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Give Us Your Job Work! Satisfaction Guaranteed. Prices the est Call Us—Phone 143. Cimeter City Directory Advertisement in these columns is 25c per month. Cimeter City Advertisement in these co Lawyers and Real Estate Men. Firm of BROWN & STEWART, R. Emmitt Stewart and Geo. W. P. Brown. 212-213 Carter Bldg. H. T. WALKER, Attorney at Law. Notary Public. Room 20, Brown Bldg. S. H. MYERS, Real Estate—Notary Public. Room 7, Brown Bldg. BROWN & JEFFERSON, O. B. Jeqerson and W. Scott Brown, Jr. Rooms 5 and 7, Grown Bldg. Phones: Office 46; Res. 1201. R. T. THOMPSON, Dealer in Real Estate. Office—Room 20, Brown Bldg. ATTORNEY W. H. TWINE, Office Phone 143; Res. Phone 1327 Office, 211 S. 2nd St. Masonic Bldg. FIGHTING TENTH ON PARADE. Colored Troopers of Cavalry Regiment Back from Philippines. New York, July 26.—Back from two years' service in the Philippines and led by Major General Leonard Wood, commanding the Department of the East, the colored troopers of the fighting Tenth, the cavalry regiment which won a reputation for bravery in the historic charge up San Juan hill, drew busy Broadway from its customary routine for a time 'today while they marched up that thoroughfare from the transport Kilpatrick to the Sixty-ninth regiment armory. Crowds lined the curbs along the route and cheered the dusky regulars as, headed by the citizens' committee of negroes, they marched to the lively martial music of their splendid hand. At City Hall park Mayor McClellan and other city officials reviewed them. Then resuming their march they proceeded up town. Everywhere a heary greeting was given the soldiers. On their arrival at the armory they were served with refreshments, and there was speechmaking by Major General Leonard Wood and others. Tonight they will attend a theatrical performance. Tomorrow the regiment will proceed to its new station at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt. FIFTEEN MORE MUSKOGEEANS MADE KNIGHTS. Excelsior Lodge No. 52 is Made Stronger. There was something going in the Odd Fellows' hall at Fourth and Pond du Lae last Wednesday night when 15 fraternal assemblies appeared to take their turn on the back of the new Excelor Pythian goat, and until a late hour that night Dr. A. H. Tyson of Wewoka, and E. E. McDaniels of South McAlester, were busy initiating the boys into the dark mysteries of the order. The names of those who were initiated follow: J. E. Hart, J. H. Escoe, M. G. Pickens, S. E. Edwards, R. H. Graham, A. N. Peguen, W. E. Glenn, M. F. Brown, W. Scott Brown, A. C. Perdue, C. B. Bryant, E. J. Nevels, J. S. Howard, Lewis T. Brown and J. E. Johnson. This lodge was set up about one month ago by Dr. Tyson over a strong protest from some of the old lodges. POINTER8. The general worthlessness of advice is exhibited in the fact that most men give more than they take. The black squadrons in the republican ranks of this state are being handed a lemon by some of their "ideal" partymen. Oklahoma republicans, "Call you this backing your friends?" A plague upon such backing! "The miserable heve no other medicine. But only hope." Hope on, ye poor fools. The Negro voters of this state have done their best for the party and "He who does the best his circum-stance allows, does well, acts nobly—angels could do no more." It is grand, it is noble to help your race, but remember, you help your race most when you help yourself. Friendship is not always the friendship of a friend. A pleasing symphony: "To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rathe rhan fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, wealthy not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly." Mark that person who is continually deceiving the faults of others; who is always right himself and who is wrapped in a sheath of self-importance. Avoid him. It is better to leave a man a fool than to nake a fool of yourself trying to teach him. The Muskogee Cimeter. Physicians and Surgeons. DR. R. H. WATERFORD, Physician and Surgeon. Carter Bldg. DR. L. M. BANKS, Dentist. Office Hours—9 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 6 p. m. Sundays—By special en- gagement. Room 11, Brown Bldg. DR. H. D. PETTIFORD, Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist. Practice Therapeutics, Surgery and Obstetrics on Equine, Bovine, Ovine, Porcine, Canine and Feline. Office—Old Jall Barn, cor. 4th and Denison. DR. A. T. WARING, Physician and Surgeon. Res. 573 N. 9th St. Office 228 1-2 S. 2nd St. Over People's Bank, Escoe Bldg. Office Phone 644; Res. Phone 459. TOURIST BASE BALL TEAM. Not being able to match a game at home, the "Perry Kids", a hot team from Boley, under the leadership of Charles Perry, as captain, landed in Muskogee Wednesday morning with a challenge on his shoulder. The captain phoned to some one here Thursday endearing to match his "boys in red" with some Muskogee team, and was told to stop over. But when they arrived they found that the Muskogee boys are not used to playing extemporaneous base ball. They left the city Wednesday afternoon for some undecided destination expecting, one of the plays said, to land in Boley about the middle of August. BUSINESS WAS RUSHING. Seventeen Cases on Docket in Jefferson's Court Last Tuesday Morning. Some of the leading Colored lawyers of this city were present at Jefferson's court last Tuesday morning when court was opened and the docket called. Of the 17 cases on docket, the following were disposed of until today: Criminal—Jerry Davis, mortgageing property not his own; Alex Morris, assault and battery; Everett Ford, beating board bill; Lone Welsh, dis tarring the peace! Seymore Johnson, using profane and abusive language in the presence of ladies. Alexander Morris plead guilty and was fined $5. Civil—D. Radcliff vs. Geo. White, attachment suit, Davis & White (white), attorneys for defendant, Brown & Stewart, attorneys for plaintiff, the attachment was sustained. Isaac Rentie, plainie, vs. R. T. Colter, H. T. Walker, attorney for defendant, Lawyer Moore, attorney for defendant; Geo. Watson vs. Island Rentie, H. T. Walker, attorney for plaintiff, Brown and Stewart, attorneys for defendant; C. D. Winthrow vs. M. K. & T. railroad, garnishe suit; The People's Bank and Trust company was plaintiff in each case company was plaintiff in five different suits and in each case Brown and Stewart are attorneys for plaintiff. The Iowa Land & Trust Co. was also plaintiff in a suit v. Jerry Davis, Maxey & Runyan appeared as attorneys for plaintiff, and Attorney Stewart as interpleader. Late Tuesday afternoon John Doe and Carrie Brown plead guilty to disturbing the peace and were fined. STRIKE IS SETTLED. A Decided Victory for Union. The strike of laborers working on street and sewer contracts, which was on here for 10 or 12 days, practically tying up a street work and affecting nearly 1,000 men, many of whom were colored men, was called off last Monday night after a conference between Mayor McGarr, Labor Commissioner Daugherty, contractors and representatives of labor unions. This means that common laborers in Muskogee will get $1.75 per day for eight hours' work. This is the first time in the history of Oklahoma that the laborers came out victorious in a fight for their rights, especially where Nerries have been involved as strikers. It is reported that President Taft will visit Oklahoma its fall and Congressman Creager will see to it that the President does not leave Great Muskogee on his slate. If any one can prevail upon the President to include Muskogee in his list that man is our Charley from the Fighting Third. The man who united all the factions of the party in this district, tied them to his charlot wheel, overcame a Democratic majority of 5,000 and came under the wire with a 5,000 Republican majority is certainly making good. Now is the time to buy a home in magnificent Oklahoma. If you can't buy a farm, then buy a town lot. No one can lose by investing in Oklahoma sell. You can lay the foundation for a fortune by investing now. A Corner in BIGGER'S BUSINESS COLLEGE. Yes, Big Jim Harris will make a splendid state chairman and one who will organize the party from he grass roots up and lead us to a plendid victory next fall. St. John's Grand Lodge, F. and A. M. convenes at Boley on Aug. 3rd. Grand Master Curran will preside. Boley has been fortunate in having two grand lodges meet there this year and the third will convene after the Masons close, to-wit: the Odd Fellows. Muskogee has a building boom on that is second to none in the state. The Queen City of Oklahoma is making big strides for first place. TWO YOUNG HEARTS MADE GLAD Another Texan Weds in Muskegee. One of the prettiest and most elaborate weddings Muskegee has had for many years was that of Miss Amanda L. Hubert to Mr. G. W. Locust, on the 25th inst., at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. H. T Walker, 21st and Market streets The bride is a graduate of Prairie View State Normal College, of Prairie View, Texas, and the groom is also a graduate of the same school. She was most prettily gowned, while the groom wore a full dress suit. There were many visitors present, and many costly and valuable presents were received, a partial list of which, with the names of the donors, is given below: After the wedding the couple left on the evening train for Patterson, Texas, where they expect to reside. Muskegee Donors. Mesames Plats and W. P. Green, one dozen line napkins; Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Jones, linen table scarf; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Johnson, cake, wedding slippers; Mr. Jno. H. Escoe, ebony hand mirror; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Patrick, cream pitcher, fruit dishes; Mr. R. T. Thompson, two goblets and salad bowl; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Perdue, and mother, bust of Coquellicot; Mrs. Patsy Jenkins, fruit basket; Mrs. Mary Escoe, four A Corner in BIGGER'S Letter from B. W. Bradley reports the Oklahoma folks behaving nicely in St. Paul and that the Grand Lodge of U. B. B. F. is transacting business with distpatch. Muskogee is in the race strong for the next meeting. The Oklahoma forces are organizers and good fighters. Muskogee of course is in the lead. Judge Percival Adams leaves today for Seattle, Washington, and other western points. The judge will represent several old soldiers and other land seekers in the drawing for homesteads. There should be sent a number of students from this state to Wilburforce University at Tens, Ohio. It is the greatest school in the world for negroes and Oklahoma shall and must be represented in the g cat colleges. Watch! If it is out of order take it to T. Larue, the Jeweler. He can do the work. Satisfaction guaranteed. ECONOM YDRUG STORE, 305 So. 2nd St. FAITHFUL HARRY RETURNS. Was Glad to Get Back to "Good Old Muskogee." After nearly two months residence under the climes of tropical skies, Harry Montague, retuled to Muskogee last Wednesday afternoon from Dening, New Mexico. About two months ago Mr. Montague decided that a trip south would be good for his wife's health and after selling his house hold goods departed with his wife and babe for New Mexico. But a few weeks these failed to improve his wife's condition and they finally agreed to return to Muskogee. They left Dening Monday noon, arriving here Wednesday afternoon on the river. After placing his wife and child in a hotel Harry hastily made his way to the Climber sanctum to announce his return, and to assure old friends that he is still a fighter for the party and is ready to fall in line. "Yes, I am glad to get back to good old Muskogee." said Montague, "and I think I shall make my next here line towels; Miss Cleopatra Watson, linen table cloth; Mrs. Millie Watson, one bed quilt, gold stick pin, cake; Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Austin, dinner set; Mr. and Mrs. N. Scott, rug; Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Moore, desert plates; Mrs. Bessie Hume, one pair of linen towels; Hon. W. H. Twine and wife, water set; Mrs. Annie Downs, punch bowl; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sharp, olive dish (cut glass); Dr. and Mrs. A. T. Waring, hand embroidered center piece; Mr. and Mrs. Newman, pickle dish; Mr. and Mrs. Reed, china tea set; Misses Ware, sheets, towels; Mrs. Essie Fanniel, linen towel; Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Davis, two salad bowls; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Adams, night gown; Mrs. John Evans, two linen towels; Mrs. E. J. Ware, lunch; Mr. Bland Wharton, sheet; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas as Dent, two salad bowls; Master Robert Dent, puff box; Mr. and Mrs. Scott Jolly, two linen towels; Lawyer J. Henry Lill yand wife, half dozen linen towels; Mr. and Mrs. Mans Nutter, sheet and pair of pillow cases; Miss Velma Rliey, three desert plates; Miss Freddie Rliey, butter dish; Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Rourd, wine set; Mrs. . Rliey, cake stand; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Love, daughter and Mrs Drew, four sheets, four towels, four pillow cases, one dozen napkins, table cloth; Mr. A. L. Vorhees, two vases, water pitcher; Mrs. Roy Payne (white), pair of garters, handkerchief; Mrs. Fred Finley (white), pair of hose. of town donors. Mrs. H. P. Perkins and daughter (Dallas), bed spread; Mrs. G. B. Young (Waxahachie), pair of pillow cases; Mr. John T. Hubert (Houston), shopping bag; Miss Rachel Pendleton (Nashville), battenberg center piece; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Williams (West), table scarf; Mr. Walker Herndon, (Little Rock), pair o ftowels; Mrs. Nellie Green (Taft), belt; Misses Williamson (Waco), crochet center piece; Miss Alice Hudson (Waco), drawn work center piece; Mrs. L. B. F. Roberts (Waco), burnt teather souvenir; Mr. and Mrs. L. Russell (Waco), dresser and table scarf; Prof. Jas. C. Russell (Waco), silver cream spoon; Mrs. Rosa Catchings (West), table scarf, sofa pillow; Mr. Wm. Ransom and family (Waco), two floor pillows. BUSINESS COLLEGE. now. Muskogee is good enough for me." Subscribe for the CIMETER. THRONGS OF PEOPLE SEE FREE VAUDEVILLE. Plant Juice Medicine Co., With its Merry Comedians, in Leading Attraction of the Day. Every night about ten o'clock a great throng of people may be seen making their way north or south on Second street, and east or west on Okmulgree. They are citizens of Muskogee who have spent an hour under a spell produced by three comedians in the employ of the Plant Juice Medicine Company for the free entertainment of the public. One of the performers is a buck and wing dancer who evidently knows all there is to know about the game of "foot shaking." At intervals he inverts himself and pulls off some clever stunts which sets the audience wild. All of this in correct time to Guitar music furnished by a fellow comedian. Then, there is Woods, the ventriloquist, who appears with "Henry" and "Georgia" and puts on the finishing touches to the performance. This company is selling hundreds of dollars worth of medicine weekly. Money To Loan on REAL ESTATE and Personal Property R. H BEARD & CO. 220 N. Third St roundPier. Unleaged subscribe for the CIM&TERS. All that municipal ownership can hope to save a community in a monetary sense are the "profits" which are thought to be making the stockholders of service corporations rich. It is a matter of common knowledge that these profits are being and have been reduced to slender margins and with many companies wiped out altogether. The inability of municipal plants to buy supplies, materials, brains or labor as cheaply as private industries more than overcomes this margin. - H. J. Gonden Before the League of American Municipalities. Municipal Ownership In Practice Seen Through the Eyes of a Grand Forks Citizen. In an article on the gas situation in Grand Forks, N. D., Light quotes F. J. Janey, a prominent real estate man of that city, as follows: "As a real estate man and a member of the real estate board I did not vote at the recent meeting of the board for the issue of the $2,000,000 bonds for the purpose of buying the gas plant, and I stated at that time to the board that I was opposed to the ownership by the city of the gas plant. "I think that we have one too many of our city utilities already managed and operated by a committee of the city council. Our experience with the water business as it is managed by our council committee is not one which would make it desirable for us to place any other utility in the hands of another such committee. The difference between management by the council Committee and management by a private corporation is simply this: "The council committee are grinding their axes and making use of it for their political interests, whereas a private corporation has dollars invested and looks at it only in the way of a business enterprise, which it is willing to push in any way where it can see an increase of income. One is using it for influence and the other to earn dollars." "If you want a water main put in and apply to the city for it, you are lucky if you get it inside of three or four years. If you want a gas main put in and apply to the gas company for it, the company will have the main in in time to deliver you gas when your house is finished. "I should very much like to have an option on the city water plant at the cost of reproducing the same as it is today, and if I had it I could within four months place it with reliable parties who would agree to sell water at a less rate than we are now paying and who would not ask semioccasionally that the city tax itself in order to enlarge the plant, build reservoirs and filtration plants. They would simply look at these matters as to whether they would pay for putting in, and if they found it would increase their income they would raise the money themselves for the improvements." OFFICIAL EXTRAVAGANCE Ohio Has Been Robbed by Its Officials For Years. The state bureau of accounting is giving us something new to think about. It relates to extravagance in office and specifies the purchase of supplies, particularly stationery, as the direction which this extravagance has taken. Our news columns have been giving full particulars, showing that the people have been robbed of thousands of dollars by this excessive and needless expenditure of the public funds. It has been discovered that conspiracies have been formed by county officers for "rakeoffs" from needless purchases. And the evidence is so plain that the officers have hustled to return the money. This occurred in Adams county, but we are informed by the bureau that this form of graft covers the state. It is an alarming condition—to see how many public officers steal from those who have trusted them. We say "steal." for that is what it is, and it is hoped that the prosecuting attorneys will not permit it to pass for anything else. A man who will make a $500 purchase and rake off $100 from the price paid is as sure a thief as any man behind the bars in the penitentiary. We must throw away our soft gloves and handle things as they are or this country will go to the dogs. It is not simply the loss of the money, but the spirit in which the extravagance is committed is as fatal as treason. It runs down through the arteries of our public and private life like strychnine through the blood. It should be the doctrine of our public service that extravagance and needless expenditure is a crime—that official life is corrupt to the extent that it expends the public money beyond what is necessary to properly perform the public duty. That is the ideal that we need in the public service, and it is hoped the bureau of public accounting will keep on until that ideal becomes regnant in the official life.—Ohio State Journal. POLITICS RESPONSIBLE. Ever Present Reason For the Failure of Most M. O. Enterprises. The Duluth Eventing Herald recently printed an interview with G. R. Cosley, a representative of an electrical supply house, whose business gives him an insight into the workings of municipal lighting plants. Ms. Cos by thus diagnoses the trouble: "One thing more than any other is responsible for the failure of most municipal ventures of any kind, and particularly so in the case of electric lighting plants. That is too much politics. Too much politics results in mismanagement, mismanagement results in failure, and failure spells a big loss for the taxpayers. "I've seen plants in prosperous towns in a condition such as no private company would think of keeping them and no public company should either. They have gone to wreck and ruin, the machinery is out of order and the town is without light most of the time just because every new mayor appoints a different superintendent and every alderman and officeholder who has a political parasite he wants to reward gives him a job at the municipal plant. They do not do their work properly, and the plant goes to ruin." $1,000,000 LOST IN TOLEDO. How Brand Whitlock's City Tried to Run a Gas Plant. When Toledo installed her natural gas plant in 1895, to be abandoned eight years later, it was expected that the price of gas would be brought to a very low figure. The original cost, $1,500,000, was met by the issue of $4½ per cent bonds, $1,050,000 of which is still unpaid. The business was unsuccessful from the start, and the very men who had advocated the undertaking and made their private profit from it soon advised that it be sold. As its gas field became exhausted the city tried to secure a new supply, but its efforts were frustrated by the fact that it had to advertise its intention for sixty days, giving others a chance to get in before it. Finally the main part of the plant was leased, and in 1903 the lines and mains outside the city were sold for $102,000, of which $27,000 was protested by the purchasers on the ground that several miles of pipe included in the sale was not delivered, having previously been stolen from the city. It is impossible to tell how much the city grill ultimately lose by this experiment, but it will be undoubtedly in excess of $1,000,000. A request to the mayor for information elicited a reply from his secretary which gave no hint that a loss had been incurred except the following: "However, the experiment was of much greater benefit to the city than the figures show, for this reason: The consumers of natural gas in Toledo have been given a lower rate than any other city in the country, with perhaps one or two exceptions, for practically the last fifteen years. The low rate was brought about by the competition that began when the city entered the field." If this were true it might be an adequate offset to the loss on the plant, but unfortunately the facts do not bear out the statement. The 1007 edition of Brown's Directory of American Gas Companies gives more than 100 cities and towns in Ohio alone where the rate for natural gas is lower than in Toledo. This is a good example of the sort of "information" which is given out by city officials who are in favor of municipal ownership for political or other reasons. SOME INTERESTING DECISIONS Cities Liable For Damages When Persons Are Hurt or Killed by M. O. Electric Current. It has been claimed that municipal electric light plants are not liable to one item of expense, which in the case of private plants is sometimes a very large one—viz, damages for injury or death due to contact with a live wire. If this were a fact, it would only go to show the unfairness resulting from municipal ownership in making an innocent individual bear all the burdens of an accident which may result from municipal parsimony or carelessness. While the decision of inferior courts has sometimes been in line with this claim, recent decisions of higher courts are opposed to this view. In the case of Davout versus the city of Alameda the supreme court of California held the city liable for damages, but the case was complicated by the fact that the municipal lighting plant was engaged in a commercial business as well as in lighting the streets. The supreme court of Indiana has just handed down a decision where this complication is not involved. In the case of Alken versus the city of Columbus it holds that municipal ownership and the management of municipal utilities do not make such business a government function to the extent of relieving the city from liability for negligence, and it must pay damages to a person injured by the fall of a defective live wire. Although they are not at hand for reference, we recall similar decisions by the courts of other states. It is worth noting that in general where damages have been assessed against municipal plants or where extraordinary legal expenses have been incurred on account of them the amounts have not been charged against the operation of the plants, let have been paid out of the general tax levy, thus enabling the plants to show a lower "cost" of operation than would be the case if the items had been properly charged. Matin's New Cafe is the place for all lovers of something good to eat. Buy a $4 50 meal ticket for $3.50 and save money. 108 Court St. Phone 1654 Martin, Jas, H. Mgr. HARRIS MEAT MARKET. All kinds of fresh and cured meats and lard, game in season. Phone 177 Convention Hall. ST. LUKE'S PHARMACY For your suvenir cards. We have the finest assortment in town. Call on A. T. Clark when in need of coal, feed and groceries. Corner Fourth and Elgin. Call and see the late jeweler T. LaRue, recently of Little Rock. Watch work a specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed. 305 S. Second, Economy Drug Store. Legends of Wallenstein. It was reported that he had ordered an officer to be put to death for appearing at his levee with the clank of spurs, and that he had hung a valet de chambre for presuming to wake him without orders. It was said that his palace was built on the ruins of a hundred houses, that his stables were of the most sumptuous description, that each horse had a rack and manger of polished steel, and that the stalls were divided by intercolumna-stalls were divided by intercolumna-Daveport Adams. "Your honor," exclaimed the lawyer for the defense, "we retained that witness and here he is shamelessly testifying for the state." "You will explain," remarked the court severely. "He regarded the money paid by the defense as an option only," said the witness. "The other side made a better mid, and the option expired." "Well, we'll get our money back, that's all," rejoined the lawyer, hotly. --Philadelphia Public Leder. "Bilgins' children are wonderfully clever." "Yes," answerd Miss Cayenne. "He says they are always singing or reciting or sayin' something clever." "His home must be very happy." "Perhaps. Only it must be a little too much like a perpetual musical comedy." YOU CAN GET RELIEF free When All Others Fall DEN'S STATIC CURE R FAILS THE GUARANTEED Station, No. 2, Aug. 16, 1908 Deputy Sheriff of Rowan County Commissioner for ten years, have set of the time, could not sleep wrings, Ark., for six weeks but grew five bottles of Breeden's ing same I can sleep at nights, call my work. J. L. Rutty, Deputy Sheriff. Our Dealer for a Sample Bottle SIX BOTTLES FOR $5.00 write Information Dept. CO., Chattanooga, Tenn. AINT & GLASS PANY, DON'T SUFFER WHEN YOU CAN CURE It Cures When All C BREEDEN RHEUMATIC NEVER FAILS EVERY BOTTLE GUARANTEE Sallsbury, Sub Station, No. 2, Aug. North Carolina, Rowan County J. J. L. Kutty, the Deputy Sheriff of Row have been suffering with Rheumatism for ten been continued to my bed part of the time, cou at nights and went to Hot Springs, Ark., for si till got no relief. I have used five bottles of Rheumatice Cure and after taking same I can slee walk as good as ever and do all my work. J. L. Kutty, Depu Sold Everywhere. Ask Your Dealer for a S $1.00 PER BOTTLE, CR SIX BOTTLES T For further information, write Information BREEDEN MEDICINE CO., Chaffan MUSKOGEE PAINT & COMPANY, DON'T SUFFER WHEN YOU CAN GET RELIEF It Cures When All Others Fail BREEDEN'S RHEUMATIC CURE NEVER FAILS EVERY BOTTLE GUARANTEED Sallisbury, Sub Station, No. 2, Aug. 16, 1908 North Carolina, Rowan County L. J. L. Ratty, the Deputy Sheriff of Rowan County have been suffering with Rheumatism for ten years, have been continued to my bed part of the time, could not sleep at nights and went to Hot Springs, Ark., for six weeks but will got no relief. I have used five bottles of Breeden's Rheumatic Cure and after taking game I can sleep at nights, walk as good as ever and do all my work. J. L. Ratty, Deputy Sheriff. Sold Everywhere. Ask Your Dealer for a Sample Bottle $1.00 PER BOTTLE, CR SIX BOTTLES FOR $5.00 For further information, write Information Dept. BREEDEN MEDICINE CO., Chattanooga, Tenn 831 West Okmulgee St. Phone 360. Mus J. H. HAMILT REAL ESTATE, LIFE INSURANCE NOTARY PUBLIC LEGAL DOCUMENTS DRAWN AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Postoffice Box 62. Telephone BRISTOW, OKLAHOMA MILTON LIFE INSURANCE PUBLIC. TOWN AND ACKNOWLEDGED Telephone No. 71. OKLAHOMA. A. J. SMITHERMAN. Advertising Manager and Traveling Agent. Published Every Week in the interest of the Negro by the Cimeter Publishing Co. Entered at the Postoffice at Muskogee, Okla., as Second Class Mail Matter. WANTED—A lot of colored farmers, share crops, stock, poultry, truck, mixed farming. I furnish provision and everything. Good land. Big money for willing workers. Immediately see C. K. Marks, the Land Man, Ohio Building, 120 South Second St. MONEY TO LOAN We also sell lots on easy terms and build houses. Don't pay rent. See us. F. T. MARTIN & CO. 309 West Okmulgee. NOTICE. When no one else will loan you money, or sell you a house on any plan to suit you, or build you any kind of house you may want, go to Wm. P. Fields at No. 1 English Block in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He will trade any way or for anything. WM. P. FIELDS. Money to loan on farms, improved or unimproved, anywhere in Oklahoma. Long time, low rate of interest. Call, phone or write and let us know what you want. "Bring numbers of land." R. T. COLTER, 311 West Broadway, Muskogee. Phone 1055. SALESMAN WANTED—At once. Local man to take orders for high grade western grown nursery stock. Experience unnecessary. Outfit free. Cash weekly. Write for terms. Anyone intending to plant should ask for our catalogue. IT'S FREE. Address National Nurseries, Lawrence, Kansas. Special Bargains Ten acres of good farm land near the city of Muskogee; will go at a snap bargain—act at once Acocks A. J. Smith comm Muskogee, Okla. CAFE MARTIN Honesty. A Too Hilarious Firesica WITHOUT BENEFIT OF GRACE OLD MAN LIKE MANY OTHERS Dinner Went Unblessed Because Minister Refused to Compete with the Parrot. "Speaking of parrots," said the sky pilot, "I used to visit a parchioner, a pretty widow, who owned one, and what she said to him I don't know, but he seemed to have it in for me. He picked at me every time I came into the room. The moment I entered he knocked his head, gazed at me out of one eye, and said in a soft guttural tone, 'Let us pray!' Now, of course, that's my business, praying, but you want to let up on it occasionally, especially when you are calling on a pretty widow. She taught it to him. I am certain of it. When he said it she laughed fit to kill. I thought she'd never quit laughing. "Then, one evening, I took dinner with her. It was quite a large party and a merry one, but when dinner was served, of course she motioned me to say grace. I bowed my head with the others and was about to begin, when the parrot from the window at the other end of the room yelled sharply: "Amen!" "They couldn't help laughing, of course, and I lifted my head. 'Now, book here,' I said, 'there's one thing I'm not going to do. I'm not going to compete with a parrot who leaves off so abruptly just where I am expected to begin. We'll have to eat this dinner without grace,' and we did." TOO MUCH FOR MRS. PIGGINS Had Come to Attend Business Meeting, and Organ Recital Was Not to Her Taste. It was to have been a business meeting of the Ladies' Aid society, but it took some time to get down to business. Mrs. Wiggins had to tell everybody about her recovery from a recent operation for appendicitis. After she got through, it reminded Mrs. Higgins of an operation she had undergone a few years ago for the same thing, and she told about it at considerable length. That reminded Mrs. Bliggins of the time when she thought she had heart trouble, and went to a physician, who told her it was something else, and she would have to have an operation, and how she had it. When she got through, Mrs. Triggins was moved to tell about an operation that had once been performed on her for something else. At this moment Mrs. Piggins arose to go. "I thought," she explained to her hostess, who intercepted her in the hall and tried to get her to stay, "that this was to be a business meeting, but instead it seems to be an organ recital." Desert Island Book "When I wish to be really educated," the A. B. lady declared, "I shall be cast away on a desert island with a Standard Unabridged dictionary. And I shall stay there till I have read it all! Think how much I'll learn—science and philosophy, and more French and German phrases than I have at my tongue's end now. And geography—and my own language—I'll have a bigger vocabulary than any author. And as for literature—do you realize how many quotations there are in a dictionary? More than you could find in a whole system of authorites. "They make fun of the idea of a walking dictionary. I tell you a woman who really was that wouldn't need to be signaling equal-pay teachers' positions!" King's Costly Napkin. Diego de Torres, the Spanish ambassador who visited the emperor of Morocco in 1547, found that knives, spoons and forks were unknown at the royal table. Each guest helped himself with his fingers and cleaned his hand with his tongue, executing the emperor, who performed that "office on the head of a black boy, whom he retained by his side in readiness. The emperor, observing the ambassador smile, asked him with what Christian kings wiped their hands at meals, and what such things were worth?" "Fine napkins," replied the ambassador, "a clean one at every meal, worth a crown apiece or more." "Don't you think this napkin much better?" said the emperor, wiping his hands again on he black boy's head, "which is worth 70 or 80 crowns?" Draw Your Own Conclusions. In an English school the children were asked to come prepared with the meaning of the word "bachelor" for the next lesson. This was one little girl's confident definition: "A bachelor is a very happy man." The teacher wanted to know more. How did the child know that? "Father told me so!" "No, but I can show the dent. He bit me in my wooden leg." "The dog is discharged. His chagrin and disappointment must be considered a sufficient punishment. Next case." They Got Together They got together. "Use headwork," urged the manager of the department store. "Yes, sir," said the salesman. "For instance, if a lady buys some lawn it ought to be easy to sell her some hoe." If We But Knew, There Are Numbers Who Could Do with Services of Green Parrot. We are all striving for two things—success and happiness. To get these many of us are struggling for a third—fortune. In striving to attain our desires many of us need a green parrot. Out in a little town in Iowa, in the midst of a great stretch of timber and meadow, a man built a castle. Something over $25,000 he spent in building a home. It was finished within with the finest polished woods. The foundation was of brown stone, the windows of French plate, and every detail was carried out in the best manner. He had grown to be an old man. He had always lived in a modest cottage of six rooms. This mansion had fifteen. On one side there was a magnificent stone arch over the paved drive that led up to the house. He had just completed showing a friend over the place and reached this point, when the visitor exclaimed: "Well, John, you ought to be happy. This is a magnificent home. Here is everything one could wish for." "What," replied the old man, who was a cattle buyer, "a fellow always wants something else." "What on earth could you want?" was the query. "A green parrot to hang up thar in the drive." "Why a green parrot?" "So every morning afire I drive out he would say: 'John, you're a darn fool.'"—Cleveland Press. LEFT STORY WITHOUT MORAL Judging from Boy's Comment Father Who Believes in Early Rising Must Stick to Shingle. Is there a boy in the world who doesn't hate to get up in the morning? A Jersey man who has three possible future presidents does not think so. With his he has tried everything from a bucket of cold water and a shingle to proverbs. The shingle seems the best argument. The proverb was in this nature: "You know Jones?" the father remarked at the dinner table, addressing his wife. "Well, he is a very early riser—takes a long walk before breakfast every morning. Besides the good it does his health, he says that he finds any number of things on the street—he got up at 5 o'clock the other morning and found a pocketbook containing $20 before he had waited a block." The oldest boy looked at his brothers, and grinned. "Wonder what time the man who lost that pocketbook got up?" he remarked—illustrated Sunday Magazine. Not Worth Shingling. The late Thomas Bone, "the sailor's missionary," was the soul of kindliness, but he was seldom worsted in repartee. One of the many instances of this given in his just-published life is the following: "His work was not without its humorous side. Among the new men there were always some who sought a little amusement at his expense, but they reckoned without their host. His kindly manner never changed. The smile never left his face. There was no venom in the retort, but it seldom failed to silence the interrupter. The laugh raised at his expense made it quite certain that no second attempt would be made. "Seeking him approaching one day, one of a group of sailors announced his intention of having some fun. He stepped forward and removed his hat, revealing a perfectly smooth crown, and asked: "Can you tell me why my head is so bald, while all my companions have plenty of hair?" "I don't know," was the smiling reply, "until the reason given me the other day by a farmer would apply, that an empty barn is not worth shingling."—Judge. Luck on the Stage Stock exchange men, and racing men regard luck as a side issue. They follow it secretly and make excuses for it if it goes astray, as if it were a personal friend; but the actor has a deep reverence for it, and superstitious customs that spung into observance during the restoration period are still maintained in the age of socialism and problem plays. It is almost pathetic to see the joy that beams in the faces of a theatrical company at rehearsals if a harmless, necessary cat strolls on the stage; but if the cat sits down and appears to watch the proceedings with approval the joy becomesatic. Nurse for a Hotel. At one of the hotels in New York a nurse has been installed whose duty it is to take care of the children of guests who come without nurses. The proprietor says that very often a woman is obliged to come without a nurse and in consequence is tied down by the baby and, moreover, obliged to consult a strange physician if it is ailing. The nurse takes care of all that and her services are not charged for. Effort Appreciated. "So you were deeply touched by the poem young Mr. Guffson wrote to you," said Maude. "Yes," said Maymie. "But it was not a good poem." "I don't care. It was just as much trouble for him to write it as if he had been Shakespeare." ENDED ALL SHOW OF DIGNITY Mr. Newlywed's Extremely Modern Form of Introduction Broke the Ice at Once. They had been married only two weeks and were going to spend the evening with friends. They were to meet friends of their friends there. It was expected that there would necessarily be a show of dignity when the bridegroom and the bride arrived. All of the company was there and sitting around looking its sweetest. A bride always makes dignity essential. It happened that the bridegroom was the particular friend of the host. The latter never met the bride. She was coming into an entirely new circle. It was expected that when the Newlyweds arrived that Mr. Newlyweds would stagger and blush when he introduced Mrs. Newlywed as his wife. Not so for this boy. He sauntered in preceded by the dignified bride. Everybody in the parlor bristled up. But it wasn't to be a bristling affair at all. Mr. Newlyweds simply swept around, caught the host by the arm and led him before the bride. "Dave, meet the old lady," he said. Dignity exit. Everybody laughed and got acquainted in a hurry. The good-natured introduction of the host to the bride loosened up the strings of social stress. "The old lady" found herself among friends. LIBERALITY IN MORAL CODE Too Many of the Great Financiers of To-Day Are Believers in the Idea of the Brazilians. Joseph Widener, a young Philadelphia millionaire, was entertaining a party of Anglo-Americans at luncheon at the Ritz, in London. The day was mild and sunny, and the French windows of the beautiful restaurant stood open on the green park and Piccadilly. A limousine glided swiftly past Devonshire's house, a well-known American millionaire sat in the sumptuous car, and Mr. Widener, nodding toward the man, said to his neighbor: "That is Bonn. He made 19 millions last year." "Is he honest?" the neighbor, an Englishman, inquired. Mr. Widener laughed. "Well, Lord John," he replied, "Bonn's moral code resembles that imputed to the Brazilians. It—er—is liberal. It countenances many shady things. "In Brazil, you know, in introducing a friend to your banker, in recommending him to a business associate and so forth, you show the highest confidence in him—a confidence that can go no further—when you say: "This is my friend. For all he steals I will be responsible." Had to Use Long Hand. "To take down dozens of letters in long hand is a queer experience for an expert stenographer," said the New York young man with a pencil and note book. "But that was what I did when I held a hospital position. The letters were written for the charity patients. My work was supposed to be confined to the superintendent's office, but when a man too ill to write his own letters expressed a wish for an amanuensis I was put on the job owing to my facility for picking up and transcribing languages. Almost a third of the letters I wrote in the wards were taken down in long hand. Many of the patients of Polish and Russian birth had a dread of shorthand. As soon as they saw I was dealing in mysterious dots and dashes they got scared. They felt sure that I could not report them properly by means of signs and they began to fidget, so in order to pacify them I wrote out the message in long hand right under their eyes." Rats Killed the Snake. Two big gray rats fought a battle with a rattlesnake the other day and the rats won. The snake was purchased by a grocery firm in Dalton, Ga., for a window display and two big rats were obtained as food for the snake. When the rats were placed in the cage with the snake it made no effort to molest them. A crowd gathered to witness the snake eat the rats, but it was over an hour before the rattler moved to attack. The rats showed fight from the start. While the snake was after one the other would be plunging its teeth into the snake's body. After an hour the snake succumbed. One rat was nearly dead, while the other apparently was unharmed. As a tribute to its valor, the unhurt rat was released. The rattler measured seven feet in length. Shows Value of Advertising. Some idea of the enormous sums spent annually for advertising purposes along broadway may be gained from the statement that a certain firm has offered $40,000 a year for the exclusive use of a tall illuminated tower overlooking Times Square. This is by no means a record figure, however, in a district where blank wall space capable of bearing an ordinary painted sign rents for $100 a month or more. Had a Fellow Feeling. A little boy had lived for some time with a very pernicious uncle, who was one day walking out with the child at his side, when a friend accosted him, accompanied by a grey hound. The little fellow, never having seen a dog of so slim and slight a texture, chasped the creature round the neck, with the impassioned cry: "Oh, doggie, doggie, and did ye live wi' your uncle too, that ye are so thin?" Is Said to Contain a Recipe for Irish Stew That Is Superior to All Others Known. The announcement that Queen Alexandra and Lady Dudley are to co-operate in the writing of a cookery book should make all Anglo-Saxon housewives prepare their culinary departments for an attempt at some famous dishes. The queen is known to be an adept in the kitchen and she has a recipe for an Irish stew that should make eye Irishman's mouth water when he reads it, or, better still, when the recipe takes practical shape, for him, in his good wife's culinary accomplishments. That reminds us that the stew is by no means a favorite dish in this country; the average housewife looks upon it as a family dish that absorbs resurrected products of bygone meals and is never intended for company. How different in Europe where the chef has a thousand and one ways of connecting a stew, the very memory of which inclines one to snuck the lips enjoyably. Here the stew is a desplained and mostly rejected thing, unless it consists of kidneys and choice portions, say, of the fows. We may have to thank Queen Alexandra if we can see the introduction of a variety of stews such as we have tested in Europe into our own houses. With a fine relish, we say, "Oh, let it be soon!" In the matter of liquid compounds, there is the queen's famous concoction of sole仁 and elderberry wine. What excitement in our kitchens a few weeks hence! The queen's determination to publish her recipes doubtless has been promoted by the success and popularity of her photograph albums, which now are to be seen on this side in number. SENATOR WAS DOWN THE ROW Governor of State Outranks the Representative in the Upper Branch of Congress. Many people will be surprised to learn that a governor outranks a senator, according to the law of precedence in vogue in other countries. A few years ago the new senator from Vermont, Carroll S. Page, was crossing the Atlantic with the late Senator Redfield Proctor in the Cunard steamship Campania. They had, of course, seats at the captain's table. Senator then (Governer) Page was surprised to find himself occupying the post of honor, with Senator Proctor seated further down the table. This is the modest governor of the Green Mountain state thought was not quite correct and he remonstrated, explaining that there must be some error, as his friend was a United States senator and his superior in rank. He was told that a governor outranks a senator—National Magazine. Origin of America's Name. It is a curious chance that America received its name from a German geographer. Old Prof. Waldseemueller made a mistake, indeed, when he named the new countries at Brazil after the Florentine Amerigo Vespucci. It would have been far more just to name the new world after Columbus, but though Waldseemueller recognized his mistake and withdrew the name, it remained in use. And curiously, enough, that Amerigo Vespucci whose name gave origin to the name of America, had himself, though an Italian, still a German family name, Emmery, Emery in English. Thus America is a continent with a German name, the meaning of which might, perhaps, be interpreted as "rich in corn"; if this is correct, Prof. Waldseemueller chose an "incorrect but appropriate name,"—Prof. Albrecht Penck, in Science. Just Cause for Pride. The man admitted his wife just about as much as any man our admire a wife, nevertheless when he saw that she was devoting more and more time each day to mirror gazing 'hid determined to take her down a peg. Said he, brustly: "I wouldn't be so stuck on myself if I were you, just because people happen to notice you when you go out. It isn't you they're admiring its your clothes. I heard a bunch of women say so the other day." For an instant the shock to the woman's vanity overpowered her, then, quickly recovering, she said: "In that case I am prouder than ever. Nature is responsible for me, but I designed the clothes myself." And then the man shut up. A Millinery Escape. The woman was rushing so wildly out of a hat store that she dashed against her friend without seeing her. "What's the matter?" asked her friend. "A fire?" "No," the woman panted. "It's a hat That girl in there! She's so magnetic If I hadn't jabbed on my own hat and run as hard as I could she'd have made me buy a hat as big as all our doors, with a whole cherry tree on it that made me look like the very old Nick." The Parental Kick. Friend of the Family—Is that young man coming to your house as a suitor for your daughter? Father (with veiled meaning)—Yes, and he is a good one to boot. Good Advice. MCCALL PATTERNS 10 15 NONE HIGHER MCCALLS MAGAZINE 50 YEAR INCLUDING A FREE PATTERN THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR-STRAIGHTENER MAILED ANYWHERE IN U.S. $1.00 POSTAGE PAID. SEND MONEY BY POST OFFICE MONEY ORDER. Shampoo Drier Co. Minneapolis, Minn. THE LAST DRIER WE HOT IN HEAT COMMITED TO EAR. THE MAGIC IS TWO TIMES LARGER THAN PICTURE IT IS 9IN LONG STEEL HEATING BAR THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR-STRAIGHTENER ALUMINUM CORB MAILED ANYWHERE IN U.S. $1.99 POSTAGE PAID SEND MONEY BY POST OFFICE MONEY ORDERED Address all letters to Magic Shampoo Drier Co. Minneapolis, Minn. 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There are hundreds of such cards for sale, but none of them gets right down to the very marrow of metropolitan conditions. It takes a flat to do that. "Even persons who are perfectly familiar with the scenes represented on picture postcards complain that they cannot recognize the places. But just transfer to a postal card a drawing of a New York flat, and there will be no mistake made as to the environment. Chuck, a lot of bandboxes under the folding tounge, jam the baby's crib bang up against the buffet, hang a lot of clothes in every corner and on the walls for drapery, stack up a lot of illustrated books on the refrigerator, and pile the piano high with a bohemian lunchcon outfit and other miscellany, and there you are. Friends and acquaintances all the way from Jersey City to Tibuimtoo will exclaim at once: "That's New York, all right." —New York Times. NO MORE USE FOR ANTHONY Saint Had Dieregarded Small Girls' Appest and Her Faith in Him Had Vanished. There is one small girl in a New York school who has lost her faith in the saints—a faith that was implicit, says the New York Tribune. Her name is Elizabeth, and she can't learn to spell. She is always at the foot of the spelling class. She does her best to learn, but if a wrong letter can creep into a word it sneaks in when Elizabeth tries to spell that word. Tuesday she came into the class beaming, but inside of two minutes she had spelled innocent "inosent" and flew "fough." The teacher shook her head. "Elizabeth, what shall I do with you?" she asked. Elizabeth looked at her with a hopeless gaze, two teers crickling down her nose. "There ain't anything to do," she said in a tone of finality. "I did the last thing this morning. I offered St. Anthony 50 cents if he'd help me spell right, and he hasn't done it, and I've no more use for him." Monotony Too Much for Tramps Monotony Too Much for Tramps. The sheriff of Burlington county, New Jersey, has adopted a novel method of ridding his county of tramps, and, incidentally, saving a good sum of money for the taxpayers. Bean soup was the agency employed. For a long time the Burlington county jail was a favorite haven for members of the "hobo" tribe, until the sheriff began the bean soup treatment. He gave it to them at every meal, with the result that the tramps, who began to see beans and talk about them in their sleep, begged for a change in the menu. The sheriff was obdurate, however, and the result is that Burlington county has been stirred from the itinerary of all members of the "looking for work" and hope I won't and it" class. Gratitude. Kindness never gets any thanks. I remember a man whose pal broke 'is leg while they was working together unloading a barge; and he went off to break the news to 'is pal's wife. A kind 'carted man 'e was as ever you see, and knowing 'ow she would take en when she 'eard the news, he told her fust of all that 'er husband was killed. She took on like a mad thing, and at last, when she couldn't do anything more and 'ad quelted a bit, he told 'er that it was on'y a case of a broken leg, thinking that 'er joy would be so great that she wouldn't think anything of that. He 'ad to tell her three times afore she understood 'im, and then, instead of being thankful to 'im for 'is thoughtfulness, she chased him 'arf over to Wapping with a chopper, screaming with temper.—W. W. Jacobs in the Strand Magazine. As to Girls Who Whistle. That old adage, "Whistling girls and crowding hens always come to some bad end," must be relegated to oblivion, for whistling has come into fashion, and it would be cruelty to prophesy calamity to all the girls now striving to attain proficiency in the art. Some girls taks as naturally as boys do to whistling, while others have to cultivate it, and there are still others whose lips seem to refuse to pucker up in the fashion necessary for proper results. Bolsterous whistling is not the sort in vogue, but sweet, bredlike rendering of melodic tails and medleys which artificially done, is an attractive, clever accomplishment. Ten Religions. 1. According to Jamaica Preacher Placerio the "ten great giants" of the world are: 1. The Caucasian religion of China, founded by Confucius (C. C. 551-478). 2. Brahminism of India. 3. Buddhism, a revolt from Eubankianism in eastern Asia, founded by S.Mamuni (who died 542 E. C.). 4. The Magian religion of Persia, founded by Zoroaster. 5. The religion of Egypt; a polytheism or animal worship. 6. The Mythology of the Greeks and Romans. 7. The Scandinavian Mythology. 8. The Jewish religion. 9. The "Islam" religion, founded by Muhammed. 10. Christianity. SANITARIUM. 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