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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-03-31
Washing the Hands,

Washing the hands in water to which
ammonia has been added is very COM
mon recommendation. This would be
well enough, perhaps, if the supplement
tary processes were correctly given, but
the direction is simply for putting lit
tie of this substance into the water in
which the hands are washed. Somebody
follows these directions and finds the
hands rough and disagreeable almost be-
yond endurance. Some day the victim
of this foolish practice makes up her
mind that maybe ammonia doesn't agree
with her and forthwith discontinues its
use.
The fact is that ammonia is absolutely
unfit for the toilet unless its effects are
carefully removed by some suitable
agent. 1t is strongly alkaline and de-
stroys the natural oil on and near the
surface of the skin, leaving it rough,
crackly and with decided tendency to
chap and wrinkle. After the use of soap
of any sort or any alkaline preparation
the hands should be thoroughly washed
in clean water and rubbed with some
soothing compound, such as glycerin
and rosewater, q bit of diluted honey,
almond oil or some like substance. This
restores the softness of the skin and pre-
vents chapping.-Good Housekeeping.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-03-31
DON'T Try to Cheat A Lawyer.

A young lawyer, just starting. IN
his profession, hung out his sign In a
town where there was only one QUIZ
err lawyer, an aged judge.
A close listed old fellow, thinking
to get legal advice for nothing, call
ed upon the young man and contrlV-
ed in a neighborly sort of way to get
some legal questions answered. linen
thanking the young man, he was
about to leave, when the young man
asked for a So fee. The old fellow
went into a violent passion and
swore he never would pay. The
young lawyer told him he would sue
him.
So the old fellow went down to see
the Judge and said:
THAT youg scamp that's just come
into town! | dropped in to make
neighborly call on him, and he
charges me S. for legal advice.
Served Won right said the Judge.
But have l got to pay it, judge"
OF course you have
well, them said the man. Isup-
nose I must and started of.
Hold on said the judge, aren't
YOU going to pay me?
.Pav YOU? What for?'
For legal advice
What do you charge?
Ten dollars
The result was that old fellow had
to pay So to the young lawyer ana
$40 to the old one.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-03-31
Flowers and Singing.

Concerning paragraph published on
the alleged weakening influences of flow
ers, especially violets, upon the voices of
singers, correspondent writes that an
evidence in favor of the assertion was
had at matinee in New York of the
opera season. \ very large and beauti-
full bunch of violets was handed to Nor
dica, who, with scant ceremony, thrust
them instantly away from her, holding
them behind her as she backed off the
stage and reappearins to bow again with
out them. The incident was sufficiently
marked to attract the notice of at least
one person and attests the assertion that
singers have reason to dread the effect Of
the perfume of violets while singing a
solo.-NeW York Times.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-03-31
A Life Saving Horse.

The following circumstance occurred
at the Cape of Good Hope: In one of the
violent storms that often occur there a
vessel was forced on the rocks and beaten
to pieces. The greater part of the crew
persisted miserably, as no boat could ven
ture to their assistance. Meanwhile a
planter came from his farm to see the
wreck, and knowing the spirit of his
horse and his excellence as swimmer
he determined to make desperate effort
for their deliverance and pushed into
the laundering breakers. At first both
disappeared, but were soon seen on the
surface. Nearing the wreck, he caused
two of the poor seamen to cling to his
boots, and so brought them safe to the
shore. Seven times did he repeat this
perilous feat and saved IA lives; but
alas! the eighth time, the horse being
much fatigued and meeting with for
midable wave, the gallant fellow lost his
balance and was overwhelmed in mo-
ment. He was seen no more, but the
noble horse reached the land in safety
Boston Herald.
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cesslon has alreacy started!~ Steer now
by that embankment of cloud for the
nearest gate!'
And, as we ascend, on one side the
earth gets smaller until it is no larger
than mountain, and smaller until it is
no larger than palace, and smaller I'M
til it is no larger than ship, and small
er until it is no larger than wheel, and
smaller until it is no larger than speck.
FAREWELL AND HAIL.
Farewell, dissolving earth! But on
the other side, as we rise, heaven at first
appears no larger than your hand. And
nearer it looks like chariot, and nearer
it looks like throne, and nearer it looks
like star, and nearer it looks like sun,
and nearer it looks like universe. Hail,
scepters that shall always wave! Hail,
anthems that shall always roll! Hail,
companionships never again to part!
That is what resurrection day will do
for all the cemeteries and graveyards
from the Machpelah that was opened by
Father Abraham in Hebron to the Mach
pelah yesterday consecrated. And that
makes Lady Huntington's immortal
rhythm most opposite:
When thou, my righteous Judge shalt come
To take thy ransomed people home,
Shall among them stand?
Shall such worthless worm as 1.
Who sometimes am afraid TO die,
Be found at thy right hand?
Among thy saints let me be found.
Whenr'er tn archangel's trump shall sound,
TO sec thy smiling face.
Then loudcst of the throng I'll sing
While heavens rcsounding arches ring
With shouts of sovereign grace
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Eating.

A common error of those who have to
cater to the requirements of ailins peo-
pie is the singular persistence with which
they insist upon such people eating.
Whether hungry or not, one should eat,
is the cry. 1t is perfectly preposterous
to advocate such a theory, because the
moment that people take into their stom-
achs food that is not demanded by ma
ture that moment they are paying trib-
ute to dyspepsia. 1t is not an empty
stomach that demands food, but the
stimulus of the gastric juices. When
the stomach gets out of order, the secre-
ton of gastric juice is stopped to large
extent, and to then try to force the stom-
ach to work is like asking man with a
broken leg to walk. He can only make
stagger at it and is more than likely to
add to his discomfort. An excellentrul
is to eat only when you are hungry
Washington Star.
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ODDS AND ENDS.
Some biologists consider madstones as
fossil c0ral

Some biologists consider madstones as
fossil corals.
1t sometimes costs more to keep up q
big reputation than it is worth.
The fail mentioned in the Old Tesla
ment is still in use in Syria, Arabia and
Egypt.
Buckets of plantain leaves are made
by the natives of almost every tropical
country.
So far as quantity IS concerned, coal
stands for So per cent of all the minerals
extracted.
The hoe is the universal cultivating
tool among all nations of central Africa.
Artificial ice was first manufactured
by the use of chemical mixtures in the
year 1888.
The spade used by the Roman peasant
during the empire was a wooden instru-
mept tipped with iron.
The college young man naturally feels
that he should have some latitude after
taking degree.-1ndianapolis News.
ColumeIla says that Roman peasants
leveled their grounds with a roller made
of the trunk Of tree.
Thereport Of the Michigan state board
of health shows that more people die
from consumption in that state than
from any other disease.
Inc earliest tanning mill or w1nnow-
ing machine was invented in China, and
in use there for centuries, while Europe
ans were cleansing their grain by cast
ing it into the air on a windy day.
1t is said that the value of Peruvian
bark was first discovered by the fact
that sick animals in Peru were observed
to gnaw the bark Of certain tree. Men
tried the same remedy with beneficial re-
suits, and quinine was given to the world.
The argand lamp was discovered by
Argand, Jr., while Argand, ST., was
busy studying the problem of how to
produce good white light. The boy
clapped the broken neck of wine bottle
over the dull red fame Of the lamp and
the work was done.
AS early as 1850 DR.. Clayton distilled
coal in retort and produced gas, which
he confined in bladders and was accus-
toned to amuse his friends by burning
this gas as it issued from holes in the
bladder pricked with pin. This was $50
years before gas lamps.
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adOpTeES ~
occupation, fail 70 succgs 49, to
showing an unobliging spirit, and
quarreling with their patrons on Gne
slightest pretext. Success makes e
some families feel that the PUBIC
have no rights which they should
respect, and they are not the least
grateful for any patronage given
them.
Some persons cannot succeed in
gaining the good will and patronage
of the community in which they re-
side. owing to the fact that during
childhood and youth, by giving way
to their temper and talking impu-
IDENTIFY. they made enemies, who DO
not want them to succeed.
MANY persons wonder how stran-
gers can sometimes come into com
munity and achieve success in the
profession or trades, when the sons
of old established men or tradesmen
have proved dismal failures. Stran-
GERS who succeed in new location
are generally men and women OF gooo
Indictment, who have learned by expe-
rience that to gain the good Will ana
patronage of community they InusI
make tr1eQQS anu llOb Si1chiiSS. ANJ
know how to control their temper
and show kind, courteous, obliging
spirit to all persons with whom they
come in contact. A discreet man or
woman who goes into a new neigh
borhood is careful to mind their own
business and not to talk about otner
people. ,o.o o,o
In the United States, where one
person, politically, is as good as an
other. and where there is little caste,
people will not give their patronage
to persons who do not treat them as
gentlemen and ladies in their bust
ness intercourse with them. A man
or woman who is polite, cheerful and
generous will make friends anywhere.
Even the most talented wealthy per
son who desires the patronage of the
public in any way loses nothing by
affability. Winning manners always
pays. -
Whether a man or woman has
their living to make or not, 1t is
GOOD plan to control their temper.
Mind YOUR own business and do not
talk about other people-especially
of YOUR competitors in business. Ii
YOU pursue different course you
will have few friends and be con-
tinually in MISUNDERSTANDING.
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equality That most pes IN ave fcre,
al.:ssssss 9q4 i
Z w fie}sV the first woman who plef 8;
for "woman's equality of education ana
social position" If it were a daring
thing to do in the eighteenth century, it
was surely much more daring thing-to
do in the seventeenth, and, though Mary
Astell may be said to have @hedged" a
little under the wrath Of her contem-
poraries, yet to her is the credit of hav-
ing been the first to urge the necessity
of giving woman the benefits of thor
ough education. Other pioneers there
have been at later date who have suf-
fered SANDER and persecution in the
woman's cause, and whose work has
been ignored and set aside by the more
noisy crowd who now enjoy the benefits
which the pioneers sufferings purchased.
Humanitarian.
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A milkman's mule in Louisville re-
turned to duty after vacation of u
months recently and remembered the
door of every customer.
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THE MIGHTY SLEEPERS.


Among the preachers of the gospel,
Bethune and Thomas Dewitt and Bish-
op James and Tying and Abeel, the mis-
sionary, and Beecher and Buddington,
and McClintock and Inskip, and Bangs
and Chaplin. and Noah Schenck and Sam
uel Hanson Cox. Among musicians, the
renowned Gottschalk and the holy Thorn
as Hastings. Among philanthropists,
Peter Cooper and Isaac T. Hopper, and
Lucretia Mott and Isabella Graham, and
Henry Bergh, the apostle of mercy to the
brute creation. Among the litterati, the
Carys-Alice and Phebe-James K.
Paulding and John G. SAKE. Among
journalists, Bennett and Raymond and
Greeley. Among scientists, Ormsby
Mitchell, warrior as we'll as astronomer
and lovingly called by his soldiers "Old
Stars" Professor Proctor and the ORA
pers-splendid men, as 1 well know, one
of them my teacher, the other my class
mate.
Among inventors Elias Howe, who
through the sewing machine did more to
alleviate the tolls of womanhood than
any man that ever lived, and Professor
Morse, who gave us magnetic telegraphy,
the former doing his work with the
needle, the latter with the thunderbolt.
Among physicians and surgeons Joseph
C. Hutchinson and Marion Sims and DR..
Valentine Mott, with the following cpl
taph, which he ordered cut in honor of
Christian religion: MY implicit faith
and hope is in merciful Redeemer,
who is the resurrection and the life.
Amen and Amen" This is our Ameri-
can Machpelah, as sacred to us as the
Machpelah in Canaan, of which Jacob
uttered that pastoral poem i'll one verse:
"There they buried Abraham and Sa-
rah, his vile; there they buried Isaac
and Rcbelah. his wife, and there buried
Leah
TIE FAMILY OF FLOWERS.
At this Easter service l ask and an
swer what hay seem novel question,
but it will be found, before l get
through, practical and useful and ire
mendous question, What will resurrec-
lion day do for the cemeteries? First, l
remark, it will be their supernal beautl-
fication. At certain seasons it is Gus
tomary in all lands to strew flowers over
the mounds of the denarted. 1t may
have been suggested by the fact that
Christ's tomb was in garden. And
when say garden do not mean gar
den of these ATTITUDES. The late frosts
of spring and the early frosts of autumn
are so near each other that there are
only few months of flowers in the field.
All the flowers we see today had to be
petted and coaxed and put under shelter,
or they would not have bloomed at all.
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Life Messrs Stebbns
Virginia. the reliable
Sebns
the successful business south
with institution sufficient integrity
PondXer Taylor this Com
Shore Virginia and take commencing
confidence of the public
+. BRENT.
with Mr. L. W. of Onancock, Va and will
glad explain the plans the Company those who
frSclass institution.
A POINDEXTER TAYLOR, Onancock Va
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An inventor has patented device for
illuminating keyholes which promises to
be boon to persons out late at night. A
recess in the door frame holds tiny in
candescent lamp, which is lighted by a
push button. The light is sufficient not
only to illuminate the keyhole, but to
permit the late conner to select readily
the proper key from his bunch.-Hard-1
ware n q. 49,
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and heart, that have not had 10 min: e.
rest from the first respiration and the
first beat
If a drummer boy were compelled in
the army to beat his drum for "a hours
without stopping, his officer would be
court martialed for cruelty. If the drum
mer boy should be commanded to beat
his drum for a week without ceasing,
day and night, he would die in attempt
ing it. But under your vestment is a
poor heart that began its drumbeat for
the march of life 80 or DO or 60 or so
years ago, and it has had no furlough by
day or night, and whether in conscious
or comatose state it went right on, for if
it had stopped seven seconds your life
would have closed. And your heart will
keep going until some time after your
spirit has flown, for the auscultator says
that after the last expiration of lung and
the last throb of pulse, and after the
spirit is released, the heart keeps on beat
ing for time. What mercy, then, it
is that the grave is the place where that
wondrous machinery of ventricle and ar
terry can halt.
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Don't forget Crystal" and ''crown Prince" nours
Insurance in Force, sS5, 100000
grovident Savings Tsife Rssurance Society
Of New York.

SHEPPARD ROMANS, President Actuary
STEBBINS LAWSON General Agents Tor Virginia.
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The Pioneers.

So much has been heard of Mary
Wollstonecraft as herald of -Moman's
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The Great Tabernacle Thronged--The Pull
pit Almost Hidden With Flowers-rThe
Usual Beautiful and Unique Sermon.
HrooIslvn,s Famed Cemetery.
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<)LlJ Ne XIII
NIB. WESCoTT,
-Attorney-at-Law,-
Oflice-Accomac G. II.
Observation-Disclosures, Va.
Practices in all the courts on East
ern Shore of Virginia.


]. w. G. Blackstone, J. A. Bundick
BLACKSTONE & BUNDICK,
Attorneys-at Law,
Accomac c. f., Va.
Will practice in all the State courts.
THOS. w. RUSSELL.
Attorney-at-Law,
Accomac G. H., Va.
Practices in the courts of Accomac
and Northampton counties.
L. FLOYD MOCK,
Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public,
Accomac G. H., Va.
viii practice in all courts of Acco-
mac and Northampton counties.
Prompt attention to all business.
E. j. Spady, T. w. Russell.
Eastville. Va. Accomac G. H., Va.
SPADY & RUSSELL,
Attorneys-atLaw
The above named attorneys have
associated themselves together for
the purpose of attending TO criminal
cases in the county of Accomac.
The partnership is confined to
criminal business.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-07
She Knew it Already.

There is an old lady living in a
Somersetshire village who makes
frantic efforts to keep abreast of the
times. Circumscribed, however, in
her social sphere and with limited
opportunities of development it is
difficult, and she is compelled some
times to resort to her imagination,
the result being occasionally of a
somewhat surprising and amusing
description.
Vain is the effort to tell her any
thing she does not already know,
or startle her with information.
Last winter she went to the church
''sociable," and as she entered the
room one of the young ladies said;
"Good evening, auntie. am very
glad you came; we are going to
have tableaux this evening"
"Yes, know, | know" replied
the old lady, 'you needn't tell me
that. Why, smelt 'em cooking
when first came in at the door,"
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The Slanderer Punished,

An aged man appeared before the
Cadi at Damascus. He was in dis
tress.
"What can | do for you this
morningp" asked the Cadi.
"Hassan, the rich merchant, has
done my granddaughter, Fatima,
a grievous injury. She was engaged
to be married to ayoung man whom
she loved. She was as lovely as
the rose but Hassan spread evil re-
ports about her, and he who was to
have married her has abandoned her
in consequence Of these false re-
ports. She is now broken in health
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and spirits, and longs for death,
Justice, oh, Cadi, let justice pre-.
vailw
The Cadi wrote out q capias,
placed it in the hands of his deputy,
and in a short time Hassan was
brought into court. He pleaded
guilty. He admitted that he had
spread the injurious reports and that
they were false. He signed COM
plete retraction, in which he con-
fessed that he was a liar and q sland-
erer.
The court took the case under
advisement. Next day the decision
was rendered.
"Hassan, stand up" said the Cadi.
you have done this unfortunate
girl a great injury. You have rob-
bed her of her name, which was all
she had. The slightest punishment
for robbery is the loss of your ears.
The executioner will cut off
your ears to remind you that you
must not cut off the reputation Of
Others"
AT the given signal the public
executioner Topped off both of Has
sans ears.
II am not done with you yet,
Hassan," said the Cadi.
Mercy! mercy!' pleaded the un-
fortunate man, shave not restored
the girls reputation by my public
retraction?"
"Yes, you have restored her repu-
tation after a fashion, and now
proceed to restore your ears after a
fashion. The executioner will pro-
ceed to sew on your ears again"
And it was done.-Texas Siftings
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-07

1t is dangerous to make confess
sion unless one really means it, and
we may add that it is sometimes
dangerous to take confession as
honestly meant. A husband and
wife, between whom a little un-
pleasant passage had occurred, had
made the matter up, and the wife
said, as if to clear her conscience:
"Oh, well, suppose that l have
my faults"
"Yes, my dear" said the husband.
"Whatm
II simply said yes
"That / have my faults" exclailn-
ed the wife Indignantly. What
are they, | should like to know?"
"Well, to begin with"
mo. | don't want to hear"
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Poultry Notes.

We must feed a long time before
the eggs will come. Any breed of
hens will consume larger quantity
of feed before commencing to lay,
but having once begun, they will
not require nor take so much grain
when laying. Their great craving
is for vegetable and animal sub
stances and crushed shells.
1t is well known to experienced
stock breeders that there are special
points and signs about domestic
animals which confer very correct
idea of their intrinsic merits or de-
merits. 1t is in a measure the same
with fowls. Poulterers who are
familiar with their stock, who criti-
cally examine their forms, combs,
heads, movements, ETC., will in most
cases be able to choose the best lay
ers and ones that put on flesh kind
ly.
Women are both naturally and
eminently adapted to be guardians of
the poultry yards. To them the
world is indebted for the domestica-
ton of fowls. They are generally
true to their work and will not
skirk the duties they owe to their
feathered pets. There is about
woman sympathetic kindness that
follows their care and management
of poultry; they are handy, tender
and solicitous of the safety and well
being Of the young broods, and the
work of preparing and setting hens
and other details of poultry keeping.
They have no equals among the
sterner class of fanciers.-Ohio
Poultry Journal.
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No Foreth0ught.

Mr.. Wayback.-Some folks ain't
got sense enough to come in when
rains. Did you see that long-haired
chap with his arms full of bun
dies?
Mrs. W.-No; who?
Mr.. W.-Don't know; but he is
down there at the old pond paintin
picture of that tumbls-down mill.
He might know that mill wasn't
built right, er it wouldn't a been
allowed to 60 TO rack and ruin.
Now, s'pose he'll 60 of an put up
one just like it, and lose every cent
he's got.-New York Weekly.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-07

Many anecdotes are told in Scot
land of Professor John Stuart
Blackie. Here is one of them:
One day the professor caused no.
tice to be written on the black
board of the classroom, stating that
Professor Blackie will not meet
his classes to-day" A wag of a
student, entering soon after, very
unkindly rubbed off the letter C.
The professor himself entered, and
seeing the obliteration of the C, i'm
mediately proceeded to wipe out
the /
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For Over Fifty Years

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for over fifty years by millions Of
mothers for their children while teething,
with perfect success. 1t soothes the child,
softens the gums, allays all pain, cures
wind collie, and is the best remedy for
Diarrhoea. 1t will relieve the poor little
sufferer Immediately. Sold by Druggists
In every part Of the world. Twenty-Five
cents bottle. Be sure and ask for MRS.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup" and take no
other kind. 1851