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ing hills, and in a month all the world be-
low was shouting klondike.
Ellis built his shack near the first trench
that sunk.
We'll get in on the ground floor, kid -
he said grimly. 'Lowrie sold out for fif-
bought for half a million next week. And
there's a girl down in Indiana"
While he worked and fought and planned
down in the trenches that We're slashed
like great wounds in the breast of the
mountain the Hawk and Bones remained
in the shack, cooking and caring for every
thing. and worShping as master the tall,
deep-chested boy from Indiana.
Its up to quarter. kid he would say
al night. when it's a million straight
we'll go out
Two men came up the river from St.
Michaels one day. One had been sick all
the way. They buried him decentiy and
had smallpox, and the other stranger took
a tumble in front of Ellis shack. He was
a clean. well-bred looking fellow, and Ellis
liked him. The Hawk and he gave battle
to death. and one day the stranger was
sitting up outside the shack. and all wa:
well. The mountains were afame with raG
and gold, and an amethyst haze hung around
the river distances.
It's awfuly pretty up here" the
stranger said dreamily.
Bet your life it is responded Ellis,
warmly Wrap that blanket round you,
though. You don't want the damp curling
up your bones. Going to plant here?"
Il think So" said the other slowly.
Come up on business?"
Yes, a little private business"
''All right. Needn't tell if you don't feel
the spirit moving you. Only 1 like you.
and you might as well stay right here
where God or the devil dropped you for
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passed the fort and were out on the clear
stretch of prairie. Ellis looked his COM
panions over quietly. speculatiVely, stand
ing knee-deep in tall yellow prairie grass
that bowed laZily In waves and ripples as
the breeze brushed by. The Hawk stood
moti0nless. taking the survey a matter
Of course. Bones sat down and snapped
idly at II bee on a yellow daisy.
''ShoshOne or Rapahoe?" asked Ellis
Don't know Little French. little Can
Where did you come from before
Pstes
Kicked out tepee village. Bones and
me-"
Why
'BOnes steal rabbit. Jim Bad Eye throw
Bones in fire.
The boy paused with closed lips. and eyes
that looked far away over the Big Horn.
Jim planted over yonder somewhere. l
threw knife at him"
Ellis drew q long. deep breath
Come on, kid he said shortly. You re
all right"
So the three passed on, drifted as the
leader said. up over the Canadian line up
through the moose country. up through the
wilderness nOrthward. taking their time,
hunting only enough to supply food.
1T don't pay 10 shoot things just to see
them die, Ellis said Il don't like the look
Of dead eyes when I've done the killing"
There was little conversation between the
two They would sit together at night
hour after hour. beside a campfire. Ellis
lying over on a heap of pine boughs, smok-
ing moodily: the Hawk. lean. gaunt. half
clad young animal. sitting in the glow of
the flames, with Bones stretched peacefully
at his feet, snoring restfully, until spark
from rosined knot would make him start
and growl sleepily. At midnight Ellis
would look at his watch. 1t was not a
handsome one. Merely old silver-p plated
open face, but in the back case there was
4 picture of girl laughing. One night the
TWO had been sitting thus for hours. All
at once Ellis handed the watch to the boy.
That's her" he said. The Hawk looked
IT it long and dispassionately.
Got yellow hair?" he asked as he handed
Il back.
You bet she has. kid replied Ellis I'M
Ter his breath. Soft, warm, yellow. like
prairie grass in August"
Il saw a woman shot in Rawsons" said
me boy after a pause, he pushed Bones
mead away from the fire with his foot.
yellow hair
Ellis was silent. He never showed the
picture again. but he always felt that the
Hawk knew his weak point. and respected
him accordingly.
When they reached Forty Mile creek 1t
was an outpost of the world. an odd cor
ner of earth where the last of the old min
ers made final stand against the onrush
OF modern civilization. 1t was a pleasant
corner. and they rested there. Then one
day some one happened to find the root OF
all evil lying around loose in the everlast-
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watched him from the corner. Hardy,

| watched him from the corner. Hardy,
I'm going down."
| Hardy smiled up at him through the torn,
ragged smoke wreaths from his pipe.
| why not?' he asked lightly.
| Ellis frowned. He had forgotten all save
| the man before him.
You know what I told you one day last
wear" he began about that girl, and the
man 1 fought fair? Well, they don't exact
| ly take my view of the matter down there.
| They're waiting for me, do you see? 1t S
free up here"
| But YOU want to see what she thinks
| about it?' said the other musingly.
! That's it," cried Ellis earnestly. That's
| just the point. She knows l hadn't any bad
: feeling toward him only so far as she was
concerned, and she hadn't promised either.
We just made up our minds to fight 1t out
and let the best man have her And we
didn't try any dirty work, either, knives
or guns just took the weapons God gave
us and went to work one night after a
dance We were coming home through the
woods" He paused and rested one booted
| foot on the chair he had vacated, as he
| leaned forward toward Hardy. There s
a big jagged bluff this side of town, and
| there isn't anything but rocks and river
| below 1t was clear of trees on top, though,
and Bob said to end it there. 1 didn't know
| it, Hardy. / swear L didn't know he was
| dead until 1 felt him go all limp from
my arms. Something had snapped. 1
! didn't know what until L tried to wake
| him up
"Well?" asked Hardy nterestedly.
That's all. The neck was broken
What made you throw him over the
| bluff them
| Ellis shuddered.
Did l say 1 threw him over?"
Hardys slim white fingers closed sud
| denly, and he bit his under lip.
Yes, you told me before" he returned.
Il didn't remember. Some devil put 1t
| in my head that maybe they'd find him
down there on the rocks, and think that
was how it mad happened. So l dropped
him over easy" He looked over Hardy S
head to where the freight played a witch
game of tag with the shadows The eyes
wouldn't shut" he added under his breath
| They looked at me he went over"
And of course, some one had seen you
fight. and told" concluded Hardy lightly.
Jack old man, you're fool. Such thing
isn't a crime. It's an episode in mans
life. Forget the eyes, and don't get senti-
mental. You're a millionaire. Go down to
Indiana. and get the girl. I'll go too"
In week the shack was empty. Two
men and an Indian and yellow dog
took the south trail
It's too long by the river Ellis had
said. ''We'n go to Juneau and take the
steamer down to Seattle
Hardy had kicked against the company
of the Hawk and Bones, but it use
less. Ellis had ordered them back, but
the next day found them keeping stead
lily to the trail and Ellis laughed. and
said he wouldn't go back on old chumS.
The way was long and tedious, and
they neared Juneau his nerve began to
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speaker said becomes pillar of flame and
rolls through a room with such a force as
to shake the walls and make the windows
rattle. If sprnkled with water there would
be no explosion. Where formerly the fire.
tried to keep smoke in, under the i'm
preston that it smothered the fire, they
now Immediately break in windows or sky
lights to let 1t out
Several ways of preventing such eXplo-
sionS were described by Mr.. McDevitt. In
large stores, he said, if air shaft of suffi-
cient size were in the center there would
be no internal spread of fire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-24
THE WooDPECKER FAMILY.

Copyright, 1y2 Marietta N. AndrewsD
By Cousin Georges old
n hole a happy family!
The father the very galy
Each bright red bonnet nky vest!
The fathers very busy, he work. you see,
Like ordinary father support his family
might think
For his riprap-tip-tap is very sharp and clear!
nd whe hammer and spy head
We children know he's working his daily bread!
The little mother home mothers do,
And takes of her babies mothers do Of
WIDE
every fore C Ia and
So stand they rap"
But their business, while their babies
all welltrained
maps noontine,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-24
Social Changes.

From the London Tatler.
/ can we'll remember the time when a
man. if perchance he met lady while he
was smoking in some rather unfrequented
street. always flung away his cigar and
rather tried to look as If he had not been
doing it. Yet so far have We travelled that
not long ago, at a hospitabe house not q
hundred miles from Berkeley Square, the
hostess and her daughter We're the only
smokers in a large luncheon party, and
prefaced their cigarettes by the courteous
condition, If you gentlemen don't mind"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-24
Is Availability FrumpishP

From London Truth.
Good manners are now quite out OF FASH.
ion just as amiability once regarded as q,
charming quality. is now dowdy in the ex-
treme-even frumpish. A girl Of today
would vigorously resent being described as
amiable. Pm not such a weak idiot as all
that" she would say. For goodness sake
don't libel me-" .a.s. a
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Il am sorry. doctor. you were not able
to attend the church supper last night: II
would have done you good to be there"
1T has already done me good, madame; Z,
1 have just prescribed for three of the par.
Elephants. "-Richmond Dispatch
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he gave me and William Henry each a
hundred dollar bill. besides a trunk, big
one. that was just piled plumb full of clothes
and books and tobacco and new pipes and
hunting boots and | don't know what all
1t shore was great trip
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-01-11

ton caused q still larger fall In the nm
ished product, to the great benefit Of con-
sumers. Petroleum was less ~fiuctuating.
the extremes Of the year being SO and
7.65 per cent for refned in barrel cargoes.
Extensive fields In the south were devel-
oped, which tended to hold prices down.
Exports of the staple products reached a
new high record, Notwithstanding the low
er average prices OF oil and cotton, and
the scarcity OF corn. The crop year OPP
ened with a new record of wheat and -four
exports, amounting to 34,130,3 $50 bushels in
August, far surprising any previous
month, while for five months ending No
vember 80 the aggregate was 126, s2S, l62
bushels.
In the year of big things II was natural
that new high records should be made In
deposits n loans. Financing big syndi-
cate corporations and unparalleled stock
market dealings combined to raise the
total OF loans and discounts TO 1914, 623, 300
on February 16, against $S2S, $50, 600 on Sep
TENDER Is, 1900, the top point OF that year.
On the same date deposits attained their
zenith at s1,o11, 1923. 900, compared with
1914, $40, 800 on March 4, 1899, the record
prior TO 1901. At the time OF more thar
a billion deposits the only held In
actual cash s265, 6S4, 100. or sl2, $50, $50 above
the rs per cent legally required. On March
2 there was a new deposit record Of 81, OH,
$4,000, but loans did not attain thcir
maximum until March 9. at S9lS, 7S9, 600.
The year 1901 brought almost a uniform
decline In silver throughout the entire
period eliminating In sales during De-
cember at 4.S4d in London and "a cents
at New York.
II is found that but two months on rec.
ord. August and September, 1897, found
this metal selling as low. At hat time
the bottom was touched at 23&, or about
2 cents an ounce lower than the low rec
ord of 1901.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-01-11

throat, lungs and bronchial tubes, in fact,
no matter where located.
Few people realize that most sick
nesses start from colds which develop
into different affections and finally be-
come chronic. settling often on the lungs
and frequently causing serious trouble
in the pelvic organs, while in women It
develops into diseases peculiar to the sex.
From my experience with Peruna I
have found it very eflcacious to cure
these diseases, and | recommend It,"
l.. S. SMITH, NJ. d.
DR.. Mary Smith, Winfield, Ind, writes:
"A weak and sick woman must not
expect to bear well children. For over
81 years my efforts have been spent
among sick especially, and
among all the remedies have used,
none excel Peruna, and / believe that It
is the best and safest medicine to give a
woman suffering from ovarian trouble,
Inflammation, and profuse menstruation.
Il would not be doing my duty as a
physician did | not advise Its use. I
know. by experience that Peruna cures
sick women, and l therefore gladly In
dorse it." DIR. MARY SMITH.
If you do not receive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna.
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement Of your case, and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus. o.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-01-11
ROYAL HEARTS,.
Sealed In Silver Jars In an Ancient
Austrian Church.


w. z. Curtis, in Chicago Record-Her-
aid: Down in the gloomy little crypt in
the church Of the Augustine friars at
Vienna. the sacristan, If you will give him
q kronen. will let you look through a
grating In the door and see the forty
seven cans upon a shelf that encircles
the w~hitewashed wall. They look like
an assortment Of timed meats or vege-
tables, but contain the hearts OF the men,
bers Of the imperial house OF Austria.
For centuries, when an emperor or an
empress, or any Of the royal family dies,
II has been the custom to cut the heart
out Of the body, seal it up in n little sill
yer urn and deposit it In his church.
which contains also a beautiful monu-
ment to the Archduchess Marie Chris
tina, daughter Of Maria Theresa-and the
most beautiful sepulchre l have ever
seen. 1t was carved by Canova and rep
resents the face Of a pyramid with an
open door, through which a procession
of l~ife-size marble figures is passing into
the tomb-the poor, the lame, the halt
n the blind-bearing laurels and offer
ings OF affection and gratitude, while the
angel of the resurrection leans upon the
back of a lion and watches them.
1t Is an ugly old church and was built
way back In 1888, but it is famous for be-
ing the court chapel and having one OF
the finest choirs In the world. An APP
pointment to this choir is the highest
prize offered by the Imperial Conserva-
tory Of Music, and. although the salaries
are not large, compared with those paid
by fashionable churches in the United
States, the appointment Is for life and
commands a pension when the SINCE has
o~utsung herself.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-01-11
SHOOTS five PERSONS
Massachusetts JeweIer Kills
His Clerk, Then Tries to
Exterminate Family.

Turner Falls, Mass, Jan. 2.--Louis
Bitter, a jeweler Of this place, today
shot five persons, two OF whom, his
clerk, Miss Ida Columbe, and Bitzer's
5-year-old son, are dead. His other VIC
Tins were his wife, Christina, his two
daughters, Annie, about 16 year sof age,
and Carrie, aged IL years. 1t is thought
they will not die. There Is evidence
that 1t was Bitzer's purpose also to take
his own life, but his prompt arrest ap-
p~arcntly prevented him from carrying
out this purpose. He is about 35 years
I'D. From q note left in the store by
Bitter, 1t appears while he was clean
ing a revolver the weapon was dis
charged accidentally. The bullet hit
Miss Columbe in the head, killing her
instantly. Overcome by the situation
Bitter apparently rushed home hatless,
wild with excitement. and began the
work Of DISCRIMINATING his family. The
little boy, Ill In bed with the measles,
was shot and killed. His daughter,
Annie, was wounded through the left
hand and in the ear. Carrie was shot
through the neck. Mrs. Bitter was hit
In the face, the bullet passing through
her nose. The sound OF the shots
brought neighbors into the house and
Bitter was arrested. The police believe
Bitter Is insane. A note which they
found In his store after the affair was
an almost incoherent tumble Of words.
After telling of the shooting OF Miss
Columbe, Bitter wrote he had deter
mined to go home and end the lives
of his wife and children and his own.
He asked that as his funeral hymn
Nearer My God to Thee" by sung He
wished that his property should be
given to his brother and aged mother,
and ended his letter with an expression
to the effect: God would not blame
n man for doing what he had DONE"
Substantially the same story was told
| by Bitter after his arrest.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-01-11
WAITED FOR A LARGE PARTY.
How a Big Indiana Attorney Fooled q
Railroad Conductor.

New York Sun: lndianapolis.-Levi
Mock, n well known attorney and ex-
member OF the legislature, Is seven feet
tall I'm his stocking feet and weighs BOO
pounds. He lives at Burton, and the
other day he was very anxious to reach
Huntington, where he was 10 sit In an
important case as special Judge, the at
torneys for the plaintiff and defendant
having agreed that he was big enough, at
any rate. to be impartial. In order to get
to Huntington he would have to change
cars at Kingland, the junction OF the
Lake Erie and Western and the Chicago
and Erie railroads.
When Mock reached the railway station
at Bluffton the Lake Erie train was sew
en- minutes late and tho chances were
that he would miss connection at King
land. The Chicago and Erie train usually
waited for connecting passengers II there
were several to transfer, but the con-
ductor had orders not to hold his train
for one or two persons. After consider
able argument with the Lake Erie agent
Mock got him to send this telegram TO
the conductor OF the Chicago and Erie
train at Kingland.
Hold train for q large party"
When the Lake Erie and Western train
reached the junction Mock got of and
hurried to the Chicago and Erie train,
which had been held for "a large party. .
The conductor waited for others to come,
but when the Lake Erie and Western
train started away the truth dashed up
on him and he turned to Mock, surveyed
him from head to foot and said:
And that's no Joke either"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-01-11
A Grateful lar

Cox, Wis, Jan. 6.-With Kidney dis
ease SO bad that he could hardly walk
across the room for pain, Frank NJ.
Russell Of this place was a man great
ly to be pitied.
He tired out with the slightest exer-
ton and in spite Of all the doctors
could do for him he was growing grad
ually worse. He had tried many medi-
cines and treatments without benefit,
but recently he read In a newspaper
about Dodd's Kidney Pills and these
helped him irons the very first dose.
He took several boxes before he was
completely cured. but now he is well
and strong as ever he was and feels
very grateful to Dodd's Kidney Pills
for his restoration to good health.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-01-11

Detroit Free Press: 1T must have
been quite a year ago. said the
general delivery clerk at the post
office. that a man came In one day and
inquired for a letter in his name, and
he looked much disappointed when L
could find none to hand out. Since tina
day. sup to q week ago, he has been COM
Ing twice a week.. most always when I
was on duty. and as no letter for him
ever arrived j had considerable curiosity
regarding his case. In fact, / built up a
romance around him.. 1 took II that he
might have separated from his wife in
some distant town, and was hoping to
hear from her n make w the quarrel,
and j actually came to feel hard toward
her because she refused to write. 1t
seemed to me hat the man was failing
In health as he lost hope, and now and
then / gave him a cheerful word to brace
him UP. A week ago i saw his name on n
letter, and next time he called / gladly
passed II out with the remark:
Here is your long expected letter at
last, and j hope II contains good news
II stepped away from the window to
read II. and after a few minutes he came
back to say:
~ didn't get It,
"'Wha was it?'
why, / sent to my brother-in-law In
Pittsburg almost a year ago to borrow "A
dollar TO buy some porous plasters, and
he writes me that he can't we'll spare II,
and that I'd better use mustard instead! +"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-01-11
TREASURY REVIEW.
Gage Says Condition at tho Close Of
1901 Gould Hardly Be Improved.

1901 Could Hardly Be Improved.
Washington, Jan. 2.-'"The treasury
is in a condition of unexampled
strength" said Secretary Gage, when
asked to review briefly the treasury
situation at the close Of the year.
only a month ago, In my annual re-
port to congress, l reviewed these con-
ditions. The figures for the last month
have made but little change for the
calendar year. We show receipts In
excess of ordinary expenditures
amounting roundly to 500, 900, 900. Such
excess might have resulted In serious
embarrassment had not the depart
ment been able, by means OF this sur
plus, TO reduce the public debt In large
amounts. Since April l last the treas
ury has redeemed and Cancelled United
States bonds to the par value OF $685.
ia, 700, which have been applied to the
sinking fund, and the disbursement
resulting therefrom was $72, 278, S45. The
available cash on hand, therefore, was
only about $50, 900, 900 larger than the
amount held n year ago.
Gratifying Comparison.
Comparing the situation as 1t is
today with April /, 1897, the result
is most gratifying. On the latter day
the treasury held money OF all kinds
to the amount of $3.50, S73, 900, including
500, 900, 600 as gold reserve, leaving
therefore $3.50, 000, 900 as cash balance.
Today in money OF all kinds the treas
ury holds 1896. S59, 900, and If we deduct
the $3.50, 000, 900 now held as gold re-
serve the balance stands at $146, 600, 900,
or 81, 900, 900 less than II was April /,
1897. 1t will be seen, therefore, that
substantial equilibrium has been main
tanned.
There has been a very material In
crease In the volume Of money In cir
culation since March /, 1897, as we'll as
In the amount per capita. The volume
OF money Of that date outside of the
treasury was $1,675, 694. 1853, and the
amount per capita, $23.14. On the 1st
OF December last the amount Of money
outside the treasury was g. $50, 256, 200,
and the amount per capita, $28.73. The
increase in the amount is, therefore,
1914, Sol ,277, n the increase per capita,
$3.50.
Gold Circulation.
1.-THE amount of gold DIN and gold
certificates In circulation Increased
from 1888, $50, BIS on March, 1897, to
1914, 800. 0s9 December l last. Every 9TH
err kind OF money In circulation Is
greater in amount now than on March J.,
1897, with the single exception Of treas
ury notes of the act of July IA, 1890.
The amount of these in circulation De-
cember 1, was only $780, or, 500 against
$85, SAC, 621 March, 1897. This reduction
In volume grows out Of the natural
operation Of the act Of July Ia, 1890.
and the act of March IA, 1900. The in
crease In the amount Of national bank
notes in circulation during the period
In question was 1882, 1872, 731. This in
creas is mainly attributed to the act
Of March il, 1907"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-01-11

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