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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
When Dennis Comes Home TO Hi, ray

They may talk of their horses an houses,
The pictures than hang on the wall,
The fine sparlilin' rings on their fingers
The servants that come at their call,
The swish OF their silks an their satins,
Roast beef an plum puddin each day
But i envy no woman her riches
When Dennis comes home to his tay.
With the children to clean an TO COMB,
An the three little rooms to make decent
In the bit of a place here at home,
With mendin', an washin' an maxim,
An dinner to get by the way
There isn't much time to be idle
Until he comes home to his tay.
But then we're as nice an as tidy
AS If we had money galore!
The stove like cats eye is shinin',
You could eat your three meals on the
floor,
The bit Of a plant in the window
Is as fresh as a mCrnin' in May,
An the children go wild with their non'
sense
When Dennis comes home TO his tay;
The kettle is sngir' rs welcome,
There's good bit of beef In the pot,
The tablecloth's clane-for j washed 1t
The dish of potatoes is hot;
We're healthy, an happy, an hearty,
So thank God for His blessiE s, say!
For tbs We that have cause to be thankfuI
When Dennis comes home to his tay!
For then with his pipe in the corner
He can sit down as well as the best,
With his bit Of mans gossip to give me,
An / have my minute TO rest
An to tell him the news of the neighbors.
While the children go on with their play,
oh! ] envy no woman her riches
When Dennis comes home to his tay!
Mrs. NJ. Il. Blake.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
FARM NOTES.

In mixed breeding or cross breeding
nothing is accomplished beyond the first
cross. While a few good individuals may
be secured, the tendency is for the pro-
geny to be below rather than above the
average. A man conducting his breeding
in a haphazard way is contending with
fearful odds, cropping IN the dark following
a will-'O-the-wisp. In a hundred years
he would be just where he started. Incl
dentaly this is just what we have been
doing in this country from the beginning,
and the reason why we have so few pure
breeds of live stock and are, after all this
time, sending our good money across the
water for pure bred sires which we should
produce at home.
After animals have been graded up to
a practical purity of blood the longer they
are bred along this line the more prepo-
tent they become, and the more certain
that the offspring will uniformly possess
general excellence of form, quality, ac-
ton and utility.
The same is, of course, true of all live
stock. The only certain method of raising
the average standard of excellence is by
persistent breeding to sires of the same
breed until the native blood Is obliterated
and the progeny uniformly possess all
those desirable qualities of the pure breed
employed.-Geo. II. Glover, d. V. M, Col
orado Agricultural College, Fort Collins.
Too many consumers and too few pro-
ducers helps to explain the high prices
prevailing for the necessaries of life. At
no previous time in the history of this
country have the attractions of farm life
been so great or the returns for labor
so large. Yet the east Is full of unem-
ployed men who are needed badly to de-
velop the agricultural resources of the
country. There is plenty of land avail
able and no good reason why any should
go hungry. The matter of the distribu-
ton of labor furnishes a most fertile field
for useful activity on the part of the de-
partment of labor and commerce.-Denvef
Stockman.
The pasture Is one of the most import
ant fields on the farm. Good grass and q
lrn
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
When tn. Pole. w.r. Warm.

Among the most interesting discoveries
made by the Swedish antarctic expedition,
polar regions, is that OF the fossil bones
of many vertebrate animals including
some Of great size, together with abund-
ant remains of plants. These show that.
as in the case of the north polar regions,
a mild climate once existed where now
everything is in the grip of perpetual frost.
The explorers found evidence that great
forests had once fiourished on the borders
of the antarctic continent. and the animal
remains Indicated that vast expanse of
herbage must have existed there to serve
as feeding grounds. Strange birds prob
ably were also among the inhabitants Of
this ice buried land
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
TIE
General Demand

of the Well-Informed of the World has
always been for a simple, pleasant and
efficient liquid laxative remedy of known
value; laxative which physicians could
sanction for family use because its COM
ponent parts are known to them to be
wholesome and truly beneficial in effect,
acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in action.
In supplying that demand with its ex-
cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of SIENNA, the California Fig Syrup
Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies
on the merits of the laxative for its remark
able success.
That is one of many reasons why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA is given
the preference by the Well-Informed.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine-manufactured by the Cali
tornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale
by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents
per bottle.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
His Aocomplishmsnt.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Sammy, a little boy from the slums
Of New York, was invited with about
20 others to charity dinner given at
the house of lady in fashionable So
ciety. When the dinner was over the
lady asked the little ones to sing or
recite in turn.
All went well until 1t came Sammy's
turn, when he made no sign of start
ing until the lady said: Come,
Sammy, let me hear you sing"
After a moments pause the young
guest answered, Il can't sing, lady"
What" said the lady. You can
not sing? Then what can you do?"
We'll" said Sammy, Il amt used
ter singin', but I'll fight any of the
other kids in the room!"
About 130,00O,000 pounds OF tallow
are used every year in the manufac-
ture of candles in the United States.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
Danqerous Enouqh.
From the Washington Herald

fioih 'ht " Nol
Rear Admiral Mason, chief of the
governments bureau of ordnance,
talked of martial inventions at recent
dinner in Washington.
Many of these inventors" he said,
with their automatic torpedoes, their
new explosives, and what not fail to
take into account the danger to the
users of their inventions They are like
the farmer and the bull.
"A farmer was driving a bull along a
fairly busy country road.
That's a dangerous looking bull
you have there, friend a milkman said.
oh, no, said the farmer; he's just
as civil as sheep. He wouldn't hurt
anybody, unless, maybe, women and
children and such like"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
Chinese Athketics.

From the Shanghai Mercury.
The Chinese have always had athletic
exercises of a sort, in which they have
rather prided themselves, though none
ever seem to have taken such a hold on
the nation as ours have on us during the
last century or so. They have plenty of
stories of strong men capable of welding
extraordinary weapons, of bending Won
drous bows, or of lifting heavy weights,
etc. Even within the last few years feats
Of archery were done before an army Of
ficer could get his commission in the
army and in almost any village there is
a bamboo with a pierced stone at either
end TO test the strength of the rising gen.
Grafton in lifting. But there was nothing
of regular athletic training. except for a
few wrestlers, perhaps. before foreigners
came.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
PROSPERITY and
DIVORCE ARE TWO
AMERICAN EVILS
Cardinal Logue, Irish Primate,
Points Out Their
Correlation.

New York, Special: Cardinal Logue,
primate of Ireland, has sailed for home.
after stay in this country of five weeks,
which he declared to have been the most
eventful of his long life.
While eulogizing America, the cardinal
took occasion to point out what he re-
garded as the greatest perils to It's con-,
tinued greatness. One Of these is over
prosperity. which might degenerate into
luxury and divorce, which, he says,
shows an alarming increase and is a great
and crying evl. This is what the cardinal
said:
Prosperity and material power are be-
set with dangers. Prosperity often degen-
crates into luxury and power may turn
into injustice America, / am sure, will
be we'll able to take care OF herself in the
face of foreign foe. Her greatest enemy
will be within her own borders. Luxuri-
Gus living would weaken the strength of
the country and injustice would ruin its
prosperity.
"If may be allowed to draw a lesson
from Mount Vernon l should like to say
to the American people that the alarming
increase in the number Of divorces in the
United States is great and crying evil,
full Of danger The greatness OF any
country must pe measured by the strength
and purity OF the home Divorce disrupts
the home and desecrates its sancity.
IT feel that the American people appre-
ciate the benefcent effect of the Catholic
church in its fight for the home, In which
the first lessons of respect for authority
and the necessity of obedience must be
learned, and these lessons cannot be in
stilled into the mind of the child II the
home be not what II ought to be-
Among the mementoes of my visit l
am taking back with me beautiful
American flag, presented to me some few
evenings ago. l prize 1t most nightly,
both for its intrinsic beauty and for what
II has represented and does represent 70
the people of my race and faith. They
! found under its starry folds a sanctuary
from oppression and advantages of hap
| piness denied them at home. May the
| stars and stripes be true TO its past glor-
| ious history and never be unfurled in an
unjust cause. but ever remain the flag
| without stain"
| Asked for his views on immigration
! from Ireland the cardinal said:
Too man of my race have left their
native land. Ireland needs the bone and
Drawn Of its own sons and daughters for
it's future development. The Irish immi.
grant has done much to help in the build.
! ing up of America. 1t is now time to be.
| gin the rejuvcnation of Ireland itself"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
ArithmetieaIIy the Same.
From the Argonaut.

Gladstone, jamaican negro, was as
Bistant to a district physician in the
canal zone, and, being rather poor in
his Latin, the bottles had been num-
ish laborer came in for medicine, and
the doctor told him to give him two
pills out of number six After he had
gone the doctor asked: Gladstone. did
you give the man a dose Of number
six?" "Oh, no. sab. doctor; numbah
Elk was finished. so Just give him one
pill out of numbah foah and one out
of numbah two"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18

Methods of handling the alfalfa crop
from the time of seeding until II is in the
barn in the form of well cured hay are
given by the Wisconsin station bulletin.
In brief 1t Is as follows: The best soil for
alfalfa is a rich clay loan over gravelly
subsoil. 1t is best on well cultivated soils.
II the nitrogen forming bacteria are not
in the soil the soil should be inoculated.
Spring sowing is the best. Where ground
is inclined to be weedy use a nurse crop,
barley sown at the rate of three pecks
to the acre being the best. Thin seeding
of the nurse crop is preferable. Twenty
pounds of alfalfa seed per acre is rec
commended. The year following the seed
ing three good crops Of hay can be eX-
pected. Cut when about one-tenth of
plants are in bloom and on a morning
after the dew has disappeared on a day
that promises fair weather Cut stubble
at least an inch high. In the afternoon
of the day cut, rake and put into small
cocks. These cocks can be covered with
light cotton duck caps and left until the
hay is thoroughly cured.-Chicago Drov-
ers' Journal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
Ministerial Skill.

From the Liverpool Post.
At a recent banquet given at the
house of the prime minister of one
of the Balkan states, a distinguished
diplomat complained to his host that
the minister of justice, next to whom
he was sitting, had taken his watch
The prime minister said: "Ah, he
shouldn't have done that. l will gel
1t back for you"
Sure enough, toward the end of the
evening the watch was returned to It's
owner. And what did he say?" asked
the guest.
"Sh-h! He does not know ! have
got it back" said the prime minister
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18

Senator Gilchrist, discussing in AL
bany his insurance bill, said of specu-
lation:
Speculative features, uncertainties,
ought to be removed from our life as
much as possible.
When think Of speculation, think
of a man 1 know.
This man, conservative, sudden
ly took to stock gambling. At the end
of a furry / met him one afternoon
and asked:
"'Well. were you a bull or a bear
today?
Neither he answered, giving me
sour smile. I was an ass"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18

To all who enclose
postage he will reply,
telling hcw Doan's
Kidney Pills cured
him arter he had doc
tored and had been
in two different hospi-
tails for eig h I e e n
months, suffering in
tense pain In the
back, lameness, twin
ges when STOPPING or
lifting. languor, dizzy
spells and rheuma-
Al AATR - n
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
TWO CURES OF ECZEMA.

Baby Had severe Attnck-Grana
father Suffered Torments with 1t
owe Recovery to Cuticura.
'In 1884 my grandson, babe, had
an attack of eczema, and after trying
the doctors to the extent of heavy bills
and an increase of the disease and suf-
fering, l recommended Cuticura and
in few weeks the child was we'll He
is to-day strong man and absolutely
free from the disease. A few years
ago contracted eczema and became
an intense sufferer. A whole winter
passed without once having on shoes,
nearly from the knees to the foes be-
ing covered with virulent sores. tried
many doctors TO no purpose. Then l
procured the Cuticura Remedies and
found immediate Improvement and
final cure N. w. LaRue, S45 Seventh St,
Louisville, Ky. Apr. 23 and May IA, 'OT."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
His Uncles.

Artist-Among my dearest treasures
is the watch which my father carried
when he was young man.
Bright--Would you mind letting me
see it?
Artist Certainly not; but 1t is tenn
porarily in the possession of my-er fla
theirs brother.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
DO NOT SPIT
REMEMBER THE JOHNSTOWN
FLOOD.
OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME.

This association has an option on SOC, 900
acres of land. Two rivers, 100 600 acres of
valuable timber. Fertile soil, delightful
climate. Railroad now building. Under
our plan you will have a home and a
farm of your own and an equal interest
in the entire enterprise. Easy payments.
Write for literature today. La Prosper
idad Colony associat ton. Dept. H., 536
Chamber of Commerce Bldg, Los Angeles,
Cal
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
A Pilgrim Song.

All, little Inn of Sorrow,
What of thy bitter bread?
What of thy ghostly chambers,
So be sheltered?
'Tis but for a night the freight
That gasps on thy cold hearthstone;
Tomorrow my load and the open road
And the far light leading on!
All, little Inn of Fortune
What of thy blazing cheer,
Where glad thro' the pensive evening
Thy bright doors beckon clear?
Sweet sleep on thy balsam-pillows,
Sweet wine that will thirst assuage-
But send me forth DER the morning eartI
Strong for my pilgrimage!
All. distant End of the Journey,
What If thou fly my feet?
What If thou fade before me
In splendor wan and sweet?
Still the mystical city lureth-
The quest is the good knights part;
And the pilgrim wends thro' the end OF
the ends
Toward a shrine and a Grail in his heart
Charlotte Wilson, in July Scribner
Prof. Wasserman, of Berlin. has sue
ceeded in finding serum which cures
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
WIDOWS'under NEW LAW obtained
Du%~SVnNS by JOHN w. NORRIS.
FENSAUT~S Washington, ID. @.
INEQUALITY IN DEMAND,
From Chicago Live Stock World

From Chicago Live Stock World.
AS long as conditions are such that
the people will not buy high priced
meat without grumbling, and as long
as there is a disposition to economiZe
as much as possible, packers will make
strenuous effort to buy live stock as
low as they can in order that they may
be better able to find an outlet for the
product. The smash in the cattle mar
ket this week showed plainly the atti-
tude of buyers and what they will do
when they get the slightest advan-
tage. The spread in cattle prices now
is SO wide that there is plenty of
chance to put a lot of cheap meat on
the market, but packers say the trou-
bic Is that most people want the good
cuts. The American public has not
been educated yet to properly use the
cheaper parts of a beef. Most house
wives have a limited knowledge of
meats, and invariably ask for sirloin or
porterhouse, and it is possible that
some of them don't know that the car
cass cuts up anything else, At any
rate, there is very little can for any
other kind of beef outside of roasts,
and consequently the less desirable
parts have to be sold at a great dis
count. The butcher has to even up
and so charges eXtravagant prices for
the most popular parts.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
In a Pinch. Use Alien. Foot-E....

A powder to shake into your shoes 1t rests
the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen.
Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching. Sweating feet
and Ingrowing Nails. Aliens Foot Ease
makes new or tight shoes easy Sold by all
Druggists and Shoe Stores. 25c. Sample
mailed FREE. Address Allen S. 0lmsted.
lie Roy, n. Y.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
Every Time

"A man must have head to do bust
ness with me-"
What is your business?"
I'm a phrenologist."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
Very Quiet.

Are your new neighbors quiet?"
every. The boy is tongue-tied and
the daughter injured her hand and
won't be able to play the piano for sew
eral months"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18

New York city has 113 public parks
varying in size from a few square
yards up to Pelham Bay park, con-
tanning 1856 acres.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
Botany to the Rescue OF the Ship.
wrecked

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
There is no reason, save ignorance,
why shipwrecked sailors die in their
open boats of starvation" The speaker
was a botanist. Let the shipwrecked
include light net in their luggage"
he said, and let them trail this net
behind them as they sail or row upon
the seas surface. Every few hours they
can haul in and take from it a meal
of small shellfish or other tiny sea
fruit. Everywhere the seas surface
teens with animal and vegetable mat
ter capable of sustaining life"
A toad is said to lay 1850 eggs in
one year. but only about one egg in
900 develops into a toad.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
The Key TO the Whisk.

From Harper's Weekly.
De Style-Prohibition Is sweeping
the states.
Gunbusta-Must be sweeping It with
whisky broom, ! guess.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18

Doan's Kidney Pills." says Mr.. Win
ney, IL weighed 143. After taking 10
or II boxes weighed 162 and was
completely cured"
Sold by all. dealers. 80 cents q box.
Foster Milburn Co.. Buffalo. n. Y.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18

From st. Nicholas.
Some folks who were going on n
picnic got one raw egg mixed up with
the cold boiled ones and did not know
how to detect 1t without breaking them
all. A visitor was equal to the emer-
gency. He took an egg between his
fingers and his thumb, he twirled it on
the table, and 1t spun like a top. THAT
egg," said he, has been boiled" An
other was tried with the same result,
and then he found one that he could
not make spin. That" said he, 'fs
the raw egg" And SO the puzzle was
solved.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18

Invest IS monthly in Oklahoma farm
lands. Agents wanted. Write for particu-
lars. c. w. Deming Inv. Co. Tulsa. Okla
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
Tho Better Part.

From the New York Press.
Van Bibber, fresh from the wedding,
sat over cool and kissing drink in the
club window.
"She rejected you once, didn't She
old man." De Peyster asked.
Van Bibber sneered at the memories
of the June bride which his friends
question evoked.
she only partially returned my af-
fection," he murmured.
"Only partially returned your affec-
ton? What do you mean?"
Il mean what l say" Van Bibber
bitterly answered. She returned all
the love letters, but kept all the jew
elry."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
His Experience.

The Quoter-Art is long.
The Artist-Huh! Sometimes IL isn't
long enough to make both ends meet.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
PROOF FOR TWO CENTS.

II You suffer with Your Kidneys
and Back Write TO This Man.
G. w. Winney. Medina, N. Y, in
\ IS kidney sufferers to write to him.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
The Test Of an ECO.

Oregon, Willamette valley lands. Write
for descriptive matter. Olmsted Land Co.,
Salem Ore.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18

Agents and canvassers who are looking
exclusive for up to date fastest selling
auto specially should write Immediately to
JOS NJ. Indcrbtzin, l440 Valencia ST., San
Francisco, Cal.
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rrainina th. Audisnos.

From EVerybody's MagaZine.
The enterprisfng manager of little
lyric theater in northern Pennsylvania
believes in profiting by the misfortunes
of others. One day he displayed the
following sign in his house:
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
DO NOT SMOKE
REMEMBER THE IROQUOIS
FIRE.


So great was the efficacy Of this that
before the end of the week he put up
another.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia r. 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, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, tlatulency, indiges-
tion, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinl1ham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18
LYDIA Z. PlNkHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

Mrs. Maggie GlImer, OF West
Union, s. C.,writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
~ was greatly rundown in health
from a weakness peculiar to my sex,
when Lydia E. Pinkham' Vegetable
Compound was recommended to me. 1t
not only restored me to perfect health,
bJ to my delight am mother"
Mrs. Josephine Hall, of Bardstown,
Ky, writes:
~ was very great sufferer from
female troubles, and my physician failed
to help me. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound not only restored me
to perfect health, but am now a proud
mother"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18

Prof. Wasserman, of Berlin, has sue
ceeded in finding serum which cures
ptomaine poisoning.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-18

The pasture is one of the most import
mt fields on the farm. Good grass and q
yater supply make a good pasture.