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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

II has recently been discovered that
there is In Birmingham. In the very CEN
ter of Christian England, a factory
where idols are made for heather ma
tions! Idols Of all kinds are turned out.
representing the gods Of all heather ma
lions from Toxic TO Timbuctoo. The ex-
port trade TO heather countries Is a
fairly large one. although more gods are
sen out to foreign dealers In curios In
the bazars OF Cairo. Damascus, Colom-
DO. etc, for sale to unsuspecting trav-
elers anxious to take home mementos.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27
About National ADDroDrfatiOns,

Democrats are d~enOuncing the Re
publicans for the record of the pres
II Congress, although it will he seen
that the Fifty-second Congress, which
vas Democratic III both branches, eX-
pended 81 ,027, 100000. or within eigh-
body will have appropriated by March
4. Certainly, an increase in the Ma
tional expenses Of eighteen or twenty
millions in four years, or at the rate
of four or five inillions a year, can not
he considered -CosSive. Several times
S2O,O00,O00 have been expended on the
navy and OH the National d.fcnSes
within that period. Yet no class of citi-
Zens, not even the Democrats. object
10 the large necessary expenses for
those purposes.
Furthermore, the Democrats are
conveniently forgetting that their own
crazy revenue and deiicit-producing
policy of the past three years has III
creased the interest on the National
debt 10y no less than S1l, 900, 900 per
annum. Deducting this sum, which
produces a similar increase in the an
nual expenses, from the appropriations
OF this Congress, and we find that the
present body has appropriated even
less than the amount expended by the
Congress that expired in 1s91.-Toledo
Blade.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27
SPECIAL MESSAGE SENT IN
State of the Revenues the Excuse
for the Special Session.
Quotes Figures TO Show Where the
Revenue Has Failed and Rec
ommcnds Tariff Bill
az a Panacea.

Washington. March 15.-1he extraor-
binary session OF the Fifty-fifth o n
gross was opened in the senate by read
ing the presidents proclamation con
venlng IL. Sixty-eight senators an
swered 10 the roll call and the galleries
were filled to overlooking.
Mr.. w. A. Harris, pop, Kansas, was
sworn in as successor to Mr.. PETER.
The credentials of Henry w. Corbett,
appointed by the governor Of Oregon to
succeed John ii. Mitchell, the legisla-
ture having failed TO elect, were pre-
sented by Mr.. Mcbride, rep Oregon.
who stated hat Mr.. Corbett was pres
ent and ready 10 take the oat OF Office.
Mr.. Gray, dem, Delaware, moved that
the credentials be referred to the COM
mittee on privileges and elections and
It was agreed to. After the appoint
ment OF committees to notify the presi-
dem and the house that the senate vas
ready to begin Its duties, a recess was
taken until 2 O'Clock p. m.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27
BECAME TIRED OF WEYLEk
Madrid Government Said to Have
Requested His Resignation.

New York. March ia special cable
dispatch to the Sun from Havana says:
1t Is said in Havana by Informed per-
sons that General Weyler las received
"A dispatch from the Madrid government
requesting him to send his resignation.
1t is certain that hard words have
beer exchanged recently between Cen
eral Weyler and the central govern
ment
Havana is greatly alarmed over the
attitude of the government and the
troops with regard to paper money.
1t is said hat the issue made by the
Spanish bank of the island Of Cuba will
be substituted by another from the
bank OF Spain itself at Madrid. Two
hundred Cubans embarked Saturday
for Ceuta, to which place they have
been exiled,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

4 Man Who BUYS Money.

Up in northern Ohio there is a dis
count of 20 cents on every Canadian
dollar. A certain man up that way,
Il few years ago, advertised that he
would pay 80 cnt on a dollar for Ca
madam money. People laughed at him.
The farmers We're shy. They thought
it was a swindling game Of some kind
and left him severely alone. One day
a man came in with $40 Canadian mon
ey. Before the week was out he had
exchanged United States dollars for
$3.50 worth Of Canadian money. This
would give him a profit of S25 wher-
ever Canadian money Is rs good as
II own. From tliat time on the bust
ness gradually increased. until to-day
he averages about $3.50 a week.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27
ARE CHARGED WITH THEFT
Two Society Girls Arrested in CIeve-
land.

Akron, o., March l5.-Gertrude Faust,
q years of age, and her cousin, Lille
Schaffer, IS years old, were arrested IN
Cleveland yesterday, charged with shop
lifting. They come from two of the most
excellent families Of the city and stand
high in social and church circles. They
are both handsome girls, and Miss Faust
has often been called the prettiest girl
in Akron.
Despite their standing and reputation
Akron merchants have suspected them
OF stealing, but had been unable to OBJ
tain proof. having had to move eau
tiOusly in the matter. However, as the
result Of the arrests in Cleveland, they
secured search warrants and sen off,
GERS to the Faust and Schaffer homes,
finding in both OF them evidence to con-
firm their suspicious. From the Faust
house they took a full wagon load OF
articles. which the girls mother said
she had brought home n at a time,
claiming to have bought them.
The articles were OF every kind and
description and included several fur
wraps and other valuable articles.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

Angry at a neighbor for killing his
dog, a Frederick. Md, farmer asked a
lawyer e collect $40 damages for him.
Results were slow and he secretly gave
the case to another lawyer, who wrote
the offender TO call and pay up. The
guilty man, frightened at the thought
of two lawyers after him, went to the
first one IN paid the $40. remarking In
cidentally that he had received a letter
from the other. The lawyers met aud
divided the so, and their client had 10
$50. a. 1fy...lF
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27
RECEPTION TO GOVERNOR LEE
Citizens OF VermiIiion VIII Welcome
Him Home.

Vermil.on, March l9.-The citizens OF
VerTnillion are making arrangements to
give Governor Lee and his wife "A recep-
ton at East hall, at the university next
Saturday evening Elaborate preparations
are being made TO make II one OF the
greatest events OF the season. Mrs. Lee
returned several days ago from the cap
ital. and the governor IL expected home
today.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

The common, everyday garden snail,
regarded az a nuisance by most persons
in this country, Is not only used for
food by thousands Of people In other
lands, but Is considered a. dainty dish
by eplcures the world over. There are
wild" and cultivated snails. The
owners Of one farm near Dillon are re-
ported to clear about 50, 800 a year from
snails, which are fed upon cabbage and
clover
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

A number OF the liberal citizens of
Detroit, Mich, are about TO present to
the Salvation army Of their city a bulld
ing valued at $74,000 in appreciation OF
the army's work for the relief of the
poor and distressed during the past win
ter. 1t IL said the whole amount needed
has been pledged, Carlton A. Beardsley
starting the subscriptions with SIS, 900,
Secretary Alger Is credited with giving
$40. 900.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

Of that kind. II wants men OF anairs'
mcu who a accomplish Things "no
have strong convictions on ecohoinic,
financial and business questions, ano
clear conceptions as 70 how needed re-
forms can be brought about.--lhdlah
apolis Journal.
Protection Popular In the south.
There Is nothing remarkable In the
appeal of Southern congressman lor
protection to cotton. Ii was inevltapie
that such an appeal should be maze.
In the past few years there has Deen u
marked increase in the imports or cot
ton from Egypt. This material, grown
by fellaheen labor, car be brought INTO
the United States under the PROVISIONS
of the Wilson bill and sold prohtably
az n price so low that American pant
ers cannot afford to raise ii. There are
other Enthusiastically sugar in the
case OF Louisiana for which Southern
business men and aCriCu!turists are
earnestly demanding protection also.
Slowly but surely the conviction nat
the vital interests OF the Sou ana
North are identical, instead OF antag-
o~nistic, is p~crmcatlng the Southern
mind. With the decay of Bourbonism
and the disappearance Of the "uhrecoh-
structed" elements which cherish lree
trade chiefly because it was 4 tenct OF
the ~COnfederacy there will come a
larger view Of the rights. the duties
and the needs Of American citizenship
in the former slave States. Already
great progress has been made III THIS
direction. The time is not far distant
when a strong majority of intelligent
Southern voters will stand with the
enlightened manhood of the North in
supporting. not only protection, but
sound money aud the supreme author
ity of law.-New York Advertiser.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

Joshua Leverlng OF Baltimore recent.
ly gave $4,000 for a gymnasium for the
Southern Baptist Theological seminary
at Louisville. Ky. He holds that a
minister Of the gospel cannot afford 10
be less a man-an all round man-than
his neighbor." and that a well devel-
oped body Is equally important with a
we'll trained mind for making a success
Of life"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27
CUSTER CHRONICLE
JOSEPH KUBLER PUBLISHER

A 4-year-old infant prodigy was ex-
hibited recently before ne Berlin An
t~hropological society. He is a son of q
butcher and at 2 years OF age learned
TO read without assistance. He knows
the dates of the birth and death OF all
the German emperors and many other
noted persons, and their birthplaces.
the chief cities Of the world, and all the
great battles. He can read anything In
print and can talk i~ntelligently about II.
but finds 1t hard TO learn to write and
draw, dlslikes music and hates plano
fortes. The boy Is physically well de-
Yeloped. though not robust.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

A new use for the bible has been
found In the orient. Persian PAPER
mache articles are made OF h bibles
sent out by British missionary socl-
cites, according to Mr.. Hodgetts, a re-
cen traveller in the east. He quotes
the British consul at Tabreez as say
ing: "You rave no Idea what n boon
these bibles are to the village Industries
Of Persia"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27
LITTLE SIOUX IS WAY UP
Higher Than Since the Flood OF
1891,

Cherokee, Ia, March 19.-The Little
Sioux river is higher than it has been
since the flood of 1891 and is over its
banks n still rising. The people liv-
ing on the low lands are expecting to
move. Much hay and grain will he lost.
Several bridges IN this vicinity have
been washed out and roads leading east
from the city are impossible owing TO
the high water.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

In Europe the growth OF wheat ceases
with an imaginary line connecting In
verness, Scotland, latitude SO degrees;
Dronthelm, Norway, latitude GA de-
grees, and st. Petersburg, Russia, lati-
tude 60 degrees Is minutes. oats reach
q slightly higher latitude. Barley and
rye ascend 10 a latitude OF 40 degrees,
but require a favorable aspect and sea-
son to produce a crop.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

A number of people in New York have
formed a club called the theological
club, which WA nav for Its objects the
classification and Identification OF the
larger fungi Of the United States. the
study OF edible mushrooms and toad
stools and also the poisonous varieties,
and to arouse a wider interest in eco
nOmic foods"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

There Is a cat that goes hunting at
Hoislngton. Kan. 1t makes It's home In
the round house. where a railroad man
placed IL to get warm n day when he
found It half frozen on the street. Tho
men make a practice Of shooting birds
for 1t, and now the eat will ollow for s
milo or more any man who carries {
rum and at sound OF a shot will run for
the bird.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

Water buckets saved Mrs. J. M. Davis
OF Buckingham, Va, from
while she was on her way to a rprins'
The path led over a tunnel OF an aban-
doned gold mine. and some rotten tim
beers giving away just az Mrs. Davis got
above them the tunnel roof collapsed
and she fell into thirty feet OF water.
An empty bucket on each arm buoyed
her up until she was able to grasp q
floating log
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27
VIII blockade Greece.

st. Petersburg, March 15.-It Is as-
serted here hat the admirals command
ing the foreign s%quadrons i'm Cretan wa
tiers, with the exception of the Italian
and French commanders nave received
orders from their respective govern
ments to blockade the Piraeus, the town
of syria, in the Greek island OF that
name, and the port of Volo In Thessaly
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

a large association of merchants with
headquarters In New York city has been
formed for the purpose OF putting a
stop, IL possible. to the practice OF
American tourists In bringing into this
country tewelry and clothing bought
abroad and upon which no duty is paid.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

A proposed building law In Boston
prohibits the erection of any building
exceeding seventy feet In height unless
IL occupies a whole block owned 10y the
same person and surrounded on all
sides by public streets. and excepting
public buildings. grain elevators, tow
ers, spires and chimneys and buildings
already contracted for or in process OK
construction.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

The Canadian department OF agricul-
ture estimates the population of the do
minion to be SIPS, 43S, a gain of rather
less than 300, 900 since the census OF 1891.
In 1890 there were two states OF the
union that exceeded Canada in popu-
Iation-New York. with 5,997, $50 inhab-
itants, and Pennsylvania, with 5,25S. Ola.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27
Watep nj NermilliOn.

Vermillion. s. D., March 1.-the dan
;erous point has been reached here from
he flood. the bridges over the Vermiillon
liver being carried out. Water Is BANK
ull, and the ice in the Missouri IL sui
Iound. The trains have been aoah-
toned on account of unsafe bridges.
People are moving to the hills. There
Vas a heavy rain last night.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

During the last plague epidemic In
Canton 10000 Chinese died, while Of the
foreigners, in their clean quarters, not
one was carried Off. AS rats are the
chief distributors of the disease, DR..
Manson of London thinks II Is strange
that measures are no taken In Bombay
to poison all the rats, which could he
done in a few days.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

Mrs. N. Lehman and daughter OF
Jacksonville. Fla, driving In a buggy,
with a single horse, started to cross he
f. c.. and p. railroad tracks, when an
engine under high speed tore the horse
from the wagon and killed 1t, leaving
the women seated In the buggy unin-
tured.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

10 prevent extravagant use OF gas by
turning 1t on full force a new tip is hol-
lowed out on h under side to hold a
ball and spring. a thermostat being
placed inside the tip to raisa the ball
and decrease the gas press .e as the
burner becomes heated.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

A 2-year-old child OF william Priest
OF Windsor, Mo-, was scared to death
by a little neighbor girl appearing In
the house with a hideous mask on. The
child cried for eighteen hours success
:. slvely and finally died.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27

One OF the largest Jumps of coal ever
brought to Portsmouth, N. H., vas
taken out of the steamer Lancaster at
the Concord wharf recently. The lump
weighed exactly 1850 pounds and a spe-
cial derrick had to be rugged to get II
out OF the steamers hold. 1t is to be
shipped 20 a Manchester dealer.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27
FLOYD IS STILL COMING UP
Residents on n Bottom LANDS
Have Reen EXiled.

Sioux City, Ia, March 2O.-The Floyd
river is still coming up n much dam
age has been done to bridges n other
property. The people living on the bot
toms have all migrated to a higher alti-
!ude, and their late residences are now
cut specks in a watery eXpanse.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27
Ice Ont Mt DubuuuP.

Dubuque, Ia, March l9.-The ice
moved out of the river today and the
channel below the bridge is clear as
far as can be seen. 1t is still fast above
the bridge. Last year the ice moved out
on the Path inst. The river is rising
/ LIT
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27
Passenger Train Wrecked.

Atchison, Kan, March ia Missouri
Pacific passenger train was wrecked
near Hiawatha, Kan. at midnight, The
engineer and fireman are reported killed
and several passengers injured.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-27
Puritan In Port.

New York. March 15.-The United
States monitor Puritan passed in at
Sandy Hook shortly after Q a. m. today
under her own steam.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-03
81 per Annum, in Advance

west margins of Orange lake in Mari
on county, in 1859.
l have one tree in my yard now, of
the ''Orange Lime" sent me from Gu
ba, just beginning to fruit, and said
to be delicious-perhaps the only tree
of the variety in the State. The
young fruit looks much like the COM
mon Florida lime.
If you want other witnesses that
there is no such variety as the "Bitter
Orange" they can be found in the set
tied portions of South Florida. | think
I can refer you to at least five if not
ten responsible men, who have lived
in this State as long if not longer
than myself, and have no knowledge
of the "Bitter Orange"
S. w. Corson.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-03
Vol. XIV No "a Whole No 500.
Our Stock Law.


Editor Florida Agricuturist:
The present Florida stock fence
laws discourage the holding of real
estate. Many men owning only five
to ten acres own cattle that will con-
sumo the grass of 500 to 1000 acres.
A no fence law would Immediately
enhance the value Of real estate as
then the stock man would be com
PEELED to buy or rent the lands ON
which his cattle Craze.
The man who owns the real estate
and pays the taxes, and furnishes the
grass that grows the ca tile would be-
Gin to get portion of the profits OF
the cattle.
Formerly pig iron cost $6 per ton
ocean freight from Great Britain to
America. The iron men said they
must have Sc per ton additional pro-
lection or their business was ruined.
Now pig iron is shipped to Great
Britain and sold at profit. They i'm
proved their methods. One hundred
white men will live on the same
amount of land that it formerly took
to keep an Indian.
The stockmen say that unless they
are furnished grass rent free and tax
free the stock industry is ruined.
A Florida 3-year-old steer brings SO
weighs $50 pounds, brings $1.60 per
hundred pounds.
Next February in the height of the
tourist season, when there is the
greatest demand and beef brings the
best price Florida beef cannot be used
for the tourist trade. Chicago 3-year-
ODDS, that weigh 1000 pounds Glow
weight) and cost four and one-half
cents a pound live weight in Chicago,
added freight to Florida will be used
to feed the tourist. Thousands of dol
lars will leave Florida and be sent to
Chicago to buy beef.
Now the no fence law may possibly
decrease the number of $1.6O hun
dred steers but it will introduce the
$3.50 per 100 steer. The range man
will turn farmer. Improved methods.
By feeding a bunch of steers any
winter using cotton seed meal as a
feed instead of as a fertilizer he will
pet both feed and fertilizer value; also
feeding casava root etc. By selling his
steers at four and one-half cents live
weight instead of SLIGO, he can buy
much more cotton seed meal for feed
and fertilizers, he will vastly increase
the number of rich acres, and will
thus introduce a new method of stock
growing in Florida.
If the thousands of dollars that the
winter tourists bring to Florida was
not sent to Chicago to buy meat but
used to buy cotton seed meal to feed
steers and this cotton seed fertilizer
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-03
A Suggestion.
S. w. Corson.

Editor Florida Agriculturist:
[ wish to make one or two sugges-
tions, if you care to publish them.
First. In this rushing age some cor
respondents are too apt to scrawl
their postof1ice address and their sig
natures in such a manner that it is
next to impossible for one, (unless he
be an eXpert,) to decipher them. l
received two letters today, which sug-
gested this writing. 1t took our
worthy postmaster, and an even dozen
of our other citizens, to guess out the
sigma lures, and as the guessing was
not entirely satisfactory, [ copied the
scrawls as nearly as [ could, trusting
to the superior intelligence of the re-
ceiving postmasters, to decipher them.
What their fate may be I can only
conjecture. The letters were well,
and plainly enough written, but a
Florida razor back could have routed
out more ineligible signature. I
receive dozens of such carelessly sign
ed letters. The writer knows his own
fourishes, and supposes the receiver
will easily read them.
Second. Many letters received are
from places where postoffices have
been esta blished since the latest rail-
road maps were published. One likes
to know whether his correspondents
letter comes from east, west, north or
south, but can only be informed by
troubling his postmaster for the IL
forma ton. If writer's would state e
name of the county as we'll as the
postoffice it would be better.
Third. I receive great numbers OF
letters stating II saw your ADVERTISE
ment of nursery stock for sale. Please
send catalogue and price list" Now,
it is a matter of considerable import
ance to the man who advertises in sew
eral newspapers to know in what pa
per the advertisement was noted, that
he may determine which ones are the