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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08
DO You Dance To-NichtY

Shake In your shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, n powder for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Corns, Bunions, Chilblains, Frost Bites
and Sweating Feet. AT all druggists and
shoe stores, &c. Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen s. Olmsted. lie Roy, n. Y.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08
1t Keeps the Feet Dry and Warm

And is the only cure for Chllblalns.
Frost Bites, Damp, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Aliens
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all druggists and shot
stores, 25c. Sample sem FREE. Ad
dress Allen s.. Olmsted. Leroy. n. Y.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

Tire Bird and the BEACON.
Poor bird that battlest with the storm
To gain the beacon-light,
Then fall'st q wounded woeful form
Into the CULTS OK night!
A thousand lips that light may bless;
To thee it's the last bitterness.
A light was given to the earth,
Wearing O woman's name;
A thousand tongues have told her worth
And deathless is her fame.
But L was the spent bird, that there
Salvation sought, n foun despair.
w. +. Bourdillon.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08
w Orthy of Consideration

Washington Evening Star: Never
mind" said the legitimate actors friend,
'posterity will doubtless recognize you
Yes" was the reply, "but you forget
that SO far as am concerned, posterity
ID made up exclusively Of dead heads"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08
Seems More ,Iusti0nble.

indianapolis Journal: Walker-Is there
any more pleasure in riding a high grade
wheel h a cheaper one that is just as
good?
Wheeler-N-no; but there isn't quite the
broken down,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

Somebody has invented an unbreak-
able celluloid mirror. This will be an
appropriate Christmas present for SUI
perstitious people.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

1t must have been hard for q woman
who could have as much jewelry and as
many diamonds as Mrs. Charles L. Tiff
fany Of New York to die.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

Mark Anthony gave the cook who
prepared the banquet he gave in Cleo
patra's honor a city. julius Caesar
paid his cook $4,000 a year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

One definition of a pessimist is a
fellow who cannot enjoy a hi ici it
that contains n strand of the cooks
hair.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

Richard Mansfield has demonstrate
ed that a man may have n very bad
liver and be a very good actor.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

From 1910 to 1850 the sum total OF
oreigp arrivals in the United States
YES /, $4,000.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

A number of farmers in Alabama
have pledged themselves to SOW from
five to twenty bushels of wheat this
fall,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

Mrs. winsiow's SOOTHING SIRuP for children
~tsething,. s'ftsns the gums, reduces Inflammation.
allays pain, cures wind coiic. $50 a bottle.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

Two bottles of Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton cured me OF a bad lung trouble.-Mrs
J.. Nichols, Prin eton, Ind, March 26, 1896.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists
refund the money II II faiIE 20 cure 25c
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08
Hot Tim. i'm tn. Old Town

Come along, get you ready. wear your
bran, bran new gown,
For dere's gWine TO be a meeting I'm that
good, good old town
Where you knowded everybody, everybody
knowded you,
And you've got a rabbits foot to keep
away de hoodoo.
When you hear that the preaching does
begin,
Bend down low for to drive away all sin,
And when you gets religion you want to
shout and sing.
Therell be a hot time in the old town to-
night, my baby
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08
CHORUS.

%
When you hear those bells 60 ding, ling,
ling,
All join round and sweetly you must
sing;
And when the verse am through In the
chorus all Join In.
ThereIl be a hot time In the old town to-
night.
There'll be girls for everybody in that
good, good old town,
Fol dere's Miss Consola Davis, an dere's
Miss Gondolia Brown:
n dere's Miss Johanna Beasley, she am
all dressed in red
l just Rugged her and kissed and to me
then she said:
Please, oh please, oh, do not let me fall.
You're all mine and l love you best of all.
And you must be m man or I'll have no
man at all
Therell be a hot time In the old town to-
night, my baby
Chorus:
The Popular Song.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08
farmers Handy Feed Cooker.

We desire to call our readers atten-
ton to the Farmers Handy Feed Cook
er, which is sold at the low price OF
$3.50 for ~50-gallon capacity.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

confused mass of mixed memory and
thought thronged her brain, without any
effort Of her will.
How wildly Warnings face, pale with
painful emotion, the day they last met,
came back to her. He had quite forgiven
her; she felt that. He was a really good
fellow. She wished they could be friends
again, as she was with Kenneth; but that
would never be, she feared. She never
could feel at ease with him. He looked as
IL he had suffered a good deal. Was it her
faulti Oh, no! she never could admit that.
She should like to let him know that she
had generally a very good opinion Of him,
but how should she find time to do so,
when he had said more than once that he
would only stay a couple of days' What a
curious contradictory tumble life was al.
together! Mona felt un~accountably un.
happy, and, laying her fair head on the
pillow, she wept long and quietly before
sleep closed her wet eyes.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

The adoption of smokeless powder
will remov the last disagreeable fca-
ture from the French duel.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08
WHAT MAN DOES NOT LOVE BEAUTY?
Mrs. Pinkham Counsels Young Wives to Keep Their Attractivenes
A Letter From a Young Wife.
Seven-eighths of the mel

Seven-eighths of the men
in this world marry a woman
because she is beautiful
in their eyes. IN
What a disappoint-
ment then to see the y
fair young wife's beauty
fading away before a year
passes over her head!
l feel as if 1 would like
to say to every young woman
who's about to be married
Strengthen yourself in a
vance, so that you will ne
break down under the me-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

a shipment of 1000 cats was m~de
from Waterville, Me-, TO Philadel rhia
recently.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08

strain on your powers" Keep your beauty, I
it is a precious possession! Your husband loves
your beauty, he is proud to be seen in public
with you; try to keep it for his sake, and your
own.
The pale cheeks, the dark shadows under
the eyes, the general dropping of the young
wife's form, what do they mean? They mean
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-08
WHERE FLOWERS ARE PRECIOUS.

CONTINUED next weekly
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-06-04
AUSTRIA TO MAKE TROUBLE.
Seeking to EmbaIrass This Govern
ment Over The HaZleton
Affnip

Vienna, May 30.-There is a suspicion
n we'll informed circles here that the
refusal of the United States u comply
with Austria's request for reparation
Tor the death of tw~enty-three Austro>
hungarian subjects shot at 1lazleton,
may be magnified by the Austrian gov
.rnment into a pretext for hostile ac-
ion toward the United States.
1t is well known that the emperor of
Austria has failed in every attempt to
aid his niece, the queen regent of Spain,
oy embarrassing the United States
through a concert of powers, and the
sturdy attitude of the British govern
nent mas brought all Austria's plans
against the United States to naught.
As the emperor now has ground for
picking a quarrel with the United
States. the next step in the Austro-
American difficulty is looked for with
some anxiety.
The Spanish government is preparing
a protest addressed 10 the powers
against the alleged breach OF interna-
,ional law in the American ships using
Spanish flags in approaching Cuban
ports. Up TO the present moment there
S no chance of European Intervention
before the great naval event has hap
pened.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-06-04
The INVASION OF
PUERTO RICO
The Question Is Being Carefully
Considered by the Powers
That Be.
EASIEST THING TO DO NOW
Would Take the Last Port Offering
a Welcome to the Cadlz
Squadron.
EASIEST THING TO DO NOW
TROOPS AND SUPPLIES READY
Regulars Could BE Used There anu
Then Could BE Taken 10
Cuba 10 Fight
BlanCo.

New York, May 30.-Times' Wash
ington special; Though the day has
been devoid OF definite developments
of a military nature it has been
marked by the strengthening of the
conviction now general that Puerto
Rico and not Cuba is to be the first OBJ
jcct of an inSpRion by the combined
land and naval forces Of the United
States. A significant indication of the
attitude of the military arm of the gov
eminent toward Puerto Rican invasion
5 afforded by the earnestness with
which high members of General Miles
staff urge the measure.
The strongest argument used in IA
,or of an attack on Puerto Rico now
$ that il is the easiest thing the army
IAN do just at present, and in fact
about the only thing il can do. \ de-
,ision was reached long ago that not
ess than j0.O00-preferably $4,000 men
would be needed for the first army
hat will be sent to Cuba. Not more
han $4,000 men are now in shape for q
'oreign campaign. These are regulars
md equipped volunteers at Tampa.
The rest OF the volunteer army is I'M
rained and unequipped and it may be
accepted once for all that il is not GO
ng TO he sent to Cuba until it is both
equipped and 10 some extent, at least,
instructed in and Injured 10 the prac-
ticeS of war.
With $1,000 men already at Tampa,
{ is urged Puerto Rico could be taken
and subdued while the rest of the army
5 being put in shape at Chickamauga
and other camps. Then when all has
been made ready for "A grand move on
tuba the regulars could be withdrawn
rom Puerto Rico and used TO lead the
army against Blanco. The fact that
while giving needed training to the
regulars themselves and delivering
them from facilitating inaction at
Tampa, this move would strike a dead
j. blow at Spain in a vital part of her
colonial structure and rob the reserve
Spanish fleet of its only base of sup
plies on this side of the Atlantic, are
urged as reasons in its favor, which Is
believed 10 have had the effect Of de-
termining the powers that he TO under
take il.
There does not seem TO be, it is point
ed out, anything to prevent a prompt
execution of the plan, since the troops,
supplies and transports are all at Tam
pa. and all, according to the reports re-
ceived here, are ready TO move on short
notice.
Assuming the consequences of the re-
report that the Spanish fleet is shut up
i'm Santiago, it is concluded that there
would be no difficulty in SIMPSONS
supplying enough ships TO convey
transports TO Puerto Rico without
weakening the blockade off Havana,
still holding in reserve enough ships 70
attend TO the Cadiz squadron should il
appear suddenly in these waters.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-06-04
The Handkerchief Belt.

New York Herald: There is a new
belt. You thought they had used
everything under the sun for them, but
you were mistaken. The newest new
ness in the line is a muller belt, or,
what its name implies, a silk handker-
chief made into a girdle. There are
two designs. One is made by folding
the big brilliant silken square until IL
forms a narrow band, measuring from
corner TO corner about f~orty-six inches
when stretched out. This Is brought
around the waist, hiding the skirt
band and place where the bodice and
skirt meet. and taken around to the
side and knottcd in W. flowing ends,
fastened by a brilliant buckle or clasp
of silver or gold. The clasps are riy-
eted or sewn on, SO that they measure
the same as the waist band, and when
in position the whole forms a graceful
and really pleasing effect, strange as II
may seem when told in print.
The other handke. lief designs are
called girdles, and are made in n very
different manner They are shirred to
a high point i'm the front like a corset
front and shirred at both sides with
bones sewn in to make them hold their
place. At the back they are gathered
into a slim shir, and the corner points
are allowed to fall in two gradual tails
that show the border and make a neat
finish 10 the otherwise crude hemming
that ordinary bolt silk would show.
They are more graceful than ribbon,
however soft and wide il may be.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-06-04
SANTIAGO WELL DEFENDED.
Entrance to Harbor Well Mined and
New krupp Guns Are
Mounted.

New York, May 30.-Light is thrown
on the subject of the defenses of San
tiago de Cuba by the captain of the
neutrality-suspicious. line steamship
Polaria, Captain Schaarschmidt, which
left Santiago May IL and has arrived.
here. Captain Schaarschmidt says the
entrance to the harbor has been care
fully mined. The narrow channel has
been made narrower by sinking OBJ
structions. so hat the course is only
about 100 feet wide. This channel has
been planted with submarine eXplo-
sives. When he came away new Krupp
guns were being mounted on either
side of the entrance to the harbor.
AS to the supply of food nj Santiago,
the captain says there was no lack of
il there. There was no possibility of
getting additional supplies from the
interior of the island, however, for the
city was completely cut off on that
side by the insurgents. Nobody
thought of going outside the town IN
the land side. The insurgents were so
near that their camp fires could be
seen from the city at night. The Span
ish in the city were in much greater
fear of an attack by the insurgents
than of an attack by the American
fleet.
Captain Schaarschmidt was told hat
there were 5000 tons of coai AT Santi-
ago. The Spanish warships which are
supposed to be in the harbor are the
armored cruisers Vizcaya, Almirante
Oquendo, Cristobal Colon and Infanta
Maria Teresa, and the torpedo boat de-
%stroyers Pluton and Furor. Five thou
sand tons would fiji the bunkers of
all of them. The captain says the
apprehension as TO the result of an at
tack by American warships. They
thought the mines in the harbor and
the new guns at the entrance would
keep hostile ships so far away that
they would be harmless.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-06-04
CUSTER CHRONICLE
JOSEPH KUBLER PUBLISHER

An American woman married an
Englishman, and her husbands reia-
tive, an English nobleman, came on one
occasion to visit her. OF course, she
desired TO entertain him according to
English etiquette, and at once put her
Irish servant in training. She told
Bridget 10 learn to say: My lord, de-
scend; breakfast is awaiting YOU"
Bridget was practiced time and again,
until she could repeat her lines very
glibly. When MILFORD came, Bridget
was told to go upstairs at $3.50 o'clock
zap gently on his door and say: MY
lord, descend; breakfast is awaiting
you" Bridget thought she could ac-
quit herself with credit. However, she
grew excited at the door, knocked so
loud that the occupant of the room
sprang to the door and asked: Whats
the matter Bridget began twisting
her hands n%eryously, unable TO think
what she was to do, and finally gasped
out: my Gawd! come downstairs to
breakfast!"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-06-04
SPANISH SPIES AT KEY WEST,
Fired on the Guard go Probably In
tended to Destroy the Nor
tar Bnttery.

Key West, Fla, May 2s.-A sergeant
of artillery on duty at the mortar bat
terry car at Fort Taylor was fired upon
early this morning by three unknown
men whom he says he knows TO he
Spaniards. The fire was promptly re.
turned, but the men escaped. The af-
fair began yesterday afternoon, when
three swarthy men made an attempt TO
enter the gate of the reservation, but
we're summarily turned of by the sem
try. Between 10 and IL o'clock last
night the sergeant of the artillery
guard. near the mortar battery, dis.
cerned the figures Of tire men. They
opened fire on him with pistols. One
bullet lodged in his arm just above the
elbow. The men turned and fed out
of range. The sergeant sent several
shots after them. Soon after midnight
a suspicious noise was heard near the
mortar battery. Investigation result
ed in the discovery that there was q
carriage in the street just outside h
gate. The sergeant gave orders TO fire
and a volley was sent Mt the vehicle. n
moment later three men were seen rum
ming up the street and the fire of the
soldiers was directed upon them, but
the suspects escaped. The sergeant de,
clares that upon the occasion Of the
last visit Of the strangers n of the
latter carried a suspicious looking
package about three feet long.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-06-04
An Expert View or Manila.

Engineering News: The conflict be-
tween the United States and Spanish
fleets which took place in Manila bay.
in the Philippine islands, on May !.
will rank as the most remarkable naval
battle i'm the worlds history in the
great disparity between the effect of
the battle on the forces OF the victor
and the vanquished. y y = If the
armament of both fleets were in equal
~ good condition, and If both were
fought with equal ability, any naval
expert would have prophesied q victory
for the Americans, barring untoward
accidents and the part which mines or
land artillery might play: but a vic
tory won at a heavy cost in the de-
struction of life and in the injuries suf-
fered by the vessels of the attacking
fleet.
To what, then, can we attribute the
amazing absence of injury TO the
American vessels and their crews?
We see no other possible explanation
than the failure of the Spaniards 90
make effective use of their weapons.
They fought and died with stubborn
bravery. and with no thought of sur
render; but from all accounts hardly
one Of the shots from their thirty-nine,
guns Of large caliber seems to have hit
the American feet. From the accounts
of the battle nov at hand, Admiral
Dewey seems 10 have carried on the
fight at a distance at which the gun
ners of his fleet were able to plant
their shots with remarkable precision,
but at which the Spanish gunncrs were
almost absolutely unable 10 hit the
American vessels. 1t was not a sudden
attack. The Spanish fleet had full
warning of the enemy's approach and
was prepared TO meet il. Nor were
the Spanish vessels disabled before
they had time 10 make n defense. The
American vessels stood off and DELHI
erately poured their fire against their
antagonists, and in the long hours that
the bate continued il seems incom-
~prehensible that not one Spanish gun
ner was able TO give a telling blow 10
some of the opposing fleet. The guns
OF the Spanish vessels were of modern
make, Krupp, Armstrong and Hon
toria. and we believe nearly or all of
them were equipped for rapid firing.
Who can say where the fault lay that
they were not effectively handled? We
commented last week on the necessity
of discipline and mechanical skill for
the working of modern guns, and on
the p~aralyzing influence of corruption
in official life upon the military or
naval strength of a nation. The result
of the Manila engagement seems to lay
emphasis on these principles.
In conclusion, il may be said that
the Manila victory has shown that
American naval commanders of the
present day can worthily sustain the
fame which their predecessors won in
the early days of the nations life; and
that, Notwithstanding the criticisms
that certain European naval author
tiles have bestowed In times past, the
United States cannot only build and
equip modern ships of val but it's
naval forces can use them to fight bat
ties and win victories.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-06-04
0lyMPlA'S CAPTAIN lNVAlIDED
Arrives at Hong Kong With Two
Other American Officers, on
the Sick List.

Hong Kong, May 30.-The United
States auxiliary gunboat Iatiro. for
merly a British merchantmen steam
CT. but now commissioned, mounting
four guns and in charge of a %lieuten-
mi commander of the United States
navy, has arrived here from Manila,
having on board the captain of the
first class cruiser Olympia, the flag
ship of Rear Admiral Dewey, and two
officers who have been invalided.
The situation at Manila is un-
changed. The insurgents are quiet.
Beef costs $3.50 per pound at Manila.
The report that the commander of
the Spanish gunboat Callao was tried
by court martial and shot for not fir
ing IN the American ships which cap
tured the Calloa is untrue. The Iatiro
will return to Manila on Monday next.
Washington, May 2S.- Navy depart
ment officials last night confirmed the
news of the Associated Press that the
auxiliary gunboat Zatiro had arrived
at Hong Kong from Manila. She
brought Captain Charles Y. Gridley of
Admiral Dewey's flagship Olympia,
who is reported i'll. No information is
given as to the nature or seriousness
of his sickness. Who the other two Of
ficers reported inyalided are could not
be ascertained.
The Zafro brought dispatches for
the war department from Admiral
Dewey, but their exact nature could
not he made public last night. 1t was
unofficially announced, however, that
the dispatches contain nothing of a
startling nature. The department is
satisfied, therefore, that the story of
the explosion on the cruiser Baltimore
is without foundation. 1t is stated
positively that no information of that
kind could be obtained by anybody
from Manila before the department
could hear from Admiral Dewey. That
no such information has been received
from him is proof quite satisfactory TO
the department officials that there is
absolutely no truth in the report.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-06-04

One of the candidates for the state
senate in Jefferson county, Alabama,
was a prominent Baptist, and he ex-
pected his fellow churchmen to help
push him along. The story goes that
he was campaigning on a country beat
and had the good fortune to fall in
with n whole congregation of Baptists.
Whether a prayer meeting had just
been held or what the occasion OF the
gathering was is not known. About
this time n light shower came up. and
the candidate at once raised n large
umbrella which he was carrying. You
are not afraid of this little shower, are
YOU, Brother --?" remarked one
good Baptist, standing near. Not at
all" responded the quick witted can
didate, "but you know am opposed TO
all forms of 'sprinkling.'" He carried
that beat solidly.