Milford chronicle., 1904-01-29
MILIUN NEWS.

The cold weather of the past, with its
sleer and ice, has been incOnvenient and
disagreeable to many; and to others is
has been a delightful season for winter
pleasure; and still to others it has been
looked upon as a season of beauty, and
of granduer. The skaters have had a
merry time; and the winter tourist-our-
self for instauce-has seen much to ad
mire while roaming around with be-
numed fingers and stinging ears, In the
upper part of Lake Fanganzyki, where
the banks are encircled with the pine
and the cypress and trees Of a deciduous
character, the water has been frozen
nearly to the bottom-it being unusually
low-and the tops of the stumps of trees
whose foliage have been broken off dur
ing some past aeon, protruding through
the CRY stal lake, they also covered with
ice crowns, produced a, scene both pic
turesque and grand. And then too the
solitude of the situation Almost un.
consciously we recall the words of Car
lyle's description of Solitude in the
Artic": "Silence as of death-for mid
night even in the Artic latitude has its
character; nothing but the granite cliff,
rudy-tiuged, the peaceful gurgle of the
slow heaving polar ocean, over which
and the utmost north, the great sun
hangs low and lazy, as if he too were
slumbering. In such moments solitude /
is invaluable; for who would speak, or be /
looked upon. when behind him lies all !
Europe and Africa fast asleep, except /
the watchmen, aud before him the i'm
mensity-the palace of all eternal, where
of our sun is but a porch lamp !" We
do not wish to be understood as meaning
that the situation we are describing was
as grand as Carlyle's description of "Soli-
tude in the Artic,' only in miniature.
This condition is changed now; the ice
has thawed. and the pleasure of the
skaters is over.
Capt. Lucion G. Darby, of Camden, N
J., is the guest of many friends.
The wedding bells that we're expected
to have rung have miscarried.
Charles NAPLES intends erecting {
saw mill and planer al the Milton depot
and will Keep in stock all kinds of lum-
Der used in country work. This will be
a great convenience to our people who 4
are inclined to repair their properties; as {
at present when little lumber is wanted
persons are compelled to go elsewhere
for it. t,
Edwin T. johnson, who has been visit t.
ng his parents during the holidays re- II
urned to Ponce, w. Va, on Monday nj
Mrs. Susie B Davidson. after spending
everal weeks with relatives in town, re- ir
urned to Philadelphia on Monday.
The Misses May and Lottie Welch -
ttended the funeral of their cousin, Miss NJ
Annie Pierce, at Milford, on Thursday ds
lst.
w. H. Warren has removed a part of ar
is busiu IS, to near the corner of Front a
nd Feder.l street. He still has under Tie
IS management the pool room in the pe
urtis Reed prOpertyon Front street, and nj,
as put up telephone between his two to-
laces of bu3iness, to facilitate commu. tn
Ication. The only one in town that a a
axes ary business or private connec- 5
on. at
There is generally the rush of a crowd \
he postoffice during mail delivery; rn
ID often two or three members of one tbe
Wily are there to receive the same frs
all How this is TO be remedied or OBJ y
ated, we have no sdggestigns to make a +,
J. B. Welch has been suffering for one
.eS with cold, cough and sneezing c
? has had many comforters, such as ing
utorted the man of Uz. Gonzales ?, p
ce is now with him. Mr.
'osiah Culver agent at the railroad sta NJ
n, Is on a trip 10 Philadelphia. The gra
siness of the office is being transacted ,,o' 81
Mr.. Morris, Of Greenwood during the M
'ence of Mr.. Culver. bell
IN account of the illness of J. B. nth
lch. superintendent of the NJ. Z. ~ ~
iday School, Isaac W. Nailor, second fie
slant superintendent, officiated on
iday afternoon NJ
he sermon of the Rev. L. p. Corkran y,
Sunday morning vas of Ezekiel's pres
ion ahd prophecy of the dry bones" aeti
is goes back to the Babylonish captiv- scar
of Israel; and the point that Mr.. tpi, tpa,
rkran wished to make was God works tber
ough human instrumentalities, and cou
re is a work for every one to do. The the
"a meetings at both of the churches Jas, ,el
characterized by devotion and fer ther
though no peniteHts have yet bee the