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OL.15. SAVED A DOUGLAS. Sir William Ramsay's Quick Wit at the Battle of Poitiers. In the battle of Poitiers (1356) a number of Scottish soldiers fought on the side of the French, and several of them were taken prisoners by the English. Among them was Sir Archibald Douglass, being dressed in a suit of splendid armor, the victors thought they had captured—as indeed they had some great nobleman. Several of the English were about to strip off his armor when Sir William Ramsay of Colthie, who was also a prisoner, happening to catch Sir Archibald's eye, gave him a meaning look. Pretending to be very angry, he cried out: "You rascal, how is it that you are wearing your master's armor? Come here and pull off my boots!" Douglass, seemingly thoroughly cowed, went humply forward and drew off a boot, with which Sir William began to beat him. The English onlookers at once interfered on Douglass' behalf, saying that he was a person of great rank and a lord. "What!" shouted Ramsay. "He a bolt? Why, he is a base knave and, I suppose, has stained his master. Go, you willin', and search the field for the body of my cousin, your master, and when you have found it let me know, that I may give it decent burial." All this was acted so naturally that the English allowed Ramsay to ransom the pretended manservant for 40 shillings. The money having been paid, Sir William gave Douglas another thrashing and then bade him begone. Sir Archibald lost no time in effecting his escape, which he owed solely to the ingenuity of his friend. Tom Thumb and the Iron Duke. The Duke of Wellington called frequently to see the little general at his public levees. The first time he called the general was personating Napoleon Bonaparte, marching up and down the platform and apparently taking snuff in deep meditation. He was dressed in the well known uniform of the emperor. I introduced him to the Iron Duke, who inquired the subject of his meditations. "I was thinking of the loss of the battle of Waterloo," was the little general's immediate reply - P. T. Bar num's Life. Pictures on the Rocks Art dealers who go to picture sales have a curious expression which they use when the bidding for a picture stops at a price much lower than it was expected to bring. They look at one another and remark, "It's on the rocks already." When they utter that cryptic remark a wreck usually follows. New York Press. The Caller. "Mary, has any one called while I was out?" "Yes, ma'am; Mr. Biggs was here." "Mr. Biggs? I don't recall the name." "No, ma'am; he called to see me, ma'am." - Strand Magazine. Grateful to Him: She—Oh, Jack, I'm awfully glad you proposed. He—Then you accept me? She—Well, no; but, you see, your proposal puts me even with Kirty Cobb, who had the most of any girl in our sat—Boston Transcript. Meant It Kindly. Aunt (with her two nieces at a concert)—Oh, but this is tadious! Let me take your fan, Ida, so I can hide my yawning behind it. Olga—Take mine ankle! It's bigger.—Fliegende Blatter. Knew What She Wanted. "But, my dear madam, there's no use consulting me about your husband I'm a horse doctor." "That's why I came to you. He's a chronicle kicker."-Life. Strenuous Chivalry It is complained that modern conditions are killing "the chivalry of the middle ages." But mediaeval tales and romances show what that chivalry really was. Wife beating was a common incident on the part of those knights and gentlemen whose gallantry was a mere convention. The Chevalier do is Tour-Laudry in his book of counsels to his daughters tells them the story of a woman who used to contradict her husband in public. One day, after exposulating in vain, he knocked her down, then kicked her face and broke her nose. "And so," comments the good chevalier, "she was disfigured for life, and thus, through her ill behavior and bad temper, she had her nose spoiled, which was a great misfortune to her." But not a word is said about the husband's brutality. Insidious. "My valet gives me a hawth every morning," said Cholle. "Ab," said Slickers, "he's a sort of vacuum cleaner, I suppose."—Harper's. Look beneath the surface. Let not the quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.—Marcus Aurelius. The Muskogee Cimeter. OLDEST COLORED PAPER IN OKLAHOMA. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA, MAY. 5, 1913. BATHER GREWSOME. In Fact, the English Hunter Was Sure It Was Quite So In the Nairobi club I met a gentleman with one arm gone at the shoulder. He told his story in a slightly bored and drawing voice, picking his words very carefully and evidently most occupied with neither understating nor overstating the case. "It seems he had been out and had killed some sort of a mock. While his men were occupied with this he stroiled on alone to see what he could find. He found a rhinoceros that charged viciously and into which he emptied his gun. "When I came to," he said, "it was just coming on duck and the lions were beginning to grunt. My arm was completely crushed, and I was badly bruised and knocked about. As near as I could remember, I was fully ten miles from camp. A circle of carnion birds stood all about me not more than ten feet away, and a great many others were flapping over me and fighting in the air. These last were so close that I could feel the wind from their wings. It was rather grewsome." He paused and thought q moment, as though weighing his words. "In fact," he added, with an air of final conviction, "it was quite grewsome" — Stewart Edward White in American Magazine. TURKISH STOICISM. A Very Poor Shot and a Perfectly Good Natured Target. An incident that occurred in the experience of an English officer is told by the London Specator to illustrate the calmness and indifference to death and bodily danger characteristic of the Turkish soldier. The officer, accompanied by a guard of Turkish soldiers, went to the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea to shoot at a seal that he saw disporting itself in the water below. He fired a good many times, and the last shot had gone very near the bobbing mark when one of the soldiers came to him and politely asked, "Do you not think, sir, that you have fired often enough at Sergeant Yussuf?" The supposed seal was indeed the sergeant. Presently the sergeant came ashore, put on his clothes and came up the cliff strangely. The officer apologized handsomely and blamed himself freely. But Yussuf, like his companions, did not think there was much to be concerned about. After all, the mark had been very small. It was natural to fire at it, it was unlikely that the officer would hit it, and be (Yussuf) had not nudged it at all. When You Are Weary. Are you weary? Breathe more, eat less. Active exercise will not rest you from mental work. "When you are tired with mental work," says a well known physician, "do not think you must take active exercise. That will make you more weary. All you need are rest and more air in your lungs. Sit down quietly and comfortably and breathe deeply twenty-five times. Rest a moment and repeat. "This air forced into the body removes the waste material which makes you weary. "Don't eat all you want. "Food not needed for support of the system is so much extra work for the body and requires more air to dispose of it. "This regimen will diminish your grocery bill and save your shoe leather."-Chicago Tribune. Age of Westminster Hall. Westminster hall is quite five centuries old, possibly more, for Richard II., who is credited with its building, was really little more than a repairer of "Rufus" roaring hall," as Pope described it. The hall, so intimately interwoven with the history of England, has, according to Fuller, the distinction of possessing "cobwebless beams." They were, so a popular tradition affirmed, of Irish cak, in which it was impossible for spiders to live and spin their webs. Cunningham tells us that the roof "is of chestnut and very fine, the finest of its kind in this country." It was the meshes of the law, if not spiders' webs, one might have looked for here of old, for during long centuries England's courts of law were held in Westminster hall.-London Chronicle. Literally Speaking. Little Elsie was reproved by her mother for saying "What?" She was told that she must never use that expression, but say, "I beg your pardon." The lesson evidently went home, for a little later she turned to her mother and inquired, "Mamma, I beg your pardon time is it?"—Boston Transcript. Two Rings. Heck—They say a ring around the moon is a sign of rain. Peck—So is a ring around a woman's finger a sign of reign.—Boston Transcript. Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.—Emerson. GAS METERS. Sheepskins Play a Leading Role in the Work of the Registers. Consumers of gas are usually so unfamiliar with the operation of a gas meter, simple as it is, that it will be surprising to many to learn that sheepskin plays an important part in the meter's work. It is used, according to Gas Logic, in connection with the diaphragms, or the two bellows from which the gas is drawn when the gas is lighted. A stock of 40,000 sheep is required each year to repair the gas meters used in Manhattan and Bronx boroughs, New York city. These skins cost about $40,000-a year. To repair the meters used throughout the United States in a single year about 300,000 sheep are required. Great care has to be taken in the selection of perfect skins before they are put into use. Each pelt, before it is accepted, is examined in a dark closet by a man who passes it over a table in which there is a hole about four inches square, through which a light is thrown upward. By this means it can quickly be determined whether or not the sheep whose skin is being examined has ever had experience in bramble bushes. Thin places, made by pricking of the brambles or by the skin having been injured in the dressing process, render it usable in a meter. MIDDLE NAMES In England at One Time People Were Hanged For Having Them. People have not always been allowed the pleasure of having as many names as they wish. Indeed, 400 years ago not even a middle name was allowed in England. It was Illegal. The old English law was definite and admitted of no infraction of its ruling. The only exception made to this iron-clad regulation was in the case of persons of royal rank. If they really wished it they could boast a middle name, but woe to the person of ordinary rank who was sufficiently unwise or obstinate to insist on having more than two appellations. For the first offense he would very likely be tied to a whipping post and severely hashed. For a second offense he would endure some more lasting punishment, perhaps the removal of his thumbs or his ears. And if he still persisted in his stubbornness he would be hanged. There is a case on record of a poor man, in all probability half demented, who insisted on signing four names every time he wrote his signature to any paper. Of course he passed through all the legal stages of punishment until he was finally hanged.—Chicago Tribune. Mother of Invention John and Mary married impeccably on $20 a week and went to live in a "walk up" apartment, two flights up. Then baby came and, besides adding to the family, added to the impacuity. Ingenuity went far toward solving the problems of living for two in an inexpensive place. Baby strained that ingenuity further. At first it was no impossible task to carry him upstairs, but he grew, as babies will, and Mary's back became weary daily as she carried him up. What was to be done? Oh, for an elevator! The dumb waiter? Of course! Thereafter, when Mary and baby came in, baby was put in the dumb waiter. Then Mary walked upstairs and hoisted baby. Baby liked it, Mary liked it, and if you don't like it that doesn't matter.—New York Post. Changes of Climate. A scientist who recently investigated the causes of secular variations in temperature at the earth's surface thinks that they are more probably due to changes in the amount of carbonic acid in the atmosphere than to variations in the heat of the sun. If the amount of carbonic acid that the air now contains was diminished a little more than half the mean temperature all over the earth would, it is stated, drop about eight degrees, which would be sufficient to bring on another glacial period. On the other hand, an increase of carbonic acid between two and three times its present amount would raise the mean temperature fifteen degrees and renew the hot times of the eocene epoch.—Boston Post. Nice Discrimination That her two grandmothers did not hold quite the same place in her esteem was indicated by Mildred, a little girl of eight years, after she had heard the story of Little Red Riding Hood. "Oh, dear me!" said Mildred, "I just couldn't stand it to have my Grandmamma Ryce eaten up by a wolf, and I could hardly stand it to have my Grandmamma Turner eaten up by one!"—Woman's Home Companion. The Other Kind Pater (to indulent son)--Why don't you go to work? You have attained your majority. Son--Yes, dad. But mine isn't a working majority--Boston Transcript TIPPING AN ARTIST. He Got His Fee, Too, Before He Gave Up the Information Wanted. Winslow Homer was a great painter who had the unusual good fortune to have his merit appreciated early in life. But no one ever presumed less on a wide reputation. Affection was a weakness from which his sense of humor saved him. In his biography by Mr. W. H. Downs is printed the story of a New York gentleman of wealth and artistic castes who made the journey to Scarborough, Me, where Homer had his studio, to make the artist's acquaintance. On his arrival he found the studio door locked. The owner was nowhere to be seen. He wandered about the cliffs for awhile until he met a man in a tough old suit of clothes, rubber boots and a battered hat, who carried a fishpole. He accosted the fisherman thus: "Say, my man, if you can tell me where I can find Winslow Homer I have a quarter for you." "Where's your quarter?" said the fisherman. He handed it over and was astounded to hear the quizzical Yankee fisherman say, "I am Winslow Homer." The sequel of this unusual introduction was that Homer took his new acquaintance back to the studio, entertained him and before he left sold him a picture. LIGHTING WITH GAS And the Young Scotman Who Wore a Wooden Hat. One morning a good many years ago a young Scotman was shown into the office of a great engineer at Birmingham. The young man was wearing a hat of extraordinary shape, and in his nervousness at meeting the man of fame he let the hat slip. It fell with a hollow that man the floor. The engineer looked with astonishment at the thing. The owner picked it up and apologized for the noise it had caused. It was of wood, he explained. He had made it himself, turning it with his father's lathe. The engineer thought that there must be something in a man who could think out and make such a thing at this. He forthwith engaged him, kept all upon him and gave him work of responsibility. The engineer was Boulton; the new man, William Murdock. The man with the wooden hat justified the judgment of the man who employed him. After awhile he was sent away to Cornwall, and when he returned it was to light up his master's premises with gas. The mind which first practically applied the cool gas to the purpose of lighting lived inside that wooden hat.—St. James' Gazette Leigh Hunt. This famous Englishman has two distinct claims to fame. Not only was he a brilliant poet, essayist and critic, but much that we know of Keats, Shelley, Lamb, Byron, Moore, Coleridge, Dickens and Carlyle has been derived from the knowledge of these celebrities which Hunt gave to the world. Possessing a happy spirit and genuine scholarship, Leigh Hunt's writings sparkle with wit and cleverness, while his translations are among the choicest of their kind. His peculiary difficulties undoubtedly prevented Hunt giving us his best at times, but after he was granted a pension amounting in all to £320 per annum the improved comfort and augmented leisure enabled him to make his mark on English literature with essays of remarkable power.—Pearson's Weekly The Name Lehigh. On March 6, 1812, Lehigh county was formed from part of Northampton county. Its name came from the Lehigh river, being an Indian name derived through the German. The original Indian name is said to have been Le-chau-wenech ink, or Le-chau-week, meaning "the place of the fork of the road." The German settlers of the region shortened this into "Lecha," which is still in use among the Pennsylvania Germans. "Lehigh" is the English version of "Lecha." Allentown, the county seat, was called Northampton until 1833.—Philadelphia Record. The Dear Friends "You should not talk about that girl in that fashion." "Why not?" "The Bible says we should love our enemies." "She ain't no enemy; she's a friend of mine."—Houston纸 Shakespeare on the Road. Hamlet had just been hit by a cold storage egg, whereupon he turned gravely to his audience. "How truly spoke the good Marcelius?" quoth he. "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark!"—Harper's Weekly. Inquisitive Could you learn to love me? "I don't know," replied the girl. "What is your particular system of instruction?"—Washington Herald. BUILT TO STAND. The Supreme Confidence One Engineer Had in His Work. There is something, inspiring about the self confidence of the men who do big things. A number of years ago the country was horrified by the news that Galveston had been swept by a flood. But the mud was hardly dry in One city's streets before plans were made for building a great sea wall to keep out the waters. George W. Boschke was the engineer to whom this gigantic undertaking was intrusted. He finished his work while the world looked on with interest. Later he went up into inland Oregon to look after the engineering work of one of the great railroad companies that were opening up that vast undeveloped country. Boschke was in camp, forty miles from the railroad, says the Technlead World. One day an exhausted messenger role in and handed a telegram to Boschke's assistant. The message said that the Galveston wall had been washed away by a second furious hurricane. The assistant was very much disturbed, but there was nothing to do but to lay the telegram before his chief. Boschke glanced up from it, smiling. "This telegram is a lie," he said calmly. "I built that wall to stand." Then he turned to the work he hand. His confidence was justified. The message was based on a false report. There had been a storm as secrete as that which had flooded the city, but the wall stood firm. AMENDED SHAKESPEARE The Actor Was Shy on His Lines, but Rose to the Occasion. William Gillette in the course of an address made to the graduates of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts told this story: "When I was in Booth's company years ago," the actor said, "we had to be up in many parts. Frequently the actors would have to double in a performance when the roles on numbered the people. I remember one time we were playing 'Hamlet.' When the time came in the players' scene for the man to poison the king it was found that the particular actor selected for the part was on the stage in another role. "Immediately the stage manager grabbed an actor who was getting ready to continue in another role. The actor was wrapped in a big mantle, handed a bottle and told to hurry on the stage and do the poisoning. Nobody would recognize him, said the stage manager. "But,' protested the actor, 'what are my lines?" "Oh, you know,' replied the stage manager. "What poetry stuff?" "Sure." "All right,' said the actor. Then he strode on the stage with his bottle and, bending over the king, said: "Nobody here, nobody near! Medicinal Heart of Oak. The virtue of a "cure" apparently does not always lie in its ability to disgust the senses. From earthworms for bronchitis and snakes for goiter one turns with relief to a "cure" for "all weaknesses of mind and body" which Coleridge encountered on a visit to Germany. It was indeed something to write home to his wife about. Here is its advertisement: "A wonderful and secret Essence extracted with patience and God's blessing from the English oaks and from that part thereof which the heroic sailors of that Great Nation call the Heart of Oak. This invaluable and infallible medicine has been godly extracted therefrom by the slow processes of the Sun and the magnificent Influences of the Planets and fixed Stars." Such a tribute to mariners should do much toward cementing a friendship with Germany—London Excuse. When Porfirio Ruled In 1897, when the dictatorship of Porfrio Díaz was young, writes William Archer in the London News, there was an attempted rising at Vera Cruz. The governor of that place telegraphed to Díaz asking whether he should shoot the conspirators and received the economical answer, "En caliente 44". Some people argue that this meant, "If in the heat of action, yes", but who requires orders for shooting in the heat of action? The plain meaning is in American, "Right away" or in English, "Without formality". So the governor understood it, and nine men were put to death. Absentminded La Fontaine La Fontaine, whose fables are the delight of adult Frenchmen and their children's earliest task, was very absentminded. He went to the court of Louis NVI. to present a copy of his fables to the king. And he forgot the book. Fortunately, the king knew La Fontaine, his fables and his foliages and gave him a thousand pistoles (about $250). Unfortunately, though, La Fontaine left the money in his hired carriage on his way back to Paris. NO.1 WOMEN OF DENMARK. As a Rule, They Are Wage Earners Even Though Married. There is an outstanding point of difference between the activities of women in Denmark and in other countries. In Denmark the sole aim is economic independence for women throughout their lives. Thus in Copenhagen more than 1,000 married women work as clerks in offices. If far the majority of actresses are married. In order to enter the school of the corps de ballet it is necessary to be of good family. The greater part of the husbands of ballet dancers are in high positions. Three hundred and fifty to four hundred of the teachers in the free schools in Copenhagen are married. They receive exactly the same salary as the men teachers—that is, £64 yearly. A head teacher, man or woman, commences with £160 and rises to £208. In the gymnasiums and secondary schools many of the professors are married women, who also form a considerable proportion of the private docenten in the universities. The municipal council of Copenhagen has several women members. In brief, in Denmark it is the rule rather than the exception for the married woman to be economically independent through her own labors.—London Spectator. WATCHING WATER FREEZE. An Easy Way to Make the Growth of Ice Crystals Visible. It is not commonly known that fresh water may sometimes be "colder than ice" and that the growth of ice crystals may be made plainly visible. An interesting experiment to show this may easily be made. Fill a clean plint bottle with distilled water. Make a hole in the stopper large enough to let the thermometer pass through it. The kind of thermometer used in physical laboratories is most convenient. Insert the stopper in the bottle and let the thermometer reach nearly to the bottom. Pack snow or ice and salt round the bottle as you would pack an ice cream freezer. If the bottle is not jarred the temperature may be seen to a certain degree below the freezing point without freezing the water. If the stopper and thermometer are now removed and a small piece of ice free from any trace of salt is inserted in the bottle and pushed down into the water crystals of ice may be seen to shoot out in all directions from it. After this experiment has been tried you will have some understanding of the network of ice girders which is beneath the ice coating of small ponds.—London Telegraph. Thackeray at the Minatrela. When the Christy minstrels came to London in 1857 Thackeray was enchanted with them. "I heard not long since," he says in one of his letters, "a minstrel who performed a nong ballad that, I confess, moistened these specacles in a most unexpected manner. I have gazed on thousands of tragedy queens dying on the stage and expiring in appropriate blank verse, and I never wanted to wipe them. They have looked up, be it said, at many scores of clergymen without being dimmed, and, behold, a vagabond, with a corked face and a baujo, sings a little song and strikes a wild note which sets the heart thrilling with happy pity." Gladstone, too, was an admirer of the Christy minstrels and was often to be seen listening to their songs with rapt attention.—London Chronicle. Almanacs. Almanacs were not allowed In the hands of the common people of Rome until about 300 B. C. Until that time all knowledge of the calendar was entirely in the custody of the priests. Did one wish to know the date of a feast day, the hours of the sun's rising or setting or when there would be a new moon he must consult the priest, as these occult laws were only to be revealed by him. But one day a presumptuous layman named Flavius, secretary of Appius Claudius, obtained the secret either by stealthily obtaining access to the documents or by repeatedly consulting the priests. He engraved his records on white tablets and exhibited them openly in the forum and so became the publisher of the first almanac, -Harper's. Our Dying Sun. This time will most surely come when the sun will have ceased to throw off light and heat. Long before that happens, however, the earth and other planets will have become "dead worlds," like the moon—no life of any sort upon them. It has been calculated that the sun will cease to throw out its heat somewhere about 7,000,000 years from now—New York American. Wanted His Best Work. "What you need," said the doctor, "is an operation." "Very well," replied the patient. "Which operation are you cleverest at?"-Detroit Free Press. The blue X mark on your paper indicates that your subscription has expired and the paper will be stopped. Muskogee schools are today in the front rank, and all due to the splendid management of Profs. Bryant and Smith and their ably assisted by the loyal subordinates. The Board of Education is to be complimented for securing the talent we have, but we, the patrons, think our teachers should have better pay. In the past we have lost competent teachers because other cities offered better pay. We can't keep competent instructors at poor salaries, and this outfit deserves to go on record asking for better pay for our teachers. A Negro preacher was in court a few days ago, and among other things the lawyer who represented the preacher said: "I have no more use for a nigger than the average white man; I like them in their place," etc. Such rot was uncalled for. Neither the Court nor the lawyer on the other side had charged him with having any use for the nigger other than his fee. We were surprised to see a Negro preacher in such a position who looks to Negroes for his support. We believe all good citizens will and should assist the officers of the law in arresting criminals and those charged with crime, and when a citizen, at the request of an officer, assists in taking a prisoner to the jail (no matter if the citizen is black and the prisoner white, made so by law and not by nature) then that citizen should not be crucified because God painted him black. We presume the proper parties can make connection. A great many of our people are members of sick and benefit associations (local) and each week are paying their policies (these associations are conducted by white people) and its all right. But since we have one conducted by colored men that is just as safe, we believe we should strain a point and also take out a policy with the colored men who are in the same line. We believe in practicing what you preach, and as we have a policy in the first named we promptly took out one in the second This is not an advertising scheme, because neither company has an ad, in this paper, Mr. L. E. Sango who has an office in the Twine building, is representing the colored company, and we believe in helping young men who are making a good record for the race. See Mr. Sango, Room 22, Twine Building. The Japs don't claim to belong to the dark races. What does does that mean? Trying to break in on the Caucasian and can't! Read the advertisements in this paper and patronize the advertisers. They deserve your patronage. Say you saw the ad in this paper. Some of our boys are in the Phillipine Islands and two from Muskogee. We hope there won't be any serious trouble with the Japs, but if there is we want to say here and now, that the black phalanx (in spite of the cruel injustice and imposition practiced on us at home) our boys, our heroes, will stand like a stone wall for the old flag—the flag that meant so much for our people in the Civil war—and our boys in the Islands and elsewhere will keep the record clear. The record made by the black heroes in every war this country ever had will be duplicated (in event of war, which we hope won't come) and eclipse by our boys in the islands of the Pacific and elsewhere. Our boys are the greatest fighting machines on earth (and in spite of mistreatment at home) and on land and sea have always proved themselves worthy of their sires loyal to the backbone and patriotic to the core. Could any one do more? The editor visited the Manual Training High school Wednesday day and was much pleased and surprised at the progress being made under the management of our most excellent corp of teachers, Prof. Bryant and his assistants are doing a great work and training our boys and girls how to fight the battles for the race in the future. Some colored merchants are howling because they see some of people trading with merchants, and these howlers refuse to advertise in Negro newspaper. Have they a kick coming? We say 60. Read the Negro papers of this city and you will find that white merchants advertise theirs and hence they get the patronage, while the other fellow kicks and advertises in a paper that calls him coon, and few of our people read it. The quickest way to catch a Negro criminal is to use a Negro officer. He knows better how to apprehend the criminal than a white man does; and the way to encourage a Negro officer is to give him the same treatment as a white officer. A white officer, who in the discoearge of duty killed a man at Fort Gibson, was discharged by the Court when brought to trial. A Negro in a similar case was held. Why? The California anti-Japanese legislation presents the matter in rather a complicated form, and when President Wilson sent Secretary Bryan to the Coast it was an acknowledgement that "State rights" are subject to the limitations of the Federal government whenever and wherever they may involve the nation into a diplomatic controversy. The Federal government has kept "hands off" when the South was disfranchising the Negro. All the Jim Crow laws of the South are based on the theory of State rights. And now comes the Woman's Suffrage movement with its leaders committing the organization to a policy favoring a National woman enfranchising act, though every one admits that women may vote whenever any State confers the ballot upon them. The leaders in the woman suffrage movement seam inclined to the belief that a National equal suffrage act should save the necessity of going before the various legislatures. They point to the fact that when the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments were pronounced ratified that the colored people of the South voted without the several States enacting laws in conformity with the new amendments. When the new amendment making possible the election of senators from the several States became a law, it having been ratified by the required number of States, State rights will have been routed. Senatorial elections will then be National affairs and eventually the Negro will have a greater chance to participation in elections, as the Federal statutes make it a criminal offense to keep any person from voting. Nashville, Tenn.—Failure to take definite action upon the location of the proposed National Baptist Theological Seminary by the Educational Board, which alled its meeting at Memphis several days ago, is said to be responsible for the renewed activity on the part of several capitalists and real estate men who are also identified with Baptists of Oklahoma and the nation to have the school located in Oklahoma. The school was endorsed and voted to Nashville by the Convention proper. According to the latest developments, a land concern headed by Capp Jefferson of Oklahoma City in addition to offering a ten acre site and $10,000 for the location of the school in Oklahoma City, to occupy the beautiful suburb of Smithville, offers also an additional $7,000 to the National Baptist Convention, to be divided $1,000 each, among the several Boards. If this city really puts forth an effort to aid the school the Oklahoma promoters say they will withdraw their offer, as they will not oppose Nashville for the location of the school. The promoters who want to land the school for Oklahoma claim the cooperation of the railroads and Statet that they have official assurance that four passenger trains a day will afford ample facilities, and that a neat station will be erected at the school. It was learned that the Secretary of the Educational board was in Nashville last week, but that he made no public statement relative to disposing of the site proposition for the Seminary. In this city the local Baptists took upon the Seminary proposition to be one of the live issues to come up before the Conventi on next September. Pliny is Called By Death Well Known Politician of the Indian Territory Dies at Kansas City Pliny Soper, one of the best known lawyers and politicians that ever lived in Oklahoma, died Sunday at Kansas City. He had been living there at the Knickerbocker Apartments. Death followed an illness of two weeks. He would have been 52 years old July 6. The funeral took place yesterday at Topeka. Mr. Soper came to Kansas City two years ago from Troy, Kana Previous to a year spent in Troy he lived in Oklahoma, where he was for four years U. S. distitt attorney for the northern Indian Territory district, with headquarters at Viniba. He was reg publican national committeeman for Oklahoma from 1904 to 1908. He was one of the most aggressive politicians of the old territorial days, being known as a fighter equally well in Washington as at this end or the line. He helped organize the republican party of old Indian Territory, and in 1901 was named district attorney by Pres. McKinley. He resigned in October, 1905, and moved to Muskogee to be; come attorney for the Frisco railroad. He was a candidate for Federal judge when statehood came, but was knocked out by the rough rider combination then in the saddle in Oklahoma and Indian Territories. Soper carried the fight to Washington and went after President Roosevelt rough shod. Later, Soper, who was still national committee man, was recognized as distributor of patronage in the Indian Territory. Soper also led the fight that finally resulted in the resignation of Federal Judge C. W. Raymond of Muskogee. Those who knew Soper best describe him as an able attorney and a genius for organization.—Tulsa World. Soper, like all men, had his faults, but he was true to his friends. We will never forget his kindness to us when we came co the Indian Territory while he was supreme ruler and, while we differed from him on some occasions we always respected him. We can never forget Pliny Soper. (One of our boys is named Pliny) Soper was a great and good man. May he rest in peace —Ed. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Inre Terry Flake No.1768,State In the matter of Terry Flake, late of the city of Muskogee, County of Muskogee, State of Oklahoma, deceased, No. 1768 All persons having claims against the said Terry Flake, deceased, are required to exhibit the same, with necessary vouchers to the undersigned, duly appointed and qualified administrator of said deceased, at Muskogee Oklahoma, and that four months after the first publication of this notice has been limited by order of the county court of said Muskogee County, as the time for creditors of said deceased to exhibit and present claims against said estate. Dated this the 2nd day on May, 1913. S. T. FLOYD, Administrator. J. J. BRUCE, Attorney, Room 200, Carter Bldg. MONEY 10 LOAN ON ALL ARTICLES OF VALUE Unredeemed Articles For Sale At 7. MILLER'S 103 North Main treet. AGENTS- $10 per day selling Yoko Sachet Tablets, Sample and particulars 25 cents silver. With each package a beautiful present. Send name and address of two ladies. J. E. BRISCOE. 4089 Filbert Street Philadelphia, Pa. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the matter of the Estate of J. H. Harrison, late of the town of Taft. County of Muskogee, State of Oklahoma, deceased. All persons having claims against said J. H. Harrison, deceased, are required to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers, to the undersigned duly appointed and qualified Administrator of said deceased at Taft, in the County of Muskogee, and State of Oklahoma, and that four months after the first publication of this notice has been limited by order of the County Court of said Muskogee County, as the time for creditors of said deceased to exhibit and present claims against said estate. Dated the 11th day April, 1913. A. HARRISON, Administrator. Read the advertisements in this paper and patronize those who advertise, they deserve yopr patronage. There are many bargains that will attract your attention. 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This is not true, Ad- vertisers and subscribers will take due notice and govern themselves aecordingly. We dont want to seenre ad. vertisement by false pretense and we won’t stand it any longer for any other paper to secure advertising and sub: seription by claiming to be just the same as the Cimeter. Chronic Diseases: All dis. eases and conditions of both men and women treated on pos itive guarantee. Santine Com pany, box 632, MeAlester Okla. (adv. ) This paper will never unde any cireamstancescul Ladver tising rates to the detriment ot the craft. The people who dc ‘that kind of business are kill ing the business and not help ing themeselves. | Notice! We wish to extend a eatd of hanks to the Lodge andfriends in general for the kind attentfon and generosity given oe during our Pather, ALA. 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This, the 10th day of April, 1913, Rk, Prowens, President Matti Jackson, Sec'¥ Vircinia HARDIN, Directors, For Sale AT A BARGAIN 250 Shares in the Mollie Groy Mining Co, One Share in the Unien 3 lustrial Investment Assogiy 1 Call at this office Room +, Twine Building. Price fOr Either$.350 SCHOOL CHILDREN.-STUDENTS CHEAP! QN PAYMENTS ~ Six One Acre Tracs of Land 1 1-2 miles From Hear of the city. $300.00 Per Acre. $5SO DOWN, $5 per month until paid for Deed and Abstract at first Payment. Lplendid Socation for home for poor man. Plenty Room to raise Hogs, Chickens and Truck Gardening. Call at once or Write for further information to W. H. TWINE, or FRANK W. REED 211 8. Second St. Twine Building. MUSKOGER, OKLA Reference: EC, Alley, 114.N. 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H, Phinney, Gen’! Agt. Muskogee, Okla, ©. O, Jackson, D, P. A. Oklahoma City, Okla. \Now ls The Time To | Subscribe. ere Time Table. MEDUANT VALLEY We 1.ROAD. fe Westhuuna, 110. T= Leave dally” except Sunday 7:16 fa {alts 108 Tulsa eG. Pawhunica, fo. (anes aay ttian ah fet Tule, Pawluska and ArWangns City "ana" Wienttn, No. 6-Leaves daily B00 p.m, for Pilte su and ‘Pawhuskat Cnathound, No. 4—Leaves daiiy T46 9, mm. for Fore Smith, No. Leaves daily 6:40 ym. for Fore Sinith, PHUSCO system, Weathonnd, No. 786 arrives 10:45. mein, No. 783 arrives 45" "p.m; departe 160 p.m, No. 751 Local departs 2:18 p,m, No. 789 Governor departs 11°36 p,m. No. 787 departs 9.V0r ae mn, No. 149 Local Arriven “:00' p.m, Eastbound, No. 788 Governor arrives 1.18 a, my No, 782 arrives 1108 a. kt “departs 11:06, No. 780 Local arrives 12:48 p.m, No. 84 departs 6.00 p. 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They {deserve your trade, The fellow | who docs not advertise is entitled to nothing no matter who he is | w where he hails from; he is a rick number and the people will pass him by and should do so. When in the city CALL AT Mrs. Carolina Shumake For Good ROOMS PRICK; 25e-50075e HOU-GLE N, Srd Street, ~ NOPICE TO CREDITORS, All persons having claims against Lenora Parthings (nee Ross) deceused, are required to present the same with the neces sary vouchers to the undersigned Aduinistrator, at 458 Tower Hill Boulevard, Muskogee, Oklahoma forallowance, within four months: ifter the date of this publication ov the same wil! be forever de= barred. Dated this 10th day of | April, 1918. | Wo. Partoine, | Administrator, Perce & Eowanps ! Attorneys: ‘To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAN ATIVE BROMO Quinine, It seops the | Cough and Headache and works off the Geld. Tirvegists. refund money iti tails to. enge, 1 MESCRGVE'S enattre oat cath hoe, "ber . Are you reading . your neighbors pa- per? x 2 THE CHAFING DISH. Antiquity of This Now Popular Cook ing Utensil, » The chafing dish is not « utensil of modern Invention, Looking backward over fiistory’s pages, many allusions fire made to Its use. Among the rulon of Pompei have been found broure chafing dishes of uniqne designs, and Momuven, in bis “Romisehe Gesehten te,” asserts that In those days a well Wrought cooking machine came (0 cost more than an estate. Louts XV, took inch delight In cooking and, accord ing to Goneourt, often amnsed hingelt by making “quintessential stows it, ell ver pana. ‘The palate of Loulx X1V was often tlekled by “piping tot dish es brought In on a ehating dish.” Napoleon Bonaparte, when layhis down the nifeirs of war and enjoying hotie Nfe for a short perlod, cooked tn a afiver chating dish an omelet for the enloyment of the empress and himself Mime, Recamler, the heantiful and tn fullectuat society leader, used the chat ing dish, while Mine, de Stuel, the Krentest woman in Mterary history When esited from her beloved France took with ber the ehating: dish We of today are doing much to keep alive the trie spirit of hospitality. by bringing the ebafing dish tite popular tse Woman's Home Companion, PETRIFIED BODIES. Their Organic Materials Are Replaced by Mineral Particles. To answer to the query, "Do biologists or chemists know the process of petrl faction or the reason why a titan body or a plint fn some eases takes He course of petrifaction tusteud of de caytng?” we would say: ‘The process ts at fest one of decay nlowly nnd replacement partiels by burticle af the ergunte amaterial ty tn onginie or mineral. Water holding sill coon tminerals tu saturated solution Is hecemmery, the flesh or plant disorga hives, the carbon, oxygen, ultrogen, hydrogen compounds distutegrate and escape, and the uituute portion is re Whiced by the mulneral partioly the shape or form of the decaylug body re twalintngg Intact Now, the carbon tn the bodies does hot clinge to siliceous minerals. It disappears In Ibs combination with the fther elements. No element changes ft another; this would be mutution Replacement Is the word used here ‘hos analyze a petritied man or plat no organic mutter ean by found only fhorganie, and this welghs fir mere then did the autimated body, ‘The eo Cire process of peteitiontion ty a tuys terlous Work Of nature-New York American, Wh eitinge ued: Slated: Main ‘The objection professed by many wo Aen novelists agnlust reading tetlon jhay be boved on the same grounds ds these ratied hy the Httle boy atthe tes Party who refuyed to et Jam “eos father makes I" Some distingulshed weitere in other feldy have been vo rnelous novel readers. Concerntug the author of the standard work on the Ueitish constitution Grant Dutt re lates: “Bayebot, like Sir Henry: Maine, Sle James Stephon and Sit George Venables, hid a perfect passtou for hovely and would read aud reread them WIth (he greatest delight. He had been reading ‘Rob Rey? halt an hour beture tis death.” 'Tenuyson, too, According to Willan Alifagham, was “a constant novel reader, ‘What L dis Hike, he once salt, “ht begtontng a new hovel, Lshould like to bave a novel to Fond tu a wutitton volumes, to last me my Ufes "London Studard ARABIA LIKES LOCUSTS. Not Only the Natives but Everything alien’ Maks: Whee Tocust are today eaten tn Arable Pretty mutch ax they were ln Biblical Hines. Porekguers as well us natives declave that they are really an excel Jeut artlele of diet ‘Phey are best botled ‘The long or “hopping” legs must be pulled of and the locust hell by a WH and dipped Lato sale before 1 As eaten, Ax ty Mayor, the Insect ts suid ty taste Hike green wheat ‘The ret locust 6 more patatable (han the green kind. Some sity that the fo mate Is rad and the male green, but others contend that ali are green at Hirst, Whatever the sex. Locusts must be caught tn the morn $n, for then they are bennmbed by the cold aud thelr Wings are damp With the dew, so that they cannot tly, ‘They way be found th Arabia cluster ed th hundreds under the desert tsb es, and they ean be Mterally shovelet foto a bag or basket Later the sun dries thelr wings and Mt ts hand to cateh them. When In flight they resemble what we eal May files, ‘They tly silewise, drifting, as At were, before the wind. They devour everything vegetable amd are devoured by everything ant mal—desert larks and bustands, ravens, hawks and buzzards like them, ‘The eamels muned them In with thelr food. Whe greyhounds run snapping after them all day long and eat ax many as they catch, ‘he Redoulns often give ‘them to their horses, — Youth's Com eaton. Getting It Right, It Was ov & street cur in the elty of Washington, Two colored women in cheaply gorgeous splendor were talk dng and one chanced to mention a Mr Tinks tn her conversation “Excuse me,” seid the other wondn, “but bis name ts vot Jinks It ls Mr Jenks.” “Oh, I noes,” sald the other wounn complacently, “1 sees that you puts de access ou Ge promoun” ly every post there wold be a long eh: Adlope creased down the middle, show: tog ft was a return, A writer he was, ~Dearaon's: Weekly. MAGNETIC CLEOPATRA. Her Manner, Rather Than Her Geauty, Wae Mer Chief Charm. ‘The only authentic portesit of Cleo patra that is Known to arehweologists ten bist which appears on « series of colns Ht is on the reverse and bears Fhe Inseription in Greek, “Queen Cleo. mata, the Divine, the Younger,” whtle fon the obverse is a portrait. of “An tony, Dictator Kor the Third Pine, PA. aunvtr ‘The workmanship of the coln ts far from good, and this teeounts in some mesure for the undeniably plaln ap pewrance of the queen, Yet the like hess, ax far as the features go, Is a (rie one, for the other coins of the came series, though of a different typ rive her the sine features, ain aquillue hose, a strong chin, a long neck ind narrow shoulders Phe fier ie that her beauty was not o renmirkable as one would Chink from MMe spell she cast over Caesar and At tony, Piatareh, for Instance, telly as tat her beauty In itself was by. no ineans incomparable nor eatentated to vinize those who saw ber,” but adds Hat the magnetic harm of her man hor, (he geneeTulness af ber movetents the persuasiveness Of her conversation snd her gure Were most attrnctive, Enjoyed What He Paid For. It ts tuteresting to note the effect (hat reputation hasan these whe are not good critios Of the efforts of public performers, as a clerk In a downtown honk was telling. ST happen to kaow & celebrated eon cort artist." he sald. "One evening she was In the efty and. that noth ing to do, so she etme up to our very humble dat in Harlem to spend a quiet, homelike hone or two. ‘The nlsht was warm, and the windows were open After dinner she sat down at the plano (nd sang several songs for us. ‘The nextday 1 heand that one of our nelgh hors complained loudly about the ‘yell jug? fe our flat and said that seh nub ances ought to be protibited ‘two Nights liter that same nelhtor pate S2a seat for hluself, his wite and his daughter to hee gue friend sins atm oncert—New York Sun Stele Bie Bat |“ Plolemy (Viilopator) was fond of building big boats, One of these Is suid to have been 420 feet long, 57 feet broad and 72 feet deep from the hish xt polut of the stern, ‘This vessel had four rudders or whnt some would call teorlng ours, as they Were Hot fasten cd, each forty-five feet long She ear. sled L000 rowers, besides 2600 ma Pines, a large body of servants under her decks and stores and. provisions Hlor ours were fifty-seven feet long, int the handles were welghted with toad, ‘There were 2,000 rowers on a side, and it Is supposed that these were Mivided fate five banks. ‘Phat this ex traordinary vessel ever. put to sea Is doubted, but that she was launehed snd sed at tines, If only for display, several historians are agreed. A Case In Arithmetic. ‘The teacher was hearing her class of small boys in mathematies agar” she saide “it your father ean doa piece of work In seven day's vid your Unele William can do tt in uine days, how long would st take both of them to do it?" “They Would never get tt done.” an wered the boy earnestly, They valet sit down and toll thyh stortes.”” Now York Dost. What the Yendhas Teuait Mim. ‘The small bey bad just returned home after a most Cumultuons day at chook, ‘What leason,” asked bis fither, Was the most Lnpressed on vou to day by the teacher?” “Dat 1 need a thicker patr of pants Toutes’ Home Journal, Friendliness It Is not Wise to rush into violent friendships with every one you meet, Hot it hea great mistake not to be on frlendly terms with those with whom ou come In contact, An accusation of haying done wrong should not disturb youmunlesy it's true Seth Rrown, Wanted No Jealousy. Little Lola bad received 9 dott and a Kitten among her blethday presents “Which do you like best, your kitten oe your doll? asked ber mother, Lola weut over and whispered tn her mother's ear, “Like dotile best, but please dou't tell kitty,"=Chteago News tanh inline. Father? bave Just heard that that incorrigible son of mine has Just mar: pled a well known actress. Daughter Well, you have yourself to blame, Ca: ther, Father=How do you make that oul? Daughter=Haven't you oftem told blu to hitch bis wagon to a start All Over. “Well, dear, 1 guess the honeymoon is over." “Why do you say that? pouted the belde, “Lhuve been taking stock, and 1 Ond thot Lam down to $2.65."—Washington Herald Wasted Advice, Pather=My son, remember this—ne man ever accomplished much whe talked at bls work, Son—How about # lweturer, dad Boston ‘Transcript. ‘The dread of ridicule extinguishes origlualiy to ite birth. Blackwood. THE ZERO MARK. © Origih of the Mathematical Symbot That Stands For Nothing. It ts the peculiar triumph of the mathematielans who constructed the Hindu Arable numerals that they were ted to Invent a symbol for “nothing.” ‘The Invention arose ont of the ditticut ty whieh was encountered when eal culations were transferred from the ancient abacus board and became a Written operation, ‘On the abacus board, whieh may per taps be seen sult in infants’ schools, the rows of beads of counters repre sented the numerais 1 to 9 but each counter or bead ly the row above rep resented ten Himes ws great a value ax in the row below. ‘Thus 601 could be tronsferred from abacus board to pa per without difficulty, bat 5 () 1 taken from the abicus.inight be 61, since the vacant place Was no longer Indicated Accorngly tatheraticlns were ted to Invent © character for the vacant place. ‘The vention of this symbot for “nothing” with the crowning, tran scendont achlevement in the perfection of the dechinl systen and lay at the base of all subsequent arithimetien! progres. Among the Hindus the ayn hol was at first a dot, but It was soon uperseded by a cirele, O Ite aymbol, ways Professor Bi. Turner to a mage avine article on the numerals, bas va: fled greatly, and ity maine has a ped gree of ity own, Phe Hindus called tt sunya-vold. In Arable thia became ifr In 1202 Leonardo Fibonacel trans: lated tt zephiram. In 1230 Maximus Hhunudes cutied It talphra. During the fourteenth century Italian writers. shortened It to genero and cenro, which became zero, now in general ase “Meanwhile It fis passed more nearly lw Arable fora into French as ehittre and tate English ag elpher, takiug an thew sigolfientions. WILLING TO GIVE CREDIT. Jetterson’s Admirer Was Mixed, but He Rike tothe Ganation? Jefferson was the most delightful story teller L have ever met, writes Mary Shaw in the Century, deseribing “rhe Human Site of Joseph deter son.” His varied life and experiences were Wonderfully interesting, Onee we were in Terre Haute, Ind, and the theater was near a hotel. We got ont of the cab and were strotiing throngh the hotel corrkler when avery. pom pos MAN CAuNe up to Me. Jefferson, ss persony frequently dil, and, extending Hubs Hund, sania: “Mr Jetterson, you do not know me, but F koow you very well, and, sir, | am very glad to seo you In our city You are a great aetor. 1 have: seen you ever sinew F was a tittle boy" he looked fully as old as Mr. Jefterson “aud F have always looked forward ts your visit to this plice.” He went on praising Mr. Jefferson, who preseutly sald: “L thank sou very much, You are wery kyul” Upou whieh the old gentleman went va: 1 tell you everywhere tn this town people ave chit to see old dosh Whit euihs There was a moment of silence, and thon Mr. deterson sald: T think yea are mistaken, 1 pkay Hip Van Winkle, Yon must mean Mer ‘Thompson fle plays Josh Whit om ‘The effusive gentleman: parsed tong enongh te collect bit wits nnd. then sald cheerfully: “Oh, Vex! So You ate the old fellow who played ip Van Winkle? Well, iraiien ‘acud’ buss” The Famous Portland Vase. ‘The taterkil of the fanens Portland vase fs ghIss, With comes engraving The vase Is composed of two lnyers ef gluss, white over dark blag, ‘Phe White was ground away by hand: so as to leave the design in white upon the blue background, It by one of the (ragedies'of the Uritish museuny that (id priceless treme was amushed to pleces by an insane visitor, It hax, however, been repalred with great sktil and Is now guarded with extra care Phis beautiful spectaen of Greek wrt fs ten tnehes tn helght, with a diame ter ut It broadest) part of seven Inches. 1X present name comes from the fact that It was onee owned by the Duke of Porthind, who loaned tt to the Britsh museum in 1810—Ke ohnuge. Custard. Concerning custard, of “eustad,” as it was formerly called, It was a com: mon Joke at elvle feasts ty Bagland tn the olden tine to. place an enormous custard to the middle of the table, into Which at some stage of the proceedings the clown Unexpectedly Jumped. en Jonson uses the term “eustard leap Jack” Of one who “in tall of « sheritt’s diuner™ took “his alinain leap Into a custard” to “make my lady mayerens and her sisters laugh all thele bocds Over ther shoulders.” Cynical Foresight, “Phat boy of yours muy be president vf the United States some day.” “Maybe.” assented Parmer Corntos sel "Hut the chances are that he'll be ‘one of the fellows who think they are lucky ff they get appointed to be post musters."—=Wasblugton Star, All Beneath Her, ClareDo you think you could bring yourself fo marry a man your tntellee tual luferior? Lydla—1 suppose T shal have to=Londou Opinion. A fool at forty will never be wise trteb Proverb. Modern Shoe Repairin,. We do the very best high grade work wa we nays the facilities to work i MeTTE® en ‘ Bi) Bylo A ane xg e ya ga . has i \ Ir WN A Was | NAG 3 ° ed. | NSP i PEPE GS fe LB, a Old Shoes Made New. Se wed Half Soles 75 cents. Try Us and be Convince: NEW S1A1E ShOE SHOP TOM CARUTHERS 1H Court St. “TIE SHOE DOCTOR” Phone S611 Muskogee, Okla CORK TREE BARK, ~~ CORK TREE BARK, Wf Cafétully Removed & New Supply Grows In a Few Years. As most people know, cork ts the outer bark of anoak, ‘This tree, known to the botanists as Quercus suber, 1 an evergreen, ative to the Mediter: fanean region, and ts cultivated In France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Moroe: co, Tunis and Alxiers. Lf carefully done removing the lark does not in Jure the tree, and a new supply may be obtained from the same. specinen after a few years We are so familiar with the use of cork for the stoppers of battles that we seldom realize Its manifold other tives, though [ts conneetion with bot tes dites back only about 500, years We so commonly speak of the stoppes Hf bottle ast cork that We see 10 fncongrulty in the expression a rely ber cork," ust as our word for stopper hoe heen derived from the word cork, so Fork Hself his probably been derived from the Spanish ecoreho, whieh in turn is derived from the bathe cortex Herning thd Some anthers, however, would derive cork from quevens, the senerte namie of all oaks. Cork Is present in the hark of all trees, though In quantities too stall to make It useful tn the many ways In which cork from the cork oak Is em ployed. ‘The cork barked elt, the sweet gum and a few otbers bave strongly developed cork. SIE FUT Tea a Vea ad ed tad Tod Toe eat tod od od dot Tod To | AGENTS WANTED. South MUSKOGEE TOWN CO siditals ian MUSKOGEE, OKLA BURIED ALIVE FORTY DAYS. Queer Test a Hindu Fakir Ie Said te Have Survived. De, Konigberger, a physician In the Panjab, doubting the frequently re qwated stories of the Hindu fakirs who clahned to be able to sustatn ite for a consklerable thie after bari tin the earth hy the process known ax “swat lowing the tongne,” determined to take the tiost rigid tests and exclude ll possibile trad. * One of these Erabman fakies allowed Nhnself to he buried by the doctor and his suspicions colleagues In a well fastened) and sealed vault. ‘Che burial Iusted seh a long thine for forty days that some corn planted pon the salt shove: the valk sproated before the unhappy. fellow wag. released. ‘Then the Hinds was freed, subjected by the doctor to restoratives ond lived happtly ever afterward, Sir Henry Lawrence, an English set cntist who assisted the German savant, sulstantiated the account, ‘The chest fw which the fakir was buried was finaly sealed, and when the fellow was brought ont he was cold and apparent ly lifelons. Hendons of Stevenson will recall the Master of Ballintrae's fatal attempt te escape from this mnnderers by) tds trick. London Mamtly Herald, White's Hotel ROOMS AND BATHS BAGGAGE LINE vemow, Groceries and Coal a Clark’sGrocery f);, Burglare and the Law. Remorking that many members of the putitic feel some donbt as to the precise extent to which the law will Uphold Chem tn ustag violence to defeat or captire a burglar, the Law Journal of London saya: SA peacetul tres Passer must be requested to depart peace, and only on hit refusal enn force be used to remove him, but a Violent or an armed trespasser cam be removed without such a request. As general rule, however, ft Is not Maw: fil fo kilkeven @ person assaulting one or stealing one's goods, Unless one's Hite ts In danger such an act iy at best manslinghter, Possibly in the defense of one’s home the use of firearms ts Justifiable, even If no violence to the person Is Uireatened, but this ix vers doubtful.” | Beautiful Lots In me REEVES ADDITION Adjoining Factory Addition. $ op 5 Each | ONE DOLLAR PER WEEK. This property is not inthe country but in towa withall city improvements, close to street car, gas, water andpaved streets. Bound to double in value in very short ‘tmic. Let us shew you now while the prices are iow and the seletion of ‘good. ‘Thisis unquestionably the lowest priced. proposition in real es Hate in or near Muskogee. You had better take advantage of it to day ‘TERMS: One dollar down and one dollar per week : Reeves Realty Company, | 217 Flynn-Ames Building, Phone 920. Muskogee, Ollaboma. | D YOU WANT A HOME? O YOU WANT TO SAVE? | $10.00 cash and $5.00 per month buys alot in the best Ad dition to Muskogee, Every lot guaranteed to be desirable and ¢ | Convenient to business center. Write or call C. O. Grimes, 211 New Phoenix Building |Agents wanted Muskogee, Okla, A Pertinent Query. ‘The old gentleman looked Perley tn the eye, “Can you support my dangbter In the style to whieh she fs accustomed” he demanded, "No, colonel, Leap't,” replied Vertey, shut let me ask you, sit, could yon have done xo at my age?*—Harper's Weekly. ‘tities (ie “You're wanted at home, fatber." “Who says so?” “Mother.” “Did she say anything else?" “She sitld if you didn't come at once she'd come and feteh you.” “Come on, boy, let's ko home.” File gende Blatter A Lost Chance, Years ago a man named Saltamann owned an estate In Griqualand, South Afriea, and adjolning is property was an old, rundown firm that had not been worked on account of its poor sol and luck of necessary water, ‘The own. er of the farm met Herr Saltznann ou day and offered to trate the farm for an old walsteoat he had seen hin wear tug. Ax Sultzmann did not wish to burden himself with a pleco oF worth Joss land, he kindly refused the offer A fow years hiter big, clear diamonds were found on this waste stretch, and now thousiads of pounds could not purchase it.—London Mail, You WIIl Profit By Trading Here, ’ J. A. Feterman’s Cold Storage & Meat Market. FINEST EQUIPPED MARKET IN OKLAHOMA, Oysters, Fish & Poultry a Specialty 105.N. Maint Muskogee, Oklahoma Not Very Reassuring, He-Your father called me a timber wolf, What did he mean by that? She Oh, that's just “one of pa's politival expressions, Te used to live out west, you know, and nothing ever pleased him so much ag to shoot a timber wolf before breakfasts Of contse, be didn't mean any thug by It Cleveland Plain Dealer. goes the price on Harness Repairins. Wanted : won 2000 Colored people to know that we save you money on our Harness work. 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