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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-04
Congress has passed the Philippine

Congress has passed the Philippine coinage bill authorizing the coinage of the peso, or 50-cent dollar, and estab- Mshing ratio for silver in the islands of 32 to 1. Governor Taft, Secretary Root. Senator Lodge and others famil- jar with Philippine conditions believe the measure will prove the much need ed remedy for the present financial distress in the Philippines and, al- though the measure was opposed by the democrats, they permitted 1t to be- come law with the hope that it might relieve the serious conditions now pre- vailing in the Philippines.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-04
Her Honey House.

An Iowa woman who was cleaning aouse one day accidentally knocked out brick and some mortar from the side of little used room. In doing so she came upon curious humming sound and delicate odor. She reported the circumstance to her sons and two of them climbed up the outside of the house and removed some of the wealth CT boards to investigate the phenome- non. They were much astonished to find that the whole side of the house nearly had been filled in by the bees with honey and honeycon1b. Taking down the remaining boards, they care fully extracted the material, stored it in convenient place for the winter, and ate honey on their mullins for many months thereafter.-N. Y. Her. aid;
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-04
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1903.
As a result of the unseating of But

As result of the unseating of But Ter the democrats pledged themselves to filibuster on every motion made until the end of the session, and have made good their pledge thus far Only by the adoption of rules clearly beyond the spirit of the constitution and rulings which are, more tyrannical than those of the late Speaker Reed, have the re- publicans accomplished any business WhateYer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-04
HE SIGNED THE PLEDGE.
Hut Before She Got Hubby's Sigma. ture She Had to Send I'm Two
 Calls for Police.

A ring of the telephone bell in po- lice headquarters at 3:20 o'clock dis turbed the early morning quietude of the Mulberry street building, in New York.
 "Well, what is it?" said the officer in charge.
 "A man is setting fire to the house," came from the other end, and in a low, sweet voice.
 That's bad. Tell me your name and your address"
 ;'1'm Mrs. Annie Fleming, of 10s West One Hundred and Thirteenth street." the woman said.
 "All right. We'll attend to it." the officer assured her.
 Two minutes later, away up in the West One Hundred and Twenty fifth
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-04
The price of coal is still tumbline

The price of coal is still tumbling, owing to the decrease in demand. In New York on Monday the retail price of domestic anthracite was reduced from $6.5O to $6.25 a ton, and it is ex- pected to reach $6 ton in Q week or so. Some of the speculative dealers are said to have been caught with large stocks on their hands. - Hartford Times.
 Serves 'em right! serves lem right! No business to be caught with the goods in their possession. If they hadn't been so greedy they probably could have sold all out at good profit before the tide turned.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-04

autumn on the fifteenth anniversary of her first marriage. l felt melancholy for six months after she gave our boy the full name of her first husband. In- deed, I know he must have been a great, noble man, and she is certain- ly true, loyal woman: but there are some things that I fiatly refuse to do, no matter what my marriage VOWS were"
 "Ah! does she forget and call you by her first husbands name? ?' in- quired the sympathetic listener.
 "Very often, of course; but don't care for that. Her latest idea is to have me trim my whiskers just as her first husband did his, wear an old suit of his clothes in the evenings, and talk through my nose. She says that would make her just the happiest wife in the worlds
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-04
Eskimos Have No ReIiw,on

MT. Hanbury, the recently returned Arctic explorer who has been studying the EslSinos, says they have no reli- gion-not even belief in supreme being.-N. Y. Sun.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-04

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Promo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. Groves signature is on each box. 25c.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-04
Newspaper Written in Verse.

V A weekly paper published in Athens, Greece, is written entirely in verse, even the advertisements.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20
THE REAL CRANK
Ia Plainly Marked.

A crank is one who stays in beaten
paths when common sense tells him to
leave.
The real crank is one who persists il.
using coffee because accustomed to and
yet knows it hurts him. 1t is this one
who always pays the penalty, while the
sensible person who gives up coffee and
takes on Postum Food Coffee in it's place
enjoys all the benefits of returning health.
A well-known manufacturer agent of
New York City visited the grocery
department. of one Of the big New York
stores not long ago and there he tasted a
sample cup of Postum made the right
way. He said afterwards: "Just through
the energy of that young woman who
was serving Postum there l became a
convert to the food drink and gave up
the drug drink coffee and got well.
Il had used coffee to excess and was
gradually becoming a complete wreck,
getting weaker and more nervous every
day. | paid the penalty for using coffee
and when | tasted the delicious Postum
| was glad indeed to make the change.
so L gave up the coffee altogether
and have used Postum instead ever since.
My family at first called me n crank.
out seeing how Postum benefited me the
irst month they all got in line and as
I result of Postum's remarkable benefits
% me we all drink it now entirely in
'lace Of coffee and we are WELL" Name
aven BY Postum Co.. Battle Greek. Mich.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20
CASTORI ia
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature . ses Of I<MAZzZM
SOUGHT IN VAIN.
Little Experience of a Disconnected
Man with Fate.

Little Experience of a DISCONTINUED
Man with Fate.
Cassel's Journal: Fate met a discon-
tented man.
why are you discontented?" asked
Fate.
"Alas!' said the man, my life is so
monotonous. L desire a change of time
and place"
THAI is impossible" said Fate.
Nay" said the man, 1T is in your pow
er to transport me to a distant land and a
different era"
Choose" said Fate.
The man's eyes sparkled.
IL choose Rome he replied, Rome
during the Augustan age"
His wish was granted, but ere long
Fate found him again disconsolate.
"Why are you disconnected? 2" asked
Fate.
"Alas!" HI said, my life Is so mon
o~tonous, 1 desire a change Of time and
place"
Choose said Fate.
II choose France in the Napoleonic
age" said the man.
His wish was granted, but ere long Fate
found him again disconsolate.
why are you discontented?" asked
Fate.
"Alas!' said the man, my life is so
m~onotonous. / desire a change Of time
and place"
Fool" said Fate. Have you not yet
discovered that one is always here and 1t
Is always now?
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20
BABY'S FUTURE
Something for Mothers
TO Think About
Lives Of Suffering and
Sorrow Ayerted
And Happiness and Prosperity
Assured by
CutiCura Soap, 0intmentandPilIs
When All Else Fails.

Every child born into the world with
IN inherited or early developed ten
dency to distressing, disiguring hui
mours Of the skin, scalp and blood,
becomes an object Of the most tender
solicitude, not only because Of its suffer-
ing, but because Of the dreadful fear
that the designation is to be lifelong
and mar its future happiness and pros
perlty. Hence, it becomes the duty Of
mothers of such afflicted children to ac-
quaint themselves with the best, the
purest and most effective treatment
available, viz, The Cuticura Treatment.
Warm baths with Cutlcura Soap, to
cleanse the skin and scalp of crusts and
scales, gentle applications OF Cuticura
Ointment, to allay itching, irritation
and Inflammation, and soothe and heal,
and mild doses of Cuticura Resolvent, to
cool the blood in the severer cases, are
oil that can be desired for the speedy
relief and permanent cure of skin tor
tured infants and children, and the com-
fort Of worn-out parents.
Millions of women use Cuticura SoaJ.
assisted by Cuticura Ointment, for pre-
serving, purifying and Identifying the
skin, scalp, hair and hands, for annoy
ing irritations and weaknesses, and
Cor many sanativc, antiseptic purposes
which readily suggest themselves.
Sold throughout the world. Cutieura Re.olvent Be. I'm
form Of choeolats Coated Pills, sc. per vial Of CO.., Oint.
ment, Dc., SOAP, 2Sc: Denots, London, " Charterhouss
20 Paris, Rue de Ia Polk Boston, lf Columbus Ave.
Potter Drug q Chem, Corp Proprssora
a2- Sand for " How to Cure Baby HumourA"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20
A MARYLAND Wonder.

Upper Cross Roads, Md, June 10
Never in the history OF medicine in
this state has anything created such a
sensation by it's marvellous cures of the
most extreme cases as Dodd's Kidney
Pills.
This wonderful medicine seems to
know no limit in its wonder working
power. Long-standing cases that have
defied the most expert medical treat
ment seem to yield easily to this new
conqueror of disease.
Hundreds have testified to the virtue
Of Dodd's Kidney Pills. They tell of
severe cases Of Rheumatism, Lumbago,
Backache, Female Trouble, Nervous
Diseases and even Dropsy. Diabetes
and Bright's Disease cured by this
medicine.
Among those who have been bene-
flied may be mentioned Mrs. John
Cooney Of this place.
Mrs. Cooney says:
Il believe DOdd's Kidney Pills the
best remedy ever known for Kidney
Trouble and weak back.
They are without exception the
best medicine l have ever used.
9" will always praise them highly,
for l know that they are good"
Mrs. Cooney is only one Of many
who say Of Dodd's Kidney Pills:
The most wonderful remedy we
ever heard Of"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20
"Send by Enclosed Girl"

New York Press: An east side drug
gist is preparing a unique scrap book.
1t contains the written orders OF some
customers Of foreign birth, and these
orders are both curious and amusing.
Here are some that are copied from the
originals:
II have a cute pain in my child's
diagram. Please give my son some
thing to release it,"
Dear Dochter, pies gif bearer five
sense worse Of Auntie Toxyn for garle
baby's throat and obleage."
This little baby has eat up it's ia
theirs parish plaster. Send an anecdote
quick as possible by the enclosed girl
This child is my little girl. / send
you f1ev cents to buy two ~sitless pow
ders for a groan up adult who is sike. -
You will please give the lettle boI
five cents worth of epaCac for to throw
up In q a five months old babe. N. B.
The babe has a sore stummick."
II hat a hot time in my insides and
witch l wood like to be extinguished
What is good for to eXtinguish it? Tht
enclosed money Is the price of the ex.
+lnguisher. Hurry please"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20
"FIRsr THINGS" IN NEW york.
Events to Be Recalled In Connection
With the 250th Birthday.

NGUko W Dc hoQMtt1Q IN A000GCLton
With the 250th Birthday.
New York World: The New York we
celebrate-it was New Amsterdam then
was a year old when. in 1854. It's first
Thanksgiving was appointed. In that
same year the first steps were taken to-
ward formal police regulations.
Flour had been first bolted in the city
in 1850. and In that year. too. the first
licensed lawyer opened an office.
The first public school was opened In
1852. This suggests a quarter-millennlal
that was missed last year.
Events of 1866 were the use of the first
city hall by the magistrates and the OPEN
ing in that same building Of the small
room which constituted the city's first
prison.
The year 1856 was marked by the first
1cal census. showing a population Of
1000 persons. a large number of whom
were negroes.
1867 the first fire company, the ::Rattle
Watch" was organized with eight men,
$50 fire buckets and the hook and ladder
outfit Of the day. made In Holland"
The city was twelve years Old before,
In 1865, 1t had its first Mayor. He was
Thomas Willett, after whom Willett
street Is named.
The first na~tive-born Mayor was Ste
phanus Van Cortlandt, appointed in 1917.
Other first things and their dates, some
before and some after the birth of local
SELF government, are these, according to
the histories:
First building on Manhattan island, 1915.
First. children born on the island of
European parents, a boy In 1914 or 1915
and a girl In 1925. The latter date is au-
thentic; the former is approximate and
doubtful.
First clergyman the Dominic Bogardus.
FOR the first regular church built on the Is
land, 1888. First schoolmaster the same
year, also the first graveyard.
First whipping post set UP in 1885, the
year which-no connection OF events-saw
the establishment of the first artist, Dirk
Hermans.
First regulsr physician in practice, 1886.
First ferry to Long Island, landing near
Peck slip, 1887.
Tirst murderer sentenced to be hanged.
l41. The condemned man was a negro.
First building lot sold, 1912. A plot 80
feet by ITO, where Bridge street runs now
price $3.50. Try how much land you can
buy there today for the same money.
First poet, Jacob Steednam, known from
1859.
First merchants exchange, 1910.
First letter-carrier, 1913, with a dubious
route, extending to Boston by way Of
Hartford.
First dock, 1877.
First undertaken, 1853.
First printing press, William Bradford's,
1894.
First ~poorhouse, 1893.
First public money appropriated for
cleaning the streets, 1856.
First lighting Of the streets, 1897. A Ian
tern was hung on a pole at every seventh
house and the expense Of keeping up the
lights was divided among the h~ouseholders
In blocks of seven"
The first newspaper, the Gazette, was
published In 1725; the first public library
was opened in 1920 and Kings college,
which has expanded into Columbia uni
versity, was opened in 1856.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20
Sea Serpent Photographs.

Philadelphia LeGger:There must still
be some who have faith and believe in
the long looked for sea serpents, and
among them would appear to be the
admiral commanding the French fleet
In the China seas. Whatever may be
said of his sanity, he Is certainly a most
enthusiastic sea serpent hunter, and he
is wide awake, too, for he has laid his
plans SO that, If the Monster appears,
he is going TO know about it.
Through q circular addressed TO all
the officers under him this admiral has
given instructions that no one neglect
any occasion Of taking note or even
photographing a sea serpent. Today
many people have In their possession
instantaneous cameras. 1t should.
therefore, explains the admiral, be
easy to photograph the animal when
floating on the waves, and such photo
graphs, when enlarged, Will enable
others to gain an adequate idea Of the
appearance of the serpent.
1t may, therefore, reasonably be
hoped hat within a few years-it is
only a matter Of time-the great sea
serpent will no longer by a myth, if il
really does exist, as the good admiral
says
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20
When Rhyme Fails,

Philadelphia Ledger: 1t doesn't De.
to trile with a business man through
the medium Of rhyme. One of the long.
haired boys who earns his pie writing
mystical verse for the magazines, sen
on a new cue the other day. With his
verses he sent this mad little thing to
the publisher:
OF all glad words of tongue or pen
Are these, / hope it will bring me ten.
But the cold, calculating publisher
could also do a thing or two at rhym-
ing, so he sent back the poem with this
Enclosures:
OF all sad words Of tongue or pen
Are these, my boy, try not again"
But the boy did try again, so the
story goes, and the return mail brought
him this:
OF all sad words, written or wired:
Try never more, for you are fired.
All of which goes to show thai II
doesn't pay to trife with the man who
signs the checks.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20

The total reported area in oats is about
81, 1872, 600 acres, q reduction OF $4,000 acres
or 80 per cent, from the area sown last
year. The average condition of oats on
1902; 1913 at the corresponding date in 1901,
and a ten-year average of 1912.
Barley Shows Increase.
The acreage as reported under barley
exceeds that harvested last year by 800, 900
acres, or IL per cent. The average condi-
ton of barley is 10, against 1886 on June
|, 1902; 81 at the corresponding date In 1901
and O ten-year average of 1871.
The acreage under rye shows a reduc-
ton of So per cent. from that harvested
last year. The average condition of rye
Is 90.6, against ISL on June l, 1902; 1873 at
the corresponding date in 1901, and SO the
mean of the corresponding averages Of the
last ten years.
The acreage of clover for the country as
a whole cannot be satisfactorily deter
mined, but all the principal clover states
except Wisconsin report decreases In acre
vania, Michigan and Illinois to 5 per cent.
In Iowa and Kansas. The condition of
clover exceeds the ten-year average In
Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Wis
consin.
OF the fourteen states having 5000, OO0
apple trees and upward but two, Virginia
and Tennessee, report conditions above
their ten-year averages, the average con-
dition Of the other important apple pro-
ducing states ranging from 2 points In
North Carolina to % points In West Vir-
gina below such average.
The present prospects for the peach crop
are decidedly unfavorable, Oklahoma alone
among the important peach growing states
showing a condition above Its ten-year
average. In the remaining states having
1900, 600 peach trees and upward conditionf
range / per cent, in California to 43 III.
Arkansas below the ten-year averages.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20
FOUGHT TO GO TO PEN
Accused Murderer Tells Jury His Plea
of Insanity Is Bosh,

OF insanity Is Bosh.
Chicago, June 12.-"Gentlemen, ]
ought to go to the penitentiary," said
William Wardner to a jury In Judge
w. M. McEwen's court yesterday. II
am no more crazy than you are"
The twelve men on the jury agreed
with the prisoner and sentenced him to
states prison for eighteen a for
the murder Of Walter Osborn at 567
State street, on February 2. Wardner's
admission that he deserved punish
ment came after an elaborate 'insan-
lty defense" 1t was a feature Of the
shortest murder trial in the records of
the criminal court.
The case was called at 2 o'clock In
the afternoon, and the verdict al en-
tered at $3.50. Assistant States At
brney Frank Grove wasted little time
in selection Of a jury, and practically
the first twelve men called were ac-
cepted.
do you believe IN the infection OF
the death penalty?" asked the defend
ing attorney Of a prospective juror.
II am not going to ask for the death
penalty" interrupted Mr.. Grove.
Wardner, whose true name Is said to
be Edwin Elliott, looked happy at the
announcement. The evidence was that
Wardner and Osborn had quarreled
over a woman and that Osborn was In
Wardner's saloon when the shooting
took place.
Several guards from the county jail
were called to show that Wardner was
apparently insane while In Jail. The
prisoner had suffered for a time from
refusal OF stimulants, they said.
Then Wardner took the stand and In
an effort to show he had acted in self
defense burst out with the declaration
that he deserved punishment.
II don't know where the jury got the
idea that eighteen years was what ]
wanted" he said after the verdict was
recorded. The next eighteen years can
be no worse than the last eighteen
years."
Wardner is a Virginian Of good FAM
lily and education, who ended as the
proprietor Of q 'levee" district saloon
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20
1.-THE GRAIN CROP IS
| CLOSE TO AVERAGE
Governments June Summary
Reports the Condition az
Whole Is Fair.
IOWA AVERAGE is LOWER
However, General Position Is More Fa-
vorable Than Usual During Past
Decada- Nebraska Wheat
Crop Above Average.

Washington, June 12.-Preliminary re-
urn to the statistician Of the department
If agriculture on the acreage of spring
wheat sown Indicate an area Of 17.257,0O
acres, a decrease of $4,000 acres or 81 per
cent. for the revised estimate Of the acre
age sown last year. An increase of 10 per
cent. in North Dakota is accompanied by
L decrease in Minnesota and South Da-
xota, co~nservatively estimated at 6 per
,ent. in the former and 8 per cent. in the
after.
The average condition of spring wheat
On June / was 95.9, as compared with 1914
On the corresponding date last year, %
On June /. 1901, and a ten-year average Of
n.9.
The following table shows for the FIVE
principal spring wheat. states the average
compared with last year OIL a percentage
basis, and the condition IN June / In each
Of the last three years, with the ten-year
average.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20
n DAYS IN PARIS.
How to See Enough In That Time to
Last Thirty Years.


Jeanette Glider I'm Booklovers Magazine:
I took a friend to Paris once for three
days She had never been there before
and she did not know when she might go
again. and she had only three days.
You will see more In three days than
you Will forget In thirty years, IL you
leave 1t to me-" said l..
We went, and 1 fully proved my case.
The first night we went to the Theater
Franchise, the second to another theater.
and the third we gave to a dinner party.
Instead OF trying to see all the pictures
In the Louvre, / took her to see my ia
vorites among the Tit,ans, Velasquez and
Murillos. We did not waste time in look
Ing at miles and miles of "stone gals"
but worshiped at the shrines of Tie Venus
of Milo and the Winged Victory. We
gazed with awe into Napoleon's tomb and
let the little old man at the door of Notre
Dame swish US with holy water. We
lounged along the quays and bought old
books for twice their value; we walked In
the shadow of the walls Of the Sarbonne.
We drove In the Bots, and we lunched and
dined at restaurants that the tourist
knows not OF. At the end Of the third
day we went back to London.
Was 1t not worth while to have spent
three days in PARISH" / asked.
II feel equal TO writing a book on the
manners and customs Of the Parisians,''
was the reply.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20
a Peoria incident.

Inter Ocean: A member of the Peoria
Western League baseball team, who
bears the historic name of John Knox,
had ben spending the evening with
friends, which in Peoria means, of
course, that he nae been spending the
evening in a Browning or an Ibsen cir
Gle. He reached his room at 10 D.. M,
whlch Is late in the night in Peoria. At
ter reaching his room, which is in the
third story, he threw open the window
and sat out on the sill to get some
fresh cir, a strange circumstance, as
most people in Peoria close their win
lows for this purpose, particularly
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-06-20
At the RilIville Literary Club,

Atlanta Constitution: Were all pres
ent, / think 2" said the chairman of the
Billville Literary society.
IT should think we are" said the secre-
tary. Haven't we been complimenting
and congratulating ourselves for the last
half hour2"
"If you don't shut up I'll hit you side
the head with my new novel," said the
chairman.
THAT would be too bad" said a men,
Der. "He has already been foored with
Jones Poems l move we get down to
business"
All right, them" said the chairman;
and then he shouted, clear across the
hall:
Gentlemen, whatll you take?"