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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17

A writer in the Washington star
gives his experience IN the coal mines
during the strike. He saws: The two
day | spent in the Hooking valley
Taught me a lesson IN regard 10 the
miners being thoroughly reckless
There was a coal train coming up the
valley, the engineer, fireman and train
men being known TO every one of the
little band Of strikers that had collected
at a wooden bridge oven which the
train must pass. The trainmcn had not
received orders to quit and were gritty
and had determined TO put the train
through. Several miiitiamcn were on
the train and kept back the strikers.
About Il quarter Of a mile down the
line from the bridge the striker, halted
the train and tod the engineer that he
must not pull that train through. lie
said he would.
Come down, jim. sang out Que OF
the strikers. we know yOu too well 10
harm you. Come down, We have a
keg of powder on that bridge mp there
and when the boy zee You coming they
are going to light the fuse.
"'All right, replied the engineer.
I've promised to pull thi, train through,
and through She goes.
With those word, be opened the
throttle aud the train dashed on. The
strikers saw ne train coming and III
the fuse. he'd my breath in dismay,
waiting for the shock as the train
reached the bridge. On and over it
went and a the last ear cleared the
structure, bang! went the powder aud the
bridge was blown to atoms. The fuse
was about a quarter OF al inch too long"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
A slight ~'rnpedimcnt.

Macallister Mclihenny l-ved the girl
and wished to make her his. but some
Thing IN her manner stood him of.
She didn't encourage him at all and
what ne needed more than anything
else, except enough money to pay his
board bill, was encouragement. Wish
ing didn't bring il, though, and he
thought he would try strategy. What
he most dreaded was TO be led into a
flat proposal and be rejected, 50 he be-
gan to hedge and seek the point by de-
grees.
Its rather queer how a girl must
change her name when she marries,
amt it?" he ventured.
Yes, but not always unpleasant, she
responded smiling.
Don't YOU think it is?" be asked in a
burst OF hope.
"Of curse not. Why should it be?7
Il don't know; only some girls think
So
Il don't. On the contrary, Id rather
like it if | had the choosing of the
name"
This was rather vague, but Macal-
lister Mcllhenny was there for business.
What do you think Of mine for a
changer" be asked with a sudden ,purt.
She blushed furiously.
oh" she exclaimed, Il don't think |
should like to be called Mrs. Dennis
And Macallister McIlhenny did not
pursue his inquiries further. Detroit
Free Press.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
I'm His Wife's Name.

A story was told on the House side
relating to a certain Western banker
and politician whose name, for good
reasons, is not To be disclosed. This
man was prominent for some time By
reason OF the success with which he
dictated appointments in his vicinity
under the present administration. Re-
verses overlook him and he disappeared
AS a political factor. One day. a short
time ago, he met an old friend of the
Presbyterian faith on the street.
Hello. Brother Buster: how do you
fare?." said the good man.
Il am crushed by my reverses." said
the ex-politician in a querulous voice.
Everything is gone. All | have left,
Brother Billings, is my religion"
Brother Billings met an acquaintance
shortly after. and to him related the con-
versation he had had with the late
banker-politician.
He says all he has left related the
good man. us his religion"
His religion" exclaimed the other in
a one OF irreverence; "even that's in his
wife's name. y Washington Post.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
HOW BIKES ARE MADE.
The Process an Intricate and
C(Sdy One.
A BIG PLANT REQUIRED
Competition Among the Big Con-
Germs Causes Constant I'm
prOvements - How the
Machines are Tested.

There are several hundreds OF thou
SANDS OF bicycle riders in this country.
and a majority Of them have each paid
something close TO 500 for his or her
wheel, but not one in "A thousand or
them knows anything about the making
OF the wheel or the why and wherefore
VI It's costing so nue.
Just how the bicycle IL made Is a
mighty interesting question If the proc
ess can be seen I'm one OF the large
factories. where great care Is taken To
turn out only absolutely perfect
Machines.
There are l26 good-siZed wheel man
ufactOries I'm this country to-day, and
IL all the small concerns are considered
800 would about cover the total number.
The total number OF wheels turned out
during 1895 will O 10 100000. Al
an average cost OF SIS 10 the buyer, this
means s37, 500. 00O; figures which show
that the bicycle craze is a very sub
stant.al thing viewed in "A monetary
light. or course, this does not cover
the total expenditure Of the nation In
bicycling. There are a dozen or more
little articles like lamps. repair tools,
costumes n other etceteras which
W Juld swell the total to $780, 600, 600.
Besides making m.llionaires OF the
manufacturers. this sum supports an
industry which gives employment TO
thousands OF bread winners. The man
ufacturers are inclined to claim. how
ever, hat there Is no great money IN
the making OF wheels. and a tour of
their shops combined with their argu-
ments will almost make the novice be-
lieve hat they are telling the truth.
still the fact that the number OF tactu-
ries Is constantly growing. and all
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
NE WAS AN Il" CAR HOG.
hut tho Quiet Young Man Got Completely
square"

The ~ car hog is he who tries to
occupy. to the exclusion of anyone else,
one of the cross seats in the center Of
the car. lie utterly ignores the fact
that these seats are built for two" and
i a crusty, crowding neighbor TO any
one who has the audacity to sit beside
him. Regular patrons of the Il" roads
know this hog-thougs his name is al
most l~egion--and usually give him .
wide berth.
Last Wednesday, just as an uptown
train was leaving Twelfth street .
young MAJ entered one of the cars, He
sauntered through and found that the
only vacant place vas beside one Of
these typical hogs in a cross eat The
young man paused and looked at the
other man, but the hog sat squarely in
tie center of the seat and looked uncon-
cernedly out OF the window. So the
Young man. rather than take the crowd
ing which the hog would be sure to in
hict, passed through and stood On the
platform.
When the train stopped at Eighteenth
street the only passenger to get aboard
was i rather rusty-looking man who
certainly weighed over 800 pounds.
The young man was quick witted
enough to see his chance.
"Do you want to earn a half dollarP"
he demanded.
Sure"
"See that man in tho cross seattle
only one who is sitting aloneg"
Il see him."
well, take this half-dollar and then
90 and sit in the same seat with him.
Don't be afraid of crowding him."
The rusty-looking individual obeyed.
His more than 800 pounds of tissue
forced the glaring hog to the window.
He was crushed and squeezed by his
bulky neighbour. The hog began to
fume, fuss and frown, but said never q
word, though he was now able to oc-
cupy but a quarter of the seat. The
other passengers were quick to note
the discontinue of the hog and grinned
their appreciation. The hog perceived
this and fumed some more. The only
who appeared utterly unconscious
was the rusty-looking man who weighed
over 500.
But the IL" car hog never admits de-
feat. This specimen didn't. He stuck
10 his now narrow perch W. after
theirs were other seats empty and SO did
the fat man. They rode to Forty-third
street together. and it was y very bad
half hour for the hog.
The young man who had instigated
1t all got of at Thirty-ninth street and
n seraphic smile was on his face. ChS
cage Times.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
Saw Dogs.

The breakdown of Lord Randolph
Churchill is probably no surprise to
those who saw him when he vas last in
this city. He was in Il condition Ut
semi-stupefaction from the use Of NOR
phine all the time that any one was al
lowed to see him.
He was, it is understood. apt In this
state partly from his Owl craving for
the toxi-nervine, or partly to keep him
from performing the act which we. in
our rude American way, "call giving
yourself away"
In the middle OF Is conversation. in
which he had been with real and rare
good sense ~expounding the political
and industrial needs OF South Africa.
where he had been on a tour. he sud.
denly said:
So that dog! Take him ont. the
beast"
The dog was a figure on a rug in HE
hotel BEDROOM IN Y. Press
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
BLIND LOVE
wILKIE COLLINS.

WlLhlE COLitNb-
To this Mountjoy answered that the one
hope-a faint hope, he must needs confess
of inducing Lord Harry to reconsider
his desperate purpose lay In the influence
Of Iris herself. She must address u letter
to him announcing hat his secret had
been betrayed by his own language and
conduct, and declaring that she would
never see him again, or hold any com
munication with him, IL he persisted In
was the desperate experiment which
Mountjoy's generous aud unselish deyo-
ton TO Iris now proposed TO try.
The servant duly intrusted with Miss
Henley's letter. was placed on the watch
and the event which had been regarded
rs little better than n forlorn hope proved
20 be the event that really took place.
Lord Harry was a passenger on the steam
ship.
Mountjoy's man presented the letter In
trusted to him, and asked respectfully n
there was any answer. The wild lord read
it-looked Ito use the messengers w
Words like a man cut to the heart-seemed
at a loss what to say or dO-and only gave
n verbal answer Fl sincerely thank Miss
Henley, aud | promise to write when the
ship touches at Madeira" The servant
continued to watch him when he went on
board the steamer; saw him cast a look
backward, as IL suspecting that he might
have been followed: aud then lost sight OF
him In the cabin. The vessel sailed after
a long interval Of delay. but he never re-
appeared on the deck.
The ambiguous message sent To her
aroused the resentmento OF Iris; she thought
it cruel. For some weeks perhaps 10
come, she was condemned TO remain ia
doubt, and was left to endure the trial OF
her patience without having MountJoy AT
hand To encourage and console her. lie
had been called away to the South ot
France by the illness Of his father.
But the fortunes OF Miss Henley, at this
period of her life, had their brighter side,
She found reason To congratulate herself
on the reconciliation which had brought
her back to her father. Mr.. Henley had
received her. not perhaps with afealon,
but certainly with Kindness. IF we 3 'h't
get in each Others way we shall do Ary
well: | am glad to see you again" That
was all he had said TO her, but it meant
much from a soured aud selfish man.
Her only domestic anxiety WAS caused
by another failure In the health OF her
maid
The doctor declared that medical help
would be OF no avail while Rhodu Bonnet
remained In London. In the country she
had been born and bred. and 10 the coun.
try she must return. Mr.. Henley's large
landed property, on the north OF London,
happened to include a farm in the neigh
borhood of Muswell Hill. Wisely waiting
for a favorable opportunity, IRIS alluded
to the good qualities which had made
Rhoda almost as much her friend "a her
servant, and asked leave to remove the in.
valid TO the healthy air of the farm.
Hell anxiety about the recovery Of a
servant 50 astonished Mr.. Henley that he
was hurried las he afterwards deciared)
into granting his daughters request. At
ter the concession, the necessary arrange
ments were easily made. The influence OF
Iris won the good will OF the farmer aud
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
Highest Of all in Leavenhng Power Latest U. S. Govt Report
R@!Aa!!! RRs ataRs
ABSOLUTELY pURE
la Autumn

Low in the valley the wreathins mist
Tells its tale Of the year grown old:
a slantlDg beam on the hill mas kissed
Inc beecheS russell, the bIrches' gold:
AS ] stand and gaze from the faded grass
Op 10 thc faint October blue,
Line above line the wild fowl pass.
NlHEing westward from me u you.
Lacy mine. b. il fault Of mine.
or deed Of yours that We stand asuuder2
faEc.iul CnanCe. or high Design
derP
Pity perhaps. for a life forlorn-
Fortune Of war as a queen bewails.
ANA ever so little a shade OF SCOrH-
a wUnIau's scorn for the man who fails.
Lady mine, 10 your wind-swept home
Ice from the north. and balm from the
west
Let never a blast Of memory come
To cover thc smooth OF your perfect
breast,
Never a flying shadow Of blame.
The fearless breadth OF your brow shall
cross.
Say that we played a summers game
Mine the biunder. and mine the loss.
Perhaps at your yes" / tried TO snatch
Too soon for the pride that your spirit
owns.
Perhaps my ear was too dull TO catch
Your characters subtlest semitoues
But hsten-be light or heavy the load,
summer or winter. early or late.
/ shall watch your footsteps down the
road:
TIN you turn ana beckon. | stand and
walt.
Lord H~oughton.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17

give me thy dreams" she said-and I.
With empty hands and very poor.
Watched my fair iOwerE visions die
Upon the temples marble floor.
give JOY" she cried. ! let JOY go,
! saw with cold unciouded eyes
The crimson Of the sunset glow
Across the d,scuchantsd skies.
Give me- thy youth, she said. / gave
And. sudden cioudrd, died the sun.
And on the green mound OF q gray"
Fell the slow raindrOIS. one by one.
GIVE love" she cried-I gave that TOO.
Give beauty Bcaut. sighed and He'd,
For what, on earth. should beauty 10
When love. who was her life, was dead
She took the balm Of Innocent tears
To kiss upon her altar-cOal-
She took the hopes Of all my years.
And at the last she took my soul.
With heart made empty Of delight.
And hands that held no more fair things.
/ questioned her. What shall reql!te
Tn SAVIOR OF my offerings
This gods, she said, with generous hand
Give gucrdon for thy gifts Of cost,
Wisdom is thine 20 understand
The worth II all that thou hast lost.
-. NrSoit.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17

/ nave touched on a subject which Is dis
agreeable to your
You have touched on one Of my disap-
pointments, miss. While my mother lived
She was my teacher. After her death my
father sent me To school. When he failed
IN business ! was Obliged 10 leave, Just ~
! had begnn To learn and like IL. Besides
the girls found out that / was going away
because there was no none at lone TO
pay the fees-and that mortified me.
There il more hat ! might tell you. |
have a reason for hating nv recollections
Of the schooi-but | mustn't mention that
time in my life which your goodness to me
tries To forget"
All that appealed to her. so simply and
80 modestly, ia that reply, was not lost
on Iris. After an interval " silence, she
said:
Can YOU guess what | am thinking Of,
Fanny"
NO, miss"
"a am asking myself a question. II /
try you in my service shall / never regret
it,"
For the first time strong emotion shook
FdoDy Mere. Her voice failed her in
the effort 10 speak. Iris considerably
went on.
You viii take the place" she said, "o,
a maid who has been with me for years
"a good, dear creature who has only left
me through III health. | must not expect
too much of YOU; ! cannot hope that YOU
VIM be To me what RhOda Bonnet has
been"
Fanny succeeded in controlling herself.
"ls there any hope She asked, ''Of my
seeing RhOda Bennett
why dO you wish to see hergn
You are fond Of her, Miss that 10 one
reason
And the u~tnere'
"Rhoda Bennett might help me To serve
you ~ ! want to serve YOU: She might per
maps encourage me 10 try il ! could follow
her example. Fanny paused. and clasped
her hands feryentlv. The thought that
was IN her forced its way to expression.
III ; 80 easy 10 feel grateful she said
and, Oh, 50 hari to show itr'
Come 10 me" her new mistress an
swered, and show il t)-rs1rr W"
Moved by that compass donate impulse.
Iris said the words which restored TO AZ
unfortunate creature "a lost character and
d forfeited f,'ac" in the wnrid.
CTo be coutinuedl
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
\ story 81 Great Growth

New York sun.
Practically every department Of trade
in New York which has rowu 10 great
activity has been fOstered. first of all.
by Advertising Merchants not many
years ago unknown beyond "A narrow
neighborhopd have by this means
pushed their names and their business
into a distinction which extends
throughout the union, and even
throughout the world. Little shops
with a petty trade have developed rap
idly into great bazars under the stimu-
lus Of advertising.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
New England Rum.

Boston can very well do without the
reputation OF having originated the
manufacture of rum. but there has been
a time in New England histoay when
rum had n better reputation rs q bev-
srage than Is now accorded II.
The early New England clergy re-
rarded it as a reviver aud strengthener
IN festive occasions when made into the
prm OF Hip aud teddy. DR.. Holmes.
NTH this recollection in mind. cele-
Lrated its virtues in his lines to q punch
howl. The late Judge Thompson. who
was a wit. convulscd the members Of
The Massachusetts, legislature in a Of
his speeches on the temperance ques-
ton by declaring that the heroic age Of
New England was the time when rum
was sold at . cents u glass. Bodies
Herald.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
CHATTER xly-rHE L,nY,s NArn.

II was not easy to form "A positive Opin-
Ion Of the young woman who now pre-.
scented herself IN Miss Heuiev's room.
II the Turkish taste is t!uly reported ~
valuing beauty i'm the female figure more
than beauty in the female face. Fanny
Mere's personal appearance might have
found, in ConstGntinopie, the approval
which she failei 90 receive in London.
Slim aud well-balauced, firmly and neatly
made, she interested men who met wijl
her by accident (tud sometimes even WOE
mem, if they happened Go De walking ba.
hind her. When they quicacneJ Their
steps and. passing on, looked back al her
face, they lost all interest IN Fanny from
that moment. Painters would have de-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
A Sufficient Causo
The gentleman from Boston had cor

The gentleman from Boston had gone
to Kansas to grow up with the country,
but somehow he left there quite sud-
denly. A Kansan In st. Louis was talk
ing to a man there about the Boston,
ian's departures: I'VE run him clean
out of the state said the Kausan.
"What was that forp' I'VE had good
reason 10. He ought to be thankful we
didn't hang him." "What did he doP"
well. we had one Of the biggest cy-
clones of the season Just after he came.
aud he spoke OF ii as the 'wynd."-
Detr0.i Free Press.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
Wheat, AZ Bushels: Rye. go Busbe,u

Those are good yields, but a lot OF
farmers have had them this year. You
"A have them in 1896 by sowing Sal
wheat, monster rye and grasses. Sow
now. John A. Salzer Seed Co, La
Crosse, Wis, send catalogue and sam
pies Of above free. if you send this no
tice TO them. G.. y. L.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
A CHASTITY Spectre

Disease is ever, but In no form is II more
TO be dreaded than in hat of the for
midable maladies which attack the kid
neys and bladder. Bright's disease. dia-
betes and gravel may alike be prevent
ed. II inactivity OF the kidneys is recti-
fled I'm time with Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, sovereign also in cases OF rheu-
matism. dyspepsia. constipation. ma
iaria, biliousness and
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
The Old and the New.

Tho Old and the New.
In lays OF old when knights were bowled,
As bowled they often got,
How jollied they the ladies fair
To think that they were not.
Bethink you of the loaded knight,
How manfully he strove.
Since In his time there had not been
discover yet the Glove.
Detroit Tribune.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
'ston Evening Transcript.

Boston Evening Transcript.
The Remington horses and the Gibson
girls are very persistent types. and both
are d little overworked In current IL
Illustration. III the Gibson girl would
gallop away on a Remington horse for
a good long vacation II would be restful
10 everybody concerned. They would
be welcomed back afterward with re-
newed pleasure.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17

Writing recently about advertising John
Wanamaker, the millionaire merchant,
said: II do the heaviest advertising In duh
times. Then lis when people look most
keeniy for bargains. are anxious 10 know
how much things cost and when they can
save money. j advertise particular things.
my announcements az l do with my stock.
One big dinner Won't keep the reputation
OF the house. but steady. good cooking
does IL. ] never permit interest In my an
nouncements to lag. and never miss an is
sue In my chosen publications. Adyertis-
ing has made my store one OF the largest
in the country"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17
Msry's Little Ring.

Mary had a little ring,
Twas given by her beau.
And everywhere that Mary went
That ring was sure TO 40.
She tool the ring with her one day
on to the seashore, where
She might display IL TO the girls.
Who were all clustered there.
And when the girls all saw hal ring
They made n great ado,
Enchanting with one voice. Has IT
Just got around TO your"
Tom Mason I'm Life.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17

FAIR SAILING through life for the person
who keeps in health. With a torpid liver
and the impure blood that follows it, you
are All easy prey 10 all sorts of ailments.
That 3" used up " feeling is the first warning
that your liver isn't doing its work.
That Is the time to take DR.. Pierce's Gold
ell Medical Discovery. As an appetiziug,
restorative tonic, TO repel disease and build
up the needed flesh and strength, there's
nothing 10 equal il. II rouses every organ
into healthful action, purihes and enriches
the blood. braces up the whole system. and
restores health aud vigor.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17

The sprocket wheels are first cut In
circular form out OF sheets of steel,
and then piled up in heaps OF a dozen
each. Another machine handles n OF
these heaps at a time, and IL only
takes "A few seconds for It's sharp teeth
10 make the notches ON which the pro-
pelling-chain works.
THE ASSEMBLY-ROOM.
When each part Of a machine a been
finished il usually passes irto the pol
ishing and nickel departments, and
from there to the general assembly
room. Here they are put together by
experienced men. and from this room
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17

Effectually yet gently. when cOstive or
bilious. or when the blood is impure or
sluggish. 20 permanently cure habitual
constipation. - awaken the kidneys and
liver 20 a healthy activity. without irri-
tating or weakening them. 10 dispel
headaches, colds or fevers use Syrup Of
Figs.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-17

Beecham's pills are for bill.
iousness, sick headache, dig.
xiness, dyspepsia, bad taste
in the mouth, heartburn, tor.
pid liver, foul breath. sallow
skin, coated tongue, pimples,
loss of appetite. ETC., when
caused by constipation: and
constipation is the most fire.
quent cause of all Of them.
One Of the most important things for
everybody TO learn is that constipation
causes more than half the sickness in the
world, especially OF women; and it can ell
be prevented. Go by tde book free at your
druggist ,or write B. .AllenCo. ,365Canal
st.. New York. Pills, Ioe aud 2se a box.
Annual sales more than $40 600 boxes.