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Milford chronicle., 1911-08-25
CLUB CELEBRATION
AND BIC THURSDAY

The members of the Eleventh Ware
Democratic Legion of Wilmington have
bad the time of their lives at Slaughter
Beach, meeting old acquaintance and
making new ones. They have been Wis
tied every day and evening by large del
egatlOns of people, who sit and enjoyed
the excellent music rendered by the First
Regiment Band
The club made a short parade through
Milford and they received much praise
for their appearance and they are being
eOmplimented highly for their generous
hospitality.
The outpOuring Of people to the beach
on Big Thursday was far beyond all eX-
pectations
1t is the consensus Of opinion of all the
old times that Thursday was the "biggest
Big Thursday in the history of the
beach, and they estimated the vast as
semblage at about 1000.
All the members OF the club we're kept
busy all day shaking hands with their
acqusintances of year and meeting new
friends.
The busiest and most sought after maH
was "Sheriff' John Lynch, who had that
title conferred on him last year by the To-
cal population, and the way he received
bis friends and admirers was a treat to
everybody; he received each individual
with different story and the humOr Of
some of them was rich and today he is
the most widely known man in the
county.
Ex.Representative VIM. NJ Connolly
met several old friends among them,
State Senator Pierce, Representative
Benjamin Hudson and ex Representative
Jester, and DR.. Lohand of Mil
ford, who drove there in their automo
bile TO meet their old colleagues.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Cross have had
their hands full feeding the crowd, as
they had charge of that end Of the pro.
gramme.
Every man was "On the job Big Thurs.
day. for they had big crowd to handle
and before that vast crowd had departed
they voted the Legion the grandest of
hosts.
The committee in charge bad prepared
an excellent programme, which the big
audience enjoyed and appreciated.
The programme was as follows Over |
iure, First Regiment Band solos, Candy |
Taggart, "Silver Threads Among the |
Gold, ''In the Vale Of Dresms;" Howard
brennan, buck dance Guyer, "Garden
of Ny Heart, "Where the River Shan
lOn Flows - Clint Martin, "Think it
over, Mary VIM. n. Connolly, address;
Irand chorus, Candy Taggart, soloist,
Dear Old Delaware; overture, First In
antry Band. q
The rendition Of ''Dear Old Delaware" !
7as treat and it was enthusiastically re.
eived and created quite favorable inn
ression. The training Of the chorus was
one under the leadership Of Jesse Nc il
oy and be was showered with praise for b
e capable and magnificent rendition. I,
Milford chronicle., 1911-08-25

White clothes are made of vegetable
hbreS, cotton or flax. Boiling affects them
the same way it does other vegetable mat
ter, as potatoes OF cabbage. 1t softens
them and weakens the fibre. Boiling will
soften even hard wood.
By this you can easily see how your
clothes will wear out quicker and tear
more easily if you boil and hard-rub them.
Wool, which is an animal fibre, is sOftened
just as the fibre of meat in boiling.
Fels-Naptha will cleanse your clothes in
cold or lukewarm water without any boil
ing or hard rubbing, and there isn't
single thing in it that will harm the goods
Your clothes will wear twice as long,
and they'll be whittier and cleaner all the
time. Try cake of Fels-Naptha and see.
But use it the Fels-Naptha way, according
to the simple directions on the red and
green wrapper. They'll tell you how to
wash all kinds of clothes with Fels-Naptha;
wash dishes, clean floors and do many
other things with it.
Milford chronicle., 1911-08-25

= seaford was selected for the next Place
Of meeting.
Grand Chief Washington Oliphant aP,
pointed the following committees and
deputy Grand Chief Washingtons
Deputies-Samuel c. Watson, Will
mington R. E. Hazard, Milford M.
Cootee. Bethel; f. S. Murray, Millville;
7. B.. Moore, Alillsboro Benjamin Knox
Harrington Charles H. Howard, Lewes;
Iohn r. Hall, Little Creek c. R. Can
non, Seaford Ira w. Davis, George
town.
Committee on lawn. A. Dufield, c.
II. Howard, l. T. Hearn.
Special Law Committee--Thomas r.
Dunn, Charles E. Bossert, Ira W. Davis.
Committee on Appeals. J. Collins,
+. S. Murray, NJ. j. Morgan.
Publicity Committee-Grand Qmei
Washington c c Oliphant, Grand Scroll
Keeper Benjamin Knox, Thomas r.
Dunn.
Degree Instructor 7 Sergeant.
Milford chronicle., 1911-08-25

James Truax, president OF the Kent
County Levy Court, celebrated his 65th
birthday anniversary last week at his home
at Smyrna, and after a fine dinner Mr..
Truax was presented with handsome
gold watch and chain from his wife and
children. II happened also to be the
wedding anniversary Of his daughter,
Mrs. r. X. Stephenson, whose husband
is superintendent of the Dover division
of the Wilmington NJ. f. Conference.
Milford chronicle., 1911-08-25
OAEEEY.

Mrs. Ida McCf5rmick, of Canada, has
been visiting hef parents, Mr. and Mrs.
D. 7. AdaHis for the last two weeks.
Mrs. Sailie Robinson and infant dauph.
ter Sarah, OF Sfeaford, have been visiting
her friend, MAs. NJ. A. Webb. for tbe
past week.
Mrs Sallie fa4d~iol .aughter Al
die are visitin ie s Mrs. Harvey
Paswaters.
Miss Nora II "a siting friends
and relatives ahsiNy ,r.a few days.
Mrs. HarveI as-Q nd son Robert
have returna nms an extended
visit with reid ~ ir.ft- idsat Pedrict
town, N. J.{auf eFh ION.
Many Of z afrb lied Slsuobter
Beach last q fea CuFss
Milford chronicle., 1911-08-25
Explained BY Anty Drudge.

Little Miss Ronpabout- look, mamma, tore my
frock.'
Motker-Good gracious and that frock just new! Only
washed twice!"
Amy Drndge-"Just those two washings made the tear
possible. You boiled the frOck you do all your
Clothes and that sOftened and weakened its fiber If
you had used Fes-Naptha in cold luRewarm
water the fabric would not be half rotten and ready
to give away the first time it caught in anything"
Milford chronicle., 1911-08-25

so.6 Der cent. OF tus -Nmsk.
sE OF So Il the state. The A.,aali =,
las;on l.;s;es and towns had in 1910 a ~ ~
~ S;on r Of Ias, as, or 60 ,o-sser
Milford chronicle., 1911-08-25

/, psv,o Ss,,,orS a. has purchased the home .1,,, Oh
|. !, s,,,. ,,.nsd Avenue belonging to wilma"
anss .a'.. Consideration not given
The herald., 1911-03-30
The Word "Chap."

"Chap' Is simply an abbreyiation of
chapman, the merchant Of former days,
and Is derived from the Anglo-Saxon
"ceap," a bargain. The word almost
brings before us the loud voiced
cheap Jack" as he cries his wares In
the cheaping or market. Chap seems
to have come into common use at the
end Of the sixteenth century and is
rarely mentioned in books before 100.
Johnson does not recognize 1t, though
Steele uses IL in 1712 in the Spectator
eff you want to sell. here is your
chap, and it is found in Bailey's Die
tionary, 1871. Its original meaning Of
4 buyer or seller still fingers in the
dialects Of many counties. Coupled
with the adjectives old, young, little,
poor. it was and is used in familiar
language, as is its relative, a queer
customer" Todd, 1918, affirms that a
good chap meant one to whom credit
might be given, whereas not qualified
by good IT was a term Of contempt
London Standard.
The herald., 1911-03-30
The Automobile.

In some respects the automobile is
the most marvellous machine the world
has yet seen. 1t can go anywhere al
any time, floundering through two feet
Of snow, ford any stream that isn't
deep enough to drown out the mag.
neto. triumph over mud axle deep,
Jump fences and cavort over plowed
ground at fifteen miles an hour. II
has been used with brilliant success in
various kinds Of hunting, including
coyote coursing on the prairies of Col
orado. where it can run all around the
broncho, formerly In favor. since it new
er runs any risk Of breaking leg in
a prairie dog hole. Educated automo-
biles have been trained to shell corn,
saw wood. pump water. churn. pillow.
and, in short, do anything required of
them. except figure out where the con-
sumner gets off under the tariff law
Outing.
The herald., 1911-03-30
The Doctors Joke.

A physician who never goes out at
night without leaving directions as to
where to find him IL wanted profess
sionally was at a theater near Forty
second street recently with a friend.
Just before the curtain went up on
the second act an usher handed him a
note reading: Come to the office at
once. Don't telephone. Come" The
note was signed by a colleague, and
the doctor lost no time In obeying the
peremptory summons. Arriving at his
destination, he was confronted by sew
eral friends, who coolly explained that
he had been used to decide q bet as to
the length Of time it would take to COW
er the distance which he had trav-
ersed. The victims anger was only
slightly appeased when he was assur-
ed that the perpetrators of the joke
knew no one else who was good ma
tured enough to furnish the informa.
ton looked for.-New York Tribune
The herald., 1911-03-30
Putting the Owl to Use.

There is choice old recipe, in which
the owl figures, ito make any one
that sleepeth answer to whatsoever
thou ask" given in "Physick For the
Poor" published in London in 1857.
1t says that you are to take the heart
Of an owl and his left leg and put
that upon the breast of one that
sleepetb, and they shall reveal what
soever thou shalt ask them"
The Hindus, however, declare that
the flesh or blood of an owl will
make a person insane who eats or
drinks 1t. On this account men who
are devoured by jealousy of a rival or
hatred Of an enemy come furtively to
the market and purchase an owl. In
silence they carry 1t home and secretly
prepare a decoctiOn, which an accom-
plice will put into the food or drink of
the object of their malignant designs.
The herald., 1911-03-30
Bags That Last.

The young chap whose morals [
tremble for just now is my nephew"
the city salesman remarked. He has
position as errand boy in q banking
house. He Is a bright lad and as
steady as they make 'em, but since he
got that job in the bank his women
relations are urging him into crime
They do not advise him to pick his
employers pockets or run away with
the days deposits, but the principle in
volved is just as reprehensible. They
ask him to abstract few bags that
the silver money Is carried in. The
women want those bags for sofa pill
low covers. They are made of mate
rial that will never wear out and
feathers and down simply cannot sift
through. By boldly asking for what
he wanted the boy has secured enough
bags to incase his mothers sofa nil
lows, but If he supplies the rest Of the
family l see nothing ahead of him but
career of crime. New York Sun.
The herald., 1911-03-30
A Midhtv Appetite.

We eat, but we no longer stuff. The
great suffers Of the past are dead
What Of that seventeenth century
Kentish man Nicholas Wood, for ex
ample, who would eat a whole hog al
a sitting and follow it up the next day
with thirty dozen pigeons? Witha
this possessor Of "Kentish stomach
was a sportsman. As proof Of this
there is that record of his challenge to
Taylor, the water poet, to "eat at one
time as much black pudding as would
reach across the Thames at any place
to be fixed by Taylor himself between
London and Richmond" Well might
old Fuller moralize over that appetite
Of Woods. LET us raise our graft
tude," he said, "to the goodness of
God, especially when he glveth US ap-
petite enough for our meat and yet
meat too much for our Appetite
Westminster Gazette.
The herald., 1911-03-30
A Famous English Clock.

Wells cathedral contains one Of the
most interesting clocks In the whole
world. 1t was constructed by Peter
Lightfoot, a monk, In 1920 and en-
braces many devices which testify to
the ancient horologists ingenuity.
Several celestial and terrestrial bodies
are Incorporated In the interesting
movement and relationship. They in
iicate the hours Of the day, the age
Of the moon and the position Of the
planets and the tides. When the clock
strikes the hour two companies Of
horsemen fully armed dash out of
yateways in opposite directions and
charge vigorously. They strike with
their lances as they pass as many
lines as correspond with the number
If the hour. A little distance away,
'eated on high perch, is a quaint
igure, which kicks the quarters on
TWO bells placed beneath his feet and
strikes the hours on a bell. The dial
If the clock is divided into twenty
'our hours and shows the phases Of
he moon and a map of the universe
Harper's.
The herald., 1911-03-30
The Spider Cure.

The request for nut to put a spi
der in to cure baby's whooping cough
which recently startled a Somerset
shopkeeper recalls the spider cures
of the past. There was, and indeed is.
for instance, that Irish belief in the
web as remedy for cuts, warts and
bruises and that superstition of the
eastern counties which credited it with
power to cure fevers. The weaver of
the web. too, was looked upon as u
doctor Of medicine.
A note from an ancient Notes and
Queries gives the illustration. Zone of
my parishioners suffering from ague,'
wrote Somerset vicar, was advised
to catch a large spider and shut him
up In a box. AS he pines away the
disease is supposed to wear itself out"
A similar belief prevailed in the south
Of Ireland, but there treacle had to be
substituted for the box as coffin for
the ague Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
The herald., 1911-03-30
THE HERALD
How Gold Plate L. MAZDA.

Talking oil silver gilt plate, it is
often spoken of as gold plate. One
hears of the gold service at Windsor
castle, Of the gold plate owned by SOW
ereigns of Europe and by other per-
sons in this country as well as abroad.
As a matter of fact, these so called
gold services are silver gilt, and only
a few pieces of pure gold are owned
by the English crown or any other
crown. 1t may interest our readers TO
learn how this fire, mercurial or water
gilding-for it is known by all of these
three names-is done. Pure gold and
mercury are mixed into a paste. The
silver article to be gilded has been
chemically cleaned, Is rubbed all over
with this paste, which has been placed
In q silk bag, just as the blue used in
washing Is put in bag. When the
piece of plate has been rubbed over
1t Is perfectly white. 1t is then put
INTO an oven, and gradually the mer-
curry goes off in fumes, leaving on the
article a deposit Of pure gold, which
has practically become one with the
piece of silver and will last for centu-
ries.-LondOn Cor. New York Post
The herald., 1911-03-30
Explosives In Your BODY.

The human body contains no fewer
than four substances which are so in
nammable that in pure state they
will go off, by spontaneous combus-
ton. For Instance, there is phospho-
rus. The body of person weighing
l2O pounds contains twenty-five
ounces of this substance, which, as
everybody knows, readily takes fire OF
Its own accord If exposed to the air
1t Is combined with lime to make the
bones, taking the form of phosphate
lime. The body of a human being
weighing 100 pounds contains nearly
one and Il half ounces of magnesium,
two ounces of sodium and nearly two
and half ounces of potassium. The
first Of these, substance OF silvery
wilderness, is so readily and fiercely
combustible that it has to be kept
tightly corked in bottles to prevent II
from igniting Of its own accord So
dunn will take FIRE If thrown into
water, and so likewise will potassium
the latter with great violence, finally
exploding and throwing shower of
sparks into the air.-New York World.
The herald., 1911-03-30
Do You Want to Get Slend.r7

A food specialist said Of dieting,
The simplest, easiest and most effica.
cious diet to bring down the weight is
the one dish diet. At no meal, that is,
should more than one dish be eaten.
The dish may be what you will-Irish
stew, macaroni and cheese, roast beef,
vegetable soup, bacon and eggs-but
no courses are to precede or follow it.
You may eat as much as you choose
OF the dish, and yet, for all that, you
will lose weight steadily. It's the va
riety Of dishes-the oysters, soup, fish,
turkey, mince pie, ice cream-its the
variety of dishes, creating an arti.
fetal appetite when the body has real.
ly had all it requires, that causes cor.
pulence. If we confine ourselves to one
dish we know when we've had enough
we don't know otherwise-and the
result is that we soon drop down to
the slimness natural to children, ami.
mails and temperate and healthy men
and women. kansas City Star.
The herald., 1911-03-30
JOHN p vEzEN PRE-.
Carstens & Vezien Co.. Ltd,
Ship Chambers and Grocers
' 0" TO Ha"r0ao Orders Prompt Delivery.
s14s1s MORGAN STREET. PHONE ALc,Ess -,
Hay Corn Oats Bran Hardware. Groceries. Etc Wine, Liquor.
The Word "Gaiters."

Episcopal CATERS cannot date from a
very remote antiquity. The very word
'gaiters" is almost Il newcomer to the
language. JohnSOn's Dictionary does
not recognize its existence. 1t does not
occur before 1860, and even I'm 1902 a
military dictionary had to define It as
"a sort of spatterdashes." "Guetre."
however. the French original, goes
back at least to the fifteenth century.
and the origin Of that is lost, though
etymOlOgists compare all sorts OF
words in all sorts Of languages, incIud-
ing an old German word for q baby's
christening cloth. The one certainty IL
that CATERS has nothing to do with
gait In spite OF the punning line In the
Rejected Addresses"-"Lax In their
CATERS, laxer in their gait. London
Standard.
The herald., 1911-03-30
HospitaI FIGHTERS

Into a hospital came two men with
battered faces.
"Street fight?" said the surgeon in
charge.
1t was. Under the doctors directions
orderlies moved beds and patients
around until the newcomers were
separated the length of the ward.
"In this case that precaution may not
be necessary" he said. but after a
street brawl ii very often is. Before
we learned the peCuliaritieS Of those
people it happened more than once
that two men who were mortal enc
mics were brought in and laid out side
by side. Each saw his advantage and
was foxy enough to keep still until
both were left alone in adjoining cots;
then they sailed into each other tooth
and nail, trying to finish the job that
had been interrupted in the street.
Once or twice they nearly succeeded.
Now chance patients with pugilistic
tendencies are placed so far apart that
a neighborly interchange of uppercuts
Is out of the question.-New York
Press.
The herald., 1911-03-30
Pushing and PULLING.

IL mas been wisely observed that
most operations can be more efficiently
performed by drawing them alone
through their proper course than by ot,
tempting TO push and lam Thorn
through, just as it is much easier to
pull rope than it is to push it. There
are probably not many persons who
nave tried to push rope. but very
many have attempted things almost as
perverse. In many manufacturing es.
adjustments, for example, there NAV
be seen numerous examples of men
wasting a large part of their energy
endeavoring to move heavy pieces of
work upon small trucks, pushing and
laboring In the exertion of effort n
small fraction of which goes to cause
the actual progression. Even when
such an effective aid to transport as an
industrial railway is installed it is Of
ten used at less than its proper eff.
cheney because there is too much pusb.
ing and not enough pulling.-Cassier's
Magazine.
The herald., 1911-03-30
The Goose Tower.

In the early years of the fourteenth
century the free citieS"-Hamburg,
Lubbock and Bremen-sent a delegation
OF seventy-seven members to King
Valdemar TO demand increased rights
and privileges in their trade with Den.
mark. The delegates were not very
respectful In their language and de-
meanor, and the king. who was at
Vordingborg. told them they acted like
a drove of geese and clapped them
into prison In the tower. telling them
they would stay there until they learn.
ed better manners. Over the heavy
tower door the king put up a stone
with the inscription:
Sleben und siebenteg Hause:
Sieben ind siebenteg Ganse;
Ware NIGHT so viele Hause
Hat ich auch NIGHT so viele Ganse
Translated this reads Seventy
seven houses and seventy-seven geese
II there were not so many houses
would not have so many geese"
On top of the tower, which still
stands solid and strong, was placed a
big gilt goose. with neck outstretched
as If it were kissing.
The herald., 1911-03-30
Max O'ReII's RepIv.

Max ORell at dinner in Montreal
It which were present English, Scotch,
IRISH and French was asked to give
IFS opinion of the different races.
Here is the answer he gave on the in
tant.
"The Scotchman," he said, and he
linched his right hand tightly and
Pretended to try to force 1t open with
lis left. THE Englishman"- And he
vent through the same performance,
opening the hand at the end after an
apparent struggle. "The Irishman"-
Ind he held out his hard wide open,
With the palm upward. THE French
nam And he made a motion with
10Th hands as II he were emptying
hem on the table.
There was not a word Of explana-
ion, but all understood thoroughly and
lad hearty laugh.
The herald., 1911-03-30
Wanted a Supply.

Politics" remarked a Washington
official, SIS a science as well as a cir.
Gus. One Of the funniest things I ever
heard in that connection was about
the cowboy delegate to the constitu.
tional convention of Nevada when that
territory was about to become a state.
In the constitution was the stereo-
typed paragraph about the new states
having two senators to represent 1t in
Washington. When 1t was read to the
convention the cowboy delegate rose
and yelled out: What's the use of
limiting it to two? We're overwhelm-
ingly Republican, and we can elect as
many as We want "-Washington
Star.
The herald., 1911-03-30
RriQnoli In a Temper.

On one occasion Bianchi. the noted
teacher. went on the stage to see Bri.
gnOli, the famous singer, whom he
found pacing up and down like a mad.
man, humming over his part.
why, Brig, what is the matter with
you? Are you nervousY he asked.
Eyes, / am nervous" was the reply
as he walked harder and faster than
ever.
But. Brig, you ought not to be nerv-
GUS. I've heard you sing the part 200
times. / heard you sing 1t thirty
years ago"
Thirty years ago! Who are you
that should know so muchY'
"Who am l? You know who l am.
and l know who you are"
"Very well; you know what / am,
but am sure you do not know what
you are, and IL you wish l will tell
you. You are a foolr'
The herald., 1911-03-30
He Made Than Iiatan-

"X" Beidler, the old vigilante leader
II Montana, was elected sheriff of
Lewis and Clark county. in which Hell
ma Is situated. During Beidler's
ncumbency the Jail was rebuilt and
me Of the new fashioned steel cages
or the prisoners installed. Beidler
invited all the notables down to see
he cage when 1t was completed. The
governor and the state and city off,
hals and many prominent citizens ac-
epted the invitation. tx" took them
INTO a cage and excused himself for
minute. He went out and locked the
ioor. Then he took a chair and sat
lown outside.
Nov, dern ye," he said to the i'm
,risoned notables, we've bin edgin'
,ff lately when was tellin' my stories
II the old days an not listenin' to 'em.
Tow reckon yell listen"
He kept them there three hours
Until he had told his whole budget Of
ales.-Philadelphia Saturday Evening
Post.
The herald., 1911-03-30
Too Precious.

makers to his majesty" and I'm.
ported are words that carry much
weight to many minds 1t is strange
what a glory foreign label can cast
upon commonplace article. The fact
Of a commodity having crossed the wa
ter, however, is not taken quite so Sc
riously today as it was some fifty or
sixty years ago. NJ. C. ID. Silsbee
gives an instance in her "A Half Cen
fury In Salem"
Miss Ann NJ. Rust was one of the
two milliners. She had a large collec-
hon Of finery, shelves full Of handsome
ribbons and glass showcases of rich
embrOideries, besides the inevitab BILE
bonnets. Once she imported a guam
hty Of exquisite French caps. The
strings were somewhat crushed in the
transit across the ocean. The caps
were quickly disposed Of. An aunt
bought one, and Miss Rust innocently
observed that a warm iron would
make the creases all right"
What" Indignantly exclaimed the
aunt Smooth a crease made In Paris
No, indeed; neverr