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The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-03-02

The decline of literature indicates
the decline of the nation. The two
keep pace in their downward ten
dency.-Gocthe.
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The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-03-02

About every protensicn there is an
air of avoiding to pretend.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-03-02

There is general impression that
certain young and pretty Atchison
girl is using something yellow on her
hair.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-03-02

The popular notion of an easy job
is doing just as you feel like.
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oscts., l6x2o Bust Crayon oscts. Send your
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The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-03-02

Literature is the fruit of thinking
souls.-Carlyle.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-03-02

Much valuable information free about
band instruments; write for the new cata-
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The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-03-02

About a big display of temper there
always is a flavor of being ill-used.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-03-02
All Up to.Date Housekee pers

use Defiance Cold Water Starch, be-
cause It is better. and OF. more Of 1t
for same money.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-03-02

We wish we could work all day as
fast as we can dress in cold room
In the morning.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-03-02

"Dr. David Kernedy's Favorite Remedy
saved my Iiel | had dyspepsia and kidney disease"
LIZ senator Albert Merritt Ptrk Place N y Ell bottle
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-03-02

Every woman who marries faces
the question of the kind of house
she will make, and decides it.
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The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-03-02

bers increase with health decrease with illness mall
nutrition. The best tonic for increasing the red blood
pusces and building up healthy tissue is doubt Doctor
Perces Golden Medical Discovery This medicine has been
the market for a third of a century ard numbers
its cures by the thousand.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-03-02

lsand.
A tonic made up largely of alcohol
will shrink the corpuscles of the
blood and make them weaker for
resistance. A cod liver oil makes
the stomach groan because it is irri-
tating. What is needed is an alter
ative extract made of roots and
herbs, without the use of alcohol,
that will assist the stomach in as
similating or taking up from the
\ food such elements as are required
ID for the blood, also an Alternative that
will assist the activity of the liver
and cause it to throw off the poisons
in the blood. When we have accom-
plshed this we have put the system in
fortified condition SO strong that it
can repel the germs of disease which
we find everywhere-in the stree.-cars,
the shops, the factories, the bedrooms,
wherever many people congregate, or
where sunlight and good air does not
penetrate.
Accept no substitute for "Golden
Medical Discovery" There is nothing
just as good" for diseases of the
stomach, blood and lungs.
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until could once more enjoy life and attend
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plete cure and gladly do recommend It,
Very sincerely yours.
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2208 California st.. Denver. Colo
Ex. Financial Secretary International
Brotherhood Of Transfers.
The bible of the body is the name
given to DR.. Pierce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser, of which over two
million copies have been sold. Send
81 cents in one-cent stamps, for this
l0OO-page book in paper covers, or 81
stamps for the cloth-bound. Address
DR.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-08

positive but polite manner. Holder
evidently smarting under what he
considered direct snub replied to
the young lady IN very rough
manner, using abusive and profane
language, so we are reliably in
formed. On Sunday morning the
young lady's brother, John Wells,
met Holder and proceeded, so our
information goes, with very
stormy interview but no blows. 1t
is presumed that Wells resented
the insult offered his sister in very
strong and unmistakable language,
although we have never been able
to learn exactly what Wells said.
This was repeated again later in
the afternoon, which was followed
some time afterwards by the shoot
ing at the tent.
The wounded man is a son of
Henry Wells, who was reared in the
vicinity north of Troy near the site
of Mt. Ararat Church. This gen.
tleman now lives short distance
from town to the east. The father
and the entire family are all quiet,
peaceable, hard-working people,
highly respected and honorable in
every way. Miss Wells bears the
most excellent and refined charac-
ter, and is regarded in worthy
manner by everyone.
One of the lamentable features of
the affair is that young Holder is
son of Rev. B. T.. Holder, Cum
berland Presbyterian minister who
has been serving the people at Pro-
temus, Antioch and other churches
in the county with the highest de-
gree of satisfaction and the happi-
est and most successful results. In
fact the minister is esteemed and
respected in the highest manner,
and universally so. The preacher
and his family now reside in Troy.
His sons name is Dolphus. He is
about eighteen or twenty years of
age, FIVE feet eight inches in height |
and weighs about lbs pounds. His
features are rather sinewy, his
Jaws predominating. He has large |
eyes also. We are told by some
that young Holder had rowing and
adventurous nature; that he had
ust returned from trip to Cali
.ornia, the second time he had run
away from home. Rev. Holder has
mother son about seventeen and
arge family.
John Wells. the wounded man, is
lbout twenty-five. He was thought
o be in a dying condition Monday,
,ut Tuesday he was somewhat i'm
proved.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-08
SHOT OVER THE HEART.
Snnhhed BY a Young Lady and Angered
By Her Brother
Young Holder Shoots John Wells
at Tent Meeting in Troy.

A tent meeting is in progress at
Troy. The tent is stretched on a
vacant lot on the north side of the
square on the corner near the Troy
and Union City road. The services
are union in character and Rev.
Swift, noted evangelist Of Little
Rock, is in charge. He is assisted
by Revs. Barrier and Holder, both
local ministers. Sunday night a
large number of people we're in at
tendance and others were still ar
irving. A song and then prayer
was the opening Of the service and
before the prayer had been finished
the entire audience was thrown
into a commotion by the sound of a
pistol shot which rang out in front
OF the tent. This was followed by
three or four more in quick success
sion and regular panic ia the tent.
A gentleman sitting near the
front of the tent, and reliable man
in every respect, related to US last
Monday morning what he saw and
heard. He said that during the
progress of the service some one in
front of the tent was heard to re-
mark, "Yes; here he is, !" and imme-
diately afterwards a pistol was
fired a very few feet in front of the
tent. Another and another and
man was heard to moan from the
terrible wound of bullet. Panic
stricken, the people ran every way
and those Fastening close to the
scene of trouble found that Dolphus
Holder had fred upon and shot
John Wells, the bullet ranging from
a point on the back under the
shoulder blade and coming out just
over the heart. Other eye witnesses
standing near said that Wells was
standing with his side to Holder
when the latter came up, Wells to-
ward the east. The first and sec
ond shots missed him and turning
the third struck him in the back.
Wells staggered towards large
tree near by. There some friends
caught him and eased him down,
and then he was taken home. Hold
Ell fled in the direction of Polk, a
station on the |. c. r. r. about
three miles away, aud it is thought
managed to get aboard at that
place, having been successful in
making his escape.
The trouble grew out of an Incl
dent which took place at the meet
ing on Saturday night. AT the
close Of the service Holder ap-
proached Miss Wells, a sister of
he wounded man, and asked perl
mission to accompany her home.
Miss Wells, it is said, refused in a |
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-08
Neglected Gods.

Every part Of the mucous membrane
the nose, throat, ears, head and lungs,
ETC., are subjected to disease and
blight from neglected colds. Ballards
Horehound Syrup is a pleasant and
effective remedy. 25c, Soc, 81. w.
AkendTick, Valley Mills, Texas,
writes: "I have used Ballard's Hore-
hound Syrup for coughs and throat
troubles; it is a pleasant and most ef-
fective remedy" Martin-Allen Drug
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-08
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.

Alexander H. Stephens, grand
son of the old Cavalier, was born
in 1912. He lived to be more than
threescore years and ten. Every
day of that long life was a day Of
sickness. His greatest weight was
ninety six pounds. He never
knew an hour without physical
pain, most of it acute, much of it
excruciatlng. 1t was in capricious
mood that nature fashioned the ta-
bernacles where glowed the giant
minds of John Randolph and Alex
ander H. Stephens. But this sick
ly boy was day laborer on his
fathers farm and a plowman at
eleven. His father died when he
was fourteen, but he managed to
get a superior education, and when
twenty he was graduated from the
University of Georgia.
He taught school for two years
and studied law. At twenty-five
he was admitted to the bar and
soon distinguished himself in the
profession. When be was twenty
four he was chosen to the State
Legislature, and that from com
munity that believed in Calhoun
and notification, though Stephens
strongly assailed that dogma. He
also opposed harsh treatment of
abolitionists who went to Georgia
to make converts. He believed
that the preservation of slavery
depended on conservative action
on the part of the shareholders,
and he would have met with abso-
lutte silence every diatribe of Gar
rison and Phillips. He believed
in slavery as it existed at the
South, believed it was the ideal
condition for both races, but his
clear mind saw that slavery would
be doomed whenever it became the
paramount issue in politics. Had
the South taken his advice, slavery
would have died a natural death
the death of gradual and peaceful
emancipation-and there would
have been no ''race problem" for
the present or future generations
to blunder over.
Stephens was Wing. So were
Toombs and Hill. When 80 years
Of age Stephens was chosen
member of the Twenty eighth
Congress, and for the succeeding
sixteen years he was one of the
most distinguished public men in
America. Pygmy that he was,
physically, no labor daunted him, |
md his mind was ever busy. He |
md Toombs we're like brothers. |
Their principles were Identical,
ind it was rare that they disagreed |
IN a question of policy. Stephens
lad the greatest admiration for
he noble qualities and gigantic
Intellect of his friend, and loved
o lend him the aid Of bis industry.
t is related th at enc day Toombs
made speech in the Senate that
vas at once the admiration, the
nvy, and the despair of all his
ivals in that body. When asked
he question, Toombs asserted that
e had never given the subject a
ay's thought before he addressed
be Senate. "That is exactly
rue," said Stephens, when he
card of it; ''that is exactly true.
'ut / worked two weeks on that ,
peech before Toombsever thought /
t it." {
William H. Seward said that
combs speech asserting the right !
secession was the most power )
il argument he .ever heard, and !
IMPLY unanswerable, and no doubt t
combs was indebted to Stephens q
or many of the ideas of that mas
'rIy production, :
1t was in 1s47 that Stephens and
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-08

When you bring us a Prescription you can rest as
sured that it will be compounded by Of the best
Pharmacists in the State, who uses nothing but the
purest drugs obtanabe. full line Of Purses Cigars
Tobacco Brushes Stationery, and Toilet Accessories
Phone z2S. Goods Delivered Free in City.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-08

Use Sunshine Flourthe best.
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-01-27
MADE THE ACCOUNT STRAIGHT.
Charles M. Sehwab's Neat Rebuke Of
Presumptuous Enalishman.

Chas. NJ. Schwab. like most men OF
wealth, gets innumerable letters ask
ing him to subscribe to charities.
When Mr.. Schwab is assured OF q
charitys usefulness, he subscribes,
but often, of course, he has to refuse
to give to charities about which he is
dubious.
Not long since Mr.. Schwab re-
ceived a letter from a stranger in
London.
knowing as do your generosity"
this stranger wrote, Il have put you
down for a G40 or 5000 subscription
to our miners widows fund. Christ
mas is approaching. and we propose
to give fowl and n Christmas pud-
ding to each miners widow on Christ
mas Eve. In this good work your
donation will help largely"
Though I know nothing OF you or
of your fund, / respond gladly to the
call you make upon me. l, too. am in
terested in charity similar to yours.
1t is an american charity, and, since
it stands in need of funds for a
Christmas treat. I have not hesitated
to put you down for subscription of
5000 to it. Thus no money need pass
between u.s."
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-01-27
Nom porothx Studies in school.


81 think shall take Muriel out OF
school and teach her myself this win
ter" said Young Mother No. l.
There must be something defective
about the public school system. for
she doesn't know how to read yet"
Young Mother No. 2 smiled remi-
niscently 81 tried that with Dorothy
last year." she said.
with what success?"
well, we got on very well until
we came to double letters. There the
child balked. for she couldn't seem
to learn to spell the word without re-
peating the letter twice. You mustn t
say bell, bell. Dorothy 1 insisted.
Spell the word b-e-double l.
FINALLY I succeeded in drilling the
doubling process into her head only
too thoroughly. as found one day
when l wanted to show her father
how she had progressed under my
tuition. pointed to lesson which
began, Up. up. Mary, the sun is high,
and told her to read it. She looked
at it for a moment with puzzled
frown, then she began confidently:
Double up. Mary, the sun is hight
"At her fathers suggestion she re-
turned to fchool next day"
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-01-27
rheIr Hand.PaInted Aneestors.

Speaking of old pictures" said the
yirtuoso, as he placed an old oil color
of Grover Cleveland beside a dusty
painting OF Henry Clay. Il can tell
you something that exposes the ridicu.
lous side of ambition and the weak
ness of vain human nature. It's this /:
Many of the pictures of supposed
deceased ancestors mat hang on the
walls of the nouveau richie are no
more paintings OF their kinsmen than
they are OF Julius Caesar or of Carl
baldi. They are simply pictures of
unknown. but respectable appearing
Toms. Dicks and Harrys purchased
for so much head in antique stores
for the purpose of deceiving a guile
less public.
so in Mrs. Porkbarrels salon.
when visitor adjusts her lorgnette
and stares patronizingly at the rusty
painting of an old gentleman hanging
on the wall. Mrs. Porkbarrel will calm.
ly say: oh. yes. that's my great
grandfather And, indeed, she may
be telling the truth she has no more
idea who her great grandfather was
than If she never had any. and she
probably paid $50 for that picture in
the store around the corner"
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-01-27
Almost Too Generous.

"Our Hopeful's" mother was deter
mined he should be generous. AL
ways divide with your friends" was
her daily admonition. One day she
was holding forth on this theme to
an admiring friend when Our Hope
full appeared with a much-begrimed
face. Mother, I've brought you some
taffy." uncIasping the chubby fingers,
which disclosed on the moist palm a
dark, sticky substance, which he hand
ed her. AS she put it in her mouth
"Our Hopeful" bent forward with his
hands on his knees to watch the op-
Grafton, mouth and eyes wide open.
Are you sure you swallowed it? Is
is down good? Cause 1 gave it to
Prince and he unswallowed it two
times"
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-01-27
1. Grippe is Epidemic catarrh.

T spares no class or nationality. The
cnhurcd and the ignorant, the aris-
tocrat and the pauper, the masses and
the classes are alike subject to In grippe.
None are exempt-all are liable.
Grip is well named. The original
French term, la grippe, has been short
ened by the busy American to read
grip"
Without intending to do SO, new
word has been coined that exactly
describes the case. As il some hideous
giant with awful grip had clutchcd us
in it's fatal clasp.
Men. women, children, whole towns
and cities are caught in the baneful
grip of terrible monster.
Have you the grip? Or, rather, has
the grip got you? II so, read the fol-
lowing letters.
These testimonials speak for them
selves as to the efficacy of Pcruna in
cases OF La grippe or its aftcr-etfects:
A Southern Judge Cured.
Judge Horatio j. Goss, Hartwell, Ca
writes:
Some five or six years ago l had n
very severe spell of grip which left me
with systemic catarrh.
"a friend advised me to try your
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-01-27
Welcome Home.

New York custom house welcome
described by an old lady: THE officer
who meets you in the ship asks you
your name, address, what date you
sailed from the United States, name of
steamer, how many trunks you have,
ii you have brought any dresses or
are taking any presents home. On the
wharf the inspector opened my parcel
of wraps. pulled out my pightgown, hot
water bottle and leggings.
He then opened my handbag, looked
into the little box where | keep my
hairpins, also the box with the corn
plasters, took my comb and brush out
of the paper. looked into my bag with
the sewing materials. Then my trunk
was turned and he asked if everything
was my own wearing appar<' and no
presents.
Took out some of the tiEg. on
top, and everything wrapped in paper
he opened. He was very suspicious OF
everything wrapped in paper. He
wanted to know what that beret was
you sent to j., and l told him 1t was
my golf cap. AS l am nearly 10 he
looked a little surprised. Fra y
cisco Argonaut.
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-01-27
SOME FACTS ABOUT AMERICA.
Brazil First So Named-Result Of
Quest for India.

I
Quest for India.
"Uneducated Americans" says a
correspondent of the London Times.
pronounce the name of their country
Amarica. calling themselves Amari-
cans. In 50 doing they not only yield
to a natural craving for a finer eu-
phony, but, quite accidentally. l pre-
sumo, are more correct, genealogical
ly, than educated Americans-Ameri-
go being the Italian form of the Goth
ic Amalaric. contracted to Amafc.
This personal name means strenuous
In labor, resolute in action, an appro-
pirate motto to add to the Washing
ton armorial in the national device OF
America
Brazil was the original America.
Down to the first quarter Of the six
teenth century our North America
was still mapped as an extension of
India. Tibet. China and Japan. and our
Brazil as an island, separated by the
Islands discovered by Columbus from
the new world of Greater India and
named America provincial and again
America vel Brasilia.'
Not before the middle of the six
teenth century was the term America
extended to North America. with the
addition vel Nova India In brief. the
Americas were both mere windfalls
in the heroic secular quest after
.spiced' India. This Is the redoubled
debt the Anglo-Saxon race owes In
dfa"
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-01-27
HE REVISED THE RULES.
Finally Budget Was Reduced to One
Important Section.

Before We were married" oogitated
the und-snouldered but otherwise
Upright man. as he proceeded with his
task of drying the dishes, which his
wife had left In an untidy state when
she departed for the convocation OF
the sewing circle, II concocted-in my
mind-quite long series of bylaws
and regulations which should govern
and shape our married life. There
were rules and formulas calculated, so
/ believed, to fit almost any emergen-
cy that might arise: and from time to
time ! added codicils to it, as they oc-
Cured to me, till in the end ii was
veritable constitution, duly authorlz-
ing two to live cheaper than one and
happier than anybody else,
But shortly after the ceremony
which made us two souls with but
single thought, as they say in stories,
began. little at a time. TO amend the
document-it was a mental one. as l
said beforehand. strange as 1t may
appear, the more amendments | added
tine shorter it became. till now, after
the lapse of fourteen years of welded
bliss, my constitution is so reduced
that it is composed of only one sec
ton, which is as follows:
Section !. What my wife says Is
law!"-London Tit-Bits.
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-01-27
Measuring Space.

James Whitcomb Riley. who occa-
sionally visits country schools in the
Hoosier state, once gave a brief ad-
dress on the subject of the stars. At
the conclusion of his interesting talk
he said:
Can any OF you boys tell me what
space is?"
The bright faced young son of a
country editor promptly raised his
hand.
We'll, my lad" said the poet. what
do you think space is?"
twenty-five cents an agate line for
display matter. sir" he piped out
Saturday Evening Post
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-01-27
CHANCES ARE THEY WERE.
Guest Asked for Soft-eoiled Eggs. but
They Mioht Have Been Hard.


The wife of an out-oftown clergy
man had been away from home for a
week and had left certain light house
hold duties for her husband to attend
to during her absence. among them
the getting of his own breakfast. On
her return she was dismayed to learn
that a brother clergyman had come to
visit him and had remained one night
at the rectory. In fear and trembling
she inquired into the details Of his
entertainment.
81 took him with me to the boarding
house for dinner" her husband told
her, 80 that part was all right; and l
knew that you always kept the guest
room ready for occupancy. so was
safe on that point. The only thing
that l am not sure of having been
satisfactory is his breakfast. He said
on retiring that he would like to be
called at O'Clock, and that all he
would want to eat would be two soft
eggs, so put on the eggs at exactly
Z. and then | called him. He never
came down stairs until halfpast S,
and there We're his eggs boiling In
the pot, and they may have been
hard boiled for all l know. New
York Times.