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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31
PAY OF PEACE COMMISSION.
No Fortunes Made by Any OF the
Members.

members.
Chicago, Dec. GA Washington
special says:
1t has been learned that the Amer
lean peace commissioners and their AS
sistants have been obliged TO pay all
their personal expenses out Of the COM
%pensation allowed them by tho prcsi.
dent. The expenses which the govern.
ment betrayed included Office rent,
stationery and general expense. The
hotel bills Of the commissioners were
not betrayed by the government. AS
the personal expenses Of the commits.
sioncrs were very high, Il compare.
lively small amount was left TO each
commissioner and each officer of the
commission out of the presidents al
lotment of salaries. Each commits
sioner will receive about $l7 900 for his
services, and out of this he must pay
all personal expenses contracted on
his trip abroad. Secretary Moore will
receive half the amount paid to each
commissioner, and as his personal eN-
penses were as heavy as those of the
members of the commission he will
fare worse than his superiors.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31
r NEW LEAVES.

SHOW, what n that noisei'' said the glad Ecw
Year.
Now, what Is that singular sound ] heart
As IL all the paper In all the world
We're ratified and shaken and twisted and
tw1rled."
'oh, that" said the jolly old Earth Ills the
noise
Df ell my children, both girls and boys.
Affirming over their leaves 80 new,
And NIL TO do honor, New Year, to you"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31
DISCUSSED WITH ZANGWILL
Cleveland Society Shocked at the
Famous Novelist's Manners.

Famous Novelist's Manners.
Cleveland, o., Dec. 23.-rhere is no
doubt that Xangwill, the idol, has fall.
en- i'm Cleveland. Should he ever re-
turn TO this city the homes of the
people who so layishly entertained him
during his two visits here will be
closed to him.
He shocked Cleveland society. His
table manner are described as otfcns-
i've, while in many eases in the draw
ing rooms women fled from his side.
There are surprising revelations con
corning his visit here, which are
slowly coming to the surface.
On one occasion lie was made the
victim of u joke. He had placed q
stamp on an envelope, moistening it
with his tongue. In II spirit OF jest
one of the women said:
why, Mr.. Zangwill, don't YOU know
that the glue on those stamps is
poisonous?"
lis that SOP" the author said, thor
oughly ALARMED. II must go and wash
out my mouth" and before any man
or woman present could stop him
Zangwill was busily engaged washing
the glue from his mouth.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

will be worth the mistress while Il
provide them herself. The best cap
are made of frills of embroidered cam
brio, which draw up with a tape ant
can be pulled out flat to be WASHED
and ironed. These are easily made
and all fear of the maids appearing
with a dirty piece of lace gathered III
on their heads is avoidable. 1t mus
be understood that when the house
maid is out and the cook has to answe
the door she also wears the same o
of costume.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

\ prominent Spaniard, IA long resi-
dent i'm Havana and IA man OF unusual
observation and intelligence, attrib-
utes the strength OF the United States
20 the strength i'm mind and body OF
the American IN lie says: Give
a million American women as wives to
the young men of Spain and the ma
ton in a quarter of a century will take
its place among the greatest nations
of Europe"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31
CUSTER CHRONICLE
JOSEPH KUsLER PUBLISHER

Frederick p. Sanguinct. father oil
eleven children, with twenty-slx
grandchildren, has just died at his
home, 1883 Evans avenue, st. Louis.
Ills death is the first that has occurred
in the family, including the three gen
erations, for over half a century. The
Sanguinets have lived in St. Louis all
the time. During Mr.. Sanguinets sex
e~nty-three years he has not been i'll a
day, and until three weeks ago, when
taken i'll with liver trouble, was en-
gagged in active business as a civil en-
gineer. >
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

idly until they had reached the top OF
the structure.
At the beginning of the fire the oc-
cupants of the building were notified
and escaped without difficulty. A
number Of them, however, lost their
furniture and valuables.
Paterson, n. j., Dec. 22.-Continen-
tai hall, an old land mark, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. The build
ing, which was three stories high, was
occupied O the ground floor by store
keepers, while two families lived
above. The occupants had narrow es-
capes from suffocation and burning.
Loss, $4,000.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

Lord Kitchener. who smashed the
khalifa, Is over six feet tall and as
straight as a lance. His eye is steady
and passionless, his checks rather full
and his long mustache covers an i'm.
movable mouth. His face is harsh and
neither appeals for affection o stirs
dislike.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

On the island Of Sardinia brigandage
is apparently a more profitable pur-
suit than literature. The death OF
Sails Giovanni Corbadu, poet, novel
list, historian and brigand proves At.
Now that he has died 1t appears that
robbery furnished him q living, while
tho composition Of unstable verses
diverted his leisure hours. His pro
auctions are now being published.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

Rev. DR.. Augustus II. Strong, prcsi-
dent of the Rochester Theological sem
mary. who has hitherto been opposed
10 c~o-education i'm the University Of
Rochester. that he has
changed his views on that question,
and will cooperate with those who
are trying to raise 100000 for the
purpose of making co-education a
fact.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

Among the three major generals OF
volunteers who will be deprived OF
their commissions and returned &c
regular army duty are Generals Hawk
ms and Kent, both heroes Of the San
tiago campaign. Both are West Point
ers, lifelong soldiers and veterans of
the civil war.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

\ memorial tablet 10 Jonathan Ed
wards viii bc erected in the First
church OF Northampton, Mass, in
juno, 1900, that being the i5Oth ami
versary OF Edwards dismissal from
the church as its pastor. The tablet
will be of bronze, five feet In length
and three in width, with "a likeness OF
the renowned preacher and theologian
In relief,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31
NEW TREATY WITH PERU.
Will BE Negotiated on Expiration OF
Present Agreement.

New York, Dec. 26.-Captain j. L..
Hickey. military attache of the United
States legation in Peru, arrived here
today on his way 10 Washington
Speaking OF the notification Of The
abrogation of the commercial treaty
between the United States and Peru
which expires by limitation mex DC
tober. Captain Hickey said it wolld be
followed by a new treaty.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

John Cook, head Of the famous per
sonally conducted tourist agency,
himself Travelled with the emperor OF
Germany during the Iatter's recent
tour. The cost Of the trip has been
approximately estimated at $1,000 per
day. This figure will not appear eN-
travagant when il Is remembered that
tho emperor's suite is very large.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

SIZE SOFTLY PLAYED BITS OF OLD MELODIES.
mont he received not even tho politely
fictitious message that she was out" 1t
came in the more brutal form-she was
engaged and could sea no one. Lester took
out another card and was about to pencil
q line on it, but he stopped. How should
ne dare TO send the lady an iinperious
prayer for an audience. What right had bel
What time will Mr.. Leland be imp
The servant answered that he was to be
expected in about half an hour. Three
quarters of ali hour later Lester was again
ringing that doorbell. He sent up his
oard to Mr.. Leland and IN his abstraction
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

Colonel William NJ. Shaw, district
passenger agent of the Burlington
road I'm Cincinpati, bears n singularly
close personal resemblance TO General
Miles. Colonel Shaw was with the
presidential party during part of its
trip through Missouri, and at almost
every stop was congratulated ON the
success of the war against Spain.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

DIR. Rudolph Nihchow. the Berlin sa'
want, has been visiting London, where
he lectured on recent scientific pro
gress as affecting pathology and sur
gerry. His style is described as equal
ing that of Huxley in lucidity. his
tones being beautifully limpid and his
accent hardly distinguishablc.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

\ monument to the poet Holly is 10
be erected at Hanover, somewhere
near his grave. Just where his grave
il, to be sure, is not exactly known,
for Holly, having been a German, was
ignored and belittled by his country
men during his lifetime, like Hcinc,
Mozart, Wagner, Schopenhauer and
many other men of genius.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

4 year ago last August Mrs. Louise
b. McVay determined TO go to Alaska.
Not having enough money she slowed
herself away Oh a steamer sailing from
Seattle TO st. Michael's. She passed
the winter cooking for a lot OF miners,
located n claim on bonanza creek and
is o worth 100000. Mrs. McNay is
young, good looking and Il widow.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

A Leipsic court has decided that
some recent photographs of the Prin-
cess dc Chimay shall he suppressed
because they represent a woman too
fat TO be artistic. Now if banting will
not serve the princess, she still has II
chance TO be the prize fat woman of Il
dime museum,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

Mr.. S~pelterini, balloonist, who has
made during his career 497 ~ascensions
and carried some 500 passengers, is
preparing TO cross the Alps in the bal
loon Vega. He will be accompanied by
Professor Hermi, OF Zurich, the object
of the ascension being scientific.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

The historic house in City road, Lon
don, i'm which the founder Of Metho-
dism lived and died, is to be opened as
a museum for Wesley relies. For the
greater part of the present year this
house has been undergoing repairs.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

The crown prince Of Siam, who can
write fiuently in three European lam
guages, is Il boy author Of some note.
lie has written several stories Tor
children's magazines published in
England.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

Though Thomas j. Reed holds the
record for length OF consecutive serv-
ice i'm congress, Joseph g.. Cannon, OF
Illinois, has served i'm all two years
longer than Mr.. Reed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

John Hays, the d%iscoycrer of Lake
Superior's copper wealth, has just cele-
brated his oath birthday in Cleveland.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31
FIRE IN CHICAGO.
Big Apartment House Burns---An
Old Landmark Gone.

Old Landmark Gone.
Chicago, Dec. 23.-The Melrose
apartment building, the largest struc-
ture of its kind on the south side of
the city, was almost completely de-
stroyed by fire last night, entailing a
loss THAI will exceed 100000.
Flames which had been shoulder
ing in the structure for probably more
than half an hour before they were
discovered suddenly burst forth from
the northeast corner Of the building.
From floor TO floor the flames ran rap
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31
E,,.eion Mission Finances.

Boston. Dec. 23.-The annual report
of the american board of foreign mis-.
sions shows total receipts were $751;
w
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

Miguel de Ceramics: Every man Ia
as heaven made him and sometimes
great deal worse"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-12-31

Shoes made of porpoise leather ar
absolutely i%mperyiQus to water.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-15
NEW YoRK'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
W. Z. Curtis in Chicago Record.

W. Z. Curtis in Chicago Record.
The educational condition of New York
is astonishing. The police census shows
that there are 702, 1862 children of school
age in the city, but of these only 4bS229
are enrolled in either the public or the
private schools, and the average attend
ance is only 33i 1874. One of the reasons is
that there isn't room enough The total
seating capacity of all the schoolhouses
of Greater New York Will only accom-
modate 3S5, ,091 or only about half of those
who ought to be in attendance There
are only 405 schoolhouses altogether.
Thrty-two new buildings were added last
year. and fifteen of the old ones were
enlarged. The total number of teachers
employed was 9.452, which is an average
OF one to eighty four children of school
age, one to fifty of the enrolled and one
to thirty-five of the average attendance
The total expenditures for school pur-
poses in Greater New York last year
were $10,576,77O making the average cost
per pupil SEAS
The schools of London cost s1i, $50, 900 last
year, or Sl3.Si per capita of the average
attendance, but the salaries of teachers,
which aggregated $6370,000, and are the
principal items of expenditure, are much
smaller than those paid in the United
states. An English teacher who gets $50
month is considered exceedingly well
paid. A great majority get less than
$50 co a month, and l believe the average
is something like SIS. The London school
beard spends s350,000 year for the sup
port of manual training institutes. S5iO
900 for schools of art and design, 100000
for deaf and dumb asylumS and $3.50 900
for the education of the blind.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-15
One Spectre Removed.

The prompt acceptance by DIR. Pal
ma, representing the Cuban provi-
sional government, of the Spanish
American armistice, with notification
OF the insurgent commanders to stop
fighting Immediately, removes another
spectre from our path-a spectre very
largely due to malign American infiu-
ences. With cordial cooperation by
the intelligent and patriotic portion of
the Cuban revolutionary movement,
which would never have been In doubt
but for the pernicious activities of
those short sighted Americans who ap-
par"ntly have conspired to deCubanize
Cuba from the start, our work of pac-
ification and reconstruction in the gem
of the Antilles will be vastly facilitat-
ed.
1t Is an old adage that molasses
catches more flies than vinegar, a
truth which Americans have reason to
bear in mind in their consideration Of
Cuban administrative problems. We
cannot win the confidence of the Gu
or ignoring them, and without their
confidence we can neither reconstruct
Cuba for the Cubans nor successfully
retain it for ourselves. Policy no less
than justice would seem to dictate that
cur approach to the great internal
problem soon to be presented by Span
ish avs"nation of Cuba should be along
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-15

No more important duty will confront
the American people growing out of
lessons which the war has made vivid
than that of instituting a thorough re-
form in the diplomatic and consular
service. Since we are to become
through necessity a world power with
increasing interests ramifying through
an increasing sphere of influence it is
essential that the guardians of our
rights in peace should be not less quail
fed in their respective ways than must
be those who defend the flag on battle
field or battleship.
The war has shown that a good army
and good navy cannot be improvised.
1t has shown that while we can with
safety in military operations allow for
a certain percentage of fiexibilty in
the composition of our armies and navy
the bulk of the officers and men must
be regulars thoroughly trained to
their duties and rated not along polit-
ical lines but in correspondence with
actual merit. Because our navy had
less politics and more professional it-
ness in it from bottom to top than our
army our navy emerged from the or
deal of war with the higher honors,
and this teaches that not only the navy
and army but also the diplomatic and
consular service must be removed from
the reach of partisan fluctuation and
placed upon basis of permanence con-
ditional upon ability developed. The
qualities which make for success in our
governments foreign service are in no
sense connected with the mutations of
domestic party politics. The Democrat
representing American interests abroad
acts not for a party but for a nation
and there is no reason save custom
why if he does his work well he should
be replaced by a greenhorn Republi-
can the moment there is a change of
majorities at home.
The custom which has permitted
quadrennial upheavals in the foreign
service because of domestic political
changes has been tolerated by the peo-
pie simply because they have not had
brought clearly to their attention its
fairness. Heretofore we have cared lit,
tie about foreign relations, being on
crossed with internal problems. Blu;
row as We begin new era we
must resolve to begin right. We
must realize that we cannot compete
in the international arena for com.
merce and prestige without sending tC
represent us men adequately fitted fol
their duties and stimulated by an in.
| telligent assurance of retention ant
| promotion. This is lesson which W.
| dare not disregard
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-15
ia AND l16 WYOMING AVENUE

the fortune of opportunity and the Valor
of our sons have given us. We want to
take our part in the commerce Of the
Pacific, and commerce follows the flag.
We can give those extensive islands a
better government than they have ever
hitherto possessed. We can promote in
dustry among the people and afford Sc
curity to life and property. Where our
flag goes improvement of the conditions
of the people will follow. We think the
flag of the United States will not be with
drawn from any land upon which it has
been or shall be planted in this war; The
dominion of the United States may. in
deed, be disguised in one place or another
under the name of a protectorate. but 1t
will be maintained as an actual fact
nevertheless. 1t is not going to be good
for any political party in the United
States to propose to retire the national
standards from the lands on which they
have been planted.