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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10
SMILING FORTUNE.
Kansas City Gets Another Big Slice

Kansas City Gets Another Big Slice,
Kansas City Times june IL: With the in
crease in the price of real estate, the boom in
buildings and the general prosperity OF the
city taken into consideration, ii Is no wonder
that she should get more than her share OF
The Louisiana State Lottery drawing this
month The drawing came of yesterday and
ticket No. -, l45 drew the capital prize OF
$3.50, 600. There was nothing surprising in
the fact that a lady in this city was so for
tuuate as TO have "A fifth ticket. Some one
here was bound TO have part of the ticket
for il has been demonstrated that money
cannot get away from Kansas City, this
$50, 600 making about $4,000 drawn by resi-
dents Of this city since January /.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Cross is the lucky possessor
Of the slip Of paper which icy yesterdays turn
Of the wheel entities her TO $50, 600. She is a
widow aged about 30, and she has lived here
for about three years. For the past year and
a half Mrs. Cross has been employed as book
keeper, and each month has invested part of
her earnings in tickets. This is the first prize
she has won and the news of her good for
tune almost o~verpowered her. Together with
her daughter she boards at Whitaker's hotel.
For the present at least Mrs. Cross viii con
tinue To keep books, and when she receives
the money she has sensibly concluded to in
vest ii in real estate.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10
Wanted q Heavy Man.

The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette:
Through the coating OF coal dust that
covered his face, as he leaned against
\ cart in a prominent coal yard Satur-
day, could be seen an expression OF
woe.
''Why so sadp" a ~wayfGrer asked OF
the disconsolate coal cart driver.
They've got n new man in my
place"
What was the matter and how did
it h%appen?"
well, it was this way: | was sitting
on my cart yesterday while the load
was being weighed, when the boss
came out and said my services would
be no longer required"
.'But there must have been some rea-
son for your discharge"
There was" he ~mournfully replied;
the new man weighs seventy-tive
pounds more than | CO."
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

The circular letter of the Farmers
alliance is a terribly earnest document,
and it does not overrate the importance
of the agricultural class, which is pre-
eminently the conservative element OF
the country. The farmers always
have need to be extremely careful in
the selection of their leaders and coun-
sellers, and the suggestions made in the
circular as to the use of the ballot box
insure the only really ameliorative pro-
cess. 1.-The ballot box intelligently
used" they say, ''can alone save free
men from becoming slaves" The peo-
pie, however, are obliged to delegate
some of their number, to per-
form the functions of legislators, gov
ernors and congressman. and it is just
here that the farmers hold the key to
the situation. If they used their COM
bined power intelligently and discreetly
they will hold the reforming power in
their own hands. And this is a great
responsibility.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10
Professional Etiquette

prevents some doctors from advertising their
skill, but we are bound by no such conycn-
tional rules and think that II we make a dis
covcry that Is of benefit TO our fellows, We
ought to spread the fact to the whole land.
Therefore we cause to be publiste ed through
out the land the fact that DR.. X. ". Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery is the best known
remedy for consumption (scrofula OF
the lungs and kindred diseases. Send ten
cents in stamps for DR.. Pi.rce's complete
treatise on consumption, with unsurpassed
means Of self-treatment. Address, World's
Dispensary and Medical Association, 663 Main
street, Buffalo, y. Y.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10
In the Country all Summer.

The man who takes his family in the country
for the summer should remember that he viii
save bis children a great deal OF pain and him
self a large amount Of money in doctors bills,
If he Is thoughtful enough 10 carry a supply
Of PERRY DAVIS PAIN KILLER. The medi-
cine Is a standard specific for all cases OF
cramps, collie, cholera mOrbus, diarrhoea, or
dysentery.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

After the most exhaustive practi cal
tests in hospitals and elsewhere. the
gold medal and certificate of highest
nj orit were awarded to st. Jacobs Oil,
as the best %pain-curing remedy, at the
Calcutta International Exhibition.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

William II. Brown, a colOred resident Of
Danbury, Ct, got into an alteration with a
white man one night about ten days ago, and
in the melee Brown was badly bitten on the
thumb. Lockjaw supervened, and he died
last Monday.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

Unlike other cathartics, DIR. Pierce's ''Pel-
let's do not lender the bowels costive after
operation, but, on the contrary, establish q
permanently healthy action. Being entirely
vegetable, no particular care is required while
using them. BY druggists.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

-Colored depositors in Charleston, accord
NO to the News and Courier, have 1924 ,93f
on deposit in five savings. banks, the largest
sum belonging to one person being $G,5i7 and
the smallest IL.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

A lot OF New York Stafrords are worrying
themselves about the estate OF a certain Baron
Stafford, Of England, which is said to be walt
ing heirs.
Frank William Reber, near Eew Castle,
Pa, afraid Of banks, put his cash, 81 800, in
his barn, which was burned with contents,
Monday.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

The house committee on territories yes.
terday agreed TO report a bill extending the
operations Of the general homestead laws over
Alaska.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10
A Most Liberal Offer!

TuE NoLTAIc BELT Co., Marshall, Mich, OF
Ter 10 send their Celebrated VoLTAIC BELTS
to any man afflicted with Nervous Debility,
Loss of Vitality, Manhood, &c. Illustrated
pamphlet in sealed envelope with full particu
lars, mailed free. Write them at once.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

No OPIUM in PisO's Cure for consumption
Cures where other remedies fail. 25c.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

Falling Of the hair is arrested, and badness
averted, by using Halls Hair Remover.
Obstinate cases of fever and ague can be
cured by taking Ayers Ague Cure.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

Bread riots are threatened in Conception
Bay, y. +.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

Shoe and hardware dealers sell Lyons Heel
Stitieners; they keep boots and shoes straight.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

Hobart Fasha will be buried with great
pemp at Constantinople at the expense OF the
porte.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

The bill prohibiting the taxing Of com.
mcrcial travellers in any state is likely to be
killed in the house ON account of unconstitu.
tionality.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

For Cuts, Calls, Old Sores, Scratch
Is, Thrush, etc, use stewards Heal
~ Powder, Is and so cents a box.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
CORK IN THE ARTS.
Its Application in the Manufacture Of
Overcoats and Understanding.

The peculiar properties of cork which
have led to its application to many
familiar uses are probably still very i'm
perfectly understood by the majority of
the reading public. A careful EXPOSE
ton of its nature by MI. William An
derson at the Royal Institution comes
therefore in good time, and opens up a
prospect Of wider and more important
adaptations of this singular substance
in the arts. The essential character
of cork consists in its retentive porosity
with regard to air. In other words, it
is n substance composed of fine closed
cells whose wall permit the gradual en-
trance and storage of air while they re-
sist its ready egress, OF the entrance of
denser fluids. 1t is therefore not only
a ~gas-holding but II gas-retaining sub
stance, and as such possesses in a
greater degree than any other
solid the power Of allowing cub
ical condensation from pressure
applied in all directions. 1t is pro-
posed in various ways to carry out in
practice this explanation of the nature
of corr. 1t may be employed, for ex-
ample, in hydraulic apparatus where
the air-laden cork will take the place
OF air itself, and Nh. Anderson was able
to show that in some cases, at all
events, it was competent to discharge
this function. A suggestion was made
that the porosity of cork rendered it
u tit substance for the construction of
overcoats, and greatly preferable to
i%ndia-rubber in this respect. The lat
ter part of this suggestion we have no
difficulty in ~conceding, and WI hope
that experience will prove that it is
wholly justifiable. Cork Undertaking
has been advocated by some on similar
grounds; but this proposal does not in
our opinion guarantee the wearer the
comfort and sanitary advantages which
are conferred by the use of wool.-Lon-
don Lancet.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

| worms are soon seen in the liquid, bne
of which taken into the stomach is
almost certain to cause death. One of
the worms is concealed under . thumb
nail, which is allowed to grow long for
the purpose, and the operator in hand
ing his victim a cup of coffee or some
dish of food manages to drop the worm
into it. In Jamaica almost every negro
has growing in his garden numbert OF
arsenic bean plants, which are neither
useful for food nor handsome in up
pearance, but the beans are very poi
sonous. 1t is said, too, that a dangerous
poison is made from the liver and gall
of the alligator. The Obeah men
are also too handy in the manufacture
of narcotics. They could procure
opium without too much risk. but they
know how to distil narcotics from vari-
Gus plants. Some of them seem to
have a considerable knowledge of
botany. They can find leaves any.
where that if put into Il water Vessel
will make the water Il deadly poison in
a few hours. Others are said to carry
snakes poison under q finger nail
drop is enough, and q scratch from the
nail will cause death in a few hours. ]
have never seen q we'll authenticated
case of this sort, but have heard OF.
them frequently. Kingsley in his visit
to Trinidad picked up a number OF
cases of Obeah poisoning. He says the
habit of poisoning did not spring up
among slaves DESTROYS of revenge upon
the white master. but that it was inn
ported from Africa. "-Bostom BudgeL.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
A Hebrew University.

1t is said that incipient steps have
been taken to founding in the city OF
New York a university with special
reference to the wants of the Jews in
this country who are seeking for
higher forms of education. Not long
since large meeting of delegates from
different sections of the United States
was held in the vestry of the Nineteenth
Street Synagogue to take the matter
into consideration and determine upon
the feasibility of the proposed plan. 1t
is understood that the Institution is to
be based On Judaic law, is to be faithful
to the ancestral spirit, and means to set
itself against the rationalistic tenden-
cies which have shown themselves in
our times, to cut loose from the old
Hebrew moorings. Well it has been re-
marked that ''as the seat of Hebrew
and Oriental learning" the proposed
university evil be an important add
ton to our collegiate Institutions. y
Morning Star.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
Frogs in Winter.

Among the many creatures th'
sleep in the winter are the frogs, wi,
their two very long hind legs, sho
fore legs, and with big black eyes .
each side of their very big mouths.
When the cold days come, and d
water begins to freeze in the pom
the frogs know that it is time to go
bed for all winter. Down they d
and their families with them, to Il
bottom; then they begin to dig vii
their long hind feet into the soft md
They work themselves down into tbs,
beds backward, until at last they al
covered under the mud, all except til
tips of their noses. There they 90 4
sleep. After awhile they have an led
spread over them and they can sled
safely all winter. They do not q
hungry all this time.
After awhile spring comes. and til
sun grows bright and warm. Jad|
Frost carries away their covering, AMI
old Father Frog begins to push hl
nose up out of the mud until his em
are uncovered. Then he nudges Moth
er Frog. ''Wake up!" he says. .'Donl
you hear every body busy up there'1
And oh! how sleepy she is, poor thing
But he had tried the water and founl
it warm, and they must not rest AMI
longer.
By this time the young frogs al
awake, and with a sudden push the
60 like a streak through the watea
Pretty soon all around the edges of th
pond you can hear the ".Peep, peep
that tells us spring has come.-Mrs. q
Hall, IN Our Little Ones.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
CHANGE OF WORK.
A Very Satisfactory and Beneflcent FofNA
af Recreation.

of Recreation.
Change of work is n form OF recre-
alton, because, it may be presumed, the
new employment occupies a different
portion of the brain, and the n that
has worked obtains rest. Monotony Of
occupation is always irksome, no doubt
because certain portions of the brain are
exclusively occupied. A h~ard-worked
man should think no form of recreation
beneath his notice; he is fortunate if he
has a really satisfactory hobby or two.
Tallcyrand's representation of the kind
of old age that awaited the maj who did
not know whist, is full of truth, if it be
applied to amusements and hobbies in
general. Perhaps its author would
scarcely have recommended whist for an
old man had he been able to foresce the
b~ewildering notifications which have
been made in the way of playing the
game. In this, as in other things, the
tendency is to turn play into work.
Let us hope, however, that some of our
SIMPLER forms of recreation may
be permitted to survive at least
for u time. Books remain,
and we may be thankful for the
stock we already possess. Reading offers
the most available means of recreation.
Dean Hooks practice in this respect also
is worthy of adoption. He tells us him.
self that he always had a novel in hand.
It lasted him a long time, ''but when a
mar has much to DO a little time thus
spent does the mind good" Books,
however. should be suited to the occa-
sion. AS Bulwer tells us, 'when taken
Unfortunately they are no cure for the
diseases and affections of the mind.
There is a world of science necessary in
the taking of them. Ihave known some
people in great sorrow fly to a novel or
the last light book in fashion. One
might as we'll take a rose-draught for
the plague. Light reading does not do
when the heart is really heavy" By all
means let the recreation be conformable
to the tastes of the Individual and adapt
cd to his condition. When a man over
sixty, who has led a sedentary life, sud-
denly and vehemently takes to tricycline
he may feel pretty sure that he has
failed to catch the meaning of the term
~''recreation," and that a very different
process will certainly develop itself
F'ortnightly Review.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
OBJ EAH POISONING.
A Superstition Which Flourishes in All
the West Indian Islands.

"a SUPERSTITION winch flOuTISneS III All OF
the West Indian Islands.
"Obeah is the dread of nine negroes
out of every ten in the West indies"
said the Trinidad gentleman, whom, for
the sake of convenience, l shall call
Mr.. Smith. ''It is a nuisance to them
and to the whites, but all the efforts of
the various governments to crush it out
have been unavailing. It has as many
believers now as ever, Notwithstanding
the education of many of the blacks,
and wherever there is any conflict be-
tween the two races it isstill dangerous.
/ Il not tell you the derivation of the
word. Obeah (Which, as you must
have noticed, is always pronounced
'oby') is not an imaginary being or
tangible thing, but simply the name of
the wretched system of juggling and
poisoning. Certain men among the
negroes set up for 'Obeah men, and
profess to be able to do marvellous
things. l suppose there are five hun
dred 'Obeah men on this island, to
whom the other colored people go for as
sistance and advice. They have to pay
for this assistance, SO the conclusion is
inevitable that the Obeah men go into
it as a matter of business, seeing a way
to make an easy living out of the super
stition of their comrades. They are
naturally shrewd fellows, who know
how to give some impressiveness and
FEASIBILITY to their nonsense. There
is something like a system in the 'Obeah
worship but it has so many varia-
tons that it is difficult to trace. 1t is
substantially tine same in all the islands,
with such differences as each performer
chooses to invent. In every island, for
instance, three white cocks heads are
used to bring trouble to an enemy.
There is no variation in that. Though
there is a great deal of the Obeah bust
ness in Trinidad, this island is by no
means n of the worst. 1t fourishes
more in Hayti than anywhere else. In
Jamaica it is very much on the increase.
There is nc doubt that it came original
ly from Africa. Nearly every African
negro in the West Indies is a firm be-
lever in it. There is a great deal of 1t
IN Sierra Leone, and there it flourishes
in it's worst form, that of poisoning. Its
home in the West Indies is St. Vincent.
There it is carried to a greater extent
than anywhere else, and old Obeah men
for a consideration teach the secrets of
the trade to beginners and make them
accomplished prisoners and jugglers.
Pupils of these humbugs have Spread
through the other islands, and a st.
Vincent Obeah man is considered an
expert. There is very little poisoning
done Inv fhor, IN tbn INnct JoI;oc ,DI
(%unless it may be in Hayti), because
there is no occasion for it. In the slave
times it always had to be guarded
against.
Some of the Obcah men are very ex,
pert in preparing poisons. They have
several kinds, to be used according t.
circumstances. One of the worst o
them is made from the root of the cas-
sava. They express the juice and allow
it to ferment. and quantities of small
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
A FASHION

A style of Cruelty Which Girl, Mo-
eide Against and Render UnproGtanul "
wish I could persuade Won d.
girls, never to wear bird on your bss
nor even a bright wing to set off rna'
rosy cheeks. If you realized how ~
cruelty of fashion which trims l.a;s'
bonnets with song-birds is robbins ~
groves and woods of their music: + wy W
thought of the fact that in manv los.1?
ties a price is set on the little featbers
beauties, that they are trapped bv ~
thousands and sometimes actue ny
skinned alive, that their plumaee ma!
look the richer for your adornman!
you could not wear a bird at Such
price.
Once l had a lovely fan of swan,
down, with a robin red-breast noun,
ed on the center. The robin, stuffed in
very life-like manner, and with his NJ
tie mouth open, seemed just ready
sing, and, the fan having been a gif
l kept it as a parlor ornament ma
some pride. One day a tender-heartel
baby girl, three years old, was lookjn1
at my fan, when suddenly the it'll
lips ~quivered and the brown eyes flle|
with tears. l wondered a moment 4
the grieving look, and was very muc|
touched when the little one said: "Poo|
birdie! The last song came froo here!|
pointing with her tiny finger at th|
open bill.
When we think what a glad, buovaa
life a birds life is, and remember til
sweetness the birds bring to our home]
the melody they make in the morning
the sweethaunting vespers which dreaa
away and faint in silence in the sum
mel dusk, we can not feel happy in I'd
fleeing that for a caprice of fashiu|
the song-birds are murdered by whold
sale.
Do not forget that you as an individ
ual, Kate, Allie, Grace, Mabel, Emilio
can do something to make this barbaI
GUS style a thing of the past. Refus
TO adorn yourself with a dead bird
The power of tho unit is never nor
visibly shown than in a quiet persis
ence in doing right and making
wrong unpopular. If girls docid
against it this style of cruelty wi
cease to be Observation-Disclosures.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
Use Your Ashes.

Ever farmer has more of less ashes
every year. Many just allow them to be
thrown out without making any effort
to use them to the best advantage. Old
bones, hats and shoes are allowed to 20
to waste, while il they were gathered
up, the bones broken up and all dis
solved, it would make an extra good
fertilizer for special crops. Very few
farmers make any special effort to save
poultry or to utilize house
waste, when they are the very best fer
tilizers we can possibly secure, and
could be saved and used to the very best
advantage. One of the principal items
in good farming is, as much as possible,
to increase the fertility of the soil, and
this can only be secured by turning
every thing of value as a fertilizer to
tho best adyantagge.-CAemica f'ertal.
izer.