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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-17
BEAVER VALLEY AND VICINITY
BY K, p, KING


Fay Somarindyck is again able to drive
the milk wagon.
AL Barnes was Hot Springs caller
the last of the week.
Bert Williams was hauling lumber to
Hot Springs the latter part of the week.
E. E. Serry, the genial postmaster of
Argyle was in Hot Springs the last of
the week.
Mrs. Israel Calkins. who was badly hur
in runaway some time ago is some
what better, but still unable to be around
John Fall is out to his ranch getting
up some wood for his city home and
fixing up things in general about the
place.
Miss Clara Sieg, who has spent the
past year with her sister, Mrs. Chambers,
has gone to keeping house for her three
small brothers on the home ranch.
Mrs. Fay Somarindyck has been one
fined to her bed for some time, but is
somewhat improved at the present writ
ing. Her sister, Miss Effie Aaberg has
been staying with her.
Mrs. A. P. Chambers was taken sick
about the middle of the week, and was
quite critical condition, but is bet
er at present and it is hoped that she
will be around in few days.
The oldest daughter of Mrs. Lizzie
Herring, who is visiting with Elmer
Drain, has had very severe attack of
the quinsy and it was necessary to have
her throat lanced. At present she is
improving.
Wm. O'Banion was in Custer last week
attending the republican committee
| meeting. August Samson was also q
Custer visitor from this precinct the
same day.
Mrs. Chas. Ottman has been visiting
with relatives in Buffalo Gap, is ex.
pected home the first of the week
Charley has been busy breaking horses
TO rhis carload which he intends to take
to New York.
G. c. Smith of Hot Springs has been
chosen as administrator of the r. II
Drain estate, and A. P. Chambers, L. e
Williams and John Violin have been Sc
lected as appraisers. The matter will be
brought before Judge Gaylord of Custer
county.
Mrs. L. c. Williams, who has been or
a visit to her old home in Minnesota re
turned last Friday. Leslie says that ht
had patched as long as he liked. and tha
she was not an nnwelcome arrival. She
reports very little snow in Minnesota
and very nice weather.
The weather in this part of the country
is just grand. We hear the old timers
say that they never saw the like, but we
receive it with some grains of allowance
for we haye seen the like more thar
once. Some people have better memor.
les than others that is all.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-17
DEATH CALLS OLD VETERAN.

Ruggles Wood, aged 6Syears, months
and 26 days, passed away January 9th,
1914, at the State Soldiers Home in Hot
Springs. Death was caused from blood
poisoning with which Mr.. Wood was
taken about two weeks before his Demise
The remains were brought to Custer for
interment, and the funeral services were
held in the NJ. E. church Sunday at 2
o'clock p. M, Rev. E. j. Fish conduct
ing the same.
Ruggles Wood was born in Ogle coun-
ty, H., July ii, lS45. He was married
to Ellen Shultz in Waverly, Iowa, Sep
tember IL, 1867. In 1890 he moved with
his family 10 Custer from Iowa and has
made his home here. His wife died
December Goth 1911. He was veteran
of the civil war and for two terms COM
mander of Gen. Steel Post of this city. He
was re- elected in December, but death
claimed him before he could be muster
ed in.
Deceased leaves two sons, Arthur
Wood of Forsyth, Irwin Wood of Clyde
Park, Montana, and one daughter, Mrs.
Charles Gorton of Custer.
Judge William G. Rice of Deadwood,
who for the past twelve years has pre-.
sided over the eight judicial circuit, has
rendered his resignation to Governor
Byrne to take effect February /. Judge
Rice has already commenced his cam.
paign as an independent republican can.
didate for the nomination at the March
primaries for congressman from the
third district. He won the endorsement
of his district at Pierre last week but the
convention of the whole state declined
to ratify it and left the nominations in
that district open to independent candi
ldates.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-17

Mrs. Anna Kaiser and daughter, Mrs
G. E. Painter and two of her children,
who have been visiting at the home Of
her daughter, Mrs. Otto Munson, re.
turned to their home al Clifton, Wyo.
Sunday evening. The Painter family
have disposed of their belongings al
Clifton and will move to Oregon where
they expect to permanently locate. They
were accompanied as far as Edgemont
by Mrs. Kaiser's grand daughter, Miss
Lena Dixon, who returned the next
morning.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-17

We note the following in the Aber-
deem American of January llth: The
Farmers Institute was opened at Hecla
on Thursday by an address by w. R.
Woods of Custer, s. D., on the subject
of silos and better farming and it was
one of the best ever heard in Heca. 1t
would pay any farmer to 60 100 miles to
hear him and follow out his advice.
Miss Nettie Welch lectured to the ladies
on the subject of home economics. 1t
was fine talk and deeply impressed
upon the minds of the ladies who heard
it the value of woman's work in the
home. There were over 200 in attend
ance the first day and about the same
the second day. N. ]. Wilmsen was
chairman and kept everything moving
from start to finish.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-17
PRINGLE PARAGRAPHS.

C.Y. Axes and wife of Custer spent
Saturday and Sunday visiting with the
formers brother w. II. AXES of this
place.
Mrs. VIM. Gumm is on the sick list
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Ziemet and family
visited at John Erpelding's Sunday.
Revival meetings are being held in
the Methodist church here by Rev. Fish
of Custer. Good attendance is reported.
Miss Ellen Garlock spent Saturday and
Sunday in Custer with home folks.
Attorney G. H. Reimer of Custer was
in Pringle on business Monday.
Miss Katherine Erpelding visited with
Miss Hazel Williams over Sunday.
A literary society is being organized
in the Pringle High School for the good
of the community.
The Schuman Quintette is to show at
Lead on the night preceding their pro-
gram here on Tuesday, the Goth. This
company is appearing in most all of the
best towns of the Hills. 1t is one of the
best things we can ever hope to bring to
Custer and the High School should sure
ly have the support of Custer people in
attempting such an attractive number.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03

From the New fork Globe.
 we do our best to serve the public 2 the proprietor of the corner drug store told us. "bslt we can't please everybody. try as we may.
 "A few minutes ago. two young women swept Into this place and demanded to look at our directory. I showed them where to find 1t. In few minutes heard one of them say: Why, her name int m this directoryi Did you ever hear of the Hker
 ''Then the lAdies approached mo haughtily.
 Can you tell ue # there is first- -uIaes drug store tn thls victnityf aGled the epokegwomap. We Wieh % eonou1l
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The War Stricken Land

He did not portend to feed his soldiers, however. for he refuse: 10 cucumber him. self with magazines of supplies or burden the French taxpayers with the cost of maintaining the army. The men were turned loose on the people of the war stricken lands. to forage for themselves. They ravaged the shops, the cottages and the gardens. digging up with their peasantry.
 Although they were moving through
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friendly countries and not in the land of the enemy, no attention was paid to the infuriated outcries of the devastated in- habitants. Napoleon calmly assured his generals that the people really did not care if they were robbed, and 1t was a saying among the soldiers that " 8 man is like a sheaf of wheat; the more you beat him the more he yields" Accoro- ingly. the peasants were mauled until they gave up their last copper.
 As the French marched through Ger many in the rain and sleet and mud of cold October, therefore. they strip ped the villages as they went, leaving them bare for the rear columns. Some times men floundered through the muddy reads for days without coming upon pig, chicken or even a loaf of bread. But it was part of Napoleon's military calculations that as long as their legs lasted, hungry soldiers marched fastest, spurred on by their eagerness to find something to eat.
 Deluding the Enemy
 The army having crossed the Rhine at five different points, descended upon the unsuspectng enemy life the live outspread members of monstrous hand prepared to grasp its prey. Napoleon had brought his forces into the theatre of
 
 mics had supposed it possible for him u confront them.
 Meanwhile, General Mack, the Austrian commander. was sitting down by the Danube within the Qualifications of the old town of Ulm, on the borders ol Bavaria and Wurtenberg, quietly and confidently awaiting the arrival of ms Russian allies. Once the allied armies had come together, they would so forth to meet the belated French in the Black Forest, for, of course, they would come through the forest French armies al ways had come that way.
 Napoleon was not only well acquainted with the mental processes of Austrian generals as whole but he had met tnii particular general when the latter was prisoner of war He is one of the leas' able generals to be found,'' he said, ''and on top of that, he has bad luck.
 He read the mind of the unlucky Mack as clearly as if 1t lay in the palm o his hand To humor him, therefore, ht appeared in person at Strasburg, as Il about to send his army through th' mountainous passes of the forest. Stll further to confirm the enemy in his delu sion, he ordered Murat, who was prince now. to have few Of his horsemer prance up sbefore the Austrian outpost' in that beautiful wilderness
 This sufficed to convince Mack and shut out every other thought. Looking straight ahead, certain that Napoleon was in tending to attack him squarely in front he had no eyes for Ney.. Lannes. Sonlt Davout and Marmont, on his right. al their columns were bending toward hin from the north. When their presence dit dawn upon his Understanding at last, h' thought they must be engaged in som' other campaign, perhaps against Bone mia.
 All the while Napoleon himself wal moving around to the north of Uim dropping in to dine and make alliances with the princes and dukes of the littl' German realms along his way, and al verting himself at a production of thu new opera of Don Jdan.' although h,
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A Ten-Year Duel

We shall see France and England sur rounded with allies who change sides from campaign to campaign, but those two principals in the long and bloody duel will ever remain the same. They are the rival powers, always contending for the mastery of the world. Englonl with her shirs and her wealth France with the swcrd of Napoleon which was no more than a weapon borrowed for this earth shaking struggle between conflict ing national impulse that swept over Europe like wrestling tides. s
 It was an irrepressible conflict. Many historians transposing cause and eff feet represent it as a war for the advancement of one mans personal ann bifion. But it began while Napoleon was yet idling in Corsica and it would have,gone on to the end had he never stepped foot on the shore of France. Boubtless the victory would have been more quickly won had the French found a leader less able. but. on the other hand, the result might not have been so decisive and lasting.
 It is libel on mankind to say that all the nations which Napoleon led tc the slaughter, year after year for 10 years, followed him merely to flatter his self-conceit and poured out their blood only to feed his appetite for power. He was but the agent of a mighty force that swept Kings and peoples on its Irresistible current The glory of the A1exanders, the Caesars and the Napoleons is no more than the foam on the breakers of the great movements of men. But by watching them we r3ay best mark the rise and fall of the surging waves of human history.
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Cut Off From Home

Soon Mack turned to fad that the foe, instead of being before him. had got in behind him, where 120.000 French. hav- ing crossed the Danube without encoun- tering resistance. wete barring the line of the Russian advahce and the Aus triAn line of retreat to Vienna. Prison- ers wore gathered In sy the thousands.
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through all the victorious wars of the republic for 10 years.
 The very name of the organization was changed. It ceased to be the Army of England when it turned it's face from the sea toward Germany and became the Grand Army bearing aloft on it's stand ards for the first time the imperial eagles which it was thenceforth to follow from Boulogne to Waterloo. but which, after all, is only an easy march of 125 miles.
 Moreover, while 1t tarried by the shore of the English channel, it had exper- fenced deeper change, a change of ale glance. It had lost it's soul and a new spirit had stolen through the ranks of those time republican warriors.
 They had come together in the name of the French people, but they marched to war now in the name of one man. An idol had displaced an ideal in their devo- tion and they felt no more the old stir rings of patriotism in their blood.
 Never again were they to fight for their country and for themselves, but ever after for their Emperor and his empire. They marched and battled no longer to carry liberty to others. but to win glory for themselves, for had not every man of them been promised a marshaps baton in his knapsack? Where generous if fanatical passion for freedom had g'uwed in their breasts, personal ambition now ruled.
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Retribution

Netr1Dut1On
 That barefaced cheat brought quick retribution to one of its perpetrators only a few days later. when the French were pursuing the allied armies in the new campaign which was to come to it's climax at Austerlitz Having led his command over the stolen bridge and pressed for ward 90 miles into the country, Murat unexpectedly came upon a force of the enemy which he supposed to be the main Russian army. but which really had been left there merely to detain him in his advance until the army could fall back. Imagining himself greatly outnumbered, < he announced again that an armistice had been adopted.
 He was now dealing with Muscovite craft, and not with Austrian credulity. The Russian commander. Prince Bagra- tion, eagerly accepted the French princes statement. for it suited his purpose per fectly, and one of the Russian officers in the camp pretended to be an aide of the Cxar himself who had specially authorized him to negotiate with his high ness. Prince Murat. But while Murat de- lightedly dallied in the society of a real. born prince, the Russian army was put ting many hills between 1t and the French.
 Napoleon. still at Vienna, was in a rage over the counterfeit armistice which had been palmed of on his brother-in-layr Break it at once" he commanded by courier. Tt is nothing but ruse.
 This aide de camp of the Emperor of Russia is rogue I cannot conceive how you can have let yourself be made fool of to this extent"
 The scales were rudely struck from the eyes of the outwitted Murat. who furious ly sailed into siis false friend, the Rus sian prince, and when the mad onslaught ceased at midnight there was not roof left on house in the unhappy village that had been the scene of their frater- nixing. But the prince had gained for his army the precious time 1t required and 1t was now well ON it's way to join new allied army. where she czar Alex ander and Emperor Francis were conti- dentlv planning to crush the Corsican up- start who had dared to assume the iri- perial rank.
 fCopyright, 1sls-14, by James Morgan).
 Next week: Austerlitz. the great bastiA of the three emperOre.
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often without having an opportunity to offer the least defense.
 captive Austrian officer exclaimed in astonishment as he saw Napoleon, LOOK ing like a company commander in rain- drenched uniform and his boots covered with mud Napoleon stopped to ask an aide to translate the prisoners exclama- ton of surprise, and then stepping up to the Austrian. he said: Your Elm peror has sought to remind me that I was once soldier. I trust he will ad- init that the throne and the imperial pur- pie have not caused me to forget my calling"
 Napoleon so far overestimated Mack 8 wit as to suppose that he had escaped from the trap which Ulm was fast be- coming and he carelessly neglected. there- fore, the northerly exits, thus leaving the Austrians an excellent opportunity to save themselves. But he learned his mis- take at the cost of half little force of 6QOO men whom he sent to storm the supposedly deserted town. Then he quickly revised his plans and took a fresh reading of Mack's mind.
 A NapOle0nic Trick
 The French were on the southern side of the Danube, and Napoleon became fearfuhthat the Austrians would make a dash Nong the northern bank of the river toward the Russians. who were com ing to the relief of Ulm To divert Mack from that purpose he sent spies into the town with the welcome report that the English had landed at Boulogne, that France was in revolution. and that the French army was about to retreat. This hoax tempted the Austrian commanders to stay at Ulm in determined effort to cut of the retreating French and detain them until the Russians came up behind them.
 Seizing the advantage that the diver sion gave him. Napoleon sent Marshal Ney over the Danube to drive the enemy steeps rising from the northern bank oi the river, were held by 15,0oo Austrians posted behind the garden walls of the terraoed vineyards which mounted like steps one above the other. Up that blaz ing slope Ney fought his way terrace bS terrace. wall by wall. house by house to the fiery summit. where he pIucked z dukedom with his victorious sword Ma roleon then followed with his headquar < ters and settled down in the monastery that still crowns the top of the hill.
 The Fall of Ulm
 Ulm had become a cage. with iron 25,000 to N000 white coats and 300 gun. caught in il. The leaden skies whici . had Lowered upon the peieaguere0 town burst into mocking smile at it's fal and "a brilliant sun beamed upon tn, conqueror as he stood upon the hillside at the northern gate in the midst of his dazzling stan to receive the surrender o the stronghold, The captive army silent ly marched out to fling its arms at the feet of Napoleon. while the victorIou. French filled the valley of the Danube with their gloating cry. ''vive rEmper' < eury'
 The defeated commander walked alcn( in advance of his crestfallen forces and as he preferred his sword he could onls exclaim: Behold the unfortunate Nhck!' < The Emperor told him to keep his sWort and treated him with delicate oouFtely
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'1XETo1EoN c5Hzuz1nc I'VE Nozu1z1
Napoleon on Luck
Luck consists in always making preparations for every alternative.


 How much to be pitied is a general on heard to say. As some wounded Aus trians were borne by him he raised his hat and said: Let us honor the courage of those unfortunate ones"
 AS for poor Mack, his misfortunes had only begun. While his troops were march ed away to France he himself was par oled and sent back home, where he was courtmartialed condemned to be dragged on hurdle through the streets of Vienna and put to death. That savage sentence however, was commuted to 10 years im- prisonment.
 The campaign of Ulm was at an end An Austrian army of perhaps 1000 men had been smashed in three weeks, and altogether above 10000 prisoners had been taken. The world stood astounded by the rapidity and completeness of Ma poleons success. which he seemed to have won by wizardry He had overwhelmed his foe without having to give battle and the larger part of his force had not fired a gun. ''The Emperor" soldier said. "has found new way to make war. He uses only our legs and not our bayonets.' ? He had annihilated an army by simple marches.
 The Bitter With the Sweet
  ever, he found a bitter draught mingled with its sweetnegs. For the day after the fall of ulm the battle of Trafalgar was fought off the coast of Spain. Poor Villeneuve, growing bold too late, gave battle to the English and killed himself when he lost. Nelson. dying victorious in the cockpit of his flagship, had won for England supremacy on the sea which left her absolutely unchallenged in European waters from that day to this
 Swallowing the bitter draught of Ira falgar. Napoleon, with redoubled deter imitation. turned anew to conquer Eng land on the land. AS he marched on Vienna at full speed. an army of 5O.00O Austrians and Russians, which had been dispatched to the relief of Mack and of Ulm, fell back before him. while Masse- ma and Ney were engaging great Aus trian forces in Italy and the Tvrol. where they were keeping their sworde in the ribs of the enemy"
 Marie Louise in Flight
 The imperial family and the aristocracy were in flight from Vienna. The Emperor Francis 14-year-old daughter. the Arch duchess Marie Louise, found herself once more, as eight years before. driven by Napoleon from her palace home. The lit tie wanderert among the castles of Hun. gary and Gallicia wrote . friend from one of her refugees: God must be very wroth with us. Our family Is all scat tered my dear parents are at Olmutx; WI are at Kaschan; there 10 third colony q Ofen. But she strove to keep up hel courage with the philosophic assurance that "the time must come when fhs usurper will lose heart. Perhaps God hai let him 60 so far to make his ruin mort complete, when He shall have abandonef him."
 Meanwhile Napoleon wqs moving re capital, sounding a he went this warn inG to Marie Louiae's family: ''t advf9' my brother, the Emperor e 00rnnuy 7 to make pace ouieh1y. 1t Q tno no