..... 9,463.51 Bonds and Premiums..... 288,000.00 Real esate, Furniture and Fixtures ..... 13,725.08 Cash and Exchange..... 310,703.36 $1,629,033.42 Capital ..... $ 200,000.00 Surplus and Profits ..... 62,745.40 Circulation ..... 200,000.00 Deposits ..... 1,166,288.02 $1,629,033.42 The above statement is correct. G. W. BARNES, President. D. N. Fink, Vice President. E. D. SWEENY, Cashier. DR. E. D. MORRISON, Women and Children, and Venerial Diseases, Chemic and Microscopic Examinations. Phone 1773. 310 S. 2nd St. Muskogee, Okla St. Luke's Pharmacy for your souvenir cards We have the finest assortment in town. T. MILLER, LOAN BROKER Loans on all Articles of Value. 105 South Main Street MUSKOGEE, IND. TER. SUBSCRIBE for the CIMETER. $1.00 per year. See A. J. Smitherman, traveling agent and advertising manager. Resources Liabilities. Phone 1334 WHY PAY RENT? We sell you a house and lot for $10 to $200 cash. Balance like rent. We also sell lots on payments. Get our prices. F. T. Martin, & Co. 403 W. Oklamulgee Ave. SALES AGENTS WANTED. $36 Per Week or 400 Per Cent Profit. All samples, stationery, and art catalogue free. We want one permanent agent in this locality for the largest picture and frame house in America. Experience unnecessary. We instruct you how to sell our goods and furnish the capital. If you want a permanent, honorable and profitable position, write us today for particulars, catalogue and samples. FRANK W. WILLIAMS COMPANY, 1214 W. Taylor St.. Chicago, Ill. GRADUATE PHARMACIST. Three years practical experience. Desires permanent position as prescription clerk. Address D. J. Johnson, Ph. G., 1407 Carondalet St., New Orleans, La. H. T. WALKER. Attorney and Counsellor at Law Room 19, Brown Bldg. Phone 1169 MUSKOGEE. OKLAHOMA FOR SALE I have 20 farms to sell on easy payments or swap for Muskogee property. I will build or sell you a house and lot with good water. Loan money at a low rate of intarest.to suit the man who gets it. Come to see me. ```markdown ``` Muskogee, Okla Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Edited MUSKOGEE, OKLA. At the present rate of growth Manhattan island will have a population of 2,500,000 in 1932. The wages of women in Asiatic Turkey vary from ten to fifteen cents a day of ten hours. England reports an enormous demand for second-hand Bibles. Got any you've outgrown? In the population of New York city there are 187,000 persons who are stockholders in corporations. Pu Yi, the emperor, has 30 nurses, and is hollering for his old one. What's the use of being an emperor? The Pittsburg Press says that wealth kills. Well, we'd far rather be hit with it than with a stick of dynamite. English newspapers say they are sorry for the kaiser. That is an artistic way of piling on the punishment. Canadian physician says our high school boys are being "effeminized" by women teachers. Noticed it, this fall? Philadelphia has established an allnight bank, and its citizens no longer need be afraid to go home in the dark. Mrs. Glirard Bancker told a woman's forum in New York that all wives grovel to their husbands. Say—but her sex protects her. We are still waiting for some scary German general to rise up and explain to an awe-struck public how easy it would be for a British army to devastate the German empire. The man who lent Mr. Rockefeller that $2,000 to go into business with would have made a good bargain if he had stipulated that instead of interest he should have half the profits. A young woman in New Jersey was scared to death at the sight of a mouse. This will reassure those pessimistic persons who fear that the woman of to-day is losing all her essentially womanly qualities. The Vermont papers are bustly discussing the question who shall be elected governor in 1910. Already there are several candidates in the field. Politicians in Vermont are prompt. Dr. Parkhurst says the wearing of big hats is un-Christian. But that will have little effect upon the devout female sex as long as big hats are stylish. The reverend critic is singularly ignorant of the depths of human feminine nature if he does not know that. People are talking of undertaking to teach women how to get off a street car without imperiling their necks. Which suggests an alteration of an old proverb: You can take a woman to a street car, but can you make her get off in any other than the woman's way? According to Dr. Mary Patrick, president of the girls' college at Constantinople, the Turkish women have thrown off their vells, and are lecturing in different prominent cities like Constantinople and Salonica, and are also forming woman's clubs. Now watch Turkey boom! They ought to get some policemen in New York who in emergencies can show signs of almost human intelligence, says the Baltimore American. A man was arrested there lately for violently resisting an officer in trying to break through the fire lines. His entirely inadequate excuse—in the eyes of the policeman—was that the burning house was his own, his wife and baby were inside and he rated their safety above official red tape. --- News From All Over The State Headquarters Established. Headquarters for woman suffrage have been established in Oklahoma City by Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer, and a lobby will be maintained at Guthrie this winter. Relieved of $87.00. Held up at Oklahoma City by highwaymen, who slashed his clothing, Lee Green, traveling representative of the Dalton Adding Machine company, was relieved of $87. New Lighting Plant. The own of Britton, seven miles north of Oklahoma City, has arranged with the street railway company for a lighting plant to be located there. County Seat Election Results. Returns of the county seat election held recently in Major county and received at Gtuhrie show the following result: Cleo 462, Ringwood 287, Fairview 1,782 and Orienta 419. Girl Thrown From Horse. Helen Brett, the 13-year-old daughter of George Brett of Ponca City, was thrown from a horse last night, and suffered a fracture of the skull. An operation was successful, and it is thought she will recover. Not Dismissed. Special enforcement Attorney Fred S. Caldwell failed to accomplish the dismissal of L. E. Skeels, city marshall of Clinton, against whom charge of failure to enforce the prohibition laws had been made. Filed Complaint. The Logan County Farmers' Union Cotton, Gin and Cotton company has filed complaint with the corporation commission against the Santa Fe railroad, alleging discrimination in switching facalities and the placing of cars. Glenn Pool Rival. Unless all signs fall, the new Archilla pool, the oil field which bids fair to touch the north limitis of Tulsa, is going to be a close rival of the Glenn pool, which is recognized as the greatest field of the world. $300.00 Reward. A negro, said to be Nelse Golden, giving his name as Jenkins Tillard, and going by three other names, has been arrested by the officers of Hobart. He is wanted in Waxahachie, Texas, for the killing of Constable Tom Conger o nJune 6, last. A reward of $300 has been offered for his arrest. Shot in the Head. A grudge of long standing between J. L. Overton, a railroad man, and Postmaster Higdon of Long, Okla., resulted in a fight, and Overton shot Higdon in the neck and head. It is believed Higdon will die. Overton surrendered himself to the officers. An Old Timer. Word was received by the authorities who are endeavoring to locate John Ford, the fortune teller who left Muskogee with $1,500 worth of money and valuables belonging to other people, that Ford has served two years in the penitentiary for looting box cars. Big Mail Business. For the week beginning December 22 and ending December 29, 3,603 pieces of registered mail were handled in the postoffice at Tulsa, an increase of over 100 per cent on the business for the corresponding week a year ago. Off to Association. A delegation of Muskogee county teachers, numbering about twenty, left for Shawnee, where they will attend the meeting of the State Teachers' association. The superintendents of Indian schools, J. D. Benedict, Walter Falwell and D. Frank Redd of the Cherokee semiary at Tahlequah were among the number. None to Succeed Murray. No appointment has been made to fill the place of ex-Speaker Murray on the probe committee in the Lansing (Kan.) penitentiary investigation. Mr. Murray declined to serve. Going to Legislature. Senator R. A. Billups of Cordell, departed this morning for Guthrie to get ready for the second legislature. S. C. Burnette and family leave in the morning. Mr. Burnette will be a member of the lower house. Man Run Down by Engine. J. F. Swazey of Miami, Okla., was run down by a Santa Fe engine here and his leg was horribly mangled. Amputation will be necessary, but hopes are entertained for Swazey's recovery. Judge Married. Judge John R. Clark, for years county judge of Payne county, Okla., and Mrs. Mattie Kinnear, a well known art teacher in this city, were married here. Shot Because He Swore. Because he swore around the house, Lee Marshbanks, livinb five miles east of Catoosa, Okla., shot and instantly killed his brother, John. The slayer is deeply religious and has always borne a good reputation. He is married and has a family of New Bank. Bank Commissioner H. H. Smock has issued a license to the Citizens' State bank, of Kokchito, with $15,000 capital stock. It is a conversion of the First National bank of the same place. C. L. Sawyer is president; E. W. Frey, vice-president, and W. E. Riddle, cashier. Found Copper Tank. Officers in raiding an alleged booze joint at Tulsa discovered a large copper tank concealed between two walls, filled with whisky. This is the newest thing in the liquor traffic here. Want Agricultural School. Encouraged by a letter from Gov. Haskell informing them that the District Agricultural school had not been permanently located at Warner, members of the Muskogee Commercial club are preparing to make an active fight for the location of the school. The Chissoe Harris property, east of Muskogee, is offered as a site for the institution. Man Barely Escapes. Caught in the conveyor at the cotton seed oil mill at Ada, J. O. Terry, an employee, had a miraculous escape last night. An hour was required to extricate him. The obne of the right leg above the ankle was broken and the leg badly lacerated. Has Returned Home. Ex-Chief Justice John Burford, of Guthrie, returned from Vinita, where his son, Frank, is ill with appendicitis. Judge Burford says the operation was successwul, and he believes his son is on the way to complete recovery. To Have Extra Judge. Judge Clark of Oklahoma City, has been advised that this district will be allowed another judge for four weeks, beginning February 1. Judge Loafbourrow of Beaver City, will be sent here to preside over one branch of the civil court. There are 739 cases on the docket for trial. Tulsa Boy is Making Good. Guy Forester Lee, "Bunny," a Kansas boy, who for two years made the Tulsa World the most talked of paper in old Indian Territory, is achieving newspaper and literary fame in Chicago. He is on the staff of the Chicago Tribune as assistant telegraph editor, besides is a contributor over his own signature in almost every Sunday issue of the paper. A poem by him entitled "As We Begin Again," will appear in the Tribune's New Year's issue. The captain—See here, you've give seventeen men bases on balls! Dis here's a ball game, not no six-day walkin' match! HANDS RAW AND SCALY. Itched and Burned Terribly—Could Not Move Thumbs Without Flesh Cracking—Sleep Impossible. Cuticura Soon Cured His Eczema "An itching humor covered both my hands and got up over my wrists and even up to the elbows. The itching and burning were terrible. My hands got all scaly and when I scratched, the surface would be covered with blisters and then get raw. 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U., MUSKOGEE, NO. 2, 1909 (Continued from first page.) kill—usually after many years—by a slow death. And what is the cause? Ah, the physician is expected to call the contributing cause the active influence, while the active force is hidden in the cuff of one's conscience until after the funeral, for the sake of the family or for the name's sake of the corpse! It seldom appears on the certificate or reaches the Board of Health. If the truth leaks out, it is known by the few, is soon forgotten, and we rightfully spare the dead. Venereal disease of the blood in its denouement is termed apoplexy; that of the spine is called loco motor ataxia; that of the kidneys is termed acute or chronic Brights disease, as the case may be; that of brain is mollified into softening; that of the epididymis is called female sterility; and who, may I ask, can deny that these terms are not accurate or true? Yet what a row of white sepulchres are these same dignified guant funeral caballistic hieroglyphs! They cover what they dare not disclose. They injure by their very silence in the neighborhood of curable misfortune or guilt. May I raise the corner of the curtain? I see first—as I am a very close observer of venereal diseases—I read from case histories that are supposedly not pregnant with venereal conditions—one young man of 38 years under treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis, a few days later he had an apop'exy, which with his pulmonary lesions, recovered promptly under generous treatment of a former venereal infection. A few days before this case I recall a still younger man of 30 requesting treatment for a more popular and less dreaded, but no less serious infection. In spite of careful instruction and informing literature placed in his hands, that young man infected his eyes, of which the sight was preserved after a strenuous and exciting race between treatment and permanent blindness. The oculist to whom I referred him tells me casually of another young man at that time in his care of equally good family and supposedly equally good moral standing—whatever that may mean today—whose infection had spread from the eyes back to the sphenoide cells, there, probably to remain until death, the only affectative cure separates the disease and its victim. Again, a last of 24 has just left my care with the knowledge that, as the result of a venereal infection of several years ago, he has only one chance of children by his afflianced wife. If an operation fails to restore the now prized function, he faces the necessity of a frank avowal of his state, or the old story—the "sacrifice of the woman to the passion of the man." These are the experiences of one fernnight in the practice of a student of medicine, whose duties would supposedly divert from him the opportunity of contact with venereal disease. In very fact, such patients confide only in their physician, and at times cannot be led to the specialist because the object of their visit is known to all as soon as they enter his door. The genito-urinary specialist can never control venereal disease in all its ramifications, because he comes in contact with only those patients who are intelligent enough to place prompt cure before all other considerations or such as are forced to apply in the sorrow of despair, while not a day passes in the doctor's office without abundant evidence of the results and oftentimes the living reality of the almost imaginable attendants are the social evil. Does the social evil affect the home? Ask yourself this question as medical men and as fathers. I read from the national census that during twenty years (1867-1886) we have recorded 328,716 broken homes. How many of these were ruptured because of the infection of the wife by the husband or visa versa, no one will ever know. Perhaps it is as well that no one should know. Every physician knows of more than one such instance and one is enough to set manhood aflame. Today, approximately 10.5 per cent of all marriages end in divorce. The physician needs no figures from the census to tell him that many separations should be granted that are refused, because the true state of the sexual life remains unknown to judge and jury, or to convince him that many divorces come as God-sends to an already infected wife, who can no longer cherish the transmitter of an eternal woe. Do the children go free? (To Be Continued.) BARGAINS! FOR SALE—Two lots in factory addition, Muskogee; lots in Porter; farm lands in different localities. See or write A. J. Smitherman, Box G., Muskogee, Okla. 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. 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