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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-10-30
They Had All Been There.

He was walking to and fro in the
depot, as waiting passengers will. and
his face wore an expression of peace
and contentment. ALI of a sudden q
wave of anxiety and fear swept over
it, and he began searching his pockets.
His anxiety was so marked that several
men approached him. and as he con-
tinued to turn his pockets wrong-side
out one of the group inquired: "Have
you lost your wallet9
Wallet? No! I-Ichanged m Y coat
an hour ago. and left letter in the
pocket. and-and-"
And by this time your wife has got
it?'
Yves"
And every man in the group spoke
up in chorus and advised him to take
the one chance in hundred-hire n
hack and drive back home as fast as
the horses could gallop.-Detroh Free
Press
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-10-30
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS

If our neighbors had as few faults
as ourselves, what pleasant world
this would be to live in.-Boston Cour.
ter.
"A New York tea merchant throws
in three packs of the best fire-crackers
or torpedoes with every pound of tea.
That explains the origin of gunpowder
tea.
Customer Cooking at something
labeled country butter")-'.Butter-
ine?' Small boy forgetting himselD
-"Yes. there is butter .in-saw i'm
mix it myself"
Yale College has established chair
of journalism. 1t is an old battere
affair with three legs and broomstick
and filled with exchanges for a cushion.
burlington Free Press.
At the Concord School of Philoso.
ply, Professor Davidson has delivered
a lecture on aristotle s Debt to Plato. !"
This is subject on which there must
be a vast amount of interest accumu-
lated.-Lynn Item.
Although beauty is only skin deep
and is often coupled by frivolity. it will
get a seat in a crowded street car where
plainness and common sense would be
compelled to stand up.
-Doubtful-looking guest - LAND
lord. have you tire-escape in this
hotel?" Experienced landlord--.'Yes,
sir. but we generally keep the bull dog
chained at the bottom of it"-Mer.
chant Trareier.
-Woman's sphere
They talk about woman's sphere,
As though ii had limit;
There's not place in earth or heaven
There's not task to mankind given,
There's not . blessing or . woe,
There's not whispered yes or no.
There's not q life, or death, or birth,
That has feathers weight of worth,
without woman in it.
The man who minds his own busi-
ness as he ought is seldom idle
brilliant men are born with black
eyes" Insolent men gets theirs later
on--The charity that begins at home
sometimes ends there; it is too feeble to
go out.--''Castles in the air are
cheap" Not If fellow has constantly
to keep them in mental repair.-Phaa.
delphia Call.
A fly was ga-ly disporting himself
upon the ceiling, when a spider, who
had been Watching the fly in the vain
hope that he would come in his direc-
ton, finally called out: 81 say, Mr..
Fly, won't you drop in and be a little
sociable this morning?" Thanks"
said the fly; ''modesty forbids. I'm
not in your line this morning" Moral
All folks az, not fools, even il their
heads are turned upside down occasion
ally.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-10-30
VOL. XU.-NO. A.
ders he put arms. and then the omnk
bus called ut the door and said good

ders he put arms. and then the omnt
bus called ut the door and said good
bye.
These legs and arms were made Of
bunting tubes, open at the place where
the hoops on which they were made
joined the kite, so that the wind filled
them out and made them look plump
and round as if they were alive Bunt-
ing, you know. is the loosely-woven
material that flags are made of, and is
very light and open. His legs were
red and his arms were blue, and he
was the funniest looking sort of fell
low away up in the air, kicking and
sprawling like baby before it can
creep. or tugging like dog It his
chain when there IS COW in theSard.
Three sticks made the frame. One
from the bottom of the jacket to the
top of the hat, and one from each
shoulder to the corner below his vest
pockets. Strings formed the rest Of
the frame.
A boy in Brattleboro, VT, in 1911.
made kite and attached paper Ian
tern to it in which he put a candle and
arranged it SO that when the candle
had burned out it would explode some
powder which was in the bottom of the
lantern. He kept the secret entirely
to himself and waited for q suitable
night on which to raise his kite. The
boy got his kite into the air without
being discovered, for it was so dark
that nothing but the colored lantern
was visible. 1t went dancing about in
the air wildly and attracted much notice.
and was looked upon by yignorantpeople
as some supernatural omen. The evil
spirit, as many supposed it, went bob
bing about for about twenty minutes,
and then exploded, blowing the lantern
to pieces
Next morning all was wonder and
excitement. And this lad, who had
carefully taken his kite in and hidden
it after the explosion without being
found out, had his own fun out of the
matter. The people of Brattleboro
never had any explanation of the mys-
terry until nearly sixty years afterward,
when the boy, who had become quite
an old gentleman. published the story
in Brattleboro newspaper. Could any
of you little people keep such secret tif-
ty seven years? advise you, however,
on no account to repeat this kite experi-
ment, unless you do so under the di-
rection of some older person who un-
derstands how to handle gunpowder
with safety. The man-kite, on the
other hand, is well worth trying. 1t.
too. is not without its accompanying
explosions, but explosions of laughter
are not at all dangerous.-"Mr
Punch," tn ~ o. Times Democrat.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-10-30
LOVE AND PHILOSOPHY,

Twas at the Concord sages' school,
We met one summer day;
guessed-and used no logic rule
guessed what she would say
" lis very warm '-th with Vh-
The sun tina, shines from. thence"
She sa d and pointed to the >Kv.
rs rolling toward the Whence"
j told her thai it must be So
At least il seemed 30 there:
For there was much did not know
of the Whatness OF tho Where.
About the only thing knew.
when she was standing near,
Was that the SIX. was much more blue
In the Nowness of the Here.
She smiled, and said perhaps twas well
Those pretty themes to toucn;
And asked me il the rule I'd tell
Of the SmaIlness of the Much.
told her that did not know
That rule. but then knew
A rule that Just as well would 60
The Oneness of the Two
She blushed and looked down on the ground.
And said: 1T can be so;"
And then the whole earth turned around,
For my heart was full of woe.
Unto the Ceaseness of my End"
Sa d, Il now shall 60"
She murmured: Don't you comprehend
The Yesness of my No.:
W. Henderson, in Puck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-10-30

Some days ago the wife Of Eli
TAYLOR, colored, was riding through the
woods near East River, near Appalach-
icola, Fla. when she saw young bear.
She procured long pole. and getting
near his bearship. belabored him so
soundly that he was soon dispatched.
He weighed about eighty pounds.-N
y. Sun,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-10-30
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
GRANDMA'S BeDQUILT.

Shall ever be old as Grandma?
l looked in the glass today
And tried to think how ] shall look
When my hair has all turned gray:
Tor when the old people come here,
With hands on my hair they say:
JesSie looks like her grandma
In the times SO far away.
We have an old portrait OF Grandma
In II queer old gilded frame,
Odd, and sweet, and pretty,
1t WAS made before mamma came,
And ! am her youngest grandchild,
They say she loves me best
ldont know how that is,
I'm sure she loves all the rest
But her room is full of treasures,
Old things-she loves them well.
Rainy DAYS she shows them to me.
- And will often a story tell.
She has just the qurerest bedQuilt-
1t isn't pretty at all,
But think tina. Grandma loves il
Even the best of all.
Mamma Says that "old people
Have much of their lives in the past"
And that "must honor her wishes,
And be gentle to the last
So when she showed the patchwork
thought could understand
How the past is mixed with the future,
And her home in the other land.
There were some squares all faded,
Dull, and brown. and gray,
If they ever have been pretty.
They surely are not to-day.
Those" said Grandma. softly,
We're part of my mothers gown,
Well do remember the day
She wore IL first to town."
And then there were others pretty
Green, with blossoms over them
Those" and NV dear old Grandma
Sighed and shook her head.
Those were my sister Mary6,
She died NJ twenty-five
So many years she has been in Heaven,
And IL am still alive.
Then there were many white ones.
With tiny fecks of blue,
They must have been pretty
.rinI In the e,a, DAYS when they were % new:
Belonged TO my baby Rose.
It's thirty years since We laid her
Under the winter SHOWS"
But tell me, Grandma" eagerly cry.
Whose were these hcd,uiss here?
Covered with apple blossoms.
They look like the spring OF the year."
Those, and Grandma's mouth grew
sweet
As the mouth in the picture seems
Il wore that gown when was young.
And life was the sweetest of dreams"
IL wore it the night your Grandpa
Told me his heart was mine,
Under the trees near the arbor,
Where the roses used to twine-
All. there never was any like him,
And now-he has gone home,
And am going to join him.
i wait till my summons come"
And then the kitten wakcned
From long and quiet nap.
md f.t-oT, ,sl foil fnA fh<,r fob
And laid il in her lap,
And said: Twill be yours. little Jeseie,
When my body is under the sOd,
And my free soul dwells in that other
home
Whose builder and maker is Col"
-EmiiU Baker SmdVp in PInSn
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-10-30
ALL ABOUT KISSING.

Some Defnitions from a Not Yet Com
pleted Dictionary OF Osculation.
One of the most famous kisses in
history is that of Georgiana. Duchess
of Devonshire. when she was canvass
ing for Fox's election. A butcher said
he would vote for Fox if the lady would
kiss him, which she thereupon did
thereby making the kiss. the butcher
and herself immortal in history. This
Duchess of Gordon. in Scotland, re-
cruited a Highland regiment in the
same way.
Gilbert Stuart, the great painter. was
once met by lady on the streets OF
Boston, who said to him that she had
Just seen his likeness and had kissed it
because it was so much like him.
"And did it kiss you in return?"
"Why, no."
"Then it was not like me-" replied
the gallant painter.
Tom Hood once wondered in his
Oddities" if Hannah More. that prim
and very respectable maiden we all re-
member, was ever kissed by n man.
Probably not. but the humorists OF
..The Rejected Addresses" in one OF
their famous verses, say:
Sidney Morgan was playing the organ,
While behind the vestry door
Horace Twiss was snatchIng kiss
From the lips Of Hannah More
But the testimony is not fairly cred.
ible, and we must fain conclude that
she went to her grave unkissed.
Our Puritan forefathers were not at
all in favor of kissing. 1t was not per-
mitted to young people, and even a
man could not kiss his wife on Sunday.
Winwood Reade, in his book of travels
in Equatorial Africa, says the negroes
do not know how to kiss, and he admits
that he frightened one or two maidens
by attempting it. In New Zealand
lovers do not kiss, but simply touch
noses: but the South Sea Islanders un-
derstand kissing to perfection, accord
ing to some voyagers. They may have
learned it at an early day from the first
voyagers, and. finding that it was good.
kept up the custom.
In the dictionary of osculation. which
has never vet been completed. are
found some definitions:
Buss a kiss.
Rebus to kiss again.
Pluribus to kiss all around.
Syllabus to kiss the hand instead OF the
lips
Blunderbuss to kiss the wrong person. some
times Unexpectedly pleasant.
Omnibus to kiss promiscuously.
Erebus to kiss In the dark.
Incubus to kiss some one you don't like.
Harouebus to kiss with q loud smack. Pc.
truchio's was bark we bus.
To kiss a lady against her will is an
assault, punishable under our law by
fine and imprisonment. So gallants
must have 3 care how they yield to
rosy temptation. Rare Ben. johnson,
who said
He was wishing
He might die a-kissinR,
wrote also the immortal lines to Celia:
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And will pledge with mine,
Or leave kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
And Dodsley's verse is almost as
familiar:
One kind kiss before We part,
Drop q tear and bid adieu:
Though We sever. my fond heart
TIL we,meet shall pant for you.
Cincinnati Times.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01
A Word To Workers.

Ifyour avocatiohs are mentally or physically
laborious, IL they subject you to exposure in in
clement weather, IL they coniine you to the desk
and are Ola natare TO involve wear and tear of
brain, and nervous strain, you may occasionally
require some renovating tonic, IIostetters
Stomach Bit,ers, is the article for you, it stimu-
Ia, es the failing energies, invigorates the body
aud cheers the mind. IL enables the system TO
throw of the dcb'litating effects ofundue fatigue
give renewed vigor 10 the organs OF digestion,
a ouses the liver when inactive. which it Is very
often with people whose pursuits are sedentary,
rcuews Ihe jaded appetite. and encourages
healthlul reoose. lis ing, edicnts are safe, and
us c"eden.'als, which consist in he hearty en-
dor>emeut Of persons of every class OF society.
are most convincing. Admirably is it q apted
to he medical wants OF workers.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01
New Sample Room

Mr.. G. II. Baty, formerly employed as
chief mixer in the Cattle Exchange on
the corner Of Custer avenue and Sixth
street, has leased the building known as
Booths Hall for a term Of two years,
and has announced his intention of
remodeling and reftting the same i'm
mediately, with a view of establishing a
first class sample room in front, and a
number of elegant and elaborate club
rooms in the rear. Charlie anticipates
future requirements, and proposes to be
ready to cater to the common wants Of
the incoming throng.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

Mr.. w. +. Wells, who recently arrived
in this city from Hall county, Nebraska,
whose family, consisting of a wife and
seven childred, are expected in by this
evenings coach from Buffalo Gap, has
rented Mr. ID. Copp's building on West
Custer Avenue, where it is his intention
to open a restaurant and bakery. The
brilliant outlook for business, excellent
school advantages. and Clusters en-
chanting location, may be mentioned
as the chief inducements in the selec-
ton of this point for n future home.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01
Born.

On Saturday evening in Custer City
to the wife of Paul Kleemann, a boy
weighing, without adornments, an even
II pounds.
Mrs. Kleemann is doing finely, and
Paul was able to stand alone, in an hour
after the happy event, behind his hoteI
bar and dispense innumerable cigars
etc. to the boys, all of whom seemed
highly pleased, and doubtless wished
him many happy repetitions of the
event. Paul is contemplating an addi
ton to his hotel.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

Last Saturday when the storm king
was venting his wrath in the shape of
angry wind, desti uctive hail and too
copious rain in the regions north of us.
this city was basking in the bright
balmy and beautious sunlight incident
to an April day in Custer. and notwith-
standing the fact of certain newspapers
reporting the storm general throughout
the Hills, when We were informed by
telephone of its extreme furry in the
northern portions of the Hills, not a
leaf stirred in all the enchanting wood
land by which Custer is SO romantically
environed.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01
Annual City Election.

Notice is hereby given that on Mon
day, the 3rd day of May, next, at the
Furniture Store Off. Heidepriem, in the
Town Off rCity, and County Of
and Territory of Dakota, an election
Ill be held for the following officers
said town:
One Trustee for each of the seven
wares.
O'e Town Clerk.
{ rTo-y4 Arse sor.
G. e Town Treasure.
o eM lal.
One j. 'ce o t e Pc ce,
which elec on wi be opened at 8
o'c'ock in the morniny, " I'd will CO
tlnue open until 4 o'clock in the alter
ven under my hand at Custer City,
the 18th day Of April, A. ID. 1886,
+. j. Y. RUTKowsKI,
Town Clerk.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

All newspapers draw more or less
upon their exchanges for aid in support
Of their local theories, but We have rare
ly met with an editor having the faculty
of selecting an appropriate paragraph
from the body of an article, and using it
with such telling effect as Dick Hughes
of the Rapid City Journal. 1t is a cold
day when Dick can not find a crunib OF
comfort, even from an article condemna-
tory of Rapid in the Deadwood Times.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

Capricious April has passed over the
range. and May, mild and balmy comes
smiling in upon us. Spring roses and
sweet smelling violets are making the
air redolent with their delicate frag-
rance. The enchanting melody Of the
lark and the robin fill the morning
hour with rapture ineifable. The merl-
dian sun shining down upon us begets a
desire to seek the exhilerating shade.
The evenings are sufficiently cool and
bracing to make a ramble in the adjoin-
ing parks highly enjoyable. The twilight
is soft and sootAi z, and night, who can
describe the transcendant beauties of a
May night in Custer? The heavenly
orLs twinkle with unmistakabie delight
looking down upon it. The moon looks
back in her transit to gaze on it, and we,
having fingered till bedtime in the
futile attempt to describe it, can only
say, good night.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

Methodist Church-There will be
services on Sabbath as follows: Sabbath
school at 10 a. m. Missionary service.
morning, at IL, preaching service. Sub.
ject, The True Christian spirit" Even
ing at 7:30, preaching service. Subject,
"The Outlook for Missionary Work"
A cordial invitation is extended to all
persons to attend these services.
HENRY A. JAMES, Pastor.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

DR.. Flick, who acquired surprising
skill in the use of the shot gun while a
resident Of Custer, where ducks and
chickens are known to fly low, not be-
ing content with the possession of the
gold medal Of the Rapid City Sportsmen
club, has recently added the browning
honor of snatching the leather ixin,
and now wears it forninst his ambitious
Eapoleonic heart.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

We call the attention of the public to
the advertisement of b. F. Wood, agent
for the North American Lightning Rod
Company. The new methods employed
by this company in the erection of their
rods gives perfect protection from light
ming. The cost of securing this safe
guard does not exceed the rate charged
in the east.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

Charles Miller, who recently returned
to Custer from an extended visit to
Copenhagen, Denmark, has bought a
lot on the southwest corner of Custer
Avenue and Fifth street, Of G.. w.
Smith Of this city, where he will shortly
open a blacksmith shop
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

The Eta mill is a dandy and chews
up ore faster than the present mining
force can furnish it, in consequence of
which fact We are informed she will
temporarily shut down to-day.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

The Sioux reservation bill, which is
now awaiting the special order for its
consideration, having been reported to
the house by Mr.. Nelson of Minnesota,
March %, will not be considered before
May 9th. Time, it would seem, is the
quint essence of this reservation con-
tract.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

Charley Leedy reports having had a
very pleasant trip through the Hills,
and having see much hat was new t o
him. He was especially pleased with
the beautiful location of Custer, and
met quite a number of acquaintances at
that place.-JOurnal.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

Dick Ward and A. G. McShane are
booked for a foot race at Rapid when
the gumbo hardens. The stakes are
reported to be 500 without gate re-
ceipts. Rapid, as yet, having no gate
other than the gate to the Black Hills,
which is not a toll gate, and consequent
Nv a non producer.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

Drs. Rooms & Kendall, dentists, will
visit Custer City on the 18th day of May,
and remain several days. Gold and sill
yer filling a speciality. Satisfaction guar
teed. Office Kleemann House.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01
Mass Meeting.

A mass meeting of the citizens of
Custer prospect We Of party, will be held
at Booths Hall, this Saturday evening
at 8 o'clock sharp, Tor the purpose of
nominating city officers.
MANY CITIZENS.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

Mr.. A. Johnson, a contractor and
builder of this city has sent down the
road for more help. The Black Hills
building boom is apparently becoming
epidemic.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

Mr.. w. H.. Hubbard spent several days
in the city during the week in the in
terest of the North American Lightning
Rod Company. Mr.. III. attended the
meeting of the board of county COM
missioners, and also a meeting Of the
school board, with a view Of impressing
upon their minds the importance of
rodding the public buildings under their
control, but without success, as in case
of the commissioners, the recent pur-
chase of a steel cage involving an ex-
penditure of 81 800, made them feel too
impecunious to enter into any further
contracts necessitating additional out
lay. The school board being somewhat
skeptical upon the electric question in
volved, as to whether protection pro-
tected in this direction. We feel as
sured, however, that when a respectable
number of the freeholders of the school
township declare in favor of the meas
ure that it will be cheerfully adopted by
the board.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

Mr.. Gaughenbaugh. who has continu-
ously prosecuted placer mining in this
district for several years, is now engaged
near Nine Mile on a claim discovered
by him last summer, which he informs
Us is yielding good wages by wheeling
the pay dirt to water on a common
wheelbarrow a distance of a quarter Of
a mile. When four or five dollars per
day can be realized by working a claim
in this crude manner, enormous returns
would result from working such claims
by more practical and approved methods.
We are informed that the placers are
very extensive in the locality where Mr..
q. is engaged, and We regard it as ex-
ceedingly strange hat the field has not
received more attention. Hundreds of
men are working for a dollar a day in
the east who could realize from $3.50 to
$500 per day in the district referred
to.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

The grass is sway up" in this neck o
woods. A boy picked up a dead bird
Yesterday, which it is supposed fell off
the high grass and broke it's neck.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

The attention of horse breeders is
called to the advertisement Of Mr.. II. II.
Summerill in this issue.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

Send to f. F. King & Co. if you want
any article Of jewellery made Of Black
Hills gold. The King jewelers., Dead
wood or Buffalo Gap.