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The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1907-01-11

For over three
years I suffered
with a dropsical
condition with.
out being aware
that 1t was due
to kidney trou-
BILE. The early
s ( a es W err
principally back
ache and bear.
ing down pain.
but / went along
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1907-01-11
eLoATED WITH DRoPsY.
The Heart Was Badly Affected Whs0
the Patient Began Using
Doan's Kidney Pills.

Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell, Of 415 West
Fourth street, Olympia, Wash, says:
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1907-01-11

With too many people charity In
more of q fad than a virtue.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1907-01-11
Removal Of Restrictions.

The secretary OF the interior has
approved the application for the re-
moval of restrictions from the land
of the following named:
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10
ROAD TO SUCCESS
PUBLICITY is THE MAIL-oRoER
MANS GREAT WEAPON.
MERCHANTS MUST ADVERTISE
Flight Fire with Fire" and the Dol.
lars Now Going city~ard Will
Stay In the Home Community.

The merchant who would wage sue
cessfui warfare against mailorder
competition should study mail-order
methods. The same tactics that takes
the dollar out of the community will
keep it at home.
And what are mail-order methods?
The keynote of 1t all may be found
In the one word-publIcity. The mail
order house advertises. 1t does not
advertise better goods at less money
tnan the home merchant gives, but 1t
advertises persistently. 1t puts its
proposition before the public constant
ly. 1t recognizes no dull season In its
campaign for publicity. 1t never lets
up.
AT a gathering in Iowa some time
ago a mail-order man explained some
of the system followed in the cam
paign of publicity According to this
explanation the mailorder house seeks
the line of least resistance in its
search for business. Whenever they
can find a town in which the mer-
chants are not active advertisers they
flood that community with their liter
AZURE. When they find town in
which the furniture dealer. for exam
pie. is afraid to use printers ink they
pay particular attention to the subject
of furniture. They are searching for
the weakest link in the chain of home
defenses
Something of this is explained by
the conditions the writer saw In a
mill town in northern Wisconsin. The
local DaDpr carried practically no local
advertising when the size of the town
was considered. and the stores of the
town were but small affairs. In talk
Ing to one of the merchants he COM
planned that more than $4,000 was
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10
INACCURATE SEED TESTING.
What the termination May and May
Not Show.

It is not at all certain that seed
when sown in the open field will show
the same amount of digesdbility as
when sown in seed testing boxes or
between plates in the house and I'M
der ideal conditions of warmth and
moisture. A great many experiments
have been made to show what the
terminating power of various seeds is.
and it has been figured out that the
results would be the same in the field
as in the seed testers. 1t is inter-
esting, therefore, to note that a COM
parison of results do. not show the
same percentage of seed terminating
under the two conditions.
In some comparative tests reported
81 samples of seed of oats and wheat
were tested in regular seed testers.
The lowest termination was 40 per
cent. and the highest 80 per cent. A
like number of samples of the same
seed were planted in the open ground
at the same time. the samples being
the same grain as those planted in
the testers. One OF the oat samples
that had shown termination of "a
per cent. when planted in the tester
gave only 81 per cent. of termination
when planted in the open field. An
other lot gave in the tester a germi-
nation of 81 per cent. yet when sown
in the open field 1t gave only 10 per
cent. This was a most remarkable de-
cline.
One of the samples of wheat seed
gave 60 per cent of termination when
sown in the seed tester. but when
sown in the field gave only per cent
of termination. The poorest sample
for field work gave 62 per cent. of ger
mination when sown in the seed test
err, but in the field gave only per
cent. of termination. This illustrates
the fact that something besides ger
mination tests need be looked for
when figuring on what seed will do
Conditions in the field are much hard
err than in terminating plate.
An investigation of this seed SHOW
ed that 1t had been produced under
bad conditions and probably licked
vitality. 1t had been injuriousiy af.
fected by early fall frosts. Most of
1t had enough vitality to enable it
to sprout under the perfectly favor.
able conditions found in q sprouting
tray. but had not enough vitality to
enable 1t to sprout when buried in the
ground where the moisture supply
would be too great or too little, the
temperature too high or too low, and
where the air would not have free
access to the grain.
The termination tests may still be
considered valuable. says Farmers
Review. but they are by no means
conclusive. SO long as they are con-
Quoted under ideal conditions. 1t Is
only rare that conditions in the open
ground are ideal for the termination
of seed.
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10

not. They select towns, or special
lines where they do not have to meet
the competition that is offered by To-
cal advertising, and they make adver-
Using pay.
We want the people to trade at
home; we want them to build up the
home community; we want to see the
dollars kept in circulation here that
one and all of the local people may
prosper. We do not want to see the
fortunes of the city mail-order man
built at the expense of the local COM
munity, but we know absolutely the
value Of publicity. and we know the
mail-order houses will capture the dol
lars If the local merchants will not
fight fire with fire: will not show the
public what they can buy and at what
price.
Let us go back to this northern
Wisconsin town and see what oppor-
tunities the merchants there were sac
riflcing. 1t was a mill town, and In
no way an agricultural community.
There were not 20 farms within ra-
dius of as many miles. The industry
was lumber. and the money to run the
mills came from the city. The nearly
900 employees were paid in city
money, and with little effort on the
part of the merchants in that town
this money might have been kept in
the town. 1t might have been made
to build permanent prosperity. But
no. the merchants left wide field for
the mail-order houses which they i'm
proved, and the money that might
have built a town that would have
stood after the lumber interests are
gone and the mills are closed has been
allowed to return to the city from
which 1t came, and now every lofty
pine that falls but drives another nail
in tho coffin of the town. and all be-
cause the merchants did not believe it
would pay to advertise.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10

for st. Patrick's day and often to the
United States under the name of the
shamrock
1t may, perhaps. lay claim to being
called the true historic shamrock, al
though that honor might also be
claimed for several other plants.
But 1t is not true that it will not
grow elsewhere. 1t will grow wher-
ever 1t is properly cultivated and does
grow freely in other countries.
Beyond that the white clover, tri-
folium repens. is widely understood to
be the common shamrock. and is
plucked and worn under that name in
Ireland and elsewhere. 1t grows no.
where more freely and abundantly
than in the United States, and there
is nothing Enthusiastically Irish
about it.
The black medic (medicago lupu-
lina) is also known as the shamrock
So s.the wood sorrel (oxalis acetosel-
la). There is much historical evidence
in favor of the claim that this last
plant is the shamrock sung by the
poets. 1t is beautifully trifoliate and
1t grows in wild places.
1t may we'll be the plant referee TO
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10

by the horticultural above mentioned
because 1t would be dificult to make
1t thrive in any sort of cultivation
which did not approximate closely to
the conditions under which it grows
naturally.
However, these natural conditions
are not found in Ireland alone This
oxalis grows in England as well and
is there locally known as the sham
rock. 1t fiourishes in the United
States, carpeting the ground for
square miles together.
The true shamrock" to an Irishman
is the plant which is known by that
name around the spot of his or his
fathers birth. But the botanist has
as much trouble in identifying it as
he has In Identifying the "mayfiower"
of New England. a name which is ap-
piled in different localities to the
trailing arbutus, to the saxifrage, TO
the hepatica and to two or three other
plants. In spite of the fact that the
trailing arbutus is the mayfower of
New England literature the word IL
much more commonly and popularity
applied to the saxifrage than It 10 4.
the erbutus.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10
WHAT is A REAL SHAMROCK
impossible to Say Which TrefoiI Is
ireiand's True Emblem.

A newspaper the other day reported
a prominent florist and horticultur-
ist'' as saying: There seems to be
some strange fatality about the sham
rock. 1t is essentially the flower of
ireland. Nowhere else except in that
little isle will the plant thrive and
when transplanted its death is only a
question of brief time. Irish 1t is and
nothing can change it"
This statement is romantic. but
hardly scientific. In the first place. no
one knows surely what plant is meant
when the shamrock is mentioned. 1t
ia impossible to know what plant this
horticulturist meant. In one part of
ireland one plant is called the sham
rock. in another part another plant and
eisew in the island still another.
The name is perhaps most widely
given to one of the hop clovers botan-
ically named trifolium minus. This is
the plant which Is commonly exported
fro Ireland. especially to London.
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10

sent from that community to the Chi
cagO mail-order houses each month.
That is easily twice the amount that
is spent in all the stores in this town
put together each month" he explain
ed. Merchandising don't pay in such
a place as this"
A few hours later the writer was
talking with the publisher of the local
paper. and the conversation turned to
local advertising. or rather the lack
of it.
Il was very much tempted to accept
proposition which | received from
one of the Chicago mail-order houses
few days ago." said the publisher.
Il still have the proposition here on
my desk They offer me a cash con-
tract at my regular display rates for
| 500 inches. to be used during the
year and in addition TO the cash ad-
vertising they offer me small COM
mission on all the new business Sc
cured in this county during the life
of the contract They say their bust
ness in this county during the last IL
months was approximately $4,000 per
month, and | would secure a small
percentage on all business done over
this amount during the next IL
months"
Have you shown that proposition
to the merchants Of this town." 1
asked.
Il have. and it didn't move them"
he replied. They simply say it don't
pay to advertise. / would jump at
the offer If it were not for the fact
that cannot bring myself to the point
of doing that which l know Will help
to kill this community -.
There was an illustration of mail
order methods. The wide-awake mail
order man proposed to reap golden
harvest from the field the very-much
asleep local merchant would not Gull
tivate.
Does it pay to advertise?
The more than 5000. 600. 900 that finds
its way to the Chicago mail-order
houses each year is garnered by
campaign of advertising. You. Mr.
Local Merchant, claim. and rightly,
that you can sell the same goods for
the same, or less money. than the
mail-order houses offer. but at the
same time you complain because the
mail-order man gets the business.
Why do they get 1t? Because they
advertise.
They not only advertise. but they
advertise in your field. and they ad-
vsrtise in your field because you do
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10

I that was just visible around euyA.
II could not understand what Katie
intended to do to help me. but somo-
how I had absolute confidence that tho
child would save my life.
Tho Mothers Agony.
Hardly had she gone OF the bridge
than she snatched from her neck a red
muffier that she wore and waved It
frantically at the engineer. at the
same time planting herself in the mid
die of the track. apparently with the
belief that II the flag did not stop the
engine she would. When l saw this
I looked at the engine for an instant.
and not being able to see that the
train was slowing down my blood
turned hot and cold by turns, and I
shut my eyes. determined that I
would not move, for knew that II the
engine ran past Katie and her sig.
nal 1t meant that death had como
to her, and might just as well come
to me.
"In that moment / lived over a good
many years. before l realized that
the train had stopped and / was being
lifted from danger.
Il remember thinking of an acci-
dent which l saw several years ago
on this very bridge, when an old man
was killed there by fast train. 1 re-
membered that his heart had fallen
right near where l was standing, and
that as i looked at 1t l could see 1t
beat two or three times. The mem
DRY of this night came flashing over
m ha I
think for a moment l must have
tainted.
Realized ChiId's Bravery.
Il did not open my eyes until l
heard Katie's voice at my side and
felt the strong arms of the trainmen
lifting me and carrying me to the
station. And there l wept, I guess
Historically, for l then realized just
how brave the child's act was, for
knew that when Katie started up the
track waving the mufIier she never
intended to get off the track until she
had stopped the train"
All that Katie would say about her
part in averting a tragedy was:
You see, the engine had to stop, for
had a red signal. You know
mat always stops train. and
waved 1t at the engineer because
didn't know anything else to
do to make him stop. l couldn't
lift mother out ana so / just had to
stop the train. l don't think there 10
anything funny in that.
mo, l wasn't afraid. What should
be afraid of? Didn't have the red
muffier? Don't trains always stop
when the man at the playhouse waves
a red flag? Well. then, what should
/ be afraid Off"
That's the kind Of girl Katie is.
She knew no fear. She had absolute
confidence that the red flag controlled
the motion of the wheels of the pom
derous Iron horse" and made her
mothers life perfectly safe.
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10
Pig Likes Comfort.

No domesticated animal loves com.
fort more than the pig. Cold winds
and storms are damaging. and cost
good deal of feed. Call out a lot of
pigs from comfortable shelter, and
throw them some corn on the ear. and
see how quickly they will carry it to
the shelter to eat. 1t pays well to
provide shelter from heavy winds
and extreme cold. though fresh air
and dry beds to sleep in are a neces.
sity If pigs are to thrive and grow fat.
shelter need not be costly; In fact
there is great deal of money wasted
In putting up expensive buildings. but
1t should be warm and at the same
time well ventilated.
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10

tured She never could have helped
herself; she would have been killed
instantly.
Katie Not Excited.
The women passengers turned to lit
tie Katie. who didn't seem to think
she had done anything out of the or.
binary. There she was. standing on
the bridge trying to comfort her moth
err. who was suffering intense pain
from her broken leg. The women COW
cred her with kisses. which Katie
didn't seem to relish, because she was
excited over seeing that somebody
would get carriage to take her moth
er home.
The carriage was called and injured
Mrs. Johnson was taken home, glad
that she had suffered only a broken
leg
But after they got back to the cars
the train hands began to tell stories
of old railway men who had forgotten
to wave anything red when to do it
meant saving lives.
Katie is a slight child with fiaxen
hair. cold steady blue eyes. and clear
waxen pink complexion. She has
about her an air of one who thinks
and acts quickly and with fearless
resolution.
How Accident Occurred.
we all had been to Philadelphia
that day" said Mrs. Johnson. Il had
with me a little four-year-old boy,
Herbert Durand. and Katie. When we
got back to Mount Holly l was pretty
tired and thought | would walk home
the shortest way. This led me over
the bridge near the station. The children
were ahead of me but short distance.
and were getting over the bridge nice
ly. We walked on a plank that runs
across the middle of the bridge. 1 was
about half way across. l think, when
my foot slipped OF this plank and
caused me to fall, knocking down lit
tie Herbert. and nearly rolling him
into the creek. After had put him on
his feet l started to get up. and in
doing so made a misstep that plunged
both my feet and then my body be-
tween two ties, until only my head
and shoulders were above the bridge.
Il saved myself from dropping into
the creek below by spreading out my
arms when I felt myself going down.
Child Thought Quickly.
II screamed as l fell and this at
tracted the attention of Katie. who
was little distance ahead of me. She
came running back and taking hold
of one arm tried to help me up, but
l could not lift myself enough to get
out. While l was thinking what to
do. whether l should drop into the
creek below or try some other means
of getting loose. found Katie had left
me and started for the station for
help.
She had gone but few steps when
heard a whistle. and saw Katie
white as sheet, with big tears in her
eyes. give one look at me and then
turn about and fairly fly across the
bridge up the track toward the train
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10

Little Willie Trundy, of Searsport,
Me-, stood at the window one day.
watching his grandfather NOW a piece
of grass near the house. After watch.
ing him a few minutes. he turned to
his grandmother and asked If God was
everywhere.
Yes" said she, God is everywhere =
is He here in this room?'
Yes"
Willie pondered a moment, then
rs He out in the field where granny
is?"
Yes, Willie, He is everywhere
Quick as a flash came the response:
That He'd better be careful or gram.
py II cut His legs on
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10

Mount Holly. ". MANY a mother
has saved her child from death. Here
Ia child who has saved her mother
from death-death under the grinding
wheels of locomotive tearing along
the rails at 60 miles an hour.
The child is 12-year-old Katie John
son; the mother. Mrs. William John
son. If it hadn't been for little Katie
Mrs. Johnson would be in her grave
now and Katie a motherless little
schoolgirl. But Katie kept her wits
where another child might have lost
them.
The train was the Ave o'clock mail
from Philadelphia. 1t was behind
time. The engineer was trying to
catch up to his schedule. so he pulled
the throttle out to the last notch. He
took a chance on the curve near this
city and was about 10 take the bridge
at top speed when he was Mortified to
sce little girl standing on the tracks.
not 200 yards away.
She was tearing along toward the
on-coming train. waving something. 1t
was red. The engineer knew.
Stopped Just in Time.
lie threw over the throttle and
iammed down the brakes-the childs
signal meant danger. The heavy train
came to a stop with such a shock that
all the passengers were thrown from
their seats In the coaches The pilot
of the locomotive wasn't 20 feet from
the little girl when the wheels stopped
grinding along the rails.
h.
gineer. jumping down from his seat
I'm the cab. followed by his fireman
The passengers piled out. too. curl
Gus to know. There In front of them
stood little girl. waving her red muf-
fier still. right in the path OF the giant
locomotive that would have ground
her to pieces had 1t gone two rods fur
Their.
Quick, come Quickl' she cried. for
answer.
Then she started to run back over
the tracks. followed by the train crew
and scores of the passengers. When
they got to the bridge they knew what
the matter was.
Woman Caught Between Ties.
There on the bridge, which the train
would have crossed in five seconds
more. they found woman, badly hurt.
SHE had tried to walk across the
bridge and had slipped. falling be-
tween the ties. There she was tight
iy wedged. Her head and shoulders
protruded above the ties. Any loco
motive that crossed would have de-
capltated her instantly. And she was
80 tightly stuck in between the ties
that had any train passed over. there
would have been no chance for escape.
II was Ka.ie's- mother.
II FELL" she gasped, while Katie
and I were crossing the bridge on the
way to town. I was caught fast"
Gently the train hands and some OF
the passengers pulled Mrs. Johnson
out OF her perilous position. Then they
found that her left leg had been frac
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10
EFFECT OF WOMEN VOTING.
British Writer Tells Of Conditions In
New Zealand.

New Zealand was the first British
colony to adopt women's suffrage
as far back as 1S93." says a writer in
the London Chronicle. The New
Zealand woman was given universal
adult suffrage. Though she had not
sought 1t, she immediately used It.
Out of 140o00 women 100000 had
placed themselves on the register in
n few months. and 10000 voted in the
general election OF November. 1893.
They voted peacefully and in order
during the day while the men were
at work, and left the booths to the
men in the evening. They have voted
with similar regularity and orderli
ness ever since How do the women
use their powers? Very calmly. by
all accounts. Roughly. women make
very much the same use of the fran
chlse as do men. The result has not
produced either a new heaven or a
new hell. Men have not been de-
prived of their rights. There has
been no disorder or unseemly behav
ior-no strange revolution in dress or
manners. Acknowledgement has led
neither to divided households nor d.
vided skirts.
THE effects, in fact. have been rath.
or social than political. Women seem
to be treated with more real respect
and not merely at election times.
There has arisen between the sexes
that sense of equality which Is per-
haps the only permanent and enduring
social basis. Speaking generallyfthey
have simply become citizens. whose
part in public affairs is not sharply
distinguished from that of men. New
Zealand women have simply stepped
into equality. And IA years OF poiit-
ical life have shown them equal to
that equality. Working side BY side
with man. woman still keeps her
place-'not like to like, but like In
difference
THE word pictures of which colon
lists used to have so many given them
OF domestic discord. OF children for
gotten. husbands uncared fo-. dinners
uncooked, dress and appearances neg
lected-have already almost passed
from memory. 1t is the commonest
| sight to see husband. wife and grown
up children walking or driving cheer
fully to the polls together. The head
of the family has become a more i'm
portant factor in politics than of
old"
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10
Borrowing Trouble

Now. thu very worst things that might
happen. you know.
Are the things that don't happen at all.
We fdEet and worry. iamenting and
sorry,
In the grasp of expectancy's thrall.
Apprehensive forcbodinss cucumber our
souls,
Depression weighs down like a pail.
30 we wear a long face with q very poor
grace
And then nothing happens at all.
When we prophesy storms IL is sure to
clear on.
When our moneys gone. something
comes In
And the thoughts of those bills which
have given US chiiL.
Every month shouldn't make us grow
thin
The Lamar register., 1907-04-10

body. Alarmed. she applied home
remedies, but the spots continued to
spread. The child's body presents the
appearance of being tattooed. Almost
the entire body is covered. with the
exception of the face. which thus far
has not been affected. While most of
the time the blotches are of a mellow
purple. they occasionally change to a
deep plum color or dull red. Some
blotches are as large as penny. 9th.
ers are no larger than a pinhead. The
disease is probably caused by rheu-
matte germ.