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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01

Washington, May 29.-The sundry
civil appropriation bill was completed
and Chairman Tawney was authorized
by he appropriations committee 10 re-
port it 20 the house today. II Is iae
largest sundry civil bin ever repor' ed,
carrying S9i,346,573. OF which $50. 49,
991 Is for the work on the Panama
canal. The amount carried is SILL
070,005, less than the estimates from
the various departments. The canal
appropriation is TO be reimbursed to
the treasury from the proceeds of the
safe Of canal bonds, which have ben
authorized TO the aggregate mount or
$3.50, 600, 600.
Deductlng the canal appropriation,
the bill carries s1,721 $50 more than
the current sundry civil C
The new public buildings heretofore,
authorized and the repair of buildings
$5,170,587, is appropriated, Il reduction
Of s2,806, col from the current appro-
p~riation under this head.
Some of the important items OF
appropriations are:
Construction of national museum
building in Washington, ID. c., $780,
900.
Public health and hospital service,
81, 1S5, 900.
Quarantine service, $4,000
Prevention of epidemics, $4,000.
Bureau of fisheries, $670,970.
For enforcement of the Chinese ex-
clusion act, $500, 600.
Construction of the Office building
e., A. L-,.~ % -1- 0-nn
900.
United States geological survey, ST..
13S,320. Z.
Armories and ~arsenals, s555,617.
Expenses Of the executive mansion
$4,000, increase 100000.
Z Objects of a miscellaneous nature I'M
der the war department.
At Fort S%creven, Ga, $4,000; Fort
Monroe, Va, s27, $50; Fort Oglethorpe
Ga, $4,000; Fort Crockett, Texas,
s15s,S53; Fort Moultrie. S. c., $4,000.
National home for disabled volun-
teer soldiers, s4,202, 444.
Continuing aid to state and terrific
rial homes for the support of disabled
volunteer soldiers, 81, 150 900.
Continuing construction of the pcni-
Tertiary at Atlanta, aG., $4,000.
Department Of agriculture building,
100000.
Public printing and binding $5,325,-
900, reduction of s1,005, GAS.
The appropriation for public build
ings include the following:
Biloxi, Miss, s48, $50; Elizabeth City,
Y. c., $40, 900; Macon, Ga, 500, 900;
S%partanburg, s. c., 10000.
Appropriations for river n haroOr
improvements include:
Black Warrior and Tombigbee rivers
Alabama, SEQ, 900, and for work under
act Of 1905, s543, 4G6.
South Pass, Mississippi river, $500
900.
Cape Fear river, North Carolina,
5000, 900.
Cumberland river above Nashville,
Tenn, $4,000.
Galveston ship channel, $500, 900.
Allegheny river, near Pfttsburg, Pa,
1921, 206.
Hillsboro Bay, Florida, $34s,350.
Savannah. Ga, $3.50, 900.
ST. Johns river, Florida, 1903. $50
Tennessee river below Chattanooga,
800, 600, and $4,000 10 be expended ct
Hales Bar.
Mississippi river commission I'M
~provements, $1,000, 900.
The bill will probably be called up
for consideration in the house Thurs
day.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01
To Locate the Monument on James
town Island.

Washington, May 29-Secretary Taft,
Supervising Architect Taylor, and
Captain Spencer Cosby, corps of en-
gineers, who went to jamestown to 10
cate the monument to be erected by the
government to commemorate the first
landing of the English, returned to
Washington today. a tentative selec-
ton was made of the site but it is said
that unexpected difficulty was expert
enced in securing promises of reasona-
able prices for the land desired. The
location is on jamestown Island, but it
cannot yet be exactly stated.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01
The Presidential Party caves for
Portsmouth.

Washington, May 29.-The United
States ship Mayfower, with President
Roosevelt. Mrs. Roosevelt, and W OF
the children and Miss Carew. Hrs
0Rosevelt's sister, aboard, left he
navy yard today at 2:3S p. m. for
Portsmouth, Va, where the president
is to deliver the memorial day ad-
dress tomorrow. He arrived at the
yard at exactly 2:30, and eight min
utes afterward the vessel was under
way. He was accorded the usual sa-
Iutes.. Mrs. Nicholas L~ongworth, his
daughter, was among those at the
dock to see him off.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01

For Purchase of Steamship Company.
Richmond, Va, May 29.-It is under
stood that the Old Steamship company
today concluded negotiations for the
purchase of a very large majority OF
the stock of the Virginia Navigation
which runs steamboats, be
tween this city and Norfolk.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01
The ReDOrt Denied.

Atlanta, Ga, May 29.-Hon. +. P.
Shonts, chairman of the Panama canal
commission, who is the guest OF
friends here tonight, denied positively
the report from Panama that he had
commission. Over the telephone he
said: There is not a word CT truth
in the report"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01
Measure Carries Appropriation
of S94.336.573
s2s,46O,ss1 FOR CANAL
100000 Appropriated for Work
on the Cape Fear River

Amount Carried Is SIo,0.o,003 Less
Dcpartments-S500 900 Appropriate
ed for E~nforcement of Chinese
Exclusion Act and the same Amount
for Construction OF the House OF
Representatives Office building.
Other Important Items In the Meas
ure.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01
To GUST PRESIDENT
Cuatemalans Trying to Over
throw Cabrera
REVOLUT|CH|sTs ACTIVE
Small Parties Appearing at Many
Points Along the Border

Resident Guatemaians in Mexico City
Say the Whole Country is Ripe for
Government Threatened by the Rev
misunderstanding in the Dispatch
atcheS to Show That the Lives and
Property of the American Citizens
are in Danger.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01
Reported That Chairman Shonts Has
Resigned.

Panama, May 29.-It is persistently
rumored here and throughout the ca
nal zone that Theodore P. Shonts has
resigned the Craftsmanship of the
Panama canal commission.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01

Mr.. B. F. Keith, Jr., has returned
from Wake Forest, where he attended
college during the past session.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01

Panama, May 29.-The Associated
Press has received the following dis
patch:
"Guatemala, May 29.-(9:12 a. my
Revolution started but already crushed.
(Signed) ESTRADA CABRERA"
Senior Cabrera is the president of
Guatemala.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01

Mexico City, May 29.-General Cas-
tellO. commanding one department Of
Guatemalan r~evolutionists, after TAX
ing the city of Ocos were forced to re-
tire before superior forces. Castillo is
now reported to have taken a new base
and will be reinforced tonight by sew
eral hundred good fighting men from
the steamer Empire City. General Ba-
rillas is in the mountains, making his
way to QueZaltenangO. Barillas has
with him a fine body of picked men, and
is reported to be steadily recruiting
his force. No news has been received
here from Salvador, bat the invading
force should by this time be we'll ad-
Vanced into Guatemala.
Resident Guatemalans here state
that the whole country is ripe for the
overthrow Of Cabrera. The season of
rains has set in and the roads are bad
in Guatemala.
Telegraphic communication is diff
cult owing to the cutting of wires On
the Guatemalan side.
Washington, May 29.-Guatemalan
lSNOIuI1OAlSlS, llO OtIoShCU oSOOs AofO
been driven back across the Mexicon
borders, but small parties of revolution
lists are appearing at various other
points along the Mexican boundary and
threatening the Guatemalan govern
ment. This information was contain
ed in a dispatch received at the state
department today from Mr.. Combs, the
American minister to Guatemala and
Honduras.
Mr.. Munoz, the Guntemalan minis
ter, had a long conference at he state
department today with Secretary Root.
He called to get information Of the rev.
dictionary movement in his country.
So far he has had no advices what ever
concerning the movement against Pre-
sident Cobrera.
There is nothing in dispatches Sec
rotary Root has received which shows
that the lives and property of the
American citizens are in danger, and
no steps have been taken to send a
warship to Ocos. The cruiser Marble
mead is at Panama, and is only three or
four days from the scene of insurrec-
ton. But with the unsettled political
condition at present existing in Pana-
ma it is not likely that the M~arblehead
will be taken away from that port.
Mexico is doing everything in its
power to protect its border, and TO
avoid becoming ~entangled in the Qua
temalan revolution, according TO a
dispatch received today by the state
department from the American embas-
sy in the city of Mexico.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01

Mr.. j. p. Virgins, of WhiteviIle, is
IN the city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-21

women call their work by the pretty name OF
'calinage' which admirably expresses the coax
inp and tender manner in which they prepare
the Christs angels, saints and other hsures LOT
their long Journeys by land and sea
Just look at that woman over there packing
the big statue of St Anthony of Padua, destined
for a Mexican church. See how care1nIIy she
arvelons the hands and feet in cotton wool and
tissue paper! I will undertake TO say lhat "heh
she has done her work that figure Will ua'ei
around the world by ship railroad and wagon
without suffering the slightest damage AT
+i,oas of course we have statues injured IN
transit INT this is invariably due to the reck-
laccnecc of railroad and steamship employees, VINO
o-ouy too accustomed to the word 'traSlle stem
ci11e5 in hinge letters on our packing cases
7, everv department of NJ. Pacheu's great FAC
.,, ono sees sculptors modelling IN clay
oi+ber copying marble or wood statues. many o.
.horo borrowed for the purpose from sculptoTs
80 o,oinent as Auguste Rodin himself, or else
.o--,irg mt their own ideas. 1t seems each
-. - tho staff has his own speciality. one Is
far,ore the world over for producing colossal
CT,i+s. another finds his forte lies in the Infant
&c. a third finds his talent adapted to fash
iorirg exclusively st. Anthonys, and so on.
,-,,,rauv Christs and Virgins head the list
20 -norts from these factories; but they also
.ou on enormous number Of groups, great ana
-r,a11 renresenting the Infant Jesus in the man
- -,,;tb the Wise Men and Joseph and Mary.
e. 80 NJ these groups an OK and an ass are
shown
unan devils are manufactured as wei DIS an
gels for these categorical figures or eVh art uSeu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-21

justices of the Supreme Court of the United
States, whose position never changes from the
time of the appointment of their husbands until
either death or retirement relieves those emf
nent jurists.
The official duties of these lucky women are
fewer than those of other official hostesses,
precedence prescribing that their first calls shall
be only upon the wives OF the President and
Vice-President of the United States and upon
the wives of foreign Ambassadors, all other Of
fetal hostesses including the wives of Cabinet
members and congressman, being required to
pay them this homage. This hard and fast rule,
however does not in the least restrict them IN
their social duties generally, and on Mondays at
the home of Chief Justice Melville Weston Full
Ter where his youngest daughter, Miss Frances
Fuller prasides hostess, as at the homes OF
the associate justices, carriages line the street
for at least block.
Miss Fuller spent several years abroad in pur-
suing her musical studies prior to the death OF
her mother two years ago, but has since then
devoted her entire time to her home and her
fathers requirements She drives and walks
with him each day and is one of the most affa
bla hostesses in the Supreme Court circle. The
Chief Justice has a commodious old fashioned
residence a block from the State, War and
greatest attraction a large garden at one side
filed with magnolia and other Towering trees
I'D with vines shrubs and birds Miss Fuller
nours tea at her Monday receptions i'll the spring
months with the windows wide open upon this
cuaint garden the high walls of which are COW
cred with trailing vines within.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-21

Mrs John Marshall Harlan, with her husband
and daughters, occupies a comfortable and
rather picturesque house upon high bluff over
looking 14th-st. and the entire city Kentucky
hospitality reigns there at all times, and the
social duties of Mrs. Harlan and her daughters
are by no means limited to the Supreme Court
circle.
Mrs David Josiah Brewer and Mrs. Henry
Billings Brown preside over homes in the most
fashionable part of 16th-st.. and like Mrs. Ed
ward Douglas White, Mrs Rufus Peckham. Mrs.
Joseph McKenna, Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes
and Mrs. William r. Day, all sought by So
ciety people as being not only entertainers, but
most desirable guests well
The state function at the White House last
week and that planned for this week-the judi
cial reception and the Supreme Court dinner,
were the attentions to this august body pre-
sCribed by the first President of the United
States, and with unvarying regularity annually
prove two of the most dignifed, if less brilliant
of all the Presidents official entertainments.
Another long prescribed custom is that the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and his
family and all of the associate justices, with
their wives shall be numbered among the guests
hOnored as assistants in the Blue Room at White
House state entertainments
Justice and Mrs McKenna furnished the last
bride to society from the Supreme Court circle,
Miss Isabel McKenna two years ago becom-
ing the wife of Pitts DufieId, of New-YOrk, and
they will also give from their charming house
hold the next two brides TO be claimed. On
February p Miss Hidegarde McKenna will be
married TO John Leggett PultZ, of New-York,
and on April % Miss Marie McKenna, their
youngest daughter, will be married to Davenport
BBrown of Boston.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-21

mistake would occur and the discovery be made
that there was no force in them Probably,
owing to the constitution of the believers, the
failure of the expected result would be ascribed
to some supernatural cause rather than the real
one and the belief would be continued. Most
of these superstitions are found in France the
greatest bread eating country the globe.
For instance, in Upper Brittany bread baked
on Good Friday it is declared, becomes black
In Charante it is held that he who eats of bread
baked on All Souls Day viii become diseased
The flames will burst out OF the oven in ones
face if bread is baked on the Feast of St Mich
olas, say the good people at Aube, so it is not
done In Burgundy the people believe that If
bread is baked in the course of ROgation
Week all bread baked during the remainder
of the wear will turn mouldy. The inhabitants
of the Black Mountains believe the same thing.
The Sicians refuse to bake Good Friday be-
cause they fear that in manner they will
burn the Saviour
The beliefs which other Europeans used to
have in early times demonstrate how illogical is
all this superstition. These used to think that
bread baked on Good Friday would not grow
mouldy and the hot cross bun was included in
this belief Some one has shrewdly suggested
that the spice preserved them piece OF bread
baked on this holy day, perhaps because OF its
holy character, was supposed to have miracu-
Ious powers if preserved. The house containing
il would not catch fire. 1t useful for pre-
venting, whooping cough. and if fed to cattle III
of certain diseases would cure them. The
natural deduction from all this is that in one
country bread baked on a certain day will work
i'll and that baked in another the day
will work good. which means that bread baked
that day is about the bread baked
on any other.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-21

and any material statue produced by a scu1p-
tor of note Sometimes the artist merely sells
us set Of drawings from which our staff can
reproduce the figure in wood, plaster or stone.
We manufacturers keep a staff of sculptor
artists who are clever in carrying out other
mems ideas but are themselves incapable of
any creative ability. At the time these
men are highly valuable in their way, and COM
mand as artists salaries up to $1,000 year, and
even more For the original statue, if it be a
colossal figure larger than lifesize the price may
well be $10000-so you a good model may
represent a small fortune by the time the
first cheap copy Of it is offered to the churches
And the cost is still further augmented, for
out of say twenty original models, each of which
cost on an average $4,000, there may be only
four or five which suit the taste OF our custom
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-21
MRS. BROWN.

e-s-who, il should be borne in mind, are Of
every nation and cline, literally from China to
Peru Thus, the sale Of copies Of these few have
10 make UP for actual losses on all the other
originals We have bought
So saying, NJ Pacheu took me TO a room
where the modelling plaster is prepared. This is
:. curious substance whose ingredients are
secret and which, after il has been boiled.
pounded and strained. is thinned down with
more or less water. according to the degree OF
fuiGlty required by the artist modeller. When
il IS merely a question Of reproducing piece
a< sculpture in low relief. all he need do is TO
oil The surface Of his original and cover it with
. LAYER Of thinned down modelling plaster By
mis- means he obtains a mould from which any
number Of copies can afterward be obtained
Sometimes however. this work is carried Out
with kind 4 clay.
q raz4 Of q regular statue the work becomes
---r more complicated. All kinds Of precau-
,5...e have 10 De taken 10 obtain correct rem
5ar.rg Of detail In the language Of the experts
Themselves il is necessary to obtain either a
--r-r5 q bon creUx' or q Ia gelatine-" In
order 10 produce a mould "a bon creuX' lIle
original sculptured statue to be Reproduced Is
-5 with little pieces Of plaster four or five
-a-t5rnetres thick and the dimensions ana form
s. these pieces vary according TO the slnuosl'ieS
+, ~. model These constitute the mould.
r. -,-az-ant all these pieces from falling apart
however the artist uses what he calls cope
v--5.r &c nothing more than outer envelope OF
master When this envelope has become thor
0,.r,1y- set the entire mould is divided down the
middle bacF xnS cront, and is then ready lot
use But after q copy of the statue has been
obtained in this way much yet remains 10 pe
done before the replica is perfect
i must be pointed out that the copy-statue Is
covered with ridges Of plaster at points "here
tre-e are ioinings in the mould, and these have
Ii be removed by another skilled and highly
-ai5 artist in a way which utterly CELEBRATES
Ill traces.
When modelling "a la gelatine" the artist
80 ~ al produces a cope" or outer casing OF
master and this done, the statue TO be copleo
i e,,e,ended head downward and the cope
ere5 in such a position almost to touch the
si5as Of the model The space between the
s.s+re and the "cope''-only a few centlrnetres-
Is then filled in with liquid gelatine' which, Oh
hardening. produces a perfect mould
Fy whatever process the copy Of the original
r,-l4re &c produced a great deal remains to De
do,e after i has been taken out of the mould
Win, al ite minor intersections upon it Among
o4ser things it must be coloreo, gllded or &C
oo,7+re4 10 suit the taste of those Tor Whohl II
was rnade-perhaps some Portuguese parish
rrieet in Southern Brazil, whose simple mlhoeu
aoc,s likewise have ideas of their own about the
great Christ St James or Virgin and Chlo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-21

which they have ordered from that distant coun-
try across the seas.
Truth to tell, the decoration of these religious
statues does not always show the best of taste
nor is this surprising when one reflects that the
staff at headquarters are in this respect entirely
at the disposition of their customers.
I noted a statue of the Virgin more than
twenty-five feet high with great slver-gilt
crown set with beryls topazes and rock crystals
which must have cost $1,000. 1 asked NJ. Pacheu
about the packing OF these colossal works of art,
consigned to far off countries.
ut is" he replied, "a careful operation and
we employ for this purpose 4 special staff of
women packers, who have a way of handling
delicate things which no man ever attain.
You may be interested to know the artist
manufacturer went on, smilingly, that these
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-21

in certain groups, such those representing
st. Michael tramping them under foot. For
home consumption of the most popular
hgures is that of Joan of Arc, for all the French
nation from Normandy to Provence have the
greatest veneration for the inspired maid of
Domremy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-21
SUPREME COURT CIRCLE.
WOmen Whose Position an Washing
ton Society Is UnUarying.
from The Tribune Bureau

Washington, Jan. 20-If one were asked what
official body of women in Washington society
occupied the most enviabe place. the answer
would certainly be in favor of the wives of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-21
BREAD SUPERSTITIONS.
Peculiar Ones Still PreUaH IN Rural
France.

There are some curious superstitions about
baking bread in the course of religious seasons
which seem so easy to prove fallacious that one
has difficulty in understanding why they are
still believed One would think that some day a
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-06-08
Circuit Court.

Minerva Walker vs.. Abner b. Walker;
divorce; decree granted.
Amanda Cook vs.. Frank Widner; bill
to annul marriage; decree granted.
George E. Howard VS.. Chas. W. How
ard; bill to remove cloud; decree granted
The Milburn Wagon Co. vs.. E. j. Har-
rington; assumpsit; decree granted.
Elba Marley vs. Harriet Manley; di'
vorce; decree granted.
Louis Trempe vs.. Electa Trempei di-
vorce; decree granted.
Henry Southwell Va. Nancy A. South
well; divorce; decree granted.
Frank j. Chamberlain vs. Olive Cor
della Chamberlin; divorce; decree grant
ed. The plaintiff being ordered by the
court to pay s. per month for the sup
port of the child until 10 wears OF age
Chamberlain secured a license before
leaving the court house and was married
the same evening.
James A. Merrill VS.. David o. Leisen.
ring: alienation Of wife's affection. jury
impanaled Monday afternoon. Case still
in progress Thursday afternoon.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-06-08
Notice of Primary Election.

Notice is hereby given that primary
election will be held in the township Of
Paw Paw, county of Van Buren,, state of
Michigan, on Tuesday, the 18th day Of
June, A. d. 1906, for the purpose Of
nominating the following officers;
In accordance with the provisions Of
law you are hereby notified that at a
primary election to be held in this-sta
on the 18th day of June, 1906, the nomi-
nation of candidates il each of the polit-
zeal parties for the Offices of governor
and lieutenant governor shall be made.
There shall also be elected by each polit
ical party delegates to the county con-
veption thereafter TO be held by the said
political party. You are also notified
that on the date above mentioned the
question of nominating candidates for the
Offices of governor and lieutenant COVER
nor by direct vote shall be submitted TO
the enrolled voters Of each political party.
The polls Of the primary election in the
said township Of Paw Paw will be held
at the place designated below:
At the council room in the village of
Paw Paw. Mich.
The polls will be open at o'clock in
the forenoon of said 18th day of June.
A. d. 1906, or'as soon thereafter as may
be, and will be closed at 5 o'clock in the
afternoon of that day.
Dated at Paw Paw, Mich, June l, A.
ID. 1906.
HARVEY Ii. COOLEY,
Township Clerk.