Muskogee Cimeter

The People Should Know the Truth Certain Merchant Preaching Race Patronage But Not Practicing It at Home. Improvement In Platt National Park, Oklahoma You Can't Get Away From Wearers of DUNDEE Clothes DUNDEE Indian Given Away---Get a Free Ticket. 311 West Broadway UNION MADE VOL. XIII The People Know Certain Merchant Prea But Not Practic The colored people in the vicinity of Muskogee will soon be well organized into Commercial Clubs if the tactics of some of the club members of the city continues. It has been noticed for the last month or so that a certain cooled merchant on Second street has spent much of his time visiting nearby towns helping to organize the working people into Commercial Clubs and making rousing speeches to colored people advising them against spending their money in white stores, etc. This merchant is either a fool or he thinks these working people are all fools. The Cimeter is of the opinion that these people are not fools, because nearly all of them are readers of colored papers, many of them being regular subscribers for the Cimeter. Does this merchant think he is "toting fair" with these people to ask them to keep out of the white man's store when he himself uses the white papers exclusively to advertise his business? Does he think that these people are not intelligent enough to notice that he, a Negro merchant, never advertises his business through the columns of the colored papers, notwithstanding the fact that he uses from one-fourth to a full page at a time in the white papers? Does this merchant think that these good people who are supporting these Improvement In Park, O The Department of the Interior proposes to spend $53,455.60 on improvements in the Platt National Park during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, if the amount requested by the Secretary of the Interior is appropriated by Congress. This is an increase of $43,455.60 over the appropriation for the current fiscal year. The items on which the amount requested is to be expended are as follows: Sewer system, $35,000; new admin; irration building, $10,000; revetment wall, $300; new pavilion at Wilson Spring, $50; new barns for the park stock, $1,000; roads and trails, $1,200; clearing $i ay weeds, thistles, and underbrush, $200; salaries, $4,800; miscellaneous, $765.60 For the development and care of the national parks the Secretary of the Interior has asked Congress to appropriate the sum of $791,080.60, an increase of $617,830.61 over the appropriations for the current fiscal year. The national parks constitute ideal recreation grounds for thousands of are seriously retarded by the lack of adequate roads and trails, and until people, but their development and use sufficient money is appropriated for beginning a comprehensive palm of development the parks will fall far short of rendering the important public use for which they are intended. The general public interest in these pleasure grounds is shown by the fact that in a list recently issued by the Department of the Interior 390 magazine articles on the parks are enumerated. It is the intention of the De- The Muskogee Cimeter. OLDEST COLORED PAPER IN OKLAHOMA cooled papers for which he is not even a subscriber, will continue to sustain him in business if he continues in his way? The Cimeter has found the farmer and laboring class of people as a rule to be very sensible people, and they are the only class, as a rule, that the race papers may rely on for support. The merchant or business man who has the interest of the race at heart to such extent that he will leave his business to go out and lecture to people about spending their money in white stores, and yet has not enough interest in his race to spend a part of the big sum of money he spends annually to advertise in white papers with the papers of his own race from whom he gets his support, is a sad misfit and should be relegated to the rear. We regret very much for the outside world to know that we have any such style of business men in Muskogee, but it is true. We are not publishing this article with any begrudge or any malice whatever. The Cimeter has always existed without the merchant's support and just a slight glance at the advertising columns of our paper will show that we are not in need of it now. But we are avowed enemies to hypocrisy and race traitors in every walk of life. We ove fair play. in Platt National oklahoma department to make the principal places of interest in the parks more accessible, to render traveling more comfortable by sprinkling the roads throughout the dry season, and to guard the health of the traveler b y the installation of proper water supply and sewerage systems. The responsibility for the future conduct of the national parks must rest with Congress, but the Department feels that the financial needs of these reservations should be clearly presented to Congress in the annual estimates. THE W. P. A. ADJOURNS Complete Report of Meeting Will Appear In Next Issue of Cimeter. The Western Press Association adjourned the 15th annual session at Topeka last night after one of the best conventions ever held by that body of cooled newspaper men. The Oklahoma boys made good and held their own in the Sunflower state. Mr. A. W. Broadus of Okmulgee was in the city on business Modnay. DR. CHAS. ERSEY SMITH, Office phone 2140. TO ASIA TO AFRICA MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA, DECEMBER 2, 1911. Octogenarian Dead. The funeral of Henry Sims, an octogenarian, father of Dr. W, H. Sims of this city, who died last week, was held from the Sims' residence Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mr. Sims was born in South Carolina, but came to this country several years ago from Mississippi. He was 86 years old. SKINNED ALIVE THIS CREEK INDIAN According to Story Printed in Sapulpa—Buck Grayson's Poor Bargain. The following story concerning Buck Grayson, a Creek Indian well known here, appeared in a recent issue of the Sapulpa Light: "To the wily white man Buck Grayson of near Broken Arrow, a few days ago sold his valuable 160 acre farm, worth, without its oil possibilities, $5,000, for a $1,000 bill. Grayson did not know he was signing a deed when the Tulsa man "loaned" him a dollar but yesterday he found it out and immediately consulted lawyers. "The game is old, yet it is still effectual Grayson was in Tulsa and wanted to borrow a dollar to come home on. He called on his pale skinned "friend" and signed the paper, which, he thought, called for the usual $2.50 which the white man demands when he loans to his red brother. Going home he told his friends of signing the paper and some one interested in him investigated. The crookedness of the deal was readily seen, for on fine in the recorder's office at Tulsa was the deed changing the property to the Tulsa man's hands. "While protected by having his wife appear as buyer of the property the Tuila man will be prosecuted, it is said. If criminal action is not brought, a civil case will start immediately." TOO SLOW Was This Dance, So The Boys Started Something—One Dead and Two Badly Hurt. Lamar, Okla.—As the result of a brawl at a dance at the country house of Will Tenkerlesley, between Lamar and Bear, early yesterday morning, Albert Ball was killed and Ben Ball and a brother of William Tenkerlesley were mortally wounded. The dance at the Tenkerlesley home was being protracted into the wee small hours of the morning. At about 3 o'clock, Ball and his brother are said to have become unruly. Tenkerlesley and his brother undertook to get them out of the house and a free for all fight followed, in which knives were the principal weapons. Druggist Killa Woman. Oklahoma City.—George Brandon, a well known druggist, killed one woman and fataly injured two others and was badly injured himself while out joy riding early yesterday. His automobile struck the curbing while going high speed, and the calamity ensued. HEALTH OF THE PITMAN BOY BROKEN And He Will Be Taken To Higher Altitude. ANOTHER PHASE OF SAD STORY Sapulpa End of the Dramatic Story of the Dissipation of Indian Fortune. Sapulpa.—His life saved from the hands of a designing adventures, his estates valued at nearly $300, 000 restored to him, little Robert Pitman, the Indian heir whose father and mother figured in a divorce suit and fraud land deal of national reputation, is probably doomed to an early death through inherited consumption. Suffering greatly he was recently removed from his mother to Colorado after their stay in Muskogee had severely unsettled his system and apparently unfitted him for further residence there. The little chap has oil property and accrued royalties that make him wealthier than many of the princes of the old world, yet, in comparison the lives of the young foreign monarchs are safe when his escape is considered. The boys' mother was the victim of her husband, who, in turn, was the tool of the adventures. Going still further back, a Colorado Springs lawyer directed the woman and formulated the plans to obtain not only the estate and wealth of the husband and father but of the little heir and his mother. To accomplish this the adventures caused the wife to be spirited off so that the husband might divorce her on the ground of abandonment. Then by marrying the husband, a crude and uneducated Missouri squaw man, and by placing the boy, his son, with her relatives, she sunk her grip deeply into the estates. A handsome villa was purchased, a garage established and luxuries of an expensive nature bought, just before the federal authorities happened to scent the case and began an investigation. The plot on the life of the boy was uncovered and the case brought into the court of the justice who allowed Pitman's divorce. A compromise was reached and the wife was freed of her lecherous husband, in spite of her declaration that she grilled loved him. With the satisfactory settling of the estate and the removal of the boy from danger, his death to come soon from the dread ailment is a disappointing end to a dramatic story. The Pitmans own their property in Sapulpa and the whole scene formulated here. PERJURY CHARGE May Be Lodged Against Some Witnesses In the Lorimer Case. Chicago.—With the shifting from Chicago to Washington of the scene United States Senator William Lorof the senatorial investigation of imer's election it was learned today Will go to press about December 1st. If you desire, a telephone and wish your name listed in the new book make application at once. Also notify us if you want your listing, address or firm name changed. Call Manager's Office Telephone 3001 PIONEER TEL. AND TEL. CO. Consisting of High Grade Clothings, Men's Furnishings, Hats and Shoes, now being Closed out by the Receiver at prices one-half below actual value. that the federal government in session here contemplates a right inquiry that perjury had been committed in the testimony given before the committees. The senators on the committee headed by Chairman Dillingham, however, let it be known that they were averse to any grand jury probe until all the evidence is in. Further, it was given out that the committee would not be available to a grand jury until the hearings are closed. With this understanding all grand jury's action was temporarily suspended. Adjournment was taken today until December 5, when the hearings will be resumed in Washington. John H. Marble, chief counsel, left for Washington tonight, it was said, for the hearings in the east will run at least for two weeks and may extend for a month. FOUR FIRES THE FIRE FIEND WAS BUSY Flames Consumed Much Property In Two Oklahoma Cities. Hobart, Okla., Nov. 25.—Fire early thil morning destroyel the buildings of M. L. Britton, usel as a bakery, the Riley Smith builting, occupied by a butcher shop, and the Hull building, used for a barber shop and tailoring shop, all located at Gotebo, 14 miles east of Hobart. The total loss was $4,000, with but a small amount of insurance. Almost at the same time the Gotebo fire was raging the building an stock of the Manitou Grocery Company, of Manitou, this county, went up in smoke, causing a loss of $5,200, covered by a limited amount of insurance. Two More at South Town. McAlester, Okla., Nov. 25.—The Mountain House, a large frame structure, together with its contents, was totally destroyed by fire of unknown origin at an early hour this morning. The guests escaped in their night clothes. Several jumped from second story windows. D. A. Moomaw had his ankle fractured anl Joe Lang suffered a broken knee. Several women were taken out on ladders. All the guests lost all their possessions. The Busby theater and the First Baptist churh, two of the finest structures in the city, were on fire, but were saved with damage of about $1,000. The total loss was $10,000, partially insured. LITTLE BUILDING. Oklahoma City.-The total main line railroad mileage in Oklahoma was only increased during the time from February 1, 1910, to February 1, 1911, 122.74 miles, at an increased valuation of $2,225,027. The figures showing the total mileage of main track, side track and valuations of all the roads in the state has just been completed in the office of State Auditor Leo Meyer. No. 7 BEATY PAID PENALTY FOR HIS CRIME Self Confessed Murderer Satisfies the Law. MADE SIGNED CONFESSION Aged Father Believed In His Son's Innocence Until Hours After His Awful Death Richmond, Va.—Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., went to his death at dawn Saturday the self-confessed murderer of his young wife, although the confession was not made public until four hours after he had paid the toll exacted by the law. He maintained to the end the remarkable nerve he had exhibited since first he was accused of killing his wife on the lonely Midichthon turnpike last July. His last expression was a sneer when he observed the chair that was to launch him into eternity. The shock that killed Beattie was given at exactly 7:19 o'clock Saturday morning. Three times the current was turned on, and at 7:23 it was shut off. Doctors W. T. and St. Julian Oppenheimer, a minute later announced that death had been instantaneous. The twenty-two persons in the death chamber thereupon filed out and the end of a long and costly battle for justice had ended. "I, Henry Clay Beatte, Jr., desirous of standing right before God and man, do on this the 23rd day of November, 1911, confess my guilt of the crime charged against me. Much that was published concerning the details was not true, but the awful fact, without the harrowing circumstances, remains. For this reason, I am truly sorry and, believing that I am at peace with God and am soon to pass into His presence, this statement is made." Beatte's confession was followed by the following statement by the attending ministers. "This statement was signed in the presence of the two attending ministers and is the only statement that can and will be made public by them. "Mr. Beatte desired to thank the many friends for kind letters and expressions of interest and the public for whatever sympathy was felt or expressed." The secret of his confession was held inviolate by the ministers until Saturday. Not even the broken hearted father knew of its existence, friends of the family declare. Not until four hours after he had been pronounced dead in the death chamber in state's prison were the murderer's attorneys cognizant that he had made a clean breast of his guilt. With the same intrepidity that had marked his conduct from the beginning, Beattie went to the chair and brought the sordid story to a dramatic end. ne Directory December 1st. If you de- your name listed in the on at once. Also notify g, address or firm name 226 West Okmulgee Ave. $1 DOLLAR A WEEK $1 226 West Okmulgee Ave. W. T. FARLEY The World's Greatest Credit Clothier. Public Notice Public Notice We, the Bon Ton Cleaners, have today taken the course in Chemical Cleaning from W. A. Ramsey of St. Louis, one of the well known practitioners and instructors of the Chemical Cleaning System. We are now prepared to clean and take care of any garment intrusted to us no matter how delicate the garment may be. We now use the best method of Dry Cleaning. 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PAPER district with a stock of Wall Paint both price and quality. Paints, Varnishes, and Brushes. SATISFACTION. CONVINCED. HEUSER Decorating Co. Phone 1407. N SHOP shopping be the same to all. You will rest bargains at MUSKOGEE, OKLA. FIRST CLASS GROCERIES Fresh Meat and Vegetables in Season. W. T. HODGES, Phone 2091, 815 So. 2nd St. 226 West 3043 MURDER THE CHARGE AGAINST PREACHER And A Most Atrocious Case Appears From the Stories Told. Fight Between A Minister and A Joint Keeper Re-Sults Seriously—Accused Preacher Released on Bond. Boynton is entitled to the "credit" for the last shooting affair up to date. This time it wasn't cattle thieves or cow boys who are accused of wantonly clipping off a human life, but an alleged minister of the gospel of peace on earth and good will toward men seems to have been the star actor in this case. The dead man was Bill Alcorns, a colored no-account at Boynton. The "preacher" who gets a little sensational noteriety out of his escapade is H. H. Friar. He was arrested for murder but is now out on bail. As might readily be expected, the stories of those who ought to know the facts are conflicting. The friends of the dead man and those of the preacher are bitterly partisan and until they appear in court and submit their statements to the closest examination, not much reliance can well be placed in what they tell. As nearly as can be understood now however, Friar followed his man into the street, held him with one hand and shot him with the other. It may have been done in an entirely different manner, however. Only a close study of the testimony will give a clear idea of what the real facts are. Upon the story of Belle Clemmons, a negress, and an eye witness to the shooting, the state laid the foundation of its case. Briefly the story the woman told is this: Friar, accompanied by his little band of "apostles," for that is what they call his followers in Boynton, came into Alcorns' place and asked to see him. Alcorns was there and all of them went up stairs to talk it over. They wanted to have a little "friendly talk" the minister said. Alcorns led the way up the stairs. Soon she heard sounds of scuffling from the room above and heard Alcorns cry three or four times for help. She recognized his voice. She started up the stairway to see what the trouble was. She was about half way up the stairway when the door opened and Alcorns was pitched out head first. She couldn't see who threw him out of the door. John White came down stairs first, he was followed by Alcorns and after him came Friar, holding a revolver in his hand. She seized White and he pulled her down the stairs with him. She struck him three or four times as they rolled over and over. White clambered to his feet and passed out the stairway into the street, Alcorns followed him on the run and Friar followed Alcorns. About two-thirds of the way across the street Alcorn turned and started to return to his place of business. He was met by Friar, who immediately seized and shot him twice. Alcorns was in his shirt sleeves, without a hat and without arms of any kind. Jim Petree, a negro blacksmith, told of the shooting. Whe Alcorns was returning to his place, walking, he was met near the curbing by Friar, he said. The minister imme- SOLID comfort, that is what a chair like this affords when you come in weary from a hard day's work. As you sink down in the soft cushions, light up the old pipe and draw up close to the stove, you forget you are tired. You forget all your troubles. You are content and at peace with the world. Enjoy evenings like these—replace some of your hard, uncomfortable straight-backed chairs with a couple of easy rockers or a good Morris chair now while you have the opportunity. All our furniture is new, up-to-date, the product of the best factories, and the prices are so low that in every case you can save from 20 to 50 per cent by buying from us. 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Said defendant, Emery Bira Thayer Dry Goods Co., a corporation, will take notice that it has been sued in the above named court for $100 damages and must answer the petition filed therein by said plaintiff on or before the 20th day of January 1912 or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment for said plaintiff for $100 will be rendered accordingly. E. D. JEFFERSON, Justice of the Peace. DOLLA gro, who a year ago lived in Boynton, and who was visiting in that town from his home in Okmulgee county at the day and hour of the shooting gave perhaps the most damaging evidence of the day against Friar. Walls was sitting on the curb, he FURNITURE AT WHOLE- SALE PRICES a chair like this affords when you hard day's work. As you sink down up the old pipe and draw up close tired. You forget all your troubles with the world. replace some of your hard, uncom- with a couple of easy rockers or a you have the opportunity. 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That's why we and make prescriptions our spec- about s Pharmacy 226 West Okmulgee OKLAHOMA No Chinese revolutionist wears at any rate a pompadour. What has become of the old-fashioned open-face applebutter pie? The autumnal colors are much finer than those of the gaudy billboards. The Chinese revolution seems to have got beyond the control of the police. The effort to render hazing safe and sane continues at various educational institutions. China's infant emperor writes marvelous compositions for one who has just begun his schooling. No true lover of nature ever goes around declaring, in sepulchral tones, that life is a vole of tears. Japan's population is increasing at the rate of 500,000 a year, and the surplus must go somewhere. If gon't milk is a cure for inebriety, as is asserted, one would never guess it by studying bock beer signs. Hoopskirts are announced as due to return. But fashion, like politics, has its rumors that never come true. The Kings county, New York, jail is characterized as a "disgrace." Most jails are open to the same criticism. A baby has been killed by a hot bag. This comes from departing from the established and recognized cold bottle. Football fatalities have been less frequent this year than usual. The game is in danger of losing its popularity. A New York janitor laughed so hard at a joke which his daughter told that he fell dead. As usual the joke is suppressed. And the worst of it is, the war between Turkey and Italy doesn't seem to be good even for kinematograph purposes. The man who killed himself after six hours of married life apparently was satisfied that a little often goes a great way. Magazines that are shipped by freight are at least congratulating themselves on not being completely sidetracked. A young actor has married a widow worth $15,000,000. It was about time that the male sex of stageland was recognized. Violinist Kubelik has fled from Chicago because it was too noisy here for him. Need it be said that he has gone to St. Louis? Football is not all wasted effort. Lots of the pale-browed ordinary students get excellent exercise in giving the college yell. It's our notion that everybody will have to have his liver regulated and in good working order before the millennium can come. A Seattle clergyman preached from a coffin in the streets and was "pall-beared" home. Seattle must be a hard town to wake up. Statistics show that in nearly all cases the college girl, when she marries, stays married. Probably she starts out by giving her husband a vivid description of the hazing stunts she has participated in. A song writer has been ordered to pay $2 a week toward the support of his child. Now we may expect an indefinite number of new "rag" spasms. A Chicago paper suggests that only light reading should be carried by the aeroplane postmen. It is grimly appropriate, however, that a lot of it goes to the dead letter office these days. A New York young man has entered Harvard with six trunks, 20 suits and 10 pairs of shoes. Nobody, however, has gone to the trouble of predicting a brilliant future for him Mary Anderson says that any work is preferable to a stage career. But successful people usually speak in this strain. Even our great financiers assure us that being a millionaire is nothing like as easy as it looks An Asbury Park cook is reported to have had her $1,500 worth of diamonds stolen. This looks like a deep scheme to attract all the cooks in the country to the Jersey resort next season "Swat the ants!" cries a scientist. Say, savants—mayn't we keep one little insect for a pet? There are some women who never change their minds. Just as there are some men whose automobiles never break down—because they don't own automobiles "Hoopskirts are inevitable," says a fashion expert. The only redeeming feature of a hoopskirt is that it can be used as a parachute in case of an aeroplane accident. On the 20th of August, 1910, I sailed from New York city for London, England. I had been given a leave of absence of two months from my work at Tuskegee, on condition that I would spend that time in some way that would give me recreation and rest. At one time it occurred to me that I should like to spend my vacation in the West Indies, looking into the condition of the portion of my race in that part of the world. After considering the matter, however, I finally came to the conclusion that I could, perhaps, learn more in Europe than anywhere else about the problems in which I am particularly interested. I concluded that in Europe I would be able to get an outside view, so to speak, of my own country and by making comparison with what I was able to see there, with what I knew of conditions at home, I should be able to get a clearer and more comprehensive view of the situation of my own people in America than I could in any other way. Having settled upon Europe as the place to take my vacation, I determined to carry out a plan I had long had in mind of making myself acquainted with the condition of the poorer and working classes in Europe, particularly in those regions from which an ever increasing number of immigrants are coming to our country each year. The best way to get acquainted with an individual, or with a people, according to my experience, is to visit them at their work and in their homes, and in this way find out what is back of them. So it was that I determined to make use of my stay in Europe to visit the people in their homes, to talk with them at their work and to find out everything I could. I was curious, for one thing, to learn why it was that so many of these European people were leaving the countries in which they were born and reared, in order to seek their fortunes in a new country and among strangers in a distant part of the world. The majority of the people who reach this country as immigrants from Europe are, as one might expect, from the farming regions. They are farm laborers or tenant farmers. Furthermore, there exists, as I discovered, a very definite relation between the condition of agriculture and the agricultural peoples in Europe and the extent of emigration to this country. In other words, wherever in any part of Europe I found the condition of agriculture and the situation of the farm laborers at their worst, there I almost invariably found emigration at the highest. On the other hand, wherever I visited a part of the country where emigration had, in recent years decreased, there I quite as invariably found that the situation of the man on the soil had improved. What interested me still more was the fact that this improvement had been, to a very large extent, brought about through the influence of schools. Agricultural education has stimulated an intensive culture of the soil; this in turn has helped to multiply the number of small landowners and stimulate the organization of agriculture; the resulting prosperity has made itself felt not only in the country, but also in the cities. Another matter in regard to which I hope to get some first-hand information during my stay abroad was what I may call the European, as distinguished from the American, race problem. I knew that in the south of Europe, a number of races of widely different origin and characteristics had been thrown together in close contact and in large numbers. I suspected that in this whirlpool of contending races and classes I should find problems—race problems and educational problems—different to be sure, but quite as complicated, difficult and interesting as in our own country. There was another thing that made the trip I had outlined peculiarly attractive to me. I believed that I would find in some parts of Europe, peoples who in respect to education, opportunity and civilization generally, were much nearer the level of the masses of the 'negro people in the south than I was likely to find anywhere in America. I believed, also, that if I went far enough and deep enough, I should find even in Europe great numbers of people, who, in their homes, in their labor and in their manner of living, were little, if any, in advance of the negroes in the southern states. I wanted to study at first-hand, as far as I was able, the methods which European nations were using to uplift the masses of the people who are at the bottom in the scale of civilization. One of the first things I learned in Europe was the difficulty of meeting the ordinary man and seeing and getting acquainted with the matters of every-day life. I soon discovered that the most difficult things to see are not the sights that every one goes to look at, but the common place things that no one sees. In order to carry out the plan I had in mind it was necessary for me to leave the ordinary heaten track of European travel and to plunge into regions which have not been charted and mapped, and where ordinary guides and guide-books are of little or no avail. I set out from America, as I have said, to find the man farthest down. In a period of about six weeks I visited parts of England, Scotland, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Sicily, Poland and Denmark. I spent some time among the poorer classes of London and in several cities in Austria and Italy. I investigated, to a certain extent, the condition of the agricultural populations in Sicily, in Bohemia, Poland and Denmark. I saw much that was sad and depressing; but I saw much, also, that was hopeful and inspiring. Bad as conditions are, in some places, I do not think I visited any place where things are not better now than they were some two years ago. I found also that the connection between Europe and America is much closer and more intimate than I had imagined. I am sure that very few persons in this country realize the extent to which America has touched and influenced the masses of the people in Europe. I think it is safe to say that no single influence which is today tending to change and raise the condition of the working people in the agricultural regions of Southern Europe is greater than the constant stream of emigration which is pouring out of Europe into America and back again into Europe. It should be remembered that not only do large numbers of these people emigrate to America, but many of these emigrants return and take with them not only money to buy lands, but new ideas, higher ambitions and a wider outlook on the world. II.—PETTICOAT LANE AND BETH NAL GREEN. In the previous chapter I told of my purpose in visiting Europe. In the present chapter I shall tell something of my impressions of London, where my first extended observations were made. The first thing that impressed me about London, was its size; the second was the wide division between the different elements in the population. London is not only the largest city in the world; it is also the city in which the segregation of the classes has gone farthest. The West End, for example, is the home of the King and the Count. Here are the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, the British Museum, most of the historical monuments, the Art Galleries and nearly everything that is interesting, refined and beautiful in the lives of seven millions of people who make up the inhabitants of the city. If you take a cab at Trafalgar Square, however, and ride eastward down the Strand through Fleet street, where all the principal newspapers of London are published, past the Bank of England, St. Paul's Cathedral and the interesting sights and scenes of the older part of the city, you come, all of a sudden, into a very different region, the center of which is the famous Whitechapel. The difference between the East End and the West End of London is that East London has no monuments, no banks, no hotels, theaters, art galleries; no history—nothing that is interesting and attractive but its poverty and its problems. Everything else is drab and commonplace. It is said that more than one hundred thousand of the people in this part of the city, in spite of all efforts that have been made to help them, are living on the verge of starvation. So poor and so helpless are these people that it was at one time, seriously proposed to separate them from the rest of the population and set them off in a city by themselves, where they could live and work entirely under the direction of the state. It was proposed to put this hundred thousand of the very poor under the direction and care of the state because they were not able to take care of themselves; and because it was declared that all the service which they rendered the community could be performed by the remaining portion of the population in their leisure moments, so that they were, in fact, not help but a hindrance to the city as a whole. I got my first view of one of the characteristic sights of the East. End life at Middlesex street, or Petticoat Lane, as it was formerly called. Petticoat Lane is the center of the Jewish quarter, and on Sunday morning there is a famous market in this street. On both sides of the thoroughfare, running northward from Whitechapel road until they lose themselves in some of the side streets, one sees a double line of push-carts, upon which every imaginable sort of ware, from wedding rings to eels in jelly, are exposed for sale. On both sides of these carts and in the middle of the street, motley throng of bargain-hunters are pushing their way through the crowds, stopping to look over the curious wares in the carts or to listen to the shrill cries of some hawker selling pain killer or some other sort of magic or cure all. Nearly all of the merchants are Jews, but the majority of their customers belong to the tribes of the Gentiles. Among others I noticed a class of professional customers. They were evidently artisans of some sort or other, who had come to pick out from the goods exposed for sale a plane or a saw or some other sort of second-hand tool; there were others searching for useful bits of old iron, bolts, brass, springs, keys, and other things of that sort which they would be able to turn to some use in their trade. I spent an hour or more wandering through this street and the neighboring lane into which this petty pushcard traffic had overflowed. Second-hand clothing, second-hand household articles, the waste meats of the Saturday market, all kinds of worn-out and cast-off articles which had been fished out of the junk heaps of the city or thrust out of the regular channels of trade, find here a ready market. I think that the thing which impressed me most was not the poverty, which was evident enough, but the sombre tone of the whole proceedings. It was not a happy crowd; there were no bright colors and very little laughter. It was an ill-dressed crowd, made up of people who had long been accustomed to live, as it were, at second-hand, and, in close relations with the pawnbroker. In the south it would be hard to find a colored man who did not make some change in his appearance on Sunday. The negro laborer is never so poor that he forgets to put on a clean collar or a bright necktie or something out of the ordinary out of respect for the Sabbath. In the midst of this busy, pushing throng it was hard for me to remember that I was in England, and that it was Sunday. Somehow or other I had got a very different notion of the English Sabbath. Petticoat Lane is in the midst of the "sweating" district where most of the cheap clothing in London is made. Through windows and open doors I could see the vale faces of the garment makers bent over their work. There is much furniture made in this region, also, I understand. Looking down into some of the cellars as I passed I saw men working at the lathes. Down at the end of the street was a bar room, which was doing a rushing business. The law in London is, as I understand, that travelers may be served at a public bar on Sunday but not others. To be a traveler, a "bona fide" traveler, you must have come from a distance of at least three miles. There were a great many travelers in Petticoat Lane on the Sunday morning that I was there. This same morning, I visited Bethnal Green, another and a quite different quarter of the East End. There are a number of these different quarters of East End, like, Stephney, Poplar, St. George in the East, and so forth. Each of these has its peculiar type of population and its own peculiar conditions. Whitechapel is Jewish, St. George's in the East is Jewish at one end and Irish at the other but Bethnal Green is English. For nearly half a mile along Bethnal Green Road I found another Sunday market in full swing, and it was, if anything, louder and more picturesque than the one in Petticat Lake. It was about one o'clock in the morning; the housewives of Bethnal Green were out on the street hunting bargains in meat and vegetables for the Sunday dinner. One of the most interesting group I passed was crowded about a pushcart where three sturdy old women, shouting at the top of their lungs, were reeling off bolt after bolt of cheap cotton cloth to a crowd of women gathered about their cart. At another point a man was "knocking down" at auction cheap cuts of frozen beef from Australia at prices ranging from four to eight cents a pound. Another was selling fish, another crockery and a third fish, and so through the whole list of household staples. The market on Bethnal Green road extends across a street called Brick Lane and branches off again from that into other and narrower streets. In one of these there is a market exclusively for birds, and another for various sorts of fancy articles, not of the first necessity. The interesting thing about all the traffic was that, although no one seemed to exercise any sort of control over it, somehow the different classes of trade had managed to organize themselves so that all the wares o one particular sort were displayed in one place and all the wares of another sort in another, everything in regular and systematic order. The streets were so busy and crowded that I wondered if there were any people left in that part of the town to attend the churches. AWAITING WORLD-WIDE PEACE. Andrew B. Humphrey, secretary of the American Peace and Arbitration league, was discussing in New York the universal peace movement. "This movement," he said, "has lately made gigantic strides, but, of course, we mustn't expect too much of it. We mustn't, like Peleg Shucks, expect to see universal peace come in our time. "Peleg Shucks, you know, was thinking of buying a gun. "I guess, though," he said, thoughtfully, one night at the general store—"I guess I'll wait a while afore purchasin." "Wot yer idea in waitin', Peleg? asked the storekeeper. "Wall, ye see," said Peleg, 'arter all them European nations take up this Carnegie-Taft arbitration and disarmament contract, guns is goin' to get tarnation cheap." WILLING TO PAY. The morning had been long and the arithmetic lesson particularly severe. Little Tommy Traddles had laboriously worked his way through a tantalizing maze of figures till his small head ached, and he now stood before his master with the result of his travall "Wrong!" said his instructor, curtly. "Return to your desk and do it again!" Tommy glanced at the clock. "Please sir," he asked, "how much am I out?" "Your result is twopence short of the correct total," was the reply. Tommy's hand sought the pocket which contained his most valued possessions. Swiftly he separated two coins from a piece of string, some marbles, a top and a penknife. "Please, I'm in a hurry, sir," he said, "if you don't mind I'll pay the difference!"—London Ideas. FRANCE TO MAINTAIN BLACK MILITARY 1,000,000 Negroes to Be Recruited from French African Colonies. ARMY AND NAVY IS WEAK FRENCH POPULATION STEADILY DECREASING — WRITER SAYS BLACK MAN IS VALUABLE AS SOLDIER—GERMANY ALARMED. Constant talk of a probable conflict between France and Germany, and the revelation that France's population in late years has dwindled to such an alarming extent that in the event of war the French would be compelled to put out an inferior army and navy to battle with the enemy, has caused the French government to seriously consider recruiting 1,000,000 black men from the French colonies. While the French are becoming enthused over the plan of France maintaining black military reserves, the other foreign powers do not take kindly to the idea of having to combat with negroes, knowing full well their value as warriors. Among those who believe that France's only hope, on the battlefield in the future will be by recruiting from the French African colonies is Francis Gribble, a writer of reputation, who says: "The population of that part of the French African colonies in which recruiting would be possible is estimated at 10,000,000; and there is reason to believe that the estimate is considerably under the truth. It is a population of fighting men—men who would much rather fight for their living than work for it. There would be no need to institute a system of universal service in order to compete them to come in. They would all gladly come in of their own accord, as volunteers, and the number of them who are able-bodied and of a fighting age is computed at about 1,000,000. "One million men, be it observed, who could be recruited and trained, and kept ready for use in a European war—a reserve of men, that is to say, practically inexhaustible, and so sit uated that, as long as France, or her allies, kept the command of the sea, no enemy could possibly get at it and destroy it. A million men, too, whose fighting value is not to be denied. "It has sometimes been assumed that, because handfuls of white men have often scattered hordes of black men, therefore the black man would be of no use in a white man's war; but that is a mistake. Inferior equipment and lack of organization easily account for these sensational defeats. The black man has often proved that, if he is armed like the white man, and has white men to lead him, he is quite capable of standing up to white troops. He did so in the American war of secession, and in the American war with Spain, when the heights of San Juan were stormed by a black regiment Napoleon himself employed black troops in European warfare—a black regiment particularly distinguished itself at the siege of Gaeta, and afterward captured Fra Diavolo under the guidance of Victor Hugo's father. Black troops helped to storm the Malakoff, and were employed at Magneta, and in Mexico. At least 3,000 of them served through the Franco-German war. Their bayonet charge at Froeschwiller was one of the most brilliant feats recorded in the history of the war; for they actually preserved their morale after the regiment had lost 92 per cent. of its officers and 85 per cent. of its men. "We may take it, therefore, that there is nothing new or chimerical—nothing to be described as a counsel of despair in the French proposal to employ black troops against Germany. "This is the black peril for Germany and for no other power; and it is much more real than that yellow peril against which the kaiser notisily warned the western world. "Presumably, too, it is a peril to which Germany is not altogether blind, and one not without its bearings on the course of the critical negotiations proceeding, at the moment of writing, with reference to the right of the two countries in Morocco. The German demand for compensation is, in effect, a demand for the surrender of a portion of the Black Reservoir. That is one of the reasons why Germany is so eager, and so firm; that is also one of the reasons why France shows herself so obstately reluctant to cede anything." BEYOND HER DEPTH They were seated around the table partaking of watermelon, so the talk naturally turned to the luscious fruit. "It reminds me of a conversation which took place between two colored women," said one of the guests. "Mm-r, but Ah certainly does lobe watermelons," said one. "It sure does tickle mah palate. How does you like watermelons, Sister Lize?" "Waal, Ah tells you, Sis' Jane." returned the other, 'Ah certainly does lobe watermelon, but Ah can't eats em.' "Waal, that am too bad. What am de matter, Lize?" "It am like dis, Sis' Jane. I lobes watermelon, but Ah always get mal. mars wet when Ah eats 'em.'"--Mil baunke Free Press. Hood's Sarsaparilla Eradicates scrofula and all other humors, cures all their effects, makes the blood rich and abundant, strengthens all the vital organs. Take it. Get it today in usual liquid form or chocolated tablets called Sarsatabe. Whittemore's Shoe Polishes FINEST QUALITY LARGEST VARIETY They meet every requirement for cleaning and polishing shoes of all kinds and colors. WHITEMORE BROS. & CO. 20-26 Albany St., Cambridge, Mass. The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of Shoe Polishes in the World. TELEPHONES SWITCH BOARDS and SUPPLIES For a personal call of a representative of THE DEAN ELECTRIC COMPANY Write to CHAS. L. WARD 1100 Lexington Street Ft. Smith, Ark. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleaners and beautifies the hair. Promotes a luxurious growth. Reverses hair to Restore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Curves and curls hair. and gives it Drugs. NOT SO SURPRISING. "They tell me Daring Ike's dead. Is that right?" "Sure; shot plumb through the heart." "Well, I ain't surprised, then; his heart always was weak." "Is Mr. Biffit a believer in the up-lift?" "Can't say for certain, but I notice that he wears his cigar at a dizzy angle." Wisdom, like flowers, requires culture.—Ballon. A BRAIN WORKER. Must Have the Kind of Food That Nourishes Brain. "I am a literary man whose nervous energy is a great part of my stock in trade, and ordinarily I have little patience with breakfast foods and the extravagant claims made of them. But I cannot withhold my acknowledgment of the debt that I owe to Grate-Nuts food. "I discovered long ago that the very bulkiness of the ordinary diet was not calculated to give one a clear head, the power of sustained, accurate thinking. I always felt heavy and sluggish in mind as well as body after eating the ordinary meal, which diverted the blood from the brain to the digestive apparatus. "I tried foods easy of digestion, but found them usually deficient in nutriment. I experimented with many breakfast foods and they, too, proved unsatisfactory, till I reached Grape-Nuts. And then the problem was solved. "Grape-Nuts agreed with me perfectly from the beginning, satisfying my hunger and supplying the nutriment that so many other prepared foods lack. "I had not been using it very long before I found that I was turning out an unusual quantity and quality of work. Continued use has demonstrated to my entire satisfaction that Grape-Nuts food contains the elements needed by the brain and nervous system of the hard working public writer." Name given by Postula Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason," and it is explained in the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pks. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are unique, true, and full of human interest. ANNA MARIA FISHER MAKES BEQUESTS Tuskegee ‘and. Hampton Insti. tutes Receive $10,000 Each, DAUGHTER OF HENRY CLAY DECEASED RESIDED IN NEW YORK FOR THREE-QUARTERS OF AMBITIOUS YOUNG PEOPLE. Many colored persons and institu: tions are named beneficiaries in the will of the late Anna Maria Fisher, who died October 19, at her home, 69 Fleet place, Brooklyn, age’ ninety three years, The will was filed for probate Monday. The value of the estate fe estimated at $65,000, Tuske- gee and Hampton institutes are lett $10,000 each, and Frank H. Gilbert, 15 Douglass street, Brooklyn, is named residuary legatee and executor with ‘out bond. After directing that all funeral ex. penses and debts be pald the testa trix makes the following bequests Hampton Normal and Agricultural In- stitute, $10,000; Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, $10,000; Siloam Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, $5,000; the Amanda Smith Orphan home, Har vey, Ill, $1,000; Carlton avenue branch of the ¥. M,C. A, $500; David J Bruce, Brooklyn, $2,000; Mary E. E. Bruce, daughter of David J. Bruce, $2,000; Harriet and Lillian Shadd. daughters of the late Dr. Furman Shadd, Washington, D. C., $1,000 each; the Rev. William A. Alexander, Brook lyn, $500; Alice Louisa Brown, $500; Nathaniel B, Onley, Jacksonville, Pls. $500; George Bruce, Norwich, Conn, $500. ‘The witnesses to the will are the Rev. W. R. Lawton and W. R. Briggs both of Brooklyn. Mrs, Fisher was born in 1818 on th Clay homestead at Lexington, Ky, and at the age of nineteen was mar ried to Nathaniel Lewis, who also be longed to the Clay family. The coupl ran away from Lexington and came to New York, living in New York cit for eight years, then moving to Brook lyn, where the deceased lived the bal ance of her life. Upon leaving Kentucky Anna Lew 48 had about $800 and her husban had saved a similar surf. It was no} Yong before they became engaged {1 different business enterprises an¢ were very successful. After a happ: married life Nathaniel Lewis died an the widow remained unmarried for 2 years, Her second husband, Benjami Fisher, died about 16 years ago. Although she lived in the north fo over three-quarters of a century, Mrs Fisher regarded herself as a souther woman, and in making bequests lef sums to educational institutions in th south only, giving as her reason tha the schools in the south were doin #0 much for the uplift of the race tha they were deserving of her support During life Mrs. Fisher aided | large number of young people wh were ambitious to go into busines and purchase homes. She has bee known to give from $100 to $1,000 t those who wanted to own their ow! homes. MRS. KNO<’S SECRETARY. A clever young woman who is a member of the Washington staff of a Cleveland paper had occasion to call ‘on Mrs. Knox the other day on a mat ter of important news, Mrs. Knox was not at home, the man servant who answered the bell informed the jour alist. “Well, hasn't she a secretary who can give me the information 1 am after?” persisted the newspaper wom an. “Certainly, madam,” answered the footman; “this way please.” Leading the way along the ball, he ushered wer into the presence of @ very important looking person. “Are you Mrs, Knox's secretary?" asked the newspaper girl ‘The man laughed. “T guess 1 am," be admitted “I'm her husand, and I'm the secretary of state, What can I do for you?” A TUSSLE WITH THE LAIRD. Skibo Castle, where the chancellor of the exchequer is staying ax the guest of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, has ev tertained several other prominent politicians, Among these ix Lord Mor ley, with whom the Laird of Skibo has enjoyed a verbal tussle, It Is sald that one morning Lord Morley was asked by @ fellow-guest at the castle how he had been spending his time. “Oh,” he replied with a smile, “just exposing some of Carnegie’s soph: isms!” ialf an hour later some one asked Mr, Carnegie if he had seen Lord Morley “I guess he’s laid up for repairs,” was the reply. “I've been arguing with him.”—Londen Chronicle. TURNING NIGHT INTO DAY. When the doors opened at the little Indiana theater farmer wandered {n and looked around. “Tieket, please,” said the door keeper. “Phe only thing I've got agin these here op'rys,” said the Hoosier, as he walked away, “is that they don't be ein till bedtime.”—Success Magazine. “BACK 10 THE FARM” NATIONAL BAPTIST UNION RE VIEW WARNS RACE OF RESULTS OF MAD RUSH OF OUR PEOPLE TO THE CITIES. ‘has been sent and is now being her alded to the inhabitants of the con- Bested centers of population, the great overcrowded cities, by the great mold. rs and shapers of publie opinion, the reat siatesinen, newspapers and mag. azines, fe a plece of premonitive ad: vice that is fraught with the future Weal or woe of our common country, Recording to {ts acceptance or rejec- ton. However the unthinking and cas. ual observer may look at the matter, there is a serious aspect to It, never theless; and thoughtful observers whose visions of future possibilities Gre tolerably clear and reasonable are deeply concerned about it. They draw their conclusions from the congested conditions of the cities made so by those who have and are now constant: ly leaving ihe farms, the mainstay and Support for the well-being and pros: perity of the municipal communities. The thoughtful men of the times are well aware of the dire calamities that will Inevitably come If the good broad neres are left untilled and the erst: while contented and happy swains pour themselves into the laps of the great cities to become a part of that nondescript element from which ure bred all sorts of Idlers, black-legs and veriminals, ‘These sons and daughters of the soll, untutored in the de ious Ways of city life, soon drift to the low- est level and soon become the ready prey of the vilest and most loathsome diseases, which ere Death write over | against their brief careers “finis,” they disseminate to the detriment of so clety, | The drift of our people trom the rw ral regions and precincts that has been going on so rapidly for the lew years past almost amounts to an ex odus, ‘The agricultural districts are being depopulated, while the cities and large towns are being surfeited. There are underlying causes that make “possible this state of affairs, yet there are remedial adjustments for these causes. Our ministers, educa tors and philanthropists ean remedy to a large and appreciable degree the conditions that drive our people from “the country into the cities and towns. The minister has, if he is what bis calling implies, an influence over the members of his congregation such as \no other man has, which gives him the power to direct them in buying and bullding comfortable homes and sur: rounding themselves with that which comes of thrift and industry and which spells contentment and even | happiness. If our ministers tn the ru ral districts will but do their duty. wholly and {ntelligently, they can sheck this leaving of the country on the part of many by showing the awful fate that befalls the major portion of | those who leave opportunities that | may be developed for the fluctuating | and uncertain conditions of city life. The educator.can do a telling service in inculcating an intelligent concep. | Yon of the opportunities which He be fore them into his country pupils, He {s in @ position to Influences the im pressionable perfod of their lives and can influence them to love and devel op their surroundings, and that they jare as much the architects of thelr fortunes and conditions In the coun try as they would be in the germ-infest ed cities and towns, and the philan thropist can find a piace in the work of helping to instruct our people to stay in the country where they are. and make good. They have the call ing that God himself assigned to man. and it 1s the healthiest and happiest of all professions, if one wil! but follow It intelligently as he would any othe: profession. Not only fs this the right time to im press upon the consideration of the | negro people the importance of bold Ing on to their country homes, but toc | great emphasts cannot be placed upot | the importance of acquiring more lan¢ and more land and more homes an¢ | more homes. The day is coming whet a failure to do this, remorse, like s | vulture, will gnaw ever on the minds of those who failed, It will then bs too late, but regret will nevertheles: be your companion, Let all of our ministers and educa tors, both of the country and city | move out in earnest effort to reme | dy the sore situation confronting them |im which our people are leaving th | country to come to the towns and cit les to die of tuberculosis and other tn fectious diseases in dens and hovels | ana sunless basements. Other race: | have movements on foot to check thi evil, and let us meet it with interes .jund concern that will be effective | This isa duty, sacred In every sensi ,| of that term, that we owe to the futur | well-being of posterity. CLAY PIGEONS A LA MARYLAND. ‘There was recently presented to a newly married young Woman in Bal timore such a unique domestic propo sition that she felt called upon to seek expert advice from another wom an, whom she knew to possess consid: erable experience In the cooking Ine, “Mrs, Jones,” said the first mention ed young woman, as she breatblexsly entered the apartment of the latter, “I'm sorry to trouble you, but 1 must have your advice.” “What is the trouble, my dear?” “Why, I've just had ® ‘phone mes sage from Harry, saying that he ts ‘going out this afternoon to shoot clay pigeons. Now, he's bound to bring a lot home, and I haven't the remotest idea how to cook them. Won't you Pease tell me?"—Lippincott'’s Mage zine. De UP Wel eee MARRIED AND UNMARRIED LADIES Will Find Some Useful Advice in the Words of Mrs. Jay McGee of Stephenville. Stephenville, Tex.—-"For nine years,” saya Mrs, Jay MeGee, of this place, “! suffered from womanly troubles. 1 had terrible headaches and pains tn my back, ete, My husband suggested Cardut to me, but I did not think anything would do me any good. It seemed as if 1 would die, I sut- fered so! At last, 1 consented to try Cardul, and it seemed to help me, right away. I was {nterested, and con- tinued its use. ‘The full treatment not only helped me, but it cured me. It will do the sane for all sick and suffering girls or women—both mar- ried and unmariied. I will always praise Cardut higniy, for it has been the means of saving my life and giving me good health.” Half a century of success, with thou sands of cures, similar to the one de scribed above, amply prove Cardut’s real, sclentific, medicinal merit Belng purely vegetable, Cardut can te taken safely by young and old, and can do nothing but good. Its action ie very gentle, and without any bad aftereffects, Why not benefit by the experience of others? Try it, today. N. D—Write (or tadien’ Advinory Dept. Chattanooga Medictue Co. Chiat tanoog, Team, fer Special Taareu tione, and Otcpawe hook, “Home Tren’ ment fur Women, seat in plain wray= Sea, em reaucet. SOUNDED LIKE IT. ma = [a “AD p ed eg tt OF ee ee GD ie 7 LAY ly <9 WW Wn) art Oe hear ne ‘The Talker—I tell you, no man hag got a right to be sick nowadays! The Joker—You've evidently been reading some patent medicine adver tusements. ga St ese PHYSICIAN ADVISES CUTICURA REMEDIES “Four years ago I had piaces break out on my wrist and on my shin which would itch and burn by spells, and scratching them would not seem to give any relief. When the trouble first began, my wrist and shin itched like poison. I would scratch those places until they would bleed before 1 could get any relief, Afterwards the places would scale over, and the flesh un- erneath would look red and feverish, Sometimes it would begin to itch until {t would waken me from my sleep, and I would have to go through the scratching ordeal again. Our physician pronounced it “dry eczema.” I used an ointment which the doctor gave me, but it did no good. ‘Then he advised me to try the Cutl- cura Remedies. As this trouble has deen in our family for years, and Is considered hereditary, I felt anxious to try to head it off. I got the Cuti- cura Soap, Ointment and Pills, and they seemed to be just what I needed. “The disease was making great headway on my system until I got the Cutlcura Remedies which have cleared my skin of the great pest, From the Ume the eczema healed four Years ago, until now, I have never felt any of its pest, and 1 am thankful to the Cuticura Soap and Ointment which certainly cured me, I always use the Cuticura Soap for toilet, and | hope other sufferers from skin diseases will use the Cuticura Soap and Ointment." (Signed) Irven Hutchison, Three Riv- ers, Mich., Mar. 16, 1911. Although Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold by druggists and dealers everywhere, & sample of each, with 32-page book, will be mailed free on application to | “Guticura,” Dept. 17 K, Boston. ‘One of the Accessories. Quiet-Spoken Customer—You keep everything for the piano, don't you? Salesman—Ves, sir. We do, sir Qulet-Spoken Customer—Give me an ax!—Puck, Smokers like Lewis’ Single Binder cigar for ite rich mellow quality. Love never falls, because it never stops trying, In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow, we have so much to be thank- ful for that we need never cease our singing.—-Coleridge, MAKES A RATHER BAD START When You Think Of the pain which many women experience with every month it makes the gentleness and kindness always associ- ated with womanhood seem to be almost a miracle. While in general no woman rebels against what she re- dards es a natural necessity there is no woman who would Bot gladly be free from this recurring period of pain. Dr. Plorec's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong and sick women well, and gives them freedom from pain. Mt establishes regularity, aubdues inflame isis mation, heals ulceration and cures fev malo weakness. r Sick women are invited to consult Dr. Pierce by letter, free. All correspondence strictly private and sacredly confidential. Write without fear and without fee to World's Dispeasary Meds ical Association, R. V. Pierce, M. D., President, Buffalo, N.Y. It you want a book that tells all about woman's diseases, and how to cure them at home, send 21 one-cent stamps to Dr, Pierce to pay cost of mail oat, end he will vead you a free copy of hie reat thouscad-pese illestrased Common Sense Medical Adviser—revised, up-to-date edition, in paper covers, In handsome cloth-binding, 31 stamps. No Doubt Boy Meant Well, but His In- Itial Efforts at Keeping a Diary Are impressive. ‘This !s my first diry «0 dont mind the spellin. 1 wus'nt goin to rite ft till a little while longer, onty, thie morning was rainy and my ma sed “Willlam, why don't you begin your diry, this will be a good day to be gin, and {t will keep you out of mis: chit?’ 1 sed alright, #o 1 went up stairs and got my big brother John's stamp album, and began pulling out the stamps so’s 1 could rite, John says his stamps are worth a lot of money but 1 don't believe {t cause when he wented to buy a football the other day why didn’t he sell em and get the money, Avyhow I don’t want hen to eateh me as 1 have started ritin in it. ‘The first thing in a dirty fa the date, so 1 will now rite It October 26, 1911—When | began this diry 1 forgot to tell you that T bor. rowed my sisters pink hairribbon to hold the leaves togeter more, and, when big brother John came home 1 heard him yell awful when he couldnt find his album so [ran upetairs to the atc behind a big trunk where be cant find me. 1 just now heard my sister come in and Im so seared I dart not go down stairs now and Im afraid to rite anymore so I'l have to creep in the trunk and stay til he goes, Pil continy my dry to-morrer Newark (N. 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There fet f was severe pain in ie age mY back and head GP Reba MEG and ny kidneys were IBN terribly — disordered. (Mg) Doan's Kidney Pills 3 cured me after Thad PO AM doctored and taken LEY nearly every remedy \j [Y tmaginabte without 4 relief. 1 will give 1 J 4 further details of my SH case to anyone en closing stamp.” “When Your Back Is Lame, Remem- berthe Name—DOAN’S.” 50c, ali stores. Foster Milburn Co,; Buffalo, N.Y. Business Instinct Strong. A photographer tells as a joke on himself that a woman, accompanied by a little boy, came into his studio the other day. “I nee that you take plokchers for four dollars a dozen this week, so I come fer mine, And I want this little boy. took In the same plckeher with me.” “Yes, madam— ‘but, of course, we make an extra charge outside this special rate when two pictures are taken at once.” “Oh,” says the lady, “but I'll keep the boy in my lap, ‘That's the way I do In the street cars, and nobody ever gays any- thing.” * Water Right $50.00 per Acre IN TWELVE ANNUAL INSTALMENTS The Wood River Project began its annual run of water for irrigation on Marcly2oth, 1911. There has been no interruption in the service since ‘the run began. ‘There is no shortage of crop on this project this year. | Some Things You Can Find on Wood River Project Your choice of 20,000 Acres of new land. The best water right any- ‘where. Markets for everything you can raise, Good fruit land. Sheep and hogs to feed and feed for all of them every year. | Good Dairy Country Market for one million pounds of butter. Market for all the chickens and eggs you can raise. The best potato soil on earth. Irrigation system complete and fully tested by two Years use, | Ample water, splendid soi WE NEED YOU [IDAHO IRRIGATION COMPANY, Limited | Write me « personal letter RICHFIELD, IDAHO | and aah aiieatsana, 1. W. McConnell, General Manager THE TRUTH ABOUT BLUING. ‘Talk No. 9. This common article fools many. Think of It, large bottle, ttle pinch of blue, fill tt up with water, There you are, Does {t look good to yout Buy RED CROSS BALL BLUE, « pure blue, Makes beautiful, clear, white clothes,. You will like it Large package 6 cents, ASK YOUR GROCER. incurable. “You say you are your wife's third husband?" said one man to another during # talk, “No, Lam her fourth husband,” was the reply. “Heavens, man!” said the first speaker. “You are not a hushand— you're a habit.” End Your Ironing Troubles by Using © Defiance Starch a Bs @ The mest serviceable starch on a the market today. Works equally y tS ‘~’) well hot or cold and produces a f A’ \ finish unequaled by any other j f’ 2*\) starch. Wael One trial will prove its merits KS SY and make you a confirmed user. —a~Ays, See that you get =F | N XS DEFIANCE” next LN WAN time. Big 16-ounce </Yf if \\S> package for 10 cents at f/, / / \ AS all grocers, / | /\| 4 oN Manufactured by / JOT Nasa yt! Defiance Starch Co, Ti /\\ OMAHA, NEBRASKA (Oi Important Mothers Pxamine carctully. every bottle ot CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that It Bears the 3/ Signature of in Use For Over 30° Years, Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Doubtless. “She left me for some motive or an pther,” \ “probably another.” — Lippincett’s Magazine PO DRIVE OUT MALARIA 2 ASD BYCUNOS wang syn tent Fane tne Ghd Matmturt NOV ie HAST Laos Fire froin Se plainly” printed ‘oh every ae Placa Gobi nn tating pouplo'and children, W coms Is al Tenses. Teacher—Tommie, what is the fw ture of “I give?" Tommie—"You take."—Lite. For over fifty years Rheumatism, News ralgin, and other painful uilmenty’ bave been cured by Harling Wizard Oi, Lt ix # good honest remedy and you will ‘not regret having a bottle ready for use ‘The nan who looks for good cannot look for anything he will be’more cer- tain to find. ‘There are still plenty of green pas. tures for all the Lord’s sheep. Don't ||Dundee Hold |] Indian Back || Given That Away Suit Wed. Order || Nov. 29 Buy Are Now ||Youon? 311 W. Broadway Call for free tickets. The Muskogee Cimeter ce ‘wo a J SMITHERMAN MANAGER Munboges, ‘Otal “Pevtened Beery Week te ne te werest of the Negro by the Cimeter yr | e ‘the Postoffice at Mus Leal Otla., as Second Class Mal We ernie tie Tues wees ics ze | WHO! WHO! ym iF YOU- Ip ARE, WISE | Fact Sa rer : {ne "cineree 9 a ais cen Talk about de wire pullin’ and de ward heelin’, de women ob de wes side sho nos how fer caukis en eam pane, en go ter de convention wit solid delgation ter pak re vention en leot a slate made in star chamber meetin’, Dis bird seed how tings was kwine fore de meetin’ open an wuz mused ter see how dor lady poltieans fran de steam roletr obey de new Members who don’t kno de game, De owl seed « ole culled lady dai wurk fer er white family stop er row De lady en de son got fussin bout de way dady trete mama en day run at each oder en de ole cullud woman Jump in twen em en grab bote by de Kollar en shake em bofe (iil dey shame en quit, Bless der pecemaker, De preechers hab got quiet an gone to work tryin’ to save soles; dey hat shuk hans ober de bloodless kasm er Promise ter be good. Dar am but one way ter settle d Probition question an dat am to hay er lection and have lokul option e) den de sloon man pay license en ta jak order peepul en make de por man tax Iter, Let der lection come De pore peepul dat got rested Sat te by Constabul after dey had wor hard all day feel like de officer oute hunt de rogues rader den de works man, De gael am getin krowded wit a Jofers en de vags en sum of de littl boys dat oter be in skool am lible t be tn de same place les dey keep outer Pool halls en dives en houses wher dar parents don kno dey go, De Owl seen a certain “society” wo man out of her place Monday night Better cut it out, or de Owl toll or you, Some fellows are trying to locate | certain minor to beat her out of he Jand, but de Owl! is got bof eyes on ‘em and won't stand for St The fellow who is mean and cow ardly enough to start a false ramor about a neighbor ix a bad exe: but when the same cuss Keis seared and further lies on another neighbor, then he has proven himself a dangerous tcharacter in any community, He ghould be ostracized, BETHEL LITERARY SOCIETY. Opens Winter Season Briskly—Mu-Se- Lit Club to the Fore, Washington.—Bethet Literary and Historical society, the most celebrat ed soclety of Its kind among the color: ed people in this country, has begun Ite winter meetings. Dr. W. &. B. Du Bois was the speaker on the opening evening, taking for bis subject the “Ttace’s Congress.” Dr. Du Bois was one of the leading members of that congress, and bis talk was extremely interesting. Since then Professor Roscoe Conkling Bruce, assistant su perintendent of the Washington public schools; Dr Thomas Jesse Jones of the census bureau, Dr. Wilbur Thir. Kield, president of Howard univer sity, and other speakers bave ad dressed that body. Mr. A. D. Washington, a young at torney, Is the new president of Rethel. Mr. Washington ts exerting himself E . 4 4 3 i ati ] wy . i: eneiteenen aoe, to make this a great season for the society. He has secured some noted speakers to address the literary so clety during the season ‘There is no club in Washington that represents more of the class and cul: ture of the city than the Mu-So-Lit club, of which Dr. Arthur Gray ts president. It has been called by many out of town men who have visited it “the most representative gathering of its kind in this country.” Washington being the Capital City of the uation, where men of education and reflnement from all parts of the country center, It 1s uot difficult to see how such a club could be orgaatz ed. Its objects, as Its name implies, are musical, social and literary, and right well are these objects carried out. The Arst meeting for the 1911-12 season was held recently and was ud dressed by Lieutenant Thomas H. R. Clarke, private secretary to the regis trar of the treasury. Lieutenant Clarke spoke on “Thaddeus Stevens.” His paper was a carefully prepared study of the life of this great man, who was a champlon of Negro rights in tho legislative battles that led up to the enfranchisement of the race. General Andrew 8. Burt, who was at one time colonel of the Twenty-ffth infantry, was present as a guest. Mr John Quincy Adams, editor of the Bt Paul (Minn.) Appeal; Mr. J. H. Wash. ington of Tuskegee, and several other guests were present. CARLTON AVENUE Y. M. C. A. a Sa See wine Sree Array of Songeters. ‘The annual recital given by the Cart ton avenue branch of the Young Men's Christian association in the audito: rum of the Central association in Brooklyn on Wednesday evening, Nov. 22, brought together a most remark- able array of finished songsters and tu: strumentalists, ‘The recital was got up under the direction of Mr. B. 4. Jackson, vice chairman of the branch; Mr. George B. Brown and Professor P. Albert Myers, the well known cholr leader. Master Norwood A. Fenner, nine years of age, who ts a pupil of David Irwin Martin, astonished the audience Ww his rendition of Serenade, Badine, by Gabriel Marie; Minuet, by Beethoven. and “Moto Perpetuum,” by Severn. C Carroll Clarke, the farfamed baritone. was heard to good advantage in two well rendered selections, and Miss Blauche M. Wade, one of Brooklyy’s fayorite young elocutionists, carried the audience in ber well timed dra- matic readings. Mr. Charles Waters, tenor soloist und choirmaster of the Bridge Street A. M, B. church, gave a good account of bia: self in two beautiful selections, as did also Mra. Irene Hodges, soprano solotst at the Concord Baptist church, ‘The Academy Male quartet, which has been heard on many public occasions, lived up Co its well earned reputation in the two numbers given on this occasion. Professor James F. R, Wilson waa the manta. Pronreses of Utica Normal institute. ‘The Utica Norma! and Industrial ta- stitute, Utica, Miss., ts fast becoming ‘one of the principal centers of educa- tion in the south. ‘The report of Prest- dent W. H. Holtzelan to the board of trustees of the school, recently made, shows an enrollment of 416 students. ‘They come frou. Mississippl, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Cuba. New Postal Savings Depositery. Postmaster General Hitebcock re cently designated the Tuskegee (Als.) Institute postoffice as a postal savings depository, which was opened for the reception of deposits the second wees to November. " Irina Groceries and Coal « CLARK'S Grocery sg ave 1 AM AGENT FOR THE LARUEST AND BEST | HEALTH and ACCIDENT COMPANY on EARTH CONTIN ENTAL | CASUALTY COMPANY of Chicago, Call and See Me. LB, ORTON, 611 Equity Building Muskogee, Okla. or C. T. HUME, Twine Building. OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Commercial National Bank MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA At the close of business Friday, September 1, 1911 ’ RESOURCES, | LIABILITIES. | Di 492,. seem re cat af Stock and Securities £)115,779.15 | Circulation 200,000.00 Bonds and Premiums 280,875.00 | Deposits 2,149,049.02 Real Estate, Furniture and | 5 | Fixtures ** 14,800.00 | Cash and Exchange “699,201.69 ror $2,609,749.94 The Above Statement is Correct. E. D. SWEENEY, Cashier. D. N. FINK, President. G. T. THOMPSON, Je. Assistant Cashier. a WHERE YOU GET YOUR MONEY’S WORTH SIPPES & ANDERSON, Proprietors Staple and Fancy Groceries Phone 1964 Muskogee, Okla. 199 S Second St GIVE US A TRIAL Nx me AS Ct a SS SZ XAYISKIRANY No. 4 Special Buggy only $65.00 HIGHEST GRADE AVelne Uncqueled, _Seld on $1.00 Profit Margia. PROM PACTORY TO USER | ‘Weme ter prices andether styles. Send ter Catalogue. ©. R. PATTERSON &, SONS, GREENFIELD, OHIO. | LARORST NEGRO CARRIAGE CONCERN IN THE UNITED STATES. JOHN D. BENEDICT ROBT. L. WAGNER To Colored People: We have been looking for some good Muskogee lots which we could eell to colored people at reasonable prices, ou easy terms No taxes. No interest. We have found them in Washington Ad. dition tu Muskogee, near the end of the Reeves Addition car line. They won't last long, Better get one or two while yuu can, WE WANT SOME GOOD AGENTS, BENEDICT & WAGNER, Phone 3064 616 Equity Building. ——————————— SEVEN WEEKS oer oe Buy it Now OF CALIFORNIA TIME!| If You Need It SPENT JURY HUNTING| Y ees | our Last And the Real {Beginning of|| Chance Mithe McNamara Trial Is}{ HP Hardly iny{Sight—"_ DUNDEE “—siekiea and | INDIAN a Death. Given Awav Los Angeles, Cal,—The seventh week of the McNamara murder trial closed here today in a cloud of sick ness and death which has been spreading ever since the first juror was selected, ‘There are now eight Jurors and one talesman pased for cause by both sides awaiting the in troduction of evidence in the trial of James Ii, MeNamara, A brother of Juror J, B. Sexton died today and court adjourned until Monlay out of respect to the afflict: ed juror, The wife of Juror F. D. Green has been ill a long time and is sinking steadily. It is feared she will not live through the trial, Betwen Kate Bernard, Judge ‘Tom Leahy, Fred Cook and M, 1. Mott, the Muskogee County Indian skinner 1s living @ strenuous life out of jail. Buy it Now If You Need It Your Last . Chance DUNDEE INDIAN Given Away Nov. 29th 311 W. Broadway Nothing Old Here Everything New FRESH MEATS, PURE LARD, EaGS, Ete, GAME IN SEASON uM HOCKER ™Wihares V. W. HOUKER Prop. Convention Hall. Professional Directory DR. HENDERSON p G11 TO GIG WALBUT ST., KANSAS CITY, Mo, Ra See eae, fee cee ee Sexual Debility, Phimocte Somes S i iene ere pet amen Strloture Reema: | meet mentees ad thelr WIRE toe es Tees 2) cock with enter, Agente Wanted, HAVE YOU THOUGHT Of the importance of depositing your money where it serves you for the greatest good? THINK A MINUTE then deposit your Savings and checking account with the People’s Bank and Trust Company A Live Negro Bank MUSKOGEE, “ OKLA. Greek Grocery Co. For staple groceries and feed Prompt Delivery Telephone 912 304 S. 2nd St. er When Others Fail to Fit and Please You, SEE US Harness, Boot and Shoe-making and Repairing also dealers in Best Grade of New Shoes. Come where you are welcome. Phone 249 308 S. Second, Muskogee BOUND TO FIT DUNDEE SUITE, MORRISON SANITARIUM, 06 N. Maia, Or. &. D. Merrion Office PROMO ......0050+0++ B10 Or. A. T. Thurman PPHODO . « csssesesseveee ss ohOT8 Office Phome ........+++++. 918% Or. R. H. 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THOMPSON, Dealer in Real Ketate, Oftice—Room 20, Brown Bldg. W. SCOTT BROWN, ‘Attorney at Law. Room 14, Brown Bldg. ©. BENJAMIN JEFFERSON Attorney at Law 200;202 Carter Building Phones, Office 46; Res. 171 Muskogee, Okla ATTORNEY W. H. TWINE, Oftica Phone 143; Res. Phone 1337 Office, 211 8. 2nd St. Masonic Bldg. WILL MAKE A MAGNIFICENT EX: HIBIT OF GRAINS AND GRASSES, VEGETABLES AND FRUIT. A carload of grain in straw, grasses and other of the products of Western Canada arrived at Chicago the other day, and 4s now installed in the Coliseum, where the United States land and frrigation exposition {e under way. Thote Who aro interested tn the “Back to the land movement” will find in the Canadian exhibit one of the best displays of the agricultural products of Western Canada that has ever been made, There are repre. sentative men tere, who will be pleased to give the fullest information regarding the country. The exhibit shows what can be done on the free grant lands of that country and most of the grain was produced on the farms of former rest- dents of the United States who have taken advantage of the homestead lands of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The vegetable exhibit will attract & great deal of attention, and some marvelous potatoes, carrots, turnips, cabbage and cauliflower are shown. It 1s true that the homestead area ts being rapidly taken up and the bulk of that now to be had lies north of the Saskatchewan river in a por. tion of the country known as the park country, Here there ts a large cuan- tity of open prairie interspersed by beautiful groves of poplar and willew. Water {s in abundance, hay is plentt ful and consequently fodder for ant: mals Is right at hand. Those who have taken advantage of farming in these districts and watched the efforts of those in the prairie proper feel that they have the advantage of their brother, who {8 not able to secure fuel and the other conveniences of the park district on his own farm, The crop conditions throughout Western Canada the past year have been generally good, and some won: erful crop yields of wheat, oats and barley are recorded. The Canadian Government, under whose auspices the exhibit spoken of is being made, ‘a preparing reports or. crops in the different Western Canada districts, and while these will not be ready for distribution at the land show com: mencing on the 18th of November and closing on Dec. 8th, applicatioa made to the Canadian Government ‘gent nearest you will bring them to you as soon as they are published. ‘The Mean Thing. Stella—Jack was on his bended anees to me last night. Bella—Well, poor fellow, he can't aelp being bowlegged. 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Here is an attractive coat, made of frieze or soft Vienna, with tce- wool knitted scarf and rough wool hat, trimmed with flowers’ made of woolen yarn, This represents real warmth, and is thoroughly appropriate for all out-door recreation. NO LINEN COSTUME. {STORY OF JAPANESE GOWNS iG i th ; Hy Putty-colored linen is used for the smart costume we filustrate here. The skirt has a panel front and back, and at sides is trimmed with two shaped straps with a button in each point. The coat fastens below bnst with one pointed strap; the large turnover collar is strapped on the outer edge with black and putty-col ored striped linen. Hat of putty-colored straw, trimmed with a black feather mount, Materials required for the dress: Five yards forty-two inches wide, fourteen buttons, one-vighth yard stripe twenty-seven inches wide. ‘The latest thing in sweaters are first cousins to the fuzzy wuzzy tam-o’ shanters that abounded some five years back, They look like goat: and camels, for “they are wild anc they are woolly,” with a sheen and long beard nap, all combed out smoot! and shiny—until one buys them, ther they will probably gather up in lumps but they will continue to be just a: warm and comfortable and much soft er than the regular worsted ones. Very small handkerchiefs of color ed silk with a hemstitched border are sold to wear in the breast pocket of one's rough morning coat, The color scheme of the costunfe can be car. ried out by this small touch in a most effective manner, and the idea has been taken up by the Americans who are now iu Parir ee + ahenh Giihehen Chie Kerchiefa. STORY OF JAPANESE GOWNS Interesting Facts Concerning the Origin of Garments Worn in the Island Empire. _ Nearly every woman nowadays cherishes a Japanese gown for house wear without realizing how interest: ing a garment it 1s, The sleeves them- selves have a curfous history. From the middle, of the sixteenth century they began'to tnctease in length, and, especially those for young Indies, have extended till now they are from three to four feet. ‘This style, known as furtsode, became very fashionable. The width of the obi, or sash, has also varied, at first from two and a half to three and a half inches, and to six, seven, eight and nine inches. It ts interesting to note that our own new fasbions in sleeves and sashes originated among the common people of Japan, and from them were finally adopted by the upper classes. The young ladies of the Samuri class Were the first to follow the popular styles in this respect, and the higher classes began to follow suit, until now these fashions prevail everywhere. It is only from about the middle of the seventh century that the women of the lower classes began to wear the long haori, or overcoat, at present so common among all classes of both sexes. This garment was originally a duster worn by men to protect their clothes when outdoors, and was then called dofuku, or traveling coat. Finally they came to be worn in doors, and the women adopted the garment. The upper classes in time followed the same custom, and now the haori is an indispensable part of the clothing to be worn on formal oc casions, even in summer, NEWEST IDEAS IN GIROLES Many Materials for Choice and Design Is Altogether a Matter for the Individual, The newest girdlos are made of rope, bead, metal, fabric and chenille, The latter are particularly well liked, as are also those made of pierced metal pieces run with ribbon and ob- tainable in assorted colors. There are also those made of colored pyroxy- lin, ribbon laced. These pyroxylin girdles, while extremely light in weight, have an effect similar to the heavier metal ones, Another of this class of girdle is the heavy linked chain or metal rope, made in either gilt, silver or oxidized. Due to the great popularity of cord girdles, there have been manufactured special ornamontal pins in plain and chased effects, also set with colored ‘stones, intended for use as a fastening for the girdles in place of a knot, be- ing both practical and ornemental, and at the same time elfminating the knot tying wear on the girdle, ; In the Dinine Ream. Plates should be heated before they are sent to the table. An entire meal, prepared with great care, can be spoiled by the use of cold plates. Do not reach across another person's Plate. If something beyond your cov- er is desired, ask the servant or the Person nearest to pass tt, When a second portion is being served place the knife and fork to the right of the plate with the ends rest- ing on the butter plate a REQUISITES FOR NEAT AND RAPID WORK AT KILLING TIME Method of Farmer Who Thoroughly Understands the Bus!- mess—It Is Necessary to Have Good Scraper, Stick- ing Knife, Hog Hook and Convenient Place to Labor in. (By W. HANSON. Mitnole) 1 be hone Gn & tele Mut ep for the sen In order to do neat and rapid work at hog-killing time, it ts necessary to have a good scraper, sticking knife, a hog hook and a place that is conven: lent for working. Por scalding, a barrel is commonly used, and it is ali that fs needed un- Yess the hogs are very large. If very large hogs are killed, a gealding tub will answer the purpose for scalding much better than a barrel. 1 have one which is made of two- inch planks for the sides and ends, and sheet fron for the bottom. It ts six feet long and three and one-half feet wide, with a depth of two and onehalt fect Two hooks are fastened near the top on one side, with a pair of trace ebains to run under the hog, to facil tate the turning and withdrawing from the tub It is placed over a furnace, which is made by digging a trench in the ground, and when in use I place pieces of wood across the bottom, in order to keep the hog from coming In coo- tact with the fron bottom and getting too hot I find that the proper temperature for good scalding is from 180 to 190 degrees, and if a barrel is to be used, the water should be boiling when dipped out of the kettle, as the barrel will cool it some. If a scalding tub is used, the water should be cooled by adding a bucket of cold water before the bog is put in. | To insure a correct heat of the wa: ter, use a thermometer. Small quan. “tities of lye, ashes or lime will have no effect in removing the hair, but fee! cause the scurf to come loose more readily. A hog hook is almost indispensable and if one is to be made it should be |made in the form of a hay or bale hook. In fact, I find that a hay hook | answers the purpose very well. In handling the hog, stick the hoot in the flesh of the lower jaw, Just be “hind the fork of the Jaw bone. How ever, the hook may be stuck under the tendons of the hind legs. | Keep the hog in constant motior while being scalded, and draw it out to air occasionally. When the halt "and scurf slip easily from the bod) the scalding s completed. In scraping and cleaning the hog I clean the feet and head first, then ‘the legs, and last but not least, the body. I hang the bog with a rope and pulley, as it s more easily hung in this way than any other. But tt may be hung with the ordinary gambrel, s | stick which is sharpened at each en¢ and inserted under the tendon string: | of the hind legs. | A short singletree will be found te | answer for a gambrel-stick. If there | is sufficient help at hand, the hog may Method Is Shown in Illustration That Carries Off Refuse Settling at the Bottom. Cisterns are usually made of brick and cement mortar in the form of a jug. The water is let in at the top by conductors from the eve troughs of the roof of the house or barn. The sont, dust, leaves and other foreign matter on the roof and in the trough are washed into the cistern, writes Dr. J. A. Kirkland in the Wallace's Farmer. This settles to the bottom, making a heavy deposit of slime and filth, and the water, which is always drawn from the bottom by the pump, comes up dirty and foul smelling, If the cistern is built as the illustration represents, it will be automatic in cleaning, as {t will overflow from the bottom, thus carrying out the stale Nu, a . rm Pre Rn SSSR [| Self-Cleaning Cistern, water and sediment that have accumu, lated below, The cistern should be built in the ordinary way and cemented fully to the top. The conductor pipes should enter through the cover, a drain pipe leave the cistern just beneath the neck, or about three feet below the surface, Into this is cemented a gal vanized gas pipe which extends down ward to within about two and a half inches of a depression in the bottom of the cistern, \t will readily be seen that as soou be hung on a pole put up for the pur pose, After the hog is hung up, rinse ft down with scalding water, remove the entrails by running a sharp knife lightly down, marking the belly straight, cutting to the bone between the thighs and in front of the riba, which bones I split with an ax, being careful not to cut beyond them, Open the abdomen, and acter & | ttle use of the knife one will seldom cut the entrails in removing them, | However, I have a few short strings at band to use in case any of the em | trails are cut After removing the entralls, Mver and heart, spread the carcass apart eek of a < oan > ~—S = PEF EF Hog-Scalding Tank. with a stick and rinse it down with cold water, When cooled sufficiently, remove the leaf fat and kidneys and cut {t up. ‘ T usually salt down on a bench or ‘in a box as soon as it has cooled enough to trim, but I never put any salt on the ribs and backbones ff the weather is cool. The amount of salt T use is ten pounds to every one hundred pounds of meat. In addition to the salt, I also use two pounds of granulated sugar and two ounces of saltpetre mixed. Rub the meat once every three days with one-third of the mixture. While it is curing pack it, in a box in a cool room, where it will neither become warm nor freeze. Two barrels may be used, changing the meat from one to the other each time it is rubbed. After the last rub Ding let the meat He in a box for a week or ten days, then take it out to smoke, When taken out of the box dip each piece in a kettle of boiling water and let it remain half a minute after which sprinkle a little powdered borax on the meat side, and hang. Smoke it four or five days with hickory chips or corn cobs, then dip and sprinkle tt with borax again, and put it down in clean hay, ‘The hot water destroys any fly eggs that may have been deposited, and the borax prevents flies from depositing fresh ones, Y Meat treated In this manner may be feat hanging all summer and will re main fn the best condition, as the water rises above tho drain, {t will begin by force of gravity to flow from the bottom up through the gal- vanized tube and leave the cistern from the bottom, thus sucking out the foul water and sediment from below and leaving the clean, fresh water at the top. I Invented this device and have had one of these cistern in op- eration for seventeen years, ‘The wa- ter has always remained pure and sweet, and without any attention what- ever to cleaning. There is no. patent and the additional cost of this simple and sanitary device {s about two and a half to three dollars, Farmer Must Syatematize Feed: ing So That Good Roughage Is Not Refused by ‘Cattle. Feed has grown to be so high priced that wasting it seems like squandering gold; yet the careless feeder wastes an enormous amount of feed every winter when a little watehfulness and sound Judgment would save it. When stock are fed a tempting grain feed before or at the same time they are given their roughage raticn they Invarlably become somewhat dainty as to what they eat, picking out but the very best of the roughage and rejecting all the rest, When this habit ts once formed stock will often go hungry rather than eat what has been picked over and which really {8 very good feed, ‘There. fore, one must systematize his toed: ing in such manner as to guard against the habit being formed. ‘This should in no wise be construct ed as meaning the feeding of foul of musty roughage, but at the same time we do advise one to feed so as to de rive the greatest possible profits, con sistent with the good health of the herd, For this reason we should feed the roughage before the grain or at 4 time when we know the stock to be hungry enough to eat all the rough ge containing a certain amount o! nourishment and we consider that the system saves us a great quantity o! food supplies every season, ined Meninnh: Sanna: | An experiment station says that the closer a draught horse {s to the ground the better both for service and endurance, Prejudice Is a Serious Menace Prejudice te a hard thing to but where health iy ‘at stake und, tes pinion of thousands of rellable people differs from yours, prejudice then comes your menace and you ought te May it aside, This ie said tn the inter est of people suffering irom chronie constipation, and it is worthy of thelr Attention. In the opinion of tegions of reliable American people “the most stubborn Sonatipation imaginable can be cured Br erict_ use of Dr. Caldwall'e Gyre Pepsin. You may not have heard of before, but do not doubt ite merits em {hat account. or because It has not deem Diatantiy advertised. It has sold. very Gucceasfully on word of ‘mouth tecome Rrendation, Parenia are giving (Tt We their ‘children today who were ‘given Bri their parents, and ‘Te hae, heen truths funy said that more, druggists use it Bersoealiy in’ their families than aap Stier taxative, Latters recently recetvad trom Gracte Helton, Udora, Okla, and. Q. We, Ware ten, Reo, Ark. are but_a few of thous Ende showing the esteom in which Dr Cugvelts Syrup Pepsin ia held It te Mild, gentle, non-ariping—not violent, Iie fais Sr catharticn. 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Johnson in the trial of the case. The significant statement is made by the Bank Commissioner in these suits that the difference between the assets and liabilities of the bank is far in excess of the capital stock of the company, $200,000, on the part of which judgment was sought in these suits. FELL DOWN Did the Capital Company And Now They Ask Cruce to Help Them Out. Oklahoma City.—The Capitol Development company, having failed to fulfill its contract with the state to erect a capitol building, this morning proposed to Governor Cruce to turn over in cash the $100,000 bond which it made for the completion of a capitol building, and to deed to the state 630 acres of the THREE-REPUBLICan aCOs 650 acres of land northeast of the city belonging to the company, the sale of which would probably raise about $1,000,000, stated by good authority, although the governor declined to discuss the question for publication, is very likely to be accepted—may lead to a settlement of the much mooted problem. BIG PRINT JOB Goes to St. Paul Printers— Lowest Bidder Got the Job. Oklahoma City, Okla.—Contract was today awarded by the state board of affairs to the Pioneer Company of St. Paul for printing 6,000 sets of the Oklahoma code, amounting to 12,000 volumes, at $14,950, the job to be completed in five months. The com- This paper must be half price. Wall Paper Half Price Paper we Paper we Paper we We trim your paper 133 South Third Street ROOMING HOUSE When in Muskogee call at 521 South 4th Street. the old McNack place. First class beds for men only. T. A. BARNETT, Proprietor Car-Load of Wall Paper Direct from the Mills! pany stated in its bid that it was unable to place the union label on the books, but it was $4,850 in its bid under the Stephens Company of Columbia, Mo., the next lowest bidder. E. E. Howard, Democratic member of the board of affairs, voted against awarding the contract to the St. Paul Company. HEDGING Are Oklahoma Taxpayers. Elaborate School Plan Too Expensive-An Effort Will Be Made to Reduce This. Oklahoma City,—A copy of the petition to initiate the bill for the abolishment of certain state normal schools and agricultural schools, has been filed in the office of the Secretary of State, Ben F. Harrison. Sixty days is allowed from the time of filing the petition is given for the required number of signers to be secured. The bill would abolish the university preparatory school at Tonkawa and Claremore, Oklahoma Industrial Institute and College for Girls at Chickasha, normal schools at Ada, Alva, Weatherford and Tahlequah, School of Mines and Metallurgy at Wilburton, agricultural schools at Warner, Tishomingo, Broken Arrow, Lawton, Helena and Goodwell. The course now being offered in the Oklahoma Industrial Institute and College for Girls at Chickasha shall be continued as a part of the curriculum of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater. Full courses of normal instruction shall continue to be given at the normal schools at Edmond and Durant. The courses now being given at the School of Mines and Metallurgy shall become a part of the curriculum of the State University at Norman. The consolidated district schools taking advantage of state aid, shall maintain classes in agriculture, horticulture, stock feeding, public road building and domestic science. ANTI-BOOZE LOBBY Will Undertake to Stop Inter State Traffic-Oklahoma Delegate. Oklahoma City, Okla., Delegates from Oklahoma to the Interstate Conference at Washington, beginning December 12, will urge adoption of ments of liquor destined to states state commerce applying to ship- ROOMING When in Muskogee c Street, the old McNa beds for men only Do not miss this big sale. It is a chance of a lifetime. Buy now while the selection is complete. having a prohibitive or local option law. Governor Cruce today named Fred S. Caldwell, state enforcement attorney in the suppression of violations of the liquor law during the Haskell administration, as one of the Oklahoma delegation. Mr. Caldwell has been prominent in the prohibition movement in Oklahoma since statehood and retired when the office he held was abolished by the legislature. In his report to Governor Haskell Caldwell recommended that such action be taken by the legislature since he did not believe the office should be maintained to do a work which the constitution placed upon county officers. IN THE DISTRICT COURT, Third Judicial District, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. No. 1894. Fairilla Burton, Plaintiff, vs. Thomas Burton, Defendant. The defendant, Thomas Burton, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court, by the plaintiff. Fairilla Burton, for absolute divorce and that unless he answer the petition of the plaintiff on or before the 12th day of January, 1912, the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as Clerk of the District Court and affixed the seal thereof this 27th day of November, 1911. W. J. SULLIVAN. Attorney for Plaintiff. (SEAL) ORDER FOR HEARING PETITION TO SELL REAL ESTATE BY GUARDIAN STATE OF OKLAHOMA, MUSKOGEE COUNTY—ss. IN COUNTY COURT. No. 1156. In the matter of the guardianship of Lydle Brown and Mary Brown. Now on this 23rd day of November, 1911, comes George F. Nave as the guardian of the estate of the above named wards having filed herein his petition for the sale of the real estate of said wards for the reasons in said petition stated. It is ordered that said petition be and hereby is set for hearing on the 22nd day of December, A. D. 1911, at 10 o'clock a. m., at which time the next of kin and all persons interested in the estate of said wards are required to appear and show cause, if any they have, why an order should not be granted for a sale of so much of the real estate of said wards as is necessary for the reasons in said petition stated. It is further ordered that a copy of this order be published for two successive weeks in the Muskogee Cimiter of Muskogee, Oklahoma, and by posting notices in three public places in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, and by mailing to the heirs and next of kin or by service as required by law. THOS. W. LEAHY, County Judge. Dated this 23rd day of November, 1911. KEEP 1/2 OF YOUR GROCERY MONEY AND GET MORE AND BETTER FOOD "I do not know what we will do if the cost of living keeps on increasing as it has in the past few years." Have you ever heard anyone make a remark like this? Of course you have. No doubt you yourself are trying to solve this problem. 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In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as Clerk of the Superior Court and affixed the seal thereof, this the 15th day of November, 1911. ROBT. TOOMER, Clerk Superior Court. By E. C. Gilliland, Deputy Ck. (SEAL) A. S. McRea, Attorney for Plaintiff. MONEY TO LOAN On All Articles of Value Unredeemed Articles for Sale At T. MILLER'S, 105 South Main Street. C. F. JOHNSON Grocery and Meat Market Assortment of Fine Candies 624 W. Emporia Ave. Phone 3396 MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. r Direct from g from the Eastern Mills. is big sale. It is It's easy to try our plan. We have a big grocery book. Let us send it to you and put your name on our regular grocery mailing list. Then you will get our special grocery catalogue every two months and can take advantage of all our special bargains. To the left of this announcement you will find a coupon, listing our 38 money-saving books. Look it over carefully—select and check the books you need and we will send them to you free of charge. 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