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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-01-08

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Rooms.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24

IT was threatening pair Of rivers
that flowed by our city yesterday; and
by noon general feeling of alarm
prevailed. All day the merchants
were busy, clearing their cellars. By
nightfall manv of them were getting
goods on the first floor into convenient
shape to raise should conditions subse-
quent suggest the more advisable.
The business streets were very much
alive; and teams were in demand to
move goods to places of safety. Boats
were in demand; and mot few-new
and old-were being transported to
points where they might be called into
use. All the signs were ominous, and
the outlook seemed to be one of dread.
The rise is one of almost unaccount-
able rapidity: and comes at a time of
year when little expected. The rains
have been severe and general, and
tributaries to the Ohio, above and be-
low us, are swollen to abnormal pro-
portions. A cold wave was predicted
for yesterday, but it came not. And iu
this connection we might say we are
between two invaders of our happiness
or frost. Looking at it phil
osophically-the latter is the least to
be desired, for its effect on fruit would
be disastrous in the extreme. If we
must have a visitation from one of
these unwelcome guests, let it be |
water. Wise men said last evening
that we might with reason, expect to
see the water on Front street before
this morning.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
DISASTROUS
Indeed, Is The Flood Now
Upon Us,
RIVER RISING 4 IN. AN HOUR
And Indications Are That 1t Will EX-
coed 1894.
0r.
ALARMING REPORTS FROM POINTS ABOVE.
Everybody OH the Alert and Preparing
for the Inevitable busy Work in
Down Town Districts all
wednesday Night.
ALARMING REPORTS FROM POINTS ABOVE.
FLOODS OF THE PAST

Wednesday morning when the flood
reports from up-river points began
pouring in the people of Marietta
awoke to the danger of the situation
and began making their preparations
to meet it, Many there were, however
who refused 20 acknowledge the close
proximity of big flood, but by We'd
nesday night the skeptics were few and
it was generally conceded that Thurs
day would see several feet of water
covering Front street. Wednesday
morning the rivers took a jump upward
at the astonishing rate of six inches an
hour, but soon settled down to steady
rise Of four inches ad hour and held up
to our hour of gong to press, when the
stage was between 80 and 40 feet.
When this paper reaches our readers
the insidious yellow fluid will be creep
ing into scores of homes and business
houses with it's burden of destruction
and desolation. Where it will stop no
one can predict with certainty, but our
advice to all is to make one job of
the work of moving and take to the
second stories.
A 5O-foot stage is not impossible, and
it seems certain that we will get at
least As feet
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
PLEASANT WAY TO DUN.
Delinquent Customer Pays Up on Re-
eeipt of a Poem.

eeipt of "A Poem.
A Cleveland hardware man, prompt.
ed by an article recently ON the subject
of collecting poor accounts, writes
agreeing that more is to be accom-
plished by dunning letter couched in
good-natured language than one
breathing threats in harsh words, and
relates the following, says Hardware,
as an illustration:
TT was our custom to have q new
clerk put in his spare time writing let
ters TO slow customers. A cle-l.'s men-
its were measured largely by the result
OF this work. Up in Michigan we had q
particularly bad case. 1t wes bill of
Sl2 against Il man named William Rose.
IT had become outlawed, and was con-
sidered dead duck, but every once in
awhile we gave it whirl. Finally one
day, the last clerk put on, a bright youne
fellow, laid the following verses on my
desk and asked permission to mail
them to Rose:
"Oh, William Rose, oh, fragrant rose.
Yourself II is who surely knows
Unsettled bills are bad
They soil OUT books, they spoil our looks.
And make the heart grow sad.
so William Rose, feel In your clothes,
And find twelve dollars there. 90.
The goods were sold IN days of old
Before we had white hair
They were forwarded, and inside of
a week the man sent us the money,
explaining that he had always intend
ed to pay the account some time, but
couldn't hold out no longer against such
a demand"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
Are Your Rooms Bright and Cosye

Or do they need renovating and
dressing up by the application of Wal
Paper?
Your good taste in the selection O!
papers will, we know, prompt you tc
admire our designs any or all of which
we will be pleased to show you.
Prices range from &c. to 75c. per bolt.
We have the agency for the largest and
most original wall paper makers in the
country, and we know we can suit you
in every particular.
We will be pleased to call on you,
with samples, If you will signify your
desire to see our large range OF pat
terms. WILLIAM KLINTwoRTH.
Electric Building, Second Street.
Mch. 7.-1mo.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24

The discipline of the older section OF
the country is not much more severe
than that of the newly settled regions
where they think the easterners are alb
surdly fnical and only a shade less
fussy than the English. A hotel clerk
beyond the Missouri once advised a
Bostonian in a friendly spirit never to
register from Boston. "Why?" the in
nocent Bostonian inquired. Because, "
answered the clerk, "out here we al
ways give a man from Boston the poor.
est room in the house. We know he is
going to kick anyhow. and so we give
him something to kick about"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
BAD NEWS.

Startling Estimates ut Wheeling, Where II
| Exceeded.
Special to Daily Leader.
WHEELING, w. Va, March 23.-At II
o'clock tonight the river at the wharf
reached a stage of Al feet inches and
continues to rise at the rate of three
inches an hour. Late advices from
Pittsburg are to the effect that both
head streams are coming up and that
they expect at that point about 80 feet
by evening. These Htreams at Pitts
burg will give Wheeling in the neigh
borhood of 45 feet, owing to the fact
that all the side streams between here
and Pittsburg have been putting out
heavy quantities of water all day.
Another report from Pittsburg states
that rain is now prevailing and has
fallen at all upper points during the
day.
Just what effect these rains will have
on the big column Of water now sweep
ing through the Valley is not known.
However, it is expected that the rains
will prove effective before the water
has chance to recede at Pittsburgh,
should these expectations be realized,
there is every reason to believe the
river will reach higher stage than
that of the food of 1884.
]. w. PHoEBUs.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24

Passengers crawled TO tops Of cars and
were rescued in skiffs. Two of train
men were badly injured. The river
now registers 90 feet six inches and
rising FIVE inches an hour. Property
loss will be enormous, many costly
bridges having washed out. A reliet
fund has been started for the desti
tute victims. w. 0. LITTIcK.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
This is Better.

Special to Leader.
PARKERsBURe, w. VA, March 23,
900 p. m.-The United States Weather
Bureau reports indications for Tl urs-
day clearing and cooler. Estimates
based on reports received from all up
river towns predict 4O-foot stage for
Thursday morning, with rise of two
or three feet during the day.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
AWFUL AT GAINESVILLE.

Paoperty Being Torn Away by the Floods
and 1000 Driven From Their Homes.
Special to Daily Leader
EVANSVILLE, o., March 90, p. m.-
GAINESVILLE isexpecting the worst disas-
term her history. Since midnight the
Muskingum and Licking rivers have
risen fifteen feet and all the sth Ward
and parts of four other wards are sub
merged. Four thousand people have
been driven from their homes and very
few Of them have saved any of their
household effects. Current Of Licking
river has turned down Lee street half
mile in length and is washing out
everything in its path. There have
been a score of hair brea 9TH escapes
and more than so persons missing.
Supply of boats wholly inadequate to
the work of rescuing the people and it
will take all night to, get them on dry
land. Every railroad entering the city
is tied up and all OF them haye exper-
fenced accidents. A bridge over WAX.
atomika creek gave way while b. & o.
passenger train No. lO5 was crossing
and whole train was submerged
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
Prayers for CoIumhn.

Prof. Park, of Andover, figures rather
4 iamusingly in the "reminiscences of the
late Prof. Schaff, just published In
1912 schaff, being privat-docent at
Berlin, introduced Park to his German
friends. among the rest TO Kahnis. He
relates that, under the continuous pelt-
ing of Parks questions, Kahnis finally
exclaimed, in despair: God forgive
christopher Columbus for discovering
America!"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
RailrOads Not Yet Hurt

All railroads running into Marietta
operated trains as usual on Wednesday
though somewhat delayed by careful
running. 1t is mole than proba Bile
however, that the water will reach
such stage today as to cause traffic tc
be suspended.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
Alaska Travelling EItraord,nury.

The following account of the proper
way of reaching the Klondike is taken
from an Australian paper: "The real
starting point for the Klondike is Spo-
kane. There the traveller takes a canoe.
by which he voyages to Vancouver, B.
C. At the latter point he takes a saiL
sang vessel direct TO Dawson City"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24

DR.. Woods Norway Pine Syrup seems
especially adapted to the needs of the
children. Pleasant to take; soothing
in it's influence. 1t is the remedy of all
remedies for every form of throat and
lung disease
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
Gloomy Mt Wheeling

Special to Leader.
WHEELING, W. VA, March 90, S:SS
p. m.-Ohio forty-one feet now and
rising three or four inches an hour
Look for near fifty feet, maybe more.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
Rising at Beverly.

Special to Leader.
BEVERLY, O., March 23, 4:30 p. m.-
The Muskingum here is 25 feet and six
tenths, and rising steadily three tenth
of an inch an hour.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24

Ten Thousand demons gnawing
away at ones vitals couldn't be much
worse than the tortures of itching
Piles. Yet there's a cure. Doan's
Ointment never fails.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
DO YOU EAT RREApi

JACOB Pfaffs is unexoelleo. as are
also his Cakes and Ices. Finest
Neapolitan ice Cream that can be
made. Particular and personal at,
tention given to serving parties.
receptions. weddings or public din.
mere. JACOB PFAFF,
Putin st,
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
Still Rising at Parkers,

S. ecial to Leader.
PARKERs LANDING, PA, March 2S
$50 p. m.-River fifteen feet and FIVE
tenths and rising.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
Stationary at Oil City.

Special to Leader.
OIL CITY, Pa, March "a, $50 p. m.-
River eleven feet and pine-tenths and
stationary. Weather getting cold.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24

We will consider 1t q great favor II
subscrlberslw Will report any failure
TO get their Leader. or any careless
ness on the part Of the carrier.
Subscribers Will please not pay
ahe carriers unless the carrier
punches his credit tag In subscrlb-
er's presence.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
THURSDAY. MARCH "a. 1898
Republican Congressional conven-
tton, Fifteenth Ohio District

The Republican Congressional Convention
of the Fifteenth District OF Ohio will be held
In the ci'yof
GAINESVILLE, o., on Tuesday, May 10th, 1903,
at 1890 O'Clock, n. m,
To nominate one candidate for Congress.
The ratio of representation in said conven-
tion has been fixed at one delegate for each
one hundred votes and fraction OF fifty or
more cast for Hon. Asa - Bushnell al the gen
eral election held in the State of Ohio in the
year 1897, and is as follows:
Votes. Delegates.
guernsey y..,........'...'.'..' 40 o.
Morgan. n......................,.2,5S ,5S5 70
MuSklngum m.................. .b,b2S o.
Noble. .......... ,.,...........2 5zZ 20
washington. ............., 5,SUo o1
to the Convention will be held on SATURDAY,
the 7th dBy OF May, 1895, in each Of the count-
les composing said district.
The various central committees OF the coun
ties composing the district shall provide be-
tween what hours OF the day on which said
primary elections shall be held apportion the
delegates to the voting precincts in their re-
specttve counties and issue call therefor.
The several county delegations will meet In
caucus at 10 O'Clock, a. m, in the CITY OF
GAINESVILLE, May 10th, 1898. to select one men,
Credentials, Permanent Organization, Rules
and Order OF Business, Resolutions and one
Congressional Committeeman for the ensuing
year.
BY order Of the Congressional Committee,
FRANK M. MAkTIN, Chairman, Noble.
S. A BALDWIN, sec'y., Muskingum.
JUDGE N. H. BARBER Guernsey.
OAPT. GEO. LAUBR, Washington.
JUDGE E. j. BROWN, Morgan.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24
PILESI PILESI PILEsI

DR.. Williamss Indian Pile Ointment will,
cure Blind, Bleeding. liberated and Itching
Piles. 1t absorbs the tumors, allays the Itch.
relief. DR. Wiliiams's Indian Pile Ointment
is prepared only for Piles and Itching OF the
private parts, and nothing else. Sold by
CURTIS ~ HUTCHMAN, Marietta, O.
Sent by mail, 50c. and 81 90 per box.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24

Special to Leader.
PITTsBURG, PA, March 2S, $50 p. m.
River thirty feet and nine tenths and
rising tenth an hour.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-24

is Thought the Flood of 'S4 May be
Exceeded.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-07-06

The vulture is seen at it's best when a
dead tiger, brought into camp to be
skinned, is exposed in the open. Over
head is oloudless sky, and not bird
10 be seen in that great void by the h1-
man eye The tigers body is thrown
from the pad to the ground. and before
the skin has been removed there above
one and 8 ays nearing the earth are
lhe vultures circling, posing like things
ST air, now q dozen of them, In few
minutes score or two and then hun
dred strong. Then, when the fiayed car
eass Of the tiger is left by those who
skinned 1t, the vultures descend. Down
they come like feathered thunder out Ct
the sky, and from east and west and
north and south, the very embodiment
CT power while they whirled aloft and
In their quick descent to earth, and now.
as they waddle around that carrion
beast, misshapen ghouls, whose only
apparent strength is that Of the raven
ing jaws which tear and gorge the
tigers flesh, until within the hour
naught Of that splendid brute remain.
but clean picked skeleton. Sir Ed
ward Bradden's Thirty Years Of
ehikar. -
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-07-06

IL was not an easy matter to Rss
aaarr;ed in press gang times. Robert
Miller, Kirkwall man, found this to
be the case. He returned from the
whalefshing one autumn, fully resolved
elat he should take unto himself wife
Bat the press gang got on his track, and
he soon saw that II he was to get his
asart's desire he would require to exert
both pluck and perseverance. At length
the fateful night arrived. The company
had gathered, and the minister was Ia
the house Of the bride, prepal ed to pro-
oeed with the ceremony, when the
dreaded press gang made its appearance.
Ladies are not unusually of a belliger-
ent disposition, but when they saw, as
In this instance, the likelihood Of a
marriage being spoiled by interlopers
they rose up in wrath against them.
They assatled the meTnb ers Of the press
sang both with tongue aud missiles, SO
that these gentlemen were glad to beat
g bagty retreat. After shis little episode
a back window Of the house was lifted.
and tho bridegroom, dressed In woman 3
elothes, b0nnded into the room. The
doors having bean barricadad to prevent
a surprise, the Clergyman proceeded to
perform the cere1no2y, and surely no
bridegroom was ever married IN such
strange gaghi Miller waa nsYer cap
tared lie lived TO ripe old age and
was the ftrss headle Of tbs KirkWali
wsea ehGEga. ---(5lnsGhsa1a' as5usnal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-07-06
NO HURRY IN NORWAY.
People Take Their Time TLere and To1
der at Yanf-ee Visitors.

People Take Their Time There and Won
der at Yanfree Visitors.
These Norwegians are wonderfully
patient people, says correspondent.
They never hurry. Why should theyi
There is always time enough. We break
fast at Q o'clock. Monsieur goes to bust
ness at 10 or so, and returns to his din
ner, like all the rest Of the Scandina-
Wan world, at 2 80. We reach coffee
and cigarettes at about 4, and then 1nozl-
sieur goes back to his Office, if he likes,
for two Or three hours. We sometimes
see him again at supper at 80, but
usually there is game Of whist, or a
geographical society lecture, or o con-
cert, CT friends birthday feta Gan oo-
casion never overlooked by your true
Norweglan), or sumo one has received a
barrel Of oysters, and would not, could
not, dream Of opening them without
champagne and coupany--masculine
company only. Is seems to me that
there are entirely too many purely rpa3a
festivities here In fact, the men gay SO
themselves and that they would really
enjoy many Of the occasions much more
if ladies' were present. But "it IS nor
the custom Of the country Ga rock Oh
which ! am always foundering) TO omit
or to change in such matters. Monsieur
only does as do all the other men Of his
age, which is elderly, and condition
which is solid.
There is a curious feeling concerning
America over here in enc way and an
other. Morgenbiadet, the chief censerv-
ative paper, an organ locally Of the
FIRST Importance, keeps sort of horror
chamber of Americana. The reason is,
suppose, that in these very dark and
troublous political times, when not only
the union but the monarchy itself is
threatened and lettering, the conserva-
tive interest thinks it dangerous to al
low any virtue to appear in republic
and especially in ours, the most -four,
tshing, and therefore the most perni-
clvus, example OF that invention Of evil
bred San Francisco Examiner.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-07-06
90 FISHES TALkf
Here IA Testimony From . Man WIS
Thinks They Do,

We have heard of the language Of
monkeys, and of the language of hens,
and OF the language of crows, and even
of ants, but it will be new idea to
most people, probably, that fishes havo
language Of their own. An English
fisherman, MIR. Basil Field, has been
making some Investigations that lead
him to suppose that fishes have some
way Of communicating notion of their
experiences to other fishes.
MIR. Field carried ON his experiments
in the fishponds of Mr.. Andrew, at
Guilford, England. Those ponds are full,
Of trout, which, as the time when Mr..
Field first visited them, were SO little
accustomed to being troubled that when
be threw baited hook into the water
all the trout in sight--a great number
rushed eagerly upon it. he caught
one, and removing it from the hook
threw it back into the pond.
Then he put in q freshly baited hook,
and only two or three trout came after
it. One of these he caught and threw
back into the water. Again he resumed
his fishing with a newly baited hook.
and this time, although the pond was
swarming with fish, it was only after
long time that he lured another trout tc
his bait. And after little further
time it was entirely impossible to catch
trout in this pond.
However, by experimenting in anotSs>
er pond equally we'll stocked and nos
throwing back any fish Mr.. Field found
that he could catch trout as long as hi
chose The fish did not seem to under.
stand that the removal of one Of their
number by this strange means meant
danger to them, but came continually
TO the bait.
If, Mr.. Field reasons, it is only when
the captured fish, released, goes hack
and mingles with his fellows that TIE
danger Is learned, and then is learned
instantly, it must follow that the re-
leased fish has some means of making
the Others understand the perils OF the
hook. This, whatever it is, may be
called Language. "-Fortnightly Re.
view.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-07-06
ss ktARD LUCK.

Sgo Ron WHO Were Peculiarly CtssSeS
Out OF Square EIeaIs.
YES" said the reformed miner, ''I
en- back from Cripple Greek, and that
is the best oE my luck. l got away.
Here is a sample of the i'll fate l had
to contend with: I struck the camp
without cent. for I hadn't done any.
thing but lose all along the line. hunt
ed up Johnnie Costello, and the best he
could do was to get me a meal ticket at
the Blue Eell-one of these 81 meals
for "a affairs-and every time you eat
they punch q figure. I wasn't long u.s.
ing it, and stepped out on the sidewalk
containing the first resemblance to a
square feed had held for some days. A
| gust Of wind came down from between
Tenderfoot and Mineral hills, where all
the puffs originate, and blew the meal
ticket out of my hands. It landed face
mp On the sidewalk, ten feet or so away,
and before could recover it big $50
pound Cornish miner stepped Oh it. He
wore heavy boots, with hobnails in 'eul,
and as sure as I'm living man the
nails in his heel punched cut the re-
naming 90 squares.
A similar melodrama, whose plot
swung and ratified about restaurant
ticket, had its scene in Chicago 1t was
before the days when gold cures offered
temporary relief to those addicted to
the rosy. One young man, naturally of
thrifty habit, reached a point in his
life when he learned that if he became
thirsty he became very much SO. In
Quelling this thirst he was apt to squan-
der all the money he had saved since
the last time. So it came that, being
philosophic, he rose superior to his pro-
DENSITY for thrift and disposed of his
salary rs fast as he earned it Thereby
he got due and proper action for his
money, and also appreciably shortened
the length Of his DRINKS Having no
reserve fund, he could not continue his
liquor consuming career for long. One
Monday he detected the stealthy ap-
proach of the thirst He had become SO
wise that he could tell it IS hours away.
1t was his salary day, and, knowing
full well his weakness, the first invest
rools be made was in a meal ticket.
On the Thursday following the next
no saw the sun. The interval was part
blank and part confusion Of red lights,
,abs snd sohocners. He had not cent
IN his clothes, and was as hungry as
shipwrecked sailor. He dug up his meal
ticket and went around to Calhoun place
the restaurant was situated therein
but Calhoun place was blockaded. Fire
men were half way up the alley play
ing their hose on the smoldering ruins
of the restaurant. Chicago Times Her
aid.