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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20
A Natural Error.

from the New 1OrK tribune.
A group of aerOnauts were telling bal
loon stories II the smoking room of a
Chicago hotel Captain H. E. Honey
well, who, with the Fielding Antonio
balloon, was later to win renown,
laughed and said:
The great Elyot made a balloon
ascent from Charleston one hot sum-
mer afternoon. A thunder storm came
up. Elyot, amid buckets of rain, the
roar OF thunder and the flash of light
ming, was blown about like thistle
down. On toward midnight he found
himself over a plantation and threw
out his anchor-a grapnel at the end
of a long rope.
1T happened that n colored man had
died in one of the huts of this planta-
tlon. The funeral was to take place in
the morning. A dozen friends of the
dead man sat in the soft summer night
before the hut, telling ghost stories.
Suddenly, in the darkness above
them they heard strange noises-a flap
ping as of great wings, menacing cries.
And they saw dimly a formless black
shape.
"All but one man ran. This old man,
as he covered on his stool, had the Ill
luck to be seized by the grapnel.
"The grapnel. going at a great pace,
whirled him up four or five feet in the
air and jerked him along at the rate
OF 15 miles or so an hour
40, massa, massa!' he yelled,
squirming and kicking in that strange
flight. Use not de one! Use not de
cawpse! Dicks in de house, dah! In
he house dahl"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20
Wearing Qualities of Rails.

The Boston elevated railroad had not
been many months in service before II was
discovered that the rails on the curves
were wearing out at an astonishingly rap
i'd rate. The tracks were first laid with
Bessemer rail having the low percentage
of 0.45 of carbon; and, after about three
months Of service. these rails, where they
were laid on curves, were so greatly worn
that they had to be replaced. In 1902 some
experimental manganese rails were laid
on a curve of SO feet radius; and these
rails remained In service until August Of
the present year.
A comparison of these rails with the
Bessemer rails shows that the latter wore
down 0.065 of foot In A days, whereas
the manganese steel rail wore down only
0.046 of a foot in 22s1 days. According to
II. NJ. Steward. the company has tested
other kinds of rail. made specially by the
Bessemer or open-hearth process, includ-
ing some of nickel steel; but none OF these
approaches the manganese rail in wearing
qualities.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20
President James on Hazino,

President James, of the University
of Illinois, issued the following address
TO the students Of the university on the
subject of hazing:
There should be no misunderstand-
ing on the part of the student body or
the general public as to the attitude
of the authorities of the University OF
Illinois on the subject OF hazing.
1t is a rule of the board of trustees
that students found guilty of hazing
shall be dismissed from the university
Since this rule went into effect, all
students who have been clearly proven
guilty of hazing have been dismissed
Hazing is a violation Of good man
ners and of the right of individual lib
erty. 1t Is provocation of public dis
order. Public opinion throughout the
state has very properly set it's seal of
condemnation upon 1t. On all accounts
it must be put under the ban of the
university.
In it's milder forms it is a nonsen-
steal and almost idiotic form of amuse-
ment, unworthy of the support or favor
of any sensible university student. 1t
was looked upon as a comparatively
slight offense perhaps 20 years ago in
small institutions. 1t is today alto
gether unworthy of the traditions and
reputation of national institution
such as this has become.
In it's coarser forms, haZing is a vul-
gar brutal, always demoralizing and
sometimes dangerous form of sport,
which the university cannot counte-
nance or tolerate. 1t naturally leads to
reprisals and may thus become a source
of serious disorder within and without
the university. In its worst forms,
which fortunately, have not prevailed
here, it may, not inaptly, be compared
with night-riding, white-capping and
other similar forms of outrageous in
reference with private and public
rights.
Surely these are reasons enough not
only to forbid it's existence at the uni
versity, but to use every legitimate
means to stamp 1t out.
All loyal and law-abiding students
are especially requested to cooperate
with the authorities in putting an alb
solute end to this custom, which, in
addition to the evil 1t does within the
university, brings dishonor upon the
fair name OF our alma mater through
out the state and country and naturally
begets a prejudice against US which in
fuences unfavorably the prosperity of
the institution.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20
HISTORIC FIGURES
ARE NOT SO HEROIC
So Says an Iconoclast Who
Would Destroy Legends of
Antony and Cleopatra.
From the New York Herald.

All generally accepted historical be-
liefs regarding Antony and Cleopatra
were rudely dispelled recently at Co
lumbia university, where Signor Gugli-
elmo Ferrero the eminent Italian his
torian, lectured on THE History and
Legend OF Antony and Cleopatra"
Signor Ferrero has gained prominence
through his researches in Roman his
tory, in which he uses in his compari
sons the present day political condi-
tions.
ITO the European mind Antony's ac-
tions cannot be excused on any ground
or argument of love-" said the lecturer.
THE portraits and statues of Cleopatra
that are the result OF the Egyptian art
do not bear out the glowing descrip-
tions Of the Roman historians and
poets"
Signor Ferrero then asserted that it
was for political reasons solely that
Antony became member OF the
Egyptian court at Alexandria. He
based his statement on the research of
French historian, Latroue, who has
shown that Antony legally married the
Egyptian queen at Antioch in the year
81 b. G.
with this knowledge" said the lee
turer, and by taking into considera-
ton the Roman projects for the con-
quest Of Persia and the exploitation Of
the Nile valley, Antony's conduct was
that OF a far-seeing diplomat and poll
tician. The Roman capital was then
situated so that 1t was next to impos-
sible to make such a conquest. The
valley Of the Nile and the vast riches
there could not be exploited unless a
protectorate could be established over
Egypt"
Here Signor Ferrero pointed out how
Antony by this one master stroke
achieved all these ends.
In speaking OF Antony's tragic down.
fall and the stories connected with 1t,
Signor Ferrero said:
THE luxuries Of the Egyptian court
at Alexandria We're too much for the
rather unculturcd and rough Roman!
1t was a contest between the sturdy!
rough Occident and the luxurious ORR,
ent. This life and the persuasive Cleo
patra, who was undoubtedly q highly
cultured woman, are responsible for
this greatest tragedy Of history. The
stories that are at present accepted by
the public as facts are the inventions
of the Roman historians to explain the
occurrences. They are also intended
for use as moral lessons and show the
inexpedience of giving a woman charge
of the affairs of state"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20
A Denial from Hiah Authority.

FrC,., National Food Magazine, Chicago.
Dr. II. w. Wiley, chief chemist of
the agricultural department, has de-
manded Of the Calumet Baking Pow
der company, Of Chicago. that it cease
the publication Of alleged certificates
or statements that he had endorsed
the Calumet Baking Powder, or re-
ported in favor of its purity, whole
someness or superiority. Such state
ments, he says, are false.
DR.. Wiley never served upon COM
mittee Of awards, as alleged nor signed
such a report or certificate, nor did he
ever indorse the Calumet Baking pow
der in any way. On the contrary, DR..
Wiley testified before a congressional
committee relative to alum in food, as
follows: "As l have said repeatedly, /
do not use 1t in my own home, and
would not use alum in bread If l knew
II. Alum is injurious"
1t seems that DR.. Wiley's demand
that the Calumet company should cease
these publications, which are, he says,
against the truth" was not complied
with, although he says he has done
all he could "to stop the base and in
eXcusable use OF his name"
The public will share IN DR.. Wiley's
Indignation that his name and official
position should be fraudulently used
to aid in foisting upon consumers a
food compound made from ingredients
which the doctor has publicly declared
to be injurious.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

II is mean shame the way Ira Harts-
wick's beer bleedin' us. He's been out
and saw things, Al has, and he knows
what prices Is Already. Yessuh.
invited him over to the butcherin' to-
day and he's coming until s"
You invited him 2" They all straight
ened up and looked at the man.
''Yessuh, did" doggedly. Its a
mean shame to leave him out every
time jest because he amt relation and
the squire's kreiseled at him. / invited
him, and his boys too"
But you know Squire eHartswick--"
Il don't care a chincapin. No sir.
There was a note of bravado in the
voice. 1t was the tone of the small boy
at monday Dragging about ghosts. 'If
Squire Hartswick don't like Al Earth
ing, can't help it. AIS done the fair
thing by me, and I'm going to do 1t by
him wunst."
"Al may be all right. but it amt safte
in this valley to butt up against the
old squire. I'll tell yeh that. You'd
better go slow, Dan."
There's going to be a tarnatjon big
explosion in this here valley II Al
Farthing keeps on. Punt that down in
your awmnick Already. There can't be
two kings In this Bottom still. You
mind waht tell yeh."
Dan started to retort, thought better
of II, and relapsed into silence.
Allen Farthing had moved into the
valley the preceding April, coming from
no one knew Just where. He had
bought the old Heller farm from real
estate agency in whose hands II had
been placed by Squire Hartswick, and
had started In with energy to bring up
the place from it's forlorn condition. He
had found the fences fiat, the buildings
In a ruinous state, and the land fast
running to cookie weed and bushes. In
one season, however, he had got the
old place into fairly respectable way.
But the advent Of the new family had
troubled the valley. Allen Farthing
was a singtharfyrssilent man, and his
boys were like him. There was an ele-
ment Of mystery In the affair that was
maddening to the little community, ac-
customed as II was to know all the
minutest details of neighbors' lives.
The Farthings, in spite of many sub
terfuges, and of sly traps set to learn
of their past, disclosed nothing, and the
whispers rapidly grew into open gossip.
Who were these people? Why had they
moved to this secluded little nook?
Why had they bought, of all places in
the world, the notorious Heller farm
that for years had kept tenant only
for few months at most? Why had
they not complained Of the ghostly
revels in the deserted cabin not
quarter of a mile away? There was
mysterious and even un-
canny about these people.
(ContiRued Next Week.)
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

What is a fair days work for a
horse?" Is a frequent question and very
difficult to answer. The London bus
horse does 1S miles a day at rate OF
seven miles an hour in double harness
with a four-ton bus; a pair of post
horses used to do 26 miles with a one
ton coach at eight miles going and at
six returning.
Il have known the horses in the
heavy deer van of H. M. Buckhounds
to do over so miles in a day." says "A
writer in Country Life in America, but
they were never worked more than
twice a week. A good horse Will trot
his 90 to 80 miles day for several
days consecutively, but cannot keep 1t
up; he may do so miles in one day, but
then must have rest the next.
Small horses, other things being
equal, stand more work and recover
more quickly than big horses. Some
remarkable instances of the powers OF
ponies are given in William Days book,
which records a run of 107 miles in IA
hours by two boys on ponies and one
of 172 miles in 23h hours by 12-hand
pony Qed), which beat the coach from
London to Exeter; the time given in
! cluded all stops.
Town work, on account of the fire.
quent stops and the hard pavement,
induces fatigue, and especially leg
WEAKNESS, sooner than country work.
Two horses worked well within their
powers will always prove more eco
nomical in the end than one that is
habitually driven to the utmost limit
of his capacity.
There are, however, many cases
where from different causes one horse
represents what the schoolboy called
the irreducible maximum then the
animal par excellence to be bought is
the cob, though he will not be too easy
to find in this country, where the love
OF fast trotters has dominated the ques-
tion of general utility.
Yet the true cob, sturdy in build,
with plenty Of bone but enough blood
to keep him from being sluggish, is one
OF the most useful specimens OF the
equine race. Well under Is hands, he
Is easy to mount and sufficiently short
in his stride to be a comfortable hack
for even elderly men, and he Is up to
quite a considerable weight; in harness
he Is sprightly, quite fast enough for
ordinary purposes, and being low and
thick is capable Of a surprising power
of draught.
I'm England where he is as common
as he is rare here, he is the mainstay
Of the small and the general drudge OF
the large establishment, and is usually
an ornament to both. He should carry
his head well, have undeniably good
shoulders, a short back and powerful
quarters, being, in short, big horse
in a small compass"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20
What Hs Put in tn. Milk.

A London boy, delivering milk, was
stopped the other day on his rounds by
two police officers, who asked him IL
his employer ever put anything in the
milk.
"Oh, yes" was the innocent answer.
The officers, thinking they had clear
case OF adulteratlon, offered the boy
six-pence il he would tell them what
was put in 1t.
"Ah," said the boy, with a grin, you
will not give me the sixpence If I tell
ye."
'Oh, yes, we WILL" said the officers.
Give II to me first" said the little
fellow.
The sixpence was duly handed over,
with the question:
Now. what does your employer put
I'm the milk"
why" said the boy, with a cunning
look, "he puts the measure in every
time he takes any milk out"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20
The Real lmmortals.

We have been building monuments 10
those who could massacre the most. In
the cathedrals of Europe and in the parks
Of America you will find 10 monuments to
those who have destroyed their kind to
every one of those who have brought the
world light and life; but a better day is
dawning Seven years ago, when France
made up its list of immortals, Napoleon,
the greatest of butchers, headed the list,
but last year 1t made another roll of its
noble men. and Pasteur, the savior of
human life, stood first. There is another
book which has the list of Gods immor-
tails and above that list it is written,
"They that be wise shall shine as the
armament and they that turn many to
righteousness as the stars forever and
ever"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

When you see aught that is good in q
friend,
Write 1t In letters OF gold:
Something or other your heart can COM
mend,
As on your journey you daily may wend
That the dear import remain to the end,
Write 1t in letters of gold.
Hear the glad greetings as onward you
fare,
Write 1t in letters of gold:
Publish IL wide on the mountains so bare
Over old fields of the thorn and the tare,
"Ye cannot wander outside of My care"
Write 1t in letters of gold.
There is the message to one gone astray,
Write II in letters of gold;
Tender is mercy, enduring for aye,
Guiding the others who might lose the
way,
Treasure the meaning for yourself-and
stay!
Write II In letters OF gold.
-Alonzo Rice, in Western Christian Ad-
yOcate.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20
The leaves-TheY Done L..

Small leaks will sink mighty ship,
The proverb doth relate.
One missing horseshoe lost a horse,
A battle and state.
Now list to how city grieves
Because of autumn's falling leaves.
The street cars skidded on the rails
A tragic wreck occurred.
In answer to the injured's walls
The company averred
1t had no wish to kill or MAIN.
"The autumn leaves, they are to blame.
Some forty fire alarms a day
Came ringing DER the wires
The faintng firemen, so they say,
Are weak from fighting fires
Tho fires DER which the fireman grieves
Are caused by sparks and autumn leaves
When winter howled above the fue
And nipped the ears of men,
The town woke up one day and knew
The gas was off again.
The gas man says that he believes
The mains got clogged with autumn
leaves.
Kansas City Star.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

To Columbia university belongs the
credit of offering the first course de-
signed TO give students a practical
knowledge of the conduct of political
affairs. That institution has asked the
bureau of municipal research in New
York to give the members Of the class
the benefit of the experience 1t has de-
rived from the study of the affairs OF
that city, and the invitation has been
accepted. The growing demand for
the adoption of the scientific methods
OF city government lends support TO
the view that college men will be in
demand in this department Of the pub
lie service, hence the propriety and use
fulness of a university course estab-
lished on the lines indicated by the in
nOyatiOn at Columbus.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

A Kentucky member OF congress has
received a prize letter from a constituent
which is causing much satisfaction in the
democratic cloak room.
The constituent had written asking that
q special pension bill be printed for him.
At the end he used the fine old phrase,
Excuse bad writin' an a pore pen"
Replying, the member dictated a letter
to his stenographer, explaining that it
was difficult getting special acts through,
and that no member could have more
than his quota of them in a session. In
three days he got this reply:
II don't keer about yer lyin' about
thees laws, bekoz l kno all you Offs
holders lies most of the time. But yew
don't need tn think l am so gol derned
ignerent I can't read Mex time yew rite
me, yew kin rite 1t by hand. l don't need
tn hav II printed fer me-"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

Two men were wrangling as TO who
should settle with the waiter for the
luncheon. When the question had been
finally decided and the contestants had
gone. the waiter said to one OF his reg
ular customers, who was witness Of
the scene: That's what we like for
every time II happens we come in for
an extra tip. The man who couldn't
get the check has only one way to get
even, and that is by giving the walter
something, and nine times out OF 10 he
does 1t and makes the amount more
than he would have given IL he had
paid tie check. This one ordered ex-
ira cigars and left the change for me.
We like the give me the check quar-
rels"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

Bulgaria is sufficiently in the public
eye just now to compensate her for a
total eclipse that lasted for three or
four centuries. Between the oblitera-
tion OF medieval Bulgaria by the con-
quering Turk and her very modern
resurrection. she disappeared more
completely than Poland ever has. The
very name of Bulgaria was remembered
only by the learned. Sir Charles Eliot
points out that in journeying from Bull
garia to Constantinople in 1884 King
lake must have passed straight across
Bulgaria. Yet, when describing his
travels in "Eothen," he makes no al
fusion to the country or Its inhabi-
tauts
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

In the year 1907 the deposits in the
commercial banking institutions OF the
United States amounted to about $112
per capita OF population, while the de-
posits in the joint stock companies In
the United Kingdom and Bank of Eng
land for the same year amounted to
about $108. Deposits in the banks of
the United Kingdom for the first half
OF 1908 were $4,575, 900, ,000-those OF the
United States $5,695, 800, ,000
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

There has recently been completed at
Great Falls, Mont a huge brick chin
ney for carrying away the fumes OF the
smelling works. which will take rank
as one OF the tallest structures in the
world. 1t is 7Sh feet I'm outside diam
ter at the base and SO feet inches at
the top. II extends SOC feet above the
ground and 52Sh feet above its lowest
foundation course. Its total weight is
% Q6A TONS
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

A bill has been introduced in the
South Carolina legislature making pro-
vision for Elonument to the women of
the confederacy. and the project has
been received with much favor by the
press. In urging an appropriation the
Columbia State says: 1.-The women of
the confederacy endured the privations
and hardships of war, without it's sus-
tanning excitements They waited and
worked: theirs was the torture of sus-
pepse"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

Mr.. Gladstone was once guilty of an
tfon OF disestablishment, says the Lon
don Globe. Dilating on the hold held
on the affections of the people by the
Church of England, he said: when
an Englishman wants TO get married,
to whom does he go? To the parish
priest. When he wants his child bap-
tized. to whom does he go? To the
parish priest. When he wants to get
buried, TO whom does he go? The House
answered with a roar OF laughter, In
which Mr.. Gladstone himself Joined,
adding: "As was contrasting the Eng
lish church with the Irish, bull IL per-
haps excusable"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

Professor Edward Hull, f. r. s., who
studies the ancient river channels in
the ocean bed, by analyzing the British
admiralty soundings, has succeeded in
tracing the submarine bed Of the river
Adour and the Fosse de Capes Breton
for a distance of about so miles out to
sea, at which point 1t opens out on
the ocean at depth of 1900 fathoms
% 900 feetl.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

A wave motor the revolving portion
OF which resembles a turbine In con-
struction and effect, has been installed
at the end of 1,150 foot pier at At
iantic City to generate electricity for
the light and power used upon the pier.
The motor Is claimed to be the first
practical commercial application OF the
irregular but powerful motion of the
ocean for the development OF electrical
power. The motors, of which there are
two, rest on sea floor OF IL feet up-
der the water.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

The new catalogue OF Columbia uni
yersity shows the total number OF offi-
GERS OF the administration and instruc-
tion to be $40; the total number OF
resident students, 5,633 as against 5,159
last year. Since the last catalogue was
published eight special funds have been
created by specific gift or bequest.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-02-20

Rather dubiously the village post
master eyed the nondescript dog Of
fered for sale as "a valuable watch
dog" Deed he am. boss" asseverat-
ed Rastus. But II he was as good a
watch dog as you make out, how Is It
you want to sell him at all?" "Yo'
see boss, II am dis way: In desc hard
times / amt got nuthin to watch"