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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05
I'aCetiOuS.

Boston Evening Transcript: Hicks
Been out to ride, Ell? Horseless car
riage?
Wicks-No; c~arriageless horse. In
the saddle.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05
Anxious for Particulars.

Chicago Times-Herald: "Oh, by the
way, hear that Minnie is engaged to
a professor"
"You don't say! What ~kind-chiro.
podist, palmist or ho%rseshoer?"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05
Warming to notelkeepcrs

Danville Commercial: Chicago hotels
will this week put out their Don't
Blow Out the Gas" signs. The ma
tional democratic committee is to
meet there.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05
Their Fate.

Life: The Host-Now that they're d.
vorced, what kline Of an arrangement is
to be made?
The Pessimist-The town house will go
TO the wife, the country place and stables
TO the husband.
"And the children?"
"TO the deVil!'
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05
DOut Rinht.

said the American parlor was the funniest
thing he had seen in this country"
why SOP"
wei, he said, we have dental parlors,
ice cream parlors and shaving parlors."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05

Sunday School Teacher seeking to
impress the necessity of faith)-And
what was the one thing which Jonah
needed to make him safeP Bright
Sohslay--Ths earth -8rooklSnLVs
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05
A New Pillow Stumnp.

San Francisco Call: Nothing is ere
ated that has not its place in the econ
omy of nature. Even the hairy popu-
list is useful as stuffing for the dem
ocratic pillow.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05

/ believe Piso's Cure is the only med
icine that will cure consumption.-An-
ma NJ. Ross, Williamsport, Pa, Novem-
Der -, 1895.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05

Tr|by 10 the name Just given 10 q
railway station 10 the sugar swA6pps Of
kvhlAasA pear tho saglf sea.k
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05

ETQ Permanently Cured. No ITS or nervousness a fter
wv first days use OF Do. Kline's Great Nerve Re.
storer, Send for FREE ~. 90 trial bottle and treatise.
ar II ii, KLINE, Ltd, @l Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05
Editorial prOSnprity.

OF bad health that R.Ip.A.N.sw will
Nnot Dvneht send . cents to RipaDs Chemical Co
new YORK. for 10 sample and 100 Testimonials ~
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05

MRS. winsiow's SOOTHING SYsuP for children
teethlng, s0ftens tho gums, reduces
allays pain. cures wind collie. 2ja q bottle,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05

CHAPTER XLv.-"YoU WILL KNOW SOON"
valerie" said Amy Linwood's voice, an
hour later, outside Valerie's dressing room
door, "are you alone?"
"Yes-come in"
And Amy stole in.
One look at her flushed face and spark.
ling eyes, and Valerie held out her hands.
Dear old Amy" she said, "rknow what
you have come to tell me!'
Amy knelt down by the couch and put
her arms round Valerie, hiding her face.
care you glad?" she whispered.
"You know | am. | saw how it was long
ago, Amy"
Amy looked up.
"Long agor' she repeated. "WhenY"
"Ohl last season." said Valerie, laugh.
ing. Don't color so, you silly darling;
there's no harm done"
NO." returned Amy, laughing, too.
"And ann likes Hal; she doesn't mind
his not being rich. / left him with Colonel
Beauregard; though of course he knew"
II should think he didl Where were
they?"
"On the terrace. Why?"
Nothing; only l thought Angela had
been with Colonel Beauregard."
perhaps he executed some strategic
movement and got rid Of her." said Amy,
merrily. "She had best give up her chase:
he doesn't care for her one atom"
"Never mind Angela" said Valerie,
quickly. 81 want to hear about you"
What am | to tell your / only feel aw-
fully happy; and / wish you did" said
Amy, in an altered tone, and laying her
face on Valerie's shoulder again.
Valerie started and laughed in something
Of the old reckless way Amy had heard be-
fore.
"Why do you think I am not happy" she
said.
"You can't be-and you don't look it,"
"Look it? Just now-no; how should II"
Amy raised her head and looked earnest.
ly in her friends face.
why do you say How should j. Va
lerie? You are in trouble about something,
and you won't tell me-"
"Have l ever told you anything, Amy'
What's the goodP 1t onl y worries you and
pant help me, Now you're looking grave
when You ought 10 look like sunshinsI
Fancy coming 10 tell me that VOW are ths
hapg'e.t girl aliyet and then hettlas over
me-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05
Beduregdrd Idtd his hand on the boDed
gOIdcn head.


WHAT" she exclaimed. You alone,
Valerie! | thought Max was here"
"He has just gone out" said Valerie,
forcing the words from her parched lips.
"He is on the terrace-l think"
~"Thanks!'
Angela vanished, and Valerie leaned
back, pressing her hands over her eyes.
Too late!-too late!''
Yes; she understood him only too well!
He loved her; but he could never forget or
forgive that her love was tainted with am.
bition. She could never be to him all that
he might once have hoped for; but she
might yet be true to herself-might live "a
nobler life"
IL she could tell him the truth, would he
believe herr Not now, perhaps. And only
his hand could break down the barrier be-
tween them-the barrier that first his honor
and then her pride had built up.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-27
Decorate fer Admiral SchIey.

The board of aldermen meet tonight to
take action upon the proposition that the
city appropriate $1,000 for the proper enter
tainment of Admiral Schley. The aldermen
should not hesitate moment in voting this
sum- The citizens will do the rest.
Birmingham should do herself proud in
the entertainment she will accord the hero
of Santiago. Thousands of Alabamians will
be here to welcome and cheer the great
American commander. The city should be
decorated and Birmingham should Guido all
other southern cities in her celebration of
the visit of Admiral Schley.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-27

THE TRAVELLERS MASTER.
Where the Best Sleeping Car PortelS Come
From.

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
I'VE find the best material for sleeping
car porters among the old house servants"
said a Pullman official of long experience.
The theory used to prevail that graduate
from the car-cleaning corps was most apt
to prove satisfactory, but it turned out to
be mistake. The cleaners are generally
pretty rough lot of darkies, and while
they get to know the mechanical details OF
a sleeping car very thoroughly, they never
have an opportunity for the exercise of in
dividual judgment. porter on Pullman
is really in a very responsible position. OF
course, he is supposed to appeal to his con-
ductor whenever he is in doubt. but occa-
sions arise every day in which he must de-
pend on his own tact and good sense.
Most of our patrons belong to the we'll
TODD or wealthy classes, and good many
of them are full of whims and crotchets.
They are continually complaining and max
ing unreasonable requests, and to keep the
fur rubbed the right way is difficult and
delicate task. That ifs where the training
of an old house servant comes into play.
The very best men now in the employ of
the company as porters have been buffers
in good old southern households, and they
require next to no special instruction.
Il have taken on several men of that class
who proved so capable from the very first
and seemed to have such exact knowl-
edge of their duties that I felt morally GER
tain they had been in the service before
and had re-entered it under assumed names.
That is a trick which is occasionally played
by discharged employees who want to dodge
the black list, but discovered on nvestiga-
tion that I was in error. They had picked
up the indefinable thing that makes good
servants while employed as private buffers
in southern homes"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-27
Another Export Record.

The record of exports for September has
never been equalled. The fact is, exports
are increasing month after month even
when the exports of agricultural exports
are not heavy. The exports of breadstuffs
last month were mucrh less than they were
in September, 1897, but the deficiency was
more than made good by gains in the ex-
ports of manufactured goods.
The total exports of merchandise in Sep
tember were valued at $ll0 437 ,6S5, SO per
cent. heavier than those of August, nearly
2, per cent higher than those of September
Hast year and Sc per cent. heavier even
Nhan those of September, 1897 when bread
stuffs exports were very heavy. The value
of our exports of leading products during
September was s64, $50 1898, a total of % per
cent. larger than a year ago and only 94
per cent. smaller than those of September,
1897, although breadstuffs exports were q
per cent. smaller in value this year elhan
two years ago, and cattle and provisions
exports were also smaller. If these lead
ing exports are deducted, however, it is
found That the remaining exports increase
over 1898 to the tune of 20 per cent, so
that it will be seen that shipments of prod
ucts other than agricultural have neces-
sarly heavily increased.
For the mine months of the calendar
year our exports aggregate $903 OPS 5OS, a
gain over LAST year of nearly per cent.
and over 1897 OF over p per cert. From an
excess of imports in 1895, the current of
trade has radically changed, and while i'm
ports now are only about equal to those
ot 1888, our exports the other hand,
are now 62 per cent. larger than those of
1925. 1t will be further noted thai while
imports are % per cent. larger than those
of last year, they are still a few millions
smaller than they were in 1897. If the pro-
portion of gain shown in the last nine
months should only be maintained, the to-
tai export trade for the calendar wear
would. surely equal 81 800 100000, a sum far
in excess of the record-breaking total of
1898.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-27

needs, While it shifts to the Fiiipinos much
of the responsibility. Nothing is said about
the $2OOOo,o0o that this country paid to
Spain fer The Philippines, but this is un-
doubleday a detail that can be arranged
for in the settlement. if any there be on
Regidor lines.
If the administration reject the Regidor
programme altogether-if 1t refuse to re-
ceiye him or to listen to his propositions
it will be plain that unconditional surren-
der and submission is its programme 1t
will mean that colonialism has come to
stay, and that the army now in the Philip
pines will be needed there many long
year in the future. 1t will mean that Mr.
Mckinley and his supporters are welded
to militarism and imperialism, and that
no terms, however broad and liberal. can
change their determination. The question
will then come before congress and the
country,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-27
Mr.. Carmack's Announcement.

| Tennessee does not select a successor to
Senator Turley, who has determined to re-
tire from public life, until next year, but
even now the successor is a burning ques-
tion in Tennessee. Congressman Carmack
of the Memphis district has added to the
heat and intensity of the occasion by an
nouncing his candidacy for the place. He
prefers to serve the state in the senate to
serving the Tenth district in the house
This is very natural and reasonable on his
part.
But he will have opposition Governor
McMillin is believed to have a senatorial
bee in his bonnet, although he has not said
a word about it thus far He is believed
to be still-huntfng. whether" saws the
Nashville Banner, Governor McMillin con-
templates standing for the successorship to
Senator Turley or not, he is regarded as a
factor in the senatorial situation which can
be eliminated only at his own suggestion.
and which will be formidable should he ask
his friends to rally to his support"
Governor McMillin would be under the dis
advantage of location. AS a rule Tennessee
democrats expect to select one senator from
Middle Tennessee and one from West Tenn
essee, ignoring, of course, East Tennessee,
which is anti-democratlc Senator Bate
! lives in Middle Tennessee, and SO does Gov
| ernor McMillin, while Congressman Car
mack is West Tennessee man. Location
goes long ways in Tennessee, and this is
on MIR. Carmack's side, especially if his op-
ponent is to be Governor McMillin.
Mr. Carmack is a Chicago torn demo-
crat, an opponent of trusts and of imperial
ism, and he regards Mr. Bryans nominal
tion for president as assured He is an out
and-out admirer of the great Nebraskan.
All in ALL Mr.. Carmack's announcement is
regarded in Tennessee as very clear point
er to Mr.. Turkeys successor. He has MANY
chances in his favor.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-27
BALED MONEY

Robert Burdette in the Los Angeles Times
But speaking of cotton-strange how the
subject sticks ito one-I once asked a
small farmer in Georgia: "Why do you
raise cotton year after year? 1t seems to
me it's the hardest thing in the world to
raise; 1t requires more care than anything
l know of; has ito be plowed oftener and
looked after more carefully; why don't you
raise something to eat?'' And the man
with the two-mule farm laughed and said:
I'D know you was from the north just by
that fool speech. Because l owe for my
land. 1 have to have money every year to
run this farm. l can borrow money on my
next crop of cotton. And the man who
lends me the money can keep his eye on
my crop from the time the seed is in the
ground till it is loaded on the cars. His Sc
curity is all right. But If / go to him in the
spring and tell him / amt going to raise
any cotton, but only corn and garden truck,
he can't keep track of no such perishable
security as that. He won't lend me cent.
So if 1 want any money I've got to raise
cotton" And 1 made what haste I could
to swim ashore. 1t is so easy, son, for us
to tell people 1900 miles away just what
they ought to do So much easier than it
is to go there and do it. That's one reason
why so many men who think that the bull
let goes in at the muzzle of the gun and
that the powder Dis put in first when you
load it are trying ito manage the Philippine
war in Boston, Mass.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-27
Steel Barges in the Rivers.

The steel barge is rapidly coming into
favor thus displacng the clumsy and leaky
wooden barges, which have been employed
from time out of mind. A barge is needed
smallest depth of water. Such a barge is
needed even in the lower Mississippi when
the water is very low as it is at present,
and in the Warrior steel barges will be
almost necessities; for there will not be in
the Black Warrior and in VanHoose's
canal any surplus water.
In short time this district will be ready
to furnish the plates for steel barges, If
not to build them complete; and it will do
this at prices that cannot elsewhere be ap-
preached. A wooden barge is clumsy, ex-
pensive, leaky and draws too much water.
1t is not easily pulled 1t is out of date,
and when the Warrior is opened to barge
navigation every barge should be made of
steel.
The barges that carry Alabama coal down
the Mississippi should also be of steel. The
Pitsburg barges are, as a rule made from
wood and the Pittsburg papers urge their
replacement with modern steel barges. No
doubt the old-time barge will SOON be sup
planted by the new kind Steel is as use
full and desirable in barge as it is in a
ship-in some respects it is even more use
full and desirable. because it lessons the
draught. Business going from steel CEN
ter can be economically carried in steel
barges. The plates are at hand, and no
one who needs a barge should think for a
moment of resorting to the forests for
barge building material. Ensey will fur
nish the plates.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-27
SALE or A GREAT AUK's EGG

An egg of tine great aux was sold at the
auction room, No. 3S King street Covent
Garden, yesterday for 800 gufneas, says a
recent issue of the London Standard. MIR.
]. c. Stevens, the aWctioneer, said that in
1884 Comte Raoul de Berace bought the egg
from the owner of SIT. Malo fishing smack.
The counts collection was purchased by
Baron dHamonville. The egg to be sold
was one of four great aux eggs belonging
to the baron. There were seventy-one re-
corded eggs of the great aux, twenty-nine
OF them being in museums and forty-two in
private hands; fifty-two were in British col
lections The first egg which the baron sent
over fetched a record price at tle time, of
SOC guia1eas the second one only fetched 1870
Suineas. The egg now submitted, although
not having line. finest markings was, per-
haps, the largest ever offered for sale being
AZ inches in length. 1t was of rough ext
ure, heavily biotched on the top Mr. Stew
ems called attention to a peculiar yellow
mark OF circular form around the top, but
could not guarantee it as a natural mark.
If it were So linen it was The MOST extra
ordinary mark of the kind he had seen.
There was a spirited competition for the
egg. The bidding started at 100 guineas.
and quickly rose by tens and ewenties eiu
1t reached the higln price of 300 guineas.
at which figure 1t was secured by Mr.. L. G.
Middtebrook, Edinburg Cas.ie Museum
Regents Park.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-27
HE DIDN'T COME

From the Mobile Item.
No wonder Tom Brumby decided to hurry
on to Atlanta and take his old man of the
sea with him, since Frank Stanton, of the
Constitution, published this invitations:
Brum! Brumi
Be sure to comet
We've got a band
And big brass drum,
And mountain dew
(And we'll give you some)!
Brum! Brum!
Be sure to comei
This settled 1T with the Georgia boy, ana
he no doubt made mentally this reply:
Wen come,
BY gum.
Your .mountain dew"
Beats Manila rum;
An the old man,
He'll take some
Well come
= - --' Zoo. ~ ..
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE

! Manager Douglas of o'Briens opera house.
is treating the Birmingham public to some
of the best plays on the road. Those who
missed 1.-The Mysterious Mr.. Bugle'' last
evening were deprived of the cleverest COM
edy which has appeared in Birmingham
this season. Those who shall miss 1.-THE
Three Musketeers'' tonight will regret it.
Henry GlazIer. who plays D'Artagnan. is
said to be one of the cleverest young actors
on the American stage.
1t was given out yesterday that Messrs
G. B. Mccormick and Erskine Ramsey had
purchased the plant and patent rights OF
the Perfection Mattress company. Both are
prosperous young business men and will
doubtless build up this now small factory
into a great mattress factory.
"When Admiral Sehley comes to Birming-
ham, said well-known travelling man last
evening, you will see this town crowded
- it never was before. People from almost
every town in Alabama are preparing to
come and welcome the hero of Santiago. L
look for $4,000 visitors to Birmingham the
ady ne Is mere. s-,i14A
Because young Cornelius Vanderbilt
married against the wishes of his father
he is almost left out of the division of the
tremendous fortune of his late father" said
a New York lawyer at one of the hotels
last evening. young Cornelius had con-
templated suit to set aside the will, but
his brother Alfred who gets $50 ,O00, 900 of the
estate has agreed to add sufficient to the
paltry 81 100000 left Cornelius to place him
upon an equality with the others and he
has agreed to take no legal action Thus
Cornelius will get s7,5OO,000 all told. This
was generous on the part of Alfred, but it
strikes me that the elder Cornelius was a
bit too severe upon his eldest son in prac-
tically disinheriting him simply because he
married Miss Wilson who happened to be a
few years his senior"
General Fitzhugh Lee is back from Cuba,
and it is said that he brings with him a
large and buzzing senatorial bee. The gal
liant general will perhaps be a candidate in
Virginia for the seat now held by Senator
Martin. e, L.
Colonel A. NJ Shook and Mr. Percy War
ner returned to Nashville last night on Col
onel Shocks private car. The former will,
however, return next week and continue
to live in his car at Ensley until able to
walk. His fractured leg is improving, and
a rapid recovery is predicted.
The finishing touches are being put upon
the steel plant. Many of the fiues are al
ready in process of being dried out, the
electric plant is in full operation, and with
i'm three weeks it is predicted that the frss
run of steel will be made.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-27

in that though also a depression In the
plain catching the drainage of am area. but
having no outflow, dt must have hard bot
tom.
LAAGTE-A "laagte'' again ds different,
and is one of the distinctive formations of
South Africa, due to the clear-cut distAne-
ton between the dry and wet seasons. A
laagte is properly a wide and comparatively
shallow depression, dropping suddenly from
the prevailing country level. 1t is usually
fun of pitfalls, and woe betide the foreign
general Who shall try to push cavalry or
big guns across in the face of Farmers"
occupying the opposite built" The bot
tom land is, when dry, a well-grassed turf
of rich moutd-no one can say now deep
often two miles or more Wide and running
twenty to thirty miles, mostly Level as
billiard board, but with gentle tilt, sufi-
cfent to let the water run. E1andslaagite is
a good example
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-27
DEWEY'S OLD SWORD

Washington Cor. of the Chicago Tribune.
In the shop of a tailor who does a large
business with army and navy officers there
has been on exhibition during the last week
a sword which has attracted hundreds OF
visitors. This weapon, which originally cost
the regulation price of about 3d. has no or
nament attached to it save a gold cord
sword knot. When the tailoring establish
ment first secured this weapon the gliding
on the scabbard and hilt was furnished, the
scabbard itself lacked lustre, and the blade,
while devoid of hicks, notches and blood
stains, bore evidence of long use. Today it
is as bright as it was when first, turned out
of the factory. 1t is the sword which Ad-
miral Dewey carried all through the mem
orable campaign which won for him warm
place in the hearts of the American people.
Compared with the weapon which was
presented with so much ceremony on the
steps of the capitol few weeks ago it is
but a poor blade The steel of the ordinary
kind of which such weapons are made and
the gold is not even skin deep, but it is just
if by any chance the admiral were to offer
the two weapons for sale he would be likely
to realize moro for the $13 article than for
that which cost the general government
several thousand dollars. In fact, two or
three men have made bids on it already
and the tailor says that up to the time it
was returned to the admiral Saturday last
81 500 was the top figure offered. This was
by a naval officer, who would probably have
to mortgage his pay for several months,
but he would undoubtedly be willing 70 do
this if he could secure this combination of
STEEL shark skin and brass