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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21

far was the docking Of the centre Sec
ton of the structure by utilizing the
p~ontoons at either end. The main
psnteon is no less than 51G feet over
all. each end pontoon being ITO feet
over all. The ends of the main pom
toon orerhang the smaller ones, each
of the latter having an outside indie
pendent side wall high enough to al
low it to be sunk and hauled under the
centre structure, literally fitting around
the centre on the sumo principal rs he
familiar collapse or telescope box.
In docking the cruiser the entire
structure WAS sunk TO the maximum
depth in one hour and thirty-stx min
utes, but pumped out in less than this
period, the exact time being one hour
and two minutes. Considering the size
of the Colorado and the magnitude OF
the work involved, the time required
was remarkably short, as only two
hours and sixteen minutes elapsed
from the time the ship was landed on
the blocks until the keel was raised
completely out of water.
The decision Of the board of super
vising engineers was that the dock
is of sufficient strength and capacity
to dock a ship of 10000 tons displace-
ment.
The arrangements for towing this
great structure are of no little interest,
on account Of the length Of the voyage
and the weight and dimensions Of the
dock. While the framework. plating
and machinery contained represent a
weight of nearly 1900 tons. its height
above the waller. its unwield.y proper
tons, as we'll rs draft, make it far
more difficult to low in a seaway than
an ordinary craft. The towing deet
selected to take the drydock to Manila
is composed Of tarne United States
golfers. The largest Of these is the
Glacier, a ship Of 700h toas iisp!ace-
ment and having engines of 1000 horse
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21
Hlack Bristle Brushes the Best.

There's a fve.million-dollar fortune
waiting for the man who can invent
an effective substitute for boar's brls'
ties" observed w. NJ. Hyland, a brush
salesman.
Some one is always trying to win
that fortune and always failing. AL
the best brushes in the world are
mad. from bristles that grow along the
spine of the Russian wild boar. Hair
and clothes brushes are made from
hair nearest the pelt, shaving brushes
from the hips and inferior qualities
from the middle sections.
People who want good hair brushes
should observe three things. First
buy the black hair brush. The white
haired variety is just black bleached
and injured by the bleaching. Second,
ask the dealer for brushes with 'pene-
tration' bristles; smoothed tops are in
effective. And, last, avoid silver back
brushes; they are always made to LOOK
pretty and sell. There is rarely a sill
yer back brush on the market to-day
made of first-class bristles. "-hansas
City Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21
Testimony From the Bench.

Judge McAuley, Of Kansas City. in
committing a plain drunk" gave ut
terance to the following:
If I only had my way, I would not
only close every saloon in the county
Sunday and week days, but I would
stop the sale Of Intoxicating liquor in
any shape or for any purpose what.
ever. I would make it a crime to man
pfacture the stuff. This may be far
reaching, but the sentiment is justified
by the sights and apprehension this
courtroom. Ninety-fve per cent. Of
the cases tried here are the direct re-
suits of whisky; the other five per
cent. includes morphine and cocaine
,fends and a few petty grievances that
come before me for adjustment"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21
Alcohol and the Hereros.

A correspondent of the Frankfort
News (G,rmany) who describes him
self as a resident in German South
west Africa for the past thirty years,
saws that in 1885 alcohol was hardly
known among the Hereros, of that
region. At that date every inch of ar
able ground in their territory was
either a wheat field or a garden, and
they were an industrious race. Now,
some ninety drinking shops are estab-
lished in the Herero territory. The
rarages Of alcohol among the people
are terrible, and their habits of indus
try have given place to idleness and
loniDg.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21
The Denial of Self.

Christ's call to His disciples Is this
IF any man will come after Me let
him deny himself, and take up his
cross and follow Me-" The Lord does
not invite US to a duty that He himself
has declined. 1t is not a coming to a
stationary example, but a following
after a fore-running example. This in.
vitation assumes a unique theory OF
life and one entirely contrary to the
popular theory of our own day, in that
it LAYS down the law of sclf-sacriice
for the attainment Of the highest anG
most satisfying good.-Lutheran World!
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III.
HARLEY HOUSE, CLEVELAND SQUARE.

HARLEY HOUSE, CLEVELAND SQUARE,
Two months later. At s O'Clock on
a cold spring evening the drawing room
OF Harley House, Cleveland Square, is
generally as full as you may find it all
thesyear round. 1t is a salon Of more
than common interest. To begin with,
there are no men in it. Male visitors
are not allowed to penetrate into The
drawing room Of Harley House. This
removes it at once from the common
drawing room Of society. Next, the Ia
dies who use this drawing room do not
appear in evening dress; most of them.
in fact, have only one dress, which
serves them for morning and evening,
summer and winter, until it falls to
pieces, and how it is replaced no mai
knoweth. Again, in other drawing
rooms there is idleness; but here, for
the most part, there is work of some
kind generally going on. And in other
drawing rooms there is light and airy
talk. all about nothing, with laughing,
singing, and little jokes such AS girls
love; but here the talk is subdued in
tone. sometimes discontented, some
times angry, sometimes ~exasperated.
If any laughs, it must be one of the
younger ladies newly Joined, and then
the rest all look up with establishment.
AS for a joke, no II ever made one
in Harley House. If it was made, it
would fall fiat.
Harley House is governed by a COM
mittee of six matrons Of proved virtue
and religion. 1t is a home for ladies
who have to work for their living; in
, other words, for ladies who have to
live cheaply. The founders recognized
the fact that a pound a week, taking
one week with another, is rather more
than most working ladies can ever ex-
pect to earn. They have therefore as
certained the very lowest charges for
lodging and meals on which the house
can be kept up, and they charge the
residents accordingly. Thus it has
been proved by experiment that a
young woman Of tolerably robust ap-
petite can be fed, not luXuriously, with
jam, cake. chocolate cream, ices and
cold chicken, but sufficiently, so as to
keep the machine in good working Or
der, for fifteen pence halfpenny a day
it is really fifteen pence, but the odd
halfpenny is added for luxury and the
putting on of fat. The committee of
Harley House therefore give the young
ladies breakfast for threepence, and
tea for the same; dinner is sevenpence
and supper is twopence h%alfpenny.
For three and siXpence a girl a have
a bed in a cubicle all to herself. In
other words, without counting dinner,
a meal which in hard times may be
neglected, q young lady can live in
Harley House for eight shillings and
twopence halfpenny a week; So that if
she is so lucky as to be making a whole
pound q week. there remain eleven
shillings and ninepence halfpenny. tc
spend. If you deduct Sevenpence a day
for dinner and e%ightpence for Sunday
there still remains seven shillings and
seyenpence halfpenny. The girl who
cannot make seven shillings and seven
pence halfpenny a week suffice iol
washing, dress, gloves, boots, amuse
ments, religion, charity, travelling, ON
aibuses. literature. music and recrea
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power. The Glacier will be assisted
by the Caesar, of 501G tons displace-
ment, having engines: Of 1900 horse
power, and the Brutus, of 5000 tons
and 1850 horsepower. Consequently,
the entire towing power will aggregate
nearly 5000 horsepower. The smaller
craft, however. will be used not only
for direct towing, but Tor steadyins
the dock in rough weather.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21

The practice of some nabus. the
products chiefly Of missionary COL
leges, to dress in English fashion was
denounced at a recent Calcutta meet
ing. The rajahs donned the dhoti n
chudder as a protest against young
Bengal doing himself up in coat and
trousers, double collars and loud-col'
ored Observation-Disclosures Pioneer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21
Country's History Forgotten,

1t is said that two Boston young
women recently went to Concord or
q sightseeing expedition. When they
were s:iowu Emerson's home it die
not impress them much, as neithe,
had heard of him. The Alcott houst
created more interest, however, as they
decided it was the home Of Chauncey
Olcott, the actor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21
New Jewels.

Every new experience is like a new
jewel set into our life. on which God
shines and makes interpretations and
revelations of Himself. And the man
who finds himself going out Of a dying
year with these jewels of experience
which have burned forth from his life
during its months, and knowing that
God in the new year will shine upon
them and reveal Himself by them, may
well go full of expectation, saying,
The Lord is at Land."!- Phillips
Brooks.
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From the Police Blotter.

OF 1920 persons arrested in New
York in the second quarter of 1903, in
toxication was charged against 691S,
intoxication and disorderly conduct
were jointly alleged against 2024, while
plain d%isorderly conduct was the COM
plant in 1O,93S cases. Every trade,
business and profession was represent
ed on the police station blotter. OF the
women arrested nearly half were mar
ried. but of the men only 974O were
married, while 22,961 were single.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21
Cause of IdleneRs. E..

There are 100000 unemployed men
in the United States! Why? Because
the United States spends at least
81, 600, COO, 900 per annum for ~intoXlcat-
ing drink. Cincinnati alone spends
SIS, O0O, 900. per annum for that alec.
holized water which the brewers call
"beer.'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21
Cent?. Nature in japan.

In Japan all animals seem to be tame
and approach man without fear; the
bees don't sting, the snakes preserve
their venom, the dogs bite not. 1t looks
as if the spirit of kindness and tolera-
ton which distinguishes the race has
been extended to the brute cSeation.-
North China Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21
4, Feet OF Wire in His Midst.

Seventeen feet Of silver wire was
used in an operation upon Louis
Thrymn, of Columbus. Ohio, who was
injured internally about the chest in
q street car accident. in an operation to
restore displaced organs in their prop
err positions, in Mount Carmel Hospi-
tai. -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21
The DaaneRt Hole.

The deepest hole in the earth ever
dug is the coal fields of Paruschowitz,
Upper Silesia. 1t extends to a depth
of 6570 feet. or almost a mile and D
quarter. $3.50
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21
Source of Many Diseases.

Attention of the National Plvn:o-
ton of Health Club is directed to the
fact that the liquor traffic is a prevail
ent source of disease.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21

Arsentina'S exports Of wheat for tn,
calendar year 1905 exceeded 10000,
OCO bushels.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21
The CAVlTE DRYD0CK.
BY DAY L WILEY.

ASoA HE tests Of the floating
Y drydock designed by the
) o United States Government
+ for service in the Philip
~a~ mines have proyed so sue
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21

A steel chimney 2G0 feet high was re.
Gently successfully completed in South
Wales. - '. .' "'''
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-09-06
FOREIGN NEWS

Cuban insurgents invade Havana
province and the members of the ma
tional assembly in the capital are to
meet to consider plans of coping with
uprisings.
Pope's attitude toward the French
law for the separation of church and
state causes confusion among the
clergy, making their task difficult, and
Plus will be in a predicament as the
result of his action, says ]. Cornely.
Revolution in Cuba exposes a reign
of graft, high officials growing rich
through frauds in the purchase of
stores and from commissions on wages.
French law for the six-day working
week meets great opposition from
both employers and employees, who see
ruinous effects to business from the
enforcement of the measure.
General and Mrs. Milo Splitter of
Toledo, while motoring in Germany,
are held up by the police and made to
pay fine, which they declare was I'M
merited, at the point of revolver.
British oarsmen are impressed by
the showing made by the Harvard
crew which is to meet the Cambridge
eight Saturday, and fear follows con-
fidence.
Aged Londoner creates excitement
by guessing almost the correct weight
and size of the cheese which figures
in daily contest at an ancient hos
telry. no
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do anything far reaching or sudden.

Bryan's advocacy of public owner
ship of railroads is not approved by
the staid leaders of the old "sane and
conservative" wing of the democratic
party in New York, who are said to
be casting about for candidate more
to their liking.
Additional securities to the amount
of 100000 given upon the enter
prises of Adolf Segal, the Philadelphia
promoter, are found in the vaults of
the wrecked Real Estate Trust com
pany. Directors are blamed for gross
neglect.
Mayor Becker of Milwaukee reached
New York in his automobile and was
invited to visit President Roosevelt at
Oyster Bay.
Bishop Charles c. McCabe of the
Methodist church in letter to Alton
B. Parker comes out in favor of the
administration tickets of the New
York Life and Mutual Life insurance
companies
Mrs. Elizabeth H. Dennis, who lost
100000 in Wall street speculation,
has been sent to the TOmbs for de-
frauding New York hotel out of
1913.
Complaint is made by the interna-
tional policyholders' committee to the
New York insurance superintendent
that the New York Life is violating
new law in the collection of proxies.
United States army transport Sher-
idan is wrecked near Honolulu and
may become a total loss. The pas
sengers and crew are unable to reach
the shore because of the heavy surf.
Edward Rosewater, publisher of the
Omaha Bee, and leader in Nebraska
politics and business, was found dead
in an Office of his newspaper building.
Illinois Equal Suffrage association
officials in Chicago secure expressions
of opinion from mayors and other
prominent men in states where women
now vote, and all give evidence of
satisfactory results and improved con-
ditions as result of giving the ballot
to women.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-09-06

Premier Stolypin seeks appointment
as dictator of Russia, but declares
himself as opposed to reaction.
Tangle in the affairs of the Real
Estate Trust company of Philadelphia
grows and efforts to obtain aid for
the institution fail. The receiver,
however, thinks business will be re-
sumed and that all trust funds are
intact.
Dangers to the rights of the individ-
ual in the increasing completely Of
social machinery are pointed out to
the American Bar association conven-
ton in st. Paul by President George
r. Peck
Draft of proposed uniform divorce
law is being revised by subcomnit-
tee in session in St. Paul for sub
mission to the divorce congress which
will meet in Philadelphia in Novem-
Der.
While his wife and his daughter,
whose death resulted from her un-
ceasing care in watching over her sick
mother, are being buried, the husband
and father, overcome by grief, falls
from the window of a house in New
York and is injured fatally.
Young girl, who came to this coun-
try few years ago, as a penniless
emigrant from Norway, and served
as housemaid, wins success on the
stage through her beauty and her en-
gagement to the son Of an English
lord is rumored
Representatives of the express COM
panies plead with the interstate COM
merce commission in Washington for
delay In the application of the rate
law, but are given little encourage
ment.
Milwaukee candidate for office be-
comes court ward and must conduct
his contest through a receiver.
West Shore and New York Central
railroads force a party of Missourians
on their way to the Bryan demonstra-
ton to remove the banners from the
sides of their special cars, holding
the party in Buffalo for four hours
Real Estate Trust company of Phil
adelphia fails for 100000 following
the mysterious death of it's president,
Frank K. Nipple, which is disclosed
as suicide Large loans on INSULT
Gent security cause the crash, which
ties up large sums of money of the
Presbyterian church, the city and the
state.
James F. Sloane, pioneer merchant
OF Spokane, is murdered by his young
son, who confesses that his only no
tive was robbery, request for mon
ey having been refused.
Bloody imprint of the hand of the
murderer of a New York woman,
which is, found on a pillow, may lead
to the capture of the slayer.
Grover Cleveland, as insurance ref
cree, rules that the three great life
insurance companies must cease re-
funding to British policyholders the
income taxes which they pay upon
money devoted to the payment of
premiums
Representative of railroads and
shippers meet with the interstate
commerce commission in Washington
to discuss the new rate law, and
while the railway officials say they
are ready to accept the measure, they
ask rulings on points to which they
object
Rumors that Mrs. Jacob Heyl, the
Schandein heiress, who has just ar
rived in Milwaukee from Germany, is
preparing to seek a divorce because
of revelations in the recent will case
are met with evasion by her attor
ney.
City ownership question in regard
to building lighting plant is puz
cling St. Louis officials. Projects are
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-09-06

WOOD, J. c., G. CO., successors to
Soukup & Wood. Expert cleaners
and dyers, 1920 N St., Lincoln, Neb.,
Phones: Auto 1892, Bell lat. Mail
order work carefully attended to.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-04-03
lardIy a Proftnble aeheme.

A Philadelphia paper prints what it
considers not onlya unique scheme but
one that promises pro6,a5lercturns.ont ON the
part of women club. n Huntington.
W Va TO raise q fund with which 10 erect
aclubhouse. From this Virginia women
organization was sent 70 every officer and
member of women organizations of any
importance in Philadelphia a request for
a contribution OF one cent towards the
erection Of a clubhouse for the Women
Literary Club Of Huntington.
The paper which prints this story re-
gard sthe scheme as a very promising one,
from the fact that there are at least
10000 club women in Philadelphia alone,
and therefore. il only half Of the club
women of the entire county, ON being APP
pealed TO, make favorable response by
sending one cent each, it "will not be long
before Huntington is ornamented with a
palatial clubhouse for It's literary women" "
But this is jumping az conclusion.
If one-half of the 10000 club women in
Philadelphia should each give one cent,
the total would be only SlOO To secure
fund Of $4,000, therefore, and it is not
conceivable that a "palatial clubhouse" "
even for a small town, could be con-
structed for applications would have
to be made to 100000 women. and the
average Of responses from one-half would
have 10 be maintained throughout
Then there is another consideration,
which knocks out the last vestige Of hope
for the success Of this scheme Appli-
cation 10 each club woman in the country
means an outlay for a one-cent stamp for
each mail letter, TO say nothing Of
the cost Of printing circulars and ofen-
velopes At this rate the Huntington club
would be expending at least 2I5 cents for
each cent expected In return and, on the
90 per cent basis, five cents for each cent
actually received The result Of this pro-
codure may easily be imagined Instead
Of securing a building fund, the club will
plunge itself over head and ears in debt
Evidently this Philadelphia paper has
failed to properly describe the clubhouse
fund scheme Of these Huntington club
women.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-04-03
PeopIe votlnr for senntor

Out in Illinois the Republican voters
are endeavoring to elect a United States
Senator to succeed Shelby Moore Culmm.
Senator Cullum will be ~ years old next
November, and has been in various kinds
OF Office almost continuously for fifty
yoars-member OF the Illinois Legisla-
ture, 30 which he was first elected in 1856
member OF Congress for three terms
governor Of Illinois for one term and part
Of another, and United States Senator
since December, 1888 when he gave up
the Office OF governor TO succeed Senator
David Davis His present term will ex-
pire March 4th, 1907 and, despite his
advanced age and his long tenure Of
public office, he desires to succeed himself.
Under the new system in Illinois, the
Republican voters, at this years pri-
maries, viii express, by ballot, their choice
for United States Senator. Last week
the Senator filed with tho Secretary Of
State his petition rs candidate. accom-
panied by a fee of 500, which insures
the printing Of his name on tho ballot in
every county Of the State. The petition
was signed by l2l l6i Republicans living
in every county except Cook county, which
comprises the city Of Chicago There tho
Senator did not have his petition circu-
lated.
The vote for President Roosevelt in
Illinois, at the election in 1904 was 632-
Gas. His vote in Cook county was
22o ,s4s, leaving 4l2,797 in the other
counties, through which Senator Cul-
lum's petition was circulated, receiving
l2i ,l6l signatures. II will thus be seen
that by the method Of petition alone Sena-
tor Cullum has already received the sup
port Of about 30 per cent of the Repub-
lican vote outside of Chicago, while il
cannot be doubled that he has followers
in that city, also. His prospects of victory
when it comes to straight voting at the
primaries. therefore, would seem to be
very bright
The Legislature, of course will elect
the Senator as usual. But a Republican
Legislature win honor the choice of the
Republican voters, as expressed at the
| primaries.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-04-03
Aneedotss Of marx Twain.

At dinner given by some local mercan-
tile or business organization Mr. Clemens
responded TO the toast of Hartford. ln
his speech he glorified the city as the ono
place in the world which provided for
every possible human need. He said that
Hartford wrote lifc-insurancc policies 20
protect men s lives. accident policies TO
protect their persons. and hre-insurance
policies to protect their future 10 made
guns and pistols with which to kin men.
but printed books TO tell them how 10
hive and Bibles to tell them how to die.
In short, il supplied all their needs. not
only here, but even hereafter
When Rev. DR. Smith. president OF
Trinity College, a warm personal friend
was hesitaiing rs TO accepting "a call To a
Western hishopric Mr.. Clemens wrote him
q letter OF dissuasion, closing by suggest
ing "a form of letter 10 send to the diocese
which he would guarantee would pre-
vent his being troubled with future
calls Of the same nature. This formula
was: Dear brethren of the Diocese of
. I have received your cail 90 Do
your bishop lu reply, / will say that /
would see you d--d first. Harpcr 5
Weekly.