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Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-06-10
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

On account of the convention OF the
American Medical Association, to be held
in Portland, Ore., July llth to 18th. the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company will run
a personally-conducted tour. visiting the
beautiful resorts in the Canadian Rockies,
Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland, allowing
four days in the latter city for attending
the sessions of the convention and for
visiting the Lewis and Clark Exposition,
and five and one-half days in the Yellow
stone Park, full and complete tour of
that wonderland. Tickets covering every
necessary expense en- route, except hotel
accommodations in Portland, will be sold
at the very low rate of $2l5 from all
stations on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
except Pittsburg, from which the rate
will be $2l0. A special train of high
grade Pullman equipment will leave New
York, Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pitts
burg, Monday July 3rd. The route will
be via Chicago and st. Paul to Banff Hot
Springs, Laggan and Glacier, in the Cana
dian Rockies, thence to the Pacific Coast.
Returning the route which lie through
the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho
and Montana, to the Yellowstone Park,
and thence via Billings and Omaho to
Chicago, reaching New York on July
26th. For further information consult
Pennsylvania Railroad ticket agents. A
descriptive itinerary will be sent on ap-
plication to Geo. W. Boyd, General Pass
enger Agent. Broad Street Station, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-06-10

The TRANSCRIPT, $1.OO per year.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-06-10

This handsome linen costume, the illus
tration of which is supplied by The Toll.
cites Fashion Co., is made of white
French linen with box-plaited skirt,
cuirass basque, cut out in front and stole
collar. Coat sleeve full at top with far
ing cuff. Front plaits, cuffs and collar
embroidered with mercerized cotton.
Grin Hats
With the arrival of warm weather the
demand for "Crin," or horsehair hats is
noticeable among the smart women here.
These hats are usually built of flats or
plateaux, are wired with fine silk wire
and bent in innumerable fancy forms to
suit the taste or style of the wearer. An
unusual number of ostrich feather trim
mings are seen on these straws as well as
wings and flowers. Lingerie Hats are ex-
cellent style with linen gowns. Other
STYLES include chips, Tuscans, Leghorns
and Liberty silk or null hats, the latter
in the exaggerated sal lor shape. trimmed
almost exclusively with the hat material.
LUCY CARTER.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-06-10
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Ever!
Member of the Household

Member OF the n0uSenOi0
The largest cornfeld in the world i:
down in Missouri, containing 5000 acres
David Rankin, who owns it, raised in
1904, Is, 600 acres of corn on his various
farms farms. He may rightly be called
the "corn king"
The Kansas City Journal points oui
that while farmers compose so per cent
of our population, they commit only 2
per cent of our crimes. The simple life
keeps close to the soil end far from in.
f1uences that beget crime.
Plant Wizard Burbank is now engaged
in crossing the common potato with the
solanum commersoni. We doubt if it
will be more popular than the common
potato crossed with little fresh butter
OF brown gravy.
While the Chinese are held to be the
most economical people in the world, it
has apparently never occurred to them to
use the vast areas of their verdant hin
and mountain regions as pasturage for
cattle, sheep or horses.
As few farms in Iowa are without ten
ants and farms are eagerly sought after
at values never before realized, it would
seem that the high price of farming land
in that state is responsible for the falling
off in the rural population.
The best wav to treat new buggy is
to wash it thoroughly with clean cold
water before hitching to it. Have a
clean sponge and chamois skin. Wash
and polish with the chamois. Tie pro-
cess hardens the varnish and prevent
dust from sticking.
The farmers everywhere should get up
on both hind feet and insist that the
telephone poles which are now found
along almost all public highways stuck
out about four feet from the fences shall
be moved back on the fence line. As
now set, it is almost impossible to NOW
the highways with any ease. What lun-
attic started this plan of sticking them
out into the road .?
One man cannot do more than a rea-
sonable amount of work on the farm and
do it well and continue to do it. 1t is
possible for man to put forth extra en-
ergies for day or two, or perhaps several
weeks, but to keep up month after month
doing more work than one person should
do will eventually break down the person
doing it and a physical wreck will be
the result.
Talking about eggs, if you want to see
something phenomenal in this line call
at the United States National Museum
and inspect the product of the giant bird
called the Aepiornis. 1t is twelve inches
long and ten inches wide, while its shell
is nearly a quarter of an inch thick and as
hard as rock. Some idea of it's size may
be had when it is stated that it is capable
of holding the contents of six ostrich eggs
A setting of these eggs, 149 hens eggs
or 10000 humming birds eggs. A setting
of these eggs would be liable to jar the
owner of the most Wanted modern in
cubator aid THE young Aefsiieriifses when
they come out, would stump the most
ambitious brooder to take care of them.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-06-10
Wilmington Conference Epworth League
Tour to Denver

Rev. Vaughan S. Collins, Secretary of
the Fourth General Conference District
League, has made arrangements to take
personally conducted party to the great
International Epworth League Conven-
ton, to be held in Denver, COL, July
SO.
Mr.. Collins is well known to the Ep-
worthians of the Peninsula, having served
as President of the Conference League,
and held the same Office for several terms
in the Second and Sixth General Con-
ference Districts.
The party will go via Pennsylvania
Railroad on special Pullman train, leav-
ing Broad Street Station July 3, 1925
A. NJ, and arrive Denver 1890 P. NJ,
July 5.
This will be the ONLY WILMINGTON Con-
FERENCE party, as that planned by Rev.
r. K. Stephenson has been merged with
this, and Rev. and Mrs. Stephenson will
be members of Mr.. Collins party.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-06-10
NEW FASHION HINTS

The Summer OF 1905 will be known in
sartorial history as "Linen Summer" F"
1t would seem as if all the possibilities for
the use of this fabric had been exhausted
in the two previous seasons, but new and
fascinating devices for the use of this ma
terial are appearing from day to day. In
severe tailor styles for morning wear,
suits are built of linen in natural and
white colorings, in embroidered weaves
with touches of bright contrasting color,
and in solid colors, green, blue, soft reds,
and the more neutral tones.
Contrasting Collars and Cuffs
The fad of the moment in these strictly
tailor-made suits is to have the collar and
cuffs in strong contrast. White or neu-
trail tints have these accessories in bright.
red, or blue or greens in the reseda tones.
When the solid colors are used for the
suit, the collars and cuffs are usually OF
embroidered white linen, detachable to
allow of frequent change and that dainti-
ness which is demanded by every woman
who aspires to appear well dressed.
For More Dressy Wear
For more dressy wear, there is no end
to the elaboration lavished upon linen,
and the styles selected are correspond
ingly ornate, or if the lines employed are
after simple tailor cuts, so much embroid-
cry in cut work is employed that the ef
English designs are in the lead in popular
favor, but laid work is also used to con-
siderable extent, and lace especially }
inch insertion put on in braiding pat
terms, is modishly combined with the
hand work, and certainly the white and
colored linen suits now on view in Lord
& Taylor's beautiful show window on
Broadway, attract the attention Of pass
ers by combining the finest material, the
most fashionable designs and colors, to-
gether with exceptional elegance in style
and finish.
Some OF the Prettlest
OF the new linen suits have short butterfly
jackets cut up in various ways to show the
pretty lingerie waists that are proper
capes for wear on all dress occasions
Many of these jackets are little more than
circular capes with the fullness caught
under the arm to form sleeves. Others
suggest kimonos in their lines, but trim
mings and shirrings and braidings of
shirred bandings disguise the original
models almost beyond recognition.
Parasols and Belts and Hats
Parasols, belts and hats to match are OF
linen hand embroidered. The cost of
such costumes is prohibtive to women OF
limited resources, and not to be possessed
unless they are adopts with the needle.
To the ingenious woman of taste and skill
the present styles afford great possibilities
and few daintily embroidered belong
ings lend an air of elegance to the simplest
costume.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-06-10
REDUCED RATES TO PACIFIC COAST
On account of the Lewis and Clark Ex-

On account of the Lewis and Clark Ex-
position, at Portland, Ore, June lst to
October 18th, and various conventions TO
be held in cite ON the Pacific Coast dur
ing the Summer, the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company will sell round-trip tickets
on specified dates, from all stations on its
lines, to San Francisco and Los Angeles,
April 9Th to September 9th; to Portland,
Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria, Vancouver,
and San Diego, May 22nd to September
9th, at greatly reduced rates.
For dates of sale and specific information
concerning rates and routes, consult
nearest ticket agent.
Douglas Island news., 1905-05-17
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. Information for Everybody.

Valdez has brass band. A miners lien law for the Yukon is being prepared.
 The Schwatka will run this summer between St. Michael and Fairbanks.
 The new Russian church at Afognak has been finished and services held therein.
 The baseball season has opened at Whitehorse and the preacher has been given a four months vacation.
 Even Brady's own particular brand of Indians, the Sitkas, have become dis gusted with bis ancient methods.
 An appropriation for the improve ment of He'll Gate, on the Yukon river, will be made in time for the work to be done this year.
 The city dads of Wrangell (the Sen tinel calls them solons) will seek to extend the exterior boundaries of their town. Watch lem.
 George Butler, prominent Yukoner, wires that the Panama output will ex- ceed S5,OOOOOO, and says all former es, inmates are too low.
 Tho new law which provides that Alaskans shall pay $500 each, as road tax, or shall perform two days work on the roads, is being put into action this year.
 Ex-Governor A. P. Swineford has de- serted the newspaper business for the practice of law. He was recently ad- mitted to practice before the district court.
 Present indications are that the most optimistic estimates of the amount of gold which will go out of the district around Fairbanks this spring will fall short of the actual cleanup.
 An Unknown man held up cabin and its inmates near Fairbanks and carried off the strong box containing S2O,OO0 in dust. He was pursued and the box was recovered intact.
 The sitka Cablegram has "push" in everything; but if some pratical printer would show the boys of that office how to apply it to their press, they would get out a more readable paper.
 The Fry-Bruhn Company will branch out into the fish business. It proposes to engage in the Alaska halibut traffic and with that end in view large cold storage and ice making plant has been established at Ketchikan.
 Dawson people are all we'll worked up because of the news being received that the government intends making Dominion, Clear, Sulpher and Cola Run creeks and their tributaries into new mining district with headquarters on Dominion, where full staff of om cers will be situated. The matter has created big sensation and strong pro tests are being sent to Ottawa.
Douglas Island news., 1905-05-17
A survey has been held on the steam

A survey has been held on the steam CT Corwin by Capt. s. B. Gibbs, repre- senting the marine underwriters of San Francisco. The vessel has been de- clared to be seaworthy and in the past eighteen months repairs amounting to S2OOOO have been made on the ship. The Corwin sailed on her first voyage to Nome May 15. She will go by way of the inside passage and Capt. West expects to be the first vessel to enter the roadstead this season. This year there will be no deckload taken on the Corwin. When the vessel reached Ketchikan last season bound for Nome it was necessary to stop and shift the cargo before she could proceed.
 The Alaska cutter fleet this year will be composed of the McCulloch as flag ship, the Thetis, now at Honolulu, and the Bear, now at San Diego, for Arctic work, and the Perry, now at Portland, and the Rush, now at Bremerton, for seal patrol. The Grant, now at Port Townsend, will cruise among the can neries of Southeastern Alaska with a special agent of the treasury depart ment aboard, looking after the enforce ment of fishery laws. Capt. Francis Futile, now commanding the Rush, will be detailed to command the Grant for the summers work. The fleet will be mobolized and sail north in about month.
 A message was sent from Washing ton, D. C., to Nome, Alaska, a distance of about 6,OO0 miles, and replies rcceiv- ed at the national capitol from Nome in less than five minutes. From St. Michael, Fort Gibbon, Fort Egbert and North Fork replies were received in fifteen minutes, although the message had to be repeated or relayed six times before it returned to Washington. It took one-half second to get message from Washington to Seattle, one and seven-tenths seconds to get it from there to Sitka, and two seconds to for ward it to Nome. The original message would have reached Nome from Wash ington, had it not been three times re- layed. in four and two-tenths seconds. The wires were working poorly all along the line.
 That the rescue vessel Louise, sent to search for the gasoline launch con- taining Harvey Sullivan, Harry Storey, c. Greenhurst and Engineer Mcintyre, has herself been lost in the ice pack is the general belief at Nome. There are still no tidings of the missing vessel, and unless there is news of her soon, another rescue expedition will be sent out. The party for which the Louise was sent in search is safe, having abandoned the launch and made it's way over the ice to Solomon. 1t was expected that the Louise would return at once, but no word has been received from her. Signals are flashed nightly search lights in the city and bontires on Topcock Hill and Sledge Island-but no answer has been received. There is no ice in sight from Nome, but it is feared that she has gone further north and become caught. On board the Louise were Capt. Doc Healy, J. M. Healy, John Baggle and Charles Essem- menger. The Louise is the vessel in which Duncan and Griggs, who were the heroes of gold strike fake last l aa.aAl a.Ar, Mnnnn
Douglas Island news., 1905-05-17
ROOMS By the Day, Week or Month

There is a possibility that Victoria may be named as the meeting place for the grand encampment of the Arctic Brotherhood during the coming sum- mer, it being left with the executive to name the place of meeting.
 Frank Slavin wired John l.. Sullivan guaranteeing him not less than S2,0o0 and expenses for a ten-round go with him (Slavin) in Dawson the night of the Fourth of July. Sullivan answered; "Am ready to box or fight. Your offer too low"
 Recent developments show that pay dirt on Fairbanks creek, in the dumps, from No. s below to No. 8 above is yielding from 25 to in some cases 50 per cent. higher than the highest estimate. Cleary creek is also going higher than was estimated.
 Henry Courier of 20 below lower discovery on Dominion, has disappear ed with S15,OOO cleanup, leaving un- paid number of men in his employ. It is believed he crossed the line on horseback, going by way of Miller and Chicken creeks.
 Jerry Calvin, a Kougarok pioneer, and owner of No. ? Dahl, the richest claim in that region, passed through Seattle last week on his way to Chicago, where he goes to organize ditch com pany to supply the lower Dahl Creek miners with water.
 The Alaska & Pacific Railway & Tele' graph Company is incorporated with S2,OOOOOO capital, by James Buzzard, J. c. Jeffery and William Wray. The company is to build railroad from a point on the northern part of Martins island and to the interior of Alaska.
 Willie Anderson, aged three years was drowned at Dawson on May 4, by falling into ditch. He fell face down ward, his head striking stone. The fall rendered him unconscious and when picked up few minutes later he was dead. The water was only four inches deep.
 Andrew White, pioneer Nome miner was found in his cabin near the mouth of Sinrock river, suffering from an az gravated attack of scurvy. For three weeks he had been living on raw tom cod and raw bacon, being unable tc help himself. He was taken to Nome for treatment.
 The Triple Creek Hydraulic Mining Company is the latest organization tc enter the Kougarok field, with the in intention of beginning immediate oper' ations in that section. Chicago capital is behind the enterprise. This com pany will build twenty-mile ditch, tc hydraulic their own properties, which are located twenty-five miles northeast of Dahl Creek. It is said that they control some very rich ground.
 There is a steady and constant in crease of business on the Alaskan cable which the government operates between Seattle and Nome with many way points. According to figures compiled by Major Glassford, in charge of the Seattle signal corps office, the total re- ceipts of the line during the first four months of the present year are as fol lows. January, s7,913o6; February s9,233.52; March, s8,162.19; April, s9, 665.61.
Douglas Island news., 1905-05-17

The comptroller of the currency has issued a certificate authorizing the first National bank of Fairbanks, Alas ka. to begin business. The bank was recently organized with capital of s5OOOO by several citizens of Fairbanks. Samuel A. Bonnifeld is president and Luther c. Hess cashier.
 James Galen, former Deputy United States marshal, and James J. Mckay, mail contractor, are on their way out from Nome, in an effort to get mail contract from Uncle Sam, via the Kusk- okwim Kamishak route. promising to give thirty day mail service between Seattle and Nome, during the winter months, over an all-American route.
 A nugget weighing sixteen ounces and valued at S250 was found on dis covery on Fairbanks creek by com panion of one of the operators, just as the latter was about to throw a shovel full of dirt into sluice box. The mug get was resting on the tip of the shovel, and proved to be one of the largest ever found in the Tanana.
 That old pioneer of Wrangell and the Cassiar section, John Finlayson, after spending the winter with friends in Victoria, is with us again, looking as hale and hearty as man of forty, al though nearing the century mark. 'Uncle John" says he longs to get onto the frontier again, and is only waiting for boat up the river to take him to Telegraph Creek.-Sentinel.
 One of the most powerful and up-to- date gas steamers ever built will be operated along the Alaska coast be- tween Nome and other points this season. The boilers for this steamer, which is being built for John J. .Sesnon, are now near state of completion at the factory of the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco. The steamer which is being built at the yards of Stone X Go, at San Francisco, will be of about 500 tons register, and will have twin screws.
 A dispatch from Fairbanks says: Ole Peterson, recently released after an examination for insanity went to the federal court house yesterday armed with rifle intending to kill Feder al Judge Wickersham. Judge Wicker sham had shortly before left the build ing by back door and the assassin was unsuccessful. The deputies had hard time taking Peterson into custody and for a time it was feared that he would kill some one. He will be sent to Mt. Tabor sanitarium for treatment
 Last Thursday boat arrived down from Telegraph Creek, bringing little half-breed girl eight or ten years old for treatment for bad gun-shot wound received the previous Sunday. The name of the little girl is Kitty Curtis A Chinaman, named Clem, went rabbit hunting with 22-calibre rifle, and the I child went with him. Seeing rabbit he cooked the gun, but did not shoot neither did he put the hammer down; and it was while carrying the gun in this condition that the weapon was dis, charged and the ball entered the right side of the little girl and it was feared had pierced her intestines. On arriving she was taken to pr. DeVigne and underwent treatment and appears to be doing we'll, though the ball has not yet been located.-Wrangell Sentinel.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09

lime rock having been obtained. the clay being much less in volume, the two are, thrown together, in huge crushing machine and ground to bita These bits are run through big drying tubes and then into the crushing ma- chimes where they are ground to pow der.
 To the novice this powder looks just like cement. It is . gray impalpable powder like cement. but 1t is not ce- ment. for if 1t is dampened and exposed to the air 1t will not harden.
 The powder has to be cooked as 1t the other side of the big building com- mon soft coal is ping given the same sort of treatment that the powder re- ceived. It is also crushed into powder and then dried in similar big hot tubes.
 The gray powder and the crushed coal are then thrown into immense re- volving tubes, heated with steam and the coal inside the tube Is set to burn- ing. The powder comes out burned black, but in small hard Jumps. These Jumps are run through powerful crush ing machines again. This time they come out the finished cement ready for market. As this process Is finished the cement Is conveyed to the storage bins to be barrelled.
 The superintendent of the plant, the man who has direct charge of all this valuable machinery for these various processes is F. L. Jorgensen.
 The directors fof the Alabama Port land Cement Company are W. c. Bell. President; J. Tupham Richardson. Bris- tow Bresell. J. L. Spoor, c. A. W. Wood, Charles Selby. with F. w. Smyth as general manager.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
SKEETs' MALEvOLENCE
 KNOWN 1,400 YEARS AGO.
Discovery of . Pamphlet in Sanscrit
 Telling of Disease- Bearing ACtivftlen.

Discovery of . Pamphlet in sanscrit
 Telling of Disease-Bearing
 Activities. Washington Special.
 Assistant Surgeon Elkins, of the Ma rine Hospital Service. stationed at Cal cutta, in report to Surgeon-General Wyman. says the discovery in Ceylon bearing activities of the mosquito were accurately known as long ago as the sixth entury The pamphlet, written in Sanscrit was turned over to Sir Henry Blake, Governor of the island. He had a translation made of 1t and sent a Medical Association. the British ooun- terpart of the Marine Hospital Ser vice.
 The unknown Sanscrit writer said that his investigation had shown him that there are sixty-seven varieties not fifty-seven-and that forty of them carry malaria. The ancient savant did disease. so the pamphlet leaves the germ theory standing as modern achievement. He contented himself with the assertion that the insects car ried the disease.
 In view of that fact the parIhleteer suggested that they probably also car ried other diseases. In that way he covered the whole field of discovery, or supposed discovery, made by Dr. Reed and officers of the Marine Hospital Service. Apparently the Sanscrit writer had no means for conducting his in- vestiSations further and was compelled to be content with his surmise that the partial to carrying simply malaria, but took freight of any other kind of dis ease in their vicinity and carried it with equal success and cheerfulness.