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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-29
I. GORDON,
CTOCktGG DIUCh,]
ONANCOCK, VA.
VALUABLE SAW AND GRIST MILL
AT PUBLIC AUCTION.

By virtue of power of attorney
from VIM. Fl. Bagwell, l will. on
Saturday, he 10Th day of April,
next, at 10 o'clock, a. M, on the
premises of said Bagwell, near EX-
more station, sell the following
property:
1st. A steam portable saw mill,
locomotive boiler, 1G horse power,
manufactured by Russell Il Co., of
Massilou, Ohio, and not quite four
years old, first cost 81, $50.
End. A -four and corn mill with
two runner stones, ono Eureka
b0ush, one Eureka shutter and
bolt and cloths.
3rd. One timber Cart.
All of said property is in good
condition. 1t is an excellent neigh
borhood for /, saw and griSt mill,
there being a plenty of timber. II
the purchaser wishes to locate said
mills, or either of them. at Exmore
station, Mr.. VIM. j. Mapp will sell
any quantity Of land at the said
station for that purpose, on very
reasonable terms.
Terms of Sale.
Ten per cent. Of the purchase
money will be required in cash on
the day of sale,and the residue will
he divided into three equal install
ments, payable 6,12 and lSmonths,
respectively, from the day of sale,
with interest thereon from that
day till payment, secured. by the
bonds OF the purchaser with APP.
proved personal security thereto.
and the property to be at the pur-
chaSer's risk as soon as bid off to
him. L.. FLOYD MOCK.
Accomac c. H., Va, March 14,1S90.
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Davis Wharf. Nov. 10Th. 1888

Davis Wharf. Nov. 10Th. 1880
Gentlemen-I have been using your
Gnanos three seasons. and am happy to
say they have never failed to give salts
faction with any CHARGE whatever. Tn
reference TO this seasons use, have to
say il worked we'll on all my crop where
it WAS applied. Used Potato Brand on
Irish potatoes in connection with other
guanos costing about same. There was
great difference in favor OF yonr P.
Brand. Used Your Super Phosphate on
sweets against sail gllanos. Int of
course. applications OF your Phcsphate
were chru.rr notwithstanding Phos
pharr beat ii badly. Shall continue to
use it. John NJ. Colonna.
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Gen. Francis 81. Smith, for fifty
years the Superintendent of the
Virginia Military Institute, and its
founder, died Of paralysis on the
21st inst. he was one of the his.
toric figures of the Commonwealth
and demonstrated the value of his
services to his State, by the gal.
lantry of thu pupils educated at
the institution over which he pre-
sided, in every battle Of the late
war.
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According to a dispatch from
Norfolk, the Virginian has un-
earthed a bill passed by the Legis
lature two bours before its adjourn
ment, incorporating the Virginia
Sporting and Athletic Club and
legalizing prize 6ghting in Virginia
if conducted under the auspices of
the club.
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Pnneoteagne. Dec. 24th, 1880.

Messrs. Beggs & Waters-GentS
We. the undersigned, having
fully tested your Special Sweet
Potato Fertilizer On sweet potatoes
this year, take pleasure in recon-
menllng it to the favorable atten-
ton of ali truckers, and especially
those engaged in the raising and
culture OF sweet potatoes. The re.
suits obtained from it's use by us
were in the highest degree salts
factory, and it will be our object
and intention to continue it's use.
We. have no hesitation in pronoun-
eng it one of the very best tertlll'
zers on the market.
Ayres Bros. & Co.
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Nandua. January 2sth. 1890.

Messrs. Roggs & Waters-Gents.
Having used your Fertilizer most
satisfactorily and successfully for
the last two years on potatoes. |
can without hesitation recommend
it TO the favorable attention and
consideration OF truckers of this
Peninsula. l obtained the most
satisfactory results from it's nse
and application than from any fer
tilizer Ieverused A. T. Doughty.
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Charlottesville. Jan. 25i Ii. 1885,

Charlottesville. Jan. 25ih h, 1890.
Messrs. Boggs & WateTs-Dear
Slrs-I have used your Special
Sweet Potato Fertilizer for two
wears With the best results l have
ever gotten from anything on
sweets. used it last year on land
that was never in POTATOES before
that / know of, which Was poor
land; put them ont the End OF May
and dug the 18th of July, and they
were as nice as any al that time.
some others along side Of them that
were not fartilzed we're not any
better the last OF August Will use
itagain this year. Jno. NJ. LeCato.
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1,ashu.lle Nov. 25th. 1889

CashV:lIe. y Ov. Zotn, 1908
Dear Sirs-I used your Guano this
season for the first time Super Phos.
phatc is the grade I used OIL corn and
sweets, and although one of the most
unfayorabe seasons | have ever Known
idne to the excessive: Yailisl. yet my
corn crop is the best | have ever made.
In reference to sweets will say. it gave
perfect satisfaction, yielding a barrel t"
une hundred sprouts in poor land with.
out any manure, but pine shafts. | Shall
use it in the future. Respectfully,
John 4. Parker
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Cashyillp. Sent. aOtll. 1859

Gentlemen-I used your Super Phns-
pbate OIL sweets this season in connec-
ton with Peruvian and salt mixed, but
at a smaller cost, and Phosphate beat
Peruvian and salt, although the outlay
OF money WIS not so great. at least one
fifth. or in other words the same mum.
Der oil sprouts tina; harvest 5 barrels
where Phosphate was used, harvest 4
barrels where salt and guanO WAS used.
The land was same and were set out
same day. | lave been using 1t two
seasons and shall continue to nse 1t.
Respectfully, j. w. Scott.
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Pungoteagne, Jan. 9th, 1890.

Messrs. Boggs s. Waters-Gents.
in reply 70 your inquiry about
your Special Sweet Potato Fertil
izer, can say gave it fair trial
along side of fertilizer that cost
one-third more per IMPLANTED for
ty rows of each. across patch, and
continued in that way, and when
there was 81 difference it was in
favor af yours all the time. | pre-
fer it to any fertilizer that | have
ever used regardless of cost.
j. H. DrummOnd.
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Mappsburg. Jan. 9th, !.

Dear SRI used your Guanos last
season, tons bought of F. A. Shield
8 tons Of round potato guanO and 8 tons
OF your sweet potato phosphate. l have
simply to say they are the best guanos
1 have ever used produced better re-
suits dollar for dollar. also used a
little on corn with better results than
from any ever used, shall continue to
use YOURS. CbaS. s.. IaylOr.
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Mappsburg. Nov. 14th. 1885

Dear Sirs-This is the first season
that [ have used your Guano, | used
Potash Brand Oh round potatoes, and
although my crop was drowned out, yet
there were enough left to convince me
it was very superior gnano. | never
had any thing to work better titan the
Super Phosphate on sweets. shall
w.nt more OF it another season.
Respectfully, S, T.=kellam'
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Shields wharf. ian. 14th, 1890

DIIItItI " "'I'sI Z ''t''
Dear Sirs-l have been using your
.pAanos for the past three seasons. and
am so we'll pleased with them that use
them altogether. Referring particularly
TO crop of round potatoes of last season
have to say it was very heavy, yielding
as high as so bbls. to / Dbl. of seed, the
ouality was also extra. Took 1st prem
ium at the Grange fair. Shall continue
to use it. u. I'll. Shield.
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Davis, wharf, Jan. 4th, 1891

Davis wharf. Jan. 4lh, 1890
Gents-I have been using your guam,
os for the past three seasons, and
unhesitatingly say / like them lietter
than any have ever used. raised,
last season. very fine potatoes with no
manure but your super Phosphate on
very poor land. shall continue 10 use
if. tits IL very early producer.
Respectfully, j. ). DAVIS.
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January 2Stb, 1890.

Messrs. Boggs q Waters-Dear
Sirs-Last year [ sent to F. L.
Boggs & Co., for three bags of Fer
rilizer the kind [ had been using,
but they did not have it at that
time and they me three bags
of your Special Sweet Potato Fer
tilizer, and l am so we'll pleased
with the results that you NAV send
me to Boggs' wharf. by the 1st OF
April. six tons of your Special
Sweet Potato Fertilizer.
J. L. Savage.
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Accomac c. IT., Nov. 25th. 1889

ztN0UIEItt'1 U 1T ~ UF' -1uT'1 I0'O'
Dear Sirs-I honght or your represen-
tative +. y. Shield, last season. 1mper-
ial Gnan0s, and found them to work SO
well that I bought again this season,
used it on round POTATOES and sweets.
l have simply to say,I don think there
is anything like it. l shall continue to
use it. 1t is light and fine, and runs
further in sowing than any tIuano |
lave usetl. WIN. IL. Buhllng.
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Davis Wharf. Nov.17th. lSS!

Gents-I purchased from your repre-
sentative. f. "A. Shield, three geades OF
Gnanos and found them still up to the
standard as far as | am able TO Judge
and this ~ by comparison. 1t is as
coed as the best. / was able to dig
Irish potatoes as early rs the earliest.
and good crop. Planted sweets the LIST
of NAV and shipped the 23rd OF July,
quality good. Resi- cctfully,,
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Mnf,fnclntirn NJ

Maprshurg. Nov. 18th. 1859
Gents-I have been using vonr Guano
for past three years. am glad to say 1t
has never failed to give perfect satls-
faction. Shall continue to raise it.
Respectfully, E. l.. Garrison.
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Concord Farm. Dec. 23rd, Is

Concord Farm, Dec. 23rd, 1889
Dear Sirs-Without wishing to de-
tract from thq virtue of other guanos
or fertilizers. L do not hesitate to say
that your Imperial SUPER Phosphate
used ON !, late crop of sweet potatoes
this year did all its friends claim for it.
Respectfully. L. u. LeCat0.
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Pungoteague, Va. Ian. 4th. 1890
Dear Sirs-Having uaed your Guali's
for the past two seasons, Lam prepared
to say they are what they are represented
to be. Shall continue to use them.
W w. Lee Drummond.
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NIaDDSl,I

Maprshurg. Nov. 18th. 1889
Gents-I used your Gnanns this sea-
snn. think they are fine fertilizers.
Respectfully, Leroy S. Edmonds.
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Casl,yillc. Nov. o5tb. 1889

CaSIVlIIc. n 0V. 25th. 1853
Gents-I used your Guano this season
with results far exceeding my expecta-
tions on sweets. Notwithstanding the
heavy rains that have drowned lis out
so badly. / lost my round potato crop
altogether IN consequence of herains.
therefore cannot say about that. un-
hesilatingly say in reference TO former
crop.lt beats ANYTHING have ever seen.
1 used other goods highly recommended
for sweets which cost much more. but
when i Looked for them they could not
come with Imperial. was able to dig
sweets two weeks earlier where ] used
your Phosphate. l shall want it again
Respectfully, B. j. Kellam.
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Pungo.eagua. Jan. 4th, 1890.
Messrs. Roggs & Waters-Dear
Sirs.-Llst season / used some of
your Sweet Potato Fertilizer and
found it satisfactory. Will use it
again next season. J.R. Drumm0nd
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SPECIAL to tie prade.

Wei have the pleasure to announce
new departure for the purchase
of our stock, in order to enable us
to quote lower prices than others
who buy on long time and ask big
pricesa in these days Of panic ard
hard times.
We will give in exchange anything
in stock or refund money for all
goods bought from us not giving
perfect satisfaction. If you think
this fair offer then look over our
quotations:
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nonns wharf Dec. San. 1855

Dear Sir-I used bag Of ronr Sweet
Potato Fertilizer the past season, and
can say that I dug potatoes earlier than
| have ever done brfore, whether due to
fertilizer or season, I know not, the
fact is as stated. H. Battaile.
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Telle Haven. Nov. 18th. 1889

Gentlemen have been using yJnr
Gnanos for past two wears on my tracks:
Results ave very satisfactory. | shall
continue to Use it. Respectfully.
W., vi. Stewart.
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Mappsburg. Nov. 18th, 1889
Dear Sirs-l used your Super Plos
phate this season on sweets. and am
perfectly satisfied with results. Shall
want it in the future. Respe
Isaac S. Martin s. Son =.
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NANDUA, VA

TO contain nothing pure erlzng ingredients and
has yen general used 1t has been used oy
potato the Eastern Shore
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AUCoMAC STEAM FIGURING
- MILLS,
aTemperanceville, Va.

Flour, Meal, Bran, Shorts, HominJ
and Mill Feed, Corn and Oats,
and Chops for sale at
fair prices.
The public will please take no
tice that the mill property desig
mated above, which formerly be-
longed to Mr.. ID. II. Dennis, rs now
owned by the undersigned who
Will continue to do business at the
old stand, and will endeavor to
give entire satisfaction to all who
may favor him with their custom.
Thanks Tor former patronage. Flu:
ture tayOrs solicited.
Respectfully. &C.,
JOSEPH II. JONES.
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FOR SALE BY
w r. Bloxom Bloxom station; ogg Groten Onancock Fnney q
Rogers Fnney wharf, T. Boggs Co. Bog wharf F. o. Boone
apsburg; w j. Rue, Rnes wharf, JAS B. Bell NasswaooA so"
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Hopkins 6 Bro, Onancock.
S. K. Martin, Hoffman's wharf,
L. j. Nottingham, Eastville,
L. F. Hinma
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Hopkins Bro. s. Co, Hunting Greek,
A. +. Mears, Hallwood and Gullford,
Powell s. Garrison, Powellton,
n & Co., Parksley.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-19
Death as CONDENSATION.

The more intimately | enter into Commun-
ion with mySelf-the more | consult my own
intelligemCe-the more legibly do | find writ
ten in my soul these words Be lust and thou
shalt be happy. But let us not base our ex-
prCtatIOns upon the present state of things
The wicked prosper and the just remain OPP
pressed. At this conscience takes umbragc,
and murmurS against its author; it murmurs
Thou hast deceived mem Who has pro-
claimed this to thee? Is thy soul annhilated
Hast thou ceased to exist? . BrutuS q my
son! Soil not thy noble life by turning thine
own hand against it. Leave not thy hope and
thy glory with thy mortal body on the field
Of Philippi! Why dost thou say virtue is
nothing, when thou gOest to enjoy the price
Of thine' Thou gOest to die, thou thinkest
no, thou To"St to live, and it is then that
shall fulfill all.
One would say, from the murnurs of i'm
patient morlals that God ought to requite
their virtue in advance. Oh! let Us first be
good and afterward we shall be happy. Let
us not exact the prize before the victory, nor
the wages before the labor. 1t is not on the
course, says Plutarch that the cOnQuerors in
our games are crowned; it is after they have
gone over it.
If the soul is immaterial it can survive the
body; and, i'll that survival, providence is
justified Though | were to have no other
proof of the immateriality of the soul than
the triumph of the wicked and the oppression
of the just in this world, that spectacle alone
would prevent my doubling the reality of the
life after death. SO shocking a di,Sonance
in this universal harmony would make me
seek to explain it. | should say: "AIl does
not finish for NE with this mortal life; what
succeeds shall make concord of what went
before. "-ROuSseau.
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exists, and the native Indians who mine it
have TO cut through masses of ruins Blocks
of the material are quarried in primitive
way, in order not to shatter the substance.
Deep round holes are drilled by hand on
line. In each hole is inserted a snug fitting
piece of wood, which has been grooved from
end TO end Hot water is poured into the
grooves at night. This swells the wood, and
the block is split along the line without dam
age The natives then saw the block into
slabs and polish the surface by hand Each
piece is transparent, and when placed be-
tween the eyes and a strong light presents a
remarkably beautiful effect in form and
cOlOr-New York Times
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-19
Prejudice Against Will Making.

One of the most unreasonable supersttions
is that possessed by so many people that de-
tiers them from making their wills, trusting
TO good luck to have time when the candle Of
life is Pickering out. \ lady of unusual cult
ure and strength of character, a leader i'll a
wide social circle, and active III movements
for the advancement of her sex, died not long
since of third stroke Of paralysis. She had
a good deal Of property and many articles of
rare value that She designed to leave to a
cherished young lady companion, but even
after the second stroke, and She knew that a
third would be fatal, she could not bear to
think Of making her will. She dropped off
suddenly, and her friend is without any
thing, while remote relations 81 all. The
Instance is familiar u many in this city, but
is not .myular.-St. Paul Globe
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-19

\ wise old man, the late DR.. James Walker,
president of Harvard university, said that
the great privilege of Old age was the get
ting rid of responsibilities. These hard
working veterans Will not let one get rid of
them until he drops in his harness. and so gets
rid of them and his life together. How often
has many a tired old man envied the superan-
nuated family cat, stretched upon the rug be-
fore the fire, letting the genial warmth tran
gully diffuse itself through all her internal
arrangements! No more watching for mice
i'll dark, damp cellars, no more watching the
savage gray rat at the mouth of his den, no
more scurrying up trees and lamp posts to
avoid the neighbors cur, who wishes to make
her acquaintance. 1t Is very grand to die
in harness." but it is very pleasant to have
the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy col,
lar lifted from the neck and shoulders.-Dr.
Holmes in The Atlantic.
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Wonderful Human Mechanism.

Science says Sir James Paget, will supply
the natural man with wonders unCOunted.
The author had once heard Mile. JanOtha
play presto by MendelSsohn. She played
5,595 notes in four minutes and three seconds.
Every one of these notes involved certain
movements of finger, at least two, and many
Of them involved an additional movement
aterally as well as those up and down. They
also involved repeated movements of the
wrists, elbows and arms, altogether probably
not less than one movement for each note.
Therefore, there were three distinct move
ments for each note, as there were twenty
four notes per second, and each of these notes
involved three distinct musical movements
that amounted to seveuty-twO movements in
each second. Moreover, each Of those notes
was determined 10y the will to a chosen place,
with a certain force at a certain time and
with a certain duration. Therefore there
were four distinct qualities in each Of the
scvrntN-twO movements in each second. Such
were the transmiSSionS outward. And all
those We're conditional on consciousness Of
the position Of each hand and each finger be
fore it was moved, and by moving it of the
sound and the force Of each touch. There
fore. there were three conscious sensations
for every note
There wpr" seventy-two transmiSsionS per
second, one hundred and forty-four to and
fro, and those with constant change of quail
itY And then. added to that, all the time
the memory was remembering each note i'll
lis due time and place, and was exercised in
the comparison of it with others that came
before So that it would be fair to say that
there were not less than two hundred trans
Of tn IA
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Murdered His Friend In "A Dream.

a curious theory of murder has prevailed
with the governor Of Kentucky in obtaining
the pardon Of W. B. Tompkins, sentenced to
prison for life in lSS7 for the murder of Sam
uel Puriy The two men were warm friends
and had roomcl together for several years.
Cries were heard from their bedroom one
night, and Tompkins was found standing in
middle of the room gaSping for breath, while
Purdy lay murdered on the bed TompkInS
gaspel: Hes gone out the door" but the
door was closed and no trace Of any one was
discovered. In a corner of the room was a
poker covered with blood and hair. Accord
ing to TumpkuS he had been aroused 10y some
one striking across him at Purdy, who lay at
the back side Of the bed, and had seized the
aSSailant who had broken away. Purdy's
money, $500 was untouched, and Tompkins
vehementiy protested his Innocence to the
last. The prosecuting attorney and the judge
who had tried the case now believe that he
killed his friend in a dream, and upon this
novel theory he has been r@caSrd.-Chicago
Herald
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-19
The short Weight Man.

| was reading in the papers the other day
that the "shurt weight man had been arrest
Ell and held to bail in Chicago on a charge of
Swindl.ng. 1t was all Of nine years ago that
| saw him play his game in Tolelo, and he
has not Only been at 1t ever since, but must
have laid away Il snug little sum of money. |
was in large retail grocery house one day
when the man came in, hrIskly inquired for
the proprietor, and said:
In connection with the government effort
to shut out all adulterated goods are COM
piling tables to show that 30 per cent. of re
tail buyers are defrauded in weight. These
tables are classified 10y states, counties and
cities, and | respectfully request the priyi-
lege of examining your scales
But they have been tested by the city seal
err protested the merchant.
Then 50 much the better replied the
stranger, as he took several weights, each Of
which was stamped ~. s., - from his satche
"But-I-I-come in later when am at
liberty want to understand this matter
more thoroughly
"On, certainly" and the man replaced his
weights and bowed himself out, to return at
another hour and arrange matters in sat
isfactory manner"
met him fifty times in three years, and
up to that date no one had questioned his
identity as II government agent while he had
fixed matters with hundreds of men whose
scales had been found short. 1t was in De
Witt, Ia, that | saw him last. He entered a
grocery there, tested q scale without having
said a wurd and then explained h, mission
to the proprietor.
is my scale short!" inquired the grocer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-19
Prairie Chickens.

Not less than 1000, 900 of prairie chickens
are marketed III Chic; Oevery year, Of which
number Illinois fur shes nearly one half.
The business is decreasing every year, and
free shooting Will soon lead to its total ex-
tinction as far as that state is concerned.
Real sport,mcn, As we'll as the public, would
be benefited 10y placing the season month
later. B.t.cr uori-, results purchased with
more skill and effort. would raise the quality
of the sport, AMI the game would be finer be-
cause of the colder we turr and longer feed
ing season. PHILADELPHIA Record