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His Artificial Sunrise.

Dairyman Wilder. whose milk producing
establishment is about ten miles north of
Santa Cruz is one OF tho most ingenious
men in California, and he has done what
no other dairyman ever attempted Every
body that has ever tried to milk u COW be-
fore daylight knows what n jobit is. BOssy
is generally Of the opinion that there is n
time for all things and firmly objects to
being awakened and MIXED when she
thinks she should DO asleep. Many cows
will refuse to be milkod to the extent OF
kicking and lying down,
Allof these troubles have been Dairylnan
Wilders, and not long ago he determined
to overcome them. In fact, it was ncces-
saIy that he should as he WAS often late
in getting milk to his customers i'll Santa
Cruz. 1t cost considerable money, but he
has more than made up for the outlay. At
present he has one Of the finest individual
electric light plants in tie state, ard his
cows are as easy to milk as in broad day
light
When the electric plant was in position
and ready for work, there were three big
arc lights over the center Of the yard where
the cows slept ut night and dozens of 9TH
ers fixed all over the different buildings, the
entire lot capable of producing about TO-,
OOO cinuie power enough 10 make tne
yard as bright as day. The plant was of
the best quality, and everything was tried
in the daytime before the surprise was
sprung on the cows.
Itworkcd like a charm. The bright rays
of the light had no sooner been turned on
than the cows commenced to get up. hiust
of them looked surprised to soc the day
break so soon, but when the milkE.an ar
rived with his pail they seemed to think it
was all right and stood perfectly still while
being MIXED The light also affected the
poultry, for the cocks commenced to crow,
and the hens went around hunting for
nests. Ducks, geese, dogs and cats were
all affected the same way, and the whole |
barnyard was awake at o'clock in the
morning
1t has not proved a case of the animals |
getting used to it, for they behave the same
way now after the artificial sunrise has !
been in operation for several months. Poor /
beasts they are in blissful ignorance of |
Mr.. Wilder's shabby trick-San francisco
Call
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-07-31
Tbe FirbtInq Hahoons.

The balloons were on fiat ground, cross
ing n valley, when the travellers dogs,
Arab greyhounds, accustomed to fight sue
cessfully with hyenas and other beasts of
prey, rushed toward the balloons. Only
the females took to flight. The males, on
the contrary, turned to face the dogs,
growlcd, beat the ground with their hands,
opened their mouths wide and showed
their glittering teeth and looked at their
adVcrsaries so furiOusly and maliciously
that tho hounds usually bold and battle
hardened, shrank buck BY the time the
dogs were encouraged to renew their at
tack the whole herd had made their way,
covered by the rear guard to the rocks, ex-
cept G-months-old monkey, which WIS
left behind. The little monkey sat on "A
low rock surrounded by the dogs, but was
rescued by an old baboon, who stepped
down from the cliff near, advanced toward
the dogs, kept them in check by gestures
and menacing sounds, picked up the baby
monkey and carried it to the cliff, where
tho dense crowd Of monkeys, shouting
their battlecry, were watching his hero
ism.
The march of the balloons is not a mere
expedition Of the predatory members Of the
community. The whole nation trek
together and make war on the cultivated
ground in common Their communities
are numerous enough to reproduce in min
nature the movements of troops. The tribe
often numbers from $50 to 800 indiyid-
uals OF these the females and young
are placed in the center when on the inarch
while the old males march in front and
also close the rear. Other males scout up
on the TANKS. 1t has been noticed that
these remain on guard ana do not feed
during the whole time that the rest are
gathering rovender.-London Spectator
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CLANS Thai TRAP MEN.

Huge Bivalves That Sometimes Catch
Pearl Divers In the Pacific Ocean.
Bivales of various species form traps
of a deadly character. and of these
the various CLAIMS are most frequently
heard OF. The Sun told the other day of
rat whose tail was oanght by a clam
over in HobOlsen.
Darwin's theory on the broadcast dis
tribution Of species was that birds
carried them. For instance, the heron
wading on the spawning bed of a trout
gets a number of the eggs stuck to it's
legs. On flying to u stream some miles
away. hitherto unstocked with these
fish. the eggs are washed off and are
Matched according to the regular course
of nature The fish breed and multi
ply.
A Canada goose killed in Ohio had
fresh water-clam attached to one mid
die toe. Had the goose not been killed
the clam would have dropped off into
water perhaps hundreds of miles from
its original home.
The Sun recently told of q gull which
was nearly drowned by clam that had
closed on its bill in Massachusetts, bay.
Similar stories are told of other birds
Men have stepped into the open Jaws
of huge CLAIMS accidentally at low tide,
and the CLAIMS, closing their jaws, have
held them fast till the tide rose. when
the men were drowned Other men
nave reached for a lure in the form of
luminous spot The instant they
touched it the shells of clam closed on
their arms and in few minutes the
men were drowned. Some of the CLAIMS
that trap men are found embedded in
the coral reefs of the Pacific and Indian
oceans, and the men captured are pearl
divers. The flesh of one of the huge
CLANS (tridaena gigos) sometimes
weighs 20 pounds, and added to that is
the 500 pounds or more of shell. The
shell is something like five feet long by
two and three-quarters wide. Poets
are fond of saying that these shells are
the cradles of sea goddesses, since they
are very beautiful if polished. They are
also used as baptismal fonts.-N. Y.
Sun
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-07-31

The name of Maremnla is given to a
large extent of insalubrious land which
borders the Mediterranean. Whether in
salubrious because uncultivated, on uneul-
tiyated because insalubrious, is problem
which has not yet been solved. Though
both modern science and quickened nation
al enterprise have of late years been applied
to its solution, the results accomplished
have been uncOnvincing The Tuscan part
of the Maremma stretches inland nearly to
Siena. Beginning Mt the north Il few miles
from LcghOrn, it extends to the ancient
frontier of the pontifical states, from
whence the same immense tract of sparsely
cultivated and malarial territory continues
under he name of the Roman Maremma
and Campagna to the gates OF Rome.
There is no hard and fast border line be-
tween the healthy and unhealthy land, but
the transformation is u gradual one, the
villages become rarer, the cultivated land
diminishes, stretches of wood and bog are
more frequent until we no longer see any
houses by the roadside, but only here and
there in the distance some small gray ham
let perched on the top of rocky hill, like
roosting falcon musing on the chase " On
the hillside near such GASES some fields
few olive trees, and then again begins the
woodland, large forest trees, then groves of
beeches and oaks Topped continually for
flrewood, the forest full of dangers and
alarms, with its ponds and boys and laby-
rinths u hiding place for anything from "a
ghost to brigand-in short, the typical
forest of the Aarcmma. Toward the Mcdi-
terranean coast tho hills become less
abrupt, and along the shore and up the
broader valleys which diverge from III
stretch immense extcnts of undulating
grass lands, seemingly uncultiyated but
which really are sown piece BIZ piece in reg
ular rotation every ten years. Stood Words.
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Omclal Regulations Little Vague as :
the Treatment Of Live Stock.

Omclal Regulations a Little Vague rs TO
the Treatment of Live Stock.
/ Several years ago board of naval Off
GERS was ordered by the commandant of
one of our naval stations to hold a survey
on one of the horses belonging to the sta
ton. The board met, examined the horse
found that he was suffering from 'the
scratches" and stringhalt" and was gen-
orally run down. An examination of tho
navy regulations showed that only certain
recommendations could be made by the
board AS follows:
ITO be turned into store for use, " To
be retained in or for use, 4" ''SOld, " used
for scrap metal, 'Tob be issued for any
other purpose 4" "To be thrown on tho
dump, " "To be transferred to some other
station, " ITO be used for repairs for some
other article" or ITO be extensively re-
paired " Since it was the unanimous Opin-
Ion of the board that he ought to be treat
ed by veterinary surgeon, it was recon-
mended, in conformity with the regula-
lions, "that lie be extensively repaired "
This was three or four years ago, and he
was extensively re aired bya veterinary
surgeon, but evidently the "rcpairs" were
not lasting, as the sequel will show
Recently there came recommendation
from the present communicate that the
horse be shot, as he was old and worthless,
and that it would be u kindness top put him
out of his misery.
In the same mail came requisition
from tho same commandment asking for au-
thority to buy ten tons of Al, first class
fertilizer
1t was then that the navy department
Endorsed on the requisition, Why not use
the horse to produce the fertilizer"
Tic lommandant promptly returned tho
paper with the Endorsement, "Sincc the
horse is not an Al, first class horse, being
old and decrepit, he is incapable of filling
the bill. "
And here the matter stands for tho pres
emit Washington Star
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-07-31

1t might be supposed that a statesman
without tact would be something like a
well without water Yet Signor Crispi,
the famous Italian diplomatist, is man
who entirely lacks this essential He is
almost brutal at times in his boorishness.
During the silver wedding festivities at
Rome, some little time ago, finding him
self face TO face with The German empress,
who Immediately recognized and extended
her hand 10 him in the most gracious way,
he showed in such "A plain manner that he
had not the renotest idea who she was,
and that he considered her extremely for
ward, that she was forced to mention her
name before he could make up his mind to
stoop down and pay the expected compl-
ment On another occasion he succeeded in
arousing the just Indignation OF Lore. Duff
fferin, the most tactlul OF diplomatists. The
British ambassador had caused himself to
be announced, and Crispi, without attempt
ing 10 rise from his arn.chair, babe him
negligent Good morning, smiling as he
did So Tho smile was not returned, and
Lord Dui1erin, with his cs glass1ixed, cool
ly STOOD in the doorway stating at the ltal-
ian premier. Crisl.i at last understood, aid
Jumping up in much confusion, rushed to-
ward lis visitor, Overwhelming him with
apologies for his unintentlonil discour-
tesy. - Pearson s, Weekly.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-07-31

Probably there is no link between an
ochcrous complexion and II hasty temper
in modern man other than u racial one.
The two qualities were eoincidently de-
veloped by independent agencies. We know
little of the nature ard working Of the
forces which go to create a national type.
That they arc TO some extent climatical
and geographical is plain, Tor in New lea
land, Queensland and North America we
find the process in visible operation.
Probably in the days Of purely tribal
savagery any peculiar attributes of the
founder of u clan migrating away from his
fellows would give the key, which external
nature would develop and elaborate into n
national characteristic. Such u pioneer,
whether cnigrant or Outcast, would in
most cases DO n man of Incorporating
temper and exceptional originality Of mind,
and, as is well known, these generally go
with II physical popularity as strongly
marked. Moreover, all barbarians are ex-
tremely intolerant of any bodily deformity
or strangeness of aspect, and often a man
or family CHANGING TO be Extensively con-
spicuous in any such way would be expelled
from society
In Central America hairy man was
deemed an impossible outsider by the
abOrigines, while among the blacks of west
ern and southern Africa an albino is al
ways an outcast. These facts show how a
new race might be developed from q
sport which otherwise would be redis-
solved in the prevailing national traits
Blackwood's Magazine.
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hshman made of it "A veritable palace The
I appointments were magnificent in every
particular, and though I've put up at CIV
cry hotel Of any consequence in the cOun-
try do not remember ever TO have slept
In moro luxurious bedroom. But guests
persistently refused to arrive, and one
morning when I registered / found only
i've names On the book Nor was this the
worst, for, turning hack, found even
fewer n'smcs, until l came to SPACE whore
FOR five days there had hcon only one man
In thu house. There was man named
Loonis, now clcr,; nt the Cort!.va, behind
tie desk, and l asked him how things were
going. Goingi he exclaimed Then with
very long face, When you entertain u
man 50 well that you drive him out of the
house, and hc the only guest, you're in
bad way. lhereupou he told me about
the solitary guest. 1t appears that he hal
called tho leader of the Cr.acstra up and
said TO him: Do you SEQ that man? Keep
your eye ON him. He's our only guest.
We can't lose him or tho house must close
Give him a - of time When he goes
In to dinner, take your orchestra outside
the door and play music for him When
he goes into the billiard room, follow him
and play music while hc shoots the balls
round. When he eOcs 10 the bar, follow
him and play while lie drinks. Keep your
eye on him, b8ndmastcr. Give him music
wherever he goes. Then he called the
steward up and said: Keep your eye on
that man. He's our only salvation. Give
linn Il high cid time. None Of his money
goes at the bar. Throw open the wine
room TO him, Keep him supplied with the
best cigars Serve him tho whole bill Of
fare and have extra meals sent to his
room
Then they started in ON the guest
When he went ihtO the billiard room, the
band would Play marches whilo he car
omed and dirgcs when he massecd When
he came out, they would follow him to the
bar playing march, and while the bar
tender poured out bumpers Of wine for him
they would discourse tho drinking song
from 'Tannhauser Circus music would
be played while he walked round the cor
ridors and symphonies while he dined
After dinner relays OF negro boys would
bring him In cigars and the band would
play l Smoked My Last Cigar. When lie
went to bed, the bard played lullabies in
the hall, and in tic morning be was awak-
encd with reveille asI Memberships ]
Spring Song For five days the guest
was drunk with the combined effects of
food, music, cigars ard champagne, and
then all Of n sudden, while the band was
him to the bathroom playing A |
Life On the Ocean Wave, he grew very |
white and fell all in heap. lie was car |
ried out on Il shutter ard taken to the hos |
pltal ut HaGcrstown, where he soon recov- |
cred. Within 20 minutes after lie lett thrco /
guests arrived and the hotel was saved. -
New Orleans Times Democrat
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Conversation ut mcaltilnes is certainly
to be encouraged, but children should be
told not to Interrupt their elders Ii they
are not allowed to chatter, their thoughts
become too much concentrated on their
food, and greedy staring and vexod looks if
some other relson receives a nicer l.elping
nre the natural RESULTS
Perfect courtesy should be inculcated
Remember that it Is better to say Thank
YOU when not strictly ne, cssary than not
TO say 1t when the courteous recognition Of
service done Is required.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-07-31

The Chinese were believed to have pos
sessed great skin in Landscape gardening
from a very early period, though, if we nrc
| to judge from the illustrations on the IA
nous willow pattern Plates there Is some
excuse for doubling the extent of that
skill 1t is true that Il very ancient Chi
nesc writer, Lieu Schcu, has some ex-
tremely sensible remarks On the pleasures
of Il garden, in the course of which he says:
"Ihe art Of laying out gardens consists,
therefore, in Oontriying checriulness of
prospect, INSURANCE of growth, shade re
tircment and rcpOse, so that the rural as
pect may produce an illusion. Sym
metry is wcariSome, and garden where
everything betrays constraint and art be
comes tedious and distastcful But 1t
was the letter rather than the spirit of
Lieu Tscheu's advice that his countrymen
followed when they elected to patronize
the natural and the picturesque, and
they soon reached stage of cockneyfed
imitation of nature which Horace Walpole
himself could not have surpassed.
In 1643 the Royal Horticultural society
sent out the eminent Scotch botanist, Rob
ert Fortune, to visit these famous gar
dens of China-the land to which we owe
the peOny, the chrysanthemum, the azalea,
and the camellia He was enchanted by
the magnificent azalea clad mountains of
Che-Kiang, one blaze of gorgeous bloom
from foot to summit, but he saw little of
the renowned landscape gardens, though
enough to show him that much that was
fashionable in English gardening was
merely relapse into Chinese barbarism.
Indeed, as a matter Of fact, the hideOus
system Of bedding out, which has in re
cent years been so popular in this country,
is simply plagiarism from the Chinese.
Those dctestable cOckney ribbon gardens,
with their bands of red, yellow and blue
a blaze of gorgeous but homogeneous and
inharmOnious color-are slaVish imita-
ton of Chinese taste-the taste to which
we owe such artistic masterpieces as the
willow pattern" and the illuminated tea
chest.-Chambers' journal
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ENTERTAINED zoe We'll.
The Solitary Guest Couldn't Stand the At
temtions OF the Hotel Stan.

temtions OF the Hotel STAFF
Seated amid the palms and strawberries
Of the St. Charles hotel roof garden, with
the soft vapor of after dinner cigars form
Ing a luminous haze about them, they
werc discussing the lihcrality and charm
# American hospitality. "Some years
Igo " said Mr.. W. I. Jones when it came
his turn, "many Of you will remember that
In Englishman with more money than sa-
sacity built magnificent hotel at Cum
berland Gap. There was nothing in par
ticular to recommend the place IL was
out of the line for travelling men pnd pos
Bessed no attractions for tourisss; but, moth
Ing dannted BY these deficiencies. the Ens-
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-07-31

Mrs. Lakeside crushing into a Chicago.
ceurt)-Where's the judge, quick?
Observation-Disclosures there. What's
wrong?
Il just ran away from my husband,
and he's after me, not three squares
behind. Iwant to divorce him for deser-
ton before he gets here."-N. Y.
Weekly.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-07-31

Leprosy is not so rare as we have
thought. A leper was the other day picked
up in a faint ina street Of Paris and taken
to the St Louis hospital. There were al
ready there six lelrous patients. DIR. Hal
lopaux, who treats them, says that leprosy
regains vigor as an invading disease. In
France there are no isolated cases dotted
over the delta Of the Rhone and the Mari
time Alps The lepcrs hospitals at san
Reno and in Spain and Portugal arc new
er without patients Ieprosy gains ground
in Turkey, but still more in the Ionian
isles. There are now 500 lepers in Crete.
Norway is the most leprous country in Eu-
rope 1t has actually 500 lepers. The prog
ress of the disease in Sweden is alarming
The last statistics give the number OF lep-
ers at 462. There arc 100, 900 IN british
india Indo-China, Tonqnin, China and
Japan are infested with leprosy. So are
Haiti, Trinidad, Guiana, Venezuela, Ira
iii and Paraguay. Paris Letter
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Merit
"Merit talks" the $50 -
intrinsic value OF AWG
'sSarsaparilla. p 81 EAO

Merit in medicine means the power to
cure. Hoods Sarsaparilla possesses actual
and unequalled curative power and there
fore it has true merit. When you buy
Hoods SarsaparilIa, and take it according
to directions, to purify your blood, or
cure any of the many blood diseases, you
are morally certain to receive benefit.
The power to cure is there. You are not
trying an experiment. 1t will make your
blood pure, rich and nOurishing, and thus
drive out the germs of disease, strengthen
the nerves and build up the wholesystem.
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This law of heredity is entirely independ-
ent of social or political conditions. Then
you find ayarice and jealousy and sensu-
ality and fraud having full stgtp9 ia some
families. The violent temper of Frederic
William IL the Inheritance of Frederick the
Great 1t is not a theory founded by
worldly philosophy, but by divine author
ity Do you not remember how the Bible
speaks Of n chosen generation, Of the gem
Grafton Of the righteous, of the generation
of vipers, of an untOward generation, Of u
stubborn generation, of the iniquity of the
fathers visited upon the children unto the
third and fourth generations So that the
text comes today with the force of pro
jectile hurled from mightiest catapult,
Whose son are thou, thou young man?
i'Well, " says some one, THAT theory dis
charges me from all responsibility. Born
of sanctifed parents, we are bound to be
good, and we cannot help ourselves. Born
of unrighteoVj parentage, we are bound to
be- evil, and we cannot help ourselves.
Two inaccuracies. As much as if you
should say, 1.-THE centripetal force in ma
turc has tendency to bring everything to
the center, and therefore all come to the
center The centrifugal force in nature
has tendency 10 throw everything to the
periphery, and therefore everything VIII go
out TO the periphery. "
You know as well as 1 know that you
can make the centripetal force Overcome
the centrifugal, and you can make the cen
trifugal overcome the centripetal, as
when there is mighty tide Of good in a
family that may be overcome by determine
ton to evil--as in the case of Aaron Burr,
the libcrtine, who had for father Presi-
dent Burr the c0nsecratcd as in the ease
or Plerrepon1 EdNafds, the scourgcO I w..
York society so years ago, who had
Christian ancestry-while, on the other
hand, some of the best men and women OF
this day are those who have come of an
ancestry of which it would not be courte-
GUS to speak in their presence The prac-
teal and useful object Of this sermon is u
show you that, II you have come Of a
Christian ancestry, then you arc solcnnly
bound to preserve and develop the glorious
inheritance, OF, if you have come OF dc
PRAYED ancestry, then it is your duty to
brace yourself against the evil tendency by
all prayer and Christian determination.
And you are to find out the ftpily frail-
ties, and in arming tho castle put tho
strongest guard at the weakest gate. With
these smooth stones from the brook hope
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iDiy sDaily except Sunday
"a, stops TO leaye passengers from Wilmington
and poll l. north. OF take passengers for points
south Of Delmlr'
NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRAINS p
.sto WiImington 40 a. M aud 9.si IN daily
and g. d. IL IS a. m $50. 1850, 6l5, aud 653 p NJ;
week days Leave New Castle 90 n. M. ana
1919 D. M daily, S.3i, 9.i5. ll.'2 Am LIS
5.s8, ga and 7.23 pm. week days,
Pvnress trs,ns leaving Harrington S.05 u, m,
and srriyin9 at g. "A D. m weekdays, run through
solid to and frsm Baltimore, via Porter and
Newark.
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A small table, not more than n yard or
SO across and supplied with strong casters,
is of great convenience in kitchcn. 1t
can be rolled everywhere, and it saves
steps When u PERSON is trying crullers or
cooking griddle cakes, the table can be put
near the range, holding all the articles re-
ltired During the preserving season such
Atahle viii he Invaluable