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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-11
CONTRASTS or SEWING WOMEN.

Advantages OF the Factory Girl In the
Country Over Her Sister In the City.
You may see in any one of perhaps a
hundred shops in this city colorless, sad
eyed, dinghy clad women bending over
sewing machines amid squalid sur
roundings, with no outlook save through
q window opening upon sordid street.
You may see in at least a score of coun-
try villages 30 miles from any great
city a crowd of neatly clad, happy look
ing girls and women busted with like
tasks, but amid clean and pleasant sur
roundings, with glimpses of smiling
landscape through every window.
The New York women, released from
their toll, hasten home to gloomy tene-
ment lodgings and unwholesome fare.
The village girls troop from the factory
to modest but clean and pleasant homes,
where food is fresh and abundant. The
New York sewing machine woman is
an insignificant unit in great com
munity. She feels daily the pressure OF
her fellows that are ready to take her
place and her earnings. She hears from
embittered men and women talk OF the
rights of labor and the greed of wealth.
She knows that her earnings would not
keep some of her rich sisters in cut flow"
ers. Whenever she stirs out of her own
dingy quarter, it is to see at every step
evidence of the luxury in which some
live and of the contrast between her
lot and theirs.
The village factory girl has hardly
heard that there is labor problem. Her
5000 or $3.50 a year, earned at the sewing
machine, clothes her well, procures for
her small luxuries and helps to keep the
family above want. She makes little
pleasure trips hither and yon when work
is slack and looks forward with conf
dence to marriage and home OF her
own, clean, sweet and comfortable. She
never sees among her fellow townsfolk
one who has any essential comfort that
she lacks, and nine women out Of ten
in the village have less to spend on
dress than she has. She never sees a
hungry or ragged person, unless it be
an occasional tramp, and she hardly
grasps the meaning Of what she now
and then hears about the lives of the
poor in great cities.
The New York slave to the sewing
machine lives half an hour from the
heart of the western world and may, If
she will, on any night see Broadway
and it's throngs by electric light. The
village factory girl believes that she
would be happy to give up all her COM
forts for the others privilege Of seeing
at will the splendors of the great city.
The New York sewing woman would
not, if she could, change places with
the village factory girl.-New York
Sun
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-11
Ono Spoon Enough.

A Boston man travelling through the
south was obliged to stop over in a
small town where there was but one
hotel, at which the accommodations
were hardly to be called elaborate. When
the colored waiter brought his dinner,
the Boston man found that he was to
have roast beef, stewed tomatoes, corn,
peas, potatoes and coffee, the vegetables
served in the usual stone china canoes.
Presently he said to the waiter, "Dick,
pass the spoons. The waiter rolled his
eyes in genuine amazement. "Spoons,
sah What yo' want with the spoons?
There's yo' spoon in yo' corn. San
Francisco Argonaut.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-11
"CharIie's Life.

Mother" said little Charlie, owl
Harnin says his mother writes bo ks
'Does she ?" said the mother, an
then she went on sewing ami forg
Charlie, who was trying TO staht +"
his head.
Mother" said Charlie presently,
ais it very hard to write n book 2"
II don't know, I AM sure" said
mother.
"lm going 10 write book" said
this small man in petlicoats.
Just then the door bell rang and
Charles moth er went to see q caller
When she came back her little boy was
sitting ON her footstool, busiiy writing
in handsome book, but as he wrote
with a slate peucil it didn't do the
book any harm.
Now, mother" said her little boy,
Pm douo with my book"
"No," said his mother, thinking q
little while, '"you are hot done. God
has given you book to wiite. hope
it j. u big, long one, lull of beautItul
Isturies."
What is the name Of my book ?" he
asked, coming close to her.
llS 10 Iou
can only write one page day, and you
aust be very careful not to make any
,ack marks lu it by dung ng ) Thing.
Wn-n You pout and cry, that smears
your page and when you help mother.
and keep bright lace, AMI don'tquar-
tei wIh ReddJ, tia makes nice, fair
page, with pretty pictures Oh it."
"And when will e done writing
that book ?" asked Charlie.
"When God says that your book is
long enough" answered mother, HE
will send an angel to shut its covers
and put clasp on it until the great
day when all our life book shall be
opened and read"
Charlie sal very quietly awhile, and
hen said, softly, dear little Lucy fin-
ished writing her book wieu they pat
ner in the white casket and laid tile
white roses over her."
EYES," said his mother, "her life
book was just little hymn of praise 10
God. Its pages were clean and white,
with no stains on them"
Charlie looked up, and saw two t. ar
drops fall ON mothers work, but they
we're bright tears, and bright smile
came with them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-11
Auple Marmalads.

Wash your apples, quarter them and
cut the cores out. Put on to cook with
water to cover them. Cook till soft,
and pour into cheese cloth bag. Let
drain through, but do not squeeze. To
every quart of juice use one pint of
yranulated sugar; boil Is minutes.
The pulp of the apples may be used
by pressing through seive. Add one
cup of sugar and the juice of one lemon
to each quart of pulp; if it is too thick
10 cook, add little water Boil for
30 minutes stirring constantly. Putin
small crooks or bowls.
Harness repairs promptly and cheaply at
c. P. Hammond & Co.
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An Ordinance d
To Raise Supplies for the City Of
Abbeville, S. c., for the Fis-
cal Year 1895 and 1896.

DE IT ORDAINED By THE MAYOR
and Aldermen Of the City OF Abbeville. :. o.,
in Council assembled and by authority OF the
same, That tax for the sums and In the
manner hereafter named shall be raised and
paid Into the treasury OF the CITY Council for
the uses and purposes thereof for the fiscal
year 1895 and 1896.
Section l. On every One Hundred Dollars
of the cash value of all real and personal e.
tate within the incorporation OF the City OF
Abbevlle, s. G., the sum Of Forty Cents.
Sec. 9. On each Billiard or Pool Table or
Ten Pin Alley kept for hire, the 81 m of Fif
teen Dollars; for each Table or Alley more
than one, kept by the same person, the sum
of Zen Dollars. If any person or persons are
found guilty of receiving pay or making n
charge for q game of Billiards, Pool, Bagatelle
or Ten Pin Alley, without having license
shall b. fined not exceeding the sum OF Fifty
Dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty
days.
Sec. 8. That all male persons between the
ages of sixteen and fifty years, except those
physically unable to earn support. are la
BILE to road duty and shall be required to Work
on the roads, sidewalks and streets within
the incorporation OF Abbeville, six da's by
the direction of the City Council. The COM
mutation for said road duty 10 be the sum OIL
Two and 50 100 Dollars to be paid at the time
or payment OF other taxes, 10 wit: on-or ne
n,re the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY. 1895.
All persons falling or refusing to work six
,ull days, to be accepted and approved by the
Council shall pay q fine not exceeding Twen'
ty-Five Dollars or be imprisoned not exceed
ing thirty days.
SEC. 4. That all itinerant auctioneers, ped
dlers, except vendors OF farm produce raised
In the county, Offering Mt retail any goods
whatsoever for sale. shall pay license of not
more than Twenty-Five Dollars nor less than
One Dollar per day.
Sec. ). That ull circuses or shows shall pay
a license fee in the discretion OF the City
Council for each and every exhibition, and
all other shows, including what are common
ly known as side shows, attached to circus,
shall pay license of not more than Fifty nor
less than Two Dollars for each exhibition.
Sec. g. On each dog the sum Of On Dollar
R. M. HILL, Mayor.
JAMES CHALMERS, Clerk.
Oct / 1895, If
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DICHA:tD CAN'T, ia now prepared to dc
II all work in his department In the best
manner and At reasonable charges. Monthly
customers shaving, hair cutting and sham.
pooling 81 per month. Rasors honed and put
d the beat condition for 25 cents each.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-11

We love music for the buried hopes,
the garnered memories, the tender feel
inss it can summon at touch.-L e.
JaudOn
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1 Cent to $1.25 Each.

of the doll
family have every description The smallest being worth
on1v cent and the largest 5 kind imaginable
doll there about
it, Just the thing chap with Bique and Wax Dolls In
profuson they beauties too Washable Dolls in abun
Crying dolls aredy dressed just ready
rough handling just think of it, Boy Dolls My
size of this and few larger ones
can make better showing
amount of toys for both boys
girls simply decb them will simply ask you
to zee them,a please you both in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-11
A Big Drained Major.

An amusing incident occurred while
a company Of a certain battalion sta
toned in one of our garrison towns were
going through their musketry training.
Owing to a strong wind blowing from
the right, the bullets kept falling to the
left of the target. An old major, who
was in charge at the ranges, came over
to the color sergeant and inquired the
cause of the bad shooting. On being
told that there was too much wind
blowing from the right, causing the
shots to fall wide, he astonished the
sergeant by asking, ''Wouldn't it be
good idea if the targets were moved
more to the left?'' The color sergeant
barely restrained smile.-London Tit
Bits.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-11

In Brazil there are said to be 800 Ian
guages and dialects spoken by the In
dians.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-11

Tutors of doubtful character and ir-
religious principles can never instruct
young people in the ways of godliness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-11

The most cultivated minds are usual
ly the most patient, most clear, most
nationally progressive, most studious Of
accuracy in details. james Martineau.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-11
TAX NOTICE :!

In ACCORDANCE WITH AN ACT TO
raise supplies for the fiscal year commencing
November /, 1894, notice is hereby given that
the office of Count, Treasurer OF Abbeville
County will be open for the collection of
taxes for said fiscal year from
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-11
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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-12-12
CREDIT TO KOEBELE.

Referring to notice in the
Times of the death Of Professor
Riley, the head of the Entomo!o-
gical Department of the United
States, the Auckland Herald COM
ments on this passage: Zone of
his most brilliant exploits was the
suppression of scale insect
which threatened to destroy the
orange groves of California; this
he did by introducing and accli'
matising from Australian insect
allied to the English ladybird--
which preyed upon the scale
insect" The Herald says it has
mo desire to detract from the
scientific fame of Professor Riley
who was perhaps the leading
specialist in his line in the world
But with regard to the suppression
of the scaleinsect lit goes on to say,
he had only an indirect connec-
ton, and, as the story is very
remarkable one, it is.told by the
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-12-12
BY AUTHORITY.
Regulations of the Board Of Health.

RELATING TO FISHING AND THE SALE oil
FISH IN THE CITY OF HONOLULU.
SECTION 1.-The taking Of scale fish or
any product of the sea or water from any
part, inlet or branch Of the Honolulu
harbor, or from any stream emptying into
said harbor to and within one hundred feet
beyond any point affected by the tides
towards the land from said harbor and
within line running from the point at
Iwilei near the Pork Packing Company's
slaughter house to the Office of the gu aran-
tine station, thence to the can buoy, and
from the can buoy to and along the western
wall of the coral enclosure for dredgngs at
Kakaako, is strictly prohibited.
SECTION 2-1he sale Of fish and of all
products of the sea is prohibited in the
city of Honolulu, excepting at the new
market building and such other places as
are specially permitted where fish and the
products Of the sea may be exposed for sale
under supervision of Inspectors appointed
by the Board OF Health.
SECTION 3 Such Inspectors shall have
power to seize, condemn and destroy any
fish or product of the sea exposed for sale,
or brought to the market, which they shall
have reason to believe was taken from the
locality prohibited by these regulations, or
which shall appear to be unfit for food.
SECTION 4-The Regulations of the Board
OF Health relating to the sale and taking of
fish dated November IL, 1895, are hereby
rescinded.
by order of the Board of Health.
J. +. WArERHOUSE,
President,
De mber IL, 1895. 1868
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-12-12
Notice to Tax Payers.
De mber IL, 1895.

Tax Payers of this District are hereby
notified that all Taxes ore now due and
payable at the Office of the Tax Assessor
and Collector, at the Government Building,
Honolulu.
The office will be open from 8 a. m.
until p. N. daily Sundays excepted), to
receive payment of such Taxes.
IAN Taxes which shall remain unpaid
after the 18th day OF December, (l0) ten per
cent shall be added to such Taxes by the
As .ssor, and shall be collected as purt OF
such Taxes"
WILLIAM H. WRIGHT,
Deputy Assessor, District Kona, Island
Of Oahu.
Approved
JONATHAN SHAW,
Assessor lst Division.
l75-3t
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-12-12
THURSDAY = DEC. ~, 1895
PACIFIC CABLE.

There is long leader in the
Auckland Herald on the subject
OF the proposed Canadian-Austra-
Ian cable. 1t is enthusiastic on
the subject, but will not have New
Zealand support a scheme that
does not include that country on
the main line. No mere branch
connection will suit New Zealand
The Herald discusses the relations
of the supporting governments to
the cable, being strongly in favor
Of joint state ownership. Money
for the work Co aid be obtained at
a lower rate of interest by the
governments than by IA private
corporation. There would not be
any danger, either, of the line fall
ing into the hands of the corpor-
alton owning the other cable from
Australia. Besids, the land lines
of telegraph in Australia being
owned by the governments, the
cable would be to them an extern
sion of their land systems. A
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-12-12
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE,
l75-3t

HONOLULU, Dec. ., 1893. J
y Ider Article IS, Section ! of the Consti-o
tuition, it is required that each member of tn
Cabinet shall make an annual report of the
transactions within his Department, during
the year ending December 3lst.
The Minister of Finance takes this occasion
to request all those having claims against the
Government of monetary nature, to present
them to this Office, through the proper De-
partments, not later than IL o'clock noon on
TUESDAY, January I4th, 1896, after which
date the books of this Department will be
closed.
All persons having moneys on account of
the Government are requested to make
their returns promptly, in order that there
may be no delay in closing the accounts
for the year ending December 3lst, 1895.
s. NJ. DAMON,
l73-l2t Minister of Finance.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-12-12

few years ago it was estimated
that the value of the Eastern
Extension Cable Company's lines
was SO 900, 900. One of the best
tenderers for what is called the
best route across the Pacific
Vancouver, Tanning, FIJI and
Norfolk Islands, branching to
New South Wales and Australia
offered to lay the cable and
keep it in working order for three
years for little over 81 500, 900.
Therefore, the Herald concludes
that, if the existing company
should take it hard that all gov
eminent business was taken away
from it, the governments might
take over the old lines and hold
both systems for little more
than $10,0O0,O00. This would
give the governments possession
of service of cables circling
the globe for sum till
recently estimated as required for
the Pacific cable alone.
Such opinions from leading
New Zealand paper are fresh
indication that spirit prevails in
the Colonies which will push the
cable through. Under govern
ment ownership, aud especially if
tho old lines be also secured, the
system will be beyond all possible
competition for business between
Australia and ali the Americas,
also for round the world business.
With such accumulation in pros
pect there is not much encour-
agement for any rival Pacific
cable scheme to start out with a
line from the Coast to Hawaii.
This country can get all the cable
communication it needs by q
branch line from Tanning Island.
There is possibility that the
United States will lay a national
line, primarily for naval purposes,
to Honolulu the same as Great
Britain has done to Bermuda.
Also, it may be that the United
States will join with Japan in
laying a trans-Pacific cable via
Honolulu. 1t is very improbable,
however, that the United States
will give any support to such a
scheme as that formulated with
unseemly haste by the Hawaiian
Legislature. If this government
had given an opportunity for com
petition in bestowing its cable
franchise, the country would stand
in a much more favorable position
for securing the boon, at an early
day, than it does under a mono
poly whereby our chances for
getting on a direct cable route
were recklessly thrown into the
hands of a single Spectator.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-12-12

| y
Purchasii-made its appearance
in Australia and New Zealand
about the same time. It was first
noticed by DR.. A. G. Purchas OF
Auckland. Mr.. Maskell of Christ
church determined the genus of
the insect, and named its species
after DR.. Purchas. 1t spread
rapidly about Auckland, doing
havoc among fruit trees. In
some way it was conveyed to Cali
fornia, and did great damage for
some years there, threatening to
ruin the fruit industry in which
many millions we're invested.
The Herald completes its story as
follows, giving credit to Professor
Koebele, the entomologist now in
the employ of the Hawaiian Gov
ernmert, for the discovery of the
antidote to the scale insect:
Professor Riley asked the United
States Government to allow him
to send an officer of his depart
ment to the Australian colonies
to see if any light could be OBJ
tanned on how to deal with it, but
the Government at Washington
declined to sanction the expense,
considering that there was little
chance of any benefit resulting.
The object was, however, attained
in another way. The Melbourne
international Exhibition was then
on, and Professor Riley managed
to get appointed, as one of the
United States representatives., Mr..
Albert Koebele, Young German,
who was one of the staff of the
chronological Department. In
the meantime, u mysterious
change had been occurring here.
The scale insect bad commenced
to disappear, although no one
could make out the cause. Mr..
Koebele landed in Auckland at
about ten o'clock one night from
the San Francisco steamer, and
came straight to the Herald Office
and informed the members Of the
editorial staff what was his mis-
SION to Australia. He was told
about the gradual and mysterious
decrease of the insect, and he
determined to stay over here, to
determine the cause Of the dimin-
ution Of the plague. In company
with Mr.. Cheeseman, T. l.. S.,
curator of the auckland Museum
he commenced next day his study
of the subject in the Cemetery
gully, which short time
before had been white with
the scale insect. Being a
trained entomologist, MIR. Koe-
belle knew how to 90 to work
and after careful examination and
study, he found that the Icerya
was being preyed upon by very
diminutive species of ladybird
called the Vedalia Cardinals. He
obtained a number of specimens
of this insect, and sent them to
California, where they have saved
millions worth of property. The
Vedalia is somewhat difficult to
preserve. 1t feeds on the Icerya
in all stages of its growth, from
the eggs onward, but when 1t
cannot get these it APP
parently dies for want of food.
Captain Broun, the New Zealand
entomologist, has always some on
hand in case of another outbreak
of the pest. 1t is now, however,
rare, although the writer noticed
some on a kowhai tree, at the
Lake few weeks ago. To Pro-
fessor Riley belongs the credit Of
sending a capable entomologist
to these colonies; but the chief
praise Is due TO Mr.. A. Koebele,
who detected how it was that the
lcerya was diminishing in the
Auckland district, and who set it
to work at it's benefcent mission
| in America
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-12-12

Late news has it that, in order
to mitigate the religious bigotry
of Russian officials, the Gar is
insisting that they shall cooper
ate in the education of the masses.