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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 paper will never under any circumstances cut advertising rates to the detriment of the craft. The people who do that kind of business are killing the business and not helping themselves. Notice! We wish to extend a card of thanks to the Lodge andfriends in general for the kind attention and generosity given us during our Father, A. A. Cleron's illness. Please accept our grateful thanks for the same. Respectfully yours. The Clemons Family Experienced agents wanted to sell oil and gas claims to colored people in proven field in Oklahoma. Fine proposition for purchasers, and agents make big money. Write us for contract and literature. Lincoln Oil & Gas Co., McAlester, Okla. (adv.) PNEUMONIA left me with a frightful cough and very weak. I had spills when I could hardly breathe or speak for 10 to 20 minutes. My doctor could not help me, but I was completely cured by DR. KING'S New Discovery Mrs. J. E. Cox, Joliet, Ill. 50c AND $1.00 AT ALL DRUGGISTS. For Weakness and Loss of Appetite The Old Standard general strengthening tonic GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives our Malaria and builds up the system. A true tonic and sure Appetizer, For adults and children, 50c SUP Dependable Train Service equipment that adds to your comfort, schedules that serve your convenience. These are features that will appeal to you if you make your next trip via MKT 513 COAL! COAL! Prepare for real cold weather. Gas may play out. Better lay in some other fuel. We sell best Henryetta Coal $5.25 per ton delivered $2.75 per half ton delivered Sippes Coal Company. Phone 96. Office and yards 5th and Elgin. NOTICE OF MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS. To the Stockholders of the Pickens realty and Trust Co.: You are hereby notified that a meeting of the Stockholders of said Company will be held at the office of the Company in the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, at 3 o'clock p. m., on the 12th day of June, 1913, for the purpose of decreasing the capital stock of said company from $50,000 to $10,000, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting. This, the 10th day of April, 1913. R. PICKENS, President MARIE JACKSON, Sec'y VIRGINIA HARBIN. For Sale AT A BARGAIN 250 Shares in the Moillie Grov Mining Co. One Share in the Union Industrial Investment Associ- Call at this office Room. Twine Building. General Electric Toaster. Price for SCHOOL CH ALL OF US The best way to get go TOASTER. For breakfast, for lunch, ent and toasts faster than two The cost for electric cu Electric toaster do away inconvenience. 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Muskogee Gas & Electric Co. Telephone No. 3415. FORSALE CHEAP! ON PAYMENTS Six One Acre Traces of L From Hear of the city. $4 $50 DOWN. $5 per mo Deed and Abstract at first Payment for home for poor man. Plenty R Chickens and Truck Gardening. Write for further information W. H. TWINE, or FRA 211 S. Second St. Twine Building. Reference: Ed C. Alley, 114 N. Main St. One Acre Tracs of Land 1 year of the city. $300.00 Pe DOWN. $5 per month until Abstract at first Payment. Lplendid one for poor man. Plenty Room to raise tens and Truck Gardening. Call at one Write for further information to TWINE, or FRANK W. Second St. Twine Building. MUSKO Ed C. Alley, 114 N. Main St. Real Colored People' We are the largest Importer a facturer in this line. Plats, Wig Braids, in stock or to order. All our goods guaranteed to st ing and Washing, and to hold t and crimp. All shades matched; difficult; Mixed Gray a specialty. 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Guaranteed by your Druggist Wemenu it. 25c, $50. $1.00 That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE every box. Cares a Cold in One Day. 25c ```markdown ``` r$.350 DENTS DOAST. is with an ELECTRIC ' it is ready in a mom- rnt toast, cold toat and leboard. the ELECTRIC FLAT essary. electrical Supplies. Gas Co. 5. Attention California Tourists Making Your Trip To LosAngles California Be sure to make your Headquarters at Mrs H.H. SPILLER'S Hotel Everything Modern. Newly Furnished Rooms, Hot and Cold baths nall rooms. Electric Lights and at a Moderate Prices. No. 542 CERES AV. NEAR SOUTHERN PACIFIC DEPOT LosAngles. Cal. When You Go To St. Louis You will miss a travel treat if you fail to ride in the FRISCO LINES splendid Electric lighted all-steel trains, with berth lighted Pullmans, and Diners serving Fred Harvey Meals. By all means go. FRISCO LINES The Frisco Agent stands ready to help you plan your trip, check your baggage through, etc. See him today for any desired information, write either of the undersigned. R. H, Phinney, Gen'l Agt. Muskogee, Okla. C. O. Jackson, D. P. A. Oklahoma City, Okla. Now Is The Time To Subscribe. [ ] MIDLAND VALLEY R. ILROAD. Enthound. No 7—Leaves daily 7:45 a. m. for Tulsa and Pawhuska. No 1—Leaves daily 11:45 a. m. for Tulsa, Pawhuska and Arkansas city and Wichita. No 5—Leaves daily 9:45 p. m. for Tulsa and Pawhuska. Enthound. No 4—Leaves daily 7:45 a. m. for Fort Smith. No 2—Leaves daily 5:40 p. m. for Fort Smith. FRISCO SYSTEM. Westbound. No. 785 arrives 10:45 a. m. No. 783 arrives 1:45 p. m.; departes 1:00 p. m. No. 751 Local arrives 2:15 p. m. No. 789 Governor departes 11:36 p. m. No. 787 departes 9:00 a. m. No. 749 Local departes 6:00 p. m. Enthound. No. 788 Governor departes 7:15 a. m.; departes 11:05 a. m. No. 782 arrives 11:05 a. m.; departes 11:05 a. m. No. 750 Local arrives 12:15 p. m. No. 784 departes 5:00 p. r. No. 786 departes 7:00 p. m. No. 748 Local departes 7:25 a. m. M. O. & G. RAIL AV. Northbound. No. 4 from Denison 6:45 a. m., daily. No. 6 for Wagoner 5:05 a. m., daily. No. 8 for Wagoner 8:30 a. m., daily. No. 12 for Wagoner 11:15 a. m. (Mixed train daily except Sunday.) No. 2 for Wagoner 2:30 p. m., daily. No. 4 for Wagoner 6:00 p. m., daily. Southbound. No. 1 from Wagoner 6:50 a. m., daily. No. 1 for Denison 6:00 a. m., daily. No. 3 from Wagoner 10:00 p. m., daily. No. 51 from Wagoner 2:00 p. m. (Mixed train daily except Sunday.) No. 5 from Wagoner 5:30 p. m., daily. No. 7 from Wagoner 8:00 p. m., daily. ST. LOUIS BAY TRAIN & SOUTHERN. From Wagoner. South Bound. North Bound. No. 103 9:10 a. m. No. 106 6:55 a. m. No. 104 9:10 a. m. No. 106 9:18 a. m. No. 105 8:25 a. m. No. 105 8:28 a. m. Do You Know That You Ought to Buy your Drugs and Sundries Where there is a Chance To SAVE? $1.00 Scott's Emulsion.....79c $1.00 Electric Bitters.....85c $1.00 Pinkham's Compound.....79c $1.00 Wine of Cardui.....79c $1.00, 50c and 25c Bell's Pine Tar and Honey.....79c, 40c, 20c $1.00, 50c and 25c Foley's Honey and Tar.....79c, 40c and 20c $1.00 and 50c King's New Discovery.....79c and 40c 25c White Pine Mentholated Cough Syrup.....26c 25c Week's Break Up a Cold Tablets.....20c 25c Bromo Quinine.....20c 1 lb Epsom Salts.....10c 1-4 lb Peroxide.....10c Etc., Etc., Etc. REMEMBER OUR PRESCRIPTIONS. We always have it for Less FREE DELIVERY CHICAGO DRUG CO., 321 N. THIRD Phone 1720 Read our advertisements and trade with the advertisers. They deserve your trade. The fellow who does not advertise is entitled to nothing no matter who he is or where he hails from; he is a back number and the people will pass him by and should do so. When in the city CALL AT Mrs. Carolina Shumake For Good ROOMS PRICE; 25c-50c75c 609-611 N. 3rd Street. NOTICE TO CREDITORS All persons having claims against Lerora Farthings (nee Ross) deceased, are required to present the same with the neces sary vouchers to the undersigned Administrator. at 458 Tower Hill Boulevard, Muskogee, Oklahoma for allowance, within four months after the date of this publication or the same will be forever debarred. Dated this 10th day of April, 1913. WM. FARTHING, Administrator, PRICE & EDWARDS Attorneys. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It stops the Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. Dragons refusal money of it fails to cure. E. W. GROVES' signature on each box. $5c. Are you reading your neighbors paper? THE CHAFING DISH. Antiquity of This New Popular Cooking Utensil. The chafing dish is not a utensil of modern invention. Looking backward over history's pages, many allusions are made to its use. Among the rules of Pompeii have been found bronze chafing dishes of unique designs, and Mommsen, in his "Romische Geschichte," asserts that in those days a well wrought cooking machine came to cost more than an estate. Louis XV, took much delight in cooking and, according to Goncourt, often amused himself by making "quintessential stews in silver panes." The palate of Louis XIV was often tickled by "piping hot dishes brought in on a chafing dish." Napoleon Bonaparte, when laying down the affairs of war and enjoying home life for a short period, cooked in a silver chafing dish an omelet for the enjoyment of the empress and himself Mme. Recumber, the beautiful and intellectual society leader, used the chafing dish, while Mme. de Stael, the greatest woman in literary history, when exiled from her beloved France took with her the chafing dish. We of today are doing much to keep alive the true spirit of hospitality by bringing the chafing dish into popular use. - Woman's Home Companion. PETRIFIED BODIES. Their Organic Materials Are Replaced by Mineral Particles. In answer to the query, "Do biologists or chemists know the process of petri-fraction or the reason why a human body or a plant in some cases takes the course of petri-fraction instead of decaying?" we would say: The process is at first one of decay slowly and replacement particle by particle of the organic material by inorganic or mineral. Water holding siliceous minerals in saturated solution is necessary, the flesh or plant disorganizes, the carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen compounds disintegrate and escape, and the minute portion is replaced by the mineral particle, the shape or form of the decaying body remaining intact. Now, the carbon in the bodies does not change to siliceous minerals. It disappears in its combination with the other elements. No element changes into another; this would be mutation. Replacement is the word used here. Thus analyze a petrified man or plant—no organic matter can be found—only inorganic, and this weighs far more than did the animated body. The entire process of petrification is a mysterious work of nature.—New York American. Authors and Novel Reading The objection professed by many women novelists against reading fiction may be based on the same grounds as those raised by the little boy at the tea party who refused to eat jam "coss father makes it." Some distinguished writers in other fields have been vocacious novel readers. Concerning the author of the standard work on the British constitution Grant Duff relates: "Bagehof, like Sir Henry Maine, Sir James Stephen and Sir George Venables, had a perfect passion for novels and would read and reread them with the greatest delight. He had been reading 'Rob Roy' half an hour before his death." Tennyson, too, according to William Allingham, was "a constant novel reader. 'What I dislike,' he once said, 'is beginning a new novel. I should like to have a novel to read in a million volumes, to last me my life.'"—London Standard. ARABIA LIKES LOCUSTS Not Only the Natives but Everything Animal Eats Them. Locust are today eaten in Arabia pretty much as they were in Biblical times. Foreigners as well as natives declare that they are really an excellent article of diet. They are best boiled. The long or "hopping" legs must be pulled off and the locust held by a wing and dipped into salt before it is eaten. As to flavor, the insect is said to taste like green wheat. The red locust is more palatable than the green kind. Some say that the female is red and the male green, but others contend that all are green at first, whatever the sex. Locusts must be caught in the morning, for then they are in bunned by the cold and their wings are damp with the dew, so that they cannot fly. They may be found in Arabia clustered in hundreds under the desert bushes, and they can be literally shoveled into a bag or basket. Later the sun dries their wings and it is hard to catch them. When in flight they resemble what we call May flies. They fly sidewise, drifting, as it were, before the wind. They devour everything vegetable and are devoured by everything animal-desert larks and bustards, ravens, hawks and buzzards like them. The cannels munch them in with their food. The greyhounds run snapping after them all day long and eat as many as they catch. The Bedouins often give them to their horses. — Youth's Companion. Getting It Right. It was on a street car in the city of Washington. Two colored women in cheaply gorgeous splendor were talking and one chanced to mention a Mr. Jinks in her conversation. "Excuse me," said the other woman. "but his name is not Jinks. It is Mr. Jenks." "Oh, I sees," said the other woman complacently. "I sees that you puts access on de pronoun." is every post there would be a long enveloppe creased down the middle, showing it was a return. A writer he was — Pearson's Weekly. MAGNETIC CLEOPATRA Her Manner, Rather Than Her Beauty, Was Her Chief Charm. The only authentic portrait of Cleopatra that is known to archaeologists is a bust which appears on a series of coins. It is on the reverse and bears the inscription in Greek, "Queen Cleopatra, the Divine, the Younger," while on the obverse is a portrait of "Antony, Dictator For the Third Time, Triumvir." The workmanship of the coin is far from good, and this accounts in some measure for the undeniably plain appearance of the queen. Yet the likeness, as far as the features go, is a true one, for the other coins of the same series, though of a different type, give her the same features, an aquiline nose, a strong chin, a long neck and narrow shoulders. The fact is that her beauty was not so remarkable as one would think from the spell she cast over Caesar and Antony. Plutarch, for instance, tells us "that her beauty in itself was by no means incompatible nor calculated to amuse those who saw her," but adds that the magnetic charm of her manner, the gracefulness of her movements, the persuasiveness of her conversation and her figure were most attractive. Enjoyed What He Paid For. It is interesting to note the effect that reputation has on those who are not good critics of the efforts of public performers, as a clerk in a downtown bank was telling. "I happen to know a celebrated concert artist," he said. "One evening she was in the city and had nothing to do, so she came up to our very humble flat in Harlem to spend a quiet, homelike hour or two. The night was warm, and the windows were open. After dinner she sat down at the piano and sang several songs for us. The next day I heard that one of our neighbors complained loudly about the 'yelling' in our flat and said that such nuances ought to be prohibited. Two nights later that same neighbor paid $2 a seat for himself, his wife and his daughter to hear our friend sing at a concert."—New York Sun. Ptolemy's Big Boat. Ptolemy (Philopator) was fond of building big boats. One of these is said to have been 420 feet long, 57 feet broad and 72 feet deep from the highest point of the stern. This vessel had four rudders or what some would call steering oars, as they were not fastened, each forty-five feet long. She carried 4,000 rowers, besides 3,000 marines, a large body of servants under her decks and stores and provisions. Her oars were fifty-seven feet long, and the handles were weighted with load. There were 2,000 rowers on a side, and it is supposed that these were divided into five banks. That this extraordinary vessel ever put to sea is doubted, but that she was launched and used at times, if only for display, several historians are agreed. A Case In Arithmetic The teacher was hearing her class of small boys in mathematics. "Edgar," she said, "if your father can do a piece of work in seven days and your Uncle William can do it in nine days, how long would it take both of them to do it? "They would never get it done," answered the boy earnestly. "They would sit down and tell fish stories."—New York Post. What the Teacher Taught Him. The small boy had just returned home after a most tumultuous day at school. "What lesson," asked his father, "was the most impressed on you to day by the teacher?" "Dut I need a thicker pair of pants."—Ladies' Home Journal. Friendliness It is not wise to rush into violent friendships with every one you meet, but it is a great mistake not to be on friendly terms with those with whom you come in contact. An accusation of having done wrong should not disturb you—unless it's true—Seth Brown Wanted No Jealousy. Little Lola had received a doll and a kitten among her birthday presents. "Which do you like best, your kitten or your doll?" asked her mother. Lola went over and whispered in her mother's ear, "I like doll best, but please don't tell kitty."—Chicago News Papa's Fault. Father—I have just heard that that incorrigible son of mine has just married a well known actress. Daughter—Well, you have yourself to blame, father. Father—How do you make that out? Daughter—Haven't you often told him to hitch his wagon to a star? All Over "Well, dear, I guess the honeymoon is over." "Why do you say that?" pouted the bride. "I have been taking stock, and I find that I am down to $2.65."—Washington Herald. Wasted Advice. Father—My son, remember this—no man ever accomplished much who talked at his work. Son—How about a lecturer, dad?—Boston Transcript. The dread of ridicule extinguishes originality in its birth—Blackwood. THE ZERO MARK. Origin of the Mathematical Symbol That Stands For Nothing. It is the peculiar triumph of the mathematicians who constructed the Hindu Arabic numerals that they were led to invent a symbol for "nothing." The invention arose out of the difficulty which was encountered when calculations were transferred from the ancient abacus board and became a written operation. On the abacus board, which may perhaps be seen still in infants' schools, the rows of beads or counters represented the numerals 1 to 9, but each counter or bead in the row above represented ten times as great a value as in the row below. Thus 591 could be transferred from abacus board to paper without difficulty, but 5 (0) 1 taken from the abacus, might be 51, since the vacant place was no longer indicated. Accordingly mathematicians were led to invent a character for the vacant place. The invention of this symbol for "nothing" with the crowning, transcendent achievement in the perfection of the decimal system and lay at the base of all subsequent arithmetical progress. Among the Hindus the symbol was at first a dot, but it was soon superseded by a circle, O. Its symbol, says Professor E. R. Turner in a magazine article on the numerals, has varied greatly, and its name has a pedigree of its own. The Hindus called it sunya-void. In Arabic this became sifr. In 1202 Leonardo Fibonacci translated it zephirum. In 1330 Maximus Plautus called it tzipbra. During the fourteenth century Italian writers shortened it to zenero and cenro, which became zero, now in general use. Meanwhile it has passed more nearly in Arabic form into French as chiffre and into English as cipher, taking on new significations. WILLING TO GIVE CREDIT. Jefferson's Admirer Was Mixed, but He Rose to the Occasion. Jefferson was the most delightful story teller I have ever met, writes Mary Shaw in the Century, describing "The Human Side of Joseph Jefferson." His varied life and experiences were wonderfully interesting. Once we were in Terre Haute, Ind., and the theater was near a hotel. We got out of the cab and were strolling through the hotel corridor when a very pompous man came up to Mr. Jefferson, as persons frequently did, and, extending his hand, said: "Mr. Jefferson, you do not know me, but I know you very well, and, sir, I am very glad to see you in our city. You are a great actor. I have seen you ever since I was a little boy"—he looked fully as old as Mr. Jefferson—and I have always looked forward to your visit to this place." He went on praising Mr. Jefferson, who presently said: "I thank you very much. You are very kind." Upon which the old gentleman went on: There was a moment of silence, and then Mr. Jefferson said: "I think you are mistaken. I play Rip Van Winkle. You must mean Mr. Thompson. He plays Josh Whitcomb." The offensive gentleman pused long enough to collect his wits and then said cheerfully: "Oh, yes! So you are the old fellow who played Rip Van Winkle? Well, you're good too." The Famous Portland Vase The material of the famous Portland vase is glass, with camoe engraving. The vase is composed of two layers of glass, white over dark blue. The white was ground away by hand so as to leave the design in white upon the blue background. It is one of the tragedies of the British museum that this priceless treasure was smashed to pieces by an insane visitor. It has, however, been repaired with great skill and is now guarded with extra care. This beautiful specimen of Greek art is ten inches in height, with a diameter at its broadest part of seven inches. Its present name comes from the fact that it was once owned by the Duke of Portland, who loaned it to the British museum in 1810.—Exchange. Custard. Concerning custard, or "custad," as it was formerly called, it was a common joke at civic feasts in England in the olden time to place an enormous custard in the middle of the table, into which at some stage of the proceedings the clown unexpectedly jumped. Ben Jonson uses the term "custard leap jack" of one who "in tail of a sheriff's dinner" took "his almain leap into a custard" to "make my lady mayoress and her sisters laugh all their hoods over their shoulders." Cynical Foresight. "That boy of yours may be president of the United States some day." "Maybe," assented Farmer Corntosel. "But the chances are that he'll be one of the fellows who think they are lucky if they get appointed to be post-masters"—Washington Star. All Beneath Her. Clare—Do you think you could bring yourself to marry a man your intellectual inferior? Lydia—I suppose I shall have to—London Opnion. A fool at forty will never be wise Irish Proverb. CORK TREE BARK. If Carefully Removed a New Supply Grows in a Few Years. As most people know, cork is the outer bark of an oak. This tree, known to the botanists as Quercus suber, is an evergreen, native to the Mediterranean region, and is cultivated in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Morocco, Tunis and Aigiers. If carefully done removing the bark does not injure the tree, and a new supply may be obtained from the same specimen after a few years. We are so familiar with the use of cork for the stoppers of bottles that we seldom realize its manifold other uses, though its connection with bottles dates back only about 500 years. We so commonly speak of the stopper of a bottle as a cork that we see no incongruity in the expression "a rubber cork." Just as our word for stopper has been derived from the word cork, so cork itself has probably been derived from the Spanish corcho, which in turn is derived from the Latin cortex, meaning rind. Some authors, however, would derive cork from quercus, the generic name of all oaks. Cork is present in the bark of all trees, though in quantities too small to make it useful in the many ways in which cork from the cork oak is employed. The cork barked elm, the sweet gum and a few others have strongly developed cork. BURIED ALIVE FORTY DAYS. Queer Test a Hindu Fakir Is Said to Have Survived. Dr. Konigberger, a physician in the Punjab, doubling the frequently repulated stories of the Hindu fakirs who claimed to be able to sustain life for a considerable time after buried in the earth by the process known as "swallowing the tongue," determined to make the most rigid tests and exclude all possible fraud. One of these Brahman fakirs allowed himself to be buried by the doctor and his suspicious colleagues in a well fastened and sealed vault. The burial lasted such a long time—for forty days—that some corn planted upon the soil above the vault sprouted before the unhappy fellow was released. Then the Hindu was freed, subjected by the doctor to restoratives and lived happily ever afterward. Sir Henry Lawrence, an English scientist who assisted the German savant, substantiated the account. The chest in which the fakir was buried was firmly sealed, and when the fellow was brought out he was cold and apparently lifeless. Renderers of Stevenson will recall the Master of Ballantrue's fatal attempt to escape from his murderers by this trick—London Family Herald. Burglars and the Law. Remarking that many members of the public feel some doubt as to the precise extent to which the law will uphold them in using violence to defeat or capture a burglar, the Law Journal of London says: "A peaceful trespasser must be requested to depart in peace, and only on his refusal can force be used to remove him, but a violent or an armed trespasser can be removed without such a request. As a general rule, however, it is not lawful to kill even a person assaulting one or stealing one's goods. Unless one's life is in danger such an act is at best manslaughter. Possibly in the defense of one's home the use of firearms is justifiable, even if no violence to the person is threatened, but this is very doubtful." A Pertinent Query. The old gentleman looked Perley in the eye. "Can you support my daughter in the style to which she is accustomed?" he demanded. "No, colonel, I cap't," replied Perley, "but let me ask you, sir, could you have done so at my age?"—Harper's Weekly. The Lure. "You're wanted at home, father." "Who says so?" "Mother." "Did she say anything else?" "She said if you didn't come at once she'd come and fetch you." "Come on, boy, let's go home."—Filegende Blatter. A Lost Chance. Years ago a man named Saltzmann owned an estate in Grigualand, South Africa, and adjoining his property was an old, rundown farm that had not been worked on account of its poor soil and lack of necessary water. The owner of the farm met Herr Saltzmann one day and offered to trade the farm for an old waistcoat he had seen him wearing. As Saltzmann did not wish to burden himself with a piece of worth less land, he kindly refused the offer. A few years later big, clear diamonds were found on this waste stretch, and now thousands of pounds could not purchase it.—London Mail. 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 political expressions. He used to live out west, you know, and nothing ever pleased him so much as to shoot a timber wolf before breakfasts Of course, he didn't mean anything by it —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Cures Old Sores, Other Comedies Won't Cure The word cases, no matter of how long standing, are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. Bernard B. Cohen. From 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. From and Makes at the same time. $60,000-$100,000. We do the very best high grade work because we have the facilities to work with. Old Shoes Made New. Sewed Half Soles 75 cents. Try Us and be Convinced NEW STATE SHOE SHOP TOM CARUTHERS 111 Court St. "THE SHOE DOCTOR" Phone 3611 Muskogee, Okla. 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