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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
HIPPOPHAGANISM
IN FRENCH CAPITAL
Consumption of Horse Flesh Is
Rapidly Increasing Among
Parisians.

According to the fastest statistics,
horse flesh as an article of diet is un-
doubtedly increasing in favor among
the Parisians. Last year 1925 horses
were killed for food, which is 5000
more than in the previous year. These
animals yielded 26.600,000 pounds of
meat.
This increase in hippophaganism, as
the consumption of horseflesh is Gu
riously If classically called comedies
with the sudden and extraordinary de-
velopment of the taximotor, which is
rapidly replacing the cab of former
days. One is forced to the painful con-
clusion that Paris is eating up her su-
perSeded and unwanted cab horses. Yet
to anyone who has witnessed the NAL
treatment of the cab horse by his igno-
rant and brutal Partisan driver the
conclusion is not so painful after all,
since surely a sharp, quick stroke with
skillful butchers knife is preferable
to the years of semi-starvation, utter
exhaustion and continuous beatings
that the Paris cab horse has been con-
demned to bear heretofore.
Horse meat is supposed to be bought
only by poor families who cannot af-
ford to pay the exorbitant prices
charged for beef and mutton, and the
butchers who sell 1t are supposed to
show a wooden horses head over the
door or somewhere in plain sight. But
1t is an open secret that many res
taurant keepers serve 1t in succulent
stews to their unsuspecting customers
and there are butchers who sell as
beef and mutton flesh of the cab horses
or any kind of horse.
Many stories are told of American
students living in the Latin Quarter
who have a French woman to keeI
house for them and do all their market.
ing and who have boasted of her vir.
tues, her economies, ETC., then one
painful day have discovered that
Marie's garnished dishes have fire.
quently been disguised horse meat. The
happiest are those who never discover
this.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
TT SEEMED INCURABLE.

Body Raw with Ecxema-DischarEed
from Hospitals as HopeIess-Cuti-
cura Remedies Cured Him.
"From the age of three months until
fifteen years old, my son Owens life
was made intolerable by eczema In its
worst form. In spite of treatments the
disease gradually spread until nearly
every part of his body was quite raw
He used to tear himself dreadfully in
his sleep and the agony he went
through is quite beyond words. The
regimental doctor pronounced the case
hopeless. We had him in hospitals
four times and he was pronounced one
of the worst cases ever admitted. From
each he was discharged as incurable.
We kept trying remedy after remedy,
but had gotten almost past hoping for
a cure. Six months ago we purchased
a set Of Cuticura Remedies. The result
was truly marvellous, and to-day he is
perfectly cured. Mrs. Lily Hedge, Cam
blewell Green, England, Jan. II, 1907"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
Radium's Effect on Gems.

A Vienna dispatch gives details of ex-
periments by Professor Doelter, of the
University of Vienna, with a view of de-
termin.ng the effects of radium on preci-
Gus stones.
Rubies and diamonds were affected
slightly. The emerald changed to yell
lowish green, the hyacinth became a dark
brown, light topaz grew to orange and
blue sapphres turned pale but did not
go to yellow, as previous investigators
had asserted.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
BATHING Don'ts.

Don't plug the ears with cotton. Cot
ton does not keep out the wet since 1t at
once becomes saturated. Furthermore no
water can find 1t way to the drum of
normal ear.
Don't go in the water cold. 1t is best
to go In warm, even slightly perspiring.
He who begins his bath perspiring gets
the best reaction.
Don't have a set duration for the bath.
1t is best always to come out at the
slightest premonition of cold.
Don't, If you are fat, neglect daily sea
bath. Sea swimming is the best and
quickest reducer known.
Don't enter the water If you have eaten
within an hour.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
WONDERED WHY.

Found the Answer Was "COTee."
Many pale, siclily persons wonder for
years why they have to suffer so, and
eventually discover that the drug
caffeine-in coffee is the main cause of
the trouble.
II was always very fond of coffee
and drank it every day. l never had
much flesh and often wondered why l
was always so pale, thin and weak.
About five years ago my health COM
pletely broke down and l was confined
to my bed. My stomach was in such
condition that ] could hardly take suf-
ficient nourishment to sustain life.
During this time was drinking cof-
fee, didn't think l could do with
out it.
after while came to the conclu-
sion that coffee was hurting me, and
decided to give it up and try Postum.
l didn't like the taste of 1t at first, but
when it was made right-boiled until
dark and rich-I soon became very
fond Of it.
"In one week began to feel better
l could eat more and sleep better. My
sick headaches were less frequent, and
within five months I'looked and felt
like new being, headache spells en-.
tirely gone.
my health continued to improve and
to-day l am well and strong, weigh
14S lbs. l attribute my present health
to the life-giving qualities of Postum. y
There's Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek. Mich. Read, "The Road to Well
ville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time 10 time.
They are genuine, true, and full of
human interest.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
Making the SuItan's ciearets.

W
1.-The Turkish sultan" said tobac-
conist, has for generations smoked the
finest cigarets in the world. Cigarets
like his bought here would cost over
one shilling apiece.
'In the royal palace there has been
from time immemorial small cigaret
factory-a light, airy room, a bale of
exquisite tobacco, one or two simple
hand cutting machines, half a dozen
workmen of marvellous skill. Here the
cigarets of the sultan are turned out.
The best cigaret tobacco comes from
Turkey and the best of that goes to the
sultan. A hundredweight of leaves is
rejected before pound of sufficiently
fine and flawless is found for royal
use"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
Dust Germs.
Hollis Godfrey, in the July Atlantic.

Hollis GOd1rey, IN tne July Atiantlc'
One germ found in dust needs espe-
.ial mention. tuberculosis, which may
be classed among the dust diseases,
ravages our country beyond all other
plaques today. The conSumptive sheds
hundreds and thousands of living tu-
bercle bacilli every time he sends forth
sputum where II can mix with the dust
of street or room. Once mixed with
that dust, deposited on sand or other
cutting particle, the poisoned weapon
flies upward ready to cut through and
enter the body through the lesion
formed in the lungs. In case after case
we find in the lungs of perfectly
| healthy persons small tubercular le-
sions which have healed, showing that
they were able to combat the poison
when attacked. But how about the
| time of low resistance? How can the
| citizen tell when that time may come
/ to him or to his family? The magni-
! ficent crusade against tuberculosis Is
doing much to convince the individual
of the necessity of care against scat
| tering contagion. The municipality
can do almost as much towards the
stamping out Of the plague by steady
| constant struggle to achieve the clean
! est possible street.
In the dirt of the assembly hall, of
/ the theater. of the hotel and the rail-
| way car we find conditions in which
| Ine UlIllCullleS WHICH tAlSl III lut
vate house are fourfold multiplied. For
! hours the crowds of people in such
places sit breathing the accumulated
dust brought from the streets which
! rising from the floor, floats in clouds
into the air and settles heavily on the
antiquated plush still in high favor fol
such places. 1t is but year or two
ago that the newspapers considered
briefly the dangers of that bacterial
paradise, the Pullman sleeping car. A
brief spasm of remonstrance passed
over the country and disappeared as
suddenly as it came. The peril from
such sources was, however, recognized
two decades ago by more than one ant
a quotation concerning the presence o
tuberculosis in such places from DR.
Mitchell Prudden, written almost tw'
decades ago. holds as true today:
Sleeping cars and the state room
of steamships and hotel bed rooms ar
almost always liable to contain infec
tious material, IL they have been re
Gently used by uncleanly consumptive
or those ignorant of the danger O
their expectoration. When the infec
tious nature of consumption become
generally appreciated, hotels and trans
portation companies over long route
will be compelled to provide specii
! accommodations for such persons a
are known to be thus affected"
--~-o~--
The first Independent school for wooC
, workers was established in German
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
Bark's Long Voyage.

from the Boston Transcript.
After what is believed to be the long
est voyage with cargo ever made by q
sailing ship the British steel bark
Johanna arrived in the lower harbor
this morning. 1t is nearly seven months
since she sailed from Java. Since then
she has been to st. Helena, Falmouth
England and Delaware Breakwater
Her 1900 miles of sailing and knock
ing from port to port was due to the
advance In the price of sugar.
Captain Doey said the Johanna
loaded at Cheribon and Tagal, leaving
the former port November 25. She
took on board $3.50 big baskets Of
sugar, each weighing 700 pounds. BY
the time Falmouth was reached, Apri
22, the advanced price of sugar in this
country caused the bark to be ordered
to Delaware Breakwater whence she
was sent to this port to discharge hel
cargo.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
RroQress.
FToYresS'
From Harner'S Weekly

From Harper's Weekly.
Yes" said Mrs. Malaprop, my boy
is doing first rate at school. ] sent
him to one o. them alimentary schools
and his teacher says he's doing fine
He's a first class sculler, they tell
me, and is head of his class In gas
tronomy, knows his letters by sight
and can spell like one o these de-
formed spoilers down to Washington
Whats he going to be when he
grows up?"
HE wants to be an undertaken and
I'm declined to humor him, so I've told
the confessor to pay special intention
to the dead languages" said the proud
m pt her
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08

Men prefer men to women for friends
because between them there is sense
of equality that is absent from all
their relations with the opposite sex
Men, moreover, eisliking the way
women treat women, confide in each
ether with knowledge that their conf
dence is more likely to be respected
than when they intrust their secrets to
a woman.
The sense of honor among men, their
antipathy to fidgets and agitation about
trifles, provide a larger stock of the
raw material for friendship between
men than that with which nature has
provided the opposite sex.
Easy street is not thoroughfare to
heaven.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
PARASOLS FOR MEN.
New Fashion Observed at Recent Race
Meeting in England.
the London Daily Graphic

From the London Daily Graphic.
Rumor has it that mere man is about
to take leaf out of womans book, and
at the risk of ridicule protect his head
from the rays of the summer sun with
the parasol.
The rumor is confirmed by some
West End shopkeepers, who profess to
have done a good business in the last
few days in sunshades specially de-
signed for mans use. The shades are,
of course, not the elaborate article used
by the lady of fashion, but the plain,
unadorned specimen often used by man
in tropical countries.
At some of the recent race meetings
a few well dressed men have been bold
enough to start the fashion, and at AS
cot a gentleman having borrowed a
pretty shade from a fair companion
was not ashamed to take advantage
of it.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08

disease started with
slight irregularity and
weakness and devel-
oped into dangerous
dropsy. l became
weak and languid and
could do no house
work. My back ached
terribly. l had bear
ing down pains and
my limbs bloated to
twice their normal
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
A Double Sided Hole.

The latest story of German thrift
is told at the expense of the proprietor
of a circulating library who charged
for the wear and tear suffered by hi,
books at the hands of his patrons. On'
volume came back to his scrutiny
See, here" he exclaimed, there is
hole on page 10 of my beautiful book
And see here" he went on, turning ovel
the leaf, there is another on page
%"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08

size. Doctors did not help and l was
fast drifting into the hopeless stages.
l used Doan's Kidney Pills at the criti-
cal moment and they really saved my
life"
Sold by. all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo. n. Y.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
WIDOWS,under NEW LAW obtained
PENSIONS by s.S,S.Dn JOHN W. M60RSls.
Mot Takina chances

"Don't you want to speak to father to-
night?'
Moo Let's put 1t off till fall. Then
I'll be training for football"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
One Half OFF

"One-Half Off on All Ladies' Suits
read a sign in the department store win
dow.
"Ump," remarked the mere man in pass
ing, "those must be directoire gowns cut
decolette."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
Pe-ru-na Did Wonders.

Mrs. Judge J, F. Boyer, 142l Sherman
Ave., Evanston, ILL.,, says that she be-
came run down, could neither eat nor
sleep well, and lost flesh and spirit. Pc
runa did wonders for her, and she thanks
Peruna for new life and strength.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
Financially,

Count hate to ask for your daughters
hand. I'm greatly embarrassed.
Rich Papa-I guessed as much. Wasn't
that why you asked?
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
SAVED AT THE CRISIS.

Delay Meant Death from Kidney
Troubles.
Mrs. Herman Smith, 901 Broad
street, Athens, Ga, says: kidney
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN
True Friendship.

Shek Schubn. taken sick, was borne one
day
Unto the hospital. A host the way
Rehind him thronged. Who are Won ?''
Schubli cried
1--WE are your friends" the multitude re-
piled
they fled
"Come back. ye false pretenders" Then
he said
"a friend is one who, ranked among his
foes
BY him he loves. and stoned, and beat
with blows,
VIII still remain as friendly as before
And to his friendship only add the more. y
From the Arabian
nrs. Winxiow's scoTETS3 sYRUs TOR Children
feafh oftens ha ms mn al
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
ALL RUN DOWN.
Miss Della .Styoe6e, aDAo had Cam.
fleteiy Lost Her Health, Found
Relieffyom Pe-yu-na at once.
Read What She SAYS.

MISS DELLA STROEBE, ITO Rich
1VA mond St., Appleton, Wis.,, writes:
"For several years was in rum
down condition, and ] could find no re-
lief from doctors and medicines. I
could not enjoy my meals, and could
not sleep at night. / had heavy, dark
circles about the eyes.
any friends were much alarmed. I
was advised to give Peruna trial, and
to my joy began to improve with the
first bottle. After taking six bottles
felt completely cured. cannot say too
much for Pcruna as medicine for
women in q run down condition"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08

They strolled along the broad roadways.
Amid the fields of corn:
Into her. eyes he'd deeply gaze
With looks sad and forlorn.
He wanted her to be his own,
To his dark life lend cheer;
But bashful, could not make 1t known.
He feared the ears of corn would heai
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08

This fish-hook cactus is the compass
of the desert, for it always points to
the south.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08

EUTG St. ytus' Dance and Nervous Diseases per-
L - manentIy cured by Dr. Klues Great Nerve
Restorer Send for FREE $500 trial bottle and treatise
DR. h. II. KLINE, Id 93l Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08

"I rather like the style of that eleva-
tor" said the mercury, IT think that I
too shall go up"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08
Men and Women as Friends,

mrs. Winsiow's scoTETS5 sTRUs TOR Childre
teethinR; softens the gums, reduces inflammation .
lays pain cures wind colt" ~ cert q bottle
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-08

The first Independent school for wood
workers was established in Germany
about thn "c.rr 'Srp
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-07
A Dogs Sympathy

On busy street recently fine Cor
don setter apparently looking for his
master. was run over by a cab and
had his leg broken besides being badly
bruised. He lay in the street unable
to move as the herdic passed on, but a
was ready for the emergency. and at
once made a rush for the sufferer. The
boy had never seen the dog before. but
he probably had a dog at home. so he
picked up the animal carefully in his
arms, carried 1T across the street TO a
doctors Office, fixed him comfortably
on the pavement and then went in aft
er the doctor. The doctor was tender
hearted himself. and at once responded
with arnica, bandages and splints and
went to work to fix up the setter, which
seemed to know he was among friends.
While they were at work a friend OF
the doctors came along followed by
his own dog, also Gordon. and this
dog at once took a great interest in
the sufferer, crouching down close TO
him. licking his head and softly cry
ing while the doctor and boy were
completing their work. 1t wasn't a
howl, but a genuine low cry OF pain
and sympathy. and he did not cease un-
TIL the strange dog was ready to be
moved. Then the boy picked up the
dog and hailed q herdic. laid the poor
creature down carefully in the aisle OF
the vehicle, got in himself and drove
away. Taken all around. it was a
touching picture of human and brute
kindness such as is too rarely wit
messed
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-07

than that. When you have about 10 or
IL balls of about pound each you
may begin plating for the rug. Take
three balls and plait from the loose
ends, unrolling as you plait And so
an and on you go till the entire 10 or
II balls are plated.
After all the plating is done, take a
coarse needle and heavy linen thread of
bright red and begin sewing round
mat of the plated strips. You must be
very careful to cup your mat. and
sew it as you would the straight round
brim of straw hat. Hold each outer
strip very full so that it will lie fat
upon a smooth surface.
OF course, you may use your own
taste in regard to the size of your rag
mat or rug. If you wish one to cover
the center of your room, you must have
a very large quantity of rags before
beginning to plait them up, but for a
medium seized rug, say, large enough
to stretch in front of your writing desk.
or the CRATE, about the number of
pounds named above will be sufficient.
For the girl who delights in having
her room or den" furnished by the
labor of her own hands the rag rug
viii lend itself most helpfully, as well
as artistically And the time spent in
making one or more of these pretty
rugs is not like real work." for one
may sit on the porch in the midst of
company, chatting and laughing all the
afternoon. and sew at least half a
pound of rags. Or one may take a
basket of the cut rags and go visiting.
sewing on them the while instead of
putting in the time at embroidery.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-07

UST the mere word carpet rag
y strikes terror to the heart of the
ordinary young girl, who Immediately
connects the word with tedious tear
ings and servings, and in the end moth
ing gained but IAN ugly rag carpet"
But if girls would only overcome their
dislike to carpet Raging" and save all
the pretty bright bits of ribbon, silk,
wool and cotton-for all may be used
together-that happen to fall to hand,
they would soon have fine assortment
of rags. enough to make a pretty rug
for their floor.
"Rug?" most of the girls will ask
why, we thought only ugly carpets
were woven of ragsl" Well, just read
the rest of this little article and then
try following the suggestion regarding
the making of a rug.
After you have enough rags to pay
for the trouble take your scissors and a
basket and sit under tree or on the
porch and begin Ayour rug. Cut the
woolen and velvet rags into half inch
wide strips. Cut the cotton and silk
ra gs twice that width. After all have
been cut, which will take more than
one afternoon. mind you. begin sewing
them together regardless of quality
Be sure to mix your colors well. getting
in bits of blue, yellow, red and green
al regular lengths of dull colored cot
ton After you have sewn about a.
pound of the rags together roll them
into tight ball and put away This
is for convenience, as it would be
rather difficult to handle ball larger
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-07
What to Put Lunch Basket Idea for Making Rugs

ERY few boys or girls really enjoy
NJ a luncheon that they have to eat
from the lunch basket, and yet
there are so many children who are
compelled TO carry their luncheon that
it is time well spent to give some con-
sideration 10 the contents Of the lunch
basket, and the basket itself In the
first place the basket should be aired
all night and all the crumbs and bits
OF food thoroughly shaken out
There should be a fresh napkin each
day, and paper napkins can be bought
cheaply, or an old table cloth or worn
napkins can be cut into small fringeo
ones
The lunch basket should contain
drinking glass, and each junior should
remember 10 drink only out or his or
her own glass. It is well, too. TO carry
a small bottle of boiled water or water
that you know to be pure. or a bottle Of
milk. unless you are certain that the
water supply is absolutely pure
For a palatable and wholesome lunch
con. select from chicken, eggs, beef.
mutton. cooked fruits, vegetables, toast,
graf ham, brown or whole wheat bread,
crackers, simple cakes and desserts.
great variety OF dainty sandwiches
can be made from pieces of chicken,
!, beef. egg. celery lettuce, olives, raisins,
nuts, 5eIly marmalade and cheese or
plain bread and butter. The sandwich
will taste so much better If the crusts
are carefully trimmed after the sand
wich is made This viii take a little
more time, but viii more than repay the
trouble. Lay the sandwich on the bread