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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27

the sweetest [ ever had 1t was
sweeter than the apples / stole when
was a kid and the kisses stole
when"
IF you came here to dilate on the
joys of sin, Mr. Travers," began the
widow coldly
And" proceeded the bachelor.
1--WE made up my mind to stop flirt-
ing with a girl. because l found out
that she was beginning Toto"
81 understand" interrupted the
widow sympathetically.
And by Jove!" finished the bache'
lor, Il had to restrain myself to keep
from going back and proposing to
her!"
How lucky you did" commented
the widow witheringly.
But | wouldn't have" explained
the bachelor ruefully, "if the gorl had
restrained herself"
Nevertheless" repeated the widow
1T was lucky-for the girl"
(Which girl?" asked the bachelor.
The girl broke off with or the girl
that came afterward?"
81 suppose" unused the widow ig
noring the levity and leaning over to
arrange a bunch of violets at her belt,
that is why it is so difficult for a
man to keep a promise or VOW
even a marriage VOW"
"Oh, | don't know" The bachelor
leaned back and regarded the widows
coronet braid through the smoke of
his cigar 1T isn't the marriage VOWS
that are so difficult to keep. It's the
fool VOWS man makes before mar
riage and the fool promises he makes
afterward that he stumbles over and
falls down on. The marriage vows
are so big and vague that you can get
all around them without actually
breaking them, but If they should in
terpolate concrete questions into the
service such as, DO you, William,
promise not to growl at the coffee
"Or, DO you, Mary, promise never
to put daub of powder on your nose
again?'" broke in the widow.
Nor to look twice at your pretty
stenographer," continued the hache-
lor.
Nor to lie about your age, or your
foot or your waist measure"
Nor to juggle with the truth when
ever you stay out after half-past ten"
Nor to listen to things that-that
anybody-except your husband may
say to you in the conservatory-oh,
l see how it feels," finished the wild
ow with a sympathetic little shudder.
"And yet" reflected the bachelor,
"a woman is always exacting vows
and promises from the man she loves,
always putting up bars-for him to
lump over; when If she would only
leave him alone he would be perfectly
contented to stay within bounds and
Craze in his own pasture. A man
hates being pinned down; but a WON
an doesn't want anything around that
she can't pin down, from her belt and
her theories to her hat and her hus-
band"
Well" protested the widow study
ing the toe of her slipper. 1T is a sat
isfaction to know you've got your hus-
band fastened on straight by his
promises and held in place by his
own VOWS and that he loves you
enough to"
Usually" interrupted the bachelor,
"a man. loves you in inverse ratio to
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27
UNCLE HAD THE FORMULA.
Probably Knew as Much About Water
as Did Fellow Townsmen.

Il was down in a little town the
other day." said commercial travel
err, where new system of water
works had just been installed. All
the drinking water for the town was
pumped in from an artesian well on
the outskirts. The inhabitants were
immensely proud of their new water,
and at every place | stopped l was
urged to take drink of it, being as
sured at the same time with great i'm
pressiveness that it had been analysed
and found to be half hydrogen This
mystic expression seemed to have
strange fascination for most of the
citizens.
Finally l stopped at the town
pump in the middle of the square in
front of the county courthouse, and as
I worked the pump handle thought
would find out what an old negro
leaning against a tree nearby would
say y
"Uncle,' i said, is this good wa
ter?'
"Sho'! he replied, with enthusi-
asm. wy, sab, dat water is done been
scan'lyzed an found ter be hat hyra-
phoby, sahr!"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27

Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces-
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear.
ing quality of the goods. This trou-
BILE can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great.
or strength than other makes.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27

|
1t is only when we blindly consider
ourselves as right in everything that
we are all wrong.
1t is only when we blindly consider
ourselves as right in everything that
we are all wrong.
So if your look back shows you mis-
takes and errors and misbeliefs, be
glad that the New Year gives you a
| clean slate to try for the right road
and the true goal.
Be thankful for the mental perspec-
tive when you see it with clear sight
with new true eyes.
There is no need of making resolu-
tions, for right seeing means right
thinking and right thinking is the
path to right living.
Perhaps your faults are those mean
little ones which you would like to
exchange in bunch for one noble sin,
but there are no exchanges of that sort
! or we should all be noble sinners
The petty faults are the thorns that
cluster round some Of the finest roses
in life's big garden, crowding, jarring,
overlapping one another in their eager
ness to get to the light.
Maybe the old year has been a good
friend in some special instances that
you can recall.
Perhaps it brought you back with
short, sharp shock from too AFRO
CANT happiness or an overconfident sue
cess
Be glad of that jar even though it
kept you stirred up for awhile.
Perhaps the past IL months have
healed some breach or brought some
ship home, the white sails of which
you have been watching wistfully for
months or years far out at sea.
Be glad of that
Perhaps some milestone has fallen
from you and you stand free at last on
the great highway with long. manacled
arms reached out to the sky.
Be glad!
Or peace has settled on a troubled
ocean and you can greet the sunrise
with smile and prayer of thankful
ness for another day.
Maybe there is a cradle in one cor
ner of your home this New Years eve
with most important guest cuddled
in down blankets and roseleaf palms
upturned for your kisses.
No need to tell you to be glad.
Or success has come to crown some
effort at which you have toiled rather
YEARLY, hardly daring to hope.
Or if it has been withheld, be glad
THAI you have nevertheless tried 1t
will all come to you some day.
The old year has taught us lessons.
Let us profit by them and enter into
the new armed with experience rather
than plTnge into it as though it were
rose garden.
1t is quite as full of danger and con-
flict and clouds as the old friend that
is going.
Let us wish it will have even as
much sunshine and gladness and joy.
We can meet it with splendid hope
and lively faith-fos those two quail
ties are what make our dreams come
true.
Let us CHERISH few good hopes that
it may bring us the things we stand |
in need of-health, happiness, good |
friends success, joy and tine clear
vision that will teach uF to discern the !
false from the true.
May it leave us our beliefs and our
ideals.
Teach us to love more and to hate |
not at all.
To be content withthe blessings that
We have.
To cultivate sweetness and good ma.
ture rather than eXclusiveness.
To meet the world with % smile
70 stifle criticism Of things and peo-
pie.
Never to make little of our own.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27
A NonbeIiever.

mo-" said the old lady, 81 don't be.
lieve vaccination does bit of good"
I'm surprised to hear you say that
rejoined the physician.
WELL continued the old lady, 1--WE
got good grounds for my nonbelief. My
brother was vaccinated when he was a
boy and two weeks later he fell out Of
q tree and was killed"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27

EMMY to the hands of the clock,
which indicated 1870, and then to
the calendar, on which hung one fiut-
tering leaf marked December 81.
1T is time" she sighed, ito begin
mental housekeeping; to sweep out
our collection of last years follies and
dust off our petty sins and fling away
our old vices and"
That's the trouble!" broke in the
bachelor. IT'S so hard to know just
what to throw away and what to keep.
Making New Years resolutions is like
doing the spring housekeeping or
clearing out a drawer full of old let
ters and sentimental rubbish. You
know that there are lots of things
you ought to get rid of, and that are
just in the way, and that you would
be better off without, but the minute
you make up your mind to part with
anything, even a tiny, insignificant
vice, it suddenly becomes so dear and
attractive that you repent and begin
to take a new interest in it. The only
time | ever had to be taken home in
a cab was the day after | promised to
\ sign the pledge" and the bachelor
sighed reminiscently.
And the only time l ever overdrew
my bank account" declared the wild
ow, was the day after l had resolved
to economic. suppose" she added
pensively, that the best way to begin
would be to pick out the worst vice
and discard that"
"And that will leave heaps Of room
for the others and for lot of new lit
tile sins, beside, won't it?" agreed the
bachelor cheerfully. We'll" he added
philosophically, 'I1l give up murder
ing
What" the widow started.
Don't you want me to-" asked the
bachelor plaintively. rubbing his bald
spot "Or perhaps might resolve not
to commit highway robbery any more
or to stop forging or"
"All of which is so easy!" broke in
the widow sarcastically.
"There'd be some glory and some
ItdSOu III SiNlhb up a Di0 WV
ed the bachelor, ''if fellow had one.
But the trouble is that most Of us men
haven't any big criminal tendencies
merely a heap of little follies and
weaknesses that there isn't any par
ticular virtue in sacrificing or any
particular harm in keeping
"And which you always do keep, in
spite OF all your New Years VOWS,
remarked the widow ironically.
HUH" The bachelor laughed cyni
cally. Its our New Years VOWS that
help us to keep EN-. The very fact
that fellow has sworn to forego any
thing. whether it's a habit or a girl
makes il more attractive. I've thrown
away a whole box of cigars with the
finest intentions in the world and Their
gotten up in the middle Of the nigh
to fish the pieces out OF the waste bas
ket. And that midnight smoke va
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27

1t is wonderful what strength of pur.'
pose and energy and holiness of will
are reused by the simple assurance
that we are doing our duty.-Scott.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27

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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27

1t is sweeter to- gain wisdom from
others woes than that others should
learn from us.--PlautuS
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27

DO YOUR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOws
If so, use Red Cross Ball Blue 1t will make
them white as snow. 2 o. package cents.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27

You always get full value in Lewis
Single Binder straight &c cigar. Your
dealer or Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27

His Satanic majesty is probably
ashamed of some of his associates.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27

MOTHER year has found
us just as we were getting
comfortably used to the
idea that summer had
really gone.
Busy people never have
time to dwell very much
on the passing of the sea
sons.
The days are so full of
tasks and Father Time is
ALWAYS catching TN and
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27

An excuse is seldom a iustiflabe ex-
cuse.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-12-27

SN'T it hard, said the
widow, glancing ruefully
at the holly-wreathed
clock on the mantel-piece,
to know where to begin
reforming yoursclf?"
Great heavens!" ex-
claimed the bachelor,
you are not going to do
anything like that, are
your"
The widow pointed SOL
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-20
JUST ANOTHER STEP

President Roosevelt has taken
another great step in the direction
Of government ownership Of rail-
railways. Not long ago he advised
that the Interstate Commerce
Commission be given power to
place value upon every piece OF
railway which enters into inter-
state commerce and TO fix the
freight rates upon the basis Of that
valuation. Now the president pro-
poses to take every vestige OF
control from the states and center
all power to legislate for or
against the railroads in Congress.
This net, only will apply to the
RAILROADS which enter into inter-
state commcrce but to the lines
which lie wholly within state.
The two-ccnt fare laws which have
been passed will become void and
itsNill be the duty of congress to
fiji "a fare ra.e which shall be
uniform.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-20
STUNNING.

A New York preacher went slum-
lining the other night and wound up
lin police court iii the morning. lie
had accompanied woman "f color
To disreputable resort. When she
tried 10 rob him there was a fight,
the police interfered, ana as the po-
! ice were in plain clothes the preach
e. thought they were friends of the
woman, and therefore promptly
isugged them He was subdued al
ter some difficulty: escorted to the
Istation house, and there charged
with resisting an officer. Next morn
ing he explained to the judge the
purposes of his visit to the resort,
aud his mistake about the police
men. He was released by the Judge,
but has been temporarily suspended
from exercise Of his holy office. for
Ibis church authorities are yet to be
convinced that his conduct was cal
Iculated TO promote the cause of re-
ligion or good morals.
This preacher belongs to the class
oe misguided enthusiasts who think
IL is necessary to haze an intimate
personal acquaintance with vice In
order to combat II successfully from
the pulpit. They are not even con-
tent with accompanying parties on
so-called Summing expeditions, but
sometimes commit the imprudence of
visiting questionable places alone
and mingling upon terms of intimacy
with persons of the Under world,
upon the theory that in this manner
they best can get material for SER
mons, which was the explanation
offered by the New York preacher
H. question. The practice is bad
enough when the Summing Is done
by properly escorted parties under
joeficial protection and guidance. 1t
| Is far worse when the enthusiastic
go about as individuals, and these
individuals are preachers with fresh,
young blood in which the red cor
pnscles predominate.
For this there are three main rea-
sons, besides 4 nun ber or contingent
ones deserving of consideration In
the first place, it always is difficult,
whatever be the motive. to handle
pitch without becoming defiled. In
the second, it is a law of human
nature that familiarity with the con
lditions of the half-world and its
lcreatures begsts tolerance that is
dangerous to moral equilibrium In
the third, disclosures OF such visits
and OF the incidents that sometimes
arc inseparable from them, are
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-20

ing TO the observer, only tho
corpse stays at home in Washing
ton at time Of death.
Back of Mrs. Longworth's con
spicious hospitality Is the shrewd
plan of devoted and ambition,
wife. She is eager fer her husband
| to succeed in politics and so she is
grating foreign custom on
American society. She is aiming to
start political salon. That flour:
ishcs in London. where the petit.
coat influence is wide and strong
in politics.
A wise, bright tactful wife is one
of the best assets of the budding
British statesman. She makes his
home attractive TO the men in pow
er, which is a big step. She brings
his best qualities to Their friendly
notice. She keeps him at his tasks
when he is lazy; curbs him when he
gets unduly impatient; guides him
skillfully when he gets in ticklish
places and jockeys him under the
wire when, If left to his own run
ming, he would have been dlstanced.
4 all probability.
All of these wonders are achieved
mark you, by women who are mere
kindergaitners in the school of life
while the American matron is a
graduate with the highest honors.
Our women, whatever their social
standing, are quick -witted energetic,
resourceful, convincing, cajoling and
altogether fascinating. They have
beauty and good taste; all the decor
alive qualities. They have adaptable
| ity. They are at home anywhere and
everywhere
New honors develop new graces,
automatically. A shop girl marries
q multimillionaire and has the breed
Ing of a duchess at once. A mere
school girl becomes the First Lady
Of the Land and her grace, her dig
atty, her self-poise are immediate
nd phenomenal.
We send our American haphazard
70 the courts of Europe, and they
win all eyes by their beauty, their
grace theeir breeding. their frank
ness and their brilllancy. The Presi-
dents daughter made n striking i'm
preston; so did handsome Cleve-
land girl many years ago, and it is
stip vivid. We score all along the
nee.
The American girl is the best help
meet of man because she is the hest
all-round girl in the world She does
everything and does 1t well. Ii she
starts salon II will succeed in all
ways. 1t will entertain and reward
u: guest 1t vii boost the pet plan of
| Is hostess.
Only one danger lies in such art
ful use of-society. All women are
oliticians. Many women are shrewd
ones. II every ambitious one
| hould elect to have a political salon,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-20
EXODUS
OF JEWS
Uprising in Roumania has
Assumed Alarming
Proportions.

Vienna. March 30. According to
a telegram received here from Czsr-
nowitz, an Austrian town close to
the boundary of Moldavia, Rou-
mania, advices have been received
There from the Austrian frontier po-
lice. stationed at itzkani bnl Sue
zawa, that the antl-Jewish outbreak
IN Roumania is assuming serious
proportions,
peasants have attacked and piun-
dered Jews at Bugduzhen, who arcs
ileeing over the frontier to Itzkani.
About 1000 lngitives. mostly wom-.
Ell and children, already have
crossed the frontier. S
Other reports declare that furtheES
serious disturbances have occurred,
at Eotosahsni, where ,the peasantS.'
have set fire to the houses OF Jews.
and as result almost the entire
town is in flames. The Hebrew
alliance of Vienna is preparing to
take care of the Rolimanian fugi-
tives.
The towns OF Itzkani and Suczawal
IN Austria, are abont three niles
apart, and each ONE Is within one
mile OF the Roumanian frontier.
Barduzheni is about two. inilcs with
In the Roumanian froatier line. and
about three miles from both ltx-l
kani and suczwa. Burduzheri ~
also about twenty miles 10 the west
5f Foo sahepl i I .l''
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-20
OFFER IS
REJECTED
Tratnmen on Western Rail-
roads Have Voted to
Strike.

Chicago, March 20. --Trainmen and
conductors on all railroads west Of
Chicago have rejected the recent of
fer of general managers of the sys-
TENS for an increase in wages. 1t
IL stated that the trainmen have
voted to strike IL their demands are
not granted. Unless the railroad
managers Offer further concessions, n
strike of $4,000 men is likely to re-
snlt.
When the conference between rep
resentatiyes of the employees and the
companies adjourned Feb. 81, 1t was
with the understanding that another
conference would take place after
the men had voted upon the man
ayers offer. This second meeting Is
expected to be heli next week.
The offer which the men are said
t. have rejected was for an in
crease OF 10 per cent. To men in the
freight service AMI of $40 month
to conductors, SO month to baggage
men and So month to brakemen
and hagmen in the passenger servt
Ice Various provisions for over
time were also incorporated. The
men asked a wage increase OF 12 per.
cen. and 9-hour day. Rts
AS the matter now stands the
strike vote has been carried, but no
order to quit will be issued until
further efforts to reach an ADJUST
ment have besn made. tt t-33.s
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-20

To all appearances President
Roosevelt is skating around just
as near to government ownership
Of railways as is possible without
getting his feet wet.
This move upon the part of
Roosevelt does not only affect the
railroads, for it is only another
step toward centralizing the gov
ernment ut Washington. The
states have long held the right
to lcgislate as seemed to them
best, but now this right is to be
taken from them. Under the pres
ent trend it will not be long m
til the very right which has been
enjoyed by the various states will
have been, wrested from them.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-20
FROM THE coMMoNER.

MI Hartman is taking a rest"
says an exchange. "a" or "they'
The army officer on the canal lob
WIN either have to dig or face n
court martial.
Mr.. Busse, republican candidate
for mayor of Chicago, is postmaster
a. Chicago.
lhe army is going to tackle the
canal job. Now we can see the fin.
ISL OF the canal.
General Grosvenor's ship subsidy
monument will be only a dent in
political history
when Wallace resigned d-,!, When
Shonls resigned???? When Stevens
esigned-()
In China the trains stop when the
emperor starts to pray, Its inst the
other way in this country, q esl. \
The Greatest Engineering Feat of
'he Age seems to be, to keep solpe
engineers at work engineering.
Those poor ship owners will have
70 go right ahead getting rich at
the business without being hired to
do SO.
by the way. did any one ever hear
pi a secretary OF agriculture being
taken TO Wall street at IA handsome
salary
Wisconsin now has a glorious OPP
portunity 70 giyS IaFollette en-
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-20

almot certain to bring into disrepute
the visitor, and, II he be preacher,
the system of morals he so conspic-
uously presents.
1t, might be added that the lay
man, who has working knowledge
of the world and its people, very
well knows that such Summing ex-
petitions as that in which the New
York preacher came into prominence
frequently are inspired by prurient
curiosity instead Of high moral pur-
pose. This is another reason why
this sort of Summing should be dis
couraeed- but even hvithoutf IT,. the
other three are enough Ohio Sun.