text: WsÊ ! - •■■ ■ ete ->■/ ■ * ■■ J ., B» 3» Kr»t»î 'S' ; -; §$1818 2%X'' '-: . - 13 tfsss fr 'ÏCK ,e Mx :***r ; <; • $fm Ë IR5ÏÎ:, ; :i « - : 5- ] Ü ;;f. fwfiS-'a - V >; SHI y SI MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE, SATURDAY MORNING, »TITNE 30 , 1906. VOL. XXXIX. NO. 26 ERICE THREE GENTS YARD G.E. HUKILL Middletown. Del. White Pine, Yellow Pine, Hemlock and Cypress. All kinds Building Lumber, Shingles, Lath and Pickets. Mill Work of all kinds in stock and to order. Build ing and Agricul tural Lime- Woven Wire Fence, Wover Picket Fence, Barb Wire and Plain Wire. Best veins sf HARD AND SOFT GOAL JJEGI3TEK'3 ORDER. ^OFFICE OF REGISTER OF WILLS. New Castle County, Del., Dec. 4th, 1905 Until the application of Howard A. Pool. Administrator of Clarence Cochran, late of S. George Hundred, In said county, deceased. It is ordered and directed by the Register of Wills that the Administrator aforenamed give notice of granting of Letters of Administration upon the estate of the deceased, with the date of granting thereof, by causing advertisements to be posted within forty days from the date of such Letters in six of the places of the County of New Castle, requiring all persons having demands against the estate to present the same, or abide by an act of Assembly in such case made and provided; and also cause the same to be inserted within the same period in The Wilmington Transcript, newspaper published in Middletown, Delaware, and to be continued therein two months. Given under the hand and seal of the Register of Wills aforesaid, at Wilmington, in New Castle County aforesaid, the day and year above written. FRED E. BACH, Register of Wills. Seal Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration were in due form of law granted unto the undersigned, on the Fourth day of December A.D. 1905, and that all persons having claims against the estate of the deceased must present the same, duly attested, to the said Administrator, on or before the Fourth day of December 1905, or abide by the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided — HOWARD A. K. DOUGLAS, Administrator Address, Vartin B. Harris, Esq., Attorney at.aw, Middletown. DeWitt's. The Transcript, $1 June Specials This Week AT DeValinger's Cash Store TOWNSEND, DELAWARE. Best Ginger Snaps, 3c lb, 15c Dimity Lawns, 4c yd, 8c lb, 20c Dry Salt Pork, 30c Window Screens, 12½ lb Best Flour, 25c a Little Boy's Wash Suits, 25c. Ladies' $1.25 and $1.50 Shirt Waists, cut to 75c. Best Granulated Sugar, 12½c Chambre Voiles, cut to 6c. Men's $1.50 Pants, cut to $2.00. Men's $2.50 Patent Colt Oxfords, cut to $2.00. We will pay you 18c for all the EGG you can bring us. 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McClure's Magazine is not edited for children, but at the same time, there is never a line in it that any young girl might not read its advertising pages are as clean as its editorial pages. Number, for over thirteen hundred two-thirds. McClure's Magazine in your home is intended to work only for good. Send $1.00 today for one year's subscription, or leave an order at your book-store. November and December free with new subscriptions for 1900. S. B. McCLURE COMPANY, 47 East 23 Street, NEW YORK You can earn a good income by taking up the business of securing subscribers for McClure's. It is clean and self-respecting—a publication any man or woman would like to represent. The pay is 25 cents for each $1.00 subscription, in addition to big cash prizes for the best work. Write today for full particulars. WASHINGTON LETTER Washington, D. C., June 23rd, 1906. It is that the type of canal to be built at Panama has been settled, it would seem that there is nothing in the way of quick action. The President to have told the commission, "Now cut loose and dig." This is what the whole country will be expecting of them, and with all the money that has been spent in preparation, and this country has not been niggardly, it would seem that the real work ought to go on. There is one serious contingency. The railroad interests are as much opposed to the canal as ever. They cannot hope to defeat it in the long run, but there are ways still in which they can obstruct and delay. They may be delayed. They may be depended on to hamper appropriations when ever they can, to gouge the government all they can when it comes to selling supplies, for the same men who control the canal transcontinental roads are the dominant factors in the great industries from which the Canal Commission will have to draw its supplies. They will also be on the lookout always for the least breath of scandal in the management of the disturbed conditions in Panama. And if they could only stir up a scandal and a long-winded official inquiry into doings on the isthmus, it would suit their purpose and hinder the work more effectively than anything else. Little doubt is expressed at the War Department however that the work is in such shape that it can now be pushed effectively. And it is believed that the organization is such that it will produce the best results from a reasonable expenditure. In all probably the Interstate Commerce Commission's investigation into coal and oil carrying roads is concluded for the summer. After hearing the last of this week, Mr. Jas. G. Gardner of the Erie Railroad, the Commission adjourned the hearings without fixing a day for resumption. This was taken to mean that there would be no more hearings till fall. For the past three months, the commission has had to largely neglect its regular work while carrying out the mandate of the Tillman Gillespie joint resolution, and it has accumulated plenty of evidence to keep it busy all summer collating and arranging it in form for a report. Some of the conditions that have been revealed have been scandalous. There has been all sorts of graft and crookedness discovered among officials both high and low. But the last witness heard, Mr. Gardner, said a word for the railroad ownership of coal lands that was one of the most important said on that side during the entire hearing. He pointed out that the very existence of a railroad depended on its fuel supply, first on having a steady supply and then on getting it at the lowest figure so as to curtail the heaviest of all its operating expenses. He added some "hot air" on the subject getting the benefit of the saving in this direction, but that question is rather beside the mark. What he did point out however was that the road he represented as a coal expert owned and operated, four coal companies' and made no secret of it. They were able to draw from these mines about half of the three million tons used annually. He said that without them, the road would be almost crippled and that they were looking for more coal lands and would buy them as soon as they could get hold of them. He pointed out further that the roads coal consumption was growing all the time and that if it kept up at the present rate, they would in the course of the next generation, be using 10,000,000 tons of coal yearly and that by this time the present mines would be about worked out. He said therefore that the ownership of coal lands by railroads, for fuel purposes at least, was justifiable and that it was a necessity that would have to be reckoned within framing any law on the subject. Beside the coal and oil report that the President and the next Congress will have on their hands, there will be also the question of what shall be done with or to the Standard Oil Company. The whole of a long cabinet meeting toward the end of this week was devoted to the consideration of this problem. It has been known for a long time that the Department of Justice had been taking steps in view of Commissioner Garfield's oil report looking to the prosecution of the Standard under the Elkins law or the Sherman law or both. It was generally expected when the cabinet meeting was over that the Attorney General would have some statement to make on the subject of the expected prosecutions, that is whether he would or whether he would not prosecute. But he said that he would have to give the matter further consideration before making a statement, and the matter had to go over. It has been definitely settled that the President will leave for Oyster Bay within two days after Congress adjourns. He has had a strenuous spring and he is about tired out or as near to it as such a glutton for work ever gets. The Roosevelt children are already safe at the summer home under the care of the governess and the servants and the President will follow them with Mrs. Roosevelt as soon as he can get rid of the national legislature. The appropriation bills are nearing completion, but the House persistently struck to its resolution not to sanction the new $10,000,000 battleship till it had more definite information on which to proceed. And the matter has been allowed to go over till next year when the Secretary of the Navy will present detailed plans for the great fighting machine. NOTICE.—I have voluntarily resigned my position with Wm. Davidson, 1218 French St., Wilmington, Del., and am now affiliated with the Standard Granite Co., 700-702 Delaware Ave., Wilmington, Del., and shall be pleased to serve my friends as faithfully as in the past. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE Built would of told. dig." Grecian women had very long feet. be the when they remarry, ought Brides in Australia are pelted with rose leaves. They! run, I they ) de ham -1 [„ s(aXuie Esqni.no woimn are the to shortest on earih. When the same photographs are ever taken of Sarah Bernhardt, it is in Sarah Bernhardt's suit. In the last case, the suit is lost. Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every Member of the Household. A woman's brain declines in weight after the age of 30. Hottentot women cut off a finger joint. Ellen Terry is passionately fond of cats. In Africa, wives are sold for two packets of hairpins. Patti sleeps with a silk scarf about her neck. New York has 27,000 women who support their husbands. Only one woman in 100 insures her. A well-known oculist says that only one pair of eyes in every fifteen is perfect. Sea birds, which frequently spend weeks at sea, are believed to quench their thirst partly from the falling rains and partly from the fat and oil which they devour ravenously when found. Paris has 2,720,000 people. America takes nearly one half the world's crop of rubber. The chief labor unions of Germany collect over $4,000,000 a year in dues. Since so few of us are useful, it's up to all of us to try to be ornamental. Whatewash doesn't last long, whether it be put upon a wail or on a reputation. It is predicted that American hardwood forests will last only thirty-five years longer. John D. Rockefeller pays 25 cents each for snakes killed on his huge estate in the Pocantico hills. Sincerely, John D. Rockefeller. The Sugar Exchange was opened its annual revenue has increased from $1,800,000 to $20,000,000. Iron Was first discovered in this country in North Carolina in 1585. The first attempt to manufacture it was made in Virginia in 1858. There is being built on the Minnesota State fairgrounds in Minneapolis the largest live stock amphitheatre in the world at a cost of $100,000. Uncle Sam doesn't carry a chip on his shoulder but if anyone should happen to tread on the tail of his star-spangled coal, he has 11,120,750 men subject to military service. The wife of an army contractor wants $181,358 for ice-furnished troops during the Civil War. If ice was issued to the troops, the men "in the ranks never suspected it. Someone may next put in a claim for pillow shame and nighties furnished the soldiers. A Norwegian scientist, Dr. Hansteen, of the agricultural school at Asa, predicts that moss will become a recognized staple food. He says it is more nutritious than many vegetables now used and it makes a dish that is good eating. Mossbacks may yet be popular, even amongst Cannibals. There are people who can't trust themselves, who know that they are totally unreliable, but they go about asking others to trust them with money, goods, or other property. Ten millions for a battleship! Congress gives it out of taxes wrung from the poor, for the poor are the final payers of all taxes. That would have erected 10,000 cottages costing $1,000 each. What a boon that would have been to the poor slum population of any great city. But to ask Congress to do that and rent them at $5 a month (six percent on the investment) would have been the worst kind of paternalism, so it would! Yet the people are educated to believe that the government is to protect them! This marked difference between the number of ministers and the number of churches is seen in very nearly all of the larger denominations. Baptists, for instance, have 52,919 churches and only 37,000 ministers; Disciples of Christ have 11,033 churches and 0,475 ministers; Lutherans, 13,373 churches and 7,585 ministers; Presbyterians, all bodies, have 15,702 churches and 12,059 ministers; Episcopalians, with 7,140 churches, have but 5,109 clergymen. The Reformed churches have 1,970 ministers to 2,536 churches. United Brethren have 4,407 churches and but 2,185 ministers. There are but few exceptions among American religious bodies to this disproportion between the number of churches the ministers. A notable one, however, is the Catholic church, which has 11,037 churches and 14,104 clergymen. There is a report that Mr. Edison announces that in a few days now everyone will be able to own and operate automobile, because he, Mr. Edison, has found cobalt in North Carolina. If this really means everybody there are likely to be more wrecks in every street than there have been on the coast of Puget Sound. The majority of people cannot run a teakettle successfully, to say nothing of an automobile. If anybody at all is to be left to go afoot he is not likely to be very grateful to Mr. Edison. The manufacture of cement in the United States continues to make remarkable progress. Wherever in 1890 there were sixteen factories, producing annually 335,000 barrels of Portland cement there were, in 1906, eighty-two plants with an estimated output of 31,000,000 barrels. The manufacture has increased about a hundredfold in sixteen years, for in 1889 the total production was 300,000 barrels. Since the great extension of the use of this material the amount of natural cement produced in America has rapidly declined. Do the dirt and the dirt have the effect of being washed out, and the use of the linens will be made snowy white by dropping a little refined borax in the water. Touch warts with castor oil. That sometimes removes them, and is a harmless remedy. Chocolate and cocoa stains can be removed by washing the fabric with soap in tepid water. Toast is much improved if melted butter is poured over it, instead of spreading it with cold butter. Blankets and flannel garments should not be wrung out, but allowed to drip and that not in the sun. If clothes are hung on the line neatly and smoothly, much labor will be saved when the time for ironing comes. The skin of young fowls will heal easily. If the spurs of chickens are over a quarter of an inch long, it indicates old age. Don't wear rustling clothes nor dark ones. Wash suits are the best of all, keeping a fresh one always ready to pot on. Have handy a stone or steel for sharpening knives and keeping the knives in good condition. Good tools make rapid work. If eggs are to be boiled hard, have the water boiling when the eggs are put in it. This will prevent the yolks turning dark. Add a pinch of salt to cream before whipping it and whip it in a pitcher, as it will whip more quickly than in a bowl. A tablespoonful of paraffin added to each three gallons of water when boiling white clothes, will help to remove the stains. An old lapboard slipped under pillows and bolster will do much to help the first sitting up to be a pleasure instead of a wearisome thing. When making gravy, remove the pan from the fire while the thickening is being stirred in, and when smooth return to the fire to cook. This will prevent lumps forming. Food of a damp juicy nature should not be allowed to remain in paper bags. The bags are made of a compound containing chemicals and when damp are unfit to touch any article of food. Instead of putting food into the oven to keep hot for late-comers, cover it closely and place over a pan of hot water. The steam will keep the food hot at the same time prevent it from drying. Toast can be made over a gas stove without scorching and blackening by putting a thin piece of sheet iron or tin over the burner. When it is hot, hold the bread over in a bread toaster. For tender, aching feet there is nothing better than a strong solution of boric acid. After bathing with this, dust the feet well with powdered talcum to which a little salicylic acid has been added. When washing glassware do not put it into hot water bottom first, as it will be liable to crack from sudden expansion. Even delicate glass can be washed in very hot water if slipped in edgewise. Do not use heavy spreads, but substitute pretty and dainty ones. Always put a light shawl upon a patient sitting up in bed if used to lying down well covered. Do this even though the room is warm. Fish scales can easily be removed by pouring hot water on the fish slowly until the scales curl, then scrape quickly. Wash in several waters, having the last cold and well salted so no slime will be left. Two new uses for salt have been of service to me: First, as a tooth wash; it having been useful for removing tartar from a child's teeth. Second, as a cough medicine, a strong solution of salt often stopping a child's cough. To test beef press it down with the thumb. If it rises quickly the meat is good. It should be fine grained, of a bright red color, with streaks of clean, white-looking fat. The meat will be tough unless there is plenty of fat on it. Everything should be kept fresh and dainty. Remove all the furniture from the sick room that can be spared. Get rid of tray or dish as soon as the patient has finished with it. Appetites are unusually capricious during the best of illnesses. As soon as a jelly tumbler or preserve jar is empty, that has been sent to you, put the name of the giver on a slip of paper inside. If, as in case of sickness, many such gifts are received, it will save many blunders later on when these receptacles are returned. It is often necessary to prepare a hasty lunch. Here is a delicious way to prepare cocoa without boiling: For each cupful blend a half teaspoonful of cocoa and a dessertspoonful of condensed milk. When smooth, fill the cup with boiling water; stir till smooth and creamy. Serve at once. So often people tell of the many things they have lost down their registers. Money, buttous, and thimbles are sure to roll straight for the register. Place a piece of fine wire netting in the top of the pipes just below the register, then when anything is dropped into it, all you need to do is to lift your register and take out the articles. Face masks and heavy pastes that are put on the complexion at night are not to be recommended. They constrict the pores and shut in the sebaceous secretions, bringing on the very evils that one is trying to annihilate. The whole process suffocates the skin, re-encouraging the laziness of the glands and pores that produces blackheads and blotches. There is no agent so effective in aiding the whole structure of the skin to perform its normal work and to become less sensitive as the careful cleansing at night with warm water, pure soap, and a complexion brush. The friction is in itself very healthful, as it produces a pleasant glow. Follow the facial robbing with a cold rinsing and careful massage. OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN by One of the largest department stores in Pittsburgh is crippled badly by the resignation of thirty-six young women, all whom said they were to be married this month. Shape counts for something. Miss Dona L. May of Michigan is almost perfect in mental test but because she had short and stout she could not get a position from Lucie Sam at Washington. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that woman's memory is much more retentive than man's and the world's history record was recently won by Miss Victoria Bateman, who remembered the evidence of 133,000 words. An excellent health rule for bright eyes and a clear skin is to take the juice of a lemon in a glass of water with a dash of salt added. Liver, which has more to do with good looks than most of the rag men's. This acts directly on the skin, and imagine. In washing an organdy dress so that it will retain its stiffness and look as good as new use pure white soap and warm water. If the material is colored, soak first in salt and water. Do not rub the material, as it causes The delicate threads to separate. Rinse very thoroughly and starch with clear, raw starch. The new queen of Spain has been baptized three times, once as an infant, when she was taken into the Presbyterian church, a second time when she made a member of the church of England and lastly a few weeks ago when she baptized as a member of the Roman Catholic church. At last, something is to be done for the male shopper says a London correspondent. In a recent circular concerning an exhibition of lace and silk mantillas and silks at Blackpool, was appended the following significant "P. S.—Gentlemen accompanying ladies will find a comfortable smoking room, with coffee and cigars free of charge." Light cloth coats can be cleaned at home with oatmeal and whiting. Lay flat on a clean table, mix the oatmeal and whiting in equal proportions, and with a piece of clean flannel rub thoroughly and evenly into the cloth. Shake well, and, if necessary, go over again and repeat until the cloth looks perfectly clean and press on the wrong side with a warm iron. Get the idea into your head that bones are beautiful and you won't mind this arms and a swan like neck, even though it be over swan-like. Fat never yet made any woman beautiful. It is the way your bones grow and the way you carry your bones that give you a good figure. Because your arms are thin is no reason why you should hide them. God never yet made any woman without bones, so they must be all right. You can get the thin arms freshened up a little by an ointing with lanolin or cocoa butter. The same treatment will do for the neck. Vocal culture and cold baths will help. Keep close to people who understand you, who believe in you, who will help you to discover yourself and encourage you to make the most of yourself. This may make all the difference to you between a grand success and a mediocre existence. Stick to those who are trying to do something and to be somebody in the world—people of high aims, lofty ambition. Keep close to those who are dead in earnest. Ambition is contagious. You will catch the spirit that dominates in your environment. The success of those about you who are trying to climb upward will encourage and stimulate you to struggle, harder if you have not done quite so well yourself. A class of girls are now being trained and educated in one of our colleges on how to keep house and bring up a family on ten dollars a week. Our millionaire mashers will soon want them to live on five dollars a week. We overlooked recently some ladies talking about the woman who did their washing. They admitted that the work was well done, the clothes returned immaculately clean and white. At the same time they made a slurring comment upon the social position which this woman occupied. Why should they do this? What is there unladylike connected with the woman and the washtub? Doing this work for others, why should it place a social ban upon her? In the cities a young man whose business it is to sort out the dirty duds which come to a public laundry and do up and deliver the laundered goods can move in the best society. The more civilized we become, the more dirty work there is to do, the more clean clothes are needed and it serves women just right if by foolishly placing a social ban on those of their sex who do this dirty work they often find themselves unable to secure much needed assistance in the doing of it. It is the best in the kitchen, be sure to have an easy lounge or chair in the kitchen, where you may spend the few waiting moments between acts, as it were, in rest. If you cannot afford to buy a lounge especially for that purpose, make one. This is easily done. Get two long boxes from the dry goods store; place them end to end and nail together. Make a mattress and fill it with any desired materials. Shredded shucks are clean and excellent. Over this drape, any kind of cover to suit the fancy. Be sure to get something that can be washed and ironed. Red and white bed ticking is pretty and desirable, and never fades, and when laundered looks as good as new. Make a pillow to match. Now while you are watching the cakes, bread, pies, and the like, remember there your lounge. Rest. Do not say you have no time. You have to wait for your baking to brown. Why not rest while you wait. You will be surprised how much freshment you will gain even for one minute's relaxation upon this improvised lounging quarter. Few be the the the for few dotte offer REGISTER OFFICES KICKING Since the appointment a few days ago of the registration officers for rural New Castle County, Kent and Sussex Counties by Governor Lee, there has been war declared by many of the men appointed to these positions, because of the action of Secretary of State Calm 11 in demanding $2 from each appointee before forwarding his commission. in per re the a of rag They say it is an unusual procedure on the part of the Secretary of State, who commands an income from that position ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 a year, to demand the fee of $2, which under the law he can collect if he so desires. In Wilmington the conditions are different. There the registration officers are appointed by the Board of Election Commissioners and it is pointed out that they do not have to pay $2 before receiving their credentials. Consequently the officers in the country object to paying this amount, and many don't hesitate to say that they will not send the fee as requested by Mr. Cahall. The registration officers are appointed for five registration days and for this work they receive $25. They are put to some expense, and further, if $2 in addition is deducted the pay will be considered small for the services given. Four years ago Caleb R. Layton, then Secretary of State, sent out the sions to registration officers, with bills for the $2 fee inclosed. A big kick was Made at the time, and Mr. Layton announced that those who wanted to pay could do so, and those who did not need. Two years later, he sent out the commissions without asking any compensation. There are thirty districts in rural New Castle County, seventeen in Kent and nineteen in Sussex County. In each district, a registration officer, two assistants, and an alternate are appointed. The latter very often does not occupy a seat at all. Still, he is asked to pay $2 for his commission. LOCATED MOUTH OF BATTLE Members of the Delaware and New Jersey commissions appointed by the governors of the respective states to determine among other things the exact location of the mouth of the Delaware River, reached an opinion Friday which will settle, in the future that heretofore disputed point. On the tug Tarus, the Delaware Commission, Alexander B. Cooper, Walter H. Hayes, and W. P. Hilles and the New Jersey Commissioners, Senators Bradley and Avis and J. H. Strimple left Delaware City and proceeded down the river to a point about five miles to the Southward of Reedy Island and there fixed an imaginary boundary line dividing the head of the bay from the mouth of the river. The imaginary line agreed upon tends from a point at or near Liston's Point, which is about one mile south of the mouth of Blackbird Creek on the Delaware shore to a point at or near the mouth of Hope Creek of the New Jersey shore. After fixing this line, the commissioners visited both the shores of Delaware and New Jersey in order to determine the condition of the shores at the points on which it is desired to erect stone mounds or markers. In speaking of the trip, one of the Delaware commissioners said: "The Delaware and New Jersey commissioners had trouble in reaching an argument regarding the locality of the line marking the mouth of the river nor do we anticipate any trouble in reaching an agreement relative to uniform fishing laws for both states. The Delaware commissioners have asked for nothing but that which is just and fair and the New Jersey commissioners realize it." DO ADVERTISING WOMEN There is nothing like advertising. A short time ago a Boston paper hunted up one of the pretty girls of "The Hub" and printed her picture, declaring that she was the most beautiful girl in Massachusetts. Within the next thirty days, she had 800 offers of marriage. A paper in Virginia taking the hint from this, printed the photos of two famous beauties and offered a prize to the one having the greatest number of offers of marriage within 24 hours after the portraits were published. The offers poured in by the dozens, and one beat the other by three, and the prize was duly awarded. All of which shows that the ordinary mortal doesn't recognize a good thing until its merits have been exploited in the daily press. This holds good in everything. It has long been shown to be true in the dry goods market, in the clothing trade, with boots and shoes, real estate, groceries and it is equally true of humanity itself. See how men run after chorus girls. They could find just as charming beauties in their own kitchens, but the chorus girls are advertised and the kitchen girls are not, therefore, the first are feted and toasted and treated to birds and cold bottles, while the poor kitchen girls are snubbed and neglected. It is all a matter of advertising. That which is advertised sells, that which is not advertised is neglected and the problem is as plain as the news once's life. "Should war break out within the next few years, the condition of the navy will be such as to lead to disaster. Such is the statement made by Rear Admiral Mason, chief of the bureau of ordinance, Navy department in a report to the Secretary of the Navy calling attention to the reduction in the estimates of the bureau of ordinance made by the department and the House committee on naval affairs. Admiral Mason shows that more than $12,000,000 has been cut out of the estimates, and he describes the condition of the bureau as "little short of desperate" for the coming year. If you are looking for the best general purpose chicken in this country, buy a few settings of my Columbian Wyandotte eggs. I have the best strain of Columbians in America and will only offer a few settings for sale. John A. Jones, Middletown, Del. mm. 