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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

METHODIST.-Preachlng services each sunday
at II "A. m. and $50 p. m. Sunday School az 10
n. IN. Junior League Sunday afternoon NJ go
O'Clock. Prayer meeting, Thursday evening
mt 1880. You are cordially invited 10 these
services.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

Bad management keeps more people
in poor circumstances than any other
one cause. To be successful one must
look ahead and plan ahead so that when
a favorable opportunity presents itself
he is ready to take advantage oft. A
little forethought will also save much
expense and valuable time. A prudent
and careful mar will keep a bottle Of
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Dlarr-
hea Remedy in the house, the shiftless
fellow will wait until neces ity compels
it and then ruin his best horse going for
a doctor and have a big doctor bill to
pay, besides; n pays out % cents, the
other is out q hundred dollars and then
wonders why his neighbor is getting
richer while he is getting poorer. For
sale by A. ]. Jones & Co, druggists.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
l.. r. FERGUSON, Pastor.

BAPTIST.-Dr. w. T.. Crouter will preach ey-
cry Sunday morning at II, and evening AZ ~
Sunday School at 10 "A. m. Junior Is. VI. y.
at 3. Senior B. Y. Z. U. at 645. B. Y. p U.
Prayer meeting Mt 80 on Tuesday. evening.
Regular weekly prayer meeting on THURSDAY
evening at 1880. All are very cordiaiy III
yited.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

You car buy the most for the money
at Garlock's.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

Yesterday Wood & Buell. received a
draft for $4,000 in payment Of the judg-
ment of Edward w. Speed against John
s. George in a suit to recover commits
sions for the sale of the Holy Terror
mine. This case was tried in the FEEDER.
al court at Deadwood in February, and
Mr.. Speed recovered judgment for the
full amoun sued for the costs. Mr..
George appealed the case which Judge
Garland heard at Sioux Falls in April
and affirmed the judgment. This is the
largest real estate commission ever col.
lected in the Black Hills court and Mr..
Speed is certainly to be congratulated.
Rapid Journal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

Congressman Charles II. Burke, and
L. L. Gaffy. judge Of the sixth judicial
circuit, came in Monday from Hot
Springs, where they spent Sunday. In
company with j. +. Pitcher of this city
they drove out to Sylvan lake during the
day, returning to Custer Tuesday morn
ing in time to take the train for Dead
wood. The object Of Mr.. Burke's visit
ut this time had no political Significance,
but was merely for the purpose ofinform-
ing himself upon the demands of his
constituency. The CHRONICLE acknow-
lodges a very pleasant call from the
gentlemen.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

Mr.. w. r.. Millham, representing
Golden & Ballard of Emm etsburg,
Iowa, manufacturers and dealers in
monuments, marble, granite, etc came
in Saturday of last week, and during
the day delivered and set up a number
of monuments which had been previous
ly contracted for by some of our citi-
zens. The work turned out by this
firm is of the very best, and cannot be
excelled anywhere. Mr.. M. secured q
number of new orders on his recent
visit.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
TRAINS LEAVE Az FOLLOWS.

iAeSAA@No obA n M rObAoNos
Passenger 202 going East leaves Custer nj 5:3l
p! m, makes connections at Lincoln and Omaha
for Chicago, New York, st. Louis. Kansas City.
Edgemont for Billings and all points West. Also
connects with trains at Aurora for Denver and
all point South.
Accommodation train 20i going East leaves
Custer at $40 p. m, arrives at Edgemont at ESQ.
Passenger POI going North leaves Custer at 9:i5
a. m, makes connection for Spearfish, Lead
City, Whitewood and Rapid City; also BOB, &C
sommodation, leaves Custer at 4:47 a. m. for
Deadwood and west.
For further particulars enquire OF
g. r. ELLIOTT, Agent.
Or write j. Francis, Gen. Pass'r a. Ticket Agt
B. Il M. Ry, Omaha, Neb.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-05-28
A SPLENDID UNDERTAKING.

The movement inaugurated by the ladies of Day
tons bluff for the identification Of their locality Is
of the most commendable and if carried to prac
tical conclusions promises to be Of the
that have been naugurated for many years
important private undertakings for the city's benefit
While the progress Of the city through private
and public agencies in the direction of its material
betterment has been CT less satisfactory must
be said that in many respects the city has suffered
from lack Of cordial cooperation among it's people
for the general advantage In city Of the country
have the beauties and advantages of nature been
pended with such lavish hand. Thanks to the topo-
graphical conditions prevailing here and to the ad-
yantages of climate it has been conceded for
years that in point of healthfulness there is city
of the country a par with ours. This is no mere
declaration dictated by local pride it is estab-
shed and indsputable fact which the vital and san-
tary statistics of the past fifteen years establish be-
yond question.
While men seek their homes IN communities dis
tinguished by favorable commercial and Industrial
considerations the prime requirement, the two es-
sentias Of healthfulness and beauty Of surrounding
have always had considerable influence We believe
that will deny that st. Paul has failed to make
the most Of the natural beauties which abun-
dant We delight to show them to visitors, but
those visitors have unfalingy remarked the small
store which appears to be set locally them. as
judged by the absence of all aids afforded by
handicraft in emphasizing those natural beauties or
In improving the approaches to them.
AS a place Of residence there is section of the
city which has superior natural advantages to those
possessed by Dayton's bluff AS a matter of fact
lightly have those advantages been held that q
large stretch of it's territory remains today in ap-
pearance dreary waste If the ladies seriously
take hold Of this matter there Will be such
transformation will astonish most of Their
example too will be followed, and the movement in
time will become general. Men are absorbed day by
day in their business concerns. They have not the
time always to give to such matters important
they undoubtedly are. Often the most laudable ef-
forts in the general direction set at naught
by species Of selfshness which is near-sighted as
it is selfish and unpatriotc.
The ladies especially qualified for the task.
They have eye for the picturesque and beautiful
such as the other is not gifted with. If st.
Paul is destined to make the beauties of it's streets
and avenues well as of its environments known
generally throughout the country, it is the hand and
mind of woman that will accomplish the task.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-05-28
IRRIGATION FOR THE WEST

When settlement reached the arid and semi-arid
regions of the interior of the nation the task of d.
4ertng the waters that were running to waste upon
the soil, unfertile only for want of moisture was
undertaken by the individual settlers Lack OF
means and Of organization restricted these at
tempts to reclaim the land that irrigation was accom-
plished only the smallest scale but what was
done suficed to show the marvellous richness of the
redeemed soil. Then followed the exploitation by
corporations. and, where they had sufficient capai
to float their scheme until the land under the ditch
became all tributary to the canal the enterprises
were successful as an investment. But in the ma
jority Of the scheme fell through before COM
petion. Several states have enacted laws providing
for the construction Of dams. canals and the regu-
latng of the use of the water
But all experiment has proved that the full re-
suits possible Of attainment call for the investment
of capital beyond the means Of any organization
Great reservoirs must be built in the mountain
gulches to impound enough water to put under it's
flow every possible available of land. Congress
has been appealed to- and grants states the
title Of the United States to all arid land under GER
tain conditions to it's redemption This proved
inefficient, and appeals have been made to congress
to have the matter made a national one the United
States assuming the of building reservoirs and
canals reimbursement TO come from the sale Of land
and the annual water rents. Hitherto congress has
turned deaf to these requests but the move
ment has force back of it that sustains 1t against
these rebuffs Recently gentleman connected with
the movement visited city enlist the aid of the
chamber Of commerce in securing governmental aid
The man who lives where the rainfall is sufficient
cannot appreciate the need the value to the whole
country of irrigation in the arid and semard regions
He gets grasp the situation until he has visited
the regions where partial reclamation has been ac-
complished and sees what desert soil do under a
sufficient supply of water. For this and be-
cause so few have what irrigation does, the
sentiment in congress towards the plans is OF
Indifference. The same men who will beg speaker
to recognize them to get appropriation for the
proyement Of some creek the construction OF 4,
public building callous to the proposition to spend
public money in making public land valuable thaz
is utterly valueless and bring into prosperous
conditions immense areas inhabited by the jack
rabbit or the coyote.
Minnesota representatives and senators should be
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-05-28
SETTLING ART saUABBLEs.

Critics have been troubled for years by problems
which refused to be settled either by convention
tradition. Paris has found solution for all such
controversies Two French men of letters, unable
decide by argument whether Hamlet fat or lean.
settled their Jack Spratt squabbe by duel, In which
one of the two through by the sword Of the
other. Unfortunately for the cause of human
knowledge the cabled accounts of the affair have
neglected to say whether the partisan of the fat
Hamlet or of the lean Hamlet won the honors Of the
duello but that is beside the question. The real
point of interest lies in the fact that safe and
way has been found of stilling artistic tea pot tenn
pests.
There various controversies open to which
the new method may be applied The play of "Ham-
let offers variety in itself. There is question
whether the melancholy Dane was sane or mentally
unbalanced. Volumes have been written and ink
poured out by the barrel in endeayor to prove
the other view Of the tragedy correct and all in
vain. By the method invented in France nothing
could be simpler Salute 'En guarder' "Quarte
and terce!' and there you Hamlet mad
he was sane, as may be- and the drawn-out dispute
of century may be settled in three thrusts and two
parties. Then there is another Hamlet problem.
Was the play written by Shakespeare by Bacony
What need Of cumbersome ciphers elaborate
chnery? Rapiers pistols for two alone need
ed, and argument is at end.
The whole field of criticism In fact has been walt
ing some and certain method by which it might
establish fixed Standards This has been found.
1t applies to all problems alike. Is a drama true
to life? Are purple ladies with pink hair and sky
line contours art? Is modern poetry decadent?
These but few of the pressing questions which
may for the first time be answered. Where the
duello is Objectionable the method may easily be
modified. Rapier play constitutes the best means,
course, but where swords Objectionable cold
hand at poker, the seyen-eeven of craps or even {.
game of old maid will In the meantime,
though it is not material it would be interesting to
know whether Hamlet really stout syelte.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-05-28

class OF children in short skirts but the short skrr
fao has reached craze In Lynn, and women
De seen wearing them who ride wheel"
OF course the Lynn school committee is not at
present. supplied with Krag- Jorgensens rapid
firing cutlery to enforce this edict But they have
not yet applied to Secretary Alger It is than
possible that he would supply them with arms Let
1t but be demonstrated that they have simply adopt
ed the system inaugurated by Gen. Brooke in Cuba
and he would undoubtedly order a battery at the
head of every street in Lynn and turn the engine
houses into arsenals. In recently Matched empire
royalty naturally demands that the proprieties be
observed. Adieu to the checkerboard golf stock
Ing! Farewell long farewell to knickerbockersl
Avaunt, abbreviated skirtsl Retire the enforced
seclusion Of the Mother Hubbard gown. Let the
place of these unholy garments be supplied by peg
top pants" and skirts en- train. There is school
money in Lynn for fantasies and Mardi Gras special
ties Mark you. the staid city of Lynn-albeit the
ghost OF burned witch may walk at low twelve
is no Midway Plaisance, and the grotesque toggery
III vogue from gddy Gotham to the Golden Gate has
no more countenance IN it's scholastic circles than
would the couchee-couchee dance
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-05-28

The imperial government of China still adheres
10 the entirely characteristic and laudabe practice
of issuing edicts 1t goes far, indeed, direct
these edicts to at European powers who have
think they have secured a permanent foothold In
the Celestial empire. Such edict was issued
recently directed at the Russian authorities forbid
ding them, under the pain of the dspeasure and
summary action of the imperial government of China,
to build Il railroad from Manchuria to Pekin. The
Russian authorities promptly responded that Russia
was unable to accept the edict, and that she would
send engineers forthwith to survey the proposed
route.
There is difference between a sphere of infu-
ready been pointed out in these columns England
and Russia have united, each to leave the other I'M
mOlested and each to be the equally jealous guardian
OF the sovereign rights Of the Chinese empire. This
incident is the first positive illustration we have had
yet of what the sovereign rights of the Chinese
empire within Chinese territory amount to- Doubt
less we will have many long; but of this one
it may be said, said of Mercutios wound It's
enough.
Even the conservative Chinaman, however learns
as he grows older Right the heels of this touch
ing illustration of the supreme value of the sovereign
Fights of China under the Russo British agreement
comes the intelligence from Pekin that another I'M
perial edict has been issued giving consent to the
Iien TSinChin Kiang railroad, which is German un-
sphere Of influence this project is tOAbe carried out
but II is quite evident that in its inception there has
been the most careful consideration had Of the sov-
ereign rights of China, and that unless France
Russia Britain all together have objections to urge
the Iien Tsin-Chin Kiang railroad goes.
There is another sacred possession which is con-
-ceded to the ruling dynasty in China besides its
sovereign rights That possession is described gen
orally by the name of the Middle Kingdom Thus
far the European guardians and protectors Of China
have kept out of the Middle Kingdom and have NOT
Shown the remotest shadow of greed or other un
worthy sentiment with reference to the Middle King
dom. Just what the demitations of the Middle
Kingdom are has not yet been established but it will
be soon and there will be just as much certainty In
that regard as there exists with reference to the
sovereign rights of China.
Meanwhile the Chinese, like the Filipinos NAV
fecitate themselves the indsputable truth that the
process of ChrstianZing and fitting them for higher
things goes steadily on, and that after while they
too, like their Filipino kindred will be conceded as
large measure of self-government as they are fit
ted for even if their sovereign rights and the Mid
Gle Kingdom should both be gobbled up in the pro-
cess
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-05-28
EMILIO CASTELAR,.

The politics of Europe in his generation produced
no statesman who can be regarded devoted
friend of free civil government than the late Emilio
Castelar, The position which he occupied on the po-
cal stage of Europe for at least twenty-five years
was at once as honorable and as conspicuous that
of any statesman of that time not excluding Mr..
Gladstone.
When it is sought to estimate the zeal and de-
votion to high principle of any who engages In
the advancement of the popular cause his environ
mentS must necessarily constitute element of sur
passing Importance. Castelar, was a patriot and
Democrat by inheritance, well by force Of
thought and instinct The task of setting a nation 50
closely welded to monarchca standards of public
control as the Spanish the pathway of democracy
would dishearten any but the most loyal and self
sacrificing nature. To this task Emilio Castelar,
all his splendid powers of intellect and scholarship.
That he failed in the ultimate realization of his
dertaking must not be accepted in any sense a
disparagement of the in his fitness for the high
accomplishments of craftsmanship. Living in an
other land less welded to it's idols mediaevalisn
and retrogresson, he would have achieved as much
for the human any Of his most lustrious
contemporaries. The soil in which he wrought was
not fruitful one. His accomplishment of the great
result of establishing Spanish republic of greater
or less duration, must in the light which contempo-
rary events shed the Spanish national character
be accepted of the grandest creative works
of modern craftsmanship.
His was no mere vapid conception Of applied
democracy. Nor can it be said, is too often said
in derogaton Of the greatest works performed in the
interest of humanity, that the ahead of his
age. He was not He a profound sagacious
and farseelng statesman. He knew his people, and
he reckoned rightly. He would have been untrue to
the Inheritance which he had received from patrfor
father and unworthy of his high intellectual endow-
ments, had he failed in making the experiment of
lifting the Spanish people above the fetch worship
of royalty His ready acceptance Of accomplished
results, and the sentiment which is imputed to him
that the existing governmental control Of Spain Is
but an adjournment of repubcanism unite in bear
ing high testimony to this truth.
Whatever place his contemporaries accord him.
Emilio CASTELAR, will live centuries hence as one OF
the noblest Of the pioneers Of freedom in Europe
He had dispensed freely and at the greatest personal
sacrifice the marvellous gifts with which he was en-
dowed. He had spoken and acted in the cause or
humanity, and history will willingly attest that his
life was at blessing and an inspiration to the
dOwntrOdden races Of the world.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-05-28

The city owned an island to which OF its steam
boats made regular trips. The children were taken
this trip and supplied with luncheons. The street
railways took the little free rides from the
pier to their homes. There wasn't a dollar OF ex-
pense to the city. side camp was established
for the boys where hundred Of them We're main-
tanned each week during the summer There they
had fine fun fishing and boating and being addressed
on subjects which possess real interest to boys. In
addition to all this the mayor has been able to Sc
the permanent establishment of a system of free
concerts in halls throughout the city.
There other cities beside Boston which might
derive considerable advantage by throwing down
their mperiast idols and placing in control of their
concerns men who possess the humane and elevating
tendencies which have from time immemorial been
Identified with true American democracy.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-05-28

especially favorable to such a use of public money
Our state has been helped exploit the treasury for
schemes far less beneficial than is this one We
need but refer to the million half spent under
the thnnest of pretenses to construct water power
at Minneapolis for corporation which derives a
handsome income from renting the power thus cr,.-
ated; and the construction of reservoirs to retain
until needed supply Of water for this same corpo-
ration The government is now thoroughly CON-
m1tted to the spending Of several hundred Thousand
more dollars to make the Mississippi nayigable be-
tween St Paul and Minneapolis, for river commerce.
that does not exist and for the creation Of ether
water powers for private exploitation Very shame
should oblge members help the Western states
to appropriations for whose public benefit Is
lnquestioned and which would enrich states instead
OF the stockholders of a corporation or two.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-05-28
LYNN's SOCIAL REVOLUTION.

The military martinets Of Cuba the dress re-
formers Of Gen. Brooke's command little dreamed of
the popularity with which their edicts would be
ceived in Lynn, Massachusetts, The dress reformers
of the Pearl of the Antilles issued their ukase
against the traditionary habit of wearing short
shirt on the outside Of pantaoons. instead of being
strapped inside with tfree-inch belt, like mid
summer dude. And what the dress reformers said
backed up by ugly line Of Krag- -Jorgensens-wen
in Cuba. 1t was ataonce9 recognized the first
touch of high life in Imperialism 1t might out-czar
the czar, but not progressive nation? Can
we not give effete monaTchies cards and spades In
the game of running an island empire at the head
OF the Gulf stream? II not, why not? And as JACK
Bunsby would have expressed it, ''the moral of the
whole thing lies in the application of it."
Well. the good folk of Lynn have made the ap-
pllcat1on The school, committee Of historic Lynn,
the city Of vamps and soes, uppers and heel taps,
fa1rst1tched, broadwet and pegged goods have also
gone into the edict business. They have given the
patient and long suffering school teachers under
stlhd that under circumstances. rain shine,
wet Oh dry out doors in DOORS must the male peda
goSues appear In knickerbockers and golf stockings
or the lady teachers in abbreviated skirts
Not only" explained one of the committee "does
II lower the dignity OF teacher to appear before