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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
TIE VICE OF mi TEMPERANCE.

Startling Figures Regarding the
Growth Of the Liquor Traffic
and It's Vicious Results in the
of Wisconsin.
In a remarkable report just made
by State Commissioner of Labor, j..
D. Beck, of Wisconsin (part third
of the twelfth biennial report of the
department for 1905-1906) that off,
cial gives some startling figures re-
garding the growth of the liquor
traffic and it's vicious results in the
State made famous by the brewers.
1T is evident" he declares, that
the liquor traffic is about. as deeply
rooted and important business in
Wisconsin as it is elsewhere in the
United States"
The commissioner says that the
value of all property employed in
the liquor traffic, both owned and
rented, is about s33,500,000, of
which $4,000 is in real estate and
the remainder in fixtures and sun
dries. The total tax paid by the
liquor traffic in the State is about
$594,000. The total number Of per-
sons in the State dependent on the
liquor traffic for a livelihood is 6S,-
600. The total annual revenue from
the manufacture and traffic in alco-,
holic liquors in Wisconsin for Fed
eral, State and municipal govern
ments is about sS,3S4,786.
In connection with his report of
Wisconsin conditions, Commissioner
Beck epitomizes the official figures
he has secured regarding crime
from the whole country in the fol-
lowing figures:
I'm the United States out Of to-
tai Of $500 persons convicted Of
crime, who were interviewed in gath
ering these statistics, 24,457, or Sc
per cent, were addicted to the use
of liquor. OF this total number con-
victed of crime, less than 1 per cent.
used wine only, II per cent. malt
liquor only, per cent. distilled
liquor only, and 76 per cent. used
two or more kinds of liquor. Out
of 1886 cases of insanity examined,
GIL, or 81 per cent, were addicted
to the use of liquor, and one-half
this number is classed as excessive
drinkers, and over rs per cent. Of
the 1886 cases of insanity were
caused directly blythe use Of liquors.
Of the poverty which comes under
the observation C. charity orgsniza-
tions, rs per cent. is directly due to
the use of liquor.'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29
Crime Product of the Saloon.

Under the caption, Are We
Christian Nation?" a correspondent
In Blackford County shows the small
claim we have to such title when
we spend millions yearly in support
ing armies, building ships of war and
manufacturing ammunition, and al
low the saloon to exist everywhere,
making criminals and increasing the
poverty and wretchedness of the peo-
pie, protecting some 250,000 Of these
dens of iniquity under the Stars and
Stripes, etc. The article would sound
we'll as a temperance lecture, but is
too lengthy for our space. But one
item we quote, namely: Judge
Vaughan says, from his own personal
knowledge as Circuit Judge and pros
ecuting attorney for thirteen years,
that ninety per cent. of the criminal
cases that come before him are due
almost directly to the saloons" This
Is a terrible indictment against the
saloon, made by thoroughly compe-
tent witness, and ought to be
thoughtfully considered by all good
citizens.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29

inches of the first, and found it's way
into his lungs.
1t did not stop him, however. so all
1 could do was to bound to one side.
which 1 did with surprising activity,
and as he brushed past me fire the
other barrel into his side.
That did for him.
The bail passed in behind the Shout
der and right through his heart.
He fell over on to his side, gave one
most awful squeal-a dozen pigs could
not have made such noise-and
promptly died, keeping his wicked eyes
wide opsn all the time.
AS for me, blew my nose, and going
up to the rhinoceros, sat on his head,
and reflected that had had a capital
mornings shooting.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29
Temperance Notes.

Forty-seven of the great trunk rail-
roads now discriminate against drink
ing employees.
A Cleveland bank requires its en-
ployes 10 sign an agreement not to en-
ter any place where intoxicating
liquors are sold.
Governor Hanly. of Indiana. esti-
mates that it cost the State of Indiana
last year 100000 simply to pay the
turnkey and to supply the board Of
men in the county jails under the
charge Of intoXication.
Some people think that you can
improve an iniquity by washing it.
DR.. Herrick Johnson punctured this
sophism: Better saloons is better
badness, improved vice, a moral con-
tradiction.'
A Pittsburg brewery is making 4
campaign against the horrors OF tea
and coffee Both are said to contain
them and caffein. The brewery adj.
writer has worked himself INTO fren-
Nv in detailing the frightful results OF
them and caffein.
The working population of Glasgow
spends annually in drink. on al aver.
age, SIG, TGI, ,250, which is three times
as much as it pays for rent.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29
Field Gun to Kill Farmer.

An Algerian farmer defied the po-
lice and barricaded his farmyard.
Several rife volleys were fired at his
place in the hope of terrifying him.
As this apparently had no effect, O.
three-inch quick-iring field gun and
melinite shell were brought into use.
In all eighteen bombs were fired.
The first two flew wide, but the other
sixteen reduced all the farm build
ings to heaps of rubbish, under
which, when search was made, the
farmers body was found. He had
evidently been killed by rife bulle:
on the preceding day, so that all the
terrors of artillery and melinite had
been wasted on a corpse. 1t is per-
haps The first time that the police
have tried heavy artillery on one lone
mar,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29
What IT, Costs,

"Some one estimates that getting
born costs the people of the United
States s225,000,000 annually; get
ting married, s300,000,000 annual
ly; getting buried, 100000. Get
ting drunk costs the people Of the
United States $1,000, 100000 annual
ly, or more than getting born, mar
ried and buried put together. What
folly is this last expenditure, when
the drink thus bought handicaps the
children with a deadly heredity;
when the drink will make thousands
Of marriages end in divorce; when it
will bring at least tens of thousands
to premature death, as insurance
tables prove. DIR. and Mrs. Wilbur
F. Crafts, in the Christian Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29
Gun For Channel Swimmers.

Additional stimulus having been
given to swimmers who wish to cross
the Dover Straits by the offer of the
Alexander Channel Cup, valued at
$3.50, Burgess, Weidnlap, New.
Wolfe, w. ]. Jones and Hi 5 Keller
man have all begun practiciDg in the
neighborhood of Dover.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29
Make 1t Plain.

The past is written. the future is
beyond our control, but today is ours,
and is an opportunity to bestow a
gift which will be more welcome than
any whith money can purchase. There
should be 10 guesswork concerning
affection: make it plain," write 1t
large Silence is golden when it re-
presses bitter words or ignorant COM
ment but it sinks like lead into the
heart which has a right to expect
tender and ;rustful utterances.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29
Seek to Cure Deafness.

In London hospital :, wave siren IS
used to test what sounds deaf person
hears. When once it is discovered
that q certain note is not heard or only
heard indistinctly tuning fork OF TINS
note is selected, and an attempt is
made to stimulate the muscle and 10
arouse the nerve. If the tuning fork is
not sufficient, the sound is increased
by mems of resonator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29
Rabbits Killed by Thousands.

Myriads of rabbits are causing the
Southern Pacific Railway Company
trouble west of San Antonio. Texas.
1t is exceedingly dry in that region
and the rabbits are attracted to the
railway right of way in search of
food at night. The electric lights in
use on the engines seem to daze them
and they are run over and killed by
the thousands. In some instances so
many have been killed as to seriously
impede progress of the trains.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29

"Grass" widows means in reality
courtesy widow, from the French
word grace"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29

A small bag OF camphor gum kept
in q drawer or cupboard will drive
away red ants.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29

logical Museum Of Copenhagen, is
in Washington to study the fish in
the National Museum.
The trials of electric locomotives
within the Simplon tunnel have
given a speed of forty-three and
three-quarter miles an hour, which
would reduce the passage through
to about seventeen minutes.
cancer is likely to occur is practi-
,cally the same in both sees-forty-
siX-siXty-four-but the mean age of
incidence of the disease is $50
years in males and 49.9 years in fe-
males.
The latest theory about appendi-
.citis is that advanced by DR.. Alex
ander Schmidt, of Altoona. who be-
lieves it may be caused. by the min
ute metallic particles that get into
timed food when the can opener is
applied.
A writer in the American Ma
chinist stated recently that steam
pipe of six inches diameter was COW
cred with wooden box Of twelve
inches diameter which was filled with
a sawdust mortar, one barrel OF
lime in five of sawdust. Before COW
ering the pipe-nearly 700 feet in
length - 1t condensed 1440 pounds
of water hourly; after covering it
condensed 195 pounds hourly.
1t is at last definitely settled that
the six new battle ships decided upon
by the French Government to rival
the Dreadnought, are to have a per-
manent protection of a special kind
against torpedoes. M. Bertin, Chief
Construction Engineer to the French
Fleet, has made the announcement
to the Academy Of Sciences. The
protection is to consist Of internal
'armor-plating inside the vessel at a
certain depth below the waterline.
But nothing very heroic is claimed
for the system. The most expected
is that a battleship even badly hit
by torpedo can be kept afloat.
The diamond has IoW to yield its
place as the hardest substance
known. The title henceforth belongs
to the recently discovered metal
known as tantalum, which cuts it.
self but diamonds only wear out
their own edges against it. The ex-
pertinent was tried of working a
diamond drill continuously for sew
enty-two hours on a sheet Of pure
metallic tantalum one twenIy-ffth
of an inch thicii-hardly thicker,
therefore, than a sheet of substan-
tial note paper. The speed of the
drill maintained night and day was
5000 revolutions minute. At the
end of the test the sheet Of tanta-
lum, so far from being perforated,
was only slightly dentsd but the
diamond in the drill was worn to
q stub.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29

: The latest theory about appendi-
citis is that advanced by DR.. Alex
ander Schmidt, of Altoona. who be-
lieves it may be caused. by the min
ute metallic particles that get into
timed food when the can opener is
applied.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29

The Great Salt Lake. in Utah is now
crossed by a treste bridge over twenty
miles long.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29

FS.-F Motor Boats at Venice.
Motor boats are taking the place
of gondolas for excursions at Venice.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29

The range of years over which
cancer is likely to occur is practi-
,cally the same in both sees-forty-
six-siXty-four-but the mean age of
incidence Of the disease is $50
years in males and 49.9 years in fe-
males.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29

The trials of electric locomotives
within the Simplon tunnel have
igiven speed of forty-three and
:three-quarter miles an hour, (which
would reduce the passage through
to about seventeen minutes
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-08-29
IP6pdldr drSoi5qoe

Dr.. TIL. Mortensen, of the Zoo
logical Museum of Copenhagen, is
in Washington to study the iish in
the National Museum.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-23

signs her name except to il1s..:. ties
and in other ways seeks to have the
Lily dropped In billing the announce
ment of her appearance last week the
management spread the name Mrs
Lily Langtry'' across the three-sheet
posters in flaming letters. AS soon as
she arrived in town she asked that the
Lily" be omitted, so the management
sent around the billposters again and
they oblterated the Objectionable
name. The bills patched with white
slips can be seen all over town. Her
object for dropping the Lily is not
known.
Likes English Servants
Il see you're still here" said the
hungry man who had dropped into
once favorite restaurant he had not
visited in weeks and was glad to find
the same cd waiter on duty. "Yes.
sir" replied the waiter "the house
hasn't burned down get" That's
what l like about English servants"
said the patron, after the waiter had
taken his order; they're always
around when you want them, and yet
are never obtrusive. But unfortunately
the English waiter is mighty scarce
article in New York, The French,
Italians and Greeks are monopoizng
our restaurants these days"
Changing Women's Dress
Many sins have been placed upon
that scapegoat, automobiling For
one thing, it is revolutionizing women's
dress-though it is not sure that should
be called sin. Time was when
woman would no more dream of travel
ing by train or trolley in light attire
than she would of putting on a ball
gown to play tennis But recently
women, getting ready to dash into
town In their gasoline chariots, have
taken to the donning of f1imsy white
dresses, suitable for luncheon in a
restaurant. Yes, some have put on
dinner gowns. with soft light wraps
to protect them from the dust Conse-
quently, women who must take trains
but who hope to keep with the fash
ionable procession in attire at least,
come into town in butterfly garb in
stead of the sensible" travelling suit.
5. THE GOTEIAMITE.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-23
SCHOOLS ARE NOT SANITARY
Health Officer Will Make Report on
Them to the Board at Next
Meeting

Again DR.. Powers, city health officer.
has called attention to the lack of
sanitary conditions in the city schools.
Last year DR.. Powers told the board of
health that the city schools were not
properly heated or equipped with sani-
tary conveniences. His report was
sent to the board of education.
At the next meeting of the board of
health DR.. Powers will present another
report, in which he will show that the
schools are in but little better condition
than they were when he called atten-
tion to them last year.
The board of education admits that
many places it is compelled to use for
the education of children are not all
they should be in regard to sanitary
conditions, but gives as an excuse that
the great influx of school children into
Los Angeles makes it impossible for the
educational department to keep pace
with it. Many pupils are taught in
vacant store buildings and other places
that were never intended for school
houses and are totally unfit for such
purposes.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-23
THE CLAD HAND
IS GIVEN LAMB
MINISTERIAL UNION STANDS
BY CANDIDATE
Old ''War Horses" Formally Admitted
to Organization After Years of
Attendanee-Rev. Mr..
HeaIy Speaks

At the meeting of the Los Angeles
Ministerial Union yesterday morning
DR.. w. A. Lamb came in for his share
of recognition as candidate for super.
visor in the Third district, and he re-
ceived 1t by the unanimous action of the
ministerial body.
DR.. Lamb made short but pointed
speech condemning the Ascot mark
gambling and upholding the PRINCIPLES
of Legitimate taxation of the ,uthern
Pacific railroad and the general re-
demptton of the city and country.
The meeting was well represented by
the different denominations to con-
duct the deliberations.
w. S. Gates, secretary of the state
board of charities was selected to ad i.
dress the union at the meeting In No
vember.
An amusing incident occurred when it
was announced that Rev. G.. Z. Foster
and Rev. B. c. Corey, Methodist war
horses" who had attended the meet
ings since the inception several years
ago, had never been formally recog
nized as members of the union. They
were forthwith rushed through the
formality of fullfledged membership
Rev. e. A. Healy. pastor of the Uni
versity Methodist church, gave an
interesting account of his recent
European trip.
The speaker illustrated the pecu
liarities OF the trip IS he saw them i'm
the light of his observation, faith and
imagination, which he emphasized as
very essential characteristics for a trip
or that nature.
He referred to his visit to the house
OF commons, about which he said of
the members:
They wear ponderous, silly silk hats
and hesitate and repeat much in their
remarks"
Rev. Mr.. Healy gave a graphic de-
scription of his trip through England.
Ireland, Italy and other countries.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, Rev. A. S.
Phelps; first vice president, Rev. w.
w. Logan; second vice president, Rev.
A. c. Smither; third vice president Rev.
z. A. Healy; secretary and treasurer,
Rev. D. L. jenkins.
Committees were named as follows:
Temperance-Rev. A. c.. Fessenden.
Rev E. S. Chapman, Rev. George
Foster, Rev. John C. Hay, Dr. S. A.
Northrop, Rev. George S. Clark Rev.
Frank Miller.
On credentials-Rev. H. J. Weaver.
Rev. S. T. Montgomery, DIR. Warren F.
Day, Rev. Will A. Knighten, Rev. n.
L. Rowell.
Ransom home-Rev. C. r. Pattee,
Rev. C. A. Junkin, Rev. Thomas j.
Hendry, Rev. F. G. Cressey.
Executive committe-Officers of the
association (ex-offcio), Rev. A. b.
Prichard, DR.. B. F. Boiler.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-23
WILL ACT WITH COMMISSION
City Attorney to Assist in Framing
Ordinances to Prevent Street
Car Accidents

The city attorney was yesterday in
structed by the council to co-opera te
with the accident commission in franz
ing ordinances to be passed, that it is
believed will reduce street car acci-
dents to a minimum. This action was
taken at the request of Bert Estes
Howard, a member of the commission.
This commission is composed of seven
members of the chamber of COM
merce, the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' association and the Munich
pal league and recently made a vo-
luminous and detailed report wherein
it suggested many preventive precau-
tions. Among these were appeals to
the street car companies themselves,
and nine ordinances to be passed by
the city council,
1t is these nine ordinances which the
commission, with the help of the city
attorney, will frame and present to
the council for adoption.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-23
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-23
TUNNELS ASSURED
ON HILL Street
LOS ANGELES-PACIFlC M0DI.
FlES ITS DEMANDS
VIII Accept RAILWAY" Franchise In.
stead Of Railroad and Pay
Halt the Cost Of the
Big Bore

After many weary months Of waiting,
the two tunnels on Hill street, from
First to Temple. and Temple to Sun
set boulevard are now almost an as
sured fact The Los Angeles-Pacitic
railway has modified its demand for a
railroad" franchise and yesterday
through Lawrence Holmes, presented an
ordinance for a railway franchise.
The ordinance was sent by the coun-
Gil to the city attorney for report as
to form.
The franchise asked for is for a
double track through the proposed tun-
mel on Hill street, between First and
Temple. The second tunnel, from Tenn
pie to Sunset boulevard will be con-
structed on private right-of-way
owned by the Los Angeles-Pacitic, and
for constructing this tunnel the rail-
way asks a perpetual right to own ana
maintain 1t.
II agrees to keep the second tunnel
i'm first class condition and offers the
public an opportunity to pay half the
cost and use half the tunnel. If the
property owners do not consent to pay
half the cost of the tunnel from Temple
to Sunset boulevard, it will be used
exclusively by the railway.
The railway, rowever has agreed
to pay half the cost of the tunnel be-
tween First and Temple streets, after
the $4,000 which the city is to pay out
OF the public treasury has been de-
Quoted. The property owners will pay
the other half.
Tunnel Widest in the World
If the plans and specification for
the Hill street tunnel prepared by For
mer City Engineer Harry Stafford be-
fore his death, are carried out the
bore will be So feet wide and the wides;
tunnel in the world. All the property
owners are in favor of the wide tunnel.
In this tunnel the street railway will
operate double tracks and the rest of
it will be used for pedestrians and
teaming traffic. 1t will open a great
section to the northwest that is now
not easily accessible.
The delay in proceedings for the tun-
mel, which was proposed several
months ago, has been due to the de-
mands of the street railway company.
The Los Angeles-Pacific has maintained
that it should be granted a railroad"
franchise and every ordinance intro
duced heretofore has provided for such
a franchise. This has been opposed by
the council, however, as the leading
members have declared they will never
grant a railroad franchise to another
street railway. A railroad franchise
is practically perpetual while a rail
way franchise is now limited to q
years. A railroad franchise permits
of the carrying of freight, while under
the present terms of the franchise a
railway is forbidden this right.