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Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
DEATH OF FIrz JOHN PORTER.
General Who Was Dismissed From the
a ry,av and Reinefafed

Army and Reinstated.
Morristown, N. J., May 22.-Gen. Fitz
John Porter. who had been i'll for sew
eral weeks at his home here, died yes
terday, aged 80. He had been suffer-
ing from chronic diabetes, and his
death had been expected for several
days. Among the pallbearers will be
Gems. Webb, Scofeld, Butterfeld,
Franklin and Smith and ex-Mayors
Hewitt and Grace. Gen. Brooke, com
lnander of the department of the east,
will have entire charge of the military
arrangements for the funeral.
Fitz John Porter was a native of
Portsmouth, N. H., his father being a
captain in the navy. He graduated
from West Point in 1S45, and in the
Mexican war was breveted captain and
major for gallantry. From 1853 to
1856 he was instructor at West Point.
In the civil war he rose to the rank of
brigadier general in the regular army
and major general of volunteers. In
1862 he was relieved of his command
arrested and court martialed He was
accused of failing to obey Gen. POpe's
order Aug. q. 1862, for a night march
from Warrenton Junction to Bristoe
He was also accused of disobeying or
ders on Aug. %. 1862, one to advance
the other to attack, and with retreat
ing before the enemy. He was con
victed and cashiered from the army
After years of conflict he was, in 1856
restored to his rank by congress. Sool
after his vindication he esigned from
the army and was appointed presiden
of the New Jersey insane asylum. H
was subsequently president of New
York's fire commission. At one tim
the khedive of Egypt offered Gen. POI
ter the rank of major general to con
mand in his army, with salary of S25
900, but the offer was declined.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
NIoLEs.

A lady friend asks how to get moles
out Of the cellar and how to keep them
from burrOwing under and spelling the
lawn. We have never had any expert
ence with these little pests getting into
the cellars. So far as their work on
the lawn is concerned, there are several
methods Of handling them. There is a
special trap made which may be OBJ
tanned at any hardware store. Then
they may be poisoned by placing ar
senic or strychnine on pieces of potato
or apple in their runways, or if one will
take the trouble to note just where they
are working they may sometimes be
detected digging under the sod, when
it is an easy matter to kill them. Most
of their work is done at night, how
ever, and the trap and poison are the
surest methods Of getting rid Of them.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
Faith curist convloted.

New York, May 22.-J. Luther Pier
son. faith curist. was placed on trial
in White Plains yesterday on the
charge Of having failed to secure med
zeal attendance for his 16-months-old
child. who died from catarrhal pneu-
monia in January last. Pierson was
indicted for wilfully, maliciously and
unlawfully emitting to perform the
duty imposed upon him by law of fur
nishing medical attendance to the
child. The jury found him guilty. He
will be sentenced today. Coroner
Schafmeister and DR.. Birch both testi-
fled that the child died from want of
medical attendance.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
STRIKING MACHLNINTS
Claim Substantial Gains in Their
Fight For Nine Hours.
A CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK.

A CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK.
Employers and Employees Will At
tempt to Settle Their Differences.
In Cincinnati Some of the Big Firms
Threaten to Import Non-Unionists.
Washington, May %. President
O'Connell said last night that the ad-
vices received up to o'clock at head
quarters here indicate that an early
settlement of the trouble between the
machinists and employers will be eff
fected. Information at hand showed
that during the day over 12O firms had
settled by granting the nine hour day.
Mr.. O'Connell said that 1000 men
are out in San Francisco and about
5000 in Cincinnati. In Chicago nearly
all the important shops have settled
with the men. The reports from the
south, he said. show that all through
that section settlements are being eff
fected.
Half the firms in Philadelphia, he
said, have come to terms and the 9th
ers are expected to follow suit There
has been no news of clash anywhere
At Dunkirk, N. Y, because 700 ma.
chinists employed at the Brooks loco
motive works struck an order was is
sued closing the works until further
notice. This throws $500 men out o
work.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
Veteran WIII We to Win Millions.

Dayton. O., May PA copy of the
will of Josephine Kelat, nee Fairfax,
an English woman, who recently died
in France, has just been received here,
which bequeaths to Hamlet Henry
Hawthorne, a veteran of the Soldiers
Home, fortune of $2,50O,O00, this be-
ing his reward for saving the woman
from drowning in the surf off Kent,
England, in 1854. He refused all of.
fers of reward at that time. The will
instructs him to marry a good woman
to aid in carrying out the provisions
Of the will. Hawthorne is to establish
in New York poor mans church. and
is instructed to devote much time to
charitable giving, especially to homes
for widows and orphans. He will carry
out all the provisions of the will.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

A writer in a dairy journal advises
buying a COW by the Babcock test.
This is all right as far as it goes, but
the simple test of a cows milk for but
ter fat is alone a poor guide in the Sc
lection of a COW. Quantity of milk
given and length of milking period
are just as important factors as the
butter fat test. We once owned a COW
which would make ten pounds of but
ter Il week for the first 80 days after
she was fresh. The next month, in
spite of all that good feeding and care
could do, she would drop off to six
pounds, the next month to four pounds,
then to three, and when she struck
three she would keep that gait up Just
as long as one cared to milk her. She
was thus not a profitable COW to keep.
OF course you will say that the time to
have sold her was during the first 80
day period. Yes, of course, but Just
the same we made beef Of her.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

In the course of an address delivered at
Springfield, Mass, the other day Presi-
dent Pritchett of the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology referred in a hu-
morous vein to a recent gift to that insti-
tuition. The gift in question, he said,
commended itself most heartily to his
own judgment-in fact, few wiser dis
positions Of money seemed to him to be
possible. In a word, the income Of the
beQuest was to be used in increasing the
presidents salary. DR.. Pritchett an
nounced that he would profit by the en-
dowment about S15 a year.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
Death of Ex-conuressman RouteIIe

Boston, May 22.-Former Congress-
man Charles A. Boutelle, of Bangor,
Me-, died yesterday at Mclean asylum,
Waverly, Mass. Mr.. Boutelle had been
at the institution for many months for
treatment on account of brain trouble.
Death was due primarily to pneumonia,
which developed last Sunday. Mr.. Bou-
telle was 81 years Of age, and on his
retirement from congress last winter
was placed on the retired list of the
navy as captain.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

London, May 21.-Andrew Carnegie
has given 100000 to establish free
education in four Scotch universities,
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and St.
Andrews. He stipulates that the bene-
ficiaries be his Scottish fellow coun-
trymen" only, no English, Irish, colo
malls or foreigners. The fund will ap-
ply to medical as well as to commercial
education, and will be placed in the
hands Of trustees, who will pay the ex-
penses of Scottish students benefited
under the scheme.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

"The following little anecdote, told
by Queen Victoria herself, will show
her independence of character" says a
writer in The Century. every fond Of
Brimroses and finding none in the
royal gardens, she seat word to have
some planted. The gardeners, the
queen said, made many objections, and,
finding shortly afterward that her
wishes had not yet been carried out,
she dispatched a messenger inquiring
the reason. 4 suppose Queen Anne
had none she said, so they did not
think it proper for me to have any,
but sent them word promptly that
Queen Victoria would have some-and
she did,"
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
SUCCESSFUL FORESTRY.

One of the most interesting and sue
cessful attempts at forestry work we
have come across is that made in 1878
by the Memphis Railroad company in
the vicinity Of Pennington, Kan. I'm
der the direction Of the president Of the
road two sections Of land, or 1890
acres, were planted with catalpas, the
trees being set out four feet apart each
way, or 2,720 trees to the acre. This
tract of timber has become literally an
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
Pan.American EXPOSITION dedicated.

Pan-American Exposition Dedicated.
Buffalo, May 21.-The formal dedica-
ton Of the Pan-American exposition
yesterday was fully up to expectations.
There was brilliant parade, fight of
5000 carrier pigeons, daylight fireworks
and a magnificent electric display at
night. All Of the American republics
were represented at the formal dedica-
tory exercises, and there was oratory,
music, song and poetry in abundance.
The principal speakers were Vice Pres
ident Roosevelt, Senator Lodge, Mayor
Diehl and President Milburne, of the
Exposition company.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
A New Pennsylvania Bishop.

Harrisburg, May 22.-Bishop Shan
ahan, of the Harrisburg diocese, was
notified yesterday of the receipt at the
archepiscopal residence in Philadel-
phia of a cablegram from Rome an
nouncing the appointment of the Rev.
DR.. Eugene Garvey, of Pittston, as
bishop Of the new Pennsylvania do
cese, which will be composed of por-
tons of the Harrisburg diocese and the
Philadelphia archdiocese, and the
headquarters Of which will be at AL
toona.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

1t would seem that the stage is not
only the last profession that would be
chosen by a person afflicted by stutter-
ing, but that a sufferer would never
dream Of selecting that profession.
Yet it is a fact that some well known
actors and singers labor under this dis
advantage.
The strangest thing about it is that
the sad impeachment which is so pain
fully evident in private life seems to
vanish entirely when they are on the
boards.
1t is curious that appearance on the
stage or in the pulpit should have this
beneficial effect; for Sufferers in other
walks of life do not lose their impedi-
ment when at work, however enthusI-
astic their love for their profession
London Answers.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

CONNECTIONS.-"a connects at Queen
Anne With the Delaware & Chesapeake Rwy.
Hb'' connects at Greenwood with Delaware
Division OF the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore r. r. for Seafords Delmar,
Salisbury and points south.
&C. connects at Glendale with the Della
ware, Maryland & Virginia r. r. for George
town and Lewes.
"e' connects at Greenwood Wi.h the Della
ware Division of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton & Baltimore +. r.
Sundays only: Steamers leave Baltimore
for Queenstown at 500 a. m, and $40 p. m.
BALTIMORE AND QUEENSTOWN.-Be-
ginning MONDAY, MAY 9Th, 1901, steamers
Of the Queen Annes Railroad Company will
leave QUEENSTOWN for BALTIMORE at
1895 a. m. and 200 p. m.
As-FOr further information apply to
I. W. TROXEL, WIN. ID. UHLER,
= Ceu'l Manager GenI FRI & Pass. Agt.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

San Juan, P R., May 22.-The trial
Of Harold Crowley, of Lockport, N. Y,
son of ex-Congressman Crowley, and a
former employee Of the postal depart
ment, on charge of misappropriating
postal funds, was concluded at Ponce
Saturday night after lasting two days.
He was sentenced yesterday to four
years at hard labor. It is probable
that an appeal will be taken to the
supreme court.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

1t was first the OK team of the piO-
meek settler, then the two horse team,
then ten years ago the three horse
team, and this year we have noted
more four horse teams at work putting
in the crops than ever before. Every
corner is being cut where hired help
may be dispensed with and a horse
made to do the work of a man.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

A dispatch from PARIS announces
that Chicago has been selected as the
place for the Olympian games in 1904.
Andrew Carnegies gifts to American
libraries and other institutions aggre-
gate S29,O7O,O5S, while his total foreign
gifts are s11.S94.5OO.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

1t is almost impossible to obtain in
any of the creamery territory of the
country any more Of the nice, old fash
Toned dairy butter made by the nice,
old fashioned dairywoman. Than this
there never was any better butter made
or ever will be. Here and there a
woman still makes her own butter and
supplies a few customers in town, but
such butter is not found on sale at the
grocery stores.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
"C. e. C." on Everv Tablet.

Every tablet of Cascarets Candy
Cathartic bears the famous C. c. C.
Never sold in bulk. Look for it and
accept no other. Beware of fraud.
All druggists, 1oc.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

Further reports on the experiment of
curing cheese at a low temperature
about 60 degrees-are furnished in
bulletin from the New York expert
ment station and show that cheese so
cured scored five points higher in flavor
than those cured in a higher tempera-
filrp
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

The importance Of the thorough
drainage of the public highway is grad
ually becoming apparent to road build
ers all over the country. This is, a
great point gained. 1t is not so very
long since this important factor in road
making was largely ignored.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

We are asked if where a hired man
is given permission to keep a horse in
the barn of the man for whom he
works and the horse gets kicked and
injured by one of his employers
horses he can collect damages from
his employer. This is almost as hard
a proposition to tackle as King Solo
mon had with the women and the
baby. If we accommodated a hired
man by keeping a horse for him, we
would have it understood that he
should take all risks as to his horse.
In fact, we don't like the horse bust
ness with the hired man, as he then
spends too much time out nights.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

We have two or three inquiries as to
which is the best way to get rid of
quack grass. This grass. like the Can
ada thistle, does its propagating under
ground by means of suckers, and So
when it is plOwed up or in any man
ner disturbed, such process gives the
very best conditions for its spread and
multiplication. Close pasturing of the
field by sheep. the sowing Of an early
crop of millet to be harvested in July,
the land to be then plOwed and resown
with another crop of millet, are two
ways which have proved successful in
DISCRIMINATING this pest. If a very dry
time can be secured in august in
which to do tbs work and the land can
be pIOwed cW~Or three times, ten days
between each blowing, it can be kill
ed out, but this method is worthless
should rain come and moisten the
earth. If we had field infested with
1t, we would plan to crop the land for
two or three years with some heavy
foliaged crop, such as rape, millet or
sowed corn, expecting to smother the
quack grass out Where it has got a
foothold in a field, it is worse than use
less to sow the field with small grain
or plant it with corn, as the conditions
incident to growing such crops simply
promote the spread of the pest.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

Prevailing agricultural and economic
conditions are placing a large amount
of wealth in the hands of the farmers
Of the country. Not for many years
have they been so favOrably situated.
1t is hardly to be expected that this IA
vorable condition of things will contin-
ne indefinitely, and it seems to us as
though the wise man would seize the
present opportunity to get square with
the world rather than to be tempted to
increase his line of Indebtedness. There
is an immense amount of satisfaction
in the feeling that one owes no man a
dollar 1t is hardly within the power
of hard times to hurt the man who
lives on his own farm and who is out
of debt in which particular he has the
advantage over men in any other bust
ness or profession.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

delaware, Maryland virginia X. H.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way
Stations 10 3S a. m. daily ana 5O p. m. week sse
DAVIS Returning, train leaves FRANKLIN Olty
m q. M. week and l.@ pm. week days
Leave Franklin City for ChincoteagCe WA
.aamerl / 80 %. m. week days. Returning
IKE Chincoteague 81 a. m. week days.
cave Harrington for Georgetown, Lewes,
md Rehoboth at 1888 a. m, $50 p. m. week
Jaws. Returning, leave LeWes $50 a. m.
ND az nm. wsek-days.7. z2 am Mondaysonly
cave Harrington for Berlin, l0.8S a. m.
and ESQ D. m. weekdays. Returning, leave
erlin 56 a. m. weekdays ana 255 p. M
Oueen Anne & KenN R.R.-Leave Towns
end for Centreville and way stations. y y
a. m. and 81 p. m. week days. Returning
leave Centreville Z 81 a. M ana 40 p. m
week days.
Del. Chesapeake r. R.-Leave Clayton for
Oxford and way stations at 88 a. m. and 5.6o
n m week davs. Returning, leave Oxford
200 a. m. and / sop. IN. week days.
Cambridge & Seaford r. R.-Leave SeafOrd
for Cambridge and intermediate stations at
II IL a. m. and 7 % o. m week days Return
ing train leaves Cambridge at 90 and ESQ
D. m. week days.
CORRECTIONAL Porter, with Newark &
Queen Anne's q Kent Railroad. At Clay
ton, with Delaware Il Chesapeake Railroad
and Baltimore & Delaware Bay Railroad. At
Harm Ston, with Delaware, Maryland & Vir-
ginia Railroad. At Seaford, with Cambridge
4 EeafOrd Railroad. At Delmar, with New
York, Philadelphia 4 Norfolk, WycOmlco 4
POcomoke, and Peninsula Railroads
J. B. HUTCHINSON, General Manag
J.R. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

would you like an increase Of sal
airy, Mr.. SnithY"
No; it's no USE"
mo useP'
"lf had more money, I'd have to
'ay more debts."-DetrOit Free Press.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
VlIIaue DESTROYED hv an AvaIanohe

Milan, May 22.-The village of Au-
renza has been partially destroyed by
an avalanche. The number of fatali-
ties is not yet known, but already Is
EOrpses have been recovered
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
Everybody is busy these April days

KERR Brothers Celebrated White
Wash and Plastering Lime reduced in
price. 5bushelsan over, soc per bushel;
in lots less than 5 bushels, Csc per bushel
for cash. A. w. POWELL.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

A company with ample capital has
bought 5000 acres of land near
Charleston and is going into the cul-
ture of the tea plant on a large scale.
The question Of labor is the one big
problem connected with the enterprise.
The crop has to be picked over several
times during the growing season and
must be done by hand.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

We finished putting out a new straw
berry bed April 24-2OO Clydes, 200
Beder Woods and 400 Warfelds. They
viii be cultivated this summer, COW
cred next winter. and next season we
shall have berries to burn.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

One would think that creamery man.
ayers would know enough by this time
so that they would quit making con-
signments of their butter to irresponsi-
Bile commission men, and yet losses Of
this sort are occurring all the time with
men who ought to know better. The
strife to secure a half cent above mar
ket quotations promised by these fake
houses results in losing the whole con-
signment.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

The annual battle with the weeds
will soon begin. On whatever crop a
light drag may be safely used it will
be found the best all round tool with
which to get the first whack at the
weeds, for they die easy when they die
young.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

We note no difference whatever in
different breeds of hogs as to their liza
bility to disease. When the cholera is
abroad in the land, it takes the razor
back just as certainly as it does the
high bred Jersey Red or Poland China.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
ICE NOTICE.

About May LIST. shall start my ice wagon
5altverv. orders for service can be left
nv office on North Walnut Street, End doon'
above Draper, Davis q Co.'S phosphate ONCE
Ice Sold at retail at the same place.
1Tor % 8mo VIM. II. DAVIS, Milford, Del
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

1t is noted that the hog is invariably
healthier in the dairy sections of the
country than in those where the COW is
not kept, and this difference is attrib-
uted to the use of skimmilk for the pigs
when young.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

We have one or two inquiries as to
the soy bean. This bean is a native of
Japan, where it is very extensively
grown as a heterogeneous food for the
people, where it helps to balance their
daily ration of rice. 1t grows with a
branching, treelike stalk to height of
two or three feet and bears a small
pod containing a yellow waxy bean,
which will yield from 20 to 80 bushels
per acre. 1t takes about 100 days to
mature the bean from the time of
planting. It is richer in protein, both
foliage and the bean, than any other
crop which can be grown in the tenn
perate zone, and as it possesses all the
soil fertilizing qualities of clover it is
a plant which well deserves the atten-
ton of all farmers and stockmen. Cut
green and cured as hay, it will furnish
to any farm the source of protein which
will supplement bran and oilmeal and
enable man to produce on his own
farm a completely balanced ration fol
all his stock.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
How Are Your Kidney. >

DE-. Hobbs Sparagus Pills cure all kidney Ills Sam
ole free. Add Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago OF n 2.
We find the best time to trim an
orchard tree to be the last of May or
the first Of June, just when the sap is
n full flow. Trimmed then, the wound
very quickly heals over with a new
growth of bark.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

dden time the sower went
In 10 sow, and he sowed by hand,
fax his crop with a sickle, thrashed
his grain with the tramp of oxen on
the thrashing floor and winnOwed the
chaff from it with the winds of heav-
en-. In few remote parts Of the east
these processes are still in vogue.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

The things which seem commonplace
enough to you are quite likely to be
very wonderful things to that small
boy Of yours. 1t is great help to re-
member that you were a boy yourself
at one time.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
Ino,1v eDaily except SUNDAY.

daily. SDaiy except SUNNY
NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRAINS,
Leave Wilmington 8l8 AIM, BOB, 439, and
65sp.m. week days. Leave New Castle 0.Sl'
9.58, II OF am, 6.S8 I'm. week Gays. ~, =.
Express trains leaving Harrington Blu AM
and arriving at 6.46 p. m. week days run
tbrongh solid to and from Baltimore via
Porter and Newark.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

raklng up and bul
There is a better 70
Put them around e rosebushes,
rant and berry bushe'hl be beneficial.
wherever mulching y best mulch OF
Leaves make tbo-4fned.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
DON'T a no 8 4 8 SR RE

You can be cured Of any form of tobacco using
easily, be made well, strong, magnetic, full o.
new life and Ugor by taking NO-TO-BAG,
that makes weak men strong, MANY gain
ten pounds in ten days. Over 500 900
cured. All druggists. Cure guaranteed Book
let and advice FREE. Address STERLING
REMEDY CO.. Chicago or New York. 4sg
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

A friend Of ours put in a hard three
hours work to dig out an old willow
stump the origin of which was a slip
which he took much pleasure in plant
ing 20 years ago.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

1t is interesting to note the principal
products of some of the states. Maine
excels in ice and granite, Iowa in corn
and hogs, Minnesota in lumber and
fruit and hops; Pennsylvania in coal
wheat; the Pacific coast states in
and iron; Ohio gives us officeholders,
Kentucky hemp and tobacco, WiscOn-
sin beer, Michigan peaches, the Caro-
linas rice and turpentine, Georgia and
Alabama cotton, Alaska gold and salm-
on. With the exception Of tea, cot
fee and some dyestuffs and sugar,
which we might just as well produce
as not, the American nation is prac-
tically Independent of any other coun-
try in the matter of supplying all its
wants.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
Queen Anne S Railroad Company.

Time Table in effect Monday, May 9Th,
1901 Neaves daily and Sunday9
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24
RW. &B. RAILROAD

DELAWARE DIVISION.
4 On and after Nov. 26, 1900, trains will leave
as follows:
anI1nH. Ern. Mail Mail Pass Elk. Pass.