Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-06-22


Macdonald was oourting the lady whom
he afterward married, the father-in law
TO b~--an aged Methodist With ex-
tremely strict notions in regard to the
proprieties-Was injudieious enough or
one occasion to enter the parlor with
out giving any warning of his approach
The consequences was that he found
the sweethearts occupying a single
chair. Deeply shocked by this spec
tacle. the old man solemnly said "Mr
Macdonald, when / courted Mrs. Brown
she sat on one side Of the room and
on the other" Macdonald's reply was:
That's what | should have done If
had been counting Mrs. Brown"
T2aasay ISLAND In the Inner Hebrides
which lies between the mainland OF
Scotland and the Isle OF Skye has
failed 10 find purchaser at the upset
price Of $225,000 placed upon il. Its
name is the Scandinavian for the place
of the poe deer" and the shoOtings. with
the mansion house and grounds ~ the
southern end, constitute the chief value
OF the island. Near the northern end
are the ruins of Brochel castle the resi-
dence OF its ancient lairds, the McLeods
In celtic lore Raasay has a place and IN,
English literature II is mentioned ir
Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Wes-
tern Island Of Scotland
The board Of education has under
consideration a scheme Of compulsory
education OF children by which 1OC
primary schools viii he established in
each provincial capital, forty in each
prefect, department and district and
one in csch village. The same board
Is Of opinion that all children reaching
u certain age should be forced to enter
the schools. otherwise their parents are
to be punished. II is also proposed that
the provincial director OF education
shall attend the school once in every
two years and hold examinations says
the Shanghai Mercury.
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I'VE fisherman" said Havelock Nor
ton, California's famous fly caster. are
continually being accused of intemper.
ance. The accusation is false. No in
temperate man could ever cast a fly
Yet a friend of mine had the effrontery
TO declare that while out walking in
the country he had met an angler be-
side brook and had said to the man
How can you tell the good places from
the bad when you come TO a stream p
BY the bottles the man answered
Wherever the most empty bottles are
scattered is the best place.
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DR. Mary Stone. who is the head of
tral China, lately returned to this coun.
try To be operated upon for appended.
It's. She has recovered, is now I'm New
York and viii return to China In the
fall. She graduated from Ann Arboi
ten years ago and is said to be the only
educated physicias in a province con.
taining 100000 people. Last year she
personally treated more than 14,00t
patients.
The late Maurice Grau, after the
work he did. should have retired with
q mlllion-but he didn't. 1t is the
same old story. Gailhard who, after
twenty -one years service will retire
from the grand opera at Paris In De-
cember, is also not In the list of Paris
millionaires and millouaires I'm Paris
count their millions in francs only.
There is more money, the Musical
Courier thinks, in running vaudeville
theater. Ss@As, =.
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: The oldest living human being of
authentic record lis Mrs. Mfly Wood, OF
Hillsboro, Ore. few miles west OF
Portland Mrs. Wood is 120 years old
She was born in Knoxville. Tenn, May
20, 1887, which the records at Knox
vile still show. When she was sixty
five years old she rode the entire dis
tance across the continent from her old
home In Tennessee 10 her present home
in oregon.
On recommendation Of the commits
sary- general of the army. the field ra-
tions of the troops serving in Alaska
will be 16 ounces of bacon, or when
desired, Ii ounces Of salt pork or %
ounces of salt beef; "A ounces of fresh
vegetables instead of l6 ounces 32-5
ounces of desiccated vegetables, instead
of 22-5 ounces, and S-25 ounce OF can
dies, instead of G25 ounce.
Staten island dwellers who have their
business in New York wish TO do part
or their days work in the time they
spend daily on the ferry, and TO this
end the Richmond Borough Realty as
sociation has been considering the plan
OF having girl stenographers on the
Staten island ferryhoats.
Potato growers in North Wales are
warned by the board of agriculture and
fisheries to destroy at once any plant
infected with the disease known as
black scab." II is disease of re-
cent introduction and passes in the
spring to the highly dangerous sum-
mer stage
Mime. Modjeska for twenty-fi five years
was household name among theater-
goers, yet now that she Is writing her
memoirs she says she finds il neces-
cary to go back 20 her native Polish
and rely upon the services OF a trans.
lator to remake her book into English
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The other day a Korean gendarme
went 10 the Office where subscriptions
toward the public debt are being re.
ceived ard having paid in his money
cut his finger and with the blood wrote
an oatn to support the movement te
the best of his ability.
rhe device at the head of the Demo-
cratic ticket for Cleveland city cleo
ZION lis an old hen, and the Citizens
ticket headed by pair OF shears, in
dicating that democratic and indepen-
dent voters should scratch and cut the
republican ticket.
M. Faroux, a French statistican, esti-
mates that about $4,000 motor cars
have been manufactured in the nine
years since the experiments of self.
propelled road vehicles first succeeded.
and these have sold for more than
6 200. .0o0,o00.
A Georgia professor wrote an arith-
metic that contained such tough pro.
blems that nobody could solve them
One teacher wrote, asking for key
The professor replied on postal card
Dear Sir: II has no key. It's stem
winder.."
Rabbi j. Leonard Terry, of the Ro-
delp Shafom congregation, of the Pitts
burg Peace society, will go to Germany
next month TO ask the .oymakers to
cease manufacturing toys which instill
thoughts of war In the minds of chill
dren.
There are forty-eight different kinds
OF material entering into the construc-
ton OF a piano and they are gathered
from sixteen countries.
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The United States has 10000 school
buildings In which 100000 teachers are
at working teaching nearly $4,000. 900
children.