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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
The Dreamer.


The dreamer dreamed, and the busy
world
Passed by with a mocking smile,
AS 1t went In search of the worlds re-
wards,
But the dreamer dreamed the while.
He saw the world as the world should be
When longer years had run,
And the world but paused in its work to
ask:
Pray, what has the dreamer done|"
Yet ever the dreamer dreamed his dream,
UNTIL in some wondrous way
AS the water. springing in deeps of earth
Finds passages to upper day
The dreamer's dream found the man of
power
'Tis strange how mems lives are knit
Who knew not the dreamer, but took his
dream
And transformed the world with 1t.
The world bows down to the man of
power
Forgotten the dreamer dies
Yet the dream he dreamed is the secret
force
That has forged mems destinies.
The Bellman.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
Genuine indifference.

From the New York Tribune.
Jack" Abernethy, the Rough Rider,
can catch wolf alive by grabbing its
lower jaw with his bare hand.
Mr.. Abernethy, on his last visit to
Washington, was asked by reporter
for his opinion on certain political
question.
Il can't give you an opinion on that
question" the Rough Rider replied,
because it's a question / pay no atten-
tion to. l am Indifferent to it--as IN
different as the backwoodsman's wife.
That lady, you know. looked on
while her husband had fierce hand
to- hand tussle with bear. She said
1t was the only fight she ever saw
where she didn't care who won."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
Not His Fault,

From the Christian Leader.
first grade boy brought perfect
spelling papers home for several weeks
and then suddenly began to miss five
and six out of ten.
"Hows this. SOM" asked the father.
Teachers fault" replied the boy.
How is il the teachers fault?"
she moved the little boy that sat
next to me-"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
What "a Poultry Man Says About 70
Mule Team BOrax.

"As l am in the poultry business, l
had ten white chicks to wash and pre-
pare for a show. used 90 Mule Team
Soap for washing the birds, and can
say from years of experience, washing
a soap or BoraX that cleaned my birds
50 fine and easy. l had great deal
of comment on my birds being so
white" J. A. Dinwiddie, New Market,
Tenn. All dealers, p. l and 5 Id. car
tons Sample and booklet &c. Pacific
Coast BoraX Co. Chicago. Ill.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
A Sure Winner.

Horan-Did yez liver make my money
backin' horses, Doran?
Doran-Sure. OF made foive hundred
vance.
Horan-How did yez do ut?
Doran-Oi backed him down a cillar
avn thin sued tn mon for lawn tn
door open.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01

with kidney trouble
that | could not
straighten up after
STOPPING wi t h ou t
sharp pains shooting
through my back. |
had dizzy spells, was
nervous and my eye
sight affected. The
k | dney secretions
were irregular and
too frequent. l was
In a tarrihla cnndi-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
You Can Get Aliens Foot Ease FREE

Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted, lie Roy.
N. Y, for FREE sample of Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder to shake into your shoes,
II cures tired. sweating hot, swollen, ach-
Ing feet Ii makes new or tight shoes easy,
certain cure for Corns and Bunons. All
Druggists and Shoe Stores sell 1t. 25c.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01

ton. but Doan's Kidney Pills have
cured inc and l have enjoyed perfect
health since"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
-Milburn Co. Buffalo, n. Y.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01

From the London Globe.
Lady Mary Glyn, the wife of the
bishop OF Petersborough, was recently
sitting in Peterborough infirmary by
the bedside of a maid servant who had
been taken from the palace suffering
from burns. At a neighboring bed an
evangelist was speaking to another pa
tient. Mistaking Lady Mary for the
girls mother, he approached her with
a handful of tracts. and the words:
Are you saved. madame; are you sure
you are saved?'
LAS nearly as a bishops wife can
expect to be-" was Lady Mary's reply.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
ct Something Good Be Said.

When over the fair fame of friend or foe
The shadow of disgrace shall fall; in
stead
Or words of blame, or proof Of thus and
so,
Let something good be said.
Forget not that TO fellow-being yet
May fall so low but love may lift his
head;
Even the cheek of shame with tears is
wet
If something good be said
No generous heart may vainly turn aside
In ways of sympathy; no soul so dead
But may awaken strong and glorified,
If sonnet thing good be said o
And so charge ye, by the thorny crown
And by the cross on which the saviour
bled
And by your own souls hope of fair re-
nown,
Let something good be said.
James Whitcomb Riley.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
Cheap Affection.

Mrs. Tellit-That Mr.. Gay Is the mean
est man 1 ever saw.
Mrs Askit--What's he done now?
Mrs Tellit-Started suit against a man
for alternating his wifes affections, then
settled for S.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
The Sole Proviso.

The orshipper-Doesn't the talk at
a musicale annoy you dreadfully?
The Great Person--Not if they talk
about me.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
THE
Storyof Francis Cludde
A Romance Of Queen Mary's Reign.
BY STANLEY J. wEYMAN
BY STANLEY J. wEYMAN.

at wilma. and two months later / saw
England again after and absence OF
three years. Early In November, 1858,
Master BERTHE and l landed at Loves
toft, having made the passage from
Hamburg in a trading vessel of that
place We stopped only to sleep one
night, and then, dressed as travelling
merchants, we set out on the road to
London, entering the city without acci-
dent or hindrance on the third day
after landing.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01

Oregon, Willamette valley lands. Write
for descriptive matter. Olmsted Land Co.,
Salem Ore
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
A SURGICAL.
OPERATION

If there is any one thing that a
woman breads more than another it
is surgical operation.
We can state without fear of
contradiction that there are hun
dreds, yes, thousands, of operations
performed upon women in our hos
pitals which are entirely unneces-
Sary and many have been avoided by
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
A TERRIBLE CONDITION.

Tortured by sharp TwinEes, shoot
ing Pains and Dizziness.
Hiram Center. 51S South Oak street
Lake City, Mimi. says: 81 was so bad
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
Handieapped by Her Husband.

c-rH. Winslow's SOOTHING r1RUt ror Children
ssthinR; pottens the gums redGces Inflammation 81.
aye pain cures wind COLT ~ cent bottle
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
Workers Who Want Work.

The Free Labor Bureau of the Bowery
Mission has within the past four months,
sent over 1900 men to country districts in
response TO the appeals of farmers for
field laborers, but still has on hand many
hundreds of common laborers, farm hands,
genera! handy men, and mechanics skilled
in almost every branch Of industry.
The Bowery Mission carries on this i'm
portant' work absolutely free of charge
and without regard to creed or national
ity. All who are in need of workers for
the harvesting should at once communi-
cate with John c. Earl. financial secre-
tary of the B0wery Mission, 81 Bible
House New York city.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01

A motor vehicle purchased by the
English town of Tynemouth can be
used as a prisoners van, ambulance or
fro engine
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
LYDIA r. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

For proof of this statement read
the following letters.
Mrs. Barbara Base, of Kingman,
Kansas, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
"For eight years I suffered from the
most severe form of female troubles and
was told that an operation was my only
hope of recovery. wrote Mrs. Pinkham
for advice, and took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and it has saved
my life and made me well woman"
Mrs. Arthur r. House, of Church
Road, Moorestown. n. j., writes:
~ feel it is my duty to let people
know what Lydia E. Pinkhams Vege-
table Compound has done for me. I
suffered from female troubles, and last
March my physician decided that an
operation was necessary. My husband
objected, and urged me to try Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and to-day l am well and strong"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01

Cash registers are used in a church
in Massachusetts.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-08-01
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, and backache.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-03
NOTES.

Thomas L. Hisgen is the first presi-
Dental nominee Massachusetts has had
since General Ben Butler.
The list of things that must not be eaten
has now been extended to embrace every
thing with the possible exception Of fudge.
Only sick persons are now permitted to
take a drink from a pocket flask on a
railway train in Louisiana. From now on
the trains viii seem like travelling hos
pitfalls In that state.
For the fourth week OF July-and hot
ones they have been-the New York death
rate has been 81 per cent less than a year
ago. In the case OF children under 5 the
reduction has been even greater.
Emperor Francis Joseph OF Austria will
be rs years old ON August IS, but he Is
still an ardent hunter. Having settled
down at Ischl for his summer holiday, the
emperor has lost no time In beginning his
favorite sport OF deer shooting.
Colonel Frank L. Smith. who is a can
didate for the republican nomination for
lieutenant governor OF Illinois. has ad-
dressed a letter to every Smith in the
a time when 1 hope tina the Smiths will
stand together. Are you with mer'
John w. Gates has contracted for the
construction of the finest golf links In the
world at his home at Port Arthur. Tex.
Work has been commenced on the tract,
embracing 80 acres OF land. Tina new
links viii represent an e~x0snditure Of
nearly u.OO0,oOo. including the cost OF the
land. uSAOQo A clubhouse costing about
noe.eoe. Is 10 be erected
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-03
TRAINING.

Arthur Guiterman in Youths Companion.
His heart should sing from dawn 20 sun
Wherever foot may tread his path may
His pack must be too small to hold a
who takes for guide the gypsy butter
fly.
At morn the thrush, at noon the tinkling
Al eve the cricket choir shall cheer his
His eve shall find delight in every nook;
The squirrels, merry gnomes In red %
gray.
The clover bent beneath the booming
The woodchuck, sober monk in russet
The dragon fly athwart the culverkeys
Shall wake his love Of things n make
him glad.
lis well to drink the crystal drafts that
flow
From azure deeps where eIoud-bunt gal
It's Wen to feel the spirit brsathe and
once more tits wen to seek the golden
trail.
Again along a checkered road 1 swing
Through friendly woods and fields where
Dwhns sun before me drirs On vAsrant
The butterfly whose beauty praises God.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-03
EASY MONEY ON THE CIRCU1H
Chasing the ChRutauqua Pleasing ana
Profitable summer Job.
CO Tn,,t. 7a.-x

Chasing the Cbeutauqua Pleasing ana
Profitable Summers Job.
Sc. Louis Times.
johnson OF Minnesota, Folk ana Clark OF
Missouri, along with scores OF their
brothers in official life. are now chasing
the chautauqua bug over the face of the
summer earth. They are repeating old
lectures, telling the same old storieA colleo-
ting the DID,, familiar coin.
These gentlemen Of mushroom celebrity
ought to thank the newspapers. It Is the
public press that dominates and elects the
officials Of the day. It Is the newspaper
that prints his pictures, tells anecdotes
about him. puts in his speech epigram and
crisp English generally beyond his D
city, into the spot light.
Then, the beginnings OF a fame assured,
the c~hautauqua and winter lecture lures
follow. The money - easily made and the
calcium sheds a pleasing glow. The press
agent follows inevitably. How to break
into print becomes the question. The
whilom statesman becomes a mere actor
doing one-night stands. Sometimes he es-
capes and goes back to real work. but not
often.
The chautauqua bug has gaudy coloring
and a fatal sting.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-03
FRUITS OF THE SQUARE DEAL.
President ROOsevelt's Policies and
Their Continuance.

hdDsaS Clly star.
In the seven years Of the Roosevelt ad-
ministration the people learned more OF the
illegalltles and robberies of trusts like
the standard Oil than they had ever
dreamed Of in all the years that went be-
fore. Yet the iniquitles of rebating and
restraints OF trade and competition had
gone on so long and so securely that they
had become established conventions a. the
time of the prosecutions. They did not
become recognized, punishable crimes I'M
til the Roosevelt administration enforced
its doctrines Of publicity and OF actual.
instead OF nominal, equality under the
law.
The chief fight Of 1904 was around
Roosevelt's stand against the principle OF
the democratic candidate that there was
already plenty Of authority and OF method
Of procedure in the common law for en-
forcing the square deal. The president
knew better and had the great bulk of the
people with him. and while he has sim
had lame laws to back up his efforts 1t
is through him and the men allied with
him in the peoples service that the coun-
try is entered upon that vigorous enforce
ment OF law and equity which marks the
fine beginning Of the twentieth century
in the great republic.
The facts Of this late history attain tre-
mendous Importance from the candidacy
Of Secretary Taft. For Taft is the en-
bodiment now before the country Of those
great patriotic policies which Roosevelt
established.
Taft is that rare candidate for the
highest public service whose acts have
even run ahead Of his professions of faith
and his known s~ympathies- That unprece-
denied advance OF the square deal which
today gives a new tonic OF firm and
stable popular rule 10 the Industrial and
political institutions of America is the
result Of work that Mr.. Taft has had an
immense part IN and which he is the best
qualified man In the United States to
carry to its further glorious purposes.
No citizen who believes In the square
deal and who is not bllnded by adherence
to opposing party rule, TO the benefits Of
these past seven years can vote against
William Howard TAFT In this approaching
momentous election
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-03

The number Of persons killed in
railroad accidents in the first three
months of the present year, according
to Accident Bulletin No. a." just is
sued by the Interstate Commerce COM
mission, was smaller than for any SINH
lar period since 1901. Gratifying as
the decrease may be, the commission
gives the railroads no credit for the
showing, but attributes it to the de-
creased number of trains operated and
the shorter hours of the working men,
occasioned by the depression in bust
ness.
The report shows that for the three
months, 72S persons were killed and
1 5,441 injured in railway accidents.
The report deals only with accidents
to passengers and to employees on duty.
OF the killed, sixty-seven were passen-
gers, 1914 were trainmen engaged in
the opration Of trains and sixty-five
we're trainmen who were killed in the
yards.
While many of the leading railroads
have installed the block system and
other safety devices. there were 1870
collisions during the three months, all
of which would have been avoided by
the general use of the block signal
system. In these collisions sixty-two
persons were killed and 1897 injured.
In the same period there were 1,442
derailments OF which 981 were directly
traceable to defects of roadway or
equipment. How much of this was due
to recent retrenchment policy can not,
of course, be determined, but 1t must
have been considerable. The main
tenance Of the roadbed and equipment
is the surest guaranty of safety in
railway travel and their neglect the
most prolific source of accidents. The
neglect OF operators, signalmen and
trainmen caused seventy-three acct
dents in which three persons were
killed and sixty-three injured.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion holds out no promise that the re-
sumption Of business and the pressing
into service of idle cars and unem-
ployed trainmen will not be followed
by a corresponding increase in the
number of casualties that have long
stood as a standing disgrace to Ameri-
can raiIroading. 1t is not creditable
to us that SO little progress is shown
from year to year in the matter of pre-
venting accidents on American rail-
roads.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-03
TIE HrnnrR-MrGRER

In 1904 Watson and Tbbles, as
presidential candidates OF the peoples
Independent party polled 2O,51s votes
in Nebraska.
In 1900 the democrats and populists
had separate electoral tickets on the
official ballot in Nebraska.
In 1904 William Jennings Bryan
canvassed this state from one end to
the other, b%eseeching his friends to
vote for Parker and Davis and the
democratic presidential electors.
In spite Of Mr.. Bryan's appeals, in
spite of his reiterated that
Judge Parker was the best man in the
field, in spite of his personal testimony
that Judge Parker's election would
bring about the reforms for which he
had been battling 2O,51S p~opulists re-
fused t vote for Parker and persisted
In voting for Tom Watson.
II is quite possible and very prob
able that Mr.. Bryan could have per-
suaded many of these populists, who
refused to follow his advice in 1904,
to have voted the democratic ticket,
had he, himself, been the nominee, but
II Is certain that a large number of
them are so steadfastly devoted to
principle and so loyal to their own
party name that they would not have
gone back on Watson even to vote for
Bryan.
This explains the present hugger-
& over electoral tickets in Ne
braska. Mr.. Bryan wants those 20,51S
populist votes. He wants them any
he IAN get them. He wants them
by hook or by crook. He wants them
so badly that to capture the votes of
populists who are welded to their own
principles and candidates, he Is seek
ing TO smuggle cleverly disguised
democrats upon the populist electoral
ticket and there to lure the dyed-in-
the-wool populists into voting for
democrats.
This explains the lengths to which
the Bryanites are going in their flimsy
pretense that the popullstS Oh Nc
braska constitute a party all to them
selves, entirely divorced from their ma
tional party. If you would believe
these Bryanite thimble-riggers, the Ne
braska populists we're part of the ma
tional organization in 1904 but not
part OF it in 1908. Had they succeeded
in their plan of capturing for Mr..
Bryan the populist nomination at st.
Louis, the Nebraska %populists would
still have been part of the national or
g~anization, but having failed in this,
they suddenly regained a separate
status.
Now you see it and now you don't
Any way to win.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-03
ACTIVITIES OF THE WEST.
Business on the Up-Grade and Fall
Prospects Excellent.

Prospects Excellent.
st. Louis Dispatch to New York Times.
Surveys of financial. Industrial, mercan-
tile and agricultural conditions which the
Republic has received from points In Mis-
souri,, Illinois. Kansas. Nebraska. Okla
homa, ArkansaA, louisiana, Texas. Ala
bama, Mississippi. Tennessee and Kentucky
show that there is not only a resumption
OF activity throughout these states and the
west. but that the prospects for the rest Of
this year are excellent. All the twelve
states, except Kansas, report a pronounced
Improvement In conditions. with the volume
OF business rapidly approaching the normal
and employees returning TO work.
The expectation Is that the trade of the
last three months OF the year will break
all records. In all parts OF the south and
west at the present time the volume OF
business is about the same as In 1906. That
year was one OF the very best the country
ever enjoyed. The trade Of August and
September will be practically as large as
for the same months in 1905, and It Is
probable that the volume OF business for
the last six months OF this year will es-
tablish a new record.
Missouri is in line with other southern
and western states. It's crops were large
and good. and they will bring high prices.
From all parts Of the state the very best
reports are received as TO the agricultural
situation. At mining and manufacturing
centers Idle employees are returning to
work daily and business is gazing in mo-
mentum.
In the 81. Louis district alone about 1900
employees Of manufacturing and commercial
establishments have been recalled to work.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-03
ooRREoTINa ZEE FIeuREs.

The State Board of Equalization has
Just announced its corrections made
on the figures returned by the county
assessors, which show that the state
oficiAls are earnestly endeavoring to
perform the functions of IN equalizing
board. In this condition is something
of comfort, when past experience is
brought to mind. 1t would be little
short of miraculous If the several
county assessors Of the state should
reach anything like an exact basis for
the taxation OF all the lands In the
state. That discrepancies exist in
their figures is but natural, and that
corrections must be made by the state
board follows equally. but the comfort
comes from the fact that the state
board has approached this great task
with patience and elaboration and has
finally wrought out a basis on which
the burden OF taxation will rest evenly
on all property in the state.
The complaints made BY the railroad
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-03
EXPANDING HARTMAN LINES.
Prospective G~OuId-PIated Additions TO
His System.
Springfield Republican.


Springfield Republican.
George Gould comes back from Europe
with a welcome response to the report that
e. II. Hartman is working his way into
the Gould railroad properties. Wall street
is disposed to believe this report. Think.
then, OF Hartman as thus further ex-
panded, He is now the dominating influ-
ence In the Union Pacific system, $500
miles; in the Southern Pacific. $3.50 miles
Of railroad and 1850 miles OF steamship
lines: in the Illinois Central. 5000 miles;
in the Erie, 1850 miles; and In the Balti-
moro g. Ohio through Union Pacific
stock ownership. 400 miles. Here are
about $500 miles OF distinctively HArri-
man road, to say nothing OF the 1900 miles
of Georgia Central. recently acquired In
the Hartman or Illinois Central interest.
ana other odds and ends OF railroad that
may have been overlooked in the ~catalog-
ing. II he should go into the Gould rail-
road properties, about 1900 miles would
be added to the Hartman railroad sover-
~eignty-msking nearly 5000 miles in all,
OF not so far from one-fourth Of the entire
railroad mileage OF the United States. Verify
this mar doth bestride the transportation
map OF America like a colossus.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-03

tax agents against the figures returned
by local assessors were more or less
captious and we're not given undue
consideration by the state board. The
result is due to q systematic and on
scientious effort to adjust valuea be-
tween the several sections Of the state,
and It is believed now that this has
been more nearly achieved than ever
before in the history of Nebraska. The
revenue Law is not yet perfect either
in its requirements or its operation,
but the State Board of Equalization is
doing much to give the law its salts
factory Interpretation and application.