Coweta Times. (Coweta, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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COWETA CREEK NATION INDIAN TERRITORY THURSDAY JULY 12 1906
No 1
SOME SMILES
Lie Hidden Herein From the
Fluent Pen of Coweta’s
“Old Maid”
Good morning glory have
vou used little early risers?
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Old maids are becoming quite
popular as newspaper corres-
pondents I notice They are
getting busy in all the big towns
The Coweta Times has one and
a nice young lady reports for
the Courier
- To avoid a mistaken idea with
6ome people and more or less
vexation to the good housewife
it is well to bear in mind that
chickens and garden truck are
not a good crop to undertake to
raise in 'the same patch This
advice is free— there’s no strings
to it
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How easily gold collar and cuff
buttons seem to tarnish this
sweaty weather I wonder why
it is? I notice so many of them
I have such a nice set the kind
that come on a little card and I
know they are good because it
says on the card “warranted
solid gold” and I got them so
cheap too only 10 cents
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The editor of the Times was
again sick the latter part of last
week Did you notice those
sauerkraut chin whiskers lie’s
cultivating? Puts me in mind
of a billy goat tee hee ball 1 If
he should forget in his sleep and
swallow them then he would be
sick he’d sure get a pain in the
front side of his back
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There’s one thing I have dis-
covered that will never become
popular in the new state and
that’s a noiseless Fourth of July
While I was attending the pic-
nic here a gentleman just oppo-
site where I was sitting on the
grass said “There goes a girl
who 'is' shy of patriotism”
Wasn’t that mean for a man to
say of us poor defenseless girlg?
It made me mad right off and I
said to him in quite a snappish
manner too how do you know
that sir? He said “She refused
to use powder or wear bangs on
the glorious Fourth ’ ’ Huh the
naughty thing I don’t like him
at all so I don’t
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I don’t wish to be critical let
the men folks be that but really
something ought to be said or
done to the numerous young
boys who hide out behind the
woodshed or' barn and smoke
those nasty cigarettes I once
heard a minister of the Gospel
talking to a cigarette fiend and
this is what lie said “Young
man you can’t pass as a con-
firmed cigarette smoker until
you can hold the unrolled cigar-
ette in one hand grasp the
strings of the tobacco sack in
your teeth and with the other
hand pull the puckering string
And after you can do this and
graduate there are two places
open for you the gallows or the
penitentiary3 ’ ‘ ‘Shame on you
you monkey -faced baboon ” says
he “you ought to go back to the
saloon where you belong” Do
you know what it reminds me
of? A cigarette between one’s
teeth puts me in mind of a fire
at one end and a fool at the oth-
er Why smoking a cigarette
is even worse than eating Chica-
go tinned meats ”
J have just discovered a few
good family recipes they were
first revealed to mo by a little
humming bird: To rid one’s
self of chiggeas take a real fat
piece of salty meat the fatter
the better the meat I mean and
rub it on the parts effected it’s
better to divest yourself of all
linen first otherwise it may
soil it The cliiggers will fall
off in piles never to riso again
To get rid of fleas catch them
and place them between two
small blocks of wood and clap
together real quick it’s dead
easy if the flea is not too frisky
Bedbugs are much easier dispos-
ed of all you have to do is just
catch them and with a heaping
tablespoonful of poison pour it
down their throats that’s al
you have to do To shake off
the chills and fever so they will
stay shook soak your feet over
night in a bucket of good strong
brandy or alcohol will do A
candy or tobacco pail will an-
swer the purpose if you have
nothing else handier
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I happened to be present at a
colored camp meeting a short
time since and when the time
for testifying arrived I really
became interested One of tbe
members said: “I ain’t got much
to say parson but I’s pow ’fully
interested ’bout dis here bein’
bawn again Some of de white
folks says you kaint be bawn
again Now say wasn’t Jonah
cast ober? An’ dars another
place in de Good ol’ Book where
it speaks about Lot’s wife turn-
ing to a pillar of salt Now dat
ain’t all de chemical changes dat
Lot’s wife underwent First
she turned to rubber an’ den she
turned into a pillar of salt”
Another penitent ’ referring to
himself and his unconverted
brothers as “niggers” m a spirit
of abject humility which he
deemed well pleasing to his Mak-
er The presiding elder who
“amened” his speech at proper
intervals finally threw out a gen-
tle rebuke “Call yo’sef a cullud
pu&sen brother” he admonished
impressively “Niggers is a term
oh reproach invented by proud
w 1 1 ite f ulks Dey ain ’t no ment-
ion in de Good Book of niggers”
“Oh yes dey is parson” the
penitent contradicted solemnly
remarked “Don’t yo’rec’lect de
place whar hit tell ’bout nigger
Demus?” '
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Oh dear me the editor is after
me again Last week he said I
must have a nose fpr news now
he comes back and says if I ex-
pect to get a rise in my salary I
must do better La me as
though I didn’t do my very best
at all times He says that my
articles in last -week’s Times
didn’t have the pulling effect and
provoke the smile that he ex-
pectod ’twas only a cynical smile
-( there you are your ’re damned
if you do and you’re damned if
you don’t Oh dear I feel so
wretched did ever an old maid
have such trials and tribulations?
One was heard to say: “That’s
mere silly slush” The horrid
old raa — er thing I mean Ilpret-
ty nearly said man I wouldn’t
have said that for the world
The dear creatures I love them
all but consarn the Coweta girls
anyway all of them about town
seem to catch every nice fellow
as soon as he appears on the
streets It all seems so strange
to me here I am alone in the
world have a neat little two
room cottage all my own have
a pig a male hen and two fe-
male hens and a couple of cats
and I’m short stout fat and for-
ty — not a day Older Well I’m
not yet ready to give up in des-
pair the old saying is “Faint
heart never won fair lady” so
I shall hope on it may lie long
but I shall be ready for the first
who may come
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Thanatopsis
To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms she speaks
A various language for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness and a smile
And eloquence of beauty and she glides
Into his darker musings with a mild
And gontle sympathy that steqls away
Their sharpness ere he is aware When thoughts
Of the last bitter hour comes like a blight
Over thy spirit and sad images
Of the stern agony and shroud and pall
And breathless darkness and thq narrow house
'Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart
Go forth unto the open sky and
List to nature’s teachings while from all around—
Earth and her waters and the depth of air—
Comes a still voice Yet a few days and thee
The all-beholding sun shall see no more
In all its course nor yet in the cold ground
Were thy pale form was laid with many tears
Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist
Thy image Earth that nourished thee shall claim
Thy growth to be resolved to earth again
And lost each human trace rendering up
Thine individual being slialt thou go
To mix forever with the elements
- To be a brother to the insensible rock
And to the sluggish clod which her rude swain
Turns with his share and treads upon The oak
Shall send his roots abroad and pierce tliy mold
Yet not to thy eternal resting place
Shalt thou retire alone nor couldst thou wish
Couch more magnificent Thou shalt lie down
With patriarchs of the infant world— with kings
The powerful of the earth— the wise the good
Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past
All in one mighty sepulcher ' The hills
Bock-ribbed and ancient as the sun the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between
The venerable woods rivers that move
In majesto and the complaining brooks ''
That make the meadows green and poured round all
Old ocean’s gray and melancholy waste '
Are but solemn decorations all
Of the great tomb of man The golden sun
' The planets all the infinite hosts of heaven
Are shining on the sad abode of death
Through the still lapse of ages All that tread
The globe are but a handful to the tribes
That slumber in its bosom Take the wings
Of morning pierce the Barcan wilderness
Or lose thyself in the continuous woods
Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound
Save his own dashings— yet the dread are there
And millions in those solitudes since first -
The flight of years began have laid them down
In their last sleep the dead reign there alone
So shalt thou rest and what if thou withdraw
In silence from the living and no friend
Take note of thy departure? All that breathe
Will share thy destiny The gay will laugh
When thou are gone the solemn brood and care
Plod on and each one as before will chase
His favorite phantom yet all these shall leave
Their mirth and their employments and shall come
And make their bed with thee As the long train
Of ages glides away the sons of men —
The youth in life’s green spring and he who goes
In the full strength of years matron and maid
The speechless babe and the gray-headed man —
Shall one by one be gathered to thy side
To those who in their turn shall follow them
So live that when thy summon comes to join
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death
Thou go not like a quarry slave at night
Scourged to his dungeon but sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust approach thy grave ' '
Like one who wraps the drapery of his ‘couch
About him and lies down to pleasant dreams
William Cullen Bryant
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Will Finish In August
Guthrie July 11— Tains Bix-
by Judge Gill and Clayton com-
prising the Indian Territory
Commissioners who will provide
for the constitutional convent-
ion met in joint session here to-
day with the Oklahoma connnis-
ioners r
Following their conference it
was announced that all their
work would be completed by
August l-I so that the election of
delegates to the convention will
occur about the time of the reg-
ular fall election with the con-
vention sitting by 'December 1
giving a ninety day campaign
for candidates for state offices
The first state election will -be
held about May 1
J C Coble and daughter £d-
na and “Uncle Jimmie” Chil-
ders were passengers for Mus-
kogee yesterday
COMPARISON
A Writer in “Tomorrow
Maganine Aptly Com-
pares Leaders
' The following articlo is copied
from “Tomorrow” a magazine
whose business end has the
breadth of mind to overcome
predjudice and recognize quality
wherever found lie places cred-
it where credit is due and cen-
sure where censure is duo
A careful analysis and compar-
ason of the radicalism characters
and temperament of these great
leaders would disclose much of
interest much that has never
before appeared in print concern-
ing them
They are about the same age
they are both men of exceptionly
good character and habits They
both attend Christian churches
but are inclined to be liberal rath-
er than orthodox Stated fairly
they both have strong democrat-
ic tendencies and a considerable
appreciation of the rights and
needs of the masses
The enemies of Roosevelt in
his own party call him “anar-
chist ” but his political opponents
say “demagogue”
Bryan’s political opponents
name him “charlatan” his own
party enemies call him “fanatic”
and yet both of these are good
men far superior in character
to 99 percent of those who talk
abont them
Of the two Bryan no doubt ex-
cells as an orator and Roosevelt
as an author
From ’ a sociological point - of
view President Roosevelt’s mes-
sages and documents have been
superior to any that ever emi-
nated from the White House
From a purely intellectual
plane Bryan is not as close a reas-
oner as Roosevelt the dogmatic
method of thought having taken
more complete posession of the
former’s mind Bryan is the
more imaginative Roosevelt the
more practical and the more cul-
tured Roosevelt under the same
belief would never have forced
the sixteen to one issue — it took
the fanatic Bryan to do that In
the matter of sincerity they are
perhaps as near as human know-
ledge can express about equal
but of different kind
Success' after all is a matter of
temperament and the Roosevelt
type of sincerity is the kind that
works to win Both are four
flusliers when the occasion seems
to demand Both are dramatic
magnetic and grand stand artists
of no mean ability’
England has never had a King
nor the Roman Church a Pope
that compares with either of
them for character manhood in-
tegrity or democratic spirit
Were these men living under
an ecohomic and social system
that would permit of a higher
humanitarianism a broader tol
eration and a more refined equal-
ity of opportunity depend upon
it either one would’ extend the
glad hand to all who should come
prepared to meet the new day
Don’t Inflict the Children
If the children are afflicted
with chills arid fever do not in-
flict them with disagreeable
medicines when you can get a
pleasant remedy like Dr Men-
denhall’s Chill and Fever Cure
Any child will take it readily
Sold on a signed guaranty to be
better than any other liy Selt
zer’s Pharmacy
BADLY HURT
Mr Davidson of the Shahan
Neighborhood Seriously
Injured
An old gentleman by thonamo
of Davidson living two miles
North of Shahan church was
very seriously if not fatally in-
jured at Broken Arrow last Sat-
urday He had sold and was unload-
ing oats from his wagon into a
barn when a mule kicked at and
scared his team which started to
run and Mr Davidson’s head
was caught in a grain chute and
nearly severed from his body
He was picked up apparently
lifeless by the Best boys who
happened to be near at the time
of the accident and carried to a
physician’s office from whence
he was taken to a hotel He
did not regain consciousness un-
til the following morning and
our informant states that he
had not been moved from the
hotel and was in a precarious
condition when last heard from
Bridge Washed Out
Tuesday’s trains both ways ov-
er the M K & O were held up’
by a washout the particulars of
which are given in yesterday’s
Muskogee Phoenix as follows:
“Heavy rains in the country
between Broken Arrow and Tul-
sa caused bridge No 288 on the
M K & 0 to wash out leaving
a seventy foot opening The
Tuesday morning train which
leaves here at about 8 o’clock
and the freight train ivhich
leaves a short time after made
the run all right The break
was discovered by a Frisco pas-
senger which was detouring to
reach their main line by going
over the Muskogee division The
Frisco’s track is in bad shape
near Tulsa The wrecking crew
bridge gang and a large force of
men were sent from here as soon
as the news of the washout was
received Station Agent Holmes
stated yesterday that he did not
know when the bridge would be
repaired but probably not before
today
Judge Brigham Files Suit?"
Because a dozen or more citi-
zens and property owners of Co-
weta made a complaint against
W A Brigham a local attorney
for the M K & T railway com-
pany at that place seeking to
have him removed on
the ground that he was quarrel-
some and possessed no property
in the town the attorney has
filed suit against them and is
seeking damages to the amount
of $2o000 :
Suit was instituted in tbe
United States court in Muskogee
Saturday against A D Orcutt
and others Brigham alleges in
his complaint that his’ character
and good name has been dam-
aged He also says in his com-
plaint that the practice he re-
ceives from the road amounts to
about $2000 annually — Muski
gee Phoenix
Ball Team Organized-
The third team baseball nine
of Coweta has organized and ex-
tend a challenge to the neighbor-
ing towns to meet them To
match a gariie write to
Tiieo Hammett Manager
Coweta I T
Secretary Shaw wants the
banks to increase the number of
$S bills Come to’ think bf it
they are very scarce ‘
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Leftwich, Mark A. Coweta Times. (Coweta, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1906, newspaper, July 12, 1906; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1743357/m1/1/?q=%22new-sou%22: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.