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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23

With time, comes progress and ad.
vancement in all lines Of successfully
conducted enterprises. Success comes
to those only who have goods with
superior merit and a reputation. In
the manufacture of laundry starch for
the last quarter Of a century j. g.
Hubinger has been the peer of all 9th
ers and to-day is placing on the market
the finest laundry starch ever offered
the public under our new and original
method.
ASK your grocer for a coupon book
which will enable you to get the first
two large 10-cent packages Of his new
starch, RED CROSS, TRADE MARK
brand, also two Of the children's Shaks.
peare pictures painted in twelve beauti
full colors as natural as life, or the
Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, al
absolutely free.
All grocers are authorized to give ter
large packages Of RED CROSS
STARCH, with twenty Of the Shaks.
peare pictures or ten Of the Twentieth
Century Girl Calendars, to the first five
purchasers of the Endless Starch Chair
Book. This Is n Of the grandest
offers ever made to introduce the REL
CROSS laundry starch, j. G. Hubing
er's latest invention.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23
BLONDES NOT IN IT.
Observations OF the Manager OF
TeIephone

Telephone Exchange.
A visitor to a Chicago telephone ex-
change, having noted the curious
circumstance that blonde girls were
conspicuous by their absence, inter-
viewed the manager on the subject.
He accounted for the phenomenon by
the fact that of the girls applying for
such work those of the Irish parent
age usually proved the most accept
able because of their possession of the
peculiar alertness essential in a tele-
phone operator, and Irish girls are not
blondes. He discoursed thus upon the
matter:
I'VE are quite as willing to employ a
scandinavian, a German, an English
or an American girl as one of direct
Irish extraction, and the seeming dis
elimination against those not Irish is
simply the result of failure to find in
girls of the ~fair-haired races that
quickness which we must have in all
our operators. Any girl who has this
faculty is readily accepted without
reference to her nationality. But this
impartial principle of selection works
out a seeming discrimination. &c
into any Of Il large operating rooms
and among the scores Of girls at the
switchboard you will not see more
than two or three girls with blonde
hair; learn their nationalities and you
will find that 80 per cent of them have
Irish blood in their veins"
This tribute to the mental quick,
ness of the race" observes the Indian
apolis Journal, lis the more valuable
in that it Is voluntary, and the result
of an experience showing the survival
Of the fittest so far as this particular
business is concerned. 1t is not the
first inning, however, that Irish girls
have scored"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23

You will receive due notice of the
dream of bullets and OF a miserable
end.
May, 1881. Norma to Robert:
i confess / cannot trust myself to
see you again until after the settle
ment, therefore, / write.
Robert, my preserver, you are SO
good, SO noble, | am afraid il you
come to me again, and sit at my feet
and plead so with your voice and your
eyes | shall relent and remember that
| am q IN
1t may be a sickness, a fever, or sim
ply an insane, unholy desire for re-
venge. ] cannot tell, ! cannot even
think or take time TO consider the
consequences; / can only assur you
that | hold you TO your vow
Now for the arrangements.
AS you informed me Claude Nor
cross will leave his hotel Mt Crescent
Beach at 4:3O a. IN. Oh the 10th of May.
He will take a boat and proceed to the
bathing raft, which is anchored out in
the bay.
He is TO take up his position at the
east end of the raft.
| will time myself to arrive at the
west end about the same time. 1t will
then be quite light.
| shall wear a black derby hat and
your long black overcoat with the
cape.
He will not suspect anything unus-
ual until | face him.
Then | imagine his weapon will drop
from his unrighteous hand and Rob-
ert, as there is n God in Heaven, | will
settle with him, then and there!
You know and he also knows that
can shoot.
/ know, Robert. this affair is horri-
lying and dreadful TO you, because
you love me and in my misery and
my cunning took advantage of that
noble Owe of yours and wrung from
you a VOW that you would leave this
man to me to settle with. Then in an
swer to your pleading | promised to
be your wife aI.d to try 10 love and
reward YOU as you deserve.
You thought | meGut peace when |
had vengeance in my heart. You lit
tie suspected what was in store for
you, and | can now imagine only too
well the agony of your spirit. Never
theless you will be true and steadfast
to the end.
Last night | was weeping and pray
ing by turns. | was praying for YOU,
and it seems to me ! was also praying
for forgiveness and for strength to
forgive somebody, | think it was
Claude.
You know, Robert, it is impossible
to pray for anything wrong.
Toward morning | felt better and
happier and fell asleep.
1t is so easy to laugh at dreams, but
mine were too touching and tender it
did seem such a pity to wake mp and
face the truth.
] thought / was back again On the
old farm. | sat at the feet of my poor
lonely father. ] filed his pipe with to-
bacco and brought him some good hot
coffee to drink. | busted myself in
making him comfortable in his hard
arm chair, for he was old and feeble,
and in his dear way, instead of say
ing, thank you," he was murmuring
over and over again, Blessings on
Norma, blessings IN Norma"
(To be c~ontinued.)
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23
How Douglass shamed a Crowd.

How Douglass Shamed a Crowd.
Philadelphia Post: After hearing
Douglass and Anna Dickinson speak at
the first southern loyalist convention
at Philadelphia John Minor Bolts, the
famous Virginian political leader,
said:
To-day l have heard the greatest
white woman and the greatest colored
orator in America. / tell you, sir, if
Douglass had been a white man he
would have been regarded as one Of
the greatest men-in America"
well, sir" was the reply of his
northern listener, I'VE regard him as
one of the greatest men in our coun-
try, even though he is a colored man.
In GAINESVILLE, Wis.,, the landlord of
the hotel would not allow him in the
dining room. The people got out a
hose cart and engine and were going
to wash out the place. Mr.. Douglass
came out on the porch and said:
go back. Don't blame the man. He
is not to blame" He made a plea that
put US all 10 shame.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23
knlEc. The Periodical Monthly Regulator ncvc
lNUILO, falls; convince yourself; write for free box
New YORK CHEMICAL CO., Box 70, Mllwaakef, Wis.
The Cure OF st. Cyr's.

The tangled roses twist and bloom
Against the garden wall
So thick they leave but scanty room
For the ripened peach to fall.
Among the stately hollyhocks
The wild bee drones and veers,
And here at eve he always walks,
The cure Of st. Cyr's.
The village knows the kindly face,
The old hats broken rim;
The veriest baby in the place
Filings out a smile to him.
The gentle hand, the silvered hair,
The look that chides or cheers;
He always has a laugh to ST are,
The cure of st. Cyr's.
His house is small and dismal, yet
His treasures are not few;
An old flute and a silhouette,
cherished book or two.
Still, rumor says that long ago,
In dim, forgotten years.
His life had other gifts to sow,
The cure Of st. Cyr's.
He was a soldier OF the king
A courtier learned in bliss;
No man can, say wha made him fling
The old life by for this.
He bears, instead OF love and mirth,
The parish hopes n fears
The little burdens Of the earth
The cure OF st. Cyr's.
The sunshine floods his garden ways,
The rose mods to the wind.
Who knows II he regrets the days
He left so long behind?
Perhaps the silhouette could tell
Whose face has felt his tears
Methinks she knows thee oyerWell,
Oh, cure Of st. Cyr's!
Life.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23
Mrs. johnson
Saved from
Insanity by
Mrs.. PinEhax,,


menced to have spells with my spine.
Every month ] grew worse and at last
became SO bad that 1 found / was
gradually losing my mind.
1.-THE doctors treated me for female
troubles, but I got no better. One
doctor told me that l would be insane.
/ was advised by a friend to give Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a
trial, and before / had taken all of the
first bottle my neighbors noticed the
change in me.
81 have now taken five bottles and
cannot find words sufficient to praise it.
l advise every woman who is suffering
from any female weakness to give it a
fair trial. l thank you for your good
medicine. Mrs. GERTRUDE M. JOHN
SON, JoNEsBoRo, TEXAS.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23
Still More Counterfeiting

The Secret Service has just un-
earthed another band of counterfeit
ers and secured a quantity of bogus
bills, which are very cleverly executed.
Things of great value are always Sc
lected for imitation, notably Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, which has many
imitators but no equals for disorders
like indigestion, dyspepsia and consti-
patton.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23
THE CRIMSON MAGNET
The Electrical Adventures Of an American in Africa
Hunting for His Affinity.
BY j. Q. FAGAN.
By j. @. FaGAN.
49, ++++++ %+++++++%%%%t
Copyright 1900
Copyright, 1900

There is a regular hating place just
where a bride path strikes off from
the road, leads up to the pool and
then passes into a small Enclosure,
which is a graveyard. There is only
one great fiat stone in it, and the SUI
prescription it bears, berg interprte-
ed, is as follows:
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23

DR.. Kate Perry Cain, of Coviugton
Ky, is called 1.-The turnpike queen.
She owns and operates the Covington
and independence turnpike, which is
M of the busiest highways in Ken.
lucky.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23

Two bottels of Piso's Cure for Con-
sumption cured me of n bad lung trou-
ble.-Mrs. j. Nichols, Princeton, Ind,
March 26, 1895.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23

Mrs. Joseph NJ. Choate, wife Of the
American ambassador to England, is
a believer in the higher education of
women, and since her arrival abroad
has made a careful study of the meth
DDS used at Girton and Newman.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23

have received
from the use of
Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegeta-
BILE Compound.
Soon after the
birth ofmy first
AIs1l II @-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23
Mrs. Perkins Letter.

81 had female trouble of all kinds,
had three doctors, but only grew worse.
/ began taking Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills
and used the Sanative Wash, and can
not praise your remedies enough
Mrs. EFFIE PERKINS, PEARL, LA.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23

Warren C. Coleman, of Concord, n.
c., is the richest colored man in the
south. His income is invested in cot
ton mills.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23

Benjamin L. Richards, the new pres
ident Of the American Whist league,
learned to play whist when 6 years
old.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23
Progress.

The pawn check is often the only re.
deeming feature OF a watch.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23

st. Louis. Sept. 16.-A mass meeting Of
retail butchers of st. Louis has been
called by the Retail Butchers Cooper
alive association to organize q systematic
tight on the beef trust. President Bonney
said today:
"We have worked quietly and are now
prepared to begin active operations
against the trust. We have three propo-
sitions to consider, two from antitrust
packing companies and another from a
Texas cattle grower. These propositions
are to sell the beef direct to the associa-
ton and at rates averaging % per cent.
below the trust figures, in CONSIDERATION
of the known quantity that will be re-
CURED to supply the demand of the assoc
citation. One ultimate object is to build
an abattoir OF Guy own. That will be done
IN time. but we canno now determine
how soon IL Will be-"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23
He Liked II.

Boston Herald: Some time ago a
well known and popular Congrega-
tionalist minister received a basket of
champagne from one of his worldly
and wealthy parishioners. A few DAYS
later the minister's little son was
called up in his geography class TO an
swer the teachers question. where is
Lake Champlain?" Il don't know
where it ISL said the small boy, but
j had some of the water, and it is real
NICE
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23
LETTER TO MRS. prNKHAm NO. o,,as4l

ILEIEEK TO X FINhHHM mo- VJ,zo4I
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM-For some
time ] have thought of writing to you
to let you know of the great benefit /
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23

h country consumed 90, 700, 900
pounds of tea in 1897, valued at S12,-
900, coo.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-09-23

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is a constitutional cure. Price rs cents
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-02-24
Corbin Made Major-GeneraL

Washington, Feb. 1s.-The military
affairs committee of the house has re-
ported favorably the senate bill to make
Acknowledgement II. c. Corbin major
general. The house bill for the same
purpose has been debated already, and
ton upon it in the house. 1t is not the
intention of Chairman Hull to ask
unanimous consent for the considera-
ton of this bill, but to move its pass
age under suspension of the rules dur
ing the last six days of the session.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-02-24

can and the pressure of air inside keeps
the water from the milk. on the sRms
principle as the cans Of the Cooley
creamer
The milk is brought to the dairy
room as soon as possible after being
MIXED and strained, and is aerated. a
half can at a time, with the Hill
aerator. A tin pipe projects above the
roof Of the dairy room, where fresh air
is secured and conducted through abb
sorbent cotton Ito remove any germs
or dust particles) into bellows, where
1t is forced through the milk. Any
one standing near the can Of milk
while this operation is being perform
ed cannot fail to notice the cowy odor
that Is given on. This is kept up I'M
til the animal odor is removed. In
this way nearly all the taints In milk,
not due to germs, can be removed, and
1t has been found by experience that
milk is much more digestable after be-
ing aerated After aeration, the milk
is cooled over 8 Star or Champion cool
er to between so and 60 degrees F.. at
which temperature 1t is kept until
delivered to the college dining hall or
the creamery or warmed up for the
separator. When separation tales
place Immediately after milking, the
milk goes directly from the aerator TO
the separator without being cooled. To
some, and perhaps to many, of our
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-02-24

busy readers, this process may appear
long and tedious, but practical expe-
rience has proven that after once &C
customed to 1t much of this work can
be done in less time than 1t takes to
tell 1t, and the difference in the quail
ty of the milk Is the difference between
pure, wholesome milk and dirty, filthy
milk Straining through wire and
cloth will not take out dirt that has
once become dissolved in the milk. nor
will 1t remove the taints that arise
from the feed. A nan may have
right to use filthy and tainted milk II
he wants to, but the consumers OF
both milk and its products also have a
right to enter vigorous protest
against this same man selling his
filthy milk as a pure food product.
Milk adulterated with filth and dirt Is
to be condemned even more than but
ter adulterated with oleomargarine.
Both are deceiving the consumers.
While the dairyman is protesting
against the manufacture and sale of
oleomargarine as butter, and every
true dairyman should be. let him at
the same time make sure that he is
not open to criticism by adulterating
his milk with dirt or filth of any kind.
D. H. OTIS.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-02-24
Guarding Against Hog cholera.

The fact that hog cholera in specific
form was present on the grounds of the
Trans Mississippi Live Stock Show
during the entire period Of the show
and that none of the herds, except
those which were infected before they
came upon the grounds, contracted the
cholera there, deserves more than
passing notice from stock men, says
Nebraska Farmer. The main facts, as
we remember them, are as follows:
The third or fourth day after the show
opened, herds which came to the
grounds from the Illinois state fair
were seen to he sick. A veterinarian
was called and an examination made.
At that time the veterinarian would
not pronounce the disease hog cholera.
Two days later thorough examina-
ton, both pathological and microscop-
ical, was made, and the disease was
hog cholera. Quarantine
measures had previously been estab-
lished, and disinfection OF the pens had
been carried on vhder veterinary d.
rection. The SEX herds were now
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-02-24

agreeable, offensive flavor. Before be-
ginning to milk, each mixer sees that
his hands are clean, not merely tnat
they look clean, but they are as free
as possible from germs. For this pur-
pose it Is often necessary to wash IN
hot water previous to milking. Eacn
mixer Is provided with canton nan
mel cloth, which Is moistened and useo
to wipe of the sides and udder OF the
cow. This removes the loose particles
of dust and moistens the rest 30 that
they will not SO readily fall Int" the
milk bucket These cloths, as well as
the cloth strainers, are thoroughly
washed and sterilized with boiling wa
ter after each milking.
The milk pail used is called the san
itary dairy pail" 1t is made of Heavy
tin and is covered on top. In this
cover is a six-inch hole, into which
fits a circular removable strainer The
milk is MIXED directly into this
strainer. This style of milk pail
keeps out of the milk the dust and
hairs that fall in spite Of the precau-
lions already mentioned Any one
doubling the desirability of. such a
milk pail need doubt no longer after
once seeing the appearance of the pail
after milking In spite OF the best
precautions, the top of the pail will be
covered with numerous hairs and dust
particles, enough to spoil the digestion
of any man if he only knew what he
was swallowing when he drinks the
milk out of an open milk pail. Each
cows milk is weighed. sampled, and
again strained through wire strain
er, and finally through four thicknesses
of cheese cloth. This wire strainer is
so constructed that the milk is strain
ed on an upward pressure Any par
ticles of dirt remaining in the milk
and settling to the bottom will not be
forced through the strainer by the
pressure of the milk above. From the
cheese cloth strainer the milk is re-
ceived into forty-quart milk cans. We
have two styles of cans, the New York
and the Chicago. We prefer the for
mer, for two reasons In the first place.
the lid is oval and will not collect dust
like the lid of the Chicago can, and !
can be cleaned much easier. In the !
second place when it is desired to keep |
the milk any length of time, the New |
York can may be immersed in water. |
The lid projects below the top of the |
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-02-24

vent visitors from passing through the
pens OF sick hogs, as well as those
which were not affected. Many OF
these visitors climbed in and out OF
the pens of the various breeds to ex-
anime animals, SO that every means
for carrying contagion was practically
in constant operation.
The sequel of this story is that no
herd, not already infected, contracted
hog cholera at the TRANS Mississippi
Exposition, and no well herd which
was on exhibition at the exposition has
suffered from hog cholera since, be-
cause Of contact with the disease there.
The measures taken to prevent the
spread of the disease were only such
as every farmer can provide In his
own herd. The peDe Eerc kept clean,
the walks were cleaned and daily
sprinkled with air Stacked lime. The
pens, bedding, pigs, and all the sur
roundings were thoroughly sprinkled
with a disinfectant solution that de-
stroyed all odor of hog, and served to
keep the pens from becoming foul or
any offensive odor arising. Nothing
else was done to prevent the disease
spreading, except to quarantine the in
fected herds.
This experience is exactly in line
with evidence we have before us of
control of the disease at the Michigan
Agricultural college. We have a let
ter from T. H. Brown of the Live Stock
Sanitary commission of Michigan. in
which he says: "The hog cholera, so
called, has ravaged every farm sur
rounding ours, but we have not had
single case this fall. More than 100
pigs have died within so rods of orr
barns. You see we have had mar
row escape, but l think that our thor
ough work in disinfecting, and good
sanitation, have saved our pigs. | was
on the farm yesterday and never saw
finer and healthier lot of pigs" Mr..
Brown, in disinfecting, had used "Ze-
nolium," as disinfectant. The dis
infectant used on the exposition
grounds, If we remember correctly. wa
"Formaline." But, whatever the dis
infectant may be, it is evident that the
thorough and constant use of prcper
remedies. along with good
sanitary conditions, render herds cam
paratively safe from contagion or IN
hog cholera germ.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-02-24

piaoed IN separate barns and carefully
guarded from the public. Later other
herds showed symptoms of disease, and
moro rigid measures were resorted to.
In the meantime at least two pigs died
In one herd, the cause of disease being
pronounced hog cholera. Later third
died, the dealh of which 1t was insist
ed by the owner was the result of In
jury received in transportation. A lit
tie later two others died, on the
grounds, of hog cholera.
1t Is needless to say that great un-
easiness prevailed among exhibitors.
and they went SO far as to draw up an
application for damages against the
Exposition company, on the ground
that sufficient care had not been taken
to inspect the hogs before they came
upon the grounds and to shut out dis
eased herds. And in view of the fact
that the disease condition was no
torious. and that almost without ex-
ception the men suffering from liabili-
ty to the disease were experienced
managers of hogs and familiar with
hog cholera in it's various forms, there
can be no question about the fact OF
the presence of cholera To add fur
Their to the danger OF contracting dis
ease, it must be remembered that
thousands of persons were passing
through the pens daily, and for several
days no measures were taken to pre-
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-02-24
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm-A Few
Hints ~ to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
k.n.a. Agricultural college.

At the agricultural dairy every ef-
Tort is made to keep the stables clean.
and the stalls well bedded, and to
have as little dust floating at the time
OF milking as possible. To accom-
plish this latter point, the feeding is
done after. rather than before. the
milking. The handling of the hay,
ensilage or even grain, fills the at
mosphere full Of dust and carries with
1t millions upon millions of germs,
many Of which will fall into the milk,
and not only cause 1t to sour, but will
develop undesirable fiavors In the but
ter and cheese made from it. The hay
bacillus, a germ that has great tenaci-
ty OF life, exists In immense quantities
IN cured hay, and when allowed to de-
velop unchecked In ripening cream will
cause the butter to have a very dis