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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-06
Dowcli's Case Is Hung In.

Pierre, Jan. 2S.-An entire change
came over the contest case of DoWdell
against Sheldon yesterday. The Kyle
mel united with the republicans in sup
porting Sheldon. but q final vote was
not reached. All last night the politi-
clans worked. The Sinker faction Of
populists succeeded in getting a few
Kyle members to favor Dowdell and TO
wait on Kyle and threaten unless he
would bring all populists into line for
Dowdell they would vote against him
for senator. Kyle complied so far as he
was able, but the democrats and one or
W populists declined. This morning
so close was the vote that the whole
matter was postponed for ten weeks.
This morning the temperance commit
tee OF the senate, which has held sew
eral long sessions in which opposing
sides presented csases. voted Z to 2
against the d~ispensary bill. This viii
he reported on ~unfavorably, and after
II is disposed OF a license bill will be
framed.
In joint assembly this morning the
ballot stood: Pickler "a, Kyle q, Plow-
man IS, Goodykoontz IA, Loucks g, KeIa
lar 2, Bowler 2, Palmer I.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-06
Free From Snow,

Eermilllon, Jan. 2s.-This section OF
the country has been wonderfully free
from heavy SHOWS. With the exception
Of one day during the Thanksgiving
storm, the Milwaukee road has been
clear Of blockades from Sioux City to
Iankton and rains have run nearly on
time. There have been several now
storms, but they have been followed by
warm weather, which melted the o
sufficiently TO form a solid crust over
the drifts and has in this way prevent
ed much drifting. Usually the storms
have not been cold, h coolest storm
having occurred last week, when The
thermometer went as low as $ degrees
below zero. There are but few large
drifts to be found and these are in the
city. The snow is about a foot on the
level on the prairie and In the timber.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-06

Charles w. Fairbanks. Indiana's
new senator. was the Associated Press
agent at Pittsburg in 1879.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-06

j. taxidermIst who Is trying to collect
. Ill Il out for the stun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31
THE NEWSPAPER BUSINESS.
1t Is Not Bed of Roses For the Young
Man Who Begins Reporting.

/ hate to sec bright young man enter
the newspaper business if he'can find any
thing else to do. The calling Of IA reporter
has its allurcmcnts, but they are overbal-
anced by its demands on him. To be
successful reporter man must be made oil
iron-hc must have Il constitution tough
as sole leather, heart of steel and brain
in every yart of his anatomy. He must
expect an up hill fight always, and must be
strong He must devote himself to labor,
to application and TO persistence
Journalism is the hardest life young
man can lead, and always staring him in
the face is the knowledge that the prizes
arc few. To be the editor of metropoli-
tan daily is an achievement compared with
which going to the United States senate
or being governor Of Il state Is child play.
/ know smart mon who have been re-
portCrs for 40 and 90 years and VIII re-
main such till they die. If they had given
tho same amount Of application ana atten-
ton 30 almost any other business, they
might now le independent. The average
reporter writes his life away making the
reputation of his paper. In impersenai
Journalism he is never heard Of outside the
Office. In personal journalism he becomes
an Ishmaolitc The world is against the
reporter, and he is against the Nor4u ili
that lac is constantly fighting to get what
the world does not want him to have
news.
The day is coming when some bright
man will write n history of 1.-THE faith
ful, " and they will be the newspaper re-
portcrs. Ii has ever been n wonder to me
| that reporters are so faithful TO their en-
ployers. / have never known reporter
Ill Il ont all
night; ordered hither and thither in rain,
| blizzard, fog and ice; filling up on "beei
and"-one meal at Delmonico's, the next
at divers; today reporting sermon, TO
morrow running down murderer; in the
afternoon interviewing president in Tho
evening writing up IA fire; dancing at Tho
Waldorf and identifying corpse at th'
morgue these and thousand Other
things call him to duty, and he is always
there ready to do his best for his paper -
| Now York Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31
Travelling with Profit.

That "the Ounce that goes to Rome" Is
not always the superior of "the dance that
STAYS at home" is shown by the following
anecdotc from Mr.. A. ]. G. Harc's 1.-The
Story of My Life:"
Gibson, the eminent English sculptor,
used to relate with great gusto something
which happened to him when he was trav-
cling by diligence before the time OF rail-
ways.
He had got as far as the Mont Gems,
and while crossing 1t entered into con-
yersation with his fellow traveller, an
Englishman, not an American. Gibson
asked where he had been, and he men
toned several places and then said
"There was ono town i saw which i
thought curious, the name of which l can
not for the life of me remember, but i
know IL began with an r.
"was 1t Ronciglionc," said Gibson, or
perhaps Radicofani?' thinking of all the
Mnimportant places beginning with X.
"No, no. 1t was much shorter name
a one syllable name. remember we
entered it by gate near very big church,
with lots of pillars in front of 1t, and there
was a sort of square with two fountains
"You cannot possibly mean Romeo!
ooh, yes, Romol That was the name
of the place"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31
THE TOBACCO WORM.
Pest For Which No Satisfactory REM
edy Has Been Found Yet.

The tobacco worm Is an enemy against
which large dealers would like 10 ind
means of protection 1t is curious fact
that this pest is seldom seen IN attitudes
north Of 30 degrees above the equator, and
IL is never found IN domestic cigar leaf
grown in this country, OF IN any of Or 90
baccos unless a certain amount OF mois-
tare enters into the manufacturing process
so important l. th.s matter ID countries
south of - degrees OF .ongi,ade. ana more
especially &C the cigar manufacturers OF
Hlndustan. that process has been patent
cd for protecting cigars from the pest Any
one who has had any experience with
the triches' or 'lunkahs' Mr. kiphng
talks about vii! know that II Is nc infre-
ouent thing TO come across one SO filed
with holes that II is impossible &c smoke
70. Every once IN awhile cigars from
Cuba are found 70 have the pest Cigars
that are smoked eight or ten weeks after
leaving the rolling table as are most Of
the American made cigars, are rot at
tackled
In smoking tobaccos in this country the
worm is found Every now and again a
dealer finds the worms in his store, and
nice task he has 20 get rid OF them The
manufacturer closes out his stock, scrubs
the factory down and leaves it open 90 the
frosts of winter Then in the spring IL
will be clear again The dealer has TO
clear out all his stock, inspect 1t closely,
and make bargains of the tainted or send
II back &c the manufacturer a few years
ago a cigar dealer not far from the city
hall received from the manufacturers of
certain brand of cigarettes a warship made
entirely of cigarettes Soon after worms
appeared in his cigars and were traced to
the ship The ship had been made for
some time, and the tobacco had been made
especially rich in glycerin TO keep 1t from
breaking as il dried 1t was literally alive,
and from the window where the ship was
the worms had spread all over the store
The remedy for these worms in Hindu
stan is TO coat the box with solution
which practically renders it alright and
| then subject the box TO very high dry
heat This process is said to be successful,
but leaves the cigars drier than the aver
ace American likes them. The remedy
tried in this country has been cold storage,
which has also put an end TO the worms,
but. then, Geld has an effect on fine leaf
as bad as heat and utterly takes the aroma
and snap out of fine cigars. The only sure
preventive appears to be to get the goods
fresh and not keep them too long New
| York sun
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31
Bill in the Legislature
Concerning Lake
Linden.
Citixens Are Not Acquainted
.v,,,, NJ and wonder why IL HasG'I
Heen Diseussed sy the People
O1hsr n cws.

Some Lake Linden people are wonder
ing what is the purpose OF the bill to
conf power and authority on the cou =
oil Of the village of Lake Linden to pur-
chase and acquire property and to erect
a proper necessary structures in connec-
tion Herewith, without as well az with
in the corporate limits Of said village,
and % hold and maintain the same for
the purpose OF supplying said village
and the inhabitants thereof with water,
which had passed the house and been
given immediate effect" which is now
under consideration Of the State legisla-
ture. Very few people hereabouts appear
70 know why the bill has not been dis
cussed among the citizens, as they should
certainly be posted as TO what laws are
being considered which regards them
selves and not the State in general.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31
A Knowing Dog

A st Bernard dog which lives near Dos
ton proves great comfort to WIDOW 20
whom he does not belong Dogs usually
conflne their care To their own households,
but this one, recognizing the unprotected
state of the widow, who lives alone ex
tends his services to her house She Is
afraid of tramps who pass her house on the
way 10 Boston The farmer who owns the
dog therefore, when he sees suspicious
character coming up the road says to his
dog
Jack, go over to Mrs II and SIT CD
her piazza till the tramp gets by
Whereupon the dog runs over 10 Mrs
II s. posts himself at the door and II the
tramp comes up the walk steps forward
and growls at him As the dog is big
one aud rather forbidding. though he has
never been known to bite any one, the
tramp in % cases out of 100 remembers
tina, il is getting late. and that he hash
any time to fool away along the road
When he Is wei. out oi sight. the dog re-
turns home
The dog carries his aallantry to the same
lady 10 such an extent that when she "
visiting his masters house OF an evening
he always accompanies her home to the
door of her house New York Tribune
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31
rabbits That Climb.

A correspondent writes to the London
Field that while he was hunting rabbits
|Tith ferrets in January he found rabbits
ION three occasions in willow trees which
|overhung the water of mill stream.
The miller said that it was not an I'M
/ usual circumstance. Some months ago
The Field told of other rabbits which
had been shot, like raccoons or opos-
sums, out Of trees in England. In re-
Vent years cases Of rabbits i'll trees have
been reported with increasing frequency.
From Australia has come the most re-
markable story of rabbits as climbers.
The only way in which rabbits could be
Kept out Of certain tracts Of land Ill
australia was by the building OF wire
ences about them, the fences having
4eshes so small that the beasts could
ot crawl through and being so high
hat they could not jump over. The rab-
pits have clawed at the wires until their
halls gradually have become hooked.
Pome of the rabbits learned to scale the
ences, and then great additional ex-
ense was necessary, for the top OF the
nee had to be bent over like mp
ne down, with the hook out, so that
Pc rodents could not get over the top
australian rabbits are said to be learn
Pg to climb trees for the leaves.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31
HAS NO FEAR OF SNAKES.
saryiand Man Who Allows the Most Poi
sono" Reptiles TO Bite Him.

The only ivan i'm the World who does nor
Tear snake bite and upon whom the ven
om OF serpcnts apparently has no effect is
William Il. Wilmer whose home is i'm
Wolisyille, Nd. His performances with
coplerh'ads, rattlors and yipers are con-
s.aht source OF WcnCCr and amUaement to
an VINO Know him, and even to his lifelong
friends there Is II large element of mystery
hpou6 the man and his strange power over
snakes.
lie takes great pride i'm this respect. and
when among strul GERS il is favorite form
oil amusement with him To hunt up some
ugly looking specimen of the serpent fam
ily-the moro deadly the Better il fits his
purpose-and To let the reptile sink its
Venomous langs in his bare arm or hand.
Recently, while on visit in the noun
tains OF We tern Pennsylvania, a half doz-
en- spotted Nipers were found in a bunch
undora stone. Rolling up the sleeve Of
his coat until his arm was bare To the ell
bow, NitmD proceeded with his other
hand TO take the largest and ugliest look.
ing Npcr y the tail, and shaking him
apart from the rest of the snakes, swung
him about until he was thoroughly en-.
ragged. He then allowed the viper TO sink
its teeth in his arm.
Then one by one the other vipers were
picked up and allowed TO seize the arm un-
I'll there were Il fun hah dozen of the spot
ted, writhing things hanging from Wit.
mor's flesh and winding themselves about
the arm i'm Il very frenzy of rage. When
the spectators were sufficiently Mortified,
the man took the snakes one by one by the
tafI Ill, I.
killed them by swapping them like the lash
Of a whip.
For the rest Of the day no one would
have been surprised to see the man droI
dead ut any moment but, on the contrary
he seemed among the liveliest of the party
There was no swelling OF the arm nor any
numbness of the flesh the only trace of thu
exhibition being n number of tiny rec
| spots on the arm, which looked as if ;
needle had punctured the flesh. Thost
| were the marks of the snakes fangs.
| Wilmer himself says of the strange pecu
| liarity which he POSSESSES that il is some
| thing inherited from his ancestors, one il
each generation back as far as he know
having had this same immunity from tn
| poison of yCnomous reptiles. 81 do no
| try to explain it" said he. CAN l know
is that / have no fear of snake bites, ant
| although l have been bitten hundreds O
times, | never felt the slightest ill effect
from any of them.
at is only pastime for me to hunt an
catch the most deadly serpents, and a pc
culiar feature of it is that once snake ha
bitten me have no difficulty in tanning il
In fact, at home have number of pc
rattlers and copperheads which know N
and will come when | call them just lik
dog ! seem to have the same power owe
animals and have yet TO meet the frs
| wild animal | cannot tame. Now Ior
| Herald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31
No Law Against II.

Some years ago, soon after the compile
ton of the Galveston Harrisburg and san
Antonio railroad from San Antonio TO HI
Paso, the writer was employed as rod
mar in the engineering department of the
company NV first work took me TO Lang
try, on the banks of the Rio Grande ~
town that has been made famous by Roy
Bean the county Judge, and the Fitzsim
mons Maher fight The engineer in
charge was running water line from the
station TO the river mile distant. he
wished &c finish the survey before sunset
and asked me 10 hurry up with my work
with all possible speed.
Two Cinnamon were being used as chain
men, having been taken from section
work for the purpose They were very
slow and finally lost my temper speak
ing harshly 20 one lie understood Eng
nsh fairly well and showed fight He was
standing about so feet away when he
threw Ratchet at re with all his strength
Having missed me he picked up a steel
rod the ends of which were as sharp as q
brier and started toward me like mad
bull was unarmed and saw no escape
except by fight Just as | had turned TO
run there was the report of rifle, and
upon looking around saw the Chinaman
on the ground and the other one running
with all speed The depot agent who had
been out hunting had arrived upon the
scene Iu.t IN time 10 save my life Inc
Chlnaman was left lying on the ground,
| and we went % hunt up Judge Bean The
tragedy was explained. ANA we waited in
! GREATNESS silcnce TO hear what he had to
say The Judge eyed each Of us curiously
for moment Then look OF disgust
settled upon his rugged features
/ Killed a Did Chinaman eh How
many times did YOU shoot i'm Oncei
We'll thats better Last time man did
Chinaman up in my jurisdiction he had
ter shoot i'm three times Course they
ain't no law gin tillin ono OF en- that l
kin lin In the slater books, SO had ter
turn i'm alocse But ! fined i'm ten gal
lens or ticker fur shootin mo n once
We thanked the Judge and turned TO GO.
when he said AS | said cant fin yon'
but Is air one OF Won got or bottle on his
pusson?" -Chicagc Times Herald
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31
PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.
The Incident That Led to the Change In
the Law.

An unnamed Missourian, described as
"for many years trusted official OF the
United States senate, is quoted by the 81.
Louis Globe Democrat us explaining why
President Cleveland, after making all
preparations for attending the funeral OF
Vice President Hendricks, suddenly dccid
ed not to do so, hut to remain in Washing
ton instead. If this authority is to be
trusted. the change Of plan was the effect
of a sudden discovery by Senator Edmunds
That rs the law of presidential succession
then stood, if any accident should happen
TO Mr.. Cleveland no one could succc'u 10
the uowers Of his Office until congress could
assemble in regular session the following
December This was due to the fact that
Mr.. Hendricks had for political reasons
prevented the senate from elccJlng presl-
dent pro tcmuorc lie had been able to 90
this by declining to vacate the char ana
to recognize that privilege, lest the senate
which was Republican by narrow ma
iority, should eioc&a president pro tcmPore
belonging to tlalrarty.
Mr.. Hcndrick death took place between
the dissolution of one congress ana the
meeting OF the next. 20 there was no
sneaker upon whom the succession coliu
fpu Senator Edmunds, the Missouri man
saws was Of the opinion that if, in the eX,
listing circumstances Mr.. Cleveland should "a
be incapacitatcd, there was no one win
mower oven To call a special session OF con-
aress. and there would be an interrcgnuim
of dangerous length. He submitted this
view of the case to the president, VINO, ID
is asserted, recognized the gravity OF the
SITUATION and at once determined to mini
mize the danger by remaining quietly at
home As is known, the law relating TO
tbo presidential succession was changed 10
ite nresent shape by the congress that met
nfter Mr.. Hendricks death.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31
Brain Waves

The latest discovery. or rather latest
theory. in science-that OF brain waves
was described in the presidential address
delivered to the British Society For
psvchical Research by Professor William
Crookes He entered. before launching his
theory, upon an elaborate calculation as 70
the vibrations which produce souha anc
light Then he applied similar law 10
the subject of thought transference' anu
suggested that Vt was quite conceivaoie
that the intense thought concentrated oy
one person upon another with whom nc Is
in close sympathy should induce 'eie'
pathic chain along which brain waves
should go straight to their goai wiehou'
loss of energy due TO distance
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31
MANAGING Servants.

81 never keep servant, some way,
,,,bod n woman the other day. "They get
So impairment and talk back, till ! can :
endure it, and so just ship them. Not
much wonder they get impertinent:: NO
servant who has the slightest atom OF s sa
1 res rect, is going to stand being lectured be-
tora a tableful of people. And the mistress
who will do that isn't lady, no mat.s, matter
,',hot che claims to be. A mistress should
.o,''o,nber that servants are, after all, hu-
man and are dominated by much the same
sn;rit ms their employers though In ar
erent degree perhaps. Whatever injuries
their ideas of self respect hurts thoir scr SCI
esteem e and trouble is bound to come Lee 9.
$50 xour servants, if you will, but do IL
behind closed doors. The public Is not IN
terested in your domestic troubles'-HA,
han
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31
THAcKERAYs BIRTHPLACE.
Siilure of Efforts TO Find the Exact Hous,
In India.

sir William Hunters book on "The
Thackerays In India" calls out in The
Athenwum from W. f. Prideau an inter
ssting letter relative to the house i'm which
The novelist was born and his Intellectual
efforts TO find it:
"Tho publication Of Sir William Hunt
er's delightful book reminds me that about
ten years ago, being then resident in Cal
cutta, / m ide vigorous effort 10 discover
the house which had been honorod by the
birth of the greatest writer who has shed
lustcr on The Anglo-Indan body, in view
TO commemorative tablet being placed
upon the building by public subscription.
In this effort l was warmly seconded by
the late Mr. Robert Knight, the editor of
The Statesman, who in the issue of that
paper for sept. ,, 1887 devoted leader to
the subject, and by several other friends
Notwithstanding onr exertions we
failed 20 discover the house in question,
the records neither of the secretariat nor Of
the municipality affording any clew.
ascertuincd that the assessment papers of
the house tax did not extend further back
than 1886, while the first Calcutta daily,
the Calcutta journal, was not established
by j. silk Buckingham till four years aft
searches, however, enabled me to collect
some interesting information in connection
with the novelist and his father, and
among my notes | find an exact record of
the dates on which Richmond Thackcray
entered on his various public employments.
"1hackcray was christened in So Johns
church, the old cathedral, and give below
copy Of the baptismal register, which
has not, / think, hitherto appeared il
print;
Date of Baptisms. -1S12, January 3D.
"Namc and Age Of the Baptized.-N
b. S. Son. ID. Daughter. William Make
peace, born 18th July, 1911. S.
"'Namc and Situation of Parents
Richmond Thackeray, Esqr., of the Civi
| Service, and Anne his wife.
"By Whom and Where Baptized Th
Revd. j. Ward, ID. d..
"Seeing that Richmond Thackeray ap
parently held the appointment of judge O
Midnapore at the date of his sons birth
| and that period of nearly six month
elapsed between that date and the baptism
we are almost led to the conclusion tina
| the boy was born not at Calcutta, but a
Midnapore, and that his baptism was d'
| ferred until his father received his Alipor
appointment. Tradition has, however, S
persistently declared that the birth too
place in Calcutta that l do not feel ver
turesome enough to dispute IL. 1t Is quit
possible that the records do not give I'll
date on which the fathers deputation
| MidnaEore ended.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-31
lie Had Fallen OF.

fatrick was new man in the llght
|rse regiment, but his cheerfulness ana
|tty replies had already established
Pm as favorite. He had one draw
Tex, however, and that was his awk'
Prdness when OH horses back. Nat
PLY his position required the opposite
tins, and Patrick worked hard ana
thfully to acquire the case and natu-
less Of his comrades when riding. he
ratulatcd himself that this was az
accomplished. But one day v h'n
parade his horse SHE'D and threw hlm
II considerable force. when lie re-
ped consciousness, he found tina, ms
had been broken with the fall. Win
usual characteristic good humor 'he
fellow smiled in his pain rs he sad:
Vel, well, it's too bad. l thought
improved in my riding greae
but instead have fallen OIL. --'
Per's Rouud Table.