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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14
Dentists Believe They Have a Kick

bill, either. Say. this new tangled
hair style is putting me to the bad.
The worst # ATTIRE of the whole
thing is that the heads, or rather the
hair, won't fit into the headrests. I
have tried all manner of schemes, and
even had a new headrest built along
lines that was sure would fit but
the heads simply won't fit into any
thing.
IF we do succeed in getting the
mass laid out and tucked away care.
fully where it won't bother us. we get
something like this:
"'Oh, mercy, doctor, you are muss.
ing my hair all up. And | am going
to a party this afternoon, too
But the most usual thing is: oh,
doctor, there is a hairpin sticking in
my head Wait 4 minute. 0, dear, it's
coming down Doctor. Go stop a min.
ute while ! fasten up my Braid
81 do tel! you what. the dentists
ought to get together and Boycott the
present sty.c Of hairdress. or else in.
sist that all extra hair be taken off
before any denta! work will b. done.
That would settle it. all right"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

Anew ORLEANS.-More than 1,0Oo,-
~ 900 acres of marsh land lying with
in so miles of New Orleans are to be
drained, reclaimed and transformed
from a wilderness into gardens, homes,
Lamlets and towns. The work Of re-
claiming some so, acres within the
corporate limits Of New Orleans Is
now well under way, while contracts
have been let for the reclamation Of
fully 100, 900 acres additional in ad-
joining parishes.
This nean that within two years
the alligator will no longer find abort
ginal %harborage in the Carnival city,
that the breeding grounds of countless
billions of mosquitoes will be turned
into highly productive farms on which
mosquitoes cannot breed. that hun
dreds of miles of paved roadways will
lead from New Orleans north, east and
west, and that for the first time in its
history New Orleans will possess sub
urbs.
To the westward the same character
of work is being done. and prepara-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14
Tho Superior Sex.

There Is a lot of vainglorious e1-.
preston on the part Of the men about
their being the superior sex. We hear;
too much Of mans endurance, Of, his:
intellect, of his executive ability and;
all that sort Of thing.
Take a mar and make him wear a:
spotted veil and he will be nearly,
blind within a year. A woman wears,
one and retains her eyesight. a..
Pinch a mar into corsets and within
a week he will have heart trouble,
chronic pleurisy, acute indigestion, sp-
pendicitis and a funeral. .
Pile tNfew pounds of false hair on.
q mans head and he will succumb to;
b.ain fever within a month.
Tie a mans ankles in a hopple skirt.
and he will have rheumatism, followed,
by paralysis Of the legs from lack Of
exercise.
Pinch a mans feet in tight shoes
and make him toddle about on high
heels and he will die OF charleyhorse.
Man loses on the score Of endurance
alone. Intellect and executive ability
are argued by the capacity to combat
these tortures and trials. Man Is un-
doubtedly the inferior sex and should
retire to the last row of seats and be
quiet.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14
Curious Street Names.

The list of curious street names Is
irexhaustible. Bermondsey possesses
a Pickle Herring street. Near Gray's
Inn there is to be found a Cold Bath
Square. Most Of the Nightingale
lanes and Love lanes are hidden iron
ically enough, in the slums Of the
East End.
But for really bizarre street names
one should go 70 Brussels. The Snort
street of the Long Chariot, the Street
of the Red Haired Woman and the
Street of Sorrows are remarkable
enough to catch the least observant
eye. The Street Of the One Person
is, as one might guess, considerably
narrower than Whitehall. But the
cream of Brussels street names surely
belongs to the Street of the Tn
cracked Silver Cocoanut. This in the
original appears as on p~onderous
thirty-six letter word.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

AIEW YORK.-The whole United
~ States government, with its vast
treasury of wealth, it's brainy states
men and Insurgents. its army and
navy, its immense horde of high
brows, against the poor little house
fly! That's the lineup in a bitter war
of determination scheduled to set the
nation by the ears and enlist the cour-
ageous support of every man. woman
and child in this broad land. The
final knell of the house fly has been
sounded and the battle has just be-
gun. Catch EN- and kill EN-; show
no quarter"-that is the war cry of the
army of determination that is to put
forth every effort to rid the land of
the Musca Domestica, the polite name
by which the Mouse fly should be adj
dressed by strangers.
Until the scientists got busy with
their Investigations, the house fly was
considered merely as a pestiferous in
sect, designed by the Creator of all
things merely to take its bath in the
sweet cream and maple strip, annoy
the late morning sleeper, skate about
with abandon on the polished surface
of shiny %baldheads and practise the
Morse telegraph code on the cleanest
of windows.
Long suffering housewives since
time began were the only really active
enemies Of the seemingly Insignificant
little fly, and they alone and unaided
applied the i~mprecations and dish
cloths vigorously against the nuisance.
But after the scientists got onto the
job the fight against the insect began
to assume proportions Of magnitude.
That little insect which the average
citizen Vas wont to regard merely as
q domestic pest is now branded as the
most dangerous creature or earth. The
house fly has been publicly indicted as
a murderer of the human race, the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

M Odd News From Big Cities
NN1 Stories of Strange Happenings in the
NIL Metropolitan Towns NJ
Uncle Sam Asks All to Swat the Fly

| greatest disease propagation and the
carrier # more menacing and malig.
nant germs than all other creatures
put together.
This little, but potent. messenger of
death wanders from the sick room,
from the filth of the garbage pail,
from the heaps of refuse Of all kinds
into the peaceful, happq homes of our
land, walks upon the butter. the meat,
the fruit, the sugar, takes a bath In
the milk, leaving everywhere the
germs of disease that have gathered
upon its furry feet and body.
In experiments conducted by the
New York health authorities the scien-
lists found on the body Of a single lit
tie fly 1,222,570 different bacteria,
enough to kill a few thousand human
beings. In another experiment a fly
was caught in a sterilized net and
dropped into a bottle of sterilized wa
ter. The bottle was shaken and the
germs washed off the insects body, as
would be the case if the fly dropped
into a glass of milk for the baby. The
previously pure water was then exam
ined and it was discovered that the
fy's bath contained nc less thar 6,OOO,-
900 disease germs.
About half the deaths from typhoid
In New York. according to the health
authorities, are attributed directly to
the distribution of germs by house
flies. And worse than that, the figures
show that of 1000 deaths Of cooling
babies in tina. city from infant1le dis
eases, more than 5000 were traced to
infection carried by house flies.
According to a noted scientist the
determination of the pest is compare
lively easy. All that is necessary, he
says, is a systematic effort on the part
OF the public. II all the people Will
practise the utmost cleanliness, 1t Is
declared, the house fly will be extinct
in this country within a few years, for
the house fly cannot exist without
filth.
Cleanliness" then, is the watchWord
for the American public to put all end
to an insect that Is not only a terrible
nuisance, but a terrible instrument of
death to thousands of u population
every year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

The report from Pisa that royal en-
gfneers state that the inclination OF
the leaning tower at that place has in
creased eight inches and that the
structure is likely to collapse will tend
to further increase the number OF
those who believe that the tower was
never intended to be a freak Of ma
sonry, but that it became a wonder by
the yielding of its foundation on one
side. AS a drawing card" for tour
lists the famous leaning tower has had
value in addition to the historic con
siderations, and If 1t should fall there
would doubtless be a demand for its
reconstruction. A modern builder
could give Pisa a leaning tower OF
greater inclination by using an an
chored steel skeleton and clothing II
with well fastened eneer
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

HHICAGO.-"Well, don't know what
- under the shining forceps | am 60
ing to do, anyway" and a dentist in
the Masonic temple sighed a perfect
mammoth of a sigh.
The matter? Hair. just plain hair.
No-not plain. either. Now, for in
stance. A lady came up to my office
the other day and wanted her teeth
fixed, and finally | took hold of the
top of her head with II hand. while
| worked with the other. Then |
turned away to get an instrument,
and my sleeve button caught in her
hair and the whole back Of it. about
| fifteen fat, shiny curls, came along
with me. She simply froze me up.
! and she didn't come back to pay her
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

VIZ ASHINGTON.-T have often heard
w a question as to whether West
Pointers wore corsets. 1t is absurd IN
a way, because should any effeminate
youngster resort to such a thing it
would be impossible to keep the affair
a secret, and once known his school
life would become a burden to him on
account of the endless amount of criti-
cism he would receive from his fell
lows. He would be made the laugh
ing-stock of the school and would soon
find himself the possessor Of any num-
Der of effeminate nicknames that
would crate upon his ears in any but
a pleasant manner.
ut is true" continued the old SOL
der, who was no other than Col. K.
B. Collins, a retired army officer, In a
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

A speaker at a meeting Of a medical
society in New Jersey declared that
some of the greatest surgeons living
had left sponges, forceps and other in
struments in the abdominal cavities
Of persons operated upon, and that the
practise was "inexcusable." This
makes cheerful reading for the lay
public, especially that portion of it that
has hospital experience in prospect;
but the statement of the existence Of
this practise is also puzzling from the
fact that 1t must be a more or less ex
pensive practise to the surgeons them
selves to be so careless about losing
good instruments.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14
The AbbeYiue Press and Banner.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
At
ABBEVILLE, S. G.
STEEL TRUST AS CAT BUYER.

A rat got tangled up in n OF the
dynamos which supply power for the
great blast furnace mill Of the united
State Steel corporation at Gary, Ind
says Louisville Courier-Journal. 1t re-
quired several hours to separate the
rats remains from the dynamo and IN
the meantime the corporation was los
ing money at the rate OF a thousand
dollars a minute Now the steel trust
Is advertising for cats. Advertisements
have been inserted in the Gary news
papers, offering so cents apiece, with
no limitations as to age, sex, slze'
pedigree or character. Fifty cents a
head is a good price for cats and the
officials of the steel trust are likely 10
have to contend with an embarrass-
ment Of offerings. When the news per-
colates to all the cities and small
towns of Indiana there will be a rush
OF feline shipments to Gary and the
steel trust will find itself with a sur
plus Of cats scarcely less troublesome
than the overplus of rats with which 1t
has been contending heretofore. Hun
hreds of Indiana families will willingly
part with all their feline possessions
at a compensation of so cents per cat.
Some thousands Of small boys will ex-
plore the alleys and woodsheds until
the last backyard fence Is denuded.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14
The Course Of Culture.

And so your race is gradually be-
coming civilized" says the tourist to
the chieftain of the savage tribe on
the remote and almost inaccessible
island.
, The chieftain proudly twines a pair
Of ~suspeIders about his high silk hat,
and replies:
Indeed, yes. There Gems to be no
cessation Of the wave OF culture that
struck our isle about two years ago.
Why, now we even call our tomtoms
Thomas-Thomases."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14
4 Food BOYCOTT.

In 1886, time of Edward ILL.,, Par
Lament enacted a food boycott. No
man, noble or peasant, was allowed
to have more than two courses at a
meal or elsewhere, and leach mess of
two sorts OF victuals at the utmost,
be it flesh or fish, with the common
sorts Of pottage, without sauce or any
other sort Of victuals." Any one, how
ever, could substitute a sauce for a
mess. but it must not have in it more
than two sorts OF fish or flesh.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14
At Palm Beach.

1T must be quite a disappointment
to you to be away down here and
unable to do any shopping for winter
hats and dresses"
"Oh, I did all that before I came;
and when we reached here I had the
added pleasure of hunting for warm
weather garh."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

"a Michigan farmer claims to have m
creased the output of his dairy by having
musical selections rendered during the
milking hour.) o.
Where are you going. my pretty maidF'
I'm going milking, SIR she said.
Where Is your bucket, my pretty maid?'
IT carry a music ROLL she said. r
THE bucket Is hung on the dairy wallN
Just back Of the Grabbed old short horns
STALL" 20
'I'u carry your stool for you. my pretty
maid"
II sit on'a music stool" she said.
II sit on q music stool and play
While gaily the mixers milk away.
II open the hour with a fugue by Lizt,
Then play an etude II the cows insist, :.
But nothing from Wagner nor all his
fix ..
Their thunderous music would sour the:
milk. ::
""When Molly. the Jersey. is MIXED with;
pride 81,
il always play Down by the ~Jerseyside.':
When common old farm cows are MIXED.
you see. ::
! play them a rube song-all-durn-ee. {.
Don't faint. and don't flee. for'1'l tell no.
more :
or the tunes that I play on the dairy
floor,
Save that when the cows to the pasture;
stray .
I try Over the Hills n Far Away"
..:
"And whyt do you play when the milk
is ~shipped?"
"'Rippling Waters!." Then on sne
tripped. =.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14
A Bern Dip!o

willie" said Hv"gy Higgins, ten
me how il is dat you always manages
to git de tendcrest pieces G turkey an
de ~iuicias' pieces @ Die VIXEN You
tackle de danes ut de beck door"
It's a secret answered. worry VIII.
lie, but I don't = ind r"t-in' ga mex.
always tells DE i?Av d.. c'H't bite
de turkey | got i'or NJ =. . ,ors an
dat dc pie is so tor"h an roo. lat it
couldn't be cut w:d an Ak Sce"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14
The Discreet Artist,

"But the portrait doesn't entirely re-
semble my husband. It is not sufi-
GENTLY life-like."
"Ah, madam, if I made it too life
like he would want to butt into it
every time he saw it."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

A New York woman was fined five
dollars for getting drunk in public
and using the large ID" to a police.
man. New York seems to be doing
something to keep the cost of the
necessaries of life on the Great White
Way within reason.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

Down in Pittsburg the overcoat ma
kers have gone on a strike. This may
be the psychological moment for an
overcoat strike, but who'd have
thought it?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14
Glorified pipe smoking IS the

Glorified pipe smoking IS the latest
fad among c!ubwomen of London.
The pipe used is 4 dainty Japanese
affair known rs the kisseru. 1t has
q gold and silver bowl and mouth
niece. The bowl holds Il pinch Of to-
bacco from which about seven whiffs
can be obtained.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

St Louis is bowling for a barrel of
free ice water at each corner. Will
Ice cool that concrete composition
fondly thought to be water in St.
Louis?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

Awaiting and b%allooning kill a man
every day o two just to prove that the
air Is a long way from being conquered
yet
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

Some one has discovered 81, 900, 900
germs in a malaga grape. Still, for all
that, malaga grapes are pretty good
eating.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

An Englishman has paid $500 for a
6~00-year-old alphabet. He could have
got a new n for nothing, but these
Britons are so conservative!
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

Doctor Wiley says that there's moth.
ing especially dangerous in kissing
except the prospect of marriage, we
presume.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

If Texas doesn't stop raising so
much corn she will get herself dis,
liked by Kansas.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

Staten Island has seen the first sea
serpent, and now the lid ought OF be
put on S. L.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

An eighty-three-year-old P~ennsylva
mia dame takes her first ride on
train. She couldn't learn any younger
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

Texans are carrying shotguns these
days. The mosquito a has ar
rived.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

Getting back from a picnic is the
real test of the kind of time you had
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

Ayfators are falling like tho leaves
Of the forest
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

Forty-four scrubwomen have been
laid off by the city of New York. New
York's economy fad knows no bounds.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

Two Dreadnaughts will cost S23, 900,
900, but ttat can't scare a dread,
naught.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

Even in hot weather some self-sac
riicing, hard-working correspondent
manages to sweat out a war scare.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-14

Excellent hot weather exercise Is
watching a tennis match.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-15
REWARD is OFFERED.

mayor Ogden offered reward of s1oO for evidence
leading who held the the
Mission night June H. and $500 additional for
leading who and killed
Saburo Ichmura
hoped that these rewards will enlist the OF
person following clue 1t should
stimulate all forces at work the murder.
This community to let the sayers of Ichmura
There feeling among that because the victim
japanese the deep interest capturing the criminals
that should be manifested but such The police force
this city, will be this
while there the possibility of obtaining
The y good in the balance the citys claim to
fair of all is involved the cys title to safe place of
domicie for all law-abding people is to be defended
We ourselves prove that cowardly scrubs
the penalty the law when they invade homes and
shoot to kill.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-15
OGDEN SUGAR IN CHICAGO.

Carver the nctiona convention
of Grocer held in Springfield illinois, he visited Chicago while
away from home and had the experience seeing Ogden
unoaded warehouse cost of only $547 hundred
pounds while the day before he left his he had paid s7
the He inquired the freight and informed that
the sugar had shipped So per
making the cost of the sugar at this end S494
Carver asked the wholesale house where the dev
cred the back to Utah could be obtained and
formed that the railroad charges would be 81 33 hundred
return shipments
When Mr. arrived first thing did
quire sugar billed Chicago which he
would the freight could be held Ogden and instead of
being Chicago be loaded here he informed
such would be contrary the the company
could not be thought of for a moment
This, seemingly a great injustice
on by the railroads against Ogden like Chi
and yet producers have serious grievance
We complain when American shipped Europe
they country fact openly declare
that the protective tariff which keeps the prices good
thing be maintained
We all of favor of dumping surplus products
European markets. order keep the wheels of
motion and to outlet to congeSted trade hence when
the conditions brought home the sugar
should be not less safoa in spirit allowing sugar people
to dump their surplus stock those foreign markets. such Chi
which beyond the market
be strictly claimed legitimate field for Utahs
put
There talk of the sugar splitting up
ing thing of the That trust supposed have upheld the
price OF Because 1t trust has failed
pahy from the of beets should deeply
cerned over good for the trust itself
1t might prove good thing, to be dissolved
With Its dissolution the urgent need of concerted the
part Of all those interested sugar production including
ers, to maintain would be made
quenc the place of the trust bringing stability
would be hed by great of people with commercial
political influence quite potential that the monopo
lists
The lead miner always found lead:
ne copper miner wants the shepman
high WOOL the ochard favor fruits so on through
the whole list Of the products of farm
are all for high except the beet owing to the
from his shoulders but the day coming when
es such as Ogden will be ardenty supporting price sugar
as though the of the industry depended on their efforts And
~ rgn 1or with all interests contendng vigorously per-
steny Tor their interests there equazng which ab
Sne nice balance giving industry any great advantage
In prices other industries
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-15
THE NEW CITY RESERVOIR.

At o'clock morning in the of those who
sufficiently be there the city
officials dedicate the adjoining the old by
turning the flow of water from the pipe line which, in the past
has kept the old mud reservoir supplied.
important and should prove interesting the
those VINO burdened with but
concreting the said be
piece To that their has
carefully expended improvement should be
Interest the who called furnish for
treasury that will be
vastly receptacle and storage place for the that is
supply the old unanitary
been, should appeal to all water consumers in Ogden
ddicatng the public
important advance Ogden Henceforh this city will have
storage facilities with other improvements follow,
eventually will provided with unlimited supply of for
all purposes, including fire protection.
Here few figures the reservoir;
Cost of work done in 1909 S17,93314
Cost of work 1910, S1o92621.
The total cost placed at S3865935.
The reservoir has a capacity of 13500000 gallons.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-15
FIRE CRACKER S
CAUSE ACCIDENT

The family OF David Taylor 96S
Washington avenue. had a narrow
escape from death or serious injury
last evening when their horse became
on Cross street at some
fire crackers which were suddenly
shot off by group of small boys.
and oyer-turnlng the buggy. threw its
occupants to the ground severely
bruising some of them. The vehicle
was practically demolished