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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23
OUR TEUToNIc FELLOW CITIZENS.
A Great and Influential m of Our
Population.

The NeW England Courier, a nea,
and attractive German = American
weekly, published in this city gives
some very interesting figures showing
how great and influential the Teutonic
race has become as an element Of i'm
migration into this country.
In Illinois one-half Of the foreign
born population is German. In Min
nesota the proportion is o~ne-third; in
Nebraska and Iowa more than one
third; in Wisconsin one-half, or one
eighth of the whole population; In In
diana. the banner German State, out
of $4,000 foreigners, 5000 are Of
German birth, or So per cent of the
whole.
Out Of 1900, 900 immigrants into
this country sineel S2O-4,5 OO. OOo have
been Germans. Coming from the
most thrifty and best-educated coun-
try in Europe, these people, constitu-
tionally endowed with patience, skill,
and perseverance, have migrated q
solid, thoughtful, Industrious, and
peace-loying element into the COM
pCsite structure of the Union.
With a pride that is natural and just
the Courier closes its statisticsl survey
with the following remarks:
]. That Germany has furnished the
largest amount of immigrants to the
United States.
2. That of the total number of pro-
fessional men and skilled mechanics
Germans takes by far the lions share.
3. That the charge of intemperance
laid TO the Whole Teutonicr race has no
good foundation.
t. That the influence of the Germans
on the life and prosperity of the United
States is of the highest rank and en-
titles them to the encomium that they
are the backbone and mainstay of the
great farming interests of this coun.
try.
D. The German has been and con-
tinues To be the founder and builder
of the mighty West. He is the sober,
business-like, aggressive citizen who
is raising his adopted country on the
strong foundation of honest manhood.
6. What the Puritan was TO New En-
gland the German Is to the West.
We do not believe that any fair.
minded American citizen of whatever
race or nationality, wopld care to of.
fer any amendments Globe.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23
suHE TO WAKE HIM UP.
Mexican Couriers Have an Alarm Clock
Upon Which They Can Depend.

III don't know what I'd do without
my alarm clock" yawned Simpins at
the clearinghouse breakfast-table.
Its hard to get any fun out Of your
evenings unless you stay up until
nearly midnight, and that means /
o'clock before you really get to sleep.
As my employer insists on my being
behind the counter by 8 a. M. that
means waking up at 6. You can't get
the chambermaid to wake you every
morning without considerable outlay
of tips, and it would take a pretty
muscular girl, anyway, to pound on
my door hard enough to wake me ef-
f~ectually. Now, my alarm clock makes
it simply impossible for me to sleep,
for it kicks up such an awful row that
/ have 70 jump out Of bed and stop it
in self-defense before it gets half
through the performance" aud Simp-
kins, SAYS the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette, smiled the fatuous smile of a
mar who never discovers that he is a
nuisance.
"Yes, we've all noticed that" said a
stout commercial traveller, who, when
hp was "a Dit At all az llpl EEt UP
generally for full an hour after Simp-
kins did. 81 could recommend you TO
an alarm clock which would arouse
just as e~ffectually rs the one you have
now, aud yet would not wake up ev
erybody else within n quarter of a
mile of you. The last time | was
down in Mexico | left the lines of rail-
road and pushed out into the wilder
parts Of the country, in the interests
of my firm. There | met for the first
time some of those famous couriers,
Indians, who carry messages for hun
dreds of miles, with much greater
CELEBRITY than horses can do in that
mountainous country.
when the courier's trip extends
over three days. rs it frequently does,
he allows himself two hours slt~p out
of every twenty-four, and. as he makes
his bed N the ground, just wherever
he happens to stop, there is no cham
bermaid or anyone else to rouse him
from the heavy stupor which natural
ly oyercomes a perfectly healthy man
who has been running steadily for
about twenty-five hours, eating occa-
sioHally while he runs. Having Sc
lected his bed, he takes some thick
cord from his pouch, cuts of n piece of
it, of a length which experience has
taught him to be about right, ties one
end of the cord which rs composed Of
carefully selected material prepared in
a particular way, to his toe. sets fire
to the other end and falls asleep so
quickly that you would think he was
constructed like one of those mechan-
zeal dolls which close their ives as
500 as they are laid down. He feels
perfectly confident that the cord or
fuse will burn slowly but surely up to
his toe in two hours or ~thereabout, and
he has no doubt that when the twist #
it which he put around the toe is on
fire it will wake him effectually."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23
PYCMlES OF HE ANpAMANS.
They Keep Their Arrows Sharpened FOL
Strangers Who Come Their Way.

n my hffp AhfiE arrow NuNFIfufn fOF
Strangers Who Come Their Way.
--
The pygmies OF the Andaman ISL
ands in the Bay Of Bengal are coming
into notice again. On South Andaman
island the Indian government main
tains a great penal colony. Several
attacks have been made recently by
the untamable Jarawas Of this island
on parties of conyicts. who find il very
dangerous TO leave their settlements
to 20 hunting in the woods. The ma
tiyes roam over big tracts of thick
jungle, appearing occasionally on the
coasts or visiting the confines of the
settlements, numbering any convicts
they may meet. When pursued, the
bands separate into parties Of two or
three and retreat into the densest part
of the jungle, where they leave no
trail. Mr.. Portman. the administrator
of the Andaman islands, says that the
few Jarawas who have been caught
during the past ten years and returned
to their tribe after enjoying his hos
pitality, have done nothing TO promote
mor friendly relations between their
people and the government.
That is a more d~iscouraging report
of these Andaman pygmies than was
made several years ago by Col Cadet,
although he wrote of the natives Of
Little Andaman. He insisted that
their ferocity was due TO the inhunan-
ity of Chinese and Malay traders, who
improved every opportunity 10 drag
the natives into slavery. He said that
they are good natured and pleasant
people To meet when once their conf
dencc is gained. An expedition which
landed among the dwarfs Of Little An
dAman was assaulted as usual with ar
rows and battle axes. The party took
three women and six men prisoners,
and carried them nearly 100 miles
away 10 Fort Blair. They were treat
ed there with the utmost kindness, aud
in two months were SEM back TO their
island loaded with presents. On the
next visit of the whites the released
captiyes came 10 see them. and in q
few days men, women and children
visited the camp and even ventured
on board the steam launch.
The Jarawas Of South Andanan,
however, still keep their arrows sharp
ened for any foreigners who pass their
way. All these people belong to one
of the smallest races OF men in the
world. The average height of the
men, Prof. Flower SAYS. j. 1 feet 9
inches, and that OF the women is 1 feet
6 inches.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23
MIR. AND MRS. BOWSER.
Mr.. BoWsER GETS ANOTHER or HIS
"STREAkS" ON.
Ne Attempts TO do His own Mending
and MS Usual BIames Mrs. Bowser for
His Failure.

AL husbands are "streaky." They
WIN run along all right for a week or
two as good as pie, and then all of a
Sudden and with no valid excuse they
WIZ break out In the most surprising
manner. When Mr.. Bowscr left the
house after lunch the other day he was
In great GOOD humor and stopped to say:
Il think yll stop and get tickets for
the theatre tc-night and well put in an
enjoyable evening"
When he returned Mt six he assembled
the steps with a scott scufi scuri I'M
locked the front DOOR gave 1t a kick
aud made his way into the back parlor
10 growl:
Mrs. Bowser. do you pretend to run
this house on n SYSTEM
why what is wrong. deasf' she
queried In reply.
There's lots OF things wrongl 1had
scarcely left the Office when this over
coat button came of.
But | didn't know it was loose.
Why didn't you tell meT'
why haven't told you ten thousand
other things that ought TO be donei
There are wives who glance at their
husbands clothing once or twice n year
and discover what repairs are needed. /
want a darnIng.needle and q piece OF
string"
But I'll sew the button on"
"No; I'll do il myself. l don't want
TO take up your valuable time"
And despite Mrs. Bowser's entreaties
and protestations he threaded the needle
with n piece Of string and sat down and
sewed on the button. He got II an inch
out OF line with the button.hole. of
course. and of course Ii wouldn't have
stayed five minutes in any event. but he
had carried his point. When he had
laid the coat aside he asked:
Have we got a brad-awl and a piece
OF waxed-eud in the houseY'
II don't think SO. What do you want
OF them
ITO mend my suspender. OF course
l hadn't got a hundred feet from the
house this noon when IL busted on me
as usual. II there's another house in
the United States run like this one I'd
like to hear OF it and go and sit down
on the doorstep for half an hour. Per-
haps | can repair it with q piece OF
%clothes-line until l can get downtown
again"
But you can't blame me. Mr. Bow.
ser" she said.
"Ob. of course not; you are not to
blame for anythingl'
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23

Miss Kittie Butler rose from the arm
chair. Miss Kittie Butler swept her
long-handled parasol across the table,
and the tumblers, palettcs and liquor
stand went down with a crash on the
floor. A little twitch and wriggle of
the body, and she wrested from her
pocket a letter. Herbert took il up.
iPTfvateD Old Bond Street. w. (,
Dear Nadamc: We beg 70 acknowledge re-
ceipt or your check for 100 pounds for the
two paintings by Mr.. Herbert Easeltou. en-
titled, "A Cloudy Evening" and Mist in HYDE
Park" We await the favor OF your further
orr - and beg 10 assure yOtl that In ali trans
ac Dns your name shall. as you desire, be kept
SEE rrt. Your obedient servants,
Miss Katherine Butler. Tablou & Co.
Herbert Easelton turned very white
and said "Damn!"
A moneyed person from Australia
read the paragraph in the papers.
Moncyed person wanted TO buy pict-
ures to take home. Did not mind
what kind Of picture. provided they
cost a good deal.
Went to Tablou & Co., did moneyed
person; met there Miss Butler; bought
the pictures; married Miss Butler;
took her back home to be- the popular
mayoress of a populou5 town in New
South Wales. EaseltOn Is writing
libels on successful artists in a new o.
penny paper.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23
sewerage" People.


The genius scars far To the fountain
That feeds the sDOw-cap I'm the sky;
But though our wings break IN the flying
And though our souls faint in the trying
Our flight cannot follow so high:
And the eagle swOops not from the mountain
To answer the g~rOund-bird's low cry.
The world has q gny guerdoE ready
To hail the tect foot In the race;
But on the dull highway OF duty
Al0of from the pOmp and the beauty,
The stir OF the chance and the chase.
Are toilers with step true and steady,
Pursuing their woarisOmc pace.
False prowess and noisy insistencc
May capture the garruious throng,
But the I0ierage' father and brother,
The Neeping sister and mother,
Grown ktle and patient and strong,
Shall leaIH In the fast-ucHring distance
Wherein lfe's awards have been VIZ AZ.
Then here's 10 the average" people,
The makers 81 home and its rest:
To them the world turns for a blessing
When life It's hard burdens Is pressing,
For stHy-at-hUmc hearts are tine best.
Birds build II they will in the steeple,
But safer the caves for a nest.
-Aay Riley Smith, in Harper's Bazaar.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23
What Your Great grandmother Did.

She hc'cheled the fax and carded the
wool. anu wove the linen, and spun tie tow,
and made the clothes for her husband and
ten children. She made butter and cheese,
she dipped tallow candles, IN light the house
al night. and she cooked all the food for her
household by an open fire place and a brick
oven. Yes; and when she was forty years Of
age, she WIS already an old lady whose best
days were over. Her shoulders were bent and
her joints enlarged by hard work, and she
wore spectacies m a cap.
Her great granddaughter, with all the
modern conveniences for comfort, refinement
and luxury, may be as charming and attract
i've ut forty-five as at twenty. Especially is
this true II she preserves her health by the
use of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription,
which wards of all female ailments aud ir-
Irregularities, cures them if they already exist,
keeps the life current heelthful and vigorous,
and enables the woman OF middle age TO re
tain the freshness Of girlhood upo brow and
cheek. the light Of youth in her eyes, and
its elasticity in her step.
Go 10 your drug store, pay a dollar, get a
bottle and try it-try a second, q third IL rec
eSsary. Before the third ones been taken
you'll know that there's a remedy u help you.
Then you'll keep on and a cure'Il come.
But if you shouldn't feel the help, should
be disappointed in the results = you'll find
a guarantee printed on the bottle-wrapper
thatn get your money back for you.
a o ask moret
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23

Throughout the great west are scat
tered numbers of women who have
grown wealthy as miners, ranchers
and homesteaders. They owe success,
according to the N. Y. Ledger, TO the
fact that they got ahead Of the
men" by reason Of superior pluck and
shrewdness. One of the most con-
s~picuous cases is that of two Los An
geles girls who recently visited Santa
fe and filed upon hemesteads they had
just located. The land lies on the
eastern slope Of the Zuni mountains,
aud in order to reach the place the
women had to travel eighteen miles
from the railroad station, walking
much OF the time because of the bad
roads aud often wading through two
feet of snow. A number of men were
waiting at the railroad settlement for
the snow to thaw so that they could
locate claims. but the women said
they had no time to wait and they
waded through the snow.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23
Opening the Canal.

The most acceptable proposition that
can be made TO persons troubled with
chronic constipation. is to open that i'm
portant canal-thc bowels. 1hat propo-
sition can be carried out, by the parties
Interested # they resort to Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, the most effective, most
genial Alternative cxtant II is the mistake
OF many Otherwise sensible people, thal
they. resort TO drastic. or, in othe-
words. violent purgatives. Without
ex-aggeratiou. this j. highly in
~jurious, ,ince sueh indictments
weaken the bowels besides CON
vulsing them and the stomach with pa II.
Relief sought from the Bitters comes
freely enough, but they never produce
pain, excessive action, or sub equeEt
OF tue bowels. Liver and kid.
ney trouble. malaria, dyspepsia, Jack Of
stamina and n tendency 20 rheumatism,
are remedied By this pleasant substitute
for ~drenching cathartics.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23

Tho Farmer ~ SkNicu isaDDFs xxt4ENf
Viewed from the lofty standpoint 81
the New York Hold Carriers un{onL
considered from the hall OF the SklI6r
delphia Bill Pos ers' Protective assoo3-
s<toa, the prairie farmer is simply Z
~clodhopper. lie Is n man who decii<s
to have corn wheat and potatoes, in-
stead of wild grass, grow on a certain
piece OF land, and plants the seed than
will produce them.
In point of fact. more knowledge
and skill are requisite for prosecuting
this craft than TINT of any city arti.
san. 1t requires more skill to handle
a plow than n troweL 1t is more diff
cult to handle a reaping machine than
n machine that turns ont brick.
Greater knowledge Is required to sow
grain than to urn tho switches in a
freight yard. Much more information,
experience. and skill are needed TO
raise tobacco plants, TO cultivate them,
and properly cure the leaves, than TO
make them into cigars. Laying drain
tile Ia more difficult than laying brick.
Properly TO remove n fleece from a
sheepdemands as great dexterity as to
shave a beard from n face. The sue
cessful farmer is necessarily a skilled
laborer. lie is master, not of one
trade, but OF many, aud n long time Is
required &c learn each OF them. lie is
>ASTmerchant. and to be prosperous
he list be "a judge Of the quality of
many things, and know how TO buy
and sell them TO the best advantage. -
L. w. In Forum.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23


But how did / know your suspender
was ready to brcak?'
That's all right, Mrs. Bowseri I'll
get a piece Of clothes line or barbed
wire aud make repairs and you needn't
worry at ALL There are wives and
wives"
Are we going TO the theatref' she
asked as he began pacing up and down
the room with his hands under his coat
tails.
WHAT he shouted in a voice which
Jumped the cat out OF the room
Are we going TO the iheatref'
''Theairel Theatrei Have you gone
crazy? Mrs. Bowser, look-a-there, and
then talk theatre to met
He unlaced one OF his shoes and
kicked it of. and there, at the end Of
his big toe, was hole about as big as q
nickel.
II was intending to 60 to the theatre"
he said as he stood and pointed ut the
hole, ''but can't get away this even
ing. / have got to stay home and darn
my socks. That hole there has started
a corn on my toe this very day."
'Mr. Bowser. those socks were bran
new yesterday morning when you put
them onr' exclaimed Mrs. Bowser with
a good deal OF energy.
"Oh. of counsel | probably cut that
hole with the shearsi l want a darning-
needle and som string or something.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23
IOnKIIns Was Not an Aristocrat.

A widely quoted personal item is "a
follows: Roscoe Conkling refused to
attend his daughters wedding because
she chose TO marry a railroad train
hand. To-day hat man is at the
head of M of the biggest railroad
systems in the country. The daughter
appears to have had a better eye for
genius than the old gentleman
W. q. Oakman, VINO married Bessie
Conkling, was not, according TO the
Rochester HcrG'2, a railroad train
hand, but a railroad superintendent,
at the time Of the union. The intima-
ton that Conkling did not approve Of
the alliance on account Of the pecuni-
airy or social circumstances of the
groom is entirely groundless. Though
reserved in his private friendships and
reputed to be rather unapproachahle,
Roscoe Ccnkling was as far from being
aristocratic as any public man of his
day.
The humblest Utican visiting Wash
ington was certain of a cordial well
come from the senator, and of the lat
ter's ready help to secure for him any
favor. Conkling despised no man on
account OF his poverty, and he would
as readily have given his consent to
his daughters union with a poor as
with a rich lover, other conditions be-
ing satisfactory, The secret of Conk-
ling's opposition TO Bessie's marriage
with Oakman was that he could not
reconcile himself TO think CT her as a
grown and the possession OF
another. As n little girl he idolized
her, and in his mind she had never
ceased to be a little girl. He was
piqued and grieved at her marriage
against his viii, and his injured pride
was as unbending as Dombey's; but
after his splendid frame was stricken
with fatal disease there was a touching
reconciliation-if a renewed personal
exchange OK affection between two who
had never ceased to love each other
ear be so called-between father and
daughter.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23

doctor, 4 wish you would examine
me and tell me what you think about
my mental balance" Its all right"
-Ain't there a little something wrong
just enough 10 put me down as =
crank, YOU know?" absolutely moth
ing" We'll, good-by,' he said in q
disappointed tone. What did you
want TO know this for?' IL felt a
strong abnormal impulse To rob some
body, and / wanted to find out wheth-
or ! was crazy enough TO make it safe
if | got into COURT Washington Star.
Hicks-~I think / shall bring up my
boy to follow the sea for a livelihood
Dix-~Why have you settled OF that:?"
Hicks-aIt seems to be the only in
dustry in which one is not expected to
begin at the bottom."-Brooklya Lys.
Jones-@So you could never under
stand a woman?" Smith-~No. Be-
fore marriage Occupied my time max
ing myself out worse than l was; now
1t takes me every minute of my time
to make myself out better than I am
DE Fries--sl have one Improvement
to suggest with reference to the north
pole exploration business. Snow
Lets have IT, DE Fries-@It is TO
send the relief expedition on . month
ahead. so Al to have everything ready
for the > BY the time the explors
ors Arrive.s-Eu
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23
Why They are Poor.

Country editors always remain poor.
but that is because they are not mean
enough to get rich. In order to get
rich it is only necessary to trust no
body, to befricnd none, to get every
thing and save all you get; to stint
ourselves and everybody belonging to
us; TO be friend to no man and
have no man for our friend; to heap
interest upon interest. cent upon cent;
to be mean. miserly and dcspised for
some thirty years, and riches will
come as sure as disease and disap-
pointment. And when pretty near
enough wealth is collected by a disre-
gard Of the human heart at the ex-
pense Of every enjoyment W. that Of
wallowing In filthy mcarness. death
comes 10 finish the work. Country
editors prefer To iemain poor, live
happy and die happy.-Je6s,son C0Es
" (Mont.J Sentinel.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23

49, 49,
Mrs. Bowser protested, but be thread
ed a darning. needle with n riece OF red
string and used up abont eight feet OF il
In darning the hole. lie appeared to be
growing good naturcd. and she ventured
TO ask:
Aren't VIC to go to tho theatre to.
nlgbtg"
'If we get through in time we may"
Get through with whaty'
"Mrs. Bowser," he said rs he removed
his coat and turned his back, look at
the back of my vestr
81 -aa IL huf whar's wronrr
"wrongi wrongi Is there a buckle
therei Put on your glasses and tell me
IL you can find a buckle anywhere on
the back OF my vest"
mo. / don't see one, but this IL the
first time you have called my attention
10 It."
Exactly. What was the user That
buckle busted of three years ago last
Thanksgiving Day. and yet you haven't
noticed IL! Is there a spare buckle
kicking around the cellar or hanging up
In the garrett IL not l suppose l can
heat the stove poker and bend 1t up to
answer
you only got that vest three months
ago, Mr.. Bowser. and tho tailor never
put a buckle onl' she exclaimed as she
pulled al tbs strap.
"And this coat. Mrs. Bowser," he
went on. regardless OF her prot ests.
s'feel In this pocketi There's q hole
there large enough to let . cocoanut
throughl I've known IL for years and
years and I've been waiting 10 see IL you
would fix II. Have We got q piece Of
bed and half a yard Of old Brussels
carpet lying aroundy'
why didn't you tell me about itf'
TELL you'll Must . husband be eter-
nally telling his wife about these
thingsi What's q wife fort What are
her duties1 What shenld q fond. true
wife delight int Button oR-hole In
my sock-no buckle on my vest--hole
In my pocket, Two buttons loose on my
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23

Flower"

l used August Flower for Loss on
vitality and generaldebility. After
taking two bottles | gained 60 lbs.
| have sold more of your August
Flower since / have been in business
than any other medicine l ever kept.
Mr.. Peter Zinville says he was made
a new man by the use of August
Flower, recommended by me. /
have hundreds tell me that August
Flower has done them more good
than any other medicine they ever
took. GEORGE w. DYE, Sardis,
Mason Co, KY. q