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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

With proper care it is entirely nos
sible to realize 81 head on a fiocl,
OF 100 laying hens on any western
farm. In this limited number they
largely obtain their living as scaven-
gers and the cost of keeping them is
very small. There is no $3.50 made on
the farm with so large a percentage of
profit to the farmer as this.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01
Under New Management,

The Capitol Hotel situated as it is on
the Public Square, near all Banks and
Public Buildings has been the favorite
stopping place with the travelling public
for over quarter of a century. We
have recently refurnished and remodel
ed this house making it up to date Our
new bar and bouffet is the largest and
handsomest in the State We are pre-
pared to offer reduced rates to perma-
nent bOarders aud to members Of the
Legislature when in session. Large
rooms for caucuses, balls, receptions,
banquets.
Bar Stocked With Choicest Liquors.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

Set out strawberry bed this spring
even if you raise an acre less corn.
Life Is short, and the hest things
should be got out of it, and when a
man can combine a Jersey COW and a
milkpan full Of big Strawberries raised
In his own garden he has come about
as near striking a good thing as he
ever will. The man who comes TO
town and buys two boxes of dirty.
stale berries gets his wife to make a
shortcake and sits down and returns
thanks for the good food given him to
eat Is not living up to his opportunities.
sure as you're born.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

when first met YOU. cried the wO-
man who had been married fOr her
money. won occupied low. menlaI
position. but now. thanks to me, your
position
lis a hymeneal one" her husband n
terrupted Exchange
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01
Ruptu>9

Write or call for J. A. Sherman's book jus
out-oyer 100 pages-price y cts in postage
stamps. Learn how cured without operation
or loss Of time or tire danger of strangulaton,
from which thousands, old and Young, yearly
die. Address j. A, SHERMAN. Hernia
Specialist, 300 Broadway, New York.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

When the land gets i'm that condition
where it will not grow clover, the man
who owns it is in a hard fix. This CON
dition prevails on the farms in many
localities in the central states.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

A late government bulletin places the
lumber acreage left in this country at
l'O94OOO square miles, or 81 per cent
OF the entire area of the country. This
per cent of timber is above that which
the German government requires to be
maintained, but the trouble is that ours
is not at all evenly distributed.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01
IDaiiy. sDally except Sunday.

NEW CASTLE ACcO MEDIATION TRAINS
Leave Wilmington 81 am, BOB, 4.39, and
6 So pm. week days. Leave New Castle 83I
s.53, II OF "a. m, 6.3S p. IN. week days
Express trains leaving Harrington 8. 10 Am
and arriving at 6.46 p. m. week DAYS ~un
through solid TO and from Baltimore via
Porter and Newark.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

In the year 1870 England supplied
her own people with all the bread and
meats which they required. Now she
is dependent upon other countries for
a supply for ten months in the year.
Her supply Of wheat is derived as fol
lows for 1900:
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01
Queen ADnS S Railroad CumDand

Time Table in effect Monday Nov "a,
ASV Leaves daily and Sunday
steamer connections between pior N ri.
sStfeet Wharf, Baltimore, and RAILROAD ASS
ion at Queenstown, Ma. O'u ulVls-
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

Kansas lost cattle to the value of
100000 by blackleg the past season.
Vaccination at cost of 10 cents Il
head would have saved them.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

Drilled corn will yield about eight
bushels per acre more than corn plant
ed in the hill. and the ears will be more
uniform in size. This plan is to be
commended for clean soils-clover and
blue grass sods-but where the soil is
full Of weeds it is better to stick to
the hill system
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

Congress is asked for S4,OOO,00O for
the maintenance Of the agricultural de.
partment in the pending appropriation
bill. There is no money appropriated
which brings the American people a
larger return.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

i ne hrSt time a man is appoin ed on
committee" he is very apt to think
his position Il very impnrtan. one
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01
TIE CANNING Rus1Nnss

whenever any line of manufacturing
specially connected with agriculture is
found to be profitable set of pro.
motors and sharks will seize upon it
and make bad work for the men whom
they get to invest in such enterprises.
The west and for aught we know the
east as well is full of creamery wrecks.
the work of these smooth tongued nro
motors, plants which cost from $1,000
to $4,000 each being built where there
never had been 500 milk cows in the
territory covered and never would he
The same thing has been and is now
being done with the canning industry
especially such canneries as are devot-
ed to the canning of corn. We have if
on the very best of authority that this
line of business is already overdone
and that this year the profits have
been extremely meager for the owners
OF such plants. One of the largest and
most successful sweet corn canneries
IN the west on taking an invoice of its
business for 1900 finds that on an in.
vestment Of $4,000 and an output Of
over 2,OOOOOO cans of corn the profit
has been only $1,000, a per cent of prof
1t which is certainly hot at all inviting
to capitalists.
This country consumed 16.509111
punches of bananas during the year
1900. '
The Syracuse plum, one of the Amer
icana type, is rated by our Minnesota
plum growers as the best Of all.
If the GrOut bin fails, it may truth
fully be said that the dual purpose cow
the COW which can be kept for profit
both on milk and beef lines-will be the
8-year-Old ShOrthorn steer.
We met lately poultry raiser of the
state of New York who keeps 5000
White Leghorn laying hens and enjoys
an income from his poultry yard of SGD
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

FIVaaUIC 70 llmsoIT.
ne sensible thing for
RS TO do this very thing for
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01


$1,000 OR An EDUCATION.
/ western farmer, well to do. sub
mits the following question and asks
that we reply to it through this de-
partment: Il have a boy II years old
and $1,000 in cash with which | wish
to help him. Shall give him the money
and start him in farming or shall l
use il to educate HING
SO very much depends upon the boy
in the case that we are handicapped i'm
the matter Of giving any advice. How
ever assuming that he is an average
country boy, bit green. raw and unde-
veloped, without vicious habits and
willing to work and with even a LITTLE
ambition to know more. we would do
this: We would take enough of that
$1,000 to pay the expenses of this bov
at one of our agricultural colleges. tax
ing the short agricultural course. This
course of study is essentially practical
and helpful and will not drift him
| away from the farm, but will make
MN more than twice as good a man
ON the farm as he ever could be with
out IT, II in accommodating the knovl-
edge incident to taking the course
named he brOadens out and has n real
ambition to know still more. we would
then put the whole 81 GOO into his edu-
cation. Otherwise let him come home
when this course is completed and
commence life with what is left Of tbe
0nTnWnTnfainffnn
doubleday make success with his 10
nOrance and the $1,000, it is still true
that he could never become 0uite so
broad and useful a man. and the
chances are that with this education be
would work his farm so that the money
invested in such education would be re-
turned to him a thousandfold. In the
strenuous life of the twentieth century
both on the farm and off it. the ignO-
rant man has poorer show than ever
before in the history of civilization.
knowledge means power. success. prize
winning, as never before. Ignorant
ploddins may still win bread. but the
man who is thus content is not living
up to his opportunities. Give that boy
a chance.
A GOOD THING FOR THE ROY.
A farmer friend of the writer has n
1I-year-Old son who has worked on
the farm and gone to the district school
in the winter. This boy was Just an
ordinary farm boy like hundreds of
others. The father wanted to give the
boy little better chance in the matter
of education and so sent the bov for
two successive winters to take a IA
weeks short agricultural course at one
OF our state agricultural colleges
What did this do for the boy? Well. it
made HIM first class judge of stock;
he learned enough about mechanics so
that he could weld iron, sharpen
pillow lay, take a farm separator to
pieces, repair it and put it together
again. and do skillfully hundred and
one things on the farm in the way of
repairing and mending; he knew some
thing about soils, plant food, rotation
OF crops and the common diseases Of
domestic animals. In word. he had
acquired quite a valuable amount of
knowledge touching the technical and
scientific side of agriculture which he
VIII find worth good money to him in
the future. Withal, this course of col
lege training had in no manner made
him dissatisfied with farm life and no
returned home TO take up the old work
with more interest than ever before
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01
WHAT AIS IT.

friend writes us that he has n
tract of what was once marsh land
now well tile drained which for some
unaccountahle reason will grow mo
corn at all and only improbable crops
or oats. barley or timothy and wants
TO know what the trouble is. II fire..
quently happens that marsh lands so
drained are for several years after be
ing so reclaimed unfit for the growth of
cereal crops, especially corn. this be.
ing caused by the excess Of alkali in
the soil. this alkali being the product
OF the ashes of the prairie grasses
which for ages after the prairie fire
had done its work were washed into
these marsh land reservoirs or basins
Usually such lands will produce excel.
lent crops Of potatoes, the potato being
a greedy user of potash. We have seen
max successful crop on such lands.
and generally timothy will produce FINE
crops If stiff white or blue CLAW suD-
soil lies very near the surface rs is
sOmet5mes tbe.eaFs5.y-.Te would give =
-gooa Sarnyaul manure and get
INTO clover. if it will grow. and if not
then timothy and redtop. and would
pasture for few years. We have nay.
er noted the trouble referred to rs oc-
curing Oh peat marshes, it appearing
only on muskegs or common prairie
Swamps.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

We met lately poultry raiser of the
state of New York who keeps 5000
White Leghorn laying hens and enjoys
an income from his poultry yard of $50
per day. His poultry houses cost over
$1,000.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

LR- HUTCHINSON, Gen, Manager
WOOD, Gen. Passenger Agent.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01
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Ger on to get a good hon. =,
this ladies. 1t is worse than BLOWN.
down the muzzle of a loaded shotgun.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

Expert turkey pickers make as much
lAn as 81 per day.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

The Syracuse plum, one Of the Amer
icana type, is rated by our Minnesota
plum growers as the best of all.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01
ID. MI. 81 ". Branch.
North read up.

Al Georgetown trains connect with trains
70 and from Franklin City.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

Send all orders to THE CHRONICLE, Milford, Delaware
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01
THE TEST.

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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

This country consumed 16.5O9 III
punches of bananas during the wear
1900.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

But She Fails to Get Any Informa-
ton From Her Husband as TO the
Manner In Which She should Act
When She Enters Her Home Among
the Angels.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-02-15
Geronimo's Souvenir Coat.

Abraham Jefferson, a negro. was
held to the grand jury recently on a
charge of larceny, says the Kansas City
Journal. The nameSake OF Abraham
and Jefferson is charged with having
stolen from Fred Harvey, the railway
restaurant man. curiously made
buckskin coat. which was formerly a
possession OF the bloodthirsty Apache
chief, Geronimo. The coat, which was
exhibited in court. is an interesting
specimen of Indian handiwork. and a
striking c. nmentary on the character
OF old Geronimo. 1t is festooned with
forty or fifty long tufts OF hair, which
are believed to have been taken from
the heads of the many white women
whom the old chief had killed. Ger.
onimo must have had a particular dis
like for women with dark brown hair
or a penchant for that kind of decora-
ton for his coat, for. with one excep-
ton, all the hair Is Of that color. The
exception is very light brown, which
might at one time have been red. All
the hair is long. 1t is attached In hit
or-miss fashion to all parts of thu
coats exterior. and hangs down the
back so thick as to almost conceal tho
highly colored painted figures which
constitute the rest of its ornamental
ton. AS a curio the coat was worth
about $500.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-02-15
GRADE CROSSINGS.
Decrease In the Number of Accidents
From This Cause.

Since 1898 the number OF railroad
accidents at crossings at grade has
fallen off % per cent, though the vol
ume Of railroad travel in the United
States has largely increased and the
number of trains is much greater.
This decrease is due largely to the
legislation, in which New York was
the pioneer, for the abolition OF all
grade crossings. says the New York
Sun. The Anti-Grade Crossing law or
New York, adopted in 1897, provided
that steam surface roads thereafter
built must be constructed to avoid all
crossings at grade. New streets, av-
enueS or highways, when carried
across the tracks of existing steam
roads, must be either above or below
grade, and the extra cost of such con-
struction is to be paid half by the
municipality and half by the road
crossed. Where existing crossings are
changed upon the application of the
municipal authorities or of a railroad
company the expense Of such change Is
to be paid as follows: One-half by the
state and one-quarter by the municipal
authorities. All street surface rail-
roads hereafter constructed in New
York across a steam railroad shall be
either above or below its grade. The
legislature Is authorized to appropri-
ate not less than 500 900 annually to
defray the states share of the expense
imposed by compliance with this stat
ute. Massachusetts,, in which the
population outside OF the large cities
Is more dense than in New York, ap-
propriates 100000 year for the elimi-
nation Of grade crossings and has al
ready expended S2,500,0O0 for this pur-
pose, and the railroad companies in
massachusetts, largely owned in New
York; have paid S5,0OO,OOO for the same
purpose Under a law passed by the
Tennessee legislature in 1889, the rail-
roads are obliged to grade road cross
lngs to the level of the rails, and to
keep them in repair for ten feet on
each side of the track. The Connecti-
cut legislature adopted a similar meas
ure and it has been strictly enforced
In that state. Nearly every western
state and some southern and Pacific
states have followed New York's lead
In gradually doing away, where prac-
ucable, with the old fashioned method
OF laying railroad tracks on the same
level as the interesting wagon and
carriage roads. There are few roads
In the country on which there has not
been in recent years some effort to re-
duce the number of grade crossings.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-02-15
AN INNOVATION.

The Louisville & Nashville r. R. to-
gether with its connecting lines, has
inaugurated the Chicago G. Florida
Limited, which is a daily, solid train,
wide vestibuled, steam heated, gas
lighted, with dining car service for all
meals en- route from Chicago to Thorn
asVlIle, Ga, Jacksonville and st. Au-
guStlne, Fla. The train leaves Chicago
over the Chicago G. Eastern Illinois
tracks at 11:00 a. M, running via Ev-
ansville, Nashville, Birmingham and
Montgomery, Plant System to jack
sonVille, and Florida East Coast to st.
Augustine, arriving at the latter city
at E3o the next evening, making the
fastest time ever made between these
points. The train has annex sleeper.
leaving st. Louis at 2:15 D. m. which
also runs through. Mr.. C. l.. Stone.
General Passenger Agent, Louisville g.
Nashville r. r., Louisville, KY. will
answer all inquiries concerning this
train and furnish printed matter con-
corning it,
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-02-15
Low Rates West and Northwest.

On February 18th, and on each Tues
day until April 50th, the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway will sell
one-way secOnd-class tickets at the fol-
lowing very low rates:
To Montana points. 90
To North Pacific coast points 5000
10 California. ..... 5000
These tickets will be good on all
trains and purchasers will have choice
OF six routes and eight trains via st.
Paul and two routes and three trains
via Missouri river each Tuesday. The
route of the Famous Pioneer Limited
trains and the U. S. Government Fast
Mail Trains.
All Ticket Agents sell tickets via
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway, or for further information
address F. A. Miller. General Passen-
ger Agent, Old Colony Building, Chi
cago.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-02-15
The Chicago and Florida speciaI.v

Solid vestibuled trains from Chicago
10 st. Augustine every Wednesday and
Saturday via big Four" route. The
entire train runs through solid from
Chicago to ST Augustine. Absolutely
no change of cars for either passen.
gers or baggage. First train Wednes-
day, Jan. 16. 1901. Through dining
cars, through Pullman sleepers,
through observation cars, through
baggage cars. Leaves Central Sta
ton, 18th st. and Park Row, Chicago.
1900 noon. Arrive st. Augustine $3.50
next p. m. For particulars call on
your local agent, or address ]. G.
Tucker. General Northern Agent Big
Four Route, Chicago.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-02-15
Another Fresh 'Un.

Mrs. c. is one of those unfortunate
ladies who are rarely out of communi-
cation with the servants registry Of
fee, says London fit-Bits. Tradesmen
and others who frequently call at her
house are met at the door by perpetu-
ally changing staff of domestics. On
ono occasion when a ring was heard.
for some reason or other Mrs. G. her.
self went down, and, opening the door,
found outside the milk boy with the
afternoons dole Of milk. Seeing her
he leaned against the doorway and
gave vent to a prolonged whistle.
Then, imagine her feelings when he
addressed her thus: What, another
fresh 'un? You will not stay here
long. / lay. She Is beauty, she H."
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-02-15

taken with very distressing pains In
my stomach.
Il seldom had a passage Of the bow
els naturally. l consulted another
physician with no better results. The
disease kept growing on me, until l
had exhausted the ability Of sixteen OF
ROchester's best physicians. The last
physician advised me to give up my
work and go south, after he had treat
ed me for one year.
L was given thorough examination
with the X-ray. They could not even
determine what my trouble was. Some
OF your testimonials in the Rochester
papers seemed to me worthy of con-
sideratiOn, and | made up my mind to
try a bottle of Peruna Before the
bottle was half gone | noticed a change
for the better. | am now on the fifth
bottle. and have not an ache or pain
anywhere. My bowels move regularly
every day. and | have taken on eight
cen pounds of flesh | have recon-
mended Peruna to a great many and
they recommend it very highly.
have told several people that if they
would take a bottle OF Peruna, and
could then candidly say that it had not
benefited them, I would pay for the
medicine. "A. C. Lockhart.
MIR. w. p. Peterson, of Morris, Ill,
says:
Il was nearly dead with catarrhal
dyspepsia and am now well man, bet
ter, in fact, than have been for twen-
ty years or more
Since l got cured by your Peruna 1
have been consulted by a great many
people"
If you co not derive prompt and sat-
isfactory results from the use of Pc
runa, write at once to DR.. Hartman,
giving full statement of your case.
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President or
Inc hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-02-15
A Montana Live stock Companv.

Out in Montana there is a co-opera-
tive company called the Montana Co.
Operative Ranch Company of Great
Falls. Montana. It's business is to
take care OF cattle, sheep and hogs
belonging to its shareholders.
Anyone can become a shareholder
by buying one or more shares in the
company, which sell at only $40 each.
1t now has something over seventy
shareholders scattered all over the
United States, eleven of whom are
ladies. Each shareholder has the right
to put as many cattle, sheep and hogs
on the ranch as they may desire and
the company guarantees to take good
care of them for one-half the increase.
The Company's annual report for
1900 shows that the shareholders re-
ceived from % to 80 per cent interest
on their investments in sheep while
the Company earned 10 per cent
dividend on its shares.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-02-15
A TRANSFORMATION.
Mysterious Disappearance OF a Deer from
Back Porch.

Back Porch.
Jones would like to meet the man
that did it, says the Detroit Free
Press. He says that if the party who
took the deer will disclose his identity
he may keep the animal for his trou-
Die. But 1t is not likely the guilty
wretch will come forward, as he dis
likes to attract attention. Jones re-
turned from northern Michigan, where
he had been on hunting trip. He
claims that he shot a deer while he
was there, and brought it home with
him. AT any rate, he had one with
him when he got back This much
the neighbors are willing to testify
to, as he was careful to hang the deer
on the back porch. where the whole
nelShborhood could not help seeing il.
One neighbor has been unkind enough
to lnsinuate that one of its legs was
broken and that there were other in
dications to prove that the deer had
been caught in trap and dubbed to
death. Unfortunately this point must
always remain in doubt unless the
guilty person comes forward and adds
his testimony regarding the facts in
the case. Jones, after seeing that the
deer was hung where the neighbors
could see it, went downtown, collected
party Of friends and lured them up
to the house by promising them some
Of the venison. On their way there
they were vastly entertained by his
vivid account of how he killed the deer
by making a shot that was next to
impossible. He took them around to
the rear Of the house. only to find that
some one had not only removed the
deer. but had substituted a dead calf
in its place. 1t is hard to tell which
makes Jones the maddest, the loss of
the deer or the doubt his friends ex-
press whether he really did kill a
deer, as he says.