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Milford chronicle., 1913-07-18
GREENWOOD.

On July Isuh the tenth annual convsn-
ton OF the North West Fo-k Hundred
Sunday School Association will De held
in the Greenwood Il. E. Church.
Harvey Jones and wife. OF Smyrna.
visited her parents, Chester Cox and
wife. They made the trip in their auto.
5. L. Richards has g very sick baby
and it was taken to the hospital st Sal
isbury. Nd. on Tuesday for treatment
Harry Cox. who has been visiting MS
cousin at Smyrna. has returned home
Mrs. Freeman, who has been sick at
Dover FOR the past three weeks. has re-
turned home greatly improved.
Both Of our Sunday Schools viii i0in
together and 20 on an excursion % Love
Point, Nd. on Thursday. july 3lsE
Sallie Wiley and Mrs. Charles An
drew visited at the home Of Rev. ". ".
Sharp in Seaf0ri last week and anioved
a very nice day.
Many of our farmers are done thrssh-
ing wheat. Some have reported very
good crops while others are small.
Walter SGuires. OF Wilmington. Is
here spending his vacation with Florence
Andrew.
The general stores here are closing
every Tuesday and Thursday nights az
s. 80 70 give the merchants q rest
Mabel Coulter. aged shout S years. 4
child Of 2. 4 Coulter. Is afflicted with
the hip disease. She viii have % be
treated and walk with crutchss for sew
aral weeks
The mas0ns are getting along tire
With the brick Wora on the snyder Pre-
serving Factory.
Mrs Geo. VI Hanks IS slowly recov-
sriug from typhoid fever
The Old corps Of school teachers nave
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On Goods Dept

After an Illness Of three months. Mrs..
Ida Wilson. wife Of John l. Wilson and
mother Of Oscar 5. Wilson. died Mon
day morning from paralysis az the age OF
At years. 1 month and days Funeral
services were conducted IN lae First =.
P. Church, Thursday afternoon at I
o'clock. oy the Rev James y. Colona.
past0rOf / " esley u. E. Churca. Of which
the deceased was member. and assisted
by Rev. H. L Sehlincke. pastor OF the
church in which the services we're held.
after which intsrment was Y ade in
Lnion Ca-ata-r.
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ST. JOHNSTOWN.

Miss Z. Ada Rogers has returned hone
after spending nearly three weeks as' j
her uncle John 7. Rogers. at Georgeto W,
and her cousin Mrs. Charles T. Se-s q,
near Cokesburv.
Miss Evelyn Rogers visited her 5-9-
ther last Sunday and Monday.
Miss Nellie R Rogers is visiting 1r
grandparents this week. Ir. and No
James Rogers
There Wiu be a festival held At ST..
lohnsyown in the grove 81 the church o.
saturday evening July 18th. All are "
wted
William and Nsrvil Williams VISITED
their graudfsther and aunt last SUNDAY.
John DicSersou. Of Rehoboth, v-s.-@i
his parents. NJ and Grs 3 Dickei
son, last SUNDAY
Louise and julia knowles Of BAD.
more, are visiting their sister Mrs trsa-
Elliott
Farmers ia this vicinity are nelri
done thrsshing wheat. but the isce r9a-
and freers we had. caused the crop g y
3 failure WHIrE W,ls5
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been reelected except one and Mss
Ethel Gibson, Of Tiighmaa Island. vii
ill the vacancy.
Lawrence Tatuan and family visited
at the nome Of his brother Horace. near
Bridgeville.
The town people are going 70 open a
new street.
In memory Of Charles A. Taman.
who departed this life July 18Th. 1912
Today our hearts are aching
IheT are throbbing 20 with pan
In longing for or lttle boy
That VIII not come again.
One year q 90 today be went
To JON the Angel Band
Why be was taken from 3ar Hfe
We cannot understand
His parents.
LAWRENCE AND BLEHA B TATNAN.
Milford chronicle., 1913-07-18

Rceachei o. Sunday School work. The
word sunday School Convention Is
nov II session az Zurich. Switzerland.
n. ana Ars. William Morrison and
son Hcgh eft last week for Niagara
Falls.
Mrs H D. Cook ard family spent the
latter part Of LAST week il Delaware
City, Wilmington. Philadelphia ana
Camden
Lincoln y. E. Church-Preaching on
sunday a. l0.I5 a. m. Sunday School
: p n; Epworrh League prayer meet
ing. p. m. led oy Elmer Wilkins
preaching. S Q. IT..
At Slaughter Neck Church-Sundav
Scaool, : p m, preaching. 8 .. m.
EpWorth League. Z 80 Q. n.
AtCedar Neck Church Sunday School
at a n
Milford chronicle., 1913-07-18

Men me Dress Shirts al
thls season ; patterns s. %
value Mid-Sunu=r Gear
auce pCice OalV SEC
Milford chronicle., 1913-07-18

L1a1-s Long Dresses
would be cheap u 5l- =acl
% il -h- Mii-Sesso1 ear
suc= sale a. oaiv sec
Milford chronicle., 1913-07-18

Women : E-- S1mue-
Vests xouli b cheap a. I5c
eaca I'D S-um=- Clear
ance price only 10e
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hitherto held in subsection by stern par
entail rule, came around after a bunch of
money for an initial good time.
You'll have to wait few days until 1
qualify as executor" said Mr.. Williams.
Come around next week, my boy"
The youth departed In disappointment.
but promptly turned up the following
week.
Sorry, young man, but can't pay out
anything until the will Is probated." said
the executor. Drop around in a few
days, won't you? TIN be all right. then"
With deeper disappointment the heir
took his departure. A week later he
called again at the Office.
I'm sorry. my boy" explained the ex-
ecutor, but 1 really can't pay out any
money of this estate until certain claims
are adjusted. Come back in a couple of
weeks and can let you have all you
want"
The boy turned gIoomily to the door
Reaching there. he bent sorrowful
countenance toward the lawyer
mr.. Williams" he said with sigh.
don't you know. sometimes feel right
sorry the old man dtedr'
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Persistence Won.

<SI rs only by persistence that wom-
en- will get the vote" Miss Zelie
Emerson, the American girl who went
through the hunger strike and forcible
feeding in London Jail last month.
wrote recently to a friend In New
York. And persistence is always UNI
pleasant 1t recalls poor old Jones.
Jones, a former man about town.
had become so poor that often, DON
ming his shabby evening clothes. he
had either to bone his friends for a
dinner or go hungry.
Thus Jones dropped in on a former
crony one evening and said:
81 thought I'd just drop I'm. I knew
you were giving a dinner. and 1 heard
that your guests were just thirteen
So. as your wife is superstitious about
that number 1 thought-ha, ha!-Td
just drop in
But said the host, you're quite
wrong, Jones. We are not thirteen. We
are just twelve.
Jones. as he drew OF his shabby
old overcoat. said:
We'll. I'll stay anyhow, IL only to
laugh your wife out OF her super
stitious whim."
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UDo cSERYLD LIKE ASPARAGUS

de la Chine that is Chinese" an ex-
preston used to define the vegetable by
Hindoo laborers imported into Trinidad.
who knew the plant as being peculiarly a
Chinese product
In appearance it is a cross between a
large Irish potato and a sugar beet Its
skin. however, Is striped and hairy. which
led Dr.. Fairchild, in moment of inspira-
ton, to dub 1t "a striped potato in need
Of a shave First introduced into the
United States about eight years ago. this
vegetable has received most energetic at
tention from DR.. Fairchild and his staff.
Throughout all parts of the country, in
GLIDING the government stations at Chico,
Cal. and the one in northern Florida, to-
gether with the experimental farms of
the various state agricultural bureaus.
the daSheen has been experimental with
In every possible manner, in order to de-
termine just what climate. soil and meth
cd Of cultivation are most suitable to 1t.
Results have shown that 1t is best suit
ed to a warm climate, like that of the
gulf states. Florida has proved itself an
ideal locality for its propagation. Last
year there were raised on the expert
mental farm in that state 1900 bushels.
These were distributed, as detailed here
after, throughout the United States, for
further experiment-mostly by way of
the stomach; for DR.. Fairchild, being
thoroughly practical, wants first of all to
learn if people like his new importations
before he energetically pushes them.
AS an all-round vegetable ouch as the
potato. 1t runs that vegetable a close sec
ond. One great advantage 1t has over
the latter is that while the potato can
thrive only in a dry soil-that is. upon
hillside in preference to the lowlands of
a creek bottom-this latter kind of ground
is specially suited to the dasheen. Thus,
the hammock lands of Florida and the
low meadow lands of Georgia and South
Carolina, i'll adapted to the Irish potato.
will yield bountifully of the dasheen. 1t
is. with an equal amount of cultivation.
much more prolific than the potato. since
1t will yield from 80 to 200 bushels per
acre with the same attention necessary
to produce seventy-dve bushels per acre
OF Irish potatoes.
The dasheen can be boiled. baked, roast
ed. and served in any manner and for
the same purposes as the Irish potato.
~ hen tasted raw, there is slight burn
inc sensation on the tongue. but this dis
appears entirely when the tuber is cooked
In any manner. Its taste is Of the same
mealy character as the potato, but In
addition. 1t has a rich, chesnuty flavor
that adds much to its SAVIOR. 1t is decid-
edly drier than the potato, however, and
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of men under all kinds of conditions.
But the ruling of the new President.
which refers every office seeker to the
Secretary of that department in which
the hungry patriot yearns to serve his
country, has given even t. gifted New
York expert new viewpoint.
Burrowing through a hundred-weight or
of applications for jobs, he at length
turned to a waiting friend.
with apologies to Mr.. Hamlet of Dem
mark" he remarked. with a frown
there are more things in Washington
and the Treasury Department than we
ever dreamed of In our New York phil
osophy."
Then. as he emerged from, the mass, he
added with smile:
Remember Roscoe Cankling's defini-
ton of a political party: Not the demo-
cratic party. of course, but some other
party-an organized appetite in a state of
acute activity
Lee McClung. former treasurer of the
United States, is very nearly the best
tennis player in Washington, d. c.
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III the senate MARCH 4
Bremner drew high tribute from Pres
fdent Wilson last fall. for he entered the
campaign and threw himself into 1t with
the enthusiasm of young colt, although
he was at the time suffering agonies from
an incurable malady. Bremner was an
anti-Smith man in the alignment of poll
tics in New Jersey when Wilson and
Smith were at odds, and he enlivened the
columns of his newspaper one day with
the following bit of Celtic prose.
From the green hills of Sussex to the
golden sands of Cape May. from the
gorges of the Delaware to the dunes of
Monmouth, and from one end of this
fair state to the other, accursed be the
name of Jim Smith,"
That left none OF the readers of tho
paper in doubt as to where Bob Bremner
stood in the lineup.
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brook accepted 1t as a dime. When he
balanced up his cash that night he dis
covered the mistake and pocketed the
coin as a souvenir.
From then on he looked out for odds
and ends in the way Of foreign and
counterfeit coins and became extremely
interested in the subject. He is now an
authority on coins. knows the value of
nearly every rare American coin ever
put out of the mint, and is looked up to
by coin collectors the world over
He carried his hobby into Congress at
the last session and put through bill
incorporating the American Numismatist
Association.
Nearly one page Of fine print in the
Congressional Record is given up to the
military record Of Senator Henry Alger-
non du Pont Of Delaware.
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An English "Acorn."

X e p r eSentatiVe
A s h b roo X o +
Ohio, the ma who
has been investi-
eating the Post
Office Department
for the past two
years, was once a
postmaster in a
small Ohio town.
Il a rush hour
one day some one
slipped t h r o u & h
the window an
English t h r Q e.
pence. and Ash
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when eaten as a principal dish requires a
deal butter or gravy-fully q third more
than the common potato.
An advantage possessed by the daSheen
over its cousin, the potato, Is that while
the tops of the latter are wholly worth
less for food, the dasheen tops make an
excellent salad, much in the nature of
turnip salad, that old reliable spring dish
of the farmer. They can be kept in a
cellar for winter use in the same manner
potatoes are stored, or they can be
left remaining in the ground, to be dug
when desired. The dasheen Is hurt only
by a prolonged cold spell of a tempera-
ture near zero
The experts in charge Of the exploita-
ton Of this new vegetable are essential
ly practical Theory has no place in'their
proved by fact. Consequently DR.. Fair
child, as a concomitant to the introduce
ton of the dasheen, has experimental In
every known method of cooking 1t. The
results of those methods that were sue
cessful. together with the manner OF pre-
pairing, he has prepared in pamphlet form
for the benefit Of those who will grow
the dasheen. There are eleven recipes for
the cooking and preparation OF the Vege-
table. embracing practically all the well
known methods OF cooking the potato.
As illustrative of DR.. Fairchild's prac-
teal methods of introducing the dasheen
throughout the states where his exp1oita-
ton has shown him it will grow to great
the disposition Of the 1,5OO bushels raised
last year on his Florida experimental sta
ton is instructive
Il selected fifty members of Congress
from the localities where experience had
shown me the dasheen could be propa-
gated with best results" he said. ''Then
I obtained from each Of the congress
men the names of fifty Of his constitu-
ents who in his opinion might become
interested in the cultivation of the da-
sheen. To these $500 picked citizens |
sent four pounds of the dasheen product
to eat. I also sent them instructions as
to the best manner of cooking 1t. i
asked them to give the food a trial not
only from the viewpoint Of self-interest,
but as citizens of the country who We're
interested in seeing a new food intro
duced.
II wrote to each of the persons to whom
the four pounds of dasheen was sent that
it was purely for eating: that, if they
liked 1t as food, l would be glad for them
to write me for dasheen for seed to
plant"
nr aircbild honas fbot tho 5aehaay
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Even So!

5 G C r e tary Nc
Adoo. who will
manage the house
keeping for Uncle
Sans gigantic es-
tablishment for the
next four years, is
a man Of vast
business expert
ence. having en-
glneered some Of
the largest enter
prises of the ma
ton and been
called upon therein
to handle all kinds
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Right on the Chin!

Robert G. Brem-
ner, the new Con-
gresham from the
sixth district OF
New Jersey, is a
newspaper m a n
known from one
end of New Jersey
to the other as
" B o b " Bremner.
He halls from
Passaic and sue
C e e d s I" Billy "
II u g h e s whose
service in the
House landed him
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E|,v.1UNDEK THE@B& WHITE DOME
Remorse at Last.

Years ago Sena-
tor John SHARP
Williams, w hill 9
. ra c t icing law.
1E-S Oted en-
ecutor Of the es-
- of a wealthy
client who left. as
sole heir. a lively
son Of t" enty
eager years.
Hardly had the
I Z n oral baked
meats been con-
stunned when the
eXpectaDt y ysutn.
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the sixteen years IN which / have had
this branch of the bureau i'm charge we
have imported more than $4,000 different
specimens OF plant life into the country
beneficial
THE great difficulty however is the
getting of the American people to adopt
anything new i'm the way of fruit or vege-
table even IL it is wholly desirable"
continued DIR. Fairchild. And we have
to be very careful about our methods OF
introduction of some new thing
They are. briefly, to propagate a great
number OF specimens of the vegetable in
question at some experimental station i'm
a part Of the country specially favorable
to its growth. These specimens We send
to the experimental farms of the vari-
Gus states and to particular individuals
who, for some special reasons, are in
terested in the propagation of the plant
in question. We keep a strict account
with each one of these specimens sent
out and thus are enabled to gather data
In suf1cfent quantity TO be of great use
to us in determining the ultimate adyan-
tage OF Introduction.
I'VE have found out that We cannot
Introduce new vegetable up. from be-
low: that is. We cannot induce the rich
people to eat something new that has
nrst been adopted by the poorer classes.
Accordingly i have addressed myself i'm
the matter of introducing a new vegeta-
BILE. to bringing it before the public at
a banquet or some such gathering.
There l also have an opportunity To- eN-
plain the benefits of the new product
Now, the poorer people will follow the
lead Of the wealthy men, who make up
the mainstay of the average banquet in
adopting some new food so introduced
But one could never get the men at the
oanquet-or men of that plane-to adopt
an article OF food that had prey iously
been served regularly on the table of n
dairy lunch,
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W THE UDo, "A 5UccMENr sfffGWEED ORLArBS QUARTERS
DEPORTATION ERorr JAPAN A COMMON POT tfERb

United States within the next ten years !;
he estimated that it will take at least
that long to have it generally introduced
Meantime. anybody who will write to
him for specimens for seed will be glad
ly accommodated if he has any Of the tu-
bers left; If not. they will be supplied
as soon as his next crop is harvested
Just as the dasheen is a vegetable COM
plement to the Irish potato. so another
tuber that DIR. Fairchild Is introducing is
a complement to the sweet potato. 1t
halls from Dahomey, Africa, and is
known as the Dahomey tuber He OBJ
tanned specimens of this through the
American consul at Bordeaux, and plant
ed them. at first, in the grounds of the
Agricultural Department in Washington.
Now the specimens sent him by ths con-
sui had been of a lusciousness that far
surpassed the sweet potato and was
much larger in size. But the results of
the experiments in Washington were
few feeble and attenuated tubers hardly
worthy the name of potato at all.
DIT Fairchild's assistants begged him
to drop the exploitation: they said that
it was clear the plant was adapted only
to the particular soil and climate of Da-
honey
I'm going to find out if there's any soil
anywhere inside these United States
where this plant will properly grow" was
the chiefs uitimatum on the subject.
And he found it; found that in Florida
the tuber would grow with all the pro-
likeness of the plant in its Dahomey
home. The result is that the Florida
farmers are taking enthusiastically to
the new vegetable Not only is 1t superior
to the common sweet potato in flavor, but
1T Is more than twice as large, being
about six inches in length and three
inches in diameter.
Among all the Immigrants Of plant life
that DR.. Fairchild has brought into the
country his own favorite is the "uJ1o." a
japanese plant he discovered himself
when travelling, or rather vegetable plant
hunting. in that country in 1902 This is
the one out of $1,000 food plants m
ported since the installation of the de-
partment some sixteen years ago that is
the special delight of the chief
The udo, at its edible stage, is some
thing like asparagus in appearance. 1t
is plant that grows, when mature,
eight or nine feet high. But only the
young shoots. when at height of
twelve or fifteen inches, are eaten. 1t Is
far more prolific than asparagus, nor
does it need the extremely highly cult
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Thus. introduced the jujube fruit to
the public at a banquet of the National
Geographical Society last year. | in
PRODUCED the dasheen at "A banquet given
at the Cosmos Club. On both these occa-
sions l had the advantage of having III.
new vegetable make it's bow, as il were.
before number of men who were pronii-
nent In the city and country. thus giving
the debut a certain prestige
But even with men who are supposed
to be above the average in inteIlec, and
WISDOM the streak of conversation is
broad-oftentimes dishearteningIy broad.
sighed DIR. Fairchild. AT the banquet OF
the Cosmos Club. where | introduced tie
dasheen, / was thus questioned after my
address explaining its uses and advan-
tages as a food:
What do you want ANYTHING better
than the potato for?' queried "A friend OF
mine, man high in the councils OF Wise
men.
Now, of course. | had not said that
the dasheen should supplant the potato.
but this man had assumed that much 1
do not wish to supplant any vegetable
now in use but do want to add as many
as / can 10 the list of nutritious edihes
VI tire people because TIE
dasheen or the pc tsai would make sa-
worry dishes does not mean that people
have to divorce their tables from pota-
toes and cabbage.
AS a matter Of fact. they would sup
plement the other articles Thus pota-
toes thrive in high, dry soil the da-
sheen thrives best I'm very moist ground.
Now, 1t is clear that a man who planted
some of each of these crops would be
certain. whether the season was wet
dry. Of getting a good supply OF that
kind OF food for the winter.
Take this example: Suppose that IN
the spring OF 1915. the year of the dread
full famine in Ireland, due to the total
failure of the potato crop. the farmers
had planted one-fifth Of the land planted
in potatoes in the dasheen; it would have
made the difference between comfort and
a hideous famine.
And there is no doubt but that phys
ically the human race is the better for
the greater variety of foods that il can
afford. Furthermore, there are many
tracts of land that are unsuitable To
grow any Of the ordinary crops known
to the farmer that may be eminently
adapted to the raising OF some new vege-
table he has never heard of. Therefore
say let introduce all the new kinds
Of food and vegetables that We possibly
can.