text: SS5&; i fe':S v - Ca. v -v -Ç ■ *-' Ca. v -v -Ç ■ *-' C , *V! ' X' v . *^' : ■ Sç. sa* • j ■/£?■# - ■ *4^j v 3® ■K f ♦ m§:0Æ <$ - »I su ■. .-- - " '''fe>-. 4 ; SÏÎ : - '^M irtpm?'. ;#•' y y-\>': PRICE THREE CENTS MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1909. VOL. 42. NO. 19 REGISTER'S REGISTER OF WILLS OFFICE, New Castle County, Dan., Jan. 18, 1909. Upon the application of Howard A. Pool, Administrator of Ella P. Cochran, late of St. George's Hundred in said county, deceased, It is ordered and directed by the Register of Wills that the Administrator aforesaid give notice of Letters of Administration upon the estate of the deceased, with the date of granting thereof, by causing advertisements be posted within forty days from the date of such Letters in six of the most public places of the County of Newcastle, 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 Middletown Transcript, a newspaper published in Middletown, Del., and to be continued therein ten times. ORDER. Given under the hand and seal of the office of the Register of Wills afore said, at Wilmington, in New Castle County aforesaid, the day and year above written. FRANCIS M. WALKER, Register of Wills. 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JONES Meat Market of Our Own Make Mince Meat, Sausage, Scrapple and Lard Dressed Poultry, Chicken Giblets Put up by Richardson & Robbins, Dover of MEATS of all Kinds At lowest possible prices, when quality is considered. W. C. JONES, BROAD AND ANDERSON STREETS Middletown, Delaware The Transcript, $1. WASHINGTON LETTER Washington, D. C. May 1,1909. President Taft has expressed himself, recently, as not so well pleased with the attitude of the Senate toward the tariff bill. The members of the Finance Committee have consulted the President from time to time, regarding certain features of their substitute, and for the provisions relating to imports from the Philippines, the proposed customs court and the maximum, minimum clause, they have won his unqualified approval. With regard to specific rates, however, Mr. Taft has not been consulted and the Senate leaders have contented themselves with general assurances to the President, of their sincerity of purpose so to frame the schedules as to command his approval. It is not at all clear whether President Taft's desire to commend all that was commendable has been misconstrued, of whether the erroneous impression has been gained that his satisfaction with certain features of the measure would offset his disapproval of the schedules. In discussing the tariff recently with friends, the President has frankly deplored the fact that the men on whose assistance he should be able to rely, to insure an adequate revision of the Dingley rates, are so unwilling to subordinate their local interests to the national welfare and are selfishly insistent on the maintenance of high duties on those commodities most produced in their respective states. The President is keenly alive to the importance of expeditions work by the two houses of Congress: he realizes to the full the embarrassment to the business interests of the country which is the inevitable concomitant of uncertainty regarding the tariff rates; but he is no less appreciative of the fact that the present tariff revision will, or should, be of such a character as to forestall all reasonable agitation for another readjustment of the schedules for a decade or longer. Under these circumstances, he places the interests of the consumer for that period against the immediate necessities of the business man, and from the comparison he arrives at the conclusion that, for purely economic reasons, it is better to prolong the present situation even by a veto, if that be necessary, than to have written on the statutes and inequitable tariff act. Senate leaders are rather disposed to dismiss with little consideration all intimations of the President's dissatisfaction, and they go so far even as to assert that only those who are making the tariff can from any adequate conception of the difficulties as to the form the measure will assume after it has been submitted to the fire of the conference. However that may be, the Chief Executive has a keen suspicion that the unequivocal expression of dissatisfaction, on the part of loyal Republicans, with the Senate's work thus far, can only promote ultimate formulation of a measure which he can cordially approve. The Republican members of the Finance Committee have completed the draft of the section creating the new tariff bureau. This bureau is to be formed by consolidating the existing bureaus of statistics and manufacturers, now under the supervision of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; the bureau of trade relations, now a part of the Department of State, and the division of customs, of the Treasury Department. The new bureau will be made part of the Treasury Department, and an additional Assistant Secretary of the Treasury will be provided for who will have immediate jurisdiction over it. A second section of the Senate substitute provides for special agents, to be appointed by the President to collect information here abroad concerning foreign customs duties for the use of the President in administering the maximum clause of the tariff bill. They will, of course, work. In conjunction with the new tariff bureau. The advocates of the tariff commission plan threaten to make a vigorous attack on the bureau plan if it does not meet their expectations. They have no objection to the investigating body being known as a bureau instead of a commission, but they will insist that it shall have both the ability and the power to find out tariff facts, here and abroad, and to make public its findings. The State Department is in receipt of reassuring dispatches from Ambassador Leisbman at Constantinople, which have added to their confidence that there is no longer cause for apprehension as to the welfare of Americans in Turkey. Mr. Leisbman expresses himself as greatly pleased with the way in which the new constitutional government has taken hold of the situation, and he predicts that there will be no necessity for martial law after another week or two. The trials of offenders are being conducted with dispatch, he says, the merchants have begun to do their usual business, and in a short time normal conditions will prevail. Dropped Dead On Front Porch Milford, May 4 —Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Jennie D., wife of Hon. Peter F. Causey, Sr., dropped dead on the front porch of their residence on South Walnut street. Mrs. Causey had been ill for two years, but was supposed to be improving. The weather being pleasant, she was sitting on the porch, when suddenly she fell from her arm chair, and before help reached her she was dead. The heart was the cause of her death. Three sons and three daughters. We have been advised of the shipment of several hundred tons (some of which is now on track) of our HIGH GRADE LEHIGH COAL. Owing to the fact, we are prepared to make price for April delivery at $6.50 per ton delivered. Phone 5. FARM NEWS AND VIEWS of all are the of is Get posted on size and making silage; and if enough cows are kept to justify it, by all means plant a silage crop and have a silo ready to receive it. A bad smelling dairy barn shows that something is wrong. There will be plenty, though, who will laugh at the idea of a dairy barn not smelling to high heaven. Begin to cut down a cow's rations when it is desired that she go dry; and feed her so that it can be said she is well fed without being fattened while she is dry. To develop a dairy heifer into something really good, do not hesitate to feed it well the first two years. It will be a better feeder thereafter if fed well when young. Do not delay about starting to breed up the herd. It will take two years before results are got, and every year that the delay in starting continues makes one more year. It is a number of calves are to be fed, see that every one gets the feed it ought to have. Do not have any arrangement that will enable the large ones to eat what the small ones ought to have. It costs no more for feeding or attending to a well-bred sire than it does for a scrub, the only difference being in the first cost; and the well-bred sire will soon make up the difference and much. Do not let temporary set backs breed permanent discouragement. What the cause of the trouble was, and remove the cause. No clime has eternal sunshine and no business, dairying included, has success continually. Find out Do not expect to get rid of all the poor blood by using a purebred sire for a single year. The average will be greatly improved, but the improvement will be only started by the first use of the good sire. When the fattening season arrives, according to an experienced goose raiser, keep the fowls abut away from bathing water, and feed barleymeal, cornmeal and beef scraps and some chopped celery. Keep them in a subdued light for three or four weeks, when they can be let out for a couple of days to enjoy the use of a pond. Then return to clean quarters, and feed on barleymeal and milk, and chopped celery, for two or three days, letting them go twenty-four hours before killing. Ground properly plowed is easier to handle, and we can secure better results for the time spent in working the tillage implements. Follow the sulky plow with a twenty inch disc harrow. Then come the smoothing harrow, brush and drag. On ground seeded, after removing the rocks, follow the above with roller, and Coder certain conditions with some hoed crops, some also roll the ground. Run the weeder, alternating with the two bone riding cultivator, until the size of the crop forbids cultivating deeply at first, very lightly later. Thus a dust mulch is maintained, enabling the plant to secure the best results from the moisture conserved, and keeping down weed growth. It is said that a ton of wheat removes between eight or ten dollars' worth of soil fertility, and that the farmer never gets it back. Of course, there are ways of replacing it by the proper rotation and stock raising, but the dairy farmer who sells butter or cream, stops the leak before it happens. A hungry cow cannot produce milk any more than an empty mill hopper can produce flour. Every hard-working farmer earns a vacation of at least two weeks every year — and generally the wife earns four. But does she get it? The farm telephone wire is the connecting link between neighbors and the outside world. It banishes loneliness and creates sympathy and a spirit of oyster. If our troubles which keep us awake nights were really as big as they seem in the dark, we would never get over them. A man may have a good knowledge of the two principals of farming, but if he neglects the details, he will fail. As a general thing, the oat crop is neglected. A good many farmers say that it doesn't pay to grow oats but the crop is necessary in a proper rotation. The trouble is the average farmer is careless in the preparation of the seed bed, he is careless in the selection of seed, and he doesn't deserve the results he has. Does gel. It often happens that oats are put in after corn and the stalks are not properly broken up so the seed is very unevenly covered, which makes a poor stand. Smut is a great drawback to the oat crop. Some fields developing as much as ten percent when the owner doesn't realize that he has smut to amount to anything. The State of Iowa raises 29 bushels of oats to the acre, when the average yield ought to be at least 40 bushels. Oats naturally follow corn in rotation. If a disc drill is used, the seed may be put in evenly in spite of the seed stalks. Set the drill to cover 1½ to 2½ inches and put in about three bushels of good seed per acre. A great many farmers need less seed, but in every experiment that I have heard of, where accurate tab was kept on results, three bushels of seed per acre has brought a bigger yield and more satisfactory return. When oats are planted after corn that has been properly tended and well cultivated, it is not necessary to prepare the seed bed more than three inches deep. Few farmers take the pains to fan seed oats enough. Often the oats are run through a fanning mill once and some times not at all. The fact is, it pays to take out half, very often three quarters, and it may take four times through the mill to do it, but the result is uniform heavy oats for seed that will bring strong plants that start out in life with. A determination, to grow and yield handsomely. The Transcript, $1.00 per year. SUMMER FASHIONS IN NEW YORK Many of the very newest and prettiest of the thin dresses intended for hot weather wear are made of collarless and cut slightly round or square at the neck and completed simply by an insertion and with a tiny frill of Valenciennes or Cluny or perhaps by a round Dutch collar. This fashion is coolness and comfort permitted and if a woman possesses a plump and pretty neck it is distractingly becoming, but, on the other hand, the maiden whose neck is thin and bony should avoid this mode like the plague, as she will find it most disfiguring. Dainty Graduation Frocks Graduating costumes are now beginning to receive attention and very charming are some of the models seen in the shops and at the fashionable dressmakers. All sorts of sheer materials are used for the purpose trimmed with laces and embroideries galore. The smartest models are made in the princess and semi-prince styles. A simple and easily made yet very lovely frock of this is of white batiste, lawn or India linen with a front panel of the material running from the hem to the lace yoke and bordered by bands of lace of lace insertion. Sometimes this panel is plain, at others it is plucked from top to bottom or set off by lace medallions crossed strips of insertion. A sash of white ribbon starts under a flat rosette at each side of this panel and is knotted gracefully in the back. This for the most part is a very simple and effective mode of dress, with a skirt of the same material running from the waist to the lace yoke and bordered by bands of lace insertion. Sometimes this panel is plain, at others it is plucked from top to bottom or set off by lace medallions crossed strips of insertion. As the season advances, the new ideas in sleeve and sleeve are made with short sleeves, but by far the largest number have sleeves coming down to the wrists. The very latest feature in sleeves is the breaking out into small puffs at the elbows and wrists. In some models where the sleeve is three-quarter length, it is extended by a small under puffing of sheer material, this puffing being in the familiar bishop effect completed by a tight band at the wrist. Evening gowns are made with very short sleeves, no sleeves at all, though a few models have tight fitting transparent sleeves of silk. Silk and lace coats form the very smartest possible sort of separate wrap this season. Moire, faille, and Ottoman silks are used for the more elegant varieties, while the cheaper coats are of taffeta. Black lace coats are something entirely. They are usually cut in three-quarter length and lined throughout with taffeta. White lace are also seen. Coats in natural colored pongee are fashionable. They are finished with black, pale blue, green, red, or brown silk collars and cuffs. The above designs are by The McCall Company, New York. Patterns may be obtained at any McCall Agency. The skirt waists in spite of the great vogue of the one-piece frock, when the really hot days come, the average woman will betake herself to shirt waists and linen skirt. One of the very newest ideas in summer shirt waists is made of striped Madras in regulation shirting pattern made in tailored style with a few wide tucks on each side of the front and finished with a low turnover collar in Dutch style, this collar being embroidered very simply in a color to match the stripe of the waist. Most elaborate are the embroidered shirt waists this season, while others are braided in an intricate design with coronation braid which on first glance closely resembles French embroidery. Set of put per less on has that $ Kovelty Parasols The very latest novelties in parasols are made out of big handkerchiefs of cotton—what used to be called bandannas in years gone by. These parasols are made up in such a way that they have the appearance of being finished with star points, a point for each rib. Very dressy little spades are of most unique and artistic flowered silk, with elaborately carved handles. Lucy Carter half, -J- may D. Rose & Son, 206 10 Market streets, it, Wilmington, are The exclusive agents for For Mould patterns and publications, and that carry in stock over 10,000 dress patterns to the latest Paris, London and New York styles from which ladies can supply their popular prices. and 15 cents. Mail orders given prompt attention. PURE MILK ASSURED Stringent Law Regarding Diseased Cattle Approved by Milk Last Saturday in Delaware, a sweeping law affecting every owner of cattle, including a cow, a cow, a cow, and a cow, is the most important law of the State. It is a result of the pure food campaign which has been carried out in this State for nearly ten years. It will particularly affect the extensive trade enjoyed by Delaware with Pennsylvania and Maryland. The State Board of Agriculture held a special meeting in Dover on Tuesday to provide the requisite regulations as called for in the law, which imposes a fine of $100 or imprisonment or both for the owner who brings cattle into this State, which cattle are not tested for tuberculosis. The law in full is brief but explicit, as follows: Section 1. That the importation of dairy cows and other cattle for breeding purposes into the State of Delaware is hereby prohibited, excepting when such cattle are accompanied by a certificate from an inspector, whose competency and reliability are certified to by the authorities charged with the control of the diseases of domestic animals, in the State from whence the cattle came, certifying that they have been examined and subjected to the tuberculin test, and are free from disease, and whose certificate shall be acceptable to the State Board of Agriculture. Section 2. That in lieu of an inspection certificate as above required, cattle as above specified from points outside the State, may under such restrictions as may be provided by the State Board of Agriculture, be shipped in quarantine to their destination in Delaware, there to remain in quarantine until properly examined at the expense of the owner by a veterinarian to be designated by the State Board of Agriculture. Section 3. That any person, firm or corporate body violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in the proper court of the county in which such cattle are sold, offered for sale, or delivered to a purchaser, for each offense or pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or be punished by imprisonment for not exceeding thirty days, either or both at the discretion of the court. Section 4. The State Board of Agriculture is hereby charged with the enforcement of this act, and is authorized to see that its provisions are obeyed, and to make from time to time, such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for its enforcement. Section 5. That this act shall go into effect May 1st, 1909. Too, of the gar, an is oil of of the a ple STANTON-MARSHALLTON ROAD Levy Court Considers a Proposition to Have Trustees Build It A delegation comprising Dr. Francis L. Springer, C. P. Dickey, Richard Pill ing, B. A. Groves, Dr. L. Heisler Ball and William B. Cranston appeared before the Levy Court Tuesday morning to urge the building of an improved road between Marehallton and Stanton. They held a conference with the trustees of the work house in regard to the matter. The latter have made several offers to build roads from the workhouse quarries which would make the building of roads in the vicinity not more than 60 percent of the cost of other roads. The trustees have also offered to furnish the stone at $1 a ton and 75 cents a day per man. Several members of the delegation addressed the court and explained the bad condition of the road which they stated was at present in a dangerous condition. T. C. Corbit, one of the workhouse trustees, said the trustees were anxious to help out in the building of the roads in the vicinity of the workhouse and said the men at the workhouse would work as hard as anybody. T. Allen Hilles spoke strongly on the same lines and said this kind of work was healthful to the prisoners. President Day of the Levy Court thought that the trustees should bid on the roads, as the law does not permit the highway commissioner to O. K. a bill ualese it is a contract bill. - Mr. Corbit suggested that the road be built under the law governing bridges and causeways. Levy Courtman Dennison thought it should be built by the hundred. J. Frank Bali said lie thought the court should not quibble when it could save $2,000 of tbe taxpayers' money, and if there is any way to get around tbe law they should do so. •" Comptroller Chandler suggested that bide be asked for by the 'jperch aud by tbe man. No action was taken iu tbe matter. but a oil. all 'it to PHIZES FOB TBE BOTS Tbe prizes for corn grown by Delaware boys will be distributed as follows : Eor tbe best ten stalks, including ears, of any variety or color exhibited at tbe New Castle County Fair, September 1st, 2d, 3d and 4tb, 1909. Frqm New Castle County—First prize, $5.00; second, $4.00; third, $3.00; fourth, $ 2 . 00. From Kent County—First prize, $5.00; second, $4.00; third, $3.00; fourth, $2.00. From Sussex County—First prize, $5.00; eeeofid, $4 00; third, $3.00; fourth, $2.00. Sweepstakes prize—A silver cup. in For the beat ten ears of any Variety or color exhibited at the State Corn Shbw at Dover, December, 1909, the following pre miums will be given. \ From New Castle County—First prize, «GJQ0; second, $4.00; third, $3.00; fourth, J2 Ö0. ' From Kent Comity—First prize, $5.60; second, $4.00; third, $3.00; fourth, $2.00. From Sussex County—First prize, $5.00; second, $4.00 third, $3.00; fourth, $2.00. for Sweepstakes prize—$10.00. and- . J,' , nd »duress', together with the color oft be variety lie intends to grow, to A. E. Grantham, Newer*, Secretary Delaware .0 tpg registration card which ' W lent at tbe exhibitions. must pre !ÜÉ| Av;. V.. it IS;.. IllÉ USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW The disagreeable smell which is usually caused by the cooking if greens may be prevented if a small piece of bread is thrown into the water while boiling. To remove dried-up glue from woodwork, rub the woodwork with a cloth dipped in vinegar. Vinegar is also much better for darning glue than ordinary water. In preparing a bed for an invalid, have two sets of bed clothing, so that one set may be aired while the other is in use. To clean plaster of paris ornaments, cover them with a thick coating of starch dissolved in a little water and allow this to become dry. Then it may be brushed off and the dirt with it. A few drops of oil of sandalwood, sold by druggists, dropped on a hot shovel, will be found to diffuse a most agreeable, balsamic perfume in sick rooms or confined rooms that have not been well aired. To stop bleeding of the nose, cut some blotting or letter paper into a piece an inch square, roll it up about the size of a lead pencil and put into the nostril. The blood will soon coagulate and cease to flow. The picnicker and light housekeeper can buy condensed coffee by the case, ready with cream and sugar, which only needs the addition of a cup of boiling water to make a delicious cup of coffee at a very moderate cost. A brilliant polish may be given to brass door fixtures, Ornamente, etc., by washing them in a mixture of alum and lye. Make a solution by boiling an ounce of alum in a pint of lye and wash the articles in it while it is still warm. New flannel should be put into clean, cold water and kept there for a day or so, changing the water frequently. Then wash the flannel well in warm water. Using a little soap to remove the oil. Flannel thus treated will not harden or shrink. A dry loaf of bread, milk-soaked, can be rebaked and will be found as good as new. Bread on which fast boiling milk is poured makes a good supper for dyspeptics. A porous bread pen, sat in an inch of water, keeps the bread fresh a long time. The nose is the organ through which the air should pass to reach the lungs. This is true of both men and animals. Experiments made with guinea pigs, rabbits, and dogs have abundantly demonstrated this fact. A guinea pig with both nostrils closed died within twenty-four hours. Partial closing of the nostrils resulted in death in from five days to three weeks. There is a difference of opinion as to perfumed hair, some women, nice ones, too, think a faint, elusive, individual fragrance to the hair correct, while others are strong in their condemnation of executed tresses. If you are not one of the women who think perfumed hair vulgar, you may like to know how to impart an odor to it instead of paying to have it done by the hairdresser. The best time is immediately after the hair is shampooed, while it is still slightly damp. Four five or six drops of oil of lavender, oil of jasmine or oil of violet in the palm of your hand and rub it over the bristles of a clean, rather stiff hair brush. Brush the hair thoroughly for five or ten minutes and you will carry around for a week a faint, delicate fragrance. Beet root is fattening and good for people who want to put on flesh. Parsnips possess the same virtues as sarsaparilla. Watercress is an excellent blood purifier. Lettuce has a soothing effect on the nerves and is excellent for sufferers from rheumatism. Tomatoes are good for a torpid liver, but should be avoided by gouty people. Celery is a nerve tonic; onions also are a tonic for the nerves. Bananas are beneficial to sufferers from chest complaints. Celery contains sulfur and helps to ward off rheumatism. Honey is a good substitute for cod liver oil. If you wish to cleanse a lace waist without any trouble at all, just get a covered stone crock, fill it with naphtha, put your waist in it and leave it there overnight. Every vestige of dirt will soak out and all you have to do the next morning is to rinse the waist in fresh naphtha and hang it up in the sun to dry. Put it on a dress hanger to dry, and put the shoulders down straight, for this shapes it, and no ironing will be necessary if while it is damp you will smooth it out with your hand. For safety, it is well to have the crock of naphtha out in the yard overnight, and the odor will more quickly evaporate if the rinsing and drying are done out of doors. The housewife who has not a radiator brush is giving her maid unnecessary attention. These little affairs do not cost much, and they are shaped so that they get into every crevice of the radiator and the food is more tasteful and nutritious when raised with Royal Crape. The only baking powder made from Royal Crape is Royal Crape. Cream of Tartar Warranted Pure Made from Grapes Take out the dust that clogs and is unsightly. Every doorstep should be provided with a foot scraper, and every one should take time to use it before stepping in on clean floor or carpet. If a regular scraper is not at hand, one can be made from a bit of boopiron and nailed on a step or the edge of the porch. In washing silk, there are four things which must be avoided, and they are soap, heat, rubbing, and wringing. Have the water lukewarm. Make a lather with a little dissolved soap if the garment is dirty. If the article is not soiled much, use bran water. Don't ever allow soap in a lump to come in contact with silk. Take one end of the article and swish it around and around until it is clean. Rinse it in cold water to which vinegar has been added. Add one tablespoonful of vinegar to one quart of water. Place the garment between dry cloths and squeeze, preferably between a wringer. Then shake well to get rid of all superfluous moisture and iron at once through tissue paper with a warm iron. COURT SUSTAINS HEEDS LAW Supreme Body at Washington Says That Congress Can Regulate Commerce Washington, May 3d.—That the "commodities clause" of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1906, known as the Hepburn railroad rate law, is constitutional was today in effect declared by the Supreme Court of the United States. The decision was announced by Justice White. The court reversed and remanded the decision of the United States Circuit Court, but the only directions were to enforce. force and apply the statute as it is now construed. Briefly summarized, the decision of the Supreme Court in the commodities clauses holds the law to be constitutional, but it does not concede the contentions of the government as to its scope. An especial exception was as to the ownership of stock in a different corporation which it was held did not constitute such ownership as would prohibit transportation under the terms of the law. It was also held that ownership of the commodity applied only to the time of transportation. If before transporting it, the railroad company has in good faith parted with the commodity, it may carry it. The principal point of the decision was in relation to railroads holding the stock of subordinate companies, and on that important point the finding was favorable to the roads. Justice Harlan dissented on the stock feature, but otherwise the decision was unanimous. The announcement as to the commodity clause was made in deciding the twelve injunction and mandamus cases brought by the Government against the Delaware and Hudson, the Erie, the New Jersey Central, the Delaware and Lackawanna, the Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley Railroad Companies. The cases came to the court from the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, whose decision as announced by Judge George Gray in 1908 attracted much attention. They originated in the Circuit Court, and in its petition the Government charged that the railroad companies in question were engaged in transporting in interstate commerce anthracite coal mined by themselves in their own mines, which are located in Pennsylvania. The Hepburn act makes it unlawful for any railroad company to transport from any state to any other state or to any foreign country any article or commodity other than timber, manufactured, mined or produced by it, or under its authority, or which it may own in whole or in part, or in which it may have any interest, direct or indirect, except such articles or commodities as may be necessary and intended for its use in the conduct of its business as a common carrier. The Circuit Court decided against the constitutionality of the provision because, as it was alleged, it deprives the corporations of their liberty and of property in a way that is prohibited by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. It also was held by that Court that the clause "not indirectly but directly" works a practical confiscation of the property of the railroad since the law was held to be invalid and "in its nature and effect a discriminatory prohibition." The decision was reversed by today's decision. That version of the case was that of the railroad's head cut off. Dover, Del., May 3rd. — With his head sat off as clean as by the work of a guillotine, an unknown negro was found near Dover passenger station today by the crew of passenger train No. 38, known as the 7.04 morning north-bound train. It is supposed that the man was riding on the buffers of a freight and was probably being himself either in sleep or forgetfulness when the train on which he was riding started to swing around the Peterson engine below Dover station, jostling him off. Deputy Coroner Willis will investigate the case. Train No. 38 continued up the road on time. A large crowd of the curious, seeing for the first time a man who had been gillotined, collected at the station, but the exhibit was soon put out of sight in the temporary morgue here. 