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The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1916-11-25

Every loyal member of the asked to contribute to this
fund the time short and the finance much needed Every
dollar contributed will be accounted for each week through the
umns OF Negro Journals of this state The nonarsan
entirely the guiding spirits of the actuated
and that is the desire eecaze the black
right to do anything in Oklahoma that under the law other
may do II you love your racef pride
dime dolarcash by sending financial assistance
Of the members of the Finance committee whose addresses
follow:
DR.. A. R. Whtby, 315la E. Second St., Oklahoma City,
Hon. E. N. Guilory. 207 So. Second St. Muskogee Okla
Hon 9. w. Gurley, la North Greenwood, Tulsa Okla
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1916-11-25

In the supplemental registration which begins the 18th and
continues for ten days. the Negroes of the various counties who
have not been permitted REGISTER intend to paceb and lawfully
present themselves before the registrar They to have
present with them witnesses. On election morning these
Negroes registered unregistered themselves
and have witnesses this Also with this
made they to file suits for damages the Federal courts
against election official who denies black their Const
tuona rights Backing this all of the Negro
the state who have started already campaign for funds Law
will be employed and vigorous and oefu fight be made to
coward attempt to conscae the liberty that
Justly the right of black men.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-04

Same to same, lot 81, block 3, in.
same addition. IS.
Same to same, lot IS, block 26,
same addition. IS and other consid-
erations.
Same to same, lot II block 26,
same addition. $5 ana other consid-
erations.
f. A. Russell to Viola A. Murray,
lots II and IL. block 27, Smith-Hal-
sell Addition to Bennington $500.
A. D. Stephens and wife to W. G.
Lamb and wife, lot 4, block 210, Du-
rant $3.50.
S. w. McConnaughay TO Il. l.. Bar
nett, lots 8. 4. 5. 6, 7. and s, block
14O. Achille. $135.
Lizzie Dana and others TO I. NJ
Scott, two-thirds interest in 50 NV
NV. Sec. 8, T 6 S, r II r.. 5000
r. L. Telford and others to Fieldon
Gravitt, NV NV and NJ NE NV,
less acre, Sec. IA, T > 5, r z.
$1,000.
A. N. Leecraft to Lelah NJ. Lee
RAJ l. pau lOI - biOth ~ NblbtIl.
5000.
Geo. b. Seitz to Wm. Bishop. lots
25and 26, block 25, Huse Addition
TO Blue. $40.
II. II. Hamilton and others 10 VIM.
Bishop. lots 90 and "a block p,
Huse Addition to Blue. $40.
Glen Seitz and others ia Wm. Ri
shop, lot 6, block 26, Huse Addition
to Blue. $40.
Oklahoma immigration Co. to Y.
w. Peters lot -, block 22, Katy Its.
Addition to Caddo. $175.
Franklin J. Mathis and others to
N. S. Worley lot 2, block zee, Du-
rant. $3.50
N S. WOrley to A. b. Camden and
others, same as above. $500.
f. c. Cobb to o. Brown, lot =,
block 38, Durant $142.5O.
f. c, Bokemper to F. p. Semple,
NE NV Sec. /. T 6 S, r 10 f. 81
and other considerations.
Lemuel c. Moore to Mrs. Nora
Moore, lots /. 3 3, 4, 5, and 6, blocF
l40. Calera. 81 and other consider
ations
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-04
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Forrest H. Johnson and wife to
Eliza Dana, one-third interest IN
NE quarter and w half NE Sc, and
E half NV Sc Sec. %. Also NV NV
Sc Sec. 26S, r 3. r 10 f.
Elsert Horn and others tN David
j. Horn, VIZ Sc NE and E2 SW NE,
Sec. 33, T 5 S, r 10 f.
Chas. r. Allen and wife to Mrs.
Relva B. Pirnie, lot 8, block -, Huse
Addition to Blue. $50.
Same to same, lot 4, block l2. in
same addition. $40.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-04
HARDY VISITED DURANr

Justice Summers Hardy OF khe
State supreme court was here Mon
day en- route to Hugo where he cast
his vote in the Democratic primary
election. Judge Hardy had not been
in Durant since before the election
two years ago, and expressed great
surprise at the rapid strides in build
ing in the business section.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-04
DEATH OF MRS. T. J. HUI

Mrs. T. J. HilI. aged SO. died at 5
O'Clock Monday morning at the home
of her son. C. ]. Hill, seven mites
northeast of D4irant. Funeral ser.
vices we're held in this city Tuesday
morning at the home of Mrs. T A..
Hill. 916 West Louisiana street, fol-
lowed by interment in Highland GEM
etery.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-04
BANK WORK BEING RUSHED

Work on the Durant National
Banks new building on Nam at Sec
ond Avenue, is being rushed, and
Contractor H. E. McCart hopes to
turn the building over by the first
of the year. The foundations are
completed, and work on the walls
has commenced.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-04
PESIDENT WELCOMES SUP
PORT OF THE INDEPEN-
DENT VOTERS

(: President Wilson sent the s
. following letter to Represen- (
: tative William Kent, of Cali (
I: fornia, who recently was Sc
: lected as the chairman of the (
3 Woodrow Wilson Independ-
. etn League:
(: my dear Mr.. Kent:
: 1T gratifies me very much (
+. that you should have been Sc
. lected as Chairman of the (
g Woodrow Wilson Independ- (
(: ent League, and that you
+" should be willing TO serve in
. that capacity The support
(: of Independent men whose
(. convictions share and
:. whose purposes are my pur-
(. poses also gives me the great
+. est encouragement not only,
f" but makes me feel that the
. political processes of the
{. country are clearing for a
. new and more effective COM {
. bination in the work of ad-
. vancing all reasonable re-
/. form to early consumma-
: tion.
. Cordially and sincerely
(. yours,
7. WOODROW WILSON" 4
. .. q, Z. ., ., d. ., 4. q Z. o q 3, . .,
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-04

Parole Clerk J.. NJ. Crook came
down from Oklahoma City Tuesday
to cast his vote in the primary cleo
tion. Anb
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-04

j. +. Burns of the Bungalow thea.
tire, is In Kansas City this week on
business trip.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-04

X. c. McCalib of this place and
Miss Eula James of Boswell. We're
married at the brides home in Bns-
we'll Tuesday. They will make pu-
rant their home
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-04
Lax-Fos, A mild, Effective Laxative 6 Liver Tonic
Does Not Crime nor Disturb the Stomach.

In addition to other properties, Lax Fos
acts effectively and does not griPe nor
digestion, arouses the liver and secretiOns
and restores the healthy functions. soc.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-08-04

Get our prices on Job Printing.
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28
CUTTING Bullet Out of the Heart.

DIR. Maurice Beaussenat, who had
already extracted piece of grenade
from the right yentricle of mans
heart, told the French Academic des
Sciences of a second similar operation
performed with success.
a corporal wounded ut Eparges had
been treated for peritonitis and then
had been operated on for appendicitis.
He continued to suffer in various
ways for more than a year, when a
kaleidoscope revealed the pressure of a
Shrapnel ball, moving in time to the
beatings of his heart. Supposing this
to be in the pericardium or sac about
the heart. Doctor Beaussenat event
In as the surgeons say, and saw that
the ball was actually in the right ven
tricle, near the lower end.
The heart was drawn out; its wall
was cut open between two loops of
wire; the ball was removed and the
heart was sewn up again. Six months
later the heart had healed so perfectly
that there was not sign of irregu-
larity about its pulsations.
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28
HOW PEN MAY HELP FORGER
HabitualIy Used, 1t Is Said to Become
lmbued With the Spirit of a
Signature.

did it ever occur to you" said a
treasury official that forger has
half his work done when he can get
hold of the identical pen with which
the owner of the signature habitually
writes? A great many men, company
directors and the like, use the same
pen for their names only, for a year or
two without change.
"A pen that has been used by a
man in writing his name hundreds of
times, and never used for anything
else, will almost write the name of
itself. 1t gets imbued with the spirit
of the signature. In the hands of Il
fairly good forger it will preserve the
characteristics of the original. The
reason for this is that the point of the
pen has been ground Gown in a pc
culiar way, from being used always by
the same hand and fer the same combi-
nation of letters. 1t would splutter
if held at wrong angle or forced on
lines against its will. 1t almost guides
the sensitive hand of the forger when
he attempts to write the name"
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28
REFUSED To BE CONFINED
Honeysuckle Escaped From Formal
Gardens and Parks to Bestow
Its Fragrance on All.

Years ago Japan sent to this coun-
try vigorous green vine which won
favor through its lavish display of
fragrant white flowers in late spring
For time the vine and flowers were
kept within the bounds of gardens,
lawns and parks. Then it ran away.
Today you'll find it roaming along the
roadside climbing stumps and hedges
1t needs no gardener, the Philadel-
phia North American says. for it can
take care of itself. 1t is the honey
suckle.
The japanese variety which ran
away Joined some of its American
cousins, who are just as pretty and as
fragrant There's the coral honey
suckle, for example, famous porch
climber in the Southern states, with
trumpet-shaped flowers, red outside
and scarlet within. In England they
have the woodbine-a cream colored
fragrant relative of the honeysuckle
Recently there came new variety
from China, where it was found on the
tops of mountains COCO feet above
the sea. Its foliage is almost ever
green, and the flowers are Il reddish
bronze. Another variety has red
flowers, with yellow and buff mark
ings.
There's no need to hunt for the
honeysaekle. It's fragrance will an
nounee it before you're near enough
to see it.
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28

the hands n little feyerish rs you
walk II is the actual odor of antiquity,
a finest dust Ia suspension in the
wind the dust of decay from past
ages. All that dies in Egypt becomes
dry. and only after centuries turns
TO dust and loses form. That which
rots away in year in our northern
cline keeps Its sembance for a thou
sand years in Egypt. The stones of
the houses of native Cairo We're many
of them quarried by the ancients; the
wooden beams and joists have lasted
from the days of the Pharaohs, and
only now are gently crumbling Here
the very stones can be used to manure
the fields. Subtl. secretly, the sew
enth foundation is always crumbllng
away and passing in dust into the
desert air. The smell in the air is
partly the fine dust of munmies. of
the bodies that were once erect and
nervous and vivid. gay and felicitous
and moving. the mysterious tloeking
humans of thousands of years ago.
Crowds in the Streets.
The streets roll forward with flock
ing erowds-dark faces, brown faces.
salow faces red caps and straw hats
and little turbans and smocks and
burnous; negroes, Copts. Arabs wom-
en- in white wells. women with dark
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28
Exterminate the Rat.

Safety from many diseases lies in
the exclusion of rodents, not only FROM
habitattons of man, but also from the
ports and cities of the world. Those
who dwell in rat-proof surroundings
take no plague The day is past when
the rodent served useful purpose as
the unpaid city seavenger. Rats will
not come where there is no food for
them. Municipal cleanliness may be
regarded as partial insurance
against plague. Tie prayer tlat no
plague come nigh eur dwelling is best
answered by rat-prooting the hahita-
tions of man. Modern sanitary science
has evolved simple and efficient
weapon against the pestilence which
walketh il darkness and striketh ut
noonGay and the United States public
health service has Put this Knowledge
tEto practical operation ard thus
speedily era3ieateA plague wherever
is has appeared in the Uaited States.
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28
WEEDS GROWING IN ORCHARD
Much of Moisture-Dry Spells
Evaporated Remainder.

tBy G. w. RAPP. Department of Horti-
culture, Oklahoma A. and NJ. College,
Stilwater)
During past years dry seasons have
spelled disaster for many of the fruit
growers of the state. Due to careless
methods of farming the orchards were
allowed to grow up in weeds. These
utilized much of the moisture and the
long, dry spells evaporated most of the
rest Fruit either dried up or fell or
was too small and bitter for any prac-
teal use. In many cases the trees
died.
The neglect during the one dry year
caused the loss of orchards that had
been built up during many years.
Thorough orchard cultivation is the
only successful method of combating
the effects of dry spell. Good and
thorough tillage will keep down all
weeds and will form good dust
mulch, which will largely prevent
evaporation.
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28
GIpO n~
WAp lTW

I wells; Europeans, soldiers. hawkers
mendicants, postcard sellers newspa-
per vendors Along the ccus"r Of the
broad sun-swept roadwas - 81 the
electric trans: the rubhrrfred cabs
and Wide-hooded yictorias feloW pleas
antly; the motor cars proceed; the
military auto-cycles pant; and the
heavy OK and buffalo carts of the ma
tives bluHder along at the sides.
There is doing everywhere, happen
ing, being. Vouminous and promiscu-
Gus action floods and surges through
the city with the traffic. 1t is life
everywhere. And yet mingled with
life there is death. There is plague
in Cairo, and every now and then the
eyes rest on native funeral process
sion, one procession, two professions,
five professions, ten professions all
following one another They are in
every street and they go past with
their strange pomp of death, with the
body and the mourners and the keen
ers and professional howlers. The
brightly living crowd on the foetways
each side Of the road pause n mo-
ment and think, Someone has died, =
and pass ON, oblivious. intent on life.
In luxurious hotels gentle and beauti=
full Nubians are handing out delicate
fare. rich dishes cooked and served in
that seught=out and magnificent style
that Egypt has inherited from ages of
epieurism And wonderful assem-
bly, of officers and ladies', rich pleasure
seekers and tourists from the Mediter-
ranean shores, invalids. receives-sit=
ting Mt fower-decked tables in great
halls.
A strange impression, in the after
noon, to 90 down the side streets and
see the throngs of young men, I'M
steady on their feet but bright-eyed
ana thirsty-lipped, greedy, eager; the
strong-limbed sunburnt colonial sol
diers dancing with Arab girls the cafe
ehantants, shooting saloons. bars, bad
houses, the barrel organs, the smell of
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28

should be said, is not recommended un-
der any circumstances. When winter
rye is to be used for pasturage, it
should be sown early in September ut
about four peckse~per acre. When
grown for grain it should be seeded
about the middle of October at about
three pecks per acre. The two yarie-
ties that promise the best yields are
the Kansas and the Ivanov.
Oats is the only spring grain that
has proved successful Next to Win
ter wheat it is perhaps the best small
grain crop. While the yields are not
large, it has never failed entirely to
make grain. The highest yields have
been obtained from the rust-proof
group. which are really winter oats,
but in the Panhandle are grown from
spring seeding. The crop is usually
soWn about March l and five pecks per
acre have given the best results All
varieties shatter more or less and
should be harvested as soon as ripe
Prose- may be sown in the latter part
of May or in June ut the rate of 20
pounds of seed per acre. This crop is
harvested with "A grain binder and
threshed the same as the other small
grains.
The other small grain crops now
grown in the Panhandle include win
ter barley, spring wheat, winter spelt
and winter emmer. None of these have
demonstrated superiority in any inn
portant respect over the four crops rec
commended in the bulletin and there
seems to be no good reason, therefore.
why they should be grown In feeding
value emmer and spelt are similar to
oats and are used for much the same
purpose. The straw, however. is of lit
tie value and the yields of neither of
these crops are as great as from the
better varieties of oats.
With all the small grain crops in this
section there is considerable loss from
smut each year. The greater part of
this loss can be prevented by treating
the seed with formaldehyde solution.
The different methods of treatment are
described in detail in Farmers BulIe-
tin 73S
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28

flour To this add one eupful OF stock
or a cupful of scalded cream. Allow
to boil and then put in the meat ana
mushrooms. Cook Il minute or two
then add two well beaten egg yolks.
Set away to cool, then form into rolls,
dip in egg and crumbs and fry deli
cate brown. Serve in nests Of water
cress.
\ thin slice of cheese placed on thin
sliced buttered bread in the form of a
sandwich and sauted in little olive
oil is a good sandwich TO serve hot
with salad.
Breast of Chicken With Virginia
Ham.-Take two slices of uncooked
chicken breast. two thin slices of ham,
six tablespoonfuls of butter, one cupfui
of cream with paprika and salt. Place
the chicken in hot chatting dish or an
Omelet pan with two tableSpoonfuls of
butter and a little cream. When part
ly cooked turn them over and place on
the top of each slice of ham, add an
other tablespoonful of butter and lit
tie more cream. When this is partial
~ cooked. turn them over again, still
keeping the ham on top; add the re
naming butter and cream with gen
erous seasoning of salt and papfika !;
turn until we'll cooked, always keeping
the ham on top. When we'll done serve
a piece of chicken and piece of ham
to each person. Increase the amount
for any number of people. Serve with
sweet potatoes.
John Chinaman will tell you that
you have never tasted really fine fla
vored chicken until you have seasoned
it with ginseng, just a bit of the ex-
pensive root is sufficient, giving the
meat a delightfully."- different taste.
Tomatoes Stuffed With Ripe olives.
Scoop out the tomatoes and fill with
stuffed olives that have been stoned, a
few tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs
salt and pepper. Fry a small onion
until brown; add the pulp Of the to-
matoes, the bread crumbs and olives;
fill the tomatoes and bake Cover with
bHttered crumbs to brown and serve
hot.
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28
When Niqht Comes.


Night comes over the stately city,
and the Europeans in their white
clothes come in greater numbers into
the streets. The great remote staring
moon stands over the broad highway
and arehed bridges. Heat seems to be
generated through the haze in the sky,
but light, dry breeze is ever blowing
and the pungent. swedish odor of the
city is in the nostrils. In the contrast
of darkness and night silence the
clangor of eastern music IS more stir
ring. It stirs the body, not the soul
and is like the sensuous music of
Nebuchadnezzar, the music of cornet.
flute. harp, sackbnt. psaltery and dull
elmer. Dark women with gold orna-
ments hang out from eurtainless win
dows or Turk just inside doorways and
dark passageways ready TO coil snake
like upon a prey. In the roadways a
shouting calling crowd. In the tav-
erns they are singing "Tipperary" and
I'VE Won't Go Home Till Morning" !:
some men are standing on the tabes.
others are trying to put gawky Arab
girls through the steps of tango.
The music iangles. Th whole street
has collective voice. a strange tiuk-
ling and murmuring uRroar
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28

u
of white sugar, one quart Of not too
sharp vinegar, two ounces Of cloves
and two ounces Of stick cinnamon
Peel the peaches and insert one or
two cloves in each. Boil the sugar
and vinegar with the cinnamon for
five minutes, then put in the peaches
When the fruit is tender, remove if
carefully from the strip and nut #
into jars. Boil the strip untiI re-
dueed to nearly half and pour over
the peaches.
An old-fashioned method of presery-
ing peaches was to fill the lars with
the whole fruit. peeled and covered
with sugar; bury three feet in the
ground below the frost.
spieed Peaehes.-For six pounds IF
fruit use three pounds of grannIafod
sugar and one pint of vinegar. Into
each peach insert two cloves. puf
into the sugar and vinegar one o,,nre
of cinnamon, which should he in =
cheesecloth bag, and boil. W,en mo
mixture is boiling hot. place ~
peeled fruit in it and cook untl rem
der. Put into Jars and seal af=oooo
Peach Marmalade.-This may ha
made from the Imperfect fruif r.3,,.
three-fourths the weight OF thp fsntr
in sugar and half a pint of wafer ~
each pound of sugar. Make ! y,ron
ana ada the ReacheS cnf in sr5.Jf
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28
Old, but New to Someone.

A farmer of Madison once went to
town to buy horse and on meeting
a ranchman said: "Do you know where
l can buy good hoss?'
Il have a horse I'll sell for S3S.56
cash. sir" replied the ranchman.
will she pillow eorn?" inquired the
farmer.
you'd be surprised to see that
horse pillow corn" the man answered.
The farmer thought this a great bar
gain and bought it.
The next morning he took the "hoss"
out and hitehed her to the pillow. She
wouldn't bulge, willingly nor by
force, so, after trying for fully five
hours in the sun, he took her back to
the ranchman.
Il thought you said this boss would
pillow corn growled the farmer.
No, | didn't. returned the raneher.
81 said you would be surprised to see
her pillow, and l bet You would, too."-
Indianapolis News.
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28

" ROM the desert back TO the
l. town, to 1.-The world" to The
hurly-burly of Cairo and the
fleShpots of Egypt. It Is war
time, the summer of 1915. The city is
full of soldiers. sunburncd Australians
and New Zealanders who have not yet
been in action but are being kept lest
the Arabs should come ont of the
desert and strive to efface the English
and French civilization of the banks
of the lower Nile and so add more
ruins to the ruins Of Egypt writes
Stephen Graham in Country Life.
The city is majestical with its broad
streets, white stone palaces and state
ly mansions, its wondfoas river and
Its mighty bridges. The dryness,
cleanness and Wilderness of a city that
knows no rain the city CLEANS in
vast supply of sunshine. The wind
blows all the time from the desert,
and watts heat in the face as from a
furnace city of life and gay en-
ergy. The fountain of life plays rap
idly and brilliantly all the time, throw
ing up all colors, forms, faces. There
is 4 sense Of respondent and tremen-
dous gayety. No one comes to Cairo to
be an ascetc and mortify the flesh. But
every building. every sight and sound
says. life. life, life" All around is
death-the desert which is death it.
self, the Pyramids which are tombs.
the old cities and ruins which are the
bodies of ancient civilizations passed
away. But every sight and sound in
the oasis of the great city says-Live,
be gay. let the pulse beat fast, let the
heart go and be glad, let the eyes
sparkle and burn, let the lips form
words of passion and pleasure.
There is Il sense of an immense an
tiquity which. in contrast with
the little second of the present
moment, makes the latter less inn
portant, less holy. There is
subtle smell in the air. an odor
that makes the head little dizzy and
The Monticellonian., 1916-09-28
KEEP CAREFUL MILK RECORD
Only Positive Way to Tell What Each
Cow Is Doine-Test Should Be
Made Frequently.

The only way to be sure which cows
really do pay is by keeping careful
record of the amount of milk given
by each COW in the herd, and the
amount of butter fat her milk contains
as shown by the Babcock test. The
test should be made fairly frequently.
but the milk given and the feed used
should he recorded every day