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Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

If you want to sell your farm list it
with Hires, Reai Estate Broker.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

There are few bargains TO be picked
up at Mrs. Reedy's store in thenext few
days.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

Granulated sugar 81 cents per pound
at J. H. ApeIs. S'l7-lSt.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

Picture framing quickly and neatly
done at H. w. D. Moore's.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

II you want to buy farm be sure to
see G. M. Hammond, the real estate
broker. 1t will certainly pay you. IT,
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

You can pay nve dollars for a hat
and be no better satisfied than with a
Hawes for three dollars. Sold by Mark
L. Davis.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

Curtain poles any length at Red Star
Drug Store.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

The best home made candies at Hol
denis.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

Sweet Havana oranges At J. H. Apel's
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21
oysters.

The finest oysters in all styles at Hol
denis on North Walnut street.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21
MAILS.

Bananas 10 cents at dozen at Apel's.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

PUBLIC SALB.-I will sell at my home one
mile south OF Pennington, Tuesday, septem-
her 25th, at one clock, 2 horses, 2 COWS, two
horse farm wagon, carriage, buggy I oin-
der, riding cultiEator Niagara COOK stove y.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

FOR SALE-Antique writing desk In good
repair. Will be sold cheap. Address James
Millman, Ellendale, Del. 92llt
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

FOR SALE.-Scarlet clover and clover and
timothy hay by the ton. ]. Elbert Webb,
Ceder Neck. P. o. Lincoln, Del. 9-2l-tf
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

FARM TO RENT.-Near depot, stocked or
not stocked. Good buildings and fruit. Ad-
dress Chronicle Office, No. So 9-l4-tf
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

FOUND.-Pair nose glasses on circus day
and left at this office. Owner can have same
by paying for this advertisement. 92l-lt
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

LOST.-GOld s 'eeve button on south Walnut
street last Saturday night. Reward for its re-
turn to this Ofiice or F. T. W atson 92l-lt
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

FOR SALE-Flne four-year-old stallion
Patehen stock, Cheap. Address James A.
DuttOn, Milton, Del. 9-2l-lt.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

FOR SALE -Oae tapestry Brussel rug. one
oak sidebOard, nearly new also cream sep
arator, barrel ehurn, milk pail, butter mould
and cream jar, In nrst-class order. +. T.
Ruhl, Lake View Ave.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

FOR SALE.-Pair mules, pair of horses,
and head OF cattle. Apply 10 Edward Kim
mey, Milford, Neck. 9-2l-2t.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

FOR SALE One fine bred stud colt Is
months old, great prospect for speed Apply
to Joseph @. Bennett, Thompsonville, Del.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

WANTED "A rolI-top desk must be fair
size. Also a fiat-top desk with side drawers.
Address Theo. Townsend, Milford, Del.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

FOR SALE.-25 head thoroughbred Berk-
shire stock Of brood sows and shoats. ]. Will
bur Hammond. 2l-lt.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21
Uniform RARE UHe Cent a Word
Each Insertion.

Ifyou have want that you think some
man in Milford can NIL. take in the whole
field at once by inserting want ad IN the
CHRONICLE.
The rate is one cent a word each insertion.
n you have pig for SALE or have lost any
thing put IL in this column.
Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21

FOR RENT.-lO-room house, west end of
Geo. s. Grier. 2l-tf.
New-York tribune., 1906-08-19

amused themselves as a family would. Tom Clark,
comfortably sitting beside adOring sentimentaSt,
would sing Tom Moore's Irish melodies until ne
moved his enraptured listener 10 tears. Macdonald
and the writer and our wives were always ready
for a session of the great American game Then
as dusk came on somebody, moved by thoughts
of the old home, would start song which would De
taken up by one after another until half the COM
panv would be in the ensemble. In the male chorus
was an octet that had a remarkable repertoire of
songs sad and merry, rOundelays, Negro melodies,
nadrigals and many such Eugene Field . a
Little Peach in Orchard Grew. How the lads
could sing! The public never will forget that octet.
At Christmas time everyone in the company, IRON
newest chorus girl to the prina with three Inquired
salary exchanged presents. Whenever feasible
there was a tree. One season, the first after Miss
Ober's retirement Christmas spent in Cleve-
land, and the store value of the gifts exchanged
among the principals was fully fifteen thousand
dollars
Naturally, in the days prior to syndicates and
circuit theaters, there now and then broken
week in the cOmpany's season. One OF these hap
pened to be in March, 1888, the time OF the big
blizzard in New York and vicinity. This was be-
tween a fortnight in Philadelphia and a run IN
Boston, and included dates at Allentown, Reading,
Easton and Trerton, Every engagement was kept,
and the houses were large although the snow
drifts at Trenton held back the theater baggage
for Martha" until ten-thirty o'clock While
waiting the principals gave PREDATORY concert in
travelling garb and then sung the four acts of the
opera afterwaTd.
Oftentnes a single performance was sold ont to
New-York tribune., 1906-08-19

all the principals of the company (then the
Boston Ideals and rehearsing in Boston tor the
season of ISS6S) for the sufferers from the Charles
ton earthquake. 1t novel IN that every penny
taken at the bOx-OfiCe went into the fund. kugene
Tompkins gave the Boston Theater. The orchestra
volunteered free service; ushers, stage hands bill
posters printers refused to talk terms save on the
basis of Wen do the work, but won't take a dime
Even the gasman and iceman joined in the turore
and refused to make charges. Clement Bainbridge,
then a barvtOne bought toupee tor the great
occasion. 1t was misht from every point of view;
but he meant well, he said. AT the same beneht
tenor started " Let Me Likea Soldier Fall, from
Mariana" so far above the key that he had to
quit and begin again Hutch " Clark sang My
Queen to his own accompaniment when Marie
Stone suggested that a jews-harP would give
better results. The performance netted nearly
twentv-seven hundred dollars though the highest
price for ticket was dollar while for the family
circle and gallery only twenty-five cents asked.
Because of its large size and the heavy expenses
incurred in salaries scenery royalties, and general
output the Bostonans played in few one or even
two-night cities. One week the usual stand
when en- route, while the larger cities often paid
well for a fortnight even longer The company
carried its orchestra of fifteen to seventeen in
struments augmenting the number in large towns
from the local players, and on the average the
treasurer had pay railroad fares for eighty This
meant special Pulnans coaches, and baggage cars,
panies found it more convenient to the singers
by special trains.
During the trips between towns the players
New-York tribune., 1906-08-19

the local management, the price being fro,,
hundred TO one thousand dollar net a. sssls
most hilarious performance ever aive1 - y lle
company was for one of these c,-tainties a. laa
city in Ohio. Having agreed t1 paw rirs 80 9 lls
dollars and chosen The Botr5 IAN C-IS' 'e-Ied
the repertoire offered him the 7ager -. non
fearful wrath upon learning chat 1eifSe- NO y,
Stone nor myself was IN the c He -aTs
litigation and repudiation, ur s,,1gs- ,,..e..1ai
compromise.
/" We are not in the cast as a~-nged fo- -.
Balfe" said l. :" but are here now ~. y ~
accommodation. Marie and 20 on III ~ -. q
and if there are any other priu IS not ras, .sle
YOU want you have only 20 uo- N H." --a
The manager was aSSuaged I'd tbe e,,
program was carried out. Or -incinaIs - se-'0i
IN the chorus. but Marie Stcr- n The -. - "a
manded limelight and stage ers W. -; le-
pOlated with a vengeance VI co1Interino - @
Dreamt / Dwelt in Marble Fl With 4 Cc. -.
by the Sea-" and the writer ing The ~ es-
Bowed Down with an apr ed renditia-
The Cork Leg.
At first the audience was an {. but the CO..
of the managers objections be- NJ pubic 60
one soon entered into the SIlri- he affair so
between the acts the choral oo. 1arbled 60 20:
their prettieSt selections, Vt stone So =,
difficult 81 Am Titania ar -om "NigSSo-@-. 3.
while delivered a mono1ogue rich go ;
my program 20 please tne n 1anagement and
made the manager Tldicu hat II i e+l
he resigned and left town
Marie Stone was fond Of ta- ne r1userr, -.
its freaks and vaudeville enter -rs. She 80 :
Cort.ras9 -r 5--
New-York tribune., 1906-08-19

dinners represented, at the prevailing price which
was paying-whenI paid-just five dollars and half
little upward of onefourth of my weekly salary.
From that fatal moment my course was downward,
and ere long had become dinnergrafter-noti in the
most violent form in the beginning; but, like strong
drink, the habit grows / began to figure on
my dinner invitations as part of my income studied
for tho part. | gathered gossip to retail at the
tables of my friends l took lessons in elocution
and recited pieces for their delectation. l even
sang a little
But did not neglect nv business, and nv salary
continued to increase until was receiving eighteen
hundred dollars year, which seemed TO me TO be
about the fruition of mans fondest hopes. 1t was
more than my father made on his farm and | didn't
have to blister in the hot hay fields freeze in the
cold gray dawn feeding stock Ny salary was al
right, but hated to give it up for such common
things as food and lodging. The lodging was a
fixed charge; but the food-ah! as a dinnergrafter
l could overcome that, and | did | gradually
raised my average from three and a half dinners a
week to five, and then to five and half
But resorted to none except legitimate means.
l thank Heaven that do not belong to the lower
order of dinnergrafters-tho mere poyPs of polite
ness mlSshaPen and invertebrate. who drop in Just
at the dinner hour
No. no! am not OF those, I study the art Of
New-York tribune., 1906-08-19

dining, the science of culinary thi- suggest 10,
dishes and offer TO make them self I taLs
lady TO a free picture show from " 10 SIX. and -
her home at the proper hour 10 d,re I walk ano,2e-
in the park and benoan the loneI Of the bacbeI,
at his Robinson Crusoe repast s. lie al IS so gsT
and bright around her happy f4ri These I'll
other harmless subterfuges- -rnar ii them on ~
spur of the mOment-are adopted r me as a resr,
to end but they are all respec- le and such I,
are, hope, not unbecOmIng gentleman. desrs.
the vulgar methods OF the comm and low and
wOu-d rather pay for my dinner han secure then
by such deSpicable measures
The indulgence OF my prOpers.-les as a dinne-
CRATER IS nc confined exClusivelv ID the homes
my friends BY no means, Tor In So large c-7
there many who have no homes They sg
bachelors usually, or couples with no chlire,
to handicap them make them afraid 10 asi
New-York tribune., 1906-08-19

r AM a dinnergrafter. At first blush the unnitated
/ might conclude that was related to the dinner
- saurian dinnertherian families of the MesOZOC
period but this is not the fact dinnergrafter is
quite different order of animal and belongs wholly
to the Neogastronomic age, which is any day this
week that l happen to receive an intimation from
some gentleman or lady friend that either of them
would be pleased to furnish me with dinner free
of coSt-tO me.
Our family is a large one of both sexes; but my
them wish to confess. they may do So but l do
intend betray the family secrets. l have a right
to say what please concerning myself but | have
right to throw shadow of suspicion upon others.
Nor Shall l. They may graft as many dinners as
they-but let us drop the subject
The dinnersaurians and the dinnertheriums are
born that way; but the dinnergrafter IS not He
New-York tribune., 1906-08-19
By William ]. hampton

paying for what didn't get and was satisfied with
my independence.
NV salary having grown to twenty dollars week,
nv expenses responded to the spirit of progress,
and went up correspondingly. My zone Of acquaint-
ance had also widened not inconsiderabi.- and
numbered among my friends several famihc5 f
wealth and refinement besides those who still lived
in flats now received as many as four invitations
a week to dine out, having become very chic in my
style and my repartee and airy Persiiage being
such as to grace any festal board My average was
about eleven invitations a month, and one evening
in spirit of that avarce which SO soon colors ones
life in a great city. began calculate that eleven
New-York tribune., 1906-08-19

my condition improved, which it will always do
if properly attended to- found my salary increased
from ten dollars a week to twelve dollars and took
a larger room outside, paying only four dollars a
week for my meals.
Two or three families, whom had known pleas
antly at our table in the boarding house, in the
c1,1rse of the year rented flats up and went to
housekeeping. They asked me different times
to come up and dine with them. l did so with
pleasure.
One sorely feels the need Of home surroundings
occasionally. At these flats met other people
and manners agreeable that they
invited me to their homes to dinner on various oc-
Casons
During all this period of transition, to speak,
| was paving four dollars a week for my board
whether ate it or not But gave that discrepancy
no heed My food wes costing me four dollars a
week, no matter where | got it, and thought that
reasonable enough. As yet was guileless OF graft
Possibly, might never have become otherwise but
in the course of business my employer sent me out
of the city on short trips of two three DAYS NV
board remained at the same price the landladv
averring solemnly that she could make no reduction
tor less time than seven davs Then it was that l
rebeed against this unjust oppression of the weak
and began to take my meals by the piece" The
expense was somewhat increased; but l was not
New-York tribune., 1906-08-19

powers of organization he could effec a merger q
bored couples which would declare lailv dlnr1
dividend in his favor And it would .e no refsc-
tiOn upon the couples either. They NAV be bored
general principles but they are 50 tond Of each
other that they want witness of the.r bliss. Fr
the wise and wary bachelors, l can ulv say thai
they ought to get married and hv Ike human
beings.
IhlS confession covers a period d -uv6n years
full years they have been, l may sa. not counting
the first two or three before my en- was rer
teCted- see before me only an g-s Of plenty
small outlay 20 myself with q cons mt improve
ment in the menu as | advance 500 .-lv and get II
closer touch with the wealth and cement OF lie
metropolis.
shall go on I trust. hope.e- and haPplr
to the end which may be the ee or It NAY
be the attractive home OF some r. -1plary hiT
of such means as VIII enable her -1 support
husband IN the style TO which h been accu~
toned.
NoTE To THE EDITOR: The rlan-is.- -ontaIning tbs
confession seized by the lanGa,ir exercise o' r.
inalIenabe right of eminent dora.- II Is there H
impossible Tor U prove by the origin 10 am r-e7-'
the GIScCverer and tralscrtter If I'll toCUne,-
However. YOU have assurance ch- copy Is corr
II was made before the pie m wh. 74s found --i
disappeared l-
New-York tribune., 1906-08-19

acquires the habit. l cannot
tell when l became fully con-
scious that | was a dinnergrafter,
50 gradually had it thrown its
influence about me.
recall that in the beginning
that is, when l first came
from my simple home in the
country, where the dinnergraf-
ter IS unknown, and became a
part of the vast human whirl-
pool OF the metropolis lived
in a boarding house. My chilly
hall room and my meals, which
were also chilly at times, cost
me seven dollars a week, and l
got twenty-one meals a week
in that house, because | was a
stranger in a strange land As
New-York tribune., 1906-08-19

any landlord % AXE them II
The bachelors. rs a rule. an
wary, and thev are filling 10
more StomaChs than viii rst-r1
a fair dividend on the invest
ment but the couples are eaT
marks They get so tired &
each other. vou know. tia.
they VIII gladly put up lie
price OF ~ dh5ts wi-i
wine 20 relieve rte monotonr
/ love 10 90 20 such dinners-
not So much for -le food and
the wine, as for the pleas-rs
It gives me TO gladden. TIE
weary on their WY. | soms-
times think that If calculating
dinnergrafter h I am no,
i hOpe-Carefu1lv -yerCiSed he
The Arizona sentinel., 1906-06-13
Played Cat.

No one," said the physician who was in a reminiscent mood; ''can realize the amount of fraud that an accident insurance c0T1 pany meets with, unless they are in position that gives them ah inside view. For 8 num6eF Of years have been tUuheetGd Nitii such a company in the capatlty of examining physician; and l am free to state that large per centage Of claims against the company that ] am with contain some element of fraud. 4 slight accident that would cause an un- insured man no inconvenience, becomes serious if he happens to be carrying an accident policy. My duties are largely with this class of claims, and the amusing experiences that l have met with would i'll book.
 GA few days ago l was sum- moned to hospital 10 examine 8 man who claimed to have had his hearing totally destroyed by the premature explosion of some blasting powder. 1 had an idea from the first that the man was scheming, but all the tests that 1 could apply had no effect what ever, and apparently he was stone deaf. Still, I wasn't satis- fled, and resolved to try a little strategy. Coaching the nurse be- forehand how to act, 1 entered the room hastily and cried:
 "The hospital is affre! Never mind the deaf man! It Is too late to save him! Save yourself!"
 'Hrhen we both hurried for the door, but the patient was quicker and reacked it before we did He had the good sense to realize that the game was up and he never showed up again. "-Detroit Free Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1906-06-13
BoatSWain and Bullock.

Speaking of the right man in the right place, a paymaster tells a yarn in which the bOatswain was equal to the occasion. They were about to buy beef for the ship, so the officer whose duty it was to make the purchase took ashore with him the boatSwain as representing the crew, to look over the animals, and either ob- ject or not. They approached the first animal.
 "How will that do?" asked the officer.
 The boatswain cautiously ap- preached the beast, bent down and gingerly ran his fore finger and thumb down one shank and then the other until the whole four shanks had been examined. Strengthening up, he said; He'll do all right, sir"
 The officer, looking surprised, said: Surely you can't tell the good points of a bullock by the shanks?"
 "Perhaps not, sir, but they're the only parts we get, sir. "- London Fit Bits.
The Arizona sentinel., 1906-06-13
New Flap of SaIt0n Basin.

A map representing parts of and Mexico has re- been published by the United States geological survey which is of unusual interest at this time. The area covered IS widely known as the Salton Sink, q great depression in the Colora- do deseft, which has been much discassed lately; owing to the threatened formation of a large inland sea Where there is now a thriving community.
 About 5000 people have set tied in that part of tke basin known as Imperial valley and are raising excellent crops of barley and alfalfa. Stock farms are numerous and experiments in raising the date palm are in progress. The freight shipments from Imperial, town only four years old, are said to rival those of leading cities of southern Cal ifornia.
 The existence of this peaceful community, however, Is serious ly threatened by the Colorado rlver, which stream is also the source of all it's prosperity, as it furnishes the water for the frri- gation system. An intake cut for the main canal, and without any protecting headworks, has resulted in @i*ertiRg the river from it's old Gkannef and permit ting the entire food flow to enter the irrigation sSsseai. This is causing great damage to the ditches and crops asd Is forming large. lake which now covers about 250 square miles at 6hs lowest part of the sink. The Southern Pacific railroad has
 been obliged to build many miles of track on account of the en- croaching waters.-Washington
 Dispatch.
The Arizona sentinel., 1906-06-13
NOTICE.

To all Miners, Mechanics, Material Men and All Others whom il may concern:
 You will please take notice that we, Althee Modesti and Paul Morctti of Yuma, Arizona, are the owners Subject 10 a certain condi- tional deed in the nature of bond for deed of date August @, i905 given to the Benedic- tine Mining and Milling Company, conSoli- dated of those certain mining claims known and registered in Yuma county, Arizona, and described in said conditional dccd as the "Lost, Beveridge, New, Northside, Summit Perry, Eureka, Kora. Lost Mule, Hecla, and Calumet" situated in the King Of Arizona, or Kofa Mining District, otherwise known as the 'Ai. G M." group.
 You will also please take notice that said Benedictine Mining and Milling Company is and has been employing men to wori, on said mining claims and is and las been purchas- ing material to do said work.
 You will also take notice that any work that you or any of you do on said mining claims, or any material that you or any of you furnish to do said work, will not be paid for by us. nor will we be in any way responsi- blcthereror, nor will the said mining claims be iii any way subject to any lien forany such work done or for any such material furnished; and ycu must look to said Eenedictine Min ing and Milling Company personally for your compensation.
 The said conditional deed in the nature Of bond. fora deed. is recorded in Book - of Deeds at page v Of the records ofthe Record CTS office of said Yuma county, and expires and becomes Of no force and effect on the ooh day of August, 1867, unless the said BcneGic- tine Mining and Milling Company pay to the undersigned the purchase price for said prop erty.
 Dated at Yuma, Arizona, this 10th day Of February, 1906.
 ALTHEE MODf,STI,
 PAUL MORETTI.
 E,ei, o1 -nc-9pa 0rDprS,
The Arizona sentinel., 1906-06-13
Questioned His Knowledge.

Max O'Rell, in his latest bright volume, tells the following story on himself: II was announced to give a lecture on Woman to the students of a large ladies col lege Tn North Caroflnd. A cou- pie of hours before the lecture three young ladies from the col lege called on me at the hotel where I was staying. l met them in the parlor. Three charming, bright, most intelli- gent-looking girls they were. After looking at each other for some time so as to suggest that the other should speuk, one at last made up her mind to be the spokeswoman of the little depu- tatiOn.
 "We have called upon you, " she said, ito ask if you would be kind enough to change the sub- ject of your lecture tonight. Our lecture course is instituted for the instruction and the general improvement of the students and we thought we should like to hear you talk to us on subject which you know something about"
 q must say that 1 felt fearful 1V small "