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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-27

inches.n | am glad that Christ dropped a
thick veil over the hour of our demise and
the hour of the worlds destruction when he
said: .Of that day and hour knoweth no
man: nc, not the angels, but my rather
only" Keep your hands off the seven
seals. 49,,
There is another mighty seven Of the Bible,
viz. Inc seven thunders What those
thunderS mean we are not told, and there
has Teen much guessing about them; but they
are to come, we are told, before the end OF all
things, and the world cannot get along
without them Thunder is the speech OF
lightning. There are evils ill our world
which must he Numbered down, and which
will require at least seven volleys TO pros
trate them. We are all doing nice, delicate,
soft.handed work i'll churches and reiornia-
tory institutions against tho evils OF tne
world, and much of it amounts to teaspoon
dipping out the Atlantic Ocean, or clam
She'll digging away at mountain, or Jack
hammer shifting the Gibraltar. What Is
needed is thun,erbolls and at least seven Oh
them There is tile long line of frauculene
commercial establishments; every stone IN
The foundation, and every brick i'll the wall
and every nail i'll the rafter made out OF
dishonesty; skeletons of poorly paid sewing
girls arms i'll every bean, OF that establish
ment; human nerves worked into every
Il cure of that embroidery; blood IN the
ieep die of tEat prolfered upholster,.;
billions of dollars of accumulated fraud
sntrenched in massive storehouses anu
stock companies manipulated by I'M
:crupulous men until the monopoly
is defiant of all earth and all heaven. How
shall the evil he overcome! By treatises on
The maxim Honesty is the best policy! Or
oy soft repetition OF the golden rule that we
must do TO others as we would have them
10 to us!n No, it will not lie
lone that way. THAT is needed, and
what will come, is the seven thunders. There
is drunkenness backed up by a capital
mightier than in any other business. In
loxlcating liquors enough III this country to
float navy. Good grain to the amount of
ii, $50, 900 bushels annually destroyed to
make the deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries,
gin shops rum palaces, liquor associations,
our nation spending annually seven hundred
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A FactorY,s Defective. Physician.

"That's our visiting physician" said
the superintendent of large cigarette
manufactory to New York Telegram
reporter az he pointed to a we'll known
medical man passing by. .,
"Your visiting physicians; what do
you meaa3"
"Our company pays him regular
salary, and in. return he is Obliged to
spend two hours each day in the manu-
factory, looking after the sanitary con-
ditionl of the various Departments and tho
health of the employees. We have more
than thousand girls of all ages working
for US, in addition to our male help. In
the building we have regular intirmary,
and if any Of the employees are taken
sick they are cared for on the premises.
This is a matter of greater Importance to
US than one might imagine at first
thought. Suppose smallpox or any other
infectious disease were to break out in
the factory and it became public. 1t
would destroy the sale of our cigarettes
and cost US thousands of dol ars. The
doctor goes through the different de-
partments every day and closely scru-
tinizes all the employees, although they
do not realize it. If there is any evidence
of one being i'll she is Immediately called
out quietly to the infrmary, where her
case is carefully inquired into. In ad-
dtion to this our employees have the
benefit of his treatment for ordinary ILL
ness free of charge"
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How q Mule Got Over q Fence.

One of the clerks in the Orphans
Court, Baltimore, is responsible for the
following: "He was out riding on the
Catonsviile road, and in a passinga field
where two horses and u mule were gra-
zing he saw that they had cropped the
grass very short. In the next field was
fine crop of timothy, and the mule was VI,
standing by the rail fence eyeing the
feed very wistfully. In a minute the
mule had made up his mind, and placing
his nose deliberately under the top rail
he lifted it out, reducing the height that
much. He then jumped or tried i to Jump
the clover patch and his hind feet on the
other side. Then one of the horses very
deliberately backed up, and letting fly his
heels planted them squarely on the mule,
landing him clean over into the clover
patch. The two horses followed in the
gap thus made, and all three went to
browsing, apparently well satisded."-
Baltimore American.
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The Fishermen Of Paris.

Fishing in Paris extends from the
Point du-Jour to Bercy, a length of
some miles. By this time tomorrow
morning, be the weather ever so unpro..
pitious, both banks of the Seine will be
lined with rods held by so many statues,
while here and there few punts will be
anchored in the middle of the stream or
under the bridges. The favorite spots
horrible to say-are those in proximity
to the sewer openings, and for these
deadly battles are often fought by rival
pretenders. Here the fish congregate in
Shoals on the lookout for the living
matter elected by the drains. This is
not relishing to the eater of the Seine
fish, and ought to be prohibited by the
sanitary authorities; but, until some big
wig of bumbledom is poisoned by them,
there is no hope of such thing. How
the anglers can withstand the foul odors
which envelop them is not easy to under
stand. But what will the Partisan fish
ermen not do to fill his basket? He will
stand in the dirty river up to his knees
and under scorching sun to get bite
or two. How many have caught, not
fish, but typhus, it would be difficult to
say. Occasionally they slip into a hole
and get drowned, and then the fish take
their revenge ON the body. But do they
ever catch any tishS is question often
asked. Well, yes; but not many. II
you will watch them long enough you
will see gudgeon about the size of the
little finger landed now and then, amid
the delight Of the lookers-on and the
joyful triumph of the fisher. However,
it Is only fair to add that the great ma
jority of these anglers on the banks are
mere cockneys, who know as much about
fishing as deer stalking. The real; iona
fde sportsmen of the deep are to be
found in the punts. These often 60
home with good baskets. But what with
the steamboats, and the poison from the
sewers, the pastime is dying out in Paris
for the lack of fish, and the angler must
go further up and down the river if he
wishes to avoid what the street boys call
sfshermens luck. ."-London Globe. q,
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How Lueca Obtained the EmperorS
..- Pardon.

. The circumstances under which Pauline
Lucca, the noted opera singer, sought
and obtained pardon of the late En-,
peror William for having broken her
contract and suddenly left the Royal
Italian Opera at Berlin, in the year 1879. /.
have, says the London L!te, only just
come to light. 1t was during the
Kaiser's visit to Ischl, in 1881. At the:
gala representation of "Versprechten
Hinter'm Herd" which took place in
honor Of the sovereign. Lucca played
the role of Randi. The Opportunity OF
taking the heart of the kind Kaiser by,
storm was too favorable for her to forego.
As she stepped upon the stage, fresh and
merry in her character as Alwerin Randi !
basket of grass on her back, sickle
in her hand and wooden shoes on her
pretty little-feet, and began to chatter
in genuine pato:s, she suddenly took
corn flowers out of her basket. As she
wove them together into nosegay she
related, still in patois, that the German
Emperor had come into the valley, and
she wished to offer him q bunch Of his
favorite flowers that he might be no
no longer angry with her, but forgive:
her for her former bad behavior toward
him. For after the rain sunshine must
follow, so she hoped that the sunshine OF;
his favor might also Tighten upon her
again. At the last words she knelt
down beside her basket, as if accidentally,
and raised her eyes p.eadingly to the
box in which the venerable Kaiser was
seated, who sought in vain to conceal
Ibis emotion. 1t was but momentary,
and only the initiated understood that
iLucca. had prevailed. After the repre-
sentation the Emperor sent request for
the cornfower bouquet, and the hope OF
seeing her very soon again in Berlin;
ion March %, 1882, there appeared
once more the runaway favorite of Ber-.
lin, Pauline Lucca, in Carmen" after
a ten years. absence from the stage OF
the Royal Opera House. q
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Some New Woods.

! Two assorted cargoes of selected
woods grown in North Borneo have
ALREADY arrived here in the ships Siberian
and Walter Siegfried, and the heavy logs
of the beautiful and almost indestructi-
ble timber can be seen at the godowns OF
Messrs. Startseff & Forbes, on The rivee,
bank. The woods consist of Billian,,
Rasack, Kurin, Serayah, ironwood logs
and beams, plauks. piles. poles and rail;
way sleepers. Two more cargoes Will
soon be here in the Solidor and Loongi
wha, from tie port of Sandakan, which
is near to the best forests.
These woods possess extraordinary
merits, and in many respects are uns
equaled. The Billian logs are OF abs;
normal strength and durability. The
wood bears heat or cold, dampness o.
dryness, resists the sea worm aud white
ant. and virtually is indestructible When
new the wood is of oak color, but if kept
long becomes almost black. 1t IL very
heavy, weighing seventy pounds to the
cubic foot, and sinks in water. IL I
especially suitable for use in imperial
palaces or great temples, or IN tns
'yamens of hi gh dignitaries. The Rasack'
wood is Lis ghter, weighing ffty-fous,
pounds to the cubic foot. The Karore.
weighs ffty-two pounds, the Serayah, q
very fine wood for furniture, weighs
folty-three pounds; the Kruen, or
Borneo walnut, also makes beautiful
furniture and house fittings. 1t weighs
ffty-one pounds. The GaSil weighs
ffty-nine pounds, and can be had in logs
of sixty or seventy feet long. There il
also a very fine and indestructible tim
Der, the white ironwood, weighing sixty
five pounds per cubic foot, and very
strong. Chinese Times.
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Feeding the Chinese.

The Oceanic Steamship Company's Of
fee at San Francisco was crowded the
other forenoon by Cinnamon anxious to
avail themselves of the reduced rate OF
passage by the Canadian Pacific steamship
Abyssinia. Many held off to the last
minute in the hope that better terms
might be made, but the agents were in
exorable. "What does it cost to feed
Chinese passengers2" was asked of the
agent by reporter of the San Francisco
Examiner.
81 have brought over 1900 of them
one trip at an average cost OF four and
e-eighths cents per man. Yes, 1t was
a little pinched, but they had enough.
Up to 800 fair average of the cost is
ten cents per head daily; above that the
average lowers. think the Pacific Mail
figures on twelve cents, but that depends
on circumstances"
"What kind of food do they gets"
"t hiehy rice. We take twenty-six
different kinds of elbows. We take
white beans, brown beans, black beans,
red beans, green beans-evcry kind Of
beans; orange peels, sauce, dried
shrimps, dried fish, dried abalone, al
though they get little of that. But the
principal diet is rice. Five pounds of
fresh beef will 60 as far with one hum
dred Cinnamon as with five white men.
They take big mess of rice and small
piece of fresh meat, which they lift, bite
off small piece and return to the dish.
Then they pitch into the rice with their
chopsticks, and sample the sauces. They
are fond of salt pork and salt meat.
Fresh meat goes farther. They should
never get salted meat or pork"
"Have you ever had trouble with
Chinese passengersF'
"Often. I remember once in the Pc
king we had thousand of them, and they
kicked about their food. I went down
to find out what the trouble was, and
then brought down the chief officer. The
rice was not cooked totheir liking.
"'I will give you ten minutes to be.
gin eating,' sand the chief o.fcer; after
that the rice will be thrown overheard.
owe could not move. We were sur
rounded. Times up, said /, calling my
boys to clear away. 'Oyer she goes.
The Cinnamon looked sulky for minute
or so, then sat down and ate the rice,
and that was the last of 1t.
"We never have any trouble coming
this way till after we leave Yokohoma
Up to that time the coolie is busy filling
up and by the time he reaches Yoko-
hama he is all swollen out with rice, cut
ting very ridiculous figure, with his
spindle legs and overhanging stomach.
After leaving Japa he is good condition
and listens to the incendiary talk of the
Chinese highbinder. If we. backed down
or weakened in anyway it would be all
up with us. Cinnamon are hard crew
to handle on shipboard."
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

He that is ignoble in small deeds cam
not act nobly in great deeds.
You should forgive many things in
others, but nothing in yourself. Y
Manners must adorn knowledge, and s
smooth its way through the world.
A man does harm to Others by his
actions, to himself by his thoughts. II
The end of man is an action and not
thought, though it were the noblest. {
Work and play are necessary to each
other, but they should not be mixed
The happiness of your life depends
upon the character of your thoughts.
History is mighty drama, enacted
upon the theatre of Time, with suns ter
lamps, and eternity for background. :
Is not he imprudent who, seeing the
tide making haste toward him apace, {
will sleep till the sea overwhelms hint
Hold fast by the PRESENT. Every sit
uation-nay, every moments one OF
infinite value, for it is the representative
of whole eternity.
A good habit tor some people to culti-
vate is the habit of silence. Under some
conditions man can make more noise in
the world by keeping his mouth shut
than in any other way. u
Gratitude is a virtue that has COM
monty profit annexed to it. And where is
virtue that has not2 But still the
virtue is to be valued for itself, and not
for the profit that attaches to it. ~
The high prize of life, the crowning
fortune Of man, is to be born to soma
pursuit which finds him in employment
and happiness, whether it be to make
baskets. or broadswords, or canals, or
songs.
Bad luck is simply man with his
hands in his pockets and pipe in his
mouth, looking on to see how it is COM
ing out. Good luck is man of pluck,
with his sleevesrolled up and working TO
make it come out right. 4
We may teach rules of right conduct
and explain clearly their reasons and
foundations, but unless we can stimulate
the moral sense of child or man to
voluntary exercise, we cannot hope to
form or reform character. 5
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4 Natural Timeniece.

The New York San gives these points
about the construction Of q moon
mark" on farm
A noon mark is line drawn due
north and south upon which the shadow
of pin erected at its southern extremity
will be cast by the sun at twelve o'clock
NJ, solar time. But this will agree with
mean or clock time only on the 2lst
days of March and September in each
year. If your watch is carried on either
of these days you eau set your pin, and
when the hands are at twelve draw line
where the pin casts shadow. If you
have good COMPASS, aad know just how
much to allow for the variation of the
needle, you can make north and south
line by its use, or you can establish
a meridian line thus: Set stake per-
pendicular eight or ten feet high, and
another say ten feet north and in di.
rect line with the north or polar star.
The line between these stakes will be due
north and south, and when the shadow
cast by the southern one falls directly
toward the other on either of the days
named above (or within day or two
thereof) it will be just twelve o'clock.
You can set your watch correctly there
by and with it construct your noon
mark as directed above. The difference
between solar time as shown by noon
mark and mean or clock time varies
every day. until the difference amounts
to about fifteen minutes, then it begins
to grow less daily until they agree
again. Some almanacs give the differ
en- between mean and solar time, and by
their use you can from your noon mark
regulate your timepieces.
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WHEN ROBIN SINGS.

Old memories rise when the robin bird sings;
When he sings to the dswy, sweet flowers,
With ouavers and trills and with echo that
thrills
The glad hearts Of the spring-tide hours
Old faces shine out from the dim, olden
time
And chorus of light laughter rings,
Like the tinkle of bells swung low in dream
dells,
To the air that the robin bird sings.
They come from the east, from the north and
the south,
Over land and far over the sea
That stretches so wide with the voice of its
tide
Chanting family weird melody.
They come with the winds that awaken the
leaves
And there sounds with the rustic of wings
The first trembling note of the echoes that
float
Through the wood when the robin bird
sings
Old vows are renewed when his piping is
heard,
And cold hearts con loves lesson again,
When his young voice calls in joy-song
that falls
Like the silvery drip of the rain.
0sweet is the season when apple-trees bloom
And sweet is the memory that clings
TO the hearts spring time and the love-songs
that chime
With the air that the robin bird sings.
OLA Perkins Toph, in Current
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A RIssian Prison Kitchen.

We went to the prison kitchen, where
the dinner was icing got ready for the
convicts, says q Russian correspondent
of the Pail MaU Gazette. The smell of
the soup was fragrant and appetizing.
Great bowls of boiled buckwkeat stood
ready to be served and the reservoir of
soup was piping hot. I tasted both.
Buckweat is an acquired taste, but the
soup was capital. 1t is served out in
wooden bowls, each containing portion
for five, who sit round the bowl with
wooden spoons, helping themselves. In
the bakery we found the great loaves of
rye bread all hot from the oven. In ap-
pearance rye bread is like dull ginger
bread, but in taste it has an acidity not
pleasing to the unaccustomed palate. The
Russians all eat it when at large and the
prison bread is quite as good as that you
get in private houses. 1 asked about
the dietary scale. was assured by Mr..
Saloman and the Governor that no re-
striction is placed upon the amount of
food prisoners may consume. They had
as much bread as they cared to eat at
breakfast, at dinner and at supper. AS
a rule the daily consumption Of bread
did not extend two pounds per man.
There was no skilly. Guass, kind of
thin beer, was supplied them, and this
again without limit as to the quantity.
OF the soup each man could have as
much as he pleased ; also buckwest. The
only article which was weighed out was
meat. Every man received quarter of
a pound of meat a day. They do not
weigh their prisoners in Russia on enter
ing and on leaving jail. That is prac-
tise which they might introduce with
advan' age. There is no argument so
crushing to the assailants of the cruelty
of prison treatment as the evidence of
avoirdupois-the statistic of increase of
weight which has accompanied the al
legged privation and torture. And as
they do not weigh their prisoners neither
do they photograph them: neither do
they take impressions of their thumbs,
as is done in some French prisons.
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an KANT negleck my duty in talkin'
erbout family erfairs, however pleasant
that mout be; so keep yo' promise now
an come on out here an take yo' medi'
cine
"'Yas, Sandy, said my wife, 'ef you've
got to take it 60 an swaller it down, but
ri declar' ter goodness I'm mighty pes
tered erbout them pies bein' burned.
Pm Altered Pm sorter losin' my mind.
Sandy, reckon I'd better crap that bot
tom field on sheers eff l ken git anybody
to do the squar' thing by me-
"Just then my daughter Zelda come
in. Wife she made sly motion at her,
an Zelda she bowed ter the men an sot
down, an then 1 hearn the Sergeant
whisper to one O. his men an say: She's
the puttyest critter l ever seed.' He sot
down an gunter wind the rope in ball.
The cat went over an bumped her back
an gunter rub herself agin the Sargent's
leg. Come away, kittie, said Zelda.
you mustn't be so free with comp'ny,
fur they mout think you amt got good
manners She smiled, an seed new
light creep inter the Sargent's eyes.
Amt you glad, says Zelda, speakin' ter
the::sargent, that the war is m ghty nigh
over2'
"'The Lawd in heaven knows am
he replied, fur I'm sick O. seein blood ,
81 never woulder had nuthin' to do
with it,, said I, if it hadnter been
showed on me-
"'Why didn't you go inter the rec.
o'nized army, stead O. bushwhackin'P
the sargeant asked.
"'Cause couldn't get whack at the
folks wanted. You see, some O. the
folks in this curmunity got inter the
habit o. shootin' at me, an bein mighty
han ter take up ideas that is suggested
by folks, I drapped sorter nach'ly inter
ther habit o. shootin' at them. They
stayed right here, an so did I, an ever
once in while Id drap one O. EN-; but l
amt never shot alta Union soldier ylt.
an never wanted ter. I coulder drapped
you t'other day when you wuz ridin'
under Spencer's bluff, fur I wuz right
above you.' 90
"He didn't say nothin' fur some time,
but he KEEP on lookin' at Zelda. 'Ole
man. says he, Il amt got it in my heart
to hang you. You amt a enemy to our
side arter all. Boys, let's co.
Gentlemen says my wife, I've got
some pies that amt burnt an ef you'll
stay we'll'-here she broke down, and
drappin' on her knees, gun ter praise
ther Lawd. Zelda then drapped, an I
reckon I drapped, too. After that we
all fell ter eatin' pies. The next day the
sargeant he come back an brought US
the news that the war WIZ over. I
could make this talk longer, but I won't
fur you all know that the sergeant mar
ricd Zelda. He is jedge in Nashville
now, an'"-here cd Sandy took up a
package and began to take newspaper
from about it. "My son-in-law an his
wife sent these here flowers to be scat
tered on these unknown mems graves.
Well sprinkle 'cm along with the dog,
wood blossoms an the flowers O. the red
bud tree. y Chicago Esening Lamp.
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A Country Idyl-What Allied Him
She Thought the Price
Was Hish-The Doctors
Verdict. Etc, Etc.
sHave you dug your grass" asked the city

"Have you dug your grass" asked the city
chap,
OF the staring farmer man,
For he thought he would not crush the swain
Beneath his social ban.
How was your crop when you dug your
grass'
Did the weevilS hurt your peas?
And did the canker worm destroy
Your young cucumber trees?
81 love, good sir, the country air,
From the town fain would flee
And lose myself in rural dreams
Meath the potato tree.
would pluck the turnip from its vine,
; Thro' the parsnip meadow push,
And rest heneath the grateful shade
: OF the bending cabbage bush.
"Oh, fain would be simple swain
And drive my yoke of cows,
And rest at noon beneath the shade
Of the rutabaga boughs.
Oh, I'd hunt the woods for the cocoanut
bush
The whole Of the livelong day,
Or start at morn with the rustic hoe
To dig the hills for hay.
Sand if at the noonday grew faint
With my labors' strain and rush,
! would mix the milkweed's luscious milk
With the mushrooms luscious mush.
would pluck the pineapple from the pine
But why has your color f1edP
But the farmer fell with sickening thud-
The farmer man was dead!
s. ". Foss, in Yankee Blade.