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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
HE PUZZLED THE BRlTISHER
Evidently Doorkeeper Had Never
Heard of the Lord That Ameri.
can Minister Served.

Judge George F. Lawton of the Mid
dlesex probate court told me story
the other day of an American minis
ter who was spending his sabbatical
year travelling abroad. Arriving in
London, he made every effort to get
an intimate view of the two branches
Of parliament in session. OF course
no stranger Is allowed on the floor of
the house of lords, but the minister
not knowing this, and with the usual
amount of American push, tried to
make his way in. There is rule,
however, that servants of the various
lords may be admitted to speak to
their ministers. Seeing the minister
walking boldly in, the doorkeeper
asked:
What lord do you serve?"
what lord?" repeated the aston
ished American, "the lord jehovah"
For a moment the doorkeeper hest
tated and then admitted him. Turn
ing to an assistant standing near, he
said:
HE must mean one Of those pool
Scotch lairds. boston Record.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04

The shade trees have been exposed
TO great peril through the ravages of
insects, and now come the unhappy
tidings that the chestnut trees are
falling victims to a disease for which
no cure appears to have been found.
The trouble is particularly notable on
Long Island, the fine specimens of
chestnuts on the estates of wealthy
men owning summer homes in that To-
cality being among the victims. The
ailment is believed to be communi-
Gated through the sap, and the most
determined effort has failed to dis
cover the real cause or find remedy.
The chestnut tree stands for highly
useful purpose, and if it must go"
great will be the loss involved.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
Kansas Veterinarians Sore.

Members of the state veterinary
board claim the legislature juggled
that board out of about $4,000 in fees
that it is rightfully entitled to. The
board collected that amount from
veterinarians, at no cost whatever to
the state.
Business in the future may not be
so good, and the board had depended
upon that surplus to pay salaries dur
ing the lean years. But the legisla-
ture, without notice to the board,
passed a law authorizing the state
treasurer, who was custodian of the
fees. to turn the money into the gen.
eral revenue fund of the state. In re-
turn. $1,000 was appropriated for the
board.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
S T A T E
CAPITAL
| T f NJ s
Secretary of States office.

An examination of the office of the
Sec'y of State has been completed, and
IL is shown to be in good shape up to
March 81, 1909, the date OF the exam
ination.
The examination extended from
statehood, November 16, 1907, 10
March 81, 1909, and shows the total
receipts of the office in that time to
have been $53,9O6, all of which has
been turned over to the state treas
urer. The receipts were divided as
follows: From charters and record
ing fees, $47,01725; notary commits
sions, $6,170; acquisitions, 60 granted
and 124 honored, $4S2.50; foreign COM
missioners of deeds, $50; certified
copies, ETC., $153.75; extra recording,
$3.50.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
Law Enforcement Receives Setback

The Billips booze" law received
another solar plexus blow in the fed
eral court when Judge Campbell or
Muskogee handed down an order
granting the temporary injunction
asked by Kansas City liquor houses
against Hughes county officers, re-
straining them from Selling liquor
while yet in the custody of the author
ICED carriers.
This means that no longer can Of
ficers confiscate liquor until it has
been delivered to the assignee, and
under the Billups law it can not then
be confiscated without a search war
rant.
1t is believed by the best informed
lawyers that the temporary injunction
will be made permanent. This means
that the railroad companies can be-
come the agents of the liquor COM
panies and keep large quantities OF
alcoholic beverages stored in their
warehouses and job it out to the re-
tailers.
The argument on the permanency
of the Injunction will not be made,
probably, before the end Of the pres
ent term of the federal court at Tulsa,
Another feature of the order which
the liquor interests regarded as a vic
tory was that officers in every county
in Oklahoma may be included in the
present suit and be enjoined from In
terfering with the carriers until the
decision of the suit, and possibly per-
manently.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
Finds School Election Void.

Attorney Gus A. Hill, who repre-
sents some negroes at McAlester, de-
clares that the election of school d.
rectors in all cities of the first class in
Oklahoma at the last election was IL
legal. The recent city election law
provided for the election Of directors,
but an act of the first legislature pro
'iding for separate schools provided
hat only whites could vote for white
,chool directors and negroes for color
ID school directors. Both we're allow
ID to vote for white directors.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
DEARER BREAD.

The report of an advance in the
price of bread as result of the rise in
the values of wheat AID flour was to
be expected. Wheat being the raw ma
terial of -four and -four the raw ma
terial of bread, an increase in the cost
Of the first, whether natural or artifi-
cial, necessitates proportionate ad-
vances in the more finished products.
The only question is whether the up
ward tendencies have not been used
by combinations and manipulators to
ill their own pockets out Of the needs
Of the people. There is no doubt that
q considerable part of the advance in
wheat is due to the small amount Of
last years crop still available for mar
keting. There Is general belief that
this legitimate advance has been ex-
lggerated by spectators, says the
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph AS far
as this is the case we may hope that
It will be temporary, and that the har-
vesting of good crop this year will
restore prices to fair basis. There
are also indications that combination
of milling interests has increased the
old margin between the prices of
wheat and -four, and thus established
another squeeze on consumers. These
means of enhancing the cost of prod
ucts cannot be carried very far with
out inevitably increasing the cost of
bread.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
LOGICAL Reasoning.

A certain young mans friends
thought he was dead, but he was only
in a state of coma. When, in ample
time to avoid being buried he showed
signs of life, he was asked how 1t
seemed to be dead.
"Dead?" he exclaimed. 81 wasn't
dead. / knew all that was going on
And l knew l wasn't dead, too, be-
cause my feet were cold and l was
hungry"
But how did that fact make you
think you were still alive?" asked one
of the curious.
well, this way: knew that II l
were in heaven l wouldn't be hun
cry. And if l was in the other place
my feet wouldn't be cold"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04

A curious society has just been
formed at Darmstadt, in Hesse. Its
object is to promote the substitution
of the military salute for the present
mode of salutation among civilians.
Instead of the present method of rails
Ing ones hat, the Hessians-or at least
q certain proportion of them-would
like to see the general adoption of the
German military salute, consisting of
bringing the hand extended, with fin
gers close together, to the edge of
ones hat. The only reason given for
this strange prediction is that the
new salutation would be identical with
that used in the time of Arminius.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04

France is nothing II not an or
ganizer. She loves to settle matters,
and put them under a rule and COM
pass. therefore no one can be sur
prised to learn of the Burglars league,
which has been organized in Paris.
Recently II all came to the light of
day by finding a copy of the rules in
the pocket Of the president OF the So
ciety. who was captured by the police,
red-handed. One OF these rules was
that any member of the league who
shows incapacity for the profession
and is arrested three times in success
sion shall be suspended.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
Ia Tired of Praying.

A little girl in st. Louis the other
evening was going through the usual
form of prayer: God bless mamma,
and papa and make me good girl, b"
and so on, when all at once she
seemed to come to a decision. Now
that is the last time l am going to
say that prayer" she said, very grave,
ly, looking at her mother. "You are
older than l am and it is your place
to ask for all those things and l don't
see any use in two peoples asking
the same thing" Since then she has
firmly refused to pray, insisting that
it is her mothers place to ask God
for blessings.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
Quite True.

Marian, a little three-year-old, is
very stubborn. One day, when she
was fretful, her mother, wishing to
engage her mind, attracted her atten-
ton to cow in a vacant lot and asked
what 1t was.
Marian replied, "hoss" (horse) and
stubbornly refused to give in. Her
mother, wishing to get correct an
swer without scolding, asked: What
eats grass besides a horse?" More
boss" was the quick Responsible
lineator,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04

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
er strength than other makes.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
Continual Doubt.

How many children have your"
said the tourist. affably.
81 dunno exactly" answered the
tired-looking woman.
you don't know"
mot for certain. Willie's gone
fishin, Tommy's breakin' in colt,
Georges borrowed his fathers shot
gun to go hunting an Esmeralda Ann
is thinkin' of elopin'. l never know
how many I've got till supper time
comes, SOS l can count EN-"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
-OO
KANSAS COMMENT
5Nl.-

Parcels Out Normal Work.-The
state board of education, in session at
Topeka, selected twenty-six higf
schools and academies in the state to
teach the normal courses as provided
by the new law. Each of these
schools will receive $500 year state
aid. The board will meet again in
June, to complete the selections.
About sixty-five high schools have in
dicated a desire to come under the
normal course. The list of high
schools selected follows: lola, Eff.
fingham, Medicine Lodge, Great Bend.
Hiawatha Academy, Eldorado, Clay
county high school, Decasur high
school, Enterprise academy. Troy,
Garden City, Junction City, Holton,
Campbell academy, Olathe, Lakin,
Phillipsburg, Chanute, Beloit, Nc
Pherson academy, Lincoln, Tonga
noxie, Rawlins county high school,
Thomas county high school and Ere
donia.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
Carrie Nation Gives Advice.-carrie

Carrie Nation Gives Advice.-Carrie
Nation, the Joint smasher, delivered
lecture to number of Paramount CO.
eds on a street car in Wichita the
other day. In addressing the students
she undertook to give the young Ia
dies some motherly advice, in which
she said: do not dare to marry any
man to reform him. He is not worth
it. First reform him, if you can. Then
let some other fool girl marry him" q
Guilty of Second Degree Murder
After being out for more than six
hours, the jury of the Charley Rogers
case at Lawrence brought in a YER
dict of second degree murder. The
trial of Rogers has attracted consid-
cradle attention. About month ago
he was arrested for killing a young
man by the name of Haynes of St.
Joseph, Mo. The sentence that Rog-
ers has received means under the in
determinate sentence law, a term of
from 10 to SO years in the state pen
itentiary.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
The Young Dream.

The light was soft in the conserva-
tory.
But" said the young girl, nervously
plucking to pieces a mauve orchid,
but there are microbes in kisses"
The FLASHING of the fountain min
gled with the low, deep voice of the
youth.
my microbes" he murmured, pas
sionately, ARE so lonely!"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04

Since the time of Adam men have
been laying the blame for everything
on women. Retribution for this cen
turtles old wrong is coming. A woman
In San Francisco says that the blame
Tor the flippery OF modern feminine at
tire belongs to the men. When one
looks at the monstrosities of the pres
ent fashions, and hears the men
blamed for it, it must be confessed
that the score, old as it is, is evened.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
Expect to Spend s5o,oOo,oOo.-Th

Expect to Spend s5o,ooo,o oo.-The
Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
way company states in a communica-
ton TO the state board of railroad
commissioners that it expects to spend
s5O.OOO.OO in the improvement of its
lines. and that it intends to construct
at least coo miles Of new line within
the next four OF five years. Incident
ally. II asks for permission to issue
So. 100000 worth of bonds and this
permission has been granted by the
board in the form Of a certificate.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04

than q minute at d
time. My doctor
said an operation
was the only
chance I had, and
Threaded it almost
as much as death.
One day I was
reading how other
women had been
cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound,
and decided to try
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
Household Hint.

do you know how to use chatting
dish?"
Yes" answered Mr.. Sirius Barker.
81 have some novel ideas on the SUBJ
ject"
What are they?"
THE best way know Of to use a
chatting dish is to punch hole in
the bottom of it, paint it green and
plant flowers in it."-Washington
Star.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04

London is to have 1000 delegates
rom all over the world to an. interna'
,ional suffrage convention. And as
the women have been practising jiu.
titsu. the subsequent proceedings are
ant TO add to the gayety of the nations
which can enjoy looking on.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
XacanY at purant School.

The election of H. G. Alternately OF
sulphur as president of the girls in
dustrial school at Chickasha leaves
vacancy in the department of math-
ematics at the Durant normal school
to be filled by the normal regents,
Mr.. Alternately having quite recently
been elected to that position.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04

ia man be rooted in morals ane
modesty there is no more inconsist
.ncv between his immature and ma.
n,re views than there is between the
yiolet before and after blossoming, o.
N the trees before and after leafng.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
Men Can Care for themselves.

A coal company in the Hooking val
ley, o.. employs both men and mules.
One mule costs 5000, and in point Of
work equals six men. The company
has this order standing on its books,
when the roof gets weak. take out
the mules."-Vancouve Mining Ex-
change.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04

There's a lot of fuss about the re-
cent smuggling of five trunks filled
with French finery, just because the
owners name is not known, while
nothing is said about the so or more
trunks filed with the same kind of
stuff, just because the owners are
known.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
The Vegetarian,

Nebuchadnezzar was eating grass.
"Yes," he remarked. Il have come
down to being a consumer"
Herewith he regretted his lost es-
tate.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
TENDER, BUT NOT LOVING.

Waiter Ito customer, who had COM
planned that his steak is not tender
enough)-Not tender enough! D'you
expect it to kiss you!
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
viii Enforce Quarantine at oIivet.-

viii Enforce Quarantine at Olivet-
S. j. Crumbine, secretary of the state
board of health, has informed the sher-
if of Usage county that unless the
county authorities enforce smallpox
quarantine at Olivet, small town in
that county, the state authorities will
step in and cut the town off from the
rest of the world. The notice follow
ed developments which showed that
little attention was being paid to the
quarantine. Kansas now has over 500
cases of smallpox scattered over the
state and the number of cases has in
creased rapidly in the past month
Most of the increase is said to be due
to failure to observe quarantine reg
ulations, as is the case at Olivet. DR..
Crumbine has informed the sheriff OF
Usage county that he must try to en-
force the quarantine and that If he is
unable to do so the state will cheer
fully render any assistance possible.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
OPERATION
HER ONLY
CHANCE
Assured byLydiaE.Pmk-
sVegetable Compound

Adrian, Ga. -"I suffered untold
misery from a female weakness and
disease, and could not stand more
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04

Few Changes in Sanitary Conn.,
Few changes will be made in the rules
and regulations of the livestock sani-
tary commission this year. ]. H. Mer-
Ger, commissioner, is now drawing up
the rules and regulations and states
that all of the changes to be made
will be of minor nature. He states
that there will be few changes in
the regulations regarding Texas fever
and a few changes in the quarantine
regulations for mango, in the western
part of the state. He will attempt to
formulate rules which will aid in
cleaning up the mango In western
Kansas, the only section In which II
exists. He is trying to take all the
counties out of the quarantine dis
trict. Four or five have already been
taken out this year and several more
will be removed the first of the year.
Mr.. Mercer believes that in two
years there will be no quarantine dis
trict in the state, so far as mango is
concerned.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04

Tired of Puny Teachers.-County
superintendent of Western Kansas
have formed a combine to insure the
employment of all their local teach
ers. Notices are being printed in all
their local papers that until all local
teachers are employed the county SUI
perintendent will not o. X. the certi-
ficate of outside teachers. This &C
ton is taken to shut-off the influx of
weak-lunged teachers from the East
The educational authorities are work
ing with the state board of health to
reduce the number of weak-lunged
teachers, who come West for their
health and teach school TO pay their
way.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
viii Celebrate EiftIeth Anniversary.

VIII CeIebrate FIttIeth anniversary.
From June to June 10, Baker uni
versity at Baldwin, the first college in
Kansas, will celebrate the fiftieth an
niversary of its founding. Baker is
the leading school of the Methodist
church in the Middle West, and
number of prominent churchmen and
bishops will be there to take part in
the ceremonies. The semi-centennial
Grafton will be delivered by Bishop W.
A. Quayle, who is an alumnus of the
university.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-11-26
A GOOD LOOKIN' BUNCH

The Blueheld Telegraph OF We'd
nesday contained the following :
"Tazewell sent good looking
bunch up Monday night TO the
show at the Elks play house in
BluefieId and all of them stopped
at Hotel Graham and were very
pleasant visitors here until the
Clinch Valley train carried the live
ly party homeward Tuesday. The
following prominent young people
from Tazewell formed the theater
party: Misses Maybelle Greever,
Stella Vermillion, Lettie Peery,
Narcie Steele, Alice Thompson,
Blanche Brown; Messrs. Archie
Thompson. Dan Thompson, j. e.
Hopkins, Willie HARRISON.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-11-26
Worlds 9th SUNDAY School
Convention

The sitXh annual session of the
Worlds Sunday School Association
will be held in Washington May
10th to oath, 1910. The eyes, thought
and interest of all Sunday School
workers throughout the worlu are at
present turned on-this great conven-
tion. This convention represents a
larger constituency than any other
convention OIL the globe, and there
will be delegates from all parts of
the world.
The general officers of this asso-
ciaticn are Rev. b. f. Meyer, b..
A, President, London; there are
four active vice presidents and four
teen honorary vice presidents. One
of the active vice presidents is from
Madeira Islands, one from London,
one from Canada and the other from
India. The recording secretary OF the
convention is Mr.. Marion Lawrence,
the general secretary of the Interna-
tional Sunday School Association o.
America and Dr. George w. Bailey,
of Philadelphia. is the chairman oi
the executive committee.
The probabilities are that not dur.
ing the life time of but few of those
now prominent in Sunday school
work in the United States will an
other session of the Worlds associa,
tion be held in the United States,
and for this reason the number o.
delegates allotted each state will b,
wholly insufficient to supply tn,
demand for credentials.
Due notice will be published In /.
few days relative to the number o
delegates allowed from Virginia
The Virginia delegation will b
headed by G. W. Baines, the genera
secretary OF the state association
Newport News, Virginia, and thos
persons who would like to atten,
this convention as delegate from
this state and wishing advanced In
formation, should communicate wit
the general secretary of the associa
tion for information reIative-to th
number of delegates allowed, cIe
dentials and the like.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-11-26
WittenS Mills

Wittens Mill, Nov. 24.-On the
Goth instant, Mr.. Henry S. Bowen
and his noble wife entertained the
following guests: Mrs. Crockett
Bowen, Mrs. j. T.. Brahe, Mrs. Ty-
Ter Witten. Miss Enialine Anspach,
and Moss Eulah Howard.
On Sunday evening, the 2lst In
slant, Rev. Mr.. Adam met quite n
number of students and friends OF
Clinch Valley Institute in choir
practice and treated them TO an ex-
cellent school sermon. Subject,
Rock of Ages"
Mr.. Will Whitman, OF TazewelI,
attended the above named services
with interest.
Messrs. George and Perk Painter
gave an entertainment to number
of their fIiends recently. A pleas
ant time is reported.
Miss Nancie Hawkins was recent
ly visiting friends and relatives In
his community.
Mr.. James Hurt Is an efficient
clerk in the Wittens Mills Supply
House.
Richard Neel is doing clerical
work in the Clinch Valley Division
of the N and w.
The literary club OF the Clincl
Valley Institute will entertain it:
patrons and friends on the evening
of the Goth on the subject, "Resolv
ed, That the Mind of Man is Strong
er and Mightier than the Mind O
Woman j