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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26
TO sACUr FOR JAMES q (
The Chicago Blaine club Will Goto Mnnc
apoiis 500 strong.

apoiis 500 strong.
CHIcXGo, Dec. l0.--The Chicago
Blaine club. which in 1884 and tSss
was the largest oBlainc club in the
country, will this evening complete its
reorganization with the view of TAX.
ing an active part in the preliminaries
of the coming presidential campaign
in the interest of the favorite son OF
Maine. The club proposes to
go to Minneapolis 500 strong.
Several other local Blaine clubs
are also to be revived, and this, taken
in connection with the enthusiasm
with which Blaine's name was greeted
at the recent demonstration of tn,
Marquette club, the strongest republi
can club in the west, is taken rs indi
eating that the friends of the Maine
statesman hereabouts propose to max,
Chicago the headquarters of his presi
Dental boom.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

Russia has been visited by eight ma
Iional famines during the present cen
tury, in 1901, 1905, 1911, 1912, 1888,
ls4O, 1860 and 1891. In addition tc
these there have been several pro-
rincial famincs as severe, if not as ex.
enslve, as those which affect the
whole population
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26
ENDED IN BLOODSHED.
Participants In Political Demonstration
Get Into Free Fight.

II
Get Into n Free Fight.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 19.-There
was good demonstration and torch
light procession given here last night
in honor of Governor Jones, who is a
candidate for reelection. Special
trains brought in hundreds of miners
from the neighboring towns and
settlements. After midnight, while
one of the trains was returning to
Blossburg, bloody riot occurred in one
of the c~Ss when the train was near
a
restore order among the drunken pas.
sengers, when Bass Wood, farmer,
opened fire at Price, killing w. K.
Black, miner, fatally wounding Jas.
Glover, whose occupation is unknown.
Wood came near being lynched, but a
posse of officers hurried him off to Jail
here.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

Henry George is a singularly absent.
minded and preoccupled man, SO much
so. indeed. that he frequently passes
acquaintances by without seeing them,
though he may seem to be looking
them straight in the face At the same
lime he Is often minutely observant
ind when anything unusual attracts
his attention he Is prompt with a
query. He reduced harmless young
Englishman to state of painful em-
barrassment amid the crowd of Lon
Hon drawing room by looking hard at
his monocle and suddenly saying: "Do
you wear that because one eye Is diff
ferent from the other!"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26
Coal Tow RoatS Rurned

PITTsBURG, Dec. 19.-The coal tow
boats Annie Roberts and Coal Valley
were burned to the waters edge at
the wharf early this morning Both
boats belonged to Horner e. Roberts
and were valued at $25, 900 each. Both
are total loss The flames originated
in the center of the Annie Roberts, but
from what cause is unknown.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26
RAN AMUCk.
New Yorker Shoots Four Persons and
Himself While I'm n DelIrium.

New Yorker Shoots Four Persons and
Himself While I'm n Dellrium.
New YORK, Dec. 19.-At 12 o'clock
yesterday NJ c. Harvey. "a years old,
living at 1873 Van Dyke street, Brook
lyn, shot four persons and himself
while in a fit of temporary insanity.
Those whom he shot were John Pen.
merton, 35 years, of 1873 Van Dyke
street; Samuel Dickenson, 23 years old,
of 5S2 Clinton street; Mary Dickinson.
80 years old, same place, and Catherine
Duffy, living in the same house with
Harvey and Pennerton. Harvey and
Pennerton are dead The sons and
Duffy are but slightly wounded.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

No animal has more than five toes,
iigits or claws 10 each foot or limb.
The horse is one-toed, the OK two-toed,
;he rhinoceros is three-toed. the hip
popotamus is four-toed, and the ele-
phant and hundreds of other animals
are fve-toed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

The light of the sun and the moon
exercises deleterious effect on edge
tools. Knives, drills, scythes and
sickles assume a blue color if they are
exposed for some time TO the light and
heat of the sun, the sharp edge disap'
pears and the tool is rendered abso'
lutely unless il is retempered.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26
Cluster Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER,

The famous Winchester elm, in Bos-
ton, recently cut down, was standing
!ull grown in 1860. The last treaty
with the Indians was signed under it,
and it was the last of New England's s
historic elms
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

There are $50 authorized guides in
The Alps. One hundred and ninety
lour of them have taken regular
course of instruction in their profes
sion and have received diplomas.
Thirty-fve of them are between go and
70 years of age and six are over 20.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

Steam pipes have been made in Eng
land from the ramiefiber The ma
terial is subjected to tremendous
hydraulic pressure and, having the
property of being unaffected by mois'
ture, will neither shrink nor swell, be-
sides being non-conductor Of heat
The pipes have twice the tensile
strength of steel pipes.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

A gigantic tunnel. which is estimated
to cost $3.50. 900 and require ten years
to finish, Is being constructed In the
Leadville mining district for the pur.
pose OF draining the mines. II will
DO at least live miles long, aud will
when completed, leave to easy access
millions of tons Of good orc that car
not now be gotten at, aud proba bis
never could be handled without ths
use OF proper drainage. 4
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

Thaddeus Stevens died in 1865, but
lis estate has not yet been settled.
Last week woman who claims TO be
The widow of his nephew filed large
claim against the estate. 1t is believed
that she was never married to him.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

HARRISON Hickman, famous farmer
Of Sussex county, Delaware, set the
fashion in his own county of keeping
watermelons in the rind till Christmas.
Hickman's melons were famous for size
and flavor all over the county, and the
neighbor who received one at Christ
mas esteemed himself peculiarly for
tunate. Hickman's method of preserv-
ing the melons was to coat the rind
thickly with "a varnish that effectually
excluded the air. The flavor of the
garnish seldom penetrated to the meat
within.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

A Connecticut man owns a big horse.
He is nearly Z feet high and weighs
S,7OO pounds His appetite corresponds
to his size. He has eight pccks of oats
at each meal, if you can believe local
chronicler, and makes away with 200
pounds of hay every week, His shoes
are of unusual size and weigh four
pounds each.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

Little Jack Horncr sat In n corner
Eating his CHRISTMAS pie.
lie put In his thumb and pulled out plum
And said what a big boy am L.
II IL eccentric, if not geometric,
To put up "a corner ON Vic.
Ii comes round with Christmas, that piumi
and all this fuss
About Horuer's deed awry.
II seems no great something, TO pull out this
plum thing,
But why did ho probe with his thumbl
Less mussy and awakwrl, his huger or forh
would
Have cxhumcd the coveted plum.
Tie phrase he repeated, vas very conceitcd,
Much better IL lac had kept mum,
Instead OF CxC,aimng, true nodesty sbAinlnR
See what big boy, Ego sunni"
Such manner OF feeding shows very III breed
ing.
The small boy to-day for such prank
Would get good spanking, instead OF out
ranking
His felIows-but fame is crank
J. IT, Gtcdmun,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

Deposits of meerschaum have been
found on the Sapelio creek, twenty-five
miles north of Silver City, n. NJ, and
near the alum deposits of the ella river.
The principal vein is eight inches in
width, and cubical blocks with faces
CIV IN ssvsn inches in length have been
thickness by three feet in width and
five feet in length has been sawed
frosR the deposit.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

KILLED BY HIS NEPHEW.
Well Known Miner Shot In BUTTE with
out Waning

BUTTE. Mt, Dee. 10.--Last evening
II. j. Cunningham, a well known min
ing man, was shot and killed bv his
nephew, Chas. Price. The men were
walking quietly along the street con.
versing in low tones, when suddenly "
Price drew revolver and fred three
shots, one of which took fatal effect II
Cunningham's left brest Price wal
arrested but refused to talk. 1t Il
limited that there is . woman 1t III
bottom Of tho affair.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

Londoners are very much interested
In the discovery that the one original
home Of cashmere shawls is not Cash
mere, but Germany. Large quantities
of German made shawls are taken to
India with limitations of Cashmere
marks on them, and sent into the inte-
rior and sold as native products. They
cost in Calcutta about el They sell
for E7
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

When Cole Younger was captured
after the Northfeld bank robbery the
horse that had carried him on many OF
his raids was bought by Montana
sheriff, who rode him for several years
and then sold him to mail rider for a
post horse. The animal, known as
Prince, is a handsome sorrel, and
though now twenty years old is, be-
cause of his speed and great endur-
ance, the pet steed of his owner. He
Is the object of great local interest be.
cause of his history.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

The first ships doctor on record Is be
lieved to have been St Luke, who IL showI
by recent research 10 have been physi
sian In the Troad when he first met 81
Paul
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

Equatorial Africa promises another
treasure to civilization 1t is Il musk
scented plant, the branches Of which
carried about the person will frighten
away mosquitoes as certainly as col
lection plate will disperse street
preachers congregation. The smell
of this plant is neither unpleasant nor
unhealthy, but no mosquito will ven.
ture>Sithin its range. New Jersey
should be planted with it.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26
MILLS DECLINES.
DGcrcd second Place {on thu Ways and
Mea y Cominitteg

DHcrCd second Place on thA Ways and
Mes = Cominitte9
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1917 ILLS has
been offered second place pc com
nittee on ways and meaf pgether
with the craftsmanship of q per inn
portant committee. and he ned to
accept such ASSIGNMENT.
The tender was made in N,etteI
Texas stateman last night
II is said TO have been per.
fectly courteous in tone and
otherwise, but Mr.. Mills would not
have it. The answer to the PROPOSE.
tion will reach Speaker Crisp some.
time today. In it Mr. Mills will say
that he has served on the
committee or ways and mean
for ten years, was chairman
IN the Fiftieth congress, and that II
any reason existed why he should not
be at the head on the committee the
same reasons will prevent his accep.
ton of subordinate place on the com.
mittec.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

One of the most singular looking
creatures that ever walked the earth
or Swan the waters under the earth"
is the world-famous man-faced crab of
Japan. Its body is hardly an inch in
length, yet the head is fitted with n
face which is the perfect counterpart
of that of Chinese cody; veritable
missing link, with eyes, nose and
mouth all clearly defined.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

A commanding present Tho wed
ding invitation.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

CHICAGO, Dec. 81
Flour--Spring patents, si.5oQe5 %; win.
ter patents, SIt0(G4.60
Wheat - Cash, 9l14c; January, ,00l J1c
May, y71c.
Corn-Cash, 4sc; December, 49c; Jan.
uary, aye; May, 425sc bid
Oats-Cash, S.1sc; January, s1slc; May,
331sc.
kye-SSc.
Barley--50c
Flax-95c.
Timothy-$l. 90
Whisky-$l.1a
Pork-Cash, s7.95@soo; January, $40 20;
Lsrd-Cash, sS.oo@o.o5; January, sao7,1
May, t65-A.
Short Ribs--Cash, $527<.
shouldcrs--$i sz1E@i5o; short clear.
Buiier~creamery. so@aso; dairy iea
&c
Cheese - Full cream cheddars, IOs<6a
liAc; Hats, ii@ii1Sc; Young Americas,
Egxs-Fresh 2s@a4c. -.
Hides-Heavy and light gS0e
Pc; salted bull, 411
saited calf, C@01<c; q
deacons, each, 25cse6
cake,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

Two hundred and forty-three million
forty-seven thousand six hundred and
eighty quarts of milk, j,4O6, 6 50 quarts
of cream and 3,O2O,41O quarts of con.
densed milk were received in New York
last year for consumption. Each in
habitant of the city, according to these
figures, used on an average of 1872
quarts Of milk, 3H quarts of cream and
= quarts of condensed milk last year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

The first iron mined in this country
Is generally supposed to have been in
Saugus, Mass, about 1643. Iron ore
and smelted iron have just been found
in North Beverly. This puzzles the
oldest inhabitant" as no person living
ever knew that iron existed there, The
smelling must have been done at an
early date, very possibly before 1G43 as
thero were settlements there as carly
as 1910.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

Hills has
he com
kcr i'm
ned to
t,etteI
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-01-09

other day to the State Geologist that it
would be well to make a careful study OF
all the soils Of the State, and prepare .
statement Of their adaptability. Many
farmers are rushing to the west, and il is
possible that they are leaving a country of
far greater possibilities. He contends
that the position of the State is such that
it affords a ready market for all that could
be grown. The matter is worthy Of mnch
care and attention on the part of the State.
The farmer should not be compelled to do
the experimenting.
Professor Smock believes there is = great
future in the New Jersey pines. and lie
proposes to continue his study Of the sur
face Of the territory and look into the mat
ter of irrigation. Considerable area is de-
voted to the culture of cranberries, and
the industry is growing. Small fruit
farms, wherever established, are succeed
ing, and others should be established. The
success of the farms on the Vineland and
Hammonton tracts Is the subject of *
tended discussion.
The prosperity of the foreign colonies at
Rosenhayn, Carmel and Alliance has at
tracted attention to the possibilities of
utilizing certain localities for small indus
trial colonies. The purpose is to relieve
the o~vercrowded neme houses of New
YORK, and to give cheap homes to the
more thrifty Of the foreign poor. No part
of the pine district is more than five hours
removed from the clothing wareh ouses OF
New York.
The present colonies are successful, and
negotiations are now being made for new
sites. An authority states that within the
next twenty years there will be a long line
of these small settlements; and they mean
new citizens for the State, and better
moral surroundings for the children OF
these settlers.
land county is responsible for the state
ment that a number of people, who nave
been trying to exc out an existence in the
blizzard wheat territory of the West, are
seeking homes in the South Jersey pines
and are about to go into truck farming
and small fruit raising. Those who have
gone West have lost all they ventured in
their enterprises, and now are turning
their faces homeward, believing there is 3
future in the home markets of New Jer-
sey. IF the anticipations of these returned
agriculturists are realized, it is said
others are to follow. The next annual re-
port of the new State Geologist will have
something to say on how the pine land can
be made profitable.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-01-09
. MOTHER.

Evening was falling, cold and dark,
And people hurried along the way,
As if they were longing soou to mark
Their own home candies cheering ray.
Before me toiled, In the whirling wind,
A woman with bundles great and small
And after her tugged, a step behind,
The bundle she loved the best of all.
A dear little roly-poly boy,
With rosy cheeks and Jacket blue,
Laughing and chatteribg full of JOY,
And here's what he said-f tell you true:
"You'r the coolest mother that ever was
A voice as clear as q forest birds;
And I'm sure the glad young hear 1T had cause
To utter the sweet ofthe lovely words.
Perhaps the woman had worked all day
Washing or s~crubbing; perhaps she Sc wed
l know by her weary footballs way
That life for her as an uphill road.
But here was q comfort, children dear;
Think what. a comfort o might give
To the very best friend you can have here
The mother, dear, in whose house you live
Ifonce in d while you'd stop and say,
In task or play, tor moments pause,
And tell her, in sweet and winning way,
You're the coolest mother that ever vas
-Norgaret Il. Son9ster.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-01-09
LEAKS In THE KITCHEN

Mrs. Rorer, president of the Philadelphia
Cooking School. says: in cooking, al
ways scrape every dish clean. In some
kitchens enough is wasted to support one
person"
To the uninitiated. this must seem very
strange; but every h~ousekeeper, out of her
own experience. can testify to the difficulty
of teaching ssrvant-girls the simplest les
sons in economy It takes time to be par
ticular about little things. and although it
pays in the end, the average ''girl" is too
short sighted To see it. When she makes a
clke, batter is left sticking to the side of
the cup in which it was measured. some of
the egg remains in the she'll and more in
which fails to get into the oven. carefully
scraped would fill a patty pan and make a
cake quite large enough for one person.
What is true of cake-making will be found
are left in the oven to become charcoal,
soap is left in the dish-watsr, the fire is
mismauaged, and ashes are thrown out
unsifted. 1t is there a little and there a
little" till at the end of the year many
dollars worth OF good materials have basa
wasted.
A lady, who does her own housework,
even though not naturally economical.
usually trains herself to habits of saving;
but to teach an ignorant Irish girl is SO
difficult a task that few persist in it. One
great trouble is that the girls do not
realize the costliness of,he materials which
they use so lavishly. Accustomed to have
everything at hand. without any expense
on their part, often without any knowledge
of the price of different articles, they nat
urally grow very careless. 1.-THE girl were
spending her own money. she would, in
most cases be more careful. Hence some
housekeepers have tried the plan OF ex-
planning to the girls all items of expense,
showing them just where they are waste
full and how they might economize, and
then offering to give them the amount they
shall save by more careful management.
Although it is an undeniable fact that the
majority Of the uneducated poor are not
anxious to trouble themselves about the
small economies of life and a complete re-
form is too much to expect. nevertheless
most girls will improve ifthey find it worth
while. For their sakes as we'll as nj own,
we should begin instructions in economy
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-01-09
RECOMPENSE.

The earth gives us treasure four-fo1d for all
that we give to its bosom;
The care we bestow on the plant comes back
in the bud and the blossom.
The sun draws The sea TO the sky, oh, stillesi
and strangest of powers,
And returns to the hills and the meadows the
gladness of bountiful showers.
The mother regalns her lost youth in the
beauty and youth Of her daughters;
We are fed after many long days by the bread
tina We cast on the waters.
Never a joy do we cause but We for that JOY
are the gladoer;
Never q heart do we grieve but we for the
grieVing are sadder.
Never a SANDER so vile as the lips OF the viii
ling rehearser.
And curses, though long, loud, and deep, come
home to abide with the cursor.
He who doth give OF his best, of that best IS
the certainest user.
And he who withholds finds himself of hi,
gaining the pitiful loser.
The flowers that are strewn for the dead
bloom first 10 The heart OF the living;
And this is the truest of truths, that the best
ola gilt is the giving.
-CarEot ito Perry.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-01-09
THE EVANSTON ExpEnrMEsr.

The Cooperative Housekeeping Associa-
ton, Of Evanston, H., which got into
trouble the first three weeks of its exist
ence, has been re~organized ed, secured a most
economical chef. and expresses It's deter
mination to make its experiment success
full. 1t will be remembered that this or
ganization was formed for the purpose of
solving the servant girl problem by the
heroic method of eliminating the servant
girl, and there are thousands of mistresses
in the land who are interested in its work.
ings. As the details of its scheme have
not been published extensively in the East.
some account Of it may be of interest to
these ladies'.
The association is cooperative only so
far as the kitchen and laundry are con-
cerned. Each family has its " house
and attends to its own domestic affairs In
all but these particulars, so that it canno
be said TO have disposed of tbs servant girl
question entirely. 1t may dispense with
the cook aud the ~"washday," but the
housemaid, the nurse and the upstairs
girl remain to be dealt with. The revolu-
ton is only partial and emancipative, and
if it comes will not be complete. Still, the
worst OF its foes will be routed. There is
little complaint about the part of the SER
vice above the basement. The real family
tyrant is the cook, and If she can be des-
posed probably her aiders aud abeiters can
be subdued.
The Evanston Society is composed Of
fifty families. They rented a building.
fitted it up as a Kitchen and laundry, and
| installed a Frenehman with an aristocratic
name and a Partisan experience as manager
ofit. Each adult in the combination paid
81 a week and each child So. The menu
was prepared a day in advance and
sent TO each family. that the next days
dinner might be ordered; an admirable
Three meals a day were furnished and
were sent around in Norwegian kit
| che ns,r which are devices for conveying 3
number of dishes and keeping them hot by
ultdHs VI OoiiuS "atCi- AoSh oca'cty
wagon held sixteen of these kitchens aud
had its regular route, two hours being
allowed for each meal, in order that the
subscribers might consult their inclina-
tons as to meal time TO that extent.
For three weeks the members Of the
association lived on the fat of the land
literally-and then they found they were
living too high. The experiment did not pay,
and they were running into debt at . fright
full rate. At last accounts, however, they
had ~reorganized, secured a new manager,
and were going ahead again with a prudence
born OF experience. Some changes have
been made in the rules, also; the present
manager receives a regular salary, which
the former one did not and a COMMITTEES
Of ladies assists him in keeping the bill Of
fare within the reasonable financial limits,
while the expenses are audited regularly
and assessments made whenever required.
The frequency and size of the latter vii
afford a good means of estimating the
financial value Of the experiment after II
has been in operation for a sufficiently
long time.