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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1909-01-15


But, Dissolve. Fraud. Exposed tn,
seheme-Oeelarss President Use,
All His Power to Destroy Him, 81
He Is Still Unscathed.
Declaring the president had beer
actuated by motives of malice and re
venge in attacking lis course in con
nectlon with the Coos Bay. Ore. lauo
| grant Senator Tillman. of South caro-
lima, from his seat in the senate replia,
to the accusations of the chief exc %
tive. His speech was read from mann
script and was a characteristic mis-
ture of argument and invecttve Ta
senate chamber was packed with spec
tators to hear him.
In opening. Mir Tillman said tina.
for the first time a senator had been
brought before the bar of public opin
ion on an Indictment presented by the
president OF the United States. in this
case the chief executive was animated
by malice. a desire for revenge, and an
endeayor to destroy him.
The president, he said was an adept
at Advertising and had used the Amer
lean press with more skill than any
man in American politics. Realizing
the importance of getting in the frs
blow the president hit him below the
belt on Saturday The attack on him
MT Tillman declared. was primarily
for the purpose of distracting the at
tention OF the public from the main
issue. which was between the house
of representatives and President
Roosevelt In preparing the indicJ
ment the president had exhibited the
utmost skill and in It the utmost Gun
ming. considering that he had been in
Of all the facts since last
July.
Mr.. Tillman said he had made mol
secret Of his desire to buy the lands
in Oregon If they We're as represented. /
and had talked to the attorney genera |
and lawyers OF the land Office about il
in his quest for information as to the /
legal status of the titles In the pecu
liar circumstances which caused him .
to denouuce Dorr ian Oregon real es-
tate agent. not knowing that he was
in the land business with
he attorneys with whom Senator TIL
nan was negotiating the senator said
hat perhaps he had been disingenu-
JUS. but no honest minded man would
consider that DE had meant TO be uD
truthful or 10 conceal anything The
senator pointed 10 his long service as
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1909-01-15
Bow Hanned Rv Hls Rslt

Tied to a small tree. with his own
belt bucEled around his throat the
body Of John Veslof. fifteen years Of
age. was discovered in a woods al
Upper Darby, near Philadelphia The
police authorities Of Clifton Heights.
where the boy lived. believe that be
was murdered and are looking tor
three men Xho are said to have had al
quarrel via hhim last VEL
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1909-01-15
Live Stock Markets.

PITTSBCRG (Unlon Stock Yardsl-
CATTLE lower; choice. 5000 $50.
prime. S6.10d625.
SHEEP strong; lambs lower; prime
Wetheps, S5.5005.65; culls and com
mon, f$263; lambs. S59190; veal
ealYei S909.50.
HOBS lower; prime heavies, $6.15
m6.fe mediums, $64605; heavy
YOr' rs, $5.9596: light Workers, S5.75
- pigs, $5.50GB.6B; roughs, IS
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1909-01-15
PRODUCE QUOTATIONS.
The Latest Closing Prices For Produce
and Live Stock.


and Live Stock.
PHILADELPHIA - FLOUR steady;
winter extras, new. $1,000; winter
clear, S4250450; city mills fancy
RYE FLOUR steady at s410Q415
per barrel.
WHEAT firm; No. ? red, western
CORN quiet; No. yellow local
661s O67c
OATS steady: No 2 white clipped
661hc; lower grades sac
HAY steady timothy, large bales
SIS .ner. ,4Cn.
EFo6EtRY-Live steady; hens 10
Ollie; Old ROSTERS, Toe Dressed firm;
choice fowls 14i5c; old ROSTERS 10c
BUTTER steady; extra creamery
36c. per ID.
EGGS firm; selected. 81 q 39c.
nearby. 35c. western. 33c.
POTATOES steady. at 83Q S5c. per
bushel. Sweet Potatoes steady; per
basket, 50Q6
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1909-01-15
WANTED, FARMS FOR SALE !

All the State of Delaware desire get into EOrres-
pondence with all those land owners who l visit
personally and who wish to sell their property; those
who do not wish to sell but who would sell they received
their price which price l am prepared get for you If
you would like to have your property advertised indiyd
uay in Is or 20 papers Of the North and ana
listed in my catalogue, which will into many hundredp
OF homes, let me hear from you Give full descrptonl
will not cost you cent to list your property and youre
will not be used at ALL Why not write 1t may
money in your pocket. shall be in Milford until
February LIST, afterwards at Harrington where my office IN
will be located. Address, v
~ M @. VXECE1TE1NE3ISER
anS-2t MILFORD DELAWAH
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19
Duletine Gales of G1anp ganbS

too is allowed hour during which he may sit and rest himself from his miserable quest
 In Malta it the worst of bad luck to be born on Christmas Eve. That may be a case of presumption in selection the birthday which the powers apoVe decline But have happened to make the mistake and be born then, what happens 10 you in Malta? Here, of course. 1t would be nothing worse than being doomed lifelong bunco on the part of your parents and relatives in the way ot merging your birthday presents into your Christmas presents and saving about 50 per cent on you But over there first thing know along comes Chrls- mas Eve when you transformed into most hor- rifyng ghost a of Maltese banshee compelled to wander all night soaring people into nts' Next morning you come to- feeling like wrang rag ana ignorant all the harm you've done.
 There Is safeguard. You can avoid your fate if sharp o'clock Christmas Eve, start count ing the holes in sieve. and keep 1t up until day. break
 If any traveller Malta come across some wretched Maltese counting holes in sieve during the night Of December 24 let him beware of nterrupting the parenty crazy pastime. If the fellows and mind be taken his job for minute. presto! he may change into ghost, and the unwary traveller will drop dead at the sight of him.
 Perhaps the prettiest and most widely credited legend Is legend at all. but the simple truth That is the legend good St. Nicholas. He really lived, for he was bishop Myra. in Lycia, where he died. December 6, A. D. $40. He the defender of the poor and weak against oppression, and he espe- cially fond children. He did much for their educa ton in his diocese. always beloved by school boys His remains transported. in 1071 to the town of Bari, the Adratic to save them from Mo- hammedan desecraton
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19
Christmas Greens of
 Ratine (6romtb

~ HRISTMAS holly and mstletoe-these are the two Yuletide greens that occur to most people when they planning their decoration of the home. ming to realize that it has all its customs and tra- dtons create. task of the generations to which people is predesned whatever its origins and however abundant the wealth of legend custom 1t may have inherited from the parent stocks.
 So young we in our observance of the more picturesque features of Christmas that is only within the years that the cherished mstletoe, with it's cherished privilege of the Christmas kisses. has achieved of the universal popularity which that delicious privilege ought inspire And that ia foreign custom. however intimately 1t has bound with the festiyty of the English home for centuries in the It impresses great-great grandchildren of the ancient stock importation than inheritance.
 While the Christmas greens universally recog- nized appropriate have newly achieving their popularity the land live in has been responding to the awakening need with it's wealth of foliage, afording section charming leafage that peculiarly its best and already presenting the country large multitude of decorative plants from which choice may be made.
 The laurel and the swamp magnolia both growing in much less profusion than would suffice fo- national needs are. nevertheless than worthy rivals in beauty any Christmas green that can be imported or domestcated here They demands of the wealthy classes in of large cities, but to greater used by the residents of districts where they wild.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19

TIE IS 80 years old he passed that venerable A fourscore milestone April 10 of this year. The whole world awaits the more than inter-
 esting incidents of the autobiography he is preparing being stories from the of character unique Mohammeds more influential than that of Peter the Hermit and of far greater inme- diate influenced upon humanity at large than good St. Nicholas himself could have aspired to be.
 It ie autobiography from the pen of man who has lived fin the interest of humanity through than the of the fanatic Prophet of Islam; who has raised in the of and industry far greater armies than the preacher of the Crusades urged to war; who has made wholesale the little retail benefactions of St. Nick himself and only detail of his life's 1abors, at that
 The Salvation Army Christmas dinners have for years the Christmas observance of the big cities, here and abroad. and such modest play things charitable could be induced to provide have been poor childrens pleasures for the day.
 Usually in London. yet again and again in some strange quarter of the world. the modern St. Nicholas, person of General Booth has always been the inspiration.
 But for the eonquerng the first St. Nick must have looked very much like him; and have only the vain. impertnent imaginings of presumptu- artists rely for the Jolly red pug St. Nicholas habitually
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19
BEAUTIES OF WILD SIMILAR

The green briar, wild smiax, the bittersNeet vine the first carrying jet black indigo berries and the latter brilliant red exceptionally in their autumn hues of leafage. they usually cut in October and kept until Christmas calls for them. There is southern relative the wild smilax which Is really with deepest gossiest in It's Christmas festoon ing where the color scheme is be hourishng verdure-
 In California that land of the beautiful the noun. tain afford species majestic ferns that thrive in the spray Pumelike they sway
 charm of atractiveness delicacy if they are used in their baby sizes of only few inches
 California has it's holly and own native mis- tletoe we'll The toyon. popularly Cal- forna holly and the Christmas berry, among the foothills blazing in berries of a rich cardinal hus bedded amid green. thick. glossy leaves.
 The manzanita Is a rival of the toyon and is some times in full bloom Christmas time clusters of waxen bells giving forth the most delightful frar grance.
 What with the live oaks the wild woodbine and the lycopodum and all the other wildwood and hela plants that flourish in various sections Americans possess wealth of Christmas decorations unequaled by any other people under the for we segments of every climate the world knows
 The quaint yet beautiful stranger liable find doing service in the home Christmas tme not the incongrutes which Europeans would adjudge them; they only the outward and visible signs of the inward and spiritual grace which has at vouchsafed this new. great nation in its des tined finding of itself
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19

Y T IS a pity can't believe in all of the old
 legends, myths and fables applying to the Christ \ masses our forefathers enjoyed .--
 Plenty of them unbelievable enough a' everybody nowadays knows; and plenty more of them were weird and dsquieting enough; yet at their uh- canny they served only to make more real tlie spirit supernatural atmosphere that was wont 10 attend festival and taught the credulous to app safety happiness of the plain prose Of ie against which it the habit to rebel during the rest of the year.
 gruesome all the legends of the Ynletide are that attached ghost walking For be II Know" certain special breeds of ghosts who ao al their walking Christmas time, and He Quietiv l" their graves for months end.
 There hundreds. perhaps thousands of christ ghosts. uneasy spirits who simply won't be satls- either heaven the other place the minute joyous chimes begin to summon mortals 10 thelr period peace and good will.
 Queen Anne Boeyn to be of those Christ mas specters Like father, Sir Thomas <Boleyn, a speciality of doing her Christmas haunting state those distinguished English ghosts used appear riding down the roads in coach and four Queen Anne punctiliously carrying her head on her lap.
 All through Northampton county. in England, every country lad lass knows that the ancient practice bury ing maefactors at the crossroads with stake driven through their hearts. while 1t seemed pretty solid way of mailing them down, entailed annoying consequences the neghborhood at Chrstmastide It disreputable defunct-murderer, high wayman ignominious traitor what not-possesses inaenabIe right to annual resurrection. and pro- ceeds hmself-and anybody else he happens meet-over the face of the earth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19
INSTINCT OF KNEELING

It will also happen, in various parts of the world. that, if you upon cattle at midnight the the holy day. you will find them down on their knees-not assuredly because they want to rest that way but that the dumb beasts of the field possess the instinct of kneeng to worship the infant saviour implanted in their kind by the action of the cattle that were in the stable Bethlehem when the first Christmas night brought the Holy Child into the world
 There two Christmas legends of the dead and damned that inspired with the mercy which been the dstin gushing feature of Christian ity One of those very dead and exceedingly damned personages the ptess Herod. who, of course. now very appropriately his residence in hell But at midnight Christmas he is permitted to enjoy one short hour of respite from his pains
 The other. pretty nearly much damned. is Pom tius Pilate His soul. seems condemned to wander forever about the summit of Mount Pilatus. hope finding water in which to wash his bIoodstained hands. At midnight. Christmas. Piate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19

"Never NeverI"
 "I feel, my brethren"-and the eagle face looked upward in spite of the mildness of the words"that my call is a broader field. cannot obey your orders"
 It in that wise and for that reason that Rev. his relations with his church. The years followed were hard years indeed for they were lived and fought through under both moral and material stress. Hunger always waiting for the revoting preacher and his family; the need of afiliation with organized body of Christians was always sappng at his hope and his courage. He could learn what he wanted to do-coud learn it until he nearly 40 years old and was preaching in the lowest slums of London.
 He was in the midst of huge population. whose lives were all squalor. whose pleasure was gross drunkenness. whose existence. as they bore it,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19

unrelieved by any hope of the here the here after. And it among those most wretched and debauched of the people that he learned what he wanted do -at s...e
 My dear" he told his wife day his return slums T have found the work that is to be mine for life must better the condition of the poor
 It in the lonely cemetery along Mile End road. in East Londons slums that he and his wife pitched the ragged the Salvation Army. beat the first drum and banged the first tambourine.
 There people living today who recall the universal derision. the antpathy amounting to ex- ecration which that unique crusade against the conventionalities of religion and the chronic habitudes of vice.
 From its beginning the Salvation Armys salvation peculiarly that of the poor, the outcast, the oe-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19
WHAT A MANi"

'yvhat mani" exclaimed who General Booth for the time. "T mad his like before. Tall and spare. with shoulders slightly stopped as though weighted down with the AtanteaE burden of a world of sin and suffering; dark pIextoned with a face scanned deep with thought and care: searching, benign eyes, that looked though they had fountains of tears noble head. crowned with hair; a finely curved firm set mouth; a long, flowing, shaggy gray beard and a great nose that dignity his marvellous memory long after that impressive countenance set upon my mind the seal of it's first impression"
 As boy of 15. after serious illness. he "got lgion" in little meeting hall of his native city of Nottingham. in England. He joined Methodist chapel and worked in the of the religion had "got" him for a period of ten years. when he became regular preachel
 He married. While the young minister rapidly learning heed the call which only the broadest methods of evangelzaton could satisfy. four children up the modest stipend he re- ceved his church. He completely dependent his salary and he necessarily chahng against limitations of his pastorate. With countless other men such a problem always ended with tanning the restless ambitious spirit and limitation of pastor the field to which he assigned. But this tall. young fellow. with the salary and the big family. had of those that peaked him like eagle. Sooner later it inevitable that he must attempt to lead.
 Yet for a period of years he persisted in the vain appeal that he be permitted broadcast. in his The time last when he stood before his conference while his wife leaned. eager and anxious over the gallery rail
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19

Yet 1t is in England itself where not a few warm blooded damsels find fire enough in their youthful hearts to go right and court the ghost That IS the phrase practice walking in the garden midnight Christmas Eve, and plucxing precisely one dozen leaves As the amorous maiden plucks the last sage leaf will surely discern, approaching her. the shadowy form of him who is destined to be her husband
 But if, in Denmark any one of the party assembled around table Christmas Eve shall silently rise, silently walk outside the house. and gaze through the window upon group reveers he has forsaken, will be able among them only those who are doomed o die within the next twelvemonth. This is unpleasant, if true,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19
7zzsILznszMzsNYS NWSH SH1w
 GEz SSaa>HS SkS~@s,sS

part of the small growing army
 It has been largely in the past decade that the organization found itself enough undertake the christthas dinner institntion Wherever the army has post the people at large know of the demands that made upon their passing charity; such the general confidence in its mission of practical hepfulness and its direct way of reach ing the needy that the gifts from all classes with of the givers questioning what is their disposal.
 the part of the poor. Every years brings. in the United States alone it's 100000 witnesses to the Christmas board spread by the helpers of the St Ncn the century; already more than million or grateful, happy Christmas diners who, with stomachs for filed with the best of the material Joys world affords able for to look it in the and feel courage spring afresh in the warm jingle of their renewed life
 One need only look little closely into the home and habits of St. Nicholas to find him utterly unlike the wellfed rubicund joval original depicted by errant tradition. and perfectly re- sembling the St. Nicholas his memory is re- vered by true believers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19

"/ HO, of all men, u the modern N Santa ClaHsP
 Not the milion-dolIar prodi- gals of philanthropy, the Carnegies and Rocksfsllers and FEcks, suhose great gifts have been as famous as they have been huge; but the person sUho pre-eminently does, in this day aud generation, ths universal yet simple and modesf bencfactions that characterized the good old St. Nicholas of yore.
 l. there any modern St. Nick at alls Or do we dispense our Chrisfmas lngesse exeln- sively on the tradition of the first and only patron of cheery Chsistmastide, sith no owe kaosOn today sVho is qualified to wsar the gen syons mantle of the good, departed saint?
 This is e grave, really solemn question, one Of Christmas dinners and children dolls; Of fhe uarm clothing and the hot viands that men, and their cuomen and children, most intimately need at Christmastide. The higher edacation and the organized charities are sueu snough for he rest of the year. But cold and hungvy Chrisfmas, ages ago, .revered most the memory of the one poor lovev of his kind zUho soright only to bring fhe glosc of Ynletide happiuess on the faces of little children for single day. HaUe sUe any other man like hjm?
 Well, there is jnst one man zVlo, in Uasfer sporld, has accomplished old St. Niek's kindly eharity npon the modern, vaster scale, xUbo has proVided million Christmas dinners where fhe reaI St. Nicholas could only feed some scores; sUho has made for millions realty Of their Christmas, and of the good, 0id-fashioned kind.
 He is General William Booth, of ths Salvafion Army, in years, in labors and in his Uery aspect the reincarnation of the St. Nicho- las of yore.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19
IS ABOVE WEALTH

For even as old St. Nicholas had barely the neeessartes for himself General Booth. for all the vast which pass under his direction is among the poorest and most abstemious
 He would be without a home of his own if. some years ago. solitary admirer had not taken thought apostle instead of the gospel he breaches Tna friend bequeathed him the of $250O0 but tied up legally General Booth should not be able to build a hall with it."
 The executors were enabled, under the will to in- vest it beyond the eager reach of it's aged beneficiary so he cant build any Salvation Army halls with it, and he can live the income of 5000 that It affords him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19
A SURPRISING ILLUSTRATION

Years ago. preaching the pulpit on the ease wath which a man can go down to he'll he found himsen striving to find some illustration that would carry his homily home.
 'Ady friends" he declared "to to perdition, once make the smallest start is as easy-as easy why. it's as easy as thiss'
 And hastily straddng the banister rail, he slid sn the way down. His hearers understood.
 The very name of the Salvation Army is 6 Christ
 anniversary for at Christmas. 1s77 nearly fifteen years after actual foundation in that lonely ceme- tery the annual report of the Christian Mssionthe name 1t had since the first tambourine ratted- was being revised. General Booth leaning over the of his secretary reread the question whch the report propounded What Is the Christian Mis- sion? And answered thus
 "A volunteer army"
 He stayed the tsecretary's hand took pen in his own obiiterating line through the word wal unteers and wrote instead:
 a'A "Salvations
 Isn't this picture of good St. Nicholas. we would expect him to be if he living in the epoch of captains of industry-and of millions of hungry soldiers?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19

"For years" he said. in the ringing voice often moved his lay hearers I have been pleading for permission to preach to the people who out side the church. to carry the gospel to whom I can freed from the limitations that conhne a pastor For four years my request refused. Shall accept your decision again, not7"
 The voice of the wife. in the gallery above. swered drame tcally:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-19

sparing From the beginning 1t was part of the army creed as 1t become part of the creed of medi- cine that sound morals must have sound bodies to thrive in. It was old St. Ncholas Christmas creed spread the whole year.
 The burden of St. Nicholas not. however. taken up extensively Christmas office at first. The middle-aged apostle of the poor with his astounding cymbals and his tinkling tambourines found himself at once in such turmoil of ridcule and hatred often attaining the stage of violent rotsthat the salvation of the central idea the one desperate aim: it was succession of struggles for life the