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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-21

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Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

One OF the southern bishops cniovs foil
ing the folio wing story on his own daueb-
ter; Strongly imbued with her fathers
doctrine, she had grown up a strict Ennis.
copalian and had never attended 70.
NiVal or camp meeting in her life al
though. as her younger brother remarked
me woods were full of them"
when she was about 16. she went IN
VISIT an old friend of her mother in New
YORK. and her hostess, after much persuo-
SION prevailed on her to go to hear Tom
harrison. the famous boy evangelist.
But, Mrs. Burnett" she had finally
OBJECTED, suppose he should speak TO me-
IA be SO frightened l shouldn't know
what to say"
Why, Virginia." her hostess had TO-.
plled, the church will be so crowded thar
dlotning IS more unlikely than he should
single out either one of us"
But the girls fears were realized
AS the great preacher left the pulnit
and passed down the aisle, exhorting FIRST
THIS one, then that one, he paused at the
pew where the bishops daughter was
My dear child" he said earnestly. care
you Christian?"
"N-no, sir" she replied, "I'm an EMS
copalian." i''''
With twinkle in his eye the evangelist
passed on without another word.-Da.
troit Free Press.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03
FIshine with a Steam Eumn.

What might be considered the taking Of
an undue advantage Of the fishes as well
as the running of the fishing business is a
new method of fishing reported by Cos
mos Paris and translated for The Liter
airy Digest. The editor says:
NJ. MERCER of St Aubin du Coudrait
describes one of the mSst singular fishing
devices Imaginable. Although extremely
simple the system is revolutionary. 1t
was discovered by chance.
pond on the farm Of La Marlequette,
bOrdered by rocky shores. was last year
drained by the aid Of a steam pump.
Each stroke of the piston drew up % gal
Ions Of water, and the pond was emptied
in few hours, and not only was the wa
ter drawn off but all the fishes also were
transferred to a new element.
This was revolution The owners
of ponds in the neighborhood followed
suit. and the proprietor of the pump is
making a speciality of this sort of work.
lie let's one Of his pumps modified for
the purpose. The peasants of the region
call it the fish pump" Each stroke
of the piston brings up tor oe vater
in which are fish and crawfsh, together
with mud and debris. \ sort of metal
basket receives the whole The water
and slime eXude, while a boy collects
the fish and sorts them according to
species and weight
Recently one pond of several acres
was cleared Of fish at an expense of &c
francs, or $40. The process is in
genious, but as one cannot have the fish
and eat them also such rapid consump.
ton must lead to equally rapid extermi-
nation.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03
belgium stops GambIinr.

The Belgian parliament has once and
for all stopped all gambling throughout
the country. The bill passed is extremely
drastic in its provisions, and the eXpung-
ing of certain illogical and debatable
clauses has satisfied even the strongest
Gntigambling crusaders. The seventh and
eighth articles were the really important
parts Of the measure, for they allowed for
the exemption of Ostcnd and Spa from
the action of the law, TO the dctrimcnt,
obviously, of all Other towns. This was
the government clause, backed by the
senate, and was formulated for very
weighty reasons. In both the above men
toned towns the municipalities are en-
riched by very heavy licenses on gambling
clubs, and the money thus obtained is
spent on local improvements Property
holders dreaded the absolute ruin of these
two favOrite resorts unless this exemption
were permitted. The government is in
directly but nevertheless enormously in
terested in the welfare of Ostcnd. How
ever, the cXempting clauses were mega
tived by a majority of 81 votes to 1G. al
though certain deputies supported them
and wished to add to the exempted towns
Namur and Dinant. As the bill now
stands all gambling. save in absolutely
and legitimatcly social and private clubs
is illegal in Belgium.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03
DANDEL1oNs AND PLANTAINs.

A lady reader in Illinois wishes to
know how to get rid of plantain and
dandeliOns from her lawn. We know
of but one method, and that is to dig
them out by hand and keep everlasting
ly at it until the lawn is rid of them.
One can get a great many of these
weeds dug up for a small amount of
money just before the circus comes to
town by boys who are too big to crawl
under the canvas. 1t may be noted
here that much of the trouble with
weeds on the lawn comes from care
lessness in the matter of fertilizing it,
manure full of weed seeds not killed
by fermentation being used. Some
times weed seeds are washed on to the
lawn from higher land, and sometimes
one has good neighbOr who will raise
on his place enough foul seeds to poi
son the lawns of all his neighbors. We
have a piece of an old file fastened
into a convenient handle and kept
sharp, with which we keep our lawn
free from the pests mentioned. We
wish that we knew of an easier meth
cd, but we do not.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

You will be reading this just at the
time to plant trees. 1t is always in
order and a patriotic duty to plant
trees every springtime. Plant ever
greens for a wind break around your
home; plant trees in the front yard for
shade and for beauty; plant fruit trees
in the orchard; plant elms and naples
by the roadside. Get your neighbors
together and plant trees on the school
house grounds and in the cemetery.
Next to grass the tree is natures bene-
diction, the beautifier of her land
scapes, the mOdifier of her climates,
shade for the summer, and leafiess
limbs a shield from wintry blasts.
Trees are better that men-sOme men.
They will gratefully reward your care,
will gladden. you with shade and YER
nal beauty in summer, protect you in
winter, return you luscious fruit and
flower and fill the June morning with
bird songs. We sincerely pity the man
who can only look at a tree to size up
how much firewOod or lumber or how
many fencepOsts it will make.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

In reply to some one who asked him
whether he read great deal Lord Kelvin
little while ago made the rather star
thing reply that he had not read book for
80 years. 81 read nothing but the daily
papers. Well, perhaps that is an over
statement; it may not be 80 years, but it
Is long time. OF course | am continu-
ally referring TO books, but have not the
time for steady reading. except the daily
papers aud feel especially bound in
CRISES Of our history to study the course
% ovoute
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03
Read Upward.
Ace. EXP.
CONNECTIoNs.-"a" connects at One

CONNECTIONS.-"a" connects at Queen
Anne With the Delaware & Chesapeake Rwy.
"b'' connects at Greenwood with Delaware
Division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore r. r. for Seaford, DelmaF,
Salisbury and points south.
Sc connects at Glendale with the Della
ware, Maryland Virginia r. r. for George
town and Lewes.
''e' connects at Greenwood VIII the Della
ware Division Of the Philadelphia, Whining
ten & Baltimore r. r.
BALTIMORE AND QUEENSTOWN.-Be-
ginning SUNDAY, JUNE Is ISgS, steamers
Of the Queen Anne's Railroad Company will
leave QUEENSTOWN at 9:l0 a. m, daily, ex-
cept Sunday, and SIS a. m, daily, except
Sunday and Monday.
Sundays at $50 a. m.and $50 p. m.
RS-FOr further information apply to
1. W. TROXEL, WIN. ID. UHLER,
! Gen'l Manager Cenl FRI & Pass. ACT.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03
BRANCH ROADS.

Delaware, Maryland " virginia r. r.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way
stations 10 3S a. m. daily and so p. m week
days. Returning, train leaves Franklin City
90 a. m. week and l37 pm. week days.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague (via
4eamer) ] 38 p. m. week days. Return ing,
.Snxe ChincOteague 4 81 a. m. week days.
leave Harrington fOi Georgetown, Lewes,
md aL54.7' sch ~ 1888 a. M, $50 p. IN. week
and BOB p. m. week-days.Lz2 am MOndaysOnly
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 1928 a m.
and $50 p. m. weekdays. Returning, leave
erlin So a. m. weekdays and 233 p. m.
Queen Anne & KenN R.R.-Leave Towns
end for Centreville and way stations. 8 %
a. m. and 81 p. m. week days. Returning,
leave Centreville 81 a. m. and 40 p. m.
week days.
Del. Chesapeake R. R.-Leave Clayton for
Oxford and way stations at 3S a. m. and 5.5S
p. m. week days. Returning, leave Oxford
700 a. m. and Sop m. week days.
Cambridge & SeafOrd r. R.-Leave Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations at
II II a. m. and IS p. m. week days Return
ing train leaves Cambridge as 90 and $50
p. m. week days.
CONNECTION.-At Porter, with Newark &
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Annes & Kent Railroad. At Claw
ton, with Delaware q Chesapeake Railroad
and Baltimore & Delaware Bay Railroad. At
Harrington with Delaware, Maryland & Vir-
ginia Railroad. At SeafOrd, with Cambridge
q SeafOrd Railroad. At Delmar, with New
York, Philadelphia & Norfolk, WycOmico d
POcomoke, and Peninsula Railroads
J. B. HUTCHINSON, General Manag
J. r. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

Men will always succeed the best
with that kind of live stock which they
like the best. A man who does not like
sheep should never attempt to keep
them; just the same with horses and
COWS. Men with violent tempers should
not have much to do with stock any
way. 1t is better for them to pitch
hay, chop wood and dig potatoes.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

The men who cut up their corn will
have their innings again this spring
When 1t comes to preparing the corn
field for crop of small grain. If there
Is any more unpleasant and unsatis-
factory farm work than trying to cul-
uvate a field covered with old corn
stalks we should like to know what
it is
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03
HARNESS.
THIS ISN'T POLITICS

We don't it in political when that harness
dealer needs protection We refer the protection afforded by the
absolute guarantee Of the maker of his goods
he buys goods guaranteed that the manufacturer stands back
OF the quality and the strongest
satisfaction his thus offer definite
tain kind
But the be that of make dealer who known
to 'mean something" by it.
1t probable that have been led give trial to the goods
sold by W. H Murphy Pennington from the strength his
There equvocation about it. Everything absolutely satisfactory
all the time will be made So That's but
doubt its being daily fulfilled by this odsabled
tu ask for correspondence
can assuredly give them--unvarying satisfaction.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

The newly discovered oil wells IN
Texas have an asphalt hase-ln fact
ihe thick black fluid which pours from
them is but little else save liquid as
phalt. While not so valuable a product
as would have been petroleum oil with
a paraffin base like the Pennsylvania
oils the Texas product has a large
sphere of utility as fuel and for all pur
poses for which asphalt is used The
first uses made of it will be in the line
of fupl
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

The advent of spring was not sug-
gested to us this year by a robins
song or a bluebird's sweet note or by
the hoarse cry of the Canada goose
northward bound, but by the rattlety
trap racket Of a flicker as he perched
on a dead limb by our door and sound
ed a sort of spring reveille.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

A matter of 10000 laws have been
passed by the legislatures of the sew
eral states the past winter. We are a
great people to make laws and the most
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

This church advertisement recently an.
peared in the Worcester CMass.) Gazette.
Why I go to Grace church.
l. Pure, warm air.
2. Soul soothing singing.
:. Heart healing praying.
Z. Life giving preaching.
8. Glad to see you people. =
Hold up, friend, I'm going. IL,
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

We have some Northwestern Green
ing apples. kept In p common cellar
without any special care through the
winter other than to keep them from
actually freezing, which on this Goth
day Of April are in most perfect con-
dition-hard, sound and evidently with
keeping qualities good till Jane Now.
this, mind. with New York Baldwins,
Greetings and other standard winter
varieties badly used up. The North
western Greening is a long keeper
without any doubt and if it proves
hardy is going to be a most valuable
apple for very large northwestern
territory. where the great want has so
long been a good winter apple.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03
~Are You USING AIIen,s Foot.Eas.7

Shake into your shoes Aliens FOot-Ease,
powder. 1t cures COrns, BuniOns, Painful,
Smarting, Hot, Swollen feet. At all Drug
gists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample Free. Ad
dress, Allen s. Olmstead, Leroy, N. Y.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03
IDaily. sDaily except Sunday.

NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRAINS
Leave Wilmington Sl3 am, 1903, 439, and
SIS pm. week days. Leave New Castle S.3l,
9.58, II OF am, 6.3S p.nl. week days
Express trains leaving Harrington $40 a. m.
and arriving at 6.46~F, IN. week days run
through solid to and from Baltimore via
Porter and Newark,
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

If there is a crotched fruit tree in the
orchard which shows signs of splitting
down and giving out, it may be easily
fixed and saved by boring a hole at the
base of the crotch and clamping the
tree with a half inch bolt. 1t is not
best to wait until the split occurs be-
fore this precaution is taken.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

The orange, no matter how cheaply
sold' will never displace the apple as a
family fruit. We notice that, give a
family all the oranges they will eat,
and they very soon get tired of them.
1t is not so with apples.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

About once in seven years his ex-
cellency the Poland-China hog has his
innings and becomes for a season or so
the greatest money maker there is to
be found on corn belt farms. 1t is just
that way at the present time, a load of
hogs bringing about $12O.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

Wild creatures-birds and animals
are nsS1tely more law abiding than
m5n. They rarely ever fight among
themselves and always recognize a
community Of interest which is unself-
ish
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03
QuUUq Anne S Railroad COmpand.

Time Table in effect Monday. Nov. eth
IsOO LEAVES daily and Sunday.)
Steamer connections between pier IN Ti,h+
street Wharf, Baltimore, and railroad IiSisY
ion at Queenstown, Md. - 10
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

The large sized thing is all right for
culverts. providing it is placed where
water will not stand in the tile. Where
it does the freezing of the water in
winter is almost sure to crack and spoil
the tile. The 16 foot culvert where til
ing is used should have a fall from end
to end Of not less than four inches.
4 good lady friend of ours, thinking
she was doing a big thing for her flow
ers, fertilized the bed heavily with the
sweepings of the henhOuse. Her flow
ers all perished-were burned to death
by the excess of ammonia in the fer
tilizer used. A very little Of this sort
Of fertilizer goes a long way.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

The splendid orange crop of Cali,
fOrnia Of this season is being largely
wasted for want of adequate transpor-
tatiOn facilities. The loss is said to
run into the millions. As it is, enough
oranges find their way TO the east
ern markets. During the month of
March they were cheaper in price than
COOL apples. 1t would seem as though
orange culture had about reached the
limit of profitable development upon
the Pacific coast.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

A wise woman will not breach the
subject Of new bonnet just as her
husband comes in from giving the calf
its first lesson in drinking milk. There
are times and seasons, you see.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

Blue grass is the deadly enemy of
all orchard trees. We know that
few men claim that blue grass in the
orchard will check the growtt--of the
trees and make them bear more fruit.
So will girdling tneVTfee or any process
which will injure the healthy growth
and development of the tree. In all
the north central states the apple
tree. and for that matter all other
fruit bearing trees. need all the mOis-
ture during the heated summer term
which they can obtain. and a blue
grass sod under the tree defeats this
and robs the soil of nearly all
moisture. Glover, the medium red, is
the best orchard grass. 1t fertilizes
the soil while at the same time it con-
serves the moisture.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

MILLIONS OF WILD PIGEONS.
Only the older men now recall the
Waits Of the countless millions Of the
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

Wood ashes are one Of the best fer
tilizers for the garden, especially for
the fruit trees, small fruit and straw
berry bed. Coal ashes are entirely
worthless except as a mulch.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

SIr Tnomas Lipton's Shamrock II
was launched at Dumbarton, Scotland,
on Saturday, Lady Dufferin christening
the cup challenger.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

Many a horse will work in patient
misery all through the springs work
for the want of little care ON the part
of its owner in giving it a properly fit
ting collar.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

Referring to Z recent article on
county fairs, ia1y in Michigan
wishes to add as another good subject
for n premium 20 be offered by such
associations the best kept flower gar
den and the most attractive home
grounds. This is a good suggestion.
The offering of a substantial premium
for such things by & county society
would do much to stimulate the peO-
pie in these lines of Improvement
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

A carload of oats is 1900 bushels, Of
corn 900 bushels, of wheat 800 bushels,
of barley 1000 bushels, this rating ap-
plying to the car of $4,000 pounds ca
pacity.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

AS illustrating the benefits which
accrue to dairymen where located so
that they can sell their milk to a con-
densing factory. we mention the case
Of one man near Waverly. Ia. who
has a dairy of 10 grade ShOrthorn
cows which during the year 1900
brought him in an income of $7G.91
per head. Where such returns can be
obtained from cows farm land is well
worth 500 per acre upon which to
keep them.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03
'EwENTY cows ON FoRTY ACRES.


A friend with only 40 acres of land
wishes to keep dairy of 20 cows and
asks for information how best to use
his farm to this end. To begin with.
it may be assumed that this number
of cows cannot be kept on such sized
farm to be pastured. They will have
to be soiled, fed green foods. of which
more can be grown than grass on Civ
en- area of land. For the latitude
where our friend lives, central Iowa.
we would suggest sowing field peas
and oats every two weeks up to MAY
10, then successive planting of corn in
one or two acre tracts up to June %.
these followed by a crop of millet OF
sorghum on the land from which the
oats and peas have been removed.
Enough corn should be planted to fill
silo for the principal forage ration of
the cows during the winter. Where
this course or one similar is followed
it is possible to pretty nearly keep
COW the year round on an acre and
half of good land. In any event, the
ration for 20 cows would have to be
fortified with some food bought from
outside, such as bran, oil, cotton seed
or gluten meal.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

In selecting trees for orchard plant
ing we would always take 2-year-
old trees in preference to older ones.
Usually the 2-year-old tree will get
into bearing almost as soon as a
4-year-old and will invariably make a
handsomer and more thrifty tree and
you can buy 2-year-old trees for
much less money than the older and
larger ones and they are much easier
to set out.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

Forty-four million five hundred thir-
ty-six thousand eight hundred sixty
seven gallons of cottonseed oil were ex-
ported from this country last year. A
lot of this oil will be returned to us lat
er as pure olive oil from Italy. It is
only very few years ago that all the
cotton seed was returned to the fields
as manure. The value of oil exports
for last year was S15051, 24O.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03


This is the tree planting season. For
shade trees in the north we have moth
ing more reliable, graceful and hardy
than the water elm. We suggest the
following method of planting-One we
have followed very successfully for
many years: Go into the woods and Sc
lect trees about three inches in diane
ter, get as much root as possible, trim
the tree to a bare pole eight feet in
height, plant the tree six inches deeper
than it grew in the woods in well
prepared mellow bed. mulch heavily
and see that the tree is watered the
first season should the weather be dry
A tree so planted-and it may be an
elm, a maple, box elder. a sycamore
or linden-will grow and develop into
a thrifty, handsome tree. a tree with
but few feeding roots cannot sustain a
big top and if cut back as stated will
only make new wood. as new roots are
able to support new growth.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

A friend holding some stock in a
corn canning factory told us recently
that his stock paid him a dividend of
100 per cent on last years business.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

r-Acl uledSule Nhch uuSs
eng them into quarters and plant
ing the sections in a well prepared bed
three feet apart each way. The bed
so planted bore a full crop the second
year from planting and could not very
well be improved upon.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

J.R. HUTCHINSON, Gen, Manager
WOOD, Gen. Passenger Agent.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

South Dakota has appropriated the
sum of $4,000 for plant breeding sta
ton, a new departure which will be
watched with much interest.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

Colorado farmers report a gross re.
turn of $40 per acre from their beet
crop last season.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03
the spring OF the
go used to swarm all
WY settled west. Birds

the spring OF the
go used to swarm all
Wy settled west Birds
numbers were not TO be
lere else on earth unless it
"A fowl on some ocean isle
nth American coast. The
warmed on to the newly
infelds and picked up every
"A not covered with earth. They
would locate a rOost in some dense
grove of timber and break the timber
down by the weight of their numbers
and nests. 1t did not then seem as
though this bird could ever be exter
minated, but the fact remains that
there is probably not a live specimen
left in North America today of the pas
senger pigeon. Whether they were all
trapped and slaughtered or whether
the destruction of the forests destroyed
their food supply and they migrated to
some other land will never be known.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

This is the time of year when the
goodwife tears the inside of the house
all to pieces in a frantic effort to Sc
cure dustpan full of dirt.