Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Cimeter. Muskogee. The Need of A High School There are hundreds of your bright, intelligent boys and girls in the public schools of this city getting that education and training which they must have in these days and times in order that they may hold honorable places in life. For their sake we need a high school. We need it that they may get a practical education here at home. We need it that you may not have to send them to other cities and other schools to be well trained. The board of education has provided an excellent course of study, one which will fit our boys and girls to enter into practical life well armed for success, or to enter college and study for the professions. They have given you the best teachers, men and women, who have devoted their time to study and preparation in the best universities and colleges in America. The board is generous in furnishing supplies and equipments for the school work. BUT WE NEED A HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING. The exceedingly large enrollment and attendance of pupils in the grades of which we are all pusty proud, is crowding us beyond all limits. We need a building for our high school which will give ample room for all classes and also allow us a manual training department. Then the grade children can have the rooms now occupied by high school pupils, and your larger boys and girls, just verging into manhood and womanhood, will have all the advantages afforded by any school in any city. This should be a matter of pride to the citizens of Muskogee. Our schools should keep pace with our wonderful progress in other directions. We boast of Muskogee, her fame has gone abroad as the Queen City of the Great Southwest. When we are pointing with pride to her commercial advantages, to her beautiful churches, her imposing public buildings, may we also point with pride to her capacious, well furnished school buildings, and her thousands of well-disciplined school children, the future citizens of America. Citizens of Muskogee, the issue is in your hands. What will you do with it. By all means vote for the SCHOOL BONDS for the sake of your children, your city and your country. The Most Important Issue which the people of Muskogee have been called upon to Settle. The most important issue which the people of Muskogee have been called upon to settle is the pending proposition to vote bonds for $300,000 for the erection of additional school buildings. Our schools have established the reputation of being among the very best in the whole southwest, and this too, in the face of the difficulty of being badly over-crowded. Of the cities in the new state, Muskogee ranks second in point of school enrollment. Muskogee has an outstanding bonded indebtedness of $155,000 for school Citizens of Muskogee: purposes; Oklahoma City has $760, 000; McAlester has $175,000; Bartlesville has $142,000; Shawnee has $450, 000. The board of education of this city is making an effort to provide for the children of this city education facilities which will not be surpassed in the state. The spirit of Muskogee is the spirit of progress and the and the people of this city will not be satisfied with anything short of the very best of facilities for public education. Every patriotic citizen will go to the polls on next Saturday. The school children of Texas are signing petitions asking President Roosevelt not to kill any wild animals in his African trip. We wish they would sign a petition asking the prevention of killing the colored people by the mobs throughout the United States. The editor visited Guthrie Monday and called on Governor Haskell and visited the state legislature, interviewed several members of the legislature and from what he learned, believes that the disfranchising law will have a rough road and in its present form will not become a law. Courtous treatment was the rule everywhere and it seems that there is a different atmosphere in the capital from what it was last year. All of which is due to the influence of S. D. Russell, John Mathews and others of the unwashed faith, doubtlessly. The indications are that a school for the deaf, dumb and blind will be established by the state at Taft and a state school similar to Langston University on the east side for colored youth. Monday, Jan. 18, 1909 Zeno Love of this city, who died yesterday at his home was buried today at 3:00 o'clock. Funeral services were heid at the First Baptist church, after which the body was entered in the _____ cemetery. Mr. Love had been sick more than a year with consumption. He was 35 years old and leaves a wife and a host of friends and relatives to survive him. His death came as a surprise to most of his friends many of whom did not learn of his death until after the burial. Mr. Love was born at Gravesbeck, Texas, where he was reared, and where his mother died when he was quiet a youth. The Cimiter hereby expresses its profoundest sympathy for his surviving relatives and friends. Mrs. W. H. Twine is on the sick list today. Thomas Williams of Taft shot and killed his wife last night, while they were on their way home from town, about one and a half miles from Taft. No one knows anything of the killing, as no one was with them at the time, but one man who lives close to Williams, stated that he meet the latter with his wife out a piece from town and that his wife was dead. This man's name was given as Dick Lee. Williams was here in the city yesterday and returned in the afternoon to Taft, where his wife met him with a buggy to take him home. According to Williams' story, he got out of the buggy to shoot at a hawk, and at the report of the revolver, which was a .38 caliber of the automatic style, the horse became frightened and started to run. In his efforts to get the animal under control the gun was accidentally discharged, the bullet passing through his wife's brain. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Tuesday. 19th. New High School Jan.23,'09 In a perturbed state of mind, he placed the body back in the buggy from which it had fallen, and drove home. After placing the body in the house, he had a desperate struggle with his wife's uncle, Isaac Manuel, who intercepted him with a shot gun. During the mad contest which insured the gun was broken and Williams escaped and came within five miles of Muskogee and surrendered to Constable George Thomas, who turned him over to the county officals. All the circumstances surrounding the case being considered, Williams' story is a very plausible one. Williams has lived in this county about 20 years and has a good reputation. He is in jail awating trial. Attorney W. H. Twine, editor of this paper, returned on the flyer today at 4:39 p. m. from Guthrie, where he held a private consultation with Governor C. N. Haskell and visited the state legislature. Where are the state officials who have pledged themselves to stand up for the majesty of the law? Under the law of the state and by virtue of the constitution of the United States, the Negro is entitled to equal accomodation, equal opportunities and equal rights, and as citizens of America, we demand what is ours. We claim that we are being outrageously mistreated, and insist that something be done at once. The M., K. & T. railroad company affords better accomodation for the colored passengers than any other road in the state and even that could be improved upon. The Katy does give a whole car for the accomodation of its colored passengers, part of which is set apart as a smoker, but on other roads conditions are much worse. In some cases our women and children are compelled to sit in a little Jim Crow apartment contaminated with thel foul fumes of whisky and tobacco smoke, while from the next apartment, which is a smoker for white men only, a constant flow of obscene and vulgar language comes from a crowd of drunken ruffians, who would shock the delicate senses of an African monkey. We demand that our women be respected as much as the women of any other race. Is this not fair? Why not put these vile monsters back with their own women? During the Christmas holidays we rode over the Midland Valley through this state and a part of Arkansas and was thus given an opportunity to study conditions on this road. What we saw chilled us with disgust. The only difference between the Jim Crow apartment we founr in Arkansas and the ordinary cattle cars to be found anywhere is the former was supplied with seats. Besides all thi the colored people had no water. A few women and children were riding from Ft. Smith to some town near Montreal and complained to us. When the conductor came through we demanded water, whereupon he brought water from the baggage car. We ask that the railroad commissioners investigate conditions an all roads in this state an dforce the companies to give us equal accommodation. Many residents of this city were without fuel today as a result of a broken gas main. After all there is nothing like the good old-time fires. MATHEWS CAFE When in Haskell call at Mathews Cafe where you will get first class service and courteous treatment. Mrs. Cora B. Loupe, Prop. Thursday Jan. 21st. Justice Frank Brinson, of Rentiesville, was in the city yesterday afternoon and held a private consultation with congress elect C. E. Creager, relative to the county site fight between Checotah and Eufaula, and other matters which he would not make public He returned last night in company with Rev Robinson and Mr. J. W. Barnes of Rentiesville. --- No 13 A REPORTER. Muskogee Cimeter. W. &. TWIN, Beton — MUSKOGEZE, OKLA nT The annual chestnut about the opti tnist who eats them in the dark is also with us. _—_———_ English prime minister says the house of lords is a set of irresponsl- bles. Now let the lords respond. —___. Germany will establish three airship Passenger lines next year. But for some time there will be no guarantee of the schedules. Fewer marriages this year mean that fewer men have bad jobs good enough for two, and have been sure of keeping them. Diamonds have been found in Ger- man southwest Africa, and already Von Buelow is trying to get revenues from them to build battleships, —_—_——_ It cost China $4,200,000 to bury its dead emperor, If the maintenance of a live one ts equally expensive mon- archy in the orient certainly comes igh. —_—_—_—_— France has voted by « substantial majority to continue the death pen- alty, This will be injurious to those persons only who commit crimes worthy of death. Wealthy natives of India have formed a company with $7,500,000 cap ital to erect at Bombay blast furnaces and @ complete steel plant for the utilization of native ores. That the magnetic influence of the coast of Lapland drew his iron ship ashore and wrecked it was the sworn statement of the captain of the Brit- ish steamer Sandal to the British board of trade. —_—_—___ “Grafters” in Australia are worthy people, for “to graft” there means to work hard. But the origin of that meaning of the word is as obscure as of the meaning now common in this country—to plunder the public. —_—__—— It is estimated that the aggregate of waste in all mineral products for the past year amounted to about one mil- Vion dollars a day, and this doesn’t {n- clude the unnecessary coal that the hired girls burn in the furnaces and ranges of the Jand. Lately we have had expert testimony to the effect that the oil business is hazardous and that the coal business is hazardous. Perhaps in time the phrase, “a hazardous business” will come to mean a business in which men make abnormal profits. Of all the schemes put forward to help the unemployed one of the most alluring is the proposal by the Glas- ow corporation to construct, at a cost of $80,000,000, a great battleship canal between the Forth and the Clyde, and thus to link up the North sea with the Atlantic, _—_____ A Matamoras newspaper calls atten- tion to a test of the pumping of water In the Rio Grande region for irrigation compared to the older method of con- structing dams. A 36-inch pump with 36,000 gallons’ capacity on a 24-foot \ift, was operated at a fuel cost of 62% cents an hour. In New Jersey an attempt will be made to restore to life the next viec- tim of the electric chair. It has fre- quently been contended that electrocu- tion was not fatal and that resusel- tation was possible, Still, nobody pro- poses to take that sort of — electri¢ treatment for his health, Although there i#. no national law against using the flag or shield of the United States for advertising purposes, the commissioner of patents has lately exercised his discretion, and decided that he will register no trade marks which contain the arms of the United States or of any state or city, or any part of such arms, News From All Over The State Boxcar Denot Burns. A car which for a year has ans wered as a station for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas at Tulsa, with all records, was destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is unknown, Isued Pardon. Governor C. N, Haskell has issued a pardon to Oscar Miller, convicted in the county court of Oklahoma county of disposing of intoxicating liquors, and sentenced to thirty days in jail and to pay a fine of $100. Sanitarium Report. The report of the Oklahoma sani- tarium at Norman for the year end- ing December 31 shows that on Jan- uary 1 of this year there were 431 patients in that institution, that 464 patients were received and 103 dis- charged. oe Found Her Dead. Not knowing that his wife died | five years ago, Charles Patterson, formerly a resident here, returned Saturday to try to effect a reconcilia- tion with the woman, from whom ‘he was divorced many years ago. He had not heard from or of her since they separated. Scalded to Death. | While looking into a kettle of boi!- tng water, which had been prepared for killing hogs, the 2-year-old son of W. C. Abbot, a farmer living near here, fell into the water and was so badly saclded that large pieces of his flesh came off with his clothes. Te cihld died a few hours later. Roff’s New School Building. The new $20,000 school uilding at Roff is now in course of construc- tion and when completed will be one of the most commodious and up to date school buildings in this section of the state. Roff is an applicant ‘for one of the state normal schools. Ninetl-Six Failed. Ninety-six physicians of the state out of a total of 496 who applied for license to the state board of ined- fecal examiners, which just concluded a four days’ session here, failed to meet the requirements of the law and regulations of the board and their applications were rejected. Among those refused licenses were Dr. Calvin D. Culley of Guthrie and Dr. W. L. Peters of Chickasha. Bishop Quayle Visited Tulsa. Bishop William A. Quayle of the M. E. chureh has been paying Tulsa an official visit. While here he gave three addresses—at the First M. E. church on Saturday night and Sun- day morning, and at the Bijou thea- ter on Sunday afternoon, speaking there to the men, This was Bishop Quayle's first appearance In this city. Bee Visions of Much Fruit. Fruit men with years of experience in raising fruit in this part of the country, say that Oklahoma will have the largest crop of strawberries, cher- ries, raspberries and blackberries, and other fruits in its history the coming season. They base their pre- dictions upon the fact that for the fi srtime in four years the ground has been frozen solid and covered with snow for severat days in suc- cession, Bucket Brigade Fights Fire. But for the viiant work of a bucket brigade, Kiefer, an oil town of 1,000 population, eighteen miles south of Tulsa, would have been wiped off the map by first last Monday night. As it was, four buildings were burn- ed, with a loss estimated at $12,000. Rumley & Son, and Frank Sutton were the heaviest losers, the for- mer’s being $” 500. Children Killed. Giving carbolic acid by mistake for cough medicine kilieé the three year old son of Clarence Gee, living nine miies west of Alva last Sun- day night. The mistake was made by the child's aged grandmother. Broken Shoulder. _ Sunday evening H. H. Elwood came to Morrison on a sled, and while go- ing home at a rapid gait the sled hit a bank, which threw Mr. Elwood out, breaking his shoulder blade. School in Good Shape. Supervisor Calvin Ballard of the tribal schools, who lives at Atoxa, says that from reports received from the schools in the various districts the attendance is very good. All of the academies are full to the limit and work at the institutions is pro- gressing nicely. There still remain a@ searcity of teachers, and it seems impossible to supply the demand. State Charters, State charters have been granted as follows: The Hobart Motor Power Company of Hobart, with $10,000 capital stock; incerperators, R. E. Nye, J. H. Mont- gomery and H. H. Hoover. The Central Presbyterian Church of Durant; the incorporators are W. F. Zinnecker, C. A, Moore and W, C. Tremble. ‘Alfalfa Mydics Have Meeting. _ The Alfalfa County Medical Society ‘met at Helena in its annual session jn the office of Dr. F. K. Slaton and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: W. M. Basset of Jet, president; B. E. Briscoe of Cher- okee, vice president; E. D. Elbright, ‘ot Carmen, secretary-treasurer; T. A. Rhodes of Goltry, delegate; J. EB, Un- derwood of Carmen, censor. The so- ciety has a membership of sixteen out of twenty-two doctors in the county. Death of Pioneer. The death occurred last Saturday at Guthrie of William A. Beyer, aged 70, a pioneer of Oklahoma and the father of Arthur and Eugene Beyer, officers of the Guthrie Savings Bank. He was a native of Germany, and moved with his wife and two children to Southeastern Missouri some forty years ago. From Missouri they came to Oklahoma in the pioneer days, ar- riving here in April, 1889, where he and his two eldest sons took a claim in this county. President of Retailers. In adition to the regular rontine of business last Saturday night the Retailery association of Guthrie held their election of officers, and are now ready for another good year's work. The following were elected: Presi. dent, Charles F, Eisenschmidt; vice president, J. A. Milne; treasurer, M. Collar; board of directors, Ed. C. Patterson, F. O. Lutz, F, B. Lillie, Nathan Patterson, F. B. Beamer, J. J. Houston and L L, Beland, ‘Oklahoma Gets a Factory. _ “Negotiations will be definitely clos- ed during the month between the Comemrcial Club of Bartlesville, Ok., and Robert T, Hall and R. T. Beakin of that city for the erection of a ten- ‘kiln pottery at Bartlesville, This will be the first general ware pottery to be built west of of the Mississippi river. Freight rates, however, from St. Louis east, are considered by the interested parties quite excessive, and it may be that before these rates are amicably adjusted no move will be made Ly Hall & Meakin toward start- ing construction,” He's An Actor. Will W. Davis, now playing a star part in James A, Herne’s great play, “Shore Acres,” is the brother of Ralph and Dr. wd Davis of this city. Mr. Davis takes the part in the play of Uncle Nathantel, one of the great- est human interest characters on the stage. Fell Into Fireplace, The 83-year-old daughter of Mrs. J. Adkins of Wade, fell from a high chair into a fire place, and received burns from which she died three hours later. Since the accident the mother has grieved over the loss un- tnd friends fear she mag ‘me her mind. Wagner Fooled the Critics, Here is a story of Wagner's visit to London in 1855: After the first Phil- harmonie concert the critics re proached him for conducting a Bee thoven symphony without the score. At the secund concert, to satisfy his audience, Wagner had a “partition” on his desk, which he frequently con- sulted. The critics declared the im- provement was marked. The score, however, was Rossini's “Barbler de Seville.” TOLD TO USE CUTICURA, After Specialist Failed to Cure Her In- tense Itching Eczema—Had Been Tortured and Disfigured But Was Soon Cured of Dread Humor, “I contracted eczema and suffered intensely for about ten a At times I thought I would scratch my- self to pieces. My face and arms were covered with large red patches, so that I was ashamed to go out. I was advised to go to a doctor who was a@ spectaligt In skin diseases, but I received very little relief. I tried every known remedy, with the same results. I thought I would never get bet- ter until afriend of mine told me to try the Cuticura Remedies, Sol tried them, and after four or five applications of Cuticura Ointment I was relieved of my unbearable itching. I used two sets of the Cuticura Remedies, and I am completely cured. Miss Barbara Kral, Highlandtown, Md., Jan. 9, "08." Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props, Bosiem, Folly, a ee | Him—I don’t see how you can bring yourself to kiss that dog. Her—And I suppose the dog don’t see how I can bring myself to kiss you. We're a foolish sex, aren't we? Were @ foolish sex, aren't we? e Wabvinal Constipation May be permanently overcome Dy proper personal efforts wulhiheas- sistance df The one Wuly beneficial \oxallive remedy, Syrup offigsab lucie f Sernaywtich encddes one'oform regular Tahits daily so thot assistance to nohare, may be gradually dispensed with when wo longer neededl.as the best of remedies whenrequired are Woassist Halure ord ndl to supplant Yhe naharal, functrows whch must depend wih— wolely upon proper — meu, Wefan nde pm CALIFORNIA we StS ELEY Fe ne +. |Positively cured by , digestion and Too Hearty A Eating. A perfect rem- Side, TORPID LIVER. hey regulate the Bowels. 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AT ALL DRUG STORES FOR WHISKEY AND DRUGS 1225 North Broadway. :: :: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma are the forerunners of dangerous diseases of the throat and lungs. If you have a cough, you can stop it with Piso's Cure. If you suffer from hoarseness, sore throat, bronchitis or pains in the lungs, Piso's Cure will soon restore the irritated throat and lungs to normal, healthy condition. An ideal remedy for children. Free from opiates and dangerous ingredients. For half a century the sovereign remedy in thousands of homes. Even chronic forms of lung diseases RESPOND TO PISO'S CURE VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS We Need The Schools Watch us grow----enrolled in High School Dept. High School 1906-22 THE CIMETER. W H. TWINE . . . Editor Published Every Week in the Interest of the Negro by Cimeter Publishing Co. Entered at the Post Office at Muskogee. Okla., as Second Class Mail Matter. VOTE FOR SO We Need T Watch us gr ed in High S High School “ “ “ “ The voting places for the school bond election, to be held next Saturday, are as follows: First Ward—Washington school. Second Ward—Sequoyah school. Third Ward—Jefferson school. Fourth Ward—Franklin school. People who live outside of the city limits north of the city will vote at Reevesville school. People who live outside of the city limits west of the city will vote at Hauck's barn. People who live outside of the city limits south of the city will vote at Dean's school house. All qualified voters can vote in this election. Colored Waiting Room at Katy Depot a Place Unfit for People. Where is justice? The colored people of Muskogee have suffered the hardships of public discrimination long enough and we demand that something be done to better existing conditions at the Katy depot. The colored waiting room at this depot is without exception the most vile, polluted and filthiest place we know of for the accomodation of our people, in the city of Muskogee. Our women are compelled to sit in an atmosphere of tobacco smoke and bad whisky while waiting for their trains, or expose themselves to the weather while white women are protected fro msuch outrages. Is this fair to the colored people? Is this complying with the law? The law specifies that the colored people be accorded equal accomodation in every respect to that of the whites. We respectfully invite the board of 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. CHOOL BONDS The Schools row----enroll- School Dept. 1906 - 22 1907 - 93 1908 -107 health to visit said waiting room and see the conditions there. Their failure to respond to our invitation will be considered a wilfull mal secous of their duty and therefore a violation of the state law. The tolerance of these conditions by the railroad company is a crime atrocious, revolting and shocking to public decency, and the criminals should be punished. It would be better not to have a toilet at all than have such conspicuously, indecent ones as are provided for the colored people at the Katy depot. Equal Accomodations? Bah! Away With Jim Crowism or Force the Railroads to Comply with Laws. The accomodation now being accorded the colored passengers on the various railroads through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and other states is an outrageous indignity on the fundamental principles of our government, and should be looked into by those whose sworn duty it is to enforce the law. If we must have Jim Crow cars, we demand accommodation equal in every respect to that of the white people, since we are compelled to pay the same fare. The condition of the apartments set aside for colored people on most of the roads are or should be, a strict violation of the state sanitary laws. In many instances, these apartments are found insufficient to accommodate the passengers, and the insanitary conditions enough to drive a sensible dog to hydrophobia. What is to be done? How long must the negro suffer to appease the whims of a few political demagogues whose very existence is the substance of human oppression? Where are our statesmen who have boasted of their square deal policies, and loudly decried the evil of discrimination? Thirtv-seven vagrants were rounded up early this morning and marched to a place of safety. Keep the good work going. --- The Macedonia church at Reevesville, better known as Reeves Addition, is progressing nicely under the pastorate of Rev. H. M. McMillan, who has conducted the affairs of the church for the last four months, and the condition of the church is said to be better now than ever before ni the history of the church. Rev. McMillan is an influential man and is highly respected by all who know him. He is a strong race man and in his work should do much good for humanity. 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. 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. 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Thirty years' experience. 170 page illustrated Book Free, giving much valuable information. Call at office or write to DR. C. M. COE, OFFICE, 915 WALNUT ST., KANSAS CITY, MO. SEEDS BUCKBEE'S SEEDS SUCCEED! SPECIAL OFFER: Made to build New Business. A trial will make you our permanent customer. Prize Collection Radish, 17 varieties; Lettuce, 12 kinds; Tomatoes, 11 the finest; Turnip, 7 splendid; Onion, 8 best vari- tions; 10 spring flowers; Bulb—all varieties in all. GUARANTEED TO PLEASE. Write to-day; Mention this Paper. SEND 10 CENTS to cover postage and packing and receive this valuable collection of Seeds postpaid, together with my big Instructive Beautiful Seed and Plant Book, talk all about the Best variation of Seeds, Plants, etc. H. W. Buckbee, 1706 BUCKBEE STREET. BOOKFORD, ILL. ```markdown ``` BARGAINS! BARGAINS! We have special bargains in real estate. Do you want a good home, business lot, or a farm we have it. A lot in Porter, Okla., in the business district at a bargain. Lots in Muskogee for $100 00; $10.00 cash down and $5.00 per month thereafter. See or write to A. J. SMITHERMAN Box G. Muskogee, Okla. FOR SALE. 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. I CURE CANCER My mild Combination Treatment is used by the patient at home. Years of success Hundreds of testimonials. Endorsed by Physicians, Ministers, Ete. It destroys cancerous growth, eliminates disease from system. No matter how serious your ease, how many operations you have had—do not give up hope. Write at once for FREE BOOK—"Cancer and Its Cure." DR O. A. JOHNSON, 1233 GRAND AVE. BOOBS 00-07. KARASAS CITY, MO. Dr. O. A. Johnson. Your home treatment owed the cancer on my face. I recommend it to sufferers. B. A. Walker, Glencoe, OK. R. 2. McCall PATTERNS 10 15 MORE HIGHLY McCall'S MAGAZINE 50 YEAR INCLUDING A FINE EDITION There are more McCall Patterson sold in the United States than of any other make of patterns. This is an account of their style, accuracy and simplicity. McCall's Magazine (The Queen of Fashion) has more subscribers than any other Ladies' Magazine. One year's subscription (12 numbers) costs 50 cents. Latest number, 5 cents. Every subscriber gets a McCall Patterson Free. Subscribe today. Lady Agente Wanted. Hadcome premiums or liberal cash commission. Pattern Catalogue (of 600 da sign) and Premium Catalogue (showing 400 premiums) cost free. Address THE McCALL CO., New York 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. I 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 Call on A. T. Clark when in need of Coal, Feed and Groceries. Corner 4th and Elgin Ave. Phone 901. THE ORIGINAL SCHOOL. Instruction by mail adapted to everyone. Recognized by courts and educators. Experienced and competent instructors. Takes spare time only. Three courses—Preparatory, Business, College. Prepares for practice. Will better your condition and prospects in business. Students and graduates everywhere. Full particulare and formal offer PIEEE. THE SPRAQUE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF LAW, 844 MAJESTIC BLOG, DETROIT, MICH. THE SPRAUGLE CORRESPONDERE SCHOOL OF LAW, 44 MAJESTIC LAND, DETROIT, MICH. BIGGERS BUSINESS COLLEGE. An Institution of Modern Methods. In this institution a thorough course in the following subjects is taught: Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, Commercial Law, Commercial Arithmetic, Business Orthography, Penmanship, Banking, Ad writing, Invoicing and methods of teaching. Diplomas granted, and positions secured for graduates. Trems reasonable. For particulars write for circulars or call at the college. Address C. A. Biggers, Pres., McCulloch-Sims Bldg. Muskogee, Okla. Business men, buy your carbon paper from Biggers Business College. it is durable and the best. Also have your stenographic work done, and your books straightened up by the Biggers Business College. College open day and night. WANTED Reliable colored woman to wash bottles and pear potatoes. Call Muskogee Tea & Coffee Co Convention Hall. South Second St. STUDY LAW AT HOME Prepare for success at the bar, in business or public life, by mail, in the ORIGINAL SCHOOL, Founded in 1850, successful businesses are everywhere, by bar and law colleges. Regular College Law Course and Business Law Course. Liberal Terms Special Offer Now. Catalogue Free. Sprague Correspondence School of Law, 733 Japonic Blvd., Detroit, Mtob Table Board, $3.00 per week Transient, $1.00 per day. WANTED INFORMATION REGARDING Farm or Business for sale. Not particular about location. Wish to hear from owner only who will sell direct to buyer. Give price, description and state when possession can be had. Address. L. DARRYSHIRE, Box 9999 Rockchester, N. Y. 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 interest to suit the man who gets it. Come to see me. Wm. P. Fields, Muskogee, Okla THE CIMETER J THE QUICK M THE CIMETER JOB PRINTING CO. THE QUICK MAIL ORDER HOUSE We do business by fair competition and conservative methods :: :: :: Reasonable rates made consistent with first-class printing :: :: :: :: Try us once and you will always send us your work :: :: :: :: South Second S Nickens & N Nickens & Nickens, Props. Pioneer Abstract Co. IOWA BUILDING This Company makes absolutely correct abstracts of title. Go there for correct information. Next to Bank of Muskogee. Muskogee, L. T. 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 estate, Furniture and Fixtures ..... 13,725.08 Cash and Exchange..... 310,703.36 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. Women and Children, and Venerial Diseases, Chemic and Microscopic Examinations. 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. OB PRINTING CO. IL ORDER HOUSE Muskogee, Ind. Ter. Nickens, Props. $1,629,033.42 Liabilities. CATARRH IN HEAD. 六 MR. WM. A. PRESSER. MR. WILLIAM A. PRESSER, 1732 Third Ave., Moline, Ill., writes: "I have been suffering from catarrh in the head for the past two months and tried innumerable so-called remedies without avail. No one knows how I have suffered not only from the disease itself, but from mortification when in company of friends or strangers. 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YOU WON'T GET REAL JUICE WRIGLEY OF REAL MINT LEAVES UNLESS YOU GET THIS PACKAGE WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT PEPSIN GUM THE FLAVOR LASTS $100 REWARD For any case of Chills or Fever, Swamp Fever, Dumb Ague or any ailment due to Malaria that SCHAAP'S LAXATIVE CHILL CURE fails to cure if taken accord- ing to the Directions. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents. Prepared only by John Schaap & Sons, Ft. Smith, Ark. FEAST FOR ANYONE POSSIBILITIES OF THE SWEET POTATO. In Many Respects Superior to Its Sister, the Irish-Three Good Ways of Serving the Succulent Vegetable. The sweet potato is not in so high favor as the Irish; yet it is not dis- yet it is not diseased like the latter, says Victor Smith, in the New York Press. Grated, it makes the finest pie you ever tasted. Sliced and candied, it is a dish of such excellence that children cry A woman is mixing ingredients in a bowl. for it—a la Fletcher. When a large yam is sliced a la Kornahrens, a sixteenth of an inch thin and fried in a caldron of superheated fat (beef suet preferred) there is nothing better to munch on. The sweet potato is as far ahead of the Irish potato as cauliflower is ahead of collards, the favorite vegetable of Champ Clark, minority leader of the house of representatives. It furnished the brains of the south for a century, and enabled the black man to live and wax strong and fat when other food was out of his reach. Let your mind dwell on "good ole possum, roasted brown, with plenty o' gravy en sweet taters all around de age o' the plate!" Browned Potatoes.—Wash and peal neatly two pounds of medium sized potatoes. When drained arrange them on a baking pan, season with salt and add two ounces of dissolved butter or meat drippings. Bake in a moderately heated oven until done. Shake the pan occasionally so as to get the potatoes nicely browned. To serve, drain them from fat and dish up on a hot vegetable dish. Stuffed Potatoes. — Take large, shapely potatoes, bake, when done cut off top of each and scrape insides out carefully, don't break the skin. Mash insides, adding buffer, cream, one beaten egg, and one finely-chopped onion if flavor is desired, season well. Take spoon and fill potatoes, replace tops, and return to oven long enough to heat and have arranged potatoes, caps uppermost, in deep dish or napkin and serve hot. These are excellent. Potato Rolls.—Three small, boiled and mashed; one cup warm milk, two eggs well beaten, one cake compressed yeast, one tablespoon lard, one tablespoon butter, one teaspoon salt, one cup potato water. Melt butter and lard in milk, mix well together, and pour into flour in mixing, take care not to use too much flour. Let rise and work down twice. Then cut with small biscuit cutter, dip tops in melted butter, fold and place in pans one-half inch apart. If wanted for six p. m. set about ten a. m. Starch That Wih Not Stick. Take flour instead of starch; mix it well in cold water; then pour the water boiling, stirring all the while to make it light; pour a little coal oil into it while hot; when ready to use blue it, strain it and then use it in the ordinary way. Clothes which have been in this starch can be ironed without any sprinkling in a case of hurry. When made according to this direction it will not stick, but it will make your ironing day light and easy. Try it and you will not use any other. Sandwich Rolls. These should be made from fresh bread wrapped closely in a towel wrung out in cold water as soon as taken from the oven, covered with several thicknesses of dry cloth and set aside for four hours. Cut away the crust, using a sharp, thin knife, and slice as thin as possible. Spread with butter and cover with thin shavings of meat, potted meat, or chopped nuts, roll the slices very closely and pile on a serving dish. MORE PINKHAM CURES Added to the Long List due to This Famous Remedy. Camden, N.J.—"It is with pleasure that I add my testimonial to your already long list—hoping that it may induce others to avail themselves of this valuable medicine, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I suffered from terrible headaches, pain in my back and right side, was tired and nervous, and so weak I could hardly stand. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored me to health this valuable medicine, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I suffered from terrible headaches, pain in my back and right side, was tired and nervous, and so weak I could hardly stand. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored me to health and made me feel like a new person, and it shall always have my praise." —Mrs. W. P. VALENTINE, 902 Lincoln Avenue, Camden, N. J. Gardiner, Me. — "I was a great sufferer from a female disease. The doctor said I would have to go to the hospital for an operation, but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound completely cured me in three months." — MRS. S. A. WILLIAMS, R. F. D. No. 14, Box 39. Gardiner Me. Because your case is a difficult one, doctors having done you no good, do not continue to suffer without giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial. It surely has cured many cases of female ills, such as inflammation, ulceration, displacements, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, indigestion, dizziness, and nervous prostration. It costs but a trifle to try it, and the result is worth millions to many suffering women. Advice to Mothers. Be positive with the children. Lay down the law. It is remarkable how soon they discover when you are in earnest. Do not go to the breakfast table in a flurry, but stop long enough to count 100 slowly, and then enter with a calm manner determining that there will be no squabbling. It is natural for the young animal to scrap, and while not criminal, still it must be checked to self-control. MIX FOR RHEUMATISM The following is a never falling remedy for rheumatism, and if followed up it will effect a complete cure of the very worst cases: "Mix one-half pint of good whiskey with one ounce of Toris Compound and add one ounce Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound. Take in tablespoonful doses before each meal and at bedtime." The ingredients can be procured at any drug store and easily mixed at home. He—Darling, all is over between us. She—Oh, George, this is so Abruzzi. Punch. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES, BACKACHE ER 375 "Guaranteed W.L. DOUGLAS $3.00 SHOES $3.50 CHARLES DOUGLAS $200 & $250 SHOES BOY'S SHOES $1.00 TO $9.00 The Reason I Make and Sell More Men's $3.00 & $3.50 Shoes Than Any Other Manufacturer is because I give the wearer the benefit of the most complete organization of trained experts and skilled shoemakers in the country. The selection of the leather for each part of the shoe, and every detail of the making in every department, is looked after by the best shoemakers in the shoe industry. If I could show you how to make a shoe, I would show you the understand why they hold their shape, fit better, and wear longer than any other make. My Method of Tanning the Soles makes them More Flexible and Longer Wearing than any others. Shoes for Every Member of the Family, Men, Boys, Women, Miess and Children. For sole shoemakers everywhere. For sale by store dealers everywhere. CAUTION! Name and price stamped on bottom. Fast Color Eyelids Use Exclusively. Catalog mailed free. W. L. DOUGLAS, 142 Sennk St., Brockton, Mass. 45 to 50 Bu. of Wheat Per Acre WESTERN CANADA Much less would be satisfactory. The general average is above twenty bushels. FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE "All are loud in their praises of the great crops and that wonderful country."—*Ex* tract from correspondence National Editorial Association of August, 1908. It is now possible to secure a homestead of 160 acres free and another 160 acres at $3.00 per acre. Hundreds have paid the cost of their farms (if purchased) and then had a balance of from $10.00 to $12.00 per acre from one crop. Wheat, barley, oats, flax—all do well. Mixed farming is a great success and dairying is highly profitable. Excellent climate, splendid schools and churches, railways bring most every district within easy reach of market. Railway and land companies have lands for sale at low prices and on easy terms. "Last Best West" pamphlets and maps sent free. For these and information as to how to secure lowest railway rates, apply to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or the authorized Canadian Government Agent: WRIGLEY WRIGLEY WRIGLEY Before You Start Put A Box of SCHENCK'S MANDRAKE PILLS In Your Grip And avoid the troubles caused by change of diet and water. They "LIVEN THE LIVER." For Sale Everywhere. Plain or Sugar Coated. 25 cents a box or by mail. DR. J. H. SCHENCK & SON Philadelphia, Pa. SEED OATS 60 cts. a bu. Per Salzer's catalog page 129. Largest growers of seed oats, wheat, barley, speltz, corn, potatoes, grasses and clovers and farm seeds in the world. Big catalog free; or, send 10c in stamps and receive sample of Billion Dollar Grass, yielding 10 tons of hay per acre, oats, speltz, barley, etc., easily worth $10.00 of any man's money to get a start with. and catalog free. Or, send 14c and we add a sample farm seed novelty never seen before by you. SALZER SEED CO., Box W. La Crosse, WI. WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT THE FLAVOR LASTS PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleanse and beautifies the hair. Promotes a luxurious growth. Never Falls to Eastern Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures scalp diseases & hair falling. 50c, and $1.00 at Druggists. WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT WESTERN CANADA'S 1908 CROP WILL GIVE TO THE FARMERS OF WEST A SPLENDID RETURN. The following interesting bit of information appeared in a Montreal paper: "Last December, in reviewing the year 1907, we had to record a wheat harvest considerably smaller in volume than in the previous year. Against ninety millions in 1906 the wheat crop of the West in 1907 only totaled some seventy-one million bushels, and much of this of inferior quality. But the price averaged high, and the total result to the farmers was not unprofitable. This year we have to record by far the largest wheat crop in the country's history. Estimates vary as to the exact figure, but it is certainly not less than one hundred million bushels, and in all probability it reaches one hundred and ten million bushels. The quality, moreover, is good, and the price obtained very high, so that in all respects the Western harvest of 1908 has been a memorable one. The result upon the commerce and finance of the country is already apparent. The railways are again reporting increases in traffic, the general trade of the community has become active after twelve months' quiet, and the banks are loosening their purse strings to meet the demand for money. The prospects for 1909 are excellent. The credit of the country never stood as high. The immigrants of 1907 and 1908 have now been absorbed into the industrial and agricultural community, and wise regulations are in force to prevent too great an influx next year. Large tracts of new country will be opened up by the Grand Trunk Pacific both in East and West. If the seasons are favorable the Western wheat crop should reach one hundred and twenty million bushels. The prospects for next year seem very fair." An interesting letter is received from Cardston, Alberta (Western Canada), written to an agent of the Canadian Government, any of whom will be pleased to advise correspondents of the low rates that may be allowed intending settlers. "Cardston, December 21st, 1908. "Dear Sir: Now that my threshing is done, and the question 'What Will the Harvest Be,' has become a certainty, I wish to report to you the results thereof, believing it will be of interest to you. You know I am only a novice in the agricultural line, and do not wish you to think I am boasting because of my success, for some of my neighbors have done much better than I have, and I expect to do much better next year myself. My winter wheat went 53 bushels per acre—and graded No. 1. My spring wheat went 48% bushels per acre, and graded No. 1, My oats went 97 bushels per acre, and are fine as any oats I ever saw. My stock is all nice and fat, and are out in the field picking their own three square meals a day. The weather is nice and warm, no snow—and very little frost. This, in short, is an ideal country for farmers and stockmen. The stock requires no shelter or winter feeding, and cattle fatten on this grass and make the finest kind of beef, better than corn fed cattle in lilis. Southwestern Alberta will soon be known as the farmers' paradise; and I am only sorry I did not come here five years ago. Should a famine ever strike North America, I will be among the last to starve—and you can count on that. "I thank you for the personal assistance you rendered me while coming in here, and I assure you I shall not soon forget your kind offices." Fersted Two Days and Nights. Commander Peary and his party, not turning famished from their futile dash for the pole in 1906, slaughtered a herd of seven musk oxen on Hazen island, off the extreme north of Greenland. For two days and nights thereafter they crouched inside their snow huts, eating continuously, and when they had finished, the pile of bones outside was "as high as a tail man's chin." Legislative News, Bills Introduced And Passed by Our Law Makers Members of the state mining board cannot draw per diem for more than twenty days in any one quarter, under an amendment to the mining law introduced by Senator Sorrels, author of the present law. At present there is no such limit. The stealing of cotton, growing, in the seed or baled, is made a felony in a bill introduced in the upper house by Senator Mitchell, and is punishable by imprisonment for not more than $1,000, or both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. Public Roads and Highways—I. M. Putnam, chairman; Joe Smith, Peter J. Coyne, W. S. Carson, Alex Savage, E. J. Earle, homas C. Whitson, J. J. Savage, L. L. Reeves, Ben F. Gilmer, R. L. Glover, A. L. Edgington and Joe Sherman. Elections—J. R. McCalla, chairman; Howell Smith, M. B. Cope, Geo. L. Wilson, S. G. Ashley, E. A. Ewell, Ben. E. Williams, Prentiss Price, Ben T. Harrison, W. B. Anthony and Jas. Lockwood. Labor and Arbitration—J. W. McDuffle, chairman; L. L. Reeves, J. S. Bell, S. G. Ashby, Ben T. Williams, Ed Boyle, E. Ewell, S. C. Burnett, An informal meeting of a number of state bankers was held here Monday in the office of Bank Commissioner Young at which the features of the Roddie bill for amending the depositors' guarantee law were discussed. Senator A. Billups, author of the famous Oklahoma "booze bill" passed by the last legislature Monday introduced in the state senate a measure designed to improve upon the present dispensary system. Local agencies are abolished and one sttae agency maintained. The sale of beer for medical or other purposes is absolutely prohibited. Druggists are to be supplied with whiskey, wines or alcohol in ve gallon lots or less, such liquors to be sold only when combined with a drug for medicinal purposes. State Auditor Trapp is holding up the pay of officers and employees of the legislature on account of an apparent defect in the Wilson bill pessed recently by the legislature which appropriated $100,000 for the mileage, per diem and contingent expenses of the second legislature. Mr. Trapp is issuing warrants to the members of both houses but expresses doubt as to his authority under the law to pay employees and officers without a separate appropriation bill specifically setting out the names and salaries of such employees. Meanwhile officers and employees are unable to draw pay for their services temporarily. Although several members denounced the bill in the strongest terms, declaring it to be pernicious, the house Monday passed the Tillotson bill providing for the method of leasing lands of minor children for oil and gas to third reading. Section 2 of the bill, as it originally stood, provided that the lands of minors could be leased without publication notice. Cope, among others, opposed this section and introduced as a substitute sections providing for three weeks' publication notices which might be reduced to one week in emergency cases in the discretion of the court. This substitute was adopted after a hot debate. The senate in committee of the whole Monday afternoon recommended for adoption Senator Franklin's child labor bill. Favorable action was also taken on the Yeager bill providing for a pension of $100 per year for any blind person haing an income of less than $150 a year, who has been a resident of the state for seven years, and the Cordell bill covering the procedure in regard to wills, providing that a husband may not will more than two-thirds of his property away from his wife nor a wife from her husband. A message was received from the governor stating two questions had come up in connection with the school land department. First, can the expense of the department be paid from the earnings of school fund and revenues from the school lands? Second, can the board employ attorneys to examine abstracts, draw lease contracts and do other work where legal knowledge is needed? Public Roads and Highways—I. M. Putnam, chairman; Joe Smith, Peter J. Coyne, W. S. Carson, Alex Savage, E. J. Earle, homas C. Whitson, J. J. Savage, L. L. Reeves, Ben F. Gilmer, R. L. Glover, A. L. Edgington and Joe Sherman. Elections—J. R. McCalla, chairman; Howell Smith, M. B. Cope, Geo. L. Wilson, S. G. Ashley, E. A. Ewell, Ben. E. Williams, Prentiss Price; Ben T. Harrison, W. B. Anthony and Jas. Lockwood. Labor and Arbitration—J. W. McDuffie, chairman; L. L. Reeves, J. S. Bell, S. G. Ashby, Ben T. Williams, Ed Boyle, E. A. Ewell, S. C. Burnett, Peter C. Coyne, W. F. Durham, Lon Lovelace, John Bridges, Isaac Jacobs, S. W. Murphy and John Bonar. Protection of Birds, Fish and Game—Joe Smith, chairman; Frank Huddleston, H. R. King, C. M. Anderson, Lyman W. White, Henry Ireton, George L. Wilson, D. C. Hughes, Isaac Jacobs, John Bonar and Eugene Watrous. Among the bills offered in the houses today was one by Mr. Maxey of Shawnee, amending the act covering carrying concealed weapons to violate this law while under the influence of liquor, even though he be a public official, and confined in the penitentiary from one to five years. The present penalty is a misdemeanor. Mr. Lovelace presented a bill proposing an appropriation of $140,000 for the School of Mines at Wilburton. $70,000 to be used for an ore building, $50,000 for a workshop, $25,000 for a laboratory and $40,000 for the first story of the main building. Mr. Price of Osage county, has a bill increasing the salary of the state bank commissioner $2,5000 and that of assistants $1,800 each, with expenses. Other house bills were: By Mr. Boyle: To prohibit the sale of convict-made goods unless they bear such label, and requiring bond of $500 from merchants selling same. By Mr. Glover: That taxes shall not be assessed earlier than the first Monday in June. By Mr. Huddleston: Locating a normal school at Ada. By Mr. Merry: Designating the fourth Tuesday in February of each year as primary election day for nominations in cities of the first class. By Mr. Ashby: Making Eldorado a court town in Jackson county. By Messrs. Glover and Iretan: Locating a girls' industrial school at Chickasha. By Mr. Covey: Offering a bounty of $3.00 each for wolves and coyotes and 5 cents each for jack and cottontail rabbits. By Mr. White: Locating the East Oklahoma Insane asylum at Hugo. By Mr. Cope: Repealing the statutes authorizing the employment of county auditors. Senate Bills. Among the senate bills were the following: By Senator Strain: Locating a girls' industrial school at Claremore. By Senator Williams: Providing a tax for retired and meritorious firemen. By Senator Redwine: Fixing the number of hours railroad employes may work. By Senator Hathcett: Creating a laborer's lien. His Second Term. Col. A. P. Watson, re-elected corporation commissioner at the last general election began the duties of his second term of office Friday. The oath was administered to him by W. M. Bonar, deputy clerk of the supreme court, in the presence of quite a crowd of spectators. Colonel Watson stated, however, that the re-organization would not result in any changes in officers or employees. Jack Love will be re-elected chairman of the commission. Members of Company M, Oklahoma national guard, of Oklahoma City, under Captain Fred Hunter, will go to Washington to take part in the inaugural parade. Kidney Trouble Contracted by Thousands in the Civil War. James W. Clay, 666 W. Fayette St., Baltimore, Md., says: "I was troubled with kidney complaint from the time of the Civil war. There was constant pain in the back and head and the kidney secretions were painful and showed a sediment. The first remedy to help me bled with kidney complaint from the time of the Civil war. There was constant pain in the back and head and the kidney secretions were painful and showed a sediment. The first remedy to help me was Doan's Kidney Pills. Three boxes made a complete cure and during five years past I have had no return of the trouble." Sold by all dealers. 50c a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Mice on the Pillow. "I'm not so much afraid of mice as some women," said she, "but I don't like them in my hair. The other night I finished a biscuit I was eating after I went to bed and naturally left some crumbs about, not meaning to, never thinking of mice. "Well, about the middle of the night I heard scampering, and there were the mice all over my hair, trying to get at those crumbs. "I tell you, I gave one shriek, sprang up, lighted all the gas in the room and sat up the rest of the night watching that pillow." His Vocabulary. He was an only child. They were very particular about his manner of speech, constantly correcting him so that he would use beautiful English. He, however, was allowed now and then to associate with other children. He played with a neighbor boy a long while one day and when he came home there was an ecstatic smile on his face. "I like that boy, mother," he said. "I like him very much. He swears beautifully. He knows every word." Absent-Minded Alderman. A Lynn (Mass.) alderman at a recent aldermanic meeting inquired what had become of an order he had introduced some time before calling for an arc light on Willow street. The city clerk, after digging into his files, informed him that the order had come before the board nearly a month previous and that he had voted against it. HER MOTHER-IN-LAW Proved a Wise, Good Friend. A young woman out in Ia. found a wise, good friend in her mother-in-law, jokes notwithstanding. She writes: "It is two years since we began using Postum in our house. I was greatly troubled with my stomach, complexion was blotchy and yellow. After meals I often suffered sharp pains and would have to lie down. My mother often told me it was the coffee I drank at meals. But when I'd quit coffee I'd have a severe headache. "While visiting my mother-in-law I remarked that she always made such good coffee, and asked her to tell me how. She laughed and told me it was easy to make good 'coffee' when you use Postum. "I began to use Postum as soon as I got home, and now we have the same good 'coffee' (Postum) every day, and I have no more trouble. Indigestion is a thing of the past, and my complexion has cleared up beautifully. "My grandmother suffered a great deal with her stomach. Her doctor told her to leave off coffee. She then took tea but that was just as bad. "She finally was induced to try Postum which she has used for over a year. She traveled during the winter over the greater part of Iowa, visiting, something she had not been able to do for years. She says she owes her present good health to Postum." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to Welville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. Isaac Jones, who lives in Reeves Addition, was Kidnap ped last by two white men, who pretended to be officers sent to arrest him for jail breaking. An inquiry was made at the jail but Isaac can not be found. What does this mean? If you don't get your paper notify us at once. Write Cimeter, Box G Muskogee, Okla. Clipped from THE OP PRU VIBURNIAN "THE SOCIAL EVIL." By E. D. Morrison, M. D. Do the children go free? Not a few! The hundreds and thousands who die before they see the day to which they have an immortal birthright, reach a happier home by a short cut which they have the opportunity neither to court nor to refuse. Not however, the illegitimate 70 out of every 1,000 children born in this America. These can hardly be said to escape the penalty of the social evil, even though their bodies, perchance, remain healthy and clean; their fatherless and motherless future is a curse beside which venereal infection would rank a blessing, if it included a kind home. Even the blindness which stocks our asylums with from 10 to 20 per cent. of all their inmates as the result of venereal disease, would be less harrowing were it only innocent in origin. Does it cause surprise to learn that the records of the past 20 weeks include 27 certificates of death from one congenital venereal disease, only four weeks out of the twenty yielding no reported cases. This recital is of itself a sufficient commentary on the prevalence of venereal disease, and primarily of the social evil. Each instance implies the same disease in father or mother, and shall I ask you to compare with this meager total the actual number that must have been reported as dying from Marasmus and other misnomers, but which should rightfully be attributed to the social evil. In France these figures are kept and given to the people as they will be here, and the infant death rate in France from venereal disease numbers over 35,000 in a year. The knowledge of these figures would, one might think, deter at least the physician from engaging in the social evil. Does the mottehr pay for the social evil! In think if the decision were left to the women the men must need depend on nature to satisfy her own demands. She is amplyable and never intended that her task should be delegated to any other than the wife and the mother. No physician exists today who dares gainsay this assertion in the face of the consensus of the international conference of the students of the venereal disease (Brussel). Had this congress come to any other conclusion, a physician's own experience and heart would give it the lie, and yet the teachings on this point have been either non-existent or unqualifiedly bad until recent years, as a consequence there has been two standards of morals, one of enforced chastity for the woman, and one for the indulgence for the man who has avoided the title of adulterer and prostitute only because the physician has allowed him to pretend he was satisfying at the woman's expense an imperative demand of nature. There are those who, whether through ignorance or even more culpable carelessness, still hold this ground. Only a few weeks ago a boy of the type from which men are made, received such advice from a man in the town in which he was at boarding school. He came to me to learn if it were necessary to his health to do what his senses told him was a crime. I submit the price paid by the mother of the home in the terms of those who care for her in her darkest moments. Dr. J. G. Clark said that 50 per cent of all plevic inflammatory cases originated from venereal diseases. Dr. Joseph Price said that 90 per cent of all pelvic suppurations and manly abdominal conditions were due to venereal infection. Dr. R. C. Morris said 80 per cent of his cases were due to venereal infection. Dr. B. C. Hirst said that 75 per cent of his were due to this awful and dreadful venereal infection. My friends, if these figures carry on their face the proof of immoral male tyranny, let us make the most of them. Does the body politic suffer from the social evil? Does America most need her 14,000,000 young men in a healthy active state for business and defense or can she use them to equal advantage when cripples, sterile, or infectious to others or suffering from this trio of the devil's malice toward men? Does it mean anything to a nation's prosperity that at sometime before adult life at least half her young men are laid aside for a time owing to venereal disease and become the means of incapacitating others; that some receive permanent disabilities; and that not a few are rendered industrially useless? Does she suffer from one year's (1900 census) mortality of 1,591 (934 males, 657 females), a mere fraction of the unreported total? Does she pay a heavy tax when a large percentage of those infested men and women become sterile, permanently and perpetually disabled from propagating their kind? Does it count that these diseases are responsible for many of the insane and blind? Does she find cause for regret that the immoral element takes bodily hold of politics and rules the town? This state of affairs pertained in one of our largest cities only a few months ago. And does the community learn with surprise of a needless annual outlay of public funds? In 1904 there were treated at the Philadelphia hospital of males alone 791 unnecessary cases of venereal diseases, and in 1905, 663 males and 175 females; while in the medical and surgical wards were as many if not more, in a chronic state. Venereal Disease? Everything, if every physician will but lend a hand; a great deal, with the few who are already openly able and willing to help. The effort is repaid if one boy or girl is thereby saved from venereal and moral infection. Would that there were no one in the medical profession who felt it necessary to see this movement become popular before offering his active approval! There are indeed, practical methods and the following are a few that have been tried and have stood the test. First and Foremost—The physician is responsible for a sane understanding of the normal sexual functions among his own clientele. He can impart this knowledge to the individual, male and female, either in his office, by word of mouth, or through literature; but if necessary he has the lecture room at his elbow; one or the other methods should be employed. The fantastic notion and the ignorance of otherwise intelligent adults regarding the normal sexual phenomena and the proper care and respect for their genital apparatus is not a high tribute to our supposedly unremitting thoughts for their welfare. Second.—Almost equally important is the instruction of fathers (which my father gave me when I was twelve years old) and mothers regarding the prevalence of the abuse of these functions, the reasons therefor and the consequences, including the statistics of the insane and blind asylums and of venereal disease and the communicability of the latter. The data furnish the only argument needed to do away with the double standard of morals for the man and woman. 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Will you tell him clearly that which he has a perfect right to know about himself, or shall he hear the distorted story, as he surely will from the hostler or the school-boy degenerate? Shall the mother advise her girls of their high privilege in life or shall they learn first of these things in gossip, or as sometimes occurs, from an infected and inflatious husband? I heard a noted gynecologist exclaim once upon a time, just after he had operated on a beautiful girl, "My God! I'd rather my daughter should never marry than see them on the table like that, and yet how can I prevent it?" he added. When I heard this cry I said again to myself, "The woman, at least, must be given the opportunity of knowledge, and the right to intelligently choose between the diseased and the clean." Third.—The criminal false modesty and prudery that has led and almost forced the medical profession to conceal the prevalence of venereal disease, should be exposed and must yield to measures calculated actively to protect the public. If disease is in our midst, and if innocent infection is possible owing to ignorance of the possibility, and largely preventable when the facts are known, then all but true modesty must step aside, or the physician shoulder the blame. Fourth. Societies are being formed the country over of which the privileges of membership are extended to aid in the work. A new field opens to women, both lay and medical, which men cannot cover. These societies should be local organizations, with the need of the 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. individual city or town as the immediate object in view. They can, if they desire, send delegates to a national organization. Fifth.—The names of these societies should plainly indicate their purpose, and display none of the false sentiment for the dissipation of which they sprang into existence. Such organizations already exist at home and abroad for the "Study and Prevention of Venereal or Social Diseases." Their work should be essentially educational. If legislation ever becomes possible, it will only be through an enlightened public whose knowledge at present amounts to the densest ignorance. I hope that the day will soon come when there will be a great gathering together of the common-sense, up-to-date, and wide awake people of this country who will become interested in considering instructions in the principles of normal sexual hygiene in the colleges and schools as one of the brighest signs that the ground has been broken for the sowing. If my people, (who top the climax in death rate of tuberculosis) would be more explicit and instructive to their girls and boys, the death rate of tuberculosis would decrease 10 per cent each year, because anything that tends to lower the vitality and resisting power of any individual will make the individual susceptible to tuberculosis. Just think; think! Sixth.—In all public and private expositions of the subject there must be strict emphasis laid on the dignity and nobility if the pure sexual life as a God given privilege. Charges of exageration and fanaticism are the inevitable attendants on every movement that inconveniences a portion of mankind. Substantial ground should never be afforded on which such claim can stand. The statistics of the social evil and venereal disease are of such magnitude that they require no amplification. (Concluded in February Issue.)