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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-02
FACTORY GIRLS REBEL.
They Had No Use for the Hygien-
ic Food offered Them.
Therefore the Firms Restaurant Went to
Pieces-But the Proprietors /Plucked
Victory Out of Defeat by Catering
to the Bicycle Mania.

When the managers of the Newark
On. j. thread mandatory started a
hygienic restaurant for the girls in their
employ they thought they were doing
q service, but their efforts were not APP
preciated. The restaurant has been
closed for lack of patronage. The menu
consisted of roast chicken, fried ditto,
pates of ditto and ditto hash; roast
beef, boiled beef, corned beef, any old
kind of beef; tomato soup, real butter
and delicious bread; wholesome pud-
dings and hygienic fixings and-nap-
kins. And all for Is cents.
When the threadmakers opened their
place and told the 600 and odd girls in
their mills that it was their very own
and that the best and wholesomestf food
to be had was theirs, too, at cost price,
every well-regulated philanthropist in
Newark said: well, those girls are in
luck" The restaurant and the food
were all they were cracked up
to be, and the threadmakers really
and truly gave the service at cost, or
perhaps even less, because, as they
figured, little philanthropy is a good
thing, and, besides, it was well enough
to keep the girls off the streets at the
noon hour and out of harms way.
1t worked like a charm for time.
and then the serpent entered this gusta-
torial Eden. A very pretty and at
tractive serpent is Name Ryan. Seven
teen years old, which is nice age in a
serpent-that is, girl. Black eyes and
hair and dream of nose. Name sat
down in the model restaurant one day
not long ago, and with her dream of a
nose slightly atilt, looked over the menu.
Then she laid the paper down and said
aloud:
"Girls, what d'youse say to pie?"
A gasp of delight ran down the table,
as it was borne in upon the girls souls
for the first time that in all that model
menu there was no mention of pie.
"And, say" the serpent went on.
whats the matter wit pickles?"
Another gasp. There were no pickles
in the menu, either.
Now, every thinking person not faint
ed by Emersonian thinking knows that
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-02
Electricity in Heather Temples.

The temples of India are to be lighted
with electricity, the example having
been set by the great shrine of silva, at
Kochicarrie, near Mutwall, in Ceylon,
and is to be followed by the equally
vast and ancient foundation of the Ma
tukotta, in the same island. In no long
time others will adopt the same i'm
provement, till all the holy places of the
peninsula are so equipped that by press
ing buttons they can be instantly illu-
minated, like modern hotel or theater.
The innovation is enough to make silva
and vishnu and even the great Brahma
himself gasp and stare.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-02
SALOON IN TWO COUNTRIES.
Ingenious Arrangement for the Thirsty
on the Mexican Border.


on the Mexican Border.
There is an ingenious saloonkeeper
who conducts place in little village
on the border between this country and
Mexico, says the Louisville Commercial
The village is half in California and
half in Lower California. There are
two bars in his saloon, one on the south
and one on the north side of a large
room. The dividing line between the
two countries bisects the house, and
one bar is located in Mexico and the
other is located in the United States.
The proprietor pays big license to both
countries, but still makes handsome
living out of the business. He has
suspended all the way across the street
in front unique sign. On the United
States side it reads, in letters a foot
high: "Your first and last chance"
On the other side, in Spanish, it eS-
presses the same idea.
The saloon is known by that name
for miles around, and many an eastern
tourist who has quenched his thirst
there will remember it. 1t is a great
resort for "cow punchers" of both ma
tions who work in that territory.
Hence many is the bloody fight that
takes place there, and few are the ones
brought to justice whose crimes are
committed there.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-02

pie is unhygienic food, and that pickles
are an abomination. These unwhole-
some delicacies had been purposely left
off the menu, because they were un-
wholesome and harmful to the growing
tum tums of thread mill girl opera
tives. But the gods" had scented the
fruit of the forbidden tree, and there
after there was no living with them.
Name Ryan became the center of q
storm of protest. She became the pie
queen. Under her corrupting influ-
ence the girls scorned such dainty fare
as chicken roast and broiled ditto and
ditto hash. They clamored for pie and
pickles, and would not be comforted
because they were not on the bill of
fare.
Of course, if you set up model
hygienic restaurant you have to be con-
sistent. The managers refused to place
pie upon their tables and turned down
pickles with emphasis. Then the real
trouble came. Outside the mills are
other restaurants, which are not mod
els, and whose owners souls are not
abONO PIC. lhcy SCU ShdACS III thC LC-
calcitrant mill girls and caught them.
Gradually by twos and threes and
dozens the girls strayed out of the Eden
at noon time, and abandoned them
selves to debauches in pie and pickles.
Pretty soon the model restaurant was
without that first requisite of all res
taurants-patronage. 1t languished
and died. The Clarks gave it up, and
the big, Light, CHEEKY room was empty.
1t is empty no longer The thread
men have plucked victory out Of de-
feat. When the failure of the res
taurant could no longer be blinked, the
proprietors tore a leaf from the book
of experience and determined that if
they couldn't make the girls like what
they didn't like they would let them
like what they did like. In word,
they set up a bicycle school in the
empty restaurant and invited the girls
to come. They came. Pie is an appe-
tite, but bicycles are passion. Every
girl operative in the mills owns BIZ
cycle. or aspires to own one. Thew all
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-02
SIAM SAPPHIRE MINES.
Value of Their Product Is In the Ouantit,
Not Quality.

Value of Their Product Is In the Qua ntity
Not Quality.
The Palm mines are spread over an
area six miles by two, and consist of 10
mining villages, the chief of which are
Baw Taxa and Baw Dineo. These two
are more than four miles apart, but
they are joined by an excellent road cut
through the forest and well drained.
Sapphires, says the London Times, are
found all over this district; the whole
countryside is riddled with holes sunk
in the red soil down to the sapphire
layer. Formerly the stones were found
quite near the surface, but those places
have long since been exhausted, al
though the Burmese still continue to
turn over the old heaps in the firm con-
viction that precious stones grow. Now
the stones are found at depth of from
Is to 25 feet, in reddish, grayelly layer
of varying thickness up to 1s inches.
The pit sunk is usually some five feet
in diameter and either square or cir
cular. Soil is raised in bamboo bask-
cts, attached to the end of balanced
lever, and when the sapphire layer is
reached the stratum is carried to the
nearest water and washed carefully for
stones. Not more than one shaft in
three pays for its working expenses, but
when the sapphire layer is struck the
profits may be large indeed. 1t is all
question of luck. To dig and work out
one shaft occupies two or three men
one month. Two or three Burmese gen.
orally go into partnership and hire
Laos miners to work for them and sink
the shaft at the rate of two ticals (two
shillings eight pence) per IS inches. Oc-
casionally sapphires of considerable
value reward the miner, but tho sap
phires of Palm are of more commercial
value because of their quantity than be-
cause of their intrinsic excellence.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-02
A NEW RECORD.
Deepest Spot In the Ocean Nearly Sir
Miles.

Deepest Spot In the Ocean Nearly Six
Miles.
For20years or more the deepests in
the ocean has been supposed to be to the
northeast of Japan, says the New York
Journal. There the bottom lies 1865
fathoms down, or more than five miles
beneath the surface of the waves.
In the latest photographers report of
admiralty surveys, made by the British
government, this ocean record, which
has stood so long, is beaten, for there is
official information of deeper sound
ing than has hitherto been made. The
deepest spot in the ocean, so far as
known at present, has been found to be
in the neighborhood of the Friendly and
Kermadee islands, in the Southern Pa
cific. Here the maximum depth is
The observation, made by the officers
on board the British ship Penguin, is all
the more interesting for the fact that it
bears out the result of previous re-
searches, showing curiously enough as
it does that the deepest parts of the sea
are not far from land.
Deep-sea sounding has come of late
years an exact science in itself. One cu-
rious feature of it, and one which is lit
tie known, is that the '1eads" used have
to be constructed with especial strength
in order to withstand the enormous
pressure of the mass of water which
bears down upon them when they lie
upon the bottom. So great is this pres
sure that the sounding apparatus in
ordinary use would be crushed.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-02
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
| & q. N. RAILROAD.

. NORTH BOUND.
Leave for Austin and the North go am
" F" $50 pm
ARRIVE FROM THE NORTH.
Arrive from Austin and North. $50 an
SOUTH BOUND,
Leave for Laredo and Mexico. .9.45 am.
ARRIVE FROM THE SOUTH.
Arrive from Laredo and Mexico 7.30 pm
M. K. & T.-FROM I. & G. N. DEPOT
TRAINS LEAVE DAILY.
Leave for Waco, ST. Louis ana
Kansas City ........ ........ $50 y. II
TRAINS ARRIVE DAILY.
Arrive from Waco, St. Louis
and Kansas City,. 49,. $50 q. m
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
EAST BOUND.
Leave for Houston, Galveston
and New Orleans. ........... 1l.20 am.
Leave for Houston, Galveston
and New Orleans. ............ 1000 .. m
ARRIVE FROM THE EAST.
Arrive from New Orleans, Gal
weston and Houston. 7.25 8. N.
Arrive from New Orleans, Gal
weston and Houston. ...... 4.25 D. m.
WEST BOUND.
Leave for Eagle Pass and Mex
ico.... ......... AS pm.
Leave for Ell Paso and San
francisco. ........ .g....... 7.5o am
ARRIVE FROM THE WEST,
Arrive from Mexico and Eagle
Pass. .................,...... IL. 90 am.
Arrive from San Francisco and
FL Paso ........... -. $50 pm.
s. A. & A. P. r. EMISSION ROUTE.
TRAINS LEAVE DAILY.
Leave for Cuero, Houston, GAL
weston and Waco. ............ 900 am
Leave for Beeville, Rockport
and Corpus Cristi.. .......... 2.25 PEI
TRAINS ARRIVE DAILY.
Arrive from Cuero, Houston,
Galveston and Waco. .... 05 pm
Arrive from Corpus Cristi, Bee
Vile and Rockport. 7.40 p n
LEAVE DAILY, EXCEPT SATURDAY
Leave Daily, except Saturday, for
Farrville, Boerne and Comfort 30 q. u
ARRIVES DAILY, EXCEPT SATURDAY..
Arrive from Kerrviile. .. 8 80 D. n,
LEAVE SATURDAY, ONLY.
Leave for nerrville ......... 200 D. 10
ARRIVE SATURDAY ONLY.
Arrive from Kerrville, Saturday, $40 p. n
S. A. q GULF SHoRER .R.
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Leave San Antonio.... 49,. 500 q. N
Arrive San Antonio..... -. LOO p. m
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-02
ARE YOU GOING

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A delightful mountain ride through In
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For the lowest rates and other informa-
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General Passenger Agent,
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-02

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-02

"patronize" the new school, ana in the
wholesome exercise awheel work of
some of the facilitating effects of the
ME
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-02
Read This Carefully.

At Bargsin: A stone and brick
house, Of seven rooms, bath, two
story barn, cow stable. chicken house
water works, lot 140xs0s feet; situated on
one Of the highest points around the city:
south exposure. Call and see JOHN T
HABIBLEToN & Co,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-01
TELEPHONES.
beviIle, Due West, IIOnea Path,
Anderson. GreenyiIIc.

Through the enterprise and public spirit OF
Mr.. &. 2. Hammond additional lines of tele-
phones are TO be built.
Abbevllle will be connected with Due West,
Donads and Honea Path. AT Honea Path
connection will be made with the telephone
line from that place to Anderson, Greenville,
and other places.
Mr.. Hammond is one of our most useful
citizens His energy and good judgment will
bring success 10 him. and business thrift to
the town.
encouragement from the people, and he will
own the old telephone line from Due West 10
Donalds. The line will be overhauled and
put in first class condition in every respect.
Mr.. Hammond will patronize home people,
and will give them contracts for furnishing
poles and for doing any work that may he
needed.
1t is contemplated to connect Abbeville
with Greenwood, and other points, as the bus.
inesS may warrant
The local telephone company are also most
enterprlsing. They have set up their poles,
and are putting up their instruments every
day. Mr.. w. NJ. Barnwel Is the manager, Mr.
Wyatt Aiken is president, and Mr.. b. ). Barn
well is secretary and treasurer.
Abbeville has new blood In her veins, "hu
the result Is being seen every d"y. -,
1t has been only year since D. [. Eiils an anu
Wyatt Aiken stirred up the town on tiie su y
ect of cotton mill. Quitea liberal STose, ,r 'p
ton was made at the time put rev II any VI
our citizens believed the mill woulc ever pe
in evidence For this reason many OF tnose
who subscribed did so from patrlollc motlVes.
But now the mill is assured ana NOBODY
doubts but that the investment VIII DE q most
profitable one. - - .
work and quietly organized the telephone
company. The success OF the enterprise is
certain.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-01
New lob Press.

Our new Babcock Pony Regular press was
brought to the office last Monday, and since
then it was set up. Everybody In the office
had more or less interest or curiosity in see
ing 1t 90 up. The press is for job work. 1t is
large enough to print sheet 2ox96-eigh'
pages of pamphlet.
AS a starter we printed the supplement on
it-one page at time-in order TO learn some
thing of it.
We haven't yet had much experience with
the press. but we believe the Babcock Pony is
admitted TO be one of the newest and best
machines that is made.
The purchase Of this new press was made
necessary on account Of the increasing busi'
ness of the office. The new press is TO In
crease our facilities for doing work, and moi
10 take the place of any press. We need all
that we had, besides the new press.
We would be pleased to have our friends
call and see our new press, and inspect our
plant. We are quite proud of the outfit, and
hope TO realize substantial good from the
liberal business which Is coming this way.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-01
THREE TIMES THREE.
Allotment of the Terms Of the School
Trustees.

Trustees.
Upon recommendation OF the citizens o
Abbeville the law in reference TO the Able
vile Graded school was amended by the Gen.
eral Assembly so as 10 require the Board 10
choose or draw by lot for terms OF the exist
ing Board, Intention being TO arrange the
terms OF the individuals so That three should
expire with each succeeding year.
The trustees met last Friday afternoon, apd
In obedience 10 the requirements OF that law
drew for terms, with result as follows, datng
from Januaryl, 1885,:
For Three Years-W. A. Lee, j. c. klugh, j.
For Two Years-F. B. Gary, J. t. Robertson
For One Year-R NJ. Haddon, j. G. Edwards,
w. A. Templeton.
The Trustees were elected upon the issue oi
building a new school house. On that ques-
tion the town was practically unanimous,
and as a consequence bonds to the amount OF
$1,000 were issued. With the money thus
raised they built perhaps the best shool house
in upper South Carolina. They built 1t with
great.care and, as far as consistent with CIV.
ing first class house, they made the least
possible expenditure Of money.
The town voted large tax levy wit
which TO pay the teachers. and when. the
building was finished competent corps OF
teachers were employed, the doors were
thrown open, and every child In town was In.
vited to come and secure, without.eXpenSe OF
tuition, the advantages OF one OF the best
schools that any community ever had.
The Trustees have served the public faith
fully and acceptably, and the school has given
great satisfaction II has been an institution
of which we have all been proud, and which
we think has had something to do in giving
impetors to the growth and prosperity OF the
town. Some $50 pupils are daily taught in
the various branches, while the precept and
example OF the teachers has had most
wholesome moral influence.
But we are naturally a restless people, and
inspired by the worthy ambition TO make
od, al q
disposition TO make still further changes, and
time alone will tell whether these changes
are progressive, or whether they will only al.
low the pendulum to spring backward.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-01
sunesday, April 1, 1896.
Courtesy.

There has beel some talk in the newspapers
about Congressional courtesy. The cause OF
the CRITICISM being, that McLaurin had sent
to the(Newberry Observer public document
-Nswberry being in Congressman Latimer's
District.
The Press and Bann er is not at all sensitive
on the subject of favors from Washington
but this newspaper appreciates them all the
same. We believe Congressman Latimer 10
be good friend to the Press and Banner. lie
has no right to be anything else. hut he has
sent very few documents this way. we
haven't asked for any, aud we presume that
Congressman Latimer has had no thought OF
sighting this office.
The Congressional Record. which furnishes
occasion for so many jokes among our eN-
changes, is a valuable document, and only
those who never read 1t, will likely sneer
at it, The best thought, the best English, anu
the best examples OF parliamentary usages Is
to be found in it, and no man can read 1t Win
out being benefited. 1t makes us tireu "
hear that old chestnut about wrapping paper
by men who do not know what they are
talking about. But we do not get the Recoro
since Wade Hampton went out OF the senate
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-01
Using the Church to Serve the Devil.

We see in the papers an Address to chris
tain voters" which is without signature, but
which, it is alleged, comes from so-ca.led
Gospel Temperance Union." the object of
which is to fight the Dispensary, under the
pretense of claiming to advance the interests
Of prohibition. We have heard OF no preacher
in Abbeville County who has gone into this
political move, which if successful, would re-
open the bars. It seems little less than sin
to use the name Gospel" to advance u cause
which would give the country free liquor.
These men, with their Trojan horse, will not
be able to get up good side-show.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-01
FIRE INSURANCE.
Good Laws Which Senator McCalla
Put Oh the Books.

Hon. I. H. McCalla was in town yesterday.
He is serving his constituents acceptably, in
that he has had some good laws put on the
statute books, namely: The fire insurance
law and the law as to aliens buying vast land
ed estates The insurance law has long been
needed. Despite threats to quit business In
this State, and notwithstanding the promise
to raise the insurance rates we notice tnat
they are still in business at the old stands.
Special spite seems to have been vent toward
country property owners In the sugSes-
tion that that business would be entirely dis
continued. but the country people still live.
And as far as Abbeville county Is concerned,
we have good home insurance at a much less
cost than that for which any OF the foreign
com pauies will assume the risk. The Farm
ers Mutual Fire Insurance Company will
make the people of Abbeyille county inde-
pendent of the spite OF foreign fire insurance
companies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-01
.sNewspaper Subscription Laws"

We are surprised to find as good paper as
the Associate Reformed Presbyterian publish
ing that fake about newspaper laws" and
the dreadful things that overtake delinquent
subscribers. We fully concur in any declara-
tion or statement that 1t is very urgly and
very mean thing not to pay for newspaper,
but the post office department has nothing at
all to do with it. That article is a fraud, pure
and simple. Our respected neighbor has been
taken in. The post Office authorities have con-
tradicted the whole thing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-01
37th Anniversary.

This being the 37th anniversary of the edi-
tor Of the Press and Banner as publisher OF
the same, it is deemed not improper 10 review
the past and TO recount some of the facts in
the life of one who has labored long in his
chosen profession. Those who care to see the
article In question can find it on another page
of the paper.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-01
W. JOEL SMITH & SON.

Soc Aug. w. Smiths line of lace curtains.
= For black cashmere and serges call on Aug.
w. Smith.
Towels! see our line, Aug. w. Smith.
Flour, the best at lowest prices. Aug.
Smith.
Sugar, II lbs. to the dollar. Aug. W. smith,
abs. tomatoes, 90 cents dozen. Aug. W.
Smith.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-01

Aug. w. Smiths "Dew Drop" flour is some
thing fine, and prices under anybody.
Save money and get the newest and most
stylish suit by buying yours OF Cohen.
A pretty line Of checked musins and naiu-
socks at Aug. w. Smiths, and cheaper than
you have ever seen them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-01

A nice lot Of fine sweet oranges just In.
Cucumber and chow chow pickles in bulk.
Condensed mince meat, jelly tablets, oil
favors.
Quaker oats. The best brand on the marker.
Graham waters l5c pound or Two pounds
for 2jc. AmoH d. "oi'e'