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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05
A BUOY ON LONG ISLAND SOUND.

by passing ships. As these boats cost
upwards of $50, 600, and are expensive
to maintain, it is deemed economical
to replace them whenever possible by
lighthouses. As aids to navigation are
required not only on the sea and in
harbors, but also on rivers, the Gov
ernment maintains numerous lights
on the great waterways of the country,
Two thousand miles of the Mississippi
River are lighted in this way.
The seaman needs signs and SYM
bols by day as well as lights by night,
and the buoy is to him what the sign
post is to the traveller on the public
highway. It tells him by the size.
form and color how to find his way in
and out of harbor. Nearly 5000 are
used in the United States, and it re-
quires thirteen volumes annually to
describe the names, locations and
characteristics of the buoys, and a
whole feet of lighthouse tenders to
look after them, to see that they have
mt changed their position and hunt
them up when they have drifted out
of place. They are frequently set
sdrift either by the action of ice or
collision with vessels, or the effect of
storms. One now anchored off the
coast of Ireland was picked up there
six weeks after it had been wrenched
from its place in New York Harbor.
Buoys are made of iron or wood, and
are called nuncsn or ice buoys, ac-
cording to their shape, and are painted
and numbered 80 as to speak silent
language to the navigator which will
tell him whether to 60 on the left
hand or right hand of channels, to
keep away from wrecks, or when he
comes to the proper turning point.
The illumination of lighthouses is q
a problem which has taxed the in
genuity of the lighthouse officials and
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05
WINTER WEAR.
WOMAN'S DRESS AND ADORN-
MENTS FOR THE HAIR.
Tiaras and Heavenly Bodies Give
Place to Bandeaux and Crowns
Effective Skirt Trimming
for Tall Women,

THE men whose accumulated
treasures are the most costly
in the world keep an appre-
hensive finger on the pulse
of Fashion, says Paris correspond
ent. They are of necessity gifted
with the prescience of foresight, and
must know enough to guess at the
form the newest-born caprice will take
when fully grown. That they expect
q lengthy obliteration of ears is evil
dent, for their windows are singularly
wanting in earrings, and both sides of
this very avenue OF jewellers give me
the choice Of scarcely twenty pairs.
Those see are all Of the old rosette
design, save a few made from pear
shaped pearls, of which the Paris.
iennes are inordinately and faithfully
fond. Another sign of the times is
the almost total extinction Of the
tiara, which was only possible when
backed bya mass of built-up curls.
Crowns, circlets and coronets reign
sumptuously in their stead. An entire
coronal of roses, made from the
whitest of diamonds, is fit for an en-.
press; a diadem of pink pearls and
huge diamonds ssvors of millions Of
dollars. Far more graceful and suit
able to the "new" head are the thread
like circlets of small single stones,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05
Reuare Of the MonGoose.

Tinted States Consul Eckford at Kings
ton. Jamaica, hearing from the Amer1-
can newspapers that Mr.. Vanderbilt mas
imported the mongoose for his estate
near Asheville, N. c., has sent out
note OF warning through report 70
the State Department, and says It will be
we'll for:our Government to profit by jana
icais experience and prohibit the importa-
tion OF the mongoose into the United States.
he recounts the evil effects following the IN
PRODUCTION OF the animal from India into
Jamaica to destroy tho rats which infested
the sugar and coffee plantations: They did
their work 80 we'll and increased so rapidly
that their natural food supply was exhausted
and they began to prey upon all small living
creatures. All of the ground birds were
wiped out, all snakes and toads and land
crabs. Newly dropped calves, younS pigs,
puppies, game. turtles, all fell victims TO the
monsoose, which became much worse
pest than the sparrow in America and the
rabbit in Australia. AS a result OF the de-
struction OF these small creatures, all insects
multiplied amazingly until they have pc
come q pestilence at some seasons, and the
people OF Jamaica now want to extermlnate
fha monCoose.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05
NOVELTIES IN MILLINERY.

For real novelties millinery takes
the lead. Hats are enormous, and o
shape called the 'jam pot" crown,
which rises from a broad brim, has
reappeared. This is encircled by q
band of rhinestones or cut steel IN
key pattern, and satin rosettes, roses
and violets are the trimming. Large
toreador hats made of gathered velvet
and fully trimmed are still worn, and
large velvet hats, with double box
plated brims, trimmed with ospreys
and huge satin bows, and three'corn-
cred hats, turned up with narrow fur
edges, are among the imported crea-
tions. Brown, black and green are
the favolite colors for velvet hats, and
when the brim is covered plain the
under side is often of delicate color,
like rose pink or blue. Velvet bows
are always large, with loops standing
alone, and the one effect which seems
most desired is width.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05
THE NEW HANSON.

appearance of being a foreigner, but
in his movements he seemed to know
the city we'll. His vehicle was ham
som body on three pneumatic tire
wheels, propelled by two lackeys, one
in front and one behind. The front
man, of course, steered, but both
helped the propulsion, and they ped
aled away over the rough pavement
at pace of nearly eight miles an
hour.
The gentleman was making busi-
ness calls, and his funkeys were there.
fore in ordinary dress, or what those
gentry designated as morning clothes.
Possibly he makes social calls in his
hanson with funkeys in livery.
Others of these vehicles have since
been noticed on the street, and it is
learned that large mandatory in
the suburbs has been started to rush
them on the market.
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which only grow from airy elegance
to costly beauty above the brow,
where are fixed either two branching
peacock's feathers, with every tilament
picked out with sparks, and lovely
ruby, sapphire or emerald as the
''eye;" or dainty pair of bats
wings, with the serrated edges in first
water diamonds, and the center of the
wings fitted with flmy open work
pattern in gold and yellow diamonds.
These circlets are worn quite forward
on the head, with the center jewel
resting just where the parting melts
into the forehead.
The heavenly bodies, as head orna-
ments, are at last eliminated from the
jewelers. windows. Stars, so long the
best beloved ornament of the middle
class matron, are not to be found.
Suns, such as have seen by the dozen
at Covent Garden Opera House, pie
thoric, lumpish and edged with a
countless number of octopus-like ten
tacles, are in Paris an unknown quan.
tity. One crescent, slender to at
tenuation, is mounted on shining
circlet. Two other crescents. small
and entwined upon hairpin, are all
that recall to me mania which has
died hard death.
One characteristic item of the Jew
eler's window I miss with small pang.
Those dainty trivialities, called "side
combs" seem to be no more. Time
was when, in ali the glories of
sapphires, rubies and diamonds, they
glittered in polychromic array every
where, and modest purses pere per-
force content with those set with a
twist of beaten gold or demure row
of Seeding pearls. Now they are
swept away into the melting pot along
with the settings of the regal tiaras
and the big, square earrings. They
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05

ated with gas from the city gas works,
or from gas tanks in the lighthouses
themselves. ELECTRICITY has been EN-.
ployed to considerable extent for
Illuminating purposes.
Numerous experiments have been
made with illuminants to determine
the penetrative power of their lights,
but in fogs all lights are useless, and
hence other means have to be en-
ployed to take the place Of lights in
heavy weather. The invention and ap-
plication of fog signals constitute a
very interesting branch of the light
house service. Of the devices en-
ployed may be mentioned gongs, guns,
rockets, sirens, trumpets, steam whis-
ties, bell buoys, whistling buoys, and
bells struck by machinery. Gongs
less than those of the other classes.
One erected in 1880 on Paris Island,
s. c., which is the most economical
structure of its kind, cost only $12,-
900 complete. together with the light,
which is 120 feet above sea level. and
is simply locomotive headlight, with
powerful refectors. The skeleton
tower at Southwest Pass is typical OF
this kind of structure. There are q
number of brick lighthouses like that
at st. Augustine, which towers l65
feet above the sea level, and cost
100000.
It may happen that light is re-
quired at point where it is imprac-
ticable to put up lighthouse. In
such cases recourse is had to the light
ships. OF these there are about
through the bulb. The tremendous
scream of these buoYs is caused by the
compression of the air in the tube by
hydraulic action and its expulsion
through a pipe connecting with a
whistle. The United States owns
about sixty.five of these buoys, which
cost about $1,000 apiece. As they can
be heard about fifteen miles and make
a horrible sound, like the ghosts of
all the dead in the sea shrieking sim
ultaneously. They are not popular
with the dwellers on the land. In
harbors and rivers use is found for
buoys mounted with 30O-pound bells,
which toll when the buoys are rolled
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05
FUR AS A TRIMMING.

Fur is everywhere this season. It
is used as trimming for the evening
gown, as we'll as the street costume.
Many of the most fashionable even
ing dresses are trimmed this season
with fur, combined with jeweled lace.
It makes a gorgeous trimming. A
gown of changeable pink moire re-
Gently fashioned was trimmed with
lace wrought with pink and pale
green pearls and combined with bands
of sealskin. Fur exquisitely en-
broidered is also the vogue as 8
trimming for evening gowns OF
light silk. It is very effective to have
band of dark fur outlining the low
cut neck of an evening gown, and from
the fur shower of jeweled lace may
fall. Epaulettes of fur shaped like a
deep Vsndyke point and framed in
gold or Jewels, are novel addition to
the short pufed sleeve. The ultra
fashionable fur of the hour is Hudson
Bay sable, but the average woman,
who is chic, but not member OF the
Four Hundred, contents herself with
the popular mink.-New York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05

improvements made have been as great
as those in the structures themselves.
There is tremendous contrast be-
tween the lights employed to-day and
the braziers, containing bales of pitch
and oakum, which were burned on the
coast of Massachusetts, in 1878, or the
tallow candles used in the original
lighthouse on Brewster Island. The
magnifying and rejecting lantern of
1912 was an advance on the primitive
system, and this was replaced in 1852
by the lenticular apparatus, the use Of
lenses instead of refectors. This was
a great advance. In some cases light
houses near cities have been illumin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05
New England UndemOnstratiYeness.

That DR.. Holmes was typical New
Englander in undemonstrativeness was
shown in the meeting with his son who
was wounded at Charlottesville. For
many days he had sought the Captain
on the fields and in the hospitals, and
at last learned that he was on train
that was carrying the wounded to
Washington. he entered the car, saw
the pale face of his wounded boy, ana
they clasped hands with a "Hello,
Cap" and "Hello, dad. Chicago
Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05
WHITE HATS COMING.

The white felt hat is on the return
trip of fashion, and il you like to keep
a step ahead OF the great throng you
can invest in one of the white fur felt
hats. 1t is the natural effect of so
much color and the enormous vogue
black has enjoyed for SO many sea-
sons. Only few of these hats have
been made, but enough to show what
is in the wind.
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UNITED STATES.
foundation for the structure. Differ
emit devices are sdopted. according to

foundation for the structure. Differ
ent devices are adopted, according to
the composition of the sea bottom.
Many of the Southern lighthouses
are built on screw piles, which are
iron piles with fanges like immense
augurs. They can be readily sunk by
boring into the mud, sand or other
soft materials. The first lighthouse
built according to this system was that
at Brandyvine shoal in Delaware Bay,
erected in 1S4S. Around the founda-
tion is pier of thirty screw piles, in
tended to protect the structure from
ice. In some instances it is necessary
to use iron foot plates, through which
the piles pass into the sand and mud.
An illustration of this manner of con-
struction is the lighthouse on Som
brero Key, Fla, built by General
George Meade, when he was a
lieutenant of engineers. It
stands in eight feet of water,
shows Ii ght 140 feet above water,
with range of twenty statue miles.
The toundat1on plies, u tWelVe-lncn
wrought iron, rest centrally on iron
disks eight feet in diameter and pene-
trate the rock ten feet. The piles
stand at the centre and angles of an
octagon which is fifty-six feet across,
and are braced together by iron ties.
The frame work Of hollow iron shafts
rises in six section, pyramidal in
shape. The keepers dwelling is in
the sec ond section, and is of boiler
iron. lined with wood. The cost of
the structure, with Illuminating ap-
paratus, was $4,000.
An excellent specimen OF the screw
pile river or harbor lighthouse is that
in the Thimble shoal, of the entrance
to Hampton Roads. Another kind OF
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05
Chicago Makes Anti-Toxlne.

Chicago's Health Department., under the
direction Of Commissioner Reynolds. has be-
gun the manufacture OF anti-toxine, the
newly discovered preventive and cure OF
diphtheria.
The work has been carried on with secrecy,
because 1t was thought that II the matter be-
came generally known the experiments
would be hindered by the visits OF medical
students and others interested in bacteri-
ology.
This Is the first time, 80 far as is known
that an attempt has been made to manufacA
ture'tht fluid In any place outside OF Ger.
many.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05

forwarded to the next station. The
Lighthouse Board has nearly 500 Of
such libraries in circulation. The
first regularly appointed lighthouse
keeper in this country was George
Worthylake, who was keeper Of the
lighthouse on Little Brewster Island
in It's at $3.50 per year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05
SKIRT TRIMMING FOR TALL WOMEN.

This is decorative period. There
is a riot of bows, embroidery and
Jewels. Although bows and jewels
are rather meaningless adornments
for skirts unless placed where they
seem to be for use as we'll as for
beauty, they form an effective yet
comparatively simple trimming when
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05

skirt. To give a skirt the pose
and chang" it seems necessary to
have something more durable than
even the stiffest orinoline. This one
is of brocade, which is among the ex-
pensiye materials in vogue. The bro
cades are figured with small and large
designs, and although many of the
richest materials have sufficient body
''to stand alone" they are "braced
up" and out with tiny wires-mere
threads of metal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05

come forth again in the guise of the
twisted golden hairpins. 1t is the law
of compensation over again, and once
more the "Madouna bands" with
their tender ripple and discreet
draped effect. are responsible for it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05

lighthouse is the iron tower which is
built on dry foundation like that at
Cape Canaveral, Fla, 150 feet high.
Then there are the iron skeleton tow
ers which are used on land, and cost
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05

completed this pretty basque.
Let it be told in whispers-but
almost all the imported skirts have at
least two fin wire hoops in them, one
around, the edge and one between the
knee line and the bottom of the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05

Illinois has twenty-four colleges and
universities, with 270 instructors and
1000 students and 2200 in preparatory
departments.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05
Cab and Cycle Combined.

Several weeks ago the cycle han.
som made its appearance in London.
The occupant of the vehicle had the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-05

Professor Falb on Critical Days of 1895.
Professor Rudolf Falb, of Leipzig,
the discoverer of the "critical days."
in giving their number, order and
dates for 1896, in the columns of the
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-06-01
Mr.. Cleveland and the South.
Appeal valanche.

Appeal l-AValanche.
Abuses of Mr.. Cleveland in Southern
newspapers comes with very bad grace
from them. They may not like all
that Mr.. Cleveland has done, but they
should refrain from denunciation of
the only Democratic president the
country has had in "a years. Party
discipline cannot be maintained in
this way. Has he not acted kindly and
fairly toward the South? Is not our
minister to France Eustis, Of Louis
lana; oar minister to Peru Mckenzie,
of Kentucky our minister to Chile
Porter, of Tennessee, and minister to
Portugal Caruth, of Arkansas? Is not
the War Department presided over
by Herbert, Of Alabama? Is not
Smith. of Georgia, at the head of the
Interior Department? And we could
add to the list. When Senator re-
fused to permit the Senate to confirm
Wheeler or lIornblower, Of New York,
did not the President turn to Louis
lana and call White to the Supreme
bench? Why, then, should Southern
journals treat Mr.. Cleveland with
such scant respect? He deserves
better of them. He has no political
ambitions to be gratitied, he has
reached the summit. Yet he has re-
fused to listen to the abuse coming
from a quarter out of which only good
will for him should come and has pro-
ceeded to give his greatest favors to
the South. When he was elected by
Southern votes, every voter knew
what his policies would be. He has
always been open and frank. He has
has had no concealments of purpose.
lie has breathed no word of promise
to the ear, merely to break it to the
hope. lie has evaded nothing, shirked
nothing, lodged n0tnlng. Ills worn
has been "yea, yea, and nay, nay"
Sober discussion of his policies is well
enough, and earnest remonstrance is
we'll enough, but reckless denuncia-
tlon is altogether out of keeping with
the respect which should be shown
him by his party press. A president
who has shown the South as much
consideration as has Mr.. Cleveland
should find respect, at least among
Southern Democrats. lie will have
plenty of defenders Ia the. South be-
tween this date and next November
but those who will defend him shOult
be relieved of the necessity OF apollo
gizing for those who, claiming to b.
of the presidents party, have beef
throwing so much mud at him.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-06-01
The Art OF Forgetting.

Christian Helper.
Memory's studies are all the rage
nowadays. But every Christian ought
to drill himself in the art of forget
ting.
Forget evil imaginations.
Forget the faults of your friends.
Forget the slander you lave heard.
Forget the meanness of small souls.
Forget the MISUNDERSTANDING of
yesterday.
Forget the disagreeable whose talk
poured vinegar into your spirit.
Forget all malice and fault-finding,
all injuries, all hardness, all unloving
and distressful things.
Start out every day with a clean
sheet.
BE lovely, be loving. See how much
sunshine you can produce.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-06-01
Sec. Mississippi Press Association

A brother editor suggests the fol-
lowing questions for all persons seek
ing Congressional hOnors to answer,
viz:
What do you think of a bed bug as
a sleeping partner?
What number do you consider the
luckiest for a lottery ticket?
If you go home at night and forget
totake the baking powder and medium
sized lamp chimney, what do you
think of the prospect for harmony?
Do you consider it risky to open a
jack pot on a bob tailed flush, and
stand pat, or would you draw one
card?
Have you ever answered a green
goods circular?
Do you consider reading the tcsti-
mony in the Breckenridge case more
injurious than smoking cigarettes and
drinking 81 whiskey before breakfast
Is there any known substitute fol
chicken pie?
Do you take your eggs fried on ont
or both sides: and do you like you
steak rare or well done?
Which would you rather do, vot'
the Prohibition ticket or live will
your motherin-law?
Have you ever taken the kcele.
cure?
Do you believe the world is rount
or square?
Have you any relatives in Coxey'
army?
These are in perfect keeping wit
the "Catcchism" propounded by tn
late Democratic caucus to the cand
dates for U. S. Senator. Who wi
suggest a "Catechism' for the cand
dates for State and county Offices il
1896?
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-06-01
Chancery Court I'D Dist
" T. HOUSTON, CHANCELLOR.

W. L. liplsION, tHANCELLoR.
III the county of Pearl River on the first
Monday of January and July and continue
In the county of Marion, First District, on
,hr second Monday Of January and July and
continue six days. In the Second District.
on the third Monday OF January aud July
and continue six days.
in the county OF Hancock. on the fourth
Monday of January and July and continue
six days.
in The county OF Harrison. on the first
Monday of February and August ana con-
tinur sin days
In the county Of Jackson. on the second
Monday Of February and August and con-
tinue six days.
In the county Of Wayne on the second
Monday of June and December, six days.
In the county Of Jones. on the first Monday
of March and september and continue six
days,
In the county of Jasper on the second
Monday Of March and september and con-
tinue six days.
In The county of Perry. held in Augusta
the First District ON the third Monday of
March and september and continue six days.
In the town of llattieshurg. the Second Dis
trlct On the first Monday of June and De-
cemher and continue six days.
In the county OF Smith. on the fourth Mon
day Of Nlarch and September six days.
In the county of Greene. on Thursday af-
Ter the serond Monday Of April and Octo-
Der and continue three days.
In the county OF t0vingtOn. on the fourth
Monday in April and October and continue
sydays.
In the county OF Newton. on the first Mon
day of April and November and continue six
days.
In the county of La,iderdale. ON the first
Monday OF May and November and continue
twenty four days.
: in the county Of Clarke. on the third
Mo"day Of April and Novemberand continue
Nix days.