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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14
General Orders No. 1.

The following order issued at Camp
George Dewey. by Col. Frost of the
First Regiment South Dakota Volun-
teers, would indicate that the time
during the hours specified is fully util.
lied by our soldier boys in the perfor-
mence of the various duties named in
the order. and that they have little sur
plus time to devote to kicking on ac-
connt of any discrepancy in the quality
or quantity of Uncle Sans hash:
First CALL. 6:l5 A M.
Reveille.......... March ...... 6:25
Revcille -. $50
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14
Forestry Reserves.

The following communication devoted
to a discussion Of the propriety of the
establishment of forestry reserves, is
given space in the CHRONICLE by reason
of the special local interest involved in
the subject treated:
The times., 1898-01-02
A Mystified English Lady
from the Atlantic


My first experience in England was,
ton as an American and to know what
was thought of us. This was easier
twenty-five years ago than now, since
the English ignorance of Americans
was then even greater than today,
and perhaps even more frankly ex-
pressed One of the first houses where
/ spent an evening was the very hospi-
table home of distinguished scholar.
then the president of the Pathological
Society, and the highest authority on
the various dialects or the English
language: but / was led to think that
his sweet and kindly wife had not fully
profited by his learning. She said to
me. "Is it not rather strange that you
Americans, who seem such friendly
and cordial race, should invariably adj
dress a newcomer as stranger while
we English, who are thought to be cold
and distant. are more likely to say
INV friend ?''' She would scarcely credit
it when 1 told her that l had hardly
ever in my life been greeted by the
word she thought SO UNIVERSAL; and
then she added, 81 was told that
Americans began every sentence with
We'll. stranger, guess / was COM
PEELED to plead guilty to the national
use of the first and last of these two
words, but still demurred as to the
stranger" Then she sought for more
general information, and asked If it
was really true, as she had been told,
that railway trains in America were
The times., 1898-01-02
The Dum-Dum-. Bullet

(From the Army and Navy Journal.) }
The use of, the Dum-dum bullet by
the English in their warfare against
the Indian and African border tribes
is causing most unfaForable comment
in military circles. The Dunn dunn bull
let is the name given by the Indian
soldier to the new projectile for the
Lee Metford rife, specially prepared
for use in India. AS experience in Chi
trail has shown, the original nickled
Lee-Metford bullet made a ciean-cut
hole in the human target The person
hit when no bones We're touched, did
not notice that he was wounded and
could remain in the fight for some
time.
A few officers of the Dum-dum fac
tory were called upon to supply a
remedy, which they have done. The
nickel jacket of-the Lee-Metford bullet
is ripped up along its length, leaving
the head whole. On the impact of the
new bullet the nickel stripe and the
lead spread out like a round fan and
naturally causes dreadful wound and
the person hit is Immediately knocked
down Technically the employment of
this bullet is not a violation of the con-
vention of st. Petersburg of 1868, which
prohibited the use of explosive bullets
in small arms, because the bullet is not
burst by an explosive substance within
it. Nevertheless, it is generally held
that the letter of the st. Petersburg
compact is being violated and that
the attention of the countries which
signed it should be called to the fact
The English have not yet issued the
Dum-dum bullet for the use of the
home troops.
The times., 1898-01-02
FouSDATIoss OF FORTUNES.


Senator Farwell began life as n
surveyor
Cornelius Vanderbilt began life as a
farmer.
Wanamakers first salary was $1.25
a week.
A. T. Stewart made his start as a
school teacher.
Jim Keene drove a milk wagon III a
California town.
Cyrus Field began life as a clerk in a
New England store.
Pulitzer once acted as stoker on a
Mississippi steamboat.
Lucky" Baldwin worked on his
fathers farm in Indiana.
Dave Sinton sold sugar over an Ohio
counter for 81 week.
George W. Childs was an errand boy
for a bookseller at 81 a month.
j. c. Flood, the California million
aire, kept a saloon in San Francisco.
p. IT. Barnum earned q salary as bar
tender in Niblo's Theater, New York.
Jay Gould canvassed Delaware
county, New York, selling maps at
St.50 apiece
c.. p. Huntington sold butter and
eggs for what he could get pound
and dozen.
Andrew Carnegie did his first work
in Pittsburg telegraph Office at So a
week
Adam Forepaugh was a butcher in
Philadelphia when he decided TO go
into the show business
Senator Brown made his first money
by plowing his neighbors' fields with a
pair of bull calves.
The times., 1898-01-02
Temuerafe .Ianan

(B'rom the Chicago News.l
OF all the so-called civilized coun-
tries. and Japan must be included in
the list, there is none in which there is
so little drunkenness as in Japan. Saki
the native drink of Japan, is drunk as
tea is drunk in this country, and it is
not much more intoxicating than some
tea to be found on supper tables of the
teetolers. 1t is supped hot from
small cup the size of an ordinary after
dinner coffee cup. Men. women and
children drink it daily There are, of
course, instances of Jap drinking saki
till he is drunk, but unless the strength
of the saki of today has been materially
increased during the last few years the
Jap must have the capacity7of a barrel.
Whisky in Japan sells over the bars
frequented by sailors for 10 silver. cents
a glass, and it is bad whisky, too In
hotels, clubs and other places habited
by naval officers and other foreigners
of good position or OF means. whisky
costs from IS to % and so cents a glass.
Neither class of resorts is frequented
by natives, except they be offfeials or
having to do Socially Or commercially
with foreigners. i, So far as we know
there is not a native saloon from Ha-
kodata to Nagasaki where whisky is
sold
Wages in Japan are not enough to
enable workman 30 get one drink of
whisky a day unless he go without
food. raiment and l1ouset Where, them
is he to get enough to bring on all the
horrors which the Tribune attributes to
his wholly unnatural and unheard of
habit? In time the Jap may have the
jimjams, but they will not be brought
about by whisky. { N
The times., 1898-01-02
A Trading stamp Experience

(From the Detroit Free Press)
Trading stamps? snorted Mr..
Whimply as he paid for box of cigars
No, siri Never suggest them TO me,
sir! Never mention them within my
hearingi"
mo offense, Mr.. Whfmp1y."
But it is offensive, sir, very often
sive. For forty years I've struggled
night and day. you might say, to make
comfortable home for my family and
leave them something when I'm gone.
Now it looks as though these same
trading stamps were going to set me
back about where l started. My three
daughters are all after them, and so is
my SON They get up at all hours of
the night in their rivafry to reach the
market first. Three pounds of steak
make a liberal allowance for us, yet
there are from six to twelve pounds
brought into the house every morning
by these young stamp fiends.
"'They buy groceries enough for a
hotel We have dishes that l never
heard of before, and always have
pounds left where ounces are eaten.
Each one of the girls has bought an
extra party dress for which she has no
more use than 1 have for a gatling gun.
Their mother has been seized with the
contagion and purchased an expensive
watch as a present for me, just to get
the trading stamps4t that went with it.
The boy is going daft on the subject.
l gave him a check to meet his Christ
mas expenses and he went to thirteen
banks, raising a row at each one be-
cause it wouldn't give him stamps with
the money. Insteadsof trying to econo-
mize they are all figuring on what they
can buy and really think they are Ma
poleons of finance when they manage
to get ten cents or!five cents, or what
ever it is, for a dollar. Never say trad
ing stamps to me again.
The times., 1898-01-02
some Legal Fa cts

An indorser may prevent his own
liability to be sued by writing with
out recourse or similar words.
An oral agreement must be proved by
evidence. A written agreement proves
itself. The law prefers written to oral
evidence, because of its precision.
No evidence can be introduced to
contradict or vary written contract;
bat il may be received in order to ex-
plein it, when such explanation is
needed.
Written instruments are to be con-
strued and interpreted by the law ac-
cording to the simple customary and
natural meaning of, the words used.
The finder of negotiable paper, as OF
all other property. must make reason
able efforts to fird the owner before he
is entitled to appropriate it for mis-
own purposes. If the finder conceal it.
he is liable to the charge of larceny or
theft.
Joint pavees of bill or note, who
are not partners, must all join in an
Endorsement.
One may make a note payable to his
own order and irdorse it in blank. He
must write his name across its back
or face, the same as any other in
dorser.
After the death of a holder of a bill
or note, his executor or administrator
may transfer it by his Endorsement.
The husband who acquires right to
bill or note which was given TO the
wife, either before or after marriage,
may indOrse it.
Acceptance" applies to bills and
not to notes. 1t is an engagement on
the part of the person on whom the
bill is drawn to pay it according to its
tenor The usual way is to write
across the face of the bill the word
accepted
The times., 1898-01-02
TEASING CHILDREN.
No Wonder the IAtfh Ones Become
Irritable s&id eeyish.

The young chi1ds with its fresh. in
nocent ways, is not infrequently re-
garded as a plaything for the enter
tainment of it's elders, and so is teased
and tormented in all sorts of ways be,
cause its response Is so novel and in
not call such treatment teasing, but
that is precisely what.it amounts. to
from the child's standpoint.
Just recently the WRITER was witness
to scene which is typical of much that
may be observed in ones environment
If he has an occasion to look for it. A
little child disliked very greatly to have
anything touch it's nose and would
make the liyeliest efforts to dispel
whatever came in contact Herewith.
The sweet baby movements were natu-
rally enough very amusing to an adult
who did not see anything in them but
fun for himself
Frequently some mature, person who
knew the child's characteristic in this
regard would place a finger or other
object near the delicate member to see
the little one strive with arms, head
and body to drive It away. On one oc-
casion a grown woman, whose years
should have taught her better was seen
to tantaliZe the child for two or three
minutes, finally throwing it into a
state of fatigue.
When Ii grew restless and began
crying it was grabbed up. tossed and
thrown about and talked to in q loud
voice. This violent stimulation over
came the chiid's impulse to cry for the
moment, but had the effect to further
fatigue it, which was shown later in
continual crying until it fell asleep.
If one will think of such things going
on day after day throughout the early
life of a child, the irritable, unbalanced,
disagreeable children of ones acquaint-
ance may be accounted for at least in
part.-Popular Science Monthly.
The times., 1898-01-02
THEIR FUN.
Two Ohio Merrymakers and Their
Christmas Miseries.

(From the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
The newspaper man and his young
Wife were to have q few friends in on
Christmas night There was cold roast
turkey in prospect and all the neces-
sary edibles that follow in the noble
birds retinue-
Lets have tree said the news
paper man. So he and his wife went
down town. late Friday afternoon and
found much delight in picking out the
hundred-and-one things that go to the
proper adornment or well-ordered
treee. The purchases made several
good sized bundles, and armed with
them the young couple marched up to
tn corner of Euclid and Erie to COM
plete the outfit. To their disgust all
the small trees We're gone. Several
monarchs OF tie forest lOunged about at
various angles, but all the kleine baums
had disappeared.
I'VE want a small tree" said the
newspaper man s wife in small voice.
'"All tn small trees is gone" said the
dealer brusquely. SCOT some nice big
ones left. Have one%'
I'm not in the lumber business" said
thesnewspaper man gloomily.
How do you like this one?" con-
tinued the dealer as he indicated an
evergreen with trunk like a stove
pipe.
You misunderstood us" said the
newspaper man, lit isn't yule log that
we are after"
We'll take the smallest one you've
got" said the newspaper mans wife.
"All right" said the dealer, here
you are" He yanked the tree forward
and looked expectantIy at the pur-
chase.
Just send it up" began the news
paper man.
Cant send nothin' at this late hour"
said the dealer.
The newspaper man looked aghast.
I'll tie it up" said the dealer, 80 t
won't be hard for you TO earry-if you
haven't far to go
There was no help for it,
Presently the procession started. The
wife walked ahead loaded down with
bundles, the husband followed support
ing a small part of The section of the
forest and letting 1t god ieal OF IT
drag They walked along in silence,
the only sound that broke upon the
Stiffness being the labored breathing of
the newspaper man and the 5wishing
of the branches as they brushed
against the fences and the hitching
posts
Il am very cold" said the husband
promptly, my fingers are numb. l
should hate to be found frozen to death
| in the midst of this f1sest.
Take my muff,'' said the wife.
So he put the muff on one hand and
dragged the tree with the other. After
| a little while heileaned up against. the
tree to rest.
Heavens he said, here you are
carrying all these bundles, and here |
am with absolutely nothing to do"
| So he took the bundles and tied them
one by one on the tree.
"a little addition like that will never
be noticed he said as he again took up
his burden. The wind moaned through
| the branches, and set the bundles to
| merrily swinging. The perspiration
| froze in icy beads upon the newspaper
mans neck Passefsby turned and
| stared at the,Ineyihg sight.
At lest, after mabs rests. the arboreal
pageant came within sight of the goal
And Birnam wood hath come TO
Dunsinane again. '.said the newspaper
man, and then he added-as he tugged
| the pride of the wood lot up the steps:
The next time We buy a Christmas
| tree we'll order ii in July
The times., 1898-01-02
Observation-Disclosures.

The first steamboat piled the Hud-
SON in 1907.
The first sawmakers' anvil was
brought to America in 1919.
The first use of locomotive in this
country was in 1920.
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1926. '1e
The first horse railroad was built in
1857.
The first lucifer match was made in
1929
The first iron steamship was built in
1890
The first steel penn was made in 1890
Omnibuses were introduced in New
York i'll 1880.
Envelopes We're first used in 1889.
Anaesthetics were discovered in 1874
The first steel-plate was discovered
in 1880.
The entire Hebrew Bible was printed
in 1883.
Gold was first discovered in Cali
fornia in IS4e.
Christianity was introduced into
Japan in 1919.
First almanac was printed by George
Won Furback in 1860.
The first glass factory In the United
States was built in 1880
The first glass factory in the United
States was built in 1850.
The first complete machine was pa
tented by Elias Howe. Jr.. in 1916.
The first temperance society in this
country was organized in Saratoga
county II. Z, in March, 1908
The first daily newspaper appeared
in 1702. The first newspaper printed in
the United States was published in
Boston on September 25. 1870
The first telegTaphic instrument was
successfully operated by S. f. 3. Morse.
the inventor, in 1885. though its utility
was not demonstrated to the world
until 1S42.
The first Union flag was unfurled on
the 1st of January. 1II6. over the camp
at Cambridge 1t had thirteen stripes
of white and red, and retained the
English cross in one corner.
When Captain Cook first visited Ia
hiti. the natives were using nails of
wood, bone, shell, and stone When
they saw iron nails, they fancied them
to be shoots of some very hard wood,
and desirous of securing such valu-
able commodity, they planted them in
their gardens.
In 1850 the ''shoe-black'' came into
vogue. The poet Gay. in his day. refers
to the business, describing a mother as
instructing her son in his calling.
The first telescope was used in Eng
land in 1908.
The first watches were made at Nu-
remberg in 147I.
The first copper cent was coined in
New Haven in 1851.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1862.
The manufacture of porcelain was
introduced into the province of Helm,
japan from China, in 1913, and Helm
ware still bears Chinese marks.
The first society for the exclusive
purpose of circulating the Bible was
organized in 1905, under the name of
| the British and Foreign bible Society.
The times., 1898-01-02

often stopped for the purpose of driv-
ing cattle off the track. explained TO
her that in some regions OF the far
West, where cattle abounded and
fencing material was scarce, this might
still be done; and ] did not think it
necessary to say that 1 had seen it
done. in my youth, within twenty miles
of Boston But / explained to her that
we Americans, being a very inventive
Race, had devised little apparatus to
be placed in front of the. locomotive
in order to turn aside all distractions;
and I told her that this excellent in
yention was called a cow-catcher She
heard with interest, and then her kindly
face grew anxious and she said hesi-
tatingly, But isn't it rather dangerous
for the boy?" / said wonderingly,
What boy?' and she reiterated. For
the boy, don't you know,-the cow
catcher" Her motherly fancy had de-
picted an unfortuhk tes youth, balanced
on the new contriyancss probably hold
ing on with one hAndA and dispensing
dangerous herds by a gesture from the
other.
The times., 1898-01-02
A Character sketch of Armo 1r
CFrom the Chicago, POI


Armour Leiterque cano. Thus STIR
ringly begins the great epic OF Chicago
life. and thus sing the daily chroniclerS
of the affairs of moment And the sing
ing will go on for the remaining nine
days of wonder In the old year before
the wheat is gathered into the garner.
We have been considerably impressed
today by somewhat tardy recognition
of p. d. Armour, who has been allowed
TO fall into the background through
contemplation of the dazzling achieve
ments of Joseph Letter, II. p. 1t is not
likely that Mr.. Armour's pride has been
wounded by this neglect but we are
nevertheless glad to see that his time
has come; that he has the usual COM
plimentary double column picture. and
that his many virtues have been set
forth in black type. We question,
however, Mr.. Armour's satisfaction at
finding himself dubbed great entire
preneur" From what we have been
privileged to observe and to hear we
have gathered that MIR. Armour has no
desire for foreign titles and is per-
fectly content to be regarded a sue
cessful packer. with the added as
surance that he is Justly esteemed for
his wealth and commercial successes.
But we do believe that he viii not be
insensible to the delicate compliment
conveyed IN the expression OF the CHI
cago idea to the effect that ''he is
harder worker than was the elder Du-
mas" 1t is impossible to disassociate
literature and the packing. business in
this f1ourishing metropolis. Do what
we may, the comparison comes sharply
to the front. But we are happy to say
that while Armour and Dumas may
have had points of resemblance In the
matter of industry the ChicaSoan was
in other respects far superior to the
Frenchman and fully justified the con-
clusions of our fellow-citizen, Nelson
Morris Mr.. Armour is furthermore
more energetic than Plato, more pros
porous than Homer, better looking
than Aristotle. more benevolent than
Sophocles and more useful to the COM
munity in which he lives than Euri-
pides AS q moral man he is head and
shoulders above Goethe, and as sup
porter of the Christian religion he is
thousands of dollars ahead of. Shake
speare. The more we contemplate Mr..
Armour in all the relations of life the
more we rejoice that he did not sacri-
fee himself to a selfish thirst for q
literary career, but went into busf-
ness that has proved beneficial to man
The times., 1898-01-02
sympathizing with Col. Bryan.
tFrom the Chicago News.)

(From the Chicago News)
The eternal fitness of things was dis
sipated when Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt said mo" to Col Charlie
Page Bryan. Colonel Bryan expects to
go to China as envoy extraordinary and
minister p1enipotentiary. Wishing to
enter the Flowery Kingdom as befits
one representing these United States of
America Colonel Bryan asked Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt for the loan of
battleship to bear him thitherward.
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt got down
q map of the world and figured that,
counting those ships which were likely
to be run down by ferryboats and those
already stuck in the mud, he had none
left not on duty so he politely refused
the colonel'S request.
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt did
wrong Colonel Bryan as an American
citizen is entitled to at least one bat
tleship and, as envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary, as many
more as he wants.
When Napoleon visited Egypt he
went in a battleship, and Napoleon
never thought of going to school with
King Oscar. When Achilles went to
Troy he went in as big battleship as
the Greek navy had, and great as he
was, Achilles never was member OF
the Illinois Legislature. When Column
BUS came TO AIHei1cd the DcSl snip S'Ci
built by the Paios Ship and Dry Dock
Company bore him, and Columbus
never wore the uniform of the Ohio
militia When Julius or Gus Caesar
went anywhere by water the swiftest
battleship of the Roman fleet was
placed at their disposal. And neither
julius nor Gus ever heard of China.
Colonel Bryan should be taken to
Pekin on several battleships. His mas
sive head alone is cargo enough for the
Indiana; on the Chicago his patriotic
emotions should be slowed and the Gin
cinnati should proudly steam away
with his side-arms. AS consortS of
honor a few cruisers. dynamite and
torpedo boats should follow in respect
full distance The Miantonomoh should
go along to fire SaluteS, one-minute
guns during the voyage and incessant
firing when the pagoda at Tien-Tsin is
sighted.
There is nothing too good for Colonel
Charlie Page Bryan. Reluctantly he
gave UP a lucrative law practice to ae-
cept this position at the Pekin court.
Would Assistant Secretary Roosevelt
have him shipped in freighter like
cargo of beeves or pressed cotton?
Would he leave unguarded that ample
breast of Colonel Bryan within. which
are priceless stores of diplomatic zeal?
What is Roosevelt thinking of, any
way? Does he not see that when
Colonel Bryan departs the dimensions
of the United States decrease one-haif