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The Muskogee Cimeter. Battered Negro Trooper Describes How it Feels To Encounter A Massacre First Photograph From Battle Of Carrizall The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text or details. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a group of people, possibly in a historical or cultural setting. The faces are not clearly visible, and there are no discernible features that can be identified. VOL, NO. 7 Battered Negro "JOKING AT CARRIZAL." "For forty-five minutes the men fought, joking among themselves all the while, even when they realized we had been trapped and had little chance of getting out alive." So Capt. Morey describes the conduct of his troopers at Carrizal, in the most serious predicament that any body of American soldiers has been in since the Spanish war. In tragic extremity, those men in khaki were true to the American tradition. It was not that they fought bravely—any race can do that, even Mexican. But they fought with smiles on their lips and burst into song while the lead sprayed around them from Mexican machine guns and enormously superior enemy forces charged their thin, unprotected line. That was characteristic. The American refuses to take danger seriously. He may be glum enough over trifles, but when real tragedy comes he sheds it as a duck sheds water, and he faces death with a grin. These men were Negroes, too. In fact, nearly all the American troops that have been mixed up in serious fighting in Mexico so far have been Negroes. And from the reports of their behavior, nobody would ever think of raising the color question. They acted just as we should have expected white Americans to act.—Tulsa Democrat. We are proud of our boys. They have made good, as they always do. PRIVATE AND CHRONIC DISSEASES of every nature successfully treated by Dr. R. H. Waterford, fourteen years a successful practicing physician in the city of Muskogee. If you are afflicted in any way, consult him by calling at his office or by mail. Office $200 \frac{1}{2}$ S. Second St., Love Building. Office phone 461; home phone 462. Muskogee, Oklahoma. THE GALLANT TENTH CAVALRY —HATS OFF! (This editorial closes Isaac Fisher's work on Tuskegee Farmer.) Somewhere in the wilds of Mexico, without Christian burial but with bodies cold and stark upon the ground—bodies pierced by bullets of steel—under the withering heat by day and watched by thesilent moon and stars by night, unpitied out MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY JULY 22 there, save by a merciful God—somewhere in strife-torn Mexico, there rest in death the flower of the gallant Tenth Cavalry—Negro soldiers, who were the uniform of the United States of America. The Story of a Battle. We have not all the facts (June 26); but on June 21, 1916, General Frederick Funston reported that "There was a clash this morning at Carrizal, near Villa Ahumada, between Carranza and American troops in which General Gomez and others were killed, the number unknown. The number of American killed or wounded unknown." The report further stated that the Americans were deceived into a trap by a flag of trace; and that it was believed that the American troops were the Tenth Cavalry. On June 22, it became definitely known that troops C and K of the Tenth Cavalry, colored, were the American soldiers in the engagement and that they "held the field for five hours before retreating, although they were outnumbered 5 to 1." On June 23, seven survivors of those engaged in the battle at Carrizal straggled into the American headquarters and General Pershing reported to our Government "that the American cavalry command engaged at Carrizal was the object of a treacherous attack by Carranza soldiers and virtually was wiped out." The manner and cause of this "wiping out" is pertinent: Reaching a point within one mile of Carrizal on the morning of June 21, Captain Boyd, senior officer in command of troops C and K, sent a note to General Gomez, Mexican commander, asking permission to pass through the town. General Gomez requested a conference with Captain Boyd before granting the request; and a flag of truce was raised while the two sides conferred. Mark, now; although the truce should have prevented this, just as the conference concluded, a terrible Mexican machine gun began pouring a hail of bullets into the ranks of the Tenth Cavalry. Let the Associated Press finish the story: "Captain Boyd had ordered his men to dismount as the machine gun opened fire, and the combined effort of the Mexican charge, the machine gun fire and the rifle fire from the Mexican garrison at Carrizal, which had almost surrounded the little American force under cover of the parley sought by. General Gomez, stumped the horses. "With their mounts gone, caught without means of escape, ringed about on three sides with the fire of an overwhelming force the fate of the little detachment is believed by officers here to have been sealed. "It is thought that only the most stupendous luck backed by desperate valor could have extricated Captain Boyd's men from the trap." Since these reports, we have had very little real news as to how many of our boys were massacred; but we know that the flower of the command have been sent to their death or disabled. How Did They Die? How Fight? How did these soldiers die? They died as they had lived since they put on the uniform—like brave men. They have been praised again and again for their bravery, soldierly qualities and great value to the service of the United States. But let's read the record: "General Pershing (leading the expedition into Mexico) reported that the troops under Captain Boyd and Captain Morey showed the greatest courage and exhibited the most sterling fighting qualities." Said another message from the American field headquarters: "Trapped and fighting against heavy odds, the troops of the Tenth Cavalry, engaged at Carrizal on Wednesday, charged twice directly into the jaws of the ambush which the Mexicans had laid for them." But there is still another tribute, which we must preserve for all times. Speaking of the bloody battle of the Alamo and the brave Americans who, trapped like rats, gave their lives there for their country, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution declares that the stand those white Americans mads at that bloody place "will ever be recorded as one of the most notable heroic incidents of world history." Now mark the following tribute from that writer: "And so it seems that Carrizal is to become another Alamo! With the same trap, the same heroic defense, the same display of American heroism and, no doubt—the same outcome!" This is my last editorial on The Negro Farmer and Messenger and, under a high sense of oblization to those who shall live after me, of my own race, I am devoting these lines to the duty of recording the race's sense of appreciation of the deeds of these colored soldiers whose death and bravery have conferred distinction and honor upon their race. The bodies of our soldier dead are festering where they fell in an alien land; but I serve notice upon the world that those dead are not unwent. The news of their massacre laid hold upon the hearts of the colored people of this country. I spoke of their passing to a colored man, and the lines about his mouth tightened and he turned away from me that I might not see the tears that stole down his face. I spoke to a colored matron of my pride in the fact that since they had to die, they died like men; and this gentle woman could hind no words, amidst her tears, except these: "And the pity of it all is that they died in the service of a country which does not care and whose injustice to their race must ever be the reproach of the United States!" I asked the Dean of Women here to call three girls into the parlor of the building that I might get them to pose for the picture on the front cover of this paper; and when I talked to them and told them that it was our duty to remember the patriotism of these soldier dead, all the smiles left their faces and in their hearts they were shedding tears for their heroes dead out in storm-tossed Mexico. We colored people weep for the gallant dead of the Tenth Cavalry for we loved them and the record they have made. What Honors? Somewhere in this broad land there ought to be a monument erected to the memory of these men. Their death has reflected glory upon us. We must not and we will not forget them. The story of how they died and the country for which they died should be told in every colored school-house, in every church, in every secret order, in every colored newspaper. They have honored us. We must honor them. We Shall Sing Their Glory. Around the beautiful city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, are monuments that have been erected by the different States whose troops fought and died there in the memorable siege of Vicksburg. There are none there for the Negro patriots who fell; and there are few anywhere. Certainly, few, if any States will erect monuments to the patriots of my race—it is the humor of the world not to do so—so much the worse for the world. But we colored men and women must sing the praises of these of our race who give "the last full measure of devotion" to their country. We can sing; we must sing until our children learn that we are not ungrateful. Once More—How Did They Die? I believe that the Negro must answer his country's call; but I do not forget the evergrowing number of colored people who are beginning to waver in their loyalty to this Government—the number who keep asking—Why? to what end? what's the use? I am sorry that my country—yes, this is my country, I have no other—I am sorry that my country regards so lightly the fidelity and patriotism of the black man; and there is too much bitterness and resentment growing in the hearts of Negroes against American injustices for me to say that the country may always count upon the loyalty of the Negro. I am glad that the Tenth Cavalry has cheerfully carried the brunt of the work being done in Mexico; I am glad that when serious work was to be done, the Tenth was usually sent to do it; I am glad that they proved themselves patriots, not grumbling malcontents, but patriots and true soldiers; and I am glad that when they looked death in the fact the last time at Carrizal, they were still thinking of their country, my country, our country, and if any thought of American caste, American proscription, American bitterness toward them fitted across their minds, it was lost in the higher, finer, nobler, more patriotic thought that they were serving their country. It is hinted that somebody blundered— "Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die." They were soldiers. They fought like soldiers, they obeyed like soldiers, they died like soldiers. The Last Word. A grateful race will embalm their deeds and will present the gallant Tenth Cavalry to history that their deeds may be written upon her roll of fame. God rest in peace those who fell at Carrizal in defense of country and for their race's honor. ISAAC FISHER. LONG HAIR It is a preparation that feeds the scalp and roots of the hair and makes the hair grow so long soft and silky that you can fix it up any way you want to. Thousands of women have beautified their hair with FIXOto and you can do the same. Price 25c by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Write for particulars. EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. The Best Hot Weather Tonic GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC enriches the body, builds up the whole system and will woo perfully strengthen and fortify you to withstand the depressant effect of the hot summer. 50c. Tightwad—Did you ever notice, me sear, that nearly all these misers reported in the papers are single men? Mrs. Tightwad—Yes; but that's only natural. Married misers are too soon to be shown. Pictures of Booker Washington Sell like hot cakes; our spitalic scheme of giving big book with pitture sells ever body; we have the big book, both sell for $1.25; we pay express; all these should write us; anybody can sell; two outfits, fifteen cents. AUSTIN JENKINS CO., 7th St. Washing on, J. C. MEMBER NATIONAL NECO PRESS ASSOCIATION The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Mrs. Booker T. Washington president, holds its next biennial in Baltimore, Maryland, beginning Sunday, August 6th, with a mass meeting in Bethel A. M. E. Church and regular program August 7 to 10 inclusive. It is hoped this will be the most largely attended meeting in the history of the organization. The Cimeter is for Teddy Roosevelt for President because he is a sure winner. The Cimeter is the only Republican paper in the City of Muskogee. The daily Phoenix is sometimes Republican and sometimes independent but an independent, such a changing is not worth three whoops in h... to any political party and yet Bixby, its editor, got rich at the Republican pie counter. What base ingratitude. SEGREGATION IN TEXAS CITIES ILLEGAL The fight on laws which discriminate against the colored people continues in various sections of the country. The latter part of March the Texas state supreme court in the case of Frank A. Spence versus W. H Fenchler, on appeal from El Paso county, held that the cities of Texas have no authority to establish districts IMPROVED PASSENGER SERVICE ON M. O. & G. Effective Sunday, May 21st, the M. O. & G. Ry. established sleeping car service between Joplin, Miami, Wagoner, Muskogee, Henryyetta and Oklahoma City, on trains 3 and 4. Train No. 3 leaves Joplin at 4:15 P. M.; Muskogee at 9:30 P. M., arriving at Oklahoma City at 6:55 A. M., the entire train runs through to Oklahoma City, and the Ft. S. & W. R. K. Northland train leaves Oklahoma City at 11. Reaching Muskogee at 7:30 A. M., and arriving at 1:00 P. M. Parlor cars have been placed in service between Muskogee and Oklahoma City on trains 5 and 8, leaving Muskogee 9:30 A. M. arriving at Oklahoma City at 5:35 P. M. and leaving Oklahoma City at 9:30 A. M. arriving at Muskogee at 4:50 P. M. Luncheon is served enroute, and the convenient daylight service gives passengers a view of the bustling Henryetta-Dewar-Kusa smelting district—the plants being in full view from the car windows. Handsome brick deposits have just been completed and occupied by the M. O. & G. Ry. at Deware and Kusa. Rock ballast is being installed as fast as possible, and the road-bed is being put in good condition. The Lane Undertaking Company at 321 North Second Street are asking the public for patronage when in need of anything in their line. Mr. Delancy, son of P. M. Delancy, Grand Master of the U. B. F. is a part of the Company. This company is entitled to the patronage of our people. Go and see them. They are worthy of your trade. A suit was brought in the District Court at Oklahoma City to test the validity of the Registration law passed by our last legislature for the purpose of disfranchising the Negro as we see it. The suit seems to us like bringing suit against the devil and trying the case in hell. For The Old GROVE Malaria and sure ss and Loss of Appetite general strengthening tonic leech litch TONIC, driver on the system. Born ups and children. $9 EXELENTO QUININE POMADE Made Her Hair Grow. Margie Herren wrote that she was un- able to comb her short, nappy. KINKY HAIR But a few boxes of Exelento Quinine Pomade make her hair 19 inches long, and so soft and silky that she can fix it meet any way she wants to. Don't be afraid of your life by using some fake preparation with strains stained kinky hair. Kinky hair can be made straight; you are just fooling yourself self by using it. 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Three Weeks Free The Compunion is $2.00 a year, but to those who do not know the paper we shall be glad to send three current issues free of charge, so that they may test its quality, read its wholesome, diverting fiction, its contributions by famous men and women, its various departments, etc. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION 114 Berkeley Street, Boston, Mass. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED AT THIS OFFICE EARD AT THE TELEPHONE Certain Class of Acquaintances When Make Gray-Handed Men Fool "There are certain acquaintances in whose presence I feel very self-conscious, said the gray-haired man. "They are people who talked with me over the telephone when some informal racket that cannot be explained to outsiders was going on at my elbow. A lawyer called me up the other day when my wife's cousins from Mount Vernon, who always come to our house to adjust their matrimonial differences, were engaged in one of their periodical battles. The woman had the floor just then, and all the time the transmitter was open she continued to launch abuse at her bus band. The next day I received a confidential communication from the lawyer setting forth his terms for getting a divorce. "Then sometimes as a matter of accommodation, we take care of our neighbor's two dogs. The ringing of the telephone bell is the signal for them to raip and howl. I am convinced that many people think we run a dog's boarding house. A man asked me the other day if the price of dog biscuits had gone up along with the rest of life's necessaries. "Once when I lied for the women folks and smoothed there wasn't a soul about it but me some days on the piano just missile life. 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Habit is our primal fundamental law, habit and initiation, there is nothing more perennial as us than these two. They are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning in the world. —Carlyle. NOVEL GOOD SAMARITAN Carries on a Great Work Among Criminal Classes Under Cover of Silence. Somewhere in this broad country of ours there is a man quietly and silently working among the fallen and degraded ones of earth and accomplishing wonderful results. He is a man of stern initiative with great courage of conviction and the methods he uses in doing his work are simple and essentially logical. For years he has been moving among criminals of all descriptions raising them to a respectable position and starting them again along the path of virtue. His method, a little peculiar, is very simple. He meets the criminal on his own level extracts a confession from him, gets his confidence and treats him as an equal. For drug flends, drunkards, and that class of criminals he obtains medical treatment, establishes them in good physical health, gets them a job and places them on a footing level with the active, self respecting world. They respect this treatment and treat him square in return, and soldom ever do they go back to their former life of crime. This kind of work our novel Good Samaritan considers recreation and adventure, and the good works he has done along these lines can never be estimates. Seldo does he fall in converting a case and the most unique side of his methods is that he entertains the poor fallen ones at his home with all the honor and respect due to men and women of honor and good reputation. The drunk man, drug flend, safa cracker, Magician and professional crook are all represented among his converts. The strangest thing about this case is that he refuses to let his uncleabouts or identity be known to the general public. He prefers to work silently and unknown to fame. Constipation "For many years I was troubled, in spite of all so called remedies I used. At last I found quick relief and euro in those mild, yet thorough and really wonderful." FRISCO LINES Change of time on the Frisco Lines Effective Sunday, April 30th The Governor will leave Muskogee 11:45 p.m., arrive Oklahoma City 7:15 a.m., twenty-five minutes earlier. The whole train, sleeping car, chair car and coaches will run through. Sleeper ready for occupancy at 9:30 p.m. A re-arrangement of schedules affords Afternoon Service to Oklahoma City Leave Muskogee 1:50 p. m. Arrive Sapulpa 5:15 p. m. Leave Sapulpa 6:50 p. m. Arrive Oklahoma City 10:20 p. m. A parlor car is operated on this train Sapulpa to Oklahoma City For complete schedules and additional information, see Frisco Agent C. O. Jackson, Division Passenger Agent, Oklahoma City, Okla. R. H. Phinney, General Agent, Muskogee, Okla. Summer T Mountainland Round trip Summer Tour imit and stopover priviled y low fares. oll the Frisco Agent where yo i pandmakeyour sleeping car Midland "ARKINSA NEW EFFECTIVE SUP 2-TRAIN Between Muskgee & Tulsa, O EAST No. 4 (Motor Train) For Ft. No. 2 For Ft. Smith and p. No. 6 From Pawhuska and T No. 2 from Wichita, Ark. C WEST No. 1 For Tulsa, Ark. City. No. 5 For Tulsa and Pawhu No. 7 From Ft. Smith and No. 3 (Motor Train) From F FOR FURTHER mer Tourist to the Stainand Lake R. Summer Tourist tickets, with opover privileges are now on sale. Agent where you want to go and let your sleeping car reservations. Island Valley R. "ARKINSAS RIVER ROUTE" NEW TIME CARD FESTIVE SUNDAY, MARCH 5th. TRAINS DAILY gee & Tulsa, Okla. Between Muskog EASTBOUND Train) For Ft. Smith and points bey Smith and points beyond..... Pawhuska and Tulsa..... Wichita, Ark. City and Tulsa..... WESTBOUND Tulsa, Ark. City and Wichita..... Tulsa and Pawhuska..... Ft. Smith and points beyond..... Train) From Ft. Smith & points bey FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Summer Tourist Fares Round trip Summer Tourist tickets, with liberal return imit and stopover privileges are now on sale at etremen y low fares. ell the Frisco Agent where you want to go and let him figure out i and make your sleeping car reservations. Between Musk gee & Tulsa, Okla. Between Muskog e & Ft. Smith EASTBOUND No. 4 (Motor Train) For Ft. Smith and points beyond 7.45 a. m. No. 2 For Ft. Smith and points beyond..... 6.30 p. m. No. 6 From Pawhuska and Tulsa..... 10.40 a. m. No. 2 from Wichita, Ark. City and Tulsa..... 6.15 p. m. WESTBOUND No. 1 For Tulsa, Ark. City and Wichi a..... 8.00 a. m. No. 5 For Tulsa and Pawhuska..... 5.10 p. m. No. 7 From Ft. Smith and points beyond..... 11.45 p. m. No. 3 (Motor Train) From Ft. Smith & points beyond 7.30 p. m. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Phone 1308 or 495 --- What About Our Girls? This is the great question that confronts many fathers, mothers, brothers, and our girls themselves. We don't want them to spend their future as domestic servants—cooks, washerwomen, nurses, chambermaids, etc. But few places are open to them as school teachers, trained nurses, stenographers, clerks, etc. Yet under the present high cost of living system, the majority of them must work. There are a few easy, but honest paths to progress. Our plan offers one of the best of them. It does not call for schools but we offer in book form a course of instruction and valuable suggestions which, if carefully read by any young woman of average intelligence, will fit her for making her own way as a business woman instead of a poorly paid servant. WRITE TODAY, enclosing 50c for our book and get busy early. Vapor City Culture Co. BOX 23. Office 434 Church St. Hot Springs, Ark Fares Bake Resorts with liberal return on sale at etremen and let him figure out v R. R. CH 5th, 1916 FILY 2 Muskog e & Ft. Smith points beyond 7.45 a. m. 6.30 p. m. 10.40 a. m. 6.15 p. m. 8.00 a. m. 5.10 p. m. 11.45 p. m. points beyond 7.50 p. m. ATION Muskogee, Okla R. H. Phinney, General Agent, Muskegon, Okla. WASH FOUY TIMES A YEAR Old Dutch Custom of Quarterly Clothes Washing Required Immenes Quantities of Linens Every one has board of the Germans and Dutch method of accumulating sotled clothes and of having a wastage only two or three times a year. Not every one realizes, perhaps, that the custom was brought over to this country from Holland and that the Dutch settlers later continued its practice. In these days of ever-ready laundry, it is strange to read of the laborious period which came to our New Am- terdam ancestors four times a year. Helen Evertson Smith tells about it is "Colonial Days and Waya." The custom of quarterly clothes-washing was maintained notwithstanding our summer heats and the immense quantities of clothes necessary to keep up the state of cleanliness required by Dutch institutes. A New englander who had married a citizen of New York writes, in 1760, of this practice which was undoubtedly strange to her. "Grandmother Blum is so deep in her quarterly wash this Weeke, that she has time only to send her love." The washing was done in an outhouse called the bleckorzen, where the water was boiled in imminence kettles, and all the other processes of the laundry work carried on. The work required was not less that a week, frequently two weeks. During the time preceding this cruelly hard labor, the soiled clothes were accumulated in very large hampers of open basketwork. This custom, originated the necessity for the great stores of linen with which every bride was provided.—Youth's Companion. ORIGIN OF THE GUN SALUT inspired by Desire of One Nation to Show Friendliness for Ships of Another. The origin of the salute with guns is supposed to have been inspired by the desire of one nation to make a show of friendliness for the ships of another. In the old days or smooth bore and muzzle loading cannon it required several minutes to load and fire the gun, and this lapse of time was meant to indicate a friendlily trust is the mission of the warship of another power. In the beginning of the salute in the United States the one for the Union gave one gun for each state. Finally the national salute was fixed at twenty-one guns. The president as well as the presidents of foreign republics and sovereigns of foreign states are saluted with twenty-one guns. The salute for ambassadors of this or other nations is nineteen guns. The vice president of the United States also is entitled to a nineteen gun salute. Admirals and cabinet members are entitled to seventeen gun ministers, plenipotentiary and vice admirals fifteen, and the commanding officer of a ship of war seven. A few centuries ago England, claiming supreme empire of the seas, required the warships of other nations to lower sail on meeting an English man of war. This custom long ago disappeared, although small sailboats of English warships still let go their sheets when they HOW TUTS PEGARD DOCTOR Reason for Sudden Affection Was Not at All Complimentary to Physician. A Chicago physician gracefully tells a child story at his own expense. The five children of some faithful patients had measles, and during their rather long stay in the improvised home hospital they never failed to greet his daily visit with pleased acclamations. The good doctor felt duly flattered, but readily pressed the children, in the days of convalescence, for the reason of this sudden affection. At last the youngest and most indispasset let slip the bitter truth. "We felt so sick that we wanted awfully to do something naughty, but we were afraid to be bad for fear you and the nurse would give us more horrid medicine. So we were awfully glad to see you, always, cause you made us stick out our tongues. We stuck 'em out awful far!" Another laughable "doctor" story deals with little Edna, who played another with such realistic enthusiasm that her immediate maternal aunce tor one day found the child weeping violently over a supposedly defunct soll. "My dear Annie has died and gone up to heaven," the child mourned, between sobs. "What was the matter with her? Inquired the sympathetic but some what perplexed listener. "She had the doctor drastically some the surprising regly. --- Booker T. Washington's Booker T. Washington's It is well illustrated, showing him leaving home, a rugged boy, for Hampton Institute. A history from the cradle to the grave. This is the best book on Dr. Washington. The publishers, Austin Jennings Co., 9th Street, Washington, D.C. pay express and give the best life-size photograph to each subscriber. Anyone wishing an agency can get prospectus and photo for 15 cents. ERCHANT HAS PROIE Doesn't Like the Way Big City stores Are Fun and Tallie Why. The summer visitor in a small port town was amazed and amused at the assortment of merchandise displayed in the little store at the heart of the wharf. The showcase was devoted to an assortment of candy at one end and a lot of cigars and tobacco at the other end, and no barrier between. Next to the showcase stood a motor engine valued at several hundred dollars. Thinking to please the proprietor says the YouNs Companion, the visitor remarked that even the large department stores in Boston could no boast of such a collection. "Walt," he said, "I ain't aping their stores. I can tell you. I aim to keep what my folks want. When a man wants an engine for his boat he want it, and if the fish are running he can't wait to send way to Portland or Boston for it. He wants it when he does, then and there." After a little pause he continued: "I don't like the way they do business in them big stores, anway. Why, when you go into a store up to Boston the first thing you know somebody ask you what you want. "Now, I never do anything like that. If a man comes into my place I pass the time o' day and ask him to set and after he's set and talked a while if he wants anything he'll tell me. I never pester a man to buy. Maybe he can't come to buy; maybe he won't come to talk." New Discoveries Carry Back Existence of Written Documents Centuries Beyond Phoenician Record. The revelations made at the remains of a great prehistoric pince at Knossos, in Crete, which is believed to be the original of the fabled "Labyrinth," would seem to carry back the existence of written documents on Greek sof some eight centuries be fond the earliest known monuments of Greek writing and five centuries beyond the earliest dated Phoenician record as seen on the Moabite stone. These discoveries, therefore, place the whole question of the origin of writing on a new basis. It is thought that the Custan hieroglyphs exactly correspond with what, in virtue of their names, we must suppose to have been the pictorial originals of the Phoenician letters on which the alphabet is based. Among these are Aleph, the one head; Beth, the house; Daleth, the door, and so forth. This contravenes the old theory of De Rouge that the Phoenician letters were derived from early Egyptian forms signifying quite different objects. 9N WRONG HONEYMOON ROUTE Boot Marks Teiltle Evidence of What Occurred While Going Through Tunnel. All of the passengers were amused at the dovelike tenderness of the honeymoon couple from the rural distracts, and when the train emerged from the tunnel the flashily dressed commercial saleman thought he would have some fun at their expense "See here, neighbor," he said in a loud whisper as he touched the nervous bridegroom on the arm, "don't you know there are rules against kissing on this road?" "Rules against kissing?" faltered the frightened countryman. "Certainly! You were kissing while coming through the tunnel!" "H-how in the world did you find that out mister?" "Why, by the soot marks. There was one on your nose before we entered the tunnel, and now there is one of the same size on the bride's." the pretty bride her foot impatiently her awkward apose "Thar, now, Silas, what did I to you? Told you not to come on the soft coal route. If we had come on any other route, they wouldn't be judged us!"—Judge. No. Six-Sixty-Six This is a prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. Five or six doses will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c DOES IT PAY TO BE SICK? DOES IT PAY TO BE SICK? Let's forget about all the disagreeable and painful part of sickness, and ask ourselves if it PAVS to be sick. Perhaps you are only HALF sick—maybe you are dragging yourself around, with a "dead tired" feeling. Perhaps you wake up in the morning with a heavily-coated tongue, a bad taste in your mouth, and hardly any appetite. Quite likely you are billious. Maybe you have dull aches and pains, CONSTIPATION, headaches. You go about your daily duties. You tell yourself you will feel better to-morrow—but when to-morrow comes you feel just about the same. You try this and that remedy, without getting real relief. Or if you get some relief, it doesn't LAST! You soon feel just as bad as you did before. DOES IT PAY to let yourself stay in this half-sleeve condition? Think of all the ENJOYMENT of life you are missing! You can't enjoy your food, or the society of your family and friends. You can't enjoy anything as you should, because your senses are dulled and your brain oppressed by the effects of a SLUGGISH LIVER. Say, friend, does it PAY you to lug around that sluggish liver when you can promptly make it ACTIVE and so get rid of all those depressing, disagreeable symptoms—by letting take hold and give your Liver the help it needs? Don't delay. Don't procrastinate. Don't say "I'll do it to-morrow." Get a bottle of this time-tried and PROVEN remedy right now. The four bits you pay for it will be one of the BEST INVESTMENTS YOU EVER MADE. THAGHER MEDICINE COMPANY, Chattanooga, Tennessee. HIGH EFFICIENCY IN CHURCH WORK UNIQUE FINANCIAL SYSTEM. Ably Conducted Religious Corporation Founded 106 Years Ago Celebrates Anniversary With Series of Public Exercises and Raises $2,040—Results of Intelligent Leadership. By N. BARNETT DODSON. New York.—The Abyssinian Baptist church in this city, of which the Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Powell is the capable and highly esteemed pastor, recently closed a ten days' celebration of its one hundred and sixth anniversary. Some of the most able clergymen and laymen of the race took part in the anniversary exercises. Inspiring and scholarly sermons were delivered by Revs. H. H. Warring, W. J. Lucas, W. M. Moss, W. H. Brooks, W. P. Hayes, W. H. Harrod and S. W. Timms. Mr. Watt Terry, the young real estate operator of Brockton, Mass., who is reported to be worth nearly a million dollars, and Hon. Fred R. Moore urged the race to save money and go into business. One of the features of the celebration was a recital of sacred music by an orchestra of fifty members from the Martin-Smith music school. Never before was a sacred concert held on so large a scale seen in a church among our people in this city. The pastor and officers asked for $2,000 during the celebration. Up to the fourth Sunday in November $2,040 had been reported, and some auxiliaries were to be heard from. This church has a unique and admirable method of conducting its activities. The prayer meetings, revival services and financial rallies are conducted by the eleven auxiliaries. It is the business of two of these auxiliaries to help [Image of a man with a mustache and wavy hair, wearing a suit and a bow tie.] REV. DR. A. CLAYTON POWELL "The Tribune of his People." 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( ```markdown ``` WASH FOUR TIMES A YEAR Old Dutch Custom of Quarterly Clothes Washing Required Immense Quantities of Linen. Every one has heard of the Germans and Dutch method of accumulating soiled clothes and of having a washday only two or three times a year. Not every one realizes, perhaps, that the custom was brought over to this country from Holland and that the Dutch settlers long continued its practise. In these days of ever-ready laundry, it is strange to read of the laborious period which came to our New Amsterdam ancestors four times a year. Helen Evertson Smith tells about it is "Colonial Days and Ways." The custom of quarterly clothes washing was maintained notwithstanding our summer heats and the immense quantities of clothes necessary to keep up the state of cleanliness required by Dutch instincts. A New englander who had married a citizen of New York writes, in 1760, of this practice which was undoubtedly strange to her. "Grandmother Blum is so deep in her quarterly wash this Weeke, that she has time only to send her love." The washing was done in an outhouse called the bleeckeryen, where the water was boiled in immense kettles, and all the other processes of the laundry work carried on. The work required was not less that a week, frequently two weeks. During the time preceding this cruelly hard labor, the soiled clothes were accumulated in very large hampers of open basketwork. This custom originated the necessity for the great stores of linen with which every bride was provided. Youth's Cozz panion. ORIGIN OF THE GUN SALUT Inspired by Destire of One Nation to Show Friendliness for Ships of Another. The origin of the statute with guns is supposed to have been inspired by the desire of the constitution to make a show of friendly action for the ships of another. In the old days of smooth bore and muzzle-loading cannon it required several minutes to load and fire the gun, and this lapse of time was meant to indicate a friendship bust in the mission of the warship of another power. In the beginning of the salute in the United States the one for the United States gave one gun for each state. Finally the national salute was fixed at twenty-one guns. The president as well as the presidents of foreign republics and sovereigns of foreign states are saluted with twenty-one guns. The salute for ambassadors of this or other nations is nineteen guns. The vice president of the United States also is entitled to a uniteeen gun salute. Admirals and cabinet members are entitled to seventeen gun ministers planpowerful and vice admirals of board, and the commanding officer of a ship of war seven. A few centuries ago England, claturing supreme empire of the seas, required the warships of other nations to lower sail on meeting an English man of war. This custom long ago disappeared, although small sailboats of English warships still lie in the boats when HOW TOTS REGARD DOCTOR Reason for Buddha Affection Was Not All Complimentary to Physician A Chicago physician gooflessly tells a child story at his own expense. The five children of some faithful patients had measles, and during their rather long stay in the improvised home he pulled they never failed to great his daily visit with pleased ecclamations. The good doctor felt duly flattered, but really pressed the children, in the days of convalescence, for the reason of this sudden affection. At last the youngest and most indiscretet let ally the bitter truth. "We felt so sick that we wanted awfully to do something naughty, but we were afraid to be bad for fear you and the nurse would give us more horrid medicine. So we were awfully glad to see you, always, 'cause you made us stick out our tongues. We stuck 'em out awful far!" Another laughable "doctor" story deals with little Edna, who played mother with such realistic enthusiasm that her immediate maternal anges ter one day found the child weeping visibly over a supposedly defunct hall. "My dear Annie has died and gone up to heaven," the child mourned, be twined sofa. "What was the matter with her?" insisted the sympathetic but some what perplexed listener. Booker T. Washington's COMPLETE LIFE IN BOOK FORM NOW READY It is well illustrated, showing him lea- ging home, a rugged boy, for Hampton Ini- titute. A history from the cradle to the race. This is the best book on Dr Washington. The publishers, Austin Jensi- n Go., 9th Street, Washington, D.C., may express and give the best life-size photograph to each subscriber. Anyone wishing an agency can get prospectus and photo for 16 cents. The annual visitor in a small seaport town was ignored and amused in the assortment of merchandise displayed in the little store of the wharf. The showcens was devoted to an assortment of candy at one end and a lot of cigars and tobacco at the other end, and no barrier between. Next to the showcase stood a motor engine valued at several hundred dollars. Thinking to please the proprietor saves the YouN's Companion, theitor remarked that even the large apartment stores in Boston could boast of such a collection. "Well," he said, "I can't aping their stores, I can tell you. I aim to keep what my foll-w want. When a man wants an engge for his bot't he want it, and if the fish are running he can't wait to send way to Portland or Boston for it. He wants it when he loes, then and there." After a little pause he continued: don't like the way they do business in them big stores, anway. Why, when you go into a store up to Boston the first thing you know somebody ask you what you want. "Now, I never do anything like that if a man comes into my place I pass the time o' day and ask him to set and after he's get and talked a while if he wants anything he'll tell me, never pester a man to buy. Maybe he hn't come to buy; maybe he he's com- Nevr Discoveries Carry Back Existence of Written Documents Centuriae Beyond Phoenician Record. The revelations made at the remains of a great prehistoric palace at Knossos, in Crete, which is believed to be the original of the fabled "Labyrinth," would seem to carry back the existence of written documents on Greek sol some eight centuries beyond the earliest known monuments of Greek writing and five centuries beyond the earliest dated Phoenician record as seen on the Moatite stone. These discoveries, therefore, place the whole question of the origin of writing on a new basilia. It is thought that the Coptian hieroglyphs exactly correspond with what, in virtue of their names, we must suppose to have been the pictorial originals of the Phoenician letters on which the alphabet is based. Among these are Aleph, the oak hand; Beth, the house; Daleeth, the door, and so forth. This contravene the old theory of De Rouge that the Phoenician letters were derived from early Egyptian forms signifying quite different objects. WRONG HONEYMOON ROUTE Not Marks Telltale Evidence of What Occurred While Going Through Tunnel. All of the passengers were amused at the dovelike tenderness of the honeymoon couple from the rural districts, and when the train emerged from the tunnel the flashy dressed commercial salesman thought he would have some fun at their expense. "See here, neighbor," he said in a loud whisper as he touched the nervous bridegroom on the arm, "don't you know there are rules against kissing on this road?" "Rules against kissing?" followed the frightened countryman. "Certainly! You were kissing while coming through the tunnel!" "H-how in the world did you find that out, mister?" "Why, by the soot marks. There was one on your nose before we entered the tunnel, and now there is one of the same size on the bridge." "the pretty ornate her foot impotuously on her awkward spouse." "Thar, now, Silas, what did I tell you? Told you not to come on the soft coal route. If we had come on any other route, they wouldn't have beaten us!"—Judge. No. Six-Sixty-Six This is a prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. Five or six doses will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c --- DOES IT PAY TO BE SICK? Let's forget about all the disagreeable and painful part of sickness, and ask ourselves it it PAYS to be sick. Perhaps you are only HALF sick—maybe you are dragging yourself around, with a "dead tired" feeling. Perhaps you wake up in the morning with a heavily-coated tongue, a bad taste in your mouth, and hardly any appetite. Quite likely you are billious. Maybe you have dull aches and pains, CONSTIPATION, headaches. You go about your daily duties. You tell yourself you will feel better to-morrow—but when to-morrow comes you feel just about the same. You try this and that remedy, without getting real relief. Or if you get some relief, it doesn't LAST! You soon feel just as bad as you did before. DOES IT PAY to let yourself stay in this half-sick condition? Think of all the ENJOYMENT of life you are missing! You can't enjoy your food, or the society of your family and friends. You can't enjoy anything as you should, because your senses are dulled and your brain oppressed by the effects of a SLUGGISH LIVER. Say, friend, does it PAY you to lug around that sluggish liver when you can promptly make it ACTIVE and so get rid of all those depressing, disagreeable symptoms—by letting Liver and Blood Syrup take hold and give your Liver the help it needs? Don't delay. Don't procrastinate. Don't say "I'll do it to-morrow." Get a bottle of this time-tried and PROVEN remedy right now. The four bits you pay for it will be one of the BEST INVESTMENTS YOU EVER MADE. THACHER MEDICINE COMPANY THACHER MEDICINE COMPANY, Chattanooga, Tennessee. HIGH EFFICIENCY IN CHURCH WORK Success of Abyssinian Baptist In New York. UNIQUE FINANCIAL SYSTEM. Ably Conducted Religious Corporation Founded 106 Years Ago Celebrates Anniversary With Series of Public Exercises and Raises $2,040—Results of Intelligent Leadership. By N. BARNETT DODSON. New York.-The Abyssinian Baptist church in this city, of which the Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Powell is the capable and highly esteemed pastor, recently closed a ten days' celebration of its one hundred and sixth anniversary. Some of the most able clergymen and laymen of the race took part in the anniversary exercises. Inspiring and scholarly sermons were delivered by Revs. H. H. Warring, W. J. Lucas, W. M. Moss, W. H. Brooks, W. P. Hayes, W. H. Harrod and S. W. Timms. Mr. Watt Terry, the young real estate operator of Brockton, Mass., who is reported to be worth nearly a million dollars, and Hon. Fred R. Moore urged the race to save money and go into business. One of the features of the celebration was a recital of sacred music by an orchestra of fifty members from the Martin-Smith music school. Never before was a sacred concert held on so large a scale seen in a church among our people in this city. The pastor and officers asked for $2,000 during the celebration. Up to the fourth Sunday in November $2,040 had been reported, and some auxiliaries were to be heard from. This church has a unique and admirable method of conducting its activities. The prayer meetings, revival services and financial rallies are conducted by the eleven auxiliaries. It is the business of two of these auxiliaries to help [Image of a woman with a bald head and a mustache.] REV. DE. A. CLAYTON POWELL. MONTGOMERY MONTGOMERY The Youth's Companion 52 Times a Year-Not 12 IT is more than 52 numbers filled to the brim with delightful reading it is an influence for all that is best in home and American life. Three Weeks Free The Compunion is $2.00 a year, but to those who do not know the paper we shall be glad to send three current issues free of charge, so that they may test its quality, read its wholesome, diverting fiction, its contributions by famous men and women, its various departments, etc. THE YOUGH'S COMPANION 114 Berkeley Street, Boston, Mass. 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