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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
PLANNING NEW COURSES.
Eight Hours of Experimental Work &c
Be Given Each Week.

Manhattan.-Th regents of the
Kansas Agricultural college, in session
this week, adopted some courses OF
study that will mark an epoch in the
history of agricultural colleges. Forty
years ago agricultural colleges could
find little organized data for study
and courses have been developed as
scientific knowledge of agriculture
and industrial arts has been developed
The new course of the Kansas Agri'
cultural college will stand in the front
rank now with agriculture, shop prac
tice and cooking and sewing from the
first week of the six-year course to
the last Heretofore young men COM
ing from the country school had to
wait one or two years before getting
any instruction in agriculture or any
training in carpentry and blacksmith
ing and the girls had to wait as long
before getting into classes in cooking
and sewing.
The new courses have three marked
features of improvement; instruction
in agriculture and shop work and do
nestle science from the first to the
last month of the six-year course; a
closer correlation with the courses in
the county and city high schools OF
the state and electives in the junior and
senior years that will give greater OPP
portunity for preparation for teaching
agriculture or manual training or
home economics in high school or col
lege or for training for research and
investigation work in experiment sta
lions or in government service.
From the beginning the young men
will have eight hours each week which
will be equally divided between shop
practice and agricultural laboratory
work and this will include corn anu
stock judging, dairy work, poultry
care, budding and grating trees, plant
propagation and the young women will
have one year of sewing and one year
of cooking before taking up much
theoretical or scientific study Of foods
and their preparation. Graduates of
high schools will be able to get credit
for the academic work they have done.
This will encourage the introduction
into the high schools of agriculture,
manual training and home economics.
Many students will be encouraged to
begin at the opening of the Junior
year such lines of special study as will
best fit them to do certain work I'M
usually well, being fitted to become
practical psychologists, chemists, soil
physicists, plant breeders, entomolo-
gists, practical, mechanical, electrical,
civil or highway engineers and archi-
tects, either keeping in the line of re-
search work of being fitted to teach.
The new catalogue with revised
courses will be ready for distribution
early in May.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08

Money and expense are not essential to
artistic homes and attractive rooms. One
dollar and fifty cents worth of material
will completely transform crude, mar
tistic room into a graceful, dainty apart
ment.
Really it is good taste and skill that
makes the home homelike. That dainty
touch is worth twice as much as money
Wall paper is expensive-it costs money
to buy it, to hang it and again to re,
move it. With the use of the alabastlned
wall there is only the slight cost OF the
material-any one can brush it on,and It
is not necessary to wash it of the wall
when fresh coat is required.
1t is very easy to mix, very simple 10
apply. but the results are simply beauti-
full. A whole house can be done at Just
a little more than the cost of a single
room when ordinary materials are used.
And this is true, that now that we nave
so much better materials for use, IN the
decoration of our homes, that wall paper,
common kalsomine and paint are now as
much out of date as the old time white
wash. tallow candles and rough hewn
floors. Mere money is no longer an es-
sential in good housefurnishing in artistic
home making.
The new materials and labor-saving ma,
chimes are most welcome to us all-and
every thoughtful woman, every woman
who cares for her home, is quick to utilize
them
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Threshins About Completed.

Cottonwood Falls.-Farmers in this
county who raised kaffir corn and cane
last year and are now just completing
The work of threshing it, have found
out what an appetite the little English
sparrow and his numerous feathered
brethren really have. Practically
none of the crop was threshed last fall
md very little was headed or put I'M
der cover. All winter long the birds
had free run of it, and many OF the
farmers relate when they went to
thresh the crop a few weeks ago that
on the top and outside of every shock
where the, kaffir corn heads were ex-
posed, the seed was picked off as
clean as if it had been run through
a threshing machine.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Shipped Liquor in Trunk.

Emporia-A novel method of ship
ping in liquor was unearthed with the
arrest of C. j. Miller here. Several
weeks ago a trunk received at the
railway station was broken in hand
ling and whisky was detected. The
trunk was marked by officers and
watched and later it was traced to Mil
ler's house. When arrested Miller ad-
mitted shipping liquor from Kansas
City at regular intervals in the trunk.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
ROSY COLOR
Produced by Postum.

"When a person rises from each
meal with a ringing in the ears and a
general sense of nervousness, it is
a common habit to charge it to de-
ranged stomach.
Il found it was caused from drink.
ing coffee, which never suspected for
a long time, but found by leaving off
coffee that the disagreeable feelings
went away.
81 was brought to think of the sub
ject by getting some Postum and this
brought me out of trouble.
1T is a most appetizing and invig-
Grating beverage and has been of
such great benefit to me that / natu-
rally speak of it from time to time
as opportunity offers.
"a lady friend complained to me
that she had tried Postum, but it did
not taste good. In reply to my ques-
ton she said she guessed she boiled it
about ten minutes. / advised her to
follow directions and know that she
boiled it fifteen or twenty minutes, and
she would have something worth talk
ing about. A short time ago 1 heard
one of her children say that they were
drinking Postum nowadays, so l
Judge she succeeded in making it
good, which is by no means a difficult
task.
THE son of one of my friends was
formerly a pale lad, but since he has
been drinking Postum, has fine color.
There is plenty of evidence that
Postum actually does make red blood
as the famous trademark says"
Read The Road to Wellville," found
in pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above Ietterf A new
one appears from time TO time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interest.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
EXPEDITION WILL START
FIRST WEEK IN JUNE
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY AZ
TER BUG PESTS.
Object Is to Find Means of Destroy
Ing Insects-Head of Geological
Department to Be In
Charge.

Lawrence.-A geological expedition
out into the heart of the short grass
region, the primary object is to seek
means of Kidding the state Of its de
structive insects and pests which de
stroy crops of all kinds, is to set forth
from the University Of Kansas the
first week in June.
Prof. G. e. McClung, head of the de-
partment of zoology, will be in charge
of the parity which will be made up
of university students enrolled for the
study of vertebrate fossils and biolo'
gical survey work in the summer SEES
sion. Professor Martin and DR.. Moody
will accompany Professor McClung as
assistants.
The first camp will be pitched in
Trego county. Here the party will
commence the geological research
work and the quest of fossils in the
shale bed along the Smoky Hill river.
When this field has been worked over,
the camp will break up into three par
ties, each to work westward through
Cove, Logan and Wallace counties to
the state. line.
"The biological survey" said Profess
sor McClung, "is of practical import
ance. We shall make specially OF
studying the condition of the fauna
and of the representatives of the diff
ferent groups. We shall investigate
the species and the relation they bear
to their surroundings. This is the
only sure way to proceed to rid the
state of destructive insects and pests
which play havoc with crops of all
kinds. Many states have made biolo-
gical surveys, and in every instance
the practical benefit derived has been
immense New York is an example of
a state that has made most thorough
survey of this character.
1--WE shall go fully equipped to
launch the survey in good earnest and
expect to spend the summer at work
in the field"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08

Present indications point to gen.
eral observance of National Tuber-
culosis Sunday in more than 100000
churches of the country on April "a.
Reports from heads of local anti-tuber-
culosis associations, health officers,
pastors, mayors, governors, and nu-
merous nterdenominational bodies
show much enthusiasm over the
movement The National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tu-
berculosis has prepared an outline for
a tuberculosis sermon for use on
April "a, which will be sent free of
charge to any clergyman applying at
105 East Twenty-second street, New
York. Thousands of these outlines
are being sent out weekly to all parts
of the country.
Prominent churchmen, including
bishops and heads of all the leading
denominations, have expressed their
approval of the movement.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
PeIIagra Has Invaded Kansas.

There is a real case Of pellagra
In Kansas. DR.. S. ]. Crumbine, secre-
tary of the Kansas board Of health
received notice from the superintend-
ent of the Parsons haspital for epilep-
tics that there was a case of the dis
ease at that institution. Some years
ago it was thought that there was a
case of pellagra at Parsons, but 1t was
not definitely known, and this Is DE-
lieved to be the first real case to be
found in this state.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Railway Is Chartered.

A charter was granted to the Oswe-
go, Columbus and Cherryvale Electric
Railway company, capitalized at $780,
900. The company headquarters is To-
Gated at Oswego. The plan is to build
the road from Columbus to Cherryvale,
a distance of AZ miles. The incorpor-
ators are S. B. Miller of Oswego, D.
Christman, w. ]. Jones and G. Tor
bert of Altamont, l. NJ. Kinds Of
Mound Valley, David Dunbar of Halo
well, C. A. Mitchell of Cherryvale, and
T. F. Stice of Oswego.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Why does Great Britain buy its oat-
meal of us?

meal OF US?
Certainly it seems like carrying
Goals to Newcastle to speak of export
ing oatmeal to Scotland and yet, every
year the Quaker Oats Company sends
hundreds of thousands of cases Of
Quaker Oats to Great Britain and
Europe.
The reason is simple; while the
English and Scotch have for centuries
eaten oatmeal in quantities and with a
regularity that has made them the
most rugged physically, and active
mentally of all people, the American
has been eating oatmeal and trying all
the time to improve the methods of
manufacture so that he might get that
desirable foreign trade.
How we'll he has succeeded would
be seen at a glance at the export re-
ports on Quaker Oats. Tbs brand Is
without rival; is packed in regular
packages, and in Theoretically sealed
tins for hot climates. 81
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
State Collects Another Sum.

The state has collected another sum
Of money from the estate of patient
who died in the Osawatomle state
hospital. Benjamin G. Peters was an
inmate of the hospital from Crawford
county for years and nothing was paid
to the state for his maintenance. IL
was not known that he had any prop
erty. But when he died 1t was dis
covered that he had considerable val
able property, and the state, through
the board of control, brought action to
secure the amount due under the re-
cent legislative enactment.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
In New Hampshire.

That irresponsible Manchester Union
man gave himself a surprise party by
going to church last Sunday and this
was the result: ION this first
Sunday of Lent, while George Bailey
of the Houston Post is sacrilegiously
fishing for cells in Texas bayou, and
the (married) Photographer of the
Kennebeck Journal is tapping his
boots, and the Ging-Ging Goophus of
the Springfield Union is playing seven
up, we, in common with other good
New Hampshire people, shall dutifully
attend church. "-Springfield Union.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Board AlIeues Fraud.

The state board of control will bring
action in the Montgomery county dis
trict court to set aside the settlement
of the estate of Sylvester Ripley on
the ground Of fraud. Ripley had been
an inmate Of the Osawatomie state
hospital for 10 years before his death
in 1906, and not cent had been paid
for his maintenance there, although it
was known that he had an estate. AT
the time of his death the borad put in
a bill for $4,000 against the estate
The supreme court decision of recent
date held that the board could collect
from estates of insane persons in such
cases as this. So the board will bring
suit to collect its bill.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Roosevelt to Visit Kansas In August.

Former President Theodore Roose-
welt will be in Kansas in August.
Word was received at the office of
Governor Stubs that he would be here
to dedicate the John Brown battlefield
at Osawatomie, August 29. Mr.. Roose-
welt will be in the west through the
month of August. He intends to at
tend some function in Wyoming and
to visit several western points. The
battle of Osawatomie took place Au-
gust 20, 1856. The battle ground was
purchased year ago by the w. r. G.
and presented to the state as a state
park. EX-President Roosevelt will
dedicate it. The plans for bringing
Roosevelt to Kansas were kept quiet
in the governors office until it was
learned positively that he would come.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08

Commend us to that Toledo man
who had ten tons of turnips to sell,
but was not satisfied with the price
offered him by the wholesalers, and
deliberately gave the entire lot to the
populace, who carried those turnips
away in baskets, says Chicago Trib-
une. He could afford to do 1t, and he
dit It, and through his indignant gen
crosby, so to speak, more people in
Toledo probably Toasted on boiled tur-
nips during the next "a hours than
ever before in the history of the city.
while all the circumambient atmos-
phere was redolent Of their more or
less grateful perfume. But suppose 1t
had been a carload of onions!
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Must Install Fire Escape.

The state board of health took the
legislature at its word when it passed
a fire escape law for hotels and in
structed the board to enforce the law.
An inspector found that Charles Nc
Daniel, proprietor of the Commercial
Hotel at Clyde, had failed to have fire
escapes constructed on his hotel as
called for in the law. Action was in
stituted against Mr.. Mcdaniel and the
board received information to the eff
feet that he had been fined 500
and costs.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Largest" Cow Is Sold.

Salina.-The largest COW ever seen
in Saline county, aside from a snow
animal, was marketed here. The an
imal was raised by Henry Nelson of
Brookville, and weighed 1860 pounds.
She brought IL cents pound,
$1O2.30. She is five feet eight inches
high, fourteen feet long and measures
twelve and a half feet around the
girth and is six years old. The But
ger Packing company, the purchaser,
will keep the COW on exhibition for
several days.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
coffeyviIIe People File Suit.

Cherryvale.-A number of stock
holders of the Premium Glass COM
pany of Coffeyville filed suit in the
district court against Charles G. Over
meyer and George F. Collins, vice
president and secretary, respectively.
They allege that these officials con-
spired to and brought about certain
conditions whereby a patent right on
the Premium glass jar was allowed to
expire. They ask $4,000 damages,
the full amount of the stock of the
company.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Refuse $500 a Day.

Kansas City.-Kansas farmers are
too busy to take jobs at 81 a day.
Charles Voc, supervisor of the census
for the Second congressional district,
was here attending a meeting of cen
sus supervisors from Missouri ana
Kansas held here. Mr.. Voc is from
Independence 81 have no trouble in
getting all the enumerators l want in
the towns of my district, but l would
like to hire twenty farmers in the
farming Districts" he said. But can't
get them. Farmers won't work for 81
a day-not in Kansas. The farmeI .
are too prosperous"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Silence.

Very few men know how to keep
still. The Italians have proverb,
Hear, see, and say nothing, If you
wish to live in peace" The man who
is bent on telling all he knows, gen
orally ends in telling a good deal more
than he knows. The tongue is harder
to bride than the widest horse that
ever roamed the prairie. The Ger
mans say truly that talking comes by
nature, while silence comes of the I'M
derstanding.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Normal Training Popular.

Topeka.-In discussing the new nor
NAL training course, State Superin-
tendent Fairchild has this to say:
The normal training movement in
this state has exceeded our most san
guanie expectation. both as to popular
ity and results. Phe course is being
offered by 10 approved high schools
and academies land in those schools
there are 1926 seniors who have signed
the pledge to take the examination
with a view to becoming teachers.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
To Take the Office Out of Politics.

The chances are that the next leg
islature will be asked to take one
state office and one county office out
of politics. A movement has been
started in different parts of the state
to take the office of state superintend-
ent of instruction and county superin-
tendent out of politics and have it
based upon fitness and qualifications
There was a movement along this line
Just previous to the last session of the
legislature. but 1t was too late to &C
copplish anything during that ses-
sion.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
kansas-Missouri Belt Line.

Galena-Cherokee county and east
ern capital will be interested in plans
for building an electric line to connect
at this place with the Southwest Mis-
souri, railway and at Columbus with
the Pittsburg and Joplin line. AS pro
posed the line will pass through BaX-
ter Springs, where franchise has al
ready been secured, and will tap the
zinc and lead mining district at Miami,
Okla
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Prospects Good for Fruit Crop.

Cottonwood Falls.-The prospects of
a big fruit crop in Chase county this
year are very good. Peach trees are
now in full bloom and reports from
different sections of the country say
the trees are well loaded with bios
SONS. Apple trees are just beginning
to blossom but will all be out in a
few more days The only thing now
that is likely to stand in the way of a
good fruit crop is a cold snap or killing
frost which may possibly occur in the
course of the next few weeks.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Fire epidemic" in Wichita.

Wichita.-Fourteen fire runs is the
record of the Wichita fire department
in twelve hours. The department has
never made so many runs in so short
a time. None of the fire proved disas-
trous. Most of them were caused by
people burning leaves and rubbish
and not putting out the fires, which
were scattered by the unusually high
wind. Several of the horses were COM
pletely exhausted and auto trucks
were pressed into service to haul the
hose.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08

The fair goods of western univers-
ity have issued a proclamation against
the wearing of mustaches by either
students or professors, threatening a
boycott of all who disobey this order.
Any professor who wears his face
as 1t suits him, in defiance of their
wishes, will find the goods absent
from his lectures. Which gives room
for thought on the effect of discipline
and the higher education on character
building.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
A Call for Cough Drops.

Il tell you l must have some
money!" roared the king of Maritania,
who was in sore financial straits.
Somebody will have to cough up"
Alas" sighed the guardian of the
treasury, who was formerly the court
jester, "all our Golfers are empty. -
Tit-Bits.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08

An ungallant French Judge has de-
cided that spinsters of SO have no
legal redress if they are Tilted, because
by that time they are old enough to
know whether a man Is in earnest or
not and it is their own fault if they
are swindled out of their mature af-
fections. This decision will be blow
to the spinsters whose hopes are
blighted, but whose thrift remains.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Put Fortune in Box; Robbers Stole It

Dodge City,. Bader, a retired
blacksmith, who put his fortune in an
old paymasters iron chest instead OF
the modern banks, was robbed VI
$1,000 in gold. The robbers took the
chest from its hiding place in the
cellar, carried it two blocks away and
broke it open with pick. Notes,
mortgages and other papers were not
taken,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
To Beauty Kansas.

Manhattan.-Prof.H H. D. Hemenway
of Massachusetts has been engaged
for two weeks by the Kansas State
Agricultural college to visit towns and
lecture on the beautif, lg of public
places and homes. The trip is to be-
gin April II. The lecture will be in
school houses.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
Defends Kansas Creameries.

Topeka.-State Dairy Commissioner
D. NJ. Wilson is out in lengthy state
ment defending the creameries of Kan
sas against the attacks recently made
by grocers from Wichita and other
places He says that Kansas creamer-
les are producing as good butter as
those of other states and that it is
wrong to do them injury.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08

The ice cream ptomaine has started
in to work, poisoning 60 patrons of
church fair in a New Jersey town.
But 1t takes more than this to fright
en- the brave who treat the fair.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08

Even though the average wages Of
vorkmen in Germany have increased
90 per cent. during the past 20 years.
they still look small in comparison
with the wages of workmen here in
the United States.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08

Now an Illinois farmer comes for
ward with what is practically a cob
less variety of corn In this case the
grains grow directly from the stem.
and the resulting waste is said to
much less than in the cob kind. VIII
the evolution proceed until the husks
also are eliminated?
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08
PROGRESS.

Knicker-Now we have children
taught how to play.
Bocker-Fine; next we shall have
animal trainers to show lambs how to
gambol.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08

One trouble of the city farmer will
be how to pitch his crops for the
coming year when he looks over the
price of everything he has been buy
iBg as consumer.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08

Mastodon steaks. preserved in ice
for 100000 years, are said by cold
storage advocates to be perfectly de-
licious. But that has nothing to do
with the scarcity Of strictly fresh
eggs.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-04-08

Another plot has been discovered in
Portugal. That kingdom is closely
running Russia's old established rec
ord for plots.