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Milford chronicle., 1909-04-09
PENNINGTON.

Miss Cora Sullivan is visiting her sister, Mrs
Calaway at Stat0nvile.
Miss Susie Breeding, Of Wickman, was the
guest Of Rachel Draper lat week.
Mr. and Mrs Herbert Keuton and children
were Edwatdsville visitors Saturday and Sun
day
Miss Sara sullivan, who has been visiting rel
atives at Greensboro, have returned home
Edgar Draper left on Wednesday Of last week
for Pennsylvania where he expects to work this
year.
Master Eben We'ch, Of Bridgeville. has been
visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Ellison.
Miss Bessie Wheeler entertained Rachel
Draper and friend, Miss Breeding Of Hickman,
on Thursday
Miss Mary Griffith, Of Greenwood was the
guest # Be sic Wheeler Sunday.
Halter Draper. OF Harrington spent sunday
with Edna Draper.
Delema anc E,,ie sullivan spent sunday with
the Misses WOrkm
Mr.. and Mrs. BENZ. Draper entertained rels-
tlves from Harrington aud Hickman on sunday
Mr.. Draper has been very il but is improving
James Parker who mas been sick. Is able to be
out again.
Milford chronicle., 1909-04-09
SLAUGHTER NECK

A crowd Of our young gentlemen with theii
afinities visited the home of Mrs Emms Glen
daniel on sunday evening last. The evening
was very beautiful one and the drive home
through the late hours is long to be remembered.
Tie catch Of shad on our shores is very large
and the men who engage in this enterprise are
reapiug a very large harvest
The home Of Bert Bennett is nearly finished,
the painter will soon be at work aud the home
will be completed
George Cieudauiel has purchased a young driv-
ing horse which is very speedy aud we advise
our boys to look out for him or they viii get a
nice dressing.
Messrs Jester Gray. william Fox and Harry
Clendanlel, of Milton, William Gray aud Walter
Gillespie, Of Milford, we're slaughter Neck visi-
tors on Sunday last
Mrs. Elias T Bennett is on the sick list.
Mrs Harry Davis has been a Lewes visitor for
the past week
J. R. Bennett, of Milford. spent Sunday with
his mo'h,r.
Mrs. Charles Davis has been visiting elatives
at Mays Landing, N. J., aud Philadelphia.
Milford chronicle., 1909-04-09
YOUNG TEN WANTED.
United States Government Railway
Mail Clerks $500 to $1,000
Year. Last Notification,

Uncle Sam will hold an examination for
Railway Mail Clerks in the vicinity of Mil
ford and throughout the United States on
May Is Many ambitious young men,
with only a very ordinary school educa-
ton can readily pass. The government
wants young men over Is, with common
sense, to to take examinations for railway
mail clerks and carriers, and the Govern
meut Positions Bureau of Rochester, n. ",
with its peculiar knowledge Of the requtr-
ments of the examination, can fit any
young man in a short time to pass A
government position means steady work,
good pay and yearly vacation ere is
time to prepare for the MAY / e nina
tions, and any reader of the Chrt .cle can
get full information how to prS eed bv
writing The Government Positions Bureau
ll5l. Powers Block. Rochester. IVY who
also prepare men for examinations for
post office clerks, clerk carriers and rural
free delivery carriers.
Milford chronicle., 1909-04-09
HOUSTON ITEMS,

Theodore ThistleWood. Of Windy Hill, Nd.
visited his familv Sunday.
Mr. swartzfager has early vegetables for
market.
A number Of our citizens visited the parsonage
last Friday evening to welcome the pastor and
family by donation. The evening was spent in
games and social Conversation. After the re-
f-eshmeuts were served the happy company
sang 'Blest Be the Tie that Binds" aud then re.
turned to their homes wishing Rev. Geoghegau
aud family happy and prosperous year.
ELIAS Townsend has purchased the home now
iu tenure Of Curtis Galloway.
VIII Hayes has moved to the farm recently
occupied by Mr Kelly
Mrs. Edward Bailey is visiting in Philadeiphis.
Miss Blanche Hall and Mrs. Ella Moore re-
turned from Philadeidhia last situ day.
Mr.. Henry vinyard. who has been under DR..
Marshall care, is much better
VIM Hail had valuable mule cut in the wire
fence last week
Rev. Geoghegau preached last sunday evening
from the text .-Ye cauuot serve God and Nam
mon
The Epworth League lesson for next Sunday
evening is found in John %. 1871. Subject
"Comforted by Risen saviour
Tie Houston Junior base ball club met defeat
at Harrington in a close and exciting game by
the score Of to 3.
Milford chronicle., 1909-04-09
HARRINGTON.
out again

/ Charles Cahsll, Of Philadelphia, is erecting
new buildings ON his farms between here and
Bur sville. He is making a decided improve
ment
Gustav Marquardt, Of AndersOns School, is on
the Honor Roll for the month ending April 2nd.
Those perfect In department are Gustav Mar
Quardt, Elsie, Relia, Odoth, Elmer, Amy, and
Amos Brown, Pearl Travis Ella Wix, Earl
Workman, Robert Wix, and Mildred Workman
Orai and written examine tions OF ihe years
work very satisfactory,
Mrs Geor &c Wilson, OF Pennington enter
tanned Mrs Claneey on Saturday ana Sunday
Mrs. wi liam Hardesty Of Washington, ,. C.
is the guest OF friends in town.
MS Ezekiel Anderson OF Milford visited town
on saturday.
Mrs. izabeh hinsOn, aged forty four years,
died OF pneumonia, April 2nd Her sickness was
OF sho duration and was a surprise to many OF
her friends. She died in the full triumph oil
faith and hss go, e home to live wi h Jesus.
Mrs. Clancy will leave to-day to spend the
Easi er holiday with friends in Wtlmir Rton and
Edge Moore
We welcome Mr. and Mrs Charles Anderson
to our town.
Miss Elizabeth Jump is the guest OF friends in
Philadelphia.
Miss sadie Robipson. OF Philadelphia visited
friends in towP IN Wednesday.
Alfred Raul hley has been on business trip
out vest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Reese spent Sunday in
Philade phia
On Friday afternoon after having cleaned their
school grounds the children Of Anderson's
School. beauuHed them BY planting trees aud
flowers, naming the former for their three favor
itt. Americans: They also rendered a program
OF sOugs, recitation readings, and dialogues
auitab e for the occasion at the close Of which
MRS Ross spoke a. some length on "rhe Useful
ness aud Care OF Trees and Birds" This week
the pupils have brought in excellent essays from
what they could remember Of the address.
Eory me thoroughly enjoyed the occasion.
Mrs. AlonzO Diekerson fell recently aud broke
hea eft arm and she is now recovering at her
home here.
In loving remembrance OF Mn Lydia Har-
ri gton who died April nth. 1904 Oh how
miss you Some sweet day I shall see You /
again. Sister.
on sunday afternoon, ort 18th, at whites I
Church Hon. Caleb Burchenal Of Wilmington,
will speak on Temperance" large atteu-
dance Is desired.
Milford chronicle., 1909-04-09

IT is necessary that apology be
made to the readers ofthe Chronicle
for its crowded conditions during
the past few weeks, which has been
caused by the unprecedented call
upon its columns for advertising
space We have ordered additional
machinery which will enable us to
present a larger paper to the patrons
of the Chronicle, and at the same
time keep up all the news which is
st to print, and at the same time
give our advertisers opportunity to
use its columns. In a few days we
expect to install the machinery
necessary and ask the indulgence
of the public for a brief.time. We
realize that the type used for the
news from the neighboring towns,
is entirely too small, but the en-
larged paper will enable US to rem
edy this
Milford chronicle., 1909-04-09

THE aims Of public school educa-
don in our higher grades, have
been seriously criticised by many
able educators, and those interested
IN education, as to whether the best
results possible come from the
money at present expended. Sew
eral statements from those high in
authority have set others thinking,
and now there IS a gradually grow
ing feeling, that changes can, and
should be made, which will give to
the boys and girls better opportuu-
tiles for their school years Prob
ably the first to voice this senti-
meut in lower Delaware. is Robert
p GA Houston in his paper, the Re
publican, Of Georgetown. Evident
ly he is receiving criticism for his
advanced position, as his editorial
Of last week, takes up the defence
of his attitude We are sure that
there is room for radical changes in
our public school methods both in
the financial system, and in the ed
ucational plan If no other chan
ges were made, there should be
manual training and commercial
courses added to everv high school
Of the first grade "A the State
Milford chronicle., 1909-04-09
SOME OF OUR SPECIAL BARGAINS FOR NEXT
WEDNESDAY,

OMA ATOUDG III
$500 all silk Pettcoats Wed. price 81 IS
ST. 25 50 in wide black taffeta silk We'd price CSC
Sc wash rags Wed. price Sc
18c Galetea Cloth best grade Wed. price 14c
SOC silk finished hose Wed. price 25c
15c gauze vests Wed. price &c
CLOTHING DEPT.
Mems SOC dress shirts Wed. price $50
Men lSc fancy and black half hose
Wed. price pr. for 25c
pairs Uncle sam work hose Wed price 25c
pairs heavy work hose Wed. price 25c
pairs 2Sc black hose packed pair in box The
best wearing hose made Wed. price 75c for box
SO Boys Suits prices ranging from s. to S4 All
sizes from 10 to 10 years Wed. price s.
Milford chronicle., 1909-04-09
SHOE DEPr

Ladies' 50 5-eyelet tan sailor ties, plain toe
Wed. price 1888
Ladies $3.50 one eyelet tan Pump. with neat
buckle Wed price $l.48
Ladies $3.50 eyelet tan oxfords Wed. price 81 As
Men Sis Satin CalfLace Shoes Wed. price 81 .29
Our bargain table for next Wednesday will have
= 70 so pairs Boys and Girls shoes and OK
tords at about half regular price.
Milford chronicle., 1909-04-09
B.fRG.fEyV' DEPT.

59c LOOT heavy blue enamel water buckets
Wed. price 25c
2So6qt enamel preserve kettle Wed. price l2c
2sc 6qt sauce pan with long handle Wed. price 12c
soc japanese salad bowl with rich decorations.
beautiful bowl Wed. price 25c
1Oc glass cream pitchers and spoon holders
Wed. price &c
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
CHAPTER xxxvlIi.
At the Door.

She woke in a dream of hoofs beat
ing at her brain. Distracted words
fell from her lips, and when she
opened her swollen eyes and saw those
about her she could only scream.
Marion had called up the stable, but
the stablemen could only tell her that
Dicksie's horse, in terrible condition,
had come in riderless. While Barn.
hardt, the railway surgeon, at the
bedside administered restoratives,
Marion talked with him of Dicksie's
sudden and mysterious coming. Dick.
sic, lying in pain and quite conscious.
heard all, but, unable to explain,
moaned in her helplessness. She
heard Marion at length tell the doctor
that McCloud was out of town, and
the news seemed to bring back her
senses. Then, rising in the bed, while
the surgeon and Marion coaxed her
to lie down, she clutched at their arms
and, looking from n to the other,
told her story. When 1t was done
she swooned, but she woke to hear
voices at the door of the shop. She
heard as If she dreamed, but at the
door the words were dread reality.
Sinclair had made good his word, and
had come out of the storm with a sum.
mons upon Marion and it was the sur
geon who threw open the door and
saw Sinclair standing in the snow.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
COpYRGWT

Dicksie with her pulses throbbing at
fever-heat heard the words. She
stood halfway down the stairs, trem-
bling as she listened. Anger, hatred,
the spirit of vengeance, choked in her
throat at the sinister words. She
ionged to stride into the room and
confront the murderer and call down
retribut;on on his head. 1t was no
fear of him that restrained her, for
the Crawling Stone girl never knew
fear. She would have confronted him
and denounced him, but produence
checked her angry impulse. She knew
what he meant to do-to ride into
Medicine Bend under cover Of the
storm, murder the two he hated, and
escape in the night; and she resolved
he should never succeed. II she could
only get to the telephone! But the
telephone was in the DON where he
sat. He vas saying good-by. Her
cousin was trying to dissuade him from
riding out into the storm, but he was
going. The door opened; the men
went out ON the porch, and it closed.
Dicksie, lightly as a Shadow, ran into
the Office and began ringing Medicine
Bend on the telephone.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
SYNOPSIS.

Murray Sinclair and his gang of wreck,
ers were called out to clear the railroad
tracks at Smoky Creek. McCloud.. a
young road superintendent, caught Sin
clair and his men in the act of looting
the wrecked train. Sinclair pleaded IN
nocence. declaring it only amounted to q
small sum-a treat for the men. McCioud
discharged the whole outfit and ordered
the wreckage burned. McCloud became
acquainted with Dicksie Dunning, a girl
OF the west, who came to look at the
wreck. Whispering" Gordon Smith told
President Bucks of the railroad, of Nc
Clouds brave nght against a gang or
crazed miners and that was the reason
for the superintendent's appointment to
his office. McCloud arranged board at
the boarding house of Mrs. Sinclair. the
ex-foreman's deserted wife. Dicksie Dun
ming was the daughter of the late Rich
ard Dunning, who had died of a broken
heart shortly after his wife's demise.
which occurred after one year of mar
ried life. Smoky Creek bridge was mys-
teriously urned President Bucks notl-
fed Smith that he had work ahead. A
stock train was wrecked by an open
switch. Later a passenger train was held
up and the express car robbed. Two men
Of a posse pursuing the bandits were
killed. whispering Smith approached
Sinclair. He tried to buy him off. but
was in danger. MeCloud was carried
forcibly into Lance Cummings presence.
Cunning refused the railroad a right-of-
way, he had already. signed for. Dicksie
q ShoONAhD 49,
Dfcksie met McCloud on a lonely trail to
warn him his life was in danger. On his
way home a shot passed through his hat.
A sudden rise of the Crawling Stone riv-
er created CONSERVATION. Dicksie and Ma
rion appealed to McCloud for help. Whis-
pering Smith Joined the group. McCloud
took his men to fight the river. Lance
Cumming welcomed them cordially. Nc
Cloud succeeded in hating the flood.
Dicksie and Marion visited Sinclair at his
ranch, He tried to persuade his deserted
wife TO return TO him She refused He
ACCUSED Whispering Smith of having
stolen her love from him. A train was
held up and robbed. the bandits escap-
ing. Smith and McCloud started in pur-
suit. AT Bags ranch Du Sang killed old
Bags. Whispering Smith befriended his
ten-year-old son. They came to Williams
Cache. Smith was certain the bandits
We're there. He importuned Rebstock.
king of the cache" to give up Du Sang.
Rebstock refused. Smith declared he
would clean out the whole gang, inclu-
ding Rebstock. Smith came upon the
bandits, Du Sang among them. Marion
prayed that he should come back alive.
Smith learned that Sinclair, Rebstock and
an escaped bandi had Joined forces. He
started after them with Wickwire.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
CHAPTER XXxVi.
A Sympathetic Ear.

When Whispering Smith rode after
Sinclair, Crawling Stone ranch, in
common with the whole countryside,
had but one interest in life, and that
was to hear of the meeting. Riders
across the mountain valleys met with
but n question; m~ailcarriers
brought nothing in their pouches of
interest equal to the last word con-
corning Sinclair or his pursuer. 1t
was commonly agreed through the
mountains that it would be a difficult
matter to overhaul any good man
riding Sinclair's steel-dust horses, but
with Sinclair himself in the saddle.
unless it pleased him to pull UP, the
chase was sure to be a stern one.
Against this to feed speculation stood
one mans record-that of the man
who had ridden alone across Deep
creek and brought Chuck Williams out
on a blackboard.
Business in Medicine Bend, mean
time, was practically suspended. AS
the center of all telephone lines the
big railroad town was likewise the
center of all rumors officers and sol
diers to and from the fort, stage driv-
ers and cowmen, homesteaders and
r~ustlers, discussed the apprehension
of Sinclair. Moreover, behind this eff
fort to arrest one man who had saw
agely defied the law were ranged all
of the prejudices, sympathies, and
hatreds of the high country, and prac-
tically the whole population tributary
to Medicine Bend and the Crawling
Stone valley were friends either to
Sinclair or to his pursuer. Behind Sim
clair were nearly all the cattlemen,
not alone because he was on good
terms with the rustlers and protected
his friends, but because he warred
openly on the sheepmen. The big
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
Delight to Weary Traveller

and all this water and LEAKAGE are SO
lavish that the broken mud walls and
slovenly houses have no power to vex
the eye. These long gardens of Da-
mascus form the paradise of the Arab
world. Making a pilgrimage to the
city after weeks and months Of dreary
and desolate desert life, the running
water is a joy to his sight and music
to his ears, and it is something to
walk through shady lanes, to admire
the variety of landscape and the beau
ty Of scenery in a land where the sun
beats down all day with unremitting
force until the earth is like a furnace
of iron beneath a sky of molten brass.
Biblical World.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
CHAPTER XxxV.-Continued.

While the Johnsons were laughing.
Smith walked into the Blackbird. He
had lost 80 minutes, and in losing
them had lost his quarry. Sinclair
had disappeared, and Whispering
Smith made a virtue of necessity by
taking the upsetting of his plans with
an unruf1ed face. There was but one
thing more, indeed, to do, and that
was to eat his supper and ride away.
The street encounter had made so
much talk in Oroville that Smith de-
clined Gene Johnson's invitation to go
back to the house. 1t seemed a con-
venient time to let any other ambi-
tious rustlers make good if they were
disposed to try, and Whispering Smith
went for his supper to the hotel where
the Williams Cache men made their
headquarters.
When he rode away in the dusk his
face was careworn. John Rebstock
had told him why Sinclair lodged;
there were others whom Sinclair
wanted to meet first; and Whispering
Smith was again heading on a long,
hard ride, and after a man ON a better
horse, back to the Crawling Stone and
Medicine Bend. There's others he
wants to e first or you'd have no
trouble in talking business to-day.
You nor no other man will ever get
him alive" But Whispering Smith
knew that.
See that he doesn't get you alive,
Rebstock," vas his parting retort. eff
he finds out Kennedy has got the
Tower w money, the first thing he
does will be to put the Doxology all
over you"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANDRT BONLES
~ GINS ScRz5XxR5 S0NS

such thing" he growled. CURLY.
"And to kill George McCloud, II he
can"
He stared without reply.
"You heard him say So" persisted
Dicksie, yehemently.
Lance crossed his legs and threw
back the brim of his hat. "McCloud is
nobody's fool. He will look out for
himself"
"These fiendish wires to Medicine
Bend are down. Why hasn't this line
been repaired?" she cried, wringing
her hands. There is no way to give
warning to any n that he is coming
and you have let him go!"
Lance whirled in his chair. Dam
nation! Could I keep him from go
ing?
"You did not want to; you are keep
ing out of trouble. What do you care
whom he kills tonight"
you've gone crazy, Dicksie. Your
imagination has upset your reason
Whether he kills anybody tonight or
not, it's too late now to make a row
about it." exclaimed Lance, throwing
his cigar angrily away. HE won't
kill us"
"And you expect me to sit by and
fold my hands while that wretch sheds
more blood, do you?"
"It can't be helped"
81 say it can be helped! I a heir
it will help it-as you could have
done if you had wanted to- I will
ride to Medicine Bend tonight and
help it."
Lance jumped to his feet, with a
string of oaths. Well, this is the linn
it," He pointed his finger at her
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29

a hand on her bridle-rein-and she
pulled Jim in down the winding hills
to save him for the long fat. When
they struck it they mad but four miles
to 60.
Across the fiat the wind drove in
fury. Reflection, thought and reason
were beginning to leave her. She was
crying to herself quietly as she used
to cry when she lost herself, a mere
child, riding among the hills. She
was praying meaningless words. Snow
purred softly on her cheeks. The cold
was soothing her senses. Unable at
last to keep her seat on the horse,
she stopped him, slipped stifly to the
ground, and, struggling through the
the horn, half walked and half ran to
start the blood through her benumbed
veins. She struggled until she could
drag her mired feet no farther, and
tried to draw herself back into the
saddle. 1t was almost beyond her.
She sobbed and screamed at her help
lessness. At last she managed to
climb lounderingly back into her seat,
and, bending her stiffened arms to
Jim's neck, she moaned and cried to
him. When again she could hold her
seat no longer, she fell to the horses
side, dragged herself along in the
frozen slush, and, screaming with the
pain of her freezing hands, drew her
self up into the saddle.
She knew that she dare not venture
this again-that if she did so she
could never remount. She felt now
that she should never live to reach
Medicine Bend. She rode on and on
and on-would it never end? Then
came a sound like the beating of great
drums in her ears. 1t was the crash
Of Jim's hoofs on the river bridge,
and she was in Medicine Bend.
A horse, galloping low and heavily.
slued through the snow from Fort
street into Boney, and, where it had
so often stopped before, dashed up on
the sidewalk in front Of the little
shop. The shock was too much for its
unconscious rider, and, shot headlong
from her saddle, Dicksie was flung
bruised and senseless against Mari
on's door.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
Green Gardens of Damascus Rest the
Eye After Long Journey Through
the Desert.

The chief attractions at Damascus
are the world-famed gardens which
surround the city, the glimpse we get
of oriental life as found in the bazars,
fine streets, the shops, and last, but
by no means of less interest, the IA
nous mosque of Omciades.
One hundred and fifty square miles
Of green lie in compact order round
about Damascus, spread out with all
the p~rofusion of a virgin forest. Or
chards and flower gardens, parks.
plantations of corn and of other prod
uce pass before the eye in rapid and
changeable succession. The natives
claim that there are more than 5000
miles Of shady lanes in the gardens OF
Damascus through which 1t is posi-
BILE to ride. On such a ride the visitor
passes orchards of figs and orchards
Of apricots. For hedges there is the
briar rose and for a canopy the wal
nut. Pomegranate blossoms glow
through the shade; the vine boughs
trail across the briars; a little water
fall breaks on the edge of the road.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29

Pinkham's Vegetable Compound made
me a well woman and l have no more
backache. / hope / can help others by
telling them what Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has done for
me."-MRs. EMMAIMsE, 1888 F1rstSt.,
Milwaukee, Wis.
The above is only one of the thou
sands of grateful letters which are
constantly being received by the
Pinkham Medicine Company Of Lynn,
Mass, which prove beyond a doubtthat
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from roots and herbs,
actually does cure these obstinate dis
eases of women after all other means
have failed, and that every such suf-
ering woman owes it to herself to at
least give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound a trial before submit
ting to an operation. or giving up
hope of recovery.
Mrs. Pinkham, OF Lynn, Mass,
invites all sick women to write
her for advice. She has guided
thousands to health and her
advice is free.