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Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
JAMESTOWN CAPTURED.
Britons Compelled to Yield to the
Beers Under Kemp.
THE FIGHT AT vALKFoNTEIN

Said to Be One of the Most Desperate
engagements of the War in South |
Africa-oeneraI French to Command
in Cape Colony.
London. June "Details received re- !
garding the fighting at Valkfontein
show that it was one of the most des-
perate engagements of the war Gen.
Dixon's column was traversing the dis
trict and establishing posts, when it
was attacked by 1900 Beers under
Commandant Kemp. The Beers were
so close that so British fell at the first
volley
The yeomanry held the position, pro-
tecting the guns until they were near
" decimated, and then finding it i'm
possible to save the guns, the artillery
men shot the gun horses to prevent
the Beers moving the guns. The
column quickly recovered from the
shock of the unexpected attack. The
Derbyshires charged with bayonets,
and after a short, desperate fight drove
/ off the Beers and recovered the guns.
The Derbyshires and yeomanry both
! lost very heavily.
1t is asserted that while the Beers
had temporary possession of the guns
they shot two artillerymen in cold
blood for refusing to work them
against their own comrades.
The war Office last night published
the following dispatch from LORD
Kitchener dated Pretoria, June 4:
Jamestown (Cape Colony surren
dered to Kritzinger's commando on thu
morning of June after four hours
fighting. The town guard and loca
volunteers were overpowered befOr'
our pursuing columns could come NJ
Our casualties were three killed AM
two wounded. The Boer loss is sal
to have been greater. The stores wer
, looted, but the garrison was released
Have placed Gen. French in charge c
J the operations in Cape Colony"
/ The appointment of Gen. Frencl
: who has been recruiting his health i
Cape Town, to command the operi
tions in Cape Colony, indicates ths
l Lord Kitchener attaches considerabl
importance to the invasian.
The surrender of jamestown is r
garded as a disagreeable incident, b
cause it has provided Commander
Fritzinger with a fresh supply of IL
sinews of the war,
The recrudescence Of serious figI
ing brings further demands for Il
sanding out of reinforcements.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

The week in which this IS written is
blossoming week in the orchard, and
the air Is fragrant with the delicious
odor of cherry. plum and apple bloom.
And the bees have had a busy week.
swarming all over the trees, performing
their delicate and mysterious work of
fertilization Only one specter arises
to mar all the beauty and pleasure con-
nected with this fascinating part of
natures wonderful programme, and
that the possible breath of a Manitoba
wind to blight in a night all the rich
promise of fruitage.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

There is ever so much more in the
man than there is in his opportunity,
Smart men make opportunities or find
them where shiftless men cannot see
them. Nature loves a hard worker and
thinker and some way will seem to
do more for him than she will for q
lazy and stupid man, The first dollar
which lay as the foundation of some Of
the largest American fortunes Of today
was earned by hard days work, and
It was saved and not fooled away.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
BOX Manufacturers.

Also Wheelwrightng, BIacksmithng and Horse ShOeng.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

1t is rather discouraging to learn that
the man who made the prize tub Of
butter exhibited at the National Dairy
association meeting at St. Paul was
fired by the board of directors Of the
creamery which he managed while he
was looking after his prize tub at the
convention. This would seem like base
ingratitude and a strange lack of ap-
probation on the part Of the men who
employed him.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

We made a trip recently through a
section of the country which in an
early day was considered too wet for
any other use than pasture land. This
tract of country, embracing three or
four counties, has by reason of con-
tinued pasturage, rOadmaking, open
ditching and cultivation become Sc
much dried out that land which would
mire a team 20 years ago now pro-
duces as fine cereal crops as can be
grown anywhere. But we notice that
through this territory there is much
land broken up and being cultivated
after fashion which, not being suffi-
GENTLY drained, is not getting worked
and cropped with success. Until tile
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
REMARKABLE STEAMBOAT RACE
Victor Won by Forty-five Seconds in a
Hundred Miles.

Victor Won by Forty-fiVe Seconds IN
Hundred Miles.
Cleveland, June 5,-The hundred
mile race from Cleveland to Erie yes
terday between the Cleveland passen.
ger steamer City of Erie, owned by the
Cleveland and Buffalo Transit COM
pany, and the Tashmoo, Detroit's crack
passenger boat. owned by the White
Star company, was in many respects
the most noteworthy race ever sailed
on fresh water.
The Erie covered the distance in 4
hours, 10 minutes and seconds, beat
ing the Tashmoo by As seconds, elaps'
ed time. 1t was pronounced by old
vessel men to be the prettiest race
ever witnessed. Aside from winning
the speed championship of the great
lakes, the Erie won about 100000 fol
those who bet on her
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

Fifteen or 20 boxes a foot square and
six inches high, without top or bot
tom, covered with a piece of mosquito
netting. will protect the squashes, mel
ons and cucumbers Of any family gar
den from the striped bugs better than
it can be done in any other way. \
pane Of glass laid over these boxes will
be a great help to the young plants dur
ing the cool days Of the early summer
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

An Iowa farmer in 1897, competing
for premium offered for the acre of
land producing the greatest number of
bushels of corn, won the prize for IA
crop of 215 bushels. but he grew this
crop upon queer shaped acre-a strip
OF land ten feet wide running along the
edge Of a slough far enough to make
one acre Of land.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
Chronic Consultation Cured.

The most important discovery Of
recent years is the positive remedy
for constipation. Cascarets Candy
Cathartic. Cure guaranteed. Genu-
inc tablets stamped c. c. c. Never
sold in bulk. Druggists, Ioc.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

Illustrating the folly of legislation
when not backed up by healthy pub
lie sentiment. we note the case Of a
certain western state the laws of
which require the planting Of not less
than u trees upon the grounds of each
schoolhouse in the state. This law is
practically a dead letter, for where an
attempt has been made to comply with
it the trees planted have been so neg
lected and abused that they might as
well never have been planted.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

We commend the Golden Glow as
very hardy and SNOWY plant for lawn
decoration. From the middle Of Au-
gust until frost comes it will produce
an almost unlimited amount of yellow
bloom, the blossoms being almost equal
in beauty to those of the yellow chrys-
anthemums.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

Fourteen million three hundred and
twenty-five thousand hogs were sold
and slaughtered in the packing house
markets between the LIST of March and
the LIST of November last year. Allow
ing 20 hogs to occupy one square rod
of ground, this total number would COW
er 4,477 acres, or % farms Of 100 acres
each. This is big lot of grunt and
grease.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

The lima bean is one of the most
delicious vegetables raised in the gar
den, and we wonder why more Of them
are not raised.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

The main secret in transplanting ev-
ergreens is to see that the roots are not
allowed to become dry even for min
ute. Once dried, the tree is as good as
dead.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

KERR Brothers Celebrated White
Wash and Plastering Lime reduced in
price. 5bushels and over, SOC per bushel;
in lots less than bushels, 35e per bushel
for cash. A. w. POWELL.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

With the most abundant crop of cher
ries we ever saw set on the trees we
are right up against the problem of the
birds and the cherries. There are but
few cherries raised where the writer
lives, and we expect to have all the
birds we want about our place during
cherry time. We will protect some of
the trees with netting and divide with
the birds on the rest. for we viii not
shoot these our best friends.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

We passed by an abandoned cream
cry the other day The windows were
all broken, the doors hanging by one
hinge and the interior used only by the
bats and the sparrows. Thirty-iivc
hundred dollars was wasted in this
enterprise, and when we learned that
it was the result OF a useless com
petitive strife between men who should
have co-operated to promote their best
interests we did some thinking. There
are others just like it.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
and White Skirts.

THE NEW Always first on
DRESS STUFFS the list of a sea
sons purchases. No doubt you've
given this Dress Goods matter
much careful thought; SO have we.
Will you kindly compare notes
with us, and see how near we have
come to your conception Of what
the new gown ought to look like,
and what it ought to cost. Think
we can pleasantly surprise you.
You can depend upon our doing
our level best to please you in this
important matter of gown choos-
ing.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

s. A friend of ours engaged in the small
fruit business tells us that he makes
more clean money out Of his currants
one year with another than from any
other fruit.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
BRANCH ROADS.


Do,o,yara Nfarvland q virginia r. r.
Leave harrington for Franklin city ana way
statious 10 81 a. m. daily ana Al p. m. week
davs. Returning, train leaves rankin City
q N a ra. week and l.32 pm. week days.
leave franklin City for Chincoteague via
.asmer1 RI d. m. week days. Returning,
I've ChIncoteague 50 a. m. week days
raove Harrington for Georgetown, Lewes,
VA RehOboth at 1898 a. m, o. p. m. week
aa,a Returning, leave Lewes B45 a. m.
"a q or n m week days.7Z2 am Mondaysonly
Leave Harrington for Berlin, lO5a a. m.
ond0I IA D. m. weekdays. Returning, leave
RarIIn 6 Sc a. m. weekdays and 220 p. m.
Oueen Anne & KENT R.R.-Leave Towns
end for Centreville and way stations. . q
a m. and ) OS D. IN. week days. Returning
leave Centreville 81 a. m. ana 40 p ~
week days ifts
Del. Chesapeake r. R.-Leave clayton nor
Oxford and way stations at 9 IS a. m. ana ID 4
p. m. week days. Returning, leitNe ONiora
6,55 a. m. and SIP. m. week days.
Cambridge & Seaford r. R.--Leave SeafOrd
tor Cambridge and intermediate stations al
II II n. m. and 6 81 D. m. week days Return
ing train leaves Cambridge AZ W ana 255
p. IN. week days.
CoSNECTroN.-At Porter, with Newark &
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Annes & Kent Railroad. At Clay
ton, with Delaware q Chesapeake Railroad
and Baltimore u Delaware BAY railroad. At
HARRINGTON with Delaware, Maryland Il Nir-
ginia Railroad. At Seaford, with Cambridge
4 SeafOrd Railroad. At Delmar, with New
York, Philadelphia & Norfolk, WycOmico q
POcOmoke, and Peninsula Railroads
j. B. HUTCHINSON, General Manag
J.R. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

We passed over four miles of graded
highway recently left so full Of holes
and ruts that it was almost impossible,
and we just wondered why the road
supervisor of that district did not have
sense enough to have run a drag over
the road a couple of times. There is
no tool so effective for improving the
condition of our dirt highways as a
drag used at the proper time.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

The smooth tongued agent of a nurs-
cry was mean enough to sell to an ig-
norant farmer, and the farmer was
green enough to buy, a dozen so called
tree strawberry plants at a shilling
apiece; this where men ought to do
and know better.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

A friend of ours fed 80 head of cat
tie the past winter. He fed for seven
months, and, figuring his feed at last
falls prices, he made 500, which is
really only very moderate profit.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

OF the WONDERFUL
cures made by DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
1t is the great medi-
caltriumph Of the nine
teenth century; dis
covered after years of
scientific research by
DR.. Kilmer, the emf
nent kidney and blad-
der sDecialiet and is
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

wonderfully successful in promptly curing
lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou-
bles and Bright's Disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-ROOt is not rec
ommendedf for everything but if you havekid-
ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found
just the remedyy you need. lthas been tested
in so many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor to pur-
chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that a special arrangement has
been made by which all readers Of this paper
who have not already tried it, may have a
sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how to
| find out you have kidney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention reading this generous
offer in this paper and EyEn(
send your address to 62i 81 a.
Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing- 6 ss s sI5.
hamton, N. Y. The -EAs s4 VI sasfs ~
regular fifty cent and Home of swamp-ToOt.
dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
Friday, May 81.

Pennsylvania Republican conven-
ton will be held at Harrisburg Aug. q. |
At Memphis Gen. John B. Gordon |
was unanimously reelected command |
er of the United Confederate Veter-
ans.
Fred Rochelle, S5-year-old negro,
was burned at the stake at Barlow Fla.
He outraged and murdered Mrs. Rena
Taggart, white.
In collision between trolley cars at
Wilmington, Del, Joshua Gilman and
Conductor Elmer Jones were killed
and % injured.
In Yesterdays university boat race
at Ithaca, N. Y, the Cornell second
crew woS, with Columbia second and
Pennsylvania third.
Saturday, June 1.
A state of siege has been proclaim
ed at Corunna, Spain.
Count William Bismarck, second son
of the late Prince Bismarck, died in
Berlin, aged As.
King Edward has decided to reduce
his ecclesiastical establishment from
SO paid chaplains to p.
DR.. Daniel B. Purinton, president Of
Denison tO.) university, has been Of
fered the presidency of West Virginia
university.
Charles Burt has been appointed
general passenger agent Of the Central
Railroad of New Jersey, to succeed the
late H. p Baldwin.
Terrific wind and hail storms are re
ported in Mississippi ana Alabama.
/ Near Vicksburg Miss, a 5-year-old
child was killed by falling timbers.
Monday, June 3.
James A. Herne. the actor and play
> wright, died in New York, aged 62.
Edward Forshay, an actor, killed
: Miss Edna Stokes, an actress, at Chi
: cagO. Jealousy.
f Governor insolvency, of South Caro-
V lima, refuses to accept the designations
g of Senators Tillman and McLaurin.
e w. II. Newman, president of the
e Lake Shore road, has been chosen
president of the New York Central.
The Spanish military attaches at tn,
various embassies and Legations
4 abroad have been withdrawn for rea
" sons OF economy.
. Tuesday, June 4.
ID The Confederate Soldiers Home,
: state institution for INDECENT veterans
was opened yesterday at Atlanta, Ga.
- The first practice spin Of the intend
- ed cup defender independence, i
10 Massachusetts bay, was entirely sati:
a factory.
ne Three robbers held up wealthy Co.
" ten Burns at Ellwood City, Pa. Tw
or were captured, but one escaped wit
of $1,7OO.
m Thomas Mulhearn. convicted of maj
hit slaughter for killing his wife, Ellen. &
it Paterson, N. j., was sentenced to te
ch years Imprisonment and $1,000 fine
ep Harry Lehr, the pet of New York
BIT 400, was married in New York to tn
d widow of the late John V. Dahlgrel
ne daughter of the late Joseph Drexel.
pc Philadelphia.
~ Wednesday, June 5.
Fires raging near Los Benos, Ca
- have burned over 10000 acres.
do Maryland's Republican state conve
ton will be held at Baltimore Aug. 6.
Russians lost 81 officers and 682 me
in the fighting in China, or Is per Ger
nm The brewers strike in Newark, whiC
or has continued for nine years, has en-
lis ed IN unlonlzlng all the DreWerles.
or Chicago's union machinists will i
IN sist on the dissolution of the emplo
en- er's organization unless they sett
ca NTH the st r.il.nrs
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

The man who owned a good qua
section farm in any of the nOrthwef
ern states during the past yea ha
made over $1,000 in the rise in the
value of his farm. In very many-cases
it has been more than this sum. Such
a farm is still a good proposition to
stay by, and many a man selling out
at the advanced prices is finding it a
hard lob to better himself.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
Queen Anne S Railroad COmpand

Time Table in effect Monday, May 9Th,
1901 (Leaves daily and Sunday.)
Steamer connections between Pier 10 Light
street Wharf, Baltimore, and railroad diVis-
ion at Queenstown, Md.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

You will be reading this along in
June, just when you want to be plan
ming for some sort of forage crop to
help out the haystack next winter.
Here are two or three methods: Take
your barley stubble as soon as possible
after the crop is removed and SOW it
with millet. Plant four or five acres of
corn thick-about three pecks of seed
to the acre-the last of June cut with
corn harvester, shock, cure and then
stack. This is hard to beat. For late
fall feed SOW a piece of rye when the
oat crop is removed and feed it off this
fall and next spring and then plOw the
land for corn. The odd corners Of the
farm may well be used for these spe-
cial fodder crops.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

Corn sold for Go cents the week this
is wrltten-not that the farmer got any
such price, but the shorts who had
sold what they did not have to deliver
had to paw it.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
ICE NOTICE.

About May LIST. 1 shall start my ice wagon
delivery. Orders for service can be left a
my office on North Walnut Street, 2nd door
above Draper, Davis Il Cos phosphate office
Ice Sold at retail at the same place.
Mar 20 3mO VIM. H. DAVIS, Milford, Del.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
Wednesday, June 5.

You eau be cured Of any form Of tobacco using
easily, be made well, strong, magnetic full ~
new life and vigor by taking M0-TO-BGG-
that makes weak men strong. MANY gai2
ten pounds in ten days. over 6Rn Rnn
cured. All druggists. Cure guaranteed Boojr-
let and advice FREE. Address STERLING
REMEDY CO.. Chicago or New York 437
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

One bright fellow down east has made
his fortune out of peanuts. He started
as Il trainboy and secured the right to
sell the goober over certain territory.
From this small beginning he now en-
ploys 600 men and is rich enough to re-
tire if he so desired.
How Are YOur Kidneysl
DR.. Hobbs Sparagus Pills cure all kidney ills. Sam
lie free Add. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or ny
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
IDaily. gDaily except Sunday.

TDailY. KDalIy eAUepI 9uHu"I'
NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRAINs,1
Tesve Wilmington S.l3 am, BOB, AO2, ana
q RI nm. week days. Leave New Castle o.5l'
q HI III 50 a. m, B.4l pm. week days.
0''f e. ,,ress trains leaving Harrington BIO AM
and arriving at $40 p. m. week days run
throngh solid to and from Baltimore VIA
Porter and Newark.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK ?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure TO know Of the wonderful
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

The hired man of the farm today, get
ting his S25 or $50 a month, board and
washing and the keep of horse, has
decided advantage over the dry goods
clerk who gets but sos a month and
mas to board himself, while he works
IA hours a day.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

It is queer how the vendors of GER
tain patent medicines maintain their
hold on certain territory among the
farmers. or course some of the rene
dies sold are good-good as any-bu'
the fact remains that world of good
money is worse than thrown away in
doping up with patent medicines.
When your case is beyond the reach Of
starvation, hot water and YARDS, you
had better call in a skilled physician.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
secured for this class

oVDULVV tut IIIIR7 NIf17777
rill be found to be far bet
e to keep them in grass and not at
tempt to cultivate them, as in a wet
season the only crop which they can
be depended upon to produce is weeds.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, May 80.

A compromise has been effected be-
tween warning Northern Pacific inter-
ests.
Minister Loomis will not return to
Venezuela, but will be given another
diplomatic post.
Vice Admiral Seymour, British COM
mander on the China station since
1896, has been promoted admiral.
Associate Justice Brewer, of the Un,-
ted States supreme court, is to marry
Miss Emma M. Mott, a Washington
teacher
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

The west will have to brag on its big
crops when the east brags on the good
roads of that section. Good corn land
is a poor material out Of which to make
a good road and always will be.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

After the man with a narrow tired
wagon has cut holes in the highway
two feet deep it is asking a good deal
of his neighbor with a wide tired wag-
on to go over the road and smooth it
down again for him.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

Two good things to let strictly alone
just now-stock in Texas oil wells and
Colorado gold mines. If you don't
want to see a good farm drop down
into a hole in the ground, let these
alone.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07
ID. M. 81 ". Branch.

At Georgetown trains connect with trains
to and from Franklin City.
Going south read down North read up.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

1t is said that. some farmers in the
corn belt are trying to raise just as big
ears Of corn and just as small eggs as
possible. When eggs are sold by
weight instead of count this will stop.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

A deep, good cellar, with cement
walls and floor, is one of the most use
full rooms in the farm home. The hole
in the ground where are generated
many bad smells, called the cellar,
should give way to something better.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

The possibilities connected with fruit
culture on the Pacific slope are almost
beyond comprehension. Enough prunes,
grapes, citrus fruits, could be there
produced to supply the whole world.
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

Instead of letting the rosebushes
grow straight up bend over the larger
canes and hold them down with a hook
ed peg of wood. When so treated, new
shoots will start from the whole length
of the cane, and it is on this new wood
that the flowers will be produced. Even
the hybrid or June, roses, which bloom
but once during the season, treated in
this manner can be made to produce
flowers through much longer season
Milford chronicle., 1901-06-07

We would not feed a COW bran when
she has full ration of blue grass. If
supplemental food is given, we would
make it of ground corn and oats. The
blue grass is almost a perfect milk pro-
ducing ration of itself.