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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
He Knows earthquakes.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Professor John Milne, who has re-
Gently been awarded a medal Of the
Royal society for his eminent services
In the modern development of seismo-
logical science, is the leading earth
quake expert of the day, says M. A. p.
The professor has been a great traveller
but he now lives quietly in the Isle
of Wight, where he keeps his seismo-
graph, the wonderful instrument that
records an earthquake, no matter at
what part of the globe ii may occur.
Professor Milne is also one OF the
greatest living authorities on Japan,
and was for 20 years engaged by the
Japanese government as geologist
and mining engineer Like the late Sir
Edwin Arnold. the professor married
japanese lady, and their welded life
has been ideally happy.
Had 1t not been for chance, Profess
sor Milne might never have seriously
taken up the study of earthquakes at
all. He was quite young man when
Field, the famous American cable lay
er, sent to the school OF mines for a
man to go out to Japan. and it hap
pened that young Milne was selected
for the post. Can you start on Tues
day." asked Mr.. Field We'll, today is
Friday: | am afraid / cannot get my
things ready in SO short time" was
the reply. Look here young man,
said Field. lit only took six days I'd
make the world, and if a whole world
can be made in that time, your things
can be got ready in less" SO the fu-
ture professor went to Japan, and II
was while in the land of chrysanthe-
NUNS that he invented the wonderful
apparatus that has made his name
famous
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
"AII Women Are Iiars.y

The Stampa newspaper at Milan
prints an interesting essay by an
Italian philosopher. who wishes nat
uraliy to be nameless ,on Women as
Liars"
Il could never bring myself to con-
denim lying" says the essayist, "for in
doing so | would condemn women. No
woman can get along without lying at
least "A hundred times day.
"Only fools and children are affront-
ed by women's little falsehoods; for
fools and children do not understand
women at all. a man who is a man
rather delights in womanly lies. He
expects to be fibbed at regarding his
wife's or his sweetheart's, or his nffin-
ity's prevarications as part of the deli
cate comedy of life.
LAS God gave the bird and beak n
throat to sing, so he invested lovely
women with the smile that spells be-
trayal. With women habitual prevari-
cation is merely an exercise of intellect,
the more clever woman the more ac-
complished liar she is.
"Womans cruelty to woman is part
and parcel of the capacity for lying
with which nature so generously en-
dowed her. Every word she wastes ON
other women Is a libel"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Modern Burial CasLets,

An elaborate burial casket lately
made in this city, says the New York
Sun, was lined with silk and covered
with silk plush, both lining and cover
ing being of a delicate peach bloom
pink. At least one such casket has
been covered with plush of Nile
green; and plush covered Caskets are
made in blue, white, black, gray and
purple, purple being the color most
often used. Made of the finest mater
ials, such caskets are expensive, rang
ing in price from 5000 to $1,7O0.
While caskets such as these might
excite wonder, yet burial caskets of
one sort and another have now come
into such general use that through
out a great part of the country prob
ably not more than 10 per cent of those
who die are buried in collins. With
this change has come a great change
in burial customs.
The old time coffin was made in one
anciently familiar style. 1t might be
made of whitewoOd or oak or mahog-
any, and 1t might be extensively trim
med, but it was still a coffin; and
by the cabinetmaker or the undertaken
all collins were made. The modern
burial casket Is made in hundreds of
styles and its manufacture is q busi-
ness by itself.
Burial caskets of the least expen-
itation of oak or mahogany. may be
bought at cost not much greater
than that of coffin; and a cloth
covered casket may now be had as
low as $40. The great majority are
those ranging in price up to about
800, and the greatest demand is for
caskets black cloth covered.
There are burial caskets covered
with embossed velvet, and metallic
caskets of aluminium and bronze, burial
caskets of bronze costing from $l,10O
to $1,S0V; and there are many caskets,
some in great simplicity OF design and
others richly covered made in various
| fine woods.
| Here is a massive burial casket of
teakwood, its cost, $1,000. Here is a
casket of dark red mahogany finished
with marqueterie work. the inlay be-
! ing of sycamore, the price being $500
! Here is a casket made of what is called
vermillion wood, of deeper hue thar
even the darkest red mahogany and
having a beautiful grain; and here is
a simple and beautiful casket Of white
| mahogany, this costing $3.50.
Burial caskets made of the silver
maple are very beautiful. OF it's natural
| color the maple would be very light
| almost white, but to be used for this
| purpose it is so treated as to make
| it gray, and this not on the surface
alone but all through. 1t Is a wood with
beautiful natural markings, and this
! beautifully marked gray wood is fin.
ished in the madeup casket with 9
dull smooth polish. From $500 to $500
the silver maple caskets cost; more OF
them are sold in Philadelphia than IN
any other city.
J American burial caskets in consider
/ able numbers are now exported to var
! ious foreign countries, including the
West Indies and South America and
| England. South Africa and Australia
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01

American railroad shops employ 800,
900 men earning 5000, 100000 a year.
A census of the railroad cars of the
country shows 100000, Of which $4,000
are passenger cars.
The railroads of this country employ
more telegraph operators than the tele
graph companies.
The state superintendent of instruc-
ton in Wisconsin says the college girls
eat too much candy. The Daily Car
dinal Of the University of Wisconsin
after investigation has decided this
true. The girls deny it,
Charles Dawson, Of Pennington,
Devon, England. who celebrated his 92d
birthday recently, neither reads nor
writes and has never seen the sea nor
Travelled in "A railway train. He has
worked on the same farm for AZ years.
A committee has been formed in
Denmark to erect a memorial to Mylius
Erichsen, who perished with his com
panions while engaged in explorations
in Greenland. 1t is expected that the
memorial will take the form of light
house to be erected on the Danish
coast.
"Squatter sovereignty" was the prin-
ciple of leaving the slavery question to
the decision of the settlers, first applied
on the admission to the union as terri
tories of the districts acquired from
Mexico in 1S4S 1t was afterward ex-
tended, in defiance of the Missouri
compromise, to Kansas and Nebraska
in 1854
The banking power of the United
States in 1908 as represented by capital.
surplus and other profits, deposits and
circulation of national and other re-
porting banks. together with estimated
amount of funds of this character in the
non-reporting banks, is shown to be
ST., ,642. 705.274 in the report of the
comptrolle- of the currency.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
They Had Money to Burn.

From the Philadelphia Times.
General st. Clair Mulholland, veteran
and historian of the civil war. tells an Ia
cident showing the utter worthlessness OF
the war.
Shortly after Lees surrender says
the general, II was q short distance from
Richmond. The confederate soldiers were
going home TO become men of peace again,
and were thinking about their farms.
'One had n lame. broken down morse
which he viewed with pride. Wish had
him, Jim, said the other. 'Whatll you
take for him? III give you $4,000 for
him.
No said Jim.
"'Give you $4,000
No. said Jim.
Give you $lO0, ,000 his friend said
Mot much replied jim. 1 just gave
$l20, 900 to have him shod.' "
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Huge Anchors.

IF some of the sea worthless could
come to earth and get a look at the
anchors which were recently turned
out in the Charlestown navy yard, they
would not believe their eyesight," said
II. NJ. knight, of Boston, to Milwau-
kee Sentinel reporter. "BattleshipS
nowadays carry four anchors. These
have been cast heretofore, but they
were liable to break at the wrong time
"They were so big, however, that II
seemed there was no other way to-
make them. Finally II was decided to-
try and forge an anchor of the size
needed at the Charlestown navy yard.
Accordingly five men were set at work
on an anchor which was to weigh H.
800 pounds. The men worked on the
anchor a month and then turned out
one that stood all the tests and was
accepted. Now they are making those.
anchors in the yard in sets Of fours
for shipment wherever they are need
ed.
These anchors will hold the largest
battleships afioat unless they are
taught in a hurricane. They are i'm
mense affairs. They are 15 feet long
from crown to shackle and about nine
snd half feet across from point to
point. The palms at the arm ends,
which get the grip on the bottom, are
80 inches wide. Several sets have been
shipped to the Pacific coast to go on
battleships at the stations on the
coast"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Western Cnnnda's Happy Prospects.

In no year since the development of
Western Canada began has spring
brought a brighter outlook than it
brings this year. In no preceding
spring has there been greater asSur-
ance Of advancing development and
prosperity. The movement of immigra-
ton has already assumed large proper
tiOnS, and is as desirable in character
as il is satisfactory in volume; from
across the Atlantic sturdy, induStri-
Gus and thrifty newcomers are arriv-
ing in large numbers, homeseekers
from Ontario and the other Older
provinces are coming in Il steady
stream, and from across the interna-
tiOnal boundary movement is already
in full flow which, it is confidently
previous years; special settlers trains
are crossing the line, loaded with ef-
fects, actual material wealth being
thus brought into the country at the
rate of millions of dollars worth
monthly.
The movement is so unprecedently
large that extra Dominion Immigra-
ton officials have had to be provided
at both North Portal and at Emerson,
and it is estimated that the total num-
Der of new settlers from the United
States this year will be 10000 at least,
and may run well up toward 100000.
Last years total of new settlers from
the South was 53,723; thus the area
that will be placed in wheat and other
grains this year will greatly exceed
that of last year. Settlers are making
extraordinary efforts to get on their
lands and begin seeding operations.
The price of wheat now, away above
the dollar mark, is incentive enough,
and when one has in view the splen-
did results that the past few years
have shown, it Is not to be wondered
at that the present will be the banner
year for immigration to Canada. Ask
your nearest Canadian government
agent for rates Of transportation, and
he will also send you illustrated
pamphlets.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
CURED ITCHING HUMoR.
Big. Painful SwellinEs Broke and
Did Not Heal-SuRered Three
Years-TOrtures Yield to Cuticura.

Big. Painful SweIIinGs Broke and
Did Not Heal-SuRered Three
Years-TOrtures Yield to Cuticura.
Little black swellings were scatter
cd over my face and neck and they
would leave little black scars that
would itch so l couldn't keep from
scratching them. Larger swellings
would appear and my clothes would
stick to the sores. l went to a doctor.
but the trouble only got worse. BY
this time it was all over my arms and
the upper part of my body in swellings
as large as a dollar. 1t was so pain
full that l could not bear to lie on my
back. The second doctor stopped the
swellings, but when they broke the
places would not heal. | bought a set
of the Cuticura Remedies and in less
than a week some of the places were
nearly well. / continued until l had
used three sets, and now / am sound
and well. The disease lasted three
years. o. L. Wilson, Puryear, Tenn,
Feb. s, 1908"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole
Props. Of Cuticura Remedies. Boston.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Hanna Told Him How.

FTCm IHe AIROnauI,
Mr.. Dingley was riding up one day
n the trolley car from the capitol with
Mark Hanna. He said: Mark, you
ire many years younger than l am and
;ou have made millions. | have never
Deen able to get ahead of the game in
ife. and yet my legislation has made
ich men richer and poor men rich.
Vow. how do they do it?" Hanna said:
'Dingley, | can tell you right off how to
make 20 per cent on your investment"
Dingley turned eagerly 10 his supposed
benefactor and said: For heavens
sake Mark, how" Why" said Hanna,
these 5-cent tickets upon which we
ride are sold by the railroad company
in a bunch at % per cent discount.
There is your fortune if you invest
enough"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Varied Proorau.

From the PhlIadeIphla Record.
The women of an Indiana town recent
1y organized a literary club, and for a
while everything was lovely.
Alice" asked the husband of one of
the members upon her return home from
one of the meetings, what was the topic
under discussion by the club this after
noon?"
Alice couldn't remember at first. Final
ly. however. she exclaimed:
"Oh, yes 1 recollect! We discussed that
brazen-looking woman that's just moved
in across the street and Longfellow."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Suspicious.
From the Argonaut.

A Boston lawyer named Ames was
retained as counsel for a man who
stepped in a hole in the street and
broke his leg. Suit was brought against
the city in the sum of 81 900, and Ames
won the case. The city appealed to the
supreme court, but here, also. the ver-
dict was in favor of Ames' client. After
settling up the claim Ames handed his
client a silver dollar. What is this
fOr2" asked the man. THAT is what
is left after taking out my fee. the
cost of appeal, and other expenses" -"
The man regarded the dollar a moment,
then looked at Ames. What is the
matter with this?" he asked. rs It
bad2n
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
The Wife.

The little Dreams of Maidenhood--
| put them all away
As tenderly as mothers would
The toys of yesterday,
When little children grow to men
Too overwise for play.
The little dreams pat aside
| loved them, every one.
And yet, since moonblOwn buds must hide
Before the noOnday sun.
/ close them wistfully away,
And give the key to none.
Oh, little Dreams of Maidenhood-
Lie quietly, nor care
IL some day in an idle mood
|, searching unaware
Through some closed corner of my heart
should laugh TO find YOU there
-Thcodosid Garrison in April Harper j
Bazaar.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Another Operation Ayoided.
Paw Paw, Mich. :

announcer operation Avoided.
Chicago, Ill. 81 want women to
know what that wonderful medicine,
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, has done for me. Two of the
best doctors in Chicago said l would
die If L did not have an operation, and
never thought of seeing a we'll day
again. L had o small tumor and female
troubles so that / suffered day and
night. A friend recommended Lydia
Il. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and it made me we'll woman. Mrs.
ALvENA SPERLNG, II Langdon St.,
Chicago, Ill.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from roots and herbs.
has proved to be the most successful
remedy for curing the worst forms of
female ills, including displacements,
inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregu-
larities, periodic pains, backache, bear
ing-down feeling, fiatulency, indiges-
tion, and nervous prostration. Itcosts
but trifle to try it, and the result
has been worth millions to many
suffering women.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Dug for Woodehucks; Found Gold.

Charles Harmon, a farmer residing
near Curwensville, Pa, while digging
for n woodchuck, uncovered an old
kettle that had in 1t what is estimated
to be worth $4,000 in foreign gold coin,
says a dispatch to the Chicago Inter-
Ocean. The money is believed to have
been buried several years ago by one
or more of a party of Austrians en-
ployed on the construction of the low
grade division of the New York Central
railroad.
Harmon was bothered all last year
by a colony of woodchucks destroying
his garden truck. This spring he dis
covered the burrow Of one of the
chuck" families, and determined to
eXterminate them. He hadn't gone far
below the surface of the ground when
the point Of his pick struck a piece of
iron. He investigated and found a
small iron kettle, such as is used in
mems camps for cooking. The vessel
was two-thirds full Of corroded coins.
All had milled edges, showing that they
We're not of very ancient mintage. He
took the coins to the Curwensville
bank, where it was discovered that
they are gold and of a foreign char
aCter.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01

From the Boston Herald
When Bishop Phillips Brooks sailed
from America on his last trip to Europe
Il friend jokingly remarked that while
abroad he might discover some new re-
ligion to bring home with him. But be
careful of it. Bishop Brooks" remarked a
listening friend; lit may be difficult to
get your new religion through the custom
house.
II guess not" replied the bishop. laugh
ingly, for we may take it for granted
that any new religion popular enough to
import will have no duties attached to it,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Mythoioqy.

About the barest- faced of all nature
fakes was the Grecian mythology in
it's day. The Greeks saw dryads where
we see nothing but beer-ads, and heard
voices proceeding from rocks and trees.
Nor were these rocks and trees any OF
your mere conversationalists either
1t was recorded of them that they
gathered about and listened quietly,
while Orpheus played, and when he
was through did not crowd up to COM
pliment him on the breadth and-er-
clarity of his Interpretation. This. of
course is to impute more than human
intelligence.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
FOOD FACTS.
What an NJ. ID. Learned,


A prominent Georgia physician went
through food experience which he
makes public:
ut was my own experience that first
lea me to advocate Grape-Nuts food
and l also know. from having pre-.
scribed it to convalescents and other
weak patients that the food is a won
derful rebuilder and restorer Of nerve
and brain tissue. as well as muscle. 1t
improves the digestion and sick pa
tients always gain just as l did in
strength and weight very rapidly.
II was in such a low state that I
had to give up my work entirely, and
went to the mountains of this state,
but two months there did not improve
me; In fact, was not quite as well as
when left home.
my food did not sustain me and
1t became plain that l must change.
Then l began to use Grape Nuts food,
and In two weeks ! could walk mile
without fatigue, and in five weeks
returned to my home and practice.
taking up hard work again. Since that
time l have felt as well and strong as
1 ever did in my life.
"As a physician who seeks to help
all sufferers, / consider it duty to
make these facts public"
Trial 10 days on Grape-Nuts when
the regular food does not seem to sus-
tain the body, will work miracles.
There's a Reason"
Look in pkgs for the famous little
book, "The Road to Wellviile."
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full Of
human interest.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Sanquine.
From Everybody's Magazine.

FfOW FVeFYDNuy MHRaZIne.
"Hows times?" inquired a tourist.
''Oh, pretty tolerable," responded the
old native who was sitting on stump.
| had some trees 10 cut down, but n
cyclone come along and saved me the
trouble"
Fine"
Yes, and then the lightning set fire
to the brush pile and saved me the
trouble of burnin' it,
ing now?"
"Oh, nothin' much. Jest waitiu' for
an earthquake to come along and shake
The nntatnnS out of the Grnmnd.m
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
A Cure for Colds and Grin.

There is Inconvenience, suffering and
danger i'll a cold, and the wonder is that
people will take so few precautions
against colds. One or two Lanes Pleas
ant Tablets (be sure of the name) taken
when the first snufily feeling appears. will
stop the progress of a cold and save
great deal of unnecessary suffering. Drug
gists and dealers generally sell these tab
let's, price % cents. If you cannot get
them send to Orator +. Woodward, Le-
Roy, y. Y. Sample free,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
AT THE END OF
THE RAINBOW
Rich Finds of Gold and Pre-.
cious Articles in I'm
expected Places.

While moving a house on the prop
erty Of the late Miss Mary Ann Kilch,
in Glenfeld, Pa, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer, James Graham, contractor.
discovered an old lard can which, when
opened, was found to be filled with
English sovereigns and half sovereigns
to the value of $1,000. They had been
buried by Miss Kilch, who was sud-
denly stricken with paralysis and al
though she lived several days, was
unable to tell where the treasure was
buried. The gold was turned over to
a sister of the dead woman.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Quadragesima.

The parish priest
OF Austerlitz
Climbed up in high church steeple
To be nearer God,
So that he might hand
His word down to his people
And in sermon script
He daily wrote
What he thought was sent from heaven,
And he dropt this down
On his peoples heads,
Two times one day in seven.
In his age God said,
Come down and die!"
And he cried out from the steeple,
Where art thou, Lord?''
And the Lord replied
Down here among my people,"
Rev. Reginald Heber Howe
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Found a Rina in Bread.

Martin Hanson, of Winslow Crossing,
West Hanover, lost a ring that he
priced highly, recently, says the Brock
ton Times. He told all of his friends
of the loss, and informed them that
he thought he had lost 1t at the circus
The next morning while eating a piece
of brown bread, something hard struck
against his teeth. and upon examina-
tion 1t proved to be the ring. Mr. Han
son Is at a loss TO know how the ring
happened to be in the bread. as he was
not around at the time 1t was mixed
nor did he go anywhere near the ma
tcrialS used, to his knowledge
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
HOW'S This =!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
f. j. CHENEY 4 co, Toledo, o.
We. the undersigned, have known f. ].
Cheney for the last IS years and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business trans
actions. and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system. Testimonials sen,
free. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
DOCTOR
ADVISED
OPERATION
CuredbyLydiaE. .Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

~ wa n :"
bly, from female ills,
including infiam-
nation and conges-
ton, for several
years. My doctor
said there was no
hope for me but an
operation. / began
taking Lydia f..
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound, and
L can now say / am
a well woman"
N ~