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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13

officials Of the Valley road was held in
this city today The levee men urged
the railroad men to give a big ship
ment of sacks and other materials the
right of way from New Orleans. This
material is badly needed for strength
ening weak places in the embank
ments along the Louisiana side in the
parishes of Concordia, Texas and East
Carroll.
E. c. Tollinger, assistant general ell
gineer of the YaZoo- Mississippi board
says that all the levees are holding
splendidly. the steady rains of the past
few days being the most serious cause
Of alarm. These rains have greatly
weakened new work. However. he is
confident that with close watching all
danger points can be held. The Florence
and Columbia, United States snag
boats, the Arthur S. Hider of the state
levee board and the Colonel Potter
have been placed at the disposal of the
levee boards for patrol duty. The two
snag boats will be held here with steam
up for dispatch at a moments notice to
any point of danger. The water is ris-
ing steadil-- here at the rate of nearly
half a foot every twentyfour hours,
the guage registering All.
A Levee Reported Broken.
Natchez, Miss, March IA report
reached here today that the Texas and
gre in lower Concordia Parish, about
thirty-five miles south of Vadalia, had
broken, but Sheriff Gillespie of that
Parish could not verify the report. This
embankment is fifteen feet high or
three feet higher than the high water
stage of 1897 and is a new levee. To
appreciate the force that would be nee
essary to break this levee, it is stated
that the average base of a fifteen foot
levee is one hundred feet through. Of
f1cers on the steamer Betsy Ann are
authority for the statement that frame
buildings in the lowlands have been
washed away. Residences have been
torn from their foundations and some
have been caught and held by the trees.
escape with their lives. Deer, bears and
other animals have been driven to high
lands and are being slaughtered in
ening. The river gauge is ass being
25 above the danger line and rising.
Preparing for Emergencies.
New Orleans March 1.-THE govern
ment state and city authorities are in
specting levee lines and preparing for
emergencies. They all admit that the
river will likely break all records be-
fore it quits rising, but the levee sys-
tenn is higher and stronger and they
claim it will withstand the extra strain.
Large forces of men are being utilized
to strengthen weak places and to guard
the banks by night and day. The guage
here tonight reads 1875, a rise of one
tenth in the past twelve hours. The
high water record is 1875.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13
APPOINTMENT OF new BISHOPS
Four Vacancies to be Filled by
Americans and Natives.

Rome March 1.-THE Vatican has
received from Monsignor Guidi, the
apostolic delegate at Manila, PROPOSE
tions regarding the appointment of new
bishops under the archishOpric of Ma
Mia, the center around which the Phil
ippine Catholic hierarchy will gather.
NJ. Guidi proposes three American
bishops as candidates for the new
Sees. The Spanish bishops of Cebu and
Jaro having resigned, there are now
four bishoprics vacant. two of which
the apostolic delegate proposes to fill
by natives and the two others by
Americans. 1t is understood at the
Vatican that the two Americans pro-
posed are persona grata both at Wash
ington and with Governor Taft.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13
Warrant for Arrest of Whitaker
Wright.

London. March IA warrant for the
arrest of Whitaker Wright director Of
the London and Globe finance corpora
'tion, limited, was issued today. Fol-
lowing the order issued yesterday to
the official receiver of the corporation
by Justice Buckley, of the chancery di-
vision of the high court of justice. to
criminaIIy prosecute Mr.. Wright a sum-
mons for the latter was obtained yes
terday evening, but when an officer
went to his residence to serve it he was
informed that Mr.. Wright had gone to
the continent on account Of his health,
hence the issue of the warrant.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13
Dividend Declared by Western
Union Company.

New York, March 1.-THE directors
of the Western Union Telegraph Com>
pany declared today the regular quar-
terly dividend of one quarter per cent.
statement issued estimated the net
revenue for the quarter ending March
81 at s1,S5O,OO6.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13
"Jim Crow, Law Fails to Pass.

Jefferson City. Mo-, March lin the
house today, by a vote Of 50 to 10, the
separate railroad coach for negroes bill
failed Of final passage. 1t applied to all
railroads and common carriers. : II
the republicans voted against the mea-
sure, as did several democrats.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13
Vote Against Reducing Army Estab-
lishment.

London, March 1.-THE house or
commons in committee of the whole to-
day continued to debate on the army
estimates and rejected by a vote Of 245
to 154. the amendment made yesterday
to reduce the army establishment $780,
761 men of all ranks, by $1,000 men.
Eighteen ministerialsts voted with the
majority. The bulk Of the nationaiists
abstained from voting.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13
The Greatest Fears are
Felt Over the Flood
Situation
WORK ON LEVEES

The weather Bureaus Bulletin
Gives Notice of Continued Floods
Threatening COnditiOns-AI1 the
Rivers Are Still Rising and the
Gravest approximations Are Felt.
Great Forces of Men Are ut Work
Strengthening the Leyees, But the
Rainy Weather is Having Bad Eff
fect-Refugees from the LOyyIands
Are Seen Everywhere.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13
Cuban Senate Ratifies
the Treaty With the
United States.
VOTE OF l6 TO S

The Reciprocity Treaty With tho
United States Was Ratified nv o.
Vote of 16 to 5-F1fteen RepubIi-
can Conservatives and One Ma
tiOnalist Voted in Favor of the
Treaty and Five NationaIists
Against It-Leader of the Opposi.
tiOn Admitted That the Country
would be Benefited by the Treaty.
The Vote Was Taken After a Force.
full Appeal by Senior Bustamente.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13
DRIVERS OUT A>FINAL VOTE
Still Demand Higher On Canal Treaty Will
Wages and ReCog- Probably Be Taken
milton of Union Tuesday
SOME VIOLENCE BY THE SENATE

Different Transfer Companies Have
Gone Out on Strike and They Use
Violence Toward NOn-UniOn Men
Who Are Being Employed to Fill
There Were Several HoId-Ups of
Trucks Driven by NOn-UniOn Men.
Much Excitement Prevailed and
the Police Were Kept Busy-NO
Settlement Suggested.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13
by the President.

Washington, March 1.-THE presi-
dent today sent to the senate the fol-
lowing nominations:
Postmasters: Louisiana-Charles A.
Austin, Welsh.
Mississippi-Samuel r. Brazelton,
Gulfport.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13
BY THE SENATE;

Will in all Probability Decide on
Some Hour Next Tuesday for TAX
ing a Vote on the Treaty and all
Amendments This Action Was
Brought Largely by Senator Frye.
Senator Morgan Has Exacted Con-
gressiOnaI Record of Remarks He
Has Prepared-The Democrats Will
Move an Amendment.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23
WHY should We Work.

Work is activity in some phase Of
Dur life. Life is manifested IN activi-
ty. and inactivity would be s%tagnation,
which would he fatal TO life.
In the universe wherever there is life
there is activity. This is true in the
vegetable, the animal and the human
worlds. This activity is a necessity
which runs through all organic life.
The life that is not crowned with
nobling work of some kind, either for
ones own livelihood or for the good of
others, is an empty life-an abnormal
life.
Work is natural; idleness unnatural.
Work builds up, and inactivity tears
down. Idleness is n violation of our
bein.. Hence it is immoral.
There are manifold reasons why we
should work and no reason why we
should not. Those who are not obliged
to labor for their daily bread should
choose work of some kind in obedience
to the universal law that we see run
ming all creation.
He who was of the opinion that ''the
man who does not work should not
eat realized the demoralizing influence
of a life spent in idleness.-American
Queen.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23
ATTACKS ON FOREIGNERS.
Caracas Press by Hostile Comment
Broke Up a Ball Proposed by Mex
ican Commission.

Willemstad, Island of Curacao, Sept.
22.-The steamer Maracaibo has just
arrived here from Venezuela with a
number of foreign notables on board.
They report that the Caracas press is
still fiercely attacking the foreign and
mixed tribunals and the foreign UNI
pires.
Obeying, il is said, President Cas-
tro's orders, the papers, having learn
ed that Senior Otero, who umpires the
Mexican claims; Senior Duret, the COM
missioner, and Senior Cuzman, the
agent. all of the Mexican tribunal and
all leading figures in Mexican society,
would, on the occasion of the Mexican
independence day, give a dinner and
ball to friends in a house belonging to
a citizen of the United States, printed
virulent articles threatening to pub
lish the names of 16 leaders of Cara
cas- society who had accepted invita-
lions to be present, as "anti-patriots,"
and as guilty "of an act of lese patrie"
in going to a ball given by foreigners
daring to claim money from Vene-
zuela."
Besides this, menacing letters were
sent to the members Of the Mexican
commission, and a popular demonstra-
ton against the commissioners having
been premeditated the Mexican COM
mission withdrew the invitations to
the ball, so as not to cause a conflict.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23
The Ships Steward.

A steward is nothing more or less
than a combination waiter and cham
bermaid. His duties begin an hour be-
fore breakfast, by all rights, inasmuch
as it should take him that time to brush
up his blue or black uniform, shave,
make his hands neat and shine his
shoes. He is supposed to wear a spot
less and expansive bosom to his shirt,
clean collar and black or white tie. l
do not think / ever saw but two stew
ards who had shirts; all the others used
a dickey for the sake of economy.
Waiting on the passengers at table,
the care of the tables, the care of the
silverware and a certain amount of
dishwashing and pantry work make
up the stewards dining room duties.
The other half is work in the state
rooms, making the beds, strengthening
up the rooms and doing the general
work of n chambermaid. as well as CIV
ing a certain amount of attendance to
the occupants of the rooms.
The pay is very poor, and the princi-
pal dependence of the steward is on the
tips he receives. They are really the
poorest paid class that 60 to sea in n
way, and yet I have known men to
make $40 in tips on a six weeks voy-
a~ge.--Leslie's Monthly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23

Candidate for State Treasurer.
cation. He was born March "a, 1862,
in Delaware county, Pa, and received
his early education in the public schools
and is a graduate of the public high
school at Media, Pa. He studied law
in the Office of Hon. John NJ. Broomall,
the Nestor of the Delaware county bar,
and was admitted to practice il No
vember, 1884.
A CANDIDATE STRONG AT HOME.
Mr.. Mathues has always taken an
active interest in public affairs. He
served in the capacity of deputy sheriff
for two years from January, 1885, and
then became deputy p%rothonotary Of
Delaware county, which position he
held until 1892. In November, 1891,
he was elected to the Office of prothono-
tary and clerk of the courts of Delaware
county and took the oath of Office to
that position in the following January.
He gave eminent satisfaction in the
discharge of his official duties, 80 much
so that he was repeatedly urged to
continue in Office. and in March last
he received a unanimous nomination to
succeed himself for q fifth term.
Meanwhile a movement was
started among Republicans of Delaware
and ~neighboring counties in favor Of
his nomination for state treasurer.
The suggestion of Mr.. Mathues for this
ha,ar vro trorx fot,oroh 1,r roao;,ol
throughout the state, and in a short
time he was admittedly t, popular
choice in the party organization, and
his nomination by the Republican
state convention by a unanimous vote
followed.
Mr.. Mathues is the acknowledged
leader of the Republicans of Delaware
county. He has labored i~ntelligently
and increasingly in behalf of the Re-
publican party and in the support of
its principles, and to him must be
given much of the credit for the har-
monious conditions which exist among
the Republicans of Delaware county.
He has been chairman of the Delaware
county executive committee for the
last six years and has represented his
party in numerous conventions.
Ht has a large personal acquaint-
anceship in social and business circles,
besides through his political afilia-
tions. He is a member of the Sons of
Veterans, Junior Order of the United
American Mechanics. the orders of the
Elks and the Eagles, the K. of NJ, the
|. o. R. M. and other social and bene-
fetal organizations.
SENATOR SNYDER'S CAREER.
William Preston Snyder, the nom
inee for auditor general, was born in
East Vincent township, Chester coun-
ty, Pa, October T. 1851, which county
he is now representing in the state
senate for the third consecutive term.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23

The Macedonian vas sent to the
Brooklyn navy yard to have a new
mast put into her. Old Jack Stady
bossed the yard then, and Captain
Hudson was commandment. When the
job was finished and the ship was
about to sail Jack called on the COM
mandant. Captain he said, 1--WE
axed you few favors in my time, but
I'm goin' to bother you with IL now.
When old Jack goes to Davy Jones
locker he wants you to send him below
in Il box mace out of that old mast.
VIII you do it. sir?' The captain
promised. Old Jack died not long after
ward, and Hudson was us good as his
word. The mast was cut down and
sawed into boards, and the honest soul
was buried in a coffin made of them.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23
The Horse In MYTHOLOGY.

The Grecians placed in the sun tho
god of their wisdom and intelligence
and gave him a chariot and four fiery
hOrses-the chariot TO symbolic doc
trine and the horses intelligences. So
with their god of the sea. Neptune
was drawn in his sea chariot by horses
the sea to symbolic all scientific
knowledge in general, the chariot to
symbolic doctrine or science and the
horses intelligences. They mytholog-
ically described the birth of the sciences
by the flying horse Pegasus, which
with its hoofs burst open a fountain
out Of the hard rock at the moment of
his rising from earth to heaven, at
which fountain were seven virgins
who were the seven sciences.
The flying horse symbolizes an intel
%llgence directed h~eavenward; the hard
rock represents hard matter Of fact or
sensual knowledge; the fountain spring
ing therefrom represents pure truth,
where the virgin sciences delight to
dwell.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23

Miss Arabella Paxton had long since
said goodby to her youth, but nobody
had accused her of doing it with resig-
nation.
what were you thinking of to start
Cousin Arabella off in that merry-go-
round?" asked Mrs. Jennings at the
county fair. She had just received her
dizzy and d~isheveled relative ut the end
of a trip on the flying horses.
you needn't look so severe ut me-"
said Mr.. Jennings r~cproachfully when
Cousin Arabella had been deposited on
a settee and left to recover her equilib-
rum. "She heard n m say the
machine was enough to scare anybody
out of ten years growth, and after
that she was possessed to ride in it."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23
An Ingenious Suicide.

That was a peculiar case of suicide
a self gu%illotining. The average sui
eide shoots or cuts or swallows poison
r~ecklessly, frequently botching the job
fearfully. But this fellow! Listen:
After sharpening the edge of a spade
lie fastened the implement, blade down
ward, to the end Of a carpenters bench,
which he weighted heavily. He then
placed a block of wood under the same
end of the bench in such a manner that
it could be easily removed, and so let
the bench fall. together with the sharp
ened blade. When these preparations
were completed he lay down, placed his
neck across n thick piece of wood di-
rectly under the spade, knocked away
the support and was Immediately and
completely decapitated. New York
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23
Looked Like Her Fathers Work

hOOktu htht hCE FatucT phhs
A certain surgeon had three leg am
putation cases in a week. The unusual
number of serious and similar opera
tons naturally caused talk in the sur
geon's household, and his little daugh-
ter was greatly interested, a few days
after the last operation the surgeons
wife and daughter We're rummaging in
the attic. In a trunk was found a
daguerreotype depicting a girl of about
eight years of age. The portrait
through a popularity of pose showed
only one leg of the subject, the other
being doubled up under her in a man.
ner truly feminine.
Whose picture is that, mamma?'
asked the surgeons daughter.
Mine. 1t was taken when l was a
child not much older than you are
now"
Did you know papa then?'
mo, dear. Why do you ask?'
Il thought maybe you did cause
you've only got one leg
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23

| Vile state normal school and Ursinus
! College. both well-known Pennsylvania
institutions.
During the winter of '6S and so he
taught school. After a course of study
he was graduated as physician in
March, 1875, from the medical depart
ment of the University of Pennsylya-
MIA. He returned TO Chester county,
Spring City, where he now resides,
and began the practice OF medicine,
and continued as practitioner until
1886, when he accepted a position as
medical examiner for the relief depart
ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, which position he held for
nearly two years, from February, 1886.
He served as postmaster Of Spring
City from October, 1888, until August,
1885. Senator Snyder has always taken
a lively interest in politics, and has
been an active worker in all of the
campaigns of his party. In 1887 he
was nominated for prothonotary of his
county and was elected by a large ma
jority, and served in that Office until
January, 1891. The year preceding his
REIMBURSEMENT of the Office he was
made chairman of the county Repub-
lican committee. At the county pri-
maries in the fall of 1890, while serv-
ing as prothonotary, he was nominated
for member of the house and was
elected. He was a delegate from Ches-
ter to the Republican state gubernato-
rial convention in 1878 and to the
state convention that nominated Cen
eral James A. Beaver for governor in
1882. In 1892 Mr.. Snyder was elected to
the senate. In the session of 1895 he
was chairman of the committee on
health sanitation, and in 1897 chair
man of the committee on railroads.
In 1896 he was reelected to the senate
by nearly 5000 majority, having re-
ceived nearly twice as many votes as
his Democratic and Prohibition oppo-
nents combined.
At the opening of the session of 1899
he was elected president pro tenn, and
filled the position with dignity, credit
and acceptability, as he did in 1901.
During the campaign of 1900 a deter
mined effort was made by the Demo
Gratis and Independents to defeat Mr..
Snyder for election to a third term,
but he won by a plurality of over 100.
WORKED FOR THE FARMERS.
No more popular mar sat in the
chair of president pro TEN. of the state
senate, a fact which was attested by
his second election as presiding Off
Ger, a distinction rarely accorded to a
senator. At the session or 1903 he was
chairmano of the committee of %appropria-
tions. During his legislative career Mr..
Snyder was conspicuous as a cham
pion of the interests of the farmers of
Pennsylvania. He was an ardent, con-
sistent and determined advocate Of
legislation to protect the pure butter
interests. He stood like a stone wall
against the efforts of the oleomarga-
rine trust, and was largely responsible
for the passage of laws advocated by
the butter and dairy men. Were it
not for the efforts of men like Senator
Snyder, the farmers of Pennsylvania
would today be at the mercy Of the
oleomargarine trust.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23
aueer Way to Display a Troussenu

An Arabian bride is arrayed in all
her dresses, one over the other. She is
perched on a high stool, so that they all
hang down over it, and one by one
they are taken off with much display
and admiring comment from the
guests. The last is, of course, the most
beautiful. The bridegroom is hidden
in some corner where he can see his
future wife's dowry, which, however,
he may not touch.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23

In all c%rustaceans, as, indeed, in al
most everything in nature, there is a
certain per cen of iron. Upon boiling
the lobster is oXidiZed. The effect is
largely due also to the percentage Of
muriatic acid which exists naturally in
the shell. The chemical change which
takes place here is alI..yst similar to
that which occurs in the burning of a
brick. In boiling a lobster its coat
ceases to be a living substance, and TO a
certain extent it takes a new charac.
ter.
1t is as a brick would be after burn
ing. This effect can also be produced
by the sun, but necessarily not so rap
id, as the heat Of that luminary, al
though more intense, is not c%oncentrat-
cd sufficiently to produce the result.
The sun also exercises a bleaching in
luence which the oxide al
most as fast as it is formed, leaving
the shell white or nearly pure lime.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23
MARKET REPORT.
New York Provision Market.

New York, Sept. 81.
WHEAT - No. 2 red, SAC f. o. b..
afloat; No. l Duluth, 901c.
CORN = No. 2 corn, 55kc f. o. b..
afloat; No. 2 white, 55%c.
OATS-No. 2 oats, 41Rc; No. 2
white. 43c; No. 3 white, 42Ac.
PORK-Mess, $15.25@16.25; family,
$500.
HAY-Shipping, 65@7Oc; good to
choice, 90@95c.
BUTTER-Creamery, extras, 21Ac:
factory, 15616c; western imitation
creamery, 17@1Sc.
CHEESE-State, full cream, good to
prime, 11hc.
EGGS - State and Pennsylvania,
fancy, selected, 25@27c.
POTATOES-Long Isla..d, per Dbl ,
s1.62@1.S7.