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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-03-20
Pearls of Thought.

Walk as if you were conscious
that your body has soul in it.
If a life will bear examination in
every hour Of it, it is pure indeed.
If any one says ill of you, let
your life be so that none will be-
lieve him.
He who strives after long and
pleasant form of life must seek to
attain continued equanimitv.
MYe never see atear in the eye"
says a celebrated writer, "but we
are reminded of a warm heart"
Whatever else we neglect, let us
keep up the habit of communion
with God. Prayer is the key Of
the position.
If a man empties his parse
into his head, no man CAN take it
away from him. An investment
in knowledge always pays the best
interest.
Let every man take care how he
speaks and writes of honest peo-
pie, and not set down at a venture
the first thing that comes upper
most.
The man who is suspicious lives
in constant state Of unhappiDess.
1t wOuld he better for his peace OF
mind to be too t1ustful than to be
too guarded.
II thy friends be of better quail
ity than thyself, thou mayest he
sure Of two things; the first that
they will be more careful to keep
thy counsel, because they have
much more to lose than thou hast,
the second, they will esteem thee
for myself, and not for that thou
dost possess.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-03-20
Married People Would be Happier.

If home troubles were never told
to neighbor.
II expenses were proporJioned to
receipts.
Ii they tried to be as agreeable
as in courtship days.
1feach would remember the 9TH
er WAS a human being, not all an.
gel.
If EACH was us kind to the other
as when they were lovers.
If fuel were laid in during the
high tide of summer work.
If bo.ll parties remembered that
they married for worse as we'll as
for better.
Ifmcn were as thoughtful for
their wives as they were for their
Swcethearts.
II there wern fewer silk and vel
vet street costumes, and more plain,
tidy house dresses.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-03-20
Kind of Farming That Pays.

Nlr.Richard Reed young Georgia
planter who began farming seven
years ago with mortgage of ST.
600 over his place and who has
since cleared $4,000 attributes
his success to giving personal al
tention to business and to raising
his own provisions. He says: 81
never saw a man who did not raise
his own corn that made money i'll
cotton. ! never saw a corn raiser
that wasn't, a prosperous farmer.
You can often figure out that you
call buy corn cheaper thar you can
raise it-but that is only OH paper.
Com raisers always prosper-the
others fail. My cotton crop IS AL
ways a cash surplus. make my
other crops carry the farm.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-03-20
Coming Down to Farming.

Senator Evarts of New York
must be careful what he is about
and mind his pS and qs better. In
ii late speech he said that when a
man made Il failure in everything
else, politician being included,
there WIS nothing left for him but
to go TO Il better world or ''come
down to farming"
Senator Evarts should under
stand that no man "comeS down
to farming. sit is at once the
most useful and most exalted of al.
occupations. Any numbskull who
has money CAN get into the United
States senate. \ good many men
who arc there now bear wit
ness to it. But to become well-t9-
do at farming requires brains
judgment, industry and practical
intelligence Of the highest order.
Not only nave farmers to con.
tend against droughts, wet seasons,
rot insect pests and all the evil
forces Of nature but they have also
to bear up against the annual
eruption Of idiocy of the average
congressman.
The farmers task is indeed a
difficult one. 70 perform it thor
oughly requires qualities that par
take of the heroic. But the Amer.
can farmer fortunately has strong
alert mental faculties. A good
memory is one of them for one
thing. lie will probably not for
get Senator Eyarts'idea ofthe farm.
er,who when II man was too utterly
Il blessed fool for anything else he
had to"come down to farming
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81

and kindness which only works ont
half its mission, for the reason that
it does not express itself in little
courtesies of speech and action
These are more Important than
some of our busy men and woman
may realize. The ready:sthank you:'
If you please ETC., at table and else
where. the quiet 'excnse me' when
obliged 10 pass directly before or
inconveniently near another the
loving goodnight and CHEEKY
'good-morning,' although little
things, are helps in making happy
home. Courtesy is but the ready
overflow of kindness and goodwill
to all,and is therefore but a natural
expression which costs nothing,
but which often cheers an aching
heart, and which never fails to
make home brighter and more at
tractive to old and young.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-03-20

TIE young inanz!l i1gered Snsars li9s
managing editors desk, waiting
for an appointment OIL the regular
staff.
But yonsdrink,' said the mana
ger, wishing to let the candidate
down easy.
Yes replied the young man, $50
did Alexander the Great
'And You are a dude.' glancing
at the youths dandified dress.
so was DiSraeli.'
'And you are a liar!'
$50 was Napoleon Bonaparte.'
Aud you arc head and ears in
debtp
'Llke Alexander Dumas
'And you are a glutton9'
$50 WAS Peter the Great
'And you swear occasiona!IyV
$50 did George Washington
you are liable to get drunkP
sLike Daniel Wehsrer.'
You are not college manr
Neither was Lincoln
sAnd then you write a wretched.
ly illegible handH
Like Horace Greely.'
'And you can't make a speech9'
sLike Grant,
well, said the manager, plung-
ing into a heap Of manuscript, any
how we don't want you; you won't
do. Good morning.
The young man turned away ex-
sorrowful. its no sort
Of use,' lie said, "a fellow combines
in his own brain and person the
traits OF all the great men from
to Grant, and can't ev-
en- get a place on the Brooklyn
Eagle. This world is growing too
fast for genius.'-Bob Burlette in
Brooklyn Eagle.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-03-20
The Georgia Bloodhound

Let me tell you what a Georgia
bloodhound can do, and he CAN be
made to do this any fair day at Old
t 'wn camp. A convict sleeping in
one bunk Of a hundred, shod and
clad precisely as the hundred COT
yicts about him, may slip his chain
and flee. Ten miles away he may
meet his fellow prisoners again,
may run to and fro among them,
may walk with them a mile and
leave them. Six hours after these
hounds put on his track where he
slipped from the camp, will follow
him to where he met his gang, will
thread his track in and about their
of of tracks, take it up
where he leaves them, and run him
down, though he cross convict
gangs every mile he runs. Th;saes-
Gaping convict, clad in stripes cut
from the same bolt with a hundred
others, may run through the woods,
touching weeds and bushes as he
runs. Fifty convicts. clad as he
was clad, may run through the
same woods, in every direction
The dog will hold his scent, run
ming full tilt, breast high. If he
makes a curve of ID degrees the
dogs will not run the line, but will
catch his scent 30 yards away and
cross the angle though it were fill
Ell with the convicts who had cat
ell and slept with the fugitive
Often dog will carry a scent in
in gallop, running parallel 3Oyards
TO the wlniward; An uncanny and
terrible little beast is the red bone
hound, trained for the hunting Of
man.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-03-20
.ACCOMAC c. H. VA. SATURDAY, MARCH 20 1886
TAKE THINGS rs THEY CONE
Some dnys aro bright and sunny.

Some days aro bright and sunny,
Aud some nro bleak with ruin,
Some livos IRE crowned With pleasure.
And some mre illod with pain.
For Some Tho world IS rosy,
For others sad and slum;
But all who'd know contcntment
Should tako things as they como.
iris not by caro- md worry.
'Tls not by fume md fret.
That great things wc accomplish
And wrcatlIs victorious got.
II isby Watching, whiting,
And brGvoly working from
Tho morn I'LL night. and taking
Lllo's trials III thoy come.
Depend this world is sunny,
II VIC the sun would SEQ;
Then tnkc things ~ they're going,
And not as Lhcy should DC.
We over may be happy,
And Joy Will hopoand hum
Around us. If wo OILY
Will take things as they como.
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is none at all in existence, and by
law, therefore, tile property will so
to the next kin. I know also; that
Mrs. johnson had no relatives
whatever eXceptMiSs Lizzie Roberts
She is consequently sole helress.-
LOudon Truth.
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Genius Outrun.

re soing nan fingered SnsatS I5'
managing EDITORS desk, waiting
for an appointment Oil the regular
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-03-20
Courtesy at Home.

One is reminded, in going from
place to place.how small and seem.
inrly trivial often are the things
which 90 to make OF mar the house
hold. There is a genuine good will
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-07
Business For The Bows.

Farmers are urged by The Western
Rural to give the boys a pleasant bias
toward agriculture by Attending a
chance to make some money and to
learn business methods. mot, how
ever oy raising pig to behis fathers
hog" The gift, or purchase by labor,
OF heller calf makes good basis for
beginning: Perhaps there ie nothing
on the farm he can handle so well and
so Practically, and which will give such
q good opportunity to deal with him
with such exact justice. OF course he
should pay for the keep of the COW, SO
far as that is practicable. He should
always be charged for the keep OF any
animal given to him. But it is not
practicable to do this with such JUS
tice with any other animal. He can
buy his grain outright and feed his
COW separately. The father can afford
to give him the grass in summer and
perhaps the hay in winter, or an agree
ment can be made for the payment for
them. Now the boy Is started in bust
ness. He should have the entire han
ding Of his COW and of her milk, do his
own milking and churning and market
ing, Or sell his own cream if the cream
is sold. Let him keep accurate &C
counts; and as his profits warrant en-
courage him to purchase the best dairy
implements that he can make use OF.
We do not believe that there is one
boy in ten who cannot be won to the
farm by such methods"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-07
How Burritt Studied.

Every odd moment he could steal
out of the twenty-four hours, says a
new biography of Elihu Burritt, was
devoted to study. He rose early in
the winter mornings, and while the
mistress of the house was preparing
breakfast by lamp light he would
stand by the mantle-sheli, with his
Hebrew Bible on the shelf and his
Lexicon in his hand, thus studying as
he ate his breakfast. He did the
same at his other meals. It was in
this way that he turned to good &C
count the other odd moments which
his strong craving for knowledge led
him to deduct from his meal and 9th
er times. An extract or two from his
own diary will give a better idea than
anything else of the kind of life he was
at that time leading:
Monday, June IS: Headache; for
ty pages of Cuvier's "Theory OF the
Earth" ga pages French, IL hours
forging. Tuesday: Sixty-five lines OF
Hebrew, 80 pages of French, 10 pages
Cuvier's s'Theory," 8 lines Syriac, 10
lines Danish, 10 lines Bohemian, 8
lines Polish, Is names of stars, 10
hours forging. Wednesday: Twenty
five lines Hebrew, so pages OF astron-
omy, z hours forging. Thursday:
Fifty-five lines Hebrew, 8 Syriac, IL
hours forging. Friday: Unwell; IL
hours forging. Saturday: Unwell; 40
pages OF natural history, 10 hours
forging. Sunday: Lessons of Bible
class.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-07
Why Jews Live SO Long.

The New England Medical Monthly
comments very favorable on the
proverbial long and healthful lives OF
the Jews. DR.. Picard holds that this
superiority is due to their stringent
health laws. The Mosaic, like the
older Egyptian code, is very stringent
regarding the eating Of flesh and other
articles Of food. or the animals ex-
amined, large proportion are always
condemned as unfit for food. People
who eat meat Unfortunately are
very prone to disorders of the blood
and OF the kidneys, for meat is COM
posed of nitrogen, which the kidneys
have to remove from the blood, and
Of course they cannot do this success
iully except by the aid of Warmers
sale cure; the best kidney strengthened,
Unless it is temperately partaket OF
and only the very best meat is used.
Jews also use alcoholic liquors very
sparingly and THUS keep up good
digestion, and then again they are q
holiday-loving and misunderstanding
class .-HOusekeeper.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-07
More About Sleeplessncss,

The cure of sleeplessness denends
upon the cause; how various the caus-
es are we have seen. l will not emu
ssaetate the devices for procuring sleep
in the ordinarily healthy; they are
very numerous, but none of them have
any general application. Qne counsel
may be given, for it is not hackneyeeaa;3
It Is this: Learn to saleefp, IN IN the day
time. This art is one which everybody
has hi not acquired. People there are
and know such people-who are wise
enough to eat when they are hungry,
but have never attained that higher
reach of wisdom to sleep when they
are sleepy. But occasions come to all
of us when We need to be able to sleep
In the day time at will. Have you
failed to get your needed sleep, wheth-
er because of work or watching, or
pleasure? Then repose in the
daytime is the restorative needed.
There Is great virtue in ilaps-ever1 ia
short ohes-and the art Of mapping in
the daytime, if you have not learned
it already, is one to be learned with
out delay. It may require q little
practice, but nature is on the side of
the learner.
And, lastly, here is bit of philoso-
ply written by q wise man and physi-
clan, DR.. Frank Hamilton. Let us
hope that at least one OF my readers,
if only one, will be wise enough to prof
it by his wisdom: "Gicomy thoughts
prevent sleep. The poor and unfort-
innate magnify and increase their miss
fortune by too much thinking.
Blessed be he who invented sleep, but
thrice blessed be the man who shall
invent cure for thinking. Titus
Munson Coan, in Harper's Weekly.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-07
For Husband and Wife.
From The Hall Moon.

From The Hall Moon.
ut is not infrequent that wife
mourns over the alienated affections
of her husband when she has made no
effort herself to strengthen and increase
his attachment. She thinks because
he once loved her he ought always to
love her, and she neglects those at
tentions which engaged his heart.
Many a wife is thus the cause Of her
own neglect and sorrow. The woman
deserves not a husbands love who
will not greet him with smiles
when he returns from the labors OF
the day, who will not try to chain
him to his home by the sweet enchant-
ment of q cheerful heart. There is
not one in thousand SO unfeeling
as to withstand such an influence
and break away from such
home" This is the mans story.
IA woman's advice is generally
worth having, so if you are in trouble
tell your mother, oryour wife, or your
sister all about it. Be assured that
light will fash upon darkness. Women
are commonly judged inexperienced in
all but pure womanish affairs. No
Philosophical students of the sex thus
judge them. Their intuitions or in
sight are the most subtle, and ifthey
cannot see a cat in the meal there is
no cat there. Aman should keep none
of his affairs from his wife. MANY g.
home has been saved and many for
tune retrieved by a mans full conf
dence in his wife. Woman is far more
a seer and q prophet than man if she
be given a fair chance. As general
thing wives confide the minutest Of
their afairs and thoughts to their hus-
bands. The men who succeed are
those who make confidantes of their
wives. This il the wife's story.
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On the whole. This improved quality
is more likely to be gained by feeding
corn than otherwise. Give them all
they will eat, and your poultry will
be more yellow and better Tran that
fatted CHI any other grain. 80
Keep stctk from food for. "a hours
before killing; because food ia the crop
Injuries the Appearance, is liable to
sour and censiimers object to paying
for THIS worse than useless weight, All
poultry, but more especially turkeys,
should be killed by Bleeding from the
neck, and picked Immediately, while the
hcdy is warm. No strangled, scalded or
wet-picked poultry will sell for more
than half price. Always strip the
blood out at tire neck as soon as the
head Is taken off. The skin should
then be peeled back little and the
neck bone removed in the usual way
Just before packing draw the skin
over the end of the bone remaining,
and tic and trim neatly. The wing
and tail feathers must be pulled out
clean, and the intestines drawn
through rs small an incision as posi-
BILE,
Be sure that poultry retains none of
the animal heat when it is packed.
1t should be cold, but not frozen. Sort
very carefully and have No. l stock of
uniform quality. Each quality should
be in q separate box, containing not
more than 200 pounds, as greater
bulk is more inconvenient to handle
and more liable to get damaged.
Never wrap poultry in paper or pack
in straw. Line the boxes with clean
paper, pack closely, pack upwards
and legs out straight. Before the
cover is nailed down see that there is
no possibility of the contents shifting
about. In shipping mark kind and
gross weight on the cover. The name
or shipping mark of the shipper should
appear thereon, as we'll as the address
of the firm to which package is sent.
An invoice and full advices mailed as
soon as the shipment is made will Of
ten save time and annoyance to ship
per and dealer.-Boston Produce EN-
change.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-07
Keeping Onions.

Onions are kept in good order in
the following manner; They are first
thoroughly dried, and then spread
about one foot deep on dry floor and
left until they are quite frozen through.
They are then covered deeply with
straw and left until the spring, when
they thaw out slowly and will be fresh
and as good as at first. Onions are
not injured by one freezing; it is re-
peated freezing and thawing which
hurts them. If they are kept in eel
lar they should not be heaped in large
piles, but kept in barrels and we'll ven.
tilated by means ofholes in the slaves.
An excellent way to keep them is to
tie them in long strings on straw ropes
and hang these to the ceiling of the
cellar or root house.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-07
One Woman Solves the Problem.

From the Christian Union.
The Spectator heard the other day
of one instance, which affords a prac-
tical answer to the question often
asked by women who are left unex-
pectedly without means. What shall
l do for living? The lady who has
afforded this answer was reared in q
luxurious home, surrounded by ample
wealth, and endowed with all the re.
finement and culture which wealth and
the best society can afford. Nature
had happily also endowed her with
that which wealth cannot afford,
namely, common sensej and she
awaited herself of her advantage to 60
to cooking school and become q
mistress in the culinary art. Misfort-
une Detailing the family, has thrown
her upon her own resources, with one
or more dependent upon her. Instead
OF falling into the long line Of appli-
cants for school teachers positions,
or burdening the mails with chill
dren's stories and poems to
be rejected by cold-hearted edit
ors, she has called her cooking skill in
to requisition. She has quietly let it
be known among her old-time friends,
that she wilbserve them in their kitch-
ems on occasions. When any one of the
circle in whose parlor she once was,
and still might be q social ornament
desires to give specially nice dinner
or tea they send for her. She brings
her cooking wrapper in little hand
bag, takes charge Of the kitchen as the
pilot does of a steamship on entering
port, relieves the mistress of all care,
anxiety and concern, and sends upa
charming meal, such as q less cultivat-
ed cook could not provide. She is in
such great demand that her prices
have already doubled.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-07
MARKET REPORTS.
DULUTH Wheat-No. / Northern. SSHc

Duluth Wheat-No. Northern. 8Skc;
No. hard; 80.
MINNEAPOLIS. Wheat-No. hard, S9Hc;
No. Northern, sac; No. Northern. SOC.
Flour-in sacks, 81. 9O@5 go; for shipments,
S4.S5@5.lO 10; in barrels, $5@5.20. Corn-32
@35c. Bran-$7 .25@7.5O. Shorts-$9W
10. Oats-No.2 white, 2SM29c. Rye--430
Sic. Barley-45@75c. Corn meal-$16 so
@17.5O. Mixed feed-$16@16.5O. Hay
S7.25@7.75. Oatmeal-$2. 1908. Seeds
Timothy, s1.5O@1 .65; No. ! fiaxseed
81. Oh; clover $5@5.O7.
CHICAGO. Wheat-No. spring, S6A@8 6H
No. 3 spring, 6S@71kc; No. 2 red, 9Oc;
No. 3 red, 7Sc Corn-cash. 41A@41zc.
Oats-cash Esq. Rye-No. 2, Gle. Bar
ley-No. 2, 65c. Flax seed-No. !, $1.14.
Mess pork-cash S6.9O@9.75. Lard
cash, $6.05. Butter-creamery, 15@27c;
dairy, 12H@1Sc. Eggs-28c.
MILWAUKEE. Wheat-Cash, S4Xc. Corn.
No. 2, 41c. Oats-No 2, 2SAc Rye-No.
/, Gle. Barley-No.2 52hc. Mess pork
$3.50. Lard-Cash. 5000. Butter-Dairy
14@16c. Cheese-7h@shc. Egss-2o@
21c.
ST.. PAut. Wheat-No / hard, Csc; No.
/ Northern, Sac. Corn-No. 2, &c. Oats
No. 2 mixed. Csc; No. 2 white 29c;
No. white, Csc. Barley-No.2, 5Sc; No.
3extra, 4SM51c; No 3 regular, 35c. Rye
4Sc. Ground feed-S16. Corn meal
bolted, $19; coarse, SIS. Bran-sacked,
SIP; shorts, $1,000. Baled hay.-Upland
prairie, 81; timothy. $40. Flax seed
$1.O0. Flour.-Patent, S4.25@5 .35;
straights, S4.75@5; bakers, S4.25@4 80;
rye, $3.25@3.75. Live hogs.-$3. 3.45.
Dressed hogs-$4. 124
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ther Of your own, faults Hor those Of
Others. Have d plase for everything
and syrfy thing in its place. Hide
your, own troubles, but watch and
help others out of theirs. Take hold
OF the knob and shut. without slam.
ming the door, ii the, door squsaks,
apply the drop, Of oil at ence. Never
interrupt any conversation, but watch
patiently your tnrn to speak. Look
for beauty in everything, and take a
cheerful view OF every event. Careful
ly clean the mud from your feet on
entering the house. Always speak
politely and kindly to servants. When
inclined to give an angry answer, press
your lips together and say the alpha
bet. When panied by an unkind
word or deed, ask yourself "Have l
never done an i'll an need forgiveness.