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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-30
SWEPT OVER NIAGARA.

This terrible calamity often hap.
peas because careless boatman ig
nores the rivers warnings-growinp
rIpples and faster curl ent-Nature's
warnings are kind. That dull pair
or ache in the back warns you the
kidneys need attention If you woulc
escape fatal maladies-Dropsy, Dia'
betes or BrIght's disease. Take
Electric Bitters at once and see back
ache fly and all your best feelings re
turn. "After long suffering from
weak kidneys and lame back, ont
sl,OO bottle wholly cured me-" writes
J. r. Blaukenship, of Belk, Tenn,
Only SOC at Oriental Drug Company
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-30
Bargains in Used Stein
way Pianos.

If you know Of anyone who wishes
a very good piano at a moderate cost
no will be interested IN the fact that
just at at the present time the we'll
known music house of Lyen g. Healy
Chicago, have large salesroem en-
tirely filled with used Steinway Up
rights. These Steinways embrace 8
wide variety OF styles, All of them,
of course, are genuine Steinways, and
all OF them are Ia fine condition, but
there is a great difference in the coat
Besides these instruments Lyon &
Healy are also now Offering at q
great Rebuilding Clearing Sale, the
pianos formerly owned by the Thomp-
son Music Co., the Healy Music Co.,
and the big Thearle Piano Co., as
we'll as their own stock, You can
secure fine Instrument at 20 to &c
percent less than usual prices.
These pianos will be sold either fol
cash or upon very easy monthly pay
ments. Freight on an upright piano
is only a matter Of few dollars. AL
OF these Instruments are fully guaran
teed to be exactly as represented. The
opportunity to secure one will IN
doubtedly be taken advantage of BY
the shrewd buyer In this vicinity.
A letter TO Lyon & Healy, 10 Adams
street, Chicago, will bring full par
ticulars.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-30
Market Report.
Kansas City. Mo-.

Kansas Clty, no.,
The cattle market closed up good
last week, after halting and lower
market Monday and Tuesday. and the
greater part OF the loss of the first of
the week was regained. Medium aDd
low priced steers sold nearest steady.
as hackers made a hard effort to de-
crease the average cost of beef, In
order to lower wholesale prices, there
by hoping to stimulate consumption
of meats. All efforts towards broad
ening the outlet for beef have failed
of success, and traders say that until
the meat trade improves the fat cat
tile market will continue with an
UNDERGONE of weakness. The supply
today is 5000 head, slight reduction
from recent Mondays, but Chicago
came in with big ru and ba5
break, resulting in decline OF 10 to
ID cents on steers here as compared
with Friday. Cows and heifers closed
asst week about steady with close OF
previous week, and are selling steady
today. as buyers take butcher grades
freely since inaugurating their
economical methods of buying beef
cattle two weeks ago. Beef steers
aave lacked finish the last few days,
Including today. indicating anxiety
If feeders to shut down expenditure
tor high priced corr, and top today
S at $685., bulk of steers IS, % TO So Is,
leifers at 81 90 to Sc 90, cows 1925 tt
$3.50, bulls s3.4o to 1925, calves 1915
90 ST SO. Stockers and feeders lost 1t
% Is cents last week, and market OIL
hose grades is weak today, stockerF
1t SO. rs to S5.35, feeders 1880 to SIS 75
Hog run for April will show sinai
Increase over April last year, In spite
general predictions of shortage
rhe market was highest OF the yeal
asst week, but is 10 to 15 lower today,
account of liberal runs at the leading
markets. Supply here is 1900 head,
is C0updIeu Wlbi al tStihatS Vi lV,OOo
Early this morning, top 6720, bulk
1866 to $7,16, including all weights.
With weights above 200 pounds selling
hove $685.. Saturdays market was
he highest in SIX years, which
,hould be encouraging to hog raisers,
II view Of the fact that the supply il
April this year 10 the heaviest fer any
April ia that period.
Sheep anb lambs fuctuated mildly
| .st week, but closed up strong, anO
he market is fir i today, run 5000
head. Top lambs sold at IS 90 nearly
very day last week, and the SAME
figure is top today, bulk of lambs al
81 10 to SO 90, fancy Earrings to-day
1t 81 so, wethers worth up SO $3.50.
,wes $3.50. Texss clipped mutton4
uake up a good share Of the supply
1oday, build Of which sold at 1925 10
S5 So, fat goats around s4,2s, brushert
80 90 to $3.50.
G. M. Stroud of Neosho county,
Kansas, had a ear OF hogs here the
%.
A. J. RICKART,
Live Stock Correspondent
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-30
Piatt Pickups.
Farmers are improving these fint
days getting their corn planted.

Farmers are improving these fine
days getting their corn planted.
Henry Sare, who returned frem
New Mexico recently, visited friends
here the first OF the week.
The Ladies Aid of Mt. Pleasant
church are furnishing the means
with which to paint the church.
Hazel Ellis visited few days with
her sister, Mrs. John Hampton and
family, in Oklahoma, recently.
Mrs. Chas. Mitchell is delivering
the mail on the route, as Mr.. Mitchell
has been very sick with pneumonia,
We are glad to hear he is imroYing.
Dewey Clifford spent Sunday with
Pauline Celaw.
L. Mathes and family were the
guests Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Oliphant.
Granvll Hudson's team of colts got
rather high spirited the other day
and tried running away with him
while hitched to a pillow, but no
damage was done.
Mrs. A. L. Colaw visited relatives
near Odehse Sunday.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-30
Suffering People
of all Glasses

are having the cause of their ailments
removed by
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yield readily to this unique method
After given up by all old time
methods, try CHIROPRACTIC, the
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of disease,
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SPINLod1sT AND CHIRoPRACToR
221a W, Main st.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-30

The Chanute Choral Society gave
an excellent musical entertainment
at the Hstrick Tuesday evening. A
good crowd was present and they
were highly entertained.
The cid house has been moved
from the site for the new Presbyterian
church on West Main and the new
building will be commenced in
June.
Wallace Rankin has returned from
his Eastern trip. He lost his wife
some where on the route and re-
turned without her.
Mrs. Andrew Baird and Charley
Croome who were operated on a
few days back for appendicitis, are
both doing nicely.
Two good houses are now travel
ing down S. Highland to locations
near the new round house.
]. T. Likens of Urbana started to
Seattle yesterday to spend the
summer. Mr.. Likens is IS years
old but expects to put in the
summer at work.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-30
"I'D RATHER DIE, DOCTOR,

"I'D RATHER DIE, DOCTOR,
than have my feet cut off," said M.
L. Bingham, of Princeville, Ill. "but
you'll die from Rangrene(which had
eaten away eight toes if you don'",
said all doctors. Instead-he used
Bucklen's Arnica Salve till wholly
cured. It's cures OF Eczema, Fevor
Sores, Boils, Burns, aud Pills astound
the world. use. at Oriental Drug Co.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-30

p...d Apsil al.h. A. D., 1903.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-30
UP BEFORE THE BAR.

N. H. Brown, an attorney, of Pitts
field, Vt, writes: "We have used DR..
Kings New Life Pills for years and
and find them such good family
medicine we wouldn't be without
them" For Chills, Con stipatien,
Billiousness or Sick Headache they
work wonders, 25c. at Oriental Drug
Company.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-30
Time

Is sometimes a matter Of great
Importance. A watch that doesn't
tell the correct time is just as bad as
no watch at an. Ifyour watch shows
an inclination to be eccentricor I'M
steady in It's habits, bring 1t TO us and
we Will put it in shape at very rea-
socable cost.
G. E. CONKL1N, the Jeweler
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-30
IMPOSSIBLE to be Well

1t is impossible to be WE'LL simply impossible, if the
bowels are constpated You must pay attention to the
laws of nature suffer the consequences Undigested
material waste products poisonous substances must be
removed from the body at least each day. or there
will be trouble. sluggish liver is responsible for an
immense amount of suffering and serious disease. Ask
your doctor about Ayers Pills. He knows why they act
directly the liver: Trust him IGzye5 Co. Logs Mass
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-30
First Published in Chanute Times April 90, 1909
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF

State Of Kansas, County Of Neosho, SIS.
In the Probate Court in and for said county.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
was on the oath day of April, A. D. 1909 by the
Probate Court, appointed Executor of the es-
tate Of Esther C. Blanchard Murdoch deceased
late Of said County and State.
All persons indebted to the estate are request
ed to make immediate payment, and those
having claims against the same will present
then. duly authenticated, b the undersigned,
for allowance.
PERD A. PARSONS. Executor.
Dated Chsnuts, Kans., Apr. "a, 1909.
The Washington herald., 1909-01-03
The Academy-4KinE Casey

Among the big attractions 20 visit the
Academy Of Music this season Is King
Casey" which viii open a weeks en-
gagemenJ tomorrow evening. The piece
is distinctly a dollar attraction. playing
the better class popular priced houses
throughout the country Johnny and
Emma Ray. farceurs Of welI-tried tai
ents. head the company Of fifty. king
Casey has been termed hodge-pOdge
Of music. nonsense, and pretty girls and
costumes. This season II has been en-
Jrely refurbiShed. with new songs. dances
and comedy lines. The plot If such it
could be called. hinges upon mistaken
Identities. and is frothy and a genuine
blues diSDelier. ACT one opens in the
WsldOrf-AStOria. where Casey. The char
acteT interpreted by Ray. IS installed as
The fireman He is mistaken for Chief
Casey. of the FIRE department which re-
suits IN many "a ludiCrOuS situation
This impersoHation has barely passed
when he attempts to impers0uate his
twin brother as King Of the Island OF
Lalla Pa ZdZa. Act TWO is laid upon the
latter island. a tropical spot which Of
fers opportunity fer a beautiful scenic
setting. The action throughout Is fast
and spirited. every effort being toward
laughter and miTth Emma Ray appears
as Goldie Mine, q firtatious woman OF
wealth, who wishes TO finance the king II
The Washington herald., 1909-01-03
The BeIasco-David waraeId.

Tomorrow night David Warfeld comes
to the Beiasc0 Thedter for a weeks en-
gagemeut He viii play six performances
Of The Music Master" including a
Thursday and Saturday matinee. and two
performances Of "a Grand Army Man"
The latter will be offered Monday and
Tuesday nights. The Music Master the
remainder Of the week
David Belasco inaugurated his stars
tour early this season WarneId and his
company opened the season August L in
Denver. where he played two weeks and
a half Then he played an engagement
Of FIVE weeks in his native city. san
Francisco. Offering there for the first
time The Music Master and a Grand
Army Man" Los Angeles followed for
two weeks. ana then a jump across sew
eraI States 90 Omaha and cities Of the
Middle West. The two cities of the Pa
cifc Coast where he had not played since
his FIRST starring GAYS in The Auction
cer- eight years go were liberal iu pat
r0uaCe and enthusiastic in appreciation
Of Wa-felds art Ta Los Angeles the
local papers told o- The extraordinary
event Of prospective patrons waiting in
line farty-six hours before the sale
opened Here in Washington We remem-
ber circumstances attending the opening
sale almost as extraordinary. HIS fin
fsEed art and tie tender little drama are
fresh iu our memories
or "A Grand Army Man we 90 not
know So much. This play was written
for Mr. Wardcld % dedicate David Be
lasco-s new S-syvesa-t Thearer. There
it waS produced "a year ag5 last October
and ran until the end OF the season.
when The Music Master was revived.
a Grand Army Man" is the joint work
~ David Beias-0. Pauline Phelps. and
Marion Short Remarkable as Mr War
Geld-s success has been in The Music
Master" many persons regard a Grand
Army Man as his greatest triumph ar
tisticslly. TIE majority OF the dramatic
reviewers Of tie New York press and the
prominent magazines are agreed on this
point And the play. from at least purely
technical standpoint. IS regarded by Nr.
Warfeld. 1Ir- BslaScC. and others as his
best In any event Il viii be AZ once ap-
The Washington herald., 1909-01-03
The Appeal of the Stage.

II the current number OF NCCIure's 5
Magazine appears an extremely reada bic
article on The Appeal Of the Stage by
James 7. Ford. I'm which is set forth
many clever and logical ideas wiki which
every. one who has the upIift of the Amer
lean stage al heart must thoroughly
agree. ana there are q Eew others whicn
hardly 1T into the grooves Of the maybe
fantastic piece OF machinery which we
or-rseI-cs haze buiIded IL our minds for
SAID Uplifting purposes
The writer has considerable TO say
aoogt aiming at the hearts Of the audi
euce.- expressing II concretely IN the
following.
Not until students or the drama are
shown from the very first that the en-
tire art OF the stage must OF necessity
he elmed directly at the hearts Of the
audience. and that a real play does. con
tain a single scene in which that audi
ence has not an equity Of at least one
third. can we look TO academic halls for
our managers or playwrights Or actors.
Can this be true, and would not the
eEPedienJ of aiming more al the heads
a. the audience bring some results in the
direction Of producing a condition which
the author evidently has very much at
heart2 We have always been taught. and
nave come clearly 10 know. that Mac
beth, Julius Caesar and -Hamlet'
are three OF the greatest plays Of the
greatest playwright Let us consider
from whence the interest comes. from
heart interest" OF from intellectual
study Are we interested only IN Mac
beth when ne grovels before the Phantom
of the murdered Banquo or is hacked to
pieces by The cIsymore Of the Iusty Mac
dgf2 If taat were all. the whole be-
comes the cheapest kind OF melodrama:
but fortunately. there is very much more.
L is the mastery tracing Of the growth
Of ambition in this man that inthraTs
the mind. and Of how ne goes from unu--
der TO murder to keep himself in place
after having started along ambition
path. and how he is al last overwhelmed
The Washington herald., 1909-01-03

by q tidal wave OF blood swelling from
the tiny tide which he had started from
an old mans veins. il is not the mere
madness of Lady Macbeth which gives
her position as a dramatic character.
albeit il IS pitiable enough. but it is the
showing Of how she has wrought this
misery on herself. Caesar on his bier
and Brutus specter-haunted are pathetic
figures. Il is true. being mastery expo
sitions Of the episodal art, but the
strength Of the play comes from the
study Of men and politics, of true. though
misdivected patriotism. Of political envy.
the mercenary work Of hOpers for per
sOnaI ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. OF masterful &c
Mus. and perhaps the showing OF how
the taking of of such a masterfuI genius
can plunge a nation into civil war. an
archy. and the other horrible COnse-
Quences. Hamlet appeals entirely 10
the intellect. which fact Mr.. Ford ad-
mits, however, seemingly as the excep-
ton to his rule. II the great master
could have created three masterpieces
without entire recourse to the method
suggested. why cannot his followers .
Perhaps therein lies the crux Of the
whole matter. and perhaps the writer
was thinking Of the modern stage" and
not the drama Of all ages and nations.
We also think that Mr. Ford. by the
general trend Of MS remarks, puts too
little value on the art Of the actor y
good actor can make melodran.a even
poetic and a poor one can turn the most
heroic passage TO Tidicule In fact, il is
from the judicious mixture OF intellect.
heart interest. and good acting that good
dramatic productions must come. and We
believe that the mental caliber OF the
average American audience is fully large
enough to permit Of il meeting such a
production on an equal footing. All this
talk about the necessity of an audience
feeling itself 10 be superior 20 the stage
characters, CT the reverse. IS nopsense.
II is the genius OF the playwright and
actor in expressing themselves so as 10
be understood and the power Of the au-
dience TO understand that makes or mars
the meeting IN fact. it has always been
considered somewhat of a fault 20 make
things too plain. something should be
left 10 the imagination and for the mind
20 work on
And SO all Of these sophomore discus
sions lead US 10 the same old conclusions
What is needed for the uplift and main
tenance Of the American or any other
stage is close jUztaposition OF good
and good acting: nor need We look 10 nor
discuss advisablity Of looking toward
universities, colleges. and academies for
DiaywTights. managers. OF actors. for q
large majority Of the great represent
atives Of all three classes have come
from neither.
The Washington herald., 1909-01-03

back by Mr.. Holmes. while his colored
views not only add realism 20 the Illus
tratiOns. but also have recorded the mag
nifcence Of the natural beauties OF
scenic Hawaii, which no progress can
ever change
Japan was 2Ir. Holmes second stop
ping place. here lie remained some three
months with the result that he is this
season offering two traveIogUes on this.
the most progressive nauca in the world
Although he has given several lectures
on Japan. the coming two viii be abso-
luteiy new. no picture or experience be
ing in any way a repetition Java. the
fourth subject. viii prove one OF the
most delightful Of any. for il is land
Of wonderful natural beauty. and the
customs. costumes. daily life. and per-
S9n1ill Hi SIS .7tsr-s s~n n charming,
blending of baroaric splendor and quaint
simplicity. More About Paris" abSo-
lutcIy new. closes the series The lee
lures WiIl be- given on five Sunday even
iEgs and III five 1luCi8v Esa -in=pe 1.e-
ginning az 4:20. Advance sale Of tickets
for the entire course opens Monday al
the Auditorium box-of1ce
The Washington herald., 1909-01-03

The Burton Holmes travelogues, long
since become an annual event in the
amusement and educational life Of this
city. are soon to return for this. Mr..
Holmes sixteenth season, and viii open
at the Masonic Auditorium Sunday.
January 10 In announcing the coming
series Louis Francis Brown. Mr.. Holmes
manager. lays especial stress upon two
points one the absolute newness Of
every one Of this seasons lectures. and
the other that Mr. Holmes viii lead his
fellow travellers by the 'beautifur' way
around the world in distinction to any
former circlings Of the globe Early last
spring Mr. Holmes sailed for the Ha-
waiian Islands which he had not visited
for decade; il Is needless to say that he
has brought away with him most inter
eSting photographic comparisons between
the past and the present. between the
slothful iDdoience Of q One-time tropiral
paradise and on gp-tG-datc an6 uiae-
awake community infused with huStIing
Americanism. By motion pictures the
busy lie Of Hawaii has been brought
The Washington herald., 1909-01-03
The Observation-Disclosures.

The patrons Of the New Lyceum Thea
ter can expect something unusually ex-
cellent during the week commencing to-
morrow matinee in Miner & Marion 5
famous "Dreamland BUrIesquers" While
this company IS making its annual tour.
it promises 10 firmly establish It's repu-
tation this year, as the greatest care and
judgment has been exercised in the Sc
lection OF talent Miss Aggie Behler. one
or the handsUmeSt women on the bur-
lesQUe stage whose pleasing abilities
VIII be aptIv demonstrated within her
specially and IN the manner in which
she assumes the leading rOles in the bur
lesques, heads the organization. The
company VII be found an exceptionally
large and talented one through and
through. IT'S fun strength being displayed
il the musical cCnceiL The Red Noon,
from the pen of Dave Marion
The Washington herald., 1909-01-03
THIS WEEKS PLAYBILLS


N1fAOEa4-ArN. NaFtGT In -hASSAs
a new American play is always bound
TO excite interest by itself. When its
performance, however. is undertaken by
so eminent an actress as Mrs. Leslie
Carter. the interest naturally becomes
intensified
No prominent American actress is bet
ter known % Washington than this lady
She has always been identified with
pieces Of great sumptuousness and Of
positive success. and II was in Washing
ton that she always brought them for
ward first.
For reasons unnecessary TO narrate
here. Il is now three Or four years since
Mrs. Carter has been seen in anything
new She has Travelled prOsperOusly
through various sections OF the country,
but has been content to rely upon the
plays that had already become so well
known. such as "Zaza." "Adrea," 'Du
Barry" &c.
For this reason. # for no other. her
present undertaking viii be watched with
interest. Mrs. Carter has conquered a
position on the American stage that IS
second to none In her line she has OBJ
tained a supreme position. and her hold
upon the public has always been IN
questioned
In "Kassa.' the piece that she IS 10
produce at the National Theater Tues
day night she herself believes that she
possesses the strongest play Of her ca
reer- That belief is backed by her own
varied experience in great plays She
put forth "KasSa" as her own individual
choice. written for her, and 70 a great
sextent under her own 1iictation, by John
Luther Long, the well-known author Of
The Darling Of the Gods" Madam
Butterfly. and -Adrea." His task was 20
1T Mrs. Carter with a part that should,
above all embOdy an intense story of
passion worked up 10 by a stronger eli
max in every act and this she states
that she has obtained
Mrs Carter has been directing her own
rehearsals fer the past FIVE weeks in New
York. and has herself paid attention 10
every detail Of the production, not alone
engaging the company Of principals, bat
rehearsing every one OF them in their
lines their demeanor. their action. She
has also taught the large number OF
sUperaumeraries who are so necessary
70 n performance OF this play. and has.
besides al this. seen 20 the multiuUdiuo-s
costumes that have been made by Da-
Zian. OF New York. and designed by
MUcha, the celebrated designer and deco
ratOr. This gentleman also conceived the
drawings and models Of the massive
scenery that viii be employed I'm this
play q Old Hungary
Needless to say therefore that Il will
be a production of sUpremest skill and
beauty. Money has been generously Law
ished On every point where II could be
made 10 effectuaIly tel
During Mrs Carter's engagement at
the New National there viii BE- but one
matinee. that Of Saturday, January g
Mrs. Carter arrived In Washington Fri
day night. and VIII spend every avail bic
moment al the New National Theater in
the final rsEearSaIS gf her company. The
New National viii be dark tomorrow
night for the purpose Of photographing
the various big scenes" and the COM
pany ensembles