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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-11-06
For s ale or Rent.

offer for sale or rent on reasonz
able terms. very desirable farm,
containing abont 100 acres, sitnate9
on the road from Temperanceyille
to Oak Hall, about II miles from:
Temperanceville.
Said tract Of land is in good cons..
dition, we'll adapted to the growtb;
of all kird of trucks, and has upoS,
it abundant resourcesfor manli.I1g
purposes.
The dwelling and outhouses on
said premises are ampleand i'll good
repair.
Said property will be sold on fol
lowing terms:-One-fourth for cash,
the balance payable in /, 2 and 3
years, the purchaser giving bonds
satisfactory to the undersigned.
For further particulars, address
WIN. II. COPIES,
Temperanceville Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-11-06
Beds Of the Past.

The house of the ancient English
gentleman was not, as general
ching, provided with bed rooms,
says q writer about the beds Of our
ancestors in the Cosmopolitan. a
chamber or shed was built against
the wall that inclosed the mansi0gs
and it's dependencies, and in tM8f
little cell the lord and his la
slept. Sometimes there was anothss,'
err chamber of the same kind buiItf
for the daughter or young ladies of
the house. AS a general thing.tlle
young men of the house and the
guests slept on tables and benches
in the great hall, when WOODEN COW
erlets or blankets were provided for
warmth. Servants and attendants
slept upon the floor.
Later ON. In the time Of the Tu-
doris, the ''four poste" bedstead, an
immense piece Of furniture having
a canopy supported at each corner
by the posts, became Cne.s 1asnlon-
able sleeping couch. Some Of the
old wills mention ''posted sett work
bedsteads.n These pauelled bed
steads were sometimes OF elegant
and massive architecture. The
columns resem bled huge balusterS,
and rose from. square dwdo base,
and all the frame pieces were
carved with decorative mouldings
of various patterns. On some OF.
the earlier bedsteads the. columns
terminated with figures represent
ing the four evangelists.
Single-minded men always sue
coed. The wedge, says Carlyle,
will rend rocks, but its edge must
be sharp and single; if it be double,
the wedge is bruiscdin pieces; and
will rend nothing.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-11-06

sI here's the cottage at Harlem,n
NeIrsaldeinsaI timid tone, as if she
mi e1pecte dstos be ami lilateds for
jlles lgggest SIS
Good grac GUS ~ ell !''s Fanny.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-11-06
IS
GInbeans.


"AIcohoI will clean silyerr Yes,
alcohol we'll stuck to will clean all
the silver you haye-out Of your
pocketq
a mans character is like a fence.
1t cannot be strengthened by being
whitewashed.
Ten million dollars worth of cor.
sets were sold in the United States
last year. That's n good deal of
money gone to waist.
An Illinois young farmer is &C.
cuse,l Of using this tropical Ian.
guage as conclusive proof of his ar.
dor and fidelity: "My best loved
one, I chawed the postage stamp
on your last letter all to thunder,
because I knowed you licked it
On.n
On card in "a Philadelphia
street car is q great truth thus sue.
cinctly stated: advertising is "a
gre atadeak like akin 81 love ia. al:
lido be- oEerI 90 Sc 3
"a O. s ess an II Rs05'gI II
this WiDte asked a darkeYso,f q
companion. Well, L dunno how
3dat's gWineto BE-" was the reply;
Use done gotmy eye on a coat, BIT
de fellah dat owns it keeps his eye
on it too"
A New Britain Conn., man his
been sentenced to six months i'm.
prisonment for kissing Massa-
chusetts' girl. Many man has
been made life long prisoner just
by kissing girl.
"Why does marriage make men
thoughtfnlg' asked young lady of
an old bachelor. "Well, 1 suppose
they are continually wondering
what's going to happen next"
Lulu's grandma, becoming impa.
tient With her noise, said to her,
"Luln, you are a mistake; you
should have been boy" Lulu was
very thoughtful for a few minutes,
then gravely answered: "GrardmA,
God don't make Mistakes Phil.
adelphia Call.
A teacher, In catechising her
class ofboys at Sundays school, ask.
ed, ."Who was the strongest man?"
A little chap of eight years answer
ed without a moments hesitation:
"Snllivan. Now ask me who is the
best rover"
The japanese believe that "the
fortunes Of hell are graded, accord
ing to the amount of money one
has" The more money, the moro
iorture. Editors will get off toll
erably easy, then-and printers go
70 Heaven.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-11-06
ACCOMAC e. Fl. Va. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 1886
SUNRISE.

- =
The Enstis blo'somlngl Yea, n rcso,
vastns tho heavens, soitas Il kiss.
Sweet as the presence ofawomnu is.
Rises ind renchns and wldons md grows,
Large audlunlhous, up from the sou
And;out Of tho son. as hlossomlng treo.
Richor anil richor. higher md higher,
Deeper aud deeper lttukcs It's hue;
Brighton and bisntor II reaches through
S7rlfo space Of llenvennld the space of stars,
y all is rich rs rnso can BIO,
.Andsmy 1850 eav stall into pillows of lcc.
ssThen. boams reach upward us arms from tho sen;
sThen,lanees and arrows aro aimol at mo,
sThealapces spangles md spars and bars
Are broken andshivored aud strcwn on tho soa;
And, :aroundand nboutme. tower and splre
Start from tue pillows like tongues of ilro,
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-11-06
JOHN B. DOUGHTY 8 CO
PUNGoTEAGUE,
Accomac county, Va.
DEALERS
DEALERS IN
Carriages, Phaetons, Side Bar an,
Piano Box Buggies, Snlkies, :
jump Seat Carriages,

in fact the most improved pattern
and of most durable make OF ever!
kind and description, can be bough
of the firm, on the best OF. TERMS;
The members of the firm are prac;
tical workmen, know what they bu.
and will sell you at q small profit
carriages bought by them at whole
sale prices.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-11-06
NORFOLK COLE G. E

TIE NORFOLK COLLEGE,
for Young Ladies' affords
very superior advantages to
those who desire a thor
ough education. The very
hest talent has been en-
ployed in all the depart
meiits. 1t is non-sectaraln
in character and discipline,
but under Christian intlu-
ence. The school room is
equipped with all modern
appliances, comforts and
conveniences. The Board
inr Department is pleasant
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attractive All the and buildings comfortably nne heated
home In those having the College in charge aim to give every van
r.. II. WYNNE, Secretary,
Norfolk,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
Good Reason for Grief.
Good housekeeping.

The mother rocking her baby in the
next room hears a deep-drawn sigh and
peeps in the nursery. "Oh, here is my
Lily" she cries in most beguiling tones.
II know she wants to come and help
mamma" Lily shakes her dropping
head. Mamma reads the familiar aigns
but wisely refrains from any apparent
notice. She knows the cloud must burst
and the rains must fall before the air will
be clear again; so laying the favorite doll
in the unresponsive arms she returns to
her room.
Presently she heard sobbing sigh,
then another, and another, each increas-
ing in volume and intensity. A troubled
look clouds the gentle face. "Mv poor
little grille" she says softly to herself;
then she opens the nursery door and be-
holds such tragic sign. In her low chair
one arm hanging limp over the back, the
other down at her side, sits the woe-be-
gone Lily; tears streaming down her
cheeks, weeping and sobbing as if her
heart would break.
'My dear child What is the matter"
The answer comes brokenly, with q
reproachful gaze into the mothers face.
L haven't g-got anybody to wipe
a way my te-a-rs!"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
Ringing Pigs.
Swine Bree. ers' Journal

1t Is very often that we see remarks on
the ringing of pigs, condemning it as de-
@rimental to the thrift and growth of the
pigs, claiming that roofing is necessity
and pigs should be permitted to turn
over an entire clover field each year in
pursuance of its favorite habit. There is
no doubt but that the roots, dirt and
Larvae that the pig secures in roofing are
beneficial to it, yet it is possible it can
be furnished him other than through
acres and acres of clover. Let US follow
pig in a clover field. He enters and
Immediately begins to eat the clover
as he comes to it. After a little
he commences to search for the
dainty bits; here and there
he nips off a mouthful or two. He has
then about enough, but, hog-like, he
doesn't know it. He soon tires of this,
and can find nothing above ground to suit
his dainty taste; then he commences to
shove his nose under ground, turning it
up in long strips. If you watch him
closely you will notice that he at first
seems to find something to suit his taste,
but he soon turns up long burrows, find
ing nothing. When he becomes tired,
and his exercise has made him hot, too
hot to lie on the ground, so he proceeds
to dig himself bed some several inches
deep, tearing up the sod for many feet.
This is all unnecessary. If the pig must
have fresh dirt, etc., it can be furnished
him through other more clearly and less
expensive means. When you turn him
into your clover fields you want him to
eat and not to pillow, SO ring him and do
the blowing yourself; turn over small
strip for him every few days. Devote a
small piece for this purpose, pillow and re-
pillow during the summer, and your pigs
will have their supply of fresh dirt. You
IN turn will have a presentable clover
field, and one giving a bountiful supply
of green food through the entire season.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
A Wise Conclusion.
Youths Companion

One summer evening after Harry and
his little sister Helen had been put to bed
a severe thunderstorm came up.
Their cribs stood side by side, and
their mother, in the next room, heard
them as they sat up in bed and talked, in
low voices, about the thunder and light
ming.
They told each other their fears.
They were afraid the lightning would
strike them.
They wondered whether they would be
killed right off and whether the house
would be burned up. They trembled
afresh at each peal.
But tired nature could not hold out as
long as the storm.
Harry became very sleepy, and at last
with renewed cheerfulness in his voice,
he said, as he laid his head on the pillow:
''WelI, I'm going to trust in God"
Little Helen sat minute long er thinking
it over, and then laid her own little head
down saying, swell dess will do so
toor'
And they both went to sleep, without
more words.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
Cheese as Food.
Rural and Workman

We ought to eat more cheese and less
fat pork. There is no food that is more
healthful, and which goes further to sus-
tain the natural waste of the system than
good cheese. In Europe it takes the
place of meat on the tables of the poor,
but that fact would be no recommends
ton to the American. He does not like
the idea of eating thing that is the last
resort of victims of the degrading govern
ments of Europe. Let US tell him that
cheese is an ever present article on the
tables of the rich, which it is. That it is
quite the thing for even children of royal
ty to feed on chaese. Every respectable
restaurant in London has on a small table
in the center of the room the half-section
of large golden-yellow cheese with a
knife in it that says "come and eat me, ;
and there is plate of crackers to go with
it. l we want to introduce cheese-eating
into this country we we must stop talking
about the poor of Europe and tell how
the rich enjoy it. Make it fashionable
and it will go like hot cakes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29

about the 18th or 18th day OF the month
1t has been appointed there in response
to an urgent invitation from the Colorado
State Forestry Association, seconded by
the Chamber of Commerce of the city of
Denver. A hearty and well-prepared re-
cept1on of the congress awaits the arrival
of It's members. The sessions are to be
held in the spacious hall of the Chamber
of Commerce, which body freely offers it
for the occasion, and has likewise ap-
pointed a committee to look after the
comfort of members and visitors of the
congress, and to secure a number of eX-
cursions that will furnish opportunities
for an inspection of the resources and
beauties of Colorado.
The congress is urgently invited to
come in strong force, and an enthusiastic
and fitting reception is promised. The
president of the State Forestry Associa-
ton assures them that their labOrs can
bear better fruit in no other field than
that, since forests or some substitute for
them are a necessity of the existence of
the population, and public attention
needs to be aroused to the fact. For the
first time the American Foresty Congress
will move out of the sphere of the east
ern wooded states over the treeless plains
to their western border. The problem
out there is the creation of forests under
the most unfavorable conditions, where
nature seems to have largely lost its pow
or of spontaneous regeneration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
Importance of Cleanliness.
American Agriculturist.

Keeping the pores Of the farm ami
mails open is as essential to their thrift
as bathing is to our health. The skip
performs an office more essential to life
and health than even digestion, and it is
even more important that the horse be
thoroughly groomed than that he be fed
Thorough grooming does not mean only
the removal of mud and manure from
the hair with the comb ait means that
thorough brushing and rubbing which
will clean the hide. removing all obstruc-
ton from the pores. 1t is more necess-
airy to groom the horse than any other
farm animal, because he is the last to
groom himself. Cattle will groom them
selves to certain extent; yet there can
be no more profitable work than brush
ing and rubbing them, though it is SO
rarely done. The hog reputed to be the
dirtiest of all farm animals, is really the
most clearly, and if allowed to do so will
keep his hide clean. This he does he does
by first putting on a coat of mud. This
he scratches off and with it removes the
impurities which have adhered to his
hide and which the wet earth has loosen
ed. Wallowing not only contributes to
the comfort of swine, but is of the utmost
Importance to their health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29

try. The bones, the table scraps, the
milk, the meat. should all be converted
into poultry and eggs. The food that the
average dog consumes daiy-now absol-
utely wasted-would beautifully supply
three hens. Each hen would lay 134 eggs
each year. At 119c. each the product of
each hen would would be 50 per year.
Or, in other words, the 100000 dogs de-
stroy food to the value of Sc each, or a
total of $12,O00,000 annually that should
thus be added to our national wealth. and
this, too, without mentioning the vast
sums chergeable to those useless ours in
other forms of waste and destruction
National Stockman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
Beekeeping for Women.

Mrs. Mahala B. Chaddoch, of Vermont
ll.,wrltes the Bee Journal that beekeep-
ing Is too hard work for women; I have
said 1t before, and, I say it again,
when | say women I mean of course,
American women. German and Swedish
women can keep bees; they can do any
thing that requires lifting; American wo-
men can not. All American women have
tendency to heart disease, cOnsum option
or kidney disease, and carrying bee-hives
and boxes of honey is not good for any of
these diseases. Mrs. L. Harrison EMPLOYS
Irishmen to do her lifting; Mrs. st.
Juienne More, of Louisiana, has colored
women to help her; the Lins gik sisters
hoist the hives around somehow, and get
along. am always watching and wait
ing to get some man to help me carry
hives and honey. I have no Irishman
and no colored women, and the men are
always busy. [ want the old colonies
carried away just when the bees are work
ing most briskly, az ID that is just the time
that the men are away off in the fields.
Yesterday evening WANTED some honey
taken off, but there was the hay to get in,
and everybody was just as busy as they
could be. I took off the fourty-pound
boxes, and, as could not carry them to
the mouse. rolled them (if that is the
proper thing to say of square box) all
the way to the house lifted them in, and
let the Dees go out. | always put my
honey-boxes on the floor close to the
screen door in the dining-room, and as
fast as the bees gather in punches on the
screen brush them off with whisk-
broom. Once last year took off several
boxes of honey at one time, and. as the
day was cool, the bees became chilled
after leaving the honey-hoxes and fell
down inside the screen door, looking inst
like dead bees. 1 gathered up gallon.
and put them in the cages that the bees
were shipped in, and laid them on the
chimney over the kitchen stove. In two
hours they all revived, when I gave them
to a colony"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
Dogs VS.. Hens.

For a good many years sheep breeders
have been raging relentless war upon
the dog as their worst enemy, and not
without success, for in many sections a
tax of from 81 to So is levied upon use
less ours. 1t is to be regretted that the
spirit of the law is violated by the prac-
tice of loaning or borrowing dogs about
the time the assessor makes his rounds.
A says: ''That dog doesn't belong to me
he belongs to my wifes brother over
in the other county.The assessor sin the
other country" fails to find half the dogs
he should, and finds fewer owners than
dogs.
The destruction wrought by them upon
the focks annually is ptetty well set
forth In the papers of the country; but
we have seen nothing to show the actual
waste to our nation by the many almost
useless dogs. The actual number of dogs
can only be guessed at. In the
large cities the number of dogs is COM
paratively small. In some localitier, how
ever, there are almost as many dogs as
people. BY using the few available sta
tistics on the subject, we conclude that
100000 dogs is low estimate of those
III the United States. Further taking in
to consideration all trained dogs in use
by shepards and drovers, all the full
blood trained settlers, pointers and span
iels, also the dogs who earn an honest
living as beasts of burden and as "rat-
ters," no one will oeny that there remain
under the doubtful name of ''watch Dogs
and 'house dogs" for which shonld be
substituted useless ours" and ''hungry
whelps," at least 100000.
Everything that these 100000 useless
dogs consumes is useful food for poul-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
Miss LOngcOffin Felicitated.
Texas Siftings.

Miss Esmerelda Longcoffin is in reality
about 10 years of age, and has an I'M
healthy look. The Longcofin mansion is
just now undergoing repairs. Meeting
Kosciusko Murphy Miss Esmerelda re-
marked:
sour house is being painted all over
and put in repairs. Everything in the
house is going to be made over"
Everything" asked Murphy.
''Yes, everything in the house is going
to be improved"
"Miss Esmerelda allow me to congr atu-
late you," exclaimed the wretch, taking
both hands and shaking them warmly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
MY HOJIE.
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING,

The house fronts east with trellised porch,
Fleckt with leaf shadows, qui'eriDg fair,
On which a rustic seat of birch,
Woos one to leave day > frettGng care,
For sunset quiet there.
A maple guards the corner door
Green, glossy foliage spreading far
The siopng RI Of Before
The massive vine. through which star
Winks, laughing 1--we affair."
o reStful, happy summer night
The glist'ning dew, birds, twitte ring, heard
In echoes faint, then ceasing quite,
Hay scented air and quietude:
Be lie me one-9ertruda
''Restful, - / said for passions pain
Its hidden, feverish. achirg smart
Is vanished now. Love, crowned, reigns.
And laughs to scoru the stand 'rous dart
That forced us, once, to part
Out from the slowly dark ring past
Our lives, twin folded, benveforth glide,
Come genial suns, skies are rainbow casped,
Come wind or rain, come calm or tide,
shall have thee, my bride.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
Diet of Strong Men.
Detroit Fre1 Press

The Roman soldiers, who built such
wonderful roads and carried weight of
armor and luggage that would crush the
average farm hand, lived on course brown
bread and sour wine. They were tenn
perate in diet, and regular and constant
in exercise. The Spanish peasant works
every day and dances half the night, yet
eats only his black bread, onion and
watermelon. The smyrna porter eats
only little fruit and some olives. He
eats no beef, pork or mutton, yet he
walks off with his load of 800 pounds.
The coolie, fed on rice, is more active and
can endure more than the negro fed on
fat meat. The heavy work of the world
is not done by men who eat the greatest
quantity. The fastest or longest-winded
horse is not the biggest eater. Modera-
ton in diet seems to be the prerequisite
of endurance.
Kissimmee, Fla, boasts of a cucumber
nineteen inches long, weighing five
pounds, and half.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
Pumpkins for Cows.
Philadelphia Press.

A writer treating of pumpkins, says
they are excellent for the cows, and if
you grow the soft-feshed Connecticut
field variety, also called Yankee pump
kins, they can be fed without chopping
and are but little trouble. He was salts
fed himsdlf, from repeated experiments
that the popular notion that if fed with
the seeds in it will dry up the milk is er-
'reneous. He had cow that got out of
her stall and ate half bushel of seeds at
one feed, and instead of drying her up,
she gave an unusual flow Of milk for a
day or two after that. Can any one say
whether or not this is an exceptional
case?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
A Willy Widows Scheme.
PhiladleIBhia Herald.

II wouldn't go to Saratoga so soon
after your husbands DEATH" said Phlla-
delphia lady to the daughter who had been
widow for three long Gays. people
might say that because you got acquaint-
ed with John Smith down there you were
trying to make anothes CATCH"
"Oh, that will be all right, ma. Mr..
Grimsby, who has just buried his wife, Is
going there. And besides being real rich,
he IS very nice. I'll tell the people that 1
detest Saratoga myself, but that I visited
it out of respect to dear Johns memory,
because he loved it So"
The latest comet is travelling at the rate
Of Q6Q 900 miles an hOur
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
Good Cows and Good Pnnnln

Good COWS, like good people, die
young. The high feeding which such
COWS receive is probably in part respon-
sible for this. We can feed higher when
COW has green feed, and the ability to
larger quantities of grain and meal may
prove one of the important advantages of
ensilage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
American Forestry Congress.

massachusetts FIOWUdi.
The fifth annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Forestry Congress is to be held next
September, at Denver, Col, probably
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.
INDIAN PUDDING.

One quart of boiling milk, one cup of
meal, two tablespoonful or -four, one
tablespoonful of butter, one egg, one-half
cup of molasses, and a little salt. Mix
the meal, flour, butter and molasses to-
gether, and turn in the boiling milk. Bake
one hour.