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To the Officers and Members of St. John Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M., State of Oklahoma, Greeting: Know Ye, That I. G. I. Currin, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Landmarks of Freemasonry, do call the St. John Grand Lodge to convene in its twenty-sixth Grand Communication in the city of Boley, Oklahoma, on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd days of August, 1917, at 9 o'clock A. M. Take due notice and govern yourself accordingly. Attest: THE SHAME OF ILLINOIS. The events in East St. Louis Monday night were a disgrace to that city, a disgrace to Illinois, a disgrace to America, a disgrace to humanity. We can recall no event in the history of this country so utterly and unbelievably shameful. 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Scores were tortured or killed against whom so charge of wrong was made, whose only offense was their color. Men women, children went down before the insatiate blood lust of this wrost and most cruel of mobs. And this in the state of Abraham Lincoln! This in the great The Muskogee Cimeter. or fine cut or use stuff Tobacco Redeemer or in any form in from 48 to 72 hours. Your tobacco craving will begin to decrease after your first dose—there's no waiting for results. Tobacco Redeemer contains no habit-forming drugs of any kind—a meat marvelously quick absolutely scientific and thoroughly reliable remedy for the treatment of the tobacco habit. Substitute for tobacco, but is a radical, efficient treat absolutely no desire to use tobacco again or to quit, and will make you feel better in tobacco habit—get rid of it so completely that when the slightest desire in you—you should at treatment for the habit. 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For if democracy is not the right of every individual to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then in heaven's name what is it? How can we decently and honestly proclaim the superiority of American government and American principles when such a crime against liberty as that of Monday night in East St. Louis is permitted! Yes, permitted! It was a preventable crime. There had been ample warning. There was a large and competent force on hand to maintain order. Yet the rioters were premitted to gather and go on their way of destruction. Eight companies of the state militia were there, but apparently no serious effort was made either to prevent the formation of the mob or to stop its work after it was formed. Reports of eyewitnesses agree as to the inaction of the militia. Some feeble attempts were made to protect the objects of the mob's fury, but there seems to have been no attempt whatever to maintain order. We do not know who is responsible for this most disgraceful and lamentable failure of authority and power. But we do know that some one is, or some ones are, responsible, and the State of Illinois cannot rest until that responsibility is fixed. Punishment of rioters alone will not wipe away the shame. The blunder that permitted the riot must be accounted for. And, finally, the Federal Government should refuse to take into its service any officer or private who is found to have been derelict in his duty in this crisis. The people of Illinois must insist, and the people of America will insist, that this thing be probed to the bottom, for it is not only state honor but national honor that is involved. —Globe Democrat. And yet twelve million people are loyal to the flag. Will the government ever stand for Justice to us? NOTICE BY PUBLICATION In the District Court of Muskogee County, State of Okla- The defendant, Bud Johnson, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the plaintiff, Mamie Johnson for Divorce, by reason of abandonment, and that unless he an answer the petition of the plaintiff, Mamie Johnson, on or before the 17th day of August, 1917, the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said District Court this the 5th day of July, 1917. J. H. GAINES, Court Clerk. TOM L. FULLER, Deputy Clerk. GEO. W. PARKER, Attorney for Plaintiff. When you have Backache the liver or kidneys are sure to be out of gear. Try Sanol, it does wonders for the liver, kidneys and bladder. A trial 35c bottle will convince you. Get it at the drug stores. The City and County officer should clean up the thieving, murderous elementnt, both white and black, that infests our city. The loafers, thieves, thugs and bums of all descriptions should be made to know that their room is better than their company. A Negro who murders a white man for money will murder a Negro for the same and the same is true of the white fellow. Every time there has been a near-lynching in this city the cause has been traced to a worthless Negro, a thug or a thief who has committed crime and who would commit the same crime against the Negro. These thugs, white and black, have no color line, they commit murder indiscriminately. Our position is, that the country ought to berid of these parasites, but do it lawfully and not by the mob route. Our people should notify the officers of the dens where these black thieves hide and help rid the city of the undesirable. It's a duty we owe ourselves and the community. The preachers and other race leaders should help in a general clean-up campaign; this would be far better than advising our boys to be slackers, as we understand some worthless preachers did. Read the advertisements in this paper and patronize those who advertise with us; they deserve your trade. Our subscription is $1.00 per year. Agents wanted. Good commission paid. Write us. It is guaranteed to any woman who will use Sanol Eczema Prescription will find a perfect complexion. It will cure any eruption on the skin. It is a skin Tonic. Sanol Eczema Cure is a household remedy. A trial will convince you. Get it at the drug store. We, the members of the State Farmers' and Educational Congress in convention assembled at the Flipper-Key-Davis University, Tullahassee, Oklahoma, May 30, 1917, do issue the following address to our people and the country: We believe in and are working for the preparedness of Negroes for universal service, and we hereby call upon our people and our friends to bend every possible effort toward this great end. We realize our importance to our country in this particular crisis, and we take this opportunity to re-affirm our faith in ourselves, in our possibilities, and in those who believe in us. We call upon our government to recognize the Negro soldiers' past records and achievements. Such service, typified by unexampled loyalty from Boston, common to Carrizal, points the source of a part of America's best soldiery. It will be the part of simple if belated justice to call to the colors such potential heroes, officered by men of Negro blood. No Negro has ever run from service, none have harpoored treason in their hearts, and although our enemies would seem to suspect that we feel, we have just reason for disloyalty, we recognize no condition in loyalty at this supreme hour of need. We call toopn our men to answer the call t the colors, or report to God the reason why We believe, with all our hearts, in thoroughness of preparation for the tasks which we are to assume and in developing every resource, physical, mental, and spiritual, to rthe accomplishing of these great and necessary objects in human service. We believe in physical preparation. Whether our people live in city or country, it is our solemn duty to struggle for sound minds in sound bodies. In the cities we need organization for sanitation, that we may better use the Negro doctor, the Negro nurse, the Negro preacher, the Negro lawyer and the Negro teacher, not so much for curing disease as for preventing it. It is the sacred duty of all trained Negroe sto aid in conserving social physical disability, as we need every item of manhood and womanhood to fight our battles. Pure air, clean houses, good food, exercise and unnecessary worry should be persistently and consistently fought for by our trained men and women. True education presupposes a willingness to assume responsibility. In the open country we deem it our duty to fight for better health conditions, better conveniences for women, and better attractions for bloding the interest of younger people to the advantages of farm life. Now that our country calls loudly for the assistance of all, not only in a military, but in an industrial way, we are called upon to furnish physical stamina not only for a time of peace, but a time of war. We must stress temperance in all things, in eating in drinking, in spending. We must use every physical means, personal and real, for the production of more and better food, for its proper saving, preparation and use, in order that our bodies may neither be underfed nor overfed. We call upon our people for mental preparation for the struggles and duties to which we are heirs. We need all sorts of education, and especially do we need competent in spirit, mind, and body to train our people in the trades and the professions, including the teaching profession, to prepare our people to answer the great industrial call made to them from the North and the South, as well as to serve ourselves and the South in construction, agriculture, and other services of the common professions. Especially do we call for men and women with trained hearts, men and women who can feel what all of us feel, recognize the justice and injustice of demands made upon us, and stand with all the powers of their beings for what we know is necessary to sound and lasting racial development. We see keenly the need of "men whom the lusts of office cannot buy; men whom the spoils of office cannot kill." We deprecate with all our souls the truckling, hat-in-hand policy of some Negro leaders who would barter for a mere mess of potage the birthrights of generations yet unborn. When "diplomacy" resolves itself into skillful, polite lying, we call loudly for stamping out the so-called diplomat, and substitute for him'a man of sturdy simplicity. We call for men who believe in working together, but we would warn our people that cooperation means a giving up of some of our personal preferences, especially when those preferences mean a stubborn reaching out for a personal following for personal gain in any way whatever. The worst sin from which we suffer is the sin of selfishness, which substitutes men pull for men of true power, places men with political power in the place of men with proper pedagogical principles, substitutes financial force for Christian courage, and fools the youth of our race into believing they know how to swim educationally, whereas they have merely been playing around the edges of the stream of power. Co-operation means service in season and out of season, long hours and short pay, with often nothing in sight but the "well done" of the appreciative few who have prophetic vision enough to look into the future and see the benefits to accrue to those who shall yet rise up and call us blessed for the supreme sacrifices we have made. O. R. Tucker, Chairman; H. S. Murphy, Secretary; C. E. Smith, W. L. Haywood, M. D. J. H. A. Bressleton, J. T. A. West, J. E. Toombs, W. E. Day, Rev. G. T. Sims, Rev. T. H. Wiseman, L. E. Nelson, M. W Austin, Mrs, L. S. Forte, Mrs. M. L. Brookins, S. T. Wiggins P. M. Delancey, E. D. Jefferson. R. J. Patton, Rev. T. W. Kidd. Barge Trial Bottle of Sanol for 35c Sanol is a family remedy. Sanol is sold on an absolute guarantee. Remember if it says Sanol it is all 35c and 1$.00 at the drug store. In the District Court in and for Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma. Frank L. Brown, Plaintiff, vs. No. 5774. Annie B. Brown, Defendant. Said Defendant, Annie B. Brown, will take notice that she has been sued in the above named Court by the above named plaintiff, for an absolute divorce from her, the said defendant, upon the grounds of abandonment; that she must answer the Petition by plaintiff filed thereon on or before the 26th day of July, 1917, or said Petition will be taken as true and a judgment for said plaintiff will be rendered accordingly. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand as Clerk of said Court and affixed the seal thereof, this 13th day of June, 1917. Do you get up at night? Sanol is surely the best for all kidney or bladdertroubles. Sanol gives relief in 24 hours from all backache and bladdertroubles. Sanol is a guaranteed remedy. 35c and $1.00 a bottle at the drug gstore. NOTICE. Okmulgee, Okla., May 31, 1917. To the Stockholders of the Adams Oil, Gas and Development Co.: Notice is hereby given that by virtue of authority vested in me as President of The Adams Oil, Gas & Development Company, a special meeting of the stockholders of said company is hereby called to assemble at Washington, D. C. (Street and number to be designated upon applying to the Secretary or President at No. 1216 You St., N. W., Washington, D. C.), on Thursday evening, June 14, 1917, at 8:30 p. m., for transacting the following business: 1. To so amend Par. three (3) of the Articles of Incorporation of said Company as to re-establish a main office of said Company in Oklahoma, and to abolish Washington, D. C., as a branch office altogether. 2. To change the present fiscal year of the Company to the calendar year beginning Jan. 1st and ending Dec. 31st of each year. 3. To consider and act upon the matter of holding an Annual Meeting of the stockholders of said Company immediately following an adjournment of the special meeting called herein, for the purpose of electing Directors of said Company to serve until Dec. 31, 1917, should the fiscal year be changed to the calendar year, beginning Jan. 1st 4. For considering and acting and ending Dec. 31st of ecah year. upon such other matters as are PRICE $1.00 A YEAR leemed timely and of special interest to the said Company. SPENCER ADAMS, President. While Atlanta, Ga., was being destroyed by fire and property worth millions going up in smoke the people near Memphis, Penn., were having a lynching at the stake. Of course he was bee and burning a human being a Negro and while his piteous bries were ascending heavenward the barbarians shouted in great gless. Many Negroes lost property and were sufferers in the Atlanta fire and many white persons it will be found are the sufferers who attended the Negro burning because many of them were women and some doubtless in delicate health and when that child comes in the world it will come branded with the mark of a Cain and all through life the sin of its parents who participated in the barbarians and hellish murder will be visited upon it. God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. Give the young colored man a chance of being trained for officers. It is a duty our Government owes to its loyal colored citizens. If there is any colored prejudice lurking in the cuticle of the administration it should be eliminated instanter. The war if won at all must be won by the loyal sons of the Republic, regardless of race, color or creed. On account of her fair treatment to all of her citizens France stands in the front rank of the Nations of the world and her loyal black patriots are her saviors and they come from the most remote parts of the dominion to fight and die for France. The United States should profit from this example. "If that be treason make the most of it." WHERE OUR GRAIN GES If the semi-official intelligence from London is accurate, the champions of prohibition in this country are being placed in a ridiculous position. It is part of our job in this great war to feed England and the other allies on the continent. In order to accomplish this we must conserve our grain supply and ship as much as can be spared after nourishing ourselves to France and England. Upon this hypothesis the prohibitionists propose to estop the manufacture of alcoholic beverages from foodstuffs, and they have quoted no end of statistics to prove that many millions of loaves of bread are daily poured down the gullets of those who are consumers of these drinks. But what comes from England? The news that the breweries are working hard to provide beer for the coming harvest, it being the immemorial custom there to pay part of the wages of the field hands in barley brew! The new Food Controller asserts that complete prohibition is nonsensical and leads to vicious results. Because of the pinch of warfare, he says, the bear will be weaker, but it will be plentiful. It follows, then, that we on this side of the Atlantic, who are practicing enforced abstinence from alcoholic beverages will find ourselves shipping grain across to the other side where it may be turned into beer and stronger stuff under direction of the Government. We find, too, that our soldiers upon arrival in France are put upon the ration of the French soldiers, which includes a liter of light wine daily. On this side of salt water they may not touch the stuff nor may any one under penalty give them drink. What is more interesting is the news from the correspondent of the New York Tribune in London, who asserts that one of the chief causes of the growing unrest among the industrial classes is the weakening of the alcoholic content of their beer while in increasing the price. Forced to work harder by the exigencies of the hour, they demand better nourishment, and are calling upon the Government to compel the brewers to provide the ante-war beer which formed part of their daily ration. Wanted 500 Agnts At Once I have the for your Duc and I take p does everyth readfly and makes a dem Dudley's Polish make old buggies look NEW VAOR Dudly Polish makes old saddels look NEW Dudly Polish makes old saddels look NEW Service! In every respect the M. 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THE PETITION Inasmuch as it has seemed wise and patriotic to you to give to the vast government loan by the United States of America to help the entante Allies in prosecuting the European war in name of the Liberty, hallowed by the voices of Garrison Phillips, Howe, Sumner and others raised for freedom and equality of citizenship for American and African decent, we hereby earnestly appeal to you in behalf of 12,000,000 Colored Americans, at this time when our country asks all to fight any sacrifice for world liberty, to heed our appeal and as a measure of consistency to abolish the segregation of colored clerks and other employees in the Treasury department at our national capital. Pray release there our own citizens, in view of this awful world war, from the bonds of color segregation. We pray this as your personal contribution in historic Faneuil Hall on army registration day. --- --- Muskogee, Okla., June 12, 1917. 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"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to preform: He plants his footsteps in the sea, In these day of strife and warfare, when the civilized world is using the ingenuity of man in every sphers to solve the problem that comfront mankind, it is consoling to some at least, to know that some passing event show that God is directing the destinies of man. It is especially pleasing to note in this great country of ours, where lynching, mob, law and disfranchisement seem to have sway and the general government powerless to arrest them a remarkable change is taking place as martial law is being proclaimed. When the right of a citizen are all assailed and local government is notable to cope with the situations, the President will be asked for military aid and not the governor. The irony of fate by this gigantic struggle in war, has done what man could not do and the general government was too weak to accomplish, and history is about to repeat itself in snowing the way to deal with caucerous sores in a nation. Board Members. Mrs. C. A. Gilmore, Oklahoma City. Mrs. Lottie Satchel, N. Muskogee, Okla. Mrs. M. Lathan, Tulsa, Okla. Mrs. A. N. Benson, Grant, Okla. Mrs. E. Marina, Okmulgee, Okla. Mrs. M. M. J. Carr, State Missionary. This photograph shows an interesting family scene in the wine cellar in a dwelling in Rheims. While, before the Germane came, this was one of the famous wine cellars of that section, since that time it has become the living room and sleeping room as well of these good people. They are shown at their frugal noon-day meal, but it will be seen that their favorite beverage is still served. Up above shells are flying and buildings are being knocked over like card houses. This photograph shows an interesting family scene in the wine cellar in a dwelling in Rheims. While, before the Germane came, this was one of the famous wine cellars of that section, since that time it has become the living room and sleeping room as well of these good people. They are shown at their frugal noon-day meal, but it will be seen that their favorite beverage is still served. Up above shells are flying and buildings are being knocked over like card houses. MAKE LIQUOR IN KITCHEN SUNDAY'S CRUSADE TO CLOSE; COLLECTIONS BAD During all the time when the people who believed that Billy Sunday would do New York a lot of good were getting 'round and raising money to bring him here, the understanding was conveyed that his campaign was to last at least three months. The announcement is now made that his meetings will be discontinued at the end of ten weeks. The evangelist indignantly denies that his campaign has been cut short to lose the financial deficit which will remain when he is finished. "If anybody got the understanding that I came here for three months," he said, "that's his fault and not mine. Goodness knows it's hot enough by June 17, and anyway, that's as late as I ever work. I came here to stay ten weeks and that is what I'm doing." COFFEE-POT STILLS BECOME POPULAR WITH THIRSTY VIRGINIANS At a meeting of the committee of clergymen who have supported Billy's campaign the announcement which was made was that by "a change of plan," the meetings would end June 17. Up-to-date the collections at the meetings have amounted to $11,451.56, which establishes a ratio of about one dollar for each 22 persons attending the meetings. The advance subscriptions which went to make up the fund required by the evangelist before he would come to New York amounted to $53,963.43. Offerings and advance subscriptions, together, now total $95,415.02. The total expenses of ten weeks of the meetings will be $150,000.—James M. Allison, in "New York Day by Day" Column, Cincinnati Times-Star. OldWhiskeyPlants, Long Buried, Are Resurrected Once Again To Meet the Demand Occasioned By Prohibition The people of the Virginias are beating the prohibition laws. Kitchen stills are being introduced and old family stills, long since thrown into the discard, resurrected. Virginians are "dry" and Virginians are going to drink, Purley Baker notwithstanding. The Herald, of Newport News, Va., relates the following: "We learn from the Register that Danville is working an ingenious device to defeat prohibition and supply the people with distilled liquors. Our contemporary reports the revenue men as stating that the government has information that small stills for family use are being freely used in that dry town. The stills are described as being so small that they can be operated on the kitchen range, or over an oil stove in the basement, so as to bring them within reach of every dry family. 'There is no intimation,' adds our contemporary, 'that the little stills are being made here, but that liquor is being manufactured on a small scale and by numerous persons is the candid Belief of the men who for a month have been conducting a quiet investi- gation. VARFAKE, SAYS YANKEE FIGHTER HOME FROM THE FRONT. "The coffee-pot still is an interesting innovation, and if it is not run out of business, we expect to see the number of 'coffee' drinkers in Virginia greatly increased. We see no remedy for it but to place coffee and coffee-pots on the prohibition list." The story of the resurrected stills is from the Huntington (W. Va.) Herald-Dispatch. A dispatch from Charleston to that paper states: "Old whisky stills which have been hurled or otherwise hidden away inoperative for a number of years are being resurrected and put into service for the manufacture of old-time 'corn-liquor' in the mountains of Raleigh, Summers, Mercer, Wyoming, McDowell, Mingo and Logan counties, according to information which has come to the State Tax Commissioner. "Since the latest amendment to the prohibition act became effective, by which not more than one quart of intoxicants may lawfully be brought into the state each month by an individual, the prosecutions of the state department of prohibition have become so frequent and vigorous that bootlegging is being abandoned in many instances for the risks of old-time distilling. "Commissioner Hallanan said today his department was being joined by the revenue department of the federal government in ferreting out the stills and several already have been located. Internal Revenue Agents Seize Shipment of "Lubricating Oil" for Argenta, Ark. Internal revenue agents today seized a wooden box offered to the Cotton Belt Railroad for shipment to Argenta, Ark., which is in dry territory. Inside the box, packed with paper and excelsior, they found another box of galvanized iron which contained 36 quart bottles of whisky.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. SAVANNAH RECORDER UPHOLDS WOMAN WHO FIRED UPON OFFICERS SAVANNAH RECORDER UPHOLDS WOMAN WHO FIRED UPON OFFICERS Savannah, Ga.-The police face new difficulties in enforcing the "bone-dry" prohibition law in Savannah in the face of a ruling by Judge Schwarz, of the recorder's court, this morning. Efie Heath, a woman who yesterday barricaded herself in her home and shot at two officers, was dismissed by the recorder this morning. He held that the woman had a right to keep the officers out of her home. The police went to the store searching for liquor and the woman went into her room. Through a crack in the doorway she could see the officers and she shot at them. The woman was arrested on the charge of assault with intent to kill. The recorder dismissed the charges against her this morning. "My version of the law is that the defendant was clearly within her rights," said the recorder as he marked the case off the docket. It is expected the police will now present the woman to the grand jury. Atlanta Journal. SLACKER STATES Now that the big revenue bill has been passed through the House of Representatives with the increased revenue rates on the liquor interests as a necessary measure for raising war revenue somebody will have to pay the revenue if the government gets it. In view of the fact that 22 states have thrown liquor overboard they are much in the same position as the colonies when they refused to support the home government by a tax on tea and threw the tea in Boston harbor. The colonists had for a grievance that their taxes were imposed without representation, but the slacker dry states not only have full representation, but also wish to deprive the wet states of any home-rule in their tax system. As a war measure the dry states will have to admit that they are not doing their bit for revenue.—Mobenly (Mo.) Monitor. PROHIBIT THE FARMER. Say, all you folks that vote for dry stop hitting at the top. Make "gladsome drinks" impossible if drinking you would stop. If there was nothing raised on earth alcohol containing. 'Twould stop the use of alcohol, instead of just restraining. Pass a law 'gainst raising corn—corn whisky 'twill abolish; Pass a law 'gainst raising rye, and all the folks admonish Against the raising of a crop of grain of any kind— And pass a law against the grape and thus do 'way with wine. Legislate against apple trees; put peaches 'neath the ban; Strawberries and cherries, and every thing that run Be made into intoxicants—and thus by extermination Save the people from themselves by stopping all temptation. Down with corn! Down with rye! the deadly apricot. Oranges and pineapples, the whole ac cursed lot. The farmer is the meanest man that ever lived, b'gum! For he raises all the things they use to make the demon rum! —Dan Morgan Smith in Puck. NATIONAL PROHIBITION IS A BIG FAILURE IN RUSSIA Illicit Stills In Every Village Make Vodka-It's SO Easy New Democratic Government Modifies "Dry" Law To Permit Sale of Wine What would certainly happen in the United States under national prohibition is pointed out by the Philadelphia Inquirer, in discussing the case of Russia. The Inquirer says: Early in the war the lately deposed Czar was much applauded for having had the courage and the foresight to issue a decree suppressing the consumption of vodka throughout his then dominions. This was a bold thing for him to do, as the manufacture of vodka had been a government monopoly and all the profits from its sale accrued to the imperial treasury. These amounted to about four hundred million dollars a year, so that their discontinuance involved a very considerable sacrifice, which was all the more notable and praiseworthy because the Russian Government, whose financial resources are limited, was confronted by the necessity of providing for the enormously increased expenditures which the hostilities in which it had engaged would unavoidably entail. Yet there were those who doubted whether the inveterate habit of the people could be cured overnight by an imperial decree and some recent reports upon this subject go far to justify their incredulity. It will be noted that the circumstances were such as to render the prohibition of vodka exceptionally easy. It had been made and sold exclusively by the government, so that no private interests were affected, and when the government went out of business, that settled, in theory at least, the whole thing. The production of vodka stopped, the places where it had been dispensed were closed and it was no longer obtainable. But to make vodka is not difficult. It requires no large capital nor any particular skill, and recent dispatches say that what many had expected has actually happened. Illicit stills have sprung up all over the country and the existing conditions, especially in Siberia, are described as deplorable. Nearly every village there is declared to have its own distillery and the peasants, instead of bringing their surplus corn into town, are selling it at an en hanced price for conversion into the forbidden drink. The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial does not mention the fact that the new Russian democratic government has abolished total prohibition and allows wine to be sold. THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION Another Dry State Tragedy. [ Wenatchee (Wash) World. ] Will the party who carried off the package of dishes thinking it was a case of beer return same to 26 North C stret? No questions will be asked. Names Is Names. [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] It is easy to see the finish of the Ohio prohibitionists. They have Helonkamp at this early date. Mr. Bryan has scrapped pacifism in favor of prohibition, which he says is only a matter of a short time. But Mr. Bryan never did excel as a guesser. Mean Old Thing! Just as the women commenced to rejoice over the abolition of liquor, along comes somebody and takes a lot of joy out of women's lives by advocating the cessation of candy-making. Prohibition in its Place. [Philadelphia Star.] "Are you an advocate of prohibition?" asked the lady with the Bryan-esque chin. "Yes, ma'am," replied the individual with the irrigated, carmine colored eyes. "I advocate prohibition, in its proper place." "In its proper place. What do you mean, sir?" she demanded suspiciously. "I mean, ma'am," he answered, "at least 20 miles from any human habitation, ma'am." --- THE MUSEUM CENTER W. H. Twine Editor P. R. Fugo Associate Editor R. D. Nikens Associate Editor W. H. Twine Jr Manager S. H. Twine Collector MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PREDS ASSOCIATION The Cimeter is the only Republican paper in the City of Muskogee. The early Phoenix is sometimes Republican and sometimes independent but at the present time it claims to be inde- pendent, such a changing is not worth three whoops in h... to any political party and yet Bixby, its editor, got sick at the Republican pie counter. What base ingratitude. It is always easy to find where the Cimeter stands on any subject. We always make our fight in the open and whole sometimes we may be wrong, yet you always known which way our musket is pointed. Some fellows are cussing us about our stand in the Langton matter but it is plain we have not given any one the double- Rev. U. S. Mingo, is a great revivalist and is now making a tour of the state of Louisiana and other southern states representing the Muskogee Climber the best newspaper in the Southwest. Whatever information is desired about Oklahoma and her Negro towns can be gained by interview with Rev. Mingo. He will be through your town and community and he will tell you the truth about Oklahoma, about farms and city property. See him if you are interested in Oklahoma. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE BY PUBLICATION: In the District Court in and for Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma. Nettie Crawford, Plaintiff. vs. No. 5751. Edgar Crawford, Defendant. Said defendant, Edgar Crawford, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, upon the ground of abandonment and that he must answer the petition of plaintiff filed therein on or before the 14th day of July, 1917, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment for said plaintiff will be rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereu- set my hand as Court Clerk of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma, and affixed the seal thereof, this 1st day of June, 1917. J. H. GAINES, Court Clerk. (Seal) By JOHN ZUFALL, Deputy. In the District Court in and for Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma. B. M. Dennis, Plaintiff. vs. No. 5750. Mamie Dennis, Defendant. Eald defendant, Mamie Dennis, will take notice that she has been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, upon the ground of abandonment; and that she must answer the petition of plaintiff filed therein on or before the 14th day of July, 1917, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment for said plaintiff will be rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as Court Clerk of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma, and affixed the seal thereof this 1st day of June, 1917. J. H. GAINES, (Seal) Court Clerk. By JOHN ZUFALL, Deputy. A. G. W. SANGO. Attorney for Plaintiff. SCHOOL The Youth's Companion 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. 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 OHIO ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE WON'T GIVE TO RED CROSS PATRIOTIC OFFER OF LIQUOR MEN TO DONATE $250,000 FOR HUMANITY'S SAKE BRINGS DRYS' REFUSAL TO DO LIKEWISE WILL USE MONEY FOR PROHIBITION Turn Down Plans of Colonel Galbraith, of First Regiment, O. N. G., Who Asks That Fall Election Be Called Off and Both Campaign Funds Spent For Relief of Wounded American Soldiers [Special Dispatch to Cincinnati Enquirer] Columbus, O., June 12.—Through the refusal of the Anti-Saloon League of Ohio to heed the plan offered for a truce of the prohibition contest, it was brought out to-day that the struggle will go on in Ohio this fall. The proposal for a halt during the war and for devotion to patriotic purposes of the enormous sum spent in the canvases of the two partisan groups came from neutral sources and was welcomed by the Liberals and rejected by the Prohibitionists. The suggestion was made by Colonel F. W. Galbraith, Commanding the First Regiment, Ohio National Guard, with headquarters in Cincinnati. Colonel Galbraith also is President of the Business Men's Club of Cincinnati and recently headed the Red Cross member ship campaign which showed most excellent results. He addressed identical letters to the Ohio Anti-Saloon League and to the Ohio Wine and Spirit Association, in which he proposed that the contest is Ohio this year he offered. Recalling the estimate that each of these cam palgues cost approximately $1,000,000 Colonel Wilkinson says, "In my opinion, this is a great economic waste." Further he suggests that both sides save this tremendous sum and the money "be then available for the needs of the various governmental authorized relief societies." Liquor Dealers For It. The response for the Liberals was made by Lewis H. Gibson, who also forwarded a letter to Superintendent James A. White, of the Anti-Saloon League. The letter to White was given out tonight. In part it says: "Those whom I represent have full confidence that, should state-wide prohibition again be submitted, the voters of Ohio would for the third time in four years reject it. "Irespective of this confidence and impressed with matters of greater moment, we acquiesce in the suggestion contained in the letter of Colonel F. W. Galbrath that a campaign for state-wide prohibition this year will be wasteful of the time, energy and money of our people, and that such time, energy and money had better be directed to the national needs confronting our country. "Accordingly I am authorized to invite your earnest co-operation in a plan to raise $500,000 for the American Red Cross Society. I propose that each of us agree to pay to the American Red Cross Society the sum of $250,000 on the 15th day of August, 1917, provided no petition for a state-wide campaign on the liquor question is filed in Ohio by that time, and I further propose that each of us at once execute a separate bond to such society with good and sufficient securities, satisfactory to it, to guarantee said payments. He Goes Further, Too. "Should this proposition meet with your acceptance, I further propose that persons engaged by us with whom we are under contract for the year 1917 shall immediately divert their activities to Red Cross service, without compensation from that body. "This proposition is open for your acceptance or rejection for a period of 10 days from date. "The National Red Cross needs and deserves the money. Many able pens are pleading its cause. As citizens of Ohio we should respond to this pleas for America. Let us show the country and the world that in times like these there are and can be no domestic or family differences among the people of Ohio. "A prohibition election will mean an expenditure of large sums. Your anounced campaign fund has been mentioned as $450,000. Our campaign will not require such a large amount. America needs such sums and she needs them now. A prohibition campaigns will mean bitterness and strife and rancor. This proposed co-operation for a patriotic purpose will be an inspiration for a united America. "I need hardly urge that an early reply will be appreciated, to allow ample time for collection of funds should I hear from you favorably." White was out of the city today so that he could not be reached. It is known, however, that he already has sent a reply to Colonel Galbraith's letter, in which the proposal is completely rejected. The communication recalls to Colonel Galbraith's attentions that as a military man he knows of the action of the Federal Government in refusing to soldiers permission to purchase intoxicants while on duty. If soldiers in uniform need efficiency and morality, he says, and if they are to be promoted by those means, the civilians also need efficiency and morality and they may be promoted by the means indicated, which is prohibition according to White. He says further that prohibition was an issue before war was declared and could not step aside for war. He added that the prohibitionists consider nothing more patriotic short of fighting on the battle fields than fighting evils at home. In a reply to Gibson, Superintendent White today wrote that the Friends of state-wide prohibition will subscribe their full share to the Red Cross. He says that by abolishing the saloon $110,000 which now is wasted over the bars might be saved for some necessary work. NO REASON FOR THIS EXCITEMENT OVER PROHIBITION. "The wild asses quench their thirst."—Psalm 104, verse 11. There is entirely too much talk going on about prohibition. One would think by the way some persons rave in language vociferous and sometimes incoherent that it is the only matter worth discussing during the preparations going on for the war against the pirates of Europe. Some say too much grain is used in the manufacture of beer and liqueur, while others declare too many men are employed in the manufacture of whiskey and beer and wine. A droning noise on the side is made by the Hearst papers boosting "light wine and beer." No harm is done to the nation as a whole by the liquor that is drunk. Laws may be passed, manufacture and sale of liquors of all description may be prohibited; but the consumption of beer and hard liquors still will go on. "The wild asses quench their thirst," says the Psalmist. The liquor business now is under control. Saloons all over the country are closing at the proper hours, and dealers in drink obey the law. Let well enough alone.—Morning Telegraph, New York City. NO PROHIBITION IN SUNNY SPAIN Senor Duran Says the "Dry" Movement Is Peculiar Kind of Revolution The eyes of Senator Alberto Duran, wine salesman, opened wide in amazement Monday night when he learned New Orleans was "closed tight" on Sundays and there was such a thing as a prohibition movement in the United States. He is registered at the St. Charles Hotel, qp route to Latin-American countries. He is not selling wines to local jobbers, the California wine business proving too much a competitor for Spanish wines. A Times-Picayune reporter talked to Senor Duran, in his room at the St. Charles Hotel, speaking through Martip J. Elkan, the St. Charles foreign agent and interpreter. "A prohibition movement, such as is in progress in the United States, is an utter unheard of thing in Spain; I never heard of such an idea until I was in Porto Rico recently, and there I thought it was some peculiar kind of revolution," said he. "I never expected to find such a thing in a free country like this one. But, of course, we do not get drunk in Spain. Three or four glasses of wine makes one feel good, but it is a disgrace to become intoxicated—it's foolish. "Only the aristocrat in Spain drink whisky, the other classes drinking wine, which is unusually reasonable in price. Good red wine sells for six cents a large bottle, while the best grades of sherry for two and three cents more. Sunday is the day of recreation, when people enjoy themselves more, and more wine is consumed on that day in Spain than any other day. It's astounding to know New Orleans deprives people of its liberty on Sundays. I can not comprehend it."—New Orleans Times-Press yune. "PATRIOTS" PROHIBITION AT ANY PRICE! DRY CONGRESSMAN VICTORY OR DEFEAT, ABROAD, MEANS NOTHING TO US AS LONG AS WE GET WHAT WE'RE AFTER! ANTI SALOON LEAGUE. PROHIBITION AGITATOR LIQUOR IS SMUGGLED IN AS STATE FIGHTS BOOTLEGGERS Raleigh (N. C.) Hopes Latest Agitation Will Rid It of "Blind Tiger" Menace—Revenue Officer Find 250 Gallons of Whiskey in Shipment of Hay While Josephus Daniels, avowed Prohibitionist, is claiming the success of Prohibition and seeking to force it upon American sailors, his paper, the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer, is printing stories like the following, showing the failure of "dry" legislation in Daniels' own state: "The ill-reputed Western hay of North Carolina markets because of the negative lesson it should teach in home production has again been defamed! This time the Western product was the subterfuge in the shipment of 250 gallons of rye whiskey to Henderson and the eighty cases, bottled in bond, were billed as hay. The farm-house of John Faulkner, located four miles northeast of Henderson was the final destination of the mixed consignment. Revenue Officer Eugene A. Hughes, of Durham; E. E. Boulding, T. M. Arrasmith, J. W. Mosley; and R. R. King unearthed the find yearday in the basement of the farmer's home. Under a double lock, the imported product had been buried in the cellar under cold storage environments." "BOOTLEG" CAMPAIGN Daniels' Paper Further Describes Conditions in North Carolina. Dealing with the wide-spread manace of bootlegging, the News and Observer says: "Raleigh is delighted to see that there can be action to rid this community of the evil of the "blind tigers." That is being demonstrated straight along, and the hope of our people is that it will be kept up. Such action means for the betterment of the city. "In addition to the increased activities of the city government the Federal government has taken hold of the matter of illegal transportation of liquor into the State. When such matters get into the Federal Court it will be found that the United States is not going to be trilled with, but that it means to see that the law is obeyed. In two notable cases before that court now the outlook is that there is to be such action as to prove a warning to blind tigers. "A bit over a month ahead there goes into effect the 'bone dry' law for North Carolina. The provisions of that law are such that the government of the United States will have a large part to do with the handling of cases that may arise from its violation. Those people who have managed to escape the law as administered by local officials will find that it is a different story when the United States officials take up the matter. We have always held that road and jail sentences would prove the proper cure for the disease of 'blind tigering.' We feel that if the policy of imprisonment in place of fines is adopted that there soon will be a marked decrease in the illegal sales of intoxicating liquors. And the actuality, we rather think, will demonstrate that it is the method to pursue. "UNCLE JOE" SAYS This, from the New York Times, is an excerpt from one of "Uncle Joe" Cannon's recent speeches in the U. S. House of Representatives: "Ex-Speaker Cannon also assailed the 'propaganda' for closing down the breweries and distilleries and prohibiting the sale of liquors during the war. He referred to the millions of dollars' worth of liquors in bond and the unfairness of arbitrary prohibition, suggesting instead that the framers of the revenue bill might derive much war revenue by the proper taxation of inextricants." ment of 250 gallons of rye whiskey to Henderson and the eighty cases, bottled in bond, were billed as hay. The farm-house of John Paulkner, located four miles northeast of Henderson, was the final destination of the mixed consignment. Revenue Officer Eugene A. Hughes, of Durham; E. E. Boulding, T. M. Arrasmith, J. W. Mosley, and R. R. King unearthed the find yesterday in the basement of the farmer's home. Under a double lock, the imported product had been buried in the cellar under cold storage environments." DEPUTY SHERIFF FINDS 400 QUARTS OF LIQUOR. The following dispatch from Macon to the Atlanta Journal shows that Georgia is "dry"; Deputy Sheriff Lon Williams found 400 quarts of whisky hidden on the banks of Rocky Creek near Macon. The owners were not located. HOW ABOUT GOLF CLUBS? [New York Tribune.] To the Editor of the Tribute: Sir—There are about 5,000 golf clubs in the country. At an average of 100 acres this means 500,000 acres of farm land held out of use. Golf incites to profanity, lying about the score, wife neglect, inattention to business, Sabbath breaking and other vices. Why not prohibit golf during the war? On the redeemed links 100,000,000 bushels of potatoes might be grown. This quantity would furnish 3,000,000,000 messes of French fried potatoes. Professor Dumkopf, of Yale University, estimates that 8,168,432 foot-pounds of energy are daily wasted by golfers. The same energy applied to hoeing corn would produce enough corn for 13,941,687,403 muffins. WHEN THE PARSON BUYS IN A PROHIBITION STATE. Denver, Colo.—"This the place to get liquor permits?" said a sober-vis-argd individual in clerical-looking garb, as he edged meekly into the office of the county clerk. The attendant contemplated the clerical garb, then admitted that it was. "I would like a license to import liquor," said the clergyman. "So would I," said the attendant, pertly. "No, my good man, I mean I want to import liquor for my congregation." "Gee, have you got a trade all built up like that?" The parson fixed the courthouse attendant with a cold eye. "Of course, not," he corrected. "I want the liquor for sacrilegious—I mean sacramental purposes." Which ended the debate—New York Call. SLAIN FOR REFUSAL TO SELL WHISKEY Resident of "Dry" Arkansas Shot Taking Liquor to Sick Wife Blytheville, Ark.—G. W. Leckman, of near Barfield, is dead and two negroes are in jail charged with killing him on the levee near Huffman. Beckman was returning from Caruthersville, Me., with whisky for a sick wife, when accosted by two negroes, who asked him to sell them some whisky. When he refused, one of the negroes pulled a revolver and shot him, the bullet taking effect in the side, ranging almost through the body. He died a few hours later. Peeling ran high in the neighborhood where the tragedy occurred, but on account of there being a question as to the identity of the negroes arrested, quiet was restored and the law will be allowed to take its course. The negroes are held to the Grand Jury.—Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas. TEMPERANCE MEASURES The habit of attaching a rider to a bill which in itself has no relation to the subject matter touched by the provisions of the attachment is an odious development in American political expression. Every now and then an attempt is made to settle an important question by snap judgment in legislation. A bill to declare that the moon was made of green cheese and that consequently Americans must not drink milk would be just as logical a bit of human legislative composition as a bill which began by providing penalties for espionage and ended, by rider, in declaring what could be turned into the making of alcoholic liquors. As a general proposition democracy ought to have more direct and more honest methods. It ought to stand four square on its feet and settle its questions by direct attack. It ought not to sneak into authority and control. The prohibition question is the most argumented question in the United States. When it is determined it ought to be determined candidly, honestly and fairly. It never can be determined fairly and honestly by a rider on a bill. As a matter of fact the rider which the Senate attached to the espionage bill and then revoked was a bad provision. It would have stopped the production of beer during the war. It would also have stopped the production of whisky, but it would not have interfered with the sale of whisky during the war. Prices of whisky would have risen, but the supply of whisky would not have diminished. There is enough in bond. We are in favor of temperance. Any thing that promotes the temperate use of alcohol is useful. If temperance can not be found within a rational human scheme the absolute prohibition of its use may be found necessary. For such reasons we are glad that the Senate reconsidered its action upon this liquor rider to the espionage bill. It was bad in principle, being an un democratic method, and would be found wrong in practical effects, being opposed to the temperate use of alcohol—Chicago Tribune.