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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-08

x C1TUATION WANTED - TO ], GO OUT
- washing; washings taken home also. Call
or nddress l.. L.. 3Si N. Sumner avenue. Hyde
Park,
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CITUATION WANTED "A WIDOW
- wants work cleaning offices or any re.
spectacle work. Address +. A., Tribune
office.
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CITUATION wANTED-BY A YOUNG
- lady as bookkeeper or Office assistant:
thoroughly understands bookkeeping, quick
and accurate at figures. writes splendid bus
mess hand: wants position at once. Address
TRUSTWORTHY, 525 Sumner avenue, city.
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CITUATIoN wANTED.-BY YOUNG MAN,
- experience In grocery; speaks Lithuanian,
Polish aud Hungarian. Address c. II. G.. $40
Penn avenue.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-08

w X1ANTED-pOSiTION AS BARTENDER
w or restaurant ok. by young man Is
years old: eight years. exrcricnce comes rec.
commanded. AAaresst w. s.. Tribune Office.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20
Gen. Harris Stand.

Concerning the stand taken by
Gen. Hart in refusing to enter into
an argument 10 explain why Captain
WisWell has not been commissioned
major of the First Regiment N. G.
D., local member Of the guard who
is well acquainted with Gen. Hart
and his admirable method Of doing
his duty, made the following state
ment Monday; "Adjutant General
Hart very properly makes no COM
mept upon 2 regent falsely based
and iRsolent criticism in the editor
ial columns OF q Milford paper 1t
is very easy to stand In the crowd
and with shallow information below
petty censure of the conduct of re-
sponsible public officers. / venture
TO suggest to Gen. Hart that he owes
it as a public duty to continue with
out deviation the policy of exacting
a high standard Of intelligence and
efficiency for officers of the National
Guard. 1t has lately been attended
with signal success. "-Every Even-
ing.
Evidently the National Guardsmah
who is authority for the above, is
interested deeply in the admirable
methods" of the Adjutant Gener-
al's Office. We suspect he is deeply
nterested-that is TO say financially
terested-several are and from the
little poterie Of sycopsant soldiers
around headquarters in Wilmington
all the trouble in this case emanates.
Why is it they are SO persistent IN
prosecuting an old soldier, F. c.
Wiswell, a man who helped to reor-
ganize the National Guard fifteen
years ago and has always been
officer during this
time, and who has upheld it in all
honorable ways ever since : Is it
because be is not eapahlef No. Is
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20

% Captain Vim H Megee's coaster at
one Of the eastern ports, came home last
Wednesday, Lettie Barker, mother
Of John B. Barker of our town, lies dan
gerously i'll at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Clara Rust. near Broadkiln station.
Miss Sallie Eddington, of your town, is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM G. Fear
ing.-Miss Ollie Atkins, after spending a
verv happy season in Fredenoa, was com
PEELED to return home, owing to illness.
We are glad to chronicle her convalescense.
Mrs Flossy Hodge is visiting friends
and relatives in North East, preparatory to
attend the annual conference in Baltimore
with her husband, Rev. G R. Hodge, the
first day Of Apnl.-Walter Hopkins, of
Lewes, was the guest of John R. and Ellis
Barker last week. @. w. A.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20


it because he, -fas not legally elected
No; for he had a majority of all
votes cast at the meeting in Dover
even if the two not in uniform
were excluded. The proceedings
were forwarded by Lt-Colonel Kirk
promptly to Adjutant General Hart.
and there was no reason for it being
plgeon-holed. We have the word of
the Assistant Adjutant General
that no such report was ever re-
ceived; but Lt.-Colonel Kirk contra
diets this by claiming to be able to
produce at the proper time a letter
from Adjutant General Hart in reply
which spoke of the election. This
shows that the matter was pigeon
holed or that revolutionary methods
like those of the Sussex County
Levy Court govern the Adjutant
Generals Office. If no report was
received, why did not General Hart
ask for it? Or, why did he not pre-
fer charges against Colonel Kirk
for derelection in duty ? No, the fiat
went forth that Wiswell should not
have his commission, and like all
Democratic political schemes the
damnable gag rule policy was applied,
which will result in the dishanding
of the National Guard by the next
Legislature. The farmers OF Kent
and Sussex have no use for it,and as
it can be of no earthly use to any
community but Wilmington, let the
brave soldiers who are attempting
to deprive Major Wiswell of his
rights, form independent companies
and guard the CITY. The State can
hire deputy sheriffs cheaper than
maintain a National Guard.
Governor Watson is perfectly 40.
quainted with the facts in the case,
and naturally be has given the "rule
or ruin" generals IN Wilmington a
chance to mend their blunder-we
appreciate his position in the case
but according to the newspaper re-
ports, he will be asked to help the
National Guards either out of, or
into, dishOnor deeper than this mat
ter has already stepped it Governor
Watson is a fair man and he will not
uphold the wrong done Major Wis
we'll.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20

Keystone Corn Droppers, hand drop. !
sixteen-inch Steel Disk Harrows, two have
steel frames and one wood frame, all rugged
with three horse triple trees, 2 spring-tooth
Harrows II AA Drag Harrows, in three
sizes. 8 Diamond tooth one horse Harrows.
10 hye-tooth iron Cultivators. ) Wheel
harrows. 10 wood top feet pumps for wood
stock and drive well pipes 10 pitcher top
pumps. Lot of drive well points from 81
to d feet. adjustable carriage poles )
Albany Swell Sleighs. Walter A. Wood
Steel Mower, steel frame, has cut 40 acres
only Wheel Rake. Lot ofShovels, Rakes,
Hoes ard Rakes.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20

for thoronghness. How thorough
it WIS may be judged from the fact
that just week before the election
of '94, Chairman Babcock wagered
fine supper for nine newspaper
men that the Republican member
ship in The House of the fifty-fourth
Congress would exceed 232. At the
time it was thought that Mr.. Bah
cock made the wager solely for po-
litical effect. But he didn't. He
made it on the close canvass of every
congressional district which had been
made under bis supervision for the
committee. When the figures were
made up. he had twelve members to
spare, as the Republicans elected 244.
He proposes that the Committees
work shall be just as thoroughly
done this year.
Col. S. L. Howlette. who has been
more than casually mentioned as the
Republican candidate for Governor
of the State of Washington, is visit
ing the National capital. He says
of politics at his home: "W ashing-
ton is easily a Republican State, and
there will be no difficulty in holding
it in line. The favorite Presidential
candidates in our State are Reed
and Mckinley, although any of the
rest would be satisfactory to us.
Maj. E. B. Stahman, owner of the
Nashville Banner, and. of course, a
Democrat, evidently thinks the Re
publicans have more than a fighting
chance to carry Tennessee. He says
ITS a serious question whether a
Democrat can be elected Governor
of Tennessee this year Beyond the
fact that the party is badly split on
the silver issue, great many citi-
zens who have always ected with the
Democracy have never condOned the
action of the Legislature in counting
out H. Clay Evans, whom they hon
estly believe was fairly elected Gov
ernor in 1894"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20
The Constitutional Convention.

Ola John NJ. Clayton had no Wis
ion Of how his Constitution for Del
aware would be twisted and warped
in 1uture years, Or be would have
left the key in the lock and enabled
the people to throw off the political
octapus which has fastened its ten,
tacles on our political system. The
Democratic leaders of Sussex county,
men like Ex-Governor Ponder, ex-
Governor Stockley and others who
would probably be sent by the Dem
ocrats as delegates to the Constitu-
tional Convention, are opposed to
having new Constitution--theY al.
ways have been. Such men will Gre
ate confessions or endeavor 90 have
such measures adopted, IS will in
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20
HOR,s Thisi

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catsrrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure
F J. CHENEY & CO, Props, Toledo. o.
We the undersigned have known r, T.
Cheney for the last IS years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business tIansac-
tons and financially able to carry out any
obligation made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo o. WALDINc, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system. Pr3ce 75c. per bot.
tie, Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20

AS it is now, we have money scarce
and high priced. and all the products
of labor cheap. Under the present
system all tends to the enslaving of
the producing classes and the enrich
ing and exaltation of the SPECTATORS
and traders. The commercial cities
all want cheap bread and meat to
live upon themselves and to sell to
other countries. To this end they
are ruling the country in their own
interests and to the ruin OF the far
meFs and producers. England has
already ruined her formers for the
sake of her trade and we are fool
ishly following in her footsteps.
There the farmers are but a small
minority Of her people, but here they
are the majority and should rule to
their own welfare instead of sub.
hitting to be ruined that the great
cities may be built up and exalted,
Let us see to our own best interests
in restoring silver and bringing back
land and property values to their for
mer place.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20

Simon s. Hartman, Of Tuu Melton, West
Va has been subject to attacks OF collie
about once a year, and would have to call
a doctor and then suffer for about twelve
hours as much as some do when they die.
He was taken recently just the same as
at other times. and concluded to try
Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and Diarrh-
Remedy. He says: Il took one dose OF
it and it gave me relief in five minutes.
That is more than any thing else has ever
done for me-" For sale by G. W. Mar.
shall, Druggist. Milford, and ]. w. Star
key, Milton, Del
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20
POsITWELY NO UNDEReIpDINe,
ANNUAL EXAMINATION FOB TEACHERS.

Examinations for FIRST, second, and pro.
visional grade certificates will be held at
MILFORD, Saturday, February ~.
BRIDGEVILLE, Saturday, February g.
STAFFORD, Saturday, March 7.
LOVES X ROADS, Wednesday. March II.
LAUREL, Saturday, March ID.
SRLBYVILLR, Friday, March 90.
FRANKFORT, Saturday, March 81.
MILLSBQRO, Saturday, March %.
GEORGETOWN, Saturday, April 4.
MILTON, Saturday, April II
LEWES, Saturday, April IS.
No examination papers will be given out
after $50 A. M, All examinations will close
ct P, NJ Ar early attendance is desired.
W, w. KNOWLES,
Superintendent
Bethel, Del, Feb. II, 1896,
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20
HARNESS.

IS sets of buggy Harness. 4 sets Of Wagon
Harness. AZ heavy Team Collars, all sizes
and prices. light Buggy Collars, Lot Of
Carriage Whips. Robes and Blankets for
both summer and winter. Lot Of Carriage
aud Wagon Brides, Hames, Traces and
duplicate parts of harness.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20

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dret insertion Su. asquent Insertions. % cents.
Yearly rates given on application.
Heading Notices 10 cents per line.
Subscribers noticing any eTror In their dates VIII
please notify US a. once.
No paper will he Discontinued until All arrear
ages are paid Money may be sent BY mail ct
our risk by draft, postal notes. postal order OF
registered letter only.
Subs rlbers will observe the date accom- any
ne the names with which their papers are ad-
dressed The date 10 the time to which the sub
scriFtion Is paid, When q new payment L. made,
this date will be Immediately altered. 80 that the
label Is q constant receipt In full for the time
which the subscriber has paid,
-. Entered At the Post once in Milford, DOL, Al
secsad class matter
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20

%. HIGH PROTECTIVE TARIFF so AD-
JUsTED AS TO EXCLUDE IN A LARGE
MEASURE THE MANUFACTURED PRO
DUCTS OF MONO-NlEFALLIc NATIONS.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20
Wagons and Carriages

S full leather-top Brewster Spring Car
riages. fine eud-spring Piano-box Car
rage. Duplex-spring Daytons, extra long
bodies. painted peele's gear, no-top
Dearborn Wagon, with carrying capacity of
1000 pounds. S iron-axle, two-horse Farm
Wagons. one.horse Wagon with pole aud
shafts.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20

IsT. FREE COINAGE OF BOTH SILVER AND
GOLD AT ALL OF THE MINIS OF
THE NATION.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20
PUBLIC SALE
OF vALUARtE
PERSONAL PROPERTY,
KIT FARNGKPgGToP
AT FARNHKNoTOHS.

will positively sell to the highest bidder
the following described articles at the Can
Ri5g House of the N. R johnson Company
in the town of Harrington, commencing at
10 A. NJ. sharp, on
Saturday, rIarch %, 1890.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20

asouth Bend", 1T. N. Rissell" and IBIS
sen'. "a two-horse Chilled Flows, Steel
Grub Plows.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20
10 SHOlTS, } H0NTHS OLD. GOOD STOCK
one ONCE Safe.

One Slower Wind Mill, "a foot wheel
1900 feet No. ? flooring, and one thousand
other things too tedious to mention.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20

The American Platform for the Presi-
Dental Election Of This Year
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20

3D. FREE TRADE, OR RECIPROCITY wITH
ALL BIMETALLIc NATIONS.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-02-26
Origin of the Word "Canard."

What is the origin of the expression
"a canard" when n wonderful story
that has no foundation In fact is
meant Even Frenchmen cannot say.
1t is now claimed that the honor OF
the invention belongs to M. Cornelis-
sen, n member of the Academy OF
Brussels. He had noticed some won
derful "yarns" in the daily paper to
which he subscribed, and in order to
satirize the writer's, he sent in one
himself, as joke.
1t was about apretended experiment
with tweuty.fiv ducks, and tended to
show that ducks are cannibals. He
had, he said, killed the ducks one by
one by one and fed the survivors ex-
clusively on the body, and in course
of time there remained but one duck
of the whole twenty-five. This last OF
the ducks was said to have had post
mortem examination made ofits body,
when it was found to be suffering
from certain internal injuries as the
supposed consequence of its strange
diet.
The paragraph, which the writer
never expected to see in print, was
published and sent the round. 1t got
to America, whence it was constantly
coming back, and the phrase "It is
another canard," or duck, became
common in newspaper Offices. Lon.
| don News,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-02-26
Pleasureland.

Little lass, pressing onward, inform mo I
pray,
Where spread tho savannas of Pleasureland- -
say?
Please pause 'mong the fiowers-ceasc sing
ing awhile.
And tell me whcro tho spirit may bask in
joys smile.
"Ah, Pleasureland spreads in the cleaning
ahead,
Where tho skies OF the Future, ceruean,
spread,
And the sunsmilos are Godsmiles, and star
beams are dreams
OF the angels who fly 'bove tho murmuring
streams"
Worn woman, whose eyes SOON with tears
sadly filed,
You are aged and wise-have your hopes
been fulfilled?
Now answer, as onward you're iourneying
along
Where is pleasureland, filed with its visions
and song2
"Ah, world-wise and weary and ready to die
I'm weeping, for round me but blighted hopes
lie
Far behind me the long-for savannas l see--
There in beauty the regions of Plensureland
bel"
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-02-26
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

1t is safest to grow several varieties,
having something to grow at all sea-
sons.
Complete failure in a single variety
of berries may come often; entire
failure of many varieties come very
seldom.
An increase IN the size of market
fowls is demanded by consumers.
There are too many farmers who want
prolific laying and large market birds
from the same breed. Market fowls
are market fowls, and the best for this
purpose are not the bost for eggs.
Either or both can be hud, but not ir
one breed, and farmers are generally
not prepared to keep more than one
breed pure. Many cannot do even
that we'll from lack of care.
Growing and marketing berries suc-
cessfully, requires business tact, good
tdstt, ihhuatil, hohO'sJt NOsoA m'hu-
tion, and natural love for the work.
Business tact, in growing best fruits
at lowest cost, and in placing same on
good markets, in best condition.
Taste, in producing attractive fruits,
clean, neat packages and arranged to
please the eye aud invite the taste.
Industry, in doing that which ought
to be done, at the right time and in
the best possible manner. Honesty,
in quality, measure and packing, on
which reputation and success depend.
Determination, to overcome bug
blight, frosts. drouth, short crops,
low prices and close competition.
Study quality of soil, location aud
adaptation to your wants II must be
we'll drained. 1t shouldbe made rich.
and fertility maintained with best fer
tilizsrs, at moderate cost. None bet
ter than barnyard manure and wood
ashes
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-02-26
BREEDING SHETLAND PONIES.

The smallest perfectly shape ed, ma
ture Shetland pony is owned by G..
A. Watkins of Michigan. He proba-
bly, owns the four smallest. He owns
two registered Shetlands, each twenty
eight inches iu height, one thirty
inches, two thirty-one inches, and
three thirty-two inches. They are all
jet-blnck, and were imported from the
stud OF Lord Londonderry. Their
sires and dams are untraccd. 1t is
certain that they are from ancestors
under forty inches in height.
The smaller the pony in height the
more it is esteemed in the Shetland
Islands and in Scotland. The Scotch
stud book admits of no pony over
forty-two inches. In America pony
breeders differ widely as to the size OF
the pony best adapted for usefulness
and the market, some preferring
ponies of forty-four to forty-six inches
and weighing 500 to $50 pounds, and
others the smallest type possible
thirty-six inches and under, and
weighing 2DO to 26O pounds.
1t is generally conceded that the
smallest ponies sell at the top prices.
am reminded of a buyer saying,
when considering the purchase OF a
little 81 inch stallion at $500: "If he
was just little bigger I would take
him :" and the owner replied: "If he
was Just little smaller, should ask
you 81, 900 for him." Shetland ponies
are used chiefly in this country as pets
and companions for small children.
What does pony mean to child?
1T means a tiny horse, and the "littler"
it is the more the child admires and
loves it,
Breeders should remember that the
Shetland is the only breed considered
safe and fit to trust in the hands OF
little children. They never bite, kick
or run away, and are never tired out
or sick from careless feeding or water
ing; they stay hitched or unhitched
wherever you put them. They are the
longest-lived of the equine family.
Some are known to have lived sixty to
eighty years. They may be used by a
dozen different sets OF children. AS
one set grows too large to use them,
they are transferred to younger one,
and this repeated again and again.
My advice is to breed small ponies,
36 to 40 inches, and let those who
want large ones for park show breed
hackney ponies. i Mortimer Lever
ing. secretary American Shetland
Club, in Breeders Gazette.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-02-26
PACKING BUTTER.

Good butter may be safely packed
to keep six months or more if the
right way is taken. 1t used to be
done years ago, when it was the Gus
tom to keep the surplus product for
sale then, there being no winter dairy
ing to supply the demand. The butter
must be naturally good and sweet and
worked quite free from the buttermilk
by thorough washing. There need be
no fear that this will hurt the butter,
for it cannot take anything from it,
the fat being wholly insoluble in
water, and only the buttermilk will
be washed out of it, which it must be,
or it will be a detriment to the butter,
as producing changes OF the fat into
volatile acids, by which the butter is
made strong and finally rancid.
The best packages for this use are
glazed earthen jars or sweet, clean
white oak or spruce tubs, painted or
vanished on the outside. The tubs
are soaked in brine, then scalded, then
washed III two or three waters, then
rubbed with fine salt inside, aud while
vet the butter is packed in them. being
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-02-26
FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
rhAxsnrD MEAL FOR CALVES.

Linsced-oil meal rs now made has
most of its oil pressed out of it, and
is II less fattening feed than it used to
be. We like better naxseed than is
merely ground, or where this is not
possible boiled until it has swclled all
1t will. If it is then mixed in very
small amounts with the ordinary dry
ration OF hny or straw which the calf
receives, it will make an enormous and
favorable difference in its growth,
The rough, staring coat so common
with calves and yearlings during their
first winter will be avoided altogether
by giving them a little haxseed. 1t
prevents the constipation which is
moro often the cause of loss than any
thing else. Boston Cultivator.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-02-26
a.
ALFALFA AS A HONEY PLANT.

The cultivation of alfalfa has added
considerably to the honey crop of the
United States. No other honey plant
has given such "boom" to beekeep-
ing, especially in the western states.
This plant stands the drouth, and
when we'll rooted seldom fails to pro-
duce heavy crops OF hay and seeds
when almost everything else fails, as
its roots penetrate very deep in the
ground, in many cases reaching water
at Is feet deep. 1 have seen con-
tinuous flow of honey from this plant,
commencing the middle of Mny and
listing until the first of September,
for several years, without any regard
to drouth or season. Alfalfa honey
differs but little from white clover. 1t
is in every respect as good, and is
quoted in the markets at the highest
price. American Agriculturist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-02-26


In report with the significant
title. "German Fears of American
Competition in the Worlds Mark ct, "
William d. Warner, United States
Consul at Cologne, tells of the alarm
of the German people at the decline
OF their foreign trade, and the manner
in which the United States is loo ming
up as Germany's principal competitor.
The vast resources of the United
States and its wonderful productive
capacity are referred to by the Ger
mans, says Consul Warner, with great
anxiety. Mr.. Warner quotes some
newspaper headlines. "The threaten.
ing competition of America A cry of
warning to be united. Aud, "Amcri-
On, thou art better off than our old
Continent"