Capitol Hill News. (Capitol Hill, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1907 Page: 2 of 12
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CAPITOL HILL NEWS.
S. M. JACKSON, Editor, Publisher and Proprietor.
MRS. E. E. RUGAN, • Associate Local Editor.
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Enti»r»d an ««ooik1-oImh* mattur November 11, 1608,
•t the pontoffire, Capitol Hill, Okiahoma, uuuwr act
of con|f mhm, March 8, 1876.
NEW STATE NEWS
J. C. Englert of Snyder was run
over and killed by a Frisco engine at
that place last week.
Robbers dynamited the safe of the
Farmers and Merchants’ bank at Bix-
by and a few thousand dollars of the
depositors’ money was taken.
Wesley Johnson, colored of Chick-
asha was fined $500 and sentenced to
three months in jail for forcibly em-
bracing a white woman on the streets.
It was as much as the citizens in
general could do to keep from taking
a hand in the matter.
Four murder trials are docketed for
this week in the district court of Ok-
lahoma county.
The Loewen, Enid’s new $75,000
opera house, was formally opened last
week. The new play house has a seat-
ing capacity of i,400. On the open-
ing night seats sold for $5 each.
During a trip through the Southern
district of the Indian Territory W. E.
Johnson, special agent of the interior
department, confiscated and destroyed
2,000 bottles of beer, 480 gallons of
"spiked” cider and made fifteen
arrests of alleged introducers.
The New State rooming house of
Muskogee, a colored institution, was
entirely destroyed by fire last week.
Gussie St. Clair, a colored woman,
was carried from the burning build-
ing and died a few hours afterwards
from the effect of burns.
GONE FOREVER.
Ten years ago a farmer put his Ini-
tials on a dollar bill. The next day he
went to the nearest town and spent it
with a merchant. Before the year was
out he got the dollar back. Four times
in six years the dollar came back to
him for produce and three times he
heard of it in the pocket of his neigh-
bors.
The last time he got it back four
years ago. He sent it to a mail order
house. He never has seen that dollar
since, and never will. That dollar bill
will never pay any more school or
road tax for him, will never build or
brighten any of the homes of the com-
munity. He sent it entirely out of
the circle of usefulness to himself and
his neighbors.
Patronize your local merchant who
helps you to pay your taxes, support
your schools and churches, and lends
a helping hand in times of sickness
and trouble.
Never Fails.
There is one remedy, and only one I
have ever found, to cure without fail
such troubles In my family as Eczema,
Ringworm, and all others of an itching
character. That remedy is Hunt’s
Cure. We always use it and it never
fails. W. M. CHRISTIAN,
Rutherford, Tenn.
DAINTY HOME EXPERIMENT.
The executive board of the Wesley
brotherhood has referred to its gen-
eral convention to be held in October,
1907, the resolutions from the Broth-
erhood of St. Paul requesting the ap-
pointment of a committee to confer
with a similar committee from the 3t.
Paul Brotherhood concerning the uni-
fication of Methodist brotherhoods.
The pharmaceutical board of In-
dian Territory held a two days’ ses-
sion in Muskogee last week. Thir-
teen applicants took the examination
for licensed pharmacists, besides a
large number of applications from
other states holding diplomas.
Lyman K. Lane was indicted by the
United States grand jury at Muskogee
on a charge of embezzlement of gov-
ernment funds while acting in the ca-
pacity of cashier of the United States
Indian agency. Last lall an inspector
from Washington discovered a short-
age in his accounts of over $8,000. He
will be tried at the next term of the
federal court.
Ground was broken last week at
Chickasha for the new $150,000 cot-
ton oil mill and refiuery.
A company of Muskogee capitalists
have incorporated with a capital stock
of $50,000 for the erection of a con-
vention hall in that city. Work of
construction will begin at once. It is
the intention to have the building in
readiness for the meeting of the
Trans-Mississippi Commercial con-
gress, which will convene in that city
next fall.
Owing to the failure of the project
to launch the Oklahoma State base
ball league, the Shawnee team has
been transferred to Fort Smith, Ark.,
In the Kansas league.
It took a Muskogee Jury just fifteen
minutes to agree upon a verdict in
which H. C. Campbell, a negro, was
charged with assault upon Mrs. Me-
Nabb, a white woman, last fall. The
negro was sentenced to fifteen years.
Nine hundred thousand dollars has
been placed to the credit of the Kio-
wa-Comanche-Apache Indian tribes as
a result of the one-fifth payment by
homesteaders on the big pasture
lands. There are yet a large number
of entries to be made which will in-
crease that amount quite considerably.
The Evolution of
Household Remedies.
The modern patent, medicine busi-
ness is the natural outgrowth of the
old-time household remedies.
In the early history of this country,
EVERY FAMILY HAD ITS HOME-
TIADE MEDICINES. Herb teas,
bitters, laxatives and tonics, were to be
found in almost every house, compound-
ed by the housewife, sometimes assisted
by the apothecary or the family doctor.
Such remedies as picra, which was
aloes and quassia, dissolved in apple
brandy. Sometimes a hop tonic, made
of whiskey, hops and bitter barks. A
score or more of popular, home-made
remedies were thus compounded, the
formulae for which were passed along
from house to house, sometimes written,
sometimes verbally communicated.
The patent medicine business is a
natural outgrowth from this whole-
some, old-time custom. In the begin-
ning, some enterprising doctor, im-
pressed by the usefulness of one of
these home-made remedies, would take
it up, improve it in many ways, manu-
facture it on a large scale, advertise it
mainly through almanacs for the home,
and thus it would become used over a
large area. LATTERLY THE HOUSE-
HOLD REMEDY BUSINESS TOOK
A MORE EXACT AND SCIENTIFIC
FORM.
Peruna was originally one of these
old-time remedies. It was used by the
Mennonites, of Pennsylvania, before it
was offered to the public for sale. Dr.
Hartman, THE ORIGINAL COM-
POUNDER OF PERUNA, is of Men-
nonite origin. First, he prescribed it
for his neighbors and his patients.
The sale of it increased, and at last he
established a manufactory and fur-
nished it to the general drug trade.
Peruna is useful in a great many
climatic ailments, such as coughs, colds,
sore throat, bronchitis, and catarrhal
diseases generally. THOUSANDS OF
FAMILIES HAVE LEARNED THE
USE OF PERUNA and it? value in the
treatment of these ailments. They
have learned to trust and believe in
Dr. Hartman’8 judgment, and to rely
on his remedy, Peruna.
Instructive Amusement Found in Mak-
ing and Using the Electroscope.
Electricity Is sa common nowadays
that we all want to know something
about It. The electroscope is an in-
strument used for showing us whether
or not a body Is charged with elec-
tricity, and *f so, whether the electrio
lty be positive or negative.
A very simple, but effective one,
can be made with a glass bottle.
Clean and dry the bottle thoroughly,
and insert in the cork a piece of
glass tubing about an inch long. Get
a piece of zinc and cut out a disk
about an inch and a half in diameter,
in which drill two holes, one In the
center and the other near the edge.
In the center hole solder one end of a
brass or copper wire.
No a get a little shellac and soften
It by warming. Pour it into the glass
tubing, and before it cools and hard-
ens, run a piece of wire through it so
that the disk zinc Is about an inch
above the tube.
Slip the other end of the wire into
the bottle, and see how much you will
have to cut off. When the cork Is In
place, the wire inside, bent at a right
angle at the bottom, should reach to
about the center of the bottle. Re-
move the cork and the wire, and cut-
ting the latter at the right place, bend
the bottom at right angles. Now try
it again and see that it is right.
When all this has been carefully
done, gum to the st’^s of the hook
thus made two lea\ .3 of “Dutch
metal.” This can be bought from a
sign painter. Each leaf should be
Details of the Apparatus.
half an inch wide, and long enough to
come within an Inch of the bottom of
the bottle.
Then insert the cork with the wire
and leaves Into the bottle, and the in-
strument Is complete.
To find out whether a body is
charged with electricity, bring It near
the metal disk, without letting It
touch it. If it is electrified, the leaves
of Dutch metal will fly apart, because
the body draws to Itself one kind of
electricity and repels the other kind
to the leaves. As they both become
charged alike, they fly apart, because,
in electricity, like repels like.
But to know the kind of electricity
possessed by the body we must go a
step further. The electroscope must
be charged with a kind of electricity
that we know by touching the disk
with a body whose kind we know.
We know, for instance, that if a piece
of wax be rubbed with a piece of
flannel, tho wax is electrified nega-
tively. By touching the disk with this
piece of wax we cause the leaves to
fly apart, and on removing the wax
they will remain apart a little while,
if the instrument is properly made.
If now you bring the body to be
tested near the disk without letting it
touch it, the leaves will either fly to-
gether or more widely apart. If the
former, the body is positively electri-
fied; if the latter, It Is negatively elec-
trified.
Instead of the way just described,
you can charge the electrscope by the
body to be tested by touching the
disk with the body, and then bringing
near it a body whose kind of electric-
ity is known. If the body be large
it may be connected by means of a
wire, as shown in the illustration, one
end of the wire being hooked in the
hole near the edge of the disk.
French Sailors Use Drugs.
The extent to which the narcotic
habit prevails in the French navy wa»
Illustrated a few days ago by the pro-
ceedings of a court-martial at Brest.
The defendants were half a dozen
seamen of ordinary rating, who were
charged with a considerable number
of robberies. All the men were vic-
tims of opium or the the ether habit,
or both combined, and were in the
habit of bemuddling themselves daily
with these drugs and the robberies
had been committed to gratify their
passion. Severe sentences were
passed.
8KIN SORE EIGHT YEAR8.
Spent $300 on Doctors and Remedies
but Got No Relief—Cutlcura
Cures in a Week.
“Upon the limbs and between the
toes my skin was rough and sore, and
also sore under the arms, and I had to
stay at home several times because of
this affection. Up to a week or so ago
I had tried many other remedies and
several doctors, and spent about three
hundred dollars, without any success,
but this is to-day the seventh day that
I have been using the Cutlcura Reme-
dies (costing a dollar and a half),
which have cured me completely, so
that I can again attend to my busi-
ness. I went to work again to-night.
I had been suffering for eight years
and have now been cured by the Cut-
icura Remedies within a week. Fritz
Hirschlaff, 24 Columbus Ave., New
York, N. Y., March 29 and April 6,
1906.”
It_ difficult to make light of th*
shadow of suspicion.
THIN, NERVOUS PEOPLE NEED
THE TONIC TREATMENT.
This Woman Took Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills, Gained Thirty Pounds and
Ha3 Been Well Ever Since.
E. • many women—and men too—
are suffering from a general decline in
health which the ordinary remedies
seem unable to check I How many hus-
bands see their wives wasting away,
steadily losing health and beauty, and
are powerless to help! Consumption
aud other germ diseases fiud in these
debilitated systems easy prey, for tho
lowered vitality is unequal to the task of
fighting off the infection of these diseases
to which most of us are almost daily ex-
posed.
The symptoms indicating tlie decline
which may have results so fatal could
scarcely bo better described than in tho
statement of Mrs. William Manley, of
92 Court street, Utica, N. Y. Her case
is a typical one. She says:
“For six mouths after the birth of my
baby, I suffered from sick, dizzy head-
aches, which seemed like a rush of
blood to my forehead, just back of my
eyes. Some days they twitched so I
could hardly see and black spots floated
before them. The least exertion brought
on this sickness. My appetite was poor
aud I was often sick to my stomach.
“If I tried to work my feet soon be-
came swollen, paining me terribly. I
had sinking spells aud grew pale and
nervous. I was so thin that I weighed
only 95 pounds.
“One day when at the drug store to
get headache powders I decided to try
Dr. Williams’ Piuk Pills instead. I
soon noticed that my headache was dis-
appearing and my nerves gradually
grew stronger. The pills gave me a
hearty appetite aud I now weigli over
130 pounds. I believe the pills to bo the
best tonic and builder a woman can take,
as they certainly helped me when my
condition was critical and I have never
been seriously ill since.”
The great value of Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills lies in the fact that they actually
make new blood aud this carries health
and strength to every portion of the
body. The stomach is toned up, the
nerves arc strengt hened, every organ is
stimulated to do Its work.
If you are ill and the treatment yon
are taking does not cure you, write for
proof of what Dr. Williams’ Piuk Pills
have done in similar cases.
Your druggist sells them or they will
be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of
price, 60 cents per box, six boxes for
$2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Go.,
Schenectady, N. Y.
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Jackson, S. M. Capitol Hill News. (Capitol Hill, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1907, newspaper, April 25, 1907; Capitol Hill, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc936325/m1/2/: accessed June 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.