The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-04-05
Srom the 1893 s sy.t ssi
OOuWIu 2eQI SSSS Reporter

| EhlE, NAN, hpIIl %, w I'LL UuC 10
sue or the Times bearing date OF
March % the Erie correspondent ten
dered his resignation and withdrew
from the staff. The only plausible
reason or excuse That he offers seems
to be, In substance, that the quantity
of sand contained Ia his craw was toe
light for such heavy work. AS a re-
suit of such resignation this cores
pendent has accepted the place and
begins his onerohs and responsible
duties with this issue. During the
time that my predecessor was furnish
ing news tor this paper read the
same carefully each week, and see nc
need of his taking water, providing
his assertions were founded on a truth
full basis; and l should certainly judge
they were, else some of our citizens
would have made good their threats
and had the records of our courts
strewn with libel suits. These citi-
zcns interviewed not only all the at
torneys In town but all who would
listen to their chirp, and allowed
their tempers to get the better OF
them. II 1 read and understood his
items correctly, he criticised preacher
and atheist. the temperate and the in
temperate, the thrifty business man
and The loafer, the male and the fe-
male, and the old and the young.
Several of our citizens who have grad
ually allowed themselves to be built
up on the policy sake plan, donned
their fighting garments without cause
or provocation, accused innocent par
ties of SANDER and libel and had them
to make affidavits to the contrary,
without stopping to appeal TO their
own good manners and better judg-
ment. If l remember correctly, some
of these very gentlemen started the
rake of reform in the pulpit, and rak-
ed outward. and because their atten-
tiOn was called to a few scattered
fragments they had missed by reason
of a broken prong, became hilarious.
"
Every town has its loafers, but some
towns have more than others. Erie
has its share. The Erie loafers are
di yded into four classes, viz: the &C.
casional, the unintentional, the inten-
tional and the professional. The &C.
casional loafer is one who has finished
up all his work or is prevented there
from by some good and reasonable ex
cuse. The unintentional is one who
works when solicited, but is not
good solicitor himself. The inten-
tional is one who lives in any old way
so long as he can without going to
work; and the professional Is one who
faints at the sight of work, and is the
enemy of those who do work. 1t is OF
the latter class upon which | shall
dwell. He is not only an enemy Of the
Industrious man, hut is also an enemy
of himself, his family, good society,
soap and water, and common decency,
and we might add, is usually "agin"
the government. In his own estima-
tOn he knows more than the preSi-
dent, congress and King Oscar com
bined, when in truth and in fact he
doesn't know as much as a yellow
dog, taking into consideration the
training the two have had. He rests
his dirty, measly, NANCY carcass on
goods box in the back end of store
providing the best chair in the house
is occupied, appropriates the daily
newspaper looks wise and talks loud,
and smokes an old pipe, the smell of
which would drive buzzard to dis |
gust, and make den of hyenas leave |
their happy home. This individual
can cover larger area of the floor in |
close proximity to the stove legs with |
the sloppy extract of Battle Axe"
and eXpectorate with more force than
any other class Of humans extant. |
This kind Of a citizen should cast his
lot in the b0neyard. obtain eX-
elusive right as against all other nui-
sances, gradually decay, and exert his
energies to out-smel his neighbors,
the deceased Poland-China which has |
since died with the cholera, and the
mule whose kicking appar-
atus has ceased to longer serve him.
Erie has several of this sort of loafers.
Spot them; it is an easy task.
With all due respect to the conscien-
tious members of the Law and Order
League, we feel constrained to relate
that some of its members have allow
ed their lack of good equine sense to
lead them beyond that point where
there is not trace Uf either law or
order. AS is well known, Erie has
been pestered more or less with the
dreaded disease diphtheria this win
ter, and because our most worthy and
health officer, DR.. r. @. Hen
derson, has insisted upon performing
his duties tending to promote the
welfare Of the public in general, by
quarantining when necessary, some Of
our swell -Four Hundred have rent
their undergarments in several places.
OF course, it was dreadful thing that
the Kansas legislature didn't know of
these exalted few down here when / t
passed the public health laws, and ex-
clude them so they would be prvi-
legged characters, to go when they
pleased and where they pleased, scat
tering the germs of contagious dis
ease wherever they saw fit, because
they and their families had reached
the stage of immunity and conse-
quent1y not subject to such diseases.
Thank God this correspondent doesn't
belong to this favored few! Every
body knows who they are.
"
District court convened here Tues
day morning with eighty-three cases
on the docket. Fifty-six OF them are
civil suits, thirteen uncIvil, and four
teen divorce cases. Among the most
worthy of mention are the cases of
George Leslie Brown, charged with
manslaughter; Ed Giltner, charged
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