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Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
AGE AND SEX in AMERICA.
Some Figures That show the Source
of Life Insurance PrOAta.


of Life Insurance PrOAtas
It has required almost i've years for
the census bureau to tabulate some OF
the most important sociological results
Of the enumeration taken in June, 1900.
We have had bulletins on all sorts Of
topics, but at last we reach those Of
age and sex. We suppose the ladies
sre interested in both these topics, and
at the start it is necessary to say that
the director OF the census distinctly
states that ladies are very unreliable
In giving their age. Most men probably
had noticed this failing, but we believe
this is the first time il has been official.
ly confirmed.
Thus we find that the average age Of
all the people in the country is (all
statistics as Of 1900 little less than
twenty-three years. This must be
taken in connection with other statis-
tics, which show that the average per
son born lives to be thirty five years,
or about one-half Of the period allotted
by the psalmist.
Also the director says that elderly
persons have exaggerated their age, so
that the statistics of centenarians are
notably unreliable. There were 1884
persons reporting themselves as a hun
dred or over, and the director thinks
this an exaggeratiOn, particularly
among the negroes Of the south, where
the older portion of the population have
nothing but very indistinct memory
and large imagination on which to base
their computation. About 10000 per-
sons confessed to being ninety or over.
the women being predominant, and it is
further interesting to note that there
are nearly million who have reached
the age of seventy-fiye, figures not seri-
Ously disputed.
The census figures show that II you
can get over the ills Of infancy you
have a fair expectation of life, but that
when you have voted for two years you
are the average of the race in this coun-
try. 1t is such figures as these which
make insurance business profitable.
While, as old DR.. Young remarked, all
men think all men mortal but them
selves, the fact that figures show how
near uedlu IS mikes LOE TIE DeueuL u
the companies which provide for your
relatives when you are gone.
As to sex, the figures are impressive.
There are about 100000 less women
than men in the country Counting all
ages), and this accounts for the fact
that the women run the country. In
lands where there is a surplus of wom-
en- men have control, but in this coun-
try, where so many are perforce DOOM
ed to bachelorhood. the chase to attract
the dear girls is such that the latter
have it all to themselves to maintain
control because the man who thinks
his wife may not be all he desires has,
statistically, a slim chance Of getting
another. The women are not only rare,
but good. More power to them. They
run the country pretty well through
their indOmitable control of the men,
whom they use as more convenient |
agencies with which to carry out their
in all tho relations Of life !
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
A NEW LONDON.
ne Big City IL Being RebUllt aa
Rapidly as New York.

Rapidly as New York.
London is being rebuilt as rapidly as
New York, but it is so much vaster
than the American city that the process
is less conspicuous. Nothing is being
done today that stands out so prOmi-
nently as the great bridges over the
East river, nor is there any analogue
In London to the irruptiOn Of hotels
and Office buildings above the normal
sky line In New York, the nearest ap-
proach to a sbyscraper-Queen Anne's
mansions, Westminster - varying in
height from eleven to fourteen stories
only.
OF governmental projects perhaps the
greatest is the buying out Of the COM
panies that supply London with water.
Their claims amounted to about $780,
O0,OOO, but radical cuts were made by
the court Of arbitration appointed to ad-
Indicate them. It is unlikely that the
metropolitan water board will do as
well financially as these eight compa-
mics, for the city's needs are growing
with its population. while one Of the
chief sources Of supply-the Thames
has been gradually dwindling for the
last twenty years, so that it will be
necessary to go far afield before long
for supply Of water that can be de-
pended on in times of drought. Next
come the proposed improvement of
the port and its control by a single
body exercising the powers now divided
A04w 4ha oud
other authorities. The commerce Of
London has not grown as rapidly Of
late as the city itself. Lest 1t should
continue to lose ground, a royal COM
mission has reported, the river channel
must be widened to from 600 to 1000
feet and deepened to thirty feet at low
water. The estimated expense of this
improvement is $12,50O,OO0, and new
docks are recommended at a cost Of
about S22, 100000.
The principal public Improvements Of
the last fifteen years have been due to
the county council, which superseded
the metropolitan board Of works un-
der the local government act of 1888.
One Of the least conspicuous but most
costly of its single undertakings is the
Blackwell tunnel, which when opened
tn 1897 had swallowed up $7,OOO,0OO.
The next undertaking Of the sort, the
tunnel from Rotherhithe to Ratcliffe, is
expected to absorb nearly as much.
The Tower bridge, completed in 1894 at
a cost of $5,OOO,0OO-the most conspic-
uous Of London bridges, the one far
thest downstream and the only one pro
vided with a draw-was the work Of |
the corporation Of the city Of London,
and the same body is now widening |
London bridge, the most famous and |
still the most Travelled of the many |
roads across the Thames. The cost is |
estimated at $4,000. The corporation |
before long will probably lower the
crown of the Southwark bridge, a task
which win virtually involve rebuilding
and is expected to swallow up 1,750,-
600. The sway Of the county council
begins somewhat farther up the river,
where $1;500,0O0 is being spent to re-
place VauxhaIl bridge with a structure
OF steei.-Randall Blackshaw In Cen
eiIrV.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11

Mrs. E. D. Moore.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11

DowNY woODPEcKER (AFTER wAsHBURN)
wood, such as the larvae of the leopard
moth and those that feed upon the
leaves. Nearly One-fourth of the year
ly food of this species consists of ants,
most of which are wood burrOwers fol
lowing damage started by wood boring
grubs or 'sawyers."
The hairy wOOdpecker. Dryobates vii.
losus, eats fewer ants than the dOwny
species, but more beetle larvae and
Gaterpillars. The flicker, Colaptes au.
ratus, eats more ants and fewer borers
and caterpillars than the two species
preceding, many Of the ants being pick
ed from the ground.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11

Pepsoids cure the worst forms of Dys-
pepsia and all other Acute or Chronic
Stomach Disorders byrepairing the worm
out lining of the stomach and destroys
all disease germs. Dyspepsia once cured
in this way never returns. Pepsoids is
not a patent medicine, but the successful
prescription of DR.. Oldham who has
cured thousands of cases Of Chronic
Stomach Troubles, among them Cancer
of the Stomach. It cost more money to
produce Pepsoids than any similar prepa-
ration on the market, owing to the large
Sold and /
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11

quantity of the purest Pepsin and other ex-
pensive drugs each tablet contains, (see
formula on bottle.) Pepsoids are sold at so
cents bottle on an absolute guarantee to
cure, or money refunded. We will send
you, if you have not used Pepsoids before,
a so-cent bottle FREE; merely send us
your name and address, and you will re-
ceive promptly a full sized bottle. You do
not obligate yourself to pay cent. All we
ask after Pepsoids have cured or greatly
benefited You is, that you recommend
Pepsoids to your friends. Every man
BY BsnI. n. Matthew'S, Red Star D
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
THE NEW WAY TO CURE DYSPEPSIA
DISEASE E STOMACH Try

or woman now has the opportunity Of
possessing a strong and healthy stonl-
ach. viii you grasp itg People with
weak stomachs are always in misery
Pepsoids have made thousands of people
happy by giving them what nature in
tended everyone should possess-a strong
and healthy stomach, so as to enjoy the
best there IS in life. Try Pepsoids to-day
price only 50 cents a bottle at drug store.
Oryou may have a full sized bottle free by
writing the Medical Department Of The
Vic Chemical Co., Chicago, Ill. e
,u stora.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11

the downy wooGpccKer, OryODu,vs Pu-
bescens, consists Of wood boring coleop-
ferrous larvae, or 'sawyers," and dur.
ing caterpillar season Of 10 per cent Of
caterpillars. both OF those that bore in
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-12-19

to reach the hut, or igloo, Of an Eskimo
family
Eskimo children, however, are by no
means lacking in merriment They
have their games, quite different from
ours, yet played with just as much
zest. One of their favorite games is
football, though they play it in man
ner quite different from the American
college method. The children get a
big Old glove or boot stuff it with
waste fur or bits of skin, sew up the
opening and kick and cuff the crude
ball about over the frozen snow in
great glee Eskimo children also in
dulge in coasting. They use no little
sleds, however, but simply slide down
the steep snow banks on their knees.
which are we'll protected by the thick
deerskin breeches worn by ALL Some
times they tumble over and go down
headforemost. but there is seldom any
injury to their little bodies, owing to
the remarkable thickness and softness
of their garments
Sometimes the Eskimo men step out
SiNN 'Ao nut lAlo al atmosphere many
degrees below zero and enjoy a wres-
Ting match, which keeps them warm
enough, no doubt. Inside the hut the
men and women squat around the fire
telling tales handed down from ancient
times or singing quaint songs Of folk
lore
The Eskimo children, except at one
or two points in Alaska. go to no
school. But from their infancy thew
are schooled in the various items Of
daily labor which it is necessary for all
Of them to know. They learn how to
gather and dry moss, to catch the scant
drlftwood that comes their way and to
extract blubber These three things
are their only fuel. The boys learn
how to fish and hunt and the girls, in
crude way. how to cook. One of the
chief duties of the women is to tend
the soapstone lamps, which both light
and heat the huts in which the Eski-
mos live. These must be we'll fed with
hunks of blubber The little girls
learn lamp tending when they are
scarcely old enough to toddle.
Later they become proficient in the
curing of walrus meats and the drying
of fish. The girls also learn how to
prepare the feathered skins of certain
birds for fashioning into soft and COM
Portable undertaking.
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V WAY up under the arctic circle
is Santa Claus Land 1t is
n the land Of ice and snow, of

W WAY up under the arctic circle
- is Santa Claus Land. 1t is
Il the land Of ice and snow, of
sleds and reindeer, of queer
little huts in which live queer little
people, the Eskimos. There can be no
doubt that this is Santa Claus Land,
because the old saint who comes down
ito the warmer and more lovely lands
of all the world every Christmas eve
and leaves many gifts for the children
is himself dressed in heavy skins AMI
furs, just as the Eskimos dress. AMI
he rides in an arctic sled drawn by
swift little reindeer.
Santa Claus Land is very unlike ours
1t has no pretty gardens in summer nor
any green fields or forests. On the
contrary, it is always bleak and bar
ren. The winters are very long and
very cold. In the northernmost parts
the sun is seldom seen in winter, the
night being nearly six months long.
The people dwell in huts built Of ice
and snow during the winter and in
tents made of the dried skins of seals
and reindeer during the summer The
reindeer supplies them with their only
means Of rapid transit during the
long arctic night when the sledge dogs
grow sullen and drowsy. It travels in
the darkness as we'll as in daylight
and gives rich milk, which may be
made into butter or cheese. When
Slaughtered the reindeers meat is eat
EN-, and his hide is made into clothing
for the Eskimos or stretched over poles
and dried for use in making tents.
All the people of Santa Claus Land
men, women and children-are clothed
in reindeer skins or sealskins. In
summer they wear one suit and in WIN
ter two suits. All wear big hoods, call
ed parkas, of fur, and in these hoods
the mothers sometimes carry their ba.
.bies. In certain parts of the frozen
regions the babies are carried on their
mothers backs, next to the skin. for
warmth, While elsewhere it is the GUS
tom to carry the infant about in one
of the big deerskin or sealskin boots Of
the mother.
Reindeer sure footed and fleet. are
the motive power for freight and pas
senger trains in the great white north.
They can travel from so to 100 miles a
day, drawing laden ,sleds. In Alaska.
which is Uncle Sans section of Santa
Claus Land, there is a reindeer mail and
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per alone.
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express sled, which travels ninety-five
miles a day all through the winter.
The reindeer was introduced into
Alaska only about a dozen years ago
by the Rev. DR.. Sheldon Jackson, who,
under the authority of the United
States government, brought small
herd from northern Siberia Since then
DIR. Jackson has brought thousands Of
reindeer into Alaska, and they have
multiplied rapidly.
They are now very generally employ
ed in carrying the mail, in the trans
portation of supplies and in carrying
passengers between the various min
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Ing towns and camps. The native Es-
kimos also find them very valuable as
food and clothing supply.
In late years the Christmas tree has
been introduced among some of the
Eskimos where the Christian religion
is taught by missionaries This makes
1t very handy for Santa Claus. who
lives there, Of course, but usually it Is
a most difficult matter to get the tree.
sometimes poor little bush is carried
hundreds of miles on reindeer sled
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rs an experiment i'm Advertising,
~ A to encourage new subscriptions,
and collections, The Gazette
will. ON the above days only,
cut the cost of yearly subscription to all
new subscribers and all old ones paying
arrears to date, to one dollar per
year, m d vance.
This offer VIII not be repeated this
winter. With the cost of labor ard
print paper advancing, no local paper
printing less than 1000 copies weekly,
can be proftably published for less than
1.50 per year, which will continue to
be the price of this paper. At this time,
however, in order to call in money due
on back collections and to add to our
list of new subscribers, we will issue re-
ceipts to all corners on above terms, at
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-07
R. S. Johnston Dead.

R. s. Johnston, the nurseryman, o
StOckley, Sussex county, died on Mon
day morning, August 9th, Of com
plicatiOn Of diseases aged 20 years. He
had been in failing health for some time
The remains we're taken to PenDsylva-
mia On Wednesday to be cremated,
that being bis expressed desire.
Rsnsford S. Johnston was born at
Gibson, Susquehanna county, Pennsyl.
vania, July 9Th, 1886. His early edu-
cation was in the public schools of his
native State and his preparation for
college at the Academy at Hartford, Pa
He entered the University of Michigan
in the fall OF 1857 from Great Ben, Pa,
and was graduated B. S. in June 1851.
He taught school two winters and in
1862 commenced the study Of medicine
and attended one course of lectures at
Ann ArbOr, Michigan. In the spring
of 1864 he moved to Delaware to assist
in real estate Office, intending to re.
turn to Ann ATbOr in the fall to finish
his medical course, but before the time
came he decided foreman permanently
in Delaware.
In 1865 he bought land and planted
peach orchards, and in the spring Of
1868 started a nursery Of fruit trees at
which has been hIs home
ever since. remaining continuously in
the business. He was proprietor of the
Sussex Nursery, embracing 300 acres.
Mr.. Johnston had been prominently |
Identified with the Grange and the
Peninsula Horticultural Society.
He was married in 1872 to Miss
Stocked and they had four chill
1ren. His wife and two children sur
vive him.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-07
1000 Chickens On Scott Farm.

At time when the farmers are com.
planning Of the incessant rains and the
damage to crops there is one man in
Delaware who is taking things as they
come, for his crops are safe and the
drainage is psrfect. He is A. w. Hope,
superintendent of the Riverview Poul.
try Farm at ReybOld, New Castle
county, owned by H. P. Scott Of vii.
mington. 1t is an egg farm, and the
growing OfrOOstersan and the merry cackle
of the hundreds of hens tell the story of
hea life on the Reyb bold farm. There
are 800 hens Of last years brood, while
1 800 young chickens are helping to con-
sumo the product of the 9O.acre farm.
The chickens are hatched in eight
neubators, and later are kept in the
forty colony houses. Superintendent
Hope, in speaking Of the raising Of
chickens in the colony houses, said
that the broOders have their advan-
tages over the hens, as there are no
vermin to annoy the little chicks.
The poultry farm covers eighteen
acres on top of a sunny slope, where
the drainage is perfect, and the chickens
roam at will. The demand for eggs is
strong and shipments are made to New
Castle, Wilmington and New York,
The broi'ers are shipped to New York.
The main colony houses are l80xll
and 22Ox15 feet. As the 1000 White
Leghorns mix among the Barred Rock
a beautiful sight is presented to passen-
gers on the Wilmington, New Castle
and Southern Railway.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-07
GEORGE PIPER FOUND
DEAD IN THE STABLE.

In the middle Of last Tuesday after
noon George Piper was found dead in
the large stables attached to the Central
Hotel in North Milford. Mr. Piper was
we'll known to the people Of lower Kent
and upper Sussex counties who drove
to Milford, as be had been in charge Of
the stables Of that hotel for years. Fif-
teen minutes before his death he was
cOnversing with another employee, and
when found. he had evidently been
stricken with apOplexy and died with
out 3 struggle. He bad been married
four times, his last wife being Miss
Caroline Collins Of Milford. He was
about 65 years old, aud was born near
Georgetown.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-07
Here and There.

Martin Emory, living near Frederick,
has a COW that is the proud mother Of
twins. All are getting along nicely.
DR.. Curtis Macklin, a veterinarian OF
Milford, has treated five horses with
staggers within the last three weeks.
Three Of them died and two lived.
Strawberry vines are badly damaged
by water near Smiths store. jeremiah
Dickerson, a grower Of berries, says
that his vines are dying, also some Of
his peach trees.
On the road leading from BTidgeville
to Chaplain's Chapel there is pond of
water in the road about three hundred
yards long and from two to two and
One-half feet deep. 1t Is known as
Lsmbson River.
ROVER.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-07
Rural Mail Carriers Pay.

The Kent county rural free delivery
mail carriers met in Dover on Monday
to consider the questions Of placing be
fore the post Office at Washington the
question of the actual expenses Of car.
riers, which they are compelled to pay
out Of their regular salary Of s72O per
year. Resolutions fsvoring allowances
for expenses were adopted and will be
forwarded to Washington. The actual
expenses, inducing feed, wagon, har-
ness and incidentals, are estimated at
1915 per year for each carrier. =
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-07
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
INJURED IN A RUNAWAY.

Last Tuesday as Mrs. William s.
Wroten and daughter, Miss Mia, were
driving to their home near Jefferson's
Cross Roads, Sessex county, they were
thrown from their carriage by the horse
becoming unmanageable and Miss Mia
mad her left collar bone fractured. Mrs.
Wroten was bruised some but not seri.
ously hurt. The cause Of the accident
was that the horse became frightened
at Charles Reeds automobile. but he
was not in any way to blame for the
accident, according to the statement Of
Mrs. WrOten. Mr.. Reed saw the car.
riage approaching him when near Mar
shall'F mill site at the edge Of Milford.
He stopped still and offered to lead the
horse Dy, hut Mrs. WTOten declined as.
sistance and started to drive on. Just
opposite the machine the horse lunged
and Miss Wroten grabbed the reins.
and before Mrs. Wroten could get con
troll, the accident happened. Mr.. Reed
went to their assistance and offered to
pay for repairs, but Mrs. Wroten ex-
him from all blame for the
affair.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-07
Mains Circus and Cunmins' Wild West.

Walter l.. Mains Circus and ColOne
Cumming Wild West Show will ex
hibit in Milford on Friday, September
I4th, afternoon and evening, at Mrs
Lof1and's lot ON Nerth Walnut street
A street parade will be made in the
morning, rain or shine, leaving the
show grounds promptly at 10 50O'clOck.
The Cummins Wild West is eonsOli.
dated with the Walter L. Main Circus.
Col. Cummins carries with him IS
Indian chiefs and their Tetinues, Red
Cloud, chief Of the Sioux chiefs, now
So years old, is with the show as pris-
oner Of war and constantly under guard.
Several Of the redskins with the Wild
West are confined to their reservations
by the federal government for their
completely in the Custer massacre at
the battle Of the Little Big Horn. The
government allows these old chiefs to
leave the reservations only underarme
guard and by exacting a 100000 bond
from the management Of the show that
they will not allow the prisoners to es-
cape and that they will return them to
the reservation within a certain time.
Red Shirt, chief Of the Ogallalla, is
also with the show, as is Curly, the
half breed scout, whom the government
holds responsible for the massacre Of
Custer's army. He is also a prisoner
Of war.
Red Cloud will breakfast at the Wind
sor Hotel and will be taken from the
hotel to the show grounds with Col.
Cummins in the latter's carriage, and
under an armed guard Of U. S. cavalry.
Col. Cummins' show ranks with that
Of Buffalo Bill. In the Indian Congress |
Cummins is conceded to have the better |
of his more famous competitor. Besides
the cavalry, Cummins has a company
OF coast artillery, so rough riders, 100
company Of Imperial Zuaves,
Of the armies Of the
world, 25 animal cages.
The leading papers Of the Eastern
States, where the show has appeared
during the past four weeks, speak in
highest terms of all the features. The
great fire fighting act is one Of the great
attractions of the show. The local fire
will be challenged to a race
with the show firemen, Immediately
after the morning parade.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-07
Few Houses for Rent in Milford.

There are fewer dwelling houses fol
rent in Milford at this time than has
been the case in ten years past. Tenants
seeking homes now demand that the
houses shall have the town water and
electric lights, so that they can have the
cOnveniences Of bath rooms and moderH
comforts. This condition Of affair
shows that there is an opportunity for
some one to build several six and seven
room houses in good locations with
modern conveniences, which would pay
q good revenue.