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PAGE FOUR
WEDNESDAY MORNING
MUSKOGEE DAILY PHOENIX
NOVEMBER FIFTEENTH
.HitBkngrp Bailg Plfiinttx
Weekly Established in 1884. Tenth Year
as a Daily.
Published at 220 Wall Street.
EASTKUN & WESTERN REPRESENTATIVES
BARNARD & HRANHAN
Boyce Building Chicago
Brunswick Building New York City
Chemical Building 8t* Loul#
Till: WAYS OK THE I'OMTK'IAN.
That the editor of the Dcnluon Herald Is
somewhat of a politician a well a* a philosopher
Is evidenced by the follo«ins:
"We may be very obtuse, and Incapable of
seeinK wry far ahead and spying out the dark
und Intricate designs of scheming politicians who
seek to mislead und deceive the people, but we
must i on foss that such dire forebodings never
disturb the even serenity of our dreams until we
read of it In Hie columns of some of our ex-
change*. The reason may be that we never look
lor the dark places, nor search for the evil that
Is to be found In our fellow man. We rather
prefer to believe that all men arc as honest a*
we are, und In trying to keep our own heart and
conscience dear, we take it that the other fellow
Is doing the same, and if he Is, nobody will
We hurt."
It must be cheering Indeed for the Texas
gentlemen who are approaching the critical stage
of un interesting campaign In which they ars
candidates for various offices to have this gen-
erous scribe diffuse the sunshine of his genial
nature in such manner as to disarm the suspic-
ions of the people and make the politician feel
at home In his immediate vicinity. The Idea
that the man who is seeking a public office Is
a wolf In sheep's clothing too often selzeH the
mind of the public at inopportune moments, re-
suiting in them making of him a goat. By all
means, let us at least differentiate our opin-
ions of the men who are going against a hard
game. They are not all alike, and some of them
are at least aB good as a majority of the people
they seek to represent In offices of trust and
profit. However, the wise politician will abstain
from presuming on such expressions of good-
will for to particularize in such matters would
bo to violate the confidence which an indulgent
public reposes In a conscientious editor. Indeed
perhaps to the extent of making them a wildly
Indignant public who might even begin to re-
gard the moulder of their opinions as one whose
utterances were oracular rather than reliable.
A dispatch from Guthrie says that Hird Mc-
qlitre who has Just returned from a ilHhing trip
to the Pacific coast succeeded In landing a
sword-fish weighing 18,". pounds In elxty-seven
minutes. It is hard to believe that the Okla-
homa congressman found time to count the mln*
utes in thnt struggle, but he has been through
worse ones, and has landed bigger thlngB than
that sword-fish.
A Mlssourlan Is cutting his wisdom teeth at
the age of 7*. The dispatches do not state
whether he has always hitherto voted tho demo-
cratic ticket until deciding, as so many patriots
have recently done In that state, to change his
politics.
The season for killing different kinds of
game and hunters who get In tho way of them-
selves or other persons who do not know how to
handle guns opens this morning.
I-oe Angeles Is said to have seventy thousand
women registered for the coming city election.
Think of the sweet privilege of making a canvasg
under such circumstances.
They are rounding up the beasts of the
Jungle for the British emperor of India to hunt,
In regions where savage discontent will hauni
iifs foot-steps.
A little weakening in Industrials after recent
great advances does not count for much In re-
tarding the upward tendency in the stock market
or the general advance In the prosperity of tho
country.
T1IK SIIOMW WAV OUT.
The Globe-Democrat is not favorably Im-
pressed with the disposition shown in certain
quarters to seek an amendment of the Sherman
anti-trust law. Replying to the assertion that
business must wait u lon« series of decisions In
many separate eases to know where It stands and
what It can do, the Olobe-Democrat expUlns tne
present status of the Standard Oil and Tobacco
trust cuses, pointing out that the decisions WIN
clear on a number of points and that If a new
law were to be enacted It would be like begin-
ning all over again, and adding:
"We see no reason to change the opinion ex-
pressed immediately following the Ktandurd Oil
decision that along such lines of judicial leader-
ship and direction will be found the only right
solution of the trust problem. Warring with a
condition which is, in many of Its aspects,
natural and Inevitable, through making more
statutes, all of which i..ust run a long gantlet of
courts, is not only to waste time but to seriously
complicate the case. Since the court spoke, a
number of trust organizations which have found
themselves in violation of Its decrees have taken
the necessary steps toward voluntary dissolution
and a readjustment along legal lines. The
Southern Wholesale Grocery combination, al-
ready under indictment, has pleaded guilty, in
the face of certain conviction, and Is now re-
organizing on legal lines. This, It seems to us,
is the shortest way out of present difficulties.
To begin a new discussion in the courts Is only
to waste time. It will not be necessary, as the
Chicago resoluHons way, to have a separate ad-
judication in every case. Tho broad principles
to govern In the organization of combinations are
being enunciated by the court and will continue
to be. We may not be going as fast as we could
desire toward a pe.rmanent solution of the trust
problem, Jt>ut we are undoubtedly going faster
than we could go if we should go back to the
end of the road and make a new start."
Germany's high cost of living may cause ■
lowering of her tariffs on American meat pro-
ducts and other necessaries of life.
Variable winds are blowing the opinions of
the available democratic candidates for president
In all directions.
And there may be nothing left of the packing
trust when Uncle Sum gets through with It, ex-
cept the squeal.
ABOUT MANAGING BOYS.
The old problem of enforcing discipline in
the rural schools Is still one of absorbing inter-
est. A dispatch from Topeka says:
"To whip, or not to whip, that Is the question
The weather is clearing up, and the pros-
pects of business are brightening under okla-
homa sunshine.
The politicians have passed up the puzzle of
what the voters were thinking about In last
week's elections.
The tips and downs of life are not all on the
way from messenger boy to professor of high
finance.
The inter-state commerce commission has In
n call for tho telegraph and telephone trust.
The prosperity of the American people Is
too irre;it to 'h monopolized by any trust.
They ure sending the big guns to Panama.
I'll It .Ittt ('.inn.'ii i- nil Ills way.
Just for Fun
Johnson's Joke.
"I Was talking to Jack Johnson at
discussed at the meeting of the State Teachers' Criterion bar In London about the
association toere this morning before an audience aut \orltles' refusal to let him fight
of 3,000 persons. There were delicate looking Wells," said a sporting editor ofH'hl-
young men with high foreheads there who arose caK0-
and declared for a use of psychology in handling
the child. "Study his moods," they said, "and
use moral suasion." Nearly all the women wer%
for this new method.
The day of the rod Is not gone, however. A
big, brawny westerner arose during the meeting
and queried:
"Mr. Jones, what would you do with a boy
I "I can't blame Bishop Meyer, lie's
dreadfully opposed to fighting, you
know. The fact is, he won't even
"Jack blamed it all on Bishop Mey-
er, as he calls the advertising divine
who managed to stop the fight. He
wasn't at all angry with Bishop Mey-
er, though. In fact, he cracked
joke about him.
"Plashing his golden smile upon me
above a huge glass of stout. Jack
about 14 years of age who, after kind treatment
and coaxing, refused to be good and forced you
to suspend him, and then after suspension would ~ead J)U„ch .
stand at a point outside the window where you
could see him plainly from your desk, and place
his thumb to his nose and wiggle his fingers at
you?"
"I—I don't know," was the stammering j-e-
ply, "what would you do?"
Without a change in expression the westerner
said,
until he could not walk."
Aciaally.
"The lute Eustace de Cordova will
be missed on the New York Stock Ex-
change," said a New York broke
"He had a caustic and yet kindly wit.
"I remember hearing Mr. de Cor-
1 would whale him with a water elm stick dova lo il fast at a layer's
banquet.' He said a lawyers wife
asked her husband anxiously as she
A motion to adjourn till the afternoon wa«,turning In one night:
then carried Immediately. ..Do yoll think it better dear, to
lie on the right?"
THli RETURN OP THE SPIRITS. I "My darling,' the lawyer answered,
Dr. J. II. Hyslop, of New York, after years Hf V°u are on the right side it actual-
of study and investigation declare that he has happens sometimes that you don't
demonstrated the soul is real by direct com- havo to lie at a11-
munication with the dead. Describing the man-
ner of communication, he says:
BIG MAJORITY FOR TAFT.
Tho New York Herald prints some interest-
ing figures from the observations of a man who
it. says made a careful investigation in thirty
states indicating tho standing of delegates In the
national republican convention. According -to
this report:
"President Taft's managers assert that he
will have 97& of the probable 1,072 votes In the
republican convention. Senator LaFollette Is the
only candidate openly against the president.
This estimate leaves him fever than 100 votes.
Twenty-two of the conceded delegates for La-
Follette come from his own state of Wisconsin
and twenty-six from California, where the com-
mittee which will control their selection was
named in 1810. No other state will be his in
Its entirety if the republicans are correctly in-
formed. Other posslblo support for Senator La-
Follette is found In Kansas, where he likely will
havo Victor Murdock's district. In Iowa witn
the assistance of Senator Cummins, LaFollette
may get six districts; In Washington, ths
Spokane district is figured as for him; part of
North Dakota, one district in South Dakota and
three In Minnesota."
ABOUT XARB*>W-MINDFDNESS.
There Is reason in all things, but the reason
some people opposed to Dewey sending delegates
to Bartlesville to consider court house plans, was
like the dog In the manger. While some had
legitimate reasons and wore worthy of con-
sideration, we believe it a lamentable fact that
some of our people aro so opposed to the needs
of the country that they will oppose the pro-
position simply because It started from Bartlee-
vllle.—Dewey World.
Another great fire-proof building will rise on
the site of the Flte-Row*ey building, the ruins
of which marks the scene of the fifth confla-
gration in Muskogee. Step by step, in the face
of great difficulties, this city Is advancing to the
standard of architecture while growing into
metropolitan proportions.
A Superior Waiter.
Richard Harding Davis, at a dinner
"The souls establish the*.- earthly identity 'in New York, said of snobbishness.
with us in a man.ier similar to our way. 1 j "You'll meet the snob everywhere.
might go to London and write you a year after Once, in search of local color. I tour-
that I wanted to borrow *50. But you might North Devon' Who'd ,lream °[
,, . 4 . ... . finding snobs in that rich country of
say I was dead and I would have to establish my flshermen „nd ypoml!11 and saUors
identity. I could easily do this by telling you yet
what we had done the last time we met. Souls! ..In combe Martin I put up at the
or spirits of the departed tase a similar coursw. {King's Arms, an Inn 300 years old,
They may turn somersaults. So do we. with furniture of pollard oak that
"We are surrounded all the time by millions would make a collectors mouth wa-
and billions of souls, freed from their earthly ter. The dining room of the King's
casings. Not all of them aro always present, yet Arma is called the cot fee roc>m, an*: a
my breakfas t of bacon and mush-
any of them can come to us at wiU and make roQmg .n ^ coffee roQm Rt
known their presence, soma of them in a man- tab]e looklnK down on the wild sda
ner that seems laughable, it is true, to those j saJd to my superior looking waiter:
who cannot or will not understand." "I suppose visitors here are not
BAI<IN6P0WDEI
"Absolutely Pun
To have pure and wholesome
food, be sure that your baking
powder is made from cream
of tartar and not from alum.
The Label will guide you
Royal is the only baking
powder made from Royal
Grape Cream of Tartar
Ne Alum No Lime Phosphatem
PHILOSOPHY OP PRACTICAL POLITICS.
We should take a keener interest In the re-
marks of New York newspapers to the effect
that "Murphy must go" if we were not conflden.
that Bome other downtown rounder would suc-
ceed him. Why go to the trouble of breaking in
a new one who will be just like Murph?—St.
Louis Republic.
Following the recent attempt U> organise the
St. Louis democracy without recognizing the
Kerry Patch contingent, this remark is -le-nlfl-
cant.
Crescent Dancing Academy
Corner Fifth und Court
DANCES
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY,
FRIDAY, SATURDAY
10 Cents Admission
S CENTS PER DANCE
very common.'
"The waiter's upturned nose turn-
ed still further up as he answered.
"Indeed they are—painfully so,
most of them."
The Girl Drummer.
Miss Ivy Drayton Hodge, one of the
well-known girl drumnjers of the wesi
at a commercial traveler's banquet in
Chicago responded to a* toast with
the words:
'A woman's face is said to be her
fortune. In the girl drummer s case,
however, its her cheek."
SEASONABLE DREAMS.
The Oklahoman says this is the season of the
year when a man sits by the grate fire and
dreams. Possibly he dreams of how to meet
the coal bill, or what he did with his Bummer
wages.—Husonlan.
DENYING HIMSELF FOOLISHLY.
A Boston youth of 21 has been awarded a
gold watch because ho does not smoke, drink,
or swear. That Is alright but when he adds
that he has never kissed a girl he sets himself
down a mollycoddle.—News-Capital
They can't keep cotton down.
With the Oklahoma Editor*
Kansas City was the storm center of the
billiard which has just blown over but Its effects
were distributed with great impartiality through
a large section of country in the middle west
and southwest.
Southwestern ics men, assembling for their
convention in Oklahoma City, deny that they
brought the bllisard, Of course not unless they
are also members of the coal trust.
The cold wave made business good In the
clothing line throughout the country. This little
loosening up may give an additional impetus to
the fall revival.
LOOKS LIKE A BLUFF.
It is hard to beat the farmer at his own
game.—Journal of Agriculture.
But what is the farmer's game?
A merchant might be able to write to all his
friends before Christmas. Rut It would be easier
and less expensive to write an up-to-date ad-
vertisement.
In moving for the amendment of the Sher-
man law the trust magnates might get some-
thing better, and then they might get the worst
of It.
Commerce will continue to flow toward cities
m the heads of navigation on the Internal water-
ways as long as water runs down stream.
I f. iu 'i n ii.im i iie pi a. c of
AUiuv . ro ibni <•
. A proj. . i for a municipal store Is Oklahoma
City's latest.
The state of Insurrection Is still on the map
of Mexico.
The . nij•. i '!■ of China might use an nli>hlp
lu hud cUC,
HOPE FOR TULSA.
The republican party believes that the tlm
Is ripe for taking Tulsa out of the democratic
ranks and placing It where it belongs and, by
presenting a united front and taking advantage
of the split In the followers of Jefferson, this
can be accomplished.—Tulsa World.
SHOOTING IN ALL DIRECTIONS SOON.
Poor Bob White, he Is about due for
massacre. The open season for quail begins
next week and the hunters are ready for busi-
ness.—Chickasha Express.
When thle was written Saturday the nlnm-
rods were on their way from various parts ot
Oklahoma to the choice preserves. We wait the
news of the first day's shooting with anxieo,
remembering what sometimes happens when the
nlmrods are out In big bunches and the birds
are flying around promiscuously.
ADVANTAGES OF A PROGRESSIVE CITY.
The work of building up a city means the
expansion of every individual interest in the city
and is not merely a matter of ctvle pride or
public spirltedness, but a practical business pro-
position that should appear to every progresrtv*
man in the community. A a city develops, busi-
ness possibilities increase, tor enjoying life multi-
ply and every human Interest Is advanced.—
Lubbock Avalanche.
POTASH IN OKLAHOMA?
The lawton News grows enthusiastic over
the report that extensive deposits of potash have
been discovered In the United States, surmising
that it may be found In Oklahoma, and referring
to the abundant gypsum of this state says that
it carries a content In potash lit an invaluable
form.
'TWAS A DAY OF DAYS.
Today Is November 11. What of tt? Why,
that's the day we write 11-11-11, and It won't
happen asaln fyr 100 years.—ll. rtl. svllie Fx-
, airfhu r.
PHONE 2738
ALAMO PHARMACY
when you need
DRUGS
Prompt Free Delivery
Corner Cherokee and Okmulgee
That Man Amos
At the NLW ELECTRIC STUDIO, Cor. 4th & Okmulgee Ave.
In order to demonstrate that high class work can be dene day
or night with the powerful mercury rays of light, I will make $10.00
photos for $3.50, *8.00 photos for $3.00, $6.00 photos for 52.jO.
$4.00 photos for $2.00. Watch for the coupon. They are free.
We do commercial photography, enlarging, copying, amateur
finishing.
Flash lights of parlors or offices.
CALL ME—I'LL GO.
AMOS & DAVIDSON, Photographers
Phono 3306
S27 West Okmulgee Avenue
MUSKOGEE
TRANSFER CO.
Have inaugurated a
night and Sunday Motor
Wagon Baggage Service.
J WHITE PRACTICE
* Lxc usiviy ♦
JcOPUS, Dentist*
•> ill Surely Building *
:. ♦
NO REASON FOR SPECULATING
How foolish to risk hard earned money in specu-
lative schemes that have little or no solid founda-
tion. All surplus cash should be safely Invested.
Start an account with the Commercial National
Bank today.
4% Interest Paid on
Savings Accounts
Commercial
National Bank
UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY
GILBERT, The Tailor
Makes ladles' aud Gents' Tailored J
Suits anil Coats from $15 up. ;
Cleaning and pressing. 207 N. j
2nd St., corner Broadway.
Cheap Lumber
Is all light in its place, but
he sure you don't use it
where you should have
Good Lumber
We have just received sev-
eral carloads of cheap lum-
ber thut will surprise you
when you see it and hear
the price. However, we are
still carrying a complete
stock of
The Best Lumber
handled in the city. You get
the grade you buy.
The Price is Right
THE T. H. ROGERS
LUMBER CO.
501 N. Cherokee Phone 275
Founded 18 90
The First National Bank
Desires you patronage, either large or
small, with assurance of liberal and
dependable service, made possible
through facilities developed during 21
years of continuous banking in
Muskogee
Capital & Surplus $350,000
FARM AND CITY LOANS
LONG flME— EASY TERMS-—PROMPT ATTENTION
We make our own Inspections. Muskogee city loans inspected saws
da; application Is made. You grt all you boirow.
finite #. Arknnna* lltilldlnc. Muskoitoe. Oklahoma—Phone 641.
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