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Milford chronicle., 1909-09-24
8, j, Wilson & Son,

s, j. Wilson & Son,
FUNERAL DIRECTORS and EMBALMEEi
We are the best equipped and carry the lar.
.gest stock Of funeral goods south Of Wilmington
Call Phone, - Office, % Residence.
Large and Complete Assortment Of
Furniture. Durable and lasting
MILTON, DELAWARE.
No charge for distanceor wifes services.
Milford chronicle., 1909-09-24

by druggists, III fifty
cent and one-dollar
size bottles. You may
have a sample bottle
by mail free, also q
pamphlet telling all
about Swamp-R Root,
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women as We'll as Men are Made Miserable
BY Kidney and Bladder Trouble.

!. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind,
ulscourages ndlessensa ambition; beauty,
Milford chronicle., 1909-09-24

child durinates too often, ifthe urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an
age when It should be able to control the
passage, 1t is yet afflicted with bed-wet-
ting, d-pendupon it, thecause of the diff
Guilty IS kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment Of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due TO a diseased condition of
the kidneys and bladder and not to a
habit as most people suppose.
Women as well as men are made miser-
able with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect of
SWamp-ROot is soon realized. Itissold
Milford chronicle., 1909-09-24

desirable IN regions where the winters
are extremely cold. It does not pay to
paper the inside Of the house, as the
mites will find a congenial home be
tween the paper and the wall.
Roosts and Nest Boxes.
Part OF the main part Of the house
should be given over to rOOsts and the
rest used for nest boxes. 1t is better
to have the roosts along the north side.
A muslin curtain arranged on a roller,
so that It can be let down in front Of
the fowls on cold nights, does much to
keep them comfortable. The roosting
space to be allowed to each fowl is
six to twelve inches. according to size.
Two by fours set edgewise, with the
sharp corners rounded OF. make good
roosts. They should be set in notches,
so that they can be easily removed to
be cleaned and disinfected. The drop
pings should be removed every week
or two and not left for a year, as is so
often done. If plenty Of straw is used
on the cement under the roosts it is
but a short job to throw the excrement
out Of a hole back of the roOsts and put
in fresh bedding. 1t is labor that will
be we'll repaid. for clean, sweet
smelling house is essential to egg pro
duction.
A little slaked lime thrown around
under the roosts helps to keep down
bad odors Sprinkling the house with
coal tar dip and whitewashing the
roosts and walls once in awhile are
also good practices.
The nest boxes should be provided
with a cover and so arranged as to be
dark and secluded inside, as the hens
prefer to lay in this Kind Of place
Where a speciality is made OF poultry
It pays to use trap nests. These are
so arranged that the hen Is caught
when she goes In to lay and cannot
get out until the attendant comes
along and releases her. By having
the hens numbered with leg bands a
record can be kept Of the eggs laid by
each one. Thus those that never lay
can be culled out and sent to the
butcher and the eggs Of the highest
producing ones kept for raising pull
lets to increase the flock. In this way
the average egg yield can be increased
considerably. It is important in this
connection to make especial note Of
those hens which do most of their
laying in the winter months, as they
are Of considerably more value than
the ones that lay in the summer. when
eggs are cheap.
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Boat stops at the Consumers Ice Cos Wharf
Chester going or coming. Arriving al Chester
p hours after leaving Pliila.
Telephone No Keystone Main 1892 d. on wharf
in Philadelphia.
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including many of the thousands OF testi-
monial letters received from sufferers
who found Swamp-Root to be just the
remedy needed. In writing DR.. Kilmer
* Co., Binghamton, n. y, be sure and
mention this paper. Don't make any
mistake, but remember the name, DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address,
BinghamtOn, N. Y, on every bottle
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Yards and Eenees.

On the farm there is little need for
many yards about the poultry house
The chief need for fences is to keep
the poultry away from the garden and
house. For this purpose woven wire
fence with heXagonal meshes is best.
The meshes should be small enough at
the bottom TO keep out the small chick
ems The wire should not be smaller
than eighteen or nineteen gauge An
important point to look to is the gal
vanizing This galvanizing is a layer
Of zinc that is coated over the wire to
keep It from rusting. There are two
methods Of galvanizing, known as "aft-
err and before" The former IS ap-
piled to fencing galvanized after It is
woven and the latter to that galvanized
before. The "after" galvanized fenc-
ing can be told from the fact that the
joints where the cross wires are twist
ed together are filed with zinc. W5hen
the wire is galvanized before weaving
the zinc is cracked more or less in the
weaving process and rust readily gets
a foothold The "after" galvanized
wire sometimes costs a little more, but
It lasts about five times as long.
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Fare Co EsEaHAAaeGulnIay ~ 90
Round Trim .....-........-............. %
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Coops.


The chief equipment, aside from
houses and fences, is cOops. It is more
economical to make these fairly large,
so as to hold a hundred chickens or So
A coop sixteen feet long, two feet
wide and about two feet high in front,
with the roof slOping toward the back,
Is convenient and cheap. 1t can be di-
vided into eight or ten compartments
and VIII do for as many hens and their
broods. The partitions should be about
six feet long and foot high. This viii
allow them to project in front about
four feet. Laths are nailed along the
front and over the tops Of these parti-
ton boards, making a little runway in
front Of each coop. One Of the laths
should be removable to let the hen In
and out as soon as the chicks are big
enough to follow her about.
While such coops are cheap, they
have one serious fault, and that is
that they are not big enough for the
chickens after they get to be two or
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harasfEiIl River z PhiIad8Iphla
"FREDERICA"
OCTOBER,

NATHAN II. MAXSON, CAPTAIN
VIII leave Frederica, Webbs and Bowers 70.
as follows during
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LEAVE PHILADELPHIA

Steamer will leave philadelphia ,lPier s, South
WhaWes follows;
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WNOR the money invested and
work applied poultry is one
Of the most profitable side lines
= ON the farm. Indeed. many
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Looatinn the Poultfr House.

The poultry house should be located
near the other buildings. The chick
ems win go to the barnyard to scratch
anyway, and If the poultry house is
Evening star., 1909-06-05
ON THE VICTORIA NYANzA.
Electric Lighted Steamboats, Furnish
Good Meals.

From the National Magazine.
Four steamers are now running regu-
larly on the Victoria Nyanza. The Win
nifred and her sister boat, the Sybii. OF
taO tons each, can spread canvas at need
and have cabins and dining rooms lighted
and cooled by electricity.
double awning of canvas protects
the passengers from the equatorial sun.
hut they are advised to wear hats even
when under the awning. The f1remen
and deckhands are half naked negroes
and the cook and steward are H1ndus or
halfbreedS.
The English officers and few first
class passengers are the only white people
on board. but Arabs, Eurasian and Hindu
traders and money lenders and halfbreed
traders, often formerly slavers. with sikh.
Somali and Egyptian soldiers. are likely
to be represented among the second-ciass
passengers.
The food is we'll cooked and the variety
sufficient for the cost, which is about
s1.G5 day. without extras. You can
have a cup Of tea or coffee and biscuit
before breakfast at o'clock, when fish,
eggs. bacon, toast. fruit, marmalade, cof-
fee and tea are served.
At 1 o'clock a very substantial lunch
of soup. meats. currie with rice and des-
sert and very hearty dinner at s
o'clock in the evening certainly give the
traveller all that he ought to eat In this
climate. Nearly all the English travellers
keep up the custom OF taking peg at
or after lunch or dinner.
A peg" (Anglo-Indian slang) may mean
drink Of any kind, but is usually a
and soda water. claret cup. half and half
or the like. The lake water. duly cooled.
Is good enough for a cold peg" and the
tea and coffee are fairly excellent.
Evening star., 1909-06-05
NO CHANGE IN B. & 0. STRIKE
EIGHTEEN MACHINISTS LEAVE
GLENwooD SHOPS.
It Is Declared by officials That Their
Places Will Be Filled Mon
day Morning.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md. June up to noon
today there was practically no change in
the conditions of the strike of the ma
chinists of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road A dispatch from Wheeling, W.
Va. however, says:
Eighteen union machinists employed at
the Glenwood shops of the Baltimore and
Ohio, who have been working the past
two days, struck this morning. The men
employed at the Holloway, Ohio. shops
refused to go out.
ternational Association Of Machinists. will
be in this city Monday to take charge OF
the strike. The strikers now claim that
the figures of the striking men as pre-
sented by the officials of the railroad are
erroneous and that in the 500 repre-
sented as being out the 20 men of the
Mount Clare shops are not included.
which would make the total number out
12O men.
AS the strikers declare the company
has but $40 machinists on its pay rolls
the percentage of men out is high.
Baltimore and Ohio officials issued a
statement this morning to the effect that
the places of all the striking machinists
had been filed, excepting in the Glen
wood shops, near Pittsburg, and this is
expected to be in complete working order
by Monday morning. 1t is said all the
machinists are out in Chicago. New Cas-
tie and Connellsville, with 155 out at
Pittsburg, Al at Auburn. 30 at Mount
Glare and ~ at ParkerSburg.
Evening star., 1909-06-05
WEIGHT OF THE BRAIN.
Difference Between Savages ana
Races Long Civilized.

From the London Globe.
Prof. Frederick w. Mott. lecturing be-
fore the Royal Institution OF Great
britain on The Brain" said that al
though in Ss per cent of the cases In
which the brains of great men hao oeen
weighed the weight was above the aver
age. brain weight itself did not always
mean brain quahty ..;onot
inp tissue. the lecturer explained, the
structural material might receive moIs
than its normal share Of nourishment anu
the extra weight be due to overgroWIn oI
..brain scaffolding.'' This accounted 1or
the very large and heavy Draihs some
times found in congenital ioio,s. race
ing out that the brain weight OF = iaee
long civilized surpassed that OF apoTis-
ines the lecturer stated that whereas
the ordinary European hospital patieIi'
had a. heavier brain than savage; tnS
Chinese coolie laborer's brain, oeveiopeu
by centuries of use, Weisheo ~ out
more than that of the European hospatai
patient. .,,,,s
Referring to the relative brain weights
of Caucasian men and women. Prof. MOI.
said that the female brain had a good
start. weighing nearly 11s ounces more
than the male brain at birth. In auuIl
life however. the average man oraln
matched about 51s ounces more than the
Woman'S.
The average weight of the European
male brain was pounds 10 ounces .
drains to pounds Is ounces . drams
and of the female brain POUNDS ~
ounces IL drains to POUNDS lo ounces
this difference. since in the struggle Tor
existence the female had to apply her
brain as fully as the male. hence 1t has
developed at practically the same rate.
Evening star., 1909-06-05
COuNTERFEITERS ARE BAGGEO
THIRTEEN MEN TAKEN In
SECRET SERVICE RAID.
Government Sleuths Think They
Have Part of International Gang
Of Bad-Money Makers.

NEW YORK, June 5.-With the arrest
and the secret service operatives believe
they have several members of gang of
international counterfeiters whose opera
tions have centered in this city, New
ark, Philadelphia and Pittsburg, in each
of which cities members of the sup.
posed band have been arrested recently.
Against only one man. ..owever, Igna-
Zio ProvenZano, of No. 157 Allen street,
was specific charge made. The police
say they found on him seventeen bogus
two-dollar silver certificates.
He was charged with having bad money
in his possession. The other prison, .rs
were held merely as "su. oicious per-
sons
Detective Corrao said that recently a
friend told him that man had passed
spurious two-dollar bill on him. Corrao
notihed Agent w. J. Flynn of the secret
service.
Yesterday evening at ) o'clock the two
officers went to the saloon at No 1872
Christie street. where they found Pro-
venzano and seven other men. When
the raiders entered. 1t is alleged, Pro-
venzano drew a knife There was a
fight, in which he was overpowered.
An hour later the two officers went to
an Italian employment bureau in No 337
East 18th street and arrested five men.
to shoot the raiders if they entered,
but no shots were fired when the door
was broken open and there was little
resistance.
Flynn says that bad money is made
in Italy and distributed in this country
The police assert some of the prisoners
shadowed have been seen to meet IN the
Christie street saloon every day.
Evening star., 1909-06-05
THE FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Humble Beginning in Gloucester
One Hundred Years Ago.

From ST. Nicholas.
One Sunday morning. hundred years
ago, a workingman, carefully dressed in
his best suit, came out Of his house on
the main street Of the old English town
of Gloucester and strolled leisurely down
the hill The New Inn was fronted
then, as 1t Is today. by a square garden
overhung by the carved galleries of the
tavern. There was a moss-clad we'll In
the center and about II were beds Of
sweet-smelling pinks and columbines.
But the calm of that Sunday morning
was destroyed by crowd Of street boys
who fought over the flower beds, making
the day hideous with their noise and
coarse talk.
The printer-for printing was his work
on weekdays-stopped In the midst of the
crowd and looked steadily at the boys.
Presently he said to himself: 'At this
rate those boys will soon go utterly to
the bad. That must not be! There are
good possibilities in them. Here. boys"
he called aloud, come with me!'
He led them, yelling and pushing, down
the street into his own quiet house. plan
ming as he went how to keep them there.
Il am going" he said presently. Ito
start school for you. Now and here.
1t shall be free school; will be the
teacher
The boys received the news with shouts.
They were too ragged and grimy to 60 to
church on Sundays. No other decent
place was open to them
The next Sunday his house was crowded
with the same class Of children
The idea Of a free school on Sunday
appealed to every Christian as a most
hopeful plan for the rescue Of children
from wickedness. 1t spread through the
town. through the shire. through Eng
land. It was adopted in France and Ger
many: 1t made its way to Australia and
to the United States. Now. in every
country in the world and in every sect
there are these schools. in which every
Sunday morning the Bible story Is told,
In the staid old city OF Gloucester they
still show you the New Inn and the
garden where the boys played, and the
old brown house with its peaked roof. in
which Robert Raikes that long-ago morn
Evening star., 1909-06-05
WHOLESALE MARKET REPORT.

Quotations given below are ror large
lots. Jobbers' prices are higher.
EGGS.-Nearby fresh Virginia. p
west Virginia and southwest Virginia
21: Tennessee, u.
BUTTEIR-Creamery, fancy. 2e1sa27
western tirsts, 26a261s; seconds. 25a26
process, fancy. 22a2S: fair to good. 19a2O
Store-packed. fresh tn.
CHEESE.-New York state factory
new, large, 16a161a.
PoULTRY.-Chicken spring, o3ao8
hens. per h.. Halls; roosters, per h., 8
keats, per h.. II; turkeys. hens per lb
ID; turkeys. toms. per lb.. L; ducks
per h., Sa1O
DRESSED POULTRY.-Turkeys 15a17
mems, choice, per lb., 17a1s: roosters
per To-. 3; chickens, spring, per h.
2sa3O; ducks, per h., 10a12.
VEGETABLEs.-Potaloes. per Dbl,
Ito; new, bbl. 4.5Oa5o5: yamse bbl.,
1ooa2.oo; cucumbers. basket, 125a2.::5
onions. Texas. per crate. 1.4Oa1. 30
cabbages. southern. per bbl. 75cal 90
eggplant crate. 1.5Oa225; squash.
per basket. 1.OOa1.50; peas, per bbl.,
1Oa2OO: beans string, basket, 1.OOa
1.25: spinach, per bbl., 1OOa1.o5; kale,
per bbl. 25a50: lettuce. per basket.
75a1.25; tomatoes, per crate 1.OOa2 80
l.UU
per bunch. 4oa75: celery. Fla. per cra;s.
1.75a2.50; peppers. Fla. per carrier,
1.OOa2.OO; new beets, bunch, 3ao; new
carrots. per bunch. 3a4: rhubarb, per
doz.. 20aa5.
GREEN FRU1Ts:-Apples. per bbl..
$50; oranges. Cal. per box a5oas So
grape fruit. per crate. 4.OOa5.OO: pine
apples. per crate, 176a225; strawbsr-
ries, per qt, 5a10; canteloupes. per
crate. 1.50a3.OO: watermelons. each. 5Ja
80; blackberries, per quart, 1Oa13.
HAY AND sTRAW.-Hay, western.
10. 1, 16.OOa16.50: No. ?. 14.5oa15Oo
:3 O0ao4.0o: rye. machine thrash, 15.OOa
1900; straw. wheat. per ton. 1O.OOa11 90;
straw. oat, per ton. 1O.50a11.OO
sEEDs-Alsike, per bu.. 9.OOa925:
clover. per bu.. 6.15ae.50: timothy. per
bu.. 2.O0a21O.
cwt.. 5.5Oa60O; medium. per cwt. 4.OOa
4.75; ordinary. per cwt., 3.oOa3.5o;
Hogs. per cwt.. gross 6.50a7.OO. Sheep.
per lb., 4a5; lambs. spring. choice, 3;
medium, IN. Calves. choice, per ID.
IN medium, per lb., Z.
BEEF CUTS.-Ribs, No. 1, per lb.
ID; No. 2. IA: No. 3. II. Rounds. No. l.
per lb., 10: No. 2. Q; No. 3. 8. Loins,
No 1, per lb.. II: No. ., 13: No. 3, IL.
Chucks. No. /, per h.. o; No. =. s.: No.
g., 6.
WOOL AND H1DEs.-wool. washed.
free of burrs, per h., 33a35; wool, un-
washed. per h., 81. Hides. green,
per h., ~: hides. dry. per h.. 1Oa14:
sheepskins. green, each. 75a1.15; calf
skins. green, each. 1.3Oa1. 80: dry lint
hides. per h.. 12a15; dry salted hides.
per h., 12a14.
GRAIN.-Wheat, per bu., 1.42a1.5O.
Corn shelled. per bu., s4a9O; ear, per
bbl. 4.4Oa4.65 Oats. western white. No.
2. per bu., 66a72; mixed, 62a64. Bran.
per ton. 2S.00a3O00. Middling. per ton.
70 DOa32OO.
Evening star., 1909-06-05
COTTON MARKETS.

NEW YORK, June 5.-The cotton
market opened steady at a decline OF
las points, with active months selling
5 to 6 points net lower during the
first few minutes under a renewal of
commission house liquidations such as
followed the government report of yes
terday, and which was promoted this
morning by slightly disappointing
cables and prospects for better wealth
er over the week end.
The selling was not aggressive. be-
ing for long rather than short account,
and was pretty well absorbed by week
end covering with the market ruling
= or 3 points up from the lowest dur
ing the middle Of the morning. when
business was quiet and the larger op-
orators seemed to be awaiting devel-
opments.
Futures opened steady: July. 1924;
August, 1885; October, 1918; December,
1918; January. 1914; March. 1914
Liverpool Cotton Prices.
LIVERPOOL. June 5.-Closing: Cot
ton-Spot In limited demand; prices one
point lower American middling. fair,
6.3S; good middling. 6.02; middling. 5.s2: !:
low middling. 5.64: good ordinary. 5.35:
ordinary, 500. The sales Of the day
were 1000 bales, of which 500 were for
speculation and export. and included
$500 American. Receipts. 3.400 bales, all
American. Futures opened quiet and
steady and closed quiet. June. 5.6S;
June and July. 5.6S; July and August,
STA; August and September, 5.71k v +;
September and October. 5.691a; October
and November. 5.6Sh; November and
December, 5.67h: December and Jam
uary, 567k; January and February,
5.SS; February and March. 5.6s; March
and April, 5.6S.
Evening star., 1909-06-05
NEW YORK GRAIN PRICES.

NEW YORK, June 5.-Flour-Receipts,
T. 10. barrels. Sales, 1900 barrels. Quiet
and about unchanged. Minnesota patents,
Minnesota bakers, 5.3Oa56 60: winter ex-
tras, 4.S5aJ.7O; winter patents. 6.6Oa6.S5;
winter low grades, 4.15a565; Kansas
straights, 5.s5a6,O.
Wheat-Receipts. $500 bushels. Bull
supp~st, firm continental cables and light
offerings impaired steady tone to wheat
this morning. Trading was quiet. July,
.25ss l.25 11-16: December. 1.14ssa1 .14Ls.
Rye-Easy. No. = western, A1a. nominal
+. %. b. New York.
Corn-Receipts, 1887 busheA.
Futures closed barely steady. Closing
bids: June, 1889: }July. 1890: August,
10Si: September. 1880: October, 1915;
November 10IS: December, 1918; Janu-
airy. 1913: March. 1914.
! Spot closed quiet; middling uplands,
11..,0: middlng gulf. 11.75: no sales.
The market closed barely steady, with
prices net point higher TO points lower
Estimated receipts at the ports today,
5000 bales, against 9.762 last week and
1n.2lS last year For the week $4,000
bales. against J9.361 last week and "a, IA
last year. Today's receipts at New Or
leans. 1.I.4 bales, against 1862 last year,
and at Houston. 992 bales, against 1851
last year.
Liverpool Grain Prices.
LIVERPOOL, June 5-CIosing: Wheat
Spot No. = red western winter nominal
futures firm; July. SIS HID; September, So
Jisd December. IS :,3sd.
Corn-Spot new American mixed tvia
Galyeston,, Us id; futures quiet July, Js
Esd: September Us 5a4
Evening star., 1909-06-05
new YORK BANKS.

NEW YORK June 5.-The statement Of
clearing house banks for the week shows
that the banks hold $1S S56 800 more than
the requirements of the p per cent re-
serve rule. This is a decrease of Sc. 12s.-
925 in the proportionate cash reserve as
compared with last week.
The statement follows:
Loans, s1,343 0s1. 400: increase. s11,ls5,-
400
Deposits. s1.4o7. .255 200; increase, sa.-
O94. 800.
Circulation. $40. .o53 300: decrease, s47. 400
Legal tenders, SIC, 4O1, 400, decrease. ST.
266 800.
Specie. s294, 26s. 7oO: decrease. So 55S, 400
Reserve. $37O. $40. 100; decrease So, $50, ,2Oo
Reserve required S3o1. .s13.s %: increase
S2.2737 725.
Surplus, SIS $50 800; decrease. Sc, rs, ,9a5
Elk. I. S. deposits, $40, 4o6, o25; decrease
$6.133,O5O
The percentage of actual reserve Of the
clearing house banks today was $3.50
The statement Of banks and trust
companies OF Greater New York not re-
porting to the clearing house shows
that these institutions have aggregated
deposits of s1.30S,5 400: total cash on
hand. $147,502.10 and loans amounting
to sl,136.153,900.
Money on call nominal. Time loans
firmer; sixty days. 2Aa21t per cent and
ninety days 2h per cent; six months.
ga per cent.
Close: Prime mercantile paper. u
to per cent. Sterling exchange fairly
steady, with actual business in bank
ers' bills at 1851 15a4.S6.25 for sixty-day
bills, and at 4.S7.S0a4.S7.S5 for demand
Commercial bills, 9sa4S6. Bar sill
Yer 534. Mexican dollars ~. Govern
ment bonds steady.
Railroad bonds strong