Milford chronicle., 1912-05-24
JOTTINGS BY THE WAY
RE
BY D. A. c.


dumn death last winter that I concluded when
meni the weather became favorable to launch
esi out for health and improvement To be
NJ, weather bound for several weeks gives
a. Mou one feeling of assitude in summer, and
-. Oh a tornid liver in winter. and when A
b tpecal change comes from either extreme we
irlg az are, generally, ready to take advantage
IA Venlni of it.
Z xceHe In order to inspire his soldiers with
r. Al u courage, Napoleon is quoted with having
gireheIl said on the morning of one of his great
hg ON battles; Soldiers, that's the sun Of
hear: Austerlitzl" The morning we left home
reside the sun was not the sun of Austerlitz, -
fhrs. Il but it was radiant with hope of better
zanque weather. and to one who had beeu coOped
/ Coint up and almost freezing for two or more
"a the months it gave an exhilaration that made
ms ye one feel glad he had not frozen to death
tester during the winter. May is pretty month
illss L. and the present month"; though a little
roI1 IS backward in dawning her spring attire, IS
Hood pr nevertheless beautiful. The trees are
On M bossoming or in leaf, the wild honey
lstorlc sucke and the little blue bell, with other
Mehorl congenital wild flowers are spreading
NPScte their fragrance on the air, or nodding in
ne the grassy dells. When we left home we
EN- nav might say we had objective point, in
ape mas fact, we told an ex-soldier at the Milton
s.pects station ere we departed I'VE were going
oIIs to Washington to try and influence the
ssldenc President to sign the Sherwood pension
amt, bill, provided he had any conjunction in
4. ~ 41nu doing so. Later, however, we learned
IN he had signed the bill having done so
IS. wee after eleven O'Clock on Saturday night, |
inning after his return from the Princeton cele-
2 treat braton and before his start into Ohio.
MT an We reached Ellendale, and having an
-na Oa hour to spare, prepared to put it in in as
10 good manner as possible. We rstmade
e mad inquiry for Paul Pry," and were in
hVe formed that that gentleman was probably
Pendic at home engaged in agriculture and
10 De pomOlogy, business in which he is said to
-oAlODl be adept Eleudale is unfortunate
= on its location, in being low land. and few
1I9ert otherminor points A great deal ofwater
gu was on the land when we passed through
sing II and the evidence was conclusive that
anes great deal more had been there. Never
se Dy theless, 1t is pretty little place, with its
sis , modern buildings surrounded with level
= IS parterrhs and beautiful shade trees We
Ii r. thought then, and thing yet, that if some /
ed Bui of the earths subsideDce, produced by 1
. u the earthquakes in various parts of the {
iol world, might appear again IN the form of
u ana an upheava beneath Ellendale and raise t
d DaI qs that pretty little town ten, even half
81 ID that number of feet, we might be led to t
-or ne see some good in these seismic disturb C
seph ances. S
ederit Well, in the course of time, we left FL G
IS an lendale and we didn t see Paul Pry'' the s
lng whole time we were there. "Pitty and {
x pity It's tits true 'FeltOnl'' sang out I
IS III the conductor and again alighted y
e que from the train Here we met Senator
iss M Alvau Conner a possible candidate for c.
't0-e- guDeTudlOTldl nOuOrS, ana a une man II
Iry 81 Senator Conner is becoming quite gray
nS III although not an old man. possibly the Il
cares of State and the excitement incident (
r-h to public life produces the premature L
LLAN change. Senator COnner's father died rs
only last December, an aged man, full of NJ
hOnor-as all COnners are-well beloved II
by the people of FELTON,, with whom he +
ess had been identified since the town j
inniQ foundation and the passage of the Della NJ
litlre, ware railroad through Kent county, By SC
he naV he facfO Off
ton to Senator Conner being Governor of "
our little State, and the Republican nom ST
mess mating convention may go farther and do
le mt worse than to nominate him. ey
ing On the road from FELTON, to Frederica X
past the air is redolent with the perfume of of
,on flowers; the grass is green, the wheat is
VINO splendid, the fruit trees are prospective tn
> WI of bOuntiful crop, all nature is rejoicing PI
to and the pPons of spring are resOunding
% wi all around us, thrilling with rapturous fri
ps thoughts and glad hearts to the Giver of
lmer all such loveluess, o, we are so glad H
,ople we didn't freeze to death last winter!
he In FreGerica? Yes, i'll FrederiCa againl da
wor About ten months ago we left this town
Lot and went to our home. The day after MI
rest our arrival here we met an acquaintance
Ann of our early life. Capt Joseph Whitaker fri
T. and myself were in the same regiment Pa
SDa and the same company at one time during
r. "a the Civil War, and were honorably dis
ovie charged from the army As years ago We
p rr neither knew the other when we metla
- Wednesday, and were introduced by
md mutual friend. Forty eight years is long
-orgs time to look forward to; hut looking back
C. ward the kaleidoscope is changed, the Re
,al { prospective events of the former have be
ate come the realities of life, and the time w
IS G appears short. We can scarcely realize He
E the fact that 48 years of life have flown an
ut ar since we met. To Captain Whitaker and
Corr myself this admits of no proof. 1t is trc
site fact. An automatic fact. And we are MI
1o + told by those versed in the sciences that
Nj an automatic principle cannot be proven; cal
time it is self evident therefore fact without we
Bar, proof. During these past as years Capt. WI
til \ Whitaker, as we'll as myself have eXper- Su
ont fenced many changes. lie has travelled da
anis much made much money and has now th
.iiiy0 eventuated to his native heath and has
Iof settled down on his well earned laurels Wis
ionlt Coming from FELTON, to Frederica we
aoo became aware that the Delaware smoke a
9iefr house was again unlocked and open
rua wagon trains not quite so large asBragg Ull
Esast on his retreat from Chattanooga loaded ia
T. with trout, and which came-a part of J
nee them from beyond the Maryland line Wis
ere were returning loaded with trout from J
vel Bowers and other points from along the MI
futt bayshOre. The season this year has been Ma
hon good and prices moderate. Considering BIZ
the high prices of meat, these annual
yvo openings of the Delaware smoke house. OF
III are indeed God send.
alma We have not been in Fredeiica long
f M enough to size up things in general; also
n H the weather at the first of our visit was
lis very wet, and the soil between the town
Sad and Barratts Chapel being of an alluvial j