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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
IT BOTHERED The BABY.
Why Ice Company Couldn't Get Goo
Connections Oy L ~Tclephunrs.

Why Ice Company Couldn't Get Cool
Connections Ov l. Telephones.
Bangor, Me-, News: The troubles
of the American Ice company are not
confined to the New York newspapers
and the courts, and the latest indiyid-
ual to rise up and harass the mighty
trust Is n little ~Knnebecker not yet
out Of the crib. And The way Of it Is
this:
The trust has a private telephone
system connecting It's ice houses along
the river, and running from Augusta
to Bath. A few weeks ago the line
began TO act strangely. Sometimes
the nan at one end could hear perfect
~, and again it would sound the
way it does when the central office
girl has a grudge against you and has
given you the poorest connecting line
she can get hold of, 1t didn't bother
much at first, a1d the trust officials
thought that It was only some tenn
porary difficulty which would soon
pass away. But the trouble grew
more persistent, and at last became al.
most chronic.
1t was clear that something must be
uOlt, SD VIC lIuSl C0hl IL NOhDlC VI
linemen over the wire. They had COW
cred about half the distance without
finding a flaw, and were getting dis
c%ouraged, when they dropped into one
of the house tenders dwellings,, where
the phone for that particular ice
house was located. Stepping to the in.
strument they found the receiver
taken off.
The man of the house was away.
what have you got that down for?'
they asked the
"That?" she replied, calmly, 20
that little thing. Well, you see we've
got a new baby here and he doesn';
sleep any too well. | tried for g
while to get him to sleep without
bothering that telephone, but ht
wouldn't go to sleep with that bel
ringing every few minutes. So | bcgaT
experimenting with that thing and
found that If | took down that thing
it didn't make any noise. So now
when | want baby to 60 to sleep | just
take that thing off and he goes right
to sleep. The sleep has been doing tho
little dear so much good that I've KEEP
1T off Il good deal of the time. Blu
lnel, HS lHr as tIdl, she Nouuu vi
c~heerfully, 81 knew that it wouldn't
make no odds with the thing s'long al
we didn't want to use it,"
Then the lineman said things tina
the baby would have felt hurt about i
he could have heard and understood
but he didn't, and slept on supremel,
unconscious that for a fortnight IN
had been delaying the business of on,
Of the biggest and most noted trusts
in the country.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
WIDOWS ADDED SORROW.
Tier Dead Husbands Age Oycrstated
Wf e.. h-.

Tier Dend Husb.nd's Age Ov~crstateo
IVY a Reporter.
A woman iii this city has shown
herself to be sensitive about her dead
husbands years., avs the Chicago
News. She has not been a widow
many months, and she is not of an age
that she heed 20 disguise il. But still
she felt herself injured when the
newspaper printed her deceased part
ner's years in figures that Shaved
him to have been somewhat advanced.
There's a reporter in this town
thdt I loathe," she said to IN acquaint-
ance. hWhS, do You know when my
husband died that fellow put his age
in the paper at ten yeats more than 1t
really was.
did you ever hear of such an out
rage? Ten whole years! And now
! people who didn't know dear George
and who read that obituary notice will
think he was quite an old man, and
consequently that l am mitch older
than l am.
~ thought for a while I'd enter
suit for damages, but i was advised
not to do so, though the injury to my
feelings was worth something, !
think.
ITS preposterous how inaccurate
papers are anyhow. III that man had
to make the agc wrong why couldn't
he make IL ten years younger instead
of ten years older? 1t Was evidently
a piece of spite work" and the be
reaved one folded her arms and gazet
%detiantly at the public prints from thu
lofty eminence Of her d~isapproyal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
THE chief Of police ef SAM FRAN
ciscol"
CHAPTER IT.

CHAPTER III.
The laugh that ihstinctitely broke
from Clarehce's lips was SO sincere
and Unaffected that the man was dis.
concerted, and al last joined iii it., a
little shamefacedly. The grotesque
blunder of being taken as a fugitive
from justice relieved Clarence's mind
from its acute tension, he was mo-
mehfarilS diverted, aid II was not mn
til the boatmah had departed and lie
wa again alone that IL seemed to
have any collateral Significance.
1hen an uneasy recollection of
Snsy's threat that she had he power
10 put his wife III Fort Alcatrez came
across him,
Could she have already warned the
municipal authorities, and this man
nut he quickly Remembered any sc-
ton from SUN a warning cCuil only
have been takei, Ivy the United States
marshal' n not by u eiric bhio,al,
and dismissed sha i'iea,
NeverthC .ess. when the stage with
lis half-spent lamps sill burning din
ly against the morning light swept
round the IuSre aid rolled heavily up
to the Office; he became wOtthlul.
"A single yawniug EndiNhaal in It's
doorway received Il few letters and
parcels, but Illve,ice MAS evidently
the only waiting passenger. Any hope
that he night hare entertained that
his mysterious predecessor would
emerge from some seclusion at shat
moment, was disappointed.
AS he entered the coach he made Il
rapid survey of his fellow travellers
but satisfied himself that the strange
was not among them, They were
mainly small traders or farmers, Il
miner or two, and apparently u Span
ishsAtIericnn of better degree ard
personality.
Possibly the circumstance that met
of this class usually preferred to trav'
ell on horseback and were rarely seer
in public conveyances attracted III:
attention. and their eyes met more
than Once in mutual curiosity.
Presently Clarence addressed d re
mark TO him in Spanish. He replied
~tiuently and courtesy, but at the mex
stopping place he asked a question %
the eXprcssman in al unmistakabl'
Missouri accent.
Clarence's curiosity was satisfied
he was evidently one of those early
American settlers who had been 81
long domiciled In southern Californi;
as to adopt the speech as well AZ thC
habiliments of the Spnniard.
Continued Next Week.)
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
CARVED A STONE
For His Wife's Grave, Then the Old
Man Died,

WAN tJIcus
New York World: For weeks a fee
bile old man labored in the hot sun
cutting and carving a little tomb
stone. Each day he would begin
early in the morning and work stead
lily until the light faded away in the
evening. He would barely take time
to eat a little food in the middle of
the day.
When his neighbors on Washington
avenue, Hackensack, told him he
should not toll so hard during the
hot weather, John Smith, the old
man, had but one answer:
II will finish that tombstone and
place 1t on my wife's grave If IL is the
last act Of my life. I'll do it if il
kills me-"
Wednesday afternoon the little
stone was completed. AS soon as he
had put on the last touches Smith
entered his house and dressed him.
self i'm his pest clothes.
He took the little headstone in his
arms and in the broiling sun started
on a long walk to the Catholic GENE.
terry, where the body of his wife was
buried IL few weeks ago.
Inc oya ola nuSDand WepC as ne
carefully set the stone at the head
of his wife's grave.
When he started to walk home from
the cemetery he vas tagged out. IL
rest himself he stopped on the way
at the residence of William NJ. John
son., where his daughter is employed
as a cook.
The old man died. His neighbour
say that grief and exhaustion killeC
him.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
HYPNOTISN NJ
Used TO Quiet Frightened Children,
and They Were Vaccinnted.

Used to Quiet Frightened Childr cn,
and They Were Vaccinnted.
New York special to Chicago Tribune:
While under a hypnotic spell cast by
their father, Viola and Louisa Letsche,
8 and 9 years old, were today vaccinated
In the Office OF the Jersey City board Of
health. The girls did not feel the vac
cine point, and when awakened knew the
operations had been performed only by
the scars on their arms. John M. Letsche,
father OF the girls, visited the health
Office with his daughters and his 6-year-
old son Howard. He told Health In
spector Benjamin he wanted the three
children v~accinated. DR.. Stewart was
assigned to the task. The children be-
came frightened at his paraphernalia,
and would not roll up their sleeves.
The doctor was about to call attend
ants to hold the girls, when the father
said he could simplify matters. He told
the girls to sit down. This they did. and
the father stepped In front of them. He
made several passes in front of the girls
eyes, and in a moment both sat rigid and
staring.
II have ~hypnotized them said the
father. II will make them do anything
the doctor says"
He ordered the girls to roll up their
sleeves. which they did. lie then told
them to hold out their arms for the doc.
tor. They obeyed. AS DR.. Stewart APP.
girls moved a muscle. When awakened
one of the girls said: Papa. that was
mean of you!'
The father said he had no hypnotic con.
him while he was v~accinated. Letsche Is
a professional hypnotist.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
Danger ar

Denver News: Alfred (whose sport
i've opportunities have been limited by
parental decree)-Papa, what does IL
mean by base on balls?
the latest heavy weight fight)-Al-
fred, you could better employ your
self with your Sunday school lesson.
I'm too busy now to explain.
Alfred (still thirsting for knowl-
edge)-Did it mean the same as base
on balls when you telephoned last
night that as mamma was away you
were to go out on a bat?
Mamma (who is always listening)-
Benjamin Ridgely, you will take time
right now to make two explanations,
with the most important one coming
to me.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
Autumn Song.

Wrap Nm round. O mother Autumn. with
a dreaming all unbroken.
With the royal purple semblance OF a
passion all unspoken. ~
While the bird Of life wines backward
In the reddening, waning day,
To the thrill OF long-lost laughter, to the
love that could not stay!
Now the savage child within us breaks
the thicket. flying faster,
Barefoot through the voiceless Forest
threading leaf and fern and aster.
Leaping brook and laughing upward
where the broken blue beguiles,,
Speeding ono heart ny faster!-down
the light OF memory's aisles!
Now the scent OF grape and hollow stirs
the pulse and fans the ember,
And wind above the waiting sheaves -
whispering, Remember
o now, the heart Of memorys rose burns
reddest 'gainst the gray,
While the bird OF life wings backward
to the love that could not stay!
Virginia Woodward Cloud, IN the At
lantic Monthly.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
Your Poor Back

Aches and aches and aches. Every move
ment hurts. Standing, lying, sitting,
walking, always aches. You may have
relief if YOU will. Science knows why
your back aches. Science has given the
world Dodd's Kidney Pills. They never
fail. Thousands who have doubted lust
rs you do now. have tried and proven
them, Their evidence you have. They
say they have been cured. MANY had
tried everything else and given up hone.
Many had been given up by the doctors,
They say that they have been completely
cured by the use OF Dodd's Kidney Pills.
You, too, may be cured. Do not suffer
q moment longer. Be sure you get the
genuine Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
Has Forgotten Her Mother Tongn.

Philadelphia Record: Two sisters.
who have not seer each other for fifty.
nine years, met in Pottstown, Pa, re-
Gently. but the joy of their reunion
was married by the strange fact that
neither could understand what the
other said. Mrs. John Knapp, 20 years
of age, of San Diego, Cal, was one OF
them, and when she left Berks county
in 1911 she could speak the German
language fairly well. But her long
absence caused her to forget all of it
and when her sister, Mrs. Charles
Hortz, of Exeter, greeted her in Penn
sylvania German it was like so much
Greek to the California woman Sh,
tried her English on her sister, bur
that did not help matters, as Mrs
Bortz could speak only German. IL
get over the difficulty the sisters ar,
now accompanied by their niece, Mrs
J. w. Gilbert, of Reading as inter
prefer.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
d Is REQUIRED.

Chicago Post: Il suppose ther.
ought to be a moral to this society
play l am writing" remarked the
young dramatist.
"Oh, yes" replied the manager
There ought to be a moral to which
we can point as an excuse for the i'm.
morality If the critics get after it. but
don't make it too strong"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
In sweet september's skies.

In sweet S~eptember's skies
Crisp autumn's golden promise meets the
eyes;
The fields are rich with harvest, and the
song
or garnering labor rises glad and strong.
Dear mother earth rewards with loving
hand
The primal toll Of those h till the
land,
And wreaths OF grateful incense odorou
rise
In sweet September's skies.
In sweet S~eptember's skies
The glory Of the waning summer dies,
Like the clear sunset OF a perfect day,
Its beauty rarest as II fades away;
And In the air, as summers heats de-
cline,
Comes a swift vigor as Of tonic wine,
And the worlds badness sounds with
happy cries
In sweet September's skies.
Ripley ID. Saunders.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
The Sccnnd KNOCK Ont.

Chicago Tribune: IL know veil
enough, fellow citizens" exclaimed
the tierce-browed, shaggy-haired ora
tor, that the views | advocate are
not popular. Not ten days ago, while
advocating them from a public plat
form, l was struck in the head by a
brick and knocked senseless."
why didn't you wait till YOU got
your sense back before you went 10
talking again?" inquired Il man in the
outskirts of the crowd in a loud, rau-
cous voice.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

There Is a beggar's league in Peters,
burg who cripple and mutilate children
for the purpose Of exciting public sympa-
thy. The little unfortunates are sent into
the public thoroughfares to beg for PEN
chief officer of the league, who has
amassed no small amount OF wealth from
his wlckedness.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
FELLOW RCHS.
King Oscars Graciousncss TO u
Chicago Party.

ming oscHrS iciOuSncS TO "a
Chfcngo Party.
New York Letter: The friends OF
Mr.. and Mrs. George f. Baldwin of
Chicago have just heard of a pleasant
experience which they had in Stock
holm recently and which exhibits the
true courtesy of King Oscar of Swe-
den. While sightseeing in Stockholm
they visited the royal palace and were
charmed with it's beauty and dignity.
They had reached the floor on which
King Oscars private suite is situated
when they were stopped by an at
tendant, who told them they would
have to wait, as the king was there,
but was about to take a drive, when
the apartments would be open. AS
they waited in the corridor a royal
carriage drew up at the foot of the
staircase. 4 momen later the king
appeared in the uniform of an adj
miral. AS he passed Mrs. Baldwin
made a graceful courtesy, which he
acknowledged with a courteous bow.
Turning TO an aide-de-camp, he said:
"Please show the lady and her
friends through the royal chambers.
/ see that they are Americans, fellow
monarcbs," and with another bow and
smile the king departed. Mrs. Baldwin
is n of the beauties of Chicago. She
has many friends in New York.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
BEST FOR THE BOWELS.

No matter what ails you, headache to q
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. CASCARETS help
nature, cure you without n grippe or pain,
produce easy natural movements, cost
you just 10 cents to start getting your
health back. CASCARETS Candy Ca
thartic, the genuine, put up in metal
boxes, every tablet has G. G. G. stamped
on it. Beware OF limitations.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
announcement.

TO accommodate those who are partial
TO the use of atomizers in applying liquids
into the nasal passages for catarrhal trou.
Jss, the pl )~rietors prepare Cream Balm in
liquid form, which will lie known as Ely's
Liquid Cream Balm. Price including the
spraying tube IL Is cents. Druggists or by
mail. The liquid form embodies the med
icinol properties of the solid preparation.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
DcpreCiatiou of Money,

In 1878 n silver dollar was worth
one dollar and six-tenths in gold, and
in 1896 forty-tive cents. Money may
depreciate but there Is one standard
medicine, which has o changed in
half a century, and that is lIostetter's
stomach Bitters. 1t always has been
the II remedy for Indigestion, dys-
pepsia or kidney troubles.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

Washington Star: Customer-Does
Mr.. Puffington get his cigars here?
Cigar Dealer-He does.
Customer-Great smoker, is Putting,
ton. He tells me his cigars cost him
500 a year.
Cigar Dealer-If he had said that
his cigars los me about that figure
he would have come nearer the truth.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
A LinuiI RenronE.

Detroit Free Press: Norma Nibbs
hasn't the first instincts of a lady"
That's n sweeping assertion, Jean"
Wei, ma, | treated her to a scent
soda ice cream and she turned right
around and treated me to n 10-cent
one"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

E~ngland's first war vessel of any
pretensions was called the Great Har-
ry. She was a double-decker and was
built in 1909. She had n capacity OF
1000 tons, carried eighty guns, was
1873 feet long, thirty-eight feet beam
and cost Gl4,000.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to treat
ment by Ely's Cream Balm, which is agree
ably aromatic. 1t ia received through the
nostrils, cleanses and heals the whole sur
face over which it diffuses itself. Druggists
sell the zoe. sizs; Trial size 10y mail, 10
cents. Test il and you are sure to continue
tba traafnnpt
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
Un-tO-Dufp.

Chicago Journal: Wife-Oh! Henry,
if ! were To die, what would you doP
Husbnnd-l don't know. | don't
like TO break away from the old fash
toned method of burial, hut crema-
tons becoming popular.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
Kceninc Home Sacred.

Times-Herald: "Did you ever live
in a haunted house?"
mo, sir. | have always made il a
practice to have the bill collectors call
on me at my Office
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

sEnNnvHD For both sexes. for the cure OF
uVWVvA unnatural discharges, Innam.
nations, lrrltations, Ulcerations. An internal rem.
edy with injection. o. or 2 for t5. Guaranteed by
Kidd Drug Co Elgin, Ill. Sent by mail on recent OF
price. II. S. Baker Sioux City. Wholesale and re.
tail, Hurlbut & Macarthur, Druggists, Des Moines.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
Undermining Himself.

Times-Herald: wv. ID. Howells says
he doesn't believe in heroes"
That's queer. One of the leading
characters in each of his novels is n
hero"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

Piso's Cure is the best medicine we
ever used for all objections of the
throat and lungs.-William o. Ends
ley, Van Buren,, Ind, February II,
1900.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

"Your aunt has grown quite feshy
lately" Yep" l call her Auntie Ex-
pansion now"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

There are men who complain sim
ply because they have nothing to COM
plain about.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

Each package Of PUTNAM FADE
LESS DYE colors either SILK, Wool or
Cotton perfectly at one boiling.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
$4,000 Per Week

To men with rigs to introduce our
Poultry Compound among farmers.
Address, with stamp, Acme Mfg. Co.,
Kansas City. Mo.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

When a man begins to borrow
money he begins 10 borrow trouble,
too.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

The Manufacturers OF Carriers Ink have
had forty years experience In making 1t
and they certainly know how. Send for
"lnklings," free.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
All
Women
Know

That ordinary treatment
fails 10 rei0ve painful
periods.
Theykn0wLy fiia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Com
pound will and does and
has, more than any other
medicine.
Every woman knows
about Mrs.
medicine.
Every woman knows
some woman H7rs. Pink
haSss mas cured-
But nisse women out of
fen put off getting this re-
liable remedy until their
health is nearly wrecked
by experiments O" nsg-
fecf!
Then they write to Mrs.
Pinkhans and she cures
them, but of course IL
takes longer to do So
DON'T delay getting help H
YOU are SSck.
She has helped a million
women. why not y0u2
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money il il fails 10 cure.
4. w. Groves signature is on each box. 26c.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

Reports that the wall paper trust
has gone 10 tie wail ere unconfirmed
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22

Halls Catarrh euro
Is taken internally. Price rs cents.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-09-01

of the Bible Are our Right; 1915 S S; $50
Il l.; 1880 A Bible Picture. ~
UNITARIAN
Olney Street-Service l0:45. The pastor.
Rev II Jones will preach; communion
after the sermon.
First Congregational. Benefit and Be
nevolent Sts-Public worship with COM
munion i0:l5. The minister. Augustus NJ.
Lord. will preach.
UINIvERsALIsT
Church OF the Mediator. Cranston Sc
Rev w c Selleck. pastor-Service 10l5;
communion. II; s, 1890: v G U, $3.50.
Ballou. Smith ST. Rev Thomas + May,
pastors s.. 10; public worship. IL; Y T.
l. meeting. $3.50.
First. Rev II. ]. Cushman, ID u. pastor
Public worship az 1915. DR. Cushman
will preach; holy communion at IL; s S at
12:30.
MISCELLANEOUS.
BELL street Chapel-Seats free. Hour OF
service (until further notice. 10;i5. The
minister. Anna Garlin Spencer. will speak.
Sunday school at 12 o'clock.
wayland Chapel South Angel street
and Waylsnd avenues 3 y m.
Providence Church OF Christ. Scientist.
70 Bridgham street-servce 1855 m.
Subject. Substance.
ter St-Iively Gospel services with good
music at H. 3 and s. Adit Batteley and
| Capt Connell IN command.
1Y~ping Hand Mission. 40 Hartford Ave
Services I'm the afternoon at 2:30: even
! ing. 7:2o. led by Miss Lura Horton. the
| girl evangelist.
Mission Of the Coming King. s27 Broad
! St-prayer. i0:45: u G. 1880: preaching
! 2:t5. by Tld Wm Dixon; conference. 1880
| Union Sea and Land Mission. Rev
/ Charles III Plummer. supt-Meetng or
| Days wharf at 2. Deacon w II Turner
will preach. others will assist.
Broad So Christian church. G A Conf.
bear. gastor- Morning worship with com.
munion service. 10:i5; S 8. 12l5; {
! =. 6.2o At 800 an address by the pastor
the first In q series OF Biblical Blograph
/ zeal sketches
Y NJ = A. NJ tho building Conservation
| service ~ 9.a0. mems meeting at 4. VII
: be addressed bv Rev W VI Bowen OF
Dexter Training ground. open afr servic,
with address by Rev Amos Il Chase.