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New-York tribune., 1908-02-03
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

Among the passengers VINO a'''
from abroad We're
Puu.sDr1.PtI, FROM SOUTHAMPTON
Mrs A o Girard. Henry = tA-e-
Mrs. Guy Humphrey ~. X Mo..As Nc = SAL
J. T. Jacobs. Nj ana N4',
IA sAvoIE FROM HAvRE-
w n Browne Mr., w e pssrs
Manuel Guzman. A W. Gals - "A y.raeA
John w. kohlsaat. Mrs Cataurs ~ -
Miss HortrnSis Hero
New-York tribune., 1908-02-03

The commemorative attorney at Harrisburg IS
presenting to the jury specimens of the furniture
for which the ''furnshers' Of the state Capitoi
assessed such altitudinous charges OnIorIu-
nately he could not produce the original air IN
tho interspaces for which per foot" prices were
also collected.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-03
.tem7)ork Daily 0a-ibnmE
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1905.

This newspaper is oScRcd and published cV
The Tribune association, a Neio YORK corpora
fion Office and principal place OF business, Ifio'
Une Building, No. I54 Nassau street, Aeto oTk;
Ogden Mills, president; Nathaniel 1Whe' sec
re-oyv and treasurer. The address of the Off
Gers is fhe Office Of this newspaper.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-03

The next time the Hon. William j. Bryan
meets the Hon. Little Tim" Sullivan some ad-
monitory remarks may be heard to the enect
that the difference between the consumer OF
81 dinner and the consumer of 800 dinner Is
Aris
New-York tribune., 1908-02-03
REPUBLICAN CLUB RECEPTION

The Republican club Of the 2sth ,,,s enter
,rict viii hold a reception and vsudeViI.. rss.
tainment at Terrace Garden, on SS'H
Third avenue. this evening
New-York tribune., 1908-02-03

/ revolt it would appear that in any event tie
plan cannot be considered an entire failure.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
How the Airbrake Works.
From the Philadalnhia Press


"The late Angelo He.lprin." said a
Philadelphia scientist. mad a most
learned and a most lucid mind. He
could not merely master a question
he could lay it so clearly before you
that you, in a short while, became mas
ter of 1t, too.
Professor Heilprin claimed that they
who could not explain subject per-
fectly did not know that subject per-
fectly. And he used to tell a story on
this head.
He said two commercial travellers
on the way from Reading to Philadel-
phia, got into an argument over the
action of the vacuum brake.
Its the imitation of the tube that
stops the train said the first COM
mercial traveller.
Wrong! wrong! shouted the sec
ond. It's the output of the exhaus-
tion.'
$50 they wrangled for an hour, and
then, on the trains arrival in Philadel-
phia, they agreed to submit the mat
ter for settlement to the engineer
THE engineer, leaning condescend-
ingly from the window Of his cab, lis
tened with an attentive frown to the
two travellers state ments of their argu-
ment. Then he smiled, shook his head
and said:
"Well, gents, you're both wrong
about workin' Of the vacuum brake
Yet it's very simple and easy to under
stand. 1t works like this. When we
want to stop the train we just turn
this here tap and then we fill the pipe
with vacuum"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
Theft He Couldn't Deny.


The attorney for the defense looked
keenly at the witness who was testify
Ing for the prosecution. Your name,
II l understand you correctly" he said,
lis Horace Hinsey. Is that right?"
"Yes, sir"
Did you ever live at Nashua"
Yes, sir"
And in Wilmington before that? ?"
Yes, sir"
Mr.. Hinsey. have you ever been ar
rested on a criminal CHARGE"
NO sir" Indignantly answered the
witness. "Never!"
Did you ever commit an offense for
which you might justly have been ar,
rested?"
Never, sir"
Mr.. Hinsey, is it not fact that you
once stole from your own father?
Here the attorney for the prosecution
interrupted, but the witness chose to
answer.
No, sir!" he exclaimed. Never in
my life!"
Now, Mr.. Hinsey," said the lawyer,
suppose l should tell you that know
of a case when you did steal from your
father"
Instantly the witnesses brow cleared.
Gentlemen" he said, turning to the
Jury, hes right. l remember now.
When / was about s years old stole
half dozen eggs from my fathers gro
Gerry store, took them down under the
bank of the creek, cooked them and
helped eat them. This lawyer, who
was u boy then, not only helped me
steal those eggs but put me up to steal
ing them. How are you, Jim?"
The judge and jury joined in the
laugh that followed and the rest of the
examination was conducted on more
friendly lines.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
LYDIA z. PINKHAM

No other medicine has been so
successful in relieving the suffering
OF women or received so many gen.
uine testimonials as has Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
In every community you will find
women who have been restored to
health by Lydia e. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound. Almost every
one you meet has either been bene-
fitted by 1t, or has friends who have.
In the Pinkham Laboratory at
Lynn, Mass, any ywomananyday
see the files containing over one mil
lion one hundred thousand letters
from women seeking health, and
here are the letters in which they
openly state over their own sigma
lures that they were cured by Lydia
+. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Lydia 4. PinEham's Vegetable
Compound has saved many women
from surgical operations.
Lydia L. Pimkham's Vegetable
Compound is made from roots and
herbs, without drugs, and is whole
some and harmless.
The reason why Lydia T. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound is so
successful is because it contains in
gradients which act directly upon
the feminine organism, restoring it
to healthy normal condition.
Women who are suffering from
those distressing ills peculiar to their
sex should not lose sight of these
facts or doubt the ability of Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
to restore their health.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
Suspected of Early FrivoIty.


A young Harvard man. through FAM
fly influence. obtained position as con-
fidential clerk in the Office of a well
known railroad president. The first
morning he got down to the office at 8
o'clock. He found the president hard
at work.
On the second morning he presented
himself at $3.50 o'clock. Again he found
his chief there ahead of him, working
diligently. The third day he managed
to make the office at o'clock There
was the president. already buried in
business.
That night on his way home the
young man took counsel with himself
and determined to be ahead Of his boss
at any cost. Accordingly he set his
alarm clock for $50, and by great exer-
else Of will power managed to show up
at the office before 7:3O o'clock. But
there was his chief working away as if
he had not left his desk at all.
AS the clerk entered the president
looked up at him with n quizzical air.
Young man." said he, what use do
you make of your forenoons?"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
Squelching a Warbler.


Jacob H. Schiff, on the way to Egypt
on the Caronia, was criticising In the
smokeroom the tenor singing Of a
young man who gave, all by himself,
a little musicale every night after din
'ner
with a voice like that" said Mr..
ordinary experiences.
Il have a friend with voice like
that, young broker. For his Christ
mas holidays my friend made a little
tour of New England, visiting many
quaint old houses, many picturesque
churches.
"One Sunday he went to church In
Salem or Gloucester or some such place
and lifted up his tenor voice in the
hymns and responded with a fervor and
force that made the congregation stare.
PLEASED with the attention he at
tracted my friend threw back his head,
puffed out his chest, and, abandoning
the last vestige of restraint, sang with
all his might and main. A high note
was approaching. He collected his
powers to meet 1t. They were staring
now-well, he would give them some
thing to stare for, What q glorious
thing this congregational singing was,
He must have more Of It every Sunday
on his return to New York
"A heavy hand fell on his shoulder.
He turned with start and saw the
sexton, an old, bent man. glowering at
him.
Here, young feller, hold vour
noise' said the sexton in a wheeZy
whisper audible all over the building
We pay people to do that here!"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
THE MISTAKE OF
A BANK TELLER
The Misplacing of Cash Is by
No Means Uncommon in
Banking Houses.

Beware of the man who processes
never to make mistakes. The caution
is general, but Is particularly applica-
bic to banking men. A national bank
examiner, who was conversing with a
reporter for the Plttsburg Dispatch,
says that as a rule errors are of daily
occurrence in every large bank. Most
of them are at once corrected, Of
course, but now and then a really seri-
Gus error seems for time to be utter
ly inexplicable. Upon this point the
examiner recalled an interesting case,
which happened under his own eye.
A curios error was discovered some
years ago in one Of the banks of this
city, let US call 1t the Sixth National
while under examination. l was weigh
ing the gold In the vault with the teller,
and found "A bag marked $4,000, which
weighed about "a troy ounces less
than 1t should have done. l opened the
bag and counted $4,000 only
A search was made lasting far into
the night for the missing $780, The
teller's cash-book showed no overs
or shorts" of any large amounts re-
Gently, and his character for honesty
and integrity was unquestionable. In
my report to the comptroller l spoke
OF II as one of those errors which will
sometimes occur, but which for time
as the teller was heavily bonded, nc
loss could occur to the bank.
/ pass over the mental sufferings OF
the teller and of the officials also, who
feared there might be thief in the
bank, but could not tell whom to sus-
pect-
Two or three weeks afterward I was
weighing the gold in another bank
then under examination-let us call II
the Seventh National-and found BAG
marked $4,000, which weighed $500
The seal showed that 1t had come from
the Sixth National, and had been re-
ceived by the Seventh in payment OF
clearing house exchanges l explained
to the cashier the error discovered ir
the Sixth, and he promptly sent for the
teller and restored him his money.
The mistake had been made in the
simplest manner possible, as you may
suppose. The teller of the Sixth haC
two open bags of gold on his counter
one contained $4,000, as he knew, ant
the other $4,500. At the close Of the
days business he put $500 into the
wrong bag, tied and sealed up botf
without first weighing them, labeled
each $4,000 and put them into his safe
1t is not necessary to say that no such
carelessness on his part ever occurred
again.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
Foundation of Ancient Tower Dug Out
in Convent Grounds at Rouen,

The prison of Joan Of Arc has Just
been located near Rouen. The founda-
tions of the ancient tower in which II
was have been discovered and opened
up through some new construction
work undertaken by the government in
the grounds of the Ursuline convent,
frem which the nuns have recently been
expelled.
The workmen in digging for the new
foundations came upon a massive wall
enclosing a circular space with diam
eter of about SO feet When this was
cleared of earth a we'll was found in the
center measuring six feet across and
about 80 feet in depth. Water rose in
it clear and cold as soon as the earth
had been cleared away from the bot
tom.
When the antiquarians got busy they
identified the wall as the foundation Of
a building which was known for ages
as The Maids Tower" A document
dating back to 1641 was produced,
which, taking it for granted that this
tower had been the prison Of the Maid
Of Orleans 210 years previously, gave
description and measurements of it, in
Guiding the well. which Enthusiastically
match the ruins just exhumed.
The structure appears to have stood
unchanged from the death of Joan in
1431 to 1890, when it was reduced to
ruins In the course Of siege. In 1869
the city leased the site on which the
ruin stood to Louis Mouchard.
In 1880 he appears 10 have stopped
paying the rent. The greater part Of
the ruin was cleared away about this
time, but as late as 1889 a visitor writ
ing about the place mentions the foun-
dation of the tower as visible and
speaks of the we'll After that 1t was
filed in with earth and later the site
became part of the nuns garden and
the existence of the ruin and the tradi-
tion attaching to it were forgotten.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
In Asparagus Time.
Etr,ny,a tha Nax., Vail mi.


Senator Beverdge, at a dinner in In
dianapolis. said during the course of
asparagus:
This asparagus Is superb. Its flavor
helps us pardon Fontenelle"
'Fontenelle?" murmured young
lady, in a puzzled voice.
Yes. Fontenelle," said the we'll read
senator. Don't you know the story?
Listen, then.
"Fontenelle lived to be 100. He at
tributed his longevity to asparagus. AS
the corsumptives go in for milk and
eggs. he went in for asparagus-thrice
datly-as long as the season lasted
Archbishop Dubois had almost an
equal love for the pale, sweet sticks
He liked them with a dressing of drawn
butter, but Fontenelle preferred vine-
gar and Oil.
Mime. de Tencin once invited these
two asparagus lovers to dinner. Half
the asparagus course was prepared
with oil and vinegar, the other half
with drawn butter, and on Fontenelles s
arrival the hostess explained this ar
raDgement to him.
But just as the dinner hour arrived
there came pallid messenger from the
archbishops house. The good Arch
bishop of Dubois was dead.
Dead" cried Fontenelle.
Dead the messenger dolefully re-
peated.
Really dead?' said Nine. de Tencin.
Alas, yes, madam; dead irrevoca-
bly,, answered the messenger
Then he won't be here to dinner
murmured Fontenelle
naturally not, the messenger
agreed.
Fontenelle leaped hastily to his
feet: He ran to the door, and opened
IT. Then he shouted across the hall to
the white-capped cook in the kitchen:
Baptiste, all the asparagus with oil
and vinegar!'"
Nrh WfnslowS SOOTHING sxRus CAildrea
testhnGi softens tho gums, reduces irhamfnxtAn AZ
9ys pain cures wind colo. n can't a bottla
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
His Plea,
Tom P. Morgan in Smart Set.


"Yassah, l 'knowedges dat l steals
yo' honah-now and ag'in," confessed
Brother Bunkum, who had been
dragged up before the bar of justice on
the charge Of embezzling sundry fowls.
Il steals, sab. but on'y dess part o. de
time-not all de time. De rest O. de
time 1 sawtuh projects around
amongst de diffunt ligious 'nomerna-
tions, eatin' dinner wild 'em and uh-
maxim out like was mighty nigh on
de keen edge O. j'inin' DER church: and
! 'umble somely axes yo', sab, to lemme
down easy of yo please, uh-kaze / does
muh heenyusness deSs some o. de time
as l says befo', and not all de time,
like desc yuh trust gentlemen dat we-aIi
yeahs tell SO much about now-uh-days.
And, sides all dat, yo honah, what,d
desc yuh good folks. dat's allus irwin
TO 'suade me over to DER way u think
in, do widout me? II I was to 90 to
Jail dey wouldn't have nobody to prac-
tise on; and yo' organizes yo'se'f, sab,
dat dey KANT keep well less'n dey has
some ripperbate to be everlastin'ly uh-
pickin' at"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
"Our Barbarous Fourth,

Mrs. Isaac l.. Rice makes out a strong
case against Our Barbarous Fourth" in
her destructive and constructive discus.
sion of the national holidays abuse and
possibilities in the June Century. Figures,
she says, show that during the celebra-
tion of five national birthdays, from 1903
to 1907 inclusive, 1.l53 persons were killed
and A,50 were injured! OF the injured
IS suffered total, and $50 partial, blind
ness; 3OS persons lost arms, legs or hands
and l,O61 lost one or more fingers But
these figures, startling as they are, con-
vey only faint idea Of the suffering, both
physical and mental, which went to swell
the total cost of these five holidays; in
this we must also include the weeks and
often months Of anguish of the injured,
the suspense of entire families while the
fate of some loved one hung In the bal
ance, the horror OF a future of sightless
years, the pinching poverty now the lot
of many because of the death or maim-
ing Of the breadwinner
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
Carpets.

Carpets were used in the east from
early time.. They are known to have
been made in China as early as B. c.
2100 and in India B. c. 100. They are
represented on the Egyptian monu-
ments at a date not later than B. C.
8000 In Rome and Athens they were
used on state occasions as luxuries.
They were first made in France In 1889.
During the time Of Henry VIII, and
even as late as the days OF Elizabeth,
the most common carpet In the rooms
of the English middle classes was 81
lawyer Of straw in winter and of
mown grass in summer. One of the
charges made against Cardinal VOL
sey was that In his state apartments
he had fresh supplies of grass or straw
every day in the year, renewed at con-
siderable cost. These primitive car
pets in the dining rooms OF the Eng
lish soon became very filthy, as tho
bones and fragments of food were
thrown into the straw, which was also
used as sleeping place by the family
dogs.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
THE KNOWING MULES
OF OLD MEXICO
Apparently They Have a Labor
Union to Tell Them What
Constitutes Days Work.

Everybody knows that all mules ara
brainy, but the mules of old Mexico
have something on other mules for o
sort of prascience of their own," said
a man VINO has spent many years IN
the neighboring republic. "A Mexican
mule will do just 80 much work and
not a bit more.
'erhe riding mule, for instance. Is
fully aware of the distance, down to q
rod, he is supposed and required tS
traverse in the progress Of one travel
ing day, and all the sharp sticks or
goads or dynamite on earth won't get
him to do bit more than what he
knows to be the correct distance. Tho
Mexicans have a peculiar saying In
connection with this characteristic OF
the Mexican mule. You ask a Mexican,
for instance, how far II is by muleback
to such and such point.
1.-TWO days journey II you are not
rushed, but three days If you are in a
hurry the Mexican will reply.
His meaning is that IL you don't
ask any more Of your mule than you
should ask of him the mule will be
able to make the trip in two days. But
If you attempt to drive the brute he'll
soldier on you, and in consequence the
journey will take you three days
Now for the prescience of which
spoke. ! don't know what else to call
1t. The latest instance I saw OF 1t was
when was riding through the state of
Sonora a month or so ago on an old
gray mule that knew every turn and
twist Of the road I was taking so
thoroughly that I let the bride reins
hang and permitted him to go 1t alone.
Along toward evening terrific
thunder storm came up. The air was
heavy with the fumes of sulphur
something l had heard about but had
never experienced beforehand the
crashes were deafening. The road was
rocky and bad and there was only an
occasional scrub pine alongside.
The old gray mule when the storm
reached its height stopped his jog OF
a sudden and stood In the middle of the
road, peacefully enough. He wasn't
worried apparently, but he considered
that that was pretty good place to
stand during the continuance of the
tremendous electrical storm, for It was
out in the open.
For myself, l wanted to get under
the shelter of pine tree about 10C
yards ahead OF me. But the mule
couldn't and wouldn't see that. Him for
open, and there he stood.
II prodded him with the spurs, bui
he merely looked around at me in a
disgusted sort OF way. Then ! dis
mounted and tried to lead him. Moth
ing doing. He wouldn't bulge.
so at length, giving in to him that
he knew more about it than l did, ]
wrapped my poncho about my head
and stood at his head, waiting for the
storm to pass hadn't stood by the
mule in that way for more than three
minutes before a saw q couple Of balls
of red fire playing around the trunk OF
the pine tree that l wanted to get un-
der the shelter Of. Then there came @
deafening crash, and when I could sec
again there was that pine tree
stretched across the road and a goot
part Of II in kindling wood.
II suppose maybe that old gray mul,
didn't know. ! give it to him, anyhow
that he did"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
unselfish Tea rs.

the DuSlOu SlODS.
President Samuel p. Colt of the
United States Rubber company was
discussing in New York the amicable
trade agreement that has been made
between his firm and the International
Rubber company.
1T is best" he said, "for competitors
to agree to be fair and honest with
one another, and this agreement of ours
is a fair and honest one. 1t is not like
those wherein, two rivals, while pre-
tending to be fair, yet knife one an
other continually in the back. Such
hypocritical agreements remind me of
two children, two little boys l know.
They We're lunching, Billy and Jack,
and when the butler brought on the
dessert it was seen that there was only
enc orange in the fruit basket. In
stantly Billy, the larger boy, set up a
loud bawling
Nov, what's the natter said the
eoverness. What are you crying about,
Billy?
I'm cryin',' Billy answered, because
there's no orange for Jack
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
Nothing Too
Good
For the
American People


BOXES MONTH proving that the American people recog-
Why this enormous patronage9
The Is simple: Cascarets pure, clean sweet
mild fragrant harmless effective little tablets
ment of Constipation and all Bowel Troubles They
put in neat little enamel boxes to buy to
Tin purse to take and action
always reliable always the they work while sleep
and wake you up feeling fine in the morning.
CANAL
disease breed
promptly regularly discharged Therefore, they
disease and be taken continuously precautionary measure
The Drugs adopted BY Congress
GOOD LAW and PURER
the American We endorse and will
SPIRIT and LETTERn task have always
We adopted OUR OWN 1895 when the FIRST
Of the market and have lived and
duced under it SINCE
greater PURITY QUALITY MEDICINAL
other preparation for Bowel trouble In all the world
This should be for Try AT
CONSTIPATION with the horrors derived from HAB
EVERYBODY has OCCASIONAL CONSTIPATION, which If
promptly taken care Of liable to result into the
Cascarets taken patiently and regularly win remedy
i Of the Bowels PREVENTIVE ever discovered
and win keep all the machinery running in good order
We advise little box Of cascars
In pocket Take when
en1ut bowels Your druggist will sell
Of satisfaction or money refunded All duggst lo Csc SOC
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
Bound to Stop Then.
From the SUCCESS,

In suit lately tried In a Maryland
court, the plaintiff had testified that his
financial position had always been a
good one. The opposing counsel took
him in hand for cross examination and
undertook to break down his testimony
upon this point
Have you ever been bankrupt ?"
asked the counsel.
Il have not"
Now be careful" admonished the
lawyer, with raised finger did YOU
ever stop payment?".
Yes
'Ah, / thought we should get at the
TRUTH" observed counsel, with an nm
pleasant smile. When did this ans
pension of payment occur?"
When had paid all I owed" was
the naive reply Of the plaintir.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-07-04
Tickle Georuia,

From the New Bedford Standard
After less than four months of prohibi-
ton, Georgia finds under full headway a.
formidable movement to amend the law
80 as to allow the sale of beer and light
wines. The Savannah chamber of com
mcrce appears as leader in the movement,
and 1t has the Endorsement OF Governor
IIoke Smith, though the governor was
one of the most enthusiastic prohibition
lists in the state only few months ago.
Considering the eagerness with which the
people of Georgia went into prohibition,
and the eagerness with which some of
these same people are trying to get out,
1t looks as If they did nos quite know
their own minds. For appearances sake
they ought to stick to their decision at
least a year.