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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

he British army officials ave had
an electric light plant installed at the
practice and testing grounds at Lydd,
"BRS Sthe nprpasTs sc w9Eetg~u IN r. ssS fgarcf IN
night. This will. of course. afford an
ideal practice.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

Servant Girl latter an interesting event.
10 distracted professor)-If you please. cir,
9 little boy has arrived.
Professor-Well. ask him his business,
or he can take a eeat ard wait.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

Daniel WebS.er's lonE-misslng maiden
speech in congress, delivered IN 1919. has
been discovered by w. G. Bates of the
Massachusetts Historic Genealogical SO
ciety.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

The dental faculty Of Ann Arbor uni
versity has forbidden the students to
play base ball for fear Of injury 70 their
hands.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

PITs.-Ail Fits stopped free by Or. kilns's Great
serys Hesiorer. NJ Fits alter tbs frat dsy'suse. Mar
yelous cures. Treatise and 500 trial bottle free 70
FiI cases. Send 70 Dr. Kline. s3I Arch ST., Ph!ls Pa.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

The manage Of a strolling company was
requested by a big-wig OF a certain town 20
play Henry VIII" Alasl It was not In
the company's repertory; but rather than
.dissppolnt his patron. he offered. without
4 moments hesitation. to give Henry w."
twice over.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

The worst cases OF incompatibility %
temper occur when both parties have the
lame kind OF temper aud plenty OF H.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

Piso's Cure for Consumption is our
only medicine for coughs and colds
Mrs. C. Beltz, 439 sth ave, Denver. Col,
NOV. s, '95.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

From the Somervilie Journal.
There is a girl In Cambridge who has been
engaged so many times that she lets her little
sister use her rings Tor the curtains In her
coll house.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

"one good thing u.s." laughed young
Racket, i've got a cork leg, so I shall
never be drownAd!'
mo: but a cork leg won prevent you
from being hanged" growled a bystander.
"Wha; you want Ia A ~oastiron neck"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30
QUAY's MANY FfGHTs.


IL would require many columns 10 de-
scribe all OF the political defeats OF the
q. o. p. In New York State under Platt's
leadership. Whether sme Of them could
have been averted IL would be unkind 10
say. Matt Quay hcd much the same ex-
p%erience in Pennsylvania that his present
companion In arms has had In New York.
Senator Quay has been very unfortunate
In picking out Presidential winners. In
1873 he fought the Blaine boom in Penn
sylvania In the Interest OF Governor Hart
ranft- and in the end compromised with
the Hayes delegates. Four years later he
and bis followers stuck together and formed
q part or the famous SOC who cast a
straight ballot thiri six times for Grant.
In 1884 Quay did not go TO the convention.
II was almost a sure thing that Blaine
would be nominated. and even he elias
ticity OF politics would hardly allow him
10 come out in favor OF Blaine. aztec he had
fought him at the two previous conyen-
tons. Moreover. the Pennsylvania dele
cation were strong for the Plumed Knight.
and Quay could hardly have forced q change
II he bad so willed.
In 1888 Quay espoused the cause Of John
Sherman with indefa,iaabie energy, and In
1892 lie came out nstfooted In his support
Of Blaine. his heretofore antagonist. When
II waa demonstrated that Blaine could not
be forced through. Senator Quay Joined the
combination which tried to stampede the
convention for Mckinley.
But 1t is not to be inferred from this
that Senator Quay is anything but an
astute politician OF the heaviest callber.
And. like Tom Plat. II he cannot win him
self he has the ability TO keep his par
ticular enemies from winning. The ex-
perlences OF GARRISON. Of Iowa. and Manley,
OF Maine. are somewhat akin to those OF
Plat and Quay. and as they are all intrepid
lighters. with many years OF experience
behind them. their admirers expect TO see
q tremendous fight put Up.
To those men who have no vital interest
in the success or failure OF any OF The
leaders. and who are free from anxiety. the
approaching convention Will seem like a
great chess board, with the master minds
In politics the players.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

Mother-I believe, Charley, you havs
been at that Jam In the pantry.
Boy-I should think, madam. that q
eeven years acquaintance with me should
protect me from such unworthy insinu-
atoms.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30
A LITTLE WHILE,

A little while a little love
The hour yet bears for thee and me
Who have not drawn the veil TO see
~ still our heaven be III above.
Thou merely, at the days last Sigh.
Hast felt thy soul proloEg the tons:
And | have heard the ~nightwind cry
And deem'd it, speech mine own.
A little while a little love
The scattering autumn boards for Us
Whose bower Is not yet ruinous
Nor quite unleay'd our songless grove.
Only across the shaken boughs
We hear the food tides seek the sea
And deep In both our hearts they rouse
One wall for thee and me.
A little while a little ieve
May yet be ours who ne -c not said
The word II make our eyes afraid
To know that each Is thinking Of.
Nor yet the end be our lips dumb
In smiles q little season yet:
I'll tell thee. when the end Is come.
How We may best forget.
Dante Gabriel RossettL
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

A pension bu before consress gives
s12 a month to a man whose disability
was caused by o~verhnating himself at
the battle ~ Bull Run.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

rs the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. ef.
Prepared only by c. I. Hood e. Co., Lowell. Mass.
Hoods DiItc are easy 10 take. easy 10
sioOu . iiio operate, 25 cents.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

, Tho appeal system in California Is
such that II the prosecution in the Dur
rant case shall win every point In ap-
peal, the defendant cannot be hanged
before November or December.
yunk Philosopher. IAN time knowSmany
secrets"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30

A quarter spent In HIRES
Rootbeer does you dollars
worth Of good.
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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-30
AFRAID OF THE FAIR.

He asserted that II New York city bad
that vast sum OF money 10 spend. with
Tammepy Hall In complete control OF the
local ofices. here would not be one chance
In a hundred OF the State going Repub-
lcan In 1892. This made even Depew and
the other Republican leaders storm and
rave. They Acknowledged II was politics.
but Il was politics at the price OF patriotism.
New York was then regarded as the pivotal
State. and Piatt was firm. He was threat
sned with political extinction, but the
threats had no effect. He held up the bill.
and the Chicago boomers made such good
nse. OF Il that they got lhe far. X Blame
~ff6srrrnsfaf sffugxrs~ f9r n Ne~ fotE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15
NO FORMAL NOTIFICATION.

An eastern paper calls attention to
the fact that there is no provision of
law for notifying a president-ele Of
his having been chosen for the high
office No official information reaches
him until he arrives at the capitol and
meets the committee appointed to ar
range the inauguration ceremonies. 1t
points out that there is no other office
within the gift of the people for which
a form of notification is not provided.
If man is elected constable, he re-
ceives a certificate setting forth the
fact A councilman, a sheriff. menu
Der of the legislature, a governor or a
senator is notified officially of his Sc
lection, but knowledge of a mans cleo
ton to the presidency come to him only
through common report. If he has
friends at the capital they can notify
him, or if he reads the newspapers he
can learn through them of what has
transpired. AS candidates are very
likely to have friends ON the scene and
as they are generally readers of public
prints, it is not likely that any presi-
dent-elect will ever fail to appear for
inauguration through lack of knowl
edge of the honor that may have fall
len upon him.
Senator Edmunds drafted the pres
ent law governing the canvassing of the
electoral vote. When he was asked
how the president-elect was to be no.
titled, he replied: by reading the
newspapers" He may have intended
in that way to dismiss an oversight,
but, on the other hand. ne may have
taken the view that the fact of an
election of president was such an i'm
portant event that it was in and of
itself notification to all the world 1t
is possible-and it would certainly be
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15
CULTIVATION OF TASTE.

There are civilizations that are older
than ours. We have been inclined to
look down upon them but as We pro-
gress we make record that constitutes
a continuing admissions that we have
much to learn from those who We're a
civilized, cultivated people while our
ancestors were yet roaming as sava ges
through the German forests. We
thought we had risen to the highest
pinnacles of art, but our artists are
discovering that their highest flights Of
knowledge reach only as far as Japan
csc first principles; we thought we had
perfected music, but there are those
who hold that the music of the Chinese
is as far in advance of ours as ours is
in advance of that of the Ethiopian;
we Thought we had scaled the utter
most heights of philosophy. but our
philosophers find themselves like child
rem when they sit at the feet of Hindoo
scholarship.
And we Thought we appreciated the
beauties of nature, but we find that tbs
Japanese have far outsur:pped us in
this particular. To display the lowell
ness of flowers, we heap them in masses
upon our parlor tables, where they pre-
sent simply a conglomeration of forms
and colors; but Japanese florist, with
a single blossom and a single spray of
foliage, gives an entertainment which
hundreds crowd about him upon the
street to enjoy. We mistake profusion
for beauty; the japanese in mis- i'm
promptu street exhibition, brings out
what may be termed the soul of the
flower.
Our people have learned much of the
art Of floral decoration from the in
habitantS of THE island kingdom, who
have cultivated it for centuries; and
we unconsciously admit their superb
! GRITTY of culture by the manner in
which we initiate or follow them. An
Illustration is furnished by the grow
ing popularity of the chrysan-
themurn That is the national flower
Of Japan. Those people discovered its
beauties centuries before the most
aesthetic of our race thought of raw
ing over it, Our cllrysa rrtfiemum exhi-
billions are admissions of the superior
| fty of Japanese taste. That we are
whiting 10 admit 1T as we pay homage
to the glories of the great autumn
flower. thus showing appreciation both
of its beauty and of the sentiment THAT
it suggests as iit braves the approaching
frost on the threshold of winter shows
that we are undergoing cultivation of
taste and that future generations will
derive more real enjoyment from the
beauties Of Tie floral world than their
ancestors ever experienced.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15

has done in that field of industry she
has done in some measure in all others.
Our labor is rendered more efficient by
our improved implements, and we turn
out more goods with the same amount
of work than can our foreign Compel
itors, while, in many lines, our produc-
is much superior.
We have a school of political econ
omists who assume that the labor cost
of American goods is higher than that
of the foreign article, and they there
fore demand a protective tariff osten-
sibly to prevent the cheaper foreign
labor from coming into competition
with ours on equal terms. The fact is
that our rates OF wages are protected
by the greater efficiency of our labor,
while the protective tariff, being APP
piled so generally to raw materials as
well as to finished products, prevents
us from getting into foreign markets
with the full measure of advantage
that our superiority, both as to labor
and as to appliances, should secure
to US.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15
OPERATIONS IN CUBA.

Throughout the war in Cuba the adj
the side of the insurgents. The Span
iards, however, have always claimed a
victory in every engagement. Recent
ly Weyler, under orders from the home
government, inaugurated a somewhat
vigorous movement against the Gu
bans. In a few days the dispatches
from Havana announced a series of
victories in which the rebels were
routed with great loss. 1t is not sur
prising, though, to find, from dis
patches that come over a more cir
cuitous route to avoid the censor that
Weyler's columns were routed in the
battles reported.
A dispatch published yesterday
morning stated that the defeat of the
Spaniards had caused great excitement
in Havana, and that the Spanish peo-
pie of the city were protesting to the
home government against the reten-
ton of Weyler in command.
If that is the state of affairs there,
the government will not be able TO con-
tinue the struggle much longer 1t
cannot hope to accomplish anything
by another change of commanders;
such a move would be merely an adj
mission of impotency.
Nor can the Spanish government or
its commander on the island hope to
ward off final defeat by publishing false
bulletins respecting engagements. The
truth always comes out and the world
gets TO know what the result of any
movement has been. The Spanish
stories about victories have been so
often disproved that it is astounding
that such policy should ebe continued.
1t serves to show in what desperate
straits the Spaniards find themselves.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15

appropriate-that he and those asso-
ciated with him felt that the import
ance of the Office should establish a
distinction between it and all others.
They may have proceeded upon the
assumption that the presidency was
like the sun-that all eyes were turned
upon it and that every change was to
be observed at once in every nook and
corner of the land. If they had any
such idea, it was q conceit worthy of
the subject; and the people, we think,
would rather have the arrangement
left as it is. since it reflects a senti-
n1ent respecting the exalted character
of the office that should not be marred
by any innovation tending to place it
upon the common level of Official posi-
lions.
The great office changes by the oper-
alton of forces that are like these laws
of nature which bring us the sun
beaming over the eastern hills in the
morning and send it TO rest amid the
g9oriess Of gilded clouds at evening.
Without any formal notification, Mr..
Mckinley will appear in Washington
at the proper time. He and the presi-
dent will exchange calls, and on the
morning of the 4th of March the exc
cutive carriage will draw up in front
of the door of his hotel to conduct him
TO the capitol. There the ceremonies
will take place in their appointed or
der, and a new cycle of the presidency
will have been 'inaugurated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15
.Is OUR EDJCATToS A FAILuRErv

The New York Tribune in recent
Issue discusses the question at length,
ana very sober1y AMI senslbly. 1t very
properly says Ghas ''if collegiate and
other education fail Ct b5neficence il
is not because IT IS education, but be-
cause .. is rcs the rls[at kind OF edu-
cation. If the scholar in politics be a
failure, it IS because he is merely a
scholar in politics ag7d not scAogar
of politics; because, that is to say, his
eduoaticn is deficient in respect to the
one thing ne is trying to practice. So
would the scholar be a failure in law,
medicine. science, ard what rot, if his
scholarship failed to comprise the very
thing ne was engaged in. 1t is not true
that liberal education spoilis farmers
son foF betng a farmer
That is ali true, and the Tribune's
conclusion that .'our education is not
failure" is the proper one. 1t is wrong
to say that 1t is a failure. No doubt
many have a wrong conception as to
wllal5 education should do for a man.
It's primary aim should be to draw out
and develop the mind; to teach men
how 10 think, not what TO think. Herein
Hes a common source of error with
many. If education does not produce
a certain result or lead men to adoptt
a certain course OF conduct, our edu-
cation is said, by those who hold nar-
row views of it, to be a failure. If it
is desired 10 secure uniformity of
thought and action among the people,
this can be better and more easily Sc
cured by keeping them in ignorance
and having tine acceptance of autrlOr-
ity take the pace of investigation.
The American people are justly proud
of their system of common schools, and
are rather inclined not to brook any
criticism of it. Undoubtedly the idea
has spread to some extent among the
people that cur common school system
OF education is a panacea, for all our
IT'S. Herbert Spencer noticed this and
very properly denied that 1T was such
a Danacea No system cf education
can relieve any people of Che problems
that all peoples have to meet and solve.
1t merely helps them to better compre-
bend and solve the problems; nothing
more.
Education is a failure whenever it in
culcates the idea that 1t is an end in
itself and not a. means to an end. This
idea is the cause of the failure in Life
of many a college-br man.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15
AMERICAN SUPERIORITY.

American bicycles have been gaining
a strong foothold in all European
cities The superiority Of the machine
made in this country has been recog
nized everywhere. In Berlin the
fashionable set took up the Amer
lean wheel and made it so
popular that great agitation
was started among German manufac-
turers in favor of a prohibitive duty.
Now it is reported that ascendancy OF
American makes of wheels in England
is giving concern there. One manufac
turer is quoted as saying: In auto
matte machinery America is immeas-
urably ahead of us. All the best Eng
lish makers are now buying American
machinery. Our English tool-makers
and machinists ought to be ashamed
of themselves. While we have been
vainly trying to. get additional labor
to meet the demand, the Americans
have been making machinery
The Englishman's remarks have
significance beyond their application ID
the wheel business. What America
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15
THE BoGUs DIAMOND.

Delilah Jones was passing fair.
Her form divine, her voice sonS,
Like molten sunbeams was her hair.
Her list of virtues very long
But gems have flaws. and I've been
told
Delilah was too fond of gold.
handsome clerk was Clement Leigh.
HIS salary and he were slim,
He loved Delilah Jones, and she
Was really very fond of him.
So when he urged that-they be wed,
A tender yes" was what she said.
AS he was poor he bought a ring
Whose diamond was made of paste
A gorgeously prismatic thing:
She warmly praised his rare good
taste
when am rlch,' he thought, "I'n
gem ana have her ring reset
Next morn the sun shone on the stone.
Like spIintered rainbows it became.
''To think it's all my very ownl
It's ike muit3colored flame.
1t must have cost heap of mum.
I'll ask a jeweHer, for fun"
She took it down to Maiden lane.
And asked a jeweller its worth.
He answered her IN merry vein
Gle seemed to think ii cause for mirth)
''If seven dollars bought the ring,
You're out six-fifty on the thing"
Next evening, when her lover called:
''Take back the baubie. its but paster'
He tried to plead, but she was CALLED;
He took the ring and left in haste
Del,lah Jones nun became.
And never breathsd the fellow S
name
He pawned the ring for dollars three.
Then bought bulldog pistol. and
ticket in the lotterie;
she longed for money, not my hand.
Now if l win the biggest prize.
J. shall be hers-her lover dies"
He won the $1,000 p~ize
And willed it to the heartless jade.
Then shot himself-death closed his eyes.
Delilah was of course d:smaved:
Her vows all wealth to her denied.
And OF chagrin she quickly died
Town Topics.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15
snInmon ont-soIomoneh.

New York Tribune: William Weber, q
small boy living at 435 East Fifty-ninth
street. was leading a pug dog along Sec
ond avenue. yesterday morning, when he
met John Hosmer, of 1,10S Avenue A.
Where did you get that dog?" asked
Hosmer.
Z found him three weeks ago." replied
Weber.
We'll, he's my dog" said Hosmer. 81
lost him just three weeks ago." and he
took the dog away from Weber.
Weber yelled for the police and Police
man Jackson, of the East Fifty-1irst
street station. ran up and on Weber 5
complaint took Hosmer and the dog into
custody. All went TO Yorkville court.
The dog made considerable noise until
Hosmer was arraigned before Magistrate
Cornell He still insisted that the animal
belonged 10 him.
Turn the dog loose, and let both men
call him." said the magistrate. THE one
he goes to can claim him"
The dog answered Hosmer's call. and
Magistrate Cornell awarded him the dog
and dismissed the case.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15

Two Wisconsin men made a very pc
culiar election bet. Election day John
Horrigan, a woodsman, bet the last
money he had, s12, on Bryan with
Richard Willis, another woodsman.
Then turning around before the crow
in the saloon where the bet was made,
he said: '''Willis, 1 will make another
bet. If Mckinley is elected 1 will hang
myself on that railroad crossing sign, -
(pointing out the window at the sign
board next to the st. Paul tracks,, 'if
you will agree to do the same if Bryan
is eli ,ted." The man Horrigan would
have carried out his agreement and
hanged himself had he not been pre-
vented. Perhaps a man who would
make such a bet should be allowed to
carry it out.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15

myself I told him one day that he
would come to a bad end.
If ever / am in trouble, I will call
on you. Frank he replied generally.
We'll, one day he came to me and
throwing his stick on the composing
stone said that he was going to leave
the office and go Norfolk. L tried to
dissuade him, but all 10 no purpose He
was a headstrong fellow, and that set
tied it. About week later 1 was busy
at the forms getting the inside pages
ready to send to the cellar. The clock
in the city hall had just struck mid
night. Suddenly 1 heard my name
called. / though it was one of the boys
In the Office who was calling, and l
made no immediate reply. Again |
heard someone sail in a very d.stsnc'-
voice This time 1 recognized it as
Blanks voice.
Blank is out in the street and he
IS calling you, Frank. said one of the
comDoSitors,.
Il walked over 20 the front window.
threw up the sash and peered out. The
street was silent and deserted. Not a
living thing was to be seen. What do
you want, Blank? 1 called out.
There was no reply. l shut the win
dow and went back to the page which
L had been making up.
I thought that 1 heard Blank S
voice. 1 said to my assistant
So you did, he replied; we all heard
him CALI
And so they had. The next day a
telegram reached the office saying that
Blank had been run over and killed by
d train near Norfolk about midnight.
Blank had kept his word. He called
on me when he was in trouble. He
probably died calling for me-