Muskogee Cimeter

"The Muskogee Cimeter" Is the Oldest Colored Paper in Oklahoma In Politics we stand for Republicanism In Principle we stand for Right Agents Wanted Everywhere Good Commission For Good Agents Come or Write Today A. J. SMITHERMAN, MGR. VOL. 11. The Dorcas club of this city has planned to commemorate the birthday anniversary of Lincoln and Douglass combined by giving an elaborate banquet at the McCulloch auditorium on the evening of the 12th instant. The admission fee will be fifty cents each and the proceeds will go to the hospital fund being raised by this club for a colord hospital. That doors will open at 8 p. m. and the program will begin promptly at 8:30. The program in full follows: Addresses, Dr. R. H. Waterford, Rev. S. S. Jones, Lawyer A. L. J. Meriweather, Rev. E. J. Penney, Mistress of Ceremonies, Mrs. Myrtle F. Godd. Toast, Lawyer G. W. P. Brown. Response, Mrs. J. E. Gradford. Toast, Lawyer W. Scott Brown. Respondst, Mrs. W. H. Twine. Toast, Dr. G. P. Craig. Response, Mrs. E. C. Penney. Toast, Prof. C. W. Reynolds. Toast Mistress Mrs. Laura G. Prince. The menu for the evening will be ham sandwiches, sallad, coffee and cake. The officers of the Dorcas club are: Myrtle F. Godd, president; F. G. Arrington, vice president; Grove W. Irney, secretary, and C. P. Ross, treasurer. Only a Favored Few Got Money. Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 3. The democratis press bureau calls upon the farmers of Oklahoma to give thanks to the democratic state administration for making it possible to borrow money at 5 per cent on the state school fund. It is a fact that a favored few in each county do get this money at 5 per cent, but the rest of the farmers, who do not have a pull to get in on this fund, pay 7 and 8 per cent for loans instead of getting them at $5½ and 6 per cent as they did when Oklahoma was a territory. It will also be interesting to these farmer taxpayers to know that over 20 per cent of the money collected from interest on farm loans from the state school fund during the first nineteen months of statehood was expended on high salaries and other expenses of conducting the loan department, contrary to law. Land Development Improperly Made. Hoboken, Feb. 3.—The sale of public building lands in this county proves conclusively true the contention of many tax papers, that the appraisement of the lands was improperly made. The lands sold in a single day brought $20,000 more than appraised value and the lands of the county aggregated considerable over $100,000 more than the appraised value. Many people who have taken little interest in the matter previous to this sale are becoming aroused and vigorously condemn the management of the school land department, which through incompetency or a desire to incur political favor have appraised the lands for a mere fraction of their real worth. One piece of land appraised at $3,600 sold for $8,200; one at $3,200 sold for $5,200; one at $4. The Muskogee Cimeter. 1,000 sold for $7,000; one at $2,500 sold for $5,000; one at $1,740 sold for $4,750 and so on through a long list. Couldn't Stand the Knife—Died on Operating Table. Mrs. Ophelia Buffington, former wife of the late Jim Richardson, died at her home on South Main street Wednesday, while undergoing an operation for cancer of the stomach. It is said that one physician declined to have anything to do with the case because the woman was not able to undergo the knife, but some physician whose name is given as Lagrange attempted the operation which resulted in the woman's death. Vernon Club Elects Officers. The Vernon Club of this city met last Monday night and held its semi-annual election at their quarters in the Twine building. The following officers were elected to serve for the next six months: Bishop Bascom, president; William Durham, vice president; Robert Williams, secretary; Robert Oxley, Master at Arms; John William, corresponding secretary. Prof. C. A. Biggers addressed the club after the election, his subject being "Young Men in Society." John Pullin. Negro Cook, Arrested Charged With Attempt to Kill Rosa March. On the charge of administering poison to Hosa March, a white woman, John Gallin, a negro cook in a southside boarding house, was arrested yesterday on information furnished by C. F. Sewell, a friend of the woman, and on complaint of Assistant County Attorney Curd. It is charged that the poison was administered in a cup of coffee, the coffee being a portion of a meal carried to the woman's room Saturday by the negro. When brought into Justice Wolfenberger's court Pullins proclaimed his innocence and a number of prominent white people who said they had known Pullins for years and always found him straight and above suspicion were in the court and also professed their disbelief that Pullins could be the guilty party. From Mr. Curd it was learned that after having eaten the meal brought her by the negro the woman turned deathly sick. Physicians summoned at the time seemed to be of the belief that poison and given her - Pheonix, 18. MONEY TO LOAN ON ALL THINGS OF VALUE T. MILLER, 105 SO. MAIN. Judge William M. Vaan, formerly of Newby Okla., now of Durango, Mexico, is in the city selling Mexico land. Mr. Vann is head of a company owning several hundred thousand acres. We are still insisting that Muskogee is the greatest town in the Southwest. Governor Mislends Legislature Facts. Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 3.—Governor Haskell, chagned at his failure to keep the legislature in ignorance of the read state of affairs in the public land department, attempted to distract their attention by bringing up the old Capitol National Bank failure. In a special message he declared that although the bank failed six years ago, that state is still short $60,000 on the amount due them from the bank, and urged that some action be taken in the matter. Members, who are of an investigative turn of mind, found by a few moments' examination of the records in the office of the state treasures, that the state has received in dividends fro mthe bank and in settlement with the guaranty companies an amount totaling $17.179.33 more than the total amount due from the bank at the time of its failure. In addition to this there would certainly be another dividend which would bring this amount up to at least $30,000. Four Members Illegally Holding Positions. Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 3.—Somebody is sending out a frantic appeal through the press to the farmers to rally to the support of the state board of agriculture, saying that it is a board of farmers, elected by farmers and one that does things for the farmers. This was undoubtedly what was intended by the law creating the board but anyone who looks into the records of the present board and studies its methods will readily reach the conclusion that, it is largely a board of pretended farmers, selected by the governor, dominated by farmers of the farmers and one that does things to the farmer. The appeal also failed to mention the fact that four of the eleven members of the board are illegally holding their position, not being qualified for the same under the law. Republican Legislators Save School Fund. Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 3.—It begins to look as though there would be some legislation to put a stop to the illegal spawandering of the school fund by the school land department. When the report of the secretary of the land commissioners reached the legislature the other day and it was ascertained by the members that $223,552.17 had been expended in carrying on the department in the two years of statehool and that the present salaries aggregated $74,100 per year, there was immediate indications of a volcanic eruption. Within twenty four hours, chief insurgent Ross had introduced a bill providing for the proper conducting of the department, creating the positions and fixing the salaries thereof. The total amount of the salaries to be paid, under his bill, amounting to $25,300 per annum, which is still about $8,000 more than was paid in salaries under the territory. The administration forces attempted to send this bill to the land commission for cold storage, but the insurgent members of the house, alided by the speaker and abetted by all the republicans sent it to the judiciary committee, of which the author of the bill is chairman. Box Ball Spares. Monday night will be a lively one at the box ball parlors and a large crowd is expected to witness a prize contest between the champion rollers. The club is growing to be a very popular place for sport and amusement. Following are a few scores made this week: Porterfield Browning, 183; Russell Work, 168; Clarence Allen, 165; J. R. Green, 162; J. H. Escoe, Judge Jefferson, Archie V. ones and M. W. Guy are among those who are making good records as rollers. A shooting parlor is a part of the club but box ball is the all-absorbing interest for most of the sport lovers All of those who have tried the game are enthusiastic over it, and all say it is a great game for good exercise. THE NEGRO COMMERCIAL CLUB PERMANENTLY ORGANIZED They Meet Every Friday Evening at Masonic Hall, Twine Building— All Are Invited. All who desire to see Muskogee's future greater, and who believe in its betterment, are uniting their forces under the banner of the Negro Commercial Club of Muskogee. Applications are being handed in every day to Secretary Attwell. The club is composed of merchants, professional men and men engaged in every avenue of trade, many of whom lead in their respective lines. The officers are . B. Fue, president; J. W. Adams, vice president; J. J. Attwell, secretary; J. E. Johnson, treasurer. Executive committee, Dr. R. H. Waterford, chairman; W. Scott Brown, secretary. Publication committee, A. W. G. Sango, chairman, E. D. Nickens, R. C. Hall, L. B. Fue and J. J. Attwell. There is no entrance fee. But the books are open for subscriptions and everything will be done of a beneficial character to make Muskogee rank first in enterprises and industry for the state and country. This is a representative and earnest body of men imbued with the light spirit and should receive the support of intelligent and well deserving people. Bill to Amend Taylor Election Law. Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 3.—Senator Lee Taylor of Chickasha, the man who fathred the infamous Taylor election law on which the republican state organization successfully demanded a referendum, has been assigned by Governor Haskell to draft some amendments to the law, to be passed during this special session of the legislature. Taylor has been working on the amendments and caucuses daily with Governor Haskell regarding them. In the meantime Chairman Jim Harris, of the state republican committee, is watching every requirement of the state initiative and referendum law to make certain that there is no slip that would afterward make void an election on the Taylor law, in case one is called by the governor. Harris has had the supreme court pass on the ballot title for the election, making sure that it was right. MONEY TO LOAN on First and Second Real Estate and Personal Property Mortgages NEW STATE TRUST COMPANY 220 North Third Street, Ground Floor, Chicago Building Mrs. N. J. Tucker, Miss Bessie M. Dyels and Mr. Emile N. Jackson, of Grayson, who attended the McIntosh county teachers' convention at Checotah, last Thursday and Friday, returned home by way of Muskogee Saturday. Prof. I. C. Tull, former principal of city schools at Grayson, departed Tuesday morning for Tuskegee, Alabama, where she will teach in the mathematical department of the Tuskegee Institute. Mr. Tull has many friends here as well as at Grayson. Mrs. A. S. McRae, wife of Attorney McRae, is ill at her home on West Fon du Lac, this city. Lawyer A. E. Patterson and O. C. Hall, of this city, went to Eufaula Wednesday presumably to enlist a few subschibers for their paper, the Western Age. Mrs. T. J. Elliott is out of the city this week visiting friends and relatives in Wagoner, Centralla and other towns. She will return tomorrow. Prof. Lawson, of Grayson, Okla., passed through the city last Saturday in company with a number of other teachers en route home from the teachers' meeting at Checotah. The Dunbar High School force has a new teacher in its ranks this week in the person of Prof. R. G. Barrow, who, while Prof. Haynes is indisposed, will have charge of the classes that Prof. Haynes taught'. A Far More Convincing Slogan. Guthr'e, Okla., Feb. 3.—W. R. Dutton, editor of the Foraker Tribune hits the nail sparply on the head when he says editorially in his last issue: "Look at your tax receipt and then vote,' is the slogan of the Oklahoma republicans. It may not be as high sounding as the exploded democratic cry of 'Let the people rule,' but at this time in Oklahoma it is more convincing. "When the average farmer studits his tax receipt, he will hesitate a long time before he casts his vote for a continuance of democratic extravagance." In this connection Everett Hawes, editor of the Talequah Sun, says: "Have you paid your taxes?" When you do, save the receipt and take it with you when you go to vote next fall." Five fire stations for Great Muskogee! Four white companies and one colored company! We know the colored boys will make good. Give them a chance. NO.13 The Climeter wants every colored business in the city represented in these columns. Let us hear from you. HILL'S GROCERY Everything You Neet 375 Altimont. To Agents: When sending in reports, please write plainly to assure correctness of the publication. DR. W. G. KALOW Dentist—Phone 477 So. 2nd St. Carter Bldg. Farms for sale on installments, ouses and lots for sale on installments, or I will build you a house on little payments, and give you 10 years or longer to pay for it. WM. P. FIELDS. No. 1, English Block. Muskogee. If you have a news item call 143. No charges for news. WANTED—Aa honest young man or woman to act as city agent and collector for this paper. Phone 143 or see A. J. Smitherman, Mgr., Climeter office. One of the rules for avoiding colds given by a competent medical man is to take plenty of rest, but not to over do it. Is a man or his wife to judge of the amount of rest the man needs? A medical sharp estimates that if the transmission of disease by files could be stopped the world would gain 170,000,000 years of human life and effect a saving of $20,000,000,000. What enterprising promoter will first launch an Amalgamated Extermination Company, limited, and get a grip on these wasted billions? Ferry Bridge Over the Rhine The ferry bridge continues to find favor in Europe. One of this type, with a span of 910 feet, is planned for erection across the Rhine at Koblenz, Germany. The floor, with two double trusses, will be used for steel arch. Trade in Beeswax. British manufacturers of blacking purchase large crates of beeswax. The beeswax imported from China is in large cubes, each done up in a written guarantee of purity and quality. GAME ASCINATING THE JUDGE SAID That the Husband Owns His Pay Envelope That a Wife Has a Right to Go Through Her Husband's Pockets That a Wife Is Personally Entitled to That the Mother-in-Law Must Take Care of Herself That a Man's Wife Is Not His Servant That a Married Woman May Go Out When She Chooses That What Is a Woman's Own Is Her Own T last we have it down in black and white—the pay envelope belongs solely to the husband; it must be inviolate. Fresh from the lips of Magistrate Matthew P. Breen of New York city falls this newest decision in the eternal question—who is boss, husband or wife. "Loudes vs. Loudes" was the case in the Essex Market court for his adjudication. In a word, Mrs. Loudes sought an order directing Louis Loudes, her husband, of 14 Forsyth street, to give her a certain amount weekly out of his $15 pay envelope. Her plea was that he gave her but 50 cents a day for herself and the two children; naturally she wanted more. "My wife," protested Loudes, "wants me to turn my pay envelope over to her every Saturday night, sealed. She wants me to give her every cent I earn and make me beg her to hand me out a nickel every time I want a cigar or a glass of beer or car fare. That's not a respectable position for a husband and father to occupy." Mrs. Loudes owned up to all this. Mrs. Lloyds owned up to all this. "You want too much," declared the learned court in words that brooked no argument. "To require your husband to turn his unopened pay envelope over to you every week would amount to tyranny of the sort most dangerous to the perpetuation of the home as the sacred institution it is today. A wife has no right to make such demands upon her husband. The husband is the sole owner of the fund." Having gone thus far the court went further and took up the other burning question: Has the wife the right to go through her husband's pockets? Here Magistrate Breen sided with the wife. "If a man has the right sort of wife," said the court slowly and deliberately, "I see not the slightest objection to his allowing her full freedom in going into his pockets while he sleeps or under any other circumstances. The trouble with my wife is that she doesn't get enough when she goes into my pockets!" But the question was on the pay envelope only, and not on the pocket, and so the case was dismissed. As for the pocket question the Bree decision leaves it up in the air, because all a husband has to say to knock it out is that "the right sort of a wife," to use Magistrate Breen's qualifying clause, wouldn't want to go through his pockets. Fortunately, however, other judges have been more specific in recent decisions on this vital issue. And the law is all with the wife. No law is needed for the husband on this vital question, because. It is argued, can the average husband find his wife's pockets at all. Three decisions, recently handed down in as many different parts of the country, seem to settle the matter for 1 It Was Perfectly Right to Search His Pockets. ever. The gist of them all is: Wives, go as far as you like! WITHIN WIFELY RIGHTS. In New York city Justice Newburger in the supreme court has just said it is all right. Mrs. Adolph Schwartz was suing her husband, a rich lawyer, with offices in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities. She searched her husband's pockets and found letters from "that other woman." "Did you think that was right?" asked Schwartz's lawyer. "It was perfectly right to search his pockets," announced the court decisively when the lawyers began to wrangle. "He was her husband." In Omaha the case was more serious. Henry Mills was suing for divorce before Judge Crawford. He alleged cruelty, said cruelty consisting chiefly in the fact that she systematically searched his pockets for his wages, leaving behind her only 15 cents a day for his car fare and beer. If Mills wanted more money he had to take his wife into his confidence and tell her what he intended spending it for, which was the cruelest kind of cruelty, according to Mills. But not according to the court, which decided, in dismissing the suit, that it was the wife's privilege. "Man and his wife," said the court, "are one, and the property that belongs to one is also the property of the other; so, if a wife takes money from the pocket of her husband without first putting him in fear, it would be impossible to make a charge of robbery from the person, pocket-black A Husband Must Pay Dock What He Gorrows. ing, or even common larceny lie. Case dismissed." Read now what Justice Mullowney of the Washington (D.C.) police court says in the case of Ridgway vs. Ridgway—a decision handed down when George Ridgway was arrested on his wife's complaint because she feared bodily injury when he discovered she had been ransacking his pockets for the last nickel therein. Says the learned court: "It shows the interest the woman has in the man. It shows that the woman loves the man. A woman who does not go through her husband's pockets does not love him. They all do it." ENTER THE THIRD PERSON Quite enough when the contents of the pocket searched belong to the husband. But when something is taken belonging to a third party the situation is wholly different, as Mrs John White of Cincinnati learned to her sorrow. Miss Anna Chapman gave her gold watch to John White to take to a watchmaker's to be repaired. In her customary search of her husband's pockets Mrs White found the timepiece and confessed it. So Miss Chapman had her arrested. The Solomon in this case was Judge Damont Miss Chapman got her watch, Mrs White her freedom and White the angry word from both. "Let this be a warning to all wives," said Judge Dumont. There are various phases of this decision which gets back to the root of all evil—money. If a husband can have some say over his earnings, how much must he give the wife? In Missouri the rule is 20 per cent. The Jolliffe, husband and wife, have just had that little matter settled. Mrs. J. W. Jolliffe had her husband before Judge Kyle in Kansas City, charged with disturbing her peace Out of his $60 a month the husband, so the wife averred, didn't give her enough money. After both sides had been heard the pearls of wisdom fell from the bench: "After the rent and the household expenses have been paid you ought to give your wife three dollars a week. She's entitled to that much. She takes care of the children and she never goes out of the house. She'll save more money than you will out of that three dollars a week." "She takes money from under my pillow when I'm asleep," chipped in Joliffe, "and—" "Your wife must get her 20 per cent, regularly," declared the court, waving aside the indignant husband and settling the matter for good and all. MUST PAY BACK MONEY. Now, how about household borrowing? Do you have to pay back money you borrow from your wife? Of course there is no other side to the question—the wife can't borrow from the husband; he always gives it to her. So, for the benefit of all husbands who will persist in borrowing from their wives, let it be said for once and all. "You've got to pay it back under the law." What's more, the statute of limitations, which invalidates an ordinary debt after a certain number of years, does not debar the claim of a wife against the husband for borrowed money. This case came up in Bloomington, Ill., before Judge Owen P. Thompson, in the Green county circuit court, when Mrs. Bessie Wald sued her husband for $2,200 he had borrowed from her. They subsequently quarreled and separated. He refused to return the One Spanking Doesn't Count. money, and after many years Mrs. Waid sued her husband and won, even triumphing over that bugbear of creditors, the statute of limitations. What's next to money when it comes to making rifts in the domestic lute? Don't all speak at once you're all right. Of course, it's the mother-in-law! Can the husband's mother do the "Poor John!" act around the house? Is ma-in-law privileged to come and stay as long as she pleases just because poor, dear Marie is so lonesome? No sire! The courts are unanimous on this question and with out any reservations whatsoever. Mother must go, no matter which side of the house she comes from. In the case of the Keerys it was the husband sliding with his mother. John Keery, a prosperous New Jersey farmer, married a trained nurse and took her home. "Feed the hogs and put in your other spare time working on the farm!" was the gist of the orders handed to the bride by the bridegroom's mother, who lived on the farm with them. Young Mrs. Keery rebelled. Keery sided with his mother, and so this particular Mrs. Newly-wed left home and her husband's mother. Then she sued for separate maintenance, which was answered by Keery that he was perfectly willing to provide a home—his home—for her. But there was not! And that spoiled all his otherwise good defense in law. Vice-Cancellor Stevenson, in Jersey City, held that the mother-in-law couldn't be boss and would have to go, or else Keery would have to provide another home for his wife. In other words, the mother-in-law must go! WIFE NOT A SERVANT. There are two new decisions regarding just how much work a wife must do. In Ohio she can get off with little or none. A housewife may lie abed late, let the dishes, go unwashed, refuse to mend her husband's clothes, neglect to sweep, and still be deemed a true and loving helpmate. James Young sued for a divorce at Lima, O., on these grounds, and Judge Quill dismissed the plea of gross neglect and refused him the relief prayed for—a divorce. "A man's wife is not his servant!" was the gist of the decision. Nor is she to be a household drudge in New Jersey under the latest decision at Bayonne Mrs. Charles Glere hated her husband to court, charging him with cholering her. Glere protested and added that she never was at home. "Why, judre," he exclaimed, bitterly, "many's the time I've come home from work only to be told to get my own supper. I've often washed the dishes and made the beds for fear my friends might drop in and see everything upset." And this is what Giere got from Recorder Lazarus: "A married woman has a perfect right to go out when she pleases, and should not be expected to spend all her time in drudgery." And to rub it in on the husband he had to pay a $10 fine! On the other hand, Jersey law pro- A The Mother-in-Law Must Look Out for Herself. tects the husband's bank account from the wife. She can go through his pockets and she can work or not, as she pleases, but his savings are immune. Mrs. Ernest C. Quick of Asbury Park withdrew about $600 of her husband's money from the Citizens' National bank at Long Branch and placed it in her own name. But Quick, true to his name, promptly got out an injunction restraining his wife from spending a cent of the money! And he's got the money yet. SOME CHICAGO DECISIONS. You may slap your wife, but you musn't pinch her—at least in Chicago. Judge Barnes made these distinctions in the superior court where cruelty cases are tried. In Chicago, too, a husband may swear at his wife, according to the decision of Muncipal Judge Gemmil. Mrs. Joseph Tolino wanted her husband put in fall for swearing at her and threatening all sorts of things which he didn't do. "I won't issue a warrant or arrest on such charges," declared the judge, and so it goes as law. In Athol, Mass., Judge Frederick Dunn wasn't so sure of his ground when Mrs. E. A. Garry had her husband arrested for assault and battery because he tickled her in the ribs. The court admitted that the issue was beyond its judicial attainments and dismissed the case without prejudice. One evening when Chauncey McKnight of New York city came home he found his wife "cutting up." as he expressed it, and decided to discipline her. So he laid her across his knee and administered a sound spanking. Then he sued for separation on the ground that his wife was addicted to the use of liquor. Justice Truax, before whom the case came in the supreme court, was up a legal tree. Finally he compromised and ordered the wife to live with the husband and the husband to pay the wife $15 a week. In other words, the spanking doesn't count. ROUGH ON THE HUSBAND. Now turn to this sad story—where a dutiful husband has to pay the penalty for his wife's assault. Mrs. George Owens attacked and assaulted Mrs. Ellen Hilbert in Wilkesbarre, Pa. Owens was present at the time. And just because he made no effort to stop his wife he was convicted for her assault and had to pay the penalty! New decisions hold that the wedding gifts belong to the wife; that a wife can't do as she pleases; that it isn't cruel for a husband to make a wife accompany him on his travels; that a wife may slash a husband's clothing if she feels like it; that a wife is a chattel and may be sought with a search warrant; that a husband may stay out till 10:30 p. m.; that a wife may be high-spirited; that if a woman marries a six-dollar man she can't expect him to support her, and that the nationality of a wife is controlled by that of her husband. And lastly, balm for, suffering husbands—a $50 hat is not a household necessary! A husband in moderate circumstances doesn't have to pay such a milliner's bill. Oh, joy! Go out the decision from Chicago for all the world to hear. L. W. Ferguson was sued for a $165 millinery bill contracted by his wife, she not having his approval for the purchase. Three bachelors were in the jury, too. "Collect from the wife—if you can," was the verdict A A Married Woman Has a Perfect Right to Go Out When She Chooses. DOCTOR'S BEST FORMULA For Remarkably Quick Action on Colds and Coughs. This prescription will frequently cure the worst cold in a day's time and it is a sure cure for any cough that can be cured. "Two ounces Glycerine; half ounce Concentrated Pine; Put these into half a pint of good whiskey and use in doses of teaspoonful to a table-spoonful every four hours. Shake bottle well each time." Any driggist has these ingredients in stock or will quickly get them from his wholesale house. The Concentrated Pine is a special pine product and comes only in half ounce vials each enclosed in an air tight case; But be sure it is labeled "Concentrated." This formula cured hundreds here last winter. VERY LIKELY. Nelly—They say he has turned over a new leaf. Ned—He's so economical I'm afraid he'll use the same one over again. Rather Tall. "That," said Senator Tillman of an opponent's argument, "is an amusing exaggeration." He smiled. "In fact," he continued, "is as bad an exaggeration as the story about Ben Johnson's height. They said of Ben, you know, the candidate for sheriff, that when he made a stump speech, instead of getting a stump ready for him to mount, they would, because he was so tall, dig a hole for him to stand in." How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the catarrh care team, love for the last 15 years and believe that perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WARNING: Wholesale Drugs, Toledo. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly from the manufacturer. In your system. Testimonial sent free. Price 25 cents per bottle. Sold by all Drugs. 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WANTS HER LETTER PUBLISHED For Benefit of Women who Suffer from Female Ills Minneapolis, Minn.—"I was a great sufferer from female troubles which caused a weakness and broken down condition of the system. I read so much of what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had done for other suffering women I felt sure it would help me, and I must say it did help me wonderfully. My pains all left me, I grew stronger, and within three months I was a perfectly well woman. "I want this letter made public to show the benefit women may derive from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound."—Mrs. John G. MOLDAN, 2115 Second St., North, Minneapolis, Minn. Thousands of unsolicited and genuine testimonials like the above prove the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which is made exclusively from roots and herbs. Women who suffer from those distressing lice peculiar to their sex should not lose sight of these facts or doubt the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore their health. If you want special advice write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. She'll treat your letterastrictly confidential. For 20 years she has been helping sick women in this way, free of charge. Don't hesitate—write at once. MIDLAND MACHINE WORKS Machinists, engineers and brass founders. Machine work of all kind given careful attention. Machine black- smithing brass mugs, pullets hangers and shar- ing carried in stock. Muskogee, Oklahoma W. N. U., MUSKOGEE, NO. 6-1910. caused a weakness and broken down condition of the system. I read so much of what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had done for other suffering women I felt sure it would help me, and I must say it did help me wonderfully. My pains all left me. I within three months roll woman. viding of homes for its people and producing sufficient for them. The country as a wheat exporting country are gone. Canada's great wheat country." This great road-magazine is taking advantage of the extensive railway building to the wheat fields were harvested in 1909. Average area of the land and Manitoba will be upwards of 23 bushels per acre, 60 acres and indulgence area-crem and 160 acres (at $3 acre, are to get the land, the land, the land, Schools convenient, climate excellent, soil the very best, lumber cheap, fuel easy to get and reasonable in price, farming a success. Write as to best place for settlement, settlers' trait "Lost Best West" (settlers on application, and other informa- tions of the land, and Canada, Gotta, Can., or to the Canadian Government Agent. J. S. CRAWFORD No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo. (Use address neares团. 4) E COUNT'S POLE PLANS Prof. H. Hergesell, Now Visiting United States, Divulges Details of Proposed Aerial Trip to the Arctic. New York—Prof. H. Hergesell of Strasburg, Germany, who arrived here on the steamship Joachim from Kingston, Jamalae, divulged numerous details in connection with the proposed journey to the north pole by airship, planned by Count Zeppelin and himself. "We intend to explore the entire arctic circle," said Prof. Hergesell. "Two airships, which will be constructed by Count Zeppelin, are to be used on the expedition. One is to be left at a relief station in Spitzbergen. The other is to be used in making the excursions. We will keep in touch with the relief station by means of wireless telegraphy. "In a few days I will start for Germany to prepare for the expedition. Count Zeppelin is to begin work on the large airship within a year and we will then begin the trip as soon as conditions permit." "From Cross bay, near where a supply station is to be established, to the north pole, over Spitzbergen, is approximately 800 miles. With favorable winds the trip can be made in thirty to forty hours, or perhaps less time. "The run to the pole will be really a secondary matter. The principal object of the expedition is to gather reliable scientific data of the arctic regions. We plan to study meteorological conditions, make deep-sea soundings and survey the arctic belt, and especially the regions to the north of Greenland and Français Josephs bay, of which so little is known." Prof. Hergesell says that many difficulties will have to be overcome if the expedition is to meet with succ A. H. Count Zeppelin.cess. One of the main problems is to replenish the airship with gas. Several stations for that purpose will be established. The almost continuous foggy weather in the arctic belt offers a serious obstacle to the explorers. Another problem is to make accurate observations as to directions, as the ordinary instruments are useless in the vicinity of the pole. "We fear nothing," said the professor. "We are confident of complete success, providing the development of airships goes forward as fast as we anticipate. It is essential that improvements be made in the dirigible, although it is not impossible that Zeppelin III., as the count's latest airship is known, could make the trip. "The alrship which is to sail over the pole will be about 450 feet long, with aluminum frame, 30 to 35 gas chambers, and carrying a capacity of 35 persons." Prof. Hergesell says that probably 12 men will go. Commander Peary has not been invited to accompany the expedition. The German government, it is expected, will finance the expedition. Kalser Wilhelm is taking a personal interest in the proposed trip and the German nation is looking on the enterprise with a spirit of national pride. Prince Albert of Monaco, the multimillionaire ruler of that principality, famed as the seat of the Monte Carlo gambling palace, is to be one of the arctic argonauts. He has for years taken an interest in scientific explorations and is a close friend of the kaiser. When Wives Were Sold. When the war between Britain and France ended in 1815 many of the English soldiers found that their wives had married again in the belief that they were widows. The formal selling of the wife was regarded among the ignorant as a legal solution of the problem thus presented, and it is said that the authorities of the day deemed it best to shut their eyes at the proceeding. A certain amount of formality had to be observed, however, before the sale was considered legal, even by the most ignorant. A Yorkshire writer mentions two conditions which must be carried out to make a satisfactory sale. The price of the wife must not be less than one shilling (24 cents), and she must be delivered to her purchaser with a new halter around her neck. The same writer records the case of the woman who zealously preserved the receipt for herself as a proof of respectability. WORTH KNOWING. simple Remedy That Anyone Can Prepare at Home. Most people are more or less subject to coughs and colds. A simple remedy that will break up a cold quickly and cure any cough that is curable is made by mixing two ounces of Glycerine, a half-ounce of Virgin Oil of Pine compound pure and eight ounces of pure Whisky. You can get these in any good drug store and easily mix them in a large bottle. The mixture is highly recommended by the Leach Chemical Co. of Cincinnati, who prepare the genuine Virgin Oil of pine compound pure for dispensing. INSULT TO INJURY. Shoemaker—Well, if that isn't all right. Instead of paying my bill, he kicks me down stairs, and with the new boots I've made him, too. SUFFERED TERRIBLY. How Relief from Distressing Kidney Trouble Was Found. Mrs. Elizabeth Wolf, 388 W. Morgan gl., Tipton, Mo., says: "Inflammation Wolf, 388 W. Morgan says: "Inflammation of the bladder reached its climax last spring and I suffered terribly. My back ached and pained so I could hardly get around and the secretions were scanty, frequent of passage and painful. I was of the bladder reached its climax last spring and I suffered terribly. My back ached and pained so I could hardly get around and the secretions were scanty, frequent of passage and painful. I was tired all the time and very nervous. I began using Dean's Kidney Pills, and after taking a few boxes was cured and have been well ever since." Remember the name—Doan's. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ENCOURAGING SIGNS OF LIFE Liberal Contributions in United States and Canada for Work of the Foreign Missions. In spite of the financial depression the offerings of the United States and Canada for foreign missions increased from $602,000. The increase or income from the foreign field was even more remarkable, being $1,360,000. The total gifts on the foreign field was $4,844,000, and this amount was 43 per cent. of the total amount contributed for foreign missions by the Protestant churches of North America. The increase of native converts last year was 164,674, or over 450 a day. The cumulative effects of the foreign mission enterprise is shown by the fact that it took 100 years to gain the first million converts. The second million were secured in 12 years, and they are now being added at the rate of a million in six years. The percentage of increase of the church membership of America was one and one-half, while the increase of American missions abroad was 12 per cent. Two members were added in America for each ordained minister, while 41 were added in the foreign field for each ordained American missionary.—The Missionary Review of the World. CLIP THIS OUT Renowned Doctor's Prescription for Rheumatism and Backache. "One ounce Syrup Sarsaparilla compound; one ounce Toris compound; Add these to a half pint of good whiskey; Take a tablespoonful before each meal and at bed time; Shake the bottle before using each time." Any drugist has these ingredients in stock or will quickly get them from his wholesale house. This was published previously and hundreds here have been cured by it. Good results show after the first few doses. This also acts as a system builder, eventually restoring strength and vitality. Knew the Calendar. They were little girls, so small that the teacher was telling them about divisions of time, and receiving all sorts of answers to her simple questions. The little girl who lived in a boarding house was a year older than any of the others. "We have learned that years are divided into months, months into weeks, and weeks into days," said the teacher. "Now can any one tell me how the days are divided?" The little girl who lived in a boarding house raised her hand, and was asked to speak. "Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, beef," she said, glibly; "Friday, fish; Saturday, corned beef and beans; and Sunday, chicken."—Youche's Companion. The Modern Polonius. "Pay your debts promptly, my son." "All right, dad." "Then when opportunity knocks you won't be afraid to go to the door." Associate with men of good judgment, for judgment is found in conversation. And we make another man's judgment ours by frequenting his company.—Fuller. You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray haire. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. PRICE, $1.00, retail. EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO HE HAD LESS THAN 3 DOLLARS EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO HE HAD LESS THAN 3 DOLLARS HE IS NOW ONE OF THE RICHEST FARMERS IN SASKATCHEWAN, CENTRAL CANADA. Arriving in Canada in 1891, just eighteen years ago, E. A. Guillomin could speak but his native language. He is a Frenchman. He had but a little over two dollars in his pocket, thus being short over seven dollars of the ten dollars required to secure entry for a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres. He eventually borrowed the money and near Forget, Saskatchewan, he started life in Canada on the homestead in which to-day he is the fortunate possessor of fifty quarter sections of land, or 8,000 acres. Now Mr. Guillomilon did not acquire all these acres as a result altogether of his farming operations, which were extensive. He looked with satisfaction upon what he was doing on his limited area, he was saving, careful, and had foresight. Surrounding land could be had for about $3.00 per acre, and he continued buying as his savings would permit, until now he has fifty quarter sections, some of which he can sell at $25.00 per acre. Threshed Fifty Thousand Bushels. This year he was engaged in threshing on his place for $54\frac{1}{2}$ days. He threshed out 50,000 bushels of wheat, of which he sold 34,000 bushels, one train load, at a price varying from 84 to $7 cents per bushel. He has on hand still 16,000 bushels. In addition to wheat he raised 20,000 bushels of oats, 7,000 bushels of barley and 500 bushels of flax. He owns 104 horses and a number of cattle, but since the construction of the railway he has been engaged chiefly in raising wheat. This year he bought his first threshing machine, paying for it the sum of $2,100. He estimates that the machine earned for him this fall $3,000, thus paying for itself in one season and leaving $000 to the good. The weather was very propitious for farm threshing, not a single day being lost in the two months which were spent in this work. The wheat averaged 23 bushels to the acre and graded No. 1 and No. 2 Northern. In the past nine years seven good crops have been harvested on this farm. For six successive years the returns were excellent, that is in the years 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906. In the two following years there was a partial failure. As the years have passed the quality of the buildings on the farm have been steadily improved, and are now as good as can be found in the district. About $10,000 has been in invested in this way by Mr. Guillomin. The farm consists of 6,830 acres, of which about 6,000 acres were under crop this season. RALLIED TO THE DEFENSE Parlor Maid Was Loyal, But It Is Doubtful If Explanation Helped Matters Very Much. Walter Lonsdale, Dr. Cook's secretary, was adducing facts in praise of Dr. Cook. "And these facts," he concluded, "prove my chief's honor; and the other side's defense is as weak as the well-known defense of the parlor maid." Mr. Lonsdale glanced at his luggage packed for Copenhagen. Then he laughed and resumed: "Mary,' said a mistress to her parlor maid, 'what time did my husband get home last night?' "Not till four, mum,' the maid answered. "I thought so,' said the mistress. 'Here, it's evening, and the brute not up yet!' "The maid bridled defensively. "Oh, but, mum,' she said, 'he has been up once, mum; but he just drank his bath and went back to bed again.' Her Idea of Discipline One day recently, just after the opening of the Baltimore schools, the teacher of a prim- class had occasion right at the start to enforce discipline. "Here, young man!" she exclaimed, indicating a pupil whose name she did not yet know. "I saw you laughing just now. That won't do. No laughing in this school." "I was only thinking about something ma'am," said the youngster, sheepishly. "Well, don't let that happen in school again," said the teacher, sternly.—Sunday Magazine of the Cleveland Leader. When one woman has a grudge against another she tells the neighbors how sorry she feels for the woman's husband. **ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM** will cure sore throat and colds. 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They had disappeared, leaving no clew to the manner in which they had made their escape. "What's the matter, Uncle Eph?" inquired a neighbor, noticing the deep dejection with which the old man was looking down into the empty pen. "My hawgs is done gone, sah," he answered. "Stolen?" "No, sah. I don't see no signs dat anybody tuck 'em." "Did they climb out over the top?" "No, dev couldn't 'a done dat." "How do you think they got away?" "Well, sah," said Uncle Ephema, "my pinion is dat dem hawgs kind o' raised deirselves up on aidge an' crope through a crack."—Youth's Com- panion. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Probably a Female Doctor, "My wife looks very poorly, you think, doctor?" "Yes, I do." "What do you think he needs?" "A new hat and a new dress!"—Yonkers Statesman. 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The Muskogee Cimeter Published Every Week in the interest of the Negro by the Cimeter Publishing Co. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Per Year $1.00 Six Months .60 Three Months .35 WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. C.—It has been suggested that certain words be laid aside for a few months in political discussions, and that an effort be made to enter the coming campaign simply as republicans and democrats. The words alluded to that can well The words alluded to that can well be given a rest are the following: Reduced down to the simple proposition of republicans versus democrats, it clears the atmosphere of all frog and adverse winds and makes the issue of the year a clean-cut one between the Grand Old Party and Bryalism. There will still be differences of opinion among individuals and groups of men concerning policies and methods, but these differences can well be laid aside till the time comes for action on them. For instance, it is useless to debate over the officers and rules of the next Congress until we find out which party is going to be in command. As Vice President Sherman says: "Before you make your rabbit pie, first catch your hare." An unusual amount of investigation is going on and the people are going to know the whole truth about many subjects in which they are deeply interested. Besides these investigations by Congressional Committees, the Department of Justice, under the direction of the President, is vigorously prosecuting every individual or group of individuals operating in any way illegally against the Government or the people. No honest maa nor honest industrial concern, however, need have any fear of being interfered with in the conduct of business. The republican party is a party that builds up, not tears down, a constructive, not a destructive party, and we can all, without exception and without reserve, follow President Taft in his efforts to promote justice and progress. This is the sentiment of the Republican Congressional Committee, which has just been elected and which proposes to conduct an honest, earnest party campaign or the lines of straight republicanism and the principles advocated by that party and its leaders. Good for Oklahoma. At a meeting of the republican editors of Oklahoma recently the following reso.otion was passed: "The republican editors of Oklahoma in convention assembled at Shawnee this 27th day of December, 1909, view with pride the accomplishments of the republican party as applied to the Nation and the individual, and take pleasure in this opportunity of indorsing the Administration of President William Howard Taft and the work of the party representatives at the National Capital. We consider the Payne tariff law the best tariff bill ever passed by Congress. We believe it to have been framed a.ong consciences lines, having in view the prosperity of the Nation and the conservation of the National revenues. "We indorse the action of the Republican Congressmen in supporting the National Republican Administration by their votes on the Payne tariff bill." Living About the Tariff. Lying About the Farm Says the American Economist: In a timely and suggestive letter from a correspondent at South Norwalk, Conn., occurs a useful demonstration of the falsehood and unfairness which are resorted to in order that discredit may be cast upon the protective tariff. The two instances cited are, we believe, typical of a general policy, almost amounting to a conspiracy, on the part of retail merchants the over to blame the tariff for the marked-up prices of merchandise, when as a matter of fact the tariff has had absolutely nothing to do with such increases in price. The correspondent says: Here are two incidents from real life, whereon I personally can make oath: 1. On Thursday, December 30, 1909, I went to a shoe store on Broadway between Dey and Cortlandt streets, Borough of Manhattan, New York City, and asked for a pair of shoes. I was shown a pair for which the price asked was $5. I said they used to sell the same pair for $4.50. The clerk replied, "Yes but the tariff was raised on shoes, and we have had to put up the price half a dollar." Said I. "You shoe manufacturers were given free hides by that same tariff law, in order that the consumer might have cheaper shoes, and your response to the favor is an increase of 'half a dollar on a pair of shoes. Besides, the tariff on shoes was cut in two in the middle, instead of being increased. What do you mean by saying the tariff has made you raise the price of your shoes?" 2. On Monday, January 3, 1910, I went to a store on Fulton street to order a suit of clothes. They showed me suitting which they said would cost me so much more for the suit than my last suit of practically the same stuff. I asked why. The clerk said that the last tariff law had increased the tariff 40 per cent on all woolen goods of that class, and that they had to divide the increased cost with their trade. I said the tariff had not disturbed the Dingley rates on goods of that class, but only on "tops," and that his excuse did not carry. These are actual experiences of my own within the last week, and they show how easily fooled the American public is. Probably ninety-nine people out of 100 who are told these falsehoods by these same clerks do not know the contrary, and go away vowing eternal enmity to a Tariff which so increases the cost of living. Heard From Taxpayers—Bids Rejected Stillwater, Okla., Feb. 3.—At a meeting of the state board of agric- ulture here, the board decided to reject all the bids for the $10,000 residence for President Connell. After going to the expense of having plans drawn and advertising for bids the democratic members of the board, who had been unanimously in favor of erecting the mansion, declared themselfs as unanimously against it. One member remarked that the farmers out in his district would not stand for any such style. The other members said nothing, but looked wise. They had evidently also been hearing from the taxpayers. The boys in the trenches are stand- ing in a unit awaiting the party's commands. The political sharks are "splitting kindling" getting ready to start a fire under the old political pot. Pretty soon "de ole pot will be billing" when the Sango Consollo appears! We do not think any fair-minded person of any party will object to having a negro fire company for Muskogee. Fighting fire is a noble calling and the colored boys should have a chance along with the white boys in serving the people of our great city. Yes, give us a colored fire company. TAXES EXTENDED TO APRIL 1ST. The extension of the payment of taxes comes in good play to most of us and we can now get a little sleep at night for the next two months. The payment has been extended to the first day of April to give us poor cusses a chance to pay up. Menelek's Odd Medicine. Menelek, emperor of Abyssinia, who is reported to be seriously ill, stands a poor chance of recovery if he tries on himself the remedies which he prescribes for others. Some years ago Mme. Stevenin, the wife of a prominent member of the French colony at Addis Abeba, was laid up with fever. Menelek inquired what treatment she was undergoing, and expressed disapproval when he learned that she was being dosed with quinine. The following day a messenger called with a very large pot of very rancid butter, accompanied by a letter from one of the emperor's secretaries stating that his royal master hoped madame would take three glasses daily of the butter sent, which had been stored for two years, and would be found an infallible remedy. The present was gratefully ac knowledged and promptly buried, and when madame recovered Menelek took to himself the credit of her cure —Chicago News. SEEDS BUCKBEE'S SEEDS SUCCEEDI SPECIAL OFFER: Made to build New Businesses. A trial will make you our permanent customer. Prize collection 1. It has the finest, Turnip, 7 open-field, 7 danies, 15 best various types, 10 dry and 10 open-field. All prices are in all. Guaranteed TO PLEASE. Write to-day: Mention this Paper. SEND 10 CENTS to cover postage and packing each package contains a collection of media, postpaid, together with my big Instructional, Beneficial, and Plant Books, tells all about the best options to buy. H. W. 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Deposits $1,352,066.34 We invite your account and offer every advantage consistent with conservative methods and the most courteous treatment is extended to those who desire banking facilities. Try The New BOX BALL GAME Better than a Gymnasium is a facination about you dont find in any It furnishes exercise for cle without over strain exercise a pleasure, no WHITE FRONT Muskogee, C HAVE YOU THOU Of the importance of money where it serves greatest good? THINK A MINUTE the Savings and checking People’s Bank and Tr A Live Negro MUSKOGEE, PIONEER ABSTRACT A CORNER OMULGEE AND SECO than a Gymnasium and destination about Box B dont find in any other dishes exercise for even without over strain. It be a pleasure, not a tast ATE FRONT BUIL Muskogee, Okla. ARE YOU THOUGHT the importance of deposi money where it serves you greatest good? THINK A MINUTE then de- vings and checking account he's Bank and Trust C A Live Negro Bank OGEE, ER ABSTRACT AND TR BARNER OMULGEE AND SECOND STREET Better than a Gymnasium and there is a facination about Box Ball that you dont find in any other sport. It furnishes exercise for every muscle without over strain. It makes exercise a pleasure, not a task. HAVE YOU THOUGHT Of the importance of depositing your money where it serves you for the greatest good? MUSKOGEE, -:- OKLA. PIONEER ABSTRACT AND TRUST CO. This Company makes Absolutely Correct Abstracts of Title. Go there for Correct Information. CPPOSITE MUSKOGEE NATIONAL BANK THE MAGIC IS TWO TIMES LARGER THAN PICTURE. IT IS 9 IN LONG STEEL HEATING BAR THE MAKE AND HAIR MAILED ANY POST SEND MONEY BY POST Address all letters to Music Shaper Pincer Co. Minneapolis, Minn. HAMES LARGER THAN PICTURE. IT IS 9 IN LONG HEATING BAR 1000 OZ. ORDER MEDIO LUM ECON THE MAIR AND HAIR MAILED ANYWHERE BEND MONEY IN POST 10 Music Shaper Brier Co. 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SALESMEN WANTED—Men or women to sell shares of stock in the Oklahoma Building and Loan Association of Muskogee. Apply at main office, room 4, Brown building. LODGE DIRECTORY. Muskogee Chapter No. 5, Order of Eastern Star; meeting first and third Thursdays of each month at 2:30 o'clock. IDA JONES, W. M. A. L. LOVE, Secretary. Trinity Lodge No. 8, A. F. & A. M.; meetings first and fourth Thursday night of each month. BARFIELD BARNETT. W. M. Call on DANIEL & COLLINS for Groverlea. Third and Howard streets. Street-Eicholtz This Anniversary Sale is the biggest event in the history of this store; it is the largest in the number of pieces included, and the best in the way of values, ever offered in Muskogee. You can easily tell just how much you are saving on each purchase as each article retains the old tag, showing the regular price and the sale price on a LARGE GREEN TICKET. 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HE natural instinct of every believer in liberty must be to cry with Fichte: "Let the truth be spoken though the world be thereby shattered into a thousand fragments;" or to feel, at the very least, that the presumption must be in favor of absolute free speech, just as everything not expressly reserved to the federal authorities in the American constitution belongs to the sphere of the states. A moment's reflection, however, shows that this attitude is not always practicable in a world of imperfection. There are some things we should all admit that must not be said in public. That unruly evil, the tongue, can no more be allowed unrestricted freedom of action than any other member of the human frame. The pure idealist must yield the floor to the practical statesman. It seems obvious that we can raise no absolute standard either of what legitimate free speech may include or of the right of the authorities to suppress it. The Anglo-Saxon distrust of general principles (as noted by Lord Morley) seems to apply here with peculiar aptness, and here, if anywhere, we are justified in bringing philosophical truths to the bar of practical politics. Regard must be had in every case to all the conditions: to the state of the political or social atmosphere at the moment; to the nature of the audience as to age, intellect or discipline; to the known record or motives of the speaker; to the worth of the immediate good obtained by suppression as compared with the ultimate loss through widened publicity of the dreaded doctrine; to the probable extent and violence of the apprehended evil and the greater or less difficulty to be anticipated in checking it when once started. It is distinctly unsafe to allow the government to make any general definition of incendiary speech, since the inevitable tendency is to brand as dangerous what is unpleasant to the dominant power. For a large community great diversity of opinion in all departments is necessary for growth; compulsory authority is fatal. There is nothing cast iron in the habits or ideas of any state of society except as men'e prejudices make it so. Freedom of speech must be liberally construed in the interests of a higher social development. If for no other reason than the dread of ridicule the authorities should take care not to place themselves in the position of the London Times, which severely censured Mr. Darwin for "revealing his particular All the other animal types also seem to have been well characterized when they first made their appearance. The theory of the origin of species by mutation, when applied either to the plant or the animal kingdom, does away with the demand made by the natural selection theory for inordinately long periods of time, during which existing races were brought gradually to their present condition. If they must wear them, why not have the sharp projecting ends protected by some kind of shield? Would it not be a good thing for the city fathers to take notice of this pestiferous and dangerous menace to life and limb? The writer is not actuated by any desire to be frivolous, but as a victim of the hat pin he would be glad to save some other person from a like injury. at all times. By doing away with the trough we deprive many a poor working horse of his only chance to get water for a whole day, as a large proportion of the teamsters feed their horses away from home and very few carry pails. T are some things in public. That unruly evi-stricted freedom of action to The pure idealist must yield. It seems obvious that what legitimate free speech to suppress it. The Anglo-Sby Lord Morley) seems to if anywhere, we are justified of practical politics. Regard must be had in of the political or social atm audience as to age, intellect of the speaker; to the worth sion as compared with the undreaded doctrine; to the previ evil and the greater or less once started. It is distinctly unsafe the definition of incendiary spee as dangerous what is unpled community great diversity o growth; compulsory authori There is nothing cast iety except as men'e prejudice liberally construed in the in If for no other reason should take care not to play Times, which severely censu zoological conclusions to the public when the sky of Par with the incendiary flame commune!" Origin of Species by Mutation By HAROLD PICKEIT All the other animal ty when they first made their r The theory of the origi to the plant or the animal by the natural selection th during which existing races dition. Hat Pins are Really Menacing By ALTON E. GASSO If they must wear them tected by some kind of shield Would it not be a good this pestiferous and dangere The writer is not actual tim of the hat pin he would like injury. Infection in Public Water Troughs By S. GOLDSMITH at all times. By doing awa working horse of his only el proportion of the teamsters few carry pails. By JAMES F. MUIRHEAD the instinct of every believer,ichte: "Let the truth be spun shattered into a thousand least, that the presumption the speech, just as everything vital authorities in the American state of the states. Element's reflection, however, is always practicable in a world of things we should all admit, evil, the tongue, can no nation than any other member yield the floor to the practice that we can raise no abscess speech may include or admit Anglo-Saxon distrust of generals to apply here with peculiarified in bringing philosophy and in every case to all the real atmosphere at the moment collect or discipline; to the koworth of the immediate goal the ultimate loss through the probable extent and violousless difficulty to be anticipated safe to allow the government speech, since the inevitable unpleasant to the dominance of opinion in all department is fatal. Great iron in the habits or id prejudices make it so. Free the interests of a higher social season than the dread of no place themselves in the censured Mr. Darwin for "to the general of every believer in liberty must be to "Let the truth be spoken though the world need into a thousand fragments;" or to feel, that the presumption must be in favor of such, just as everything not expressly reserved authorities in the American constitution belongs the states. Reflection, however, shows that this attitude practicable in a world of imperfection. There we should all admit that must not be said to the tongue, can no more be allowed unreason any other member of the human frame. the floor to the practical statesman. We can raise no absolute standard either of may include or of the right of the authoritiesixon distrust of general principles (as noted apply here with peculiar aptness, and here, in bringing philosophical truths to the bar every case to all the conditions: to the state sphere at the moment; to the nature of the discipline; to the known record or motives of the immediate good obtained by suppreslimate loss through widened publicity of theable extent and violence of the apprehended difficulty to be anticipated in checking it when allow the government to make any general shift, since the inevitable tendency is to brandiant to the dominant power. For a large opinion in all departments is necessary for it is fatal. in in the habits or ideas of any state of societies make it so. Freedom of speech must be rests of a higher social development. than the dread of ridicule the authorities themselves in the position of the London and Mr. Darwin for "revealing his particular was red of the James F. Muirhead It has been pointed out that the theory put forward by de Vries of Amsterdam, according to which new species of plants come into existence not by a long process of natural selection, as Darwin supposed, but through sudden mutations, the cause of which remains unknown, applies equally well to new species of animals. The giant dinosaurs, for instance, whose remains, as found in our western "bad lands," excite so much amazement, appear by paleontological evidence to have sprung suddenly into being and as suddenly to have disappeared. tal types also seem to have their appearance. origin of species by mutati animal kingdom, does away on theory for inordinately traces were brought gradual also seem to have been well characterized appearance. of species by mutation, when applied either kingdom, does away with the demand made pry for inordinately long periods of time, ere brought gradually to their present con- I was a passenger on a Chicago South Side elevated train the other evening and was standing in the aisle holding a strap when a young woman approached and in the crowd tore my face with her hat pin as she passed. I was very fortunate that my eye was not seriously injured. Had she been a little taller or had I been shorter such an injury would have resulted. The pin projected fully two or three inches over the side of her hat. It seems almost incredible that in a civilized community women will wear such dangerous weapons in their hats. them, why not have the sharp projecting ends pro-shield? a good thing for the city fathers to take notice of angerous menace to life and limb? actuated by any desire to be frivolous, but as a view would be glad to save some other person from a why not have the sharp projecting ends pro- thing for the city fathers to take notice of s menace to life and limb? If by any desire to be frivolous, but as a vie- be glad to save some other person from a As a veterinary surgeon I heartily agree that for the sake of the horses the public watering troughs should not be abolished. However, the fact must not be over- looked that the Veterinary association was perfectly right in asserting that the public water trough is a source of infection and that a great many horses contract that most dreaded and fatal disease, glanders, by drinking from them. However, this danger of infection could be reduced to a minimum if the city authorities would compel the owners of the troughs to keep the water flowing in them g away with the trough we deprive many a poor only chance to get water for a whole day, as a large esters feed their horses away from home and very with the trough we deprive many a poor niece to get water for a whole day, as a large need their horses away from home and very The Trainer By Balduin Groller (Copyrighted by Short Stories Co., Ltd) It was the day of the spring meeting on the Freudenau of Vienna. The races were over and everybody was getting ready to return to the city. Only Count Erwin Studt, one of the nobility belonging to the younger set, was standing in the door of the judges' room, apparently waiting for someone with great impatience. At last the door of the box, which resembles a small cage, opens, and therefrom issues the judges, a major of the Hungarian Guards, Barsay Miklos by name, who had been considered the most intrepid rider over a hurdle race, in his day, and who, on account of his age and weight, was now relegated to be umpire; an umpire whose word was law. The major was still a fine-looking man in spite of his white hair and avoiddupols, and owing to his being a bachelor, was very popular with all the young men. Erwin at once took possession of him. "Major, have a favor to ask of you." "Out with it, my son!" "You were speaking to a lady for fully a quarter of an hour before the last race." "And you admire her, no doubt, instantly rejoined the older man. "She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen," enthusiastically replied the younger one. "That is quite an assertion, my son; however, I am not accusing you of exaggeration, but merely wish to say that there are other beautiful women in the world." "Is she a Russian?" "No, but her husband was half a one; Herr von Balten, secretary of our logation at St. Petersburg." "Yes, for two years past; her husband, who was old enough to be her father, left her well provided for, having been one of the richest land owners in that part of the country." "May I know what was the subject between you, major?" "She wants me to recommend a master of the horse to her, for immediate engagement. A very difficult thing, for people seem to think that I merely open my sleeves, when presto, out walk grooms and trainers galore." "Major, you know my man Gibson, do you not?" "Certainly, I know him! A very capable fellow; why do you ask?" "Because I want you to recommend him to her." "But you surely do not wish to lose such a fine trainer? You would be foolish to give him up." "I may be a fool, but don't worry, I do not intend to give Gibson up." "Then I don't understand why I am to recommend him." "Just recommend Gibson to her, but I shall go in his place." "Man!" exclaimed the major, "have you gone entirely daft?" "I hope not," coolly rejoined his young companion. "Major, can you keep a secret?" "Mum's the word, if you say so." "Well, then, I intend to impersonate Gibson, so as to be engaged." "What! with his papers and references? Why, you rogue, that would be deception!" "That may be, but it doesn't 'matter'; I'll make it all right with Gibson, and as for the lady, she won't be deceived so badly, for isn't that the only business I really understand? The stables won't be any the worse for my management, and at the same time I'll have a decent occupation and shall consequently be a more useful member of society than I should be by loafing around at home." "Oh, indeed! By listening to you, one would imagine you were about to perform a noble deed. But remember, I wash my hands of the whole business! All I promise to do is to recommend Fred Gibson; the rest I know nothing about!" "Very well; just recommend him, and be kind enough to look after my stables occasionally, will you?" "All right, I'll promise to do that." That very evening Erwin Studt introduced himself to Frau von Balten at the Hotel Imperial, and was at once engaged. He had his mustache taken off, in order to look more like an Englishman, and, as Barsay had given him an excellent reference, the matter was soon arranged. He was told to be at the station punctually at eight o'clock the following morning and to purchase tickets for his mistress, her maid and himself, as the train was to leave at 8:20 precisely. These orders had been faithfully carried out, and the train was already making good headway, when Frau von Balten, who wished to get a better view of the scenery, opened the connecting door leading to the next coupe, and to her great surprise found her new trainer there. "Ah! Mr. Gibson, I thought you would travel second class!" "Beg pardon, your excellency, for my seeming presumption, but I had several reasons for taking a coupe next to yours." "An entire coupe?" "It was the most practical thing to do, your excellency. See, here is the connecting door, leading to the second-class carriage; 'his gives us half the carriage for our—for your convenience.'" "You had several reasons, you say; what were the others, besides your own comfort?" "My own comfort was the last thing I considered; I thought your excellency would be better looked out for, as I noticed last night that your maid does not understand a word of German. Should your excellency require any service on the way, before a station is reached, I should be at hand and better able to attend to your wants, than the foreign young girl could. Besides, you may be asked to share your coupe with others, in the event of a crowd while I should certainly prevent any such thing, and will see that you are not subjected to any other discomfort, by my presence." The train now approached a station, slowed up, and then stopped. A boy appeared, having papers for sale. Frau von Balten desired some to be bought. "Unnecessary, mylady; I have bought all the papers and magazines that were to be had before leaving." He brought her the whole pile and she retired into her own carriage. Soon another station was reached, where tempting edibles were displayed. She sent her maid for Gibson, asking him to kindly purchase something to eat. "Unnecessary, mylady; I have naturally provided that, too!" He brought over a basket, took out glasses, chinaware and silver, and then began to serve delicacies of all sorts. "What a tempting meal!" his mistress exclaimed, very much pleased with what he provided. "Mr. Gibson, I want you to share this with me." "Oh," he replied modestly, "the servants can wait." But she insisted on his joining her, as well as the Russian maid. "Will you have a glass of sherry, madam, or do you prefer Madeira?" She took the proffered sherry. After a short nap, Frau von Balten again summoned Gibson. "Has your ladyship slept well?" he inquired respectfully. "Excellently, thank you; and this has given me the idea to continue the trip without interruption: I don't believe I could sleep better at any hotel, and besides it might be rather embarrassing for me to enter a hotel with such a—retinue." "I understand, mylady!" "You will therefore be kind enough to take new tickets at Oderberg for the renaiptr of the journey." "Unnecessary, your ladyship. I paid for both the coupes as far as the Russian border." "But supposing I had decided to go to a hotel, the tickets would then have been lost?" "Perhaps; I never thought about that." "You do not seem to be very economical," laughingly replied his mistress. "Beg pardon, millady." "You need not excuse yourself, Mr. Gibson. Unnecessary, mylord!" she added, parodying him. "There is no occasion for you to be so, but I think you could leave it to me to be generous." "Like master, like servant, your ladyship." As the new trainer was now beginning to become rather an enigma to her, Frau von Balten turned the conversation to business; she began to speak about her horses, a subject on which she naturally found him thoroughly at home. She explained to him that she desired to try and win the "Vienna Derby," with his assistance, and he assured her that, though the task was a very difficult one, he would do all in his power to help her. In due time they reached the Russian border and soon after their destination, Kolowna, the home of his new mastress. The young nobleman was pleasantly impressed by the grandeur of the style in which things were managed there, and particularly by the condition of the stables, which were excellent. Several English jockeys and a number of well-trained stable boys had permanent engagements, and it seemed to him as if he were in command of a small army. The mistress of this domain had changed her original intention of lodging the trainer in one of the out-buildings, and had rooms assigned to him in the castle, which was well furnished throughout. He was permitted to dine at the castle and, like all Englishmen, only appeared in full dress for this function. As to his duties, he took them very seriously. The jockeys and stable boys were given plenty to do, nor did he spare himself, but, on the contrary, was in the saddle early and late. Occasionally he was chosen to escort his mistress on horseback, but never alone, as they were always accompanied by two jockeys, who rode in the rear, and never did he hint by word or look that he was aught else than the trainer. This condition of affairs lasted for several weeks, without any diminishing of the distance imposed by the relation of mistress and servant. One morning, as he was returning from his customary tour of inspection, he found Frau von Balten sitting outdoors at breakfast, under the great oak tree before the house. He bowed respectfully and, seeing her beckon to him, jumped from his horse and, throwing his reins to the jockey that had accompanied him, approached the table. "You have the faculty of appearing at the right time, Mr. Gibson. May I ask you to join me?" Needless to say that the invitation was accepted. "I am glad to see that you have such a good appetite, Mr. Gibson. This is almost as nice as at our lunch in the train." "I am glad that your ladyship has not yet forgotten that." "Why should I? I recall it with pleasure. There is one thing I have been wanting to ask you for some time, Mr. Gibson. How is it that you speak German as well as English? Did you live in Germany long? "Not in Germany, your ladyship, in Vienna; then, too, my mother is German." "Ah, your mother is alive?" "Yes, milady, and I owe everything to her, particularly whatever education I have." "You are very fond of your mother, Mr. Gibson?" "Iinexpressibly so, your ladyship!" "I should like to meet her, some time." If one has the gift of appearing at the right time once, what wonder that one should do so again and again? The weather was propitious for these meetings, remaining remarkably fine. Frau von Balten consequently breakfasted outdoors every day, and her trainer always happened to pass there just at the time, quite accidentally, of course. For a week he was in the seventh heaven of delight, but at the end of that time his happiness suddenly ceased, for his mistress remained invisible, nor could he catch a glimpse of her at any time. My Dear Major: Not only thanking you so late for your kindness in complying with my request, must I ask for your kind intelligence, but also for troubling you with another one so soon again. Mr. Gibson, whom you recommended to me so warmly, has proved entirely satisfactory, but it is on his account that I am penniless. I am not sure I am sorely puzzled about him. A new English jockey, Sullivan by name, now belongs to my stables, and it is he who confided to me yesterday that this is not the right Fred Gibson, whom he says he knows very well as he worked under him in England, at Lord Rossmore's. He professes to know all the jockeys and the drivers, and that there is no other Fred Gibson, except the one now in charge of Count Stubbs's stables in Vienna. Now it so happens that this is the very one you recommended to me, and hence my mystification. I have enjoined secrecy on Sullivan, as I wish the matter kept quiet until I hear from you, and I beg of you, my dear major, and I beg of you, my dear major, confidential and, if possible, to cullenfur my earliest opportunity. Let me assure you that anything that you have to tell me will be likewise regarded as strictly confidential and as the utterance of a man of honor. If the true Fred Gibson is still at Count Stud's, a fact of which you can count convince, yourself, who is your friend, that as you are the gentleman who recommended him, it may interest you as much as it does me to have some light cast on the subject. Thanking you beforehand for any trouble you may take in the matter, believe me. My Dear and Most Esteemed Lady: In reply to your favor of this week, I hasten to say that this whole business is exceedingly disagreeable to me and that I from the first thought it might end badly—but my response is on me on that matter that alters the case for me and compels me to speak. My dear madam, I know nothing; but of course a man may infer a great deal! Well, then, I recommended Fred Gibson to you, something I could do with the best conscience in the world, for I am a sober and conscientious fellow besides! But if you did not get the right Gibson, that is no fault of me. I really think you must have got the wrong one, for I not only saw but spoke to the true one this morning. But I infer something else; namely, that Count Erwin Studt must have fallen madly in love with you—a very excusable thing, on my word as a gentleman!- and that the rogue went in his trainer's hand disappeared from him, completely as if the earth had swallowed him up, not a soul knowing what has become of him! My dear madam, even if I scold about Erwin. I still venture to be for mercy for him, for he is a dear friend of mine, a gentleman from top to toe, and a highly educated fellow into the bargain. His mother is the ideal aristocratic woman, and if you see me a bachelor today, it is for the reason that she refused me 20 years ago. Do not, I beseech you, be too severe on me, the terrible devil is head over heels in love with you, and that is a sin which is pardoned even in the confessional! You will not betray me. I know, and I remain, as ever. Frau von Balten sen. for her trainer. "Mr. Gibson, you may consider: yourself dismissed!" "Your ladyship is sending me away?" "Yes, Mr. Gibson, I expect you to leave my house this very day!" He bowed silently and turned to go, when her voice recalled him. "You have nothing to say to me?" "A great deal, your ladyship, but I am too great a coward to say it; I might have summed up courage to write, however." "I have reason to be angry with you, Mr. Gibson!" "I cannot deny it." "And you do not even try to vindicate yourself?" "One hesitates to speak mylady, when the happiness of a lifetime depends upon the outcome!" Frau von Balten shook hands with him warmly. "Good-by, Mr. Gibson!" "May I write to you, mylady?" "I cannot forbid it." "Will you read the letter?" "I shall read it." "May I hope to see you again?" "I shall be in Vienna in the fall, for the races. If you care to call on me then with your mother, Mr. Gibson, choosing a suitable—pseudonym, you will see me." "God bless you, mylady!" "Good-by, Mr. Gibson." Before nightfall he had left the castle. British Juvenile Wrongdoers. 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This will include every mint, especially the big mint at Philadelphia, every custom house, every internal revenue office, every post office and all other offices where the public money is expended. The promise was made by Senator Aldrich, during the tariff debates, that a saving of from 25 to 40 per cent. is possible and the administration is aiming to reach those figures. This means that preparations are being made to make many consolidations where work heretofore has been duplicated. In fact, some of these consolidations are accomplished already. Also it means that the business of each borough and office is being scanned, all with a view of increasing their efficiency and at the same time reducing the cost. The administration has gone far enough to know that this can be done. The work of investigation is under Mince Pie Story DR. HARVEY W. WILEY, government chemist, was greatly interested in the story which has reached Washington, of a Polish coal miner in Ohio, who, biting onto a slab of Pittsburgh mince pie, struck a rivet and broke off seven teeth; but, being extremely hungry and having no money to buy actual food, kept at his grim task. A minute later he struck a stick of dynamite in the core of the same pie and was buried from his late residence the next day, leaving a wife in Poland and another in Ohio. Thus lives are wiped out and homes are made desolate by the ordinary mince pie of commerce—a dubious and sinister victual, in whose dark deptha a million dangers lurk. The average mince pie manufacturer, we have no doubt whatever, starts but in business with high ideals and a real love for his art. It is his firm intent to devise only the best and purest pies and to use in them nothing but genuine fruit, honest soup meat, choice brands of fourth-rate flour, clean bacon rinds and chemically pure glucose, magnesta and anitine dyes. But as he goes on and the mad PROSPERTY has returned, according to import and export records for 1909, published recently by the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor. The surest indication of ready money, officials declare, is the diamond market, and during the first 11 months of 1909 this has boomed, the importation of cut diamonds amounting to $25,214,541, three times as much as during the corresponding period last year, and nearly $6,500,000 more than during that time in 1907. Imports of cut diamonds this year, with December omitted, amounted to more than $1,000,000 above those in the 12 months of 1907, this banner year in the importation of cut gems. On these diamonds the government THE HOTELS MUST RABIN AFRICHT IN THEM PREMISTORIC DAYS MAKING models of bugs for Uncle Sam's use in teaching agriculturists and "bugology" students how to distinguish between insects that are harmful and those that are useful is the novel occupation of Mrs. Otto Heidemann, well known as a sculptor in Washington. It is no easy task that Mrs. Heidemann has. All the skill of the sculptor is necessary in the dexterous fashioning of the queer looking models, for although they are made on a charge of Charles D. Norton, assistant secretary of the treasury, who handles the annual estimates for all departments, and he has not yet examined a single public office without finding faults to be cured and the expense to be cut off. The trouble lies largely in an unnecessary number of employees and a consequent system of loafing and shirking that would not be tolerated in any private business. Much of the investigation so far made has been the personal work of Mr. Norton. Thus in an office under the treasurer of the United States he found the work far behind and an application for more employer on file. Mr. Norton went to this office at aline in the morning, when business is supposed to begin, and found it empty. Presently a few of the clerks arrived, but it was ten o'clock before all of them were there and at work. At 11:30 some of them went out to lunch, and it was 1:30 before all of them were again at their desks. Shortly after four they begin to leave the place, although the day's work is not supposed to be over until 4:30. At that hour not a soul remained in the office. After satisfying himself this was the daily routine in the office Mr. Norton sent for Charles H. Treat, then treasurer, and exploded his bomb. He ordered that instead of increasing the force in that office it was to be reduced. This was done and the office has so increased in efficiency that it is doing more work than it ever did before, and is fast catching up on its back business. thirst for opulence seizes him the temptation to sophisticate his product becomes irresistible. His first false step may seem harmless—it may be nothing worse, indeed, than the addition of some sterilized wood pulp to his pie filling—but that first false step is fatal. Ere long he is launched upon a dizzy career of chicanery and subterfuge. Abandoning apples and peaches entirely, he begins to fill his pies with carrots and turnips. Instead of flour, he tries plaster of paris; instead of soup meat, cat meat; instead of sugar, New Orleans molasses; instead of magnesia, manganese. Finally, instead of baking his pies, he merely varnishes them with shellac. No wonder the ordinary mince pie of our hostelries and eating houses, our public banquets and our cook stands bears an evil name. No wonder it is avoided as a pestilence, even by shoe drummers. And yet mince pie, per se, is not nefarious. Made at home, and without too great a dependence upon left-overs and other culinary debris, it may be both nourishing and palatable—a sound and even delightful viand, with something of lobster salad's hearty solidarity and something of the wiener schnitzel's haunting mystery. Made upon the eastern shore of Maryland, where pieology is an art as noble as piano playing or therapeutics, it may rise even higher than that, becoming a true victual of the first-class and ranking with Smithfield ham salad and fried smelts. this year collected $2,500,000 in duties. Belgium and the Netherlands are the countries selling most of the stones to the United States. More than $40,000,000 worth of diamonds and other precious stones were imported the first 11 months of 1909. These are the correct figures and represent an increase of $28,000,000 over the total of 1908 and more than $3,000,000 over 1907, this country's record year for imports of jewels. During the calendar year the foreign commerce of the United States exceeded in value that of any earlier year with the exception of 1907. Imports were larger than in any previous 12 months, but exports will fall somewhat below those of 1906 and 1907. A subject of interest in the report is the statement that exportation of foodstuffs, both raw and manufactured, has fallen lower than any other time for a decade. This gives rise to apprehension, especially as it is accompanied by the statement that, while other countries are selling to the United States, this nation's trade with other lands has suffered. gigantic scale in comparison to the life size insects, a close microscopic study of the subject and the ability to shape the different parts on identical lines are details of Mrs. Heidemann's work that must be followed each time she molds a reproduction. Mrs. Heidemann as a sculptor has produced busts of some of the celebrities of the day, but she says her art has never been more severely taxed than it is through her employment for the bureau of entomology of the department of agriculture. The models of insects cover virtually every known form of life in the world of bugs. The models are a true reproduction, fantastic in some cases and hideous in others, and they furnish exceptional means for persons interested in agriculture to study both the insects that destroy crops and the others that preserve agricultural products. NEARING TIME FOR THE SPRING PRACTICE NEW MANAGER OF THE PHILADELPHIA NATIONALS. Charles Dooin, the star catcher of the Phillies, has been made manager of the team by President Fogel. Dooin's friends hope the managerial berth will not spoil his playing as it did that of Billy Sullivan who managed the sox last year. BALL PLAYERS SOON TO START ON WESTERN AND SOUTH- ERN TRIPS. LYNCH BARS FAMILIARITY Games in the National League Likely to Be Pink Tea Affairs—Players Must Call the Umpire "Mister"—Dreyfuss for 154 Games. It will not be long before the spring practice of the baseball players will begin. Cities in the south will swarm with ball tossers of the big leagues and the work of getting into condition, after several months of ease, will be on. In the latter part of February the managers and players will take to the trains after a visit to Hct Springs and West Baden. Some go to Florida, others to Louisiana and Texas, and some to Georgia. Each manager has his own idea concerning the most beneficial climate in which tc start the spring work. For several seasons Charles Comiskey has been taking the Chicago White Sox to California on a special train. This probably will be the last for the Old Roman has about decided to take his men to Excelsior Springs, Mo. next year. Comiskey recently visited the springs and was cured of rheumatism. He has had his team there before, and he believes it will be best to go back next season. Comiskey has been spending enough money to have a real baseball team, and if he can get his boys to hitting the Sox ought to finish well up. An American league authority is responsible for the statement that the National league may be obliged to return to a schedule of 154 games for this season, regardless of the recent vote at the New York meeting in favor of 168. It is pointed out that an article of the league's constitution provides that the schedule committee shall have the say regarding the number of games to be played, and that the club owners, as a body, have nothing to do with it. Barney Dreyfuss of Pittsburg, one of the members of the schedule committee, is known to be in favor of the shorter schedule, and he may be able to persuade his fellows not to extend the season as the league voted to do. "It is hard for me to see a single reasonable argument in favor of extending our present schedule," Dreyfuss said. "Baseball is a dead proposition after the last week in September, unless two clubs are fighting neck and neck for the pennant. At least six clubs are sure to lose by the plan, and possibly eight. "The weather is bound to be bad for baseball, and the fans are ready to turn their attention to football, any way, at that time." If reports are true, Tom Lynch, new president of the National league, will have the games in that organization conducted like a society tea. Lynch is a stickler for propriety. He doesn't like familiarity between the umpire and the players. When he was handling an indicator for Uncle Nick Young Lynch wouldn't allow a player to call him "Tom" on the field. The first offense meant a caution, the second a five-dollar fine, and the third ten dollars. About that time the player saw the wisdom of saying "Mr. Lynch." This year we may expect to hear T. Barney Dreyfuss. Johnny Evers addressing his "friend," Umpire Klem, as "Mr. Klem." Think of it! Everybody knows that Evers will bite his tongue every time he says it. If you were at the National league grouns in Chicago last summer when Hank O'Day was umpiring and had a seat near the home players' bench, no doubt you saw O'Day approach Manager Chance and say something like this: "What's the batting order for this afternoon, Husk? The same?" "Yep," the manager would remark, "I haven't made any changes. Hank." Hank would stroll over to the bench of the visitors. He would go through the same program and the game would begin. Not so with Lynch as the chief executive. Hank, if he obeys instructions, will wait until one minute before time for the game to begin. Then with a martial tread he will march to the coop of Chance. "Mr. Manager, will you favor me with a lineup of to-day?" he will say. And Chance, after he has recovered from the astonishment caused by the formal an. unfriendly greeting, will comply. There will be no tired, lifeless ball players on the Cincinnati team next year if Manager Clark Griffith has his way. "We have to have a sober club," he said, "for the reason that the public demands sober men. I want a championship team. We can only have this by keeping the men in good condition. And in 4,000 private detectives are necessary for this, we'll have the sleutas and the sober players." Billy Murray, deposed manager of the Quakers, answers the charge that he was extravagant by saying that he will release the Phillies of their $15,000 salary obligation and will give $10,000 to boot If Pitchers Moren, Foxen and McQuillen; Shortstop Doolin and Third Baseman Grant—for whom he paid a total of $6,750—are turned over to him. He says he can now set the players for $50,000. Bob Emsle is the only National league umpire still working who was on the job in the days that President Tom Lynch was an arbitrator. Which probably won't do Bob any particular harm. GOSSIP OF THE RING By KNOCKOUT. You'll have to give it to this fellow, Battling Nelson, champion of the lightweights. He's about the toxiest person in the ring today. He manages his own affairs and no rival manager gets the best of him. They have been talking for some time about a fight between Nelson and Ad Wolgast. Nelson agreed to fight, then called it off. Next he talked about fighting somebody else. Then things were fixed up between him and Wolgast for a battle in San Francisco. Nelson hadn't been in the ring for several months and knowing Wolgast to be a hard nut to crack, the champion decided to take on a "trial horse" before going into the the big battle. "Bat" agreed to meet Eddie Lang before Tommy Ryan's Memphis club. Lang is a new one and it's a cinch he'll not kick Nelson in eight rounds. The fight will be just what Nelson needs to put him in good shape for the bat tie with Wolgast. Give it to Nelson. He's a fox and his active brain is ever alert for the best of it for "Bat." Abe Attell, featherweight champ has come out of his shell and wants to fight a live one. Little Abe has been picking out the easy marks so long he's ashamed of himself, and now has announced his willingness to fight the hardest proposition in the featherweight division, Jem Driscoll, the clever Briton. There used to be an argument concerning who was the cleverest boxer in the ring. Some said Jim Corbett. Others said Attell. Old timers declared Young Griffo had it on either of them. When Driscoll visited the United States a year or so ago all agreed that he was about the shifftest thing with the mits that ever entered a ring. Attell met him in a short bout and Abe, according to critics, looked like an amateur. However, Abe has a way of holding off, and he may have been laying low that night. If he and Driscoll meet in a long fight it probably will be the fastest mill ever seen. Over in England they think Tom Thomas their middleweight champion is unbeatable. They want to see him hook up with Stanley Ketchel. If Ketchel, who is an in and outer, is right, should they meet, I'm afraid England will have to look for another champ. Steve is a demon when in the proper condition, and no doubt will be able to trim anything they have on the other side of the pond if he goes there, as he contemplates doing. AN INTERVIEW WITH KLING Holdout Catcher Seems to Be Tired of Idleness and Wants to Play Ball Once More. Report comes from Kansas City that John Kling wants to play baseball this year. It seems that the former Cub—in fact he's still a Cub—is tired of being a holdout, and will play if he gets the money. Read this interview attributed to the great catcher and then judge for yourself: "Where would you like to play ball this year?" was asked Kling after it became certain that John was willing to be approached in a baseball way. "O, any old place, just so's the money's there," he said. "Would you play for Murphy?" "Well, now I don't—, yes, I would, of course, if he'd pay me everything he owes me." But John refused to mention just how much Charles W. is indebted to him, and for what. "How would you like to play in New York, for McGraw?" "O, fine; McGraw's all right; I'd play there. Wouldn't mind playing in Boston, either. There's a great town for you. Fine baseball crowd there, too. I believe they're going after a better team. I wouldn't mind playing in Boston." "How about Philadelphia, John?" "All right," replied Kling, "I'd play in Philadelphia. Good ball club there, good town, too." "How about Cincinnati?" "O. Cincinnati's all right, too," he said. "I wouldn't mind playing ball in Cincinnati. I'd go there all right." "Would you play ball under Griffith?" Kling was asked. "Would it take more than that $9,000 offer of Herrmann's that you turned down?" Kling hesitated. Evidently that $3,000 bid looks good to Kling now. "Sure, I'd play for Griffith," he said. "I'd play for $3,000 now. What do you think will come of all this talk?" One Step Nearer Gotch. Saintlaus Zbyszko the Pole, got a step nearer a match with Frank Goch champion of the world, when he downed Charles Cutler in straight falls in Chicago. Goch recently was quoted as saying that Cutler was the coming champion, and that the Chicagoan would be his successor. Now comes the Pole and flops Cutler twice. It begins to look as if Goch must give Zbyszko a match Smitn Leads as Usual. A statistician has figure that there are 25 players named Williams, 29 named Clark, 34 named Brown and 72 named Smith in the game. Brooklyn Owner Has Hopes. Charles Ebbets, the owner of the Trolley Dodgers, is out with the statement that his gang is certain to land in the first division this year. Tom Sharkey Favors Jeffries. Tom Sharkey seems to be telling everybody to bet on Jeff, but he does not intend to invest any money himself. "My hair's exactly like a turban, isn't it?" "Exactly. You can even take it off." "Exactly. You can even take it off." SCRATCHED SO SHE COULD NOT SLEEP "I write to tell you how thankful I am for the wonderful Cuticura Remedies. My little niece had eczema for five years and when her mother died I took care of the child. It was all over her face and body, also on her head. She scratched so that she could not sleep nights. I used Cuticura Soap to wash her with and then applied Cuticura Ointment. I did not use quite half the Cuticura Soap and Ointment, together with Cuticura Resolvent, when you could see a change and they cured her nicely. Now she is eleven years old and has never been bothered with eczema since. My friends think it is just great the way the baby was cured by Cuticura. I send you a picture taken when she was about 18 months old. "She was taken with the eczema when two years old. She was covered with big sores and her mother had all the best doctors and tried all kinds of salves and medicines without effect until we used Cuticura Remedies. Mrs. H. Klernan, 663 Quincy St., Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1909." Nil Desperandum Percy Parkington rose and brushed the dust from his knees. Then, drawing himself up to his full height, he gazed resentfully upon the form of Miss Muriel Muggins, who nonchalantly fanned herself the while. "Very well, Miss Muggins," came in bitter tones from Percy. "Oh, very well! You have spurned me, it is true! Indeed, you have spurned me twice! But, though despair eats my heart, I shall not die! I mean to go into the busy world. I will fight! I will win! My name shall become known, and my riches shall become envied—" "Pardon me for interrupting you, Mr. Parkington," interjected Miss Muggins, "but when you shall have accomplished all that, you may try me again."—Lippincott's. One on the Judge. A newly qualified judge in one of the small towns of Tennessee was trying one of his first criminal cases. The accused was an old darky who was accused of robbing a hen-coop. He had been in court before on a similar charge and was then acquitted. "Well, Tom," began the judge, "I see you're in trouble again." "Yes, sah," replied the darky; "the last time, judge, you was ma lawyer." "Where is your lawyer this time?" asked the judge. "I ain't got no lawyer this time," answered Tom. "I'm going to tell the truth." All in the Name. Phyllis (up from the country)—But, Dick this is just like the last piece you brought me to see here. Dick.—My dear Phyllis, don't be absurd. This is "The Naughty Girl of Nice," and that other was "The Grasse Widow." Surely you know that Nice and Grasse are two entirely different places.—Punch. Impolite Papa. "Mamma, what makes papa make that funny noise?" "He's snoring, dear." "But you always tell me it ain't poite to blow my noise out loud." HARD TO DROP But Many Drop It. A young Calif. wife talks about coffee: "It was hard to drop Mocha and Java and give Postum a trial, but my nerves were so shattered that I was a nervous wreck and of course that means all kinds of alls. "At first I thought bicycle riding caused it and I gave it up, but my condition remained unchanged. I did not want to acknowledge coffee caused the trouble for I was very fond of it. At that time a friend came to live with us, and I noticed that after he had been with us a week he would not drink his coffee any more. I asked him the reason. He replied, I have not had a headache since I left off drinking coffee, some months ago, till last week, when I began again, here at your table. I don't see how anyone can like coffee, anyway, after drinking Postum!" "I said nothing, but at once ordered a package of Postum. That was five months, ago, and we have drank no coffee since, except on two occasions when w had company, and the result eac time was that my husband could not sleep, but lay awake and tossed and talked half the night. We were convinced that coffee caused his suffering, so he returned to Postum, convinced that coffee was an enemy, instead of a friend, and he is troubled no more with insomnia. "I, myself, have gained 8 pounds in weight, and my nerves have ceased to quiver. It seems so easy now to quit coffee that caused our aches and ails and take up Postum." Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville, in pips, "There's a Reason." Ever read the above better, A new one appears from time to time. They value true, and fall of human interest. $40.00, $35.00, $30.00, $25.00 And $20.00 One Price---Plain Figures ON NORTH 2nd ST. 107-109