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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27
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The readers OF this paper will be pleased
TO learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure In
all Its stages, and that Is Catarrh. Hair
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires q
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure Is taken internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces or the sys-
TEN, thereby destroying the foundation OF
the disease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and assist
ing nature In doing its work. The proprle-
tors have so much faith In Its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for
any case that II fails to cure. Send for list
OF testimonials
Address: F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for constipat ton.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27
Turnino Tables,

Miss Mary Gawthorpe. the suffragette,
who so completely turned the tables on
an interrupter who, in a clumsy attempt
at ridicule, asked her, Don't you wish
you were a man." by replying, mo; do
your" has added to her laurels.
Don't you think mothers should stay
at home with their children" asked a cal
low youth. eager to score off a well known
married suffragette who had just spoken.
Miss Gawthorpe reflected for a second.
We'll" she said, her voice taking an
earnest intimate note, Il don't know
about that: but l do think children should
stay at home with their mothers.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

Hobson's choice OF an expression
meaning a choice without an alterna-
tive. II is said to have had it's origin
in the name of one Tobias Hobson, who
kept a livery stable at Cambridge, Eng
land, in the time of Charles l, and re-
qulred each customer TO take, in his
turn, the horse that stood nearest the
stable door. In this way no favoritism
was shown-all customers being served
alike. Milton wrote two humorous
epitaphs on the death Of this eccentric
character.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

II we except the American descen-
dants of Jerome's first marriage in the
United States, there are now only three
men who bear the name Of Bonaparte.
Two are bachelors over a, descendants
of Jeromes second marriage, and the
third sonless widower of so, de-
scendant OF Napoleon's discarded
broth Lucien. Josephine's descendants
meanwhile sit on many thrones, and
include King Edwards grandson, the
petted Prince Olaf OF Norway.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27
Rio Janeiro proposes to construct the

Rio Janeiro proposes to construct the
greatest dock system in South America,
IL not in the whole western hemisphere.
The plans call for about ten miles OF
docks, In addition to the two miles al
ready provided for. The idea is that
the additional docks shall consist at
first of three great piers built at a dis
tance OF 1,115 feet from each other
Completed, these docks will have a
frontage OF 50. 800 feet, or about twelve
miles. The additions planned will cost
about $4,000, 600.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

member of the Aquarium society Of
Philadelphia, an organization for the
breeding of fancy fish, recently re-
celved diploma for n particularly fine
goldfish This glistening, scaly little
thing weighed less than two ounces.
but an offer of 500 was promptly made
for It. Fish at nearly $1,000 a pound
think of 1t!
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

Nowhere in the world are the out
ward, visible evidences Of wealth more
impressive than in New York. The es-
timated value of the real estate in
Gotham is about two and a quarter
times greater than all the money In
circulation in the United States. The
personal property listed for taxation in
New York Is valued at a sum equal to
about one-tenth of all the money In cir
culation In this country.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

Mrs. J. l.. Parks OF Los Angeles,
married at thirteen, has seventeen liv-
ing children, nine OF whom are caring
for themselves out in the world and
eight are now at home with her. She
is now forty-eight and has just been
investigated" by the Children's HUI
name society for speaking GROSSLY to
her brood
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

That a man Is never too old to learn
is illustrated by the case of II. G.. Whit
aker of Pilot Mountain, n. c., Il law
student at Wake Forest college. Mr..
Whitaker is so. In the same class he
has Il son, =. II. Whitaker, aged 1S.
The elder Whitaker Is making an ex-
cellent record as a student, a report
says. He has 10 children, q grandchil-
dren. two of whom voted in the No
vember election, and two grand
children
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

Mrs Nora Stanton BlatCh de Forest,
granddaughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, is said to be equipping a fac
tory at Newark, N. j., for the manu-
facture of electric condensers. She is
a graduate of the civil engineering
school of Cornell university and since
her marriage has been studying cleo
tricity
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27
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WHAT'S THE USE?

when one stops to reflect on the
futility OF human achievements,
laughed Miss Annie Russell. in
THE Stronger Sex" lit reminds me
Of an eulogy | recently heard, that
went like this:
" 'Tenderly she laid the silent
white form beside those that had
gone before She made no outcry,
she did not weep. Such a moment
was too precious to be spent in idle
tears. But soon there came a time
when 1t seemed as II nature must
give way. She lifted her voice and
cried loud and long. Her cries were
taken up by others who were near :
and IL echoed and re-echoed over
the grounds. Then suddenly all was
still. What was the use of it all?
She would lay another egg tomor- :
row.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27
HON. Tonic for Old P.on,..

Wonderful results, eventually restor-
fng full physical vigor, are obtained
from the following: To one-half pint
good whiskey, add one ounce syrup sar-
saparilla and one ounce Toris COM
pound, which can be procured from any
druggist. Take in teaspoonful doses
before each meal and before retiring.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

Scipio Africanus was one of the
greatest soldiers, save julius Caesar. in
Roman history. He defeated Hannibal
and his Carthaginians at Zama, city
of Carthage on October 19, In the year
2O2 b. c., and gave to Rome the as
cendancy over the then known world.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

Members of the BARRIERS union of
Chicago are denouncing the tipping
system, but not out of consideration
for their customers. They wish gratu-
tiles abolished because of their effect
on wages. which, in some shops, are
now near the vanishing point.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27
No Placz for Him.

II was one OF those deep growing
basso arias which hang indefinitely on
the edge of real tune without ever
quite hitting 1t. And the man in the
party had no use for II at all
When ii was over the girl turned to
him.
"Ahl" she remarked. rs that not
lovely-perfectly lovely?-that Aria to
My Absent Lover"
He looked at her.
$50 that's what it is, eh?" he ex-
claimed, why i had doped IT out as
an ode to a Chuck Steak"
They attended no more concerts to-
gether that season.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

To avoid the troubles besetting COM
passes on steel ships, the metal Of
which defects the needle, a German in
ventor has devised needleless one, in
the form of a gyroscope, the axis Of
which always adjusts itself parallel 20
the earths axis.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27
Thouqht He Knew.

Mrs. Gewjum-"John, do you know
what you said in your sleep last
night?"
Mr.. Gewjum-"O. yes; 1 suppose I
said, Maria, for heavens sake let me
get in q word edgewiSe!"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

Eddie Loving, who has recently OBJ
tanned an appointment as messenger in
the service OF President-elect Taft, is
a noted golfer. though only 10.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

sci. The mummified Egyptian animal,
however, was n genuine cat even If
certain peculiarities about it's teeth
make Il difficult to regard II as near
relative OF the modern domestic puss.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

About 60 per cent OF the population
of Western Habana province, Cuba, for
generations has been connected In one
way or another with tobacco growing.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

WANTED-Piano players everywhere to
sell popular music. Nightingale Music
pub Co 81 w. oath ST. New York city.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

GIRARD AIRSHIP BULLET1N-Send for
copy Tells the story of most fascinat-
ing enterprise ever undertaken In TINS age
of dazzling achievements. Don't miss it.
Box g. Girard, Kansas.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-27

In one year the escapement wheel Of
a watch, makes 731 $50 revolutions.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
AS UNDERSTOOD IN BOSTON
The Traditional Episode of Little
Miss Muffet" Brought Into
Everyday cognizance.

A diminutive specimen of juvenile
,emininity yclept Miss Muffet had
placed herself in a sitting posture
upon an article of household furniture
ordinarily termed an ottoman Or has
sock
Miniaturing to the qualification OF
her gustatory organs by ingurgitating
the coagulated portion of bovine lac
teal fluid mingled with the watery
serum of the same which remains
after the coagulated portion has been
segregated and withdrawn.
Happening to glance downward she
observed that a specimen of the genus
Aranea, class Arachnida, remarkable
for it's ability to produce filaments of
extraordinary tenuity from its own in
terror, had taken a position upon the
ottoman or hassock in immediate prox-
unity.
Which totally unexpected incident
aroused her apprehension to such an
extent that she immediately. not to
say precipitately, arose from her sit
ting posture and departed from the To-
cality, leaving the intruder in undis-
puted possession of the apartment.
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abundant. and the plague was broken before
the remaining alfalfa fields had been oyerrun.
In scattered centers mice continued In de-
structive numbers until May, but without re-
gaining to any considerable extent by repro
duction they steadily decreased. Later in the
summer they had almost disappeared from the
valley.
The scourge of mice had swept over about
four-ffths of the cultivated area in the lower
part of Humboldt valley. OF 10000 acres in
alfalfa, about $4,000 were so seriously injured
as to require blowing and replanting. Over
most of this area the alfalfa was replaced by
grain crops for the season of 1908 at great ex-
pense and loss, since good alfalfa lands pay
gross returns of from $50 to $40 per acre,
while good grain crops return only $35 or $40
per acre.
The shortage of hay on the Rodgers ranch,
where 1900 acres were in alfalfa. was estimat-
ed at 1000 tons. On Ankers ranch of $50 acres
it was estimated at 500 tons. Other ranches
suffered in proportion, and the loss of hay in
the valley amounted to not less than $4,000.
w. G. Pitt, who farms 1,400 acres of alfalfa,
estimates his complete loss at $40 per acre,
or $28,000. John Font estimates his damage
on 1000 acres at $4,000, and Mr.. Anker con-
siders his loss on $50 acres to be $4,000. Mr..
Webb. on the Rodgers ranch figures the COM
plete loss on 1900 acres, part of which pays
considerably short of the best returns, at
10000.
A careful consideration of the losses in hay,
pasturage, root crops, and trees, the expense
of restoring alfalfa fields to their former con-
dition, and deducting the value of a grain
crop for 1908 shows the average loss to be
about $40 per acre. On this basis the damage
to the valley amounted to $300, 600.
simultaneously with the plague in the lower
part of Humboldt valley mice appeared in
enormous numbers farther UP the Humboldt
river and its tributaries about W~innemucca,
Battle Mountain, and in Paradise and Little
Humboldt valleys. As the lands infested in
those districts were chiefly great natural hay
meadows of red top and wild clover. the dam
age was less severe. However. gardens and
isolated alfalfa fields were seriously injured.
Later, reports of mice in alarming abundance
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05

Loyelocks, in April, 1y0S,
the United States biolog-
ical survey sent several
assistants to the valley TO
check the threatened
plague. Carson and Hum
boldt valleys are alike in
having large areas in al
falfa bordered by desert
lands. on which field mice
do not live. On a tract OF
about $500 acres near
Minden mice were found
to be excessively abun-
dant, and in some fields
10 to % per cent. of the
alfalfa plants had already
been destroyed. Several
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ADDED TO THE MISFORTUNE
Discarded Auto simply Acted as De
coy to Bring other Unde.
sirabIes.

Asa Paine. vice-president OF the
American Automobile association. said
in st. Augustine of the automobile
industry:
Cars are now made to last. The
rich man no longer finds his 1907 car
questionable, like his 1907 coat, in
1909.
AT the beginning of the industry q
car vas ~antiquated in no time-sc
antiquated that people laughed at it
They tell a story in Detront about
a dealer who had, in 1900, an anti
quated 1895 car. He tried yainly to
sell this car. He put lower and lower
price tags on it-$100, $50, s10-and
finally he put on a tag to the effect
that the car was to be given away.
Even then there were no takers.
$50 one evening, desperate. the
dealer left the 1895 car in a vacant
lot beside his shop, hoping that some
one would steal it in the night. But
when he came down to work the next
morning, not only vas the old car
still there, but another one of similar
pattern had been placed beside it."
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uouo, oonterc were similarly affected, while
over the valley generally the mice were SOME
what In excess of normal numbers. rms was
n condition similar to that presented IN Hum
boldt valley during the spring OF 1901, ana
Young of all sizes were abundant. E&aniiha-
ton of many females, a large percentage Vi
which we're pregnant, showed an average OF
from six to seven young. while in a number as
MANY as ten were found. Although alfalfa was
already well grown, furnishing the mice abun-
dant food, by systematic poisoning, under the
direction of the biological survey men, tney
were so effectively reduced in the infested
areas as not to be dangerous again during the
season-in other words, a plague was averteo.
The results actually obtained here prove
that mouse plaques can be checked. II TAXES
several seasons to produce a general plague OF
mice. and damage is noticeable for at least a
season before a serious outbreak occurs.
Though natural agencies may be depended
upon to overcome such abnormal numbers
finally, yet, unless active repressiye measures
are taken, enormous damage to crops Will re-
suit. Control. easy at first, becomes more and
more difficult as the mice increase in numbers,
and, after a plague is well established, is very
expensive.
In Humboldt valley. in the beginning, a lit
tie poisoning with green alfalfa or crushed
wheat would have suficed to prevent the
plague. During the fall and winter of 19O6-O7,
when the mice seriously injured fields here
and there, they could have been destroyed
with poisoned alfalfa hay. Even during the
summer of 1907 concerted and vigorous poison
ing would have destroyed them at a cost smap
indeed in comparison with the damage they
inflicted later.
OF the many remarkable features of the
mouse plague In Humboldt valley, none Is OF
greater significance. than the large numbers of
birds and mammals which gathered to feed
on the mice. Under rows of trees, about the
bases Of fence posts, and scattered every
where in the fields were regurgitated pellets
of mouse fur and bones, affording abundant
proof of the services rendered by birds. while
many holes and destroyed nests in the fields
showed the work done by skunks and coyotes.
SO apparent was the assistance rendered by
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05

table. i Will never be Without THIS
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LEE, 1923 Fourth St., Louisville, Ky.
Another Operation Avoided.
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The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
FINE RECIPE FOR COLDS.

Any druggist can supply these In
gradients or will get them from his
wholesale house.
Mix half pint OF good whiskey. two
unces of ~glycerine; half n OF
Concentrated pine compound. Shake
the bottle well each time and use In
doses OF a teaspoonful TO a tablespoon
full four times a day" This prescrip-
ton is said to work wonders.
The Concentrated pine Is a special
pine product and comes only In half
ounce bottles. each enclosed in an air
tight case. but be sure IT is labeled
Concentrated
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05

them. Such plaques had usually been aiio"eu
70 run their course until brought to an emu ny
natural agencies. Hence it is not surprising
that in Humboldt valley no concerted or sys-
tematic effects to suppress the plague III us
earlier stages were undertaken. but after the
mice svarmed in thousands owe the helds
many attempts we're made TO destroy them Dy
distributing wheat poisoned with phosphorus
These. however, were ana geheraly
proved futile. as the fields experimented on
were quickly reinvaded from adjoining lands.
While a few fields favorably located were
saved by early poisoning, the results OF such
unsystematic efforts amounted to practically
nothing in overcoming or even materially
checking the plague.
The preparation In general use by ranch-
men consisted of wheat treated with a strong
solution OF yellow phosphorus in carbon BIZ
suIphide. a cheap and effective poison for held
mice. but inhammable, explosive, and danger
ous to birds. AS a result OF Its extensive EN-
nlovment in the valley, California quail, an IN
troduced species, were decimated, ana mag
MES. crows, meadow larks, and smaller seed
eating birds suffered extremely. On one occa-
sion CT horned larks were found dead on about
four acres a few hours after the poisoned
grain had been distributed. Fortunately hawks,
owls e,,lls. and ravens were not affected, but
MANY skunks and domestic cats were killed as
.be result of eating mice dying or dead OF phos-
AA%
nhorus. Several accidents occurred in han
ding the solution, and cases of fatal poisoning
of live stock were frequent.
Several attempts by ranchmen to induce con-
tagious diseases among the mice by means OF
advertised bacterial preparations failed.
Chiefly through the cooperation of Mr.,
George S. Webb, manager of the large Rodgers
ranch, systematic experiments to destroy the
nests. undertaken early in January, 1908, by
the biological survey, demonstrated that such
mouse plaques can be controlled and the great
er part of the losses prevented. The expert
ments of the survey proved that mice can be
effectively destroyed in winter by alfalfa hay
poisoned with strychnia s~ulphate, and this
preparation was generally recommended in the
valley. On the Rodgers and Anker ranches a
force of z TO Is men was employed to distrib-
ute the poison in the fields, with most ~satisfac-
tory results, and without the dangers incident
to the use of phosphorus and grain.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
CLOCKS REAL WORKS OF ART

heads of the lions move the eyes and
the tongue. The astrolabe shows the
hours in its degree, and the movement
of the moon. Moreover, the perpetual
calendar shows all the days of the
year, the feast days and the bissex-
tile. The hours at which the chimes
are complete are five and six in the
morning, midday and one and two
o'clock in the afternoon. The chimes
at the other hours are restricted SO as
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05

not to interfere with the cathedral
services.
Complicated indeed is the clock OF
Beauvais cathedral. It is said to be
composed of $4,000 separate pieces,
according to a French journal. One
sees on the 50 dial plates the hour.
the day, the week and the month;
the rising and the setting Of the sun,
phases Of the moon, the tides, the
time in the principal capitals Of the
world together with q series of ter
restrial and astronomical evolutions.
The frame work is Of carved oak
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05

were received from King river, Quinn river.
and Carson and Smith valleys, Nevada; from
Weber river valley and from Sanpete and
Utah counties, Utah, and from Honey Lake
valley. California. In none of these localities
was the damage so extensive as in Humboldt
valley, though plaques OF like severity were
plainly threatened.
On learning OF severe damage by mice IN
Carson valley, a hundred miles southwest OF
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05

left. God the Father by an inclina
ton of the head announces that he
has come to judge the world. A soul
that Of the impenitent thief, appears
before the Supreme Judge. 1t is con
demned "a Ienfer," and a demon
armed with a pitchfork seizes it and
casts it into the abyss. Next comes
the soul of the just. The angels ad'
vance and conduct it to the realms Of
day, sacred strains being heard as the
procession moves forward.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
Why He BOUGHT II.

Conductor-Say. aren't o old
enough to know that you can't ride
on a child's ticket?
Silas Filkins-Sure | be. But only
yistiddy Samanthy sed | wuz gittin' L
be childish-like. an so l thought
mebbe y'd let me ride half-fare.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
DISIR69U7zYG POSON 70 MI NICE

dunn hon tho D,sp,s and extending their underground
runs from root TO root. they either killed or seriously M
jured the alfalfa. BY November they had oes.royeu %
large a percentage of the plants that many he,uS ~
- - - hone,esslv ruined. They attacked also the
roots of trees. seriously injuring or quite destroying Vi
ehards They killed most of the young shade trees piahteo
along bitches. and SO completely girdled large Lompaloy
10 siIyer uonIors that in some cases they caused the
death OF even such hardy trees.
The great majority of ranchmen knew neither what 10
ovnect from such great numbers OF mice nor 10" 10 CHECK
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
Wonderful Pieces of Mechanism That
Are the Glory of French
Cathedrais.

The clock of Lyons cathedral is a
wonderful piece of mechanism, and
the legend describing it is as follows:
The cock crows. the bell sounds the
hours, the little bells, the Sancte
Spiritus; the angel opens the gate to
salute the Virgin Mary. The two
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
Mistaken Identity.

Il always did enjoy that scene il
which Hamlet comes out and solilo
quizes," said Mr.. Cumrox.
MY dear" replied his wife. "you
are confused again. You have gottea
Hamlet mixed up with that vaudeville
person who comes out and throws his
voice"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05

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enough. J suffered
omirregularitie
dizziness nervous
ness, and a severe
female trouble.
LydiaE.Pinkham'
Vegetable Com
pound has restored
me to perfect
health and kept me
from the operating