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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16
Patience with Pupils.

Scr1bner's: Children pass through
stages when, while they may really be
taking in much, they appear absolutely
to have no power to give out anything,
and for these stages education, as we
commonly have it, makes no provision.
The most intelligent teacher is apt to
lose patience with what looks like stu
pidity or sloth; and, in n case, the
teaching progresses in the customary
order, with a constant pressure on the
pupil for proofs of visible acquisition
regardless of whether the internal
forces are intent upon either, and, at
the instant, more imperative func.
tional duties or no..
1T is true that some children have
more of these absorbent periods, and
longer ones, than others, but it is also
true that these eventually do not
prove to be the dullest children, but
often the reverse. In conclusion of
the whole matter what one would
like to have answered is this: Are
times of this sort, i'm which it seems
impossible for the brain to discharge
or even to acquire anything of value,
to be considered rs part of the newt
able constitution of things, something
no more to be fought against han the
farmer can fight with his fields be-
cause they must lie periodically fallow
IL they are TO bear good crops; or can
education, thanks to the newer and
more enlightened recognition of mind
stages in which all growth goes on
below the surface, so treat these
stages in childhood that they will be
less troublesome i'm later years? Do
the semi-comatose mental periods
come within the physicians jurisdic-
tion-are they matters of bile or
lymph, liver or spleen-or will future
teachers reach them? Are they physi-
cal wholly or also psychic? We know
of instances, surely, where they have
been triumphantly forced off, during
a brilliant childhood and adolescence,
by intensive instructors and a stimu-
lative educational regime; and where,
also, the pupil thereafter collapsed in
to insignifcance, showing no power
further Of any sort, much less the en-
viable power, that is ever available, in
hand, ready for use.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16
Yinernr Ernm nntcs-

New York Mail and Express: A novel
table preparation which comes to us from
London, is date vinegar, which is made
from the tastes of that e~ver-popular fruit.
The English got it from the holy land, but
have improved upon the original article.
In the latter place 1t is made by cutting
up ripe dates, boiling them n short period.
so as to break open the cells, pouring the
liquid into a barrel and there fermenting
1t with some yeast. 1T is then carefully
strained n Is ready for use. 1t Is OF a
brown color, with a half-pleasant bouquet
and a warm aromatic flavor. The English
date vinegar Is lighter colored and thinner
than the eastern, but has a pleasanter
and more pungent taste. No new vinegar
has ever yet equaled the oldest kind
known to bon vivants. This is the vinegar
made from red wine by pouring ii, mixed
with an equal quantity Of water. over n
lot Of shavings in a barrel. After 1t runs
through it is drawn off and poured over
again, the operation being repeated until
the fluid is sufficiently sour for the
makers taste.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16

Here is an amusing way to close an
evening party" says an exchange:
take all the guests into the dining
room and urn out the lights. Make
them all sit around the room, in the
middle of which place n soup plate. In
the soup plate put some common salt
and alcohol. Light the alcohol and
look ut each others faces. They will
look natural at first, but as the alcohol
burns out and the salt becomes ignitcd
the flames change from blue TO yellow
and the changes in their faces are very
startling. They all take on a CHASTITY
look. Eyes protrude and the skin looks
as though drawn tight like parch-
ment. Then the faces become almost
black and then the flames die out and
you unconsciously try to wipe the
black off. But it doesn't come off; it
is all the light from the salt"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16
Tricks of the Types.

Costa Typographical: What is
this exclaimed a compositor who was
expecting to be promoted to a proof
leadership shortly. Sermons in
stones, books in the running brooks!
Impossible! He means, of course,
Sermons in books and stones in run
ming brooks" And a new reading Of
Shakespeare appeared next morning.
A sporting compositor thought that
Cricket on the Hearth must be q
slip of the pen. He made it Cricket
OH the Heath"
A writer on angling had the joy of
seeing his sentence, "The young
salmon are beginning to run" printed,
The young salmon are beginning to
SWIM" another thoughtful compos-
itor having been at work.
Happier was the transformation of
the sentence, Bring me my toga' into
Bring mt my toys"
There is a less subtle vein of humor
in the story of the editor who wrote
during an election, '"The battle is now
opened" The compositor spelled 'bat-
tie" with an 80" and the other side
said of course, they had suspected it
from the first.
1t was by a similar mistake that the
late Baker Pasha, who might fairly be
described as a ''battle Scared vet
eran," was called n "battle scared vet
eran," the libel being by no means
pudged when the newspaper called the
gallant officer a bottle SCARED vet
eran."
Owing to an error In printing the
announcement, "a sailor, going to sea,
his wife desires the prayers of the con-
gregation," became "a sailor going to
see his wife deserves the prayers of the
congregation"
The statement, 'Messrs. IS pre-
serves cannot be beaten" was rather
vitiated a. IN advertisement hs the
omission of the 30" in the last word.
Innocently gay was the newspaper
reporter who said that the London ex-
press had knocked down a cow and cut
it into calves
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16
BUYING A SUIT.
To Get One for a Real BOY Is No Easy
Job.

He was simply an average boy-that
is, n of the kind who never stand still
or sit still nor lie still for two consecu-
tive minutes. 1t was Saturday and
his mother had taken him into the
store to get him a new suit of school
clothes.
81 want good ones" she said positive
~; Something that-Jimmie, come
here!-I want something - Jimmie,
where are youP Come out from behind
that counter! You know you amt al
lowed there--I want something with a
double seat and double-Jimnie, stop
hawking over all those clothes! Those
are mems sizes. Now, don't you run
off again, sir!-Yes, l want double
kneed pants and something in Scotch
or-where is that boyp Jimmie! Jim
mic! If l don't-Jimmie!"
He is found madly chasing the store
cat up and down the aisles, and his
mother says:
Just as sure as we go into q store
where there's a cat you 90 chasing ii
like mad. never saw you beat! Now,
you stay right by me, sir. Come, do
you like this suitp"
"How many pockets has it gotp"
ooh. plenty Of EN-"
as there a pocket in the back Of the
pants?"
Eyes. It's a real nice suit. l wonder
if it's all wool. There's a thread that
looks llke-Jimmie! You stop sliding
down that stair railing Come out 8
that room! Don't you see that it says
private on the doorp"
IL wanted to see what made it 'pri-
yate."
THE man in there will private you
if you don't look out! Stop pulling
out those drawers! You come here
now and try on this coat. Stand still
If you amt a regular eel. Stand still
How can | tell how it fits with you
squirming round like that? Does il
feel comfortableP Stand of a little
piece and let me see how It looks"
Jimmie Stands off" at a distance OF
about fifty feet, having been attracted
that far by something in a showcase.
Come herep commanded his mother.
Let those hats alone! Stop whistling
that abominable Sweet Marier You
know very well that you're not allowed
to whistle in the house! / want TO try
this coat on you. There! / like that.
That's what l call neat, aud it looks
serviceable. It's a little light in color
for every day, but l guess I'll take 1t.
Where is that boyP You may do up
the suit while | hunt for him. Jimmie!
Jimmie! Come right straight here!"-
Detroit Free Press.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16
CHAPTER XLIII.

oHhDoN of Absent LOVE.
Six years had passed since the marriage OF
the governess left Miss Darrell alone. She
heard as constantly as ever from Sir Vane;
he had made money rapidly. 1t was no
longer the desire to make a fortune which
kept him away, but the fact that in the part
OF the country where he was great danger
existed, and that, having been placed there
In a situation of trust, he could not well leave
1t; so OF late a hopeless tone had crept into
his letters. He made no reference TO coming
home; and Pauline, so quick, so sensitive,
saw In thisr cticence the shadow of her own
presentiment.
Six years had changed Pauline Darrell
from a beautiful girl TO q magnificent wo-
man; her beauty was OF that grand and
queenly kind that of itself is a noble dowry.
The years had but added TO il. They had
given a more statuesque grace to the perfect
figure; they had added tenderness, thought,
and spirituality to the face; they had given
to her beauty a charm that II had never worn
in her younger days.
Miss Darrell, of Darrell Court. had made
for herself a wonderful reputation. There
was no estate in England so well managed
as hers. From one end to the other the Oar
80 o'e'h "hos PNOpiN ohhu, u EdluCn. Il du-
line had done away with the old cottages
and ill-drained ~farIn-houses, and in their
stead pretty and commodious buildings had
been erected. She had fought q long and
fierce battle with ignorance and prejudice,
and she had won.
She had established schools where children
were taught, first to be good Christians, and
then good citizens, and where useful knowl-
edge was made much of. She had erected
almshouses for the poor, and q church where
Tich n poor, Old and young. could worship
God together. The people about her rose up
and called her blessed; tenants, dependents,
servants, all had but one word for her, and
that was OF highest praise. To do good SEEM
ed the object of her life, and she had succeed
ed so far.
No young queen was ever more popular or
more beloved than this lady with her sweet
grave smile, her tender, womanly ways her
unconscious grandeur of life. She made no
stir, no demonstration, though she was the
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16

New York Herald: The problem of
what to do with your old wells has at
last been solved. Scores of women in
the past have looked disappointedly at
the quality of yelling in their possess
sion, conscious that it was past wear
ing in the ordinary way, and not see
ing what further use could possibly be
made of it. IN now it is the order Of
the day to waste nothing, and women
clever with their needles and Of artistic
proclivities have found a place for wells
once cast aside.
Given the 'know how YOU can do
almost anything i'm the way of dress
decoration with q bit of a veil. Hats
Fan be trimmed with it, and q veil
draped cleverly on n hat makes with
out n question an extraordinarily pref
ty effect. A hat adorned with a veil,
besides, needs little other ornament.
Another use for old wells is ruf1ing the
bottoms of petticoats with them. This
requires some skill. and the ruffling
must be done daintily, but il is a
famous effect for n petticoat.
Again, the front of ball frocks can
be decked with these, and ruffles for
the wrists of dresses are quite possible.
Some girls make collarettes of their
old wells, and yet others entire sleeves.
A number of wells Of the same sort
make capital sleeves-sleeves Of a gem
orally fluffy and seductive effect.
Ornaments for the hair are much in
vogue just now, and here is where the
old veil comes in the most aptly. Choux
is the name the French give to the CON
fections of hair dressing that every
oma is enthusiastic over Just now,
and a veil is as perfect raw material for
one of these chouN as could well be inn
agined. The pulled up daintiness of
these gives them their charm. They
are worn in putfs or in bows with rib
bon aigrettes, and n great variety of
styles is possible. This is the very
latest fashion of the springtime.
If II is fortunate enough to own
any of the italian wells of white, il
should be remembered that these are
the most modish possible TO deal with,
and are the most fashionable to make
over in any of the ways described.
There is yet another use for old wells.
They come into play finely in making
work bags. The foundation of these
work bags is of silk, over which the
yelling is draped. Only coarse yelling
should be used for this purpose.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16
Halls Catarrh Cure ?
Is a constitutional cure. Price rs cents.
Use of IA Newspaper After Readin,

Use OF II Newspaper After Readin g
The newspaper in it's original signih-
canoe Is but a thing of the day; but, its
news exhausted, there is still a hundred
latent possibilities that make it invaluable
to the household, says the Fort Wayne
Qnd.) News.
Everyone knows that on account Of the
printers ink the newspaper makes the
best possible foundation for a fire, but
not everyone realizes that a whole news
paper twisted tightly and thrown on the
CRATE, will burn steadily as long as a
stick of soft wood.
Caught away from home in a sudden fall
OF temperature, one newspaper pinned ov-
,er the chest and another over the shout
ders will keep in the bodily heat and prove
worth many times its weight in gold.
They boys have already learned how to
keep their toes warm when skating, and
the boy who forgets TO put a paper cornu-
copia over his stocking toes before he
puts his shoes on deserves to be cold.
AS q burglar alarm several loosely
,crumpled papers strewed along hte hall
would be apt TO tread serves to brighten
him off as effectually as a shotgun.
A coverlid made of a number Of news
papers smoothly folded and tucked be-
tween cheese cloth or challie covers will
be found hygienic, light and warm.
More readily procured than hot fan
mel, a fiaXseed poultice or n mustard
draught, paper is quite as good a remedy:
Whenever there is a sudden pain, a stiff
neck, a crick in the back, n stitch in the
side, or a catch in hte chest, a layer of
paper pinned over the affected part will
take fireplace of hot applications. And
the end is not yet.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16
misunderstanding

housekeeping is a duty in every we'll
regulated household. People don't wait
until the filth becomes painfully apparent,
but it stands to reason that in every day
use more or less dust or dirt accumulate.
1t is so with the human blood. From the
enormous VARSITY Of eatables taken into
the stomach, a quantity of useless mate-
rial Is bound TO accumulate in the blood
and clog the free and wholesome 6ow in
the vessels. Every person should from
time to time have a "blood-cleaning" and
the best cleanser and blood purifier 10
Cascarets Candy Cathartic. We recon-
mend them to all our readers.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16
OPEN LETTERS FROM
Jennie E. Green and Mrs. Harry
Hardy.

JENNIE e. GREEN, Denmark, Iowa,
writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
II had been sick at my monthly
periods for seven years, and tried
almost everything / ever heard Of, but
without any benefit. Was troubled
with backache, headache, pains in the
shoulders and dizziness. Through my
mother l was induced to try Lydia L.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
it has done me so much good. / am
now sound and we'll"
Mrs. HARRY HARDY, Riverside, Iowa,
writes to Mrs. Pinkham the story of
her struggle with serious ovarian trou-
BILE, and the benefit she received from
the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. This is her letter:
"How thankful / am that I took
your medicine. l was troubled for
two years with Inflammation Of the
womb and ovaries, womb was also very
low. l was in constant misery. I had
heart trouble, was short of breath and
could not walk five blocks to save nv
life. Suffered very much with my
back, had headache all the time, was
nervous, transformations were irregular
and painful, had a bad discharge and
was troubled with bloating. 1 was a
perfect wreck. Had doctored and
taken local treatments, but still was no
better. L was advised by one of my
neighbors to write to you. l have now
finishedthe second bottle of Mrs. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and am
better in every way. 1 am able to do
all my own work and can walk nearly
a mile without fatigue; something I
had not been able to do for over two
years. Your medicine has done me
pore good than oil the DOCTORS"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16

Your friend, Miss Kawbanks, has a
refinement of expression hat is ms
agreeable as it is Unexpected" said
Mr.. Bronx between dances. "Yes.
Clarisse is a lovely girl" said Miss To-
peka, "but don't you think she shoots
her mouth off too much for a real
lady?"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16

A Missouri exchange is responsible for
this: "A man ahmed Rouse married a
girl named Nixcom in Missouri, and now
the wife is bringing suit for a divorce. She
alleges hat Ii was hard enough to nave
the papers announce the wedding as the
NiXcom-Rouse nuptials, but IL is more
than she can bear to have her husband in
sist on naming her son Nixcom A. Rouse"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16

The Hindus consider their lead as sa-
cred and do not allow them to be handled
by alien hands, the nearest male relative
son, father or brother-preparing the BODY
for burial, and If there be none Of these
a son is adopted by the family
for the purpose.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16
Wheat 40 Cents q Bushel.

How to grow wheat with big profit at
40 cents and samples of Salzer's Red Cross
go Bushels peracre) Winter Wheat, Rye,
Oats, Clover, etc, with Farm Seed Cata-
logue for 4 cents postage. JOHN A. SAL
FER SEED CO., La Crosse, Wis. G N u
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16

Telegraph wires will last for forty years
near the seashore. In the manufacturing
districts the same wires will last only ten
years, and sometimes less.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16

The new woman" is beginning TO
ask why the title "Mr." may be given to
a man whether he is married or single,
while the equivalent title Mrs" can
only be given to a married woman. She
thinks the discrimination is a badge OF
t%hYalldom.
Some men won't even lend an ear to
misfortune.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16

Piso's Cure for Consumption has been a
family medicine with us since 1851. II.
Madison, 2409 42d avenue, Chicago, III.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16

Kaiser Wilhelm has issued an order
that the court chaplains shall limit
their m to fifteen minutes
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16

The greatest force known to science is
that produced by the contraction and ex-
pansion OF metals, resulting from the ac-
ton of heat and cold.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16

The man who said you're another"
when called a liar, may be said to have
scored a Spanish victory.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-16

MRS. winslow's BooTHNo SYRUP for children
%teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation.
allaye pain. cures wind collie. 25a a bottle.
Evening star., 1898-04-08
The Australian Honey Guide.



The variegated honey guide is greenish
olive as to its upper colortng. That these
little birds do of their own design and In
tention lead men to the nests of the wild
bees is a fact quite undoubted. This habit
Is well known to the natives. and in follow
ing a honey guide soft, pleasant whistiing
is usually practiced by the black human
partner by way of encouragement to his
feathered friend. The little indicator, hav-
ing secured the attention of a native ~
cries and restless fitting to and fro. fiut-
ters on in front, occasionally lighting on q
branch or bush to see that his chosen ally
is following. 1t Is, however, a mistake to
suppose that the honey guide seeks the
bees nest for the honey; his particular
share Of the plumber consists Of the larvae
found in the combs.
1t is usual for a native. having rihed tae
nest, to break on a piece Of comb and put
1t aside for his bird friend. No doubt in
process of enjoying its feast the honey
guide does taste some small portion Of the
honey, but its real object Is the luscious
grubs found within portions OF the comb.
This habit Is surely one Of the most singu-
lar and extraordinary In the annals Of nat
ural history. How these little feathered
creatures originally developed this most In
teresting trait; upon what wild race Of
mankind they first exercised their persuas-
i've arts; whether. before the advent Of man
in Africa, they practiced upon some honey
loving animal, such as the honey badger
Evening star., 1898-04-08
Experts In Tobacco Testing.
From the Ohio State Journal.

from the Ohto state Journal.
The greater part, IN fact nearly all of
the tobacco raised In Cuba and not used by
the Cuban cigarmakers il shipped to the
United States At certain seasons of the
year the Havana hotels are filed with to-
bacco buyers from the states. Some of
them deal through the brokers In Havana,
but some who know the country and the
language go out into the tobacco district
ard deal directly with the planters, often
buying promising crop before 1t Is pick
ed. The tobacco buyer has necessarily to
be a good Judge of tobacco. He goes down
into the very center Of the bale of tobaccp
he fs examining. extracts some samples
and tests them in different ways. The first
test La that Of smell. The Cuban tobacco
has strong and peculiar odor A little
variation one way or the other makes the
tobacco good or bad After smelling 1t the
buyer is likely to roll rudeiy constructed
cigar out Of the leaf and smoke it. He will
inhale the smoke and endeavor to deter
anime the ash carefully and test also the
combustion Of the tObacco-that is, try to
find out how long IL will hold fire. It is a
great annoyance to a smoker who Is talk
ing or writing. or otherwise engaged, to
put his cigar Into his mouth and find that
1t has gone out. No cigar ever tastes 80
good after - has once gone out. and q fine
has met such catastrophe. 30 one quail
fty sought for ID that OF holding fire. II
sample smoked by the buyer will keep
lighted four minutes 1t Ii considered very
good Some will burn for nve minutes AMI
even longer without being pufKed.
Evening star., 1898-04-08
A Florida Frost.

F. Whitmore In the Atlantic.
Far on in March, when the thermometer
had long been in the eighties, the wind
whipped suddenly into the north, and the
air cooled fifty degrees in a night.
We were in the field. perspiring in linens,
when the change came, with an abrupt
o1ercasting Of the sky. A Whit like the
breath from a glacier struck us, the wind
blew each cement keener. and before we
fairly saw how 1t was our teeth were chat
tering. 1t seemed unbelievable; but pres
emily there was no doubt that a January
norther was upon US. two months out of
season. When we realized this, we set all
hands at work to earth over the half-grown
potato vines. Only a few hours OF the day
were left, but the men worked desperately
with hoes ard ploughs through the bleak
twilight. and much was done. But not all.
When we came out, shivering, in the first
daybreak, we saw that our short harvest
was to be lamentably shortened.
We perceived now, at last, how it was
with us; we were not farming, but gam
bling with the elements. The climate had
been merely toying with us, a trump-card
of spring frosts lying in its sleeve.