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MRS. MARGARET CUSTER CALHOUN.

fict. Lieut.. James Calhoun, the brill
liant young officer, was the husband Of
Gen. Clusters sister Margaret, Or Maggie,
as her fond brother always called her.
Thus five of the Custer family persisted
In that brief and bloody battle. 1t was
then that the strong religious nature of
Father Custer asserted itself most
valiantly, and while he mourned for
his boys it was not as one without hope.
He loved to recount their noble deeds;
to dwell on their home life, and the
days of their boyhood. That he was
proud of his "yellow-haired laddie,"
was not to be gainsaid, for he saw in
him all his fondest hopes realized.
George made himself what he was
without anyone's assistance" he said
once to the writer of this paper. "He
asked me once to see Congressman
Bingham about getting him an appoint
ment at West Point. Bingham and /
We're opposed politically, and I didn't
want to ask him to do anything for
me or mine. But the first thing l knew
George had the appointment-he stole
a march on his father and asked Bing-
ham himself. And l knew that Bing-
ham was always glad and proud that
he gave it to him. 1t makes me sad
every time / look at this picture and
think of my three boys who were killed
in one day.
If Father Custer had lived until De-
cember 10, 1892, he would have COM
pleted his eighty-sixth year.
Mrs. NJ. l.. RAYNE.
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lost the brave and gallant soldier
George, but in that brief and terrible
battle Mr.. Custer lost three sons, a SON.
in-law and a grandson. With all this
burden of sorrow the strong spirit of
the father was not utterly crushed. In
losing his o George, he lost the COM
panion of his middle life, the boy who
had inherited from him a marvellous in
tensity of purpose, a strong, passionate
moral nature, and the fearlessness of a
heroic spirit.
In after years no more pathetic pic
ture could be seen than that present
ed by the venerable man who, with
indomitable will, proudly rode his sons
war horse, Dandy, wearing the spurs
and gauntlets of the unconquered,
while the wide band of black Grape on
the hat which rested on his white head
was his only outward semblance of grief.
For many years Father Custer has
been content to remain within the limits
of home, as comprised by the boundaries
of Monroe, where he has lived since
1912. He was a native of Maryland,
but lived many years in Ohio, where
his son George was born at New Rum
ley in 1889.
Mr.. Custer had for some years made
his home with his son, Nevin j. Custer,
and it was there that he died peacefully
on November 81, 1892. His wife had pre-
ceded him, her death occurring twelve
or fifteen years ago, it being fastened
by grief at the death of her sons.
Mr.. Custer had two persistent
theories, religion and politics. He was
intensely, pa~ssionately religious, and
he was intensely, ~passionately political.
There was no hesitation in either at
tribute. He was an ardent, impulsive
Methodist, and a staunch, uncompro-
missing democrat. People who did not
believe as he did in either way he
would not even argue with, unless the
argument was all on his side. His boys
liked to stir their father up by pre-
dieting political disaster, in a spirit of
fun, but they were soon compelled to
show their true colors, or lear a con-
vincing and forcible statement of the
situation, given with the power and
charm of a native orator. His positive
character would brook no weakness of
professionally was outspoken himself
and had the courage of his convictions,
and he expected all the members of his
family to be equally sincere.
He cast his first vote for Andrew
Jackson, and his last for Mr.. Cleveland,
riding a distance of five miles in the
cold bleak weather for that purpose,
saying he could not die happy if his
party did not elect its candidate. His
death was consistent with his life, and
he felt sure in his last hours that his &C.
lions were the result of al honest be-
lief that the course he pursued was the
right one.
When Father Custer vas seen away
from home, there was always some one
to point him out and say: There is the
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The Fairs of North China.

Northern China is the country oil
fairs. In any given district there is a
constant succession of large gatherings,
at which it is not uncommon for as
many as ten thousand persons to be
congregated. The fairs are sometimes
called the poor mans market" for
the great display of secondhand cloth
ing which the wish to dispose
of. At Techou and at another point on
the Grand canal there are annual fairs
held from the beginning of the twelfth
month to the fifteenth day of the same
month. ut which there is a great dis
play of foreign goods, especially wool
ems, sold at cheaper rates than at other
times. This is called the fair of the
grain feet, and is one of the products
of the vicious system of grain taxes.
About four hundred vessels are annual
ly employed for transporting the Shan
tung grain tax to Tungchow, near
Pekin, and upon their return these YES
sells bring large quantities of goods
from Tientsin. which are sold at the
fairs. While some of the fairs are held
at times rigidly fixed and never varied.
most of them are wholly uncertain as
to ime.-North China Herald.
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A Modern Cook.

A New York gentleman hired a cook
because her recommendations were
good, and moreover she asserted that
she had cooked for q gentleman whose
good table is celebrated. Much to the
disgust of her employer, her cooking
was simply horrible, SO he called her
into his presence and said:
Bridget, when I hired you you told
me that you were qualified as a cook,
and that you had been a cook at the
Bondclipper villa on the Hudson"
"And SO | was, sor; / cooked the t~urnips
for the pigs in a big boiler. sor."-Texas
Siftines.
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watched the scene a man who wore h
badge Of a Michigan cavalryman touched
him on the shoulder:
Excuse me, comrade. You are Gen.
Clusters father"
EYES," SAID the fine old man, with a
glow Of pride at his hero's name, "he
was my son."
Il was with Gen. Custer when he
made that raid out of Winchester, and
broke through Early's lines" said the
cavalry man.
Then another came up:
81 was with him in the first cavalry"
said another, when his brother Tom
was wounded in the neck"
81 remember that engagement" said
Mr.. Custer, as if repeating a matter Of
history. ''Tom brought that necktie
home, and l have it yet"
"Let me speak to Gen. Clusters IA
ther. My son fought under him." said
an elderly woman in black, coming for
ward.
HE fought under a good man, then"
said Mr.. Custer, in his quiet way.
As he passed out some men wearing
the grand army badges gave him almost
an ovation. / knew him, and as I saw
his face paling I said:
ooh, Mr.. Custer! they are glad to see
| you-how pleased they are"
sit isn't for me-" he said, and I no.
ticed that his voice was husky; "they
are thinking of Aim-and SO am l."
He was very fond of his only daugh-
ter, Mrs. Margaret Custer Calhoun, and
Gen. Clusters widow, Mrs. Elizabeth
Bacon Custer, and these ladies were
with him when he died, Mrs. Calhoun
going from Lansing, Mich, where she
is state librarian, and Mrs. Custer from
her home in New York. When the two
lived temporarily here in Detroit Fa-
ther Custer used to come to visit them,
and it was amusing and pathetic to see
the interesting trio engaged in the
amusements of an evening.
However much they smiled or talked
when their. attention was concen-
trated on what was around them, there
was always a sad p~reoccupation or a
feverish restlessness when the atten-
ton was withdrawn. Then it was that
those who knew bowed their heads and
felt the infinite pity of it--and looked
upon these as set apart and consecrated
through a national loss and sorrow.
But they could be very jolly, too, at
times, and perplex staid, practical Fa-
Their Custer with their jokes at his ex-
pense, and even make merry over occa-
sional "reminiscences of greater jokes
perpetrated by "Artie," their pet name
for the general.
1t is not generally known that two
brothers of Gen. Custer were killed
with him. One only is mentioned par
ticularly, Tom, the younger brother.
The other one was Boston Custer. The
youthful Artie Reed was a grandson Of
Mrs. Custer by a former marriage. Bos
ton Custer and Artie Reed were not in
Gen. Clusters command, but were west
for a visit, and for their health, and &C
companied their gallant relative as
volunteers, having entire confidence il
his ability to engage safely in the con
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Why Named.

Trivial circumstances give names to
children. A gallant Irish soldier was
the father of TWO girls, named respec-
lively Jane and Phoebe.
Some one asked him why he had Sc
lected the latter name, and he replied:
"Well, sorr, we see our eldest was
born in January, SO we called her Jane;
and the other was born in February,
so we just called her Faybie."
The story would be better still If
there had been a third daughter, born
in March and named, of course, Marcia.
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Thibodaux Sentinel.
GERMAN NEWSPAPERS.
Everything Put in in the shape OF Ad-
vertisements.

Gv0EytAiuE uS LII Ah HI SAhpo u Au.
vertisements.
The newspapers here are largely sold
by women, and the small newsboy of
America is unknown in Berlin. Now
and then you see a man selling papers,
but the greater part of the circulation
of the journals is by subscription, and
women always deliver the papers.
There are many queer things about the
newspapers, and few of the Berlin jour
nails have large stats of reporters. The
local news is about the same in all pa
pers, and no one thinks of trying to
make a scoop, as it is called, or to have
the news in advance of his fellows.
The editors of the morning papers
leave their offices at nine o'clock, and
the papers are on press at eleven. By
twelve o'clock even the printers have
gone home. and when Gen. Won Moltke
died at eleven o'clock one night some
time ago there vas only one
Berlin newspaper that had a
line about it in its issue of
the next morning. The
ment of the death was published in
New York and elsewhere in full, but
the German newspapers right here at
home knew nothing about it. The
newspapers here publish items from
their contemporary journals which
they should have had themselves, say
ing that the other paper says so and so.
and there is no life in Berlin journal
ism. The papers have not a very large
circulation, and they do not make a
great deal of money. The biggest of
them sells something like one hundred
thousand copies, and this paper
makes one hundred and thirty-seven
thousand dollars a year and
thinks it does wonders. Men who
write for the papers are moderate
ly well paid, and editors-in-chief get
from four thousand dollars to five thou
sand dollars a year.
The Germans are good advertisers,
and there seems to be no reason why
the papers should not do better. Every
thing under the sun is put into the pa
pers in the shape of an advertisement.
And there is a great deal of social news
that we publish for nothing which is
put in here at so much per line. Engage
ments are generally announced in the
newspapers by the parents of the bride
and also by the groom, and there are a
large number of matrimonial advertise
ments, in which men and women state
their good qualities and ask for hus-
bands and wives. Sometimes men ad-
v~ertise, stating they have a daughter
whom they wish to get rid of, and in
one year there were four hundred ad.
vertisements in one paper of persons
seeking better halves. Marriages are
also published in the same way, and
there is a fixed rate for births and
deaths. The Germans are very proud
of having children, and it is generally
expected that a son or a daughter viii
make his or her appearance in the
newspaper columns Immediately upor
its appearance in the world. There arr
always numbers of death notices, ant
the official advertisements of the city
amounts to something. Advertisement
of patent medicines have as much prom
inence in the Berlin newspapers as il
ours, and altogether the German is
very good advertiser. = Washington
Star.
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An industrious boy.

Clergyman-Laziness is the begin
ming Of all trouble, and it is your duty,
my good woman, to accustom your
children t o hard work from an early
age.
Parishoner-You're quite right, sir,
and so far as my little Johnny is con
cerned no one can say that he is lazy,
for he's kept busy all day fetching beer
for his father. -Fliegende Blaetter.
Glad of 1t.
"Say, where are you going?" said Mr..
McHarlem to his wife. She glared at
him as she snappishly replied: IF you
must know-though it's none of your
business-I'm going to spend the day
with the ~Thompsons yer on the east
side"
I'm so glad, dear. always did hate
those Thompson people,"
Eyes, l know you hate them. That's
my principal reason for liking them. l
love them for the enemies they have
made. Texas Siftings.
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A Sad Case.

"Poor man." exclaimed the warm
hearted woman of the house, impulsive-
ly. "What has reduced you to this pit
liable condition."
"Grief, ma'am," replied the hollow
eyed tourist, wiping the jelly and bread
crumbs from his mouth with his coat
sleeve and beginning on the pie. Grief!
l am the only man in Kansas that
wasn't mentioned for the senatorship,
ma'am."-Chicago Tribune.
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father of Gen. Custer" 1 remember
seeing him at the Cyclorama of the
Little Big Horn when it was here in
Detroit. That terribly real semblance
of the battle field had so overcome
ordinary spectators that they had
tainted from the effect. Yet this brave
old man regarded the scene of carnage
with a calm and stately courage that
was truly wonderful. While he sat and
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gamo Old story,

News Editor-Here's a dispatch from
Swamptown, saying a citizen was muir
dercd, and asking if we want particu-
lars.
Managing Editor-No. Just add that
the people are securing the country for
the murderers, and if caught they will
probably be lynched by the Infatuated
populace. That's all the particulars
there ever are in such cases.-N. Y.
Weekly.
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No Difference of Opinion.

Meddling Papa-Millicent, wish You
would show a little more encourage
ment to young Horricks when he comes
to see you. He is well off, he has no
bad habits and l consider him a perfect
ly square man.
Miss Milllcent with a feeble attempt
to suppress a yawn)-I suppose he is,
papa. I have often noticed that he is
very angular. Chicago Tribune.
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Neither.

Mrs. Graynes-James, do women ever
speculate in corn and such things?
Mr.. Graynes (of the Chicago board Of
trade)-Sometimes, through agents.
eff I was an operator, James-that's
what you call it, isn't it?-would l be
one or the other of those dreadful bulls
or bears?"
mo, my dear. You'd be a pudding"
Chicago Tribune.
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Men Couldn't Do 1t.

"You may talk all you like about
women being the weaker SEX" said
Mrs. Snipps. but the women of this
country did something last year that
men could never do"
"And that wasp" inquired Mr..
Snipps.
Lost 5O.o OO, 900 hairpins and wore the
wings of 5000, 900 birds on their hats"
IN. Y. Tribune.
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MORE COMPACT THAN COMFORT
ABLE.

Mrs. Hashouse-Taken the bed from
your room? Oh, no, sirl That desk is
your bed-the very one you slept in
last night. But, really, you would
never suspect it was a bed, would you?
New Lodger-No-o-o; not after sleep
ing in it.-Puck.
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GEN. CUSTER'S FATHER.
Memories Of the Venerable Parent
Of q Gallant Soldier.
He Was a Man of Strong Prejudices, But
Lovabie Just tho Same-Members of
tho Custer Family who Perished
With the General.
Especial Detroit (Mich.) letter.

Especial Detroit Mich Letter.I
The recent death of Emanuel Henry
Custer, father of Gen. George A. Custer,
the hero of the battle of the Little Big
Horn, brings wildly to the public mind
the conspicuous events of hat mem
orable year 1876. Father Custer, as he
was Familiarity called by his townspeo-
pie at Monroe, Mich, has been a figure
of interest for many years. 1t would
have been Bereavement enough to have
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Glad of 1t.
Following Papa's Example.

Darling, don't you think little
Johnny resembles you more and more
every day?"
do you think so, dearest?"
Eyes, love. If you notice you will
find that he always wants the best in
the house, and that he never does as
you want him to, and that he is con
tinually overeating, and yesterday he
kissed the servant"
THAT will do. buffalo
News.
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Masculine MANAGEMENT.

Little Dick-Go ask If we
can nave these crusts she was goin' to
throw away.
Little Dot don't want crusts.
Little Dick-Neither do |, but if we
ask her for 'em she'll give us a big piece
of ginger cake.-Good News.
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81 made ten dollars this morning.
pa"
That's right. my son. I'm glad to
see that you recognize the ~advisability
of being independent of parental assist
ance. How did you make it, my boy?"
Borrowed it from ma."-Truth.
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4 SANDER

Priscilla-They say that Clara's hair
is not her own.
P~runella-Do they? What a shame!
Why, she showedm me a receipted bill for
it the other day.-Truth.
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Indicative of Infinite Trouble.

"Woman is a creature of moods" said
young Spooner as he toyed with a note
he had just received from the girl to
whom he was engaged.
"You are right" replied Peck; land
after you are married you'll find that it
is usually the imperative mood."-Bos-
ton Globe.
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Giving Them Their Rights.

81 notice in the paper" said Mrs.
Barracks, pouring out Mr.. Barracks
coffee, "that a clergyman says the
women should be permitted to whistle"
EYES," retorted Mr.. Barracks, agree
ably. "He is right. We should surely
not deny to women a privilege we 70
cord to tugboats and locomotives."-
Boston Globe.
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A Painful Operation.

Observation-Disclosures the matter, old
man? You look shaky.
Singerly-I am. | just had an inter
view with my dentist.
Strawber-What did he do-extract q
tooth?
Singerly-Worse than that. He ex-
tracted twenty dollars.-Life.
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Smart as His Patient,

Old Doctor-You look quite well to-
day. Did you take the pills / left for
you?
Young Knowitall (triumphantly)-
Not one of EN-.
Old Doctor-Wcll, it doesn't matter.
They We're made of bread.-Good News.
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Evidence Enough

Stetson-I should like to know what
woman it was that wrote this anony-
nous letter.
Judson-That letter was never writ
ten by a woman.
Stetson-How do you know?
Judson-There is no postscript.-N.
Y. Herald.
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Rivers Ide-I see some fellow gave a
cool ten thousand for the first Column
bian half dollar.
Epson Downes-Well, he must have
wanted half a dollar worse than l do
Puck.
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No Secondhand Goods for Her.

Jeweler-Would you prefer red gold,
bright gold or old gold?
Mrs. Newrich-New gold, of course.
You don't suppose | want other peoples
leavin's, do ye?-Jeweler's Weekly.
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Bazaar.

Mrs. St. Clue Visiting her son at Har-
vard)-Who is that coarse, horrible
looking female over your mantel?
Mr.. st. Clue, Jr.-Oh, that's a little
thing Grandma Niles sent me. | be-
lieve she said it vas you when you
were a little girl.-Judge.
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Her Brother Testifies.

Mr.. Nicefello (playfully) What
makes your ears so big?
Small Terror Sis pulls 'em like
everything every time l tell on 'er.-
Good News.
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How She Heard of Him.

She-Miss Barker says she heard lots
about you.
Mr.. Sappy-I'm charmed to know it,
Miss Maury.
Eyes; she says she met you once
Jury.
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Where He Missed 1t.

Customer (glaring at him)-I find q
piece of ham in this apple pie.
Clerk lat lunch counter, loftily)-Yes,
sir. If you wish something that hasn't
got any ham in it, sir, can recommend
our ham sandwiches, sir.-Chicago
rihnne
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The Cut

"For years he was well known to me-"
So the physician sadly said,
"But now, called to his autopsy,
lam obliged to cut him dead"
-BrOoklyn Life.
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Not a Matter for Pity.

"See that poor nan on the sidewalk
there? Well, the results of all his work
for two weeks have been destroyed by
fire."
"Too bad"
"Net a bit. He is a kindling splitter"
Chicago News Record.
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No Half Way Station.

IU IINkA VIZ Dt"eHOHs
Vice is a real toboggan slide;
It's easy at the top,
But, venture on q little ride.
You're very. very apt to glide
Clear to the foot ''kcrflop."
Nixon Waterman, in Chicago Mail