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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-10
Both Worked Well.

A correspondent sent this "pome"
to the New York Sun: Jack Spratt be-
meath his hat concealed a shining
pate; his wife she wore a budding
beard, most foeful to relate. Apothe-
cary shops they sought in interest
despair Sure Hair Restorer" Jack
then bought; his wife bought anti
Hair" One night some sprite in dire
delight the bottles did misplace, and
Mrs. Jack applied, alack, Jacks lotion
to her face. While Jack, alack, took
from the rack a bottle on which read:
"Depilatory, Use with Care and
doused it ON his head. Jack Spratt
beneath his hat now sports a lions
name, his wife is happy, for her face
is soft and smooth again.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-10
FOUND A WAY
To Be Clear Of the Coffee Troubles.

Husband and myself both had the
coffee habit and finally his stomach
and kidneys got in such a bad condi-
ton that he was compelled to give up
a good position that he had held for
years. He was too sick to work. His
skin was yellow, and hardly think
there was an organ in his body that
was not affected.
Il told him l felt sure his sickness
was due to coffee and after some dis
cussion he decided to give it up.
1T was a struggle because OF the
powerful habit. One day we heard
about Postum and concluded to try 1t,
and then it was easy to leave OF
coffee.
His fearful headaches grew less
frequent. his complexion began TO
clear, kidneys grew better until at
last he was a new man altogether. as
a result of leaving of coffee and TAX
ing up Postum. Then 1 began to
drink 1t, too.
Although / was never as bad on
as my husband, l was always very
nervous and never at any time very
strong, only weighing 95 lbs. before
/ began to use Postum. Now l weigh
lis lbs. and can do as much work as
anyone my size, l think.
Many do not use Postum because
they have not taken the trouble to
make 1t right. l have successfully
fooled a great many persons who have
drunk it at my table. They would
remark, You must buy a high grade
Of coffee One young man who clerked
in a grocery store was very enthusiaf-
tic about my coffee. When l to1f
him what it was. he said. why I've solo
Postum for four years but / had no
idea It was like this. Think IN drink
Postum hereafter
Name given by Postum Co. Battle
Greek, Mich. Read The Road to Well
VILE In pkgs. There's a Reason.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-10
THEN 1T LOOKED ABOUT RIGHT
Coal Dealer Understood When Told
What Load Represented.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in one Of
the last addresses that he made to his
Sunday school class before abandon
ing it, said of carefulness in business:
TOO many business men are care
full on one side, their own side, only.
Thus coal dealer whom l used to-
know shouted one afternoon to an en-
ploye who was driving out of the yard:
"'Hold on there, jim. That coal
can't have been weighed. 1t looks a
trife large for ton to me-
Jim shouted back
.'This amt ton, boss. It's two
tom
"'Oh, all right said the dealer, in a.
modified tone. Beg your pardon; go
ahead"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-10
Copyright. 1906. Bobbs-Mer Coz
SYNOPSIS.

Arthur Warrington, American consul
TO Barscheit, tells how reigning Grand
Duke attempts TO force his neice. Prfn-
cess Hildegarde. to marry Prince Dopple-
kim, an old widower While riding
horseback in the country night overtakes
him and he seeks accommodations in
dilapidated castle. Here he finds Prin-
cess Hildegarde and a friend, Hon; Betty
Moore of England. They detain him to
witness a mock marriage between the
princess and a disgraced army officer,
the grand duke. Steinbock attempts to
kiss the princess and she is rescued by
Warrington. Steinbock disappears for
good Max Scharfenstein. an old Ameri-
can friend of Warrington's reaches Bar
scheit. Warrington tells him Of the prin-
cess. Scharfenstein shows Warrington
a locket with picture of woman IN
side. 1t was on his neck when he, as a
boy, was picked up and adopted by his
foster father, whose name he was given.
He believes it to be a picture of his
the princess that she is to marry Dopple-
kim the following week. During morn
ings ride she plans to escape. She meets
Scharfenstein.. He finds purse she. has
dropped but does not discover her iden-
lty. Warrington entertains at a public
restaurant for number of American
medical students. Max arrives late and
relates an interesting bit of gossip to the
effect that the princess has run away
from Barscheit. He unwittingly offends
native officer and subjects himself to
certain arrest. Max is persuaded to take
one Of the American students passports
and escape. The grand duke discovers
the escape of the princess. She leaves a
note saying she has eloped. Efforts are
made to stop the princess at the frontier
Betty Moore asks for her passport She
asks Warrington for assistance in leav-
ing Barscheit, and invites him to call on
her in London. Max finds the princess in
the railway carriage. She accuses him
of following her. He returns to her the
purse he had found, 1t contained thou
sand pounds in bank notes. At the from
tier Max and the princess are arrested
and taken 70 Dopplekinn's palace.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-10
jealousy.

Talking about Creole jealousy"
said the observant man, 81 saw a
specimen of Chicago jealousy the
other night that had it beaten to a
FRAGILE. A handsome fellow was at
dinner with two girls, whea a young
woman came in. caught a corner Ct
the ia,Iecloth. and yanked the whole
tableful of dishes and dinner of onto
the floor. then walked out of the
room
What did the man do? Followed
her and made friends with her again
She was his fiancee. He gave her a
$500 diamond ring afterward. they
said. II she had been his wife he
would In all probability have beaten
her instead of giving her a present
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-10
CHAPTER discontinued.

when you listen to reason, prince"
replied the girl calmly, you will apol-
ogize to the gentleman and give him
his liberty"
"Oh, he is a gentleman, is he?"
You might learn from him many of
the common rules of courtesy, tran
gully.
"Who the devil are you?' the prince
demanded of Max.
Il should be afraid to tell you. |
hold that am Max Scharfenstein, but
the colonel here declares that my
name is Ellis. Who are you?' Max
wasn't the least bit frightened. These
were no feudal times.
The prince stared at him. The in
solent puppy!
Il am the prince
"Ah, your serene highness, began
Max, bowling.
81 am not called serene, "-rudely.
The grand duke is serene"
Permit me to. doubt that" inter-
posed the girl, smiling.
Max laughed aloud, which didn't i'm
prove his difficulties any.
Il have asked you who you are!'
bawled the prince, his nose turning
purple.
my name is Max Scharfenstein. l
am an American. If you will wire the
American consulate at Barscheit, you
will learn that l have spoken the
truth. All this is a mistake. The
princess did not elope with me-
His papers give-the name of Ellis"
said the colonel, touching his cap.
"Humph! Well soon find out who
he is and what may be done with him.
I'll wait for the duke. Take him into
the library and lock the door. It's a
hundred feet out of the window, and
II he wants to break his neck, he may
do so. 1t will save us so much trouble.
Take him away! take him away!" his
rage boiling to the surface.
The princess shrugged.
Il can't talk to you either" said
fhe prince, turning his glowering eyes
upon the girl. Il can't trust myself"
ooh, do not mind me. understand
that your command of explosives is
rather original. Go on; it will be my
only opportunity" The princess rocked
backward and forward on the divan.
Wasn't 1t funny!
Lord help me, and l was perfectly
willing to marry this girl" The prince
suddenly Gained down. What have
ever done to offend you?"
Nothing" she was forced to admit,
Il was lonely. i wanted youth about.
I wanted to hear laughter that came
from the heart and not from the mind
1 do not see where am to be blamed
The duke suggested you to me; l be
lieved you to be willing. Why did you
not say to me that l was not agree
able7 II would have simplified every.
thing"
81 am sorry,' she said contritely
When be spoke like this he wasn't 50
unlovable.
People say" he went on, that
snend most Of my time in my wine-cel
lars. WeI,''-defiantly.- else ia
there for me to do? am alone" Max
came within his range Of vision Take
him away, I tell you!"
And the colonel hustled Max into the
library.
Don't try the window" he warned
hut with rather q pleasant smile. He
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-10
But Not the Same.

Mushley-Indeed, yes, he's very
tender-hearted. l really believe If a
beggar approached him and he hao
no money about him he'd actually
take off his coat and give it to him.
Crabbe-Well, I'm not tender-heart-
ed. but some of these nervy beggars
make me feel like taking off my coat
and giving it to them-good and
DrOner
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-10
Natural for Them.

Those young fellows act like a
bunch Of fools" They consider that
they have right to act that way
ia like to know what right" They
belong to the smart set."-Houston
Post.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-10
HE KIN EW.

Father-Yes, you're a regular little
pig! Wouldn't give your brother any
of that candy. Do you know what
little pig is?
Kid-Er-er-sure- is-er
hogs little boy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-26
IS NOTED EDUCATOR
PRESIDENT ELIOT HEAD OF HAIR.
WARD FOR 40 YEARS.
Dean of University Chiefs Tenders
Resignation to Take Effect Next
Spring-is Father of Elective
System in Schools.

Boston.-President Charles W. Eliot,
for years head of Harvard university,
has rendered his resignation. Presi-
dent Eliot will be rs years old next
March, and desires to be free from
the cares of Office the remainder of
his life.
Although because of his age the res
ignation of President Eliot has been
looked forward to as a probability for
the last two or three years, the news
that he will retire in the near future
will doubtless cause surprise to thou.
sands of Harvard graduates through.
out the country. He is the dean Of
American university presidents, and
the general public, like Harvard men,
has grown to look upon him as an
educational institution not to be
changed suddenly. No university head,
indeed, probably is better known to
the public than President Eliot, and
his long administration of university
affairs, in its essential respects,
seems in keeping with Harvard's spir-
1t and history.
President Eliot is in his seventy
fifth year, having been born in Bos-
ton, March 20, 1884. He was fitted
for college at the Boston Latin school
and in 1858 was graduated from Har-
ward. From 1854 to 1853 he was tu-
tor in mathematics and student in
chemistry at the university; in 1858
he became assistant professor OF
mathematics and chemistry in the uni
versity's Lawrence Scientific school
and remained in that capacity five
years. Then he went to Europe and
studied chemistry and investigated
educational methods for two years
Returning to the United States in
1865, he became professor of analytic
al chemistry in the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology, where he re
manned four years. Again he wen
abroad, to France, where he studied
a year and in 1869 he returned t.
take up the presidency of Harvard
At the time he became the head 0
this old and wealthy seat of l~earnin;
and culture President Eliot was 8
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-26
HARRY'S MOTHER
Copyright, by BODbs-Merrin Coz
By DUNCAN MILLER

"Im glad we're about through"
said the foreman.
He yawned, and fitting back his
chair, put his feet on the table with
the air of a man who saw, not far
off, the end of what had been mostly
unpleasant work. They had been at
it and hard at it a week, every day
and all day. There had been the usual
number of ~larcencies, burglaries,
"hold-ups," ICON" cases, etc., to con-
slider and pass upon. Now and again
the monotony was relieved to some
extent by a murder or an assault with
intent to kill.
We've found a hundred indict-
ments, with a few yet to consider"
said the foreman. Lets wind EN-
up before we adjourn"
The other members of the grand
jury yawned their acquiescence.
That's all the evidence you have,
isn't it, Billy" asked the foreman.
81 think So" responded Billy. "Tn
have a look outside. There may be
n or two more witnesses, but We'll
make short work of them. There are
none that amount to anything"
The retired saloon-keeper borrowed
a little "star plug" of his neighbor
from Decatur township. The manu-
facturer looked at his watch, lit a
fresh cigar and wondered why the
business hadn't all gone to the dogs
during the few days he'd been away
He had been quite ure that 1t would
when he asked the court to excuse
him from serving on the grand jury.
Billy opened the door and passed
through into the ante-room. Some one
came in. The foreman took his feet
off the table. The manufacturer laic
down his cigar. The retired saloon
keeper spat once and sat up straight
er. The prosecutor re-entered, closing
the door after him and, motioning the
newcomer to the witness chair, tool
his accustomed place at the table.
"Well, madam, what can we do TO
you? What case were you sub
poenaed for?" and the prosecute
picked up the somewhat thumbe'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-26
Where Forests Die Hard.

That is the n astounding thing in
this whole region of northern Maine,
the regenerative power of the forest.
Men with axes have been hacking at
the giants of the wood up here for
two centuries and more. The goliaths
have been laid low, indeed, yet for
one tree that stood on a given space
along the hillsides and In the valleys
Of Number One a century ago five
stand to-day.
They are giants no more, 1t is true,
but they are splendid trees, and Just
as the L%illiputians might prevail
where CULVER was bound, so these
trees hold their own against mar and
even press In On his clearings and
wipe them out. There must be many
more lumbermen with axes along the
Macwahoc, the Moluncus and the Mat
tawamkeag before this beautiful re-
gion will fail Of its forest.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-26

years ago, when he himself declared that his great
creative works were unworthy and altogether evil
Here is his own account of the split in his life:
Il had tried to test science and modern cul-
ture, and l have turned from them with a feeling
of repulsion because of the inability of the first
to solve the really important problems of life
and because of the hollowness and ~falseness of
the second"
BY becoming chummy with the peasant Tolstoi
declares he turned to frankness, simplicity and
essential kindness, and he says he is to-day near
err mother earth than ever in his life. He declares
the peasant, typically, is the ideal Christian. And
thus since 1875 his writings have been almost ex-
clusively polemic and didactic.
To-day Count Leo Tolstoi is a large, heavily
built man with unusually long arms, hanging
loosely at his sides, with a wide nose, somewhat
thick lips, small gray eyes, a head set on bulky
but slightly STOPPING shoulders and a matted
white beard. He possesses an air of strength
that is found In few great men. The power that
one finds in him is both mental and physical, and
hence of the durable sort.
One of this mans great themes is the Sermon
on the Mount. In this he has declared that
he found five laws of God and he has made them
his rules for faith and conduct throughout the
later years of his life. These laws are sum-
married as follows:
Live in peace with all men and do not regard
any man as your superior.
Do not make the beauty of the body an occasion
for lust.
Every man should have one wife and every
woman one husband, and they should not be d.
vorced for any reason.
Do not revenge yourself and do not punish 9TH
ers because you think yourself insulted or hurt.
Suffer all wrong and do not repay with evil for
you are all the children of one father.
Never breakthe peace in the name of patriotism.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-26

years old and had achieved a repu-
tation as an authority on chemistry.
These two facts hardly qualified him
for the administration of a great in
s~titution of learning, according to New
England traditions. Since their es-
Enlistment the principal colleges of
the east had been governed by clergy
men past middle life. 1t was m
thing of a shock to New England to
have a young man and a scientist be-
come the head of Harvard. The idea
of young men and no~n-clergymen as
presidents has since become popular,
and this is largely due to the sue
cess of President Eliot's administra-
ton.
The name of President Eliot will
forever be associated with the de-
velopment of the elective system in
American universities. He, possibly
more than anybody else, brought
about this system, which was for a
long time looked upon with suspicion
and distrust and has not yet found
universal acceptance, though to a de-
gree it's principles have been accepted
by nearly every one of our larger in
situations of learning. The system
differs fundamentally from the old
rigid curriculum Of prescribed studies
In allowing a student to choose the
greater part of the studies he must
take to earn a degree. According to
President Eliot's views on the system
it promotes concentration and indi-
viduality, %equipping each student to
make the largest contribution to the
betterment of the race and combining
practical with theoretical culture.
1t has been said of President Eliot
that he is first, last and only a uni
versity administrator, instead of being
first a great teacher or author OF
scholar and secondly a great admins
traitor. He has the faculty, highly de-
veloped, of co-ordinating the work OF
many men toward a harmonious and
effective end, and he has a vigorous
and impressive personality that has
enabled him to carry out his ideas
without exciting opposition. His kind
Illness of spirit and desire to put stu
dents on their honor as much as pos
sible have made him popular witt
undergraduates to an extraordinary
degree.
One of his great achievements al
an administrator has been the stead!
lettering of the Harvard professional
school. The Lawrence Scientif,
school, the medical school and thu
dental school have been greatly i'm
proved and, the law schools higl
standard has been raised.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-26

He is now so years old and while in good health
at the time of this writing, his passing is but a
matter of a few months or years. There are two
sides to this great man. One is Leo Tolstoi, the
artist. and the other-Leo Tolstoi, the man. AS
the artist he has written fearless works and the
person or clique which has fallen under the scath-
ing attack of his pen has seldom been known to
boast of it.
There is no ~disputing his rank as the best known
Of living authors. Also he is the most generally
read and recognized. He has attained the highest
pinnacle of fame in the literary field and it can
not be said that he craved fame, either.
Best of all, Tolstoi is a friend of all Americans.
The traveller from the United States, visiting Rus
STA, is as welcome at the Yasnaya Polyana estate of
Russia's great man, as if he were in his own home.
America likes Tolstoi, too, for the author is the
most democratic Of men.
1t is told of him that he spurns all worldly luxu-
ries, even going so far as to have two tables set
within his home at each meal-one resplendent
with fancy edibles, while the other is stocked
with simple food of the peasantry. Friends of his
daughters and sons are always welcomed at the
more prosperous looking board, while in the same
room, Tolstoi, seated alongside of his wife, par
takes Of the necessities of life as an ordinary pie
1beian would. However, his children, having been
brought up to the luXuries of life, are allowed to
crafty their every within, and he never allows his
beliefs to step between them and happiness. In
that respect he is an ideal father and he has been
praised the WOTlQ DNeF LOT HIS UIOdu-iiiIuCu q
iner of treating others who do not believe as he
does.
He is also what Americans call a mixer" but
in an entirely different sense. He meets the poor
of Russia on their own level, and, except for the
fact that he often s~catters money at their feet,
one would never suspect his wealth. There are
no strings attached to Tostols gifts, and thousands
of beneficences to Russians in general, while the
benefactor's name is a secret, are popularity laid
at the door of this great man.
10 be a friend of the Russian peasant up to a
few years ago meant to be an enemy of the gov
eminent. Upon several occasions Tolstoi's cutlery
against oppression Of the cars subjects has placed
him behind the grimy walls of Slav dungeons, but
he always returned to continue the work which he
has so ably accomplished.
He is a social reformer Of the first water and
many of the acts of justice which the Russian gov
eminent Of late years has accomplished can be
traced back to the work of Tolstoi.
As a literary artist the count is dead. His de-
mise was a literary suicide. and it occurred 80
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-26

out into the open country, where we
can see past houses, how grateful does
the distance seem!
But | get this nj best at a quiet
place where I go in the mountains,
where / can sit and look down a long,
broad lake with mountains rolling
away on either hand and beyond. The
change, | know, from the city Is great
and delightful; but the thing that getf
me here, and releases me, is the dis
lance.
DAILY, hourly, ! come back to this
view. to expel what lingering traces