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} ladies Of .Accomac and Northampton
Dress Goods, Underwear, Hosiery,
needfnl articles for the children's
purchases have been made to supply
preparations for boarding schools.
buy your school outfit from us. We
ey.
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Marsh Market.

Some of our merchants have re-
turned from Baltimore with their
fall goods.
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Rev. j. L. King, aided by other di-
vines, is conducting a protracted
meeting at Bethel Baptist Church.
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n. III c. MEARs
Wachapreague. Va.

SIadies as YOU know popular
Of to-day ali sizes To those Ready
Paint sale by a. H g. Mear Nice White
Corn at store also at L. Harmon's Fair Oaks Va.
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The public school at Oak Hall will
open on the 9th of October instead of
the end.
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A change in the schedule of the N.
Y. P. s.. N. R. R. appears in this issue
of the paper.
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BUSINESS NOTICES.

NoTIcE-All persons indebted to
:us for fertilizers are requested to
meet us ut Accomac c.. H., next Mon
day, and pay their bills. We would
be pleased to cash $500 or 5000 worth
of small checks at our store. E. 2.
Byrd g. Bro, Pastoral.
NoTIcE-All persons indebted to
the firm of G.. T. James & Bro, eth
er by bond or open account, are re-
quested to come forward and settle
by October 15th-if not the same will
be placed in the hands Of an officer
for collection. G.. T. James & Bro,
A. G.. James, surviving partner.
AT CosT-I offer for sale positively
at cost for the next thirty days, my
entire stock of goods, consisting OF
boots, shoes, hats, caps, dry goods,
notions, &c. F. NJ. Sturgis, 0nley, Va.
September Goth, 1898.
NoTIcE-The undersigned, with
headquarters at Onancock has for
sale several fine horses, suitable for
road or farm-also several young
mules which he will sell at lowest
possible prices. Bought cheap and
will be sold cheap. Duff1eld Savage.
NoTIcE-Don't forget to call next
Monday, court day, on w. w. Bull,
for o good oyster stew, and u fine beef
steak and cup OF coffee. each, 25
cents, at Bundick's old stand, at
Accomac c. H..
For SALE-In Cape Charles, Octo-
Der 7th, 1893, at 8 p. m, the bugeye
Cora Bell. carrying 400 bushels of
oysters, drawing 8 feet OF water, in
frst.class order. Terms made known
on day of sale.
NoTIcE-The undersigned will
open private school at his home in
Pungoteague on the 25th OF Sept,
under the management of an expe-
rienced lady. q graduate of Hollins
Institute. Persons in the neighbor-
borhood, who desire to send their
children to q good school, should ap-
ply early as only a limited number
will be taken. DR.. F. G. A. Kellam, Jr.
SToLEN-A solid gold watch from
the Annie Kelso, on the night of Sep
TENDER 18th. The cabin was entered
by breaking the lock. The watch
had J. K, engraved on one side and
the Masonic G on the other. $25 re-
ward. Capt. John Kelso, Onancock,
Va.
NoTIcE-A small batteau 0 feet in
length, was stolen from Battle Point
Sunday night. Bird, partly painted
yellow. Suitable reward will be paid
for her return to me. Jno. T. Bull,
Accomac G. q.
For RENT-Valuable business
property at Mappsburg Station. V.
G. Elliott
For SALE-Three fine thorough
bred eows-one Jersey, two Holstein
and Alderney-all giving milk. Want
to sell because I intend to stop FARM
ing and will sell cheap. Henry E.
bryu, 1elHptrdi1CeFllle td.
NoTIcE-Is hereby given of my
withdrawal from the firm of White,
Warner g. Co., BAT South Front ST.,
Philadelphia, this End day of Sep
TENDER, 1893. R. NJ. Ross, Bloxom,
Va.
FoUND-One yawl boat IL feet long,
4 feet wide. The owner will come
for her and pay charges. Thomas
8. Joynes, Cashville, Va.
For SALE-A dayton carriage and
bicycle both in good repair. NJ.
Oldham, Jr.
nan C+aansa,u mill ,,lan-
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September %, 1893.
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Our buyer is in the Northern market making purchases of
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OuAnceck.

Mrs. Jno. NJ. West, of Belle Haven,
is visiting Mrs. Addison this week.
Revel T. West left this week for
Baltimore, with a view OF engaging in
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OUT OF PROPORTION.
How Things Seemed to Californian
Travelling in Australia.

How Things Seemed to Californian
Travelling in Australia.
A distinguished naturalist of the Cal
ifornia academy of sciences was travel
ing in Australia, when he saw kanga-
roo in session and flung a stone at it.
The kangaroo Immediately adjourned,
tracing against the sunset sky para
bolic curve spanning seven provin ces,
and vanished below the horizon. The
distinguished naturalist looked inter-
ested but said nothing for near an hour
Then he said to his native guide;
you have pretty wide meadows here,
l SUPPOSE"
NO, not very wide" the guide an
swered. about the same as in eng
land and America"
After another long silence the distin-
guished naturalist said:
The hay which we shall purchase
for our horses this evening" shall ex-
pect to find the stalks about fifty feet
long. Am right?"
why, no." said the guide: ga foot
or two is about the usual length of our
hay. What can you be thinking of?'
The distinguished naturalist (of the
California academy of sciencesl made no
immediate reply, but later, as in the
shades of night they journeyed through
the desolate vastness of the great lone
land. be broke the silence.
i was thinking" he said, ''of the
uncommon magnitude Of that BANKED
grasshopper, San Francisco Exam
liner.
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A Devonshire. England, landowner.
who has a large sheet Of water IN his
park, threw the skating open to all
corners during the late frost at charge
of t pence Or ! shilling ton different
days. for entrance. employed a large
number OF men all the time IN keeping
the ice clean. gave universal satisfac-
ton. and al the end Of week had "a
clear balance OF ever 500 IN hand 10
distribute among the poor OF the dis
trict In this way all the distress spe-
cially caused BY the cold weather was
more than alleyiated.
DIR Weir Mitchell. lecturing 10 4
school Of nurses lately upon the neces-
sity Of self-eoatrol ID emergencies told
the following incident: One Of his pa
ticnts, while IA . low. nervous eondi-
ton. swallowed ~ mistake q dose from
the wrong bottle. She shrieked out
that she was poisoned One of the
nurses screamed ''Aconite and began
to cry HISTORICALLY. The Other nurse,
seeing that the patient was going into
couvulsious from terror. When relief
would bc iGlp2>sf BILE said cu3llv- 'f,on's
&c frightened Look here. taking a
uiouthful OF the dose herself She sheu
went outside - ri,i he- nsosIth ~ i. pro-
cured ar emetic aud sent for doctor
ard a ,rssnaets-pump Her -aEmne,~
,.ayci> the liz .ef The pa1lcet
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BRAVE ANIMALS.
Courage shown by Elephant In the
Face of Death.


Face of Death.
It is said that the scent or roar of a
bear in the jungle will often scare ele-
plants beyond control. And they have
the same intense nervousness shown by
the horse at tho sight of things unusual
Or out of place. big elephant, which
was employed to drag away the carcass
of dead bullock and had allowed the
burden 70 be attached with ropes with
out observing what it was, happened
20 look around and Instantly boited,
its fright Increasing every moment as
the. unknown object jumped and
bumped at its heels.
After running some miles like a dog
with tin can tied to its tail, the ele-
plant stopped and allowed itself 20 be
turned round. and drew the bullock
back again without protest Yet an
elephant with a good mahout gives,
perhaps, the best instance of disciplined
coprage-courage that is, which per-
sists in the face of knowledge and dis
inclination-to be seen in the animal
world. They Will submit, day after
day, II have painful wounds dressed in
obedience 80 their keeper, and meet
DANCE in obedience to orders, though
their intelligence is sufficient to under
stand the peril, and far tao great for
man to trick them into a belief that it
Is Bon-eXisteDt
No animal will face danger more
readily at mans bidding. As an in
stance, take the following incident,
which recently occurred in India, and
vas communicated TO the writer: 4
small female elephant was charged by
a buffalo, in high grass, and her rider,
IN the hurry of the moment, and per-
haps owing to the sudden stopping OF
the elephant, fired an explosive shell
from his fife. not into the buffalo, but
into the elephants shoulder The
wound was so severe that it had not
healed a year later. Yet the elephant
stood firm, although it was gored by
the buffalo, which was then killed by
another gun. What is even more
strange IS that the elephant was not
''gun-shy" afterward London Spec
tatur.
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papai Ei-hfa.

The pope was the loser in a will case
settled the other day The Marquis de
Plessis-Belliere had made him his sole
legatee. but the natural heirs contested
The first court, according TO the report,
decided for the pope. On appeal his
holiness lost The procureur general
maintained that the pope, as a sovereign
chief of the papacy, had no right To pos
sess property in France II such a prin-
ciple were admitted, he said, foreign
nations would be able 10 acquire ID
France canals, railways and land adj
joining forts Besides, continued the
procureur general, the pope is no longer
an ordinary sovereign, his sovereignty
is of special nature since 1870. He no
longer represents other than IA collection
of ideas. incapable OF acquiring prop
erty-viz., Christianity
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TIE HAPPY LITTLE HOME.

Oh the happy little home when the sun shoas
And the busy little mother go, the children all
ABOUT
And Johnny fetched the wafer. AID Tommy
brought the wood.
And Billy Boy tied both his shoes. as every
laddie should
And Danny rocked the cradle with q CHATTER and
song,
To make the little sister grow SO pretty and so
strong
Oh the sweet peas ard IRE morning glortes
climbing round the door,
And the tender vine of shadow with its iength
across the floor
Oh the ..pinies.' and the roses. and the CULVER
OF the grass
And the CHEEKY call of friendship from the
neishbors on the pass
mothers laugh
As rabbit starts Up somewhere and her great
helps scamper on
Oh the happy little home when the twilight
fell,
And all along the meadow rang the old COW
bell.
With twinkle that is music through the rush
ing Of the years
And see the little mother in the tremble OF the
tears
And / hear her happy laughter as she cries:
THE boys have come!
And we know she's getting supper in the happy
little homo.
Obi the happy little home when the moon
cleaned forth.
And Billy Boy would have It that II 'rised in
the north"
Ohi the raptures and the whispers near the lit
tlesmothers chair,
And the whire-robed figures fitting here and
there and everywhere!
OF years ago speaks Reason, and Of far and far
away;
But we hearken not to Reason while sweet
Fancy holds her sway.
There's a silence where the moonlight falls
through the open door.
And casts CLEAN Of glory on the clean-swep'
wooden floor,
And we're Just as near to Heaven as we morrals
ever roam,
AS we kneel and say our prayers in the happy
little home.
Louise r. Baker, in Wide Awake.
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The o-sdiv ca,lery rr,,-.

A foreign statiStician h.s~ rN~rn'iv
compiled figures relating to la of II
effect of the unavni liable inhaiatiu. u
metallic dus. Sg cutters and i ( cutters.
Assuming, ne says, that in he case of
an ordinary active existence in a healthy
atmosphere the number of deaths per
100, 001 'artihcers is 100, the figure If
mortality resulting from consumption
and other lung complaints among the
frst-named workmen would he $50 and
among file sharpeners S95- The death
rate prevalent in the cutlery trade
would, it seems, be much heavier were
it not that the allied handle manufaet-
uring trade is included in the statistics
Altogether the number of fatal termiua-
nations 10 pulmonary diseases among
cutters and file cutters is nearly equiva-
lent TO the aggregate deaths among
fishermen from ali causes including ae-
cidents, which are numerous.
Iron
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as II ne couia not DC the man she had
known What she might have done
further I don't know. for the fellow
died of his wound He tore the band
age off the first opportunity and just
bled his life away. People were in-
terested in the poor young woman. aud
she woIld not have lacked Kindness,
but then, as now, she dis3ppc arcd
There was \ ruuor that she was q
shoplifter, so many homogeneous things
were found stored away in the Ii lie
house. Bot ] believe rnyseif the Artsul
Dod-er was rcsronsiblc. lie muSt
have been trained uneel,ccwn 70 mr.
by thai FaSia q I'M ,ba2d OF hers.
Now, what arc we &c do about roar
l1leptonaniae, Kitty?'
| put nv hard undev the Arttul
Dodgers cain nj turned ~ LIS facc.
with its brown innocent eres
Love me. love ray dog" said
again.
This time ! had RICH; 70 saw it
The right had beer rnire since ys,,,rr-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Tines
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ence, looked at the mother who shaved
to rear her through the calculating,
prosaic figure of an upin Interested hUs-
band.
A neglected thing nurtures pride
sometimes. Johns wife struggled on
alone. Youths fush-so constant had
it been-remained yet, stamped on her
suni1en cheek. and, as if in consolation
for the loss OF other charms Time had
fixed within her eye and. on her face
the smile you see to love. but never
wear till you have borne the burden
with like modesty She was having
her moments of mental hardship in
brief respite from the labor of the day.
and wondering how long pride would
back her failing strength that she
might still gain tile meager livelihood
she seemed to need in common with all
Gods creatures
Had some one entered her humble
room unannounced? Her dimmed
sight just outlined the advancing figure
OF woman-a woman younger than
herself-taller, straighter, Of more
magnificent proportion-wlth the
bloom that comes and goes still upon
her cheek. but above whose smooth
white brow the thick hair lay coiled
shone silver white.
"yho are you?" she asked. family.
while her womanly instinct OWNED
unerringly the strangers identity.
Mercy Strathmore.
"Why do you come to me?" The
words were not cold. but betrayed a
gentle wonder
You knew what I was to him." said
Mercy, in slow. pulsating voice.
''Ycs."
''And you hate me?"
mo; only it seemed best, that next
morning, that he should lie still.
Shame will not for very pity attach
itself to the dead"
$50 on Tell me all.
THAT is all there is to tell He died.
] blessed him thus But had he lived,
who knows what 1 might not have
done! ! should think you would hate
me-"
81 have tried, God knows. But L
cannot for love him still"
Then he is more yours than mine, :"
said Johns wife. 4 thrill like the
awakening of spring ran through her
listeners pulses. She checked it, half
ashamed
'sDo not say that. But everything
Of his is dear to me, and I am all alone.
viii you not come home with ne, for
Johns sake?'
And l only know that Mercy's home
holds Johns wife too, and in the sea-
son for its shining the sun shines
broadly down upon that little farming
valley in Salop. The well matched
cottage CLEANS softly into half-worn
tones of gray against the sheen of yell
low green that lies tenderly all the
year upon its orchard grass. The cows
conc home slowly in the droning sum-
ner ewes. The old SOW would as soon
think of failing to present the farm
with a good litter in season, as old
Marget to take in the wash before
dark, lest the gypsies should have
come to the common destined to over
look the petty boundaries of hedge and
fence on stills.
The old-fashioned garden blooms on
either side the raspberry bordered
path, secure under the watchful eye of
the forge. Outside, the dirnity cur
tanned cottage windows CLEAN diamond
bright among the rose vines and the
ivy. Inside, time and circumstance
the two great love medicines-have
been diluted by the dose in the wom-
ans tempered system, till, instead Of
suffering annihilation, the disease is
being fed.-Lillian A. North, in Lip
pincott's Magazine.
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It was heavy tread fer woman's
that crossed the lonely stretch of COM
mon at the close OF Salops buoy
marlet-day. Her feet crushed the odo--
GUS beds Of wild thyme on every little
hillock with an eXultant sense Of tramp
ling ont the heart OF something, even
as her own had been trampled out
that day. The far-off CLEAN OF white
road toward which she moved stretched
into seemingly interminable distance.
and the ghostly lime-kil0s never fell
behind, but iourneyed grinning on be-
side her. At the night she shuddered.
but tie coming DAY held far greater
dread
SIX years had left less impress on ner
than this one, endless day She had
reached his bedside only 10 find her
place supplied by wife and children
The pretty hoy and girl played about
LIS couch. and the delicate. sad-eved
woman fed aim with spoon.
Her lover Of six years standing false
To his troth? Married? Was it a night
mare" But his voice: Annie. nav wife,
,Ais Is al cid friend, Mercy Strathmore.
VII You not take the children away
The words III greeting ana = lock
fror1 johns wife To: plainly SAID she
ss:----rs,oo1 passed her UNDECIDED and
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He-It is only little thing I ask of
you.
She-Do you cali myself. ny fortune,
ny l;fe-do you call all these "a little
thing"
He-I was thinking only Of your hand
when l spoke.
She-Darling, I am yours,-Truth.
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The doctor didn't know her when she
called, but she had a sed, sad look in
her eyes that interested hin.
You need change OF scene, = be said.
holding her pulse
Great Ca.sar. doctor. she exclaimed
''l'm leading lady in fve-act melo-
drama "-Detroit Free Pres.
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OF course | asked Hugh what II all
meant the moment We were out Of ear
shot. and am afraid ! was not in q
very amiable mood during the walk
home, because he would not answer.
The next day, however, he tod me;
for the next day he vent hack 70 the
Tower DO, Of a house and found the 1T
tie drcssmaker mad lost herself 70 Dash
again
And had been hoping voc -culd
be here making your gowns, KittT'
be said. ruefu. ly. That was the res~
son thought had better no: tel you
her story until you had gotten interest
ed IL the poor young thing. Bot she
has vanished without a clew: and
Do you remember Cousin k8thzriues
writing 70 me here 20 look out for her
house last summer. while you were al
ous Of town
II rene Il Der mzuma'z b-iny worried
al hearing Of 81 many burslsTIes n
toxin Of en- pity houses"
Precisely. There was ssyang. !,
-as believed ~ z1y rate. one 81 tb-
AAss , So ' = a. As@s-a7-~ - A+te +A'f-AfE -
means 81 lis dog. He was not taken
without obstinate resistance. he 70. a
tar wound and ! was called IL =s the
nearest doctor IN stop The Hoss u blood
tefOrc he could - removed lie had a
pretty little house, , pr>ttT little wife
o. his OWL. who, with . baby 81 f-w
weeks IN hnr arms. saranx stricken
with shame zsd iorrov N TIE fr-thcAt
corner - SEe room II seems sae never
bad - EaEea ~ dreamed 81 asr bas-
hznd's -sus3ae%N. which ;oo< aIas -
o<;~n s@ar from Arr al night Shs
appeared 20 SHRINK away from hsal -
IS ~ We ~ atso.sse strargeT - -.
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I'm the unluchiest dog alive" said
the Cayenne; somebody's always
shaking me down and leaving me in
the soup"
That's just what makes me hot
retorted the Consomme Puck
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Then the years went by. The wise
acres of Salop saw their prophecy ver-
fled. Mercy Strathmore remained
single woman.
Time had softened the first hard feel
ings somewhat. She INDUCED in ret
respect to the extent of dreaming
bout Johns children. They would be
man and woman grown by this She
would have thanked heaven for the boy
and girl as legacy, but how could she
have taken Johns wife-the woman
who had defrauded her of her love?
The sun sank in broad path of
glory behind the orchard hedge, and
ragged little cloudlets lowered along the
horizon to see the last of it. Under
the gnarled apple trees the sweet
stunted ''crinkles" had begun to fall
In the fresh, rank grass live stock
plodded. Even the pigs, nosing con-
tentedly about. forgot to grunt their
usual disapprobation of late suppers.
A brooding atmospherical peace tenn
pers human Judgment 1t is well so;
for the Great Teacher knows no half
methods.
yet Johns wife has every reason
to hate me-" pursued her thought.
And the children I could love, are
they not more hers than his? She
looked like a gentlewoman, too. She
must be; John called her wife" Con-
elusive argument! Then where lay the
fault? With John? All. no; he was
her love. Did God make men with
many-sided natures always, and most
women with only one? And ordering
matters thus, did He see what a state
of things it brought about? And while
her simple woman's soul revolted At
the seeming heresy, the new thought
stirred, unwilling with the perversity
of all new things to be bound within
the narrowness OF past custom.
She had heard OF her once-that wife
of his-hea lard of her as brave mother
toiling for her little ones. After all,
must not the hurt OF the woman who
had been wife to him and borne him
children be greater than her own?
She heard of her as a clever, iudustri-
Gus needle-woman. Poor thing! Tie
blue of her eye must be dimmed over
GIL tIdS Adc sew LILY SIc ldc CiL4b1 ca
had taken their education. She thought
of the eyes John loved TO kiss stitching
microscopic stitches through Heaven
knows how thick 4 curtain of daily
sorrow, and God knows how many
weary years, till her own comparative
ease seemed selfish The reasoning
once arrived al hurt her ike a re-
proach from him she loved. Why
should dead flower that his
breath had withered be to her
more dear than woman who
had lain nearer 70 his breast than
she? Should she accept his legacy.
and seek out her own? Then
the anguish Of old days came up
TO choke the noble sentiment. Her
face was flushed with memories. and
her bosom throbbed with the conflict,
as the day closed in.
Life had gone hardly with The little
woman John married. But the tale
how old. Young life feeds on old life.
and the new branch does not know the
tree. The old trunk falls into disuse
ard decay Buc in the wel!-ordered
plan there IS no waste. Johns son
turned prodigai and died ere weight Ct
years was aGde,! To Ms sins. Johns
daughter, IN all witclv lore and -evc--
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a Had state.

How are you getting along?" asked
the mother who had sent Tommy out
to wash.
81 am losing ground rapidly" re-
piled the lad, who had been playing IN
the dirt-Washin gton Star.