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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20
QUILL DOWN BUILDING
ON BAD FOUNDATION

Chamberlain, S. D., March 13.-At the
school election to be held next Tuesday
bonds are to be voted to help in the
construction of a new school building.
If the bonds carry the present school
house which is one of the best in this
part of the state will be taken down
because of the unstable foundation on
which it rests and the material used so
far as practicable in the new structure.
The building began to settle some time
ago on the side toward deep ravine
and expert investigation shows that
there is an earth slide far below the
foundation
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

According to contemporary, Signor
MarConi is said to have stated that q
wireless telegraphic service at 2 cents
word will shortly be in operation be-
tween England and Italy. France, ii
is said, objected to the scheme origin
ally as kilograms between England and
Italy pass over her lines at present, but
has since withdrawn her opposition.
1t is stated that the service will be
commenced as soon as the wireless
station at Coltano is completed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

According to a cabinet ordinance re-
Gently Issued in Toxic, the onerous re-
striction on the use OF western ink in
Japanese official documents has been
removed after 81 years. In 1875 the
Japanese government ordered that in
any official document, save In the case
OF writing on foreign made paper in
one OF the western languages, western
Ink should not be used from that time
onward. That obsolete order In aues-
tion survived unmolested until this
year. The abolition is welcomed by
the Japanese press In general
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20
LUTHERAN SYNOD FOR
TWO STATES All EUREKA

Eureka, S. D., March 1S.-Wednesday,
May 5, has been fixed as the time for
the annual meeting of the Lutheran
church synod of North and South Da-
kota, which will be held at this place.
1t is expected that fully 100 delegates
will be present to represent the Luth-
eran churches of the two states. The
Lutheran synod has decided to estab
lish a college at some point in the two
states, and ii is expected that at the
coming meeting the question of the To-
cation of the college will be taken up,
discussed and determined. Eureka "
striving for the selection.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

Mrs Charles Neave Is the latest
English woman of birth and educa-
ton to go into business. She has be-
come a press agent, and IT is sale
by her friends that some of the best
singers at Covent Garden, London, are
largely indebted to her for their suc-
cess this season. Mrs. Neave is the
daughter of man of title and the
widow of an army officer.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

The New York Diet Kitchen associa-
ton, according to the report read by
Mrs. Henry Willard, its president, at
the recent annual meeting, far sur
passed last year the work done In any
IL months of its previous history. Ac-
cording to Mrs. Wizards report there
were three reasons for this Increase
one the Industrial depression. another
the cooperation Of the association with
the New York milk commission, and
the third the infant mortality work Of
the board of health. During the last
year the expenses OF the association
were more than $28, 900.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

Marconi produced I'm 1896 the first
wireless telegraph capable OF sending
and recording electric waves across
long distances. In that year he could
send intelligible messages 200 feet. BY
1900 he had perfected the process so
as TO be able to transmit messages 200
miles. In 1902 his ship, the Carlo AL
berto, kept In touch by wireless with q
station on the coast OF England Mt dis
tances up to $500 miles. In December
or that year wireless messages were
exchanged between England and Can
ada. In 1907 a regular transatlantic
wireless service was inaugurated.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

II have been ranching on an island
for moro than quarter of CEN
tury," writes a correspondent OF the
Fur News. There are no carnivorous
wild animals on my island but the
coyote wolf, and l could get rid OF
him in very short time and at very
aittle expense, but II / did the rab-
bit would soon put me out OF bus
mess. have experimental along these
lines and know what I'm talking about,
and declare, here and now, that in
my opinion, the carnivorous wild ami
mails OF Texas save the farmers and
stock raisers hundreds OF millions OF
dollars by keeping the rabbits in
check"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20
whiskey for Rheumatism.

To one-half pint good whiskey, add
one ounce syrup sarsaparilla, and one
ounce Toris compound, which can be
procured of any druggist. Take in tea
spoonful doses before each meal and
before retiring. Followed up, this is
q sure remedy.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20
An Outraua.

"Club Women in Boston," said the
headline.
Dear, DEAR" commented the near
sighted man unable TO read the con-
text. Il never would have thought II
possible. Why. the very worst we dc
In Philadelphia is to neglect to give
'em n seat"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

Mrs. Russell Sage is said to pay the
heaviest tax OF any person In the city
of New York. The tax books shows
that 20 New York women are assessed
for upward of $4,000, ,000 and more
than a score OF others are required to
pay from s250,000 to 100000.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

There is a story told of a famous
singer, Gabrielli, who demanded a fee
of 1000 ducats for singing before the
Empress Catherine III of Russia. Far
too much," said the empress, amazed.
i"Why, II Is more than pay my field
marshals!" Then let your field mar
shals sing for you," replied GabriellI.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

Charles Dickens was christened
Charles John Huffam, or Huffham, as
IL Is enormously entered in the parish
register. But when he became famous
he dropped the last two Christian
names. as he desired to be known as
plain Charles Dickens. a wish respected
on his tombstone In Westminster ABB
bey by his biographer and friend. John
Forster, and by the scrupulously ac-
curate Dictionary of National Biog-
raphy."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20
Dome.tic Eve Remedy

Compounded by Experienced Physicians
Conforms 10 Pure Food and Drugs laws.
Wins Friends Wherever Used. Ask Drug
rIsts for Murine Eye Remedy. Try Murine
in Your Eyes You VIII Like Murine.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20
Her Dream Shattered,

Old Lady (at newspaper office)-Win
YOU kindly tell me If the lady Is in who
writes the Mothers Page" every Sat
urday?
Office Boy-Yes'm. That's him in the
blue shirt over there just lighting Gig
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

J A recent press dispatch from Wash
iington told OF a plan to ship 5000 cats
from Chicago to Japan to assist In pre-
venting plaques, by exterminating a
large part OF the rat population. But
Chicago cat specialists doubt the city's
ability to provide any such number as
Japan seems TO need. One dealer, who
recently sent 100 tabbies to New Or
leans, declares that TO obtain 5000 IL
impossible. II had an order for 500
cats" he says II advertised widely
and the most / could get was 100. Thus
~ would seem to be impossible to gath
er 5000 cats In Chicago. II the Japa-
tnese want cats let them get them in
small places. A big city is no place to
corral them"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

We do these things better. We
provide steady Jobs for men like King
Edward. Sir John Macdonald and Sir
Wilfrid Laurfer." So Canadian paper
remarks In reference to the coming
ending OF Presidents Roosevelt's career
af the White House. The Canadians
are certainly fond of giving their
chosen chiefs long inning Sir John
Macdonald ruled the dominion for near
ly 20 years without a break and the
present prime minister, Sir Wilfrid
Laurier. Is In his 18th year of contin-
nous Office
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

Figures issued by Manchester UNI
versity point to the fact that women
graduates rarely marry. Out of $50
women who have taken degrees, only
81 have married. Twelve of these mar
rted graduates OF the same university.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20
JosEpM kusLEa, pu1II.h.N

= The objection shown by the court
ut Pekin to accept the aid OF Euro
pean surgeonS during the illness OF
China's late rulers does not seem to
be shared by the people OF Hanoi In
1ndo China. Here II seems that the
french have established with consid-
erable success school OF medicine.
There are 90 students enrolled, some
studying the science from the human
standpoint, some qualifying as veter-
fnary surgeons. while number OF
young women have entered as obstetric
students. One lady who has qualified
has been signally successful in charge
of a hospital for the poor at Phuly.
Eight out OF 10 of the students come
from Cochin China.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

Chicago children infected with tu-
berculosis will go TO school In the open
air II a request to be made by the Chi
cago tuberculosis institute is granted
by the board OF education. The sIIg-
gestion was made In report OF Frank
ID. Wing, superintendent OF the insti-
tute, and unanimously adopted by the
members. The plan IL to have open air
camps In various parts OF the city
where children with consumption can
attend. In the stormiest weather the
cniidren VIII wear heavy ulsters to pro-
tect them from the cold.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

!. DR.. George L. Spinning, in a recent
lecture, said: THE climate OF Cali
fornia Is not all like the beautiful
chrome of the postal card. II 1t be true
that In the Imperial valley 1t is so hot
that they have to feed their hens on
cracked Ice to keep them from laying
boiled eggs, II is also true that In some
parts OF the Sierras 1t Is so cold that II
they had any hens they would have to
feed them on red pepper and Spanish
'tamales to keep them from laying hail
afOnaaD
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

An addition Of 1900 pupils to the at
tendance roll OF the various high
schools in Chicago is reported to the
board of education. This is an increase
OF so per cent over the record last year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

W. T. Hornaday. the naturalist, and
now director of the New York Zoo,
tried to be real estate man in Buffalo
once, but could not resist the call Of the
!(caged) wild
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

Mrs. Keith Spalding, OF Chicago, has
Just given $4,000 and 40 acres of land
to be used in establishing a tubercu-
losis sanatorium at Napierville III.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

1t is only within the last 10 years
;hat tropical fruits like bananas and
pineapples have had large sale in Ger
many
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

The foreign commerce of this coun-
try fell off about $500, 100000 last year.
The greatest decline was noticed at the
Atlantic ports.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

The annual crop of wheat In recent
years averages 67o. 900, 900 bushels in the
United States.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

There are more doctors per capita in
New York city than anywhere else in
the country.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20
NOVEL COFFEE POT
WITH AUTOMATIC LID
Flows Freely by Pressing Button on
the Handle,

How many housewives have burned
their fingers by opening the hot lid of
a coffee pot to permit a freer flow of
the LIQUID? To obviate this an Iowa
man has invented a coffee pot, the lid
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-03-20

Reading rooms have been opened for
children In Copenhagen by the women.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07
A Question of Enjoyment.

At a recent gathering Of ministers
Of the Gospel in Pittsburg the liquor
question came in for a goodly share
of discussion. Among the out-of-
town delegates was a noted Georgia
clergyman, who vas scheduled to
speak on the saloon question. Pre-
vious to the meeting n of the local
pastors upon being introduced to the
Georgian remarked:
well, DR.. Blank, I believe your
people enjoy Statewide prohibition
LOW, do they not?"
NO." replied the Georgian, "they
do not"
The local man was somewhat sur
prised, but not feeling quite sure OF
his ground, let the matter rest. Later
in the day, however, when he had
informed himself on the excise laws
of the Southern States, he took the
Georgian to task in the presence of
a number of his colleagues.
Doctor" said the local minister,
what did you mean by telling me
this morning that your State did not
have Statewide prohibition?"
my dear brother" replied the
Georgian, gravely, Il told you moth
ing of the sort"
'Why-why-," stammered the
local man, you surely"
Nay" said the Georgian, with a
twinkle, you have forgotten your
question. You asked me if Georgia
enjoyed Statewide prohibition."-
Fittsburg GaZette-Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07
Grants Wish Fulfilled.

General Ulysses S. Grant, now
entombed on Riverside Drive, New
York City, expressed a wish nearly
half a century ago that just now Is
about to- be fulfilled.
After, v%icksburg had fallen, Grant
returned to his home in Galena, ILL.,,
for, a brief visit. While he was feted
and Toasted and mentioned as a candf-
date for the Presidency, he said:
There. is but one of two offices l
want-either Mayor or Alderman OF
Galena."
But why such a humble placer"
he was asked.
WELL" he said, IT live out on that
hill, and in bad weather it Is tough
getting out there. If I were Mayor
or Alderman I would have a sidewalk
built to my home"
For years he has slept in his splen-
did tomb, but that sidewalk has neve
been built. Now, at the behest OF
Representative Dillon, of Galena, the
House has passed a bill appropriat-
ing $4,000 to build the sidewalk the
great soldier wanted, and also to keep
his old home in repair. It's up to the
Senate now.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07
WORDS OF WISDOM

Poverty may be- no crime, but It
has its penalties just the same.
Fools and children tell the truth,
and generally at the wrong time.
One enemy will often make a man
more prominent than a hundred
friends. ... ..E.,
AS a rule the less a man has to do
the less time he finds to do it.
It's all right to love your enemies,
but don't slight your friends.
Rich things never agree with some
men, not even rich wives.
Where one man wants to borrow
trouble, a hundred want to get rid Of
1t. ~ 80, 49,.
It is a question whether half a
truth Is better than none.
When a woman expresses a wish,
her husband generally has to pay the
expressage.
The only harmless fool is a lead
fool.
1t isn't always the ~janitor Who
cleans out the bank.
ALI the people who pose are not
models by any means.
He who dances must pay the piper,
unless he blows his own horn.
The girl who marries without love
deserves a divorce without allmony.
Some people couldn't make both
ends meet in an abattoir.
He who jumps, at conclusions sell
dom gets there with both feet.
Many a girl has a poor complexion
who is rich enough to afford a bet
ter one.
Considering that it's the unex-
pected that always happens, it's a
wonder we don't get to expect 1t.
The reason some peoples photo
graphs never look like them Is be-
cause they try TO look pleasant
From Musings of a Gentle Cynic,"
in the New York Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07

Running the hounds is not an OBJ
solete sport in Missouri, though but
little known to the average sports
man. One of the few fox hunting
associations in the State is composed
of residents of Buchanan and Platte
Counties. The association was re-
Gently organized, with ]. P. Worrell
of Rushville president. There are
thirty members Of the association,
and they have about 100 hounds, all
thoroughbreds. The game is the red
fox, exceedingly cunning, and which
loses the hounds if any fox can. 1t
costs about ten cents a day to feed
a fox hound, and it is easy to figure
that the mar who owns eight or ten
hounds and has a family to support
has no time to sleep between chases.
The best food is cracking and corn
bread, which given together give
good wind and muscle. A dog is in
it's prime at two and a half years old,
begins to run at 4 yea of age, and
Is good at hard running for four
years. Art Hamer, of Rushville,
claims to have had pups that began
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07
HE FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS.
Chinese Cook Knew Which. Eggs
Should Be Thrown Away:

H. .s.. "HH...,
"Chinese need to be taught to- be-
more self-reliant," said the woman
who employs a. Chinese cook. yes
terday I ordered my cook to make a
pudding for dinner, stopping a. min
ute to see If he followed my instruc-
! tons, for I had taught him to- make
this particular pudding: He had
seen me smell the eggs before putting
them into a bowl and he began, by
putting the first egg to his nose. He
seemed on the right road. so I LETT
the kitchen for a minute. Return
Ing I discovered that he had used
five eggs instead Of three as I had
taught him. Taking him to task for
not following my instructions he
swered, Yes, three here (pointing.
10 the bowl) two here Indicating
where he had thrown the ethers)
same as you.'
1T dawned on me that when I had
Taught him, to make the pudding 7
had found the second and third eggs
that 7 had broken to- be bad and had
thrown both: away. He had simply
done what he had seen me Do
after. smelling the second n third
egg he. had thrown them away
New York Sun. .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07

speeches Of his, and many besides of
similar note.
In more than one of the books used
for reading, the verses for a youthful
speaker beginning
You'd scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage;
If l should chance to fall below
Demosthenes and Cicero, ETC.
are to be found. This apt bit of
verse has been usually credited to Ed
ward Everett, but it was written, I
believe, by his brother, Alexander
Everett.
While there were authors quoted
from in these books land I have left
many books of this class unnamed)
like Mrs. Opie, Granger and Brain
erd, who are not at all generally re-
membered at this date, Byron, Camp
bell, Milton and other great names
are represented in them. Taking
literature, then, as it was eighty
and a hundred years ago, the school
books that I speak of fairly sampled
it.
The latest book to which I have re-
ferred Is Porter's Rhetorical Reader.
But that appeared se~venty-seven
years ago. It was more than a read
er. 1t taught rhetoric, gesture, vocal
expression and all that concerns Or
atory. It was from these books, and
others like them that I have named,
that the great men Of two or three
generations ago got their first steps
in culture. If they had been perfect
books they could not remain so, for
new authorship, new ideas and a diff
ferent perspective in all fields OF
thought have necessarily. dismissed
them. But they did more than pro-
mote the three R's-"reading, 'rft-
ing and 'rithmetic;" they opened an
imaginative and spiritual outlook in
to the world that made the common
and district schools great nourishers
Of character and genius.-New York
World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07
.&A21zgaasHe - F2
PeP11zS ~
IL sc1EScE y

The Ohio State University is about
to start a class in it's Engineering De-
partment for the teaching of wireless
telegraphy. Al complete wireless tel
egraph equipment Is to be installed.
and will maintain communication
with stations at Cleveland and. De-
troit. ~
Molybdeniti - m"olybdenum' sui
phide-has been found in the Peru
Wan provinces of Conversion, Huay-
las, Canta, Trujillo, Carabaya,. lea,
Aymaraes, etc., but the most import
ant discovery was made in 1901 in
the province Of Jauia, with the result
that the "Sociedad Explotadora de
Molibdeno' was formed to- work. the
deposits.
Cheaper radium is promised by the
discovery that the ash of a Ignite
found in Sweden contains radium
which can, be extracted by an mex
p~ensive process devised by q chemist
named Hellsing. The Schweizerische'
Bauzeitung quotes Professor Arrhen.
lus and Professor Anderson, OF the
Geological Survey of Sweden, as ap-
proving the Hellsing process.
The readiness with which low
forms of life accommodate themselves
to altered environment shows that
they are capable Of being trained or
educated to a certain extent. Stahl
has shown that a certain ~plasmodium
fees when sprinkled with salt, but.
II the salt be added to the medium
gradually the organism accommo.
dates itself to the new medium. Pur-t
poseful action Is manifested by plants
as well as by animals, and by both
unicellular and m%ulticellular.
The Fifax ref~ectoroscope, an Eng
fish apparatus, is claimed to be the
best solution so far of the problem Of
rejecting post cards, photographs and
other pictures or designs SO that they
may show as sharp and brilliant as
the views projected by the ordinary
transparent lantern slides. The new
magic lantern resembles the ordinary
one in general appearance, but the
picture is placed at the back, where
q 5000 candle power beam Of light
Is concentrated upon it by two re-
fectors; the image is transmitted
through the lens to the screen.
Though other powerful lights may
be used, gas, with special high-pres-
sure burners and incandescent man
ties, has been found to give the stead
lest and most penetrating beam. The
operation of the high-pressure gas
system costs about half g, cent an
hour, specially prepared slides are
not needed, the colors and details OF
the reflected pictures are shown vivid
ly on the screen and magnifed as re-
auired, and book pages Of letterpress
printing may be exhibited as well as
all kinds of pictures.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07
Redinpote Has Returned.

The redingote has returned to favor
and is seen in the most handsome
fabrics, lavishly decorated with braid
ing. and embroideries. Only a tall,
well proportional figure should at
tempt this style of wrap, but on the
right woman it is stunning. The
natty military coat is now furnished
with skirts-following the prevailing
fashion-that fall faring quite below
the knee.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07
For the Collar.

If you wish to make your woman
friend a rather new little gift, get a
piece of fine handkerchief linen, fold
1t over, hemstitch n side, make It
Just as deep as a little frtll to go in.
side of a shallow collar. SLch frills
are very fashionable and somewhat
resemble the little tucker frills our
grandmothers Used to yea Such
frills instead Of being hemstttched
may be embroidered or feather
stitched either In white or colors.
Fluffy neckwear is a prediction for the
future and then let the short or full
necked woman beware.