davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

Write or call for ]. A. Sherman's book jus
out-over 100 pages-price % cts. in postage
stamps. Learn how cured without operation
or loss of time or tire danger of strangulation,
from which thousands, old and young, yearly
die Address J. 4, SHERMAN. Hernia
Speeialist. 300 Broadway. New York.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

A gentleman gravely Informed his
bearers at u farmers institute recently
while discussing potato culture that
care should be used not to mix varie-
ties Of the potato when planting, as the
fact Of fertilization of the blossoms
would result in mixing the potatoes in
the hill He was wrong. The potato
always comes true to the seed planted.
The polarization affects only the seed
balls. not the tubers New varieties Of
the potato are obtained wholly from
the little seeds found in the potato
hollis
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

A friend wishes to know what he
can do to make his hired man content
ed. 1t depends upon the man, but if
he (our friend will do all the milking
and get a good looking hired girl the
chances are the h. N. will be reasona-
bly, cOntented. If not, then he should
be fired at once.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

We do not know about sowing rape
in corn unless both crops can be fed
off on the ground by either sheep or
hogs. A friend sOwed a part of his
cOrnfeld with rape at the time of the
last blowing. A big storm blew the
corn crop down in early August, and
the rape started up and soon buried
the corn almost out of sight. And he
had to wait until the frost killed the
rape before he could pick his corn.
This combination would be just the
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

NEW CASTLE ACCoNMODATIoN TRAINS
Leave Wits ngtOn S.lS am, S.OS, 4.S9, and
G6s nm week days. Leave New Castle S.3li
q II. ii Ol 3. m, SIS I'm. week days.
Express trains leaving Harrington $40 Am
and arriving at 6.48 p. IN. week days cun
through solid to and from Baltimore via
11nrfor and NRWark.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

ScdlTnent or sci
ting indicates an
unhealthy condi-
ton of the kid
neys; If it stains
your linen it is
evidence Of kid
ney trouble; too
frequent desire to
pass II or pain in
the back is also
kidnevs and HAD.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

Neither an old boar nor an old bull Is
a desirable adjunct Of the stock farm.
They are very apt to be ugly and more
or less of Il nuisance. but just the same
any man can well afford to keep such
matured sires. Gagged up like wild
beasts, If necessary, for the sake of
their value as sires.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

We commend the red cedar for an
evergreen belt around the farm home.
It will not grow so fast as the white or
Scotch pine, but is everywhere tough
and hardy. standing drought and ex-
IRENE cold better than any evergreen
we have. 1t should be planted much
more extensively than 1t is.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22
Under New Management.

The Capitol Hotel situated as it is on
the Public Square, pear all Banks and
Public Buildings has been the favorlte
stopping place with the travelling public
for over a quarter of a century. We
have recently refurnished and remodel
ed this house making it ptO 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 and to members of the
Legislature when in session. Large
rooms for caucuses, balls, receptions
banquets.
Bar Stocked With Choicest Liquors.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

1t may be in place to say word
about a change of seed grain at this
time. Few men realize how much
they would re benefited by doing this
If the farm is a clay soil. try some
wheat. oats and barley from sandy
one, no matter If it is only a few miles
to the sandy soil Better yet, get the
seed from some sandy soil 100 or 200
miles to the north Of you. If your farm
is sandy. get the grain grown on clay
soil. Potatoes will show more improve
ment than almost any other crop by
this changing of seed. Nature works
on a law of continual change, and it j:
well to heed 1t.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

How many sheep can be kept Oh the
food required by one cOwT' we are
asked. That depends altogether on the
breed of the sheep. Five 200 pound
Cotswolds will consume as much food
as n thousand pound COW. while eight
Shropshires and ten MerinOs would re-
quire about the same amount of food.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22
VALUE OF BLUE GRASS PASTURE
LAND.

A good blue grass pasture. if used to
make beef and milk. will one year with
another pay G per cent interest on
valuation of ST5 per acre. and the best
permanent blue grass pasture is quite
apt to be located on some bottom lands
near the streams and rivers subject to
periodical overflow or he some low
living tract too wet for cultivation in
crops. Such pastures are greatly help
ed by an occasional disking and har
rowing and by the scattering Of little
medium clover and timothy on them il
the early spring.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

Time Table in effect Monday, Nov. 9TH.
1900 Leaves daily and Sunday)
Steamer connections between Pier 10 Light
Street Wharf, Baltimore, and railroad divis-
lon at Queenstown, Md.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

Try a patch of rape this year. Plant
two acres of sweet corn and sow ~
pounds Of rape seed to the acre at the
time of the last blowing. When the
corn begins to harden, fence off half of
it and turn the hogs in. Let them alone
and go and lean over the fence as the
sun goes down and just laugh to see
them grow. Give them the other hall
later on and then raise a hundred bush
els of corn to the acre there next year
This is not a long item, but it is Z
mighty good one all the same.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22
CHEAP BUTTER MAKERS.

We are prompted to speak of i'll ad-
viseG economy practiced by many CO.
operative creameries in selecting the
cheapest man for butter maker. There
is probably no other business where
cheap and incompetent men can lose
so much money for their employers as
here. Take a big creamery making a
ton of butter a day in June and allow
the product to be off just enough to
rell for cent under the market, and
away goes $40 into a hole. The butter
maker. If ar expert. IS cheap at 500
per m9nA9ir for such a man can save his
wages twice over. Brains cost money
but brains must go into the cream vat
the starter, the tester and the churI
and are Just as important as salt W.
have known cases where $40 mOntl
saved on a butter makers wages repre-
scented a dead loss of 500 each montl
| no made the huttpr
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

A prominent railway official told US
lately that it will pay to build line Of
road anywhere in the west and north
west where a belt of farm land six
miles wide on each side of the road
can be depended upon for patronage.
II this statement is true, we have not
got to the end of railway construction
1 by a good deal.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

Good seed is the first step in securing
good crops, then Il proper and thorough
preparation of the seed bed. Ignoring
these things many men work and fret
and fail. it being the same sort of fool
ishness which makes a man expect to
raise a good calf on sour separator
milk.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22
June al
.er or corn BIZ

cure it well in the shU~- put
in the barn or stack. This is a better
crop than millet or sorghum, so far as
the feed is concerned, and is more cas-
lily and satisfactorily handled. Five
acres of such corn if planted on good
land will easily yield 20 tons of very
choice fodder.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

We lately at a farmers institute at
Logan. in Harrison county. Ia, had the
pleasure Of listening to a brass band
and string orchestra Of 20 members.
each one the son or daughter Of men
living on their farms. Under compe-
tent instructor they had semiweekly
rehearsals during the winter months
and have settled in a most happy and
pleasing manner the question of social
pleasure for themselves, while at the
same time they afford others a rare
musical treat Here is an example well
worth following in other localities
Two-thirds Of this organization were
/ young ladies.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble
and Don't Know it.
How To Find Out.

Fill bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

If capitalists can make good money
buying western range sheep and your
grain and hay to fatten them for mar
ket. why in the name of common sense
should not you? These men are max
ing close to dollar a head, and you
would have an additional 10 cents
which they can't get in the matter OF
fertilizing your land.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22
RROME GRASS AND RAPE

We again have several inquiries as to
rape and the bronze grass. While we
have quite fully answered these in
quiries in former issues. we will do so
once more to inform new readers Of
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

If the Oatfield is rank and black In
May and the field is level, turn the
sheep in for short time; If the field is
rolling. do not do it, as the sheep will
Invariably feed on the higher portions
Of the land, just where their work is
not needed.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22
QuVs1 AnnB S Railroad COMPANY

]. r. HUICHINSONl Gen. Manage
WOOD, Gen. Passenger Agent.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

The colOred brother needs freezing
up-putting into cold storage-fOT
about three months every year. lie
would then get a hustle on himself.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

The wolf bounty appropriation Of the
state of South Dakota is short the sum
of $4,000. Range conditions always
favor the multiplication Of wolves. who
find an easy living preying on the
young and helpless of the hocks and
herds.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

Two million seven hundred thousand
Frenchwomen are reported by the last
census Of that country as employed in
outdoor work on the farms and gar
dens of France. This condition would
theoretically imply large families Of
children. but the same census disclOses
the fact that the nation as a whole is
barely holding its own in point of pop
ulatiOn.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

One ton Of commercial fertilizer,
worth sos. is required for each acre Of
farm land on Long Island in order to-
insure a crop. And there are thou
sands of men in the fertile west who
grow three tons Of worthless weeds in
each acre of their cOrnfelds who would
not know what a commercial fertilizer
was If they were asked.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22
convincing proof that the
der are out Of order


aSl ale WI VI OA0CAs
What so DO.
There is comfort In the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, the great kidney remedy fulfills every
wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the
back, kidneys, liver. bladder and every part
Of the urinary passage. It conects inability
TO hold water and scalding pain in passing
It, or bad effects following use of liquor,
wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity Of being compelled to 60 often
during the day, and to get up many times
during the night. The mild and the extra
ordinary effect Of Swamp-ROOt is soon
realized. 1t stands the highest for It's won
derful cures Of the most distressing cases.
II you need a medicine you should have the
best. Sold by druggists in SOC. and$l. sizes.
You may have sample bottle Of this
wonderful discovery Esk~
and a book that tells slHsyE5
more about it, both sent IS s iI.i.s
absolutely free by mail, 'S=Azsls l lslssse ssH
address DR.. KilmeT & HOus Of sWnmpROos
Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing men
zion reading this generous efieE in thispapO5
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

A late experiment conducted at the
Kansas experiment station in the feed
ing of young calves showed that a
bunch of calves raised on sweet sepa-
ratOr skimmilk made a daily gain of
1.54 pounds at a cost Of S3.42 per 100
pounds of gain; bunch fed whole
milk made n gain of 1.95 pounds pei
day at cost of $6.64 per 100 pounds
and another bunch allowed to run witt
their dams made gain of III pounds
per day at cost Of SAL per 1O(
pounds.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

There will always be some one to
breed the scrub COW, somebody to milk
her, somebody to lose money feeding
her steer calf, but it should not be you.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

The best remedy for lice in the hen
house seems to be to line the building
with tarred paper.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

At the present prices Of the staple
good cotton lands-thOse which will
produce from three-fourths Of bale to
a bale per acre-are easily worth 500
per acre.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

Manure is always injured by heating
through which process it loses its am
mOnia.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

The dust and fine chaff from a ma
chine thrashing fax were carried by a
strong wind over on to a piece Of land
a quarter of an acre in extent which
had never grown crop of fax. This
field sowed to fax next year produced
a fine crop. with the exception Of this
One-quarter acre. which was so pol
sOned by the dust that the crop all
died off when it was two inches high.
We came across q public spirited
nan lately who had set a row of apple
trees in the street outside the sidewalks
for shade trees. OF course the boys
will get all the apples, but no man has
lived in vain who has helped the boys
/ of his town to have a good time.
Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22
ID. M. 81 ". Branch.

At Georgetown trains connect with trains
to and from Franklin City.
Going south read down North read up.
Garth Nortb
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-23
CHINESE TARIFF.
Flour Will Be on the Free List When
Revision is Completed.

San Francisco, Oct. 23-Speaxing to
the members of the chamber of COM
merce of this city. T. S. Sharretts, United
States commissioner to assist in revis-
ing the Chinese tariff said:
Flour is entitled TO free entry into
China under the terms of the protocol
signed by the allied powers and flour
Will be on the free list of the revised
Chinese tariff when have concluded my
labors. Canned fruits and jellies 1 am
informed are the next most important
articles exported from the Pacific coast
To the shippers I ask that you prepare
and forward to me at Shanghai the
home value per can of every description
of this class of merchandise, and will
then be in a position to advocate a tariff
thereon advantageous to you and I
trust acceptable to the other powers.
To prospective exporters of every line
of American products l urge similar ex-
peditious action.
After concluding my labors on the
commission of the Chinese tariff to a
specific basis 1 have been notified by the
president and state department that I
Will probably be called upon in con-
junction with Minister Conger to negoti-
ate a new commercial treaty with China
In this connection 1 would be glad to
receive suggestions in the near future
from merchants in the United States re-
garding such changes as in their opinion
will prove beneficial"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-23
LEE CHOUP GOES BACK.
Rich Chinaman to Spend His Last
DAYS in His Native Land.

New York. Oct 23.-Lee Choup, per-
haps the wealthiest man in New Yorks
Chinatown" is going back to China
to live out his old age in the luxury
which can be purchased with the for
tune he has amassed in this city. says
the Tribune He will leave next Mon
day for Canton, with his wife and three
children, born in this city. In China
he has two other wives, whom he has
not seen for five years. His mother,
now 81 years old, is in poor health, and
Lee wants to see her again before she
dies. The fortune which Lee Choup IS
taking back to China is variously esti-
mated at from S125,000 to $3.50, 000 He
got his start in Canada, when the Cana
dian Pacific railway was being built,
by carrying out some heavy contracts.
Then he went to Portland, Ore, and
opened a small store. A number of
years ago he came to New York and
founded a Chinese trading firm. which
has become one of the largest in the
Chinese quarter and has a branch In
Boston.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-23
cruel toward her and has published a

cruel toward her and has published a
notice that he would not pay her bills
She asks the custody of the one child,
Opal Gladys Maze and alimony.
Jim Richardson wants a divorce from
Mary Richardson whom he married in
1897 on the ground of cruelty and neglect
of duty
James V. Douthitt asks for a divorce
from Carrie w. Douthitt whom he mar
ried in 1886, on the ground of abandon
ment and of gross neglect of duty
Kate Peters wishes a divorce from
Isaac Peters, whom she married in 1899,
because Isaac was convicted of stealing
and sent to the penitentiary and because
he stole her clothes and also threatened
to kill her
Waclaw Kladky has asked for divorce
from Katerina HladEy because she has
been guilty of gross neglect of duty.
They were married in Austria in 1855.
He says in his petition that she is
stout, healthy woman and that he is
81 years old and has heart disease and
that their two boys, aged 80 and 81
years, still live with them and collude
together to injure and annoy him and
that the boys have taken possession Of
his property and fail to give him
enough to eat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-23
PERU's BRIGHT FUTURE.
On Gold Basis and the Verge of q
Big Boom

San Francisco, Oct. 23-Irving B. Dud-
ley, United States minister to Peru, has
arrived here on a vacation trip In an
interview he said:
Conditions in Peru, politically, COM
mercially and financially, are quite sat
isfactory. There have been no political
disturbances during the past seven
years, and as for the finances of the
country they are in an incomparably
better condition than those of Argentine
and Chilli. Peru is now on a gold basis
and the gold monetary system has
proved of incalculable advantage to the
country. There is not the slightest fiuc-
tuation in the rate of exchange.
AT the present time Peru is on the
verge of big BOOM Copper properties
have been discovered in the heart of the
Andes. and American capital to the
amount of $4,000, 900 or SO. 200, 900 is to be
invested in their development. The pro-
ject involves the building of eighty miles
of railroad. People close to Senator
Clark of Montana are interested in the
project"
Minister Dudley expects to remain in
the city about a week He will leave
for the east shortly thereafter to join
Mrs Dudley. who is now visiting in Chi
cagO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-23
WHOLESALE SMUGGLING.
Government Officials Coniscate Seal
Skins Worth $4,000.

New York. Oct 23.-On charges of be-
ing implicated in the wholesale snug
Cling of sealskins into the United States
warrants have been issued in Vermont
for fourteen persons now in Montreal
says the Worlds Montreal correspcn-
dent These skins. il is alleged, were
United States government has already
confiscated SIS. 900 worth of the skins
and that customs detectives are tracing
the remainder Mr. Guilds, special
agent of the United States treasury. has
detained at Rouses Point, on the United
States border, a shipment of coon tails
and mink waste which he declares are
undervalued. These furs We're shipped
by the Russian Fur company of Mon
treaI. The members Of the company deny
the charge and say that il necessary
they will go to Washington to demand
their rights
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-23
Sheriff's Proclamation and No.
tice of Special Election.

In the matter of holding a special
election for the purpose of voting upon
the proposition to authorize the board
of county commissioners of Shawnee
county, Kansas, to make levy and raise
tax for the erection of a steel wagon
bridge across the Kansas river at a
point near the old sugar mill site in
Mission township. to cost sum not
exceeding twenty thousand dollars as
provided for in chapter 25 general
statutes of 1899. '. hereas, said board
of county commissioners find and de-
termine that the erection of said bridge
is necessary.
Now, therefore, it is ordered by the
board of county commissioners of
Shawnee county, Kansas, that a special
election be, and the same is hereby
called in said county. of which election
notice shall be given by publication for
80 days in the Topeka State Journal
and five Sunday issues of the Topeka
Daily Capital, both newspapers of gen.
eral circulation, published in said coun-
ty. which notice shall set forth the
time and place of holding such election.
and shall be signed by the sheriff of
said county, and shall be distinctly set
forth that the proposed bridge is to be
built across the Kansas river at a point
near the old sugar mill site, in Mission
township, in said county and state.
Such election shall be held on the
fifth day of November. 1901. at the US
ual places of holding elections in said
county, and shall be conducted by the
officers or persons provided by law for
the holding of elections, and such cleo
ton shall be in all respects governed.
and the results declared according 10
the rules and regulations provided by
law for holding elections in said coun-
ty.
The question to be voted upon at such
special election shall be as follows, viz:
Shall the board of county commission
ers of Shawnee county, Kansas, make
levy and raise tax in the sum of twenty
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be found necessary to build a steel
wagon bridge across the Kansas river,
al a point near the old sugar mill site
in Mission township in said county and
state.
The vote at such election shall be by
ballot. the ballots used shall have writ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-23
Sheriffs Proclamation and No
tice of Special Election.

In the matter of the petition of Thomas
vloland and others, praying the board OF
election to submit to the voters of the
county OF Shawnee proposition to levy
taxable property in Shawnee county, Kan
sas; Tor two years, for the purpose OF
Shawnee county fair grounds. and the
following action was had thereon:
to the board Of county commissioners Of
S nawnee county, Kansas. asking SAID
tax of one mill on the dollar on ali the
sas. for two Years. for the purpose of
making permanent improvements on the
And. whereas. said board of county
commissioners on an examination find and
posed are necessary; and. whereas. said
board of county commissioners find and
on the dollar of ali taxable property for
TWO years in said Shawnee county, Kan
nent improvements on the Shawnee coun-
ty fair grounds.
And. Whereas. 1t is found that said pc
law authorizing said Board to call a spe-
s'a tax of ons ror the 6oar 90 Of isn th
taxable property for two years in said
Shawnee county, Kansas, for the purpose
the Shawnee county fair grounds. as pro.
yyided in said chapter 25 of the General
Now. therefore. 1t is ordered by, the
board of county commissioners of Shaw
nee county, Kansas, that a special elec-
ton n;9 be- and the same is hereby called in
be given by publication for 80 days in
the Topeka State Journal and five
Sunday issues of the Topeka Daily Capi-
tai both newspapers of general circula-
tion, published in said county. which said
notice shall set forth the time and place
of holding such election and shall be
signed by the sheriff of said county and
shall distinctly set forth the proposition TO
levy tax of one mill on the dollar of
all the taxable property Ia said Shawnee
county. Kansas for two years for the pur-
pose of making permanent improvements
on the Shawnee county fair groSnds; Such
November. 1901, at the usual places of
holding elections in said county, and shall
be conducted by the officers persons
provided by law for holding of such cleo
tons. and such election shall be governed
by and returns thereof made in accord
ance with the laws governing the election
of county officers.
The vote at such election shall be by
ballot and tickets used shall be written
or printed with the proposition to be voted
for as follows:
SHALL THE FOLLOWING BE
ADOPTED?'