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Percy is superstitious. He says that
when a fellow has a strong hunch of
that kind-hunch is what he called it;
1 like impulse better-it isn't well to
resist it, SO he-so $50 we
Helen didn't have to knock me down
with a brick wall to make me under
stand what she meant.
Do you mean said I, that you are
engaged?'
We are said she. I don't know
how long it will last. but at present we
are-engaged.'
'And there you are" sighed the pret-
ty girl. No more mental suggestions
will anybody get from me, especially
when there is a pretty girl living next
door"
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all over between us. OF course, I re-
turned the five dollars.
about two hours after 1 had mailed
that letter chapter No. 3 began. Ellen
Fariss and 1 use that writing desk in
partnership. The first thing 1 knew
she was upsetting things in general
looking for a particular envelope.
what kind of an envelope was itT
I asked.
"'one of those plain white ones she
said. Tt was right on top of this
bunch. stuck a five dollar bill in it
yesterday
AT this point in Ellen's explanation
/ collapsed. It was her money I had
returned to Billy. and I had to take the
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-20
A Different Matter

ONE day last week Mr.. Standish
- found a pair of gloves. The color
was pearl gray. the quality first class,
the size Ga Apparently the gloves
had been worn once. so Standish took
them home and gave them to his wife.
He had expected her to be pleased with
the inexpensive contribution to her
wardrobe, but she was not.
II don't want them," she said.
why not?" asked Standish. They
are just your size. and I heard you say
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feet, according to directions, and began
to think.
Percy Williams, 1 said, hitch up
those grays and come down to the vii
lage and take me out driving.
mumbled that over and over for
about 10 minutes. When 1 thought my
mental suggestions had had time to get
In their work 1 put on my hat and went
down to the front gate to wait for
Percy. Iewaited half an hour, with my
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-20
That Bunion ~ A
CAN BE MN 81
CURED Azzz

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By Charles Cristadoro

" the early days. 60 years ago, people
along the Maine coast were not
wealthy They had the good, plain.
substantial things, but darned few
frenzied finance luxuries of the present
day.
a trip to Boston was an undertaking
and it was generally accomplished on
a trading schooner going and coming
back along the coast It was a slow
trip and inexpensive. the traveller TAX
ing a supply of pork and vegetables
and cooking them himself at the galley
stove or getting the schooners cook to
do so. 1t was a sort Of trip that meant
business TO the traveller. and when he
was in Boston supply Of necessaries,
cheaper than could be bought at home,
and some luxuries were laid In.
My father once took such trip for
many consecutive years. but this time
] particularly remember, for while he
brought home to the girls ribbons and
stuff for new dresses, he brought me
q jackknife, a two bladed one, a big,
heavy blade for coarse work and fine
blade for soft pine or shingie whit
ting. A penknife to a Yankee boy was
as water to the thirsty Arab, who,
escaping from a sandstorm on a desert.
lands into velvety green oasis, dotted
with date palms. flowing with cooling
springs and growing grapes as purple
as the royal colors, figs fresh and Juicy.
blood red pomegranates and melons fit
for the gods
AT night that knife went under NV
pillow. and 1 awoke in a fright from
dreaming that burglar with dark
lantern had broken into the house and
stolen II; and I was ready to face his
revolver or slungshot in a battle to
recover it, I could hardly so to sleep
again and only did so when I gripped
my treasure in my clenched fist.
had another fright when awoke soon
after o'clock q did the chores, and
no sybarite a. m business for me;
] had TO hustle), and did not find II
under my pillow. for during my rest
less sleep ] had kicked il down at the
bottom of the bed.
II was all but late for school. be-
cause OF trying il on twigs and stray
bits Of wood on the way. When I was
IN my seat the knife was burning a
hole in my pocket, and, giving way to
temptation. the teacher being at the
back OF the school, ] took il out.
1T was almost winter; no ice vet
but the mornings were frosty and cold
UP in Maine, and the great big sheet
iron stove that took in stick of
corlwood at a time, was cracking and
spluttering as the hemlock stick burned
within its capacious maw The fire
was sure burning red hot.
Like a cat, so nolseless was his
tread. the teacher crept upon me. Like
a fash my knife was torn from my
fingers; he advanced a step or two,
and opened the stove door and in II
went to char and twist and maybe all
but melt into a shapeless mass in that
seething he'll OF flame.
Mad. Yes. But not a word, not
tear. Ny boyish heart strings were so
torn and wrenched and withered that
not even a moan escaped my lips
was a very quiet, thoughtful. distracted
boy and saw in every letter in my
book and every figure on the black
board not the reality, but my sacred,
heart adored and cherished and long
prayed for jackknife.
1T was very bad day for me.
not only did not know the current les
On, but had forgotten even the ones
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last FIVE dollars I had in the world to
settle with her. 1 haven't heard from
Billy and I have not had the courage
to write again. L said that all was
over between us, and apparently it is
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OOuta 1Ok QO OO. Ag iooo
s b e cured him By q
simple home remedy
which anyone can give
even secretly. She
W a q is everyone who
b q S Drunkenness IN
their home TO know OF
this. and IL they are
sincere in their desire
to cure this disease and
will write to her she
viii tell tn e n JUS t
what the remedy is.
She Is sincere IN this
offer. She has sent this
valuable Information
tn thousands and will
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gladly send It to you II you will but write
her today. As she has nothing to sell. do not
send her any money. Simply write your name
ana full address plainly in the coupon below
and send It TO her.
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AWIFE:'S MESSAGE
Cured Her Husband OF
Drinking.
Write Her Today and She Will
Gladly Tell You low She Did 1t.

For over 80 years her husband was hard
frinker. He had tried in every way to stop but
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
Spraying Case Appealed.

Steve B. Balch has filed notice Of
appeal in the district court of Sedg-
wick county from judgment rendered
in a civil action and also from the or
der annulling his motion for a new
trial.
This was a sensational suit and at
tracted wide attention last fall, when
Mr.. Balch ordered off his farm the
representatives of the state entomo-
logical bureau and emphasized his or
ders with a shotgun. The suit is en-
titled S. w. Balch vs.. A. p. Glenn, the
Inspector of orchards for the southern
division of Kansas the entomology
cal commission of Kansas; F. d. Co.
burn, secretary Of the state agricul-
tural society; Walter Wellhouse, sec
rotary of the Horticultural society;
F. H Stannard and T. j. Headlee.
Mr.. Balch argues that the compul-
sorry spraying of his orchards for
killing San Jose scale, coddling moth
and other vermin was against the bill
of rights in the Kansas constitution;
that the spraying of the commission
and taxing his lands was confiscatory
and he defied them. He entered suit
of injunction against the state author
tiles asking for a restraining order
to prevent the compulsory spraying,
and was defeated in court. He now
files notice of an appeal to the SUI
preme court.
AS 1t affects every orchard in the
state, the outcome of the legal battle
is watched with interest.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
LEADING MISTAKES IN LIFE
Writer Has Recorded Ten, of Which
Most of Us Assuredly Have
Our Share.

Some of us may be glad to be told
that there are only ten life mistakes,
for there seem to be so many more,
but recent writer has catalogued
them. Perhaps these are only the ten
leading ones from which the smaller
errors arise. Let's look over the list
and see how many of them are ours:
First to set up our own standard of
right and wrong and judge people &C
cordingly; second, to measure the en-
joyment of others by our own; third,
to expect uniformity of opinion in this
world; fourth, to look for judgment
and experience in youth; fifth, to en-
deavor to mold all dispositions alike;
sixth, to look for perfection in our
own actions; seventh, to worry our
selves and others with what cannot
be remedied; eighth, to refuse TO yield
in immaterial matters; ninth, to re-
fuse to alleviate, so far as it lies in
our power, all which needs allevia-
ton; tenth, to refuse to make allow
ance for the infirmities of others.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
Scientific Farming Pays.

Manhattan.-Mr. c. G. Wheeler,
who has charge of the county demon
stration farms in Central Kansas, has
just returned from an inspection trip OF
these farms and reports that one 20
acre field at Kharkof wheat on the
Barton county demonstration farm
threshed 900 bushels, or 40 bushels to
the acre. The average yield in the
neighborhood was is bushels to the
acre. The ground had been handled
last summer according to the methods
recommended by Mr.. Wheeler and
while credit is naturally taken for the
work done according to Professor Ten
Eyck's idea of farming, credit is also
due to Mr.. Tabler, the unusually eff
Gent superintendent of the Barton
county farm. Mr.. L. A. Fatz, in charge
of the milling department at K. S. A.
c., visited the field a few weeks ago
and pronounced it the most perfect
and uniform field of wheat he had
seen in Kansas.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
Atchison Claims Earliest Settler.

Atchison.-Judge Thomas S. Huffa-
ker died at his home at Council Grove
a few days ago and the newspapers
and Kansas historian are claiming
that he was the earliest living settler
of Kansas. Judge Huffaker came to
Kansas in 1S49, while Mrs. Elizabeth
Early of Atchison arrived at the old
Shawnee mission, in which is now
Johnson county, in 1882 Mrs. Early
was born in Harlan county, Kentucky,
in October, in 1929, and came to the
Platte purchase with her parents at
the age of two years. Here her father
died, and her mother marrying again,
young Elizabeth was sent at the age
of ten to the Shawnee mission. She
remained at the school six years,
when at the age of 16 she eloped with
and married Jacob Early. Mrs. Early
is one of the most interesting person
ages in Kansas and is now without
doubt the ldest living inhbitant of the
state.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
Immense Saving Possible.

In a preliminary bulletin on the
cost of maintaining a tuberculosis
sanatorium, the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tu-
berculosis announces that the average
cost per patient per day in thirty
semi-charitable sanatoria scattered in
all parts of the United States Is
$1.669. These institutions represent
an annual expenditure of over $780,
900 and over $4,000 days of treat
ment given each year. The bulletin,
which is part of an extensive study
the National association is making for
its bureau of information, points out
that the country could save annually
at least $15O,OOO,OOO if the INDECENT
consumptives were properly segre-
gated.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29

The above figures show that there
has been a marked increase in the
cost of living in Kansas even in six
months. In few instances there
have been decreases but they do not
make up for the increases and the
tendency of the whole bill of fare has
been upward Salt pork is on the
down grade. Butter and eggs have
gone down slightly. The quotations on
potatoes need some explanation. The
January quotations were on old pota-
toes, while the July quotations are on
new potatoes. There are no old po-
tatoes on the market at present.
The board of health is going far
Their than simply to compile the prices
of these food supplies. 1t is making a
chart showing the nutritive value Of
the different foods as compared with
the prices. 1t will show what sort of
diet will give one the greatest amount
of nutriment for ten cents. The chart
will show many other things relating
to food that will be of interest to the
purchasers.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
FOOD STUFFs PRICES GO UP
FIGURES. COMPILED SHOWS LIV-
ING HIGHER THAN SIX
MONTHS AGO.
Just Few Articles Cost Less, But
There Is an Increase on Large
Per Cent of Necessities.

Topeka.-In almost every respect,
SO far as food is concerned, the cost
of living has increased in Kansas
since the first Of the year. The state
board of health has done a great deal
of investigating along this line and
has compiled the figures showing the
differences in the prices of different
foods in January and July. The fig
ures were taken from the actual mar
ket quotations given to officials of
the department of grocers and butch
ers when the goods were purchased.
The following figures tell the story:
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
Try Treasurer for Alleged Shortage.

Scott City.-Former County Treas
urer w. l. Silvery of this county was
given preliminary hearing before
Justice of the Peace ]. B. Loughran
on the charge of embezzling $2,374 OF
the county funds on June 26, 1908, and
was bound over for trial before the
district court. The discrepancy OF the
above amount in the county funds
was discovered by committee OF ex'
pert accountants employed by the
county commissioners some time ago
to examine the records. Mr.. Silyery's
term as county treasurer closed Octo'
Der, 1909. After the county commits
sioners decided to have the records
examined and before the funds were
found to be short the accused placed
a check for the amount of the dis
crepancy in the hands of the present
county treasurer.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
Work eeuun on X. S. A. C. Greenhouse

Manhattan.-Th reinforced con-
crete foundation has just been coin
pleted for the new college green
house and the contractors have begun
work on the steel frame work. This
new green house will be 112 by $50
feet and will be divided into six sec
lions. Three sections will be used by
the horticultural department, one by
the botanical department, one by the
agronomy department and one by the
entomology department. The green
house will be finished in time for use
this fall.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
New $4,000 Church at Harper.

Harper.-The ground for the new
$4,000 Methodist church has been
broken. The first shovel of dirt was
thrown by Mrs. Fannie Shriver, whose
donation of $4,000 was the inspiration
for the building. A wagon load OF
dirt was then loaded by the ladies of
the Aid Society and hauled away by
two classes of Sunday School boys who
are raising funds for the new build
ing. Addresses were delivered by DR..
Yetter, district superintendent, and
Rev. Anderson, who was the first pas
tor and built the original frontier
church; also by Mrs. Mary Morgan,
who was the first official member of
Methodism in Harper county. At the
close of the services a picnic supper
was held.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
SS25,000 TURNED BACK
into STATE TREASURY
MoNE4 COULD HAVE BEEN USED
FOR PAST FISCAL YEAR.
Funds of Some Departments Are Elk
hausted-Largest Amount Left
Is In Memorial Fund.

Topeka-James M. Nation, state
auditor, is working upon the books
for the past fiscal year, and finding
out how much of the money appro-
priated for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1910, was not spent. The books
for this year have not been closed
entirely, as there are some bills
which have not come in yet, but which
will be paid from the appropriations
for the past year.
There will be about $925,O0O in I'M
expended balances turned back into
the treasury. This money could have
been used as it was appropriated.
Much of it was reappropriated and
can be used during the present fiscal
year. There is not cent left in the
funds of the state auditor, academy
of science, historical society, G. A. r..
pensions, official state paper, legisla-
tive reference library, insurance de-
partment, state architect, supreme
court, state aid to hospitals, Dodge
City forestry station, or interest on
state bonds. In all the other tunos
there are amounts to be turned back
into the state treasury. The largest
amount is in the memorial building
fund, where $4,000 is not spent.
The board of control has $4,000 and
the penitentiary $41,000 left in its
various funds. All the state institu-
lions and all the state officers except
the auditor, state architect and SUI
preme court have small amounts left
in their funds.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
Aged Man Jumps to Death.

Wichita.-George Bodley, an aged
man, fell or jumped from the tenth
story of the new Beacon building here
and was killed instantly. His name
and address were found on three slips
of paper in as many different pockets.
Bodley, who is past 20 years old, has
lost practically all his property in real
estate ventures and by mortgages and
the theory is advanced that he COM
mitted suicide.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
Stabbed In Marion County.

Peabody.-Roy Morgan, foreman of
J. L. Heath's farm southeast of here,
was stabbed five times by a fellow
worker named Payne, who is a tran
sient. Payne's work on a go-devil was
unsatisfactory, subjecting him to re-
peated reprimand and when Morgan
descended from the alfalfa stack
Payne cut him badly, though probably
not fatally. Payne disappeared.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
Endemic of Typhoid at EmporIa

Emporia.-An epidemic Of typhoid
fever has started among the normal
students In town. Nine cases have
been reported from one boarding
house. This house has been closed.
There are other scattered cases. The
drinking water has been pronounced
pure, upon analysis, and the doctors
are now making an analysis of the milk
used. The authorities say that none
of the cases are dangerous.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
viii Test County Bridge Law.

A suit to test a 1905 law passed to
permit counties to help pay for bridges
in cities of certain population was
filed in the supreme court. 1t was a
mandamus proceeding brought by the
attorney general against the county
commissioners Of Franklin county to
compel the county to repair and MAIN
tain two bridges in the city of Otta-
wa. The county has the funds but the
commissioners refuse to pay the bills
to keep the bridges in repair.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
Filipino Students Arc Making Good

Manhattan-In 1905 and 1906 the
government Of the PHILIPPINE Islands
sent a large number Of Filipino stu
dents into the colleges and UNIVERSE
ties Of the U. S. at the expense Of the
island government. Several Of those
students we're sent to the X. A. c.
Several OF the boys graduated here in
'Os and 'Oe. That their schooling was
a good investment for the islands is
best shown by the positions Of respon-
sIbility that they now hold for their
government
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
To School on Proceeds of Patent.

nhattan-Herbert Knapp, To-
year-old boy of Olathe, Kan, recently
patented an alarm for notifying a
chauffeur when a tire is pumped tight
enough and when it needs pumping up
again. He sold his patent for $4,000
and expects to enter X. S. c. A. in
the fall and take an electrical engin-
eering course and thus profit by the
fullest extent of his invention.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29

Manhattan.-Ed. H. Dearborne
graduate this year in mechanical en-
gineering at X. S. A. c., has been elect
ed to position as instructor in manua
training in one Of the territorial
schools in the Hawaiian islands. Mr.
Dearborne will leave the first of Sep
TENDER to take up his new work.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
Potterton Free Again Pending Trial

Arkansas City.-Louis w. Potter
ton, who has been in the county jail
at Winfield since last April and who
is to be tried on the charge Of causing
the death of his wife by administer
ing arsenic poison last July, is again
breathing fresh air. He has been re-
leased on bail of $4,000. Pending the
decision of Judge Swartz Of the dis
trict court in the habeas corpus case
to secure his permanent release, the
Justice court here fixed his bond at
$4,000 and the district judge reduced
it to $4,000.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
sacrificed Himself for Three Children

Cottonwood Falls.-In aneffort to
check a team Of runaway horses and
save the lives of three children in the
wagon to which the horses were
hitched, John Montgomery, a farmer
go years of age, was thrown beneath
the plunging horses. run over by the
wagon. and is now in very serious
condition. Montgomer ycaught ore
Of the horses by the bride and was
thrown in front of the team where he
was dragged nearly 200 yards before
losing his hold.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
ANTITRUST Cases to Supreme Court.

The antitrust suit brought against
the fire insurance companies operat-
ing in Kansas by Attorney General
Fred S. Jackson will be appealed to
the supreme court from the district
court of Shawnee county. The case
was decided against the state in the
district court by Judge Dana. The &C.
ton charged the insurance companies
with operating a trust, with using
the Eldridge rating sheet and main
tanning those rates uniformly. All of
the fire insurance companies operat-
ing in the state, with the exception Of
the mutual companies, were made de-
PENDANTS in the action. The case was
dropped for several months following
the decision of the district court but
It will be taken up again and pushed.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
New Station for Fredonla.

Fredonia.-The Santa Fe will erect
a new depot, costing $22,5OO, here
within the near future. At the pres
ent time the Santa Fe and Frisco use
the same station. The Santa Fe once
had a station here, but it was destroy
ed by fire and was never replaced.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
Baby browns in Water Pail.

Courtland.-A fatal accident recent
ly took place at the home Of Cecil
Rock, a farmer living northeast OF
town, when their 1O-months-old baby
fell into pail of water and strangled
10 death before anyone found him.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-29
Child browns In Tank.

Belleville.-The two-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Balken, farmers,
residing several miles north of town,
was accidentally drowned in a water
tank at her home here. The child
had been playing about the tank anu
lost her balance and fell in and was
dead before help reached her.