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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
gUSTER CHRONICLE
JOSEPH KUBLER puBLrsHEn

q postal service OF the United
states costs $4,000. 600 a year above re-
calpts' while that OF Great Britain yields
= profit Of over Si4, 900 900, that Of
France nearly siC,G00, 900. that " Ger
many 50. 900. 600. that of Russia Es,0oo,yyO
and THAI OF ever India ana Japan ST.
500, 900. About the only other nations
whose postal service does not pay ex-
penses are Canada, Norway. Siam,
Chill, Peru, Bulgaria and Bolivia. This
deficit In the United States is largely
caused by an Interpretation OF the law
that carries in the mails an enormous
amount OF printed matter at a sum
greatly below the cost OF so doing.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14

An eminent physician states hat ty-
phold fever can be washed out of the
system by water. He gives his patients
what would amount to eight or ten
ounces Of sterilized water. In cases OF
cholera, where the system secretes a
large amount OF fluid, enormous quaint.
ties OF hot ate are OF great benefit.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
viii Be Opened to the Public,

New York, Aug. 9.--John Jacob AS.
tor is said to have donated SIS 5000 to
purchase "Elmwood," the home of
home of James Russell Lowell, at
Cambridge. Mass, which will now be
turned into a memorial park and
thrown open to the public.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14

The city directory Of Washington, D.
C., contains forty George W~ashingtousr
seven Martha Washingtons and nine
teen Mary Washlngtons. The bearers
Of these names vary In color from Il
light ginger cake tint TO an ebony black
that rivals the ace OF spades"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
flinders the Harvest.

Huron, S. d., Aug. ct has been
raining here almost continuously since
midnight, seriously delaying the har-
vest. Much wheat IL ready to cut and
fears are entertained lest 1t spoil in
the fields.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
VERDICT IN WAMSLEY TRIAL
Woman Is Acquitted, tho Man Gets
Three Nenra.

Nermillion, Aug. I'm the VANS
ley-Darrah murder case n verdict Of
acquittal OF the wife Anna Wamsley
and m~anslaughter in the second de-
gree upon the husband, Marion VANS
ley. Three years ut hard labor In the
| state prison was the sentence of the
| court.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14

An explorer recently found In Egypt
4 bronze bowl and "A series Of iron tools
~ forms quito unlike any known In
Egypt, and they are thought to belong
10 An hsetriIgl armorar about go u. {.
rhcso tools, 'nprist lg thrC saws
made Tor pulling, not r47hing. one
rasp, u ult. several chlsols and fer
rules, a SCOOP edged arm two center
bits and others, are of me greatest
value in the history of tools as showing
several forms Of an earlier date thhn
was thought possible. They are prob
ably OF Assyrian origin.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
Expensive for Rev. Mr.. Pyle.

Sturgis, Aug. REV. Mr.. Pyle, pas
Tor OF the Methodist church, caused to
Dc arrested the kid" nine last Satur-
day for playing ball on the Sabbath.
As a test case one OF the boys was tried
Monday before a jury. He "a acquit-
ted and costs to the amount Of $3.50
were charged to the divine.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
THE MARKETS.
Sioux City Live Stock.

Sioux City, Aug. Sioux City Stock
Observation-Disclosures: Heavy, 5000
3.45; mixed and light, SO. 4on3.50.
Cattle-Quotations: Cows and heifers,
q. 25d3 30: veals, SO. 75d5. 80: oxen. 5000
S.25: stockcrs and feeders, 50. 5Oa 10; year
llngs and calves, 50. 35gi.6j butcher steers,
IS. OOa4. 10.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14

The tomb of President William Henry
Harrison at North Bend, O., Is being re-
constructed. the brick structure being
replaced by n OF blue limestone
There are twelve bodies, including four
children. In the tomb. and vacant recep-
tacles for the interment Of others.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
Found Dead In His Bed.

Chamberlain, Aug. 5.-A. Bailey of
Princeton, Wis, who was visiting his
daughter, Mrs. William Dent, here,
was found dead in his bed last even
ing. The deceased was So years old
and q veteran of the Blackhawk war
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
Uu,sd 4, n Poker Game.

st. Joseph. Mo-, Aug. 6.-Jack Nc.
Kane this morning shot and killed
VIM. Il. Albin as the result of a dis
,pute over a game of cards. Both were
gamblers. They played poker nearly
all last night.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
Appoint Mrs. II. X. Rice.

Pierre, Aug. 9.-Governor Lee has APP
pointed Mrs. IL. X. Rice Of Moe, Lincoln
county, as one OF the women's board of
Investigation of state penal institutions,
In the place Of Mrs. o.. J. Smith, who d.
cllned to serve.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
Chicago.

Chicago, Aug. $50 a. m.-Hogs-Re-
ceipts, 21,O00. Market about steady. QUO
tatiGns: Heavy, g. 70q3. 50; mixed, $3.60@
S.S7l2; light, SO. 70p3 80; rough heavy, $3.f59
$50.
Cattle-Reccipts, 200. Market steady.
Sheep-Receipts, $500. Market steady.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
Want Peace.

M%ontevideo, Urugay, Aug. 6.-Tl
rebels are in conference with the pres
ident as to terms of peace. 1t is be.
lieved an agreement will be signed
this week and the war will end. Many
public meetings to urge peace have
been beer held
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
south Omaha.

South Omaha, Aug. 7-Hogs-Receipts,
a5O0. official Yesterday, 6,445; shipments,
Sl3. Market steady to strong. Quotations:
eHavy, 81. S5d3. As; mixed, 81. Asa .352l2.
Cattle-Receipts. 1,JoO; official yesterday,
IO25; shipments, IN1.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
To DO business I'm Dakota.

Pierre. Aug. Tho state insurance
department yesterday licensed the
North American Casualty company OF
MINNEAPOLIS to do business in THE state.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
Sworn Assessed
value value

The companies will be given a hear
Ing, but they will have hard work TO
explain this wide variation in values.
The assessment is likely to be much
higher than heretofore as a conse-
QuSuce.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
Attorney General Dead,

Warrenton, Va, Aug. 6.-Major r.
Taylor Scott attorney general Of Vir.
ginia, died here this morning of ty.
phoid fever.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
Laundry BURNS MT Estbervi,,e

Cedar Rapids, Ia, Aug. 6.-The
steam laundry at Estherville burned
today. Loss several hundred. No in.
%surance.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
sherman Returns TO Waship oto,

Amaganset, i. l., Aug. 6.-Secretary
Sherman left this morning for Wash,
ington.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
Postmasters were appointed yesterday

IOsITIIStVID WIZ UIT70TTCCH yUoFCTUdy
as follows:
~Iowa-Chester Center, Poweshiek coun-
". NJ. L. Sears, vice +. J. Cooking, re-
signed: Riceville, Mitchell county, p. NJ.
Mosher, vice j. j. Sloan, removed.
Reconsideration, Gage county, d. III.
Meyer, vice G.. Cerdes, resigned: Osmond,
Pierce county. b. S. Leeder, vice II. Full
len, removed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14

The annual earnings OF miners IN SIC
sia, Germany, are, after substractine
the insurance, only s147 to $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-06
A Boys King,

!. E. Kiser in Cleveland Leader.
My papa, he's the bestest man
What ever lived, bet,
And amt never seen no one
As smart as he Is yet.
Why, he knows everything almost
But mamma says that he
Amt never been the President,
Ard that surprises me.
And often papa talks about
How he must work away
He's got to toll for other folks,
And do what others say;
And that's thing that bothers me-
When he's SO good and great,
He ought think, at least to be
The gov nor of the state.
He knows the rames Of lots Of stars,
And he knows all the trees,
And he can tell the different kinds
OF all the birds he sees.
And he can multiply and add
And figure In his head
They might have been some smarter men,
But bet you they are dead.
Once when he thought 1 wasn't near
He talked to mamma then. A
And told her how lie hates to be
The slave of other men,
And how he wished that he was rich
For her and me-and l--...-.-.
Don't know what made me do 1t, but
~ / had TO 30 and cFyi aYA.> ,aTs-r.rr,.! F,
And SO when sat on his knee $3.50
l asst him: rs il tue
That you're a, slave and have to toll
When others tell you, to?
You so big and good and wise,
You surely ought to be
The President, Instead of just
10 a slave, il seems to me-"
And then the tears cnIpe in his eyes,
And he Rugged me tight and said:
"Why,' no, my dear, I'm not slave
What put that in your head?
am king-the happiest king
That ever yet held sway,
. And only God can take my throne
And my little realm away!''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-06
The Increase of Homes.
From Leslie's Weekly

one OF the best possible facts in the
latter-day progress of this country is the
increase in the number of homes. In
crowded centers of population, such as
New York and one or two other cities.
the hat and the hotel must always be
necessary, for space is too valuable to be
monopolized by the humble. But even
around the very large cities there are be-
Ing built thousar DIS and thousands of su-
burban cottages and country residences.
ard all through The length and breadth
or the country, in the towns. villages and
cities. artistic homes are increasing at an
astonishing rate. If any one will take
the trouble to look up the literature on
the subject ne will find that in this coun-
try there are more than a hundred papers
devoted to these home builders giving
them each week plans ard suggestions
The number Of books upon low-priced
architecture, written in the past fifteen
years, exceeds the total for a century pre-
Vious. wider education is being spread
and the gain in every way is enormous
A man who owns his home is a better
citizen, even if there is a mortgage on it,
There is feeling of personal partnership
in the protection of property and the
preservation of public order which makes
him stand for what is bes- in law and gov
eminent. 1t is the best possible thing for
his wife and children; best for him and
best for the country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-06
A Womnn,s Love.

A sentinel angel sitting high In glory,
aeafd this shrtll wall ring out from purgatory.
Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!
Il loved.-and, blinfi with passionate love, fell
Love brought me dGwn to death, and death to Hell
For COO is just, and Death for sin Is well.
II do not rage against thru high decree,
Nor Tor myself do ask that grace shall be;
BUT Tor my love Onlearth who mourns for me.
Great Spirit! let me see my love again,
ana comfort him one hour, and were fain
To pay thousand years 9S fire and pain"
Then said the plying angel: Nay repent
Ihat wild vow! Look, the dial fingers bent
Down TO the last hour of thy punishment!'
But still she walled: Il pity thee, let me gol
l cannot rise to peace and love him SO.
y. Let me soothe him In his bitter woei"
The brazen gates ground sallenly ajar,
ana upward, Joyous, like ARISING star,
She rose and vanished In the ether far
But adown the dying Sunset sailing,
ana ike wounded bird her pini0ns trailing,
She huttered back with broken hearted waiiinK
she sobbed; Il found him by the summer sea
meciined, his head upon a maiden's knee
Sne CURED MS hair and kissed him. Woe Is me!'
She wept. Now let my punishment begini
nave been fond and foolish. Let me In
10 expiate my sorrow and my sim"
The angel answered: NAY, sad soul, 60 higherI
70 De deceived In your true heart s desire
was Ditterer Than thousand yeau Of nrer'
John Hay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-06
A Royal Electrician.

Speaking of the Prince of Naples, Signor
Giarelli says: His hobbies are of a scien.
tific nature. He is. perhaps, the only real
electrician among all the present princes of
Europe. He has never occupied himself
much with literature, music or painting.
but he is master of electric mechanism.
He Is very learned in all that concerns the
appncaion OF electricity to light, motive
power, sound and photography. He was
one OF the first and most successful expert
mentors with the x rays after their dis
covery, and IL Rome his residence in the
QuTlnal mad the aspect. during his royal
highness' bachelor days, of a scientific
laboratory"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-06
Dicks Coffee House Closed.

London Letter TO the Philadelphia Ledger
Another landmark of literary London has
just disappeared, Dicks coffee house having
closed its doors. Already the work of de-
molition has begun, and the quaint little
room to which briefiess barristers and Bo-
hemian journalists used to find their way
for dinner down the narrow passage in the
temple leading out of Hare court stands
roofess and gaping open to the sky. Dicks
was one of the Oldest places of pub
lie resort in London, for it is said to date
from 1880, when coffee houses filed the
places of the more gorgeous clubs of to-
day. Many generations of literary men and
politicians, including. of course, Dr. John
SON and Oliver Goldsmith. have in times
past dined there. OF late years much of
Its quaintness has been lost and an aspect
Of second or third rate modernity has done
much to chase away the literary ghosts
who were supposed to people it. For those,
however, to whom the creations of the nov
elist's brain are little more real and love-
able than creatures of actual flesh and
tlood. Dicks will always be dear, for here
1t was that. on memorable occasion, as
lovers of Thackeray's 'Pendennis'' will
not need to be reminded John Finucane
esq.,. Of the Upper Temple; Mr. Bungay.
the publisher. and Mr.. Trotter, Bungay's
reader and literary man of business. dined
together when discussing the prospects OF
the proposed Pail Mall Gazette which was
afterward to afford Mr.. Arthur Pendennis
the means of acquiring fame and moderate
fortune. 1t was then and there that Bun
gay, after the dinner and a second round
of brandy and water. was So overcome by
the prospect which the silver-tongued John
Finucane and the projected paper opened
up before him that he insisted upon pay
ing the bill, and actually gave James, the
waiter. eighteen pence for himself. As
matter of fact. the window of this room
looked out upon the entrance to Thacke-
rays own chambers in the temple, and the
great novelist himself must have often
dined in the dingy room which he made the
meeting place of the characters which
were the offspring of his genius. Now the
room itself has followed the novelist into
the shadowy land Of the men and things
which have been.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-06
Importance Of tribes,


Was it not Pascal who said that IL Cleo
patra's nose had been an inch longer or
shorter 1t might have changed the course
Of history? Very likely. inasmuch rs his
tory is nothing under the sun but a tale
about vast numbers Of people. And what
alters the direction of one life may easily
affect millions. You have, no doubt, heard
the story about the Earl Of Wiltshire's dog.
1t was at the time the divorce Of Henry
VIII was under discussion at Rome. Things
were progressing favorably. and when the
ponttf. at the close of the audience put
out his foot to be kissed by the earl the
dog-who had followed his master into
court-bit 1t. This so enraged the pope and
horr1fled the officials present that the lego
tiatlonS were broken of. This story NAV
be true. or not. but we are all aware ti:at
the course of history was changed about
tnat time Such things merely illustrate
the truism that you never can judge Il the
importance of anything by the size of il.
A nod o fthe head CT d wink of the eve
does sometimes literally and truly speak
volumes. On a tense harpstring il needs
only the touch of a finger 10 elicit a tone
loud enough to fill st. Paurs Cathedral:
and just an accidental word or two, drop
ped in passing conversation. may, al un-
beknCwn to the parties speaking. he a mat
Ter OF lie or death to one or both of them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-06
JAPANESE DESIGNS.
Largely the Result of Their Methods
of Teaching Drawing.


From the Upholsterer.
The question is often asked, Where do
the Japanese get the ideas from which to
produce the weird and fantastic designs so
often seen in their work." Numerous eff
forts have been made to answer this uues-
ton, and the Japanese have been alter
nately lauded for the beauty of their work
and condemned for it's crudeness. It would
appear that the system by which the ia
panese are taught designing is largely re-
sponsible for the character of their work
There is no race of people on the face of
the earth. with the possible exception Of
the Chlnese who are more painstaking or
sk1llful in the work which they perform.
The Japanese student who is taught
drawing is given a small book in which are
designs printed in small squares and these
he reproduces square by square until he
has grasped the salient features of each.
he Is then sent out into the open coun-
try and told to observe the works of Ha-
ture spread out before him in all their lux
uriance
Finding some suitable object for his at
tention, he proceeds to reproduce the same
introducing, perhaps, some imaginative de-
tails. 1t is right here that the system of
squares comes in. Those elegant stems
those feathery petals which are apparently
thrown together without restraint, are
simply the particular feature of the mass
of vegetation which he has selected for
This individual study. His long course of
study in this line has given him the fac
ulty of following a single vine through
tangled underbrush and ignoring all the
rest of the growth. The tortuous course
OF this one vine when brought out by
his ready brush appears to the western art
critic as crude and without merit whereas
in reality 1T is catchy and full of interest.
The wonderful facility of the Japanese
in the production of works of art, in the
execution, the beauty of colorings and the
delicacy of their drawings. is well known.
While artists claim the designs of the ia
panese, II critically examined will be
found incorrect in form, proportion and
construction, these same critics freely con-
cede that in the failings mentioned are
found the very highest merits of the ia
panese as decorative artists.
Decorative art does not admit of abso-
lutte fidelity to nature. Savish copyists
lack imagination, without which they can
never be true decorative artists. The very
science of the art is the power to con-
ventionalize nature while preserving the
spirit and following all the objects repre-
sented. and this is where the Japanese
excel. as. gifted with a wonderful quick
ness of perception and delicacy of hand,
they seize upon and reproduce with extra
ordinary rapidity and power of touch the
CT aracteristics of natural objects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-06
The klOndike.
Walter Malone in Harper's Weekly.

Walter Malone in Harpers Weekly.
Wrapped in a robe of everlasting snow,
Where icy blasts eternal revel hold,
Where gaunt pines shiver in the piercing cold,
Where mellow summer noontides never glow,
And seety crags no springtme know
THUS, like mser, in his freezing fold.
The Arctic King has gathered heaps Of gold
To lead deluded wanderers unto
So in his radiant diamond palace there,
Amid white spiendOrs of his thousand thrones,
Where keen auroras glitter, blaze, and glare,
And like q Wandering Jew the wild wind means;
He smiles at wretches in their last despair,
Who dig for gold among their Comrades bones.
About my home 1 see the springtime bloom,
The sheayes of summer or the autumn fruit;
To make me glud, the robin lends its lutte,
The lilies blossom, lilacs breathe perfume,
The red leaves nutter, golden asters loom
Around me; tones of loved ones. never mute,
Are sweeter than the 'viOl or the flute
Through Junetime gladness December gloom.
The dnffodils their golden treasures pour
By lapfuls to my children as they play;
The vines, with clustered rubies at my door,
GLADDEN. my good wife through the lvelong day.
So In this humble nest, my wealth Ii more
Than all the gold and silver dug from clay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-06
BEE MOUNTAIN.
A Crevasse Filled With Honey and
Occupied by Snakes.

From the Galveston News.
About twenty miles from Cleburne. or
the Brazos river, is Bee mountain. On one
side it rises several hundred feet above the
country around and the other fronts the
river and rises perpendicularly for 800 feet
On the perpendicular side are several crew
asses or caves, in which places are millions
OF bees and tons upon tons of honey 1t
Is impossible to scale the dizzy heights
from below, although the rocks are worn
out places that look like steps had been
made to climb this mountain ages and ages
ago, and it is believed by some that aborig-
ines scaled this cliff to procure honey for
their primitive meals.
Within the memory of man. however
parties have been daring enough to have
themselves suspended with a rope and let
bluff, and the tales they told of the vast
amount Of honey would sound like q story
from the Arabian Nights
one man, cowboy, who worked on the
Old Abe Wilson ranch, which was quite IA
nous here in an early day, had the tenn
Gritty to have some of his co-laborers let
him down with rope. Where the bees en-
tered, he said, the crevasses were not large
enough for man to enter, but little
south of that point was hole about four
feet high and eight or ten feet wide, which
he entered What he saw simply struck
him dumb with amazement- There, hang
ing from the top of the cave, which seemed
to extend for a quarter of a mile back.
great combs of honey twenty or thirty feet
long and from four to six feet wide. They
looked like a great lot of fine silk lace cur
tains hanging in some grand old hallway.
The humming of the bees sounded like the
noise of many spindles in a great factory.
He had hunting knife with him and sliced
on piece of the honey and ate 1t, and
was Just about to slice off more to bring to
his companions on the mountain above and
who were waiting to pull him up. when
his attention was drawn to another direc-
ton. On listening closely he detected a
kissing sound and one unlike that made by
the bees. Presently, from the direction
from whence the sound proceeded, he saw
at least 100 serpents coming toward him,
their little beadlike eyes shining in the
glare of the torch he carried To use a
street phrase, he tore out" leaving his
hunting knife and this Klondke of honey
behind. When his friends had pulled him
up he had tainted from the fright. When
he recovered he told them what he had
seen: At first they laughed at him, but
finally 1t became an accepted fact that in
Bee mountain there are tons of money but
no one since that time has ever been reck-
less enough to venture in that cave where
not only millions of bees and tons of honey
are to be found, but where a den of SER
pents greets the intruder. Alderman Tom
Childress has a summer home which adj
joins this mountain, and is going to tunnel
Into the side Of 1t and try to arrange to ex-
terminate the SerpentS and have this WON
der to exhibit to his friends