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Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12
THE PLAY.

Loi tbs a gala night
Within the lonesome latter yearsl
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In wells and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theater to see
A play Of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra broathes hefully
The music Of the spheres.
Mines, in the form Of God on high,
MuttCr and humble low
And hither and thither fly.
Mere puppets they, who come and 90
At bidding Of vast, formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro.
Flapping from ont their condor wings
Invisible wool
That motley dramai Oh, be sure
1t shall not be forgot
With its phantom chased forevermore
By crowd that seize it not,
Through a circle that ever returneth in
To the selfsame spot,
And much Of madness and more Of sin
And horror, the soul Of the plot.
But see, amid the mimic rout,
A crawling shape intrude
A blood red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitudei
1t writhes-it writhes with mortal pangsl
The mines become its food,
And the seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbrued.
Out out are the lights; out ALI
And over each quivering form
The curtain, a funeral pail,
Comes down with the rush Of a storm,
And the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unwilling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy "Man,"
And its hero the eonqueror, worm.
Edgar Allan Poe.
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12
THE CHIMNEY.
with More Especial Reference to Drain
Pipe and Tomato Can Chimneys.

with More Especial Reference to Drair
Pipe and Tomato Can Chimneys.
Speaking Of chimneys, said an ole
soldier, 'the chimney such as one not
iufrequently sees made of glazed drain
pipe always interests me greatly. We've
seen such ohimneys run up outside Of
shanties, and we've seen them carried
from the tops Of chimneys over to the
side wall of some much higher building
errfed next door and thence on upward
above the top Of it. There is one thing
about these drain pipe chimneys that al
ways surprises me very much, and that
is that they stack EN- up with the
hange end Of the sections up never
saw one built the other way. never
could understand this / suppose the
pipe is usually set up with cement or
mortar in the joints, but l should think
those upturned fianges would catch all
tho rain, and that it would work down
the pipes, and that frost would get in
there in winter and all that l should
think it would be immensely better to
stack 'em up with the smooth end at the
top and l don't know why they don't
do it
perhaps my great interest in this
simple form of cylindrical chimney is
due to a more intimate acquaintance
with and great affection for another
kind of cylindrical chimney, one more
simple in form and construction. re-
fer to the tomato can chimney. Emblem
of domestic peace and comfort as the
chimney undoubtedly is, it is not always
so, and the tomato can chimney, per
haps more than any other, oharaoterizes
the hvelier vioissitudes of life. know
that my own first acquaintance with the
tomato can chimney was in the army
in time Of war; And yet even there it
has some flavor Of peace about it, for
we never had one except at times when
we were more or less settled in camp
and were within reach of a settler.
"And the tomato can chimney is by |
no means confined to army life. 1t is |
built by hunters and campers out, by
squatters and pioneers and by early set
tiers in new regions pending the build /
Ing Of a more substantial chimney, and
30 suppose 1t may be said of the Chin
ley, after all, that wherever it may be
set up and of whatever it may be CON
itruoted it has about the same SAVIOR of
he hearthstone New York Sun.
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12
ABOUT HEARTBREAk.

Diseases Of SLIGHT Vr,rort.rce ss.co,,,, To
tai When Patients suner crief
Grief docs NOT lin ondi+ i ;na,oa
verv seldom. tb.t 49, eo,r,,,, a',-,-.-e
daatb m a,,v one ,y,o,, i, baaltt,r $50
dillon If is however - w !, ' often ' tbo
midwest canee ~ ole,+I, III, H., - ny
inc disaase ~ cli,,,a- -, ~ -,
tbe snffars, ,,,oro Iiol,Ia - its 49, r.
man Is convinced ttot nc 80 i
more than be can bear those ~ VII - 80
stndied tho ,,,ottar 80 tl,o+ -,
the force Of ,is o,,-,, i,rsairotia, r.
man will actnaIIv 5ia fror, s.b,.ol ~,
heart y ''0
The great Nanoleon was l-illed bv an
internal disease bnt il Is S,lrTosed 49,
II would not b9,o bae, 81 ~ 10y
his SHIRTS been 90 do-rassa5 tI,,.a,',,t
Grille and dafeat WiIiian pit - ~ e.
stor Il said ~ h.vo die5 49, /. "a O.
len heart > carsed ~ III a,reat er;af a.
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12
AsBEsTUs MAKING.

Preparing the Mineral For It's Many I'm.
portant Uses.
If any readers have ever made the az.
quaintanoe Of asbestus at all it, has nc
doubt been in the shape of backing to a
/ gas stove or a friedrich. Very few peo-
pie outside the trade know what enor-
nous quantities are utilized where ma
ohinery is used. The business done in
domestic asbestus is a mere bagatelle
compared with that got through in
packing for steam boilers and engine
pistons.
Asbestus in its original state is a
ibrous mineral indigenous to Canada
and other places and is sent over here
in Jumps like pieces Of raw slate on the
top and bottom, while the sides are GOV
cred with fluffy substance-the fiber,
when it is pulled from the bulk. You
can pick each lump to pieces with your
nails, although to look at it one would
think that nothing less than heavy
hammer would make any impression on
it.
When it reaches the factory, it is put
into orushers. These are like the ordi-
nary mortar mixers that you see where
building operations are going on, and
the resulting gritty, fluffy mass is
thrown into what is termed a "devil. /"
The devil tears it up with sharp
prongs and then sits the grit from the
fluff. The former is used for mixing
with the asbestus in other processes,
while the latter is shot into receptacle |
that reduces it to a consistency almost
as fine as cotton wool As it falls from
this machine it looks for all the world
like snow.
In other departments the raw asbes-
5us is crushed and then mixed with Ger.
tain earths to be used for covering
The outer surfaces Of steam boilers, as
oestus being a nonconductor of heat.
Then, again, large quantities of mill
BOARD are made for packing between fire.
proof doors and articles of that desorip-
ion, while occasionally it goes to form
me Of the main constituents in fire.
roof theater curtain. Pearson's Week
y
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12

Crossing City Hall park one day a re-
porter saw an Italian boy suddenly fall
fiat on his back on the pavement. Sew
eral companions instantly knelt by his
side, some slapping the palms Of his
hands, some rubbing his face. They
were all laughing very much, and after
a minute or two Of this work the boy
rose and in two or three more minutes
repeated the game, this time all being
serious, especially so when they noticed
that tie same man was watching them.
The boys who were doing the slap
ping and rubbing looked out from un-
der their tangle Of hair and grinned at
the reporter little at first, and then
became serious again.
What is the game?'' the reporter
asked newsboy who was also Watching.
Dem kids is pract'cin fake. he
replied.
"A falSe?'
"Sure, having fits { work guys. Any
old guy takes pity on a kid wild de fits
and gives him nickel. seeT'-New
York Sun.
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12
DEANS oE soHwENINegRIsM.
The Authority on Fat Reducing Enlarge
His Directions.

The Authority on Fat Reducing Enlarge
His Directions.
Professor Schweninger recently gave
this elaborated summary of his treat
ment to a correspondent of The St.
James Gazette: Eat as much as you
please as often as you like, but not toe
much at meal. Drink no liquid at any
meal When thirsty, drink a little good
aerated water, with few drops of lem
on or orange juice squeezed into it, but
only an hour before or an hour after
meals. You may also take a little white
wine or cider that is not sweet or now
and then a cup Of tea, but never coffee.
Smoke little and indulge with mod
GRAFTON in the other little luxuries to
which you have been accustomed.
Battle often, but do not wet the en-
tire surface Of the body at once. Exer-
oise should beregular. Change your pc
sition as often as possible Do not re-
main standing Or sitting or lying too
long at time nor pass too many hours
In bed Take your meals at a different
hour every day. Never eat at regular
hours, but whenever You are hungry
and, if it be not too soon before or after
a meal, drink whenever you are thirsty.
Better eat a dozen times a day than
overload your stomach at two or three
heavy meals at long intervals. Do not
eat the same article of food too often. "
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12

To believe a French writer, there are
no fewer than 1000 women caught ev-
cry year in stealing during their shop
ping expeditions. a habit euphoniously
styled kleptomania The number Of
titled ladies seized with this strange
malady while examining the fashions of
Paris, he tells Us, is almost incredi-
bic. Among the most recent oulprits
were Russian princess, a French count
ess, an English duchess and the daugh-
ter Of a reigning sovereign. AS a rule
these more distinguished offenders are
let off on the payment Of a round sum
for the relief of the poor, and when the
shoplifter is known to be rich the sum
exacted rises to as much as 10. 600
francs. The police authorities consent
to this sort Of condemnation. Baltimore
Sun.
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12

were torpedoes in the river anywhere
from Drury's bluff to Trent's beach,
and below, their captains ran great
risks On one occasion two boats were
returning from City Point, fortunately
with no pasaolgers, when one Of them
struck a torpedo and imIugliately went
down. A boat went from the other
steamer and found the captain strug-
CLING in the water, with Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary in his arms. As
he was pulled into the boat he said, Il
did not have time to get it on" He
Thought be had seized life preserver.
New York Dispatch.
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12
LINDA DRAPER.

Maibran's voice was a oontralto, with
much Of the soprano register superadded,
that enabled her to pass for a mezzo So
prano. 1t was not a faultless voice, but
she had wonderful tact In conoealing its
faults and generally managed to keep
even the critics in ignorance Of her weak
points. Her charm seems TO have CON
sisted in the popularity of quality and I'M
usual extent Of her vocal powers in her
improvised passages Of strange beauty and
boldness and in the musical culture that
always kept her approximations within the
bounds Of good taste. There were not lack
ing persons, however, who affirmed that
her personal charms had more to do with
her hold on the audience than her voice
She first appeared on the stage in 1894,
and her last appearance was IN 1886, a
few days before her death, which was
caused by injuries resulting from a fall in
. carriage accident.-Exohange
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12
ENeusA ANo FagNoH NOVEL.



The Former Run to Adventure, the Latter
to Character and Passion.
It is curious and interesting to noto
that the English and French take opposite
sides in novels, the English proferrinR
now, as always, the romance or, rather
its modern form, the novel Of adventure,
while the French take the keenest pleasure
IN che analysis of characters OF passions
playing within the frame Of every day life.
Before attempting to decide which is the
better Of these two productions it may be
well to try and explain how the English
came to choose the romantic and the
French the realistic method The expla-
nation seems TO lie on the surface, to be
seen by any one who considers the ciroum-
stances Of the two peoples
The English is a culOnizing race that
seeks adventures and finds them in every
quarter Of the globe. If Englishmen do
not push across painless forests to conquer
dragons and deliver fair naidens or plunge
into sunless sea caves to war with mon
sters more terrible than any to be found
In upper air, it is simply true to say that
the dangers have only assumed new
forms. Fighting fevers and famine in In
dia or toiling for livelihood on the frozen
plains Of Manitoba, seeking gold amid /
the transforms Of Mashonaland or on /
the sunbaked waterless wastes Of West
Australia, the Briton's life Is apt to be /
one of great yioissitudes, filed with events
as strange as those which, in the telling,
charmed Desdemona It is not to be won
dered at that the race that most loves ad-
ventures and perils and feels more keenly
than others the fascination Of the un-
known should prefer works Of art that rem
der Its peculiar passion. This novel Of adt
unntaana Il atill- a. 1t has always been. tbs
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12

There's no use talking, M'ri, we've
got to economic. Times are so hard
you'll have to do without a girl "
can right, hubby, and You'll take a
lunch from home to your office, and
SOL
"Er-on second thought, I guess
Wen rub along as we are for awhile,
M'ri. New York Recorder.
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12

The best driving and carriage horse.
come, think, from Maine and Yer
mont being tougher, as a rule, than the
Kentucky horses and no less intelligent.
High steppers for the most part are ma
tiyes Of Maine or Of Canada. Western
horses, especially those from Indiana
Iowa and Ohio, are corn fed and soft,
and they often lack that Equality"
which the Kentucky horses derive from
the thoroughbred strain in their blood.
The best hunters, perhaps the best com
bination saddle and harness horses,
come from the Genesee valley, where
there is great deal Of good blood. and
where real fox hunting is pursued. -
Century.
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12

chief type Of English creative work in
I prose
The French idea OF prose fiction Il
wholly different, corresponding closely,
as It does, with French life and French
character The Frenchlnan Is neither ad-
venturous nor romantic, but gifted with
the Latin reasonableness and clearness of
view, an art lover from his birth, with a
leaning toward refined soDsuality These
qualities and many other excellent diner
enoes viii be readily conceded to him by
every student Of art OF literature For the
model OF his prose fiction, for the master
pieces embodying his characteristics. as
Robinson Crusoe" embodies the oharao-
teristios Of Englishmen, we must not 20
to Gil Bias, with its Spanish intrigues,
but Co Manon Lescautt' Every one knows
the story Of the Cheyalier des Grieux and
his passionate love for Manon. Every one
knows, too, bow Manon's lightness and
gayety tortured and fascinated her lover;
how the ohavalier's parents made common
cause with the authorities Of Paris to sep
arate the devoted pair and how they
failed. No one who has ever read it can
have forgotten the story of Manon's death
in that American desert and Of the oheva-
Hers inconsolable grief.
Lula great Wuih fesen Dies Robinson
Crusoe' in nothing save the fidelity to life
Of its character drawing. Robinson Crn-
soc is a finer study Of an individual, far
more Intimate, soul revealing and elabo-
rate than the somewhat careless, sketchy
portrait of Des Grieux. But Manon can be |
classed perhaps even higher than Robin
son Crusoe as a portrait taken from life. |
The varying fortunes, too, of the French I
lovers are conditioned by their characters 1
and by the circumstances of the time, and |
are not TO be compared in strangeness and /
physical excitement with the wholly acct
dental adventures which called for Cru
soe's indomitable energy. Both books are
masterpieces, and the charm
lf one for mature readers is certainly not
by the fascination which the
other exercises over the Imagination OF
ooyhood. Review
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12
Marvellous Results.

Prom letter written BY Rev. J. GuHderman, Of
Dimondale, Mich we are permitted to make his
extract II have no hesitAtioH in recommending
Or. Kings New Discovery, as the results we're al
most marvellous in the case Of my wife. While 1
was pastor Of the Baptist Chursh at Riyes Janction
che was brought down with Pneumonia succeed
ing Ia Grippe. Terrible paroxysms OF coughing
would last hours with little interruption and it
seemed as II she could not survive then. A friend
recommended DR.. King1 New Discovery; IT was
quick IN It's work and highly satifact0ry in results
Trial bottles free at Pierce 8 PleasanTs Drug
Store
Regular Size s0c .and si.ao
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12

Cambria was first introduced into
England during the reign Of Queen
Elizabeth. The first piece imported was
presented to the Virgin Queen to make
a ruff for her neck
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12

The first London street to be lighted
with gas was Golden lane in 1907
Two years later gas lamps were put up
ON Pail Mall, and between 1914 and
1920 the entire central district of the
metropolis was thus illuminated.
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12

Dipped candles-that is, candles
whose wicks were dipped in melted
grease time after time until they took
up enough TO form a cylinder Of respect
able size-were made in Germany A.
d. 1900.
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12

Near Modenas in Italy, the petroleum
gatherers dig hole in the ground, and
= is speedily filed with the oil.
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12

River steamers went down to City
Point occasionally, during the war,
With prisoners to exchange As there
Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12
Farm For Sale.

The Stsytonsville Farm, situated East
side of the road, right at Staytonsville, con.
tains fifty acres of land Has 1000 peach
trees, seven years old; twenty apple trees,
two story dwelling and stable
Possession given at once Address,
SAMUEL C NUTTLE,
Andersontown, Caroline Co, Nd.
3-IMSt.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-05
THE UNSEEN WORLD.
Hades as 1t Is Pictured In the Books of
the ApOcrypha.

Hades as 1t Is Pictured In the Books OF
the ApOcrypha.
The book of Daniel, dating from the
Maccabean age, is perhaps the earliest
work in which any clear moral differen-
tiation as regards the unseen world is
manifest. MANY of them that sleep In
the dust of the earth shall awake, some
to everlasting life, and some to shame
and everlasting contempt And they
that be wise shall shine as the bright
ness of the armament, and they that
turn many to righteousness as the stars
forever and ever. To find more de-
tailed account of hades we must turn to
the books Of the Apocrypha, written IN
Greek, and pervaded by ideas not pre-
cisely Hellenic, but Hellenistlc
In particular the book OF Enoch,
which deals largely in eschatology and
:he secrets of the universe, speaks IN
some detail of the future OF righteous
and wicked: "All goodness and joy and
glory are prepared for them and are
written down for the spirits Of those
who have died in righteousness, and
manifold good will be given to you in
recompense for your labors, and your
lot is abundantly beyond the lot of the
living" And in contrast; Know Ye
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-05

Some definite idea Of the growth of
the bicycle business in this country may
be gained from the fact that whereas
the total number of bicycle manufacto-
ries in the United States was but six in
1885, with an output of only 1900
wheels, and in 1890 but II, with an
output of 100000, at the present time
there are 1876 factories, which will make
an aggregate of nearly or quite half
million machines this year The in
crease in the last five years has been
nothing short of marvellous, and it is
probable that the next five years will
see very great advance upon the pres
emit product of these fast multiplying
concerns. And now that bicycling is be
coming so much more general than hith-
erto there is added reason why we
should improve our country roads. If
road reform was necessary five years
ago, it is far more necessary and desira-
BILE now.-Providence Journal
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-05
BADGER AND SUCKER
The Way Illinois and Wisconsin Came to
Get Their Nicknames

Get Their Ncknames
eff there had been no badgers in
Wisconsin,, " said native of that state,
wisconsin would not be known as the
Badger State and yet it did not receive
the name because badgers were there
There were very few white people in
Wisconsin territory in its early days,
the population being confined to the
military posts, the missionary and trad
ing stations. and the lead mining re-
gions in the southwestern part of the
territory. The miners were of two
classes, men who worked the mines all
the year round and men who came up
from the Illinois country in the spring
and worked until the fall, when they
returned to their prairies and groves.
The miners who were permanent dwell
ers in the region didn't bother to put up
cabins or even huts In fact, material
for such dwellings was not abundant.
They simply dug holes in the sides Of
the hills large enough to give them
room to sleep and cook in. Nowadays
those burrows would perhaps be called
dugouts, but as they closely resem bled
the subterranean homes of the badgers
they were promptly called badger holes,
and the miners who occupied them were
called badgers.
"Any one who cares to tramp through
that part of Wisconsin today will come
upon deep excavations in the rocks
regular quarry holes bearing every evil
dence of having been made long ago.
And so they were. Some of them were
excavated 80 years ago and more They
were the work of the lead miners who
went up from Illinois in the spring to the
mining region They, being there only
for short season, did not mine by dig
ging shafts, as the permanent miners
did, nor did they live in burrows They
blasted the surface rock, making large
pits by their work, seeking what was
called the float lead and ore that was
easily obtained near the top. They oo-
cupied the pits they made, as the other
miners did their hillside burrows.
"Owing to the similarity of the mi
grations of these quarry miners to those
of that familiar fish which goes up
stream in the spring and down again in
the fall, they soon became known as
suckers, and their pits in the rocks were
called sucker holes. In the course of
years the names badger and sucker came
to be applied to the entire people of
Wisconsin and Illinois. Many of the
original badgers and suckers became the
leading citizens of their respective To-
calities and helped make the country's
history. When Wisconsin was admitted
to the Union, the badger was placed on
her coat of arms in recognition of this
fact, and it was from the miners who
quarried in the rocks of Wisconsin that
Illinois got her name Of the Sucker
State. New York Sun.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-05
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THE FAIRY FIDDLER,

TITS go tiddling, f1ddling
By weedy ways forlorn.
make the blackbird's music
Ere i'll his breast tbs born.
The sleeping larks waken
'Twixt the midnight and the morn.
No man alive has seen me,
But women hear me play,
Sometimes at door or window,
Fiddling the souls away,
The child's soul and the colleen's
Out of the covering clay.
Nora Hopper.